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they bought it new it only has 177,000 miles on it and it started burning oil when it had 15,000 M now it didn't have it originally so that tells you that you know something is wrong here, now Kia knows they have problems, this one actually had a recall market and they went through Kia's BS process where they said no we are not going to replace the engine or fix it even though it is burning oil and you know how that goes with these companies, they were even told by the mechanics on site, so good unless you drive until the engine blows they will put another engine in you and then but they are not going to fix it if it is burning oil and it obviously shows that they are not making them right because the first 15,000 miles it didn't burn oil now okay, obviously something is wearing out, they're not going to admit any of this because you know they don't want to replace all these motors.

K had nothing but engine problems for For decades they had those that were made in the United States where the engines would explode and they blamed it on a faulty machine that didn't make the engines right and then the metal would go in and explode them . These are not particularly explosive. above if you keep adding oil but they are burning oil now take my 94 Celica it's ok it burns half a liter of oil every 3,000 miles. I change it then so I don't really care now why it burns oil, it burns oil because it has got 240,000 miles on it, things are worn out, but I really mean it's a lot of miles, this baby only has 177,000 now when it started burning oil when had 15,000 now Kia tells their corporate line of nonsense, well if it takes 1,000 miles or more to burn a qu of oil that's normal, I'm not going to do anything about it at all, now that this car only burns half qu of oil every thousand miles, but still it's a new car, practically 177,000 thousand it has started burning oil at 15,000 miles and here it is The funny thing is that according to Kia you are only supposed to change the oil every 7500 Mi.

He changes the oil and drives it. He doesn't actually burn oil until he reaches about 4,000 Mi and then he starts burning oil. I'm going against his wrong rules. I simply change the oil every 45,000 miles. What happens is that as the oil ages, it breaks down and breaks down a bit. This is a very high-tech engine. Look, it has ignition coils on top. It has synchronization. it has a chain and it's not a particularly small engine, it's a 2L 4 cylinder engine which is definitely big enough, it's not like one of those crappy little three cylinder L engines, they all end up burning oil because they're trying too hard now If it has a turbocharger.

You would have all that extra air trapped in the engine, which increases the pressure inside the combustion chamber, which wears them out, and if you've ever had a turbocharged car that's aged, you'll notice that it probably starts to burn oil as it ages. , especially when you rev ​​it to the higher RPM, but this is a normally aspirated 2L 4 cylinder engine, it should have no problem burning oil. Obviously they don't do things correctly now. Just for fun, we'll take out the spark plugs. and look at them see what condition they are in see how much oil it is actually burning but before you take out the spark plugs here is the rest of the story so the owner tells me they took it to the dealership and it was right at 7500 Mi for an oil change and the guy there was a good mechanic and he said well we won't change the oil now we'll let them do the oil test because they have a higher chance of burning oil and they'll fix it. his engine, so they sealed it up and let them drive 1,000 miles, so he came back after 1,000 miles, right, and the guy said, well, you should check your Lev, you don't blow up your engine, so they did well when he came in .

He said well your test will not be valid because you broke the seal on the oil dipstick, now to me that is absurd because what if you broke the seal on the oil dipstick? That's just to check the oil, right? He didn't empty anything. it went well, regardless of the guy saying it wouldn't even matter because it had burned oil, but in those thousand miles it will only burn, it gained half a liter of oil and like I said before, Kia says a liter of oil every thousand thousand or a one liter of oil every 1,500 miles whatever is normal and they're not going to fix it anyway and then the guy says well I'll change the oil for 60 bucks we're not going to give you another car and then we can run the test again.

If you want, but we have to keep the car overnight, we won't give you a lane car, so they thought and said, "Okay, now, could you write this for us? The guy says no, I'm not going to put it written". and that's something I warn people about, always do it in writing. I've had so many people. Not a single guy once said the spark plugs on his car had been changed to hide something, they are new and he just had the car service the dealership was the only one that worked on it but I looked at his invoice and there was nothing about spark plugs on the invoice, they didn't want to fix some warranty work and one invoice said what they had done.

