What Car Problems Have/did You Put Up With.

[arwyn]

...............Either because you could'nt afford to fix them or other reasons?

I remember a time when the car I owned had no lights, I could'nt afford to take it to a garage so always had to be home by dark, good job it was summer ha ha..

[arwyn]

1980's = Talbot solara--- Cortina
1990's = Cavilier--Sierra--Fiesta
2000's = Micra
ALL but the Sierra were bangers.

After that I could afford cars that were in much better condition.

[ToraToraTora]

my dad had a car with no reverse gear. He did his best not to get in a situation where reverse was needed but on occasion I can remember me and my brother having to be reverse!

[bednobs]

i once had a car that'd pit it's windscrren wipers on any time you touched the brakes

[Mosaic]

I had a fiesta that allowed water in. Never found out how or from where, but in wet weather your feet would be in a puddle inside. The puddle froze in winter. I used to take it to the garage and hoover out all the water every couple of weeks.

[pusskin]

I bought a Beetle back in 1977 for £150, was a beauty and loved driving it.
Was freezing --no heater.
Had the car a year or two and sold it for £150! lol.
I found after a while of having the car that under the back seats it was swimming in water. No idea how that came to be. Being a woman I didnt have a clue.

[aelmpvw]

couldn't afford to have the broken petrol gauge mended, i kept a notepad in the car to calculate roughly how much fuel i had left

[jomifl]

I usd to keep welding up the holes in my metro's exhaust. In the end the exhaust weighed about half as much as the car (slight exaggeration) and looked as if it had been a perch for pigeons on Irn Bru. It passed it's MOT for years though.

[whiskeryron]

My first car was a very old Ford 8 which I paid the princely sum of £20 ( in the 1950s) & every time I blew the horn the engine stopped, it was on investigation discovered that by blowing the horn I was in fact starving the spark-plugs of electricity. Another car was an Austin 35 which got stuck in deep mud in West Wales & I wound it out of the mud with the starting handle ( thank goodness for starting handles). In the winter before the days of car heaters I used to put candle wax on a level part of the dashboard & then stick a small jam jar on it with a lighted candle in to DE-mist the windscreen. ( happy days lol).

WR.

[whiskeryron]

Does any A/Ber remember these sun visors ? I thought they were great & looked very smart in the 1950s.

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/visors.htm

WR.

[RATTER15]

Whiskeryron, I do remember those sun visors, I didn't start driving until the 1974 but they were still being used then, loved them, very stylish.

[andy-hughes]

A beat-up old mini I had was minus a heater, my youngest daughter and I used to joke driving to school about opening the windows to let some warmer air in!

My current Fiat Punto used, until a few moths ago, malfunction with the wipers - the intermittent wiper would switch the wipers on continually, and they would not switch off until they felt like it. The garage said they couldn't find a fault, but since its last MOT a few months ago, the fault has disappeared.

[arwyn]

My Dad once paid £20 for an Anglia, the passenger door would not shut. So he tied rope on the inside door handle and attached it to the seat. The door was always still open by about 2" (bloody freezing). Every journey we had other cars flashing and waving and pointing and mouthing "YOUR DOORS OPEN". Us kids in the back loved waving back and smiling at their panic.

[phleb]

I was sat in car on my phone, standstill traffic for ages. I see a red light flashing stop on my dash computer, so I say to my phone friend, why is my car flashing stop? he said' you better park up idiot, its over heated' and then I was chauffeured home in another car, and mine was dealt with by my phone friend. I still wonder what would have happened if I didn't stop??

[jomifl]

The car would have stopped for you, it's the way they work.

[ludwig]

I had a car with a bashed in driver's side door which wouldn't open so I had to get in and out through the passenger side.

[Hammer]

I once had an old beetle that you couldn't turn off. You could switch off the ignition and remove the key and it would still happily drive along. When parking up, you had to deliberately stall it and make sure none of the electrics were on so the battery didn't go flat. It did this for a couple of weeks then fixed itself and never did it again.