Reload EP0153 - Are Cars Too Good?

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Lee Maxwell

and joined us usual by Nigel Lamont and Connor McCann. This is episode 153. Previous episode

was 152 because that's how numbers work. And we're kind of in the calm before the storm,

calm after the storm. We're in between Dub shed and all the stuff that's happened. So we're kind

of in a weird place at the minute, aren't we? I would say we're only in limbo because we're

not actually pushing to have anything ready for Dub shed. I would say there's people who are in

the thick of the storm at the minute. Previous years, you guys, was it the mark two you were

getting ready last year? Yeah, Lee's car just really needed a good clean and tidy. The two years

before was the bootleg dancing and the Jetta in the week leading up. Wasn't it two years ago? No,

that was three years ago. Yeah, I was looking at time hop. So it's been throwing me up pictures

of Lee's Jetta when we were going through three years ago. And basically for anybody we've picked

up from then, the gist was the engine come out, overhaul the engine, it got a O2AA slash J gearbox,

so hydraulic conversion in the gearbox. Yeah. And then the whole front end was stripped of

bare metal. Sheave bay, rewired, wiretuck, brake lens done, like shoe thing. I was looking at it

the other day and I was like, hang on, were you only putting this like three weeks before Dub shed?

Wouldn't be nice. And it was absolutely, we're now, but like, no, that's not happening.

Yeah, that was nuts. So we're just in this weird place of, we're just fooding at stuff and,

you know, we're still working away, but not the big mad rush that we're normally in. So it's a bit

weird, but the weather this week has been touch wood. Glorious. Quite nice. Yeah. And who sent a

we were doing at the Midlands cars and coffee this morning, just outside Malangar. And we were

driving down the road and there was like horse boxes and motorbikes. And I was like, everybody's

hobbies are like coming back. Yeah. All the horse people are doing their thing. Cyclists.

My mom does dog stuffs in there, do all their agility stuff and all the dog shoes and stuff

is all in the summer and our car stuffs in the summer. And I was like, everybody's like coming

back out after their horrible winter. It's like an Attenborough documentary. You see the bear

crawling out of the keys. Just everybody's coming out after an absolute shitshow of January and

February. It's terrible. Yeah. Absolutely terrible. I came absolutely sure that put off a lot of

people working their cars that just grim two months of January and February and so wet and just

horrible. Yeah. Well, winter was so bad. I didn't do anything. Who were we talking to today?

I think it was Pascal. We were saying like, I had so much to do over winter and I did nothing.

And now I've only just released. That's why my car is not going to be ready for

Dubshed because that was the plan. And now I'm like, well, there's no point in killing myself

because I know it's not going to happen. As we're recording this, we're just under three weeks away.

Three weeks. Three weeks. Basically three weeks now. We'll be arguing like mad with each other.

Price given. Price given. Yes. Yeah. Just look at my watch there for effort. I'll be

being dispatched to take photographs of the cars while Lee puts the PowerPoint together.

That's what will be happening right now. Yeah. And everybody will be tired.

They just got a shipper there. Yeah. Everybody will be tired and grumpy. You'll be in your

16th monster of the day. 17th. Here are the helicopters. Yeah. So that's crazy. It's like

it's the old thing. Halloween, Christmas, Dubshed.

Yep. Straight in. It's January. No, no. January felt short this year.

January always was very long. I don't know. I thought January was quite long.

But I get paid weekly now. So I thought January was all right.

But yeah. So anyway, what have we been up to? Anybody got anything new with me,

new with cars, new with whatever? Life. I just got new kitchen. Yeah.

Adult stuff. Yeah. And not even the fun adult stuff. Yeah. So we're planning to get a kitchen.

Went to a different few companies and all the rest of it. And a kitchen company that a few of

my friends and family had used before struck a deal. And he busy said, we can do it in two weeks.

And you were like, panic stations. Oh, well, just what I need before Dubshed,

my house turned upside down. That's it. It's like, you think yourself that'll be four months away

by the time they are mobile. One of the kitchen places went to basically, it'll be in the May.

But you would expect. But I could talk in the tradesman. It's basically because

I think there was a job, put a deposit down, but cancelled or delayed or something.

And you just happened to sweep the slot. And so I think we're greeted on the Tuesday.

And he said, oh, kitchen will start on the 16th. That's the fitting. The removal was the ninth.

Oh, nice. So I basically, I had a lot of work on towards the end of the week.

And basically when I either in the morning or the evening, I had to clear the kitchen out

and the rest of, but that's not car stuff. I'm talking about it.

No car stuff then. Car stuff. Let me just see what I wrote down. Oh, yes. The saga of the wheels.

Oh, yeah. It continues. So if you remember the previous episodes, I got seriously shafted by

several people saying, I'll meet you at my place of work or nearby an hour before me.

So I get up in the morning, early shift, load the car, go to the, go to work and an hour before

they're going, not coming now, find a wheelchair or just ghost me. Some bullshit. So back and

forth with the fall of the usual sort of carry on. And I have them up for 300. He said 200.

I says, not a chance. And I says, if you want them to 50, otherwise I'll keep them because

at this stage it was just sick of it. And back and forth. And then he says, ah, he did ghost me.

Sorry. Forgot it for this part. Of course. So on the Thursday morning, he says, oh,

I'll call out on Thursday night. I was in the house that night anyway.

You snapchatted me because you're the only person that I actually open a snapchat from.

And it was like an hour after he was supposed to be there.

Still not here. Yeah. I was like, oh, no.

So I just text them going, not turning up the end question mark. And I don't know, funny meme.

And it was, what do you call the drug dealer from South America, something this way?

Oh, Pablo Escobar. I sent them that meme too. I couldn't get nasty. We just went,

I'll have a fun with this. I've been shot that many times. I've got to laugh about it.

So the next morning he texts me. He says, look, I'm really sorry.

But a family drama, blah, blah, blah. He says, my mate is in the area tomorrow night.

He about, I was working the bar. So Nigel loads of wheels in the car.

Takes them to work once again. Takes them to work.

They did show up. Happy days. And they bought the wheels. They tried to get it down further.

They're nice to look boys. If you want them, that's the price and all the rest.

Yep. And they kept going, oh, they're genuine. They're genuine.

I said, yes. I'll describe it. There was part numbers on the advert, you know.

And the way they went, that was it.

Happy days. Thank goodness they're gone at last.

Just Markiplier's is a Dan and Vibers.

That is Dan and Vibers. It's an absolute hellhole.

So please do that on a bit of a downer note then this week.

My son's living away from home in Belfast at university.

And Mark Six has been on my side for probably two odd years as he drives.

Just constantly, every few months, there's something needed done.

He went from a Pullo. What was that, an 06 year Pullo?

06 1200, you know, three cylinder engine. Fairly reliable engine.

It was grand. We were a bit rough around the edges.

But you have no real problems.

You have no real problems.

But that's Mark Six TDI. It's just been a problem.

And then somebody reversed into the door and wing.

Well, not say who. And they needed fixed.

I'd got a wing for it. I hadn't yet got a door.

And I'd able to hit him last June.

He was up in the ramp and he was working on a bed on it.

And he says, Nigel, that's going to need cells or other soon.

You might sell it.

Nigel just went, yeah, I probably better do that.

That's future Nigel's problem.

That's future problem. Future Nigel kicked me in the nuts today.

Sorry, past Nigel did.

So the cells are quite bad.

And then he rung me during the week saying, have you time to talk?

Or he attacks me and says, have you time to talk?

He rung me.

He says, my clutch is doing A, B, and C.

And I got him to check the fluid levels and all the rest of it.

And it wasn't dropped on the clutch paddle.

Well, it'd be a sign of something.

You know, hydraulic mass or cylinder sleeve cylinder issue

and all the rest of it.

At the baiting point, it dropped to the bottom of the paddle.

And there's a bit of shuttering.

And I sort of, clutch, it's a phone down then.

He says, I sounds clutchy, but the paddle falling.

And he says, no.

But then the paddle wasn't muck on about.

So I was with Andy and Freddie.

And then Jack Pasey came home and the clutch was shuttering like mad.

And Andy said, yeah, clutch and flyby is a possible master cylinder.

Yeah.

And then the time you factor in his labor on top of that,

possibly the cells.

Plus it needs two doors and the wing fitted.

So we're going to give it a vacant funeral.

Or as Andy says, it's got three months Hamiltonian,

stick a cheap needs work advert on Marketplace.

No one will turn up.

Oh God, that'll be fun.

Well, put it this way.

What's that thing worth in scrap, 200 quid?

Possibly.

If somebody came and give you 300 or 400 quid for it.

Well, it's an rotate.

I'll be telling you about various cars.

And I couldn't believe them on the road.

That's because the car market is absolutely silly at the moment.

So I'm going to try a price and see.

See what it goes up.

You can always lower your price.

That's it.

