Sin Bin confessions ..Fessup here

[peanut]

I've been a bad bad boy ....[]

I've owned my S2 for 2+ years and never cleaned the inside rim of my cup alloys !........................


Yesterday whilst washing the wheels with a handbrush I idley reached in between the spokes and scrubbed a bit of the inner rim to find to my amazement that there was a shiny bit underneath all the brake dust , mud and road grime

Intrigued I persevered with a kitchen sponge pad ,vim and stiff brush and eventually I beheld an amazing sight... a shiny aluminium inner wheel rim that looked like it was 10" deep !

Now I've got to do the other three.... groan


So what short cuts , bodges or negligence have you been gulity of this week ?

 

[DivineE]

I have been borrowing my Grandmothers old polo (she doesn't drive any more) since December and I haven't washed it, hovered it or even cleaned out the collection of useless crap that builds up in the interior in that time.. I just can't bring myself to spend the time doing it!

 

[zcacogp]

Erm, what qualifies as a bodge?

Shortly after I bought the car I discovered that there was a crack in the front undertray. I fixed it by riveting some strips of aluminium across the crack, one on each side.

If that's a bodge then I'm guilty. (I'd suggest it most certainly isn't tho', in which case I'm very innocent! [] )


Oli.

 

[MRGT]

I am guilty of using Gaffer tape to fix my windscreen washer pump to the water bottle, as I am a cheapskate and bought one of the cheap cylindrical jobbies of ebay rather than the proper porsche item with the correct fixings []

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

Erm, what qualifies as a bodge?

Shortly after I bought the car I discovered that there was a crack in the front undertray. I fixed it by riveting some strips of aluminium across the crack, one on each side.

If that's a bodge then I'm guilty. (I'd suggest it most certainly isn't tho', in which case I'm very innocent! [] )


Oli.

guilty as charged I'm afraid.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: peanut
guilty as charged I'm afraid.

Fair cop - someone had to say it!

One man's botch is another man's economical repair. And when I did it I reasoned that it was better to 'economically repair' it than to leave it unrepaired ... []


Oli.

 

[Sandspider]

ORIGINAL: MRGT

I am guilty of using Gaffer tape to fix my windscreen washer pump to the water bottle, as I am a cheapskate and bought one of the cheap cylindrical jobbies of ebay rather than the proper porsche item with the correct fixings []

I would be guilty of this identical bodge, but I can't quite make it work at the moment! Presumably that gives me an even higher level of guilt than a successful bodge

 

[MarkK]

I caught the door on one of those bins at a petrol station pump in the race car last week,in any other car i would have been horrified( but it was the race car i didnt give a monkeys[])

 

[JamesO]

As I think I mentioned before, I ran around for some time with gaffer tape covering a very large hole in my passenger side sill.
It was probably stronger than the rust that was there.

In my defence I have welded a patch on since and will be paying somebody whose welding is less like a blind man with no thumbs to fix it properly this summer.