Big Black Stilo said:

i resealed the windscreen on my ibiza at the bottom under the trim using gutter sealant... worked a little bit, it dribbled in instead of gushing in.

1987 fiesta, rewired the stero system from scratch and set fire to it

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On my original bravo i mentioned, i also bought a universal induction kit for about £20 for it< and some of that fat round ribbed bendy alloy tubing from halfords, only it was too fat not to touch the live terminal on the battery and kept shorting and killing the battery, the live term burnt holes through the alloy tubing so i wrapped masking tape around it and sprayed it silver before i sold it,

I snapped the head off a rocker cover bolt and I've now had a G-clamp in place of it the last 6-7 months!
No leaks so far so it can stay where it is

Any mechanic that looks under the bonnet has a good chuckle

bredsticz said:

I snapped the head off a rocker cover bolt and I've now had a G-clamp in place of it the last 6-7 months!
No leaks so far so it can stay where it is

Any mechanic that looks under the bonnet has a good chuckle

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did same.
very easy to remove get a pop and a hammer and lightly tap the bolt in the direction to undo it. till you can get molegrips onto it

When having to reset the timing on a 1.2 16v engine in sitiu on the quick, had to hack a lump out of the manifold to save time (or we would have to taken off the inlet manifold) to seal it up? Instant gasket (gotta love that stuff) Problem with the ht leads? Cable tied
Hole in the air pipe? Duck tape (not duct tape)
Wonkey exhaust? Firegummed it and tied it with wire
Broken bumper? Cable tied and super epoxyed
Leaking coolant pipe? Insulation tape and a new jubilee clip
Broken headlamp? Jammed a lump of cardboard under it. Job done

The car needed moving, quick! Its not like that anymore or rather its in the process of proper maintanance Ive done a fair few bodges mind you, one of my favourite ones was a car that had no seats needed moving, i had to sit on a bucket!

On my old punto when changing the rear trailing arm we accidentally burst the brake pipe after the flexi part and it was getting dark and late but we were supposed to be travellling 80 miles that night to pick up stuff for my brother in laws car so we got some mole-grips, clamped the flexi pipe and duct taped the mole grips to the axle and drove 160 miles on three brakes being held together with mole-grips....lawl when we'd done the trip it hit us that if the mole grip had fallen off i wouldve lost all brakes.... ach well we lived anyway!!

sbrown987 said:

On my old punto when changing the rear trailing arm we accidentally burst the brake pipe after the flexi part and it was getting dark and late but we were supposed to be travellling 80 miles that night to pick up stuff for my brother in laws car so we got some mole-grips, clamped the flexi pipe and duct taped the mole grips to the axle and drove 160 miles on three brakes being held together with mole-grips....lawl when we'd done the trip it hit us that if the mole grip had fallen off i wouldve lost all brakes.... ach well we lived anyway!!

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now that is number one dodgy!!

sbrown987 said:

when we'd done the trip it hit us that if the mole grip had fallen off i wouldve lost all brakes....

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Nah, you'd still have had the handbrake.

Once, when a very impoverished student, I had a total hydraulic failure on an HA Viva in Southampton (no dual circuit brakes in those days). The only way I could afford to get the car home was to drive it - and I did, all the way to Cambridge with a totally useless brake pedal.

I figured if the handbrake had failed, I could ram it into first gear & use engine braking as a last resort! Amazingly the only time I came close to losing it was on the last roundabout from home.

Please don't try this today - the roads were much quieter then.

jrkitching said:

Nah, you'd still have had the handbrake.

Once, when a very impoverished student, I had a total hydraulic failure on an HA Viva in Southampton (no dual circuit brakes in those days). The only way I could afford to get the car home was to drive it - and I did, all the way to Cambridge with a totally useless brake pedal.

I figured if the handbrake had failed, I could ram it into first gear & use engine braking as a last resort! Amazingly the only time I came close to losing it was on the last roundabout from home.

Please don't try this at home - the roads were much quieter then.

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and being a viva, a damn sight slower too!

All I can say is LOL! Some pretty nifty repairs!

My exhaust back box is currently being held up by cable ties.

Dom

I'm ashamed to admit a bodge I done. The headgasket was going on my first car (a fiesta :yuck, I didn't have the money to fix it so I removed the rocker cover, I then tightened the head bolts half a turn. It worked and was swiftly moved on .

This thread could be like confession, everybody can own up to there automotive sins and seek forgiveness :slayer:

old 205gti i ripped the rear bumper off on a high curb. fixed it back on with epoxy resin, rivits and a folded up fosters can.

Well today I mended a broken plastic air inlet vacuum pipe on my coupe with a soldering iron and 'welded' the plastic back together

My 1st car was covered in bodges, all the electrics ran off the cigarette lighter, electric windows, Stereo, interior lights, ectect. I never figured out why, Don't open a window with the radio on!

Also there was a leak where a few gromts where missing and i filled them with Margarine. :slayer:

Some of this thread is actually quite shocking. Especially driving around on wheels that loosen themselves after 30 miles. Driving a car like that is a death wish and not funny in the slightest

This thread is pretty much a perfect example of why to never buy a modified car.

Bushboy said:

This thread is pretty much a perfect example of why to never buy a modified car.

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Are you telling me someone who doesn't modify their car wouldn't do these kinda bodges? :nutter: I can guarantee the most dangerous cars on the road are the ones owned by people who don't know or care how their car works. As a result ignore everything mechanical until it's brought up on a MOT.

Back in my uni days I offered to help a friend replace the front pads on his Polo over an easter weekend. Unfortunately we found the pins had corroded into the caliper and couldnt be knocked out with a pinpunch, we felt we had no option but to remove the caliper from the car and carefully drill the pins out. We then refitted everything using 6" nails bent over at the end to hold the new pads in until the local VW dealer opened and we could get hold of the correct pins.

You would probably be sent down now for doing something like that

ChrisUK said:

Are you telling me someone who doesn't modify their car wouldn't do these kinda bodges?

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No. I don't think I did.

Years ago I took a rusty b reg 1.6 sierra laser in a part exchange, it burned so much oil that you could hardly see behind at times, a short time later the cam belt snapped at speed

I was on the lookout for another engine, found a cheap 2.0 which was a straight swap, heard it running and a deal was done, managed to swap it over ok but when started it burned as much oil as the 1.6, as well as pushing it out of the breather cap too

so had to try and get rid, I found that if I let the oil completely burn away, it stopped smoking!! some fella with a beautiful carbed XR3 wanted a swap, could not believe my luck! I took him for a drive in the sierra and he commentated on how well it pulled for a 1.6, haha

we did the deal and off he went in the sierra

half hour later a knock at the door, he was back, and I was papping myself cos I thought I'd been rumbled, turned out he left his wallet in the XR3, he collected it and went

he will have done some swearing on topping it up with oil


and I got a beautiful red XR3 in amazing condition

Well the garage i work, one feller pulled in with a rangy (was only few years old at the time) and he only wanted dead low price so we bought it..... toook it down the road and omg it was a big clowd of smoke that nearly wipped out a group of old women standing at a bus stop lol.

Me mate was selling his astra and decided to take it to the garage for a part ex. took it and they told him how much it would knock off the price of the car he wanted. he went home to get his money and his clutch went!! he rang me up and the next day i drove it into the garage without a clutch for him hehe

Bushboy said:

This thread is pretty much a perfect example of why to never buy a modified car.

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I'd agree, I never buy modified cars. Completely standard with full service history or I walk away.