thank you all for the 1 billion YouTube views yes thanks to all you viewers out
there and now the number one do-it-yourself car repair channel on
YouTube you might think Scotty's making it up well here we go
check it out 1 billion seven million eight hundred twenty-six thousand nine
hundred and thirty five and Counting now people can say what does number one mean
well to me it only means one thing I'm the first one to get over 1 billion
views on a car repair channel so why does so many people watch me well
probably has something to do with the fact that I've been working on cars for
over 52 years now and I'm sharing all their knowledge in a way that the
average person can understand I'm not a sponsored guy you don't see me pushing
stuff that people are trying to sell now I do try products out I fix cars for a
living you gotta fix cars with parts and tools that's just a no-brainer but I
tell you the truth about him and if you check the side of my garage you'll see
there's what a lot of the failed products go there's just piles and piles
of them their course is more inside the garage in the main part too I test things
not honestly to see two things do they work as claimed and at a decent price
for the work that they do so if you've ever sent me any kind of tools or
products and you haven't seen them yet hope that it's one I'm still testing out
and not one that failed my test I'm not gonna talk about and you really want to
hope that it's a product that isn't so bad that I will feature it as one of the
worst products I've ever seen I get a lot of Chinese stuff especially things
that operate on apps the apps our entire garbage and I tell people don't even
think about buying one of those the app doesn't even work people say oh Scotty
he's an old guy he's an old mechanic he doesn't understand new cars well I'm an
old dog that learns new tricks I work on all the modern stuff too it's actually
kind of interesting the minor stuff used to drive me nuts because I had to keep
buying all of his equipment all these tools well not anymore the companies
sell me all the stuff and I try them on if they're good they get free PR I'll
show a tool then I think work quite well so I have to buy a stuff anymore like
this Pico scope automotive oscilloscope Pico scope
company Hey they gave it to me and it works quite
well but on the other hand I'm not here showing you too much technology because
that's not something you can use I mean if you're interested in learning how it
works totally fine but I am more into showing you things you can do yourself
or even you know do things yourself what car should you buy we're good on cars
for 52 years I seen some good cars some ok cars and some junker cars I try to
steer people away from buying the junker cars or buying really expensive tools
that you don't need for example this is an auto tell scanner
there's about 3,500 bucks it's a great scanner for professional mechanics
professional mechanic like myself you have to have one of these things if
you're serious about working on cars but if you're working on your own you're not
gonna shell out that kind of money because a quality dongle USB receiver
this one just plugs into USB port and a blue driver you use the software on your
phone does an excellent job for some relatively complex repairs if you want
to go that far it's certain of most mechanics these days charge about 120
dollars an hour labor oh one of those new drivers for 99 bucks hey it's a
pretty good deal if it's any car in the United States from 96 up so if it's an
awful lot of cars I can show you a lot of stuff you can do yourself I translate
the uber complex stuff the simplest way I can possibly explain it to anyone so
they can either fix their car or at least know what system is going on to
help the mechanic find out to keep them Kanak ripping you off because you know
more than you did before or let's say you're buying a used car you plug one of
those in and you find problems you don't buy the used car that really saves you a
lot of money not only interest of truth I do get paid for these videos every
time you watch one of my videos I make a little bit less than one penny I really
all you gotta do is watch the ad you're not even paying me a penny it's indirect
Google ads right but look what you're getting all this information I build up
over the years and I can help you out with getting a billion views hasn't
changed me at all look at my garage it's just the big of a mess as it was before
my 94 silks are still sitting in a driveway s's the sailboat that has vines
growing on it that hasn't seen water for quite some
time except during thunderstorms like we just had the only real regret I have is
that I don't get to ride my motorcycle around as much as I used to cuz I'm too
busy making videos but rain or shine I'll continue making videos to help
people following what technology has changed what remains the same which
companies are still making good products which companies have started to slip
which tools they're coming out you might really want to get oh which ones you
might say that's too much money why should I waste my money on that no
really you're only as old as you think you are now my brain still thinks that
I'm 20-something years old don't look in mirrors very often you don't want to
face reality as one of my old friends once said hey Scott he's old but
