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65 responses to “The MOST UNRELIABLE cars (and brands) of 2024 | What Car?”

  1. @12Bashandy Avatar
    @12Bashandy

    I prefere a swift or a vitara.

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  2. @mikadavies660 Avatar
    @mikadavies660

    Unbelievable….. Where is JLR? They have been in the top five for years! I can’t believe they have improved. Maybe they were so stolen, there were none left to test.

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    1. @carlarrowsmith Avatar
      @carlarrowsmith

      Maybe others have got worse and fallen even lower.

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    2. @mikadavies660 Avatar
      @mikadavies660

      @@carlarrowsmith I like your humour…. But clearly there is indeed “lower”

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    3. @drunkenhobo8020 Avatar
      @drunkenhobo8020

      Yep, all the Land Rovers were stollen and the Jaguars are still sitting in dealerships!

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    4. @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697 Avatar
      @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697

      @@drunkenhobo8020 Seized engines, they can’t even make it back to the dealership. 🤣

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  3. @markgt894 Avatar
    @markgt894

    Moral to the story is if you want something reliable and inexpensive buy a Toyota, Kia or Hyundai. Avoid anything from Europe and China.

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    1. @cowtc Avatar
      @cowtc

      Nissan working with Renault parts really brought their reputation down

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    2. @radam2818 Avatar
      @radam2818

      Not sure, Hyundai and Kia do not rank high in the US for reliability.

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    3. @madmcadder4536 Avatar
      @madmcadder4536

      Agreed.😊

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    4. @markgt894 Avatar
      @markgt894

      @@radam2818 Kia is well above average according to JD Power

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    5. @geoffhemingway3926 Avatar
      @geoffhemingway3926

      I think you need to look at all these surveys and then see where the commonalities are – if a certain maker or model keeps popping up, avoid it. This way you are getting the biggest sample possible. So look at Warranty Direct’s survey and JDPower etc. as well as What Car.

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  4. @madmcadder4536 Avatar
    @madmcadder4536

    Excellent survey…. Interesting about MG. It seems it’s not just electrical goods made in China that are unreliable, clearly the cars are the same.

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  5. @mattp4806 Avatar
    @mattp4806

    Perhaps it’s time for car journalists to drop that all too familiar favourite phrase, “MGs class leading 7 year warranty means that you can buy with confidence”.

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    1. @jondu-sud274 Avatar
      @jondu-sud274

      And good luck in getting any recompense from your Chinese warranty 😮

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    2. @keech100 Avatar
      @keech100

      My sister had to pay for the petrol for her courtesy car travelling 70 miles from the depot when the entire drivetrain failed within the first year.

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    3. @paultasker7788 Avatar
      @paultasker7788

      7 year warranty yet many had to pay for repairs

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  6. @rutgervideo Avatar
    @rutgervideo

    So even though MG is no longer British, they continue the British tradition of making the most unreliable cars 😂

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    1. @Michael_NV Avatar
      @Michael_NV

      🤣🤣🤣

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    2. @Steve-gc5nt Avatar
      @Steve-gc5nt

      France says hold my glass of wine.

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    3. @tochukwuezinwa2122 Avatar
      @tochukwuezinwa2122

      ​@Steve-gc5nt did you see any France cars on the lists
      Stop being a Bully bully

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    4. @skasteve6528 Avatar
      @skasteve6528

      @@Steve-gc5nt To be fair. No French cars are on the first list and no French brand is on the second.

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    5. @megapangolin1093 Avatar
      @megapangolin1093

      I think unreliability was part of the handover deal.

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  7. @pashwesty3313 Avatar
    @pashwesty3313

    I dont get in what situation a car with a warranty would require the owner to spend £1500 on anything, surely the only things that aren’t covered are consumables like tyres and brakes??

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    1. @ColinCarFan Avatar
      @ColinCarFan

      Lot’s of people don’t get cars serviced regularly or properly which can cause them to be out of warranty. Also, people blame things like suspension damage that they’ve caused on the car/dealer.

