Dollywobbler's Consolidated Tat Thread

[Six-cylinder]

If us viewers are allowed to guide you as to what to have on the channel I think you should get several Ferraris, both old and new, a Maserati and a new Bugatti Chiron because they did not fit a touch screen that would date it.

No don’t sell anything, I love the idea of a £2.5 million Bugatti is in you shed with a Daewoo Matiz etc, all getting equal screen time and to me just as interesting as each other and will add balance to your channel!

[dollywobbler]

20 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

If us viewers are allowed to guide you as to what to have on the channel I think you should get several Ferraris, both old and new, a Maserati and a new Bugatti Chiron because they did not fit a touch screen that would date it.

No don’t sell anything, I love the idea of a £2.5 million Bugatti is in you shed with a Daewoo Matiz etc, all getting equal screen time and to me just as interesting as each other and will add balance to your channel!

Not a Bug fan, but I do wonder if I could evolve into a channel with more exotic offerings, but also keep the dreadful stuff I love so much. I'm not sure it's possible without ending up like a Hoovie/deMuro clone. There's also the problem that I generally end up hating powerful, exotic stuff. Well, until I drove the HSV Maloo at least...

[beko1987]

Just now, dollywobbler said:

Hoovie/deMuro clone. 

I used to like hoovies garage, but recently he's just gone nuts and I've got bored! Was fun when he was buying old rare shitters and dumping them at the wizards, but the expensively broken exotics? Meh. 

Id say just sell something so you don't go nuts and carry on. I know the feeling, when I bin a vacuum I was going to do something with, after doing a before video and hyping everyone up... But its got to be done. Multiply that by 1000 and that's what you've got to decide! 

Or rent more space and keep everything! 

[Six-cylinder]

I think it is great to have both/all, trouble is I think generally the audiences are different they want their type of cars most of the time ie affordable classic, super cars or modified etc.

It is pleasing that financing expanding your garage this way  is not a concern!

[LightBulbFun]

7 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

one is a fastest in its class, hemi-head all aluminium engined blue 2 door coupe made/designed by a famous sports car manufacturer 

the other is a Bugatti 

[egg]

Hoovie's business model is pretty much solid though - when he stopped buying cars last year it all went to pot, he's back in the groove now. More or less a four stage process

Buy car - 500,000 views
take car to Wizard and find all the faults - 500,000 views
get car fixed and drive it - 500,000 views (there can be two of this type if it is still broken - i.e. 00's BMW)
why I'm selling my xxx - 500,000 views

2m views a car - rinse and repeat every fortnight. Oh, and also advertise some crap watch or online gaming platform for bonus $.

Doug's an even cannier fellow (see his Stinger purchase!)

[Six-cylinder]

8 minutes ago, egg said:

Hoovie's business model is pretty much solid though - when he stopped buying cars last year it all went to pot, he's back in the groove now. More or less a four stage process

Buy car - 500,000 views
take car to Wizard and find all the faults - 500,000 views
get car fixed and drive it - 500,000 views (there can be two of this type if it is still broken - i.e. 00's BMW)
why I'm selling my xxx - 500,000 views

2m views a car - rinse and repeat every fortnight. Oh, and also advertise some crap watch or online gaming platform for bonus $.

Doug's an even cannier fellow (see his Stinger purchase!)

Trouble is if he turned up with a Citroen Visa he would get 6 views!

It is car dependent and he is good at that. I suppose he can always take his audience for an off the wall ride now and then like the Buick Park Avenue and get away with it.

[wuvvum]

43 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

one is a fastest in its class, hemi-head all aluminium engined blue 2 door coupe made/designed by a famous sports car manufacturer 

the other is a Bugatti 

That might be pushing it a bit...

[timolloyd]

Maybe a swap with Iain Tyrrell’s Garage? He fixes your City Rover on his channel and you get to jump start the Matiz off a Countach?

[LightBulbFun]

Just now, wuvvum said:

That might be pushing it a bit...

hard top convertible? 

[SteersWithThrottle]

Bugger what other people think, buy what you like.

I don't like any of the cars in your garage, but I'd never dream of criticising your choices.

I do like your yt vids though  ?

[camryv6]

1 hour ago, dollywobbler said:

Not a Bug fan, but I do wonder if I could evolve into a channel with more exotic offerings, but also keep the dreadful stuff I love so much. I'm not sure it's possible without ending up like a Hoovie/deMuro clone. There's also the problem that I generally end up hating powerful, exotic stuff. Well, until I drove the HSV Maloo at least...

If you are taking requests, can you buy a Citroen Mehari please ?

[Mrcento]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I used to like hoovies garage, but recently he's just gone nuts and I've got bored! Was fun when he was buying old rare shitters and dumping them at the wizards, but the expensively broken exotics? Meh.

Same. I know Lambos etc pull in the views, but long term, they won't. As more and more youtubers all jump on that bandwagon it just gets more and more 'meh'. Same ground is being covered over and over again.

The trick is to get in on the bubble early then bail out before the platform becomes saturated. Pretty much as Tavarish did with his 2 Lambo rebuilds and is now back to doing a spread of stuff.

