What's the worst car you've ever owned? - Page 2

Mr 5 0 · 08-21-2007, 04:50 PM

Good thread. No wonder it's lasted so long.

My worst car was probably an old Rambler American 4-door sedan (white body, blue interior) with fairly low miles on it that we had for about a year when my wife and I were first married. I don't know what we were thinking. Six cylinder, automatic. Slow, unattractive, uncomfortable and basically unreliable. We never took it very far. It was her first car (I taught her how to drive) and she wanted something docile and easy to drive. I wanted something cheap. It had various fairly minor problems but the transmission started acting funky after a year so we sold it before it went, totally. I can't believe we ever had such a dumb car. My wife agrees.

I once owned an Oldsmobile convertible that was a nightmare. Looked cool and had some power but handled like a tank and got about 10 MPG. Broke down all the time. Ate water pumps and had a weak radiator. Electrical gremlins, too. I had to sell it for parts after only 3 months when I stupidly burned out the tranny clutches doing doughnuts in the snow. I never got to drive it with the top down.

In more recent years I owned a '90 Mustang I bought new. Practically no problems in 15 years. I sold it in 2005 for $3,000. It had given me 125,000 pleasurable miles and I knew it would eventually develop problems like a leaky head gasket or a leaky heater core. No thanks. I sold it to a guy who had some money (owned a small trucking company). He intended to 'restore' it. I never heard from him again - but I hope he did.

I had other 'grocery-getter' vehicles over the years that were crappy but they also had high miles, which excuse them, to a point. Most things that went on them were not unexpected. Engines and transmissions always held up. This includes a '87 Plymouth Horizon traded in 1995 with 144,000 miles on the odometer and a 1995 Mazda 626 (4 cylinder) with a bad transmission and 140,0000 miles on the odometer that I traded in 2005. Both were traded on a new car. I got next to nothing for them, which is about what I expected as they both were tired and probably went straight to auction, where they belonged.

rbohm · 10-22-2007, 08:35 PM

the worst car i ever had was a 64 chevelle ss. it had a 283/powerglide. it ran on 6 cylinder, and smoked so bad that that i think the mosquito population declined every time i started the car. i bought the car because it was cheap. it had a cracked frame that i knew about, and some rust in the outer body. when i decided to look closer at the car, i found the frame was broken on the other side was well, the floor pans were almost completely rusted out, among other problems. i sold the car for what i paid for it though, to a guy that complained it wasnt original for some silly reason, and he almost left without buying the car until i pointed out that his 65 chevelle wasnt going to be original either once he swapped out the six for the V8. and besides all the little parts and pieces he needed for the swap were already on the car i was selling him.

mustangfiend · 08-25-2008, 02:27 PM

Has to be a Dodge Neon. Horrible had to spend so much money to fix this car. Than I guess it would be a ML320 that car always had it's check engine light on and the supension would always need replacing.

1nastynotch · 09-17-2008, 12:21 AM

98 Jeep grand cherokee for me. Pretty good off road and in the snow. Everything was fine till I started having wiring problems and it eating through front end parts. I would never buy one again.

Best daily driver to beat the crap out of was my old 89 Mercury topaz! That car was great! Beat the crap out of it and it still kept on going. I drove it home overheating about 25 miles. The thing was bubbling and shooting steam out the recovery tank everywhere. Got it home, let it cool down, added some water and drove it the next day!

HoodStrype · 02-23-2006, 02:42 PM

Tempos are bad about motor mount breaks... or at least when I drove the 91 my mom had new.

frmula505 · 02-23-2006, 03:47 PM

64 Thunderbird, nothing but one problem after another. They put to much electrical stuff in a car that old. ( had it in late 70's )

Mustaang girly · 02-27-2006, 08:43 AM

The worst thing I ever had to drive was a 1980 toyota corrolla. Of course my father only bought wimpy cars like that when I was growing up. To this day I will never ever buy a toyota corrolla ever again. I 'm a proud owner of a black 05 GT Stang now that he is dead and buried

Mustaang girly · 02-27-2006, 08:50 AM

There is nothing more boring than a toyota camry and corrolla.

Mr.Mustang302 · 02-27-2006, 10:02 AM

Mine would have to be a 4spd '83 mustang notch 4cyl. Yeah, I have an '83 now but that one is a hatchback. Anyway, this piece of junk cost $450. Good price for a project car. Ugly color. Brown. You know what I'm talking about. Well after weeks and weeks of hard starts and alot of backfiring, the motor sprung an oil leak. Then to make things worse, turns out the car had been stolen. So I was out a mustang and $450 bucks. Never again will I buy a 4cyl. Ever since it has only been 5.0's

pny_p51 · 03-01-2006, 10:01 AM

Mine was an '84 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme..
Piece of s**t!! It would stall out everytime, the only way to keep this from happening was to let it warm up, even in the winter!!
So, if there was an emergency, there's no way I get there anytime soon, would have to let it warm up 10 minutes to get there!!

