Cars you hated and hope not to see again

[mercrocker]

As a counterpoint to the more positive thread and to keep that one nice and smiley, here is one to recount the POSs you've had. Not perhaps because they were bad examples or particularly shit cars, just that they didn't do it for you.

I pretty much put up with anything rather than walk or take an old car across a salt lake but there have been one or two that would have me reaching for bicycle clips or bus pass....

Nissan Micra K11.
Not strictly mine as it was what Mrs Rocker had when I met her. It was fairly new, certainly by my standards, probably about 7-8 years old. We took it on our first mucky weekend away as she wanted to leave my W123 outside her house to confuse or annoy somebody, I can't remember exactly but I was happy* in as much as it was potentially a lot cheaper on fuel.

I think I waited a decent couple of months after moving in with her before I ditched the fucking thing. It was vile. No single redeeming feature that I can remember, but I haven't forgotten that it nearly killed me with terminal understeer. Horrid, dangerous little bastard which didn't even have the Nissan reliability that was so much vaunted. It was in every way a worse car than the K10s I had driven before. Grisly grey interior too, that reminded of the shit Brantano shoes my old manager used to wear.

7th Gen Fiesta
Hired one of these 18 months ago to go to Blackpool. Bad move. Horrid car, stupid 6 speed gearbox and irritating ergonomics, pedal layout vile.
I know, I know I just don't "get" modern cars but how this thing represented an improvement over my old 2000 model 1.4 Zetec I cannot see. Even Mrs Rocker's Focus is a better car to drive.

Over to you.....

[SiC]

Mercedes A180d - generation before the present

Had this as a hire car when the TT Mk2 I had let me down. Cheap nasty interior. No steering feel. The Renault sourced engine was unrefined rattly mess and slow.

I ordered a Insignia or similar but on arrival they "upgraded" me to a fucking Qashqai. With a big nope given on that, they gave me a free "premium" upgrade to the Mercedes. They seemed quite put out when I returned the Merc as I think they were expecting me to sing it's praises.

[Hooli]

Volvo 340.

Utterly hateful pile of shit. It didn't go, stop or corner. All it did was drink a stupid amount of fuel for nothing. The brakes just resulted in locked wheels as it weighed more than an oil tanker on tyres the same size as a Mk2 Escort. Cornering was terminal understeer followed by terminal oversteer with nothing in between. Trying to make it go just resulted in lots of noise & no progress.

Oh & it's party trick was being the pushrods for no reason at all, even when driven gently. You could be cruising at 60-70 in top & it'd just slow down & stop within a few hundred yards of running ok. I got used to hammering the pushrods on the kerb before putting them back to get home.

It did have comfy seats, but they were that bloody awful velour stuff that just made them so warm it felt like you'd pissed yourself within seconds.

Verdict, only fit for senile OAPs. Oddly enough that's who you'd normally see driving them.

[Hooli]

Oh & another.

Pugrot 406.

I had one as a hire car via a job once to use for a week to get to a training course. What an uncomfy pile of shit, the seat was designed to cripple your spine. The rest of it was typically bland, dull & unmemorably french & rattly.

Did good handbrake turns in the snow though.

[Hooli]

Finally...

Laguna2.

I was given it, I was ripped off....

There is absolutely nothing about these that is any good, the entire festering pile of shit was utterly french in the worst way. The day I sold it for scrap was the best day of ownership.

[LynehamHerc]

Sierra 2.3 Ghia, an interim car whilst I waited for my new company car to arrive. I wasn't probably part of the target audience, being in my late 20s, but a gutless engine, standard autobox and soft suspension made it dire to drive. About 15mpg didn't help even when my employer paid all the fuel bills.

BMW 525E. A few months before the Sierra. At least it was economical by the standards of the time but the suspension seemed very soft. It was ok for wafting up and down the A1 but that was it. It was only a few months old, the director who'd ordered it left soon after it was delivered so I used it for a few weeks and then sold it to Sandal(?) BMW in Wakefield.

Orion 1.6Ghia Injection. Still at the same employer as the previous two. Another interim car. A decent engine for the time but soft suspension again, a car for wearing a hat in.

[Sri05]

Any Ford Ka, horrible things.

Had one right after I passed my test, it was 9 years old. Failed it's MOT after 3 weeks of ownership with catastrophic rust

Then after warning the then girlfriend now wife not to buy one when she passed hers, she went and done so. That was even worse. How can a modern car rust so much ? it was EVERYWHERE. the doors, the fuel cap, the bootlid, under the scuttle panel, wheel arches. And that's before you looked underneath the thing. This was a 2005 car in 2013.

The fact that Ford done nothing to sort the problem through it's production run is a joke. You can see 2008 plate ones dissolving nowadays, the ones that are left anyway

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Mercedes A180d - generation before the present

Cheap nasty interior. No steering feel.

The Renault sourced engine was unrefined rattly mess and slow.

...a fucking Qashqai.

All the same stuff. The A Clarse is a style thing, built as cheaply as possible and sold for as much as possible to clueless 26 year old vape monkeys and tramp stamped TOWIE type birds.

[paulplom]

A mk1 fiesta 950. I had one as a courtesy car when my metro was being repaired. It was inferior in every way. Tinny, slow and really basic. The squirters were a rubber button next to the clutch that you had to pump. Just an awful drive that I can be remember over 30 years later.

[SiC]

Mercedes A180d - generation before the present

Cheap nasty interior. No steering feel.

The Renault sourced engine was unrefined rattly mess and slow.

...a fucking Qashqai.

All the same stuff. The A Clarse is a style thing, built as cheaply as possible and sold for as much as possible to clueless 26 year old vape monkeys and tramp stamped TOWIE type birds.

Even my in-laws C-Class interior isn't much better. Full of shiny Piano black plastic that I'm sure looks great in a show room but scratched to hell after a years use. Fit and finish in our A4 is far superior to their C-Class. Just stuff like pushing the shiny plastics in the Merc has them flexing from their mounts.