Cheapest repairs that you've done on your car..

[Station]

£120 Micra last year with 'knocking bottom end'.

Gladly paid exhaust place to swap the old broken middle section which was knocking on the sump.

Sold for £550.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Pretty sure its not for heating as there are no wires to it and the drain plug is at the front...

[2MB]

190d again. Diagnosed a constant squeaking noise to be a cracked PAS pump bracket (part of the ally pump body) allowing belt tension to pull it out of square. Priced up secondhand unproved pumps and lashed it to the air box mounting plate with artfully arranged jubilee clips. The possibility of ever being able to sell this car is diminishing but it still feels like it would wear the roads out before letting me down

[PhillipM]

Repaired the electric seats in the 406 with an old wire coat hanger, a pushbike brake cable and lots of knuckle skin.

Also repaired the sticky electric window by pulling the switch apart and rubbing the contacts on my jeans to take a film of grease off, been fine ever since.

[vulgalour]

 

 

No apologies for using this picture at any given opportunity.

[oldford]

I needed some new grease caps for the front wheel bearings on my Sierra.  Had a look on ebay and found out that they're the same as Cosworth ones, so that'll be £30 for a pair then.

 

I found some plastic aerosol caps of the correct diameter, cut the down and sealed them in with silicon sealer.

 

Had a broken rotor arm shaft on the same car, you can't get them new and if they do come up on ebay, they're £100, used ones are often broken.  I made one out of some metal tube with a large washer weleded on the end and bent over to grip the drive.  The rotor arm is located by a slot, so that it fits in the correct position.  I found (after two break downs) that you need to grind the shaft away where the rotor arm contacts run across it, otherwise after 1,000 miles the rotor arm shorts out and the engine stops.

 

 

 

 

 

[Richard]

I scraped the rest of the amber off a repeater bulb that was showing white and used it in the Transit's sidelight.