POS cars you've owned

[Greg]

So....what piece of shit cars have you owned? Here are mine:

• 1979 VW Rabbit - I had it for 10 days, exactly as long as a temporary registration. It never passed inspection due to bad valves which resulted in a massive oil leak. The cool thing was decelerating with the thing down a hill. Oil would get sucked into the carb through the air filter housing which resulted in a cloud of blue smoke following you down the hill. Rad.
• 1979 Pontiac Sunbird - my second POS. The transmission completely fell out of it on my way home from school after 2 months.
• 1972/1976 Datsun pickup - I'm not quite sure of the year. The title didn't jive with what was stamped on the ID plate which was obviously forged. :lol: No comment. I drove it for a year. It was actually a pretty good little truck, just dangerous to drive.
• 1988 Ford Ranger - Sweet. Here we are in the early 90's and I've finally upgraded to a vehicle that was within 5 years old that my father gave me. Too bad the 2 liter 4 cyclinder (carb, no fuel injection :roll was such junk that the motor seized at like 70K miles. We had it bored out and it lasted like another 10K. I think my father bought in new for less than $7,000. It had NO options.
• 1986 Mazda 626 - Actually a good little car. Had a lot of pep, but it looked like crap. An off white color with all these dents in the hood. Must be an interesting story behind that. Drove it for a year.

After these beauts I've since driven cars that were worth more than $2,000 that don't toally fit the POS category.

 

[bvibert]

None of my cars were POS's.... Until I got my hands on them...

 

[frozencorn]

None of my cars were POS's.... Until I got my hands on them...

Ditto. I always wished I could have ridden around in a Duster though.

Buddy of mine pimped around in a Ford Fairmont back in high school. Going out in that thing just oozed style.

 

[pepperdawg]

back in the mid 90s my winter car was a 83 subaru hatchback with rust holes in the drivers side floor board and no 3rd gear.....used to drive to and from Boston (from Hartford) to visit GF.....

 

[RootDKJ]

1982 Pontiac Firebird, 6cyl stick. Nightmares just thinking about it.

 

[Hawkshot99]

My first car was a 95' Ford Escort. Parents bought it for me for my 16th birthday from a friend for $600.

It was the cheapest it could have come from the factory. No power steering. The passenger side mirror was a option that year, so that was not on the car. No tach.(try learning to drive stick with out one.) All speakers were blown. The original owner replaced the trunk speakers with house speakers.

The previous owner had lived in it for 6 months after his apartment was sold. While cleaning it out I found several used condoms.......

 

[severine]

My current car is a POS. 1998 Blazer. You know how little kids pretend they're driving? That's me on the highway. Driver's lock and rear passenger lock don't always unlock with the remote. Wipers have a mind of their own - forget intermittent. Rear wiper seizes all the time. Rear squirter squirts washer fluid inside the truck. No A/C anymore. Heat is either REALLY hot or it blows cold air on you (so much for climate control :roll. My daughter took a rock to the side of it one day - looks like it's been keyed. Hasn't been washed in 4 years. We won't even talk about how much food is inside it, thanks to the kids. But it does have leather interior... :lol:

I think it's almost worse than my other POSish vehicles...

1985 VW Jetta - the rust bucket. Never look at a car at night and then buy it on the spot. $1000 in 1996 bought me a car that had a floor like swiss cheese. Brian and his buddy tried their best to fix it up with some welding, but what we didn't see was that the strut towers were rusted out, too. Ouch. I didn't have that one long before it got junked. Oddly, I have no memories of that car other than the night I bought it (which I had to drive it home in the dark with no lights in the dash... that was interesting) and the day it was picked up for junk.

1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - purchased for $800 (1999, I believe) by Brian for me as a secret . Spring popped out of driver's side lock. Rear power window (to get into the cargo area) had to be disconnected because it wouldn't shut off. Leaked a lot of oil. Headliner was falling down. Leather? seats were pretty shot. The car tried to kill me... in the winter, in spite of letting it warm up for 15 minutes or so, invariably when I would take the left turn into the driveway at work (about 1 mile from home), it would stall leaving me stranded with oncoming traffic. That carb hated me.

