Unnecessary skinflint fixes/bodges, that look shit..

[RoverFolkUs]

Saw a T reg MK4 fiesta today, pretty insignificant, but it had a MK3 Fiesta square door handle fitted to the driver's door but the normal MK4 Fiesta round door handle on the passenger side...

What else have you seen, beit a bodge or modification, that someone has done to a car which makes it look really unnecessarily shit? 

[sierraman]

A welded repair on the sills, instead of grinding it back, then having a neat sill tidemark, painting in underseal just a rhombus shaped bit over the repair. How much paint has that saved? 

Anything involving exhaust gun gum. When an exhaust has holes in it it’s fucked I’m afraid. 

Painted brake calipers/drums. Unnecessary and looks wank. Just reseal it and put the fucker back on. 

Most aerosol paint jobs. People always put filler over paint despite advice to contrary. 

Those car bra things to stop chips. On a 2005 Vectra. 

Aftermarket wheel trims. Once bought a car and the idiot had fitted fake proton trims on a Mondeo. To hammer home how wank they looked, after I’d signed the V5 I slung them in his wheely bin.

[RoverFolkUs]

10 minutes ago, sierraman said:

A welded repair on the sills, instead of grinding it back, then having a neat sill tidemark, painting in underseal just a rhombus shaped bit over the repair. How much paint has that saved? 

Anything involving exhaust gun gum. When an exhaust has holes in it it’s fucked I’m afraid. 

Painted brake calipers/drums. Unnecessary and looks wank. Just reseal it and put the fucker back on. 

Most aerosol paint jobs. People always put filler over paint despite advice to contrary. 

Those car bra things to stop chips. On a 2005 Vectra. 

Aftermarket wheel trims. Once bought a car and the idiot had fitted fake proton trims on a Mondeo. To hammer home how wank they looked, after I’d signed the V5 I slung them in his wheely bin.

Bonnet bras seem to be a thing with the VW T5 scene. Literally every one I see has one. Pisses me off, as they look shit

[iainrcz]

I feel like this is a personal attack.

[RoverFolkUs]

1 minute ago, iainrcz said:

I feel like this is a personal attack.

Can promise it's not

[Kiltox]

23 minutes ago, sierraman said:

A

Aftermarket wheel trims.

They don’t always look that shit - this set was cheaper than one Renault trim 

[Timewaster]

When maestro vans were a common sight it wasn't unusual for them to have a secondhand chrome door handle instead of body colour. I guess they were harder wearing than the plastic ones but looked out of place.

Cars driving around with scrap yard yellow scrawl on obvious parts like mirrors or tail lights.

When Ford stopped producing mk1 fiesta tailgates, any mk1 fiesta with a hit at the rear got a new mk2 tailgate, which I always thought looked awful.

[iainrcz]

33 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Can promise it's not

I thought maybe my Mrs had been telling you stories.

 

They're not bodges, they're engineering solutions.

[Dobloseven]

In the late eighties I worked with a guy who had a Mk 2 Capri. The bottom edge of the tailgate had completely rusted away. Someone he knew welded in and painted new metal for him. There was no old metal left to follow the profile of with the repair, so he made it look the same as his own car which wasn't a Capri. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

55 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Aftermarket wheel trims. Once bought a car and the idiot had fitted fake proton trims on a Mondeo. To hammer home how wank they looked, after I’d signed the V5 I slung them in his wheely bin.

Oopsies...

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Bonnet bras seem to be a thing with the VW T5 scene. Literally every one I see has one. Pisses me off, as they look shit

They actually rub the paint on the bonnet creating the effect they are intended to avoid. 

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, Timewaster said:

When maestro vans were a common sight it wasn't unusual for them to have a secondhand chrome door handle instead of body colour. I guess they were harder wearing than the plastic ones but looked out of place.

Cars driving around with scrap yard yellow scrawl on obvious parts like mirrors or tail lights.

