Embark on the fourth episode of Flipping Bangers as we unravel the intricate journey of rescuing a forgotten BMW Mini. Delve into the mechanical intricacies, addressing overheating challenges with precision. Follow along as thermostat and water pump revelations unfold, adding unexpected twists to our restoration adventure. Experience the surprise interior upgrade and witness the transformation with a sleek change in wheels. In this thrilling test drive, witness the culmination of our efforts, hoping to breathe new life into this classic car. The Flipping Bangers team navigates challenges, turning them into triumphs!
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This time on Flipping bangers a future classic now that’s a nice car they sold shed loads of these cars the costs buttons there’s going to be good opportunity for us to make some money here but it’s head scratching fault you break it you buy
It what a brilliant waste of time and dollar peel just a bit boring that’s not pretty is it threaten to divide us I knew you’d bring it up that’s crazy if it runs it sells it’s still the same car anything else you want to get off your chest should we be in business
We’ll say goodbye to our day jobs and invested our own hard-earned cash as we try 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 we said 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 rights what car do we want soak us
Let’s do a car that we both like this time we always do a car we both like oh no you always play the game with me don’t you you always tricked me into suggesting something that you like and then
I’m on your Turf anything else you want to get off your chest okay what do you want what do you want then well I don’t know actually how about we play it like this you suggest a load of things and
Then I choose okay what about Peugeot 205 yeah too expensive Volkswagen Golf they’re pretty expensive too Subaru Impreza love to do one of those by just not feeling it at the moment I got
It mini one BMW version oh now that’s a nice car fun nice to drive and plentiful yeah I’m down with that as you know I have one and I love it I used to have one so that’s a good knowledge base really
Yeah and there is loads of them on auction sites with issues so it’s looking like you know a good everyday Runner is about a grand and a rotter 600 Quid ah it’s not a big gap is it we’re going to
Struggle to double our money there okay come on then let’s find one maybe you’ll find one maybe [Music] Maybe it’s got lucky it’s because I’ve had a mini before although I know exactly what to look for
He’s just broken the number one rule of buying a car by bragging about it before you bought it quite possibly I have but here’s the deal it’s a Mini Cooper yep so it’s really quick good uh
Goody points are is drives it’s got an mot on it and it’s already had a gearbox fault so it’s been converted to a six-speeder that’s fantastic I didn’t know you could do that but I’ve got
To say there is a buzz well there’s always a butt isn’t it there is there is yeah and the bus is uh it’s on auction and the person who’s selling it says they won’t take it off auction it’s
Around about 400 quid um we’ve done that before it’s fine yeah sorry we just bid later yeah it sounds great I’d say oh I’m glad you’re sounding positive because there are some other issues too one it’s not that bad smoke says really great well that’s great so your raft of
Knowledge has led us down the line of running your finger down the list of cars and getting us to go to the first shed that you can come that’s great a leafy Suburban Road in herefordshire bodes well nice house often equals nice car
Not looking forward to uh reversing the trailer down here oh we haven’t bought it yet no he didn’t tell me it was green no I thought I’d save that little nugget of information for you hi morning uh Morningside morning I’m well Gus nice to meet you hey Simon I’ve got to say the
Photographs of this card don’t do it justice this looks far better than I was imagining well that’s always good to hear can you tell us a little bit more about it yeah we’ve had it about 12 months
And it’s been absolutely great until about a month ago and it’s developed a quite a serious cooling problem and has been pumping out all its water so uh we think it’s probably Beyond economical
Repair for the likes of us um but we thought we’d put it online and see what we got for it well it seems like the sort of thing that we might be able to investigate doesn’t it yeah it
Does yeah it’s got a six-speed box hasn’t it yes yeah that was the the previous guy the mechanic um he’d fitted It upgraded it from the five speed to the six speed yeah well that’s brilliant it’d
Be interesting to try it with a six-speed box we should take it for a drive do you do you think that the cooling system would take it if we just took it up to the roundabout went round came back yeah no problem it should be fine five or ten minutes but obviously
If you break it you buy it I better drive then did I yeah definitely in that case the mini seriously overheats and a warning has been given if we drive it in the red the engine gets cooked and we’re forced to buy a lemon
So how fast does it go and how long do you reckon we’ve got not very and not very in actual fact I reckon if it goes over a hundred before we get back we’ll just park it up degrees [Laughter]
Well how’s it feel though it’s got good bones yeah definitely I am eminently qualified to comment on this car because I don’t know if you know but I have got one of these cars I do know that yeah and the steering is very good the the gear change is exceptional the
Brakes are great in that fact it’s embarrassing how much better this car is than my car well it does seem like a nice little car I mean really for us this could be a good honest little seller
Yeah well so what is it worth to us it was to us six seven eight hundred quid I mean actual fat I would definitely think swapping this in for my car would be a better thing to do really which
One is on a business we can sell this quickly and easily this is a nice car that seems good your car has got toffees stuck to parts of it that are almost unmentionable yeah it’s done a million miles as well the temperature is rising and it’s time to head back we’ve got
To give the engine and the rest of the car a private check before we hand it back to Simon [Music] I can’t find any evidence that it’s a head gasket good news good news okay okay brilliant
We think the car is worth around 700 quid and we may as well ask Simon if he’ll sell it to us now uh hi there how does he get on drives brilliantly yeah yeah we’re really quite sold on it I’m wondering um would you be prepared to do a deal on it now
Um I think I’m inclined just to to let the auction run its course and hopefully get the best price we can if that’s okay with you well to be honest I don’t blame you really this is definitely what I do yeah yeah okay well we’ll go away and do that and you know
Hopefully we’ll see you again soon yeah I hope so thanks oh hang on I didn’t give you the keys disappointed but accepting fate we walk away waiting for the auction to close in two days [Music] we allow a maximum bid of 865 pounds when the auction price is only at 400.
