Why you should NEVER EVER buy a cheap Fisker Karma! A gorgeous plug-in hybrid disaster...
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This is the hoovie I like seeing. Absolutely wasting his money on complete hot garbage that none of us would have the balls to buy.
You mean as opposed to the new Hoovie that is gobsmacked with his new girlfriend?
@@TheJeffcurranWhat’s wrong with tossing a hot model girlfriend who also like cars in the mix?
@@hippievan4040the videos after the separation were a weird time though...
Exactly. There's more content to actually watch and learn. Nobody wants a disaster themselves, but i'd rather watch this than somebody just showing off their cool car.
@TheJeffcurran She's hot? Thought his wife was was prettier
Bob Lutz had the right idea when he suggested putting a LS7 in these.
I sure would like to drive Bob Lutz fever dream V8 version
Didn’t he actually set up a company to convert some? He probably didn’t touch the infotainment system. Least investment, highest return fever nightmare.
I have an old Toyota 20R four banger in the back of my garage. 😃
That's exactly what i said! Good candidate for an LS swap! 🤣🤣
@@jeffrobodine8579 I like the way you think
I'm a certified Fisker Karma and Revero tech and have fixed hundreds of these cars. Honestly if you need help with parts and how to fix these, let me know. Almost all the issues are pretty easy to fix
I was going to say I know that they were fixing these even years after the bankruptcy. I'm assuming they still are. He should just take it to them or find people like you
Do you know why the blower wasn’t working?
Do you know a way to upgrade the computer for the infotainment system?
@@BenGreggSweden I'd really like to know that as well.
This would be very valuable for Karma owners.
Tyler discovering why they went bankrupt. I'll never forget going to the dealer to see one, and they wouldn't let me touch the $220k Karma. They wanted me to put down a $15k deposit before I could drive it. It really was perfume on a pig. It an expensive Chevy Volt, but the Volt was light years better.
I would take a Cadillac ELR over the Fisker. Or just stick with a Volt.
Now 15k I can practical buy one.
Was the deposit refundable? What did you like/not like about the Fisker?
@@CarGeek360The deposit _has to_ be refundable. Otherwise it's the world's most expensive car rental.
@@BogeyTheBear maybe but again Fisker seems like a weird company so it might’ve not been refundable
The man you bought that off literally danced his way to the Bank.
And he didn't need a therapist.
And Hoovie got... _Instant Karma_
He drove a Fisker Karma for 18,000 miles. He deserved every penny.
I'm not so sure about that. He just spent $8500 on repairs and it still isn't fixed plus probably lost about $90,000 on depreciation. But I am sure he was happy to get rid of it!
After spending over $200k new and only putting 16k miles on it over a 21 year period then selling it for $20k? Yeah, I don't think he was skipping anywhere... Lol
Your cuts to an ad for “better help” straight from a manic episode of total self destruction is pure gold.
"I went to better help when I needed to talk to someone" yeah, that's not the endorsement you think it is lol
#AwkwardTeenHoovie
Ah Better Help, because good mental health is a luxury that can be exploited in a time where mental illness seems to be on a exponential curve
This.
And also in some videos he sponsors gambling and betting apps… a known addictive problem financially that people seek therapy for
I live in Finland, I was driving a taxi when Fisker started to build those here, so the car was on the news for a period of time. I was talking cars with this sweet older woman. She knew somewhat of much about cars. Well we happen to roll up to a traffic lights right next to a Fisker Karma. The old lady said .. "Oh, look it´s a Fister .. " do you know how hard it is to keep a straight face for 6 kilometers (3,75 miles)? After that I had a bit of a laughing session.
Lol fister
All I could focus on for the entire video was the fact that the front end has been resprayed and repainted. The passenger headlight is also misaligned and has a huge gap there. Hopefully the title reflects this and I just missed Tyler mentioning it
My neighbor has one. I've lived in that house for 2.5 years, and I don't think it's left his driveway 😂
It is a good-looking driveway ornament.
those 50 electric miles dude, you just never HEARD it leave xD
You've lived in your neighbor's house?
@@azmike3572 bottom feeder lol
@@basshead. ??
You mean the owner was intentionally out of the country to avoid having to be present when the new owner (Hoovie) showed to pick up the piece of junk. He left the warehouse picker on charge of the hand off. LMAO
SURE it was an employee and not actually the owner 😂. How convenient.
