Here's Your First Look At The Revamped, Edd-Less Wheeler Dealers

This new footage gives us a good look at the first series of Wheeler Dealers since Edd China's departure, which sees Mike Brewer team up with Ant Anstead

Matt Robinson

08 Sep 2017

About six months ago, long-running motoring show Wheeler Dealers was in the news for all the wrong reasons. Edd China had announced he was leaving the show due to its new production company - Velocity - apparently wanting to reduce the legendary mechanic’s in-depth coverage of fixes, effectively dumbing the show down. Immediately following his announcement, Mike Brewer and his family shockingly received death threats.

With the furore over the show’s future now mostly over, we have our first chance to see how it’ll look following Edd’s departure. As announced a few months ago, he’ll be replaced with Ant Anstead - a safe pair of hands who you might have seen on Channel 4’s For The Love of Cars - and in addition to the trailer above, he’s also seen in action in sneak peek footage below.

We don’t know about you, but watching Ant very effectively explain the inner workings of a turbocharger makes us wonder if fears of the show dumbing down are unfounded. We’ll certainly be keeping an open mind until we see the first episode, which airs on Velocity on 4 October.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

The narrators accent is somewhere between northern irish and texas.

Looking forward to it. Look at top gear. People said it was doomed when Clarkson and co left but after a rocky start I personally think it’s better than ever

For Gods sake mike and edd cant you both see when somethings great. Just sort it out and carry on making a great tv show

I don’t think a lot of the commenters understand the situation quite clearly: What happened was that Velocity wanted the show to go a more reality-show-oriented direction, and Edd didn’t want his mechanical bits to be dumbed down, so for that reason he stepped down. So no, Edd was not fired or anything, it was completely his choice he left, but it also isn’t his fault the show is changing its formatting and tone from the wonderful show we had before.

This is sh*t

Edd China was the show….irreplacable!

Im sorry, but I work for a turbo manufacturer in the UK
That is not correct on how to rebuild a turbo. That turbo has clearly been starved of oil (note the bearing transfer on the shaft the golding) so likely hood is the bearing housing journal bore is probably scored which will need polishing or bearing housing replacement. What about measuring the piston ring gaps on the shaft and in the bearing housing? And after all this how are you going to balance the complete CHRA without a balancing machine?