rowlesy · May 9, 2013

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......

nathan5346 · May 9, 2013

Quick....the indians are coming

Mark L · May 9, 2013

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

stutab · May 9, 2013

Unlucky, best of luck

uncle albert · May 9, 2013

name and shame , wich garage passed that on mot ?

nathan5346 · May 9, 2013

uncle albert said:
name and shame , wich garage passed that on mot ?

+1

storm99 · May 9, 2013

Thats a brilliant piece of air to air welding.

nathan5346 · May 9, 2013

storm99 said:
Thats a brilliant piece of air to air welding.

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

wattfield · May 9, 2013

Nice bit o' welding that!

John FHA · May 9, 2013

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

OakleyPilot · May 9, 2013

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.

rowlesy · May 10, 2013

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.....

1ewwy · May 10, 2013

****ers - good luck

dieseldog69 · May 11, 2013

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

lorri789 · May 11, 2013

Is that metal just stuck down with paste?

adam300tdi · May 11, 2013

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

RoyalPythons · May 11, 2013

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.

lorri789 · May 11, 2013

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...

rowlesy · May 11, 2013

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

SpaceDawg · May 12, 2013

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

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