OT but I found it amusing

[Alan Drover]

Tonight's Wheeler Dealers between 6/7pm featured a 1995 Discovery 1 purchased for £1,500. £1,231 was spent on turning it into an expedition vehicle and was sold to an off road business for £3,000. The program was made in 2009 and the MOT for that year had an advisory that the boot floor was rusty. The next year it failed spectacularly on corrosion and it has been SORN since 2014, presumably used only off road.
I noticed when the vehicle was purchased and then on the ramp to fit the underbody protection nobody inspected the chassis, especially at the rear where D1's are known to corrode.
Makes you wonder doesn't it. That's the first place I'd look.

[John]

Is not the lack of detail the trade mark of these programs

[Alan Drover]

Amusing to watch though.

[TimV]

I suppose you saw the later Wheeler Dealers programme last night on the Mitsubishi Shogun.

For 'green laning' it needed a lift kit, a snorkel and big tyres ...

[2286]

I suppose you saw the later Wheeler Dealers programme last night on the Mitsubishi Shogun.

For 'green laning' it needed a lift kit, a snorkel and big tyres ...

I have no exposure or experience with Mitsubishi but I would hope it would cope with all that they drove it up down and through without modification.

That said my pal had an isuzu trooper lwb 3.1 citation and that got stuck on soft grass, the weight springing wheelbase and tyre width all standard were all wrong.


Re WD
I would have been more interested in the the engine box and drivetrain.  They referred to a v6 in the blurb but that I think due to the intercooler graphics was a diesel.

I did not catch sight of the main shift lever as the programme fixated on the transfer, but I think it was an auto too.

Was it an illusion or did the wheelarch spats gain width to keep the wider tyres legal or did they just clean up.

Re winch bumper 6mm for the tray granted but all over was excessive.

Could of kept it stock and just bought a tirfor in the boot.

[Alan Drover]

No, I didn't watch it. I'm watching the teatime repeats.
I'd really like to see the vehicles that are done up and sold on be put through an MOT as part of the program.

[Rog-from-Bix]

They did a suzuki sj a back it hte day that had to be sold for off road use as after loads of work it failed its mot on corrosion.

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

Scchh!... don't tell the missus Coronation St. isn't real, might be damaging.

[/quote]

Makes you wonder doesn't it. That's the first place I'd look.

This is TV. Why would they look?

[w3526602]

Hi,

Even more MOT.

A lady in the Swansea Valley bought a Triumph Herald with a brand new MOT, from a garage.

A year later, at it's next MOT, she took it to a different garage for its MOT. It failed, because the body was not bolted to the chassis.

Guess which garage had done issued the pre-sale MOT?

602

[Wittsend]

Over the years there will have been many anecdotes of this type of MoT "abuse".
Over the years VOSA (or what ever they are called today) tighten up the rules and the tests and the testers training manual.
Great stories for the pub - like chassis rails being fixed with wooden table legs, etc. etc.

I bet every Land Rover owner has at least one MoT story.



RE TV progs.

People need to realise these programmes are for entertainment and not for Open University courses.
Which begs the question - if there are gaps, inconsistencies and errors in programmes where we have some expertise, you have to assume the same "errors" are in all other TV shows 

[Alan Drover]

Or, as they say "Some scenes have been added and some characters created for dramatic effect" when true life documentaries are screened and the same applies to shows like Wheeler Dealers etc.
I'd still like to see an MOT of a Wheeler Dealers' car being carried out after they'd finished with it.

[Beowulf]

I suppose you saw the later Wheeler Dealers programme last night on the Mitsubishi Shogun.

For 'green laning' it needed a lift kit, a snorkel and big tyres ...

I watched the Mitsubishi programme because of its off road links.

I`d bet they`ve never even been on a Greenlane or they wouldn't have fitted 4 large spotlights above the windscreen    madness. And as for those unnecessarily aggressive knobbly tyres, maybe ok for a PayNplay site (which is what they ended up doing) but not Greenlane's. A good set of ATs are perfectly adequate.

Yes, these programmes are for entertainment, but they repeatedly set themselves up for ridicule, always boasting about how good they are at what they do, only to end up looking like cowboys, so IMHO they`re fair game for a few pot-shots.

Amusing or laughable 

[Alan Drover]

I always check each Wheeler Dealers vehicle on the DVLA site. The MOT history usually makes for interesting reading.

[biloxi]

As  Wittsend says, these programs are made for entertainment. Just look how many Land Rovers owned by
members of this forum are adorned with "look at me, look at me" stuff that turns the L/R into kitsch
and wouldn't be of any benefit if the L/R was being used to earn a living, or as intended.
.W.

[TimV]

As  Wittsend says, these programs are made for entertainment. Just look how many Land Rovers owned by
members of this forum are adorned with "look at me, look at me" stuff that turns the L/R into kitsch
and wouldn't be of any benefit if the L/R was being used to earn a living, or as intended.
.W.

I'm surprised by that comment, my experience of the cars I have seen on this forum and at meetings is quite the opposite.

Now as for what one sees on FB ...