The Hoover that Upped: A Glimpse into James May's Tesla

As we began our inspection of James May's Tesla, it was clear that this car had seen its fair share of adventures. The interior, particularly the cup holders, revealed a tale of neglect and abandonment. "They've got lots of what looks like dead skin in them," our narrator observed wryly, implying that these cup holders had never been cleaned. Furthermore, the presence of discarded wrappers and tissue boxes hinted at a lack of attention to detail.

The portal to the snack compartment was another area that needed attention. The wrapper for Melton Mulberry pork pies remained intact, while the wrapper from James May's own Honda poems was noticeably absent. However, as our narrator noted with amusement, it seemed that James May had consumed some McDonald's tissue, suggesting a rather peculiar snacking habit.

Next, we found James May's beloved "little Honda," which he affectionately referred to as his "purple 90cc two valves only." The poem book attached to the car, titled "Honda poems lady bird," revealed a more introspective side of James May. It was clear that this car had become an extension of himself, and its contents were a reflection of his personality.

As we delved deeper into the Tesla's interior, it became apparent that our task was not only to clean the car but also to address various issues that needed attention. The wheels, which had been refurbished at Reinventing the Wheel just over the road in Tewksbury, were particularly noteworthy for their unique curvature. "They're some of the worst curved pill designs I've ever seen," our narrator observed wryly.

With the polishing process underway, we could see the Tesla's paint job taking shape. The car was finally beginning to look its best, with a gleaming finish that highlighted its sleek design. As we waited for James May's return, we couldn't help but wonder what had been going on during his time away. The mention of India and Mauritania hinted at some exotic adventures, but the true extent of his travels remained a mystery.

Upon James May's return, it was clear that he had missed the car dearly. "You're back," our narrator said with a smile. As we examined the car's exterior, we found that all major issues had been addressed. The wheels, in particular, had been refurbished to perfection, and the paint job was now spotless. However, there was one final task remaining – finding the missing toothpick with some paint on it.

As James May took his Tesla for a spin, it was clear that he had grown attached to the car's unique quirks. The whispering about foreign adventures and camping in Mauritania hinted at a more laid-back approach to life. And as we watched him drive off into the sunset, it seemed that this little Honda was finally home.

The Return of James May's Tesla

As we waited for James May's return, we couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. The car had been cleaned and refurbished, and now it was time to see what our host had in store for us. As he arrived, it became clear that James May had missed his Tesla dearly.

"India," our narrator said wryly, referencing the popular travel destination. "Everything that everybody ever says about India is absolutely true – noisy, colorful, chaotic, exhausting, but pretty wonderful." This sentiment was echoed by James May himself, who revealed that he had indeed spent some time in India and Mauritania during his travels.

The main topic of discussion revolved around the Tesla's maintenance issues. "Two weeks ago we found out that it needed a few jobs," our narrator explained. "One is a proper polish all over, and then the second one is getting the wheels refurbished." The wheels, particularly on the passenger side, were in dire need of attention.

As James May settled back into his car, it became clear that he had grown quite attached to its quirks. He chuckled about the "big free large bet" that was now parked by the Rover, and acknowledged that some aspects of his travels had been more eventful than others.

One particularly amusing anecdote centered around a WhatsApp message from James May himself. It appeared that he had left a carton of milk in the car's boot during a shopping trip, only to forget about it until much later. The use-by date on the carton was Christmas Eve, suggesting that James May might have been more than a little distracted at the time.

The final piece of business involved sorting out some loose ends – or rather, missing parts. A small toothpick with paint on it had gone missing, and our narrator confessed that they were not entirely sure who was to blame for this oversight. However, as James May took his Tesla for another spin, it seemed that the car was finally complete.

