rev up your engines, penny says what can I do from keeping my wife's 2014 cx 9
motor from self-destructing we plan on getting rid of it in a year or two should we
get an extended warranty on it, well change the oil regularly on that thing I would
change it every three to four thousand miles because those engines are weak
engines and never overheat it make sure that the cooling systems working great
here's the problem with getting an extended warranty, it's an insurance
policy and whether something's covered or not is the insurance company's choice, I
just talked to a person who had an extended warranty and their engine went
out and you know what the warranty company said, they said oh that's a
pre-existing condition before you bought the warranty we're not gonna put an
engine in the car, and odds are they'd do the same thing to you
most of those extended warranty things are total scams, you don't want to mess around
with that stuff it's an insurance company you know and they decide what's
covered and what isn't, and if you read the fine print
you're gonna need a mechanic slash lawyer, mechanic would have to explain
what the mechanical stuff is and a lawyer would have to explain the language
in the thing, they're jokes don't don't waste your time you know just take care
of it and do get rid of it within a year or two if you're gonna get rid of it, you
know you're not gonna get much for it anyways cuz nobody wants those things
and their resale values garbage, I've had people buy those things use and then
the engine would blow up on them and I'm like why did you buy it, you should have
asked me first I would say do not buy one of those used, you can buy them new
if you don't mind the price and the money they lose or lease one, but buying
one used is a big mistake, Vincent Fantozzi says how do you feel
about the BMW S 85 v10 engine well they're great engines, BMW has always
made great engines they made engines for the Germans in World War two, that were
solid giant, they made them for planes, they made it for tanks, they made it for all
kinds of stuff, and they are excellent engines, it's the rest of the vehicle and
all the plastic stuff they put them on these today that you have problems with
but the actual engines themselves are great designed engines, same thing
with Mercedes most of their engines are really well built engines, at least ones
made in Germany, not ones that are made in other parts of the
world not so much, but in Germany and they're solid engines it's the rest of
the vehicles and the extended maintenance that you need as they age
now they put too much fancy stuff on the ones they sell in the United States where
in Europe a I mean they got four-cylinder diesels
they got taxicab ones, they got I saw an ice cream truck in England it was a Mercedes
I mean they can last a long time, it's that you add too much fancy stuff then the
rest of the vehicle isn't reliable even if the engine was, your not sitting on
top of the engine driving it, you got a bunch other stuff that goes wrong, I got to
says my lease on my equinox is almost up, thoughts on leasing the 2019 UX or an nx
hybrid instead, hey Lease an nx hybrid have some fun, you're leasing I
mean her smart person obviously cuz you're just leased it and did not buy it
buying it would have been a very bad decision, but you just leased it so
la-dee-da I tell people you know you got to get a certain vehicle like, oh you
want to have a Porsche or Jaguar something Lease
cuz then you don't own it and you're not gonna lose all that resale value if you
don't mind the payment go ahead and lease it and have some fun with it
that's what I tell people, now I personally would never lease a car
because I wouldn't want to waste that kind of money, you will spend more money
you probably spent more money leasing that Equinox that I spent on every car
in my life that I bought from my personal self to drive around in, I've
been driving cars for 51 years that's every Car I've ever own, it's not including my
wife's cars that I got for her used, if you don't mind spending the lease
payment for any vehicle go ahead and do it then you're not stuck with it as it
falls apart as it ages, especially hybrid they're really expensive the fix as they
age, pike-perch what do you think of a Saab 9 5 2.3 T
that's one of the cars that led to the downfall of Saab going bankrupt, when I
was a kid my physics teacher mr. Philby had a Saab Sonett, and it was a two
stroke engine it had to mix oil with the gas cuz it was a two-stroke er but that thing could
run forever, a little bit thing anything I mean you can hear it coming down the road
Saab got too far into technology that was a 2.3 liter four-banger inline
turbocharged, and I had I had customers with them and they had nothing
but headaches, they're just endless nightmares as they age and if your going to buy a used one
yeah you get those things dirt cheap today, now getting parts are gonna
be expensive hassle, but if you want one as a toy and you know people in Sweden
or you get connections to Sweden you can still get parts with the stupid things
but don't ever buy one and think it's gonna be a reliable used car, jay does
anything seven six five, geh dave does anything huh huh I don't know if I'd say
that to the public, hey Scotty what's your opinion on a 68 Mercury Cougar
do you have any experience with them, yeah I worked on one a few months ago, a guy got it from
his father, great cars you know they're old-fashioned you know their suspension
is funky and they go like stink, big giant engines you know big-block v8
but their brakes are a little on the weak side, yeah I'd upgrade them if I was gonna
get one, I'd put four-wheel disc on them if I was gonna drive something like that
serious long-term but they're interesting cars and you know not that
many people keep Mercury's as collectors items, so you'd have a relatively unique
vehicle if it was in decent shape and hadn't been wrapped around a tree or if
you live up north and the frame is all rotten and if you see the frames rotten
walk away my customers one it had real solid frame because it lived its whole
life and in Texas so it didn't have any salt ice stuff rotting it away, so if you
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