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What's the worst car you ever owned?
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SirMjac28
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SirMjac28
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In almost 20 years of driving I've only owned three cars - my current 2010 Mazda 3, a 2000 Mazda Protege and a used 1980 Honda Accord that I got in 1994 as a junior in high school.
If I had to pick one I'd say the Honda. It ran just fine and I more than got my money's worth out of it but the burnt orange paint and sleek hatchback styling meant I was always coming back to my car to find hot chicks rolling all over it.
But then again how could any woman resist this awesome piece of machinery?
If I had to pick one I'd say the Honda. It ran just fine and I more than got my money's worth out of it but the burnt orange paint and sleek hatchback styling meant I was always coming back to my car to find hot chicks rolling all over it.
But then again how could any woman resist this awesome piece of machinery?
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That was the one for me, too. Hands down, the biggest POS I ever bought. A good friend of mine had the same car with a little less mileage. Any time something went wrong with hers, I knew in a month or 2 it was going to happen to mine, and it did. That cheap piece of crap wound up costing me more than any other car I owned, in repairs.
My current car is a 2001 Tiburon, and I love it. My car before this one was a 2001 Tiburon, and I loved that one too, but totaled it. Too bad ya couldn't get the wiring thing fixed. I'm going to guess you had the faster Tiburon... Mine is the 4 cylinder, so I do great with the gas milage.
Early '70's Datsun something...with numbers.
Same color, very much like this one except....well......worse.
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Had it for a little less than a year.
Really don't know where to begin here.
Trepidation every time I went out to get in it.
A lot of electrical problems.
No interior lights.
No dash/instrument lights.
AM Radio only static the few times it did work.
Blown fuses all the time.
Headlights went out once just after dusk. Went to the auto parts store and put in a new fuse. Headlights came back brighter than ever. Really, Reeeaaly bright. A couple minutes down the road from there, a funny burnt smell and the magic smoke coming out from under the dash. No more lights.
Finally got her home in stealth mode.
Wouldn't start on cold mornings...hell on most mornings.
I think I went through more starting fluid than I did gasoline.
Thats when I began to appreciate the side benefits of ether.
Wouldn't start if someone was sitting in the passenger seat. It would just click. As soon as said person raised up, it would (at least try to) start.
Never figured that one out.
Mt. Fuji would erupt from the cars radiator at regular intervals.
Brakes....never could get the right front to grab right. I could literally turn in to my parents driveway with no hands on the steering wheel just by stomping on the brake pedal.
Good times.
My brother at that same time had the early '70's Vega that's been mentioned before. He had his share as well.
On a quiet night you could hear them trying to out rust each other.
Same color, very much like this one except....well......worse.
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Had it for a little less than a year.
Really don't know where to begin here.
Trepidation every time I went out to get in it.
A lot of electrical problems.
No interior lights.
No dash/instrument lights.
AM Radio only static the few times it did work.
Blown fuses all the time.
Headlights went out once just after dusk. Went to the auto parts store and put in a new fuse. Headlights came back brighter than ever. Really, Reeeaaly bright. A couple minutes down the road from there, a funny burnt smell and the magic smoke coming out from under the dash. No more lights.
Finally got her home in stealth mode.
Wouldn't start on cold mornings...hell on most mornings.
I think I went through more starting fluid than I did gasoline.
Thats when I began to appreciate the side benefits of ether.
Wouldn't start if someone was sitting in the passenger seat. It would just click. As soon as said person raised up, it would (at least try to) start.
Never figured that one out.
Mt. Fuji would erupt from the cars radiator at regular intervals.
Brakes....never could get the right front to grab right. I could literally turn in to my parents driveway with no hands on the steering wheel just by stomping on the brake pedal.
Good times.
My brother at that same time had the early '70's Vega that's been mentioned before. He had his share as well.
On a quiet night you could hear them trying to out rust each other.
Thats when I began to appreciate the side benefits of ether.
I use ether to seat beads on large mud tires.
Tossup. In high school it was a 1982 Pontiac 6000...was a V6 but felt like it had a moped engine in it. Pulling onto the highway was borderline dangerous because of the lack of acceleration. Other worst car was a 1994 Mitsubishi Diamante I bought used with about 75K on it, and within a few months both the engine and transmission blew(separate times). Was a nice car aesthetically at the time though, and luckily I ended up making money when selling it.
[QUOTE/]My current car is a 2001 Tiburon, and I love it. My car before this one was a 2001 Tiburon, and I loved that one too, but totaled it. Too bad ya couldn't get the wiring thing fixed. I'm going to guess you had the faster Tiburon... Mine is the 4 cylinder, so I do great with the gas milage.[/QUOTE]
Nah mine had the 4 banger in it to it got only 20 in the city and 27 on the highway it wasn't bad but for a little 4 banger it sure drank a lot of gas.
Nah mine had the 4 banger in it to it got only 20 in the city and 27 on the highway it wasn't bad but for a little 4 banger it sure drank a lot of gas.
'86 Fiero here...the V6 model. Bought brand spanking new, left me stranded 600 miles from home when the clutch burned out at 2,500 miles. According to Pontiac, not covered under warranty because it was a "wear item". Ultimately went through 6 clutches in 22,000 miles, and went all the way up the Pontiac administrative hierarchy only to be told that I needed to learn how to drive a manual transmission better (although my Mazda pickup was on the original clutch at 75,000 miles at the time). So I wised up and traded it in on a Japanese car--I couldn't in good conscience sell it privately and look the unwitting victim in the eye. And I vowed that I would dance on the grave of the Pontiac brand when they went out of business because of the crap they pushed.
I'm still dancing...and I'm still buying Japanese.
A Plymoth Scamp. A big pos. no pickup would stall at a drop of a hat and steered like a big brick.
A 1984(?) Ford Escort convertible.
First the transmission broke, in a way that it blocked the front wheels. Not pleased.
Later the timing belt broke although it had been changed on schedule.
My unreliable VW Santana (Passat sedan in Europe) would normally hold the title but it didn't commit complete suicide and didn't try to kill me.
First the transmission broke, in a way that it blocked the front wheels. Not pleased.
Later the timing belt broke although it had been changed on schedule.
My unreliable VW Santana (Passat sedan in Europe) would normally hold the title but it didn't commit complete suicide and didn't try to kill me.
