Hall of shame

bigted2

there was a clever fella driving that car :eek:

Plug

Some drivers must be on pure raw drugs.

Plug

Im currently working on a Focus ST with 20 bent valves. The aircon belt got damaged and was acting like a whip and some how got in behind the timing cover and the timing belt pulled parts of it in and jumped teeth. $7500:eek:

Could someone explain that micksgarage photo ?

colm_mcm

salonfire wrote: »

Could someone explain that micksgarage photo ?

Here is a cutaway picture of a brake disc. The gaps are for cooling.


Brake pads wear with use, so do discs. Pads wear a lot faster than discs.
For a disc to get to the state of the one in the pic, and the driver not to notice is pretty mind boggling.



The bit at the top that still has flat metal is probably where the disc was warped and not contacting the pad straight, or just not made 100% straight.

dgt

A fairly tame one





Good ol cable ties :rolleyes:






Ironically, on an NCT'd car....

spiggotpaddy

Type R 200 horses on the go pedal, and these on the stop pedal.

Mar4ix

^^^^ .. ha ha .. just about time to change. .. thats remainds me ... when gets warmer, ill have a look on my car brake pads, as I never looked on them... since i bought car. :pac:

junkyarddog

'06 Peugeot 307 van,offside front spring:eek:

dgt

A tip: if you need special tools to take a part off, for everyone else's sake get them!

How a 406 balljoint looks (image courtesy of micks garage)


What it shouldn't look like

joujoujou

6 months old Denso spark plug taken off my engine:



That's probably why engine's in agony - burns 1/2 litre of oil in 100 km! :eek:

Even without that engine's condition wouldn't be good - that's how the other ones look like:

Mar4ix

^^^^ what car you driving ? looks like headgasket fault.. me thinks. sipping through oil and coolant....

joujoujou

'00 rolla. No coolant issues whatsoever. :]

But car's run flatout every day.

Anyway - this one's gonna be a source of spare parts for another one.

Mar4ix

joujoujou wrote: »

'00 rolla. No coolant issues whatsoever. :]

But car's run flatout every day.

Anyway - this one's gonna be a source of spare parts for another one.

ok, toyota typical issue, stem seals needs to be changed, if that car run flat out every day, spark plugs shall be clear and white ish. could be oil rings also, but to find out, need use one of engine diagnostic techniques .

joujoujou

That engine is junk already. The only good thing I'll keep (apart from sensors, ignition coils and other small parts) is timing chain assembly (8 months old).

You're right, it can be repaired of course, but since I have another (the same model) car, it's not really necessary, I'd say.

nct tester

new pads fitted and wear indictaor clearly broken out of the disc

Mar4ix

Those pistons pictured after they were soken in petrol for an hour, so cant show in full beauty after we removed from engine

nct tester

anti roll bar link fitted with the dust cover protectors still in place

Frankie Lee

5th gear quite literally gone in a Polo, the owner heard nothing.


Focus came in with an oil leak last week, bottom of the filter rotten.

nct tester

this is an accurate indication of the rest of the car underneath :eek:

nct tester

no need for nct!!

TestTransmission

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

jaysus.

Ded_Zebra

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

Good GOD!!! :eek:

What was the rest of the car like?

jayok

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

Called "slicks" - did he drive like an F1 driver?

toastedpickles

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

Be the hokey......

Nissan doctor

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

You really would have to be some sort of knuckle dragging moron to not only drive on tyres like that, but to present it for an NCT test with them on!:rolleyes:

Nissan doctor

A full overhaul of the brakes on the Astra was the next job on my list as I knew both front and rears where on or close to wear limits but, after a very heavy emergency stop a week or so ago....I never inspected them afterwards:o

On my way home on Thursday I started getting a rubbing/grinding noise from the rear right, followed, not long after, by a loss of pedal pressure.

On inspection, one of the retaining pins for the rear shoes had snapped, allowing the shoe to slip off the cylinder piston leading to......

Ronnie Beck

Nissan doctor wrote: »

You really would have to be some sort of knuckle dragging moron to not only drive on tyres like that, but to present it for an NCT test with them on!:rolleyes:

Sure it's been fairly dry the last few weeks. Gives you extra grip.