Yeah.

And like somebody will take it.

You know, there'll be some mechanic out there or somebody who wants a cheap car.

They're happy enough to their labor isn't worth anything to them in that regard for something

personal.

And they'll stick a clutch and flywheel on it.

Yeah.

So if you want really good mark sex golf, hit me up.

Sure.

It actually looks really well the week.

I don't know.

It is a sharp week car.

It's what you need a gray.

You need a gray.

Yep.

Yeah.

Good spot.

Like it looks really good.

I put the Monza wheels on.

It hits.

And sorry, good looking week car.

Nice color.

It's a match.

It's a good spec car like and yeah, gotta go now.

If you can fit a clutch and flywheel and you can weld cells.

Yeah.

Nice.

Here's the car for you.

Open to offers.

So it'll probably be for sale the next week or so.

There you go.

But that doesn't affect you because that's Jack's car.

You don't have to sort that problem at all.

I definitely don't have to sort that out.

Parenting is fun.

What about you guys?

What news have you?

We don't have kids.

Your car's your kids.

We have our own problems.

What have I been up to?

I put a big order in for some reading the boot build and the Mark II.

So I finally decided on our tank that I want.

And then I was doing that and then obviously any new fittings and stuff

and whatever way I'm going to work the boot build.

And that compressor has been in there for like eight years.

And it was one I bought out of China.

Was that in the Mark III?

It was on the Mark III.

And I mean, it has given no problems.

But you know what it is?

I only have one compressor.

I don't even have a second spur line or anything.

I was like, that's going to lie down someday.

And I'm going to be deadly stuck.

So they said, you know what?

You're talking about as a Chinese compressor, but...

There's many things that are manufactured in China

and seem to be doing a good job.

For example, Irene and Ballistic myself seem to be working very well

and they were supplied by China through doing a great job.

I've been watching that.

But yeah, it was one of those things.

I was like, well, that's going to lie down someday.

And no matter what I do, I'm going to have to buy a compressor.

It'll be at balls.

And I was like, I'll just order it anyway.

So I was speaking to Marty at Ober and I said,

right, do me a compressor and stuff as well.

So I think I'll keep...

I don't have the room for the two compressors,

but I will keep the Chinese one on the shelf as a spur

in case anything ever happens.

And it's swap it out kind of thing.

I'd actually like to run two compressors

because it'd be a quicker full time.

But I don't think I've the room to do it.

I think I'll work it in a little bit.

I don't think I'm going to.

And then as well, my latest YouTube video went out today.

So if you're listening to this, you might have already seen it.

I started making a fiberglass sub box.

So I wanted the sub in under the partial shelf support

and tucked into the side out of the way, basically.

And the easiest and quickest, well, the easiest way to do it

was making out a fiberglass, the backing,

and then enclose it in.

So you're making the most of the space that you have.

Oh my God, it's 20 years.

My work with fiberglass.

I don't miss it.

It's fucking horrible stuff.

So basic premise was layer up with tape over the carpet

and shape that you want.

Mix your fiberglass resin, paint it on,

put your fiberglass matting on,

stipple it in, do two layers of that,

remove, you pull the shell out,

and then you can fiberglass the rest of it out of the car.

It's not as backbreaking.

And build it up, maybe five or six layers thick.

So I mean, it's really strong.

Like I reckon I could stand on it, I wouldn't flex.

So that's nice.

However.

And a well-ventilated area, obviously.

Of course, that yard's well-ventilated.

That's opened the non-existent windows.

Started seeing ponies flying by, didn't you?

That wasn't actually too bad, but it does stink.

It's like fire, it's like eyes upon smell.

But can't much more strong.

I, as soon as I opened it, I was like,

oh, this still smells the same, yep.

So once I had the tape on, I put a layer of masking tape,

and then I put a layer of duct tape because I thought,

well, at least that's waterproof compared to masking tape.

Everyone just said you use masking tape.

But I started to get a bit nervous about it

because obviously the Mark II carpets are nice.

And I was like, I didn't want to destroy them.

So did a layer of it.

Then I did another layer of masking tape.

And that was backbreaking.

That took like an hour and 15 minutes to tape up.

And then the plan was to wax it

and then put your fiberglass on

so it doesn't stick and makes it nice and easy to remove.

Couldn't find, do you remember a 50 cal wax?

Yes.

I have a tub of it, like half used tub

that has been lying for a lifetime.

And I mean, it's good for northern

because it's been lying for so long.

But I was like, this is the perfect time used for this.

Could I find it?

No.

No, I guarantee if I go out now, I'll find it.

But I couldn't find the time.

So there was a thing of auto finesse, ceramic spray on wax.

I thought myself that should do the job

and ceramic would be even better.

So I gave it three coats of that.

Let them dry in between.

Everything was all good.

I did my two coats.

Come out the next day, I tapped it hard.

I was like, wait, well, I've done something right.

That's good.

Yeah.

Went to start removing the fiberglass.

I mean, it should just pop out.

Oh my God.

35 minutes.

It turns out the auto finesse that I can see

in the ingredient list for it or the mix list

has silicone in it.

Silicone prohibits fiberglass resin from setting

and it was still sticky and still stuck to the tape.

And I furiously had started with no gloves

because I thought, right, this will be all hard

through just pop out.

Oh my God, my hands are.

By the time I got that, my hands covered and sticky.

There was no point in gloves on that point.

Done.

I was like, fuck me.

And I mean, I ended up ripping the whole lot out.

The tape and everything came with it.

And it took partial shelf and carpet and everything with it.

And then I had to like peel them off separately.

And then once it was out and I let it sit overnight,

I'd wiped the silicone stuff off the back of it.

And then it hardened.

It just, that was fine.

And then I started building up the layers on it,

but it's horrible stuff to work with and it's spiky.

And it's, you don't want to do it without gloves.

Like it gets in your skin.

And I'm actually now at the point where I have it in.

It's all nice shaped and worked really well.

I just need to trim it and then put like an MDF front on it.

And then put the sub into it.

That's a lost art too.

Builds like that.

Well, funny, I always think like,

that was quite common in our generation doing things like that

and then fiberglass body kits and things.

And Jack commented on my video today and he said he was like,

this is a lost art to the point where I've never seen anyone do this before.

And I was like, that's right.

He's 10 years younger than us.

Go back 20 years and people are.

And he's not even that young anymore.

He's 27.

So there's people in the car saying 10 years younger than him.

But yeah, it's not a problem.

But just the way sound systems come in the car,

they're not that bad.

So people don't go.

Oh, yeah, it's back in the day.

Audio systems are crap in the car.

So you had the think of your mark two, three polo that you had.

Yeah.

Two foreign speakers, if you're lucky.

Mark one has a central speaker in the front.

I your general be the same.

So like, especially back in the day,

when you're wrong and you're into your tunes,

like you wanted big sound systems.

And the step up alone for like two front speakers on a sub was insane,

where now you could probably fit two front speakers and a sub in a modern car.

And there's a good chance it could nearly sound worse on this.

You know how to set it up properly.

You know, because as you said, they are so well specced.

I remember I couldn't afford a CD player, but I had a decent head unit and a sub.

And I had a mini or not a mini desk, a compact desk.

So you could plug it into your head unit.

So I drove around playing through that.

And if you went over a bump.

Oh, it's skipped.

Sounded great in your park in the car park.

I had the, I used to have the e-tape adapter.

This is the Novos tape deck.

And I had the Walkman with the tape adapter.

I just thought a mini desk.

Remember that was a fleeting thing.

That was one of those things that didn't take off really.

It was, you think of the technology.

Blu-ray, DVD.

Blu-ray, beta max.

Now everything's basically streaming or cloud.

Yeah.

Oh, you don't know nothing.

Then you'll be happy.

Oh, I don't even start.

The lost art of artwork on an album.

Oh, I used to love that good through it.

I remember my brother, but guns and roses, appetite for destruction.

You're just looking through the thing and just...

I can through the cover.

He was into, he was really into heavy metal.

I've been late 80s.

So he was buying wasp albums, Bon Jovi.

Or like Megadeth and Metallica.

And some artwork and stuff.

Now it's just class.

Now the, I like sound systems in cars and especially in older cars

because they are so crap.

But I was never that fussed to the mark too.

Like I had a Bluetooth speaker in it and I was fine.

And then I was like, this thing is sound dead and completely.

Why, this is the car you would do it in.

That's why I was like, right, fuck it.

When I'm redoing the boot build, I'll make it nice and I'll do that.

So we 10 inch focal sub going into it.

I haven't got an amplifier for it yet.

And then I sort of thought it was like...

Have our awkward fuss gets it?

Have you?

I'll look at the specs and see what work.

So we even, but they were a good kickback.

Might need a re-spray because you know the way they were finned.

Where I am, it would be a little bit hidden anyway.

So that would be fine.

And then I need to get a head unit and front speakers.

