Gentlemen.... replace your engines!

[504GL]

Did anyone see Quentin Wilson on BBC Breakfast this morning? I don't usually watch it because it's full of banal shit, but it was on when I turned the telly on this morning and Quentin was there saying how good his Mitsubishi Miev was and so on and so forth when the presenter said "I hear the batteries need to be replaced every 5 years and it's expensive" to which he replied say they didn't have any data on that and that the engine in a normal car needed to be replaced after 7 or 8 years anyway. Seriously...... wtf? I would suspect that 90-95% of the cars on here are still running with their original engines.....

 

How this guy became a motoring journalist I'll never know......

[Father Ted]

Quintin doesnt half spout some awesome bollocks at times.

 

Perhaps he is still mentally stuck in 1954 where engine rebuilds at 40K mikes were still common

[Wilko220]

Yeah I saw that and raised an eyebrow. Maybe he was just talking about K series

[barefoot]

Surely his spouting of such bollocks is there merely to reinforce the train of thought that a car is about fucked by the time it needs an MOT

& it's probably cheaper to go & buy (lease) a different one.

I can't understand why no-one ever seems to mention that electric cars in winter

- using lights, wiper, heater, radio, heated rear window etc will do well to make it to the end of the street, never mind 100 miles.

[ashmicro]

He appears to be working for MG Flying Bomb & Spicy Hatchback (UK) Concern, too.

 

[504GL]

Surely his spouting of such bollocks is there merely to reinforce the train of thought that a car is about fucked by the time it needs an MOT

& it's probably cheaper to go & buy (lease) a different one.

I can't understand why no-one ever seems to mention that electric cars in winter

- using lights, wiper, heater, radio, heated rear window etc will do well to make it to the end of the street, never mind 100 miles.

 

You mean I don't need to get rid of my 500 in just under 6 months?

[Father Ted]

Im sure on one car program I heard him say to a buyer of a second hand car "and dont forget to ask if the head gasket has been done because it will need doing about 70,000 miles and cost a thousand pounds".

 

The man is an uter arse when it comes to cars. He should be tarred, covered in a sheepskin coat and turned out into the wilds of Milton Keynes

[Rod/b]

But, hang on Quentin old bean, surely all that's needed is a can of that Engine Restore Fluid that the manufacturers absolutely didn't pay you anything to talk up

 

You shite spouting, charlatan, snake oil salesman.

[HMC]

Classic bollocks

[Pete-M]

Yes Quentin. This never happens.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

He'll say anything for money.

[Richard]

Yes Quentin. This never happens.

 

Not on a car he's selling, if the rumours are to be believed.

[cobblers]

He'll say anything for money.

 

He did the voiceover for road angels, which we sold when I worked at Halfords. We had a cupboard full of them that would utter "Road Angel" in QWs voice every few minutes as they power cycled on and off at random (they were well dodgy)

[Rod/b]

So is he. Allegedly.

[stormee]

Yes Quentin. This never happens.

 

 

THIS! And a BMW garage won't touch or even open an M50/M60 engine with this mileage unless the timing chain has become noisy which is quite unlikely!

[dollywobbler]

That guy is a fucking moron. He just rattles out complete bullshit. It's completely daft really, but that's really, really pissed me off. Perhaps that's because some of us media types actually take time to RESEARCH stuff and don't just roll out any ol' shit to make ourselves look good...

[cort16]

He just seems to come out with whatever bollocks is the flavour of the day or what ever the shite tv program he's on wants to hear.

[ashmicro]

Doesn't Mk5 Escort of this parish have an Escort with like 340k or something on it?

[fiatdaft]

 

THIS! And a BMW garage won't touch or even open an M50/M60 engine with this mileage unless the timing chain has become noisy which is quite unlikely!

 

 

No they just scrap them when they become porous !

 

 

But agreed,he is a total twat.

[Polystratus]

That guy is a fucking moron. He just rattles out complete bullshit. It's completely daft really, but that's really, really pissed me off. Perhaps that's because some of us media types actually take time to RESEARCH stuff and don't just roll out any ol' shit to make ourselves look good...

 

His motoring column in the Sunday Mirror is equally bad, usually follows the format how brill electric cars are and by next Thursday we'll all be driving hydbrids etc., telling someone that their 1991 low milage Polo will be worth billions next year...

