[Music] this time on Flipping bangers Gus is on a
mission tell me if I've been a lovesick fool right I I'm all ears he sees a diamond in the rough I'm
gonna love it when you drive it I don't want to go anywhere near that that could blow up in my
hands and if we can smooth off the rough edges we'll get a chance to shine we have definitely
turned back the clock on this car it's definitely got a new lease of Life we've said goodbye to
our day jobs and invested our own hard-earned cash as we tr
y and make it in the Cutthroat
world of second-hand cars you've got to buy well but you've got to sell well we have
a goal we need to double our money if we put 500 quid in we need to see a thousand
pounds back but we're forced to the very bottom of the market we buy cars that nobody
else wants who else will buy that car can we keep our business afloat flipping bangers
there's so many things to do to this car returned our backs on our regular jobs and
attempted to carve out a new living by
buying and selling cheap cars evicted from our previous
Workshop by Angry neighbors will has sorted us out with a new base and apart from having no
working toilet it feels like home we've raided our bank accounts and this time we have enough
to invest around 500 to 1500 pounds on each car it's time for us to choose a new project but
what will it be yeah I was thinking I I don't want to see anything fancy nothing fragile yeah
I don't want broken and I definitely don't want Rusty no I think
something something strong
some sort of robust engineering yeah quality and substance I think our Collective minds are
drifting towards stood got a Munich aren't they yeah well we are here to make some money so let's
not mince our words let's think BMW let's think Mercedes yeah so maybe five series or some sort of
E-class yeah I'd say at the moment a90s 5 series it can be a little bit underpriced yeah to sell
yeah yeah maybe you're right but I just I think that 5 series E-class C-Class this
is the sort
of cars that everybody goes for I think maybe we should go a bit more off-piste you know what
we haven't thrown is the mix Audi 100 Audi 100 event the estate really rare yeah I think I think
it they'd be worth more than either of those look yeah no I've not seen one of those for years
and yeah no I was sticking with the Fire series five Series Five series I can't say
it enough I really like to look at this Rd 100 though oh yeah yeah it's only done under 30
000 miles is it how
about you call up the owner of the Audi good idea yeah see if he's got
a nice fight series I might call him anyway after a little spell on the Dog and Bone that's
phone we pack up and head off which car will we see a 5 series that will wants or do we disregard
his feelings and look at the wonderful Audi 100. there was a radio program where the perhapless
people used to phone in and confess to sins that they didn't really regret doing to the
accompaniment of tears and strings yeah I do remem
ber I used to quite like it actually
yeah yeah it was it was quite good but what I'm not liking about it at the moment is this is
beginning to make me think that you have some sort of something you need to get off your chest
maybe no no what gives you that idea well nothing of course well a bit I suppose I know what it is
I know exactly what it is I worked out already right so we're off to see a car yes yes right
let me just Hazard a guess that it's not the BMW 5 series that I want it's tha
t Audi that you
want isn't it okay okay let me let me let me tell you the information about the car and you can
tell me if I've been a lovesick fool right I'm all ears go for it you know you know there's that
website where you can type in the type of car you got and it will tell you how many are on the road
in the UK at that point yeah so if you do that to an Audi 100 Avant it comes up with 25 cars and I
in my mind low Supply means high price okay yeah but that that car it was on auction th
is car and
and it was bid and sold but it was never paid for so I took the opportunity to sneak in and get as
a booking for it oh well done here it was a great point in our dis development and I think they're
just an under loved car because Audi were trying really hard they had that whole sort of flush
fitting glass and that sort of 0.3 coefficient of drag you know it was they were they were on
fire when they were making these cars yeah they're quite technologically advanced yeah but if I'm
not
happy with it then you've got absolutely nothing to worry about I'm sure that's exactly what I
was hoping you'd say oh well that is good then there we are the owner of the Audi is
at work so we're left to our own devices look where Matty said he'd left the keys with
his sister so we can get the keys you can drive it then you can see the whole picture I mean look
at this side this side looks like you're creating a diversion tactic I can tell look at those Wheels
original Wheels rare ve
ry rare oh hi hi um Matty said he left the keys for the car with you yes
