Reload EP152 - Calm After the Storm

Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Reload podcast.

My name's Nigel Lamont, and join me as usual is Lee Maxwell and Connor McCann.

This is episode 152, and the previous episode was 151, Wiley.

That's how numbers work.

And the episode was a fantastic episode, I must say.

And it was an interview with Mr.

Elliot Robert of PVW fame.

So Elliot has been the editor of PVW for how many years?

Oh, well over 20, 20 years.

Yeah, so great interview, talking about various aspects of his life

and the PVW magazine and the latest adventures with the magazine.

How him and Jamie Orr have become partners in, say, ensuring the survival of PVW.

Very good interview.

It was interesting, obviously a big throwback for me.

Like I've been banned PVW since the mid 2000s, maybe early 2000s, actually.

And it was great to hear a story about how you get into a job in the magazines

and just fascinating to listen to.

I could have listened to another hour if he was going on for another hour.

That's the thing I really enjoyed hearing about the fact that

all those magazine guys knew each other.

Yeah, it wasn't like there was a rivalry between them,

that they all get on and they're all kind of in the same field

and appreciating the same thing, which is cars, which is pretty cool.

What stood out to me was his absolute dedication to the VW

and I knew he was in the VW, but obviously he is

because he's took over for once VW, but it was just as it came across.

I just shone through his just passion for VWs throughout the years.

And yeah, it was very good.

Some of the things I picked up on sort of throwbacks were the Dalbac Mark 4.

Oh, yeah. The JD Engineering cars.

Yeah, absolutely brilliant interview.

Yeah, I think those kind of cars, you're going to be of a certain vintage

to remember them like ourselves, but they're well worth looking back on

to try and find because they're absolutely incredible.

And you're part of the team now, Connor.

I am indeed.

If anybody doesn't know that.

So Connor is officially, did you mention that before in the podcast?

I well sort of alluded to writing a few features for it.

So Connor is my staff of PVW and almost big.

So I know it's interesting, Joe.

It's funny. I really enjoy writing those articles.

I've done three car features and one show feature now.

I am terrible at English.

Like seeing school, one of my weakest subjects, maths, science is all great.

English was absolutely horrendous.

Now, someone might spell check them on the or occasion for me.

But somebody's very good at English.

But like, see the difference between writing about a book you don't give a fuck

about versus writing about something you're passionate about, like a car show

or the car itself.

It makes such a difference.

That's changed through in your articles.

You can tell it's something we're passionate about.

But the other thing is to the way I do it is I think it's kind of different

than some people write their features is I actually interview.

So I'll phone a bit like doing this recording here, but I'll phone the person

and just talk to them by the car and they tell the story.

And I literally I'm just there to put it all together.

You know, it's I like the idea of the person themselves telling the story

of their car because I don't know the car.

You know, it's no good me trying to make something up.

I would rather they tell the story and I just kind of put all the parts together,

which is nice, try and get the information out of them.

Which is pretty cool.

But yeah, not quite lucky.

Like I've been reading it myself for 20 years.

And you know, you're like, I've always always liked the magazine

and I've always wanted to support it.

And I don't think there's any other better way I can support it than by writing for them.

So it's pretty good.

It's an institution of the VW scene and as a little to get subscribed and

support it, because if you don't, it'll be gone.

That's it. Yeah.

Like look at all the other like bands that he talked about and things like that,

like all great magazines, but all disappeared.

It's performance forward still going.

No, I think performance forward is still going.

But I thought it was gone and I seen something about it recently.

But if it is around, it's one of the very few that is still there.

I know like Fast Car went online and I mean, it's basically a website now.

You know, yeah, I say a band's eye, but you had so many different ones.

And now there's next to nothing.

Yeah.

Guys, like you're left with you and me are left with massive big piles of PVWs.

I actually think part of your pile, I donated to you, didn't I?

I was like, there's a whole load of doubles.

And I was like, I sort these out sort of thing.

I first my first magazines when I was a teenager were actually air cooled.

The Ws. Oh, really?

I was into them.

Oh, I was never.

And then I basically got a driving one and went,

this is not as I thought it would be.

This is different. Yeah.

I think air cooled stuff, you have to be in a different mentality for it.

You know, you just have to accept that it is a lawnmower and that's what it is.

Like at each in 911.

Yeah.

So you're trying to say, yeah, the spicy beetles.

I love whiting 911 owners up about that.

But when you drive a beetle, you can tell it couldn't be further.

Further than the truth.

Absolutely lies.

Yeah, they're a car.

I actually like air cooled stuff to look out.

I really love the aesthetics of it.

But to drive them is not for me.

It's hard to be a well sorted beetle.

Some very, very good examples come to dub shed.

Even like there's a guy brings a few to Helen every year.

I can't remember his username.

It's on the top of my tongue, but he is like the type three

estates and stuff like that.

And he makes like the custom split rims and things for it.

And the work is absolutely incredible.

But I'm like, that is so cool.

But I would not want to drive it anymore in a bit of a mile.

You know, it's just like I appreciate beetles and campers

and all those weird notchbacks and all that sort of stuff.

I love to look at them at shows, but I have zero desire to own or drive one.

Not only silver, carbon, gear, beautiful, but again, not a van.

He's bringing the dub shed.

Yes, as well.

It's pretty nice.

OK, yes, great interview, great episode.

We'll move on to today's episode.

It is episode 152 and we'll kick on as usual, new with you.

So crack on, guys.

Well, I just wanted to say as when we were talking about Elliot,

obviously we're pretty heavily VW as everyone knows.

And we joke and we try to include some other makes and models as well,

because we do like other cars.

But getting Elliot as an interview was obviously like a massive deal

for us because we're all VW heads and I was thinking about it.

And I was like, we actually did quite a lot of pretty cool interviews

way back in the early days of the podcast.

We kind of peaked very early.

Covid helped a lot of things.

But yes, that's what I was going to say.

Covid obviously helped that people were hanging about

and we're happy to chat to somebody on the phone for a while.

But we had we had the couple of the Max Power guys.

We had Sean from Volkswagen America.

Back in like episode 10, like that's how long ago that was.

But I was just thinking if anybody had had started listening to us

from Elliot, those are good.

We did actually have someone this way back in the day

that you could go back and listen to if you wanted to.

Instead of us just waffling.

That's where we're good at.

Oh, we love waffle.

But we do have plenty of waffle and project updates to do today, don't we?

Aye, there actually is.

Good, especially from my right.

Yeah, well, I've been pretty busy with car stuff over the past few weeks

since probably even before the last one,

because we didn't do an awful lot of our own car chat on the last episode.

But I'll start off with the daily.

So the superb I decided it's staying for another year.

I had been discussing other cars

and potentially getting a new daily driver,

but I had made the decision the superb was going to stay for another year.

And therefore I needed to do some of the maintenance work

that I had been putting off doing because I was considering selling it.

So shout out to motorfix, our former sponsor.

And they did time belt, water pump,

wishbone service, all this kind of stuff to it.

Great, happy days.

But now I think because the superb knows that it's staying,

it's starting to really try my patience.

Astronomous behave?

Yes, because the week after it was in motorfix and I was in Scotland,

the edge management like came on.

Oh, delightful. Great.

So it was still driving fine

and there was no errors coming up on the screen or anything.

And so I just sent her on and Connor plugged it in for me when I got home.

And it came up with a load of, you know,

10 pages of numbers and letters and failure to close loop and this kind of thing.

So I sent a few screenshots to palms like,

hey, any chance you could translate this for me and see what it actually is.

So it seems like it's one of the auxiliary water pumps for the intercooler.

Apparently that's the thing.

So it's going back to motorfix next week to have that done.

Oh, very good.

And then I don't know if I've mentioned before.

I probably have on and off.

Wonder has the new water pump made more pressure.

No, I on something else or I don't know.

The weakest point sort of maybe.

I don't know.

I guess they probably are all part of the same system.

I wouldn't be too modern for my book.

Very coincidental.

New water pump and then the auxiliary.

So, yes, I've had an ongoing issue since.

Two years ago with the door lock module in the driver's door.

So it has keyless entry and keyless start.

And the keyless opening stopped working on the driver's door.

Two years ago when we got back from Helen and been at the airport car park.

