Your Biggest Sh*tbox

I Was VB

January 2016 bought a 2007 Modeo LX (old model) 1.8 petrol 174K

Nine months later its gone through 2 L/H/F wheelbearings a alternator, and is now sold as she was terminal with a suspected blown valve (NO compression in cylinder 3) 212k

Greatest bucket of sh*te ive ever owned

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Mazda Rx8 (flooding issues and starter motor) - followed closely by a 2007 X5 - oil leaks, buttons breaking, general constant expensive issues.

fancy pigeon

E46 330D. Over complex bucket of sh*te that would only start when it felt like it. Diag throwing up different error each time it was plugged in. Random body electric issues (windows winding down themselves, central locking intermittent for example). Expensive, complicated bastard of a car. Replaced with a Merc and never looked back....

Or my beloved Toyota Corolla. A truly naff car in so many ways but a reliable sod, until its engine blew up (rod fired out)... 4 weeks after I bought it :mad:

colm_mcm

I don't think I've ever owned a bad car st the time!
But in retrospect, my Fiat Brava and Alfa 146 I had 15 odd years ago were junk.

selectamatic

Fiat seicento for me, a head gasket made outta butter and a head made outta cheese. Laughably bad interior (I'm well acclimatised to poor interiors this was on another level). And to top it off it appeared to have been wired by a toddler.

SEPT 23 1989

A burgundy Mk3 Fiesta

burgundy

OldMrBrennan83

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kilianmanning

Mk3 golf 1.9d
Bulletproofish engine but other than that terrible.
Wheels randomly falling off, gearboxes, window regs, light switches,
bushings, nearly no brakes as standard, & a pure rotbox.
What a piece of scrap

harr

My first car a fiat uno ...countless issues....head gasket was the major problem

Tzardine

2005 Renault Megane 1.5 DCI (Company Car)

Great engine and comfortable as hell but christ on a bike the electronics were shocking.

Also had a nasty habit of blowing window regulators and thus lowering all the windows at random ( Even when parked and turned off ) and not being able to bring them back up.

And it had to be brought to the garage for a light bulb change and the front wheel taken off to do it.

coolbeans

Mother had mazda 6 diesel that was a great car till it did what they all do and the engine failed.

Sister's BMW 320d was a complete **** heap. easier to list the stuff that didn't go wrong than what did.

pablo128

I have had some rough yokes in the past, but previously working as a mechanic I got a lot of them for nothing so they were pretty disposable to me.

The one car I got burnt on(that I paid good money for) was a 99 Vectra DTi. It was only 6 or 7 years old with reasonable miles but I had to replace the wheels due to a vibration which couldn't be cured, the rear anti roll bar mount broke off the rear axle, there were a few other minor issues but finally the injector pump went.
2k plus vat for a new injector pump without paying someone to fit it. Robbery. I ended up selling the car for 500 euro in the end, and the lad who bought it got a used pump from France and fitted it. He got a week before it went again. There was a wiring problem apparently in the car which was causing the pumps ECU to blow.

To this day I have not owned another Opel nor do I intend buying one.

JohnCleary

My 2nd car (E46 320d) - never 'let me down' completely, but always *something* that needed fixing.

Bought a C-Class (Avantgarde) and never looked back. Have her 4 years and apart from regular servicing and rear brake lines has never given me a days bother.

ba_barabus

2006 Volkswagon Passat 1.9TDI. Piece of shyte. Engine and electrics gave constant hassle all of which was expensive

racso1975

1St metro rover (fuking rust bucket)

2ND Pug 407 1.6hdi just hated it and it's constant beeping. Dpf, turbo, fly wheel $$$$$

3rd Opel corsa saloon 1992 4speed 1.2 terrible thing to drive and was garda blue so sent most people running a mile.

Honourable mentions for almera and 1999 polo saloon.

I Was VB

I Was VB wrote: »

.... suspected blown valve (NO compression in cylinder 3) 212k

..

What's a blown valve?

ba_barabus

Augeo wrote: »

What's a blown valve?

When you stick a turbo on a single valve

pablo128

Augeo wrote: »

What's a blown valve?

A valve which has burnt out. Underfuelling on a petrol engine or overfuelling on a diesel engine can cause it.

4068ac1elhodqr

MG Metro Turbo (circa 25yrs ago), putting a turbo in a tin wheelbarrow which has hydraulics for rear suspension was only asking for trouble.

