Brake hose bodge

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Post by baldrick on Jan 23, 2019 0:03:15 GMT 1

Tested an old campervan .

All four front brake hoses have been replaced at some point inmit's life . They were advised on way back in 2012 , and the following years there has been no mention of them in the test history ..

This time round it came through my doors .

Whoever it was that replaced the hoses ( guessing it was after the 2012 test ) obviously didn't have the retaining clips so they welded some big washers to the ferrules . pushed the hoses through the mounting holes and welded the washers to the bracket .

Quite shocking really . I couldn't find any way of failing it so I manually advised on them being inappropriately modified . They clearly are not dangerous as they have lasted over 6 years and a fair few thousand miles without incident.

Who in their right mind would carry out such a bodge job ?

It came to me from another garage that I do tests for . It is the first time they have seen it . They have replaced all four hoses and when they took delivery of said hoses from Pages they came complete with new clips .

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Post by ivor on Jan 23, 2019 12:54:59 GMT 1

Similar thing, failed a Rover 45 on Mon, leaked brake pipe looks like it was new last year, & outher stuff went for repairs yesterday. Guy who has done the repairs showed me the pipe that he took off has not been flared, no wonder it was leaking!

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Post by peter on Jan 24, 2019 8:13:06 GMT 1

Jan 23, 2019 13:43:43 GMT 1 conker said:

Who needs brake hoses had one come back for retest taken brake hoses off and put rigid brake pipes straight into calipers he just said what wrong with that.

Nothing as long as it doesn't have any suspension!
Quite horrifying what some people will do to get an MOT!

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Post by castrolrob on Jan 24, 2019 9:20:44 GMT 1

think the funniest one ive seen was a guy who decided front to rear pipes were hassle,from osr hub ran it straight up into a hole hed knocked in the arch,dragged straight across the middle of the interior,out thru a front window thru the scuttle into the master.i just took one look and said "fook off-NOW!,no chance"and never saw it again.have seen a few where wrapping a pipe that's made too long round suspension etc(and in one memorable case a rear coil spring!)to take up the slack seems to be a wizard wheeze.

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Post by rob1980 on Jan 24, 2019 9:55:14 GMT 1

I know this has been said a million times but its stupid that you need qualifications to work on gas or electrics in a building but anyone can work on the brakes of a 2 tonne car that moves at 70mph on a motorway with no training at all

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Brake hose bodge Jan 24, 2019 14:29:53 GMT 1 peter and mike617 like this

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Post by castrolrob on Jan 24, 2019 14:29:53 GMT 1

count your lucky stars,when I started in the game the amount of old dodderers playing silly buggers with their motors was bloody horrifying.the majority of home repairs I tend to see now are our eastern European cousins who love ebay and can always buy it chipper!to be fair a lot of their stuff seems to be at least marginally acceptable.dont get me wrong I still see some disastrous home bodges from all creeds and colours but its nuffin like as common as it used to be,modern society seems to have evolved away from hands on practical abilities and getting your hands dirty for whatever reason is much less popular.much quicker and easier in most cases to get harry down the road to write you a ticket out.....

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