This podcast really is THE BEST automotive podcast! It’s like back in the day when you’d sit around having these conversations with your mates in a McDonald’s car park at midnight on a Friday before driving in a spirited manor to a 24 hour Tesco and then sitting in that car park continuing with the conversation!
Brought a swift sport just outside Birmingham, was 9pm, was pissing is down, bloke was 85, and was a 2hour drive, engine light still on 2 years later 🤣
@@LatvianVideonot good enough he’s blaming it on stress. He’s not really admitting to it and shouldn’t have been forced to apologise because of a video.
@@hashimadham98 I've just read what he said. Whether you believe his words are sincere or not (I won't make a judgement call on that) he pretty clearly did admit fault and wrongdoing. The most egregious part was slandering Joshes very clearly high quality work, which he said in that post was wrong. It should probably be addressed in something more substantial than an instragram post but I don't really feel Taylor was trying to shift blame or anything like that after reading that post.
Not a dealer, but i sold an old golf to a 'Birmingham lad' and he wanted to meet up half way at a motorway service station. I took a mate with me incase something happened. He pulled up in a gold wrapped M4 with 3 other lads in it. We took the golf for a test drive and he drove 110mph along the M1 whilst he was using his phone texting... on a test drive...and all he kept saying was that the 'turbo has gone bro' . Luckily he took it away and paid in cash (obviously drug money) me and my mate agreeed to any price and just left as quickly as we can😂 scariest deal of my life
Just started listening to this a few days ago and literally just finsihed the last one before this came out, what timing 👌🏻 definitely the best automotive podcast out just now, the vibes are immaculate
Rule for me. Had a LOT of fun in my two old Dacia Dusters in the snow. 2WD on winter tyres and 4wd on cross climates! Sometimes advertising a car too cheap can hinder a sale. I put my last car up for £11,000, about £1500 below it's equivalent retail value (basically compared to others listed with same spec) and it sat for 3 months with not one single genuine enquiry. I upped the price to £12,000, a week later I got a call and the first person that turned up to view it bought it without even haggling
@@devilishmodehe made some stupid comments about the garage who was welding his E28, check out the response video from Josh Gresswell, the Auto Alex team have been covering their tracks and furiously deleting comments. Keep up the good work though TDC, you are top blokes, same with All the gear.
I hate buying and selling cars. The experience I have of buying is that I just want to get away from the seller asap, mainly because I don't believe anything they say or they're just unhelpful. Give me the keys, stand over there somewhere, i'll look it over and give you the keys back in a bit. Selling; people want money off before they've seen it, want to knock £100 off for some minor thing that was mentioned in the listing and want to test drive without insurance after telling you they need a new car because they blew the engine on the last one. I don't have any good buying stories, but the last one, waited 2hrs for the guy to give me his address and wanted to see the car cold. His brother ended up picking me up in the car, because he'd lost his licence (he was a car dealer). He was fixing another car on his drive when we got there and had managed to break a coil. Despite so many red flags, I bought the car because it actually ticked all of the boxes. Somehow managed to pass the next mot, despite needing a 1l oil top up a month and a bunch of other dtc faults. Next time i'll take an obd2 with me.
You gotta drag Ben harder for his stance on car pricing. A vehicle isn't worth what the seller thinks it's worth, it's worth what the market will pay for it.
@@ryuhayabakerhe gave bad vibes and I wondered why the guys seemed to like him so much.. yeah things are becoming clearer now haha. Just hoping the TDC guys stay clean and don’t do any scummy stuff because I really like them
Taylor (taylormadecarsandclassics featured in autoalex videos) sold a car with completely broken steering and one that the engine siezed, he sells broken cars
Test drove an E55 AMG with the same engine as Edwins C55. Aussie salesperson in very rural America. Proceeded to make me hoon around every farm road nearby. I got so much WOT, oversteer... it was fkn wild, he kept pushing me harder and harder. Didn't end up buying but great guy.
I test drove a Honda Civic Si sedan in my early 20s, and genuinely was interested in buying it. The salesman had clearly been told he needed to sell a coupe version they had sitting on the lot that was red. We get back from the test drive and the salesman, before I can say anything about if I even liked the car, says "so you want to buy this one?" and pats the coupe. I wasn't against it, but it was more expensive than the sedan so I brought out the first negotiating tactic reply "not for that price, a red 2-door performance edition for a 22 year old is going to cost me more on insurance than the loan payment." and this guy's reply was "don't be a pussy." I did not buy any vehicles from him.
Not £3200, robbing b'stard. I welded a young lads 320 Touring in multiple places to get it through an MOT. I cut and formed the plates myself, seven altogether, various sizes, and welded them in. He said he'd clean it up and paint it. About 8 hours work and I charged him £200. Admittedly, I do this in my spare time. Also, just before Christmas, I replaced a mate's front brake pads, had to unseize one caliper, change the clutch fluid and welded up a 50cm x 7cm rust hole on the driver's side. £120 including the brake parts. So yeah, £3200 is taking the piss. Welding isn't that hard.
I had a really good experience selling a 1990 VW Polo breadvan to a family. It was going to be the son's first car/project and everything about the sale was right. They turned up in an A35 AMG, they were interested in the Formula 1 race that was going on and when it came to negotiation, they offered what I wanted for it and it was the experience I had hoped for. As a result I haven't sold a car privately since because I don't want to sour the memory 😂 Plus I haven't had anything to sell privately. Sadly the car is currently SORN so I hope it is alright and they are doing well.
A few podcasts back, you were talking about songs with car references in them. Not sure it was ever mentioned but Baby got Brap by T-Pain and Hert is about RX7s and rotary engines. Pretty sure they even sampled one idling for the beat. Good song though!
My fave not selling a car to a dude moment (private selling) was a hustler who tried to haggle me down based on a dent that I specifically mentioned and photographed in the ad listing. The car was a bit scruffy looking, but had great miles on it, and was a solid little hatchback. So my messages went insane, and I had a list of people due to look at it at hour separate intervals that day. Hustler asked what $ I wanted for the car. I showed him the barrage of marketplace inquiries, and said "If you want it, it's asking price". Hustler then started with the "oh but what about" So I just walked away while he was talking and went back inside my workplace (locking door so he couldn't follow me). Car sold to a nice couple on holiday, an hour later, at full asking price.
Another week, another CREAM. just passed my driving test today so today its a Rule. Also for the forum: for first cars, what do you recommend? Preferably 5 doors and is a petrol. Budget is 3k.
I recently brought a Mégane from a old guy. Everything looked okay for an old crappy car. I asked him - any issues with the car? He showed me a small scratch on the bumper. Got it home the next day the car rain filled with water and it was buckets of water. When I went to pickup the car I took my wife and small kids he was all friendly, man what a scumbag. Fixed the sunroof but there is another leak from the door it's a literal sieve 😂
Can you do an episode talking about specific engines that are interesting and to keep an eye out for? Maybe they have high potential for tuning for example or are powerful and highly reliable, i dunno. That would be really useful 🙏
My most recent purchase of a VR6 TT mk2. Had it delivered from Dorset to Cornwall. First time purchase from a dealer where I'd previously bought sub 1k stuff. Matey was friendly right up until he said "I don't mean to be sexist but, is this really the car for a lady like you?" Almost sent him packing but that VR6 noise made me just reply, "Yeah that was pretty sexist" and left it to hang there like the wet fart it was Still running the VR6 and I've fitted a fixed TTRS spoiler and saving for a miltek system
When are you two, AutoAlex and All The Gear going to have a challenge? I think camping holiday to Scotland or a South of France camping trip. Make it a 3 parter and it will get loads of views!!
Huge fan of the channel, love watching you guys every week. Here’s my worst car buying story. Bought a 2011 ds3 1.6 turbo petrol from some dealer around reading. Worst purchase I made. Went to see the car drove okay on test drive. They said they needed a week to prep the car I said that’s fine cool. Mot failed then a day later magically passed. First 🚩but I really wanted this car. Went and picked it up. Drove it an hour home was fine. Blew up 3 weeks later. They put some head gasket sealant or something through the coolant. Tried to return it they just dodged my calls then blocked my number. (This was a warranty wise certified dealer). Luckily was financing the car through Halifax. They must of done or said something to the dealer because a tow truck came a week after telling Halifax about the situation to pick up the car and they refunded my deposit, my month payment and gave me £500 in compensation. So turned out okay but Jesus was it stressful 😂😂
Car buying experience story time - my dad tried buying a 'cheap' 1st car for me as a well done for passing my test, cheap because insurance is always a joke as a new driver, you're accident prone and if there were any small jobs needing doing, he could teach me how to attend to them. He went to test drive said cheap car, got to the end of the road and the front corner of the car suddenly dropped, upon a quick inspection, it seems the spring had snapped, upon a slightly longer inspection, he noticed that it had been held together with ZIP TIES! He left the car where it was, locked it, put the key on top of the rear wheel, phoned them to say where the car was and promptly walked back to the train station!