It was like a $900 bill, but there was no mention of spark plugs. There are new spark plugs, so I said, well, someone doesn't, he said, well, I don't, and they're the only ones who worked on it. He goes back to him and says, Well, I noticed there are new spark plugs on the car, but they're not in the build, and you know, the nonsense they gave him, they said, Well, sir, we change your spark plugs for free as a service, so we did not. Put it on the bill, what nonsense, they just lied to you, so every time you come in, you have to get it and write it down, especially if it's a guarantee.

I've had people over the years who will make noise. They still have about 2,000 thousand left on their car's original warranty the engine makes a noise when they take it to the dealership they have it written down the customer complains about this noise and then they say we didn't find anything at all they just don't say oh well we didn't find anything nothing, here's your car B, you don't get a receipt, you have to get a receipt because then if the engine blows up after the warranty is up, you have paperwork to say, look, it was making a noise, they couldn't.

I can't figure out what it was now that the engine is gone, you are going to fix my engine, you have to get a paper trail from these people because they are bureaucrats, they don't care, but in this case they wouldn't have done anything anyway. Because it doesn't burn a quart or more of oil every 1,000 miles so we'll take the spark off please how bad is it really oh we'll take a look at it take the ignition coil off and take the spark plug out take the spark plug out now You can see it's not scandalous it has some burnt oil stains it's nothing scandalous but it is burning some oil but we're going to have to check them all to see if any of them are worse than the others no You can only see the little stains, but look, the oil shouldn't be oil, check them all and here comes number two, they have long threads on these things and it's hot because he drove from Arkansas and you can see it's a little less and when I squeeze the top it's not particularly oily like the other one, which means that cylinder number one is more worn than cylinder number two.

Now here's number three, it still has these little spots burning on it, but it's totally dry, there's no oil. nothing on the edge, so it has an even better shape. Now we do the last number four and we'll see what the oil looks like in the front and in the rear, obviously the ends of the engine are wearing more than the middle, which is typical in an old, worn engine because it has all the lubrication and the coolant that cools the central part of the engine best, but the outer parts of the engine, the front and rear, are the ones that often suffer from a certain lack of lubrication a certain lack of cooling because they are at the limit, like if you remember the old Volkswagens Beetle with air cooled engines, the number three cylinder would always burn first because it had less air flow being an air cooled engine, that cylinder does not come out of air and was always the first to burn in a water cooled engine.

ERS that don't cool as much on the edge generally wear out faster than those in the middle and of course the dirtier the oil gets and it will start to leak or burn more as it gets dirty. I mean maybe after this vehicle Kia will do something but in my experience they really don't give a damn about their customers but if you want one of these like this take my advice change the O every 5000 miles with full synthetic oil and maybe it won't burn any oil they tell you well you just need to change it at 7500 but it's normal that they are going to burn some oil while you do it.

The logic of these companies escapes me. I put the plugs back in. I'll put the stupid Beauty cover on it. I know it doesn't make it look so beautiful. I think it's a stupid idea, but to you that's engineering apart from burning oil. the wife is very happy with it because she gets 38 m per gallon, the husband not so much because it is the first CVT he has owned and he hates the way it moves up and down because of course it doesn't have a launch kit like the Hondas and the Toyotas. Do it, they move a little when accelerating up and down, we'll try it.

I'll show you how to get that key, at least it has a real key. I like it, I give them Plus because it starts immediately. I mean. it only has 17.28 thousand, you can see it's not bad, it doesn't have side photos and stuff, but I mean, this is a budget car and I must say that a smooth one doesn't shake at all and you are relatively high in the air you can see pretty far, but you can see it doesn't have the acceleration of the launch-geared Toyota Bond. It is a relatively responsive car. When you take corners you feel under control.

