What is the WORST vehicle you have ever owned?

[GothingNC]

78 Honda Accord with the CVCC engine.

[imcarthur]

2000 323i BMW. I was overjoyed when it drove away.

Ian

[VincentVega]

Ouch, I'm looking at those. What happened with the bmw?

I bought a 1976 Olds Cutlass in hs. On the way home the starter crapped out. It went downhill from there.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by bell

87 mercury topaz......bought it from my dad.....was perfect in every way except for the electrical gremlin which would make it eat transmissions, cant tell you how many times that thing stranded me in the wrong parts of towns LOL

Hmm, we had a Topaz too for a short while. I don't really remember that many issues with it. I actually usually don't even remember owning it, but I know we did. It was just a horrible car. Looks, performance, ergonomics, etc....

[austin552]

1974 Porsche 911s (Barn find)
Its a love/hate relationship I guess.

[lendaddy]

Originally Posted by 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.

Yea that A6 was probably #1 for me ,followed by my '88 BMW L7, great car in some respects but it always needed something. My 1995 Range Rover was surprisingly good to us till it chit the bed after maybe 160k miles...at that point literally everything started failing or falling off.

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by VincentVega

Ouch, I'm looking at those. What happened with the bmw?

Leaks (plugged sunroof drain, taillights), rust, recurring airbag light (pass seat sensor, seatbelt heads etc). A combo of crappy car & deferred maintenance.

Ian

[Porsche-O-Phile]

My first was the worst - 1977 Chevy Camaro. Jeezus H. Christ on a pogo-stick was that car a miserable POS. Boring, straight-6 (not the V8 Z28, this was a regular boring Camaro). Must've come pre-rusted. Dead suspension, water pump failed a couple days into ownership. Seats were ripped to hell, windshield leaked. Wipers didn't work. Heater didn't really work (might've been related to the water pump), bald tires, brakes literally down to the rivets on the pads. I paid $500. The upside is a year or so later I sold it to our town drug dealer for $1600 (cash, not product) because he thought it was "b1tchin" (I'd done a bunch of work to it by that point). I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Took the money and ran. Realizing his mistake, he came looking for a refund a week or so later, heh-heh.

I took that money and bought a V8 "Formula" 1978 Firebird. Also a miserable and infernal POS that had been shoddily repaired by some stupid teenage kid a few towns over. But my GF at the time liked it, it had a V8 (admittedly a 305, which is about as worthless as a straight-6 in a Camaro but I didn't know it at the time), it had T-tops and air conditioning and reasonably fresh paint and cool rims. So I bought it. The guy had painted over rust, which bubbled it, the t-tops leaked, the suspension/handling was worse than the Camaro, etc. To its credit I did manage to own it for a couple of years before it finally became too rust-ravaged to be safe anymore (was getting into the frame). Junked it.

I will never, ever, EVER own a 1970s American car of any type ever again. I will also not ever own an F-body car of any vintage ever again. Both were horrible.

[wdfifteen]

96 Dodge van. When the water temp gauge never got up to the normal range at any time in the first 1000 miles I took it in. The tech said, "The heater puts out good heat, so it must be the gauge." Period. He didn't even open the hood. It was downhill from there.

[equality72521]

1976 Mustang 2. God that was the biggest POS I've ever had the displeasure to own. I was 16 and it was my first car. It a had a 302 and auto tranny. I honestly worked on that car every F#&%@$# weekend for six months. After six months I had enough and put it up for sale. My dad convinced me to sell it to him and he promptly gave it to my younger sister. Guess who got to fix it every time it broke down after that. Yep, me. Finally, the timing gears (plastic) disintegrated and my dad gave up on it at my request.

[ODDJOB UNO]

1976 ferd f-250 4x4 with the state of the art(?) 360 motor and the full time 4wd.


never did i get an OHV stuck in snow/mud/sand like that one. what a PITA POS! always parts failing/falling off. could not get out of its way going up any hill. drank gas like no ones bizzness.


kind of soured me on ferd products for most of my life. with the exception of shelbys/boss'/gt 40's etc.


literally cross yer fingers everytime and hope it started, then the fun really began usually 100-200 miles away.

[Embraer]

'88 Chevy Blazer. loved the 4.3 and 4wd, but the rust was just insane.

other than that, i've been lucky...ive enjoyed every car i've owned, and never been stranded anywhere.

[Drdogface]

Tough call here. Between '68 Sunbeam Alpine and '92 GMC Sonoma. Both were total crap and kept me angry at them for a year. Finally traded the Alpine in '69 for a '68 Porsche 912.

[kach22i]

My best and worst are the same car - bought new.

1990 Geo Tracker, by the middle of the 19th year a leak at the exhaust manifold gave me carbon monoxide poisoning. Rust and corrosion of the electrical system killed the car before it could kill me.

[rick-l]

2006 Chevy Colorado. A known design flaw that GM won't stand behind. (Valve resonance eats the seats) They won't fix till the thing barely runs.

Also cheap to the point of being stupid. Comes with one exterior door lock. My Wal mart underwear has better material in it than the seats.

[willtel]

2006 VW GTI, 9 unscheduled dealer visits in 21000 miles. I have never been so happy to watch a vehicle drive out of my life.

[JavaBrewer]

Leased a 1996 VW Jetta - first year of the new third generation. Lets see...what DIDN'T go wrong with that car...JHC...

It was so bad we prepaid the final two months of the 2 year lease and dropped it at the reclaim facility in hopes of avoiding another costly repair.

[GG Allin]

1989 535i - ****box from day one. Bought the car used with what I thought was 33K miles. Turns out the odometer had been broken for about 8 years. The car was actually a pretty good car. It's the fact that I was seriously ripped of on it that I always hated it. i drove it for close to 8 years. Finally put it on eBay with a blown head gasket for $5.35. no reserve. I fetched $1200 for it.

[motion]

1983 Porsche 928 - First Porsche, almost the last
1992 Range Rover County - What a POS
1999 Suburban - Bought new. Immediately started falling apart
2004 Ford F250 PSD - Bought new. In the shop 27 times in the first 2 years

[Rikao4]

TR4 A..most likely not the car itself..
but that guy 'LUCAS' sure had alot to do with it...
it was always 'maybe' it will start..

Rika