rev up your engines today I'm gonna talk about the rise and fall of the Chrysler
200 this particular one it's a 2016 Chrysler 200s now back in 2016 these
things listed for $26,000 for me I don't know anybody would buy one they could
have gotten a four-cylinder Camry for $1,000 less but of course this is an
Italian design this is after Fiat Chrysler and Europe they called these
things Lancias for that famous line of Italian sports cars but of course here
in the United States people who them know that they were absolute
piles of junk that fell apart cost a fortune to maintain and yeah they were
sporty but man they did not hold up over time now they started selling
Chrysler 200s in the United States in 2010 and they stopped selling them in
2017 2012 they sold over 125 thousands of these 200s in the United States they
stopped selling in 2017 that was the last year they saw them and in that year
they only sold 18,000 to me it's amazing that they could sucker so many people to
buy so many of them when they were such low quality vehicles to begin with
because there's a lot of Fiat stuff and Fiats not known for high quality in
this case it's got the four-cylinder engine which they call the world 2.4
because the can't say it's an American engine because it isn't its Italian
engine the kind of sneaky and at respect you can see on the door it says vehicle
made in USA and by made they mean put together the engine it wasn't made in
the United States like I say it's the Italian engine this is the automatic
transmission which you're known to be weak and as you can see here it contains
that new ridiculous refrigerant our 1234yf which can cost over $100 a pound
when it leaks and you got to refill it or got to work on the system EPA
anti-pollution type stuff they get brownie points and the government for
using that stuff but I've got a whole video on that that explains why it's
kind of a joke some of the manufacturers have gone to it now to me
bad move really it's a bad move now do you look at the car yup it's pretty
stylish tell you is he good at make it stylish huh it's got the years of a
bucket seats that are pretty comfortable nothing wrong with that
it's got the usual back seat that there's some room and seats flipped down
so you can use the trunk to carry more stuff by flopping the seats down now for
something as modern as this you can see the dash is the kind of dated rather
date it's not particularly swanky now this protecting the wands only got fifty
thousand miles on it so you know it hasn't really been tested out that many
miles typical for Italian engine does they wear out they make a lot of noise
they're not as quality control built to say the Camry like I say you could have
bought a brand new Camry for five grand less than this back in 2016
why would you bought this it's beyond me now this thing puts out a hundred and
seventy-three horsepower but the Camry we're cylinder it puts out five more
horsepower than that one hundred and seventy eight so it's not even like this
is a zippe Italian car it's faster it's actually slower now six months after
this particular model they stopped making them and selling them in United
States so it's it's not surprising me kind of surprised me that it lasted even
as long as the dead even though that was a relatively short run cuz let's face it
you're are down engine noise fifty thousand miles this engine makes more
noise than my celica does with two hundred and forty thousand miles on it
quality not Fiats known and safety I got a one-star side pole and got nothing on
the side there one of the lower rated by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Association for safety and crashes they look cool with the dual exhaust why it
has a dual exhaust on a four-cylinder engine is beyond me but they do look
good they're kind of like most Italian things that really look good but when
you get underneath the hood things aren't what they seem
now these two hundreds are the replacement for the Sebring's
and if you know anything about Sebring's it's kind of like Chrysler went from the
Sebring fire into the 200 frying pan and to add insult to injury I'm doing a
brake job on this thing today and there's like six different
brake pads this thing could possibly have the Italians do they standardize
things no oh we do not care about standards it's they're not organized
like the Germans and the Japanese where you could take the VIN number of the car
and find out exactly which pads are on it I'm gonna have to take it all apart
when I'm doing the brake job bring the brake pads with me to a place that says
well we have most of the different ones there's one we don't have don't by the
time I'm done filming us taking it apart and bringing the pads they should have
every possible combination so I can match it up but really do you want to
have a car like that so just be able to say here's the car but buyers are the
number I need the parts and yeah people still wonder why is Chrysler Fiat having
problems well because of the root of the problems which is Italian based
manufacturing combined with Chrysler a lack of knowledge they're not exactly a
