Worst bodge you've seen

[Rocket88]

On 15/01/2018 at 14:51, DeeJay said:

Fed up with wind and water whistling up my trouser legs when driving and knowing it was getting crushed when the "Legit" mot ran out.

Not having a welder but having a saw.

Tongue and groove floorboards in my old Anglia.

Mate had a Mk3 Escort estate with “ structural “ carpets glued to what remained of the floor….

[Mally]

14 hours ago, mat777 said:

I'm intrigued to know how that passed ... I thought cut n shuts were massively illegal? 

Dunno but it was around 50 years ago.

[Mally]

I once had a Minor van with plywood floors in the front. Was under sealed underneath and had passed MOT.

Made access to the brake master cylinder dead easy.

[mk2_craig]

On 11/01/2018 at 18:28, sierraman said:

What's the worst bodge you've seen on a car? Ideally by a previous owner

Check this out for a very contemporary bodge, which lasted long enough for someone to offload their R56-series BINI 🤪

[sierraman]

2 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Check this out for a very contemporary bodge, which lasted long enough for someone to offload their R56-series BINI 🤪

It’s quite a good one that. 

[SunnySouth]

15 hours ago, mat777 said:

I'm intrigued to know how that passed ... I thought cut n shuts were massively illegal? 

Only illegal if you sell one without telling the buyer, ISTR?

Not great in a hefty smash, I wouldn’t knowingly put my kids in one!

[mat777]

3 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I've often wondered about cut n shuts, they're welded together (usually)

Cars in general are welded together.

I'm not talking invacars or scimitars here obvs😁

If it's done properly, and aligned right, what is the issue?

Excepting the fact that there were a fair number of nicked/written off cars involved.

Surely though for starters it's now a car with technically more than one ID? Different to a crash repair as you're adding parts not entirely bits of shell....

[Tenmil Socket]

I had a car fail an MOT years ago on an ABS light... he suggested I took the car away and removed the bulb before a re-test.

[hennabm]

I had an appeal test on an MG Metro many moons ago now. When it was inspected it was found to be at least 3 cars as the front was orange under the wings, the rear was black and one of the doors was white behind the rubbers. The female owner was quite shocked. 
 

It had been seam welded across the cut around the B pillar and looked OK. Having found the issue though she was not keen on keeping it much longer.

[Tenmil Socket]

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, mat777 said:

Surely though for starters it's now a car with technically more than one ID? Different to a crash repair as you're adding parts not entirely bits of shell....

Probably best not to look too closely at my cars then, there's so many secondhand parts in them I've lost count of how many vehicles have been involved 🤣

[LightBulbFun]

6 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I've often wondered about cut n shuts, they're welded together (usually)

Cars in general are welded together.

I'm not talking invacars or scimitars here obvs😁

[andy18s]

21 hours ago, mat777 said:

I'm intrigued to know how that passed ... I thought cut n shuts were massively illegal? 

I had a white Manta Gte Hatch that had the rear quarter panel,half the boot floor and the rear panel all cut and welded in from another car.

Whoever did it done a tidy job,all seam welded and properly seam sealed after.

Just looked a bit odd when you lifted the various carpets and saw the welds running across the rear passenger footwell. 

Passed a few Mot's before I had it but that was in the mid 90s..

[comfortablynumb]

Near where I used to live, there was a huge breakers (Universal Salvage?) and it was really common to walk round their yard (remember that?) and see lots of stuff with major body cuts taken from them.

Probably more than you'd think. Cheaper supply of body panels I guess

[grogee]

7 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

That's not a bodge, it's modern art

[Rustybullethole]

7 hours ago, mat777 said:

Surely though for starters it's now a car with technically more than one ID? Different to a crash repair as you're adding parts not entirely bits of shell....

The key thing is to remember to swap the number plates too. 

[IronStar]

7 hours ago, mat777 said:

Surely though for starters it's now a car with technically more than one ID? Different to a crash repair as you're adding parts not entirely bits of shell....

It’s a Trigger’s broom paradox - if you take a very rusty car and replace all the rusty bits, but keep the welds to factory locations, when does it stop being a same car? What if you do it in multiple goes, changing bits over the years?
What if it’s structural but you cut at the factory welds?

There’s really not much original metal left on my Yugo Cabrio as it was utterly rotten. It has new sheet metal, new panels, panels from other cars, interior from multiple cars, but it could’ve left the factory with those same panels bolted on as they’re all factory. Is it the same car?