If you've got 30 channels all doing Lambos then that's 30 channels all pretty much doing the same thing for the same viewers, cutting each others numbers.

I used to attend all the Italian car shows and got the same feeling about Ferrari's. Once you've seen them for the 2nd or 3rd time that's it. They don't really hold any appeal and you switch off from them.

Then a boy comes in with a Mk1 Croma Turbo and i'm far more into that. And it seems so are half the show, when even the Ferrari owners break rank and come over for a look.....

[AnthonyG]

On 6/14/2020 at 3:54 PM, dollywobbler said:

Moar GSA action.

Steering rack gaiter had come adrift. Though it'd be a simple cable tie job, but being Citroen, the gaiter attaches to a plastic tube, which goes through the subframe and sort-of clips over the end of the steering rack in a place you can't get to. The plastic is in poor condition, so my guess is the gaiter will pop off as soon as I turn left and stretch it.

You haven’t moved to nearer the seaside have you?

That is my friend’s Viva...he spent many a year (nearer a decade) making it as good as it is now. 

[LightBulbFun]

@dollywobbler I see TWC's had a new V5c issued recently 

please still have her or a copy of her old 2018 V5 with the previous keeper info on it? as I mentioned in the past im VERY interested in seeing the full details of the previous keeper given how you said it was addressed to the DHSS IIRC

On 7/21/2019 at 7:55 AM, dollywobbler said:

Alas, TWC's previous owner is simply DHSS.

 

On 7/21/2019 at 1:26 PM, LightBulbFun said:

very interesting! does it list an address? I ask because of what stuart quickly mentioned to me when discussing the history of REV451R

 

[Cavboy80]

I'm a subscriber to a few channels on You Tube including Hub Nut. 

Most are car related and some from the States. (Hoovies Garage, B is for Build, Goonzquad, Tavarish, MCM, Skid Factory, Bennys Custom Works) The US based ones do seem to copy each other too much, Lambos, Ferraris blah blah blah. All boring and unrelatable really. I'd far rather watch the lower rung stuff getting spannered on or reviewed. 

Mustie1 is a good channel, no fancy stuff on there. He's a clever guy who can make a video of fixing a fan interesting. Plus you get to see the lovely area of the US where he lives. 

So, please don't go 'normal youtuber' and buy fancy chod, keep it relatable chod. 

[BorniteIdentity]

On 6/12/2020 at 10:11 PM, beko1987 said:

You could give it away as a project to a subscriber? Ad revenue from the video should make the pain go away... 

 

On 6/13/2020 at 9:41 AM, dollywobbler said:

Ad revenue would be about £50, but I guess that's better than nothing!

Is that all someone with 62,000 subscribers is worth? Fifty quid? Jesus. 

[Eyersey1234]

1 minute ago, BorniteIdentity said:

 

Is that all someone with 62,000 subscribers is worth? Fifty quid? Jesus. 

Fuck me that's not much at all

[beko1987]

I doubt Mr wobbler is going divulge his business figures, but I do it with vacuums and make the £20/30 back very quickly video by video (don't do it often as its very dull) but 62k should be bringing in a fair bit of coin? My 3.8k subs keep me off the tills at the Co op nicely every month! 

[motorpunk]

1 minute ago, beko1987 said:

62k should be bringing in a fair bit of coin? 

827k subscribers on the channel I often make films for - (here- https://www.youtube.com/user/XCARFilms ) and the ad revenue barely covers the cost of the coffee in the office. 

 

[motorpunk]

18 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I do wonder if I could evolve into a channel with more exotic offerings, but also keep the dreadful stuff I love so much. 

The viewing demographic is very, very different, though. Your personality and style is a reflection of the cars you champion. To turn it around you wouldn't see Schmee genuinely enthusing over an "eff eth oh", for example. His viewers would desert him. I hope you follow my logic, it's not a dig or owt.

Edited June 16, 2020 by motorpunk
lisp added

[BorniteIdentity]

23 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

827k subscribers on the channel I often make films for - (here- https://www.youtube.com/user/XCARFilms ) and the ad revenue barely covers the cost of the coffee in the office. 

 

Absolutely unbelievable.  Google made over $15,000,000,000 in advertising revenue last year from Youtube.  I suppose they reckon they're doing everyone a massive favour letting them use their platform, rather than rewarding the talent that brings them revenue.  

I suppose the only way of really making a living off of it is to take kickbacks from other companies and merchandise - because it seems that everything is stacked against you.

 

Apologies for the thread derail - fix the CityRover if you can, or wheel it into the naughty corner until such time the enthusiasm returns or someone offers to take it away!

[beko1987]

Certainly makes me glad I do it as a hobby and not as a living! Suppose as you grow thogugh, so do your expenses etc

[egg]

Sorry DW for moar thread drift - but JayEmm does a good mix of pistonheads/retrorides/autoshite content all in one channel - and he's nearing the magic 100k subs, so seems to work ok.

[dollywobbler]

20 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

You haven’t moved to nearer the seaside have you?

That is my friend’s Viva...he spent many a year (nearer a decade) making it as good as it is now. 

I have indeed. Rob's a lovely chap. Also owns the Volvo 740 in the background - his daily.

