You're getting this for your wife: it is a a christmas gift for the wife. Yes you're serious yeah, yeah, yeah uh. I don't think it'll be done in time for christmas. Well, maybe it'll run enough for me to at least show it to her.

Maybe all right! 65 000 miles gearbox malfunction service due all right, neutral, welcome to hoovy's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube - and i i guess i'm not done yet, but this is probably the biggest mistake for the month of december. It is a 2009 audi r8 with the automatic transmission, the v8 engine, and i bought this car because my wife said she's always wanted an audi r8, which is really weird because she's not really a car person. But she picked up on one thing and that's the audi r8. She thinks it's really cool and she wanted it.

So i went and bought her the absolute worst one that i could find in the country not really on purpose, but i kind of knew what i was getting into. It was only forty thousand dollars, i think uh fifty five thousand miles on it, a big horrible obnoxious wing on the back, but i was told this thing runs and drives, but it uh it did not show up running and driving. I've always been a fan of these myself ever since. Well, iron man, tony stark, drove up and won in the original iron man movie and experienced them.

It's actually really nice they're kind of like a softer, lamborghini, gallardo, more luxurious, more comfortable, more german and certainly great looking, probably better looking than the guyardo that shares the platform with this car and this one well, it was forty thousand dollars. It was in florida which should be uh warning number one uh emailed the seller, and they said it ran and drove, but it had some electrical issues and well a big wing on the back which they can say whatever they want. It's a dealer, wholesale auction, the car is being sold as is, and they can lie to your face, and you know that's what you expect so they said electrical problems, but it runs in drives. I don't have high hopes for this thing, based on how it showed up uh of it starting, but when i ordered the transport i did order it for a running and driving car and the first two transporters couldn't get it to start so they dropped it.

So i had to pay almost double to get it shipped as an in-op car, and it showed up here completely stone dead. I guess they can't open up the front to jump the battery. The back is taped shut and i had it immediately towed up to the wizards originally delivered to urination bobs and the transporter just dropped it on the curb on the street and they couldn't push it. So this is a real mess, a total mess and cosmetically.

Well, it's probably the biggest hurd i've ever stepped into. So with that, let me give you a tour of the worst audi r8 in the country. I was drawn to this thing, not only because of the price, but because it's blue, which is an unusual color, and it's actually quite pretty this metallic with the carbon fiber side blades. But unfortunately, it's lived a very, very hard life.

The suspension appears to be lowered and the bumper has taken well all the hits that it could take with a lowered car. In addition, there's some damage here down low. This could be touched up without repainting the door. I mean it's, you know already pretty sketchy.

Alright uh but of course, then there's this uh giant hideous thing, that is on the rear, hatch, which was taped, shut for transport and well, there's things taken apart in the motor: it's not even a v8 anymore. It's a v fsi, the wheel liner, is hanging on the back wheel and all cracked up, but it is an audi r8 and a front. I bought one of these a few years ago, john ross lumbert. He just sold it to an audi r8 twin turbo.

Stick that had a blown motor - and i know from his experience, if you have a blown motor in this car, there's no used ones available. You just have to buy a new one from audi - that's 20 000, which, if that's what i have to do here, then i pretty much wiped out any chance. I could have just bought a nice one to begin with for mid upper 60s and rather than dealing with this uh total disaster for forty thousand dollars the seats. Oh, the seats are absolutely disgusting.

How does somebody let this happen to an audi r8, but it has the carbon fiber in the interior. Somebody helped themselves to the shift knob, which is very common when cars sit for a long time at an auction things that aren't bolted down disappear, and this one since i couldn't get it picked up because of the transport issues and the car not running it. Sat for a while also the dashboard the florida sun has has wrinkled that up real good. So anyway, turn the key right now, nothing happens.

It's stone dead, probably should jump this thing off, maybe maybe that's all it needs, is a jump and it'll start. I i don't think so: wizard you're you're getting this for your wife. It is a a christmas gift for the wife. Yes you're serious yeah, yeah, yeah uh.

I don't think it'll be done in time for christmas. Oh well, maybe it'll run enough for me to at least show it to her. Maybe, but it does have a nice floppy wing, oh, that that needs to come off. Obviously, but it's it's taped shut.

