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Come on Alex. You cant moan about £150 for a cold water tap and then advertise a £50 waterbottle.
You realise these are total snake oil, right?
You're better than this Alex. Don't ruin your rep by shilling known scam products. . .
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The mystery guests... What a great way to introduce Ethan and Jack under the Autoalex umbella
"This divorce is taking all the kids" is what did it for me 🤣
@@EthanTurner61Rory is the step mom masterminding the plan
PLEASE. this would be so awesome.
exactly what I thought ..
A road trip with Alex's 993, Edwin and Will's 996, and Ben Collin's 997 would be mega! Battle of the Porsches!
Berlin to Warsaw in one tank
Agreed 👍 the UK version of car trek is born 🙌
And Jacks’ 924!
More like 'march of the Porsche Drivers through the Brecon Beacons....'
@@Chronostra what you did there, i see it hahahahahahahaha
Alex, instead of getting a bigger sofa, use that molten crispy seat for a "hot seat"
That's a great idea.
Unfortunately there will be no audio podcast this week but it will be back next week!
I want to know what's happening to the other 2 legends from Car Throttle
What did Rory bugger up this time?
@@anonimushboshlast weeks from Spotify.
Oh man
You may think that releasing the podcast as a video a week later will satisfy your rabid fans but it will not! We can only assume that the Car Throttle management and the French police have surrounded the Unit and you are negotiating a hostage trade of 17 broken BMWs for Ethan and Jack. Come on!
Edwin, if you're reading this.. Good call in the end there. I have been very critical towards CT recently, but if i haven't been clear enough i'd like to make clear that personally my criticism towards CT is purely the management/owners. Obviously can't comment on your former collegues.
Can't wait to see Jack and Ethan join either TDC or AA and i still hope it's not the end for CT although it currently looks like it is.
ethan did say he would do the headliner in Miles...............................
To be fair, do we care about CT? We just care about Ethan and Jack! (and the rest of the boys who left)
Ben Collins: "Yes... Interesting." 🤣🤣🤣
"2 mystery guests." 🤞🏾 Please be who I hope it is!
I think it has to be!
It's 100% them, it was basically confirmed with the bed in the Focus comment
Referencing a bed in a sofa, there's no way it isn't 🤣
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C'MON GUYS... V2 GO GO GO!!!
52:26 Love the channel guys but having electricity blackouts is a myth!
In the UK our electricity use peaked in 2005 with 357 TWh used per year. Our electricity use has been falling since 2005 and we are now (2022) using 281 TWh per year. If we all had EV's we would need an additional 75 TWh per year so we would be back to 2005 levels.
National grid have stated this is the case. There will be no blackouts.
Home solar is becoming cheaper & more efficient every year. Plenty of people already have solar so an EV is basically a no brainer for them.
Off peak overnight tarrifs means there will not be spikes in charging in peak times. With bidirectional charging being introduced in more vehicles you can sell your BEV electricity back to the grid in high demand and charge when there is low demand. You can end up being paid and still charge your car!
Are you Rory 🤣 To be honest I don't watch regular TV anymore, UA-cam has the best content, can fully relate
Have now caught up listening to all the pod casts while I've been driving. Sometimes I have laughed so hard I've had to almost pull over, god knows what other drivers must think seeing me in the car alone in utter hysterics. Keep up the great work and thanks for the entertainment it's much appreciated.
Don't crash 😭
This is absolutely brilliant listening, you guys are all fantastic together, now just finish the line up with Jack and Ethan and make some Auto Alex history 😎
Birmingham is the only place I have looked at a car, and the sales man was wearing a track suit, and when It came to test driving it I was told "you ain't test driving it unless ya buying it" to my response "I won't be if there is something wrong with it, when I drive it". He proceeded to argue with me to the point lol I think he wanted a fight. Yeah no I'm not buy any shit off you, laughed and walked away.
One car had miles rolled back and showed it in the handbook.. lol
And one car was so rough (blue smoke, clutch gone, suspension shot).. I just walked away.
Yeah don't buy cars from Birmingham...