It is not as closed as others. cars, but it's not particularly sloppy either, it has a decent wheelbase, the cornering is pretty good, you don't feel unsafe, I mean the brakes are really responsible, all the stuff in the back fell forward when I hit the brakes, They worked perfectly well. slip ABS Works, take it to our little race track and see what it does, here we go, we're heading to the race track and there's no one behind us so we can stop, there's the line and let's see what this thing can do . here we go we'll put it down that was ABS slipping because it's wet and you noticed it turned itself off now it makes a lot of noise it accelerates well but you can see from the auto stop to save gas when it started there was quite a bit of hesitation when the restarted another day I was checking out a Ford Bronco and the Ford Bronco didn't hesitate when it shut off to save gas and then when I stepped on the accelerator it was a very smooth transition, this has a nice hard transition, you can make noise when you step on it, it took a while to hesitate and then take off because I had closed it to save gas.

Now the wife in this case does not have one foot forward, but the husband does not. She doesn't particularly like the CVT, but she likes the 38 miles. We'll speed up a little. I'll see what he does. It makes a lot of noise. Accelerate. It's not horrible. As I say. It's nothing like the Honda Toyota with reverse gears and Nothing like a normal automatic transmission, say six or seven speed, which has gears that can go up and down, accelerates much faster, the handle is pretty good in the corners, you know, It is a small and fast car.

I would rarely be angry if I had it. a car that had 177,000 M was burning oil because that is now with 17,000 Mi on the clock. Imagine what you're going to do if you hit 100,000 miles: you'll either burn a lot more oil or the engine will explode. above, but the overall design of the car, hey, check it out, it has Windows everywhere, the driver has a very good view of the traffic, you're not going to miss anything, there are no blind spots, it's pretty well designed from that point of view , it's just that the stupid thing burns. oil and unlike the early kia souls that had those giant hamsters or whatever they sold them, these aren't weird looking cars, they look pretty good, they have their own style, it's just there it is, it's a hybrid that burns gasoline and oil and the way Kia dealers mistreat their own customers.

I've seen it here now. I've seen it in Arkansas. I've seen it in Houston. I would never buy a Kia. Okay, it's a known fact. I hate Volkswagens right now. It wasn't always like this when I was a kid, I loved them, they were air cooled, simple, you could buy one for $2,000 cash. Take them out, why don't I like modern ones? Modern people have too much technology. with a little bit and they realized more and more that Volkswagen owns Porsche Audi, they take that high level of technology and put it in their humble Volkswagens, making them not as reliable as before, making them cost more and, if you have ever been to a Volkswagen dealership you will know that they are looking at your wallet and are trying to guess how much money these people have to see what they can get out of it, but in the spirit of honesty let's analyze.

This 2007 Jetta that was bought used a long time ago now only has 89,000 Mi on it because it was given to his mom for Florida but it sat there for 5 years so it has very low mileage for an '07, it's only 80 something a thousand miles. in it we willSee how it holds up, they'll keep it if it's good, but if not, they'll get rid of it and get something better now even though it has low mileage when they picked it up sitting at their mom's house. place in Florida got used a lot, they spent six thousand dollars fixing it up so they could drive it and they realized that these days, hey, you're not going to get much for six thousand dollars on a car, so you decided to put it in this thing, this is what I'm talking about complexity, you can see that that $6,000, $1,814, was to remove and replace the brake vacuum pump.

Now, rather amusingly, they told me they had to call a guy, an Audi dealer, to get the special tool to change it. but this is a level of technology that is just stupid. Take this matrix, it has vacuum brakes that run on engine vacuum, it doesn't have a pump that does it and it works perfectly fine like most other cars. The Germans take a level of technology and throw them at these things so that you would have to replace $1,800 for a brake vacuum pump that should be powered by engine vacuum and you don't even have to have that in the car, they just go with the flow. the technology now as we look under the hood, here we go, let's hope honey doesn't hit me in the head, this is a 2.5L 5 cylinder engine, it's actually a pretty good engine, these engines hold up, this one in particular it doesn't burn oil, it has It has enough horsepower, even though it's not turbocharged, it still has enough horsepower to get you around.

Volkswagens are Zippy cars, that's how they sell them to people, but they cost too much money to fix because they break down. I mean, this car only has 80 something thousand miles on it, let's say it was a Toyota, it wouldn't have needed any of those repairs that are $6,000 they would still have in their pocket because a Toyota with 80 something thousand million on it would hardly do anything. would have worn out by now, he admits. It's a fun car to drive, they handle well and the transmission has been perfectly fine. He said it was a little sluggish about a third of the way through until he changed the fluid and then it was back to normal.

