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Old 28-01-2008, 11:56 PM   #1
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Default Your demon cars from hell

June last year I bought 2 EDs on ebay and they turned out to be pretty good cars.

2 months ago I bought another thinking I might score a good deal again. However I did say to my Father as we travelled the 350Km to pick up the car that we may be pushing our luck with ebay cars.

First up the car had Pensioner rego
Then we found out the A/C doesn't work
Buckled rims...none of this was a major concearn the car was cheap enough.

Next day, the gearbox plays up, we service the box plenty of gluggy oil. It improved but then it spat it guts on the road. Obviously got a shock from the new oil and actually being serviced. In goes another auto box.

We had the A/C tested and sure enough the evap was leaking. The bloke suggested this goop to try and stop the leak as he never had one fail yet. Lucky me I'm his first, $240 worth of labour, goop and gas down the drain.

1 month of ownership I take my eyes of the road for 4 seconds doing 80Km/h and cleanup a double sign post and take out the front of the car and front left door. Bought another car off ebay to fix it. It took 3 weeks to fix in my spare time. During this we fixed the evaporator.

I had just finished the smash repair I jacked up the car to remove the left front wheel to repair the power ariel...The jack slips of the cross member and crushes the sump, another week out of action.

The car is all back together and going like a rocket...just with a silver bonnet and front left door.

It was today that I was searching for the paint code and name of the colour of the car and found out why this car is cursed.

Paint code: J4
Name: Black Pearl

I instantly thought of Pirates of the Carribian THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

I'm waiting for the diff to go as it's the only thing I have not removed from the car. :


So...Anybody else have a demon car from hell?

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Old 29-01-2008, 12:13 AM   #2
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Old 29-01-2008, 07:15 AM   #3
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Old 29-01-2008, 09:29 AM   #4
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my dad had a VL turbo when it first came out, he never had an problems, looked awesome too
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Old 29-01-2008, 09:30 AM   #5
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pretty much any skyline series.
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Old 29-01-2008, 09:34 AM   #6
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My old TR Magna enough said.
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Old 29-01-2008, 10:20 AM   #7
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June last year I bought 2 EDs on ebay and they turned out to be pretty good cars. ..........

So what happened to these two??
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Old 29-01-2008, 10:25 AM   #8
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NA Fairlane, I jsut kept chasing my tail on the bugger, I had a NC after that and it was a great car go figure
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Old 29-01-2008, 10:30 AM   #9
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Yes, I had a 1979 UC torana sunbird ( was a 4 cyl, but someone had put in a 179 6cyl blue motor with a celica 5 speed manual box) and it was a POS. Within 4 hours of ownership, the front left ball joints gave way and left the car with the front wheel on the inside of the guard, un-drivable in the middle of the road in peak traffic! Then the clutch mechanism snapped as I went to drive out of a hire company ( 2 weeks later )with a rental trailer on the back. Then the horn. On a hot day the steering wheel expanded and set off the horn permantley, until I pulled the fuse! Then I reversed into a XB panel van ( an accident I can assure you) and smashed the rear taillights, and the impact broke the driver seat rails, and I was only 75kg back then! Door handles broke, glovebox broke and then I got rid of it for a near new 1988 TN Magna. Had that for 7 years with not a single problem. A mate still has the magna today, and apart from rust, the thing still drives excellent!
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Old 29-01-2008, 10:45 AM   #10
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Old 29-01-2008, 10:59 AM   #11
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pretty much any skyline series.
I've had lots of r31's and never had a problem.

