POS - Prior Owners Stuff/Sillyness/Stupidity - Post a photo of some of the silly things the prior owner did to your car.

I'll lead off with this photo of the passenger side windshield squirter. When we tried to clean the windshield today it looked like the fluid tubing was broken. Fluid up inthe air and not on the windshield.

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Hey I feel your pain on the windshield washer sprayer, I have after market wipers on my car(97 xk8) and although the sprayers are ok the wipers don’t look right without the oem plastic “aerofoil” piece… luckily they were in the trunk, so I just have to get new rubber inserts for them to re install them. No pics of that…
however, previous previous owner(original/first) owner decided it would be a good idea to install a supercharged badge in the rear of my car just under the xk8 badge…on a 97 NA xk8….smh.
I haven’t tried to remove it cus I’m scared they drilled a hole or two for mounting tabs. (Idk but don’t wanna know)
But if you thought that’s bad, hold on to your britches…..previous owner (second owner) installed a leaper hood ornament in the hood. Yup. You read that right. And I can’t remove it because there is definitely at least one, maybe two holes drilled through the hood that I don’t want rusting out nor do I wanna pay to fix the holes. If I’m gonna spend any money on body work/paint for my hood I’d rather just get an xkr hood with the louvres cus I like
that look.(supercharged or not)
and last but not least, my car came to me equipped with a “diy”, look alike but clearly home made “xkr” wire mesh grill, complete with drywall screws holding it in place for all to revel at its magnificence (and laugh at) if they only looked closely at it. lol……
….oh yeah, and the 20+ silver thumbtacks holding up my headliner fabric that coincidentally creates a retro 1950’s diamond/checkerboard type pattern that I would have to say is definitely one of a kind!
other than that the poorly welded aftermarket cat back exhaust and “custom” hangers are a subtle touch…
oh and who could forget or
overlook the four brake calipers painted (with plenty of overspray) in bright glossy red to imitate brembos???
Yeah, I hear you man on previous owners custom mods, but some are just ridiculous. When I bring my car to local car shows and people say “oh wow, that’s supercharged?!” I have to say “no, some d-bag glued that badge on there years before I bought it”, with a certain shame to my tone of voice, to which thay all almost always reply; “ why don’t you just take it off then?”… which is when I ask them what year is theyre jag and what model, and they reply they drove
to the car show in the wife’s Kia Sophia, and I ask them where they parked and if they popped the hood so I can check it out, and they promptly walk away lol!!!

 

 

 

I would not have bought thst car with the supercharged badge and leaper. Jeez what goes through their minds lol

 

no photo but when I got my car it had the rear wheels on the left side of the car and the front wheels on the right. i.e. 18x9s on the left and 18x8s on the right. And it had been aligned that way

 

This made me laugh. Something id do! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

If you drive along roads that curve to the right, it would be a good idea. Better fuel economy for one thing.

 

Nice one!😂😂😂

 

Like the headlining, must be like driving around in a Bedouin tent

 

Well I don't notice it and passengers don't comment - I have a very similar arrangement.

 

Same situation when I purchased my 2004 XK8 in 2017.

 

Side view

 

POS to me are the little items you find under the seat, under the spare....odd ball receipts and club membership tags to list a few.

One of my favorites was a letter found under the seat of an Alfa Spider by a woman to her boyfriend......

That letter would have made The Forum, (Penthouse), editor blush....twenty years on I still would have loved to meet her.

 

A shame the boyfriend didn’t get the letter.

Z

PS are you sure you don’t want to share the details ??

 

One of the most anoying things to correct in my XKR has been the previous owner's overuse of sticky putty, glue, and other various ways to keep things intact, albeit temporarily. They must have used five pounds of the stuff.

 

Oh, and...

 

Several months after I purchased my 2013 Outback 3.6R in early November 2015, I replaced the cabin air filter (which requires dropping the glove compartment). Behind the glove compartment I found a leather pouch containing the previous owner's driver's license, office badge, Social Security card, insurance cards, and a couple of credit cards. My wife tracked down his office phone number via LinkedIn. I called him and left a voicemail that I had found this pouch and would gladly mail it to him. I waited a week with no response, so I called him again and left another voicemail. I waited another couple of weeks and still no response. So the next time we had a fire in the family room fireplace, I tossed the full pouch into the fire and watched it burn....

 

I've discovered 'stuff' under, beside and between every conceivable part of our vehicles but the best was when I operated a restoration shop. A customer dumped his car and said "add that supercharger you mentioned", drove off with a friend. I pull the car in went about my new job. Several weeks later, in preparation to deliver the car we did a quick polish and clean up. I was vacuuming the interior and heard a rattle in the vac cleaners tube. Pulled the hose and there was a very shiny diamond necklace! I freaked out, personally delivered the car + necklace to the owner. He looked at it and said thanks, glad you didn't take it to the house. Yes he had a mistress or two.
wj

 

A prize (OK, just the adulation of your peers) if you spot the problem here. Bought as a "non-runner, with no compression on two cylinders after a top end rebuild"...