The worst car you've ever owned?

[MsMiaWallace]

Going on from a previous thread what is the worst car you have ever owned & what are your reasons?

So I know to stay clear lol!

Mine was my first car a Fiat Tipo.
I loved it as it was my 1st car but that thing would not start!! Petrol gauge was broke too. It was a right shed!

A Renault Megane. The electrics started to go and it cost me about £2,000 in electric window repairs, one blowing after the other. Failed to start repeatedly, once in a supermarket car park late evening. Eventually told local garage they could have it for a few hundred £ as long as they towed it off my drive and I never had to see the damn thing again.
I’d never have another Renault, ever. Friends and family had similar problems with Scenics.

Renault Scenic. It was in the garage at least once every 6 weeks with some problem or other.

Renault Scenic. After 3 years it had numerous faults including no electric windows on one side, no radio, no air conditioning, no electric handbrake and a weird thing with the near side front, no matter what components were replaced.

I was about to say Renault Megane but beaten to it. Thankfully it was a company car but it was awful, broke down totally in its first year of life.

Hands down a C reg Mini. Bastarding little bastard. Leaked oil; no one knew why. Took in water through the bastard grill that got in the bastard cap that meant it stalled in the bastard rain.

Flashback to a futile night in driving rain on the
Medway bridge trying to squirt WD40 on the cap to dry out the bastard thing enough to get going.

Alpha Romeo Giulia

It was a beautiful car but broke down frequently and every repair was at least £1,000

Also what’s the point of a fast car in London. I kind of felt sorry for the car as it rarely was driven over 30mph.

Renault scenic also, electrics died and it was facing the garage, narrow drive and electric handbrake, piece of crap.

Landrover Discovery. Biggest pile of shit ever (but I did love it when it worked!)

Vauxhall Corsa. 0-60 in 8 weeks 🙄

A Citroen Dyane.
It was a bastard to start, and sometimes it couldn’t be bothered to even try. One door was tied on with string and a little plant was growing in the glove box. The sun roof often decided to flip open when going along.
On the plus side, I put a fiver’s worth of fuel in every fortnight as it only had an engine the size of a lawn mower’s. (A few years ago now, mind).

A CMax - joyless & cursed.

VW Golf gti. My first car. The bonnet was a different colour from the rest of the car. Someone had replaced the top of the gear stick with a fancy metal knob that I’d have to put a sock over in the summer, otherwise it would heat up to burning temperatures. Every so often the engine would start smoking. And it smelled like cold takeaways and cigarettes.

It was really nippy though and when I sold it on I made a £50 profit as the guy who bought it off me was a Golf gti enthusiast. Don’t think he managed to sort it out because I just checked on the gov.uk website, it hasn’t been taxed or MOT’d since 2013.

Fiat punto, in and out of garage.

Fiat punto mark 2. Literally fix one thing and something else broke

Nissan Note, things always going wrong with it and not easy to start. We had a £900 repair done on it, and our garage still advised us to ditch it due to previous experience.

Interesting Renault getting a bad rep!

Fiat Marea estate. Absolute heap of a car. We bought it at 2 years old, had it for 4 years during which it had about 4k worth of repairs. I cheered the day it was towed off our drive.

We had a peugeot 206 that I thought was just quite horrible to drive - very underpowered and sluggish.

We had a Renault Megane that I got on well with for the many years we had it, but when it died it was by the key slot going which meant we couldn't take off the electric handbrake so that was a complete pain, even getting it towed away for scrap was a nightmare because no one could move the bloody thing! The man who came to take it away just wouldn't believe me that there was no manual release because it seemed like such terrible design but indeed there was not.

Landrover discovery here too. Uncomfortable inside as well.

Citroen C4. Had it from new and only kept it 18 months due to constant issues.

I had a Peugeot 206 estate. The electrics went and I had to spend a fortune and even then it wasn't fixed. The electrics would go when I was driving. I would have no indicators, no speedo and the central locking was seriously dodgy.

In the end after I had to drive home on full beam headlights because they wouldn't go off I decided enough was enough.

Fiats x 2.

My Toyota is coming up to 275,000 miles.

The only car we had that ever left us stranded was a Nissan Almera, back in 1999, so that would qualify as the worst for me.

But over the last 25 years we’ve had many cars. That includes 3 of the weird shaped Meganes when new, which strangely never went wrong. The car had the most recalls was an early MINI (2002) though many of the BMWs had some recalls (1,3 and 5 series). Of the 7 BMWs we had over the years only one required no warranty or recalls. Our Audi A3 e-tron had the most warranty work, though it didn’t actually leave us stranded. The others, mainly Mercedes, and VW, have never let us down.

A VW Bora (a Golf with a boot). DH bought it for his long commute, & it was perfect apart from not starting. Every time. We had it checked out umpteen times & it was never fixed so the dealer bought it back in.

My current car is lovely but seems to have magnetic bumpers. So far 3 people have managed to crash into it, poor thing