Seconds before the end it jumps to 602 pounds and the lucky buyers are us and once settled up we arrived to claim our prize and all we need to do now is get this back to base BMW they’re taking that classic British car retro car really nice car worth their magic that’s now
A stylish classic looking modern car with the benefit of not really breaking down well apart from this one of course which is broken down they are great little cars I love them through and through so let’s toss some figures up into the air it’s about 600 Quid I think
There’s there’s going to be good opportunity for us to make make some money here as I see it when you’re on an auction the car Finds Its Own level doesn’t it it’s only actually really worth what someone’s prepared to pay for it so right now to everybody concerned and us that
Car is only worth 600 Quid isn’t it and if we’re trying to make money on it then really with the parts and the labor we still need to see 1500 to 2 Grand from this car we do we paid 600 Quid and
If we can’t turn that into an awful lot more then really you know should we be in business the next day as is our method we park the new car outside our workshop and gather our thoughts and
Hopefully translate them into a plan wow it’s amazing what the cold live day does to a car it really is when we got this car I was so excited about it but now we’ve got it sitting here ugh
I’m not liking the color scheme I think it’s a bit dull and a bit boring really you see that doesn’t worry me in the least this is how it came out of the factory and they sold shed loads of these cars
Didn’t they to my mind it’s all about the margins on this car there’s so many of them out there they’re so cheap the only way I think we can make money on it is if we don’t spend any money on it
Okay all right then well in that vein we know that the main problem with this car is that engine yep I think if it runs it sells to me this really seems like we’re just aiming at the lowest end
Of the market where there’s least money to be made it’s difficult we’re trying to make money on a car that’s difficult to make money on okay well I know that our winning card is that we do
Have an expert within our Miss yes and I’m here all week that’s it’s a winner if Gus is to play the mini expert then I can play photographer a job he often hugs so I take out my aged phone smeared
And cracked and I go to work so I’m just listing our mini for its online auction Will’s Keen to change the appearance of our car but the pictures we’ve got actually do it justice it doesn’t look
Too bad and I’ve upped the contrast slightly on the wheels which has saved me cleaning them but it looks okay and I’ve been thinking I’ve been thinking about the things that we need to know or the prospective buyer needs to know about this car they need to know it’s got a six-speed gearbox
They need to know that it’s a Cooper they need to know that it runs well well actually at the moment it doesn’t but it will do by the time it’s sold and they need to know it’s got an mot so these
Are things that I’ve stacked towards the beginning of the advert and then I was thinking about price and I think our car is probably worth 2 500 pounds but I’m going to put it up as a bike now price of
2995 which might be a little bit too much but I’m doing it just to get interest going in the car I’m going to put it as an online auction I’m going to start at a 999 and I’m going to put a reserve of 2
000 pounds and I don’t know I don’t know if that’s underselling it I don’t know if that’s overselling it but there’s only one way to find out and that is to list it done the mini experts
Is just getting the car inside all right what are you up to just looking for the sequence we need to do on the cooling system ah no I looked it up last night oh event so first undo bottom hose
Drain fluid yes it’s a good start that is oh so open bleed valves isn’t the ignition got to be on yeah it’s the weirdest of things it says that we then have to turn the ignition on turn the
Fan on low this is complications but I wonder why heater on hot no wonder it’s got a heating problem re-tighten bottom hose and then refill system okay all of that before you can refill the system yeah look I’m gonna that’s crazy in aeronautical style oh excellent so checklist absolutely perfectly
Precise fail safe and then I’m going to put a numerical system indexing system down this side so we have an eight point plan this is very polished and we only have eight stats from here to there let’s get started on the job too brilliant
I’m not even sure Gus has the right car but he seems happy with his ideas and I’ll play along until the trouble starts the garage lift we ordered hasn’t arrived so we’ll may do with a limited access and uncomfortable proximity to the workshop floor will is on draining Duty
Right Next Step turn ignition on fan on low heater on hot right fan on low which is number one Hey sir oh scorchio perfect I’m done perfect off the list yeah we refill with antifreeze as
Per the plan we get this test right well either we cure it or we know it’s wrong don’t we yeah there we are well I am absolutely happy that we got the right amount of fluid coming out of here
Good it’s gushing out the back as well so we’ve done everything on the checklist yep we’ve ticked every box have you ticked every box I don’t know I’m gonna go and check refill system yes big tick so now we’ve got a highly complicated test procedure we run the mini up and
See if it overheats and if it does Gus’s research has been for nothing right now we wait huh yeah let’s change color already it has yeah look up tea yeah [Music] yes there you go mate thank you what if it does overheat though it’ll be the water pump it’s
