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My parents 1957 Gray Oldsmobile 2 door sedan without a radio. Could a vehicle BE more boring!?
My 1979 Hotpoint BOL dishwasher. The bottom of the line of the bottom of the line. What a POS!
My 1976 Whirlpool solid disc electric range. Like a step backward in time.
My 1985 Wards/Norge blow job Lint-O-Matic dryer.
My 1965 Wards frequency response impaired console stereo.
My 1968 Motorola Quasar "Works in a drawer" color TV. More like "Doesn't Works in a drawer."
My 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 road noise special 4-door hardtop.
My 1988 Pontiac Lux-O-Lemon Grand Prix SE....never has one car stranded so many.

Anyone care to add your list of bad choices?
 
Indeed...

My 1961 Kenmore. Never has a machine required quite so much and returned quite so little.
My 2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The first car with a reliability record that taught me what hitchhiking was.
My 1975 GE dishwasher. I'm convinced that clean dishes could go in, and still come out at least slightly dirty. GE's patented Crumb*Glo wash action stored all small food particles until the final rinse, whereupon they rejoined the water.
My 2001 iBook. It was slow, but at least the keycaps fell off.
My 1999 Eureka SmartVac. A gorgeous vacuum that ate belts, and no parts could ever be had. Not from Sears, not from vac shops--nowhere. Go figure.
 
Where do I start........

my 1999 Maytag Neptune 4000 was more'high matainence' than my ex.I was ready to rent Ole lonely a room because he was there so much, and he had abs like a fire fighter.I could do laundry on those, this is when all of your clothes become hand washables!!
my ex Brad, though he was really hot, just not right for each other
my new old repoduction Big Ben alarm clock thatlost five minutes a day
The GE dishwasher was very much the same, located in an apartment that I rented in Washington state.It broke on Thanksgiving--I took it apart and it was full of straws, broken glass, and drinking straws. Someone has alot of fun with it obviously.:)
My account at Bank of America ,now I know what B of A really stands for!
My boss at my old branch,what a Drama queen!!i take that back, Queen of the Drama Queens,

Otherwise i am doing pretty good. :)
 
Thankfully, I haven't had too much bad luck with stuff. here's my list:

1985 Honda Prelude: consumed more coolant than gasoline. Charging system smaller than electrical load, rusting from the inside out

1992 Honda pushmower: alumnium deck cracked & broke apart, bad bearings in the engine

1986 Kenwood HT2600 HAM radio: CMOS battery kept going bad requiring a $90 repair

1999 Fridigaire: B.O.L. dishwasher. Very slow, very noisey, didn't clean all that good. Replaced it with a Hobart Kitchenaid

Things I expected to be bad, but really suprised me:

1984 Samsung 12 inch TV: Mom bought for $100 at target...still using today, crystal clear picture, great mechanical tuner

unknown year GE portacool: Picked it up out of the trash, cleaned it up, been running it in my shed for the past 3 years

1999 Harbor Breese ceiling fan: Bought for $20, it's perfectly balanced, and quiet...just as good as a genuine Hunter!
 
Everybody give the boy a *clap*

*LOL*

My vented comb-o-matic 110v washer-dryer. It blew lint EVERYWHERE and would not take a standard 4" (100mm) round exhaust duct.

Of course now I would have configured a sheet metal transition piece... but then I was a mere innocent lazy pup...
 
Hmmm

1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 2 door(My first brand new car) was dark maroon but should have been yellow for all the trouble that car was!
My Ex- Jason, I was nothing more than a bank to him.
My last apartment - a step back in time, and no matter how many times I steam cleaned the carpet it still smelled funny.
My former manager Bernadette - A seriously under-medicated woman, it's tough to work for someone you always have to walk on eggshells around.
Neighbors - I don't remember their names, but was a single mom and 2 teenage kids, a boy and a girl. Momma liked to sleep around, many times I would see her coming home early in the am looking like an unmade bed, and the kids were little alcoholics in the making. More than few times on Friday nights I'd come home from practicing and momma would be out, and the kids would have a party, and there would be someone barfing on my front lawn. Man did I rejoice when the "For Sale" sign went up in front of their house!
 