Ahhh man I love Fiat 500s! I bought a 0.9 500c Twinair for my girlfriend, and now its all I drive! Not surprised she likes to drive fast, those things have such a short and wide wheelbase, they LOVE to corner, and the twinair loves to rev! Also, @Edwin, The 0.9L Twinair engine is one of those rare and special engines, needlessly over engineered in a way only Italians will do, to create the littlest engine with the biggest personality! It's like driving a car powered by a small excitable dog! I've driven 165,000 miles in 7 years in mine, I treat it like crap, and other than serviceable things, its rock solid (except for loads of little funny quirks). I even rolled it and it was only CAT N'd, fixed it and it keeps going. Adore it and will never sell it.
Recently went to test drive an E92 M3 I was looking to buy. My dad had come along and we both saw the car and wanted to take it for a test drive. Any other time I've ever test driven the car the dealer/salesman has come with but this time at this (very nice) dealership near Oxford, he seemed happy for us to go out on our own which was surprising considering the car's value and that we did not know the area at all. Just after we'd signed the paperwork for the test drive and while my dad was getting a coffee and chatting elsewhere, he hit me with "Oh btw when you turn left out the lot we're in, a bit further down there's a narrow bridge over a stream which has flooded slightly. After that bridge and completely underwater is a huge pothole which will take the sump off - it happened last week to a Golf R. So please try and avoid that..." Me: :O.... "You want us to go out in an area we don't know with a sump breaking pothole awaiting us in your expensive car.... Are you sure?" Test drive went well and I bought the car, sump intact!
Luton is arguably worse than Birmingham, I went there one night to look at a 12 plate Mondeo Titanium X Business Edition estate, listed mileage was 75k and he had it up for 2 grand. Got there to find that the car had a massive dent in the wing, a cracked windscreen and 190k on the clock. I left and drove 4 hours back home 😂
A car sales story for you, went to have a look at a mk1 tt 3.2v6 with the dsg box. Just outside Birmingham somewhere this “dealer” was using the car park behind another bigger more reputable car dealer out front so that’s the first ref flag. I’d been to look at a 1.8 bam earlier that day and was really keen on it but wanted to try the v6. So we get to the dealer the cars immaculate, good spec nice interior nice colour. He’s reluctant to let us go on a test drive 2nd red flag. After begging for ages we got a test drive and made it not even a mile down the street before noticing the gear changes felt absolutely awful and the gearbox wasn’t smooth it was like they’d use sand as lubricant. Anyway not even a mile later dsg box shits itself at traffic lights of a major junction in the centre of town and we’re just stuck at the lights in a running tt that won’t move. We call the guy up and he refuses to come and get us he wants us to pay for recovery and that we’re buying the car. We’re not going anywhere unless we buy the tt. Of course our car is at his dealership as we’re testing his, he’s threatening to drag our car behind the gates and lock it up unless we pay 🤷🏼♂️ at the point the queue behind us is angry and large so I rip the battery cable off leave it as long as I felt like o could with angry eyes burning a hole in the back of my head. Re connect it it goes into drive and we head back with the worst feeling gearbox I’ve ever experienced, let my mate out the car to go run to our car and start it dumped the tt on his forecourt and ran 😂 never heard from him again. Saw it come up for sale weeks later at another dealer for more money. I ended up buying the most camp tt 1.8 bam convertible in purple and crucially a manual, put me off vw dsg boxes for life
There was one dealer experience that really stood out to me, and not for positive reasons. It was mid-2022, I was looking for my second ever car and had settled on it being a Suzuki SX4. In the end the choice came down to two- the one I went to see first was a higher-mileage car, on 125k, but it was a Euro 5 model with cheaper road tax and more power and looked really good in the photos, certainly worth a go at £2295. Got to the address of the dealer as given by google maps, and it's definitely a forecourt of some kind but the business name is different- the car was near the front so it was definitely the right place. The two guys working there completely blanked me as they went around warming up all the cars- on a beautiful summer's day, mind. And upon closer inspection, none of the cars strewn around this bombsite of a yard had any price tags in so I didn't know what was for sale, what was the employee's personal cars and what was awaiting scrappage. And condition was no tell either- The SX4's paint was totally ruined, the bonnet and roof had no lacquer left and some very old stone chips that had turned to rust, it would have needed a lot of respraying. Elsewhere on the forecourt there was- - A Vauxhall Corsa that was covered in tree sap and mould and had 3 flat tyres - A Ford Fiesta with a smashed window and one of the door mirrors ripped off - A VW Polo that was so rotten you could see daylight through its door bottoms, all of which were different colours - An 04-plate Mercedes C320 that had clearly escaped the infamous rot they used to suffer by being abandoned in a barn- and it still had the inch-thick layer of dust and cobwebs to prove it - A modified Mitsubishi Shogun that would have looked a heck of a lot better with a quick polish - A Skoda Octavia whose seats looked like they'd been subject to a swordfight, and with some dodgy-looking exposed wires sticking out of the stereo. That car was rapidly dissolving too And everything else was generally very tired and either looked, sounded or smelled very poorly. Walked away without a second thought after that, and headed over to Bradford to pick up the other Suzuki which was much nicer and is still with me
I sold a Dacia Sandero once, The seller took the car for a 1 hour+ test drive. When they got back I said I was worried and they thought it was completely normal to take it up and down the motorway. They also wanted to sue me for not keeping it taxed for them... Which is literally not possible
36:20 Juiced did that, performance parts were split into stage 1/2/3 with multiple brands per stage, some parts like exhaust had no stat differences between same stage options but stuff like suspension would have subtle differences
Funniest story of mine: back in 2020 I was looking to buy an Audi S3 8P, and found a cheap one middle of nowhere at a dealer Drover there and looked around the car, the dealer was quiet friendly. The car was clearly repod, was broken into and there was still glass near the drivers door. I asked him if it got a remap, he said he has no idea. I opened up the bonnet, and there was a Ram Air intake, so it had a remap 100%, if not more mods. I told him that let me drive the car, I want to see how the car handles and how is the engine and the clutch, as more power can kill clutches. He couldnt find the keys, and he was looking for them and I believe him. Then he told me the story "I had a mate of mine driving this car, and he is an Audi tech, and he said that yes, this is a stage 1, and the clutch is perfect, so yeah this is a solid car, come to the office and lets check the finances you can get on the car" I just stood there with no expression, and said "woah, that is a really cool story" said bye and walked away. I would bet actual money that the Audi tech does not exist.
The last time I sold a car privately was 20 years ago...it was an E30 g plate 316. I was in Peterborough, some lads from Birmingham came to look at it. Some other Birmingham lads also called. Many many phone calls all evening from 'both' groups haggling price down ..in the end I sold it when they called back after pretending to drive away just so I could sleep as it was after midnight.... punchline is I got a call 1 month later from the new owner asking about history and mileage....it was 70k lower than when I sold...
I was a little kid, and my dad needed a new cheap sh#tbox daily driver. His friend called knowing my dad was looking for one and had a Dodge Omni. He hyped it up saying it was barely used and he'll sell it for 500$ We get there to test it out, the car ok on the outside but horrendous on the inside. I to this day don't know what he did, but there were (not exaggerated) at least 100 gnats inside flying around. My dad being nice drove it up and down the street and politely said, " It's a manual, so sorry, its a no. I will never forget the gnats flying in unison hovering around the roof lining😂
My Clio RS purchase was exactly this video. Bought for huge overs off a tiny shack with a stool as you say off a dealer near Southend. All red flags. I was desperate and really wanted one. It was 60k miles at the time a couple years ago so seemed okay. Test drove, it had no fuel 🚩 put a deposit down cause it ran normally otherwise. Found a cut in body under seats around fuel pump 🚩 bought it anyway. Found it had 11 prev owners 🚩 filled up in a local Morrisons and it pissed fuel everywhere 🚩 went back and explained, they said I had over fueled. Left anyway, found out the fuel pump had a seal issue and to make matters worse, got sent a message that took me 5 minutes to scroll to the bottom of with all the previous faults from before he gave it away to Motorway 🚩 I'd love to share that message with you guys but the car is amazing now. On paper it's a horrific, unsellable example but it's mechanically sound and a great riot!
Has to be ruin again, Got the starter fixed on my crown but it took 4 hours to get it off, while lying under the car. Even though it's working now the recent news about certain someone just plummet the week.