[dollywobbler]

16 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

@dollywobbler I see TWC's had a new V5c issued recently 

please still have her or a copy of her old 2018 V5 with the previous keeper info on it? as I mentioned in the past im VERY interested in seeing the full details of the previous keeper given how you said it was addressed to the DHSS IIRC

 

BALLS.

[dollywobbler]

3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Absolutely unbelievable.  Google made over $15,000,000,000 in advertising revenue last year from Youtube.  I suppose they reckon they're doing everyone a massive favour letting them use their platform, rather than rewarding the talent that brings them revenue.  

I suppose the only way of really making a living off of it is to take kickbacks from other companies and merchandise - because it seems that everything is stacked against you.

 

Apologies for the thread derail - fix the CityRover if you can, or wheel it into the naughty corner until such time the enthusiasm returns or someone offers to take it away!

I've done sponsorship, and plugging stuff and I don't like it. Just feels too business-like. Fortunately, I can live on the slim-pickings, and make my money by churning as many videos out as I can.  £50 per video isn't great, but if you have hundreds of videos, it's not so bad. Sadly, income-per-video has dropped pretty significantly during the current woes, but as long as we're still eating, I'll still feel pretty lucky.

Anyway, back to the cars. Was meant to be filming something today, but it fell through AFTER I'd left home. Fortunately, it gave me chance to drop the 2CV's brake drum at a specialist. Oddly, his 2CV rear wheel bearing special tool had fallen out of his toolbox and was on the floor waiting! Just bizarre...

Meanwhile, a quick update:

Invacar: Pissing oil everywhere. Would like to pull the engine out and give it a proper sort out. I probably already said this. Also need to fix a door because the glass fell out.

2CV: Fix brakes, fix door handle, fix electrics, MOT test.

Tercel: For sale. Hopefully this weekend.

Fox: Love is rekindled after a wobble. I want to actually make it good. Or at least decent.

Matiz: Hopefully the next candidate to return to the road.

CityRover: Really not sure what to do, but it's quietly sitting out of the way for now, so maybe I'll scoop it up and get it back to the unit (or to a new unit if I find one) at some point. Speaking of which...

Delica: Needs brakes sorting as at least one caliper is binding. Now have a tow bar for it. Hoping to sort out both of those next week. Then I'll have a tow car, which is helpful for moving crap cars around.

GSA: Driving beautifully, daily transport for now. 

NEW THING: Lands Saturday.

 

[LightBulbFun]

40 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

BALLS.

awww I take that as a no then?  

aside from the DHSS stuff above I was also doubly interested

because despite TWC being one of the last Model 70's in DHSS Service, with her tax being due on the 16/06/2003, until you taxed her again

her last keeper change was as you can see on the 9th of the 12th 1997 which is very interesting

because one thing I have noticed with almost every IVS Invalid vehicle that survived until the very end of the IVS scheme in 2003-2004

all had keeper changes in Late 2002,  as you can see here on @Mrs6C's Model 70, and I had wondered if this was the DHSS moving the keepership out of the long term users name and to their name in preparation for withdrawal

(long term users had their machines registered to their name, but they where still obviously owned by the IVS at the time!)

but TWC does not have this 2002 keeper change and with your previous DHSS comment I have to wonder, if it never happened because she was already registered to the DHSS since 1997 for some reason?

and the full address would be interesting to see, because I dont know if the cars registered to local Appliance centre would say DHSS on them or not or if it only said DHSS if it was literally  registered directly the DHSS at Warbreck hill

but sadly I have never seen who this previous 2002 keeper was, sadly most surviving late service machines have been through a few keepers since then by now so even if their last V5c is from before GDPR its no good since it would just list the last private keeper

and sadly with the example shown above although Mrs6c is her only post ministry service keeper GDPR means theres no previous keeper info on V5's anymore sadly

 

its interesting to note this "special" keeper change date is the same across a lot of these special Late service vehicles too

which makes me think it was a batch job/they where all registered to the same keeper, rather then individual ALACs (artificial limb and appliance centres)

(KPH305K is special as its not a Model 70 but a Model 64! the only one known to make to it to the end of the IVS scheme)

 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, dollywobbler said:

Invacar: Pissing oil everywhere. Would like to pull the engine out and give it a proper sort out. I probably already said this. Also need to fix a door because the glass fell out.

do you still have the engine she arrived with to hand? as you may recall im interested in what its number is and im also still in need of a clear photo TWC's VIN plate if thats possible   

(im curious if the 2 match up and from there it will be interesting to see if I can figure out when the Model 70's switched from the cartridge type oil filter to the spin on type, as I know the engine TWC arrived with was of the cartridge type)

as a side note although the block might not be salvageable due to the broken dizzy situation I wonder if other parts like the piston and barrels would be of use in getting TWCs current engine back up to health?  

[Retr0naut]

3 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

 

Delica:  Then I'll have a tow car, which is helpful for moving crap cars around. 

 

NEW THING: Lands Saturday.

 

And collecting other crap ones ?

If you need a name for "new thing" it looks like a  Kenneth to me! ? That's what it would have been called if I had bought it!