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Jan 14, 2017 17:49:14 GMT
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havent seen a bodges(or botches if youre posh)thread so thought id post this pic someone just sent me  |
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brc76
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Jan 14, 2017 17:51:42 GMT
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nice. bodges like that are top shelf stuff. nothing like compromising the safety of everyone
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Jan 14, 2017 17:58:53 GMT
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Wood is very versatile...  |
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BT
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Jan 15, 2017 11:53:51 GMT
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Jan 15, 2017 14:29:44 GMT
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My favorite bodge  |
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Jan 15, 2017 15:16:44 GMT
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The best ones I've seen tend to be cardboard cunningly disguised as metal.
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ultimate bodgesMercdan68
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Jan 15, 2017 15:29:37 GMT
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Newspaper and lots of filler in most 70s and 80s cars back In the day,,,oh and my sisters first car a Vauxhall viva hc had a lovely lower rear panel made from gaffer tape and under seal by the nice chap she bought it from....funny thing he now sells cheap tatt in the local town market!!! Always wanted to ask him about the viva!!
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1999 Jaguar s type
1993 ford escort
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Jan 15, 2017 16:00:43 GMT
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Please tell me this is just to move it about a yard or on and off a transporter and not been on the road like that! havent seen a bodges(or botches if youre posh)thread so thought id post this pic someone just sent me |
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brc76
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Jan 15, 2017 16:09:06 GMT
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The first w108 I purchased was made mostly of filler and brillo pads. There was the odd sanding disk and file thrown in for good measure. It was a mega bodge, but the car was cheap enough that it harvested parts for the next w108. The time taken to carefully craft pound and pounds of filler to look like sills and other key components must have totally negated the cost and time to properly repair, but America. Land of the filler layer.
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Wilk
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Jan 15, 2017 16:14:50 GMT
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Years back my employer used to rent work vans from the local car hire company. We had a Bedford CF with knackered front shocks. If you got the timing right of blipping the throttle repeatedly we could get it to wheelie!
Great fun outside the local school at home time 😃
Back to topic..... the tracking on the van was WAAAY out that it'd kill tyres within weeks. They must have got fed up of replacing tyres so decided to sort the tracking. Thing is, the track rod ends were rusted solid so instead of renewing the arm and ball joint, the 'mechanic' heated up the arm and put a bend in it to shorten points A to B. Problem solved
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If it can be fixed with a hammer, then it must be an electrical fault
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Jan 15, 2017 17:02:54 GMT
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Jan 15, 2017 17:12:53 GMT
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my entry is this innocent looking fuse box "expansion". in particular notice the box on the left with a 20 amp glass fuse, its brown supply wire was scotchlocked into a permanent 12v on the ignition barrel, and half way along that brown supply wire is a split with two spade connectors joined by a 30 amp blade fuse. for reference, aside from being the shonkiest invention since time began, blue scotch locks are rated at 15ampsnow notice the new fuse box on the right, supplied from the left hand box with the green wire about 7-10 amp rating, and then the red 6 amp daisy chains supplying its neighbouring fuses. items connected to that new fuse box on the right were... OEM cigarette lighter (on its own would overload the green wire) another two cigarette lighter based aux sockets tape head unit 2x 55 watt cibie spot lamps (on its own would overload the green wire) 8 amp kenlowe radiator fan (on its own nudging capacity of green wire) rear spot light/working lamp  |
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Last Edit: Jan 15, 2017 17:27:14 GMT by darrenh
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Jan 15, 2017 17:41:16 GMT