So it all got very expensive, quite quickly.

Just thinking that amps back in the day, like Rockford Foskey.

It was cool because it was like iron.

It looked like it was cash.

Yeah, I always liked them.

Had the Phoenix gold would look like a spaceship.

It was stainless steel with gold detailing around it.

Ah, there was Kenwood was, it was black.

I had Genesis amplifiers that were like brushed aluminium.

I always liked them as well.

I still have them.

And I need to have a look at them because they've been setting

the terminals and stuff are probably corroding and things like that.

I don't know if it's savable or not.

I was always in the van like secondhand car audio,

but the good stuff, because the good stuff I was going to look after

where it was something bought out of Hullfords.

It could blow the fuck, like there was no break in period.

It was like...

Gain, Max.

Max key and max volume just blast.

I remember looking at the boot of my B8A4,

and they have it in behind one of the panels.

An amplifier.

Yep.

And then they have a sub in the wheel well and stuff like that.

And then it usually ends up underwater at some point

because it's an Audi.

Yeah, true.

That's maybe it.

A lot of the modern stuff actually does sound good.

You know, to the likes of like the big audio guys,

like Gary McCarroll, that's not going to be any good to Gary.

But for an average person stepping in, did you go,

this is great.

Yeah.

Because we remember the days of horrendous car audio.

Some of the cars come specced with like Bang and Olson,

you know, real good gear and you're just going, this is fantastic.

No, so it has been a...

It's not a complicated process,

but it's one of those processes that takes a while.

You know, it's like you put two layers on,

then you walk away and you're ready to go into the house now

because I need to let it set up kind of thing and...

Patience.

I would say it's the sort of thing,

if you were doing them all the time,

you could faster at them and like everything,

but I'm sort of learning as I go with it

because it's been a very, very long time.

Just reminding on the YouTube how you find that,

the whole process and...

It's all right.

I'm not doing anything massively complicated

compared to what some of the things that I do with cars.

I'm finding you're thinking a lot more,

you're also not,

you're not just thinking about what you're doing,

you're thinking about how it's going to look.

It slows you a bit when you're doing a show.

Oh, it does, yeah.

I imagine it's like everything,

you'll kind of get quicker with it as well, but...

It comes second to you, it's just, oh, a better day,

it's better day.

I'm trying not to do the stick it on the time lapse.

You know, like a lot of YouTubers are,

we'll just...

And there'll be some things you have to,

if you're stuck on the other side of a car,

you're not going to show every fucking inch of that kind of thing,

but there's some of it, there's some channels

I have watched before where it was like,

it got to the point where it was just time,

like quick intro time lapse and I was like,

we're not learning anything here,

so I'm sort of trying to just show what I'm doing as I go along.

But yeah, it's interesting.

It's still not overly comfortable with it,

but it's one of those things.

I'll see how I get on with it, but it's...

In receipt, will?

That's it, yeah, and it is interesting.

The Mark II is nice because it's an established car,

somebody can see what it is,

and you can kind of go look at that and go,

oh, that's a nice car, I wonder how it's going to end up.

The thing is, you'll always have content

because you're always working on something in the garage,

there's something going on, you know?

Yeah, I was actually looking at that door

and I was thinking, I was like,

what realistically, what videos could I easily make,

kind of thing as I go along here coming up,

and I think I have enough that I could do about 15 videos,

10, 15-month-long kind of thing,

between bits and pieces that I have there,

so yeah, it's interesting.

It's a lot of work.

You know, I full-respect anybody.

Saying that, like a lot of the big YouTubers

will have teams working for them.

They're someone's film and someone's edit

and that kind of thing, and that makes it easier,

but trying to do like half-hour 40-minute videos

must be difficult.

Yeah.

I remember Dan Chambers when he was going big.

It was just him, and his videos were half an hour plus.

I was like, that's difficult

because you're moving the camera every time.

You know, there's times you could be working away

and the camera could do with moving three or four times,

but if you don't have something else to do it,

then it has to stay there.

It's difficult.

That is what it is.

Or I find with a lot of mine,

you're trying to do something or show something on the couch,

you're trying to hold the camera with your other hands,

you've only got one hand to do the thing

that you're trying to do.

Aye, but yeah, it's hard to work out what it is,

but yeah, you think about things differently.

You do think, or the other thing is,

you need to have stuff set in.

Like, I try to have stuff set in anyway

when I'm going on to your project,

but if you do have something that you're missing,

you go, oh, fuck.

I don't want to find where this is.

Aye, or if you don't have it, you go,

I'll have to order that.

I'll jump across and do this,

but then the film is all out of order,

so it is weird.

Um, I think that's me for a ring I've been up to,

being itchy with fiberglass.

I'm dreading cotton it.

I'm dreading cobalt.

You need one of those, like disposable paintsuits

or something you just tape up all the ends.

Um, I haven't done that much at the R32,

to be honest.

I had a real good run a couple of weeks there

where I had got loads of stuff done.

The only thing I've really done recently,

I got the front brakes taken off as well.

And that was fine,

but I honestly nearly had a metal brick down at several stages

because first of all,

I got the front passenger side caliper off.

I didn't realize that the brake wear sensor

was still attached,

but by that stage,

I had the whole caliper and carrier off

and it was in my hand,

just attached by this little wire.

And so with my other hand,

I was trying to get the wire off,

but I couldn't do anything.

And because I was holding the caliper in one hand,

I couldn't go anywhere.

I couldn't reach for anything.

I couldn't reach any tools.

I couldn't reach my phone to phone Connor

to say, come out here and help me.

I've got a fucking caliper in my hand.

So eventually I solved the problem accidentally

by dropping the caliper,

which broke the wear sensor and problem solved.

Sometimes these things just work themselves.

Yeah.

It's always good to replace those sort of wires.

You know, just make sure there's continuity in the wire.

So it was very lucky because it actually broke on

due to the wear sensor plugs in.

Yeah.

It broke on the disposable side.

It didn't break on the body side.

Yeah, the limb side.

Now, wear sensors are a little bollocks anyway.

You just join them up and never worry about it again anyway.

But it was one of those things.

Well, it's going to break at least.

It broke the proper side of it.

And I then almost but didn't

lowered the car on the ramp

with the transmission jack under it.

Oh, here, that would have been a great.

But I didn't, but it was very close.

You know, you're just tired and just your brain doesn't work.

And then every day, this was all the same night.

And then I came to the last I had the brakes off, blah, blah, blah.

And I says, right, last thing I'll do before I go in,

I'm going to take the, you know, the brake shields off.

But they're like teeny, teeny little eight mill bolts,

which were obviously all rusted and corroded to death.

Oddly off the three of them, two of them were absolutely mint.

And one of them had no head.

I was like, how does that even happen?

So I was using this wee small like ratchet little quarter drive ratchet

that comes in a little kit where the ratchet sits on top

and all the wee bits around underneath.

It was one my dad gave me years ago,

but it was just the right size and being small

and everything to take these wee things out.

But I had to tap the ends of them.

As I said on the last thing,

everything you have to hit with a hammer to get the socket

to go onto the head of the bolt.

And I knocked this one in and I was trying and I couldn't,

and I couldn't get the ratchet to attach onto the extension bar.

I was like, what the fuck's going on here?

I fucking right and looked and it was the extension bar

just on that wee eight or seven mil.

I can't remember what size those bolts are.

The extension bar is exactly the same size as the socket

and I had put it in the other way round.

So I had put the extension bar into the socket end

instead of the square end and then hammered it in.

Oh, nice.

So at that point, I settled the tools down,

said some bad talk, cried a little bit and went into the house.

And in a nice cup of tea and had a becky.

Connor was like, what's wrong?

And I was like fucking cars couldn't go fuck themselves.

Again, because I was so tired and crossing my brain,

wasn't working properly.

Connor was like, come on out and I'll sort it out.

And I was like, you can't.

It's just going to have to go in the bin.

Rate the car off.

It was because it was our data,

given the set and stuff was really upset about it.

And I was like, look, we'll sort it out.

Come on, we'll get it sorted now.

It was one of those ones new.

It's like, right, we need to do this right now.

Yeah.

So Connor put the thing in the vice and hit,

got a punch down in between and knocked it over the hammer

and it came out.

So I was like, no damage.

Sure.

And I was like, goodness.

Nevering was all sweet.

Yeah, except for the worst answer.

It was the last week.

It had a bad day.

It had a worse day than leading it.

And on the superb side, I talked on the last one about,

I had got a load of work done, blah, blah, blah.

Then the engine went from light to come back on,

turned out to be one of the auxiliary pumps.

Fine.

Went down to motorfix to get it done as arranged.

Great bunch of lads fitted me in.

And like the Chinese.

Yep.

Great bunch of lads.

So I was sitting in the waiting room.

They said, we'll do it while you wait.

No problem though.

It's not going to take that long.