And suddenly it stopped working.

And I thought maybe just the battery was flat after we'd been at the airport or something.

But it has been an issue ever since.

Sometimes it'll lock the door.

Sometimes it won't.

Sometimes the door won't open once it's been locked.

You can open it.

It opens and locks fine with the key, but the keyless function doesn't work anymore.

It does work for locking the door, but not for opening the door.

I've got used to it.

I just click the button on the key fob now and it's not really a drama, but it is a bit annoying.

And then it started the start of this week to do a thing where.

When the doors, when the door is locked and it won't open,

usually what I would then do as my work around is hold down the open button on the key

and the windows go down.

I can reach in and open the door from the inside and that always worked.

But on Tuesday morning, I think it was.

I did that and it didn't work because the driver's window didn't go down.

All the other three windows went down.

So the door was like deadlocked, basically.

Not a little.

So I went round to the passenger side, tried to pull the handle from the inside,

wouldn't open from the inside either.

Stand, click in the button, lock on, lock on, lock that sometimes works.

It just obviously kicks it back into life or whatever.

No, nothing went into the house.

Connor was there and I was like, this fucking door won't open.

He came out to have a look at it.

And as soon as I hit the button, it immediately opened because.

Magic hand and McCann.

So that was grand.

It worked for a few more days.

After that, I was driving around, going to work, whatever.

And yesterday, after the cars and coffee, which we'll talk about in a minute,

after lunch, went out into the car park of the restaurant

and it did the same thing again.

Door wouldn't open, window wouldn't go down.

So Connor very gracefully climbed through the driver's seat from the passenger seat

and he drove home.

But on the way home, we decided we need to stop at Screw Fix

and get a couple of bits and sure we'll go for a McFlurry while we're at it.

But it wasn't until we got into the drive through that we remembered

that the window wouldn't go down and the door wouldn't open.

So Connor had to again, very gracefully, I will say.

Did you pay the Benny Hill music when he done this?

Lean the driver's seat back and order through the rear window.

Oh, delightful.

The choice of the chance of power to be fair.

And then also your woman had to hand us the ice creams in through the back window.

We need video footage right now.

That woman didn't react either.

She's probably seen worse.

This is a normal day.

Yeah, it's just probably like this deck head.

There's probably people that do that to wind up where I was like,

literally going, I am sorry.

Or there's people that drive about and they never fix their window mechanism.

Well, there's one to my right.

Yeah.

So it's the door, not the window.

What is a new module?

Or is the locker?

I think so, I don't know.

I think it's the door lock module.

So I might get around to fixing that at some point.

I have been talking about it for two years.

It'll all end in a Blur of Fury some night.

And that'll be a smash the window.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about it.

I was like, what if I crashed and couldn't get out?

But I have a little, I have a hammer in the car anyway.

So I guess if I was deadly stuck, I couldn't get out of the car.

McLaren, Senna's or something.

They kept going on fire in the doors lock or something.

I'm not sure.

Or maybe it's just they went in the fires on.

Just when you talked about that there, people not being allowed out of the car.

Or is it Tesla's?

I know what happened.

Do you remember here?

How did they update the software or something?

Land Rover or some kind of police car?

Because obviously they have the additional armor and security and stuff.

And it was locked in and they couldn't get out.

Yeah, that's scary.

Like there's something on that stuff.

That was one of the Shogun sports.

Was it one of the Shoguns?

15 years ago, probably.

I was horrible.

So tell us your good news.

So that's the superb, you know, some good, some bad.

It is what it is.

They are 32, happy to report good bit of progress on it, on the stripping of the

SpongeBob's parts off it, all the parts that look as though they've been under the sea.

But quite a lot of them are now off.

It has been a struggle with some of it, certainly with rusty bolts and

just heavy, rusty parts and the back end of Mark Four's.

Are very different to the back end of Mark Sevens.

So like your full drive, Mark Sevens, your trail and arms are like pressed thick steel

or like the Mark Four stuff is big cast.

Heavy arms.

Yeah, so everything's heavy and stinging.

Stinging isn't the word.

My every night coming in, I've been like, my hair is full of rust because every time

every knot or bolt you go to to put a socket or a allen key or whatever into it,

you have to hammer them in.

There's no other option because everything's so crusty.

Brings back, bring back to the day of me breaking Mark Two golfs.

Aye.

Just hammering sockets on.

Same shit.

But as soon as you hit anything with a hammer, you just get shored with rust.

Yeah.

So it's lovely when you get it in your eye.

Oh, it's great.

I've had rust in my eye.

I've had it in my ears, up my nose, in my hair, down my bra, in my shoes.

In your vape.

In my.

Just cleaning the mouthpiece or a vape out.

It's like there's rust in this.

I'm just smoking some rust.

That's it just for that lovely high.

It's fucking everywhere.

So last night, thankfully,

Patty had been giving me a hand.

Per Patty smacked his head on the hub of the whale as well.

Got help.

Early bent the hub.

Don't you listen to him, he's being very rude about you.

And then Stefan and Connor also came out to give us a hand to lift the final

component out, which was basically the diff, which was still attached to the rear

subframe and the two arms and the drive shafts, all as one kind of unit.

We took it all out in one go.

And then we discovered that there's supposed to be a plug for the Haldex

in the boot that you obviously need to unplug to drop the Haldex unit down.

There's no plug in the boot.

Oh, it's on up the loom, is it?

No, it's supposed to be a plug in the boot.

It's supposed to be a plug in the boot.

We're still on a little snippy snip.

So when we lifted up the the boot floor, it was all like you could tell it wasn't

factory. It was like insulating tape like plastic, insulating tape all the way through.

In the world.

No idea.

So Stefan started to follow it back, broke the plug, maybe or something,

taken it out and they've just put it all together.

I don't know and we put a plug in.

They just put it of course at this stage, we had the four bolts out

and we were holding the thing under the car.

So the idea was we would drop it down, somebody would hold it

and then somebody would come in and unplug the top and would lift it away.

But in the one there wasn't a plug within, OK, it'll be in the boot.

So we had to then party and I were basically like kneeling down with the subframe.

So like lowering ourselves down as Lee

dropped the car down and then Stefan could get into the boot

to start looking for the plug all while we were holding us going.

Oh, my God.

And then at that point, we still didn't know.

We thought there was well, we thought there was supposed to be a plug,

but we didn't know if it was on top of the Halidex unit or in the boot

or somewhere along the length of the loom.

I were runs up into the quarter panel.

So Stefan was stripped away all the while.

We were like, oh, my God, this is heavy.

And then it turned out that it's supposed to be.

It's going to be obvious and it just wasn't there.

So we had to just cut it in the end and we'll fix it later.

But I means the future proves it.

But it's just some diesel dickhead there before you kind of thing.

Fun, fun, fun.

But a lot of it's out now, which is great.

It really feels when you look at it now, it feels like there's progress

but made a lot of stuff isn't there anymore, which is great.

What have you left?

Prop shaft, tank, front subframe, front wheel and brake assemblies.

That's it. I think that's it.

Excellent.

So and then bumpers and whatever else as well.

But yeah, the cups, you were talking about the cups on your TT

where the the rear arm goes into the body.

That's kind of a cup where it bolts it through.

And that's a known place for them to rot, basically, is in that kind of indent.

Mine has, you reckon yours didn't have these anymore,

like little plastic covers that sit in that indent that they were still on mine.

And I was dreading, I pulled them out.

I was like, oh, please.

And thankfully, I should touch wood when I'm saying this,

it looks like new up in there.

It's like the plastic thing has obviously totally protected it because it's good.

This is like my up into the shot.

So like, do you know, like the creamy colored like

like primer they've used in the panels, that's what's in there.

That's what's in there.

And it's just nice.

It looks like the factory wax and I bring it's incredible.

Yeah.

Hopefully there aren't any lessons when they're building Mark seven or six.

Well, Mark fours are usually pretty bad, like to be fair.

But that that thing's few scabs.

That's the really unusual thing about mine.

I said, well, I don't know if it is or not, but you said the bore was pretty similar.

The body and floor are fine.

There's a little scab here or there, but a surface rust, whatever.

The pinch welds are a bit gone because they always are, they get crushed.

But when you look at the body and floor in comparison

to all the arms and wishbones, you would say that these did not.

