rub up your engines today I'm going to
show you why not to buy a many because
their engineers I don't know they're
living in some kind of fantasy world
look at this
no it's got a cracked fan belt bud as
you can see here you can't even see the
fan belt from the top certainly you
can't work on it but you can't even see
it
so you got a Jack the car up in the air
take off the tour then go inside after
you got to take all this crap out of the
way but look inside here first of all
there's an adjuster right here
that's a fulcrum that has to be pulled
off to loosen the tension on the belt
this is the tidy nan but the end that
you loosen is hidden up there you can't
even see it
and it has this huge knot that no tool
that I have can even fit in the hole
nevertheless turn to loosen it but a
setup like this in this mini that takes
the case is probably the most
design I've ever seen in my life I mean
other cars they have fan belts and they
go around each pulley and they work fine
why on earth did they make a system that
has a fan belt that does all of the
pulleys except one and then that one is
run indirectly by this stupid plastic
tension or device that pulls up against
it which serves as a friction device to
run that pulley now I have seen stupid
things in my life but this takes the
case from a company that's basically
German a lot of BMW and English the most
Mickey Mouse design I have ever seen in
my life the only thing I saw that was
dumber than that was ages ago the mg's
had two six volt batteries in them
connected together to make a 12 volt
battery mg was going from 6 volt to 12
volt systems and I guess they had a
warehouse full of six small batteries so
rather than putting a 12 volt battery in
they put two six volt once it hooked
them together to make 12 volts I mean
only the English would make your car
that and we continued to do
something as crazy as that you got this
little wheel here that runs off the main
wheel and then you got another pull here
with the stupid little rubber thing
built on it that runs off the friction
of this wheel spinning why didn't they
just make a belt that went around it
like every other man you
now granted they're cute cars there's
one here my neighbor just bought a brand
new one too it's got that cool dual
sunroof giant sunroof a cute little
double doors cute little cars they got
decent handling club giant speedometer
in the middle with the tachometer right
in front of your zoom zoom and actually
quite comfortable seats pretty good gas
mileage this is getting 35.2 average
city and highway but I love the hood
it's just too tiny it's got a little
bitty 1.4 liter engine barely gets out
of its own way with an automatic
transmission and the wiring don't even
get me talking about the wiring I've
seen the headlight wiring be so thin
that they all melt and start fusing
together because the insulation comes
off in a bare metal touches bare metal
just on call for these days as you can
see here it says made in EU
hey maybe brexit it's a good deal for
the Brits to get this crappy European
stop putting in their cars they're
better off without it if you ask me look
at all the cheap plastic stuff even way
inside here the intake manifolds made
out of plastic - a lot of plastic junk
believe me it was my experience on these
things they get to be old like this once
nine years old all that plastic starts
cracking starts breaking and it may be
made out of plastic but it's not cheap
plastic when you're buying English or
German made plastic parts for a mini be
prepared to pay up the wazoo form
catalytic converters go out on these
things
sometimes they cost well over 1,200
bucks for a new one they just are not
solid built now the original Mini it was
a revolutionary car after World War two
British didn't have much money a lot of
more riding around on motorcycles with
side cars some of those side cars little
bitty cabins going down the road with
people hiding inside them but the driver
of the motorcycle still had to go
through all the letters so they came up
with a mini front-wheel drive vehicle
that was simple to fix didn't cost much
to buy and didn't cost much to repair
and got phenomenal gas mileage for tiny
little car but the new mini it's
anything but revolutionary it's just
using technology to other cars had and
building them all that well the engines
that they use now they're not all that
dependable either I see them blowing
head gaskets all the time or they got 40
50 thousand miles on them and they're
burning tons of oil burn a corn oil
every four or 500 miles just not built
all that well and when he combines
thinks that I built that wealth with the
same things that aren't designed all
that well like the ridiculous fanned out
system on this car that's just a recipe
for disaster so unless you're into
disasters yourself my advice is stay far
away from the minis if you want a car
that's gonna last and even hold its
value over time you can get these things
really cheap used but there's a reason
for it and it's a reason that says told
buy it in the first place so if you
never want to miss another one of my new
car repair videos remember to ring that
Bell
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