Worst bodge you have seen
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buzzer said:
Ok, not a bodge as such... but a bodge and crap idea none the less... who remembers the thread on here with this?
oh my! never seen one of those!If you cant drive a SAAB in one inch of snow (thats all that 'plough' would clear) then i dont think you belong on the road.
whats the saying about an fool and his money?
callmedave said:
buzzer said:
Ok, not a bodge as such... but a bodge and crap idea none the less... who remembers the thread on here with this?
oh my! never seen one of those!If you cant drive a SAAB in one inch of snow (thats all that 'plough' would clear) then i dont think you belong on the road.
whats the saying about an fool and his money?
I was very much enjoying this thread, and whilst my contribution isn't as good as some on here I'd quite like the thread to be back on the front page.
A few spring to mind for me. My old Golf's airbox was held in place with cable ties when I bought it, after removing it it transpired that this was because most of the screw holes were ruined. For the minute price of a second-hand airbox I've got no idea why it wasn't properly fixed. Said a lot about that car, to be honest.
I've seen a couple of cars, primarily Fiestas and Saxos, with "rear disk brake" upgrades that are just rear disks, with no callipers at all!
A few spring to mind for me. My old Golf's airbox was held in place with cable ties when I bought it, after removing it it transpired that this was because most of the screw holes were ruined. For the minute price of a second-hand airbox I've got no idea why it wasn't properly fixed. Said a lot about that car, to be honest.
I've seen a couple of cars, primarily Fiestas and Saxos, with "rear disk brake" upgrades that are just rear disks, with no callipers at all!
RizzoTheRat said:
A friend of mine got one of her mates at uni to fit her car stereo. Got knows how he managed it but the rear speakers would pack up under braking (meaning the sound moved to the front of the car under braking which was quite amusing), and it would only work when the interior light was off. I can understand how he might have managed it only working when the light's on, but where did he find something that was only live when the doors were shut on a 1990's Escort?
I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
I bought a Metro in the 90s where the stereo only worked intermittently, one time it worked perfectly, the next nothing at all. I finally twigged on that the times it did work were when it was dark outside; when it was light it wouldn't operate.I have no idea if he passed is Automotive Engineering degree at Loughborough.
Can you guess why?
buzzer said:
The most dangerous bodge failures I have ever seen was about 20 years ago. One of the guys who worked in one of the garages I run went out to a breakdown on the M54 to a VW where the tyre had come off the wheel. The guy didn't have a spare, and the flexible brake pipe had been ripped off.
When we got the car back to the workshop we could not believe the state of the alloy wheel. The owner told us the sequence of events...
Seems that a month previously he had been driving down the road when he had a flat tyre... He took the wheel off and found the reason it was flat was the brake calliper bolt had come out and the calliper had swung down and been rubbing on the inside of the alloy wheel. (how would you not hear that?) it had machined a nice neat groove all around the inside of the wheel, and when this had finally worn through on the thinnest part, the tyre went flat.
As he had no spare, he walked with the wheel to a tyre fitting place and asked them to remove the tyre and fit a tube! he told them it was just to get the car off the side of the road and he would not be driving it... So they removed the tyre, wrapped some tape on the inside of the rim, and re fitted the tyre with an inner tube.
roll on a month and he was on the M54 and the inner part of the wheel came off! The wheel had finally fractured, the tyre came off and took the brake pipes and inner wheel arch liner with it!
he said he kept meaning to get it looked at!
I can appreciate a bodge but that's taking the piss. It's a shame he didn't get done for it.When we got the car back to the workshop we could not believe the state of the alloy wheel. The owner told us the sequence of events...
Seems that a month previously he had been driving down the road when he had a flat tyre... He took the wheel off and found the reason it was flat was the brake calliper bolt had come out and the calliper had swung down and been rubbing on the inside of the alloy wheel. (how would you not hear that?) it had machined a nice neat groove all around the inside of the wheel, and when this had finally worn through on the thinnest part, the tyre went flat.
As he had no spare, he walked with the wheel to a tyre fitting place and asked them to remove the tyre and fit a tube! he told them it was just to get the car off the side of the road and he would not be driving it... So they removed the tyre, wrapped some tape on the inside of the rim, and re fitted the tyre with an inner tube.
roll on a month and he was on the M54 and the inner part of the wheel came off! The wheel had finally fractured, the tyre came off and took the brake pipes and inner wheel arch liner with it!
he said he kept meaning to get it looked at!
Edited by buzzer on Friday 4th October 12:42
Throttle cable snapped on my Chevy pickup in the middle of Newcastle city centre one night after dropping my dad off, didn't have any tools, so being a big V8 with an auto box, I found that my keyring fitted the slot on the idle screw on the carb, upped the idle to about 1200rpm, perfect for 20mph cruising!
Rang a mate who came to my rescue with some cable, whipped the air cleaner off, tied the cable onto the kick down linkage as that provided the most amount of throttle, (about 10%!!!) and threaded it through into the cab, everything was fine going home with a hand throttle until I hit a bank on the A1 next to the Angel of the North, I was pulling so hard on the cable to keep the speed up, I almost cut off the circulation in my right hand. On the plus side, my mate saw 45mpg from his 330ci following my sedate pace!
Rang a mate who came to my rescue with some cable, whipped the air cleaner off, tied the cable onto the kick down linkage as that provided the most amount of throttle, (about 10%!!!) and threaded it through into the cab, everything was fine going home with a hand throttle until I hit a bank on the A1 next to the Angel of the North, I was pulling so hard on the cable to keep the speed up, I almost cut off the circulation in my right hand. On the plus side, my mate saw 45mpg from his 330ci following my sedate pace!
Got a Saab 900 through here years ago for free as the owner had no need for it, and the other 5 cars I had needed another friend (none of them were that great, but I was 21, who didnt want lots of cars)
While it was tatty on the outside, mechanically it wasnt too bad, bar a long clutch pedal. After a bit of investigating I found the clutch cable had stretched about 3 inches so there was bite only at the very top of the travel of the pedal. To fit this I got some white UPVC plumbing pipe, and a selection of washers, from very big to small, using the washers to hold the cable in the pipe removing the slack excellently and saving me the £30 or so it was going to cost for a new cable.
My mate that bought it from me aa few weeks later was very impressed, its a shame the oil cooler died on his way home, covering both the Saab and the Alfa 155 I sold to another mate in old oil!
While it was tatty on the outside, mechanically it wasnt too bad, bar a long clutch pedal. After a bit of investigating I found the clutch cable had stretched about 3 inches so there was bite only at the very top of the travel of the pedal. To fit this I got some white UPVC plumbing pipe, and a selection of washers, from very big to small, using the washers to hold the cable in the pipe removing the slack excellently and saving me the £30 or so it was going to cost for a new cable.
My mate that bought it from me aa few weeks later was very impressed, its a shame the oil cooler died on his way home, covering both the Saab and the Alfa 155 I sold to another mate in old oil!
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