WORST car you have ever driven

[Chadza]

Following in the trend of "worst" threads, what is the worst car you have ever driven? I am not talking about your grandma's car that you have had a ride in, but a car you have driven. Tell us what was dodgy about it!

A few shockers I have driven:

My driving school car was a base model carolla hatch, like 2001 model or something, it was so gutless it couldn't even get up to 100km/h on Adelaide's slightly uphill freeway, I was amazed.

A close second is one of my workmates' Falcon, she asked me to move it during my break so that she would get a ticket, so I get in, and apart from physically not being able to fit between the steering wheel and the seat (it was that close) I pulled out to go around the block to our carpark, went for the brakes when the traffic light went red and got NOTHING! I ended up just going around the corner on a red light. I sinished parking it at walking pace and when I got back inside work i asked her "what the f*ck is with your brakes? They are crap!" and she goes "oh really, I thought they were just like that normally!" geeeeeez.

Not too dodgy I guess, but not cars I'd like to drive every day. I'm sure there are some real bombs that you guys have driven.

Chad

[VladIvanovic]

my driving instructors hyundai (cant remember what type of car it was)
such a shocker of a car, very gutless especially when i was trying to do uphill starts on my lessons plus it was auto!

I have a thing against driving autos ever since then lol...

[KeGs]

My first car lol. Ford Telstar 85' it had no ac no power steering and had rust on it soo bad glad i sold it .

[ridewitme]

Another dodgy instructor car: Rav4 auto, those things weren't designed well at all!

Second one would be my mate's VS ute. Boat like suspension (would have been before IRS), uncomfortable seats and power steering that was stiff as shit.

[rathies]

any commodore by far. they are all shit cars. and every P plater that gets one usually rolls it over and fucks it up

[lama]

ea falcon with fucked torque converter lol,,,currently drivin lol,,,,,

[ehh]

lmao..okay that was me,,in lama's acount lol,, didn't realise lol

[wombat]

Mitsubishi Lancer - worst by far.
For those who care, it was a 1998 CE Wagon. 1800cc Auto.

Engine was underpowered, gearbox was jerky, Seating position was crap (but it was straight, unlike the XE Falcon, where the wheel's left of the seat's middle)


Cruise control. BFW - it hunted and buzzed and thumped and wouldn't hold 100 up a hill. I ended up using the right boot cruise and ignored the stick.

Vision Australia's work cars. They're all in Magnas and 380's now.

[Sticky]

lmao..okay that was me,,in lama's acount lol,, didn't realise lol

fool

my worst car ever was my first car, although only because it was a bomb, not because i didnt like it, if that thing could talk.......

it was a 4cyl panel van, rwd 4 speed, the sun roof would leak when it rained, and the paint looked like someone had poured bitumen over it, the top speed was about 130kmh, but if you pulled the choke out, it would hit 140!!!, anyway, it was originally Ehh's mums car, and i [aid the handsome sum of $580 ( so that Ehh could get the headgasket fixed on his cordia), when i got it, the front bumper bar and metal body work bellow the bumper were smashed in, as well as the grill and front cross member, and the front control arm had a bend in it, this was from Lama (the one above), who had a little accident while trying to have bit of fun on a dirt road, and ended up putting it into a pine bollard on the side of the road.

This is how it came to its end:

[NIZ013]

My friend's Datsun 720 work ute. It had rust on the roof, the tray was primer and other parts of it was white. It was such a heavy thing to drive, with no power steering. It was lowered that much that the tyres scrubbed on the guards at half lock when turning and when it was carby the thing would just majorly flat spot when trying to take off.

It not only looked like crap, but it also sounded and went like crap!!!

My first car - *cough* colt *cough* - was also pretty horrible to drive when the clutch was pretty much dead!! And the shockies were absolutely shot. It looked really tidy, but mechanically the thing was shagged. Oh and it had started to blow smoke as all mitsu's do.

[chr1S]

hmm...

