Oh, my yeah wow, okay up, we go. Hopefully it doesn't collapse on the lift it's making crunchy. Oh jesus uh. Should i go back down? Maybe there's another spot, you can lift it from it's yeah.

It's giving way, welcome to movies garage, the dumbest, unwanted channel. In all of youtube - and this is my latest purchase and a massive massive mistake - it is a 2004 subaru baja and is the holy grail of subaru bajas, because it is the 2.5 liter turbo engine powered one with a manual transmission in a goofy little unibody car Pickup truck that subaru made and i've always wanted one and the prices have just exploded lately. If you look on bring a trailer nice examples are bringing nearly twenty thousand dollars. So i thought i got a fantastic deal, paying well half that nine thousand dollars for this.

One showing 89 000 miles, but that turned out not to be true in so many levels the mileage, the condition everything it is a total disaster, but the subaru itself sales-wise was a disaster to begin with so well. What do i expect now? The baja was unveiled in the early 2000s after subaru's success with the outback building a lifted cladded station wagon - you never would have thought would have taken off, but it was huge all over the united states. You saw them everywhere and subaru thought. Well, let's build more lifted, cladded things, so they made a sedan version and then this version that came out and well nobody bought it.

I mean the bed, it was so small because they kept it a four-door vehicle to have some usable interior, but the bed itself. Well, i mean it's like three feet long. You could fold it down and have one of those little cages that fold over to give you a five foot bed, but there was a lot of sacrifices with that as well, and nobody knew what to do with these things. So really they were a complete sales flop, but like a lot of flops, like the mark 4 toyota super that nobody bought the acura nsx that nobody bought.

They kind of became cult classics and now they have exploded in value in comparison to say, an outback or an old legacy. Sedan or something like that, and these turbo versions with the stick are very very hard to find in nice condition, and i did not find well. I did find a turbo stick, but i didn't find one in nice condition. Unfortunately, so this was a big flop for subaru.

They only made it for a few years and they had a factory in indiana set up just for this that they gave up on and started building toyota camrys, but really the baja was certainly ahead of its time. Inspired from the brat, obviously of the 70s and 80s, but nowadays you have the honda ridgeline, that's doing well, and you have the new hyundai santa cruz truck that people are raving about and, of course, the ford maverick which i would love to have a ford maverick. A hybrid 40 mile per gallon small pickup truck unibody car-ish thing, but you can't get one right now. It's like the car of the year, but ford can't build them.

It's kind of like the 1965 ford mustang has come out and they're only making a thousand of them this year because they can't it makes no sense to even bother unveiling the truck when you can't build it. But anyway, that's a tangent here. So the baja. For me is the next best thing that i could find for now.

Really i wasn't looking for it. It popped up at auction and my friend, urination bob saw it and said: hey you want to bid on this thing sight unseen. I have no idea. 89.

000 miles looks really nice in the pictures and it's like well yeah. They go for about 20 with those mileage. So if i can get it for half that may have a bad head, gasket may have some other issues. I can't lose right: oh yeah, i can lose so today, i'm going to give you a tour of this baja turbo.

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You see the funky roof line here with a tiny, sunroof, the roof rack, and then it goes down with these sport bars into the teeny tiny rear bed. I mean this thing is so tiny. I don't know what you would haul in it. I guess a few bales of hay, but not very much, and i have no idea what this plastic covers for other than taking up more bed space, but it is a little bitty mini truck, which is very, very cool.

In my eyes, the tailgate folds down just like a normal tailgate, and actually you can see the license plate actually folds down as well, which, when you have the gate folded down, they can still see your license plate, which is really cool and handy. And i just broke something: a rubber mount just fell off, but anyway that's the least of this car's worries. Okay, fold back down here we go and, as you can see from the outside, this thing is in very, very nice condition, really weird with the fuel door. They decided to clad it, so it kind of clashes but whatever overall, really really nice shape, showing only 89 000 miles on the odometer, but the carfax proved that to be a lie, something i didn't check before.

