rev up your engines today I'm gonna talk about why I don't advise people to buy
used infiniti it's a 2009 Infiniti g37 it's their lower line sedan now yes their
sharp looking cars they're classic rear-wheel drive too so their drivers
car they got a big v6 engine and as usual
the struts don't work anymore so we have to put a stick on there here now at
least it's not gonna fall hit me on the head with all those wind
it is 328 horsepower a strong engine these things were making these v6
engines for a while thought it's hooked up to a 7-speed automatic with overdrive
that's notoriously weak jatco transmission now this particular one is
normally aspirated it doesn't have turbo charges on it if you're gonna buy one it
has turbo charges on it especially the new ones that have the twin turbos
that's twice as much stuff to break down yeah they get more power but hey this
thing's got plenty enough power as it is plenty enough to burn out the
transmission which they often do and yes they're pretty luxurious inside nice
leather seats this one hey it's 11 years old but in the back it's still pretty
clean there's the grandkids seat and it's got a killer Bose speaker system
and I'm plenty of room in the trunk goes pretty deep and I do have to say my
customers that bought these brand new liked the cars and were relatively
trouble-free for eighty ninety thousand miles if you don't mind the price of a
new one they're fun zippy cars to drive around but this isn't the case for used
ones infinities are the fancy Nissan's and the parts are super expensive as
they age and have air conditioning problems automatic transmission problems
power steering problems and especially catalytic converter problems they can
quickly become endless money pits I've had a few customers bought them used and
said oh I got a great deal infinity I only paid $5,000 for it turns
out it was a horrible deal for them especially the ones who had got 100,000
miles on it as I said they're notorious for having catalytic converter problems
and the big problems with these infinities are this one has got two
cats on it when they go bad you have to buy the OEM manufacturer cats
I have tried aftermarket ones they just don't work with the software if it's got
a code and you can't get the emissions to pass because it says the catalytic
converter isn't working right if you put on these aftermarket ones
nine times out of 10 the light will stay on it won't fix the problem unless you
buy these super expensive dealer OEM cats on this baby so there's a few
thousand dollars thrown down the toilet and it happens all the time I see it all
the time a lot of times my cousins with them and they just get rid of the
vehicle that they say I'm not gonna throw that kind of money and then they
just get rid of the car no this is a rear-wheel drive car so it's a true
driver's car a lot of drivers they like rear-wheel drive cars because of their
handling characteristics but let's say you live in an area where it snows a lot
have a tendency spinning out because all the power is at the back drive wheels
and the front where the weight and the engine is don't have enough weight on
the targets just like those old Mustangs in the 60s great in a straight line but
when you got in the snow they were just fishtail like no tomorrow no you can
bypass that if you bought a luxury Infiniti with all-wheel drive but
believe me you had that all-wheel drive system into the mix of a car that's
already expensive to maintain when aage you can double and triple some
of the repairs because of that all-wheel drive system and take a common repair
eni's the high side pressure power steering hose often goes bad on the
older ones it's a part that you can generally only get original equipment
you'll find so we're out of time just you can often go after mark and get one
to fits and works on with the infinities often the only one you can buy is that a
dealer and it can be three four hundred dollars for stupid hose in this case the
infiniti dealers are literally hosing you down for a part that they know
really the ones who have it so he can charge
whatever they want and these infinities are generally very high tech to fix as
you can see there's an air filter on one side and an air filter on the other it
also has a mass airflow sensor on one side and one on the other side so with
double the technology you got double of things that can go wrong and sometimes
quadruple the weird electronic problems you can get that are really hard to
pinpoint down correctly but that said if you're thinking about getting an
infinity these v6 engines the engines themselves are pretty strong engines the
v8 ones not so much but of course like everything else in the modern ones
they're all going for v6 power sticking twin turbos on them a lot of companies
are starting to give up with the v8 engines because of their poor gas
mileage ratings they get so much power out of a v6 that most of just given up
with the v8s except for the high end luxury cars but here again infinities
are luxury cars and even though this particular one is their bottom line
their entry-level 4 door sedan luxury car the parts and servicing follow with
any luxury car prices are high parts are high labor is high you can pay a lot for
the vehicle when it breaks you're gonna pay a lot for the parts and you're gonna
pay mechanics a lot to fix them they're not cheap cars to own in the long run
compare this to say a lexus both of them are expensive to buy new since a lexus will
last so long with such little repair you can often buy a used one like I didn't
get a fantastic deal and drivers for years and years that's not the case with
these infinities don't dare think you can buy when it's got 110,000 miles on
it and you can drive it trouble-free for 10 years or another hundred thousand
miles that does not happen with them it's got the dual heat air conditioning
systems great when it doesn't break but unfortunately in the Nissan products and
all these infinities these have a tendency to break as they age and when
you have to fix one of these dual control AC systems and one of these
don't be surprised did you get it $1,500 $2,000 bill because they are so complex
the computer parts are extremely expensive
generally you're only gonna be able to get them at the dealer and in the case
of these infinities I never advise costumers they'll say oh that part so
expense I'm gonna go to a junkyard buy because you go to a junkyard you got to
get one from one that's also a few years old
odds are it's either broken or it's gonna break soon I had a customer do
that once bought the control unit a junkyard I put it in guess what four
months later that one broke too right back to square one
so when you have all this complexity in car that has expensive parts and it's
hard to work on it's never a good idea to buy one of these things used high
mileage now my customer did buy this one used but now it's got 93 thousand miles
on it she bought it years ago with a lot less mileage on it it hasn't been a bad
car for but now things are starting to happen warning lights are starting to
come on and being a luxury car yeah it's got the all heated seats and they
actually work still it still rides quite well and luckily for her it's still just
really well she kind of babies a car so she's not a screamer with the 300 plus
horsepower this thing has I had many younger faster drivers burn those
trannies out like that because the engines got so much power the
transmissions couldn't take all that power and it fell apart before its time
and it is the reputable v6 engine so the engines pretty bulletproof on this model
but as I said this isn't a turbocharged one this isn't a gasoline direct
injection one it's a plain jane fuel-injected one you start adding all
that other stuff on and shoot sky's the limit when it comes to expensive repairs
even on the engines oh so now you know the truth about buying a used Infiniti
you might think you're getting a really good deal but it's got a hundred
thousand miles or more on it you might think twice before you buy a used
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