Worst car you've owned?
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Thought i'd see what other people reserve as their most hated mode of transport as every morning my heart is filled with dread as I have to face yet another daily commute in my hateful pile of vomit inducing rubbish that is a 56 diesel vectra. Nothing is right other than decent fuel consumtion. It's a vauxhall for a start, wrong fuel, silver, soulless, uncomfortable, boring... I could go on as I have had nothing but problems in the year i've owned it. Anyway, rant over.
I've had a Mondeo that I ended up with DMF, new injectors and a failed power steering pump. The fuel pump was on it's way as well. That was a good car compared to the E60 5 series I had. Mainly the problems were due to the iDrive whic crashed for no real reason, would never work after it'd been parked at an airport and gave faulty readings for pretty much any sensor connected with it. BMW Aftercare knew it inside out, and despite me offering it back to them for a few weeks said they'd just come out each time and have another go. And it was a 520, which wasnt particularly thrifty with fuel and didnt really go all that quick either. When the warranty was about to expire I traded it against an E46
2002 R230 Merc SL500
Both best and worst car I haver ever had; beautiful thing but poor design and poor quality coupled with crazy concepts like ABC and SBC made the car a total money pit. Every day was fraught with terror as to what would go wrong next.
I could go on at length but I am going to bed!
Both best and worst car I haver ever had; beautiful thing but poor design and poor quality coupled with crazy concepts like ABC and SBC made the car a total money pit. Every day was fraught with terror as to what would go wrong next.
I could go on at length but I am going to bed!
Much like your self OP......a godforsaken Vauxhall Vectra Diesel. I absolutely loathed the car with such passion. I had decided to sell it before I'd even completed the journey home after buying it.
Such an uninspiring interior. Niggly faults almost immediately I bought the heap with the promise of BIG bills just around the corner. I got rid of it as soon as I possibly could. I think I owned it six weeks or so but in that time it needed a £400 alternator, drop links and it had constant electrical gremlins with the fancy headlights that looked around corners.
I was a bit of a VX fanboi before the derv having owned a couple of V6's but the diesel put me off 'em for good I think.
Such an uninspiring interior. Niggly faults almost immediately I bought the heap with the promise of BIG bills just around the corner. I got rid of it as soon as I possibly could. I think I owned it six weeks or so but in that time it needed a £400 alternator, drop links and it had constant electrical gremlins with the fancy headlights that looked around corners.
I was a bit of a VX fanboi before the derv having owned a couple of V6's but the diesel put me off 'em for good I think.
t brown interior and that square steering wheelMkIV Escort with 1.6 CVH and twin-choke carb.
It was incredibly hard to start on cold mornings and had all the handling finesse of a narrowboat.
Despite only having around 60k miles on it, it smoked like a laboratory Beagle due to the 'they all do that, sir' valve stem oil seals hardening.
It was incredibly hard to start on cold mornings and had all the handling finesse of a narrowboat.
Despite only having around 60k miles on it, it smoked like a laboratory Beagle due to the 'they all do that, sir' valve stem oil seals hardening.
Worst for reliability
MG metro turbo. Spent more money repairing it then I did buying it.
worst as in most boring.
Vectra diesel esatate. lowest spec possible even had wind up front windows. Just wanted something cheap to commute. Lasted about a month offloaded it soooo cheap just to get rid.
Would have been a great car for the next owner. just not for me.
MG metro turbo. Spent more money repairing it then I did buying it.
worst as in most boring.
Vectra diesel esatate. lowest spec possible even had wind up front windows. Just wanted something cheap to commute. Lasted about a month offloaded it soooo cheap just to get rid.
Would have been a great car for the next owner. just not for me.
When I was younger I had a go at car dealing on the side and somehow ended up with a Mitsubishi Colt Cordia automatic, never seen one before and have never seen one since. The brake(s) only worked on one wheel so good job it was hellishly slow. This is with out a doubt by far the most hateful car I have ever owned, far far worse than the Lada that I sold to some bloke who scalded his legs when he selected hot on the heater.
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