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I have read that the Azure top lifting mechanism suffers from the fact that it is lifting a much heavier top than the top on the Mercedes. The original high pressure lines tend to split and crack. New replacement lines do not have this problem. It just costs 8k to get there. If they do fail, they can spray hydraulic oil all over the interior from the area just above the rear view mirror. I wouldn't want to know what a new interior would cost for an Azure. The dealer is smart to redo the lines on the hydraulic lift system because a knowledgeable buyer would ask if it has been addressed on a used Azure.
I own an R129 and was about to respond that the oil is mostly clear and shouldn't be too bad to clean up (I know this from expeirence). But then I remembered Bentleys use custom hides and carpets that probably cost more than the value of my R129 to replace...
@@niconesta8566 He is using the industry book rate and then giving a discount on labor. If you don't know, they don't bill by the time they take to do something. They bill by the time the manufacturer says it should take. All shops use the book rate when giving a quote for repairs. Many times it takes less time so the shop gets to charge extra. A good shop will give you a discount for the unused, but quoted time. Same goes for the parts. Most shops will quote the price for OEM equivalent parts. Some shops will give you the choice of quality the parts are if their supplier has several options. A bad shop will use the cheapest part, but charge the price of the highest price part. Now, for the insane prices they talked about here, you need to remember that they are not talking about normal cars. These are high end, exotics and luxury brands. A part that would cost $20 in a chevy will run $100 for the BMW and $1000 for the Rolls Royce/Bentley/Exotics. And that is before a repair shop adds their small markup. I can do a full brake job on my HHR myself for about $350. A shop will charge $650-$750. That same job on Bentley Continental GT will set you back $3800 to have a shop do it. Just the price of the front discs and pads ($800) is more than the entire shop rate to change everything in my car and that is just parts for the Bentley. There is still the labor, disposal, and fluid costs that haven't been added in yet. Owning a high end exotic or luxury car is a money pit. They know that the people that can afford to buy a $400,000 car can afford a $4000 brake job so they charge that price. It's not the fault of the repair shop. That luxury tax comes from the manufacturer.
@chris younts I wasn't born until 84 😀 Wollaton Park (Notts) is a really good place to see classic cars. Everything from early 1900 Austin 7s (Bakelite interiors) - 2020 Corvette stingrays. 100's of cars and bikes aswel as steam powered attend the show. I usually go every year May/June but 2020 didn't happen 😥😥😥 I've only ever seen 1 Spitfire! But ive seen quite a few Dolomites.
They should take a page out of the Nintendo handbook. I think Sony is similar with the PlayStation, where they provide service and parts direct to consumers for an insanely long time. I think Nintendo supported the original NES until the mid 2000s and only stopped when they couldn't source some of the internal components anymore
Not always true. Unless they actually want one time leasing or target billionaires they will try to increase CLV by producing the most reliable product possible. This leads to less depreciation from better perception and high CLV. Lexus is a great example.
@@honkytonkinson9787 Not sure if they're still like that. If you go to support pages from their more recent consoles (Wii, Wii U) instead of offering repairs they tell you to find replacements or upgrade to a newer console.
Yeah that's why these kinda companies went bankrupt and had to whore out to bigger automotive companies that actually give a damn. Rolls royce was sold to BMW, Bentley was sold to VW, and good old Lamborghini was, at one point, sold to some random third world company
I love how the Wizard was paying Hoovie back for all the film bombing he's done in Wizard videos. I like how you and the wizard share knowledge about parts interchangeability.