he has let me just grab them brilliant thank you you're gonna love it you're gonna love it when
you drive it it's sophisticated let's go thank you I reckon would be 10 or 15 minutes that's
all right okay all right enjoy thank you very much what's sophisticated like me no sophisticated
like a sophisticated thing that's sophisticated got some nice bits on it hasn't it look tinted
Green Glass an electric sunroof it's got
all these period features paint work not too bad
and the wheels look at those Wheels they're rare and they're in really good Nick they're
good admittedly yes it's got a load of nice features on your side but starting around here
there's been some damage on this bonnets which has been repaired and the repairs all fallen
off this side of the car actually looks like it's been to war and I'm not looking at that
side I'm looking at this side look it's got its original load liner in there brillia
nt follow
it down here look at that balance it looks like they've reversed over a cow twice okay let me
show you something down here a piece of beautiful Automotive art which no one can say isn't a
brilliant thing 2.3 five cylinder Audi engine are you sure oh yeah oh well I do know these are
good engines so I mean that's what it looks like oh that's amazing the Bonnet actually works
and stays out that's handy in it yeah and well actually it doesn't look too bad in there which
is kind of pl
easing to see I mean they're sort of bulletproof sort in there if it yeah if it runs
all right then it's a corker yeah yeah it's just old isn't it it is yeah I think we should drive it
I think you should drive it and I know that you're not a very good driver but I think you should
drive it just to see you're gonna like it this is a diversion me tactic Gus I know what you're
doing I don't know what you're talking about and anyway this is supposed to be your treat
not mine you're gonna love i
t well let's see ah it's headlining all right that is falling down
there and it's all at the back of it's held up with coffee tax by the looks of it yeah yeah we
have but look what we have got look at the gray velor on these seats which is in fantastic Nick
isn't it yeah and look all this the dash it's like a Time Warp it's really good isn't it I must
admit it is a good period piece radio is missing but I want what I'm really really worried about
it's like ah our potential buyers going to w
arm to this car because it's not really something they
know not like a BMW 5 series no but the Bare Bones of this car are good I know it's got issues on
the outside I know it's got issues on the inside but if you take the age of the car what it is as a
whole I think it's amazing is this your last ditch attempt to try and win me over is it you are I can
tell God will you're gonna love it you're gonna love it you're gonna love it actually I I think
oh my I'm sorry I'm being a bit down on it b
ut nice they'll sound nice the Audi even has a current
mot what more do you want I hope you know I'm being really generous letting
you drive this car a because you're a terrible driver and B because I actually really want to
drive this car I know I'm a really terrible driver and I know that you really want to drive this car
and you're not actually being generous in letting me drive the car if you're fast to your own ends
man you're just trying to win me over it's an ulterior motive a car yo
u can't work
that one off the car will win you over welcome to that engine it sounds great oh yeah the
engine does sound great I mean it's very crisp and um and it pulls really nicely yeah I say yeah
cracking Little Engine no worries there at all look we've got no we got no um stereo have we so
we should let that be our in-car entertainment system oh that's a perfect motorist solution that
is and I don't want to sort of wax lyrical about cars of the 80s or 90s but I will do a bit
they buil
d some great cars yeah there's some really brilliant cars in that period And this
is one of them it's really solid really nice they were trying hard weren't they Audi they were
definitely trying to impress BMW and Mercedes with their ability to create a really good car and they
really did create a good car with this yeah it's as tight as a drum I mean if it's comfortable to
drive and it does feel like the sort of thing you could drive around in all day long no worries at
all the Bare Bones
of what we've got here we for the age we've got a really really good car haven't
we and it's cool I think it's cool surely sticking to the standard stuff that people like you know
the mainstream thing isn't that a better idea I don't know I think if you you find the car and
everything else will work itself out it'll all fall into place and no sooner have those fateful
words been spoken yeah it's getting quite warm Gus vaporizing coolant yeah smells like it's
leaking something somewhere and
in actual fact there's a little bit of steam coming out
of here as well oh dear that's not gonna ride again about finding somewhere to pull over a bit
