Hermione Banned, Car Theft Stories and NFS Finished? - C.R.E.A.M. #41 Ft. @P1Autokeys

0:00 Emma Watson's Driving Ban

Emma Watson was banned from driving.

What car does she

drive?

Everything around me podcast with myself,

Edwin, Will to my left, Ben's been behind the

camera and special guest dips from P1 or Tokis.

If you don't know P1 or Tokis,

you do super car key coding,

key cutting, recovery of any vehicle that you

can't get a key into, basically.

Right?

And Fiat 500.

And Fiat 500.

And yeah, we decided we thought Dipschickum

down because Dipsch has helped us with all

sorts of car projects.

And every time you've been here,

you've kept telling us very interesting stories.

So we thought, you know what?

Dipsch is a man for the podcast.

So before any of that though,

we need to answer the question,

do cars rule or ruin everything around you this week?

And you've got something, you've got

something quite exciting today.

Yeah, I can't believe it.

I'm trying not to smile now.

Yeah.

Everything.

Yeah, everything's been good.

Everything's been good this week.

But for some reason, every time I come here,

I drive two and a half hours to come here.

Yeah, I have to bring this up though,

because I drive two and a half hours to come here.

And it always ends up being like a fire.

So the first time was the Porsche.

We asked if it's come

down, because we thought the wiring harness

in the Porsche

was completely fried.

There was nowhere the cold start.

Dips came down and went, "Yeah,

your hazard lights upside down."

That's it.

I thought it was a joke.

And I fixed it.

And then the second time was the bath.

Came down and I said to Dips,

"They've ripped the part of the ignition.

It's gone."

And Dips went, "No, no, the key barrel's still there.

It's fine.

We can just swap it out."

the keyblades there.

We just need a new key barrel.

So it's swapped out again.

Done.

And then today, my dad actually has bought a

Julia QV from Copart, a quite horrifically

damaged one, but decided to rebuild it.

Couldn't get it started.

So said, "Can you speak to Dips and see if I

can pay him to come down and look at it?"

So I spoke to Dips and said,

"Oh, God, this is going to be hard.

This is going to be a big one."

Yeah.

It was a blown five amp fuse.

It was a five amp fuse.

It was a five amp fuse that I missed.

But that's that it would have taken an

amateur age to figure that out.

But then you've got to pay the big bucks to

get the pros in to do the fuses bloke.

The first thing I did, I even asked him,

I was like, "Is all the fuses been checked?"

And he was like, "Yeah, Edwin's checked all the fuses."

And he actually said, "Little Edwin."

So I was like, "Little."

That is the same name as me.

So I am Little Edward.

Your dad's really tall as well.

He's also a long man.

We got the Dutch jeans going.

But hold on.

So before anything.

was a little bit annoying.

You had to come down for five minutes.

But it did mean you had time for the podcast.

And

not only that, you made a deal potentially

off camera before the podcast.

What is that for?

Okay.

So the deal is for the Ferrari 360.

So Alex's Ferrari 360, the previous Jeremy

Clarkson car, and also written off ram-rated

drug dealer something.

Yes.

By someone that did a heist and so,

yeah, you've had it here first.

So that might be dips.

baby now to try and get going.

I've never owned a super car.

So I've always wanted one.

And I've always loved Ferraris as well.

And I can't believe it's even happened.

So that is cool.

I'm excited about it.

So for you, then it's for rule this week

because of that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Will the happiest.

Well, just to get this out of the way,

anyone who hasn't seen dips before,

he's the happiest man on Earth.

He's just been sold one of the worst Ferrari

360s

of all time.

I'm going to go with a ruin.

I have, again, no reason to...

No, sorry.

I'm going to go with a rule because I have no

reason to ruin.

Sure.

Yeah.

No major things for me.

Ben's fine.

Ben.

Rule.

Rule.

The clear has returned.

You have him.

And it's running great, to be fair.

A new drive shaft is in,

4:20 Hosts' Recent Car Experiences

driving nicely.

Gearbox.

No more noise.

Gearbox may need some something.

That's okay.

But great.

Genuinely great apart from that.

Nothing else.

And the TVR is a rule now because it's fair.

managed.

Yes, I was going to say.

So I, maybe half an hour ago would have been

a ruin, but it started, we got it started a minute ago.

It revs.

It now potentially might get into boost.

We might need to take out tomorrow and see if

it gets into boost.

And then it goes off a tuning,

believe on Thursday with the guys at TRS.

I'm excited.

So it's, it's rule back for rule for me.

God, wait, wait, wait.

That's four rules.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

It's definitely a good week.

We've never had that before,

I don't think.

I don't think we've ever had four rules.

I've actually got other good news as well.

So my BMW 30 that I've not had,

I've not driven for over 13 years.

Crazy.

Yeah.

Is now got a new engine and the cars gone to

get the engine put in.

My 235, which died on track at Silverstone

last year, that's getting fixed as well.

So

technically by the end of August,

I should have two working BMWs and hopefully

a Ferrari 360 as well.

You're not, you're tempting fate.

You're tempting the gods.

I wanted to ask this actually because

whenever we see you dips, you turn up in the van.

Yes.

The van, 'cause that's where you need to work

out of the van.

Yeah, my little office.

But then every now and then you drop a little

like, oh, I've got an E30.

Yeah.

And then the 235.

How many cars do you have right now?

Is it just those two or are there more?

No, just them two.

Have you had those for long?

So the E30 I bought in 2009 and then--

And that's a fairly big build,

that one.

Yeah, stripped down to bare metal,

nut and bolt, engine, suspension,

wheels, everything.

All I've got to do on that is just the interior.

Build to be like a bit of a,

not a show car, but like, it's very nicely finished.

It's not like a track car or anything.

No, no, no, far from it.

Far from a track car.

The ultimate goal for that car was to build

it and take it to Germany and like to the

museum and like just wanted it to be a very

clean example.

Cause I've always wanted a BMW E30.

I never owned a German car.

That was my first German car as well.

So-- That's sick.

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

And that's keep forever?

That's a keep forever car.

The car actually sat up years ago.

I sort of had the car for a year,

drove it for a year, and then decided that,

oh, we had hailstone damage in Leicester,

which was really bad.

And it cut through the roof.

It's just convertible.

So it flooded the interior a little bit.

And I thought, okay, no worries,

take the carpet out, dry it out,

took the carpet out.

Oh, there's a bit of rust there.

Oh, we'll just sort that out.

Well, actually, whilst I'm doing that,

let me just sort a bit of the wiring out.

And, oh, in fact, if I'm doing that,

I'll just take the dashboard out.

And, oh, actually, there's a bit of paint

that needs doing.

Before I knew it, I was stripped to bare

metal, like not a single bolt on the car.

Suspension, everything.

Engine was out, everything was out.

And 10 years on, well, more than 10 years on now.

Here we are.

Cars painted, wheels are done,

suspension's done.

Engine, I got ripped off on.

And it's had three engines and I've never driven it.

I got ripped off twice from two people that

were supposed to put the engines in and sort

it all out and they didn't.

So now I found a company in Nottingham,

E30 Nuts.

They rebuilt the whole engine.

Every single part and it's brand new.

So it's getting close now.

Getting close.

I'm excited.

We've heard about this E30 a lot,

but never seen it.

I'm excited for the day.

It should be so cool.

And the crazy thing is I've never actually,

I mean, I've posted the odd pictures here and

there and stuff, but I've never actually done

any videos on it.

Yeah.

Because I've had it for so long.

It was before I even did any YouTube work or

anything like that.

So, and then the 235 only had that about two years now.

And that had an engine issue?

No.

was driving it.

Shout out to Dazzette Dark Side Body Shop.

He was driving it on track at Silverstone and

he goes, "Dip,

8:06 News Roundup: Speed Hunters Shelved?

you don't know how to drive."

'Cause I've got, you know, when you go around

on track and you get all the little rubber

bits on the tires.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it had so much rubber on it 'cause I

wasn't driving it quick enough to go around

the corners and clear it.

