worst car youve owned

[v8 scania]

whats the worst car you've owned mine was a citroen zx  failed its mot dismally plus slipping clutch, swapped it for a Granada 2.0 scorpio a week later.

[Novanick1]

God this thread is gunna spark up some debate and arguing 

[Jim Bell]

Granada 2.0 Scorpio.

Managed to swap it for a nice ZX that just needed a clutch.

[Cavcraft]

All of them.

[Cavcraft]

I am wondering though if Barry Shitpeas is actually Barry Shitpiss who is actually Barry Hipkiss, football supporter travel arranger?

[Jim Bell]

This thread is exactly why I dont drive a car. Or comment in threads.

[Cavcraft]

E462 SJA, a cut-n-shut Nissan Sunny. What a pile of toss that was, I sold it to a monkey hanging Mackem smoggie.

[For Fiats Sake]

Worst in what way?

 

Reliability, looks, depreciation?

 

I can say that my worst (yet also best car) was the Rover SD2400 SD1 turbo diesel.  Unreliable, blew it's radiator the first week of ownership, rotten doors, hole under the pedals  (wet feet on rainy days) and cans of easy start to get it moving.  Paid my dad a grand for it (the garage had offered him 2k trade in) and only ever rotten and broke for my trouble,

 

So on all three counts my worst car

 

God I loved that car 

[dollywobbler]

Some bugger sold me a dodgy Horsey Horseless once. D701 SWL was the reg I think. It was Pogweasel Pink.

[Junkman]

Without a millisecond of hesitation - Citroen CX.

Actually a succession of two of them, the second one bought brand new.

Lethally dangerous pieces of shit, the lot of them. I can't understand to this day how they ever managed to get a type approval for use on public roads.

 

Edit: they were the ONLY two bad cars I ever owned.

[fordperv]

In 2009 I bought a Chav tastic Kawasaki green rs turbo, it went like the proverbial, turned out when I checked the chassis number had been cut out of the floor, the car had been stolen in 1995 and never found lol and the inner sills were full of fibreglass

[Albert Ross]

I've never owned a bad car. I check them over thoroughly first, and not a lot of scrapyards like me calling the RAC in to do inspections, but it's all alright once the Police take me away. I sell a lot of kippered cars though. Mostly to scrapyards and Nuns with kittens.

[cort16]

Renault 21. Thankfully most of them are off the road now as I shudder every time I see one.

[Jim Bell]

E462 SJA, a cut-n-shut Nissan Sunny. What a pile of toss that was, I sold it to a monkey hanging Mackem smoggie.

 

The front is a Sunny hatch.

I think the back its an Volvo 340 saloon.

 

Best of all scenes.

[Cavcraft]

The front is in Sunny, but never in black,

the back is in Volvo, don't run over a crack

Coz the middle is from an old Subaru

and the whole fucking lot's held together with glue. 

[overrun]

In 2009 I bought a Chav tastic Kawasaki green rs turbo, it went like the proverbial, turned out when I checked the chassis number had been cut out of the floor, the car had been stolen in 1995 and never found lol and the inner sills were full of fibreglass

 

Sounds like it was found in the end.

 

Maybe it was just missing the floor numbers cos it had been bodged up?

 

 

I have never owned a bad car, imo. Plenty of cheap ones though.

A £90 Mondeo was my first venture into cheap motoring, when my main car was dead/in project stage yet again.

 

I purposely purchased a Fiat Seicento Sporting about three years ago, as I remembered the three week old one I had as a courtesy car once was a riot.

That thing got rallied all over in the five or so weeks I had it.

 

If anyone wonders, yes they can fit between most bollards, squeeze over footbridges and drive down flights of steps.

[londonm]

Strangely, I've enjoyed all the cars I've owned. Mind, I've not been buying protons and Skodas off strange forums about old cars.

[warren t claim]

I only buy quality cars from CAVCRAFT so I rarely have problems.

[chaseracer]

Currently?

Mercedes 300E...
 

