Rev up your engines, ram s says scotty how do you stay up to date
with all the new car technologies, well you know that used to drive me nuts, when I was
just a mechanic and make videos on youtube or didn't talk about it on CBS tv like I did
for 13 years, I hated all the new technology that kept coming out because I had to go and
buy all the equipment to check it and learn out to use it,
but that's not the case anymore, cuz for ages all these companies when they come up with
new scan tools, new hand tools, new information, they send me an email and say, scotty do you
want to try this out and I say sure I love trying out new technology, I don't have to
buy the stuff, so now I was just working on a lexus and man I just plugged in my fancy
$5,000 scan tool that I got for nothing and it found the problem and I knew what to do
and replaced it and it was fixed, and this was after the guy had taken the car to 5 different
mechanics that couldn't figure out what was wrong with it,
I kind of like the new technology it makes it interesting and I get to play around with
it, and I don't have to pay for it, alec barrett says does a low fuel octane affect
an engine that says it requires a higher octane, well it does but not that badly in some, if
you have a modern car, I had last year I had a brand new mustang for a week and it was
that ecoboost 4 cylinder mustang that put out 300 something horsepower, and it even
said in the manual, you can run it on any gas you want, if you run it on regular gas
it had 200 something horsepower but if you ran it on premium gas it had 300 something
horsepower, those are set to run on anything and they'll run perfectly fine, but you just
won't have the horsepower, but if you have an older car that required high octane fuel
and you run it on low octane fuel, generally it will have a tendency of carboning up and
not running and then when you accelerate hard especially going up hill you might hear the
valves clattering because the octane is too low, that's how you can tell, but a lot of
modern cars, they'll run on anything, the computers can control everything and compensate
for a lower octane fuel, alex says what do you think about acura rsx
is any more reliable or perform better, of those are all pretty well made vehicles, if
you really want to drive zippy and get one, get the manual transmission cuz of course
being a honda product, acura is made by honda, those are kind of weak transmissions and they
can last a good amount of time but when the tranny goes out then you're gonna spend $3-5
thousand fixing them and their a lot more fun to drive with a manual transmission realize
that, I got customers with them and the ones with manual love them and the ones with automatics
they like the car until the transmission broke and then they said they'd never buy another
one, silencer says scotty I got a 2014 suzuki swift
sport, I want to remove the middle silencer and exhaust and replace it with a straight
pipe, what do you think, when I was a kid you could do stuff like that
because they only had carbs on them, and usually they'd still run ok and if they didn't you
would just buy a jet kit for $10 and re-jet the carb so it ran right, modern cars everything
is run by computer, so if you take the muffler off and run a straight pipe you're going to
change the back pressure and the computer is going to be confused and it might give
the wrong air fuel ratio over time and make the car run worse and the check engine light
comes on, if you're going to do something like that then you have to find a very high
tech mechanic who's got a 5 gas analyzer and a dyno and can run it on there and have the
ability to reprogram your computer so it runs right, there's guys that can do that kind
of stuff but they don't do it cheap, if you want to do that you have to go that
far, burning gas says why don't you drive diesels,
well I don't drive diesels because they smell, I don't like the smell they stink you know,
it doesn't matter what they do they all smell cuz they have incomplete combustion to some
extent and now they have all those particulate filters in them and those go bad and then
they cost a fortune and their very complicated and then I see them break down, I personally
have to fix them for other people's cars, hey I'm not a diesel fan, I talked to the
president of oil and grease in shell oil and he's English he's from Liverpool and he told
me he said, scotty you Americans were right going for gasoline because in England we all
went for diesel and now we're all giving up with it because it's too polluting and stuff
and it was a mistake, you did it the right way and we did it the wrong way, so it's why
I don't drive them, I fix them for people though, another reason I don't drive them
they cost too much to fix when they do break, sun says are you the bassist from rick k and
the all nighters, you know it's kind of funny I think it's my double, I've had people send
me pictures of him and I'm like, the guy looks like me, maybe a little bit heavier but he
looked just like me I think that's pretty funny, now I don't know how to play a bass
guitar I play the harmonica and I can play drums but I don't know how to play bass I
tried an electric guitar once it was too complicated for me and I'm left handed but hey send me
a picture and I'll autograph it for you, so if you never want to miss another one of
my new car repair videos, remember to ring that bell!