You gotta get roadside assistance, surely?

This is a professional radio, gentlemen.

And it's front-wheel drive.

Oh, yeah, have you got anyone you want to thank?

Just myself.

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Welcome to Car Talk.

It's Tuesday night here in 90.9, Northwest FM.

It's me, Matty J, in the studio with Mr. Alan Deep Singh,

online with Mr. Edward Tom Bunting.

There you go.

There's a bit of trivia for you.

I'm going to go to the studio with Mr. Alan Deep Singh,

with Mr. Edward Tom Bunting.

There you go.

There's a bit of trivia for you.

Scotty Doe Johnson.

David Prince.

How are we, gentlemen?

Very good.

Hello.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Good to see you guys.

Good to have Alan back.

I'm happy to be back.

He's a working man.

I am.

I think it wasn't this week, but I spent half of the last

six weeks in Macau and a half in Melbourne.

So almost became a Queensland man.

Queensland.

But I don't like that place.

It's a shame to be in Queensland during winter in Melbourne.

I know.

Again, that was pleasant, but I'm a Melbourne man.

It is what it is.

End of the question.

Shorts and T-shirt when you were there?

Or were you in...

No, all pants.

All pants.

Jeez, you are a working guy.

Did you enjoy beer while you were there, Alan?

Yeah.

As you did.

It'll be an Australian knot too.

I don't want to be in Melbourne, even though it's

two degrees, I don't care.

Oh, that's awesome.

No, well, it's good to have you back.

Oh, good to see you guys.

Let's get on with some car updates.

Alan Deep, we haven't seen you in a while.

We'll start with you.

Alrighty.

Now I've got to work with what I remember.

So I received a Toyota Corolla this time.

It's my most recent rental car.

So I went from Outlander, which was...

Sportage.

Sportage, which was pretty all right.

And then when we had a Guaranteed Car,

and then when we had a Guaranteed Two People,

they gave me the smallest car.

So, you know, that was interesting.

It was a nice little thing overall.

Car than a Corolla?

Yeah.

Was it hybrid or was it petrol?

Petrol.

No, not a hybrid.

Do they have CVTs?

They do.

Yeah.

Because when I went to Sport Mode,

because it had Sport Mode, so I was using Sport Mode,

that's my rule.

It seemed a bit more like it was just adjusting,

I guess, the transmission ratio rather than actually,

you know, being more sporty with the car.

A rubber band was being tweaked.

Yes, yes.

So that was an interesting experience.

Out of the three cars, I think they've given me,

as rentals, probably the zippiest,

but I don't know.

The interior felt a little cheaper overall.

Yeah.

Maybe it was due to the spec of the Corolla I got.

But I had no other complaints.

It was a pretty good car.

Had enough boot space as the sedan.

Oh, you got a sedan one?

Yes, I got a sedan.

But while I was there, I also received the company car,

which was a Toyota Hilux manual.

Oh, manual?

Yeah.

Pretty, not like very new.

I think it was a, I don't know the exact model,

but I'd say it's at least two generations old.

Okay.

So, you know, it had some add-ins,

like somebody had obviously added a reversing camera

and the unit and the double lights and stuff.

It belonged to the gentleman who left the company.

And so it was just kind of parked there.

So if I was doing parts runs, I was taking the Hilux.

And I'm not saying I did this,

but there may or may not have been a third to fourth shift

a couple of times without a clutch,

which went fine, absolutely fine.

The fourth to fifth, hmm.

I'm not saying there was a grind,

but I didn't try that one again.

Question.

Did they assume you couldn't drive a manual?

No.

They just, they were cool enough just to throw me the keys.

They just threw you the keys?

Yeah.

I think they assumed that I just could.

And I was like, that's bold of you, you know, considering.

Millennials can't drive manual.

Yeah.

That's the rule, isn't it?

Are you a millennial, Alam?

I am.

So why?

We're on...

Except, sorry.

I won't bring your generations into it.

I'll drop the chain, but the...

Yeah, manuals.

If you don't drive a manual, Alam.

Sorry?

You can drive a manual.

No, you can.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Just with the assumption most millennials can't drive.

Yeah.

I guess if you're working in the...

Based in some fact.

Heavy machinery side.

They'll assume that you can at the very least do it.

But, you know, for all they knew,

I could have just said, I don't know.

It's not gone in D.

Which one's D?

Put it in H.

Yeah, put it in H.

But yeah, the Hilux was nice.

A bit bulky.

But it was nice to just drive a manual that,

you know, I didn't really...

I'm not saying I didn't care about the car.

But, you know, it was nice to just have a manual

that, especially on the wetter days,

it did get a little unruly.

Not that I would ever do anything funny

in a company car.

I had five Hiluxes for work over the years.

Like, my third work youth was a Hilux.

That was my first one.

And I'd buy them X-Council, you know,

with about 30,000 Ks on the clock.

And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

And the last one I got was the V6 S-Up extra cab,

which absolutely went...

About a rip.

Prane.

Great thing.

Drank like a fish.

But it was a rip of youth.

It was enormous trying to park it anywhere.

Yeah.

And that was the last one I had.

They just got too big for what I need

and for where I work, you know,

trying to park them in kayats and stuff like that.

Was that a Manuel as well?

No, all my Hiluxes were auto, actually.

Okay.

Yeah, I think about it.

So you can tell David was the Melbourne man, you know.

He's the Melbourne man, yeah.

Yeah, he was doing that.

Again, yeah, the manual in Makai is like,

well, there's no way to stop.

You just kind of throw it in gear and you're on the way.

Hop it in hate.

There's not much traffic, so it was all right.

Took the D-Max finally for a service,

about a month overdue, but I didn't reach the K-Source sign.

And they tried to slug me hard this time.

Really?

What did they do?

So the usual things are your fuel filter,

your cabin filter, your cabin air conditioning,

sanitation, which we, as I discussed with David,

we suspect it's just that they're equivalent of the Makai's can

that you just run and recirculate the air conditioning.

Yeah.

You know, and charge me, I think they wanted 120 bucks for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's about 100 bucks or something.

Yeah, and I thought, okay.

You can say no to that.

Yeah, I said no to all of it.

I'll do any of it.

The only thing I said yes to was the wheel alignment check,

purely because that'll be my trump card to Isuzu once.

Yeah.

There's uneven tyre wear.

The other thing they wanted this time was they advised me

that my brake shoes, because the rears are drums,

the shoes and drums need replacing.

Oh, get out.

At 43 or 42 on a bit.

We used to not do anything.

That's a bit ridiculous.

I said, what?

They're like, it won't make it to the next service.

I'm like, okay, cool story.

You know?

Don't change it.

I said, no.

Because the service was cap price at $687 or something.

Cool.

And then they're like...

They get a gold?

Yeah.

And then they're like, oh, yeah, by the way,

these brakes aren't going to make it to the next service.

That'll be another $1,300, please.

That ain't good for shoes.

Yeah, right.

I said, take a photo and show me.

They did allegedly send me a photo with the little 3 mil thing.

Saying it's at 3 mils, it's not going to make it to the next service.

I'm like, are you exclusively running me on my rear brakes or something?

Is my handbrake constantly on?

Keeping the shoes rubbing?

I've never seen that before.

Drums last forever.

Yeah.

Long time.

Yeah.

So they said, yeah, shoes and drums recommended you $1,300.

And I was like, deny.

Because they said you that little thing that you just signed

and authorized on the thing.

Just deny everything, deny, deny, deny.

I was like, no, I authorized you to do the alignment

and the service, which was obviously great.

That's it.

Leave my car alone.

You take it to somewhere else to say, can you just check my brakes?

No, well, I have faith that again, I know how I drive

because I'm the only person that drives a car,

even though, again, technically, it's my dad's.

I don't think there'd be anything wrong.

I'm just going to wait till the next service

and then take it to an independent mechanic.

Just get them to the logbook service and we'll go from there.

Yeah.

Because, yeah, I've had enough.

That's a joke.

Yeah.

Just every single time they're like,

you know, last time they wanted me to do tires

and, you know, they weren't concerned about

the uneven wear on the tires, but they were like,

your tires are worn enough to change them.

Yeah, I've kind of had enough.

And they didn't even give me my bloody paperwork

for the actual service.

Like they had little pictures everywhere saying,

we have gone paperless now for the environment.

We'll send you your paperwork digitally.

I got shit all.

Yeah, man.

They sent me a little review thing to rate our service

and I'm like, I'm going to start putting a zero

and I'm going to call them tomorrow and say,

can I have my actual, I want to want the alignment sheet.

That's important.

And two, I just want the rest of the documentation

that says you actually did the service.

You took my money real fast, but surprisingly,

like last time when I did the service,

they took all day.

This time, they gave me the car in about three

and a bit hours.

Okay.

And I wonder why it was because maybe it was

because they gave me a courtesy car.

I was in a brand new DMAX.

It wasn't, it wasn't on top of the range.

I think it was like an LSU or something,

but it was, it was clearly the 2025 model.

Had, you know, a kind of upgraded infotainment screen.

The car play hooked up a lot quicker than my one does.

I think the speedometer and stuff is now digital.

So the whole cluster is more digital than the previous one.

Not enough to warrant an upgrade in my opinion.

I wouldn't at this point with 680 bucks,

whatever it was, cap price.

Yeah.

So it was nice to just say quality, just oil and filter.

Yeah, basically.

Jesus Christ.

Oh, I should know.

No.

Something about rocket cover gaskets,

which I think is dumb.

But rocket cover gaskets now.

Yeah.

It was listed on the actual service thing.

And I'm like, really?

I guess.

To change or to?

I said, I'm pretty sure it said change.

But then again, like a standard,

give me the actual work.

You could tell us probably.

If I had the paperwork, yeah, I would.

So maybe stay tuned for next week's program before I would

just get this bloody paperwork.

See what they actually did.

But it's just the standard service as far as I can tell.

And 600 bucks for that.

Like you would think, all right, at 45,000,

if you're supposed to change the fuel filter,

that should be part of your bloody, you know,

45,000 K service, not part of the extras.

Luckily for me, I've got a filter sitting at home.

And I'll do that.

They wash the car poorly, which is fine.

Pretty standard.

Yeah.

So that was my couple of weeks of cars.

Like I said, the new DMX, if you're in for a DMX,

maybe don't get a service by then.

It's fine.

But overall, I didn't, again,

it's not warranting an upgrade for me at least.

It was nice to be like, oh yeah, this is the new one.

It feels about the same.

You heard it here first.

Yeah.

I wonder if it's got tire wear issues.

That's the real question.

Absolutely.

I should have swapped the tires there.

We're also joined by Rob.

Well, thank you.

How are we all?

Very well, mate.

Very well.

Thank you.

Updates.

Updates with me.

I've got a phone call from Ford Australia today.

Ooh.

Okay.

But telling me that the steering rack's been replaced,

it's all fixed.

And the Bayfords are telling them that,

telling Ford Australia that I'm refusing to pick up the car.

Oh.

Is that true, Rob?

Are you refusing?

I haven't refused it.

I just want the car fixed.

