What's the craziest / most random / most bodged mod you've fitted or had fitted?
I know some of you have a good tech knowledge, you must have done some cool bodges!
I've seen a picture of an exhaust someone made on another forum and it just looked like a scaffold pole coming out of the engine!
lol...
Anyway, I'm looking for unique inspiration of things to do so... what have you done?
Craziest Mods?
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MadManMike
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LOL @ The santa!
That's seriously funny
Was it easy to wire up?
I was thinking about this:
Making a strip of LED's spell out volkswagen on the boot (Set them in like they are not just stuck on) and use that as a brake light...
It would probably look s**t so I wouldn't bother, but could be quite unique if done well...
That's seriously funny
Was it easy to wire up?
I was thinking about this:
Making a strip of LED's spell out volkswagen on the boot (Set them in like they are not just stuck on) and use that as a brake light...
It would probably look s**t so I wouldn't bother, but could be quite unique if done well...
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i fancy wiring up a load of christmas lights to various parts of the entire cluster, now you've said that... I was just going to get a standard cigarette-lighter set, but oh no!
worst bodge on my car? other than putting an upgraded ECU ROM chip in (lol), fitting aftermarket foglights into the lower grille of the bumper, the rubbish stealth shelf speakers (fitted in same job as fogs), or the hooky rust treatment paint-up?
definately the passenger door.
guy who put it on is lucky i only knew his daughter thru work (and she subsequently vanished before i fully realised how crap it was) and not his address or place of business - i wont be that naive again!
(she crashed into me, and was freaking out about losing her no claims - now i wonder if she even had insurance at all.. like a gentleman i agreed for her dad to do the work as he "owned a bodyshop". Tamworth branch of The Body Shop, more likely, from the work quality)
bloody terrible, not on straight, neither the door locking pin (the little plastic doofer in the cabin) nor the interior pull handle properly in place, rain seals don't, rattles AND whistles at speed (thanks to not sealing right or being in the proper place), paint colour doesnt match, paint has been put on in a single coat without any polishing - or i suspect any sanding down or any f***ing primer - so it's dull as ditchwater and has started to rub away already, exposing the lighter blue of the replacement door, exterior trim has been put back on WITH SCREWS rather than glue (swapped the rubber one that was on there for the plastic that was on the original), and something on it is rubbing noisily and squeakily against the frame when i open it.
total arsewipe.
if i was keeping the car, this would be the third thing to fix, after the gearbox and the rust patches around the front arches.
in fact i still haven't officially cancelled the APB on anyone wrecking a navy blue mk2/mk3 but the passenger door miraculously remaining intact
worst bodge on my car? other than putting an upgraded ECU ROM chip in (lol), fitting aftermarket foglights into the lower grille of the bumper, the rubbish stealth shelf speakers (fitted in same job as fogs), or the hooky rust treatment paint-up?
definately the passenger door.
guy who put it on is lucky i only knew his daughter thru work (and she subsequently vanished before i fully realised how crap it was) and not his address or place of business - i wont be that naive again!
(she crashed into me, and was freaking out about losing her no claims - now i wonder if she even had insurance at all.. like a gentleman i agreed for her dad to do the work as he "owned a bodyshop". Tamworth branch of The Body Shop, more likely, from the work quality)
bloody terrible, not on straight, neither the door locking pin (the little plastic doofer in the cabin) nor the interior pull handle properly in place, rain seals don't, rattles AND whistles at speed (thanks to not sealing right or being in the proper place), paint colour doesnt match, paint has been put on in a single coat without any polishing - or i suspect any sanding down or any f***ing primer - so it's dull as ditchwater and has started to rub away already, exposing the lighter blue of the replacement door, exterior trim has been put back on WITH SCREWS rather than glue (swapped the rubber one that was on there for the plastic that was on the original), and something on it is rubbing noisily and squeakily against the frame when i open it.
total arsewipe.
if i was keeping the car, this would be the third thing to fix, after the gearbox and the rust patches around the front arches.
in fact i still haven't officially cancelled the APB on anyone wrecking a navy blue mk2/mk3 but the passenger door miraculously remaining intact
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Not really polo related
holed a piston on a Jap two stroke bike (went down too many jet sizes at once)
- filled the hole with a brass rivett, hammered it to fill the hole, dressed it down with file and the drove it around for a while expecting it to break again - it didn't
Sold it 3 mths later - told the guy who bought it that it might need a new piston soon - it's probably dead now but it was running a year later and still hadn't had a new piston
amazing
holed a piston on a Jap two stroke bike (went down too many jet sizes at once)
- filled the hole with a brass rivett, hammered it to fill the hole, dressed it down with file and the drove it around for a while expecting it to break again - it didn't
Sold it 3 mths later - told the guy who bought it that it might need a new piston soon - it's probably dead now but it was running a year later and still hadn't had a new piston
amazing
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@ omicron, optima : the crane STILL wins.
@ bstardchild : you just reminded me of the true craziest mod .... taking a shagged 1043 engine to bits and trying to do an "economical" rebuild on it, of which there is no such beast
that it went back together, ran, and carried me almost 700 miles in the space of a weeks is still a source of self-amazement.
surely, one of the pistons should have complained, blown a spark plug clean out of it's threads and farted oil and coolant all over the engine bay before punching out through the sump onto the road?
must have been bloody mental, and now i want to do the gearbox as well? (if the shafts ever come off / it can be fitted around them)
@ bstardchild : you just reminded me of the true craziest mod .... taking a shagged 1043 engine to bits and trying to do an "economical" rebuild on it, of which there is no such beast
that it went back together, ran, and carried me almost 700 miles in the space of a weeks is still a source of self-amazement.
surely, one of the pistons should have complained, blown a spark plug clean out of it's threads and farted oil and coolant all over the engine bay before punching out through the sump onto the road?
must have been bloody mental, and now i want to do the gearbox as well? (if the shafts ever come off / it can be fitted around them)
We did a similar thing with an Astra with cylinder damage, whacked a bit of chemical metal in it, then my brother sold it his mate who needed a cheap car for a bit. He's done about 10k in it since at a guess.bstardchild wrote:Not really polo related
holed a piston on a Jap two stroke bike (went down too many jet sizes at once)
- filled the hole with a brass rivett, hammered it to fill the hole, dressed it down with file and the drove it around for a while expecting it to break again - it didn't
Sold it 3 mths later - told the guy who bought it that it might need a new piston soon - it's probably dead now but it was running a year later and still hadn't had a new piston
amazing