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@GMT4398 ай бұрын
Agenda Noted Bird Boy.
@AWildCarAppeared8 ай бұрын
Beer52 are awful
@B4RLx7 ай бұрын
Beer 52 = Scum
@crazycjk8 ай бұрын
I'm so glad Gareth was on this episode to join in the bullying of Rory's awful financial decisions
@narnasqueneth8 ай бұрын
Big love to Gareth P- need to see more of his cheeky face on this channel
@ac24z8 ай бұрын
He didn't have terrible luck, he made terrible choices.
@WARXion8 ай бұрын
This is why I won't leave a single penny behind for my kids. No way I work my ass off for a lifetime only to get it wasted for crappy cars.
@ac24z8 ай бұрын
@@WARXion maybe give your kids a bit of advice, then they won't blow it all.
@1dameister18 ай бұрын
@@WARXion Were you better in their age?
@d.b.cooper18 ай бұрын
@@WARXion 100% mate you're a real proper MAN & bloke you. Proper old school fair play. Give me a ring on your death bed & send me that wonga, nice one x. Show them spoilt bastards what's what.
@emdotdee8 ай бұрын
Love Josh just awkwardly standing in the corner for nearly 2 minutes! haha
@12many4you8 ай бұрын
That was pretty funny
@martinbcooper8 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ. Assuming Rory bought his first car at 17, he has lost more than £550 per month.
@VXGaming8 ай бұрын
My first car was a Rover 25 for £700, it survived for 6-7 months before the head gasket blew. My second car was a 97 Mazda 121 for £450 that had 16 previous owners and lasted for about 2 years. In that 2 and a half years Rory lost 10K to 15K in comparison.
@Kylirr8 ай бұрын
😭😭😭
@gofres8 ай бұрын
Ha, my first car at age 24 having recently completed a degree in automotive engineering was a Rover 200. Oh how my mates laughed when they said the head gasket will go on it. 1 month later it did. Tried to change it myself with the help of a friend but a bunch of the bolts would not come off. I gave it an oil change and sold it for £50 less than I paid for it 😂
@mikemac8038 ай бұрын
I've been driving for 8 years, got a second-hand aygo in 2015 for £4,500 and I'm still running it to this day.
@gofres8 ай бұрын
@@mikemac803 but you must be bored with it by now? I mean, no break downs is boring! 😂
@mikemac8038 ай бұрын
@gofres I wouldn't say that. A side light went out 2 years ago and the exhaust fell off this year. Set me back a whole £35
@Al3xisAE8 ай бұрын
Dude needs to let Taylor be in charge of any car decisions from now on
@danielburgin284 ай бұрын
Buying clapped out BMWs? Just continuing the trend of unreliable trash
@vesleengen8 ай бұрын
We demand a full list of cars owned!
@leuvenlife8 ай бұрын
basically Rory's issue is that he hasn't grown to the point where he understands that you can only buy what you have the free cash to pay for.
@Brurgh8 ай бұрын
life is easy when its with daddies money.
@d.b.cooper18 ай бұрын
You can afford to make those mistakes when you have family wealth to fall back on. Thanfully most people would never be so stupid cause they can't comprehend pissing that kind of money up the wall. This isn't a lesson everyone has to learn, even in the modern era of financing everything few would do this badly
@FRU.No.18 ай бұрын
Rory had an absolute shocker on the XJ. I ran a 2014 plate portfolio one for 2 years and all it cost me was servicing and a new trailing arm and ball joint. Shifted it when the bills for brakes and tyres was looming and took a £2k hit on what I bought it for. Didnt think that was too bad and otherwise was very reliable and an excellent car overall.
@uglybob75058 ай бұрын
An Insignia ? At 18 ? Im 51 and even my old ass thinks thats an old mans car ! Oh Rory.......
