The worst car you have ever owned

L-M · 10-01-2011 2:57pm #1

Not what you're friend has owned, but purely the worst car you have ever owned and why?

For me the Saab 93 Aero has to be the worst, namely due to the fact that I got to drive it 14 miles!

Mr. Manager · 10-01-2011 3:09pm

Clutch cable snapped after 4 days and gear box fell through. Never again would I ever drive this.

10-01-2011 3:11pm

2005 Mondeo Tddi, I didn't own it but had it for a year as a company car, DMF went and another time something went wrong with the intercooler that meant anything over 25mph was a non runner. Dirt in my eyes, glad it was under warranty.

2nd worst was the 216 Coupe I had, gearbox went before I got rid of it.

cantdecide · 10-01-2011 3:15pm

It was the most expensive car I owned. New enough at the time to be truly mint and old enough to have a couple of freaky problems that had to be fixed properly to keep the car good. I loved it even when it was breaking my heart so it was the best and worst car I had.

10-01-2011 3:21pm

cantdecide wrote: »

It was the most expensive car I owned.

Was that in the US ?

Iwannahurl · 10-01-2011 3:28pm

Rover Metro diesel (it had something which I think was called 'hydragas' suspension).

Dreadful crate.

cantdecide · 10-01-2011 3:31pm

RoverJames wrote: »

Was that in the US ?

No mate. That was just the closest snap I could find online

It was a high spec, low mileage 1.9TD(red)I quattro sport avant in silver with 18" RS4 reps.

sean1141 · 10-01-2011 3:32pm

have to say all the cars i have owned have been good.. worst of the lot was probaly the 98 2.0D avensis. it never gave me any trouble or anything but it was dead for a 2L. i got it after driving a micra for a year so it felt fast at the time!!

SV · 10-01-2011 3:36pm

It'd have to be the current 206. Thank god it's only a runaround. I can honestly see why some people don't enjoy driving when their only experience is cars like this.

It's dead to the world. The wheels don't feel connected to the steering.. The ride is soft yet uncomfortable. The seats are horrendous. I could go on but..nah. One thing it does have going for it..I can't empty it of petrol!

L-M · 10-01-2011 3:39pm

SV wrote: »

It's dead to the world. The wheels don't feel connected to the steering.. The ride is soft yet uncomfortable. The seats are horrendous. I could go on but..nah. One thing it does have going for it..I can't empty it of petrol!

Besides being the worst plastic made car I've ever been in, the pedals and tiny and in suit shoes you're toe would rub off the steering rack! Lol

mickdw · 10-01-2011 3:40pm

Alfa 166,
Big bills for small problems even when doing work myself. It was relatively new though & parts were only available at dealers mostly.
Lovely car though. If the sump didnt bang off the ground, it would be much better.
Would make a good cheap buy now though as loads of them around for parts. It was excellent electrically

Henry Ford III · 10-01-2011 3:43pm

Alfa 33. All sorts of trouble. I still loved it though.

jordan1976 · 10-01-2011 3:45pm

the worst was a 00 nissan primera 2.0tdi horrible to drive, horrible inside but i made a grand on it trading it in to a vw garage a year later, the sales man though it was a 01 until i dropped it off but the deal was already done:D:D

JustLen · 10-01-2011 3:46pm

99 Peugeot 106, 1.1

First car, and first lesson learned.
Fuel pump was gone when i got it (atleast i think thats what it was) nobody could seem to figure it out and main dealer wanted "anything upwards of 500 quid" to diagnose and fix the problem so just had to live with it. so unless it was full to the brim with petrol id be sitting there for God knows how long turning the engine over.
was verrry embarassing aon many many occasions

Went through around 4 tyres in less than 6 months, partly my fault also the car refused to keep the tracking straight.