And Paul came in and he says, good news.

Pump's actually okay.

It's not the pump.

You've got some broken wires.

That's sweet.

Not so bad he does.

Essentially, the broken wires are now fixed.

Now, my instrument from light did come back on again this week.

But I have not plugged it in yet to see what the problem is.

Is it the same problem or a different new problem?

Because the devil farts in my face once more.

And the superb's doing that thing that Jack's Mark Sex is doing of just being a wee dick.

Aye, just temperamental.

Yeah.

But I have good black tape.

You could stick over those in management light in the dash

and then that'll fix the problem immediately.

That's what I used to do for MWT's, you know.

ABS.

Aye.

I don't know anyone that ever wired an ABS light to a timer either.

Yeah, it's fantastic.

That's it.

And apart from that, I bought some more new tunnels.

I talked with last time about my hammers.

I also bought myself yesterday in MMS a new bit set because ours is pieces get missing and

it's kind of rusty and dirty.

And then I want to use it at the same time Connor's using it.

It's a whole thing.

So I bought myself my own bit set and a couple of new spanners.

How good is MMS, Lesburne?

It used to be shit and now it's great.

It's got far better.

Yeah.

It's like Disneyland for tools.

Yeah.

I mean, they're still not potentially the most helpful people in the world.

Well, there is that.

But the shop itself is very good.

So that's about it for me.

And then as we mentioned briefly earlier, Connor and I were down at the Midlands cars

and coffee this morning.

Great turnout.

Obviously the weather's been nice, which obviously helped.

Good bit of crack.

We can never go to their show because it's always the same weekend that we're away for Helen.

Yeah.

And seeing as they won't move the show for us, we thought we might as well go and see them today.

Yeah.

Good idea.

So a good run down.

It was on the way.

Oh my God.

So we have a story.

Do you know they talk about modified cars and dangers and blah, blah, blah.

And all this hair.

I I've seen some ropey shit over the years.

I've done some ropey shit over the years.

Done some ropey shit over the years.

I've never seen anything like this.

So we were driving down the roads across from R.D. down towards Scales down that way.

And there's this land cruiser in front of us.

2015.

So 2015 fresh enough.

12 year old, 11 year old.

Go tell you tell the story, Connor.

Basically, I don't even know that the two of us were just weren't even really talking.

And I think at the same time, we just kind of went.

What the fuck's up with this thing?

Hi.

So we were traveling.

It was all over the road.

Twisty roads.

Like they're 60 mile an hour roads, but they're twisty down through.

And then I was like, is that a wheelie moving?

So it's back wheelie look to be moving independently.

All right.

But like in and out of the arch, like adjustable offset.

And then he was like, I think the other side's the same.

But there's a spur wheel under it.

So I don't think it has like a solid back axle like a pickup would have.

I think it's independent.

So I need to look it up and say, but basically when we come down to it was every time we would

run a corner.

So standard land cruiser, you would imagine if you put a ruler along the edge of the wheel

and the face of the wheel, it would sit in board of the arch by what two or three inches, maybe?

When he cornered, the wheel moved, the whole body was moving.

In relation to the wheel.

And the wheel was coming just outside the arch.

And then when he went the other way, the wheel sucked back in to about four inches

into the arch.

The thing looked like, do you ever see those little hula dolls or like the skirt moves?

That's what it looked like.

The whole thing was just wiggling.

It went down like, well, obviously it was like a bit of a road through like a boggy section.

And the whole thing was just like, do you ever see that?

Time-slapper, like.

Even a trailer gets out of control.

It looked like that with no trailer.

And you could see when he was meeting cars coming at him,

he was physically having to steer away from them.

And we were like, what the fuck?

So we followed him for miles because that's the direction we were going.

But we stayed rightly back and he went to pull into a garage.

And I said to him, he was like, I'm going to pull in and just set him in case.

Because he pulled up to the the air system.

So I said, I was like, that boy knows rightly that things.

He couldn't not know.

Oh, you would know something was wrong.

But I was like, maybe he thinks he's a soft wiggler or whatever.

I.

So I pulled up and he pulled up at the air and I said, I'm here.

Are you going to put air in that tower?

And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I am.

And I was like, do you know your whole back ends fucked?

And he went, he looked at me and he goes,

the whole back ends moving side to side.

And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

And I went, all right, no problem as long as you know.

Turns around, yeah, it's a fluid axle.

Clear off.

But I see as I was, as we seen him pulling into the garage,

child in the front seat.

I was like, holy fuck.

They live amongst us.

So like we were talking.

Things you see when you don't have a gun.

Pascal was saying when we were chatting to him about it,

and he was like, I them things are Rob boxes.

And he says more likely that one of the.

There's definitely a Land Cruiser.

Land Cruiser, 100%.

Wasn't a warrior.

No, no, no, no.

And the chassis breaks on them.

Yeah.

And the Navarra's as well.

I really like Navarra's.

Yeah.

That was interesting.

Scary stuff on the road.

But the cops did not pull that thing over.

You know what I mean?

That's.

Yeah.

That's the drawer.

Pills on me were for tense.

Well, that's what we were saying.

Like my car, the back end, remember the bushes were fucked.

There's no way it was moving four inches either side to side.

And my car, especially in the wet or slippery.

I wonder is this rear subframe detached from the.

It could have been.

Rolled it out.

It looked like something was broken or if you imagine like a.

Is it a Panhard bar that runs left or right?

If that was disconnected or snapped or broken,

it would just be.

The whole thing would be wiggling back and forth.

I couldn't believe it.

And then when he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, no.

And I was like.

And you're still driving.

You know.

I like, you know, I'm an arsehole.

Absolutely.

I wouldn't have driven that thing.

And I said that I was so bad.

I think I chance a lot of things, but I was like, no.

That's just being stupid.

Yeah.

Seeing how he was having to steer away from on common cars.

I was like, oh, no, fuck that.

Yeah.

What an idiot.

Mm hmm.

Absolutely.

There'll be a story someday on the week or two of.

Yeah.

So.

And the thing is, like, if that thing got into.

That bad of a wreck, you might not actually be able to tell.

That's what caused it.

What caused it or what?

Yeah.

And he wipes somebody else out and it's down as a freak accident.

You know, that way.

Dickhead like.

So there you go.

Have fun on the roads folks.

It's just a real safe list to go.

But the rest of the day was very nice.

Oh, we'd agree to.

We had good crack.

We had to leave a wee bit early because we were coming back up here to record, but.

We were actually there for less time than it took to travel each direction.

Ah, but we had two hours to run down there, an hour and a half.

I was stopped for a deli feed and it was.

About two hours 20 on the way down.

Yeah.

And then about two hours to head on the way up with all the slow traffic.

What did you take?

The T-T.

T-T.

Very good.

Could be wrong.

I was good.

It's nice to be run out the R-D road.

The trusty stuff.

If you get this.

Good weather.

It was good.

It was good this morning because there's nobody really about.

Get a few seconds.

Park from the crazy land cruiser.

On the way back up, it was like micro.

Sunday drivers.

Yeah.

Aye.

I was very calm.

It was all good.

And there's no work really passing that road.

Yeah, you're stuck.

I don't care really.

As I was saying, I was like, if I knew this road better,

I could probably be ready to overtake.

But to be honest with you, there's no where really.

Unless you want to be an absolute dickhead.

There's no where really to pass safely.

So yeah, it was good.

Good turnout.

Like the place was packed.

Yeah.

Lots of.

So some cars that will be coming to Dub shed.

We do.

Excellent.

Paul always manages to arrive with more than one vehicle.

Yet he is only one person.

He didn't get one horse.

But he's a magician.

I was saying to the guys, I was like,

the day you all have your cars on the road,

it's the day Paul's fucked.

Because he never helps to drive his cars for him.

The Pegasus on the Black Mark 3.

Aye, so he's put the Pegasus on the Black Mark 3 now.

Very nice.

It's so good.

It looks so good.

And he has,

is he posted photos of those cars he has, doesn't he?

I don't know.

Well, he had them out today.

Ah, well, far enough now.

And he has RSs on the Goldi, Beji,

import of the US one.

So they were good.

Some crack.

But yeah, no great turnout.

Like it was absolutely rammed at the point

where like a whole load of jab stuff even started turning up.

There you go.

Two MR2s.

Two senior Dosses.

Ones or 2s?

2s.

Yeah.

Couple other Super-Us and bits and pieces.

Like it was a good turnout.

There was a lowered Tesla

on what I imagine were like 21s or 22s.

It sat really, really nice.

Oh, very good.

Was it red?

It was red, like dark red.

And he had like a lip kit and stuff on it.

Actually looked really good.

In fairness, it did look well.

It sat really well.

What else was there?

Campers, Kratos.

Couple of Beatles.

2s, Mark 3s.

Aye, it was busy now.

It was good to see.

So yeah, that was us for news or new with us.

