Going to try and sell my x5 at auction, it's the 46is. It needs well starting to make a little noise from the uh timing chain guides. It's got check. Engine lights, suspension issues, accessories power, locks, yeah leaking a little from the radiator.

I i did pay 7. 500 for it, so what yeah? I know so x5, what x5's they they! I guess you are the dumbest automotive channel on youtube. Aren't you welcome to hovie's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and a question i wrestle with frequently is whether i should get my dealer's license again. I did have a dealership years ago.

I was terrible at it and failed in the business, went to do something else and then started doing youtube. Videos and well here i am today, but now i could use a dealer's license for a number of reasons not just to buy and sell cars and make money honestly the amount that i pay in registration and taxes with my hooptie fleet with purchasing, keep in mind Sales tax, like seven eight percent, i spend over a hundred thousand dollars a year just on that yeah. I know it's out of control and it's more than i ever made as a car dealer any year that i was working in the car business. But if i got my dealer's license, that would wipe it out all in one swoop, because i could drive around on dealer plates.

If i don't keep cars for very long. There's no reason for me to tag and register and do all that kind of stuff. But if you get a dealer's license, you have to have obviously a commercial space. You can't do it out of your house, which means you have to maintain business hours, so you'd have to hire an employee and different insurance and all that stuff.

It adds up to the point where that hundred thousand dollars i'm spending a year. Well, it gets eaten up by a commercial space. I'm renting or buying employees, liability taxes all that stuff. So i haven't done it yet, but every time i go to the tag office and write that check it is something that i certainly think about and actually now i have an opportunity to tiptoe back into the car business, because urination bob is actually in atlanta, georgia, Filming venwiki he's been a car dealer, a car part seller, junk yarder for 30 years now so a lot of great stories.

But since he's gone, he needs somebody to go around and check all the wholesale sources, something that i used to do. I even introduced them to a few of these and bid on the cars, but the situation here with car sales is so so bad right now that really it's not very much fun when it comes to inventory, dealers are keeping just about anything. They can make money on that won't leave their customers stranded and only the worst of the worst is getting kicked off to wholesale auctions are a minefield and these dealer wholesale bidding where you actually go to the dealership itself and bid on their wholesale cars. Well, the pickens are very, very slim, and you really have to figure out why something was traded in, because usually people aren't upgrading because they want to given how scarce inventory is and how high prices are.

So people for the most part are upgrading because they absolutely have to and the cars they're trading in reflect that, in addition to bidding cars, there's another car that i absolutely cannot sell, which is another reason why i probably shouldn't be a car dealer again and that's The 2003 bmw x5 that i bought for the bmw dream team - it's the 46is with only 113 000 miles, but i got hat in my car pretty good because the seller said it wasn't a project and well, it needs the timing chain guys it needs suspension. It needs all of the mechanical stuff that x5s need and it's mechanically totaled. Basically, but it's all pretty obvious when you look at the car, but i'm going to kick that over to the dealer wholesale auction and see what i can get 7 500 into it. So fingers crossed there, but first we're gon na go bid cars.

So let's go all right, so i'm at the first new car store and i've got the list. It's only six cars and uh well here they are colorado. Fusion honda element, hello, dolly dodge neon and a crv element. That's a good one there.

So this store's a little bit of a letdown in that they don't tell you how much it sold for just if you won or lost on your bid. So, let's uh, let's wander through and take a look here - honda crv a 2011 with 212 000 miles. Oh yeah! Oh! Well! That's a noise! It's quiet now, but that cold start chatter. I thought these were timing belt cars.

So that's a little weird, probably going to pass on it just from that horrible noise on the cold start and 212 thousand miles. So next the dodge neon rust slammed in the front. Oh, they definitely hit a curb in the ice storm here. So, that's probably why they dumped it.

Let's see how it runs. Oh, but the steering wheel matching the floor mats. That is something only 106 000 miles. Oh okay, this this is definitely going to be another.

Another pass. Honda accord is listed as a bad alternator with 126 000 miles, not buying any projects for bob really but uh yeah. It's not all that nice either so probably gon na pass 110 000 miles on the chevy colorado. Probably the five cylinder used to sell these when they were new.

That is a really really bad paint job, but it does appear to be a rust free truck, see what we got pace model roller window colorado actually seems to run pretty nice, no lights hey. We might got somebody a work truck here, take it for a spin. Well, we have our first warning light for the battery, so this one may have a bad alternator as well. Probably don't want to drive this thing too far and get stranded.

