2007-01-28 09:16:43 · 6 answers · asked by ? 5 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
spray painted the tyres black to avoid getting fined for bald tyres what can i say, I was broke ok :|
used nailpolish on chipped paint to stop rust (not that it worked but worth a try)
disconnected the odometer reading coz i didnt want my parents to know how many km's i was driving in the car .. then couldnt plug the damn thing back in
2007-01-28 09:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by DeeDee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had an old dodge shadow with 2 broken bolts holding the front subframe to the body. (both the drivers side bolts)
There was no way to get them out without pulling all the front suspension and steering off, so I welded the subframe to the car on that side.
It worked fine & after a couple of years I traded it in for a newer model. Another year went by & I saw it sitting in the parking lot of a business that an old friend owned. I stopped in to chat & casually asked about the car. He said that the transmision had gone bad & when he went to change it he couldn't believe that some SOB had welded the subframe to the body.
2007-01-28 17:30:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Way back when I was still a teen I was traveling home from work when suddenly the left rear wheel came completely off my old Ford van and passed me, disappearing around a curve in the road. Of course I had no spare but a good citizen who had witnessed the dreadful event retrieved it and hauled it back to the spot where my van had ground to a halt, mere inches off the roadway. Thinking I was very clever, I used a screw jack to elevate the left rear axle out of the grass and dirt and then removed a lug nut from each of the remaining wheels and tried to reinstall the wayward wheel. To my horror, the holes in the wheel were worn so badly (from driving around for days with loose lug nuts I suppose) that the wheel simply fell off over the replacement lugs. I looked through my tool box (I always carried tools, water and beer) but found no large washers -- I DID find three large boxed-end wrenches. The wrenches were just small enough to allow the stud to poke through and the nut to be tightened over the box-end. Away I went, about twenty miles home with three shiny chrome wrenches holding my rear wheel in place. I do believe it was the forerunner of the modern chrome 'spinner' wheels so popular today.
2007-01-29 00:34:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hah! Amatures.
I threw a rod on an old pickup engine once and knocked a large hole in the block. Since I was in the middle of nowhere, before cellphones, I reached through the hole with a pair of pliers, grabbed the bottom of the rod and tied it off to the engine mount so it wouldn't hit the crank. I drove it 300 miles like that to Albuquerque.
2007-01-28 17:51:45 · answer #4 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tried to replace the springs on my Honda with 1" lowered ones but I stripped the bolt holding the steering arm on and drove to the dealer with it held on just by the little clip. They all had a great laugh. Had them install the springs for me and they didn't charge to rethread the bolt.
2007-01-28 17:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like that one Nomadd!
The passenger side floorboard on my old mustang completely rotted out and my girlfriend put her feet through it. So I popriveted a sheet of stainless steel over it. Very chappy.
2007-01-29 00:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by BULLITT 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