What is the WORST vehicle you have ever owned?

[Moses]

1970 Chevy Nova. Bought it for $100. I WAY overpaid. Every morning you would hold your breath while turning the key. I cursed that POS every day till it died.

[m21sniper]

Shame you dont still have that 1970 Nova. They're worth $10k plus, easily now. (and some of them over $50k)

My worst vehicle? Any of the 3 toyotas i owned. (Actually, even though it blew up and was a TOTAL rust bucket, i did like my 33" tired Toyota "monster" truck)

[McLovin]

1984 Porsche 928. I hated that POS. Worst mistake evar by Porsche.

[vonsmog]

76' Chevy Nova. Had it all of three months and hated every minute of it. Stalled all the time, when I could get it started. Traded it in on a 77' IH Scout II with only 33k miles on the clock. Drove the Scout for years and it was great, just eat trannys like they were going out of style!

[raceral]

73 Vega GT. Blew the head gasket on the interstate at 11,800 miles, 200 miles in warranty. Rusted thru within 3 yrs. Towards the end, used a quart of oil every 200 miles. What a POS.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by McLovin

1984 Porsche 928. I hated that POS. Worst mistake evar by Porsche.

LOL.

My 928S is my 2nd favorite vehicle i've ever owned.

[Christien]

97 MB S600. Jesus-h-christ what a POS. Not so much MB's fault, but the previous owners' - the poor car had not been taken care of. It was a repo that I had for a couple weeks. You just knew the car was a ticking time bomb, or perhaps a slow leak, of the financial kind. Not a week into driving it, a coolant line burst while my wife was driving it. Smoke everywhere, 2 fire trucks, 3 police cars, and my poor wife terrified that it was going to catch fire.

Couldn't get rid of that POS fast enough. Lost a bit on it, but was happy to see it go. Not sure if I'd ever buy an MB after that experience.

I couldn't stand our 2004 Explorer when we had it, but that's not because anything was wrong with it, I just think it was a crappy car. Eddie Bauer trim, so top-of-the-line. Uncomfortable suspension, drove like a boat, drank gas like water, had surprisingly little storage space, not very good-looking, loud. About the only good point was its sound system. By comparison, my dad was driving an 05 Trailblazer SS at the time, and it was a better car in every way, except storage space.

[Hugh R]

TR7 don't remember the year. The wiring harness was a plastic flat ribbom and when you moved it, it just broke in two.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Christien

I couldn't stand our 2004 Explorer when we had it, but that's not because anything was wrong with it, I just think it was a crappy car. Eddie Bauer trim, so top-of-the-line. Uncomfortable suspension, drove like a boat, drank gas like water, had surprisingly little storage space, not very good-looking, loud.

Yet you bought it anyway...

[Hugh R]

TR7 don't remember the year. The wiring harness was a plastic flat ribbom and when you moved it, it just broke in two.

[126coupe]

Ford Thunderbird supercharged V-6, cant remember the year 90, 92?
ABS problems, A/C, power steering the list goes on and on.
I changed the spark plugs once, 1/2 day.

1967 Alfa Romeo Duetto Spyder, head gaskets galore, leaks everywhere,
but then I was 17 and had to work on it myself

[Noah930]

Hmm. I guess I'm too young to have had too many cr@p vehicles. But varmint's mention of his Buell has led me to remember my first bike, a '76 Kawasaki KH400A. That thing fouled plugs so often, there was actually a little case under the seat to store extra spark plugs. You never knew if you'd go for a ride...or not.

[RANDY P]

1990 Corvette z-51-

Electrical nightmare, "SYS" lights on dash, body had the rigidity of overcooked spaghetti and it was always acting up.

rjp

[Scuba Steve]

1978 Olds Delta 88. I think it had somewhere between 200 and 250K miles when my grandpa died and my dad (and I) wound up with it. The problems I remember:

- Transmission case had a crack in it when we got the car, had to add fluid every 100-200 miles.
- Dad caught the engine on fire somehow
- Shorts all over the place, it was a roll of the dice whether it would start or not a lot of the time.
- Alignment was REALLY bad. The steering wheel was off by about 45 degrees turned to the left to go straight.
- Car would run on anywhere between 6 and 8 cylinders
- Leaked like crazy along the top of the windshield so it smelled pretty bad in there and the carpet was worn/rotted out at the driver's seat
- Speedometer was off by about 10%. One of the local PD's finest was happy to bring that to my attention after I got pulled over for speeding.
- Endless vacuum leaks and a typical late '70s mess of a vac line routing I never could figure out.

I got really good at hooking up tow chains because of that thing.

[m21sniper]

I don't think it's fair to complain about a car with 200k on the clock Steve.

[Scuba Steve]

The car was barely 14 at the time. We had to guess on the miles because the speedometer was broken altogether when we got it. It just read 78xxx so we assumed 178xxx + however long the old guy drove the car with it broken.

I guess part of the complaint is that they sunk an insane amount of money into that thing while it remained a total roll of the dice whether it would turn over in the morning or if the engine would run. Keeping that car around turned out such a bad decision because it was a total money pit.

[porsche4life]

1990 G60 corrado. It drove wonderfully....when it ran....

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

LOL.

My 928S is my 2nd favorite vehicle i've ever owned.

What was your first favourite?

[VINMAN]

'95 BMW 318i

[Tim Hancock]

1998 Dodge Dakota 4 x 4...... Only new car I have ever bought (it was what my wife wanted). In just over three years ownership and just under 40,000 miles it had 8 problems that often required "paying" for crap Dodge "loaner" cars while getting repairs done. The local Dodge dealer had 50 service bays and they were constantly full with "new" Dodge vehicles in for warranty work. NEVER EVER AGAIN WILL I BUY A UAW BUILT VEHICLE!

Second worse was probably the Audi twin turbo due it being a nightmare for DIY service.