What is the WORST vehicle you have ever owned?
 

I'll start - 2003 Dodge 2500HD with Cummins Diesel
I just went 8 consecutive days without something going wrong until today when it acted up temporarily and 'threw a code'...

Peugeot 304. Don't remember the year, I'll say '72.

Traded a 65 VW bus for this turd.

Grrr.

1994 Ford Taurus Wagon. Can you say Lemon!!!

1972 MG Midget. Tuna can on wheels! And to think I traded a 67 Camaro for it http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/shake.gif

2000 VW GTI - a really cool, nice car but a nightmare to deal with the random crap that broke in my 2 years of ownership. Purchased new - the last VW I will ever own

Ford Pinto. With Zippo option!

1985 Chevy S10.

Bought it as a beater, hoped it would last a year. Floor was rusted out, bed was a different color than the body, passenger door was a different color than the body and bed. But it was a stick, and I wanted to learn, so I bought it.

I left the parking brake on the third day I owned it and blew the seals on the ends of the axles. Differential fluid pouring out into the drum brakes...

Got that fixed and put new tires on it, effectively costing me what I paid for it.

I bought it during the spring. A dry spring. It didn't start the first day it rained, about three months into ownership. There was a short somewhere between the ECU and the fuel injectors that acted up when it rained. I was going to have to pull the engine or the transmission to find it, and it simply wasn't worth the effort on that truck.

I donated it to the American Lung Association and took a tax write off, which I regret after finding out what they did with the money.

97 buell cyclone


could not go 300 miles without a part falling off.

'73 or '74 (can't remember) Datsun B210. I bought it off the grandson of some little old lady. The car was in her name and the grandson was selling it for her. It had low miles, something 30K and was in extremely good appearance...but it went through oil like the EXXON valdeze!! I paid premium for it, about twice market value, thinking it was a great little car. I got hosed on it. Shortly thereafter, I had to do the same the someone else. I couldn't afford to take that kind of hit. I still feel bad to this day for passing on this "fraud" to someone else.

81 Olds Omega. 4 door, 2.5L. Couldn't get out of its own way.

Renault Fuego.

Nothing that required electricity worked reliably on that thing.

1984 Mazda B2000 pickup

Actually a nice truck when new

I got it like 19th hand

Water permeated through the frame rails about splitting them in half from rust. Ran so poorly that when the engine bucked it caused the front of the box to slap the back of the cab- getting on the freeway would be like bam-bam-bam-bam with the thing flexing in half. Bought it out of the parking lot of a Walmart.

I had a 79 Fiat and a 1976 Jaguar. Both saw many years as daily drivers...

Clearly I am a glutton for punishment - LOL!

angela

That's a shame. I've heard a lot of bad things about the newer Audi's and VW's.
Considering how good the earlier VW cars were this is a complete disgrace.
I hate to admit it but most Japanese cars are better.

My worst car ever was a Alfa Romeo Alfetta 4 door sedan. Complete piece of crap but it did start and run everyday. (after hours and hours of repairs and service work)
Rust everywhere you looked. Pulsing brakes... Smoky engine... Poor shift... Broken window lifts and doors that opened automatically! Electrics were a complete joke.

It was just plain worn out. I was probably a much better car when new but Alfa's have always been a bit delicate.

1960 Ford...straight 6, 3 on the tree...probably 150K instead of the 50K on the odo when I bought it. Many things went wrong, but amazingly the straight 6 kept on chugging...but got tired of being nickle & dimed to death...especially when it wasn't worth the dimes in the first place.

1984 jeep cherokee. 4 cyl, and like a genius i lifted it with blocks..and put 31" wheels on it. it could barely move. it was gutless. i drove up the grapevine (I-5, north of LA) and i was in the same lane as the big rigs, going up the hill.

i remember, i was choosing between that jeep or a CJ-7..i chose poorly.

in 1987 while living in Belgium I bought a 1983 Citroen GSA. Drove wonderfully, comfortable, great fuel economy. Spark plugs started popping out so we welded them in. Oil drain stripped, jb weld. Buddy got out of the back passenger side, door came off frame (parachute cord repaired). Driving down the road, the hood latch failed followed so very closely by the back-up catch failure!!! More parachute cord. Oil started seeping around the valve cover, rtv silicone took care of it. Driving down the road the cv joints decided to just give up without any warning, the steering linkage gave way at the same time. Repair costs were going to be north of 20,000 BF.

I bought the car about March 1987 for about 28,000 BF, sold about August 1987 for 900 BF, the value of the hydraulic unit which was in pristine condition. Bought a 1976 Ford Escort for about 25,000 BF. Better vehicle.

Hmmm.

1991 Taurus - Work vehicle. Hated it, since I was used to "sporty" cars. Truely had no character and it was squirley above 85 mph. Oh, and my HAM radio equipment burned out 2 alternators in 6 months.

2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Leased and returned happily. 3 transmissions, 2 sets of front rotors and auto door locks that didn't work. 35000 miles total.

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

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.

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)

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

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!

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.

LOL. :D

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

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.

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

Yet you bought it anyway...

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

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:mad:

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.

1990 Corvette z-51-

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

rjp

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.

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

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

What was your first favourite?

'95 BMW 318i

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.