Nissan doctor

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

Sure it's been fairly dry the last few weeks. Gives you extra grip.

No doubt some people would actually think that too!

nct tester

nct tester wrote: »

no need for nct!!

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Good GOD!!! :eek:

What was the rest of the car like?

wasnt the best, the other tyre was exactly the same. but at least the wheel alignment was perfect, nice even wear pattern there

jayok wrote: »

Called "slicks" - did he drive like an F1 driver?

it was a woman driver :cool:

nct tester

first picture is a front brake disc with new pads recently fitted and the outer lip had been grinded down but the wear indicator was broken out of the inside lip

second picture is a trailing arm bush on a focus with the bush completely broken out of the trailing arm, the banging and clattering whilst driving down the test lane would make you go :eek:

Stoolbend

I don't normally take photos of stuff I see at work. But this car came in with a noise in the brakes!

jayok

Stoolbend wrote: »

I don't normally take photos of stuff I see at work. But this car came in with a noise in the brakes!

I'm impressed they got them in there!

nct tester

Stoolbend wrote: »

I don't normally take photos of stuff I see at work. But this car came in with a noise in the brakes!

no one taking things for test drives obviously

Stoolbend

nct tester wrote: »

no one taking things for test drives obviously

I don't know. They must have fitted them, themselves. I've never seen anything like it before.

Nissan doctor

Stoolbend wrote: »

I don't know. They must have fitted them, themselves. I've never seen anything like it before.

I was in collage with a guy who did that....in the workshop:eek:

He thankfully dropped out after a few months.

mickdw

My brother got his landcruiser back from garage with pad on backwards before. He drove for half a day expecting the noise to go away. We couldnt believe it when we saw the pad backing eating into the disc.

Gary ITR

I bought a second hand Anti Roll Bar with solid drop links that were used on an ITCC car

This is the selection of nuts/bolts/washers/spacers that were used to hold it together on the previous car. Nothing the same on both sides, some nuts some allen and all spaced differently.



It cost me 6quid and a half hour of my time to get the correct bolts, the previous person that fit this probably spent more than half an hour looking through boxes for those bolts above

Edwardius

My own shame :P:

Starter began to make some noise, so I took it apart...

Starter.jpg

Stoolbend

Found another one from my last phone.

Nissan doctor

Stoolbend wrote: »

Found another one from my last phone.

A good way of ensuring you don't misplace your service history I guess:P

Ronnie Beck

Found old number 11 . Thought he was a gonner.

Harcrid

How long was he missing?

Ronnie Beck

Celtxx wrote: »

How long was he missing?

3 weeks. I had given up but hadn't gotten around to getting a replacement yet. You just reminded me of the number 19 I seen sticking out the side of a taxi mans bonnet in a car park about a year ago. I left a note on his windscreen. It had done a fair bit of damage to the bonnet and wing.

Wonder if he done it himself. Wouldn't like to have been the mechanic to see that customer returning.

nct tester

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

3 weeks. I had given up but hadn't gotten around to getting a replacement yet. You just reminded me of the number 19 I seen sticking out the side of a taxi mans bonnet in a car park about a year ago. I left a note on his windscreen. It had done a fair bit of damage to the bonnet and wing.

Wonder if he done it himself. Wouldn't like to have been the mechanic to see that customer returning.

Ah, taxi man would be sound about things like that

CJhaughey

Edwardius wrote: »

My own shame :P:

Starter began to make some noise, so I took it apart...

Starter.jpg

Toyota?
Mine looked the same.

Nissan doctor

A couple from over the last couple of weeks:

VW Golf sump...with a nut and bolt fitted to seal the sump, with bolt fitted from inside the sump:eek:






One from today, an E46 with the rear subframe mounding plate pulled out through the body!

nct tester

dog hair

dgt

^^^^
My old 406 came with seats covered in dog hair. I got a full new interior put in but the smell remained for weeks after! :mad:

dieselbug

Looked at a car last Sunday for sale. Turned out to have too many problems anyway. But inside, it had an overpowering disgusting smell of what I took to be cats pee. Had to take a shower after it.