My worst was the first eb xr8 I owned,everything that could go wrong did,then I sold it and the next owner never had a problem.
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Old 29-01-2008, 11:49 AM   #12
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My old TR Magna enough said.
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Old 29-01-2008, 01:44 PM   #13
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So what happened to these two??
Still got them.
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Old 29-01-2008, 01:48 PM   #14
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Gemini was my worst night mare after 20,000klms it through a big end. all repaired but then fuel pump packed up. Then came the rust. Owned the car for 13 years and gave it to my wife after 4 years of ownership. Whilst she had it it went through 2 engines so called low milage from a so called holden wrecker in preston. diff went and eventually rust got her in the boot.Traded it on a cortina wagon and that was better. My only holden what an experience never again . I have owned fords since
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Old 29-01-2008, 01:51 PM   #15
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Jag XJ6 series 3

Owned it for 3 months....
- Replaced Gas converter
- Replaced aircon compressor
- Broken engine mounts
- Piston rings on number 5
- Repaired auto gearbox
- Caught fire (not enough to claim)

The original money pit.....
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Old 29-01-2008, 01:55 PM   #16
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Old 29-01-2008, 02:10 PM   #17
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Yes, I had a 1979 UC torana sunbird ( was a 4 cyl, but someone had put in a 179 6cyl blue motor with a celica 5 speed manual box) and it was a POS. Within 4 hours of ownership, the front left ball joints gave way and left the car with the front wheel on the inside of the guard, un-drivable in the middle of the road in peak traffic! Then the clutch mechanism snapped as I went to drive out of a hire company ( 2 weeks later )with a rental trailer on the back. Then the horn. On a hot day the steering wheel expanded and set off the horn permantley, until I pulled the fuse! Then I reversed into a XB panel van ( an accident I can assure you) and smashed the rear taillights, and the impact broke the driver seat rails, and I was only 75kg back then! Door handles broke, glovebox broke and then I got rid of it for a near new 1988 TN Magna. Had that for 7 years with not a single problem. A mate still has the magna today, and apart from rust, the thing still drives excellent!
Ha ha sorry mate i had a good laugh at this one geez u wouldnt want to through that again..lol
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Old 29-01-2008, 05:25 PM   #20
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Old 29-01-2008, 06:21 PM   #21
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My car is cursed. 9 days after I got it, back in 02', I crashed it. My fault completely. A year later, I was at a set of lights and got rear ended. A couple of months later, after getting a wheel alignment, my front right wheel fell off going around a corner. Then all was good (besides power window failures, a stuffed transmission and 1 head gasket) until 07' when I hit another car again. I then got it into shape again, and was halfway into putting a bodykit on it when someone decided to key the passenger side, as well as the right rear guard.
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Old 29-01-2008, 06:28 PM   #22
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My brother seems to be cursed when it comes to cars. He has had about 7 or 8. Each one was pretty much unsellable in the end. A lot of them were spending more time in work shops than his garage.
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Old 29-01-2008, 07:27 PM   #24
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My brother has 3 R31 skylines, one of them runs like a dream never misses a beat, the other not to bad but silly little things always seem to be breaking or failing, but its no where near a demon from hell!, havent had one of them yet thank god!

P.S, the 3rd one has an R33 RB25 in it but isnt actually going yet, so time will tell how well this one goes lol!
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Old 29-01-2008, 11:05 PM   #25
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Old 30-01-2008, 12:04 AM   #26
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i own 2 cars.

1st. EF Falcon - ugh so much stupid goes wrong. set me back $720 in 4 months, 3 seperate mechanic trips. Keep in mind i was in year 11. $720 is alot of f*ckin money.

2nd. XE Falcon - owned it 1 month and the clutch cable has gone bung and some has reversed into my front quater panel. Both incidences happened in the last week.
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Old 30-01-2008, 12:50 AM   #27
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If I put on a brand new shirt or jeans, every car Ive ever owned. They always have some issue when I put new clothes on, anything from flat tyre to dud fuel pump relays etc. I try not too, but I always end up getting a mark somewhere.
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Old 30-01-2008, 05:26 PM   #29
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My BA, since ownership @ 70k...

Engine stalling for no reason, went away
Diff rebuild
Clutch went
Radiator cracked
Power window stuck
Gearbox overheating and not driveable when hot, new box
Tailshaft snapped in 3
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Old 30-01-2008, 06:47 PM   #30
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my old '92 verada

but that ended up a toyota sportivo altise sx1 aaron after i got all these badges off my mate that works at toyota
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