The Reliability Issues with 2001-2004 Cars

Imagine you're 17 years old in 2001, and your dad keeps bugging you about cleaning out the garage. You've had it up to here with that guy, so you jump into the Dodge Caravan and start blasting "Satellite" by Pod (bumping so hard, your speakers light on fire). But what if I told you that's not just a great metaphor for how good Pod is? It's actually 2001, and your speakers are really on fire. Now you have to deal with it.

Drivers of 2001-2002 Dodge Caravans know the drill all too well. Condensation dripping off the air conditioner can be a real problem. Sometimes it drips through vent holes onto the top of the rodum (if that's even a thing). If the rudo short circuits, it sends enough surge down the speaker wire to set the speaker on fire. Not cool if you have to replace your whole setup and worst-case scenario, you burn up your legs.

Dodge fixed the issue by putting a little cover on the rodum vent slots and advising drivers to avoid listening to not Pod (the second-to-last entry on this list). Toyota is often considered one of the most reliable car companies ever lived. Depending on the day, what's your favorite car company? What's the most impressive car company ever?

But even Toyota has its off days. In 2013, they voluntarily recalled 800,000 Camry, Venzas, and Avalons after their airbags randomly deployed on the road. Can you imagine something worse? You're driving down the road, and all of a sudden, you get "Tommy Boyed" right in the face.

It turns out that's not just a myth. Spiders were building webs inside the air conditioning units on some Toyotas. This caused water and condensation to drip onto the airbag control module, situated underneath the dashboard. Where are these spiders coming from? This is now the third spider-related recall in most cases. The airbag light turns on, but in at least three cases, the driver's side airbag went off, smashing someone in the face and causing a wreck.

ToA (I think that's what they called it) fixed the problem by adding some sealant on the AC unit to prevent spiders from getting in. Then, they added a cover over the airbag system to block out any moisture in case the spiders did get in.

Now, let's talk about Volkswagen. In 2002-2004, Voltragon Rec called a bunch of Jettas and Golfs because their seat warmers were malfunctional. Drivers reported that in some cases, the heated seats couldn't be turned off, but the heaters could still be on. This caused burned holes through seats, even through jeans and jackets. Jackets how are you supposed to protect your legs? The cause of the problem had to do with a hardware malfunction that sometimes occurs when the ignition and seat heater switch were both on at the same time.

Volkswagen issued a recall for these cars and fixed the problem by changing out the seat heater switch. Interestingly, the recall expired in 2007. Guess you had to be quick to get it fixed, Volkswagen. And now, I'm going to put the pump free rod to the test.

The pump free rod acts like a training wheel if the car starts to tip over. The bar stops it. That's engineering. After four years since my horrific (not embarrassing at all) crash, I'm going to drive the Pod 50 and find out if the pump free rod actually works.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the smallest car in the world and this is me crashing it a few years ago all this time I thought it was my fault I thought I was a bad driver turns out it wasn't they built the car wrong in fact they designed an entirely new part to keep it from tipping so easily ladies and gentlemen the pump Frey bar they named it after me now this isn't the first time that a car company had to come up with a fix for a problem after the car already came out it actually happens all the time and today we're looking at some of the crazy examples of this and then I'm going to attempt the impossible to drive this car 180° to see if the pumy bar actually works welcome to Donut I put my body on the line for you guys first up on this list we have the 2010 GMC Terrain a car that I'm pretty sure I've never even heard of which is amazing because I've heard of cars professionally and I'm I'm sure that if I saw one I wouldn't notice now this SUV named after the concept of land had a problem that was bigger and more annoying than Billy ikner the headlights were too dang bright which besides being extremely annoying is also dangerous now the national highway traffic safety administration or Nitza even came out and said that the glare could Dazzle oncoming drivers increasing the risk of a crash and they forced GMC to rectify the situation so how' they fix it well they did something that we've actually done before they sent people stickers that's right people brought their terrains into the dealership where a small sticker was placed over the part of the headlight giving it a frosted glass effect that's nothing fancy but it does the trick and hey who doesn't like a free sticker If you would like a free exclusive sticker every couple months sign up for the donut underground and you'll get stickers plus exclusive access to to behind the scenes content on our Discord click the join button down below to learn more but enough about me doing seamless promos for