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 to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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