These are not the same car.

Like they they're totally different.

You only get like heavy cast pieces and they flick big rust.

That's what's happening.

Well, it were if it was a stamp piece, it couldn't flick that

because there's been a warm left, you know, I was underneath the Mark seven there

last week, just swapping the tires over.

And like the MBCs, one of the in six months.

And you realise how harsh the roads are here.

Oh, why?

Salts and they're looks like the corridors have been in two years.

Yeah.

And they're not rusted around.

It's just a clattered and crap.

Compensate.

Well, I'll give them a quick clean link.

That's the best thing you do.

You just clean them down.

Just you're never going to stop it like the beauty for that is when

Lee is at all stripped is the individual components like the arms.

You can go and get them blasted and do bits and pieces.

And once they're nice and shiny and new, you know, the hubs were put together.

You just set it to the side in the case of assembling a ring when the body's ready.

So yeah, when you get it all back in, you have the smug feeling of driving along

going, it's all brand new underneath.

That's nice.

It's nice knowing that you don't have to worry about it for ages.

Like, well, it definitely will be because I've ordered.

I don't know how many hundreds worth of bushes, bearings, ball joints, track

rods, drop links, and that's only the start of it.

Oh, you're deep.

And like, we'll just spend like 400 quid this week.

Yeah.

And there's a lot more to come.

But it's all it's all genuine parts like heater matrix.

And what else did I get?

Oh, I got a little plastic trim piece for the engine cover, which covers

where the plug leads kind of go.

It's like a separate little bit.

It's about, I don't know, nine inches long.

It just looks like a piece of black plastic and you can get fiberglass

or whatever, but then I was like, the texture won't be the same as the

engine cover.

It might look a bit weird or whatever.

So I've ordered a genuine one.

So it's come, the heater matrix and all the suspension type parts.

I still have more to get.

And last piece of news, I think, about some new hammers.

Cause I was basically trying to hammer sockets and stuff on and be a

drive shaft out with a teeny little ball peen hammer because that was all

I had.

It's like a toffee hammer.

So I now have three big lad hammers, two Milwaukee's and one screw fix

special, cheap bait and hammer.

I guarantee you'll still have it in 20 years.

Oh, yeah.

Well, it's a hammer and hammer was like a kilo and a half.

The big one.

One point two, I think one point two.

That's a big lad.

Kind of find that when you're working on your cars, prime time when you buy

new tools, your school, right?

I'm never getting stuck like that again.

Bye.

Yeah.

And you have it.

And that's where Amazon's dangerous.

Uh, for myself then, I think the last time I would come up here,

do you know, July was talking about the TT was having a few boost leaks and

things like that.

Tracked it down to the diverter valve had ordered a new genuine one.

Fitted it literally in like two minutes.

That's the easiest thing.

Like a new car, like you would think it'd been remapped.

So I was like, thank God that's nice.

They're a common fault in the mark five GTIs.

Oh, really?

So just like we plan a diaphragm, just splits.

That's it.

Yeah.

So are we a bit trickier in mark fives?

Harder to get to.

All right.

That's things like right on top of the engine.

No, it's buried at the back.

I think the diverter valve's in a different place on the this 30 engine to

the KO three engine.

Ah, because it's KO four and then slightly different.

Um, I'm back working with the mark two.

So I pulled the air suspension apart.

I seen that.

You might have seen that.

Let's talk about that later.

Um, so I pulled the valve block for their suspension.

I have as a knockoff of a VU four Acura one.

So pretty basic, pulled it apart.

I think it was like a year and a half ago.

Andy McRal works was doing the photo shoot of my car and I went to move it and

it just wouldn't air up the front, right?

And I quickly reteat everything in so that the front was just off one valve and

it worked fine and then it became one of those.

I'll get that changed and it didn't like my door lock module.

Yeah.

You know, it now works.

So it's fine.

Yeah.

It affects itself as self-healing.

So I didn't know what to expect because it never taken one apart.

So I ended up making a wee tool to do it, stripped it down and I found a tiny

wee piece of plastic jamming the valve, put it back together, bang, sorted.

So it was like, thank God.

So although they're not expensive, you can buy one for like 150 quid now.

But, you know, I'd rather spend that 150 quid on something else when you can

fix it because I'm going to redo the whole boot install.

I want to put a sub into the car, get the audio working on it and put a, like

that's the boot build from the mark three, which is eight year old and it looks

at, you know, it's, it's bad now.

So I want to redo everything.

I want to put a new compressor and a new tank.

So I have a right bit to spend.

So I've been doing that.

And then the other thing was my BBS steering wheel, the horn never worked.

The mechanism was always broken for it.

So I ordered a new replica one and I can use the original genuine badge with

the swap it over.

Yeah.

So I'll get all that going.

Went to Fed at the other night and the boss I'm using is from my Polo back in

the day, which had an airbag, which means it doesn't touch the copper.

Oh, so that's what the Instagram story is about.

Yep.

So, uh, I had to put out looking for like a mark two specific boss or non airbag

one.

So a few people reached out to me, tried to help me thankfully and it didn't

work, but, um, tag from Vege, he reached out and was like, there's a guy down here,

has one, I got it for you.

Bring it up for Dub shed.

So sort of thank you very much.

Um, what else have I been up to?

Did that, did that.

And then the only thing really I had down was Dub shed selection day, which was

yeah, another heartbreaking day.

Yeah.

So, so we basically had a thousand and 10 or 15 entries in there.

I think it was thousand and six in total for indoor, which is the most ever.

Yeah.

So, um, quite a, we had it in waves cause we used to do go through a thousand

entries in one day, which was just impossible.

Yeah.

It was so, so the last three or four years we've been doing waves and we split

the team up, take half and half, do a whole each.

Cause it used to be like, I think at the longest as we had, it was nearly nine hours.

Yeah.

And by that stage, you were fed up.

I'd like, yeah.

Um, so by the stage we got to selection day, I think would just over half the

holds fell, they're just on there.

I think so, yeah.

So it cut the workload down a bit, but it still took a good part of the day.

Let's take six hours, I think, or at least five and a half, six hours to get through.

Um, say with thousand and six entries for roughly 240 spaces or so.

So you can understand why there's a lot of disappointed people.

Um, and yet again, there's people that put in excellent entries with full

descriptions and great photos and it doesn't matter how many times we put it in

social media, talk about it in here, whatever.

There's people just put in very, very lazy entries with bad pictures.

We don't give feedback on why a car didn't get indoors or whatever.

You know, we're not here to, you build your car for you.

If it gets indoors, happy days.

Great, you know, but always build your car for yourself.

That's the number one thing we always say, but there was a few messages, you know,

why did my car not get indoors?

And literally the first thing I do is I go and look at the entry and it looked

and it was horrendous.

No description, one line description and crap pictures in the dark or not showing.

If you've said you have a certain interior or a certain engine or whatever,

please expand, put some photos of it.

We need to see it.

So that was the thing.

I just responded and said, look, here's why I can't give you specific feedback on

your car, but I can tell you about your entry and this is why you didn't give

yourself the best chance.

A lot of times people accept it and then there's a little time never accepted.

No, it's just, that's the way life is.

So it's just around circles, but yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

I'm looking forward to the same.

There's a lot of great entries.

There's a lot of new entries, which is nice to see.

Really good.

Both from across the water, but also from here as well.

So it's nice to see.

And yet again, the Nordenweig stuff is up in their game.

Yeah, it is indeed.

So I'm, what have we got less than a month or just over four weeks?

Friday come by.

By the time this goes out, it'll be four weeks.

So that'll be fun.

Hopefully the weather holds up.

Yeah.

Um, what about yourself then?

The outdoor entries just before move on.

So there's, you can apply for outdoors.

So that'll be one until I think it's the Sunday before lunch.

So it's open for the Sunday.

So yeah, there'll be a few weaves of that too.

And don't be afraid to put a decent entry for that one either.

Yeah.

Because there's been absolutely terrible entries.

Because we're being strict.

Yeah.

Um, myself, Nigel has been busy, shock hard.

Uh, as you've seen as you arrived, I've been ripping out and packing away

contents of the kitchen because my kitchen's fallen apart on today or this

year we decided to write open kitchen in.

