rev up your engines
Thomas van says Scotty I was
looking for a first car I came upon a
Saab 900 turbo are those engines reliable and are
they okay with around 200,000 miles cuz
I don't want to spend a fortune for
repairs, okay it's a Saab $900 turbo the
company went bankrupt years ago because
their cars cost so much money to repair
and that's a turbo which makes it even
more expensive to repair, now if you live
in a Sweden or in Europe there's a lot
of old ones lying around in junkyards a
lot of parts where you could get parts
fixed cheaply, I know guys in Sweden that
have them and they love them, they swear by them
in the United States you'd be playing
with fire buying that car used with that
kind of mileage on it anything can go
wrong and you're gonna throw your money
for a first car that's not that smart
choice really unless you're in Sweden
and you know some honest Swedish mechanics, B
Castro says hey Scotty I got a question
about the Ford era Jaguar are there any
notice Ford doesn't own them anymore that kind of tells you the truth, those are some of the worst cars
ever made they had the one that was
pretty much a rebadged Ford with the
six-cylinder engine in it, they were one of
biggest piles of junk that Jaguar ever
put out
I had customers that bought them and I said
why'd you buy that car and they'd say
yeah I just wanted a Jaguar and I said
would you ever buy another one, no it's the
biggest pile of junk I ever had, now you
can get them dirt cheap I could buy them
all day long for a thousand, fifteen
hundred bucks, I mean if they run and
they shift then it go okay you're not
gonna lose that much if something big
goes on, you cansay ooh look I got a Jaguar
but don't ever think they're gonna be
reliable they were the most time
reliable piles of junk that they ever put
out, day lamp says hey Scotty what are
your thoughts on CVT transmissions for
towing, don't, CVT transmissions are
made to get the best gas mileage you can
possibly get and they are more efficient
but they're carefully designed to pull
the vehicle that's it, they're not
designed for pulling the vehicle and
towing something else too, you are flirting
with disaster if you think you're gonna
buy a CVT transmission and start towing
heavy weights with them you know
that would just be a mistake you don't want to get one of those to be towing
basically if you're really gonna be
towing anything all the time you're
better with a standard transmission
anyways but the CVT transmissions don't
think about buying one and start towing
things they're just not made for that
jobs11 says Scotty my 2001 Jag X types
engine light comes on for the oxygen sensor
replacing lamda doesn't
stop the code from reappearing any
ideas okay here's the thing about those
oxygen sensors they are part of a very
complex computer run system that
measures the residual oxygen in your
exhaust, then sends feedback to the
computer and then the computer pulses
the fuel injectors to try to make for
the perfect air fuel
ratio that's fourteen point seven parts
air to one part fuel, so it's a very
complicated system, if you changed the
sensor and if you used an OEM factory one
and it's still stuck on it could be the
wiring from the sensor to the computer
it could be the computer, the driver
circuits are going down, it could be an
air leak on the intake it, could be a
problem in the fuel injectors, there are
all kinds of problems, you tried the
obvious thing and if you used an OEM
factory sensor, you did what you could do
now you're better off finding a guy like
me who's got a dealer level scan tool, we hook them up we drive them for 10
minutes then we analyze live and mode 6
data that's on it and give you our
opinion on what could possibly be wrong
that's what you'd want to do next really
rather than just guess, sad film says hey
Scotty I got a 99 v6 Firebird, the fuel gauge doesn't work
it gets stuck on full when
I start up and if I leave the car idling in park
it'll drop to empty, what should I do
ok the most common thing is the sending
unit inside the gas tank, there's a flow that
goes up and down then goes to the gauge
and makes it move, since yours is jumping
around maybe you're lucky and it's just
a loose wire, especially on the top of
the gas tank you want to check that
first, but if it's not that odds are it's
the sending unit and unfortunately on
that horrible American design, you got to
drop the whole stinking gas tank to get
to it, it's not like a Toyota or a German
car where they got
access panel either under the hood or in
the trunk or under the backseat, where you just
take that out and then there's like
seven eight screws take them off, pop it off and
change the sending unit, on that
you got to drop the whole gas tank to
change it, it's pretty much a pain in the
butt, so if you never want to miss
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