Alex talking about expensive heating while the postman left the door open in the background 😅
The discussions here were brilliant. Love you guys.
swiftly becoming one of my fav pod casts ,well done guys
Great podcast, thoroughly enjoyed!
I reckon Rory has become protective mother and sheltering all the “stragglers”
An Allegro isn`t a hatchback!
Looks like it should be but as you say it’s bot
The bridge before M40 J3, Loudwater, just before the bend, most weekends, all holidays, camera van.
M40 J4. Handy cross bridge. They sit tucked up to the left if you’re going North
Raleaf sounds amazing! Get it done
Alex is collecting previous car throttle members like they Pokémon his gotta catch them all . 😂
Car throttle is like a launch pad for You tube success
car throttle is going to die
@@NikoMoraKamuit’s already dead but it dosen’t know it is like a zombie 🧟♂️
Car throttle was always 💩
The best thing that happened to it was when Alex left and met Taylor and Rory
F**ing around with cars with no script or any BS is 10x funnier and more watchable than car throttle content was
I got clocked at 88mph on the M40 with one of the same vans back in 2018! I didn't expect it either!
Diesel or gas electric plug-in hybrids are simply the way to go. If you think about it, if the engine exists only to drive the generator to top off the battery, almost all powertrain inefficiencies are eliminated. Plug it in and charge up off the grid to do your short driving. For your long drives, top off the tank, and let the little engine hum away. Added bonus, Diesel and electric stationary engines that are designed and optimized to run at a fixed RPM, are just about as efficient as you can make an internal combustion engine.
Jack and Ethan mystery guests
Alex calling someone should just be part of the podcast 🤣
I recently started watching Auto Alex. I am enjoying laughing along with you guy's. Hello from Sydney Australia.
Bought a Sapphy 4x4 Cosworth from guy in Birmingham in June 2004.. Spot on appart from the ABS light came on at 123MPH.....
Totally down for a Ralleaf 😂👌 great podcast guys and so glad the guys have hit the ground running with TDC, fantastic content across all channels, building an empire here 👌
Will must live locally to me, one of the unmarked vans is outside my village at least weekly on the a508. So easy to confuse with a works van but so far so good for me
Had no idea P1 was "cousins"🎉 with this crew. Thats awesome
59:02 MYSTERY GUEST!!
Saw a photo of Phil on the Top Gear video on the end of the Dodge Challenger
I've only been court once for speeding and had the same experience. Me in a suit while everyone else in a tracksuit but it played in my favour. Got caught 80 in a 40 got a 2 week ban and £160 fine
How long ago was that, because they changed the sentencing for it in the last few years.
Also did you have a clean record prior to getting court.
996 csr spec would be cool. 996 vs 993 video would be cool as well. Doesnt Edwin have a green e46 m3?
Alex my car could be a decent contender for the tesla, its a seat leon supercopa 2.0tdi CR, with a few spicy bits, semi slick, bilsteins to be put on soon, 240bhp 500nm, other handling mods etc
The mystery vehicle was a Vanden Plas 1500; it was never named an Austin nor an Allegro despite its origins. Also, Allegros and their badge-engineered offsprings were saloons with 2 or 4 doors and a 3-door estates only. Although the styling suggested, BL never offered them in hatchback form, and indeed the VP 1500 was only sold as a 4-door saloon.
Warped brakes usually incorrect fitting or driving - Dirt behind disc on hub when fitted or standing on brake pedal after coming to a stop after a heavy braking session (ie motorway slip road to roundabout stop). They won't/Cant leave factory with runout.
Love the Videos and PodCasts keep up the good work. With regards to the electric vehicles, i work for a popular Motorway services and we are struggling to put EV chargers on sites as they dont have capacity on the grid and is taking a while to get it agreed. As a country we only produce about 35% renewable energy so most of these electric cars are still being charged with burning fossil fuels and the batteries are shot in 7 to 8 years. If you have a small budget the electric car isnt possible and as you said in certain situations the electric car will work but generally not the best way forward.
I bought my car from Cazoo (yes I know) and only found out when I looked at the service book that it had lived in and around Birmingham for around 6 years. Was very surprised because it was in perfect condition inside and out 😂 the speed limiter was set to 106 though...
