Whats the Worst car you have ever owned?
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Didn't really own it, but was given one as a pool car from work for a few months!
1: Ford Fusion 1.4 TDI
2: Something stupid like £250/month in tax
3: No A/C when I had it over the hottest months of the year, seats gave me back ache, boot too small for my job, dash was made of polystyrene coffee cups, steering wheel gave me friction burns, cd player was tinny and quiet, it went on 2 wheels round roundabouts at anything more than 10mph, it was metallic purple. It's the most hideous 4 wheeled creation ever to exist other than the Fiat Multipla.
4: 3 months then I quit the job.
5: Mitsubishi Galant - yummy!
1: Ford Fusion 1.4 TDI
2: Something stupid like £250/month in tax
3: No A/C when I had it over the hottest months of the year, seats gave me back ache, boot too small for my job, dash was made of polystyrene coffee cups, steering wheel gave me friction burns, cd player was tinny and quiet, it went on 2 wheels round roundabouts at anything more than 10mph, it was metallic purple. It's the most hideous 4 wheeled creation ever to exist other than the Fiat Multipla.
4: 3 months then I quit the job.
5: Mitsubishi Galant - yummy!
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So reminiscent of my first ever car which was also a ****** brown Metro, bought cheap with dodgy tracking. I parked mine in the boot of a Fiat Tipo though.
Back on Track:
1) Rover 213SE.
2) Around £500 ish if I remember correctly.
3) Errrrr - it was a Rover. It would easier listing what was right with it!
4) Around two weeks or so and I only drove it a few times.
5) Replaced with a Ford Orion (Ghia
)1: 1991 Ford Escort 1.3 - yes, the pushrod engine.
2: £400 (mug)
3: It was crap. Unrefined, slow, however hilarious fun in the snow (would oversteer on demand), surprisingly economical though.
4: 3 weeks before I drove into the back of a 106, wrote it off.
5: 1989 Peugeot 205 XS.
2: £400 (mug)
3: It was crap. Unrefined, slow, however hilarious fun in the snow (would oversteer on demand), surprisingly economical though.
4: 3 weeks before I drove into the back of a 106, wrote it off.
5: 1989 Peugeot 205 XS.
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1: Whats the worst car you have owned?
1997 Renault Megane Classic
2: How much did you pay for it?
1,300
3: What was wrong with it?
Rust
4: How long did you have it/or how long have you had it?
5 yrs (2006-2011)
5: What did you replace it with?.
2009 Astra
1997 Renault Megane Classic
2: How much did you pay for it?
1,300
3: What was wrong with it?
Rust
4: How long did you have it/or how long have you had it?
5 yrs (2006-2011)
5: What did you replace it with?.
2009 Astra
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So bad you want another one...
For me it depends how we're defining worst because what I'd call the worst car in terms of ownership was actually quite a nice car to drive and a step up in almost every sense from the previous except that it barely lasted a week before the engine stuffed itself in a catastrophic fashion.
1. BMW 525 (E34)
2. £800
3. I needed a car to go from London to visit some friends up in Dundee then go on holiday near to Malvern before heading back to London. A round trip of about 1,000 miles give or take, it managed 988 of those miles without issue then the engine started sounding a bit rough and lumpy but as I was nearly home I thought I'd chance it and see if I couldn't get it back home before getting it checked out properly. It made it another 3 miles or so before dying completely, thankfully by this time just within range of breakdown cover to home, unfortunately still on a very busy road within London but I got it far enough to the side to not be a major problem. According to the garage I took it to the cambelt had snapped but they didn't seem entirely sure, the only thing they were sure about was that it was going to cost a lot of money to fix so I gave it up as a bad job - it had at least done more or less what I needed it to.
4. 1 week(ish) as a working vehicle, another few days getting it looked at then sorting out getting it scrapped.
5. Toyota MR2 Mk II
Possibly not something wrong with it - mate of mine has a vectra b 2.5 sri also and at the ocuk rr his graph showed a massive dip in the middle of the curve.
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1. Peugeot 309 xsi
2. £1200
3. Had the turning circle of an oil tanker.
4. 3 maybe 4 weeks, someone pulled out on me and wrote it off. Took almost 2 years for the insurance to come through.
5. Mk2 Golf GTI.
2. £1200
3. Had the turning circle of an oil tanker.
4. 3 maybe 4 weeks, someone pulled out on me and wrote it off. Took almost 2 years for the insurance to come through.
