I am a masochist and I will buy that car when you’re done with it. It’s like getting a smart car except with none of that pesky build quality or reliability.
axeami135 The higher end brands like Trumpchi of GAC are still not even at the same level of equivalent Hyundais. They also tend to have extremely soft suspension tuning like older American cars: great if you like that.
I own the wheego whip i unlocked the transmission and put it in 3rd and it will go 70 mph for 30 miles,or 60 miles at 25 to 30 mph. the only thing i worried about is getting parts. all thow i haven't had any problems in the 6 years i have put 25000 miles on it. and it not great in the snow.
looks like a smart "knock off". I have a 10 year old smart, in the last 4 months I shoveled $1600 into it, it's not worth that much and has 80,000 miles on it. but I need a car to get a job. I only trust it 15 miles at a time.
up to a point, I've had mine 10 years and 80,000 miles, it was "reliable" until 6 months ago. I was driving it 100 miles a day for Uber. I have the first smart in Illinois, it had "issues" the first year, shifter problems and a recall for the battery. for the next 8 years it was "trouble free", now i want to blow it up, trade in value is probably ZERO, I'd have to pay $160 for a copy of the title, it's not worth that much!
i had stock steel wheels, replaced with chinese 15x6 alloys, i'm hitting 80,000 miles (129,000KM), still on original engine, runs fine, uses no oil, just thermally "unstable" (maybe air in the coolant system) i live in a relatively flat area. been to spain once 13 years ago, interesting visit, walked or took the train while i was there.
i bet the oil pan on the Smart engines is rather small. Air in the coolant? That would be odd to me...the most common issue with coolant are headgasket leaks. But you can check for yourself, usually that makes for bubbles in the coolant and also "burns" coolant which goes in the combustion chamber through head gasket leaks. But if your engine is running smoothly that shouldn't be the case.
Here in Rhode Island, all newly registered vehicles must have an inspection certificate, or pass the safety and emissions. However, new vehicles don't have to do this, until the first year of the first title had passed. (or 24,000 miles) So unlike Missouri, the wheego would be deemed unsafe as soon as it rolled off the lot. And the cracks, already popping up in 4 years? My dad's old blazer is close to 30 years old and has a cracked dashboard. Not a good sign if the cracks happen in 4 years. Not to mention it looks to me like a cheaper, crappier version of a smart fourtwo. (2nd gen maybe)
In the UK we have stores called pound shops in. . .everything well almost is one English pound. Very popular but tools and hardware bits etc etc well you get what you pay for! Likely these tools came from the same factory as the wee go. If you know what I mean!
On a boringly serious, sensible level... I sold my Nissan Micra hatchback four years ago; now I just ride a bicycle. My car was simple, a 5-speed manual, with a 1 litre petrol engine; it had no gadgets or gizmos or central locking or air conditioning or electrically-adjustable gubbins. 0 to 60 mph was around 12 seconds - but I wasn't interested in macho performance on the road - I bought it as cheap transport. [I used to be a rally-driver (club amateur, not works pro) back in the days of the awesome Group-B supercars, so I'm not a novice behind the wheel. I like power and speed, but only when appropriate.] I bought the Micra third-hand, got 9 happy years of motoring out of it, and eventually had to sell it when I ran out of cash. It went for around £1,000 with under 50,000 miles on the clock and in excellent, immaculate condition. Painstakingly home-serviced and maintained... I was sad to see it go. Sob, sniff... Anyhoooo, I'd love to own a tiny electric vehicle to get me out of the rain, gales, hail and storms of a typical English summer. A fully-enclosed road-legal golf cart/buggy would suit me fine... but nodody makes anything even remotely affordable. NOBODY. Electric vehicles are a rip-off. So I was amazed, astonished and appalled to see this tiny, potentially adequate car had been so uselessly, needlessly and expensively over-equipped. Air con? Noooo! And electric everything - mirrors, door locks, air con, this and that and the other 'luxury' gadget... How absurd. If they'd cut out all the luxury-lifestyle toys and concentrated on producing a SIMPLE vehicle without a single frill, made to a standard that wouldn't have most weekend-garage car nuts laughing themselves sick, there'd be thousands of these things on the roads. Maybe even millions. You know - like in China. But no. It was just one more expensive plaything. A toy. That original price of $39,000 is hilarious! It would have gone nicely with the £1,200 iPhone, the unused gym membership, the couple of spare Teslas, the £500 smart-watch, and all the rest of the essential 'lifestyle-accessory' junk that people seem to feel they need these days. Surely someone, somewhere, can make a cheap (sic) EV for the masses? No, they bloody-well can't. Not in the west, at least. Oh, and 'cheap' means costing under £4,000, brand new. Yes, you heard me. Four grand. Hmm. Maybe China could arrange something...
