rev up your engines Jimmy asks hey Scotty which brake pads
last the longest, they've have various types of brake pads over the years, they
can't use asbestos anymore because it creates lung cancer, so they tried all
kinds of stuff, now generally the ceramic pads last the longest if you don't like
noise, if your car came with ceramics you got
a replacement ceramics or they make a lot of noise,
but regardless of what your car originally came with if you don't like
noise the Akebono it's a Japanese company they make the best
all-around pads, for as long as they're gonna last without making any noise,
there are pads that technically will last forever, I use them all the time I
go to autozone they have the gold pads they come with a lifetime guarantee
their excellent pads they generally don't make any noise, but they give you a
lifetime warranty so when they wear out and all brake pads, of course eventually
will wear out friction a little bits of them come off every time only tiny bits
but eventually over hundreds of thousands of braking times they get thinner
and then you got to replace them, but auto zone replaces them for free, I've had
cars like my 94 Celica and whenever the pads
did wear out, I just took the old ones to autozone they gave you new ones free so
they will actually last forever, they just keep replacing them free, now they
don't cost you anything but you know if you
want the absolute best pads that are lasting longest and make the least noise
the Akebono pads are really the best crankshaft when you buy a used car
you're always telling me you have a mechanic check it out, it's great idea
but how do I get people to let me bring a car to a mechanic, well if they don't, don't
buy the car period, you know buying a used car can be a real pain in the rear
end there's no arguing that, but any honest person if they're serious about
selling it, hey they'll ride in the car with you to the mechanic, I've had more
times that people especially a lot the salesman will come with them to me, I
don't mind I just look at the salesman and say look I don't need any
information you know, I don't want to be rude but don't talk to me I'm
analyzing the guy's car, just for honesty sake I say you know go sit over there on
my lounge chair and then I can talk to the customer
without the guy listening in, because hey I don't take any social pressure I don't
care I'm getting paid to tell the person the truth about the car and if it's a
clunker I'll say that, tell them it's a clunker and if the salesman asks, I'll say here's
the problems lalalala and here's what I find, I even had one guy bring it over
and I said, look the car has been in a wreck and
the salesman shows me the carfax and it says look it's never been wrecked, I said
that's a piece of paper here's the car, look here's where it's been wrecked an
idiot can see that, so if they don't learn the mechanic check it out walk
trust no-one when you're buying a used car except for the mechanic like myself
who's independent, don't take a Jaguar to get checked out by a guy who works on
Jaguars, he wants you to buy that Jaguar so he can make money fixing it, go to
somebody like me who works on all kinds of cars and tells the truth too, hey
Scotty is it correct to assume that a four-cylinder Camry will have a greater
lifespan than the v6, they're both great engines that can last a long time
there's no arguing that 4-cylinder engines straight four in a row, there's
less parts v6 you got three on one side three on the other side there's more
parts, if you drive just a regular driver the four-cylinder one will last
longer, get better gas mileage, realize if you're hauling all kinds of stuff and
towing stuff, a lot of times the v6 will last longer because it's got more power
for pulling and towing you got to understand output a normal Drive in
there the 4-cylinder one, I've seen four-cylinder ones that had five hundred
thousand miles on them, Nick Donny a good morning, I'm looking to get a 05 Infiniti
g35 coupe with a six-speed manual transmission what do you think of that
okay I am NOT a fan of used infinities they can become endless money pits as they
age but one of their biggest problems the
automatic transmission, so you got a 6 manual so you don't have to worry about that,
those things the catalytic converters that go bad all the time the only thing
that will make them pass the test is buying dealer OEM carry converters, but
you're gonna cost you thousands of dollars to replace them all on that car
and almost every one I've ever worked on when they got that age or older the
catalytic converters went bad and it cost a lot of money, so I would still say
yeah if it passed the test the mechanic puts the scan tool and says no it's in
pretty good shape now and you want a toy to play around with on the weekends why
not, if you can get it cheap enough don't pay a bunch of money because they
become endless money pets as they age for a lot of reasons and yeah it doesn't
have an automatic transmission so it's a better one, but still it's got all the
other expensive infiniti stuff on it, big love to all says Scotty what's the best
undercoating for a new Toyota 4runner that will live in New England, you don't
need any, it's already made and when they build the modern cars it's basically the
Toyotas, they put them together frame and stuff and then they send them into this
giant tank that has electrostatic painted, the paint is one polarity and then
the body of the vehicle is another polarity, you don't need any undercoating
