What's the Worst/Best POS Car you ever owned?
I was talking with an old college buddy and we were reliving our POS (piece of sh$&) cars from yester years. Her's involves flashlights duct taped to the mirrors to replace busted headlights. Seriously.
IMHO you haven't really lived unless you owned a real POS at least once. I'm not talking about the minor irritation of a newer car that you have to keep taking back to the dealer. I mean a real monster that probably wouldn't be allowed on the road by today's standards. The type of car you probably had to talk to and name.
My POS was a 1986 Isuzu I-Mark hatchback. Against all advice I bought this car in 1994 with 175K miles on it. Why? It was affordable and I needed a car. I was working 2nd shift and a catching the bus at midnight is so unwise for a young woman.
This car was a real beast and would start rain sleet or snow. If you've ever experienced a Northeast Ohio Winter you know how brutal they can be. Plus my bachelorette pad was next to the lake so if the temperature was 0 F in the city, it was minus 15F near me. But my baby , Poo Poo, as she was called would crank every time.
Now for the bad. The transmission was SHOT so I had to let her warm up for at least 10 minutes in the winter and 5 in the summer or else she would not switch out of 1st gear. No exceptions, there was no going over 23 miles per hour until she was good and ready. Need to jump in the car and go somewhere really fast? Not happening until the requisite warm up time had elapsed. Mind you, this car was an automatic.
Only the break light on the hatch worked so I had to run a wire from that third light down to the tail lights to get all the lights to work. I felt so empowered.
I won't even go through the auto store additive concoction I created to help her pass the emissions tests. Man I really loved that car. It was copper colored and with a little Turtle wax she glistened like a new penny.
By the time I had to let her go she had 235K miles on her but would still start for me. Unfortunately that's just about all she would do.
The alternator went kaput somewhere around mile 230K so I had to sit the battery on a charger every night. There was no using the radio and on a rainy day one had to choose between defrost, windshield wipers or drive over 65 miles per hour so the engine would generate enough power to keep the battery charged and run the wipers. I explained that to one officer that pulled me over going 75 in a 60 and he understood. :rolleyes:
I guess everyone has had a POS car.
In hindsight, the money I spend on my next car, the one that wouldn't start in the winter, I really should've put into my I-Mark.
Anyway what's your POS car story?
IMHO you haven't really lived unless you owned a real POS at least once. I'm not talking about the minor irritation of a newer car that you have to keep taking back to the dealer. I mean a real monster that probably wouldn't be allowed on the road by today's standards. The type of car you probably had to talk to and name.
My POS was a 1986 Isuzu I-Mark hatchback. Against all advice I bought this car in 1994 with 175K miles on it. Why? It was affordable and I needed a car. I was working 2nd shift and a catching the bus at midnight is so unwise for a young woman.
This car was a real beast and would start rain sleet or snow. If you've ever experienced a Northeast Ohio Winter you know how brutal they can be. Plus my bachelorette pad was next to the lake so if the temperature was 0 F in the city, it was minus 15F near me. But my baby , Poo Poo, as she was called would crank every time.
Now for the bad. The transmission was SHOT so I had to let her warm up for at least 10 minutes in the winter and 5 in the summer or else she would not switch out of 1st gear. No exceptions, there was no going over 23 miles per hour until she was good and ready. Need to jump in the car and go somewhere really fast? Not happening until the requisite warm up time had elapsed. Mind you, this car was an automatic.
Only the break light on the hatch worked so I had to run a wire from that third light down to the tail lights to get all the lights to work. I felt so empowered.
I won't even go through the auto store additive concoction I created to help her pass the emissions tests. Man I really loved that car. It was copper colored and with a little Turtle wax she glistened like a new penny.
By the time I had to let her go she had 235K miles on her but would still start for me. Unfortunately that's just about all she would do.
The alternator went kaput somewhere around mile 230K so I had to sit the battery on a charger every night. There was no using the radio and on a rainy day one had to choose between defrost, windshield wipers or drive over 65 miles per hour so the engine would generate enough power to keep the battery charged and run the wipers. I explained that to one officer that pulled me over going 75 in a 60 and he understood. :rolleyes:
I guess everyone has had a POS car.
In hindsight, the money I spend on my next car, the one that wouldn't start in the winter, I really should've put into my I-Mark.
Anyway what's your POS car story?
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