today I'm going to talk about 5 SUVs that you should never buy used because many of
they were bad enough when they were brand new, now SUVs are
getting more and more popular
because you can hold stuff in them and their very handy and
they ride pretty well these
days, the early ones were kind of bumpy but they make them a
lot better now,
well some of them are made a lot better, here are 5 SUVs
that you should never buy used,
now the first SUV never to buy used is the BMW x5, your mind
as well say BMW money pit,
that's all
leaking into the vehicle, big transmission problems, and
problems with their stability
a control system that keeps them from flipping over because
their so boxy, yeah they're high
the tech there's no arguing that, but I've had customers
with them that they got this gyro
a sensor that goes bad and it's a small thing but it costs
like $1,500-1,800 for the thing,
they're just high priced and it's not like their high
quality, there's so much plastic used
in those things their always getting leaks, I had one
customer with an x5, I told her,
you shouldn't have bought this thing used their money
oil and water into the engine, and if you didn't watch that
closely that would lead
to a blown engine too, and even if you caught it right in In the beginning you had to take
the whole engine apart and spend like $1,500to fix something
that should have never happened
in the first place, cuz I'm not talking about cars that are
20 or 30 years old, some of
these cars were less than a year old and some of them were
3,4,5 years old, but regardless,
they were poorly made vehicles, they don't make them anymore obviously, now if you want to get a Pontiac SUV,
the dashes apart from fixing those plastic things, have
problems with the dash and display
system on them, just cheaply made and they'll just come on
and off at will, they are poorly
made theirs no doubting that, they have early transmission
failures and AWD versions they
have differential problems that cost a fortune to fix, it's
a big heavy vehicle but the internals
are not heavy duty enough, they just breakdown too much from
carrying all that weight
around, Cadillac has been using that Cadillac top of
the line image for decades, well it's
been a long time since that was even close to the truth,
now the next SUV not to buy the jeep renegade, the renegade
was created after Chrysler and
fiat merged, fiat bought Chrysler, the renegades small, it's
underpowered and if you tried
to take that jeep renegade off-road like one of those big
jeeps good luck,
these jeep renegade, they're made in Italy, they're made in
Brazil and they're made in China,
they have nothing to do with the legendary jeep, especially
stay away from the 2015 renegade
that was the worst one they ever built, they have an engine
failures, they have
renegades have a lot
of electronic problems, many Italian cars have electronic
weak systems that are just the
the way they go, it also has a problem with blowing head
gaskets in the engine, a typical problem
that Italian cars have, you know if you want to get a jeep
I'm not that big of a fan of
the newer ones, the old ones were great, but if you get the regular one, don't get this
a small one, now the fourth SUV not to buy used is the Chevy traverse,
the system has problems and costs thousands of dollars to
fix, I mean if a vehicle has an engine
and transmission problems, that says stay away, stay far
away from this vehicle, I mean
I had a customer with a traverse, it kept flashing up
service AWD, then it said super
cruise system, well this car didn't have a supercruise system yet it was saying there
was a problem in a system that it didn't even have on the vehicle and the gm dealer couldn't figure out what was wrong he just lived with that until he got rid
never to buy used is the Pontiac Aztek, it was made famous in Breaking Bad where Brian drove one around and eventually, he took into a garage, they fixed it all up he came to pick it up and he looked at it and took his hat out of the back seat put it on his head and walked away and gave the car to the mechanic, I had a customer that did a similar
the thing with an Aztek, the thing had like 55,000 miles on it and the head gasket blew and the engine stopped, so he had to put another engine, so he said to heck with that, he had the used engine put in, and then he just sold the thing and got rid of it and said, that's it for gm I'm never buying another one of their products, basically,
the Aztecs were gm's version of trying to copy a Toyota matrix and candid they fail big, the Aztecs actually had
a lot of different problems, but the biggest ones were, the
head gaskets of the engines
going, the transmission going out, and having the intake
manifolds that would go bad
Pontiac vibe, it's the same thing as this matrix, they were
made in the same plant, they have the same engine,
transmission, wheels, and everything,
the only thing different is this sheet metal on the
vehicles, so that one you can get because
it's actually a Toyota product really, showing that the
expression, what's in a name
can mean a lot you want to research what's behind that name,
now sure there's plenty
of good used SUVs out there but stay away from these 5 SUVs
if you don't want to catch
a sports utility virus, so if you never want to miss another
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