worst car

[davidpizzica]

I know that I started this thread before, but there are more members now. What was the worst car you ever owned? I once owned a 1973 Ford maverick (ugh!) I had it in the shop one day and had it on the rack and discovered that it was the halves of two cars welded together!!:confused: I also was going up the road one day, shifted my weigh in the seat and the back of the seat fell off! needless to say I got rid of that bomb! So I'd like to haer some of your stories.

[moosmom]

The worst car I ever had was a Ford Fairlane that had a rebuilt engine, new everything but had a ghastly fumes leak from a hole in the floor!! :eek: This was when my daughter was only 2 years old. I had to drive with the windows wide open during the winter so we wouldn't get carbon monoxide poisoning. I ended up junking it and buying a used VW bug with no heating system (the heater coil blew and couldn't afford to have it fixed). Everytime time I got in the car, I'd have to scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windshield!! :eek: Come to find out it had been in a major accident and was completely rebuilt. That's when I SWORE I would NEVER buy another used car again.

[slleipnir]

It wasn't my car, but an old car of my moms. It was a Toyota I believe. It was just OLD. The muffler was gone (literally), the car would bounce (again, literally) as you drove. My bro and I were young at the time though and thought it was really fun! :rolleyes: I believe there was a hole in the floor...and a bunch of other stuff..lol

[davidpizzica]

Originally posted by moosmom
The worst car I ever had was a Ford Fairlane that had a rebuilt engine, new everything but had a ghastly fumes leak from a hole in the floor!! :eek: This was when my daughter was only 2 years old. I had to drive with the windows wide open during the winter so we wouldn't get carbon monoxide poisoning. I ended up junking it and buying a used VW bug with no heating system (the heater coil blew and couldn't afford to have it fixed). Everytime time I got in the car, I'd have to scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windshield!! :eek: Come to find out it had been in a major accident and was completely rebuilt. That's when I SWORE I would NEVER buy another used car again. Donna, aren't cars pains in the butt?? I just got finished paying mine off and now when I go over fifty the service engine light goes on! I had a 1991 Olds Ciera and when I paid that one off, a week and a half later the head gasket blew! I'm just wondering why that idiot light comes on. (It doesn't stay on)

[moosmom]

Davidp,

Yeah, cars ARE a pain in the butt!! I have never bought a used car since the VW. I figured since I keep my cars for a long time, I might as well start off with a new one. I find that these days ya just can't trust people when it comes to buying used cars. But that's only MY opinion.

[CalliesMom]

The last two years we lived in Tucson hubby traded his truck for an ORANGE RUSTING 74' Dodge Dart. :rolleyes: He had it all of 30 minutes and a belt broke on it...I think out of those two years it ran all of 2 months but it sure did make a lot of noise.

[davidpizzica]

Originally posted by moosmom
Davidp,

Yeah, cars ARE a pain in the butt!! I have never bought a used car since the VW. I figured since I keep my cars for a long time, I might as well start off with a new one. I find that these days ya just can't trust people when it comes to buying used cars. But that's only MY opinion. Well, Donna, if I have to get another car, I have two car nuts for brothers!

[DJFyrewolf36]

I've had a lot of pains in the butt but the one that tops the charts as far as annoyances wasn't my car!!!

My old roomate had a 88 olds cutlass station wagon. Those things are imposible even to do a plug job on *you have to unbolt two motor mounts and jack up the motor to get to three of the spark plugs* We tried doing an O2 sensor replacement on it once, and the stupid old O2 sensor broke inside the engine!

With that car, even the simpilest things took hours. Once we changed the oil and had the oil filter blow off! Ugh, I was so glad when that thing finaly just died.

[davidpizzica]

DJF, you should see all of the plumbing under the hood of my olds cutlass! I don't even know where to begin if I need to change spark plugs!!

[Fox-Gal]

Originally posted by david p
I know that I started this thread before, but there are more members now. What was the worst car you ever owned? I once owned a 1973 Ford maverick (ugh!)

