What worst car have you bought ever?

[Kathy & Rick]

<Worst car for me was a 61 Metropolitan.> <Poor guy, I still lay awake at night in thinking how he got screwed.>

Mike

Maybe at the time, Mike, but not nowadays. Restored, those little guys

can bring up to $16k for a convertible, less for a coupe. A friend of mine

in the next town loves them, and he just brought home another one that

I thought was, charitably, mediocre, for I think a couple thou'. BTW, a

Datsun L16, L18, or L20B fits and can make them fly!

My worst? Definitely an '84 Chev pickup. The lower end of the engine let

go at 28000, and I was at war with (in order): the Svc Mgr, the Dealer,

Chev Natl Svc Dept, and GM Natl Svc Dept. since the warrantly expired at

24000. They accused me of being negligent in maintenance, which was

the wrong thing to do because (1) I am anal about maintenance, (2) I had

documentation, and (3) I was in parts and service at Bob Sharp at one time,

so I know better than to be neglectful. I also know what can be done to

bend the rules to help (and keep) a customer,

I don't know how many sales of Chev or GMC trucks that cost them by my

negative testimony and salesmanship, I quit counting at 13!

[cheney119]

I had an 1982 Mazda 626 Automatic (only Auto I've ever owned), gutless, malfunction plagued; it was even yellow to match it's lemony character.

[five&dime]

A 75 Corvette. Bought in 82 for $7000. It ran real good, had a rebuilt engine, beefed up from the original underpowered 350, but it was a piece of junk. Everything rattled, squeeked, fell apart, fell off, t-tops and back window leaked, 3 water pumps, chased vacuume leaks, 2 master vacs, ac froze up killing the engine at a busy intersection, etc, spent over $7000 on it in the 3 years I had it. Sold it in 85 and could only get $7000 out of it. The new owner had it 2 years and got $7250 in 87. Saw one last week in the paper for $7000. They do hold their value.

Bonzi Lon

Ha. Not if you factor inflation into the equation

Wost car I bought from a mechanical standpoint was my 94 Volvo 850R wagon. Looked great and had some good power but always had something wrong and was the worst riding lowered car I have driven

Edited November 27, 2009 by five&dime

[doradox]

81 3/4 ton 4x4 Suburban. Had been a diesel and was converted to a 454 gas engine. Had a 4.11 rear end and got 8 MPG. City and highway. It constantly broke. Cracked a head, lunched a tranny. It ran hot (230+) even with a new huge diesel radiator, new water pump, thermostat, heavy duty fan and fan clutch, hoses. Probably why the head cracked. I hated that POS but my wife loved it. One of the greatest days of my life was when we sold it and bought her a new 95 Sub.

Steve

[scotts pearl]

70 something chevy monza...no power and had to repair weekly...then a dodge charger...440 magnum..plenty of power good engine everything else just fell apart..

[Bonzi Lon]

Ha. Not if you factor inflation into the equation

I forgot to add, :stupid:. or the one for sarcasim.

The guy I sold it to put about 3K in it also. It was junk!

Bonzi Lon

[deadflo]

1982 Ford Escort my dad bought me. Because of that I was leary to get rid of it when the problems started. The litany of problems was incredible. I doubt if I can remember them all. The car was 2 years old when I got it. Had a major leak in the power steering, timing belt broke before scheduled replacement, causing valves to get bent, needing head rebuilt. Tranny disintegrated, something in front end broke causing front wheels to lose camber, water pump seized, which was driven by cam, and hence timing belt broke again, so needed another head rebuilt. This was 8K miles after the first head!! Heater core failed.

After I traded it in with four years of ownership,I saw the salesman a couple weeks later who said the day he sold it, the new owner had it towed back 20 minutes later when a freeze plug went out and it lost all coolant!

Can you say POS???

Traded for an 84 Chevy Cavalier,which was much better, but had an intermittent running problem no one could track down.

Traded that for a cherry 1979 280ZX in 1990. Best car Ive ever owned, and I still have that one nearly 20 years later.

[DeesZ]

Absolute worst car ever that I have owned: 1979 Ford Mustang. It was a piece of cra* from day-one. My (now x) wife wanted it. I was quite pleased to send them into the sunset together. They deserved each other.

[jmortensen]

Absolute worst car ever that I have owned: 1979 Ford Mustang. It was a piece of cra* from day-one. My (now x) wife wanted it. I was quite pleased to send them into the sunset together. They deserved each other.

That's two of us! Was your's also the Pinto wannabe with the 2.3L?

[GunnerRob]

My worst car was an ’85 Lincoln Mark VII LSC. A beautiful car, but EVIL! Before I picked it up brand new from the dealer, some lot jockey dented the door and they had to repair it. In the seven years I owned it, the car went through four sets of front rotors, two timing chains, a complete set of engine gaskets, the radio, two computers, thermostat and radiator, outside rear view mirror, multiple engine sensors, window control switches, load leveler failure, brake failure twice, and loss of all systems (lights, engine, brakes, pneumatic suspension, and power steering) while driving three car pool buddies to work an hour before dawn on the coast highway between Ventura and Carpenteria (absolutely dark!). We traded it in at a dealership where my wife worked. Two weeks later the general manager told her a perspective buyer of our trade-in drove it home to show his wife, and brought her out to see that it was on fire. My wife also had a new ’79 Mustang that fried all the dashboard wiring two weeks after she bought it. Gotta love old Fords!

[Walter Moore]

Without question the worst car I ever owned was a 1972 VW Beetle. I bought it in 1980, and the gas tank was already rusted through and leaking. No heat in the winter, unless you wanted to breath exhaust fumes. Unbearably hot in the summer no matter what you did. Always broken in some way or another. I sold it in 1982 and bought a Dodge Charger 2.2 (I loved that car, but it ended up in at least three major accidents...)

Second worst was a 1990 VW Fox that I bought for my son his senior year of high school. It looked beautiful, with no rust or visible damage, but I knew I had made a bad choice when the clutch went out and NO repair shop in the area would work on the car. I ended up having to pay a $500 deposit to get someone to repair the car. The local dealer wouldn't even schedule an appointment to evaluate the car.

(Which is a constant problem with "foreign" cars in this area. The local dealers will only do warranty repairs. Old cars are chased from the lot like lepers.)

[tlorber]

'83 Audi 5000-I didn't even buy it, it was given to me and it was still a horrible deal. Gutless, constantly overheated, and the electric window switches kept on breaking.

I was so happy to get out of that car.