I've got to say my brothers trx =/

I cannot say it was better than a 3.5L ES Magna and a Peugot 306 XT...

[ashman01]

I accualy havent driven a bad car yet. (Well 1 i would think is terrible) But the worst so far would be my girlfreinds sisters car. A Hyundai Lantra. It was an auto that had done 220,000+km and it was gutless. Foot to the floor ment nothing to that car, just that it would still take its time to accelerate. Also it had massive speed wobbles (im talking like it felt like u were drifting sideways) at 70+ kmph.

But overall its what i expected from it so therefore i dont think it was that bad of a car.

[RichTRX]

I've driven plenty of cars that were just about dead, but miraculously still worked, but hey, it's all an experience.

For the record:

Mate's '84 Jackaroo 2.0L Turbo diesel.
Never looked after. Probably never had an oil change in its life, but still managed to get us up the top of Cape Yorke and back. Had some entertaining problems along the way, like the bonnet prop (which like many cars, the clip had broken so it just hung there) which on a particularly bumpy road managed to jump up, bridge the two battery terminals, subsequently burning a hole in both the battery and the radiator simultaneously. Naturally the battery caught fire and we only just managed to put it out. We then, having only a flat standby battery, clogged up the hole in the good battery with tissues. I don't know how it worked, but it did.

[Jono]

There's a few...

My first car, an '82 Celica. The windscreen and the tailgate leaked when it rained, something leaked above the seatbelt reels as well so they got wet when it rained. The wheel alignment was waay out. There were patches of primer all over it. If you dumped the clutch at high revs it took off the same as if you let it out gently. The bushes in the rear end were all buggered so it started shaking the back side to side over about 130km/h on the speedo which was over-reading about 12%. The front brakes stuck on after a few stops and the back tyres were bald retreads. And that was all before I crashed it.


That's after I crashed it.

The other one that comes to mind would be a mate's colt which for some reason a few of them decided to pull the engine apart when they were drunk. They got as far as pulling the rocker cover off and gave up. But anyway, his door opened onto his front guard, his door lock could be opened with a screwdriver. It was an auto and completely gutless.

One night after a few drinks someone bet me that it wouldn't drop a burnout... hehehe.. so I got the keys and reversed it down his street at about 30km/h, dropped it into drive and left 2 black marks a good 5 metres long, breaking 2 of the engine mounts. He sold it a few days later.

And there's a falcon panel van that shouldn't have been driving on the road.

[Jtas]

A mates old KE50 1978 corolla, it was a shocker.

Also, a 2001 model KIA rio, that was almost as bad as the corolla.

[Milford]

well not really a car, but my works daihatsu delta tipper, it idles so rough the cabin was shaking and this combined with the diesel fumes made me feel sick. the gears were really tough to find and engage once you found the slot.

[Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing]

My sisters 1997 Kia sportage. antenna makes terrable noise when it comes up, exauste heat shield rattles, clutch feels wered, steering is worse than boat like its more like cruseliner like, sounds horrable, sterio is possibly the worse factory sterio.

Now she has just got a Nissan Xtrail and all I can say is wow a great improvement, a 4wd that feels very nice to drive.

Iv also herd that lancers are bad to drive from a friend who owns 1. Not to mention the rice factor of all these lancers u see driving around little 1.8 leter engine and 200kg of bodykit.

[Jono]

I've driven a mate's CB lancer a couple of times and it didn't seem too bad, no power steering so it was a little heavy and the brakes were pretty average but all in all not too bad a car.

Oh and another guy I know has a Cortina that the gear linkage bushes are so worn that you can move the gearstick in about a 20cm diameter circle while it's in gear

[cruizer]

I've driven a lancer and i think they are pretty good. My only fault is when you drop the gas to the floor. You get nothing....then BANG the acceleration hits ya. Almost a sadistic form of NA lag  .Thats in an auto though so it may be the same with all auto's 

[Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing]

I've driven a lancer and i think they are pretty good. My only fault is when you drop the gas to the floor. You get nothing....then BANG the acceleration hits ya. Almost a sadistic form of NA lag  .Thats in an auto though so it may be the same with all auto's 

Parents auto magna does the same thing, I think its a Mitsu thing.