Yeah.

And so, in your eyes, that isn't fixed?

In my eyes, they say the diff noise is normal,

and you need to put the barrier up so you don't hear the noise.

Ah.

So why were they replacing the steering rack?

Oh, that was noisy as well.

Man.

It's ridiculous.

Oh, this is a fun project.

So what happened now?

Is it just a standoff?

Like a Mexican standoff?

It's a bit of a Mexican standoff from Turkey.

But what they're saying is I need to deal with the service manager

and work it out with them in what we're going to resolve,

because Ford Australia is saying that I need to deal with them.

Ford won't send an engineer out there to check it or oversee it.

They said, no, it's up to the dealership to sort it out.

So I've got to work with the dealership to even get it fixed,

get it replaced, or get my money back.

How many k's on that then?

About 12,000 kilometres.

It's been back four times.

One foot of the engine sensor and the engine warning light coming on.

That was in a shot for about almost two months.

Wow.

That was the first two weeks I had the car.

And then within that 12-month period, the diff started getting noisy.

So the diff was replaced once.

Then I drove it for a little about four weeks.

And then I took it back because I still wasn't happy with the diff.

It was still noisy.

They reckon they replaced it the second time.

So it's three diffs.

Jesus.

Right.

And I complained about the steering rack being noisy when you turn.

It was squeaking.

I don't reckon it was a steering rack.

But anyway, it was just a bush or something somewhere that wasn't lubricated.

Happy.

Anyway, so they said they replaced the steering rack.

And they're not going to replace the diff because they've replaced it twice.

And it's still noisy.

But I said it's noisy at different speeds.

So what's changed?

And why is it only noisy between 90 kilometres and 70 kilometres an hour when you decelerate?

And they said, well, no, you need to put the barrier back up.

That's normal.

I put earplugs in too.

But that's where the Ford's at.

So I'll see.

I'll have to ring up the dealership tomorrow and have a discussion with them to see what we do now.

Just on the steering one, there's a little side note.

My model, Pajero, are very renowned.

In fact, all of that shape are very renowned for where the steering column goes into the firewall.

There's a rubber grommet and the rack, you know, moves around inside that grommet.

And it sounds like it's coming right from the steering wheel where you're holding it.

You know, as you go in corners.

Exactly the same.

And all the Paj guys on the forum is like, oh, you just keep that, the tube of that rubber comply.

Breeze.

Breeze in your console.

And when it does that, you just stick your finger up under the dash and roll a bit around.

I've done to my dad's one, which is a lot newer than mine.

I've done to mine a couple of times in it, and it shuts it up for a time.

You know, I think it's the same thing.

They all do it.

Yeah.

It's a simple, simple fix.

It's a simple fix, but they're bullshitting now.

Yeah.

Just to say that they've done it.

Yeah.

I know that, you know, like there's no way they're going to go changing a steering rack.

No.

And that doesn't sound like a rack noise.

No.

Yeah.

But they're saying to change the strip.

They've actually changed the steering rack rack anyway.

So we'll see what happens.

That's that car.

I went for a drive in the 300 SE on the weekend.

Ooh.

Driving nicely.

Mm-hmm.

The coupe.

Yeah.

So that's purling along or parring, parring along.

Because that's a proper car built by proper crafts people.

Yes.

And the diffs over 50 years old and it's still okay.

Yeah.

Despite being in 1960 something, it's remarkable.

Remarkably still good.

Wow.

Actually, it reminds me of the diffs in the E30s that had a lot of problems.

Okay.

Very noisy.

My Ford does.

Yeah.

But anyway.

But yeah, so drove the 300.

Yeah.

Just cleaned that.

Sort of shined up the chrome on it.

Yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

It's a lovely car though.

I really like that car.

It's a different car to the Mustang.

The Mustang was rough, bouncy.

Mm-hmm.

Smelt like fuel when you got out of it.

No power steering.

No air conditioning.

This is a bit more.

Yeah.

You got the power steering.

You got the air conditioning.

It's a cruiser.

It's a nice cruiser.

Luxury.

Yeah.

So that was pretty much it with the cars.

I don't think I've done much else.

Just have to play musical cars to get all the cars out.

You have to move six cars to get to one.

That's okay.

That's just normal.

It's hashtag everyone on this call.

Yeah.

It becomes annoying because you just want to start them and drive them without having to

move three cars to get to one.

Yes.

It's the dream to have them all in a line.

Yes.

Yeah.

That'd be good.

The SCC still not, they haven't, the pain hasn't started on it yet.

So I'll have to give them push along again on the weekend because he said he was

going to start two weekends ago.

So I don't know what's going on there.

I'm pushing it further and further away.

So I don't know when Chad's car is going to ever be done, but I think he's after

meeting him the other day.

I think he's pretty, he's taken it more than he can true to be fair.

Look, he does a good job now.

He's good.

He does some real nice work.

Yeah.

A lot of JDM cars, a lot of Hondas and he re-spread entire jazz.

All right.

It was black.

I think it's pearl white now.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

He's done a real nice job on it.

And he does up a lot of BRZs and stuff like that.

He loves his body kits and bumper bar repairs and all that sort of stuff.

Yeah.

There you go.

Lovely.

Edward Bunting.

Hello.

A few things.

So the Wasp has mechanically pretty much everything is done on that car.

Did I talk about the rocket gaskets last time?

Mm-hmm.

The rocket gaskets.

So I have sent that to panel.

It's currently getting the rear bar done in the mirror caps because they were just a little

bit faded compared to the rest.

And the rear bars had a bit of, he's stuffing around with it longer than normal because

it's had a repair before and he said it was just a bit wavy.

So he's trying to get that as good as he can.

I was like, that's fine.

Have it as long as you need as long as you've got space for it.

That's fine.

And unless it's into October and then we're in trouble.

Yeah.

Just sort that out.

So he'll have that for a week.

So that's where the Wasp is.

What else?

Everything else I've sold except the million mile of CRV.

I'm just driving around in that.

No one can believe the mileage on that car.

You know, everyone I come across who sees it is just like, what?

It's funny, I was with Matty J on Sunday morning.

We went out for a little record run.

And as we pulled into the car park at Jolly's Dandenong,

there were two Gen 2 CRVs right next to each other.

That's why I parked next to the...

So there's three CRVs and I got out and I'm like, Matty,

what the hell's going on?

Is this CRV day?

And I'm taking a photo of the three and then the guys came out

who own those two and we were chatting to them and they said,

oh, Gen 1, wow, that's really clean.

Oh, that's nice.

And I was like, it is.

It is.

And have a look at the Speedo.

They couldn't believe the Speedo.

I believe his words were what the...

Then I said to him, I said, oh, it's going to be for sale soon.

You know, what do you reckon it's worth?

And he's like, oh, five grand.

And I was like, really five grand.

And he was really...

He goes, oh, yeah, people don't care about the mileage.

That's really nice condition.

You know, and I'm thinking, I mean,

they might not care about 300,000 K, but 556, you know,

despite how well it drives.

Anyway, so that was heartening to hear these Honda guys

speaking highly of it and sort of pumping the value

into what I maybe thought.

So there you go.

That's your CRV.

Is it completely the CRV or we're going to wait for...

Oh, no, no, I'm talking about the next one now.

Yeah.

The Benz.

I bought about a month and a half ago a 380SEL,

one of my favorite all-time models,

1984 W126, the big banger from the 1980s,

the Managing Director's car, the Drug Lord's car,

the Mark Your Boss' car.

This is it, along with...

The Rob's a die car.

You've had my...

If I gave it away, I shouldn't have given it away.

I've had a couple of those over the years.

And so, yeah, I spent a lot of time pouring over the details

of W126 as my dad had one for 10 years.

I've owned two or three since then.

And they are a car that I keep coming back to

and have always liked.

Anyway, this one didn't move when I got it,

as I've mentioned before.

And so it went in to have transmission works done.

The box did have to come out to it.

The mechanic replaced a band or two, some pistons.

The valve body was okay.

You know, resealed the whole box, you know,

you adjusted it all, put it all back together.

And Friday lunchtime was the first time I'd driven that car.

And it was...

I thought, I'll give this car a bit of a shake down

over the last weekend.

You know, I drive it home in Punt Road traffic.

You can't really tell whether it's good, bad,

or otherwise in that sort of driving.

So I took it down to the beach Friday night

and drove it around all the peninsula all day Saturday.

And pretty much by the end of Saturday,

I was like, yeah, you're staying with me.

It's a very, very clean car.

And I was saying to Matt, Matt, he's seen it now in the weekend.

I drove it.

Yeah.

And I was saying, like, you know, as Rob, you would know,

the details of where those cars were

and all the things that go wrong with the common spots.

And this car just has none of them, you know, almost none of them.

So like woodwork, perfect dash,

not cracked in the corners near the speak.

Original Becker stereo, of course.

We like that original Hirschman aerial that goes up and down.

It works.

You know, the steering wheel has a tiny bit of, you know,

where to the top that commensurate with the 214,000 Ks on it.

The boot, you open it up.

The boot carpet is literally new.

The spare wheel is the original Michelin with the cardboard

tag still on it.

You know, like just everywhere you look, it's like,

that's factory.

That's factory.

That's correct.

It drives beautifully.

Like the box now was the only weak point,

but on my dad's old one, you know,

which was always serviced and well looked after

with similar Ks when we got it.

Whenever I'd get in it, I'd give it a boot, you know,

when it was hot just to give it a good clear out

because dad put it around in it,

even though it did a fair bit of highway.

And you'd always get this sort of, you know,

unburnt fuel out the back,

not blue-gray oil smoke,

but just unburnt fuel from the muffler

and just that could clean it.

You do that on this car.

You don't see a thing.

It's whisper clean out the back.

It's unbelievable.

It is.

It is that good.

It's got the original Coco mats and the paint on it,

you know, it was a bit dusty when I got it back from the mechanic.

I washed it for the first time on the weekend.

And when you look down the side line down the side of it,

this thing is so straight

and I can't see that it's had paint anywhere.

The paint is remarkable.

It's just, you know, a 41 year old car

is going to have some bird poo stains and some this.

That car is just phenomenally clean and straight.

So it's for all these reasons that I just thought,

Oh, God, I don't think I could sell this.

What's the color combination?

Thistle green on Palomino,

which is the sort of tanning ground color.

So green on the ground.

Mine was the same color.

Wow.

The great color scheme.

And this car has some nice options.

It's got the headlight wipers and washers.

It's got the factory early style alloy wheels.

It's got the electric seats front and rear

and the electric sliding rear seat.

And it's got the town and country horn option,

which is a funny little button on the dash

that means the town horn is like,

and then you flick it to the country.

I was like, you know, like a truck.

Yeah.

So it's all of these things combined.

As I said to another friend on the weekend,

if that was a white, no sunroof short wheelbase 280 SE

in that condition, it'd still be a lovely car,

but I wouldn't be going, wow.

You wouldn't be in love with it.

It's a 380.

It's a long wheelbase.

It's a great color scheme.

It's great options.

I bought it off the original family that bought it new

and it drives superbly.

