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Re: Botch jobs!
« Reply #15 on: 01 July 2007, 22:19:41 »

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Speaking of the renault 5, what the worst heap you have ever owned, and the worst, cheapest botch job ya did on yer old motors. ;)

Well, the worst botch job i have ever done i did it on one of my dad's trucks, a scania 142, the cam lobe at the exhaust was worn to f*** and the engine at full load was making a metalik banging noise from the problematic cylinder i decided then to remove any valve lash in order to help the cylinder breath, it run 4 months like that and then we sold it.
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« Reply #16 on: 01 July 2007, 22:24:09 »

We did pot rivet some new sills over the old ones once ::)
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« Reply #17 on: 01 July 2007, 22:25:52 »

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We did pot rivet some new sills over the old ones once ::)

Nowt wrong with that, as long as you grind the heads off so the tester dont see them.....  :-X
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« Reply #18 on: 01 July 2007, 22:52:16 »

Ah, a drill and a pop rivet gun! Tools of true bodgers!

Ah, me Mk2 escort held together with pop rivets and a umteen pots of filler!
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« Reply #19 on: 01 July 2007, 23:08:09 »

worse stealer bodge job i have seen was when i picked up my E30 325 SE after a large service.
Had asked for the antifreeze to be changed as well as the service, paid a fortune for the all the work, drove it 10 miles down the road and the temp guage shot off the scale......There was little/no water in the engine, had warped the head and blew the core on the rad.
the dealer claimed i had drained the system and ragged the nuts off it and so created the damage, 6 months later and a small claims court case, they paid up and repaired the car.....

The other bodge i have found this weeked was done by my local robbing, scumbag, halfwit, muppet, pea brained morons who work for the local Vaux stealers, when they did the cam belt on my miggy the left hand exhaust cam was 2 teeth out!! Now it has been done properly she really flies along, up until now she has always been a touch sluggish.

I would NEVER use my local dealers again, they are a waste of space
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« Reply #20 on: 01 July 2007, 23:12:19 »

Bodges

1) molegrips to hold clutch cable when it popped through bulkhead on the Sunbeam (a weak spot)

2) Bent part of a front cross member rather than lift the engine slightly to change cam shaft.

3) Silicon sealer to repair a radiator leak while on holiday.

4) Silicon sealer around the exhaust ports when changing the manifold gasket as two studs were broken - this lasted well over a year!!!!
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« Reply #21 on: 02 July 2007, 10:44:26 »

Worst car I've ever had, hmmmm, tough one, there've been so many..........

First one that springs to mind,

'87 Ausin Montego. Two years old when I got it and it started disintegrating the day I got it and just got worse from there.

'83 Alfa Sud. So rotten the MOT man advised me not to drive it home. Started to fix it, but ran out of steam when I realised that I actually needed metal to weld to!!

'77 Trans Am. Didn't realise at the point of sale, but one of the rear wings was made entirely of body filler, (It became affectionately known as the Isopontiac!), and the engine and gearbox were held in by one bolt each. the scary thing was that I drove it 250 miles home from Blackpool like that.

Worst/best bodge has to have been glueing the handbrake mechanism back together again on the S2N Omega. (Wasn't as good as the team that repaired their leaking cooling system with parma ham though!!)
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« Reply #22 on: 02 July 2007, 11:30:24 »

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Isopontiac!

ROFL! I like it.  ;D

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the scary thing was that I drove it 250 miles home from Blackpool like that

Burt Reynolds would have been proud!  :D

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« Reply #23 on: 02 July 2007, 15:32:06 »

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Burt Reynolds would have been proud!  :D

Yeah, I grew a moustache and bought some aviator style suglasses especially for the trip!!
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