It was started, I thought there was something

wrong with suspension or something 'cause,

well, the wheel was falling off 'cause it was

juddering it when I was going around track.

Because I'll take it around and I'll clear

all the little rubber off it,

went around and it didn't have a baffled sump.

Went around one of the corners and the car

just cut out.

Literally oil starvation, seized the engine

there and then spun a bearing.

So we sent it off to London to get repaired.

It ended up going back and forth three times

and more than three times and I just got fed

up with it.

So it was off the road for a whole,

coming up to a whole year and I was just

like, I'm just gonna get another engine.

So it got another engine and the head was

cracked on it.

So I was like, what is going on with this car?

So we got their head sorted out and

everything, Bob at Machine Shop sorted all that out.

Just like, as soon as you put it in gear,

it would just keep cutting out and then we

managed to get that bit sorted and then it

was just driving really rough and it turned

out that the oil was not the right oil in it,

got that sorted, cars running okay,

but it's got a small oil leak now.

So I've just given it to VRS just to sort all

their bits out on it and hopefully,

first of all, I should have two working.

Two end of the uses, not us.

Two working, I'm just rich.

It's one of them things where you say,

which car shall I take today?

And I've always wanted to have that,

wake up in the morning, oh, what car shall I take?

At the minute, it's always like,

okay, get in the van.

(all laughing) It doesn't matter where I'm

going, I could go to a wedding yet,

it's like I'm going in a van.

So it's gonna be nice.

Nice.

It's gonna be good, yeah.

Do we have any news or anecdotes for the week?

Not many major news, so again,

like last week, we'll blend them into anecdotes.

We'll run through.

Something we kind of missed last week,

I think Ben, you've put this in,

knee for speed, potentially shelved.

Yes.

I don't wanna speak out of turn once again.

So.

Edwin, bring it up, you've happened.

What happens is when Ben puts a story and I

then go and research it.

I'm the fact checker.

The fact checker.

I mean, it works.

So this is not confirmed by any means,

but it relates to our story the other week

about speed

hunters being nothing happening in speed hunters.

A guy called Matthew Everingham posted on

Instagram, and he was a like a collaborator

is what they used to call it on speed

hunters, like post photos and that sort of stuff.

He was, I believe, Australian.

And he posted on Instagram saying,

speed hunters is on ice.

EA has shelved need for speed.

And that means no more funding for the site.

I'm grateful for everything,

the trips, the stories, the lifelong mates.

I'm still shooting, just doing stuff for video.

So it's basically him just doing like a

celebration post of his stuff at speed

hunters, but he dropped in the throwaway line.

EA has shelved need for speed.

So whether or not that is true,

we don't know yet, he's semi-close to the source.

He's close enough that EA owns...

Very good.

EA owns speed hunters.

So you should know.

Yeah.

So that would be very weird.

That's a big name to lose.

Yeah.

The last one hasn't been, wasn't great,

but

there's always run for him.

It could get better.

Yeah.

11:18 Ben's E39 M5 Encounter Debacle

Maybe he's a little bit of time off to him.

Also, Ben, that's your guy.

He needs to be sure.

Although you told our story much more

eloquently that I ever could.

So I thank you for that.

'Cause I was just a bad thinking,

you know.

It's great.

Anyway, so he's dead.

Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben.

Well, next up, actually, this,

it gets worse for Ben.

Oh, it's tough.

It's a tough week for Ben.

So last week, Ben, you know what?

No, no, no, no.

You have to explain to dips what you said.

I don't want to put myself up for bullying.

So if you want to bully me, you have to tell

me the story.

No, no, you have to say what you said.

Okay, dips.

What happened last week was,

which you would know, 'cause you listed the

podcast every week.

So basically, I was driving home.

I think what I suppose to my house where I live.

And I saw a garage was open and there was a

E39 M5 in this garage under a sheet under boxes.

And I thought, no, this can't be true.

They had a whole debacle about whether that

was good or bad or whatever.

But we asked, I said to Ben straight away,

now, how did you, it was an ME39M5?

And he said, yes.

And immediately we said, so you see it from

the front of the back, he said the back.

So I said, okay, so you saw the M5 badge and

you saw four exhausts.

And he said, yes, I did.

We went through the spec, we tried to find

the car, we couldn't.

Anyway, Benjamin, you then received a DM from

a very lovely viewer.

I just want preface quickly.

I did actually say that I didn't know.

I think you can tell this is going blank.

The what the town that he said he did say.

So this was from someone called Joe Emmett.

Joe has messaged me and bearing my 539 p.m.

and the podcast went out in the afternoon at some point.

So this was crazy, right?

Afternoon, Ben.

Hope you're well.

Thank you.

I've just been listening to the podcast of my

way home, specifically the section of a stored E39M5.

Coincidentally, whilst at this point,

I was traveling south bound through the

village of blank.

And just out of interest, where is that village?

Is that village, what's the exact same village?

No, they're quite specific.

I will get into why this is very true in a second.

And on my left, I saw an open double garage

with a semi-covered Titan silver E39 revealing itself.

I thought, I've done it.

This is great.

I passed it a mile 25 miles an hour,

and it appeared to be either a 525i or a 5.

With a single exhaust brackets,

not a down swept diesel variety,

imagine was present, though there was a lack

of five afterwards, potentially completely

wrong location, but I thought the information

would be worth sharing.

Now, what I can confirm is that I did not say

the direction I was traveling,

nor the actual village itself.

And that was the exact village I was traveling through.

Which I thought was mental.

What the chance of you driving through that

exact village at that exact moment,

whilst I was talking about that on the

podcast, and you looked your left,

you just see it.

Yeah, that's crazy.

But not only that, for fates to not only

bring you through the same village,

but to disprove exactly what I said.

I know that the world, the creamers are against me.

So yeah, so we have confirmation that it is

not an E39 M5.

It is an M Sport E39 token.

But put yourself in my shoes,

okay?

Okay.

Absolutely not.

No, it's not for me.

I'm traveling, not really paying attention.

I'm paying attention to the road,

but not paying attention to the safe.

Good say.

Two waiting garages.

And I see in my peripheral.

That makes you a weaker man than us.

Yeah, fair.

I see in my peripheral an E39.

Okay.

Now I haven't, I haven't, I haven't,

I've seen an M badge.

All right.

I think it's also half under a sheet.

Can I say that quickly?

No, no, no, no, hold on, hold on.

I'm not going, I'm not going,

because off step is downtown.

No, no, no, no.

Ben cut back to that footage where we said,

no, did it have quad pipes and you went,

yeah.

I didn't say that.

I didn't know.

Sorry.

No, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

I'm pretty sure I said that was.

No.

You said.

Did it have an M5 bag?

Did it have quad pipes and you went,

yeah.

But it had an M badge.

So an M badge versus an M4.

You see a little, a little number five from

400 feet away, can I?

400 feet?

Yeah.

That's three keeps changing.

When I was going 85 mile an hour past it,

honestly, it was in the distance.

It was miles away.

Listen, I'm not one to lie to the creamers here.

I made a mistake.

You know what, fair enough, but I didn't get to it.

I was got mugged off by a viewer immediately

after saying it.

So I think he went out just to,

yeah, he heard about it and he's like,

I'm going to find this.

I'm in the local area and I'm going to scout

me around knocking doors.

went, do you have any 39 in five?

And everyone went, no, and he went,

I'm on to something.

I want to know about that.

Do you want a shock to me?

I don't know how the chances of that must be so slim.

Yeah, the chances are ridiculous.

Also, I don't think I even said,

well, you're being following.

Where and maybe.

Also that.

I did think that briefly.

So I was blind, Ben, and I can confirm it was

not an important part.

And I am absolutely not a member of the

emergency services.

I was in Ben's boot, and then I saw it myself.

But I don't know if, I don't know how,

how you knew what part of the country that was in.

So, hey, he did well.

knows you're towards Bristol.

