other peoples bodges!

thought i'd have a mooch around before the mot to save myself some major fails. turned into a bit of an arse!





















seriously ****ed by what I found but can't do much about it as it was payed for by the last owner. I have recipts and can tell you the garage tha mot'd and repaired it! only done almost two years ago.
I've already done the cills and front mounts so just this to sort and mot here we come......

Quick....the indians are coming

Holy. Sh*t.
You can't even call that a bodge job!

Unlucky, best of luck

name and shame , wich garage passed that on mot ?

uncle albert said:

name and shame , wich garage passed that on mot ?

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Thats a brilliant piece of air to air welding.

storm99 said:

Thats a brilliant piece of air to air welding.

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Id av filled it with silicon .............or mud

Nice bit o' welding that!

Holly cr@p thought I had it bad.
Good luck fella

Ouch! That work should be reported to the police it is that bad. Good luck and at least you have found the issues now before they get any worse.

cheers chaps! on the good side I didn't use my grinder at all to get the plates off so saved some money in cutting discs......w4nkers!
last big job to sort and then its only service items. I had thoughts of bobtails - pick-ups and as a stroke of genius I started to measure up my mk1 caddy to see if the shell would fit on!! but i'll reside to just replacing what's missing and use as-is.....

****ers - good luck

Oh dear, I thought this was gonna be a thread about the random bodges we have all found on our trucks but you got the shizzy end of the stick there my friend!!!

Although I thought I had it bad when I found a piece of broom handle holding the passenger side window up but seems not :screaming_bug_eye_f

Is that metal just stuck down with paste?

i need some welding doing on my land rover soon and this is y im struggle to find some where to do it,i want it doin properly nd not end up with work like that

if you want a job done right, do it yourself
...if nothing else you have no one else to blame when it goes wrong.

caveat: sometimes it's nice to be able to blame someone else.
...when you're living in someone elses house, drinking their alcohol, you'll be glad you had a better lawyer than them.

The shame is: that if it was done even to a reasonable level all this extra work would be so unnecessary. Originally, it doesn't look to bad, but that creeping rust...

tacks on 2 corners of each plate then painted over with grey primer! most plates came off with little effort at all including that big plate at the front which wasn't even welded or painted! when the sills came off there was newspaper and filler at the bottoms of the door pillars so that was taken care of before anything else got done. i'll throw up some more pics when I go up unit next

Amazing, I guess with DIY at least you know what you have done.