The worst car you have ever owned?

[skinnylew]

Mk6 1.4 Escort I bought earlier in the year blind off ebay, £180 for a rusty, slipping clutch, gutless shed. Managed to bodge it through an MOT (1x £20 part worn,1x exhaust bandage,1x roll of gaffer tape and 10x pop rivets + 1x Angle grinder ;D ) and then punted it out on the street for £210
Thankfully I didn't have to actually drive the thing too much!!

[Gem]

Daewoo lanos, horrible car.

[Deleted]

Renault Megane 16v.never ending tale of woe with the electrics,ending when the Ecu wiped itself clear one weekend.nothing on it at all! like turning on your comp to find no windows!

[Marshall]

For me I've got to say the company car I was given, '03 Mercedes C220 Coupe. Such a boring and soul-less car to drive every time I jumped in it I just went onto auto-pilot and switched off. Also I don't think there was a single month when it didn't flash up an error code of some sort. So glad to give it back to the boss and revert back to something that takes some effort to drive.




Have to say I get far more comments from clients when I rock up to site in the Corolla, they absolutely love it.

[purplevanman]

Lots but the one that came tomind first was the MK2 Cav dizzle.
I bought it cheap because the rear beam had become disaattached due to the bracket breaking off the chassis leg, no rust just broke the spot welds. Easy fix and on the road all new to dizzle.

It went fast downhill. In the morning, every morning, it wouldn't start. I had 3 batteries in the front footwell but still usually ended up with bumping it :/
New heater plugs, injectors, rings (main and big end shells while I was in there), head gasket, valve grind etc etc......
Still wouldn't start
Can't remember what happened to it but I don't have it so that's fine

Put me off dizzles for many years

[roccoguy]

Mk3 golf vr6 for no other reason than it was a mk3. I probably hate it more so because I swapped the best car I ever had for it in a moment of madness

[djefk]

Mk 1 Polo with the 900cc engine: it wasn't in bad condition but I had a serious "what the f*ck have I bought" moment when I picked it up to drive up to Birmingham where I was at uni and realised it screamed it's nuts off at literally 45+mph and was therefore totally unusable for anything other than country lanes (as I'd picked it up in west Somerset I had plenty of time for this thought to occur to me too!) I thought it would be a similar drive to a 1 litre equivalent Fiesta. I was wrong.

[Skip_Rat]

FSO Polonez - £50 wasted. No power to get it going and no brakes to speak of to slow it down and it handled like soap.

I gave it away and I heard it blew it's diff apart a couple of weeks later and was scrapped, good riddance.

That said it was a long time ago and if I had one to hand now I would be tempted to fit the running gear from something decent to make a total sleeper.......

[Little eddie]

Jesus where do i start...... pretty much all of them ive owned have been my worst car at some point in my ownership.

Lets start with my first car, I'm 17 and my dad bought me a mk4 escrot, yes i bought tacky seat covers, yes i had a big bore 4 exhaust, yes i painted the dash, yes i had headlamp eyebrows, yes i had a sub and an amp, yes i cut the parcel shelf for 6x9s, yes i had alloys.... HOWEVER this car was jinxed from the beginning, an old lady crashed into the passenger side not long after id passed my test after she pulled from a junction into the side of me, escrot got repaired & resprayed.

A couple of months later another old lady crashed all down my drivers side while i was stationary in traffic at a junction, escrot got repaired & resprayed.

A couple of months later while playing silly buggers with my mates i got said escrot stuck in a ditch in an old corn field. The weather was pouring with rain and my mates werent too happy at shifting the car in the mud.

I blew the clutch to smitherines on the motorway after changing down from 5th to 1st instead of 3rd due to a sloppy gearchange (maybe my hand), ruined a date with a girl and her dad went mad at me for getting his daughter stranded on the m42, the clutch got replaced by me and a mate in the snow on my drive. This was the day i first learnt to swear at metal.

