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[fenghuang]

Just a bit of Friday fun.
The daft things you discovered the previous owner of your Mini had done.
And to get it started ...

I knew the three stop lights on my car didn't work when I bought it. I figured they'd be easy to fix.
Today I finally got round to investigating. It turns out he'd never even bothered to strip the insulation off the wires, never mind connect them up.

[Carlos W]

Mine has a repair piece in the boot fixed in with sealant, no weld anywhere.

[nicklouse]

How about a petrol can sat on a fiberglass roof for 20 odd years.

[666junky]

Not done to the car.. but left in the car was a cheeseburger squashed into the carpet.. it was years old and pretty much in perfect condition.
Oh and the previous owner of my current mini decided to paint the whole car, including all window seals, side wing indicators, boot handle.and any rubber gasket on the outside.. lol!

[Ben_O]

The previous owner of one of my mini's had painted the outside with rattle cans. The back half black and the front half yellow and then a harsh diagonal fade between the two.

 

All the shuts and the inside were still the original vermillion and it looked awful.

 

That finished off with a coupe of 13" metro wheels on the back and 10" mini wheels on the front made for a truly shocking looking mini.

 

I have a picture somewhere..

[Zach P-D]

Lower the front and cut the wings as not to rub on the tyres but still make it look fine under arches.

[CityEPete]

Even purchasing scotchlocks should be punishable by testicles vs blow torch.

[mm man]

I had a mini minus fibreglass kit car where the previous owner had moved the drivers seat back so they unbolted the seat belt out of it's steel cage thats built into the car for the seat belts to fix to and for strength and safety of the shell . They then rebolted it through the 5mm ply wood inner rear quarter panel and if that wasn't bad enough they then tried using the bolt as a earthing point for the electrics ....needless to say they don't work

[bikenutmart]

Mine had a cover sill stuck on with tiger seal!!!! Honest, wish I had taken a pic. Mart.

[SPINNER673]

Driver's side sill was fixed on with three self tapping screws and four 2" long welds.....

[Ben_O]

Even purchasing scotchlocks should be punishable by testicles vs blow torch.

I fitted a hazard warning light kit to a Morris 1000 traveler at work last week and the instructions suggested the use of scotchlocks.

 

Needless to say, i didn't not heed the advice

[CityEPete]

Even purchasing scotchlocks should be punishable by testicles vs blow torch.

I fitted a hazard warning light kit to a Morris 1000 traveler at work last week and the instructions suggested the use of scotchlocks.
 
Needless to say, i didn't not heed the advice

Ha,they are just awful aren't they?!

I removed a blue plastic nest of them from a Discovery tow bar installation, tbf the disco still ate fuses after as the factory wiring ain't much better, lol

[megamini_jb]

In one of my old minis a previous owner stuffed behind the dashboard with a scarf and pairs of tights, I assume to deaden some of the cabin sound was fairly quiet in there to be fair

[mini93]

The previous owner of mine decided to not build the engine correctly...

 

12.5:1 compression ratio (clearly thought out the component useage there! causing massive Det. and ending up with cylinder 4 like the side of a ruined cliff face

Fitted a worn out transfer gearn without a lock tab! which allowed it to move which then shed its bearings, lunching the transmission housing sending swarf into the gearbox.

Fitted a bronze bush to support the layshaft, this of course ended up heating up and siezing partly, removing this was a ******* job.

The crown wheel has shed 2 teeth off it.

Suspension was set up all wrong, with the top arms sitting on the bump stops.

Oh and both rear 1/4 panels were over 5mm deep in filler.

There's been a load of other stuff too but its a long list.

 

Before that owner, the rollcage was fitted at some point, weld in jobby... never ever would I have thought someone would have fitted that cage into a competition car and it apparently been acceptable for so long. I've had to grind out 80% of the welds on the cage and re-weld them.

 

 

I should have never bought the car, and built one fresh myself!

[1984mini25]

 

Even purchasing scotchlocks should be punishable by testicles vs blow torch.

I fitted a hazard warning light kit to a Morris 1000 traveler at work last week and the instructions suggested the use of scotchlocks.

 

Needless to say, i didn't not heed the advice

 

 

A fellow user of this very forum insisted once that I rewired their mini entirely with the white plastic Lego brick sctocklocks and couldn't see in the slightest the problem with doing so, even if they " were only a quid down the market".