Now you might see some fading here, well you don't. I don't make them in the land of the Germans like before, in front of the Florida sun and lo and behold, it took off, but as we go to the other side it is still in good condition because it was in the shade and of course it didn't be fooled names, we reviewed it here Wolfsburg Edition, true, but don't be fooled, take a look here in Mexico, anyone want some German tacos? It has nothing to do with made in Germany, just like the Japanese, you want a car made in Japan.

German cars. They are much better made in Germany, in fact some of their fancy GTI's even stopped making them in Mexico and brought them back to Germany and now they are making them in Germany because they see it as their best option. Line up a little auto zoom and they decided we're not going to make it in Mexico anymore we're just going to make them in Germany so be careful with the names always look at the label and if you can't figure it out because sometimes you're really sneaky just do a little research on Google what a VIN number means and it will show you what the first letter means.

The first letter tells you what country they are from, so if it doesn't say made in Mexico, learn what the code is. so don't let anyone fool you, look at that VIN number, do a little research and you'll know where it came from because it's lobo B has nothing to do with made in Germany, it's made in Mexico now with the front wheel drive system these things are they handle and drive quite well he has fun driving I always like driving Volkswagen now it's a pretty strange 2.5L engine, it averages 25M per gallon and you could say that for a small car eh, well, it's a ' 07 is an old car and it's a Zippy car, it's not a slow car so it doesn't have horrible gas mileage, it doesn't have great gas mileage but it's not horrible either.

People who want to get gas mileage in one of these Jetts will get a diesel and they will get phenomenal fuel. mileage but of course they are much slower than this and certainly not as fun to drive so let's get our computer out and think about the VIN number. Now these have a huge amount of information that you can get from computers. that's the only thing you can analyze pretty well with a fancy computer, you may not like the results you get, but you get them now, we'll start it, let it warm up a little bit and here we go, the engine, everything's good until now. now central electric low high beam bulb right low high beam low high beams have codes for the bulbs now as soon as I saw the lights I thought, I bet he changed the headlights good, in fact he did good , that's how complex stupid German cars are, do you have to tell the computer to change the headlights or does it think it's abnormal, so we'll fix it right now?

We all clear the F code. He also says the immobilizer is a little crazy. The immobilizer key all often code T for no reason. You don't have any problems starting anyway, but keep in mind that the immobilizer keys work, the car has to recognize the immobilizer chip and key and sometimes they just don't cool down too much or whatever, so which we'll delete it too and all this other stuff is green and well the only thing left is the heated outside mirror on the front passenger side we'll see what it says just for laughs it says it's an electrical fault in a circuit somewhere and it happened in hey, it's not too hot, but hey, that's it.

One reason to get rid of a car is not just out of curiosity, we will clean it too and now we will start it again and look at the actual data, look at the engine. Electronics, as you can see, there are 312 things to look at. by checking things for strange data and as usual it's color coded so see all cylinders 1 2 3 4 5 have no misfires no misfires at all and as you can see here all cylinders , the first four, there is no delay in the ignition angle they are all at zero and we move down to five, that's 02, which is good, the Lambda is working pretty well, 1.0 is perfect, you can see this is going at .98 1.01, they will move a little bit but it's pretty close. to perfect 1.0 that's spec and that's the real thing, it's really smooth, check it out, it even has idle stabilization autoadaptation, it only subtracts 0.39%, pretty close to being perfect, yes they have computers to even make it idle smoothly, now it's great when it works, yes, but as I've been saying that the level of technology in these things maybe went too far, you can see here, it even shows you the percentage of opening of the thermostat.

Now the owner just originally told me that the mechanics said, well we might have to take the transmission went out to change the vacuum pump for the brake that they changed, but luckily the guy was able to fix it, saved them some money there , but still $1,800 is $1,800, that's a lot of money for something a car shouldn't. First of all, I don't even have it, well if that's not bad enough you're just telling me that his friend has a diesel Volkswagen that was in that recall. They've had the car for 3 months, now it's the end of December and they said, "Well, we probably won't have the part until April, so not only is it hard to understand these complexes, but you can't even get parts for some of them, so it's really okay now since they spent $6,000 in a month to make it work." It has 3000 miles on it so let's give it a try and see what it does.