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In the late 1940's my Grandfather was a Cardiff PC with a night beat, he'd patrol the same industrial areas. He got to know a young businessman who had just set up his own used cars sales business. He'd often call in on his night beat to have a chat, a warm and a cuppa. This young businessman was a bit of a villain but a likable rogue and they became friendly. When my Grandfather was sat in the workshop after close of business he'd watch with interest & amusement as this youngster prepped his latest bangers for the forecourt, dribbling treacle thick oil into worn old engines to disguise the knocking big ends, mulching sawdust into the gearbox oil to quieten the whiny old gears, breaking eggs into leaky radiators and using wallpaper paste to glue brown parcel wrapping paper over rust holes in panels before spraying over these botched repairs. He had a preference for black cars as he was getting regular bulk deliveries of cheap black gloss paint. This businessman, (who hasn't been dead all that long), went on to become one of Wales' wealthiest 'entrepreneurs' and his car sales businesses are still going more than 70 years later.  |
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Jan 15, 2017 23:46:28 GMT
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When I bought my Carlton I wondered why this tie wrap moved from side to side when the wipers were on. The tie wrap was anchored to a harness clip and the other end had a rubber band attached that was looped around the wiper mechanism and would move back and forth with the wipers. With no rubber band the rod would fall off due to an extremely worn out ball joint. The whole car was in shocking condition, including tacked and fillered on oversills  |
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In a former life, I was employed at a second hand car dealers. I am guilty of doing many bodywork bodges. Body filler and cardboard were my main tools when 'fixing' the rusty cars from the 80's and 90's. I remember 'fixing'many a vauxhall and Ford sill and wheel arch with such tools. I got very good at it and remember fixing all four inner and outer wheel arches of a Suzuki SJ410 with so much paper, cardboard and filler that I had to open a second 5l tin of filler to complete the fix. The finish and painting was brilliant and I was so proud of it.
Now, I'm ashamed of what I used to do. But they were different times and I knew no different back then, as that was how I had been taught. I was young and witless.
Runs and hides,,,,,,,,,,
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I'm sure many of us have done the old paper and filler trick to get a curse word box through just one more inspection. Some of us didn't even bother to bodge stuff. A fellow I knew in the '80s ran his Austin A60 ute with the front brakes steel to steel for so long it cut the drums off.
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Wilk
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Jan 16, 2017 12:40:01 GMT
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My son bought a sj jeep from a so called local mechanic
He wasn't too clued up with things at such a young age but complained of it pulling towards the kerb on braking
I took a look to fing the pads so worn that they had fallen through the caliper and slowly cut the rotor off its backplate mounting 😱
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If it can be fixed with a hammer, then it must be an electrical fault
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Jan 16, 2017 22:00:48 GMT
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The steering column from one of my old Pops.  |
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Jan 16, 2017 22:02:52 GMT
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Inner valance 'repair' on my Capri, from 1995, according to the date on the paper.  |
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BT
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Jan 16, 2017 22:08:42 GMT
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In a former life, I was employed at a second hand car dealers. I am guilty of doing many bodywork bodges. Body filler and cardboard were my main tools when 'fixing' the rusty cars from the 80's and 90's. I remember 'fixing'many a vauxhall and Ford sill and wheel arch with such tools. I got very good at it and remember fixing all four inner and outer wheel arches of a Suzuki SJ410 with so much paper, cardboard and filler that I had to open a second 5l tin of filler to complete the fix. The finish and painting was brilliant and I was so proud of it. Now, I'm ashamed of what I used to do. But they were different times and I knew no different back then, as that was how I had been taught. I was young and witless. Runs and hides,,,,,,,,,, When I was about 14 I got a weekend job at a local dealership that had a garage out the back. I remember we had a Mondeo that was only a few years old at the time and for some reasons the carpets were rancid, I think it may have been flood damaged or something looking back, I can't remember. The boss chap bought a cheap carpet and when I was told to fit it (you can imagine the standard of a 14 year old fitting a carpet solo!) there was some thing very wrong. We had bought a grey carpet and the rest of the interior trim was black, so the carpet stood out like a sore thumb! I was told to go into the loft and get a cheap can of the black rattle cans we used to paint the wheel arches. Looking back I think it was a very cheap underseal of some sort. Anyway, painted all of the carpets with this underseal stuff. Made the car stink to high heavens and god knows how he sold the thing. But he did. |
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