My 1997 Toyota Camary has less problems than that car and it has 180000 miles on it. The clear coat is peeling at a couple of areas. I need to do an oil change pretty soon, only paid twenty five hundred for it, plus it gets 24 MPG.
I just thought of something for you. Mask off the front indicator lights and paint them with translucent orange paint from Tamiya, or any other model paint. Clearcoat and done, won't be chalky anymore
The indicator lenses are foggy, because Chinese plastic. I’ve seen TaoTao scooters with foggy lenses and lights, because they just don’t hold up well to the elements. I’d experiment with toothpaste and a buffer wheel, it might work.
It's 2020 and I'm looking at a 2010 wheego with less than 2000 miles. I've watched your vids on these cars--good job on both! One thing you haven't addressed to us masochists out here is WHERE to get parts for this thing. Who might work on them? I'm in NY (told you I was a masochist) and I wouldn't need emission inspections, that's key. Also, my daily commute is actually 2.2 miles, round trip. So I'm willing to try this Chinese piece of sh*t. Thanks and please let me know where to buy parts? Subscribed!
These are interesting, I’m growing increasingly interested in anything Smart, I recently purchased a Smart Forfour (W454) The is never got them but I think they are a class wee car
I drive a 1992 Honda Civic DX sedan (in the EXACT same color as the one you destroyed, only mine is actually in slightly better shape, and I am rebuilding it instead of crushing it lol ) and by default, I have the vacuum from the engine to the brake booster blocked off with the valve that normally keeps some vacuum on the booster. I did this because, honestly, the little Civic does not need power brakes, and I am betting that the brakes are not all that bad in that little car without the booster... that said, it is a terrible car, so... the brakes likely felt terrible with or without the booster....
I have to hand it to you. I usually stick to Regular Car Reviews, but I like your style. You're funny, but don't overdo it in a way that intrudes upon the informative aspect of the review.
We have chinese made panels on our induct stations at Amazon. The most used ones broke in less than a year. That never would have happened in the 2000s or 90s.
Someone near me has been trying to sell theirs for months.He put in all new batteries then both door handles ar broke as well as the window regulators.Needless to say he can't even sell it asking only $3000 total miles 7,850
They're like Walmart nowadays with their bicycles they barely tighten the screws and refused for any amount of threadlocker on them so literally your bike comes to you basically disassembled and only gets worse if you don't fix it immediately
I work a place where we dissect cars of various makes for various customers to various extents. Sometimes the car is scrapped and sometimes we put it back together just enough to send it on to the next guy. This car looks like its been heavily worked on and hastily put back together. Those dumb graphics make it look like a trade show demo car that's been analyzed by some competitor and thrown back together in a hurry.
i don't want to excuse the car makers, i'm just asking out of interest: is a wheel bearing really meant to be a lifetime part? bearings will wear out over time right?
These days a lot of them are, they are built into sealed hubs and aren't serviceable. I've got a 96 Jeep Cherokee and while I've worked on pretty much every other part of it in the last 20 years and half million miles the front hubs have never needed attention.
