Worst Car History

[jim8flog]

Only two really bad ones

A Renault 18 that had been in storage for two years when I bought it, every rubber seal in anything hydraulic failed, complete rebuild of braking system and a new gearbox. The annoying bit was that the guy (golfing mate) who bought it from the garage it was sold to run it for 5 years without any bother whatsoever.

Car before current one, bought new, Citroen Nemo owned for 7 years and in for a major fault in virtually every one of the 7 years inc 3 gearbox failures.

 

[chrisd]

Chris - you missed out the Model T Ford

It's an age thing! 😁

 

[Crazyface]

BIL bought a Citroen. Utter rubbish. He spent a fortune on it. It spent more time in the Citroen garage than at his house. Guess what he bought to replace it?
Yup a Citroen. Good grief!

 

[User62651]

these are the cars I've owned or leased or had thru work for personal use too.

Ford Fiesta van 1.1 petrol(ex fire brigade) - fine cheap and cheerful, sold on easy.
renault 19 1.4 petrol - so so, did ok.
ford granada estate 2.0 ghia petrol - lovely drive but auto transmisson dodgy and had a helicol fitted that blew out on A82 which finished it.
honda civic 1.4 petrol - reliable but no poke
volvo v40 estate 1.8 petrol - reliable but gutless
ford mondeo 2.0 estate petrol (leased) - really nice drive and quick, loved it.
ford s max petrol 2.0 (leased) - nice high driving position but preferred the mondeo for boot space
peugeot 307 sport 2.0 diesel - reliable and a nice drive
citreon v5 estate diesel - terrible, DPF gave no end of probs and electrics dodgy, off citreons for life.
hyundai tucson - bit dull and gutless but reliable so far (wife drives it now)
skoda yeti (work car) - much better than I expected, handles beautifully and punchy, boot too small though
toyoya hilux crew cab(work car) - does what is says on the tin, 3.0l diesel has plenty power and all terrain tyres goes anywhere, those tyres dont like wet roads though, get twitchy on corners. Can nick on in the dry though.

 

[triple_bogey]

Corsa Vegas 1.2
Civic Type R (EP3)
Integra Type R (DC5)
Evo 6.5 TME
BMW X5 4.4
Suzuki Ignis Sport
SLK55 (R171)

The X5 was the worst of the bunch..and surprisingly the Ignis was amazingly fun.

 

[BristolMike]

I don't think my car history has been too bad, no real shockers. I hated the golf though

A3 1.6
A3 S Line 2.0d
SLK 55 AMG
Golf TDI
320d m sport coupe
A250 engineered by AMG
M235i
M4

I think the worrying thing is how much I've lost over the years as all but the first car were new.

 

[GB72]

I have had a real mix of the good, the bad and the just incredibly bland (most of them)

Brown 1.1 Fiesta. First car and still get ribbed about the colour
Blue 1.2 Fiesta. Hand me down from my brother. Still a boring car but colour better.
Red 1.3 Escort. First car I bought myself. Still bland and boring.
Hyundai coupe. First new car looked cool at the time but no power.
Mazda MX5. Such fun, loved this car.
Mondeo ST. One of my all time favourites but really ate petrol
Renault Megane 2.0. Another good car. Got one of the few decent Renaults.
Fiat Bravo 150 T-Jet. Very quick but very unstable and felt like it was made of paper.
Renault Clio Tourer. Bought as a run around and to hold my golf clubs. Boring as hell.
Audi A5 S-line convertible. Current car and great fun.

I am been lucky in that I have had 2 Renaults and a Fiat and neither has rusted or fallen apart.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Not had half as many cars as most of you guys:

Fiesta - E reg, 1 ltr
Corsa - R reg, 1 ltr
Mini Cooper - 04 plate
Golf GTI - 07 plate, mk 5
BMW 220 sport - 64 plate

 

[Piece]

Morris Marina hatchback - car I learnt to drive in. Blimey.

Others since then:

Ford Fiesta 1.0l - black, nice car.
Ford Fiesta 1.0l - red, nice car.
BMW 316i - not great
Honda Prelude - OK
Subaru Impreza UK - lovely, thinnest metal for door panels ever known.
Subaru Impreza WRX STi - tuned and rapid, but the UK variant was more fun.
Audi A4 1.9TDi - great workhorse
VW Polo - not bad at all
Nissan Qashqai 1.5dci - wife loved it...
BMW 330d Touring - tuned, nice car just wasn't big enough
BMW 535d Touring - tuned, fastest car I've own over 60mph
Mini Cooper S - fun car, rock hard suspension and had faults at the end
SEAT Exeo ST - Audi A4 in SEAT clothing. Great car.
Nissan Qashqai Petrol - much better QQ. Current car.
Audi A6 Avant Black Edition - beautiful. Other current car.

 

[drdel]

I'm not really a car person, to me they're for getting from A to B and back again and that's all I'm interested in, but a conversation offshore has made me realise just how bad my car history has been.