I guess yeah! I don't i don't know. Well, that's not really doing much. I don't think we're worried about ruining the paint on this. No and then this is always up.

I guess they wanted to look cool shouldn't, be only oh, what a beauty there! I got. It hmm well uh if mass airflow meters just completely unplugged yep, one of them is cool. That's a good start! I don't see the jump off here in the back, so it must be in the front itself huh which, how do you open the front without electrical? All right, that's a really weird emergency release for that, but it's uh pulled and we got it and there's the battery all right. Well, let's put some power to it.

Oh boy, merry christmas, let's jump it off huh! Well, we can do that, but in its current state i know your wife and she'll hand you the key back and probably walk off in silence. Merry christmas, all right, 65, 000 miles gearbox malfunction service due all right neutral. I took my foot off the brakes, so i shouldn't have done that here. I don't know well that that mass airflow is disconnected.

Let me get some sharding fluid, okay, all right. So what do you think wizard? Well, it improved when i put some charting fluid in it. It really does like a fuel problem. The cranking actually sounds really good.

It's even it's staccato, it's not so no fuel or no spark. It's quite spark. So you don't think it's getting fuel. I think it's not getting any fuel.

Well, it's up to you wizard a christmas miracle, i'll i'll leave this in your capable hands here done by christmas. The christmas miracle wizard come on come on. While we wait for the wizards good or most likely bad news. I want to let you know that car track is live on tavares's channel.

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So if you want something like the ls swap shirt or the amg hammer time shirt or the uh miami vice kind of testarossa shirt, those will all be gone here by the end of the year, so be sure to check out whovisgarage.com. Well, i'm back! Yes, you are back and are you a miracle worker? I am not what's going on with the thing we put a new battery in it, we ran the codes, it's got some issues with either wiring or the computers themselves. There's two computers on this car: one of them is saying: there's no problem, the other one's saying it can't see the crank sensor, so it has two computers in it to run a v8 engine. Yes, even though it's not like a v10 lamborghini, this is on the same platform, which is why they would do that.

But, okay, so one side can read it. The other side can't right. So when it starts up, half the engine starts to run, and then it just shuts down because something's not right it just shuts it all down we're going to figure that out. It's going to be hours of digging to figure this out, but you close tomorrow for christmas until january 3rd at noon.

I guess i need to call the wife and get her up here for it to be a christmas surprise um, i hope she's not too upset all right, close your eyes i'll. I won't guide you into a poll. I promise you ready for your big christmas surprise. What's that it's something you've always wanted.

Can i open my eyes not yet let me get you in the right position here, all right, nope, okay! No! No! No! Turn! This way, all right, no turn. Okay, good! All! Right, ready! Okay, one! Two! Three! Hey! It's an r8, it is you've, always wanted one yeah yeah yeah, hi david hello. How are you, what do you think it? It doesn't run? Unfortunately, um we put a new battery in it, and one side of the engine wants to run the other side doesn't. But it's it's a little bit of a project, but it's it's your r8! Well, when it's going to be my r8, it's yours now, but it uh! That's what happened! When's it gon na be a running yeah yeah! The wizard doesn't know he's closing for christmas and he'll work on it, but uh it's a it's a wee bit of a project.

I like it wow. What do you think of the uh, the wing? What happened to the wing? Well, it's not supposed to have one, but somebody went to autozone and bolted. This beautiful thing on. I don't think i want it.

I think it should come off. I think so i don't think it'd look good with this yeah, but it has the carbon fiber side. Blades, it's a pretty color, it's just dirty yeah. I normally don't really lean towards blue color, but this is very pretty blue.

It works with this car. Yes, very pretty. What do you think i think would work? It would be very nice. I think so.

I think so too well merry christmas. Thank you uh. It might be a little bit before you get your christmas present, but here here it is yeah. It's really really cool yeah.

It is cool. I wouldn't mind having one it would be, it'd be great yeah. I think so all right well uh, i'm about to turn the camera off, which i'm a little scared. Once i turn the camera off, what's actually going to happen, but it should it should be fine.

She doesn't she's not much of an actress, so she doesn't well done how many cars do you have thank you for watching. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for watching you.