@finnconnolly18 ай бұрын
I’m more shocked that Rory is 30…
@jaysmartin8 ай бұрын
Fairplay to you Rory, youve just made a great number of people feel a whole lot better about their car decisions. A guy round the corner recently got a maserati, ive never seen it move since it arrived and yesterday he was doing italian yoga (he was doing a head stand in the passengers footwell!) Youre not a lone your automotive madness 🤙🏼
@ggj6668 ай бұрын
After listening to Rory's car buying expense, I now feel so much better about my awful car buying losses. :o)
@Naotaku8 ай бұрын
/same :D
@robwaters88488 ай бұрын
You gotta drop a story or two after a comment like that 😅. These types of stories are so fun to swap with each other 🤝😂
@stephenlamplough65158 ай бұрын
You guys should do a full run down, including side stories. Make it long episodes if you need to. I’d watch both all the way through
@cobenblack18768 ай бұрын
I do wish more people would talk about the real costs of ownership though. We’ve all seen the cost of rebuilds, or doing something no one does outside of KZfaq, but it’s hard to gauge how much people are spending on cars so it’s hard to know if you could be spending less. I’ve spent about 5500 quid keeping my Z4 on the road over the last 40 months, and I have no idea whether I’d be better selling it off and getting something newer because no one seems to track their real costs properly. My previous experience tells me I’m probably about right, but maybe I buy shit boxes. None of the work has been for breakdowns though and it’s only ever been to independents so theoretically that’s over 100 per month for a reliable drive.
@guitar_fed8 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you. As much as entertaining all these channels and projects are, their costs are definitely not the same as what non KZfaqrs would be subjected to. For your Z4, first of all mad respect as it's a fantastic motor and, unfortunately, a dying breed. It's one of the very last proper spiders and, as of today, one of the two last "same-size" spiders on sale, together with the Mazda MX-5. Both Mercedes and Audi have stopped production of their comparable SLK and TT model, which imho is a shame, but nowadays it looks like everyone wants to drive upside/down toilet pans with 20" wheels. I can easily see how the Z4 will become a future classic, at what cost though ... up to you to decide! 😉
@g2fgarage9108 ай бұрын
I fear I might have that figure beat with my terrible automotive choices as well. Just know you aren't the only one Rory and I stand with you (in financial ruin).
@carlpalnoch8 ай бұрын
Agreed - I always feel bad about my financial decisions when it comes to cars. It gives me a bit of relief knowing that I’m not alone!
@d.b.cooper18 ай бұрын
You all need help if you're racking up anywhere near those numbers by the age of 30. Almost sounds like a gambling addiction, do better lads. Never too late to turn it around & just be....normal.
@rantingyoof69608 ай бұрын
I can join Rory in liking old man cars. My second car (at 18) was a Nightfire Red Rover 214SEi. My fourth or fifth car at 20 or 21 was a 1998 Rover 825 Sterling in White Gold. The latter was a huge financial mistake. £700 to buy, £900 to fix it in six months, blew head gasket, sold for £190. Not a patch on Rory's losses but still steep for me at the time working at Tesco).
@Jahmed56358 ай бұрын
So great to have Gareth on the channel he is mint, love his humour missed seeing him on the channel
@R033338 ай бұрын
Gareth thinking £90k is a person's deposit on a house is blowing my mind
@louissanderson7198 ай бұрын
Not really. You can use some of that 90k for a deposit…
@Grapeape018 ай бұрын
I bought a whole house for less than that but I live in the middle of nowhere and it was 13 years ago
@MrSluby8 ай бұрын
They all live in London, it’s the way things are
@danielhendry83768 ай бұрын
@@Grapeape01clearly northern lol
@Grapeape018 ай бұрын
@@danielhendry8376 South Wales, still houses around for less than £90k that can be lived in
@adamthompson66698 ай бұрын
Love the podcast Alex and awesome seeing Gareth back too, hope Miles is well and thank you for all you and your team do go get em Tiger
@Peterpanic-c3h8 ай бұрын
Sounds exactly like me in my 20s, it didn't bother me at the age of 30 either. Now I am 50 I just keep thinking if I hadn't been so stupid I would now own a much nicer house and would be looking to retire many years earlier.
@johnthompson85578 ай бұрын
When considering car losses, you have to divide the total by the number of months you had the car. Then, compare that to the cost of a bus pass (which would be the alternative).
@mrlakenheath8 ай бұрын
I'm a private hire driver.... if Rory ever turns out to be my passenger, I'm refusing for fear of my car going bang
@M0LHA8 ай бұрын
He's the /r/WallStreeetBets of car ownership, YOLO to the MOT centre. Still fair play to him for /having/ 90k to lose at a young age!
@MrSluby8 ай бұрын
The most baffling thing to me is spending 90k and not really having a single car that’s very cool honestly lol
@MarcosCodas8 ай бұрын
Rory is fantastic, he makes me feel amazing about my car ownership journey.
@Dave-in-France8 ай бұрын
Hi Guys, poor Rory truly is a bit of a numpty when it comes to money and cars. The sad thing for me is that some young peeps are going to be watching this, thinking it's OK. And it's really, really not. Rory you really should learn to stop spending money you have no intention to repay., or your credit score will be buggered FOR LIFE.
