ALL CHRIS DAN_PHILLIPS ETHAN_AMPADU FUZZ JAKE LUKE MARC NARRATOR TIM UNKNOWN_FEMALE VOLUNTEER YASEMIN NARRATOR Today on car S.O.S. The boys are arguing again. TIM This car for you is a reminder of something that you've lost that you'll never get back. FUZZ Oh, are you talking about my hair? NARRATOR The bone of contention. A soft top Escort XR3i. FUZZ My opinion of convertibles versus yours. FUZZ You love them. TIM You hate them. NARRATOR That's harder to fix than Fuzz's dress sense. FUZZ Oh you Now we're in proper trouble. NARRATOR So Tim turns egghead to try to convert him to convertibles. TIM This hasn't been done before in a way that's going to it's going to create fact. And this is something which Fuzz cannot argue with, isn't it? TIM True. NARRATOR And deliver the perfect birthday surprise. JAKE Is that my car? TIM Over that hill there Fuzz is a town that I am scared to mention called Leeds. FUZZ Oh yeah, there's something about a bit of a rumble between Leeds and Sheffield. TIM Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. To me Leeds is rubbish. Sheffield's-- Anyway, forget that, the real reason we're here is to go and see a Ford Escort XR3i. FUZZ Yes, yes. TIM How have we not done one before? FUZZ But now we are making amends. TIM Well, actually, we're not just making amends. We're going for the top of the pile because it is my absolute favourite. It is the cabriolet! Hey. What are you stopping for? FUZZ The Cabriolet? TIM Yeah. The convertible. Drop the hood. Look cool. FUZZ I thought we were gonna get the tin top. TIM No, we don't want a tin top. FUZZ Yeah, of course we want a tin top, the tin tops are better. They're purer form. They are the kind of rally car lookalikey. TIM No, you drop the lid, you're with your partner chilling, sun's out. NARRATOR No one wants to listen to that. Let's talk XR3i. Fuzz's tin top is the hatchback to the masses. In the early 80s, with VW golf GTI leading the hot hatch Marcet, Ford wanted in. They added fuel injection to the XR3, launching the XR3i in 1982, followed by the Cabriolet. For the top speed of 115 miles an hour and a lower price the XR3i outpaced VW, becoming popular with city dealers and Essex boys. Sadly, like the decade's fashion, the majority didn't last. Rust claimed many, leaving just 130 Cabriolets today. And talking of wide boys, they finally put a sock in it. TIM We're gonna go meet Marc. It's Marc's son, Jake's car. FUZZ Right, okay? TIM Okay, so just hook a left down here. TIM I haven't seen an XR3i for such a long time. FUZZ No. Where have they all disappeared to? Well, I suppose one of them is here. TIM Here he is. All right, mate. FUZZ You must be Marc. MARC Pleased to meet you. TIM Representing Sheffield. Representing Leeds. Right. Where is it, then? MARC It is in here. FUZZ Fantastic. Right. TIM Here we go. FUZZ There we go. Look at that. TIM This is just jumping straight back to the late 80s and 90s for me right there. And I've got to be honest with you, Marc, the convertible for me is the one I'd choose. MARC Oh, definitely. Yeah. Best of both worlds. TIM He's not a fan of convertibles, this man, but the funny thing is he is a convertible. Look. FUZZ All right. You've had your fun. TIM Shall we go and talk about Jake? And then leave you to do your thing. Okay. FUZZ Ah. Right. Hold on. FUZZ All right. First things first. This hood is absolutely beyond it. After three and a half decades on top of a Ford Escort, I'd be looking as rough as that. In fact, I probably am anyway. Wheels are wrong. Now, the interior of the car is a different story because it's so well preserved. It's absolutely brilliant. A little bit grimy and grubby. So it needs cleaning up. This is done. Wow. Nearly 90,000 miles. Now, that may not seem very many by today's standards, but for a 1980s Ford, that's coming to the end of its life. TIM What kind of boy is Jake? MARC He's great. I mean, he's got a girlfriend. He's, you know, we go to the football, we're massive Leeds United fans. We've got season tickets. TIM When did Jake turn up? MARC Jake was born in 2003, so he's coming up to 21 this year. You find a lovely little boy. And then, um, in 2013, he was poorly for about a week, just a really quite poorly, just really gone downhill. It was a terrible it was awful. Nobody had any clue. They did lots of tests. And then fortunately, one of the doctors in the in the A&E had come across Kawasaki disease before Kawasaki disease. TIM Yeah. MARC Basically it's an autoimmune disease, right. Uh, the body attacks itself. It's one of the implications of Kawasaki disease in your body. Attacking yourself is coronary aneurysms, which basically main arteries to your heart can blow up like balloons. Yeah. And unfortunately, after about another week, we