Thank god for shoelaces

Frozennova · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:42

So I decided to go and grab some food for mcdonalds earlier to be met by no throttle as I went to accelrate after going round a roundabout. Decided to coast to the road to see if I could see anything obvious.

Couldn't see anything so cue the, oh **** how do I do the 4 mile journey home. After a few minutes of head scratching off came my shoe lace and a throttle tied open at about 3k rpm to get me home. Did the trip home to find out it wasn't a snapped cable but the end had come out of the pedal. If only I'd took the cover off to look at the other end

apple_man77 · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:57

Begbie · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:05

Shoelaces are great, used to use mine to break into my old room

Disco Boy · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:09

Top bodging

Cookeh · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:09

Begbie said:
Shoelaces are great, used to use mine to break into my old room

What is this I don't even. . .

Begbie · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:15

Cookeh said:
What is this I don't even. . .

Always used to forget my keys, the window was on a latch you could use your shoelaces to unhook it. Great security.

Joe T · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:40

I used to use one to hold up the parcel shelf on my old 306...

Frozennova · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:47

Did the trick to get me home, managed 40 down a hill

Dabbles · 29 Apr 2011 at 21:48

Once used shoelaces on my mates polo to hold the exhaust on.

MatteH Oxford · 30 Apr 2011 at 02:58

I just used to turn up the idle speed on my old fords(happened to me twice in two different cars)

commited · 30 Apr 2011 at 03:12

When I was about 150 miles from home, I snapped the throttle cable off at the pedal on one of the Minis I had! I also used a shoelace to connect it back to the pedal so that I could drive home. Best part was it was someone else's shoelace

I later fixed it with a crimp connector instead of replacing the cable which worked fine for the rest of the time I owned it!

Stupot_ · 30 Apr 2011 at 12:10

I once had these shoes that were really loose and kept falling off my feet. I used shoelaces and tied them on!

Westyfield2 · 30 Apr 2011 at 13:01

Proper bodge :cool:

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Friend had the cable go in his Ultima at a trackday and made a hand throttle out of cable ties for the drive home. LAD!

Helios1234 · 30 Apr 2011 at 13:04

Stupot_ said:
I once had these shoes that were really loose and kept falling off my feet. I used shoelaces and tied them on!

Woah, best application for shoelaces so far!

Skeeter · 30 Apr 2011 at 19:19

My dad had the nipple come of the end of his throttle cable once. Bit if Mechano bodged it enough to get to the garage

MatteH Oxford · 30 Apr 2011 at 20:10

I think quite a lot of modern cars have gone fly-by-wire for the throttle now, so if the sensor has gone you're stuck!.

Frozennova · 30 Apr 2011 at 22:22

MatteH Oxford said:
I think quite a lot of modern cars have gone fly-by-wire for the throttle now, so if the sensor has gone you're stuck!.

I think your right there, makes me glad I've got something old and simple that can be bodged with a shoelace to get it home.

MatteH Oxford · 30 Apr 2011 at 22:35

could always use a bit of kitkat wrapper & a paper clip for a Potentiometer! (i might be lying slightly.....!)

Sin_Chase · 1 May 2011 at 00:44

MatteH Oxford said:
I think quite a lot of modern cars have gone fly-by-wire for the throttle now, so if the sensor has gone you're stuck!.

I can only drive my car by wire, wish I could fly by wire

Frozennova · 1 May 2011 at 09:54

Sin_Chase said:
I can only drive my car by wire, wish I could fly by wire

Honda no has torxxxx to fly