rev up your engines, rich says Scotty should I
change my transmission fluid filter on a 1997 k 1500 it's working fine but hasn't
been changed in 15 years okay no you're flirting with disaster [playing
with dynamite on something like that the American vehicles their transmissions
shed some clutch material as you drive a lot of times that shouted clutch
material increases the amount of friction and the fluid and that's what's
keeping them going down the road I'm not slipping more friction they're gonna
slip less I've had people with those old vehicles they'll change it and
immediately the transmissions start to slip sometimes they won't even drive
under their own power leave it alone told nah just leave it you know if
something does go wrong with it that starts working bad you might try it just
for what the heck but if it's working fine now leave it alone
I wouldn't touch it, jls says there needs to be a serious discussion of one
to actually change air filters air filters get dirty but how do they get
dirty depending upon one main thing how dirty it is where you live now I live
in downtown Houston Texas they're building things all over the place
there's dust everywhere and filters can get dirty really fast now in my own cars
I just once a month take the filters out and I tap them and dust comes off then I
get my shop vac suck all the dirt off of them and clean it some more put them
back in now when they're really bad you can take the filter out put them up to
the Sun and if you can see through good they're still okay but if it really
makes them dark it's time for new ones now let's say you've got a
pain-in-the-butt car let's say you got a car where the air filter touched 45
minutes to check well you're not gonna be doing it then then you might just
make a thing that once or twice a year you pull it out and look at it clean it
and if it's a real pain just have a spare filter and put the spare in and
then buy another spare and don't be suckered by those high-tech ones where
they say oh this filter works battery get better gas much most of that stuff
so much of nonsense the factory filters are generally at best the fisherman 3634
says anyone german-made Mercedes if so what are your
thoughts on it, all right I don't own one but I work on them all the time and yes
the German made Mercedes are better vehicles period they're better made they
hold up longer there's no arguing that now you're paying a lot of money and
they still have you know the resale value is pretty crummy here in the
United States but they are better built than the ones that they make other
places there's no arguing that but that said if you want to get a luxurious type
car I'd much rather get a Japanese built lexus than a German built Mercedes
because I'm cheap and I don't want to spend money fixing them and they cost a
lot less than the Mercedes for a comparable car Josh McDonald says
Scotty I got an 87 Toyota the temperature gauge only works when the
ignition is on but the engine not running as soon as you start the engine the
gauge does coolant temperature sensor replaced any ideas well you got a power
problem there you turn it on and it works but then when it's running the
gauge dies you probably have a problem in your ignition switch realize your
ignition switch when you turn it on it just doesn't send power to one wire it
sends powers to a bunch of wires and when that switch wears out and that
thing's what room 87 it's old as the hills so the odds are it needs a new
ignition switch I've seen that on those and that fixed it, Johnson smoker says
Scotty can you explain eco mode in the Civic yeah that's the economy mode when
you push that the computer controls all kinds of stuff and it will make it so
the engine doesn't accelerate as fast and the transmission gears shift quicker
so they stay in the lower gears for less period of time so they go to the gears
to get better gas mileage click or you don't have quite the acceleration but
you're gonna get somewhat better gas mileage a lot of cars have those things
and it's all up to your driving style if you put an eco mode and you're happy
with the way it accelerates you're gonna get better gas mileage go ahead and if
you aren't turn eco mode off it'll go to normal mode it'll accelerate faster and
get a little bit worse gas mileage it's all computer run stuff, rage HD says
scotty what your opinion onan 08 Buick LaCrosse 3,800 engine ok
those are good engines those 3,800 six-cylinder engines were good engines
they could last a long time the rest of the vehicle bad they're okay you know
but but 3,800 was a very good engine that's the one thing a lot of the GM the
engines are okay it's not to make transmissions the air conditioning
electronic sickle band on those things a lot, millarca balsa is in the future
everybody who can't afford a tesla will buy a VW electric vehicle or a Chinese
electric vehicle you know we should add ford electric vehicle because ford
just signed a deal with Volkswagen that they're gonna be working on electric
cars together so for to probably get in there hey these people are stupid if
there is a future transportation device they're gonna get their hands and
they're gonna start making them talk for it also invested five hundred million
dollars into that Michigan company that makes electric pickups like I always
said it's probably gonna be a long time before it's mainstream electric vehicles
but these guys are getting their hands on a pie in the beginning they're not
stupid businessmen car says yes Scotty's a bit rough on cars leans jacks on cars
puts on tires on gravel throws remaining bits to the side yes I'm a
mechanic and I am just like the people who are lion tamers you have to realize
that you have to show the machines who's boss and after all they are machines I do not
give them names like I got some customers that call their cars Sally or
Joe or whatever know their machines they should be treated like machines and
they're forgetting you from here to there and now if you want to be an
absolute fanatic about everything do the stuff yourself you know do your own work
I know mechanic and he is so anal he has his tools and on the wall he has
a picture outlined of the tool so he knows well that one fits right over its
outlined and ever too much for me my garage is pigsty but I don't care
I fix people's cars make them happy and show people how to save money and that's
what I'm doing and I'm not gonna change so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell