The absolute worst car you ever owned

One of these, a Lancia Prisma Symbol, Fuckin' piece of Shit!I HATED it, as we say ''It wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding''

Not this one, it looked worse than this!It had some shitty body-kit on it!

 

Chevy Beretta what a piece of "Poo".....

 

'71 Vega Kammback & '84 Ford Escort "Pseudo-Squire," both pieces of shit.

My late Grandfather always swore that the biggest piece of shit (though he never woulda used that word!) he ever owned was the '25 "T" coupe that he bought new in '25. He and my grandmother drove it on their honeymoon that year from New Castle, PA to Niagara Falls and he said he spent more time fixing the Ford than he did enjoying the scenery (Wonder if that was a euphemism for something?). Whenever I bought another Ford he'd always tell me how much he'd hated that Model T. He was a Buick, Old, Pontiac man till he couldn't drive anymore at 90+ years old.

 

1993 Ford Taurus SHO-Damn "Yamaha" engine. Every part was on National Back Order.

Word xsteve-My dad had a 86 IROC that was fun to drive, but went through rearends, trans and air compressors like it was going out of style!

 

1992 Chevy S-10 is the absolute WORST "truck" to ever be on the road!


The most reliable vehicles I have yet to own have been a 1988 Ranger, 1966 Mustang and a 1997 Pontiac Sunfire. All three went thru more than I could have ever expected of them.
Wp

 

05 Cobalt

 

...just for shits & giggles the score so far is ....

GM........ 96
Ford ......49
Mopar.....41
VW.........15
Misc Imp..39

 

That's awesome Rollie! That's about where I would've put it. i've worked on a lot of cars, new and old... but GM's are kinda .... eh.... shaky.... when it comes to the ol' quality control department.

I'm not surprised that Ford and Mopar are about even.

Thanks for the tally.

 

1991 chevy S10. 4.3L TBI V6.

Gets 8-10 mph on the freeway, Everything rattles, and the motor leaks oil terribly.


Still stuck with it.

 

'74 Chevy pickup! Worst POS to ever roll out of Detroit. It was 2 yrs old when I bought it and the body rusted to pieces before I got it paid for. Had a 305 v-8 that ate camshafts, lifters and starters like popcorn. Lost a bunch, but boy was I glad to see that junk go to a new home!

 

76 Mustang II V8

 

I had a 1977 dodge class C motor home. Before we went on vacation I went all over that thing so I didn't have to mess with it on the road. It didn't work like that.
As soon as I start it in the driveway the lights wont go on, I loose a day fixing that. Next day we take off, first fill up I see gas coming out under it so I pull in a parking lot and get under it and get that fixed.
We stop for the night and I'm looking under the hood and I see the new fan belt is almost gone. I put one on.
Next day the power steering pump eats itself up. We stop early an I get the pump off, walk 2 miles to the NAPA with the pump so he can change the pulley for me. The steel from the pump coming apart got in the steering box so I pull it off and take it all apart on a picknick table at 3am I got it back together.
We take off in the morning feelin good now. 2 hours later I'm on the side of the road putting on another belt. It ran pretty good the rest of the day so we make it to devils tower WY. I look it over, put on a nother belt and see the inside tire on the back is flat. You got to be shitting me. I try to find a tire and no way. I ended up with a tube and a tire pump, another late night pumping the pump like a teenage boy under the sheets.
When I got home I sold that bastard. More fun that I could stand. JC

 

1966 ELCAMINO. what a rust bucket. it had a 327 and a 3 speed on the floor. ran perfect. the windshield leaked so bad when it rained it would soak my right foot. the rear frame crossmember broke. we jacked it up and noticed the entire pass. side frame rail was gone. someone welded in a piece of exhaust pipe. when we took it to the junkyard and flipped it over the body came off the frame. i love old elcaminos but now i know to look at the frames.

 

None really. I used to live for problems. Now-a-days I buy new.

