|[C³]| The Crappy Car Club

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My Car: 1983 Nisan Sentra


Cons:

127,000 Miles but looks more like 227,000 Miles.
Missing a passanger side Mirror.
Speedometer, Gas Meter, are warped from car baking in the sun.
Interior is also warped and wore down from baking in the sun.
Car is rusting and the paint is peeling.
Car only plays radio.
Cannot get in through drivers door must climb through passanger side door into drivers.
Passanger door does not open to get out you must climb through drivers door.
Cannot ajust seats.
Car often does not start for the first 5 minutes and if you come to a complete stop usually the car will cut off and you will need to restart the car.
Passanger window is off track so if you roll down the window the window will fall down into the door.
If you lock the passanger door and then shut it, the passanger door will unlock. You must shut and then lock it.
Drivers door lock is missing so you cannor lock or unlock it.
Horn does not work nither, do hazards.
Windshield is cracked all over the drivers and passanger side.
Goes from 0 to 40 in 10 seconds.
When going at a speed of 50+ and you make a turn the car jumps and it feels as if the car is comming off the body.
When you put the car into park (if its still on after stopping) and turn the car off the car shakes uncontrolably for around one minute and seems like its getting ready for blast off.
Wipers go past the drivers side and end up sticking making it impossible to drive when it is raining.
Exaust pipe waves and almost drages on the ground.
Nither AC or heat work.


Pros:

Ummm.....
It starts sometimes?
Automatic (but doesnt always go into the gear that was chosen).


Quite frankly the car is a POS and having to drive through the city is my nightmare. In order to get to work i need to go through it everyday. Just yesterday i was traveling down bragg blvd and came on a red light. The car shutdown and i quickly put it back into park and then tried turning the key but it wouldn't start! I tried my hazards forgetting that they don't work and waving my arm for the cars behind me to go around. A granny with frost white hair and huge thick bottle cap glasses pulls up slows down, looks at me, looks down at my car flips us both off and then speeds away pummeling my car with the pebbles that tremble in her wake. I had to get this car because i was in a time crunch new job and needed a car. So my friends brother was selling it and i talked to them and they said it ran perfectly....THEY LIED! I spent $450 on this car and unfortunately when i tried to return it in 3 DAYS they said they had spent the money and i noticed a pretty red Mustang in their yard. On top of that I figured owning the car would make it much cheaper insurance wise. But apparently because of everything wrong with it and the color and the age my ONE MONTH PREMIUM IS $399.81!!!! The car has screwed the pouch so many times that i have been written up for being late or not being able to go in at all. When my boss asked why i don't just get a new car i showed her my check (for $202.01) Took off my hat and said "Tips appreciated". I thought hey maybe i can sell it for scrap metal but apparently ill only get $50 if i'm lucky.
 
my car: suzuki alto ss80 1980
with a massive 600cc engine

Pros:
runs on $15 a week:tup:
can park were most cars cannot
4 speed manual :sly:

cons:
top speed of about 120kph
takes forever to start
leaks in the rain
has a different colored drivers door
am radio only and has one speaker only works some days if you give it a good hit and not at all on others
carpet is worn through were the pedals are
about 15cm of leg space in the back seats
has dents all over it
in a lovely beige
no central locking
bonnet lever is under dash around all the wires
clutch is starting to slip



ive got two of these beauties :) one for spare parts wich i need regularly
 
Hey check this thread out! Pretty funny.

Event, I know you're back, so you need to ban Sage from the list. He drives a Mazda 3 now.
 
I own a 1997 mitsubishi eclipse spyder GS....So, within the past year (not even) i have spent a good 7 thousand dollars fixing parts in my car. I paid 2500 for it.
- Transmission ( 3 times )
- starter
- alternator
- belts
- coolant pipes
- convertible
- mounts
- air conditioning
- door handle
- window
- battery

Just in the year 2010, alone, my car has been in the shop more times than i can remember. i literally have to PRAY that my car starts when i get in it. Within this month alone, its broken down 3 times. Just today i had to get it jumped with cables so i could drive home from the store.
NEVER BUY AN ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Well, I have a 1971 Datsun 510/Bluebird 1600, and it has become almost punishment to drive! So much for it being a super fun first car... I havent even had it for one year! (It will be one year on my 17th birthday a month from tomorrow).