You say you don't blame Wheego for anything that's wrong with the car, but surely they were responsible for the brake pump and battery meter since they weren't original to the gas-powered Noble.
Depending on your definition, wheel hubs/bearings aren't a lifetime part. My 06 hatchback Focus had one die a few years back with 90K on the clock. If you trade your vehicles in every 5-7 years, sure, it's "Lifetime" My personal expirence is you get 250-300K out of those parts, then they've had it on average. Also, you can solve all your Wheego problems by shoving it off a cliff or setting fire to it, just saying
I had never heard of a Wheego ! I thought at first it was a smart car produced under another name. Stories I could tell you about those little smart cars would have you hugging this little guy that you're driving. I know of people that bought smart cars for under $1000 around the four or five year mark they were that bad the fully electric ones the batteries cost more than the vehicle and the gasoline ones are plagued with Injun problems. I know of a firm or who has a gas operated smart car that was around five or six years old when he bought it for under 1000. He uses the car to ride around the field and areas of his property and technically does what you would normally do with a ATV of some sort. The vehicle is completely unsafe to even consider driving more than a few feet on the main road and for the life of me I don't know how he keeps any oil in it where they were plagued with problems to do with leaking in burning oil. He uses it to do stuff that would normally be done with one of those side-by-side all-terrain vehicles like taking hay out to the cattle. To make matters worse is is bright yellow and basically makes the car look like a giant lemon with four tires. Watching this video I was reminded of cars like the citrin,lecar and you go although admittedly the you go really wasn't that bad especially compared to this. Let's be honest the kind of problems you have with a Hugo are after hundreds of thousands of miles and about 15 years or more of driving. Then again I know people that have bought and cards brand-new and within a year they were having worse problems than what you're dealing with. Don't get me started about things like how fast a Geo will rust in Nova Scotia! Back when I went to high school one of the guys least a dealer model Geo sidekick or whatever they called them little crap box at the time the vehicle had been driven by one of the dealers at the dealership and he got a two or four year lease on it. He drove it from October till the spring and at that point the vehicle was no longer legal for the road and could not legally be repaired. The dealership even tried to take him to court because he didn't get the vehicle under coded and the warranty didn't cover rust damage they claim he was responsible for the condition of the vehicle where he was leasing it. This was back in 95 or 96 and the vehicle had rotted that badly just from October till the summer it was less than two years old. I've known of hundreds of examples of Geos in Nova Scotia less than four years old being rotten to the point you couldn't legally repair Them. I know a few people that bought Ford focus vehicles brand-new from the dealership and when it came time to renew the two-year inspection they have here in Nova Scotia they were called congratulations your vehicle will never be road legal again and can't be repaired due to rust damage. There's literally a guy where I live driving one and still making payments on it every time he goes out with Bacardi risks being pulled over and the car being seized by the cops. It's literally at the dealership about every three weeks or so they have something done that is still covered by the warranty and they're still Obligated to repair the vehicle under the warranty however they are not obligated to do anything about the rust. It's just one of I don't know how many horror stories I could tell you about Ford focus vehicles. My sister even got on buying a focus wagon from a dealership it was over a year after she bought it before I found out exactly how bad the car was. They charged her somewheres between five and $8000 for a vehicle not worth respectively 500. If you look at the car you'd say it was fine until you put it up on a hydraulic hoist and found out how much damage there was underneath behind the plastic body parts I don't know how she ever got away with driving it nearly 3 years before it completely spontaneously self-destructed. Cars like this we go are becoming more and more common. I was literally at a junkyard back in the fall where I could've gotten a Chevy Spark or Chevy volt or whatever they call those little puddle jumpers this one was made in 2014 or 2015 and was still inspected being sold for the sum of 900. Bear in mind this car had not been in a major accident it was just a crappy car. It wasn't a insurance write off or something like that and it didn't have high mileage especially given what mileage was honored for its age. It had under 100,000 km. I think was somewheres and 60,000 range . I probably would've given the car a second consideration if it was around 500 . Ended up buying a 96 Mercedes with for less problems and in better shape for 500. And at the same time I don't require specialty tools in order to enter and exit the vehicle. Every time I see one of those little cars IAm reminded of the line by Schwarzenegger, I got shoes bigger than that ..