So my bank account lights crying in the corner.

I have offered to buy wheels off you.

So yeah, uh, not a lot done car wise, just as a change of wheels about bits

and bobs previously, I sold finally the last few bits of the mark five track car.

It was the hardest thing in the world dealing with market place, but got there

in the end or mark five front bumper, rear bumper, rear lights, and those

other things, a grill that no one has never lifted your grill made.

I can lie there.

It's fine.

Um, I must actually message the one I need a wee headlight cover of a mark seven.

Just bring it up.

Yeah.

Just wonder if he still has one.

Um, market place.

So talk about marketing and selling stuff.

I just had a double nightmare.

Was I telling you about the first guy?

So I bought a set of wheels for my Q five and cast a well last the end of last

summer.

Yeah.

Silly.

Well, sorry, wasn't silly.

Now I went out to him and the fella had a Q five in the driveway.

He says, are they for the Q five?

He says no.

Um, they don't fit because they're Q three wheels.

Q three wheels are basically a three center bore 57.1.

They're smaller center bore.

And they're in good condition with decent tires.

I'll be at them down price.

I'm at, I'll take them.

We later, they'll be good for something.

Got them really good money.

And I've came to realization, I'm never going to use these.

So I put them up various places.

Market place being one of them.

God help you.

Oh my goodness.

Uh, do you want to swap wheels?

We have them up for three fifth day.

I realize now that's a bit dear, but anyway, we'll move on from that.

Um, will you take 200?

Does these are the sort of random things again, but then every so often, every

so often you get excellence mark, a serious buyer.

So this fella was messaging me on Saturday evening.

It seemed to happen on a Sunday this shit.

Saturday after an evening and he was asking all the right questions, blah, blah, blah.

And must have been probably 20 back and forth.

Then he says, will you take 250?

I says, no, catch yourself on 300 if you want them dead on.

This was, this stage was half 11 on a Saturday night.

See if I'm messing most of the day then.

And he says, right, I can meet you in Belfast tomorrow.

Sweet.

We'll meet here such and such a time because I was working and I couldn't

know how to work, meet him, blah, blah, blah.

An hour before we went to meet, I'm asking, still okay to meet?

No, I got a cheaper set logler and I had already loaded them into my car.

Guess what happened this morning?

Exactly the same thing.

No, it sure wasn't the same guy.

Nope.

Somebody's troubling you, Nigel.

Do you want me to?

I nearly drove into the sea.

Do you want to give me the number and I'll check and see if there's anybody I knew

trying to wind you up?

Well, I'll show you the name.

Show me the name to start curiosity.

I remember there's family friendly.

Ah, okay.

I'm not even going there yet.

That's fine.

Yep.

So there you go.

I love market please.

I hate selling anything.

I think I'm just going to put them wheels in the corner and just forget about them.

I just put them in the chair ways.

Yep.

I just put them in the chair ways.

Just next time you're taking your batteries to the sea, you take the wheels as well.

Just take myself and just jump in and tie them to your feet.

I hate dealing with people.

Oh my gosh, people are horrible.

I would far rather sell to a friend at a lower price than dealing with random strangers anymore.

So I have a really nice set of Q3 wheels.

So they're slightly wider.

They're two, four, five wedged on them or whatever it is.

Really good condition.

Set of tires on them, probably five mil and three mil.

And if you want to make an arsenal of money, he's available.

And if you want to meet me in Belfast in an hour or four minutes, say, got a cheaper set locally.

I'm your man.

You'll be put to make a list.

Thank you.

Good night.

Let's move on to the news before I get PTSD angry.

So, news, first bit of news then F1 returns.

F1 returns.

We had Drive to Survive started last week.

That's right.

And then the new season of Formula One started today.

Did you see anything about it?

I seen the meme of Toto when he just turned to the camera.

When he just smirked.

And there's a meme comparing to the wee girl sitting outside the house in front of the house.

So, Merck have started off strong and it's already very strong because.

So, new regulations this year.

Totally different cars, totally different power units, including big changes.

Big changes to the half engine, half battery, narrower tires, smaller cars,

active arrow, you know, massive, massive changes.

So all the time is gone, starting from scratch, basically.

For those who don't know anything about F1, I'm just giving a little bit of background here.

So, as you said, Merck have started strong.

Ferrari started pretty strong.

Ferrari started fairly strong too.

Driver wise, not strategy wise.

Not strategy wise because.

That's really shocking for Ferrari.

It is, they're absolutely not a circus outfit.

Cadillac new team on the grid.

Aston or fucked at the moment.

Adrian, you need a miracle.

I don't know what is going on.

Sure, there was warning signs, Christmas day on there, basically.

They have so, so bad of a vibration that the guys are like they're worrying

to be prone to nerve damage.

That's how bad that's got.

So, both of those cars obviously retired during the race.

McLaren didn't have a great start when Pia Street wrecked the car before the formation lap.

Cool. Yeah.

On the way to the starting grid, he dozed her into the wall.

All they're saying about it is there was a torque spike.

So that could have been his foot or could have been that could have been soft.

From all functions, maybe sneak a muscle.

Nobody for stopping smacked it on a Q1.

So he was starting from last place and worked his way back up to sixth,

which is pretty good going.

So he's probably he's very comfortable with the car.

And then Hajar is his teammate.

And he he was running like fourth, basically most of the race.

And then Parry in a filler.

And I was like, that's a bad he's a young driver, like he's in a good car.

You know, and it's good to see him doing well because the old car spread.

Bull second seat. Second seat is a great thing.

I now have F1 channel.

Do you? Yeah.

I signed up to it. Excellent.

I have lots of sports channels now.

How it is. It's very, very expensive.

Sky Sports, so it is. It is.

Yeah. Well, it's worth it.

It's clearly worth it. Yes.

But yeah, it was it was good.

Surprisingly, pleasantly surprised at how good the first race was.

Didn't know what way it was going to be.

Yeah. And their idea of wanting closer racing, it seems to be that nobody was on

crying about dirtier or and with this boost thing that they have,

I think the overtake, there was a constant battle back and forth,

swabbing, you know, it's there is actual racing, which was nice to see.

Honestly, last year, especially the second half of the season was very like

strategy based and boring.

And it was like sounds like a primary league at the moment.

They just literally just strategies.

Heck, their tire set up in a way and they went and drove 70 laps.

And it was like fucking smooth.

That's not what you want. You want racing.

Whereas today, the lead of the race changed four or five times in the first couple of laps.

Like the Clark and Russell were back and forth with each other back and forth.

That's what you want. You want racing.

You don't want a process.

No, it was. It was it was interesting.

But let's dig deeper in their phone.

I said you mean last week, you did.

So current global affairs, politics,

a certain man from America said, hey, guys, let's evade Iran,

which is next door neighbor to five of the races.

So the current calendar starts in Australia, then it is China, China, Japan, then Bahrain,

Bahrain and Saudi, which is mid and late April.

Bahrain, I think it's supposed to be the same weekend of stuff shit.

Oh, is it? I don't think we're going to mess it.

No, no. But I was, I don't have the article in front of you,

but there'll be no decision made until the end of March, apparently.

I think I just wait and see if the.

It all counts down.

It all stops or not. Or gets worse.

Or who knows.

To send around an email going here.

Can you knock it off for four days while you have a race here?

I couldn't see it happen.

No, there's not a chance it'll happen.

No. So they're Saudi and Bahrain, not.

And then the back half of the year, you have more out there as well.

I was just thinking that contractually, what way does that leave?

Because them countries, those countries, sorry,

they pay big money contracts to host them, don't they?

So there's probably a clause.

There'll be insurance and stuff, but like the insurance

paid for those will be insane.

Like someone's going to lose out big time.

Will they just take them out of the calendar

or will they do double race?

They couldn't do double weight.

Apparently they're just going to take them out of that, didn't they say?

I think they still don't really know.

But I did see something yesterday that said if they're cancelled,

they won't be rescheduled or, you know,

were put to a different track or whatever.

Logistically, it's just not doable.

And the calendar is already so full.

Is there 23 races this year?

To be honest, there's nearly two, Manny.

Like 23.

That's the pressure on the teams.

Must be crazy.

Like it's great for us watching it, but if you're working it, that's brutal.

