E30 Zone

I'm gonna start this thread for ultimate bodges and see if it kicks off well. Feel free to rate bodges on a scale of 1-10 on the bodge factor hahaha.

This could be a long night for some

dont ask me how but i bodged the door lock barrel on my e30 the other day with half an allen key, a washer and a screw as the arm on it was snapped hahaha

Piece of car tyre rammed into a rear top mount as a repair. Found on my car two months ago.

I can't claim this but its a quality bodge by my best mate :



Aldi bean can and jubilee clips FTW

haha epic thats a 7.5 i reckon Rob!

Rob im pretty sure most peope in the motor trade have done the bodge at some point.... I know i have

capri_rob wrote:I can't claim this but its a quality bodge by my best mate :



Aldi bean can and jubilee clips FTW

On an exaust? done that, bit of echaust putty in the mix as well.

capri_rob wrote:I can't claim this but its a quality bodge by my best mate :



Aldi bean can and jubilee clips FTW

quite right too Rob, you certainly don't want to using expensive Heinz beans cans on these rusty old sh177ers!

Corrosion repair kit for peasants, this is the "Asda Value" equivalent of body repair

The E30 I bought where headlamp alignment was courtesy of a ring of black sealant, bonding the headlamp to the grille has to be a contender.
Good enough to pass a MOT test though.

Mine was running a heinz spec exhaust on bolt pipes when the backbox split just before the Renault world series, survived a round trip to silverstone and about a week after that.

Wrapped a couple of bike spokes around the exhaust tubes and used them as an exhaust mount.

I'm not that good at these threads as what i consider bodgey it pretty sound compared to some.

edit - ohh there is one, my RH headlight lamp is held in with high temp black silicone gasket as i broke the peg the clip locates on off.
Its held for 4 years so far.
And my indicator bulbs are clear ones painted with head lamp yellow.

my pipe had a split in it where the little pipe branched off so i cut that part off, found a hose from a spare car i had sat there that had the right size bore, then had to put a metal reducer inside that one and a smaller pipe with the right side outside diameter to go inside the original pipe. nice and tight fitting now. it kept cutting out because of the air leak but now it doesnt so it clearly works.

Previous owners:

e36 M3 wrung the sparkplug threads on Cyl 1 so beat a larger plug wrapped in PTFE in with a hammer. Wasn't impressed when I went to change the plugs

e30 rear pass arch backfilled with silky and sprayed over, ya think if he had gone to the trouble of spraying it he woulda repaired it right!

My bodges, erm the M42 swap into the touring with an e36 exhaust manifold and loom

This one time I wrung the threads off a sparkplug on an e36 m3 on cylinder 1 so I beat a larger plug wrapped in PTFE in with a hammer. Sold it to some mug from Belfast. Bet he wasn't impressed when he went to change the plugs

ross_jsy wrote:This one time I wrung the threads off a sparkplug on an e36 m3 on cylinder 1 so I beat a larger plug wrapped in PTFE in with a hammer. Sold it to some mug from Belfast. Bet he wasn't impressed when he went to change the plugs

Ya coont, you owe me a helicoil set!

This one I can claim - not a car bodge but used car bits :





Had to cement a new manhold cover seal in place - cement kept dropping out so held it in place with an old number plate and mondeo jack until it set.
Naysayers said it wouldnt last 5 minutes - this is coming up to a Year ago and its still all good ( obviously removed the jack when it had set )

i woulda left it in for the comical value

Drove over 1000 miles like this



And how to fit an engine to a golf

hazd31 wrote:

this is how you put an engine in a mk1

Paintless dent removal !

Before:



During:



After:



Still like that now...

Tied my sliding door on my Tesco van shut with my work shirt. Did the rest of my round in just my hi-viz vest (like a 90's raver)!

Snapped one of the Thermostat housing studs off the head on my mini years ago. Didn't have a tap set handy so drilled a hole and used liquid metal to stick a stud in. I actually think it's still on there!!

The mini, yet again. Cut sections out of a farm gate to bodge the exhaust.

Nicked a nut off of a gate to fasten an alternator back onto a saab.

Used a rubber bush out of a wine making kit to replace the ending steady bush on the mini, that lasted a long time.

Mitsubishi Shogun, bolts on bell housing sheared so was seperating on bottom, used a wired up G clamp to hold it together successfully for 3 years, including a fair bit of off roading.

Lets face it, anything other than standard parts are an improvement for a mini

This is true Dan.

Also replaced shear pins with bolts on an argo cat, the tyres were mega uneven and it kept breaking the pins. Think they were quad tyres actually, might have caused the problem.

If you use proper OEM tape from the dealers it will last forever but I like to replace it once a year, as I'm a bit fussy.

whilst examining the shell on my resto cabby (1989 320i) i noticed that the back section under the boot (the section where the jack and usually lots of water reside) was showing little in the way of magnetism when greeted with my trusty magnet!.

it appears that a previous owner had (with some talent i must admit) sculpted with filler the whole panel.

A hammer and about half an hour latter revealed a considerable amount of filler...it must have taken this bodge artist hours of fill in and sanding to create this bodge, which is mad given it only took about 2 hours to plasma cut and weld in a new panel!..

i'll take a pic later. My E30 316i wouldn't go through MOT on emission's and wouldn't run right due to a massive air leak that i really did bodge with gaffa tape. re-did it with copper pipe jubilie clips and some tough ass rubber/plastic hose. done about 200 miles so far and no problems

Bodges on the E30 I've done aren't too bad. I had a load of pinholes in my exhaust from my mates poor welding, wrapped it in duct tape and when it warmed up it melted into the holes and fixed it.
My exhaust was also held up for over a year with just speaker wire and passed an MOT like it.
I snapped the bleed screw value on my rad and have since filled it with sillicone...
The bottom of my wing has rotted away and is now cardboard and fibreglass, same as a hole in my sill!

I smoothed my front bumper on my Corsa by stuffing the recess with carrier bags and covered in duct tape. Duct taped a headunit to the heater for audio. Infact most was bodged on that...

Plenty of eggs have been through my old cars coolant systems for leaks in the past as well, not forgetting cable ties and even more duct tape for misc repairs

Probably the worst bodge ever, I was selling a Jag XJS and the rear radius arm was rotten, went to replace it an the **king bolt in the centre that holds it to the chassis snapped off and the buyer was coming to pick it up the following day so i grabbed the new arm, filled the hole that slides over the boss on the chassis with Araldite, slammed the arm up onto the car and left it on the jack overnight, it seemed ok at 7am the following day so i then got Araldite rapid and stuck the bolt head back on as well, looked great .......Held me breath when the 22 stone buyer drove off the kerb outside my house later that day though !!

well that doesnt sound very nice at all!! Bit dissapointing tbh.

sounds bloody lethal!
(I'm never going to buy a car off you Ian!)

Ian your the sort of guy that keep me in a job!

Not me but I know someone who did the gearbox on a new mini and cut the subframe and re welded it.