rev up your engines Baltazar soul says thoughts on the 94
toyota pick up with rebuilt manual transmission and rebuilt engine oh
they're great vehicles who rebuilt them I see a lot of guys say oh that's rebuilt
that rebuilt straight out of a junkyard they
spray cleaner hose and then spray painting was painted make them look shiny
and away they go you want proof that these things
actually were rebuilt like here in Houston if somebody said it was a rebuilt
transmission I'd say who did it enough or somebody like my friends at McAfee
standard transmissions I'd say hey yeah they do a great job no problem and same
thing with the engine who rebuilt it I've seen people buy rebuilt engines and
you pull the oil pan off they're full of sludge the only thing they did was buy
it from a junkyard steam clean them and spray-paint them and the insides weren't
touched though you gotta have proof that the stuff was actually done by somebody
you can talk to and see what kind of reputation they have and that they
actually did the work cuz a lot of people talk to talk but when it comes
down to actually doing the work it see they're not done right you're not even done
at all Don across says Honda passport vs.
Lexus rx350 I wouldn't even compare them Lexus is such a better built vehicle
you know of course on the other hand let's say you're buying a used one
that's got lower mileage on it you're gonna be able to pick up the passport a
heck of a lot cheaper then you're gonna be able to pick up to use Lexus they
hold their value I'm often ever customers bringing them and I'll say
look I'm not a fan of those things by any stretch of the imagination the hondas
you can get used ones as low mileage so much cheaper than others go and buy one
if a mechanic says it's good there's nothing wrong with doing that but if you
compare them as actual vehicles you can't even compare the lexus is such a
better made vehicle and that Honda's anyways, andrew says Scotty what are
your thoughts on when dodge and Shelby made cars
those were some weird cars like they had that Shelby of the little 4 cylinder
Chrysler ugly little things it was like their copy of Volkswagen Rabbit I mean
there were terrible cars they went fast until they blew up that was a deal where
you know they're trying to build on the Shelby use the Shelby name to sell their
dodge and that was when Chysler was in real trouble they were making junk
nobody wanted to buy I mean I don't think there's such great cars they were
interesting for the speed and what they can do but really most of them don't
have any resale value these days cuz there were such financial flops that
people don't wanna and those 4-cylinder ones that they made they were so ugly
nobody wants to track my retirement they look terrible you know even with some of
the horrible designs out today those things were even worse, part three plays
Scotty I got a 2013 Mazda 3 the brake pedal feels soft and I bleed the system
after I bleed them they were firm for two weeks got soft again if you have done no
work on the system and you got soft breaks and you bleed them and they get
hard and it get soft again you got a leak somewhere that's sucking air in
normally bleeding brakes won't fix anything unless you've opened the system
got air in it or if there's something letting air get in the system there's no
reason to bleed the brake system if it's never been worked on if there's
nothing wrong because there's nothing wrong you're somehow it's sucking air in
the most common thing is a bad master cylinder that sucks there cuz most other
things if they got a leak they're gonna be leaking out not only are they gonna
suck air but they're gonna squirt air out too and with the master cylinder
they can often leak internally and you won't see any leaks but then it'll
building up I guess the master so maybe the first thing I'd do in something like
that I just changed that they're not all that expensive not that hard to change
on a vehicle like that either Anthony Barboza says 51 years as a mechanic what
haven't you worked on well I haven't worked on any of those crazy little cars
they sell in Asia cuz they don't import those little micro cars because they
don't imprt them over here so I've never worked on it but I mean I worked on rolls-royce
of course Ferraris Lamborghinis I hated working on those exotic cars
they're a pain in the butt but most cars as long as you can get parts for them in
the United States I'll work on them to a certain extent but I'll also tell people
let's say they got a mid-engine Porsche and you got to pull the engine to do
work I won't do it I'll say hey I know Porsche guys that work on these all the
time but you know just bend over and start throwing money at them because
they're gonna want a ton of it to work on a mid-engine car like I've even
worked on old Renaults from the turn of the century you turn to the 18s to the
1900 my grandfather had a customer had one when I was a kid and it was a cool car
I'll work on them as long as I can get parts for them you know that
doesn't bother me, lawrence says would you buy a Camry made in the USA
actually I have but I'm so cheap I buy used ones I bought for my wife a
Toyota Camry station wagon a blue one it was beautiful and it was made in
Kentucky now I only paid a couple thousand dollars for it it had 70,000
miles and she liked the car the AC blue called I gave it to my first son he
learned to drive on it I gave it to my second son he learned how to driving on
it then I got it back and I ended up selling to a girl who joined the Peace
Corps and drove it to California and I don't know what happened to it after that
so that was decent build you know they're not quite as well made as the
Japanese ones but there's still decent made and they can last a long time
silver pixels says how reliable would you say the Pontiac Firebird are, well you
know they were real reliable back in the day one of my friends had one he bought
four thousand bucks with was a big deal that had a four-barrel carburetor v8
engine and a four-speed standard transmission most people had three
speeds out of four speeds and man did that thing used up gas when he floored and
opened up all four barrels but it was well made solid vehicles
but as time went on you know they started making them cheaper
and cheaper GM parts and they got cheaper and cheaper and cheaper but
originally there were really good muscle cars you didn't mind spending a lot of
money on gasoline, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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