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Worst car owned thread.Robinxr4i
@robinxr4i
Club Retro Rides Member 143
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D-reg Nissan Mirca (okay it was free, but) it was slow, didn't handle, the brakes were sh1t and worse of all it was a "Ritz" special edition.
Oh I almost forgot, the standard Nissan stereo had one speaker in the passenger footwell. I mean what kinda car comes with one speaker!
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Never had any really bad cars. Had a mk6 Escort 1800i Ghia saloon which started rusting badly before it's seventh birthday and often misfired, my fault for buying one when I knew mk6 Escorts rust like hell (bear in mind I got this when it was five years old, and there were rusty ones about then!) Also had a poor mk1 Mondeo back in 2001, I just should have looked at it properly before shelling out. Sold it and bought the best car I've ever owned, a '93 Cavalier SRi 8v. Did 20k+ miles a year in it, at 40mpg, biggest repair it ever needed was a split pin. Some of my cars have been worse than those two, but there's no point detailing them here - none of my hassle has been unexpected, it's a matter of having realistic expectations about what you get for your money!  "My mk1 Fiesta was rusty and handled badly", I could say - WTF, 145/12 tyres on a car designed to ferry my Mum to the shops 25 years ago - of course it handled badly! Etc etc. |
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My fleet:
Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres
A borrowed Mondeo
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DutyFreeSaviour
Europe
Back For More heartbreak and disappointment.....
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Got to admit that when I'm handing over low three figures for a car I don't expect much in return...... I have an addiction to rolling projects! Worst one I paid for was an MGB GT - country garage, the tat out back should've warned me but I was blinded by the horrid 70's colour and beautiful exhaust note. It was definitely on a wonky MOT. Less than 6months after I shelled out the rear spring hangar gave up the ghost - revealing one of the most creative Blue Peter experiements I've ever seen on the inside of the sills and into the rear floor pan.  I ended up with a 6yr total rebuild, the then missus disappeared with it not long after I finished!  A Cortina for £100 with the front end so out of shape it was like a Picasso version of a Ford suspension set up - cam totally rounded instead of any lobe at the back but refused to die on the airfields we thrashed it around....... Company car - worst was Vectra - trim dropped to bits daily, suspension ( sport version apparently ) needed new shocks, bushes etc every service and the steering was all over the place. Never liked moderns and it sealed its fate quite quickly. Convinced the boss to let me use my Scimitar.... ;D |
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Oh I almost forgot, the standard Nissan stereo had one speaker in the passenger footwell. I mean what kinda car comes with one speaker! I could be wrong here, but a friend had a Nissan Cherry that had a radio and a separate cassette player. The radio played through the front speaker and the cassette deck played through the rear stereo speakers, I'm fairly sure this was standard because the car was newish at the time All my cars have had some (small) merit, but the only one I hated was a 1973 MG Midget that I bought to restore and sell. That car needed almost everything on the bodywork and trim, luckily it was mechanically sound or I'd probably have torched it. Every time I took a panel off, there was hideous rust below, previous owners had had a go at bodging it too, which never helps. I think I paid about £400 for it? At the same time I bought a 1964 Renault 8 for £50. I pulled it out of the ditch it had been parked in for the last few years, changed the brake fluid and the oil and took it for an MoT. Which it passed ;D So in the garage I had a 1973 car that needed everything, and I grew to resent. In the driveway I had a car that was 10 years older, needed nothing except to be driven hard. I think the top speed of the Renault when new was 78mph, I found it in an old road test. Mine would still do 78mph, and it did it for hours at a time, even several hundred miles over a weekend. Shame about the crippling back pain, but then what do you expect for £50? ;D The MG, after restoration, paint, blood, sweat - you get the idea. Naturally I sold it asap  The Renault. What a hoot  |
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v8lee
Posted a lot
FoMoCoMoFo
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Oh God, so much choice...
'71 VW Baja Bug. First and last VW I've ever had. Left a trail of oil behind where ever it went and the exhausts made it sound as if two machine guns were following you round.
Nova SR - I think I bought the worst one in the world.
Lancia Delta 1.3 - possibly the slowest car ever.
BMW E30 320i - bought when I could afford to buy a newish car for the first time - money pit.
Mind you, the 100 or so Fords I've owned have all been fine.
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No more old cars
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Easy choice for me
FSO Polonez - I was really stuck for transport and bought this as it was for sale for the value of the tax on it. I soon realised why, no brakes, steering or engine power to speak of. I was so sick of it after a week I went back to walking/the bus and gave it to a m8. A week after he got it the diff blew itself apart...
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1989 Saab 900i Convertible
1993 Rover 416 GSi
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My other halfs 2001 Skoda Fabia. Hateful hateful car.
Slow, ridiculously slow in fact - with anything more than a passenger in it.
Expensive parts, pain in the harris to work on, uncomfortable, curse word stereo......grrr...avoid like the plague.
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May 31, 2007 10:02:40 GMT
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Vauxhall Nova 1.2 saloon. Horrible roloy-poly shitheap. Nylon seats, tupperware dash.
When the glorious day came that we wanted rid, it was harder to get rid of than herpes.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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May 31, 2007 10:06:38 GMT
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rover 213s i never did get the bloody thing started
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 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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May 31, 2007 10:15:09 GMT
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My winner has to be:  1.6 petrol cavalier it started off as a laugh, the "cab of fear" sprayed it matt black (standard procedure for any banger to alleviate the boredom / make sure people know its purely a joke car). Bad points: under steers like nothing I've ever known, and thats in the dry, in the wet pretty much every corner you were praying it wasn't your last, and thats at 30mph, b-roads were basically a no go area. slow, and not in a satisfying way, some cars get away with being slow because they're fun to drive, just aswell it wasnt fast because coupled with the understeer from hell, you'd be deader than a dead thing faster than you can say, the cassette holder is a pos (mentioned earlier in the thread). a friend of mine had the displeasure of driving one of the sportier models...... think it was an sri, basically confirmed that it was an understeery pile of dog cack, only the understeer wasnt as bad because of the wider tyres, otherwise dreadful. bought it for £230, 9 months later and a seized rear brake, headgasket blown i got £50 for it from a local school to do a mechanical course on, it then turned up at another training group where a few mates of mine had to work on it!!!! LOL! never again. |
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May 31, 2007 11:40:00 GMT
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I can understand people being f*cked off when they`ve laid out strong money on nearly new cars and they`ve turned out to be problem cars, but I wonder if some of these sub £500 specials were really that bad or just didnt live up to perhaps unrealistic expectations. In the days when I didnt have the convenience of being able to go home in a different car every night (up to about 3 years ago) I had a string of £150 Escorts, 250,000 mile Cavalier Mk3s and the odd thousand pounder and I can honestly say I loved them all and was sorry to see them go. I havent got the rose coloured aviators on, I just used to expect a pile of curse word and was always pleasantly surprised.
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"My mk1 Fiesta was rusty and handled badly", I could say - WTF, 145/12 tyres on a car designed to ferry my Mum to the shops 25 years ago - of course it handled badly! Etc etc.
