Worst bodge you have seen
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Stuartggray said:
I once drove my Triumph 250 motorbike through Edinburgh with a Molegrip in place of the gear change lever. Had to be careful on the down change not to hit the release lever.
I had a scooter nicked when I was sixteen and the offending parties did a similar thing.... They fixed two molegrips to the top of the steering column after ripping most of the fairing round the headstock off to get to the ignition, needless to say, they crashed it. 10/10 for ingenuity though! 
Mine seems a bit weak now..
The auto boot popup from the remote stopped working on the jetta, you know you press the button and its supposed to pop open, but it only slightly lifts rather then popping open.
Looking closely I could see that the rubber bung at the end of the hydrolic boot release had eroded away, so I glued a 5pence piece there, worked ever since.
The auto boot popup from the remote stopped working on the jetta, you know you press the button and its supposed to pop open, but it only slightly lifts rather then popping open.
Looking closely I could see that the rubber bung at the end of the hydrolic boot release had eroded away, so I glued a 5pence piece there, worked ever since.
Taken from another forum i frequent ,
The lower triple broke in a trailering incident where the bike was tied down (too tightly) and I went through a gutter (too fast) leaving a parking lot at an angle. The sideways jolt put a lateral force that the lower triple wasn't designed to take and it broke. Believe it or not, I fixed it with three pins and JB WELD!!!! It has taken the forces of spirited canyon riding and the race track and I've been using it that way for about 4 years (8,000km). I just had a bad feeling this spring (trying to get her back on the road for the year) and I just have to find a replacement.
The lower triple broke in a trailering incident where the bike was tied down (too tightly) and I went through a gutter (too fast) leaving a parking lot at an angle. The sideways jolt put a lateral force that the lower triple wasn't designed to take and it broke. Believe it or not, I fixed it with three pins and JB WELD!!!! It has taken the forces of spirited canyon riding and the race track and I've been using it that way for about 4 years (8,000km). I just had a bad feeling this spring (trying to get her back on the road for the year) and I just have to find a replacement.
Edited by bimsb6 on Thursday 3rd October 21:57
Edited by bimsb6 on Thursday 3rd October 21:59
I've done the exhaust repair with a baked bean tin, the replace the throttle cable with a bit of baling twine we found by the side of the road, was fun pulling on it from the back seat. a mate had a Hilux pick up with a washing up bowl hung underneath the sump. It needed emptying back into the engine about every forty miles.
I also saw a car dealer have some feeler gauges shoved into the bearings of an MR2 before it was shipped of to auction after it had run out of oil. Be very afraid of buying bangers from auction.
I also saw a car dealer have some feeler gauges shoved into the bearings of an MR2 before it was shipped of to auction after it had run out of oil. Be very afraid of buying bangers from auction.
This summer (just gone!) at Castle Combe doing a track day in our Quantum 2+2 CVH Turbo and found that the camcover oilcap had decided to live somewhere round the circuit. It just so happens that the antifreeze bottle that we keep spare coolant in cap fitted a treat, however it now sports a new Ford one.
My daughter bought a Nissan 200x in the Bath area from a "private" dealer and he said the brakes need looking at..............after driving it the 80 miles home to Hampshire I found that it was actually missing a front brake pad, but who needs brakes?
My daughter bought a Nissan 200x in the Bath area from a "private" dealer and he said the brakes need looking at..............after driving it the 80 miles home to Hampshire I found that it was actually missing a front brake pad, but who needs brakes?
Slow said:
black and green said:
My old 2.8i Capri lost it's 5th gear whilst I was trying to sell it. As 5th was the only gear that was knackered (it popped out of 5th but the rest were ok) I fitted a 4 speed gearknob from a scrapper. Not proud of myself, but it was a long time ago.
