These Are The Cars You Regret Owning

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Last week we asked you what cars you regret owning, and a batch of you really went each retired connected your responses. The pursuing is simply a database of my 10 favourite answers, but I was very impressed by nan item that galore of you shared. Y'all person owned immoderate regrettable cars. From underwhelming driving experiences to reliability nightmares to cars that simply disintegrate beneath you, you've been done a lot. 

I regret owning my first car, my 2005 Saab 9-3 convertible. Unfortunately, I loved driving it and really everything astir it erstwhile it was moving properly, but it was a $5,000 Craigslist typical that ended up processing an intermittent but catastrophic electrical responsibility that would person required maine to switch nan full wiring harness aft only a fewer months. That somewhat tainted my affinity for nan car, particularly considering that I needed a car to commute to schoolhouse astatine nan time, truthful I would person been amended disconnected lighting astir $6,000 connected occurrence than to person spent that connected nan Saab. But capable astir my Saab story, these are nan cars that you regret owning:

Subaru

2015 STI.

As a kid raised connected Gran Turismo, nan STI, on pinch different Japanese tuner cars, ever had my interest. Then, successful 2004, nan STI yet landed successful nan US. I didn't person nan coin astatine nan time, having conscionable graduated college, but I told myself I would ain 1 someday.

Years went by and I still held connected to nan emotion for nan STI. Finally, erstwhile I saw nan VA STI successful 2015, I told my woman it was clip to bargain one. Ordered a WR bluish from my section trader and patiently waited.

Car arrived and I knew beautiful overmuch wrong nan first week, it was a lawsuit of "never meet your heroes". It conscionable didn't activity for me. The IDEA of owning it was amended than nan existent proprietor experience. Engine was laggy and felt underpowered for 305hp. Transmission and clutch were unpleasant to run compared to different manuals I had owned, tech was lame, database goes on.

Kept it a year, traded for a 2016 Golf R and person owned Golf Rs (including my existent MK8) ever since. Even though it didn't activity for me, seeing a cleanable STI (or WRX) connected nan roadworthy still makes maine smile!

Submitted by: Loop51

My 1987 M6. The reality of owning 1 ne'er measured up to nan dream I had for 25 years. It requires changeless upkeep and repair, and each thrust is tempered pinch worry of what's going to break this time. I'm successful excessively deep, and it's excessively beautiful to sell. I wish I'd conscionable stayed pinch nan fantasy.

Submitted by: GreySpace

I bought a 2009 Volkswagen Passat wagon successful 2013 aft years of beaters. It was by acold nan nicest car I'd ever owned, and much than I could really afford, but I wanted thing I wasn't ashamed of for once.

It had 85,000 miles connected it and was retired of warranty. I was truthful proud of my beautiful cobalt bluish wagon...until 6 months later erstwhile a equilibrium shaft seized and locked up nan motor while I was trying to move near done a engaged intersection.

In nan 18 months that I had that heap of garbage, it costs maine $8,000 successful repairs and nan motor had to travel retired twice. The last nail successful nan coffin was erstwhile nan throttle position sensor discontinue while connected nan measurement location from nan metropolis connected nan expressway. The only measurement to get it to respond was to descent nan transmission into neutral and unopen nan car disconnected and past restart it. While trying to support up pinch postulation astatine 80 miles an hour.

I sewage it fixed and past sold it. Now whenever I spot a modern Volkswagen I want to propulsion ample rocks astatine it.

Submitted by: ChironRocket3

My grandfather's aged 1981 Dodge Diplomat.

It was a manus maine down that I bought for $100. It looked bully still, but unbeknownst to us, it was a bluish car pinch a salt-degraded rusty frame.

The beforehand extremity snapped while I was driving 55mph connected nan highway. It was everything I could do to support capable power to guideline it onto nan median without wiping out.

My life flashed earlier my eyes.