my mother still lives in Buffalo and she's got a 14 year old Corolla, it
doesn't have any rust on it because even back then they were doing that, they had
the coating and they have it right they know what they're doing when they're
making cars, at least Toyota does these days, that you're not gonna have the
rust, as in anything else, if you live an area where they use a lot of salt
then you still want to rinse the bottom off, cuz if you get chips here and
there of course then things problems gonna happen, so you want to still rinse
it off but you don't need to pay any extra money on new ones, they're already
especially a Toyota don't waste your money on any of that stuff, it's already
got it all on it, mom says Scotty do I really need an oil catch can for my ls2
engine, it's not direct fuel-injection, no not really,
they're well enough set up designs the reason you put them on direct fuel
injection systems is because the direct fuel injectors spray fuel right into the
cylinder, other cars port injection the fuel injectors are an intake manifold
and when they spray, they spray the gas that gets sucked into the engine as the
intake valve opens, so they spray raw gasoline all over the intake valves, raw
gasoline is a very good solvent that keeps it from carbon enough with the
direct injection, now nothing but air comes in there and the oil and
contaminated goop that comes through the PCV system, that's why put an oil catch
can on a direct injector ones to keep any of that oil and contaminants from
getting on the valves and then burning up and creating problems, you don't need
to do it on your ls2, Johnny John 333 I'm trying to figure it out, I
got a large screeching noise in my car well of course you know if it'll make it
if you open the hood and rev it up then you can hear with your ears, but a lot of
times it has something to do with the fan belts
so what you do is, you can take all the fan belts off an engine and still run it
so run it, and then see if the noise stops, if it stops you know it's
something one of the belts drives, then grab each pulley one at a time turn them
see if they wobble or they're dragging, and then you can say okay yeah that's
systems got a problem it's not and it still makes the noise, and you take belts
off, then check the brakes a lot of make screeching noises, pray that it's not
like the internal to the engine or internal to the transmission that is big
money, that juice says what is the purpose of a ground wire that connects
to the body and to the engine bloc,k okay your entire car is negative electricity
everything that's metal on it is negative electricity and then all the
power wires a positive electricity, because for a DC things to work you have to
have power and you have to have ground,
it's just how it works, so you always got to make sure that those ground wires
from the battery to the frame and from the battery to the engine are good, you
take them off every once in a while clean them off really good with
electrical cleaner buff them, so their shiny, then bolt them back
on and if you want you can even spray them with a little corrosion protector
after you bolt them on, not before, I I knew a guy once, he spraying all the
bolts and then he put them together with the coating
and then it wouldn't even starts, but you gotta have power and you
gotta have ground, so you got to make sure those ground wires are good and in
old cars I often get rusty and corroded, so if they are like you said clean em or
just replace them, hurry I'm looking about used car budget eight
grand I'm looking a 2014 Lancer, no don't throw your money away for a grand you
could probably get a pretty good used Camry or really good used Corolla, or on
civic if you wanted a little a zippy little car, don't buy that Lancer those
things their money pits, you do not want to buy one of those things they're
just you don't want to throw your hard-earned money away on something like
that, 718 Cayman S I got 1995 audi a4, is it
bad to clean a leather interior including the seats water and vinegar,
okay water vinegar is a good cleaner you use it for all kinds of stuff, but on the
seats myself I've seen the results of good
leather conditioning kits I use this english company, I don't even remember the
name now they sent me a cases the stuff and I still
got a bunch of them left it, comes with a
cleaner then it comes with a preservative that preserves the leather
and that's the best way to do with leather seats, because realize leather is
what dead animal skin, you want to clean it and then you want to recoat it with
stuff that keeps it preserved, and just pure water I mean use it to clean it up
just like my leather jackets on motorcycles, I clean them off with water
and stuff but I also use preservatives, I use the same kits on the leather
jackets, I got a leather jacket still that I wore when I was a teenager and
that sucker still is supple, because if you keep doing it for years and
years, before I had these leather kits for car seats I just used that mink oil
stuff and that works great, see the mink oil is real slimy put it
on your hands you wipe it all around and it preserves leather too, but you don't want
to do it on a leather seat because it
leaves a little bit of a grime, I didn't care on a leather jacket, I just hung out
to dry and after a while it would try out, the leather preservative kits that
they make just for leather seats are the best thing to use, so if you
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