sure fish and we should have a look shouldn't we I think that's what the steam is isn't it that's leaking yeah it's a split I think it's
split down the middle and I don't want to go anywhere near that exactly show up in
your hands should we get it home I think we ought to yeah definitely slowly and steadily
I think will probably be the best t
hing there is a saying you break it you buy it [Music] so do we want it or do we not want it
well I think you like this car so much it would be mean for me to say no so it's
a yes all we've got to do is work out the price and see if we can do a deal I
suppose 1 200 pounds okay well let's go and have a Huggle then go and sort out a
problem no we can put it on the trailer now it's not something you're not telling me to show
interest in the car to get the first viewing I had to show how intere
sted we were and I sort of had
to buy the car I had to really we've owned this car the entire time you've pulled the wall over
my eyes haven't you well not really but a bit Yeah but but to be fair if it wasn't as advertised
we could have canceled it all couldn't we that's funny that's clever right I'll walk to get the
trailer but I think if there are any stinky jobs on this they might be on your list not mine that
seems fair enough it's the first time Gus has ever bought a car without my sa
y-so but in fact In
fairness he did get my agreement before Telling Me Maybe it makes for a more efficient process
who knows wrong Gus you surprised me there and I I am pretty pretty amused by the way I don't like
dishonesty generally and I certainly don't like dishonesty between us but but he was on the phone
he was saying are you serious I've got people calling me are you serious when you're going to
come and see it and he just lost the sale and I thought you know what it's just easier it
was a
thousand two hundred quid it was just easier to do it well I think you've done the right thing and
I really like the car as well you've obviously you pushed out your intentions a little bit further
you've clinched the deal we've got a very smart car there yeah I'd like to have met him that would
have been nice but you know it's not if it's not to be it's not to be but he seemed a very genuine
man I have to say and I don't think a thousand two hundred pounds is too much I think it's p
robably
what the car is worth not too much not too little about right I think we've only looked over the
Audi quickly so the next day we come at it fresh you know since we got this car in that rather
unusual way yes I've actually started quite like it good which is only well it's different
isn't it I mean it's a different car it's quite a cool looking car for the money we paid for
this car it seems like we have actually got a real bargain yeah I I am genuinely pleased that
you've come arou
nd to it in that way I really am because I'm not proud of the way we got it but
it had to be got and that was just the way of it but I agree with you completely I love the
lines of this car and it's the it's the estate it's not the slim Saloon does nothing to me it's
the estate I just think it's cool you know yeah I think it's really groovy so let's start thinking
about the jobs that we've got to do on this car and I think it is quite fair to say the car speaks
for itself doesn't it so yeah
we've got all this paint work down the side of the car the Bonnet and
those great big dents in the back as well yeah but what worries me about this is slightly looking at
it that it's a metallic isn't it and we've done flat colors before but we've never done a metallic
before and I wonder if that just needs a bit more research or something okay well let's um let's
approach it from this point of view how about we get stuck into it and do all of the prep work for
the painting yeah and then s
ee how we feel when it comes to the big moment yeah see how Brave we feel
yeah exactly same as usual then yes sort of okay well there's the dent isn't it the dent yeah look
at this dent and that down down there now both of those are going to need pulling out and they're
going to need a really good job doing on them because that's not just a straightforward filler
job no and the one in the back as well that's definitely not a straightforward filler job yeah
was required yes so if we recap th
em with this car yeah we've got a header tank we know the header
Tank's leaking don't we because it was on the test drive yes we do so you've got a window that
doesn't go up so we need to investigate that see what that is and we've got a headlining which
one of us yeah I get it possibly me okay yeah you've got to do that but that's it so that's all
we've got on this car so that's amazing if that's all it is it is yeah with the rest of the Interior
is mint yeah the car drives really really n
icely yeah yeah is it conceivable that this car will go
through the workshop without any extracurricular activity needed yeah you know about saying about
counting chickens before they hatch and all of that and I've just done that yeah on machine like
