Look at that lovely lovely oil cap when you look inside it smells kind of weird in here. Does your lavante smell, like that? No, it smells doesn't smell like you, like. A cat peed in here welcome to hoovie's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and just when you thought i couldn't get any dumber, i go and buy something like this and well here. It is it's a 2019 maserati levante, the only suv you can buy right now with a ferrari derived twin turbo v6 engine that is started by an ignition button from a dodge dart.

Now i wanted to dislike this thing very, very much buy it just to make fun of it for many many reasons, but now that i've owned it for a little bit, even though it has numerous issues i actually kind of like it, and even more. I actually like the name, because i didn't know what levante meant before i bought it. I googled it and levante is actually a warm mediterranean wind that blows through the strait of gibraltar. So so, basically it is the maserati fart.

So the next time you have an unexpected wind and somebody says what the heck was, that you can just say: well, it was levante, another fun fact: the stock ride height of this thing is 6.9 inches nice. That is what maserati chose to have the factory ride height on this car, but it's air ride, so you can raise it up to 9.85 inches, which i know i'm a child, but here's some non-childish facts about the warm mediterranean wind that blows through the straits of Gibraltar, it actually has its own platform with the quattroporte and the ghibli. This isn't based on some chrysler suv, even though there's a lot of chrysler parts - and it does indeed have a very nice little v6 under the hood - that is ferrari derived twin turbo 345 horsepower. Unfortunately, though, the one under my hood has been quite neglected up here.

You see the sticker, it says chase otto. This was a one owner, maserati warm wind that blows through the strait of gibraltar, but uh, unfortunately, that one owner drove this thing to over 104 000 miles, probably didn't change the oil in the last 30 to 50 000 miles before it was repoed by the bank And it was not given back to the bank with the keys they had to make their own little crappy after-market, cheap key that they programmed to make the car work. It doesn't even come with, say a key if the battery goes dead and you have to use it for the doors and such so. Basically, i will never ever be locking this car until well.

If i get a real maserati key for it, so yes, it is a bank repo that i got extraordinarily cheap knew these things are 80 000, which is ridiculous, 90 000 easily with some options. I bought this for a little over 30 000 because it was a bank repo with over a hundred thousand miles, even though it's a 2019 it's only three years old, but the biggest issue was what was noted in the report that uh well. The oil warning light was on and the engine was sludged up. Thankfully i put a quart of oil on this thing and the oil warning light went away.

But when you look inside the engine which we will do here in the garage and then later or at the car wizards, it doesn't look good. But despite this car with a ferrari ferrari-derived engine built in turin, italy being treated like a kia rio, it still runs and drives very, very well. So today, i'll give you a tour of this bank, repo, maserati fart and then we'll drive it around and take it up to the car wizards to see. Well, what else is going on with it other than the sludge which hopefully, a detergent, can clean out? There's no denying that this warm gust of mediterranean wind is beautiful with the front end treatment, the giant, maserati trident or spork proudly showing off that it is a maserati.

They don't want you to confuse this with anything else, even though it looks vaguely like an infinity suv. You also get the grill badge so within a few inches of each other. You have two sporks, but, as you can see, the lower part of this bumper it's uh pushed in, but i think that'll just pop right back in the wheels are actually 19 inches, which you wouldn't think by looking at them. We're just so conditioned nowadays to see 22s or something that 19 inches look small and this one well, of course, it's scraped because it's a bank, repo, every single wheel is scraped.

You can see it has portholes, which i believe they do absolutely nothing. We'll look inside. The engine bay and make sure, but one other funny thing - is every single tire on this car is a different brand and a different set of wear on the front is a sail unit and back here is a atturo which is completely worn to basically a drag Slick and loses air pretty quickly, this one's really gouged as well. You go around this thing.

Well, it looks a lot more like an infinity from this angle but of course, another spork on the rear quarter of the car and then levante. You know actually a pretty pleasant, looking car. Of course, somebody used this thing to lift up luggage or something and scratch the heck out of the bumper because well they're not making their payments so who cares and then you see, a piece of trim has fallen off as well on a 2019 maserati, i'm gon Na have to find this wheel well piece and on this side we have pinta foursomes. I haven't seen these tires since the my box, so we have foursome tires on this side and probably the least damaged wheel, the bunch just that little spoke right there.

