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You can tell straight away that he is an honest man you can trust. That goes a long way.

Definitely someone you can trust he's not just saying x or y is broken let's replace he's actually trying to save you money and he's trying to repair instead. So he's not just a fitter he's an actual mechanic which is rare 👍

“...apart from that, she’s a minter” 🤣 Deffo need an AV Engineering channel.

That guy needs to start his own KZfaq channel

Aldous is awesome, best guy around !

Is this guy gonna become your Car Wizard? :D

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 !

refreshing to hear a guy that wanted to get the engine right and stand by his work, clearly an excellent mechanic and honest man.

You can tell Jay is good with people, whenever he gets someone from off the channel to present they are always at ease and look as if they are enjoying themselves. Cheers for the top content Jay!

Regarding the colour. Years ago we bought a new Reliant Scimitar . We specified the colour to be Burgundy with tan upholstery. After a few months we noticed that the paint around the drivers door edges was rubbing off to reveal white paint underneath. The factory had taken a car already painted white and repainted it burgundy in order to fulfill our order, instead of building a new car to our colour specification, presumably because as a low volume production model, this was financially better for the manufacturer. Probably the same thing occurred with your car!

"Hopefully it hasn't got a mouse in it, but given this car, you never know" That did make me chuckle!

Aldous, the European version of The Car Wizard! Get that man a channel!

Nice to know your car is in the best hands possible. This mechanic is so knowledgeable

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

The level of bodgery on this is akin to buying a 90's Civic from a sweaty chav in a McDonalds carpark

this is one good perk to not being able to sleep! 3am in the USA and a new video to watch!

Not to be a typical commentator but Carly is completely worth the money. Fixed a seat presence indicator using parts on Ebay on my bmw and turned off the warning using Carly. Saved a packet. Amazing product. Massively recommend. Luv and Peace.

It matters not if this car has had a shady past. What DOES matter is that someone it putting in effort to restore it. Who cares if the cost outweighs the car value, the enjoyment you get when finished makes it worth the while. Congrats JayEmm for taking on something that a lot of others here would have just walked away from. Keen to see how this pans out...

Whoever owned that car previously needs some serious help.......wtf....good luck jay im looking forward to seeing the finished results

Looking good buddy!!

The real shocker here is how much Audi charge for their parts....more than Lamborghini. They're often more than Porsche, too.

Aldous needs his own KZfaq channel. A top guy.

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.

Never heard of AVS but Aldous certainly comes across like he genuinely wants to give you the car back in as best condition as possible. Gotta love a bloke with a passion and love for his work. I think people and companies such as this need highlighting to the world. Nice one.

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. 👍

What a genuine sounding guy. Stick with him. Great advert for himself.

Wonder if the Lambo would cause the Carly device to kill itself when plugged in.

Note to self: it's always risky to buy a car where the expert inspecting it says "What on earth were they thinking?" a lot! 😂🤣

I watched the whole 'paid promotion' because i know where the money is going and its worth it to help James out!

Advertising execs could learn a lot from this chap simply displaying his knowledge.

This Lamborghini mechanic must be one of the nicest people on the planet. Is this the same guy that lost so much on it? Waaw

For that gearshifter I think anyone with a lathe would be able to separate them and weld a new thread on the end of it (without changing the length of the shifter) and cut new threads into the shift ball. Potentially saving alot of money, and hey if it goes wrong you were gonna spend the £800 anyway.

The door mirror just decided to eject off the car on its own accord........ 👍

As it was an experience car I would guess it has had a few impacts in its time and they got parts from a salvaged red car to fix it.

You can tell he hates that car and wishes he would never see it again. 😂

Love the guys at AV btw, they're clearly good honest folks with a ton of knowledge. I hope they'll be in one of Sam's episodes again soon!

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.

Hi James. Great to see a Workshop Owner who has some Character and Honour in the Work. Giving you options and fix. Cheers Aldous. Happy Weekend Guys. Cheers From The Caribbean.

Far from certain but underlying colors can have an effect on topcoats. I remember reading an article about 1980's ferrari's having bright yellow primer under the rosso corsa paint. I tried out some experimental samples when I was painting a motorcycle with some rattle cans and there was a marked difference in sunlight.

Track day cars don’t need to be road legal. So maybe they did re-spray it red then a few months before selling it - they all agreed over a beer that they didn’t like the red and they decided to spray it back to blue.

Only recently discovered the channel and loving it. For me, this is what car ownership is about, if you can actually get to own a car (or one in the same class) dreamt about when younger, then go for it. So glad that its being rescued, and even watching the ads to help out. Nice one sir!

Actually impressed with your effort to sort this car out. Hope it works out.

Basically, ready for the breakers yard..

Oh, Hoovie dropped a new vid... wait, what?

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!

9:25 Guy cut open an OEM part and repaired it once a new one was already ordered to temporarily fix an issue of usability and practicality but not necessarily his problem at all. What a top guy.