I hated that car!!
Oh! Yeah! and then!! in the winter! if there was a snow storm, the car was like a sled!!! even the wheel would lock into place! so I'd have absolutely no control of it at al!! Crazy!!

I'm so happy to be a proud owner of my Mustang '06!! Yeah!!
Hopefully that car is in a cemetary somewhere, where it belongs!!

Have a great day!!

rancheroo · 03-09-2006, 09:55 PM

What a bunch of whiners..Toyota Corolla, Tempos, why you young bucks had it good...lol. Hell I had a 1972 VW camper, what a POS. The night I bought it, as I was driving home, I was cussing myself. I hated that car the minute I got in it. The bad thing is (actually two bad things). I sold a 67 olds 442 so I could buy it. The second is, I learned how to drive in a VW van....I knew better.

Rick

84LX89GT · 03-27-2006, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rancheroo

What a bunch of whiners..Toyota Corolla, Tempos, why you young bucks had it good...lol. Hell I had a 1972 VW camper, what a POS. The night I bought it, as I was driving home, I was cussing myself. I hated that car the minute I got in it. The bad thing is (actually two bad things). I sold a 67 olds 442 so I could buy it. The second is, I learned how to drive in a VW van....I knew better.

....man....that SUCKS

, another question, why did you sell the olds 442 to get a VW camper?

Quote:

Originally Posted by musrcng

93 Ford Escort. It wouldn't have been so bad but my wife made me give up my 85 gt that had some work done to it.

Man, you must really love your wife to give up a mustang GT for an escort. I'd say trade me in instead of the GT and you can go home with the escort, and i'll stay here with the GT, lol

RBatson · 03-27-2006, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rancheroo

What a bunch of whiners..Toyota Corolla, Tempos, why you young bucks had it good...lol. Hell I had a 1972 VW camper, what a POS. The night I bought it, as I was driving home, I was cussing myself. I hated that car the minute I got in it. The bad thing is (actually two bad things). I sold a 67 olds 442 so I could buy it. The second is, I learned how to drive in a VW van....I knew better.

Rick

LOL!! That is funny!

My worst car was a 1980 camaro I bought from my brother. He chopped... err.. worked on it some and it was a POS. I think I traded him $800 and a surfboard for it. I told him I wanted my surfboard back, heeh. He traded the camaro for a 72 2 barrel wannabe mach.

musrcng · 03-13-2006, 08:26 PM

93 Ford Escort. It wouldn't have been so bad but my wife made me give up my 85 gt that had some work done to it. I went from 300 ponys to 88 and if you put the air on it dropped to 8. Nothing more embarassing then have to turn off the air when a light turns green or your trying to avoid an 18 wheeler running you over trying to get on the expressway.

bmxmon · 03-28-2006, 02:18 AM

My first car was a 89 toyota corolla, i thought it was alot of fun(5spd), reliable too.

nitrousboy · 03-29-2006, 01:21 AM

a 1983 gmc s-15 2.8 rust every were

2001GTPEWTER · 03-29-2006, 01:30 PM

Believe it or not...a 1996 Honda Accord EX. I will never again buy another 4-cylinder engine.

06_GT_Hawaii · 03-29-2006, 01:40 PM

1985 Dodge Lancer!
It was my first car too...

I wasted wax and armor all and other odds and ends of money on that crap car.

It died in my parents drive way after a drive from Orlando to Arizona while moving to Idaho. Electronics problems, K-frame broke, stock radio missing, bald tires...

I had it towed to a Jeep dealership in Mesa that night, went back the next day and traded it in for my Jeep. They didn't even try and start it while I was there. Got lucky.

Mach 1 · 04-03-2006, 03:41 AM

1983 Buick Regal T-type. great looking car and fun to drive, but the most un-refined, un-reliable piece of shit to ever come out of detroit.

chuck88 · 04-15-2006, 11:13 AM

82 Buick Regal

V6 lost compresion at 76,000 miles
Every told me that fox mustangs are terible in the rain, they never drove one of these light wieght cars. The car would hydro plane on a ketchup packet!

