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The worst car you have owned ???.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Mine was a Hillman imp a complete piece of junk from the day i bought it.
Every weekend was spent repairing this heap you could not plan a trip as it over heated or just simply would not run.
I was filled with joy when it went to the scrap yard.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've had a few cars but none of them I've hated, I guess the really old cilo I had for a few weeks as a stop gap before I got my Kia Sedona.
Damn thing blue up on me on the way to bluewater!! (Cilo not the Sedona, I loved that car!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peugeot 307 diesel
It never worked. Spent thousands on the piece of crap.
Lesson learned and back to bmw and Honda, etc ever since and not a pock of bother. |
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By *-ManMan
over a year ago
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A Ford Puma, the Puma's are a great little car, it's just the one I had was a shitbox
I'd often sing this song while driving it
Adam Sandler- Piece of Shit Car(song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fw0OvKFKhw |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Austin Ambassador, owned it for 3 weeks, repai_ed it twice then it caught fire on a garage forecourt, I swear that thing committed suicide through shame... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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About four years ago we got a lovely looking Alfa Romeo , which turned out to be the worst car either of us had owned . A weird gearbox which packed up in a busy car park after only 14 weeks , causing a three hour wait in the rain with a four year old , blocking the way for everyone .
It had to be winched onto a flat bed truck as it wouldn't move . The estimate to fix it was over £2000 so we scrapped it . It only cost £3000 and after the afternoon from hell we were glad to be shot of it .  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Metro rot box"
This. I loved the car. Engine was imaculate, despite it being a H plate and almost 20 yrs old. But the body work was a disaster. I welded the wheel arches and panels onto the side, managed to get a new boot door, but the underneath had rotted too, failed mot and the guy said it was a death trap, any impact over 20mph my seat was likely to fall through. Was gutted as she was a nippy little motor.  |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
Pretty much every car I have owned bar 2 have been awful - I loved my VXR astra, and I ado_ed my beautiful beetle (VXR went because my son got too big to be lugged in and out of the 3 doors to the back, and was also claustrophobic in the back seat, and the beetle was written off earlier this year) The current diesel ford focus is bland and dull... but it does what i need for now!
The list of shit cars...
A suzuki alto - felt like sitting inside a can, and about as luxurious as a public loo
A fiat cinquecento - again little, crap, plastic and nasty.
a rover something or other - it was so awful I've blocked it out of my head
and a wee fiesta... it broke down the day after i bought it to never recover. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My first car was a _ed mini 850 cc, totally underpowe_ed, but I went everywhere in it and it never gave me a bit of bother.
The next was a Vauxhall viva 1300 cc, more power but a lump of shite, would drink oil by the bucket full |
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After 25 years selling the things I have come across most of the shit produced since the 60's.
Top of the league for total pieces of crap have to be the junk produced by Eastern Europe before the wall came down. Anyone remember Moskvitch, Polonez (AKA Polski Fiat) Yugo, and Wartburg? Not forgetting the classic piece of Communist engineering the Lada.
A close second would be pretty much everything produced by British Leyland in all its various guises. The Austin Allegro (with a square steering wheel FFS) closely followed in the crap league by the Maxi, Marina, and Princess. Not forgetting the classic (not) British sports car the Triumph TR7 (AKA the flying wedge) They even managed to fuck the name of Rover with timeless pieces of shit like the SD1 range and the 800 series, and the others were not much better.
Moving a bit more up to date. Citroen have produced some dire examples. The BX, Xantia, and worst of the worst the XM are all good candidates for the automotive lemons hall of fame, although they did, and still do, produce some decent smaller cars.
Some may find it strange but I would include Jaguar in the list. The XJ6 was a nightmare. Not only were they total rust buckets they were as reliable as a two bob watch. I couldn't sleep when I had one out still under my warranty and in the end I refused to stock them.
Last but not least, anything Fiat. (Fix It Again Tomorrow) and quite a few Ford's (Fix Or Repair Daily) especially any fitted with the old CVH engine and up until not long ago they were still using the old (1960's designed) Kent crossflow engine.
I am sure there are a few others that would make the lemon list and i will add them as I remember them.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've had a few cars but none of them I've hated, I guess the really old cilo I had for a few weeks as a stop gap before I got my Kia Sedona.
Damn thing blue up on me on the way to bluewater!! (Cilo not the Sedona, I loved that car!) "
I miss my kia sedona. ..loads of room unlike my civic xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've never had a shit banger car but had a Peugeot 207 S16. Loved that car, the handling was immense, only needed to put your foot down and point it where you wanted to go.
At around 55,000 miles, it had a gearbox failure £2500 repair bill, clutch was fucked, piston rings needed sorting, wheel bearing had gone.
