You people are amatuers. I have 8 cars, and the Jeep alone makes all your problems seem trivial. Add to that several old american iron monsters and an Italian convertable. Even the German supercar has those damn O2 sensors that seem to go out one at a time often enough to keep the “check engine” light on forever.
I wont list everything, but pretty much everything said so far (except leaky alternator- whats up wit that?) applys to my fleet (mostly all the jeep and usually double, but some other maladies are scattered to the others). And they all run and can be driven. Its just a question of how far and how certain you want to arrive.
Pussies! Get yerself a Jeep if you really want to know the agony of de feet!
Slight oil leak.
Air conditioner needs another new spritz of fluid (though I did it last year).
Driver’s side lock doesn’t work, ever since the idiot who tried to steal the car broke off a piece of scissors in the lock and I am too cheap and lazy to have the lock repaired, so I have to go in on the passager side and unlock the door from the inside.
For a 9 year old (fully paid for) car with 64,000 miles, not bad.
My car is starting to feel like it needs a brake job.
Oh, and it makes a funny noise when driven above 75 mph. It sounds like my wife saying, “Why are you driving so fast?” or “You’re going to get a ticket!” It seems to only occur when there are passengers in the car. I usually just turn up the radio.
His:
1986 Toyota 4-Runner - Jacked up, Mudder Tires
4x4 doesn’t work
was black, now is gray with white streaks
radio was stolen, haven’t gotten a new one
inside has never been cleaned
holes in the carpet from acid leak (don’t ask)
smells like a big wet dog
Mine
1998 Brown Van
Needs to be detailed (badly)
Looks like a golf ball (badly dimpled from hail storm last week)
This is turning out to be more of a competition that I had anticipated when I started the thread. I thought at first that I would clearly be the outright ‘winner’; now, I’m not so sure. To be perfectly objective (and honest), I’ll have to point toward lucky Tristan as being in the lead right now, especially as my car problems are distributed over more than one car. Several others have impressive lists, too (you know who you are). Others of you can’t receive full credit because you list problems with cars you no longer own. Funny stories, yes; deserving of our current pity?–no.
And gatopescado? Your claims are intriguing, but absent some specifics, you’re just not in the running for worst-running vehicle. Please feel free to provide more detail.
And I thought of some more problems with mine:
gas tank cover doesn’t close properly;
battery acid spilled all over the floor of the back seat;
side-view mirrors don’t respond to power buttons anymore;
interior light and clock and trunk ajar lights are shorted out and periodically flash off and on.
Had the head gasket replaced because it was leaking about a quart a day… The guy who fixed it really screwed up royally… Leaking MORE. Getting it fixed in two days.
-The locks are sticky (as in, I have to jam my keys around until it can catch sometimes) because some A-Hole broke into my car once with a coat hanger to steal my $99 piece of crap stereo (by the way, he caused over $1000 worth of damage to the car by taking the stereo out with what seemed to be a crowbar).
-No more alarm or cool little clicker remote to lock it
-air conditioning only sort of works (a real problem in LA during the summer)
-the seal on the rear windshield is no longer in tack so every time it rains, the back seat is damp for a week (but hey, I don’t ever sit in the back, so what do I care!)
and the main problem…
-it’s TEAL—bright-ass aquamarine shiny teal green. The car was previously owned by my father, who bought it when it was new. I remember when he was looking for a car, I was 14 and loved teal everything. I told him to get the car in teal and I’ll never know if he bought it in teal because that’s all the dealer had left or because he was listening to car color choices by his 14 year-old daughter! It still amuses me to think about my father, a very big and tall kinda guy, squished into that little two door teal green Honda Civic that I now drive!
The absolute crappiest car I ever had was an '83 Chevy Cavalier. I had that awful thing for seven years, and it was always having problems.
But, the most “adventurous” problem I ever had was my 1969 Dodge Coronet–also my first car. For the last year of its life, it had a leaky gas tank, a broken gas gauge, and a leaky radiator.
At the time, I was living with my parents, and working 40 miles away. I had checkpoints at various service stations along the way where I would have to put in more water. (I always kept a jug.)
My leaky gas tank/broken gas gauge combination made things a little more “fun” when occasionally I had to walk to a gas station, get gas, walk back to the car, fill up, drive back to the gas station for water (after trying to rinse out the jug).
Air conditioning doesn’t work, which sucks in L.A.
Power door lock switch is broken.
The oxygen sensor has malfunctioned, which doesn’t at all affect the car running, but it does mean it’ll cost $600 to fix it in order to pass a smog check.
And it could use new tires and brakes, too!
I will never, ever again buy a used Mazda. Luckily the thing’ll be paid off in January, and then I can get a real car.