So, let's just do a quick romp, it is a two-wheel drive, seems to have good power. I mean back when i was doing this before the world went nuts. This would have been a good. You know.

Five thousand dollar work truck for somebody. So well, let's look it over a little closely and then scan and see uh what this thing's worth nowadays, yeah, there's that five cylinder actually looks pretty decent. We have some coolant. We have some oil underneath it's a little oily, but not bad normal hundred thousand mile car.

So now they're saying that that five thousand dollar number is basically wholesale on this thing. Forty five hundred dollars with a retail range of 4700 to 11 750. beautiful, i think, with this one bob's not really going to like it to quite a hooptie so well, maybe we could just steal it. I'm going to put down a thousand bucks.

You can't just put a thousand bucks, so it's going to be 1069 next to it. We have a grand cherokee 149 000 miles that uh, oh god, oh smell, whoa! Oh, oh god! How? How do you do this to your car? Oh, that's that dog food! All right now, the honda - these are hot properties, missing a trim piece here, but alloy wheels. So dang cool they've got one of the seats folded up. You know safari style like an old land rover and then the rubber completely flat seating.

These are great campers. These are great everything and they've gone way up in value since they quit making them. Of course, this one looks really cool, no lights other than the tire pressure monitor system, which is pretty normal. The sensors go bad air conditioning blowing cold, it's not clean, but it's not not like that, jeep, so good for that this might be a car.

Here's the bell: the ball here, a good little jump to test things there, a little clunk of the suspension, but not bad, feel bearing sound all right. Yes, i'll buckle, my seat belt stop straight. I think we have something here. So this one's good.

It's actually something bob wants, so i called him because i thought well looking at the phone, maybe around four grand something like that uh but bob's, saying if i want something you got ta really go over so bob. What do you want to do on this lovely crv yeah right? Sometimes you got ta, you got ta, you got ta step up and especially tax season around the corner or whatever, but uh yeah mmr, i think, was around four grand on. Is that right, yeah yep? That's right, i would say, we'll probably have to get up there. Pretty swing pretty hard i'd, say: probably around uh.

51. 51. 51.. Five, grand 180, 000 mile honda.

Oh that's the world! We live in it's 11 years old. Okay, all right! You sure yeah! You know! What's funny is uh there's a good chance, i might not even get it tyler and that says swinging for the fence on that one. Well, i mean this is basically the only one here that's even remotely worth buying, but there's still one other place to go so i'll. Let you know if there's any nice prospects, how's how's been wiki.

Are you prepping uh yeah yeah, going through my notes and uh, trying to put together the stories and not uh, come off looking like a complete buffoon all right? Well, good luck! Don't don't bury me uh. Did you look underneath for us tyler? I i did. I did i like you, i do i do that. Yes, all right see you bob here we go well, i'm at the next stop and this list is way less promising here, most of them, 200 000 miles are pushing it and then nothing too exciting.

So this might be kind of a dud. Let's go. Take a look. The first one is this: 2006 gmc sierra, oh clean cut there.

So i'm guessing a catalytic converter theft, that's falling off! Oh yeah! We got rust standard gmt-800, rust darn it okay! Well, yeah! Definitely no muffler on. It belongs in newton actually, but probably too much of a project. 200 000 miles correct windshield. So that's no caravan with a big din in it.

That's not a urination bob special, oh honda, civic ruined front bumper bad window, titting, another just gross interior electrical box, just hanging there. So that's out nissan versa could be the nicest nissan versa in the world, and it's definitely not, but it is even if it's, the nicest one we'd still be out pure. Oh, my god, how do you get it on both sides and disgusting on the inside 190? 000 miles so that one's used up the jeep grand cherokee 220 000 miles so yeah, that's out journey, equinox, no corolla hell. We have something here, a corolla xrs on the sheet.

It just has a 2009 corolla with 194 000 miles, but we have an xrs with a stick. I'm getting excited about a corolla because that's it okay! Well, let's see cracked windshield no lights, though, and a stick shift. Let's take it for a ride. All right! You go xrs, oh yeah, it's it's hitting it.

So this one's pretty good air works. Let's see, windows windows are working, sunroof sunroof is doing the job. Pretty clean interior, actually we'll send the vin over to bob and see what he thinks. But probably i don't know, four thousand dollar bid six to seven thousand dollar retail.