Now for a car that only had 250 units produced you'd think they'd last a big longer!
Was glad when I got rid, used to attract the wrong attention, always had people wanting to race and pulling stupid manoeuvres on me.....kinda fruitless since it was a 120bhp 1.6  did look the part though |
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Oh I almost forgot the car that was going to transform British Leyland into a major exporter and take the German market by storm.
Just a pity that Triumph Acclaim loosely translates as Sieg Heil.
You really couldn't make it up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Many moons ago, a Chrysler Sunbeam. Shitty cheesey yellow colour it was. Arrrggghhh!!
Best ever was my first car, a little Austin A35, spruce green with a sun shade and flip out indicators!
Beep! Beep! x x  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh I almost forgot the car that was going to transform British Leyland into a major exporter and take the German market by storm.
Just a pity that Triumph Acclaim loosely translates as Sieg Heil.
You really couldn't make it up."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Range Rover Vogue, had everything, TVs in the head rests, leather seats, would warm up on cold mornings if I pressed the right button on the key fob. So it should have been brilliant right? Broke down 4 times in a year despite only being 2 years old and I can only describe driving it as akin to an ocean line, albeit the ocean liner would have a better turning circle and would make me feel less sea sick! |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
Oh I forgot my vauxhall wardrobe... also known as a zafira.
Honestly, that car made the exxon valdez look ecologically sound! It had more leaks than the government! It handled like a box and 0 to 60 was measu_ed in days rather than seconds... I loved seeing the back of that pile of poop!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ford KA ,don't know what possessed me. If it could break, fail or fall off it did. Eventually after 11 months the immobiliser and alarm stuck on so I got rid, flipped it back to the garage I got it from in the first place.
Horrible car |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've had a few cars but none of them I've hated, I guess the really old cilo I had for a few weeks as a stop gap before I got my Kia Sedona.
Damn thing blue up on me on the way to bluewater!! (Cilo not the Sedona, I loved that car!)
I miss my kia sedona. ..loads of room unlike my civic xx"
I forgot how much fun all the space was in my old Sedona ,spin the seats around and loads of play space.
Happy times. Filthy but happy lol |
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Renault megane, 2.0 16v sport, we had nothing but trouble from it. Constantly splitting hoses or the cooling system just packed up completely, kept taking it back but the never got to the bottom of it. |
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Renault grand scenic - there was no one good thing whatever you touched - broken.
And Mercedes ML320 - good spacious car but never-ending problems with brake system.
Most enjoyed jaguar s-type 3.0 - never let me down (apart of petrol cost lol) |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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Ford mundano biggest piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to own in the first month of ownership needed new clutch £800 new injectors £600 exhaust £200 look at it wrong and it would switch into limp mode and be gutless had skodas renaults &fiats all were better cats than this turd will never touch ford again |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peugeot 307 was the biggest pile of shit i ever had, spent thousands trying to sort endless electrical problems on it and ended up burning it out for the insurance money.
The hole in my arse will heal up before I buy another french car.
Cunts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rover 214 bubble when I was young! Worst car ever! Head gasket, exhaust rotted, sills needed welding, all this on. Car that did less then 50k and was roughly 5-6 years old. If you do get any kind of Rover (which I wouldn't) go for the Honda engine.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"About four years ago we got a lovely looking Alfa Romeo , which turned out to be the worst car either of us had owned . A weird gearbox which packed up in a busy car park after only 14 weeks , causing a three hour wait in the rain with a four year old , blocking the way for everyone .
It had to be winched onto a flat bed truck as it wouldn't move . The estimate to fix it was over £2000 so we scrapped it . It only cost £3000 and after the afternoon from hell we were glad to be shot of it . "
Selespeed?
Whoever quoted you that was having a laugh. They're actually a piece of puss to sort and surprisingly cheap. 99% of the time there's not actually anything wrong with them, the actuator arms just need calibrating which takes 10 minutes.
That's the trouble with Alfa ownership. Garages rely on the myth that they're difficult to fix or that the parts are hard to come by but they're not. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" Ford mundano biggest piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to own in the first month of ownership needed new clutch £800 new injectors £600 exhaust £200 look at it wrong and it would switch into limp mode and be gutless had skodas renaults &fiats all were better cats than this turd will never touch ford again "
was this the dreadfull mk3 mondeo (2001 - 2007 ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've never owned a car that I didn't like.
My ex wife had a Renault Megane though and that thing was utterly dreadful in every respect.
The electrics were shocking and the engine would misfire for no good reason depending on what it's current mood was, which being French was usually obnoxious.
The suspension was crap and the interior made most portable toilets look glamorous.
