Biggest bodges you've done on a vehicle

[jones91]

Kind of following on a bit from the stupid mistakes you've made on your vehicle thread, this ones basically for the biggest bodges you've made on a car..... mine are

Losing the oil cap to the van, unable to find a replacement and eventually wedging one from a different model in and gaffer taping it to the engine

Used a random bit of rubber pipe to hold the boost pipe to the turbo on the saxo..... needless to say it kept on falling off and eventually got pissed off with it lol

Fire away guys and girls :y;

[LSOfreak]

my friends centre pipe snapped in half, so he used a redbull can and a coat hanger to patch up the whole and make the exhaust 1 again lol worked well

[12u55]

In7el did this
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Personally i've used cable ties to hold up my rear cage before.

[piranhamatt]

Hole in centre pipe , used a fanta can and cable ties and exhaust paste

Lasted 50 miles then when I floored it it fell off :(

[Prickle]

Joined a eg civic backbox to a much smaller bore micra zoorst pipe.

[wadoryu]

Held a front mount intercooler up to the slam panel with cable ties.

[Cam]

In7el did this
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Personally i've used cable ties to hold up my rear cage before.

What the fuck what a mess lol...

I got a fair few

Aradited my roll pin in because it fell out about 4 times, still fine to this day.

Cable tied my loom to my steering rack because my quickshift hits it.

Lost my rear pad holders so angle grinded a bit of metal off my old saxo and shaped it to fit, been replaced since though lol.

[OllieVigar]

Only one i can think of is holding the exhaust up with a cable tie on 1 side as it kept slipping off. Twatted it with a hammer and bent the arm into shape and now it fits perfectly...

[Jazz]

Tried to wipe off some bird shit on the front panal of my Impreza STI, I grabbed the nearest sponge and scrubbed it as I was in a hurry, I accidentally used the rough side and scrubbed off the first layer of paint, laving that patch looking dull and swirly on a metallic body. Whoops.

[boarer2004]

Tried to wipe off some bird shit on the front panal of my Impreza STI, I grabbed the nearest sponge and scrubbed it as I was in a hurry, I accidentally used the rough side and scrubbed off the first layer of paint, laving that patch looking dull and swirly on a metallic body. Whoops.

Wouldn't say that was a bodge would say silly mistake like the time my girlfriend battery went brand new fiesta few days old battery dead as left lights on so try to push it down the drive with the drivers door open so I could push and steer ........... Crack !!! Door gets wedged and destroys drivers side front wing and bent door out of shape that an ops

[Mr_P]

Changed a spring and strut top bearing on a megane cc recently. Took the track rod end off so as not to disturb the tracking when splitting the strut.

When refitting, realised the track rod thread wasn't great but continued to refit and decided that it would be fine.

A month later my misses was stranded outside the house with a wheel pointing left that would turn, and a wheel pointing right that wouldn't. :zainy: I was out on the piss watching the swans and decided the best thing to do was to go straight home and avoid castration.

Used a few nuts the next day to cut a new thread, seems alright. :fcuk:




My boss possibly takes the biscuit though. He had a slight puncture from a screw. Removed the screw, covered it in PTFE tape and put it back in the hole it made. And drove like that for over 5000 miles until he sold it!!!! :panic:

[rick_VTR]

mate had a 3 litre supra for banger racing, had to have inline fuel cell, but we couldn't be bothered so kept original, and ratchet strapped a can inside with 2 pipes going through a hole in the floor and just left hanging down, filled tank with a litre of petrol and topped up with water.actually passed scruiteneering lol.

another mate cut a piece of tube to short when building a banger car aswell, so he used expanding foam on the joint, cut it of smoothed it and painted over same colour. epic bodge.

