Wheeler dealers profiles a Boxster on the show
 

Hi guys, you gotta watch the latest episode of wheeler dealers (uk tv show), they fix up a boxster s bought for about $2,000. I don't have a link, I download from torrents.

love that show.
always wondered how come they didn't do a box.
if anyone find a link, please post.
will do the same.

edit: found the promo.
http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/wheeler-dealers/videos/?video=wheeler-dealers-sneak-peek
looks promising.

The Wheeler Dealer YouTube channel has several short clips from this episode. I enjoy watching the show but always come away feeling some of the repair shortcuts were questionable. I hope they prove me wrong with the Boxster.

WheelerDealersTV - YouTube

Great show.

My only complaint is that they never include the cost of Ed's labor - we could all flip car's profitably if we had a mechanic that worked for free!

Agree. In the last episode I watched, the mechanic was talking about a major dent in the door and said the right way to fix it is to use a hammer & dolly to straighten the metal....when he couldn't get the door panel off after 5 minutes he slapped a half gallon of bondo into the dent. That was it for me.

Also, it's funny that they seem to average ~200 pounds per car they fix, not including labor & overhead.

I love the show and it inspired me to flip 2 Audi TTs and a Cayman in the last 2 yrs.

I always got a kick out of how Edd could spray paint from a can and get such a good match. Hmmm

And always hate how they show the car all cleaned up and then Mike takes it out and gets it filthy.

Been saying that exact same thing since I saw the first episode years back.

Great show, watched it tuesday night, 3.2 boxster S, bought £1,000.

They got VERY lucky a fluid change fixed that tip trans. I think the 986 community would be surprised at the failure rate when confronted with the numbers.

*They didn't account for the cost of the extensive detailing on the car.

Guys! This show is great! Forget the costs thing, it is more about entertainment and giving cars a 2nd life. And Edd is such a cool guy with serious skills. Good to watch, lots to learn, get inspired. Mike is fun as well!

I watched every show since it came out. They started with 1,000 quid cars. Very cool.

TALA!


BTW Edd China is in the Guiness book...... Look him up!

Yeah, Edd China is my hero, this guy has some SERIOUS skills.
My theory is that these guys actually flip cars for real. So let's say they want to sell you a car that was NOT on the show, your thought process would be that
a) they did a pristine job in fixing the car
b) they don't make a lot of profit, meaning you get a really good price
And my thought is that THESE are the cars on which they REALLY make a profit.

There were some cars on the show where I felt they were seriously under priced, like for example the Bentley.

Love the show.
Love Ed, great mechanic.
Hate that they never include the cost of labor, tools, etc.

If you add everything up then what Ed is doing will be at least $100/h.
If you would be doing this yourself you would need to have to buy the tools, would work many times slower and would end up with still spending the same total amount of money for labor.

Still, I ove that they inspire people to keep older cars on the road. I hate waste and I hate our disposable society. Keep 'em rolling!

I get that Edd's labor (or is it labour?) isn't free, but the premise of the show is to prove that car enthusiats can find cars, fix them up, and sell them. I don't count my labor when estimating a profit on a car I've flipped. As far as needing lots of tools, I don't have a vast assortment but have what I need to do most jobs. And it isn't a project unless you have to buy a tool. ;)

And yes, Mike is a used car dealer. Velocity had a 2nd show on a few yrs back with Mike and Edd where a customer would come to Mike's used car lot with some specs on what he / she wanted to buy. Then Mike would pull out 3 cars from his lot and the person would drive and critique them. By the end of the show, Mike always made a sale. As part of the side show, Edd would be in the back working on something and would point out some pearl of wisdom to the viewers. I don't remember the name of this show and it was only on for 1 or 2 seasons in the US. It wasn't as entertaining to me at Wheeler Dealer but a car show is more enjoyable than some dumb reality show.

Downloaded (thanks for the link) and streamed the episode to my Roku last night. Very enjoyable as their car was year newer than my own. Many of the visual upgrades are the same I am looking to do on my own car.

My buddy (who owns a tuning shop) and I have always enjoyed what they do - even though the profit is obviously in the show as Ed would be making peanuts on his hours if he and Mike split the profits evenly.

But for entertainment's sake, I enjoy the show and look forward to new episodes as they air.

I remember that show! It was named Auto Trader and it took place in Mike's Motors (Mike's fictitious garage). The show originally aired on the Discovery Channel back around 2006-2007.

Auto Trader - Part 2 of 4 - YouTube

It was OK but I agree Wheeler Dealers is a better show.

