Rev up your engines, vapor ac says scotty I have a 03 chevy tahoe
with 245,000 miles, it looks like it rolled off the show room floor and the engine is
going strong, would it be worth putting a new transmission in,
well in that case it would, if you like it and it runs fine, it looks great, why not,
but here's what you want to do, you want to put in a factory remanufactured transmission,
don't go to some clown that says, oh I can rebuild it for $1,200 or something, get a
factory remanufactured unit, I've had customers do that and then they get many more years
out of it, but don't go to some place that says they can rebuild them, half those guys
don't know what their doing anymore and I've just read the other day in a car magazine,
33% of the automatic transmissions rebuilt in the US fail, so one out of every three
that's rebuilt somewhere isn't rebuilt right, so you want a factory remanufactured one,
and then it might last a lot more years, who knows, they don't make them like they used
to and back then they were solid built, the newer ones no, blue Subaru says, good morning
scotty should I get a Subaru 2005 or a Mazdaspeed as a first car, both of those manufacturers
have weak automatic transmissions, that said, if you were going to get them in
a manual transmission, either the subaru or the mazda, I would get the mazda with the
manual transmission, because the subarus have some head gasket problems and the mazdas don't
really have any head gasket problems, but if you're getting an automatic transmission,
I would go mazda versus subaru, because the subaru automatic transmissions are worse than
the mazda ones, team raid says should I but a 1977 spitfire with 44 thousand miles, a
77 spitfire was probably one of the worst cars the English ever made, guys like them
because their cute and all this stuff, but they were so cheaply made and that was
right before pretty much they went bankrupt and stopped making cars, but if it's only
got 44 thousand miles on it and you can get it cheap enough and you want a toy, there's
nothing wrong with buying a toy and playing around with it,
but don't think you can drive that as an every day driver, it would be a toy, you could still
get parts for them and stuff but don't pay much, it's worth nothing it not a real collectors
item, they made a bunch of them and they were really poorly made cars I mean, even in 1977
if it's an American model it had to have catalytic converters and it didn't work well with the
dual carbs they put on them, I mean they were disasters to work on, I used on a lot of them,
david tmz says, 1990 buick roadmaster, do they make great cars, they were pretty good
cars back then, I had a customer that had 350,000 miles on one of those, if you take
care of it and drive it conservatively, they can last a long time, what would eat up a
bunch of those when those first came out, I had customers with them that were happy,
but I had some customers that didn't like them, and the problem was, the engines were
really strong, but they were stronger than the transmissions,
now if you're a grandma or grandpa and drove them conservatively, it didn't matter because
you don't strain the transmission, but I had customers that bought those and they drove
the heck out of them, and they all burnt the transmissions out,
some of them even broke the flywheels of them, because they were spot welded, but if you
drive them conservative they can be great cars, but you don't think it's a race car,
the engines were pretty strong and if you really pushed them you'd burn the transmission
out, gw says scotty I got a 2013 chevy cruze there's
a tricking noise coming from under the dash, it sounds like it's coming from the fuse box
and my air quit working, any suggestions, my first suggestion would be never buy a chevy
cruze their junk, but you already bought it so you're stuck with it,
if your ac stopped working and you hear a clicking noise, pray, pray, that it's just
the ac relay, the electric relay for the ac, go get another one and put it in, pray that
fixes it and if it fixes it great, if not then you got a problem in the ac system and
the relay is clicking on and off because it knows it's going out if could be a bad compressor
and knowing gm's it can easily be a bad compressor, their very expensive and their very poorly
made, but pray it's just the ac relay, you can get
them cheap enough, put it in and pray that fixes it,
seth says scotty I got an 03 chevy silverado, when I turn it off it dies, I hooked up a
computer and I get camshaft sensor, could that be the problem and it's a new battery,
ok pray that it's only a bad camshaft sensor, their easy and cheap change that out, get
that changed out, because on those and it's old enough, if the timing chain of the engine
is worn, a lot of times the computer gets fooled, because the camshaft has a sensor
on it, but if the timing chain is worn, it fools the computer and it can give wrong data
for the sensor and it can trip a code for the sensor, and I've seen many people on those
engines, they'll change the sensor, thinking oh it's the sensor I'll just replace that,
and the code comes right back, because the timing chain itself is worn and it keeps tripping
that code, and that's a pretty expensive deal putting a timing chain in,
because if you do that you don't just put the chain you got to put new sprockets and
do everything correctly so I'd try the sensor first and pray it's just a sensor, sometimes
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