Wheeler Dealers

[Markd89]

Recently got sky + in our new house and watched this a few times, is it just me or is it a load of crap

The costing as the end is brilliant, he forgets the fact of petrol costs of bringing back a 3.0 v6 bentley 400 miles ,forgets to pay the mechanic " Edd " Spends £200 on HID kit and £500 for some front lights

He brought something back from italy the other week that broke down so someone came with a trailer to pick it up from italy and forgot to add the fuel or a 2.5 shogun doing over 1000 miles

so who watches it ?

[burgo]

Ive got sheet loads of them saved waiting to be watched. The early ones are funny how he makes £200 if he's lucky yet the later ones its more like £2000

[Phil_d]

i love watching it, especially the early ones, but in my opinion its totally scripted.

[Markd89]

This one made me laugh :

Did a suzuki SJ welded a full rollcage to the chasis and fitted new leaf springs, took it for an mot and it failed on a rotten chasis, showed the picture and the chasis was worse than a novas, how they didnt notice after fitting new suspension is unreal. in the end they sold it as an offroader and lost £800, made me laugh

Its that crap you have to watch it until the end just to see the " profit "

[conza123]

i watched the best one yesterday. they borough a red mr2 that was rotten had a rattling engine and you started it with a screw driver lol. and the worst thing was they bought a new ignition barrel and boot lock but didn't buy the door ones so you had two keys.

[conza123]

This one made me laugh :

Did a suzuki SJ welded a full rollcage to the chasis and fitted new leaf springs, took it for an mot and it failed on a rotten chasis, showed the picture and the chasis was worse than a novas, how they didnt notice after fitting new suspension is unreal. in the end they sold it as an offroader and lost £800, made me laugh

Its that crap you have to watch it until the end just to see the " profit "

its not about the profit tho is about restoring modern classics lol that no one wonts

[raf24]

Like the one where the 205 gti is belching smoke on the way back to the workshop,ed fixes the gear linkage and that fixes it lol lol

[Will F]

Of course it's scripted! lol

If you can take it at face value - ie, some pretty good cars (sometimes!) and some reasonable advice from Ed, then its a good watch.

If you think its offers genuine advice for making a few quid on cars then you'll be bitterly disappointed!

Just watching the S2 Quattro episode....

[burgo]

At the end of the day what else is there to watch like it that's better?

[raf24]

At the end of the day what else is there to watch like it that's better?

Very true,i must've seen every episode dozens of times but still watch them again

[Markd89]

At the end of the day what else is there to watch like it that's better?

A classic car is born
American hotrod

[burgo]

Seen them all

[Southie]

I wonder how many of the people who work on wheeler dealers still own the cars "maybe" lol

[raf24]

I remember reading that it was all set up with the buyers at the end,a few of the wheeler dealer cars ended up on ebay

[Southie]

My point exactly ;)

[hotrod]

I think its funny when Edd paints a full panel with rattle cans and gets it like a mirror finish! lol

[burgo]

I think its funny when Edd paints a full panel with rattle cans and gets it like a mirror finish! lol

What's funny about that? I know for a fact 79k range rovers have rattle canned bumpers, wheels and door shuts

[hotrod]

Maybe Edd used to work for range rover? lol

[steviegsi]

I think its funny when Edd paints a full panel with rattle cans and gets it like a mirror finish! lol

You obviously haven't seen the Capri wing he painted? lol . Always enjoyed it, ignoring the tv bull**** obviously, haven't seen it since the 2nd series though as I don't have sky :(

[GDN16v]

Good to watch the cars getting redone, but the whole "weve sold it and made ££££'s" is a load of bollocks! lol

[pie]

ive only seen the cossie one

[turbojolt]

i love the show even my bird likes it, i dont take much notice of the costs and prices ect just enjoy it for what it is.

[novadave24]

i like the bmw m3 one and tge pug 205 gti `and that crazy cosworth but they should of left the escort wheels on it ;)

[turbojolt]

escos wheels look the same as mondeo ones so why pay so much more for them?