I bought it. Unfortunately, it's been rolled back. A hundred thousand miles, i discovered that after i purchased it, which is unfortunate, but then i thought well, that's probably why i got it so cheap and overall, it still looked really really nice on arrival. So i wasn't that upset the only thing.

That's really weird about the subaru, something that's absolutely disgusting. Some crazy insane person sat in this car after it was detailed for auction and decided it was a good place to clip their fingernails and they just clipped them all over the seat and all over the floorboard. I mean what kind of psycho detailer car dealer. I don't know.

Who would do that? I didn't know what it was at first. I picked one of them up and i went but anyway it's there that can be vacuumed up. That's not a big deal. Unfortunately, the big deal happened when i opened the rear doors you can see up front.

It looks like a normal subaru, but you have a stick shift with a turbo engine and a little pickup truck. It's awesome. You have a back seat, which is weird because it's not a full back seat. You have a center console in the middle with cup holders, rather than have well three people that could fit in the back.

In a pinch, i don't really understand that, but that's what they chose to do this also folds down. You can see. There's a little pass-through in the cabin kind of like an avalanche except the glass doesn't come down. It's just that little pass-through for poles or wood boards or something, but when i opened this rear door and then i looked down, i went oh no, oh, oh! No! No! No! This is a patch panel.

It is a total plastic. That's been glued on to hide what i imagine is a rust hole. You can see. The rust is radiating out hiding conveniently under this cladding and i thought well, that's not bad.

Hopefully, it's not as bad on the other side went over to the other side and well it's worse it it's it's much much worse! So that's complete swiss cheese there and then, when you look underneath it's it's a big problem, yeah just a quick glance. This rocker is completely separated from the frame there, which i suppose could be fixed. But then, when you look at the rear, subframe yeah here we go, it looks like it was recovered from the titanic and then painted with four five ten coats of rust-oleum to send on its merry way. It does not look good.

Unfortunately, i really don't like rust at all and this one's uh looking really bad, but it may not be that bad once we get it up in the lift. So that's why i'm gon na take it up to the car wizards we're gon na, give it a once over and see really how bad it is underneath, among other issues which it does have some issues. Yeah cladding cladding hides hides a lot here. We go plenty of pep.

This thing is really fun. It is a shame that it is so crusty underneath and with the odometer roll back and you're. Probably thinking well tyler go after the dealer that did this to you. They did you wrong.

They're scammers they're horrible, and they actually really did nothing wrong. It would have been nice if they had mentioned that the odometer had been rolled back in some kind of disclosure, but with a car being over 10 years old, it's exempt from odometer reporting, so they're not obligated to they don't have to. They may have not even pulled the carfax because it was just a cheap trade-in. It was at a new car dealer.

Also, it's not a new car dealer's job to hold a wholesale buyer's hand to tell them. Everything is wrong. It's up to you to go in person and inspect the car, make sure it's what you want and the most you want to pay before you bid or if you're bidding sight unseen like i did well, you just got to realize that there's a chance, it could Be very very bad, especially in today's market, where every single used car that a dealer can keep they're keeping to make money on if it's a good car, if it's something that can be reconditioned to a good car, they're, keeping it and they're selling it on the Lot themselves they're not sending it to auction, so the only thing really at auctions right now are complete and total turrets like this, but this turd still has some get up and go that 2.5 turbo engine is is great. The only thing i know that's wrong with it is, i think, there's a valve cover, gasket leaking or a head.

Gasket leaking oil because it's getting on the exhaust and there's a oily smoky smell. When i was parked at the gas station, it was emanating from under the hood as well, which was quite embarrassing, but it seems to run great nearly 200 000 miles, though not 89 000 miles, and now we're getting up to highway speed with a swiss cheeseburger suspension And you would never never know, maybe it can be fixed, we'll see. Okay, i may have spoken a little too soon, because the shocks are definitely blown on this thing i go over bumps and it bounces like crazy and the steering wheel yeah. The car is not doing very much with all that play, not good wizard wow.

Is this a baja? It's a baja wow. It looks cool i've gone japanese, which i haven't done in a very very long time. Turbo stick baja the holy grail. Oh my goodness.

