The Wheego LiFe Comprehensive Review - Aging Reviews
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- I've owned my Wheego LiFe for long enough that I feel like it's time to give you an in-depth look at it
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"the clock drifts twenty minutes per MONTH"
This is the line that killed me officer
So does my Spanish made Nissan Navara, and the radio display became unreadable within 3 years
Meanwhile my 1994 Chevy with the factory radio keeps perfect time.
I drive an old Volkswagen Golf Mk2 and it has got very special clock. First of all it’s just a normal analog clock, secondly you have to reset it every time you enter the car and lastly when you drive, it does absolutely nothing for about 20 minutes straight and then it jumps ten minutes forward, just like that. I absolutely adore it.
@@lordexcellent5610 so your saying that it's slower then a wheego's clock good to know
my moms old 2012 nissian altima was lime that but i dont think that bad lol. now my sister has to deal with that
Lol, I used to work for Wheego as an intern in Atlanta. Everything about the car was designed or bought oversees and glued together to hop on the EV hype train. Most parts are off the shelf components and the Curtis motor controller it uses was meant for a golf kart.
Fun fact, as the models in circulation started to need replacement parts we ran into a problem with sourcing. Lead times from China aren't great, and some of the parts weren't even being produced anymore. So, the employee Wheegos would be cannibalized to fix customer cars instead. I have fond memories of driving a company Wheego between the office and warehouse with the dash missing and wires dangling everywhere.
you didn't need that organ anyways wheego needed it more
Oh, you were an intern. I was wondering how they hired a half a person.
@@liamkelly4684 Starts to make sense now: they had a full time employee at not a full time employee salary.
Did u ever do donuts or like drift or something? Idk what hoonigan type stuff you could do with it
In Italy it was sold as Martin Motors Bubble, a chinese IC engine car with four seats. An absolute flop, because the brand was soooo unknown and with such horrid vehicles that nobody dared to buy one
“Which causes the wheels to lock up...
And my sphincter to tighten.”
*I died*
Pucker factor of 7 on the butthole scale
Haha yeah i died too
he loves it to why else would he drive it and is fixing this car just to drive it again
hahahaha i love how it goes from "hmm, pretty neat little car" to "oh my god how did anyone choose to buy this with their own money." The labels/stickers on the shifter absolutely killed me!
Don't insult my middle school shop project, its older than this car and is still completely functional with no issues what so ever.
...so was my middle school project...it was/is a footstool!
I'm 40 now. My mom still has the jewelry box I made. The teacher had downed like 15 cherry trees on his property that year and donated the wood to us.
I'm 61 and still have the box I made in grade 8 which I used to hold my tech drawing tools which still live nicely in it to this day.
I still have the tables I made in high school and I am 39 despite how co workers think that I am at most only 32 so yeah I look younger then I should aging well I think
My shop project was a wooden candy dispenser. its still is going besides the fact if you pull the handle too far then it falls out and spills candy everywhere I could fix it but what’s the fun in that?
"The clock drifts about 20 minutes per month"
So, it's an all-electric car who's electronics are built by Radioshack ex-employees. Real winner.
I liked how there was no commentary when you lowered the window.
Just
*Screeeeeeeech*
He must've camouflaged the camera or hidden it inside the Fourtwo or something, to actually capture the damn camera-shy window this time. It didn't know film was rolling.
Lava Cookie it was the only time he stopped talking to take a breath! How he manages to talk so well, I just don’t know. He is very good at these reviews.
*creeeeshercchaashee*
Hilarious- I laughed out loud 😂
A good commentary/review is also knowing when words aren't needed to let the viewers appreciate the situation by themselves.
That lights on warning sound is reminded me of sitting in a McDonalds and hearing the timers of the fryers go off. Exactly that sound.
so the wheegos a McDonalds sweet now I want one cause I'm getting hungry
It also sounds like Walmart
Exactly when you were going to reveal how fast the thing is to 60, youtube cut for a commercial for retirement plans. It fit so good that I laughed right out.
did the same to me
You will retire before the car hits 60 XD
I had an ad about a shopping cart following a shopping bag.
