Rev up your engines, mt says is it bad to wait until it's empty
to fill up a car is that a myth, well in the olden days it meant more, because in the olden
days fuel tanks were all made out of steel, stamped steel because it's cheaper to make
them, eventually water would build up, it would
rust inside and all the rust and crud would stay in the bottom of the gas tank, so when
you got low and it starts sloshing around, it would suck all that crud and rust and it
would clog up the pump, most cars for the last decade, decade and
a half sometime two and a half decades have plastic gas tanks, because their even cheaper
to make, but plastic doesn't rust so you never get any rust in them so you don't really have
to worry about it, but here's the thing you never want to run out of gas in any car because
your fuel pump is inside the gas tank, it's soaked in gasoline, it's to lubricate it and
cool it off, the gas cools it off, and if you actually do run out of gas, that pump
instead of sucking gas now sucks air because you ran out of gas,
that air will burn the pump out, because as nutty as it sounds the gasoline running inside
the pump is what lubricates the bearings and when you run out of gas and it sucks air,
the bearings are running air and your fuel pump will burn out and on some modern cars
it's a $1,500 job to change the fuel pump assembly so you don't want to run it too low,
captain says scotty are geo metros well made I know they stopped making them in 2001 and
I keep seeing them driving around, how are they still driving,
ok geo metros, the geo metros were 3 cylinder engines, and originally they were Suzuki 3
cylinder engines, I guess some of them were later made in Hungary or something but GM
had nothing to do with making the engine, they were very underpowered vehicles for the
US market, and Americans are lazy they always want automatic transmissions and you get a
tinny engine with an automatic transmission, they were terrible and Americans don't change
oil enough so a lot of the engines burnt out, but I had customers that bought them with
manual transmissions, changed the oil all the time and they loved them, they wanted
a little car and they liked them and they could still run,
you can make cars run if you take care of them, the Russians are riding those Ladas
around and people kept them going for decades because that's all they had, so you know you
can take care of them, the only problem of course is getting parts for them, getting
parts for them can be a pain in the butt, of course you can get them so cheap it doesn't
really matter, Maj says scotty I have a 2004 Jetta TDI with
480,000 miles, the 4th gear is slipping, whats required to fix it, if the only thing that's
slipping is 4th gear all the other ones aren't, you got to rebuild the transmission, it means
the transmission is worn out, hey you know you got what, 480,000 miles, that's a lot
of miles, you know that's the thing, the manual transmissions VW made are pretty good, their
automatics stink but the manuals are good, and if it's a diesel engine they can last
a long time, if you don't want to pay somebody to rebuild
the whole transmission, get a used one from a junkyard, odds are the other one last 480,000
miles, maybe you could find one with 180,000 miles and it will last another 300,000 miles,
if you can't find anybody to rebuild that transmission right, get a used one and put
it in, I have customers that do that all the time,
anna says what do you think about 93 honda accords, those were well made vehicles, back
then, 26 years ago honda and toyota they were pretty much neck and neck for who built the
best cars in the world, honda has slipped down a lot more lately but
back then those things were great cars, and back then they made better automatic transmissions
than they do in some of the newer ones, and in 93 of course I didn't really have any
customers having any problems with the transmission back then, and if it's a manual transmission
it will last forever, so they were pretty well made back then, but of course if you're
thinking about buy one, realize you're thinking about buying a 26
year old car, stuff is going to break I got a customer that bought a Prelude and all the
stuff is just breaking because it's so old, things break and wear out from friction, it
happens with any car, eric says scotty what do you think about the
lexus sc 430, here's the thing lexus makes great cars, but
that's a v8 engine and the v6 engines like my wife's car 300 or 330's any of the v6 ones,
the v6 ones actually last longer get better gas mileage and don't cost as much to maintain,
those v8's are well made cars but as they age they cost a lot of money,
I've had a few customers buy an old one, it's a v8 lexus and then they had to put a lot
of money into it, I mean I'm talking about ones that have 200-300,000 miles or more and
the things just wear out, but with the v6 ones, they tend to last longer, if you're
thinking about getting a lexus I'd rather go for a v6 than a v8 if I were you, it makes
more sense from what I've seen, Juan says I got a 2006 Infiniti g35 I just
replaced the belts but it still squeaks when the weather is blow 40 do you have any ideas
how to fix it, if it has automatic tensioners, replace the
tensioners, because the tensioners get old they don't tighen right and they'll squeal,
now if you have a brand new belt and it fits right,
and you have a brand new tensioner and it still squeaks that means that you have a problem
in something that drives, like the alternator bearings are starting to wear out, or the
power steering is starting to wear out and then it strains the belt too much and makes
it squeak, but in your case I'm assuming that either
the automatic tensioners is bad or the belts themselves weren't tightened up enough especially
if they have manually adjusted fan belt, when you put those on, you actually have to run
it for a few hours and then readjust them because they stretch a little bit as their
new and wear and then you got to tighten them back up,
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