After buying world's cheapest McLaren and using Temu parts to rebuild it, this guy ran into a huge problem
- This man bought a wrecked McLaren for cheap
- He decided to rebuild it using parts from Temu
- But the project hasn’t run smoothly
Published on Apr 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Apr 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
A man who bought a wrecked McLaren 650S Spider for cheap and attempted to fix it up with parts he bought from Temu eventually ran into a huge problem.
YouTuber and car enthusiast The Inja managed to snag the crash-damaged McLaren 650 Spider for just $38,500.
To keep costs low, he decided to try and fix the supercar with cut-price parts from Temu.
What could go wrong? Well, it turns out quite a bit.
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He bought the McLaren 650S Spider for cheap
If you hoped to buy a used McLaren 650S Spider supercar, you’d be looking to pay, on average, around $132,741.
So, when YouTuber The Inja managed to track one down for $38,500, he snapped it up and began the long and painstaking process of getting it back on the road.
Since then, he fitted the car with a new engine and bought a cheap body kit from Temu to get it looking as good as it once did.
However, his journey to rebuilding the once-stunning supercar hasn’t been without its share of problems and issues.
He got the car back on the road, but was it a success?
In a recent clip uploaded to his YouTube channel, The Inja took the McLaren 650S out on its first test drive but began to lose power steering en route. Not ideal.
The supercar had also sprung a small leak in its hydraulic system.
After fixing the leak, he took the McLaren to be realigned, and somewhat amazingly, that appeared to fix the steering.
Although the next couple of test drives were a bit touch and go, a couple of days later, The Inja was about ready to call the whole project as a huge success.
“You guys probably have forgotten how much has gone into this right here,” he said as he sat behind the wheel.
“It’s just such a surreal feeling right now, it’s all actually working.”
The whole thing took more than a year, but the YouTuber was, understandably, over the moon with how things went.
“I rebuilt every system on the cheapest price, salvaged sight unseen, McLaren ever sold, with no experience rebuilding an exotic car,” he said in the clip.
But with all the work done, it was time to put the McLaren through the emissions test, and that’s when things started to go south.
Just as he arrived at the test center, the ‘check engine’ light flashed up on the dashboard, and he had to return home with the supercar without completing the test.
Ouch.
It looks like there might a little more work to do before the McLaren is finally back on the road.
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Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Claire covers a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on cars, technology, planes, cryptocurrency, and luxury.