Make what you want outta that
Nice rooster @Erik Granqvist
That's hilarious.
I got a dog food ad!
Thanks for this! I always hated the Wheego along with the Mitsubishi i-Miev. I felt like they did nothing but perpetuate this stereotype that electric cars had to be cheaply made (but overpriced) and slow golf carts. I'm glad that stereotype has mostly been busted now.
How dare you insult terrible overpriced cars.
This is a joke and I love your content
Oh David, im guessing that you are here because of the Sinclair thing?
I didnt expect you here- anyways all hail the 8 bit king
Well, how fast was your junkyard EV converted talon, I actually kinda want to know
The Dacia Spring (Renault City-KZ) EV is trying to bring that slow-golf-cart aura back though, 33kW, a top-speed of 78 mph & 0-62mph in 19.1 seconds, all yours for 8,000 EUR ($9,000USD) in China or 12,500 EUR ($15,000USD) in France. Most other so-called "budget" electric cars are very expensive compared to that! People seem to, nowadays, have the opposite perception that electric cars are very fast, but why should that necessarily be the case if an EV is built with price as the number one priority?
33 minutes of Wheego is something I didn't know I needed in my life.
Yes...But now I know, and am gladdened as well
Agreed
yes but you did need it in your life or you wouldn't have watched all 33 minutes of it
on the bright side you learned why you didn't buy one had you even heard of the car back when they were making it
bazzle592 dont you mean LiFe
How much wheego is too much?
Me after forgetting where I urinated: *Where did my Wheego?*
Worldwide, for just a moment, dads blushed in unison without knowing why.
"Unable to describe it in a manner brief enough to adequately sum up my thoughts"
Pile of Trash appears from off-screen.
"look a pile of trash I'm sure that's completely unrelated"
Just 30 seconds in and i've already ROFL lost it.
Absolutely hilarious 😂
The sound when you leave the lights on is perfect for the car: it is a battery operated car, and it sounds like a UPS. Wonderful!
"Smells a bit cancerey"... Is that the Wheego version of that new car smell?
Ahh that slight wift of IMMINENT CANCER!
Off gassing batteries smell that way too.
@rogue well the cabin is made in america the rest is china ? i cant find the american craftman ship?
@@gasdorficmuncher9943 oh common everyone wants to get cancer so that's a design feature by wheego lol
or the previous owner was a smoker
"Ah that new Carcinoma smell."
I will never not be impressed by how well you positioned those cars for the intro. Even going frame by frame, it's perfect. I really appreciate that level of production and attention to detail.
So i spend 33 minutes watching a video of a car that isn't really desireable, isn't well build, and was never sold in my country to begin with.
But I also enjoy quirky cars.
So, don't stop with those quirky cars, Robert!
Hi, du bist hier auch? 😉🤪
@@BreakingBrick
Mir fehlt gerade die Zuordnung des Nicknamen...
@@Crazy_Borg deutsche Klemmbausteincommunity.
@@Oldsmobile69 I know crazyborg from some german brick/Lego related channels, it's a coincidence that we met here.
And Robert should keep the wheego, its always very entertaining.
@@BreakingBrick and it's unique, he's the only one who makes videos on owning one
25:38 "I talked to another Wheego LiFe owner (yes they do exist)"
dead
In before "here Wheego again" comments :)
LOL
here wheego again
RLB Ahh... jokes about cheap Chinese crap.
This is the LiFe
Here weego are great maps (former Nokia) btw
Yes they will
Aging Wheels the kind of guy to review an actual quirky car in a funny and informative way instead of talking about a mildly interesting air vent for an entire minute.
You are extremely entertaining. I'm a fellow Trabant owner (only I live in Hungary, so it was much easier for me to get it, and it's the 1.1 model), so naturally your Trabant videos brought me here, but I just got hooked. I hope you take off soon, brother!
sipos2000 A Trabant 1.1 is not a Trabant. It is a poverty spec Polo lol
“The interior is awful...it....smells a bit “cancery” 😂
It's one thing to be confident in your product, but geeze, the Wheego CEO came off like he hadn't seen one of his cars
na it's something I do all the time it's called bullshitting
Robert likes to live dangerously, who else would he take the Wheego to a car wash to see what happens when you mix water with electricity.