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king brilliant.LaurasOtherHalf said:
Slow said:
black and green said:
My old 2.8i Capri lost it's 5th gear whilst I was trying to sell it. As 5th was the only gear that was knackered (it popped out of 5th but the rest were ok) I fitted a 4 speed gearknob from a scrapper. Not proud of myself, but it was a long time ago.
fking brilliant.It took a road test to convince him there was a 5th gear on the car! he had owned it for 12 months...
bimsb6 said:
Taken from another forum i frequent ,
The lower triple broke in a trailering incident where the bike was tied down (too tightly) and I went through a gutter (too fast) leaving a parking lot at an angle. The sideways jolt put a lateral force that the lower triple wasn't designed to take and it broke. Believe it or not, I fixed it with three pins and JB WELD!!!! It has taken the forces of spirited canyon riding and the race track and I've been using it that way for about 4 years (8,000km). I just had a bad feeling this spring (trying to get her back on the road for the year) and I just have to find a replacement.
The lower triple broke in a trailering incident where the bike was tied down (too tightly) and I went through a gutter (too fast) leaving a parking lot at an angle. The sideways jolt put a lateral force that the lower triple wasn't designed to take and it broke. Believe it or not, I fixed it with three pins and JB WELD!!!! It has taken the forces of spirited canyon riding and the race track and I've been using it that way for about 4 years (8,000km). I just had a bad feeling this spring (trying to get her back on the road for the year) and I just have to find a replacement.
My mate asked me to help fit a tow bar to his Ford LTD estate. We got it up on the ramps and the first thing I noticed was the exhaust... It was made out of scaffold tube! mainly bent to fit with a hydraulic pipe bender but where it went over the axle, the could not get enough bend, so he made multiple cuts to one side of the pipe, bent it, and then brazed the cuts up! it was supported with lorry engine mountings to the floor!
while we were fitting the tow bar I was using a convenient handle to pull myself under the car... I thought it was a strange place to have a handle... Then I realised it was a metal dust bin that had the bottom cut off and flattened out! he had left the handle on!
while we were fitting the tow bar I was using a convenient handle to pull myself under the car... I thought it was a strange place to have a handle... Then I realised it was a metal dust bin that had the bottom cut off and flattened out! he had left the handle on!
Stuartggray said:
I once drove my Triumph 250 motorbike through Edinburgh with a Molegrip in place of the gear change lever. Had to be careful on the down change not to hit the release lever.
Not a bodge as such but I remember travelling down the Mound in Edinburgh in my 2cv with a dodgy steering column - the splines were worn and it kept jumping as I turned corners....not the best!The most dangerous bodge failures I have ever seen was about 20 years ago. One of the guys who worked in one of the garages I run went out to a breakdown on the M54 to a VW where the tyre had come off the wheel. The guy didn't have a spare, and the flexible brake pipe had been ripped off.
When we got the car back to the workshop we could not believe the state of the alloy wheel. The owner told us the sequence of events...
Seems that a month previously he had been driving down the road when he had a flat tyre... He took the wheel off and found the reason it was flat was the brake calliper bolt had come out and the calliper had swung down and been rubbing on the inside of the alloy wheel. (how would you not hear that?) it had machined a nice neat groove all around the inside of the wheel, and when this had finally worn through on the thinnest part, the tyre went flat.
As he had no spare, he walked with the wheel to a tyre fitting place and asked them to remove the tyre and fit a tube! he told them it was just to get the car off the side of the road and he would not be driving it... So they removed the tyre, wrapped some tape on the inside of the rim, and re fitted the tyre with an inner tube.
roll on a month and he was on the M54 and the inner part of the wheel came off! The wheel had finally fractured, the tyre came off and took the brake pipes and inner wheel arch liner with it!
he said he kept meaning to get it looked at!
When we got the car back to the workshop we could not believe the state of the alloy wheel. The owner told us the sequence of events...
Seems that a month previously he had been driving down the road when he had a flat tyre... He took the wheel off and found the reason it was flat was the brake calliper bolt had come out and the calliper had swung down and been rubbing on the inside of the alloy wheel. (how would you not hear that?) it had machined a nice neat groove all around the inside of the wheel, and when this had finally worn through on the thinnest part, the tyre went flat.
As he had no spare, he walked with the wheel to a tyre fitting place and asked them to remove the tyre and fit a tube! he told them it was just to get the car off the side of the road and he would not be driving it... So they removed the tyre, wrapped some tape on the inside of the rim, and re fitted the tyre with an inner tube.
roll on a month and he was on the M54 and the inner part of the wheel came off! The wheel had finally fractured, the tyre came off and took the brake pipes and inner wheel arch liner with it!
he said he kept meaning to get it looked at!