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  8. @nigelbradley613 Avatar
    @nigelbradley613

    My cortina is very reliable 😂😂😂

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    1. @skasteve6528 Avatar
      @skasteve6528

      The ‘infotainment’ system might chew up the odd cassette, but the radio still works.

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    2. @nigelbradley613 Avatar
      @nigelbradley613

      @@skasteve6528.i have an 8 track installed and in the boot I have a ‘wireless ‘ AA book of maps which never disconnects

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    3. @siraff4461 Avatar
      @siraff4461

      Any Cortina is an infinitely better car than most new junk.

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    4. @kcebliks Avatar
      @kcebliks

      But my mates Morris Minor only broke down 3 times on a recent 20 mile return journey

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  9. @Backpfeifengesicht45 Avatar
    @Backpfeifengesicht45

    Laughs in Toyota.

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    1. @jsp1160 Avatar
      @jsp1160

      Same as mine

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    2. @siraff4461 Avatar
      @siraff4461

      Its not nice to mock the afflicted. Of course people keep buying them so they deserve it really.

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    3. @Backpfeifengesicht45 Avatar
      @Backpfeifengesicht45

      @@siraff4461 and they cost no less than a Toyota, Hyundai/Kia, Honda, etc.

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    4. @jameshowe6057 Avatar
      @jameshowe6057

      20 years ago when i had a corolla with the 4E-FE engine id have agreed, now a simple you tube search about toyota engine and kia/Hyundai engine failures for that matter,makes me think there no different to anyone else now

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  10. @daviddegea920 Avatar
    @daviddegea920

    So basically the infotaintment system of the VW group is crap

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    1. @dannyclarke8534 Avatar
      @dannyclarke8534

      In a nutshell, yes. Similar issues on the Skoda, Audi and Lamborghini infotainment systems

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    2. @TL-xw6fh Avatar
      @TL-xw6fh

      Hence the reason why their cars have largely disappeared from the UK top 10 car sales. Indeed their European sales are in terminal decline with many plant closures being planned or announced.

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    3. @paullovett689 Avatar
      @paullovett689

      My 2021 SEAT LEON KL 1.4 eHybrid had a few Infotainment bugs with the orignal firmware v1780. Updated it easily myself to v1899, v1940 and v1969 using a good quality USB C stick – firmware sourced from SEAT forums. Took about 90 mins to do them all. Now good, no issues at all – great car. I returned my 2020 VW Golf 1.5 TSI Syle due to lots of false warnings mainly due to infotainment bug but also suspect early VW Golf hardware issues that cannot be fixed.

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    4. @paultasker7788 Avatar
      @paultasker7788

      Yep. One reason why I got a golf 7.5 rather than risk the 8! 7.5 infotainment system and conventional HVAC controls and no haptic buttons. Not amazing system but generally decent and reliable

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  11. @MithunOnTheNet Avatar
    @MithunOnTheNet

    Unsurprisingly, not a single Toyota or Honda.

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    1. @siraff4461 Avatar
      @siraff4461

      Shocking, isn’t it? Toyota, Honda, Lexus – all missing somehow.

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    2. @justmejustme3042 Avatar
      @justmejustme3042

      Also not a single Hyundai or Kia..

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    3. @jameshowe6057 Avatar
      @jameshowe6057

      Pop over to USA and see how those brands are doing reliability wise, seems UK market is definitely different

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    4. @z1om1 Avatar
      @z1om1

      Also no Tesla…

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    5. @paultasker7788 Avatar
      @paultasker7788

      But there is a Mazda

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  12. @glideman Avatar
    @glideman

    The results are just plain wrong, I’ve worked in a garage for twenty years and no way is Land Rover not THE most unreliable!

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    1. @DanRyzESPUK Avatar
      @DanRyzESPUK

      They said the samples were for newer cars, up to 5 years old.

