| Worst car thread 23:22 - Nov 30 with 197 views | bluelagos |
Alternative to Churchy's thread, what's the worst set of wheels you've had?
For me, defo a handme-down VW Derby. They were saloon Golfs, mine was an absolute shocker. From a window that wouldn't close, to a heater that didn't work. Used to do 0 to 60 in around 15, maybe 16 minutes. (Found out later it only drove on three of its 4 pistons according to the AA guy)
Once parked up at Villa park and the kids looking for parking money
Kid. Quid to look after yer motor
Me: It's not worth a quid
Kid: There's joyriders round here
Me: What self respecting joyrider would be seen dead in that?
Kid: Fair comment.
Post match car needed a bumpstart so the same kids helped and got their quid too :-) |  |
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| Worst car thread on 00:19 - Dec 1 with 119 views | badadski |
Vauxhall insomnia 2.0 diesel - yeah it could do 8 million miles
To the gallon but my god was it slow - it had the torque of cow with its hind legs chopped off. Actually nicknamed Daisy ironically. |  | | |
| Worst car thread on 00:39 - Dec 1 with 90 views | Churchman |
Easy. I’ve had more dogs than Battersea but one stands out.
The Rover 214. Nice colour, nice interior, good value (cheap). What could go wrong? Try everything. It had a K series engine. A new engine which worked alright until it didn’t and the oil sprayed out copiously. Rover grudgingly agreed to fix it. And made it worse.
I got an independent to look at it (AA) and the Rover heroes had damaged the camshaft. Catastrophic, new engine. Ton of money. Er no, I did captain nasty all the way to the chairman of Rover group. No idea how. But I did and they ‘sorted’ the car at no cost to me. It still squeaked, rattled and sounded the tin box junk it was.
As soon as I could I traded it for another Toyota. And thanked the lord for a chariot that went first time every time. |  | | |
| Worst car thread on 00:40 - Dec 1 with 89 views | Churchman |
That made me laugh. A lot. | | | |
| Worst car thread on 01:04 - Dec 1 with 58 views | Kievthegreat |
| Worst car thread on 00:39 - Dec 1 by Churchman |
Easy. I’ve had more dogs than Battersea but one stands out.
The Rover 214. Nice colour, nice interior, good value (cheap). What could go wrong? Try everything. It had a K series engine. A new engine which worked alright until it didn’t and the oil sprayed out copiously. Rover grudgingly agreed to fix it. And made it worse.
I got an independent to look at it (AA) and the Rover heroes had damaged the camshaft. Catastrophic, new engine. Ton of money. Er no, I did captain nasty all the way to the chairman of Rover group. No idea how. But I did and they ‘sorted’ the car at no cost to me. It still squeaked, rattled and sounded the tin box junk it was.
As soon as I could I traded it for another Toyota. And thanked the lord for a chariot that went first time every time. |
I had some terrible tales with my Rover 75. On the way home from buying it, it stuttered to a halt, about 500m from my house. Turns out it had 2 fuel pumps. One up front by the engine and one in the saddle shaped tank. The one in the tank failed so it would only pick up fuel from one side of the saddle, so it essentially ran out of fuel with a quarter tank still in it! Easy fix, just keep it above 25% at all times.
Then the worst was driving to Nottingham, the clutch pedal went straight to the floor suddenly when driving. The replacement cylinder I got for the clutch had failed spectacularly. Had to drive home to Leicester that night with no clutch. I would stop the engine at the lights, force it in to first gear and then just give it some gas while ragging the starter motor to get me moving. Then just matched revs for each gear change down the M1.
Finally, I noticed that when I braked or accelerated, I'd hear a single knock from the front left corner. Went to look at the wheel I could hear it coming from and realised that with just my hand I could rock the wheel backwards and forwards an inch each way. One of the control arms was rusted to hell and at some point a pothole had been the end of it and it just snapped clean in two.
I had more trouble with that car than probably every other car I've ever owned combined.
One thing I will say in it's defence is that the seats were the most comfortable I've ever had in a car. I genuinely wish I'd ripped the front seats out and turned them into an arm chair. Only bit of the car that didn't break down! |  | | |
| Worst car thread on 03:00 - Dec 1 with 5 views | NewcyBlue |
Citroen C4 Picasso. A 2014 car that was awful. It handled worse than a 400m long container ship, rolled more than one too.
It had no mechanical issues, it was reliable as anything. But it was such an awful drive. Somebody had put a tow bar on it, it couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding.
It was just plain terrible to drive. It was that bad that MrsN cried and refused to drive it, so I let her keep the Jaguar XFS. I eventually sold it for a grand less than I paid for it.
Reliability wise, I’ve had some bangers which you expect reliability issues with, but the XK8 is starting to cost me some decent money. But I just can’t stop. I’m slowly buying spares “just in case” and hiding them in my garage.
It probably needs a gearbox overhaul to be honest. I’ll chuck some gearbox oil on and try to nurse it along to summer. I’m going to end up buying a used box, overhauling that and sticking it in. |  |
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