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The worst car/truck you ever been in?

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As a used car manager for the last three years at a Honda dealer, two cars are at the top of my list: Pontiac Grand Am and Volkswagen Jetta (age be damned).
 
Wartburg 353. A true tin can. It was even worse than the Lada I rode in.

For American cars I'd say a 92 Pontiac Grand Am and another one from the early 00s. Both were rentals.

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Bl0cks said:
My mom's 1995 Mercury Mystique that mysteriously caught fire.
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Interesting. My dad had two Ford LTDs and an F250? (utility body with dual fuel tanks catch fire). All were made between the late 70s and late 80s.
 
grrl said:
Interesting. My dad had two Ford LTDs and an F250? (utility body with dual fuel tanks catch fire). All were made between the late 70s and late 80s.
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I think older Fords had issues with their electrical systems. My uncle's Crown Vic had a couple electrical connectors melt/char themselves for no real reason.
 
Reliant K car ... so bad it didn't have a name, just a letter. Might have worked out well as a county fair beatdown car, offering 5 swings from a sledgehammer for $5.
 
Kaervak said:
I think older Fords had issues with their electrical systems. My uncle's Crown Vic had a couple electrical connectors melt/char themselves for no real reason.
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I suspect that's the case. I know the trucks with dual tanks had problems, but I've never heard anything definitive about their bigger sedans. (We never had any trouble with Lincolns though.)
 
BUTCH1 said:
So your Pontiac was in the shop 125 times in 5 years?, sorry, your full of shit. Oh, no one with an ounce of common sense expects a 25 ft. U-haul to be fast or fuel efficient, it's meant to move your stuff, get it?..
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Yes, it was in the shop once a month for 5 years. 60 times, not 125. I went through six alternators, 4 water pumps, a 5 hoses, 4 sets of brakes, a brake cable problem, a problem where the window wouldn't roll up right, a problem where the hood wouldn't raise, a reaccuring problem with the transmission and a quite a few other little odds and ends.
 
grrl said:
Wartburg 353. A true tin can. It was even worse than the Lada I rode in.

For American cars I'd say a 92 Pontiac Grand Am and another one from the early 00s. Both were rentals.

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It was a 92 pontiac Grand am that I had, Oh I also had problems with the computer and it blowing fuses for no good reason several times. The ABS went up on it as well. The car was a total piece of shit that I couldn't get out of at the time. Oh and I had a problem with the cassette deck that I didn't get fixed so while that wasn't a repair it was a problem.
 
Worst of the worst? Late 80's Ford truck, with the dual fuel tanks. When I worked at a power plant for a year (after getting out of the navy), they had it as a shop truck, for getting parts, etc. They had bought it from the company that had done the construction on that plant, so it was already a half-beaten work truck when purchased.
Whenever you'd try to switch from one tank over to the other one, seems like at least half the time the valve would get stuck between tanks, and you'd get nothing.....and the truck would stall out. You'd have to pull over, get under the truck, and bang on that transfer valve a bit to see if it would un-stick. We got used to just switching over at 1/8-1/4 tank, so at least if you couldn't get it to switch over, you could always switch it back (which it did flawlessly), and still have fuel to get back.

The only redeeming factor to that truck? I didn't own it!! 🙄
 
Geo Metro. I swear the door panels were made out of the same stuff they use to upholster school bus seats, just gray.
 
Anything made in Japan, my back KILLS me after riding for more than an hour in one do to the paper thin seats. They can build good drive trains but can't figure out plush interior seating OR rust protection.
 
A Renault Dauphine(approx. 1956). Zero to sixty in 32.0 seconds. What a POS but I am sure it is worth some $$ now.
 
WT said:
Reliant K car ... so bad it didn't have a name, just a letter. Might have worked out well as a county fair beatdown car, offering 5 swings from a sledgehammer for $5.
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I hate to break it to you but it had a name, Reliant was the car's name, not the brand. A reliant was branded as a Plymouth.
 
ExarKun333 said:
2010 Hyundai Tuscon. Worst car/vehicle I have ever driven, hands-down.
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i would disagree here. i drove one of those and almost bought it. the only reason i didn't was because of the poor rear visibility. the back window is tiny, and the huge rear pillars made for huge blind spots.

the fit and finish was great and it handled well(for an suv). i cant possibly see any reason whatsoever this would be the worst car you have ever driven.
 
Y'all need to stop dissing on the K car. Sure it wasn't the prettiest, but in my personal experience it ran into things well.

First car, $500 with little to no maintenance I drove it for 2 or 2.5 years. Never had to worry about it much, took out a street sign on an icy road.

Ballin -

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