"'Laws' relating to rebuilding cars !!

[mk1]

Another one that I have experienced first hand on a number of occasions is;

The performance & reliability of any engine built is inversely proportional to the amount of time, expense & care gone into the assembly of said engine.

[Polarsilver]

I also wondered what the DVLA were up to now .. After last weeks DVLA experience when my Driving Licence Renewal application was returned because some idiot Doctor did not tick one box on the D4 Form that i paid her to fill out.
However back to this subject .. current Pickup Rebuilt has been a real sod of a job as "this Pickup" has decided to "Fight me" on almost every aspect during the rebuild.. a right b......d thing but we are getting there.. I think Saloons have a much better attitude than a commercial

[trevorhp]

Items will only become useful once discarded (or confirmed lost).
Timescales between item being skipped and being useful will be inversely proportional to length of time they were been stored for.

(did anyone else open this thread with impending dread as to what the DVLA/DVLC have dreamt up now?!)

I thought it might generate a few extra views if the title was open to interpretation

[robanzac]

We have had Murphy's law:
If anything can go wrong it will go wrong

The corollary to this is Sod's Law:
The going wrong always occurs at a time that causes maximum inconvenience.

[robanzac]

Probably applicable to car modifiers more so than restorers:

“Improvement” means deterioration
and
More means worse

Both of which I have been guilty (e.g unwise cams, louder exhausts, fat wheels ...)

[hanlminiman]

Never work on a gravel driveway without a sheet under the working area or ready access to a magnet!

[robanzac]

General law applicable to probably everything (though you may disagree)

For every opinion there is an equal and opposite opinion

[Joel Welsh 4769VU]

No matter how well you organize, categorize, pack, label and store all your parts for your project or restoration
....

There always will be one important bolt, that holds a highly neccessary part that the car won't work without- MISSING!

[jakethepeg]

We have had Murphy's law:
If anything can go wrong it will go wrong

The corollary to this is Sod's Law:
The going wrong always occurs at a time that causes maximum inconvenience.
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There is also Coles Law....chopped up cabbage

[Peter Laidler]

And don't forget the THREE FACTOR that states the the job will take
THREE times as long
THREE times the expected cost,
THREE times the aggro and grief and
THREE times as difficult

I conveniently - or IN-conveniently - forgot those ground rules every time