Always the water pump when that car’s done 87 000 miles it’ll need a new water pump this is brilliant for me having the in-house experts that you are it could be the thermostat as well so well
That could it would be prudent for this stage yeah yeah definitely without shadow of a doubt yeah yeah we know it’s not a head gasket so it’s either water pump or thermostat we’ll have to change the
Water pump anyway and while we’ve got it all up I don’t think that’s the yeah [Music] turn it off that wasn’t a resounding success well maybe the residence expert will be right next time yeah time for Plan B replace the water pump and to gain access remove everything
Well this is the this is the sort of Crash protection for the front of the mini it’s a clever system because it’s got a plastic bumper which basically bolts onto this this is all the protection and then it’s got this sort of plastic cradle around here that goes all the way around
Which holds the air conditioning radiator and the radiator for the cooling system the car once that’s off then the whole of the front of the car is accessible [Music] the front end is tightly packed and all the layers have to come
Off to gain access before I can drain the coolant [Music] got it thank you that water pump is red hot we’ve actually found it aren’t we yeah but it’s there but listen it is red hot isn’t it and there and the fluid that came out Stone Cold
So it’s just not circulating should we do that tomorrow don’t want to be here anymore today no me neither worn out [Music] it’s rainy day two out of five on our mini project it was cheap but it hasn’t made us cheerful with an overheating problem that we can’t fix
But we’re adding a big fat yes onto that because we might be close well we’ve gone a long way in but we’re gonna have to get this off aren’t we if we’re going to get
Access to that water pump properly this is exactly what I was talking about this is my fear it’s like you’ve got to remove so many layers to get to that bit there okay so but we take these extensions off
Here and then this comes off doesn’t it and then oh it’s all just there it’s grabbing chassis to move because look at this I bet those won’t come undone very easily I don’t know we’ll have to try
Gus suspects the issue is with the water pump and if he’s wrong I’m gonna have it made into a poster right that’s my side dungus foreign [Music] so um water pump’s coming out I’m gonna have to take the the alternator out as well because the
Bottom fixing bolt of the alternator goes through the top fixing bolt of the water pump but it doesn’t matter because the access is fantastic I mean look at it you could do what you want [Music] oh and just like that the pump is mine just getting access to the thermostat because when
We’ve been running up the engine I’ve noticed that there’s absolutely zero temperature in the top of the radiator so Gus thinks it’s the water pump which it probably is and these cars are well prone for having the water pumps gone but as a precautionary measure I’m going to change the
Thermostat as well because I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that with the top of the radiator and the top of the hose being freezing cold there’s zero movements of water there’s not even any thermostiphon happening which would indicate that the thermostats is stuck closed so which dog will
Win the fight water pump or thermostat this could be one of the tensest moments we’ve faced in the workshop and may the best man win so it’s the water pump it’s always the water pump that’s the
Maxim that’s the maxim that everybody has ever told me with minis if you ever have the front of your mini off always change the water pump that’s what you’ve got to do so I’m taking this
Apart and I will show you the plastic impeller on our water pump uh there we are look at that it’s absolutely perfect yep there’s nothing wrong with that at all other than the fact that I’ve broken almost every screw taking this off so it’s now completely unserviceable but it’s okay because
I’ve got another one what’s a brilliant waste of time with my head hung in shame I install a new water pump which if you’re counting costs us 45 pounds at least it looks good [Music] foreign thermostat on this car is on the back of the head which is on an unusual place to
Put it really but BMW in their wisdom I think have done quite well because they’ve actually managed to use it for the coolant filler neck as well so this is the thermostat housing here and then up here at the top that’s the filler neck
Which means it’s quite easy to find and identify and also it’s a real bonus having the hole of the front of the car off so we can get to it easily oh well it just looks so easy
There was me thinking it was going to be an absolute piece of cake uh instead of being the two bolt flange I was hoping it was it’s actually a three bolt flange and number three is well buried so I need to spend a bit of time just trying to get to that
Not too bad not too bad I thought it was going to be really really tricky battery cable and a couple of other bits of wiring were in the way I’ve got access to the third Bolt think I can just sneak it out past everything
And now my Quarry is revealed there we go there we have it that is the thermostats so I’m going to run a little test see if it works if Will’s homemade test works I’m in the doghouse and if it fails then the car has a worse issue
And we’re both in the doghouse thermostat when it gets up to temperature which is you know pretty hot as hot as I can get the kettle the valve should open now basically I work on the principle that if it’s hot enough to melt the plastic spoon and it’s hot enough that I