process is primed and ready pickies first [Music] right okay so I've got some really nice pictures
of the Audi which I'm currently putting up on the adverse at the moment and it's looking good
I'm not using the pictures of the side that needs p
ainting Because by the time we sell the
car that will all be done and the car will be mot are ready to go had been doing my research
because the pricing I'm finding a little bit difficult to work out there aren't that many of
these cars left so you'd be forgiven for thinking that's going to escalate the value totally
not true this is not a Ferrari this is an Audi so I've got to come in with a decent price we
make some money I'm thinking around about the sort of 3500 quid mark because that's
not too high
because if it's too high people would ignore it if it's too low people get suspicious it's a quandary
isn't it knowing that our car is going to be very good when it's done 3500 would be quite a keen
price people who like these cars they're not frightened by those figures so this is my final
decision which I'm going to put in the computer 3760 quid that should do it they were important
people off and it might draw the right people in with a completely arbitrary price agreed on
the
Audi it's welcomed into the greasy cocoon that is the workshop and since the Audi's overheating
let's get that sorted As non-driving Trump scruffy paint well we know from our test drive that the
Audi has got a split in its header tank just here so I'm going to replace it and they're
not they're not difficult to get hold of and they're not expensive which is great but what it's
going to do is it's going to mean that the at this Audi engine this five-cylinder engine is going to
run beaut
ifully smoothly and beautifully reliably because the person who buys this car isn't going
to be buying an estate car to pop down the shops in they're going to be buying an Audi 100 Avant
they're going to be super cool and they're going to have their double bass in there and the rest
of the band in the back or they're going to be Surfers and they were going to put their Surfer
boards on the back and they're going to go down to the witcherings or down to New Key that's the
plan anyway poor ga
s is away with the fairies today but he gets the first job which is removing
the header tank which allows for expansion of water in the system he unscrews it and removes
the plumbing we ordered a new pass on the way back here for 35 quid and it's arrived already
and once it's topped up with coolant it's good to go so that's a relatively cheap fix to get our
Audi up and running reliably again which makes a bit of a change in this Workshop unevitable first
day then but cheap the overheating i
s cured and we're off home to dream about how we find those
cool owners the Gus is obsessing about it's the second day on the Audi project and another
niggle is a potential issue with the brakes so we're guessing it's a run rise as a look to see what's wrong [Music] so one of the one of the problems with this car
when we were test driving it is that the brakes were binding on and I figure it's probably
the handbrake that's binding on so we've got a car that sat for a very long time we have a
handbrake cable which degrades in time and causes massive friction and we have a very very tired
looking spring here and this is what operates the lever that puts the handbrake on and off
so any amount of friction in the cable will cause a great deal of loading on this what is
looking like a very very tired spring up here so we've got new spring and I've got a new cable
first up this slot needs to be disconnected from the handbrake up at the front there's a bolt
underneath the car which i
s responsible for that so it's out and if you'd like to accompany
me to the bench I'll show you this cable so here we have our old handbrake cable as you
can see if you pull it there's a lot of friction in the cable so just think every time you let the
hand break off that little spring has got to let this cable all the way back round and honestly I
think it's going to struggle because the new one oh hello look at that easy peasy that's gonna fly
off isn't it we've got a new spring to replac
e our tired old one so the combination of our new
spring and our new cable I think it's definitely going to do the job so far so good another 30
pounds that's all this is going to be a cheap car so as with everything there's a bit of creep
on this job I thought it was going to be really easy I thought it's going to put the spring on
put the cable back on that everything would be good but there's a cam in here this one
here and as you pull on the handbrake it operates a little Rod here which
closes up the
calipers and applies the handbrake and on the one that's on the car this is obviously very worn and
the rod is poking into here so I can't I can't get this can on here round far enough to put the pin
back in so I'm going to have to take the caliper apart now and see if I can wiggle it out somehow
put the new one in and Gus's excitement during the test drive we didn't notice but there's a warning
