Your First Car

Charles Hawtrey · October 13, 2020

The Renault 5 turbo in the last year they made them.

evilwebby · October 13, 2020

micknick said:
Im pretty sure I had the worst first car here.

A Yugo Zastava

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Our first family car was a Lada Riva 1200. It was hands down the worst car I've ever had the misfortune to sit in. No idea what on earth my dad was thinking when he chose that.

Seemed to spend more time on the side of the road broken down than actually driving. Once (although I wasn't in it at the time) one of the wheel axle bolts sheered off while on the motorway and the front wheel fell off. Luckily noone was hurt but it could have been very nasty.

After a few years we "upgraded" to a Lada Samara, which was only marginally less atrocious.

Brisan123 · October 13, 2020

evilwebby said:
Our first family car was a Lada Riva 1200. It was hands down the worst car I've ever had the misfortune to sit in. No idea what on earth my dad was thinking when he chose that.

Seemed to spend more time on the side of the road broken down than actually driving. Once (although I wasn't in it at the time) one of the wheel axle bolts sheered off while on the motorway and the front wheel fell off. Luckily noone was hurt but it could have been very nasty.

After a few years we "upgraded" to a Lada Samara, which was only marginally less atrocious.

You have just open up a whole pile of Lada jokes
What do you call a Lada with a sunroof............ a skip
What do you call a Lada with twin exhausts .........a wheelbarrow
There are hundreds more

Mr. White · October 13, 2020

Vauxhall Nova SR....in mustard yellow.

...this is not my actual car, but this is what it looked like. Had to share it with my ma.

Seathestars · October 14, 2020

Mine was an old Orion. I got well ripped.
First day I got it I noticed this mark on the dash board, never occurred to me what it was. My mate got in and said, this used to be a taxi, and that's where the taxi driver put his pay clock.
My heart sank when I realised I'd payed Brewster's for a car that's probably done about 5 Million miles, give or take.

Lob · October 14, 2020

A blue mark 2 Escort back in the 80s which cost about £200. Drove it for about 3 years and then gave it to my Dad and he got another couple of years out of it.

riddick · October 23, 2020

85 Honda Accord for me. Rocked it for about a decade, bought it for $1150. Put almost 200k miles on it. Loved that car. Stock photo, I feel like it looked a bit different and mine def didnt have the sunroof.

Bwana · October 24, 2020

1970 Beetle. Grey. Still have it (dunno how to get the pic of it from FB, haven't driven it in 7 years).

Zezti · October 24, 2020

2003 Renault Clio. Decent enough but awkward thing. 3 door hatchback and one of the seats had a broken cord so could only get to the back seats through the driver side door. Went through batteries at a very strange rate.
Never felt comfortable driving it.

COYBL25 · October 24, 2020

killenefc said:
They try and rip you off. My father had a new air con compressor put in his Golf recently. They rang him and really casually said “the compressor is fitted sir we just need to check the pipes for Aluminium and if we find some that’s £1800 to flush them”. My dad who is mechanically minded and no mug proceeded to tell the girl on the desk and the service team that “he wasn’t born yesterday” it “doesn’t cost anything like that to flush some pipes” and “how this is going to work is that you’re going to give the car back to me with nothing in those pipes”.

Amazingly they found the pipes to be clean!

Use an independent VAG garage.
Most of the mechanics in there will have started in a VW garage and left as their working conditions where that bad.

Same with independent BMW and Mercedes garages.

There’s a reason why the reception area of these places is like a five star hotel, you’re paying for it !!!