LMAO that dude never left the country.
@@venom5809well he did… after Hoovie gave him the money 😂
First thought was fumes from the exhaust coming into the car if you’re driving with the windows open
I remember seeing one while vacationing in California circa 2012. They were brand new. It was such a stunningly beautiful design back in 2012. I had no clue what it was, but the owner was very friendly and also willing to answer any questions.
No joke.... there is a homeless person living out of one of these where I live. I like to imagine he was a successful person bankrupt by the terrible decision to buy a Karma.
Karma, indeed.
😂
@@andrewthomason3857Lmao 🤣 you're reply is better than the original post. I'm laughing on the toilet mate. Genius reply!
😂😂😂
It's a fancy way to be homeless... he's like the King of Hobos in this beauty :D
A customer of mine at a pizza job I had years ago had one of these. He was one of the earliest supporters and he regretted every single second of it. If you asked him about the car and what it was you had better be prepared for at least 5 minutes of "This company sucks and has screwed me ever since I got it"
Sounds just like Tesla! 😂
And now they are back from insolvency again with a slightly different name trying to sell more half-baked garbage. Glad it looks like once again they will be going down the gurgler soon.
@@therationalistparty9742 As poorly made as Tesla's are, and as poor as their after sales support is - they are at least reasonably functional as transport - the Fisker really never was - and the new ones are more of the same apparently.
What's a Pizza 🍕 Job? Like the Italian Job? You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off mate.
@@therationalistparty9742 Tesla is the bestselling car brand in several countries and I love mine never had any issues. have had many luxury cars from shitty new jaguars to bmws and Tesla and Mercedes are the best. I do love my 16 land cruiser and 08 range rover supercharged but they are a waste of gas these days. Tesla Full self driving is also amazing. but if you have never owned one you should not comment what do you know.
Please bring back switches and knobs. I still remember the wonderful tactile feeling of the variable speed switch in a 1987 Acura legend. And the satisfying click and IMMEDIATE response of the directional indicator that gave me the options of where the air went. The problematic and expensive infotainment bullshit that controls everything is a horrible idea. It's not luxury when the AC doesn't work because the touch screen is broken and will cost 4 grand to fix it.
Not to mention a screen made for Europe will melt in Australia.
The CIU (center screen computer) is probably halfway dead due to water ingress around the cabin air filter seal. This was a huge problem with these cars and the entire drainage system was modified when Karma Automotive brought them back in 2018.
Its a 12 year old hybrid from the first era of the hybrids from an extremely niche car maker. I would expect nothing less than it to be a junker.
True...but the biggest issue appears to be the entertainment system? Not something complicated or new in any sense. Still like you said not surprised lmao
First era of hybrids was the late 90's Honda Insight and Toyota Prius
This is more like a like 4th gen hybrid. It's just a really shitty example of one.
They were junk when new. Mac miller was given one on his show and it broke down in the middle of the highway 🤣
Chevy got it done much better with the volt
My grandfather was pretty wealthy and lived in a community with tons of other luxury cars in Boyton Beach. Lots of 7 series, S class, Bentley and the occasional Rolls. When this car was brand new I was in the Boynton Beach mall with him. We saw it in a beautiful metallic brown karma revero from across the mall. My grandfather called the dealer (Lamborgini of West Palm Beach). Upon arriving, he ignored the beautiful green Aventador S that Marques Brownlee was filming with (episode 2 of auto focus). After ignoring many other Lamborginis, he walked right past a Porsche 918, thinking nothing of it, until he saw the Brown Karma Revero. The cool factor was through the roof, everywhere he went people asked what it was! That's in West Palm Beach too! He loved the car in every way. He barely needed gas between the hybrid and how little he drove lol. He paid ~$1,000/m on a lease because they couldn't give them away if they tried at the time. The only issue he ever had during ownership (because he barely drove) was a valet crushed the radiator and a few other front end components. All of which were basically made to order at this point. Between damage and lost time, the insurance claim basically paid for the whole lease. He was so happy. He contemplated buying it after the lease because he loved it so much. THANKFULLY he did not. Great memories with the Fisker Karma! Still a sh*tbox though.
Love this story
How long ago was that...?
@@marknewman9430 This was summer of 2018 or 2019.
