rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about five SUVs that won't go a hundred thousand miles reasonably trouble-free,
now SUVs are getting more and more popular, look at ford they cut all their
car lines except the Mustang and they're making only SUVs and trucks, so SUVs are
very popular, but you don't want to get one that doesn't hold up, because let's
face it they're not giving the things away, they cost a lot of money even if
you buy a used one, you're still gonna pay a lot of money for it, cuz I tell my
customers they said, I want a good use SUV, and I'll say why don't you just get
a Camry sedan you get a good price on one and they
last forever, no I gotta have an SUV, you're gonna pay more because people
want them, it's just supply and demand, an suv that probably won't make it
trouble-free to a hundred thousand miles is the Chevy Equinox, it's a lower price
SUV, it has lower build quality, I had a customer with one, the fuel pump went out
at 37,000 miles, my celica here has two hundred and thirty seven
thousand miles and still on the original fuel pump, so shame on you GM for making
such cheap parts, and I had another customer than Equinox the engine went
out at 70,000 miles, you know that's uncalled for, and it wasn't like they
weren't taking care of it, I changed a lot regularly it was clean, it was just built
poorly and the engines just let loose at 70,000 miles, there are so many better
made SUVs than the Chevy Equinox, their just laced with problems
yeah just like the rogue they cost less they're cheaper SUV, but in this case you
don't get what you don't pay for, now another SUV is the Nissan Rogue yeah
it's a cheaper SUV and it certainly is cheaper made, so the old saying you get
what you pay for it kind of fits here, although it would be you don't get what
you don't pay for, because it's a cheaper SUV, typical of Nissan in general since
Renault took over, CVT transmission problems up the wazoo, the CVT
transmissions in these are so bad that Nissan doubled its warranty from five
years to 10 years, maybe they'll fix it for free when it goes out but I'm saying
it's not going to last 100,000 miles and they're pretty much telling you it
probably won't, but I gotta give it to Nissan because since they doubled
warrant for five years to ten and sixty thousand
to a hundred and twenty thousand milesm at least if you are stuck with one and
the transmission breaks at 110,000 milesm hey they gotta fix it for free at least
and they have a recall on them for a fire hazard that the anti-lock brake pump
can leak fluid on a circuit board and start a firem hey who wants a vehicle
like thatm maybe they shouldn't call it a rogue cuz it is kind of a rogue it
doesn't get along with youm it's rough-and-tumble and it's not something
that's that safem so listen to the name rogue and stay away from the Roguesm next
comes one of my favorite poorly made SUVsm and that's the Jeep renegadem here
I'm using the word Jeep very liberallym because when fiat took over Chrysler of
course they wanted the Jeep brand that's a big seller, they decided to have a
cheaper one called the Jeep renegade, you've heard the ads with them singing
about renegades and all that stuff, they're taking the image about as far as
you can possibly take it, and it's so out of
context to a Jeep, and believe me those things are horrid, I've seen automatic
transmissions go out on those when they had forty thousand miles, they just have no
quality and there are no relationship to actual Jeep at all, they're Italian cars,
and let's face it the original Jeep made by willys-overland, hey they helped
win World War two, and we all know what happens to the Italians in World War two,
when the heat got on they just surrendered, don't buy Jeep Renegade
again if you want something that's gonna be tough and get you through hard times,
I had a customer one, you add modern high level technology to Italian manufacturing,
his car he's driving on a road and it just stopped while he's going down
highway, the computer thought the car was out of gas, he still had three bars on his
fuel gauge, but it just shut the car right off while he was driving it, let the
renegade go the way of the rogue hey they're even related by names you know,
stick to something that's gonna last longer, isn't gonna fall apart and isn't
gonna put your life at risk while you're driving it down the road, now one that I
feel certainly won't make it a hundred thousand miles trouble-free, is the
Lamborghini uris yes believe it or not Lamborghini now
makes an SUV, even they've jumped into the fray, granted they
started $200,000, so there aren't too many people out there that are gonna
spend that kind of money on an SUV, why a company known for their exotic v12
sports cars decides to make an SUV is beyond me, those things cost a fortune to
repair, I have never seen a Lamborghini that had more than maybe 80,000 miles and
a fortune had been spent on it to even get
it that far, it doesn't use their v12 engine like in their sports car, it's a
v8 and it's basically an Audi engine that they've souped up, they added
modifications to it but it's basically a German engine, but still it's an Italian
exotic car maker, I would stay away from their SUV, now the last SUV that
probably won't make it trouble-free to a hundred thousand miles, is the Chrysler
Aspen, now yes they don't make them anymore
and for many good reasons, they were horrible SUVs, they were based on a Dodge
Durango really, and not only do they not make the Dodge Aspen
they even shut down the factory that made them, that said something you know
it's bad enough when they stopped making a model, but when
they shut the entire factory down, that tells you there's problems going on here, I had
customers with Aspen's every time it rained it seemed the car wouldn't start
they had electric problems and rain would get inside the electronics and they
wouldn't run, they're supposed to be sealed for rain, my Toyotas start in the rain
and never have any problems with that and all kinds of problems, some of them you'd
fill them up and the evap system would be messed up so it would shoot raw vapor
and the engine would stall out or jerky after you fill up and drive around, I
mean that's just the tip of the iceberg basically they were poorly made vehicles,
that just did not hold up over time and no big surprise there that had to on my
list of five SUVs that won't go a hundred thousand miles are sold by Fiat Chrysler,
and that two of them are basically Italian
cars, the Lamborghini and the Jeep renegade a Fiat in disguise, but at least
now you know five SUVs that you should stay far
away from if you value your money because certainly SUV seemed to be the
future of cars in the world, don't have a nightmarish future and buy one of these five
SUVs, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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