Both these cars have pluses and minuses, obviously, but uh yeah. I have a low coolant light. We drove it for a while, and the test drive didn't overheat, definitely want to check that abs and a four-wheel drive light as well. My speedometer also uh.

Well, it's flexible bob's keeping ride up too. Hey bob got the ac working. No, how about the tires? Have they uh smoothed out? This has the massaging option seats. Oh i'm talking to you like this welcome to these garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube.

I'm sure a few of you think that i am even more dumb than i usually am with this purchase old mustard here, because there's kind of two camps of enthusiasm with hummers, positive and negative. A lot of people like me see a hummer and go. Oh, my god, it's a real hummer, it's yellow, it's crazy awesome and then there are a lot of people that look at this thing and think it's this monstrosity single-handedly destroying the environment, killing baby seals with its yellow paint and the owner, obviously compensating for things and Well, they're right in a lot of ways, these things are very, very wasteful. In some ways they are very, very stupid in a lot of ways and quite unreliable and well kind of badly made, but still there's just something about them.

That americans, including me, love and i will dive into that today, but first we need to go back to colorado when i first bought mustard and my buddy bob bought ketchup and we were setting off on a 500 mile journey home in hummers that hadn't ran or Really moved for years, dumbest channel in all of youtube, but before we travel back to colorado, i'd like to thank policy genius for sponsoring today's video, while you're layering on the spf this summer, don't forget to protect your property too policy news can help. You find ways to bundle your home and auto insurance and save on coverage. It's a free and easy way to look for cash savings. You might be missing out on and a lot of my subscribers have tried out policy genius already and discovered how easy it is.

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This also supports me and my generous sponsor so go to policygenius.com hovies right now. Now, let's head back to colorado to an earlier point in time, a younger well equally attractive, hoovy who's, giddy after first buying his hummer moments ago. I made a deal with jeff here. He runs newretroparts.com specializing in hummers humvees like these, and he sold us two from his massive hummer horde.

I got this a 2000 hummer that is bright, yellow 6.5 turbo diesel and urination bob here bought a 2002 red hummer ketchup and mustard are going to be making a 500-mile home, but they certainly have their fair share of issues and they haven't moved well in years. Bob's issues are well they're, more subtle, they're electrical issues, there's a lot of other problems. Mine are kind of obvious, starting with the these rusty control arms. But jeff has the solution.

For me, we've got brand new control arms for you all four corners, so you're set to go. There yeah well brand brand new and uh. Well. This is the only hummer, probably in the world right now with drag slicks.

So that's why it's unique a couple of tires i'll be ordering some more parts from you. Probably some ball joints uh. You know steering stuff just to tighten things up, but otherwise it seems. Okay, yeah, we'll get you going we'll take care of you.

Yeah fingers crossed this is a long, long trip we're going to stop and do some road trip preparation but uh, let's load up some parts, huh now one of bob's big issues. Well, it's not really that big is a constant beep. It's very yeah very, very annoying, and that's because it thinks that there's no air in the tires, because the tire inflator system uh doesn't exist. Mine has it you can actually air them up inside the car.

It has its own compressor and lines, but bob's is missing. Gotcha and he's pulled the relay. No, this is the outdoor beeper, oh, the actual, plug-in buzzer yeah. That's one way to fix things, there's a few other things we need to do like, maybe maybe revive our air conditioning system, because it's going to get really hot as we get into kansas and well a few other things.

But first let's hit the road on the road and the hummers ketchup and mustard doing great for the first few miles, but we are going to stop at an auto parts store to sort out some things. I have a low coolant light. We drove it for a while, and the test drive didn't overheat, definitely want to check that abs and a four wheel drive light as well. My speedometer also uh, well, it's flexible, but other than that seems to be going down the road just fine.

So far, so good cool bottles over there right by the snorkel, it does seem like it's low, but there's some in there. Everything else we're going to check over a lot of nesting in here, but hopefully that's the ac compressor. Hopefully, an autozone style charge up will uh revive this thing, please add it coolant. Low coolant line is still on, maybe maybe come on ac come on, it's getting cold cold there.

This thing just got a whole lot better for me on the trip home bob. Unfortunately, it's not clicking is it that compressor looks, looks pretty old. Mine looks slightly newer. Both these cars have pluses and minuses, obviously, but uh yeah, i'm definitely going to feel guilty.

