{"id":1595,"date":"2012-04-03T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T08:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:49:06","slug":"your-worst-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/your-worst-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Worst Car."},"content":{"rendered":"

Surveys have shown that modern cars are so much better than their predecessors. But there have been some real ‘lemons’ in the past.<\/p>\n

So what was the worst car you’ve ever owned?<\/p>\n

Well, let me get the ball rolling…<\/p>\n

I took delivery of a brand new company car- a Holden Station Wagon a few decades ago. That was in September. In December we planned a family trip in the new car to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

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We set off very early in the morning and had no sooner started the climb through the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, when I noticed the temperature guage creeping up.. So I backed off a bit, turned off the aircon and hoped for the best. It settled down well enough to feel a bit more confident, but, as we progressed across the Hay Plains the day warmed up, as did the car, and as did the motor! It finally gave up the ghost in the middle of nowhere, and with two small kids on board. We arranged a tow truck to the nearest town about 60kms away and arrived at the local Holden dealer.<\/p>\n

In their defence, if it had been virtually any other make we would have been stuck there, but not Holden. They fitted a new radiator and thermostat and we were on our way a couple of hours later. But that was just the start of our love\/hate relationship with our Kingswood. When it was going, it was great, but clearly it had been a ‘Friday’ car, so didn’t go for long until it was back in the workshop. I’ve had a few more Holdens since then, and they’ve all been good, but that was the first – and not a good introduction to the brand.<\/p>\n

So what was your worst car? We want to hear from you and we have a brand new TomTom ‘Live’<\/a> sat\/nav to give away\u00a0for the best story. Entries close 5th May, so let’s hear from you now and we’ll add your story to the blog. Just click below and tell us your tale. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/potreb-kredit.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surveys have shown that modern cars are so much better than their predecessors. But there have been some real ‘lemons’ in the past. So what was the worst car you’ve ever owned? Well, let me get the ball rolling… I took delivery of a brand new company car- a Holden Station Wagon a few decades […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}