went for a scan and we had the news that Jake had giant coronary aneurysms on his heart at nine years old. Um, then there's no no cure for that. Huge. Oh, that was a massive, massive thing. FUZZ What we have here is an engine that looks like it's perhaps had some sort of work. It may have been rebuilt at some point in time, but it's been sitting here for such a long time that we're going to have to go back in and do things like cam belt and all that kind of stuff, at least a big service. Well, I'm very surprised to see is that there's no rot underneath the battery tray. What happens is water gathers a little bit of battery acid as well, and it collects and it corrodes through that bulkhead there. TIM How long were you running your garage? For 15 years. The XR three. Yeah. Was it a father and son project? MARC There's things we could do together. You know, life's precious. He's had to stop playing football. He couldn't do sports as in contact sports, so it was an ideal thing to do when we had the spare time. We had the space, we had the garage. So it was, you know, something to do together. Eventually got a job and I was working at the garage, which was very busy. Then when we lost the garage, it's sort of we back at the. TIM Back of the queue. MARC Yeah. So we put the engine in the gearbox back in the hull and it went in a lock up unit. And to be to be honest, we've not looked at it since. And then in February this year he had a heart attack caused by a blood clot in one of the aneurysms. It turns out we found out afterwards. TIM He had a heart attack. MARC A 20 year old boy had a heart attack. TIM It's devastating. MARC Yeah, yeah, yeah. TIM I can't believe the scale of what you're telling me. MARC If I could take this away from him and have it myself, you know, I would do it in a heartbeat. TIM Do you think he thinks the car is not going to happen? MARC Definitely. Now. TIM How does that feel for you? Because this was your project with him. MARC It s sort of hard to take, really. I mean, I would love to love to have got it done. TIM What would it mean to you to see your boy in that father son project finished? MARC No, I mean everything. Especially if we could do it, you know, for his. He's 21 this year, you know, as a like a birthday gift. It'd be. It'd be just amazing. TIM Fuzzbot. FUZZ Yeah. TIM We have an opportunity here to do something amazing because there's a once in a lifetime event coming up for Jake, which happens to be 21st birthday. FUZZ All right. TIM Okay. It's a car, which he's never thinking he's going to get to drive. Cool. So we get it back for that. The only problem is that's his 21st birthday and we're about there. FUZZ Well, really? Yeah. TIM There's a natural whisk. FUZZ Is going to be something. Are you going to help push this time. TIM Come on. Let's come on. Let's get it done right. FUZZ All right. Let's go. FUZZ Wait, wait, wait. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Go on. TIM Come on. Heave away. That's it. FUZZ Right, back to the workshop. NARRATOR With Jake's 21st birthday just around the corner, the race is on to diagnose this car's problems and get it roadworthy. FUZZ Yes, XR3i. Fantastic, yeah, yeah. Shame it's a convertible though, isn't it? TIM For 20 years, this has been the biggest debate we've had. The one thing that we genuinely have almost decided to not be friends over. My opinion of convertibles versus yours. FUZZ You love 'em. TIM You hate them, and I love them. NARRATOR Well, maybe this car will help them settle their differences. FUZZ Okay, right. Let's have a look and see what we've got underneath here. It looks nice and shiny on the outside. I don't know whether that's correct or not. TIM What I do know is the bonnet is supposed to be down. Probably just don't look at it. Move on. Come on. Let's keep going. FUZZ I don't even know what sort of state the engine is in. Wheels are wrong. So I know I can get rid of those. TIM Right. Let's have a look. FUZZ We've got to take a look inside. What about those, uh, Recaro seats? TIM Are the seats wrong? I don't actually know any more. FUZZ The more you look at this car, the less you can be positive. But we need to inspect the engine. We need to take a look at the brakes. We need to replace the wheels. We know that for sure. TIM Right? FUZZ This hood has absolutely had it. Look at it. We have suddenly got on our hands a massive, massive project. NARRATOR Fuzz and Tim are hoping to revive a 1989 Ford Escort XR3i Convertible, but behind its shabby exterior, it's aged about as well as Fuzz's 80s mullet. FUZZ We've got a load of jobs to do on this. We know that we need to pull that engine apart. What about those Recaro seats? NARRATOR Yes, this little car has big problems to solve if