Wheeler Dealers Where Are They Now?
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- It's now over 20 years since the very first series of Wheeler Dealers was aired presented by Mike Brewer and Edd China, and we thought it was an opportune time to see if we could find out what happened to those early cars after they were sold.
In the Seventh Series, Mike & Edd had up to £5000 to buy and restore a classic car - remember cars and parts were a lot cheaper then....!
Originally WD was serialised in 30 minute episodes, with 2 per car, but from series 7 was a single 60 minute programme. These episodes featured:
1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth Reg H721NTF
1979 Volkswagen Type 2 Bay Window Reg BYF955T
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Love these videos. A great watch with a coffee on a Sunday morning ☕️👍
Glad you enjoy it!
Great work Oscar. We are enjoying your uploads and your WD updates. And hello from Australia 😂
Awesome! Thank you!
Great series and thank you for the update(s) ... 👍
Loved the original Wheeler Dealers ... it really appealed to people like myself who 'did up' cars on a budget for a hobby. I learnt quite a bit from watching Edd's mechanical segments ...
I started losing interest when Edd and Mike became based in the US. Then when Edd left I watched one episode without Edd and NEVER watched again ... 😒
Thanks for watching!
Thank you Oscar, I love your Wheeler Dealer updates and how they lied to us
Im pretty sure Series 7 was the 1st series aired here in Oz. It's when I discovered and fell in love with Mike and Ed and the show anyways.. Loving your videos even more now I'm familiar with the cars.. thank you so much for your efforts and research.. 😊
Glad you enjoy them
Good stuff of course l watched the wheeler dealers episodes many times over and you can't forget the burnt orange VW Kombi and it is good to here its running
Another enjoyable video with a pretty good result overall. Many commenters have picked up on the WD lies point of view, I guess people like me who remember watching the very first episode thinking it was the best bit of TV I had ever seen can feel a little cheated. I have met Mike Brewer a few times at the NEC car shows and he was a really nice bloke, but that is only a minute snapshot. I once felt that it was possibly Mikes job to deliver the lies in a way that they weren't too obvious on behalf of the production company who came up with the numbers and everything related, but then I heard that Mike actually owned the company so that didn't really get him off the hook. I know it will be much harder or even impossible to look at any of the American series, but I bet the fakery on those is off the scale.
Funny how at 3:00 onwards, you talk about passionford and the Sapphire Cosworth. I thought i was losing my marbles, as i was adamant that i remembered a post about that car being broken for parts. Then come. 5:55 the exact post about it being broken pops up lol. (relieved i wasn't losing my mind 🤣) I was frequently using passionford at the time, when i had my Sapphire Cosworth and Fiesta RS Turbo etc.
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Great vlog really enjoyed the Cosworth update and can’t believe it’s been 14 years since I first watched that episode. Wonder what happened to the Cerbera which I think was the same series?
Glad you enjoyed it, will get to that...
Why are people surprised that a TV car show is not entirely truthful or accurate on the narrative, repairs and other aspects. It’s entertainment, nothing more. Wheeler dealers still had better standards than Pimp my ride, consider yourself to be fortunate for watching something that actually had a bit of reality and truth in it!
Very interesting to see how these ended up great work really enjoyed it 👍🏻
Thanks
I've often wondered what happened to a lot of these cars. To be fair, the show did well for viewers and we must remember it was TV. Quite often cars were sold to members of the crew for viewing purposes to show it sold, but then sold later to real buyers. That's how I assumed it really went
From what I'm finding as time went on things got more honest with the buying/selling element of the show where they could be. Probably they were thinking some idiot would turn up years later on youtube looking for these cars... 😂
The VW van episode stuck in my memory as they did the final test drive where I grew up.
Bembridge embankment!
Interesting content and as previously reported, they use artistic licence to create the programme but come on who cares , it’s entertaining and it gets us all talking about it.
The Bay was on Volkszone not Piston Heads. I remember it.
Value today if in that condition £10k -£14k
Gearbox wasn't replaced. Think input shaft bearing noisy sent of for new bearing.
Can’t stand Mike brewer, remember when they totalled up the costs but there were parts they had not included, I’d say apart from Ed not getting paid any more than £140 for his time they actually lost money big time on it.
It's TV. If you really think Edd was earning nothing then you should think again. Also, over 73 episodes he was listed as an assistant producer/ producer. They get paid.
If you looked closely during that episode the Sapphire Cosworth continued to blow out blue smoke after the extensive head work to remedy that very issue, The same problem also occurred when Wheeler Dealers bought and sold a green Mk2 Jag ,it suffered blue smoke when Mike bought it and supposedly repaired during the episode but clearly continued to blow blue smoke after repair as they drove it around Oxford! TBF though Edd China has stated that all cars bought during the series had to have extra work carried out and parts replaced that were never mentioned in thr episodes because of legal reasons , every car had to be scrutinised and any repair no matter how minor had to be carried out, there was never any real profit to be made during the series for this reason.
The biggest loss they made was on the Fiat dino, so underpriced it made me feel sick lol
Saw you at Sherborne today didnt get the chance to pop over and say hello
Sorry I missed you, always happy to say hello!
I cant believe how wheeler dealers keep lying to everyone
Maybe because brewer is a second hand car dealer and when it comes to flogging second hand cars, lying is standard practice.
No wonder Edd quit.
🤥 So do government politicians, and it does them no harm ! ⚠..
@@stephenbland7461Watch the hpa video with him in.
Hpa?
