Worst vehicle you have ever owned?

Croatan_Kid said:
But does Ford really sell more than Chevy and GMC combined? Sure, they're technically different and separate, but we all know they're not...
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Depends how you slice and dice it and how the reporting is done...been a year or two since I’ve actually looked, but if you’re strictly looking at trucks Ford damn near outsold Dodge/GMC/Chevy combined...and quite handedly owns (at the time) half ton sales. If you get a report that includes SUVs (GM owns that space)...it pulls a lot tighter.

Edit...a year ago, but you get the point...

Top 11 Best-Selling Pickup Trucks In America – November 2017 | GCBC
 
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A number of years ago when gas prices were ugly and I had a long commute I bought a Prius. It was so boring to drive and diconnected from any kind of driving experience I traded it in about 2 months later.
 
2012 mazda 3. Ate 4 sets of tires in first 20k miles. Mazda refused to admit anything was wrong with it.
 
CasterTroy said:
Usually when you sell more product than the others combined there will be more issues.
Dodge owners are usually too ashamed after overpaying to do anything but fanboy (@Chris_Keziah being the exception) Chevy owners are usually mechanics (by default)
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QFT

It's hard to say which one of mine is the worst as I would take all of the previous vehicles I've had back (93' Accord, 86' 4Runner, 02' Tacoma, and 99' SD F-250) with the exception of the 99' WJ I drove for awhile till I gave it back to my parents for my sister to drive. That thing was fun (4.7 Unlimited) but it always needed something done to it. Only vehicle that competes with it was my 7.3 but it was severely neglected in previous ownership's and all the preventative and repair maintenance done showed that very well. Even with all the work I did I'd still take my 7.3 back over my current 5.9 CTD.
 
CasterTroy said:
Usually when you sell more product than the others combined there will be more issues.
Dodge owners are usually too ashamed after overpaying to do anything but fanboy (@Chris_Keziah being the exception) Chevy owners are usually mechanics (by default)

2000 VW GTI was likely the worst (most items broken over time)
Could have been the absolute thrashing my best friend gave it from the day he bought it new, or my teenage son hammering it as the second owner. Made it 240k but not for lack of replacement parts

Mom owned a 1978 Honda civic wagon. She bought it used with under 40k
Left her stranded about a dozen times before she sold it in 1985. I was too young to remember what all was fubarred on it but she hated it
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Ummmm, I know someone else with a dodge...
 
BigClay said:
Ummmm, I know someone else with a dodge...
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You dont count...you're normal :cool: not a dieselbro (and james/lankford never enter these "measuring" discussions :lol:)
 
My worse one was a 14 Jeep Cherokee. Drove it off the show room floor. Had a catastrophic transmission failure before I got to the interstate which was less than half a mile. It was the 8th one on the country to experience this failure. I don’t have enough strength in my thumbs to list all the crap wrong with it. The final straw was when the cruise re-engaged halfway up an off ramp while the wide was picking me up from the airport. Have it back to the dealer and hired a lawyer. Ended up doing an equity swap for a 14 Sahara JK. Have love it every since!
 
2011 Chevy equinox 4 cyl... smdh
 
Wife had an 04 Saturn ion when we met. Biggest pos I’ve driven. Nothing but problems. The retarded CVT shit the bed just under the mileage where GM was buying them back, so we got kinda lucky ...only you had to use the money towards another GM vehicle.

So she bought a 2012 Chevy Cruz and it was in the shop almost as much as it was on the road for the two years we had it.

She finally listened to me and bought a 2015 Toyota Rav 4 and Hasn’t had a single problem in almost 4 years.
 
Chris_Keziah said:
QFT

It's hard to say which one of mine is the worst as I would take all of the previous vehicles I've had back (93' Accord, 86' 4Runner, 02' Tacoma, and 99' SD F-250) with the exception of the 99' WJ I drove for awhile till I gave it back to my parents for my sister to drive. That thing was fun (4.7 Unlimited) but it always needed something done to it. Only vehicle that competes with it was my 7.3 but it was severely neglected in previous ownership's and all the preventative and repair maintenance done showed that very well. Even with all the work I did I'd still take my 7.3 back over my current 5.9 CTD.
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Out of curiosity what kind of issues are you having with your dodge?
 
Ford Escort ..... don't even remember the year.
Wife had it when we got married. It was so bad I ended up putting her in my Samurai ( before being lifted) because it was more dependable and I drove the POScort.
I could leave it anywhere, windows down, unlocked, keys in it. No one would mess it! lol
To it's credit, it killed millions of mosquitoes from the smoke it produced and was still running when we got rid of it.
Of course I replace so many parts on it .........


Matt
 
YotaOnRocks said:
Out of curiosity what kind of issues are you having with your dodge?
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Not really any issues just annoyed at how the 48RE shifts and lack of gears. I really should have made a better argument to the wife about getting a manual, she's the only reason I bought the auto and hardly ever drives it. Power is better than the 7.3 but nothing to write home about, I guess I'm just a little disappointed as there's a lot of hype for the Cummins bandwagon and in stock/tuned form I really don't see why. It also has the normal blend door issues, I just really don't want to pull the dash out to fix all of them, the only one that works is the temp control.
 
My now ex-wife leased a 2006 BMW 3 series convertible for a 3 year term. This was the last year of that body style.

On the way home from the dealership I was following her in my Jeep top down and kept smelling burning plastic but just figured it was something else. Got home and parked it in the garage and it smelled something nasty. Dealer sent a roll back and turns out the robot that shoots undercoating got stuck or something and put it on heavy and made the exhaust touch it. They cleaned it off and we got it back a week later.

