Watch Before you Buy a Mini Jeep

[Music] [Music] what's up everybody Tim back here at Hicks garage and here we have a little mini Jeep as you can see I'm really excited to make this video to show you guys this toy that we got for the family mostly Little Tim and I and how much we've enjoyed it the things that we've had wrong with it in the past couple weeks of ownership with it what we' needed to do what we've done with it the capabilities that we put it through and overall if we think it was worth it or not stay tuned sit back and enjoy the video we got this little mimo mini Jeep I don't know a couple weeks ago and I've been kicking around the idea yeah I've kind of wanted one I thought they were really cool I've read a lot of mixed things about them though um I know they're Chinese so they're already going to have all those issues that the knockoff stuff has um one of the main things is nothing's tight so loose bolts rattles stuff like that decided to go ahead and shoot go for it right we really liked it when we seen them they looked like they were I mean pretty well put together for what they were uh this one we'll go over the price here in just a little bit we did get a I think a pretty good deal on this one this one was brand new from our um sort of local to us it was out in towards St Louis uh Missouri and I think that they had them listed for $24.99 we went ahead got it it looked really cool um there was two and they're both sitting on the showroom floor when we went we decided to pick the other of the two not this one they were both red um however this one had a couple more scuffs and scratches on it and so we went with the other one we couldn't get the other one to start this one did start up we I had to tune the carburetor a little bit or just just adjust it really to get it to idle when we were there at the store but thought no big deal we wanted to get it though and didn't really want to have another project just wanted something to be able to putt around play around let little Tim drive here um kind of you know help him with some driving skills on a small scale he does have the go-kart but we figured this would be better for him as he gets a little older we decided to go for it and even though the other one didn't start and this one need adjustment we weren't off to a good start however let me flip you guys we went ahead and got it home and first things first we went and got on some Facebook groups a gentleman on one of the Facebook groups told us make sure that we check down here this case in this chain so right here to make sure that this chain isn't scooted over and eating on this case he said that we needed to be sure that we stayed on the lookout for that because he had one ruined one of the engines that he had and wanted to warn us the next morning so we we got it late at night we drove it around the yard just a little bit ready but the next morning I went out and sure enough it was eating the case a little retainer that holds that sprocket onto that little crankshaft drive shaft whatever you want to call it and that retainer was all smash into forms I had initially thought maybe that was done from somebody not installing it correctly right I went ahead got another one put it on I thought it was good maybe 15 20 minutes I noticed the chain was already over again took the cover off sure enough it was bent again I thought what am I going to do to we do we return this do we just kind of cut our losses and get away from it because I didn't want to modify it I didn't want to avoid the warranty I didn't want another little project but Tim really liked it Little Tim and me so we decided to go ahead and let's see what we can do to fix it what the idea I had was we got two washers large washers and we put them on the backside you look right there you can see two washers so those two washers are on the case side of the sprocket and then there's a sprocket next and then there is the retainer that holds it that's what I did to help fix that so I put the retainer on then I put another washer on the outside of that I drilled two holes that match the retainer and I sandwiched everything together if that makes any sense I haven't had any problems so far we've been driving this thing and for weeks now and haven't had any problems the only thing that I keep thinking that might cause an issue is I don't know how those washers that are against that case are going to hold up to or the case is going to hold up to the shaft spinning through there I haven't had any issues it seems to be working uh you try it it's on your own uh no responsibilities for what you try on there I don't know seems to be working on ours though if you have that problem so that was our sprocket issue we had then I wanted to go ahead and do a couple upgrades let's see after also looking on the groups we did the the nibby 22 carburetor and the nibby intake with it I didn't have any problems putting this on it was really super easy the only thing I did have to add was right here this nut cuz the other the bolts threaded right into the other carburetor not on this one uh so I know some people have to take this little 90° elbow off the old carburetor to fit on here for the closing the hood and stuff this all closes and works fine without me doing that so this was a complete just Bolton you know add two nuts and it was good to go um I didn't change any of the Jets or do anything like that uh there's an adjustment screw on the back for your idle and the the choke is the only other thing that changes it's right here it did used to have a cable that ran up and you had a a choke lever or cable right up here you could access from the driver's seat no longer can we do that although this Jeep has been starting with no choke so I haven't really needed to use it I think there's been like two times that I've needed to open the hood and actually manually choke it hasn't been an issue for me we did that then we also added an oil cooler which was a super simple install we took this front grill off and then we took our bracket here put it up on the outside that way we could drill I marked it and then I drilled our holes mounted it on the inside and then ran all of our lines right over to the this adapter plate right there that the