Your worst vehicle?

[THE PILGRIM]

Easy- Alfa Romeo. Broke a lot. Parts really hard to get.
Mine had the Morelli electrical system. **** all the way.
The voltage regulaters would blow before you could get them I stalled and adjusted.
Went Dow to a local vender with specs in hand.
What kind oF US voltage regulator fits these specs.
Little grunt and groan, then he says this model for a 6 volt Chev.
I'll take one. It was really big compared to the OEM unit. I finally got it installed hanging by one screw on the firewall.
It worked perfect! Looked funny. When I sold that car it was still hanging by one screw and it had that voltage under control.

 

[radar1972]

1980 Olds Cutlass station wagon, purchased new. Stalled constantly, usually at the most inopportune time. Rattles galore. Spent almost as much time at the dealer's service dept as it did in my garage. One of those vehicles you'd swear was built on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon.

After 18 months, I had enough and traded it away.

 

[islamoradamark]

F 250 every thing broke on that way to much to list

 

[cowart]

My worst car was also my first car. An elderly high mileage Ford Falcon. After only a month, a piece of the flywheel fell off and locked up the engine solid. I couldn't afford to fix it, so I sold it to a mechanic friend.

At least it wasn't around long enough to get rusty.

 

[Rustyt1953]

In college, I had a 72 Gremlin. The only problem was, no one would ride with me without a bag over their head.

 

[3dots]

My worst car was a '65 Plymouth Belvedere, slant six that used more oil than a locomotive. I remember tooling down the highway one day and a piece of bondo about 4" thick and about 12" in diameter fell off the side and almost caused an accident behind me . God, it was embarrassing to drive .

 

[zzzippper]

78 Chevy Vega and a 94 Ford Ranger piece of ****. That last one cured me of American vehicles forever.

 

[Krell1]

Don't remember the year but it was an American Motors Ambassador Station Wagon. Absolute WORST car ever. At about 50k it the timing chain broke and the damage was extensive. I had it repaired but it never ran right after that. Apparently at least half of the push rods were bent and had to be replaced. Must have missed one that stuck and broke the bolt on the rocker arm. Replaced the bolt only to have it happen again a week later. I have to say the car looked great and ran well when it was running. Took it in to trade on a new car and was never happier to get rid of it. The dealer had it on the lot for a week and had a customer take it on a test drive when it broke down again. Glad it wasn't my car any more.

 

[boatme99]

My worst car was a '65 Plymouth Belvedere, slant six that used more oil than a locomotive. I remember tooling down the highway one day and a piece of bondo about 4" thick and about 12" in diamete r fell off the side and almost caused an accident behind me . God, it was embarrassing to drive .

I had a 1965 Satellite convertible for years. It's one my favorites of all the cars I've owned.
Sold around 1988.
I saw it about 5 years ago. The same guy I sold it to was still driving it.

 

[sasu]

2002 Toyota Sequoia. There is a manufacturing fault in the frame and it rusts like crazy. Toyota replaced the frames in USA but as I am not in US Toyota seems not to honor the warranty for us.

The truck would be lovely except for the rust. Because of the rusting frame the whole car rusts, except for the cabin which seems to be fine. The engine compartment looks awful - every bolt, every metal pipe, every metal plate is red brown.

I am going to contact Toyota headquarters in Japa directly and if they will not honor the warranty replacement, this will be my first and last Toyota. Back to Nissans which have always served me well.

 

[italiansport]

Bought a new 1992 Chrysler Concorde. The first day I had it, the windshield cracked right down the middle (installation problem), on a trip water leaked on my wife's feet from an AC leak. On a 100 degree day taking grandsons to the zoo the AC quit. When the car was 4 months old we took it to FL, the trans wouldn't operate properly except at high speed. Got home and had a new trans installed. Later the second trans acted up and dealer replaced it. Later that trans acted up and dealer replaced it. By now the car had 60,000 plus miles on it. The warranty was good for 70,000 miles so I traded it in before it got to that mark. Years earlier I bought a new Plymouth Voyager and the trans on that quit. I will never buy another Chrysler product.

Ditto
I've owned 2 Chrysler products a Plymouth Fury and Chrysler Sebring. Both of them turned out to be junk. You couldn't give me anything they make. I talked to some car guys in Germany who knew a couple of guys who had imported Dodge Vipers to cruise on the Autobahn. The basically gave up as the engines failed regularly when you drove these at high speeds.
Jim

 

[rolomac]

1955 Chevy BelAire. I bought it when I was leaving home to go to college in 1959 when it was just a 4 year old used car, not the icon it is today. It was a lemon. Nickled and dimed me unmercifully - always something going wrong. The ultimate was one Sunday morning - I got dressed for church, went to pick up my girlfriend and when we pulled away from her house a heater hose burst and sprayed us with antifreeze. I had some un-churchlike things to say and that was it! I traded that loser off and never regretted it. Never owned another Chevy partly because of the bad feeling I had - although I've admired a few over the years.

rolomac

 

[walkin jack]

This is a no-brainer for me. Hands down, no question about it, what ever comes in 2nd ain't even close...My 1981 Chevy C-20.