I'm just like, oh, bugger it.

I'll find space.

I'll sell a kidney.

I'll do it.

And it is covered, isn't it?

It's under cover.

It's in my garage right now.

Yeah, correct.

Nice.

None of my cars live on the street, Rob,

except for Cavi at the moment.

Okay.

So that's the 380, but yeah,

Matty had a drive and it's a nice machine.

Yeah.

It's a lovely old bus.

I really liked it.

Yeah.

Because they can feel, as you know,

Rob, pretty gloppy and pretty tired.

And it's kind of a cruiser car anyway,

but this just, yeah, doesn't feel that.

So I like it.

I like it.

What else car wise?

I think that's about it.

I think, I don't think MX-5.

I've driven that a few times recently.

Yeah.

No, nothing else.

It's crazy.

It's good.

Me.

I've actually got nothing to talk about.

Nothing car wise.

I've just been working all weekend,

earning some little extra money.

Yeah.

Very good command.

Yeah.

Doing the old plastering.

I was going to say, what are you doing, Scott?

Like house plastering?

Yep.

No, it was at the hospital plastering people's arms up.

It could be creating the Michelangelo's David,

you know, recreation.

No, brother's a plasterer.

He's just, he just does some side work here and there

through connections that he's made with builders and stuff

and it's extension on someone's home.

So normally it's a fairly old house

that I assume is like a three bedroom,

but they've done this massive extension

and added in an extra two bedrooms

and each one's got an en suite

and another big area with the really high raked ceiling.

Like really high raked ceiling.

We had to get a scaffolding and that to get to the top of that one.

Gabled roof.

Yeah, they're big.

So they'd be spewing now because they're going to bring

an attacks for extra rooms if they're not being used.

Skillion roof.

Skillion is on a, like that.

Don't you sand it and all that sort of stuff?

I hung it and then I went through on Sunday

and helped kind of clean up all the off cuts and everything

and my brother went through and did the other bits

where he threw the joins and everything and stuff

and he's got a team that'll come through

and put out the corners.

And then he just comes through with the electric sander

and just...

So it's not square stopped anyway?

It's square.

It's only corners in the bedrooms.

Okay.

In the bedrooms and some other little living area thing.

The rest of it's all square set.

Nice.

Welcome to Better Homes and Gardens.

I'm doing up a bedroom at the moment

so you can come over to my place

and finish off the platform.

Square set looks really good.

I just think Reckon did look hilarious.

If you did the sanding, you'd end up looking like Santa Claus.

Yeah, you would.

Your beard would match your beard.

I have.

I have before.

I can imagine.

He's got me up there doing like just around the corners

at a different place we did once

and I'm there that just sand it away

by hand all the way through

and it's just all here and all here

and it feels so dry.

Well, at least you'll know what you'll look like

in about 50 years' time.

Yeah, I look handsome.

Yeah, you look handsome.

Silver fox over here.

Wow.

Fox.

Anyway, David Pritz, I'm late with you.

What do I have?

I picked up the 85 Accord that sailed

through its roadie last week.

I haven't got the roadie written up yet.

There's some conjecture of what's going to happen to it.

No, it's not going to appear in my garage

or remain in my garage just before anyone asks.

A smart move, David.

So, well, I've got to go down and pick it up.

Do I get an Uber down or what?

No, I took the N1 down,

dropped that off at the service centre,

got an oil and filter done on that

and tomorrow that's going to get picked up

from the service centre

and dropped around the corner at a company

that I do work for

and they're going to put a head unit

and your head unit in it

so that I actually have Apple CarPlay

and can see, evidently,

Maddie will tell you.

Not in Japanese writing.

No, well, someone borrowed it a few weeks ago

and it came back

and it thinks it's...

Whenever you turn the car on now,

it thinks it's still at the docks of Nagoya

and it tries to find its way out

and you turn right, turn right.

Oh, that's another one.

So, every time, that's now their default situation,

the default thing that it just goes to that.

So, that's only one thing.

I mean, you never know with those...

Because yours has been done, Scotty,

in this blade, hasn't it?

It's not an aftermarket.

It's a local head unit in that.

Mine's still all original.

Oh, okay.

Because the other thing is,

I mean, the Bluetooth works fine, all that,

but if you get a call and you can't tell who it is,

it just brings the number up.

It doesn't bring the contact up.

So, you know...

You can't sort of...

What's the name, you know, like,

not pick up when I ring or something?

No, no, it won't give you...

In your phone book with your contacts...

Yeah, but I mean, if you want to sort of ignore me

and let it go to voicemail, you can't do that.

No, true. That's right.

Let everybody go to voicemail.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So, yeah, I...

Yeah, I had access

to one very good price,

so we'll just bung that in and see how it goes

and what maps and we've got

all that sort of stuff.

So, I'm trying to move over

to CarPlay for everything in the box.

You'll be next, I think, if I keep it.

You'll be able to see, David.

I'm happy to help.

To see. Finally, I'll be able to see.

With any of those, I'm happy to help, as you know.

Thank you, mate.

But I think you've got enough on your plate

and I've got contacts and people who owe me favours, so...

All good.

We'll go down that route for now.

The...

Bum, bum, bum, bum.

Do I tell you, the cat is booked in for October

before the warranty expires for the...

Yeah, what done, David?

Kibok.

Again.

Yeah, again, again, yes.

Well, yeah, they replaced the clutches at 30,000.

It's now done at 75,

and it's whisk-chirping like a cricket in...

That's doing the same.

It's doing different things now.

The other thing that it's doing differently

is the delay in it actually selecting its gear.

Yeah.

It's a characteristic of DSGs,

but it never was of this one.

It's developed this thing.

So if I'm on a slope and I turn...

Yeah.

Start it and then chuck it straight into gear,

it's a good four seconds before it actually...

That's a long time.

It's a long time.

And the car will roll...

If you're on a slope and you've got a car

in front of your car behind you,

you really need to basically be on the brake

as well as the accelerator.

Handbrake start?

Basically.

I've done that a couple of times

because, yeah, that's the only one.

That's crazy.

I just want that sorted out before the warranty expires

in De Sombre.

I've said it once, I'll say it again.

DSGs, like dual clutch sensors should not be

in everyday cars.

They just don't...

No matter how good they're getting,

they just don't work.

The creep of an auto is the benefit of the auto.

That's correct, yeah.

And when it's...

When that isn't part of the gearbox,

it's like being in neutral, literally,

until it goes kunk and drops into the drive

or reverses.

So interestingly, I was reading a review

of another Voxie, the other day,

the T-Rock, which is like the golf-based...

The little one, yeah.

They use a conventional automatic.

They don't use DSG.

They've come to their senses.

Someone has, yeah, gone enough with this DSG.

Enough.

We've only built 15,000, 100 million of them

and we still can't get them right.

When it's not making noises and stuff,

it's great.

It's really good.

It's crisp changes and all that sort of thing,

but there's just too many squeaks and bings

and bongs and dings.

That little Kia Rio that I sold recently

had a 17 model, right?

$35,000.

I had 17 speeds.

No, no, no.

17 model.

Little white, simple Rio.

That was a four-speed automatic.

My friend was telling me,

or Rowan, who's been on this show,

he was like, oh, they actually had more gears,

like five or six over many.

And they ended up going back to this four-speed.

I don't know either to cut costs

or because it's the other one was bad

or whatever, I don't know.

Probably to cut costs.

But I was like, it's fine.

It drove really well.

The four-speed auto, like sometimes it's just,

let's not try and over complicate the world.

Correct, correct.

And for a cheap car like that,

no one gives a rat's luck.

It goes fine.

It stops.

It turns, you know, just keep it simple

and don't try and take on the world of race car,

the DSG or whatever you're doing in a cheap car.

Correct.

In a performance car, yep, no worries.

In a hypercar, yep, no worries.

But in a, I mean, Ford found out

that at the hardware, didn't they guys

with the power shit transmission?

Yeah.

That's...

Yeah.

Like on the facelift,

they went back to a conventional automatic

on the focus in that generation.

Yeah, that's the thing.

They're like, yeah, this is not working.

That would have been a great meeting

to have been in, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

That'd be all right.

Good call going back.

Hey, here's one more little interesting tidbit.

Sorry, David, are you done with your car?

I'm done with my car updates.

This is just a little interesting one

that I'll remember.

David rang me last week and said,

Ed, he works in a factory.

They manufacture sort of metallic things

and for industry and whatever.

He said, the owner of the factory's cousin

had a Merc in the 70s,

and he bought a spare engine for it,

brand new from Mercedes.

It's in the box, sitting up on the shelf.

We need to get rid of...

Oh, yeah.

I was like, well, what engine is it?

He goes, not sure, but it's not that big.

I think it's a four-cylinder.

I'm like, okay.

Well, they did do fours back then,

but not as many.

It's more likely to be with six, but all right.

Anyway, they opened the box up.

Now, this is a polystyrene box

with Mercedes stickers from Germany

on the side of the box.

So I said, I'm going to say this thing.

So I went out there

and it lifts the lid off this polystyrene box.

There is a straight six Mercedes motor,

brand new wrapped in plastic,

from Germany in the 70s.

And he said, we think it's out of a convertible

because he had a convertible

and this was the spare motor that he bought

in case the one he had blew up.

So checking the tag on it,

it's a 127 motor, which is a Pagoda motor.

So it's a brand new 230, 2.3,

the smallest Pagoda motor.

Yeah, that's what it is.

So complete block with pistons inserted

and everything like that.

So no head, no injection pump in the ancillaries,

but complete bottom end, brand new in plastic.

And I'm like, that I think is a rare thing.

And then he's like, what's it worth?

And I'm like, ugh.

It's kind of a hard one to value because I said,

I discussed it with a couple of people and said,

you're not going to get someone with a 250 or a 280

putting a brand new 230 motor in their car.

I want the motor that's right for their car.

Anyone that has one of these that has the original motor in it,

they would rather rebuild the original motor

to keep the matching numbers

because the cars are so valuable now

rather than plonk some other random motor in it

even though it is brand new from Mercedes.

So I said your market is really someone with a 230

who's got a completely cooked motor that's unusable

like the block is stuffed

or someone who's got one

and just wants this cool nostalgic spare wrapped in plastic

that's a bit of a cool garage factor.

That's your buyer of this.

You can rebuild a motor

a mate of mine who works in the trade was saying,

20 grand or not much change out of 20

would get you a fully rebuilt

80 to 50 to 30 motor sort of thing.

So it's kind of a hard one.

It's not a full motor,

but it's still pretty cool and it's brand spanking

and we need to get up.

Well, I did.

I did say, look, I'm happy to buy it at a price.

Look, I think they really ideally want to want to get

get their top dollar for it.

So I suggested, of course,

just put it in the Benz magazine and see how you go.

That was just an interesting left of center phone call

and a viewing that I did not expect to see.

No, that's that's pretty wild to be fair.

If I had it to go to 230,

of course, I would be making further inquiries on that.

But and then I did think I could buy the motor

and then just gradually accumulate the bits.

But you can make your own.