That looks like a dog chewed on it, and then we go into the interior of a bank repo and well there's no smell-o-vision on youtube, but it does smell uh reasonably foul. I thought it smelled a little bit like weed, but urination bob he's somewhat of an expert with used cars and he thinks it smells like animal urine. So i should probably trust him on that, but you go in here and things do look pretty nice 103 000 miles. They made some improvements in the first few years of the levante like the shifter.

Here is much better. You have a park. Button looks a lot nicer volume, control, knobs and things that i don't understand. These cars aren't that intuitive, but what italian car is so it fits right in, but also this uh trim piece for the seat belt.

The b-pillar is falling down all of the floor. Mats are gone, of course, because bank repo, but overall it is in very, very nice condition, and everything in here works except for the backup camera. It just gives me a blue screen of death every time i put it in reverse, but here comes the chrysler product stuff. You see this push button starts well.

That is definitely from a chrysler same with the window switches, but overall it is a pretty nice interior. Now is it worth 80 90 000, with some options for a base, levante there's the s that has more power, there's the trofeo that gives the v8 has a lot more power that are way more expensive. No, no. This car, as a base model, is in the ballpark of say a range rover, sport, svr or the highest horsepower.

Amg mercedes and quality wise performance wise. It doesn't hold a candle, but it is still pretty cool under the hood. A 345 horsepower v6 that is ferrari derived. It sounds awesome which i'll show you here in a little bit while we are under here, let's check and see if the portholes do anything, and it appears they do not, you can see where they come into the car.

On the fender, there's there's nothing there. It just goes into the door, so it's just a place for warm air to collect a straight of gibraltar. If you will - and i'm kind of surprised, the presentation really isn't that bad you see the metal valve covers with maserati stamped on them, looks really cool turbos hanging out down there, just a little bit of plastic here, but otherwise a very nice kind of honestly presented Engine one thing, though, i mentioned the sludge, which is why this thing was so cheap. The average auction value of one of these is over 40 000, so to get one for around 30 is quite a steal.

The cheapest ones advertised online are like close to 40 grand and those are early cars a couple of years older than this. With a lot of miles. This one has a lot of miles, but the reason i got it so cheap is well look at that lovely lovely oil cap. When you look inside, which i'm not sure, if you can see at all with the gopro, it is quite narsty in there and with the oil light on because of the low level.

Nobody wanted to touch this thing with a 10-foot pole. Look at this nasty nasty oil, except for the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and for once i actually lucked out because adding a quart of oils with this thing turn the light off. It has great oil pressure, so maybe this engine can be brought back from repo death. But if you didn't look inside of the engine you wouldn't know because it sounds absolutely wonderful.

So now, let's take this thing for a drive and really that's the best part of it. Let's press my dodge dart ignition with the counterfeit key recognized oh yeah, and then you actually put it in sport and it opens up the exhaust sounds pretty good. I told you when you drive this thing. It gets a lot better.

Well, i'm greeted with a smattering of warning messages, but, most importantly, no oil warning. I have it on the oil pressure gauge, we'll actually just switch to the tire pressure which now that right rear that drag slick that goes down it's down to 22 psi. So i need to add air to it, but actually i do really like this car. I wanted to not like it.

I thought this was just a car for posers to buy. They wanted something italian to show off and really they had no idea what they were buying. They just wanted to look cool and well. Admittedly, there is a little bit of that: there's no less than six maserati sporks.

Looking at me in the face like two in the gauges, one, the steering wheel, a clock here in the infotainment on the shifter. That's all i can see so six reminders that you are in a maserati, but then you drive it things look around, but what a sweet sounding engine it's really really nice and then because it's on a car platform, the handling's actually really really good. The air ride. Suspension which is adjustable - and this b-pillar's hitting me in the face - it's actually really tight, really nimble for a car of its size.

I actually like it a lot. I'm a little worried about blowing the engine, though with however old the oil is in there, and then i just threw some random oil in it, so not really good so somewhat alarming there. I should baby it, but the other thing that i like is the comfort of this car: the seats for a modern vehicle. That's only a couple years old, it has lots of cushion the leather's soft.

