SCstone

88 Honda CRX HF. odo was 451,219 on a dpfi d15. the motor was rebuilt twice.
sold it to a soldier in ft. hood for $451.21. last time i checked he still drives it!

SCstone

blah I appologize for that reply I read the thread wrong. I thought it said MOST reliable vehicle.

my most UNreliable is hands down the (7m) MKIII Supra. hey lets make a flagship turbo vehicle with every option we can throw at it and make 1000's of them with the wrong torque value for the head bolts and crappy oil pump so they gotta come spend more money to fix it!

I8ABMR

yup it was a civic standard. Apparently it was even below the low;y DX model. The motor was burning oil. and the tranny had the sychros going in 2nd gear. What a POS. It still made me appreciate what I have today

VtotheJ

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My first car, 1992 Civic VX. My dad gave it to me after ~15 yrs of ownership.....this is when it started breaking down... it would always stall randomly and I never knew what was the issue. Got it checked by various mechanics, even did some of my own work (cleaned idle air control valve, adjusted idle RPM's throttle sensor). One time on a hot summer day in 2007 I was driving downhill with the AC on and the car SHUT OFF WHILE IN MOTION! I usually put it in neutral (car was manual) going down the hill, and I had to slow down at the bottom of the hill and turn the car back on. Another instance I was at a stoplight and the car stalled randomly and I was unable to even jump start it, mechanic said it was "dirty battery terminals".

All in all I really think this was because my father used to constantly lug the car because he was obsessed with getting good gas mileage. As it is the VX version got ~45mpg. So, in other words my dad would shift around 2k RPM and the engine would struggle in almost every gear.

I haven't had this problem in my current 98 Integra, I shift anywhere between 2.5k and 4k RPM's, occasionally taking it to redline.

NEVER LUG YOUR ENGINES!

azinn

2000 Mercedes ML430..................................... over $16,000.00 worth of factory warranty work done during the 4 year/50,000 mile warranty. "The Mercedes Experience, Unlike Any Other"

jbl-1985

2002 Saturn L300. At least once a year I'd have a $500+ repair bill on just about anything.

Fly4u

Most unreliable by a mile was my second vehicle, a 1976 Audi 100LS. Endured that POS from nearly new to somewhere in the mid 70K miles. Replaced at least half a dozen alternators, 1 fuel pump, 2 or 3 brake master cylinders, power steering failure, a/c died young, gas pedal cable failed during acceleration from busy streetlight, 3 of 4 window-crank arms cracked, multiple failures of the ignition interlock to include broken keys due to a narrow "waist" at the mid section, terribly oxidized metallic paint, at least 2 catastrophic radiator punctures, etc etc etc. Brake jobs costly due to "inboard pad" design. And probably a few other items dulled by the passage of time.

Runner up as second most unreliable was a 1994 Saab 900SE purchased new. Terrible build quality, many recalls during the first 2 years of ownership. (yeah, I was stupid to have purchased a vehicle the first year of an all-new design) Experienced two definitive "unintended acceleration" events, both reported to NHTSA. Dumped that POS after two years.

Nospinzone

Yes, very happily thank you.

But if you can believe it in spite of owning Toyotas, Infinitis, and Jaguars, she still says that was the best car she ever had.

ltk

PT Cruiser - my husband owned it and it cost more per repair than the car itself!

geko29

2000 Chrysler Sebring Convertible. Repairs ran an average of $1600 every 6 months or so for the last 4 years we had it.

Aron9000

Bump for zombie thread.

Mine was a 1991 Buick Regal sedan, 3.8 V6 First car, inhereted from my mom when it was 10 years old. Odometer broke at 94k like 4 or 5 years earlier, so it had to have at least 150k on it at that time. Up until I got it, it had been super reliable except for the brakes sucked(too small, wore out quick, warped rotors). After a year of me driving it it had left me stranded three times. I think it was the fuel pump once, electrical problem, alternator, water pump, then the a/c and transmission went out. It was in the shop about once every 5-6 weeks for something, usually it wasn't cheap.

That car was the epitome of "designed obsolencence". GM had a durability goal, designed the car to last XXX,XXX number of miles and years, then it totally fell apart. First 10 years that car was rock solid reliable, also that 3.8 V6 itself was a great running engine, never used oil, its just the car around it fell apart.

BrownPride

My family didn't have any unreliable cars after ditching General Motors products. They had at least 15 [brand new] GM products when I was growing up and all but a Saab 9-5 were garbage!

dseag2

Without a doubt, my '77 Olds Cutlass V6, just like the pics below. Beautiful car, but it constantly stalled. When we thought we had finally gotten it running properly my mother advertised it and sold it to a private party and it died AGAIN as they were driving it away from our house. I was never so happy to get rid of a car. It was replaced by a '79 Honda Accord that just lasted forever. The Honda was submerged up to the headlights in a flood the first year I owned it. I had it towed to my house, took all the carpets out and hung them in the sun to dry, and drove the car for another 2 years without incident.

YotaSC400

94' Pontiac Bonneville SSEi 3.8l supercharged
I bought it for $150 with 220k on it, didn't run as it needed crank sensor. Did that and it ran good for about 10k. It was pretty fast after all my mods( 12psi boost SC pulley, exhaust, intake) then it started having stumble and surging issues) fought with those problems coming and going for 15k. Probably dumped $2000 in parts trying to get it to run good again but it never did. I ended up burning a hole through #3 piston
holding the car basically WFO almost at the governer for about 10mins, I let off, stepped on it again and it suddenly had little power and made no boost. I drove the car into pick n pull nearly 100km from wear I live running on 5cyl and burning oil like crazy, they gave me $150 for it...... Haha best first car ever LOL

3actual

2006 Nissan Altima. Bought it brand new. Had a cracked motor mount at about 50,000 miles, had to change the brake rotors twice, and a few electrical gremlins that left me stranded more than once. This was all under 100,000 miles. Luckily I have a certified mechanic in the family that changed the motor mounts, and I was able to do the rest of the work myself minus finding the problem source of the electrical gremlins.