tell us the worst car you ever owned

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mr wilks

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 Lancashire
spin off from "best car ever owned"
don't hide it away any longer , let it out here & now :D what was the worst car you spent your own money on & why ?
for me a H plate rover 820i fastback , build quality was woeful & lost almost all its £7k i paid ( it was 18months old :D ) within 2 years & when i went to trade it for a much older E30 the garage bloke said " sorry mate , i can,t give you anything for it " later sold it for £1500 (then 4yrs old) but it was a total heap of 5h1t !
 
A Triumph TR7. Mr Naive here bought what would have been a CAT C verging on CAT B these days. The fecking thing was a case study in what not to do when buying cars and what not to buy. Still I was 18 and this was nearly 30 years ago :cry:
 
VW Polo "country" edition. 1990 H reg, 33k on the clock when I bought it. Rust bucket, but had a special place in my heart, as I modded it. Lots. And lots
 
Darren Slone said:
Beige Austin Allegro 1975 with a square steering wheel, the front wheel fell off on the way to college :oops:
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:rofl: :rofl: them austin rover b4st4rds ! i think a strimmer would have stretched their capacity for engineering :lol:
 
Triumph Dolomite sprint 16v "Executive sports saloon, the British rival to the BMW" eh-hurm, I'd beg to differ the feckin thing nearly bankrupted me as a teenager, everything from the gearbox, head, water pump, propshaft, brakes to wheel bearings and electrics were bespoke and failed at huge expense!

I suppose I have something to thank it for, it's how I learnt to spanner and read a Haynes manual doing most of the work myself :lol:
 
VW Beach Buggy :D

Could only start it by getting someone to hold the key in the start position whilst I hung under the rear of the car smacking the starter with a hammer

The heaters didn't work and the roof was far from air/water tight

It aqua planned in the wet so bad it was like driving a fcuking hover craft

The brakes were shocking!

But you know what, it was by far the worst car I've owned, but I loved it and still to this day find myself trawling Ebay for Beach Buggies (just they are way to expensive to put up with that s**t again :D )
 
mr wilks said:
Darren Slone said:
Beige Austin Allegro 1975 with a square steering wheel, the front wheel fell off on the way to college :oops:
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:rofl: :rofl: them austin rover b4st4rds ! i think a strimmer would have stretched their capacity for engineering :lol:
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It was my £90 winter runner whilst my 240Z was tucked away for winter, I replaced it with a hand painted Bedford van, which lasted until the March of that year before I scrapped it :D
 
I've never really owned a bad car in the sense that it was rubbish at doing what it is supposed to do.

The worst car financially was undoubtedly a Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 bought for £8,500 and 18 months old (12k miles) and sold with 55k on the clock some two and a half years later for £2,500 (right at the peak of the joyriding and insurance premium perfect storm).

The car I enjoyed least was probably a Mercedes Sports Coupe C220 CDi company car. It wasn't bad but it was diesel and I HATE :headbang: diesel engines. Heavy, low revs, all the excitement delivered in one quick wallop before its time to change up again. It didn't handle very well either and I only had it as a company car because I had 9 points and needed something slower (and with cruise control) to keep me on the straight and narrow. Plus I was supposed to do factory collection but had to cancel it because Mercedes didn't meet their build date and I was too busy at work to rearrange another date. Oh and it took 9 months to come because it was "special build".
 
1982 VW Scirocco. Bought it from a car auction and the engine expired on the way home. Had it rebuilt, but it still ran like a dog. Brakes failed (twice), headlamps went dim when you switched the radio on.... leaked from the sunroof and tailgate...

In the end I swapped it with a more mechanically-minded mate for some stereo equipment. He fixed it up and kept it for 5 years. He sold it and then bought it back a few years later... it was his favourite car! :o

The most hateful car that I have ever had the misfortune to have to use was my ex's Metro... and absolute heap of sh1t. You could move the steering wheel a foot without the wheels turning. The seat collapsed once whilst she was driving at 60mph. :rofl:
 
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wheelbearings, shocks, halfshafts, exhaustmanifold etc...
traded it in after 6 month of ownership in 1986 for a 2 year old honda prelude ex 5 speed man. which was 100% fault free
 
Citroen Visa 11RE, I had to suffer it for a year to get me to and from college. Truly awful.
 
£50 1.2L Vauxhall Nova SALOON! It was pea green! It didn't matter that I was 17 at the time, my mates used to call it Durex! For obvious reasons!


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Vauxhall Astra VXR bought new in 2007.......fell in love with the looks ....... hated it with a vengence after driving it for a week....... during the 2 years of ownership I clocked up 2,500 miles....... yes it was THAT awefull :thumbsdown:
 
My first car, bought off my Great Uncle for £50, was a bright orange Austin Alegro. The only saving grace was it was a 1500cc twin SU carb model but with the skinny tyres and hideous suspension I'm not convinced that was actually a good thing.
 
jim80 said:
£50 1.2L Vauxhall Nova SALOON! It was pea green! It didn't matter that I was 17 at the time, my mates used to call it Durex! For obvious reasons!


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Gosh the Nova saloon!! I'd banished that from my memory until now! :tumbleweed:
 
H-reg 1048cc Hilman Avenger-my first car at 17 bought for £25.00. Went mad fitting roll cage stripped all the interior out and painted it in Talbot rally colours. Looked great, drove like s**t :D
 
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