The absolute worst car you ever owned

my 2004 hyundai sonata v6 and my 2003 hyundai tiburon gt, we will just say lesson learned

 

Nissan Cherry 1,5 -83... Oh boy...

 

That's an easy one for me- Triumph Spitfire! Those are total piles of poop! And I love all things mechanical, but I wouldn't let one of those dawn my doorstep ever again. I should have just burned a pile of money and let a mule kick me in the middle. That car sucked so bad.


Tim

 

I test drove a Spitfire on a used car lot many years ago, but at 6' 1", I feld like Mickey Mouse with half of me sticking out of the car. Maybe it's a good thing.

 

95 Ford Crown Vic. On the top of my pos list.

 

Yeah the Triumph Spitfire has to be the one..The trunk won't hold enough parts to get you to work.

 

99 Pontiac grand am gt the fn thing still over heats now an then even after spending 1700 clams on it replacing the head gaskets and a valve job. I should have done it myself but I was just gettin over the same thing on my sons other POS a 90 labaron convertable thank God that caught fire and burned up in safeway parking lot when he let his sister use it. Like Sgt. Mertaugh (?) says "I' too old for this shit"

 

78 Buick Riv. Don't get me wrong, I love all things Buick, it's genetic but, that car sucked. It smoked and never ran right from the time it was new. Rebuilt the engine after 70k or so miles and it was slapped out again after another 20k. We decided the block must have been junk from the foundery.

 

1972 ford mustang if you looked at the car from the passenger side it was mint. The drivers side was horrible it had huge rust holes in the fender, door and quarter panel. It sucked if a hot girl pulled up next to you on the drivers side. I always drove that car in the left lane. We could never figure out how only one side of the car had cancer.

 

I like Triumphs! Hell, I've got 4 of them, but no Spitfires. I will say the absolute worst car I ever had was a Triumph TR7. The build quality was the absolute pits! The lower edges of the front fenders where they wrapped under the nose weren't even painted! They couldn't bother to bend down with the spay gun and paint under there. And the engine! Jeez! Those things would blow head gaskets in a heartbeat and then you couldn't get the head off because the aluminum head corroded around the steel studs and froze it on. I tried Kroil, PB Blaster, heat, fed rope into the cylinder and cranked it, nuthin' worked. I gave the car away to a buddy. At one point he had 5 TR7s and got 4 of them for free.

Kurt O.

 

1972 Chevelle. My mom hated that car! Cherry bombs, centerline wheels, chevy orange. The tranny was chewed up, so I had to drop it into 2L and "shift" up to Drive. The front end was shot. All the bushings were gone! It had holes in the floorboard and since there was no pipe after the cherry bombs, the exhaust would come inside. Headaches galore! That thing almost killed me a hundred times. I kinda miss it.

 

But it took two of them to learn it?

Those aren't even old enough for the warranty to run out, I figure the you-pull-it places around here are either going to have to set aside a big spot for them all because that's where they'll go the day they turn 10 years old exactly - or else they'll just feed them right to the crusher.


My dad bought a '70 Gran Prix from new which was a good car except for the one time it did strand them - one of GM's not so good better ideas - one of the timing gears had nylon teeth to make it run quieter, apparently. So around 40,000 miles, goodbye gear teeth, hellow stranded 150 miles from home while someone in the shop puts a new timing set with steel gears on it.

 

1980 Chev Monza. Found it in a ladies garage in the mid 90's. Under 30,000 original miles and MINT! Yellow with a tan interior. Too bad i didn't know about the 2 versions of the 3.8 back then. The Monza had what was called the odd fire 3.8. What a pile! I couldn't get that thing to idle decent to save my life. It would shake the teeth outta your head in gear at a stop. I ended up piling into a car that was being towed when the tow truck driver made a left turn at an intersection when i had the right of way. God i hated that car.

 

dodge k car, 1.7L 4 speed, no 3rd gear....but still went forward...

 

My 1978 Volvo 242 DL. The DL stood for deluxe! Hahahahahahaha.
This car, resplendent in red, stands high above all others on the BORING scale.
It once burned two transmissions up in the space of two days. I actually paid
for the first one but the dealer did me a "favor" and split the cost of the second
one. I had it for two years. Two of the drowsiest automotive years I've ever spent.
As the miles wallowed on and my eyelids drooped farther and farther I decided to replace it with a Pantera. My eyes were opened WIDE!.

By the way the Volvo's nickname... "The Brick".
It was the same color and every bit as much fun.

