What is the worst car you have ever had and WHY ?
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What is the worst car you have ever had and WHY ?
"What is the worst car you have ever had and WHY ?"
So get posting , even if it cost you a bomb to run or broke down all the time or have an interesting story to tell about it give us all a laugh and post it
Cheers………
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By far the best suspension for ride quality,
But my god what a unreliable hydraulic set up.
The engine was superb,this deserves praise,but
i spent many a night under it repairing leaking lhm pipes,and the thing got through front brake pads so quick it was frightening,
and it devalued so fast i was gutted when i sold it
ROLL ON THE MK1
bert
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Perhaps it was because my expectations were so high, this was the newest car that I?d owned (even smelt new inside) and I kept up the very expensive VWFSH instead of DIYing like I?d always done before but it was a BIG disappointment. Almost put me off VW altogether after @15 years of various Jettas, MK1s and MK11s.
1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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Fuel consumption was absimal - could only get 240 miles to a tank on a long run - the BM 323i i had after did more than that;
The gearbox got stuck in 2nd gear when I came back from working abroad so had to drive down the M4 form heathrow to Reading in 2nd - found out it would do nearly 85mph though . New box was needed;
The CD player in the boot kept busting - ended up duck tapig the cables to the unit to fix it - saved taking it to the garage every other week !!
The sport mode ont he auto box revved less than it did in normal mode - so much for intelligent gearboxes !!
A barge went round corners better;
The brakes were like two sponges - wet ones as well;
And finally it had a HORID velour type interior which just shows how cheap it was to build.
Put me off of the 406 for life :wink:
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It suffered from:
A Rusted fuel tank
A Rust problem in general
Spinning off the road occasionally for no apparent reason (probably a dodgy new shock in hindsight)
Had a
Voracitious appetite for 'points' and 'plugs'
Needed retuning every three months
Also the
Dashboard caught fire
Rear wiper seized up twice
Sunroof jammed half closed
Never passed an MOT first time in all the time I had it
Amazing I ended up with a Mk1 GTI afterwards really!
Once a Mk1 fan, always a Mk1 Fan...
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Driveshaft snapped the 1st week, brakes ceased, head gasket blew, water pump broke, alternator and battery failed. all this was in the first few months.
I kept the car for about 8 months until I part ex it for a Opel Ascona 8) When I drove the car to the garage the gears were stuck in 2nd with no tickover and the brakes wasn't working. The car dealers phoned me up and asked me how I got the car there because they had to tow it away ops:
mk1 silver campaign totally standard lowered on coilovers magic tree vanilla
Just had a full outer body restore
Just had a full outer body restore
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second i would have to say was my Alfa 147 ( i did love that car and still miss it)had a new engine at 11k , no courtesy car and when i complained about travelling 60 miles to the dealership for yet another fault the dealer simply said "you knew where we were when you bought it.
and thens theres the s2 which features in my top breakdown story ever,
when we moved to scotland i was travelling across the A66 and got a puncture just outside the Warcop base , 9 pm it was raining i didnt have a coat and they little army men were on night manouveres shooting their guns
I got the wheel off no problem , however when i got the spare out i knew something was wrong ,a quick count of the holes in the spare and hub told be I had not enuf holes on the wheel so was not going to fit, well the air was extremely blue , i can just about see the funny side now , I had to join the rac and eventually got home at 3 am
Audi S2 Coupe
Mk2 Golf driver (commonly refered to as Betty)
Soon to arrive MK1 cab(xmas pressie)
Mk2 Golf driver (commonly refered to as Betty)
Soon to arrive MK1 cab(xmas pressie)
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Worst car ever had!
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VW GOLF MK1 GTi Covertible Born Feb 24th 1990, still alive and kicking! ( Flick )<a><img></a>
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Mr_GTI said
we should count ourselves lucky you tried again then 8O
Lets just say I also had some very happy times in that car. :wink:
Cheers,
Drew.
Once a Mk1 fan, always a Mk1 Fan...
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Tiddley winks!
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Bidding was frantic, no doubt accelerated by the sellers bids too.
Anyway the hammer fell and it was mine. What a bad purchase it proved to be. I think I paid just over a grand for it and it spent much of the next 6 months at the garage.
It sufferred from:
- A worn head and camshaft
Knackered Carb
Noisy/knackered differential (that meant endless traction problems)
Faulty electrics that caused all rear lights to illuminate under braking
Leaking rear windscreen
Too much catty in doors and wings
Excessive fuel consumption
Frequent cutting out[/list:u]
I'm sure there were more problems too. I lost a shed load of money and in the end I bought a 76 Golf LS for ?300 (all I had left, having put the Ascona back through the auction) that a mate had been lending me whilst mine was in the garage. It gave me good service in the short time I owned it but I had to scrap it when the trailing arm broke away from the crusty bodywork. However that little car started a love affair that's lasted 20yrs now.
DubPartz
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What a machine , these were bought out to replace the Strada in about 1988/89 and guess who needed a cheap larger family car ? Warranty was for 1 year and we bought it when it was 18 months old mmmmmm warranty had run out .
Fuel guage never worked properly [long story] . We bought a sticky pad for the dash in the end and had to record milage and fuel at every fill up . So we never ran out .
Went through 3 sets of front end struts in as many years and at the time only Fiat sold/made them so they were dam expensive . Fuel consumption was always poor , it ate tyres wearing bits where ever it felt like it . The heater control knob was always stuck on demist so your face was always hot , and the interior trim was so poor that bits had to be stuck to keep them in place .
A Porcshe 928 rammed it up the rear one dark night
RIP FIAT
Despite dropping to bits around you and guzzling fuel , the engine was very reliable and the rear "fibreglass hatch" never rusted
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mk1 silver campaign totally standard lowered on coilovers magic tree vanilla
Just had a full outer body restore
Just had a full outer body restore
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