I learned most things mechanically on this car and because of this i hated doing ANY jobs on it. I put the brake drums in moms oven to get heat them up to get the wheel bearings out, the grease caught fire and set light to the inside of the oven and burnt the door seal. Pretty much everything cooked in the oven for weeks after stunk of burnt grease and the door seal cost me over £100 quid to replace

I tapped a bollard in a pub car park and bought some 90 spec colour coded rs bumpers to replace my damaged ones. 3 days later i saw a lampost i quite liked and decided to get a little closer to it.

Needless to say it didnt get resprayed this time.........

God i loved that car.

[joem83]

1991 Mk2 Golf Gti 8v, learnt alot of lessons from buying that.
It was 30% filler and tbh a bent death trap with a knackerd engine & bad brakes.

Put me off mk2's for along time, infact it's the only one ive ever owned

[jrevillug]

It was a Mk1 Mondeo with a slipping clutch, but we don't talk about that.

[bortaf]

Hmmm,, pug 104 holds the title for worst handling, any car that makes a Pincess 2200 seem like a track car has to win that vote ;D
Mosy bland, my current 1.6 Mk6 escort ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz fest
There's usually "some thing" that makes a car OKish but the above 2 pretty much were steralised in the OKish departments

[datsundrew]

ha ha ha....a mk1 golf diesel 1.5, yes...a 1.5. Bit like gruntys cav, I got it because I thought I would save money as buying a house and had a diesel company van (urghhum) This was a terrible idea. Slow, noisy and terrible to start, even after I spent 500 on the engine-almost what I paid for it ! I lived on a hill at the time; 3 pre-heats and bump it, each week it went further before it went! It ended when it took off on me on the m1 burning its oil.

[spacekadett]

A shabby twin cam Sierra that messed me around for months randomly overheating and losing water before it finally blew up properly. Sold it to jonnysierra for parts cos I couldn't be 4rsed to fix it, I was that sick of it ;D
My first car, a 1980 Metro so rough when my dad brought it in for MOT (Iwas 16 at the time) my boss wouldn't let him drive it home

[motorhead]

It is Ford Escort Mk6 1.8 TD. Rust, clutch, steering, suspension, electric part ... ... I still have it, because I just don't want to sell that bucket full of problems to any person on Earth. Only one thing thats in really perfect condition is engine and turbo...

[xjlee]

Mk4 Golf GTI 2.0
When the missus fell pregnant she had a bmw mini, need a bigger car with more doors. What would you buy lee? Love mk4 golfs, safe, comfortable, very reliable especially tdi's, but considering the price premiums on the tdi's a few years back a petrol would be fine. After all, all she did was pootle into town to work and back nothing else she does about 5k a year so that would do nicely. we found a nice low mile '51 plate gti, reflex silver 5-door with 16" turbo alloys, fsh, air con yada yada yada.......
What a debacle it turned out to be, what a pile of sh!te. The emissions light came on every few weeks. It started to miss fire, fuel consumption was woeful. We change the cam sensor, crank position sensor, cleaned both lambda sensors out and eventually changed them. While I had the cam sensor done we did the cambelt at the same time, new leads plugs and ignition coil pack - after all that hassle and cost did it fix it??? DID IT BOLLIX!! What a let down of a car, reallty disappointed. We sacked it off eventually and brought one of those astra sri xp's with the 1.9 cdti engine - what a cracker in comparison ;D Couldn't purswade the missile into rolling in a '80's W126 sel unfortunately.......
Here's the offending article, you have been named and shamed my pedegree chum....

[Foxy]

All my cars have made me smile for one reason or another and for that alone it negates any ill feeling I could have toward any of them, yeah some have been crumby but thats what made them so endearing, their foibles were colourful and it just made the character of the car blossom that bit more.
Cars are cars, you get some good and some bad......................simple!

[saladdodger]

Not sure which one to choose:

corrado which done a headgasket in the 1st 2 weeks of owning it, found out the previous owner bodged it, needed new engine

BMW 325i sport which headgasket went/cracked head and the rear inner arches completely rotted out

BMW 525ix which seem to self destruct

I know what your thinking, must be me, sorry to dissapoint, was previous owners masking things up good that i didnt see.