Anybody got any news from the wider world?

Just a follow-up from the last time I was talking about the Middle East,

the F1 calendar.

So it's confirmed that

Aye.

Bahrain and Saudi were cut from the calendar.

And yeah, it says basically,

while several alternatives were considered,

it was ultimately decided that no substitute would be made in April.

So that's that out the window.

That's no surprise I'm sure, like.

There is concern about the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Because the borders are on.

It's the one towards the end of the year, isn't it?

Plus now, they're talking about the,

what's the ones at the end?

Two at the end.

Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

That's the ones.

Aye, so do you know how long this goes on for?

You're losing a lot of the season there.

What's that sex in total?

Yeah, that's just fantastic.

And the price of paddles, just joyous.

Heat noise, joyous.

We were in the south.

It's criminal down south.

Diesel is €2.20 a litre.

Minimum.

I put super in the TT today and it was €154.

And I was like.

Aye, €151, I think I paid for super on Friday.

Ironically, I'd done 210 miles today.

And when I worked it out,

that's probably about a month's worth of driving for me at the minute.

There you go.

So I haven't been able to-

You work from home, bitch.

Yeah, honestly, people have been sending me with the price of diesel.

I'm like, what price is it?

Because I just don't know.

When the politicians get asked, how much is milk?

I don't know.

Seven pounds?

I'm basically an age of rise at this point.

Like I'm not the every man.

I'm pretending to be the every man, but I'm not.

On a slight tangent from F1,

did you see for Stappen this weekend was Saig Queston?

He was doing the Nuremberg ring.

Nuremberg, yeah.

Did you see they got disqualified?

I'd seen the story, but I didn't read it.

So they won.

And they won by a considerable margin.

And then afterwards, the win was stripped from them

because it turned out their team had used too many tires.

They were allocated six sets and they'd used seven over the course of their race.

It's funny, like seeing them go out and absolutely fucking dominate.

And then it gets taken away.

The admin side of it, which to be honest with you,

I don't like that even in F1.

It kind of is what it is, but it's-

I'd really see a race one.

I'd see it at the end of the day as an advantage.

Oh, 100%.

I can understand.

I know the rules are there for a reason.

I can understand it as a total.

It's like when McLaren got done for the skid pan,

two workers were running lower.

It obviously was the advantage that they had.

Has the technical director and the team been sent back to do mathematics or?

Probably.

I find they probably get some parking, I would say.

It's a bit of a stupid mistake to make, aye.

And the Stanley is like-

So you imagine someone would have a spreadsheet or something or at least a pen.

Because a lot of time with F1, you see all the time penalty would be served after the race.

But it's like six laps in.

You're like, why not serve it now?

I hate seeing anything change at the end.

You like to see it is what it is.

But yeah, the man's not happy with F1.

They met it because of his car shit, basically.

But I'd be interested and see would he move to the likes of that kind of racing.

Probably not as much money in it.

Money.

That's the problem.

But I would imagine when he ends his career, he'd probably go off happily and do all these side

quests because he does seem to enjoy actual driving.

No one who's finishing up WRC, he was side questing flat out for-

Oh, why?

You know.

Sure can be reckoned and fucked off to WRC, remember, for a while and then came back and-

Yeah.

I think with Mboys, it's like, it's just in you that you want to-

It's just the adrenaline fix of that just sheer power and just challenge.

I've always thought that you think of like Alonzo and stuff and these,

but in F1 for 20 odd years and people say like,

you think you can move across and let somebody else through and whatever.

But like, once you give that up, you're never getting that back.

No.

And that's-

It's like footballers and once they quit football,

someone turned alcohol because they can't get the fix.

What are you going to do?

Road racers.

Something I'm racing to their 40s, 50s just because they can't get a fix or anything else.

When you're the pinnacle, even if you're not winning,

you're still competing at that pinnacle level.

There's no substitute for that fix.

That's what you need.

Yeah. And unless she-

And you've basically dedicated your life to that.

So it's not like you're just going to go and pick up and be the best of tennis next, you know.

So there's-

It's always interesting to see, but yeah,

he seems to be pretty golden in whatever he's doing except this year's F1.

Anybody else anything?

I have AC Schnitzer aka ACS Tuning closing end of this year slash being sold off.

Who can really say?

The wheel people like hasn't the BM?

The tuners, yeah.

So they've been going for over 40 years.

Over the years they've competed in touring car races, rallies,

and known for obviously tuning kits for various BMW production cars.

They branched out into modifying minis and even supplied parts for the latest Tour de Supra,

being as it is so closely related to a BMW Z4.

No.

But they're owned by a, I guess conglomerate called Kohl Group.

So they came out and said,

steadily rising costs in the development of manufacturer parts are creating disadvantages.

In particular, the extremely long approval process for parts in the German system

has caused ACS to fall behind its non-German competitors.

We, like other tuning companies, have also not succeeded in inspiring young customers

to enjoy sporty driving with our brand to the same extent as their father's generation did.

On the demand side, changing consumer behavior and the gradual phase out of ice

further exacerbate the situation.

BBS has went through financial woes, but the brand name was always very strong.

It's always something that'll bat for the power of the name.

In some shape or form, somebody will.

It's funny though.

I thought I would imagine like ACS in a Tour would have been,

well, obviously we're not big BMW people, but I imagine that would have been a big

thing still.

But I suppose now when you think of like BMS, you have like every exam sport and you know, it's

yeah, yeah, that EV driven sort of sideline stuff like that, I suppose.

I don't know, a similar tangent from that with a bit of irony from our old mates of Volkswagen.

So in the mid to late 90s, it wasn't huge here, but in America, especially,

they ran an advertising campaign.

There's whole slogan was drivers wanted and it was huge.

And like they pushed like that busy pushed Volkswagen massively in the US

and they've decided to bring it back at a point when there's barely a car you could drive.

When they're bending off manuals and performance models left, right and center.

Oh, the irony.

The irony indeed.

I seen this and I was like, is this actually real?

Like this is what we're bringing back when we've got fucking EVs.

I think in America, even all the GTIs now are all auto, so they're all DSG.

All the clients cars, no more drivers cars at all.

All of them here, aren't they?

You can't buy a manual GTI in the UK.

Don't think so.

Or is it ours?

But some of the performance cars are only auto then.

Because in America, it definitely is.

But either way, like that's...

Or am I thinking a five door and three door?

I know that the...

Oh, the defi bend all the three doors.

Yeah, years ago.

The TCR, it's extremely rare to get a three door.

And I don't think they don't have manual on a TCR.

No, I think they're all auto.

That's actually brutal.

It's like basically having a steakhouse and like meat lovers wanted.

Here's a salad.

I'll have to look on that.

That's horrible.

Thought about it too deeply.

But I seen it and I was like, you know when it was once you go...

Mushroom steaks and all that stuff.

Is this actually what we're doing here?

What is what is going on?

See, a lot of the...

I think it's driven by Nurburgring too, the whole hype of that.

Because DSG is quicker.

Let me make your car quicker.

Aye.

So people that don't, you know, aren't really into that car,

they want the quicker version.

So the quicker version is DSG version.

Yeah.

So this was the conversation.

Actually, I had down at the cars and coffee today,

where we were in Brennan.

And I was like, I was trying to set him as like,

I still am not sold on this TT.

And he said to me, I was saying,

he says, what is it?

And told him it's the BAM 225.

And he was like...

You can't get a manual.

And he was like, you can't get a manual.

And he says like, that's about to be a quick car.

And I was like, but it's not about it being quick.

It's just boring.

Yeah.

Like it's that car to me,

we drove from Bambridge to across the border.

So what's that?

A good 20 odd mile.

And I don't think we spoke.

And he just turned around and I was like,

I don't think there's anything wrong with this engine.

I just think it's boring as fuck.

And that's exactly what this is relating to,

the Volkswagen thing.

It's like, it can be fast.

But I mean, if there's no sensation, there's no fun.

Did you see it or was it?

Yeah.

Like, you know what's fast as well?

Teleporting.

See if they discover teleporting.

Are we all going to be fucking teleport enthusiasts

where we can just bounce around the country?

You know, you drive cars because there's a sense of like

being, you're connected to it, you know.

It's sensual.

Yeah, that's it.

You want to feel like you're actually part of it.

And basically Volkswagen don't want drivers.

They want passengers who think they're drivers.

Yeah.

They're making a car more as if you're not a driver.

You are a passenger.

You're part of.

You're sitting there watching the car drive.

You're part of the driver, you're just part of the,

another thing that goes along with the ABS and the fucking.

It's taking the connectivity with the machine.

It's more distant and separate.

Exactly what it is.

It's like you said about your C6, RS6, phenomenally fast,

but it wasn't the car you liked because you couldn't take it down a back road

and blast and shift and it didn't feel connected.

Like, were you compare that to, I don't know, you absolutely love them.

