Shop Nightmares

[ZM Blue Devil]

Thought Id start a thread and post up pictures of crazy stuff we see at the shop. Repairs/installs done by prior owners, shops along with cars that come in with issues.

Tonight we start with a simple one...

Why bother removing front shocks when you can just cut a slit in the bump stop and zip tie it on?

[RobertK]

Lovely.. wish I had taken pictures of some of the shit rednecks do to BMWs in the south.

[White325is]

ha, I worked on a e30 one time where someone replaced the pass side control arm and I would say they couldnt get the nut all the way tighten down. So they just welded it fast to the subframe. haha.

[kalib0y]

Wow, such a lazy way to do it...

mind naming the shops that do this bad work? It might prompt them to improve

[poopin04]

thought id start a thread and post up pictures of crazy stuff we see at the shop. Repairs/installs done by prior owners, shops along with cars that come in with issues.

Tonight we start with a simple one...

Why bother removing front shocks when you can just cut a slit in the bump stop and zip tie it on?

wow!!

[zxert]

PO wired the low beam headlights in with the high beams.

So I have to have the brights on with the highs unplugged just to get my low beams on.

[poopin04]

The hose from my radiator res. & other various Vac lines were electrical taped instead of having proper clamps. I guess dude couldn't afford to get even the cheapo clamps from auto zone.

[zxert]

The hose from my radiator res. & other various Vac lines were electrical taped instead of having proper clamps. I guess dude couldn't afford to get even the cheapo clamps from auto zone.

2.99 for 6.

But I've been so broke I can't afford 2.99. Its okay to run duct tape for 2 weeks. But when you get paid take care of it. And don't sell a car like that.

[poopin04]

2.99 for 6.

But I've been so broke I can't afford 2.99. Its okay to run duct tape for 2 weeks. But when you get paid take care of it. And don't sell a car like that.

I would have appricated maybe say electrical tape with zip ties, since the whole plastic bumper and most of the car was zip tied together.

[zxert]

Zip ties are better than 5 bolts, 2 of them the wrong size holding my valence and bumper trim on.

[Simon S]

Useless/aftermarket antenna unit with cut, shielded antenna lead.



Evil green coolant.



Wrong..



Ah yes - duct tape is exactly what you want to use near a exhaust plumbing..



Fuct timing. (intake sprocket one tooth off. slots at maximum to 'compensate')



And gobs of extra wiring.. I must have removed two pounds of mystery wiring from the cabin..

as bad as it is - correcting stuff like this always rewards me with high levels of satisfaction.

[ZM Blue Devil]

Wow, such a lazy way to do it...

mind naming the shops that do this bad work? It might prompt them to improve

no idea on shops names, we dont ask, it gets fixed, we get a laugh and move on.

[antil33t]

Heyyy, I used one of those cheap aftermarket antennaes... cost me 30 bucks... replaced my snapped one.. but I did not modify any car wiring, everything plugs into the stock locations.

If I ever do get a decent stock aerial, I'll jump on it.

I have some good ones, Must find them

One is a bolt in my head holding a rocker-shaft down and the other was a cerial box packet used for a gasket.

[Simon S]

a cerial box packet used for a gasket.

Hahaha !!
That's crazy.

[antil33t]

The funny part was, it wasn't the gasket that failed... 0.0 They obviously re-used the pump.