OMG car repairs, how may I help?

[Cavcraft]

'Needs a weld underneath, my husband has put the plate on but the welder let him down'

 

 

The original bracket holding the bush thing has rotten, so he made that bracket. Is it me or is that unsafer than an unsafe thing?

[Guest Hooli]

I can't even see what it is, engine mount at a guess?

[Cavcraft]

Sorry, rear end of a Matiz, where the 'axle' has a bracket that holds the rear bush in.

[Guest Hooli]

That 'quality' fix is two sheets of metal & a bolt top n bottom right?

 

100% safe*

[Snipes]

Well it's just a piece of thin stamped steel so probably not bearing any load or anything.....

[sierraman]

No I would suggest. I can barely see what it is but it looks like a bracket held together with some threaded bar. If it was welded originally it needs to be welded repair, FAIL!!!

[crapcarcollector]

Kwalatee

 

 

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[Split_Pin]

The husband would have been safer welding all the doors shut so it couldn't be driven anywhere.

 

I like how the bracket has buckled even under the pressure of the washer being tightened down on it!

[John F]

Sheesh... not even a locknut or a nylock...

[sierraman]

A what? This bolt held the corner of my MFI table together for 6 years, therefore it will hold together the suspension on the Matiz with aplomb.

 

I love the bit 'the welder let him down' the poor fucking Lidl Welder ran out of feed, thus letting HIM down. I love seeing the 'handiwork' of these poor fuckers, life must be an incredible struggle with half a fucking brain.

 

I once bought a Fiesta off a bloke in Doncaster, got it through a fella my father in law worked with. Anyway, 3-4 years later I sold the said Fiesta as the floor was about to fall out. Father in law told him I'd sold it with holes in the floor. He went mad going on what a crook I was etc... I told the FIL to tell him a few home truths, he'd put new pads on utterly shagged out discs, the sump bolt was also that tight it took a 20" bar at full pelt with scaffold on end to crack it. But here was the expert telling me about bodging cars up.

[UltraWomble]

100% Safe

Drive with confidence - in fact fill the car with kittens and nuns. Its that safe.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Er...... Has it fallen off yet??

 

No??

 

Then it's safe?

 

Plus it's under the car, out of sight out of mind.

[Sheefag]

Pfft. Never used to be so fucking choosy.

 

[Junkman]

Compared with how the trailing arms of some of my R4s were held to the car this is Formula 1 quality.

[Cavcraft]

I think they've offloaded it now, there were the usual WOT SIZE ENGIN AS IT GOT/wots best price lunatics asking after it. Probably gone to someone who didn't look at it properly and just thought getting £25 off the asking price was a result.

[strangeangel]

That's 100000000% SAFE. In fact, I can't see any reason why Daewoo didn't save a load of money on those fancy automated welding gizmos, and just use a bit of threaded rod and some washers in the first place.

[sierraman]

I think they've offloaded it now, there were the usual WOT SIZE ENGIN AS IT GOT/wots best price lunatics asking after it. Probably gone to someone who didn't look at it properly and just thought getting £25 off the asking price was a result.

I've yet to find the car these lunatics are after... £30 a year to tax, 1.4, 150bhp, full history, ISOFIX, £150

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Looks like OEM Daewoo build quality. Whenever my B-I-L went to do anything in his old Matiz, it either fell off, snapped off, or required wizardry/ Mr Tickle arms to reach it.