So it's a bit biased, but like an Edition 30, Mark V,

you feel like you're part of that.

You know, and that's what they've lost their way.

And I do think the majority of car manufacturers.

And the software financially.

You can see it.

For various reasons.

I think that is a factor.

Although the Chinese electric market is a big factor.

Yes.

But one person that didn't back himself in the cul-de-sacs, Toyota.

Oh, a hundred percent.

They're releasing the Celica reading this week.

Oh, really?

Mm-hmm.

Got sent a link to it.

But I think there's going to be a GR version and blah, blah, blah.

That's lost.

So there's not too much details about it, but it is in the pipeline.

I think back in the success of the RSGR.

The Corolla after that.

They've just went, hold on a minute.

There's demand for this and it's really helping our brand.

I think they did a Supra GR as well.

I think that they were pretty limited numbers.

So yeah, I thought that was pretty ironic from old myths.

Yeah.

Well, it's like I was just talking about with

AC Schnitzer and they've come out and said,

you know, we've not succeeded in inspiring young customers to enjoy sporty driving.

But can you even?

They also need a base model to work.

Yes.

They need a BMW to come along for someone to buy that to them by their product.

There's no point in somebody going,

I've got a set of AC Schnitzer wheels and side skirts under my bed with a car I don't have.

But then another way of looking at that is, excuse me, back in, I was going to say our day,

but years ago, I'd used to think you had maybe six or seven different specs of one model.

No, yeah, the spec range.

Whereas now the manufacturer has realised people want the best spec.

There's maybe two options.

Well, that's also the thing too.

Cars are so fast now out of the box.

It's like the audio thing we're talking about earlier.

You know, they're already fast and good and you don't actually need to put

a tuning kit.

I mean, it's nice if you do.

But, you know, you don't have to put them on to make them go fast.

They already do.

And you've now even you look at like I've said this before,

Kea Picantus looks sporty.

Everything kind of looks sporty and the base models don't look shit.

We're years ago when you were young, the base models did look shit because they were shit.

Yeah.

And the GTIs were and the equivalents were the high end.

So you went and got your GTI parts or you went and bought SE snitcher bits for your BM

to level up.

We're now when you buy, you go out and buy a car today.

It's pretty well specced and it looks pretty good.

It's weird.

We're in sad times.

We're old dinosaurs.

We're here.

I have some nice thing.

So one part of the VAG group is still doing fun stuff and it's Audi.

Surprised.

So as a celebration of 50 years since Audi first put a five cylinder engine into the Audi 100

back in 1976, they're releasing a car called the RS3 Competition Limited.

Seen this for kind of that, yeah.

So rebound adjustable coilovers, thicker stabilizers, stiffer spring rates.

They definitely didn't see BMW in their range of M3 and M4 competition that made

that extra revenue and thought that's a good idea.

We'll do the same as that.

New arrow at the front.

New roof spoiler, RS pocket seats, white dials like the RS2 Avant.

Some carbon accoutrement.

Nice word.

It's the same horsepower torque rate.

So 395 brake horsepower and 369 pound feet of torque as the regular RS3.

But the speed limiter has been raised to 180 miles an hour.

Variable RS Sports exhaust to quote, broaden the spectrum of the exhaust note.

There's also less insulation in the firewall.

So you get more of the noise through the cabin at the face on the road.

No, here's the only problem.

Two problems.

I was going to say price.

What price is this one?

Limited to 750 cars of which they reckon 11 might come to the UK.

And starting price, 92,855 pounds.

Very good.

That's realistic.

I'll buy a lot of Mark 3s.

But then you think like what's a base model, quote unquote base model RS3?

Yeah.

Like it's still an expensive car.

70 grand all a lot of money.

That's crazy.

Yeah, that's.

But I mean, it looked cool.

Oh yeah, 100%.

I like the idea.

Don't like the execution.

They'll definitely be harsh for it.

Like it's not ours.

11 coming to the UK out of 750.

Most of them will be in Germany, won't they?

Yeah, but America, probably.

See, they'll wade that on their current sales figures.

So they'll go, this is the market we're going for.

Aye, who has bought one?

So the RS3 market, they mustn't have surveyed Birmingham because there's nothing but RS3.

I was going to say the bloody everywhere, yeah.

Don't worry when they all get hit, that's where they'll end up.

Anybody else got any more news?

I am out of news.

No, I might.

No, see him here.

Okay, YouTube's anybody apart from our very own Conor McCann YouTube?

I have a handful and to be honest with you, it's usual.

So we'll just sort of rattle through.

But with John Payton has another video out.

He's still working with the Metro slash Porsche.

Yeah.

He finally got the roll cage done, which has been an absolute disaster for him.

Which he explains in great detail in the videos.

You can tell the man's frustrated.

In fact, we were talking to him last year at Dub shed,

which is almost a year ago now.

And he was frustrated then.

Never mind.

Jimmy Oaks has went on a weird side quest.

The race car?

Yes.

Have you been watching it?

It's a SLC super light.

I watched the pickup of the vehicle.

He flew out to pick it up.

It's actually, it's interesting.

It hasn't went to plan.

That was weird.

I didn't see him doing that.

So he bought it along with something else and some weird deal.

And then they're still playing away.

Have you been watching them working on the Porsche for the Maserati engine?

I'll say I haven't, no.

It's really good.

All right.

It's fantastic.

Like it's, a lot of people were getting bored of the S chassis.

S chassis.

And he's the best.

Just his, this absolute dog box of a nine, six, four.

They bought a couple of years ago that had a small block Chevy engine on it.

Back when Porsches were dirt cheap.

It was done really roughly.

Someone had welded up the sunroof and then just skimmed filler over it.

So they were building this as a kind of a almost kind of track car, but a fun.

They bought a V8 Maserati engine with ITBs on it.

And it's now in the back, but they've.

Because the Merengues like to put the LS engines in there?

Yes.

That's another one.

Yeah.

So it's on ITBs.

The V8, um, the, I kind of got out of control because they were like, you know,

we were trying to tidy this up.

And he just went, yeah, carbon roof skin to replace the shitty roof.

As you do.

Cause he was like, right, what am I going to do?

We're just going to fill this again.

And then they're like, nah, carbon roof skin.

They've done like a, basically like a shave bet in the boot.

So it's like properly nice.

It's going to be a nice car.

And then they bought the turbo wide body metal arches.

So it's going from a skinny.

What do you call?

Like Nora bought it.

Jimmy's mechanic in-house welder.

He's gone now.

He away?

Spoon.

Yeah.

So there was a whole, seemed to be a whole thing online where the face he fell out.

Oh, all the lunatics online worked out that stopped following each other.

I'm convinced there's people who wake up every day and check things like this.

And then he wasn't in the next video.

And I'd be honest with you, as much as I said, he was the best thing that happened to that channel.

Him leaving is the best thing because it has forced Jimmy to start.

Hands on again.

Roll it in hand at the spoon and then hand it back.

He's done this, he's done that.

It's, he's doing the things.

And I don't know if, I don't know if it's a coincidence or if I'm reading it or whatever,

but like, I don't know if the rest of them didn't really get on with your man because

Bran is old mate from next door is in it far more now that there's loads more people kicking

around.

Okay.

And there's, it just seems like a better crack.

Better atmosphere workshop.

And honestly, like as much as I liked Spoon and it's work was fantastic.

I think him leaving has really kicked the channel up or forced them to go right when

he'd do something here, which is good.

But yeah, that Porsche build's really, really good to see.

And then one I actually didn't mention.

I don't think it was out at this point actually when we recorded the last time was

Jake Logue.

Jake did a video from the GTNI Storm, Carson Coffee.

And so what it actually captured the vibe really, really well.

So just if you check that out as well, Jake Logue,

just type in Jake Logue, GTNI.

Give him a follow.

It'll come up.

Don't a test drive video there or the Clio?

He did.

You know what?

It was actually really good.

I haven't watched it yet.

I said to him, I was like, surely there's a niche market for test driving older,

not because well, what is an 06 Clio 197 isn't exactly old old, but

he can get an actual live reaction to cars like that, that people maybe wanted to buy

when they're younger and couldn't afford.

And now the kids, they're not going to afford it or it's not practical to have.

And even if you went out with the owners and, you know, did a crack.

Yeah, because he is good.

He's good like that.

And he's spontaneous.

So I actually really enjoyed that one as well.

It's good.

That is me for the tubes.

The tubes.

I've been watching usual stuff.

One of the things I didn't realize I had unsubscribed from big time.

Ah, yeah.

And it came up and recommended just one of the clips.

And the JB welded a 350Z diff, you know, a welded diff.

Hi.

So just just filled it.

Just click bait stuff.

And they just opened up a diff and just JB welded it.

Did it work?

See if it worked.

It worked.

That's interesting.

And then the next clip, the short that came up on the thing was JB Weldon,

a connecting rod in their workshop.