Yeah, yeah, great for me in the past.

Yeah, buying the bits that you wanted.

I bought the factory for my Volkswagen EOS

before I bought the EOS.

What did you buy?

The matching luggage.

The the EOS luggage.

Wow.

Yeah.

On the Facebook marketplace.

And did that go with the car?

It did.

Went with the car.

Yeah.

Did they appreciate the luggage?

They did.

I made sure they did.

Yeah.

It was like a hundred bucks.

You know, because they were quite odd shaped.

They were two odd suitcases

that fitted in the back of the car with the roof down.

Yes.

So and they had that sort of like a like a silhouette of an EOS

sort of crafted into that.

That is very nice.

I love that.

What's with this guy?

He's just trying to give us these suitcases.

Yeah.

Just say yes.

Thank you.

Let's get out of here.

These people appreciate what they have and the rarity of that

because that is incredibly.

I think maybe there was a bit more worry

that oh, is he trying to ship our Corbias

and you know, just just wouldn't be finished.

This is his way.

Now Matthew, what about your updates?

Updates with me.

Interesting week.

The Camry got, as you guys know,

roadworthy last Monday.

And then I got registered on Friday

or club plated on a permit.

Did you get a goofy club plate this time?

This time.

I don't think I'll ever get a good as played as I did

on the 260.

That was a great plate.

That was 8008.

Wasn't it?

80008 boob.

Yeah, boob.

Nice.

That was a great plate.

Everyone was like, nice.

Yeah, so everyone really enjoyed that plate.

So we, yeah, it was a good car,

but I didn't get one like that.

But they charge you a plate fee now.

They didn't use to charge you a plate fee back in.

Yeah.

Really?

They charge you a club for club plates.

Yeah.

What's that?

No, this is the first time I've paid for a club.

How much is the plate fee?

It's like 40 bucks.

Yeah.

Same as a standard set.

Yeah.

So I was like, oh, Vick Rhodes,

I got to make that money somehow.

Like, you know, because I was like,

because thanks to my mom,

she went and did it.

She had a day in lieu.

So she's like, oh, I'll go to a phone.

Like, oh, you're a legend.

She's like, you told me to be cheaper than this.

I'm like, yeah, you normally is.

And then she's like,

and I read it.

I read the receipt.

I said, oh, a plate fee.

I'm like, oh, they haven't charged me up before.

So, but anyway, so.

Really happy was driving that.

Oh, it was very happy days.

Put fuel in it, fill it, fill it to the brim.

And then I went, tried to change the rotor button

and I couldn't do that.

So then wasn't running great.

And it started missing really badly yesterday.

So on, on Sunday, Sunday evening,

when I was trying to get it going again,

I was like, what's going on?

So turns out that because I filled the tank,

when they've cleaned the tank,

they mustn't have done it properly

because the injectors have picked up stuff

and it's blocked two of the injectors.

Oh.

Yeah.

So he's like, look, we can take him out,

send him off to get cleaned or looked at.

But he's like, it costs you $300 just to look at them.

But if, and if they're broken or they need bits and pieces,

you know, that's going to cost you, you know,

a lot more, you know, as a possibility.

Well, I could just tell you they're completely stuffed.

So you've wasted the money, you know,

try find it, try find another set.

So I was like, yeah, no worries.

So I called work and, and I asked for a set

and the guy, he's a great guy.

He's like, you sitting down.

I'm like, yeah.

He's like, what's up?

He's like, your price, two and a half thousand dollars.

And I'm just like, I'm sorry.

That's a joke, right?

He's like, no, he's sending me a screen shot,

two and a half grand.

That's, that's a, that's my price.

Like, you know, no reason they're like almost four grand

or just over four, I think.

And I'm like, that is insane.

I'm not, no.

So I went on to our good friends Rock Auto,

which are getting plugs left front and center on this show.

Got the whole set will be delivered.

I ordered them last night and they'll be delivered by Thursday.

This is how quick they are from, from the States.

Two hundred and fifty dollars.

Thank you.

So I think that's, yeah.

I said, hold out your hand.

So in that, that should, you know,

they're going to go through the tank again,

make sure everything else is fine.

But, but the, the reason I brought that up

was because I want to fill the tank.

That's the first time I filled the tank.

It got some dirt and rubbish.

The top of the tank, they said,

even though the bottom of the tank was really spotless,

the top of the tank must have had some residue

when I filled it up and it's sloshed around

and it's caused it to get sucked up.

So I'm just worried that I haven't damaged the pump,

but he reckons the pump's okay.

So I wrote the buttons down, wrote the caps down.

The injectors will be on, on a Friday

and then should, should be, should be,

key words, should be.

Driving fine when I took the risk.

It was driving totally fine until I, you know,

put fuel in it and then it started to try

and change the cap.

But what I said to myself, like,

it couldn't have been me because

I didn't take anything off.

Like I couldn't access the bottom screw,

so I just didn't bother.

Like I, you know, and then it just started

running really, really, really badly.

And because I drive it all day Saturday

and it drove really, really well.

So I don't.

Just imagine how nice it'll drive on Friday.

Hmm.

New injector.

New injectors, fresh set.

And yeah, it should be,

she should be all ready to go.

The topic of fuel, just another little

relevant thing maybe the list is might

like is my 300 coupe was,

was the jammed at three quarters full.

So as a gauge wouldn't move and

obviously they're still pumping fuel

and driving fine and everything.

So I thought, oh, the float's obviously

jammed, you know, it hasn't gone up

and down enough with use and,

and it's gotten sticky.

So I looked on YouTube because

there's great resource on YouTube.

You can get in through the boot,

pull a little bit of trim off under

the giant nut on the top of the tank

under the seal, pull out the float,

pull out the innards of the float

and it's got the two wires down on the

side you can be careful of in the

central sort of rod.

You get a little bit of emery paper

on the central rod.

You could see the corrosion,

which is what was making it stick.

So I gave that a very light sand

and then just you get acetone on

a cotton bud and you run it up

and down the wires in the central

line just to sort of really clean

it.

Put that all back together.

Perfect gauge.

So you notice those old

benzes and Rob would know this

day and you would have seen it,

Maddie.

The gauges often flick around.

They do, yeah.

You don't want to go thawing and

then it'll suddenly go thawing

and, you know, and that's

what it's doing.

It's the float sort of jamming

on that, on that shaft

and not really really smoothly

up and down.

So it's almost like if,

if you buy one of those old

benzes, you know, you, you do

that and you've got this

beautiful, accurate sort of smooth

gauge all of a sudden, really

easy fix.

Yeah.

It's really rewarding when it's

like, oh, it's not hard to do.

No, not hard at all.

Just you got to be, you know,

good with your hands.

You don't want to be snapping

wise and be hamfisted.

But, but yeah, worth, worth

doing.

Can you put an extra filter on

the, the, the fuel line or

something like that, Maddie?

Oh, yeah.

It could stop the.

Well, yeah.

So again, it's had a new

pump in it.

And, um, but

my worries that it's going

to clog the pump before it

gets to the, to the, to the,

if I put a second filter in

it.

So I don't know.

I want to get them.

Well, they said they're going

to like, you know, empty out the

filter and see if it's bad or

not.

I'll be putting a filter if you

can up near the front end in

the engine bay somewhere close

to the fuel supply.

Yeah.

People have said that to me

before.

Yeah.

Just, just to be, just to be

extra safe.

So don't think that's a,

don't think that's a bad

idea, Rob.

Yeah, I might.

Deep and, and yeah, it saves

you put doing injectors

again.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So let's add a few tank

pools.

And then you could, you could

remove it eventually.

Yeah.

Just to give it a, give it a

clean.

But the funny part about that

was, so I was like, well, it's

running like crap.

As, as nice as I can say, it

was missing off its head.

And so, um, I, I got it

towed on, um, Monday

morning before I went to

work tow truck comes and picks

it up.

And, um, again, rare to see

a camera on a tow truck

because that just doesn't

happen.

So then, uh, so then he

drives off and I get a

message from the mechanic and

he's like, well, the car was

here.

I'm like, what do you mean it

was here?

And then he calls me and

he's like, yeah, the, the

tow truck drivers, the

mechanism on the, on his

tilt tray stopped working.

So, so we couldn't get your

car off out of like, you've

got to be kidding me.

So he's like, he's like,

we was, he's like, it was

the funniest thing ever.

We just watched this guy.

We tried to help him, but

it was just not moving.

And it was up a little

bit, I think he said, so

it was kind of like a bit,

bit off.

So then he had to drive back

to the depot, reverse it onto

another tilt tray because

like, like put one up against

the other jelly.

Yeah, correct.

Cause it, cause the

mechanism was, it was mounted

then, then took it back.

So it got there yesterday

afternoon after all that

shenanigans.

So they're going to have to

call it tow truck with the

tow truck.

Who calls the RC for the

RC?

Who do they call?

Um, so yeah.

So that was, that was

pretty funny.

Yeah.

I had a bit of a, had a

bit of a giggle about it.

But, you know, it's, I, I

feel like sometimes my luck gets

pushed onto other people and

for example, my luck for that

day was pushed onto him.

Um, just, you know, um, but

anyway, another news went, we

did a record run as we said,

as Edward said earlier, they

had an SR two at the, um, at

the Danie Long Records, which

is, you know, getting, they're

getting, you know, bits hard

to get, hard to get, hard to

get bits for took the factory

stereo out of it.

The factory six stack stereo took

the factory, um, dash fascia,

um, with the climate control

because that's all SR two

specific because of course it

is.

Um, got the books so I could

get the, um, the, the code

for, you know, for the, for

the radio.

And what else did we get?

I've got a hot lamp.

Yeah.

The, the rear high mount lamp

because again, the, the

plastics or SR two specific.

Um, and I think, uh, what

else did I get?

I think that, I think that

was pretty much it.

Yeah.

So they have a set of rims.

Oh, I should know it did.

I think I had one in the boot.

Yeah.

Didn't have any nice.

Every time we went looking, always

incomplete.

Yeah.

One or two.

Yeah.

So anyway, that's, um, so got

those, which, which, which

would be nice, you know,

because like, I think my dad

might have misplaced my

original units years ago.

I thought I'd just get one

just in case.

Then we also saw a C of E

there.

We did.

Yeah.

Gen one CRV.

Um, and really, I mean, the

car that David and I have is,

is very, it doesn't, it

doesn't need a whole lot of

things done.

But this CRV did have

the factory CD six stack.

You know, lots in under

the normal single din stereo.

And Matt's like, oh, it's

got the books.

It's got the code.

You know, do you want it?

I was like, oh, look, if

you can be bothered, pull it

out.

All right.

We'll option up the high

genuine six stacker.

Didn't have factory maps, did

it?

No.

Leave you me, David.

I was the first thing I

looked at.

I must look in the gearbox

on the weekend.

Yeah.

Mental.

No.

And we also looked for the

clock, but that was, that

was gone as well.

So it must be a,

must be a common thing.

The clock was gone as well.

That's the only thing that

doesn't work on that car is

that Digi clocks just

gone completely.

