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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #15 on: 11 December 2008, 09:05:29 »
I bought a Toyota Estima (Import) last year for £2300 within 6 months the head cracked and it was going to cost me £1600 to fix. Nice car to drive and the roomest car i have ever had with 8 seats. Ended up on eaby and sold for £300 still paying the loan off now :(
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« Reply #16 on: 11 December 2008, 10:28:08 »
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Mk II Escort. Orion diesel. Renault 11 are the worst cars i've owned. Horrible cars >:( >:(
What's wrong with Mk2 Eccies? They rock. With you on Renault11's & Orions though...dogsh*te.

MkII Escort was the worst car i owned, it was covered in rust (even the pastic was rusty). It would loose power for no apparent reason, first gear didin't work & so i had to start off in 2nd. I forgot to mention that i had a Rover 800 diesel in red, which i hated big time, because of its colour, it was a good reliable car & it would take all the abuse
i through at it, thrashing the arse off it from cold. I just hated it >:(
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #17 on: 11 December 2008, 10:31:48 »
bought an austin A40 farina, was held together with p38 & mars bar wrappers. that soon went to the scrappies.
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« Reply #18 on: 11 December 2008, 15:07:02 »
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bought an austin A40 farina, was held together with p38 & mars bar wrappers. that soon went to the scrappies.


In 1971 I had a 1960 (Mk1) version of one of those and yes, like yours, the chassis was held together to the body with newspapers, filler and prays, with me keeping the engine going. :o :o :o   But I loved it to bits!! :-* :-* :-* :-* ;)

It cost just £15, but I got that back by selling the number plate, so it was the cheapest car I ever owned as well!! 8-) ;D ;D ;)
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #19 on: 11 December 2008, 18:39:14 »
Mk2 Atra saloon/belmont.  Only I did buy it.  utterly rubbish car, only keep it a few weeks.
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #20 on: 11 December 2008, 18:52:50 »
a Mk2 capri....

just generally n a bad way, off-loaded it shortly afterwards to a local scally who wrapped it

Aside from that haven't really bought bad cars
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #21 on: 11 December 2008, 18:57:26 »
Oh, I forgot, an Omega.  A blue one. With tractor engine.

Still, with love and care, not to mention kind help from a fair number of OOFer's, Project Tractor is a decent little runner now :y
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #22 on: 12 December 2008, 18:41:05 »
Well can anyone really have done any worse than an MG metro (engine replaced with very poorly 1.0)...huge holes in floor filled with paper and blacked over and suspension on passanger side lost 90% fluid.

Yet it STILL passed its mot.... :o

First car owned.....upgraded 6 weeks later to a 2.0 Ghia auto sierra... :y
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #23 on: 12 December 2008, 18:51:43 »
I was thinking of buying an omega.
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #24 on: 12 December 2008, 19:53:49 »
i had a seat marbella horrible little car where the back seats was more like a deck chair a piece of fabric rapped round 2 bars

soon got rid for another heap of junk
a nissan sunny coupe 1.6

not had much look with cars

next was rover sd1 3.5 v8 ex police car

then went to a pug 406 then to a renault espace
and now the mig
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #25 on: 14 December 2008, 21:32:13 »
I almost bought Citroen XM once. I still think estates look great.
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #26 on: 14 December 2008, 23:17:22 »
bought a Renault 21,drove it back from the auctions which was enough for me to realise i hated it and sold it to a neighbour who had it for years,i owned it for less than an hour.
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #27 on: 14 December 2008, 23:31:42 »
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MkII Escort was the worst car i owned, it was covered in rust (even the pastic was rusty). It would loose power for no apparent reason, first gear didin't work & so i had to start off in 2nd. I forgot to mention that i had a Rover 800 diesel in red, which i hated big time, because of its colour, it was a good reliable car & it would take all the abuse
i through at it, thrashing the arse off it from cold. I just hated it >:(
While i was on holiday, many moons ago,  I Had a VW Vento that had to be recovered by the RAC-  received a 800 as a hire car, which lasted about an hour before the RAC had to come out to it as it had a sticky throttle- Replaced with another 800 which lasted the rest of my holiday- RAC bloke said it was the first time he'd beeen called out by a member for 2 different cars on the same day!
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #28 on: 14 December 2008, 23:33:02 »
i nearly bought an Omega from near Andy b in Radcliffe coming up to 12 months ago now. What i didn't know at the time was that the car had been on E-Bay for nearly 6 months by then. Its  still there now I Had a lucky escape. Because i paid attention to other OOF members i had a rough idea what to look for .I Hope the  next perspective buyer doesn't get bitten the way i nearly did
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Re: what was the worst car you nearly bought n why
« Reply #29 on: 14 December 2008, 23:39:00 »
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i nearly bought an Omega from near Andy b in Radcliffe coming up to 12 months ago now. ....... Its  still there now .....

Where's that then?  :-/
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