Edited by buzzer on Friday 4th October 12:42
A friend of mine got one of her mates at uni to fit her car stereo. Got knows how he managed it but the rear speakers would pack up under braking (meaning the sound moved to the front of the car under braking which was quite amusing), and it would only work when the interior light was off. I can understand how he might have managed it only working when the light's on, but where did he find something that was only live when the doors were shut on a 1990's Escort?
I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
RizzoTheRat said:
A friend of mine got one of her mates at uni to fit her car stereo. Got knows how he managed it but the rear speakers would pack up under braking (meaning the sound moved to the front of the car under braking which was quite amusing), and it would only work when the interior light was off. I can understand how he might have managed it only working when the light's on, but where did he find something that was only live when the doors were shut on a 1990's Escort?
I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
Interior lights are usually live, earthed through the door switch, so it is definitely doable.I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
I once got a phone call to come and rescue a mate's espada. It turned out to have no fuel at the carbs, so I climbed underneath to have a look.
The factory fuel pump(s?) had failed at some point, and a previous owner had fitted a tiny facet fuel pump to feed the v12. Ok, but the dodgy bit is that it was just cable tied under the car, and hanging down below the suspension! Wires just twisted and taped, too.
Not for a road car, but a couple of weeks ago we did a grass autotest, my mate was using a borrowed micra. At some point before the start the rear shock had gone through the top of the turret, they wedged the top of the shock under the turret and used a ratchet strap across to the other shock to keep it still (he called it his strut brace). It survived being driven down a grass field at 40-50 mph, hand brake turns the whole nine yards.
I had a Proton Wira that had a leaking power steering fluid cooler, which caused it to make a grinding noise when the fluid got low - not good.
Turns out that the pas cooler could easily be removed without removing any body panels, and be bypassed with nothing but a 6" piece of garden hose, even using the factory clamps.
Looked fairly pro as well - and lasted for months until I sold it (and I saw it a while later so it didnt explode!)
Turns out that the pas cooler could easily be removed without removing any body panels, and be bypassed with nothing but a 6" piece of garden hose, even using the factory clamps.
Looked fairly pro as well - and lasted for months until I sold it (and I saw it a while later so it didnt explode!)
Many years back, a friend invited me to have a look at a low mileage Honda Prelude he had bought for his daughter.
I was horrified to find the entire front of the car had been welded on at the firewall. It was made of 2 cars welded together. It was very neatly done, & must have been OK.
She drove the thing for about 18 months, & sold it on.
I was horrified to find the entire front of the car had been welded on at the firewall. It was made of 2 cars welded together. It was very neatly done, & must have been OK.
She drove the thing for about 18 months, & sold it on.
When I bought my first Mini 998 I found a bolt in the fuse box.
Replaced it with the correct fuse, it blew. Replaced it again, it blew. Bugger this, put the bolt back in & it was fine!
There was a bloke hillclimbing an early Scirocco a couple of years ago with a 1.8T conversion, had a wooden heatshield on the Turbo! No idea how that passed scrutineering to be honest.
Replaced it with the correct fuse, it blew. Replaced it again, it blew. Bugger this, put the bolt back in & it was fine!
There was a bloke hillclimbing an early Scirocco a couple of years ago with a 1.8T conversion, had a wooden heatshield on the Turbo! No idea how that passed scrutineering to be honest.
remember when fitting glass sun roofs was all the rage? they would cut a hole in the roof and install a surround with a removable glass panel.
My mate took his Capri in to have one fitted, as they drilled the pilot hole to get the jigsaw in to cut the hole, they drilled into Body Filler, which was about an inch thick! They declined to fit the roof so he filled the hole with some more body filler, touched it in and sold it quick!
My mate took his Capri in to have one fitted, as they drilled the pilot hole to get the jigsaw in to cut the hole, they drilled into Body Filler, which was about an inch thick! They declined to fit the roof so he filled the hole with some more body filler, touched it in and sold it quick!
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