That guy is a proper mechanic, he's the guy you want to do any work on all your cars

Maybe It's a Red Ringer? 😬 That would explain the paint

Aldous seams like a top bloke. your lucky to have him to help you.

Missed this video when it came out….. Great insight into the car, and Aldous proves once again that he is a man to be trusted 👍🏽 (Hope you enjoyed Silverstone on Sunday) was good to see you there

A vote from across the pond, for keeping that lovely blue.

Great to see good mechanic that don't want to rekt you, but instead doing his work by the book on proper quality parts, so his work will last and in long term it will pay off. Cheers.

"Right, where to start?" states expert mecanic. Cue my stomach knoting up..............

best videos on youtube for car nutters, keep up the good work !

Was just watching the other Lamborghini video and I’m really excited to see the journey 🤧👀

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 😊

Great video, I can testify to the Audi parts prices, went I had an A6 Avant I had to replace the same brake light, what a rip off! 😆

How on earth does a Gallardo go so wrong. Missing parts, hack-job repairs. Crazy, but glad to see it coming right.

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Tbh I wouldn't of touched it with a barge pole

Such fantastic knowledge from Aldous about the workings of a car, which are unfathomable to most of us, even car enthusiasts.

What a chilled out mech!! He’s obviously seen it all before, Top bloke👍

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..." 💥

An engineer bashing a previous engineers work. A tale as old as time.

I couldn’t take my eyes off that Aston Martin DB7 in the background. I was thinking that the Lambo is just a sporty Audi, but even if the Aston is a sporty Jag, I’d rather cruise in that.

Wing mirror story reminds me of a Ford Sierra I once owned. Everything kept breaking & it spent more time in the garage than the road. Just when I thought what else could possibly go wrong the electric mirror spat its self internals and all at my very feet. I still can’t believe it happened to this day if I hadn’t witnessed it I’d never have believed it self destructed.

Aldous seems to be a good guy. Most of the issues seem to be simple jobs, I think you got away lightly with it.

Jesus Christ yesterday I was racking my brain trying to remember Carly 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ how lucky was that lol 👍🏻

You are a brave man to have ever gone near this car, Jay. Love the DB7 (EDIT: it's a Vanquish, thanks Mark!) in the background!

Love the colour and it is different to the usual grey/black/white/orange Gallardos. AV sound like a proper set up.

Usually skip adverts. But something tells me you're gonna need my tiny advert watching contribution

What a genuine legend Aldous seems. Straight taking, no nonsense, knows the cars he works on, doesn’t rip your face off supercar mechanic. Can we clone him please? Send a dozen over here to New England. Give him a KZfaq channel Jay!

This guy is great. Genuine honest bloke who knows his stuff. Why can't all mechanic shops be like this? Too many cowboys out there (like whoever previously worked on this car!).

If the vents are superglued shut try using a super glue softener/remover then clean them up 👍🏼👌🏼

Hoovie might have something to say about cheapest.

Ho ! The car had a busy life. The blue is sublime ! And not common on super cars and Lamborghini. I’m jealous of how many companies in the UK can help you refurbish parts instead of replacing them (I don’t think there is a quarter of them in France, but I hope I’m wrong). Keep doing great work and thank you for the mechanic for taking us through the car.

Being a high value car, instead of scrapping it and making a new car from scratch, I am pretty sure they just repaint it the correct colour in the factory to rectify the mistake made when it was painted the wrong colour in the first place, I’ve known this to happen at other high end manufacturers within the VW group

Genuinely can’t wait to see how this goes. AV certainly seems like a great choice too.. can’t say I envy that sort of job though! 😆

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?

Red is a primary color of blue, it would stand to reason they used red as a primer so they would use less blue when spraying.

I love the comment "Apart from that she's a minter !! " :)

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.

This is just awesome work. You gave that car more life. You saved it.

Loved the clip of the loose rear vents, this one hanging off. Clocked the reg “Fast Cnut” 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

When you buy an old car, you need to be ready for lots of issues to keep it running. The more exotic, usually the more problems.

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.

As a painter, my knowledge of Red primer , under final finishing the chances are. Red primer is the special paint that prevent from rusting. Or. Red was the blood of pigeons

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 😜)

Just a few quid to put into it before it’s sorted then, I’ve no issue watching a few sponsored adds to help you with that 😬😬😬

After you're done with this Gallardo, buy a McLaren just to piss them off and we get more super car content too. Best of luck James.

Now this a genuine craftsman. Not here to scam or rip people off; no, he is here to share his skill and craftsmanship to bring super cars to the working class 👍

Always amazes me the lack of care that some owners put into their cars

As an ex bmw tech - Carly is good but when cars came in for programming that had options selected not from factory it used to brick control units FYI

This is why I followed your channel thank you for following through on your promise and I hope to see more content on the Lamborghini soon!

Re the colour mystery, it probably two cars glued together👍🤪

Got to admit the first time I saw the red paint showing through underneath the Blue paint I thought it looked like red primer

I agree the colour is very nice! Congrats on the car, i look forwaed to more content on 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 KZfaq

Aldous seems like one of those cool guys.