Worst bodge you have seen

[Martin350]

He should take it for a decent service.

They might find other faults.

[DUMBO100]

He's not shown much love for that car

[MGJohn]

S0 What said:

That's how i clean the rust ridge off rear drums, drum off, reverse it on the hub and run the engine in gear, learnt that from watching the A Team

As bodges go, I find as you have done that it's good practice. Also when cleaning up the unseen corrosion damage caused by the hammering of rim clip balance weights to alloy wheels. Click on image. That front hub works like a lathe



The above method works well but, please be very careful. Consider what you're doing and ensure the work is secure and work safely. This is the end DIY result which is very satisfactory and involved little cost :~

[IanCress]

DUMBO100 said:

No, I wanted Monroe shock absorbers fitted, not John McEnroe!

I'll get my coat

[MGJohn]

Just to add. The wheel appears to be rotating anti-clockwise in that vid-clip. It is not, it is rotating clockwise. The camera lies because of the stroboscopic effect.

[pingu393]

When running a wheel in the air like that make sure that the axle weight is supported or you could damage the CV joints.

[MGJohn]

pingu393 said:

When running a wheel in the air like that make sure that the axle weight is supported or you could damage the CV joints.

Good advice. Believe it or not, that is first gear at engine idle. Looks much faster than it is.

[Pebbles167]

Again, pretty tame to some of the things here, but last year on a track day my exhaust burned through the heatshield and and melted a relatively wide and long Titanic type gash in the side of my fuel tank on my Peugeot 306.

Our "get you home" solution was remove the exhaust and to jack the car up so the fuel sloshed to the undamaged side. We then liberally apply araldite to the hole. We left the car suspended until the glue had dried and then set it down. It worked brilliantly! So well in fact that I refitted the exhaust after some re positioning, and was able to drive it around.

The car sat on my driveway for the next two weeks until I replaced the tank without leaking at all.

Here is the pic:

Edited by Pebbles167 on Thursday 14th May 17:37

[Lugy]

lee_erm said:

Took my car to the garage down the road the other day to get a fuel pump fitted on my old MK1 Focus. I'd do it myself but you have to drop the tank, which is a PITA without a lift. I'd heard of garages cutting the floors on MK1 Focuses before in order to gain access the pump, I mentioned this to the mechanic when I dropped the car off. The chap then went on to tell me this is in fact the best way to replace the pump on a MK1, and he wasn't willing to drop the tank! I ended up walking. The car is still awaiting the fresh pump.

The result would have looked something like this, but probably not as tidy judging by the blokes attitude.

Edited by lee_erm on Wednesday 13th May 23:16

That's a poor effort from a garage! It's a half hour job to drop the tank and do it that way!

DUMBO100 said:

In a similar bodge, a mate of mine replaced a broken spring with a go kart ryre on the back of his Astra.

[anonymous-user]

The "better than new" outrigger replacement the previous owner of my Cerb had done at a respected TVR indie....

[Swanny87]

DUMBO100 said:

You cannot be serious!!!

(I'm surprised no-one did that first)

[Axionknight]

djstevec said:

The "better than new" outrigger replacement the previous owner of my Cerb had done at a respected TVR indie....

My wordie, that is terrible - it looks like metal bird crap.

Criminal.

[TooMany2cvs]

djstevec said:

The "better than new" outrigger replacement the previous owner of my Cerb had done at a respected TVR indie...

TBF, that probably IS better than TVR's "new", isn't it?

[Axionknight]

Touche

[Digby]

Not a bodge as such, but I needed to use a cheap car cover for a couple of days but realised that apart from some old tyres, I had nothing with me to hold it down.

Wheel nuts to the rescue..

[Tam_Mullen]

How's this? My RRC off-roader, once we had poked about to see what was solid and what wasn't, we were left with a rather large hole. One repair panel cut out of a Ford Ka bonnet I had lying around... Ta-dah! Solid floor!

[rallycross]

No photo unfotunately but on Sunday I saw a mk1 Focus parked on a meter and it had a home made wiper - maybe the original drivers side rubber fell off.

So how did they fix this?
They had got some kitchen roll and wrapped it round the wiper arm ( driver side of screen) and put a
Couple of elastic bands on to hold it on the arm. Unbelievable!

[hairyben]

mph1977 said:

the LDVs were fundamentally the Fright Rover Sherpa 200 and 300 as introduced in the early 1980s , the 200 being a reworked version of the BL sherpa

And talking on bodges, I remember the dealer using bathroom sealant to fix the leaking gutters on the brand new pilot vans in the late 90's, god what a joyous day it was when them ste peddlers went to the wall.

[wildoliver]

rallycross said:

No photo unfotunately but on Sunday I saw a mk1 Focus parked on a meter and it had a home made wiper - maybe the original drivers side rubber fell off.

So how did they fix this?
They had got some kitchen roll and wrapped it round the wiper arm ( driver side of screen) and put a
Couple of elastic bands on to hold it on the arm. Unbelievable!

Had it been a different car it could have been me you had seen, I've done it a couple of times to stop wiper arms scratching the glass if I accidentally catch the switch on the way to buy a new blade.

[donkmeister]

a Citroen Picasso that developed an airbag fault... owner's solution: black tape over the warning light. His justification? "It's too difficult to take the bulb out!"

That's the bodging spirit!