Personally I'd rather gouge my eyes out with rusty spoons before having something like that on my drive. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rover 214 bubble when I was young! Worst car ever! Head gasket, exhaust rotted, sills needed welding, all this on. Car that did less then 50k and was roughly 5-6 years old. If you do get any kind of Rover (which I wouldn't) go for the Honda engine. "
Oh yeah. I was lucky enough to have the Honda engined 216 and to be fair it wasn't too bad. It did have an annoying habit with the doors locking themselves. I had one fun filled morning with it doing that with the engine running after I'd got out to fetch something. took 2 hours for the AA man to get there, meanwhile my engine running all the time.
Deep joy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If anyones local to bilston and needs a new car message me and arrange to come and look at our cars at a main dealer
Buying a car from Bilston? Is it legit? "
Haha everyone says that, bilstons a friendly place  |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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" Ford mundano biggest piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to own in the first month of ownership needed new clutch £800 new injectors £600 exhaust £200 look at it wrong and it would switch into limp mode and be gutless had skodas renaults &fiats all were better cats than this turd will never touch ford again
was this the dreadfull mk3 mondeo (2001 - 2007 )"
spot on huge piece of shit |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If anyones local to bilston and needs a new car message me and arrange to come and look at our cars at a main dealer
Buying a car from Bilston? Is it legit?
Haha everyone says that, bilstons a friendly place "
Only joking, love Bilston! Great market, Great People, and Majors chip shop |
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think the worst one i had has been a citroen zx diesel...underpowe_ed hateful piece of crap
the air con ran off a belt on the engine so when it was turned on it sucked all the power out of the engine, used to piss all the water out whenever you turned it off which resulted in an ingenious empty bottle, hosepipe and duct tape method
also it leaked oil that badly (1 litre every 1000 miles) that you can still see places 10 yrs later that ive parked it |
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I had a mini in 1987 which turned or to be a cut and shut car. Part exchanged it for a new Mini in 1989. What a heap of shit that was! Within six months rust was appearing and when it was 2 years old it developed a rust hole. I part exchanged that for an H reg Vauxhall Nova in flame _ed. I loved that car but had to swap to our H reg 1990? Vauxhall Cavalier when the kids arrived. That thing was a nightmare! It used enough oil to fill a tanker and the head gasket went when it was three years old but my husband drove it til 2000.
Wet purchased an X reg brand spanking new Vauxhall Zafira. Within the 48 hrs the alarm was sounding 24/7 so it went to the local dealer who stripped the interior out. That alarm continued to malfunction til 2010 when, at the end if my tether, I threatened to set the bloody thing in fire!
The alarm problem was solved by drowning the alarm on a bucket of water.
Husband still drives it. Aged 15 it leaks so much oil we have to carry a litre all the time. The smell inside the car is a delight, like an oil refinery. You can shower, powder and perfume yourself but you are guaranteed to arrive to any function stinking like a greasy workshop. However, the original exhaust lasted 14 years and it's just developed a patch of rust in a door I damaged yeasts ago. It's got 140,000 miles in the clock and has never let us down.
However, I went bonkers and bought myself a shiny new Hyundai i10. Man I love that car! Little on the outside, huge in the inside asks it flies! 98 mph no sweat.
If I'm lucky it might last five years. I went down a pothole ams broke a ball joint which turned out to be PLASTIC.
Next vehicle: a van for my business. Any recommendations? |
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Without doubt a Peugeot 309 GL, he must have seen me coming. Everything that needed fixing needed to be fixed within 6 months. I had it for just over a year and sold it for a £100 profit, bargain or what |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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2006 ford focus 1.6
The gearbox ratios were terrible. At 60 it was near 3000rpm in 5th gear so trying to overtake was impossible as you had nowhere to go in the rev range! |
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By *urxxMan
over a year ago
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My first car was a vauxhall Chevette...bought it from my cousins boyfriend at the time ..he had a car spraying business...I had the car for 2hrs..tried to reverse and it just broke...He took the car back...fixed the reverse...had the car engine running when it blew up on him...so I got my money back....First Car = 2 hrs...  |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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Last but not least, anything Fiat. (Fix It Again Tomorrow) and quite a few Ford's (Fix Or Repair Daily)
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Not forgetting TVR (Tow Vehicle Requi_ed) and Lotus (Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A mustard colou_ed Austin Allegro with puke colou_ed carpets and a rectangular steering wheel. Finding the gears was like stirring soup and I put more oil in it than petrol! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Hillman imp here too although it was my husband who drove it. The reverse gear didn't work and he and whoever was in the front passenger seat had to put a leg out the door to push it backwards. I am not making this up |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A mustard colou_ed Austin Allegro with puke colou_ed carpets and a rectangular steering wheel. Finding the gears was like stirring soup and I put more oil in it than petrol!"
