What is the WORST vehicle you have ever owned?

[unclebilly]

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'...

[herr_oberst]

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

Traded a 65 VW bus for this turd.

Grrr.

[Lothar]

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

[Red88Carrera]

1972 MG Midget. Tuna can on wheels! And to think I traded a 67 Camaro for it

[Dave L]

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!

[legion]

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.

[varmint]

97 buell cyclone


could not go 300 miles without a part falling off.

[Hendog]

'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.

[masraum]

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

[alf]

Renault Fuego.

Nothing that required electricity worked reliably on that thing.

[BGCarrera32]

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.

[Laneco]

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

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Dave L

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

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.

[pwd72s]

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.

[vash]

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.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

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.

[red-beard]

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.

[Zeke]

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.

[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