Interestingly one pre-video ad here was from a firm manipulating the odo (yes, to show a non-real km/miles). In the ad they then used and named Carly to prove their manipulation on the Bmw is undetected by service tech. What a sneaky ad-sense, right? If I were Carly, I'd not have them do that.
Hey Jay, love your content! Keep it up. I have a question, you know, how every second car video claims that they've bought the cheapest car.. Wondering do you have proof that this is The World's Cheapest Lamborghini Gallardo (That Runs, And Isn't Wrecked), or is this just clickbait? Thank you, be safe!
Blue / Red issue... Back in the 90's I had the EXACT same issue with a Blue ford Escort, Did due diligence, HPI check etc, came back clean so I bought the car (from a dealer), several weeks later when pulling a trim panel out in the boot I saw red paint, Like you I was thinking of all possibilities, respray, primer accident repair etc, but again like you we were finding red paint everywhere. internally but all the doors / boot / bonnet had no sign of red paint. Eventually I was so concerned I contacted the vehicle crime unit of my local police station and voluntarily handed them the car to strip. What they found was shocking.... the shell was that of stolen red J reg escort which had the vin from a blue K reg escort stuck down over the top of the J reg vin so at a quick look there was no evidence of tampering with the vin, then all parts from the K reg fitted to the shell. After lots of investigation it was found the original K reg had been badly damaged but with no insurance claim hence not showing on HPI, then rebuilt using the stolen shell. Thankfully as I bought on finance from a dealer I was able to hand the car back !
I’m going to enjoy watching this process - who doesn’t love a makeover! This reminds me a little of the Harry’s garage videos of of Espada which were fascinating. The guy from AV should definitely feature as much as possible- he’s clearly an honest straightforward chap and is a natural presenter
Car was probably painted red originally at the factory - the order was cancelled /changed and the car went through paint again and became blue. Gear knob has been welded back on because they have a habit of snapping off with age. 👍
@@1005wiking reshelled, perhaps? I'm guessing at some point it did get crashed at 6th Gear Experiences, and somebody used its VIN and the shell of a flood damaged car...
Hi. This is one of your best videos . Right up there with The Truth about buying a Porsche. . Aldous his knowledge and his presentation is great. Thank you.
@@karlmiller3623 He's being facetious - spelling it how James (and me and thousands of others) say it instead of pronouncing it 'correctly' and being a dick about it at the same time :)
strange when looking at the red coming through that the clip holding a wire or cable has been painted blue, suggesting paintwork at some point. A HPI check doesn't guarantee a car has not been involved in an accident, if a previous owner was just 3rd party for instance or a track day car that has had a few off's etc both instances the owner would be paying for repair not an insurance company and therefore any major repairs will not be recorded on HPI.
I used to work at a gift experience company working on the super car experiences. Some of these bodge jobs are typical of a super experience company, they simply don’t have the money to fix things so bodge them. I’m surprised there’s not cable ties holding the thing together!
This blokes a star , the British car wizard ! "Took it apart , cleaned it up and put it back together and it's all good" proper mechanic , why replace when you can fix it 😊
Aldous is great, gave me some cracking advice for nothing on purchasing a Ferrari 360! Top guy and as genuine as he appears in all of the content he has been a part of on RU-vid
Looks like it could be red oxide primer, but most manufacturers grey primer for majority of colours and for those other colour they will use white primer. unless it’s a BC3CT colour.
Aldous seems like a genuine guy. He does remind me a bit of Lauri Vuohensilta, the Finnish nutter on the Hydraulic Press Channel, though. "This Lambo is preeeety good, but the last mechanic who worked on it is extremely dangerous and could attack at any moment... So we have to deal with him..." 💥
The blue colour is great, if I was to ever have one of these, this shade would be my second or third choice. I love it when Lamborghinis are NOT yellow (and Ferraris not red 😜)
Surely when the guy who sold it to you mentioned the tens of thousands he has spent on it, reduced the price, then said you can pay in installments as and when you can the writing was on the wall?