After some conditioning it needs brake rotors for sure windshield i'll do one other quick walk around, because i didn't really look at it that closely just got excited because i had a stick. Missed the wheels in the front balance, this is already off for our next uh victim. So after seeing the wheels which are oxidized so badly, which is funny because it's nice underneath it's just probably defective wheels, i thought well, maybe you back it off to like three grand, so you can get past some furious wheels. Bob said no! No! No! No! No! No no bid uh 4.

200. I put down 42.69 so we'll see if we get it, but we've hit two major franchise car dealers, new car dealers and this in two weeks, because we had a storm. These are the only trades that they are offering for wholesale. A total of like 14 cars - and you saw them - i mean really almost not worth buying but uh.

Two of them actually aren't awful, so we'll see what we get, but one thing's for sure. I'm glad i'm not doing this anymore because it's not fun all right. I have the results right here, but before we look into whether i spent urination bob's money on some real japanese prizes and bit enough, let's talk hoovy's garage merch, which is linked below t-shirts here. Classic hoovies garage blue, along with a lot of cool new styles, including the countas shirt, which is a popular one, but also hoovie's garage stickers.

You can see right here it's covering up holes on my porsche, so you can fix your hooptiness in your car by putting a sticker over it or on your laptop or something you use every day. And if you tweet me at hooves garage, i will share it in the video like. I am right now, matthew ruffert put it on his pathfinder, it appears, or maybe that's an infinity looks really good on his window. So thank you for that, and also a european fan brian put it on his taran.

Look at that. I can't even tell what country that is, but thank you so much for putting a sticker on your weird volkswagen that i don't know what it is. But let's get to the results here so, like i said, the first door is a closed bid. They don't tell you how much the car sold for just if you won or not, and we did win the honda element for five thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot, but in this market and tax returns coming.

That makes sense, but the other dealership tells you how much everything's sold for, and we can go down the line here that rex jeep grand cherokee seventeen hundred and eighty eight dollars it was totaled the nissan versa, another junker fourteen hundred dollars. I was expecting crap. The 2011 equinox is a little thirty thousand one hundred fifty nine dollars. Another car.

That's absolute junk that gmc sierra, with the rust and over two hundred thousand miles a four point: eight liter two wheel drive five thousand two hundred and thirty five dollars. That's wholesale somebody's gon na try and sell that for a profit. I don't see how the ruined ruined honda, civic, seventeen hundred ninety nine dollars, what the dodge journey. Nobody wants those four thousand three hundred fifty dollars and the 2012 caravan that was wrecked, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, but we were also the high bidder on the corolla at 4, 269.

So the two cars that i seriously bid it on. I won, which is a little scary, because now bob gets to see them and decide if i did a good job or not, but first he's going to help me take this x5 to the auction and hopefully sell it. So please: well, there's all hollywood there hey. What's going on, it's not much love the alpha, uh yeah! First one i've had i've always had a kind of a hankering for one of these things.

So how do you like the youtuber life? Ah, i'm not you, i'm not a youtuber. I i i i don't want to be a car dealer anymore. This isn't any fun, so we're gon na continue with this we're gon na try and sell my x5 at auction. It's the 46is.

It needs well starting to make a little noise from the timing chain guides. It's got check. Engine lights, suspension issues, accessories power, locks, yeah leaking a little from the radiator. All these things that people can easily see right right - and this is not like i'm doing something.

I'm pulling something over anybody, you can easily see all these issues and you can test drive it at the auction. It's not like the subaru baja or the rust. It's not going to kill somebody, it's just all mechanical stuff. So this is what you see at face value.

I i did pay 7 500 for it. So what yeah? I know so x5. What x5's they they! I guess you are the dumbest automotive channel on youtube. Aren't you people do kind of know the options that x5s are land mines, so maybe we'll be another example of how crazy prices are, or maybe oh it could be another example of how bad bmws are yeah, so we'll drop this off.

Can i drive that uh? You got it, i haven't driven one of these four-cylinder ones. Pretty nice, i mean you know not worth what they were new, but certainly a good value used and bob got this actually at auction out here in kansas cause. Nobody knows what the heck these things are. So anyway seems like a nice car there.

