Best bodges

[RichardAlexander]

Was reading some of the post and notice there is a fair bit of bodging going on in the vw world some amusing some dangerous. I though I would be great to see some of the worst or pointless ones you have come across. This made me laugh when me an me bruv took my engine out for the first time

 

[geordie]

Is that OG :lol:

 

[john the horse]

ran for a season with sellotape holding the carbs manifold together,

reason..... ran out of ductape

 

[woz]

ran for a season with sellotape holding the carbs manifold together,

reason..... ran out of ductape

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Good reason

 

[Marriedblonde]

My bus was involved in a ccident at some point in its past. Instead of sorting out the panels properly they used bondo to get the door shuts etc straight. Upto 3/4 inch in places

Being fixed properly now though.

When my mate has his split resotred most of the panels were stuffed with newspaper and old socks with a thin covering of filer over the top. I thought I got off quite lightly.

J.

 

[lard]

However has my bus before me had a mastic fetish (pre duct tape perhaps?) My bed was held in by mastic - my mirror glass still is

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[vwcanuck]

A mass of blue duct tape holding a make-shift screen on the fan shroud, orange rubber hose and electrical tape on the oil breather and household vacuum hoses to the heater boxes wrapped in more electrical tape ... what was the PO thinking???

He also thought this was a good fix for a broken Bowden tube ... more orange rubber hose and electrical tape. The fix was temporary and resulted in a broken throw out bearing and arm

Now she runs with an NOS Bowden tube and new bearing & arm and is enjoying an engine rebuild

 

[Max Power]

I prefer the term "temporary repair" to bodge. :lol:

 

[sparkywig]

A thread I'm going to like.

I have a Hoover Constellation vacuum cleaner hose as the heater pipe to the walkthrough vents.
I see no reason to change it as it works perfectly well.

 

[sparkywig]

Expanding foam, roofing batten, filler and a protective layer of duct tape kept the rear hatch hinge from detaching from the body.

 

[sparkywig]

104 4" coach bolts fixing a perspex sheet to the roof.



I especially liked the ones that caressed the top of my head whilst driving.

 

[sparkywig]

I particularly like the front roof support moved during the pop top hole extension, but not necessarily doing anything.

 

[sparkywig]

Coming a close second though is the time, effort and artistic skills needed to form a complete rear arch from filler.





I'll let you carry on now.

 

[geordie]

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beat this :shock:

 

[audix]

Looking at some of the **** on here makes me feel so much better about my life in general.

Christ people do some funny things with a welder and a pallet of filler. .....

 

[Dave.P]

Coming a close second though is the time, effort and artistic skills needed to form a complete rear arch from filler.





I'll let you carry on now.

Now I call that pure talent :mrgreen:

 

[RichardAlexander]

Amazing pics keep them coming scary really what some people find, I did see one before where someone had attempted to shorten the width of there beam that was scary

 

[dub boy]

sadly no pics but first bus i ever bought ,cross over, had had a fair bit of welding done .took it for its first mot and the inspector asked me to have a look underneath ,his lad shook the steering and the steering box was moveing :shock: he said i dont want to poke about to hard so i said give me your pry bar, well a big lump of fibre glass on the floor came next, i said my kids have been in this bus .turned out the welding was charged to the po but due to the work involved to do the job properly this was the easiest way out for garage. thank god they no longer trade.

 

[89Rallye]

Yep, not many photos but I've had front and rear arches crafted in filler.







This actually looked like it'd been lead loaded then an inch of filler on top.



Lets not forget the filing cabinet battery box



Fronts,



They liked the filler that much they built the arches from it, never wasted a drop even threw in the instructions, some newspaper, polystyrene.....

 

[Tofufi]

Loads of beauties on my van when I bought it...

Including:

(very thin plate straight over a rusty hole, with no rust removed or anything)

Or perhaps the rear gutter?

Oops...

Not to mention the rear corner...

I'm sure you get the gist, but there's plenty more. Those bodges kept it on the road though, so I can't complain too much.