Yeah, but that's they can tell by your act.

It's not that close to my house,

but it's

16:06 Emma Watson's Driving Ban Details

where you live.

Where I live.

Yeah, it's not.

It was there was a crazy one.

Crazy one.

Yeah.

Okay.

Solved.

Solved for me.

Next time, Edwin, you put in here something

that baffled me.

And I was told not to look it up.

I haven't.

I promise I haven't.

Please read the data.

Harry Potter and the 12 points of driving ban.

Okay.

Now, do you have you heard this talk?

No.

Okay.

So would you like to guess?

So actually, you know, I'll just explain it.

Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame.

Hermione Granger.

Okay.

Was banned from driving.

I did hear about it.

She got 12 points for speeding.

What car does she drive?

A Tesla.

Nor she drives a wicked Audi S3 costs.

She got an S3.

She got banned from driving 12 points in an S3.

Oh, sorry.

Emma Watson is is ultimate Bradford driver.

That's crazy.

She is in an S3.

And I'm talking like a 2015 gen like a,

like a, not, not first gen, not second gen like.

HV.

Is that what it's called?

I think it is an HV.

Yeah.

But one of those, she got banned for driving

for speeding in one of those.

Surely she staged to now.

No, the elbow to me.

No, but one in one go or did she get a point

in toting up?

Okay.

So she's collecting on that.

But here's the, here's the best of it.

Was it two big ones?

Was it a couple of small ones?

What's the woman?

Africa, her name.

Africa, her name in Harry Potter.

And she's the, she's the woman from my family.

The other month from my family.

From your family.

From my family.

My family, my family.

She's called something.

Hold on.

Sorry.

Hermione Granger is heading around about like 19.

Elbow delete.

Elbow delete at all.

Hold on.

'Cause 12 points.

That's, that's either you've got two big six pointers.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm doing maths here.

Two big six pointers or perhaps that's four threes.

That's a lot of speeding.

I'm never been banned.

She's cool.

And not for that.

That's one big one, won't it?

And I just, I can't picture the S3 at all.

Sorry.

It's okay.

It's a kind of wizardry under the bonnet.

Zoe Wanamaker.

She is, she was, you know her from,

I'll pull her up.

She does the brooms.

Yeah, that's it.

She does the brooms.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Guess what?

She got, she got, and from driving the

speeding on the exact same day,

the exact same court.

What the fuck?

Yeah, that's not a joke.

Emma Watson looks over and goes.

Going too fast on that broom.

But that's, the more I read into it,

the more I was like, this isn't a real story.

This is not a real story.

Maybe a sense of Harry Potter Hoon.

They went on together.

Yeah.

38, you were writing a number of 2000s.

You were driving a Harry.

You came fast on it on a side car.

Here you go.

Look, just straight up, just straight up.

Not even that.

We're talking like almost 10 years old.

Yeah, exactly.

We're talking prime finances,

40 plates, you know, no tints.

Oh, no, he's got a little bit of red tint.

A little bit of chrome trim.

Surely we've got a map on that.

What's the fitment, sir?

I can't see from here.

He's not going to stand there.

He's not going to stand there.

So we need some spaces on there for the next band.

Yeah, yeah.

You need to ring up, man.

Say, look, I never Watson.

I've been banned from speeding.

I mean, some parts, it's Leviosa.

But actually, actually incredible.

The more I read about it, so I'll pull up the

article quickly.

Now, what I'd like to know is that is a car.

You kind of got to be in the know to have an S3.

Of course.

So perhaps Air Watson isn't car.

Is she going for the RS3?

No, she wants to keep it.

But is that because she knows she's quick?

So it's almost like to have yourself.

Yeah, all right.

She knows that an S3 with a map is basically

as fast as an RS3.

Yeah, that's it.

She's literally like, oh, she's got a sleeper,

basically.

I can go through speed cameras.

I'm Hermione Granger.

I do what a hell I like.

So we got fast forward 24 years.

Both actresses have been busted for speeding

in their cars.

road oxford at 38 mile an hour in a 30 mile

an hour zone.

Okay, so the offense took place on 2024 and

saw her driving the 30,000 pound Audi,

which had previously been towed away by the police.

That's not nothing as interesting.

It was parked in front of a house or something.

Meanwhile, Zoey Wanamaker was caught driving

46 mile an hour through an area of road looks

on the M40's bound near Newbury.

Yo, I'm racing up.

I'm a finder.

Why is she driving?

I couldn't find that.

I did look into it, but I think it's just

like it's a scoda or something.

It's nothing to pull up at a C63.

Can you look up if there's a list somewhere

of

the cast of Harry Potter's cars?

Sure.

There's something

called that.

There's some bread floating around in that.

What's Harry Potter?

What is Harry?

What is Daniel Radcliffe driving?

I don't think he's driving anything particularly.

He's quite humble, really.

He's Harry Potter.

But he feels a bit Volvo.

Or he's-- But like a T5 or something.

It's a fast one.

But you have-- if you know, you know.

No, he's a T-rock man.

It's like the scar on his head.

If you see that.

Only if you know, do you know who is?

Look at what?

Like an S6 or an S4?

Yeah.

Where it's like, oh, yeah.

Obviously, what?

He looks quite smart.

But you know, it's like, if he didn't have

that mark on him, I wouldn't know.

Now, Ron Weasley drives a-- Of course.

I don't die something.

Do you want to know he actually drives?

What?

An ice cream bag.

I've seen that, yeah.

He did buy ice cream bags.

That's a fact, yeah.

But he gave Matt ice cream out for free or something?

Unfortunately, I cannot find any information

on the cast and crew.

Dumbledore is in a jag big time.

Dumbledore is in a jag.

He's in an old X-J.

He calls it an old smoker.

Yeah, just how Tom Lethill does service on.

Yeah, get a super charge.

Yeah, wait till that Voldemort guy comes along.

Michael Gambon.

Yeah.

I don't think he's a jag-man.

I'm pretty sure he's not laughing.

I didn't say Michael.

Yeah, no course not.

I'm theorizing.

Yeah.

Here's something for you, Ben.

Dumbledore's also not really.

I know it's a bit of a weird part.

No, I thought you were saying the actor.

No, I'm saying like that would be the character.

Dumbledore's.

I'm telling you that's something shocking.

Here we go.

I've never watched Harry Potter.

Really?

It's none of them.

Do not.

As someone who only seems car media doesn't

care for anything else.

Great.

You should watch it.

It's actually great.

Oh, it's great.

It makes you feel like a child genuinely really good.

Do you know anything about it?

I would do any of those names.

Ring a bell.

Yeah, because everyone talks about it.

But I've never

watched Harry Potter.

Just wait.

I think it's like the

fourth or fifth one where Hermione buys the

S3 and she's

whipping it around.

Ron, get in.

Bam, bam, bam, bam.

You're not.

I'm not telling that.

Or maybe they weren't there.

There's a betterty cloak.

Just pulls a whoop.

That is like that potion that makes you look

like someone else and Harry Potter.

It was that.

It's just some guy from Bradford who made

himself look like Hermione.

Anyway,

moving on to some more serious news.

Stellantis has made a 2.7 billion something loss.

Ben, you put that in.

2.7 billion dollar loss in the first half of 2025.

That's quite a lot.

Sorry, in the first half.

And that's across a few brands,

but it's like your classics.

The ones you'd expect.

Now, dips out of interest, what new cars do

you tend to see the most faults with in terms

of like the sort of stuff that you deal with?

Because, you know, someone that works on cars

from a mechanics point of view is going to

see different failures to what you see.

I'd probably say so.

Obviously, Stellantis Group's taken over a

lot of the, like they'd obviously to do the

Vauxhall, Peugeot Citroen DS.

They are relatively reliable considering

French cars never used to be reliable.

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I want to say the worst car,

not even the worst car, the car that we have

probably the most problems with,

it's probably got to be Fiat.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I

mean, it's not working.

