What’s a memorable flaw of your first car?

It broke down more times than Britney...

That would be opening the trunk for the first time to see........ the road beneath the car.

The battery kept dying. Replaced the alternator, still kept dying.

Oh and the tires kept falling off.

it was an English car and it had the "prince of darkness" electrics ..otherwise know as Lucas and as soon as rain even looked like it was going to happen ...the car would shit its self with fright

it was easy to park!

My 1974 Nova, would only start for me, not my ex-husband, he would get so infuriated, he thought I was playing a a trick on him, he made me sit in the drivers seat , while he sat next to me, and watched me start it, then he would try it and nothing, we sat out her for 3 hours one day, he still thinks I had it rigged somehow, I really didnt, it was weird.

1972 Buick LeSaber 4door BIG DAMN BOAT!
It had a bad seal in the trunk, so when it rained it would fill up like a portable jacuzzi.

this of course sagged the springs in the back to the point this big bad cruiser cornered like a boat too, nose high and rolling into the curves.

I once had myself and 6 high school girls in it doing about 110mph and climbing till it was obvious I'd have to back down to not run the upcoming light.

The trunk rot saved me once when I was in it installing new rear speakers, and my funny buddy closed the trunk with the keys in my pocket. with little room to move I saw light at my feet, prayed and threw with amazing accuracy my keys that wedged in a rust hole big enough for the knucklehead to pull 'em out and get me out of the blistering hot trunk.

Before I had to give up on that poor big ol' 350 V8 one side of the trunk quarter panel was so rotted I swung an icy turn in mid winter and my 4-way tire iron shot right out the side. Hearing it leave, I got out and only found it because of the perfect cross in the snowbank.

Well, the anti-lock brakes were gone, so every time I got into a situation where they'd usually chip in (and I live in a city with at least 6 months of icy winter a year, folks) my regular brakes would kick out to make way for the anti-locks that didn't exist, and I'd find myself with NO brakes. This could be prevented by pulsing my brakes like people did before anti-locks, but you had only an instant to realize what needed to be done, and human instinct really doesn't lend itself to taking one's foot OFF the brake when one notices one's car is not stopping.

I named my first car Murphy - anything that could go wrong, did.

The fact that it was totalled. Unfortunately, my little Chevette found itself in a head-to-head match up with a drunk driver in a pick-up who ran a red light.
I have my guardian angel to thank for being here today.

He had a face only a mother could love...he only had one ear. (ear=side view mirror)

It might as well of not had a muffler...it didn't muffle anything thats for sure, LOL..

an 81 Honda civic, it leaked oil, like you would not believe, when i filled up with petrol i also had to fill up the oil, lol

And if the oil level got too low the car would just stop!!! it didn't matter where i was - in the city, country or the middle of no where, though in one way that was good (i met a VERY lovely guy who stopped to help me) and we did end up dating for a couple of years, lol

The most memorable flaw of my first car was the California-dreamin' flake who drove it- ME. :D

I neglected the tranny and sold her to a friend.

I did that to finance my dream of living up north in a San Francisco commune. :P

I had an 85 Jeep Cherokee...I loved that car.

The rear window wiper was broken....instead of wiper fluid shooting straight up and onto the rear window, it would shoot out behind the jeep.....like it was peeing on the car behind me. I loved that damn car.

It may be the flaw that was put there by the drunk driver who registered at .21bac. yeah, that was a big flaw, so big I had to junk my '81 datsun 210. it was a sad day.

Demon possession.

Actually it was the transmission, but the car stalled and died at intersections, offramps, and once while backing out of a driveway-- causing the steering wheel to lock up and the power brakes to fail at critical moments.

I said it was the transmission-- what else could it be, when it was acting like a stickshift when it's an automatic? My father suggested "hasn't warmed up enough" and "water in the fuel line" and finally "women drivers." When he borrowed my car and it happened to him, he took it to the shop immediately, and i won a $20 bet.

Leaky T-Tops. LOL!

no floor

I don't recommend driving through deep puddles when you have holes in the floor of your car like I did.

OMG! this is hilarious!
i got a chevy trailblazer for my sweet 16.
and i had my license exactly a week!
and i t-bone a truck. and totaled out both vehicles.
my best friend was with me. and we still argue over what color the truck was. she says it was blue and i say it was silver.
my best friend thinks the funniest part is that the guys truck tire fell off.
now i have an infiniti qx4. and i love it!
but i am soon getting another car for my 17th bday.

My fat arsed ex girlfriend used to get in it.

