The absolute worst car you ever owned

LOL!

I had an '88 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe that I bought with a 460 swapped in it. I really hated that car. It ran hot, and nothing electrical worked anymore due to the guy that built it. From then on, I decided to build my own cars. No one to blame but me.

 

a few years ago, car and driver rated those the WORST car of all time. beat everything else hands down. had a friend of mine who bought one new, got so pissed at it after a couple of months, he parked it in the front yard, flattened the tires, broke out all the glass, and filled it full of dirt and flowers. as far as I know it's still there. the dealer gave him his money back and didn't want the car back anyway. I think they had a pile of dead ones on the lot already.

 

I bought a brand new 1975 Chevy Vega wagon........nough said! I hate the SOB.

 

Wasn't Yugo short for YuGoFukYrself?

If not, it should have been.

 

I work will a very wise and very old mechanic who once said "There all junk when the bring them to us to fix." I live buy that! I had a guy ask me the other day which was better the duramax or cummins I said there both junk and I drive a cummins.

 

my worst car was my first car,75 chevy monza,paid $60 for it and if i drove it that day i had to work on it that day.it was a rollscanhardly

 

76 Ford Granada. Total Piece of Shit.

 

worst car i ever owned was a renault alliance

 

The wife had a 79 T-Bird, also a Total Piece of Shit.

 

Smellytank

 

1999 Ford Escort ZX-1 or whatever the hell the designation was. I was leasing this piece of crap and locked into it for 3 years.

Supposed to be a killer sports car. Went like stink, when it went. But the seats didn't fit me and wore a raw spot on the back of my calves. Back to the dealership 3 times to get the cruise control to work properly and to get the speedometer to stop flipping madly and to get the tach to work when I turn the lights on. During the few times I actually have it to drive I discover that the motor pulls down hard everytime the air conditioning compressor kicked in, and it kicked in all the time, even when off, to keep the lubrication. (just sucking horsepower) Complain to the sales manager. Take him on a drive to show him the compressor issue and all he did was shrug his shoulders and tell me that's what it is and the way it is...sorry. We turn around and right on que, the speed sensor goes and the car bucks and surges all the way back to the dealership. Car spend 3 weeks in the shop, I go pick it up and the car starts bucking and surging 500 yards out of the lot. Another 3 weeks in the shop. Broke a timing belt 2000 km later. Somehow this wasn't covered under warrenty.. cost me $1200 and a weeks worth of time. Lost the trans shortly after. Locked up between gears. Go figure it's when I'm 150 km from home. Big tow bill. Dealership claimed it was because of overly aggressive driving and again wouldn't cover it. I threatened legal action and even then do they agree to covered the parts and a portion of the labor. 2 weeks to get that fixed. Apparently the car was too new and parts were not available. I get the car back and the clutch isn't right. back to the dealer for 2 more weeks. 3 weeks later the electrical start acting wierd. (Covered) but it took a week to fix. I then get about a year of carefree driving. Except the compressor issue and the raw spot on my calves. Car fights back with a blown constant velocity joint...surprise, not covered and another week. While they have it they tell me the performance exhaust has rotted out (16 months) and it's not covered. I storm into the sales manager and tear a strip out of him. Ford fixes the exhaust. A short while later, the right front strut siezes. (Covered). Then the electrical gremlins are back with a series of warning lights flashing for no apparent reason. 3 trips back to the dealer and they can't seem to find the problem and tell me to live with it. 2 years in and I've had enough. I throw the keys and a file folder of repair bills at the dealership, threaten to take legal action. The Owner of the dealership agrees this is unacceptable and cuts me a sweet deal on a new Ford F-150

 

1985 Mazda 626. Couldn't keep head gaskets in it.

 

looks like someone has a little to much photoshop time on there hands,lol

 

About even??

 

'96 S-10 that needed something all the time. 2 sets of ball joints...uppers and lowers, torque converter...twice, cracked head, had the ENTIRE bottom end redone at 18k miles, and went through brakes every 15k miles. It was my first vehicle but it was also the most maintenance.