It's an old car. I saw that there is no backup camera. You have to look in the mirror. It's a fun car to drive. Hey, when they're working, they really change. smoothly, I don't hear any noise from the wheel bearings, but then again, it only has 89,000 Mi, it's an old car, it's an 07, but it's 5 years old so it has very low mileage, so here we go To our little race track, we can't stop. because there's someone behind me but this is pretty good now that sounds like german technology those shifts are so smooth when they work it works great just notice if that transmission breaks 6 7 $8,000 is nothing to spend to fix them properly I can see why People buy these things because they are so much fun to drive with no problems, they have German technology that when it works is phenomenal, but like I said before, if it was a Toyota with 89,000 Mi and I spent $6,000 to get it running, maybe an oil change .

That's all you'd probably have to do, so here we have a Jetta and I'm telling the guy you might as well keep it if you don't mind betting a little in Riverboat that something weird is going to come out now. that transmission shifts like a dream, it could still last a long time, it didn't have any problems, the technology is phenomenal when it works, it doesn't burn oil, the engine runs smoothly, but look at some of the information I showed in those 320 bits of data. things are complex and when they break, money will just fly out of your wallet because most people don't even know how to work with them, they don't have scanners at that level or they have them, they don't have them.

I even know how to operate things, they are expensive to repair, extremely expensive to repair. Ram trucks sell a lot. Here's a 2019 that a guy bought from you. I'm going to show you step by step what shape it is in and what you get. for your money, start with the exterior, yes it is a beautiful truck, black and chrome, the interior Long Horn they go for the Ford, you know the Ford also had their little country that they had with the Lish SE, almost the same color, almost the same design only it says long horn. We open the lot behind the room.

Hey, it's fancy chalk, since it's a crew cab, has a shorter bed, and is a 4x4. Now he has a big hammy. 5.7L V8 averaging around 19. I got a gallon, okay, that's pretty good for a big, heavy truck like this. You have to face the facts. The big Hy V8 seems to handle active fuel management better and in the case of this one, it doesn't burn oil and as we can see, I have 88.9 miles on it, so with that mileage, did something go wrong with the guy? Well, finicky things that came and went and he didn't fix it, for example a code for the stupid blind on the front that opens and closes for the better. gas mileage came and went I had a code for the pressure sensor for the EVAP system but that came and went but the big plus about this truck is that you live like I do in Tennessee there is no emissions testing so if you lived in a area where the check engine light comes on, you need to fix the emissions, you would need to fix the EVAP system, if the code comes up, it's not on, now he says it comes and goes, you would need to fix those things, it could be a pain in the butt in Tennessee you don't care as long as it works well, but if you live in the mission area you might want to think twice before buying one of these things, a lot of problems can arise, you can spend a fortune on these stupid little ones .

Anti-pollution things are like that, but in this case it doesn't matter interesting enough. He used to be a state trooper in New York. He fled New York State because he couldn't bear the taxes. He moved to Tennessee and I love it. I had this in upstate New York. He spent a ton of money fixing it up so it would pass the stupid emissions test. Now turn it on. Listen it sounds like a loud engine, although I can hear the alternator noise at some point. over time, the alternator bar is gold, you have to replace the alternator, which is typical on Dodges, but maybe that's why they put it here on the top, it's easy to reach, so let's go get my old one and big scle to see how this thing holds up on the Maxis Ultra. while it connects itself, I really like the board.

I have to say it's a nice black chrome silver tachometer, temp gauge, easy to read fuel gauge and like I said you get 19 m per gallon for a big old truck like this, that's pretty good, I mean four. all wheel drive has everything you want it has four wheel drive automatic two wheel drive four wheel drive high four wheel drive low and neutral you shift it with a flick of the rest I'm not a big fan of that , but a lot of cars are like that, like they have electronic parking brakes, which I don't like either, it's the electric parking brake, a small thing, it's not a fan, you can hear it when I put it on, it makes a noise. small noise and you push it. and now it is out of the VIN number 2019 Ram 1500 is now communicating I have to say these leather seats are comfortable look at the back room nice armrest if you want there are only two people you can have a lot of things in the middle with a cup of armrest holders, you can open it, throw another person back there, you're waiting for the data.

