What worst car have you bought ever?

[DeesZ]

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

Yep, precisely. Two-tone puke orange and white (which the factory rep denied they made three months after I bought it and the paint started falling off).

[coop]

1982 Chev 1/4 ton PU 6.2L diesel. Washer from assembly line finally dislodged after 800 miles and did the arch of St. Louis on top of one of the pistons and did they give me a new engine......no way. Just repaired the one piston!$@

Transmission @ 25K

Rear seal @ 50K

Fuel selector valve

3 Glo Plug sesors

Fuel Pump @ 50K

Multiple alternator failures

Injector line crack

etc. etc.

Never had a GM product since. Life is good!

[TXZ1956]

1973 Vega GT, 'nuff said.

[Unkle]

Funny, after thinking about it for a while, I can't come up with any ''bad'' cars that I've owned. I've played with AMC 401'S in Jeeps , good motors but baaaad shells . AMC anything always had major rust issues - I think the mouldy smell inside was actually a factory option that everybody ticked when they purchased new....Some motorcycles were crap too. Huh , over 40 vehicles , and not one real stinker . Lucky ! ( Napoleon Dynamite ) :classic:

[trout_hound]

My whole life I've pretty much owned just Nissans, Toyotas, or Subaru's, Mitsubishi's, or Porsche's, and they have all been reliable vehicles. But when I got married, my new bride had a 80-something Renault Alliance, old person owned with low miles. It was the biggest POS ever, gutless as hell, with an idle that was demon possessed. When the water pump failed and my wife kept driving it until it seized up, I was actually happy. The day I started making some calls to see how much it would cost to have it hauled off to a junkyard, we got a letter in the mail from the manufacturer with a check for $250 bucks inside begging us to take it off the road to have it destroyed, and they would cover the towing. Apparently the heating system was prone to blowing out flames and scorching people's legs. We were only too happy to oblige.

DT

[rednekz]

I can't remember the year, but it was a early '80's Chevy Monza. At the time, I was driving, as a company car, a Pontiac T1000. The Pontiac takes the prize, as it was propane-powered, and the sh*t blew back on me as I was filling the tank. I was out of work for a month and a half with frostbite burns.

[Vintage Racer]

A 75 Corvette.

I bought a 1979 Corvette from a bank that repossessed it. It was possessed with problems.

[dustin_haru]

hi i had a 08 crv

love it until the breaks failed and took me strait into a two story house..

what a shitty deal:cry:

[zanthus]

At least most of you had fairly recognizable cars. Something that had a bit of longevity to it. My first car was a 81 VW rabbit diesel, and I loved it. Sadly though it got rear-ended by a f250 going 45. Rabbit was toast and I needed a car. The POS that I got was an 89 Eagle Premier. It was a car that was only made in 88 and 89 then discontinued. What a patch of hell. When I got rid of it the front blinker on the drivers side and the rear blinker on the passenger side didn't work. The headlights only kinda worked I only had the third brake light work. No radio, one window rolled down then wouldn't roll back up (the other windows didn't work). A/C didn't work nor did the wipers and in Oregon that's a problem. and I could never see anything at night because all the dash lights were out. And of course this was shortly after Eagle ceased to be a car company so trying to find information on it was horrid.

So to alleviate my problem I cut the back end off my Rabbit and made it into a truck and drove that thing around. I loved that Rabbit. I hated that Eagle though the only thing that didn't give me trouble was the engine.....huh.

[jmortensen]

I hated that Eagle though the only thing that didn't give me trouble was the engine.....huh.

The Eagle Premier had an especially strong engine. I worked for a Jeep/Eagle dealer just before they shut the Eagle brand down, and they were famous for the rest of the car crumbling around the engine which ran perfectly.

[IBZINYA]

The one car I have owned that broke more often than it ran was a 1966 Triumph Spitfire... It would leave me stranded if I looked at it! The fuel pump quit and I walked to the parts store, wait 4 days for the new one... meanwhile car was impounded... pay to get it towed home.... install pump and find ignition switch now turns in dash, wait 4 days for part... install and discover the brake pedal goes to the floor, wait 4 days for parts... wrong part, 4 more days and finally get it on the road and guess what.... flat tire and no spare %^&$*%.... I could not make the car run well enough to sell, so I gave it away for what I could get out of it and passed it on the side of the road 2 days later untill it was towed away again.... Man I got a bad taste for English cars from that one.

[grantf]

1974 Datsun 260Z

yup my old 260 never ran right, blew a head gasket, rebuilt the engine but never ran good bent a valve. But I missed it hence 78 280z.