I hate hacks :-P

LarsD

LarsD

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#1
Went out yesterday with the wife and some friends of ours, the wives got in the backseat of the Mustang and complained that the seat belts didn't have the buckle part available to them so they could put the belts on. I knew they weren't back there cause I had seen it, but kept forgetting to pull the rear seat and feed them through the seat bottom. Finally did it today, apparently the PO left the drivers side buckle out when he installed the carpet. Who does that? I kinda figured the guy I bought the car from was a hack seeing a couple of other things he did weren't done well, but this takes the cake, now I have to track down half a seat belt. :fuss: I'm just glad he didn't keep it longer and make more "improvements" to it before I bought it.
 

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#2
i hate finding little annoyances like that. my radio harness is all kinds of hacked up from the PO. took me forever to hook up my headunit cause none of the wires were original or even the right colors.

go look through junk yards, i'm sure there are plenty of seatbelts available.
 
#3
I do restoration work for a living and let me tell you, thats nothing. I had to do a full frame off resto on a 66 GTO cause the PO or who ever "restored" the car last rigged up EVERYTHING on the car! I had to replace about 70% of the metal on the car cause any rust that was on the car just had peices of metal seam sealed in place. It was horrible. Now that I'm done with it it looks like the day it came out of the factory! Hackers are a real car guys worst nightmare!
 
#4
I couldn't agree more. The guy I bought my 89 from was neice enough to spray some paint over the 3 dime sized surface rust spots on my coupe's roof, but not wanting to make it stand out too much he decided to spray paint the enitre care without masking anything off.
 
#5
MAC'n89Blckstng said:
I do restoration work for a living and let me tell you, thats nothing. I had to do a full frame off resto on a 66 GTO cause the PO or who ever "restored" the car last rigged up EVERYTHING on the car! I had to replace about 70% of the metal on the car cause any rust that was on the car just had peices of metal seam sealed in place. It was horrible. Now that I'm done with it it looks like the day it came out of the factory! Hackers are a real car guys worst nightmare!
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oh man i know exactly what you're talking about. i do a little restoration work on the side with my cousin who does it for a living. he got this 71 chevelle he's doing for a buddy and it was a nightmare. it had quarter skins SCREWED onto it with sheetmetal screws over the original quarters and whoever did it just laid filler over the edges to "smooth" it out. in some places the filler was over an inch thick!!!! we've since had to replace EVERY body panel on the car save for the roof which was decent enough to just work over.
 
#6
hahah yup sounds exactly what I see, I peeled a HUGE chunk of plastic out of the quarter of that GTO. And the guy did all his metal work around the car with what looks like a gasless mig welder with wire that needs gas. All the "welds" all let go if I put stress on them. Cracks me up.
 
#7
When I bought my first mustang, it had the obligatory defunct ashtray lid. Took out the center console to replace that little spring tab, and low and behold the PO used some kind of thick orange foamy glue to try to glue it in place to work. Needless to say the fix kit was a waste of money, and I didn't feel like buying a whole new lid, so I ended up with a 2 cup Plug 'N Chug for 6 years.

I definitely am a fan of very virgin purchases. May cost more to upgrade and might not have all the go fast goodies upfront, but I'd rather spend a little more, do it myself, and eliminates all the BS.

But I guess hacks are good for a tad bit of amusement (at least for everyone else on Stangnet).
 
#9
You guys should have seen the 20 feet of extra wiring I pulled out of my Ram Charger. I bought it from someone, who bought it from a plumber who thought he was a mechanic.
 
#10
When I got my car I found in it:

4 cans of tobacco chew
a spoon
golf tees
And other strange things, the guy had a cup he spit in and he spilled it on the passenger side floor board. I pulled ALL the interior and shampoo'd it for an entire day.

Also a friend of mine bought a z28 and the PO wired up the stereo with home speaker wire
 
#11
well i found some hacks in my car all wiring hacks and i dont know a whole lot about wiring so i dont know where half of it goes to i find something that dont work and i follow the wires and most of the time they are spliced with another wire going to something else its rediculous i cant get my guages to work cuz there is a cut wire and i have no idea what it goes to ha ha love the PO of my car
 
#13
mine is a pain as well. there are screws everywhere. the GT tails have screws holding it into the housing, sheet metal screws holding interior panels on because the clips broke, stereo harness is all chopped up and getting its main power from the fuse box ( no other fuse is protecting the deck besides the one pionner builds it with ), power mirror / cig lighter harness is chopped up due to the owner not placing it out of the way of the ebrake before reinstalling the center console after a crappy short shifter install, PO used a 3/4 SOCKET as a spacer for the exhaust bolts since he didnt have the correct ones.. its a huge headache but kinda fun at the same time since its a project car and not my main daily.
 
#14
tannerc91gt said:
When I got my car I found in it:

4 cans of tobacco chew
a spoon
golf tees
And other strange things, the guy had a cup he spit in and he spilled it on the passenger side floor board. I pulled ALL the interior and shampoo'd it for an entire day.

Also a friend of mine bought a z28 and the PO wired up the stereo with home speaker wire
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Thats nasty.
I found a joint in mine when i first "detailed" it.
 
#15
Wow. I really lucked out with my 47k mile bone stock coupe I guess. All I found was a creepy ass picture of some kid with sunken in eyes hugging his chubby girlfriend around the neck on their prom night. I found it under the center console when I changed the carpet out, haha.
 
#18
I lucked out. I bought my car bone stock and untouched. Not a single thing done to it. Previous owner was 65 when she sold it to me.

Unfortunately, i find myself undoing some things I did when I was a teenager. Oh well, live and learn.
 
#20
Shaolin Crane said:
kinda makes you wonder what you were thinking when you did it, huh?
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Really does. Fortunately 95% of it is reversible. Still gotta track down A/C components I need to reinstall the A/C system.

Deleting the A/C on an all black car with black leather interior only driven on sunny summer days and never sees the track was a WONDERFUL idea :rolleyes:
 
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