rev your engines Marcus says how to make your car coast better well you'd want to
make sure that you have the least friction tires the ones that are the
best gas mileage possible that your brakes aren't dragging but realize that
you're breaking the law because it's really illegal in the United States to
coast your car on hill or just sliding you're supposed to have it in gear at
all times because you have more control over the vehicle it will handle better
and it will also stop better so it is actually against the law to coast in
your car and all the police are gonna figure out if you're coasting or not but
it is against the law to Coast because you do lose a certain amount of control
when you're just coasting instead of the engine and the transmission driving a
Hawaii and that said I got in there when I was a kid I did it all the time cuz I
had an opals the first car and I wanted to see what kind of gas mileage you get
this is back in 1967 sometimes I got 43 miles a gallon and a little Opel driving
it around cuz I would a lot of times Coast I'd see how I got a stop in a mile
coast for a while you know I know it's tackling its law but yeah you know where
to make a habit of it though because you really do lose some control when you're
coasting versus in gear and everything spinning you can stop faster little
corner better because all the momentum of the parts all spin and the cars were
made to be driven with the engine and a transmission going not just gliding down
they weren't designed for that, carla says Scotty I'm looking to buy an eight year
old Lexus RX hybrid with the three point five six cylinder how reliable at
hybrid system and engine thoughts okay it's a Lexus it's got a v6 engine those
engines are reliable as can be the problem is the hybrid aspect up now you
say it's what eight years old didn't say the mileage but it's eight years old
Toyota makes probably the best hybrid vehicles a lot of people copy them I got
customers with those they're still running good when they're 10 12 years old
when that battery goes out it's gonna be a ton of money to change it if you
change it and don't put in a new battery but a remanufactured one half the time
they only last one or two years then you start all over again and even that's
gonna cost you at least fifteen hundred bucks
not more and a brand new battery might cost you five six thousand dollars in
every place so that's a lot of money they in the
long run I gotta be expensive to drive but mileage wise let's say you can do
looking at one with a 80,000 miles hey they don't start falling apart so you
get 140 or 150k in hybrid systems so it's your choice and it depends on what you
pay for it too, don't pay too much you said it's eight years old so it's pushing ten
years old you don't want to pay too much for a used hybrid car they just are too high
know if it was a non hybrid if it was me I'd buy nine hybrid one and that thing
could last you for twenty thirty years they're insane I would just look for a
non hybrid one if I were you Traver says how do you feel about
rebuild cars walk depends how they were rebuilt now if you're talking about just
the title that's got a rebuilt title most places that means nothing that only
means that an insurance company totaled the car then somebody bought it then
they fixed it and sold it here I know in Texas for sure there's nobody to inspect
some of the air stuff if it says it's a rebuild title just means that it was
total by an insurance company somebody bought it and supposedly fixed it so I
would never buy one of those things really you know it's just foolhardy the
only way that I would buy a car with a rebuild title was if it look like it
went through a hailstorm and the whole thing's covered with dings from hail
because it cost so much money to fix all those things that an insurance company
will total a car and if you don't mind driving around with the car that's got
billion dings in it and it's got a repo title hey what the heck you might get a
real good price like our little run but you know most people don't want to be
driving around a car that's got eight billion dings on it so that's up to you
but it would be a good car to drive otherwise Bryan Jones says I got an 07
focus high idle at two to three thousand rpm that goes down to normal
why do you think a look at yeah watch my video make your car run better with a
little spray cleaner you want to spray clean the MAF sensor and you want to
spray clean the throttle because they often stick from carbon build on that's
very common watch the video the two cans will cost you maybe I don't know 16
bucks for both combined watch the video it's very informative simple short video
you can copy the stuff yourself and also check for vacuum leaks because if you
got a vacuum leak when a cars run in you're sucking on a good that vacuum
link will make it idle higher so you check for that too
but cleaning is often the way to go the big man dog says my Mazdaspeed6
has turbo failure can't build booster rev over 4,000 thought making
horrible noises burns a quart every fill up the car only has 77,000 miles but a
punk kid owned it is a fixable well of course it's fixable but you're gonna
have to replace the terrible and turbos aren't cheap
you got three ways you can buy a brand new one it's gonna cost a fortune
you could try to buy remanufactured one or you can take yours off and send it to
a place that remanufacturers my advice is check out the remanufactured ones to
see what they want for and if they want too much and you're sort of a gambler go
to a junkyard they'll sell you used one a lot cheaper and at least you can spin
it and see if it rattles see if it's got any play and then put it on they just bolt
on it off but it's a relatively expensive fix and if it's rattling like
mad at that speed you don't want to drive it that way cuz if it does blow
and send shards of metal gets sucked into the end you can destroy the engine
