Rev up your engines, aldridge 2 says scotty my towncar was hit
by a tornado and my car was in flood water, it started once but not again, flood water
destroys cars, everything is electronic these days, you find a car was in flood water don't
do what you just did, do not try to start it, open the hood and take out the air filter,
if the air filter is wet there's water in the engine don't start it, you want to drain
everything out before you try to start it, once you try to start it, you energize the
computer, you crank the engine, water got into the intake and the air filter is wet,
that water gets sucked inside the engine, the pistons move up to compress the air fuel
mixture and then it ignites, if there's a bunch of water inside that piston, when it
goes up water does not compress much, a tiny bit but not much, the piston won't be able
to go up any further, then it will have to bend the piston rod in order to get up high
enough which destroys the engine, if you are in flood water and you got a car in flood
water and you see it's all flooded out, don't try to start it, it's probably going to be
totaled by an insurance company anyways, but if you don't have full coverage check it for
water damage, and if it does tow it to a mechanic or tow it to your house, drain all the fluids,
take the spark plugs out, then you crank it over, and if there's water in the engine,
it will just throw it out of the holes where the spark plugs were and won't do any damage,
charlie hey scotty when it comes to premium oil filters which one do you recommend, most
of the premium ones are pretty much the same, I did a little research a while back and I
found out that mobile one they don't make their own filters it's a fancy fram, fram
made them at least back last year when I researched it, so I bought one of each and cut them apart
and they were the same inside, they don't make their own filters, shell oil they don't
make their own filters, theirs are made by fram too, so get a high quality it really
doesn't matter which one you buy, I buy them online I go to amazon and find the cheapest
deal I can find on premium filters, then I'll buy like 4 of them for my car, then I don't
have to think about it for a while and if you go to the discount auto parts stores,
a lot of times their premium oil filters are like $12, you can get them online for like
$6 and it's the same exact filter, bee says I was looking at a used miata, I did a vin
check for free and it came back salvage, what does that mean, don't buy it, it means the
vehicle was wrecked and totaled by an insurance company, then it was given a salvage title
saying that hey this car has been wrecked, be warned if your buying it that it was wrecked
before, big enough that an insurance company totaled it, I am never a fan of buying those
vehicles period, now I've had customers buy them, maybe it was just the doors crushed
and stuff but it's a older car so they totaled it, your still taking a chance, if it's a
late model one I wouldn't touch it, because all that computer stuff, but let's say it's
a 25 year old miata, if it still runs good and manual transmission and you get it cheap
enough it could be ok, but any modern computerized car stay away from salvaged titles, take that
in mind that you looked it up, any time your looking at a used car demand to see the title
before money changes hands, they say oh we don't have the title don't even think about
buying it because you flip it and it says salvage reconditioned titles same thing, don't
buy it, sally says scotty my 2000 corolla engine makes a strange plastic rubbing noise
when it's loaded down, look in the front and the back too, but mainly in the front, inside
the fender there's those plastic fender liners and their all kinds of different pieces, and
when I was young hey at least they were better made, they had 10mm bolts that bolted them
in place, now guess what they use, those little plastic inserts that plug and snap in, well
those things break if you hit a big bump a lot of times they'll snap off, then when you
look inside when you jack up the car, you'll see the plastic has all been rubbing and that's
where the noise is, put bolts back in if you want that's what I do a lot of times in my
own cars, I say whatever to that plastic stuff and I'll get nuts and bolts instead of the
plastic ones and bolt them in place and their never going to come off again, luis says scotty
I love classic American cars, my favorite is this 1977 cadillac deville, what do you
think about buying one, if you don't mind the giant American gas hog that you're going
to have to fix all the time go right ahead, I had a customer that actually bought that
same car in red it was candy apple red, someone painted it candy apple red it didn't originally
come in candy apple red but someone painted it candy apple red and it was a convertible,
he loved the car but it spent most of it's life in the garage and finally his wife said,
get rid of that thing it's taking up all the garage and you never drive it around anyways,
they are generally endless money pits, if you want a toy and you got space to store
it and you don't really care about horrible gas mileage cuz it's a toy that your going
to drive you know 1000 miles a year, go ahead and get it as a toy, but do not think it's
gonna be a dependable transportation car, cuz it will not be, really do some research
when you do cuz if it's a convertible it's worth serious money if it's all original but
you got to make sure all the vin numbers match, cuz if they don't then it's worth nothing,
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