I have others that had POSish qualities, but I wouldn't necessarily label them as a POS.

Brian, it's more like they're not POS's until you stop putting your hands on them.

 

[wa-loaf]

1982 VW Jetta a faded pale green with a blue passenger door. I had it 3 years. It actually stomped pretty good, but was a magnate for break-ins. Lost a couple stereos and a radar detector. Door handles eventually fell off and you just had to stick your fingers into the holes to open up the doors.

1983 Saab 900 hatchback. Had a bad fuel injector that didn't work well until the car got hot. Totaled it on the way back from Stowe when a chick in a Subaru spun out in front of me and I t-boned her. No one was hurt.

1986 VW GTI, pretty good car actually just didn't have a working odometer so I never really new how many miles it had. Absolutely rocked with some snow tires on it.

 

[MichaelJ]

Chevy Monza. 'nuf said.

 

[hammer]

• 1974 VW Dasher, could do 80 with the windows up. First car.
• 1978 Ford Mustang w/4 cyl engine, had valve seal issues and broke a camshaft driving from NJ to Boston
• 197? Ford Pinto, actually ran OK for the few months I had it
• 1986 Chrysler Laser, turbo 4cyl, had good pickup but after a few years something broke every few months; traded in for 1990 Acura Integra which was a much better car
• 1993 Ford Explorer, cylinder head cracked at 15K (under warranty) and after 100k would have major problem every few months

 

[andrec10]

1976 Lancia=Fancy Fiat. DOHC and double points as well as 4-wheel disc brakes and a whole bunch of other wonderful things that did not work. Finally had to get rid of it when I had enough of the electrical gremlins.

1976 VW Fox An Electrical NIGHTMARE!!!!!

Had these between '82 and '84....a little shortsighted back then...

 

[MR. evil]

My current car is a POS. 1998 Blazer. You know how little kids pretend they're driving? That's me on the highway. Driver's lock and rear passenger lock don't always unlock with the remote. Wipers have a mind of their own - forget intermittent. Rear wiper seizes all the time. Rear squirter squirts washer fluid inside the truck. No A/C anymore. Heat is either REALLY hot or it blows cold air on you (so much for climate control :roll. My daughter took a rock to the side of it one day - looks like it's been keyed. Hasn't been washed in 4 years. We won't even talk about how much food is inside it, thanks to the kids. But it does have leather interior... :lol:

I think we have a winner!

Chevy Blazers are just awfull. My mother bough a 2001 or 2002 brand new against my advice and the thing has been a POS from day one. Apparently the 25 year track record of the Blazers falling part and generally being one of the worst cars made wasn't enough to change ger mind.

My only semi POS was a 1989 Chevey Beretta GT that I owned for about 6 months. It wasn't awful when I had it but it wasn't good either. It was just something to get me through until a new Jeep I ordered from the factory came in. I didn't even sell the thing, I just gave it to my younger brother once my jeep came in. He drove it for a couple of years and then passed it on to my then brother in-law after his car got wrecked. He drove the thing for a couple of more years. By then it was falling apart. The dash board and interior body panels were being held in place with hot glue and the paint was peeling off in sheets

 

[Greg]

1986 Chrysler Laser, turbo 4cyl, had good pickup but after a few years something broke every few months; traded in for 1990 Acura Integra which was a much better car

Rad. James Earl Jones! A buddy had a turbo Daytona in college. Pretty zippy little car.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

My first car was a 1990 Jetta..I bought it in December of 1995 for $4grand..it was initially good but it had all sorts of problems and I spent at least $2grand additional on repairs..it died on me three seperate times where it had to be towed..I sold it in August of 1998 for $2grand and began leasing a 1999 Jetta..then I bought a 2002 Nissan Sentra and I leased my 2006 Suburu Impreza 3 years ago and that's been my best car so far and in a half hour..I'm going to the dealership to take the option to buy...In the future hopefully my cars get nicer..

