RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
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Originally Posted by DJC
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Originally Posted by ChrispyFish
I was 17 and had worked labouring on the Laus when they were building it, saved up and had €1100 for a car and €900 to get the first payment on insurance sorted. Got insurance for about €2800 under my 27yr old brother hahaha mental money so had to be cheap car and small engine....
Ended up in a Fiat Cinquento....1.1 sporting....the lads still to this day give me abuse, and i mean abuse, over it!!!! Suppose it didnt help i put a Janspeed on it :D
Motor of god.....
Had it 3 months and then got a 1 owner Escort 1.4LX beast :D was a nice car for a 18year old i suppose...still reckon the Escort was one of the best cars i ever had never abit of trouble and only sold it as i got €1k more then i paid 18 months later :D
Hahaha you never told me you had a Cinquento.Was it yellow? Do you watch the inbetweeners? :D
I dont tell many people that.....so shhhhhh
RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
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Originally Posted by DJC
Hahaha you never told me you had a Cinquento.Was it yellow? Do you watch the inbetweeners? :D
Chris was telling me he's raging that he never thought to shout "bus w@nkers" at the queue for the 19a when he had it! :D
RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
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Originally Posted by God
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What's the worst, most trouble sum car you've owned? Or what's the most embarrassing car you've owned. And why?
worst ive owned technically i took a nissan primera as a trade in once had it for 3 days .
worst i ever bought was a Audi A6 2.4 V6 it was god awful , hated it . thirstier than the 645ci i have now and slow as a wet week in the gaelteacht:P
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My first car was a 1976 Mini, I had at least 5 different engines in it. I bought it for £100 & it was rough enough. I tidied it up a bit but it was not very reliable. You would get soaked when you went through a puddle there was that many holes in the floor. I used the back of an old washing machine to make a new floor for the driver's side, the job was going really well until I realised the my buddy had cut the brake pipe in two places with the angle grinder! We did the most unsafe repair on the brake line afterwards!
I drove the life out of it most of the time hence needing all the engines, it started out as an 850cc, then it got anther 850cc engine, then 1,000cc, then 1,100cc & finally it got a 1,300cc Metro engine. The speedo used to break in it quite regularly too. There's no way it would ever have passed an NCT.
It was bad but it was kind of cool too, back then no one had cars in college & the whole cult thing with the Minis made it cool. I followed it up with a 1974 VW Beetle, people still do e up to me to this day asking me if I "was the guy with the cool Beetle in college" or "do you still have it". That was the best fun car I've owned to date. I couldn't go anywhere without being spotted, if frequently be delayed by people wanting to talk about the car or telling me stories of their daily remembers that had VW Beetles. I even got pulled in by the Gardai on quite a few occasions who just wanted to look at the car! And they'd blatantly tell me that! One Garda told me that he had driven one in reverse from Malin Head to Mizen for charity, another motorcycle cop had me stopped chatting for nearly an hour asking me about all the customisations I had some & how I them. Another motorcycle cop used to give me grief over the yellow on black California style plates & the wheels (Weller) that used to stick out beyond the arches. He always called me by my first name without even needing to check who I was, this was the 90's so no pulse & it was Cork city not a small town. Spent a fortune on it again not a great car but the best fun. Went with BMWs after those two, two iconic cars as #1 & #2, not too bad I suppose.
Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
1992 Suzuki Cultus. My lawnmower had more grunt.
3cyl 1.0L.
So underpowered that when you turned on the A/C it felt like someone pulled up the handbrake a few notches.
But it was my first proper car so I was chuffed with it, it did a great job of lugging hungover students in and out of DCU.
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A rover 414I ...I'll get my coat
RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
My 93 starlet 1.3 the xli model no less, bought it when I was 19 and paid through the nose for insurance but I didn't care I just wanted to be on the road. Drove it for almost 3 years and went every where in it, ended up in a ditch once and almost the dodder river but she survived it all. Got a fair bit of stick over it especially when it started fading to pink but I didn't care, she was a beast to me :P
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RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
Had to be the Xantia. 1.TD. Don't get me wrong, grand car but the reason it was embarrassing was they have air suspension run off 4 spheres. When these fail it plays havoc. So obviously mine did, I swear to god the front of the car used to bounce up and down like something you'd see a gang banger driving!! People stared! :hehe!:
Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
Had to be the rav4 i drove at 17 . Was very cheap on insurance (even though 1.8 petrol) and I got it really really cheap :) sold it 6 months later but had some amazing times in it got 170kmh out of it on the link in cork and also ran out of petrol many times in that car hahah
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RE: Worst most embarrassing car you've owned
I have to say it was Prius. Had it not so long time ago but sold it after two months. Great car for saving money though.