rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about five cars that won't make it to a
hundred thousand miles, now of course any car can make it to a
hundred thousand miles if you want to spend a fortune on it, putting another
engine or transmission, or spending a fortune repairing it, I'm talking about
cars and won't make it to a hundred thousand miles if you just change the
oil and filter and take care of them, they just won't make it because they're so
poorly made, now the first vehicle I'm gonna tell you
about is the Range Rover, no surprise to anyone who knows vehicles they are
notorious for having all kinds of electrical problems, now the original
Rovers, there were copies of American jeeps from World War two, the English
saw them liked them, so they made their own one with little bitty four-cylinder
engines and those things they could run a really long time, but then they started
to think, let's make a bigger ones, luxurious ones, and sell them for a whole
bunch of money, and while the little ones, some
of those original ones are still running all over the world, Africa you name it,
but the bigger ones they all proved to be pretty much money pits, and then that
Indian company Tata that makes the really cheap car, they bought them out so
now they own them, and really if anything the
quality's gotten even worse, now I know another mechanic and he loves them
because that's all he works on, and he says Scotty
these things are great, it's like you're printing out money for me, they brake so
much I make a fortune fixing them, and the modern Range Rover, they have all
this electronic stuff and it's fine if it works
like in a Lexus, but their's doesn't, I have a customer with one and he says
every day is a new adventure in what electronic part will fail next, I had a
customer who had one, in the first year of ownership the dealership actually had
the car for four months attempting to fix it, and it never really was fixed, one
time he took it in for a problem when he got it back that problem was gone, but there
were four new electronic problems that suddenly popped up, and when you take
into consideration they've had head gasket failures over the years, it's just
not a vehicle that you can buy and think you get a hundred thousand trouble-free
miles of driving it, it's just not the case, and of course the
smart person would look at the resale value of the Range Rovers and see hows
incredibly low they are, so they think woe I can get one cheap, well there's a
reason you get one cheap, because it may be cheap to buy but it's not gonna
be cheap to fix and it's gonna break a lot, now the next car that probably won't
make it trouble-free to a hundred thousand miles is the Chevy Cruze, now
lately GM has been known for poor quality, but the Cruze it takes the prize
that's one of the worst cars they ever made, I have a customer with one, 70 thousand
miles, it's on its third automatic transmission, it's just insane, they keep
replacing them, they keep breaking them, because they're just so poorly made and
I said, well what do you think now, he said I should have spent the extra three
four thousand instead of having this pile of junk
that I'm just going to get rid of the next time the transmission goes out
because it won't be under warranty then, granted the Cruz is a lower priced car
but it's got even lower quality in it, my advice stay far away from them, but if
you have to get one, say you found one that looks okay and it's real cheap, only buy
one if it has a standard transmission, the rest of the cars are poor quality
but nowhere near as bad as the automatic transmissions, now the next car that
probably will make it trouble-free to a hundred times miles, is the mini and yes
they're cute that's how they sell the things, but they're not made cute, I see
it all the time, the engines have a tendency of blowing head gaskets and
don't even get me talking about the wiring on those cars
I had one come over here the headlights weren't working, so I pulled out the
headlights and all the tiny little wires that fed it were the thinnest things
I've ever seen and they were all melted together, now with modern manufacturing
processes, you think they'd be able to make wiring that goes to the headlights
that could last forever, well this particular vehicle it was only three and
a half years old and the wiring was already all melting together, that's just uncalled
for, that shows quality control that's down the toilet
and the ones that have CVTs they're notorious for transmission failure
that's what happens when you start putting higher technology in a
German / English car and sell them without really doing any kind of serious testing
of the things, now I remember years ago Honda had carbureted cars in the United
States, but at the same time they were selling fuel-injected Honda's in England
they used in England as a test ground, and once they got all the glitches out
of their fuel injection systems, then they started selling fuel-injected cars
in the United States, and guess what those Honda fuel injection
systems are pretty bulletproof, they didn't have
any problems at all really, maybe mini should have learned from that, maybe they
should have just tested all the stuff in England first, before they started
shipping them to the United States and have them fall apart, and when they do
fall apart man with all those BMW parts on them,
they are expensive, I did one the other day I had to put a brake caliper on
it, I couldn't believe how much money the parts cost, I tried various places nobody
had them, and I noticed when I did have to buy the caliper at the dealer for an
ungodly sum, it said BMW on it, because it's a BMW part, they got lot of BMW parts on them,
three years old it wasn't that old, stuff shouldn't fail that early, so if you want
to maximize your car value, don't buy a mini, now the next car that generally
won't make it to a hundred thousand miles is the Fiat 500, a while back Fiat
left the United States and they left for three entire decades and didn't sell
cars in the United States, but now with Fiat buying Chrysler, Fiats are back in the
United States, perhaps they should've stayed back in Italy and not come here, I
had a customer, forty thousand miles the engine blew up oil and told it was
change regularly, it was just a poorly made little car, now theoretically its an
upgrade from the original Fiat 500 which was called Fiat 500 cuz it had a 500 cc
engine in it, the new Fiat 500 comes with a stock 1400 cc engine, a lot more than
the 500 CC but really the quality control, they haven't learned much in the
last 30-40 years at Fiat, now one year when they first came out to the United
States, these new Fiat 500 they sold like 40-something thousand of the things,
which was a decent start, but last year they sold less than five thousand, so
they're going down the tubes, and the rumor mill has it that
they might just pull Fiat out of the US market, and sure from what people tell me
in Europe, the Fiat 500s are mainly standard transmissions a lot of them are
diesels, here in the United States people mainly get automatic, and in 2016 Fiat had
to recall a lot of their automatic transmissions for shifting into neutral
all by themselves, they recalled over 300,000 of them, now of course they
weren't all five hundreds because they didn't sell that many of them there, but
you take a little car like that that's underpowered then put an automatic
transmission on top of it makes it even less powerful, and they just don't fit in
with the American market, now granted the Fiat 500 wasn't as dismal as a failure
is say the smart car, but the smart cars they sold such a small amount of cars,
I don't even include them in this video because as far as I'm concerned they
really don't exist as a model in the United States, now the last car that
probably won't make it trouble-free to 100,000 miles is a late-model Nissan
Altima, especially with one that has the CVT transmission, now I do say modern
because you go back decade or so or more the Nissan Altimas we're actually very
good cars, I had customers buy them totally happy with them, the acceleration the gas
mileage the handling, whoo since Renault took over their quality has gone,
but not only are their automatic transmissions garbage, they blow head
gaskets on all the time too, I see head gaskets blowing on Altimas
frequently, it's just something that should never happened with modern metals,
they know how to make them, obviously Nissan isn't putting that into
practice anymore, and it's a shame really because I've had customers that owned
Altimas decades ago, then when they bought a newer one and it fell apart
they were so disappointed cuz they said oh we remembered our old Altimas and
they lasted so long, but this one was just a pile of junk, so don't make the same
mistake yourself, stay away from late-model Nissan Altimas, so now you
know five cars that aren't gonna make it trouble-free to a hundred thousand miles,
and why you should stay away from them if you value your money,
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