Omega wrote:Watched a few of the new Wheeler dealers without Edd China. New guy is a Brit called Ant. Never heard of him before.
Basically the show is not anywhere near as good without Edd.
Ant is OK as a mechanic, I caught stuff he did wrong or didn’t seem to know. He skips a lot of steps and I feel there is another team of mechanics doing the actual work and fabrication with Ant doing a few hard jobs for the camera.
He tries to talk through what the process is but it’s clear he’s 100% sure and not in charge of what’s happening. There was adapting a transmission in a old vehicle to automatic he was cutting out crossmember to make room, this is a huge no no without a way to reinforce it stronger than before, he acts like he’s grabbing a few pieces of scrap metal to reinforce this, come back with a very custom bracket obviously prefabed someplace else designed specifically for that transmission and that vehicle. Probably a kit sold online, that not a problem it’s that the show is trying to pass off Ant work as spontaneous, ignoring the purchase of the fabrication kit the and team of professional mechanics behind the finished steps.
I don’t hate Ant, it’s just the show is less interesting now. Edd was right velocity productions is cutting corners for the mechanics part of the show.
Bright spot is they dialed Mike’s clown s**t down. Last few seasons he’d put in a production about trying to help fix the cars or be more involved. It was way too forced and probably his reaction to people taking Edd’s side and getting made at him for working Edd too hard with crap cars.
Basically the shows not completely ruined just nowhere near as compelling as before. If I had seen this season first I never would have bothered watching the rest of the show from season 1.
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carl stromberg wrote:
Did a new company decide to dumb the programme down? That's a bit stupid as the show has been popular since 2003.
I watched James May's Cars of the People which is quite interesting. He was talking about the Toyota pick up truck which is used by thosepeople in war zones in the middle east, Africa etc - they stick a huge machine gun on the back. There was also an interesting show on the Austin Allegro.
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