I remember schlepping a full-size oven in the back of my Rover 216 Vanden Plas back in the day, about 24 years ago. It ripped the padding at the top of the driver's door, but aside from that, and the fact that it was a bugger to get the thing in and out of a small 4-door saloon, it was a successful operation. As for hyper-inflated parts prices, you should join an owners' club. When I was a member of the Aston Martin Owners' Club, I learnt some useful information, such as that the steering rack of a DB5 is interchangeable with that on a Morris Minor. Such information can drastically reduce the cost of repairs and, given there's no warranty to worry about, a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
@@michaelrice500 I am personally fascinated by the Citroen Xantia Activa V6 since its the fastest car through the slalom test, beating all Porsches, Ferraris and the like. :D
That silver Prelude in the back..... man, that hits me at home! I had a 2000 5 speed Prelude in the exact same color. My first brand new car! Crystal Blue Metallic. That one looks like it might be a Type-SH with the ground skirts and rear deck spoiler. I had the base model but had them install the spoiler and swap the curved wheels for the straight spoke wheels from the SH. I bought it brand new in December of 1999 and sold it in May of 2010 with 225,000 miles. I had bought a new 2009 Honda Accord EX-L V6 6 speed manual coupe and kept both for a year. Sometimes I think I should have still kept the Prelude. One of the finest handling cars I've ever driven.
The entire seat assembly is from the BMW 850. Makes perfect sense for either a convertible or coupe since the seatbelt isn't anchored to the car body. Then again, you should see how well the seat is attached to the floor. Six huge bolts and 2 thick steel pins.
I feel like I'm being personally trolled here. I have been saying since the very first video that the problem with that fuel system is the distributor and to not try to self-rebuild but to send it to CIS Flowtech (and frankly I would send all the fuel injector for testing or just buy new ones). I'm ignored in every video, they try different things each time, and now in this video they mention CIS Flowtech by name.
@@ES-wn6fx I know you said it before, but he apparently reads the comments enough to highlight someone who says they are unsubscribing so they can be bashed by other viewers, he could at least pin my comment to the top or something.
My grandpa had a small car lot in Tampa and he use to have nice nice rolls royces he’d drive us around in. Older ones from the 80s but still nice. This was back in the early 2000s and late 90s.
He sold a VW Audi with two Inline 5 clyinder engines from a quattro wielded together stappled to an Audi R8 Chasis with a custom knock off murcie body to keep a lamborghini with a geniune Bizzarini V12 in it going that was a bit rough, but has a good potental to be a hooptie V12 Dream, as Leno has one with the same motor from 1986, and that SOB's held together damn well given he has over 70K miles on it. and its a 100% paid off thanks to it and that sale to a guy who took all his money, and really wanted the thing, and paid him what he paid for it, when less than 6 months ago when he was looking for the rapide, they would barely give him 50K out of the 120 he put down on it. actually I think it was like a 100 G's now that I think of it, so he sold it and make a 20 grand profit to a guy who is the right guy to sell it to too, and is now going to be able to enjoy this car far more than that gallardo given it was in too good a shape to regularlly use and not feel guilty about possibly ruining with the added wear and tear and mileage that came with it and its a gallardo, they made over 9 thousand coupes vs less than a thousand of these in the 8 years that they made these. plus are you really gonna go he sold a gallardo when it can sound like THIS with a little work?! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L0SbGAghMZw.html as its got the same damn motor, and hoovie's actually come into contact with this EXACT car too! vs this pitiful excuse for a lambo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5YZs0FO0xA.html that sounds very VERY familar to me, except someone nicked the turbos ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oOdu1Y9Ma_M.html as its not exactly something special man, I mean its not like its a manual swapped Valentino Balboni edition with some work to actually make it sound right. its just a car that even Mike Finnegan of roadkill on the aulstralian trip episode said was just too little car for how much money it costs. and I myself call it the bat guano gallardo given how bad they were, like you couldnt even have any fun with it because of how much the 4 wheel drive system interveened and broke the driving experence, in addition to adding 400 pounds of useless weight to the car, and ontop of that, this stole the idea of having a V10 in a supercar which hurt the vipers sales given how gentried and boring they are, so everyone bought those instead and I'd sure as hell rather have a new viper around that than god AWFUL lambo hurican that replaced the bat guano one here that he sold.
I think Ross-Tech sells the cable and software for under 500 dollars which is all you need if you provide your own laptop for the software. I think the Wizard over-paid for a factory version.