[novadave24]

because the cosworth ones are 16sand look fatter and the gti ones are 15s lol

[turbojolt]

because the cosworth ones are 16sand look fatter and the gti ones are 15s lol

arrrrrrrrrrrrr i see, but they dont suit the clean cut edges of the sierra, better off keeping them on the escort

[mowgli]

ed is a pretty good mechanic...

mike couldn't sell water to a thirsty man

of course the shows are setup/scripted

every single discovery channel show in the last 5 years except the one about rebuilding ground zero has been adjusted to attempt to ramp up the tension

ok, the mark evans '......... is born' series are more realistic, and the tech stuff is worth listening to, but even he larks about with his mate for comic relief

[pie]

lol dave

the came is 15's and 16s on the mondeos but o a cossie the 16s bt 8j wide not 6j as on the mondeo's :)

[Markd89]

You obviously haven't seen the Capri wing he painted? lol . Always enjoyed it, ignoring the tv bull**** obviously, haven't seen it since the 2nd series though as I don't have sky :(


haha that capri wing was the best one yet !

[hotrod]

Gutted I didnt see the capri one! :(

[raf24]

Gutted I didnt see the capri one! :(

Its one of the really early episodes,its still on now and again.if you have sky + set it up to series link and you'll get it eventually they get repeated a lot

[mowgli]

is that the one where stevie wonder would be able to tell the colour didn't match from a speeding limo?

[waggygsi]

edds a rattle can king lol

[paul james]

Gutted I didnt see the capri one! :(

Its on Youtube, I'm going to watch it later as I've never seen an episode of it.

[Paul]

Edd china is a very talented guy, remember the top gear double decker cars. Thats his handy work. He also holds the world record for driving a Sofa at over 90mph.

[hotrod]

Just watched it on you tube lol pretty bad colour match like! lol

[brainsnova]

I cant remember what car but It was funny when he got the leather seats with the airbag deployed holes in them and never even contacted the eBay seller

[novadave24]

edd is good at fixing thing but hes a bit of a dope lol

[jam-77-nova]

caprr one was on again 2days ago,, yesterdat was sierra cosworth,n 2o5 gti

[hotrod]

Just watched the morgan plus 4 and he sold it to a fellow trader! blamed it on the weather! lol

[mowgli]

billhooks... they got it from that morgan dealer, and then it was looked at by a mechanic from a dealer.... as in the same morgan dealer... it was blindingly obvious to me that it was done as a favour to fill in the series....

like the g wagon that they tarted up & couldn't shift... so they 'sold' it to some emailer from cyprus.. . yeah right....

[John]

The beetle one was my fave, buy cheap beetle, realise it's fooked, turn it into a beach buggy, couldn't sell it lol

[hotrod]

Sure I seen them do a VW van that they wrapped and couldn't sell so "Edd" bought it! lol

[mowgli]

this is what beats me about the show...

mike brewer is meant to be some seriously successful car dealer, yet he buys crap, and then his selling technique is not what i'd call professional, as in he lists the state it was in & what they'd done to it, then asks too much money for it..

a mate of mine had a classic beach buggy & when he sold it, thru a vw mag, an enormous fat bloke who couldn't even get into it came to view & bought it, he was a collector & had brought an assistant to test it for him..

why would you buy what is basically a professionally built kit car, when for about a grand less, you could get your own built???

[hotrod]

Some people just have too much money!

[novadave24]

One of the last ones when he goes to
The USA and buys the pick up he should of done hotrod look and pit a v8 in it not that silly little engine I liked that pick up :)

[mowgli]

most british hot rodders can't actually afford to have some monster running about 10 mpg, that truck looked cool.

[Markd89]

vw camper on at the minute, this will be fun lol , think he sells this one to ed because he cant sell it on

[Keif]

Welcome to the world of television.....

lol at you lot thinking it's real. It's a TV program, so it's completely scripted. When he goes to buy parts, they're already just by the counter/nearest shelf, they know what he wants and that the OBU is sat outside.

It's a program concept that works, even though it's not very real world.

Oh and Edds work is "free" as the concept is that "Joe Public" has bought a nail and done it up at home and sold it on at a profit!

[novadave24]

i like that one with the mini that turned out nice ;)

[novadave24]

its on now the vw panel van that mike is a bit of a jar i think he should help edd and get hes hands durty .

[LEWI007]

Anyone see the episode where they went to look at a nova but walked away from it and bought something else instead ? lol

Been trying to find that one for ages.