Well, what's the worst car you ever owned?
 

Number 125. A 1998 GMC Jimmy. Green/grey interior 4.3 V6, 2wd, at ac power everything. Absolutely the biggest piece of crap ever made. Wheel hubs and bearings crap, and more electrical issues than a tenement house from the fifties. Windows, ac blower, ac compressor, wipers, it was always something. The final straw was when the ac compressor died and the next day the power window master control switch shorted out locking the windows in the up position. Wife was in Florida, and it was August. As soon as she got back I made repairs and sold it. What a turd. I did have several others like it that were great (Olds Bravada was really nice and only issue was rear caliper locked up) but this one was crap.Attachment 98799

2015 Yukon Denali
-Transmission was flushed on three different occasions before they agreed to replace the torque converter at 12k miles
-At 35k miles the new torque converter started chattering again
-roof anntena failed and started leaking into the cabin replaced under warranty
-drivers window motor regulator failed was replaced under warranty
-rattle in dash had to have dash pulled
-two of the shiny plastic trim pieces between the doors started coming off
-A/C condensor cracked and failed at 48k miles was replaced under warranty
Thats when i had enough and took the truck straight in and traded in on the Ram

Im pretty sure i had other problems too

One of these. Biggest piece of shit ever produced.

Never had a bad car because I never bought very new cars, so issues with prospective purchases were already known. Every car I've ever bought has been at least 10 years old. The worst but still not bad were a couple of B5 Passats, just usual vw electrical gremlins.

2002 Corvette ZO6.

Worst money trap of my life. Never runs more than a few weeks before yet another weird thing breaks. Had it 11 years now and only put about 10,000 miles on it. Wife wants to set it on fire, regardless of insurance paying or not. Dead again now. Ugh.

let me know before you torch it, I'll haul it away for free :kimblair:

1981 Pontiac Grand Prix with a V6. Just not a very good car.

1955 VW. It would not go over 50mph even if you got out and
pushed it. Tiny rear window and tail lights. The Peoples Car.
I got rid of it fast.

Let me know when you torch it, I'll bring marshmallows :cert:

All of my domestics have been piles, but the one that pushed me over the edge was a 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with the 5.7L Hemi. Bought it used in 2007 with very few miles. The list is long - everything from needing a water pump every 10k miles to the spare tire falling off. Even the TPMS broke. Interior door handles would disintegrate and fall down inside the door.

And it hasn't gotten better, my daughter's 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the Hemi sucks just as badly. She bought it at 2 years old and its has a TIPM failure (Totally Integrated Power Module), motor mounts, warped exhaust manifold, oil pan gasket and other things I've forgotten. These are not cheap repairs on that engine/drive train. Its driven a lot, but with a light touch, and I can't recall a car that new requiring so many 1,000s of dollars in repairs.

2015 Mazda CX9

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Bought 3 years ago with 20k on the odo (one owner, clean carfax etc) and was in the shop several times a year.
Failed ignition coils, fuel injectors, and a host of other horse shit.

Last week, with 75K on the odo, it left my wife stranded halfway to her folks house in VA.
The engine is toast because the water pump failed and leaked coolant into the engine.
What fukk-tard engineer designed a water pump to have any type of access to the crankcase?

No worries, a new motor only costs $12k...
Gonna toss in a rebuilt and toss that POS.

Just found there was a class action suit about the flaw but Mazda was allowed to slide.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/produc...r-pump-failure

Scott

99 Mustang GT auto- inherited when I got married.

Oil pump died on the interstate while I was on a road trip only had ~130k miles.

I have done well with all my car purchases through the years, all have performed as expected.

The real problems start when you try to double+ the HP.

Never bought a new car, so never got a 'Lemon'. Also, never had a car newer than the 1967 model year. So that helps.
I was an auto tech when Renaults were re-introduced in the early '80's, but remember hearing the F-word for the first time around 1962 from Dad in our '59 Dauphine when the shifter came off. (or was it the door handle?) Just a piece of crap, and they were everywhere....for about 5 minutes.

Same deal with Renault in the early '80's. Absolute crap. Pissed off owners with new, broken cars with no parts available. George C Scott saying "The one to watch" on the ads. Poor Mr. Scott!

And then, twenty years later, Fiat. Those of us who were there in the '70's know better. Those who were not or who forgot: beware.

In industry, the early Ford Exploders really DID explode, the GM smaller vehicles were crap, and Subaru then and now----crap.
And I won't even start with German cars.

81 Ford Escort I bought for $500.00 during my first semester of college.

2004 Volvo S60R. I bought used and know why it was dumped. Within 6 months of ownership the awd failed, clutch was replaced, suspension replaced, and a couple other things that I can't recall. As I was meeting its soon to be new owner, the alternator took a shit.

1999 Honda Prelude, worst POS ever!

No argument there. Still have the special tool to do the timing belt on these. Recommended replacement was 60k miles. Had a couple of customers who had the belt fail at 55-58k and wipe out the head and engine....on a basically 2 or 3 year old car they were making payments on. NOT happy campers.

The guy who sold me my '83 4x4 Hi Lux pickup did it to get a brand new '92 Escort wagon. Wonder if he's still driving it like I am my Hi Lux?

Notice that most of the cars are American. The three worst scars i owned were American. The last American car i've owned was in 2007 and that was a Corvette.

1996 Ford Windstar

What a massive pile of raccoon turds!!

In 1998 we had two young ones, third was on the way, Explorer was 5 years old with 100+K miles.
Wifey wanted a damn minivan, as two relatives had Dodge minis that she liked.
So I compromised, said we would look at Ford lineup, they had a few still new 1-year old aerostars on the lot--100% turdshit.
Then we looked at windstars, she liked, I discussed price, both purchase and lease, crazy thing was the lease payment was higher than the purchase with no money down.
I figured it out, the windstar was JUNK, no one wanted them, and upon lease return they were losing their arse.

Thankfully the Expedition was out of a year, got one, it served it purpose for our family of five, bought two more after that, DAMN GOOD VEHICLE!!

The windstar, and aerostar, should have been named edsel!!

Whoah there, Hoss! While the Windstar and Aerostar were gigantic turds, the Edsel, mechanically, was an excellent car. Had the MEL (Mercury/Edsel/Lincoln) big block V8 engines, 9" rear and, and robust transmisision. Only the STYLING was suspect. But as a car, they were not turds. In fact, some of the fastest cars on the road at the time, right up there with the 430 powered '59 T-bird.
The mistake American cars started to make (Cadillac is the biggest guilty party) is to use the consumer as the product tester instead of doing the product testing prior to release like the Japanese do. It saves time and money, sure, but you end up with stuff like the V8-6-4 or the 4100 or 4500 or Northstar. And generations of pissed off former customers who now drive Lexus's.