And especially with the current no fly zone,

you know, getting stuff shipped around the world,

flown around the world is already difficult enough.

Never mind that, isn't it? Yeah.

And on that theme of things, war, you know, like you're big in the war, aren't you?

You know, in tanks, stuff like that there.

I just find not in a dark way.

I just find it fascinating when stuff like this kicks off

and I just keep up to date and all the rest of it.

And these Shahid drones have been using around.

I found them fascinating.

I sent you. You did.

And did you look at the engine?

I did. I just sort of went.

And have you seen the meme of the Subaru part one?

I have.

Stuff like that there.

And that led me down a rabbit hole.

Just what sort of engines are you using?

Long, you know, it looks very boxed-ish and all the rest of it.

But so there's two of the cheaper drones

they're using around and one's a one three one.

And the other one is a one three six.

So who knew this bingo card

that rotary engines were making a comeback?

The Shahid one three one uses a wanker engine.

That's interesting.

Now, the one I sent you a picture of, it's a one three six.

And it's a it's an air cool.

That's a, yeah.

It's basically a Beetle engine.

It's a 50 brake or piston engine

based on the German design Limbaq L550.

Well, it's not a Beetle engine.

He said 50 horsepower.

I don't know where it is that much.

But the funniest thing about the one three one,

it's a British engineered or reverse engineered version

of a British AR731 engine.

Ah, but it's a it's a I suppose a wanker is a small compact.

It's smooth.

They're very efficient.

They're very long range.

I think some of them can do 2,000 kilometers.

Aye, yeah, pecs.

I'm just worried on it before it gets there.

Good old rotary.

Hard wanker engine.

I just thought, are the boys around sitting making?

Have we mixed our bottles?

You know, sitting going, flip it open.

Hope it makes it to the next battle stage in there.

Enough mixer for this journey.

It's the the PTSD will be our crew mates.

Yeah.

That's funny, but it's not funny.

It's fascinating.

No, you say like, you know, that technology,

especially that like the boxer or cool stuff,

that technology, 78 years old, more.

Some of the military analysts have been listening to you.

The warfare that's going on between America and Iran

is called asymmetric warfare.

OK.

So you have basically massive, massive military power of America.

And Iran is using low tech technology and countering it.

Yep.

And it's just Iran are not spending big money at the minute.

No, whereas I think it was for every AR or for every drone

that costs 30,000 or 50,000 dollars,

it's costing them between a million, two million to intercept it.

Aye, that's that's crazy money.

That's just mental.

It's the same with the one in like Vietnam and stuff like that.

You know, it's basically guerrilla warfare versus modern armies.

You know, it's it's crazy.

So there was a sort of war topic, not war discussion with cars.

Wacol engines in our country.

Still, while we're on the topic of Formula One

and being the day that's in it, it's International Women's Day today.

It's not not yesterday.

What's today? All right, leave me my breakfast.

True or false?

I did.

And I also made breakfast for myself.

And retching.

Cheaper show.

I just thought I would give a shout out

to some of my personal top women in F1

because there was a couple I didn't really know much about.

There was some that I'd heard of before

and I just thought it was interesting

and people should should check some of them out and check out some of their stories.

There should be on your list.

I'm sure you have her.

I have five commentator.

No, but close.

She's not very well.

I guess a button would say otherwise.

My first one.

I don't know what I'm talking about now.

Not the dwarf.

I won't mention the one that you're referring to there.

The D word.

Maria Teresa de Filippis,

who was the first ever female F1 driver.

OK.

She drove and she was an Italian.

She entered five Grand Prix in the 50s.

Started three and took a 10th place finish at Spa.

Nice.

She later went on to become the head of the.

Some sort of drivers association or something.

She was very well respected in sport

and Fangio was a big fan of her and gave her absolute kudos and said she was great.

There was another lady then who is to this day

the only female ever to score points in a Formula One race.

Her name was Lela Lombardi.

She was another Italian and unfortunately,

the race that she was competing in was I can't remember exactly where it was.

It was one where a car crashed into the stands and spectators were killed.

So the race was cancelled after just over half race distance.

So still counted as a completed race,

but they only got half points for it.

So she scored one point, but she actually only scored half a point.

All right.

But she was still the only female to ever score points in an F1 race.

Moving on to more modern times.

Laura Mueller made history at the start of 2025.

She's the first ever female race engineer in Formula One.

She works for the Haas team.

She's Auckland's race engineer.

And Hannah Schmidt is the head of strategy at Red Bull.

So they're both which has been incredible the last few years,

like the call she has made.

Isn't there a lady from Northern Ireland works in the F1?

So she's my fifth pick on my list.

Oh, sorry, Bernie.

Bernie Collins, who is former strategist from Force India and Aston.

And she now works as a pundit and commentator on the sky coverage.

And she's absolutely fabulous.

I love Bernie.

She's been a great addition to the punditry

because a lot of the pundits are race drivers, an ex-race driver.

She brings the tech into it.

Exactly. So they can kind of go, yeah, there's a bit of this strategy, blah, blah,

but then you're talking Martin Brundle hasn't raced in your fucking 30 years.

You know, like he's way, way out of what they're doing now.

And there will still be things that's relatable

where she has come out of this two or three years ago.

She was a strategist.

She explained why this is happening.

And I found even today, they're like,

I think it was Croft, he was saying like he said something

and Brundle was like, oh, it's very good.

And he said, I only know that because Bernie told me two minutes ago, you know,

it's plus it's good to see somebody from here doing well, too.

Yeah. What's the school?

Still not fussed on the accent on the TV.

You know, it's like my own accent here.

I don't like it, but you just have to get used to it.

I think she's great.

No, she's fantastic.

I go, Bernie. Yeah.

My pick would be Michelle Mouton.

Michelle Mouton, yeah.

The Rallian scene and more local would be Pamela Ballantine as the best co-pilot.

She done a lot of that.

She's a hero.

Was it Sonia Mack?

She used to do Lergan Rally every year as well from Kula Femme.

What about Frank Cowley's daughters, co-pilot?

Aye. Yes. Aye.

And if you can sit beside that man for a play of the year.

Some Clangers. Definitely.

Well, happy International Women's Day.

Excellent.

Speaking of particular days,

Japan had announced that they were.

So obviously the date days, Americans are big for this

because their dates work in reverse of ours, so it works quite well.

But T-37s, the infamous

Volkswagen wheels in Japan have announced that the 7th of March.

So three seven is three seven day in honor of those wheels.

Like, officially, the Japanese have come out and went government.

Yep. This is.

Yeah, which is they're so into like their car and racing

heritage and stuff is so cool to see.

Imagine Kirstarmer doing that here.

Like, it's just not going to happen.

I'm all for it.

Other than it should be the 3rd of July, so.

Agreed. That's the thing.

What what would Kirstarmer will come out?

British wheel.

Compt Motive.

Who do British wheel?

You've Compt Motive, you have image.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Yeah, that's about it.

Here, Schmidt will come out today as National BBS.

That's it.

The Japanese could have done them, too.

They've got BBS Japan.

Yeah, Trump could do BBS America.

He could.

I'll be wrote a formula.

It would be.

You have to pick an American company.

Any news?

I only have one more.

Again, sorry, it's F1 related, but it is also food related.

Excellent. That's no bad thing.

So I don't know if if anybody watched the race today, I certainly noticed it.

I don't know if it was just because I had been reading this as well,

but KitKat are a big sponsor this year and a lot of the boards around the track.

And so on, we're all KitKat boards and KitKat have been doing that for a lot

of the Formula One stuff on their packaging.

They've started producing these like chocolate F1 shaped cars,

little chocolatey bars with crunchy stuff in the middle.

They're a bit like a Malteser Bonnie.

But the start of that there with the Bonnie and then the Christmas

presents to the reindeer.

So there is F1. Excellent.

But they have unveiled a life-size chocolate F1 car

for in honour of the first race of the season.

So handcrafted 772 pounds, 16 feet long and six and a half feet wide

and took 1,254 hours to create under master chocolate here.

Gently and C Clarke, what's the weight there?

Sorry, 772 pounds.

Sorry. Keep talking.

That's about 350 kilos, roughly.

Yeah. Of chocolate F1 car.

Was it close?

Bang on.