Lesson learned astir inspecting utilized cars earlier buying them. It was a ticking clip bomb.

Submitted by: Rusty Shackleford

Subaru

Subaru BRZ. I bought it erstwhile they first deed nan showroom floor, looking for a sports car acquisition earlier having kids. Its a Subaru and Toyota, truthful it'll clasp its value, beryllium good made, and reliable, I thought. The car had respective value issues, and contempt being car shed kept, driven only successful nan warmer months, and waxing/sealing nan overgarment each season, nan clearcoat peeled complete nan full car aft 2 years. Other issues – interior trim peeled up successful respective places, and of people nan annoying chirping HPFP. Traded it successful and mislaid 14k connected nan car.

Submitted by: ExParrot89

Lexus

Lexus 200h, gave my kid nan G35 and thought nan Lexus would beryllium fun. WRONG!, Such a bland drive. I took backmost nan G35 aft a year.

Submitted by: quinlan tom

I had an 85 MR2 backmost successful assemblage successful nan early 1990s. About 15 years agone I sewage nan bug to get different one. Found a comparatively cleanable and lowish-mileage illustration crossed nan state (in nan Arizona municipality wherever my dada lived) and bought it for a fair-enough price. Drive it home, spent a decent magnitude of money connected caller wheels, a spoiler, getting mechanical worldly sorted, and truthful on. But it conscionable wasn't arsenic nicely equipped arsenic my first one; it was a spot tired, location was immoderate grounds of repair connected 1 of nan doors, and nan database of small things made maine cognize that I conscionable wasn't ever going to emotion it. Plus, that short-geared 80s car conscionable didn't present nan regular comfortableness and usable capacity my mediate aged aforesaid really wanted. I thrust it astir for small section jaunts for a twelvemonth aliases so, but past decided it was conscionable taking up abstraction successful my garage. Nostalgia is simply a powerful and heartbreaking force. You request to beryllium observant pinch it.

Submitted by: BuddyS

This is much of a lawsuit I should cognize better.

Pre-owned 1996 Toyota Tacoma 4X4 manual- nan motortruck itself was problem free. I was coming from 1993 Integra GS-R and learned instantly wasn't a "truck guy"- it was slow, cumbersome to thrust and sewage unspeakable state mileage, truthful not awesome for regular driving which one benignant of knew. The trade-off was that I did a batch of "adventure" sports which I thought a motortruck would beryllium bully for. But no- Not being capable shop and fastener cogwheel was a awesome pain. I sewage a shell, but it sewage surgery into connected a mates of occasions and worldly stolen. Crawling up nan tires to get skis, boards and bikes on/off nan tile racks- possibly one needed a widdle wadder- was overmuch much challenging than connected a little car.

Had it for 2 years earlier trading it and person ne'er had a motortruck since.

Submitted by: 4speed

2002 Passat GLX 4-Motion. Hands-down, nan azygous worst conveyance I've owned and I don't deliberation thing will ever apical it. When it worked, it drove awesome and handled snowy roadworthy conditions for illustration a beast. Problem is, it seldom worked and spent arsenic overmuch clip astatine nan trader arsenic it did astatine my house. As soon arsenic nan warranty was up, I traded it for a caller Mazda RX-8, which proved itself astir 1000x much reliable if that tells you anything.

Submitted by: Funky Dynamite

Jeep

202 Grand Cherokee, my existent daily. Bought it successful precocious 2023 and wrong a week nan h2o pump went out, not a bully start. This outpouring I had to switch nan h2o pump again (different than OEM) past had a power module for nan transportation lawsuit spell retired on pinch nan associated motor. Now nan AC doesn't activity and I'm not astir to propulsion different imaginable $3K into it.

Never again will I ain a Stelantis vehicle!

Submitted by: Phillip Nelson

Phillip, you forgot a number from nan twelvemonth of nan Grand Cherokee that you regret buying, but I took a conjecture and put a photograph of a 2022.