Rev up your engines, flash says, scotty I want a used Audi TT I
heard their good gearboxes what are your thoughts, Audis are money pits, I had a neighbor who
was a corporate lawyer, he made a lot of money and he had one of those and he got rid of
it because he said, Scotty I can't stand this thing, it's a piece of junk it costs me so
much money and it's always breaking and it had a nice standard transmission and the thing
blew up twice, the things just aren't that well done,
their plies of junk as they age, their fun to drive when their new, there's no arguing
that, their quick and zippy, but they are money pits as they age,
that's just the way that those cars are, now maybe in Europe they make better ones
and sell different ones, I don't know but here in the US they are just endless money
pits, and every single customer I've ever had in
the last 40 years that bought them never bought another one, that says a lot,
Heim says, scotty what do you think about the 1991 Toyota MR2 turbo, ok here's the thing
that was an oddball car, with an engine in the back, and I'm a Toyota fan,
and they were fun to drive, but the didn't sell that well, and their not the greatest
handling vehicles, with the engine in the back you'd think they
would be but their front suspension was a little bit weak and the turbos would of course
burn the engine out faster, so you know if you're thinking about buying
one, have a mechanic like me check it out long before you buy it and realize that their
not a collectors item, they don't have any residual value in them,
so if you can get one cheap and a mechanic says it's in decent shape, and you want it
as a toy, nothing wrong with that, but don't think you're going to buy a car like that
and use it for an every day driver and not put a lot of money into it, because they weren't
made for that, my customers that bought them, they liked
them but when the turbos went out or the engines went out, they just got rid of them because
they didn't want to put too much money into them,
their fun to drive but you know their not a true performance car, the suspension is
kind of weak, their fun little toy if you get it cheap and have a fun toy go ahead but,
don't think it's something you can buy like a Corolla or Camry and it's going to run forever,
Jacob says, I'm looking to buy a 2000 Buick it needs a transmission, is it worth to buy,
ok those aren't bad cars the weak point is the transmission, since it has a bad transmission,
if you can get it for almost nothing go ahead and have another transmission put in,
you can get a rebuilt transmission and put it in and that's going to cost you maybe $1,800
if you get a good one, so if you get it for almost nothing, they can be very good cars,
but don't pay much, because if a car needs a transmission like that it's not worth hardly
anything, I got customers that buy those things and they probably pay 400-500 bucks for the
car and if it's in really good shape and put the transmission in, they could have a good
car, you know there's nothing wrong with doing
that, Ben says, I have a 2002 Dodge Durango it's
in good shape I bought it for $1,000 the transmission slips between 2nd and 3rd did I pay too much
and is it worth rebuilding, ok you got something for $1,000 and if it's
in good shape have the transmission rebuilt, why not,
those have weak automatic transmissions there's no doubt it's wearing out,
but you only paid $1,000 for it, so lets say that's a pretty simple transmission, lets
say you pay someone $1,500 to rebuild it correctly, then for $2,500 you got a vehicle that runs
good which is a good deal, you know there's nothing wrong with what you paid if it's in
good shape otherwise, because the weak point of those is the transmission, and if you're
fixing that then you don't have to think about that for a long time,
now if it had an engine problem I'd say no don't put money into it because if the engine
has a problem now it going to cost more to fix and then the transmission is going to
go out because that's the real weak point of those, but if you're fixing the weak point,
I'd say go ahead and fix it, I'm not a Dodge fan but you only paid $1,000 and if you get
a good vehicle for $2,300 there's nothing wrong with that,
Matt D says, Scotty when either front tire hits a bump at 25 mph or faster, there's a
sound of metal parts hitting each other, suspension bushings, how can I find out,
if it only does it when you hit a bump really bad, generally that's the struts wearing out,
now what you can do like I said earlier is jack the front end up in the air, pull on
the tires, see if you got any play, now if you don't see any, then take the tires off,
and see if you see any metal rub parts, because metal rub parts, you never see shinny metal
parts and if you do that means metal rubbing and that part is worn, generally when it does
it only when you hit bumps, usually it's the struts are just wearing out and then they
hit a bump and instead of absorbing the shock the just bang because the can't do it and
then part of the strut will hit the bumper, there's a rubber bumper there and it will
still make a bang noise when it hits it when it's not absorbing the shock, that's usually
worn out struts that do that, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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