Most unreliable has to be my Fabia TDI :(

All my other cars (2 old Vauxhall Corsa 1.2's, Scooby turbo, Land Rover Disco, and the countless Micra's) have been faultless and each covered at least 40k miles in at least 2 years ownership

Will see which camp the Mondeo falls into, but so far it's covered 14k miles in 8 months with no problems at all

Chris

Most Reliable Reanult Scenic, 7 years old 100,000 miles, 1 exhaust, set of front discs/pads and 2 sets of tyres

Most Unreliable VW Golf Mk 4 cabrio, what a piece of **** that was, always broken or just about too. Horrid electric everything.

Fabia may well beat Golf to the title though.

Most unreliable - The Octavia

Most Reliable - Integra Type R, despite being regularly thrashed from cold by an 18yr old boy racer

Most unreliable : Dad's old Austin Allegro! Needed a new engine after 5,000 miles,and another one after another 6,000! Needless to say Dad went ballistic and got them to swap it with another new one, on the way home from the showroom the exhaust fell off!

Most reliable: 2 Vauxhall Astra Mark 3's, Renault 9 and 11, Fiat Uno and, so far, Fabia VRs!

Worst Car:

Fiat Stilo 1.9JTD Dynamic, plagued with electronic problems, ghost warning lights, starting problems, ESP problems, once the electric power steering motor died and locked the steering in "straight ahead" (luckily on the driveway). Had 2 in succesion replaced by Fiat UK. The 3rd one was fine but confidence had been lost, and contrary to some opinion the dealer was fantastic (Caledonia Fiat, Warrington) took Fiat on and got it sorted.

Best Car

Fiat Punto, Wife had 3 of them, 1.2 active sport, 1.2 sporting, 1.8 hgt and not a single problem and the hgt was a hoot to drive not to mention being supremley well equipped (Sat nav, aircon, esp, tcs, etc etc). The Variator on the HGT was grumblingbut was replaced FOC by Caledonia on a service after the service manager had a listen (not prompted by us).

So far, the furby is heading up that way....

Favourite car has got to be my old V70R AWD though, but it had a few electrical niggles, but was sorted out pdq by my german volvo dealer.

My 1990 Jaguar XJS - 3 faults in 12 months and 8000miles

My 2002 Octavia L&K - 4 faults in 7weeks and 1000 miles.

Not a happy bunny

Most reliable - 51 Reg Octy vRS. Covered 30K miles in it and in all that time it had just three trips to a dealer. At 10k something went wrong with the suspension that took 10 mins to tighten. At 20k it had a service. At about 28k the engine warning light came on which the dealer put down to a dodgy tank of petrol. It was a dream to own but totally lulled me into a false sense of Skoda security.......

Worst cars :-

54 Reg Furby vRS (rejected as it kept breaking down) and replaced by 05 Reg Furby vRS on which dash has been replaced at 4k miles due to bulb failure and side indicator lens fell off when washing the car

54 Reg Octy vRS - been nothing but trouble from day 1. Various bits of trim replaced to cure never ending rattles & squeaks. New heater/blower as old one packed in. New pads and discs all round. New front wheel bearings. All within 15k miles

Worst: Alfa 156 1.8 - Suspension kept eating front tyres on the inside sidewall. Bulb warning lights kept coming up on the dash - wallop the headlight and all was fine.

I've not had any really unreliable cars.

My Panda developed a few problems before I ditched it , but it was only worth a couple of hundred quid at the time and had been pretty well abused so thats no surprise.

My AX only had a single "not driveable" problem in 6 years (failed relay stopped it starting) which is better than Citroen's reputation would have you believe.

My Ka needed part of the steering column replacing due to a split seal allowing dirt inside. That was only 3 years old at the time which was annoying but not the end of the world.

My Octavia has only had a failed clutch master cylinder in 32 months and 76k miles plus scheduled servicing.

I don't believe it!!!!

My Octavia passed its MOT with no problems!!!!

I still can't believe it!