$5k for a 30 kWh battery with a free car attached, might actually be a good deal.
even though it dead now🤣
So now all civilized people should say big thank you to this guy for giving informations in metric system too.
I love how the window sticker shows the interior color as black when it's very clearly gray.
It probably was black once, but the UV rays of the sun has released most of the cancer from the plastic panels.
There's a fine coating of asbestos on the black interior, making it appear grey.
You are, by far, the most entertaining car guy on the internet. Period. I had to laugh really hard at "so you can haul one of those... tiny... dumb people if you so choose" and almost spit up my lunch all over the kitchen table.
Pure awesomeness.
I don't know why, but every time I see this video, I have to rewatch it. It never bores me - From the intro, to the funny and stupid punchlines, to the sheer editing skill you sir possess.
You know it's a small company when they have to hire half an employee. Hilarious. 😂
He was a double amputee.
The build quality is by someone who just found out his wife is cheating on him and will be fired in two days
@@logicn.reasoning9744
I was thinking Little-Person or Part-time. LOL, like someone couldn't be bothered enough to work full-time, or they're like, no, we can't pay you enough for full-time.
Judging by the quality of the welding, I think it was probably the bottom half.
@@jackroutledge352 😂
7:24 That's the relaxing sound I want to hear at 7 AM when getting a nice cup of coffee at the drive-thru.
thats a sound that tells you...you mite wanta bring a tarp to work
They must've sourced their parts from the lowest bidders. This can make you appreciate cheap production cars from major brands. They may be lacking in features but at least they don't let water into the cabin at a car wash.
Yeah, but also no.
*Laughs in Infiniti G37 convertible that leaks from every possible angle*
Every roof seal leaked from new, the windows all drip, and the passenger window doesn't fit the frame.
I love my car, but Nissan build quality leaves A LOT to be desired. Buying a Nissan product is a lot like Russian roulette.
In the 1960s my sister's VW Beetle leaked from the top of the front window whenever it rained, and of course in a car wash. She said it had always done that. People accepted the many annoying problems because it was a cheap car. You got what you paid for.
@@653j521 Try this with the cheapest new VW beetle or one that is 10 years old.
I maintain a lifepo4 converted lead wheego for an old lady.
Its even slower, but since they reused a 4 or 5 speed transmission you can slam it into a higher gear and get way more top speed than 25mph.
Glad to see someone with a great attitude has anotherone.
I just spend half an hour of my life to watch a video of a Wheego. Not wasted, though.
The similarities between this and my roommates 2010 Dodge Challenger are insane.
warped dash
squeaky windows
full volume horn when locking (the faub is very very touchy so just having it in your pocket makes it go off)
broken tire pressure monitoring system
That’s an American National Treasure right there. The man not the machine. Keep up the great work, Aging Wheels!
Genuinely love your content, man. Absolutely some of the best shitty car commentary on the web between the humor and the editing. Hope you're ffeling better with everything and keep up the great work.
#Wheegoinsane
2 aging wheels videos in a row? cool
"There's no cruise control but since its maxed at 65 just drive with your foot welded to the floor"
quite good advice
Shifter: 2
Cluster: S
Cluster: F would be more fitting.
Didn't he notice this??? 😂😂😂
@@McBeamer94 He's mentioned it in previous videos, and also that the rest of the Noble shift positions are just covered in... black tape. Seriously, pointing out EVERY crappy detail of this car in a single video would probably take 2 hours...
@@mazzalnx Fair enough!!
Close enough!
This is 33 minutes 23 seconds of pure RUclips quality content at its best. If I ever go short on money, my Patreon support to you is what I'll keep up to the last dollar.
Legend has it the DOT in hell won’t allow these to be imported.