 

[severine]

I think we have a winner!

Chevy Blazers are just awfull.

I should add that I bought my POS used a little over 4 years ago. And sadly, I still owe $1300 on the pooper. But in spite of it's poopiness, it's still on the road (and the mechanical stuff became a problem early on). Brian had a Blazer, too, that used to be his father's. Let's see... I think it was 1995 when he acquired it and it was IIRC a 1990 or so. Became quite the Frankenstein's monster with all the parts he changed out on it, including the transmission going from a manual to auto (quite the story about that process, too, LOL). Sold that beast... in 2002, I think? Sat for sale for 1 year before someone finally bought it. Even that wasn't as big of a POS when we sold it as mine is now. His looked like poop - mine IS poop.

 

[deadheadskier]

1988 VW Fox - the Rasta Fox .Believe it was made in Mexico, everything but the engine pretty much blew between 88K and 100K miles. dumped it after a year and spending $500 a month in repairs. Had it from 1995-1996

1982 Honda Accord Hatch back - Old Gold. great little car, lasted until 197K miles when I sold it in 99

1995 Ford Explorer - was nice when I bought it in 1999 with 82K miles on it. It was a POS, but I put that think through hell and spent very little on repairs. Sold it in 2005 with 198K miles on it to a guy named Eduardo who flew up from Texas to buy it for $900. I tried to talk him out of it. "Eduardo, you mean to tell me that you can't find a $900 truck in Texas? No muchacho. :lol: I highly doubt it made it to Texas.

 

[bvibert]

I should add that I bought my POS used a little over 4 years ago. And sadly, I still owe $1300 on the pooper. But in spite of it's poopiness, it's still on the road (and the mechanical stuff became a problem early on). Brian had a Blazer, too, that used to be his father's. Let's see... I think it was 1995 when he acquired it and it was IIRC a 1990 or so. Became quite the Frankenstein's monster with all the parts he changed out on it, including the transmission going from a manual to auto (quite the story about that process, too, LOL). Sold that beast... in 2002, I think? Sat for sale for 1 year before someone finally bought it. Even that wasn't as big of a POS when we sold it as mine is now. His looked like poop - mine IS poop.

That was not a POS. I beat the living shit out of that truck. 90% of the stuff I replaced was because I wanted to, not because it needed to. I thoroughly enjoyed working on that truck and buying new crap for it. The switch from it being a stick to a slush box was more of a necessity to handle my nuttiness then anything else. I had replaced the clutch on it, but apparently the new clutch disk didn't like being engaged at high RPMs from a dead stop or being rapidly engaged while shifting into 2nd gear (both up and down shifting) at high RPM in such a matter that the rear tires would chirp. It didn't last too long before the center of the clutch disk literally ripped out of the rest of the disk leaving me stranded. I can hardly fault the car for that though.

 

[severine]

It did not start out as one... but it certainly ended as one when it sat for a year with no buyer. I added that story to show how resilient yours was compared to mine.

 

[bvibert]

1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - purchased for $800 (1999, I believe) by Brian for me as a secret . Spring popped out of driver's side lock. Rear power window (to get into the cargo area) had to be disconnected because it wouldn't shut off. Leaked a lot of oil. Headliner was falling down. Leather? seats were pretty shot. The car tried to kill me... in the winter, in spite of letting it warm up for 15 minutes or so, invariably when I would take the left turn into the driveway at work (about 1 mile from home), it would stall leaving me stranded with oncoming traffic. That carb hated me.

Don't be talking smack about the Wag! That truck didn't owe us anything. Just because you didn't know how to drive it isn't it's fault... :roll:

That was a sweet ride. 8)

BTW - You forgot to mention that one of the rear doors wouldn't open at the time we got rid of it.

 

[severine]

Yeah, I couldn't master driving an automatic. :roll:

You're such a douche sometimes.

It was a sweet ride... would have been sweeter if it wasn't such a broken POS. :lol: Forgot about that door.

Let's not forget we have another broken classic Jeep in the garage right now.