Yep, Lamborghini dealer here in Michigan had them for sale too, really cool looking car, still very cool looking car. Fisker great at design, bad at making cars. LOL
@@eFxAstrodidn’t they come out in 2012 though? So they weren’t brand new.
Come on Hoovie! If Monkey Wrench Mike and Randy can drive cross country in a hooptie convertible with the top broken in the down position and caught in rain storms, you can drive back to Kansas without A/C dude. Don't wuss out.
This! Our man is sliding harder and harder into clickbait frenzy, to the point where he doesn't even ride his cars if not pristine.
Drive it at night! Cooler temps.
Especially to save $4-5k!
Any "modern" car nowadays with 1, 2 or 3 iPads as a dashboard are bound to end up on a scrapyard once the electronics fail. Rather sooner than later. Not just this marvelous Fisker.
What’s interesting about the Karma is that it was designed by Henrik FIsker the around the same time that Tesla had hired him for designing what would be the Model S, only for him to design them an egg. Tesla even sued him for purposely designing an egg, because they saw how beautiful the Karma was.
He truly got his Karma
Must've doubled down on the egg aesthetic with the Model X.
And Tesla lost and had to pay 1,144,285 USD
@@9023gregb The X is truly a car with no identity whatsoever. A featureless barren desert of design.
Yet Tesla had no issue with designing the triangle refrigerator commonly called, the Cybertruck.
Try sliding your finger around the fan circle
That seemed so obvious when I was watching it. All the other buttons worked when he touched them. Maybe this is him making a problem where there isn't one for the clicks.
yup
Exactly. It's a dial, you have to "turn" it
It was frustrating to watch Hoover over it and not slide the dial… come on man.. figure it out.. you are not that old yet
I wondered about that myself. I compared it to the Escalade sliders on their dashboard.
Hoovie, Drive it north 3 hours the hot weather will dissappear. Balance the wheels for $50. Come on Man!
agree,, what a wussie. they make short pants, now. LOL
That Fisker specialist in the philly suburbs is like 5 mins from my house, just down the block from my detailer. Any time I'm in the area it's not unusual to see a Fisker rolling around, whereas usually I never see them. Met some of the guys who work there at a car meet, cool group!
As a Dane id like to apologize for this.. In our defense we also have Zenvo.. Please forgive us
Zenvo? REALLY...is that something to be proud of?
Shmee’s Zenvo seems to spend more time at the factory than it does with him
Hoiiii goiissss I'm thhhhmeeeeeeeee
Stick to pillaging villages along the coast 😂
@@jaspardark7938 Irony... Not your strong suit? Thought that the "Please forgive us" afterwards kinda gave it away.. Jfc 🤣
Fisker was about 4 miles away. I saw employees driving them everyday from 2010 until they closed. I saw sagging headliners, panel gaps, and parts falling off.
I live in Sacramento and just recently this morning, the local news explained that Fisker is in big trouble bankruptcy….
According to Google AI: “ The Fisker Karma's climate control system uses steering controls to change the fan speed. Some say the climate control system works well in manual mode, but the interface is not ideal for driving. Others say the fans are too high and annoying in auto mode. ”
I'm not sure but try and spin the "wheel fan" in the climate control instead of tapping it or try and spin the silver bar
This is what I was thinking, it seems like it might just be a bad GUI issue. There is a gray bar sticking straight up, I'm thinking if you try to "spin" that around the center "wheel" it might work? Though it might not be responsive enough for any of that
It s showing 0 degrees F for the outside temp. Looks like the ambient temperature sensor is malfunctioning, preventing the auto climate control from working. Common problem with modern European cars.
with that lag it wouldnt be great
It was designed in the era of the iPod, so yes, everything operates like an iPod wheel.
@@plektosgaming well no, this was 12 years later than the ipod wheel...
This is the future of all these glass dashboard cars that hide everything in the touch screen under layers of menus
Unlike all of traditional cars I have ever owned where buttons and switches and relays speedo's and fuel gauges and just about everything wears out or breaks. When fuel injection came out everyone with a Tune-Up shop complained because you don't need to see them when the weather changes to adjust the carbs or adjust valves or replace plugs every year. Every time new tech comes in to replace the old some luddite will complain.
