Former contestants of MTV’s Pimp My Ride show have revealed to The Huffington Post that the show, which promised the owners a complete makeover of their cars, was bogus. Three of the owners who got their cars pimped – Jake Glazier from Season 4 and Seth Martino and Justin Dearinger from Season 6 – said that the custom features installed by Xzibit and his crew didn’t work, messed up their cars, or were fitted only for the TV.

Justin Dearinger’s pop-up champagne contraption was uninstalled soon after the show because Xzibit didn’t want to condone drinking and driving; his drive-in theatre was removed for not being street safe. Five years after the show, his pimped car burst into flames.

LED lights put in the seats and television screens in Seth Martino’s car never worked post the shooting of the episode. After a month, Seth had to save money to replace the engine. Jake Glazer sold his car after a month and the new owner informed him that it had already blown out.

Jake revealed that the excitement reactions were faked and re-shot many times at houses rented by MTV but shown as contestants’ homes. They had to coax him to go ‘ape shit’ as his natural reaction to being genuinely excited. The director had told Justin to ‘be more energetic and jump around and scream’.

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