It is really really a nice place to be. In that sense, even though visually it's well, not that impressive quality, wise yeah visually, not all that impressive other than a cupboard full of sporks but touch and feel wise. It is actually really really nice, and i guess that's all that matters. Another thing that matters is the seat of the pants feeling 345 horsepower, but in real life it feels like a lot more and when you buy this car say over an s, it makes a lot more sense to buy the base model because the s well.

It's just a tune: the trofeos, the v8. That's really cool, that's very expensive! This car! Well, you can put a tune on it. 1000 bucks and you get almost 100 more horsepower. So why would you buy the higher trim models when it's just a matter of a tune, and you can bet i'll be putting a tune on this thing? Assuming the engine will de-sludge and it doesn't have a lot of other issues that the car was or discovered.

So, let's head up to the wizards now well, actually, first i'm gon na get a haircut! Oh and i need to get air for the tire as well and then we'll head up to the car wizard wizard i've joined you levante land, although usually your wife's driving. You around a minute right, yeah, i don't drive it very much wizard likes to be driven, he doesn't want to drive so when actually he has to bring himself to wichita, he gets, he gets lost regularly yeah. I don't actually know where i'm at, because i don't do the driving yeah. Your wife drives you around in a lovely lavante, and this is this is well, not a lovely levante.

I noticed there's a trim piece missing there. Yes, yes, well and all the tires are mismatched and it's a bank repo uh, 103 000 miles 103 000 miles. The oil change may have not been done for like a hundred thousand last hundred and three thousand miles. It is a ridden, hard put away, wet fully out repo'ed repo levante.

I mean look at this. Look at this key. It's that's not even a maserati key. No! No! That is a repo special key that says x-horse x-norse, x-horse you're, absolutely right.

So i wanted to buy this car to make fun of it. I was a little worried that i was going to offend you in your maserati ownership by making fun of it, which i have there's a lot to make fun of, which is the name in particular levante levante. It is a warm gust of wind from the mediterranean through the strait of gibraltar. Did you know that well, yeah, whenever you break wind, it usually is warm wind, isn't it so so you didn't know that you bought a car.

That's named after a fart anyway, a fancy fart, but there's plenty of other issues, i'm sure, there's more underneath we can take a look at this very beat up levante, but actually before we do that. What has happened to my back looks like it had a giant levante and its whole arch, just kind of blew away holy moly that was hurricane force lavonte, so he had a fourth gear wine. We were sending it back to the people who built the trans they're at the same mercy as us to parts and bad aftermarket parts, so probably a bearing or something inside the transmission needs to be fixed and hence why the trans is out. Yes, it's on a pallet, yes and looks like you're driving your 308 soon.

I hope so something levanted my range rover too. What the heck um, so the rear shocks are out. Yes, the only issue i had was like an intermittent warning light, which, if you try to go to the lowest level, it would think it's hitting an obstacle and what it was is one strut, which is these. These one strut, which these are the original struts, would go down with uh pressure all the way down like normal yeah, but that it's the actual shock absorber poor portion.

I can't speak. Oh sorry, it's the actual shock absorber portion of here which is trying to hold the camera, see it. It's actual shock absorber portion of the strut. Oh, so not the air, so once it gets, it gets low enough.

Then, because the shock's blown it just kind of yeah one side just kind of just and then it thinks something's going on and it raises you back up. Oh so it throws the air that way, and these are expensive, because these are the variable electronic ones. Oh well, a grand, a piece, oh yeah, and then the pump two, which was throwing some codes as well. So there's some neglected things with this range rover, which is a very nice vehicle that hopefully i'll get back soon, but now i have a levante.

Yes, yes, oh feel that levante breeze passing through you shall we yeah? Let's take a look at it right. I was able to get this thing so cheap because it had an oil warning light on. It said: engine sludge, low oil and oh, is that why uh, i i think, the idiot just uh didn't tighten down the cap when he was showing his audience earlier. Um but anyway take that cap off now and yeah yeah, look at the cap and look inside there wizard it's a that's kind of grungy.

That's some milkshake yep yep, it's not horrible, but there is a thin layer of grunge. I think we can get that with a flush. Luckily, it's not chunks inside of there. Okay, so an oil flush may save this 103 000 maserati and now i need a a detail, obviously, because somebody didn't put the cap back on, but yeah the oil.