I went to look at an 2014 Audi A6 Avant at a small used car dealership near Sheffield ran buy a few young lads. We travelled over an hour there and the wife needed the toilet when we arrived. She walked into the customer loo and then walked back out - there was no toilet seat to be seen, and not a single toilet roll either. Car was dodgy anyway, so wasn't even worth the trip. 😅
I got a great used car story... One that still haunts me to this day. When I was 17 I had saved some money for my first project car. Decided to scrub the entire Internet for something that may be something good for a daily and also something to do things to. Ended up finding a 2nd gen Mazdaspeed 3 that was "bone stock" being that I was 17 and blinded by the super cool hot hatch. I didn't notice the absolutely filthy k&n, all the dents and missing paint, and the bald tires. The first red flag I should've noticed. It was the shadiest used car dealer in a very notorious area in my state in the US for terrible used car dealers. Bought the car, got registration and insurance to THEN do a vin check.... I was the 7th owner. 4 years later it's still in my driveway with a stretched timing chain and needing a new fuel pump because it was modded by the other 6 17 year olds before I owned it. Oh and the best part, the dealership is no longer in business 🫠 never again will I buy used from a dealer. I like picking on everything wrong with marketplace cars so I can get at the least 1k off lol
when i bought my 523i the dealer was one like this. they had the car in the very corner of the lot and someone was going around with a brushcutter to cut the grass but the only thing he was doing was fling stones at every car. The car was complete shit but started and in a shocking lack of common sense and ignoring every alarm bell going on with that dealer i still bought it wich was one of the worst ideas i had until now but at least i have fun with trying to fix it
I was looking at a car recently. Found out by running an MOT check, it had 20k miles more on the clock than advertised and had been without an MOT and untaxed for over a year. When I messaged the seller about this he literally just replied “Drives amazing Free local delivery service We’re open 7 days till late ok Give us a call thank u Mate 1 year mot and. Has rd tax one year” No reply from the guy on eBay trying to sell a Cat-N as a clean title car either.
Bought my first car from some dodgy Romanian dealer and when it eventually broke down and I had to scrap it I found another car that looked great. Little did I know it was the same dealer on a different account. Went down there and the guy had lied about service history and a check engine light was on. Said it was his wife’s car and she’s been driving it and told all been fine even though I knew the car hadn’t been taxed in months. He then phoned “his wife” who sounded like a big frolic Romanian man. They then got angry when we asked for them to run a diagnostic check and it came back as a crankshaft failure. I then wanted nothing to do with the car and when we were leaving he kept shouting at us with lower offers also when I got home he messaged me with an even lower offer saying he needed the money really badly.
I did actually buy a car from the "Cars with no reserve Reading" ebay page. It was a 2010 freelander 2, got it for a good price and its been good for the past 6 years. Had the occasional thing wrong but its a JLR product on 200k miles now so the occasional routine part is to be expected. Guess i got lucky with them 😀
These bloody podcasts! I keep putting them on the tv while I’m ’doing things in the kitchen’ I’ve just caught myself leaning on the side watching and laughing along. Maybe I should switch to Spotify. Haha.
I had a terrible dealer experience here in Switzerland. I wanted to buy a very low mileage Rover 75 (I know "boring car bla bla bla", but I like it). The first red flag was that the dealership in question had a rating of 2.5 stars on google, with re-views basically consisting of people explaining how they had taken the company to court and only then received a refund on the knackered cars they had been sold. With that in mind, I went anyway and took my wife along with me. There was a really old man who greeted me, but he stank of smoke and when I went to start the car the battery was completely flat. He then had to venture out into an overgrown wilderness behind the garage to find a jump pack. The car was in great condition, and I knew what to look for, so I said that I would be interested in purchasing it, provided that a service was done (as it still had its original, 25-year-old cam belts!). He kept telling me that I could drive it at is had very low mileage, but I insisted, and he then agreed to get the service done. Fast forward two months and I still didn't have the car. Every phone call and message were replied to with excuses for the delay. I demanded my deposit back (as I had to pay a certain amount for the work to be carried out) and then offered them a very reduced offer for the vehicle. They had been trying to sell the vehicle for 3 years as I could see the price history online, and they had been progressively reducing it. I offered 6000 Swiss francs (about £5300) for the car, but they were un-willing to accept anything under 6700. In the end, the old man, who was the sales representative, reached a compromise with me: I’d pay 6500 and he would pay the remaining 200 to his boss. When I arrived with my wife to pick it up, the car was packed with its winter wheels, but they had only loaded 3 into the boot. I asked them where the other wheel was, to which the boss replied in a rude tone: "The spare wheel is the fourth one." We both started laughing at him and I told him stern-ly to go and look for the fourth wheel otherwise the deal was off. 20 minutes later he came back with it, I paid the guy my amount, to which he remarked I was 200 short. Then the sales representa-tive came out of his office and apologetically told me that I could take the car and leave. He then opened his wallet and paid his boss the remaining amount. In the end the car got its major service, a new set of tires (the old ones were 16 years old!) and I have been the happy owner of it since. Oh, and yes, the garage subsequently shut down... I wonder why?
@ The company no longer exists, but it was in a place called Tagelswangen, right next to the A1 motorway. The next ‘big’ town is Effretikon. The garage was right next to the shop called ‘Volg’. On google maps the address is Zürcherstrasse 23. There is a new company there called Automobile Zürcher, and next to that another company called ‘Sh El Sayed Automobile’, and has 1,7 stars… possibly they opened a new company? Did you buy a car from them too? 😂
I test drove a mazda 3 a number of years ago and my first issue was i made a wrong turn (anyone from toronto knows that the weston on ramp to the 401 WB is easy to end up on the 409) and had to go further then i really wanted to from the dealer. this become a problem when signs of a bad alternator started to show. so I turned as much electrical stuff off in this thing as i could and turned around the first chance i got. on my way back to the dealer the car started sputtering and i even lost turn signals which was tricky merging across multiple lanes on a major highway. I only just barely got off the highway and pulled into a side street as the car completely died. luckily the dealer was only a couple blocks away and he picked up his phone and came with a booster pack which he wedged under the hood and drove back to his lot.
One time when enquiring about a cars cambelt being done the dealer said "no paperwork for it being done but its absolutely mint", which was the most obvious lot of bollocks I'd ever seen.
Was sold a Tonga Green 2007 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 December 2023 for £6250 when prices were at an all time high. He demanded £3000 as a deposit, (stupidly) I agreed due to it being the only one I'd seen in Tonga Green with a black interior and also because all my other options were too far away or had sold. The car had a multitude of issues and was NOT as described. there was lacquer peel on the bonnet (in the pictures it was perfect), damage on the seats (Rears were scratched by a dog, again, fine in photos, the car reeked of smoke and it had various things broken on the interior that were "small fixes" Thought I'd just swallow it up and get it right myself but 2 days later the alarm started going off non stop with the car having a complete meltdown. it wouldn't start, only the driver's door opened and things like the heater/radio/dials were going absolutely nuts. 4 auto electricians tried and 3 failed to diagnose it. and the 4th found years worth of water damage in the boot ruining all of the many) wires and modules stored there. He did the bare minimum to get it running and I later dumped it because I hated it. losing £5000+. The dealer funnily enough vanished right after I bought it. Yes I know it was dumb to buy it, but lessons were learned. Painfully at that. I've had many experiences but this takes the cake, other than being offered some (put kindly) back of the throat badminton when I was trying to sell it. Another one asked me to drive it across Europe. Hilarious.
recent car dealer experience: Went to go and look at a 2005 golf 1.9 pd100 for my borther and when we get there (this garage was also behind a petrol station and hand car wash) the first thing the bloke says is "ah youre here to see the shit golf", and to be fair to him it really was shit so when he asked why i didnt want it, i said "because its shit"
It's gotta be rule for me, I bought my first car, a 1994 Volkswagen corrado vr6, I'm 19 and was able to insure it for daily use for £900 a year which I'm so happy about
Went to see an R56 Mini Cooper S, amazing photos but a couple of dodgy panel caps, perfect spec, BRG over cream leather. Failed to recognise that it was in Bedford. Got there - down a dodgy lane on a farm, car was not there.. Luckily the dealer (not the same name as ok autotrader) came over there ring doorbell to say they were coming. The most ragged broken R56 arrived. The racing stripe was coming off as he came down the drive. I didn’t buy it - but atleast they offered me a warranty.
Here's my question for the forum: you often mention buying cars through the process of auctions, notably "collecting cars". As a listener looking to buy my first car, you've convinced me to do the same thing. However, since I don't have a specific idea in mind, I often browse auction websites but I always feel like I am missing out on the gem that could be found on an obscure auction website that I don't know about. So, do you by any chance know of a website that includes most other websites, ideally European ones (I am French so buying a car outside of the EU is off the register) ? Thank you very much !
