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Perik Omo
86 posts
18 months
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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.
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freakybacon
102 posts
33 months
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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.
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4key
4,198 posts
18 months
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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.
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GroundEffect
7,289 posts
26 months
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*Al*
2,986 posts
92 months
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Audi TT 225 Quatro, hated the thing even before i got home. Lots of warning lights on the dash followed.
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Gaz.
47,315 posts
121 months
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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.
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carlingofblack
266 posts
34 months
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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.
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sticks090460
424 posts
28 months
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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.
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340600
179 posts
13 months
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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.
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drivin_me_nuts
13,970 posts
81 months
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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' ...
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Welshbeef
13,180 posts
68 months
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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
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Derek Chevalier
672 posts
43 months
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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
2008 330i - reliability is the issue
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clockworks
725 posts
15 months
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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.
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r1ch
2,207 posts
66 months
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307 HDI - what i hated most about it was everything.
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Happy82
5,237 posts
39 months
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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.
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toxicfrog
125 posts
73 months
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Bought a 2004 Mitsubishi L200 brand new. Biggest pile of s  te 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.
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ejenner
Original Poster
536 posts
51 months
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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.
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Welshbeef
13,180 posts
68 months
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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
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Urban Sports
7,564 posts
73 months
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jagnet
1,010 posts
72 months
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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.
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