Sue Pa Key Pa

I once bought a Renault 14 back in the day. Need I say any more

Blazer

While my first car was getting an engine rebuild I had a 15 year old nissan micra rustbucket that I bought for 100euro to keep me going.
Complete ****ebox but it was a car I didn't give a crap about.
the best story I have about it was some guy in his Celica saw my rustbucket trundling down the Industrial estate and ripped past me revving loudly.
Unknownst to him since I didn't give a **** about it I hit all the metal speedramps at about 60mph and ripped past him and out the entrance. I say he was absolutely gutted

Gmaximum

Had an Alfa GT i adored. Non stop electrical issues, prone to letting in water in heavy rain blew two turbos in the space of a month

I'd take her back in a heartbeat

appledrop

My first car a 2002 Opel Corsa. An absolute heap of junk. I wouldnt mind but in those days I was only learning so wouldnt have been doing loads of mileage. At one point I was nearly on speed dial to AA. Finally the head gasset went + that was the end of that. I would never ever buy another Opel car.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Nissan lucino.

For a Jap yoke...it was extremely unreliable. I could start to list what went wrong with it but id be here all night. Not far behind it was another surprise, g6 corolla. It's a ball of ****e, or should I say the one I got was a LEMON.

4068ac1elhodqr

Rovers and Protons (what silly name) have about the same value as a tin of beans, best used as oversized ashtrays or as a cat house.

Four Phucs Ache

Primera P12 1.6 from 200k to 392k :

Window reg x 2
Boot release motor
Central locking motors x 3
Driver interior door release cable
3 broken springs
2 shocks
Water pump pulley sheared off
Gearbox(replaced month before I got it)
Steering rack
Crank sensor
Clutch
2 ball joints
Wheel bearing x 1
CD player wouldn't eject
Auto wiper sensor bond went milky

Engine was a peach though.It now lives in another P12

CIP4

For me it was my 07 focus 1.6tdci. Just constant issues the more I fixed the more went wrong. It left me stranded for hours on the m8 one night I had no faith in it after that all in all I had it about 13 months. The thing that annoyed me the most was the engine was so oily it would just leak and weep oil from anywhere and everywhere it could. Actually was nice enough to drive when it was working but I just got sick of it being a money pit.

kay 9

Have been lucky to date bar an '03 3.2 pajero I had few years ago. Gave me a lot of hardship and long nights ripping at it. Rear camber bushes needed changing (absolute nightmare of a job) fuel pump costed more than it was worth, seized brake calipers were a common occurence and other niggling issues.
Had an 05 and was a beaut. Can't complain about any othersif I'm honest

bear1

2004 Honda accord citi.
Many here will know my saga but for those that don't:

Both chains failed the day after buying it
Injectors snapped off during.chains job (apparently very common on that engine for the injectors tof weld themselves in place)
Fuel filter needed changing every 2/3 months and only a genuine Honda one would work or the Eml and limp mode would happen.
Vnt solenoid failed 2 times
Recon injectors failed and needed to be reconditioned again
Cat failed and cracked
Sat nav would never work
Auto wipers had a mind of their own
Exhaust manifold cracked and leaked carbon monoxide into the cabin.
Aircon systemy failed twice and number plate lights would only work if I hit them.
Fairly sure the alternator was failing when I gotold rid.
How long did it have it? 1 year.

wmpdd3

'05 Peugeot 206

I've never seen anything like it, I wrote off my Swift in 2013 and needed a car quick so bought this one.

head gasket, I got done against my mechanic's advice, he said scrap it.

In the 2 years I owned it:

the fog lights stopped working (not fuse!)
Lights went in the centre console
airbag light stuck on (shoddy connection underneath the drivers seat)
alternator only worked when it felt like it, battery often flat for no reason
passenger window only worked when you put down the drives at the same time

oddly it flew through the NCT at 11am one Wednesday and the clutch fell out of it at 4pm.

I was never so happy to see the back of it.

CiniO

colm_mcm wrote: »

I don't think I've ever owned a bad car st the time!
But in retrospect, my Fiat Brava and Alfa 146 I had 15 odd years ago were junk.