There you go.

Big miles.

Reanman the same here.

Told you I'm not good at English.

We're in good with the numbers.

So yeah, unfortunately, we can't eat that, but we'll give it a go.

We would give it a good go.

Don't get me wrong, but you can get the little fun-sized ones.

I look forward to seeing them.

Let's not pretend that Nestle are not a multi-billion dollar company.

But it's good to see a normal company sponsor an F1

and that it's not a fucking tech company or an AI general.

Yeah, yeah, it's like it's an actual product.

It actually stood out to me today when I see a cat.

I was like, that's weird, you know, it's cool to see.

I am out of news.

Me too. Me too.

So that means a quick run through YouTube.

Yep.

And I'd like to start by welcoming the latest YouTuber in Northern Ireland.

It is Mr. Connor McCann.

Going on to talk about this.

Come on.

These are awesome.

Can I just say, hitting big numbers already.

All right.

One and a half thousand.

What?

That's the mark two content.

So go to Connor McCann.

I think it's just spilt like that, isn't it?

I think officially it's Connor McCann VR6.

Because all my social media is just Connor McCann

because I got in early on Instagram and stuff,

but I didn't get in early on YouTube, clearly.

Because when I was searching for it,

because it didn't click the link, I went to search for it a few weeks ago to look for it.

And yeah, you have to put the VR6 in,

but it comes up in the screen.

So it says Connor McCann underneath the thing.

The name under it.

So your YouTube career has started and it's been very well welcomed.

It's actually went down very well

and loads of people give me feedback and I very much appreciate that.

But I don't know how I feel about it.

It came about because Jack won't take no for an answer.

Well done, Jack.

Women, stay away from him.

But like he.

No means no, Jack.

No means no, but apparently 80 knows mean yes.

So he landed round with the microphones

and was like, I'm leaving these here, you need to do this.

And I was like, fuck me, right?

Here we go.

So the first one didn't really like it, but I put it out.

Then it did.

Actually, the good thing about doing the first one was I learned a lot from it

and then was able to bring that into the second one.

I was like, I want to do slightly different and that kind of thing.

So I'm set myself.

I'm going to do the mark to refresh series and see how you get on.

But I guess it's enjoyable.

Like it's my problem is I don't really need that YouTube channel for a while

because there's startup videos.

So the startup videos and you're riding stuff is like when I do my build threads

and RMS and on Vortex, you can embed a link.

So I was like, oh, yeah, I got my ride working.

Here's here's how it works.

And you just embed one directly.

So that's why I have that.

But yeah, no, it's interesting.

It's a learning curve and like trying something different.

Everybody's been telling me to do it for absolute years.

And I'm just like, oh, whatever I did on then took Jack just to say, do this 80 times.

Here you are.

I said it is interesting, but a couple of YouTube's I have here.

Then it's another local one is Abby Higgins has kicked off.

Big step.

Really well shot, you know, good content, well shot, well edited.

And to me, that's the making of something very watchable, which is great.

She's doing a Porsche build in conjunction with Caratires, I want to say.

Which I believe might be unveiled at Dub shed.

I think so.

I don't quote me on that, but I think it is.

Like that's the plan.

You can kind of follow along with and then go from there.

Another one, then the channel is called that pink polo, which is a guy from Wales.

He's actually one of the unit 13 guys.

Ah, yes.

And there's no render you forgot about.

Yeah, right now he has Mark three polo coupe.

And we call that pink Ruby stone, Ruby stone red, the Porsche color.

It's bagged 13 and splits on it.

It's got a 14 16 valve.

It's like a home, full home building.

But those things are an absolute nightmare to lower to lower and steering and stuff.

And he's done a whole lot of custom parts on it, which is very, very interesting.

Cool to see, you know, me for like grassroots type builds.

I really, really enjoy that.

What's he called again?

So that pink polo, it should come up.

And then the last one I have is Mike from stance works is playing on with the F 40 build,

which is just incredible.

Yeah, like it's just it, it's never end them, but it's great.

Like it's so much in depth and detail.

But he did say at the start here, if you're looking for a quick fix, YouTube,

this is not the place.

There's going to be a deep town, you know, there's two, there's two YouTubers

that do that very well.

There's him and Sarah and June with all the, like the job stuff.

And they make no apologies of taking their time to do things properly and show it.

But I also understand that's not the norm for a YouTube build.

You know, it's like, it's like you were saying about me doing YouTube.

I don't think me built in my mark three.

The green mark three would not really be a great one for YouTube

because I'm going to go into nerdy detail and depth and spend

wicks on something that no one gives a shit about.

You know, where where Mike has his followers for that, that they're

that's what they're there for kind of thing.

Just want to say my head, do you remember I recommended

the guy from America that done the R8 road trip to Alaska and back?

Yes, I can't remember the name of the channel.

See what happened to him lately?

No.

He was putting a floor down and he uploaded a video.

Pause.

You can't remember the name of him, but he was putting a concrete floor down

and he wasn't using correct handwear or something like that there.

The Burnham burned his hands.

And I mean, burned the chemical burn some concrete.

But he was in a bad way.

I used to work with concrete soaked his legs and got his legs as well.

I if you must have left it on quite a time.

But if you're in it, you're just like, oh, it's fine.

You know, the typical manly thing that you have no P.P.

And all is grand, but I there's a lot of Lyman stuff and in the Portland cement.

You know, he was doing a video on the hospital.

Going, this is completely real in my life.

That's very, very sad.

Like God, some like proper deep burns.

Yeah, that's one thing I think as I've got older now, you just kind of go to yourself.

Well, why would you not wear safety glasses?

Or why would you not do something right?

Sometimes you do stupid things like my hand being an example last year.

Oh, yeah.

But I've done that a million times, never get burnt.

So then I just thought, I've never got burnt.

So I'll do it.

Aye, no, there is that.

And there's complacency where when you do something at the start

and you do your P.P.

And you're like, and then you do it a hundred times when you get more complacent.

You see it in workplaces all the time and things and it is.

But it's nice just to have that way of reminder of don't be a fucking dickhead.

Like, yeah, as my mate once said about safety glasses,

you can't hear boobs.

Well, Stefan said that to me the other day.

He got his eyes lizard and I told him it was telling me he bought a load

of safety glasses and he says, I love looking at boobs and love looking at cars.

He says, so have to look after them.

There you go.

He's a fine man.

Come on after me on the heart.

YouTube's for you guys, then.

I mean, with more.

No, I just had a couple of comments on yours.

And I would also say a shout out to Sarah Entuned because.

At the start, I didn't really get her videos,

but now I still don't really watch them myself.

But when you're watching them, I watch along and I do enjoy them.

But she has inspired me for my

restoration projects and stuff that I'm working on at the minute is she was doing her civic.

Oh, the the CRX, the CRX, beg your pardon.

And and she was like going into the detail of prepping it for paint.

And as we all know, everything about a paint job is in the prep work.

And she was like going along, straightening out the pinch welds.

And I was like, I have never thought of that because you always

your pinch welds are always kind of shit and have been crushed over the years

and whatever, but you just go, oh, well, that's how pinch welds are.

No, she was straightening them out before painting.

And I was like, I'm going to do that.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's good stuff.

I remember you watching that, you're like, yeah, I was like,

I have never thought of that before, but I love it.

Sweet details I got through in a car that you don't realize you're saying,

you know, but if there was two cars parked beside each other

and one of crushed pin swells, no, they didn't, you're standing back.

You'd be like, oh, something different about this one.

You know, before me, have you any more YouTube?

No, no. One last one, I forgot to mention was

Otalex Don Overlander series with

himself, Taylor and Rory, but Rory bought a discovery.

Taylor bought a V10 Tuareg and

Alex has the Land Cruisery bought in France.

So they were prepped for, you know, off-road and big chunky tires,

camping all the rest of it.

Taylor gets caught badly by the Tuareg.

It's horrific, but shock because they're YouTube.

They just fire a load of money on it.

And then they eventually get going and do a roadtrip in Scotland.

But the actual thing about Taylor's Tuareg, you're just going, that is mental.

Because they had to take the engine out.

And then they discovered more and more and more of these horror shows.

You could take the engine out and do anything on those things.

Yeah, basically.

I love them, but the scour me.