kit comes and that is our oil cooler so now we have an oil cooler on here to help the the engine stay cool we have the carburetor upgraded and let's go up to the driver's seat we did a couple things it did have a different speedometer in it one that was in kilometers an hour this one is like obviously miles per hour we added it as GPS so what I did is I just drilled a small hole put a rubber grommet and ran the GPS right here I used double-sided tape you can see our addition of our ducks uh Timmy's Grandma my mom has a Jeep and she decided to get Timmy some ducks they're on here with just double-sided tape as well seem to be holding up just fine along with our GPS signal for our speedometer speedometer is nice I wired it right up to one of the plugs for the original one had a hot uh with a key on so as soon as we turn the key on I just wired it right to there and it all comes on and then it also is back lit which I turned I wired with our headlights headlights kick on the speedometer lights up and you can change to several different colors just you reach around the back side back down underneath here and you can change it with the buttons down there where you leave it on green and that's how that works gear indicator it was mounted on top so imagine these bolts taken out and then this this whole indicator was mounted on top of this dashboard I thought that looked kind of tacky so what I did was I unplugged it unscrewed it put it on the backside ran the screws that way it kind of was more flush it's not exactly flush there's still little bit of a lip here but it looks much better the way it is mounted like this we Twisted these around here or this switch on and off switch it was toggled left and right for your headlights this one is your headlights this one is your blinkers I flipped it to where it was up and down for on off for the headlights just so it was easier to decipher on which one was headlights and which ones were blinkers now yes you can see how the switches are different you know on and off and this one is on and on just to make things easier I did that I like that we added this little tack I will leave the the links in the description for all the stuff that we used such as the speedometer the oil cooler and this little tack here I drilled a small hole put a rubber grommet in there ran our wires plugged it in this has a clock it'll tell us our RPMs it tells us our engine temperature it tells our total engine hours it has engine temp I don't know limit I guess you could say to where this will flash red the whole screen will light up red whenever engine temp reaches a temperature that is hotter than what you set it or your RPMs exceed what you have set it for your max RPMs so that's kind of nice it does backl green you can see here and and then you can also have the light turn on all the time or I have it on auto so like whenever you touch a button I guess only certain buttons but it'll it'll uh light up that's really nice so it can be on off or Auto our choke it was here I put a rubber plug in same with our mirrors it came with some mirrors they were kind of junky I uh didn't think we were going to really use those mirrors so I went ahead and took those off thought it looked a little bit better it was one less thing that would rattle now the seat on this thing actually everything on it you're going to need to go over with a fine Toth comb as far as your bolts our seat down in here these bolts were all loose everything was loose our seat belt bolts were all loose everything was loose everything had to be tightened now the floorboard also had a lot of noise this is just a plastic floor pan so all these are tight I don't know if you can if the camera will pick it up but you can see how when we tightened it it kind of indented it that's just waiting to crack so what I'm going to end up doing is make a template or take this out I'm not really sure but I'm going to make a metal like floor mat almost basically that's going to sit inside here and I'll drill the holes to match all these holes and then we will Raptor liner them and we'll put the floor mat in here or the metal floor pant in on top of this and then bolt it so there'll be plastic and then metal on top and then that we can tighten down very well and it will hold up a lot better we won't have to worry about CRA cracking or breaking or anything like that and I may even do one on the bottom because I did have a worry about these tires throwing up when we were in the woods yesterday some sticks and having it break through the floor we might put metal skid plate on the bottom to protect that and then also on the top when we do that the idea is we're going to go ahead and weld another little piece that kind of wraps around here and it will keep debris you can see all the dead grass from when we mow and then we ride they fly right in through the wheel well so I'm going to build something to hopefully help keep that out and keep little kids feet or fingers or whatever from going the chain or the tire so I will be doing that does have a gas can I do not know if you're supposed to use them seems like you could um I don't know if it leaks I've never put anything in it yet I don't know if we will or if we'll just find a gas can that will also fit in this little rack that is mounted on there like a plastic one or whatever the spare tire was also loose and those little orange plugs those are those carrier bearings for this axle they were not greased so I did need to grease those checking all your tires for being tight uh ours were tight but not extremely tight so I would recommend tightening them up our shocks you got two in the rear two in the front I did get a spanner wrench also from Amazon I'll leave the link in the description and I put them on the max stiffness because I'm larger and whenever I'm in there with the kids and stuff like that I didn't want the Springs bottoming out the way I did I wanted to jump back real quick guys the way that I did our temperature sensor for for that that tack that I showed you this is the tack WRA around the spark plug wire so that's how it catches our RPMs but if you look down here this black white wire it has a loop on it and it kind of was hard to tighten but I tighten it right on that oil