What was your biggest POS car ever?

[ted]

Originally Posted by pete3799

yup...S10 blazer for me too. Don't remember the year of it (bought it used) but it was a big POS for sure.

We have a 96 GMC Jimmy, little 6 cylinder runs well.
New it had the factory radio that was such a drain on the battery we had to rewire it to key on only.
So now the memory presets are never saved.
It does have a factory oil line under the engine that gave out on the freeway.
Fortunately shut it off in time to save the engine.
It does drive like a pos so I don't drive it more than 15 minutes from home.

Still an 85 Chevy 1 ton crewcab dually with a 454 (four filthy whores) was my worst vehicle.
No power barely got 7mpg towing at barely 55mph.

[Hugh R]

Triumph TR7

iron block, al head, with Al you need to use studs or inserts, they used neither, plastic wiring harness that would just snap if you moved it. One night coming back from LAX the headlights starting opening and closing on their own rapidly, I pulled over and had to jam a stick under then to keep them open.

[cabmandone]

I have a thread here that covers it.

[stevej37]

This goes back to when I was a teen at home. My father, a WWII veteran, would never consider buying a Jap car. He always bought GM or Ford and in the late 60's and early 70's had nothing but trouble with both it seemed. Galaxies, Fairlanes, Impalas...mostly niggly problems with all of them.
One day I came home from college and he had traded the Chev Citation in on a Dodge Colt Vista.
I didn't have the heart to tell him in was a Jap car.
He had that Vista for over 200K miles...which were a lot in that day. Sold it and another lady was still driving it 5 years later yet.

[pksystems]

Heavily modified 97 Eagle Talon TSi AWD (Mitsubishi)

Funnest car I've ever driven when it works. It breaks ~3months after each repair tho.

[chapo]

BMW 740. Electrical nightmare.

[SiberianDVM]

1985 K-5 Blazer with 305 and auto trans. Ran great for a few years, then started having major flooding problems with a flooding carburator. Paid a garage to rebuild the carb 3 times and the rough, rich, stumbling, backfiring always came back. In hindsight I should have put a Holley on it. Finally got ma enough one day to trade it in on a 2001 Montero Sport.

[tabs]

I had a car that loved to see the mechanic...it went to visit him on a regular basis, my 76 LWB Shadow..

[wdfifteen]

I had to think about this for a while, because their are POS cars that you never expected better from and their are cars you planned to depend on that turned out to be POS.

I've bought a lot of old Porsches for parts or to fix up and flip. Some I drove for a while, some were beyond driving. Probably the biggest POS porsche I ever bought was this '65 SC coupe:



I bought it because I didn't see any damage to the engine. (Should have gotten a PPI ) The only thing on that car that wasn't bent, broken, or cracked was the gas cap door.

The biggest POS driver was a '65 Volkswagen that my girlfriend gave me so I could take care of it for her. (At that age it seemed like a good trade - pu**y on tap and all I had to do was keep this car running). God that thing was a rusted and worn out POS. The last straw was the evening we went out for ice cream and her son gave some ice cream to the dog riding with us. The dog puked in the car, which made the kid puke in the car, which made me want to puke. We were half a mile from home and I parked it by the side of the road and we walked home. The car was such a POS it wasn't worth hosing out. I went back later to get the plates and I never saw that awful car again. It wasn't long before the girlfriend was history too.

[pwd72s]

My 3rd ever car...a well worn '60 Ford salesmans special, the "fleet purchase" type car.
2 door sedan, 3 on the tree, straight 6 up front. Possibly on it's 2nd or 3rd run around the odo...only had it a little over 2 years, until I had the coin to move up to my first new car....a '65 Pontiac GTO.l

The only good thing I can say about that Ford is that it never left me stranded...it always seemed to need something, but it never left me stranded.

[SpyderMike]

I bought my Mom's Chevy Citation from my brother for $1. It wasn't worht it. What a **** car.

The worst I bought was a Pontiac Fiero. I got into lemon mediation with GM and they lost.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by SpyderMike

I bough tmy Mom's Chevy Citation.

"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."

[Bob Kontak]

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."

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.

[motorracer]

My brother had a yugo what a junk and it was new

[Eric Coffey]

Early 80's Audi 5000. Hands-down the worst.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by Eric Coffey

Early 80's Audi 5000. Hands-down the worst.

unintended acceleration problems?

[jorian]

72' Ford Pinto. Piss yellow. Bought for $150. I drove it approximately 50 miles before the dash caught fire. I stripped the plates off and abandoned it at the side of the road. 6 months later the police knocked on my door and presented me with a $500 towing and storage bill.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by stevej37

unintended acceleration problems?

Among many other things. The brakes (and most other systems) were garbage as well. At least it was a gutless pig, so if/when the throttle surged, it really wasn't a big deal.

[stevej37]

^^^ https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/history/the-audi-500-unintended-acceleration-debacle/

60 minutes almost killed Audi off entirely.

It's the reason why a person has to step on the brake before moving the auto shift lever.

[Eric Coffey]

Yeah, I remember that. I also remember the "expose" on Suzuki too, which was prudent...

My very first car (wholly purchased/owned by me) was a Suzuki Samurai. Great little rig, and dead-nuts reliable.
But yeah, I did roll it on it's side once. A friend bought one soon after I got mine, and did the same.