Rename it to "Igowe", that sounds more appropriate. It seems like a car that should be kept in a cool, dry garage and never driven or used. Then it will last.
We-go?
No way, don't drag me into this...
*Yugo*
damn...
Wheego is communist Yugo
@@Lucas-tr9hh both of them are communist
All that’s missing is a Toyota Aygo
The vibration of the pump is making the screw back out, make sure to add some loctite to the threads and it shouldn’t back out
I am a masochist and I will buy that car when you’re done with it. It’s like getting a smart car except with none of that pesky build quality or reliability.
"Reliability"
As of 2021, an entire new battery can be added to the list...
Dude, you and Doug DeMuro would make a great team. Keep it up!
I want DeMuro to drive the Wheego and tell us of all its quirks and features.
Hoovie Garage!
DeMuro...fingernails on a chalkboard. I like aging wheels 100% better.
Takuro Spirit: OBSCURE WIZARD AND THE GLASS REFERENCE!
Saabkyle04 would be good to :D
It seems that this Wheego is kind of a modern Trabant, if you get what I’m saying ;)
not even the clunkiest trabant is as bad as that thing...
That car makes the Trabi look reliable.
Trabant is easy to fix, this isn't
that is so weird.. it looks like a MASSIVE smart car..
i agree, mostly the dash looks to similar to the older type smarts
It is a converted Chinese knockoff that was crap at arrival and has been converted to an EV. :D
Reid Moore I think thats what it’s suppose to be
Funny little car but Chinese cars do have a reputation and it tends to be well earned.
axeami135 The higher end brands like Trumpchi of GAC are still not even at the same level of equivalent Hyundais. They also tend to have extremely soft suspension tuning like older American cars: great if you like that.
Chris Dooley including bus
Great Wall is pretty decent, as far as I can tell.
chinese everything
I have pictures of a red Wheego that putters around Chicago. I wonder if it's as big a pile as this one
I own the wheego whip i unlocked the transmission and put it in 3rd and it will go 70 mph for 30 miles,or 60 miles at 25 to 30 mph. the only thing i worried about is getting parts. all thow i haven't had any problems in the 6 years i have put 25000 miles on it. and it not great in the snow.
GIVE IT TO DOUG
looks like a smart "knock off". I have a 10 year old smart, in the last 4 months I shoveled $1600 into it, it's not worth that much and has 80,000 miles on it. but I need a car to get a job. I only trust it 15 miles at a time.
mr bad example Smart cars are surprisingly reliable
up to a point, I've had mine 10 years and 80,000 miles, it was "reliable" until 6 months ago. I was driving it 100 miles a day for Uber. I have the first smart in Illinois, it had "issues" the first year, shifter problems and a recall for the battery. for the next 8 years it was "trouble free", now i want to blow it up, trade in value is probably ZERO, I'd have to pay $160 for a copy of the title, it's not worth that much!
Is that the electric Smart? The ICE versions maybe suffer of premature turbine wear. Kinda small car and small engine for that mileage anyway.
i had stock steel wheels, replaced with chinese 15x6 alloys, i'm hitting 80,000 miles (129,000KM), still on original engine, runs fine, uses no oil, just thermally "unstable" (maybe air in the coolant system) i live in a relatively flat area. been to spain once 13 years ago, interesting visit, walked or took the train while i was there.
i bet the oil pan on the Smart engines is rather small. Air in the coolant? That would be odd to me...the most common issue with coolant are headgasket leaks. But you can check for yourself, usually that makes for bubbles in the coolant and also "burns" coolant which goes in the combustion chamber through head gasket leaks. But if your engine is running smoothly that shouldn't be the case.