It was a 3/4 ton but I added extra leaf to the springs and oil cooler. It was rated to be a 1 ton truck. I bought this because I thought I was going to go to work for a hot-shot delivery service. I was going to put a mono rail on it too. That job never came to pass so I was stuck with this beast for 10 years.

After 3 years it started going through things like starter, alternator, water pump, voltage regulator, etc, etc, etc like crazy. I named it Shasta....Sh'ast have this, sh'asta have that....

After 5 years it began to rust really badly. My best friend owned a paint n body shop for a while and he fixed it up for me but he told me that the back the cab was so rusted out that there was just barely enough metal left to put in a new sliding back glass. And this after I paid extra for GM's "Deep Seal" paint protection plan.

I took it in when I started seeing surface rust and they wouldn't touch it. "You have to let it rust all the way through the metal and THEN we'll take care of it."

It could have been so simple. A couple of licks with a piece of wet/dry sandpaper. A shot of primer, a shot of color. A shot of clear coat and we're done. But NOOOOOO we gotta do it the hard way.

The first pic is how it looked when I bought it new. The second pic is how it looked after my friend got done with it. Even though it LOOKED really nice it was still a ***. I kept it another 3 years and when I last saw it if you touched either of the doors it felt like it had corn flakes just under the paint.

I've been driving Ford trucks ever since and keeping them up to 11 years. No rust ever on any of them and they don't "nickle/dime me to death with all the mechanical problems. I honestly do not understand how GM stays in business.

 

[rwsmith]

Two worst

1) Mercury Topaz - ate tires for breakfast, it wouldn't stay aligned more than a couple of weeks. If you knock a curb the wrong way or hit a pothole you'd better go to the alignment shop or in a few weeks your tires will be bald. Ford finally sent out a reinforcing bar that helped a LITTLE. Then I found that if you put 'ribbed' tires on it it would hold up a little better but by that time I was broke and I gave the car to the Kidney Foundation who towed it out of my driveway.

2) Chrysler Concorde - lovely car, very nice in many ways. But they put in a transmission that was ready to fail from the start. At about 60,000 miles I had to take out a loan to get enough to pay for the transmission repair who told me about the problems. I took it to the people with the best reputation in town. A few months later I was driving and it crapped out again. I gave the car to the Kidney Foundation who towed it out of my driveway.

 

[e3mrk]

1985 Chevy Cavalier Station Wagon.
What a piece of junk.
Always fixing something and one day We were going to the Ohio State Fair and the Fuel Pump shorted out and took the Computer System with it. It was Somebody's brilliant idea to put the Pump in the Gas Tank so You had to rip out the rear Seat to get at it,I got the stupid thing running and traded it in on a Ford Van and have been trouble free since.

 

[rwsmith]

See my.....

Bought a new 1992 Chrysler Concorde. I will never buy another Chrysler product.

I feel your pain. See my post above.

 

[rwsmith]

Unless you had a Mercedes or something...

1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88 coupe ordered new in green with a white interior. Beautiful car and I loved it but....it was a diesel and that was my downfall. Those particular GM diesels were mostly lemons.

Unless you had a Mercedes or something that had experience with diesel engines, that first attempt to start using them was not good.

 

[loknload]

1985 Chevy Cavalier Station Wagon.
What a piece of junk.

I worked for AT&T back then and we had them for company cars,,,they sucked lemon big time! I think it was the poorest excuse of a car that GM ever made outside of the Pontiac Aztec!

GM and the 350 / Diesel business,,,,Managers and Engineers should have been fired with that one, along with the Aztec! What a bunch of losers!

 

[rwsmith]

I had a Hornet.....

In college, I had a 72 Gremlin. The only problem was, no one would ride with me without a bag over their head.

Everything wore out and broke on it. The Hornet had gremlins in it. Electrical was the worst. However, I paid $2600 for it and it got years of use when I was in school and beyond. It got a lot of attention from other people because it had a lot of 'character'.

There's a story about it taking off by itself when the starter switch shorted out, but that's another story for a rainy day.

 

[whitestang]

1969 Opel Cadet. First the clutch went out and my Dad and I replaced it. just before I got rid of it 2nd and 3rd gear went out so I had to real get after it the shift to 4th. My uncle had a Opel wagon that ran like a top, I draw the short straw.