It is on streetfire.net for you guys who might be interested to watch.

Search wheeler dealers boxster and it'll pop right up.

Just watched it. They really got lucky with a $1600 car that only needed a tranny service. Oddly, they said the sausage aftermarket muffler they put on it wasn't loud. NOT. I bet it has tons of cabin resonance at 2500 rpm.

I love Wheeler Dealers. Ed is a real inspiration as he does things the way a "real" mechanic would do things.. none of this "order from a catalog and bolt it on" crap that's flooded the television these days. He teaches you tips and tricks that everyday "home" mechanics can use.

It used to bug me at first too that they turn such a small profit and clearly Ed puts a lot of labor into some of them, but I chock it up to being a TV show, so the "profit" part of it is probably not that big of a deal in the long run.

Here's the full episode. Enjoy!

Wheeler Dealers - Porsche Boxster S by carvideoseu - Car Videos on StreetFire

Probably not, one of things that I noticed was the muffler used the OEM "crossbar" that attaches to two dampers on the muffler itself. Unlike some other exhausts that bolt directly to the trans case.

By the way: they were looking for volunteers but IMHO posted on the wrong board:
http://www.babblers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12706

I'm always amazed at all of Ed's skills. That man can do it all. Love the show. I just hate it when Mike ends up practically giving the car away and counting all of Ed's labor for nothing.

They did a half ass job on the seats and they still looked like crap.

They shouldn't have shaved those rotors either.

Ed is the bomb. The other guy is there for laughs I assume.

Whatever they are paying Ed, it is not enough.

Yeah, a least give him a gift certificate to SuperCuts.

It didn't do anything for me I'm afraid, no real Boxster issues dealt with. What about coffin arms, or a new clutch? even repairing a split rear window. I know the car didn't need these things but I think it's set up most of the time, the guy could have sold it to a breakers for much more.
Saw Mike in the local TK MAXX a couple of weeks ago too....lol yes it's TK not TJ in the UK.

Agreed. A couple of hard-braking stops from 75 mph and those shaved rotors will be warped. I was shaking my head when I saw them and that cheap-out decision to shave them.

There was plenty of profit made on that car selling it for 5400 pounds sterling to put new rotors on the car. They didn't have to go with Porsche rotors either.

I think they just wanted to showcase the fancy on-hub rotor-shaving machine.

I wonder if there's any way I can put some dampers on my Che exhaust to see if I can reduce/eliminate the 2500 rpm cabin resonance.

It was posted on our UK forum here
http://www.boxa.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=54791&hl= cheap boxster
It's the UK boxster forum I use allot, and it was one of our members car that was bought for that bargain price, funnily enough we haven’t heard from him since Sept 2012 he only had 4 posts on the forum and I thought we might of heard from him after the program went out, but then again I would be a bit guttered if I had found out that all it really needed was a oil change Doh!!
Guvs.

They did a nice job putting that Boxster back on the road but I would not want to buy it. I will never buy a Roadster that has spent that much of it's life sitting out in the elements.

Most of the show is staged, with crew members and family acting as buyers and sellers. On one occassion, the 'buyer' was someone with a very unusual forename. When the credits rolled, there was someone with the same unusual forename acting as assistant sound engineer! The real hero is Paul Brackley who organsises and advises on pretty much everything behind the scenes. He has a UK ebay account where he disposes of much of the useable stuff that was swapped out. Some of the cars are also sold on quietly by Brackley.

Having said that, it's an entertaining show even if the costs have to be taken with a pinch of salt and it does inspire you to think "I could do that!". One of the better shows on TV.

Does anybody have any idea where they bought that whole sport-exhaust (apparently online) for 500 £? A bargain I would say.

The Wheeler Dealer - Boxster 3.2S episode airs on Velocity this coming Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 9pm ET.

I've watched it twice on the net and would love to watch it again and again. I predict the sales of used 986 to increase following the airing of this episode... :D

Update ****** The IMS bearing blew up a month later.

Where did you get that Info from then Johnny ?
or is it a case of "I can't tell you that because I'll have to kill you then"
Guvs.

And they actually talk up the Boxster quite nicely....even if it was a 'tip' :)

Funny thing, I was watching the latest series "Trading Up" where they are in search of purchasing a 'Super Car' with the proceeds of all their flips. In the end he chooses a 911, but did briefly look at a Boxster at an auction. His comment about the car was something to the effect of "a sports car pretending to be a super car".

A forum where members sell their car for parts?? No way!!!