Thread: 10 most and least reliable cars survey

Originally Posted by Grockle

Martin,I had 70 out of mine then it started to melt

Sounds about right Grockle, was that k's or mph.

My old man had a three wheeler like the Robin but not the same name. It was a bubble car from memory, bloody death trap. Had to push start it every time. Not real good. Must have been about 8 and I still hate it.

Originally Posted by cooper

Used to look funny,young bloke trying to recruit a couple of passing "lifters" to turn them around.What genius decided that it was ok to go forwards at speed,but not backwards at 15 mph max?

Ernest Marples the then minister of transport ?

Originally Posted by Fusion

WELL WELL WELL Mr Sleepy

If looked after I think that a Ford, Toyota, Holden, Datsun and Chrysler would still be running fine after 31 years just like a landy could be or an old tojo . All comes down to who owns the car and how well they look after it .


SO THERE !

Yeah you are probably right Mick - I forgot you were building up that dunnydore.

Oh, and here is that FRISKY mentioned earlier.

Frisky Cars

Interestingly, one of the most reliable cars I have ever had was a Ford Laser I had as a company car. It was so good that I kept it as long as they would let me, and then bought it for one of the boys. And replaced it with another Laser. That one we called "Murphy" - you know, "Murphy's Law"; "If anything can go wrong it will go wrong". It broke down first at under 500km, the tyres grew bubbles, it took 20,000km before they managed to fix the wipers so they stayed fixed, and probably as a finale, it caught fire for unknown reasons (but was easy to put out unfortunately).

But the car that took the cake for unreliability was the Nikki that one of my colleagues bought for his teenage daughter. It averaged about two breakdowns a week for about six months until he got rid of it.

John

Originally Posted by martinozcmax

Sounds about right Grockle, was that k's or mph.

My old man had a three wheeler like the Robin but not the same name. It was a bubble car from memory, bloody death trap. Had to push start it every time. Not real good. Must have been about 8 and I still hate it.

It was mph believe it or not,a bubble car you say,Trojan Heinkel,BMW Isetta or even a Messerschmitt 200 which had a side opening canopy.

Originally Posted by cooper

Hey thanks Sleeps.Wow! cannot understand why they did not fulfil their promise of taking over the motoring worldOK,now find that Raleigh Cycle van that Grockle mentioned.

The early years of Reliant : Daniel Lockton

What about the Bond 875,with a detuned Hillman Imp engine,which was quite a large car for a three wheeler.

Originally Posted by Grockle

What about the Bond 875,with a detuned Hillman Imp engine,which was quite a large car for a three wheeler.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_875]Bond 875 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

I'll have to start charging a search fee