Wheeler Dealers - New Series Monday @9pm

Mycroft H

Always worth a watch

Jeju

Looking forward to this, saw two of my favorite the other night Land Rover Defender & Mercedes SLK.

monkeysnapper

I got rid of sky in jan, this was the only program I'd go out of my way to watch. You can see most episodes on YouTube ,so I'm hoping I can catch one on thee before they take it down. :0)

Stavros Murphy

Ed's starting to get posh garage equipment - on-car brake disc skimmer, fancy parts washer, nice oil drainers, etc etc. I am jelly. He used to have a Halfords socket set and some aerosol cans.. jammy git.

paulfosters

any one notice the Irish signpost in the garage ?

jca

paulfosters wrote: »

any one notice the Irish signpost in the garage ?

O Connell st, I think.

120_Minutes

Nice to see them going back to the regular joe cars like the xr2, not that i didnt enjoy the more expensive ones or the american classics.

Rowley Birkin QC

Hopefully less of Mike this series. The removal of his makeup budget would probably allow them to make a few more episodes each year!

Atlantic Dawn

Looking forward to it.

Cars that they will be doing this series...

2000 Maserati 3200 GT, a Mazda RX-7, a Chevrolet Camaro, an 1967 Amphicar, a Ford Fiesta XR2, 1958 Citroën 2CV and a 1996 Porsche 993 Targa.

corktina

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Ed's starting to get posh garage equipment - on-car brake disc skimmer, fancy parts washer, nice oil drainers, etc etc. I am jelly. He used to have a Halfords socket set and some aerosol cans.. jammy git.

It's Edd....

Stavros Murphy

corktina wrote: »

It's Edd....

He'll always be plain old Ed to me.

Atlantic Dawn

They could clean up buying a few luxobarges over here and bringing them back over to the UK, polish them up and sell, bargains galore.

ION08

Oooh RX-7 should be a good ep!

Mycroft H

Deux Chevaux Veux!

mloc123

What are they doing to this RX-7... Snake skin

ondafly

mloc123 wrote: »

What are they doing to this RX-7... Snake skin

I'm specifically horrified by the snake skin bbs Le Mans. Plus the previous owner pays them double what he sold it to them for ???

dar_cool

Ha ha bbs rims worth mad money and they put that ****e on them. Shocking. Car was way nicer before. Previous owner paid them 4 grand to wreck his car. Ha ha. Power upgrade nice and nice intercooler setup

sogood

I'd go along wit the upgrade but the whole snakeskin wheels and graphics are beyond ridiculous, IMHO. And the original owner paid nearly double what he sold it for, just to buy it back!!

Come back Mark Evans!!!

colm_mcm

sogood wrote: »

Come back Mark Evans!!!

Telling the complete history of the jubilee clip!

Supergurrier

Can't believe i missed this

Whens the repeat on again ?

colm_mcm

3 o clock this morning (as in a few hours) I think

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/ctyf7f/wheeler-dealers--series-11---3-mazda-rx7

Supergurrier

colm_mcm wrote: »

3 o clock this morning (as in a few hours) I think

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/ctyf7f/wheeler-dealers--series-11---3-mazda-rx7

Aww feck, thanks anyway colm

Going Strong

I loathed the car to start with. That Mazda Speed nose looked awful and the floppy bonnet would have me going mad having to look at it wobbling away in front of me. Car SOS was much better.

What was the blue convertible just out of shot as Ed and Mike discussed what they'd be doing with the RX-7? Looked like a completed car from another show. Presumably they film the 'delivery' and 'selling on' bits in batches.

120_Minutes

Mike stated in a live chat after last weeks episode that in an upcoming series he's doing more american cars and bringing Edd stateside for the first time.

Edd will also be working with Chip Foose on one of the cars. This probably comes from WD being shown on the same station over there as Overhaulin'. Mike also appeared on an episode of overhaulin where they do a lotus, and was interviewed.

corktina

Car SOS (Cortina :-) ) and Wheeler dealers , both new, in one evening....heaven.

RX7 not my tasse de the but it is always interesting seeing what specialists are out there.

Going Strong

corktina wrote: »

Car SOS (Cortina :-) ) and Wheeler dealers , both new, in one evening....heaven.

RX7 not my tasse de the but it is always interesting seeing what specialists are out there.

It's instructive how the UK shows deal with the personal history of the car owners compared to their US counterparts.

Car SOS - 10 minutes of personal story, 50 about the actual car.

Extreme Car Hoarders - 59 and a half minutes of "My life's journey Part XIV", Car? what car?

120_Minutes

Going Strong wrote: »

It's instructive how the UK shows deal with the personal history of the car owners compared to their US counterparts.

Car SOS - 10 minutes of personal story, 50 about the actual car.

Extreme Car Hoarders - 59 and a half minutes of "My life's journey Part XIV", Car? what car?

or: TENSION, TENSION., TENSION, here's your car, tears. the end.

120_Minutes

Didn't know about Car SOS until this thread, and I just watched the cortina episode. I've always wanted to see an overhaulin type show closer to home, and this was just great. how many episodes has there been?

iano.p

I thought tge rx7 looks shocking. The best one so far was the xr2.

Mycroft H

Any pic of the RX7 going about?

colm_mcm

http://www.discoveryuk.com/dni-media/photogallery-tool/mu-136/media-89607-318827.jpg

Mycroft H

Not my cup of tea but it looks alright

beauf

Going Strong wrote: »

It's instructive how the UK shows deal with the personal history of the car owners compared to their US counterparts.

