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20th January 2017, 06:56 | #1 |
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Out of the cars you ever owned, which was the most problematic in terms of cost and.
Hiya all last night I did topic of this http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...d.php?t=260437
This time this is other, Out of all the cars you ever owned, which was the motors that you regretted buying in the first place? Once that cost a lot too keep and parts hunting. My dad and I have joined forces too put our cards on the table. Starting things off with my dad's Range Rover Vogue 3.0L diesel. He wanted other one again and saw the add for this one, my dad went too look at it and bought her for 4k, she looked good and my dad brought it back, how ever things didn't work out in the end, the 75/ZT was kept busy recurng parents after three break downs, in the end we found in the end that my dad had a bought. LEMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That thing cost him a bomb, plus I did dump so many on the thing as well, only too find that the head was cracked and many parts failure as well. Next was my dad amption too save a 2.0 16v probe which was a national disaster, my dad bought it knowing full that it wasn't running propyl, how ever in my younger days dad was more then confident too do automotive repairs, long story short it was a real pig so my dad sold it too a female biker covered in tattoos I remember nice girl too, that quickly changed when my dad got letters in the post that saying he was speeding in Manchester doing over 50 in 30mph. Soon the nice women was called all sorts of names, mainly from me. Next is my motor the Ford Mondeo Mk3 2.0 diesel, this was going to be my long range cruiser and me being a ford fan well it had too be a Ford didn't, oh wish I never bought this beep beep beep a load of beep beep, yeah that's how much I hated the thing after it cost me over 1500 to try and save the thing. In the end the engine was dead and gave up on it and it went too the scrap yard best derision I made watching that thing get destroyed. It was thanks too this destruction that my 75/ZT came into my life and that's been a hard jouney in its self as most of you will know, but still she lives on.
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20th January 2017, 08:08 | #2 |
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Citroen c4 grand picasso. £5k, 61k miles and fsh when bought. Scrapped at 88k miles with a blown turbo which would have cost £2.5k to repair and they still couldn't warranty. Constant error codes. Dropped about £1k on a wiring fault and egr repair, also did tyres, alternator, battery, injector seals etc etc etc and more I can't recall. Got £300 scrap for it.
Steaming pile of manure, won't buy a citroen ever again. Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk
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20th January 2017, 08:30 | #3 | |
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I'll never buy a French car, I just tend too buy cars that rust like Fords. still I can't help it.
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20th January 2017, 09:03 | #4 |
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The worst thing I ever bought was a '95 Discovery 300tdi What a pile of pooh!
To be honest, I didn't spend too much on it because we only had it 6 months, hated every inch of that car. Slow, expensive and clumsy........horrible thing it was. Bought it because we'd had Defenders before and thought we'd go for a bit more luxury.......give me a Defender any day Close second was a Peugeot 405 estate, not a bad car really but it suffered HGF and that cost nearly £800 to sort Got rid soon after
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20th January 2017, 09:10 | #5 | |
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my dad's a fan of Land Rover back in the day, but the discovery ranks the worst of the bunch, he had a classic range rover and that wasn't too bad at all, got a photo here of the one I bought as a project.
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20th January 2017, 11:20 | #6 |
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Not a car but a bike, the Honda FT500. Liked big single cylinders, the FT500 came out early '80s, liked the look of it, bought one.
Turned out to be gutless, underpowered, even a high flow air filter and associated carb modifications did nothing, induction noise was impressive though! You could see the black chrome exhaust rusting as you looked at it! The starter was a major weak point, electric start only and it kept breaking a small cast part in the starter mechanism. When the part broke to start the thing you had to leave a small plate off and use your finger to move the shaft and engage the gear on the starter motor! Needless to say I didn't keep it for long. |
20th January 2017, 10:56 | #7 | |
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At least the cars you're showing are interesting; ours was just meant to be a reliable workhorse with 7 seats. The good point about the citroen is it make the 75 look very cheap to run! Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk
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26th January 2017, 21:35 | #8 |
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VW Passat GL5 estate. It had the Audi 5-cylinder engine, which would just cut out when the engine was at full temperature. Long journeys were a nightmare, with stops every 30 odd miles. I was well rid of it
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26th January 2017, 15:03 | #9 |
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This 1.8 tourer.
Miniscule miles, immaculate inside and out - mechanically awful. Multiple HGF - this was the car that finally made me promise never to buy another 1.8 again. It wasn't the first 1.8 to have HGF that I'd owned, but it just kept letting me down so in the end I gave it to my brother Lovely car, would have been fantastic if it could be relied on to get you where you wanted to go without the help of the RAC's breakdown fleet |
26th January 2017, 18:32 | #10 |
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My current diesel 75.
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