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ejenner
Original Poster
536 posts
50 months
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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
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Caulkhead
4,938 posts
26 months
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54 plate Vectra SRi CDTi 150 estate.
Poor handling, rough ride, heavy understeer, awful gearchange, spent weeks at the dealer for misfires, electrical problems, alarm problems. Dealer was so dumb they traced the alarm fault to the sensors in the rear cargo area side windows and replaced them with clear glass not noticing the car had pivacy glass in all the other back windows. . . . . . . .
And I only bought it to cart the dog about in!
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nagsheadwarrior
924 posts
48 months
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L.H.D Pontiac 6000LE with a stupidly big side exit exhaust, not good on a fwd 2.8 v6!
Straight swapped it on Ebay for my old hearse, drove from Preston to Portsmouth to pick it up, it made it 10 miles before breaking down leading to a 12 hour multi AA van recovery.
It sat outside my house for 6 months then got jobbed off to the scrappy!
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nottyash
3,697 posts
64 months
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Rover 216 Vitesse Rover 220 GTI Rover 216 SLI I should of learned my lesson 
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steveT350C
690 posts
30 months
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always had company cars, apart from the Tiv, and always German. Occasionally had a hire car which company sorted out, vauxhall vectra once, then an insignia. Both dire!
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goldblum
6,741 posts
36 months
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Golf VR6
Numb steering,poor handling and gutless engine.Heavy doors,rubbish stereo,poor fuel consumption and lost me bucketloads when I sold it after 8 weeks,lol.
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Asterix
16,382 posts
97 months
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Ford Fiesta Popular - it wasn't.
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Rotary Madness
2,069 posts
55 months
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Its a toss up between a rover mini cooper (rusty piece of crap that was always breaking), or the 800 quid mr2 turbo that was yellow and had lambo doors...
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Fleckers
1,513 posts
70 months
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59 plate BMW 118d SE brand new company hack
hated the car from the first turn of the key with 54 miles on the clock
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Blair357ci
999 posts
77 months
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A brand new 2003/53 VW Golf GTI TDI 150 had to be recovered 24 times + boot lid struts failed knocking me out! + a clunk which the dealer couldn't find turned out to be a loose pipe which rubbed thro the brake line causing brake failure on a subsicant owner.
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Thom987
3,185 posts
35 months
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Alfa 156 JTD. Clarkson reccommended it in the Sunday Times many years ago, just as I was about to buy a Lexus IS200. Big mistake, it was back at the dealers more often than it was on the road. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
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Flying machine
609 posts
45 months
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306 dturbo about 7 years ago - hateful hateful car, no redeeming qualities at all except that it was cheap and cheap to run. It broke down twice in the 3 weeks that I owned it - horrible thing!!
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ejenner
Original Poster
536 posts
50 months
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Blair357ci said: A brand new 2003/53 VW Golf GTI TDI 150 had to be recovered 24 times + boot lid struts failed knocking me out! + a clunk which the dealer couldn't find turned out to be a loose pipe which rubbed thro the brake line causing brake failure on a subsicant owner. That sounds like a proper shocker...!
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Blair357ci
999 posts
77 months
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ejenner said: hat sounds like a proper shocker...! My first and last new car & my first and last VW
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Jw Vw
4,025 posts
32 months
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Asterix said: Ford Fiesta Popular - it wasn't. 
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Mister3man
222 posts
16 months
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Reliability plays quite a large role in making an owning experience pleasureable. I know it sounds boring but unreliability brings a constant doubt into my mind and ruins it for me.
2002 Golf GT TDI 150 - forever going wrong, usuually expensive. Handled like, well, to be honest it did'nt really handle at all.
2004 Saab Aero - nothing but trouble from day one. Turbo made bizaare and presumably expensive sounds, bizaare knocking noises from the front at low speeds. Plus it was hardly quick. 210bhp felt like 120 most of the time.
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ejenner
Original Poster
536 posts
50 months
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Mister3man said: Reliability plays quite a large role in making an owning experience pleasureable. I know it sounds boring but unreliability brings a constant doubt into my mind and ruins it for me.
2002 Golf GT TDI 150 - forever going wrong, usuually expensive. Handled like, well, to be honest it did'nt really handle at all.
2004 Saab Aero - nothing but trouble from day one. Turbo made bizaare and presumably expensive sounds, bizaare knocking noises from the front at low speeds. Plus it was hardly quick. 210bhp felt like 120 most of the time. The 3rd Golf mentioned and we're only on page 1.
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Jw Vw
4,025 posts
32 months
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Blair357ci said: a clunk which the dealer couldn't find turned out to be a loose pipe which rubbed thro the brake line causing brake failure on a subsicant owner. Bloody hell. Sounds like an epic money pit!
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Mister3man
222 posts
16 months
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ejenner said: The 3rd Golf mentioned and we're only on page 1. Funny that... Mate of mine owns a 2004 Polo GT with a 130 Tdi lump in it. Thats been an unreliable heap since day one as well. Its even starting to rust now  All our company cars were VW's of around the 2007-2008 era. They weren't much better either 
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Trevor450
505 posts
17 months
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2000 Volvo V40 T4 owned from new.
Crap suspension (leaky shocks), blew its turbo at 25k, head gasket twice and finally the auto 'box let go after 70k miles. Proper Friday afternoon car that one.
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