Thread: Worst purchase ever?

2nd hand Suzuki Caribean (yes, the company spells it wrong). Besides being badly designed, everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.

Most things made in Thailand or China. A fake Panasonic video tape machine (years ago at a Burmese border town that elicited b&w blobs on the TV screen. drill bits that bend sideways when you try drilling in medium-soft wood. ....same for digging spades, they fold over like a tortilla in hard soil.

A Rover SD1 3.5l V8. I was one of the few who liked the car shape, liked the alloy-block V8, low mileage off a guy in his 80s who'd had it since new, always garaged and as I found out, maybe never driven in he rain.
It leaked, nothing really 'fit', doors, door seals, water through air con vents, water through firewall round brake/accelerator pedal, water through the hatch, through the sunroof. Like a early version of a submarine. This was ideal in wet NZ.

Years later I saw a Top Gear show the SD1s were obviously known for this - they filled one with water and watched it just piss out of every 'seal'.

this from Top Gear website. If only I'd known . . .
Showing up in dry suits, they're told their cars will be filled to the top with water and they must drive around the track until the water reaches the bottom of the steering wheel. The person going the farthest is the winner. Hammond sets off first in the Triumph Dolomite Sprint, stopping just before the Follow-through. May goes next in his Leyland Princess, managing to complete a full lap and passing Hammond the second time around. Clarkson is next in his Rover SD1, but the Rover is so leaky they have to use a second hose and then a third hose. Eventually they run out of water and Clarkson is sent off, but another passenger door immediately pops off.

Originally Posted by genghis61

A Rover SD1 3.5l V8. I was one of the few who liked the car shape, liked the alloy-block V8, low mileage off a guy in his 80s who'd had it since new, always garaged and as I found out, maybe never driven in he rain.
It leaked, nothing really 'fit', doors, door seals, water through air con vents, water through firewall round brake/accelerator pedal, water through the hatch, through the sunroof. Like a early version of a submarine. This was ideal in wet NZ.

Years later I saw a Top Gear show the SD1s were obviously known for this - they filled one with water and watched it just piss out of every 'seal'.

this from Top Gear website. If only I'd known . . .
Showing up in dry suits, they're told their cars will be filled to the top with water and they must drive around the track until the water reaches the bottom of the steering wheel. The person going the farthest is the winner. Hammond sets off first in the Triumph Dolomite Sprint, stopping just before the Follow-through. May goes next in his Leyland Princess, managing to complete a full lap and passing Hammond the second time around. Clarkson is next in his Rover SD1, but the Rover is so leaky they have to use a second hose and then a third hose. Eventually they run out of water and Clarkson is sent off, but another passenger door immediately pops off.

terrible build quality - but damn those V8's sounded good !!. Friend had one done up for rallying (lots of DNF's ) - but that thing on full throttle through the forest.......chilling !!

I bought a two door Saab Turbo off the dealer floor. Whenever I drove through standing water it would leak into the interior. The dealer could never get the problem solved. Ended up trading it in within a year.

Has to be that cursed portal for lakhon, the TV...

A thermometer. When i got it home and opened it, the temperature range was only 35C-42C (94-108F). I needed it for checking beer yeast temperature (65-75F). So, for all the use that is, i might as well shove it up my arse.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

A thermometer. When i got it home and opened it, the temperature range was only 35C-42C (94-108F). I needed it for checking beer yeast temperature (65-75F). So, for all the use that is, i might as well shove it up my arse.

Do remember to let us know your temperature when you have done that.

This:



It literally blew up three weeks after purchase.

Originally Posted by grasshopper

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

A thermometer. When i got it home and opened it, the temperature range was only 35C-42C (94-108F). I needed it for checking beer yeast temperature (65-75F). So, for all the use that is, i might as well shove it up my arse.

Do remember to let us know your temperature when you have done that.

Anybody got any tissues? Can't see the reading.

Originally Posted by 12Call

Electrics maybe but most MIT is quality.

One Tambon One Product!

....a bar in Thailand.....

....just gotta be it

..........just kiddin lads.

^ And I thought you loved your bar mate?

I know others do!

I probably have one bad investment a day. Staying in LOS often eventually turns out to be the worst investment of many a man's life.




By the way, durian is awesome! It's the food of gods!

