Land Rover freelander. It was like triggers brush at 55k miles.
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It was my first car and loved it, but I was sold a dud and it broke after 2 monthsIs that actually your car? Looks like you loved that car
I've had 3 that I have equally hated. My first car, a green M-reg citreon AX. Just awful thing.
A couple of years later I bought a 306 GTi6, but at some point in it's history it had snapped a cambelt, which they were prone to on that engine. Whoever had repaired it had replaced the cylinder head with one from a 2.0 XSi. Same basic engine but the GTi6 was 167bhp vs 136 on the xsi so there were some differences. It never started right and when I got trading standards involved it was stolen and burnt out a mile from my house, police said it didn't take a genius to work out who did, but no proof.
Next bad one was a 56 plate megane, bought in a hurry to tow a caravan, the A/C didn't work, and the passenger window didn't work, so being a passenger in the summer was like a sweat box, it had had the alternator replaced with the wrong spec on at some point so kept giving errors on the dash, ended up spinning a big end baring.
A Vauxhall Vectra..bought it brand new in 1998..fkn bag of shite..it was never out of the garage..engine sensors going every few months..shit.
This just shows the shit that goes on in the trade when it comes to keeping a car running or selling it.
Anyone who fits the wrong parts to a car in an effort to save a few quid knowing they will sell it on should be flogged. Just get the right bits, 2nd hand even and crack on, don't bodge it up and pass to someone else.
absolutely, the fact that it only came with 1 key, and there was no sign of forced entry in what was left so they had planned on keeping the other key for when the inevitable unsatisfied customer comes back. I have absolute no hold ups for naming and shaming
Dial Motor Co, north shields
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.0...ru601Af6E-rhfpe_6ksw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Last time i was talking about them I checked if the were still around and they werent. So it looks like the shutdown and reopen regularly too.
Sensors and ecu's destroyed the rep of Vauxhall at the time, them and the Astras were terrible for frying the (engine mounted ) ecu and throwing up tons of fault codes. The dealer / garage would then change every sensor and the coil pack only to find the fault was the ecu.
Ecu was about £1600 from Vauxhall just to finish the tale off.
Almost certain to be under another name now, I don't recognise the name but traders just shift about once they have a bad rep.
@anth A quick google, look at these couple
https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/dial-motor-company-north-shields
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/firearm-fear-sees-police-raid-1363499
There is something endearing about Charmless Man rocking the roads in his Barry White lovemobile...My current car is my first, my last, my everything.
So the worst and the best.