What was wrong with the Brava?
Was it 1.4?

colm_mcm

No, it was the newer 16v HSX.
It's a while ago now, bought it at a few months old, can't remember everything that went wrong but:
2 new replacement gearboxes (synchro on 2nd gear, fiat kindly covered a whole box as they couldn't get the parts, that gearbox shat itself soon after, the diff broke which took the gearbox casing with it, another new one went in, which the syncros went in a few years on, rebuilt by indie fiat expert)

Rear wiper
Front wiper linkages (at 2.5 years old)
Sunroof mechanism and blind - replaced entire assembly and headlining as it leaked
Central locking never worked
Rear wiper hose split
Keys breaking (rubber) from nearly new, ended up using the magic red key that you must never use!
4 or 5 flexi joints on the exhaust (lowest point in the car, bad design) went OE first time, universal after that as they were going so frequently, go over a speed bump too fast a few times, good luck.
Head gasket (that was my fault to be fair, took in water in a flood)
Oil leaks
White smoke from exhaust if left idling too long
Electrical stuff that I sorted myself most of the time
Etc etc.
I drove it flat-out all the time though.

I loved that car though and forgave and defended it, but this was a new car, not a bangernomics special. My family always had Toyotas at the time and they never ever broke!

Special Circumstances

CiniO wrote: »

What was wrong with the Brava?
Was it 1.4?

That was not one of their best engines was it!

pablo128

Special Circumstances wrote: »

That was not one of their best engines was it!

I had a 96 Brava 1.6, so I think it was the older engine. I got it for nothing, I put a set of 15s on it that I got off my brother for nothing, and drove it like it was robbed for a year and a half. Every dash light was on when I sold it for 400 euro, and it revved up on it's own the odd time.
The cat disintegrated so I knocked it out. Free power. It was a wh0re to go. The biggest reason I got rid though was it drank petrol at an alarming rate.
I miss it sometimes.

Special Circumstances

Ya sure? I thought it was 1.4, 1.8 replaced (01? 02?) by 1.2 and 1.6, with perhaps a 2.0 hgt thrown in somewhere?

Edit, my mistake, carry on!

unkel

'00 BMW 318Ci. Badly faded red, non metallic. Ripped leather on the side of the drivers seat.

200k miles on it. Clunk from the propshaft when putting it in reverse. Dash lighting up like a Christmas tree now and then. Terrible body work done to it. Nice 18" wheels though.

Bought for €550 with 2 months tax and very long NCT. Spent €9.95 on a can of Helrot paint in Halfords. Sold it when the tax was up for €750

Car drove great though. Superb engineering by BMW

Reading over this again, it really is unfair to call the car a Sh1tbox...

monkeysnapper

4 years ago I lost my job through redundancy, and was unemployed for 2 months, anyway found job and was put on a 10 week trial period and on 1st week my car gave up the ghost so I needed to buy a car badly, cheap and quick ...
So I bought a Peugeot partner car 2004 and got it for 1300, the bastard bleed me dry at a time I was so vunrable

Started work for 6am and had to drive with no heater, I was coming into work with hat, scarf, jacket . was pretty dangerous i know .

During 8 months had clutch go on me , head gasket, battery, tried to get heater to work. I bloody hated that car.

I got made full time after 8 months and head gasket went on car, I just sold it, my local indy garage offered me 470 and I nearly wripped his arm off.

We decided to buy a people carrier and I got back my Audi avant . I never knew how much I loved that car till I got it back .

vectra

!983 Alfasud.
Bought in in February 86.
Sold it in November 86.
It cost me more on repairs in that time than what I paid for the car.
What a bucket of bolts.

Tzardine

vectra wrote: »

!983 Alfasud.
Bought in in February 86.
Sold it in November 86.
It cost me more on repairs in that time than what I paid for the car.
What a bucket of bolts.

Great looking car though.

Cast Iron

04 VW Polo.....Fred Flintsones car had more to it and less mechanical issues.

CiniO

Special Circumstances wrote: »

That was not one of their best engines was it!

No.
1.4 was the worst one.
It had big trouble with crankshaft wear, and few other bits.

Problem was, that initially when car was released in 1995, they offered 1.4 1.6 1.8 and 2.0 (on bravo only), where 1.4 was sh1te, and rest were fairly good.
Obviously on Irish market 99% of market share went to 1.4 (probably due to VRT being higher for 1.5+ cars then) and that's where car got bad reviews.

