johnhara1
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Registered: 19th Oct 06
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Come one then whats the most ridiculous bodge jobs you've had to do to your car and why did you have do it?
Mine was a 2L Pepsi bottle that got us from Kent to Newcastle.
We had driven to Kent to collect a fruit machine off eBay in my mates dads minbus. We got there, collected the machine and everything was fine until the journey home.
On the way back my mate noticed we where using alot more diesel than on the way down and the bus had alot less power. We popped the bonnet and found that an injector pipe had snapped and we had no tools with us bar a couple screwdrivers 
Now it was getting dark, raining and we were in Kent. We had nothing to bridge the 2 pipes back together either and all services we stopped at couldnt help.
What we did was pierce a hole in the lid of a 2L pepsi bottle and attach the broken pipe to this so it caught any diesel that spilled out. We then calculated the amount of time it would take to fill the 2l bottle from 1 injector (it was 10miles) we then would stop and pour the diesel back into the tank every 10miles it worked and the bus got us home a 60mph on 3 cylinders .
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Baskey
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Registered: 31st May 06
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i was drivin with no shoes on and the heater matrix popped on my nova and boiling water started pissing over my bare feet.
Had to disconnect the matrix from inside the engine, then rolled up some laminated card and put it between the two water pipes as a sort of connector the water could flow through. It just about got me the 1.5 miles home before coolant burst through and filled the engine/my garden with steam
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Sandsy
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Registered: 29th Oct 04
Location: Tilney All Saints Drives: V6 Corsa
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I was on the way back from castle donington when my exhaust rubbers snapped on my back box on my vtr,
All i had in the car was a roll of insulation tape so got my gf to hold the back box into place while i went round the mount on the car and back box with the tape to create a temporary rubber
Held for 65 miles 
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
Location: County Durham
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fixed a rear brake drum on a corsa at the side of the road using a pair of pliers and a shoelace
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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So far, my airbox is being held on with cableties
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TheCam
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Registered: 16th Mar 07
Location: Kirkcaldy
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steering rack collapsed in on itself, built it back up but wouldnt stay up. about 10 cable ties later it was fine lol
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Superlite Ltd.
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Registered: 9th Jan 07
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My old man was in the desert in a LandRover Defender doing miniTrek. The fuel pump packed in so he put a jerry can on the roof and siphon fed diesel into the engine. Got them to the nearest town
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TheCam
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Registered: 16th Mar 07
Location: Kirkcaldy
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quote:
Originally posted by Superlite Ltd.
The fuel pump packed in so he put a jerry can on the roof and siphon fed diesel into the engine. Got them to the nearest town
thats quality 
[Edited on 18-12-2007 by TheCam]
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mike16v
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: sheffield, yorkshire
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my mate snapped his accelerator cable, so we tied some rope to the throttle body and fed it thru the passenger window, drove a mile or so home using the rope to open up the throttle 
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BarnshaW
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Registered: 25th Oct 06
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used a bean tin cut open at both ends to secure my air filter to the AFM
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Nick-S
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Registered: 3rd Mar 04
Location: Leigh. Drives: RS Megane 230 F1 Team R26
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quote:
Originally posted by mike16v
my mate snapped his accelerator cable, so we tied some rope to the throttle body and fed it thru the passenger window, drove a mile or so home using the rope to open up the throttle
fucking ace
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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put a sliding door back on a pug 807 using a mallet and a crowbar, taped it up using gaffer tape and then a lad drove it bakc 370 miles to home, rear window was made from strongbow and carling boxes - will post pics up when on another comp
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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The standard cold air feed is attached to the slam panel with a zip tie.
And that is about it.
Dad has tied an exhaust up with tights before.
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Planty02
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Registered: 5th Mar 05
Location: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
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The exhaust on my old Corsa was tied to the mounts with garden twine
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Elastic bands on the throttle boddies instead of a spring, worked better I though apart from the perishing 
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Oven glove to stop the exhaust rattle was a genius idea too
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Leaving the engine empty of water after the it leaked out and warped the head, as it wouldn't run with water in
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Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Oven glove to stop the exhaust rattle was a genius idea too
Car made a good genny m8
Mines how my front bumper is held on
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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bicycle handle bar grip around rear beam to stop exhaust rattle
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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My old man fixed his old skoda;s throttle cable (years ago) with a hairpin and garden twine
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neil h
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Registered: 28th Sep 06
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Cable tied my a mates bumper/drivers arch back together after hitting a deer. Interesting bit was each cable tie was on 3 inches long so i had to use loads of em.
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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Isnt there a story involving shimano bicycle brake cable and jr and someones car? remember it from a couple of years ago
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Mike
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Registered: 20th May 06
Location: nr. Skipton, North Yorkshire
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Not had many, exhaust centre section come apart, front was held up fine, back was held on by the back box mounts and rested nicely on the rear beam, just had to avoid any speedbumps.
And a wire to my rear lights snapped one night, soldered it at the side of the road, luckily had soldering iron, solder, and wire strippers in my boot cos I'd finished fitting my alarm about half an hour before
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Chris Bingham
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: In Scotland
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I used some 'flame proof' material over the back axle to stop the exhaust rattling.
After some spirited driving, I pulled into the Petrol station and whilst refilling, a lot of smoke started to pour from under the car.
Not so flame proof then....
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Martin_C
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Registered: 27th Jun 03
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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taken from...
http://corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=357572
quote:
Originally posted by Martin_C
well we had a slightly eventful night last night...
after some drifty drifty action at our private test roundabout, and a bit of grip in the wrong place, the car decided to try its hand at being a lawnmower on the middle of the roundabout.
how it looked before...
oh jobby...
so today, we decided to have a go at some ghetto repairs.
this bit was slightly missing.
as was this bit
n this bit
can see the red fibreglass on it, its been rebuilt before
ghetto repairs work in progress
bit of filler, be fine
BONDAGE!!!
right as rain, wouldnt know the difference
beauty shots
stitching was impeccable
the rest survived fine, no damage at all 
new bumper this week
[Edited on 05-05-2007 by Martin_C]
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