so you wanna fix it one way or the other mental warfare says scotty flex plates
changing starter until the plate gets really bad is that okay well that's not
bad this your starter engages the gear on the flex plate that has teeth it
spins and you make it go and if your starters keep knocked off cuz that
thing's wobbling around and going out eventually it won't start at all so
actually you're gonna have to replace it there's just ifs and or buts, now I
mean if it doesn't make any noise once the car starts you can still drive it a
while it starts rattling you better change it soon before it flies off and
pieces go all over the place and start destroying things if it's really bad
it's making noise and wobbling bad that'll also run the main shaft of your
transmission in your transmission shot and you'd have to spend a fortune or
replace the old transmissions so pens and how much noise it makes
and if it makes it when you're just driving down the road to market analysis
Scotty if you replace every one of your car parts one by one what point does a
car cease to be the same car philosophically speaking not legally
speaking I can tell you but there are so many parts on the car I've had people
come to me sell Scotty look we changed all the parts in this car and I could
name up hundreds of them they haven't been changed yet there's a lot of parts
in a modern car let me tell you I often get customers coming out saying WOW
Scotty I don't know what's wrong with my air condition I replaced everything
and it still doesn't work right and I explained to them there's this part this
part this part this part you haven't changed there are a lot of parts in cars
and if you do have a one that you have changed scores or maybe even 100 or more
parts you got the wrong car I say just get rid of it and get a Toyota Rhonda
instead, Joey z says what's your opinion on becoming a car mechanic at 14 well
you're only 14 and at 14 does anybody know what they really want to be I
wanted to either be a garbage man or an astronaut you know cuz I like the
garbage trucks riding around and a garbage truck every kind of fun yeah and
I a mechanic so who knows what life is gonna throw your way you know I mean if
you really want to get into it at your age
hey learn electronics because cars are going totally electronics and then you'd
be really safe because if they give up with gasoline cars 20 or 30 years from
now you're only 14 you know all the electronics you don't have no problems
we're getting into cars if they have completely electric cars that
everybody's driving around it instead of just the fringe thing so if you're doing
you like electronics now if you find you don't like electronics don't get into
being a mechanic now and in the future because it's all going that way I have
to admit over the last 10 years I have learned more things about
electronics that I didn't know before cuz I got to fix these modern cars and
it's interesting because it keeps your mind going because let's face it you
can't see electricity right you can see what a brake drum was broken you can see
when a radiator is leaking but you can't see electricity so you gotta use your
old noggin more when you analyze electricity and electric tools are
coming down so much I mean stop that 40 years ago some of these electronic tools
they cost seven eight thousand dollars now some of the same ones cost 50 bucks
so the tools cost a lot less too savy Nova says diamond ring or 2015 Toyota
Highlander from my wife's Christmas present all right I definitely say the
Highlander and here's why diamonds are so overpriced for what they're worth
take a diamond and buy a diamond from a jeweler eight thousand dollars take that
same ring you just bought take it to a different jeweler and say what will you
give me for it you probably still give you $5.00
they depreciate really fast we're 15 Toyota Highlander it's already got some
depreciation you get a good price that can last a long time now theoretically
the diamonds last forever whatever and cars eventually gonna
wear out but hey you can probably have a lot more fun in the highlander but then again
it depends on whether you've been good or bad maybe your wife really likes
jewelry and you've been bad in that case you should go to the ring the real world
Steven the best says Scotty how are the quality of older Nissan infinities built
in Japan 95 to 99 Nissan Maxima and Infiniti i30
I'm sick of the new ones especially the Altimas hey smart move
that was long before renault got involved those well-built cars back in those days
now they're old of course you buy an old one you can buy an old car could have
problems need a lot of work but they were solid built and you can still get
parts from those cars I mean if you're the type of guy wants to buy a car do a
little work on it go ahead and get one you know they can last a long time and
they were solid build cars just don't buy you know the 2005 version of the
same vehicles problems up the wazoo with those things will barbaric says which is
a better battery tester a carbon pile or electronic carbon pile was they got a
big problem they put a big load and they can actually destroy a battery that's
weak that's why they wants of these electronic and I've had those fancy ones
I've got to make tronic one it's $900 tester it's got his cheap heated buy it
the company gave it to me because they hoped I'd use it in the video and I have
because it's a good tool so with that but it uses such low voltage that it
doesn't do any damage at all in the past ages ago if I ant a carbon tester and I
tested the battery sometimes they wouldn't start the car after cuz it
finished it off that's never happened with my tester and they are
even more accurate I've been using mine for 20-something years and I've never
had one that gave me wrong reading on, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell