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re: What vehicle you had the worst experience with?
Posted on 6/29/21 at 1:55 pm to Cotten
Posted on 6/29/21 at 1:55 pm to Cotten
Worst: 1987 Nissan Sentra
2nd Place: 1976 Ford Pinto (Chariots of Fire)
3rd Place: 1985 Impala (company car)
Now the Nissans are the Yugo's of Asia, the cleaning lady special. Every cleaning lady has one, usually red.
2nd Place: 1976 Ford Pinto (Chariots of Fire)
3rd Place: 1985 Impala (company car)
Now the Nissans are the Yugo's of Asia, the cleaning lady special. Every cleaning lady has one, usually red.
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Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:22 pm to lsu xman
A 1975 Chevy Vega for me. I finally just left it sitting on the emergency lane on I-10 in San Bernardino County in California and just walked away...literally.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:30 pm to lsu xman
BMW. What pieces of shite they are. Anytime anyone touched it, with the exception of an oil change and minor shite like that it cost me at least $1200. Huge engine issues once the warranty expired. Never again.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:40 pm to lsu xman
1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Horrible car. Was a piece of shite from the day it left the assembly line.
Then years later I bought my daughter a bmw x5. Another piece of shite. Only kept it for 5 months and it was in the shop probably 8 times. Still under warranty but it was just a pain to have to keep taking it to the shop and being without a car...
Then years later I bought my daughter a bmw x5. Another piece of shite. Only kept it for 5 months and it was in the shop probably 8 times. Still under warranty but it was just a pain to have to keep taking it to the shop and being without a car...
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:44 pm to alphaandomega
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1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Horrible car.
Those domestic cars from the 80s were so lovably shoddy. Small wonder why people flocked to Toyota and Honda in droves.
But I’d love to have such a car now. Just not as a daily driver of course.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:45 pm to Vote4MikeAck504
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BMW. What pieces of shite they are. Anytime anyone touched it, with the exception of an oil change and minor shite like that it cost me at least $1200. Huge engine issues once the warranty expired. Never again.
There are guys on youtube making a living out of showing how stupid and expensive it is to buy an out of warranty BMW.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:46 pm to lsu xman
I’ve had good luck with vehicles. Only one that was a problem was my 1989 Silverado, but I bought it used and I think the prior owner fricked with the electricals. It left me on the I-10 at the Laplace exit four separate times.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:48 pm to lsu xman
While my 1st car, a '63 Pontiac Catalina was a lemon, would have to say the worst would be my '85 Mitsubishi Tredia. This was the 1st new car my wife & I ever bought brand new. Babied it, but it was a joke. Timing belt broke at 44K, transmission went out at 52K, AC went out 3x starting at 28K miles! Then, there was the mysterious car dying. At least every 5000 miles or so, the car would just die and not re-start for over an hour. The dealer never could find any answer for the problem. Over the years I met at least 4 other people who had the same issue with their Mitsubishi. Then, finally, I talked to someone with connections that said there was an engineering defect that the company knew about, but never fessed up!
I could talk about my daughter's old Nissan Altima, which I refer to as ultimate piece of shite, because I think at one time or another, every mechanical part had to be replaced! Who said Japanese cars don't break!!??
I could talk about my daughter's old Nissan Altima, which I refer to as ultimate piece of shite, because I think at one time or another, every mechanical part had to be replaced! Who said Japanese cars don't break!!??
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:50 pm to biglego
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Those domestic cars from the 80s were so lovably shoddy.
And they all had that same interior smell I can't even really describe, especially the ones with vinyl seats.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:51 pm to lsu xman
1987 Chevy S-10 Blazer. My first car and i love it--but it was a humongous piece of shite. The steering wheel actually came off while I was driving.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:52 pm to lsu xman
In the 80s we briefly had a Chevrolet Corsica. Took it to trade it in and parts were falling off, at the dealership. Terrible car.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:52 pm to biglego
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Those domestic cars from the 80s were so lovably shoddy. Small wonder why people flocked to Toyota and Honda in droves.
The beancounters had completely taken over. GM, and other domestic, engineers didn't forget how to design cars. They were forced to cut costs at every turn.
The infamous Olds diesel from back then is a good example. Engineers said it wasn't ready and it needed a water separator. Got pushed out at least a year early without the separator. Huge warranty claims followed along with lots of bad publicity.
The fact they used an existing gas engine as the starting point is an a further example of cost saving on that project. Should have been a clean sheet.
The J cars (Cavalier and siblings) and X cars (Citation, etc) were also pushed out a year early with resultant warranty claims. The basic designs were fine for the most part. It was cost cutting the details, things as simple as cheap arse gaskets, that were their downfall.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:52 pm to lsu xman
2000 Chevy Blazer. I bought it in 08 due to my grandmother not being able to drive anymore and it only having 45,000 miles at the time. Transmission shite the bed at about 75k and had it rebuilt and about 10k later it shite the bed again. Transmission was never right after that but drove it. Never knew how
much fuel as the sending unit went out I just reset the mileage every fill up and never went over 250 miles. Thing was a gas hog with shite power which surprised me as my 2001 s10 with the 4.3 would move on. Finally decided to get a new to
Me truck after the ac would cause the motor to overheat if it was running while driving. The fricker threw a CEL as I am turning into the dealership to trade it in. They offered me 1500 in 2012 and I didn’t even try to negotiate and took it.
much fuel as the sending unit went out I just reset the mileage every fill up and never went over 250 miles. Thing was a gas hog with shite power which surprised me as my 2001 s10 with the 4.3 would move on. Finally decided to get a new to
Me truck after the ac would cause the motor to overheat if it was running while driving. The fricker threw a CEL as I am turning into the dealership to trade it in. They offered me 1500 in 2012 and I didn’t even try to negotiate and took it.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:53 pm to JackieTreehorn
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The steering wheel actually came off while I was driving.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 2:56 pm to Perrydawg
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Transmission shite the bed at about 75k and had it rebuilt and about 10k later it shite the bed again.
That was a shitty rebuild then. Blame the guy that did it, not the factory.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:01 pm to BuckyCheese
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The beancounters had completely taken over. GM, and other domestic, engineers didn't forget how to design cars. They were forced to cut costs at every turn.
I remember doing a case study in business school on American car makers in the 80's and the mistakes they all made. From memory, a huge issue that made them cut a lot of corners was their pensions being underfunded. And to compound the issue they were slow to react to the increase in demand for the Japanese cars that started gaining popularity.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:07 pm to lsu xman
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Pontiac Grand Prix.
Electrical problems. Driving down the road it would just shut down. Tried dealership and 2 other places & spent too much trying to get it fixed. It was crap.
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:08 pm to lsu xman
Pontiac Grand Am. Power window maintenance is very important because you needed them trying to keep up with changing AC compressors.
This post was edited on 6/29/21 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:09 pm to lsu xman
Jeep Liberty
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:14 pm to The Spleen
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I remember doing a case study in business school on American car makers in the 80's and the mistakes they all made. From memory, a huge issue that made them cut a lot of corners was their pensions being underfunded. And to compound the issue they were slow to react to the increase in demand for the Japanese cars that started gaining popularity.
The 1971 UAW contract was a killer. Of course at the time GM alone had over 50% of the market. They would gave been smart to leave the plants closed for months and broke the union like Sloan would have done versus giving everything away. In later years the saying was GM was a health insurance company that happened to build cars on the side.
Then of course a couple years later along comes the first oil embargo while everything they sell other than the Vega is a gas guzzler.
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