whats the biggest pile of crap you've bought
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What is your biggest mistake. Can be a particular model or something you bought on a spur of the moment.
Mine is this
Turned out to be a dog. Water pump expired after 120 miles and all the problems that came after were costly and pooey. I didn't even need a jeep. Sold it yesterday for parts.
Anyone else want to admit there mistake.
Mine is this
Turned out to be a dog. Water pump expired after 120 miles and all the problems that came after were costly and pooey. I didn't even need a jeep. Sold it yesterday for parts.
Anyone else want to admit there mistake.
Bought a mini 10 years or so ago after driving a sorted one and realising how much fun they were. Bought an absolute wreck in the end as I had the whole fix it up idea. Drove it about for a month or so, but things started to go wrong so I took it into the garage and stripped it. It never recovered as I lost interest and didn't have the necessary time and cash. It went to the big scrapyard in the sky after a couple of years. Absolute waste of time and cash.
My dad bought an N-reg Disco TDi at a couple of years old. It was a complete dog - handled really badly, slow, back window leaked like a sieve and turned the rear into a swimming pool and the dealer was the worst kind if lying cheating incompetent ever. He sold it a few months on at a huge loss.
A Renault 5 GT Turbo that was reminiscent of a horror movie when I tentatively started to remove the bodykit.
A Range Rover Classic that was also somewhat pre-disposed to rusting became a bit of a pain too.
In fact, now I sit here thinking baout it, most of the cars I have ever bought have turned into a bit of a nightmare, trouble is I'm like a 5yr old when I'm car hunting and I've got cash in my pocket.
A Range Rover Classic that was also somewhat pre-disposed to rusting became a bit of a pain too.
In fact, now I sit here thinking baout it, most of the cars I have ever bought have turned into a bit of a nightmare, trouble is I'm like a 5yr old when I'm car hunting and I've got cash in my pocket.
2002 vauxhall corsa for my first car, lots of little problems during the time i owned it. It had to go though when it came back from a service with a job sheet of £1700 worth of reccomended jobs that needed doing to it. I cant remember much but i know power steering, steering rack and timing chain were some of the things it came up with. It looked smarts for a 17 year old car but for a 5 year old car to have those many problems was terrible and why i would never recomend a corsa to any one.
My 1st ever car
nova sr 1.3 b reg
rotten
front spoiler missing
brown chequed interior with the drivers side bolsters insides hanging out of it
I couldn't sleep the night before I picked it up
on the way home it ran out of fuel,the guage was f
ked. The battery had so much charge the hazzards ran it flat on the hard shoulder. Leaving it outside my sisters house to charge it up it boiled itself,the water pump was shagged. This all within 5 miles of the dealer who I bought it off.
On checking the tax disc someone had cut out the numbers & rearranged them so it showed another few months on it!
To be fair after ringing the dealer my old man (cough) persuaded them to buy all the parts to sort it out if we fitted them.
I loved that car,right up until the moment I wrapped it around an xr3 travelling at speed. Then we rebuilt it & got shot but believe me even though I adored it,that thing was a complete heap.
Every cattle grid made the gear linkage pop out & for some reason wheel bearings & brakes lasted around 500 miles,maybe a sign of my early driving though eh?
nova sr 1.3 b reg
rotten
front spoiler missing
brown chequed interior with the drivers side bolsters insides hanging out of it
I couldn't sleep the night before I picked it up
on the way home it ran out of fuel,the guage was f
ked. The battery had so much charge the hazzards ran it flat on the hard shoulder. Leaving it outside my sisters house to charge it up it boiled itself,the water pump was shagged. This all within 5 miles of the dealer who I bought it off.On checking the tax disc someone had cut out the numbers & rearranged them so it showed another few months on it!
To be fair after ringing the dealer my old man (cough) persuaded them to buy all the parts to sort it out if we fitted them.
I loved that car,right up until the moment I wrapped it around an xr3 travelling at speed. Then we rebuilt it & got shot but believe me even though I adored it,that thing was a complete heap.
Every cattle grid made the gear linkage pop out & for some reason wheel bearings & brakes lasted around 500 miles,maybe a sign of my early driving though eh?
One of these...
It was only 3 years old when I bought it but there must've been about 10 separate squeaks and rattles in the cabin, the only good thing about it was the engine was quite strong for a 1.8, I've not bought a Vauxhall since. I started looking for a replacement within the first couple of weeks, kept it about 6 months in the end and chopped it in for an Alfa 156.
It was only 3 years old when I bought it but there must've been about 10 separate squeaks and rattles in the cabin, the only good thing about it was the engine was quite strong for a 1.8, I've not bought a Vauxhall since. I started looking for a replacement within the first couple of weeks, kept it about 6 months in the end and chopped it in for an Alfa 156.
navanman said:
What is your biggest mistake. Can be a particular model or something you bought on a spur of the moment.
Mine is this
Turned out to be a dog. Water pump expired after 120 miles and all the problems that came after were costly and pooey. I didn't even need a jeep. Sold it yesterday for parts.
Anyone else want to admit there mistake.
Mine's a Cherokee too! The fuel tank leaked, it was too fMine is this
Turned out to be a dog. Water pump expired after 120 miles and all the problems that came after were costly and pooey. I didn't even need a jeep. Sold it yesterday for parts.
Anyone else want to admit there mistake.
king thirsty and the brakes set on fire. I'd have another, just not THAT one!
Volvo 850 R auto, leaked oil which I thought was the turbo oil return seals, abs tracs unit died, needed a turbo so bought a recon one, heated seat recall done and they had broken the heated seats and denied it, top mount replaced and most of the major service bits done, bust two tyres on a pot hole full of nails going back to the dealer. Bought some synthetic gear oil, need loads of it to do a proper flush which I couldn't get a refund on as it had been too long, box would no longer go into drive, specialist said the gearbox needed to be rebuilt, ran out of money, worst 500 miles ever.
Edited by Deci on Friday 26th February 05:13
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