rev up your engine, now people are always asking me about SUVs they're very popular I often
get asked about these Nissan Rogues so I've got a 2017 here now a lot of people
are trying to find an economy SUV they look at a Nissan Rogue this thing's got
enough energy it's 170 horsepower 4-cylinder engine 170 horsepower
4-cylinder engine enough power to pull it around but it also has the relatively
weak Nissan Jatco cvt transmission and that is the true weakness of this
vehicle I don't like jack code transmissions I'm not a fan of CVT
transmissions in general even when they're new as far as I'm concerned
they're relatively sloppy transmissions now this particularly one gets about 26
miles a gallon in town which is good for a SUV and 33 on a highway the CVT
transmissions are efficient I'll give them that
but number one I don't like the way they try a number two and he's Nissan's
I don't like the way they fall apart before their time I've seen scores of
these Nissan cvts break down normally the customer gets rid of the car when
they find out it's going to cost anywhere from four to six thousand
dollars to fix it correctly they just give up on a vehicle but on a positive
note generally they don't fall apart till they get more in a hundred thousand
miles if you're satisfied with that you can be satisfied with one of these rogues
as you check inside Oh black cloth seats but two very comfortable got the usual dash
just about everything you're gonna see in a normal car now one do in the back
you can see kids everywhere and the trunk itself these things have plenty of room
inside them and you flip things back you can have even more room it's got the
nice flip down armrest with cupholder she's got the heat and air conditioning
blowing into the back pretty well designed
disc brakes front and back stops quite well that's like a first fan got the off
keyless remote so you just push the button starts right up no see how it
takes off
not bad but I am NOT a CVT fan you can see it rubs up pretty high when you're
trying to take off fast and for a little SUV rice pretty smooth you know you're
gonna feel bumps here and there but it's not bad right it's got a decent ride to
it now we got a little straightaway we'll check it out see it guys sounds like a
motorboat to me
they just seem to be slipping to me when you're going
most of the CVTs they sacrifice acceleration and crisp and ly cuz you
can hear the relatively quiet vehicle it's not particularly noisy has a decent
ride for a small wheelbase that's a typical Japanese car
I put the AC on full blast as cold as it go sixty degrees it's putting out a nice
cold air the Japanese are great with air conditioners now if you buy one of these
rogues kind of a crapshoot they make them in Japan they make them in Korea
let me make them in the United States well I know the codes and if it's got
the number five code is the first VIN means this thing wasn't made in Japan or
Korea was made in the United States so when we go down here we see the VIN
number there it is it starts with a five so this one was made in the United
States even though if you look at the top it says my manufactured by Nissan
Motor Company Limited that doesn't tell you anything it's the VIN number that
tells you know this particular rod it's three years old here we look at the
speed oh it's got fifty seven thousand five hundred and eighty miles on it so I
wouldn't expect much to be wrong with it I'm doing a full 4 brake job cuz the
brake pads are worn down to the Squealer and it's all worn outside to Matt he
hasn't done anything except change the oil in the thing so here brand new for
twenty four thousand six hundred you're getting a decent SUV but on the other
hand for two grand more you could have bought a rav4 I'm too cheap to buy
anything new but if I was I'd forked a two grand extra to get Toyota's
reliability especially gonna keep a vehicle a long time but as I said this
is got 57,000 brake jobs the first major work done on it now yeah the CVT
transmission it could easily break when it gets a hundred some thousand miles on
where the rav4 would keep going now if they would have put better transmissions
in these things I would tell more people to buy them but as it stands the jet go
CV T's are just not great transmissions they're decent lookin SUV they got the
design right the interior is well set up and for you people out there who really
like saving money you get a used one of these if you can find a little mileage
one tons cheaper than the Toyotas you look for a good used rav4 people want a
ton of money because they're popular everybody knows they can last
long time and even a really high mileage one will be super expensive you can pick
these rogues up a lot cheaper and if it's low mileage you could have a lot of
life in it you might get a really good price just don't buy when it's got like
140 thousand miles and pay much for it because odds are that CVT transmissions
gonna go out and you're gonna have a really big expense now you know a little