it's going to be ready for Jake's 21st in just over six weeks. First Fuzz needs to crack the puzzle of the engine. Has it been rebuilt properly or will it need a complete overhaul? And those seats look like they might be a later addition. Question is, should they be returned to original and typically for a 1989 convertible, the roof needs replacing. It's a tricky job that will fuel Fuzz's phobia of soft tops. Plus, it needs a full paint job, brake check and a new set of wheels. While Detective Shaw tackles the case of the mysterious seats, Inspector Townsend tries to bring order to the rotten roof. FUZZ Really, what we're looking to do is replace this outer section, and over the years, it has shrunk and split, and is coming away. What I'm trying to do is persuade it off here. So that is what I'm aiming for. Getting the outer waterproof bit off and saving the inner part, at least for now. Here's the magic little bit. There is a cable here. So if I loosen off that lock nut and pull it out, that cable will go slack and therefore the back of the hood should all come off in one piece. There we go. It's off and away. NARRATOR Next, onto the interior lining. If this is anything like the exterior, finding a replacement could be tricky. FUZZ Is it faded in the sunlight? Ah. No it hasn't. Although it's very dusty. If we can get this clean enough, we may stand a chance of saving the interior roof lining. And that is good news. NARRATOR But he still needs the new exterior vinyl and quick. And on top of that, he's spotted a clue as to the condition of the engine. FUZZ Look at this. Two bottles of cooling system flush. Now, the idea behind this, it's a bit like drain on blocker for car cooling systems. If that means that this is all blocked up, then we're going to have to completely strip this engine. We have to investigate. NARRATOR So Fuzz might be right with his hunch that the engine isn't all it seems. There's only one way to find out for sure. FUZZ Got that sinking feeling. Here we go. Right up, up and away. FUZZ Here's the first tell tale sign that something has been going on with this engine because it looks like a pretty fresh cam belt. Trouble is, though, cam belts are great for about 60,000 miles or five years. This car's been sitting around, I reckon, for more than five years. So even though it is, condition-wise, looking pretty good, it could fail at any point. So it's as good as an old cam belt. Slip that off. It's scrap because it's old. NARRATOR Like you. FUZZ What do you mean like me? NARRATOR While the engine's refurbed, the body's been prepped for painting. Luckily, it's not suffered the rot that hit many 80s cars. Tim, meanwhile, is desperate to show Fuzz the joys of driving with the wind in his hair, or rather, his bobble hat. So on their day off, Tim's wangled a drive in one of the few cabriolets still on the road. TIM You can say what you like, but you cannot shake the fun from this car. Look at the smile. You're wearing a permanent-- look at it. Dude, you are loving this. FUZZ It's not , it's my teeth are gritted. TIM I've worked out what it is. FUZZ Have you? TIM This car for you is a reminder of something that you've lost that you'll never get back. FUZZ What, are we talking about my hair? FUZZ Yes it is. TIM When they talk about convertibles, what's the first thing they say? Feel the what in your what? FUZZ The wind rushing through your hair. TIM [INAUDIBLE] Because the wind whisked the hair off. And on some journey before there's ill convertibles for you. FUZZ But the ironic thing is, now here we are in an open top car. Yet it's the saloon that is better through the wind. It's the one that cuts through the air better. NARRATOR Yeah Tim, Fuzz has a point. With the roof down, Cabriolets are generally less aerodynamic. TIM Right? Power delivery. How does it feel? FUZZ Well, actually, I know it's not as quick as modern cars. TIM Yeah. FUZZ But it's perfectly quick enough. TIM Right? FUZZ It does feel faster than we're going. I looked at the speedo there thinking 50. TIM Yeah. 32. FUZZ Yeah. Exactly. TIM But you're under the speed limit. That was a 40 speed limit. So you're under this limit. You're safe. Everything's good. We're having a good time. FUZZ Well, that's kind of good. It feels that it's just powerful enough. TIM Yeah. TIM Modern cars tear away from roundabouts and junctions with such speed, but it's all being done by the car's onboard computer systems, so it's not really the driver that's doing it. Whereas the driver has to do it in cars of this area. TIM So many cars are better at convertible form. And I think this does. The Aston Martin DB9, the Volante, the convertible looks better? How can I prove it to you then? You're having a better time now than you want in