Can’t hold on to it this thermostat should have opened and I can quite clearly say that it hasn’t it’s opening then because actual fat if it didn’t open it would be good because the water pump is absolutely fine oh sweet sweet joy we’ve got a thermostat that has failed its test it hasn’t
Opened up I’ve run the test several times now poured boiling hot water on top of it giving it the best chance of working it doesn’t brilliant that’s our problem that is a success Annette all I
Need now is for it to go back on right here I have a brand new thermostat and luckily enough they come with the rubber gasket you’re going to need to fit it all important thing to remember about
Thermostats is the bit on the back this bit here is the bit that wants to get hot so that has got to go inside inside the engine if I put it on that way around won’t work that way around will work
I thought this was going to be a bit tricky because you can’t really see very well so I’m working a little bit by feel and a little bit by seeing when you’re trying to wedge a rubber gasket
Into a very tight recess It Ain’t Easy after a long painful interval will is getting nowhere I’ve had to give up on trying to get the thermostat wedged into this rebate here because it was just too difficult to see and it is absolutely essential that this goes incorrectly so I’ve had
To work on getting it all apart making sure that I can see it all go in there correctly foreign again as we refit all of the bits that had to come off earlier [Music] I still think it’s a clever way of getting into a car is is quick and easy isn’t it I do I show you in the first time I see things like this like seems like a lot of faff but
It’s one of those things though isn’t it you can see how the construction process especially with this you can just imagine that going on can’t you have one piece with a factory engine in with a sub Pro yeah if everything’s already assembled piece of cake right water
I’m just going to put water in start off with just for the check because if there is something wrong with this and this does leak and we have to take it all to bits again I don’t really want to be wasting loads of antifreeze Thank you maybe it’s the Russia Victory but I’m quickly ready for the next stage Goss however is taking his time you ready to go down yeah Ready Steady right we need to run it up [Music]
Yep so here we are again a bit more caffeine and a smidge of rain it’s good yeah yeah well that my friend is perfect well that’s what I wanted to hear cheers hasn’t moved so it’s good it’s got to be long enough isn’t it yeah I think that that
Is a done job so how much was that then how much was the um thermostat that’s on the Turner so that car was fixed for less than a tenor yeah and we bought that car so cheap
And the price of water pump while there is that too but that’s just you know you do that as a matter of course apparently or minis it’s always the water pump perfect yeah right we have a weakness for cars that someone else has tried and failed to fix we love the challenge and
Right now we’re properly in the driving seat with a working car that owes us very little [Music] it’s the third day on our mini we’ve had a cooling issue that’s even beat our resident mini expert Gus but now we’ve got around that and we’re moving on I still can’t help but think that
It’s amazing isn’t it we’ve basically fixed the car haven’t we for just the price of a thermostat I know and the water pump but you always change the water pumps oh you do standard affordable
Fix for what has been so far a very affordable car but I mean really it’s it’s still the same car we’ve got to do something haven’t we it’s got to stick its Header by the parapet isn’t it well funny you should say that because I’ve been looking at this interior I knew you’d
Bring it up I’ve got an interior form you led me to that I’ve got an interior for it I’ve got a Cooper S half leather interior for it’s supposed to be beautiful really yeah well where
Is it then it’s coming today oh okay well okay well if you’ve taken the lead on the interior please do me the honor and let me do something about these rather awful wheels are on it yeah without spending too much time and money on it because we’re short of both aren’t we that’s
Very true have you got an idea I have got an idea I’m not allowed to know no need to know basis like it right come on let’s get this interior gonna give me a hand I shall yeah fair play to us it previously disagreed with me about the look of the Mini
But he’s come on board and ordered up a new interior last night [Music] I think this just pulls doesn’t it ah I’m glad you came in because I was starting to struggle with that no that’s got to be the key in it don’t you reckon after Will’s lucky diagnosing of the overheating
Problem he’s become unbearably happy hard work may solve this so do you think you got it figured out uh no but I will find out okay you do that I’m not gonna drop you in it by leaving you all on
Your own no no but I’m just gonna go have a little look for some Wheels yeah yeah foreign Pals have a conflict even a boring one about engine cooling one of the pals could decide
To get the other pal a treat like a new set of wheels so I’ve come along to our local Brokers where there are plenty of Wheels to choose from Gus and I seem to have very very similar opinions
About The Wheels on our mini they’re a bit dull they’re a bit boring I don’t want to be unfair to them but we just don’t like them so my job for the day is come and find some much better wheels for