Wasn't he Gordon Clown's adviser on eletric cars and green motoring?

[Polystratus]

That guy is a fucking moron. He just rattles out complete bullshit. It's completely daft really, but that's really, really pissed me off. Perhaps that's because some of us media types actually take time to RESEARCH stuff and don't just roll out any ol' shit to make ourselves look good...

 

 

His motoring column in the Sunday Mirror is equally bad, usually follows the format how brill electric cars are and by next Thursday we'll all be driving hydbrids etc., telling someone that their 1991 low milage Polo will be worth billions next year...

Wasn't he Gordon Clown's adviser on eletric cars and green motoring?

[Des]

In fairness, the engine lifespan average figure did get dragged down to single figures by the K series. That said, the dude is a cheap slut on the make, a massive cock and this is his fave song is this.

[Guest]

Years ago there was a rather interesting thread on Pistonheads (unbelievable I know, I just thought it was a forum full of F1 'experts' with Ferrari caps who drove grey import Eunos Roadsters on trackdays) discussing the relative merits of Ametech Engine Restore. The MD got involved and started slagging all and sundry off. At some point a Fuchs chemist got involved but the results were never made public.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Keep it up, Mr Wilson. I rather like my cheap barges.

[Rocket88]

Wilson seems to be the new Stirling Moss..........rent a gob. Moss, fantastic driver though he was, is well known for doing and saying almost anything as long as "the money is right". Quentin Wilson is apparently worse, and, as has been previously mentioned, not averse to a bit of neferiousness [allegedly]

[cobblers]

Years ago there was a rather interesting thread on Pistonheads (unbelievable I know, I just thought it was a forum full of F1 'experts' with Ferrari caps who drove grey import Eunos Roadsters on trackdays) discussing the relative merits of Ametech Engine Restore. The MD got involved and started slagging all and sundry off. At some point a Fuchs chemist got involved but the results were never made public.

 

A few years ago at university, I had some time to chat with one of the leading guys in charge of developing the "additive packs" for oils on the market - the stuff that comes already in your oil and reduces acidity and prolongs life of it etc. He said that every tiny change they make has to be tested for months on a range of engines, and it's all so finely balanced that more often than not, a small difference in the formula has a massive negative effect on the oil performance in one of probably 20 or 30 measured categories.

Apparently, if there are any active ingredients in this Ametech/Slick 50 bollocks, they are a lot more likely to do a lot of harm to the longevity of the oil than to have any positive effects. He said that if it was possible to just "add stuff to make the oil better" as simple as that, than he'd love to know what it was because his department probably spends more in a week, purely on research than the overall turnover of Amtech or Slick 50 or whatever.

[ashmicro]

I can't comment on Ametech as I've never heard of it until now, but I've had some good results with Slick 50 in the past, on knackered engines, where the oil pressure has improved. Admittedly, this was years ago, and the engines I used it on would now be considered old tech, as was the SF/CD spec oil they used. I've never had to use it on a K, cos they never go wrong

[Rocket88]

Many years ago, a friend of mine asked my advise as to how to stop the bottom end of his Renault 16 sounding like there was a cavalry charge going on in his sump. I advised him to sling some of Wynn's finest in. A few hours later, I get a call to tell me the shit heap [and it was!] would no longer turn over. I trot round to discover he drained all of the oil, and put in about 15 cans of the stuff......................

[Rocket88]

I can't comment on Ametech as I've never heard of it until now, but I've had some good results with Slick 50 in the past, on knackered engines, where the oil pressure has improved. Admittedly, this was years ago, and the engines I used it on would now be considered old tech, as was the SF/CD spec oil they used. I've never had to use it on a K, cos they never go wrong

 

 

All you've done is thicken the oil, which will give you better oil pressure. I've bought a couple of seventies cars with really low oil pressure, to discover that someone has used something like 0/30 in them when they've done an oil change........stick in 20/50, and they return to normal.

[504GL]

Wilson seems to be the new Stirling Moss..........rent a gob. Moss, fantastic driver though he was, is well known for doing and saying almost anything as long as "the money is right". Quentin Wilson is apparently worse, and, as has been previously mentioned, not averse to a bit of neferiousness [allegedly]

 

Well I'm not sure if Wilson is quite that bad, at least he's not a xenophobe like Moss is.