First the best now the worst

tonesp

We are having the thread on your best car Now what about the worst.I'll kick off with a 1976 Morris Marina .Bought it brand new Nothing but trouble. The only plus was it didn't rust :P :P :P

jordansmum

nisson almera tino theres no leg room in the back

frogmorton

Volkwagon sharan

drank the fule and no room.....for a seven-seater :roll:

LOve

Toni xx

daylily

A Ford Orion
Looked superb but kept breaking down.
the engine once stopped in the middle lane of a motorway with a lorry on either side- all of a sudden the engine started again.
Very very scary :shock:

alarkra

After I lost one of my best cars in a high speed motorway car accident 2 years ago (an accident that wasn't my fault! ) It was the first model of Ford KA. A gorgeous light blue and ran like the wind.

So then I got one of my best cars who I loved to literally bits!

I had a 10 year old Vaxhaull Astra as my in between car. I LOVED this beast who I named Tango because not a single panel was the same shade of red! She was a heafty old lady who had so many quirks - like you couldn't fill up the fuel tank to the top otherwise it would leak out everywhere, and how the fuel gauge stopped reading properly so it got to a point that I would have to use the mileage counter to guess how much fuel I had because I could never fill it up to the top or know exactly how much I had! And how when it rained the windscreen wipers didn't really do much and all the rain sat in the scratches in the windscreen, making it tricky to see! Oh and there was the time that the alternator started to die while driving home on a cliched dark, foggy, windy, rainy night around the windy unlit roads in the countryside as my headlights continued to dim. As I started to lose all power, the windscreen wipers slowed to a hault and the power steering died to every turn I did was like having super strength just to move the steering wheel. I managed to get home seconds before it completely died. If I'd broken down on one of those roads, something terrible would have happened as not a single car would have seen me. However, Tango saw me through that year and it was quite fun, although she was getting unreliable. I then managed to take advantage of the scrappage scheme and honestly cried the day I parted with her for a shiny new red Ford KA. It was like taking an old dog to the vet to be put down. I felt so guilty, but it was so necessary because of the 500+ miles of driving I did each week, I needed a reliable car...

mellman01

I had an old ford Fiesta that was a pile of rust, funny thing I then got an Orion and that rotted as well, so I guess it's all fords for me!.

mellman01

pixyandfaries wrote:

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rover 25 , 2 weeks in needed new engin, another 400 quid, 9 months and only done 100 miles since i had it head gaskit gone ,now gone to the scrap where it should have gone befor i got it , never ever get a rover ! :x

Steady on there pixy it seems that the car has left a serious scar in your memory, but I understand your anger, sometimes you get a car that seems to be jinxed and is hell bent on yours and it's destruction.
Every time I see a Fiesta I shiver even now!!.

dreamdaisy

The Flying Custard, Mr DD's very old, very yellow Ford Cortina. This was back in the very late 80s, when we first met. It was stolen a number of times ands always turned up - it broke down on the thieves too. Sagging brown seats, no suspension left, very loose gear box, loathed it. DD

tonesp

Not the worsat car the Marina wins by a mile but we had a Volvo that hated my wife.I just had to look at the key and she would fire up first time.For Ceri no way.She could go out park it and no way would it start.She used to have to ask people in the road to start it for her.We christened it Christine after the car in Stephen Kings book of the same name Beat that

minky67

Gadget was my first car.
A ford MK2 escort.
Nicked named it gadget as the no plate was GAG 318T & everytime i drove it something fell off :shock: It rotted beyond repair in the end & someone felt sorry for us & gave us a vauxhall chevette. the escort was left in a carpark & we claimed it,never let us down just rotted & failed every MOT,cost more than it was worth but had a small baby at the time & i couldnt take her for check ups on a motorbike so had to keep the car on the road.
Had loads of worthless old bangers in my time.
Divorced the last one
debs