light on on the binnacle pointing to warm breaks so I Take a Look Ah that's what
they've done
here that's why there is where the sensor that goes in the brake pad should plug into the wiring
loom of the car but it seems that the fitted pads that don't have a sensor on them so to get around
the problem with the lights on the dashboard being on they've actually bridged the contact within
this plug to to solve that now I have got the correct brake pads that bits is the bit that
should plug into this now I've just got a hope that I can clean this up and get this bridging
w
ire out without damaging the sockets at all and hopefully it should all be okay but if I damage
the plug when I remove the barge it might break that part of the wiring loom so gently gently
dab a lubricants and then a good pull [Music] so I remove the caliper and I wind back the
piston and this facilitates the new pads which I'm putting in and then I re-clamp the
caliper back on extremely frustrating [Music] right well that's the caliper back
on which is great because we've got new pads in
there as well which is
only going to help with this car just gonna put the cable on now oh yes yeah oh that's really good right with quite
a lot of struggling that has just come out it's quite Rusty in there so I think I should
make a good connection when the new one goes in there brilliant I'll get on with changing
these pads then granted this isn't the most interesting job in the world a lot of drivers just
do brakes at their local fast fit garage and never engage with it but it's taught
us something
about the Audi yes it's a Well looked after car but it has been neglected more recently
and shortcuts have been taken to save money there we go managed to salvage that
connector and the brake pads have all changed so another calm cheap and
peaceful day who'd have thought it it's day three in our Audi and after much
procrastination it's time to face a rather large painting job the whole side of the car and we need
to address the elephant in the room don't we uh well with this y
eah yeah which I have been trying
to avoid for as long as possible hey you and me both yeah definitely well it's a big job isn't
it but once it's done really good job done yeah definitely definitely worth it um are you gonna
do those dents at the back yeah I'll crack on with those okay well I might rub this down you can
probably hear the sigh of pleasure as will gets to knock things about with a hammer it's done it's
not going to be that easy to get out there's no access behind it apart fro
m this tiny weeny little
Gap I mean normally your sort of try and use like hammers dollies and you can work it
from both sides yeah ones like this but on this particular occasion I'm going to
be using things more like a slide hammer a slide hammer with this sort of tool on the
end of it so I can hook it up in there and gently gently sort of tease the dent back out
into the shape it should be and then getting their reliever bars and gently manipulate
the rest of it to get it as good as I ca
n not looking forward to this job to be honest
[Music] Pro Repair on this would cost us as much as we paid for the whole car so I'm gonna
hammer away until it looks slightly better [Music] thank you well I'm certainly not saying that that's perfect but it's been very very tricky to get
that back into the shape that I got it to you know it's good enough I think it will work
the most important line is the bottom one I've got that pretty good yes tiny skimmer filler
yes a bit of paint that wil
l be a great job a paint job like this done professionally
would be at least a thousand pounds so we've got no option but to take it in-house but the
job isn't limited to just the paint now I'm in a dent busting mood and I need to sort out
this Dent at the back it's a small one but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy this Dent down
here when you first look at it doesn't actually look that bad but here's the problem it's on a
large relatively flat panel so the repair that we do on this h
as got to be good otherwise it's
just going to show there's a couple of detailed lines along the panel as well now that's my
starting point I've made this wooden Punch If I just work along those lines really gently
I'll make a good start on the job and then I can take the rest of the ripples off the panel
as I then work it up from the detailed line to say is that bat with wood is slightly
softer than a hammer working around the dent is quite an art and Willie's pretty
good at it so you can
actually take a gauge of where you are when you're working on a
job if you put a straight edge up against it you can see what sort of curve should
be and you can see if there's a dent easy it's very quick easy way of getting a
very good idea of where you're going the detailed lines are managing to
come out really well I'm getting very good Edge on those which
I'm measuring with with my rule um but there's still a ripple in the panel which