As we bid farewell to James May's Tesla, it became clear that this little Honda had become an extension of its owner. The quirks and imperfections were all part of its charm, and it was clear that James May would miss it dearly during his travels.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis was the damage that James did so how bad is this robot just polish out I simply drove it into the door somewhere along there there's a little bit of a scuff as well quite a big ding in that one so I backed over one of the helpful rocks on the driveway Andrew James May has given us his car and he's battered it yeah you've had a loop around it is there anything in particular that's nastier than most that's a terrible gouge I don't like the back bumper bit Yeah snaggy bit riptate some of these thought it ain't it's a nasty Groove in the wheel Arch there's nothing under the front bumper which is really good okay and have you ever worked on a Tesla before it's not really the smallest cold game is it I've driven one I've never actually worked on one no no and luckily it's not the pearl white version because they're terrible to paint I'm interested to see what you think of the pain when you start sanding it back because I mean they've not got the best reputation in the world no they're supposed to be really thin on the paint and they really thin but I guess if you're gonna scrape something you want the PIN to be crap you don't want to scrape your really nice they painted well I did if there's more paint on it if you scrape it there's a chance you can polish it out through the layers but okay there's no paint you don't get polishing so there's a little scratch on the back wheel Arch which I think will come out but okay if there's not much lacquer on it it won't which means they're then going to paint the rear quarter as well but we'll see when we get there okay where would you like to start by the kettle let's start at the back yeah we'll have a look at the back Andrew gouge number one and two what we're doing with this first of all we're going to give it a clean because uh I've already given this car washed it have you seen under there oh come on give that a good way sorry detailers and Bodywork people Andrew made me do it the problem is the cleaning the job the easier it is isn't it oh yeah there's nothing there is there like oh here you are Mr Bay is your clean car back I'll tell you what though it's stuck on there there isn't it oh look at that I don't quite get what's happening there's definitely a transition in James May's life yeah because he loves having things as clean as possible really fastidious but this thing he crashes it and he leaves it incredibly dirty like how dirty was this when it first turned up we've cleaned the outside yeah I've spotted something really terrible okay would you like to see it yeah sure open the boot what have you found I refused to touch this oh no sorry sorry James I just can't do it I just can't I can't touch it but I'm scared I think we need a bomb disposal unit in here to sort this out I mean it's already I mean that is dirtier than I would have expected to be he doesn't yeah I'll write that's his hair then that is that is one of his fears definitely okay right where am I looking open her up prepare to be very shocked um charge cable yeah it's got anything else have a good look oh there is oh no that's um some cheese and butter mix yeah of all of all food stuffs to not forget to like leave in your car that is one of them yeah I'm actually scared to touch that what's great should we reveal it can't see it thank you there love what is that I don't want to touch it but it's escaped and gone under the middle isn't it and careful that doesn't explode because if it does oh oh it's something that is should be white but is no black oh my God is there a play to him though oh and he's gone for the full semi skin I'm actually quite ill look at that I don't want to look at it I just got a whiff their mother right in some ways that is emitting a smell oh my God that is rank so much because I need to pee you just to take a little set I'll give you a thousand pound cash if you connect that 24th of December Christmas Eve so he went out yeah need to get some milk for whatever little Christmas Dewey was having yeah but why is there only that much left oh God I'm actually I'm genuinely close to gagging that's right give it a shake do you want to just just give it to see how there's a little quieter just give it a little whip no I can't see it's a little get it away no it's horrible hell no I I don't trust you with it I do not trust you with this but if anyone would like an artifact from James May's career of course if you get it within two feet you smell it so bad should I should I put this in the reception yeah Sophia like that right what we're doing see this big Game Gear yeah that's that's the worst thing on the car I wonder where we did that then right and bent right so we're gonna do let me loose you're not do not do not go over that bit I'm gonna try and keep the paint as original as I can so I don't want to spray it all okay so I'm going to try and do just that lip Okay because there's a nice line right around there look that we might be able to do it we might not so I'm gonna avoid that avoid that what I'll do I'll put some tape around there