I Just Found the Worst Car Ever Made

well people are often asking me about audis oh they're beautiful looking cars do they run good is it a good car to buy where i'm going to dispel the myth of audi supremacy with this absolute pile of junk 2011 audi a4 2.0 four-cylinder turbo that a customer got suckered into buying the customer was owed money for work he did guy wouldn't pay him owed him thousands of dollars but then he says i got this audi here and it's worth fourteen thousand dollars if what i owe you when you give me six seven thousand dollars i'll give you the car so the guy does first big mistake right there now he didn't know me at the time so he took it to various other garages who screwed him over hit him sit for months and it never ran right so he towed it over here gives me the key and when i try to start it when i put it in the stupid keyless ignition nothing happens there's no lights so i'm gonna have to jump it and it's problem number two we're gonna jump suck the battery so we open the hood over we go we'll open the hood and guess what there's no battery under the hood to jump start it now the batteries in the trunk but there's no key and nothing to open the trunk with oh but look there's a button you push dope in the trunk but the battery's dead so the trunk won't open this is a true catch-22 you got to jump-start the battery in the trunk but the battery's dead so you can't get into the trunk brilliant audi engineers they thought of everything to lock you out of your own car and i got a jump path and there's a positive terminal under the hood i can hook it up to as you look there it is positive look that up to the positive now we got power to the positive and we'll put the negative over here on this nice post that's what it's made for yeah and we'll turn it on we got 85 battery power left so let's go back and pray we push the button the trunk opens success aha now we can get to the battery up there's no battery oh there's not even a battery in the car no wonder it didn't start like i said this baby's bent to two or three different mechanics didn't know what they're doing screwing around so now we'll put a battery in and go from there well at least you can't blame audi on this one they do put batteries in when they make them this is negative ground because it bolts to the frame and the other side says positive so that means this one's the negative we'll hook it up so put the negative on and tighten it up 10 millimeter that's tight and we'll do the other side let's pray i can start it up and pull it in the driveway and figure out what's going on with this clunker well here it goes nothing well unfortunately that's what we got nothing the engine won't even crank it just clicks well let's check the battery now the customer supplied the battery so let's see if that's a piece of crap too at least it opens the trunk it's got that much power so let's hook up the battery tester positive to positive negative to negative and we'll test it this particular one has 900 cold cranking amps so we'll set this for 900 cold cranking amps so it's 900 and we'll test it and see what happens it's it says it doesn't have much it's not typical so we're gonna try to jump start it's supposed to have 900 cold crankings it's less than 500 so we're going to jump start and see if that helps so we'll get out the big guns as you can see here this baby can do 200 amp engine start which is what we're gonna do click click so we'll just hook the cables up positive to positive negative to negative but now plenty of power we'll let it go about five minutes with this then we'll go back inside see if the stupid thing will start cross our fingers this time nothing same clicking it just clicks but it doesn't start which i kind of thought anyways because even with 500 amps out of the 900 it should have cranked the engine the engine won't even crank this is one pile of junk now since all it does is click either the is not working or the engine's locked up so let's go under and check so what we're going to do is get a long extension bar and sockets and see if we can turn the engine over by hand so we get the socket and we're sticking it on the front of the crank the cranks right here and we're going to try to turn it and what duck no the engine is locked up so there's no point in going any further i can't spin in the engine because the engine's locked up pile of junk man did he get ripped off now i do have to say i was wrong when i called this a rolling pile of junk because it doesn't roll anymore it's just a pile of junk so we'll close the trunk for one last time when you see a4 2.0 t that's 2 liter 4 cylinder turbo engine don't walk away run away from one of those cars i have never seen a used one that didn't burn oil or have the engine lock up in this case the engine's completely locked up but when i checked the spark plugs they're coated with oil so it was burning oil before it blew up but now it's locked up entirely and basically this beautiful looking car i gotta say it's black and shiny nice interior but it's pretty much worth salvage value now they are marvels of modern engineering when they actually work and run and are zippy with their turbos but when the engine's locked up they are just a pile of junk so goodbye audi i feel sorry for the guy who got it somebody owed him thousands of dollars then he made my customer pay him thousands on top of that to take this car that's not worth maybe 500 now this is not unique for audis it's actually quite typical for one that's 10 years old and you might say scotty it's only got 87 000 miles on it well in this case that's all she wrote for this audi with a little bitty two-liter turbo that the engine said i think i can i think i can gee i guess i can't but at least now understand run away from these cars especially used do not take them as payment for a debt where you have to give people money too now he probably would have never gotten money out of the guy in the first place so if he would have gotten a car for what was owed at least it wasn't the insult that he gave him extra money for this rolling or should i say stationary piece of junk and here's some bonus questions and answers kitchen pete one says i'm looking at either an o6 chevy hhr with 172 000 miles or a jeep compass with 198 000 highway miles which would you buy he also says that they're both around 2 000 and i tested them and they ran okay personally i would buy neither of those vehicles the hhr was a rolling pile of crap and so was the jeep compass it's your thing now you do say here i notice the jeep compass has 198 000 highway miles if it's really highway miles by the jeep then the chevy is an absolute pile of junk and if the jeep is highway mileage mainly you know a 200 000 highway miles is equivalent to like 20 000 miles city driving stop and go so if it is what the heck and some of it has to be highway miles because i've never seen a jeep compass go 198 000 miles city driving if it's city driving they fall apart long before a hundred thousand miles so what the heck i wouldn't buy either because they're both not the great vehicles but if it really is highway mods and a mechanic says it's okay go ahead you're only spending two grand what do you have to lose you're not stupid you're not going out and buying a new one for a fortune and then find out it's worth nothing when it's a few years old so what the heck but truthfully i wouldn't buy either of those vehicles neither is very well made claire harris says he got no 9 charger it's stuck in theft mode well it's in theft mode it means you got a problem with your theft system pray you got extra keys and my drawers here what do i have extra keys for my cars you know why because eventually your little key module is going to break and the anti-theft stuff won't work anymore your car won't start if you have a known good one in your drawer great and you can go drive it and then you know what you do you drive your car to the nearest locksmith and say okay my old key broke here's my new one it works make me a copy of this while i'm here with the car some cars he has to get in your car plug in stuff and reprogram it for another key but he can make you another key program it and it works then you put that one in your drawer and you got a spare you always want to have a known good spare because in modern cars if you only have one key and it either breaks or you lose it sometimes you end up having to replace the computer in a car cost a fortune if you have a one that works and have a good spare that works then at least you know oh mine broke the spare works now great i'll drive with that then i'll go get another one made you always want to have at least two good ones somewhere one on your keychain one in a drawer mark my words listen to me do this and as time goes on it's going to be even more expensive probably to repair them if they go bad on any new car i've seen some of these priuses if somebody loses their key and stuff some of them spent over 1500 bucks having it done over you don't want that to happen just because you don't have a key that works so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] you