It's more to do with the, they've

introduced security gateway modules now.

Okay.

So all the

new cars have got security gateway modules.

So when you try and connect to it,

you can't you've got to like put another lead

in place and all the rest of it.

But a lot of the times it still won't

communicate or you'll still have an issue

with it and stuff like that.

Aside from that, I think a lot of,

I mean, I've not really had no major issues

with cars that are causing coding issues and

stuff like that.

A lot of them are getting to the point where

if you've not got a dealer key from the

dealer, that's where it will cause a problem.

Ben, it makes you a lot of problems.

Yeah.

Because like, for example, the new BMWs,

Mercedes, we can't, no one can do Mercedes

after 2015, apart from dealer.

So you have to go to them.

The software has not even been developed

anywhere in the world.

Wow.

Like literally they have locked that software

down so much.

The only software you can do is with Accentory.

So when people ring me and say,

I've got a 2016 Mercedes, can't do it.

Really?

Does that make that car so old now?

Like, you know, when you think about a 2016?

Yeah.

But does that make those marks safer in terms

of like car theft stuff or are they just a

susceptible to?

It will definitely make it safer.

But it just means there's more risk of it

being stolen with the keys, which means that

it's now going to be people entering the house.

Yeah, breaking the house.

Yeah.

So that's where it's that fine line of if

it's a keyless theft, do you just let it go?

Because even I think about that sometimes,

I'm like, well, if you've got a keyless

vehicle, do you just let it go or do you

secure it that much that they're going to

want to now enter the house?

Yeah.

You see what I mean?

And it is a fine line.

I can't answer that for anyone.

is how you look at it.

I know friends that have got really expensive

cars and they're like, I don't give a shit,

let them take it.

Yeah.

I guess if it's a short house.

Yeah.

They're like, I've got my family in the house.

I don't care.

I'd rather them take it from the driveway.

One of my cousins, he used to have an M5,

a new M5, and he used to leave the key next

to the door.

He's like, he was like, and

he made complete sense because he's got two little kids.

And he's like, well, if I'm going to,

if they're going to break into the house,

I'd rather they break in and not come upstairs.

You take the car.

I don't care about the car.

And I'm like, I get that.

I completely agree with that as well,

to be honest, because it's just your family

is more important than a piece of metal.

As much as we love cars, it's,

yeah, it's a piece of metal.

And now, obviously, call it five years ago,

there was, it was JLR, mainly Rangeros and

stuff being stolen.

Do you still, because obviously you see a lot

of it, is it mainly still those cars?

Or is it, have they moved to different cars now?

No, it's still Rangeros.

Rangeros massively, Alfa Romeo is hugely

getting stolen now.

Really?

Yeah, 'cause I won't go too much into it,

but they just rip the radars out at the front

and there's ways of

communicating through that.

Really?

To then code a key and just unlock the car

and drive away.

Wow.

'Cause it amazed me that when we,

you were talking about the Abarth that we

worked on, that they essentially just need to

plug into the OBD, was it four times?

Yeah.

And then it unlocks the car.

Yeah.

A lot of cars now.

So with old cars, what you used to have is

you used to have your security system and

then you'd have the ECU and everything.

They're all running on separate circuits,

separate networks.

All these new cars, 'cause they've got canvas now.

You've got canvas, limbus, nimbus,

they're all networks.

They're all networks.

And because they're all networks running

around the vehicle, headlights have

canvas-wise on them.

Right.

So even if someone ripped a headlight out,

they're now already inside the network,

as they can communicate with it.

So this is where manufacturers made a mistake

by putting that network on every single module.

And they did that because everything needed

to communicate.

And because everything communicated with each

other, they would have modules on the headlights.

They would have modules on the radars.

They'd have modules on the door control,

central locking side of it.

So if everything's got a module,

everything's got a canvas wire going through it.

If everything's got a canvas wire,

you're technically inside the network now.

There's been a minute you take that and

communicate through it.

So a lot of cars are getting stolen now.

So much easier, by them just taking one part

out of the car, plugging in and that's it.

It's fine, but it's basically gone back to

the crisis in the 80s and 90s where cars were

so easy to steal.

And then we got safe and then we're going

back to them being the easiest thing in the

world to steal.

They got rid of mechanical steering locks and

they put electronic steering locks.

Yeah, that's crazy to me.

Which is stupid because if you can,

the minute you code a key, you can just

unlock it and it will release the steering lock.

That's it, it's just job done.

Do you see it getting worse still?

Yeah.

massive spay of old classics getting stolen.

Chris Harris's.

Yeah, exactly.

The M5, another one of my friends who's got a BMW E30M3.

This is a convertible one, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Babbles, Tamid's one that got stolen.

There's like a whole bunch of these old

classics getting stolen now because the

youngsters won't know about this,

but the older thieves know that they're worth

a lot of money.

Do you see what I mean?

And they know how to hotwire them.

Yeah.

Because it was such a simple thing.

I guess the, well, from what I've seen,

well, I guess if

you put physical things in place,

either it's locked away,

it's underground, whatever.

That's a good one, but if

someone really wants to steal a car,

they're probably gonna

get it somehow, whether it gets put on a

lorry or whatever.

Exactly that.

There's some really brazen ones.

There was a story like, years ago,

of the one that someone had an RS3 stolen off

the driveway, the police found the car,

took it to a police compound,

and they then stole it from the police compound again.

Yeah, they bring it.

Which is, that's the most brazen thing.

But they're like, I don't know why,

but I mean, yeah, and I guess some of the

older cars, because whether it's stolen to

order or what.

I mean, stealing Chris Harris's car does feel

a bit dumb.

Yeah, maybe they didn't know that.

They probably didn't know that.

Yeah.

So I do a lot of work for the police.

When cars get stolen or involved in armed

robberies and like, murders or whatever,

but the cars get picked up and they get taken

to, for example, like, product recovery and

places like that, recovery companies.

So they have a soccer base there.

So I'll go in, open the car,

unlock the car so they can take fingerprints

and stuff like that.

And the amount of cars that,

I mean, obviously, one of the places I went

to recently there, and R32 there,

they had an R33, they had a Mazda RX-7 there.

Really?

Like, yeah, and these are all cars that had been stolen.

And obviously, they're waiting to get

processed and all the rest of it.

And you're looking at some of these cars,

these are classics from back in the day,

but there's people out there that still know

that these are worth a lot of money.

You see what I mean?

It's like when you've got like R5 GT turbos

and stuff like that, back in the days,

them cars were just get stolen all the time.

And then when all these RS3s came out,

all the youngsters didn't even know what them cars were.

They didn't know that an R5 GT turbo or a 205

was worth money.

and stuff like that were a cause worth was worth money.

But they get stolen.

And I don't think it's the youngsters that

are stealing them.

I think it's just the older thieves who have

sort of thought, one minute,

these cars are worth like 10x what they were

and were back in the days.

So they're either showing the youngsters how

to steal them or they're just going out and

doing it themselves.

And they're doing it.

I've seen one where it was actually,

I think it was GVE or some one of his staff

members got BMW E36.

and they literally put it on a low loader and

just picked the, like literally went there,

dropped the bed down, put it on and just off they went.

And it's like, they are so brazen about it.

Yeah, it's just out to you.

Without getting into too much of like a

political skew on it.

It is also because they know that they won't

get in trouble for it.

Yeah.

They're like, they don't chase them down.

Now, the police will go, all right,

here's a crime, here's a case number.

Oh, if we find it, we find it.

Yeah, it's not, it's not a high on a priority.

No, exactly.

And even the equipment that they're using

now, like with the signal blockers and stuff

like that, if you've got a tracker,

they can block the signal of that tracker.

And the problem is, is if they're blocking

that signal of the tracker, you're not

finding that car.

Because you can have three, four trackers in

it and it's going to make no difference.

Yeah.

We did a video with Mark McCann a while back

on how easy it is to steal supercars compared

to normal cars.

