A Ford Focus RS from a dealer, and 'bodgery on a new level' for Rob and Chris

The Kent workshop's second look at the hot hatch it bought already repaired found a long cracked windscreen and a past repair Chris picks apart piece by piece.

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REPAIRING A FORD FOCUS RS UNCOVERS BODGERY ON A NEW LEVEL!

Salvage Rebuilds UK has an unusual problem car on the jig. Rob and Chris bought a Ford Focus RS from a dealer, already repaired, and the first video on it, from three weeks ago, called it a death trap. This week's follow-up, "REPAIRING A FORD FOCUS RS UNCOVERS BODGERY ON A NEW LEVEL!", is the one where Chris starts undoing someone else's work, and it passed 180,000 views in five days.

The comment section is mostly about Chris himself. He apparently worried aloud that he was waffling, and viewers answered in numbers that he should keep going: many say his thinking-through of a complicated structural repair is the reason they watch. The line everyone repeats is his verdict on the previous repairer, that they must have owned only one pair of mole grips. A self-described MOT tester also weighs in on the cracked windscreen, and is not impressed that it ever passed.

The week's other upload is the payoff the channel's about text promises at the end of every project: a VW Transporter, fixed and ready for sale, with a profit the title says they were not expecting. It is the faster of the two right now, close to 25,000 views a day.

The whole channel moved at nearly double its usual daily pace, about 650,000 views across the week. Among similar car channels that put it mid-table; Hydra and Tom Coolen had the biggest weeks, while Burlacher was quiet. Two videos, as the workshop always says, and one Focus RS that is clearly not finished with them yet.

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The numbers

Here is how the workshop's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Hydra

2,216,293

Tom Coolen

1,851,274

Calvin's Car Diary

1,195,339

Mat Armstrong Shorts

1,110,033

Pole Barn Garage

794,938

Trucker Tim

710,685

salvage rebuilds uk

655,888

Saving Salvage

379,712

Burlacher

11,301

subscribers

365,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

145,461,991

views per day

145,019

typical day: 76,477

first-day views of each video posted this week

REPAIRING A FORD FOCUS RS UNCOVERS BODG…

130,552

THIS VW TRANSPORTER READY FOR SALE AND …

93,773

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Mat Armstrong Shorts

384,000

Hydra

383,000

Calvin's Car Diary

378,000

Burlacher

377,000

Trucker Tim

367,000

salvage rebuilds uk

365,000

Saving Salvage

356,000

Pole Barn Garage

340,000

Tom Coolen

339,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.