 

Without really digging into my memory....a Triumph Stag that a friend talked me into taking on a trade

 

The only real lemon I ever bought was a 69 Ambassador wagon from my father-in-law. Actually made 2 mistakes here:
1)-buying an AMC product
2)-buying ANYTHING mechanical from my father-in-law

Had to put in a new trans and master cylinder within the first week.
Trans refused to downshift out of high gear. Had to be manually pulled into first, then skipped second and shifted straight into high.

Vicious circle of constant replacing fuel pump, alternator, starter.

Rode nice and had power windows and cold A/C.

Drove it to the local salvage yard and sold it for scrap metal.

 

'71 Ford Pinto.

The less said about that the better.

 

77 Tbird, Sob ate up 4 transmissions in 5 years.

 

1984 Chevy Blazer. I still see RED

 

Ha! I think I already posted it here but I had one of those, a 76 2 dr. In my defense I bought it for the engine and brakes for my Fairlane.
It ran good but the quality control was really shitty; you could fit your fingers in some of the body gaps, and this car was original, never wrecked or apart. It drove like a truck and the steering wheel liked to shimmy badly if you hit even a small bump. That turned out to be partially caused by loose bolts on the steering stabilizer.
Good car to drive to work, nobody gave it a second look other than to admire its sheer beauty in faded gold metallic

 

'77 Toyota Pickup I bought from my Dad (who traded in a nice low mileage Cheyenne 4x4 pickup for it - regretted that one!) . Slug. Rode like a buckboard. Couldn't haul much - gutless. wandered all over the road. It had more squeaks and groans than a jazzercise class in a nursing home. Left me walking once and my dad twice in less than 80K miles. Replaced axle bearings, head gasket, went through the carb, distributor failed. But it got great mileage...NOT.

Gave it back to Dad, who traded it in for a '90 S-10 4.3 V6. 25% increase in mileage, rode nice, quiet, lots of power. That truck racked up 150K miles with nothing but tires and gas. My nephew has it now and loves it.

 

My first car. It was used and at less than 50,000 miles went through a wiring harness (fire) and a manual transmission within a year. Le Sports Car my ass, it couldn't get out of its own way if you gave it an extra shove!

 

WoW...

I have never really had any bad cars...

 

Biggest PoS was a '69 Corvette roadster with 427 4-speed I bought in March 1977. Cowl shake, door windows loose in the tracks, the neutral safety linkage would hang-up with the shifter, rear end alignment was a pain, fan blade through the radiator, then ran over it and puntured a rear tire, hardtop would leak so the water would drip in my crotch, etc., etc.. The 427 (minus fan), was the best part of this PoS.

All this happened in less than two months I owned this shit box. Same day I sold it I saw a '69 Plymouth 4-speed Road Runner at Willy Owens Used cars in downtown Greenville, SC for $950. Went back and bought it. I bought one new in 1969. Both of them were GREAT UNBREAKABLE cars. I should've kept #2.

Ever since, no more Corvettes for me.

 

2000 pontiac Grand Am GT
recalls: 8
Head gasket went... $2100.
Fuel pump...$600

My wife had the identical car and identical issues.

paid : $28,000 Canadian new... in 2003 with less than 25,000 miles on it, went to trade it in where I bought it. They're offer $3500. Tried at 3 different dealers and all said the same.

How do I feel about the End of Pontiac and GM in general? Kindly turn off the lights when you leave.

 

Every chevy i ever had

 

Lexus SC400. Don't believe the japanese propaganda. It cost me a fortune; it need u-joints but you can't buy u-joints. you have to buy a new driveshaft (+$500), power window motors, starter and various knobs and switches. It was the first and last Jap car I'll ever buy. I'll stick to domestics.

 

Granted these can be all opinions, but for me it was a 1987 Bronco II. three 2.9's, two A4LD,s, a wiring fire, gas tank leak, and cheap plastic all within the 80,000 miles of its lifetime. Currently, my wife's 1999 S10 Blazer is giving a run for its money.

 

I hope you meant UNBREAKABLE--unless you mean that they ran so well that there was no stopping them