Bogan Fixes

[WraithParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 50]

So chatting to Gary about my great bogan fixes when we came up with the idea of a thread. Mine is car related but doesn’t mean they all have to be.

Had a rattling sound in the VZ on the drivers door like it wasn’t shut properly. Nothing I did fixed it until I noticed there was plastic on the door striker on the other doors but not on the drivers one. No worries will get a new one. $11 bucks a pop. No thanks. Bit of electrical tape. Cheap and nasty bogan fix but it works no more rattle.

So what stories do you have of your own bogan fixes?

[ImmortalityParticipant 97 HSV Senator 185i 02 VX L67 Calais View build HERE Member since: August 31, 2015 Posts: 535]

LOL, I did the exact same thing on my old VN many many years ago.

Here’s one to get you out of a pinch, a role of electrical tape and hose clamp.  Wind the electrical tape over the hole in radiator hose  and then put the hose clamp over the tape to hold it all together.  Obviously it only works on small holes and I wouldn’t recommend it as a long term fix but it’ll get you home or somewhere where you can do a proper repair.

[firebugParticipant Newcastle NSWL67 Gemini & Pathfinder Ti 550 View build HERE Member since: May 7, 2015 Posts: 89]

Broken or lost clips that hold the rubber exhaust hangers on? Replace with appropriate size hose clamp to stop the hanger from sliding off the bar…

Nothing ruins your Friday more than realising it's only Tuesday...

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Years and years ago I Had a leak on a exhaust on a old shit heap ute I had to drive around for a few days

 

 

Pissed me off real quick

 

 

Got a coke can cut up and used as many hose clamps as possble to hold it on

 

 

Fixed it good

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

firebug wrote:

Broken or lost clips that hold the rubber exhaust hangers on? Replace with appropriate size hose clamp to stop the hanger from sliding off the bar…

That’s bloody gold!!!

[braddlesParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 36]

Hi Gary

[braddlesParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 36]

Hardly a “fix”, more of a “limp technique” I had a split top hose years ago, limped home by sliding a wet suit stubby cooler over the split and cable tied it in place

[braddlesParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 36]

Regarding the vz door strikers:

 

They look like some sort of tape from factory anyway, probably is electrical tape.

Resin core heat shrink would do a great job too if you have some to shrink on there

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by  braddles.

[WraithParticipant View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 50]

It’s actually plastic. Just get’s really brittle after a while and falls off. Tape will work till I can cough up 50 bucks for new ones.

[LF24Participant Ipswich- \'99 ls1 Holden VS ute - \'02 HSV Maloo R8 View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 57]

firebug wrote:

Broken or lost clips that hold the rubber exhaust hangers on? Replace with appropriate size hose clamp to stop the hanger from sliding off the bar…

 

I just use zip ties.  I’ve also used zip ties as exhaust hangers when my system was out and throwing hangers left, right and centre.

The other one is when the little button on your seat belt that holds the buckle from sliding to the floor goes missing… Few layers of duct tape where you want it to sit and she won’t go to the floor no more.

[KroozerParticipant Forbes, NSW91 VN SS View build HERE Member since: February 19, 2015 Posts: 336]

Immortality wrote:

LOL, I did the exact same thing on my old VN many many years ago.

My VN has started to make a rattle for what sounds like its coming from inside the door. So maybe its coming from the door latch… 

[ImmortalityParticipant 97 HSV Senator 185i 02 VX L67 Calais View build HERE Member since: August 31, 2015 Posts: 535]

Can’t hurt to try.  just don’t wind to much electrical tape on there or you will have difficulty closing the door properly.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

braddles wrote:

Hi Gary

Braddles!!, you made it to the party

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