I've tried just tapping gently from behind but bec
ause there's so much spring in the panel I
can't actually work against it so if I use the dolly a flat Dolly on the outside of the panel and
just sort of tap next to it I can use this as an anvil something to take the flex out of the panel
as I tap in see if it just bring it into line pretty not yet while will does that I'm using the high
pressure airline to clean off The Faded lacquer all right so I've run my rule up the the
dented area and I can see it's coming out really really nicely th
ere's very few
shallow points and so I can work out where the shallow points are the high points are
flat block with a bit of medium sandpaper on it Gus is sanding with a bit
of 240 grit paper [Music] and I'm priming ready for filler we use as
little as possible that is the Golden Rule I'm done are you done huh you done uh yeah
I mean I'll say I'm getting there rather than actually done but yeah I think we could um
It's Gonna Roll in yeah get it and get masked up quickly getting some prime
r on this as soon as
possible now it's starting to look pretty good we don't have a lot of drying time left so
the race is on to get the Audi where it's ready for paint we're quick at masking now it's
a skill that we've definitely improved on [Music] well as a steady hand so he gets to
Prime well I serenade him [Music] metallic paint has really put us off in the
past it's a lot more tricky to apply than the solid paints we're used to thankfully the
primer has gone on really really nicely a
nd it's all now prepared ready for the base coat
which is the metallic level it's quite exciting the Audi will receive three top coats and
three coats for lacquer once that's dry the worrying pig is is you never know until
you've had the patience to step back for at least five minutes and wait and see how
that code has gone it's looking pretty good the first place always away dustco very
very light you start to build it [Music] it's a long long day and we work late into
the evening but wha
t a rewarding day it's been [Music] it's day four out of five on our cool Audi we
haven't spent much but we haven't tackled any of the truly nasty jobs have we been putting them
off as it would seem to me that we've spent an awful lot of time on this car already and we've
only really just got it up to the point where any normal person would buy it yeah and that's not
really enough to raise its head above the power of His and attract the the niche group of people
that are interested in these
cars yeah I mean the thing that we saw in it not one of the many things
is that it had a really cool interior it's got a really good interior but a really really baggy
uh headlining isn't it I am I am about to fall on my sword and go and pull the headlining
out that's very good of you thank you guys so I would say that the major problem with
headlinings is getting them to stay where you want them I.E up on the ceiling even the might of
English stat has a problem with it this is common with
Audi hundreds you might not notice it on this
car because it's been cunningly concealed with thumbtacks that someone's pushed in through the
lining I don't particularly want to do it because I'm nervous that as soon as I've done it and it's
quite a lot of work to get it out I'll get it stuck on put it back in come in the next day and
it'll be hanging down again but I'm going to give it a go this Audi 100 has a desirable electric
steel sunroof but the opening lip is particularly ugly that's
number one Target today one of my
failings is that I'm a little bit ham-fisted but I have to remove the fitting slowly
and carefully nothing more to it than that look at that the whole of the the headlining
is made of corrugated cardboard which I find fascinating and fantastic in one way and and
deeply deeply frightening in another [Music] thank you what are the small inconveniences with
this car is this window not going up and down which is pretty annoying in it and we
can't sell the car
like that I've had a look inside yes the wire has broken which is pretty
much the standard for this sort of mechanism we've found an Audi part supplier who
has everything and you can buy a whole window mechanism a pattern pass is
20 pounds and an Audi one is 40. [Music] our budgets means we
had to go for the cheaper one this part here is the bit that goes up and down
in the slider it attaches the mechanism to the the actual glass and the door there's a circlip
on the other side which is i
mpossible to get to the Audi have made it easy for me because the
actual door splits in two so the mechanism all comes out and the glass all comes out on the
other bit and gets the other side put it all back together piece of cake well that's the
idea of anyway let's see if it works [Music] well that's a really class bit of engineering
the fiddly job is done fast and once I've collected the motor up we'll be in business but
now is the Moment of Truth has it fixed the job [Music] it's now ti
me for the black art of
re-glowing the headlining I've got my new Fabric and the board layer that