a coupe. FUZZ Simple. You have to do it scientifically. Science is fact. TIM Okay, then I will prove it. That convertibles are more scientific? FUZZ It's going to take some blue sky thinking. And let me tell you, looking up, it's all very grey. Especially in your case. Can we put the hood up there? NARRATOR Back in the workshop, Fuzz is trying to crack the case of the enigmatic engine. While it isn't blocked, as he feared when he found the cooling system flush. FUZZ It's nice and sharp. All of the waterways are nice and short. NARRATOR He has discovered another problem. FUZZ Nestling inside the engine, we found a slightly worn camshaft. These engines are known for wearing out their camshafts. And so what we've decided to do is to replace the camshaft. NARRATOR A new camshaft means the valves will open and close at the correct times to let in fuel and air, so the engine runs more efficiently. FUZZ Before we actually fit the camshaft, what I'm going to do is make sure we've got plenty of oil on the running surfaces of the head here. So in goes the camshaft. Nice and gently through the head. NARRATOR While the cam operates the valves, the crankshaft uses the energy they produce to help turn the wheels. The cam and crank are connected via the cam belt, and they need to be aligned before the belt goes on. FUZZ I have a little pointer there on the crankshaft, a little pointer here on the cam wheel, a little bit on the pointer on the crank, a little bit on the pointer. So now we'll turn the crank. And the cam. There we are. Top dead centre. FUZZ Right now to fit the cam belt, when we go around the crankshaft pulley. So now what we're going to do fit a few more of the components. Then we'll run it up and see how it's running. NARRATOR Meanwhile, Tim is investigating the interior. Luckily, it's in good nick. But there's still one conundrum. The seats. After talking to Ford experts, he's now sure they're aftermarket. Finding originals could be tricky. So he's consulting Marc on what to do with them. TIM Come on in. Come on in. I'm hiding it from you. Right. You ready? There she is. MARC Wow. TIM How does that feel? MARC Very different to when I last saw it. TIM Does it really? MARC Yeah. TIM Now, in terms of the shell, we have dodged a massive bullet. Of a car of this age with this many miles, usually there's more rot on it, but actually, it's in really good condition. Those seats, those Recaros. What is your impression on keeping those seats? MARC I'm not 100% sure whether they're original or not, but they-- Jake likes them seats, so if they were to stay, that wouldn't be the end of the world. TIM They might have been put into the car after the date this car was sold, which would mean it didn't leave the factory with them. But if you tell me Jake wants those seats, they stay. MARC Yeah, definitely. He likes them seats. TIM Right. Next question. Now, am I right in thinking you guys are pretty into Leeds? MARC Oh, season ticket holders, mad Leeds fans. TIM Who's Jake's favourite player? MARC Ethan Ampadu. TIM The captain of Leeds. So when the car's done, I want to get Ethan. I want to get leads. I want to get the car and get Jake down there. Would that be a good day for Jake? MARC Amazing. TIM Okay, on one condition. That you look to that camera there and you say when Leeds pays Sheffield United, I hope Leeds lose? MARC Absolutely not. I can't possibly do that. TIM Why not? MARC If Jake ever saw this programme, he'd rather not have the car. TIM Well, the truth be known, that was a test. And you pass the test because in showing me just how devoted you two are to Leeds United, that gives me the inspiration to create that day for Jake. Right. Go on, get out of here. We'll get it sorted. All right? MARC Thank you. NARRATOR So Tim needs to score a football themed reveal. And with the seat staying, he now needs to investigate how to clean the old material without damaging it. In the meantime, Fuzz wants to know if he solved the puzzle of the engine. It's now on a rig ready for a run test. FUZZ Whatcha, Chris. CHRIS Hi, Fuzz, you okay? FUZZ Yeah. Cool. How are we doing? CHRIS Fine. Thank you. FUZZ So, what is the plan for today? CHRIS Basically what we're doing is, we're bending the camshaft at 3,000 revs for, like 15 minutes. FUZZ Wearing the camshaft in prevents the camshaft from wearing out prematurely. CHRIS Yeah. Of course. FUZZ Is that because that all the metals have got to actually wear in together? CHRIS Yes. FUZZ I suppose we're looking for leaks. CHRIS Looking for fuel leaks, water leaks. There's no visible signs of water leaks. So, obviously you fitted the camshaft yourself, didn't you, Fuzz, and, um. FUZZ So hold on. This is you. This is you putting it onto me? Yes I did. So if there's