[mannix]

a bad car was my old mazda cappela, vynel seats that would burn you when it was hot and they were freezing when ity was cold, it had a hole in the floor were the accelerator is that the heel of my foot would keep falling into (on wet days water would splash up and wet the carpet). couldnt open the boot cause it leaked and the smell was like something died in there. on windy day it felt like it would blow away. and to start it i had to get out and give the starter motor a beating.

but the worst car ever is my mums VN station wagon. it stinks so rank in that car its not funny, she went shopping one day and the lid came off the milk and spilt all over the carpet. the drivers door lock doesnt work, the paint is peeling, the power steerning is non existant, the rubber seals on the doors come off when you open the doors, the diff makes the worst winding noise, the radio is fuzzy, it burns so much oil, and to top it off there is a dead fly sitting right near the speedo, god only knows how that got in there.

[ashman01]

and to top it off there is a dead fly sitting right near the speedo, god only knows how that got in there.

Haha that takes the cake!

[I'm what Willis was talkin' 'bout]

Would have to be a mates Mitsubishi Sigma, shit brown in colour, 3 speed auto that would not kick down and would scream itself silly at 80-100 clicks until second changed to third, had no roof lining, no carpet, a hole in the floor around the gear selector thing (we could throw rubbish right onto the road through that hole), and an unusual petrol smell seeping in through the boot.

We fixed the fuel smell by using an old bike inner tube to seal the boot.  It also had a hole in the exhaust that we fixed with a beer can and a coat hanger.

Someone stole it and dumped it at the end of his street, even thieves did not want this thing.

[noss]

i think its a toss up between a base model single cam excel with no power steering and my mates mazda 929.. before i drove the 929 i was telling my mate to mod it to get the extra oomph he wanted, drove it on the weekend to gauge what we had to do to improve it, you plant your foot, it kicks down, the revs fly up to 5000rpm in an isntant, there is a lot of noise and you're going nowhere. otherwise it has all the creature comforts you'd ever want and is quite a nice car to get around in, but performance is ordianry.

the excel, well what can i say, it was my old bosses, it was out of alignment, no power steering, it had never been washed, there was a thick greasy film all over the windscreen which made it difficult to see, just terrible, simply terrible. it would be the perfect car if you wanted to drive a straight line slowly, but because of the poor alignment, it was a struggle to even do that.

[chr1S]

Someone stole it and dumped it at the end of his street, even thieves did not want this thing.

haha that reminds me of my uncles old cortina, it was that much of a friken shitbox, he always left the windows down and doors unlocked knowing no-one would even open the door on it, the wires were hanging down ready to be hotwired lol and then one day someone did, they drove it down the street and dumped it haha, prob some 16yr old wanting some fun..

[Dano Da Bomb]

The worst car i ever drove would have to be my instuctors lancer or my mates 323 astina ohh they both suxed big time.

[NeVetS]

VS ute
VN sedan
2002 Astra SRi

[Dano Da Bomb]

I'd also have to say my vl is up there. Only because of my suspension and breaks are rooted. 

[Jono]

I drove an old Kombi van at work today that had a custom 'T' bar shifter in a manual, but I couldn't find first because the linkages were so bad. And the steering wheel was HUGE! It was beautifully restored though. If you could change gears in it it'd be a great party bus

[SSS]

2002 Astra SRi

They're not that bad!

Mine:
- my car when i first got it, man it was a sack of shit, boat suspension, no power.....i drove it all of 5k's with the stock suspension. Wait...it still doesn't have any power
- VZ Exec. They might have a new quad cam V6, but they suck ass. Luckily it's being replaced with an SV8.