I did a 400 mile round trip in my BMWi3s Range Extender. Four petrol stops during the trip roughly £40 of petrol. Brilliant car.
Hi guys, as a car guy from the other side from the pond in The Netherlands, I see so many RHD cars for sale here. Not necessarily JDM cars but semi-cool cars like V8 BMW's, Porsches, etc. Over here they are offered much cheaper than their LHD equivalents. Are there any stict rules and import laws applicable to these former UK vehicles in case you guys fancy importing them back to the UK? Otherwise you guys might be able to score some cars for pretty cheap!
Alex get a 32A commando socket installed on its own 40A circuit. A £30 adapter for your tesla charger will get you 7.4kW charging rate with very little outlay. That's 30miles per hour overnight and on an ev tariff 128 miles will cost just over £2.
There is too much buy this/buy that and you cannot charge at home bs being spread. It is possible even in a terraced house if you do it the right way.
I'd also say Rory has not lived with a PHEV if he did he'd realise it is far from ideal. Unless you plug it in you use the engine as a generator ruining any savings of "Green efficiency". We have PHEVs in our company and they barely get 300 miles to a tank unless you plug them in every night. And then I throw the people in Terraced house argument back at him. And the the answer you get for economy is buy a diesel.
Now I don't live in London but I was under the impression they had kerb charging being rolled out? Perhaps look at that and ask what the city council's are doing to bring in the EV policy. And without fleecing the public in doing so. 7.4p/kw off peak and 26p/kw at peak. So why charge a minimum of 50p/kw and more?
TDC has already surpassed Autoalex V2 sub count lol
Was there a hatch back VP 1500? I don't think there was!
Collins is just a living legend
there is two awareness courses I'm sure, speeding on motorway and speeding on normal roads have there separate courses.
The answer to kerb side charging is a simple plastic gully that the council approves you install. Called Kerbocharge. It was on dragons den the other night.
You should invite Richard from RSEV to debate the electric car matter.
Tim at EBC is right! It's not the discs warping but the heat causing the crystalline structure of the metal changing, making it much harder. Most often caused by super hot brakes not being allowed to cool of driving. Once you stop, the super hot brake pads cover only part of the disc and change the structure in the metal of the disc. Nothing wrong, until the disc starts to wear and the thickness of the disc changes because the part that was much hotter during cooling off is much harder and doesn't wear as much as the rest or the disc. The lesson here is that if you get your brakes hot, you need to keep your wheels rolling until they are cooled off sufficiently or your discs need to be replaced eventually.
SCIENCE! haha
Not entirely true, last year i warped a rear disk on my Kia Ceed, took the disk off, put it on a flat surface and there was a clear warp, my caliper was partially seized so it didn't happen through normal operation but disks can and do still warp even on modern cars, the noise and vibration that came from it was horrendous when going above 40MPH, new right rear caliper and new disks and pads on the back fixed it.
Excellent advice there, it also helps if you lift off the brake pedal when sat at traffic lights, that portion of the disc in contact with the pad does not cool, if you don’t.
Since I’ve been doing that I’ve never warped a set.
It’s disc thickness variation - DTV - that can be measured with a dial gauge. Warping simply isn’t the correct term for it. (Tim from EBC)
Was literally driving down the M40 the other day paying attention to every bridge because of this haha
I'm a huge f1 fan, seb vettle drove an older f1 car run completely on carbon free fuel, and it still had the same great sounding engine and run fine
That fuel is not carbon free though. Yes carbon capture tech produce fuel from thin air, but it takes electricity to run those machine, and without more renewable energy deployment, it's still using electricity from burning coal or natural gas. If you consider that electricity to be explicitly from renewable energy, then the lamp on a random person's desk just got dirtier using those dirty electricity that wasn't used to create synthetic fuel.
I love LEAFs! You can turn the traction and stability control off by pulling a couple fuses. On my channel I have videos of me autocrossing a LEAF on semislicks.
