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Brewer is an annoying arse, but you have to put up with him. Ed is a bit of a bodger, not sure where the master mechanic tag came from- his welding is shite and he rattle cans everything.
Elvis is OK, just missing something
Any was by far the best mechanic and presenter out of all of them- much prefer his stuff.
Over in Sausage land- Tim Shaw is an annoying arse.
Luckily, Fuzz is as good as the spannering as he is a drumming
To sum up, at least they’re not Wayne Carini  |
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I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too. |
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"I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too. "
Also. I find Flipping Bangers oddly addictive despite the shocking amount of bodgery that takes place |
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"I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too. "
Johnny Smith is fantastic. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 27 weeks ago
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"I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too.
Johnny Smith is fantastic."
Is Henry Cole a god? |
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By *agatoXXXMan 27 weeks ago
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"I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too.
Johnny Smith is fantastic.
Is Henry Cole a god?"
He's a fucking tosser. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 27 weeks ago
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"I love wheeler dealers. Mike is a lovely bloke. Met him at a few car shows.
Favourite mechanics in order
Ant
Elvis
Edd
I also like Car Sos although I find a lot of the fake drama about the deadlines irritating because they usually have loads of time. Also find Tim Shaw’s on screen persona irritating but again I met him at a couple of car shows in real life and he’s just a top bloke with an encyclopaedic knowledge about cars.
Best car content at the moment for me is Johnny Smith who has a YouTube channel called The Late Brake Show and a podcast too.
Johnny Smith is fantastic.
Is Henry Cole a god?
He's a fucking tosser."
Bit harsh.
Millyard is a mechanical genius! |
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Car sausage as these guys are genius! Some of the cars they renovate are no more than a heap of rust when they get them and they somehow turn them in to pristine cars. WD tend to change the oil, put a new wheel bearing in and adjust the tappets Both great programmes either way |
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"Car sausage as these guys are genius! Some of the cars they renovate are no more than a heap of rust when they get them and they somehow turn them in to pristine cars. WD tend to change the oil, put a new wheel bearing in and adjust the tappets Both great programmes either way "
Actually the wheeler dealer cars get way more stuff done to them than we see and there are more mechanics than the ones on screen. Mike works on them, Will Tricket from flipping bangers works on them too. It’s just that the format of the show only really lends itself to a few jobs being shown. |
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"I miss Ed"
I was gutted he left but both the subsequent grease monkeys have been upgrades on him. Ant’s craftsmanship is up there with the very best.
Elvis’s career speaks for itself and in my opinion both of them are better on camera than edd, especially Ant. |
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"oh and wheeler dealers I loved Ed China and wasn't a fan of the other guy who didn't do much except buy the parts "
He didn’t do much on screen except buy the parts. He does loads of work on the cars off camera and he writes and produces most of the episodes. So many people don’t get it. |
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"oh and wheeler dealers I loved Ed China and wasn't a fan of the other guy who didn't do much except buy the parts
He didn’t do much on screen except buy the parts. He does loads of work on the cars off camera and he writes and produces most of the episodes. So many people don’t get it. "
Well yes and he buys the cars but I see the skill of that job in the mechanic and Ed was a great mechanic |
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"Fast n loud is my favourite
Pity beardy arron left "
Really liked Fast N Loud but it became more of a drama than a car show. All the arguments between the other shop, all the fake drama about vital parts breaking the day before a deadline and then having to work through the night. Became as much of a farce as American Choppers. |
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"I wonder who was the most natural mechanic
I liked Ed China for his innocent attitude…
Got to be Elvis surely?
Actually on reflection- yes your right "
He can do just about anything.
Having taken out a few engines in my time he makes it look so dammed easy! |
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"I wonder who was the most natural mechanic
I liked Ed China for his innocent attitude…
Got to be Elvis surely?
Actually on reflection- yes your right
He can do just about anything.
Having taken out a few engines in my time he makes it look so dammed easy!"
As a mechanic, Elvis but when it comes to restoration and customisation I’d have to say Ant. When it comes to explaining what he’s doing I’d say Ant just shades it ahead of Ed. |
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By *ltrMan 27 weeks ago
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"I wonder who was the most natural mechanic
I liked Ed China for his innocent attitude…
Got to be Elvis surely?
Actually on reflection- yes your right
He can do just about anything.
Having taken out a few engines in my time he makes it look so dammed easy!
As a mechanic, Elvis but when it comes to restoration and customisation I’d have to say Ant. When it comes to explaining what he’s doing I’d say Ant just shades it ahead of Ed. "
Not sure where ant got his training as he's a excopper
Maybe life's training is better then in a class room |
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By *lakeyMan 27 weeks ago
Teesside |
Watched a few car SOS’s just this last week a Mk2 RS2000 can’t remember the other one I watched ??????
I heard that Mike Brewer actually wrote the idea of Car SOS and either sold it to them or still has some rights |
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"I wonder who was the most natural mechanic
I liked Ed China for his innocent attitude…
Got to be Elvis surely?
Actually on reflection- yes your right
He can do just about anything.
Having taken out a few engines in my time he makes it look so dammed easy!
As a mechanic, Elvis but when it comes to restoration and customisation I’d have to say Ant. When it comes to explaining what he’s doing I’d say Ant just shades it ahead of Ed.
Not sure where ant got his training as he's a excopper
Maybe life's training is better then in a class room "
I’m pretty sure he’s kind of self taught but started a company called Dowsetts Classic Cars with an experienced guy whose name I can’t remember. I’m 99% sure he still part owns Dowsetts as well as being an owner of the Radford brand too. |
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By *ee04Man 27 weeks ago
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I liked the original idea behind Wheeler Dealers but a car for less than a couple of thousand then flip it and make a profit. Ed was good and explained how things work. Then they started doing more upmarket kinds stuff still good but not the sort of thing an amateur could do at home.