Ooh I had the same. My was a rusty metallic brown colour. Hated it. Velour seats, again in brown. And the rectangular steering wheel... Wtf was that all about. Best day of my life when I got rid of it
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fiat punto but not really the cars fault it did a huge amount of miles and started to become abit of a money pit. I decided to get rid of it after the gearbox went. |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?"
XJs??
The ones with the sloping boot lid- it was a design cock up. The plastic mould melted in heat and no one noticed before it went into production. |
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"They even managed to fuck the name of Rover with timeless pieces of shit like the SD1 range and the 800 series, and the others were not much better."
The 75 could have saved the brand but wasn't allowed to. lt even had it's launch scuppe_ed by BMW before they asset-stripped the company & sold it for a quid.
They are lovely cars with a bad rep' for faults which are mostly down to poor maintenance. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Peugeot 807. R reg. was about 5 years old when we got it.
Cost..£6500 to buy.
Had it for 2 years.
Spent £7000 making it actually work!
Bearing went on the back wheel on the way home from buying it.
Then ECU needed replacing.
Then brake pipe failed.
Then head gasket went.
Then engine block blew up.
Then had to have all fuel system replaced.
Exhast fell off on the M62
We should have bought another car, but just didnt have to money to shell out all in one lump. So kept having to put garage bills on cards or beg off parents.
In the end, in laws gave (lent) us the money for a new car.
NEVER buy a green car!! Bloody unlucky!
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Last but not least, anything Fiat. (Fix It Again Tomorrow) and quite a few Ford's (Fix Or Repair Daily)
Not forgetting TVR (Tow Vehicle Requi_ed) and Lotus (Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious)"
Lotus and TVR were great, and shit.
In different ways both got so many things right but then fucked up what could have been fantastic sports cars by getting stupid things wrong.
I had a spell selling new Lotus in the late 80's early 90's. That was the time of the Mk2 Esprit and the Isusu engined next generation Elan when Lotus was briefly owned by GM. I even got a trip down to the factory to see how they built them.
Lotus along with Moonraker Boats (another Colin Chapman company) were the pioneers of vacuum injection moulding and were by far the best quality fibreglass body I've ever seen on a car. Also the performance they could get out of a 2.2 litre 4 cylinder engine was truly amazing at the time, and serious mechanical trouble was quite rare.
Where it all went wrong was that pretty much everything else including the Morris Marina door handles either broke or dropped off. Electric windows (and almost anything else electric) that had a mind of their own. One customer described the windscreen washers as totally useless and like a little boy having a pee on the window. In short they developed a great car then fitted it our with the cheapest shit they could find.
TVR were great looking cars fitted with real "Grunt" engines and were actually quite fun to drive, but like Lotus got pretty much everything else wrong. They leaked like a sieve and the joke was that "Wellies" should have been standard equipment.
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"Many moons ago, a Chrysler Sunbeam. Shitty cheesey yellow colour it was. Arrrggghhh!!
Best ever was my first car, a little Austin A35, spruce green with a sun shade and flip out indicators!
Beep! Beep! x x "
As a teenager, and into my twenties, l lusted after a Lotus Sunbeam
In fact, l'd gladly have one now
A35, please Lavinia, tell me it wasn't the van!
If it was, were you Wallace, or Gromit (van used in'Curse of the Were-Rabbit') |
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Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years! |
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Worst car;
A Ford Escort (mark 3) when l was in my late 20's
To start with, the seats were appalling, l sit fairly upright, but to get a correct position, the lumbar section of the seat stuck in my back
To cater for that, if l leant it back, l had zero shoulder support, it once took me 10 Hours to Cornwall, as l had to keep stopping to relax my back/shoulders
And as for the mechanicals.........
Best car; the Octavia l have at the moment
Comfortable, economical, cheap to insure
5 year old, coming upto 100,000miles, with only routine servicing, & 'wear and tear'items replaced
Huge load-space
Best, prior to that;
My old Land Rover Defender CSW (yes, where part of my screen-name derives)
Only thing l could grumble about with it, were the lack of decent anti-corrosion factors (galvanitic corrosion being almost built in by the factory!) and some almost intraceable leaks when it rained heavily (eventually found!)
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have a huge list of terrible cars our current one a Vauxhall insignia is the latest. New gearbox,management lights and whole lot more  .
We had an Alfa Romeo brera which was a nightmare but still we loved it. Would have kept it if we had known every subsequent car was shit |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We have a huge list of terrible cars our current one a Vauxhall insignia is the latest. New gearbox,management lights and whole lot more .