08-21-2007, 04:50 PM	#1
Mr 5 0 Conservative Individualist Join Date: May 1997 Location: Wherever I need to be Posts: 7,487	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Good thread. No wonder it's lasted so long. My worst car was probably an old Rambler American 4-door sedan (white body, blue interior) with fairly low miles on it that we had for about a year when my wife and I were first married. I don't know what we were thinking. Six cylinder, automatic. Slow, unattractive, uncomfortable and basically unreliable. We never took it very far. It was her first car (I taught her how to drive) and she wanted something docile and easy to drive. I wanted something cheap. It had various fairly minor problems but the transmission started acting funky after a year so we sold it before it went, totally. I can't believe we ever had such a dumb car. My wife agrees. I once owned an Oldsmobile convertible that was a nightmare. Looked cool and had some power but handled like a tank and got about 10 MPG. Broke down all the time. Ate water pumps and had a weak radiator. Electrical gremlins, too. I had to sell it for parts after only 3 months when I stupidly burned out the tranny clutches doing doughnuts in the snow. I never got to drive it with the top down. In more recent years I owned a '90 Mustang I bought new. Practically no problems in 15 years. I sold it in 2005 for $3,000. It had given me 125,000 pleasurable miles and I knew it would eventually develop problems like a leaky head gasket or a leaky heater core. No thanks. I sold it to a guy who had some money (owned a small trucking company). He intended to 'restore' it. I never heard from him again - but I hope he did. I had other 'grocery-getter' vehicles over the years that were crappy but they also had high miles, which excuse them, to a point. Most things that went on them were not unexpected. Engines and transmissions always held up. This includes a '87 Plymouth Horizon traded in 1995 with 144,000 miles on the odometer and a 1995 Mazda 626 (4 cylinder) with a bad transmission and 140,0000 miles on the odometer that I traded in 2005. Both were traded on a new car. I got next to nothing for them, which is about what I expected as they both were tired and probably went straight to auction, where they belonged. __________________ 5.0 Mustang Owner 1990 - 2005

10-22-2007, 08:35 PM	#2
rbohm Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: tucson,az/luray,va Posts: 243	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? the worst car i ever had was a 64 chevelle ss. it had a 283/powerglide. it ran on 6 cylinder, and smoked so bad that that i think the mosquito population declined every time i started the car. i bought the car because it was cheap. it had a cracked frame that i knew about, and some rust in the outer body. when i decided to look closer at the car, i found the frame was broken on the other side was well, the floor pans were almost completely rusted out, among other problems. i sold the car for what i paid for it though, to a guy that complained it wasnt original for some silly reason, and he almost left without buying the car until i pointed out that his 65 chevelle wasnt going to be original either once he swapped out the six for the V8. and besides all the little parts and pieces he needed for the swap were already on the car i was selling him. __________________ define irony: a bunch of idiots on a plane, dancing to a song made famous, by a band who died in a plane crash. fordsix.com admin

08-25-2008, 02:27 PM	#3
mustangfiend Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 19	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Has to be a Dodge Neon. Horrible had to spend so much money to fix this car. Than I guess it would be a ML320 that car always had it's check engine light on and the supension would always need replacing. __________________ Xenon HeadLight Bulbs

09-17-2008, 12:21 AM	#4
1nastynotch Registered Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 12	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 98 Jeep grand cherokee for me. Pretty good off road and in the snow. Everything was fine till I started having wiring problems and it eating through front end parts. I would never buy one again. Best daily driver to beat the crap out of was my old 89 Mercury topaz! That car was great! Beat the crap out of it and it still kept on going. I drove it home overheating about 25 miles. The thing was bubbling and shooting steam out the recovery tank everywhere. Got it home, let it cool down, added some water and drove it the next day! __________________ Blue 93 Notchback; 306, Paxton Novi 2000, TFS heads, TFS intake, AFM cam, 75mm T-body, 80mm MAF, 42lb injectors, 8:0:1 compression, dyno tuned, c-4 w/ brake & 3800 stall ati converter. RWHP- 432.6 @ 6100RPM RWTQ- 430.2 @ 3500RPM Best run: 10.40 ET@126.8 MPH 1.43, 60ft. Red 93 Notchback; Work in progress, 331 blown stroker motor to come.

02-23-2006, 02:42 PM	#5
HoodStrype Rearview Mirror Haze Join Date: May 1999 Location: Huntsville, Alabama...a.k.a. "HuntsVegas" Posts: 387	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Tempos are bad about motor mount breaks... or at least when I drove the 91 my mom had new. __________________ 93 lx Notch 01 GT ...the epitome of Murphy's Law

02-23-2006, 03:47 PM	#6
frmula505 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Santa Fe NM Posts: 48	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 64 Thunderbird, nothing but one problem after another. They put to much electrical stuff in a car that old. ( had it in late 70's )

02-27-2006, 08:43 AM	#7
Mustaang girly Mustaang girly Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New England Posts: 35	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? The worst thing I ever had to drive was a 1980 toyota corrolla. Of course my father only bought wimpy cars like that when I was growing up. To this day I will never ever buy a toyota corrolla ever again. I 'm a proud owner of a black 05 GT Stang now that he is dead and buried

02-27-2006, 08:50 AM	#8
Mustaang girly Mustaang girly Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: New England Posts: 35	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? There is nothing more boring than a toyota camry and corrolla.