Gluing the vents shut I suspect is down to the missing shrouds Aldous mentioned on the radiator. It probably chucks so much oncoming air through the vents that it's like having the window open in the winter. Regarding the colour,it is possible if the red is just a uniformly flat red that it's a primer, although that seems odd as most paints i've seen use a white or grey primer for blue. If however you discover some left over flake or lacquer, then we're looking at either a factory stage change to a customer order, where they diverted the shell back into the paint shop before sending to the assembly line, or (more worryingly) an off the books chassis change. Basically, a car which SHOULD have been reported as being in an accident, but was reshelled on the quiet at the customers cost. Examining the VIN plate and chassis markings should show you if there's any sign of alteration or transference. Also ask Lamborghini if they have any record of reproducing a VIN plate for it, as they would have a record of doing so if the reshell just fitted a new VIN instead of trying to remove and transfer the existing one. Nice car still James, I really think you're going to enjoy owning this one, even with the initial costs.
Just a shot, could the car have been painted to red from blue, then painted back to blue without doing a bare metal paint job. Cause the red got there somehow. Sounds fantastic but unless that car is stripped of all parts one will likely never know or more still stripped of the current hue, but that will be crazy. Very strange which ever way you look at it. Good luck with all the fix, that’s a good man who’s taking on the Job. All the best. 👌🏿
So you pay £65 for the dongle and £5-6 per month for the subscription? That’s like £130 in the first year. You can buy a pretty decent semi-professional tool for that.
the red paint underneath could just be a primer and the blue top coat has missd in places/peeled off. if it's an etch primer, it wont flake off because it will be chemically bonded to the metal whereas the top coat can chip away because it sits on top of the primer.
Good video.. maybe the car was just painted red at some point and then painted it’s original colour?... I wouldn’t listen to the others saying it’s a bodge, that report seems legit and you have brought what i believe to be a genuine car but is showing its issues and the red would cause some concern however like you said it’s Hpi clear it’s been checked out.... make the improvements it needs and it should be a decent car! Good for you for going for it!
blue/red "issue": Perhaps the car was originally speccd. red then, before assembly, either the client changed their mind or didn't proceed & Lambo changed colour to blue. If this was the case then they may just have recorded it as blue?
I wonder if you should get in touch with Edd from Vinwiki about what problems and his solutions he's had with his flood gallardo, as you both had the charcoal canister problem, and I wonder if theirs a few others he's had as well that you could share notes and parts over with, also if you want to liven this thing up and make it look right when you go to mend the bumper, ask if they can put a latter gallardo bumper on it, as it would look way better and really fix the design of the car. as the back has always been the giveaway that this is now a Volkswaggen Audi Group based product.
Should be great entertainment for us viewers watching you shelling out gazillions to get this car back to being a nice thing. Fast forward to the next episode 👍 However, I am somewhat relieved to hear you have sponsors ease the financial burden 😉
The red primer looks like it was underneath the blue paint. Looks like the blue paint has been scratched off showing the red primer underneath. Different colour primer's are used depending on the what shade they want the finished paint job, or the red primer could just be a rust protector. Worth checking if the red primer is applied at the factory or if someone did some work on those areas then painted it with red primer and repainted it blue.
I like shops who are like "the clock spring is $400, so we took the old one, cleaned it up, and it's working fine now". If it ain't broke, don't replace it.
@@jamesantill5065 I wouldn’t be without it now tbh, it does so much, has saved me loads of money and I don’t need to go to the dealer/Indy anymore. I use it on friends/family cars also.
It's WHD (wrong hand drive) version, of course it's going to be cheap, you have to spend half it's price to register it in the larger part of the western world.
I love previously abused exotics. Seeing this car come back from the brink is going to be fun, great series idea and congrats again on picking this one up!
Up to the Murchilago, Lamborghini's have always been "cool". I say up to the Murchilago as from then on, the rest seem to be just versions of the Murchilago theme - beginning on course with the Gallardo. they look and sound great, but I've never wanted to own a Lamboghini whether I could afford one or not. The fact that it's from the VW stable does not help matters !
I reckon this chassis and that VIN didn't originally belong together. This car has, I suspect, been cobbled together from bits - a crash write-off's drivetrain and electrics and a flood write-off's shell.