That was my first car and my worst too. I remember shortly after I got it, my mother and I where going to church and of course I wanted to drive my car!! Well we made it 2 miles down the road and the muffler came off. So there we are, dressed in our best clothes, me driving the car slowly, mom holding up the muffler so we could make it to the nearest house to park the car till someone could come and get it.

I hated that car!! It got past down to my brother, who went to get it re-painted only to find out, it was held together with bondo.

I guess it was better then a Pinto. LOL:p

[davidpizzica]

Originally posted by Fox-Gal
That was my first car and my worst too. I remember shortly after I got it, my mother and I where going to church and of course I wanted to drive my car!! Well we made it 2 miles down the road and the muffler came off. So there we are, dressed in our best clothes, me driving the car slowly, mom holding up the muffler so we could make it to the nearest house to park the car till someone could come and get it.

I hated that car!! It got past down to my brother, who went to get it re-painted only to find out, it was held together with bondo.

I guess it was better then a Pinto. LOL:p However I think it's only about a half step better than a Pinto!

[Twisterdog]

I had a 1985 Ford Escort. Oh my, what a piece of junk. We put three carburators on it in the year and a half we owned it. One day the entire exhaust system, muffler, pipes and all, fell completely off the car while I was driving down the street. After that, we had to drive with the windows open all the time or we would die from exhaust fumes. Not fun ... but we were starving college students, what could we do?

[Karen]

I have had no "worst car." I HAVE had cars with character, and I loved them despite the quirks. The cars I have owned were (age is how old it was when I got it)

1. A 12-year-old Ford Maverick
2. An 11 1/2-year-old Mercury Comet
3. A 12-year-old Pinto (1978, the model AFTER the exploding gas tanks kind)

I could go on and on about any one of them and our "adventures" together.

We bought a new car when we got married, but that was more Paul's than mine.

We now own a 1991 Toyota Corrolla, which we got brand-new, and has been great, and a 1993 Honda CRV, which I also love.

Can you tell I come from a family of "car guys" - gender having nothing to do with it!

[RICHARD]

An orange AMC Pacer.

ALso known as "The Great Pumpkin" or "The Spacer" due to modern space ship look....:rolleyes:

If they gal went out on a second date in that car I knew she had a sense of humor, or no sense of cars....;) :p :rolleyes: :cool:

[Kristl]

i have BAD luck with cars...my first was a '93 Beretta (Chevy) that was probably once a nice car, but by the time I got it the window didn't go up all the way, the door panel fell off, and the console in the middle fell apart...of yeah, and the door handle broke off so I had to get in through the passenger side...that sucked! Then in 2000 I got a brand spankin new Mustang that was beautiful and perfect. Then it fell apart...wouldn't start, died etc...got rid of the lemon and got a Jeep Grand Cherokee...window roller up problems, tranny started missing a gear, back window wiped died...10 disc cd changed quit....WHY ME??? I don;t drive hard or in excess...aaahhhhhhhh! Let's pray the next car actually does what it is suppossed to!!!

[LKPike]

The worst was when my fiance and I went to Houston, Texas last November to get this old beat up mercury he got off ebay (he restores old cars). Within only 6 minutes(!) we were broken down on the side of the road, with tons and tons of steam and smoke pouring out the front and inside of the car. I guess the ebay seller just "forgot" to tell us about the problems in the radiator, and that we'd need to stop every 1-2 hours to refill the oil! OH, and "the stretching/grinding noise you'll hear is the brakes... their fine! just ignore them." - oh thanks for atleast telling us about THAT problem :p
Then we had the fun of finding out the windshield had been replaced by seller (who had absolutely no auto experience), it started raining and the inside of the car started flooding. Since the heat and everything else was broken, every window was fogging over (which out of everything was our biggest concern, since we could barely see a thing and wiping the stuff off didnt really help)
We certainly enjoyed our 13 hour drive back home in what I now call "the big red boat"! (I jinxed it apparently, now every single time we have to drive it, it rains!)