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I am having a particularly boring Friday afternoon and the minutes are ticking by like days.

So instead of making yet another 'best car you've owned' thread, or 'what would you have if you didn't have the MG thread', What is the worst piece of crap any of you have owned, or even just driven?

I'll start proceedings with a particularly naff Nissan Sunny automatic I had for two months, terrible terrible car. But it was a company vehicle which meant I got to thrash it, which made it bearable.:run!:
 
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I've had around 15 cars or more and never really had a bad one - they've all done the job they were bought for. Some have been less fun than others but only my first car let me down when the crankshaft snapped after 10 days of youthfull over enthusiasm.

This was so long ago that I just got the local coach company mechanic to pull it apart and make it whole again. In those days cars were cars and men were men!


sorry, had to say it.
 
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rob_smith01 said:
ford KA....had it as a hire car...absolute poo.

However had a couple of fiesta's in my time which were quite good and extreemly reliable....
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Totally agree... I've had KAs as courtesy cars (the TF is my first non ford out of 4 cars) it was constantly red lining and the brakes... well... what brakes. It took forever to stop even though you weren't actually gaining that much speed. Plus aswell it didn't even have door cards, it was just the metal of the door. Quality or what?!?
 
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The worst car I ever owned was a Ford Corsair V4, it was truly terrible, but bought at a time when I had little knowledge of cars. For years after I refused to use the word Ford, but if forced to talk about the car would say the letters F O R D.

Nigel
 
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W reg Golf GTI (115hp) heavy poor handling lack of power , stupid armrest that got in the way of the handbrake and 29mpg, it was a company pool car whilst I was waiting for my new one to be delivered. I really hated it as it promised so much and delivered very little. My opinion only, I'm sure many people love them.
 
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The first post reminded me of the worst car I have driven, this was my driving instructors Nissan Sunny, I am sure it was W or X reg (going back to 1980/81 here) a saloon design with a boot and possibly even rear wheel drive. Horrible in every way just like my first boss's wifes Nissan Micra (original wedge shape)

Moving forward to last year, another Nissan - this time an Almera. I hired this in the Isle of Man and hated it.

Worst car I have ever owned, got to be a Peugeot 106 diesel, only 1 year old when I bought it but very unreliable and had that terrible immobliser that you had to punch in a 4 digit code before it would start.
 
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Mine was a 1996 'P' Reg Citroen ZX 'Temptation' 1.9 D!!

Awefull car. 0-60 in about 16 seconds> I used to think it looked like a woodlouse!! God I hated that car! It did take me all over Europe and I had it for 4 years!! When I got divored I left it with my ex. and took the Microwave!!! I think I got a GREAT deal!!
 
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M Reg Rover 220 GSi

Bought at 3 years with 36k. Had to have new steering rack, new shocks all round, head gasket leaking, gearbox seals leaking. After 9 months was diagnosed with sticking valves and would have to have cylinder head removed to have everything decoked = £1200 by supplying Rover dealer who would NOT do this under warranty.

I paid £9k for the car and convinced them to give me £7.5 back on condition I replaced it with another car from them.

I asked them to source a 306 D Turbo and they offered me a 216 convertible or a 216 SLi 5 Door.

Having waited for 3 weeks and heard nothing I went to George Heath Motors in Birmingham city centre and bought an 18 month old 306 D Turbo and that never missed a beat for 3 years. When I sold that I even made enough back to act as my deposit on my lovely Mk5 Fiesta Zetec S.

BTW Dealer stopped £500 as I'd not bought the car off them. Still I had the last word and had my alarm installer come in and remove the alarm I'd had fitted AND took the balance of the tax disk they'd hidden in case I never came back. Oh yes and had them refund the balance of my warranty which had been 2 years as I'd threated to take them to trading standards if they didn't.

And you wonder why I buy Fords?
 
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#17 ·
Mitsubishi Shogun Pinin. Not mine, thank God, but a hire car I was stuffed up with for a day.

Absolutely awful. Noisy, a rock hard ride - when I hit a pothole in a car park, the car just crashed into it as though a wheel had fallen off - a steering wheel that didn't seem to have any connection with the wheels at all, and a rocking motion - both up and down and from side to side - while it was on the move. The interior plastics were the worst quality I have ever seen, and the seats offered no support at all. On the credit side, it had a decent if noisy engine, but I had such little confidence in the car I didn't dare exceed 60 mph.

I've driven all sorts of cars over the years - slow ones, fast ones, old ones, new ones - but never anything that made me actually feel I was risking my life until THAT thing.
 
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Hard for me to pick as I have had some heaps over the years but two stick in my mind,

1-Nissan Serena 2.0 diesel. I sware I could push it quicker then it drove,

2-Audi A4 Avant, Broke down every other sunday, had issues with the ignition switch and the parts wear a complete joke on price. They looked them up for a VW Passat, looked at you then added 10% to the price just because it's an Audi.

After that I will never own one of these bullet proof german cars.
 
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#21 · (Edited)
An Ex-Demo MY90 Lotus Elan Turbo SE.

Mine lived up to Lotus' then reputation for being "loads of trouble, usually serious" - I certainly hope never to have another experience of high-speed brake failure!

However, fortunately there was no traffic travelling towards me but, had the incident happened fifteen or twenty minutes later, then.......
 
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#22 ·
1968 Mini - always overheating. Broke down with a faulty fuel pump. (cunningly located under the rear n/s wing JUST where it would get the maximum amount of road dirt, moisture etc.) A few months later it broke down again about 150 miles from home - Fuel pump AGAIN! That was in 1981 and I still shudder every time I see a red old-type Mini.
 
#23 ·
Bought my 1st car in 1959.

Thought about this for a while. I have never had such a 'worst' car ..... now, there's a thing. Nope, not a one!
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I can't decide between the Renault megane that I hired from Europcar in Bordeaux last year - which was just plain nasty, reliable but nasty, or my wife's MGF Trophy 160. On balance I think it was the MGF Trophy - pretty car but the worst build quality either of us has ever encountered in all our years of driving.
 
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The worst I have drove is a split between the KA and the KIA Noddy car (piccanto). Both cars are garbage, but the KA scared me....the brakes were dodgy, if you pull away quick it wheelspins and you can bend the metal of the door frame by hand with no effort....ARG!
 
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