Rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about 5 suvs that
you should never buy used, because many of them were bad enough when they were brand
new, now suvs are getting more and more popular because you can hold stuff in them and their
very handy and they ride pretty good these days, the early ones were kind of bumpy but
they make them a lot better now, well some of them are made a lot better, here
are 5 suvs that you should never buy used, now the first suv never to buy used is the
bmw x5, you mind as well say bmw money pit, that's all those things turn into, they've
have problems with engine oil leaks, water leaking into the vehicle, big transmission
problems, and problems with their stability control system that keep them from flipping
over because their so boxy, yeah their high tech there's no arguing that, but I've had
customers with them that they got this gyro sensor that goes bad and it's a small thing
but it costs like $1,500-1,800 for the thing, their just high priced and it's not like their
high quality, there's so much plastic used in those things their always getting leaks,
I had one customer with an x5, I told her, you shouldn't have bought this thing used
their money pits, well after a year of driving the thing and finally I put on my bmw computer
for her latest problem at it was the transmission was going out, I did a little research and
found out that it was going to cost her 4-5 thousand to fix it so she finally got rid
of the thing, she traded it in on a used lexus suv and boy she is happy with that lexus,
that was years ago and she's still driving the lexus and I hardly ever she her because
the things don't break, just normal oil changes and brake job stuff on those,
and of course bmw is so snobby they didn't even call the x5 a suv they called it a sports
activity vehicle, well yeah because your going to spend a lot of activity going to the bmw
dealer getting the thing fixed, now the next suv not to buy is the cadillac
escalade, now if you want to impress your friends and neighbors that your driving a
cadillac suv and you don't care that you get 11 mpg in actual driving, the cadillac escalade
might be for you, it's a show boat and a lot of that show boating stuff is made out of
plastic, and guess what it cracks early and breaks down, their known for heating and ac
problems, you might think oh that's not that big of a deal, it's all computerized and believe
me I've seen people spend $1,500-2,500 taking the dashs apart fixing those plastic things,
they have problems with the dash and display system on them, just cheaply made and they'll
just come on and off at will, their poorly made theirs no doubting that, the have early
transmission failures and awd versions they have differential problems that cost a fortune
to fix, it's a big heavy vehicle but the internals are not heavy duty enough, they just break
down too much from carrying all that weight around, cadillac has been using that cadillac
top of the line image for decades, well it's been a long time since that was even close
to the truth, now the next suv not to buy the jeep renegade,
the renegade was created after chrysler and fiat merged, fiat bought chrysler, the renegade
is small, it's under powered and if you tried to take that jeep renegade off road like one
of those big jeeps good luck, these jeep renegade, their made in Italy,
their made is Brasil, and their made in China, they have nothing to do with the legendary
jeep, especially stay away from the 2015 renegade that was the worst one they ever built, they
have engine failures, they have transmission failures, they have electronic failures, the
list goes on and on and on, it's like the combination of Italian manufacturing problems,
not surprisingly the renegades have a lot of electronic problems, many Italian cars
have electronic weak systems that's just the way they go, it also has a problem with blowing
head gaskets in the engine, a typical problem that Italian cars have, you know if you want
to get a jeep I'm not that big of a fan of the newer ones, the old ones were great, but
if you are get a regular one, don't get this small one,
now the fourth suv not to buy used is the Chevy traverse, I've seen engines stop on
ones that had 40,000 miles on them, the awd system has problems and costs thousands of
dollars to fix, I mean if a vehicle has engine and transmission problems, that says stay
away, stay far away from this vehicle, I mean I had a customer with a traverse, it kept
flashing up service awd, then it said super cruise system, well this car didn't have a
super cruise system yet is was saying there was a problem in a system that it didn't even
have on the vehicle, and the gm dealer couldn't figure out what was wrong he just lived with
that until he got rid of it, he said it was the biggest pile of junk he ever had and he's
never going to buy another one, the last suv never to buy used is the pontiac aztek, it
was made famous in Breaking Bad where Brian drove one around and eventually he took it
to a garage, they fixed it all up he came to pick it up and he looked at it and took
his hat out of the back seat, put it on his head and walked away and gave the car to the
mechanic, I had a customer that did a similar thing with an aztek, the thing had like 55,000
miles on it and the head gasket blew and the engine stopped, so he had to put another engine
in, so he said to heck with that, he had a used engine put in and then he just sold the
thing and got rid of it and said, that's it for gm I'm never buying another one of their
products, basically the azteks were gm's version of trying to copy a toyota matrix and man
did they fail big, the azteks actually had a lot of different problems, but the biggest
ones were, the head gaskets of the engines going, the transmission going out, and having
intake manifolds that would go bad and leak oil and water into the engine, and if you
didn't watch that closely that would lead to a blown engine too, and even if you caught
it right in the beginning you had to take the whole engine apart and spend like $1,500
to fix something that should have never happened in the first place, cuz I'm not talking about
cars that are 20 or 30 years old, some of these cars were less than a year old and some
of them were 3,4,5 years old, but regardless, they were poorly made vehicles, they don't
make them anymore obviously, now if you want to get a pontiac suv, get a pontiac vibe,
it's the same thing as this matrix, the were made in the same plant, the have the same
engine, transmission, wheels and everything, the only thing different is this sheet metal
on the vehicles, so that one you can get because it's actually a toyota product really,
showing that the expression, what's in a name can mean a lot you want to research what's
behind that name, now sure there's plenty of good used suvs out there but stay away
from these 5 suvs if you don't want to catch a sports utility virus, so if you never want
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