We two-stroke bag or four-stroke bag.

No, that's interesting.

I imagine that didn't go well.

It started and they drove it up and down the street and all heard it was a big clunk.

No, it was the end of it.

So it was a warm up and then just went, nah.

I was waiting on that part.

But no, they went and done donuts out in the street for a brave way and held up.

How long it's going to hold on for?

I don't know.

That's interesting, yeah.

But absolutely click bait, but pretty interesting.

But that's the sort of thing you talk about doing with your mate,

but you never actually do.

So yeah, while a lot of that content I don't enjoy,

something like that is actually interesting.

I wouldn't watch an hour long video on that,

but it was 15 minutes, but there's a bit of crack.

What I've seen now on social media is TikTok.

There will be accounts there that will have 10 part highlight things

of maybe a Matt Armstrong hour long video.

And they'll summarize it and they're getting mental views.

Aye, which then leads to mental money.

Yeah.

So this happened.

Oh, this is years ago.

I can't remember who sent me it.

And that'll probably affect his views,

because maybe if somebody doesn't want to sit down for an hour,

they'll watch that instead to get the juicy bits.

Or they don't want to watch it on YouTube

because they don't have premiums, so they'll watch it on TikTok.

Something like that, yeah.

So this is way back.

This is like pre-COVID.

Someone sent me this.

Someone had taken, and they've done it for quite a few people.

Their entire channel on YouTube was this,

had taken all my photos from my build thread of my Mark III.

Now, you've seen my build threads.

It's autism levels of detail.

Like, if I fart, I will record it.

I joke that my Mark III build thread is like,

how to build a Mark III or how not to build a Mark III,

but it's all there.

I've taken all the photos from start to finish

and just put them in like a loop rail.

Like a slide too.

Yeah, which was about 10, 15 minutes long.

I mean, that might have been Brian Basto sent me it.

And it was like 40,000, 50,000 views.

Holy smokes.

And this person had been doing this for all these build threads.

And they're obviously making money of it

because they've got like 100,000 followers.

So it's like-

There's a bit of Qing there somewhere, like.

Mm-hmm.

Wouldn't be hard to do that.

It's like, holy shit.

But YouTube changes their rules a lot and stuff.

With, because it changes the algorithm

and what they pay out and how they pay and stuff all the time.

I can't remember the exact details,

but there was a big crackdown on,

I think it was a combat-based AI content.

So like if it wasn't a person talking,

or if it wasn't originally created kind of thing.

So that might crack down on things that got as well

because it's not your own content.

Like when you upload a YouTube video now,

you have to say if it's AI generated,

or if there's scenes which appear to be

what is it?

There's scenes that appear to be altered from reality

or something.

And I was like, well, fuck me.

What's half the YouTube ones?

There's a few of them telling a few stories that aren't real.

On a separate note, I happened to be going through marketplace.

And I went, that's my car.

Oh.

Advert first set of brushes.

Showing your car?

Showing the photo I took when I first got the car.

I put the springs on it at the fire station and come over.

Mm-hmm.

There were the first photos in the RMS through it.

It was showing it.

Showing it.

Now, it didn't show my rage.

It was showing my rage.

It'd been ringing the fellow to say, what the hell?

But fellow sat on this set of brushes.

And whether he pulled them off RMS or a Facebook search

where you just type in brushes.

And it'd come up.

But I just thought cheeky bastard.

I, because the other thing is somebody might see that go,

fuck us, Nigel's car.

They're clean.

They'll be all right.

And they weren't even genuine.

What do you do there?

Oh, stinking.

Dirty, dirty.

Should you remember the clothing brand that WJ had one year

and it had Gethyn's car in one of the pictures?

That's what they call him.

He still comes.

I agree.

Gethyn loved that.

He did.

He was like, they still wouldn't give me a free T-shirt.

Oh, he tried though.

He tried.

Okay.

That's us finished up with YouTube then.

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It's good lad, Morty.

It is indeed.

So questions then, let me see what we have here.

Actually, a couple of them the last time I came through,

just afterward for our start recording.

Gemma Campbell says,

if you weren't into the Volkswagen scene,

what other car brand do you think you'd be into?

Probably Ford, because the whole family thing.

You're Honda.

You're always Honda.

Honda, I started in Vauxhall,

but I can't see myself being into Vauxhall now

because there's not that many that I still would be

massive into.

But Honda is like, yeah, probably Honda for me.

I could have been down the Vauxhall route

because I remember I had the VCS to start with

and nearly bought a Nova 1200,

but I've got the Polo Cub AS instead.

At that age, you're a formative years,

you could have just fell in love with it.

And stuck with what you had, yeah.

Well, that was my thing.

I had Vauxhall because I raced Vauxhall,

I raced Nova's,

and then I got a Corsa B as a road car.

Then I found Volkswagen and they've literally been,

if you want to be pedantic about it,

the TT is the first non-Volkswagen I've owned

from what, 18 years old?

I've owned it.

Variational cars.

Like I've had cartons, Honda CR-Xs.

BMWs.

You just named three cars,

and those three cars that you named,

all got you in trouble.

Yes.

Yep.

The CR-X, the Carlton, and the BMW.

Moving on.

Yep.

It's probably a good thing you're into Volkswagen,

isn't it?

They're very sensible for me to drive.

That's it.

You can't really do much.

Would you, Lee?

I think I probably would be Vauxhall,

but a bit like you'd have to be old Vauxhall.

I would still be older stuff.

That's the thing, though.

I can't see me being into beatmars.

What is there exciting in Vauxhall now

for young people to get into?

So we were talking down the road,

and I was saying about it,

I'm still not massively into the TT.

Unless I could like to try it for you yet,

because I've never had it for you yet.

And I was like, well, what would you get?

And I was like, well, what is it?

You got an E-82 M3.

I like them, but I'm not going to give 20 grand for one.

I don't like them that much.

And then I was like, I could get an S4.

And I was like, what's outside of that?

And the only thing I could think outside of that really,

well, apart from some of the other BMs,

like the big Monaro 5 series,

was the Monaro and the VXR8.

And I was like, do you know what?

They're modern Vauxhall.

And I was like, as much as I used to be Vauxhall,

an old-school Vauxhall, I've no interest in them.

Yeah.

That's the thing, like they're not...

I never looked.

I look at them and go, that's cool,

but I never get beyond that.

I've never went.

And there's not a desire there?

Yeah, where I look at some of the other obscure,

like I look at Porsches,

you know, and be like, fuck, I love doing that.

But like, if I had the fucking money,

like the lotto with money,

I wouldn't be going out and buying a Monaro.

You know, I'd go out and buy an EP37 or something stupid.

You know, something daft like that.

I had Laminers down past place.

I or, but buying a couple of like,

like an RSX or, you know, something like that,

but like that side of things doesn't really do it for me.

As I said this morning, D2S8, that's what you want.

Get your V8 fix and then give it to me.

There's a video about the phallodones in S8

and the repair bills are horrendous.

I would say they're fun.

Yeah.

Fuel pumps are a thousand pound each

and there's two of them on the go at a certain age.

I would say it's one of those things.

It's like everything.

It's good until it's not good.

Yeah.

It's like the V10 TDI.

I think in S8s,

basically when you need to do something on the engine,

it's more less engine out every time you go to it.

No, thanks.

The other RS6 I had, the, what was it?

The torque converter goes in.

It's a common problem.

Yes.

Yours have been done, hasn't it?

It has been.

I can't remember.

No, I don't think it had.

No.

It was always a fear.

Yes.

Because it was three and a half grand job to do

for a 220 pound part.

I what?

It was a week's labor.

Over 10 years ago.

Yeah.

I'm asking what that would be now.

Yeah.

Gobstein says,

if you had to be reincarnated as a motorized vehicle,

what would it be?

What would I like it to be?

And what would it realistically be?

It's probably two different questions.

So realistically, I'd probably be a GTD golf,

where I'm like, I think I'm a GTI, but I'm not really.

I'm not, I'm not as sporty as I think I am.

Yeah, that's a good one.

I haven't had to think about that.

I wouldn't know what you can,

add your suggestions to me.

Realistically, I'm probably a Mark II GTD,

because there's a big,

there's a vast difference between them and a GTI.

At least the modern GTDs are a bit quicker.

I don't know what I'd be.

Funny question though.

I like that question.

I would like to be something like an alpha, Julia, poor cheese.

But what are you?

I think I'm probably like a 1920s fucking...

Over the hell.

Rolls Royce or something just a bit old and slow and doddery.

Doddery, I'm a Mark I GTI.

I'm old, but there's a bit of sport.

Yeah, yeah, I would, yeah.

I'll give you that.

I'm in, no, I'm in Nova.

That's what I am.

Rusty.

Yes.

Small.

You're in Nova 1.2 Sting.

Remember Stings?

Merit.