29:57 well the reason that the motor and transmission wear down till they slip is cause the motors made in the usa and the transmission in made in Italy so they weren't made to compatible with each other oh well guess it's the Italians fault not chinas lol
Very well presented with point and counterpoint from the owner's pov. I was constantly reminded of a commentary I wrote on a presentation of the crash survivability of a "Smart 4 Two", where one had front ended into a concrete divider at highway speeds. With the front 'bumper' on a vertical line with the windshield, metal crumpled to the driver's thigh bones, I found it ludicrous that they praised the unmarked back of the car. I believe I compared their verbiage as chopping the front of your foot off at the arch and seeking praise for your lack of heel callus. I fondly remember wishing I had your Trabant engine to modify as an engine for one of my bike builds. As another Missourian, machinist and garage engineer, love your videos, keep them coming.
He's building the WheeGo up so he can sell it.
I don't think he would sell it
Right, that's exactly what he's doing at 6:06 to the end of the video, just non-stop praising the car, so that he can pull a fast one on the next person looking to buy it
There's always a lot of idiots with a lot of money somewhere.
just admit it your just saying that cause you secretly fantasize about buying and owning one because of how rare the car is and your hoping he'll sell you his good luck on that one think he's keeping it though but your better off buying a bmw i3 as there more plentiful and you'll be able to get one much more easily
Raven4K r/whoooooosh
The Wheego “LiFe’s” butt-dyno curve almost perfectly matches the cardiac action potential graph... Mind blown!
do you think they designed that in on purpose?🤣
The sterring wheel is like a Bmw e46 one , the inner door handles are from a Renault , and the dash has the quality of a Lada prototype :))
Lada = Russian Fiat, the one that initially at least had tire longevity of ~30 mi. IOW, POS.
The whole plastics are 80-90's Renault.
4:35 "all day" of course meaning about 1.5-2 hours until the battery is dead.
Wow this makes Robert's review for the Yugo seem like a smart buy.
I would love to see Tesla and Elon Musk produce a proper car with good build quality.
The Trabant got up to 60 miles in 33 seconds? Wow didn't think it could do it. It probably is more fun to drive than the Wheego.
Last so Robert isn't selling his Smart car anymore? I guess he decided to keep it to be buried in one day many years down the road.
Tigerfire75 before you know it, Hoovies garage is gonna be like:
*I bought the Cheapest Smart car in the USA and here are my plans*
*Burying my Smart Car*
A Trabant with a healthy engine can go over 120Km/H (that's around 75MPH), and it feels like doing 450Km/H in a Bugatti. Sure it takes quite a while to get up to that speed but a Trabi can do it!
@tigerfire75 he sold the smart car recently. Watch the video called “I sold my forgotten smart car”
@@darthrevan2063 I know that. I posted on there that I thought he was going to be buried in it.
what about the coda it seems like a better deal just from what he says about it I think the coda will outlast the wheego mileage wise
The Wheego has both a economy mode and a sport mode that can both be used at the same time. A sport economy mode!
Beat that Tesla!
I was expecting "and a bag of trash" after "oh look, a pile of trash".
Disappointed
why there was a bag of trash that he threw into a no dumping zone at 3:10 or so
I always come back to this video everytime it shows up in my feed, it's one of my favorites!
If you wanted to, you could probably get an app on your phone to log acceleration figures while doing your 0-60 or 0-80. The velocity figure as logged by the phone will accumulate error, but acceleration reading should be pretty good.
My husband and I are so glad we found your channel! (We are interested in EVs.) I've been sharing them with everyone. Thank you for so much entertainment!
I love your videos, and I like this one (and having just watched the recent battery videos of you combining the battery packs) so much I'm watching it again.
13:06: One thing I absolutely appreciate, expect, and encourage in any car is to absolutely be as obnoxious as physically possible if I leave the lights on. I love that feature.
Thanks for all this highly entertaining tinkering... your videos are a great combination of plunders and genuine gems of problem solving.
I save your new videos to watch while I am having my Sunday morning two hour breakfasts.
And by the way, I am an owner of Citroën version of Mitsubishi Miev... bought it cheap, and now the battery needs serious amateur mechanics dedication..
