I'm glad I got rid

[chris1991]

Cars that you were glad to see the back of.

 

Mine was a 2005 Seat Leon 1.4 S, was a mint 1 owner low millage, FSH etc car and had no end of issues with it. It was the newest car I have ever owned and has put me off for life, which in hindsight hasn't been a bad thing.  

[Cavcraft]

See if you can spot a pattern here:

 

2004 VW Polo

 

1998 Golf diesel

 

1998 Passat diesel 

 

1992 Passat petrol estate

 

1984 Audi 80

 

1995 Audi 80TDi estate

[AldridgePrior]

Landrover.Freelander.

 

I think I had a mental condition when I decided to hand over money for a 1.8 Rover engined Landrover.

 

Everything went wrong with it. Everything. Hang on. I think the horn worked.

[mercrocker]

Err..you don't like anything built after 1983?    I still suffer my 1987 T25 but I actually like it even though I am nowhere near a VAG fan myself.   I just sold my Morris Oxford (Farina) which I did really like but it started pissing me off with chasing its terminal rust and endless unreliability (not a normal characteristic of these cars, I have to say...).   Too early to say if I miss it but I probably will before long.   The car I was most glad to see the back of was a Mk3 Granada twin cam - it was actually a bloody good car but for some reason it just depressed me with its plastic-ness.  Oh and boiling its own piss in the middle of the Loire Valley, cracking the head and making me suffer a Renault Seasick hire car for the whole bloody fortnight.

[chris1991]

See if you can spot a pattern here:

 

2004 VW Polo

 

1998 Golf diesel

 

1998 Passat diesel 

 

1992 Passat petrol estate

 

1984 Audi 80

 

1995 Audi 80TDi estate

 

Well it seems you're not a fan of VAG.

[barefoot]

Trabant P601S - enough said.

[purplebargeken]

Red Ford Escort Mk4 - shat the wiring behind the dash, would cut out randomly - usually whilst travelling along the North Circ. Happy to see it go. Can't actually remember what happened to it, that is how much I hated it. 

[KruJoe]

Audi S2

(The turbo'd coupe Quattro one.)

Unreliable, it didn't handle, was way too heavy, and it financially ruined me. I should have stuck with the AWD Suzuki Swift saloon I had before it.

I made do with a rusty £50 Maestro 1.3 after the S2, which I enjoyed way more!

[RobT]

Mk2 Golf GTi. It looked good but every month something would pack up, so I lost my patience with the bloody thing and replaced it with a battered up Mk4 Escort which never let me down.

[Hertz]

I've always fancied an Audi S2, might change my mind now though.

 

Mk4 Escort XR3i was the one I couldn't wait to get rid of. Slow, rusty and didn't handle well at all. My Peugeot 309 was a far better car at the time.

[dieselassist]

lots of mk3 1.4 golf's  - many, many of them.....n lately a mk4 Golf tdi shell which was in terrible nicks - lots of dents, scratched paintwork n rusty front wings; it also had a slight puck on the passenger side front chassis leg... I had advertised the car for breaking; everything useful from the shell was picked off - doors, hatch n shell  n rusty wings was all that was left...

 

A young fella rang me up "is the shell still about?...is it a 2 door"...    "yes.. eh, yes...make me an offer" - €200 "YES!!...eh, yeah that'll do" - he came up with his mams galaxy towing a rickety transporter n we shoved the shell up onto it...  he explained he would be reshelling a 4 door - good luck with that!!  I thought id have to chop it up n weigh the ugly hulk in - I toasted its departure HEAVILY!!!

[dollywobbler]

Bond Equipe GT4S. I wonder if an actually good one is any better. 

 

Mind you, having owned around 60 vehicles now, of which only two remain mine, I was clearly glad to get rid of an awful lot of cars. It wasn't always there fault. It was quite often mine and I'm sorry.

[cort16]

All of them bar about 6 or. 7

[eddyramrod]

This fucking thing!  Couldn't give the bastard away.  Ask anyone what their ideal Granada is and they'll say a mk1, preferably old enough for free tax, rust-free, with an Essex V6 and manual box.  Yep, every box ticked there.  Could I sell it?  Not in Cyprus, not here.  Well I did eventually (obviously) but for a tiny fraction of what it stood me.  I've still got some random spares in my lockup...

 

And 25 years earlier, this one!  I should have learned the lesson.  Granadas are not for me.