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

Views: 196,533

Rating: 4.9009233 out of 5

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Id: yTecF1nKw1Q

Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 05 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/abro79]

If it’s not a Toyota, Honda, or an F150; Scotty won’t like it. He likes boring cars.

[u/Pumpt]

My 2012 2.0t Q5 is an oil burning ticking time bomb. I’m inclined to agree with him.

[u/coffee-on-thursday]

The 2009 - 2015 Audi A4s, have a variant of the problem 2.0 TFSI engine. It was a manufacturing defect that caused them to burn oil after some time (due to the pistons), until the engine dies. I bought my 2009 A4 (looks similar to Scotty's, just grey), with 112,000KM, that's 70K miles, for cheap. Turns out it literally had the two most expensive common issues for these cars, the front bushings/arms/hubs, and an oil-burning engine. Long story short, there's an excellent team of Audi mechanics not far for me, they did a full engine rebuild, put in new pistons without the defect, even swapped out the lower engine block with a newer model, and preemptively replaced the tensioner (another common issue), now the car runs like liquid gold and probably has another 10 years in it. No more oil burning issues, or any sort of issues. Where these cars are reliable is in the build quality of their interiors and the Quattro all wheel drive system and transmission. So I spent $8K CAD on the car + $7.5K CAD to fix front suspension and hub issues and rebuild the engine with a new lower block, pistons etc. So for the total all-in cost, it's now a pretty good car, but Scotty is right, these cars have a few very common, very expensive issues that make this a bit of a time-bomb.

[u/humangenus]

But has he never heard of battery management system?

[u/HarvickAudiFordfan]

Don’t care for him. And neither does r/cars

[u/ram_gh]

C'mon Scotty! You don't need to boost the battery from the trunk! If you pop open the owner's manual you'll find a section called Use of Jumper Cables

[u/Nadox97]

nah, this guy is kinda a meme.

[u/syxbit]

Depends on the Audi. Had a 2008 A4 2.0T quattro that was excellent. Now have a 2018 A6 3.0T. If you research and pick the right model years, they're great.

[u/_eg0_]

Scotty is a annoying and has a fetish for old Japanese cars. Some of his tips dangerous and most of them illegal over here. His titles are clickbait and I can't stand him. Judging by the thumbnail without watching the video he is rambling about the B8 2.0tfsi oil burning issues, some cheap plastic in wrong places, the timing chain, electronics and that the cars aren't easy to work on. He is right about that, but I don't think the car owns the title of worst car ever made.

I bet he doesn't talk about how the car drives and the advantages of some of those "bad" design decisions.

Can someone who watched it confirm it?