Wheego here
Wheego there
Wheego slow
because Wheedon't care?
on the bright side it's faster then the Trabant 601
@@raven4k998 no, no it's not.
@@aliabdallah102 not anymore it's dead now so the Trabant won the battle of longevity in the end muhahahahaha communist engineering beats out American engineering long live communism
wheedon't care if we run people over
I had tears in my eyes and I tried three or four times to say “Babys first weld” before I could get it out. This guy absolutely kills me.
There are very few things that make me laugh anymore. I’m serious about that. This guy makes me laugh Every time I watch one of his videos. He brings tears to my eyes. Talking about the pieces of crap cars that he buys :-). This man is priceless.
when i saw the sticker price my jaw dropped so much it fell off my face and now i cant find it
Lord! thanks for covering this, the vid I didn't know I wanted. Well done!
Longest video to date... worth every minute!
As a note, the radio was priced at just above 100 dollars. At Circuit City we installed any radio over $100 for free. They just had to pay for a most likely generic electrical harness.
Then again, Thinking about it a bit more. That radio was sold in 2006 probably until 2007-08. So they might have just bought a ton of old stock from a distributer that couldn't shift JVC's garbage radio lineup.
As a former car salesman I can only imagine the hell of trying to get someone to buy this pile.
the electric cheese wedge sold better than the wheego. this is the car you will carry to your grave whether you like it or not
That snap transition at the beginning was completely flawless!
2:06 on the up side if positioned correctly the whip did provide very respectable radiation shielding for a car in its class
Slowly stands and Applauds... Well Done... I enjoyed your digital display saying your heat setting waa at 1000 Celsius
"I'm not normal"
Truer words have never been spoken
@Krister Lagerström I did
I just discovered your channel this last week and been really enjoying your videos. You have a great sense of humor and I can tell you put a lot of work into your content. Looking forward to more!
The 30kwh battery pack is pretty decent, LiFe cells are great, when the body falls apart it will make a great power wall, worth the purchase price alone!
its more a movable power bank
This video is so entertaining! Robert has more charm than most RUclipsrs because of his humor and editing chops.
"All the comfort of an upturned bucket wrapped in a blanket" 😂
This might be the best review of any car I've ever seen. 10/10
I just realized that a car that I always see parked in front of somebodies house in my City is a Wheego.
I have never seen it move, and it has always been in the same spot.
Buy it.
Maybe they are waiting for it's value to go up...or the Dumpster is not big enough?
You're good. Really good. I love your style - articulate, informative and playful. You have a rare talent. Run with it.
i wanted to say this in a the last wideo that you remind me of Mr. Bean if He did Car Reviews but your as much entertaning as he is.
I love his David Hewlitt impression! Some things never grow old… including explaining what a terrible smart car he has and why its no longer made.
4:02 - Very Jeremy Clarkson cadence here. xD
Excelente production. I love the attention to details that you put in each part of the review.
Funny as always, great content! But 5000 bucks for this?! It doesn't even worth 500 in my book... the ones who have payed over 35000 for it new must have been truly insane.
Would be cool to see a Trabant ownership review as well in this length ;-) Also it'd be awesome if you could review a Velorex, if there's one in the USA near you (probably there isn't I guess...)
What is a Velorex?
How did I not know about this channel earlier... been binge watching some old content I would have loved for YT to recommend me.. uhm 4 years ago :D
Wheego: A modern American car built to 70s American standards.
Lord that says soo soo much...
@@saturn0660 unholy is he who views the welds on a mid-70s GM subframe and proclaims, "eh, good enough."
I have a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba that had a worn-down cam lobe when I bought it. In the era of some of the worst manufacturing ever that Cordoba is still light-years ahead of the Wheego.
Many '70s US cars are still on the road in some way, half a century later. Let's see how long Wheegos will go... he said one has died with just around 18000 miles because of a construction fault. Laughable...
Even 1970s GM cars were better built than then the Wheego heck I'd even say there was less shenanigans going on than you see on Teslas today.