The car and I’ve taken the precaution of coming to a scrap yard that I know has got every single car that I need I mean just look at all these minis it’s brilliant a thorough search reveals mini wheels from every generation and trim it’s an Aladdin’s cave if you like old Wheels
Right then I found three matching sets of alloy wheels they all look quite nice like these ones but the problem is there’s nothing really Sparky or interesting about them and I know that Gus does have a bit of a passion for steel wheels so instead of just buying
These ones and going back and watching Gus go hmm don’t like it I’m going to look a little bit harder because I just think little minis at some stage they did use steel wheels but the ones I’ve got in mind seem quite scarce here and I’m not far off giving up
I have found the best time and energy saving device that you can use in a scrapyard you just ask the owner really really nicely and he says will go and have a look in the back
Of that white van I think you’ll find what you want and I have look at these aren’t they lovely Gus is going to be over the moon with these I’m over the moon with these they’re stylish they’re old-fashioned looking they’re retro looking they are perfect I just need to
Get back to the workshop as soon as possible and check out the smile of Gus’s face [Music] smiling the mini interior has been a pig to remove at least the new one is arriving soon
Ah they are new seats blow me they look a bit of a mess well they are a bit of a mess aren’t they still they are Cooper S seats aren’t they oh yes definitely are thanks got the
Rest of them so they are they they look like they’ve been sitting at the bottom of the sea yeah they’re lovely don’t think I’m not appreciative oh sorry thanks honey see you later they’re not quite as good as I thought they were going to be
But it’s a big bloke so I just said thank you well I’d have to say that’s a bit embarrassing isn’t it who they were supposed to be immaculate but maybe when they went into the shed or into the scrapyard or into the pile of dust that
They’ve been living in they were Immaculate they certainly aren’t now but somewhere under there there’s really good seats they’re half leather they’re Cooper S seats they’ll look Smart in the interior of our car and just need to clean them up I’ve got precisely until will
Comes back to clean up my hundred pound seats I cannot lose any more points on this project that’s not pretty is it I’m not sure what that is but I think I’m gonna jet wash it I don’t think this is going to cut it foreign
Some sort of super shampoo in the workshop maybe this is all I need to get the seats clean [Music] we’ve got to admit they’re looking well wetter but I think probably better uh it’s certainly gonna look wetter when I finish with a jet wash [Music] I don’t recall seeing this in the BMW
Owner’s manual but if your seats look and smell like these it’s an effective solution [Music] and they should be dry before he gets back the washing line is the only path left to me oh hello hello mate these are seeds there are seats now yes there are new seats new
To us and you’re giving up a bit of a polish off hey I gave them a very very light buffing really yeah well it’s made them just totally perfect absolutely that well you got ta-da
Still is yeah and I say very cool yeah you’re like I thought they might make it a little bit more rugged a bit more racy yeah maybe a bit more rally yeah and above all of that retro and a little bit bigger which is great they’re cool they are very
Very good four wheels four guitars as well amazing that’s great you can paint them well I think probably yes but I think definitely not today no I mean I’m gonna leave these to dry it feels like day 99 but actually it’s just the third day and oh what fun we’ve had [Music]
We’ve got five days to turn around a BMW Mini this is day four and the story so far is that we’ve done the mechanical stuff and we’ve switched our attention onto the looks to make the mini stand
Out in a crowded Market I can’t be sure but I think this is the first time that we’ve ever test driven a car before we’ve actually finished it that’s what I’m doing now and I’m keeping a very very close eye on this temperature gauge hoping that our thermostat and our water pump
Have fixed the problem if it hasn’t then the collective we are going to be very disappointed I’m here to answer the question how can you change the Mini’s appearance without painting it and the answer is our design and vinyl Guru Donna who’s helped us before I don’t know how you got
Some pictures of Stripes that is exactly the car I was talking about the 1960s scalextric it’s some sort of special edition but I had that as a kid and I thought that would look so cool to make that look really retro and really stick out yes and then you’ve got
These the double Stripes matching sides this is obviously the newer design with the stripes could you could you do that yeah we could do could you that’s that’s so tempting it’s so tempting but
In actual fact if we’re trying to sell the car we’re trying to make it look retro so it’s a hint to it and sell the car I think the two stripes down the middle and then could we do it onto the
Bumper would we do that and then on to the little chin thing at the bottom yeah so we can yeah go all the way down brilliant should we do that then let’s do this but to make the look work we need to
Wrap the roof this is the bit that really scares me this is the bit that that cries out to me it’s gonna go wrong it looks like you have to pull it from six different directions at once to get it