The wife wants me to get rid of it while it still drives, can't think what else to get for 6-7K though :(

Megane 1.9dci (120) 2003 27000 Miles, Siezed rear callipers three times, fronts once, 4 sets of glow plugs!! ( could not find a fault and in the end caused me to sell car) Interior fell to bits, literally, fuel consumption dropped from an average of 53mpg (reason for buying it) to 38mpg! two main dealers could not cure fault which I believe to be linked to glow plug fault. Dealers were very unhelpful on every visit. Have taken all these matters further with Renault UK. Octavia a far better built car, fuel ecconomy is great for performance. Only time will tell on reliability front. (French S#*T)

I had the exact same car with the exact same problems! Even the mpg - I bought it and it was doing 58mpg, then for no reason it dropped to 36pmg! :confused:

My one and only car has been nice and reliable

Only things to go have been the clutch, which was expected after 10 years and 92k, couple of split CV boots and I had to clean out the throttle body, plus seal up a leaking gasket in the boot. Think that's about it really.

Worst: Mini Cooper (BMW), Pug 306 XSi, Renault Laguna and these are the only cars I've owned from new! :confused:

Best: 1985 Mazda 323, 1980 Vauxhall Astra (but it was so basic, there was nothing to go wrong) & Octy VRS (but I've had that less than a month!)

03 Fabia 1.2

2 Window Regulators (same window)......

Timing Chain, Tensioner and Guide Rail (32k miles)

Wait and see what might be next??

my most unreliable car was a citreon zx 2.0 16v brought second hand Lreg and had 32,000 on the clock very rare and quick but wot a pile of s$*t owned the car for around 6 months and probably drove it for about 6 weeks of that. It spent most of its time back at the dealer i luckley bought a 6 month warranty.

The first day i drove it the water pump siezed and stripped the cam belt

no need to tell of the damage that caused

two weeks later i get the car back drove well for about 2 days then it decides to drop 2nd and 4th gears and when they fitted the gear box under warranty i payed for the cost of a clutch as the box was out

but they didnt line the clutch up propperly so it had to go back.

the list goes on icluding starter motor,radiator,drivers window motor and 2x rear brake calipers all in 6 months

Best car was my mk2 golf gti owned fot two years had 120.000 on it when i brought it for £2500 *(it was mint been well looked after) i put 42.000 on it in 2 years and it only cost me rear brake calipers

and a thermostat sold it for £2000:D

Worst car:

'83 MG Metro Turbo. Never, ever again. Spent more time back at dealers than I got to drive it for the 6-8 months I owned it. Sold it for moreoreless what I paid for it to a friend - it still had the fault (yes he knew about it before I sold it before you ask!)

Something to do with the Turbo system, local dealer never did work it out, despite consulting (and paying quite a bit of $ to) a local Bosch fuel injection/turbo specialist.

Best car: Any Honda.

'90 Honda CRX VTi, '96 Honda Civic VTi, '90 Honda Accord, '02 Honda S2000.

40,000 miles driven in four different cars, all cars were over 3 years old (the accord was 10 years old with 100k on it).

Cost of non-scheduled maintenance across all that driving? zero.

Sadly the S2000 gets sold this Friday :( Although I will spend the last two weeks here driving a V8 pickup truck so the 'tail out' fun aint over yet

I can only hope that the Fabia gives me good reliable service and puts a smile on my face (hold those thoughts!) like the Hondas have.

A final category:

Car that always felt like it was about to fall apart but never actually let me down: '01 Pontiac Trans Am WS6.

Pontiac is the 'cheaper' GM brand here. Probably equivalent to British Leyland if you wanted to get an idea of the 'quality'.

Worst car: Rover 2600 SDI : Too much too list

Best car: Toss up between the Nissan Silvia Turbo and the Nissan Primera GT both of which covered 80000 miles in the 4 years I had them with absolutely nothing going wrong apart from 'wear and tear' items.

VW Passat (1997 new shape):

Thermostat

Control Arms

ARB links

Track rod ends

CV boot

Door locks

Door handles not working

Boot light intermittant

Probably more, only had it for 10k before I gave up. :(

I've had the Furby for 15k so far and it's only needed an ARB collar on the front.

The most reliable, believe it or not, has been the car we sold last Autumn - a 1991 Vauxhall Astra 1.6. Very few problems or cost in the 110k we had it for. Vauxhalls can be good! :eek:

Worst Car:

Fiat Stilo 1.9JTD Dynamic' date=' plagued with electronic problems, ghost warning lights, starting problems, ESP problems, once the electric power steering motor died and locked the steering in "straight ahead" (luckily on the driveway). Had 2 in succesion replaced by Fiat UK. The 3rd one was fine but confidence had been lost, and contrary to some opinion the dealer was fantastic (Caledonia Fiat, Warrington) took Fiat on and got it sorted.