Limited slip dif and it's golden
"Some say when the Stig hears a Brummie dialect, his brain decides to forget everything he learnt for the past 5 years, and that when he goes on a night out in Birmingham, he sniffs oil patches on peoples driveways. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”
25:44 spending ticket 🎫
late to this podcast but I'd love to see the ofroad leaf!
erm the Austin allegro range of cars were salon or estate, not hatchback
i bought a pug 205 1.9 gti from brum years ago and when i went to start it the next day it wouldnt go into gear. so many days later we discovered the people before had filled the gearbox up with sawdust.
Liverpool is worse for buying second had car's had a vw dealer say he refuses cars from Liverpool branches
@@gingernutpreacher I bet he said calm down calm down after it as well. Look at the crime / deprivation of the 2 cities now, Birmingham is far worse, like Liverpool used to be in Thatchers day
@@seany8787 no he said ay up duck it wasnt that big of a chain so may not of had a branch in Birmingham
@@gingernutpreacher ay up duck? So he was from Leeds / Bradford area then
@@seany8787 stoke on trent
Went to view a 320d in Birmingham once, backstreet dealership. After test driving the heap of sh:t, I jumped back in my car and realised my phone was missing. We went back in and searched the BM interior and could not find it. I stood around asking where is it then and the owner got in my face telling me to F*** off and they don't have my phone, after a heated row, one his 'many' cousins turned up and started punching my windscreen and threatening me (whilst my partner and baby were in the car). We reversed away from him and called the police, they helped with a 'find my iPhone' searh to which it showed it was in the building, then they told the guy to drive round the block in the car, it showed the phone was moving with the car and we eventually found it stuck in the air vent under the seat. The police just told us to shake hands at the end of it, no action taken! Absolutely horrendous interaction.
The beauty of multiculturalism
Rorys 100% right governments lie it's about the only thing that can count on them to do
The mention of the purple turtle got my attention!
The courses are funny 😂 everyone trying to plead their case…
Edwin needs to swap that 2.0l V10 in the mx5 when it's ready
I bought a car in Coventry Road Birmingham, it’s broke so much I call it Frankenshed now!
May the forth be with you!
The trouble with the Government's EV plans is, they've not done anything to actually make this a viable option for most people, They should have been investing in adding EV chargers across the country, also with the way Energy Suppliers have price gauged up all in recent years nobody trusts that their electricity bills won't suddenly do through the roof if the suppliers suddenly feel like increasing prices again.
I had a very similar experience! Just goes to show how much value they put in the "Speed Awareness" course... if they thought it was any use, they'd make you take the points AND the course, but... they don't, because... it's pointless.
As long as you only want an is200/300/altezza the one good guy to buy from in Birmingham is Ricky smith, he’s a legend
Friend of mine went down to Birmingham for a suspiciously cheap s2000 about 10 years ago. He said it drove like it was hung together with cable ties, every wheel felt like it was pointing a different direction and the seller kindly said was no need to slow down for the speed bumps like he was doing, 'just smash over them' he suggested. He didn't buy the car and hasn't Been back to Birmingham to buy a car again. Lol
Currently the majority of owners of BEV's have a driveway. BEV's just make more sense if you have a driveway where you can charge. With the falling prices of new BEV's (price parity with ICE is already here for some models) and an increasing number of 3/4 year old BEV's coming on the market more people can afford them especially people with driveways that can charge using cheap overnight tarrifs.
Lack of public charging infrastructure is the main reason people without driveways will not move to BEV's sooner. The infrastructure will come but it just takes time to plan and install. Supermarkets etc are starting to include chargers which is a convenient way to charge your everyday car if you dont have a driveway.
Legacy auto delaying their change to BEV will just result in electric only brands being able to sell their cars even more easily. They are just shooting themselves in the foot by delaying their BEV vehicles & they will end up paying huge fines/buying credits from Tesla etc. Pushing up the price of their vehicles and reducing the price of EV only manufacturers.
To be honest legacy auto manufacturers that dont have BEV vehicles being mass produced in the next 5 years are dead ducks.
