rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about five used cars that you should
never buy if you value your money, and your sanity, now to begin with I'm
talking about normal cars that normal people will be buying use, I'm not
talking about luxury cars like Range Rovers that I tell nobody ever to buy a
used Range Rover, I'm talking about normal cars that average people would
buy, and over the years I hate it when I have my own customers not know any
better and buy one of these horrible cars, and then they have nothing but
problems with them, now the first car I advise you
not to buy, is a 2014 Mini, now minis are really a bad combination,
you have the expensive parts of a BMW made in England, the Germans of course are
known for high technology that's very expensive to repair when it breaks and the
English are known for cars that just flat-out break, now with my own customers
who bought minis, I've seen engines blow I've seen electrical wiring short out
because they use too thin of a gauge of wire to save money and then it overheats
and then the wiring connectors all start to short out and sometimes even the
wires themselves start to touch because the plastic coating melts and then they
short out when the coating melts and the copper touches copper, so as cute as they
may look, stay away from buying a used mini, now the next car not to buy used is
the 2015 Volkswagen Beetle, now I've talked about beetles before the old ones in the
50s and 60s were great air-cooled cheap machines to get you from here to there and
lasts a long time, but the new beetles that's another story entirely, I've had
customers with new beetles have to put in new automatic transmissions that
costs five, six thousand dollars and up have air conditioning electrical
problems, it's a good idea to stay away from buying a used beetle these days,
unless it's an old one from the 60s because their high technology and high
cost of parts, completely against what the original beetle was, makes them cars
that cost a lot to fix and they tend to break a lot, a lot of plastic parts in
them are really cheap and they crack and break all of my customers that bought them, they
were all dissatisfied in the end, none of them
were really happy, now the next used car to stay away from is the 2013 Chevy
spark, now the Chevy spark is a subcompact car, one of the larger sub
compacts, they're extremely poorly made vehicles, there are so many better made
ones, like the Toyotas or the Honda's there'd be no reason for you to buy a
used chevy spark, in my own customers cars who bought them
I saw excessive oil consumption, sometimes the engine would just go out
and tirely and stopped running and had to be replaced, and this is with people
who change the oil and filter, it's not like somebody who just drives it and
never changes the oil, they just weren't all that well built, I'll give you a
comparison, years ago I had a customer who had a Toyota and he brought it to me
cuz it had stopped running and it was a two year old vehicle, it had a hundred
thousand miles on it, I checked it out and said,
oh it needed a fuel pump to put a fuel pump on, but I said and man your engine it's all
oily and dirty, it's leaking all over the place, what's going on this is a Toyota, and
he said well you know I drive so many miles as a salesman, I never changed the
oil in this Toyota, now it had 100,000 miles in it and = he never changed the oil,
but the car had ran that long until the fuel pump just happened to have gone out,
so though he had never changed the oil in a
hundred thousand miles, the Toyota was still going, well I got customers with
these Chevy's and hey they changed the oil regularly and they burn oil like mad
anyway even though they were being changed, and aside from that their rattle
buckets, they rattle like mad, they're very poorly constructed, stay away from the
Chevy spark, you want a subcompact hey get a Toyota or Honda they're gonna last
tons longer, now the next used car not to buy, is the 2014 Mazda cx-9
I had a customer buy one use, his wife liked it cuz it was zippy and they
thought it looked cool, and yeah I gotta admit Mazdas look cool, but that's
only on the outside, they made the mistake of buying a used one, had a
hundred thousand miles on it, about two weeks later the engine started going out
it was running poorly, I started checking it out
I said we're gonna have to rebuild the engine,
the cams and everything are just coming apart, now there's so many little SUVs to
choose from, there'd be no reason to buy one of these Mazdas, they have problems
with the windows not staying up, even though they're not that old of a car,
they have interior problems, hey there is such a large amount of good medium-sized
SUVs out there, there's really no reason to buy this Mazda, and the odd thing that
I always found out about Mazda was, man their replacement parts can be super
expensive, it's kind of crazy but over the years even the last 30 years, when I
work on a Mazda, the parts can be four or five times what they are for an
equivalent Toyota or Honda, and if you're buying a used one, hey things are gonna
break, you don't want a car that has expensive parts when they do break down,
part of the problem in the past anyways was that they made a lot of models and
they didn't sell that many of each one so there wasn't much of an aftermarket
like with a Toyota or Honda, I could get good aftermarket parts, with the Mazda it
was always, either trying to use one from a junkyard or go to the dealer and pay
$500 for something that was $100 for a Toyota or Honda, so whatever used car
you're looking, at take a look into the parts availability and costs and the
aftermarket for that particulars model because if yours doesn't have much of an
aftermarket, and you're stuck with buying expensive dealer only parts, hey my
suggestion is look at a different model of used car, now the last vehicle I advise
you never to buy used, is a 2013 Jeep Compass, now Chrysler certainly not known
for quality over the years, the Jeep Compass was basically their attempt to
make a cheaper Jeep that would cost less so they could try to sell more to more
people, if you ask me they went too cheap ,their
trim is very cheap, the interior has a tendency of falling apart, the dashes
will crack in the sun after a short period of time, they just went too cheap
on these things to try to keep the price down a little, so they could try to sell
more of them, I had a customer with one of these things, when they were driving
taking a corner, the car turned off in the wheel locked up, this is on a vehicle
that had 17,000 on it, and then when they took it to the dealer
of course it was under warranty, they said they couldn't find anything wrong
with it, well my customer worried that, oh what if
that happens again I take a corner and the steering wheel locks up and the vehicle
turns off, that's dangerous, so they got rid of the thing, they said I don't want to be
driving this thing around anymore, so my warning is, don't get in his position
don't ever buy one of these things, he bought it new, certainly don't buy a
used one, now I was a kid jeeps were made by willys-overland
they were solid little vehicles, I mean they used them in world war two, they went
all over the places and some of those are still
running, but since Chrysler's taking over and then Fiat took over Chrysler, Hey the
quality just is not there, Jeep has been living off a name for decades as far as
I'm concerned, if you were to get a Jeep hey get a refurbished one from the 60s
or 70s, those are solid built vehicles take the Jeep renegade, the one they
advertise, that's basically a four-wheel drive Fiat Panda, they made those for a really
long time, but they're just little bitty things they have nothing to do with
actual jeeps, but now they're selling it as a Jeep, and people think, oh I got a
Jeep, no you basically got a Fiat Panda sometimes people just keep trying to
suck more money out of of a name to try to get blood from a stone, and as far as
I'm concerned, that's what Chrysler Fiat is doing, they're just using the name
Jeep and sticking it on stuff that has no historical relation to Jeep at all,
they just put the name on a Fiat and call it a Jeep, so now you know five used
cars not to buy, and yes there's plenty more out there, but certainly stay away from
these five if you value your money, so if you never want to miss another one of my
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