What's your longest 'put up with' car issue?

My wife backed into my Mazda about 500 miles after I bought it off the showroom floor. The rip in the cover is still there. It's not winning any beauty pageants.

Clutch judder on my Land-Rover. Drives me mad. I've made it better, but never cured it completely. I've changed every single component, more than once, over twenty four years, and it's still there.

I drove my Mini for over 8 years without a screen wash reservoir... Never found one that would fit, and was too lazy to actually find one and fit it... For TÜV I put a random reservoir in the boot, telling the examiner it "just fell off". Always worked.

Tracking has needed doing on my Volvo daily for the past year, steering wheel not centered as a result. Planned to get it done when I changed the wheels... have yet to change the wheels.

With the Datsun ... well ... how long you got?

The CVT on my Panda has been causing trouble for the last 6+ years. The problem - just a little thing called 'creep', where the car will try to drive forward at junctions, and you have to keep your foot on the brake to stop it . Oh and it doesn't go into any other gears when this happens, so no putting it into neutral to stop it.

I have accumulated a vast range of CVT bits to help fix the problem, but I never seem to have time to try and fix it.

Vibration at motorway speeds in the Capri - i sometimes seem to have improved it...other times not. It's just what they do...still annoying tho!

Speedo is out by 30% and there's been a vibration which has been present since I got the car 11 years ago which starts at 65mph and is very violent at 70mph. Around 100mph it smooths out somewhat...

The first was caused by fitting a longer diff and the second only revealed its more entertaining facts via an engine change and 100%+ power increase.

So the Carledo makes a funny noise, it's a sort of metallic whirring, from the vicinity of the gearbox, rather as if the propshaft is rubbing on something! BUT, it only happens when accelerating hard out of right hand bends! It's been the same since I built the car in 2010. I've been under it countless times, i've had the gearbox out (for other reasons) there are no visible rub marks anywhere and the prop and it's coupling are so far from anything that they CAN'T be fouling! In 15000 miles the sound has been completely predictable and has got no better (or worse) It takes the dragstrip in it's stride (and no noise cos it's not going right) and has been hammered round many laps of Castle Coombe (with noise on most corners, Coombe being a right handed track)It does everything else right, corners as if on rails, pulls strongly, stops brilliantly, is UTTERLY reliable and surprisingly good on fuel. All except for this blanketty blank NOISE!!!!!

I have learned to ignore it, but it drives me crazy sometimes, new passengers ALWAYS comment and returning ones give the snarky "not fixed that noise yet then?" comment that is guaranteed to make me wish i'd fitted an ejector seat!

Steve

Horrendous cam rattle on my Capri because the lobes were worn. Been like it for about a year, ended up changing it at a car show.