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.

Bob Lutz had the right idea when he suggested putting a LS7 in these.

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

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.

The man you bought that off literally danced his way to the Bank.

Your cuts to an ad for “better help” straight from a manic episode of total self destruction is pure gold.

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.

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.

My neighbor has one. I've lived in that house for 2.5 years, and I don't think it's left his driveway 😂

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

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

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hoovie, Drive it north 3 hours the hot weather will dissappear. Balance the wheels for $50. Come on Man!

First thought was fumes from the exhaust coming into the car if you’re driving with the windows open

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.

As a Dane id like to apologize for this.. In our defense we also have Zenvo.. Please forgive us

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!

I live in Sacramento and just recently this morning, the local news explained that Fisker is in big trouble bankruptcy….

Try sliding your finger around the fan circle

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.

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. ”

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.

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 the future of all these glass dashboard cars that hide everything in the touch screen under layers of menus

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.

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.

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 can't believe car regulations would allow the engine exhaust the exit ahead of the passenger compartment?

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

It is called Bring a trailer for a reason 😂

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Tnx for the warning.

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.

This is why I want buttons and switches, even for cars where the manufacturer hasn't gone toes-up.

The outside of the car looks beautiful! The interior looks nice. Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. Basically, it's a pile!

My dad just bought a 2018 and it’s been awesome 💪🏽

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.

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.

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.

Calling the mechanic and him telling you about the church when you talk about your bad karma is priceless, though!

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 !👸

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

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.

You are no Vice Grip Garage. He would be heading home and be halfway there.

The ol' "Out of the country" previous owner 😂🤣

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?

6:59 - My car has paddle shifters too. They shift the radio stations and the volume!

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.

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! 😁

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.

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!!!

I LOVE these a lot, the whole concept is beautiful, the interior is probably my favorite part

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.

I kind of agree on the styling. It’s good overall, but I always had a hard time with the length of the nose.

The best possible KZfaqr 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.

Loose, heavy, triangular pieces of glass flying around inside the car? Yeah that can’t be good.

I love that they took the buttons off of a Chevy Cruze steering wheel and rotated them 90º and called it a day.

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.

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.

saw a white one on the highway here in south florida, i went crazy! these are rare and so beautiful

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.

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 never have been able to get over that car's mustache...

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.

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 :)

Yes! Was waiting for Tyler to scoop one of these up. The price is so low. I'd just LS swap that shit 😂

The Fisker Karma is the hot chick that every other guy is tired of dealing with.

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

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..?

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.

Beautiful interior!

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)

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.

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 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.

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😂!

1:57 - I imagine that the betterhelp marriage counseling leaves a lot to be desired.

My favorite KZfaq channel is Hoovie’s Garage!

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.

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

Oh no, this may hurt Fisker's stock haha! :D