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Apr 24, 2018 17:55:57 GMT
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C'mon , we have all done that "unorthodox" repair , or downright bodge. Now is the time to repent and get it off your chest!
Spotted this Rover a couple of weeks ago , why repair the tailgate catch when a ratchet strap will do?!
My own confession , no pics I am afraid but my old mk1 caddy did roll with a windscreen scuttle predominantly made of gaffa tape for a couple of years!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Apr 24, 2018 18:01:47 GMT
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You've seen the videos of me doing electrics on my Sunny right?
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thebaron
Europe
Over the river, heading out of town
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Apr 24, 2018 18:31:00 GMT
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I just bought a roll of black electrical tape this morning to "fix" three things on the Volvo.
In ascending magnitude:
1. Hole in window switch
2. Missing paint the full length of the exterior roof "rail"
3. Constantly lit Lambda light - It's really a check engine light but I know it's fine so - outta site - partially
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Last Edit: Apr 24, 2018 18:42:24 GMT by thebaron
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Apr 24, 2018 19:08:56 GMT
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Forgive me farther for I have sinned, on a toyota yaris I owned years ago I managed to snap an ear off the casing which I super glued back on! It was only for a bolt that held the whole unit together so it was fine. Lasted for two years before I sold the car, probably still going strong now. I am wiser now, gaffer tape would have done a much better job of it...
*edit, this was on an alternater I should have said
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Last Edit: Apr 24, 2018 19:37:57 GMT by rustydan
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Apr 24, 2018 19:30:21 GMT
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You've seen the videos of me doing electrics on my Sunny right? Is it Scotch Lock central?  |
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Apr 24, 2018 20:33:06 GMT
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I've got "temporary" plywood shims on the rear springs of my T4
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GJUK
Part of things
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Apr 24, 2018 21:09:27 GMT
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I may have moved a 6 metre length of metal re-bar on my estate roof, held down with cable ties and hope.
This might have happened.
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Apr 24, 2018 21:17:50 GMT
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Circa 2009 the backbox fell off my Ax, literally right in front of a police traffic officer. Who then proceeded to close my side of the road, Jack my car up, and tie it back up with the power cord of my PS2, not technically my bodge but one endorsed by one of Her Maj's finest  |
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Apr 24, 2018 21:57:48 GMT
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Similarly to above, I was once hurtling along in my little Skoda which to be fair was mostly held together by bodgery anyway, and the exhaust can (ex-Ducati, as you do) fell off. So I tied it back on - badly. About two miles further along, after the can had rubbed a hole in the rear tyre, I had to stop and replace that too. The young lady accompanying me that evening seemed unimpressed, why she ever said yes when I asked her out a few weeks later, I do not know, it certainly wasn't because I had a nice car!
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Apr 24, 2018 22:10:25 GMT
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Nothing special for me. Just the usual rusted panel repairs consisting entirely of newspaper and filler.
I did make the front half of the wiring loom from a crashed Mini Clubman fit a Mk2 Escort van once. Everything worked off one fuse whether the key was on or not. Does that count as bodgery? At the time it just seemed like a good way to save a bit of money.
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GJUK
Part of things
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Apr 24, 2018 22:40:57 GMT
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Points awarded Igor. For saving money and boderey
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Apr 24, 2018 23:28:12 GMT
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I covered a rusty hole in my Peugeot 104 with a cassette tape cover. The black bit of it. Put heaps of black goop on it and it did pass
it's APK/ MOT.
Always run all my "extra's" like radio's, spot lights straight of the battery as I had no idea how to do it otherwise.
Put a bit of timber under my passenger side window. The runners rusted away. A bit of timber kept the window up.
Not a real bodgery but I bought a 2001 Toyota land cruiser for peanuts. The gear box was playing up badly.But no quote
for repair was made. I bought it although still driving it was a mess. Gears would almost change when ever they wanted.
Went for a quote and got told that $2000 would fix it. The mechanic told me what was wrong. The kick down cable had broken,
the gear box needed to come out all up a big job.
I took it home and had a look myself. The cable was not really broken. The little "nipple" at the end of the cable had come of.