I will warn you something about Rams, this is a late model RAM and the company is some kind of garbage company that you must have special permission to access. thedata about this stuff I'm a professional mechanic, I paid to be on these sites to authenticate myself and then I can access the data like a normal person, you can't access this data because they are some bastards who don't want to you are working on your own car so which is another reason why you might not buy a Dodge. You will have to pay mechanics all the time to do serious work because now you can't even access the data.

To me, that's disgusting, but to Chrysler that's business. as usual, ripping off your own customers, we do a topology scan and here we go, now you have no trouble codes, so the trouble codes you are getting for the evaporator and for the closing grill are not showing up now, maybe maybe some kind of minor electrical fault where it turns on it turns off it turns on it turns off but like I say we don't give a shit it works fine they don't do emissions testing but if unfortunately you were in an area where you had to get all that stuff fixed for it to pass for that you can register the car every year you're screwed you have to fix it right now in the case of this as it is this second this would pass that test because there are no coats so you could get yourself inspected but how do you like to drive to the inspection?station everything is fine and then just before you get there the check engine light comes on then you know it wouldn't pass the test so it's a pretty major annoyance for those who live where cars need to be inspected with permit every year to be able to legally register and get plates now, honestly this is a huge thing.

If you were an individual, you wouldn't buy this vehicle just because it can't allow you to access your own car data unless you have a sophisticated tool and sign up for some of these online. the companies show that their mechanic is absolutely ridiculous, this just shows that Chrysler is a garbage company, they don't care about their clientele, all they want to do is rip you off now, in the case of this truck, the data is good, the fuel is comes back well, everything, but I have to be a mechanic to access this data, it can't be the only thing that has a historical code for a small evaporator, so we'll look at the gas cabin, so it probably has a leak, but, Like I said, the vehicle is registered in Tennessee.

We don't give a shit and here we go, as you can see it's a big smooth truck. You know, the giant Hemy engine they use sounds cool, but like I say, if you can't even access the data, who do these people think they are? Just imagine, well, that's for your safety, so that no one ruins your vehicle, yes, so that they can scam you and go to the dealership. It's ridiculous. Chrysler does this. Almost no other automaker did. They were thinking about it, but when they saw the bad comments people got about Chryslers, you don't see Toyota Honda doing this, you don't even see Ford doing this, they're not stupid, they don't want to scare away their clientele, a lot of guys want to work on their cars, yeah.

They can't, they'll say I'll sell it to someone else. I'm going to buy one so I can at least access information on what I'm driving. We will go faster so that no one gets behind us because there is Someone a little behind us now we arrive at our little acceleration track on your mark, get ready, yes it works even though it has traction control, it squeaked a little but you can see, hey, it has a nice sound and you notice it in the tiny Drive I already did, the gas consumption went from 19 to 18 m per gallon and now it only drives a few hundred yards at high speeds, let's do it again, here off and on we go, they are fun trucks to drive and now you can see it's dropping 17.9, you're not going to get 19 the way I drive it, it rubs off on me that you as a consumer can't even access the data.

The nice truck runs fine, the only problem was probably a leak in the evaporator. That stupid capless system, you'd have to buy the whole top, it's expensive, but he doesn't care, we live in Tennessee, they don't do emissions testing. Would I buy this vehicle now as a mechanic? Of course you could because I paid for the license and I can access data that you as an individual can't, so if I were you I wouldn't buy one of these things, you can't work on your own vehicle, they won't let you, that's it. Total bullshit, it just shows. the greed of a company and as you can see when you open the door Fiat Chrysler us LLC that's all I have to say the greedy Italian company is now a greedy European company stellantis stay away from these people they are going to do stupid things like that, don Let's buy their products and guess what they will close in the United States and maybe they can sell them to Europe to fools over there who don't care, but here we like to work on our own

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