because you can't be trusted with the Sanders we all know I am I mean you have to treat me as a complete amateur I do right that's enough taping is it yeah I'm only going from there to there oh man right so just like on the edge like that yeah that's your throttle that's my throttle how you should have hold it like that like that and I've turned you right down I can do that come on then where is your other hand yeah yeah you got it can I do another cup of tea will you do that then if you trust me no I don't know do you trust me to do it more than Hammond um I'll be honest almonds pretty good it's awesome if you remember lazy's Riley yes coming straight huh apparently why I spray this truck yeah but I didn't have to hold his hand though he just went in there bang and it was done I just stood with him and give him a little bit of advice a bit more down here um I don't think he needs it 'll do a little bit there if you want okay and then after this do you trust me to do the same at the back no no I've done the back you sorted it well what else can I use this on that bumper oh okay well yes that's an interesting bit we'll get to that later anyway let me finish this it's a little bit longer Andrew something I find a bit puzzling is James May crashes his car into my mgzt do you remember that I mean you did my nice white bills and yet we are fixing both of them yeah well that happens is this is this scar here so this that will have DNA of my mg in it somewhere can't see the risk a minute it's preserved right isn't it but when you see that it um can you see how thin the paint is there um difficult I don't think there's as much paint on this as they would be on like another make of car because I feel like the mg fared a lot better than this did that that took a bit of a hammering well if you remember the mg it was just a few streaks on it yeah it was perfect wouldn't it it was uh the mg's probably got about 10 layers of paint on it but I've been painting okay so I've started it's getting much smoother but you'll do a proper job there what did you do with that milk Andrea you've beautifully demonstrated Scotch padding at the front there what are we doing here why are we essentially roughing up the paint right what you got if you tried spraying over say that shiny paint yeah you're painting in a stick as it because you're trying to paint onto a shiny surface what this does it just dulls it off so it's just keying it up so almost like mix it not the tacky is not the right word no just if you looked at it under a microscope you'd see that it's got scratches in it which grips the paint when you put it on yeah but it's like when you've got like a repair that repair there see there was little dents and we put some filler in yep but what people don't realize that filler is that big isn't it yep so as a rule your primer will be double that name so the prime will come to stay there and then the paint will double again so the paint will come to there so it's just like a radius growing so if you've got a small dent that big you fill it then your primer becomes that big then your paint becomes that big then your lacquer becomes that big so a small dent makes a massive job sometimes so that's why despite just this we're Scotch padding basically the entire Bowl yeah because you'll lose it you'll lack of it out to okay like I said it'll be primer paint then a bit of lacquer it's one of those situations where the card looks a hell of a lot worse to them make a hell of a lot better it does I've always wondered how this room works I've seen all these little twisty things going it all looks amazing like an invention going on you stir the paint okay so you've got a paint code you've got the painting foreign how do you create the exact color right so those little WT numbers there they're the tinters which correspond to those there okay right so I've decided to mix up 0.2 of a liter so can you make up any color you want using just these just about yeah yeah it's very rare you get caught out that's pretty cool it's cool doesn't it but yeah so we're going to mix this up these are all the different colors they look yeah special Schwartz there look so if you put in the pink one let's talk about you you need all of these yep the paint code is in the weight is there so you do it by grams look so you're gonna just build the gram so zeroed the scales so the first one you need is wt385 so you need to find that for me wt385 look at that beautiful t385 it's a big old tender which is a good internet wait let's see it so you're gonna put 70.17 grams of that oh wow there goes a gram I feel like I'll over Splurge it so I want this one seven but you can't have one seven one are you gonna go more or less is 70.1 or 70. 