rev up your engines, fun lu says do I have to service a Corolla CVT, dealer says
that has lifetime fluid, yeah you got to change that fluid let me tell you
something, ask them what they mean by lifetime fluid and they say while the
fluid is good for the lifetime of the transmission, then ask them what's the
warranty on the transmission, if they say it's like a hundred thousand miles or
whatever, if it breaks after that then you gotta buy a new $5,000 transmission
so I personally would change it every sixty thousand miles or so, the lifetime
fluid is a bunch of malarkey, nothing lasts forever all fluids get dirty
inside spinning gears and stuff they all wear out, they all, there's chains inside
there the chain links wear out they get dirty then there's more friction, all
fluid gets dirty needs to be changed eventually and they're just pulling the
scam saying it's a lifetime fluid meaning the lifetime of the transmission
and when it breaks out of warranty you gotta pay for another one
mr. live arrow says Scotty 1990 Honda preludes for a fun car, yay or nay I like
to style, if you like it and you can find one that's
in really good shape it can be a fun car but I got a customer bought
that same car, he's had nothing but problems with it because it's so old
you're talking about almost a thirty year old car and here's the thing about
the preludes that a lot of people don't understand, the preludes are very similar
to the Honda Accords but a lot of their
parts are completely different, for example, the prelude has a different
compressor than the Honda Accord back in 1990, I could get a brand new Honda
Accord compressor, but I can only get rebuilt ones for the prelude and I don't
believe in rebuilt ones, so we kept buying rebuilt ones I kept putting them
on they kept breaking, so you got to think about that on a really old car
like that the parts can be super expensive, then again let's say you live
up north you don't care about air conditioning, then you don't have to worry
about that stuff the rest of the vehicles are pretty solid
oreo zero seven five says Scotty I'm considering buying a 04 or 05 Subaru
WRX is there anything to look at when inspecting the car, now they can be fun
cars but it's a Subaru with a boxer engine, they are notorious for blowing
head gaskets, you can watch my video how to tell if your head gasket is blown on
YouTube, you can buy the kit that I have on
Amazon for like 35 bucks, so you can test if the
head gasket is blowing if it is don't even think about by it, now if it's a standard
transmission yeah check to see if the clutch is slipping because they do wear
out, but if it's an automatic transmission you
really want a road test it well cuz that's the weakest thing in Subarus
are their automatic transmissions they have nothing but problems with them, they don't
even make the own they buy them from Nissan jatco, so
it's not like they're even making their own transmission, so you'd want to check
that too, Carlos says what's up Scotty this is the second time in one year I've
had to replace the alternator in my Acura MDX 2007, what underlying problem could
be going on, okay first of all always have the battery load tested too, because
the battery and the alternator work together you got a weak battery
you're gonna keep buying alternators because it'll make it work too hard, so have
that load tested to make sure you're buying from a quality store
that says quality part, almost all of them are
remanufactured not new, and a lot of guys just do a crap job remanufacturing and
the third thing is, you want to have a pro like me if you keep having it over
and over again, you put another one at it lasts only a year, you check for some kind
of minor electrical shorts, because if you got bad
wiring, bad wiring loose connectors that builds up heat, then the alternator has
to put out more power it stains it and it can burn out faster, those are the three
main things that will make an alternative go bad, one broadcast I'm thinking
about getting a truck should I get a 99 Chevy Silverado or a 7.3 power stroke,
first you got to decide what do you want you want, you want to have a diesel engine
if you're towing large distances, if you're
towing heavy weights, gasoline engines aren't made for towing and hauling
diesels are, I'd get the Ford products anyways cuz they're better made, but if you
go back to 1999 the Silverado v8 gas engines we're decent pickup
trucks, if you wanted a gasoline pickup truck yeah maybe go ahead and get one of
those, but if you really wanted haul a lot of stuff get the Power Stroke, diesel
engines are the way to go if you're going to tow stuff around
Francis says Scott I got a 2013 Toyota Corolla ninety five thousand miles and the
clutch pedal sometimes squeak when I pressed it in, I replaced the slave cylinder
but doesn't seem to fix it what could it be
okay well we're talking about squeaking inside the car the slave cylinder is on
the transmission, it could be your clutch master cylinder squeaking but more often
if it's coming on the inside it's the clutch paddle and it's
got a spring built-in and they're cheap
bushings that are in those things, a lot of times they just wear and then they
squeak, especially when the rubber gets worn and then the metal hits metal, with a
really good spray lithium, lithium is really good for spraying bare metal,
spray the spring and all the bushings there and then see what happens, if
it goes away and you got a spray at four or five times a year big deal
a can of spray cost like seven bucks and it's really good for spraying any kind
of bare metal, lithium that's what the lithium lube is really good for, so if
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