Condo

Glad I don't have my first condo....Was 'breeder' city....Kids everywhere...and you know how cruel they can be.
It was a great 'starter' and a step in bringing me to another turning point.
Also hated the builder's grade Modern Maid dishwasher...cleaned like CRAP.
And those god awful green shag carpets, along with the particle board kitchen cabinets.
And the rec room walnut paneling.
Memories.....
 
My 1994 (first year) Kia Sephia. In the six months I drove it, it went in under warrenty 18 times.
 
You don't like f*** trophies?

child, my downstairs neighbors in the co-op came in with one "in-the-oven" and left with three, three years later.

All I ever smelled was dirty diapers.
I also had the joy of hearing the two being made.
 
Toggle--- It was a LONG time ago. It was a gift I brought back with me while playing in a club in Winnipeg, Canada. It's connected with the story of us getting kicked out of Canada. Suffice to say it was an unforgettable experience, all 'round.
 
1975 Chevrolet Vega or as I called it "Vaguely" It vaguely resemble a car ! It would even rust in the desert.

1984 Chevrolet Chevette! It was only meant to be a filler car between my Toyota and Honda. Just in case you thought I had not learned my lesson with the Vega. It's nick name was The Shove-it.

Anything TEAC their products seem to have one goal in life to be disposable.

My former partner who loved my dog more that me !

The dog my former partner loved more than me ( He…. the dog…I mean the 4 legged one... went to a good home lots of kids).

Not one to complain !
 
I'm glad I don't have

TWO GE dishwashers. Neither could clean worth a damn.

Ditto matching GE washer/dryer pair that came with the condo.

1984 Toyota Tercel. Can't say anything good about that car.

My former boss, Michael. He was stupid and evil, a particularly loathsome combination.

My old apartment and neighborhood. Don't miss either of 'em one little bit.

I think I've been pretty satisfied with everything else.

veg
 
*Bakersfield, CA (hated living there!!)
*Odessa, TX (hated growing up there!!)
*1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass (highway sign green, white vinyl top)
*1984 Mercury Lynx (the worst car I ever owned!!)
*Church of Christ (no offense intended to anyone who might be a member, but it was torture for a gay kid growing up)
*Depression era buffet that I thought would NEVER sell in my antique booth!
*Harvest gold plastic dinnerware, hand-me-downs from Grandma to Momma
*Momma & Daddy's 1978 Dodge Aspen station wagon
*My cheapie childhood bedroom set....the slats under the boxsprings would fall on the bare tile floor during the night!
 
In 2 weeks, I'll be glad to have gotten rid of that damn noisy, squeaky, cheap twin-size bed I'm sleeping in currently. Move one muscle and you'll get an annoying squeak. That bed will NOT enter my new house.
 
the CORVAIR...

A 1966 two-door I bought in about 1970. It turned out to be a relentless money sink. It was a ball to drive on dry pavement, but on a wet road if you had to stop quick, it wanted to swap ends. The only, only thing I ever found to temper the memory of that beast was found on a web site called "the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit". One of the examples of closed-down business is a gas station/repair shop on the east side called "Brothers Service". John Brothers was the principal beneficiary of my Corvair woes, as he was one of the few mechanics who would still work on them at the time. I have nothing against him personally, and I'm sorry if his business failed, but man...

The story ends thus: I left it in my parents' driveway one fall when I went back to college. It leaked oil so bad I was afraid I would never get rid of it. My mother managed to advertise it and sell it, to her everlasting credit and my amazement.
 
Don't you wish you woulda hung onto it?

Corvairs now are rather sought after, especially the higher-performance coupes and convertibles. I dated a girl in high school with a Corvair Corsa convertible...same year as yours. We met when she literally ran into me in her Corvair. I was driving my old 78 Civic through, when she backed out of a parking space and tagged my door....Didn't do a thing to her Corvair. I had to install a new door on my Civic! She paid for the new door, and we spent a lot of time together after all the "business" was done! Her little Corvair was a fun little ride that handled very good. Yes, you're right tho, that car did want to get squirrely if the brakes were hit hard! I don't remember her ever having any oil leaks in hers, but the engine sounded like a VW bug with a bad attitude! I didn't think it was all that bad of a car really, and I thought the Corvair really got an unjust bad reputation after experiencing her's. I think the car was simply just ahead of it's time...If it was created in 1971 or something, after the gas crisis, it probably would have fared much better than the Pinto's and Vegas of the time.

