worst car you ever bought?

[Perik Omo]

2002 VW Polo Sport, it burned oil from day one which the dealer said was "normal" consumption!! Oil burning eventually effed the CAT and that's when we got shot of it.

[freakybacon]

A mark one Fiat Uno Turbo. I was forever saving up to have some cash in the bank for the next breakdown. Clutch cables in particular were a swine to get hold of, and fit. Great when it was running right though. Traded in for a MG Maestro 2.0 which was much more reliable.

[4key]

A 5 year old white '91 renault 5 GTT. After weeks of tidying it up it managed a week and killed a turbo. Next time it was on the road it munched the head within a month, then it rattled the bottom end after a few weeks of being back out again. Took it off the road for a month and stripped the shell bare and cleaned everything up and had the wheels refurbed. Put another complete engine in and then walked away from it dead on the side of the A127 with the keys left in the ignition after it rattled the bottom end within a couple of months.

Was a good car whenever it did work though and I still regret just abandoning it.

[GroundEffect]

172 Cup.

Hateful thing.

[*Al*]

Audi TT 225 Quatro, hated the thing even before i got home. Lots of warning lights on the dash followed.

[carlingofblack]

My one go at running a 500 quid snotter. Was the roughest, practically dying knackered piece of junk ever. No doubt a good car in its time but by the time I got it is had expired. 1990 Audi 80 2.0. Lasted 2 months and was just awful and expensive before I put it out of its misery.

[sticks090460]

LR Discovery. Assembled by blind drunk people to a design done by someone who thinks panel gaps of an inch or so are fine. It tried to kill me three times and failed. When it went back to the leasing company, it was stolen. Hopefully it killed them.

[340600]

ejenner said:

The 3rd Golf mentioned and we're only on page 1.

I've done probably 200,000 miles in diesel Golfs and have yet to have so much as a warning light.

I can only assume they like being driven hard.

[drivin_me_nuts]

E39 M5. Trailered 5 times and cost 14k in warranty work in the first year alone. After have in effect half a front end transplant, it did get to 200k but never less it was a liability for my first three years of ownership. Tread carefully those looking at 8k 'bargains' ...

[Welshbeef]

340600 said:

I've done probably 200,000 miles in diesel Golfs and have yet to have so much as a warning light.

I can only assume they like being driven hard.

Lol.

Have to say I didn't have any issues with my Golf and generally that engine in 130tdi guise is used so much by taxi firms

[Derek Chevalier]

ejenner said:

Just wondering. What was wrong.

I got a green MINI once with no front windows (coz they'd been smashed) and more rust than metal. That wasn't really the fault of the car though. If it were in good order it would be as good as any other MINI. It was shockingly poor though.

Apart from that, my Mitsubishi Galant. It was perfect, low mileage, latest shape... but just so boring. A bad car because it was dull with a capital D

Edited by ejenner on Sunday 29th July 14:20

2008 330i - reliability is the issue

[clockworks]

Suzuki SJ410 soft top. Very slow, noisy, rock hard ride, and struggled to do 30mpg.

Only plus point was that I didn't lose any money when I sold it after 6 months.

[r1ch]

307 HDI - what i hated most about it was everything.

[Happy82]

Gaz. said:

mkiv VW Golf GTI, utterly hateful thing, unreliable heap of style over substance crap that constantly went wrong and spent more time at the dealer/mechanic's than in our possesion for the first 2 months we had it and is the only car I've ever had that my boss ordered me to get rid of for something more reliable. Just a money pit. I beleive the garage we traded it to scrapped it.

I hated mine too, sold it 4 weeks after purchase as it was slow, handled like a barge, used stupid amounts of petrol, had a horrible gearbox that was uninspiring to use.....

On the other hand I liked the blue display and it had a lot of space.

[toxicfrog]

Bought a 2004 Mitsubishi L200 brand new.

Biggest pile of ste I ever had.......3 engines, 2 gearboxes, an ECU, various other sensors etc.

Did 60k in it in 2 years and sold it for a third of what I paid new for it just to get rid of it (it was a bit beaten about)

Never again.

[ejenner]

x5 Golfs is it now? losing count.

Forgot about the Renault 5 GTT - x2 mentioned now.

It seems reliability counts for a lot. I've never owned anything that was shockingly unreliable.

[Welshbeef]

Rover 216 SE EFI heap of junk
Rover 214i heap of junk
Rover 420SDI heap of junk

These cars had constant issues mechanical electrical (seats collapsing) rust and these were 3yo when bought. Utter junk and why we kept buying them think we'd learn. Friends with BMWs Audi etc never had any issues

[Urban Sports]

BMW E90 M Sport - crap

[jagnet]

1984 Trans Am - with a big old V8 it sounded great but was woefully slow, ponderous on winding roads, and had terrible build quality. In its favour, down the motorway it was a lovely cruiser and very comfortable.

[FisiP1]

Fiat Grande Punto, wouldn't go into reverse, used as much fuel as my 991 911, seats too short to be comfortable so terrible backache after only a 2hr drive, interior felt cheap(because it was )