How's this for a fucking hack job

[Dalking]

Potentially life threatening brake line fix that we found on a used honda crv that my father picked up.

They found a hole in the rear brake line, threw a screw in it and then epoxied the snot out of it.


https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q82/s720x720/1497467_10153677989260721_1658161340_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/s720x720/1504590_10153677989505721_1819568584_n.jpg

wish I knew who did this.

[Boosted131]

Originally posted by Dalking
Potentially life threatening brake line fix that we found on a used honda crv that my father picked up.

They found a hole in the rear brake line, threw a screw in it and then epoxied the snot out of it.


https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q82/s720x720/1497467_10153677989260721_1658161340_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q79/s720x720/1504590_10153677989505721_1819568584_n.jpg

wish I knew who did this.
Just a shot in the wind, but maybe the previous owner?? A hack job like that probably wouldn't last long

[Dalking]

Originally posted by Boosted131

Just a shot in the wind, but maybe the previous owner?? A hack job like that probably wouldn't last long We didn't get it private sale, purchased at graham auctions earlier this month.

[Rat Fink]

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[Dalking]

Originally posted by Rat Fink
Looks like that car spent some time out east, for how much of a rust trap it appears to be from only seeing 2 pictures of it. Did you get a pre-purchase inspection done? No, it was a $300 winter beater purchase at the graham auctions unreserved sale. Wasn't expecting to find this haha

[spikerS]

well, at least it is a pretty easy, straight forward fix. Cheap too.

but yeah, that is a pretty shitty "fix".

[rookie101]

I cringe every time one of our customers buys a vehicle at auction and brings it in for a "post" purchase inspection. They are ALWAYS straight up fucked. Auctions are for cars that the owners are too embarrassed to sell face to face.

[Redlyne_mr2]

$300? Who wouldn't someone just Kidney foundation the car?

[AE92_TreunoSC]

Doesn't surprise me on an auction car.

But ya I put my last junker on Kijiji for 100$ to get it the hell off my property. It was gone in 15 minutes. 300$ is piss all to "repair" and set up for auction haha.

[BensonTT]

at a quick glance.. I thought that was a dead fish... lol

[Team_Mclaren]

Originally posted by Dalking
No, it was a $300 winter beater purchase at the graham auctions unreserved sale. Wasn't expecting to find this haha

FOR $300 at an auction... what DID you expect to find?

[M.alex]

it's obviously holding, what's your problem with it :rolleyes:

[EM1FTW]

Originally posted by Team_Mclaren


FOR $300 at an auction... what DID you expect to find?
Yeah this!
$300 at an auction is the same as picking up a free car off kijiji.

[ddduke]

Originally posted by rookie101
Auctions are for cars that the owners are too embarrassed to sell face to face.

and this is why I've sent every work/fleet truck right to the auction.

[Sentry]

I bought this from Graham auctions. :D

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

All it needed was some TLC from someone who knew 80s turbo cars.

[toastgremlin]

Originally posted by Redlyne_mr2
$300? Who wouldn't someone just Kidney foundation the car? Some of the cars at Regal are from Donate A Car Canada or whatever. Those ones are frequently an exotic level of fucked.

I'm guessing the Kidney foundation cars end up at auction too, give them one shot to make more money than the scrap merchant will give them.

[Canucks3322]

Wait a minute...$300 Honda CRV and that's all you found, sounds like a steal to me?!?!? What else did you find, why so cheap....even a first year CRV, 1997 would be at least a couple thousand!?!

[Dalking]

Originally posted by Canucks3322
Wait a minute...$300 Honda CRV and that's all you found, sounds like a steal to me?!?!? What else did you find, why so cheap....even a first year CRV, 1997 would be at least a couple thousand!?! yeah 1998 crv. Had bad ball joints andd those are fixed. He did not expect anything out of this car I just wanted to share some hack job repairs

[googe]

Don't most dealers send trade-ins to auction if they don't keep a big used lot? Are auction cars always bad?

[Graham_A_M]

^ Thats exactly what happens. Ive said this before in another thread about the auctions, but at a dealership I used to work at MANY years ago, all our absolute dog shit cars & trucks that the dealer would NEVER risk selling to the public were brought over to Regal auctions to be auctioned off, so someone else can deal with these impossibly costly repair bills or the like.

Think about these auctions like this. Why would absolutely anybody in their right mind take a fairly good used car/truck (etc), and bring it to the auction only to get 1/4-1/10th what they'd get for it from selling it privately?

Because chances are it has serious, very costly repairs, or the whole car/truck is a moving liability. As in shit repairs like this throughout.
Thats why every car and truck through those auctions is a serious gamble. Their there for a reason, only an undisclosed one. The thing is, once you finally find out what those reasons are, the person who consigned the vehicle is long long gone, and essentially untraceable, which is exactly what they want.

You REALLY have to know what to look for, and what to expect worst case scenario when buying through these, thats why I never bother.... unless Im just looking for a parts vehicle, which most of them are, just ones that actually drive for the most part.

[Dalking]

Originally posted by googe
Don't most dealers send trade-ins to auction if they don't keep a big used lot? Are auction cars always bad? ive had over 100 cars in my life and half came from the auction, only had about 7 bad purchases from the various auctions out of all of them. usually people pawn the car off because they think its catastrophic failure when it turns out to be something simple. i bought a subaru from regal once and the thing had no oil in it, puddles underneath and people thought the engine was bad, and it turned out to be an oil pressure sender ontop of the engine for $80 and it was broken, leaking oil out everywhere. you win some you lose some

[TheHumbleGeek]

Originally posted by Sentry
I bought this from Graham auctions. :D

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

All it needed was some TLC from someone who knew 80s turbo cars.

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