goes between the lining and the roof the idea is that we glue the board with contact
adhesive keeping the layers regular and deep right that's the board done now
going to do the lining [Music] and the Hideous bit now where we lay the new
fabric over the board there is only one chance to get this right okay so I'm going to lower
this down yeah well I would yeah plenty over is this a good time t
o tell you I haven't
washed my hands no I asked you if you'd washed your hands Oh I thought you I thought
you were joking I don't know about you but it's nerve-wracking watching from this
end it's nerve-wracking down here too all right okay am I coming down at the right
speed yeah you are and then what I'll do is I'll go across this bar here you know you kind
of want it to move in a three-dimensional way yeah that's possible isn't it I'd say and
and we'll cut this and then we'd be able to
work it without the stress of this yeah
in it won't we and I say we I'm roping you into doing this I told you I haven't washed
my hands you didn't wash it the reason yeah is your heart still up in your throat is it yeah
a bit Yeah but it's not it's not too bad is it I'm not going for the hoping that my jumpers
clean the cleaner than me hands approach looks all right doesn't it I'll come around that
side do a bit there we'll spare you the things that don't go exactly according to plan there
are
some stumbles and a small dose of bad language but after what feels like about a week super pleased with that I've got to say
all I've got to do now is get it back in the car without getting it dirty or tearing it
or breaking it in some way that should be okay [Music] day five it's the last one
to complete our Audi advance all events and it's great yeah much much better
than it was isn't it so much better than it was and it's up in the value of our car exactly that
um we've got a lot t
o do haven't we I've got to put their headlining in yes we have no time to
waste yeah cup of tea oh that's a great idea really worrying thing about Headliners is
they have a terrible habit of not staying where they're put once you've got them in the car the card headlining will attach to the
roof with more adhesive and clips it'll look prettier than the last incarnation [Music] but while I wrestle with that more
issues are coming thick and fast yet another thing we had not spotted before [Mu
sic] we've got a problem with the dashboard in our Audi
the LCD screen doesn't work and worse than that it actually looks slightly broken as well so in
the past it's been okay because we've been on a Find engineering companies that can fix things
like this but this being a slightly older car we've had to draw in our friend Mark who's a
whiz with this sort of stuff and we're we're sorting the problem by buying another binacle from
another car which isn't exactly the same model but Mark's ski
ll is he can tease this one apart get
the component that we need put it into R pinnacle end result we have a fully functioning Pinnacle
that can stick straight on our Audi and the problem is completely sorted without the LCD
working the Audi's interior loses a tiny but visible bit of its appeal we're going to have to
hope that the LCD and our used binacle works just fine because if it doesn't we're stuffed wow this
really is the world of tiny little screwdrivers and millions of fiddly littl
e screws isn't it
it's a good job I can see yeah it is on for all of that so so these are the components which did
contain or still contains have you got out yet it did contain this very small LCD screen here
which um I've now matched up with that one there yeah um there were some very small differences but
thankfully the LCD at its core is exactly the same so I've now removed this unit here yeah and ready
to strip that unit down get it in there test it and then should be good to go brillia
nt well I'm
going to watch and learn if you don't mind that's fine um what I'll do I'm going to crack on and
strip this unit down Wicked Mark is principally an electrical engineer for Mercedes but he's
able to apply his logical mind to our Audi foreign [Music] just going to remove
this one well I'm no expert but it looks like we're getting to the right
place at the moment we're not far off this is where the business happens okay
our dad LCD is revealed day Runner yeah day Runner oh it's a
song in there I'm
doing brilliantly with the headlining [Music] okay um it's all back together would you mind
posting me the uh there you go I knew what you were once in there didn't I look straight down
here yeah fantastic thank you okay well I'm a good little helper aren't I not too bad I love
it when I fish for a compliment and it pays off the new LCD is plugged in and working and that's the last screw we're all done oh mate
cheers for that you know that is brilliant isn't it so it's rea
lly good to know you've managed to
pull all these bits to Pieces put them all back together get it all sorted and working and