She goes fingers crossed big money, big money, big money. I can't get rid of this thing, even though the market's nuts - it's not hot, on bmw x5. So i guess every single dealer knows by now right. The x5s at the at the auctions are just an absolute, you know, do not pass so i didn't even get a bid, they weren't even down to 2 000 and nobody would put their hand up, which is - i mean, that's kind of silly at this point, because This is a 4 6.

Is it's not like ruined wrecked or anything? It's all mechanical issues that somebody if they wanted to go through this thing, they could have a really cool car guilty by association. 3. 500 is all i want it's a 5 000 loss that i'm willing to take on this thing. You have to do timing chain guides.

You have to do suspension, but it's a solid 113 000 mile car. I guess if you want to email me at whovisgarage visit gmail.com unless bob wants it right now, no i'll pass. Thank you well. You're smiling because you had a good day.

You sold one of my ex hoovy cars yeah. I guess i mean i guess you call it a good day. It's uh that old, 88 uh fleetwood the purple broom the purple. Nurple is gone.

It's the merlot broham! Yes! Well, you made a few grand. I made a couple bucks, so it's all good, but i'm curious how you thought i did on the element, because you were out of town you're, doing the bin wiki thing. Yes yeah. I was doing the car dealer thing so well, let's go take a look sure.

All right, honda element: it drives really nice, doesn't it yeah until it got here? What do you mean? Oh, i had a little uh. I think it must have had a little hovey dna left stuck on the ignition or whatever. So we parked it here and then we went to pull it in the first night and the ignition switch locked up. So the key went bad yeah.

Well, the tumbler went bad, but it's fairly common. It's got miles on it. There's no way for me to know about that, but no, i know yeah. No, it's just chance and luck would you have paid five grand for it? Let me look at it.

I haven't looked at it all right. I haven't been able to pull it in i'll pop this back in for you here. Oh there we go this piece here yeah they flew off yeah common that in mini coopers, but it has nice tires. The suspension was clunking.

I told you about that. Try to sell me this car, i'm just i'm just saying you know a light detail. I know. Let me look, let me look.

Let me look here all right. Well, you know i'm an interior, snob and uh a little little uh little kind of blue. You know kind of my standards, but it was a one owner. I believe right, yeah no accident, so you know, and these are utilitarian cars.

So it's not like that's going to really like you know: it's not like it's a bmw or mercedes or something a little detail out: yeah yeah, absolutely yeah! No! This will clean up uh nice. This this will work for sure, runs good. I can't i've never even heard it run because it drives it drives fine. It does well good well, so you would have left a bit on this one yeah yeah.

I think i think we're good. It's a popular vehicle and they're known for being reliable, and you know with what people are doing right now doing a lot more adventure type of stuff. I think it's a good buy, yeah all right, so corolla is an oddball. It's actually quite rare, because i went and looked afterwards there's like one for sale with a stick in the entire country of these xrs yeah.

I was missing this front lower piece. I told you about that right. Yeah, that's easy enough, though. Actually uh uh checked the dealer.

They were kind of expensive, like 178 bucks apiece, but there was a pair on ebay for like 70 bucks, so, okay yeah. Then you got to have that because it's part of the car, but i didn't even know it existed either. When you told me about it yeah i told you about the wheels yeah. You told me about the wheels, but you know a little little headlight reconditioning um.

The one thing you know, you probably didn't really notice that i'm going to notice is the hail damage. You know. Yeah there's hail, i mean i'm i'm caught with an eagle. It's the afternoon twilight yeah, but i mean you know considering the age of the car stuff.

That's not gon na really be a killer for the car, but i kind of dig this car. Actually, i'm really glad we got it. When you were telling me about it, you know i decided to kind of step up and try to get it bought, because i, like these unusual oddball, sticks well silly, or this is nice, like a 200 000 mile 15 year, old camry would still sell for, like Three thirty five hundred bucks, so this is yeah. No, it's cool xrs manual with the like a camry motor in it or a scion tc, basically with four doors.

So it's it's cool! It's the old pony car um trick. It's! The japanese version of a pony car. Take your bigger mortar and put it in your smallest car, so you'll, let me fill in again if you go to vinwicki for a next round of stories. Yes and i can't you, never look to never look at gift horse in the mouth.

Well, if you check out vin wiki now, bob's first video should be up. I think friday, is it really it works for youtube. Actually, looking dumb really really works, just ask these people. Thank you so much for watching.