To all those who admire Edd China...

....I have long maintained that he is over-rated. Just watched his Merc SLK prog. Take a look at the calipers he was happy to bleed: then leave alone. More corrosion than the Titanic wheelhouse. Unbefreakinlievable.
Any respectable MG owner would have replaced the lot.

Rough bugger. Convince me otherwise.

I just wish I had a channel on my telebox that showed wheeler dealers....

I seem to remember noticing the discs when the programme was first broadcast. However it did look like surface corrosion which would clean up with just a few applications of the brake.

I think they looked something like this...

That was fitted by Dr Dave on .org to a TF. However they were cleaned up just by driving round the block.

Ever since he used WD40 as release oil and says that fitting HIDs is the best mod you can make to a car he has become a backstreet mechanic in my eyes.

I think a lot of the work is done off camera, maybe even by other mechanics.

I also find it a bit implausible that he always guesses correctly what a fault is becore he takes things apart. A bit of editing perhaps?

Didn't he invent a time machine and go back to the future?

Yep. It was the caliper state that caught my eye rather than the discs, which can get tatty very quickly. The calliper casting looked like it had been boiled in brine and left in the open for a year.

I remember one 'restoration' where him and Fat Bloke were saying how perfect it was. I remarked to Sue that he could have replaced the rusty wheel nuts and tatty reg plates. When it was being viewed by a buyer, guess what had magically been replaced? And yes, his diagnostic powers border on the supernatural. Or the pre-diagnosed.....

Why do I watch it if it annoys me so much? Pure savage amusement! :omg:

The suzuki jeep episode was the one that got me, they spent a fortune on it and had a complete bespoke roll cage cut into the body and all welded in, they took it for an mot once complete and it failed on rust near a suspension mount, I couldn't believe my eyes when they showed where as it was about 3 inches from where they had cut the body and welded the roll cage in, surely someone must have noticed the gaping hole :pinch: but anyway they sold it on for about £400 as an mot failure and lost a fortune :lol:

I have long thought that many of their fixes were akin to simple cover ups of far more serious problems, and selling some of their projects on was exactly the kind of thing that gives the car trade a bad name. as for "Fat Bloke" - Arthur Daley, for sure. I do like seeing the cosmetics of their fixes though - nice to see old cars looking good.

Their programs are more about entertaining than proper restoration.

If you look around sky there are plenty of more realistic programs available.

A lot of the resto prongs are in the same vein: jiggery pokery and jobs mysteriously being completed without mention.

Car SOS isn't bad.

The accurate ones seem to be the ones along the lines of Campervan Crisis, , Kit Car Crisis etc.
The biggest con was the one with that Bernie bloke: the MGB mysteriously changed into a completely different car between start and finish. They had to come clean after the prog. Amazingly, people had noticed :yesnod:

Another really good one is Mark Evans "is born" series, yes he's a tv vet with a passion for cars and engineering but his enthusiasm is great, he regularly makes mistakes but nothing is hidden much to his embarrasment

this is one of his, an MG is born