whats the worst bodge you have seen on a e30

[town325i]

this is the worst ive seen in all my time of messing with them.
the story starts i was going to do a job for a lad that has just bought a sport and one of the rockers had broken. got there took the cover off and then found this to my horror

this was the worst bit a bit of a hacsaw blade and some washers!


ended up swaping the heads over with a car he was breaking and i had the scrap head for spares.

[fuzzy]

biggest bodge i seen on an e30 was when some clown stuck a ford engine in one
the specialist that did my conversion used the sophisticated method of a block of rubber cable tied under the accelerator pedal to act as a throttle limiter.

[town325i]

nice that sound like a high quality job

[DanThe]

Was the previous owner a 'drifter' ?

[cliffybabe]

The king of all bodgers has to be Fowler

[town325i]

Was the previous owner a 'drifter' ?

no just an arsehole. he didnt have much idea idea on any thing realy by the look of the wiring for all the chav gauges in the cetre console. the engine bay was a mess wires every where

[Kedge]

Worst i'd seen was when i stripped down my M42 that sudden started to make a right old rattly noise to find the idler wheel hanging on for dear life, then i knew why the engine had had a rebuild before i bought it.

Think they got weld everywhere apart from where it was really needed!

[Jhonno]

[Jhonno]

Oh and..

[BadDave]

[hoshy]

My old alternator relocation. Went through a belt every few hundred miles.

mk2 will be better

[Tommo32]

I repaired a split rad hose with a puncture repair patch once. Lasted long enough for me to source another pipe.

[DanThe]

How did I know that dustbin would end up in this thread

[town325i]

How did I know that dustbin would end up in this thread

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looks like some one started to frag it and changed there mind what a shed

[Alex]

How did I know that dustbin would end up in this thread

where did they find it, did someone actually pay money for that

[DanThe]

Less of the remarks please, this car is a chariot from the gods, it can donut

[Alex]

only kidding

[secondtimelucky]

Oh and..

I did the mk2 version of that, two cable ties, top and bottom

[GrindCulture]

The biggest bodge E30 I've seen is sat outside....

[gcs325i]

worst bodge was on one of mine before the suspension rebuild, a rear sub frame bush that had supposedly garage changed was not fully in, a good inch of the bush left proud and the rest had disappeared during the obvious heat+ big hammer technique to get the fecker in. And i thought the handling was good before the rebuild

[Felix79]

My Cab had been pumped full of RAD Weld , Themostat has the middle removed to make it run cooler , wrong radiator for modle , back box is actually 3 different pipes welded up to a stainle box , rear lights were put in using silcon sealer.

[Cloud]

Lots of little ones on my car. All the wires to the speakers are a bit too short and pulled very tight. Water seals repaired with chewing gum. Windscreen washer hoses replaced with allsorts. Hydraulic fluid in the power steering reservoir. Smashed door locks replaced with ones from a Ford. Big holes in the rear foot pans bridged with nothing but filler. Door hinge pins are just ordinary mild steel bolts. Sheared splines on the wiper stem fixed with threadlock and rust. I suspect the bump-stop things in the rear suspension have been taken out too.