And it was quicker for me to make a key and

drive away in a Ferrari, a McLaren compared

to his Renault Clio.

Yeah.

So for me to make a key for a Renault Clio,

the one with the cards in it,

you know, the card ones that you get.

Yeah.

You have a 10 minute wait on there when

you're programming it in.

Whereas with a McLaren and stuff like that,

you literally, you're plugging it in and

press the button, press the button.

Okay, done.

Sit.

Off you go.

Yeah, it's just madness.

Absolutely crazy.

But that's the manufacturer's fear.

On that, or this is on sort of list of questions.

Have you ever had that?

Knowing what you know, and you can get into

cars and you've got knowledge on this stuff.

Have you ever had anyone a little bit shady,

bit dodgy, trying to approach you somehow,

trying to get information?

You do it all the time.

All the time.

All the time.

I got offered a little while back.

I got offered five grand to open a van,

unlock a van.

Now, I only charged like 70,

120 quid to unlock a vehicle.

So when someone's offering me five grand,

I was like, "Well, why would you do that?"

And he's like, they've stolen my stuff this

day that we'll call the police then.

And he's like, "Oh, no, but it's not like that.

It's a bit complicated."

And it's like, mate, I'm not doing it.

As simple as that, I'm not doing it.

And he's like, "Oh, you don't have to bring

your own van.

I'll take you there and then you can come back."

It's in Birmingham.

Like, yeah, you're having a laugh mate.

You need no chance.

You meet me there.

Just bring a balaclava if you want.

I'll meet you at one end.

He's literally, he goes, I'll make sure

people are waiting there.

So if anybody comes out, they'll deal with it.

I'm like, mate, I'm not, if you've got up,

if your stuff's inside, that van,

just call the police and they'll get it out.

Simple as that.

You don't need me to unlock it.

He's like, yeah, but it's a bit complicated.

It's like, shut up.

I get offered that silly money to do jobs like that.

And I'm just like, I'm not ruining my

business, my everything I've built for this

long, not ruining over something like that.

And I wouldn't do it.

Like, why would you?

I believe in...

You could buy a really nice 360 though.

Yeah.

You could buy a really nice...

That's getting alarmed up to the max.

But I always wonder with like,

in that business, it's like the crossover between...

Yeah.

'Cause are there some people in that business?

To be fair, actually, we've been told about

someone we know who is like that,

where they were a bit of a...

Shade, yeah, yeah.

A naughty boy in the past, but they now do it

as a job, having sort of done their time.

Have you come across many like that,

where they're ex-car thieves or whatever,

and they get into it?

A lot of people...

It's the perfect person.

That are in the trade have done,

not saying a lot.

There's a percentage of people in the trade

that have started off by doing things like that.

Oh, where you are car thief,

that's why you can get into them quick enough.

And I'm like, no, I've never stole a car in my life.

No, I wasn't.

I sit in my dad's car all the time and take a

drive where there's 15 in that,

you know what I mean, in my little 205,

but I'd always get caught as well.

My dad would be like, he'd be somewhere away

and he'd be like, you better get yourself

home right now.

Because someone spotted the car and it was bright yellow.

Just like, always get caught with that.

But no, for me, it was more about,

I just love electronics, but there are so

many people within industry that have started

off doing shady stuff.

I mean, if they've sorted their life out,

brilliant, because everyone deserves a second chance.

I mean, I always feel that.

But yeah, there are a lot of people that have

approached me to say, can you teach me this?

Can you teach me that?

What's the biggest, other than that one,

what's

the biggest or dodgiest one you've ever had?

Or was that

one it?

Oh, no, I've been asked to do some really shady stuff.

Oh, God.

God.

I can't.

something that you can't reveal the details

of, but you can tell us the story of,

is there anything that comes to mind

that's a great dinner story?

One that won't get you killed.

Difficult to say.

Okay.

If any come to you, well, during the podcast

last night, have you got some?

What else we've got?

From that, how did you get into doing this?

What did you do?

My

background is car electronics.

I used to do, in the max

power days, I used to do all the big stereos,

like all the

fiberglass installs TVs and headrests and one

loads of awards and everything as well for

it, which was really nice.

I used to do that.

And then that sort of led to car electronics

diagnostics and the diagnostics sort of led

to immobilizers as they were getting

introduced into cars.

And then the key side of it,

it only came in, because cars were starting

to come out with it, like your parking

sensors, MP3 players, and they started coming

out with everything that you sort of get in a

modern car now, that trade of having a nice

sound system in the car sort of died out a

little bit, the max power thing just died out

a little bit.

And then we went into doing like sort of

diagnostics, so like just electronic fault

finding, basically, that led to immobilizers

immobilizers, led to ease.

And then here we are.

A couple of years time, it might be something new.

Yeah, I actually stopped doing diagnostics

because the key side was so busy for me.

I was like, I don't want to do any

diagnostics whatsoever.

I just want to go out and do car keys now.

And then when I started doing Matt's work,

Chris's

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work, and all the rest of it,

I got instantly inundated with--

Oh, I've got this problem with my car,

even your lot of cars, I get inundated.

Oh, I've seen what you did on top dead

center, I've seen what you did on

auto-alexist, I've seen what you did on

Matt's channel, and that, okay,

cool, I really don't want to,

but I'll do it.

(laughs) 'Cause diagnostics takes a lot

longer than me just going there and making a

key for a car.

Of course.

Do you know what I mean?

And the money that I make on doing a car key

is a lot more than I would make on doing diagnostics.

Do you see what I mean?

Well, I was also like, a key is a finite,

you know, I have to do a key,

whereas you might turn up to something like

one of our jobs and go, oh, this is five

minutes, or it could be seven days of

relubing a car.

Exactly that.

And then your bottom line's still the same.

Exactly.

People don't wanna pay, not saying people

don't wanna pay, but the hourly rate of doing

diagnostics and doing electrical work could

end up in the thousands.

Yeah.

Yeah, and people don't wanna pay that.

Whereas if you say to someone,

oh, if they say, oh, I've lost my car key for

this car, okay, cool, it's gonna cost you 250 quid.

Yeah.

I'll be there, it'll be done in an hour.

And that's it, you know what I mean?

Easy.

So yeah, but now I've ended up going back to

when that stuff sticks.

Yeah.

But when did that start?

I mean, obviously like

Matt and Chris, Chris Lick's probably won the first.

The

first video that, the first YouTube has

worked that I did

was actually Chris Lick's.

Okay.

So he had an Audi TT

that he bought from auction,

which was fire damaged.

Yeah.

And it didn't come with a key.

So he rang me, I didn't

even know who he was at the time,

he rang me, he goes, oh, can you sort this key out?

I didn't even know that he was gonna video

anything, so I got there and I see all this

camera equipment and I'm like,

okay.

And then he's like, do you mind if I video?

I was like, mate, go for it,

you know what I mean?

So I did it all, explained everything.

He made an amazing video of that.

And then Matt actually lost the key to the M5

that he had.

He didn't actually lose, he thought he'd lost

it and he thought it may have been inside the

M5 and it might have locked itself.

So I went there, unlocked the car,

turned out that the key was in one of the other cars.

And then after that, he just started ringing

me for the bits, Chris started ringing me for the bits.

And then those

videos really pushed my Facebook and my

Instagram out there.

And then I think after that,

I did Mark McCann, did some work with Mark

McCann and then Alex rang me to do some work.

And then you guys, and then it just

absolutely blew up.

So TDC was, you know, it was all building stuff.

It absolutely blew up after that.

And then I did the podcast with Ben,

wrote a success.

And that again, pushed it as well.

And it's literally, and then everyone kept

saying, Oh, you need to set your own channel up.

You need to set your own channel up.

And I was like, I did have a YouTube channel,

but there was nothing on it apart from like,

I just post like the odd track day videos and

stuff like that.

Or me just in my cousin's M5,

just going ham on it, just going ham on it.

Literally bought it.

And he was like, do you want to have some fun?

I was like, yep, give me the keys.

