Anyone else just have the worst luck with cars?

I swear my whole life I've never been able to keep a car pristine, and even when I was riding around on a scooter instead, or just walking as a pedestrian, I’ve been hit and run twice. Just recently, after I finally scraped together enough money to get a beater car again, this drunk lady comes careening down the street one night and slams right into it. My parked car. And guess what? Now I’m left with another mess to deal with, no money to fix it, no insurance that actually gives a damn. This is the third time a car of mine has been wrecked by someone else's careless driving. At least I wasn't in it this time, but still!

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Morvoren · F

I had a Ford once that tried to bankrupt me. I’d never consider buying one again.

JamesBugman · 56-60, T

@Morvoren I had that same vehicle. Never another Ford in my future. My rusty Suzuki is still going strong after 26 years.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@Morvoren Years ago I had a Ford product with that sudden acceleration kink. Step on the brake pedal and the engine would suddenly surge to the red line and beyond. It took 6+ months and initiating legal steps for a refund under Lemon laws to get any response from either the dealer or Ford. Their collective game was to ignore dissatisfied buyers with a slew of delaying tactics until faced with a real likelihood that I would sue for a lot more than a refund.

Finally a factory representative came calling, a mechanic. He fixed the problem in a hour. Conversations about how, he explained about a faulty electronic fuel control that he replaced. Also sort of confessed that it was a somewhat common problem. It was, volumes of complaints over sudden acceleration surges. All responded to by Ford as people stepping on the wrong foot pedal or carpet pads overlapping the accelerator pedal. A total contradiction to what I had discovered by simply experimenting and confirmed by the factory mechanic.

My assessment was that Ford intentionally was willing to keep dangerous vehicles on the road rather than acknowledge buyers' complaints. How easy would it have been to take action on buyers' first complaint rather than dragging buyers through months of stonewalling.