Anyone ever bought/sold a Wheeler Dealers car..?

colino

Interesting that the Discovery Channel webpage for WD is showing the cars that are still for sale, but stating categorically that the cars are Attaboy Productions problem. not theirs.

londonTiger

Having your car get purchased (at a lowball price by production) and then fixed up on TV must be nice to see. Although, a lot of restoration programmes like to show the purchase taking place on video so I presume the previous owner gets a tv apperance fee as well (unless they're actors).

But there are sections of programming where they destroy an old car. LIke the top gear guys destroyed a TVR just to get it's cassis to build an electric car. Or just do a straight up destruction challenege.

I bet the previous owner of this was not impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saV3hUUry-4

Imagine if you lovingly serviced the mainted this car from new and had it for 16 years and then you see it on TV getting obliterated. The hammer to the body was completely unnecessary.

jaydeeuk1

londonTiger wrote: »

Having your car get purchased (at a lowball price by production) and then fixed up on TV must be nice to see. Although, a lot of restoration programmes like to show the purchase taking place on video so I presume the previous owner gets a tv apperance fee as well (unless they're actors).

But there are sections of programming where they destroy an old car. LIke the top gear guys destroyed a TVR just to get it's cassis to build an electric car. Or just do a straight up destruction challenege.

I bet the previous owner of this was not impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saV3hUUry-4

Imagine if you lovingly serviced the mainted this car from new and had it for 16 years and then you see it on TV getting obliterated. The hammer to the body was completely unnecessary.

Can't stand that Vicki whatshertits woman, even more annoying than Davina McCall.

I think I've seen every episode of Wheeler Dealers. The worst episodes are when Mike has some idea of turning a car in to something else, like a drift car, beach buggy or off roader. I liked the campervan conversion, the ferrari episode and the bmw isetta one. The £1000 porsche boxter episode seemed too good to be true, not sure how changing the oil and filter in the gearbox would fix a major fault like that.

facade

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

The £1000 porsche boxter episode seemed too good to be true, not sure how changing the oil and filter in the gearbox would fix a major fault like that.

The guy was in the Porsche owners club too.

Fancy no-one in the club suggesting such a simple fix in all the time he had it off the road

Or even pointing out he could have got more than £1000 for the engine and weighed the rest in for scrap if he couldn't be bothered breaking it, I reckon he could have doubled what mike gave with hardly any work.

lovinituk

A lot of it is for entertainment value but overall I think Wheeler Dealers is a great program. Mike and Edd are apparently really nice, genuine guys in real life and are very passionate petrolheads.

I did read one forum about the red XR2 they bought for the show. Apparently Mike crashed it in to the back of the camera car while they were filming the test drive

Nodding_Donkey

I emailed them once to ask how they managed to tow a Range Rover, on a trailer, behind a Mercedes Sprinter when it was obviously too heavy.

Funnily enough they didn't answer.

lovinituk

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

I emailed them once to ask how they managed to tow a Range Rover, on a trailer, behind a Mercedes Sprinter when it was obviously too heavy.

Funnily enough they didn't answer.

Does it really matter? Its TV, of course some of it is going to exaggerated or staged for entertainment and/or filming purposes. If you look in to it too deeply then you can pick a thousand holes in it, just like pretty much everything else on TV.

Personally I think its a well made piece of entertainment that gives some good advice for the amateur mech along the way.

harveybobbles

londonTiger wrote: »

I bet the previous owner of this was not impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saV3hUUry-4

Not as funny as when Jeremy Clarkson bought a Perodua from a showroom and smashed it up outside.