Worst car you've ever driven

Lone Wolf 75

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, I give you my 1988 Ford ThunderTurd (aka the B.W.D.P.O.D.S - Big White Dehydrated Piece of Dog Sh!t):





I had the misfortune of purchasing this vehicle when the clutch throwout bearing my 1986 Toyota Camry gave up at 196,000 miles and I decided that was it. In 20-20 hindsight, this was likely one of my poorest decisions in life. The BWDPODS featured:

-Total instability in wet weather, which could be as mild as 99% humidity. If a sharp turn was attempted at more than 10 mph, one could expect either complete loss of control, or the car to continue moving forward and hit the curb.

- The car had one side mirror. I think the Ford accountants figured they'd save about $2 per car if they omitted the passenger side mirror. This really didn't help because the blind spots were terrible.

- A horrible shaking that occured at 65 MPH, as the resonance frequency of the vehicle was at this exact speed. It was enough to shake the fillings in ones teeth, and worry that parts would fall off the car if this speed was constantly maintained. This meant that on the interstate one was either constantly speeding or always being passed. I later learned that this particular Ford engine was born a V8, Ford needed a V6, so they chopped two cylinders off their V8 and externally balanced the frankensteined engine. The correct way to engineer this would have been to create a new V6 or use an existing V6 or other six cylinder engine.

- Ford didn't joke when they wrote N-O-R-M-A-L across the entire range of the coolant temperature gauge. My experience was that the space between the L and orange/red zone was where this car most frequently liked to operate. It would often overheat, despite the fact that every component in the cooling system was replaced within a year of ownership of the car. My favorite experience was taking a short cut through one of low-income sections of Baltimore and watching the temperature gauge creep into the orange zone, and wondering if I was going to break down.

- This vehicle like to eat alternators for lunch. Three in one year, to be exact.

- The Ford automatic transmission made every shift an adventure, as it often resulted in a severe jerk as the car clunked into the next gear.

- The doors were so long and heavy that they sagged downwards when open, and the sheer length of them made getting out of the vehicle in a parking lot a wonderful challenge in contortionism.

- The digital dashboard was so hard to read in the daytime that it was completely useless. Shortly after I purchased the vehicle, a $5 relay failed such that whenever the headlights were turned on, the dashboard lights shorted out. The dashboard literally had to be completely taken apart to get to the relay (which would have cost about $300 in 1998 dollars). I was a poor college student at the time, so I drove at night with absolutely no clue what speed I was going, but at least I could see where I was going.

- The Coup de Grace was one snowy winter morning I could not get out of my development to get to work. I was at the bottom of a minor slope (maybe 2% grade and about 200 feet). I got about 3/4 up the hill, gently coaxing the car up (alternating between light throttle in low gear, reverse, and doing it over again, inch by inch) before the car stalled. It turns out that the valvetrain was beginning to fail (probably due to the high tempertures this engine liked to run at). Compression in each cylinder was slowly deteriorating. I think by the time I donated the car it was equivalent to a 3 cylinder engine.

So in the case of this car "Quality was Job None," and yes, at least they circled the problem.

frost

I didn't even know what this one was, had to look it up, lol



You might have one of the worst looking here.

Aww, I was actually looking at getting an old beetle.

dad

A Cadillac Hearse! No back seat at all! Smells of to many flowers, and Pine or Walnut. Lonely, dark! Sitting in the drivers seat, the hood looks like you are on approach, to land on an Air Craft Carrier!

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frost

^ rofl

robin

well for me it was a Volkswagen..

Lug

Hands down a Jeep.

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frost

...? what kind? year? reason?

Attaboy

the worst car i ever drove was also the first car i ever owned.
it was a 1980 dodge colt that i bought in 1994 for 300 dollars. it had 180K miles on it. the only thing that worked was the engine and drive train. i learned more about automotive repair in the 2 years i had that car than ever.

the worst part was that the heater and blower did not work.. i lived in rural wyoming at the time and not having heat in a wyoming winter is pretty scary. good thing it was FWD.

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robin

Volkswagen Fox! heres the pic.. its 1980 model my first car actually a second hand one bought by my father..

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Pushing_Tin

1988 Ford Tempo. Paid $800 for it and it caught on fire a week later.

frost

nogoodname

worst car i driven is my 1990 Pontiac Grand AM Sedan, it was so badly built...lol
such a retarded design..... but it kept on running on the same oil for 30000KM's....
dip stick was so rusty, foam in the oil..... tires were bald.... the hell it with.

i didnt bother taking a pic of it...haahahaha

on the other hand, i have a 1989 Pontiac 6Baller which is totally the opposite... drives pretty good, very well built engine... super duper easy to fix.

then i have the G, which is in another league.....lol

Lone Wolf 75

I had a cousin that bought an '87 Hyundai Excel and the same thing happened.

travisjb

Ford Tempos 80s vintage were really bad ! I spent sooo many hours in my bud's tempo back in high school - totally sucked! radio was utter crap too

I owned a 1983 camaro berlinetta w/ 5 speed back in junior year of high school... piece of crap only had a 2.8l chevy motor with 5 cyclinders working at any given time... I stuffed some 16" IROC wheels on with 255 goodyear tires which punished the suspension and steering so badly i replaced tie rods it seemed like every 3 months... it showed well with the wheels and new paint and chicks digged it, but utter garbage

likeness


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xiven

1981 Toyota Pickup "Ol Blue"
Man this thing was a piece. The one in the picture has a cap on it but ours didn't. Ours was all dented up and rusted too. It was converted from a 5 speed to an automatic before we bought it. I had to use both feet when driving to keep it from stalling. No power steering = sucky. I definitely made a good impression with the ladies showing up w/ that thing to school. LOL...yeah right