We ended up drifting apart after we went to separate colleges.
 
I couldn't be more thrilled that I sent away to the krusher my 1953 Apex Wash-A-Matic washer back in 1996. Who needs a washer with a basket that wobbles and bounces 650 times a minute, ho-hum. Give me a good old-fashioned Dual-Action agitator any day!
 
Scrambled Brains

The 72 Vega, the 92 Dodge Caravan, the 95 Buick Park Avenue, both ex wives, the Maytag I had for I week, in 1990 that had fast stroke agitation, The expensive stainless Revereware cookwear I bought in 1990 that was crap and kept one month, any cookwear with anondized exterior, self loathing and worry.
Kelly
 
Darn, I almost forgot:
I'm also glad I no longer have:

Carpeted floors and the big cumbersome machine needed to keep them clean

a job that requires me to work around high levels of radio frequency radiation

a heat pump furnace

an ISE "Badger" disposer

an unvented range hood

a 3500 sq. ft. home

The plastic bed sheet I needed till I was in high school. (Blush, Blush!) I know, I know: TMI
 
...not that Corvair

I wish I had a Corvair that spent its life out west someplace. My Corvair had lived in Michigan, and was rusted in some pretty curious places. I can't remember exactly what this looks like, but there were holes completely through the metal right beneath the windshield, and you got wet feet if you drove in the rain. The heater operating cables had rusted and fused, so no heat/defrost control except for manually setting it all on or all off. Engine leaked oil so that heating air was accompanied by oil mist which deposited itself on interior glass. I eventually got annoyed enough to install a manual choke cable to operate one of the heat control doors. (no money for dealer items) It was too short, and came out from under the back seat. I had to perform some pretty serious contortions to reach it while seated in the drivers position. And on, and on. I think the Corvair definitely falls into the category of Poorly Executed Good Idea.
 
The one thing I'm glad I don't have anymore is COCKROACHES!

My old apartment had them, the people downstairs brought them in and it was a nightmare. I managed to move all my crap and not bring even one with me by the use of Boric Acid.

Be careful when you drag that classic appliance home. Open it up outside and clean it out, you never know what's inside waiting to infest your home.

All of my cars have been good, the Ramblers, the Checker, the Ford, even the rusty Nova that I inherited. I don't buy new/modern cars appliances so maybe that's why I've been fortunate.

Ken D.
 
Oh gosh...

I don't miss:

The Underwood Electronic typewriter that broke twice in two years - the last time during a term paper. I did what I was SUPPOSED to do. I visited the local typewriter dealer and bought a different brand of typewriter from them... which works to this day.

The 1976 Ford Granada which I nicknamed the "GRENADE". Broke way too much. I blame the dealer.

The White-Westinghouse electric knife with "EJECTOR-BLADES". It would randomly eject blades during use.
Don't know what I was thinking when I bought that...
I DID have a Hamilton Beach electric knife. While walking through the basement I TRIPPED. The electric knife was flung to the cement floor - breaking the housing.
Afterward I bought another nearly identical Hamilton Beach electric knife. While walking into the garage after buying it, I TRIPPED. The new electric knife vaulted itself out of the bag, through the air and onto the cement floor - breaking the housing.
Realizing that due to some bizarre neurologic problem I tend to trip with Hamilton Beach electric knives I held off from buying another. Several weeks ago at an estate sale I found an unused 1960's General Electric knife. Having confidence in General Electric I bought the thing. I have suffered no stability issues nor have I turned myself into an amputee - which is a good thing.

I DON'T miss my Munsingwear Kangaroo-pouch men's briefs. No man with functioning genitalia would have designed such a thing. The inability to void reached such a frustration level with me that at work I tore the front of them open with my bare hands. YES! my BARE HANDS!
This occurred in a stall. When wearing Munsingear briefs I must check myself into a stall as working those briefs is an arduous task. I sure they heard me swear.
The inventor of XANAX must have worn Munsingwear briefs.
 
What I don't miss

Ford F-150 with the V6...so slow you could never attempt to pass anyone!