[AlexB]

Spacing out rear wheels that were allready the wrong offset to create basically 40mm of offset over what a 106 should have and putting 165/50 on a 7j rim to then get the tread back in the arch


The stance kids seem to think this shits cool though :P

[LSOfreak]

Tried to wipe off some bird shit on the front panal of my Impreza STI, I grabbed the nearest sponge and scrubbed it as I was in a hurry, I accidentally used the rough side and scrubbed off the first layer of paint, laving that patch looking dull and swirly on a metallic body. Whoops.

i think you're looking for the other thread lol

[Yates]

Dsh 85s exhaust at fcs. Jubilee clips, metal rods and can of coke

[stigsdump]

had a works van where the tracking was out and the mechanics couldnt undo the track rod end to be able to adjust it


so the "mechanics" heated up the track rod with oxy torch and put a bend in it to shorten the overall length...rough fookers

[L33h]

held the back axle of me saxo in with 1/4 turn on 1 bolt. drove straight home haha.

when i bought my saxo the exhaust was helt together with a hienz baked beans can haha. bastards!

[GC_Belfast]

Was changing the dipstick when I bought the saxo, (old one was mangled beyond use) and my thumb went straight through this hose:

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2918/p2103091732.png

It was and still is held together/sealed with duct tape ffs, passed its MOT in that state so it must be alright. Been meaning to order some generic hose like that but I've never got around to it.

Also had to tape a wing mirror on for a temp fix. Was holding well until it pissed it down for almost 8 hours and a bit of motorway driving happened... Riiiip... "fuuuuuu...."

[LSOfreak]

all thats doing is putting hot air back into your engine

Whats the purpose of that? doesnt make sense... always wondered

[puddy]

all thats doing is putting hot air back into your engine

Whats the purpose of that? doesnt make sense... always wondered

I got told its to heat up your engine quicker but I'm not positive on that :(

[SnakeVTR]

I got told its to heat up your engine quicker but I'm not positive on that :(

Correct, Its a warm-up aid. It was more important on older cars to prevent Carburetor icing... had this on my old 1.1 fiesta, carb froze up and trottle butterfly jammed open, my pre heat pipe was missing :homme:

[Gandi699]

Lost the header tank cap, used some plastic bag and shoe lace to stop it bubbling over and stopping every few minutes to let it cool down. That pretty much finished the head gasket

Did 3 trips to Stafford and back with a a water pump so leaky that I had to fill up and re bleed it half way (20 miles)

Held the snapped exhaust down pipe on with an exhaust clamp. Did that for a week of it breaking 2 times a day sometimes more, could 'repair' it in 5 minutes.

Drove back from donnington park with hardly any brakes as they were cooked on track, pads were basically apple crumble

Drove a metro Gti back from chester with hgf and just one bottle of water. Suffice to say its head gasket was mullered after. Oh and the metro Gti I towed home with hgf and my mate held it on the limiter for a couple of minutes, to see if we could seize it. Suffice to say it didn't.

[Gandi699]

Just remebered one, I lost the top hose at 90mph in. 1.1 metro as I was using an mpi pipe on an spi engine as it was all I had. Was fine for months then nailing it hard the 40 miles to work one morning, it popped off. Cue me having to reattach the pipe, refill with the water I always carry, rebleed and get going again trying not to be late for work. That little car got death yet I had no head gasket problems, the guy I sold it to got 2 weeks out of it before it went

[Manu]

I had oncethe oil dipper that snapped almost at the bottom, so I plugged it with a rubber cap until I had a replacement part 24 hours later. Necessary bodge so to speak, I never mess around with repairs otherwise.

[saxoman1610]

exhaust centre rubber is hold by cable ties

[Ash91]

Threading went on my lambda sensor so I used exhaust paste to hold it in, lasted about a week untill I put my foot down and it sounded like a tank.

[iVTR]

exhaust centre rubber is hold by cable ties

Snap!

And have been for a good 5 months now. :y:

[LSOfreak]

exhaust centre rubber is hold by cable ties

lol my backbox rubbers are squashed tighter with cable ties to make the exhaust sit closer to the bumper. Too much of a tight arse to actually buy aftermarket rubbers. Been fine for 5 years

[josh89vtr]

I bumped my old fiesta years ago and the petrol filler fell off as it had rusted all around. I solved this problem by polly filling the hole back up. Only thing was that the next time I filled the tank a bit of petrol made contact with the polly filler and de solved it!! Back to square one lol

[qrty]

When me and my friend were younger he had this exhaust to fit to his almera, it had previously been fitted to a custom system which had no joints so the chap he bought it off had just cut it off. We couldn't weld at the time so we just cut the joint off the standard system and the idea was to slide the new backbox over the centre pipe and do a clamp up real tight. However the gap was way too big for the pressure of a clamp to squash it tight, so we cut some inch wide aluminium strips wrapped them round the centre pipe to fill the gap then slide the backbox over this....a lot of exhaust paste and a really tight exhaust clamp later it was fitted and never blew! It was a complete bodge though aha! :homme:

[stevo67]

Lost a washer bottle cap on a metro so put a plastic bag over the top with an elastic band around it.