1st car was a P plate Turquoise Vauxhall Astra, sold it when I inherited a very low mileage maroon H plate Renaut 21 from my grandad. Ran that one into the ground and scrapped it when it failed an MOT so badly that the garage phoned me and said "Well the ashtray is OK but apart from that it's junk". Replaced it with an 03 plate blue Nissan Primera, which was written off when I reversed into a fence in a car park (£3400 repair bill for a car valued at £1900). Next came a grey 05 plate Ford Mondeo which was falling to bits when I traded it in for the current car which is a grey 57 plate Renault Grand Scenic - now on it's last legs and soon to be traded in, no doubt for something equally as crap as those that have gone before it.

So has anyone got a worse or less inspiring car history than that?

Designed life is 8 years or about 100,000 miles. You are buying old stuff so expect an issue or two.

 

[Coffey]

Being relatively young i have only owned 3 cars, none of which were brand new..

2001 Ford Focus- Bought while at Uni, fantastic wee car for the money. Never missed a beat.
2011 BMW 1 Series Coupe- Bought when I started my new job
2015 VW Golf R- Recent purchase of about 2 weeks ago- fantastic fun

BMW was a lovely drive, but the Coupe shape and 2 door made it difficult to transport anything other than a golf trolley.

Have driven quite a few other cars through the years which were a bit, emm, different.. one being my sisters old Salmon pink Suzuki Swift, think it was a 1997 and had butterflies up the side of it.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

I did for a short time have a Vauxhall Astra which I gave to my wife and she turned it into an Astra Compact. She went up the back of a car in front and wrote it off.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Not been driving for that long. Didn't have the need until we had kids. Since then the cars I've owned are:
11 plate Vauxhall Meriva. Got rid pronto when we found out it had been in an accident previously
64 plate Peugeot 208 actually not a bad car. Terrible performance, but great on fuel efficiency. But small though. MrsP wrote it off. Boo.
14 plate Honda CR-V. Great for space for the family.

 

[Blue in Munich]

The list

Ford Prefect
Triumph Herald
Mk1 Cortina
Mini traveller
Ford Fiesta
Ford Escort
Ford Sierra
Ford Escort Ghia
Citroen
BMW 318
BMW 318 WE
Mercedes saloon
Mercedes saloon
Mazda Mx5
Lotus Elise
Mini Cooper S
Toyota IQ
Vauxhall Astra
Nissan Leaf

Chris - you missed out the Model T Ford

And you beat me to it!! :angry:

 

[jim8flog]

Morris Marina hatchback - car I learnt to drive in. Blimey.

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Marina Hatchback

There is a memory.

I had one as a company car.

What I used to love about was the ease with which the back end used to break away going round corners at speed but the front end was like driving on rails -Tokyo drift.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

And you beat me to it!! :angry:

And I did it with furry dice in the rear view mirror as well.

 

[Slime]

Had far too many to mention or even remember.
It all began with a 1963 6v Beetle.
The worst was undoubtedly my Moskvich 412 Saloon ...................... so dangerous.
My best/favourite would be any of my three Austin Maxi's, my Montego Turbo's, my Alfasud my TR6 or my Wolf.
Currently own a re-mapped Kia Cee'd CRDi and, of course, my LR Wolf.

 

[SocketRocket]

I did for a short time have a Vauxhall Astra which I gave to my wife and she turned it into an Astra Compact. She went up the back of a car in front and wrote it off.

I had a Ford Cortina that I crunched into the back of another car. It was then a Ford Concertina.

 

[rosecott]

This is my list - probably not complete due to failing memory:

First car – 1935 Morris 8 – had electric fuel pump which needed a rest after about 20 miles
Ford Taunus – quite nice for a couple of years in Cyprus butleft it there.
SAAB 96 3-cylinder 2-stroke – really loved that car
SAAB 95 estate (had children now) – loved it but not as muchas the 96.
Vauxhall Victor !!! – bag of brown stuff.
Citroen GS – nearly as bad
SAAB 99 – another with fond memories
SAAB 9000 auto – a lovely drive
VW Passat GL5 – 2-litre 5-cylinder, another lovely car todrive with plenty punch.
Audi 100 estate – another 2-litre 5-cylinder – a beauty(pity I wrote it off, losing it on loose chippings)
Audi 100 saloon – a 2.2litre 5-cylinder – another lovely car to drive.
VW golf auto – not nice, auto made it heavy and nopower-assisted steering.
VW Jetta – unexciting but reliable
Toyota Avensis Estate1.8 petrol – not exciting but did me proud over many miles.
A later Toyota Avensis Estate 1.8 petrol – similar but better
Skoda Superb Estate – 3.6 petrol auto 4x4 Laurin and Klement – I love driving again.

 

[Waitforme]

Austin Allegro . Sold it to a friend who is still a friend surprisingly !
MGB GT .... Wrote it off
MGB GT
Escort RS2000 ..... Great car
Golf Mk1 GTi
Golf MK2 GTi ... Wife wrote it off.
Suzuki Jeep ... Tried to kill me.
Celica GT4
Volvo C70
Porsche Cayman .. Still got it
Volvo C30
Mini Countryman SD

Not bad in 40 odd years of driving. Tend to buy new or nearly new and keep them till they fall apart.