What was your biggest POS car ever?

[speeder]

Originally Posted by thingmon

2014 Dodge 5.7L top end (cam, lifters, etc....) went at ~150k. Pretty common problem. Then the rack and pinion. Good truck otherwise.

That sounds like normal maintenance, this is about big POS vehicles.

[thingmon]

True.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

"Chevy Citation" is such a great name for a car. Ford should have come out with the "Moving Violation" and Dodge should have named the Hellcat the "Dodge Felony." Chrysler's K-car could have been the "Misdemeanor Littering."

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Citation and K-cars were a great concept for a lower cost shiet box.

I don't know all of their problems (save rust) but I wonder how many cost dollars would have been required to make it a step-change higher quality car?

I'm guessing low hundreds.

I had an Oldsmobile Omega 4dr with the 2.5L. That car sucked from a "driving dynamics/enjoyment" point of view, but it got the job done as very basic transpo. I later had a Chevy Citation X-11 with the 2.8L and a 4 speed manual and it was a much better vehicle.

The worst car that I've ever owned was a Mercury Topaz. I don't remember the year, but something in the '88 - '91 range I think, and baby blue. Something like this.

[rcooled]

My biggest PoS ever? That's easy...

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by monoflo

1984 Ford Tempo

So bad....my ex had one, might have been a Topaz like Steve's. She vacuumed the dash at a car wash and all the square back-lit labels for the HVAC flew off into the barrel. After that were guessing at the settings... I hated that car.

[Scott Douglas]

Had to be the first 'vehicle' I ever bought which was a 1958 CJ-5 Jeep.

I should have listened to my dad when said I shouldn't buy it. He saw it run in the daylight hours when he met the owner at the bank on a Saturday while I was working.

He said it laid down a smoke screen like a destroyer. I hadn't seen any smoke when my brother and I inspected it the night before.

Long story short, it was undriveable without a rebuild, which I didn't have the money for at that time.

The pistons fell out of it when we finally took the engine apart on a stand.

We'd never seen that happen before.

[targa911S]

PT Cruiser

[Alan A]

2022 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Awful awful POS with terrible electrical problems.

Second place was a 2015 A8L with the 4.0. Lovely GT car but wouldn’t stay out of the shop.

Third was a Freelander. It ate computers.

All were new. All were awful.

[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by rcooled

My biggest PoS ever? That's easy...

Yup. I worked on one of those for my wife’s uncle as a favour. Easily the biggest POS I’ve worked on but happily did not own.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Alan A

2022 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Awful awful POS with terrible electrical problems.

Second place was a 2015 A8L with the 4.0. Lovely GT car but wouldn’t stay out of the shop.

Third was a Freelander. It ate computers.

All were new. All were awful.

I can’t believe that Jeep resurrected that name again and it’s still a roach. They need to pound a stake through the heart of that one.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by monoflo

1984 Ford Tempo

Same, maroon with velour seats.

At about 100,000 miles the electrical system started getting haunted. Traded it in with a no start situation on a 240SX Nissan that was a hoot.

[motorracer]

My brother had a yougo what a peace of crap

[Deschodt]

Toss up between a late 80s Mitsu precis (turned out that was a hyundai excel, I did not know then) and my Kid's 2011 Mini cooper... At least the mini is cute.

[Tidybuoy]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have never owned a car that was a problem car. Since 1974 I have only owned 3 cars, and I still own two of them. Yea, I am weird, but I prefer special.

I'm in the same boat. I've loved every car I've ever had (except one)

In Order of Appearance:
1968 Bug - first car, eventually rolled it. Bought it back from the insurance company with the intent of fixing it. My parents eventually had it towed away (without my permission).
1973 Chevy Monty Carlo - Loved it, even after the fire. Rebuilt all burned up parts.
1984 Chevy Celebrity - Loved it but hated the color Mauve. My dad gave it to me, so I had to like it.
1989 Chevy Celebrity Eurosport - Loved it even more.
1980 BMW 320i - probably in my top 3 loves.
1988 BMW 528i - loved it and still miss it.
1974 Porsche 914 - loved it but eventually moved up the Porsche ladder.
1988 Porsche 944 - loved it.
1974 Porsche 911 - love it, still got it, still love it.
2006 Porsche Cayman S - love it, still got it, still love it.
2010 Ford Ranger - love it, it's my daily work horse. Has the worst suspension of any car but it gets the job done.
2004 VW New Beetle Convertible - uggg. My aunt just gave this to me, it has 40k miles and is in mint condition. It's baby blue and I don't like it but what am I gonna do - it was a gift. Baby Blue? Chicks love it.

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by speeder

I can’t believe that Jeep resurrected that name again and it’s still a roach. They need to pound a stake through the heart of that one.

They stuck a hurricane engine in it and dropped the price. Google "hurricane engine issues" for ****s n grins.

I still wouldn't have one as a gift. Mine spent so. damn. long in the shop. Back and forth and back and forth like you wouldn't believe. And their loaners were all uniformly awful.

They changed so many piece of the electronics it might have been cheaper to crush it and send another one out had anyone actually tracked it all.

So glad I lease cars - I turned it in early because I just wanted rid of it.

[Eric Hahl]

Dodge Omni...what do I win?

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

Dodge Omni...what do I win?

Another dodge.

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by Alan A

Another dodge.

Noooooo! Please!

[mpeastend]

Datsun B210 hatchback in baby poo yellow (nod of the cap to OJU). My car looked no where near as good as this pic. My friends called it the disposacar. Floorboards rotting out. When going through puddles I would sometimes get a shower from the foot wells. Burned oil but I got to try all the snake oil remedies in the auto parts store and find out everything was crap. Sometimes the rear shocks would rip loose from my jury rigged lower attachments and I could get that car jumping like a hydraulic low rider if the harmonics of the bumps was right. Had lots of fun, practiced heel and toe all the time and didn't care where I parked it. Great NYC car. Sad when it died. Talked to the old man running the Calverton outdoor shooting range about using it as a target for my friends and I but it would've had to get all fluids out and needed to get it downrange in deep sand, then haul it away after. Just wound up junking it.

[Bill Douglas]

MP, that is one of the best cars ever made.

My gorgeous friend Sue Graafland has had one in the family that gets passed around and all the kids got their drivers licence in it since, umm, the early 1980's.

Barry Cole's mother had a 120YSSS that was a racing car for the 1970's. Haha, what car doesn't feel like a racing car at 8,000rpm.

Sounding like an old man, but I loved it when these high end Japonese cars hit the market instead of the God aweful English cars we had.