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Worst car ever owned?
« on: 06 January 2011, 21:22:12 »

We've had plenty of best car posts but what is your biggest ever automotive disaster? One that you've kept under wraps for years & would really rather forget about let alone share it with us pee takers.
    STMO has just told us he once had an Austin Princess Wedge (probably his best car)!
   When i was 18 i paid a mate to take me from Worthing to some estate in Brighton to buy a Hillman Husky (Imp With a van back). He had to go so i paid £25 & got as far as Hove after overheating a few times & half the gears not engaging. I left it in Hove/Portslade & never went back. Had to hitch home. Dunno what happened to it, no docs. Only £25? Back then a £1 note would buy you 3 pints & 20 Rothmans were about 60p.
   Does'nt have to be big bucks but i bet most of you have in the dim & distant so c'mon, fess up!!! :y
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« Reply #1 on: 06 January 2011, 21:25:59 »

I had a couple of worst cars...

1) Not long after I passed my test I payed a tenner for a Fiat 126. What a rot box! Did nearly 90 to the gallon though.

2) Hilman Imp. Had it a week and the throttle cable snapped, so hooked the choke cable to the carb and off I went again. had it 9 months and scrapped it still with the hand throttle ;D
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« Reply #2 on: 06 January 2011, 21:38:58 »

I've had some right stinkers...... stuff you normally see on the arse end of a recovery truck heading to a Vehicle Disposal site..... but, even worse than that, I've owned a 1992, J Plate Ford Granada Scorpio.

Dont get me wrong, it was a very well spec'd car, looked meaty(ish) and was almost comfortable, but it was seriously rubbish.

*Performance was terrible, fuel economy was worse,
*It was soaking wet inside, and even though I spent days with buckets of water and spent many monies on automatic car washes, I couldnt find the leak,
*I always got a static shock from it when getting out of the door.

To be honest, I've owned worse cars, such as a Mk5 Escort and a badly rotten Mk2 Astra GTE, but I knew these were old sh1te cars...... the Granada was my second shot at a 'luxury' car (it followed a Carlton 2.6 Diplomat)..... boy was I depressed.  The Granada was supposed to be a step up from the Carlton...... It was terrible.

To be fair to the Granada, I wanted to better the Carlton.  The Omega doesn't really do it for me compared to that car.  I was only 19 when I owned the Carlton, so perhaps I was a little too emotional about it, but bloody hell, it was a minter.  :y
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« Reply #3 on: 06 January 2011, 21:45:57 »

MkII Escort what a rot box. It would just cut out for no reason & i never did find out why, i over took an Artic on the A38 & i'd just pulled infront of him when it died, all i could see was this bloody great truck in my mirror flashing its lights, i was kicking the crap out of the inside of it in anger. I hated that car. I broke first gear wheel spinning it at a junction, had another gear box fitted & sold it.
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« Reply #4 on: 06 January 2011, 21:49:04 »

phase 1 and phase 2 Peugeot 309 GTi's THE WORST cars ever. they were constantly breaking down, i lived in the local GSF shop and when one of them went up in flames due to an electrical fire in the engine id had enough, would never own another Pug after that
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« Reply #5 on: 06 January 2011, 21:52:24 »

1978 Austin Allegro 1100S - leaked like a sieve around the windscreen, got your passengers legs wet, no synchromesh to speak of, carb gasket made of hardboard and the bellhousing exploded when we bled the clutch because someone had put it back on upside down, oh and and it still had the dual controls from it's days as my Granddad's car when he was an instructor.. (Was interesting giving friends a lift!)

1989 Nissan 300ZX - my first - the cam sensor wiring had been butchered and was just 6 spade connectors with wires twisted together with the original loom (poked the big bundle of electrical tape and the engine died!) and the gearbox seal gave up and started dumping ATF on the cats which made a nice smokescreen!

Oh and a 1989 Nissan Bluebird 1.8GS auto - stalled at every junction while warming up so you had to left foot brake, knock it into neutral and keep the revs up with your right foot.. many an accidental emergency stop were had!
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Re: Worst car ever owned?
« Reply #6 on: 06 January 2011, 21:53:39 »

 :-[ Hyundai accent, i was desperate for transport ,what else can i say?
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« Reply #7 on: 06 January 2011, 21:54:50 »

'91 Ford Escort 1.3, was so slow my mother could walk faster. Never started first time, was rough as... (insert witty comment here)

'96 VW Polo, not that bad, but it broke down on me twice. It was supposed to be red but the paint had faded and was more like pink. Imagine going to college in that! I was the only one in my class that drove but I kept it to myself .
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« Reply #8 on: 06 January 2011, 21:56:12 »

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:-[ Hyundai accent, i was desperate for transport ,what else can i say?


hyundai pick up, i hit the brakes at 40mph suddenly in the rain and wrote off the 2 cars in front of me, turn a corner at 20mph and the back end would be at the front, shite heap
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« Reply #9 on: 06 January 2011, 22:09:52 »

1968 Vauxhall Victor 1600. leaked like a sieve through the windscreen, gutless engine, sloppy 3 up a tree gearbox. Threw it in the river Ribble to get rid.
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« Reply #10 on: 06 January 2011, 22:32:55 »

Citroen Xantia .
Chose it as as a new company car replacement  after having six Vauxhalls in a row , and suffered  100 K miles in two years with it.
It was the most uncomfortable ,unreliable and unwelcoming car I have ever had the misfortune to have driven, the memory makes me want to go and lie down....... :'(
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Re: Worst car ever owned?
« Reply #11 on: 06 January 2011, 22:36:41 »

1991 1.4 Ford Escort,got it brand new started rusting after 10 months,gutless uncomfortable and crap to drive.It got stolen and torched,I was glad when it had gone.
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« Reply #12 on: 06 January 2011, 22:37:22 »

Toss up between Mk1 Crapi GT and Sierra 2.0 GL. pobably the Sierra because it was sooooo bland and devoid of character.
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« Reply #13 on: 06 January 2011, 22:40:12 »

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Toss up between Mk1 Crapi GT and Sierra 2.0 GL. pobably the Sierra because it was sooooo bland and devoid of character.

I've had both of those, Ford were way ahead of thier time with the absolutely amazing anti-traction devices fitted to most of their RWD cars  ::) :o ;D ;D

[edit]Sorry Guy ;) :y[/edit]
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« Reply #14 on: 06 January 2011, 22:51:12 »

An engine with almost no grunt you mean ? :D
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