Things broken on the Trabant vs things broken on the wheego, and which is easier to fix (Trabant is probably easier tbh)
And there is a EV conversion kit avaiable for the Trabant, and the Trabant only goes up in value.
You deserve more viewers and subs!
So true!
tighten the axle nut and see if the play go's away
It looks "slightly inspired" by the Smart...
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Doug Demuro needs to go over this car and show it’s many quirks and features
Is the Wheego basically an electric Yugo?
Paul Schmidt it’s an electric smart car?
New company motto Wheego to the junkyard
3:00 this happens whenever anything of mine malfunctions. I can *never* replicate it!
Here in Rhode Island, all newly registered vehicles must have an inspection certificate, or pass the safety and emissions. However, new vehicles don't have to do this, until the first year of the first title had passed. (or 24,000 miles) So unlike Missouri, the wheego would be deemed unsafe as soon as it rolled off the lot.
And the cracks, already popping up in 4 years? My dad's old blazer is close to 30 years old and has a cracked dashboard. Not a good sign if the cracks happen in 4 years. Not to mention it looks to me like a cheaper, crappier version of a smart fourtwo. (2nd gen maybe)
This is my new favorite channel!!
This car is worse than the Yugo or the Trabant. Much worse! It's actually even worse than a Zaporozhets, which was one of the worst cars ever existed.
there there it's ok wheego made a pos car it's not the first time nore the last someone would make one
"Stupid car, why wont you break on me." ...famous last words.
friend, I have simple tool to fix this little crap in one move... molotov coctail
Maybe the odometer was disconnected for quite a while??? would explain a lot of things
Your Moms Hitachi lmao
the computer keeps track of miles, the odometer you see is just the display these days.
In the UK we have stores called pound shops in. . .everything well almost is one English pound. Very popular but tools and hardware bits etc etc well you get what you pay for! Likely these tools came from the same factory as the wee go. If you know what I mean!
"Stupid car, why won't you break for me?" A great quote to add to the English lexicon.
You need so many more subscribers dude, you’re really really entertaining.
This is like the modern Yugo
On a boringly serious, sensible level... I sold my Nissan Micra hatchback four years ago; now I just ride a bicycle. My car was simple, a 5-speed manual, with a 1 litre petrol engine; it had no gadgets or gizmos or central locking or air conditioning or electrically-adjustable gubbins. 0 to 60 mph was around 12 seconds - but I wasn't interested in macho performance on the road - I bought it as cheap transport.
[I used to be a rally-driver (club amateur, not works pro) back in the days of the awesome Group-B supercars, so I'm not a novice behind the wheel. I like power and speed, but only when appropriate.]
I bought the Micra third-hand, got 9 happy years of motoring out of it, and eventually had to sell it when I ran out of cash. It went for around £1,000 with under 50,000 miles on the clock and in excellent, immaculate condition. Painstakingly home-serviced and maintained... I was sad to see it go. Sob, sniff...
Anyhoooo, I'd love to own a tiny electric vehicle to get me out of the rain, gales, hail and storms of a typical English summer. A fully-enclosed road-legal golf cart/buggy would suit me fine... but nodody makes anything even remotely affordable. NOBODY. Electric vehicles are a rip-off.
So I was amazed, astonished and appalled to see this tiny, potentially adequate car had been so uselessly, needlessly and expensively over-equipped. Air con? Noooo! And electric everything - mirrors, door locks, air con, this and that and the other 'luxury' gadget... How absurd. If they'd cut out all the luxury-lifestyle toys and concentrated on producing a SIMPLE vehicle without a single frill, made to a standard that wouldn't have most weekend-garage car nuts laughing themselves sick, there'd be thousands of these things on the roads. Maybe even millions. You know - like in China.