70.1 it will be that's interesting your mindset there you always just go that bit less oh we're dripping now oh look at that come on he's waiting for his point one come on Andy oh no no wait that's gone too far there's been evaporation there's no 70 on the door go on get some drippage in there you want to go you want me to go over there just a little drip this is James's car if the colors are always on yourself he's not going to be happy look at that you know I'm going to blame you that's just on the edge great that's your point oh foreign happy with how the paint's gone on the Tesla very happy yeah it's come out well just wants a bit of a light buff up now in a Polish there's a few little bits gone in it there's one there look and a couple there will come out and I'll polish it back was pretty clean yeah I'm really happy with it we have bought you a little Gadget a new toy because I guess there's an assumption that the quality on this Tesla is not going to be fantastic and therefore I would imagine that the paint would be really thin so now that you've painted that yourself review your little Gadget it is thickness gauge you are wrong because I have tested this okay and I tested it on my Volkswagen it's already about to debunk the Teslas are actually painted I think seriously I think it's just the build quality that's just a bit terrible on them sure I think they got the same paint as a normal car like I could put this on on here now so this is a bit you haven't painted so that's shown 165 which is about the same it's on my Volkswagen so okay and on the bit you've just painted on the bill oh you want to see it yeah I've just painted 138 okay but it'll vary all over the car so if I do the top of the wing under 61. 140. is there a bit on the car that will naturally have less paint like people that have just skin tone a bit like the wing mirrors or something well it shouldn't do no I don't think it'll pick up on a windmill because they're plastic oh of course yeah it's something for metal Tesla quality debunk I think it's just uh can I keep this yeah sure very much you can test all the richest cars see how much Fiddler's in them do you want to do that right so you're gonna crack or give this car a nice polish now a little bit of Polish I have to go get them up shouldn't really do it in here but we're a bit uh tight on Space today so okay it doesn't want much polishing so I'll just do it in here lucky James foreign cars are the odd bit of TLC we do on James's stuff would not be possible without you guys watching and subscribing and also our Channel sponsors and today's video is sponsored by liquid Molly we have used liquid Molly's products they're lubricants and additives in almost every project car we've had on the channel and more recently you may have seen us using their group of car care products but these here are products I barely knew existed these are EV specific lubricants liquid Molly makes EV brake fluids battery coolant fuel cell coolant and gear oil for Ev Drive components these fluids are designed with low conductivity in mind as well as being engineered 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crack when I drove James's Alpine 110 a couple years ago I got some very specific instructions no snacks no sweeties no fizzy drinks no nothing I'm pretty sure that down there on the carpet is a very very off McDonald's chip and then a rounder I can see one two three wrappers for chocolate eclairs I mean Live and Let Live and this is his own car he can use it the way he wants but I'm just saying in the front there's some quite alarming things especially in the passenger seat I don't know what else to call that apart from a mysterious white powder that is in the crevice of the seats now I'm pretty sure it is sugar but what I'm not gonna do is dip my pinky in it and find out I'm just going to Hoover that up then moving on then cup holders they've got lots of what looks like dead skin in them they've probably never been cleaned ever this little portal here two snack Melton Mulberry pork pies now we're getting more James May but leaving the wrapper in there and in here I've chewed up viral where's all that plastic gone in James May's stomach probably got a lighter more biscuit wrappers now if you frequent British Motorway Services you will know that that is McDonald's tissue that probably explains the chip in the back we'll get rid of that and then what's that in here this little book it's his own Honda poems lady bird book look at that do you think he just sits in traffic and reads his own poems little Honda little Honda how I love your purple 90cc two valves only hasn't got a terrible beautiful let's clean all this so that is the Tesla's time of the Cog now finished the guys are actually currently away filming The Grand Tour and they're not going to be back for two weeks so this car is going to stay here for a bit longer and get two jobs done one is a proper polish all over and we just started today and then the second one is getting the wheels refurbed they're getting done at a place called Reinventing the wheel just over the road in Tewksbury they did Richard's XJR wheels and did such a good job so hopefully they can rescue those fields especially on the passenger side they are some of the worst curved pills I've ever seen so let's cut now to us giving this car back to James in about yeah two weeks time James you're back I am back yes how is India India everything that everybody ever says about India is absolutely true noisy colorful chaotic exhausting but pretty wonderful well in all that time we've sorted out everything that you've pointed to on your Tesla that was a bit broken apart from one little thing but we'll just found a bit uh you'll be able to see on that side the main thing the wheel refurb those ones on that side were especially gouged they were yes they are now nice and gleaming and then your big free large bet yes which you did I did not