Hi lads, a different view for a laugh - I worked in the motortrade years ago and have loads of stories from that murky world. We took a classic 911 S in px, which we had inspected by a well known Porsche specialist to check it’s authenticity. However, we advertised it and another specialist came to see it, who noticed an issue with the shell. Turns out after lots of digging it was a 911 T shell, which had been turned into an S replica with S running gear and docs changed etc. We were gutted, but agreed to sell it hugely reduced to these people on a trade sale as a T, and move on. 3 weeks later, our brochure for a well known classic car auction arrived and guess what? There’s ‘our’ car, with our photos, and even our advert text with the inspection we had carried out as proof of this “genuine 911 S”!! The car sold for huge money, and is probably still out there now. As you can imagine this is the tip of the iceberg!
So... I have had an issue buying and selling cars...(I'm not a car dealer). I live in Weston-s-Mare and went to buy an EP3 Civic Type-R 2002 in Merthyr Tydfil (which on this rainy day) took around 2 hours to reach. It was 2 years old and the owner wanted £7.5k for it as he was looking for a quick sale so he could buy an Impreza he had seen. After a successful test drive I said I would take it and proceeded to get the CASH I had stashed in my brother's car.. It was at this point the owner piped up and said I can't buy it today as the paperwork is in his dad's office which is locked as he is on a work trip?! Ecstatic in hearing this I had to go back home and come back to buy it a week later! (I still have it today) The selling story is much more intriguing! After buying the Type-R I had a MK1 MX-5 that was surplus to requirements. I had recently had the alternator replaced and made sure the car was solid. I sold it to a lovely elderly lady who lived not far from me so after selling I drove past the car a couple of times in the proceeding weeks, then nothing. 3 months later I get a call from a man in Scotland who is complaining that the mx5 he bought off me last week had a faulty alternator? At this point I'm wondering "what the hell in universal credit is going on here?" The gentleman had my number off the paperwork that came with the car and as I claimed my ignorance he got angrier and angrier claiming that I should remember him as I met him at Bristol Airport to do the test drive before he drove it back to Scotland. This went on for days until I eventually found an old photo of me sat in the mx5 and sent it to him to prove I'm not the person he met. Turns out the old ladies son owned a car dealership and didn't re-register the car (kept it in my name to keep owner count lower) then met the guy at the airport and claimed to be me?!! I just hope the son loses all his 10mm sockets and has many electrical faults for the rest of his life
Rule for me. Had my Type R come back with a fresh gearbox, Clutch and belts and tensioners. Basically a brand new car. Drove my dad’s daihastu fourtrak for 6 weeks.Not for me.
I once went to look at a car from a dealer who turned out his "dealership" was the back of a closed down carpetright carpark. In the back of this empty carpark was a bunch of cars under a tree, half of them completely covered in algae, and one s-max completely full to the headliner of car parts. In between them this one clean car that I had arrived to see. I did not buy the car.
Sorry to be that guy, but ackshually the new M5 uses the S68 engine - the main difference is in the exhaust manifold which is now a cross flow manifold (mixing gases from both banks to the turbos)
The amount of people on Facebook groups asking what their car is Worth only to be upset when it's not the figure they already had in their head before asking the question 🤦♂️
Conspiracy: car regulations are the reason all new cars are looking the same. If I remember correctly, there's a rule for how big a vehicle can be to how efficient it can be, or something like that.
33:40 midnight club died because rockstar was too busy with gta5, so they just integrated their racing game experience into gta. not sure if we will get another midnight club, but with the state of racing games atm, i doubt we will ever see it again :(
Modern cars have huge wheels and thin tyre walls because they weigh several metric tonnes so need to limit flex and allow room for massive brakes. It's certainly a modern problem.
I have a story I was looking for a while for a cheap Ford Smax Found one for 1500 that had been "re mapped and straight piped" I thought nice Pictures looked great too Went to look at it and it was battered, the windscreen was cracked, the back end looked like it had been on fire because the light was melted And the "straight pipe" turned out to be the exhaust was rotten and the back box had fallen off When I questioned him about it I got the usual response from someone selling you a nail "I don't know anything about cars and I'm selling it for my Dad/brother/wife/friend" Needless to say I walked.... sorry.... Ran away 😂
why is Edmin wearing a jacket older than him? That is circa 1998, I am old enough to remember watching the Renault teammates taking out each other at the complex at Thruxton while standing on the grass bank.
This may make it into the forum. I was watching fast and the furious 2, and in the scene where they race the Yenko camaro and the challanger (I think), the evo catches up by using nitro, which makes it way faster. And it then just occurred to me, a nitro-set wouldn't actually make a turbo car any faster would it? For that it would need to be turbo limited, at which point it would be way easier to just fit a bigger turbo right?
Question, what would you guys say is the most boring NPC level car you can buy, like no redeeming qualities. Just car. Ive always thought the Volkswagen Jetta or the Nissan Qashqai takes that spot but what do you guys think? Think it'd be an interesting talking point 😀
All modern "SUVs". I just call them all "Generic Car" (I mean I don't even care what they are either, they're just generic)... Built for people to who don't care about driving, or about cars whatsoever, and just want an car to go from A to B without any thought. All of these modern Generic Car's look broadly the same, do broadly the same things, cost about the same, feel the same, and have absolutely no personality or anything even slightly exciting.
@@ardley216 Goes doubly so for those crossovers/mini SUV's that are not big enough to do anything you want to do with a proper SUV but are worse to drive and guzzle more gas for no reason. At least with a proper full size SUV you get some benefits of more ground clearance, better view over the road and cushy suspension. Those crossovers/mini SUV's are the worst of both worlds.
Back in 2023, I was down in Cornwall and my Dad sends me a link to a old Nissan 100nx on eBay not too far from me (also I think Nissan initially designed that car to have popups and then some legislation change came up and they thought shit, we need to change the front, an oh, she ain't a looker), Anyway. Went to go look at the car, was a Dealer selling it. turned up, rotten cars all over the place, some Random rusty truck frame just chilling. And not really a shipping container as the office, more like a shed. everyone bunning ciggies in there. he showed me round the car, definitely been sat for a while. spent about 15 minutes trying to find the keys, good start, then the battery was dead so sketchy jump pack. to be fair, starting up on the button, then he processed to almost bang it off the limiter as soon as it started haha. and the exhaust blow was sooo bad. basically didn't really have an exhaust. was a funny dealership experience.
Who in their right mind of state would go to a random dealership far away from their home to test drive a car for fun? Especially for a shitty car 😂😂😂. You guys have the most time on your hands. I might have something to keep you busy 😁
I owned and dailied an s2000 for 2 years and although they are a fun car to drive with an amazing powertrain they are incredibly overpriced for what they are. The seating position is atrocius if you happen to be anything over 5 foot. For the same money you can get into boxters/caymans or a z4 which are far more premium and better value for money. If s2ks were 5/6k then sure but its 10k + for a half decent one. Very easy to work on though 😅
This podcast really is THE BEST automotive podcast!
It’s like back in the day when you’d sit around having these conversations with your mates in a McDonald’s car park at midnight on a Friday before driving in a spirited manor to a 24 hour Tesco and then sitting in that car park continuing with the conversation!
1. Never buy a car from Birmingham
2. Never buy a car in the dark/rain
3. Never buy a car from taylor
Also never give him anything on sale or return
Brought a swift sport just outside Birmingham, was 9pm, was pissing is down, bloke was 85, and was a 2hour drive, engine light still on 2 years later 🤣
Seen the Title of the video and assumed this was gonna be a video slating Taylor.
He has posted a response on his instagram story
@@LatvianVideonot good enough he’s blaming it on stress. He’s not really admitting to it and shouldn’t have been forced to apologise because of a video.
@@hashimadham98 exactly, I'm just mentioning that he posted something
@@hashimadham98 I've just read what he said. Whether you believe his words are sincere or not (I won't make a judgement call on that) he pretty clearly did admit fault and wrongdoing. The most egregious part was slandering Joshes very clearly high quality work, which he said in that post was wrong. It should probably be addressed in something more substantial than an instragram post but I don't really feel Taylor was trying to shift blame or anything like that after reading that post.
Fate love irony 😂
Guys that title! you knew what you was doing with the current controversy surrounding a certain someone 😂😂
Morale of the podcast: watch out for unreputable garages 😂
We were all expecting this to be about Taylor like some inside joke.
Not a dealer, but i sold an old golf to a 'Birmingham lad' and he wanted to meet up half way at a motorway service station. I took a mate with me incase something happened. He pulled up in a gold wrapped M4 with 3 other lads in it. We took the golf for a test drive and he drove 110mph along the M1 whilst he was using his phone texting... on a test drive...and all he kept saying was that the 'turbo has gone bro' . Luckily he took it away and paid in cash (obviously drug money) me and my mate agreeed to any price and just left as quickly as we can😂 scariest deal of my life
Seen the title and wondered if you bought a car from taylor at first seeings. He's been slated so much for being a crook and scaming people 😅😂
All car salesmen are "crooks" it's necessary to make a profit 🤣
Get a grip
Just started listening to this a few days ago and literally just finsihed the last one before this came out, what timing 👌🏻 definitely the best automotive podcast out just now, the vibes are immaculate
This is the best video yet! Lost me with all the wheel jargon but loved it! Like it when Ben gets involved. Don't lose him!
