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2007 Chevrolet Silverado half-ton pickup. For a $32,000 vehicle (The Luxury-Touring package, aka cruise control and carpet) it was cheaply assembled from the entire GM Interiors range. Seats were uncomfortable. Switchgear felt and looked cheap. Fit and finish on the whole vehicle was terrible. Things just randomly began to quit on it from the first few weeks of owning it. The radio burned up twice. Smoking radios are seemingly a Delco special. Last radio didn't burn up but all the lights quit working in it. Dash illumination burned up, and the GM answer to that was "Replace the dash cluster". It ate front suspension balljoints at a rate of two to every ten thousand miles or so, no matter how often they were greased. Steering column fell apart. Check Engine light stayed lit to let you know it was running. It would occasionally cut out. It ate three rear axles, two power steering racks and a waterpump in 50k. Part-exchanged it in for our current car. Last thing I did was give it a hefty kick on the dealership lot. No love lost. --Phil
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1.8 Vectra SXi. Not cos of it's modern-ness or blandness, I can appreciate a new car every so often, just that everything about it was balderdash. Clarkson was right. Thing I hated most was the mirrors. Wing mirrors shape means you can't see a forking thing in them. Rear view mirror seemed to be fish-eye, so all you could see was the entire inside of the car, with a tiny postage stamp picture of the back window lost somewhere in the middle. You honestly couldn't see a thing behind you, ever. Oh, and everything else about it was curse word as well.
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One of these: '86 ford laser - most boring car on earth. Didn't die no matter what was done to it (even a 70kph sideswipe ) but was just horrible, no character, no power, stupidly thirsty and noisy at highway speeds (3spd auto) and darn scarey at them too, no front end grip at all at high speeds, just wandered everywhere.
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Remade In Australia thereimaginarium.com.au
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Interior had been swapped for a leather one, badly! Stained all over and smelled of wee! Auto box reluctant to kick down, or change up, or engage reverse, or anything else an auto should do. Exhaust fell of day after I bought it. Overheated day after that. Thermostat non existent. Radiator needed replace. Towbar electrics ropey. Tow bar sat so high you had to lift stuff onto it. Handbrake failed so replace cable only for it to fail again. Only had it three weeks and it cost a fortune! Two L200s were both disasters. 03 one cost a fortune in head repairs which turned out to be a cracked block. Both leaf springs broke. Cost over £35 a day for every day I owned it(SHE calculated that :-( ). 04 one had big end failure after 8 months. £3k for a replacement engine! Got rid just after. However- loved them both and would have another tomorrow :-)
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--------------------------- 89 Masterace Surf 03 Astra 03 V40 Sport 09 E90 M Sport
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chevy
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I AM NOT A NUMBER
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For me my worst car was one of the first ones.A Ford more door 100E purchased for £5 inc T&T. A number of years later it was an Allegro VP.Apart from a DS21 I`ve managed to stay away from foreign stuff .
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Respect the Past Influence the Present Inspire the Future
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Dec 19, 2010 10:36:08 GMT
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Great thread Had to think a fair bit as out of all the cars i've had I cant remember a truly terrible one. I've chose this Alfa 155 though as the car I was most releived to get rid of. Always wanted an Alfa of some sort and this came up localy, probably paid too much for it at the time (£900), spent £200 on the Speedline alloys, £95 on new spark plugs, £110 on new plug leads (parts were a tad expensive ), fitted the wood rim wheel and gearnob from a 155 Super, £130 on fancy front discs and pads, £70 on hubcentric spacers on the rear, lost patience with it when I bought a new CV joint (£95 ), went to fit it, broke two breaker bars trying to undoo the hub nut, gave it to a local garage to fit the CV joint (only the second time in my life i've gave a car to a garage for a repair), garage said they could'nt fit the joint as it was the wrong one, motor factor claimed it was the one listed for the car and there was nothing they could do, garage had to build the car back up as it was in the road, charged me £50 labour as I supplied the wrong part and they had to heat the hub nut to get it off (fair do's), got the money back for the joint though. Had the car six months sold it for £700. Was a very nice thing to drive though, was reliable, sounded great, the timing belt snapping was a constant worry though, it wrecks the engine in these if it goes which renders the car pretty much a write off.