But the good thing about

that, um, with the, with

the six stacker though, it

plugged straight into it

because the factory head

unit should have the

same stereo and just, just

plug in the six stacker

underneath it.

So I did that to her 97

Odyssey.

Ooh.

So that probably

I couldn't stretch the

six disco.

No.

But David, is this

modification?

David approved?

Yeah.

Okay.

Who has CDs anymore?

I've got a whole

bunch.

Okay.

So it's probably, as I

say, arranging deck chairs

on the Titanic in terms

of its usefulness, but

you know,

if it means it doesn't go to

hard rubbish and it goes in

another car.

Well, great.

Sure.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So I think that's pretty

much it on my, on my cars,

gentlemen.

I'm for a topic tonight.

I know.

Well, if we don't,

I'm going to do another car

story.

I apologize.

You go.

Absolutely.

Please.

So as you recall,

I was in the car.

Come back after working a

hard day flying a few

hours, you know, try and

get some rest.

I've been up since 5 or 30

somewhere around there.

Hard working, man.

Yeah.

Come back home around 7,

8 o'clock.

Decide to make an early

night.

Get to bed about 10.

My sister just come

over.

I said hi to her.

Make sure I didn't snub

her or anything,

lest I run into some kind

of wrath.

Head upstairs,

you know,

tuck myself in,

maybe watch a couple of

videos before I go to

bed.

And it's about

11, 11, 15.

I received a phone call from

my dad.

He said,

you're not asleep by your

son.

I was like, well,

not now.

Since I'm picking up the

phone,

clearly I'm not,

but you know,

what's what's up?

He says,

you need to go help out

your brother-in-law.

He's got a flat tire in

the city link.

Oh.

I thought of all days,

you know.

Well,

I received V.

That's what you got it

for.

I think he has roadside

assist.

Don't have to change a

tire.

Just change a tire.

All right.

So again,

again,

storytime, right?

Storytime.

So,

I don't know if I

mentioned this.

So after he received

the vehicle from me,

because I don't think-

This is the Rex, yeah?

Yes, this is the Rex.

It's not a purchase.

It was a given car.

But anyway,

he decided to make a few

modifications.

Some tasteful,

some tasteless.

But,

you know,

it's his car.

One of the things he

did was get

cool overs

and lower the car

and stiffen the

car.

So the car was,

by my description,

undrivable.

Yeah.

Because you would

just be on a bump-ish

kind of road,

and that would bottom out.

Well...

Yeah.

How low was it?

Too low.

Okay.

Oh,

I can't see where

this is going.

Yeah.

So,

when you can't get

the jack that came

with the car

under the car,

you didn't know

you're done.

This is car talk

after dark, by the

way.

And hence,

I didn't really

have an emergency

on that part of the

ceiling,

but he was off

on the side.

I think they had

lowered the speed limit

down to 60,

and then

blocked off the

left lane.

So he was getting

some angry honks

from people who

would have rather

been doing 100

at that time of the

night.

Was he getting the

hole?

You can't park there?

Probably,

probably.

So anyway.

Scotty would have

been that guy.

Scotty would have

been that guy.

Got dressed.

I decided,

well,

if I'm going there,

I might as well

go with the full

kit.

So I've got

my,

you know,

was a three-ton

low-profile jack.

Courtesy of

one Mr.

Matty J at Super

Cheap,

my tool pro.

Doing the Lord's

work.

Through that

in the back of the

D-Max,

I've got my tool kit,

my tool pro

rattle gun,

once again,

courtesy of Mr.

Matty J.

I didn't,

I thought that's the least

of our worries.

I'll get it,

you know,

nice and snug.

A couple of

lager-duggies.

A couple of lager-duggies,

you've been there.

You know,

grab my,

I have the

socket sets,

rattle gun

socket sets,

couple of those.

I had everything

prepared,

you know,

I was like,

this is,

we'll work it out.

I find out

while I'm on the way

that I need to

get onto the city link,

get off on Brunswick Road

and then come

northbound on the city

link,

which I was already upset

about that,

but as we were driving

there,

apparently the link

to people,

they have their own emergency

vehicles or assistance

vehicles,

and they came over to help

and they said,

well,

where are you from?

Where do you live?

He's like,

well,

I live in Mecklen.

Like,

well,

we can't take you there,

but we can get you off

the city link up to

where the DFO is.

And he's like,

well,

if I pay you extra,

can you take me home?

So,

by the time we got that call

saying, hey,

I'll be at the RSEA store

that's near DFO.

I was like,

well, that's even easier

because I was a little

hesitant of working on the

side of a freeway

because it was the driver's

side,

front tire that had

been punctured.

Yeah,

allegedly punctured.

Didn't get punctured,

but that's,

yeah.

So,

you know,

fortunately,

as we arrived

to that exit

of DFO in Essendon,

my brother-in-law's car

was actually coming

in the back of the tow truck.

So,

that was a really good timing.

Yeah,

it was really good timing.

So,

they had the actual tow truck

vehicle

and then they had the

emergency stop vehicle

that's got the big booty.

Yeah.

So,

you know,

if somebody crashes into it,

it crashes into the big

booty truck

and that way no one gets hurt,

hopefully.

So,

that both of those vehicles

come,

they drop off his car.

We kind of waited for them

to kind of clear the area.

And

I don't know where he got

this from,

but he had himself

a little kind of, I guess,

breaker bar

and he had the,

I don't know what,

I think it was 19 mil,

the little golden

tool pro socket,

ready to take the wheel nut off.

And by the time I've got my,

the jack down,

I've got the car jacked up.

I can't get you to get it

under the front tire.

So,

I was like,

well, I've done this before.

I jack up the rear side

and I jack it up enough

that both tires lift

off the ground.

So,

I'm like,

we did solve the issue.

I don't think his regular

jack would have been able to lift

that high,

so that's fair enough.

Got the rudder gun ready.

And then,

I take a look at his wheel nuts.

They're round.

Oh,

and they are 12 mil hex nuts.

So, I say,

you know,

this is a special bit.

Yeah,

this isn't your standard 19 mil

that your car came with.

He's like,

oh, yeah.

And I was like,

well,

where is the bear?

Where is the tool?

And he says,

I think he gave me one

when he gave me the rims.

I said,

well, you better fucking find it.

And then,

you know,

he proceeded to go through the car

not find the bit.

And I said to myself,

again,

your family,

it is what it is.

But I really took a long,

hard look at,

you know,

his little breaker bar in the

bit here.

I think one second.

You done messed up.

Yeah.

So,

the one thing we were trying to

avoid was just paying for a tow

that night.

We,

yeah,

we had to make the call

and her truck driver said,

I'm taking 300 bucks,

cash.

And guess who had cash?

Yeah,

not them.

Not them.

So we proceeded to wait

in the tow truck driver said

he'd be there in 20 minutes,

45 minutes later,

if he arrived,

got the car in the back of

the tow truck.

And,

headed off home.

And I said,

look,

at this point,

just parking in front of my

house,

the streets a lot emptier

and a lot wider.

And I'll see about getting

your bit,

your wheel nuts off.

Yeah.

In the morning,

by the time I had ordered

myself a nice

impact rated

set from Amazon.

Yeah,

that was going to come in

the morning.

So I was like,

at the very least,

I'll get a spare on and

kind of move things along

that way.

So yeah,

the tow truck driver

and,

you know, that was the end of

that night.

The next night,

the bits came

and I put them on the

railroad gun.

Did not have enough

huggers to get the nut off.

Really?

I was like,

I'm pretty sure they go,

that gun goes up to

200 newt meters

or 250 newt meters.

That's more than

a lot of cars, Alan.

Yeah.

And I'm pretty sure

the specs I've looked at

for the WRX is only

about 100 and 110.

So I've got the

breaker bar out,

you know, got them off,

put the spare on

there's about 20 years old.

Yeah.

22 years old.

I said,

you probably want a new

spare at this point

because I wouldn't trust that.

You know,

and,

you know,

I finally got the car

up on to the driveway

off the front of the house.

Check the air

and the rest of the tires

and the spare.

So I pumped the spare

and I think the spare

was down to about 40,

pumped up to 60

as it should be.

The rest of the tires

were down to about

20 to 22 PSI each.

So it wasn't

pumped it up to 60.

The spare,

yes.

It's a space.

Space over here.

Yeah.

That was my thought,

David.

Then I thought,

oh, no, this was ready

to blow it up there.

But the rest of the tires,

which were supposed to be

about that 32, 33 mark,

they're all about 20 or 22.

And that's,

you know,

I had cut my hand on the

tire twice, getting it off

because it wasn't a puncture.

Bend the wheel.

I will,

I'll show Maddie the video

just because I can.

So this was his tire.

Oh my goodness.

That was metal.

The wire is showing

all over the tire on the inside.

Oh my God.

This guy needs a bloody slap.

The whole side of the tire

is like, it's just been like,

like someone's had a knife

and just hacked at it.

Yeah.

And just why is it that's,

that's cooked.

Could have been drifting.

He could have been

on the racetrack.

Could have done all sorts of things.

Could have just

been driving the tire

at very low air pressure

for a very long time.

That'll do it.

Yeah.

And he only found out about it

because apparently

there was some kind of

bad smell.

And he didn't realize

that he had destroyed a tire.

I was like, oh yeah, the car was

getting,

because the suspension is so stiff

that I'm assuming that

everything,

every ride is really rough.

So you can't even tell

the difference between

having a flat tire.

This is not

Exactly do it to your car

having a suspension like that

will actually chew your

tire up as well.

Yeah.

Because the tires were

nowhere near ready

to be changed

or at least by kilometers.

The car's at 365 now,

I think.

So, you know,

I'd said, look,

it's your car.

You do what you want.

But there is no reason

to have your suspension

that stiff.

No.

And that low.

Like I'm pretty sure

he just, he's like,

I'm getting callers.

I'm going to have it as low

and as hard as it goes.

And I'm like, that's...

It's not fun.

Look, that's fun for like a day

and then after that

you come to your senses

and say, that's stupid.

Yeah.

But he obviously didn't,

unfortunately.

So he had the car

booked into his mechanic

and I said, look,

if you, if you,

you know,

a fairly long journey

of this thing.

Put some springs

and chunks.

Yeah.

And he obviously changed

your tires and keep them.

I said, look,

your tires are at 22 PSI at best

at the lowest end.

I don't know,

this one might have been an 18

for all we know.

He said, well,

the car was serviced,

serviced about 4,000 Ks

ago.

So...

Really?

Like,

that's your like...

Actually?

So you'd never check

the tire pressure?

And again,

he could very easily come

over to our place.

I've got the compressor.

I've got the little gauge.

It's not 100% accurate,

but it gets you

close to where you're going.

Close, yeah.

There's no reason it couldn't

be done.

I do it for the rest of the

cars.

I do it for my sister's car.

It just disappointed me quite

a bit.

You know,

again,

he's an adult.

He's got to live his life.

But...

Not

automatically,

he's not an adult.

He's an amoeba.

But

when I'm being

working up at,

you know,

11,

when I'm...

