Proud owner finds ...

[pompei]

he's bought not one but two cars ...

 

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2348

[trigger]

Looks like the job a good un! Can't see the problem...

[Pillock]

MoT'd worse etc etc ;)Looks like a quality job though, i'd have never thought to weld it and instead would have used fibreglass sheets and wood screws.

[retrogeezer]

Does look like a quality job....proper spray booth etc. People seem to forget cars are welded together in the first place, scaremongering about cut&shut jobs was OTT. If it's done properly then there shouldn't be any issue at all.

[Pillock]

Yeah I remember news reports when the practise was 'discovered' in the late 80s and there were all sorts of investigations. Cars being T-boned at 70mph and - GASP - they tear in half! Yeah, and so would one from the showroom.Must have made a half-decent job of it, the doors still fit properly so I can't see the issue. And the way that reads, he knew about it before buying it too....?

[pogweasel]

...potential death-traaaaap (etc)

[Pillock]

...potential death-traaaaap (etc)

*snorts*

 

That's the one! Couldn't remember her name but I could hear her godawful voice whinging about substandard repairs and risking lives of kiddies.

 

Won't someone think of the children?

[The Main]

Lynne Faulds-Wood?

[Pete-M]

She doesn't unfold mine!

[Torsten2001]

[Guest]

Still seems to happens a lot with high value stuff with unreported damage, judging by the amount of smashed up Mercs etc. being stashed in the corner of compounds etc. I imagine a lot of people knowingly drive around in cut-and-shuts, albeit professionally done ones.The thing that is a bit strange is how the cut and shuts thing is widely seen as "if it is not done properly it will break in half in a crash", when the true problem is that it will be too rigid in the wrong places and it won't bend where it should etc.

[Station]

Call me picky, but I'd like to know if my car was in fact three different ones before I bought it for the full market price.

[hugh janass]

She doesn't unfold mine!

I nearly choked on my toast after reading that. LMFAO

[Monkey_boy]

Another link form that site:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2183

[Volksy]

Looks like the 'Weird Russian Modifications' bit has been added to since we last looked.. Worth a giggle anyway..

 

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1496

[bones96]

arent most limos cut and shut to want of a better word ?????

[retrogeezer]

Yep - they sure are.

[Karmann Ghiaman]

Is it really true, or is it an elaborate internet 'joke'? Obviously it's completely illegal and very, very dangerous. So if the original owner did it, why leave the note in the door? The pictures do show bits of Audis being messed about with, but we don't really know what order they were taken in. The only piece of equipment you see being used is not for welding, but for cutting. More likely that they took something apart & simply put the pictures in reverse order, making it look like they did a brilliant assembly job. The other pictures are nice. They obviously found Mr Trebus's original home there.