But no. It was just one more expensive plaything. A toy. That original price of $39,000 is hilarious! It would have gone nicely with the £1,200 iPhone, the unused gym membership, the couple of spare Teslas, the £500 smart-watch, and all the rest of the essential 'lifestyle-accessory' junk that people seem to feel they need these days. Surely someone, somewhere, can make a cheap (sic) EV for the masses?
No, they bloody-well can't. Not in the west, at least. Oh, and 'cheap' means costing under £4,000, brand new. Yes, you heard me. Four grand. Hmm. Maybe China could arrange something...
Anybody realize that weego sounds like yugo?
My 1997 Toyota Camary has less problems than that car and it has 180000 miles on it. The clear coat is peeling at a couple of areas. I need to do an oil change pretty soon, only paid twenty five hundred for it, plus it gets 24 MPG.
2:20 was waiting for you to say "Real quick"
I think based on that font for the info panel the OS the thing runs on is a version of Windows CE or something
I just thought of something for you. Mask off the front indicator lights and paint them with translucent orange paint from Tamiya, or any other model paint. Clearcoat and done, won't be chalky anymore
Silicon Spray works wonders on the window guides. A cheap fix for window noises.
This makes a Skoda 100 look like a supercar for no reason.
Great Video, Now do 0--60 in that car
Daily Brace-Us sounds like a good youtube channel name
I bought a Chinese car last week. On the first test run it shredded 3 of its tyres ...
It was radio controlled but you get the idea.
Crazy how much evs have changed. I bought my new 2020 Bolt Premier for $5,000 _less_ than that cost new lol
whats the doud score
The indicator lenses are foggy, because Chinese plastic. I’ve seen TaoTao scooters with foggy lenses and lights, because they just don’t hold up well to the elements. I’d experiment with toothpaste and a buffer wheel, it might work.
HAHAHA , this is a electric clone of a Smart Fortwo 450. Dashbord Smart Fortwo, Gear seletor from VW
I’m not sure why but I love these Wheego videos!
Great channel! Really interesting, can't wait to look back at some of you other videos. You just gained a sub!
It's 2020 and I'm looking at a 2010 wheego with less than 2000 miles. I've watched your vids on these cars--good job on both! One thing you haven't addressed to us masochists out here is WHERE to get parts for this thing. Who might work on them? I'm in NY (told you I was a masochist) and I wouldn't need emission inspections, that's key. Also, my daily commute is actually 2.2 miles, round trip. So I'm willing to try this Chinese piece of sh*t. Thanks and please let me know where to buy parts? Subscribed!
These are interesting, I’m growing increasingly interested in anything Smart, I recently purchased a Smart Forfour (W454) The is never got them but I think they are a class wee car
In NY it may probably have to get inspected like all new cars in Buffalo where i live
My 2014 Ford Fiesta ST in the same color also had the same exhaust bracket also kidna break. But that was an easy fix haha
Sounds like the vacuum pump for my 4x4 transfer case (and even then it ain't as loud)
wobbly front wheels could also be track rod ends if it has them?
I love your wheego series
I drive a 1992 Honda Civic DX sedan (in the EXACT same color as the one you destroyed, only mine is actually in slightly better shape, and I am rebuilding it instead of crushing it lol ) and by default, I have the vacuum from the engine to the brake booster blocked off with the valve that normally keeps some vacuum on the booster. I did this because, honestly, the little Civic does not need power brakes, and I am betting that the brakes are not all that bad in that little car without the booster... that said, it is a terrible car, so... the brakes likely felt terrible with or without the booster....
I have to hand it to you. I usually stick to Regular Car Reviews, but I like your style. You're funny, but don't overdo it in a way that intrudes upon the informative aspect of the review.
There is that, but who else reviews a wheego?
This is every reason I will never buy a Chinese car in one video.