5. Mk2 Golf GTI.
Was just thinking the same for me. Also how do we define worst, the most unreliable, the least stylish, the nastiest to drive?
A D reg Mk2 Fiesta 1.1 I bought for £50 is probably the "worst" car I have owned by most peoples standards, but I still loved it and had loads of fun driving it.
My 1.8 Civic VTi was very tidy and low priced, but it is probably the most disappointing car I have owned so is my "worst"
Smiles reading that, mine was the KR based 1.8 16v but had pretty much every problem you listed wrong with it too but I'd still list it as my favourite car and it's how I met my Mrs.
1. Citroen ZX in burgundy brown.
2. £650
3. See 1. Awful, no, God awful steering and handling, slow and wheezy, lardy back end, wallowy suspension, terrible stereo, passenger leccy window randomly worked, smelt like cheese.
4. 4 months to get me through working nights at work whilst we reimaged 700 laptops and deployed new machines to the whole site.
5. When the weather sorted itself out, I got my Corolla GTi 16V back on the road, and offloaded the cheese-mobile to a back street garage in Hounslow for not much bucks. Tbh I would have paid to see the back of it.
Funnily enough...
1. BMW 330ci Sport Coupe 2002
2. 23k in 2004
3. Drank oil, didn't like the seats much and it felt too slow. Why I changed my E36 M3 Evo for it I don't know, probably because I wanted a newer car.
4. 4-5 months
5. A new Evo 8 (which I then changed for an E46 M3 after 5 months).
1. 1985 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6GL Auto.
2. Swapped a fridge freezer for it.
3. Easier to list what was right with it. You could hear the dodgy exhaust through the floor. In fact if you wanted to, you could see the dodgy exhaust through the floor.
4. Just over a month.
5. A 1986 Rover 216S (The original one) which I borrowed from a friend till we worked out how we were going to finance our next 'proper' car.
All of the above came about after my then girlfriend ( now wife ) blew up my Carlton GSi 24v's engine less than an hour after picking it up from being MoT'd. The Cavalier was a stress purchase, a total 'OMG we need anything at all as 4 wheeled transport for the next month or so and it needs to be under a hundred quid otherwise my bank balance will meltdown'. The fridge freezer method of payment came after a short conversation down the pub with a guy I hardly knew. Oh, and the Cavvy overheated and nearly caught fire one winters morning on the way to my work - the fire station.
2. Swapped a fridge freezer for it.
3. Easier to list what was right with it. You could hear the dodgy exhaust through the floor. In fact if you wanted to, you could see the dodgy exhaust through the floor.
4. Just over a month.
5. A 1986 Rover 216S (The original one) which I borrowed from a friend till we worked out how we were going to finance our next 'proper' car.
All of the above came about after my then girlfriend ( now wife ) blew up my Carlton GSi 24v's engine less than an hour after picking it up from being MoT'd. The Cavalier was a stress purchase, a total 'OMG we need anything at all as 4 wheeled transport for the next month or so and it needs to be under a hundred quid otherwise my bank balance will meltdown'. The fridge freezer method of payment came after a short conversation down the pub with a guy I hardly knew. Oh, and the Cavvy overheated and nearly caught fire one winters morning on the way to my work - the fire station.
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How the **** do you get upside down on the 73? That's pretty good going by any standard.
1: 1.4 Nissan Almera 1996
2: £200
3: Clutch slipped, changed it, slipped again due to gubbed input shaft bearing,replaced gearbox and clutch, lost 5th and reverse a few weeks later,then got a clicking noise which I thought was the CV joint but turned out to be loose wheel nuts as the wheel fell off
4: Had it for 8 months probably drove for half of that
5: Almera Gti 1999(clutched also slipped after a month but I paid the garage to change it lol)
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As above, 206, was a complete turd of a vehicle, Electrics as well, and almost everything that could fail did in the engine bay, causing it to be a constant money drip. I bought it with low miles (4000), it needed suspension changed within 1 week of owning (luckily warranty), CV joints going often, clutch died early, brake servo stopped working....by 40,000 miles it had more work done than a typical car that had done 4 times that!
Sold it cut price because I just wanted to get rid of the damn thing. It was a money pit and horrid to drive. The typical private value was £3k, I sold it for £2.2k just to banish it from my life.
Why as a teenager I wanted a 206 as my first car I will never forgive myself.
