nick172sport

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escort rs turbo engine oil light came on whilst driving home 3 months later cambelt snapped full rebuild ran it in then started to play up again fooked it off after spending too much on it

belliott69

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edited for accuracy.

stevebt

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The one I have now!

Steve T

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Dolomite Sprint, Overheating + Head gasket problems. Cavalier 4x4 turbo, Porous Head + weak transfer box .

Frosticles

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Fiat SuperMirafiori 2.0 sport. Had it for all of a day and it caught fire on the A1 whilst off to band practice in the middle of winter. Burnt to a shell LOL. Doors were that rotten that you had to open the windows slightly to stop them from bowing out..........

Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth (x2) Head gaskets, everything else as well.......

Dr.No

I wish I'd had a MkIV rather than a MkIII as well - completely different kettle of fish!

My neighbour has a circa 450bhp MkIV twin-turbo aero that just keeps going and going... though any good hard thrashing in my MKIII would blow the head-gasket.

lozgti1

Had wet dreams over those for some reason

Frosticles

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Wet dreams turned into reality with all it's leaks lol. Good ones now fetch really good money.

SRSport

VW Polo '02 £2k repairs, when just out of warranty, then sold it. Mates car VW Polo '52, £3k repairs, just out of warranty at the time and still got it . Brother in laws VW Polo '54 £2.5k repairs, yep, just out of warranty at the time and still got it. Would not buy another VW.

s70rjw

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RS Cosworth. Just out of warranty...
Steering rack began leaking
Snapped exhaust camshaft
Tachometer worked intermittently traced to wiring fault
Cooling fan didn't work, traced to wiring fault
Heated rear window stopped working
Rear shocks leaked
Discs warped
Head gasket went requiring full bottom end rebuild with rebore
Syncromesh went on 4th gear
Key snapped in petrol filler flap
HT leads needed replacing
I'm sure there were other issues.....

Jimmy (mines a pint)

ive had that many unreliable cars over the last 30years i cant be arsed listing them all, but ive had loads of bmw's and i'd say they where very good.

7 years ago i baught a 1985 bmw m5 and it was superb, i drove it hard and the only problem i had was driving over a brick at night and bursting a hole in my oil sump, only cost £60 to get repaired.

then my current subaru ( sti v9 ) has been alright, apart from the constant knocking from those rear shocks.

Simes777

TVR 350i

At least 10 sets of UJ's, engine rebuild, wheel with hub attached left the car as I was driving to the garage to get it looked at, clutch, 2 x accelerator cables snapped, radiator fan wouldn't work and couldn't get a replacement, alternator, windscreen wiper motor (dashboard out job to replace), windscreen washer motor, several wheel bearings as well.

It was probably off the road for 1 year out of the 5 1/2 years I owned it for, but when the sun came out, the roof went down and the sound of the exhaust made everything alright.

Deep Joy

StickyMicky

The scooby to be honest, although it was driven the hardest, but still, they are made from chocolate.

wilkoca

Current Scoob - 2 engines 2 gearboxes 1 rear diff 1 hub and 1 apexi PFC i

ive also a 15 yrs old audi 100 avant that i bought for £450 4 years ago - it sails through mot's and the total outlay was 2 new tyres off a mate at rsr for £24 and a new battery from euro car farts £24.

r32

New Toyota Corrola

corradoboy

VW Corrado

I don't have time, or the heart to list its litany of woe

The Scoob only went through 2 electronic sensors in the exhaust, and a wheel bearing (my fault) in three years. Considering how hard I drove it, amazing

StickyMicky

Scoobys must be weird, i had 3 engines, it needed its 4th when i got rid of it, yet it was still on its original 110k MY97 wrx gearbox.

I had logged about 100 drag runs at Elvington, and the last 8k miles of its life while i owned it, was with the 2.5 fitted and it running anything from 1.55 to 1.65bar boost on the 16g turbo (nice torque )
And i never ***** footed around with the "must save gearbox" waffle either, it was really, really abused, sidestep clutch launches with the throttle getting blipped to build some boost

fast bloke

2005 BMW 320iSE. Cost about 22k. Have receipts for 32k of warranty work. From front to back, replaced under warranty

Front bumper - (paint)
Both headlights - (water ingress)
Bonnet (paint)
Drivers wing (paint)
engine (twice) - (wrong diagnosis)
Manifold (4 times)
Engine management system (3 times - see engine)
Gearbox (3 times - see EMS and engine)
Entire exhaust system (twice - see gearbox, EMS and engine))
Central locking system
Door handles
ABS pump
ABS controller
DSC management chip
Driver seat
entire wiring loom
9 alloys (due to flaking, cracking and ABS/DSC issues)
Heated rear window
Heated rear window control system
Boot release mechanics
boot release electronics.
Eventually the fault was found to be a short in the dash display, so other than the crap paint and leaky front lights, ( about 2k worth in total) they did 30k of work to fix a £200.00 problem. It was all warranty work, but if the car had been older I would have been paying for this ****. How can they charge £80.00 per hour plus vat when they have no idea what the fek they are doing?????