That Williams Renault Nescafe coat is peak super touring BTCC nostalgia . Love it
Rule for me. Had a LOT of fun in my two old Dacia Dusters in the snow. 2WD on winter tyres and 4wd on cross climates! Sometimes advertising a car too cheap can hinder a sale. I put my last car up for £11,000, about £1500 below it's equivalent retail value (basically compared to others listed with same spec) and it sat for 3 months with not one single genuine enquiry. I upped the price to £12,000, a week later I got a call and the first person that turned up to view it bought it without even haggling
Haha what a awkward thing to upload regarding whats happened with Taylor 😆
What happened?
@@devilishmodehe made some stupid comments about the garage who was welding his E28, check out the response video from Josh Gresswell, the Auto Alex team have been covering their tracks and furiously deleting comments. Keep up the good work though TDC, you are top blokes, same with All the gear.
Surely this title is a sneaky dig at a certain someone 😂😂
I hate buying and selling cars. The experience I have of buying is that I just want to get away from the seller asap, mainly because I don't believe anything they say or they're just unhelpful. Give me the keys, stand over there somewhere, i'll look it over and give you the keys back in a bit.
Selling; people want money off before they've seen it, want to knock £100 off for some minor thing that was mentioned in the listing and want to test drive without insurance after telling you they need a new car because they blew the engine on the last one.
I don't have any good buying stories, but the last one, waited 2hrs for the guy to give me his address and wanted to see the car cold. His brother ended up picking me up in the car, because he'd lost his licence (he was a car dealer). He was fixing another car on his drive when we got there and had managed to break a coil.
Despite so many red flags, I bought the car because it actually ticked all of the boxes. Somehow managed to pass the next mot, despite needing a 1l oil top up a month and a bunch of other dtc faults. Next time i'll take an obd2 with me.
You gotta drag Ben harder for his stance on car pricing. A vehicle isn't worth what the seller thinks it's worth, it's worth what the market will pay for it.
Surely Taylor must be in the top 5 worst car dealers!
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@@danpaul4975 that bloke who had the stolen bike would be 3rd place.
Take it somewhere else no one wants to hear it on this channel.
@@ryuhayabakerhe gave bad vibes and I wondered why the guys seemed to like him so much.. yeah things are becoming clearer now haha. Just hoping the TDC guys stay clean and don’t do any scummy stuff because I really like them
You Sure? @@jakeshepherd4552
Taylor (taylormadecarsandclassics featured in autoalex videos) sold a car with completely broken steering and one that the engine siezed, he sells broken cars
Test drove an E55 AMG with the same engine as Edwins C55. Aussie salesperson in very rural America. Proceeded to make me hoon around every farm road nearby. I got so much WOT, oversteer... it was fkn wild, he kept pushing me harder and harder. Didn't end up buying but great guy.
I test drove a Honda Civic Si sedan in my early 20s, and genuinely was interested in buying it. The salesman had clearly been told he needed to sell a coupe version they had sitting on the lot that was red. We get back from the test drive and the salesman, before I can say anything about if I even liked the car, says "so you want to buy this one?" and pats the coupe. I wasn't against it, but it was more expensive than the sedan so I brought out the first negotiating tactic reply "not for that price, a red 2-door performance edition for a 22 year old is going to cost me more on insurance than the loan payment." and this guy's reply was "don't be a pussy." I did not buy any vehicles from him.
Another great episode guys, Forum question for next week: what's a reasonable price to pay for a full welding restoration on an E28?
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Exposure and a pack of hobnobs apparently, and the biscuits are optional.
Hahahahahha. Good one
'exposure'
Not £3200, robbing b'stard. I welded a young lads 320 Touring in multiple places to get it through an MOT. I cut and formed the plates myself, seven altogether, various sizes, and welded them in. He said he'd clean it up and paint it. About 8 hours work and I charged him £200.
Admittedly, I do this in my spare time.
Also, just before Christmas, I replaced a mate's front brake pads, had to unseize one caliper, change the clutch fluid and welded up a 50cm x 7cm rust hole on the driver's side. £120 including the brake parts. So yeah, £3200 is taking the piss. Welding isn't that hard.
These guys know whats up ! Great vid, keep em coming
That's an unfortunate title given current situations lmao
I feel like I'm living under a rock, whats the current situation? Guessing its something with Taylor
@@jacklemaitre Type Taylor Scumbag into the search bar. Lol.
@@jacklemaitresame, have we missed something big?!
Josh gresswell and taylors e28... check it out
Seen something with Beast Autos too, apparently he's bought from Taylor and Alex and not happy either
I had a really good experience selling a 1990 VW Polo breadvan to a family. It was going to be the son's first car/project and everything about the sale was right. They turned up in an A35 AMG, they were interested in the Formula 1 race that was going on and when it came to negotiation, they offered what I wanted for it and it was the experience I had hoped for. As a result I haven't sold a car privately since because I don't want to sour the memory 😂 Plus I haven't had anything to sell privately.
Sadly the car is currently SORN so I hope it is alright and they are doing well.
A few podcasts back, you were talking about songs with car references in them. Not sure it was ever mentioned but Baby got Brap by T-Pain and Hert is about RX7s and rotary engines. Pretty sure they even sampled one idling for the beat. Good song though!
My fave not selling a car to a dude moment (private selling) was a hustler who tried to haggle me down based on a dent that I specifically mentioned and photographed in the ad listing.
The car was a bit scruffy looking, but had great miles on it, and was a solid little hatchback. So my messages went insane, and I had a list of people due to look at it at hour separate intervals that day.
Hustler asked what $ I wanted for the car. I showed him the barrage of marketplace inquiries, and said "If you want it, it's asking price".
Hustler then started with the "oh but what about"
So I just walked away while he was talking and went back inside my workplace (locking door so he couldn't follow me).
Car sold to a nice couple on holiday, an hour later, at full asking price.
Nowt better than coming home from work after a long day and sitting and watching this podcast in absolute hysterics. Quality stuff gents.
Another week, another CREAM. just passed my driving test today so today its a Rule.
Also for the forum: for first cars, what do you recommend? Preferably 5 doors and is a petrol. Budget is 3k.
I do like TDC great bunch of guys, i find them far better than the main channels👍
I quite like ATG tbh. Similar vibe but not car related.
I recently brought a Mégane from a old guy. Everything looked okay for an old crappy car. I asked him - any issues with the car? He showed me a small scratch on the bumper. Got it home the next day the car rain filled with water and it was buckets of water. When I went to pickup the car I took my wife and small kids he was all friendly, man what a scumbag. Fixed the sunroof but there is another leak from the door it's a literal sieve 😂
Can you do an episode talking about specific engines that are interesting and to keep an eye out for? Maybe they have high potential for tuning for example or are powerful and highly reliable, i dunno.
That would be really useful 🙏
My most recent purchase of a VR6 TT mk2. Had it delivered from Dorset to Cornwall. First time purchase from a dealer where I'd previously bought sub 1k stuff.
Matey was friendly right up until he said "I don't mean to be sexist but, is this really the car for a lady like you?"
Almost sent him packing but that VR6 noise made me just reply, "Yeah that was pretty sexist" and left it to hang there like the wet fart it was
Still running the VR6 and I've fitted a fixed TTRS spoiler and saving for a miltek system
My wife's had hers for almost three years now. The noise is still intoxicating! Enjoy!!
When are you two, AutoAlex and All The Gear going to have a challenge? I think camping holiday to Scotland or a South of France camping trip. Make it a 3 parter and it will get loads of views!!
Huge fan of the channel, love watching you guys every week. Here’s my worst car buying story. Bought a 2011 ds3 1.6 turbo petrol from some dealer around reading. Worst purchase I made. Went to see the car drove okay on test drive. They said they needed a week to prep the car I said that’s fine cool. Mot failed then a day later magically passed. First 🚩but I really wanted this car. Went and picked it up. Drove it an hour home was fine. Blew up 3 weeks later. They put some head gasket sealant or something through the coolant. Tried to return it they just dodged my calls then blocked my number. (This was a warranty wise certified dealer). Luckily was financing the car through Halifax. They must of done or said something to the dealer because a tow truck came a week after telling Halifax about the situation to pick up the car and they refunded my deposit, my month payment and gave me £500 in compensation. So turned out okay but Jesus was it stressful 😂😂
Car buying experience story time - my dad tried buying a 'cheap' 1st car for me as a well done for passing my test, cheap because insurance is always a joke as a new driver, you're accident prone and if there were any small jobs needing doing, he could teach me how to attend to them. He went to test drive said cheap car, got to the end of the road and the front corner of the car suddenly dropped, upon a quick inspection, it seems the spring had snapped, upon a slightly longer inspection, he noticed that it had been held together with ZIP TIES! He left the car where it was, locked it, put the key on top of the rear wheel, phoned them to say where the car was and promptly walked back to the train station!