If bob has a lot of problems because he sort of was along for the ride and then impulsively bought his own hammer, if i have problems, it's more videos, if he has problems, it means he doesn't make money as a car dealer, so fingers crossed for him. Oh mustard, over 100 miles in and you're still going at sunset. I am so impressed with this thing. They've both been sitting for years, bob's keeping ride up too hey bob got the ac working.

No, i was just on a phone call, so i had to have the windows up. There's a sweat box in here, oh dear, how about the tires? Have they uh? This has the massaging option seats? Oh, oh so the tires aren't mine have smoothed out, they're still noisy as heck, though well, i'm stalking to you like this. Okay, so we're about 200 miles to your brother larry's place in dodge city. Yes, yes, we're getting close we're gon na get into dodge homemade! Burritos await yum um, oh hi, bob uh-huh well good morning.

It's been 350 miles and the ronald mcdonald army is still going strong, no new issues with mustard, just the existing issues. Uh bob's been duct taping on ketchup, though little helicopter tape. I had a loose screw here and this little uh molding was slapping pretty it sounded horrible in the car, but just minor, okay yeah. Nothing.

Little tape can't fix well only 150 miles to go, which means, if we go 50 miles, we're within the triple-a tow range, which basically means we've made it, at least at least in my sips. I, like your thinking, i still have lots of gas with the two tanks or diesel yeah i've still half a tank on my uh second tank. That's crazy! Well, folks! We just crossed into the cedric county line, which means we are pretty much at the outskirts of wichita and euro asian bob in ketchup has made it as well he's going to head back to his shop. So it's just me going home with mustard, and i think i really need to give you an in-depth tour of how cool this hummer is and how amazing these vehicles are driving it cross-country may not be the most comfortable thing but uh.

It is not that bad. Actually so, ketchup and mustard made at home without very much drama, which is fantastic and great for bob who will eventually be selling ketchup if you're interested urinationauto.com euroasianauto.com but mustard sticking around here for the long haul and despite being a military vehicle built to play out In the sandbox it actually did pretty good driving cross country. I wouldn't say that it was super comfortable like a mercedes s-class, but it wasn't that bad. The seats have plenty of cushion the air conditioning was working, it's kind of fading out now, but there was a lot of cabin heat inside of the vehicle and that's because you're straddling the engine, it's actually a mid engine vehicle as the engine sits well behind the Front wheels in a giant box that divides you from the driver and passenger seat and that produces a lot of heat, especially on a 100 degree day where the air conditions going to struggle to keep up, as is, but let's face it for daily use.

This is a very, very stupid vehicle. The hummer was obviously designed for military use. The reason it is so wide is so the wheels could follow tank tracks in the road and have a more smooth ride if it was narrow like a jeep or something they'd be in ruts, and it would be really rough and that's why it is so much Wider than any civilian vehicle, one thing that's really cool is it has portal axles and that's why it's lifted so high off the ground and you have a great ground clearance, meaning the axle is actually here, but then a portal, a portal like stargate, not really, but It is kind of magical how the wheel can be so much lower in the axle up here because of the portal axles and the brakes are inboard kind of off the differential itself. This makes for great ground clearance, but also well, as you can see it's in park, but there is a lot of slop in these things.

So if you hit the brakes in a weird way, it will rock back and forth like a boat in the water. They call it the hummer rock or the hummer hustle, or something that's just a characteristic of these things. Now that one's pretty benign, it's not going to leave you stranded on the side of the road, but there are a lot of stupid things with these hummers that it's amazing that they were put into military action with all the huge mechanical faults they could have. That would leave soldiers stranded on the side of the road and that same thing happens to civilians in civilian use: oh sweet jesus.

Ah, there we go so you can see the mid-engine layout on this hummer and under that big mess of hoses and wires is a 6.5 liter turbo diesel. Now this engine is unfortunately known for well basically blowing up. I think it's cylinder 8 will start eating coolant and destroy the engine before that. The 6.2 liter, which was underpowered for these things, the engine found in the majority of military hummers, would just blow up.

I guess the bottom ends are weak, there's also the 350 gasser engine, which is fine in a vehicle. That's not eight bazillion pounds, but really this thing isn't that heavy it looks a lot heavier than it is, but the body is mostly aluminum. The roof panel is actually steel, but the main body is aluminum and that kept the weight pretty low because they needed to drop these things out of parachutes and helicopters planes that kind of stuff. That's why the hooks are here where you can hook it onto a helicopter, use the back bumper as well and lift off with this thing, and this hummer certainly shows signs of sitting for a very long time, because well, things have nested in here.

