Today on How It's Made - Wheeler Dealers

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012) 10/11/2017 at 06:44 • Filed to: None

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I watched the first episode last night. I can’t say I enjoyed it much.

Spoilers below. Proceed at your own risk.

Viewer is now treated like an idiot.

The screws that come with loctite - the new dude referred to the loctite as glue. It serves the purpose of keeping things together, but it isn’t glue.

The show has taken the turn of How it’s made. We start off with some plastic beads. We heat them up and put them in the mold. Out comes a gas cap. Worker attaches it to the filler neck of the gas tank. And this is how a car is made.

This is how we re-assemble the turbo - We clean off the old turbo. Insert some bits and after turbo was balanced somehow somewhere unbeknownst to the viewer, we slap it back in. Magically the engine is back. Everything powered right up and viola - we have a buyer looking at the insides of the exhaust pipe back there. Let’s see how the previous owner would like to buy it back, shall we?

I don’t like the show. I don’t think I’m gonna watch it anymore.

Flavien Vidal > PartyPooper2012 10/11/2017 at 06:48

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Loctite is a brand name... They probably can’t name it.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Flavien Vidal 10/11/2017 at 06:52

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This. But “thread locker” would have been more accurate than glue

Dave the car guy , still here > PartyPooper2012 10/11/2017 at 06:56

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I haven’t and won’t. Too much is ruined when popular shows get revamped.

Flavien Vidal > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 10/11/2017 at 06:57

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Yeah that would work well :)

PartyPooper2012 > Dave the car guy , still here 10/11/2017 at 07:27

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I wanted to see for myself. David Tracy posted an article on Jalopnik talking about how great it was. Now I know for myself.

I won’t watch anymore. I will wait for Ed to come out with something... or maybe we need to gofund his ass so he can make a show. Maybe Jeff Bezos needs to recruit this fella and have him make a show. Maybe his own show. Maybe add him to Grand Tour somehow. Maybe Bad Obsession Motorsports needs a hand Ed can lend. Either way, I want to watch Ed.

Tripper > PartyPooper2012 10/11/2017 at 08:11

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I’ve yet to find a car related show that I enjoy watching since the original Top Gear. “How It’s Made” on the other hand is just about one of the best things there is when you’re hungover on a Sunday morning.

It’s easy to follow, and it’s on all day. So when you fall asleep for a few hours, it’s still on and you’re not immediately struck with the guilt of sleeping away a Sunday because you were a dumb drunk idiot the night before. 

PartyPooper2012 > Tripper 10/11/2017 at 08:26

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Project Binky on Youtube?

How it’s made is good... sometimes. I watched them make the road builder - asphalt layer - whatever that thing is... Worker starts off with a sheet of metal yay thick and yay big. Laser cuts few holes in it. Bolts it to the rest of the machine and puts a price sticker on it.

Other times they are very detailed. I guess they are not disclosing some trade secrets and what not. I just found it funny is all.

As for being a drunk waste of space on Sunday... that passes with age.

Tripper > PartyPooper2012 10/11/2017 at 08:32

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The only episodes I don’t like are the food ones, they geek me out. I’m 32 so it’s not often that we go out drinking at all let alone over do it enough to kill Sunday. But when we do... my wife stays in bed, and the dog and I watch at least 10 episodes lol.

ttyymmnn > Tripper 10/11/2017 at 08:44

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Brooks Moore is the engineering equivalent to Bob Ross. When there is nothing on TV, HIM is always on. I won’t watch when the other guy is narrating.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > PartyPooper2012 10/11/2017 at 08:57

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I was channel surfing once and I ran across a show that was like “How it’s made”, but it wasn’t the official show. This one was on perfume. They went on for about 15 minutes talking about searching for flowers to get the idea of a fragrance and such. But when it came time to actually making the perfume? They literally said “How it’s actually made is a trade secret.” and ended the show that way. Not figuratively. Literally. As in that many words. It was click bait TV.

PartyPooper2012 > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 10/11/2017 at 09:09

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yup. You were left high and dry. How I felt about that turbo rebuild in the Cosworth. They are dead to me.

Tripper > ttyymmnn 10/11/2017 at 09:20

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Yea that other guy is trash