1996 plastic GE set. Washer lasted only 2 years.

Eureka Bravo upright and Oreck XL compact canister. Oreck XL9100 upright wasn't bad, though.

Maytag A-50 twinnies. The two that I had were both LEMONS!

BOL "Hotpernt" dishwasher.
 
These are a few of my hated things - glad they are gone!

1. My 1986 Ford EXP - ah the foolishness of youth
2. My ex Satan I mean Michael.
3. My townhouse - bad mamories there

Joe
jamman_98
 
cool thread...

Here are some things that I don't miss...

1. 1996 Saturn SL1...bad ventilation unit, bad distributor, brakes that went to the floor (yes that was fun!), computer that malfunctioned, inept service, an engine that was overhauled...all of this in under 12,000 miles of me driving it brand new off of the showroom floor! (They bought it back...see #2)

2. 1998 Malibu...unpainted rear door, badly scratched deck lid, leaked something strange, transmission lines that were reversed. I sold it and bought a 1970 Buick Skylark with 20,000 miles...that is a car I wish I KEPT!

3. 2003 Olds Alero...an automatic transmission that never shifted out of 1st gear on occasion (a complete mystery!), no defroster (in OH no less in January!), bad rotors, spongy brakes, stripped lug nuts, lost keys at the dealer after being towed, ventilation system went and was replaced...then bam totaled on May 19, 2006! I walked away unharmed and into the nearest Honda dealer...I have seen the error of my ways...out of the fires of Hell (GM) and into the cradle of a well built car (anything made by Honda or Toyota).

4. My Hoover bagless vacuum circa 2000...I have known tree stump removal equiptment that was less noisy and actually worked as they were supposed to. That was one big POS for sure!

5. 1993 maytag (Craptag) dishwasher...I think that 4 monkeys working down by the muddy river using only their opposable thumbs and a soiled rag could clean dishes better and with less fuss! The trash man got that one...I did not feel sorry for its squeaky, drippy, useless carcass one bit.

Those are my top five anyway...I can think of a lot of things I wish I had kept. Thanks for this thread I have really enjoyed reading everyone's posts.

--Tom
 
Ex-Corvair owner here also

I had a '64 Corvari Monza coupe for all of one month back in 1970. I bought it for $300, and sold it for $280. I considered it a good deal.

The thing was downright scary. It wandered all over the road in a cross-wind. I wound up putting the biggest boulder I could lift in the front trunk; that helped a little.

Once it blew a rear tire going under an over-pass on a two-lane highway. It was like a short but narrow tunnel. A semi was coming in the opposite direction. I was sure the Corvair was going to do a 180, but luckily I just stayed off the gas and let it slow down on its own, and made it out safely.

Of course, now that I know how to work on cars, I probably could have fixed the front end and rebuilt the motor (it had low compression in one cylinder). Maybe even done something to stabilize the rear suspension. But it really was a scary car to drive, as it was.

Mor recently, I was very happy to part with a '97 Frigidaire MOL dishwahser. What a piece of junk.

I do have a lot of other stuff that I'd probably be thrilled to part with, but being part pack-rat has resulted in an over-accumulation. I did just recently part with a couple of 30" drop-in gas ranges, was glad to see them go - mainly becuase they were taking up storage space.

I was also glad to part with a 70's Harvest Gold GE side-by-side fridge that came with the house. It worked ok, and I was able to fix the ice-maker (twice), but it guzzled electricity (about 1700 kWH/yr). The KA that replaced it uses under 700 kWH/yr.
 
By comparison of many folks here I have been heaven blessed. I can't really think of anything in my life in which I've endured serial unreliability.

I smile and remember though reading about some of these cars. I swear, was there a decent car ANYwhere between 1980 and 1990? That had to have been the worst decade ever for the butt-ugliest, most unreliable cars in history, though reading above nothing much has changed at GM since. '76 or '77 is probably the last product they had that I would have wanted any part of. Fortunately I skipped, car-wise, from '74, to '79, to '92, never owned an '80s car, and I think my life is the better for it! LOL

I was really surprised to ready Cybrvanr's post about the Prelude. Honda largely had been one of the few halfway decent cars you could get in that time period, homely as (I thought) they were back then.
 

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