I'm like,

what, you got head rest in your back seat?

Extremely lovable, but only to certain people.

That's very accurate.

That is very accurate.

You're an acquired taste.

Jake Luke says,

this is your dumb shed room ticket reminder.

Lincoln bio.

Good lad.

He's turning out to know me, fans girl.

S14 OCP says,

Revivaled on a podcast on their favorite birth year cars.

What's yours?

So M88.

So that'd be what car was made in 78 or?

I wonder is that available?

Because I looked it up and I have not looked.

I didn't see this question.

So hang on.

Well, is it available or what was first produced not here?

Oh, that's what I think he's aiming at.

Is first produced?

I think so.

So mine would be Mazda RX7, Lotus Esprit S2, BMW M1.

There you go.

That'd be lovely.

So I just wrote cool cars made in the year of birth,

you know, put in your year of birth,

and that's what came up with.

I'm happy with the M1.

I think I have a good one.

I think I might have looked this up before.

What year are you Connor?

Idiot.

Lee's 87.

I'll be the start of the March 2000.

Ha ha.

Ferrari F40.

Boom.

Meg drop, the end.

Connor, it's like Bruce Lee's higher lower.

Well, I'll tell you what's not on the list.

All right, he's on the list,

but I won't be picking it.

A Ford Probe.

What an E-M for a car.

Jesus, this is...

Idiots are rough year for cars.

I'll tell you that.

Oh, this is actually probably a genuine one for me.

An Nissan 180SX.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

That or a Renault 19.

And I don't know what I'm picking over the 19.

1916, Volvo Shamad.

Oh, Corado slash B3 Passat.

Idiot.

I read nothing.

That was the idiot that started,

and then the 95 or the 96.

I still think I'll take the 180 of them.

Yeah.

A bit more great crack.

Like a bit, yeah.

I'd love to see you in the 180SX.

That'd be cool.

So what I could do with my front,

because it's worth a fortune.

Back to front, snapchat on.

Yes.

Snap, snapchat.

Snapback.

The, yeah, I like those cars.

But this is my problem.

And much like we discussed briefly there with you,

I don't mix well with rear-wheel drive cars

because I can't behave.

Yeah.

It's like me on sports bikes.

It's like me on super fucking supermodos.

There's something about certain cars and vehicles

brings out an asshole on me.

And I can happily drive.

I can happily get into a 70 horsepower polo

and go, this is great fun.

But if you put me onto a 200 horsepower sports bike,

I'll go, this is great fun.

But I will die.

Do you know a car brings out the most assholes in people?

Unless it's a 200.

Oh, 100.

See as much as I hit that culture,

that would be if I owned one.

I, that, that road out there would be black.

Yeah.

Circles, junctions, plantae.

Total asshole mode.

All that.

No Iran 07 says, website is live.

Finally have somewhere I can document it all.

Good man, no.

That's nice you can look back on things

because he's doing a whole lot of stuff

with his mates at the moment.

That's right.

CEM auto detail and says, any goals for the pod this year,

things you'd like to do with it, et cetera?

Think we'll chat a little bit more interviews.

More interviews, yeah.

Because we'll sort of fell away from that a wee bit.

So yeah.

I actually enjoy doing the interviews.

The biggest problem for me doing interviews

is trying to like time it and set it up.

But all in that, I actually really enjoy doing them.

Michael Skullen underscore says,

have people finally got the idea

you can't leave early for a dub shed?

Were there any excuses last year?

I'm touching wood because last year it was good.

It was very good.

Did we have any last year?

A few boys moved down towards the gate

and when you said to him,

you can't leave six o'clock, they moved back.

It was grand.

That's good.

I don't think I did have anybody go on my washing machine.

No, I don't think we had anything.

No, like the major stuff.

I don't worry.

It'll come this year.

They've been stuck planning it.

Yeah.

Chris.mora90 says,

how do we stop EV owners being smug bastards

due to this chaos, Don E.T. is caused?

Chris, where does the energy come from when you plug it in?

I also miss my EV right now.

Well, I can certainly use driving the M3.

It's probably never pretty hard.

Oh, I've just seen this, but also this one.

Raleigh Wayne, Wayne Douglas says,

loving the YouTube channel Connor,

like and subscribe.

Thank you, Wayne.

His 106 Raleigh.

He's one of the white one that he had.

He's just got it back out.

He has been chasing non-starred issue and that thing for,

probably gets a two years now.

I think they've been working on it as and when they could.

And he'd been asked me a few things.

And he's like, what do you think of this?

What do you think of this?

But it's hard to diagnose something when you can't see it.

And then I don't know.

Peugeot said anyway.

And I think it knew one of those ones

or just beat you and you get fucked off

and you walk away for a while and you come back.

Traced it down to fault with the ECU, swapped the ECU.

He says he didn't think it was swapped it over

just as a last resort.

Bang, sat at my video of it running last night.

I was like, that is class.

50,000 mile in that car.

Mender.

And he says, I'll pull up the message.

He says the car's like a time warp.

So he.

Their pedals are dead close together.

They're with you.

Close together.

He says, my sister at two, six, I remember trying to.

Don't get in my big boots on.

Yeah, trying to parallel park it in the city center of Edinburgh

one night.

Yeah, my feet.

And I have small feet.

My feet were too big.

Yeah.

He says, when you get into it, the glove box has a mix CD in it.

There was a GTNI 2006 castle well and sticker in it.

A can of FC UK deodorant and a little style of pound coin.

It's a time warp.

It is.

That's so cool.

I always got it again.

And then the last one we have is D underscore Murph 350.

He says, what dream food trucks slash stall?

Would you all love a dub shed?

The one that was the distillery at AV or Alpine bag?

Yes.

The Mexican.

Oh my goodness.

100%.

And the funny thing is, Lee, you're not massively into that food.

And even you were like, this is incredible.

That was delicious.

It was so good.

I was at the bike show in Scotland one year and they had a like a hog roast thing.

You know, basically like a pig on a spit and they just,

he went up and he got a bap and they just carved you off bits of pork into that bap.

And that's probably one of the nice things I've ever had.

And it was like a food trailer with the spit roast thing in it.

So I'd go for one of them too.

While I agree with Nigel, because that was absolutely incredible.

One of the more obscure, like now it's a thing to have a weird food truck.

Everybody likes weird food trucks and stuff.

We're 20 odd years ago.

Sloppy burgers.

It was it was.

It was a corner burger.

And the burger.

Yeah.

Get what you're, you know, take what you're giving.

I went to the Welsh national bike show when I was 16, I think,

when my dad and all his mates and things got.

So what's that 20 odd years ago?

And one of the stands had and all they sold to the food stall was toasted sandwiches.

And they had just a lines of toasting makers and you could pick whatever you wanted on them.

And it was like 10 different mates, all different fillings, cold sloths,

cheeses, stuffings.

And see when you were done or when you were absolutely blocked.

And you're just like, oh, give me that.

I was on it.

So good.

It's just so easy to eat.

And I was so good.

It was a soft contained little.

It was that or some sloppy burger with frozen chips, you know, and you're like,

well, I know what I'm going to have.

Well, I have two more to add the mix.

Remember, we used to go to the clean fest and Waverly train station had a beer garden.

There was a toasty maker there on real.

And it was like fancy cheese with like red onion jam stuff in it.

It was absolutely brilliant.

And then there's a company in Northern Ireland.

I think they're based in Castleville.

But the food trucks are all around the place.

I think they were at Balmore this year.

Is it barbecue?

Batch or hatch or something like that there.

Their trailers are superb.

What did they sell?

Like burgers and things like that.

They've just opened one on Bambridge.

It's supreme.

So I have to talk to Peter.

Do I see if I can get them in for top shit?

I'd like to just shout out to the milkshake stand at Edition 38

where they just did any flavor of milkshake you could think of any type of chocolate bar,

sweets, flavor, fruit, whatever.

And if you brought them stuff, they would put it in the milkshake.

I brought them jack Daniels over and was like,

could you put that in there again?

Until the worst of it was,

we only just did it to see what they do with it again.

No problem.

So good.

So yeah, if we could get one that was going to be good.

That'd be cool.

That is us out of question folks.

Cool.

Well, thank you very much to everyone who sent in questions.

Sorry to those that missed on the last one.

We've done them now.

We still have one from about six months ago that we haven't done yet,

which we will find and do at some point.

It's just become a run joke this stage.

Maybe we'll never do it.

Maybe it'll just be fun.

It's on my phone somewhere.

But yes, and thank you very much to everyone.

Rest of you for listening to us babbling.

Next time you hear us, we'll probably be the week before it upshared.

And it'll be chaos.

Who knows what will be going on.

What will be happening then.

Or at Easter weekend.

So just before the chocolate.

So it'll probably be fine.

But yeah, cheers everybody.

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Reload EP0153 - Are Cars Too Good?

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