The MOST UNRELIABLE cars (and brands) of 2024 | What Car?

What are the MOST UNRELIABLE cars (and brands) of 2024? Watch our video to find out the makes and models to avoid if you want and easy life.

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[rutgervideo]

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

[mattp]

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”.

[Fin]

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 😂

[anakinskywalker]

Reliability is subjective. I’m a mechanic & I do not consider anything that has to do with infotainment screens as a sign of unreliability. A car has one main job that is transport from A to B.
Everything else is superlative.
I focus on the mechanical bits. If a cars radio doesn’t work big 🤬deal. If the oily bits are not up to scratch then you can start to worry but all the other mumbo jumbo about the screen not working is BS in my view.
In fact I actually prefer older cars without said screens as they are way better you are less distracted

[daviddegea]

So basically the infotaintment system of the VW group is crap

[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!

[benpar]

10. Seat Ibiza
9. Porsche Taycan
8. Seat Leon
7. Vax Corsa electric
6. Vw golf diesel
5. Mg zs ev
4. Mazda CS60
3. Vax mokka Electric
2. MG4 EV
1. Nissan Juke

[Adam.Piper]

Consumers shoot themselves in the foot. Everyone demands more and more tech & electric equipment, but then complains when it goes wrong. Honestly, what is wrong with basic.

[mikadavies]

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.

[RedLine]

they forgot about the crappy PSA 1.2 Puretech and the useless wet timing belt that snaps or just gets the oil pump clogged with pieces of it way before the change schedule, or ford 1.0 ecoboost with same issues

[rjw]

I had a VW Golf brand new in 2010 - after 15, 000 miles the steering column broke. Had a Brand new VW TOuran in rather unreliable. Generally, your best choice for reliability is Japanese or Korean, I'd have thought.

[kawa]

I currently drive a 19 year old Lexus GS300 with 150k on it and its still runs like a Swiss watch and absolutely nothing has gone wrong with it other than a broken coil spring! I have had lots of more expensive cars including a 2015 BMW 750i and although lovely to drive i still had to use the BMW warranty 3 times in 6 months one of which was to replace the whole of the plumbing for the cooling system at a cost of nearly 2k which is a known issue. Thankfully covered by the warranty!

[leftyamazed]

I'm watching this video whilst sat in my Nissan Juke! I drove my Qashqai for 12 years and now lease this Juke. I stuck with Nissan because I trust the brand and have driven their cars for almost 20 of the past 34 years. I learned to drive in a Nissan Sunny and I owned a Micra back in the 90's.

[Malpriorvids]

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

[MithunOnTheNet]

Unsurprisingly, not a single Toyota or Honda.

[williamfence]

Got to love JLR. Celebrating not being bottom as usual

[RMJJ]

The petrol Corsa is fine. We’ve had it for 4 years now with only one window regulator issue. We bought it new and it now has 53.000 km on the odometer.
Only thing to keep in mind is the belt.

[nikc]

Can definitely confirm the unreliability of the electric mokka. At 2 years old needed the entire front suspension replaced. The electrics needed a hard reset at least twice and it refused to charge multiple times that the dealer simply couldn't fix. I had to get up at midnight every night to make sure it was charging and half the time needed to unlock and lock it again to make it start charging. Ended up paying the termination fee for the lease to make sure I didn't have it when the warranty ran out. Awful little car.

[philspencelayh]

A real eye opener. I didn't expect any electric cars in the list considering of the hugely reduced number of moving parts. Surprised to hear about Land Rover woes too. I've driven for my job 88s 110s and Defenders for many years (a lot of it off road) and can't recall any problems at all once you discount ineffective heaters and drinking petrol like it's going out of style.

[mickdaly]

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