No,

and that's the thing,

like,

oh,

if you're ACV,

check your tyre pressures.

Think,

if I have to change a tyre,

how do I get these wheels?

I'm like,

just think one step ahead,

even half a step ahead.

Yeah.

It's like,

you can't go through life

just ringing Alan

when shit doesn't go.

Like,

you know,

and I get annoyed

because I'm the same,

you know,

I'm that guy.

He gets the phone calls.

It's like,

okay,

look,

my siblings are pretty good.

They don't,

you know,

they've lived around me

long enough to kind of,

you know,

hear what they're about.

No,

it's not that I don't want to help them,

but you know,

it's just like,

come on,

you're an adult,

supposedly,

physically,

like,

this is adult stuff,

you know,

it's not kindergarten,

school yard antics.

I mean,

the really sad thing is

that they rang your dad first.

Yeah.

And if you don't know

about cars,

that's fine.

Don't know about cars.

Just make sure

you've got the backup.

Have the RACV.

Know where the number is

in your phone.

Have the card in the car

and bring him.

That's why you have him.

Yes.

So my sister's upgraded her RACV

to have both the cars on it.

I think it didn't cost her that much more.

And that way,

you know,

they can both at least

give them self coverage.

So,

yeah,

I've been trying to organize

a program at my school.

I feel like the last year

for this,

for this exact reason,

like just to show kids

how to change a tire,

how to check your tire pressures,

how to check your oil.

But again,

with the,

the issues of the world,

I'm worried about

if the,

if the jack doesn't hold

or if this doesn't work or,

you know,

oh,

H&S comes to play.

But I'm like,

these are life skills.

Yeah.

Like checking your oil is a life skill.

Changing a tire is a life skill.

Like you,

I guarantee you would have

changed the tire at some point

in your life.

Yeah.

You know,

no,

no.

That's why you got RACV.

Run flats.

And that's fine.

If you don't want to delve right into it,

have your car serviced

when the sticker or the indicator

tells you to have it serviced.

Have RACV backup.

Have insurance.

Know who your insurance company is.

Know what your excess is.

Know who can drive your car

and who can't drive your car.

You know,

know that if you let your regiolapse

and you drive it,

you know,

your car's not,

not insured.

These are the things you need to know.

You don't have to be a car person.

No.

But if you're not a car person,

you need to have certain things

in place to ensure that,

you know,

you got to have the backups.

Absolutely.

Yeah, this is the reason like when,

when my sister got her license,

especially,

like she's not,

she's not a carie at all.

She likes cars.

She thinks they're cool,

but she's not a car person.

So I said,

all right,

when you turn 18,

I think it was actually when she was 17,

just before she got her license.

I said,

keep one afternoon free.

And I'll show you how to check your oil.

I'll show you how to change your tire.

And we quite literally,

with our old Mazda 3,

did this in the driveway.

And I showed how to do,

where the jacking points were,

where the jack was.

She didn't even know what a jack was at that point.

She has had numerous flat tires.

She's changed her tires.

She's changed her friend's tires.

She's done all this stuff for, you know,

because she's learned that valuable skill.

And she tells me all the time,

she's like,

if you didn't show me how to do that,

I would have had zero idea.

You know, like,

absolutely zero idea.

It's a helpful,

it's a helpful skill to have.

And that's why I really want to try

to push it at my school.

Yeah.

Because I think that it's,

because it's a life skill.

Yeah.

In terms of like the roadside assistant,

all those options,

sometimes they're just not an option.

You're too far out.

You don't have a reception,

that sort of thing.

And, you know, in certain situations,

you're in a pickle that you couldn't get yourself out,

even if you had the know-how.

It's just,

it might be a really bad accident,

that sort of thing.

There are those things that are inevitable,

and you just can't help.

But for situations where you can help,

where if you just had the know-how,

you probably could change your tire.

And not knowing that,

until it's too late,

it's probably, again,

it's not a good kind of way to live your life.

Yeah.

Not that I'm the guide on how to live a life,

because I've probably lived one pretty terribly.

And I'm like, well, 32 years old.

So just, you know,

if you're going to kind of take the responsibility

as an adult, say,

yeah, I'm going to drive myself around,

and I'm going to be the only person in the car.

You know,

you should probably at least know how to get yourself

out of those basic,

I would say basic pickles.

Well, as I said to you, man,

my sister tells me all the time,

she's like,

oh, that afternoon,

I've been able to get myself out of trouble,

help my friends who's their tires.

You know,

she's like, it's just basic stuff.

Like, you know,

it's actually not hard.

And my sister's this tiny little thing, right?

You know, you guys have all met her.

She's not a, you know,

basic stuff to do with Jack,

to do the stuff.

You know,

it is a skill that now she will use

for the rest of her life

because she'll know how to do it.

Just on the roadside assistance thing, too.

I think a number of us around here

you actually have total care with our ACT.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

There have been some changes to that recently.

I hope you're across them.

It doesn't cover you for every car

that you're driving now.

It has to be a nominated car.

Yes.

It will allow up to about

something like five cars

and 15 club-plated cars.

No, it's two registered cars

and 15 club-plated cars.

Two registered, is it?

And 15 club-plated cars.

Yes.

So we've got to take a few minutes or more.

That's what I was feeling

aside from where I'm going to put them.

But, yeah, so I mean, literally,

if you've just got to, you know,

put in everything you think you

might possibly be driving.

I mean, David put it this way,

when the camera got towed on Monday,

that's that would have been a three

to $400 tow.

Yeah.

And you're paying what for total care,

$230, $240, year, whatever it is.

Yeah.

Paid it itself.

Yeah.

Paid it itself.

You know, it's, you never know

when you need it.

Yeah.

And that's an example of, you know,

well, paid itself.

Didn't have to do anything.

Yeah.

I'm a cheap brown man,

so I am the total care.

But that's, again, that's my house

specifically.

Like between me and my parents

and I can, if they have something

wrong, I can get their bus

first, more or less.

Yeah.

But I'm not going to...

It's super far though.

Yeah.

And I'm not going to call somebody

at, you know, 11 p.m.

to get them down to the city link

just to get me out of pickle.

I mean, I might, you know,

just be where all of you.

Chemically, I deserve one, I think.

You know, so, you know,

I'll pass that on to you guys.

Scotty, you said your school

does a Twilight school thing?

Yeah.

So I noticed, yeah,

every year they do like a

Twilight thing and it's for,

for the parents and that

to kind of get involved

and some of them run like

cooking classes and art classes

and stuff.

That's cool.

And I put forward this automotive one

and broke it down exactly

what I do and cover and everything

and they seem to be

really excited for it.

Yeah, cool.

That's great.

So I might have to,

I might have to do it

over a couple,

a couple of nights.

So what would you do?

What's your plan?

Um...

The first one's how to do a

burnout.

So you remember before grand

and you would have to push.

I just kind of want to cover...

McDonald's trays.

Yeah.

I kind of just want to cover

the basics.

And I'll just,

we'll be just around my car

and I can show

everything on how to

do tires,

check,

oil, check.

Precious.

Your coolant,

check it,

your brushes,

just for you.

Wash your fluid even.

Yeah.

Just all the,

all the basic things that

you don't think about

how you can kind of have an idea

of your brake pads as well

to check that,

to check if you're getting a big

kind of a lip that you can feel

on the,

the discs.

Yeah.

How you can kind of check

your tires as well

and how you kind of got to really

do a full lock at least

to be able to see the inner part

because it can wear

quite badly on the,

in the insides on some cars.

I think BMW's kind of prone to that.

Yeah.

And it's just your basic,

well,

even if you've got an electric vehicle,

a lot of these things is something

that you'd still need to check.

Yeah.

Because you want to be safe.

You kind of,

and I really want to push forward

how important it is

to just

save that little bit of extra money

if you need to,

to get good tires.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Anything that's in contact

with the road, this thin,

you know, 235, 235

mil of tread.

Scott.

If you like it, it might be 235.

Could be less.

I'm going to say 180.

205.

Yeah.

That is just,

that is on the road

and you're buying these cheap Chinese ones.

When all you need to do

is majority of the time,

wait,

and you can buy three

and get the fourth one for free.

Yeah, that's the history.

They do that all the time.

Are you a Pisces?

No.

Germany.

Interesting.

You're getting horoscopes with...

I'm always okay with it

because he's obsessed with wheels and tires

and I said,

oh, that makes sense

because Pisces rules the feet

and the tires are the feet of the car.

So just given the way you were talking a lot,

maybe you're a fellow Pisces.

I stand with Scotty on the tires.

I drove my co-workers

Mazda 3.2,

our favorite smash repairer in Camfield

or Summerton,

whatever some of the counts is.

And there's a wet day

and I flicked into sport mode for a second.

And as soon as I kind of put my foot,

not even foot all the way down,

the car just went eee

and I was just like, wait,

I didn't even go fast.

I saw it was some kind of weird Chinese Linglongs.

Yeah, it was one of those.

And I was like, what the hell?

God have to know me in brand ties.

We also run,

they call it Rua or something.

It stands for something.

I don't know,

but you've got your normal subjects that you do,

but also you can do these little specialist ones as well.

And there's one of them is like,

there's beekeeping is one of them.

There's first aid force.

I can get behind beekeeping.

Yeah, all these other cool ones.

There's like book club.

There's a book club one.

There's, you know,

how to be a better writer kind of one and all that.

And I kind of put forward this,

a car safety one for the kids.

So they're going to look into that

and see if there's any interest for the following year.

Awesome.

Well, we'll do this.

I'll check the wiper fluid in a Tesla in three years.

Okay, there you go.

Yeah.

Yeah, all right.

Check it.

Yeah, while you're there,

check your blink of fluid.

Check your blink of fluid as well, yeah.

Your muffler bearings.

Make sure your batteries filled up too.

Yeah, absolutely.

Make sure your battery levels.

Just get them to the cobalt lines

and still some cobalt and whack it in there.

Make sure it's filled up with acid.

Yeah.

What they should have is electronic tire depth gauges.

That'd be great.

So you wouldn't even have to check your tires.

Yeah, it's big enough.

Hey, pardon pending.

Are we getting some kind of LiDAR scan of the tire?

Yeah.

What do I do?

Elon Musk.

Don't you steal our R&D?

No idea, man.

The tire monitoring on the ZRV is so sensitive.

Mm-hmm.

It bings regularly, you know?

And you go, really?

Hey, I think they were like, hey, you know,

two weeks ago when I checked them, they were fine, you know?

So I check them again.

One might be one pound out.

Wow.

And it's...

I love pumping up tires on cars

because you drive out the gutter of the server.

It feels like a sports car.

You know, they're all...

Yeah.

I generally run everything at about 35 all-round.

And, you know, when I first buy a car,

there's a certain sequence that, you know,

I'll go through and, you know, check oil, check water,

check washer fluid, clean the inside of the windows

because normally it's got grime on it,

wipe down all the plastics,

disold the grotty steering wheel with hand cream

all over it in the gearshift knob.

And suddenly the tire points are nice.

Then, you know, I'll give it a full wash

going through all the gaps and, you know,

blast under the bonnet at the car wash and everything.