Car SOS - 10 minutes of personal story, 50 about the actual car.

Extreme Car Hoarders - 59 and a half minutes of "My life's journey Part XIV", Car? what car?

I only started watching SOS recently. They seem to do cars that have a strong history attached to them.

MetzgerMeister

Snakeskin?! Fvcking snakeskin!!? What in the good fvck were they thinking?!

Henry Ford III

Didn't like the RX-7 much - too chav. The Porsche 993 was good though.

BMJD

I love the RX-7, it's on my bucket list.

However...from the start, if they were after profit then surely buying one in need of a rebuild would have made most sense. It's relatively cheap and straightforward to do. Doing the compression test after buying it wasn't very helpful either. Also, I think standard cars are making more money these days so all that graphics ****e was a waste of time.

And Mike and Eddddd, we get it - Wankel is a hilarious word to say but it was getting a little bit tired the nine millionth time you said it.

Final gripe, just before the test drive, he started it up, revved it for a few seconds then shut it down; anyone with half a brain knows that's a big no-no with WANKel (lololol) engines.

beauf

Wheeler Dealers has become a bit of a parody of itself tbh. Its the mechanical side of it that has most people interest. Not the cabaret act of buying and selling. Which is a farce tbh. But its influencing the mechanics of it now, and in a bad way.

Pov06

I have to say, that RX7 looked so much better before they got it painted :eek:

They could have put that money towards more engine parts like changing the oil, filter or whatever.

Jesus.

How the hell could a little 1.3 put out 250-odd horsepower? I'm guessing it had something to do with it being a rotary?

BMJD

http://www.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine.htm

Jesus.

Thanks mate. Are there many cars that have them engines?

BMJD

very few, the Mazda RX-8 was the most recent and most likely the last of them which is a real shame

I8A4RE

Going Strong wrote: »

I loathed the car to start with. That Mazda Speed nose looked awful and the floppy bonnet would have me going mad having to look at it wobbling away in front of me. Car SOS was much better.

What was the blue convertible just out of shot as Ed and Mike discussed what they'd be doing with the RX-7? Looked like a completed car from another show. Presumably they film the 'delivery' and 'selling on' bits in batches.

I think the blue car is a MG B Roadster, but I'm open to correction, from the blurry outline though that was my initial thought.

Interslice

Supergurrier wrote: »

Can't believe i missed this

Whens the repeat on again ?

Full episodes here

http://www.streetfire.net/video/wheeler-dealers-2014-s11e01-ford-fiesta-xr2_part-1_2453572.htm

ION08

BMJD wrote: »

Final gripe, just before the test drive, he started it up, revved it for a few seconds then shut it down; anyone with half a brain knows that's a big no-no with WANKel (lololol) engines.

He does that nearly every bloody episode!! It does my head in!!!

He'll start up a car (that's usually been sitting up a while) starts revving it straight away... Takes it for a good old rip on the test drive and when pulling back in, knocks it off and yanks up the handbrake before the car has even come to a complete stop. :rolleyes:

Absolute buffoon with no mechanical sympathy, typical used car dealer I suppose, you'd think Ed would've set him straight by now!

Going Strong

BMJD wrote: »

I love the RX-7, it's on my bucket list.

However...from the start, if they were after profit then surely buying one in need of a rebuild would have made most sense. It's relatively cheap and straightforward to do. Doing the compression test after buying it wasn't very helpful either. Also, I think standard cars are making more money these days so all that graphics ****e was a waste of time.

And Mike and Eddddd, we get it - Wankel is a hilarious word to say but it was getting a little bit tired the nine millionth time you said it.

Final gripe, just before the test drive, he started it up, revved it for a few seconds then shut it down; anyone with half a brain knows that's a big no-no with WANKel (lololol) engines.

Not to mention Mike saying right at the start "I want a later model" yet he goes off and buys a 1994 edition.

L-M

ION08 wrote: »

He does that nearly every bloody episode!! It does my head in!!!

He'll start up a car (that's usually been sitting up a while) starts revving it straight away... Takes it for a good old rip on the test drive and when pulling back in, knocks it off and yanks up the handbrake before the car has even come to a complete stop. :rolleyes:

Absolute buffoon with no mechanical sympathy, typical used car dealer I suppose, you'd think Ed would've set him straight by now!

I don't think the cars will fall apart because of it, lol.

ION08

Limerick man wrote: »

I don't think the cars will fall apart because of it, lol.

They probably wont, but it's not good practice - especially from somebody that should be familiar with cars.

Cars wont "fall apart" from it straight away but a good general sense of mechanical sympathy goes a long way for a cars longevity!

Chris_Heilong

So they ruined another Japanese classic, I dont think they get it, they see these kind of Japanese cars as something to be ragged around and not restored and cherished.

L-M

Aye but it is a TV show and I'm sure it's done in that manner on purpose to portray Mikes excitement about the latest purchase. I think people tend to forget that it's TV after all.

120_Minutes

Going Strong wrote: »

Not to mention Mike saying right at the start "I want a later model" yet he goes off and buys a 1994 edition.

The RX7 has been around in some shape or form since the 70's. In fact i had a matchbox car of one as a kid in the early 80's

is 1994 not late enough for you?