anything wrong, it's my fault. CHRIS It's your fault. You got to repair it. FUZZ Nice one. NARRATOR It's the moment of truth. Has Fuzz fitted that camshaft and serviced the engine properly? FUZZ Fingers crossed. Here we go. NARRATOR Tim wants to convert files to the joys of the Ford Escort XR3i Convertible, by refurbishing a Marc 4 that 20 year old Leeds fan, Jake, and his dad were struggling to finish. Jake's living with the effects of Kawasaki disease. It's left him with aneurysms that cause a heart attack. MARC I would love to have got it done if I'd have known we could have got it done then, but it's just so difficult now to even attempt to do anything. NARRATOR Fuzz has overhauled the engine. Now he's about to find out if he's done the job properly. FUZZ Okay, we've got a runner. NARRATOR It starts. But will it carry on running without any problems? FUZZ So long as the oil pressure stays good, the water temperature stays good. CHRIS Yep. NARRATOR All they can do now is watch and wait for the final results. FUZZ That's our 15 minutes up. CHRIS Yep. FUZZ So any problems? CHRIS No, seems all okay. FUZZ Everything's good to go? CHRIS Yeah. FUZZ No leaks? I can't see any leaks in there at all or anything like that. Can I have a job as an engine builder? CHRIS Yeah, no problem. FUZZ All right. Cheers. NARRATOR So after a new camshaft and service, its case closed on the engine. But the roof, interior, brakes and body all still need finishing with just three weeks to Jake's 21st. The body's getting a dose of radiant red. That's an escort colour and not Fuzzy's old rock band. While Tim investigates how to clean the seats, he's taken on another challenge, proving to Fuzz that driving a convertible is more exciting than a tin top. To keep it in the Ford family, they're doing a test using the modern day Mustang. The pair and a group of volunteers will drive the hard and soft top versions. While they lap the track, Dan Phillips and his fellow neuroscientists from the Brain Box Research Centre will scientifically measure how excited the drivers are at the wheel of each car, using monitoring devices on their heads, hands and hearts. TIM Right rig in time for me. DAN PHILLIPS You ready Tim? TIM Yeah. Absolutely. DAN PHILLIPS We can measure excitement in several different ways. So we've got on the head the electrical activity being measured from the EEG cap, that's signals coming from the brain. On your hand, we've got two electrodes measuring, there's your sweat on your on your hands, which is an indication of excitement. TIM What, so the more sweaty you get? DAN PHILLIPS Exactly. And then also good reliable heart rate monitoring as well. So two electrodes on the chest that will monitor your heart rate. You get excited, the heart pumps faster. TIM This hasn't been done before in a way that's going to it's going to create fact. And this is something which Fuzz cannot argue with. DAN PHILLIPS And we'll get you into the first car and record you doing multiple laps back out, rest again, and then put you back into the second car and we can compare the data afterwards. NARRATOR Tim is the first of several drivers to take to the track. DAN PHILLIPS You can do 70 miles an hour on the street, 45 on the bends. And keeping it as consistent as possible between both runs. TIM Okay. No worries. Thank you very much. Right. Let's make history. TIM Honestly, there is nothing better than the feeling of driving a convertible. TIM Right. Okay, what's the drill? Exactly the same, yeah? DAN PHILLIPS Exactly the same. TIM So this is the Coupe. Lovely car to drive. TIM They're both good fun. They're both awesome. DAN PHILLIPS Excellent. TIM But facts can't lie can they? DAN PHILLIPS No. NARRATOR To get a scientifically valid result, they need to test a range of drivers, not just Tim and Fuzz. So now it's the turn of the volunteers. VOLUNTEER Both of them are great. VOLUNTEER The fixed head was nice. I just didn't feel like I was connected. I'm really surprised by that. DAN PHILLIPS The more data we can collect across more subjects with consistent parameters, that's the key thing as well. TIM The stronger our facts. DAN PHILLIPS Exactly. TIM Right. Okay. NARRATOR And last but by no means least, the man Tim needs to persuade gets behind the wheel. TIM No, no, just get out there. It's okay to admit it. It's okay. You'll have a better time in this. Go on. Off you go. Enjoy yourself. FUZZ All right. TIM Is there a chance that what they are perceiving as being fun won't be as much fun as their body is saying? DAN PHILLIPS It'd be really hard to try and fool the data for the results. TIM So in other words, Fuzz could be saying, "I don't like convertibles", but secretly he's having a great time. NARRATOR If that face says