Round these curves and honestly the last time I did it it was rubbish yeah so what we can do I’ll show you how to do a wet soapy application which gives you a chance to get all the bubbles
Out and to get it to shape um you’re gonna have to give me a hand because I’ve hurt my shoulder so I’m gonna have to but that’s good it’s good because at least it gives me an opportunity to
Learn how to do it properly so it’s time to put the cream wrap on the roof of the mini right so what we do is we cut a piece that’s big enough for the roof to start with okay Donna is full
Of good information when it comes to wrapping which will be good for me and will in the future okay stage two right now we need to peel the backing off yeah so I’ll cut a little hole now I’m going to cover it completely with soapy water Once you’ve done that you’ve got to be bold though haven’t you you’ve got to be bold where do we start right always start right from the center my goodness it looks so good so quickly doesn’t it do it dry it’s just a nightmare compared to this [Applause]
That is perfect that looks amazing [Music] that’s how to finish it and then slop it under the rubber [Music] I didn’t end up doing very much did I but I have taken away three really important lessons from
This I’ve got three friends one soapy water soapy water will help you move the vinyl around when you’re wrapping a car and that’s really important secondly a hair dryer hair dryer allows you to stretch the vinyl it makes it malleable so you can tuck it into those little places and dry
It out and get it to stick properly that was a big problem we had before but the third and most important thing is 32 years of experience like Donna’s got that is the dark magic of wrapping oops so we started off just wanting to get the mini driving it drives and
Then we thought let’s make it look better and a tight wallet has been prized open an interior Stripes Wheels where will it end so it’s day five the last of the last the end of our resources maybe it’s the day our mini guesses wins I thought you’re going to spray those with
Well I thought you were going to put some stickers on this look at that that is lovely that is really really nice I’ve got more I’ve got more I’ve Got Stripes for them have you cool okay well I’ve got some paint to put on these what color were you gonna put on there
That color yeah let’s see mine’s think alike this really true too true wheels are really nice condition and somebody’s recently repainted them as well so they look great so it means that my work getting them ready for paint is going to be relatively easy apart from
Somebody has sprayed them with like furniture polish or something so that’s all going to be decreased and Jet washed to get it all spotlessly Keen ready for paints then on this is the other problem this tire here has got a great big split in it and then another problem none of
The tires match either so you can have to find your set of tires too it does make sense though at least we know we’re sending the car out with good modern up-to-date brand new tires [Music] [Music]
Yeah because I’m painting these wheels and the tires are scrap I need to take the tires off now there’s two different ways of doing that there’s a way where you take them down to the local tire
Fitting Place and get them to take them off which will cost you well three or four quid attire and quite a bit of time getting there and back or there’s the West Country Way I’m removing the air if that’s not 100 clear my favorite way of course is the West Country
Way one of these Jack out the back of the car toe on firm surface immovable object carefully put the jack in between the edge of the tire and the edge of the rim we’re trying to break the bead we’re
Trying to force the tire off the bead of the wheel this one here and carefully [Music] there we go both sides set as high levers tires off piece of cake from the Practical to the Aesthetics all right so by my measuring I’ll go 79
79 there we go let’s go to there that gave us a little bit extra is anything better than cutting through a backing sheet no exactly it’s one of life’s great pleasures right everything we need now I’m putting my new info to good if not perfect use [Music]
Yeah good so this is the our heat gun Donna said it was a hair dryer or some something like that but it’s it’s a it’s a blower blows hot air very useful [Applause] all right so it’s just the fiddly bits now I think it’ll look great
I’m not to be outdone the cream wheels are coming up a treat [Music] now is rebuild Central the cleaning interior takes its rightful place we attach some 30 pound mini spotlights stick the Retro wheels on and now we’re in business
So what has the mini cost well the car was a ridiculous 602 pounds we spent 150 pounds on the wheels 200 on the stripes 100 on the interior and 250 pounds to get it looking and feeling like a super retro Mini and the total look at that ridiculous value
Our mission was to make it stick its head above the millions of other Coopers that there are out there for sale and we have definitely done that haven’t we we have yeah and we are so lucky that
Minis lend themselves perfectly to the addition of fun we look at these tasteful lines yeah the spotlights the color change on the roof are my favorite of all the wheels yeah and this proves to
Me that retro is still top fashion yeah it’s right on cue isn’t it right on cue they played our cards well with this car but if you think of what we had when we bought it we were lucky weren’t we because
We had a slight overheating problem and we we took a call on that didn’t we could have gone either way could have been good could have been bad and it was only really the thermostat and obviously
