rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about five used pickup trucks that
you should never buy, one of the main reasons I started making these videos is
to help people out, because I'm like everybody else, I hate buying something
that is just junk, so I want to warn people not to buy them in the first
place, now the first used pickup never to buy
is the Dodge Ram Daytona, if you've ever seen one they had a permanent spoiler on
and racing stripes, they're a race pickup truck, they're not a working truck
with that stupid spoiler that was permanently on there, you can't get much
in that bed its blocks it, I mean talk about all show and no go, now they were
fast, good for drag racing but that's not what a pickup truck is really for, it's
supposed to be for work, now that Hemi v8 sure it's powerful, but like the rest of
Dodge products the remaining parts of the vehicle weren't that well made
problems with ball joints breaking, electronic failures, air conditioning
failures, I had a customer who bought two Dodge pickups, a regular Ram and the
Daytona, he said Oh Scotty you don't know what you're talking about you know
Dodge makes good truck, look they've been making them a while I bought two of
them, so about a year and a half later I said to the guy, how those dodges working
out for you, and he gave me a list of the things that were breaking down them and he
said I should have listened to you, but you know I like the style and the speed
yeah well speed is great when it works but when it doesn't get out your walking
shoes, now the next used truck not to buy is the Hummer h2, unlike the h1 that was a
relatively solidly built machine, the h2 was just a cheap copy of that vehicle, I
guess they wanted to sell more so they decided to make stuff cheaper, it didn't
know was it a pickup truck or an SUV, it was kind of in no-man's land
the bed on them was so small it was pretty much useless, they have all kinds of
failure rates for the machine themselves, they just were not dependable
machines, my customers they had electronic problems up the wazoo
like many GM vehicles had, they just weren't dependable sometimes they
wouldn't start, the air-conditioning systems would break on them, they had all
kinds of problems, and of course now they haven't made Hummers
for quite some time, now if you want some crazy
quasi military vehicle, hey you can get used ones pretty cheap
if you want a toy you know, but if you want a serious pickup truck to do work
and haul stuff in, don't buy an h2, now the next pickup truck not to buy used is the
Honda Ridgeline, Honda hey they started out as a
motorcycle company, then they made little cars, then they made them better and
better and better and better, but let's face it they were never a truck company
now I do have to say the newer Honda pickup trucks, 2018 and newer
they seem to be better built than the earlier ones are, but hey in this video
I'm talking about used pickup trucks not to buy, so you don't want to buy one of
these Honda pickups really, I've seen ridgeline engines blow up, for a pickup
truck they're really not that good at hauling things, they just don't have the
power, especially here in the United States most people get automatic
transmissions, and they're weak automatic transmissions just the way that it goes
with Honda products, there are so many other pickups out there, there'd be no
reason to buy the Honda, it just wouldn't make any sense, they don't have that
great a track record, they're not really a full-size pickup truck, their kind of in
between, I've had a few customers with them and let me tell you, none of them
were really satisfied with them, now the next pickup not to buy used is the Chevy
SSR, man that was a miserable failure from the get-go
you didn't know if it was a hardtop, a convertible, a pickup truck, just what
exactly were they going for when they made that thing, to make it fit the style
and design it had, it had a very narrow bed, so
you couldn't really put much in it, it was bill as the world's first
convertible pickup truck, but as history bears out, it was really the world's only
convertible pickup truck, they didn't make them for all that long, they were super
expensive they were also extremely heavy, they were
heavier than a Dodge Ram pickup, but they really didn't haul all that much, it's pretty
much some crazy idea GM had, Chevy made enough so just about every dealer could
have one on a showroom floor, so I guess it was a show truck, well it should have
stayed as a concept show truck and actually not built any at all, like the
ones in those car shows and should have just had them as a, oh this could be
the future of trucks thing, and never actually go out and build any, but really
if you want a truck to drive around buy used and haul stuff with stay, away
from the SSR, now the last use pick up not to buy is the Mercedes x-class pickup
trucks, yes people Mercedes does make a pickup truck, and luckily for us
Americans it's not sold here in the United States, so you don't have to worry
about buying one they don't sell them here, but they do in Europe, I guess
they're going for snob pickup trucks in Europe, I mean they were never that big
about pickup trucks anyways, when I was in England you rarely saw a pickup
truck, they were more into panel vans, if you can call making a pickup truck
by Mercedes an actual production Mercedes has teamed up with Nissan in
making these pickup trucks, they have Nissan engines and they have Nissan
automatic transmissions, and as I've talked about, before those Jatco
automatic transmissions they're amongst the worst automatic transmissions in the
world, so people who are buying these Mercedes x-class pickup trucks,
hey their not even really getting a Mercedes it's Nissan technology and they
start at like $50,000, you know if you want to buy Nissan go out and buy a
Nissan, I'm not a big fan of them but hey at least don't pay a bunch more just cuz
it's got a Mercedes star emblem in the front, these days it seems that everyone
is trying to get into everyone else's market so they can have all the corners
filled but really, a mercedes-benz pick up truck just a disguised Nissan,
it's a really stupid idea to waste your money on something like that, snob appeal
pickup trucks that's kind of counterintuitive, so now you know
five pickup trucks that you should never buy used, and believe me if you stay away
from them, you'll value my advice the next time
you look at your bank account, because there's plenty of good pickups out there
just stay away from these five, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
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