These are hard to find. They are very hard to find and this one well, it's the best of the bunch and well, of course it has some issues. You have minor issues, minor issues, yeah suspension, some leaks, so it looks nice yeah. It does look nice all right.

Let's get it on the lift, all right, i'm just going to say right now, i'm not married to this thing wizard! I will trade, you well anything for it right now. You want the mercedes. I i'll. Take that trade you straight off how about the nissan leaf about to leave the the scion i'll trade you the scion, for it scion scion right now, yeah, let's look it over before we make a deal.

It does look the part it's beautiful, yes, but uh. I know the scion's perfect this one. This one is is something is something well pop the hood. Your cyan doesn't have a turbo in an intercooler.

No, it does 2.5 liter. It is smoking a little bit like a valve cover gasket right or a head gasket, but looks pretty tidy huh. Is it overheating not at all, not in the slightest, not at all, no yeah it looks tidy under here. The odometer is showing 90 000 miles on it uh, but the actual mileage is 180 000 miles.

What's all that in, i have no idea, that's a little addition to the upper radiator hose. It's like a couple of temperature sensors for some reason, or i don't know, there's some oil gunk like someone tried to fill it and spilled it all over the place. Oh maybe that's your oily, so it's using oil or low in oil and they were just sloppy. Could be, it could be the same person that decided to clip their fingernails into the passenger seat, fingernails, there's fingernail clippings all on the passenger side of the car right.

It's disgusting yep! It's got a one of those ebay chips on it to give it more power. Well, that explains why it feels so fast. It's not hooked up, though. Oh that explains nothing then all right.

It is fast and very fun. I've always wanted one of these and uh, unfortunately, well anyway, just just keep inspecting. Yes, we'll take a look at it. Everything looks okay here, except for whatever that is.

It does look very clean, mm-hmm kind of crusty on the brakes, but yeah it's been sitting for a while that looks pretty rusty in there we'll get it on the lift here in a minute. Look at that! Oh, it's it's surface rust, surface, scion, scion i'll. Take the song out. Let's go! Take a look.

First, i'm not shaking any hands. What's the back seat, look like! Oh! You are gon na. Do it? Aren't you yeah, it's locked yeah! What's that uh, you know just just sound editing, sound deadening. Yes, it looks like they're patched over a hole where you can put your fist through.

Well, it's just sound editing, there's not much insulation on these cars. You know so they were helping out in that particular spot with a piece of of plastic or something you know, looks like they glued it on with silicone or something yeah, you can haul hay or junk or whatever. In this little bitty thing farm animals - yes farm animals, i suppose you could they might jump out. What is that right beats me? No step, no loads, don't stand on it.

Yes, obviously don't stand on. It also says: don't put your load on it, where'd the gas door, go that was there when i got it, did it really just fly off on the highway drive up here? It did well and it was cladding. It was silver to match the car, and now this uh - oh well, oh well, anyway, all right! Let's just get this over with. Let's go up in the air, okay yeah! Oh my yeah wow! Okay up we go.

Hopefully it doesn't collapse on the lift. It's up. We go all right trade. You right now come on.

Okay. What was that it's so rusted back there? It won't even hold the car. What kind of car did you bring me? Did it just kind of poke through yeah? You want me to keep going. Why not? It's up to you.

It's your car. Go ahead! Okay, i'll, keep going it's making crunchy! Oh jesus! Ah, should i go back down? Maybe there's another spot? You can lift it from it's yeah, it's giving way! Oh dear! What in the world? I i think that uh lift point is, is uh. Yeah specifically has an arrow right there. That's where you put the the arm.

I can try right here. Maybe oh, my goodness where'd you get this thing. I i at a dealer auction. You know just looking at pictures pictures yeah wow, i paid nine thousand dollars for it: nine thousand dollars yep yep, let's see if this works.

That seems better. So, let's start up here the heat shield. I can put my fingers through it. Well that doesn't hurt anything.

No, i guess it doesn't. This structure here is starting to come apart. Oh so, it's not just the rear subframe, it's the front! Huh! Oh okey dokey, there's pieces of the car literally coming off of it. There's the sway bar link broken ah well.