 

Damn you must be tough on transmissions I doubled the stock HP on mine and have owned it since it was new.

 

1986 Ford LTD/Mercury Marquis...damn thing ran forever, once you shut it down even just to pump gas...it wouldnt start for exactly 2 hours. So most times I pumped gas w/ ingine on. LOL I tried everything at the time to fix. Didnt know anyone to work on cars and I wasnt into it yet. LOL

 

76 MG Midget. JUNK! A Lucas electrical nitemare. Cheap metal, Shitty design. What was I thinkin?

 

As a kid, paid $50 for a 37 Ford Tudor, rings so bad and carbs so rich that gas would leak down into the crankcase and explode, blowing off the oil cap and leaving little dents in the hood.

Put a good $50 motor in it, found the rear shocks were missing, and could never remove the LR drum to fix the parking brake, breaking several pullers trying. Lost first gear and the clutch, sold it, shoulda kept it, huh?

Never had any trouble with my Vega GT or any of 8 Alfa-Romeos.

 

Just a thought, but if you're going to mention a car, be nice to mention why it was a piece of junk, I see a lot of posts that just give year-make-model.

I'm surprised to see so many S10s, I've known of several that have done 250-350K before having a major failure.

 

Hey thats not a bad trade. A 401/4 speed woulda made the swap all the worthwhile My worst car I had was a 1987 Chrysler New Yorker, this pile of shit was devoid of its legendary namesake. it was a gussied up K car that couldn't get ut of its own way and almost always when I pulled into traffic I'd have a cement truck breathing down my neck as I was trying to make 0 to 20 mph in less then 15 minutes

 

96 dodge neon. after two transmissions and a head gasket, it is/was the most expensive car I have owned to date.

 

So your saying it had "less than steller" quality? lol

 

I own a small courier bussiness and in 02 I bought a used 98 S10 pick-up with the Vortec V6. It had a nice cap on it and a king cab with 28,000 on it. I got rid of ot in 04 because after putting 50,000 miles on it and spending $3200 on repairs I had enough. The brakes were too small for the truck. 4 sets of pads, 2 sets of rotors and 2 sets of calipers! Water pump, belt tensioners, master cylinder, alternator,leaky windshield and bad radio. I also had to replace the entire drivshaft, but that was my fault. The thing had balls and the shaft could not take it. The worst thing was the rear and axel bearings had to be replaced. I traded it in on a 04 Toyota Tacoma. I still have the Toyota and it has 102,000 miles on it and the only thing I have replaced other than tires is front brake pads at 73,000 miles! Great truck.

 

toyota ke30 corolla, rt132 toyota corona, both had internal engine problems and both ended up with head gasket problems as did the toyota crown i had and my mums toyota tarago but the crown was actually a good allround daily apart from the head gasket.

 

1976 vega. 327 shoe horned in it. Ran great at idle, but if you got on it, one of two things would happen. The monza rear end spider gears would become shrapnel or the two rear wheels lugs would get sheared off. Never could afford to get a big 9" ford or anything for it. So gave the car to an uncle for a VW bug. Easy to work on and fun to off road (LOL). None the less. 20 years later he still has the 327 in his cheby truck.

BH

 

Fiat.

 

Well, sorry to tell you but i win...YUGO

 

I like the sounds of this ride ..... A forerunner to a Golden Hawk ...

 

I'll second that. My '96 has 271K on it and the most serious repair I've made is a water pump.

 

72 Pinto, wiring harness had an intermittent short that blew 3 alternators in less than 90 days, an alternator a month, dealer couldn't find a problem with it, then the door handle broke off in my hands and that was it for me, car was less than a year old.

70 MG Midget, headlights worked whenever they wanted to, kept a hammer in the trunk next to the electric fuel pump to get it started, heater only come on when you hit a bump in the middle of summer - the only device Lucas ever made that didn't suck was their vacuum cleaner.