Got a bit of a shock when I saw what was wrong with it, about a year after the show was broadcast, assume that it was made even 2 years before, but look at the mileage and MOT history. I wouldn’t like to suggest Ed China isn’t a good mechanic - but how could you miss all those faults, or “fix” the car with all those faults in the offing a short while later. So it looks as if one of my favorite car shows is really a scam show!
Go on check the MOT history yourself and the broadcast date of the show, tell me I’m wrong!
“Scam” TV shows seek to extract money from viewers. I wouldn’t say its a “scam” show, but its entertainment. Edd China is a former special effects technician, and self taught mechanic. Ant Anstead is a former policeman, football player and self taught mechanic. Marc Priestley was a “F1 Mechanic”, though I’m not that’s some you would necessarily want to MOT prep a car. The actual mechanic on the show (until 2017) was Paul Brackley, who I think was an actual professional mechanic.
You don’t actually believe the buyers were real? I think most of them were actorsn or budding actors.
For an accurate portrayl of a family owned vehicle recovery business, I recommend Lizard Lick Towing…
If you want to see real faults being fixed, Rainman Ray on Youtube is curiously addictive; a Florida truck mechanic filming pretty much every job he works on
The point being they tear the car down and apparently fix everything that’s wrong with it, but in this case, 1000 or so miles later it fails an MOT on structural faults and faults that anybody with a little bit of car sense would have seen.
So it’s just lies but it’s presented as “this is easy to fix up, you could do this at home” etc. etc. so giving people false hope and very likely costing many people a lot of money due to the way these “easy jobs” are presented.