I was like, loads of doughnuts and stuff.

I used to post them videos up.

But I'd probably about, I think I had about

12 subscribers.

And then after that, it just,

when Matt's video went out, it went from 12

to, I think it was like 19 or something like that.

And then obviously you all got videos,

Alex's videos, Mark's videos,

Chris's, and we're at like 24,000 subscribers.

That's all happened in eight months.

That's literally been eight months,

eight, nine months, I think you've been there.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

So you're obviously getting that a lot of,

getting undated with messages.

Yeah.

I can't remember, I don't know if you wanted

to mention this, but I'll mention it loosely.

You mentioned before you had someone in the

US who had an issue with a BMW,

I think it was, it's a mad joke.

I've got to, yeah, I've got to go down to that still.

We still got to sort that out.

So basically Mice of Ett through,

here's the seven series and Mice of Ett

through the wiring loom.

Yeah.

And he's at low, the car's been to so many

places and no one can figure it out.

So he's asked me to go down and sort it out.

And I was like, yeah, I guess,

is the car still in its current condition?

He goes, nope, the interior's been completely

stripped out, the wiring loom has been stripped out.

And I'm like, he goes, the dashboard's been stripped out.

So the first thing I'm gonna have to do when

I get there is put everything back.

Yeah.

And then figure out what, 'cause really if

Mice of Ett through the wiring,

all you really have to do is repair that wiring.

Yeah.

And maybe a couple of modules need replacing

if it's shorted out anything.

But now I'm gonna have to go back and fix

what everyone else is, F.

And then--

Yeah.

And then--

But that's insane, that's in the US.

I get calls from America regularly now.

Really?

So I get calls from America all over Europe.

I got calls from Q8, like a few weeks back,

I got calls from Q8.

But America, I get so many calls from there,

like loads and loads.

So that's why the plan is now to go and set up.

You will not look, he's in Las Vegas.

Yeah.

And then just go there, spend like a week

every month or two months in Q8.

Just fixing all the Americans cars.

Yeah.

Like also, I like the idea of them calling

you the American being like,

"Can you pop down later today?"

Yeah.

Just like Scott Carr, or you could just fix that.

Do you know what the crazy is?

I'm good at electronics, but I'm so crap at directions.

Yeah, so when someone rings me and says,

"Oh, I'm in Florida, or I'm in,

I don't know, Texas," or something,

I'm like, "Oh, is it far from Las Vegas?"

And they're like, "Yeah, it's like a six-hour

flight or something."

And I'm like, "Oh, I was gonna suggest if you

just pop down whilst I'm there,

I'll just bring the car around and I'll have

a quick look at it for you."

Tell you what, I'll meet you halfway.

Yeah, that's it.

But no, I'm looking forward to that.

I'm looking forward to doing America.

We've got, there's another famous car that

I'll be working on in America.

I can't say anything yet 'cause it's not been

set in stone yet, but a very,

very famous car that I'll be working on in America.

You guys will all know it anyway.

I'll just say it was flood damage.

Oh, I think, yeah.

The funny thing, you said, you said famous

car, my breed immediately, you went to like

Kit, like, right?

I was thinking of the same person you were

thinking of, but not the same car,

but yeah, that makes sense.

Well, speaking of that, that's one of the

questions I had on there.

What is the coolest car you've worked on so

far that you can talk about?

The coolest car I've worked on for me.

When you've done some, you've done the

Revuelto, obviously--

I couldn't fix the Revoto though,

I couldn't do it.

Yeah.

Tried everything.

Is that one of the only cars that's beating you?

Yeah.

No, there's been loads of cars that I've not

been able to do in the, like,

throughout my life.

I don't have my time doing it,

but we don't put that out.

(laughing) It happens to everyone.

Yeah, of course, of course.

I'm good at what I do, but I'm not,

I won't say I'm a master at it.

Yeah, of course.

I'm just good at blagging my way through it.

(laughing) I think the coolest car that I've

probably worked on, and it's one of my own

personal favorites, is gotta be,

and I only did, like, some electronic checks

on it and stuff like that.

It's gotta be Matt's Mercy, I absolutely love that car.

That's how he's built it.

So well, honestly.

I've not actually worked on it.

All I did was just when the cluster failed,

we did a few checks and stuff like that.

And determined that the GFA was messed up on

it, but I've gotta say, that's pretty cool.

I've gotta go and work on a Senna in the next

week or two, I think it is.

That's gonna be a pretty cool car to work on as well.

I've not worked on a McLaren P1,

but I will be doing that at some point.

But no, I love supercars.

It's only because when I was a kid,

I never thought that I'd even have a chance

to even

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touch one, let alone, because we used to go

to the motor show when I was a kid,

my parents would take us, and you'd see them

on the big podiums and stuff like that,

and you'd be like, that's only rich people

before, do you know what I mean?

I never thought I'd even get a chance to

touch one of them cars, let alone sit in it

and work when it's stripping and do wiring

and stuff like that.

So for me, that's like, it's a massive

achievement to be able to say that,

yeah, I've worked on these cars and stuff like that.

And now you've potentially got your own?

I know.

(laughs)

Today's been one of the best days of my life.

Oh, they're literally one of the best.

Because of the cream cars, of course.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, Ferrari second.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, well, so have we got anything else on that?

Is there a dream car that you'd like to work on?

Obviously, there are dream cars you'd like to

own, but is there one that you'd like to work

on, one that you'd like a McLaren F1,

something that is almost unobtainium that

you'd like to work on?

I would be loved to work on an F1,

F1 car, yeah.

An actual--

Oh, an actual formula one car?

Yeah, like an actual formula one car.

I would love to work on a formula one car.

Yeah.

Yeah, mate, just coded you in some keys.

Yeah, I lost it all.

Do you know what I mean?

Landon Ores is in there.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

The start button will work.

No, F1 car would be absolutely epic to work on.

I'm trying to think what I was saying.

I always forget, like, that,

of course, there is gonna be someone at each

team who's dealing with that sort of stuff.

Yeah.

Who is essentially doing your sort of work.

Yeah, yeah.

On a F1 car.

Yeah.

Gosh, that start mode is not going again.

They've got to have electrical issues on them.

Do you know what I mean?

The amount of heat that goes through them,

there's gotta be issues.

And modules, they fail all the time.

It happens, you know what I mean?

You might get that cool, man.

You might get that cool, man.

Can you come down to work?

Manifesting it.

You need to go and hang around the pits.

Yeah, that's it.

That wiring looks a bit dodgy.

Yeah, let me have a quick look at that.

I've got a code reader.

I've got a hotel.

Where's the OB, if you're a wonderful F1 car.

The car has an OB-D for it, be crazy.

I'm trying to think what other car I'd love

to work on.

I think I'd love to work on a McLaren P1.

That is just another one of my ultimate cars.

But what else would there be?

Yeah, I don't know.

I think there's so many cars that I haven't worked on.

Do you know what I mean?

There's like thousands of different models out there.

But I think the, I'd like to do more work on

a Mercialago.

Yeah.

I would definitely like to do a lot more work

on a Mercialago.

Show in the club.

I'd like to do the work behind the wheel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, what about to own them?

To own?

So you've now got, you know.

Okay, so, Lamborghini Mercialago.

Yep, same.

The correct answer.

Yeah.

Ferrari 488, I don't really like that.

It's the first thing, okay.

Yeah, I think I like the Ferrari 488 because

my ultimate dream car when I was a kid was a 355.

Okay.

That was, that was my poster car was a Ferrari 355.

We've got one out there.

I know I've seen it.

You can study that.

I'm not buying two cars.

That was my ultimate favorite car.

And I think it's gotta

be a P1.

Yeah.

Every time I see one now, like even in a

photo, I keep thinking that is gonna age so

perfectly

compared to it.

It's something about that rear end.

It's

just the way that the lights are and even the

side of it, the way that spoiling comes out just loud.

Like when I see a 911A and a La Ferrari,

they are stuck.