fun, I'll dread to see Fuzz having a bad time. TIM You were going so slow you nearly fell off. FUZZ I did what I was told. I went 70mph on the straight and 45mph on the curves. TIM All right, here we go. Test complete from Fuzzbot so we can send him back to the workshop now. NARRATOR With all the test circuits don, the boffins need a few days to crunch the data. NARRATOR With just two weeks until Jake's 21st, the seats aren't ready. the roof needs its outer vinyl layer and the engine needs fitting. The front brakes have seized, a common problem when cars sit around, so new ones are going on. At the rear. Fuzz found aftermarket disc brakes, so he's reinstating original drum brakes as fitted by Ford. FUZZ So if drum brakes were good enough for Ford's engineers on the back, they're good enough for me. First of all, we have to fit our shoes on. What I'm going to do is fit the handbrake cable, which goes in like so. Now it's time to get the brake shoes in. So I'm going to get one in there. Then big pull. And we are almost in place. Right, now on with our hub and brake drum combo. Stick the outer bearing in. I'll just leave that for now. I'm going to do the other side and I'll do it all up once I've got both sides on. NARRATOR Jake's birthday is just eight days off and the roof's entering its final stages. The interior lining and insulation are clean and back on. Now Fuzz is attaching the vinyl layer with help from professional fitter, AJ. FUZZ I'm slightly trepidatious about this. I know how many things could go wrong. Too much slack in the roof and it will flop down. It'll be loose. It'll flap about in the wind and rain will puddle into it and gradually seep through. NARRATOR A tensioning wire runs along the bottom section of the roof to keep it taut. FUZZ And this is the thing that holds the hood tucked underneath here. So we've got a kind of a rolled edge here which sits there, and this goes underneath and pulls it all up like that. NARRATOR They're reusing the original wire, to fit it under the rolled edge of the body, Fuzz pulls while AJ feeds it in. FUZZ When I pull it, it needs to go under, so FUZZ Oh, you [bleep] Yeah. Yeah. I'm okay. But we need a new wire. I'm afraid that the frayed wire did not have enough strength in it. Now we're in proper trouble because we need to find another one of these. And fast. And we're fast running out of time. NARRATOR Tim has to get his skates on too. The seats need cleaning. So he's seeing a man called Luke who uses dry ice to get the job done. TIM What I know is that dry ice cleaning is the only thing we can do to these seats. LUKE Yes, when you're using soap and chemicals and you're rubbing it, you're degrading it further, you're ageing it more. You're also introducing water to the foam, which will then seep in and over time will degrade it even more. Dry ice cleaning is non abrasive and there's no chemicals. TIM Am I right in thinking that you guys you you don't actually create more CO2? LUKE What we do is we actually use power plants where the CO2 is captured. TIM Yeah. So you take that stuff, squeeze it down, reduce it down in temperature and it becomes a solid. LUKE Yes. TIM At what temperature is it solid? LUKE -78.5 degrees Centigrade. NARRATOR So the ice can only be handled with gloves. Otherwise it causes burns. TIM So that is, what's amazing about what I have in my hand now is that is the stuff all us human beings produce from breathing out in solid form. LUKE A small granule of that as a gas will fill up a 500 litre [UNIT CONVERSION 132.086 gallons] bottle. NARRATOR Professor Shaw wants to show how the dry ice expands into a gas. TIM Let me use your bag. NARRATOR But the demo needs safety kit, so please don't try this at home. TIM Right, then lose all the air out of that. And that will hopefully, by the time that we've cleaned these bad boys with that stuff have inflated into a bag and maybe even exploded. LUKE Yeah, so we've got a limited amount of time and then we're going to just fire it, compressed air, straight at the surface. TIM Right. The middle section looks pretty, uh, [PHONETIC skangery] LUKE You'll feel the cold. TIM Yeah. You can feel the cold, but it is completely dry, isn't it? LUKE Yeah, it is. Absolutely. TIM And is that remaining colour, is that what it should have been when it came out of the factory? LUKE Yeah. TIM Seriously, we've just done that? Oh my word. LUKE That's getting close. TIM I'm remarkably impressed with this. LUKE Yeah. TIM How is this doing this? LUKE So there's three processes that are going on here. There's sublimation. TIM Yeah. LUKE There's kinetic energy. And then there's thermal shock. TIM Right. So the sublimation is going from a solid to a gas. LUKE Yes. TIM The kinetic energy is the movement, the