We had an Alfa Romeo brera which was a nightmare but still we loved it. Would have kept it if we had known every subsequent car was shit"
The GM M32 gearbox is made of chocolate, failed bearings are a common issue on diesel models. |
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By *er_kateCouple
over a year ago
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City rover best heating ever had in a car got hot almost instantly pity the clutch was crap the steering column failed the brakes pipes rotted the fuel tank dissolved the fuel filter needed changing ever mot vag of shit |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Toyota yaris I bought off my step mum. Bastard waste of space shitty car! Bloody hated driving that thing! Thought I'd got a bargain as she sold it to me for the trade in price! Couldn't wait to get rid of it! |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
"Many moons ago, a Chrysler Sunbeam. Shitty cheesey yellow colour it was. Arrrggghhh!!
Best ever was my first car, a little Austin A35, spruce green with a sun shade and flip out indicators!
Beep! Beep! x x
As a teenager, and into my twenties, l lusted after a Lotus Sunbeam
In fact, l'd gladly have one now
A35, please Lavinia, tell me it wasn't the van!
If it was, were you Wallace, or Gromit (van used in'Curse of the Were-Rabbit')"
had an ex skip brown group 4 Tarmac rally lotus sunbeam was feckin Awsome grove on road or stage just needed shares in shell to fuel it 8-14 mpg being "gentle " with it most fun I ever had in a car with my clothes on ! |
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"A tossup between a Polski Fiat 125 and a Simca Ranchero.
Both absolutely crap."
A Rancho, as they were called
I remember those coming out, about 1978, based on the Simca van of the time
Only fromt wheel drive though |
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over a year ago
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!"
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" Ford mundano biggest piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to own in the first month of ownership needed new clutch £800 new injectors £600 exhaust £200 look at it wrong and it would switch into limp mode and be gutless had skodas renaults &fiats all were better cats than this turd will never touch ford again
was this the dreadfull mk3 mondeo (2001 - 2007 )spot on huge piece of shit "
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1967 Austin 1100 van den Plas Princess. It went wrong every week. I ended up banger racing it.
The gearbox made that much noise that once when going up a steep hill, the Ford Capricorn in front stopped because he thought the noise was coming from his car! |
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Worst cars I've owned or driven have all been French
Worst ones were Peugeot
Had a 306 company car years ago also owned a 309 for a little while (it was given to me!)
Both were terrible in every way
Got the right balance now
Gone German for business mileage and Australian for fun
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them."
I have the SRi CDTi model.. Nothing special, just needed a big diesel car for snowboarding, but it's shite in the snow..
Jap is best! I'm a Mazda man at heart! |
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By *irceWoman
over a year ago
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"Deffo my silver with rust trim rover 416.... Mmmmmm such good memories.. Lol  "
I had a partner with one and rust was a major issue it was bubbling out all over like a post apocalyptic doom car.
Good engine...Honda I think |
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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago
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"We have a huge list of terrible cars our current one a Vauxhall insignia is the latest. New gearbox,management lights and whole lot more .
We had an Alfa Romeo brera which was a nightmare but still we loved it. Would have kept it if we had known every subsequent car was shit"
We've got a Brera, had it for 4 years and never had a problem with it. It is an 'oiler' though. |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!"
Blimey! That brings back memories! Worked in a Fiat/Lancia/Volvo main dealers many moons ago. One day we had a Lancia Beta saloon in the workshop for a service. Up on the wheel-free ramp it went and as I was bringing out the parts for the service we started hearing a creaking sound! Two year old car starting to collapse on the ramp! Couldn`t believe what we were looking at! Last I saw of that car was it going to Lancia at Alperton, London, firmly strapped down on our Land Rover and trailer. The Beta was a pig to work on! Fitted with a twin-cam Fiat engine that went like stick but they put a major cooling pipe over the top of the spark plugs and I lost count of how many cylinder heads we replaced because others had bollixed up spark plug threads whilst replacing the plugs with a hot engine! I`m sure in the end Lancia bought back all the cars and crushed them!
My worst car? Vauxhall FB Victor. Kept breaking gear levers or stripping the gear lever mounting screws so the gear lever would slop all over the place. Had a crankshaft snap as did both back springs. Front brakes faded like buggery over 50 mph and were replaced by discs from a FC Victor 101 and a fekkin great servo off a PC Cresta! Managed to off-load it onto an uncle that I didn`t care for much! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!
