I Just Found the Worst Car to Buy

run up your engines now there's no arguing it minis are cute cars in this case it's a John Cooper Works it's got a tricked-out six-speed standard transmission and it's certainly telling you what it is it puts out 228 horsepower when this car was made the normal one just to play not many put on a hundred and twenty one horsepower yes if you have a normal one back in 2015 a lot of people in the United States get them with automatic transmissions they can barely get out of their own way there's no arguing that no way open the hood see what's happening under here or I should have said you can see what's happening in here cuz it's so cramped in with stuff you can't really see anything but if we take off the stupid beauty cover we can see underneath it's durable charged it also has an upgraded exhaust system intake manifold exhaust manifold a remapped ECU main control unit so they don't go faster it's actually a quite zippy car you got to realize one thing with these mini now that much in common with the original man the original Mini weighed less than 1300 pounds this thing weighs three thousand six hundred and twenty-seven pounds so much heavier vehicle now some of them are made in England some of them are made in another ones they're all made by BMW open the door here and check this one up here we go right here it's made by BMW what should be a very good thing performance wise but a very bad thing repair cost wise the parts on these things will make your head spin this particular one about a $35,000 car but my customer bought this used for about $14,000 and even now it's only got 34,000 miles on it so you can see they depreciate very rapidly just like regular BMWs do it really expansive cars to repair all those cars generally have relatively low resale value because of them do they really fall apart right away well the answer that is no no high mileage once you they're on their last legs you can buy a car with this low mileage for a fraction of what it originally went for it can actually be a fun car to drive around just make sure you have full coverage body parts are expensive too so they get wrecked it cost a fortune to repair so make sure you always have full coverage and maintain the vehicle but being built and here in the United States serviced at BMW dealerships are so expensive to maintain at the dealer that's why this car is here he saw some service in India at the dealer and it was astronomical what they wanted for just some basic things not a lot of the parts are made by BMW software is all stuff with BMW I worked on BMW so I got all the equipment form you can find lots of mechanic so they work on BMWs other European cars they could have equipment to work on these things but anybody who's ever owned to BMW and had it serviced regularly at a BMW dealer they know the insane high cost that they have there in that respect the minis are no different they are astronomical if you maintain them at the dealer now granted the earlier ones had engine problems my neighbor had one blew the engine in it that was long before this one the engines are pretty solid I do have to say you changed the oil regularly in them it's gonna last there's solid built engines BMW always made solid built engines and being so low to the ground hey these aren't cars you're gonna drive through any type of water you'll suck water and blow the engine but being low to the ground and they're very tricky on suspension system these things are a lot of fun to drive around they really corner well and that's one it's a sport version but it does have a reasonable amount of space in the back just take this into consideration here are the seats are folded back when it seats are folded up you're not going to have comfortable large people sitting in the back by any stretch of the imagination but for the driver and the passenger they have very comfortable molded seats they are excellent seats if you're under Sun rose it's got the crazy double sunroof Frey and back you like Sun this is the vehicle for you I guess I get so little Sun in England no one have a I'd open whenever it is sunny so they can get some Sun here in Texas you're gonna roast the dots first thing you're gonna do is shut those babies down I do have to say the dashes everything I'm pretty well-appointed if you're a serious driver we'll start it up as you can see so manometers here tachometer is right next to it so you can do your chef's strike not have to take a look to the left or right it's all right in front of you and it does make a decent sound it's got a cool side dash display for all kinds of electronic stuff you want to mess around with the modern obligatory zillion bucks on the steering so you can mess with everything without taking their hands off the steering wheel no I check off the car you know more idea about how it actually functions as we go under you can see it's a classic mini front-wheel drive there's a drive shaft it drives only the front wheels just like the classic mini did and as you look at the tires here we can see the classic problems you're always gonna have with these cars there's still a lot of tread left in the middle but the insides all worn thin these wide tires low-profile do wear out relatively quickly but at least a front-wheel drive the rear tires last a lot longer cuz they're just rolling down the road now the modern man he's being about three times heavier than the original man he still have one big advantage and that's in the ride of these things did you have a written around in a sixties mini every time you had a bump the feelings you teased feel like they're gonna fall out it was a ragged ride along a little car zip around in place and that's where the BMW aspect of the newer mini comes really into effect the combination of the weight the wheelbase and the BMW designed suspension system they ride so much better than the old ones do now of course when the suspension finally does wear out yes it's gonna cost a small fortune to replace the struts it's going to be an expensive job because it's all BMW parts and BMW engineering it's much harder to take apart and put together requires special tools that other in fact you don't so as I said earlier fixing these things is not a cheap endeavor now I have customers that leased these things and that's the smartest crazy thing about this car is it actually was owned by two smart owners so far the original person leased it so they didn't take the bump in value in my customer who bought it last year little over a third of what the original sticker price was it's got their little mileage on it but don't be mistaken by some people buying sporty cars thinking oh I'll buy a new one it will be a collector's item it will go up in value I have these things you're not gonna go up in value they're never gonna be true collectors items what you see is what you get and if you want a new one hey Lisa and if you can find a low mileage one button buy it if you're gonna pay like he did such a small price then you're not really losing up but please listen to Scotty on this one do not buy one of these things used with high mileage you know what to buy one of these things it's got a hundred thousand miles on it unless you get it for practically nothing the men you know what does it matter I even got people buy Mercedes two three grand and they run okay when they buy him what the heck they got two three grand if it goes yeah they can sell the shell with somebody for eight or nine hundred dollars they're not losing that much money cuz when they break and they're older who give me an example I had a customer with regular same car is this was a couple years older need a catalytic converter and the cost of replacing that parts and labor was about twenty-five hundred dollars I'm not making this up $2,500 so now you know the unbridled truth about modern minis and here's some bonus questions and answers Mitsubishi for life-size mr. Kilmer please help I have mobile ATF DM transmission fluid saying that's good for GM Ford Allison what do you damage if I use at my Honda recipe she thanks I would never use it in Honda and with most minor cars I would pretty much stick to the fluid that he came with and here's the reason no one but not one ever tells you what's actually in any of those fluids I have tried as a professional mechanic and a Scottie a famous youtuber to get these companies tell me what's in their oils and they won't cuz they said that's our prerogative formula we are not gonna tell anybody what's in it it's patented and we're not gonna tell anybody because then our competitors will blah blah blah blah blah so nobody actually knows what the adjectives are in any of them you know they might tell you it contains a sadder than any thanks but you don't even know Santa gist and they won't even tell you everything that's in it you really have no idea what's in the factory stuff you can put something else in it that you also really know everything that's in it not generally things like that can work okay but I would not chance and especially with a Honda Honda's history of you gotta use their fluids they're not all that expensive you don't the binder dealer lots of places sell them Honda doesn't make their own food of course a company make it they're not in a well company so I would stick to the stuff that they came with in any modern ages go didn't really matter there were only when I was a young mechanic there are only two types automatic transmission fluids really there was one for almost all of the GM used and then there was they called the Ford type for certain force but now there's all kind so stick to what that came with that makes the most sense so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that Bell [Music]

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 05 2020