Hall of shame

zurbfoundation

parked along side this a while back

jca

zurbfoundation wrote: »

parked along side this a while back

Jesus that's shocking..

teediddlyeye

Whenever I see a tyre like that im very tempted to stick a screwdriver in the sidewall so it'll have to be replaced.

working fool

Steering rack of a 2006 corolla
Nct and 50k on the clock

Not bad maintenance just bad design
The boot protecting the knuckle joint
Had no breather hole so trapped water just seeped into the rack

dubbrin

Putting a new clutch slave cylinder in my friends LR Discovery 1. Lying underneath wondering why there's a drain hole on the bottom of the gearbox... hmmm... that's the plug hole and the plug is missing. No gear oil. He didn't realise this and has been driving it for months. Would love to meet the moron who left that loose

Cerco

If you don't know who left it off how do you know it has been driven for months without the plug?
Doubt any gearbox would withstand driving for months with no oil.

paulmclaughlin

dubbrin wrote: »

Putting a new clutch slave cylinder in my friends LR Discovery 1. Lying underneath wondering why there's a drain hole on the bottom of the gearbox... hmmm... that's the plug hole and the plug is missing. No gear oil. He didn't realise this and has been driving it for months. Would love to meet the moron who left that loose

That is actually drain hole at the bottom of the flywheel housing. It enables excess oil to drain from the Discovery. The reason you can plug it is in case you go wading, to prevent water ingress.

dubbrin

paulmclaughlin wrote: »

That is actually drain hole at the bottom of the flywheel housing. It enables excess oil to drain from the Discovery. The reason you can plug it is in case you go wading, to prevent water ingress.

aaah, that's making sense Paul. I had a pinky up there and there wasn't a drop of oil to be gotten! best not plug that one up so!

brembo26

Already posted in another thread but here seems to be the proper home for it!

Not my car but I still think this is a good place to share this.

Had this car come in today because the brakes felt spongy....



That caliper was seized (shock!) :-P Pads were down to the metal on the other side too.

gibbon75

A lady, driving a 1998 Passat 1.8, stopped by our place today.
She asked us to check the power steering oil, as the steering felt heavy.
After opening the bonnet we have noticed two things straight away:
The fan belt has snapped and the coolant was boiling.

This is how the belt looked like:

gibbon75

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Failed on a few other things but passed on brake performance. The outer surface of the discs were not as bad (still bad enough) and the inner is not visible to the tester. Still though it is a good example of how fallible the NCT can be.

Yesterday I had a customer whose Jaguar S-Type passed with only one wiper arm...

ardle1

teediddlyeye wrote: »

Whenever I see a tyre like that im very tempted to stick a screwdriver in the sidewall so it'll have to be replaced.

Nah don't do that, Eh Seriously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTQu9gB11E8

Cerco

ardle1 wrote: »

Nah don't do that, Eh Seriously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTQu9gB11E8

How come tyre did not deflate?

Toyotafanboi

Cerco wrote: »

How come tyre did not deflate?

i'd say it's a dual tyre axle, like this:



with the second tyre taking the weight of the vehicle.

nct tester

Came across this on a fiesta, someone obviously had a rattle in their anti roll bar bush and couldn't be bothered replacing it.

brembo26

Would have been nearly easier just to change the bloody thing :P

mickdw

nct tester wrote: »

Came across this on a fiesta, someone obviously had a rattle in their anti roll bar bush and couldn't be bothered replacing it.

Jesus, for the sake of the price of an anti roll bar bush.

brembo26

more than likely a seller done it to cure the noise for any potential buyer. tis bad form...

JohnBoy26

brembo26 wrote: »

Would have been nearly easier just to change the bloody thing :P

And probably cheaper than a box of screws too :pac:

dharn

I think that bush is screwed

chocksaway

dharn wrote: »

I think that bush is screwed

Yeahhhh!

Mar4ix

While servicing 08 touran, owner asked me to have a look on front right suspension , as weird noise going when turning steering wheel. Well, i had a look, and guess what ....

http://i.imgur.com/PVxpxHx.jpg


Wonder , how its possible to get that on relatively new car ???

Oh ... Merry Christmas everyone

brembo26

i was servicing a hyundai the last day. 07 reg i think. was raising it on the lift and the 2 front shocks fell out! Shock mounts were rusted to bits!

Hal1

That was an '07 :eek:. Was it a field car?

brembo26

no a Chinese couple owned it. warned them it was too dangerous to drive but they took it away anyway! came back a week later to fit the new mounts. crazy stuff altogether.

Frankie Lee

brembo26 wrote: »

i was servicing a hyundai the last day. 07 reg i think. was raising it on the lift and the 2 front shocks fell out! Shock mounts were rusted to bits!

Trajet?

brembo26

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Trajet?

Yup, thats the one!

Odyssey 2005

They're not called a tragedy for nothing yez know

nct tester

Car came in recently with new pads on the front. It failed brake imbalance test , brakes were perfect 1 side and very little happening the other side.
Reason: the calliper was twisted during the process, causing the kink in the flexible brake pipe and little or no fluid going to the calliper. Cant think of a better example of why the nct is important.

nct tester

Car came in with the front wheel arch rubbing the tyre(one side only), when it was put up on the lift, the spring was in ribbons and the shock was just hanging there. Driver never noticed anything wrong, the broken edges were badly rusted so it hadnt happened recently.

nct tester

This job card was left on the passenger seat of the car. Anyone notice anything strange on the job card??

TheBody

Does that say universal tractor oil? :eek:

Surely that is to bring home for the tractor.

challengemaster

TheBody wrote: »

Does that say universal tractor oil? :eek:

Surely that is to bring home for the tractor.

I think he meant the
"Paint rusty brake pipes"
:pac:

nct tester

TheBody wrote: »

Does that say universal tractor oil? :eek:

Surely that is to bring home for the tractor.

Id hope so, but that's not the only strange thing on the list.

mayota

Paint rusty brake pipes!

TheBody

challengemaster wrote: »

I think he meant the
"Paint rusty brake pipes"
:pac:

I dunno how I missed that!

challengemaster

I think this fits here perfectly...

jimgoose

challengemaster wrote: »

I think this fits here perfectly...

Jaysis. Just... Jaysis!! :pac::pac::pac:

Ded_Zebra

Can you imagine the smell as it burns off :D:D

Mick55

McSpurious

Lucifer

Anti roll bar bushes must be getting expensive
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/2874/347167.jpg
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/2874/347168.jpg

joujoujou

Lucifer wrote: »

Anti roll bar bushes must be getting expensive
[...]

Maybe, maybe not. If anti-roll bar is worn over there, that's actually the only option to deal with that apart from buying a new anti-roll bar. And this can be expensive.

Anyway, tape on bar goes very quickly (as seen on picture) so it's better to wrap a bushing instead. :P

junkyarddog

Hyundai Trajet,
Nearside bottom balljoint failed,and collapsed on the road,
pulled the driveshaft out of the gear box.
Thankfully this badly maintained piece of rubbish has now been scrapped.

joujoujou

No comment.

v240gltse

jesus there's a baby's bottle and what looks like a hairbrush amongst all that crap.

colm_mcm

And a packet of baby wipes, poor child!

Cerco

A motorised wheely bin.

Guy:Incognito

Windy windows. The humanity.

Mick55

Stolen from the internet.

Interslice

a friends car got a falied dangerous sticker!







Whoever made up that bit of pipe should have their spanners taken off them!