rev up your engines, welcome to my Thursday video, where I answer a viewer's
question with an entire video and today's question comes from Charlie six
six seven eight, and Charlie asks, what car company makes the worst engines
these days, that's a very good question who wants to buy crappy engine well
there are quite a few poorly made engines out there I'm going to talk
about a few of them and in the end I'm gonna tell you which company makes the
worst ones overall, now perhaps one of the worst late-model engines made was a 2.7
liter Chrysler v6, I had a few customers with those and it just fell apart in
front of their very eyes now granted the people that didn't maintain them right
and change the oil enough they fell apart faster but even the customers of
mine that followed all the factory recommendations and changing oil and
maintaining it, the engine still fell apart so definitely don't buy the 2.7
liter Chrysler v6 gasoline engines, stay away from those things, now another
relatively bad engine was the GM 2.4 Ecotec a whole bunch of them ended up
burning too much oil there's a class-action suit against them for that
and on top of the bad engine design, they had a bad fuel pressure system that's
one of those GDI high-pressure gasoline direct injection engines, when the fuel
pressure leaked from bad regulator systems that would wash the pistons with
gasoline and of course that would wear the engine out faster and make it burn
oil too, another pretty weak engine design is the mini 1.6 liter 4-cylinder
engines that have gasoline direct injection the system I've seen those
engines break down with as little as 34,000 miles on them, not made all that
well, it's a marketing thing the mini it's cute
and OH women like them cuz oh there's cute looking cars but really they're
not all that well made, let's face it you've got a car that's basically been
designed by BMW, which are notorious for making high-tech expensive to repair
machines that break all the time, and you've got the English building of
things in England, English cars are also not known for
their reliability think Jaguar and speaking of companies that are sort of
merged together and are building cars together don't forget about the kia /
Hyundai cars in 2013 hyundai bought 33.8% of kia so they're pretty much a
merged type of company and in 2017 Hyundai / Kia had to recall 1.2 million
cars because the engines could just lock up and blow up while you're driving down
the road, these engines were the 2.0 4 cylinders and the 2.4
cylinder engines what happened was I guess they built them wrong
they got metal shavings when they built them inside the engines that could clog
everything up and then some of the parts inside the crankshaft I believe, were
rough and ragged and then they'd dragged on something and metal would go in and
the engine could just seize right up while you're driving them, and while I'm
talking about merged company Fiat / Chrysler they make a diesel engine
that's perhaps one of the worst diesel engines ever made
it's a 3.0 liter v6 diesel engine that they use, they call it an eco diesel well
I kind of tend to agree there because a diesel engine is really ecological when
it blows up and it doesn't run anymore because then it can't pollute, I have
seen these 3.0 v6 diesel engines that they use in the Chrysler's, blow up as
early as 16,000 miles, then they just stopped running, and so far Chrysler /
Fiat solution to people, they say oh you should use 5w 40 full synthetic oil
instead of the 5w30 oil that they suggested, as if that little bit of
change in viscosity is going to save a diesel engine that wasn't made right in
the first place and of course this has to do with Fiat buying Chrysler this
particular engine is an Italian made engine, it has nothing to do with
American technology it's a complete Italian design and a lot of the engines
that Chrysler uses in their cars now are Italian designs and really they're not
all that great, so now the moment you're all waiting for
who makes the worst engines these days, well Hyundai
/ kia had to recall 1.2 million cars for bad engines but really fiat-chrysler
especially considering the history of chrysler engines over the last couple of
decades wins the prize, i say that fiat / chrysler make the worst engines today, at
least for any mass-produced car that is sold in the United States I suppose
there's cars made somewhere or someplace that are worse but these are
the ones I'm talking about that are sold in the United States and are
mass-produced, and since this is the Thursday segment where I answer a
viewers question, place your own question on the YouTube comments below and I'll
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