5 Cars That Won’t Last 100,000 Miles

Rev your engines, today I'm going to talk about five

cars

that won't make it to one hundred thousand

miles

, now of course any car can make it to one hundred thousand

miles

if you want to spend a fortune on it, putting in another engine or transmission, or spending a fortune fixing it, I'm talking about

cars

and they won't make it to a hundred thousand miles if you just change the oil and filter and take care of them, they just won't make it. because they are very poorly made, now the first vehicle I am going to talk to you about is the Range Rover, it does not surprise anyone who knows vehicles, they are famous for having all kinds of electrical problems, now the original Rovers, there were copies. of American jeeps from World War II, the British saw that they liked them, so they made their own with little four-cylinder engines and stuff that could run for a long time, but then they started thinking, let's make a bigger one. small, fancy, and sell them for a lot of money, and while the smaller ones, some of those original ones are still circulating around the world, Africa, you name it, but the bigger ones, they all turned out to be quite the money pits. , and then that Indian company Tata that makes really cheap cars, they bought them so now they own them and if anything the quality has gotten even worse, now I know another mechanic and he loves them because that's all he works for. and he says Scotty, these things are great, it's like you're printing money for me, they slow down so much that I make a fortune fixing them, and the modern Range Rover, they have all this electronic stuff and it's fine if it works like a Lexus, but the Not one of them, I have a customer with one and he says every day is a new adventure as to which electronic part will fail next, I had a customer who had one, in the first year of ownership the dealer actually had the car for four months trying to fix it, and they never really fixed it.

He once took it in for a problem when he got it back, that problem was gone, but suddenly four new electronic problems appeared. , and when you take into consideration that they have had head gasket failures over the years, it is simply not a vehicle that you can buy and think that you will get a hundred thousand trouble-free miles driving it, that is simply not the case, and by Of course, the smart person would look at the resale value of Range Rovers and see how incredibly low they are, so they think oh, I can get one cheap!

Well there's a reason you get a cheap one, because it may be cheap to buy, but it's not going to be cheap to fix and it's going to break a lot, now the next car that probably won't make it a hundred thousand miles without problems is the Chevy Cruze , lately GM has been known for poor quality, but the Cruze takes the prize, it's one of the worst cars they've ever made, I have a customer with one, 70k miles, it's on its third automatic, it's crazy , they keep replacing them, they keep breaking them, because they are just very poorly made and I said, well, what do you think now?

He said that he should have spent the extra three four thousand instead of having this pile of junk that I'm going to get rid of the next time the transmission goes out. because then it won't be under warranty, I admit the Cruz is a lower priced car but it has even lower quality, my advice is to stay away from them, but if you have to buy one, say you found one that looks good. and it's very cheap, only buy one if it has a standard transmission, the rest of the cars are poor quality but not as bad as automatic transmissions, now the next car that will probably get you around a hundred times without problems, is the mini and yes , they're cute, that's how they sell things, but they're not made cute, I see it all the time, engines have a tendency to blow their head gaskets off and they don't even make me talk about it.

The wiring on those cars that I had come here, the headlights weren't working, so I took the headlights out and all the little wires that powered them were the thinnest things I had ever seen in my life and they were all melted, now With the manufacturing processes modern ones, it is believed that they could make wiring that goes to the headlights and that could

last

forever. Well, this particular vehicle was only three and a half years old and the wiring was already melting, that doesn't make sense. because that shows quality control gone down the toilet and the ones with CVT are famous for transmission failures, that's what happens when you start putting more advanced technology in a German/English car and sell them without really making any kind of serious testing of things, now I remember that years ago Honda had carbureted cars in the United States, but at the same time they were selling fuel injected Hondas in England, they used them in England as a testing ground, and once they They fixed all the problems with their fuel injection systems, then they started selling fuel injected cars in the United States, and guess what those Honda fuel injection systems are pretty bulletproof, they actually didn't have any problems , maybe the mini should have learned from that, maybe they should have tested all the stuff in England first, before they started shipping them to the US and making them fall apart, and when they fall apart, man with all those BMW parts , they are expensive, I did one for another.

The day I had to put a brake caliper on it, I couldn't believe how much money the parts cost, I tried several places where no one had them, and I realized when I had to buy the caliper at the dealership for an ungodly sum. said BMW, because it's a BMW part, they have a lot of BMW parts, three years old wasn't that old, things shouldn't fail so soon, so if you want to maximize the value of your car, don't buy a mini, now the next car that generally won't get to a hundred thousand miles is the Fiat 500, a while ago Fiat left the United States and they were gone for three whole decades and didn't sell cars in the United States, but now with Fiat buying Chrysler, The Fiats are back in the United States, maybe they should have stayed in Italy and not come here, I had a client, at forty thousand miles the engine blew the oil and I said it was a change. regularly, it was just a poorly made small car, now in theory it is an update of the original Fiat 500 which was called Fiat 500 because it had a 500 cc engine, the new Fiat 500 comes with an original 1400 cc engine, much more than the 500 CC but really quality control, they haven't learned much in the

last

30-40 years at Fiat, now a year when they first came out to the United States, these new Fiat 500s were sold like 40 something. thousands of things, which was a decent start, but last year they sold less than five thousand, so they're going under, and rumor has it they might push Fiat out of the US market, and for sure From what people tell me in Europe the Fiat 500's are mainly standard transmissions many of them are diesel, here in the US people mainly use automatic transmissions and in 2016 Fiat had to recall many of their automatic transmissions to shift into neutral all by themselves, they recalled more out of 300,000 of them, now of course it wasn't all five hundred because they didn't sell that many there, but you take a small car like that that's underpowered and then you put an automatic transmission on top of it. makes it even less powerful, and they just don't fit the American market, now the Fiat 500 wasn't as depressing as a failure, say, the smart car, but of the smart cars they sold such a small number of cars, not even the I include it in this video because as far as I'm concerned they don't really exist as a model in the United States, now the last car that probably won't make it to 100,000 miles without problems is a late model Nissan Altima, especially with one that has a CVT transmission , now I say modern because you go back a decade or more, the Nissan Altimas are actually very good cars, my clients bought them totally satisfied with them, the acceleration, the gas consumption, the handling, since Renault took over, their quality is gone, but not only are their automatic transmissions garbage, they also blow head gaskets all the time, I see blowing head gaskets frequently on Altimas, it's something that should never happen with modern metals, you know how manufacturing them, obviously Nissan is no longer putting that into practice, and it's a real shame because I've had customers who owned Altimas decades ago, and then when they bought a newer one and it fell apart, they were very disappointed because they said, "Oh, we "We remember our old Altimas and they lasted as long as they did, but this one was just a bunch of junk, so don't make the same mistake, stay away from the latter." model Nissan Altimas, so now you know five cars that won't let you go a hundred thousand miles without problems, and why you should stay away from them if you value your money, so if you never want to miss another one of My new car repair videos, Remember to ring that bell.