@@richardharrold9736 a write off would come up on a hpi check. he said the cars clean. nothing about it says write off imo, just poor maintanence, with someone trying to keep costs low. sort of things done to it that youd do to a similar aged ford focus
@@samisnake HPI wouldn't necessarily show anything if it's been kept out of the hands of the insurers. Quietly flogging off a wreck to a rebuilder who reshells it using a straight shell...
Hpi doesn't mean shit if it's been repaired and not written off. Plenty of cars with major damage get sold and fixed without being written off. There's a Facebook page that names and shames garages, (can't remember the name of it mind).
I agree with most of the comments below in regard of the cars colour and the fact that it seems to be partly rebuild without any real skills. By the time you have rebuilt it to a high standard that this company seem very capable of you should have a great car. I just hope that your bank account can stand it.
Look at wheeler dealers they bought a maserati 3200 for £7k then it needed a new throttle body £2k! Got it fixed in the UK for £400 but imagine how much a engine or gearbox would cost it wouldn't be financially viable to fix it you can buy a supercar cheap but maintaining them out of warranty is the thing that costs
At the factory they painted the car red and then painted blue over it. Either the red was a mistake or the order came in for a blue one so having one red one too many and no blue ones, they just sanded the red and painted over it.... Check the red paint. It‘s probably been scuffed.
I have a 1995 Mitsubishi Pajero with 6G74 engine. The port is 16 pin like OBD2 but due to production year (95) it has to use older protocols than OBD2. Can the carly scanner read my car? I tried several OBD2 readers but none could read
It's a business, not a hobby. The ratio of ads to video is still much lower than many other channels. I run less than half the number Google want me to put in
Good work! Typical German car issues: all the plastic bits fall off. Noteworthy all the problems seem to be Audi parts related... Not a lot wrong with it tbh...
The paint is so intriging. we need facts. Did lamborghini ever use red as the undercoat for ths colour? Could you have bought this car new in that red colour ? (possible factory/order change) It would also be good having a list of all that parts this paint is and isnt found on, compare that list to the parts believed to be original and those not to be. possibly dates colour change. Hopefully between everyone here it get an explanation either way.
Its possible that Lamborghini finished it in red as a standard colour and then refinished it in blue due too a custom order. Manufacturing has done this in the past.
@@JayEmmOnCars That's great to know Jay and something to look forward to indeed. It's very satisfying to see a neglected car turned around and shown some love again.
I brought an ex experience day car (XR3i) from Brands Hatch many years ago which had been re shelled. There was nothing wrong with the car but I’m guessing this Lambo would probably have a similar history. Missing clips, rear spoiler not working etc.
@@JayEmmOnCars That would depend on how much income the vehicle was generating for the business. Getting a flood damage vehicle and changing the shell might be a viable option for a company. It’s quite common. Check the vin plate and see if it’s has the original fixings etc or if it looks like it’s been tampered with.
@@JayEmmOnCars Also it might not be viable for some but would for others. I used to work in a body shop back in the 80s and saw all sorts. RU-vid is full of channels on exactly this. I think your onto a winner with this. It sounds like the engine is sorted and you have a few items to fix. I would sooner have a vehicle that’s been re shelled that something that’s been cut and shut but that’s just me. Nice work mate. 👍
The thing is lots of the car is way too good to have been reshelled. And seriously the cost of doing that kind of work to a car like this would be a lot more than just selling the broken one and buying a new one. The Lamborghini world is pretty small too - if something like that had happened I would have found out about it by now
@@JayEmmOnCars Possible, but It depends on the extent of the damage and what parts were carried over. For me this looks like it’s a red car painted blue. If my eyes don’t deceive me you can see the red around the heat shield where it’s been masked out badly before being painted blue. In saying that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to paint everything that should be painted. Please don’t think I’m being negative. I’ve brought cars in the past that haven’t been as they should have been. With the XR3i from Brands Hatch I was told that it had been re shelled. Not everyone is as honest as we think. Could it of been repainted for advertising as an experience drive car then resprayed blue afterwards? I’m not sure what chassis numbers if any might be stamped on the chassis.