02-27-2006, 10:02 AM	#9
Mr.Mustang302 Mr. Mustang302 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 39	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Mine would have to be a 4spd '83 mustang notch 4cyl. Yeah, I have an '83 now but that one is a hatchback. Anyway, this piece of junk cost $450. Good price for a project car. Ugly color. Brown. You know what I'm talking about. Well after weeks and weeks of hard starts and alot of backfiring, the motor sprung an oil leak. Then to make things worse, turns out the car had been stolen. So I was out a mustang and $450 bucks. Never again will I buy a 4cyl. Ever since it has only been 5.0's

03-01-2006, 10:01 AM	#10
pny_p51 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 39	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Mine was an '84 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.. Piece of s**t!! It would stall out everytime, the only way to keep this from happening was to let it warm up, even in the winter!! So, if there was an emergency, there's no way I get there anytime soon, would have to let it warm up 10 minutes to get there!! I hated that car!! Oh! Yeah! and then!! in the winter! if there was a snow storm, the car was like a sled!!! even the wheel would lock into place! so I'd have absolutely no control of it at al!! Crazy!! I'm so happy to be a proud owner of my Mustang '06!! Yeah!! Hopefully that car is in a cemetary somewhere, where it belongs!! Have a great day!!

03-09-2006, 09:55 PM	#11
rancheroo Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Midland, Ga Posts: 8	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? What a bunch of whiners..Toyota Corolla, Tempos, why you young bucks had it good...lol. Hell I had a 1972 VW camper, what a POS. The night I bought it, as I was driving home, I was cussing myself. I hated that car the minute I got in it. The bad thing is (actually two bad things). I sold a 67 olds 442 so I could buy it. The second is, I learned how to drive in a VW van....I knew better. Rick __________________ Building an all forged Scat stroker for my 66 Ranchero

03-13-2006, 08:26 PM	#14
musrcng Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 26	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 93 Ford Escort. It wouldn't have been so bad but my wife made me give up my 85 gt that had some work done to it. I went from 300 ponys to 88 and if you put the air on it dropped to 8. Nothing more embarassing then have to turn off the air when a light turns green or your trying to avoid an 18 wheeler running you over trying to get on the expressway. __________________ 1970 Mustang Mach 1 351C pushing for 500 HP LOST it in the divorce

03-28-2006, 02:18 AM	#15
bmxmon Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Minnesota Posts: 950	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? My first car was a 89 toyota corolla, i thought it was alot of fun(5spd), reliable too. __________________ Alex

03-29-2006, 01:21 AM	#16
nitrousboy Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 25	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? a 1983 gmc s-15 2.8 rust every were

03-29-2006, 01:30 PM	#17
2001GTPEWTER Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: East Long Island Posts: 180	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? Believe it or not...a 1996 Honda Accord EX. I will never again buy another 4-cylinder engine. __________________ Greeeeeeeg

03-29-2006, 01:40 PM	#18
06_GT_Hawaii Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 21	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 1985 Dodge Lancer! It was my first car too... I wasted wax and armor all and other odds and ends of money on that crap car. It died in my parents drive way after a drive from Orlando to Arizona while moving to Idaho. Electronics problems, K-frame broke, stock radio missing, bald tires... I had it towed to a Jeep dealership in Mesa that night, went back the next day and traded it in for my Jeep. They didn't even try and start it while I was there. Got lucky. __________________ '06 GT Mustang (I am a MOPAR convert) I buy my Mustang stuff at: cafepress.com/mustang_GT HAPPINESS IS 300 HP

04-03-2006, 03:41 AM	#19
Mach 1 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Location: Georgia Posts: 3,866	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 1983 Buick Regal T-type. great looking car and fun to drive, but the most un-refined, un-reliable piece of shit to ever come out of detroit. __________________ 2002 GT 1993 GT (SOLD) '93 Mustang GT RHC member #142

04-15-2006, 11:13 AM	#20
chuck88 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Location: Wood Ridge NJ USA Posts: 341	Re: What's the worst car you've ever owned? 82 Buick Regal V6 lost compresion at 76,000 miles Every told me that fox mustangs are terible in the rain, they never drove one of these light wieght cars. The car would hydro plane on a ketchup packet! __________________ So what if its "midlife crisis". Wife, 2 kids, busy job, "fixer upper" house, and I still have time for the Mustang!!! I Love my kids!!!

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