Ant was good and loved some of the stuff he turned out again not what most could do at home but still enjoyable.
Only seen the odd one with Elvis so I can’t really comment.
Mike can be annoying but he has a passion that comes across for cars.
Tim Shaw again can be annoying especially the fake blagging etc but again his knowledge comes across.
I do like that Fuzz doesn’t try to be a one man band and the work is carried out at a garage with a team.
Again Henry Cole can get on ones tits but his passion for motor cycles and cars is evident.
Again another excellent mechanic in Millyard who’s an engineering genius, watching him make brass grips for a chopper on a lathe was sublime among many other things he makes.
As for fast and loud it’s like everything else from America starts great but then drags on into a long drawn out repeat. The cars became 2nd to the antics and drama.
Chop Foose simple he’s a genius designer. |
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I complain about them both but will still watch them.
I'll basically watch anything with cars. I like Rust Valley Restorers. I have a feeling I would be him if I had the space.
I even watch Car Masters, Rust to Riches and frankly they do awful things to cars. Maybes it's because Constance wears low cut tops...
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On Car SOS I used to like it a lot more but it seems to be less and less about the restoration.
Also the timelines are clearly horseshit. They amount of times they have pretended to do a full respray in a day. Or "the car is going back in 3 hours and the whole car needs rewiring". Anyone who has ever rewired a car knows that isn't going to happen in 3 hours even if its rewiring a 1960s Anglia! |
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"On Car SOS I used to like it a lot more but it seems to be less and less about the restoration.
Also the timelines are clearly horseshit. They amount of times they have pretended to do a full respray in a day. Or "the car is going back in 3 hours and the whole car needs rewiring". Anyone who has ever rewired a car knows that isn't going to happen in 3 hours even if its rewiring a 1960s Anglia!"
On Car SOS they tend to have about 12 weeks to do the cars. And they will have about 4 cars in the shop at a time getting various bits done.
I’d also give an honorable mention to Salvage Hunters Classic cars. Paul Cowland is one of the coolest guys in car TV and as much as Drew Pritchard is a bit of a twat, he’s got such a good eye for design and has some brilliant ideas about the subtle changes to make to cars. |
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"On Car SOS I used to like it a lot more but it seems to be less and less about the restoration.
Also the timelines are clearly horseshit. They amount of times they have pretended to do a full respray in a day. Or "the car is going back in 3 hours and the whole car needs rewiring". Anyone who has ever rewired a car knows that isn't going to happen in 3 hours even if its rewiring a 1960s Anglia!"
That’s TV editorial licence! |
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"Fast n loud is my favourite
Pity beardy arron left
Really liked Fast N Loud but it became more of a drama than a car show. All the arguments between the other shop, all the fake drama about vital parts breaking the day before a deadline and then having to work through the night. Became as much of a farce as American Choppers. "
Haha so true |
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"On Car SOS I used to like it a lot more but it seems to be less and less about the restoration.
Also the timelines are clearly horseshit. They amount of times they have pretended to do a full respray in a day. Or "the car is going back in 3 hours and the whole car needs rewiring". Anyone who has ever rewired a car knows that isn't going to happen in 3 hours even if its rewiring a 1960s Anglia!
On Car SOS they tend to have about 12 weeks to do the cars. And they will have about 4 cars in the shop at a time getting various bits done.
I’d also give an honorable mention to Salvage Hunters Classic cars. Paul Cowland is one of the coolest guys in car TV and as much as Drew Pritchard is a bit of a twat, he’s got such a good eye for design and has some brilliant ideas about the subtle changes to make to cars. "
See 12 weeks seems believable to me. Not the imaginary 4 they say they have.
Agreed re salvage hunters. Few very tasty cars on there but Drew is an utter tit |
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"On Car SOS I used to like it a lot more but it seems to be less and less about the restoration.
Also the timelines are clearly horseshit. They amount of times they have pretended to do a full respray in a day. Or "the car is going back in 3 hours and the whole car needs rewiring". Anyone who has ever rewired a car knows that isn't going to happen in 3 hours even if its rewiring a 1960s Anglia!
On Car SOS they tend to have about 12 weeks to do the cars. And they will have about 4 cars in the shop at a time getting various bits done.
I’d also give an honorable mention to Salvage Hunters Classic cars. Paul Cowland is one of the coolest guys in car TV and as much as Drew Pritchard is a bit of a twat, he’s got such a good eye for design and has some brilliant ideas about the subtle changes to make to cars.
See 12 weeks seems believable to me. Not the imaginary 4 they say they have.
Agreed re salvage hunters. Few very tasty cars on there but Drew is an utter tit "
Oh he’s an absolute weapon but so good at his job. |
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By *_Mr.K_xMan 27 weeks ago
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"Can't stand Mike Brewer... guys just an annoying cock womble
What do you find annoying about him? He’s a genuinely nice bloke. "
Maybe because I work in the motor trade myself, I encounter that type of person on the daily.
I dunno, I just find him 'smarmy' a bit 'woooooo' a bit 'weeeeeyyy' 'stick aarrtt yer hand son'
I prefer Ant and Ed China |
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"Can't stand Mike Brewer... guys just an annoying cock womble
What do you find annoying about him? He’s a genuinely nice bloke.
Maybe because I work in the motor trade myself, I encounter that type of person on the daily.
I dunno, I just find him 'smarmy' a bit 'woooooo' a bit 'weeeeeyyy' 'stick aarrtt yer hand son'
I prefer Ant and Ed China"
Each to their own. My experience of meeting him albeit briefly a couple of times has been that he’s been a nice bloke. |
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