@mexibobor8 ай бұрын
English car prices are nuts. How can a quattroporte with 32k miles be only 16 000 pounds?
@louissanderson7198 ай бұрын
They’ve gone up a bit since the pandemic
@AK.24258 ай бұрын
Yeah this was like 6-7 years ago I’m guessing
@Afraz_9n38 ай бұрын
This would have been years and years ago. The same car with same mileage now is 20k now because of inflation.
@CGCTV8 ай бұрын
Back in the day in the UK car prices were silly cheap. Im talking £20K for an R34 GTR
@AK.24258 ай бұрын
@@CGCTV if you saw car throttles 2jz video they looked at some old auto trader magazines and you could get a 1993 mk4 supra for £3.800 In 2010! And it only had 83k miles.
@MDavzn8 ай бұрын
10:55 the bloke waiting patiently trying not to interrupt in the background 😂😂
@leon_pp8 ай бұрын
And then just walking off 😂😂
@CheapBastard19886 ай бұрын
My first car when I was 18, was an 11 year old 1995 Ford Fiesta 1.6GT for €950... which I crashed after less than 2 years. Then I bought a nearly 8 year old 2001 Ford Mondeo for €7200 (was about €30000 over here when it was new)... WHICH I STILL DRIVE!😂 15 years later, at age 23, it's still driving and roadworthy. Best car ever! Though it is a bit of a shed by now if I'm honest. Rory has lost £90000 on cars, in Britain where cars are much cheaper than here in the Netherlands, and he's younger than me! OMG!
@marksaddler8 ай бұрын
With you on the Defender Rory- they should be go up in value but that’s only going to offset some of your 90k if you sell it! mines definitely worth more now than what I paid for it nearly 17 years ago.
@d.b.cooper18 ай бұрын
But the £35k spend on the defender isn't even included in the £90k, barley puts a dent in it on the whole
@Falney8 ай бұрын
Rx8's, once you look past the reliability and the fuel efficiency, is a really fun car.
@Falney8 ай бұрын
@DingoFlurts I'm basically saying it's fun to drive someone else's rx8
@RJordanT8 ай бұрын
Wait, who’s Rory’s dad?
@JellyLancelot8 ай бұрын
7:30 yeah, thats negative equity Gareth, and its a nasty one when dealing with car finance trade-ins. All the debt from the previous car gets forwarded on top of the new finance plan. At least, thats how I understand it, I could be wrong!
@koolerking4408 ай бұрын
At this point it’s not bad luck in cars. It’s your choices of cars and how you pay for them.
@cobenblack18768 ай бұрын
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I’ve spent thousands keeping up the maintenance of ‘bulletproof’ cars. Not 90k, but you either lose it in repairs or you lose it in depreciation. Cars are expensive.
@dannycrooks84628 ай бұрын
Some lr specialists can change the disco 3 turbos without taking the body off but it's better getting the body off and doing everything
@ivanjovanovic3628 ай бұрын
Do an episode where Rory makes a profit on a car!
@no9scrum8 ай бұрын
I think we need to see a picture wall of all Rory's 30 cars now
@chrisf93778 ай бұрын
Rory, I have some magic beans that you might be interested in buying. You can grow the car of your dreams.
@Jahmed56358 ай бұрын
Chris and Gareth on a podcast is what we wanted to see ✌️
@declanbrady51728 ай бұрын
A fool and his money (a finance company's) are easily parted😂😂😂
@jeffcarter71978 ай бұрын
That's just part of car ownership. I hate to think the money I've lost over my 40 odd years of driving. Buying recently a new Range Rover has been my biggest mistake!
@fuzzybear868 ай бұрын
That whiplash claim is deffo bordelsey green, alum rock areas 😂😂
@1927deano8 ай бұрын
I know the feeling, had a similar issue, i had bad luck on an 08 mk4 mondeo titanium x, bought it for £1850, owned it two and a half years, £5.5k in repairs even though it didn’t have anything wrong with it when i bought it then had to be scrapped for £220 Bought a 98 Lexus LS400 after and its still been fine and not had a single issue years later
@sphinxtk8 ай бұрын
Rory has not covered himself in glory on this one 😕 Funny and all but kind if tragic how many people say they've done similar 😳
@boneav838 ай бұрын
It seems that Rory loses around £3k per car. In contrast, ive been driving around 20 years and ive had 3 cars, the last being a MK4 Golf GT Tdi 130PD that i paid £8k for at 3 years and 60k miles which i ended up spending £5k of insurance money on and had for 14 years, finally letting her go on August 2020 for £1000. I think ive done quite well.