bit more about the Nissan Rogue small SUV so you can make a wise decision
yourself and here's some bonus questions and answers Larry's on fire 65 says I
got 07 Chevy Tahoe it's getting horrible gas mileage but there's no check
engine light on I'm suing you did the obvious things like fuel filter air
filter spark plugs and if you did and it's still getting horrible fuel economy
the main thing that craps out is the MAF sensor mass airflow sensor it tells the
computer how much air is coming in and grams per second to put in the correct
amount of fuel for the same amount of air that's coming in those map sensors
it actually will go bad like on those I've seen him wear at idle maybe it's
supposed to be three point eight grams a second and I've seen him say as high as
40 grams a second when they really weren't so then it dumps more fuel and
check the MAF sensor first and if you don't have a fancy scan tool like me or
anything yeah you can get a place like autozone you can buy one cheap enough
put it in a lot of times that'll fix it entirely they do wear out and that's
thirteen years old so they're not all that expensive you might just change I
change a lot of may have sensors on GM trucks my kingdom for a horse says I got
2010 Mini Cooper I needed brake pads the warning light came down so I put them on
and a stupid warning light is still on okay lots of mini and not being BMW
they're evil people even though you put new brake pads on the system will tell
you the brake pads are bad because it has to be reset you know all those
buttons you got in your dash your steering wheel there's all bunch of you
got to push in some insane fashion it's kind of like a Goldberg
experimental moves here goes up down it's just observed may being a
professional mechanic I just get my fancy scan tool I push brake system then
it says do you want to reset brake pads I push you out yes
and then it turns the light off there is a way you can do it yourself google it
but it'll drive you nuts because personally I've tried that sometimes
after 45 minutes of trying that I just flat gave up now that I got the fancy
machines I don't care it's just push your button turn it off yes yes and the
computer does all that stuff but there is a way to do ahead you can google it
but believe me it'll drive you nuts it's so complicated I mean that's that's the
Germans making German English cars and adding the German absurdity to the
English lack of quality Anthony Banderas says got 2013 Dodge
Charger v8 I'm getting multiple cylinder Deek activation trouble codes for one
four six seven that's running like crap help those systems are garbage to begin
with all those things aren't braking at once realize that you need power to a
system and ground they have a problem with the ground circuit for the cylinder
deactivation system you'll follow it out you'll see where it boats to the
firewall it's just an eyelet and bolts in unbolt
it clean it off till it shines farewell on a firewall get some my Emery paper or
anything to make it shiny bolt it back on I'll bet your problems go right away
I fix them that way all the time they don't even make the grounds right
on Chrysler's anymore and when they don't ground all kinds of nonsense
happens to a system so check that crown there's a rip off for you the new Tesla
Model 3 is a bunch of are coming with the old slow processor not the new fast
one because of the coronavirus messed with production of it so they were
sneaking the old ship and instead of the new one kind of like you think you got
Windows 10 but you really got Windows 8.1 instead of course once I got caught
Tesla said don't upgrade them if you buy one when the new chips come out but the
newer chip the 3.0 chip it's been available since April realize that the
3.0 version process of stuff 21 times faster than the old 2.5 processor so
people are buying these tests lists and they think they're getting
state-of-the-art well he's putting the old chips and cuz he didn't get the new
ones back out a day when Apple was deliberately slowing down speed for
their old phones to sell new ones well he was the other way his new cars slower
Casa says Scotty what causes power-steering pump to whine well the reason they whine is
because they're worn and then once things are worn a little bit of
vibration that's actually a high-pitched vibration it makes it now of course
you're low on fluid it doesn't of course the other day I had a Mercedes totally
full of fluid and a wine first thing in the morning quieted down power steering
pumps put out a tremendous amount of pressure they can put over 1500 pounds
per square inch brush a lot of pressure and as they age all that pressure things
are worn and as they spend fast they start to whine as long as they're full
of fluid and they stare okay great and if you find they start get nachi
steering then yeah you got to replace the pump but I get people drive especially
Mercedes Ford's for decades just look lining and I still weren't I said always
winding I just live with it, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell