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over a year ago
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I think wheeler dealers is fantastic programme ed is a very compitant mechanic but he dnt work as fast as in a customer workshops environment wer yr nonstop no time 2 talk |
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over a year ago
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i love this program. that guy win buys the cars got it easy though. ed does all work and the if goes and sells them and always gets knocked down to easily. |
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I've no doubt Ed is a very good mechanic. However if you look closely at some of the final shots of the cars closely there's some decidedly poor work! Plus - spraying large panels with spray cans??? |
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"I've no doubt Ed is a very good mechanic. However if you look closely at some of the final shots of the cars closely there's some decidedly poor work! Plus - spraying large panels with spray cans???"
iv sprayed full cars outdoors with cans . Like iv already said ed to me is a compitant mechanic . Not a body repair specialist . . Id have him work for me |
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Its as the title says a car wheeler dealer . A person who buys old used cars thats able to be fixed and sold for a profit . But there normally iconic cars how ever little rare or classic |
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I used to enjoy this, until I noticed that Ed never seems to come across siezed or snapped bolts etc.
I mean come on? A 40 year old Lotus & everything just comes off, no struggling, sweating or swearing? I work on cars & vans daily & rarely have it as easy as him.
Maybe he's a genius?  |
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"I used to enjoy this, until I noticed that Ed never seems to come across siezed or snapped bolts etc.
I mean come on? A 40 year old Lotus & everything just comes off, no struggling, sweating or swearing? I work on cars & vans daily & rarely have it as easy as him.
Maybe he's a genius? "
iv deffo watched an episode where he used bottles |
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I remember spraying the wings on my Vauxhall Nova SR (my first car) done a great job too like Ed says it's all about the prep work. Also it's television so obviously all the snapped/seized bolts are going to be edited out, like it's been said before Ed has experts behind the scenes to help him out unlike most Mechanics. |
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He may be competant but the premise of the show is bollox. I mean the rent on buildings and equipment, tools etc. And seen a few things that haven't been included on the final bill |
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over a year ago
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I've actually met Mike Brewer and Ed China at the NEC they came over to look at a TR7 we (the company i worked at) had restored for classic car magazine and was then given away.. My God Ed China is tall |
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Haha, my dad watches it and criticises him too. Rarely though, Ed clearly knows his stuff and they (usually) have fantastic taste in cars (apart from Mike's occasional "hey lets get this '60s Chevy Impala and turn it into a lime green pimped out lowrider" kind of thing and it just looks horrible, occasional questionable taste in their modifications I suppose.)
Saw an older episode from the first series the other day, funny to see the differences - one car would last two episodes as they went into tons of detail with tons of handy tips at every step, and Ed and Mike clearly didn't know each other well at that point so the chemistry wasn't quite there, and they were usually on really tight budgets. Still though, consistently fun/interesting to watch! |
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It's cheap entertainment. There's no real profit on most cars they sell.. A few hundred quid for busting knuckles all week?
And I'll guarantee every time they get an Audi they have an Audi pro on hand out of camera... Maseratti - same thing. Each car can have unique problems and although YouTube is great for figuring things out the TV show has too much money on the line for him to not fix each project in the allotted timeframe. |
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"All prepaid and loosely scripted. The actual dialog is as it happens but everything else is planned out."
The way it is I suppose - if you're making a TV programme and are under pressure to not go wildly over time and over budget.
Reminds me, like I was saying about the first series or so - they'd show the ones they went to see but decided against, now and then. Ones too far gone, or too good to improve anything on.
At least it's not like some of the US car shows like Fast N' Loud, Orange County Choppers etc. "THIS WEEK ON STAGED ARGUMENTS (featuring a hotrod shop!), we've got shouting, footage edited to look as dramatic as possible, about 2 minutes worth of car content, and we stop 50 times for adverts!" |
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Its a great show but its also a huge con.
Much of the work isn't even carried out by Edd, his 'mate' Paul who is actually the qualified mechanic (Edd isn't).
They're not experts on everything thy do either, frequently they contact owners clubs regarding fixes and common faults on vehicles and often the faults they 'find' they create themselves (which in some ways is a good thing as it give owners an insight and possible fixes).
When the cars are sold its mostly to either crew members or friends/family of crew members and the prices are agreed well in advance.
Like many reality TV shows it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Generally I like it although I find Mike Brewer a tad annoying. |
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That programme does annoy me slightly some of the crap Mike Brewer buys. I prefer Ed when he is building sofas you can drive with pizza shaped steering wheels. I liked "For the love of cars" with Phil Glennister and the very nice to look at Ant Anstead. He can come and help me work on my mini anytime  |
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"Its a great show but its also a huge con.
Much of the work isn't even carried out by Edd, his 'mate' Paul who is actually the qualified mechanic (Edd isn't).
They're not experts on everything thy do either, frequently they contact owners clubs regarding fixes and common faults on vehicles and often the faults they 'find' they create themselves (which in some ways is a good thing as it give owners an insight and possible fixes).
When the cars are sold its mostly to either crew members or friends/family of crew members and the prices are agreed well in advance.
Like many reality TV shows it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Generally I like it although I find Mike Brewer a tad annoying."
They have done some awesome cars, I liked the RX7 and the S2000, I enjoy cars but I'm not great with the knowledge on the technical mechanics side, wiring and set up, yes. But any other stuff I leave to people who know what they're doing.
I do think it's a good show to learn a little bit from though even if it's just the lingo and what certain bits do |
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