...I shouldn't have started watching an episode.
And I see it's on all day on Quest.
And the wife is out at a flower show all day.
...bugger - the programme is like crack!
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Totally agree... It makes me think that it'd be really easy to do a car up.... Then reality hits and I remember how much I know about motors and things more technical than my bike....
Only had three channels until a couple of years ago, instant addiction when we moved to somewhere with decent reception.
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Resisted watching them all online on 4OD, it's the thrill of the chase in tracking down an unseen episode now.
I missed the first half of a game at the Euro's just to watch the G Wagon.
I really really wanted the rat truck.... Loved the way it looked. I would love a 50's American truck....
Ah you have to love a bit of Mike offering half the asking price when he buys and then being outraged when someone trys to knock 50 quid off when he sells!
is the sun out where you are Op and do you have any children to mind?
"that's a cracking profit of £200!"
Ed stares at shoes thinking probably not worth it for the 50 hours graft!
Car SOS is miles better. Brewer gets right on my tits. He's like the Robson Green of the car world.
He's a car salesman and it shows. His wig fascinates me, though.
I do like Car SOS-age. Tim Shaw is much more fun and it's not for profit so a bit less mercenary.
it's always fun to watch the really early episodes, Ed was so very wooden in front of the camera, much more "natural" and relaxed now.
I tend to fast fwd through the Mike B bits and just watch Ed doing his thing. Makes 30 mins of viewing out of a one hour programme though.
enjoy it, but its totally bonkers. ' we just made 500 profit'. no you didn't , its been in a garage for over a week so labour costs would be 1k for a start.
I love it when Ed wheels out some hyper expensive specialist price of kit to save them £80 on a replacement part, talking like its a totally normal thing to have in your toolbox/garage.
Cannot stand Mike brewer. I'm sure he's a nice guy but he's a proper car salesman and it gets on my wick.
Mike Brewer buying cars abroad is some of the most cringe worthy TV ever.
'old aat your aand
I like Mike. He makes no excuses for what he is and I presume he is very good at selling cars. The whole program is good and it's not about the profit at all. A lot of the time they make zero but it's good to see an old 80's 6 series or whatever saved for another day.
I'm a big fan. Yeah sure it's contrived but great to see an ever-fatter Edd working his magic. I loved the one where he fixed the TT gearbox. That and a salvage hunters double bill and that's a good evenings tv for me.
Always been a huge fan of Wheeler Dealers, but not for Mike, for Ed. Not keen on the latest series where Mike seems to be doing more and more hands on stuff.
It is indeed addictive
Watched the Suzuki Jeep one the other day. Ed resprayed it from white to black and fitted a new engine in one day. I need to be mates with him or at least find out where that workshop is.
And thanks to Brewer I'm proficient in cockney rhyming slang so it's educational and entertaining
Eds garage is in Bracknell or at least his one with a labour rate >£0 per hour is.... https://www.greasejunkie.com
Early ones were filmed at Bruntingthorpe down underneath the cafe.
Ive been known to watch an episode more than once 😳
It is addictive, as is Car S.O.S
Need to be more productive with my time
Really enjoy Car SOS and Wheeler dealers, and I have them machanic sympathy of a rhino (short sighted and liable to use more force than necessary), but could happily combine both into the Ed and Fuzz show.
Currently I either ignore Mike and Tim, or just fast forward through there 'routines'.
Anything else similar?.. used to really enjoy the Mark Evans "A is born" series too.
= car/plane/chopper/bike/4x4/etc
Brewer had an online spat with that Long on Pistonheads it was cringeworthy. Wonder if the thread is still up or pulled
I have become enthralled with Misfit Garage (Fast n Loud spinoff) That is my non-guilty pleasure.
Brewers mockney bollocks makes me larf, pour the man a shandy.
[url= https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport ]Project Binky[/url] from Bad Obsession is the best car series around, the levels those guys go to are amazing.
Tim at Sideways just put me onto [url= https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26Dc_CAzT_xCjpZncFui4A3 ]Crossthreaded[/url] which looks like it's well worth a watch too.
Let's try that [url= https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26Dc_CAzT_xCjpZncFui4A ]Crossthreaded link again.[/url]
jesus h christ !!!!
It's her 'thing'. Been like that for years.
I wouldn't use her company purely for the autoplay video. The rest I can live with, but autoplaying video with audio should be shot into the sun.
was watching the fiat dino episode this morning, the wife loved the car, so thought to see how much they go for now Mike sold his for £15k
[url= https://www.davidhayton.co.uk/cars/prestige/fiat-dino-dino ]I think mike should have kept it[/url] 🙂 pretty sure it's the same car
If you like WD then try Mighty Car Mods and Roadkill on You Tube. Both are more about the mechanical side of things rather than the pretending to make money.
[url= https://www.youtube.com/user/mightycarmods ]waste 4 hours here[/url]
Yah,ditto. And now my 6 yr pesters me to put it on!
I've OD'd on Wheeler Dealers, I now get my fix watching Shed and Buried on the Travel Channel. It's not as practical but it's great seeing the stuff that's squirrelled away around the country.
Car SOS is the only TV programme I've actually cried over, some guy with a terminal diease got one last drive in his restored car before he was physically unable to & it got put up for sale. The pure joy on the guys face when he knew it'd never happen again broke me. Glistening eyes now aswell!
That Fiat Dino is gorgeous, maybe my favourite of the cars that they've done. Now where did I leave those 60 big ones ?
I quite like Tim Shaw on Car SOS, you can tell it means a lot to him to give people the key to drive their nicely restored car, and he's always sensitive in how he deals with people. I know of his family and his Dad was a doctor, I think he understands how serious a lot of the health problems are.
I find it interesting to watch some of the ways Edd in Wheeler Dealers approaches the more basic/approachable practical problems, hopefully some of it's been absorbed via osmosis. 🙂
I like WD, the Mrs got me into it about 3 years ago when it was on Quest. Since then I've watched most of the last and recent series and enjoy watching the transformation from ropy sad looking to whizz bang flashy. Particularly enjoyed the US series, some great classics rust free. I wonder if they'll do a motorbike soon.
Car SOS is the only TV programme I've actually cried over, some guy with a terminal diease got one last drive in his restored car before he was physically unable to & it got put up for sale. The pure joy on the guys face when he knew it'd never happen again broke me. Glistening eyes now aswell!
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