Worst bodge you have seen
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donkmeister said:
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!
Thats not remotely a bad bodge, could of been tennis balls in his spring.That's the bodging spirit!
hairyben said:
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 s
te peddlers went to the wall.
Ahh the LDV Convoy the best way to make an LDV Maxus look good. te peddlers went to the wall.At the start of the recession we shut a branch down and brought back all their vehicles including an LDV Convoy that I drove back, I thought the seat was collapsing as every time I went round a corner it leaned a bit. I stopped for fuel and tried to shore up the seat... It was the floor that had collapsed. A couple of bits of timber from the back stopped the seat flopping all over, normally that would be a worry, but the bloody thing would not go over 50mph!
We had a Convoy pickup truck, the chassis was a bit "iffy," no problem Morgan use wood for chassis, maybe not old scaffolding boards and self tappers, lasted long enough so I could re gravel my mums drive!
Awful things.
Then we got Maxusses, instead of having a nice metal restraint to stop the doors flapping about like a bird with a broken wing they have a bit of seat belt and the instruments in the middle so you can't see the speed you are doing!
A rear light got broke a bit after LDV went bust so no spares, fixed with a bit of glass, coloured window film and silicone.
They were incredibly unreliable things.
We used to have an LDV Cub, that was immense, max speed was about 30mph downhill, all the engine bits were hidden under the seats so never had fluid checked etc. We sold it 4 or so years ago, and could find no evidence that it had been serviced since 2001!!!
We lease nice new vans now
TooMany2cvs said:
shouldbworking said:
Worst one that happened to one of mine was courtesy of a vauxhall main dealer. Need to do some welding to the inside of a strut tower? dont bother taking out the interior around it... is that smoke I see? ooh that wiring looks a bit scorched.. still, a bit of electrical tape round it and hope its far away from here when the electrics fail (it was).
A main dealer had a welder? Blimey. A mate's small garage used to do all the welding-required jobs for the local Audi dealer. Everything from sorting a common problem on S3 (IIRC) downpipes to making up window grilles for their workshop. They neither had the kit nor anybody owning up to knowing what to do with it.nikaiyo2 said:
hairyben said:
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.
Ahh the LDV Convoy the best way to make an LDV Maxus look good. te peddlers went to the wall.At the start of the recession we shut a branch down and brought back all their vehicles including an LDV Convoy that I drove back, I thought the seat was collapsing as every time I went round a corner it leaned a bit. I stopped for fuel and tried to shore up the seat... It was the floor that had collapsed. A couple of bits of timber from the back stopped the seat flopping all over, normally that would be a worry, but the bloody thing would not go over 50mph!
We had a Convoy pickup truck, the chassis was a bit "iffy," no problem Morgan use wood for chassis, maybe not old scaffolding boards and self tappers, lasted long enough so I could re gravel my mums drive!
Awful things.
Then we got Maxusses, instead of having a nice metal restraint to stop the doors flapping about like a bird with a broken wing they have a bit of seat belt and the instruments in the middle so you can't see the speed you are doing!
A rear light got broke a bit after LDV went bust so no spares, fixed with a bit of glass, coloured window film and silicone.
They were incredibly unreliable things.
We used to have an LDV Cub, that was immense, max speed was about 30mph downhill, all the engine bits were hidden under the seats so never had fluid checked etc. We sold it 4 or so years ago, and could find no evidence that it had been serviced since 2001!!!
We lease nice new vans now
The irony is that some were fitted with a trusty transit van engine for a while, but they were still awful.
Back on the bodges, I knew a bloke who had an oil bottle strapped to the frame of his British motorbike to catch the contents of the breather pipe. I think the engine in the bike was nicely loose!
Not really bad but this has got my Mk1 Mondeo to 20 years old:-
(1) Leak on passenger side, not the usual areas & after much pissing around found a seam at the very top near the A pillar leaking, no way to get in to fix it so a can of expanding foam was used. At which point I had expanding foam coming out of just about every gap, still it's dry as a bone now.
(2) Banging from rear, replaced drop links & ARB bushes but the ARB itself was worn, packed out with some plastic bottle cut & wrapped around the ARB.
(3) PAS pump stated to make a loud noise, traced to some metal pipes that clip to the sub frame, clip had rusted through so rubbing on lower pulley went through pipe meaning air in system. Jacked it up & cut the pipe near the rack, bh to get some rubber house on but after a while on it was & plumbed back to the cooler (front bumper needs to come off, another bh job on a Mk1 V6!). Not a fun job in cold rain in November.
(1) Leak on passenger side, not the usual areas & after much pissing around found a seam at the very top near the A pillar leaking, no way to get in to fix it so a can of expanding foam was used. At which point I had expanding foam coming out of just about every gap, still it's dry as a bone now.
(2) Banging from rear, replaced drop links & ARB bushes but the ARB itself was worn, packed out with some plastic bottle cut & wrapped around the ARB.
(3) PAS pump stated to make a loud noise, traced to some metal pipes that clip to the sub frame, clip had rusted through so rubbing on lower pulley went through pipe meaning air in system. Jacked it up & cut the pipe near the rack, b
h to get some rubber house on but after a while on it was & plumbed back to the cooler (front bumper needs to come off, another bh job on a Mk1 V6!). Not a fun job in cold rain in November.Dave_ST220 said:
Not really bad but this has got my Mk1 Mondeo to 20 years old:
On the same vein - power steering fluid cooler leaking on a Proton Wira - fixed by bypassing with a bit of flexible hose.Never leaked and turned out the cooler was completely unnecesary for the car / climate anyway.
A few years ago I had a Fiat X1/9. Every year the MOT was a bit of a gamble, but his one particular year it managed to only fail on inefficient brakes. My ingenious solution? Use a brake bleeding kit - the type you hook up to the spare tyre, to pressurise the system, leave it connected for the retest and hope that the tester didn't open the bonnet. Worked a treat and passed with flying colours.
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