What is the worst car you ever owned,and why?

Honeydog

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

A Ford Fiesta 1.8 (non TD) diesel. Absolute piece of garbage.

It had done 100k, was on a P plate (1996) and everything just broke. Literally everything.

A friend steered me towards British cars, and 4 years later I haven't looked back. Had all sorts of Rovers / MGs now (so cheap!) and never really had major issues.

The day I'll own another Ford is when hell freezes over.

Oh boy....hold on to your hat Matty you can expect lots of posts in reply from "MikTreJas" posting how great Fords are...... just for.... providing.......... a balanced view you understand. Nothing else just a balanced view. I shall look forward to reading all of those posts because I like Fords.:rotfl:

les43

had 2 bad cars a fiat strada, nice to drive but once engine was warm the thing would never start! never did find out why had a few mechanics baffled
2nd was what my better half chose as she liked the colour!
vauxhall frontera, had it for 4 weeks and couldnt even start to list the faults that came up in them 4 weeks
i have a ford mondeo estate now, had it for 6 years and on a t reg, work horse and apart form the usual bits and bobs i hope to keep it for another year or 2

mikey72

Honeydog wrote: »

Oh boy....hold on to your hat Matty you can expect lots of posts in reply from "MikTreJas" posting how great Fords are...... just for.... providing.......... a balanced view you understand. Nothing else just a balanced view. I shall look forward to reading all of those posts because I like Fords.:rotfl:

And straight off topic again............

Honeydog

mikey72 wrote: »

And straight off topic again............

[ ] Yawn.
[ ] More yawns.
COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR In the words of UKtim29 pot, kettle, black!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
[ ] I still hate Vauxhalls.
[ ] Yet more yawns.

oldagetraveller

Has to be a Mk2 Toyota Yaris 1.4 Diesel, MMT I purchased new in 2010.
Too reasons, one the MMT has to be the worst invention ever, devised by someone who hasn't a clue and a sacrifice on the altar of CO2. Two, the interior assembled like a Lego incarnation in which the thin hard plastics creak, rattle, squeak except when they've actually fallen off! In fact Lego is better quality plastic and doesn't fall to pieces! Even the damn front floor squeaked and that's only covered in carpet and soundproofing.

mikey72

Honeydog wrote: »

[ ] Yawn.
[ ] More yawns.
COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR In the words of UKtim29 pot, kettle, black!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
[ ] I still hate Vauxhalls.
[ ] Yet more yawns.

I never actualy said vauxhalls were good. I asked how you missed a footwell full of water for two years.
That appeared to set you off.

avantra

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Has to be a Mk2 Toyota Yaris 1.4 Diesel, MMT I purchased new in 2010.
Too reasons, one the MMT has to be the worst invention ever, devised by someone who hasn't a clue and a sacrifice on the altar of CO2. Two, the interior assembled like a Lego incarnation in which the thin hard plastics creak, rattle, squeak except when they've actually fallen off! In fact Lego is better quality plastic and doesn't fall to pieces! Even the damn front floor squeaked and that's only covered in carpet and soundproofing.

Yes, I remember your past comments about the MMT, not very Toyota, I can only wonder if the MMT is a European technology that Toyota implemented and not something of the core Japanese design.

I heard many users of the D4D guise has clutch and DMF problems popping as the car gets older (modern older= 7 years compare with old older= 15 years).

patman99

I never had any issue with the clutch arm on my BX, just the hydraulics. I got to know my local independant specialist very well.

I also had a V. Carlton 2.0 Estate with auto-box. The starter motor used to stick on. Luckily my F-in-L had a spare starter from a Cortina Mk4 1.6 that fitted perfectly.

Can't remember who mentioned Beetles, but it was the screen wash bottle that was powered by the spare wheel, not the wipers themselves.

Honeydog

mikey72 wrote: »

I never actualy said vauxhalls were good. I asked how you missed a footwell full of water for two years.
That appeared to set you off.

[ ] Yawn.
[ ] More yawns.
COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR That was the point YOU went off topic. Only YOU know why you did that.
[ ] I still hate Vauxhalls.
[ ] Yet more yawns.

bungle4by4

gotta be for me, a hateful bmw 525. nothing wrong with the car, and all worked as it should, but i just hated everything about it, it just was not as good as it should have been, and that made it terrible. In the end a bloke in a lada flashed me out of a petrol station and a truck overtook the lada and drove over the front of the beemer... i have never been so happy to have a serious crash in all my life. the most depressing thing was i'd just filled it full of fuel.