@atw9913 yes but buttons and switches don't lag.... your comment is irrelevant
@@atw9913if you’re having those issues, I’d suggest you fix yourself. Buttons and switches last
@@paulcarmi8130 you are being purposely obtuse. the point is that switchs and buttons also will break
@@atw9913buttons and switches have been used since the Industrial Revolution if not before and they don’t lag, if they break you replace it, with software your always limited by the processor and software which always become outdated, look at the PC market you buy a pc and a year later it’s outdated or phones no phone from 10 years ago holds up today. Infotainment is cool but keep essential components out of it,
Seems to me 20 grand for a 12 YO car from an almost twice bankrupt company is not a bargain, despite it's sticker. When Doug Demuro reviewed one a couple years ago and called it a good price at 40, I thought he was nuts. But that is the thought process of tubers who have made it big and are buying what gets the views. I do think the car is a great looking design.
Nice return to form Hoovie. Enjoyed this episode and will be following along.
I unfortunately have first hand experience on working on these cars as a mechanic. We maintained one that was sold by us when it was like a year or two old with around 30k km's on the odometer. That customer drove it for 7 to 8 years and racked up the kilometers to 280k. I think we have replaced every component on that vehicle several times. What a terrible cars are these, still gives me headaches to this day.
I've always been curious, which dealer or shop takes car of these cars when they're under warranty?
You actually bought this? I was hoping you only rented it. Yup, this is the Hoovie we love. The man whose purpose in life, is to serve as a warning to the rest of us. What can we say? You have Bad Karma, lol.
LoL
one more thing, you just reminded me of a hard reset I did on a Ford Edge rear life gate malfunction, here’s the procedure, disconnect the 12 volt battery cables completely, negative and positive, charge the battery overnight, then disconnect the charger and reconnect the battery cables, if you can cycle the computer on and off 3 times then go for a drive and see if anything has been improved, also on the Edge I simply pull out the rear lift gate fuse F59 and it won’t go crazy anymore, thinking these car computers need to be rebooted from time to time, good luck
FWIW the first time I saw a Fisker was when one cut me off on my motorcycle. That, compounded by Hoovie's story and repeated Fisker-related bankruptcies has convinced me that being anywhere near one of these is bad karma.
It is called Bring a trailer for a reason 😂
Tnx for the warning.
this is another reason i watch you tyler..Here in the great whit north i have never herd of this car..but one of the coolest 4 doors i ever did see
The paint on them is actually fascinating. It is also irreplaceable and not possible to match. It is, like everything else, designed to be environmental. They use a fine recycled glass dust to give it the shimmer iirc. Really like the design principles for em.
Most of the 'green' tech ends up costing you thousands and having products scrapped early on their life. Like the biodegradable wiring harnesses on 1990's Mercedees. Or the water based paint which killed tens of thousands of W210 E-class due to rust...
@@Munakas-wq3gp Well, it isnt like biodegradable green. Is same type of paint overall that all cars use now. No, not durable like old paints. Just meant how they use a powdered glass vs metal flake.
10:11 The laggy infotainment system is likely due to the computer’s SSD (solid state drive) failing, which will cause pauses as it encounters errors and retries reads/writes over and over until it succeeds.
did they even have ssd's 12 yrs ago?
@@muskokamike127 - yes, they did exist. In fact, as far back as 2008 you could buy the then-new MacBook Air equipped with an SSD. Although the Fisker's computer is an embedded system (and not a personal computer), I would expect the engineers to have chosen a similar SSD. If they instead used a traditional hard drive, it would be extremely vulnerable to failure due to vibrations while driving.
@@muskokamike127Yes they did, solid state storage has existed for decades. The infotainment computer probably doesn't need very much capacity, as it only has to store the firmware. Also, a solid state drive is a much better choice for a car, since it won't be damaged by bumps and shakes like a mechanical drive would.
Thought the same. It probably has an eMMC drive, which was used in the first Model S's too. If you ever encounter an old cheap laptop that has an eMMC drive that is either full or failing it will behave just like you described and as shown in the video, laggy to the point of being unusable. A real SSD would probably be just fine, but those eMMC drives man are they crap. They were put into consumer grade cheap netbooks and laptops that were designed to shit themselves and become unusable in just over the warranty period so having one in a car is just asking for trouble and the manufacturers still did it! The cars software may not need much capacity, but if the drive is equally small it will have gathered an unbelievable amount of writes. And the file system it runs on is probably total crap too so over time it will just fill up to the brim as well, has no optimizations integrated into it etc.
