Top Classic Car Bodge ..

[Electron]

I guess others have purchased a car only to get it home and discover it's been bodged ...

I knew my Gilbern was shot but didn't expect to find someone had pushed a piece of angle iron across the main rear suspension pick up points to help hold the car together ..



Anyone got anything better ..... ??

[P100]

I once bought an old Humber as a cheap run around....always wondered why it was so slow until it failed its MOT on rusty sills
As I removed the outer skin imagine my surprise when I found them filled with concrete !!

[alsaautomotive]

We're doing a Khamsin at the moment that someone had filled with expanding foam and diary pages before glassfibring over it all (& quite recently).
Al.

[gingerpaul]

From what I understand you can often tell the trade of the bodger by their method of bodging. Filled with concrete means builder, bits of wood means carpenter, buckets of filler means plasterer etc. I've only experienced the filler myself though.

[dartissimus]

A baker's car - full of dough, sorry should be banker

[timolloyd]

Great thread. I have discovered foil in place of fuses (Mini), wings 'bonded' to the bulkhead (Mini again) and dexion in place of bits of chassis on a Herald

[JAHetfield]

Came across this in an old Transit at work one day. Top bodging lol

[Justin Cyder]

This thread reminds me of Minder! Arthur sells a car to someone & he brings it back the next day complaining the wings have been filled with newspaper. Arthur denies all knowledge.

- But Arthur, it's yesterday's paper!!

[Major Fallout]

timolloyd said:

Great thread. I have discovered foil in place of fuses (Mini), wings 'bonded' to the bulkhead (Mini again) and dexion in place of bits of chassis on a Herald

A bit of foil around a dead fuse has worked for my a time or two.

But always replaced ASAP.

[IroningMan]

If you put enough iron filings in your filler then it will pass the magnet test.

[neutral 3]

My best one so far has to be the K plate Fulvia an ex pal discovered in Flooot and was Totally Tucked up with...... its inner front arches were made of The Daily Wail.......

And A Former Banger Race Champion whos pal, A fellow racer, who used to fill the Chassis Rails of his Many Austin Cambridges up with Cement........

[james0]

After cutting open one of my old cars rotten sills I repaired the large holes with load bearing gaffer tape (probably stiffer than the rust), painted it body colour and ran it around for a while until I scrapped it.

[Isimmo]

This was the ABS relay on our quattro when we bought it in 1995...

[arfur daley]

Justin Cyder said:

This thread reminds me of Minder! Arthur sells a car to someone & he brings it back the next day complaining the wings have been filled with newspaper. Arthur denies all knowledge.

- But Arthur, it's yesterday's paper!!

It was a lovely motor yesterday. Now theres a free newspaper, shut the door on the way out.

[benjj]

When my Grandfather brought the Series 1 Land Rover back from Africa it had a rather clever bodge.

When you looked at the bonnet there was an odd looking knot sticking up.

The bonnet catch/close device was kaput. Someone 'fixed' it by nailing a hole in the bonnet and feeding through a string. On the end of the string, inside the engine bay, was a brick.

Once it was fixed the strange engine knock on cornering was also sorted

[Justin Cyder]

arfur daley said:

It was a lovely motor yesterday. Now theres a free newspaper, shut the door on the way out.

[Plank]

Last year when closely inspecting my newly bought x/19 project several areas had been repaired with blu tak covered with gaffer tape and undersealed over !!

[daddyov8]

when i picked up my last 924 turbo about 10 miles from where we picked it up in the middle of nowhere throttle cable snapped, managed a temp fix with a hair band, a zip tie, ,a hose clip, a screw driver bit and some trim from the seat, all sourced from in the car. realised once back at home i had in the boot of the car we went in an old toolbag full of more useful bits. never mind half an hours fiddling on a sunny day not the worst way to spend a sunday..

[Yertis]

Isimmo said:

This was the ABS relay on our quattro when we bought it in 1995...

Well it is quite an expensive relay.

[Yertis]

Looks not too bad otherwise though?