Welcome to another video
so hey there guys and
Welcome to a video about my Chinese car
Now it has been approximately six and a half almost, yea, six and a half years or so
No, is it? Anyway about six years since I bought this thing. Yes. I bought it in 2010 so it's been six years.
And I've put on
ninety seven thousand seven hundred and forty kilometers on to this thing which is
fairly impressive for a little car like this.
I don't drive it as much as I used to but, it gets driven at least once a week, a couple hundred kilometers and
Well my report on this car is a little mixed. I'd say
Considering what I paid for it brand new it's actually really good.
and it cost me forty eight thousand RMB brand new and
Over the years the repair costs have been very very little I'd say
Probably all-in-all about 10,000 RMB is being spent fixing it and it's been things like Routine maintenance
Replacing the things that usually you need to replace on a car however
I'm going to find a place to pull over and I'm going to show you some of the major things that did go wrong
which are quite worrying and
You know kind of just reminded me that yes it is in fact a Chinese car
Alright guys. Let's get out of the car, I'm going to show you a couple of things under the hood alright, so
bear with me here
Alright, so for those of you. Who know cars come take a look over here
Probably the biggest and most annoying thing has been the Aircon compressor, which is down there, it's had to be replaced three times.
Ok twice under warranty, but one time I had to pay for it
But basically every other year that thing's given up the ghost which is really really annoying
But something that I really really am very concerned about is it if you take a look here this rubber
Okay, probably about three no, probably about four years into owning the car this rubber perished and from the vibration actually severed.
So it created a big hole and was sucking all sorts of rubbish into the throttle body here
And I actually had to get all the oxygen sensors and everything replaced and fixed because it messed everything up
but the rubber
It's not something you would expect to perish. I mean I've owned cars that are twenty years old and this rubber is still intact
but this
after four years just
Disintegrated which is really really worrying
Other than that
The only other major thing which I suppose is quite a major thing is the gear selector cables
Which if you come take a look down here...
Look all the way down there. This is the gearbox. You can actually see on top there. The cables which basically
Help you select your gear
One of them snapped while I was driving on the highway
So I changed gear and I just heard this clunking sound in the gear leaver, basically just became loose
And I had to like I did now stick my hand down in the engine there and actually manually get it into fourth gear by
manipulating the arms
And then I had to clutch pull out of there and ride pretty slowly and very dangerously all the way to my destination
Very cheap to fix though. Cost me about three hundred and fifty RMB to get it installed, a new set, which is nothing
I'll put up the u.s. Dollar amount, but that was really dangerous
other than that I haven't any problems with the car.
The tires surprisingly lasted very long in fact you're not going to believe this but I've still got the original
two of the original tires on here. Lets go take a look.
If you come here obviously I've put new tires on the on the front, but if you look over here these
These you still see plenty of tread. Yes, they are a little bit old and crappy, but those things have got
95 thousand kilometers on them and they're still going strong
That's just because the car is so light and small and obviously the rubber is really bad on the tires
But yeah. All in all pretty happy with this car. It's done me good for all the years
I've had it and who knows. It may be around for many more, so
Let's get back in and finish this off. Shall we.
So my overall-impressions
Honestly this car was definitely worth what I paid for it. It did everything
It needed to do it still does, Aircon blows cold
You know it's good on a rainy day.
And I can take long road trips incredibly fuel economic and all that. There's a lot of good points about this car, but yes
The quality compared to international cars still leaves a lot to be desired.
But that's pretty much it guys.
Thank you very much for watching and I hope you found it interesting. Until next time, as always guys, you know the drill. Stay Awesome.
You know if you guys are really interested in Chinese cars seamilk
And I last week went to a whole bunch of Chinese car dealers and took a look and rode through the parking lots
So we've got a whole episode about Chinese cars over on the Churchill channel. Here's a link go check it out
I think you'll find it very interesting.