Blimey! That brings back memories! Worked in a Fiat/Lancia/Volvo main dealers many moons ago. One day we had a Lancia Beta saloon in the workshop for a service. Up on the wheel-free ramp it went and as I was bringing out the parts for the service we started hearing a creaking sound! Two year old car starting to collapse on the ramp! Couldn`t believe what we were looking at! Last I saw of that car was it going to Lancia at Alperton, London, firmly strapped down on our Land Rover and trailer. The Beta was a pig to work on! Fitted with a twin-cam Fiat engine that went like stick but they put a major cooling pipe over the top of the spark plugs and I lost count of how many cylinder heads we replaced because others had bollixed up spark plug threads whilst replacing the plugs with a hot engine! I`m sure in the end Lancia bought back all the cars and crushed them!
My worst car? Vauxhall FB Victor. Kept breaking gear levers or stripping the gear lever mounting screws so the gear lever would slop all over the place. Had a crankshaft snap as did both back springs. Front brakes faded like buggery over 50 mph and were replaced by discs from a FC Victor 101 and a fekkin great servo off a PC Cresta! Managed to off-load it onto an uncle that I didn`t care for much! "
I`ll add ref the Lancias - such was the bad press they got, Lancia pulled out of the UK market and never sold another car here since! Think they`re still going though! |
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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago
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But, if some of you still had these 'shit' cars don't forget that some would be worth a fortune now.
I've had a 72 Capri 3000E, TVR 3000M, numerous 911 SC's and 924 turbos, Mini coopers, BMW 2000tii and more. I coundn't afford to buy them now if I wanted to. And some of them were fucking shittier than shit at the time lol.
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"We have a huge list of terrible cars our current one a Vauxhall insignia is the latest. New gearbox,management lights and whole lot more .
We had an Alfa Romeo brera which was a nightmare but still we loved it. Would have kept it if we had known every subsequent car was shit"
What model and age? I have the SRi CDTi 160 and after having the car 2 weeks I had to get a new gearbox and clutch.. It was 3 year old at the time.. Luckily it was still under warranty or I would have put it back in the showroom via the big window frontage!
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A grey diesel Vauxhall vectra it was like driving a rain cloud and handled just as badly.
Followed closely by a white mondeo estate. Which my friends dubbed "the bakers herse" |
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them."
I work for them and they need scrapping |
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Ooooh the worst car? Hmmmmm I've had a few stinkers.
Shit brown mk1 fiesta.
Silver Peugeot 305 (utter turd)
Red escort xr3i, so called hot hatch-shit!
Rover 418 diesel, 320,000 miles. Bad idea.
Mk2 & 3 Renault espace.
Theres bound to be more, I think I may have blanked them out!  |
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?
XJs??
The ones with the sloping boot lid- it was a design cock up. The plastic mould melted in heat and no one noticed before it went into production. "
Yes that one |
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"But, if some of you still had these 'shit' cars don't forget that some would be worth a fortune now.
I've had a 72 Capri 3000E, TVR 3000M, numerous 911 SC's and 924 turbos, Mini coopers, BMW 2000tii and more. I coundn't afford to buy them now if I wanted to. And some of them were fucking shittier than shit at the time lol.
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I find it fascinating how some cars that you could pick up for £50 years ago are now worth thousands. Look at mk1 & 2 Escorts. They get silly money these days Even mk2 Golfs are creeping up into the thousands. |
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?
The xj6 was popular in the 90's. "
Had a black one, limo tints, cream leathe_ed beauty that drank oil & fuel in equal measures. The dash lit up like a christmas tree after a short distance, warning lights all over the place!
Loved my big shaguar!  |
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?
The xj6 was popular in the 90's.
Had a black one, limo tints, cream leathe_ed beauty that drank oil & fuel in equal measures. The dash lit up like a christmas tree after a short distance, warning lights all over the place!
Loved my big shaguar! "
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?
The xj6 was popular in the 90's.
Had a black one, limo tints, cream leathe_ed beauty that drank oil & fuel in equal measures. The dash lit up like a christmas tree after a short distance, warning lights all over the place!
Loved my big shaguar!
haha!! "
Come to think of it, maybe its time to get another? Lwb this time, 6 inches longer.
Who wouldn't want that? |
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"What were the popular Jaguars in the early 90s?
The xj6 was popular in the 90's.
Had a black one, limo tints, cream leathe_ed beauty that drank oil & fuel in equal measures. The dash lit up like a christmas tree after a short distance, warning lights all over the place!
Loved my big shaguar!
haha!!
Come to think of it, maybe its time to get another? Lwb this time, 6 inches longer.