he doesn't act old, my wife still says I kind of like a three-year-old I'm at sixteen
year old people that acted like there were 96 I've also met 96 year old people
they acted like they were six I think I take the ladder anytime how one guy like
me with one camera has gotten a billion views well I'm kind of shading it down I
got more than one camera I've got quite a few spare cameras yes I have quite a
few cameras actually because I keep upgrading them but they're all
Panasonic's man they're great cameras I can't argue that I buy them myself
Panasonic doesn't give them to me there's no script writers here no magic
green screens just Scotty telling you the truth about cars and occasionally
about life thanks again for the billion plus YouTube views and don't forget to
check out my new channel Autonauts garage and here's some bonus questions
and answers Hobie Jerry Liu says Scotty I heard it's better to turn off your AC
before you shut off the car and then turn it back on after start the car is
that true well it was a long time ago in the 1960s if you had a car back then
there they see nowadays vehicles have relays that are safety devices for
everything and I used to think that was true for all cars but I had to discuss
him decades ago with a really good engineer that I personally know and I
know he's not a BS artist and he explained doesn't really matter anymore
you can do whatever you want to relay save absolutely
everything you can turn on you can turn it off now let's say you got card it's
kind of worn out well it's better to turn it off before you start the car cuz it's
a little bit of strain not that much but a little bit of strain on the vehicle
but it's for a turning off before you shut off the car doesn't matter how you
just turning the car off but you really don't have to worry in any modern
car and on that modern car in any car in the last 20 years a lot Robbo 700 thought
says I got a 2018 Ford Flex took it in service and they wanted the air filter
changed quote was 60 bucks plus they recommend an evaporator core cleaning
for 150 bucks because they said it seemed musty this is valid or an attempt
to pad the bill man they're padding like no tomorrow first of all just learn how
to do it yourself you can buy the filter and autozone for 10 bucks take you two
minutes learn how to take it out do that yourself and this evaporator cleaning
what a bunch of hoo-hah if you want to do that you could do that yourself all
you got to do is when you take the filter out spray a little Lysol inside
there and that'll clean any musty smell inside don't pay them 150 bucks a day
people are always trying to sell crap the people you know that's that's really
the reason I got into fixing cars in the first place so it's kid I met money to
fix cars I was gonna pay so many fix guys so I learned how to do it myself
and when I bought my house 44 years ago hey I learned how to do plumbing
electricity you name it I don't want to pay people to do something I can easily
do myself because it's not rocket science some person built this house or
some person me can fix it you learn how to do stuff yourself you're gonna save a
lot of money and a lot of grief to rabbito moebus says Scotty my 2012 Camry
actually Hybrid uses a dreaded replaceable paper oil filter inside one
of those dumb canisters the original filter is pretty poor but it appears
that Toyota Racing Development doesn't make a filter for my car amsoil bosch
ACDelco make them all to be suitable replacement what's the best filter for
that I go with a Bosch on that cuz they're made out of better material the
good ones are made out of synthetic material I just did one the other day
the guy bought the filter and I looked at sure enough it said high quality
replacement filter and I looked at it it was high quality and the Bosch makes
pretty good ones I've had that's what the Bosch filters always buy
the high-end ones though if you get a choice don't go to like autozone or
someplace and by the $2 99-cent filters are the cheapest ones buy the ones that
cost a bit more than say the high mileage ones they're made better the
last longer and he'll filter better Frannie's off the wagon says I got a
2020 Ford Expedition I've messed around with putting fancy fenders and some
aftermarket parts on it and I took battery out so in short hang out and now
my running boards don't pop out and then like they're supposed to help
theoretically those things are made so that when you disconnect the battery and
put it in it's supposed to automatically reset itself but I've seen on those
late-model ones like that that's a 20/20 sometimes the software is a little bit
weak so what you can do is you can manually reset it you go to the dash
screen on settings and then set the PRB when it comes to PRB to automatic has
probably got off of automatic amongst you set it to automatic that will
automatically reset everything that's what I did in the one that I worked now
I got a fancy scan tool that does it real fast but you can do it by going to
settings on a dash go to pRb and then reset it to automatic and it should go
back to working normally kind of a glitch on the software I was supposed to
do it by itself automatically but it didn't so now you know if you ever do it
again you can just go through that rigmarole and reset it to automatic if
it didn't went back to manual just reset it to automatic
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