Worst bodge you have seen

[luckystrike]

David A said:

Not a bodge but helped a damsel in distress this morning (well done everyone who ignored her) she had hit a rock in the road and had a puncture !

That's exactly what modern wheels are designed to do - if the wheel is going to fail it's best to leave a round structure still bolted to the hub so the car's at least stable when the other three wheels/tyres (hopefully!) brake and slow you down. If the wheel buckles/shears spokes that corner's going to bounce all over the place or dig in.

[CrutyRammers]

Hrimfaxi said:

I don't know if this would be the "worst" bodge, but was certainly an emergency one with what we had at the time!

London to Brighton Mini Run 2013, exhaust fell off just outside Brighton on the way home - sounded like the world ended inside.

This got me home to Bromley - held up with cable ties, electric tape and a radio key thing. I fully expected it to fall off again on the way, but it held. Although my little Cooper sounded like a tank.

Makes me laugh everytime I think about it.

We did similar with an Astra to go 3 hours back through the Dales. All we had was string but it did the job

[Negative Creep]

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[dudleybloke]

Negative Creep said:

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That's brilliant.

[Benengo]

Once upon a time (as a young man, pre kids and while courting the now missus), I had a 964 turbo- omg what a car! Mrs Benengo was very impressed... right up until we left lincoln heading for bristol on a very rainy evening in november, only for the windscreen wiper mechanism to pack up after about 30 miles. I couldn't fix it by the roadside in the dark with no tools or a torch so liberated the strings and handles from a kite we had been, rather gayly (in the happy sense), been flying early that weekend.

Girlfriend not impressed with spending the next 150 miles as my manually operated windscreen wiper system, running string through the windows and tied to each wiper blade.......

worked out ok in the end with the mrs!....... 4 months after tying the knot the 911 was sadly gone however :0(

[DervVW]

shanes2k said:

Have a look at some of these, absolutely horrendous.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114836/Hi...

smart!

[longshot]

Negative Creep said:

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I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

[TooMany2cvs]

longshot said:

I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

Front wheel is driven by engine, and turns belt. Belt turns rear wheel.

[StoatInACoat]

This was a "friends" bodge to get through an MOT.



Worked though. There were advisories though. Lots and lots of advisories.

[longshot]

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

Front wheel is driven by engine, and turns belt. Belt turns rear wheel.

I'd figured that but I couldn't figure out what breakage/problem it was overcoming.
It would seem that it is an 'invention' rather than a bodge then.

I wouldn't fancy being a cyclist if his idea took off.

[TooMany2cvs]

longshot said:

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

Front wheel is driven by engine, and turns belt. Belt turns rear wheel.

I'd figured that but I couldn't figure out what breakage/problem it was overcoming.

Two wheel drive...

longshot said:

It would seem that it is an 'invention' rather than a bodge then.

Can it not be both? (Did you miss the hub-mount snowplough from page 9?)

longshot said:

I wouldn't fancy being a cyclist if his idea took off.

Don't worry. The first bend would have demonstrated the most fundamental shortcoming. Sure, the ship's wheel might remain attached, but...

[dfen5]

longshot said:

I'd figured that but I couldn't figure out what breakage/problem it was overcoming.
It would seem that it is an 'invention' rather than a bodge then.

I wouldn't fancy being a cyclist if his idea took off.

It's a redneck 4x4 if I'm not wrong

[longshot]

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

Front wheel is driven by engine, and turns belt. Belt turns rear wheel.

I'd figured that but I couldn't figure out what breakage/problem it was overcoming.

Can it not be both?

Absolutely. I was desperately wracking my brain trying to think of what he might be bodging with it.

I was looking for a fix rather than an 'improvement'.

We could see them on the new Audi.

[xuy]

longshot said:

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

TooMany2cvs said:

longshot said:

I know I'm going to kick myself but what does it do?

Front wheel is driven by engine, and turns belt. Belt turns rear wheel.

I'd figured that but I couldn't figure out what breakage/problem it was overcoming.

Can it not be both?

Absolutely. I was desperately wracking my brain trying to think of what he might be bodging with it.

I was looking for a fix rather than an 'improvement'.

We could see them on the new Audi.

And the spike bits on the front wheels are to keep the belt on going round corners, clever engineering

[carreauchompeur]

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.

Haha, on a similar vein my mum used to have an E34 518i which was rather well used and the gearknob broke. So she'd just found a random one from a Ford I think and stuffed it on.

Cue a call from the garage servicing it a while later saying they couldn't get it into gear! (Obviously a completely different layout from the picture on the knob!)

[knockturnal]

SteveinTurkey said:

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.

Agreed, at 16 I jubilee clipped an empty chum tin round a mates blowing exhaust to pass an mot, it was still there for the next one

[stormy22]

Before my Cortina was a V8, a friend converted the car from its original 2 litre to a 3 litre V6 (heavy lump!) I was working all the time so he said he would do it for me in a couple of days.

The car had been off the road for a few months and I was desperate to drive it again. It needed an MOT, he drove the car there and I met him there. I was...and so was the MOT tester, horrified to see that rather than change the front springs, or even put in bungs, he had wedged a 10 inch piece of 2 x 4 wood in each front spring....guess what, it failed !!!!! When he told me he had strengthened the front springs, I didn't imagine that and his reason was that 'it was too difficult to get the bungs in the springs!!

Other than that, car drove superbly!

[GTIR]

Coke cans wrapped around a Rolls Royce exhaust.
This was when they were slightly thicker, late 80's.

Made worse was the fact he owned a garage repair shop!

[McWigglebum4th]

Someone i knew took his caterham on a tour of europe in a trailer from loads of track days

The exhaust overheated and blow a hole in the side of the silencer


Went to the nearest supermarket

Bought the correct sized saucepan

Cut the bottom out

Slide it over the silencer

riveted it in place

[GeorgeJCW]

Saw this the other month, & yes that is the spare wheel well cut to pieces!