Who wouldn't want that? "
I'm sure your wife will love you for that. |
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A fiat cinquecento 900cc I've tried to kill it over the last 3 years also abandoned it for 6 months and still started up no problem the good thing about it though it didn't cost me anything to buy |
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not had a bad car as such, but my first was a 2000reg nissan micra; good little car, but after 2 years of 2and half of owning it, the orange engine light came on. apparently, it affects s to 51 versions(1998 to2011), it happens cos nissan used a cheaper item in the ecu. had a 2005 skoda fabia sport for a couple of years, then mazda 2(ford fusion), then got mark 2 skoda fabia. only thing that failed under warrenty, was washer pump. i think i'll stay with skoda. |
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I paid 400 quid for a wrecked skoda felicia. It was hell to drive. The neighbours hated me. But I got a good 6 months out of it before the cylinder head went lol |
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By *mojeeCouple
over a year ago
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Easy. Was my first one, was an old (and I mean old) cortina mk5 reg gcu819w cost 300 and the clutch went, the gearbox destroyed itself and then the engine seized. Each one happened just after I got the previous breakdown fixed. Then someone stole it using the key they used to steal the one up the road from me |
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"I can't recall the make but it had a screwdriver where the gear stick should have been and cooked out in the same place EVERY day. "
I dont recall selling you a car? Pmsl |
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"A fiat cinquecento 900cc I've tried to kill it over the last 3 years also abandoned it for 6 months and still started up no problem the good thing about it though it didn't cost me anything to buy "
These make awesome audio cars, same as fiat pandas. Small and with nice flat Windows.
Stick a wall in these little things and you'll write the car off with the amount of bass you would get out of it 
I think I need a new hobby |
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"A fiat cinquecento 900cc I've tried to kill it over the last 3 years also abandoned it for 6 months and still started up no problem the good thing about it though it didn't cost me anything to buy
These make awesome audio cars, same as fiat pandas. Small and with nice flat Windows.
Stick a wall in these little things and you'll write the car off with the amount of bass you would get out of it
I think I need a new hobby "
Haha I will try and kill it that way shake the fooker to bits |
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them. I work for them and they need scrapping "
Do they often have problems with the flywheel? I'm just waiting to whack a shit load of cash on that too |
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"I can't recall the make but it had a screwdriver where the gear stick should have been and cooked out in the same place EVERY day.
I dont recall selling you a car? Pmsl"
if I still had it you'd get it back |
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"I can't recall the make but it had a screwdriver where the gear stick should have been and cooked out in the same place EVERY day.
I dont recall selling you a car? Pmsl
if I still had it you'd get it back "
Sorry, no returns accepted.
Warranty states - once round the block or 3 minutes, whichever comes first. |
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"I can't recall the make but it had a screwdriver where the gear stick should have been and cooked out in the same place EVERY day.
I dont recall selling you a car? Pmsl
if I still had it you'd get it back
Sorry, no returns accepted.
Warranty states - once round the block or 3 minutes, whichever comes first. "
You might want to rephrase your last statement |
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"I can't recall the make but it had a screwdriver where the gear stick should have been and cooked out in the same place EVERY day.
I dont recall selling you a car? Pmsl
if I still had it you'd get it back
Sorry, no returns accepted.
Warranty states - once round the block or 3 minutes, whichever comes first.
You might want to rephrase your last statement "
Hahaha, it does sound a little rude. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them. I work for them and they need scrapping
Do they often have problems with the flywheel? I'm just waiting to whack a shit load of cash on that too "
it will be a dual mass flywheel two part flywheel to dampen vibration often collapse causing clutch failure find them on practically every modern diesel car and a lot of petrol cars they are a pain in your wallet anything between £600 and £2000 to change .clutch needs to be done at the same time .nephew was getting quotes of £1800 for his vectra tdci found a place did it for £800 you need to shop around and avoid dealers they are very very expensive .if it's a ford have them fit the solid flywheel from the transit and live with the small amount of vibration |
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My worst car was a Mini Cubman. Bought it as a temporary measure. When my Rover 213 was stolen. Day I bought it, it just cut out twice. Then as I parked it up and walked away, I heard a bang and looked round to see a massive plume of steam. Radiator had blown. Only had it a free weeks, and it cost me a fortune in parts.
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"But, if some of you still had these 'shit' cars don't forget that some would be worth a fortune now.
I've had a 72 Capri 3000E, TVR 3000M, numerous 911 SC's and 924 turbos, Mini coopers, BMW 2000tii and more. I coundn't afford to buy them now if I wanted to. And some of them were fucking shittier than shit at the time lol.
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This post I can really relate to.
If I think about some of the cars I handled over the years I could break out into a cold sweat.
The ones that stick in my mind are the VW Karmann Ghia that I bought one night at Chorley motor auction for the princely sum of £170. Within an hour someone outside pulled me and offe_ed me £250 for it. Bearing in mind that £20/30 a week was a decent wage at the time and I was only 18 and doing it part time I wasn't going to refuse £80 profit. What would that be worth today?