fact that we're hitting it with the dry ice. And the other one is. LUKE Yeah. TIM And the other one is. LUKE The thermal shock. TIM When things get cooler, they contract. So it would get smaller. NARRATOR And also more brittle. So any debris is easier to blast off. TIM Oh, come on. Stop. Oh my word. That was-- that was terrifying. Right. Okay, I'll get the rest of the seats in from the car, so we'll get it done. Let's get it finished. NARRATOR It's now the eve of Jake's 21st, and luckily they've sourced and fitted another tensioner for the roof. FUZZ The hood is being held in place and it's nice and stretched, taut like a drum. NARRATOR The clean seats are back. And that's not all. Tim's just received the results of the experiment. TIM You're a fan of tin top cars. So non-convertible? FUZZ That's right. TIM I'm a fan of convertibles. That is going to give a scientific proof as to the experiment we run, which is more fun, proving one of us to be. FUZZ Wrong. TIM Wrong. FUZZ Wrong. TIM Go on, read it out. Ditch that. Come on. Just get to it. You can't say it. FUZZ 83.3% preferred the convertible. 16.7% preferred the non-convertible. This figure for the preferring the non-convertible is Fuzz Townsend. So it's true. It's true. I do not find convertibles more exciting than tin tops. . But most people do. So we were both right. TIM Facts are 83.3% prefer the convertibles. So there we are. Convertibles are more fun. But not for you. FUZZ There we are. TIM Weirdo. NARRATOR So they're both right as usual, but it still could go horribly wrong on Jake's birthday if they don't finish, the bodywork, fit the rear window and wheels. Fuzz and Tim are over the moon as Jake's car is finished just in time for his 21st, and their returning it at the perfect place for a Leeds fan. TIM Leeds United Academy, Fuzzbot. FUZZ I know. How did you manage to pull this off? TIM I'll tell you in a minute, okay? But the star of the show is here, the XR3i, man. FUZZ I know and doesn't it look great in the daylight? New hood. Paintwork absolutely gleaming. Original wheels. This is absolutely magnificent. TIM Today is a very, very special day. Look, I know when we give a car back, it's a special day. FUZZ Yeah. TIM 21st birthday. FUZZ I know Jake's 21st. TIM Right? FUZZ What a present. How are we giving it back to him? TIM Right. Leeds United academy. FUZZ Yeah. TIM Like Jake is the biggest Leeds fan you'll ever meet. Season ticket holders. His dad, Marc, has arranged for him to come down here with his son. "Son, for your 21st, you can have a tour of the Leeds United Academy. The training ground." FUZZ Brilliant. NARRATOR The team captain is a guy called Ethan Ampadu. FUZZ Yeah. NARRATOR Jake absolutely worships. FUZZ Yeah. Cool. TIM We've managed to arrange it. Here's the 21st present where Marc introduces him to Ethan and Ethan gives them a tour of here. FUZZ Brilliant. TIM But at the end of the tour, they come out here and meet the mascot, who will be me. FUZZ That's you? TIM Yeah. You sneak up with the car behind him, hat comes off, car comes out. The rest is his history. A 21st he will never, ever, ever forget. Come on, I'll get the outfit on. NARRATOR Marc arrives with son Jake, who thinks he's being filmed for Leeds social media. They have no idea Tim is disguised as Leeds mascot, Kop Cat. UNKNOWN FEMALE Kop cat scared me just sat there. TIM He's just getting mic'd up at the moment NARRATOR To kick things off, Leeds captain, Ethan Ampadu, who's in on the surprise, is taking them for a tour. ETHAN AMPADU Hello, hello. JAKE You all right? ETHAN AMPADU Yeah. Good. Thanks. How are you? JAKE Not too bad. ETHAN AMPADU Ethan. Nice to meet you. How are you? Good. TIM Here you go. They're saying hello, right? Wow. He's like, my God, that's Ethan Ampadu. That's a big deal. ETHAN AMPADU I can show you around. Well, I think I know it pretty well. Lifelong Leeds fans? MARC Yeah, yeah. ETHAN AMPADU Yeah? JAKE Season tickets. ETHAN AMPADU This is, yeah, where we have a little bit of activation, a little bit of gym, test reactions, test stuff in the dark. ETHAN AMPADU Yeah, this is the boot room. JAKE Wow. ETHAN AMPADU My favourite thing in here is this. JAKE What's that? ETHAN AMPADU The boot steamer warms them up. So especially these cold months. MARC Oh, before you put them on? ETHAN AMPADU Yeah. Put your boots in there. Yes, that's the boot room. Sorry about the smell. MARC NARRATOR With Fuzz at the wheel of the Escort... it's time to spring the trap. TIM Hello, Jake. You all right? JAKE Yeah. Not bad, are you? TIM There's something you might recognise there. JAKE [bleep] Is that my car? TIM That is your car. That is your Escort, mate. JAKE Never. TIM Come and look at this. Come over here. Have you any idea what's going