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    2. @medicalstudybuddy2964 Avatar
      @medicalstudybuddy2964

      Hahahahaa I was also looking for Jeep

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    3. @khalidacosta7133 Avatar
      @khalidacosta7133

      To be unreliable, it has to be diagnosed by the dealer, then fixed…. slight problem when the cars haven’t made it into the dealers…. and those that have… haven’t made it back out 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    4. @lowfeelsblvd Avatar
      @lowfeelsblvd

      Ok mate. Your garage doesn’t represent the entire country though does it?

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    5. @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697 Avatar
      @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697

      @@lowfeelsblvd Very true, I rarely even see them on the roads where I live.

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  13. @renaissancechambara Avatar
    @renaissancechambara

    Great to see MG carrying on the great British tradition of British leyland like performance. heritage in action!

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    1. @siraff4461 Avatar
      @siraff4461

      Its just a shame there is less rust on them when they come out of the dealership now.
      Not zero though – its there if you look. The suv thing they had in the showroom looked lovely apart from the rust on the exhaust, some bolts under the bonnet and the striker that holds the boot down.
      Thats a brand new car that still had the plastic stuff all over it.

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    2. @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697 Avatar
      @dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697

      @@siraff4461 British designed and built with 100% pure Chinesiam, what could possibly go wrong? 🤣🤣

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    3. @siraff4461 Avatar
      @siraff4461

      @@dodgywheelsandropeywiring5697 I’ve test driven a few over the last few years and used a couple as rentals but 20 mins or so in the showroom and I’d seen all I needed to for me ot keep my money in my pocket.
      Very much like the MGF I nearly went for in 1997. In the showroom, every wheel aiming a different direction, a bolt missing from the bonnet (engine cover thing) hinge, paint missing from the inside of the side skirt and on it went.
      The kicker was it had LHD mats in it. Colour coded to the interior (cream with green piping) but the cutout for the pedals was on the wrong side while the drivers one was half covering the pedals. The salesmans response was “dunno mate”.
      I was perplexed that they would spend money on a dealership and staff at all if that was the level.

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  14. @joehesketh9370 Avatar
    @joehesketh9370

    No surprises here. Any buyer for whom reliability is a priority is likely buying Toyota, Lexus, Kia or Hyundai I would imagine.

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  15. @Malpriorvids Avatar
    @Malpriorvids

    So EVs make up 1.9% of vehicles regularly used, but 50% of the most unreliable.

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    1. @rv_x3976 Avatar
      @rv_x3976

      80% of that 50% is produced by two of the most unreliable brands.

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    2. @Peter-gv6vf Avatar
      @Peter-gv6vf

      I was going to say, there seems to be a common theme developing here

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  16. @Fin6531 Avatar
    @Fin6531

    I had a MG ZS as a hire car on holiday this year, 13k km on the clock and the digital instruments cluster completely stopped working halfway through our trip 😂

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  17. @williamfence566 Avatar
    @williamfence566

    Got to love JLR. Celebrating not being bottom as usual

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  18. @mickdaly6537 Avatar
    @mickdaly6537

    Bought a Peugeot 308 in 2022 and from day one electrical problems, and only got worse, went from annoying little things to total shut down where car was completely flat battery system, the AA breakdown guy tried use jump pack to start it but there was a drain in system so no power was reaching battery and it went down hill from there, held on to car for 2 years before traded it in and out those 2 years it spent at least 6-7 months off the road and Peugeot totally refused to do anything as they needed a mechanic to see faults which they could not replicate in workshop

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  19. @michaelgoode9555 Avatar
    @michaelgoode9555

    Interesting that the electric Vauxhalls scored so badly and yet their stablemates in the Stellantis group were not in the worst ten. Implies that Vauxhall just don’t know how to bolt a car together.

    Similar issue for VAG with Seat it would seem.

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  20. @markwilson9061 Avatar
    @markwilson9061

    VAG Group
    VAG Group
    VAG Group
    PSA Group
    VAG Group
    SIAC Group
    MAZDA Group
    PSA Group
    SIAC Group
    NISSAN Group
    There are patterns…

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