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Apr 27, 2018 21:10:47 GMT
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More of a roadside fix than bodge....although I did leave it like this because it worked and there was no need to change. Snapped the clutch cable on my Almera GTi, luckily it was just the end that hooks over the pedal that snapped off and not the actual cable. Rummaged around for what I had in the car...being a bicycle mechanic I had a bicycle spoke key and some cable ties....ideal! What it should look like... What it looked like after I fixed it... Pretty proud of that one!
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The usual one from me Back in the late 80s I owned a lot of mk1 escorts Many were toshed up and sold on Filler and card board in the top plates and sills Was quite usual, and the spare wheel wells always had a biscuit assortment tin carefully crafted in Some people now say “oh your proud of that are you?” But everyone was at it back then including a lot of car traders,,,,,don’t see anything like it these days....mainly electrical bodges I think?? the Bodge usually took more time than doing the job properly.... ....but often cost less money and required much less skill.
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As a skint apprentice i had a very much unsuitable car- a mk2 Golf GTI with big TSW wheels and a gti engineering 1900 conversion. It was too fast for me and i could not afford to put petrol in the thing let alone fix it .
The common mk2 fault of the rear calliper seizing started to rear its ugly head but i managed to drive around for 3 months or so with it coming and going by stopping when it got hot and sometimes emptying water on it or more often than not in a pickle by having a slash on it !
Must have been something magical in my pee as it would not happen again for a few weeks . I cannot recommend it though ....the smell .
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My first two years of driving was the worst for bodging things No money makes for some interesting repairs
I used to re-use head gaskets or use two for a better seal I once disconnected the turbo oil feed to help the oil pressure on a tired engine Household wire to replace broken exhaust mounts Mole grips on a brake pipe to stop a leaking wheel cylinder And I was a dab hand with fibreglass matting and brush on underseal
One on my friends cut up his brothers mountain bike frame to repair his exhaust And I remember one other using a couple of pushbike lights masking taped to the inside of the rear lights instead of the bulb holders due to a electrical fault
Its concerning when you read it back I can't be the only one People must be doing this still nowadays
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1992 240 Volvo T8 1955 Cadillac 1994 BMW E34 M5 (now sold ) 1999 BMW E36 sport touring x2 1967 Hillman imp Californian "rally spec" 1971 VW bay window (work in progress) 1999 Mazda 323F 1987 Jaguar XJ12 All current
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My first car was a 1000 mini , which again i had no money to run . It was always going through brake drums parts as it had them front and back .I'm not sure if this was because i was hammering them or because the parts i bought from legendary Oxfordshire car parts empourium 'J & SONS ' were sub standard fake cack parts [ most likely ]
I would change the shoes and cylinders every couple of months after finding the seals blown and the brake material detached from the shoes .
My bodge after a while was just to carry around the long thin spanner you needed for the adjuster on the back of the brakes . When one corner locked up from the cylinder going i would just back off that drum and carry on with 3 brakes drums or two !
I eventually got a MG metro engine in it with the 4 pot brakes on as well and carried on the bodgery .
It often would not start on cold mornings , i thought due to the cold . To remedy this i would pour a couple of kettles of boiling water over the block and or spray flaming wd40 at the airbox whilst my brother cranked it . Turns years later it needed a new earthstrap ... i always wondered what that almost worn though metal rope thing was on the engine .
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Bodgery. 'fess up!accord83
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Apr 28, 2018 17:50:54 GMT
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My first car at 16, it was an old Anglia 1200 Super, it didn't have reclining seats but I found mine gradually leaning backwards until I realised the seat was sinking through the floor at the back. A piece of wood floor boarding across the floor for the rear seat frame to rest on, sorted. It was there when it got an MOT cert (over the phone, but that's another story) happier simpler times.
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74 Mk1 Escort 1360, 1971 Vauxhall Victor SL2000 Estate.
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Apr 28, 2018 18:17:31 GMT
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Not one of mine, but my mates Dad was skint painter & decorator back in the 80’s. He had a knackered mk2 Escort van. He ran it until the front pads were down to the metal, then carried on until on one side completely went through the disc. This did not prompt him to do a repair though, oh no, he pushed the pistons back into the caliper, pushed a chunk of wood in & carried on driving it with just the metal backings onto a by now 4mm thick disc on the other side only.
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A friend back in the '80s drove an Austin A60 ute with the brakes running steel to steel for so long it cut the front drums off. Kept driving it with one wheel brakes only until an unfortunate incident with a cow resulted in a bent chassis.
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Apr 29, 2018 13:20:31 GMT
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Yesterday's bodge, my Land Rover is nearly ready for an MOT for the first time in 11 years, but I accidentally broke the end of the throttle cable while making up a new bracket for it. The plastic part that holds the cable sheath in place snapped off. Super glue might have held it for a while but would be too brittle and duct tape would be too flexible and come apart. Super glue coated duct tape on the other had makes for an excellent repair!
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taurus
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Apr 29, 2018 13:46:21 GMT
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When the cylinder head on my Honda Cub broke in half I glued it together with liquid metal - it lasted fine until someone nicked the bike and ran it into a tree.
My Yaris has an exhaust system I cobbled together out of scrap sections of exhaust I got out of a skip. The MOT guy said it was the worst abomination he'd ever seen claiming to be an exhaust system - but it didn't leak and it wasn't too loud so it passed. The rear bumper is held on with hot weld glue after I knocked it off reversing into our gatepost.