Look at that giant canister over there there we go okay, there we are now one thing: hummer didn't anticipate. I guess: building a vehicle to fight in the sandbox of the middle east was what would happen when it was daily, driven in the salty roads of ohio. As you saw in the first video well, it's uh quite rusty. We have the replacement control arms, but it's not only that hummer mixing metals and using steel and aluminum in well.

It's body construction with these wagons creates an issue, and, with this particular wagon it had been restored once all the rust in the body had been taken care of from the factory under warranty, but you can see where things are starting to crop up again. This is right at the seam, where we have aluminum and metal and there's some reaction that causes rust, and this is unavoidable on these hummers. You just have to keep on top of it. The rest of it, i believe, is just surface rust.

Once we replace the lower control arms everything else, i think, will sand down and we'll clean up just fine, it's nothing serious or thick, and this one obviously has the tune and the exhaust on it. So it really drives quite well pretty good acceleration for a vehicle of its size and an underpowered older turbo diesel engine. The aftermarket roof rack on this thing certainly isn't doing any favors on the weight either it's probably a thousand pounds, but inside you can see. Well, things are a little scary around here.

I have the kick panels to put this all back now, the previous owner jeff was taking this apart to try and get some of the gauges working. As far as i know, you got all the gauges working except for the oil pressure and then well. This is loose and the the light doesn't come on so at night. I couldn't tell how fast i was going without a dome light on or using my waze app, but you can see how ridiculous the interior is on these things.

The passenger is so far away and they kind of make it. Drivers focused like it's a cockpit just because you have this big old dog box or whatever, where the engine's sitting right here, so they make the most of it with plenty of cup holders. You have your 6 disc cd changer here for your monsoon stereo, which is actually awesome. It's one of the better car stereos i have ever experienced because the speakers right here by your head.

Obviously a lot of rappers and sports guys were buying these. So the stereo was certainly a nice touch, but that's not what the hummer was all about and really mall crawling this thing: it's absolutely terrible. Get a jeep get a g wagon get anything but this, but if you actually use this truck as intended, it's actually really really awesome and really unique in a lot of ways and actually what makes the hummer pretty cool it does have some reading quality. Starting with this, you have the tire inflating system here.

This system has a pump attached to it along with lines going to each wheel, and you can inflate and deflate separated by the front axles, based on whatever you're doing, if you're driving in sand you'll want to deflate. You want to pump up if you're going on the highway and the system. Well, does it. It is so cool, very unique to the hummer and when it doesn't spring a leak and give you flat front or rear tires, it's actually really really cool.

Another thing: dual fuel tanks, something like 25 gallons in the front and 17 than the auxiliary tank. So you can flip back and forth. That's why we never really needed a stop for fuel on the 500 mile journey home, despite the poor gas mileage, which really wasn't that bad like 14 miles per gallon because of the massive tanks. You also see the approach angle of the hummers, because the wheels are pushed so far in the front.

The engine is behind it. This one has a winch in it kind of taking up a little bit of the approaching, but otherwise you can see how good the approach angle is without the winch on the front, you can see. Hummers drive up a literally vertical wall because the wheels can push out almost as far if not farther than the front bumper, which is really non-existent. The rear angle is also really really good here, but still looks like somebody hung up the bumper on something we'll have to hammer that back in before you refinish it.

And personally i love the wagon configuration, especially in yellow, looks like a giant school bus, but you have barn doors and actually a pretty decent cargo area. I would say about the same size as a mid-sized pickup truck, except in the interior of the vehicle, which is why i could haul all of this stuff. So it is big. It is obnoxious, it is offensive to some people, but it does have a purpose and even if you don't use it for that purpose, to know that it's there to know that you have a giant hummer at your beck and call.

It does feel pretty good. Now. Sort of a rite of passage when a youtuber buys a hummer, they almost have to run over a pair of vehicles with it daddy doug did it chris fix, did it and well, i'm certainly going to do it just for the lulls and urination bob actually has Two priuses lined up and ready for ketchup and mustard whenever the occasion arises, but i'm going to wait a little bit with these rusty control arms, especially in the rear one i didn't see, is way worse than the other. I need to get this thing fixed and sorted out first, so next we're going to head up to the car wizards and we're going to find out everything, that's wrong with mustard and well there's some oil leaks.

The air conditioning has leaked out again plenty of electrical issues inside of the cabin, so i imagine it will be a doozy. Thank you for watching you.