Rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about 5 luxury cars
that you should never buy used, now a lot of people want a luxury car but when they
look at the price of new luxury cars their high a lot of times, so they think, hey I'll
buy a used one and save all that depreciation when it's new and get one that's 3 or 4 years
old, but that strategy can backfire if you buy the wrong type of luxury car, so today
I'm going to warn you buy telling you about 5 luxury cars that you should never buy used,
if you value your money at all, now the first luxury car not to buy, is a bmw 7 series,
you do not want to buy one of these babies used, the cost of maintaining them even when
new is expensive enough, but when you're talking about a used one, especially ones that have
electrical problems, and automatic transmission problems, you can be falling into an endless
money pit buying a used bmw 7 series, I'll never forget a friend of mine who was a mechanic
who bought one from one of his customers, he said scotty look at this bmw I just bought
from one of my customers, and I looked at him and thought, I thought he was a mechanic
he must have a few screws loose in his head, well I keep things in my head for quite some
time, so about a year and a half later, I met the guy at an auto parts store buying
parts for a bmw strangely enough, and I said, how's that bmw working out for you, and the
guy said, biggest piece of plastic junk I ever bought, I'm never getting another one
of those things, and that was a mechanic so please don't buy a bmw 7 series used ever,
now the next luxury car not to buy used is strangely enough a Japanese vehicle, the infiniti
i30, now the i30 is based originally on the maxima, which was a pretty reliable car, until
of course when renault took over nissan and then the quality started going down, but with
infinitis they have always been expensive cars to maintain as they age, they have a
really weird supply chain, I had one I was working on, it need a power steering hose,
well I could get it at an auto parts store because they didn't make enough of each model
and all the hoses are different shapes, so I had to go out and shell out almost $400
for this hose assembly, where with a toyota I could of gotten a good aftermarket one for
maybe $50, and infiniti and nissan, their not such a nice company when it comes to sharing
information with us aftermarket mechanics, when you have to reprogram stuff on a nissan
or an infiniti, they make it a real runaround to get that information unlike most of the
other manufacturers, so often with the infinitis it ends up being, you want it fixed, go to
the dealer or go to the highway, you know your stuck with very expensive repairs, and
as anybody who listens to me knows, the nissan the company that makes infinitis, it's just
a fancy version, always has problems with their automatic transmissions, especially
lately, the i30 is no different it has transmission problems plus they have a lot of electrical
problems in them, I had a customer with one he had one of those keyless remotes, the thing
didn't work, he ended up having to have it towed to the dealer and it cost him $1,500
to get it so the car would start to get a new remote system, I mean that's just crazy,
so even though it's Japanese, stay away from the infiniti i30 as a used car, now the next
used luxury car to stay away from is the cadillac sts, yeah in my grandfathers day cadillacs
were great cars, these days gm quality is down and the cadillac quality is down just
as far if not more than their normal cars, they put on things like silicone sealed motor
mounts so the engine doesn't vibrate much, hey their big v8s they don't vibrate much
anyways, but then they put these silicone filled rubber motor mounts right next to the
exhaust sometimes like less than 1/2 inch away, guess what, the heat of the exhaust
melts them and the things break and then sometimes you got to spend well over $1,000 just changing
these mounts because they were poorly made, and these sts are known for engine problems,
transmission problems, braking problems, electrical problems, they got so many problems don't
make it your problem, stay away from a used cadillac sts, and they don't make them anymore
anyways, now the next used luxury car not to buy is
the mercedes w220 s class, now really any mercedes but this one was really bad, s classes
in general in the US have the highest plummeting value anyways, and this w220 was really the
worst one that they ever made, now yes their value plummets like mad so you can pick one
up cheap, I had a customer pick one up for $7,500 but then they find out within a few
months, they have to spend well over $8,000 having things repaired on the car and make
them scratch their head and wonder, well should I throw what I just put to buy the car into
the car, and have a car that's probably worth less than what I paid for it anyways, or should
I just say let's get rid of the thing, well I had a customer in that bind, I said why
don't you just get rid of it, and he got rid of it, first he only paid $7,500 and he got
lucky and he sold the thing for $4,500 so he only lost $3,000 and that was a really
good lesson learned, originally any s class mercedes is like that, I've had customers
that the car when it was new was $120,000 and then they'd buy it when it was like 7-8
years old for $10,000 or less, well the original owner lost $110,000 there somewhere, so really
it's a good idea to stay away from buying any used s class mercedes, unless you looking
for a lawn ornament that you can just park there and look at it and polish it, cuz they
look pretty cool, new the last and least reliable used luxury car to ever buy is, and this is
no surprise at all, the jaguar x type, now in the early 2000s ford bought jaguar, who
thought of that one I don't know somebody made a mistake at ford there, they got rid
of him later, their quality was bad enough in jaguars, and it even got worse I had a
customer who made the mistake of buying a used x type cuz it was really cheap, she paid
like $7,000 for the car, and it was a beautiful looking car, and she kept it for a little
over 2 years and it cost so much money, the things that were fixed, broke again within
2 years, even the replacement parts are garbage for those things, but at least she told me,
you know I always wanted to own a jaguar, I said it is out of your system now, she said
yes I'll never buy another one, I mean she had the hood painted twice it kept fading
off and after she got it painted the last time she sold it and she was a pretty good
businesswoman, she didn't even lose any money, she sold it for what she paid for the thing,
because yes people can be like crows, they like shinny objects, she had that hood painted
over at a really good body shop and the car looked really nice and so she sold it to the
next person who thought, oh I can get this beautiful jaguar at a real discount price,
and now today jaguar is owned by tata, that Indian company that make those cars that really
don't cost all that much money, and if you follow the news, last week the shows that
they lost 3.6 billion dollars, because of bad sales worldwide, and maybe that's a good
sign for humanity, that humanity is becoming smarter and not buying these money pit cars
that fall apart even though they look good, and it is kind of funny that tata also owns
range rover, so the range rovers and jaguars are now owned by an Indian company, I guess
maybe it's some kind of colonial revenge that the British had colonized them and perhaps
they want to get their name sake and say that they own them now, maybe it's a political
move, because losing over $3.6 billion is not a good business move, so don't follow
tata with their purchase of jaguar and buy a used one yourself, maybe if you got a few
billion to throw away hey why not, so now you know 5 luxury cars that you should never
buy used, now if you really must get a used luxury car, there's good ones out there like
Lexus, you know their out there, just stay away from these 5 clunkers,
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