[chrisjvm]

'90 Saab 9000 LPT auto ... Soporific

 

'96 BMW M3 EVO Saloon ... Autistically Remote

[Fabergé Greggs]

Scimitar se5a, just never clicked with it. It always felt too big and the gear change was rank.

 

VW T25 camper. Man, that thing was thirsty and couldn't be filled beyond half way thanks to a rusty fuel tank.

[Anglevan]

I'm trying to think but honestly I've been happy with every car I've owned. There's been some I struggled to sell but if I'd ave been able to store I'd have kept em. And I've had some rite shitters over the years!

[trigger]

I'll be glad to see the back of this fucking Focus.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Mk4 4 door escort in that horrible blue, I hated this after my 3 door.

 

Renault 5 with its mega hard clutch. It nearly killed me when going into a right hand bend with a big drop, the twating thing dipped really badly on a knackered passenger shock throwing itself sideways.

 

Mk2 Corsa 1.2 SXI, 2 wiper motors, 2 gear linkages. Burned all its oil and other shit I can't remember all to be told by vauxhall "it's a known fault" fuck that, tbh I'm surprised we had it for nearly 5 years! DVLA says it's dead now

[stuboy]

pug 309 auto j reg swapped for mismatched red escort ghia on f plate... as missus wanted an auto to get back to driving... broke down 15 times in 5 mile journey took back and demanded escrote and cash back...grrr

[Ghosty]

Mum's sad face Fiesta 1.25 CVT.

Will be glad to see the back of both my parents' current cars too, a 2004 Polo and a 2000 Civic 3 door. 

Both are autos...

[oman5]

'94 lada riva. Nothing wrong with it, it was just total shit in every way.

'94 mondeo 2.0 glx. Nothing wrong with that, I just hated how dull, clinical and uninspiring it was plus the fact that every other car on the road was a mondo at the time.

52 plate rover 45. I hated it for pretty much the same reasons as above. So boringly average in every way.

I'm now back at my default position which is with an old RWD Volvo. I've never owned a bad one.

 

Out of a running total of about 50 cars, that's not too bad

[spike60]

Alfa 156 JTD 2.4, cost a minimum of £100 on parts a month, every month. The 3.2 petrol Merc with 180k on that replaced it was a load cheaper to run.

[spike60]

See if you can spot a pattern here:

 

2004 VW Polo

 

1998 Golf diesel

 

1998 Passat diesel 

 

1992 Passat petrol estate

 

1984 Audi 80

 

1995 Audi 80TDi estate

That you don't learn lessons?

[Semi-C]

C545 SGM - Granada 2.8 Ghia X. A woeful shitsack of a car.

Looked mint but had more holes than a hobo's undercrackers, hidden by an expertly* applied veneer of wob.

And the engine shat itself shortly (roughly 5 miles) after all the body repairs had been completed.

And when I sought my revenge by racing the bastard, I got leathered wholesale on the first lap.

[Cavcraft]

My mate had a 309 automatic that got sold to someone who's probably still trying to track him down and kill him seven years later. I just cannot like the 309s, bloody horrible things.

[Richard]

D700RFC Peugeot 505 GTI Family. It had been a nice car and looked decent enough but I never quite managed to get on top of it. The water pump sprung a leak once and I had to wait a week for a replacement, which cost a fortune. I had to smash the old pump off every stud and it had to stay where it was overnight because the crank pulley had to be smashed off too. While it was parked up overnight somebody took exception to the RFC plate (which was original to the car) and put the windscreen in- every job on that car went a bit like that.

 

I replaced it with a £75 Sierra Sapphire. Its water pump also sprung a leak. My mate pointed me towards a Pinto engine at the back of his workshop and within half an hour its pump was on my engine at a cost of £0.00.

[Bren]

I thought this thread was about divorce when I read the title.

 

Not sure about "glad I got rid", more like "wish I had'nt bought the bastard" which is where I am at the moment with my vectra as it does it's best to make me bankrupt.

[twosmoke300]

Citroen zx as per the other thread on them , sold it to buy an engagement ring and a nice audi 80 on a whim at the auctions.

Still with the wife and the £330 pound audi lasted 3 years (and sold at a profit) . Zx just a nasty memory

[Split_Pin]

G346 CSX Metro City. Gearbox died at 6 months old. Garage wouldn't pay to fix it, dad paid by cheque, took the car and then bounced the cheque. Lex Broxburn, now Arnold Clark, cunts then and when I visited them in 2006 when my neighbour needed help buying a car, still cunts. Traded it in for a Fiesta after that, no problems since.