things next up a car close to our heart the BMW e303 Series I own one you know what's fun about them driving them you know it's not fun having boiling coolant squirting all over your legs and Dong while you're driving you see when cooling systems fail that coolant has to go somewhere but in some rare cases with six cylinder E30 BMWs the heater core would fail and if there was too much pressure in the system it would allow coolant to shoot out and BMW put the heater Court in the driver's side footwell right next to the driver's legs and Dong area I.E not where you want hot coolant shooting Oh my legs are B so in the early '90s BMW had to issue a legs and Dong area saving recall on about 375,000 3 Series solution was by pass valve that would fail before the heater C valve saving thousands if not hundreds of thousands of precious legs and Dawns next fix comes courtesy of the 2020 Toyota Supra now this one's unique because it's not a safety issue it's just annoying like Billy Iker you rolled your windows down and you've heard like a like a helicopter sound sounds like a helicopter in here and basically the aerodynamics of the Supra make that noise and the pressure change in the cabin unbearable the air flow around the a pillar causes pressure to build up in the cabin which makes for a loud uncomfortable situation while driving at any sort of speed no freaking way bro a Toyota Never issued a fix for this problem but multiple aftermarket companies did most of these fixes involve a small piece of plastic applied on the side of your mirrors that drastically reduce the effect of wind buffing you can find these online ranging in price from $9 to $200 for these carbon fiber ones or you can just try taping some plastic on your own car for free I'm going to reattempt to drive the po50 and find out if the pump free bar actually works how do you know if your car is truly happy what's causing the problems when did it start okay I'm not actually talking about your car I'm talking about you let's say you're this cylinder head and this spark plug is a therapist well today's sponsor better help connects you with a licensed therapist in as little as a few days to get started you just have to fill out a few questions about what you're looking for and better help will match you with one of over 30,000 therapists in their Network and if this specific spark plug doesn't fit your engine properly well you switch to new therapist at no additional cost whether you're busy with a project car spending some laps or creating YouTube videos better help enables you to have therapy over the phone through messaging or on a video chat if you like feeling your best consider consider betterhelp and if you like donut head on over to betterhelp.com Donut to get 10% off your first month of therapy next up is a company known for exceptional build quality and a downto earth spokesman not I'm talking about Tesla some drivers of the Tesla Model y found their cooling systems held in place by what appears to be faux wooden trim like something that you might find at so many Ikeas and now this might be something you'd expect if your uncle built a car for you in his garage or if you bought your car at Ikea but not so much if you paid $50,000 for a brand new model y the user who found this claims that they discovered it in the frunk when trying to fix their own panel gaps after Tesla refused the Tesla Model y reportedly had a bunch of issues with things not fitting in place in the frun and this faux wood is meant to keep the straps around the cooling system tight so nothing shakes loose personally I like shaking loose Shake loose bro in 2011 Mazda recalled 52,000 Mazda 6 models because of an issue with cracked fuel tanks and you're never going to guess what this led to these cracks in the fuel tanks could have led to engine fires uh yeah that'd be a legitimate reason for a recall if I ever heard one engine fires imagine the potential damage to your legs than dwn but would you believe me if I told you that it was something even scarier that caused the fuel tank cracks in the first place spiders turns out it was spiders all right somehow spiders were attracted to the hydrocarbons left over in the vent lines in the gas tank the spiders would make their way in and build freaking webs in the fuel tank hoses this blocked air flow in said hoses which sometimes resulted in cracked fuel tanks Mazda fix the problem by installing springs to keep the spiders out it's not something I want to hear about a car honestly guys I don't know how stuff works I could probably figure it out but I don't want to they also updated the software in the cars to alleviate pressure in the fuel tanks keeping them from cracking Mazda issued a second recall in 2014 that is two recalls for spiders now I'm going to go on record that's way too many recalls for spiders I'm in spoiler alert that's not even going to be the last time spiders are mentioned on this list we all know by now that Hyundai has made their cars very easy to steal we've made videos about it he just ripped this down pull this cylinder out Hyundai didn't like it but we had to because it is so easy to steal their cars that it became a Tik Tock Trend which led to a $200 million class action lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia State Farm actually will not ensure Hyundai or Kia in some states is a headline I think I saw so Hyundai decided to get ahead of this problem and sent 80 clubs to the Cleveland Police Department they sent a 37-year-old infomercial device to mitigate theft in one city in Ohio there's only one problem people figured out how to break into the club about 37 years ago we made a video about it yeah it's easy turns out we've made a lot of videos about how to steal a car but even if you couldn't break the club there's probably 60,000 people that drive Hyundai in Cleveland alone what the hell is 0 clubs going to do what is the point of that I think that one gets the award for lamest recoil I miss my spiders all right next up on this list is Honda and buckle up buttercups because this is a wild one our old friends the national highway traffic safety administration Nitsa the same people back there that crack down on GM C's dazzling headlights forced Honda to issue a recall on their owner's manual a recall on a book what is this Florida nits a rule that the manual incorrectly describes when the passenger airbag off indicator should illuminate which could lead to increased risk of personal injury in the event of a crash if the driver or passenger is confused listen if I'm driving confuse me all you want but if my princess gets confused who's going to touch the back of my neck the fix for this problem another sticker why don't they just give the spider stickers maybe that fix problem Honda drivers were told to visit the dealership to get a sticker to put in their manual with less confusing information now if you own a hunb and you one of the people that drove to the dealership to get a new sticker for your owner's manual hit us up at Dolan's personal email Mrs Harry Styles gmail.com I'd love to make fun of you this next one is maybe not not so funny though so please do not laugh first gen Audi TT models had a very serious problem they suffered from instability and loss of directional control at high speeds owners found that the rear end of the car would lift and lose control especially at speeds in excess of 110 mph which seems like something that you'd want to test Volkswagen has like the highest speed track in the world it's where they test like all the cars going fast and they didn't think like hey we test our car going fast they fixed the problem by adding stiffer rear springs updating the electronic stability control and my favorite retrofitting a small spoiler to both the TT Coupe and Roadster varians to keep that back end planted which is the opposite of squirreling maybe they should throw a pump Frey rod on one of those adies for good measure it wouldn't hurt all right so we've made it to the top three might as well click off JK don't because these last ones are nuts absolutely squirrel food it out baby nuts good snack imagine this it's 2001 you're 17 years old and your dad keeps bugging you about cleaning out the garage and you've just about had it with that gezer so you jump in the Dodge Caravan and you plop in Satellite by pod bumping so hard your speakers light on fire I know what you're doing right now you're sitting there thinking dang James that is a great metaphor for how good pod is but guess what buttercup it's not a freaking metaphor it's really 2001 and your speakers are really on fire and now you got to deal with it that's the scenario I would imagine that drivers of 20012 2002 Dodge Caravans went through when condensation dripped off the air conditioner of that van sometimes it dripped through vent holes onto the top of the rodum if the rudo short circuited it would send enough surge down the speaker wire to set the speaker on fire not sick if you have to replace your whole stuff and worst case scenario you burn up your legs and doll Dodge fixed the issue by putting a little cover on the rodo vent slots and Advising drivers only listen to not pod the second to last entry on this list is probably the most reliable car company that ever lived depending on the day if you ask me what is your favorite car company what's the most impressive car company ever depending on the day I will say Toyota but just like all of us goats they do have their off days like when I wrecked this pb50 and also when I wreck this super WX Toyota's off day took place back in 2013 they voluntarily recalled 800,000 Camry venzas and Avalons after their airbags randomly deployed on the road can you imagine something worse you're driving down the road and all the sudden you get Tommy boyed right in the face I'm asking the same question as you guys what the crap how that happen yeah spiders the spiders are back and they were building webs inside the air conditioning units on some of these Toyotas which could cause water and condensation to drip onto the airbag control module situated underneath the a see where are the spiders coming from this is now the third spider related recall in most cases this would only result in the airbag light turning on but in at least three cases driver's side airbag went off smashing someone in the face and causing a wreck TOA fixed the problem they added some sealant on the AC unit to prevent spiders from getting in and then a cover over the airbag system