Ahhh man I love Fiat 500s! I bought a 0.9 500c Twinair for my girlfriend, and now its all I drive! Not surprised she likes to drive fast, those things have such a short and wide wheelbase, they LOVE to corner, and the twinair loves to rev!
Also, @Edwin, The 0.9L Twinair engine is one of those rare and special engines, needlessly over engineered in a way only Italians will do, to create the littlest engine with the biggest personality! It's like driving a car powered by a small excitable dog!
I've driven 165,000 miles in 7 years in mine, I treat it like crap, and other than serviceable things, its rock solid (except for loads of little funny quirks). I even rolled it and it was only CAT N'd, fixed it and it keeps going. Adore it and will never sell it.
Recently went to test drive an E92 M3 I was looking to buy. My dad had come along and we both saw the car and wanted to take it for a test drive. Any other time I've ever test driven the car the dealer/salesman has come with but this time at this (very nice) dealership near Oxford, he seemed happy for us to go out on our own which was surprising considering the car's value and that we did not know the area at all.
Just after we'd signed the paperwork for the test drive and while my dad was getting a coffee and chatting elsewhere, he hit me with "Oh btw when you turn left out the lot we're in, a bit further down there's a narrow bridge over a stream which has flooded slightly. After that bridge and completely underwater is a huge pothole which will take the sump off - it happened last week to a Golf R. So please try and avoid that..."
Me: :O.... "You want us to go out in an area we don't know with a sump breaking pothole awaiting us in your expensive car.... Are you sure?"
Test drive went well and I bought the car, sump intact!
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"PS5s right now!"
"Ben, this is a PS2"
This caught me absolutely offguard, lmao
Luton is arguably worse than Birmingham, I went there one night to look at a 12 plate Mondeo Titanium X Business Edition estate, listed mileage was 75k and he had it up for 2 grand. Got there to find that the car had a massive dent in the wing, a cracked windscreen and 190k on the clock. I left and drove 4 hours back home 😂
A car sales story for you, went to have a look at a mk1 tt 3.2v6 with the dsg box. Just outside Birmingham somewhere this “dealer” was using the car park behind another bigger more reputable car dealer out front so that’s the first ref flag. I’d been to look at a 1.8 bam earlier that day and was really keen on it but wanted to try the v6. So we get to the dealer the cars immaculate, good spec nice interior nice colour. He’s reluctant to let us go on a test drive 2nd red flag. After begging for ages we got a test drive and made it not even a mile down the street before noticing the gear changes felt absolutely awful and the gearbox wasn’t smooth it was like they’d use sand as lubricant. Anyway not even a mile later dsg box shits itself at traffic lights of a major junction in the centre of town and we’re just stuck at the lights in a running tt that won’t move. We call the guy up and he refuses to come and get us he wants us to pay for recovery and that we’re buying the car. We’re not going anywhere unless we buy the tt. Of course our car is at his dealership as we’re testing his, he’s threatening to drag our car behind the gates and lock it up unless we pay 🤷🏼♂️ at the point the queue behind us is angry and large so I rip the battery cable off leave it as long as I felt like o could with angry eyes burning a hole in the back of my head. Re connect it it goes into drive and we head back with the worst feeling gearbox I’ve ever experienced, let my mate out the car to go run to our car and start it dumped the tt on his forecourt and ran 😂 never heard from him again. Saw it come up for sale weeks later at another dealer for more money. I ended up buying the most camp tt 1.8 bam convertible in purple and crucially a manual, put me off vw dsg boxes for life
There was one dealer experience that really stood out to me, and not for positive reasons. It was mid-2022, I was looking for my second ever car and had settled on it being a Suzuki SX4. In the end the choice came down to two- the one I went to see first was a higher-mileage car, on 125k, but it was a Euro 5 model with cheaper road tax and more power and looked really good in the photos, certainly worth a go at £2295. Got to the address of the dealer as given by google maps, and it's definitely a forecourt of some kind but the business name is different- the car was near the front so it was definitely the right place. The two guys working there completely blanked me as they went around warming up all the cars- on a beautiful summer's day, mind. And upon closer inspection, none of the cars strewn around this bombsite of a yard had any price tags in so I didn't know what was for sale, what was the employee's personal cars and what was awaiting scrappage. And condition was no tell either-
The SX4's paint was totally ruined, the bonnet and roof had no lacquer left and some very old stone chips that had turned to rust, it would have needed a lot of respraying. Elsewhere on the forecourt there was-
- A Vauxhall Corsa that was covered in tree sap and mould and had 3 flat tyres
- A Ford Fiesta with a smashed window and one of the door mirrors ripped off
- A VW Polo that was so rotten you could see daylight through its door bottoms, all of which were different colours
- An 04-plate Mercedes C320 that had clearly escaped the infamous rot they used to suffer by being abandoned in a barn- and it still had the inch-thick layer of dust and cobwebs to prove it
- A modified Mitsubishi Shogun that would have looked a heck of a lot better with a quick polish
- A Skoda Octavia whose seats looked like they'd been subject to a swordfight, and with some dodgy-looking exposed wires sticking out of the stereo. That car was rapidly dissolving too
And everything else was generally very tired and either looked, sounded or smelled very poorly. Walked away without a second thought after that, and headed over to Bradford to pick up the other Suzuki which was much nicer and is still with me
I sold a Dacia Sandero once, The seller took the car for a 1 hour+ test drive. When they got back I said I was worried and they thought it was completely normal to take it up and down the motorway. They also wanted to sue me for not keeping it taxed for them... Which is literally not possible
36:20 Juiced did that, performance parts were split into stage 1/2/3 with multiple brands per stage, some parts like exhaust had no stat differences between same stage options but stuff like suspension would have subtle differences
Funniest story of mine:
back in 2020 I was looking to buy an Audi S3 8P, and found a cheap one middle of nowhere at a dealer
Drover there and looked around the car, the dealer was quiet friendly. The car was clearly repod, was broken into and there was still glass near the drivers door. I asked him if it got a remap, he said he has no idea. I opened up the bonnet, and there was a Ram Air intake, so it had a remap 100%, if not more mods. I told him that let me drive the car, I want to see how the car handles and how is the engine and the clutch, as more power can kill clutches. He couldnt find the keys, and he was looking for them and I believe him. Then he told me the story "I had a mate of mine driving this car, and he is an Audi tech, and he said that yes, this is a stage 1, and the clutch is perfect, so yeah this is a solid car, come to the office and lets check the finances you can get on the car" I just stood there with no expression, and said "woah, that is a really cool story" said bye and walked away. I would bet actual money that the Audi tech does not exist.
The last time I sold a car privately was 20 years ago...it was an E30 g plate 316. I was in Peterborough, some lads from Birmingham came to look at it. Some other Birmingham lads also called. Many many phone calls all evening from 'both' groups haggling price down ..in the end I sold it when they called back after pretending to drive away just so I could sleep as it was after midnight.... punchline is I got a call 1 month later from the new owner asking about history and mileage....it was 70k lower than when I sold...
I was a little kid, and my dad needed a new cheap sh#tbox daily driver. His friend called knowing my dad was looking for one and had a Dodge Omni. He hyped it up saying it was barely used and he'll sell it for 500$ We get there to test it out, the car ok on the outside but horrendous on the inside. I to this day don't know what he did, but there were (not exaggerated) at least 100 gnats inside flying around. My dad being nice drove it up and down the street and politely said, " It's a manual, so sorry, its a no.
I will never forget the gnats flying in unison hovering around the roof lining😂
My Clio RS purchase was exactly this video. Bought for huge overs off a tiny shack with a stool as you say off a dealer near Southend. All red flags. I was desperate and really wanted one. It was 60k miles at the time a couple years ago so seemed okay. Test drove, it had no fuel 🚩 put a deposit down cause it ran normally otherwise. Found a cut in body under seats around fuel pump 🚩 bought it anyway. Found it had 11 prev owners 🚩 filled up in a local Morrisons and it pissed fuel everywhere 🚩 went back and explained, they said I had over fueled. Left anyway, found out the fuel pump had a seal issue and to make matters worse, got sent a message that took me 5 minutes to scroll to the bottom of with all the previous faults from before he gave it away to Motorway 🚩 I'd love to share that message with you guys but the car is amazing now. On paper it's a horrific, unsellable example but it's mechanically sound and a great riot!
Has to be ruin again, Got the starter fixed on my crown but it took 4 hours to get it off, while lying under the car. Even though it's working now the recent news about certain someone just plummet the week.