cooler line so that the temperature is reading right off the oil clue that is all the little upgrades and things that we did to our little mini Jeep I don't think I went over this is three-speed with reverse down would be might rock it just a little one two and three and then we go back up back to neutral and reverse so that is very nice it does have a parking brake if you just saw me deactivate it just up is the brake and down that is the way the transmission Works in it for the carburetor I did not tell you guys that the cable length is too long or it was for for me on this one so it is the original cable however I had to max out our adjustments here and here and then if you see the tab that this is on that tab was more off at a 90 from this this this part that it's welded I just took a uh pry bar and I bent because it still had too much slack I just bent it away from the pedal now it works great that's how we fixed the throttle cable length issue I was not very happy with the decals on this thing they had the plastic tape still on the outside of decals peeling them off the plastic tape no matter how gentle I was was peeling off stickers they were it was folded over they were bubbling this one looks terrible they're super sticky on the [Music] outside so that sucks we're going to go ahead and remove those stickers and probably get some of our logos and stuff like that and badge this thing up appropriately we did also take the windshield all the way out all these bolts and we put rubber grommets on both sides of the the windshield here so like on between the windshield and this metal tab on this side and then also on the head of the bolt so there's rubber sandwiching on both sides don't know if it helped don't know what it did really I think it silenced it up a little bit still makes a little bit of noise but it is a little bit better let's go ahead it's in neutral got to give it a little bit of throttle fires right up super easy so let's go ahead and take this thing for a spin so we have our parking brake disengaged we will ship there is no clutch we're in first [Music] gear to shift you'll just let off the throttle shift it and continue on the throttle [Music] he and that everybody is our mimo little Chinese mini Jeep I think that it's great uh we haven't had any major issues with it it's driven us all around just fine I can fit Timmy uh our daughter nelli all three of us can get in they do have seat bels I don't know if I really recommend the seat Bel so it's pretty stiff and the steering is not it doesn't turn Super sharp and the reason I I would assume is a because it has a solid axle in the rear so it kind of pushes that front end but also it's probably maybe even set up that way possibly for the potential to roll it maybe they made it to where it's less likely to roll that's why the steering is not so sharp but that is another kind of gripe about it but I can I at least I can go ahead and let Timmy drive it and I don't have a fear for him rolling it over now if you were buckled into the thing and it was rolling over there's no way to really bail so yeah I I don't know I don't know if the seat belts are a good thing or not um it's kind of probably something that you're going to have to figure out on your own I don't know if I trust him I don't personally wear one in here Timmy does wear his in here and that's just for the pure fact that his legs have nothing to help support him you know against and if you slam the brakes on then you know he's liable to fly forward or whatever if you were to start rolling you would have such a hard time getting out that I think that it would be pretty dangerous um I know some of these do have roll bars and you could fabricate a roll bar for it probably pretty easy that may be even something that do to this just for the safety of Tim it would definitely not hurt to have a good rollar on you other than that it's really been a lot of fun do change your oil right when you get it uh the cheap oil that they put in there is not really that that great I used yamal Lube I went ahead changed it and put yamal lube in there and it's been absolutely great and I hope that give you guys kind of an insight and you know if you wanted to get one maybe kind of suede your your your scale either yes or no because it does have a little little problems but I think after you got it at least for us after we got it we worked those problems out it was no problem it was it was awesome it has been really really really cool and it's really fun to do little upgrades I know like the little tack the speedometer all those things and they were really fairly cheap and pretty straightforward to install we do also have a couple pod lights that I am going to put on the front bumper and I'm thinking that we might go ahead and swing by Harbor Freight even grab uh the little 2500 lb winch or whatever the reason I do say that is if you're going up a big hill or something and say you ran out of gas something happened whatever it would kind of it would not not be any fun to try to push it up up a hill the battery probably going to need to upgrade that to a little bit better of a battery than the one that comes with it it does seem like it strains a little bit and we also got a fuse block that way all of our new accessories that that we would put such as the winch the Pod light stuff like that we are going to go ahead and add to a fuse block instead of running them straight off the battery when we do our pod lights when we do our winch all that stuff will be off of the fuse block and I do plan on making a video when I do put those things on showing you how I put my fuse block on how I put my winch on which is just going to mount to the bumper super straightforward and how we do the podl lights also super straightforward mounting straight to the bumper I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you like the content please make sure you hit that like share and subscribe so I'm going to leave you guys with some clips and you guys have a good rest of your day and we will see you on the next one turn guys we got the battery turn on real quick see you guys [Music] you

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Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 23 2023