[e8_pqck]

Worst one was an xr2 back in the day, the steering kept wandering and it was a worn Bush, so I wedged some plastic into it and drove it for miles until it all fell out and wandered like crazy after that, do I scrapped it in the end.

Had a few cars I did the bean can trick with. Jubilee clips and coke cans are best, all in the past now like.

[Tommo87]

In my old civic I was on my way to a mates in Cheshire to get the hole welded in the exhaust when the the thing snapped and started scraping, I had shorts on with a belt sewn in to the waistband. So on the hard shoulder of the M66 I managed to use the belt to hold the exhaust up, made it to my mates and then me ran out of wire. Wasn't a good day tbh.

Also a mate wanted to respray his car so we kind of half prepped it and then rattle can sprayed it.

Same lad had both bumpers held on with cable ties.

When my old civic was taken away after its crash the rear seat belts were zip tied in.

[headless]

Wasn't on my car but on my old go Kart. Lost the petrol cap(The tank sits between your legs) So my dad got some cling film whacked it over the hole and cable tied it down lol. Needless to say the petrol seeped out under hard cornering and ended up with irritated legs for a few weeks :P
My current air filter has air vent ducting(the type used on fans in houses) duct-taped onto the end with the other end somewhere nice and cold in my engine bay :) Cold-air-y0!

[m11ler]

Snapped my manifold in half, tried temporarily repairing it with exhaust wrap and paste. Suprisingly it actually lasted about 15 minutes of very steady driving. Then it snapped again and i went a whole 4 days of 60 miles a day until i got a new one fitted haha.

[ed-bradley]

Mate of mine had a Puma'd Fiesta
Sills wear rotten beyond belief. Decided to weld them up with whatever we could, cue pinching the nearest 'Road closed' sign we could find and making a new pair of sills.
Went through the MOT with 'ROAD' on one sill, and 'CLOSED' on the other.

[Alfie09]

Was changing the dipstick when I bought the saxo, (old one was mangled beyond use) and my thumb went straight through this hose:

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2918/p2103091732.png

It was and still is held together/sealed with duct tape ffs, passed its MOT in that state so it must be alright. Been meaning to order some generic hose like that but I've never got around to it.

Also had to tape a wing mirror on for a temp fix. Was holding well until it pissed it down for almost 8 hours and a bit of motorway driving happened... Riiiip... "fuuuuuu...."thats fine
It's a waste of time that hose all it does is warm the air up before it gets tithe throttle body!!

The colder the air going in the better

[kevin37]

My old flat arch all the side strips and bumpers were held on by cable ties. Lost of broke all the bolts so drilled little holes in the plastic and fe cable ties through it. Total botch but I was better than Citroen managed to do

[DeanAngell1234]

Exhaust was held on with rear hangers from a Ford Escort and dozen or so cable ties lol.

Used a pair of tights as an air filter as I couldn't find one

On my Megane my exhaust snapped about 10 miles from home, so I used a bit of rope, ties it to a solid bit of body work and drove home with just the down pipe attached..... Popped and banged a lot but used too much fuel hahaha

[charliew]

Took car in car wash and forgot to remove areil! The damn thing ripped it from the top of the car! duct tape came in VERY handy.

[charliew]

although now been replaced!

[blackie_2k5]

Snapped the engine mounts in my Clio being a penis :oops:

Was about 40 mins from home with no break down cover

So cut the rear seat belts out and tied the engine in, brayed loads of rocks and pieces of tree down the side of the mounts :p

[Skitts123]

Before i sold my saxo the rubber broke, i just cabled tied it up. Worked a treat tbh