Under the wheel arches, amazing how much dirt

comes out from under the wheel arches.

And of course the obligatory, when they're cold,

pump up the tires.

By the time you do that and then you sort of, you know,

the shake down is happening now and you're like,

all right, now I know what I'm dealing with.

This is all right.

They always feel so much better driving out of the garage.

I think you do that, don't you,

to actually shake down the car and know, you know,

what's going on?

You open the bonnet and check things.

That's what it is.

Water leaks.

Yeah.

Give it a really good going over.

And then, yeah, if you do all that

and it's still good, then you sort of like, all right,

I'm dealing with something okay here.

We'll have to circle back to this, Scotty,

when you, I want to see how successful you are.

Yeah.

I'm looking forward to it.

I think it will be early November.

Nice.

October they're doing it.

Yeah.

Can I come to the class?

Yeah, I want to come to the class too.

Can I be on the wall?

It's going to be free because there was like,

asking like, okay, what do you need

and put down what you need to pay for.

England.

I just write in mind like,

don't need anything.

Don't need anything.

Supplying my own car.

So I think they love it because it costs nothing.

Nothing, yeah.

You should be like, I just need a new set of,

you know, hand-cooked tyres or something.

Kind of upset.

Yeah.

So I can show the difference.

Yeah, the cheap tyres over there.

Maybe be an international podcaster to come along.

Automated podcaster to come along.

Yeah.

More special guest.

Yeah.

Yes, speaker.

My people speak to your people.

Oh, I don't know.

I'll have to see how much you might be a bit expensive.

Anyway, moving on to tonight's topic.

What's the top?

Not tonight.

Tonight's car quiz.

You're going to have enough time for it, Tommy.

I don't know.

We just started.

Next time.

I've got it for next time anyway.

So David Prince has kindly responded

to doing the car quiz for us.

Yeah, he did.

This was a bit on the fly,

but it'll all work out together.

Sometimes they're the best ones.

Sometimes they are.

Let's see.

Let's reserve judgment to it for now,

but we'll cycle back to that.

You happy to call for us?

I've already got it done.

Ready for you, mate.

Ready to go.

OK.

So 1975, Holden, General Motors Holden in Australia,

came to an arrangement with Isuzu Motors in Japan

for the T-car project,

which became the Holden Gemini.

How many series?

I'll give you the first one.

The TX was the car that was released.

How many series of Gemini's were locally assembled?

Ed.

Matt.

Ed.

Four.

Incorrect.

Alan.

Matt.

Alan was in there.

Three.

Sorry?

Three.

Incorrect.

Matthew.

I think it was five.

Incorrect.

OK.

Oh, you're talking about the actual series codes?

I gave you the first one.

Yep.

So the series codes.

Yeah.

OK.

Let's go.

I'll go six.

Incorrect.

Rob.

Two.

Incorrect.

No, we set three.

I've already said three.

This is very baffling to me.

How many did they do?

I thought they were all of them.

That was too many.

There was TX.

I gave you the first.

T-E-T-G.

There was actually TX.

The T-C.

T-C, OK.

The T-D.

T-D.

The T-E.

Oh, OK.

The T-F.

The T-G.

Wow.

And the R-B.

Oh, wow.

OK.

It was seven.

Seven.

It's a lot of time.

It was seven.

It was over seven.

It was about seven.

And you had three and the total outlook.

They were, yes.

You had a T-C.

I think.

I think the T-C.

T-C.

We only got the R-A.

We didn't get anything else after that.

With fair reasons.

You know, they weren't great.

Bonus question.

How many were Front Во Drive?

Matthew.

Matthew?

Well, one.

Correct.

The last one.

The last one, the R-B's were Front Во Drive.

Okay, how many different models are available in Australia at the moment on Mazda's website that start with the CX

Model designation

Five correct. Yeah. Well, gee, that was good. That's a guess

CX 30 ever CX 60 ever CX 70 no six 80 you have a sex 90

It's a lot of CX's and none of none of them are cool citrines from the 70s and none of them are and

None of them are cool period. I think to be honest with you. They're showing look particularly similar. It's very hard to tell them

But they just look like that. It's like when they're making those lollies in those lolly places of the shopping centers

And they just heat the sugar and they just pull it just expand it

Candy shop that shopper Chadson always stinks. I can never walk into it

Yeah, really sickly smell. I never liked hard candy. Correct this week

It's been announced that an Australian manufacturer. Oh, I'm calling shenanigans

I'm calling shenanigans. He's calling. What are you calling? You how many did you say it?

When the Gemini's no the CX

Five I think let me recount six three six thirty six five six sixty six seventy six eighty six ninety

I

Count on more than five there. He's saying it's like seven or something. Anyway, so David three

Six thirty six. Oh, you know, you know, I'll allow the shenanigans eighty six ninety. That's seven seven

I'm taking half a point for pointing out shenanigans. No, you don't get points for putting out shenanigans. No, that's some bullshit

Otherwise, you know irreparable damage and was going to come to this

David Prince the quiz master the quiz master

Is incorrect is incorrect. I feel like I get something for that

So you're wrong David, do you I see what I did I did the CX's though

I meant to say which ones were like a double-digit double-digit

I still got a run

He did get the question right that's a bullshit. That's a secret of questions going on

Oh

Wait mate, right and wait. Yeah, I I'm falling the complaint

You'll be here from my union. Maybe you can do the quiz

Rather not yeah, I just wanted to be on record the David Paul shenanigans

That's when what happens when you start putting putting a quiz together at about 645 come on Scotty I need a rolling on this

Are you happy for me to continue

Your shambles of a quiz

So just before you continue when Alan says your name even if he says it miles ahead of anyone

I didn't hear anybody say anything

You're talking a lot of shit for a man with a very closeable laptop

Ah

We'll see if we can continue this week in Australia this week

It's been announced that an Australian manufacturer is being considered to re-manufacture

Left-hand drive vehicles to right-hand drive for other world markets

Ed oh Toyota

Incorrect Alan Alan will control

That's all I meant to say half a point you get

They do the tundra, I think which is left-hand to right-hand walk and shore

Doing the tundra, but that's not the car that's been I know yeah, but they do that

That's what made me think walk and shore, but I said it was a Toyota tundra. I should have said walk and shore

But anyway, whatever

They call general general motor specialty vehicles

No, no walk and shores doing that's that was the boat

Okay, but no one's given me because people jumped in before I changed the question which car is it which vehicle is it

Some big fat thing that's left-hand drive pretty accurate, but not

Matthew Matthew can GMC Denali or something?

incorrect

Rob Rob be a Ram

Correct. Oh the Ram the Ram. So it's been announced this week that walk and shore is

Is being very keenly considered to produce all the right-hand drive ones for the world

I

Went on a tour of their facility. Oh, did you? Yes, that's cool. Yeah. Oh

Only couple of a few months. Oh, really? Oh, well out in wherever they are

Clayton like yeah, right. Yep. And yeah, very interesting. They had like Silverados. I think they do

So they basically undo

All of the Silverado back almost back to a chassis

I think they had them and then then build it back up again as a right-hand drive

With certain other dashboard components this that a lot of the stuff they make here some of that they they get in but

A lot of it's sort of mold and manufactured here. So they you know, he was like they're they're better when they leave here than they

They are when they would not surprise me. Yeah, I mean, that's not hard. Oh, it's a low bar

But yeah, it was a very very impressive operation

So you see him going down the line and the station and that station and

Did you see tundra is there as well doing having this? No, they they are at a different

facility

Um, he's got one in Dandenong, I think or somewhere further out there at that facility

Oh, it's still baffles mean why they actually completely assemble a car. You'd think it'd only be partially. Yeah, I agree with that

like even if the steering's in but

Why why put I don't know why put a left hand or right left hand drive dash in and all the other because that's the way we build

That's the way you go take probably it's probably cheaper to do that than

Undo that'll you know, yeah

Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure

The problem is if you don't have a steering column in there a little bit hard to steer

I'll move them on and off the boat

It's hard to move them. Okay. What question we up to I've got no idea

for

Maybe score check score check score check myself

Rob add on one Scotty at the square one point five

Okay

One vehicle is back on sale in Australia this week after having a month long stop sale embargo

Matthew

the civic type are

Incorrect

wrong

It was the Toyota and it was one of the Land Cruisers. I think Prados maybe

incorrect

I wonder why they had a stop sale

It's a very good question

Hmm

I know something was the Toyota there. They had to stop because they couldn't keep up with the demand

No, no, that's it's got nothing to do with them. I might be it might be a problem with the vehicle. I'm thinking more

Hmm

Maybe they might have sold they might have outsold their allotment and not have taken

That's not the reason I wouldn't be that

I recommend it. Yeah, I don't know

Scott Scott, I know there was a recall on this. Is it the Tesla Model Y? No, they just shouldn't be sold here anyway

That's that's a different thing

Don't know don't know that all out Tesla driving this is

Uh, okay, you all out. Uh, I'll go with Tesla more or less

Uh incorrect

Well, I thought

Obviously not everybody needs the Suzuki Jimny XL

So the four door

Indian built

One had a very sudden it had a pause put on deliveries and then it had a stop sale put on a rover and

Uh, for what reason?

undisclosed

So didn't affect the three door just affected the four door because the three doors made in Japan like a proper car

As recently as it was stopped it was restarted

Uh, now I've got the one of my big deal inside knowledge David one of my big dealerships is a

Has a Suzuki franchise no reason given

And no reason given for it restarting

Scotty to three delivery boys. No, hang on. Was anything done to the cars? Nothing was done to the cars

There was a but after a pause in deliveries, there was a full stop sale

I got it

You got it. I'm on at the factory lost their finger in one and they had to find the finger

And they didn't know which car was in and they had to search until they found the finger

It didn't affect the other cars think you're more of um, they just ran out of doors

No, because that wouldn't stop that wouldn't stop you selling the ones that already made

I think it's probably more someone thought oh, shit

Hang on this could be a really big issue

And but until they investigated it whatever safety thing it was or whatever and then they've

Oh, it's actually okay

It meets tolerance or whatever and and then they they go you fine off you go

So there were cases there. I mean there were cars on order. There were cars about to be delivered. They've reminded the dealerships

they are

They offered refunds of deposits

Was quite it was very full on and say and

I'm I'm

What did I say unprecedented in the industry and and then to have it just lifted like that at the end?

No, it's okay. Yep. Don't know what you're worried about nothing to see here

Imagine imagine you're at the dealership getting the vehicle delivered that day

The hand you the keys and then the dealership principle runs in like

You try to drive out of the thing and they like launch themselves in front of the car like, no, you can't leave

Yeah, that's that must have been a big potential sake you risk that then they do

Yeah, gotta be something

This might have been made by Ford

This week is during okay next question. What Australian manufactured car came in a zz zz edition

Matthew

No, I beat

Matthew zz zz that'll be a

Gemini correct

Another gem I have question. Yeah, actually

Yes, yes, it is. Thank you for what series was the zz z in

And that was in the utility. Yeah

the

Okay, next question

A hypercar has become the world's fastest EV after the latest recorded record attempt in germany

Who produces it and what's its name?