@@nomadben ok, great, thanks for verification, and you're right, they are more robust than std HDD.
What a ride. If you end up deciding to ship it to PA, I'm only 15-20 minutes from the Fisker specialist and would happily get you some wide-screen, color footage of the vehicle as it goes through the revitalizing process.
Always loved the looks of these cars and wanted to get one when they got more affordable. Glad Hoovie showed me that it's not worth it at any price!
I had seen one of these where the owner said the "reboot" or "reset" had to last something like 2 hours to truly reset it. It had to fully power down the "memory" of the infotainment system.
Yeah, lots of caps that take a while to discharge
Sounds like with a Tesla, you get to work and plug it in, with this one you drive to work and disconnect it so you can drive home lol
So odd the solar panel cant charge the battery..thats such a simple thing
Touch and hold the grey bar at the top of the fan circle and drag it clockwise around the circle to turn the hvac on. To turn it down drag the opposite direction around the circle.
It also is an older haptic design, so it operates more like a resistive display. Light, quick taps are kind of ignored from what I am reading. Use the pad of your finger and drag it like you are using a cheap Android phone. :)
I went to university in Florida. I had an old American POS (Chevy Nova) that didn't have A/C...well, it HAD A/C when it was new, not when I drove it. I used to keep a stash of extra shirts in the car because I'd often arrive at my destination drenched.
My dad just bought a 2018 and it’s been awesome 💪🏽
This is why I want buttons and switches, even for cars where the manufacturer hasn't gone toes-up.
Honestly. Seeing all these cars today with just a tablet glued to the dash and no physical buttons for anything, you just know it's going to be slow and annoying within a decade. If it works at all.
@@TYSuggestedmost cars combine a digital cluster and display with physical buttons. Tesla amongst others are the ones that have basically no other buttons besides the steering wheel. Not all cars
The outside of the car looks beautiful! The interior looks nice. Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. Basically, it's a pile!
Going downhill is what this car is best at.
I can't believe car regulations would allow the engine exhaust the exit ahead of the passenger compartment?
One small correction: The Karma Revero built by chinese-owned Karma Automotive is still just a PHEV, not a full EV. Afaik, it's also still in production today as the Revero GT and GTS.
Fisker is now on par with Edsel in terms of failure.
Edsel was a functional car.
Just wait. All those iPad style controls all infotainment units will eventually get old and slow like all electronics but those old school button units will still be the same as the day they came out.
Laughs in sticky rubber buttons.
You must own a early 2000 GM 😂
Those old school buttons, stick and break all the time.
@@spencers4121 Yeah but they are easier to fix
yes old is better
Before Fisker that factory In Finland built Saabs, Talbots, Lada Samaras, Opel Calibras, Porsche Boxters. Now they build some Mercedes models in that factory. I think all Saab 900 (older gen) cabrios were built there. I live about 30miles from there.
Gorgeous cars! There’s a car museum called ‘Double Red’ in my gf’s home town Brezno Slovakia, they have a silver one so I’ve had the pleasure of being up close to them. Beautiful designs
Your timing is impeccable with Fisker (new) putting out their bankruptcy proposal. Hoovie, since you're a masochist for cars, I'm sure a new heavily discount Fisker ocean is on your radar. If I had $15,000 I would still buy one for a museum piece. In my opinion, one of the best looking cars /suv out there today.
Just drive home with the windows down bro - what a princess !👸
I know right? 40C up here in the summer...."do I put the a/c on"? "naw, I'll roll down the windows".....
@@muskokamike127 But then that front-mounted exhaust gets sucked right into your face . . .
Nah fuck that
If you're used to the heat and humidity, sure. But being in Kansas I'm sure he isn't used to that. I wouldn't want to be hot and sticky for hours on end with oven heat blowing in my face the whole time.
If you don’t have to do it, would you really drive like that? The misery can’t really be converted into video content, so I completely understand that he passes on this one.
Calling the mechanic and him telling you about the church when you talk about your bad karma is priceless, though!
I was so close to meet Hoovie. I was walking around Barrett Jackson wondering if Tyler was there. Later that day I was watching the auction and Tyler was working the floor.
The ol' "Out of the country" previous owner 😂🤣
:) Owner actually peering from behind the curtains, watching it leave the driveway while friend poses as 'employee'.