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72 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400. 95 BMW E34 525i Manual. 80 Lotus Elite, sold 86 Mk4 Escort RWD V8, sold
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Dec 19, 2010 11:14:32 GMT
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One of these I still get cold sweats when I see a Renault 21. It was 7 years old when I had it and it failed it's mot on a rotten subframe. The drivers door actually fell off. I don't mean it was a bit loose I mean it actually fell of and was lying on the road next to the car. All the electrics, were goosed, the heater blower didn't work but it's piste de resistance was to start itself back up when I parked it. I used to come back into the works car park and it'd be in a different parking space. I had to chock the wheels as because the handbrake didn't work if I didn't leave it in gear it'd roll away but if I did leave it in gear it'd grand theft auto itself. What an epic, epic heap of sh*t. I've owned some crocks in my time but this thing had no redeamable features
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Dec 19, 2010 11:35:16 GMT
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a mestro 1.3 city x my sierra blew up up 2nd worst car lasted 3 weeks lol so got the mestro for 50 quid with 2 months tax and test did 50mph flat out used to cut out all the time lights where like candles and brakes where rubbish oh and leaked water in alot id never even go in another one let alone buy one one car that I'm glad you don't see them any more
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welder
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Dec 19, 2010 11:57:47 GMT
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Mk 2 Cavalier hatch. Chopped my beloved Astra van in for it as I needed a "Family Car". It tried to kill me on several occasions by cutting out under acceleration. This I found was due to some jolly pain in the backside "modifying" the carb. Mk 1 Polo Coupe. Everything about it was just awful. Blew up a couple of months after I bought it, good riddance.
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I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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86mike
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Dec 19, 2010 12:45:15 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. 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 Where do i start? I expected it to be great but to be honest my 1.4 Renault 5 was by far the better car. The 205 was slow, noisy, twitchy, uncomfortable. The only good thing was the steering. I would say its a dangerously poor handling car which trys to turn round constantly.
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Dec 19, 2010 13:02:18 GMT
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Definately my 405 SRI that I had about 15 years ago. It was only 4 or 5 years old & It was in lovely cosmetic condition, but the electrics would randomly stop working. Had loads go wrong with it, then the ECU and Head went, that was the final straw. I swopped it with my dad. My dad gave it to his mechanic mate to 'overhaul' for a few months. On my dad's 1st trip in it when he got it back, it did 1 mile before committing suicide by burning itself out (Perished hose).
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2010 13:03:09 GMT by balti pie
Skoda Felicia
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Dec 19, 2010 14:41:03 GMT
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Ive had to think pretty hard, Ive had several curse word cars.. Including a nova that went bang a week after buying it. But by far the worst, Was a green mk3 polo i bought, It was a 5 speed 1043cc one , Dark green with gold bbs alloys off a golf, lexus style rear lights, and some bad engine mods...
Did about 60 flat out, Had buggered cv joints, rear wheel bearings and hardly any clutch.... awefull car...
Sold it to a porn actress who flipped it somehow on the motorway.
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impmann
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Overcoming stupidity is the greatest challenge left to mankind
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Dec 19, 2010 14:52:19 GMT
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Sadly there are two...
I had a truly horrid Rover 214S three door thing. Horrible, just horrible. Badly made, badly maintained, badly designed rubbish. Words cannot describe the depression caused by it.
But probably the worst... a Talbot Horizon. Just foul. Nasty. curse word. Toss. Rubbish. Bad. Teeth-grindingly awful. It was low mileage (probably because no-one ever wanted to endure the tedium of driving it), and in ace condition (it ended up in a museum in Australia... I'm told its the only one in Oz. Sorry - one is too many in my book). The thing that amazes me was the the original owner part exhanged a 2.0S Capri II for it.... WHY? I can't express the hatred I have for that car - or Horizons in general.
No pics of either, as I couldn't bring myself to waste time and money on such awful automotive disaster zones.
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1964 Hillman Imp 1976 Hillman Imp 1967 Hillman Imp (And a few projects dotted around the country)
Just cos something is good for you doesn't mean its good for everyone - for example Marmite does not make good Dog Food.