to block out any moisture in case the spiders did get in now that brings us to our final car on the list in 2002 2004 Vol tragon Rec called a bunch of Jettas and golfs because the seat warmers were malfunctional drivers reported that in some cases the heated seats could not be turned off but the heaters could not be turned off so much that they burned holes through the seats through jeans even through jackets jackets how are you supposed to protect your legs and doll the cause of the problem had to do with a hardware malfunction that sometimes occurs when the ignition and the seat heater switch were both on at the same time God forbid you want to get your legs and Dong warm while you're driving Volkswagen did Issue a recall for these cars and they fixed the problem by changing out the seat heater switch but interestingly the recall expired in 2007 huh guess you had to be quick to get it fixed and Volkswagen was like no tell your legs dong sorry and now against my wishes and better judgment it is time to put the pump free Rod to the test so all you need to know about the pump free bar is that it acts like a training wheel if the car starts to tip over the bar stops it that's it that's engineering after 4 years since my horrific not embarrassing at all crash I'm going to drive the PO p50 and find out if the pump free bar actually works down see it wasn't my fault just like everything else thank you guys for watching this video hit that subscribe button if you liked it we upload multiple times a week if you want some dut apparel we are now available in zumies at any mall in the US or Canada or at Blue Tomato and select stores in Europe othis is the smallest car in the world and this is me crashing it a few years ago all this time I thought it was my fault I thought I was a bad driver turns out it wasn't they built the car wrong in fact they designed an entirely new part to keep it from tipping so easily ladies and gentlemen the pump Frey bar they named it after me now this isn't the first time that a car company had to come up with a fix for a problem after the car already came out it actually happens all the time and today we're looking at some of the crazy examples of this and then I'm going to attempt the impossible to drive this car 180° to see if the pumy bar actually works welcome to Donut I put my body on the line for you guys first up on this list we have the 2010 GMC Terrain a car that I'm pretty sure I've never even heard of which is amazing because I've heard of cars professionally and I'm I'm sure that if I saw one I wouldn't notice now this SUV named after the concept of land had a problem that was bigger and more annoying than Billy ikner the headlights were too dang bright which besides being extremely annoying is also dangerous now the national highway traffic safety administration or Nitza even came out and said that the glare could Dazzle oncoming drivers increasing the risk of a crash and they forced GMC to rectify the situation so how' they fix it well they did something that we've actually done before they sent people stickers that's right people brought their terrains into the dealership where a small sticker was placed over the part of the headlight giving it a frosted glass effect that's nothing fancy but it does the trick and hey who doesn't like a free sticker If you would like a free exclusive sticker every couple months sign up for the donut underground and you'll get stickers plus exclusive access to to behind the scenes content on our Discord click the join button down below to learn more but enough about me doing seamless promos for things next up a car close to our heart the BMW e303 Series I own one you know what's fun about them driving them you know it's not fun having boiling coolant squirting all over your legs and Dong while you're driving you see when cooling systems fail that coolant has to go somewhere but in some rare cases with six cylinder E30 BMWs the heater core would fail and if there was too much pressure in the system it would allow coolant to shoot out and BMW put the heater Court in the driver's side footwell right next to the driver's legs and Dong area I.E not where you want hot coolant shooting Oh my legs are B so in the early '90s BMW had to issue a legs and Dong area saving recall on about 375,000 3 Series solution was by pass valve that would fail before the heater C valve saving thousands if not hundreds of thousands of precious legs and Dawns next fix comes courtesy of the 2020 Toyota Supra now this one's unique because it's not a safety issue it's just annoying like Billy Iker you rolled your windows down and you've heard like a like a helicopter sound sounds like a helicopter in here and basically the aerodynamics of the Supra make that noise and the pressure change in the cabin unbearable the air flow around the a pillar causes pressure to build up in the cabin which makes for a loud uncomfortable situation while driving at any sort of speed no freaking way bro a Toyota Never issued a fix for this problem but multiple aftermarket companies did most of these fixes involve a small piece of plastic applied on the side of your mirrors that drastically reduce the effect of wind buffing you can find these online ranging in price from $9 to $200 for these carbon fiber ones or you can just try taping some plastic on your own car for free I'm going to reattempt to drive the po50 and find out if the pump free bar actually works how do you know if your car is truly happy what's causing the problems when did it start okay I'm not actually talking about your car I'm talking about you let's say you're this cylinder head and this spark plug is a therapist well today's sponsor better help connects you with a licensed therapist in as little as a few days to get started you just have to fill out a few questions about what you're looking for and better help will match you with one of over 30,000 therapists in their Network and if this specific spark plug doesn't fit your engine properly well you switch to new therapist at no additional cost whether you're busy with a project car spending some laps or creating YouTube videos better help enables you to have therapy over the phone through messaging or on a video chat if you like feeling your best consider consider betterhelp and if you like donut head on over to betterhelp.com Donut to get 10% off your first month of therapy next up is a company known for exceptional build quality and a downto earth spokesman not I'm talking about Tesla some drivers of the Tesla Model y found their cooling systems held in place by what appears to be faux wooden trim like something that you might find at so many Ikeas and now this might be something you'd expect if your uncle built a car for you in his garage or if you bought your car at Ikea but not so much if you paid $50,000 for a brand new model y the user who found this claims that they discovered it in the frunk when trying to fix their own panel gaps after Tesla refused the Tesla Model y reportedly had a bunch of issues with things not fitting in place in the frun and this faux wood is meant to keep the straps around the cooling system tight so nothing shakes loose personally I like shaking loose Shake loose bro in 2011 Mazda recalled 52,000 Mazda 6 models because of an issue with cracked fuel tanks and you're never going to guess what this led to these cracks in the fuel tanks could have led to engine fires uh yeah that'd be a legitimate reason for a recall if I ever heard one engine fires imagine the potential damage to your legs than dwn but would you believe me if I told you that it was something even scarier that caused the fuel tank cracks in the first place spiders turns out it was spiders all right somehow spiders were attracted to the hydrocarbons left over in the vent lines in the gas tank the spiders would make their way in and build freaking webs in the fuel tank hoses this blocked air flow in said hoses which sometimes resulted in cracked fuel tanks Mazda fix the problem by installing springs to keep the spiders out it's not something I want to hear about a car honestly guys I don't know how stuff works I could probably figure it out but I don't want to they also updated the software in the cars to alleviate pressure in the fuel tanks keeping them from cracking Mazda issued a second recall in 2014 that is two recalls for spiders now I'm going to go on record that's way too many recalls for spiders I'm in spoiler alert that's not even going to be the last time spiders are mentioned on this list we all know by now that Hyundai has made their cars very easy to steal we've made videos about it he just ripped this down pull this cylinder out Hyundai didn't like it but we had to because it is so easy to steal their cars that it became a Tik Tock Trend which led to a $200 million class action lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia State Farm actually will not ensure Hyundai or Kia in some states is a headline I think I saw so Hyundai decided to get ahead of this problem and sent 80 clubs to the Cleveland Police Department they sent a 37-year-old infomercial device to mitigate theft in one city in Ohio there's only one problem people figured out how to break into the club about 37 years ago we made a video about it yeah it's easy turns out we've made a lot of videos about how to steal a car but even if you couldn't break the club there's probably 60,000 people that drive Hyundai in Cleveland alone what the hell is 0 clubs going to do what is the point of that I think that one gets the award for lamest recoil I miss my spiders all right next up on this list is Honda and buckle up buttercups because this is a wild one our old friends the national highway traffic safety administration Nitsa the same people back there that crack down on GM C's dazzling headlights forced Honda to issue a recall on their owner's manual a recall on a book what is this Florida nits a rule that the manual incorrectly describes when the passenger airbag off indicator should illuminate which could lead to increased risk of personal injury in the event of a crash if the driver or passenger is confused listen if I'm driving confuse me all you want but if my princess gets confused who's going to touch the back of my neck the fix for this problem another sticker why don't they just give the spider stickers maybe that fix problem Honda drivers were told to visit the dealership to get a sticker to put in their manual with less confusing information now if you own