They're stuck in the early 2010s.

They're not, I'm not saying they've aged

badly, but that's where they live.

A P1 is still a fresh to me now.

When I saw, we saw one at Goodwood,

it's perfect.

There is nothing I would change about a P1,

it's simply perfect.

So at Goodwood, I've seen the P1,

is it GTR?

The Lanzan T1?

Yeah, the Lanzan T1.

Yeah.

The one car, honestly, like if there weren't

people around, that tissue box would be out

of me honestly.

(laughing)

It was just too many people,

man.

But honest, that car was epic.

I just looked at it and I was like,

that is, I'd love to build something like that.

So you wouldn't have to be an actual race

car, but building it to make it look like a race car.

So like, you know, you're on the streets and

it's just got, like your harness,

it just looks, people are like,

that should be on a track right now.

That is the kind of car that I'd love to own.

I wanna actually, one thing I do wanna do,

and I will do this at some point,

is I wanna build a road going,

F1 car.

That was quite cool.

Yeah, a road, road legal, F1 car.

So obviously there'll be loads of things on

it that aren't F1, but it literally helmet on

looking like an F1 car on the road.

That is something that I wanna do.

You know what, that's, that's end game,

my Armstrong.

Yeah.

That's, you know, rebuilding and crashed F1 car.

Yeah, that is, that is the ultimate goal for me.

That would be amazing.

It would be something like that.

That would be, I think that at that point,

I would happily say, yeah.

Complete it, mate.

Yeah, I've completed it.

Life has been finished.

That's it, just drive straight into a wall.

(laughing)

In the F1 car.

Yeah, you're in a blaze.

Yeah, I've completed it done off.

Yeah.

I think that might be it for the questions we got there.

Benjamin, do we have a forum?

We do.

Oh, sorry, we do.

Here we go.

What?

For those, perhaps for dips and for those of

you that don't know, we do a section called

the forum, which is where, like the forums of

the early 2000s, you're allowed to ask a

question into the void and see if any of your

answers, usually it's us saying something.

Very ridiculous.

So what have we got from a viewer?

Jim Wade.

Mr.

Jim.

Sorry, Jim Wade 8201 on YouTube.

Forum question, when you go to sell a car

that is modified, would you revert to stock

or sell it as it is?

It seems like you would probably lose money

trying to sell a modified car.

Interesting.

I throw out there as well.

Some people also think a lot more possibly.

One thing that people also think a lot of

time is that mods add the value as well.

So they throw that in there.

Yeah, they do not.

First things first, mods, it depends on the mods.

mods can add value, but if you're adding

wicked maxim design splitters and that sort

of stuff, you're not getting that money back.

Because modifications are often taste.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And if you are modifying to your taste,

that will you then narrow the amount of the

pool of people that while they're interested

in that car.

And a lot of people get puffed by someone

else having modified a car.

Some people want to do it themselves.

Yeah.

But for instance, you're on the flip side of that.

You look for the

52:26 Forum Question: Selling Modified Cars

car that has the mods already done.

Yeah, and again, that depends on how it works.

That was done and that kind of thing.

I've bought plenty of cars that have been

modified because like the GTR I had before,

for example, that was I paid roughly the same

as what you pay for a standard one,

but it had a 25,000 pound kit on it.

Yeah.

I don't want to pay that.

I don't want to because.

If you're getting it for the right way.

Because if you pay that money,

that money's gone.

It's gone.

You're not getting any of that back.

Some people will try and do that.

Again, that happens a lot, for example,

GTRs, but we'll all put 50,000 pound making a

GTR, 1000 horsepower.

And sell a 40 grand car for 90 grand.

Yeah.

And that car will be for sale for a very,

very long time.

Yes.

Unless it is so unbelievably,

you know, again, your pool of buyers are very small.

Yeah, if you get my sell, it might sell in

three years, it might sell in three days,

but you just don't know.

Yeah, for me, I will return,

it depends on the car.

Like my M3, I deliberately don't do anything

to it that is not reversible.

If I was to go and sell that car tomorrow,

it would be on the standard suspension,

standard wheels, standard airbox,

everything would just go back to original,

and I'd sell all parts separately,

'cause that's how you maximize the amount of money.

But what I'd love to do is put a carbon roof

on it, so it's like a proper CSL.

But if I do that, someone's gonna go,

why is there a carbon roof on this car?

Yeah.

Everything else is standard,

it's got original, you know,

19-inch wheels, but it's, yeah,

got a carbon roof.

So you have to walk a line between what you

want to do and what is easy to reverse.

Yeah.

And it depends, the car to car.

Some cars are very popular, like lots of Ben,

like M3, like E92s, for example.

It's almost a standard that it might be a

little bit lower, it might have spacers,

and it might have an exhaust mod.

People aren't that bothered by that,

'cause if they buy that, I'm saving a grand

or two, and then I can do whatever they are.

And they're doing that.

Yeah.

If you're buying one, you're doing it right.

You're gonna do them bits too.

Yeah, so, and as long as it hasn't been done

by someone who's a bit of, you know,

half lit, then you're all good.

What's the line?

'Cause we kind of talked about it before

about mods that put you off,

but what's something that if you thought

you'd be like, "Ooh, no, I'm not,"

because they've modified it in that way,

I'm steering clear of this car.

Paint.

Interesting.

Is it a factory repaint or they've painted it

in a different color?

For me, it would be the, it's not even about

the factory or the color, it would be the

quality of the job.

Okay.

Because if they've painted it in like a,

for example, if you've got a E46 M3 and

they've painted it in this lovely purple,

'cause I love the purple.

Like Alex's car, yeah.

But if the quality of the job,

so if it wasn't purple initially and they've

painted it purple, the quality of the job

would be like, okay, yeah, I'll buy it.

I'll bother the fact that it used to be

silver or something like that.

But it's got to be the quality of the job.

Yeah.

For me, the paint is a big, big thing.

Yeah, agreed.

Yeah.

That's the same thing for the M3 for me.

Like I would have happily bought a black car

and painted it myself or painted myself.

Like got it painted green, so I just wanted the color.

But to know that it's a original car,

that's why people then go, oh,

I wanted it.

Yeah.

This is original.

Yeah.

I think, so some people are put off by,

it's something being modified too far.

Again, like he was saying about the M3,

but if you sold the M3, as it was,

someone could take those bits off and reverse it.

But if you buy an M3 that has got bucket

seats in it, we've got a welding cage.

Yeah.

It's got an engine that's been built and is

only really built for like track day stuff.

Then you start to, again, the amount of

people looking at it going, I can't really use that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't reverse it.

It's cost so much to reverse it.

You don't know who's done the work on the engine.

Yeah.

So if you've got one that's stopped,

you know that you can do the work on it.

Yeah.

But when you get someone that's done the work

on it, and it's like, well, it's been done in

a back street garage, and they might be good

at what they're doing, but it's been done in

a back street garage, and you're like,

is it gonna last?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, how long is this 1,000 break or 500

break engine gonna actually last?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, if it's been done by a company that's

really reputable, and they've got receipts

for everything, and they've got pictures and

photos, videos, whatever, then it's like,

okay, cool, it's proven they're a good

company, and all the rest of it,

then it's like, all right, Airplay,

you're still not getting what you're asking for it.

Yeah, we've seen it with the cars we've

bought, granted, the lowest end of the

spectrum, but we've bought cars that have had

lists of, oh, it's got a base status,

it's done, Zafira had a list,

ridiculously long list up, we got it in the

air, some frame was held on with one bolt.

No.

Like, there are lots of things like that,

where it's, okay, I don't, you can say that

it has lots of this stuff, but I don't

believe you anyway, unless you can show me it

with a receipt, and I can see it on the car,

I don't believe you.

That's great.

If there is a car that seems quite cheap,

and I see the word, forged to do with the

engine, are my scaring, my senses are up,

I'm heightened, because again,

we've done it twice now, we've had,

there's a fear which was a very cheap to fear

at the time, and it said forged engine,

and there are seats for, and there are photos

of pistons, rods, loads of stuff,

but it was done by a man at home.