I went to look at an 2014 Audi A6 Avant at a small used car dealership near Sheffield ran buy a few young lads. We travelled over an hour there and the wife needed the toilet when we arrived. She walked into the customer loo and then walked back out - there was no toilet seat to be seen, and not a single toilet roll either. Car was dodgy anyway, so wasn't even worth the trip. 😅
I got a great used car story... One that still haunts me to this day. When I was 17 I had saved some money for my first project car. Decided to scrub the entire Internet for something that may be something good for a daily and also something to do things to. Ended up finding a 2nd gen Mazdaspeed 3 that was "bone stock" being that I was 17 and blinded by the super cool hot hatch. I didn't notice the absolutely filthy k&n, all the dents and missing paint, and the bald tires. The first red flag I should've noticed. It was the shadiest used car dealer in a very notorious area in my state in the US for terrible used car dealers. Bought the car, got registration and insurance to THEN do a vin check.... I was the 7th owner. 4 years later it's still in my driveway with a stretched timing chain and needing a new fuel pump because it was modded by the other 6 17 year olds before I owned it. Oh and the best part, the dealership is no longer in business 🫠 never again will I buy used from a dealer. I like picking on everything wrong with marketplace cars so I can get at the least 1k off lol
when i bought my 523i the dealer was one like this. they had the car in the very corner of the lot and someone was going around with a brushcutter to cut the grass but the only thing he was doing was fling stones at every car. The car was complete shit but started and in a shocking lack of common sense and ignoring every alarm bell going on with that dealer i still bought it wich was one of the worst ideas i had until now but at least i have fun with trying to fix it
I was looking at a car recently. Found out by running an MOT check, it had 20k miles more on the clock than advertised and had been without an MOT and untaxed for over a year. When I messaged the seller about this he literally just replied “Drives amazing Free local delivery service We’re open 7 days till late ok Give us a call thank u Mate 1 year mot and. Has rd tax one year”
No reply from the guy on eBay trying to sell a Cat-N as a clean title car either.
Bought my first car from some dodgy Romanian dealer and when it eventually broke down and I had to scrap it I found another car that looked great. Little did I know it was the same dealer on a different account. Went down there and the guy had lied about service history and a check engine light was on. Said it was his wife’s car and she’s been driving it and told all been fine even though I knew the car hadn’t been taxed in months. He then phoned “his wife” who sounded like a big frolic Romanian man. They then got angry when we asked for them to run a diagnostic check and it came back as a crankshaft failure. I then wanted nothing to do with the car and when we were leaving he kept shouting at us with lower offers also when I got home he messaged me with an even lower offer saying he needed the money really badly.
I approve of the choice of shoes, nice clean looking shoes help your image on cam, if one appears to have taken their shoes from a tramp...you get it.
I did actually buy a car from the "Cars with no reserve Reading" ebay page.
It was a 2010 freelander 2, got it for a good price and its been good for the past 6 years. Had the occasional thing wrong but its a JLR product on 200k miles now so the occasional routine part is to be expected.
Guess i got lucky with them 😀
These bloody podcasts!
I keep putting them on the tv while I’m ’doing things in the kitchen’
I’ve just caught myself leaning on the side watching and laughing along. Maybe I should switch to Spotify. Haha.
I had a terrible dealer experience here in Switzerland. I wanted to buy a very low mileage Rover 75 (I know "boring car bla bla bla", but I like it).
The first red flag was that the dealership in question had a rating of 2.5 stars on google, with re-views basically consisting of people explaining how they had taken the company to court and only then received a refund on the knackered cars they had been sold.
With that in mind, I went anyway and took my wife along with me. There was a really old man who greeted me, but he stank of smoke and when I went to start the car the battery was completely flat. He then had to venture out into an overgrown wilderness behind the garage to find a jump pack. The car was in great condition, and I knew what to look for, so I said that I would be interested in purchasing it, provided that a service was done (as it still had its original, 25-year-old cam belts!). He kept telling me that I could drive it at is had very low mileage, but I insisted, and he then agreed to get the service done.
Fast forward two months and I still didn't have the car. Every phone call and message were replied to with excuses for the delay. I demanded my deposit back (as I had to pay a certain amount for the work to be carried out) and then offered them a very reduced offer for the vehicle. They had been trying to sell the vehicle for 3 years as I could see the price history online, and they had been progressively reducing it. I offered 6000 Swiss francs (about £5300) for the car, but they were un-willing to accept anything under 6700. In the end, the old man, who was the sales representative, reached a compromise with me: I’d pay 6500 and he would pay the remaining 200 to his boss.
When I arrived with my wife to pick it up, the car was packed with its winter wheels, but they had only loaded 3 into the boot. I asked them where the other wheel was, to which the boss replied in a rude tone: "The spare wheel is the fourth one." We both started laughing at him and I told him stern-ly to go and look for the fourth wheel otherwise the deal was off. 20 minutes later he came back with it, I paid the guy my amount, to which he remarked I was 200 short. Then the sales representa-tive came out of his office and apologetically told me that I could take the car and leave. He then opened his wallet and paid his boss the remaining amount.
In the end the car got its major service, a new set of tires (the old ones were 16 years old!) and I have been the happy owner of it since.
Oh, and yes, the garage subsequently shut down... I wonder why?
Where in Switzerland was this, out of curiosity? 😅
@ The company no longer exists, but it was in a place called Tagelswangen, right next to the A1 motorway. The next ‘big’ town is Effretikon. The garage was right next to the shop called ‘Volg’. On google maps the address is Zürcherstrasse 23. There is a new company there called Automobile Zürcher, and next to that another company called ‘Sh El Sayed Automobile’, and has 1,7 stars… possibly they opened a new company?
Did you buy a car from them too? 😂
It's crazy the change in prices from 2005 to now. Cars that were worth less than £500 are thousands.
The only reason I play gta online now is purely for the cars and the car customisation. Do the heists and jobs purely to build my car collection
I test drove a mazda 3 a number of years ago and my first issue was i made a wrong turn (anyone from toronto knows that the weston on ramp to the 401 WB is easy to end up on the 409) and had to go further then i really wanted to from the dealer. this become a problem when signs of a bad alternator started to show. so I turned as much electrical stuff off in this thing as i could and turned around the first chance i got. on my way back to the dealer the car started sputtering and i even lost turn signals which was tricky merging across multiple lanes on a major highway. I only just barely got off the highway and pulled into a side street as the car completely died. luckily the dealer was only a couple blocks away and he picked up his phone and came with a booster pack which he wedged under the hood and drove back to his lot.
One time when enquiring about a cars cambelt being done the dealer said "no paperwork for it being done but its absolutely mint", which was the most obvious lot of bollocks I'd ever seen.
With tyres always be careful not to gear up or gear down your car. Not as bad in older cars but newer cars you WILL ruin your gearbox
Was sold a Tonga Green 2007 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 December 2023 for £6250 when prices were at an all time high. He demanded £3000 as a deposit, (stupidly) I agreed due to it being the only one I'd seen in Tonga Green with a black interior and also because all my other options were too far away or had sold. The car had a multitude of issues and was NOT as described. there was lacquer peel on the bonnet (in the pictures it was perfect), damage on the seats (Rears were scratched by a dog, again, fine in photos, the car reeked of smoke and it had various things broken on the interior that were "small fixes" Thought I'd just swallow it up and get it right myself but 2 days later the alarm started going off non stop with the car having a complete meltdown. it wouldn't start, only the driver's door opened and things like the heater/radio/dials were going absolutely nuts. 4 auto electricians tried and 3 failed to diagnose it. and the 4th found years worth of water damage in the boot ruining all of the many) wires and modules stored there. He did the bare minimum to get it running and I later dumped it because I hated it. losing £5000+. The dealer funnily enough vanished right after I bought it.
Yes I know it was dumb to buy it, but lessons were learned. Painfully at that. I've had many experiences but this takes the cake, other than being offered some (put kindly) back of the throat badminton when I was trying to sell it. Another one asked me to drive it across Europe. Hilarious.
I'm really enjoying these podcasts.
recent car dealer experience:
Went to go and look at a 2005 golf 1.9 pd100 for my borther and when we get there (this garage was also behind a petrol station and hand car wash) the first thing the bloke says is "ah youre here to see the shit golf", and to be fair to him it really was shit so when he asked why i didnt want it, i said "because its shit"
It's gotta be rule for me, I bought my first car, a 1994 Volkswagen corrado vr6, I'm 19 and was able to insure it for daily use for £900 a year which I'm so happy about
TDC podcast & smith n sniff are the best automotive podcasts by far
Went to see an R56 Mini Cooper S, amazing photos but a couple of dodgy panel caps, perfect spec, BRG over cream leather. Failed to recognise that it was in Bedford. Got there - down a dodgy lane on a farm, car was not there.. Luckily the dealer (not the same name as ok autotrader) came over there ring doorbell to say they were coming. The most ragged broken R56 arrived. The racing stripe was coming off as he came down the drive. I didn’t buy it - but atleast they offered me a warranty.