When Ford stopped producing mk1 fiesta tailgates, any mk1 fiesta with a hit at the rear got a new mk2 tailgate, which I always thought looked awful.

I've seen it the other way round with a Mk2 with a Mk1 tailgate.

Once I saw a Fiat Strada with a mixture of round & rectangular door handles.  I can't remember which one was the proper design for the car.

[Timewaster]

27 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Once I saw a Fiat Strada with a mixture of round & rectangular door handles.  I can't remember which one was the proper design for the car.

Mk1 round, mk2 rectangle.

I bet it looked a proper state.

[sierraman]

9 hours ago, Timewaster said:

Mk1 round, mk2 rectangle.

I bet it looked a proper state.

I thought it was the Seat Ronda that had square door handles?

[GeordieInExile]

It was this or a new grille.

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I thought it was the Seat Ronda that had square door handles?

I've done a bit of a Google image search and found most mk2 s with round handles and some with rectangular so now I am confused.

 

Remember this image when Fiat and Seat were splitting and there was a court case over custody of the Strada design, Seat took a black Ronda and painted all the unique Seat parts yellow. Including the door handles.

 

[Yoss]

15 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Oopsies...

Visible cable ties holding on cheap aftermarket wheel trims! Waste of good cable ties that could have been used to hold more important things together. 

[sierraman]

57 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

I've done a bit of a Google image search and found most mk2 s with round handles and some with rectangular so now I am confused.

 

Remember this image when Fiat and Seat were splitting and there was a court case over custody of the Strada design, Seat took a black Ronda and painted all the unique Seat parts yellow. Including the door handles.

 

I don’t think the Strada would have been considered an asset in any divorce situation. 🤣

My brother had a brown one, I can vaguely remember it’s a kid.

[stripped fred]

I would like a strada. This is autoshite after all. I love the design, and especially the wheels on this one.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, Yoss said:

Visible cable ties holding on cheap aftermarket wheel trims! Waste of good cable ties that could have been used to hold more important things together. 

Don't know what I was thinking really, but I bought the alloys around the same time but hadn't fitted them until I passed my driving test.

[RoverFolkUs]

Erm, oops, I'm guilty of having the most nasty wheel trims imaginable, which are broken, held on with cable ties 😬

The cable ties are only there though to stop them coming detached and decapitating someone, rather than a fear of them getting lost or nicked!

[Rusty_Rocket]

The radio was always naff in my 1990 MX5.  I decided a speaker upgrade was on the cards.  When I removed the grilles.....

NICE ONE

[UltraWomble]

21 hours ago, Timewaster said:

When Ford stopped producing mk1 fiesta tailgates, any mk1 fiesta with a hit at the rear got a new mk2 tailgate, which I always thought looked awful.

Not that bad really.

[Timewaster]

That's a nice Fiesta, but my brain won't accept it.

Maybe if it had mk2 rear lights?

Might make it worse.

[GR8 PL8 M8]

When I accidentally ripped the front bumper off my Soarer...

...I taped it back on with silver duct tape...

...I only replaced it with black tape when I sold the car 10 months later!

[Surface Rust]

9 hours ago, stripped fred said:

I would like a strada. This is autoshite after all. I love the design, and especially the wheels on this one.

I love Stradas too (my first ever car journey was in one), but a wheel design like that would make parking a real pain, I mean how long must it take to get them to line up?!

[bunglebus]

Mrs spotted this. Space saver with a wheel trim

[Boycie]

27 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mrs spotted this. Space saver with a wheel trim

.........Class 

[yes oui si]

On 17/06/2022 at 20:07, Kiltox said:

They don’t always look that shit - this set was cheaper than one Renault trim 

Aye, but steel wheels with a lick of paint would be cheaper and look better. 

[Kiltox]

45 minutes ago, yes oui si said:

Aye, but steel wheels with a lick of paint would be cheaper and look better. 

Depends how much you value your time - painting wheels is a fuck on.