well your parked Rover did it yes okay um and then there was a big go just around the back so yes that out um this was Andrew Greenhouse did most of this in like a couple of days pretty much all got sanded back and it was all good one thing I do want to ask about I sent you a WhatsApp of it the milk the milk in the boot where was it it was you know how there's two kind of Cubbies that are lowered down either side down there yes yes it had fallen down into there and the date on it was Christmas Eve so do you know what you were doing at Christmas time that would have meant you went out for a thing of milk so the use by was Christmas used by so maybe a couple days before I probably bought well when I went to do the big Christmas shop no I wouldn't have gone in this car I'd have gone on a bicycle or a scooter so it was probably part of a shop that we did on the way back to London and I didn't notice that it had gone it's a good job it didn't open isn't it yes I'm very surprised I mean some had disappeared but I don't know if milk like condenses down into the bottoms I don't know did you try it half of it was gone um it definitely had to smell about it yeah um pretty Grim well I'm sorry about that but I'm glad you found it it's okay uh apart from that we've cleaned most of the car got rid of the pork pie wrappers they're all gone now that wasn't me uh the one tiny thing that I've realized were forgotten what is that little Nick oh for God's sake he did was a little toothpick with some paint on it but we missed that I'm afraid you complete slackers so I did everything else but I mean if you want to send it back we can sort that out for you oh yeah because it's really convenient taking the car back to Wales for someone to go I'll live with it if you want to do a little Halfords job won't it you know I expect disco have you charged it up it's got about half charge because as you said it's come from Wales and we're here in Swindon do you want to open Tesla there you go thank you Azure keys back no I drove off into the sunset you may it's just one final thing we all know you've been away doing Secret filming probably around two yes in Mauritania it is not very secret describe that filming in one word camping oh okay safe drive here thanks thank you you got myself a whisper you've moved the seat got above how many times foreignthis was the damage that James did so how bad is this robot just polish out I simply drove it into the door somewhere along there there's a little bit of a scuff as well quite a big ding in that one so I backed over one of the helpful rocks on the driveway Andrew James May has given us his car and he's battered it yeah you've had a loop around it is there anything in particular that's nastier than most that's a terrible gouge I don't like the back bumper bit Yeah snaggy bit riptate some of these thought it ain't it's a nasty Groove in the wheel Arch there's nothing under the front bumper which is really good okay and have you ever worked on a Tesla before it's not really the smallest cold game is it I've driven one I've never actually worked on one no no and luckily it's not the pearl white version because they're terrible to paint I'm interested to see what you think of the pain when you start sanding it back because I mean they've not got the best reputation in the world no they're supposed to be really thin on the paint and they really thin but I guess if you're gonna scrape something you want the PIN to be crap you don't want to scrape your really nice they painted well I did if there's more paint on it if you scrape it there's a chance you can polish it out through the layers but okay there's no paint you don't get polishing so there's a little scratch on the back wheel Arch which I think will come out but okay if there's not much lacquer on it it won't which means they're then going to paint the rear quarter as well but we'll see when we get there okay where would you like to start by the kettle let's start at the back yeah we'll have a look at the back Andrew gouge number one and two what we're doing with this first of all we're going to give it a clean because uh I've already given this car washed it have you seen under there oh come on give that a good way sorry detailers and Bodywork people Andrew made me do it the problem is the cleaning the job the easier it is isn't it oh yeah there's nothing there is there like oh here you are Mr Bay is your clean car back I'll tell you what though it's stuck on there there isn't it oh look at that I don't quite get what's happening there's definitely a transition in James May's life yeah because he loves having things as clean as possible really fastidious but this thing he crashes it and he leaves it incredibly dirty like how dirty was this when it first turned up we've cleaned the outside yeah I've spotted something really terrible okay would you like to see it yeah sure open the boot what have you found I refused to touch this oh no sorry sorry James I just can't do it I just can't I can't touch it but I'm scared I think we need a bomb disposal unit in here to sort this out I mean it's already I mean that is dirtier than I would have expected to be he doesn't yeah I'll write that's his hair then that is that is one of his fears definitely okay right where am I looking open her up prepare to be very