Whats your...

[Bubba]

best bodge?

ive done a few, quicksteel holding my speedo cable in and plugging the hole in my radiator, and today i made a gte throttle cable fit my 1.3 after i broke mine...

[General Baxter]

lol

ooo where to start lol

maybe grinding pistons down with a dremal as the valves hit it lol

[16xe_chris]

Welding driveshafts back together lol lol

The list is endless lol

[Connor]

When smoothing a nova boot.
welded a big plate across it
then the gap left i filled with a mix of expanding
foam and filler lol

[Jack]

The whole car is a bodge lol

[General Baxter]

The whole car is a bodge lol

there wiring is not your fault tho lol

[Mike]

Giving a Yaris a front bodykit that was identical to a 4 bed detached house.

[General Baxter]

you leave mr leg's car out of this lol

[*Dave*]

cable ties have been used many times.

to hold an auto choke open as it was sticking,
part of the throttle linkage on t40's,
to tension an alternator belt when the bracket brokelol

loads more but too many to list lol

[Mike]

Ive also welded a track rod end onto the cast hub knuckle as the thread fell to bits whilst trying to take it off. Got the bolt half undone an it kept spinning inside the TCA.

[L33 LEG]

you leave mr leg's car out of this lol

lol

The biggest bodge to that car was spending all of that money on the bodykit and interior but leaving the crappy 1 litre engine in there!

[novalicous]

Having a quite bad coolant leak on a PNG members cav TD and using quick metal to stop it lol

its still going strong now lol

[Andy]

Having a quite bad coolant leak on a PNG members cav TD and using quick metal to stop it lol

its still going strong now lol
Which took the water pump down:roll: lol lol

[novalicous]

Which took the water pump down:roll: lol lol

not yours hedrixs lol

that cav was right bus when i had it

[Andy]

ah lol lol
Just the coolant was strange so thought that would explain it lol lol

[mowgli]

erm..
throttle cable snapping in a mk1 astra on m40, so rigged up choke cable as a hand throttle using a crimp terminal.. also used it as a cruise control

rh engine mount on nova collapsing, used a bit of bale string round the turret as a get me home

wiper linkage failed at 100+ on autobahn near dusseldorf.. managed to use a hammer & nail to burr the socket enough to hold it back on (for 3 years)

after the exhaust tailpipe fell of, and melted a brake line on a scania v8, i used a mole grip to seal the pipe so i could get home.. it even got the approval of a cop

[*Dave*]

erm..
throttle cable snapping in a mk1 astra on m40, so rigged up choke cable as a hand throttle using a crimp terminal.. also used it as a cruise control

rh engine mount on nova collapsing, used a bit of bale string round the turret as a get me home

wiper linkage failed at 100+ on autobahn near dusseldorf.. managed to use a hammer & nail to burr the socket enough to hold it back on (for 3 years)

after the exhaust tailpipe fell of, and melted a brake line on a scania v8, i used a mole grip to seal the pipe so i could get home.. it even got the approval of a cop

i like the cruise control lol

[MK999]

Probably tying up my power chav valve adjustable regulator out the way with electrical cable to stop my 1.6 running lean, needed a quick fix to get to combe/trax lol

[Gibbo]

welding a diffrent suspension leg from a focus on to a fiesta.
and pulling a roof and that out by tying it to a lamp post after a tree fell on bwm losts of filler lol

[Derick-Sport]

cable ties on my 306 derv held every thing together throttle cable cv boots dump valve haha i didnt keep that shed long

[Southie]

One night I was driving and it was peeing it down and the wiper arm snapped off the little ball joint, so in true Mr Bean style got a piece of elastic from the garage we had gradually got to and then got my mate to pull the elastic to do the wipers lol

[let_nova]

fooking the back hub nut, hitting it on with a hammer and firing a nail in it to hold it on lol

[Sloth]

building a 2.0 nova, fitting an astra mk2 engine mount without lowering the chassis leg mount. ran it for 6 months....

[AlanH]

rear brake pipe leak on my old corsa, clamped the flexi pipe up with molegrips, cable tied the grips to the axle lol

[Jon_nova1]

Same as Baxter with the use of a dremel to make a gap so the valves didn't hit the pistons

also using epoxy resin to glue a leaky plastic thermostat housing together on a rover 214 lol

[muzzy]

I used garden string to hold my wiper linkage together, never bothered fixing it and sold the car like that lol

[Ben]

i welded a wheel onto a cav gsi as the previous one came off shearing 3 of the 4 nuts in the hub.

[xe Dan]

i tiger sealed my gear box mount bolts in on a let astra i had after the threads got stripped

[Derick-Sport]

i welded a wheel onto a cav gsi as the previous one came off shearing 3 of the 4 nuts in the hub.

haha belter :thumbs: told dad about this thread he said when his mum had mini metro floor rotted out so he welded a half of an oil drum along the floor to pass the mot haha

[mowgli]

haha belter :thumbs: told dad about this thread he said when his mum had mini metro floor rotted out so he welded a half of an oil drum along the floor to pass the mot haha

then i think he sold it to my sister....

[Ben]

My mate rolled foil over the underside of a XR3 and then hammerited it lol

[mowgli]

My mate rolled foil over the underside of a XR3 and then hammerited it lol

my brother had a red mk3 escort 1.3gl with xr3 alloys & a boot spoiler (it was the mid eighties) he was selling it & there was a huge rust bubble on the rear arch. i wire brushed it & dabbed some red smoothrite on. the first viewer brought her brother to inspect it.. he put on his kwikfit overalls & looked at the tyres & exhaust, and pronounced it fit, they paid 2 grand cash & drove it off with wet paint on it!!! and my wife wonders why i won't set foot in a kwikfit

[Asa-James]

err, well mine are running out of metal and fibreglass to rebuild a rear arch, so used a quality streets tin (if you rubbed off the underseal, you could still see the barcode lol), snapping a split pin for the rear bearing so finding a 1" roofing nail in the garage, sticking it in and putting the cap back over, various cable tie incidents including the rear bench in current nova, screwing a bracket into the spare tyre in my corolla to hold the sub in place(done on purpose :))

the ones i know from my dad are...

volvo sills rotten, so he used skirting board to make "sideskirts" for it, hammerited it and it passed MOT (years gone by)
Morris Minor in france, wiper motor packed up so they used washing line string on each arm, through both windows, and as my dad drove my mum had to pull from side to side to keep the screen clear (the Moggy came off the road in 1982 so shows how long ago that was lol)