I was repairing some exhaust on my car and hadn't really been under this car much before. I got the rear end jacked up and was surprised to find that my panhard bar and both rear control arms have been boxed. Didn't expect to see it. I'm still going to be swapping to tubular ones, but these should be fine for now.

Anyone else find surprises modified under their cars?

 

Yes, but very rarely in a good way

 

Exactly.

The most recent was on my truck. Previous owner did several things like run all of the differential vents to a hole in the floorboard... Oops, that hole is a water drain

Cut all the ends off of the starter connections, twisted the wires together and tightened the nut down on them.

Ignition switch started to go out, so he drilled a hole in the firewall to run a new ignition wire... Right next to the ignition wiring he was replacing (could've just used that one). Then drilled another hole in the dash for the push button in the permanent steel part of the dash instead of the plastic bezel right above it. Cost me $12 and a half hour of time to fix it properly and have a working ignition again.

A car will tell you volumes about people... LOL

 

I still find weird stuff on my car that makes go what the heck were they... was I thinking? (its a one owner car.)

 

i found a pair of needle nose pliers sticking down at me the first time i crawled under my 89. free tools rule!

 

Well, I did find more rust than I would have wanted, but its not too bad, and all repairable.