The worst.

[TWR]

What has been the most troublesome car you have ever owned, & in what way?

[tonyav]

Yes MASS, Fiat = fix it again tomorrow.

[arwyn]

tony a trip down memory lane this is ha ha. The head lights were once broke and I always had to be home before dark, The heater never ever worked and the footwells used to have solid ice in them in winter, we never found out where the water came in. Had to drive with windows open in winter. The vinyl roof blew off on the way to Liverpool once, it left sticky glue all over the roof. God I could go on all night lol.

[tonyav]

Same here arwyn, makes you wonder how any of us got anywhere doesn't it.

[FredPuli43]

Triumph Stags. If the electrics were any worse they wouldn't work at all; that was Lucas for you; but that was minor compared to the rest of it. Surely the only hard top drophead that require two men to take the hard top off; nobody had thought to make it retractable like the Merc's. Surely the only car that overheated because the top and bottom of the engine were in different alloys and expanded at different rates, warping and letting coolant escape. Surely the only car that left the factory with a wheel brace that was the wrong size for the wheel nuts. Surely the only car that left the factory with the oil warning light wired to the brake fluid light and vice versa. Surely the only car with a crash cut- out to the fuel pump that activated when you slammed the bonnet, but probably not in a crash, leaving you a few miles on with an engine that mysteriously stopped.

Surely the only make and model that could have all these features in a nearly new, or new, car !

[arwyn]

bl00dy hell fred lol that's mad.

[denis567]

I bought a brand new Citroen AX Diesel (1500 cc engine) in 1980. After 6 weeks it needed a new engine fitted, and in the first 12 months had 5 new engines. Same fault every time. Citroen would not accept it was a design fault ( it was new to the market) but after about 2 years they withdrew that model and replaced it with a different engine.

[Hopkirk]

I think I've been lucky, listening to you lot.

Admittedly my Rover 214 died of a head gasket failure, but that was my fault for neglecting the anti freeze.

[Zacs-Master]

Had a new Tipo late 80's. Faultless.

[SpikeyBush]

Vauxhall Vectra 2.5 V6
It was top of the range, electric everything, leather interior and fast as f*ck. Bought it nearly new through Network Q and nearly bankrupted them the amount of time it spent back in the shop having warranty repairs done. What really narks me off is that for that year I was paying tax & insurance for a high performance model that runs on chopped up dolphin and throws out CO2 by the barrel-full, but was tootling around in a 1.3 Mitsubishi Lancer courtesy car. When the garage said they sent the car back to Germany for Opel to find out why it kept breaking I made it clear I didn't want it back. They gave me a suitable replacement and retained my custom as a result.

[TWR]

I like that Fred, that made me laugh, a friend of ours had an allegro " I should I say all agro, the heap was the worst heap of sht that ever left the factory, I think it was either a Monday car or Friday car! I think you know what I mean by that you all, the friend came around with this car on several occasions with problems, this day it was because of a " Clonking coming from the N/S> ( Passenger side) after a full search I found the cause, this is the honest truth, a tin of peas under the passenger side seat. not long after the peas episode the heap went to make more can's of peas ( Scrap)

[LesR]

Lotus Elan. Great idea, poorly executed. A racing car for the road but only if you have a pit crew following to put it right.

[tonyav]

What engine Les.

[lozzer50]

citroen zx it was like a money bank in reverse for every pound put in it it cost two, boy that car was awful !!

[funnygirl]

For me it was a Fiat. We had one of these years ago and the gears were terrible.
For me they were too close together and on many a cold morning would this bloddy car start?? oh no.

[tonyav]

TWR, yep those Austin Aggroes were good weren't they along with the Marina and Princess.

[cazzz1975]

rover 200 series- head gasket going over and over again
vauxhall zafira - 1001 electrical/sensor problems

[jg96]

1970 Vauxhall Viva HB SL90. Previously owned by an old chap who'd nursed it from new. I don't think it managed more than a week in my ownership without something breaking stuck it for a year before offloading it on to another poor devil.

[tonyav]

That was one of the last HB's then jg96.

[Traci66]

Focus ghia, the battery kept going dead, especially if we had to be somewhere.

[baza]

1953 Ford prefect, only had a six volt battery so from Oct to Mar it was either starting handle or push start. Also had vacuum wipers , the faster you went the slower the wipers moved, my that was fun. NOT.