1978 oldsmobile delta 88. The thing was as big as a tank and had pleather bench seats. When I would clean the car and armorall the seats they would be very slick, sometimes when I turned a sharp corner even with a seatbelt on I would almost lose my grip on the wheel because my ass would slide and I would almost end up in the middle. If someone would not have a seatbelt on they would end up on the other side of the car!

My first car hmmmmmm

1986 Dodge Shadow, no air conditioning, loads of smoke coming from the tail pipe accompanied with a horrible smell. Power steering dies and just turning the car creates an unbelievable moaning noise. The doors would sometimes open while driving, second gear would randomly die on me, oh and I almost forgot about the earthquake like rumble the car makes when I start off (stick shift).

i could drop a tennis ball through the dashboard and it would fall onto my feet.

All my cars had the same flaw, a loose nut behind the wheel.

the trans was always slipping i would sit in the car with my friends and just wait till it went into gear... took forever!

Rotted - Rusted out floors
Rust hole iinto the trunk
about 6 gallons to the mile in the 454ci
exhaust leak - had to have the windows down whwn every you were at a stop

and getting caught in in by the girlfried's dad with my pants down...... not good

It was a pink and white car and I'm a guy!

The radio station would change every time we went over a bump in the road.

I had a 1987 buick lesabre. it had no brakes and hardly anything worked on it, the windows didn't go up and one alwayse fell out.

a 71 fiat - pushed it home from the junkyard

driving around with the emergency break on.

My first car, a 1967 Volkswagen Bus, didn't have any heat. Volkswagens back then had air cooled engines, so they didn't have radiators, and no hot water to pump through the inside of the vehicle to warm it. Unfortunately I lived in Syracuse NY at the time where it got down to 20 below zero sometimes, so I sometimes used a propane-powered camping heater in the van.

Being able to take out the keys while it was running

Rusted through metal brake line on a '62 Chevy BelAir Station Wagon with a single circuit brake system.

I would fill the resevoir with DOT3 (just in case) before the night of cruisng. Good for one, sometimes two panic stops. Usually stopped by downshifting the cast iron powerglide and stepping on the parking brake.

Drove it that way for a few weeks...

Yeah, well I was 16.

My first car was a convertible, but the automatic top did not work, and it had to be done by hand. Now you might think this is a bad thing, but I assure you it was not.

My sister and I was go to the park, and pull into the parking lot. Then we both got together to begin putting down (or up) the top and the boys would practically fall all over themselves trying to get over there and help us. It was the best boy magnet I ever had.

Ahh, my old '71 Ford Torino!

The glue inside the steering wheel that held the metal leads apart that made the horn blow would melt in the sunlight causing the horn to go off...most of the time while I wasn't home. It pissed off my neighbors and ran down my battery.

no e-brake. not that worked anyway.

and many transmission problems.

My first car was a 88 celica, and to crank it I had to have the key in the ignition and push a toggle button under the steering wheel.

The color was puke green , lol

The memorable FLAW of my first car was the one thing that actually worked right. Everything else malfunctioned as expected.

It was a Chevette and nobody could guess the color...The moment is: It caught on fire my first day driving it to school in front of the guy i had a crush on....

Mine was a 1984 Jeep Cherokee.
The headliner had come off, so the bare metal roof was showing inside the vehicle.
I got all sorts of cool magnets to stick up there: magnetic poetry, one in the shape of the statue of David with various silly outfits to put on him, the same with Venus, etc.

I was an old Volkie. It kept turning off all the time and would not start.

Smelled like mold

Wow, I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the memories. I had a 1953 Chevy that didn't have a working wiper motor. It was a challenge driving in bad weather or anytime the windows got messed up. I paid $15.00 dollars for this car. When it quit running I had it towed to a garage near where I was staying at the time but never went back to the garage. I didn't have any money for anything, so, I figured the guy could keep it for himself. Cool question...ty parsec

When the fuel went below half a tank then the control of the car got more loose. That, and it rattled because the front bumper was ripped.

My first car...got it last year (free from my dad there was...something..wrong with it) and a $1000 latter it still isnt running......

A few weeks after my cousin (a mechanic) went back home to Vancouver after their trip here in November, the left front passenger side window got stuck in the fully down position. Since we have a garage full of junk ever since we moved in 10 years ago, we had to work outside in the cold. Getting the paneling off, replacing the regulators then getting the thing back on. Then the door lock wouldn't engage automatically nor would most of the electronics on it. Had to take the paneling off again and tinker with the connectors.