SR91
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They make me think why the fuck am i bothering tbh...
They have sliced open 4 wires to get a feed leccy for chavvy light-up washer jets 
Anyway after a short drive with no headlights got some insulation tape to make it safer
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Ellis
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Oooof that's rough, was it taped up or just open as shown?
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Oli_p
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know how you feel, my old corsa let came with a fake mot and bodged conversion using standard engine mounts, unfortunately it was my 1st let and didnt know what to look for
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SR91
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Originally posted by Ellis
Oooof that's rough, was it taped up or just open as shown?
Just open ! 
You should see the speaker wiring 
Least I'm able to laugh it off, for now 
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SR91
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Originally posted by Oli_p
know how you feel, my old corsa let came with a fake mot and bodged conversion using standard engine mounts, unfortunately it was my 1st let and didnt know what to look for
Sheeeeeet ! 
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Ellis
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I would of let them off it was taped up, left open like that gets a Fail from me
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Oli_p
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didnt find out till i had a small bump in it, and it almost ripped the engine out of the bay, engine was sat all wonkey, and thats when i found out it had a fake mot as i took it to get looked over and came back with 2 and half pages of things it failed on mainly rot nevermind waste of £3.5K lol
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SR91
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Originally posted by Ellis
I would of let them off it was taped up, left open like that gets a Fail from me
Dude they twisted one wire round the middle of an open wire, fail fullstop tbh imo
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SR91
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Originally posted by Oli_p
didnt find out till i had a small bump in it, and it almost ripped the engine out of the bay, engine was sat all wonkey, and thats when i found out it had a fake mot as i took it to get looked over and came back with 2 and half pages of things it failed on mainly rot nevermind waste of £3.5K lol
did you sell it 
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JonnyJ
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Originally posted by Oli_p
know how you feel, my old corsa let came with a fake mot and bodged conversion using standard engine mounts, unfortunately it was my 1st let and didnt know what to look for
Christ! What was it held in with, one bolt and a few cable ties?
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Oli_p
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lol, i always use spade or bullet connectors then wrap them up in insulation tape aswell
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Ellis
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Originally posted by SR-91
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Originally posted by Ellis
I would of let them off it was taped up, left open like that gets a Fail from me
Dude they twisted one wire round the middle of an open wire, fail fullstop tbh imo
Yeah ok, complete fail
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Oli_p
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Originally posted by SR-91
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Originally posted by Oli_p
didnt find out till i had a small bump in it, and it almost ripped the engine out of the bay, engine was sat all wonkey, and thats when i found out it had a fake mot as i took it to get looked over and came back with 2 and half pages of things it failed on mainly rot nevermind waste of £3.5K lol
did you sell it
Sold it for spares to a guy on migweb who breaks cars, got £1200 which included the set of polished speedlines the car came with.
Still didnt stop me buying another LET though except got my current one from chris astley that he built/finished off himself very solid shell aswell which was a plus
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Oli_p
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Originally posted by JonnyJ
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Originally posted by Oli_p
know how you feel, my old corsa let came with a fake mot and bodged conversion using standard engine mounts, unfortunately it was my 1st let and didnt know what to look for
Christ! What was it held in with, one bolt and a few cable ties?
lol held in with standard alloy bracket, mount itself had been rewelded further back along chassic leg aswell so it sat right/fitted
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SR91
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quote:
Originally posted by Oli_p
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Originally posted by SR-91
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Originally posted by Oli_p
didnt find out till i had a small bump in it, and it almost ripped the engine out of the bay, engine was sat all wonkey, and thats when i found out it had a fake mot as i took it to get looked over and came back with 2 and half pages of things it failed on mainly rot nevermind waste of £3.5K lol
did you sell it
Sold it for spares to a guy on migweb who breaks cars, got £1200 which included the set of polished speedlines the car came with.
Still didnt stop me buying another LET though except got my current one from chris astley that he built/finished off himself very solid shell aswell which was a plus
Piece of mind that is
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Twiggy
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Bodge jobs FTW 
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CorsAsh
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That's in the same league as my old foglight:
Was hacked wonkily into the bumper and "sealed" round with Tigerseal, then the back of the light was bashed into the polystyrene bumper filler and fixed with No More Nails You can see the white mark left behind here:
Prefer my effort tbh.
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Gregor
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Did you repaint that ash ?
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Bonney
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In the saxo i had, The radiator was held in with cable ties. Whoever had it before me had sheered off the bolts on the old breckets and never tapped them out and replaced them. To be honest neither did I as it never caused any problems.
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johnhara1
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Originally posted by Bonney66
In the saxo i had, The radiator was held in with cable ties. Whoever had it before me had sheered off the bolts on the old breckets and never tapped them out and replaced them. To be honest neither did I as it never caused any problems.
That's a common bodge. Wouldn't bother me either TBH.
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davcohen
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Old corsa Xe i bought came without a stereo, no biggie as i had a Pioneer headunit in the garage anyway. Happily the original loom was intact so it was plug and play until i realised no sound from the rear so removed the panel to come to the realisation the previous toss pot had twisted the speaker wires together wtf would you do that!!!!!
some how/ luckily it didnt blow the rear channels on the headunit but wtf would you do that instead of putting some tape on the ends and leaving them as is
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SR91
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Yeah they've done that to mine got fucking loads of dodgy wires scattered about
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ed
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Originally posted by davcohen
some how/ luckily it didnt blow the rear channels on the headunit but wtf would you do that instead of putting some tape on the ends and leaving them as is
It would cut-out in the event of a short because it has a safety feature in it to prevent it from killing itself...
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chrex
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some of my bodges are more secure than the proper way ...
.........only some though! 
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craig_s
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you think thats a bodge,you should see the corsa red top that i have just been working on.
it had:
no eml light wired in
no oil light wired in
no temp gauge wired in
wires to the cts had broke so they pushed them in the plug and used tape to hold them in.
selector had not been modified so you couldn't get all gears.
home made eco tec adaptor plate and pipe but there was a hole where the icv pipe goes to it and they had just folded the pipe and cable tied it to stop it over revving.
no rev counter or speedo cable.
most of the wires were just twisted together too,it's all sorted now though.
[Edited on 04-07-2009 by craig_s]
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