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Dec 19, 2010 15:04:56 GMT
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One of these: '86 ford laser - most boring car on earth. Didn't die no matter what was done to it (even a 70kph sideswipe ) but was just horrible, no character, no power, stupidly thirsty and noisy at highway speeds (3spd auto) and darn scarey at them too, no front end grip at all at high speeds, just wandered everywhere. When I was 17 I worked at Pizza Hut and we had one of these with a stupid Pizza Hut roof on the roofracks. It was white with beige interior and had the most miserable god forsaken engine I've ever known couple to a 4 speed manual that made tractors seem slick and over engineered. It was hateful in every single way. It was crude, badly build and smelled of stale urine. It was a resolutely awful car. But, much like yours, it would simply not die. Pizza delivery drivers did frankly horrible things to it. Bounced it over gutters. Drove it on the beach. I know of one who took it offroading on bush fire trails on the central coast. It just Would Not Die. I don't think it was ever serviced in its entire life. It got petrol and that was it. Even given that odd reliability I'd still rather take the bus.
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Copey
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Dec 19, 2010 16:08:53 GMT
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a 1998 pauxhall vectra, i had it for one month, picked it up and it was all ok, in the 1 month i blew a head gasket, got the engine into "safe" mode, had a leaky front strut, songey brakes and virtually no handbrake!
my capri gets thrashed about and abused on a daily bassis and has stood up to it, i have a modernish car for a month and i pretty much kill it...
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec 1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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carmad
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Dec 19, 2010 16:41:41 GMT
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has to be the DEAWOO NEXIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a bucket
i bought it brand new in 1996 after selling my mk2 astra and not being able to afford a mk3 i liked the lines on the deawoo
little did i know the timing belt tensioner were made out off cheese a coman problem that should be fixed under warrentee
i spent so much money on it and ended up buying a renault 19 and giving the deawoo to my wife
who then traded it in a year later to buy a mk4 astra
my brother then bought it from vauxhall as he new i had replaced most off the faulty parts
proceeded to fit a red top and it then turned in to the car it should have been a fake gte astra
not a hyundia / vauxhall love child
recently scrapped due to the bulk head completely coming away from the chassis
but it still surprised a few people in its day
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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Dec 19, 2010 17:19:55 GMT
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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 Where do I start? I expected it to be great but to be honest my 1.4 Renault 5 was by far the better car. The 205 was slow, noisy, twitchy, uncomfortable. The only good thing was the steering. I would say its a dangerously poor handling car which trys to turn round constantly. I think you might have picked up a dog there to be honest mate, if it was properly slow then it must have had problems because a well sorted 1.6 should hit 60 in under 9 quite easily. If they get used in town a lot they tend to get a bit hesitant but a good blast usually sorts that out. As for twitchy, they can be until you get used to 'em but once you've got the hang of it you can steer them with the throttle. Chuck it in hard and there's a touch of understeer, lift off sharp and the back starts to come round, and if you wanna stop it coming right round on you, floor it! The bushes in the suspension fail constantly, if yours was proper twitchy the rear axle mounts were probably buggered, did it thump over speedbumps? Front BJ's ruin the handling as well.... To be fair I'm biased because my GTI's were brilliant for me, and I love these cars *runs to buy another*
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ratta
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Dec 19, 2010 17:23:27 GMT
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Worst car has to be a 95 scooby 2ltr turbo Inside was total curse word, the build was curse word and it blew up after a few months
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crazymonkey
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ummm....what was I doing again???
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Dec 19, 2010 17:44:48 GMT
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Well the worst one I can remember the family having was our old 1995 passat. if it was electric it went wrong. first was the speakers, then the wipers then the mirrors and then the central locking box blew up. But the worst was the dodgy taillight wiring. whenever we braked the hazard lights came on as well then there was the mk2 polo coupe we had, must have bodged it before we bought it because couldnt get above 45mph without shaking it to bits. replaced the front shocks, balljoints and a load of other parts but still no joy so flogged it and got a 1.8 toyota carina ;D
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whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
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Dec 19, 2010 17:50:03 GMT
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A talbot horizon,bought it...drove to the fuel station put fuel in, then drove out where it promptly broke down 100 yards up the road and refused to go again...i just left it there ;D
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1984 Subaru GLF Hatch 1983 Skoda 120LE Super estelle 1977 Subaru DL Wagon 1978 Datsun 120Y Coupe 1995 Skoda favorit estate
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