Wheeler Dealers New Series
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It is pointless, or rather it would be a pointless way for anyone looking to make money out of used cars to operate. The show is obviously designed to give a little bit of insight into how you would go about spotting and fixing certain issues with used cars yourself - hence why each car seems to be picked with a different set of problems. Ok so it's more of a broad oversight than anything in detail but it's interesting enough.
Any actual trader simply buys cars from auction or at trade value, makes sure they have a years ticket and are safe / not showing any glaring faults (well most at least try anyway), add on overheads, cost spent and a bit of profit then stick the car up for the price they'd like to make. The amount of labour that's spent on the wheeler dealer cars (even at mates rates or theoretically free labour i.e your own time at £x per hour) means that they would almost never make even the smallest of profit.
seems i missed a good episode and its not on the tube yet.
what work did they do on the m5?
i hate wheeler dealers in most case. sell it on for a meagre profit and not bother to take into account the hours of work that had to be done to the car. pointless exercise imo
what work did they do on the m5?
i hate wheeler dealers in most case. sell it on for a meagre profit and not bother to take into account the hours of work that had to be done to the car. pointless exercise imo
Fixed alternator with new bearings
Re-sprayed bonnet
Refurbed alloys
Fitted angle eye headlights
Fitted after market rear lights
New foglights
Replaced air filter with K&N panel filter
New tyres (which looked like Falken's) crying shame on an M5!!
Fixed squeaky suspension with new top mounts
Replaced faulty rear view mirror and side mirror
What have I missed?
sounds good. did they mention when they checked the engine diagnostics to see if there were any faulty components under there? would be a crying shame to have one of those in limp mode because of a duff sensor
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So nothing of any real value, an M5 like that would be in need of a suspension refresh which would have been nice to see but why bother when you can fit some ****py ebay lights (the genuine ones are only 150 quid!), fit some falkens and flog it to a chav 
Edit: what's the starring out thing about?
Edit: what's the starring out thing about?
[TW]Fox;21613799 said:So nothing of any real value, an M5 like that would be in need of a suspension refresh which would have been nice to see but why bother when you can fit some ****py ebay lights (the genuine ones are only 150 quid!), fit some falkens and flog it to a chav
Edit: what's the starring out thing about?
I supose they are doing things that will appeal to joe bloggs and not a car enthusiast. If you, for example, turned up to view it you'd probably be asking why on earth they swapped the headlights over, although i can understand why they wanted to "face lift" it.
I did I liked the rear lights apart from the smoked strip at the top, it looked a bit odd with the clear reverse lense. Why did they replace just one filter? I thought there were two?
If you google it, the car didn't actually sell. Well, if it did the guy put it back up for sale pretty sharp-ish.
Sounded beautiful though.
I read about one of the cars that was bought by a member of a forum somewhere.
They hadn't fixed it at all and just bodged it as best they could. It had since been up for sale several times with nobody actually fixing it. Shame really
They hadn't fixed it at all and just bodged it as best they could. It had since been up for sale several times with nobody actually fixing it. Shame really
just like any other second hand car out there. the stories i hear in my office with the way people run their cars makes you feel sorry for anyone that buy them in the futureThey hadn't fixed it at all and just bodged it as best they could. It had since been up for sale several times with nobody actually fixing it. Shame really
I read about one of the cars that was bought by a member of a forum somewhere.
They hadn't fixed it at all and just bodged it as best they could. It had since been up for sale several times with nobody actually fixing it. Shame really
I'm sure there are two sides to every story. After all, it's not as though they do a ground up restoration. They fix what is broken and that's pretty much it. If something unexpectedly fails shortly afterwards then that's just bad luck. You take that risk when buying a used car. Caveat Emptor.
From looking on the net, it seems to be trendy to hate the programme. A shame really. It's just a bit of light hearted fun.
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They only make a big deal out of the purchase and sales price to make use of Mike as the shows frontman.
The program is actually about Edd showing you around different cars and doing a few jobs.
I agree, Mike is somewhat irritating at times but its what Edd does that always interests me. The first couple of series were pretty good as he was basically working out of a shed.
Now the series has developed more they obviously have more funding and some of the tools he uses a competent DIY'er probably wouldn't have at home
The money really is inconsequential. No one's tuning in to see how much money they make. In the early days there were quite a few bodges, but that was mostly because they had a budget of just one grand to buy the car and do it up!
The M5 was £4k because it needed a lot of work.
someone on here ought to buy a £4k M5!!
even look at my position, ive bought an old M3, must have got that six weeks ago at least. i have barely driven any miles in it yet because im still "restoring" it.
i spent hundreds on it and im not even close to finishing. i can spanner all by myself but i work 9-5, spend hours commuting, got a house im "restoring" too, so unless youre a youngster with loads of disposible time and income to pour into a car, its going to be a long drawn out process
even look at my position, ive bought an old M3, must have got that six weeks ago at least. i have barely driven any miles in it yet because im still "restoring" it.
i spent hundreds on it and im not even close to finishing. i can spanner all by myself but i work 9-5, spend hours commuting, got a house im "restoring" too, so unless youre a youngster with loads of disposible time and income to pour into a car, its going to be a long drawn out process
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lol love it - Also hate how when he pulls up in any car you hear the handbrake going on before the car has stopped.
Class show though!
Oh and who can forget - "Well done that man"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Dealers
Lists what cars have featured and what work was done etc.
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I really enjoy Wheeler Dealers and don't get all of the hate that it seems to generate.
Fair enough if it was called 'Buy old, knackered car and spend thousands getting it back to its OEM look' but it's obviously not aimed at that side of things. It has a nice blend of mechanics, eye candy and banter and it doesn't take itself too seriously.
I also didn't realise that Ed made the double decker cars off the Top Gear episode where they raced the Germans/Aussies until I followed the wiki link up there ^^.
Fair enough if it was called 'Buy old, knackered car and spend thousands getting it back to its OEM look' but it's obviously not aimed at that side of things. It has a nice blend of mechanics, eye candy and banter and it doesn't take itself too seriously.
I also didn't realise that Ed made the double decker cars off the Top Gear episode where they raced the Germans/Aussies until I followed the wiki link up there ^^.