Triple filtered

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'85 Nova with a 1.8 Astra GTE engine. This was in the days when 16v conversions were unheard of. I was only 17 when I bought it.

Exhaust fell off from the downpipe on way home, next day it started ticking over at 3000rpm (idle screw fell out)
Engine mounts went. Changed them.
Kept spitting fan belts off for some reason, BRAINWAVE use a pair of tights!!! Didnt work, they got caught in the timing belt and snapped it.
Head gasket went.
Gearlinkage fell off
major oil leak from sump straight onto exhaust so the smoke was biblical.
Alternator went 50 miles from home.

all in the space of 3 weeks until I changed the engine and sold it. But it was by far the best laugh I've ever had in a car when it was going

ALi-B

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What was the problem with the boot release?

Did it happen to open on it own accord as and when it felt like it (until one locked teh car).

Our 325 does this every now and again. Pain in the **** when it does it just as I drive off before the doors have auto-locked

That was a fairly reliable car; barring suspension bushes (3rd set on teh front now), thermostat, water pump, MAF and general gutlessness at low revs and hesitance. Its always hesitated a little since we've had it, new MAF has sorted alot of it but one of the Cam/crank sensors is on its way out (doesn't always start first time). Problem is I don't know which one is at fault as the ECU won't register any fault code (it didn't even log anything when the MAF was failing, even when the engine was seriously down on power and not a happy chappy at all). I've even had the sensor output on the Oscilloscope and compared it to another M54 engined BMW and the output is fine

fast bloke

Ali - Everything that was done to that car was done as a 'fix' for the short in the dash. You would be driving down the motorway and get a non crisis warning light. You think 'OK, drive on but take it easy (maybe dsc or something), then you would get a puncture light......., run flats so in theory you should drive on, but you would be insane not to stop and check for terminal damage. When you stop and pop the key, the boot pops up, the stereo retunes , maybe the wipers come on, the bluetooth prep calls the first person in your phone book and the main beams come on and stay on even if you take out the keys and lock the car.

or

driving through town and your seatbelt warning starts chirping that your passenger is not wearing their belt. You don't have a passenger, but you plug the belt in to shut it up.

Everything that happened made me think 'there is a short in the electronics somewhere', and given the randomness of the faults, I couldn't see it could be anywhere other than the bit that display the faults (the dash) - The highly trained 'engineers' just kept replacing the stuff that the dash told them was faulty. However, the car never recorded a single fault in the bit that tells them what might be wrong. Just to cheer you up, once they replaced the dash display, the only problem was that the boot would open on a fairly random occasion, so they replaced everything related to opening the boot. Nothing worked. We ended up giving the car back under the 50% rule of the CCA. BM finance company started to think about fighting me, but when they got the report about how **** the car actually was, they emailed me an apology and wiped out the charges for the extra 3000 miles I had done over contract. ( The d(st)ealer is about 30 miles away, so 60 round trip, and we had 16 separate faults 'fixed' requiring 47 trips to those gimps over a 3 year period.)

Clarkie GT

mine was a 1990 phase 2 Renault 5 GT turbo blew it up twice in 6 monthes... suppose 25 psi on a engine that's old it stil has push rods is never gonna last tat long

carb got blocked, 3 times

fuel pump relay failed

n then a supporting arm for the front suspention leg came loose at 70 mph on the motorway, spun me round, up a kirb, n bent the rear axle.

MrJim

mgf absolute c--p

Herbie.

Most unrelilable cars Ive had are a XR2i and a R5 GTT. Both a total nightmare.
My 52 plate Corsa SXi runnabout is also a mare!!!

nickwrxstiV2

Clio 172 - POS

farmerwrx

mini 1275 gt utter sh*t box

hodgy0_2

Renault 5 (1980) - 25 million French can be wrong

Spec'c'57

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TVR Tuscan. enough siad.

chris270181

been lucky 2 problem free scoobs a mondeo st24 that used to blow dash bulbs and fuses for the laugh. had a saxo from new problem free also until the track rod arm snapped clean off and threw me and the car in a garden through a fence an a conifer or two, engineers report suggested a faulty part as the car was only 2.5 yrs old and the track rod arm had massive corrosion on it as though it was 25 years old, My current scoob also total pita been off the road for 10 months, then failed mot on emissions then that got sorted, it failed again on brake flex hose splitting, sorted that now emissions are sky high again, oh and the heater matrix has since spit its guts out, and now its blowing out blue smoke, oh joy

mje_wrx

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sadly, my modified scoob but unlike other, just keep fixing n going