the other way

[58classiccars]

ok guys lets try it the other way, what car do you wish you had never bought and would never have again, mine was a fso, mind you they must be worth a bob or two now

[trigger]

My old TDCi Focus, hateful car. End off.

[Station]

What was wrong with it?

[pandamonium]

Citroen Xantia 1.9TDStupid hateful thing dripped LHM onto the drive belts, causing them to slip and then the car to overheat and blow a headgasket, which in turn caused the car to stall and drop down with no brakes or steering. My wife was driving at the time and was so shaken that she wouldn't drive anywhere unless absolutely imperitive for about a year!

[whiskeyonesix]

I'd have to say my 1994 Land-Rover Discovery 300Tdi. Not because they're a bad car, just the fact that I bought a bad car. Head gasket went, bulkhead was rotten, and the sills rotted through, as well as the rear doors/wheel arches. I had it for six months and it bloody cost me an arm and a leg - you've never seen a car deteriorate so quickly. Same goes for the Range-Rover, but at least I got some satisfaction from the fact that having it sit in my car park space for three years whilst SORN drove my neighbour mental - literally!

[HillmanImp]

Vauxhall Disastra G. Again, i liked to drive it, but i think i had a wrongun. Ended up losing 2k on is as no sod could diagnose the problem with it. 3 garages and 4 diaganostics later i sold it to a couple of police machanics who rang me and let me kow it was a broken wire to the crankshaft sensor. To be fair whilst i am slaggin off the Disastra, I suppose its a fault of all modern cars that you cannot diagnose them yourself as they are over complicated. Saying that i cant diagnose old ones really, but at least i stand a fighting chance.

[Mr Lobster]

Not really had anything that I've absolutely hated really.I suppose buying the R11 Exlectronic was a mistake though. Not that there was much wrong with it, more that because I didn't have any time to do anything with it, it just ended up sitting there for 12 months

[Rocket88]

Lexus 400. 11 mpg and an immobiliser / alarm system that had a mind of it's own. EVERYTHING for a Lexus is eleventy billion pounds to buy. Nice engine though.

[outlaw118]

To be honest, I don't regret any of them.... The Mk2 1300 Capri was a rusty,smoky pig, but I did my first engine swap with that, and learnt at lot about how to fix stuff with household item (foil, clothes pegs etc)

The GS Pallas was a money pit, but I made a profit on that.....

 

I hated my Mk2 Astra estate pretty much from the moment I bought it, but after 65000 miles in 4 years, no nasty expensive things, i repected it when it went....

[whitevanman]

renault Kangoo, needed it as it was the only vehicle tall enough for me to get in after the accident, spitefull bitch did the "engine warning of disaster" light job, lost all my savings on it and made little back on it.....other than that I see most vehicles as just tools......unless I have a soft spot for them

[Volksy]

Chrysler Neon, Bought as a stopgap, what a badly made POS.

 

 

Sold after a week.

[Torsten2001]

^^^ WHS, I will never buy another modern Chrysler, a total pile of utter wank, I would sooner hop!

[messerschmitt owner]

Citroen XM 2.0ihad it a week before it disgraced itself by the starter motor dying - went to replace the motor and dropped one of the bolts down into the flywheel through the opening at the top of the bellhousing - scrapped the car two weeks later after I then bought a pump to syphon out the full tank of fuel I popped in the day before the starter motor went.Got £100 for scrap, £70 of fuel back, and lost £300 on the purchase price. Not helped by buying a starter motor for £125 which I ended up selling for £50.

[Station]

Proton MPi. They're not a bad car, they're quite rapid, was totally reliable, but it was just a nasty thing, sagging, outdated interiors, thin bodywork, really light PAS. My dad bought it and it was passed around family members. The exhaust broke when I 'borrowed' it off my brother, and he was spiteful in that I did it on purpose (?) and scrapped it so I couldn't use it. I remember giving a female friend a lift and she was totally unimpressed, I think she was a bit disgusted at the filthy horrible interior.

[seth]

V4 Saab.

 

 

A cool car, no question, but it consistently suffered from fuel vapourisation issues no matter what I did to try and fix it. Every journey, particularly in summer, was spent praying for no traffic since as long as you could keep moving at even 10mph it would be fine. Come up against stationary traffic on the motorway though and there would be trouble.

 

I don't think I blame the Saab as such, more the stupid Ford engine. It'd be quite nice to try out a two stroke one.

[saabhappy]

Peugeot 104ZS. Horrible, unreliable, impractical.....but cheap so I bought it! Idiot!

 

[whitevanman]

the only other vehicle I came to dislike was my 2002 Pug Expert, great size, good economy, reliable...cost more than I ever done on buying it £7.5K, two years later it developed a running problem, kinda like running on three cylinders, many hundreds of pounds later and trips to the main dealer I told the finance company to take it away as it still didn't run right, last 6 month that I owned it it only ever went to the dealers, there solution was to just replace everything without asking...Cunts...this was the second from last straw that broke the camels back for "new" motors for me...NEVER AGAIN

[wuvvum]

Apart from pretty much every modern Renault I've ever owned (my current Espace being, so far at least, the exception that proves the rule), the only car I can think of that I really should never have bought was the Reliant Regal - an absolutely vile "car" in every possible way. Dangerously gutless (598cc and supposedly 25bhp, but the Innocenti has only five extra horsepower and weighs 50% more, and that would leave the Reliant for dead), noisy, horrible seats, spine-jarring ride, crap turning circle, crap brakes and felt horribly unstable.Oh, and the Toyota Celica that I bought off eBay which blew up on the M11 on the way home from collecting it .