Ralleaf sounds great
The Austin Alegro Vanden Plas isn’t a hatch back
Alex i like yous and have been watching for years mate🤙 But as a 4 decade motorcycle mechanic can i give you some advice on the bikes that you've been showing. The Gixxer750 is likely the manifold overheating the Coils that particular model ive done a lot of coils on the race bikes. RIGHT, my biggest bit of advice you arent going to like but please accept what im about to say as 100% fact not an opinion.. BMW are the worst bikes you can buy and the S1000rr might just be the worst of the lot. They develope back to back issues and simply are not robust enough especially as a track bike. They get serious problems and regular owners of them are used to engine changes every 15-20k miles. The chassis, electrics and engine are junk that was thrown together quickly and cheaply. They then mapped the junk engine to be just about the fastest out of the factory but its turned into a disaster for them now as we are no less than a decade later and they haven't Addressed one single issue that the original bikes had. BMW know they are junk bikes but keep selling them because bikers that are new to 1000cc or just not clued up at all keep buying them. You can continue to buy them and ignore me as you no doubt have the money to fix them, however, its the day that the electrics play up while you are mid bend is, well thats yer final day here on earth. Take my advice and dont fanboy it mate just stay clear of BMW bikes man. They arent just the worst, they are the worst by miles, probably twice as bad as older Ducatis.
Everyone with sense knows the Gixxer 1000 was always the 1000cc bike to buy if you wanted pure reliability
@@CrazyPanda688 The R1 is by far the most reliable but yeah i'd say Gixxer1 is second now. Blades get too many head bearing issues with riders that wheelie a lot, bad coil packs and ive had to do the bottom end on a few they never completely blew the bottom apart but big end noise was enough for owners to realise it was a major issue. Truth be told all the Japanese bike manufacturers are reliable but yeah its defo Yamaha at the top then Suzuki. Newer Ducati under VAG ownership are as unrelaible as the older early 90s Ducatis even the V4 Superlaggera the carbon fiber swinger and chassis on them are cracking already some as low as 700 mile.
I think i spoke to you on here before was maybe on the bike vid they done. 100% agree with everyone on this thread so far. Been riding and tracking since 1998 and fix all my own bikes. The Yamahas and Suzukis just take everything you can throw at them they get the odd issue every other bike I've had gets like needing plugs earlier than claimed or a coil or rectifier or something along them lines. Kawasaki and Honda I've had no quams with them but noticably more problems than the Yamahas and Suzukis. Every other manufacturer can take a flying one to themselves as they let me down multiple times. KTM as much as i love them the bigger ones arent well made anymore so i went from a 990SM down to a new 690smc-r just to get that old school build quality that the 690 range comes with. Going back to a yamaha or Suzuki on next bike for defo
@@fakevirus8828 Yip the 690s are robust as older KTMs. They faster than people think too. Last one we had in i put a Wings exhaust on for the boy and took it a spin as he asked me to test the bike and tell him what i thought. I was suprised how quick it is off the line it smoked one of the guys golf R out the estate and up a short 60road and back down a B-road to the estate entrance from the opposite direction. The Golf R was remapped too😂 I was shocked how it pulled hard just about everywhere you needed it too. A good rider on one of them is beating an average rider on any other bike on earth to be quite frank. Now i never thought i would be able to say that about a 690cc
I bought my cheap project BMW delivered from Birmingham.. Cat S write off, clutch slipping, massive oil leak and many many more problems.
Owner said everything was fine with the car 😅
Boys can you get in touch with Sam Evans? AKA the Electric Viking? He is the oracle when it comes to EVs and he can give you the truth on so many EV facts. He knows all about Hydrogen and plug in or “self-charging” hybrids and can answer all of your questions. Rory really need this I end up screaming at him when he starts parroting his ‘alternative facts’ about EVs (I don’t feel about that, he’s a really nice bloke). 😂
Will … how is it that you’re the most adorable man in the known (and some say the unknown) universes
an 330d e90 (manual maybe remaped) will piss the damn fridge
I genuinely thought Edwin was the guy from VinWiki with the ASMR voice.
Bring matt and tommy to the pod please.
Mystery guests: I bet one rhymes with Smack and the other rhymes with Eaton ☺️
There should be ranking miles or kilometres on the clock if all your cars combined and years old all combined
Honestly, the podcast should be with taylor. Give these two their separate channel sure, but leave this one.