My worst purchase was known as Noi
She had tits like a girl but a voice like a boy

ferkin bloody rovers!! i bought a 76 rangie,, ignition meant, cross your fingers and hope for the best but if the wind blew the wrong way the bastard would,nt start, i suppose the only good thing was it broke down on me first wedding day..so i had to use me bike

Originally Posted by Woofiee

Do too many too-drunk Babydos dancers count? It's not really a purchase but more a rental...

they had to be drunk to go with you

Originally Posted by genghis61

A Rover SD1 3.5l V8. I was one of the few who liked the car shape, liked the alloy-block V8, low mileage off a guy in his 80s who'd had it since new, always garaged and as I found out, maybe never driven in he rain.
It leaked, nothing really 'fit', doors, door seals, water through air con vents, water through firewall round brake/accelerator pedal, water through the hatch, through the sunroof. Like a early version of a submarine. This was ideal in wet NZ.

Years later I saw a Top Gear show the SD1s were obviously known for this - they filled one with water and watched it just piss out of every 'seal'.

this from Top Gear website. If only I'd known . . .
Showing up in dry suits, they're told their cars will be filled to the top with water and they must drive around the track until the water reaches the bottom of the steering wheel. The person going the farthest is the winner. Hammond sets off first in the Triumph Dolomite Sprint, stopping just before the Follow-through. May goes next in his Leyland Princess, managing to complete a full lap and passing Hammond the second time around. Clarkson is next in his Rover SD1, but the Rover is so leaky they have to use a second hose and then a third hose. Eventually they run out of water and Clarkson is sent off, but another passenger door immediately pops off.

Bought an old one of a mate for 500 quid; bored out to 4.o litres+, quad racing exhausts... (I was young) - gave a guy in a new 944turbo a shock when I went past him at 175mph down the M4 (I was young...).

The engine caught fire whilst going up the M11 one day (I was on my way to a job interview, got the job which came with a company car; drove it home and never saw the rover again).

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Beautifully restored 3 liter Ford Grenada many years back, Engine turned out to be shot, managed to sell it of to a used car dealer in part exchange, didn't feel to bad about that they are all crooks anyway

Yep that's good thinking , sell it to a dealer - wonder what he does with it ?

People like you need to be given a good boot up the you know what - you deseve all you get from dealers - when did YOU last give a dealer a full list of all the items wrong or in need of repair when you sold it to him so he could pass the information along or make the necessry repairs?
I have known many dealers over many years - never seen them put a fault IN a car yet?
Most of the so called "crooks" are not licensed dealers at all , just backyarders buying and selling cars illegally - buy from them and save money - they don't have to comply with a mountain of legislation and compliance - and get what you deserve.

Bought a "you beaut" super good Rolex at the mobile market in Pattaya , only 1000bht - lasted 3 days , couldn't find the vendor to ask for warranty ? D'uh!
Was I naive do you think?

Originally Posted by Happyman

A wedding ring in 1974 !!
Gave it the deep six treatment after 10 years !

Bought 2 of them makes me twice the dick

Those green 'Panasonic' batteries that the Chinky shops sell.

My camera manages about 350 shots with proper batteries, but about 10 with those fucking things.

Originally Posted by Thaiguy

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Beautifully restored 3 liter Ford Grenada many years back, Engine turned out to be shot, managed to sell it of to a used car dealer in part exchange, didn't feel to bad about that they are all crooks anyway

Yep that's good thinking , sell it to a dealer - wonder what he does with it ?

People like you need to be given a good boot up the you know what - you deseve all you get from dealers - when did YOU last give a dealer a full list of all the items wrong or in need of repair when you sold it to him so he could pass the information along or make the necessry repairs?
I have known many dealers over many years - never seen them put a fault IN a car yet?
Most of the so called "crooks" are not licensed dealers at all , just backyarders buying and selling cars illegally - buy from them and save money - they don't have to comply with a mountain of legislation and compliance - and get what you deserve.

I knew what he was going to do with it, give it to his Son, next time I called around he told me they had put a new (reconditioned) engine in, he did not blame me he knew that's the name of the game he played with his costumers himself, just as people at the time bought from him with 1 month warranty, after that your problem.

And if you have never heard of garages cheating people you must have been living in some kind of cocoon, because it happens every day, motorist organizations works with complaints in their hundreds every year, and that includes proper brand dealerships aswell, on top you have garages cheating with service ect. ect.

This is the reason ever more stringent consumer protection laws have been implemented the last many years, because there was good reason to.

Besides I have two personal friends owning car dealerships, one Ford dealer in England and a Renault dealer in Europe, and they have told me plenty of tricks and the goings on even today Mate.

So better if you try to boot yourself, you might wake up to the harsh reality's

Tried it myself, first one type, then another, then another, and finally one that my friend said everyone loves. All made me sick!!!