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Peter Greaves

Peter Greaves, aka PetrolPed — UK automotive YouTuber with ~300k subscribers and host of the Drive Torque Podcast.

Oct 5, 2026

6:03
What did he tell you about what kind of clothing it was?
6:06
So the indication from them was it was a pair of jeans, which he wasn't 100% sure whether they were male or female jeans because he couldn't tell.
6:14
There was a pair of ladies' underpants and also a bra and a pair of flat shoes.

13 MINS LATER

19:24
Before they head off next morning, one of the dogs does another quick run over and indicates at the exact same spot.
19:32
So we're confident there's something there worth looking at.
19:36
So this morning, we're just doing the investigation, looking at how we can clear the area enough to get in there and have a decent look at it.
9:21
Mm.
9:21
And I spent a long time, maybe three months or so, just thinking about it, because I used to drive around the country a lot, just thinking, "Oh, I could give it a go.
9:29
Should I or shouldn't I?" And in the end I just went and bought a, a 200 quid Sony camcorder from Currys.
9:35
Um, I had a Mini, and we had an Audi S4, um, so I made some films with them.
9:41
I had some friends that had just got new cars and filmed with them, and, and the rest is history really.
9:46
Um, it was never ever, ever gonna be anything more than just a play thing, a hobby just to-

10 MINS LATER

20:14
Great.
20:14
Um, and they had, uh, Audi, um, Jaguar, Land Rover.
5:14
He relays all this down the phone to Peter, then says he'll go and take a look around for him.
5:20
Geoff went to the house, had a look, and he told me that the house looked like people had just walked out the door.
5:26
Everything was still in situ, um, you know, furniture, all that sort of stuff.
5:31
That was really odd, that if someone was moving to the other side of the world that the house would be sort of packed up to a certain degree.
5:40
From that, I started to become more concerned about what was going on.
6:27
Untouched bank accounts, no proof they'd left the country, Peter had to get creative.
6:33
I started looking at potentially, well, what other processes could there be to leave the country without trace? The only things I could come up with was via maybe a cargo vessel in, um, Fremantle or perhaps a private boat or something like that.

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