A throttle cable nipple ($1.85) a little mirror at the reject shop ($2.00) ( I needed a mirror to find the right spot for the cable thingy) and about 30 minutes labor saw me saving just under $2000. I sold the car for double I paid for about 4 months later.
My wife still tells me that it was our best 4WD ever.
The new owner took it from Brisbane to Darwin without any problem.
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I once replaced a clogged fuel filter on my Karman Ghia with the hollow body of a ballpoint pen. I was pleased that it got me home, but I shouldn't have left it there for months...
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Emergency repair bodge of a leaky to hose on my mum's mini....sellotape, yeah that'll do! I was only 15 at the time and it got us home for dad to fix.
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Bodgery. 'fess up!johnthesparky
@johnthesparky
Club Retro Rides Member 6
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I was hitchhiking years ago, car broke down in front of me. Throttle cable was resting on the engine, had warmed up and the outer shrunk as it melted... fixed it by making a tube of newspaper wrapping it with tape and rerouting it (and got a lift home too)
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
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Bodgery. 'fess up!ChasR
@chasr
Club Retro Rides Member 170
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Erm, I'm worried people will think my cars are deathtraps after this! What have I done?
-I rebuilt the Escort's failed and collapsed doorcard's using fibreglass. It was bumpy but solid. It was on a £300 hard life'd car mind you.
-We had a Mondeo which we did a DMF and clutch on; not a cheap job. We also drove on that clutch for a very long time with a leaking concentric slave cylinder; it was on 250k when it started to leak and while the car was solid we didn't intend on keeping the car for ages.
The car came back with a rear main leaking. It went back to the garage countless times! I ended up facing that I'd need a pot of money to fix crank seal leak at 320k. My solution? An undertray from a TDCI.
-I hated my VW Beetle for a while. Why? It was very unreliable and cut out when you least expected it. One day it died completely. It had a new rotor arm or 3 back in 2006. All of them were bad. My solution? A coat hanger soldered into position to bypass the faulty resistor. It ran perfect after that. Intermotor I still hate you.
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I got called to a car at Medway services, that was "smoking under the bonnet, and they're going to Manchester so you need to fix it"
It turned out they'd lost the oil cap after checking the level(at Calais!). So I whittled a replacement from a piece of fence post with my Leatherman, wiped the worst of the oil off, and sent them on their way with a BIG tick in the Temporary Repair box.
I reattached a Metro gear lever with half a bag of cableties once; they were going to Exeter. My boss hated sending us on long recoveries
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lord13
Part of things
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hmmmm .... ok so my first viva had gaping rust holes under the front indicators where the wing meets the valence, common place for them to go, so i got a couple of empty catfood tins, knelt on them on the lawn to squash them into a rough rounded shape, covered them in glass fibre snot and pressed them into service  bit of sanding and underseal and it passed 3 MOT's like this A friend of mine had his astra van fail on a corroded subframe, i inspected the area, it was good and flat, so i cut a bit of tin to size, slavered JB weld on one side and pressed it into place, the JB gunk squidged out a bit all round the sides, and looked a bit like a good solid bead of weld, so without rubbing it down at all I undersealed it, took it to the MOT station ( my mate was too ashamed to go in case it got spotted) and it passed! yay I have also repaired a hole in a piston with JB weld (which is still going strong even after a few years), I love the stuff |
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I have also repaired a hole in a piston with JB weld (which is still going strong even after a few years), I love the stuff jb is great stuff. a replacement fuel pump on my old samurai spat one of the nipple fittings out of the casing , spewing fuel over the exhaust...not ideal. tight on time and not being able to get another new pump I "jb'd" the fitting back in and it never caused any more troubles! fool proof and fuel proof...double bonus!!! |
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Apr 25, 2018 19:36:40 GMT
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I generally don't bodge, but recently the main hose from the intercooler to my inlet on the focus tdci split (coz Nurburgring) so I drove back to France from Germany with it hissing like a feral cat. I glued the split and wrapped it in very old duct tape while a new one came from the UK.
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bit of sanding and underseal and it passed 3 MOT's like this 