ITT: the worse piece of shit you've ever owned

ITT: the worse piece of shit you've ever owned.

I've owned some really, really sitty cars in my life. Like, some fucking BAD ones. But the worst was my 84 Plymouth Turismo 2.2. Oh god, how much that sorry excuse for an automobile sucked.

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My current car. I've sunk far more into it than I payed for it in less than a year.

What have you done to it? Do you hate driving it or just the fact that it's needed so much work?

Granted that it was well abused before I got ahold of it, but holy shit what a pain in the ass! And then it does nothing bad but also nothing well on top of it.

I love driving it, but it's been down more than it's been up. Lots of electrical gremlins and vacuum problems. Guy I bought it off of was a mechanic, but he didn't tell me until afterwards. He definitely nigger-rigged lots of things.

I always hate finding the evidence of previous owner laziness. After I took my Roadmaster home I found out the heat wasn't working but the A/C was fine. The guy put a valve in the line going to the heater core rather than replacing the $15 air blend actuator in the dash, and after I did that it works fine.

I also had a Volvo 262C that I ended up having to go through the entire vacuum system to get it to pass emissions, so I know how much that sucks.

quite easily the 84 vw rabbit
the engine is a steaming pile of shit
the steering ratio is so fucking slow too, and the only company that makes a fast ratio rack just sells the innards, would not send me instructions with them, and the shop manual does not say, so i could not order it.

it drives shitty, because of the steering, and actually its not slow in a straight line, but my god i hate it. it always breaks, and has mechanical fuel injection.

also it smelled terrible, musty old oil smell, inside and out

>84 Plymouth Turismo 2.2
2.2 turbo?

>emissions
At least I live in shit-fuck Indiana. I can't imagine how hard it would be to keep old shitters on the road in places like California.

>Hello,
>Thank you very much for your enquiry;
>No instructions are supplied as we recommend the work being carried out by a specialist. We supply everything required to swap the rack and pinion over.
>Kind regards

>Dave King

Technical Sales Supervisor

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shouldve just bought it and paid to have a guy install it senpai. it would've made the car much better

My car has an analog computer that's separate from the ECU that controls the idle air control valve. It takes readings from the intake air temp sensor, coolant temp sensor, O2 sensor, throttle position switch, and the CPS, does some black magic, and puts out a PWM signal to the valve. It's just a solenoid valve, nothing special. Kind of an elegant solution for a 35 year old car.

The PO fucking removed the idle control computer and replaced it with a ball valve in series with the idle air control valve. Idle rate was adjusted using this ball valve. The hose was actual fucking garden hose. Somehow he had broken off the crimp terminals and halfass soldered them back on with no strain relief. of any kind

So I got a computer on ebay for $50, got a silicon hose kit for the whole intake side for $100 (worth it), sprayed a whole can of brake cleaner into and through the valve, and it worked fine. Until one of those crimp terminals broke off while I was driving. Now, the neat thing about these valves is that they're 100% open without power. So the wire breaks and my car starts accelerating and I have no idea why. The ECU doesn't know what the fuck is going on because the throttle switch is closed, but there's metered air going through. I clutch in and the idle rate is like 3000 RPM.

And that's how I finally found an excuse to buy a pair of terminal crimping pliers.

I've got way more stories about PO being a nigger if people are reading.

and one day i was driving hard and the pulley committed suicide when i shifted at redline. SUICIDE.
seriously fuck vw and every car they ever made.

>implying mechanics would touch this car
seriously? you haven't owned a old shitbox.

>you haven't owned a old shitbox.

I own 2 rn. 88 Dodge daytona and a 92 accord.

and where would you take a car like this?

scrap yard when it quit running lmao. Ik what you mean tho about some quirky old shitbox being impossible to work on. My daytona is like that

This thing right here. I bought it for $800 from a broke middle aged hippie woman a few years ago. It was cheap and zero rust (fresh from CA) and I halfassed the inspection since I wanted to get my first car before my birthday.

Within the first month of ownership I found:
>Engine leaking oil from every pore
>Cluster had been replaced and the car had 100K miles more than shown
>Dash lighting didn't work because bubba wiring "repairs"
>Aftermarket radio install ruined the speaker wiring
>HVAC system was toast
>Windshield was loose and leaking waterfalls into the car
>Muffler sprang several leaks
>Sunroof fatally broke wide-open
>ECU was disconnected and engine was running in limp mode
>Driveshaft joints were coming apart
>Cruise control didn't work
>Interior plastics all disintegrated

I fixed a few things but the cost to get it safely drivable was going to be way too much. Couldn't find anyone who'd take it on Benz forums so I stripped my repairs out and junked it for $300.

I turned around and took my "Benz repair fund" and bought a clean '96 Miata and never looked back.

What an absolute hunk of shit. I'm glad you fell for the miata meme

was it the turbo one? in what way was it shitty?

low revving 4cyl and >chrysler

I've never owned one but I've had the displeasure of driving a couple of these, what a pile of shit.

what was the redline in the turbo?

The first gen turbo 2.2 had a hp peak of 144hp at 5600 rpm.

Amusing quote from Engineer Pete Hagenbuch who worked on the project:

"I was the guy responsible for the performance of the 2.2 and later 2.5 turbos...The 2.2 was not designed for a turbo. Turbos are for racing. Too much heat for normal driving."

>garden hose

What I will never understand is taking the time to create your own half-assed setup out of household parts than it is to find a part on eBay and just swap it. It really is easier to do the correct repairs most of the time. Why do we see so much of this shit.

Other than the valve in the roadmaster coolant line, I haven't had too much trouble with nigger-rigs. Conquest I bought was sitting for 25 years, PO told me he replaced all the filters, the fuel pump, and had the tank cleaned. Well apparently cleaning the tank means just rinsing it out, because it was full of rust and now I have to go through the fuel system the right way.

I'd be interested in hearing more about your car. If I didn't already have a barge I would be looking for a Fleetwood.

Seems like a sweet car to me i guess op doesn't like to wrench

Those cars are sweet af man idk why you hated it so much

>sweet car

Apparently you've never lived with one. There's a reason Chrysler went bankrupt. Twice.

1994 Grand Prix GTP

Fucking 3.4 DOHC piece of shit.

The following items all failed catastrophicly within a week of fixing the previous one: tie rod, ball joint (wheel literally came off the car), transmission, headmaster, alternator, steering rack. Also, the entire time I owned it, the trunk had a leak in it's sealing from a prior fender bender, so the car flooded from the rear in any rain storm, and the electrics would short out from the water under the carpet. Smells terrible inside from the leak as well.

My "buy murrican...freedom fries..." father insisted that I keep fixing the pice of shirt. Tons of money tossed into it. Wanted to just get an off lease accord for $10k (2002 monies), but nooooo none of that (American built) "jap crap" in our driveway.....

I walked away from that hunk of shit and bought a 95 Infiniti G20 that opened my eyes to hat I was missing. I had no idea that jap Cara could be well built, reliable, solid, and fun to drive. I'll never buy another GM as long as I live. Now I own two newer Lexuses and an old Honda. As a final fuck you to GM, I converted no less than 9 members of my family into Japanese only car owners p, away from their previous "buy murrican...." theme. Parents and in laws all drive Camry, ES350' Avalon, and Highlander's now. Siblings and in laws all drive new accords, Prius, fit, land cruiser, 4Runner, etc.


Fuck GM

twice? i thought the first was the lee iococca days, then the diamler days, then cerebus?