The oil was actually almost two quarts low, and so it's throwing a warning and that's why nobody wanted it except me and i actually got lucky two quarts and the thing seems fine. It seems like it runs fine what it sounds like, but i imagine if they neglected, changing the oil and went with three different brands of tires, including foursomes. Those are back or so you remember those on the box. Yeah yeah um.

I imagine there's some other skimped maintenance items so shall we well first we got to get it into jack mode and you do that through the center console on the screen. I'll show you, oh okay, see my my pillar, trims kind of isn't that nice? Oh wonderful! It smells kind of weird in here: does your lavante smell like that? No, it smells doesn't smell like to you like a cat peed in here. You and bob is the same thing. Okay, so uh do we start it? No just turn the ignition on.

Don't start! Okay, let this thing boot up here: yeah, which is pretty goofy, because in order to turn on the heated seats, you have to go through a bunch of toggle screens, which is kind of dumb. But let's see right here, hit the spork go into settings of the spork suspension jack mode. There we go okay, air suspension, disabled, very nice. So now we can go in the air and it won't go all crazy.

Yes, well, it's it's nice to have the knowledge of a fellow levante owner to look at these things which yeah. I know these cars get a lot of flack and roasted quite a bit, but they are. I mean i was planning on roasting it, which i have a little bit, but the more i drive it the more i actually like this thing. They really are nice.

One thing i didn't point out before it looks like this will just like slide and pop back in, like it was a curb hit or something they hit, something pretty hard yeah the parking sensors still work, which is nice yeah, that's nice. We have our underbody panels. These are missing a lot of screws here, oh well, but the panels are here: that's good! Yes, uh-oh! What's that, i think that goes to your brake. Wear sensor, yeah see! Oh, that's chewed up well or cut it's not throwing a warning, though, maybe because the wires have been put together or something yeah nice.

How do my brakes? Look, let's see they're about halfway gone still got some life left in them. There's a oil leak coming from the bottom of the turbo looks like just a an o-ring or something oh. Well, not bad. These tires smell like poop.

Why would they smell like that? I don't know. Did you run, i must have ran over something okay nothing's loose. I don't think that there's anything going on on this side really there's some some oil going on there. It's italian, it's italian, it's italian! That's one of the intake pipes for the turbo.

That's just pcv oil, it's probably because it hasn't had an oil change and who knows when same thing on the turbo over here just needs some gaskets. I think this isn't anything unusual with these twin turbo engines of any make and model with a hundred thousand miles on it. They all just they all start leaking, but everything's dry back here, yeah transmission drive shaft, let's see, what's going on here, drive back here as well. A little transfer case is nice and dry.

I guess the drive shaft's hidden above the each oh yeah there. It is coming out right there, okay, very nice, it's in good shape, nothing leaking back here. The boots. Look at those giant accordions of airbags there, that's the levante.

What the heck! That's almost comical! I guess they wanted to protect it with some kind of shield. That looks like a musical instrument exactly yeah compared to the land rovers, which is just a very normal looking airbag. They decided to cover it all up with literally an accordion yeah, so they have the airbag and the shock absorbers separate units - oh on yours, they're. All in one interesting right, height sensor is good same over here.

There's the accordion, the brakes they're about 80 or more gone, so they actually did the brakes one time before, one time before they stopped making payments. I imagine huh yeah one time before they stop making payments yeah either that or they've lasted 104 000 miles. It's just a lot of highway driving or something huh, it's possible on the rear. Yeah! Look at this tire! This is the one that loses about 10 psi.

A day it's like a racing slick yeah and all the wheels are ruined. So i'm probably just gon na find some better wheels and tires for it because 19 looks a little small, but the uh oil leaks, they're, they're minor miner i mean, would you fix them? Yeah well, of course, you'd say that, but should i really actually fix them? I think so because those aren't the turbo oil leaks aren't hard to get to and that just needs to be cleaned out: okay and figure out what this is here: yeah we're going to take all the panels off and just really take a deeper look at everything. All right: well, we can do that when we do the oil flush. I imagine right yeah.

We definitely will hopefully there's not any big chunks that come out and screw things up when you do that, but i don't think there will be. I suppose that's a to be continued for a bank repo maserati that was driven like it was and treated like it was. I think i did okay. I think you did well that's a shocker, but really it's just a numbers game.

I get three or four bad ones, then you get one good one. So if you just keep trying you'll eventually trip your way over the finish line of something yeah. Yes, thank you for watching.