Love that one! Can't stop laughing about his conclusion
the Weego has a screw loose I'm shocked lol
Great video. So you're on the fence about the wheego?
Yugo and Wheego must have the same engineers
Whoa. You're from Missouri? Whereabouts?
One word: China
2:40 Maybe the previous owner treated the car like a throw away technology
Thats a smart fortwo 450 body shell and some of the interior parts.
We have chinese made panels on our induct stations at Amazon. The most used ones broke in less than a year. That never would have happened in the 2000s or 90s.
That's one oddball of a car you've got.
3:00 was hilarious!
This is like watching interdimensional cable!!!
The Wheego logo looks a bit like the Sachsenring logo ...
Someone near me has been trying to sell theirs for months.He put in all new batteries then both door handles ar broke as well as the window regulators.Needless to say he can't even sell it asking only $3000 total miles 7,850
How can I get in touch with the person trying to sell their Wheego LiFe? for $3k?
This is a total knock off of the Smart Fortwo. I had a first gen diesel (2006) and the rip off similarities are everywhere on this car XD
Thats a safety ispection!
They're like Walmart nowadays with their bicycles they barely tighten the screws and refused for any amount of threadlocker on them so literally your bike comes to you basically disassembled and only gets worse if you don't fix it immediately
I think I would have Loctited the vacuum pump screw in the interest of making the fix long- lasting.
I work a place where we dissect cars of various makes for various customers to various extents. Sometimes the car is scrapped and sometimes we put it back together just enough to send it on to the next guy. This car looks like its been heavily worked on and hastily put back together. Those dumb graphics make it look like a trade show demo car that's been analyzed by some competitor and thrown back together in a hurry.
Oh no, those wheels!! I had a set on my Renault Clio and they were sh*t! The lock nut snapped and i had to cut them off. Chinese is not the way to go!
i don't want to excuse the car makers, i'm just asking out of interest: is a wheel bearing really meant to be a lifetime part? bearings will wear out over time right?
These days a lot of them are, they are built into sealed hubs and aren't serviceable. I've got a 96 Jeep Cherokee and while I've worked on pretty much every other part of it in the last 20 years and half million miles the front hubs have never needed attention.
Gee my 2000 Saturn is tight in all of the suspension points with only 281,100 miles
You say you don't blame Wheego for anything that's wrong with the car, but surely they were responsible for the brake pump and battery meter since they weren't original to the gas-powered Noble.
The bearing being shitty has nothing to do the steering concern. It has to do with the steering system.
i appreciate the honesty , oh i do agree aswell though
Depending on your definition, wheel hubs/bearings aren't a lifetime part. My 06 hatchback Focus had one die a few years back with 90K on the clock. If you trade your vehicles in every 5-7 years, sure, it's "Lifetime"
My personal expirence is you get 250-300K out of those parts, then they've had it on average. Also, you can solve all your Wheego problems by shoving it off a cliff or setting fire to it, just saying
Is this mate Mark Proksch (Nate from The Office)? Because if he isn't than i'll stop believing in this universe
No regen braking? Bummer, that thing would have a killer range if it did.
This thing looks like the smart car and Scion iQ had an electric baby.
JD Power award for most reliable electric car starting with the letter W.
I had never heard of a Wheego ! I thought at first it was a smart car produced under another name. Stories I could tell you about those little smart cars would have you hugging this little guy that you're driving. I know of people that bought smart cars for under $1000 around the four or five year mark they were that bad the fully electric ones the batteries cost more than the vehicle and the gasoline ones are plagued with Injun problems. I know of a firm or who has a gas operated smart car that was around five or six years old when he bought it for under 1000. He uses the car to ride around the field and areas of his property and technically does what you would normally do with a ATV of some sort. The vehicle is completely unsafe to even consider driving more than a few feet on the main road and for the life of me I don't know how he keeps any oil in it where they were plagued with problems to do with leaking in burning oil. He uses it to do stuff that would normally be done with one of those side-by-side all-terrain vehicles like taking hay out to the cattle. To make matters worse is is bright yellow and basically makes the car look like a giant lemon with four tires.
