jowen7448 Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Not so much a fix but when me and my mates had our first cars, car audio was very expensive, the only thing we had was ghettoblasters with detachable speakers, so ghettoblaster in the boot (they were big), wires round the pillars and house speakers on the rear shelf I did that. Was okay until you did an emergancy stop and the speaker flew forwards with such force it nearly took your passengers head off - or if they ducked would go through your windscreen. Rather they lose their head than I have to fix my windscreen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jowen7448 Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Has anyone on here ever used the pair of tights trick when their fanbelt broke? I haven't BTW . Pete I haven't done this, done the egg in the radiator trick though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggalo Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I heard a story about some guy who bought an old high mileage Citroen Saxo off a dealer and whilst driving on the motorway at 70mph had the gear linkage rod go on him and crashed into a pylon Not sure if this is a joke, (tone very hard to gauge in online comments). If true story makes me wonder how many Saxos had a linkage rod go. Also not entirely sure how a linkage rod going would induce a crash as you can just roll until a safe place to stop. Terrible things those Saxos, lift off oversteer was a nightmare, particularly in the wet. I hated mine, still the worst car I have ever driven. When I first met my partners parents I had just bought a Mondeo to replace the Saxo with. I sat there during dinner, after they had made a comment about how well looked after my Mondeo looked, and said something along the lines of "yeah much better than the sh**ty saxo that I had before, that thing was awful". Turned out they had one, and her sister had one too. Ooops Edited since BulletMagnet threatened to call the grammar police. (Nark) I think it's a public service telling people how bad those cars are. Fold like a matchbox in a crash too. NCAP 1 star if I remember right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimboy2 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) Not so much a fix but when me and my mates had our first cars, car audio was very expensive, the only thing we had was ghettoblasters with detachable speakers, so ghettoblaster in the boot (they were big), wires round the pillars and house speakers on the rear shelf Haha I'm my 03 Clio I wired house speakers into the rear speakers as I couldn't afford a sub and amp lol. I'm my 1st car F reg fiesta popular plus 1.0 the radio didn't work so I had a boom box in the passenger footwell. Had to keep a load of C size batteries in the boot for when it died. Also in my mk 4 escort the wipers kept blowing the fuse when it rained so I had to hang out the window and wipe it with one of those hand held wiper things with the sponge on it. Sold the car as it did my head in after a while and found out it was just a cable break haha. This was in my lazy days and just ignored any problems hoping they would go away Edited April 15, 2016 by jimboy2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 1992 Golf VR6 ~ The heater matrix went and it was a very costly job to have fixed by a garage plus a PITA to do myself so I just decided to join the pipes up with a piece of copper pipe. Thus bypassing the heater matrix altogether. Worked a treat but I never had hot air again inside the car. Not something I've done but when I was 16 years old (1995/6) I worked for a friends car sales garage as a car valet/garage hand. They had a Ford Orion come in one day on a p/x against another car. Only thing wrong with it was that it had a broken back box ~ the tail pipe had rusted off. Rather than get a new back box though & in order to save cash to make maximum profit the garage mechanic there cut off 4 inches from the bottom of a metal drain pipe. He then welded that on were the original exhaust tip would have been (with my help). I remember they then advertised the car as having a "Big Bore 4" exhaust back box. I'm not sure if that was genius or not but the car sold like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marzman Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Not really a bodge but a quick fix on the fly... when i was 20 in my E36 beemer i had a sub and amp fitted. Occasionally when i started it up it the amp wouldnt kick in, so i'd just switch the car off and on again and it would power on. Well i must have done this 10 times without incident. However on this one occasion i was doing about 20mph when i chose to switch the engine off and on again to get it to kick in, but i needed to steer slightly. As i steered whilst the engine was off, the steering lock kicked in and i couldnt turn the key to restart it, and i drifted onto the wrong side of the road into on coming traffic!! Luckily nothing was coming and i came to a stop on the wrong side, managed to restart it, and pull away before anyone saw me. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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