So all of a sudden you're like,

okay, there's a lot of money worth parts in

here, but if it blows up, it's a lot of scrap

metal, basically, and same with the S3.

what forged rods?

Forged rods, yes, standard pistons.

Again, there's a whole amount of cost involved.

If it went to a professional,

you'd be talking about a five grand engine

build, but it's not, it's a few hundred

quitting parts and a man doing it.

And then it's weekend at home.

So all of a sudden the word,

you see the word forged and go,

walk on, 'cause it's got forged engine,

and it's a two grand cheaper than it should be.

Yeah, that's a very good reason for that.

Bracket's run.

forged.

Especially when you see something that's been

forged, and it's running like the sort of

power that you wouldn't need it to be forged.

That is, why has it been real well?

Why did you do that in the first place,

and why have you not pushed it further?

Why have you spent that money buying good

bits, and then not pushed it further?

I don't need it.

There's normally, whenever someone says,

all it needs is this.

Yeah, it never needs just this.

There's normally a long list hidden behind this.

That's a good question.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Jim Wade.

We don't have a car spray situation,

do we?

We're not, sadly.

Well, I'm pretty happy with it there.

You know what?

I actually want to have an argument with Ben.

Oh, sorry, that was close.

That was close.

We nearly...

To any of you that have switched off early.

Sorry, you've missed it.

Because we had an argument at lunch,

and we paused it, because I decided that we

should have it here on the podcast.

We've been talking about daily drivers,

Ben.

So, Ben has an X5, used to be my X5,

3DZ, or Tylen 5, E53, if you like.

Any more of them?

My looks sterling-gray, 6HP automatic,

plate 20-inch.

My last service?

I don't know, it's your comment.

We can totally use the door pockets and

footwells

59:13 Daily Driver Debate Between Edwin and Ben

off full of rubbish.

No, they're not.

That is fabrication.

Ben just casts entity food wrappers into his footwell.

I did.

I was at Tesco's last night.

I thought, "There's a bin there."

But anyway, you've had this car for some time.

It's done many miles by both me and you.

But you're now starting to get a bit tired of

the MPG and also the fact that when it needs

fixing, it's more expensive.

This week I'm here four days and that is 800

miles of driving in that car.

Which is really weird.

The wear on that is just is ridiculous.

And then in a normal car, suspension on,

100 quid, that car, 500 pounds.

Yeah.

So we were sat in the next room and you

thought, "Let's have a think about what he

could have as a daily."

Then we're thinking about like boring stuff.

And Edwin pitched an idea.

I did.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

And I'm going to put it over onto the screen.

Now, Dips, tell me what your thoughts are

about one of these.

Do you know what I mean?

No, throw it off the bat.

Not, not doing anything for you.

I'm not a big alpha fan.

Oh, you've seen this dip.

You can be here every week if you

like.

It's a 2v2 then.

Because I'm not a big alpha fan.

Because that for audio listeners,

this is an Alfa Romeo 159 Sport Wagon.

Or as we like to call them, Spaghetti Wagon.

Because they are just incredibly good looking.

It's just a fantastical working.

I'm not saying it's E-type, beautiful.

But I think for a

regular run-of-the-mill car.

I like the headlights.

That's

what I mean at the front end.

That's a bit of a horrible.

No, it's in the round headlights.

I hate the fact that they're not.

Why have you got a whole headlight system?

But it's individual like bulbs just plopped

in a hole.

Is that okay?

That's interesting.

What?

I don't understand.

Is it an estate?

Yeah, so you can get an estate or you can get a saloon.

There's also a Briaro, which is like a GPA

version and is a spider.

But the thing I'm saying to you,

and this is as someone who will own BMWs till

the day he dies, compare that to what was on

offer at just an E91, run-of-the-mill

E91.

Tell me that is not 10,000 times better looking.

It's

cooler.

It's better looking.

It's more eye-mid-eye, it's cooler.

You could have your favorite combination in that.

Far easier than you could with the three series.

You could have them.

Back on time.

One five nine.

You'd find it easy.

My next, that was going to be my next port of

call, the interiors on these.

If you can tell me, Ben, I love the interiors.

It's burnt in here, right?

Exactly.

I like those interiors.

That's fine.

It's the front end.

It's just, I don't really like the use of this.

That's the best.

Look at that.

That's the best interior.

That is a incredible interior.

It's GTA car interior.

Yeah.

I actually think, I know.

What do you mean by that?

What is it?

I think it is one of them is basically

inspired by this.

Oh, actually.

It's a, it might be the Viper has basically,

that's, they'll send the console.

I do like it, but also the front is just,

it's an L.

No, that's not what you're talking about.

That is the best part of that car.

It's an angry hour.

What are you talking about?

That's an L.

I don't like that.

I will say I have had a, I had a prayer at

many years ago.

I'm sorry.

I will say it was like, as a car,

fairly dreadful.

Which is the only thing that is after my situation.

Compared to a three series, it's pretty appalling.

But look at it.

Yeah.

We're really not.

We are not replacing the X5 with an alpha for

reliability.

What would you like if you were to replace it?

This is not the thing.

This is possibly not the most interesting

podcast chat because I don't want anything interesting.

I want something that's going to be good MPG,

that's going to be cheap to fix and also

relatively reliable and doesn't break.

Because I started the clears.

I have a fun car.

Do you have no absolutely zero desire to even

have an inkling of interesting?

Because we were going through your list of criteria.

And what you basically described is a bicycle

or some sort of non-turbo diesel,

French hatchback.

And then you start to go, well,

I want it to be a bit fast.

Well, I would like to be comfortable.

Yeah.

I'd like to be automatic.

What we basically came down to is that you

have the option of a golf wagon,

a passat, and then take any variation of SAAT

or SCODA edition transfer.

It's just so very little from a Volvo.

I know, I know.

But I'm trying not to care.

And Volvo is the old one.

I like Volvo.

But I don't actually think...

You're not like a Volvo driver.

That's tough.

That's a really tough one.

It's not.

I'll take it.

We did a road trip to Germany and we had a Volvo XC60.

I think it was a brand new one.

I loved it.

It was

brilliant, honestly.

It's such a good, quite drive-head.

I had all the adaptive everything and it was brilliant.

And I'm not a Volvo driver.

I actually liked it a lot.

Here we go.

Is that Ben should finance lease or whatever?

I was going to say this.

Perhaps to the creamers, to a creamer out

there who has perhaps lives our life,

they like a living life course a mile at a

time, but be dealing with terrible,

awful shit cars every day and a project car.

If one of you's out there has leased a car or

a finance car, there's a daily.

Did it make your life good?

Has your fear of bringing your life?

Everyone who likes bad cars is going to argue

everyone who likes new cars.

Who's

the car?

Did it actually improve your life?

Because

if the answer is yes, Ben, there could be an

art, I mean, I'm

talking like a newer something that's new

reliable, maybe

in a world like a car.

I

know,

it doesn't

have to be a box, mate.

A quick question, is the next podcast going

to be away in Monterey?

No.

Okay, never mind.

Go ahead and cut that.

Okay, well, I think that was a nice,

that was a, you know, a positive end to the argument.

We started coming out, Ben.

We ended coming with Ben.

And on that note, thank you very much for

listening to the Cars Rule Everything Around Me podcast.

You can find dips on his YouTube channel,

P1 Auto Keys.

You can find them on website and on Instagram as well.

So make sure you go and check them out,

watch a video.

It's incredibly interesting.

interesting.

Thank you very much.

Thank you guys for having me.

It's been brilliant.

You got a Ferrari to go and get.

I

know, I still can't believe it.

Absolutely mad.

But no,

thank you guys for having me.

And I'm sure you'll be

ringing me for another job soon.

We're only going to take

five minutes.

As always, cream, get the money,

dollar,

dollar bill y'all.

Bye.