@kernowgolfguy45988 ай бұрын
I feel your pain. Easily done. I am around 50 cars at 39. I dare not add up my loses. 7 cars this year and lost a fair bit. 😅.
@sammilburn4458 ай бұрын
Honestly this makes me feel better about my financial choices. 2018 fiesta as my first car. Put 30k on it, sold it when it needed a decent amount spending on it and got a 2017 bmw 220d on 15k miles at 18. Somehow insurance was cheap on it too. Literally emptied my entire savings from a year of working on the car too. But a year and 18k miles later to this day, I still own the car outright, it’s not had a single issue, I have money saved and the car will be staying with me for many more years yet as it’s great for what I use it for (especially now it’s past the days of delivering dominos 😂)
@Gunnutt8 ай бұрын
Sounds like Rory only took the job with Autoalex so he can get his cars fixed for free... 😄
@tom.wassell8 ай бұрын
Well Rory's definitely made me feel better about my constant losses on cars 😂
@RichardWaineUK8 ай бұрын
Someone crashed into me in the exact same way as Rory had on a roundabout and even though I had front and back dashcam footage and three police officers witnessed the entire thing the insurance company settled 50/50 based off court case decision from early 2000. They in effect state all collisions on a roundabout is an automatic 50/50.
@CGCTV8 ай бұрын
And this is the exact reason i don't go near roundabouts in Bradford, Bolton or Birmingham
@Jahmed56358 ай бұрын
Gareth “you’re a genius “ 😂😂😂😂
@Mountain_Bike_Archaeology8 ай бұрын
Rory unfortunately, is better suited to being behind the scenes, of these channels 😑
@supersaabclaire8 ай бұрын
How the fuck he afforded certain cars at such a young age is beyond me
@saimk42398 ай бұрын
Rory is almost the British version of Hoovies garage😂😂
@minimeee048 ай бұрын
Always have a dash cam, exactly the same thing happened to me and the first thing the insurance company said was have you got dash cam footage because its Gold dust.
@BW_878 ай бұрын
And here I am thinking I was bad for buying a 106 off a ‘friend’ for £500 and spending twice that to get it through its next mot! Cheers Rory, I feel better now 😂
@neilbenton11528 ай бұрын
Let's face it all cars and motorcycles are a waste of money it would be a lot cheaper to catch the bus everywhere ! But you can't rag a bus down your favourite back road or polish it on your drive 😂
@martinkesson44438 ай бұрын
I feel much better now, thanks I needed that.
@samster04488 ай бұрын
Poor poor Rory. If only he was able to afford his own race car. Maybe he could have afforded it if he didn't lose £90k!
@StevenTravels8 ай бұрын
Me and rory followed the same route, fiesta to insignia, ive also looked at a mazda 6
@SeanPensive8 ай бұрын
I feel so much better after watching that! 😃 My choices seem less catastrophic! Next time things go awry: At least this isn't Rory level!!🤣 Thank you!!
@simviation27914 ай бұрын
Alright, rory is deffo not the brightest dude ahahha
@JW-qf2fx8 ай бұрын
I dont want to jinx myself, and some have my purchases have been less risky cars than him... but ive probably had 25 cars (im 40, and for context started my work life as a car mechanic), and only ever really had to do tyres and batteries, and a few sets of brakes. The outlier was buying a very cheap Disco2 TD5 that lasted a few years before blowing the head, got a backpacker tourist that was an ex Land Rover mechanic to do a full engine swap from a car he wrote off for about a thousand pounds and sold it for more than i bought it for! I generally buy very well looked after low mileage cars and drive them into the ground a bit for a couple of years, and then sell them for similar money. Thanks to people like Rory taking the hits and driving the car market down a bit hahaha
@bannerzone_UK8 ай бұрын
I think you lads went easy on Rory!! I would of ripped his arse out!! LOL
@queden18413 ай бұрын
He should've sued that ferrari dealership, give them a piece of their own cake.
@jamesnoonan74505 ай бұрын
I mean, they are all laughing and joking. But the majority of us can't afford to waste £900 of our money on anything. Let alone £90,000 on cars! Sounds like rory has always had "daddies money" to bail him out.