I just found your channel. It's GREAT. Your mechanic is a great guy to have working on these wonderful vehicles. I especially like the Mercedes SLS and the Bentley Azure. I have two Mercedes SL's.
@chris younts To be fair the TR8 is great of you concert it Euro-Spec. The emissions stuff killed it, the later cars were even decently built. They handle much better than its predecessors in my experience.
@chris younts The TR8 is a vast improvement. Its the Buick/Rover V8 and its incredibly tough of maintained properly, much lighter than the slant 4 from the 7 too. With a UK spec engine the TR8 is absolutely monstrous.
I think I saw that car on one of Wizard's videos-on his channel. It is waiting for parts and will be for a while. All problems know, just cannnot get parts faster than 6-8 weeks.
Love that the Wizard comes all the way to the village down the road for equipment for the Bentley! We took the Turbo R to Starman’s next door to Flying Spares as it was just a ‘local specialist’ only to find out they are the global specialists! Lucky us! Handy for our Silver Spirit!
Love your videos..the way you take us with you and explain with so much detail is why I have been watching you for years I also love watching the wizard he is a very smart man..
Totally agree in trying to compete and get better 0-60 and Nurenbuuuurg times they have fogotten why people loved the old landboats/the mustard era cars. Cover vast distances in luxury and comfort. One of my Dad's friends had an 86 Cadilac. What a car. 700 km road trip loaded up with guys for a football game and it felt like sitting in the living room there and back. God I miss that comfort.
I lived in Santa Monica California and I remember seeing Jean Claude driving that car several times and one day I was talking with him at the local coffee shop while the Bentley was parked in front of us and he was a nice guy, but a bit strange. I didn't pay any attention to what kind of car it was it was just beautiful he had the top down and all I saw was "him with a beautiful lady.
@@CarWizard Well then, nevermind! I should have known the Wizard was smarter-than-the-average-bear. Ahh if only I didn't live 3 and a half hours away! I miss having a good mechanic :(
@@CarWizard No problem now that you said it. Just the potential for failure of 15 year old, expensive laptops with software for out of production vehicles can make people nervous.
I know someone has managed over 200,000 miles on that stout old engine. Tough as shoe leather. The biggest problem on the Turbo R is from the Bosch fuel injection. Like do much else European, Robert Bosch is the bane of their existence.
if its a rubber bushing u need : then there are kits to make(cast) one's own in polyurethan on the web at around 100 usd comes in different leves of ''hardness'' too
So right about dealers. I needed 2 engine mounts for my (Aussie) Holden Commodore V8 Ute, and Holden wanted $1200 for the two including fitment. I took my car to a local mechanic who charged me for 3 Engine Mounts plus installation for only $544. Do not take your car to Dealers, they rip you off. I dont know about other countries, but in Australia, the car manufacturers make their money of spare parts.
He's started doing that in every video. It's so forced and fake though that I hope for his sake that he's doing it because of a very lucrative bet or something along those lines.
I think the Turbo R is my favorite car you have. I can't wait to finally see it done. I've driven an Eight and the ride is fantastic, I'm sure the turbo just adds to the excitement
ID BE SKIPPING AROUND LIKE THE WIZARD TOO IF I HAD A CUSTOMER LIKE YOU THAT ALWAYS HAD SWEET CARS THAT YOU FIX EVERYTHING ON AND YOU HAD A TV SHOW AND GOT ME INVOLVED
Look at that beautiful Triumph TR7 conv in the background. Please tell me that’s yours as well Hoovie! Your drop top is stunning, loving the colour combo as well.
Hoovie, you are the boat owner of cars.. Your two favorite days are the day you buy them and the day you sell them. (or drive them to the salvage yard)
Ayyyy Carmel-By-The-Sea shirt!!!!! Glad to see hoovie repping my home town 😊 hope you come back to Monterey car week next year! You missed out this year it was STILL insane even though everything was canceled