Don't know

It's a cracker

I'll just throw it out there Rob

Mercedes and it's the

What's it called f1? Whatever it's called

Not the Mercedes one. Do you mean? It's one. Yeah one one. No

Alan

Alan is it a Koenigsegg?

No, it's not damn it. I don't want to say simple. I want to say is it a Ford?

A Ford you wish no

I mean they did the super van

That's a wishful thinking. That's a major wishful thinking. Is it a

Ford lately?

We're gonna get in your rigors. We have to play that for us. Yes. Yeah

Anyone else anyone else? Uh

I give you gentlemen the yang Wang you don't

Yeah, yeah, okay

It's the yang Wang

That's what I can jump I can jump kind of

The model name please David yang wing. It's the yang wing. You nine. You nine. Okay

Do you think at the you know plus the you know pro max?

Can you imagine paying money for something called that and then I've just

Where was this um speed? Yeah, it was in Germany. Okay, so it was

I don't think it was the never green but okay

Um, this wasn't a record that was broken in china as all

No, no, I wouldn't trust the figures as much as all

bonus question

closest to

What speed did it reach? Is this case or?

Kilometers per hour

Matthew

Matthew I want to say

It got to

374 kilometers an hour 374

So this was the speed on a track? Yeah, it must have been

The world's fastest ev I

Where was the um

Oh, it's

We okay, so this all right. Um

I'm gonna go great stretch. It's 11. Yeah, I'm gonna go with 492

Please just call 92 alum. Yep. Ed

410

410 Scotty

I'm gonna say

450

405

five

Well, I'm calling shenanigans because alam's closest to

472 kilometers an hour. It's pretty good. Does that beat the varons of the sharon?

That's one quick yang weng. Isn't that's really when you look at it?

Will that be the sharon? Yeah, it would

Yeah, and I bet you it's only got um

$200 zeta ties on it as well

I I reckon I reckon the car would do that once and then you got to change the batteries entirely

It'd need a big battery to do that, wouldn't it

It's just gonna extension cable

Just a five mile long extension cable just run it run

It's just our plug and the car just stops. It's got a tesla coil wireless

Well, let's see how upset well, I'm sorry. They got the uh the tram track above it. Just you know train style

Track addition, I'm just looking at it now

It's a tragedy. Why does the yang weng u9 track addition? I can't

So it beat the rhymak which was originally at 431

The remix the one that uh

You're the one that he owns spaghetti now. Is that the one that Richard haven't flipped? Yeah

Yeah, good times

Nice

Okay, next question

Uh, the most expensive car on car sales at the moment is a 2018 mclaren center points go to the closest to price wise

What's that's a listed price

stuff

Scott, I'm gonna start at 3.2

mil

Okay, 3.2

Rob four million

Rob four. Yep

5.2 ed

5.2

um, I'm gonna say

3.8 you never late in a 3.8

3.8

So this is the most expensive car on car sales Australia

It's not necessarily the most expensive car in australia because I don't see the need to for pegani's to be on car sales

but

Um, how else do they sell them? It's a 2018 mclaren center is the most expensive car on car sales at the moment

Imagine seeing pegani on marketplace

Marketplace here

It's just available

See

I'm gonna go somebody's getting a bargain 2.8 2.8

Okay, alon shenanigans again. I'm calling it's this last thing. It's a literal bargain for you guys

It's 2,299,990 dollars

So quite a bit under what you thought

Do you think that guy's got um got insurance on it before he sells it on marketplace?

Did you see that guy?

Yeah

Conversely at the other end of the line

There's a 2009 hold on astra

CD

With 100,000 k's advertised in western australia for 500 bucks

Which is the cheapest car on car sales

Okay, there's a medward bonding case

Go astra

It's the cd too. It's the top of the line. Yeah, that's the uh the the highest spec one. Didn't they have cdx for cdx?

cdx yeah cdx cdx higher than cd. Yeah

Where is the cdx was higher?

Well, cd has been used on other cars to nine

9,000

Uh and the 900 before that

There was a 900 cd. That was the extended long wheelbase

900

Oh, right very rare 75 would in the country 50 or something. Yeah, very rare cd the audi 5e cd

Um question. What does cd stand for matthew matthew?

I believe it was for cd player incorrect compact disc

incorrect

coefficient of drag

Not bad really, but no, this is actually a question to for a point it is

Oh, damn. What do you think we're just having a chat here? I mean it seemed like it

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You pissed off david early. It always seemed like

You're not invited to uh throughout ecstasy

It stands for cool dude cool dude. I like that one

No, that's not correct sadly. It will be like a compact driver

It actually stands for core diplomatic

Oh

That was my second guess

Nice to call driver

Yeah, it's it's it's no to to to illustrate that it's an upper level trim, but you're either cdx was like

You know, it's it's like, um

Core diplomatic spinal putting their speakers up to 11. You just add the x to make it look what did the x stand for?

Next question

I'm calling shenanigans already

already

You should see a bit of paper. I've done these screens on that's that's why it's where that's why

What is this way?

Uh, so you can also search on cows house

newest to oldest

What's the oldest car listed?

Ed

Oh, I mean, I don't know but I'm just gonna guess are we getting a year?

Uh, well, we want to go to we'll go

A brand

And we'll go a year

So there is there is I'll say there's two that are actually listed for this same year

One is a hot rod a hot rod

Uh, but the other is a car like a like a Matthew

Oh, I said Ed first. Oh, yeah, Ed you go Ed first 19 12 rolls Royce

I'll I'll give you hang on

No, I can just I'm I'm tagging in that's all

yesterday you get half a point

Oh, I'm gonna say which party is half point four

No

All right, since I tagged in I'll say a 1910 forward

Incorrect dammit Matthew 19

So do you know who this works Alan? One of the things Ed said was right

Matthew

Matthew 1912 Pontiac

Incorrect Rob

Rob 1923 rolls Royce

Correct

What did you look that up Rob?

No

Alan that's shenanigans right there

He's actually quiet at the moment

Impressive

There's not bad rolls Royce Ed. I did I thought you know, it's a 1923 rolls Royce silver goes to Broham Deville

Imagine the badges across the back of that

Broham Deville

I thought they were going to get the placement vibe

That's nothing. Have you seen the back of Chinese cards? They got

So just quiz master David does he get one or two points because Ed already got 0.5

Oh, sorry. Yes, you got 0.5. Yeah

Oh no

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah 0.5

We already had one answer you were just being clever in in

Utilizing the picking the correct answer

Is that all right with you Maddie? No, it's fine. Is that how you do it? Yep. Sure. Why not?

Hopefully please let this be number 10

I hope so

Okay, this is an easy one Honda have announced that the middle of next year will see the new prelude released

What generation prelude is this?

Matthew

Fifth generation

Incorrect

Sixth generation correct

Oh

Yeah, please Maddie score check Jesus Christ. Here we go Scotty Scotty yet to score

Rob Edd 1.5

Really hopefully Ed was on 0.5, but you know, I'll allow it. Yeah fair enough. I'm on I'm on two and

Tonight's winner on a grand total of 3.5. Mr. Alan deep saying what do we say that again?

3.5 that's right ladies and gentlemen even when the quiz master's against speech

No one getting in my way

They've got the power of Vin Diesel

The power of family

Is there anyone you want to thank besides good diesel?

Paul Walker, rest in peace. Mr. Peacefright. David. Thank you for the quiz. That was a great quiz David

You've had that yourself sir shenanigans or no shenanigans

I think that's a podcast gentlemen. Yes, it is. Yeah. Um, let's do some plugs

Uh, Rob's doing it firefighting electricals

neighbor hating neighbor punching on with um sandblasting

Safety, I think I think we he's doing it. So Rob's doing it

Cuts. Yeah, Rob's cuts Rob's cuts. Yeah

Looking fresh looking fresh

I'll do the golf tip of the week

If um, particularly now that it's cold and wet

You can't get yourself down to the range, but you still want that practice

Find yourself a virtual range, you know, you can get some uh some good practice

It's actually not about it. Yeah, there's a few a few around and uh, obviously it comes at a price, but

You know, if you're hankering for a practice and the weather's not permitting get yourself down to a virtual range

Scotty, what do you think of that tip? Oh, I think that's bullshit

Is it is it

Long the quiz winner. Oh, I decided what it is

It was like

Scotty's golf tip of the week

I'm gonna have spoken for like a whole two minutes. So this whole podcast has gone for

Two hours

And then I'm sitting here

Wait to do my tip, you know

My one time where I can speak and everyone has to listen

Anybody while taking on me

What a joke

I'm sensing a lot of anger

Scotty Scotty's golf tip of the week

Is it to go out there and play some golf? Is that what you're going to say?

Yeah, if it's rain get out there and play don't be a wimp, all right. Yep. You have it first

My real one was actually um, like play like a kid. Okay

Do that by me by that is get out there

And actually enjoy it just have a go kid it

Don't worry about any

Advice and videos that you watch just you go out there because obviously you enjoy it for some reason

Or another so do that

There's Scotty. Do you have to actually wipe your balls when it's raining? Oh, Robert

Well, I tend to polish mine

Can't take off the dark it's really interesting

Um, David Prince anything you'd like to plug. Oh, sorry. David's wisdom that David's wisdom

That's

Be wise. Uh, no good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure

Oh, like that one. Nice. That was that was that was really classy

Ed Bunting

Locays

Call me call him. I know what I got

I know what I got

I got the last mileage Jen Monti. I've been in the country. That's what I got

That's 100. Is that a 180? 1800 number that I'm calling you on

I'll do some heavy breathing for you, Scott

Whatever it takes to sell this damn car

Now with optional CD player

Soon to be the optional. Yes. Yes. What's what's being stole the option

I'd like to give a shout out to Andrew Riegel's worth

So here's magna, um, merch is now up online

Oh, yeah, magna 40 magna 40

So so if you go to his facebook page, you can find the link to it there

We've got to pop it up as well on our facebook page so you can support the show there

Um, so support his his event there. I should say

It's going to be a cracking event. David Prince and him have been doing a phenomenal job to make

To make sure that this is going to be an elite automotive experience for the

Footwork nice choice of word. Thank you. I worked on that one. Very nice. Um,

I'm trying to

Make the executive decision to make use that word. I did make the executive decision

We're all going to advance our way to Adelaide. Yeah, just make sure the the salara

I'm gonna work in a slop slap because the salara is going to be strong that time of the it is

I can say that there's an extraordinarily

Fantastic range of t-shirts

hats and tote bags

We do like a tote

That's the event. Yeah, Rob's got it up now. It's the event. So support the support

Maddie designed the the designs and they're spectacularly good. Thank you for you. Thank you, David

Um, but yeah support support our friend our friends of the show

And um, yeah, should be a great event. I can't wait to to go be on in a couple of weeks to um,

Tell us more about it too. Absolutely

Here will be and hopefully my show will have a ride by then we can wear it on the on the right and mine. Yeah, absolutely

I must order one. Mm-hmm

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