@bucketslash114 ай бұрын
4:14 only in Rory's car history
@TheRealMrCods8 ай бұрын
Great to see Gareth 👍
@bringonthedead27 ай бұрын
Rory doesn't have bad luck with cars, he's just the best at finding money pits. Silver linings 😂
@captainaverage7217 ай бұрын
The posh one says £90 k that's nearly a deposit on a house 😂
@lucasorourke78878 ай бұрын
Accidents don’t do much to a young drivers insurance premium. I had a full at fault claim at 17 and the next year my premium went down to a third of the previous year
@DavidBrown-bs7gg7 ай бұрын
Easily done, I've done £30K on a 996 GT2, £15K on a F355, £15K GTR34, £10K S1 Exige, £15K RR Phantom, did less than 10k miles in total across all of them
@ruk2023--8 ай бұрын
He hasn't lost it he's spent it.
@_B.M_8 ай бұрын
The Mazda 6 2.5 Sport was an amazing car. I ran one for over 4 years and it was solid!
@bannerzone_UK8 ай бұрын
PS. NEVER give Rory a Company Car.
@nicholaswatson38968 ай бұрын
if the Disco's like the Range Rover, you have to take the body off to change 3 of the glow plugs.
@nedshannon44358 ай бұрын
Love the pod boys but what I want to know is….. The best girlfriend/partner/wife pleasing car that’s fast and fun to drive for me, but reliable, practical and economical to keep them happy for under 5k. A situation I’m currently in. Cheers. Ned, Bristol.
@captainsunshine648 ай бұрын
Fascinated by the random dude in the corner lol
@davidhall62038 ай бұрын
So, do you think its a good idea to have a producer that is so bad with money that they have lost £90,000 by making bad financial decisions? Just joking, a great video as always.
@stupot62308 ай бұрын
Good thing Alex bought Rory’s new Jag
@maxpeck68728 ай бұрын
Bro needs any toyota tbh
@aaronroberts33298 ай бұрын
I lost 3k once on a volvo v50 d5 because i decided i HAD to have a mx5 ASAP!!!! i think about that realy foolish moment quite regularly, not because i regret the mx5 but because i regret selling the volvo so cheap. Guess its not that bad considering this hahaha
@EportChris8 ай бұрын
I had negative equity once on a car. My mates named my old astra the "neggatron"
@sabinvasii21798 ай бұрын
Whit the free beer is a subscription bro
@minxlabrada8 ай бұрын
In the 80's there was a punk rock band called Free Beer. So bars would put up signs, Tonight: Free Beer. The bartender would say, "The band is called Free Beer. The longnecks are $3."
@zamex23slo8 ай бұрын
Rory, you are me...with a little bit more money and even bigger mistakes :D
@jrbuch8 ай бұрын
Rory should have just bought a Camry and left it at that....
@robgraham92348 ай бұрын
Gareth: cars are not for you Rory! You need to get a bus. Next Auto Alex video. Can Rory buy a bus for under Five grand!
@dave411848 ай бұрын
Rory's credit rating must be on its arse by now...
@user-yx3ih7so6d8 ай бұрын
this is hard to watch, it's causing me to count up my own cost of overship mistakes.. nothing like the big errors in total as rory but flippin heck the final number is a decent house deposit
@lukestjames087 ай бұрын
I need a 3to4k daily but I want Taylor to choose which car I get ?
@markaldridge25318 ай бұрын
Rory, man I thought you were the sensible one. I met you at the NEC Classic car show, you seemed smart and not a crazy as the others. But (buutt), a Maserati Quatroporte - really! We would all love one, but know it would drain any pocket money faster than - well classic Range Rover or a girlfriend who only shops at Harvey Nick's or Fortnums! So you have only got a Jensen Interceptor or Aston Martin to go to be flat broke! I take my hat off to you, you have class and go for it - budget or not!
@theghost72608 ай бұрын
And Rory is Alex financial advisor.
@DashCamSerbia8 ай бұрын
No new podcast episode this week?
@AK.24258 ай бұрын
It’s out now.
@DashCamSerbia8 ай бұрын
@@AK.2425 Oh, thanks!
@Aleks_Mechanics8 ай бұрын
Notification squad Have a nice weekend!🔥🔥🔥
@dean-does-stuff-817 ай бұрын
To be fair, I was in a bigger hole than that when i was 27. I had motor bikes as well as cars, and would do that debt accumulation thing as well. I was in 76,000 worth of debt at 27. but had bought a house and completely paid off my mortgage by 37... Now I wont even have a credit card....
@AJ98NUFC7 ай бұрын
When a man can say his most reliable car is an Rx8, I'm strapped in. Tell me more 😂
@sergio_crs89357 ай бұрын
Rory talking about his terrible car choices made me feel better about 55k i lost on cars in my 20s 😅😂