 

[STUNO]

Never in 50 years of car ownership has a car I bought failed to get me to where I was going. In many cases there was a distinct lack of style, The nearest to failure was a 1965ish Ford Falcon whos 2 speed Fordomatic transmission was not fond of hills. But a stop half way up a long hill restored the forward movement.

The short answer...they have all been fit for purpose.

[chaseracer]

So long as your definition of 'purpose' is appropriately flexible...

 

[cobblers]

All my cars are toss, but my worst monetry loss was on this:

 

 

Sold a perfectly good car to buy it and the fucking thing span a big end bearing before I could even get home (70 miles)

TBH I didn't notice because the car was so noisy I drove all the way back with earplugs in, and only took them out when it stalled at the top of the motorway slipraod because the battery was flat (because the previous owner hadn't wired the charge light up and the alternator wasn't doing anything)

 

I managed to bump start it and it was then I realised it was knocking it's sack off. It cut out again at the next set of traffic lights, and in pushing it off the road I managed to run over my own foot and break my toe, which to this day hasn't healed properly.

 

I spent £2500 on the car, then £500 and many many hours rebuilding the engine, which went completely to bollocks so I bought another engine for £300, put that in and sold the lot for £2000. In total I drove it 85 miles, so in total it's probably an equivalent cost per mile than buying a 3 year old megane from carcraft on deadbeat finance, but at least I looked cool as I pushed the thing over my own foot.

[bub2006]

When I was young and stupid ( about 8 years back) I bought Citroën bx estate. On driving it home someone pulled out in front of me. Emergency stop caused the passenger brake disc to actually snap a piece out and the pads to meet which in turn locked the front end up and into a kerb I went. Bent wishbone,buckled wheel and snapped track rod end. Went home to fetch a mate and trailer to return and find it had been hi abbed away. Also had a e plate micra that had a problem with a bolt or somesuch that held the gear lever itself. Changig gear involved lifting gear stick upwards and in the general direction of the gear wanted. Speed humps also caused the gear lever to bounce up and hit your arm

[bub2006]

Never actually worked out how the disc had a chunk missing on the bx either

[Vince70]

A 3/4 year old MK2 Laguna need I say more.

[D-Dubya]

96 Seat Ibiza. four years old when I got it, 30k on the clock, shat out its engine once, various ancillaries at sporadic times, ate brakes and tyres and never run right. cost me £2500 to buy and at least that again repairing the bloody thing.

 

and the top of the gear knob kept randomly falling off on the motorway, and I'd find out when I needed to change down and stabbed my hand on a sharp bit.

 

there's also the new fiat stilo I had that whilst under warranty ate three gearboxes/diffs. I sold it as the box started going again just out if all warranties. but that car was lovely and nowhere near as bad as the uncomfortable sack o shit the Ibiza was

[rml2345]

My Rover 75 is probably the worst car I've ever had, which is a shame as it was lovely apart from the utterly bodged clutch hydraulics...

[Lukas]

The worst car I ever had was my last daily driver, a 1999 Volvo S80 2.4. If left me stranded at the side of the road at least 3 times and almost every time I drove it, some warning lamps appeared and disappeared on the dash. No mechanic could sort the electronic problems out. The day I sold it to an export-dealer was the best day in that month.

[fordperv]

Sounds like it was found in the end.

 

Maybe it was just missing the floor numbers cos it had been bodged up?

 

Yeah unfortunately found by me lol I sent it straight back to Cumbria for a no quibble refund after I had a chat with the seller beforehand, The car came up as still being owned by the insurance company as it was never recovered after its theft

[twosmoke300]

Another vote for the Citroen zx here ,  Painfully slow (1.9d) , worst seats I have ever had the displeasure to do a long drive in , rear brakes that needed weekly attention. And worst of all the head gasket went just before I had to go away on holiday with the missis . Ended up borrowing a 2.0 alfa 164 so every cloud etc.

 

Sold it to buy an old audi 80 2.0e at the auction, great motor.