shocked um charge cable yeah it's got anything else have a good look oh there is oh no that's um some cheese and butter mix yeah of all of all food stuffs to not forget to like leave in your car that is one of them yeah I'm actually scared to touch that what's great should we reveal it can't see it thank you there love what is that I don't want to touch it but it's escaped and gone under the middle isn't it and careful that doesn't explode because if it does oh oh it's something that is should be white but is no black oh my God is there a play to him though oh and he's gone for the full semi skin I'm actually quite ill look at that I don't want to look at it I just got a whiff their mother right in some ways that is emitting a smell oh my God that is rank so much because I need to pee you just to take a little set I'll give you a thousand pound cash if you connect that 24th of December Christmas Eve so he went out yeah need to get some milk for whatever little Christmas Dewey was having yeah but why is there only that much left oh God I'm actually I'm genuinely close to gagging that's right give it a shake do you want to just just give it to see how there's a little quieter just give it a little whip no I can't see it's a little get it away no it's horrible hell no I I don't trust you with it I do not trust you with this but if anyone would like an artifact from James May's career of course if you get it within two feet you smell it so bad should I should I put this in the reception yeah Sophia like that right what we're doing see this big Game Gear yeah that's that's the worst thing on the car I wonder where we did that then right and bent right so we're gonna do let me loose you're not do not do not go over that bit I'm gonna try and keep the paint as original as I can so I don't want to spray it all okay so I'm going to try and do just that lip Okay because there's a nice line right around there look that we might be able to do it we might not so I'm gonna avoid that avoid that what I'll do I'll put some tape around there because you can't be trusted with the Sanders we all know I am I mean you have to treat me as a complete amateur I do right that's enough taping is it yeah I'm only going from there to there oh man right so just like on the edge like that yeah that's your throttle that's my throttle how you should have hold it like that like that and I've turned you right down I can do that come on then where is your other hand yeah yeah you got it can I do another cup of tea will you do that then if you trust me no I don't know do you trust me to do it more than Hammond um I'll be honest almonds pretty good it's awesome if you remember lazy's Riley yes coming straight huh apparently why I spray this truck yeah but I didn't have to hold his hand though he just went in there bang and it was done I just stood with him and give him a little bit of advice a bit more down here um I don't think he needs it 'll do a little bit there if you want okay and then after this do you trust me to do the same at the back no no I've done the back you sorted it well what else can I use this on that bumper oh okay well yes that's an interesting bit we'll get to that later anyway let me finish this it's a little bit longer Andrew something I find a bit puzzling is James May crashes his car into my mgzt do you remember that I mean you did my nice white bills and yet we are fixing both of them yeah well that happens is this is this scar here so this that will have DNA of my mg in it somewhere can't see the risk a minute it's preserved right isn't it but when you see that it um can you see how thin the paint is there um difficult I don't think there's as much paint on this as they would be on like another make of car because I feel like the mg fared a lot better than this did that that took a bit of a hammering well if you remember the mg it was just a few streaks on it yeah it was perfect wouldn't it it was uh the mg's probably got about 10 layers of paint on it but I've been painting okay so I've started it's getting much smoother but you'll do a proper job there what did you do with that milk Andrea you've beautifully demonstrated Scotch padding at the front there what are we doing here why are we essentially roughing up the paint right what you got if you tried spraying over say that shiny paint yeah you're painting in a stick as it because you're trying to paint onto a shiny surface what this does it just dulls it off so it's just keying it up so almost like mix it not the tacky is not the right word no just if you looked at it under a microscope you'd see that it's got scratches in it which grips the paint when you put it on yeah but it's like when you've got like a repair that repair there see there was little dents and we put some filler in yep but what people don't realize that filler is that big isn't it yep so as a rule your primer will be double that name so the prime will come to stay there and then the paint will double again so the paint will come to there so it's just like a radius growing so if you've got a small dent that big you fill it then your primer becomes that big then your paint becomes that big then your lacquer becomes that big so a small dent makes a massive job sometimes so that's why despite just this we're Scotch padding basically the entire Bowl yeah because