What is the most unusual thing you have fixed your car with?
Discussion
Just to start off:
1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
I burnt a hole in the front header pipe of my Rx7 at 'pod a few years back.
Fixed it by fishing a few stella cans out of the bin, cutting them up with some tin snips a mate happened to have in the boot of his rex, a kindly stall owner let me buy a couple of jubilee clips on the cheap... it was a good job - nearly got me all the way to the south coast before it really let go again!
Fixed it by fishing a few stella cans out of the bin, cutting them up with some tin snips a mate happened to have in the boot of his rex, a kindly stall owner let me buy a couple of jubilee clips on the cheap... it was a good job - nearly got me all the way to the south coast before it really let go again!
lost my oil filler cap on the motorway by stupidly forgetting to put it back after topping up for a long trip in my e28. fixed using tinfoil, a boot polish lid and gaffer tape from a tesco. express. worked well so it was a month or two before i got around to getting a replacement!
a fellow pher perfomed an excellent fix earlier this month, shimming the upright/hub joint on a 2004 works honda BTCC car using a can of red bull and some tin snips.
a fellow pher perfomed an excellent fix earlier this month, shimming the upright/hub joint on a 2004 works honda BTCC car using a can of red bull and some tin snips.
My mother had a Mk2 Mondeo and drove it into a trolley park. When she was done there was an impressive hole in the bumper so, like many Mondeo owners, we set about fixing it with gaffer tape. While we were doing it a nice man dropped off a pink charity bag that matched the car nicely (it was a faded red) so we taped the charity bag to the bumper, covering the hole. Looked proper tidy.
Bapple said:
Just to start off:
1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
a machine gun??1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
krissharm said:
Bapple said:
Just to start off:
1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
a machine gun??1) Fixed the water washer sensor on my Saab using a lighter and the machine gun from a model b17 bomber.
2) fixed a dent in the fuel cap lid of my Subie (caused by a clown throwing his door open) using the following:
A drill, a screw, the back of a watch and an old iron clamp. Looks pretty good as well, might not even have to get another one.
Anyone raise me?
I wish someone would give me the opportunity to fix something with a proper machine gun. no guarantee of success but I would give it a damn good go.
BrettMRC said:
I burnt a hole in the front header pipe of my Rx7 at 'pod a few years back.
Fixed it by fishing a few stella cans out of the bin, cutting them up with some tin snips a mate happened to have in the boot of his rex, a kindly stall owner let me buy a couple of jubilee clips on the cheap... it was a good job - nearly got me all the way to the south coast before it really let go again!
Similarly, when I was a student I repaired a broken exhaust on my Metro with a baked bean tin, two clamps and some putty.Fixed it by fishing a few stella cans out of the bin, cutting them up with some tin snips a mate happened to have in the boot of his rex, a kindly stall owner let me buy a couple of jubilee clips on the cheap... it was a good job - nearly got me all the way to the south coast before it really let go again!
A friend repaired a Mini snapped throttle cable with a Dr Marten shoelace trailed through the passenger window with his passenger controlling it. Got them home!
A handy brick-end, at the building site I was working on, provided the daily fix on my Austin 1100 during the winter of 1992. A quick strike on each front caliper would free off the binding pads. I would then aim to complete the 60 mile return trip without ever applying the brake pedal, to save me the bother next day. I learned a lot about momentum that year.
Also rubber bands occasionally used as return springs.
My Dad's favourite is still the Baked Bean can on any blowing exhaust.
Also rubber bands occasionally used as return springs.
My Dad's favourite is still the Baked Bean can on any blowing exhaust.
For various reasons related to a cobbled together turbo install I was running my crank case breather to atmosphere via a little filter. In order to be allowed on track I had to either run a catch tank or the OEM breather.
So I found an empty bottle of Sunny Delight in a carpark, and lightly modified it with a knife and some cable ties to make an oil catch tank.
The Sunny D bottle was on the engine for years, whithout collecting a single drop of oil, until I had to canibalise the remote breather pipe work to fix the turbo oil drain pipe after it failed and dumped oil on the exhaust.
However, I think my greatest bodge was the radiator bypass pipe. I let someone else have a drive of my car at a track thing, and the impact from the crash punctured my radiator. Massive hole, no hope of sealing it up with anything. To get it home I decided to try a little experiement - how far can you drive just using the heater matrix as a radiator? The easy bit was turning the heater fan on full, the tricky bit was making a radiator bypass pipe. I did a bit of skip diving and found some bits of ally pipe and some lengths of rubber hose, none of whic were quite the right diameter or length, so I cobbled them together to make a pipe that went from the engine coolant outlet to the thermostat housing, bypassing the holed radiator, and drove home.
You can get about 5 miles in a mk1 MX5 just using the heater matrix for cooling.
So I found an empty bottle of Sunny Delight in a carpark, and lightly modified it with a knife and some cable ties to make an oil catch tank.
The Sunny D bottle was on the engine for years, whithout collecting a single drop of oil, until I had to canibalise the remote breather pipe work to fix the turbo oil drain pipe after it failed and dumped oil on the exhaust.
However, I think my greatest bodge was the radiator bypass pipe. I let someone else have a drive of my car at a track thing, and the impact from the crash punctured my radiator. Massive hole, no hope of sealing it up with anything. To get it home I decided to try a little experiement - how far can you drive just using the heater matrix as a radiator? The easy bit was turning the heater fan on full, the tricky bit was making a radiator bypass pipe. I did a bit of skip diving and found some bits of ally pipe and some lengths of rubber hose, none of whic were quite the right diameter or length, so I cobbled them together to make a pipe that went from the engine coolant outlet to the thermostat housing, bypassing the holed radiator, and drove home.
You can get about 5 miles in a mk1 MX5 just using the heater matrix for cooling.
Not my own car but had to fix my mates Ferrari 355 on a trip from the UK to Monaco.
We were all in a big group, traveling down over the Alps together, when the Throttle Cable broke on the 355.
It had sheared about about 6 inches from the throttle body at the top of the engine.
I managed to fix it using a bent metal coat hanger to produce a loop at one end for the cable attachment, and then made a z bend to attach to the throttle body.
I was quite proud that it lasted all the way from the alps down to Manaco without failing too.
Sadly we had to leave the car in the south of France as the local Ferrari dealership did not have a cable in stock, my friend had to stay down in Monaco for a few days, hard life eh!
We were all in a big group, traveling down over the Alps together, when the Throttle Cable broke on the 355.
It had sheared about about 6 inches from the throttle body at the top of the engine.
I managed to fix it using a bent metal coat hanger to produce a loop at one end for the cable attachment, and then made a z bend to attach to the throttle body.
I was quite proud that it lasted all the way from the alps down to Manaco without failing too.
Sadly we had to leave the car in the south of France as the local Ferrari dealership did not have a cable in stock, my friend had to stay down in Monaco for a few days, hard life eh!
Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff