THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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Dec 18, 2010 21:02:44 GMT
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Well, I would say my first car, a Fiat Uno 1.0 4-speed with serious cooling problems, but then that was always gonna be curse word. Probably the Pug 205 van I got from the auctions. I'd driven a 205 GTI which was amazing and somehow thought a 1.8 diesel van version with 166k would be as good... Accelerator just made it louder or quieter, gearchange was like stirring soup, brakes were horrifying, seats were like torture instruments, EVERYTHING was broken and the steering wheel felt like it was attached to the wheels with clothes line. On the plus side, it had 205 GTI pepperpots..... farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3830223421_4cb6540d30_b.jpgLike that, but even more awful...
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Dec 18, 2010 21:08:35 GMT
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hh.hansenits.com/assets/images/vs-ss-ute.jpg* for some reason I can't make the image display. Click on the link for Holden ute awfulness. This. It was the most unholy evil pile o' poo you've ever encountered. I had it from new for exactly 51 weeks before I got rid of it. Some highlights: - The engine blew the number 5 cylinder through the head one morning while starting - The oil leaked. From the exhaust tip. - The lights frequently didn't work. Not the same lights. Random lights - It ate rear suspension bushes on a weekly basis, no exaggeration. After a few months I got bored with it and just dealt with the clunking - The limited slip diff was....not very limited - The exhaust fell off from underneath. From about the middle of the car causing a slight pole vaulting moment before wrapping itself around the rear axle and spraying sparks. - The battery was a nightmare. The size of a shipping container and not fond of holding a charge. The thing that made me get rid of it, the final straw, was the radio. One morning on the drive to work the radio made a funny crackling noise then slid backwards into the dash with a clunk. I traded it the next day.
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2010 15:00:29 GMT by jnoiles
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Dec 18, 2010 21:30:44 GMT
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1992 Sierra Ghia 2.0 4x4 Estate
car was bent out of shape, so crabbed and would never track up Smelt of wee Odd coloured tailgate and battered to death! Smelt of wee Clutch went on first night Smelt of wee Gear box blew up 200 miles after the new clutch smelt of wee Nut randomly fell off the end of the ARB 2 miles before I hit the motorway, causing the front wheel to hit the front of the wheel arch, had to drive it at a curb to push it into place to get the nut back on smelt of wee New gearbox was ok, but the transfer box died did i mention it didnt smell very nice? took 8 hours to change front CV joints, 1 hour for the passenger side, 7 hours for the drivers side because everything that could either broke, was siezed, or just didnt want to play!
BUT! It had one of the best DOHC engines i've ever driven, Strong like ox, quiet like mouse! Despite the fact it was bent it drove brilliantly, and the brakes were brilliant, stopped like nothing else!
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Last Edit: Dec 18, 2010 21:32:17 GMT by Deleted
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Dec 18, 2010 21:35:49 GMT
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Last Edit: Dec 18, 2010 21:37:27 GMT by hairnet
2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Dec 18, 2010 21:40:02 GMT
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a phase 1 renault 19 16v chamade in white,probably quite a rare car nowadays,and i can see why !
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purplevanman
Posted a lot
Way too orangey for crows
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Dec 18, 2010 21:44:19 GMT
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They've all been wibblepoo in one way or another ;D
I wouldn't have bought em if they were really good ;D
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Welder, fabricator, general resto work
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Dec 18, 2010 21:59:57 GMT
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had an load of bloody awful cars over the years but i think the one that stood out would be the stack light merc i got off eBay got the train down to collect it . the pulled it out of the garage and on the face it it looked ok but there was never really any love for it from the word go really engine mount was knackered and the carb was shot so it jumped and juddered about a bit but i've driven worse brakes were ... well curse word really and hand brake didn't work . got half way home and stopped at a services when i came back out it wouldn't start and the battery went flat everything about the run home just made me hate it really so got it home and sold it the next day
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Dec 18, 2010 22:04:05 GMT
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Accelerator just made it louder or quieter, I ended up with the last car on Enterprise's lot a few months ago, a Chevy Aveo automatic, and that was like that. When asked what I thought of it handling it back I replied that it was quite possibly the worst car I had ever driven* and that was coming from someone who had owned an Allegro and TWO Maestros. *This thread said owned, hence the Volvo. Otherwise it would have been the Aveo.
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Dec 18, 2010 22:13:58 GMT
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This Dispite having less that 12000miles on the clock it was sooooo unreliable, and the sunroof leaked and no matter what I did i couldnt cure it. And trim came off in my hand. Often. No love.
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duncanmartin
Club Retro Rides Member
Out of retro ownership
Posts: 1,320
Club RR Member Number: 70
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Dec 18, 2010 22:15:51 GMT
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1980 FIAT X1/9 bought 2004. The heater never worked, one of the headlights popped up but not the other, the exhaust gasket blew and one of the studs fell out, the fan belt broke (and is impossible to get on again), it jumped out of reverse, it overheated regularly, and if you turned the stereo on it killed the battery (to about 11.5 volts so it stalled)! When I took it for an MOT, they disovered the floor was rivetted in so I traded it for an Uno Turbo (which had it's own issues culminating it destroying 4 driveshafts in about 5 miles)! When it worked it was a seriously fun car though. I have more happy memories of that car than of my last 2 cars (Fabia vRS and Superb TDi), and I only had it 6 months. And those were in the autumn and winter!
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86mike
Part of things
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Dec 18, 2010 22:55:30 GMT
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This lump of turd Cost me £150, FSH, the guy wasn't happy when i bought it at auction as he didn't understand the reserve price system. What a over rated piece of rubbish. Didn't let me down ever but was so disappointing in every other way possible. Sold it for £50 just to get rid.
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mrzee
Part of things
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Dec 18, 2010 23:34:57 GMT
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This is such an easy question for me. My Subaru Forester S turbo. This piece of curse word cost me a packet and then blew up about 3 weeks into ownership. Deffo the worst car I've ever owned and the reason why every car I've had since then has cost less than £400.00
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2010 10:49:40 GMT by mrzee
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mine was a 1992 ford escort brought it in 2003 hated it from its dull nhs paint job to its grey bumpers drank more oil than i did water
it was such a bad car i tried to improve its looks by fitting xr3i bits in the end i gave it to a distant relative i don't like he scrapped it 2 days later rip you dull boring unimaginative poor excuse for a car
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1984 Mini Sprite 1.3. I had to think about this for a while, as my Nova was pretty poor too. That Mini was posessed I swear. Barmy instruments, water leaks in AND out. One time I was driving along, and the sunroof blew off. My knuckles have never been the same since owning that orange nightmare.
Thankfully, a mad woman swopped it for a mark 1 Escort 1300GT, which got destroyed outside my house by a bin lorry.
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I'm pretty sure mine was a Laguna Diesel (NON TURBO!). I can't even remember the reg it was that bland.
I think the reason why I hated it is that I had an 80 mile daily commute and needed a diesel, so swapped my Corrado VR6 for it (which was the best car I'd ever owned)
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Fiat Ulysse - horrible build, not nice to drive, pedals were positioned so you had to bend your feet over them, only recommend to people with ten joints in their ankles,
Fiat Brava - equal reasons, dull to drive, interior looked better build quality - but touching anything resulted in that 'feeling' of cheapness,
These are my dad's most recent cars, he's just p/ex'd the Brava for a Serena, which may be the next one. It's leaking from the gearbox already, and fixing the broken heater controls resulted in braking the heater controls completely.
Ford Orion - purely because I bought it for 200 quid, and it cost me 400 quid to get back on the road, and the mechanic did no work on it (head gasket and welding). Nearly broke down in the Mersey Tunnel on the way to work in rush hour a few times. The last Ford I vowed to own, although the interior was quite comfy and 'cosseting'.
Shock horror! Ford Escort mk1 and mk2 - mechanical problems all the time, dreaded whenever winter came along, broke down all the time and nasty unpredictable handling. Interior felt very ancient and drafty even by 80's standards. Thank God for fuel injection!
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
Posts: 1,363
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This lump of turd Cost me £150, FSH, the guy wasn't happy when I bought it at auction as he didn't understand the reserve price system. What a over rated piece of rubbish. Didn't let me down ever but was so disappointing in every other way possible. Sold it for £50 just to get rid. Really? What didn't you like about it? I've had a couple of GTI's, a 1.6 and a 1.9 and I loved 'em, never had a car that fun to drive since ;D Funny thing is that it never let you down, because that's the only thing I don't like about 'em. Bloody french reliability
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1996 Fiat Cinquecento.
Sold both a 2000 Pug 206 and my 1995 Astra Sport in a bid to "cut costs"
The damn thing needed:
New Gearbox (£600) Headgasket (£500 after I made an absolute mess trying to fix it.) Bumper mounts Both seats re-welding Drivers Door Exhaust Many tyres.
We only paid £350 for the car, it ate our savings. It would have been cheaper to run the Astra.
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I've really had to think hard about this one as I've only ever had one really bad car, and even this isn't really that bad. VW Polo 6n. I'd happily have another one, its just that this one was a bit curse word because no-one ever did any maintance before me, including the 2nd time I owned it. Even though it was curse word before I sold it to my father-in-law, I went and brought it back when he was looking to scrap it. I brought it off VZi cheap. The osf wheel bearing was knackered, you had to adjust the steering wheel to usually start it, was mega thursty with zero power (1.6 8v), none of the locks worked, seats were filthy and the bases were broke so you were driving leaning up against the B-piller, the drivers door had really badly dropped, ABS light was constatly on, dash LCD parts were all leaking and had some mega rust issues. For some bizzare reason the father-in-law really liked it and a year later with no tax or MOT (I brought with 12 months of both) gave my what I payed for it. Three years later when he was going to scrap it I brought it back as I was between cars while fixing the Jetta so needed something to drive round in for a few weeks. It had 11 months MOT left and 3 months tax. God knows how it passed an MOT! It still had all of the problems I sold it with but the brakes now hardly worked, the engine surged all the time, the front bumper was held on with bathroom sealent and it really badly crabbed. I drove it round for a month, stripped anything half decent off it and weighed it in. All I took off was the battery, ECU and the altenator.
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2010 2:10:32 GMT by MiniDan
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Really surprised at the pug 205 and the subaru doing so badly in this topic! Both my pug 205s £56 and £50 were great! I'd like to put a vote in for 1993 Corsa, my sister bought it brand new, it caught fire on the way home from the showroom. Replacement Corsa blew an engine at 11,000 miles.
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75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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