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• #81577
Yeah that's pretty shitty. To be fair to gresswell though he comes across as a sound guy. I have watched his stuff before and it looks like great quality work.
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• #81578
Very poor behaviour from Taylor and the AA team - and baffling, in some ways (not so much Taylor as the others).
Hopefully it gets some positive resolution.
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• #81579
Ended up using a local (to the car) service, the car was way worse than I was expecting even though it was going cheaper due to high mileage. Saved me a day of going to see it and being disappointed.
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• #81580
Looks like it’s a developing situation
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• #81582
Spotted today, still a firm favourite.
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• #81583
So a con artist, who asks for free stuff in exchange for exposure, doesn't pay bills or pay for parts or pay for storage.
Also then lies on a pod cast too and rips people off see the stolen service history.
Wish I could get away with that shit.
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• #81584
Wish I could get away with that shit
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• #81585
Beautiful! My late dad had the 2wd version, which he totalled at a certain point. He was a completely different person behind the wheel, one (many) might say a cnut.
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• #81586
Remember my cousins husband giving me a lift in one of those in the nineties. Was impressed.
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• #81587
For the bored.
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• #81588
So, his behaviour of 'I want stuff for free in return for exposure' worked well for Josh. Josh gave him a great price. Especially as a chancer got free bits for other BMW.
So the exposure that josh got was quite negative from give a great price for the work and free storage too.
Or am I missing something?
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• #81589
So I've been around auto restoration my entire life, everything from MG Midgets to 250 GTOs, my Dad has done it all, and in turn, I've gained 2nd hand experience of this, so here's my 2p...
In all honesty, I think they are both to blame...
Josh should have known better than to offer someone a flat rate in exchange for exposure, any time there is rust repair work on a car, especially an older car, you have to take the project on with the customer being comfortable with doing whatever it takes to get the car sorted, if someone is uncomfortable with this at the start, they are not the right client for your business.
The main issue with auto repair and bodywork of non-mechanical parts is that things that aren't your problem turn into your problem, which obviously costs time and money.
With rust, you have to start grinding and cutting before you know what you're dealing with, anyone who quotes for rust work is setting themselves up for failure.
On a £500k Ferrari, an extra £10k here or there for welding is no big issue, but on a car that he paid £5k for already, he doesn't want to be £10k into welding. I think in the video Josh mentioned it needed £6ks worth of work, and to me it looked about £10ks worth of work...
The second issue is Taylor going on the podcast and trashing someone else's business, and I'd like to think he didn't tell the full truth to the other AutoAlex guys, so they egged him on.
Conclusion:
Josh shouldn't take work on for exposure, and should vet clients properly that they are willing to spend what it takes to make something right.
Taylor shouldn't give his car to someone if he isn't willing to go the full hog to get it fixed, especially if he has other looming financial issues, and certainly shouldn't trash someone's business on a podcast or anywhere else. Sadly, burying your head in the sand is just too easy when the world is coming at you, he should have known better.
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• #81590
Who are these people!? Did they really need to release a three page public statement about an argument over welding on a shitty old BMW (or some other shitty car, i wasn't really paying attention)
Seems like Coleen Rooney levels of thinking normal people actually give a shit about their random influencer internet argument.
Am i missing something of note that turns this into something anyone other than the involved parties should care about?
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• #81591
We're all main characters now
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• #81592
😂
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• #81593
The reason it's being discussed on here is that Taylor was recommended by a user on here as someone to buy a used BMW from.
I stated that I wouldn't buy anything from Taylor because of knowing the experience Josh had with him as Josh is a real life mate of mine.
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• #81594
The reason there's statements and all that bullshit is because the sort of people who listen to the Auto Alex podcast, of which Taylor is a co host - are also Josh's potential customers.
So while it might seem like storm in a tea cup to non interested outside observers, defamation of Josh's business on a YouTube channel with 700k subscribers is actually going to affect his business whether you think it should or not or whether you think influencers should exist or not.
So Josh has tried to set the record straight in an attempt to not let his business get affected and as a result, the sort of bullshit practices this Taylor guy has been doing to plenty of people other than Josh have come out of the woodwork.
Again, the only reason it's being discussed on here is because someone recommended using Taylor.
It's fine if you don't like it, but strolling in without all the context which is all laid out on this thread and being a dickhead about it makes you look like a whiny cunt
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• #81595
Fair points. I was given an initial estimate for body/paint based but was told very clearly that until the paint was off it was to be taken with a pinch of salt and that it could quite easily go up. It did, quite a lot, and had we not started on the right foot it would have been a horrible experience.
Once i was past the financial kick in the balls it turned out to be a really enjoyable journey but that said i'm not sure i'd do it again. Wider topic but restoring older cars has become far too expensive for the regular folk and the pressure on body shops must be immense at times.
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• #81596
My dad once told me a story of a customer who went to look at a Renault 5 GT Turbo, told my dad the car was mint, not a spot of rust on the car, paint all intact, etc. He wanted my dad to do some work to it.
My dad said "just be careful with buying that, they are rot boxes, rust can sometimes be hidden and you don't know until you get it up on a ramp and do some digging"
A week later, the guy purchased the car and pulled it out of the garage by the tow eye.
As he was pulling the car, it split in half.
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• #81598
FFS someone leaked my only fans again?
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• #81599
Hyundai h-1 4x4
I'm looking at getting one of these but finding it hard to get information on the two engine chooses from the 2002 facelift. The former is a Hyundai and later mitsubishi I believe.
2.5 L D4BF/D4BH I4 (100cv /200nm)
2.5 L A CRDI I 4 (140cv / 360nm)The latter has quite a bit more power, but I wonder if it's needed or worth any premium. Plus reliability. Any help would be great.
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• #81600
Josh should have known better than to offer someone a flat rate in exchange for exposure
Idk. It sounds like had the original proposal gone through it would have been fine.
He got loads of videos out of it (would have had more) and had a sort of stop loss of the £3k total or whatever it was. If it was finished I can imagine it might have been a good long-term show case, and you never know with these things a bit of traction and sudden you've got 1m views.
He was clearly too soft on a few things, and not kicking it to the curb earlier. But also sounds like he wasn't that fussed and was cracking on.
Bloody hell. Almost wish my BMW was rusty enough to give to Josh. Seems like a sound bloke.