on? JAKE No. TIM I'm going to hand over to your dad now to explain what's going on. Marc, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity on your son's 21st birthday. Come on. MARC After everything you've been through in your life and the heart attack earlier on this year, I just wanted to get this done and give you something for your 21st that you could cherish and remember. TIM Come on, bring out the family. Come on. TIM Come on. Come and say hello. Come and say hello. Give him a cuddle. We know from speaking to your dad, that you've had a tough time with your heart condition. This is why your dad wrote to us and he's been working behind your back with us guys beavering away to get your car on the road so you could drive it for your 21st. Today is a massive day for you, isn't it? It would only be right to sing him happy birthday on his 21st. So come on. Three. Two. One. Happy birthday to you. You hate attention, don't you? ALL Happy Birthday to you. TIM He's shy, stop it. ALL Happy birthday day, dear Jake. Happy birthday to you! TIM Hurray! Can we have a round of applause for Jake and his XR3i, please? And also, thank you very much to Ethan, the wonderful Ethan Ampadu for giving up your time. Thank you mate. Get back to training. YASEMIN He's got a heart condition anyway from when he was like nine. So yeah, he's been through a lot. So, yeah, he really does deserve it. We're really proud of him. ETHAN AMPADU My biggest thing was trying not to spoil the moment for him, but I don't think he had a clue, which I think made it that actually a little bit special when he turned around and saw the car. NARRATOR With Jake needing regular medical treatment, the Escort looked relegated to a life unfinished until the boys stepped in and put this car right back in the Premier League. The roof is now a complete triumph, all ready for when the sun shines and Jake can have scientifically proven more fun. Inside, the seats and rest of the interior are back to their very best. Outside, the bodywork and wheels are as sharp as the day it rolled out of the factory, and the rebuilt engine is ready to deliver the hot hatch performance that matches the car's good looks. TIM How does it feel to be in your car, dude? JAKE It feels really good. It feels really nice. TIM Does it? JAKE Yeah. I can't wait to drive it. TIM What is it about the XR3i, Jake? JAKE It's just, I don't know, it's how it looks. It's retro. It's just how it makes you feel when you're sat in it and hopefully when I'm driving it. TIM When you saw the car, how did that feel? JAKE Oh, it feels great. I feel like when you hear people saying, this is one of the things that never happens to me, and I never win out, it feels like exactly like that with one of the best days of my life. I'm not a very expressive person, to be honest, but, um, I am very excited. And this is-- this is really, really exciting. TIM Can we talk about what you've been through? Suffering with a heart attack at the age of 20, something that most people couldn't ever imagine. So the fact that you've gone through that, you cope with it and you still live with that threat means that you're one hell of a guy. JAKE Thank you. TIM And I want you to remember that. I really mean it. So when your dad got this, it was a father son project? JAKE Yeah, it was. TIM And then you got ill, and that stopped. What's the future for it now? JAKE Well, it's great because we started working on it together, and now we've got it. And it's something we can enjoy and go out in together and go to maybe classic car shows and stuff like that and enjoy them together. TIM Spend a bit of time with your dad? TIM Yeah. TIM What does your dad mean to you? JAKE He means everything to me. He's always there whenever I need him. TIM Really? JAKE Yeah. TIM Love him to bits? JAKE Yeah. TIM Jake, there's only one thing left to do. And that is to tell you that you have been car S.O.S.'d and hand you your keys. JAKE Thank you very much. TIM And carry on living every single day with a big smile on your face. JAKE I will do. TIM And however you manage it, just keep going. All right? TIM Go go go go go. Yeah! FUZZ FUZZ Do you know? I think you've found your true vocation there. That suits you. TIM I'm a Sheffield United-- don't tell anyone. MARC Happy birthday. Jake. What do you think to your present? JAKE Thank you very much. It's fantastic. Everything I wanted it to be. MARC Brilliant. MARC How does it drive? JAKE Even though the car's 35 years old, it still feels like it drives like new, I can't wait to drive with this with the roof down in summer. MARC Yeah, it'll be fantastic. MARC Thanks, dad. This is one of the best days of my life. MARC You're very welcome. We love you very much, and you deserve it. ###