rev up your engines ios says Scotty do you think
Ford products will soon be as reliable as Toyota or will stay like it is now or
get worse, modern technology is really high-tech and they stick a lot of it in
cars, and a lot of it has planned obsolescence built in, either the
technology gets outdated and people want newer technology or they can just make
computer systems that turn themselves off after a certain period of time
and when you use electronic and plastic parts on cars you're gonna wear out
faster, so all cars have more planned obsolescence than they used to for
example, you're not gonna be able to buy a Toyota like I did and have a Celica
it's 25 years old with 240,000 miles it still runs like a top, I doubt that any
of the newer ones will ask that long, I don't think Ford will ever exactly
match Toyota because it is an American company and they have so much pressure
for short-term profit versus the Japanese companies that aren't
short-term thinking, but even the Toyotas these days they're worse made than they
used to be, there's just like water pumps, brake master cylinders fail with
the problems they had and the CVT transmissions new ones
the corolla hatchbacks that they had to recall, you didn't use
to see that in Toyotas, so if anything they're all kind of getting a little bit
worse, willie g says hey the check engine light on my 2003 camry came on midway
through a four mile road trip but then it went off what's up, here is how check
engine lights work, every so long I guess it's like a minute 45 seconds or
something who knows but it's some shorter period of time the computer
checks everything in its system and then what does it do, then it doesn't again, it
just keeps doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it, after so many
cycles of seeing a particular problem it turns your check engine light on then it
has a code, but if you keep driving it after a certain amount of cycles it sees
that problem doesn't exist anymore then it turns to check engine light off, so if
you got a real minor problem it can go on and
off but at least on the modern cars it has historical
memories so a guy like me will plug in a stan tool and will look at it and say
here's historical codes, you say you're getting this historical code over and
over if it happened ten times it would have on there ten times and you know
that's the system to look at, but that's why they do that, that's why they can
come on and go come on go off, daves, my 07 impala
appears to have a throttle sticking issue, in the olden days did a cable you
step on the cable the cable would open the throttle and what would happen with
those sticking yes the throttle would get carbon and build-up or the cable
would bind so you get some spray lubricant for the cable like motorcycle
capable spray it in there and you take off the air intake and you spray the
throttle because carbon was on that throttle blade it would stick and that
would keep it from sticking alas modern cars all have electronic
throttle so it's done by computer and if you really get a sticking throttle on
those, when you step on the accelerator pedal that's binding or you're stepping
on a computer mouse actually and if that is binding it might need accelerator
sensor could be sticking, if it's not that it means that the throttle itself
is sticking you can clean that still the plate iwth throttled spray cleaner if
that didn't fix it then it would need a new throttle assembly would mean the
motor itself and it was binding and you'd have to replace it, nobody
fixes them you just replace the whole throttle assembly, doll back who says
Scotty I got a question I got a 08 Dodge Dakota I have some popping
noise coming out of the exhaust, okay poppy noise coming out of the exhaust
is misfires, misfires can come from many things you start simple to work your way
up that's always how you should fix cars check the spark plugs if they're
misfiring it'll do that, check the ignition coils if they misfire they're
doing it and let's say you have a misfire code when you put a scan tool on
say it says misfire cylinder number three, the easiest thing I knows to do is
to take the ignition coil off number three put it on number one and put
number one on number three and if the misfire moves over to number three for
number one then you know it's a bad coil replace to coil, but it could also be
fuel injectors that are spraying and could be a head gasket blowing a lot of stuff
can make them pop, but always start with a simple stuff like spark plugs, even a
bad fuel injector either swap them if you checked all the other and then
swapping the fuel injectors the misfire moves and you know that's the problem,
you gotta be logical when you do those things just don't start wildly guessing or
you throw money away and usually don't fix anything, 94 says Scotty
what are your thoughts on a 2011 Ford Focus that has badly rusted rocker
panels, like Neil Young sang rust never sleeps, well once you got holes it's rotting
away today there is no reason for cars to
rust that's the 2011 it was just made poorly, my mother's has a 14 year old
Toyota Corolla in Buffalo New York no rust on at all because they use that
zinc primer it's electrostatically put into the vehicle when they put the whole
body of the car under water and electrostatically it sticks on a zinc
they don't corrode 2011 should never rust, if it did it's because they didn't
build it right in the first place, and if you ever see a car that is rusting out
and you're thinking about buying a used don't buy it, there's somebody not rusted
cars out today it's not like the old days when they all had to rust because
they didn't have any zinc primer now a good car even in Buffalo isn't going to rust
Costner Carter Scotty my 2015 Chrysler 300 only blows cold air when
the car is moving, you sitting there it doesn't blow cold air but it only
does it when it's moving, two things first turn it on full blast open the
hood look at the cooling fans they should be blowing air like mad, if they're not
fix the cooling fans because if there's no air blowing it's not gonna go, now
another common thing is it's just low on refrigerant if you're low and
refrigerant when it's idling it won't turn a compressor on, but when you get
going faster a lot of times it'll start and then once it starts and the
pressures build up it'll work for a while until the engine goes slower and
then it's spinning slower and a low refrigerant just shuts the system off
pray it's one of those because another common thing is the compressor that's
just flat wearing out then until you get moving down the road it won't start
itself up and like if it's got a bad clutch on it you get rolling you hit a
couple of bumps and then that jolts it the electricity starts spinning on a
compressor then you need your compressor and they're expensive, christian Pete
says Scotty what do you think of a 2006 Toyota Prius, I know you said don't buy a
hybrid used but you know I really want one the batteries are pretty good but by 14
years old generate those batteries are going out and they cost small fortune
for a new one and here's something that a lot of people really don't understand
about it, and there's a lot of scams about, oh you can just buy a a rebuilt
one save a bunch of money yeah you can get it rebuilt big hybrid battery but understand
on those Toyotas the hybrid battery is really a bunch of small batteries
connected together when they go bad ,they don't go bad all at once, some of them go
bad and they lose a lot of their power when
you hook the computer up to the Prius battery it did a bunch of testing for
like about an hour and then it would say this cell is bad and that cell is bad, so
the guys that rebuild them they do that and
then maybe six or eight of the all cells that are on there bad and they replaced
those ones and say here it's reconditioned take it away, well you still
the majority of the cells are still the original cells that are twelve years old
how long is that gonna last, now these guys might give you a year guarantee but
hey what's a year you know you're buying a car battery even that's gonna be well
over a thousand bucks and if it goes bad after a year then you're back to square
one, the original batteries are excellent there's no arguing that I've seen them
go ten years and they're still working, but you get these rebuilt ones I've seen
rebuilt once they go bad year year and a half then you're back to square one and
that's why I tell people not to buy those and that's just the battery, let's
say the generator goes bad on that, 06 prius that's like a $5,900 job to
replace a generator, so if you can get a Toyota Prius like that cheap I've had
customers buying for like 1,200 bucks what the heck this thing last year or two
you made out fine paying that little amount of
money, but don't put a lot of money into one of those things cuz they're too
expensive to fix as they wear out so if you never want to miss another one
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