I mean they're guests for one week, it's not that bad
@@TAussieG that's my point, I hope they're guests
Just alriciate the channel amd what they all do wooop
Somebody mentioned my cappuccino?? 😏 Always up for a new video 👍
1:02:41 Air Up chokes everyone... what a scam.
Techy question.....what microphones are you using please ??
Looks like the shure sm7b
Alex time to tap up Ethan and bring him on board. Taylor, Alex and Ethan with the sugar that is (buuuuuuuuuuut) hamsterman Rory. Its El Glacticos!
As ic you forgot Rorys mum Jackie I think she needs to be on the show and you should all gang up on Rory lol😂😂
Has there been any changes to the breakeven point at which an electric car becomes better for the environment than its ICE equivalent, including manufacturing and running etc.
So, not all podcast episodes will be upladed as videos?
Love these podcasts, if at all possible, could you clip these discussions about EVs, would be great to share these
Edwin looks like Wayne from the cramp twins
To put it simple, zero emission is the goal, like when you want to pass a course. Pushing for EV is like taking the exam, and the infrastructure for charging, renewable energy generation is like attending lectures, taking notes, do your homework. If you just push for EV, you are not getting a good grade on an exam if you don't study for an entire semester. But instead, what we hear most is you need to attend the exam to pass, like sure thing, but how? Everything else is not gonna magically falling into place like they should.
Sitting down, Alex and the TDC lads are the same height!!!!???
I think I made a comment on the electric cars last video. Plug in hybrids are the way forward, I'm plugging in at work and spend like £2 a week on petrol this year in average and that's only because at the start of the year it was cold so the engine turnt on alot for heating....
Agree with Rory plug in is the way forward. If someone does 50+ miles a day fair enough but for most like me who does 30 a day it's a no brainier.
Talking about how in London..... Councils are puting chargers on lamp poles I don't know what nonesense the boys are on about.... If you get a neighbour to back you up too they install in weeks. Source fiends mum I can give street name ect if the boys want to know more....
Get a mezzanine built so you dont lose a lot of room.
I guess Jack and Ethan are coming over as well 👍
I was getting the feeling you had moved on from ' Rorys Mum Jackie ' well saved 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@TopDeadC Edwin should 13b swap his mx-5
The repairability of EV's will end when the EU steps in with true right to repair (kinda). Its going to be a massive problem most people i know (and myself) buy cars that are around 10 years old. If the engine goes, slap a new one in for less than 2k no issues (and thats not even doing the work yourself). 10 year old EV with issues though, its going to get scrapped its not worth it if the battery pack dies, its not like your local garage can install a second hand battery pack when its all locked down in software. Even if they could a used battery pack is going to be extortionate and just not economical. I think the EV/Used market can only go 2 ways. 1) Governments step in and demand right to repair or 2) We dont own the cars, we end up renting cars. I can see 2) being possible especially in the UK. I think say going to showroom/drop/pickup point picking a fully charged car up, driving it about until battery is near dead (never charging yourself because you cant maybe you live in a flat or something), and then dropping it back to the showroom/drop/pickup point and jumping in another charged one will happen for those who cant afford a new car every say 10 years or when an issue comes up that is to costly. I also think in the UK they will have a scheme soon that converts lampposts into EV charging points. The charging thing is going to be a proper scam on the poor though where its more expensive if you cant charge at home because you dont have the privilege of a driveway. If they can do "cars as a service" they absolutely will do it, they want everything as a service these days. It will be sold as more convenient and affordable. They will probably bundle it with insurance/tax also because insurance is going to be unaffordable for most in the not to distant future. Its not like when you crash you can repair that 40k car for a few 100 quid, its just wrote off. You will also have no choice but to rent/buy new since the insurance will be so high on an ICE car. They will probably really jack the fuel price also. The governments wont stop this happening because "as a service" means more tax.
With some BYD models you can change the battery pack within 5 minutes. Kind of mad that the EU has mandated that phones must have readily swappable batteries but not cars. Hopefully that's something that's addressed quickly.
At least with the price of batteries continuing to fall, it should get cheaper to get new ones.
You definitely can get local garages to do battery packs now. Maybe not even pleb but high end places will....
There's also companies now that rebuild battery packs.... I can find a couple not too far from me right now