rev up your engines today by popular demand I'm gonna talk about the six
worse SUVs out there now yes SUVs are becoming more and more popular people
buy many more SUVs than cars look at Ford they're giving up with their cars
except for the Mustang and only selling SUVs and trucks but being popular the
price of SUVs is gone sky-high so you don't want to spend all that money and
get a pile a junk so today I'm gonna talk about six SUVs that you shouldn't
walk away from you should have run away from them never even think about buying
them number six on the list is a Nissan Rogue I had customers with those they got
some mileage on them seventy eighty thousand
miles they started to fall apart they're so bad than October there's a lawsuit
against them for their emergency braking system it turns out that the emergency
braking system that's supposed to save you breaks itself sometimes when you're
going down a highway for no reason if people can smash right India just what
you want to do own an SUV that gets you in an accident it's not avoiding it by
putting on the brakes for no reason whatsoever and over all the vehicles are junky they
lose about sixty percent of their value the first five years ownership so in
this case hey Nissan gave it the right name the road and you want to stay away
from rogues whenever possible number five on the list is the Chevy Equinox
you don't want to buy an equinox either now Chevy kind of realized their
problems in 2005 they started making the original Equinox but they turned to
digital crossover SUV they're calling the equinox so they're still out there
but it's still falling apart they're known for excessive oil consumption
I had a costumer with one that thing Burnt a quart of oil every 500 miles but
of course in any modern vehicle burning oil is more than just a nuisance because
that burning oil will eventually destroy the catalytic converter in the oxygen
sensors by clogging them up and if you don't have the oil of course the engine
blows up it deteriorates the anti-pollution system that can cost
thousands to fix down the line all in all not a good car our customers were
the transmissions for now we're just typical with modern GM they
don't make that good automatic transmissions anymore that's a super
expensive fix that runs thousands and thousands of dollars these are on
vehicles have less than a hundred thousand miles I'm not talking about
something that's got three four hundred thousand miles and yeah things
eventually wear out these things wear out before their time and just like
seasons come and go the equinox I'd let it go I wouldn't get it in the first
place, now number four in the list is the Dodge
Journey was surprised now 2019 they discontinued some of the journey models
and they were talking about hey many their gonna drop the Dodge Journey
entirely but they're not a couple weeks ago notice that they put out talking
about how great their 2020 Dodge Journey was in one of those PR brochures that
they send out on the Internet to try to war people into buying them yeah give it
to Dodge there's a lot of room inside they have all the creature comforts but
unfortunately they don't hold up over time they get pretty crappy gas mileage
and their resale value is horrendous now they're owned by Fiat another
failing company so now you got two failing companies merging together what
do you think they're gonna do come up with brilliant success after decades of
failure I mean really one of the reasons Fiat bought Chrysler was to have all
these crazier dealerships where they could sell their Fiats but now they're
even talking about pulling Fiat out of the United States because their Fiat
models sold so poorly in America that it doesn't make much sense to go through
the trouble of trying to sell them when you only sell in a few of them and not
really making any profit and the few customer of mine that did buy dodge journeys
they were disappointed in the long run they liked them when they were new
everything for the kids and you could fit a lot of people in them but as they
age the new transmissions were out or their engine started burning oil or
their electrical system started going haywire like a lot of late-model
Chrysler's do they said I'm not buying another Dodge product so take advantage
of my customers mistake and don't buy one of these dodge journeys now number
three on my list of the worst six SUVs to buy the Volkswagen Tiguan not
surprised either a Volkswagen product today in the United States although
swaggin teague ones are powered by a four-cylinder turbocharged engine with
an 8-speed automatic transmission realized a long time ago volkswagen
bought outtie and Porsche they took a lot of that complex technology and put
it into Volkswagens who used to be a simple reliable car manufacturer with
the old beetles things were cheap could run forever with very little maintenance
that you could easily perform yourself we can forget that with this that
turbocharged direct-injection engine notorious for having carbon buildup
inside also had problems with the timing chains and attention errs that they'd