The water pump was they do always go don’t they you’ve always got to change the water pump but but that’s that that took it up so far because we went from a a car that wasn’t running to a car
That was running what we’ve got now is we’ve got a Cooper which drives really well with a six-speed box which is a fantastic conversion with a Cooper interior and we’ve got this amazing exterior we’ve
It’s gone so far it’s stratospheric isn’t it and it’s still a really honest car and in this day and age honest cars are few and far between the one thing I worry about is the steel wheels I know
That it’s in your nice blood to have steel wheels and we both love them but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea is it and I was thinking we’ve still got them haven’t we we’ve still got the Alloys and and
If the person who buys it wants them they can have them back it’s not a problem and if they don’t we can sell them and buy ourselves fish and chips or maybe just put a tick in the plus column
Well I’m liking the idea of the fish and chips I love some fish and chips sometimes time are you hungry I’m always hungry you know me but I’m so pleased to that’s your only worry because I I’m
Actually terrified terrified because so far this entire project has gone so well do you do you not think that we’re just getting better at it well I would like to think so but I don’t want to attempt
Fate the car’s so clean we really shouldn’t drive it well we want to so we will you know some people don’t see these as real minis do they they see them as a sort of cynical design plot by
BMW to pull on the heart stings of people that had original minis but just not the case because it’s a great car isn’t it and it’s a proper car of the people isn’t it they are they’re brilliant cars
Yes people are always cynical about them I think they’re missing the point this is a different car tip of the hat for the history brilliant well done but when they built the menu they managed to capture the old-fashioned fun that you could have in an old-fashioned classic Mini it’s time to test
It properly isn’t it and take it up to some proper speeds I think within obviously legal limits of course of course well from my point of view sign this side it does feel pretty good so far My worry
Is whether we’ve done enough to raise it above the the stream of other Minis that there are out there for sale I’ve been mentioning it to friends of mine in the hope that you know I can maybe drama
For sale and they you know they they all want to know a little bit more about it so that could only be a good thing yeah definitely yeah and also you know if I can drum up a bit of Interest
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to create a word of mouth sale rather than having to go through the same auctions where we’re competing against apps absolutely everybody else yeah it would be really nice we get a sniff of interest from Simon who wants to buy a first car for his son
So what we have done to the car is we have um put these rather rather beautiful and Incredibly useful uh stainless steel fog lights on the front Okay we put these stripes on as well yep
Very smart and we’ve wrapped the roof in a in a cream wrap as well and then we’ve put these steel wheels on we thought it looked somehow a little bit more classic the Retro look versus the Alloys
Let’s show you the interior because what we’ve done is we’ve put a half leather interior in it as well that’s very smart I think it makes a lot of difference but I’ll show you this conversion that was done because you wouldn’t know and it’s quite a complicated conversion what else have we
Done to a new thermostat and it put a new water pump on it as well looks lovely and clean you’ve steam cleaned it haven’t you so no we haven’t we haven’t actually no we no we haven’t we haven’t
Really done anything to it yeah no I like it I think it’s a great car it does look good good well I don’t know I mean do you want to get have a think about it and get back in touch with us and
See what you think makes enough in there I think we’re keen I think this is exactly what he needs um we might need to do a little bit of negotiation around the price okay brilliant all right Simon thanks bye bye later transfer is made for 2 500 pounds a little south of the
Double money we’d like but it’s close enough to crack open the Bourbons another great result [Music] foreign
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Spot lights stapled on 😏
seriously, do you really think the best thing to say to a seller is…………the pictures dont do it justice!!!!!!!!!!……..and you call yourself a salesman?????? tip for you……..when you arrive…..say something like…….ohhhh, it looks a bit rough……etc, etc.
Pity you didnt leave the door mirrors white , or wrap them to match the cream roof. Spotlights need a steady bar they were like noddys head there when you closed the bonnet. Other than that it turned out nice
Wrapping a car without washing after driving on road? Hell no. I've been recommended these series, they do seem nice and I'm trying to like the episodes but it's not the first time I've seen this sort of claptrapped work and that seriously puts me off. Beige wrapping a white roof?! For what? Changing alloys for steel rims? The interior? These episodes could be so much better…
I'm not sure on this , there's no mechanic that couldn't fix the over heating the thermostat is the first thing you look at
Poverty spec wheels.Yeah thats going to work.
those new wheels are awful! they are like spare wheels in modern cars……..some of your ideas are very strange.
