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[Owen]

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.

[Golfbuddy]

Good Question

I hope I don't get barred for this but I actually owned an Austin Princess

The worst thing I did was to fill it with petrol which made it last longer than it deserved!!!

[Kevin Wood]

Morris Ital.  

Decided the thermostat could do with a change. Thermostat siezed in housing. Out with sammy sledgehammer. Thermostat housing cracked. Thermostat housing siezed into cylinder head. Put away sammy and got out the J-B weld. As good as new again, albeit with original, slightly battered thermostat.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

Yeah, had a silver MV6, though decent enough car. Worse bodge I did with that car was take it to those useless, lying, incompetent, robbing, scumbag crooks at Crownhill Vauxhall/Evans Halshaw touch it  

[hotel21]

Yeah, had a silver MV6, though decent enough car. Worse bodge I did with that car was take it to those useless, lying, incompetent, robbing, scumbag crooks at Crownhill Vauxhall/Evans Halshaw touch it  

Stop beating about the bush, you mealy mouthed person.....  Spit it out and say what you REALLY mean.    

[Timbuk]

Good Question

I hope I don't get barred for this but I actually owned an Austin Princess

 

The worst thing I did was to fill it with petrol which made it last longer than it deserved!!!

So did i

[TheBoy]

Good Question

I hope I don't get barred for this but I actually owned an Austin Princess

 

The worst thing I did was to fill it with petrol which made it last longer than it deserved!!!

So did i

[Owen]

   

Had a 1.6 laser carpi, had to put flagstone in the back of it in the winter to keep its backend down, had to do the same with me Chevette as well
Oh and on the chevet , if you lifted the mat up you could see the road as you were driving along, wet feet in the rain!

[Timbuk]

Good Question

I hope I don't get barred for this but I actually owned an Austin Princess

 

The worst thing I did was to fill it with petrol which made it last longer than it deserved!!!

So did i

I was young and stupid at the time  

[Kevin Wood]

I thought we were talking about personal botches. Dealer botches are in a different league. My dad had a Volvo 260 estate (another zero door volvo. good job it had a sunroof!). It was serviced shortly before he got rid of it, to a dealer next to where he worked. Dealer ran it around for a couple of weeks then got low oil pressure on the M3 one day. Shut it down and pulled into the hard shoulder sharpish to see a slick behind him that the Exxon Valdese would have been proud off. Sump was found to have a well and truly stripped sump plug hole with traces of plumbers PTFE tape dangling down

Same car. Head gaskets failed and were duly repaired by stealer. Luckily it was a company car. 2 months later head gaskets fail again. Stealer asked if anyone had said anything when it came into have the head bolts re-torqued after x miles. Stealer had actually said that no re-torque was necessary.

Kevin

[Owen]

Yugo Zastava is deffo the worst thing i ever owned :-/ :-/

[hotel21]

Biggest botch job I was ever involved in was on a 12000 horsepower, twin turbocharged, two stroke marine diesel main propulsion plant.....

Was sold to Chinese registry and contracted to be complete with a spare piston, piston crown, con rod, bottom end with hand cut white metal bearings, complete with a refurbed cylinder head, valve gear and fuel pump (all singular, by the way)

Looks kinda like this....

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

Stopped the boat in mid-oggin and stripped out a perfectly servicable complete single cylinder engine unit and replaced it with cracked/broken/corroded parts.  Restarted the job, cleaned up all the bits that had been removed and chugged into port.  Completed the hand over and flew home alongwith a number of shipmates....

oh - and changed over a fair number of the brass name tags on all the valve handwheels throughout the engineroom so the valve labelled, say, fresh water inlet tank one was actually the suction from number 3 topside fuel tank....

Oh, how we laughed....  

Must have taken the poor foreign flag buggers ages to suss it all out........

[Marks DTM Calib]

A mates Mk3 Escort 1.6 Ghia.....he was selling it and when hoovering it out put the nozzle throught the sill.....some news paper, P38+40 and a spray of stone chip protect later and you couldn't see it so clearly.

This one also had the standard knackered Ford gearbox where the drive shaft bearings were knackered and the speedo kept jumping due to the speedo drive gear not engaging properly and wearing out the nylon gear teeth......so we popped a new speedo gear in and drove the car through a ford and then ragged it through the long grass just off a field road to get the oil off......the buyer bought it......

[Timbuk]

Good Question

I hope I don't get barred for this but I actually owned an Austin Princess

 

The worst thing I did was to fill it with petrol which made it last longer than it deserved!!!

So did i

I was young and stupid at the time  

Funny enough, the only time it let me down ( still living in Coventry then ) was one Sunday afternoon,  the front crank seal let go when i was on my way to a place with a dry ski slope, think it was called Telford

Mine was a 2000HL in a lovely Burgandy colour, my mate was following me on the M6, i looked in my rear view mirror and saw clouds of smoke, thought my mates car had blown up or something until i realised it was coming from underneath mine :-/ and guess what car he had..... yep a nice Austin Princess in Burgandy, although he had a posh 2200HLS with rectangular headlamps  

[wakeyomega]

Early 70's I lost a wheel on a triumph spitfire at 60 mph 1 week after doing a deal to part exchange with a garage for a MGB, but before the exchange. The chassis arm the stub axle was attached to was ground down by the road surface. A bit of welding from a mate, underseal then .....rub all over with soil and grit before the underseal dried, to 'age it' - class 1 botch, but it worked   (and yes, it was safe).