break when they get a little over a hundred thousand miles and then those
are interference engines so then the valves hit the Pistons and you got to
put new heads on the engine it cost a fortune people junk them then if they got any
serious mileage on and the dual clutch transmissions that are in them they are probably
the worst thing that Volkswagen ever came up with
I've seen those things go out and people spend five to seven thousand dollars
having them replaced this high level of technologists in the Tiguan it bites you
in the rear end if you keep him for anything like the time now don't be
fooled by them let's say you go road test run it to dealer they are zippy fun
to drive they handle quite well but they just don't hold up over time now let's
say you want to zippy little SUV and you drive a thousand miles a year go
ahead and buy one things generally not gonna break down then thousand miles a
year thirty years you put on 30,000 miles you'd probably be running
perfectly fine and of course they have horrendous resale value you'd get them cheap use
but here we go again you don't want to use Volkswagen turbo use no number two
on a list of SUVs not to buy is the BMW X series the x3 the x5 but especially
the yaks three over the years I've had a few customers by BMW X series every
single one of them turned into an endless money pit as they aged level
technology and these things are insane special G sensors so they don't flip
over because they're pretty high up in the air
those systems break you could spend thousands of dollars fixing I'm their
transmission systems here in the United States are all automatic
they are insanely complex and yes they break all the time then cost a fortune
to fix often it costs more to fix the transmission than the car is worth and
being modern BMW as they're plagued with oil leaks the use all this plastic crap
on the engine system and on the cooling system to which have a lot of plastic
stuff that ages and crack and starts to leave and then it may be cheap plastic
but it isn't cheap to buy or repair when it does break now of course they're not
giving these things away they're extremely expensive to begin with so
unfortunately I've seen quite a few people buy them when they're five six
years old think whoo look at all the money I saved and yes you saved a lot of
money over the original sticker price there's no arguing that if you keep one
of those things for another three four years all those savings are gonna go
right down the toilet in repairs let's face it if you're spending forty two
thousand up for an SUV you expect quality and speaking of quality these
extras here in the United States their not made in Germany their made the United
States and South Carolina you're paying that
kind of money for a German car at least myself I expect it to be made in Germany
by Germans so if you value your SUV money stay away from BMW X3 now
here's the moment you were waiting for the worst SUV to buy and what is it no
surprise the Land Rover or to be specific the Jaguar Land Rover the
company's not one company Jaguar Land Rover it used to be English but Tata the
Indian company that makes those little cheap cars bottomed out a while ago then
they start having problems losing money so now the Chinese own half of Jaguar
Land Rover so you think the quality up making these new Chinese factories but
now last month the Chinese were protesting at the Jaguar Land Rover
factor about how poor the quality of their vehicles are rather ironic one
there they were known for poor quality in England then the Indians bottom and
the quality is still going bad and then the Chinese on half of them and the
quality still going down but strangely enough at least here in the United
States they sell a lot of these Land Rovers because they're sort of the in
car for the yuppie crowd they all have to have one I remember a customer of mine
he was buying one for his girlfriend he had a new girlfriend he was 50 she was
twenty-something she just had to have a Landrover and when I hooked up my fancy
scan tool I found like 27 different things wrong with it from the giant computer
scan yeah these things are not dependable hey when the Chinese are
protesting in China their headquarters in China about bad quality that gels in
something and the warning about buying a used one because it's so much cheaper to
save money is doubly so warning here because as they age they fall apart
faster than probably any car out there buying a used one is an endless money
pits I've had customers buy him they thought oh I only paid $8,000 from this
vehicle then they find out it needs four thousand here five thousand here and
over the years in my need forty thousand dollars worth of work so you're gonna go
a roving in your SUV just make a point of not doing it in a Land Rover do it in
something that's built a little bit better and yeah everybody loves their
SUVs these days but you don't want to get stopped with a lemon so heed my
warning and don't buy any of these six I just talked about, so if you never want
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