Pros:
Straight frame
I have a 3 point drivers seat belt
Grant GT Wheel
Real nice sound system, worth more than car!
Flowmaster Exhaust (May upgrade to a Borla that I was given)
Tokico shocks
Bucket Seats
Weber carburator

Cons:
1. Car has trouble starting. It does the "click, click" thing and at times it doesn't even try to start! I have had to get it jump-started about 20 times in the past 4 months.
2. Passenger belt is a 2 point.
3. The driver's seat is not attached to the rails right, so it is comparable to a "rocking chair". The previous owner stripped the bold so I need to find a way to fix it.
4. The previous owner did a crud job relocating the battery to the rear, causing a lot of technical problems:
a. The stereo cuts out a lot, and even when it works, sometimes only half of the speakers work.
b. The tachometer sometimes has problems fluctuating
c. The high beams do not work (doesn't help when you live in Sonoma County, a lot of the area is countryside!).
d. (I just found this out yesterday) Sometimes the headlights cut out when I use the turn signals.
5. The grey primer paint job has a lot of overspray, including on headlights.
6. There is rust on the car, including some cancer.
7. There is some body damage.
8. There is barely any door stripping so the wind noise gets pretty darn irritating.
9. The previous owner put wheels on the car that are just a tiny bit too big so I cannot turn to the full steering rotation or else the wheels scrape.
10. Shifting the car's dogleg 5-speed feels like mixing cement.
11. I have just 1 sideview mirror (my dad stole my right side one to put on his truck, he broke my backup one, and stole the other backup one to put on his station wagon!)
12. Part of the dome light broke.
13. When I put gas in the car, the thing is a gas inlet thing is damaged so I can't have the nozzle secured on, so it leaks a little when I fill up.
14. My dad used wall insulation to soundproof the trunk (I have a sub in there).
15. The wheel's grip is starting to come apart.
16. The rear seat needs to be upholstered.
17. Holes in the upholstery
18. The speedometer fluctuates at speeds below 25 mph and is 5 mph fast.
19. The dipstick has quite a few problems. The housing's support bolt is gone, and the dipstick's grip slides on the stick.
20. The windshield wipers are very slow until I start driving.
21. The vents blow too much when driving and not enough when stopped.
22. The car can overheat pretty fast.
EVEN MORE STUFF I REMEMBERED!:
23. The windshield's 2 panes of glass are seperating, so I have air bubbles in it, and sometimes i get condensation in between the panes, which is a real pain.
24. The antenna is broken, so I can't listen to the radio.
25. The door panel is off the car right now, but I have it in the garage.
26. All the emblems are off of the car. but they are in my garage, but I don't want them on the car till I get it painted, which may not happen soon.
27. My brakes are bad
28. My e-brake doesn't work
29. The doors shake terribly (the hinges are going bad)
30. Transmission grinds going into 2nd


This is all I can think of off of the top of my head!
 
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Sounds like you might wanna look into a new alternator and battery if it keeps dying like that. Plus it sounds like you have bad grounds (on top of bad wiring) everywhere. I had ground problems with my barracuda until I replaced the tired old original alternator, got a large battery ground cable, and sanded down all the grounds I could find. Go find a wiring diagram and spend a good amount of time following the wires, shouldn't be too too much of a pain being a 71.

Might as well put my beater here. I have an 87 Volvo 740 turbo wagon. 740s themselves aren't bad, I love mine when it acts right, but mine is a hunk of crap.

Pros:
Rear wheel drive
Wagon (I love wagons :D)
Turbo
It's Swedish (Everyone loves the weird inside door handles and all the other funky stuff you wouldn't regularly see)

Cons:
Turbo (I'm guessing there's a reason all the 740s I see in the junkyard are turbos)
It's Swedish (The swedes make a damn good car... for costing a whole lot of money to fix)
Cracked dash
Lots of broken or missing interior pieces
Runs like crap
Surface rust in various places
Paint is magically fading off (I didn't think white could fade)
Roof rack is barely holding on
Taillights are cracked and sun-beaten
Broken parking light
Broken blinker
Random jolts from transmission
Warped front rotor
Fuel pump is going (Thank god they put the fuse box below the radio, it loves to pop fuses on busy streets at red lights)
Tint is becoming purple and coming off
Broken fog light mount (That one would be my fault)
Leaking power steering fluid

A lot of the things on the con list I can and plan to fix eventually, other than the dash of course, way too much work for having a crappy interior anyway.
 
Dunno if mine qualifies as a piece of crap but anyway...
1988 Nissan Skyline GXE (R31)

Pros:
- Engine for the most part is still running beautifully (Gotta love the RB30E)
- Sound system is absolutely epic.

Cons:
- Tranny's starting to slip (it's a 4-speed auto, so I'm not surprised)
- Spare wheel in the boot is currently patched up with a plug and is still leaking air so it will be useless if I get a puncture
- The rear speakers aren't actually wired in (interference with the amp they're connected to forces a lot of engine noise to go through the sound system; 120 bucks temporarily gone to waste)
- USB/iPod input for the sound system never has worked and still isn't working (30 bucks down the drain)
- After doing a 500km trip up to Adelaide it has developed an oil leak which seems to be the rocker gasket; its running a hell of a lot hotter than it should
- Air conditioning works fine, just can't point it to me, its stuck on the windscreen
- Boot release is a bit rooted, ended up spending half an hour trying to get it open, gave up and just popped the lock. Been fixed.
 
