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The Smoking Tire

How Rob Dietz sold $175M of Cars on BaT

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Rob Dietz sold $175M worth of cars on Bring-a-Trailer. How and why did he do it? What are the changes he sees coming the car market? All that and more! https://www.instagram.com/wob_cars/ https://wobcars.com/author/wob/ https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-i-sold-252-million-in-cars-on-bring-a-trailer-2022-1 Recorded October 28, 2025 Show Notes: Smalls For a limited time get 60% off your first order when you head to https://www.smalls.com/tire Rula Thousands of guys have already used Rula to finally get the care they needed. Don’t keep putting it off -  go to https://www.Rula.com/tire and get started today. Take the first step, get connected, and take control of your mental health. Factor Eat smart at https://www.FactorMeals.com/tire50off and use code tire50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year. New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

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1:39.5

All right on this episode of the podcast, Rob Deetz, aka Wob, is in studio. Rob is the biggest or second

1:49.6

biggest bring a trailer seller of all time going back to the very first week they started offering

1:56.2

auctions. And we're talking about strategies for maximizing your return, trends in the market, all kinds of interesting stories with the buying and selling of cars online that are now totally ubiquitous.

2:09.9

So this is going to be real interesting.

2:11.8

Everyone, be real nice to my new friend Rob Dietz on the Smoking Tire podcast.

2:18.2

All right. Well, fucking welcome to the program. Thank you so much. Making the drive all the way from the valley in the middle of the day. Who, boy. In that giant ass rig. It's the best. It's the best. Dude, Rob rolls up. Is it a $2,500 or a? It's a power wagon, 2,500 with like a tent and a tire on top of the tent. It's like 12 feet tall. It's so enormous. What it, at highway speeds, is it a whistle? No, it's pretty quiet, actually. Really? It's pretty quiet. Oh, man, that's lucky. It's a marshmallow.

2:51.8

The shock absorbers are non-existent. It's just a stack of stay puffs on top of one another. It's great. Yeah, well, for the urban jungle, it is the 405 freeway. Yeah, well, thanks for coming down, man. Of course. I appreciate it. Oh, I did that wrong. oh no, what have I done?

3:08.0

I'm solo today and

3:10.1

Zach isn't here I appreciate it. Oh, I did that wrong. Oh, no. What have I done?

3:08.0

I'm solo today.

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