Worst bodge you have seen
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Slow said:
In general lots of zip ties.
Vauxhall wanted £163 plus vat for a complete new gear linkage on my Vivaro because you cant just buy a new grommit for the end, so one zip tie later.......Having grown up in an era when cars rusted i have had many with large amounts of filler the usual place was in the sills and underseal over, people kind of missed the point that the nasty MOT man had failed the car as it was structurally unsound.......
Used to take a magnet along when looking at used cars
Gilhooligan said:
I guy on my college course jubilee clipped a couple of beer cans round a rusted part of his exhaust. It actually held for a couple of months too!
When I was 18 (a very long while ago!) that was a standard repair. If you used "Gun Gum" exhaust paste under the tin it was a very effective long-lasting fix.
tron AX was held in with silicone sealant and duct tape... the aim was spot on though My "best" bodge was a baked bean tin sawn in half and filled with fireman's trousers, fitted underneath a carb, to prevent the heat from the exhaust manifold boiling the petrol in the carb. This was closely followed by a piece of curved house drain guttering attached to the underside of the car to guide air into the rear engine bay. This is on a GTM Coupe kit car by the way. Worked brilliantly, cheapest fix wins!
The next buyer wasn't amused though...
The next buyer wasn't amused though...
I bought a Golf Mk2 with an odd issue with the windscreen washer. It would squirt now and then, but never when you really needed it to.
I tracked it down to the switch (a toggle switch, as the stalk had lost the ability to operate the squirt) that had been wired into the 'door open, light on' switch. It would only squirt when the drivers side door was opened!
Just....why?!
I tracked it down to the switch (a toggle switch, as the stalk had lost the ability to operate the squirt) that had been wired into the 'door open, light on' switch. It would only squirt when the drivers side door was opened!
Just....why?!
Brother in law lashed a wrogn sized battery into a cavalier with a bungee cord, worked ok until he went over a bump the battery jumped just enough to hit the bonnet, left a good scorch mark and killed some fuses but survived.
Funnily enough, my recently departed 944 cost me a few quid as part of a running issue and that was a partly down to a badly fitted alarm.
The alrm thing was a theme in the nineties, loads of Toad, Clifford and Laserline stuff fitted with little care, I had a Mk1 Golf GTI and the insurance insisted on an alarm I couldnt really afford, took it to Halfords expecting a half decent job and it was horrific, the wires for the door contacts were hung in the door jamb to get squished by the door as it closed, took it back and got my money back after a lot of moaning, wouldnt let them take it off and threatened to get an independant engineers report and charge them for the damage, took it home and refitted it myself properly, found the box hanging in the dash not attached, the sired attached by overly long self tappers, screwed into the scuttle at an odd angle, to be honest it would have taken longer to think of ways to do it so badly.
Funnily enough, my recently departed 944 cost me a few quid as part of a running issue and that was a partly down to a badly fitted alarm.
The alrm thing was a theme in the nineties, loads of Toad, Clifford and Laserline stuff fitted with little care, I had a Mk1 Golf GTI and the insurance insisted on an alarm I couldnt really afford, took it to Halfords expecting a half decent job and it was horrific, the wires for the door contacts were hung in the door jamb to get squished by the door as it closed, took it back and got my money back after a lot of moaning, wouldnt let them take it off and threatened to get an independant engineers report and charge them for the damage, took it home and refitted it myself properly, found the box hanging in the dash not attached, the sired attached by overly long self tappers, screwed into the scuttle at an odd angle, to be honest it would have taken longer to think of ways to do it so badly.
A neighbor's son bought an old Hilux Duel cab 4X4 style side ute.
Spilled battery acid had corroded a hole through the chassis. The PO had covered the damage with duct tape, painted it white, like the rest of the thing, then rubbed soot, grease & dirt into the paint.
It had passed a roadworthy inspection like that.
ClaphamGT3 said:
Worst dodge ever seen was on a Mini 1275GT with an MOT in 1986. Looking around and noticed that a brake hose to one of the front drums was perished and had been isolated upstream of the rupture with a pair of mole grips clamped onto the hose!!!
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