Last owner was officially a monkey

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allanhelen

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 Pontefract
A couple of weeks ago my drivers side kick plate came adrift, so I bobbed it in the footwell for a later look. After further investigation it appears the previous owner or monkey as he will be known from this day forth had decided to botch a repair with hot glue. Just to make it worse monkey had squirted the glue right in the slots where the OEM clips fit.

So 40 minutes later I managed to get all the glue off fitted the clips (a whole 40p each) and went to put the plate back on the car only to find monkey had also managed to fill the sill holes with glue too I managed to get the glue out eventually without it dropping into the sill but a £1.60 fix ended up taking over an hour.

Anyway yesterday I was washing the car between the snow showers and the drivers side headlamp washer cover came off, this was missing when I first went to view the car and monkey said he had one on order and would fit it if it arrived before I collected the car the following weekend and if not would post it on to me. Anyway collected the car and it was fitted so thought nothing of more of it

But it turns out monkey had been busy with the hot glue gun again and filled the top of the washer jet and all the bottom of the cover with hot glue in an effort to attach the cover. So again what should have been an easy job has been made a whole lot more complex and in this case expensive thanks to monkey!

So not only should you avoid giving a monkey sharp objects it seems you should also hide the hot glue gun
 
glue gun... geez

maybe you should check how they attached your wheels... just to be safe!
 
you were lucky...

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Why the fork do people do half-arsed repairs when a proper repair is easier and cheaper in the long run?

I had a similar situation in my Zed. The driver's side scuff plate popped off one day, and it was quickly clear that all the plastic pins were sheared clean off. Somebody had given it an excessively swift kick, I guess. Anyway, that somebody had also decided to simply glue the thing back in place with what looked like a blob of rubber cement, like the kind you use to put up wall paneling. So I went to the dealer, who simply gave me a handful of pins (including some spares in case it happened again), and I had the thing properly and securely fixed in about a minute and a half, if that. That's all it takes.

Hot glue ... sheesh.
 
Today's job was to sort out the condensation on the near side headlamp, I'll give you three guesses what the wheel arch liner was held in place with. Doh!,
 
Quite a handyman was'nt he :) in a "frank spencer" kind of way :roll:

the condensation ? has he blocked the vent hole with his much favoured substance ? :lol:
 
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