In 1998 they did facelift, and replaced dreadful 1.4 version with 1.2 16v which was probably one of the most excellent fiat engines from those times.

I had 01 bravo 1.2 which I sold last year (for €900), and engine did 150k miles without a single issue.
All it got was oil and filters every 15k km.

CiniO

colm_mcm wrote: »

No, it was the newer 16v HSX.
It's a while ago now, bought it at a few months old, can't remember everything that went wrong but:
2 new replacement gearboxes (synchro on 2nd gear, fiat kindly covered a whole box as they couldn't get the parts, that gearbox shat itself soon after, the diff broke which took the gearbox casing with it, another new one went in, which the syncros went in a few years on, rebuilt by indie fiat expert)

Rear wiper
Front wiper linkages (at 2.5 years old)
Sunroof mechanism and blind - replaced entire assembly and headlining as it leaked
Central locking never worked
Rear wiper hose split
Keys breaking (rubber) from nearly new, ended up using the magic red key that you must never use!
4 or 5 flexi joints on the exhaust (lowest point in the car, bad design) went OE first time, universal after that as they were going so frequently, go over a speed bump too fast a few times, good luck.
Head gasket (that was my fault to be fair, took in water in a flood)
Oil leaks
White smoke from exhaust if left idling too long
Electrical stuff that I sorted myself most of the time
Etc etc.
I drove it flat-out all the time though.

I loved that car though and forgave and defended it, but this was a new car, not a bangernomics special. My family always had Toyotas at the time and they never ever broke!

That looks like a big list of issues.

I had trouble with suspension on a bravo (pretty much a need to change wishbones every 20-30k km), as well as at some stage I had to rebuild suspension from scratch (to include 4 shocks, wishbones, droplinks, rear axle bushes, tie rods, etc), but that's partly due to quality of roads I drive on.
On top of that car needed whole exhaust except from cat which stayed original.
And except from few small issues that's pretty much it for car which did 150k miles and worked for 14 years.
I'm pretty much sure new owner is still using it now

For me it was one of the better cars I had.

colm_mcm

Thing was they had the 75hp version of the 1.2 engine in the Punto since 1993.

bear1

Wasn't there also a 90 bhp version of the 1.2 punto which was fairly rare or was that a 1.6?

vectra

Tzardine wrote: »

Great looking car though.

Absolutely.
Design and shape were before their time and handled like a train on track.

CiniO

From what I can see, original first generation punto had the following.

1.1 8v 55HP
1.2 8v 59HP
1.2 8v 60HP
1.2 8v 73HP
1.2 16v 86HP
1.6 8v 88HP
1.4 Turbo 131HP

All above in HP so might be slight different to BHP

Afair 1.2 16v was used in Sporting version.

JoeA3

My first car. A '99 Focus. It was one of the very early Focus's and it showed. Numerous numerous annoying niggly issues, mostly electrical - my favourite being the headlights dimming to candle light anytime I drove through a puddle. It rattled like a bag of hammers too, it just felt like a really fragile car where the next stupid issue was never far away.

'97 Mazda (Fiesta) 121

neris

02 peugeot 406 coupe. heap of muck

JD1763

2008 Landrover LR2 - US version of the freelander.
Last 2 months have had to replace the a/c compressor, starter motor, came out one morning last week and it was leaking brake oil all over the driveway so that was a new line - at least it wasn't the cylinder. Occasionally slips a gear when the pedal is pressed hard and the automatic tries to drop down two gears so transmission is probably on the way out. Alarm sensor in the bonnet is gone so it assumes the bonnet is open and randomly goes off. Random sensors just seem to stop working before coming back a few days later. The a/c system inside the cabin randomly squeaks or gives off a high pitched whine. It really is a piece of sh**.
Currently prepping for the local version of the nct so I can sell the bloody thing and it will probably cost a fortune to fix before it passes the test. I will never buy a landrover again.

colm_mcm

CiniO wrote: »

From what I can see, original first generation punto had the following.

1.1 8v 55HP
1.2 8v 59HP
1.2 8v 60HP
1.2 8v 73HP
1.2 16v 86HP
1.6 8v 88HP
1.4 Turbo 131HP

All above in HP so might be slight different to BHP

Afair 1.2 16v was used in Sporting version.

Also available on SX and ELX models

1.2 was slightly quicker to 60 than the 1.6