You are no Vice Grip Garage. He would be heading home and be halfway there.
No A/C and square tires ? That's a goin' to town rig !
My thought exactly…Too hot 😂..open the windows and crank some tunes.. Drive it till it don’t drive anymore !
No, he wouldn’t touch this.
@@JonBlondell it's not about if Dereck would buy a Fisker but the fact that no A/C and a shaky steering wheel wont stop you from driving across the country.
6:59 - My car has paddle shifters too. They shift the radio stations and the volume!
Sounds like a Dacia 😂
@@s13zenki - Chevy
Given their shared designer, I wondered if you could fit either an Aston 4, or 6 litre power plant in place of the crap engine that's in there now - though the engine bay doesn't really look big enough! And then you'd possibly then want to eliminate the electric powertrain too, including the batteries... but then that would likely adversely affect the suspension setup... Oh well - it does look pretty on your driveway!!!
Ah the joys of aging electronics / computers in modern cars that make them pretty much unusable. A local owner of a 1970 Chrysler New Yorker is having a laugh every morning.
Comparing an aged start up to the cars we have now is crazy.
@@rylans.5365 Tesla will age exactly the same way
@@theshadowman1398 Tesla infotainment system is actually usable and responsive and it will continue to be usable in 10 years
I think you could stop by and see a certain chicken farmer. I'm sure he's willing to sell you a hooptie or two to make it back to Kansas! 😁
We’ve had smart phones for almost 20 years, and the eventual degradation of performance is a widely known phenomenon. Why would anyone expect car’s with touchscreen controls are any different from a smartphone?
Slightly different. We constantly are loading a phone with more and more apps. Leading to bloat and performance issues. A cars infotainment system basically stays in the same shape as when delivered. So it shouldn’t really have so much lag, especially with that low mileage
I kind of agree on the styling. It’s good overall, but I always had a hard time with the length of the nose.
I LOVE these a lot, the whole concept is beautiful, the interior is probably my favorite part
Blink twice if you're OK
@@GlitterGuru maybe they are not great reliability wise but still pretty and looks better than a ugly Tesla
@@codycrawford2385 only year of Model S i'd consider stunning is a 2012 in Signature Red. it's built like a rushed prototype, but at least it's got an exterior.
but yeah i think the Maserati Quattroporte of 2004 is above both the Karma and Model S
@@waheeddoesstuff it’s still ugly teslas are not quality built and look cheap as hell
I don't think the blower motor "failed again", I think the previous owner could fix it to begin with. He spent 8.5k and it was still broken so he just got rid of it lol. It looks to me like some weird software issue. But the fact that there are no authorized dealers and barely any parts at all could make fixing that extremely tough. The fix could be something like updating firmware or reflashing it - but the hardest part gonna be finding anyone who could possibly do it.
This is the fun of having everything on a locked down piece of touch screen technology.
Certainly looks the part but ill stick w/ a car co thats built cars for 100 yrs. I remember seeing one of these at the airport when i worked there. Fun to look at.
The best possible KZheadr to show off this (in)famous car. Thanx Hoovie, safe travels
You gotta do the “secret” service center reset. This was/is only used by dealers: 1. When you turn it on you MUST have both feet on gas/breakes 2. Within five seconds, press on both 5 times 3. Then press the emergency light button 12 times (yes that many) 4. Then hit the gas cap release button WHILE holding the steering wheel at the “9” oclock position. 5. Then and ONLY then hit the ignition.
6. Fart at the infotainment center while singing "Radar Love."
@@wads_o_hair What part of it do you spit in and what part do you kick 3 times?
Oddly enough, this sounds a lot like the reset procedure for the HICAS on a '95 Skyline...
Please tell me you're trolling, and this is not an actual reset process... :D Utterly ridiculous if it is...
Hoovie, I'd wager the lack of response from the touch screen is a similar issue to one I had on Veloster Turbo I owned. The Florida sun and heat I think delaminated the capacitive touch layer of the screen or otherwise made it work less and less. Maybe the screen can be replaced. IDK. I ended up just getting rid of my Veloster. Florida is hard on cars, especially if you park outside without at least a covered car port.
Yeah needs a new digitizer probably. Try a credit card Hoovie and see if that allows the AC to turn on.