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Copey
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Apr 29, 2018 14:20:46 GMT
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I have done a few over the years...mostly to do with exhausts oddly!!
The back of bush on my last Capri split, I bodged it back with cable ties...7 months later it was an advisory on an MOT
The pipe going to the back box on my Sierra rotted through, so I pulled the box off, hammered a pipe into what was left of the pipe and held it in place with a belt, that lasted about 3 months before I decided to fix it properly.
One of the back box mounts on my current Capri was rotten so I held it in place with a giant cable tie, that was a quick fix that one, only about 3 weeks!
And the side exit on my old Defender was badly welded (previous owner) so i lashed a giant hose clamp round it, that lasted at least 9 months!
I don't have much luck with exhausts...
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec 1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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Nov 26, 2018 20:59:27 GMT
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In the not too distant past I had a mate call for help sunday morning, the rear subframe of his banger w124 had detached itself due to rust. Both front mounting points were completely past welding, and when you jacked the car up they pulled out of the rails 4". Car was living on borrowed time so we got the bolts cut out and drilled up through the floor of the car under the rear seats, then pulled the lot back together with some lengths of 14mm threaded rod. Expanding foam and underseal completed the job. Expecting the car to be scraped when the Mot ran out I thought no more about it, but so far two MOT inspectors haven't noticed it...
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1988 Mercedes w124 superturbo diesel 508hp 1996 Mercedes s124 e300 diesel wagon 1990 BMW E30 V8 M60 powered! 1999 BMW E46 323ci project car
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ems1
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Bodgery. 'fess up!ems1
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Nov 26, 2018 21:19:25 GMT
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Many years ago the throttle cable snapped on my old Laguna. I had a look around and noticed it had snapped at the throttle pedal. I had pliers in the car so re-routed the cable through the drivers window and wrapped the cable around the pliers and drove 6 miles home using my new hand operated throttle.
My brother had the best bodge about 25 years ago. The front wing on his mark 1 Escort had rotted along the top and came loose. He duck taped it back on to the inner wing and sprayed the tape the same colour as the car - he drove it like this for a long time!
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1985 Manta GT/E 16v 2001 VW T4 Caravelle
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Nov 26, 2018 21:19:35 GMT
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My first car, a mini clubman estate, was a bit poor when i got it, it had cover-sills for a start. My dad was sure the rest of it was pretty good, until we got to the step under the rear doors. The quite convincing steel step turned out to be a carefully crafted lump of bodyfiller stuffed with fag packets. Ok, not my bodge, but one I had to fix.
Bought a pipercross cone air filter for my MG Maestro, without a thought in the world about how i was going to fit it. Found a piece of plastic drain pipe that, as luck would have it, was exactly the right diameter. There was also and angled joint on the floor that fitted in the end of the pipe putting the filter exactly in the right place. A 5 minute bodge that lasted for the whole time that i owned the car.
Id like to include clothes pegs on british leyland chokes, but i feel they are standard fit. Its difficult to draw the line between a bodge and an 'alternative' repair sometimes.
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Nov 26, 2018 21:36:32 GMT
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One on my friends cut up his brothers mountain bike frame to repair his exhaust And I remember one other using a couple of pushbike lights masking taped to the inside of the rear lights instead of the bulb holders due to a electrical fault Its concerning when you read it back I can't be the only one People must be doing this still nowadays I've carried out numerous bodges on my Minor Traveller over the years, and sometimes, it's taken me years to get around to fixing them properly. One such example is when my exhaust was blowing near the front silencer, and someone came up with the idea of cutting out a section of a dumped wheelbarrow handle to weld into it, which worked a treat, as it just happened to be the exact same diameter pipe! Other bodges have been when various electrical switches such as that for the heater fan blower and horn have failed, and I've jury-rigged 'temporary' switches in parallel, which have often remained in place for yonks. All an essential part of keeping an aged machine running though...
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Nov 26, 2018 21:51:36 GMT
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Some of this stuff scares me! But it does go on wholesale, mate did a newspaper/fibreglass sill combo because he didn't want to pay. Needless to say, the rot spread...
In some parts of former communist eastern Europe, you see some "interesting" badges, ones even I, a champion bodger but one who won't do something obviously unsafe, would be crazy to drive. Suppose money talks :/
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Nov 26, 2018 22:02:02 GMT
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My latest bodge... I know I should feel ashamed but as I can't find the proper bumper I'm just rollin with the wooden one!
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Nov 26, 2018 22:53:47 GMT
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My Datsun's bonnet it currently held shut with zip ties. This is getting rectified soon.
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Nov 26, 2018 23:32:19 GMT
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My latest bodge... I know I should feel ashamed but as I can't find the proper bumper I'm just rollin with the wooden one! First class that. If I had the cheek to do that, id have to stick a couple of reflectors on it, just so it looked like i really meant it.
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Last Edit: Nov 26, 2018 23:34:07 GMT by bmcnut
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My fiesta's offside wheel arch would make Blue Peter proud... cardboard shape covered in gaffe tape to make sure there were no sharp edges for the MOT. I need to learn to weld.
The thb I think that bumper probably wins this thread lol
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