Car
1988 toyota corolla sr5

Pros

2 door coupe

17" wheels

Bangin sound system with a 7" touch screen cd/dvd player three 12" subs where the back seat used to be

Dbl limo tint in the back and medium up front :sly:



Cons

1. Because of the wheels being the way they are i can not turn to lock because the front wheels will rub...
And because of the wheels being the way they are i only put on low profile tires in which i can ONLY put on 1 type of tire or they will rub the strut tower..

2. Because of the subs hitting as hard as they can at times it pops the trunk open some times and i dont realize it till i slow down if at all..

3. The rear control arm is bent in the rear so if i get on sertain freeways the car jerks to one side at ANY speed (which almost wrecked at 75 because of this one day)...

4. The drivers side door no longer opens from the out side of the car i have to walk to the passenger side of the car first or leave the window cracked enough so that i can slide my arm in...

5. The passenger side door can no longer be locked because if you lock it you can not UNlock it from the outside... (which made me late for work because i had to crawl thru the trunk AND the subs to unlock it)

6. The car overheats no matter what because the radiator fluid dissappears from the car very often...

7. I no longer have an AC in it because the ac condencer went out in it so during the summers here i am DYING in 115 degree heat.. (i live in the mojave desert so it can get rather warm in the summers)

8. Since i bought the car the lock for the trunk is missing so i have to open it a secret way other the the lever in the car...

9. When it rains hard like this last time it floods my car out due too the hole in the passenger rear corner about 6" long and 3" high...

10. Because of that problem i have to bail out water which was about 15 or so gallons this last time...
Along with the hole where the lock for the trunk used to be...lol

11. The rubber trim around the entire car leaks so if i take it thru the car wash or something like that it leasks thru the drivers door an leaves stains on the armrest...

12. My raiders floor mat on the passenger side is staind because the dang oil leaked through the top on the bottle and i didnt know it till a week later...

13. If i leave the trunk full of water the carpet in the front of the car gets soaked..

14. Because of all the leaks my car has been VERY close to raining on the inside of my car because of all the condensation build up...

15. Before i bought my car it was wrecked so now the hood and the entire front end of the car is dented in and the bumper is held on by screws...

16. I have had to get hood pins installed to keep the hood down because the original latch broke on the freeway one day at 70mph...

17. The cd player doesnt fit right in the thing so it sticks out too far so i can't put the surround back in all the way so it just sits there an flaps all the time...

18. And both struts in the rear are fully blown out so if i go over rail road tracks on one road heading out of town the entire right rear jumps off the ground.. (which almost made me flip the car with all of my camping gear in the car last year.. So i was fully loaded when that happend which added another 100 or so pounds..)

19. I can't drive my car much of anywhere because if i drive the car to the store it's extremely hard to get started again... Because for some reason it cranks an sputters but doen't start so it makes for a pain in the butt of a trip if it doesn't...

20. I also have an oil leak so everything from the front of the motor back to about the middle of the car is covered in either dust that wont come off or oil then more dust...lol

21. The hood has dents all over it and rust in a few spots and all the weld on the under side of it are broke but maybe 3..

22. The roof of the car is dented from the hood flying up twice (the second time was my falt i forgot to put the pins back in)...

23. The windshield fogs on the inside in the winter from the water that drips in from the hole in the rear corner pannel..

24. I am know as the guys with the duckt taped car all over town but i call it whether proofing it... :lol:

25. all i have for a system is the 3 subs 1 blown out 6x9 and 1 5.1/4 up front which is blown out as well...

26. The drivers seat is so dirty that it's no longer cloth its more so like leather now.. So in the summer i have literaly been burned so bad that i got a 3rd degree burn from it...

27. The dash board is so bad off that it's cracked all over so when i detail it i can only clean the very front of it which is only a 1" strip that shines...

28. In the winters mostly i am at risk of carbonminoxide poisoning because of the severe exhaust leak that pours into the car...

29. When it is really cold out i can't go from 2nd to 1st when the car is cold i have to come to a complete stop then put it in gear..

30. The radiator fan only works when it wants to because the fan motor is going out i think that and the radiator and fan don't even belong to my car too start with...

Ok now that i am sad from everything that is wrong with my ride i will bring up the fact that the heater works so good that it heats up mcD's cheese burgers to the point they steam at times... :lol:
 
We seriously have to get this thread running again. What if we did a version 2. Could I moderate it? Pleeeeeeease. *puppy eyes*
 
We seriously have to get this thread running again. What if we did a version 2. Could I moderate it? Pleeeeeeease. *puppy eyes*

You're more than welcome. I dont have a crappy car anymore. I'm too busy to administer a club anyways!
 
thanks for bumping this thread, I found some old pics of my car in here and I thought they were all destroyed!
 
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