How long do you leave a bodge?

maltingsaudio · April 13

Boot door lock on the Yeti playing up, micro switch showing it’s age. I did a disassembly figured out what the issue was fixed it with a neat gaffa tape job and ordered the £12 switch to replace old one.
Thing is to put new switch in you have to disassemble the boot door and the repair is working brilliantly .

Kittyfrisk · April 13

Will you be inconvenienced by leaving the bodge in place until it fails?
Leave it as long as you can

Paul_C · April 13

If I'd fixed it like that I'd never bother to buy the new part.

If there was a safety issue I'd get something fixed but apart from that it wouldn't bother me.

paulcaye · April 13

The door handle on our washing machine broke, I replaced it with a screwdriver- it was genius.

It was in place for about 3 years - until the washing machine did give up.

crosstownvamp · April 13

Read that title as "How long do you leave bondage?"

ICBM · April 13

I have exactly the same dilemma on MrsICBM’s Suzuki. I wouldn’t call it a bodge, but it’s only a matter of time before corrosion gets in again. I did consider epoxy’ing the switch casing to make it totally airtight and stop it corroding again, but that also removes the possibility of fixing it again if it does...

I haven’t ordered a new switch yet either. I probably should.

S56035 · April 13

What bodge? You've described a fix as far as I can see!

robgilmo · April 13

Everything on my car is a bodge, literally everything.

Schnozz · April 14

If you've found a knack then I'd leave it until your next MOT. I replaced the lock on my car, but the garage still charged me £60 for the diagnostics side.

BillDL · April 14

I think it's a toss up between how long the thing being fixed with a bodge is going to last before IT needs replaced and how long the proper spare part is still likely to be available to buy. I've put off fixing things properly before, while occasionally thinking about buying the proper part, but by that time the part was nowhere in stock anywhere so I was stuck with the bodge. Some spare parts are such a ridiculous price for what they are that I might well just refuse to pay and instead figure out how to make the bodge more permanent and "professional".

TTBZ · April 14

Had a temperamental bonnet latch on my Golf for the last couple years of ownership. I could open the catch fully with a screwdriver so I just kept one in the glove box. Sometimes it wouldn't stay shut but a good soaking of GT85 and some wiggling with the screwdriver would be enough to free up the mechanism again, or if that failed then I also kept a tie down strap to hold it securely. Probably should have got it fixed properly but the car had 150k+ miles on it with new creaks and noises developing regularly! I think the part was £100 and the whole front needed taking off to get to the latch bolts so I never got round to it

drofluf · April 14

Until you start calling it a modification?

Paul_C · April 14

It's not a bodge, it's personalised.

TTony · April 14

Day1: Quick fix to keep the thing working.
Day2: Cheap bodge to keep the thing working.
Day3: Inventive fix that keeps the thing working.

robgilmo · April 14

You know that bodge with the tights? It got me home not long ago. It was a great bodge although I did put a new fan belt on the next day.

Grunfeld · April 14

Fridge door handle broke. Bodged it with paracord -- albeit using some classy knots. Lasted the fridge out, I'm guessing nearly two decades. I was quite fond of that handle!

horse · April 14

We've lived where we are since 2006. One of the internal doors was missing a handle on one side, and we still closed it by pulling on a shoe lace tied to the handle on the other side!

I guess I'd sort it out if it occured to me at the right time, but I never even think about it any more.

WezV · April 14

I tied my exhaust back on with a spare USB cable that happened to be in the car.

It survived a few hundred miles until I got around to replacing the bracket

My first car had a jackplate acting as a washer to hold the wing mirror on, and cloth pickup tape soaked in superlgue as a repair to the wiper arm.

RaymondLin · April 14

It depends if the bodge has any longevity and whether that part will cause a chain reaction when it fails.

sinbaadi · April 14

This happens at work all the time!

At first they call it a "containment". And then the problem is forgotten, until it comes back to bite someone in the arse with a vengeance.

Wazmeister · April 14

I'd leave it bodged, till it unbodges....

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