you haven't even broken into a sweats which I find is pretty amazing catch you later dude
cheers oh the door's right that's why [Music] foreign [Music] and that looks like a finished car we only
paid 1 200 for the Audi breaking parts were 150 and we spent 285 on electrical items 200 on
consumables and 100 on a headlining so that's a total of less than two thousand po
unds amazing
value I think this is an unusually glorious moment for us isn't it it's when we can finally
breathe and take in the Fantastic work we've done Revel in the glory of what we've done to this car
yeah but you did really like this car so for you it wasn't a massive leap but for me it was a bit
more so but with a little bit of time and owning it and working on it I've started to really
recognize the fact that yeah this is a cool car yes it is a really really nicely built car
they're
fantastically made the engineering is is fabulous and it turns out they're really cool
too I think we tried to give all our cars new leafs of life don't we everything that comes
out of the garage and we do that to a lesser or greater extent on each carve but this car in
particular we have definitely turned back the clock on this car it's definitely got a new
lease of life hasn't it yeah I think you're you're leading up to a butt somewhere no oh no
but I think you should drive it I think th
ey're still about but I hate it when you drive now that
was the bus I thought you were going to come to cheers mate right I shall drive it I am going
to enjoy it you might not [Laughter] [Music] I've always liked them and it's not just the
lines of them that I like it's the it's it's compliance the way it sits on the road I really
like I love the I love this interior and I think this has held up really well I love the five-pot
engine you know it's power delivery it's brilliant isn't it well
it's it is quite a special car
and in its day this was a very special car to go out and buy one of these new you know off the
four cores yeah you had to be something pretty special in your game you haven't been well off
I mean this is an expensive car and it came with you know all sorts of you know modern Creature
Comforts such as electric windows yeah which was quite a special back in the day I'm picturing in
my mind's airline pilot or consultant surgeon or someone with a house in Scotlan
d and they pile
the red Setters in the back and the kids and they Hammer off up to Scotland at the weekend
it would do that wouldn't it yeah it would it's that sort of a car but we've been showering this
car gracefully with compliments rolling find some negatives to throw into the mix of it I don't
think there should be I don't think there has to be I can't think of any I mean actually it's
a negative the biggest negative is the same old story though I have to tell you every time that
we t
ry and sell a car I don't know I can guess that already no one wants it yeah but it's not my
own no one wants it but no one's looking at it no one's bidding on it no one's calling I did have I
did have one chap who I talked to and uh he said well let me know when you finished it yeah and
I phoned him up and he bought a Mercedes I know [Applause] just just to think that we were going to
sell this in the time that we've got it's naive because the person will be out there and
the person when t
hey see this car they'll want it because it's great but it's just going to
take longer I think well that is our strong point we know we've got a good car we know that
somebody is looking for one and they come and see this one you know we have the confidence to know
that this one's a corker and it should then sell yeah it's definitely a good one isn't
it I mean it's just purring a lot yeah it's beautiful no not a single thing
I mean it is just as it should be yeah but Good Vibes alone will n
ot fill our pockets
we advertise the Audi we sit we wait no it's pretty good actually so we seem to have some
interest interesting one in the Audi oh good good students have two people on the thread
at the moment right so option A yes it was a Mr Burke Mr Burke has offered 2 000 quid
okay well yeah I mean at the moment that seems attractive but it's not enough is it no
it's not well it's better than option b which is a Mr Austin as it turns out that might be
him upgrading it see if we've d
one that well that's good isn't it he has just asked for what
our best price is okay well unless he's unless he's going to take uh say if we say four grand
he's not gonna buy it no I don't think that's the way that one's going I think that we'll find
someone who wants an Audi 100 I would say they probably are just looking for a car aren't
they yeah they're not offering serious money though that's not a good offer either of them
I think we wait don't we yes definitely yeah and what does the
Audi eventually
go for an internet pledge at 2 800 wins and we say an extraordinarily grateful yes I told you that didn't I yes you did tell
me [Music] I know I never had my doubts no [Music] [Music]
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