Here's my question for the forum: you often mention buying cars through the process of auctions, notably "collecting cars". As a listener looking to buy my first car, you've convinced me to do the same thing. However, since I don't have a specific idea in mind, I often browse auction websites but I always feel like I am missing out on the gem that could be found on an obscure auction website that I don't know about. So, do you by any chance know of a website that includes most other websites, ideally European ones (I am French so buying a car outside of the EU is off the register) ? Thank you very much !
Hi lads, a different view for a laugh - I worked in the motortrade years ago and have loads of stories from that murky world.
We took a classic 911 S in px, which we had inspected by a well known Porsche specialist to check it’s authenticity. However, we advertised it and another specialist came to see it, who noticed an issue with the shell.
Turns out after lots of digging it was a 911 T shell, which had been turned into an S replica with S running gear and docs changed etc. We were gutted, but agreed to sell it hugely reduced to these people on a trade sale as a T, and move on.
3 weeks later, our brochure for a well known classic car auction arrived and guess what? There’s ‘our’ car, with our photos, and even our advert text with the inspection we had carried out as proof of this “genuine 911 S”!!
The car sold for huge money, and is probably still out there now. As you can imagine this is the tip of the iceberg!
Ruin.
Currently waiting on a recovery truck lol.
Not good but we move. Hopefully my luck changes soon 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
Praying for you man, hope it’s nothing serious
So... I have had an issue buying and selling cars...(I'm not a car dealer).
I live in Weston-s-Mare and went to buy an EP3 Civic Type-R 2002 in Merthyr Tydfil (which on this rainy day) took around 2 hours to reach. It was 2 years old and the owner wanted £7.5k for it as he was looking for a quick sale so he could buy an Impreza he had seen. After a successful test drive I said I would take it and proceeded to get the CASH I had stashed in my brother's car..
It was at this point the owner piped up and said I can't buy it today as the paperwork is in his dad's office which is locked as he is on a work trip?!
Ecstatic in hearing this I had to go back home and come back to buy it a week later! (I still have it today)
The selling story is much more intriguing! After buying the Type-R I had a MK1 MX-5 that was surplus to requirements. I had recently had the alternator replaced and made sure the car was solid. I sold it to a lovely elderly lady who lived not far from me so after selling I drove past the car a couple of times in the proceeding weeks, then nothing.
3 months later I get a call from a man in Scotland who is complaining that the mx5 he bought off me last week had a faulty alternator?
At this point I'm wondering "what the hell in universal credit is going on here?"
The gentleman had my number off the paperwork that came with the car and as I claimed my ignorance he got angrier and angrier claiming that I should remember him as I met him at Bristol Airport to do the test drive before he drove it back to Scotland.
This went on for days until I eventually found an old photo of me sat in the mx5 and sent it to him to prove I'm not the person he met.
Turns out the old ladies son owned a car dealership and didn't re-register the car (kept it in my name to keep owner count lower) then met the guy at the airport and claimed to be me?!!
I just hope the son loses all his 10mm sockets and has many electrical faults for the rest of his life
You ought to live in Huddersfield boys, no gritters for the initial snow, which compacted into ice😳 took a week to clear💁🏼
Best part of £2k for a set of tyres now, so I just refuse to drive in the snow. The downside to a RWD V8.
Rule for me. Had my Type R come back with a fresh gearbox, Clutch and belts and tensioners. Basically a brand new car. Drove my dad’s daihastu fourtrak for 6 weeks.Not for me.
Big love for Midnight Club II! And still Ruin, although I’ve had an update on the car, so I may, eventually, get back to Rule.
I once went to look at a car from a dealer who turned out his "dealership" was the back of a closed down carpetright carpark. In the back of this empty carpark was a bunch of cars under a tree, half of them completely covered in algae, and one s-max completely full to the headliner of car parts. In between them this one clean car that I had arrived to see. I did not buy the car.
Sorry to be that guy, but ackshually the new M5 uses the S68 engine - the main difference is in the exhaust manifold which is now a cross flow manifold (mixing gases from both banks to the turbos)
The amount of people on Facebook groups asking what their car is Worth only to be upset when it's not the figure they already had in their head before asking the question 🤦♂️
As an M140i owner I wholeheartedly agree with the M car rundown 😂
This couldn't have been titled better and came at a great time
Conspiracy: car regulations are the reason all new cars are looking the same. If I remember correctly, there's a rule for how big a vehicle can be to how efficient it can be, or something like that.
It’s worrying me how much stuff I have in common with Will. Scarpa boots, MoonSwatch and Clio as just a start.
Real car guys. Thanks
33:40 midnight club died because rockstar was too busy with gta5, so they just integrated their racing game experience into gta. not sure if we will get another midnight club, but with the state of racing games atm, i doubt we will ever see it again :(
Make no mistake there is not a single car podcast that is better than this one. Not one.
Modern cars have huge wheels and thin tyre walls because they weigh several metric tonnes so need to limit flex and allow room for massive brakes. It's certainly a modern problem.
The Swindon garage on Gypsy Lane sounds fantastic
I have a story
I was looking for a while for a cheap Ford Smax
Found one for 1500 that had been "re mapped and straight piped" I thought nice
Pictures looked great too
Went to look at it and it was battered, the windscreen was cracked, the back end looked like it had been on fire because the light was melted
And the "straight pipe" turned out to be the exhaust was rotten and the back box had fallen off
When I questioned him about it I got the usual response from someone selling you a nail "I don't know anything about cars and I'm selling it for my Dad/brother/wife/friend"
Needless to say I walked.... sorry.... Ran away 😂
why is Edmin wearing a jacket older than him? That is circa 1998, I am old enough to remember watching the Renault teammates taking out each other at the complex at Thruxton while standing on the grass bank.
The demo is a great background!
This may make it into the forum. I was watching fast and the furious 2, and in the scene where they race the Yenko camaro and the challanger (I think), the evo catches up by using nitro, which makes it way faster. And it then just occurred to me, a nitro-set wouldn't actually make a turbo car any faster would it? For that it would need to be turbo limited, at which point it would be way easier to just fit a bigger turbo right?
Question, what would you guys say is the most boring NPC level car you can buy, like no redeeming qualities. Just car. Ive always thought the Volkswagen Jetta or the Nissan Qashqai takes that spot but what do you guys think? Think it'd be an interesting talking point 😀
Mazda 121, hands down.
the qashqai or juke 100%
Any Vauxhall. Don’t come at me with VXR or SRI. All shite.
All modern "SUVs". I just call them all "Generic Car" (I mean I don't even care what they are either, they're just generic)... Built for people to who don't care about driving, or about cars whatsoever, and just want an car to go from A to B without any thought. All of these modern Generic Car's look broadly the same, do broadly the same things, cost about the same, feel the same, and have absolutely no personality or anything even slightly exciting.
@@ardley216 Goes doubly so for those crossovers/mini SUV's that are not big enough to do anything you want to do with a proper SUV but are worse to drive and guzzle more gas for no reason. At least with a proper full size SUV you get some benefits of more ground clearance, better view over the road and cushy suspension. Those crossovers/mini SUV's are the worst of both worlds.
Back in 2023, I was down in Cornwall and my Dad sends me a link to a old Nissan 100nx on eBay not too far from me (also I think Nissan initially designed that car to have popups and then some legislation change came up and they thought shit, we need to change the front, an oh, she ain't a looker), Anyway. Went to go look at the car, was a Dealer selling it. turned up, rotten cars all over the place, some Random rusty truck frame just chilling. And not really a shipping container as the office, more like a shed. everyone bunning ciggies in there. he showed me round the car, definitely been sat for a while. spent about 15 minutes trying to find the keys, good start, then the battery was dead so sketchy jump pack. to be fair, starting up on the button, then he processed to almost bang it off the limiter as soon as it started haha. and the exhaust blow was sooo bad. basically didn't really have an exhaust. was a funny dealership experience.
Who in their right mind of state would go to a random dealership far away from their home to test drive a car for fun? Especially for a shitty car 😂😂😂. You guys have the most time on your hands. I might have something to keep you busy 😁
My new motto in life: "remember, we all make steaks "
Will's boot is good bc even if they're dirty, they look sharp
Funny, but becuade of your videogame talk I started playing midnight clubs games again and its amazing, thank you bois
Bringing out some old school midnight club 2!
I owned and dailied an s2000 for 2 years and although they are a fun car to drive with an amazing powertrain they are incredibly overpriced for what they are. The seating position is atrocius if you happen to be anything over 5 foot. For the same money you can get into boxters/caymans or a z4 which are far more premium and better value for money. If s2ks were 5/6k then sure but its 10k + for a half decent one. Very easy to work on though 😅