I think it's an older haptic design, meaning it operates more like a resistive touch screen. You need to press on it a bit and hold it or use the pad of your finger. Tap it a little slower as well.
Somehow Lexus has never had these problems even on 30 year old cars.
@@hokie9910 The issue is that the first generation of haptic screens was slow and had the crispness of a soggy potato chip. My guess is that somehow replacing the screen itself would solve it as WHEN it recognizes his input, it's quick enough.
@@plektosgaming junk.
Watching this reminds me so much of the Suzuki RE5 and other rotary powered motorcycles.Super cool at first till the nightmare of ownership sets in with the lack of parts or experienced techs and then you became the only person available to wrench on it. You better have a degree in software development,a library of salvaged parts and a master mechanic as well.
Gorgeous car outside and inside, always loved them! I think there were 2 in my former hometown in Hungary, a silver and a beige metallic. I couldn't believe my eyes that I could really see them in person, they're so incredibly rare! Yeah, they might be shitboxes, but such glorious ones... truly fitting for the hooptie fleet :)
saw a white one on the highway here in south florida, i went crazy! these are rare and so beautiful
There are plenty of much better looking cars that aren't complete sh*the*ps though.
@@Beer_Dad1975 i know. my favorite car of all time would be a first gen R8, and then there's cars like the sls , gallardo , db9 etc that are obviously better. i went crazy due to this being a rare car and brand, and something i like - a designer risking it and doing his own take on a car like this, and i have mad respect for that even if it obviously didn't go well.
@@Ricys Understand 👍👍
@Ricys those are shit too 😂😂😂
Loose, heavy, triangular pieces of glass flying around inside the car? Yeah that can’t be good.
It's just transparent plastic... I still wouldn't want it in my eyes though.
no man what could possibly go wrong
I love that they took the buttons off of a Chevy Cruze steering wheel and rotated them 90º and called it a day.
If there’s something I recommend for the ac problem. It’s annoying but try the voice controls on the steering wheel! It’s slow. But if you at least say like “fan on” or something of that nature, it will at least initiate something, to give you an opening
I never have been able to get over that car's mustache...
That front end is butt ugly! That exhaust was designed for use in a closed garage,after you realize what you've bought.
Tyler, just buy a 1993 Honda Civic or Accord for once😅 It would get you home for sure.
I'd say on the A/C push and drag your finger to adjust. Like a fan would rotate. Just a guess.
When these were new most of the ones sold in Palm Beach County sat in service bays at the local dealership, a customer account that I visited often. Day after day, week after week I saw the same Fiskers sitting in the same bays, waiting for godot or any answer to what had sidelined them. Initially the dealer (you know who you are) was enthusiastic and hopeful for the paradigm shift these cars were part of, but each day the employees grew more doubtful about the Fisker future. Soon even the management vowed to never be so stupid as the people they had sold these things to. New cars depreciate when they are driven off the lot but most Fisker Karmas became essentially worthless after the first payment. Oh yeah, within a month or two some owners had the batteries & GM engines removed to make room for V-8 conversions.
Yes! Was waiting for Tyler to scoop one of these up. The price is so low. I'd just LS swap that shit 😂
Thats not the problem. The problem is all the ecu modules and stuff that control the car. Not the engine
Yes! Name it Apollo 2 ! :), don't track it tought...
@xavierramirez330 what do you mean that's not the problem lol... You can't get the batteries anymore, and the engine is a dinky little ecotec. Electric cars are trash after 10 years.
@kc550 like I said the main issue is what controls all the electronics. Changing the engine will not solve any of that
@@xavierramirez330 yeah... you rip the existing harness out.. install a new harness from Painless... splice in your creature comforts and enjoy. It's not rocket science.
The Fisker Karma is the hot chick that every other guy is tired of dealing with.
Beautiful interior!
My cousin had one back in the day because he had his "eco-moment" but had nothing but problems with the Karma. F.e. 1 maintenance point and it was picked up by them (100 miles drive), bills were sky high, software updates in the range of 10K plus. No joke. Not sure what came afterwards but some German stuff with a combustion engine 😂Personally if I could buy one for a couple of 1000 bucks I would convert it to V8 and get rid of all the cheap electronics.
