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

Honeydog

mikey72 wrote: »

Since we're guessing, you spend a lot of time sitting down, only looking forward, blinkered view of everything else around you?
Very touchy if it's pointed out you haven't looked in the back of your car for two years.

Make that very very touchy.

Footwell is in the front!!!!

mikey72

Honeydog wrote: »

Footwell is in the front!!!!

That doesn't actually make it sound any better.

fadetogrey

Many of the cars I had at the start,triumph herald,ford prefect,austin A40 etc you turned the key and either pushed or pulled a separate button to start the engine,I think a vauxhall chevette was the first car I had where the key also started the engine.Fast forward many years and now lots of car makers honda,merc etc are making a big deal of having a separate button to start their engines.

Honeydog

mikey72 wrote: »

That doesn't actually make it sound any better.

Again. Your point is?

petrolhead69

2009 Vauxhall Insignia cdti exclusiv. most unreliable car I've ever had with 20+ breakdowns with major failures and lots of parts needing changed that you would never expect of a car so new, and it has spent at least 6 months total of its life sitting immobile at various vauxhall dealers waiting on backordered parts coming in. Its also not as responsive as its competition and the seats are very hard and I cant find a comfy position in it for love nor money giving me serious backache and the trim is all cheap hard plastic where you rest your knees and elbows and the interior squeaks and rattles like mad. rear visibility is terrible and the handbrake is awful, I leave it in gear having grown up with, and still prefer bangers but one of my colleages had his electric handbrake on his one fail that caused it to roll from the telephone exchange he was working at into the path of an artic lorry doing 55 which ripped the insignia in two. Give me a £500-£1000 passat, 406 or audi a4 or a6 anyday of the week over that pile of poo.

GRM

85 VW Polo. Caught fire due to a fuel leak - while I was driving it.

split_second

wouldnt call it a bad car but my 1993 ax had a different level of brake pedal every time i pressed it, the petrol gage level went between where it actually should have been and 1/4 of a tank less, up and down regularly.

then after nearly 2 years of driving, my dad informed me the clutch was in the wrong position or something, he adjusted it and it was like it was set in concrete, within a month it was sold as it used top give me a sore left ankle

cyclonebri1

Honeydog wrote: »

Final straw was when lights went off (all of them!) as I was driving along! At that point I traded it in for the Ford. I will never have another Vauxhall.

And unfortunately in a few years time you will be saying the same thing about the Ford you just bought:rotfl:

There's actually a moral, something like don't decry any particular brand they are all equally as good... or bad.., insert your wording dependant on wether a pessimist or an optomist

Lum

Indeed, this is usually a problem associated with older Fords.

I think I mentioned in another thread the Escort van I followed after nearly* running into the back of them due to their lack of functional brake lights.

As I followed I observed that turning on the indicators caused the sidelight on one side to light up, and braking while the "indicators" were on would cause the indicator to light up.

Back in my youth I had a Mk4 Escort hatchback which had a wonderful design flaw, a weld point in the runners in the rear hatch that created a water trap directly above the multiplug for the rear light clusters. Over the years this weld point rotted through causing water to pour directly onto that plug. I was replacing the bloody plug every six months until I got a mate to fill the holes with fibreglass thus redirecting the water collection and rusting to a less critical area.


* By which I mean I braked a little later, and thus harder, than I would prefer, not that I drive so close that I had to do an emergency stop

michaelvintner

Paradigm wrote: »

A 1979 Alfasud, great to drive when it worked.
Biggest problem was it developed rust at the 1st sign of a rain cloud, you could almost see it forming before your eyes!

Did it also refuse to start in the morning after it had been raining?