Yeah. After watching that, I was just like, oh my goodness.

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Shout out, Marty.

Right. We jump into the questions quickly then.

Sorry. I was just going to say one thing we have not discussed was

we had our cars and coffee yesterday.

Yes, we did actually. Yeah.

Yeah. So 7th of March, we had our second cars and coffee a year.

It was at storm performance, which is

up in the Lusk.

So storm performance.

They basically do the raffle competitions and there's a super car sales.

I saw some storm competitions and storm performance.

So there's car sales and competitions and we had it up there.

And again, we were fundraising for air ambulance

and please decide we lifted 1665 pounds in total, which is absolutely smashing.

So thank you to everybody for turning up.

Really good crowd.

And it didn't rain.

It didn't rain. And after two months of solid rain,

I think everybody was just so happy to get out.

And I've never seen so many Porsches and Ferraris in the Lusk of my life.

But also a mixture of cool cars.

Like you had a whole lot of quality was so good.

Older, cooled, nice JDM stuff, the high end Porsches and Ferraris.

And you're like, there's something here for everybody.

Well, some really nice AM3s there, too.

I, Alex, Alex is in his.

I 100 percent.

Oh, no, no, no, no thing.

There's a white 82 there as well.

It was rather sporty.

That green wrap, dark green one up the back with bronze wheels.

Accommodation.

I had been doing the cannonball run or whatever.

And it was class look really aggressive.

No, there was some really, really nice stuff out and about now.

And I say it was busy and lots of people just in their dealies as well,

which great come and have the crack.

It was as if people turned up for half an hour on them at home.

People arrived early doors and stayed.

Yeah, we were turning people away at one o'clock.

We're sitting going, right.

Time to go. Time to go.

We're hungry.

It was good to work.

Jack.

No, it was great day.

And do you know what?

The guys up there, like either of those guys are great crack.

They're good people, like, you know, and it's times

got that we get to hang out with them and you actually get to know them.

Because I actually said to him, I was like, do you get cheated by seeing all these

like super cars all the time?

Honestly, no, he says, but he also said, like, that doesn't.

That's not his main focus.

He loves the stuff that you can't buy, like the custom stuff that he says

because he was pointing out one of the mercs and stuff.

And he was like, that's my bag.

He says, because someone built that.

He says, you can go and buy that Ferrari if you can afford a payment.

You can't buy that.

I was like, that's pretty cool.

I ever grew up.

He used to go to dub shed.

I was a proper car guy.

And it's like the other thing you can tell by people, you know, it's

not somebody that thought I can make money at this.

It's somebody that went, yeah, this is my passion.

Yeah, it's cool.

Yeah, great day out.

And could we teaser for dub shed and get it the show seasons sort of?

That's not far off of it.

It's just so nice to be out and about doing not being enough and not getting wet.

Like seriously, see, John and February.

A G-bersets hard work without rain.

Just no motivation to work in cars.

No, it's horrible.

First question we have from army fool number one says, looking at a gen two

Q five for the misses, any green flags or red flags?

I think Nigel has one gen two.

Oh, man, the fresher one.

Gearbox, which I'm starting to learn about.

Oh, really?

DSG gearbox on them can give baller.

It's hard to if you go to look at one, it's hard to tell whether it has or not.

Andy Maxwell could crack me on it, but you could do a scan.

There's solenoid, I think it's solenoid, or something like that there.

Is that like the electronics type thing?

Yeah, the megatronics give baller.

It's not the end of the world, but it was always notorious that over 100,000

there can't be issues.

Well, there's a lot of companies now that you can take the mechatronics out

and send it to be overhauled.

It doesn't go on.

And there's a company and then you can buy repair kits as well.

So it's not it's not a tool.

Gearbox replacement.

It used to be back one day because it used to be, oh, that's going to cost you

three or four grand, it's not the case anymore.

Generally, like it's already his day for that's why he bought it over

a Tuareg because Tuareg is a cheap cheap prices for parts.

Whereas a Q5 is a four inch parts.

So it's not the common parts.

Any problems with it?

It's a CR TDI, fairly reliable.

Trying to think if there are any issues, just usual stuff.

You know, keep it serviced, keep it serviced.

Serviced 80,000 with genuine oil, get the time belt done regularly.

There isn't a common issue.

I can't remember right now what it is.

Is it do the water pump or not the water pump, the auxiliary pump?

Is it the water pump shroud like Lee had?

Because hers is a common.

No, it's an auxiliary pump.

Something to do that.

Sorry, I apologize.

I can't remember where it is.

But generally it's it's a pretty good engine.

The CR TDI like and you just love that car.

Oh, there's 110 or 108,000 miles not there.

Seriously, it drives everybody as good as I got it with 50,000 on.

You know, that's nice.

That's good.

Yeah, no.

Generally, they're pretty bullet proof like, you know.

Well, excellent.

I can't comment now because that's far too risk for my blood as he well knows.

Stiley Riley says, what cars are you looking at buying now that the car

taxes through the roof?

I'm not buying anything in the middle.

I need to get rid of cars.

You're buying modified parts.

I fuck.

I need I don't need more cars.

Yeah, I need more working cars.

They don't need more cars.

I think you're in the same boat.

It seems to be every so often you just see these updates from modern journalists

going, oh, by the way, this car's taxes went up on the QT.

Now everybody's has.

What's what's your TT at the moment?

I don't know.

Does it not jump up?

No.

So is that the 07 thing?

Oh, six onwards it did, which the very last the Mark ones fell into.

But no, it's mines.

All right, still it has crept up wee bit like it does every year,

but not the massive hike that like there's my 14 play at our is

two seventy two a day a year.

That's actually all right.

You know, I like he's in the south, so that's a bargain for him.

Yeah.

I know we give off about it, but we're lucky compared to them.

Mm hmm.

But push comes to shove like, you know, say they do,

just keep the screen agenda, which they will.

We'll be like the south very soon.

Or you just don't pay it.

Well, this is very true.

Moving on.

Ryan Cudlip says new car sorted.

It may or may not be an additional golf.

It's another.

It's probably another.

Mark five.

Yeah.

Mark five.

We have a mark five.

Kind of a.

So do you, but do you have another one?

I don't have a mark.

How many did you have at one point?

Many.

You'd at least three.

Did I?

I'm pretty sure.

He's all about the mark sevens at the bottom.

He's a changed man.

Disgraceful behavior.

I would always go back to a 30 now.

Under their great car.

Still in the dozen, 30 rounds, I mean, had him up.

Underscore, Vic underscore, Alan underscore says latest season

of Dry to Survive is on Flavio Breatory,

Evil Genius team boss or mega cunt.

I bet about the latter.

I think he's a bit of both.

He's got a TSD past.

I, yeah.

He's he's of that era of F1 with the dodgy lads,

you know, like where everyone had that.

But don't check his hard drive.

Well, I don't know so much about that,

but I don't think he would have much of a conscience,

you know, with things and moves up or pulled and it's

there's a few boys in that era that I got to

thought he got a lifetime bad for suddenly he's back.

It's like, oh, whoops.

As we say, it's legal for a price.

You buy your way back and nothing.

Keith five D says, what's your favorite PVW cover?

Over to our current editorial team.

I have can I go first?

Yeah, go for Chris Peacock, Soroco, Stormtrooper.

That was pretty cool.

That's pretty good.

Mine is probably either that one or I think this was on the cover.

I'm pretty sure it was was J.

Lerman's Hummer, Seeds, Green, Mark III, Jetta with the pent-up girls.

I don't know if that was a cover.

It was definitely the centerfold, but was it not a cover?

No, I don't know.

The but yeah, that Chris Peacock one with the Stormtrooper

on the Soroco was pretty cool.

I always liked that kind of like just silliness, you know,

and as Elliot said, you're talking about that there, that's right.

Yeah, because there was a whole thing as well.

Then at the time about like Chris Peacock, I built this green Mark V

and there was a rumor that had a button round that the arches weren't metal.

They were made out of chicken wire and stuff.

And so when he got his feature that a guy standing in the back

around the chicken suit and stuff, just kind of taking the piss, which is good.

The eye, life's serious enough at times.

You may as well make fun of yourself.

I think it was probably for me to be back to the early years of PVW

when they were very into their past our past all colors and mark ones.