I think you’re fine. The video says I bought a car and then sold it! Take your bullshit elsewhere.
They may of listed it being broken for parts but never actually broke it up .and just sold it on whole
Well it said the images in the breaking post showed the running gear had been removed.
Hi from a fellow AU Fairmont owner - mine is an AU1 Wagon.
Excellent work 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Anyone who thinks ANY tv program is real, needs to give their head a wobble.
Hopefully the owner may see this post
Cossies around that time were broken for spares a lot, so much so there are so few rwd sapphs left, they were worth more in parts than complete, often the shell lives on although cossies led a very hard life and the premiums people ask for now are a joke. That particular car wasn’t a great example anyway but still sad so many perfectly good cars were broken up.
Thanks, another good one. Look forward to these on a sunday.
The Cosworth definately has one of the most convoluted histories yet - from bare shell to mot'd in 11days, there's got to be an interesting story behind it.
I'd wager money on it still being around as it's last mot didn't mention anything severe and it's worth far too much to just let it rot in open air.
Glad you enjoyed it
When people believe MOT History 😅 I've had my car i will not mention that I have had for 5 years and its never been on a MOT ramp in my ownership! Mechanically shes mint and safety is a factor but you pay extra you get a pass lol
Vw nerd here. The Bay's wheels are Empi 5 spoke replicas, not Fuchs. 🙂
I've been expecting you 😂
If you in consideration mechanic’s fees, Mike would be at a huge loss. I can’t imagine that it is based on zero labour costs for Edd.
In later shows they did state labour hours. Think it was comparing it to what you could do at home.
The picture at Ace Cafe is of a 4X4
It was a 4x4 but had front drive removed...
@@oscarsgarage447 not in that photo look at the offset on the wheels
Enjoyable video.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
@@oscarsgarage447 No problem, I found your channel after seeing the GPZ 300 video, I am so glad you've got that back and are going to restore it. I did the same with a 50cc moped 15 or so years ago and still have it.
Great story, and yes work has started on the Gpz
The VW barely kept up with inflation
When did it get the shocks? That might have explained the headlight aim, or the shocks were adjusted
Shock went on early 2012, headlight issue 2015/17
Can you find the stolen Mk1 Fiesta?
Not even Mike can find that...
Is that a ZR550 in the background?
Certainly is... and as ever with me there is a story to it...
@@oscarsgarage447 Prey tell! I had a couple of these, including one I had converted to WW2 themed cafe racer
Sold it, regretted it, drove 420 mile round trip to get it back. Sound familiar? Also cost me 50% more than I sold it for...
@@oscarsgarage447 Yep I sold my cafe racer ZR and another standard one I had. I now miss them both! Had a load of bother with the carbs. Didn't seem to like E10 or E5
The whole cosworth saga seems very iffy, why break it when it looked so mint
Why "reshell" another when 2 years later that shell seemed rotten
Seems like some ringing with the log book has been going on to me rather than any reshelling and thats why it wss mot'd so fast....
As for the VW the ending was always very strange, if the buyer doesn't appear in the show chances are they are fibbing and it was Paul's job to try and flog it on eBay after filming
I totally agree... I think the cossie was log book swapped. Ringing us another word for it lol. The cossie was fast to nice to be rotten in that short time period.... Something smells
Mate you look like Ian Beal from Eastenders
Lol
Bloody Cortinas 😅
Not the first mention of that... also Ben Elton apparently
The cozzie will be rotten somewhere!
They usually were... I had a 12 year old Sierra for a kit car... rotten as a pear
@@oscarsgarage447😢
I would have thought that the Ford would have survived although here there all drift cars now
What a pointless waste !
@@jasoneldridge4738 I'd agree very rare to see either an altezza or a Sierra in original form in ireland now
Is that a Robinhood you are sitting on?
It is...
I agree with the wheel change, that era ford had really ugly alloys.
Beauty in the eye of the beholder, etc...
@@oscarsgarage447 Yeah, I like fords but honestly righ up until the mondeo MK3 era I dont know about the wheels they kind of always looked like cheap wheell trims from places like halfords. But alot of people must like that since they sell.
Can't agree on that one,the original wheels on both the 3 doors and the sapphires looked mint.i hate big black wheels.
@@ivanfernyhough3851 I don't know that I said I liked the new weel I just said hat updatign the wheels on that car was probably a good call. The sapphire wheels were ugly to me wether mint or not. I really didn't take a good look at the new ones was just commenting that there are much better looking wheels on the market than the originals.
Yeah and I was just saying the original wheels looked best.like he says it's all in the eye of the beholder.i have never yet seen aftermarket wheels that look better on a car than the originals and people allways seem to go way to big with them to oh well,would be a boring world if we all liked the same I guess.
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Wheeler dealers for me was about firstly watching hands on car shows with my granda, learning things in every episode which could help when maintaining an old second hand car. The show also used to visit many a small specialist workshop showing how things were done in days gone by. How to repair instead of replace etc. So all this back story nonsense makes zero difference to the show.
The Cosworth story is all a bit fishy
I can only bring you the information I find...
Yawn 🥱
Glad you enjoyed it.
No RS COSWORTH OWNER SELLS MOTORSPORT RS STEERING WHEEL
The show allways set off the bullshit alarm
Mike could allways get an instant discount of a couple of hundred quid when buying a car or parts from car parts specialists just buy asking whats your best price and saying what his budget was
Dosent suppries me that most of the sales at the end of the show were probably fake