a hunb and you one of the people that drove to the dealership to get a new sticker for your owner's manual hit us up at Dolan's personal email Mrs Harry Styles gmail.com I'd love to make fun of you this next one is maybe not not so funny though so please do not laugh first gen Audi TT models had a very serious problem they suffered from instability and loss of directional control at high speeds owners found that the rear end of the car would lift and lose control especially at speeds in excess of 110 mph which seems like something that you'd want to test Volkswagen has like the highest speed track in the world it's where they test like all the cars going fast and they didn't think like hey we test our car going fast they fixed the problem by adding stiffer rear springs updating the electronic stability control and my favorite retrofitting a small spoiler to both the TT Coupe and Roadster varians to keep that back end planted which is the opposite of squirreling maybe they should throw a pump Frey rod on one of those adies for good measure it wouldn't hurt all right so we've made it to the top three might as well click off JK don't because these last ones are nuts absolutely squirrel food it out baby nuts good snack imagine this it's 2001 you're 17 years old and your dad keeps bugging you about cleaning out the garage and you've just about had it with that gezer so you jump in the Dodge Caravan and you plop in Satellite by pod bumping so hard your speakers light on fire I know what you're doing right now you're sitting there thinking dang James that is a great metaphor for how good pod is but guess what buttercup it's not a freaking metaphor it's really 2001 and your speakers are really on fire and now you got to deal with it that's the scenario I would imagine that drivers of 20012 2002 Dodge Caravans went through when condensation dripped off the air conditioner of that van sometimes it dripped through vent holes onto the top of the rodum if the rudo short circuited it would send enough surge down the speaker wire to set the speaker on fire not sick if you have to replace your whole stuff and worst case scenario you burn up your legs and doll Dodge fixed the issue by putting a little cover on the rodo vent slots and Advising drivers only listen to not pod the second to last entry on this list is probably the most reliable car company that ever lived depending on the day if you ask me what is your favorite car company what's the most impressive car company ever depending on the day I will say Toyota but just like all of us goats they do have their off days like when I wrecked this pb50 and also when I wreck this super WX Toyota's off day took place back in 2013 they voluntarily recalled 800,000 Camry venzas and Avalons after their airbags randomly deployed on the road can you imagine something worse you're driving down the road and all the sudden you get Tommy boyed right in the face I'm asking the same question as you guys what the crap how that happen yeah spiders the spiders are back and they were building webs inside the air conditioning units on some of these Toyotas which could cause water and condensation to drip onto the airbag control module situated underneath the a see where are the spiders coming from this is now the third spider related recall in most cases this would only result in the airbag light turning on but in at least three cases driver's side airbag went off smashing someone in the face and causing a wreck TOA fixed the problem they added some sealant on the AC unit to prevent spiders from getting in and then a cover over the airbag system to block out any moisture in case the spiders did get in now that brings us to our final car on the list in 2002 2004 Vol tragon Rec called a bunch of Jettas and golfs because the seat warmers were malfunctional drivers reported that in some cases the heated seats could not be turned off but the heaters could not be turned off so much that they burned holes through the seats through jeans even through jackets jackets how are you supposed to protect your legs and doll the cause of the problem had to do with a hardware malfunction that sometimes occurs when the ignition and the seat heater switch were both on at the same time God forbid you want to get your legs and Dong warm while you're driving Volkswagen did Issue a recall for these cars and they fixed the problem by changing out the seat heater switch but interestingly the recall expired in 2007 huh guess you had to be quick to get it fixed and Volkswagen was like no tell your legs dong sorry and now against my wishes and better judgment it is time to put the pump free Rod to the test so all you need to know about the pump free bar is that it acts like a training wheel if the car starts to tip over the bar stops it that's it that's engineering after 4 years since my horrific not embarrassing at all crash I'm going to drive the PO p50 and find out if the pump free bar actually works down see it wasn't my fault just like everything else thank you guys for watching this video hit that subscribe button if you liked it we upload multiple times a week if you want some dut apparel we are now available in zumies at any mall in the US or Canada or at Blue Tomato and select stores in Europe o