Maybe 2 months later the top wouldn’t open. Sensors kept saying trunk was full even though it was empty. Another week in the shop

Over the course of our lease that damn car was in the shop about every 3 months for something. Only saving grace was that she passed the dealership to and from work everyday and each time it was in the shop she got a loaner that was nicer than hers.

First and last time I’ll ever be associated with a BMW
 
1996 Chevy Monte Carlo Z34. Bought it from Carmax in 2000 with like 70k miles on it. In the next 15k miles it needed about $1500 in repairs, one time the alternator worked it's way loose, and finally the spark plug holes started filling up with oil and fouling the plugs. Started blowing smoke like crazy and the trans started slipping. Carmax bought it back from me.
 
'94 Ford F350 Powerstroke. It was a guinea pig before they started mass producing the 7.3 with the turbo. I bought it new and had to have it towed 4 times in less than two years. I had to weld the frame because the riviets were loose and it clunked. Finally the injectors caught fire and about burned it down. I got it warranted before my 100k power train warranty ran out and sold that bastard to a member of Jeff Gordon's pit crew.
It was the most powerful truck I had ever owned and with a 5 speed it was a hot rod! It was used by Ford to show off the new Powerstroke and then used at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Spring race for the same reason...and then I bought it from Town and Country Ford!:flipoff2:
 
R Q said:
'94 Ford F350 Powerstroke. It was a guinea pig before they started mass producing the 7.3 with the turbo. I bought it new and had to have it towed 4 times in less than two years. I had to weld the frame because the riviets were loose and it clunked. Finally the injectors caught fire and about burned it down.
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Imma lechew finish, but according to the innernet, the 7.tree is greatest dizzle of all time.
 
UTfball68 said:
Imma lechew finish, but according to the innernet, the 7.tree is greatest dizzle of all time.
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Look Kanye....I know the 7.3 dizzle is the pizzle, but the ford 300 I6 was the greatest motor of all time



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It's gonna be a tie between every Ford we've ever owned.

Where to start.... transmissions? E4OD, M5OD, AOD, 5R55E, all sucked.

The 80-96 Ford trucks had problems with the passenger side dash board tearing loose from the firewall, the mirrors breaking loose inside the doors, the rear cab mounts collapsing, and the frames breaking over the rear axle.

The second gen Explorer is pretty much the reason why Ford doesn't own the SUV market anymore - all the people that ever owned one swore off the brand. Sunroofs leaked, rear hatches leaked, unit bearings and ball joints got replaced at every oil change, plus transmission problems, Firestone, etc. Edit: Oh, and the fucking motor! I completely forgot about the OHC 4.0 with the plastic timing chain tensioners.

The third gen Explorer was no better, and came with the famous howling rear diff and an extra set of halfshafts and wheel bearings to crap out on a regular basis. Also, they have the tailgate that self-destructs, and shitty 5R55E again. Oh, and broken blend doors in the dash. :rolleyes:

Ford sells more trucks than anybody else for a couple of reasons - they sell between 30-40% of them into the fleet market (depending on the model). They totally dominate there. It's the reason every construction site is covered in Fords. Most of those trucks are fleet rentals provided through third-party management companies. That, and GM splits their sales numbers across a bunch of different brands and models. If not for those two facts, the F-150 best-selling record would have fallen a long time ago.

And the JD Power most-dependable truck on the road today? A fucking Chrysler. Who woulda guessed that?
 
Oh let’s see, a 92 camaro rs. Total shitbox. I traded my dakota I had v8 swapped for it. The dakota was a 318, converted to carb and ignition module, stick, 2wd, built for about 1200 in total. In comes the camaro, shity built 350, auto, LSD and 3.23 gears. The PO said he built the 350, punched it .020 out, but had a stock cam. I should have asked why he used a stock cam. I drove it home, knowing it needed a shift governor in the trans to actually drive. Nope. It held 3PSI of oil pressure at hot idle, overheated all the time, and had a list of issues. It too was a v6 originally. The trans had eaten the 3/4 clutch pack, the motor had a set of used cam, lifters and reused cam bearings, the PO never set the ignition timing, I asked him why he never hooked up the vacuum advance and he said “ I never took it down the track” it was tuned way rich, ran like crap, only had first gear, and only headers. But, the dakota has what I thought was a knocking rod. I’ve personally accidentally over-record that motor, way way high.


The dakota motor was origanily a 318 out of a 1998 Durango. I tired to make the EFI work but couldn’t, slapped a CL carb and new ignition and it ran. After some tuning and timing it ran good. 200k on the 318, plus a hole in the hood for an air cleaner. It had a habit of the pump shot sticking on the hood, holding it wide open. It had no key, just a few switches. One for ignition, fuel pump, and voltage regulator. And one for starter. A total of 2 switches.

It was also a shitbox but one I had fun in. And one that didn’t leave me stranded except once when a fused ignition wire went bare and blew a fuse. A quick hot wire and I was going again.

The over rev was from the pump shot sticking and me racing it. The EFI 318 has a set rev limit of 5300. I pushed it to 6500 because the pedal stuck. I hit the switch to shut it down but the classic eddy carb let it run on for about 30 seconds.

The knock turned out to be a lifter going out.


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maulcruiser said:
1974 Ford Mustang II. It was the 2.3L four cylinder model. Given, it was a $200 car when I bought it in 1999 so that I'd have something to drive while my K5 was down with a blown engine, but it was still a heap. Everything leaked, only the front brakes worked, rust would clog the fuel pickup in the tank, windshield wipers didn't work, only had low beams, and it leaked more oil and power steering fluid than it burned gas. To top that off, it would randomly throw the timing belt off the cam pulley.
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i wasn't sure if you were describing an ex-girlfriend's of mine mustang II ghia or the ex-girlfriend herself, but you cleared it up with "only had low beams"....
 
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