Died on the way home from limerick one evening for no aparent reason but was ok as it sprung back to life just as someone came to collect me (after an hour of waiting)

Accelerator cable snapped TWICE!
Followed by the clutch cable snapping. Peugeot couldnt seem to supply me with a clutch cable that my mechanic could fit but said they would fit it for me for an hours labour. Didnt bother as my patients with it had worn out. Im sure there was a few more things i cant think of aswel...

Oh yeah i think the head gasket was about to kick it when i was getting rid

On top of all this the pedals were tiny and way to close together, and the seats broke your back even on half hour journeys.
However was quite nippy for what it was and handled relatively well

Sooo after about 5 and a half months i had to accept defeat, threw the new clutch cable in the boot and sold it to a fella who drove down from kildare and towed it home in a 206:rolleyes:

Most unreliable car ive ever come across and unfortunately I happend to own it myself. Better off to get these mistakes out of the way early and look on the bright side:o Still loved it though and had some cracking fun in her

Eoin · 10-01-2011 3:57pm

Depends on what you mean by worst.

The least reliable car had to be my 89 Mini City. I only had it for about 6 months, but was lucky to go a week without problems. I loved it though.

The car I just liked the least was my 99 Mark IV 1.4 Golf. I didn't have any major issues with it - one common one was a sticky throttle problem, which could make it interesting when trying to pull out on to a main road. Overall it was just a sluggish, overpriced and overrated car.

RobAMerc · 10-01-2011 3:58pm

CRX del sol - absolute piece of tripe. Knew as I drove out of the garage I should have spent the extra few quid on the MX5 beside it. Was sorry every day after.

I righted the wrong years later when I bought an MX5 though.

mike65 · 10-01-2011 3:58pm

Mark 3 Ford Escort bag o sh1te.

andyseadog · 10-01-2011 4:01pm

mk2 clio. i dont even want to talk about it.

BlackWizard · 10-01-2011 4:07pm

Nissan X-Trail 2.0 Auto

Very comfortable car to drive and lots of extras. But boy was it slow. I had to redline it just to keep up with normal traffic merging into the motorway. It struggled to reach 120kph. I reckon it just had a lousy automatic gearbox. Oh and it drank petrol. 22mpg.

cadaliac · 10-01-2011 4:09pm

04 Passat TDI sport. (B5.5)
Main beraing failed on the 6-speed box @ 64k miles.
Front and rear suspension fiailure (shocks).
Window regulators.
CV joints.
2 Alternators in the space of 4 months.
EGR valve was pissing oil when I got rid of it.
I crashed it.
On the day of the NCT.
I can't think of the other minor issues that nearly bankrupt me but i remember quite well the feeling I had when i got rid of it. I hated it in the end. There was rarely a week went past when I didn't have something wrong with it.
Bag of sh1t car.

illumin · 10-01-2011 4:20pm

Worst car ive owned was a 07 toyota auris. Handled like a dog, was deceptively wide, breaks squeaked all the time when reversing and to top it off because of the weird way the handbrake/gearstick is situated in a middle island yoke it was very hard to take off the handbrake on a steep hill. I bought it off a girl who was stuck on a hill because she couldnt get the handbrake off

I didnt keep it for long, awful awful car.

L-M · 10-01-2011 4:27pm

eoin wrote: »

Depends on what you mean by worst.

Really depends on what you want it to mean! Worst due to the fact it was unreliable, or worst because you just didn't like it etc. etc.

ShadowHearth · 10-01-2011 4:28pm

Mercedes clk200...

Dunno, just my moust unfavorite car i ever owned. It was grand as a car, but getting parts for it and price tags were just idiotic.... E and clk class were allmoust same, but anything that was for clk was 10 times more expencive...

i think i got it too soon for my age.. i was 22 when i bought it, and it was boring as hell... mechanicly car was grand...

mickob16 · 10-01-2011 4:28pm

Mine was a 00 Lancer.Never trusted it after it lost power doin 70mph on dual carriage with kids in car.It didnt cut out but it was like engine was idling.I was in fast lane at time.