Watching this video I was reminded of cars like the citrin,lecar and you go although admittedly the you go really wasn't that bad especially compared to this. Let's be honest the kind of problems you have with a Hugo are after hundreds of thousands of miles and about 15 years or more of driving. Then again I know people that have bought and cards brand-new and within a year they were having worse problems than what you're dealing with. Don't get me started about things like how fast a Geo will rust in Nova Scotia! Back when I went to high school one of the guys least a dealer model Geo sidekick or whatever they called them little crap box at the time the vehicle had been driven by one of the dealers at the dealership and he got a two or four year lease on it. He drove it from October till the spring and at that point the vehicle was no longer legal for the road and could not legally be repaired. The dealership even tried to take him to court because he didn't get the vehicle under coded and the warranty didn't cover rust damage they claim he was responsible for the condition of the vehicle where he was leasing it. This was back in 95 or 96 and the vehicle had rotted that badly just from October till the summer it was less than two years old. I've known of hundreds of examples of Geos in Nova Scotia less than four years old being rotten to the point you couldn't legally repair Them. I know a few people that bought Ford focus vehicles brand-new from the dealership and when it came time to renew the two-year inspection they have here in Nova Scotia they were called congratulations your vehicle will never be road legal again and can't be repaired due to rust damage. There's literally a guy where I live driving one and still making payments on it every time he goes out with Bacardi risks being pulled over and the car being seized by the cops. It's literally at the dealership about every three weeks or so they have something done that is still covered by the warranty and they're still Obligated to repair the vehicle under the warranty however they are not obligated to do anything about the rust. It's just one of I don't know how many horror stories I could tell you about Ford focus vehicles. My sister even got on buying a focus wagon from a dealership it was over a year after she bought it before I found out exactly how bad the car was. They charged her somewheres between five and $8000 for a vehicle not worth respectively 500. If you look at the car you'd say it was fine until you put it up on a hydraulic hoist and found out how much damage there was underneath behind the plastic body parts I don't know how she ever got away with driving it nearly 3 years before it completely spontaneously self-destructed. Cars like this we go are becoming more and more common. I was literally at a junkyard back in the fall where I could've gotten a Chevy Spark or Chevy volt or whatever they call those little puddle jumpers this one was made in 2014 or 2015 and was still inspected being sold for the sum of 900. Bear in mind this car had not been in a major accident it was just a crappy car. It wasn't a insurance write off or something like that and it didn't have high mileage especially given what mileage was honored for its age. It had under 100,000 km. I think was somewheres and 60,000 range . I probably would've given the car a second consideration if it was around 500 . Ended up buying a 96 Mercedes with for less problems and in better shape for 500. And at the same time I don't require specialty tools in order to enter and exit the vehicle. Every time I see one of those little cars IAm reminded of the line by Schwarzenegger, I got shoes bigger than that ..
Since when did a wheel bearing become a life time part?
Depending on the car about 30 years ago.
Rename it to "Igowe", that sounds more appropriate.
It seems like a car that should be kept in a cool, dry garage and never driven or used. Then it will last.
I never minded having hand- cranked windows.
Cannot believe this is a thing 😂😂
We get it, the window is camera shy... you don't have to make the same joke 10 times in a row.
this car is going to get tons of subs
Could you please do one on the Messerschmitt car?????
Are they aftermarket alloys?
Maybe the odometer has been clocked back
made in china
There's a nickname for it, ''chiniesium'' AKA crap from China. That wheel hub and vacuum pump is a good example
Yes! Show this to Doug DeMuro!
I have never heard of or seen a Wheego before this video. Looks like a Smart crashed into a Kia C’eed😂
That thing is nearly in the same condition as the 94 honda I bought off a ricer
How does a car get to that condition