Bodge job
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Had a 95 Dodge Dakota pick-up, when I went to pick it up, the seller told me he filled the gas tank for me (nice, right). So we are standing there talking before I drove off and I say, "Do you smell gas?" He's like, "yeah I just filled it up, it goes away."
Well yes the gas gauge showed a full tank...even after 150 miles it showed a full tank. #1 the gauge didn't work of course he didn't tell me.
#2, the reason you could smell gas it that someone had replaced the, in tank, fuel pump and instead of dropping the tank to do that, they cut a hole in the bed. In cutting a hole in the bed they also cut a nice slice in the plastic fuel tank. There was a factory bed liner so you couldn't see the hole in the bed until you took the liner out.
I fixed it up and sold it...hated that vehicle more than any I've ever owned !
Well yes the gas gauge showed a full tank...even after 150 miles it showed a full tank. #1 the gauge didn't work of course he didn't tell me.
#2, the reason you could smell gas it that someone had replaced the, in tank, fuel pump and instead of dropping the tank to do that, they cut a hole in the bed. In cutting a hole in the bed they also cut a nice slice in the plastic fuel tank. There was a factory bed liner so you couldn't see the hole in the bed until you took the liner out.
I fixed it up and sold it...hated that vehicle more than any I've ever owned !
Mate had an Audi S3 and is clueless with repairs. He PX'd it for another Audi at a trader and the outer door strips that were loose, he just used blutak to stick it on and it lasted the 2 miles from home to the dealer !!
When my lad got his MR2 the driver window was stuck up. The seller had the car two years but didn't know how to fix it - seriously you couldn't act this level of mechanical ineptness! Seller said he been told the switch was bust.
Changed the switch and fuse still no movement. When I stripped the door it had a passenger side mechanism mounted backwards but the window was jammed up by a length of wood - some ba$tard even wrote Toyota on it in felt tip!
Fortunately an easy fix in the end - two days to get a second hand drivers mechanism and a couple of hours to fit; adjust and seal the membrane on the door.
Changed the switch and fuse still no movement. When I stripped the door it had a passenger side mechanism mounted backwards but the window was jammed up by a length of wood - some ba$tard even wrote Toyota on it in felt tip!
Fortunately an easy fix in the end - two days to get a second hand drivers mechanism and a couple of hours to fit; adjust and seal the membrane on the door.