That was a big thing.

We European cars.

Yeah. I and the whole feature, the whole article kind of going that way.

Yeah. Yeah.

Our nine and everybody around 16 inch our houses.

I and 16 and 17.

So our houses were a thousand pounds or like 1200 pounds.

And that was colossal money.

Now that's the price for one.

You sure about that corner?

You want to buy something?

Listen, I told you I give you a bad price.

But a kitchen's not going to pay for itself.

Our nine LUE says, will Lucy ever finish her catty?

It's fucking better.

Didn't your shed still?

No. Yeah. Oh, no, sorry.

It's not it's just the dirt ads because what do we need room for?

We shift all our stuff to work in your cars, perhaps.

I oh, no, my mark three come down.

That's all I I hope so, Lucy.

I really hope so.

She's bought the best time for that car up was the floor pans.

Yes. And she's now bought them.

Actually, I'm pretty sure she has.

I'm happy to.

Did it get restored? No, yes, it did.

Not very well or what?

It was fine.

What was done, but what wasn't done.

Was horrendous. OK.

So yeah, she paid a lot of money to have that thing restored.

And it wasn't a case of the cheapest.

She tried to get the best case of one.

Yep. I had done a few other vehicles

that frequent dub shed and look good until we put up the ramp

and went, why can I see through the floors?

Lovely. And that thing was blasted

like it was blasted back to a bar shell.

And anytime they wanted more money, she was like, yep, that's what it needs.

Go with that. Like it was supposed to be properly done.

And honestly, I had a birthday promise.

It was like I was fucking angry.

I was angry for her.

Nevermind. Yeah.

Her but angry.

And so I had said, I was like, get the floor pans and we'll put them in.

And then one thing led another and just life got in the way.

So the plan is once we free your slot up,

I think the plan is get it in.

I reckon we can do it in a weekend.

I have a whole lot of us taken it and just do that.

It's just flat panel cut out.

Yeah, because after that, it just needs the engine.

Why? Because it's a Mark one caddy with a Mark three TDI on it.

Is that? Yeah.

No, sorry, one one said the the more modern

like electronic one.

I can early I can early version of the Mark 490 brick.

It's in.

Stefan is the finished wire in it.

Put the interior in it, but a plumbing,

but like it's not a million miles away.

It was the discovery of the floors was the bit that went.

Oh, shit. Yeah.

And it helps when you take a blow and you just stick your head down.

Well, I think it disheartened her and it's one of them things.

It's like it would dishearten anybody.

You know, if you if you just put that time and money in thought, right,

I've done the right thing of give the correct people.

I'll get it back and assemble it.

And then you get shit on some.

Am I correct in saying that her other half

has now the owner of my beautiful black Mark five TDI?

Yes, yes, I heard that there, though.

Yeah, I guess Porsche is going for better works.

We need something to run about it.

And so we bought a Mark five TDI.

What's he?

Substitute for a Porsche 911.

That's it.

Jack Loog says Connor on YouTube,

my life has been completed.

Well done, my love.

And there we go.

Like a Valentine's card.

That's it.

Can I also say I have been filming some stuff

which I intended to put on YouTube for over two years.

Yeah.

Or shall I?

And have actually just never done it.

Because, well, most of it's probably not very good.

But I yeah, I went full autism on mine.

That was the difference.

And you actually went, I'm going to make a video today

and then made a video and put it on the internet.

And I filmed myself doing stuff for two years

and didn't do anything.

I have a video with me.

That's a very short video.

This is the Mark six.

But it's going to be like a minute and a half video

because it's just like clip, clip, clip, clip.

You can actually make that into quite good YouTube short.

Cap cut or for a letter or something.

I or for like the Instagram reels and stuff like that.

Just snip, snip, snip, snip.

So maybe one day I will put out all my videos

or maybe I never will.

Who could say?

It's for the Patreon.

Well, I've got two more.

We have VW's hand eater.

Oscar says, what's the one thing in your garage

you've moved 100 times have no good spot for it?

Yet you still refuse to throw it away

because I might need it someday.

There's a lot of stuff falls into that category.

Sledgehammer.

It's always good.

I used it a month ago when I'm talking crap.

It's not, it doesn't really fall into the category of like,

you would throw it away, but the air compressor,

the e-small portable air compressor,

doesn't really have a home.

Have one sitting there.

And you're like, we move it all the time.

But it's good because you can take it to where you need it.

It's handy for that.

You have a big tank, have you?

I have a big compressor up the back,

but I haven't got it down into the gadget.

I need to dig it out.

I think it needs a capacitor

because it was, it's, when it kicks in, it cuts out.

But I think the capacitor's all swollen.

So if I swap that out, it should be fine.

But it needs a good drain, I would say.

It needs drained and it needs put into the yard

and pressurized to make sure it doesn't explode.

I'll just move it away from the house.

That's a good idea.

Mine is the barbecue.

Yeah.

Because the barbecue's great,

but we don't really barbecue that often.

But also, I need a new home for it.

It shouldn't be in the car garage.

Aye.

But it doesn't have anywhere else to be.

But it's just somehow always in the way.

It actually is, yeah.

It's a big fucker, dude.

We lean to the back doors on the gun.

It's something I got all right for.

Yeah, it's the moisture to get on.

That's what I'm wondering.

I don't know.

I kind of need to, like, just build it

its own little lean to or something

that it doesn't need to be in the garage.

Somewhere.

I was going to say marketplace.

If you keep an eye out on Facebook advertising page,

are we plastic shades, that sort of thing?

Yeah.

Well, something like that would be good.

I can only aim for bad money, maybe.

That might be the job.

I want to keep it good, hence why it is inside.

But I also want it out of my way.

Plano will happen if you buy a wee plastic shade.

It'll just get filled with hard parts.

Oh, no, that's what the-

No, it's the barbecue shed.

That's what the roof space and the other bedrooms

and stuff are for as well.

Yes, our dining room and the chair bedroom.

Kitchen.

Yeah.

Living room.

Everywhere else is filled with hard parts.

The tiny barbecue shed could just be for the barbecue.

And lastly, then, we have a-

But not leastly.

Chris Moran, definitely not, says-

Chris?

I haven't heard from Chris in a while.

Well, you don't want to hear from him about this.

Oh dear.

Why do people find it okay to open their doors into cars

and cause dents?

Fuck with a lot of Ks and capitals.

Rant over.

Anyone know a good dent man for my wife's car?

Dent devil, is it?

I don't know any particular ones,

but if you do, don't be afraid to shout out to Chris.

I guess I felt like a shite.

Years ago.

Yeah.

It's absolutely horrible when that happens.

And it's because, I can tell you the answer,

people are the C word.

Correct.

Lack of manners in driving.

And the other thing is,

a lot of people use cars as white goods.

Aye.

And they don't really get the shit out of it.

They don't care about their cars,

they don't care about yours.

One thing, I know Lee does this.

And the same people would bang the door off your car

while they're in it

and wonder why you're getting off about it.

Don't park beside a car that has a child seat on it.

No.

Yes, very good.

Because that's the first thing someone's come along carrying

a child, the door gets flung open.

They're carrying a child plus whatever else they bought.

They fling the door open, it bangs off your car

and you're like, oh.

Yeah.

So, yes, probably sympathize with that one.

But that is this.

That is it.

Done for questions.

Yeah.

That's episode 152 coming in the end.

The next episode will be 153, obviously.

I hope so.

We think so.

And we still haven't done a celebration of 150, but you know.

Oh, we're all good.

I think we're past it now.

We'll do 200.

Yeah.

So, the next time we'll record, we'll be probably not too far away from Dublin.

No, definitely not.

So, we'll get chatting in and we'll see you again soon.

You can check us out on our socials at Reload podcast.

Correct.

Yeah.

Sounds weird.

Something like that.

That is the New York podcast.

And we are known individually as?

At Maxwell House 46.

At Connor McCann.

At V Dub Boy.

And I am 48 and I have a username that says V Dub Boy.

You've been sent off for six years and still haven't changed it.

So, do not change it.

Oh, dear.

Yeah.

Thanks for listening.

Thanks for your questions.

We will see you soon.

Thank you and goodbye.

Cheers, folks.

Bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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