rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about the least reliable vehicles
of 2018, I've picked the Chevy Traverse as the fifth least reliably made car in
2018, with my own customers who bought those, some had serious transmission
problems with them, more than one of them had problems with the electric door lock
system not working correctly, they're just not built all that well, I had one
customer who decided to buy Traverse because they used to be now a GM fan and
they said, oh the Suburbans were just too expensive so they spent like $34,000
instead on a Traverse, and boy were they disappointed without 30-some thousand
dollars they spent, they've given up they're never gonna buy another GM
product, let's face it you don't want to have transmission problems in a vehicle
that's got 20 something thousand miles like my customer had, now number four is
the Honda clarity it's a plug-in hybrid, now if you followed me you know I'm not a
hybrid fan to begin with, but really you want a hybrid get a Prius they pretty
much are the master of hybrid cars, now yes Honda's been making hybrid cars
are quite sometime too, but if you look at the sales, the Hondas just we're not
that popular, and my customers with them they had many more problems than the ones
that had Toyota Priuses, the Honda clarity have had problems with the fuel
emission system, with the body hardware, and with climate control systems and
since they're so complex they are not cheap cars to repair, you can imagine
what's going to happen when they get to be even older and have even more serious
problems, so my advice is stay clear of the Honda clarity, now number three on
the list is the Cadillac ATS, so here GM gets two of the cars in the top 5 of the
worst made cars, now most people are buying versions of this ATS that are
over $40,000, they have had so many electronic problems especially in the
fancy little dash for all the console that controls everything, you they think for
that kind of money the interactive screen would work well
but had a customer who had theirs go bad, they took it in to the dealer, and
they replaced it and when they drove out it didn't work just like it did before
he had taken it in, okay now I'm all for technology when it works, but if you're
paying that kind of money and the technology doesn't work, hey take my
advice buy a different vehicle, I mean I bought
touchscreen things for my customers cars and installed them, some of these Chinese
units work quite well and it cost maybe two hundred and fifty bucks
you think Cadillac charging that kind of money for the vehicles could at least
that screens the work, but more seriously they've had problems with the drive
system with the drivetrain, the transmission, all in all for the money
that you're paying, I would not advise buying a Cadillac ATS, I've had two
personal customers that bought ATS and they told me, I will never buy another
Cadillac product again, so it pretty much says it all, now number two on the list of
least reliable cars, the Tesla Model X the most expensive one too, because they
start at about $85,000, okay it's an all-electric car but they have problems
with the in-car electronics, you think that they'd have that ironed out, but the
main complaints that people have with them is they have noises, they have leaks
problems with the body Hardware, they're just not manufactured all that well, I've
checked them out and found that the body panels didn't fit all that well, one side
would have a bigger gap than the other side, I mean that's just poor
manufacturing quality, fascinating technology and the Tesla's I'm just
gonna argue that, but when you're in that astronomical price range of pushing to a
hundred grand, compare other cars they're fit and their ride is much
better than the Tesla is, people that spend that kind of money on a car expect a
smooth quiet no noise situation, but these things are
rattling, the body parts aren't fitting right, you don't expect that out of a car
that's almost a hundred thousand dollars, I mean really, I paid four grand for this
used Lexus and it's still quite as can be, yeah I could buy 25 of these for one of those
now here comes the moment you've all been waiting for, what is the least
reliable one well guess what, it's a Dodge Fiat Chrysler, the 3500 Ram
well if you ask me it's only fitting that a Chrysler product is the top of
the list, because hey historically it made lots of problems, my grandfather
didn't even like Dodge products when he was young and he was a mechanic long
before me, and they just seem to continue to go along the lines of making vehicles
that have problems and fall apart long before they should, from minor things like
cheaply made dashboard that crack and fall apart, to more serious things like
automatic transmissions that go out when they have thirty-forty thousand miles on
them, and engine cooling problems, fuel system leaks, suspension problems like
ball joints going bad, the list goes on and on for the RAM, because if you ask
me, when fiat bought chrysler that was akin to Sears and Kmart merging, two
wrongs don't make a right in my book, you can see how well the Sears Kmart merger
went, their closing stores all over the place, and with Fiat and Chrysler hey the
quality of Chrysler certainly hasn't gone up, it wasn't that great to begin
with but hey, it's going down relatively rapid as far as I'm concerned, so now
you've been warned of some of the bad cars out there that you might think
twice before you plop down your hard-earned money, because even though
I'm a mechanic, hey I'm also consumer myself, I hate buying the wrong vehicle
and I hate having customers with the wrong vehicle too, there's plenty of things
that are normally gonna wear out over time
for me to keep busy with, I don't need cheaply made cars coming in here when
they are very old, with problems that shouldn't happen until they you have a
hundred or 150 thousand miles on them, so if you never want to miss another one of
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