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| Stacey007 Member Since: 25 Sep 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3758  
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 Way too much time on your hands.... 
Now pick up your smart phone and go and look for Pokeman... Your right though it looks the same  looks like a bracket for lights maybe each side hence the gaps |
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19th Jul 2016 1:28pm |
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| Dubbs Member Since: 16 Jul 2016 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 5
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I'll have to try and find that episode, will be interesting....
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19th Jul 2016 1:39pm |
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| mustafasoleiman Member Since: 21 Jun 2016 Location: London Posts: 105 
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Video distorsion
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19th Jul 2016 1:57pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769  
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Looks like it's being filmed in a reflection so could be distortion. If you look at the N/s below the headlight it also looks distorted back... Unless they've bumped it. Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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19th Jul 2016 2:52pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3514 
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As long as you realise that TV is one big fabrication and nothing is real, you won't go far wrong. I read an interview with Ed and Mike on line and they were open about the fact that they can only really show four or five repair items per episode and that they do far more than the TV episode portrays. I always like the fact that by the reveal of the car on the turntable, the tyres are nearly always new - and very few episodes mention changing the tyres. These items never seem to make the Mike Brewer tally at the end of the project either. I also read somewhere that in the early days, the buyers of the cars were stooges, usuallymembers of the production team? Not sure how true that was. I still like Wheeler Dealers. I wish I had an Ed China and an Ed China workshop.
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19th Jul 2016 2:55pm |
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| RRUK Site Supporter Member Since: 31 Mar 2010 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 2025
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I admit the pictures I took look a little wonky but thats a freeze frame on non HD for you. When you watch it, it's clear as day. Never mind! 2016 D4 HSE 1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF 1982 Series 3 SWB Petrol |
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19th Jul 2016 3:31pm |
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| Romadog Member Since: 07 Jul 2011 Location: Powys Posts: 1749 |
Edd wired up the electric fan the wrong way and melted the grille !!
The underneath was very scabby too apparently so I was reliably told  |
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19th Jul 2016 6:11pm |
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| Steveb4x4 Member Since: 13 Sep 2023 Location: Warwickshire Posts: 3
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Actually a certain tv mechanic wired the electric fan backwards so hot air was blown into the new grill whilst in test drive resulting in a warped grill from someone who had to rebuild the rotten chassis and axles and bodges from a knackered farm truck
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13th Sep 2023 6:53pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6098 
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A lot of these programs are a setup....
I rented some kit to the Storage wars series once, talk about a total setup!  |
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13th Sep 2023 6:56pm |
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| Steveb4x4 Member Since: 13 Sep 2023 Location: Warwickshire Posts: 3
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The bit that got me was bought it for 3k spent 4 k sold for 8k no mention of my 3.5k bill for sorting it all out was a total mess no clutch spigot bearing no exhaust just a bodged cherry bomb wrotten axles the springs actually fell off the rear axle when we jacked it up replaced 2/3 of the chassis should of been rechassised but they were skint lol worst driving defender ever drove flat as a fart and gutless should of checked the cam timing really no mention of where it was actually put right pms
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13th Sep 2023 7:02pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3514
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Nothing in television is spontaneous. When someone walks through the door and is greeted like a long lost friend, the camera crew, sound man, Director and production crew have spent three hours previous to the shot choregraphing the meeting and getting it set up.
These programmes are purely entertainment. Reality doesn’t come close. I can’t think of a car that the team has flipped since the first series where they lost money. Doesn’t anyone find that curious? The Bangers and Cash programme can’t really be script written. The production company obviously need to select which vehicles have an interesting story behind them pre-auction. They film a public open auction and I suppose sometimes the people who buy the vehicles they have featured just don’t want to be on telly. Derek Mathewson and his son’s always say, you don’t make money restoring classic cars albeit Mike Brewer and Ed/Ant/Elvis apparently do. |
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13th Sep 2023 7:52pm |
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| Steveb4x4 Member Since: 13 Sep 2023 Location: Warwickshire Posts: 3
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The original purchaser in the program was the directors best friend as you say all a set up
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13th Sep 2023 7:58pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3514
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Yes. There was a lot of talk that some of the purchasers from earlier series were all stooges from the production crew or their friends and family. Not sure if it was ever proved.
Not really a fan of Mike Brewer nor his doppelgänger on Car SOS Tim Shaw. If someone could make a show with Fuzz Townsend and Ed China doing mechanical stuff only, I would be more than happy. I find the banter and the dealing excruciating to watch, but I suppose this is what tv companies call entertainment for the masses? |
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13th Sep 2023 8:21pm |
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| Mr Fox Member Since: 10 Sep 2011 Location: green & pleasant land Posts: 1037 
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At least, on the face of it, Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townsend are doing something positive with Car SOS. A little like DIY SOS - I may not be a fan of the presenters, or the format, but I can't fault that someone benefits as a result of the program. |
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13th Sep 2023 9:26pm |
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