When you have a laggy computer...the LAST thing you should be doing is punching multiple buttons quickly in exasperation as this just guarantees that you'll get nowhere. Each input IS registered and it begins to execute that command only to be interrupted by the next input which makes it stop and start on the new command. Hit what you want....accept that it's going to take it a bit to get where you told it to go and it will!! Impatience with slow equipment just means you create more problems than actually exist.
For as old as it is, it still looks modern as if it were produced today.. while these may be a pos versus other electric or hybrid cars, especially with their horrible proprietary software/infotainment system.. if you ignore these flaws and treat it like an older car that has no infotainment system, it’s a great vehicle to drive around rather than the cheapest base model Honda, Toyota, etc vehicle at about the same price. Furthermore, if you ignore the electric.. the fact it gets plenty of range with it’s combustion engine as well, you can pretty much pretend it's not a hybrid and just drive it around in sport mode all the time and treat like any other ice car. May be worth to just install an aftermarket on/off switches for the A/C and Heater by wiring them directly to the relays that control those, and an aftermarket bluetooth radio, and you'll be all set and can write off the horrible built in infotainment.
Karma's engine does not get great range at all. Karma is a 5100 lb vehicle with a 9 gallon fuel tank. That engine is also rated for 21 mpg combined in the Cobalt SS and Solstice GXP, which are less than 3000 lbs in weight.
@@PURENT if you check the fisker buzz forums, there are posts from owners who drive their Karma's purely in "sport mode" which operates the car purely in an ice mode, and the 50 mile range battery they keep as a backup for if fuel gets low. But those users report decent gas ranges of about 200 miles.. which imo isn't bad for an ice car of this type/styling, which often have mediocre gas milage too.
@@LycanWitch You gotta really drive it like a grandma to squeeze out decent MPG out of that engine. It's a 2 liter, but it's definitely not great on gas unless you stay off the turbo. Problem is the turbo kicks in at as little as 2500 rpm.
20K for an 18,000 mile car. What could possibly go wrong!? Edit: It does look nice though. From the side it looks like a vette-front, camaro-rear sedan. Love the 'hill' mode feature. Lived in Denver and a 12,000 foot descent would really help regen. AND the interior is moist! Edit2: My honest opinion is to unplug it, wait 30 senconds and plug it back in. (every IT guy ever)
I would just do what Tavarish is doing with his P1 and just get rid of the electric, drop an LS in it, and put whatever else you need to go fast, look cool and to fix the problem that Hoovie’s having, replace the A/C with something else from a whole different vehicle (basically build my own from scratch using stuff from a GM parts bin. Mostly because I know those systems best. But that should tell you how well they work too😂!
You know the seller ran to the bank and cashed that check/deposited the cash so fast after Hoovie exchanged funds. An owner Selling a Fisker must be happier than some baw offloading his problematic boat finally.
My word, you live up to the byline of your videos. Didn't you see the history of these cars? You had to have known since you were able to list them, yet here you are. Well, you can LS swap it.
Man I'm glad automakers realised that not having knobs for the AC is the dumb and dangerous. Can't imagine the struggle of changing the air temperature on a screen, while driving.
I work down the street from the shop in the Philly area. I see so many of these going in and out of the shop that they look like normal traffic. I knew they had to be junk, but this is wild
1:57 - I imagine that the betterhelp marriage counseling leaves a lot to be desired.
He’ll be needing it when he gets cleaned out again
Yea sadly dont see the new one lasting. Fair play shes a stunner. But sad to say some women are on a grift.
@Rambogner man he's already in over his head on that property you know she wanted and remodeled
He seems incapable of learning from his mistakes
Better help just seems like a scam company. If they were legit therapist they wouldn't be working for an app based company, they'd have their own practice charging much more than they get working for Better help. Plus I've read they've been caught using AI for their chat based help and have caught attention for their therapist suggesting awful things as solutions to problems that people talk about.
FISTED is more like it.
My ex boss had one. i'm belgian and there was one dealer in belgium, and one in the netherlands. One of my boss' batteries died (if i remember correctly there are between 11 and 13 modules) and one of them went out. It was a 5000 euro plus repair for only one of the modules. Overal goodlooking car but costly when things broke.
IF only a different motor/engine could be transplanted into that gorgeous Fisker Karma body. That would be marvelous. Would anyone dare try such a project? Hoovie...could you suggest this to your buddy Tavarish..?
My favorite KZhead channel is Hoovie’s Garage!
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Ok hoovie