Just a warning for any budding Mini flippers. Don’t think you will fix an overheating Mini for £10. ……….95% of the time it will be expensive and horrible to work on. If it’s an N18 you will love rebuilding the cylinder head with its mental springs.
Ex Foxtons Mini
That is not a Mini. It is a Cowley built BMW
Well the seller missed a trick not taking an offer on the day…..not only a lower selling price but also selling fees to pay.
Sorry for the rant, but you lot have literally got no clue. First off, the first thing you tell the seller; the pictures don’t do it justice????
And from then on, you have literally made every mistake possible. After the bullshit method of flushing the coolant and refilling, you literally let the car overheat. WHY? You couldn’t be bothered enough to watch the fucking needle and turn the car off as soon as needle passes middle point? Have you any idea what overheating does to a car? Also wtf, you drop the whole front end of the car before even checking the thermostat ? Also Also, the cosmetics modifications are the dumbest thing ever!
Thanks for posting these up 🥳👍
It’s amazing the seats that had clearly worn leather that required painting was cured with a jet wash
The seats would take 3 months to dry
1980s when my fords broke down,went to scrappy, Fords interchangeable parts, nowadays sealed units (PISH)
Watch Car SOS, they show how it should be done, not like these cowboys working out of a tin hut.
Allways try the easy fix first. Change the thermostat first. The test is exactly right. Then the water pump.
As an ex Mini/BMW variant owner and know of the terrible issues these Gen 1 and 2 suffer from being a Peugeot mixed up BMW unit, they are absolute dreadful engines, this video is glossing over and making it all look a quick and easy fix, in-fact it's like a spoof take on how not to repair a Mini and dreadfully put together, now the seats you fitted, firstly why fit a Cooper S trim to a none cooper S car? as the seats you removed were in keeping of the original spec of this vehicle. And secondly the bolster of the drivers seat needed a complete referb and looks in a terrible state and god knows after drowning them in water that when they dry they will shrink and go moldy, the who video was poor and reflects your lack of knowledge on these cars.
Yes lets have a choice of lovely alloys and thing steelies look better 😂
Mini bad engines are known for it
Yes I’m sure the seats were “immaculate” when they came off the car. (Because bolster wear happens when they’ve been sitting in a shed)…. And as for the white wrap on an already white roof? Words really do fail me. This show really does get more ridiculous from one episode to the next.
Love the show 😊 hopefully you going for long time 😊👍👍
Great content, love these new episodes 👍🏻👌🏻
Love dis program
Love this show, but confusing why you list the car prior to even a wash, or is that just artistic license?
Idiots is the only thing that comes to mind
Why oh why put junk steels on it I can't believe that bad idea
And u did all that befor trying thermostat all that wasted time man hours I'm shocked you do this for living unreal waste the seats are nackered the wheels devalue the car lol
Funfact: that car started life as a Foxton’s (the estate agents) one as seen running around London with graphics all over them
How to make Wheeler Dealers look like pro’s …
It was design by rover not bmw 👍
Leaving the engine to reach boiling point is not the brightest. Probably blown and or weakened the head gasket. Also, when breading air out of cooling system you should have the engine running.
The 1.6 petrol engine is one of the worst engines ever produced. Timing chain, over heating, massive oil use issues.
Awful
And why in gods name do you list a car for sale before youve done any work on it.
Horrendous steel wheels and if they turned up with that interior interior at my house I'd tell him to fuck right off
Just found this channel so I’m unsure who’s who yet but that guy looks like he’s been electrocuted 🤣👌🏻
Just a manky bini
Great guys really like the series.
I've only found this series today & have watch four episodes back to back.
As you can tell I'm loving it.
But where do you advertise the finished cars? EBay ?
Only because two of them i would have bought.
Anyway Great programme. Cheers
Love it Why photograph it for listing b4 you work on it? Don't get that bit
I don't get something, you list the car, then change the appearance of it and the interior and the wheels?
Is Will the ginger uncle of Guy Martin?
Those wheels are HIDEOUS!
Wouldn't buy a wheelbarrow off these two
Generally enjoy your videos . On several I’ve watched, this one included , you enthusiastically tell the owner the vehicle is a lot better than you thought , you love the color , you love the car etc . This does not seem like a wise move when looking to purchase ?
Those wheels are dreadful!!! And steel wheels? That would affect the ride a bit since the wheels are heavier. And to wrap a perfect roof just to be different?? If you jet wash the seats it takes time to dry off of you are lucky yet somehow in 2 days the seats were dry and ready…
Not a lot done on day one!? 😂
Did Will say its a quick car 😂😂