shining example of a great corporation we taxpayers had to bail them out a
while ago so and if you do a little research on the problems with these 200
so you have engine problems they have transmission problems they have
electrical problems or what a surprise an Italian car with electrical problems
that's why years ago we mechanics used to call Fiats fix it again Tony because
their electrical systems were absolute disaster areas it truly amazes me that
Chrysler was able to sell so many of these things as they did in that 10-year
lifespan of the model I guess it goes to show that good looks often works when
people are trying to sell something what I have so many good looking models and
advertisements I guess there's a point to that but really when the good looks
aren't backed up by quality manufacturing really what's the point
it's a car you're driving for transportation not a work of art that
you're looking at in a museum because these world engines the kind of example
of everything that's wrong with the world not what's right with the world
but on the other hand there must be something right with the world because
they don't make these things anymore
and here's some bonus questions and answers just says Scotty I share
your love with The Matrix bought my daughter one a few years back when she was at
Texas Tech on the way back from Abilene she had some degree in flipped over and
rolled she just kicked out the windshield and she walked out unharmed
what a vehicle hey what a story boy what a tough daughter turning
around she just kicks the windshield out walks away yeah they are solid built
vehicles there's no doubting that you know they're all made in Cambridge
Ontario Canadians really do know how to make cars I've had two Canadian cars I
have a matrix now and I used to have a Ford Maverick that was made in Oakville
Ontario yeah canadians made solid cars and the matrix is you know maybe small
cars but they're pretty safe with the airbags that they got him and she saw
rolled you just kicked out the windshield and walked out on harm that's
you know amaze interesting story mixie recess says I got a 2017 pilot
22,000 miles it has a rough shift from three to four and then four to five
hard shift sometimes take it in to the dealer they can't find anything wrong yeah well
that's because you got 22,000 miles and still under warranty and they don't want
to pay for anything that is not correct there's no if ands or buts about that
what you want to do is go to an independent transmission shop pay them
to analyze it and videotape it when you're out testing it see what they say
and then with that paperwork take it to the dealer and say I want this thing
fixed under warranty they can be absolute scumbags at the dealer's it's
under warranty they don't want to fix anything for free
there's no way a vehicle that's only a couple of years old is gonna be rough
shifting and hardships they just don't want to find anything wrong or they say
oh that's normal bunch of nonsense go to a good
independent transmission shop have them analyze it then take it to the dealer
and say hey here it is I want this thing fixed under warranty you got a scream at
them I mean at the time you do because you know they don't want to spend any
money fixing stuff for free they're making a profit so they often say oh we
can't for anything wrong which is a load of baloney because they have really
high-tech equipment that they can analyze that stuff but they don't want
to tell you it's a problem that they're gonna have to fix under warranty on the
other hand say it was five eight years old with
more mileage sure they'd find problems then because they'd want to rebuild it
or replace the transmission that's the problem those places you got to put
their feet to the fire before they're gonna do anything
oh it's Matt says Scotty my friend owns a 2012 Ford Mustang v6 manual 5-speed
transmission with one hundred and thirty three thousand miles it's been running great
and Said he turned his car on for lunch and you heard a noise and now it's got
misfiring gently with that it's one of two things
pray that it was the catalytic converter breaking it's making a rattling noise
they can break internally and when they break internally the substrata which is
like honeycomb can break off turn sideways jam the exhaust off then you're
gonna start misfiring because the exhaust can't breathe out it'd be like
somebody holding our hand over their mouth and pinching your nose you
couldn't breathe in and out in that case it's just breathing out prey it's a bad
catalytic converter you release you go under there and you hit it with a hammer
rattles you know it's kind of a cover because if it isn't odds already damaged
the engine something broke inside the engine if he's got a Mustang and he's
really beating the thing hard it could have easily broken the engine of course
it will misfire that pray it's the catalytic converter had that tested
first and replace it if that's the case but you know if he rubs it up a lot he
easily could have broken something internally to the engine and it's gonna
rattle and get misfire codes too
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