you'll lose it you'll lack of it out to okay like I said it'll be primer paint then a bit of lacquer it's one of those situations where the card looks a hell of a lot worse to them make a hell of a lot better it does I've always wondered how this room works I've seen all these little twisty things going it all looks amazing like an invention going on you stir the paint okay so you've got a paint code you've got the painting foreign how do you create the exact color right so those little WT numbers there they're the tinters which correspond to those there okay right so I've decided to mix up 0.2 of a liter so can you make up any color you want using just these just about yeah yeah it's very rare you get caught out that's pretty cool it's cool doesn't it but yeah so we're going to mix this up these are all the different colors they look yeah special Schwartz there look so if you put in the pink one let's talk about you you need all of these yep the paint code is in the weight is there so you do it by grams look so you're gonna just build the gram so zeroed the scales so the first one you need is wt385 so you need to find that for me wt385 look at that beautiful t385 it's a big old tender which is a good internet wait let's see it so you're gonna put 70.17 grams of that oh wow there goes a gram I feel like I'll over Splurge it so I want this one seven but you can't have one seven one are you gonna go more or less is 70.1 or 70. 70.1 it will be that's interesting your mindset there you always just go that bit less oh we're dripping now oh look at that come on he's waiting for his point one come on Andy oh no no wait that's gone too far there's been evaporation there's no 70 on the door go on get some drippage in there you want to go you want me to go over there just a little drip this is James's car if the colors are always on yourself he's not going to be happy look at that you know I'm going to blame you that's just on the edge great that's your point oh foreign happy with how the paint's gone on the Tesla very happy yeah it's come out well just wants a bit of a light buff up now in a Polish there's a few little bits gone in it there's one there look and a couple there will come out and I'll polish it back was pretty clean yeah I'm really happy with it we have bought you a little Gadget a new toy because I guess there's an assumption that the quality on this Tesla is not going to be fantastic and therefore I would imagine that the paint would be really thin so now that you've painted that yourself review your little Gadget it is thickness gauge you are wrong because I have tested this okay and I tested it on my Volkswagen it's already about to debunk the Teslas are actually painted I think seriously I think it's just the build quality that's just a bit terrible on them sure I think they got the same paint as a normal car like I could put this on on here now so this is a bit you haven't painted so that's shown 165 which is about the same it's on my Volkswagen so okay and on the bit you've just painted on the bill oh you want to see it yeah I've just painted 138 okay but it'll vary all over the car so if I do the top of the wing under 61. 140. is there a bit on the car that will naturally have less paint like people that have just skin tone a bit like the wing mirrors or something well it shouldn't do no I don't think it'll pick up on a windmill because they're plastic oh of course yeah it's something for metal Tesla quality debunk I think it's just uh can I keep this yeah sure very much you can test all the richest cars see how much Fiddler's in them do you want to do that right so you're gonna crack or give this car a nice polish now a little bit of Polish I have to go get them up shouldn't really do it in here but we're a bit uh tight on Space today so okay it doesn't want much polishing so I'll just do it in here lucky James foreign cars are the odd bit of TLC we do on James's stuff would not be possible without you guys watching and subscribing and also our Channel sponsors and today's video is sponsored by liquid Molly we have used liquid Molly's products they're lubricants and additives in almost every project car we've had on the channel and more recently you may have seen us using their group of car care products but these here are products I barely knew existed these are EV specific lubricants liquid Molly makes EV brake fluids battery coolant fuel cell coolant and gear oil for Ev Drive components these fluids are designed with low conductivity in mind as well as being engineered to deal with the high amount of heat energy created by EVS in a car like James's Model S heat dissipation is key especially when he's giving it the full lick on the Country Roads around the Royal Oak these fluids also boast excellent Corrosion Protection to keep their systems running efficiently even as an electric vehicle gets older and older Isaac has already been over the car giving it some much needed TLC so not only will it look good when I give it back it will also go good so if you want to see what products liquid Molly makes for your car click the link in the description below or in the top comment and get browsing video to become a bit of an expose on James May but you know how he gives off that whole thing of being really fastidious and really particular and tidy well the