Best Car

Fiat Punto, Wife had 3 of them, 1.2 active sport, 1.2 sporting, 1.8 hgt and not a single problem and the hgt was a hoot to drive not to mention being supremley well equipped (Sat nav, aircon, esp, tcs, etc etc). The Variator on the HGT was grumblingbut was replaced FOC by Caledonia on a service after the service manager had a listen (not prompted by us).

So far, the furby is heading up that way....

Favourite car has got to be my old V70R AWD though, but it had a few electrical niggles, but was sorted out pdq by my german volvo dealer.[/quote']

same worst;.. stilo 1.9 jtd dynamic too many electrical probs to list got rid for my vRS

best:.. Skoda felicia 1.3 glxi (pre VW) .. my brother had it before me ..between us we had it 4 years and in that time it had an exhaust and thats it . never serviced in 50k. and my brother drove it like he stole it and crashed it 3 times but it just bounced back for more

most unreliable: my octavia, out of the 8 months I have had it, its spent far too many days in the garage and even more days of worrying about whats going to fail next, not what I bought a skoda for!

Especially as the car I had before it was a toyota corolla diesel on an m plate that didnt cost me a penny in the 18 months I had it. Infact the guy I sold it on to is now driving between scotland and newbury every week in it and is treating it badly and it just wont break! I wish I had it back...

Last two cars were very good:

E plate Micra (purchased from my mother that had it from new) it failed 1 mot in 16years (rear tyre) and the condensor broke every 6 months towards the end - very cheap motoring.

Next

T plate polo (again from mother): broke a wiper switch in 5 years then....... stone chip through headlamp (over £100), clutch bearing on way out, needed exhaust, tyres, front windscreen due to crack so decided to get rid esp as doing over 20 000 miles a year and petrol is costly.

wanted another polo as all i spent on the previous one was the wiper swith in 5 years and 70 000 miles however found VW dealers rude - infact every contact with a vw dealer annoys me some how....

So bought the fab estate for over a grand less than a 1.4 polo TDI SE would have cost.

FABIA to date has given me the most problems of any car:

Fuel Flap - 3 times seems fixed

Two new rear door seal and a boot seal (due to leaks) - seem fixed

New drivers seat due to squek and rattle - fixed

glove box rattle - gone for now!

Repaired sun roof cover due to rattle - semi fixed

About to have

New drivers side rear window seal as not in line with body work

BUT

the car is utterly relaibe (well as a 55 reg should be), is the cheapest car I have run - fuel, tax, service, insurance etc etc,

Renshaw and Newsome and JCB Essex have been top dealers esp JCB with all the warranty work.

But most of all the car makes me and its nice to be a part of something like BRISKODA

my most unreliable car was my octy vRS. was the only car ive owned that forced me into taking it into the garage for a problem. central locking failure, left the car open and windows down :( oh and hazzards flashed all the time...lol. was simple to fix mind you

both my old mk2( to be fair was repaired alot but mostly thru choice and not breakdown) and my current a4 have been fine. so far in respect with the A4

Ford Capri 2.8i. Damn thing was off the road more than on. It was my seventh Capri, but my last. The 1.3, 1.6. 2.0 and 3.0 variants I had were trouble free, even when abused. The 2.8 was as fragile as the most fragile thing you can imagine, then make it worse.

Best car? Most of them really. MK1 Golf GTI, Mk1 Golf diesel, Nissan 200SX S14a, Citroen C2 Gt (yes it was reliable and well put together), Fiat Panda 1000cc and 750cc, Ford Ka, plus others that were no trouble at all. In the 14 cars I have owned, hardly any problems at all other than little niggles.

I'm waiting to see with my MK1 Octavia RS. Brand new in March, so far a squeak I fixed myself from the glovebox and that's it. The horror stories are far and few between on this forum compared to the Citroen C2 forum. I must have been really lucky as some poor buggers had no end of trouble.

Most reliable

Citroen ZX Elation 1400 - never once "failed to proceed" in 5 years.

Citroen Xantia XUDt - failed twice in 4.5 years.

Skoda Octavia TD(red)i - failed once in a month (first of ownership)

Renault 19 1400 - failed terminally (blown head gasket on

worst car :

ford fiesta rs turbo .... nothing but probs

2nd worst car : any other ford ive owned . . not had good one yet:thumbdwn:

best car :

well have to say one im driving otherwise i wouldnt be

but also had citroen xantia 1.9 diesel and clocked up 197000 miles trouble free . . only thing replaced were service parts