Man I remember when I used to watch your 944 videos when I first got one myself. Haven't seen anything from you in ages (heh) but all the sudden you're blowing up! Kind of like a backwoods Dug Demuro, I love it. See you at 500k.
"the car is electronically limited to a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour"
*speedometer goes all the way up to 80 for some reason*
It's regulatory.
You use my movie watching philosophy for this car. I go and find terribly rated movies to watch. If it's actually bad, I get to laugh and enjoy it, and I'm not disappointed. If it's great, it's a hidden gem, and I'm not disappointed.
Great review, terrible car. Keep it up Robert.
That's by far the best Wheego LiFe review we've ever seen on RUclips! Makes us want to go out and buy one, just for the laughs! It entertains all of your supporters and audience. So that _has_ to be worth every cent you've spent on it.
The 'pile of old junk' gag had us spraying English Breakfast tea across the room.
The fact that it would fail the U.K. MOT Test on lights, brakes and steering; basically everything except for emissions - which we're not so sure about, if it 'smells cancery' - is irrelevant. It's been a 'fun' car, in the most sarcastic and ironic senses of the word.
Thanks for another great video, Rob.
18:50 I can't tell you how badly I wanted you to turn the graph into a Wheego...
High quality video. I had no idea what Wheego was, and I almost didn't click because this video was a half hour, but boy, I'm glad I did! If Wheego had been half as focused on attention to detail as you, they'd have made a vastly superior car.
"So you can keep your feet welded to the floor. Unless the speed limit is 55 of course"
*IN TEXAS, WE WELD OUR FEET TO THE FLOOR NO MATTER WHAT*
yeah but as texan's you would kill a wheego in no time cause if the transmission of a wheego gets stripped out in 17 thousand miles of driving how long would that take a texan to put on the car to do it probably 6 months if that you may get lucky and it may take a little longer to do it but still you would kill it cause the wheegos trash on wheels they are breaking right off the dealership floor
I think the Reliant Robin has the Wheego beaten on the dash, very thin plastic in the instrument pods and leading to the whole cluster of dials and switches to just splooge in an array of wires around your knees, my one has also cracked in the top centre screw area and pulled away from the side mounting screws so all that is holding it in is dirt ingrained inertia and the surprisingly built like a truck centre console made at the same time from the same plastic in a 2 part mould. The very last Robins were BN1 and BN2's and they had very smart all new dashboards with real instrument pods and made from a decent black thicker plastic that resisted UV and didn't crack either and had electric windows O.o I have in mine the Connolly leather rear seats from the Robin 65 and a pair of insanely comfy MicroCar2 front seats as the original seats were pretty much as much fun as a pair of Trabant seats as Reliant bought the jigs from Triumph for Triumph's Herald and Vitesse seats and a seat designed to give you maximum unsupport whilst allowing every jarring pothole to twist your overhanging spine and shoulders so you felt like a war casualty just driving down the petrol station lol Dunno if you ever got Aixam and MicroCar over in the states?
I just watched a whole video on a crappy car because this guy is so entertaining. :).
Anyone else notice that smashed pump at 23:16 when he drove past the gas station?
Love the video btw. I came to your channel from Tavarish’s Yugo vid (which started with Doug DeMuro’s Yugo vid that I showed my son this weekend and we had a good laugh at) and have been binging ever since. Keep up the good work.
Yes, I did.
Why are you doing this to yourself? You need an intervention. I'm going to start looking into this. We'll find you a nice Toyota Corolla. Hang in there. You have people that care about you.
I just loved how real you was in this video… I had to hit the like and subscribe button.
made an "ohh"-noise out loud when I saw this was up, what have you done to me?
I cant get over how smooth that intro was omg
"electric cars can be quite fun because the electric motors have good torque"
Wheego: "lol hold my electrons"
I have to confess I love everything about it.
Two videos at once? We're not worthy!
Finding this channel was a blessing 🙌
A baby Tesla... Seriously 36k for this is a crime,
You can buy adhesive weather strip to stick on top of the door seal so it seals the gap. You could also move the door striker/latch in, so it closes the gap.