When I got my first proper job selling cars my boss used to ship cars over from the US. We were always at Liverpool docks picking up various 60's/70's vintage Lincoln's Cadilac's and the like. I even remember picking up one of the original Corvette's.
We had allsorts of weird and wonderful things in those days. Various Jaguar's including quite a few E Types, Jensen Interceptor's, Triumph Stag's, we even bought and sold an Iso Rivolta.
If I could get back every car that one way or another went through my hands it would be like a lottery win.
But hey, great memories.
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!"
Definitely in contention for one of the worst cars ever !!!
It was the "Rustgate scandal" that forced Lancia to withdraw car sales in GB just about that time... surprisingly they have survived as a manufacturer and still sell cars to Europe...
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them. I work for them and they need scrapping
Do they often have problems with the flywheel? I'm just waiting to whack a shit load of cash on that too it will be a dual mass flywheel two part flywheel to dampen vibration often collapse causing clutch failure find them on practically every modern diesel car and a lot of petrol cars they are a pain in your wallet anything between £600 and £2000 to change .clutch needs to be done at the same time .nephew was getting quotes of £1800 for his vectra tdci found a place did it for £800 you need to shop around and avoid dealers they are very very expensive .if it's a ford have them fit the solid flywheel from the transit and live with the small amount of vibration "
Sad thing is that often the flywheel is perfectly fine. Garages just love to tell you they need changing and in a lot of cases they charge you but don't fit them. I've only ever come across 1 DMF that needed doing.
It also helps if you know to check them for play properly when the gearbox is off. |
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!
Definitely in contention for one of the worst cars ever !!!
It was the "Rustgate scandal" that forced Lancia to withdraw car sales in GB just about that time... surprisingly they have survived as a manufacturer and still sell cars to Europe...
xx "
Aside from the rust the Beta Coupe was actually a very good car in the right hands. |
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!
Definitely in contention for one of the worst cars ever !!!
It was the "Rustgate scandal" that forced Lancia to withdraw car sales in GB just about that time... surprisingly they have survived as a manufacturer and still sell cars to Europe...
xx
Aside from the rust the Beta Coupe was actually a very good car in the right hands."
Virtual all the cars mentioned on here have had their own race series at least and some are world championship winning... just not the second hand badly maintained versions that some experience 
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"My current car.. A Vauxhall Insignia, just been nothing but problems from day one!
I've had several vauxhalls as courtesy cars, when I had a Peugeot (before I saw the light and bought Japanese)
They are the most lifeless, dull and boring cars I've ever driven. Even the SRI models which aren't cheap! Was really unimpressed with them. I work for them and they need scrapping
Do they often have problems with the flywheel? I'm just waiting to whack a shit load of cash on that too it will be a dual mass flywheel two part flywheel to dampen vibration often collapse causing clutch failure find them on practically every modern diesel car and a lot of petrol cars they are a pain in your wallet anything between £600 and £2000 to change .clutch needs to be done at the same time .nephew was getting quotes of £1800 for his vectra tdci found a place did it for £800 you need to shop around and avoid dealers they are very very expensive .if it's a ford have them fit the solid flywheel from the transit and live with the small amount of vibration
Sad thing is that often the flywheel is perfectly fine. Garages just love to tell you they need changing and in a lot of cases they charge you but don't fit them. I've only ever come across 1 DMF that needed doing.
It also helps if you know to check them for play properly when the gearbox is off."
I hope you're not filling me full of false hope, haha!
As long as it lasts me another 2 year hassle free I will sell it and not right it off |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
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Had a brand new Renault Laguna a few years back. Within the first 6 months, it spent most its time in the dealers for various repairs. In the end they changed it. Will never have another Renault |
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"Lancia beta 2000 coupe.
Only car I ever bought new. Fall apart and rusted away before first MOT was due, and Lancias solution was for me to give them another £5000 for another rust bucket!
Still smarting after 35 years!
Definitely in contention for one of the worst cars ever !!!
It was the "Rustgate scandal" that forced Lancia to withdraw car sales in GB just about that time... surprisingly they have survived as a manufacturer and still sell cars to Europe...
xx
Aside from the rust the Beta Coupe was actually a very good car in the right hands.
Virtual all the cars mentioned on here have had their own race series at least and some are world championship winning... just not the second hand badly maintained versions that some experience
xx
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You have an excellent point there. Preventative maintenance is always the key with many cars. I drive Alfa's and have done for many trouble free years. I've never experienced the so called unreliable stereotype because I service them regularly and address potential problems before they appear. |
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