Carlos Garcia says, Scotty what are your opinion on Jaguars, big fan, okay
they were great cars historically, you know in the forties and fifties they were
state of the art but since the 1960s they're known as endless money pits, and
they've actually gotten worse over time because a while back that Indian company
Tata the one that makes those cars in India that cost like $1,600
they bought Jaguar and Land Rover, and if anything they're worse than they are
today and they used to be in the sixties, their
endless money pits, their beautiful cars, you know for a while Ford owned them and
then they lost so much money then they sold it to Tata, I wouldn't buy one,
they're beautiful cars but if you want a fun toy and you can buy a used one with
lower mileage and you're only gonna drive it on the weekend, hey have some
fun you can get them all day long for a thousand or two thousand dollars and if
they still run good you can have a good toy, just don't buy one of those and
think you can use it as a daily driver, I mean there's guys in there that they
take out the Jag engine and transmission put in a Chevy or Ford v8, and then they
run great, so I mean there's lots of things you can do, because you can get them
dirt cheap when they're old, nobody with their right mind pays much for them when their
used, Ryan's rev says, Scotty what's your opinion a GMC Yukon are they
reliable, okay the older ones are relatively reliable, just like the older
Suburbans were pretty reliable, but then the problem came they started making
them cheaper, and that's just what General Motors has done, so I wouldn't
buy late-model one, if you wanted something like that I'd go Ford or
Toyota, I wouldn't buy a GM but the older ones were more reliable that's
just how the world was, Jose Sakata says, I got a 2006 Chevy Monte Carlo it's
got 70,000 miles any known issue, drives okay for the most part but it's hiccups
now and then, sometimes it feels like it has trouble accelerating, okay first
thing you want to do is pressure test the fuel pump after changing the fuel filter
is the fuel filters are clogged the pump will get weak can do that, now it's 13 years old you
only got 70,000 miles so it's low mileage, the transmissions on those
things, automatics are really weak, so I mean just baby the transmission and take
care of it, that's the main maintenance you want to do on that,
because I would never buy that car but you have it and it's low mileage, so you
mind as well take care of it, because if you try selling it now you're gonna get
nothing for 13 year old Monte Carlo with 70,000 miles, nobody's gonna give you
much, so you mind as well take care of it, you never know you might have bought one that was made
on a Wednesday that's in better shape, Eli Hernandez says, Scotty what would you
recommend as my first car, a 2001 lexus LS 300 or a v6 Mustang from 1999, oh I'd go
for the 2001 Lexus, because those things can run for ever, I have my wife, I got
her 2002 Lexus and she loves the car, it's the best car we ever bought, now I bought it
used from a customer of mine when his father died it only had 60,000 miles and I paid
four grand for it because it needed a little bodywork and I paid my body guy
a thousand dollars to take all the dings out and paint the bumpers, so it looked
great, but that that car can run forever if you take care of it, I'm the last of
my kind hey maybe you're not I'm might be one too, Scotty I have a Ford Crown Victoria two
thousand six, hundred thousand kilometers, and the main problem is when I take on
long drives, sometimes when I stop the car the engine shuts down, if it's a real
long drive, that thing is thirteen years old, a lot of times the fuel injectors will
get a little bit off, so when it's hot they spray a little bit better more
gas in the engine, well when you're driving down the road, the engine doesn't care
all that much, but when you come to a stop, if it's too much fuel it'll stall
the engine out, now one way you can check that if it does stall out and then you
start it back up and black smoke comes out of the back, yes then it is stalling out
from too much fuel, now if black smoke doesn't come out it when it starts back
up, it could be the fuel pump you could pressure test that, because if it's getting no
fuel it won't smoke black when it restarts, because it's not getting too much
fuel, it's getting not enough that's a good way you can check it, inspired by Keith says,
Scotty I have a 2008 Honda Accord with an oil leak even after replacing
the valve cover gasket, VTEC solenoid gasket, oil filter housing gasket, what could
it be, well it could be a lot of things,
generally it's the crank or the cam seals on those, but I have a video that's
called, finding engine oil leaks, watch that you get a little ultraviolet
leak dye, you can buy a kit that has dye, yellow
sunglasses and a little UV light, then when you put the stuff in, you drive it
around for 15 or 20 minutes, now it's best if you do that at night, because at
night it's dark out, then when you check it with a UV light, you can see the
glowing green a lot easier at night, in the daytime it's harder to see,
especially in broad sunlight or if you have a dark garage that you can pull it in
but you want to check it when it's darker, because when it's real dark then
the dye really lights up great when it's dark outside, with the Sun not shining on
you really get a better view of where it's leaking from, and that'll always
show you where the leak is coming from, huapi says, my golf mark 2 GTI 16 valve
will not idle normal when it's cold when the old temperature is hot it rides
fine, okay first thing you want to do since it's a Volkswagen, if it runs poor
when it's cold but when the oil temperature gets hot it runs fine, it could
be a worn engine, you want a mechanic like me to do what's called a wet and
dry compression test, they do a compression test of the engine dry, then
they squirt a little oil in each cylinder and do it, and see if the pressure goes up or down
they can tell you what shape the engine is inside, because it could just be your engine is
just flat wearing out, now if the engine isn't flat wearing out
then do my video, how to clean fuel injectors without removal, could be dirty
fuel injectors, when an engine is cold it has to get the perfect amount of gas or
it will run crappy, but once the engine's warmed up, if the fuel is a little bit
off it can still run pretty good, so you'd want to try that if the engine
checks out to be still in good shape, so if you never want to miss another one
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