Eoin · 10-01-2011 4:30pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Really depends on what you want it to mean! Worst due to the fact it was unreliable, or worst because you just didn't like it etc. etc.

OK, well then that's the Golf. As much of a heap the mini was, I loved it too much to call it my worst car!

Toots · 10-01-2011 4:32pm

Worst car I ever owned was an 04 Rover 45 Mk2. I'm not sure if it would have been good new, but looking back now, I'm pretty sure it had been in a bad accident before I bought it.

Aside from that, it was plagued with problems. It had a really random intermittent fault where if you put the windscreen wipers on the 'low' setting, it would trigger the boot release. Fun when you're driving at 120kph down the M50 in the rain.

It had the turning circle of a small planet, going up and down through the College of Surgeons multi storey carpark was quite an experience.

It was the most unresponsive car EVER, I literally had to floor the accelerator to get the thing to move off.

I ended up wrapping it around a parked trailer (don't ask) and my mum reckoned it was the best thing that could have happened. After I told her what had happened and that I was ok she went 'Oh I'm delighted! I hated that car!' She was convinced it was going to fall apart around me. When the motor assessor looked it over, he wrote it off because the airbags didn't deploy and he said that with the sort of collision I'd had they should have, and he wasn't happy for it to go back on the road without the bags being reset. I was delighted!!

bmw535d · 10-01-2011 4:36pm

anyone else seeing the typical trend of French and Italian makes being bags of sh1te?

Eoin · 10-01-2011 4:39pm

bmw535d wrote: »

anyone else seeing the typical trend of French and Italian makes being bags of sh1te?

No, it looks pretty much spread across the board, but thanks for the original point of view.

10-01-2011 4:44pm

Limerick man wrote: »

For me the Saab 93 Aero has to be the worst, !

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

RoverJames wrote: »

2005 Mondeo Tddi, .

cantdecide wrote: »

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Rover Metro diesel (it had something which I think was called 'hydragas' suspension).

Dreadful crate.

sean1141 wrote: »

worst of the lot was probaly the 98 2.0D avensis.

jordan1976 wrote: »

the worst was a 00 nissan primera 2.0tdi

eoin wrote: »

99 Mark IV 1.4 Golf. .

RobAMerc wrote: »

CRX del sol - absolute piece of tripe. .

mike65 wrote: »

Mark 3 Ford Escort bag o sh1te.

BlackWizard wrote: »

Nissan X-Trail 2.0 Auto

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cadaliac wrote: »

04 Passat TDI sport. (B5.5)
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illumin wrote: »

Worst car ive owned was a 07 toyota auris. .

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Mercedes clk200...

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mickob16 wrote: »

Mine was a 00 Lancer..

bmw535d wrote: »

anyone else seeing the typical trend of French and Italian makes being bags of sh1te?

Are you well ?

Anan1 · 10-01-2011 4:51pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Really depends on what you want it to mean! Worst due to the fact it was unreliable, or worst because you just didn't like it etc. etc.

+1, a couple of my favourite cars were also the most unreliable. I've been lucky enough never to have bought anything that I didn't enjoy driving, though.

joolsveer · 10-01-2011 4:51pm

I had a Fiat 124 when I first became a car owner. I got rid of it when it burst into flames (a blow back from the carburetter I think).

Fiat_124-Sedan by joolsveern, on Flickr

The Fiat 124 is a mid-sized family car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat between 1966 and 1974. It was the replacement of the Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500. Today it is perhaps best known as the car used as the basis for the Russian-built Lada, which continues in production to the present day beyond the 124's discontinuation in 1974.

Thanks in part to the ubiquity of the Lada version in Eastern Europe (and also in Latin America and the Caribbean), the 124 has achieved iconic status, and if Lada production is aggregated onto the original Fiat production run, the 124 and its various clones is one of the biggest selling
automotive designs of all time - with over 15 million units sold worldwide.

The worst car you have ever owned

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