 

'59 Mercedes Benz 190SL Roadster - I would have been better off to have set fire to it, without ever driving the thing home! In 1970, I gave $350 and my '39 Chevy sedan for the Benz (I was 17 years old and working at a local grocery store as a bagboy). NOTHING on the Mercedes is cheap! Right away, the clutch starting slipping (no more adjustment). The next failure was the master cylinder. Normally, when a master cylinder fails, you start seeing a small amount of brake fluid leaking down the firewall. This thing had a steady stream of brake fluid pouring from it. In 1970, a new starter bendix cost me $25 (I was making $1.60 per hour). It took me two days to remove the starter, replace the bendix, and reinstall the starter. After many more failures (most every week, something on this PIG broke). I had an opportunity to sell the car for $450. After the deal was made, I had a "feeling" that I should go ahead and kill the engine, but instead I left the car running. The buyer and I were about 20 feet from the car when the intake manifold broke!!!!!!!!! He offered $100 less, which I accepted. I immediately reached in and killed the ignition, removed the keys, and handed them to the buyer. He wrote me a check, which I raced to his bank to cash. The previous owner spend untold amounts of money on this car, I spent about $1500 on it. I don't know how much the next fellow spent, but about 20 years later, my father ran across the car at a different persons home. This latest owner began telling Dad about all the repairs that he was going to make to it. If there was ever any such thing as a JINXed car, this has to be one of them!

 

Bought a 76 Jeep Wagoneer as a 2nd/tow vehicle in about 1999. Was a 1 owner rust free vehicle with 80000 miles on it. After 2 years of owning that one I know why the milage was low. Ever second time I drove it something broke! It must of spent half its life in the shop. The kid I sold it to was so happy to get it I hardly felt guilty at all.

 

My worst car was my first car- a 1982 Oldsmobile Delta 88 tudor. Nobody told me it wasn't a "sports car", and I ended up abusing it more than I should have. The damn thing would fix itself though...that was nice. I'd just ignore whatever was wrong with it and then it would stop having troubles.

 

1988 Yugo. I shouldn't even have to explain after that. But here's the story.
Back in 1990
Bought it for $800 it only had 20k miles on it. Made it 30 miles from the dealership and it threw the timing belt. Called them and they came and picked me and my gal up. Gave us a mercedes loaner car until it was fixed, (a week) Went and picked it up and drove it home 75 miles. The next day I put a new stereo in it and was jamming and the alternator quit. Got another one from autozone and fixed it. 2 days later decided to take some friends to a town about 50 miles away to go out for dinner and a movie.
5 miles from our destination, it threw the timing belt again. Hitched a ride to rental place got another car picked up my friends and went home. Called the dealership and they went and got the car. Fixed it for free.
re-imbursed me for the rental and gave me a trans-am loaner.
Week later went to get the car and the salesman was there like a happy puppy bragging to me that they found out why it was throwing the belt, and that it wouldn't happen again. Walked out on the lot and he reached in and started the car. It sounded fine for about 10 seconds. Then kablowie and oil poured on the ground and it sounded like someone was shaking a box of hammers.
He didn't even blink, just looked me in the eye and said "come on in the office and I'll give you a refund, unless there is another car on the lot you like." Jokingly I pointed to the 78 Trans-am I had just been driving. I drove it home for no extra cash and he filled the tank.

 

1988 Ford Ranger v6................Rich

 

still want 2 recycle it????---i kinda like'em



my worst car was when i didn't have one, other than that a mid 70's something pontiac sunfire--great engine --terrible everything else

 

Thanks for a peek into the future of GM's Obamamobile designed by socialist nitwits that only know how to destroy businesses, not build them.

Hey GM, unless you want to be junior partner to the likes of Amtrak, the post office, EPA, ADA, IRS, SS or DMV employees file bankruptcy and cut the government cord...NOW!

 

1987 Ford Tempo. I bought it at the auto auction for $400. Smoke started coming from under the dash on the way home and I watched it burn to the ground on the side of the highway.

 

1974 SD Trans Am,,,electrical problems forever

 

A friend of mine had the exact same thing happen to him about 10 years ago, only it was a Plymouth Torismo Duster.

Funny thing about it, it was sold at the auction as "sellers guarantee", which basically means the seller guarantees the major components to be free from known problems.

So, he goes back to the auction house and asks for a refund. They pull out some paperwork and start going down the list of what was covered... Fire was not one of them!

It took a lawyer and a story on the local news before the auction house made the situation right.

 

Yugo

 

65 vw ghia, they had sawed off the roof, in the process broke windshield so it was completely removed. shaved door handles but needed bungee chord to holdem closed. 2liter cola bottle holdiing up battery, painted tires red got some on tires, bumpers were pieces of 2x4 painted silver, interior was one steel foldable chair and plywood over missin steel. $500 looking back i cant believe i was dumb enough to actually ride in that, oh to be young hahaha

 

83 Chevy S-10 Blazer. No power! Bad quality In my opinion the eary 80's were the worst years for American cars.

 

In the early '70's my sister-in-law traded her '66 Charger for a "thrifty" Vega. She said she never could figure out why guys always liked her Charger...

 

I called the auction the next day and the guy said,"What do expect for $400?" I sure as hell expected more than 10 miles + having to pay to have a burned out carcass towed off of the interstate! What a jerk; thankfully they went out of business shortly thereafter.