interior of this car started with that prehistoric milk in the back the rest of it well you're about to see it's a bit gummy and a bit mank so let's clean it what's your thing in straddle instead of like crack when I drove James's Alpine 110 a couple years ago I got some very specific instructions no snacks no sweeties no fizzy drinks no nothing I'm pretty sure that down there on the carpet is a very very off McDonald's chip and then a rounder I can see one two three wrappers for chocolate eclairs I mean Live and Let Live and this is his own car he can use it the way he wants but I'm just saying in the front there's some quite alarming things especially in the passenger seat I don't know what else to call that apart from a mysterious white powder that is in the crevice of the seats now I'm pretty sure it is sugar but what I'm not gonna do is dip my pinky in it and find out I'm just going to Hoover that up then moving on then cup holders they've got lots of what looks like dead skin in them they've probably never been cleaned ever this little portal here two snack Melton Mulberry pork pies now we're getting more James May but leaving the wrapper in there and in here I've chewed up viral where's all that plastic gone in James May's stomach probably got a lighter more biscuit wrappers now if you frequent British Motorway Services you will know that that is McDonald's tissue that probably explains the chip in the back we'll get rid of that and then what's that in here this little book it's his own Honda poems lady bird book look at that do you think he just sits in traffic and reads his own poems little Honda little Honda how I love your purple 90cc two valves only hasn't got a terrible beautiful let's clean all this so that is the Tesla's time of the Cog now finished the guys are actually currently away filming The Grand Tour and they're not going to be back for two weeks so this car is going to stay here for a bit longer and get two jobs done one is a proper polish all over and we just started today and then the second one is getting the wheels refurbed they're getting done at a place called Reinventing the wheel just over the road in Tewksbury they did Richard's XJR wheels and did such a good job so hopefully they can rescue those fields especially on the passenger side they are some of the worst curved pills I've ever seen so let's cut now to us giving this car back to James in about yeah two weeks time James you're back I am back yes how is India India everything that everybody ever says about India is absolutely true noisy colorful chaotic exhausting but pretty wonderful well in all that time we've sorted out everything that you've pointed to on your Tesla that was a bit broken apart from one little thing but we'll just found a bit uh you'll be able to see on that side the main thing the wheel refurb those ones on that side were especially gouged they were yes they are now nice and gleaming and then your big free large bet yes which you did I did not well your parked Rover did it yes okay um and then there was a big go just around the back so yes that out um this was Andrew Greenhouse did most of this in like a couple of days pretty much all got sanded back and it was all good one thing I do want to ask about I sent you a WhatsApp of it the milk the milk in the boot where was it it was you know how there's two kind of Cubbies that are lowered down either side down there yes yes it had fallen down into there and the date on it was Christmas Eve so do you know what you were doing at Christmas time that would have meant you went out for a thing of milk so the use by was Christmas used by so maybe a couple days before I probably bought well when I went to do the big Christmas shop no I wouldn't have gone in this car I'd have gone on a bicycle or a scooter so it was probably part of a shop that we did on the way back to London and I didn't notice that it had gone it's a good job it didn't open isn't it yes I'm very surprised I mean some had disappeared but I don't know if milk like condenses down into the bottoms I don't know did you try it half of it was gone um it definitely had to smell about it yeah um pretty Grim well I'm sorry about that but I'm glad you found it it's okay uh apart from that we've cleaned most of the car got rid of the pork pie wrappers they're all gone now that wasn't me uh the one tiny thing that I've realized were forgotten what is that little Nick oh for God's sake he did was a little toothpick with some paint on it but we missed that I'm afraid you complete slackers so I did everything else but I mean if you want to send it back we can sort that out for you oh yeah because it's really convenient taking the car back to Wales for someone to go I'll live with it if you want to do a little Halfords job won't it you know I expect disco have you charged it up it's got about half charge because as you said it's come from Wales and we're here in Swindon do you want to open Tesla there you go thank you Azure keys back no I drove off into the sunset you may it's just one final thing we all know you've been away doing Secret filming probably around two yes in Mauritania it is not very secret describe that filming in one word camping oh okay safe drive here thanks thank you you got myself a whisper you've moved the seat got above how many times foreign\n"