That may explain why it feels all sway, i'm afraid to even walk under this thing. It's uh something, isn't it yeah? Well, let's do it. No serious leaks, really yeah. I was smelling and seeing oil smoke, though so your steering rack does.

Your steering is actually just being held on by chunks of rust. Ah well, there's a lot of play in the steering as well. Oh really yeah about that much well! That's probably why the whole structure is about to give hmm. I probably wouldn't drive this anymore.

Yeah you're. Definitely not getting the scion for this. We're not even done yet we're just getting started. Okay valve cover gaskets are leaking yeah, that's not a huge deal, but the head, gaskets aren't no they're.

Not must have been done before. There's something wizard the engine's worth something yeah. This has been exhaust is held up by a clothes hanger, great, wonderful, my goodness. Luckily, the driveshaft's okay, the exhaust, is decent mm-hmm.

Oh my god! Oh that's! That's still hanging huh look! Look at the uh, the flex in that as we stand under this car with this hole. Look at that yeah yeah, i'm scared yeah! So that's the side that we didn't correct this side's on the suspension component now, because it all just totally caved in look at that um whoa the whole back. Half of this car is literally about to collapse. Look how it! How it just kind of oh, is that the floor.

That's no! That's that's the frame rail! Isn't it yeah? Oh, my goodness, you know you're gon na have to sweep all that up. I i it's it's a never-ending look, there's styrofoam what the hell! Well! That's probably factory, actually i know, but that's just the fact that we can now see it. It shouldn't be seen it you're gon na make it break in half. Stop it's okay! That, too, you know, oh, that that that's paper there, you paid nine thousand dollars for this.

Thank you. Yes, i sure did. I i sure sure did yeah did yourself this time, yeah well uh. If you'd like a piece of a subaru ba huh uh, i can start selling them look at the brake lines.

I bet, if i touch it, it would just break, don't well, don't touch it and this side, this side is the better side, but still, oh, my goodness, that's okay! So right now, let's this little thing here is: what's holding wait, wait a minute! Okay, i'm putting it back down now before we get killed. Okay, the back okay, why is it blue they've painted it several times? Look the rust is eating through even that yeah yeah. So that's the rear, subframe and i can poke through it with my finger. Oh, this thing must have come from new york or something yeah yep.

I just made that hole much much larger. Oh, my goodness, this thing's unusable just like ralph nader, said unsafe at any speed. I just drove it 80 miles an hour up here. Uh 30 miles.

Wow, i really recommend that you don't drive at home. I mean i've had a couple of rusty cars. There's one on car issues: the m3, which is now going to be something you're going to do with, but it held itself up on the lift it was ruined by the floors, but it wasn't structurally compromised the liberian. We dug a hole, we buried it because it was so rusty once again floors, but it wasn't structurally compromised and that was a crappy k car it wasn't.

It wasn't dangerous right. It was just rusty this this is. This is out right there. I could take this thing back to the auction and dump it, but then i would be.

I would be sending somebody off in a death trap. You could, you could be putting them in a coffin. That was my plan at first to take this back to the auction from which it came and make it somebody else's problem, but this this is. This is outright dangerous.

It is, and if somebody bought this and then didn't realize it they they could die. So i'm gon na have to junk it. That's what i would recommend that you do, because the money that you're losing off of what you paid for it you could lose tenfold that somebody. Well it's a wholesale auction.

It's, as is i mean it's just karma unconscious and all that stuff, because this thing would still sell at auction and people knew about. The rest of me still give me five grand for it, but i don't. I don't think i can do that. Well anyway.

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But it's not big enough to cover up the rust the rust on here and that i wasn't planning on doing a merch plug today, but it just spontaneously came to me i'll, buy two shirts and a sticker to chip in. Oh, thank you holy moly. This is this: one takes the cake, i think, for all the hookies you've ever bought as far as being disastrously unusable a surprise and it's the first hooptie that i've bought proper hoopty in quite a while, because there's been a lot of exotics and things - and this Is how i ring in the new year great job, good, yeah, golf clap, thank you for watching this. Let's, let's just end this holy crap.