Mat armstrong

[Muzzer79]

untakenname said:

Can't see that red M3 being repairable with that severe rear end damage

Chassis seemed straight, roof not kinked.

I’ve seen worse repaired.

[Getragdogleg]

Muzzer79 said:

untakenname said:

Can't see that red M3 being repairable with that severe rear end damage

Chassis seemed straight, roof not kinked.

I’ve seen worse repaired.

I've repaired way worse. That looks worse than it is.

The airbags are the biggest hassle there.

[Billy_Rosewood]

untakenname said:

Can't see that red M3 being repairable with that severe rear end damage, thought it was quite funny having the video sponsored by 'Car Vertical' yet nothing coming up on the checks as it's unrecorded damage.

I was thinking the same.. My m3 had way less damage and was considered a Cat B.

But I think Mat is pushing his limits, which is great to watch. I'm very curious to see how something like that is repaired.

[limmy01]

Great new episode with the mclaren, also featuring the stig from topgear!

https://youtu.be/MtzWGnQdzQE?si=YTmYrUElj16Bx2eJ

[Steamer]

The bill from Mclaren bill though was expecting A LOT more

[SydneyBridge]

He certainly got his moneys worth..

[thegreenhell]

You could see on the invoice he showed there was about £500 of parts, which leaves about £700 in labour, or probably about 5 hours worth. That seems pretty reasonable for everything they did.

[Pistom]

I don't think I could forgive anyone else for such awful clickbate titles but Armstrong gets me every time. I don't even bother resisting now.

I really enjoyed this latest one. Great insight into the details of what still needed to be done on his McLaren

For a brief moment I was impressed and surprised that he was just 2 seconds off a lap time by Ben Collins and then I remembered it's only YouTube. Still fun to watch though.

Excellent product placement of that ste over hyped milk drink. Very well done as I wouldn't usually sit through that kind of promotion but very brave to risk it being spilled on his interior, assuming that wasn't faked too.

A 30 minute video which felt it was over in 10.

Really hope he keeps up this level of detail on his builds.

[NordicCrankShaft]

I had a look yesterday and dude has raked in 326m views, that's absolutely insane!!!

[jonwm]

I liked the video last night. I really like him as a content maker too, he's really hit upon a niche and I think his crew add to it too.

I noticed Chris Slix and Ethan at the track yesterday, I wander if they are all part of a larger collaboration, if not what a brilliant way to spend days with your mates.

One thing I don't get, how can car vertical be happy with MA selling them that his red M3 wouldn't flag up on there, seems totally backwards to me.

[WPA]

jonwm said:

I liked the video last night. I really like him as a content maker too, he's really hit upon a niche and I think his crew add to it too.

I noticed Chris Slix and Ethan at the track yesterday, I wander if they are all part of a larger collaboration, if not what a brilliant way to spend days with your mates.

One thing I don't get, how can car vertical be happy with MA selling them that his red M3 wouldn't flag up on there, seems totally backwards to me.

Chris Slix has been working with him for a long time, Ethan provided the transport as the car is not road legal he runs his own transport company

[Pistom]

jonwm said:

One thing I don't get, how can car vertical be happy with MA selling them that his red M3 wouldn't flag up on there, seems totally backwards to me.

They probably wouldn't be happy but he's probably too naive to realise that and I doubt he runs the content past them before uploading.

I'm not quite sure how a car like that could get on a database.

[Muzzer79]

jonwm said:

OOne thing I don't get, how can car vertical be happy with MA selling them that his red M3 wouldn't flag up on there, seems totally backwards to me.

It’s not a great look for Carvertical but ultimately they can only report on what’s gone through insurance and this one hasn’t.

Armstrong will be aware of this but, ultimately, he buys cars to make content and move on - not because of what CV want.

[thegreenhell]

I would think CV is only a small part of his income, so he probably doesn't care.

[Steamer]

thegreenhell said:

I would think CV is only a small part of his income, so he probably doesn't care.

True - and at this point he'd fill that CV gap pretty quick (also out of the other YT'ers I watch - he does the adverts the best anyway)

[youngsyr]

Steamer said:

The bill from Mclaren bill though was expecting A LOT more

But when you look at it - £1,600 for a days labour, it seems VERY expensive. As far as I recall, they didn't fit a single part to the car, just inspected it and had to spend ages sorting out a software glitch between 3 ECUs?

Don't forget the ECUs should talk to eachother without needing a technician to faff around for hours on end! It's McLaren's fault that the ECUs couldn't talk to eachother and needed hours spent on them to fix.

[andymc]

8 hours at £200 a hour

[youngsyr]

Pistom said:

I don't think I could forgive anyone else for such awful clickbate titles but Armstrong gets me every time. I don't even bother resisting now.

I really enjoyed this latest one. Great insight into the details of what still needed to be done on his McLaren

For a brief moment I was impressed and surprised that he was just 2 seconds off a lap time by Ben Collins and then I remembered it's only YouTube. Still fun to watch though.

Excellent product placement of that ste over hyped milk drink. Very well done as I wouldn't usually sit through that kind of promotion but very brave to risk it being spilled on his interior, assuming that wasn't faked too.

A 30 minute video which felt it was over in 10.

Really hope he keeps up this level of detail on his builds.

It's a very short lap - only 65 seconds and Collins was still 2 seconds faster than him, but it certainly seems to me that Armsrtrong can really drive - the way he can hold the McLaren in a slide and have full power down on that last corner whilst lighting up the rear wheels shows he can take a RWD hypercar to its limits.

Don't forget, Collins span that same car and called it a "weapon", so not an easy car to handle.

[thegreenhell]

youngsyr said:

But when you look at it - £1,600 for a days labour, it seems VERY expensive. As far as I recall, they didn't fit a single part to the car, just inspected it and had to spend ages sorting out a software glitch between 3 ECUs?

Don't forget the ECUs should talk to eachother without needing a technician to faff around for hours on end! It's McLaren's fault that the ECUs couldn't talk to eachother and needed hours spent on them to fix.

It was only about £700 labour. The total bill shown was about 1450, of which you could see 240 in VAT and 500 in misc parts.

For that, they did the ECU reset, which also required a fix to the parking brake. They did a 4 wheel alignment, which required some rectification to a broken suspension part, and they did a full inspection and rectification to the fuel filler drain. For £700 labour, not 1600.

[youngsyr]

thegreenhell said:

youngsyr said:

But when you look at it - £1,600 for a days labour, it seems VERY expensive. As far as I recall, they didn't fit a single part to the car, just inspected it and had to spend ages sorting out a software glitch between 3 ECUs?

Don't forget the ECUs should talk to eachother without needing a technician to faff around for hours on end! It's McLaren's fault that the ECUs couldn't talk to eachother and needed hours spent on them to fix.

It was only about £700 labour. The total bill shown was about 1450, of which you could see 240 in VAT and 500 in misc parts.

For that, they did the ECU reset, which also required a fix to the parking brake. They did a 4 wheel alignment, which required some rectification to a broken suspension part, and they did a full inspection and rectification to the fuel filler drain. For £700 labour, not 1600.

I don't think that's quite right - I don't recall them replacing any of the supension parts, only that it had a rounded off grub screw that need to be replaced and a damper cover that needed to be cabled tied in place?

The bill he showed certainly didn't list £500 of parts either, all we saw in the quick flash was 3 parts totalling around £32. I think the bill is broken down by job item, so the 471.12 at the top is labour, plus the parts gives £504 for the job item.

The one above it totalled £709.80, but we don't see the break down of that.

There is also a third job item that is listed at £0, so they gave him a freebie, and even then the bill came to £1,400 for a days work.