[lancashireclamper]

BMW 520, F RegCould never get comfortable in it whatever I tried, was automatic and averaged about 14mpg, was hit by a lorry whilst parked outside an MOT test centre (having just failed its test to the tune of £285) insurance paid out with 3 days tax and test left on it.

[Torsten2001]

That reminds me of the Diesel 106 I bought on ebay from a mechanic that "serviced" it regularly, the little bastard waited until I was a mile from home to snap the cam belt.....not really the cars fault though

[AnthonyG]

A 3 year old Montego 1.6 LX, ex fleet car bought from a car supermarket (the legendary Empress Cars of South Wales). 'Montegos are generally OK, but this one was pretty knackered for a 'K' plate car in 1995. The amount of rust made me suspect it had sat in field nr Oxford for two years before getting registered (it was a non cat version).The interior fittings would fall apart as you drove it down the road!Swapped it for a G reg Tipo 1.4 a year later - much better car all round.

[trigger]

Are Neons that bad? There was one for sale near me the other day, I think it was a RT in bright red on a Y plate and it was only £1100, Looks tidy as well, I thought it looked good value.

What was wrong with it?

It was 3 1/2 years old at the time (2004 plate) but it was already going rusty on the boot, The engine kept stilling, It died one day on the A14 when i turned the air con on, The gear box wasn't at all smooth and it was slow for a 115 bhp.TBH it might well of been that my one was a bit of a black sheep but it was enough to put me of Focuses for life.Oh and the £180 bill from Ford for the 63000 mile service which consisted of just a oil and filter change pissed me off a lot as well.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Peugeot 104ZS. Horrible, unreliable, impractical.....but cheap so I bought it! Idiot!

 

Can't see Photobucket at work - is that a picture of the car??

[scruff]

1988 Land Rover 90 turbo diesel. A right turd of a thing and no mistake.I spent a small fortune on buying it (cos its a Defender innit! NO IT ISN'T) and then constantly fixing it. It was faster than my old one but only when unladen - it could not tow for toffee and when it did you might as well have had a V8 - the fuel economy was a absolute joke (and a V8 was cheaper to insure!). Full of rust, breathed heavily, wank gearbox . Drove it to France and the fan fell off and went through the rad. Going up the A3 one day it made an almighty banging noise and I thought the bottom end had gone. Pulled over and had a look and although the engine was running, the bottom pulley wasn't turning! It had chewed the keyway away. A new crank was the answer but being skint we welded it and decided if the cambelt went we'd just bung another engine in. Coming back from a steam rally with a caravan on the back, it lost pretty much all it's braking powah thanks to rotted through rear brake pipes. Then a front wheel bearing seized up going down a hill in Kent, causing it to swerve dramatically to the left and straight into a parked Mondeo. New rad - FUBARed. Repaired it with a secondhand wing and bumper. Shortly after this the master cylinder and alternator packed up on the same day so i swapped it for a good old series 2a with my pal, who sold it to someone who turned it into a chequeerplate-clad, orange-sprung "EXTREME!!!" off-road shitter and threw the BL-logo-clad turdo dieseal engine away and put a Tdi from a Disco in it.

[saabhappy]

Peugeot 104ZS. Horrible, unreliable, impractical.....but cheap so I bought it! Idiot!

 

Can't see Photobucket at work - is that a picture of the car??

No, although the colour is/was identical. TWU 494R - I think the film "Christine" may have been based on it.

[Father Ted]

Ford Fiesta Mk 3 1.1i1) Rusted for fun - even my wifes Mk1 didn't rust this badly.2) went through doorlocks / keys for fun - they wore out quickly.3) Broke down and refused to start at any opportunity and mostly when it was bloody inconvenient, at traffic lights, roundabouts, on the M6 - it used to splutter and die and need the plugs whipping out and drying off before it would start again.4) Drank petrol like it was going out of fashion and was uber slow.The final straw was on the morning of the wifes grandfathers burying when the thing conked at the lights on the way to the undertakers - the following afternoon I took the wretched piece of shit down the stealers and P/exed it on a Laguna. It was scrapped a year later.

[Volksy]

Just thought of another one, 1988 Maestro 1.3LA one giffer owner, low miles, minter. Was a part-ex at the local Vauxhall dealership my ex father in law worked at. Sounds good? Nope, underpowered, horrible gearchange, and the steering felt like it was attached to the wheels by a strong rubber band, that would get tighter as you wound on the lock, resulting in near wrist snapping backlash as you straightened up. Kept it for about two weeks, then sold on.On the subject of Neons, Yes the early ones are that bad, designed as a $1000 car to produce, it really shows. Massive - almost K-Series - head gasket problems, dubious trim, hard uncomfortable seats, not that roomy, mine was an auto with 3 speeds, so helps amplify the harsh thrashy engine. The faults on mine alone were:-Dodgy electrics, windows & central locking operating when and if they wanted to,Head gasket on it's way out,Water leaks from both the front and rear screens, Passenger seat had partally collapsed,Rear seat backs, one jammed closed, and the other wouldn't stay shut.If the bonnet stay isn't exactly clipped back in position when you close the bonnet it cracks the top of the radiator. (as i discovered)Numb brakes, And interior plastics that were horrid, so that you really didn't want to use any of the controls, not that they worked anyway...