rev up your engines, summer says, I have a car I want
to paint it another color, do I need to reprime it, it's gonna be from green to
red, let me tell you something never change the color of a car, because if you
paint over the old paint, every time you get a door hinge or a little chip that
old paint pops up and it looks horrible, if you really want to go from green to
red you have to strip the entire car, down to
the bare metals, then reprime it and then paint it
sad but true, that's the only way to do it, now I know people who've done it I've
seen it at good body shops, and I've seen guys spend seven, eight, nine, ten thousand
dollars getting their car completely stripped and everything taken apart
painted and then all put back together, it's not worth it for most cars to spend
that kind of money on a paint job, that's why you always want to paint in
the same color, you paint them over you get a little chip it looks okay, but
you got to strip it down to the bare metal if you want to change colors, and
that is an in sane job to do that right, I mean face it you know they paint the
cars before they even put the engines in the cars, so you'd have to paint the
inside of the engine, you got pull the engine out for that, it's insane you
don't really want to do it, especially green to red, Johnson says why do
Corvettes lose their value so fast, there are high on sports car, and high end sports
cars generally always lose their value for two reasons, one they charge way too
much for them, they have a high profit margin, so they depreciate quickly just because
of that they're marking them up too much, high-end sports cars people generally
buy it for one reason, to beat the heck out of them and drive like maniacs, they
often are as the horse expression goes, ridden hard and put up wet, where they
on't walk it around so it cools down, or often worn out and when you buy
a used Corvette a lot of times the engine or
transmission is just flat worn out and you got to put a lot of money into it, that's
the problem with buying a used Corvette and that's why the values are so low
Ford Escort drivers says Scotty, chevy cavalier or Dodge Neon which is worse
well there I would have to say that the chevy is better than the Dodge, the Dodge
neons were you know they were all made in
Mexico they had poor quality control, you ride on the road the fillings in your
teeth fell out when you hit bumps, they were a small
wheel base andhorrible suspension systems, the Cavalier there are people that
actually like those cars, they tended to fall apart as they got older, but I had
some customers with Cavaliers that had one hundred and sixty thousand and they still
ran okay, and I've never seen a Dodge Neon go that far, they were just you know
terrible little runabout cars that they wanted to sell a cheap small car and
that's exactly what you got a cheap small car, chance says Scotty
is there a difference in reliability between the two wheel drive BMW
four-wheel drive BMW, yes their certainly is, BMWs are money pits as they age but
if you get a four-wheel drive one you've doubled the depth of that money pit
they've had a lot of problems with their four-wheel drive systems as they age and
customers of mine when they had them, the ones that were lawyers and doctors
who didn't care, and then just one of them fixed, some of them spent ten twelve
thousand dollars getting those four-wheel drive systems fixed, the
two-wheel drive systems they don't have as many problems, there's less weight
they get better gas mileage, they're still expensive to repair, but the
four-wheel drive ones are much more expensive to repair, not that I tell
anybody to buy either of them, mg says I got a 2009 Ford Ranger, good pick yes or
no, depends on if it's been taken care of, it's ten year
old Ranger they can last a really long time, it's
modern enough it's 2009, a lot of computer controls, before you buy a
vehicle like that you have a guy like me hook up his dealer level scan tool, and spend
an hour analyzing it and driving it around, and if he says it's good, go ahead
and buy it, they can last a really long time but like any modern car, everything is
computer run they can't hide that computer information from a high-level
scan tool, doesn't matter if they unplugged warning lights and stuff that
means nothing to the computer, the computer stores all that info, so you
want a guy to check it out first and if he says it's okay, it could be a good car
your gonna save money buying a 10 year old pickup truck, but I've customers
with them that lasted a long time 21 cabbage, I bought a 95 celica st with
50,000 miles for 2k any thoughts, okay if it really only has 50,000 miles on it
you got a great deal, now the problem is proving whether that's real or not, I
mean you know that's what it's a 25 year old vehicle,
and that it only has 50,000 miles on it that's you know not very many miles, but
if it is real, hey take care of it that's old so check all the rubber,
the brakes, the wheels, pull off the wheels check all the brake cylinders make sure
they're not leak, look at all the rubber parts replace cracked ones stuff
like that.
and I mean change the coolant and take care of it, but if it is real,
but see me do a little research to see if it is real, because a lot of guys just
lying they'll take a speedometer out of an old wrecked car and stick it in make
it look like it's got less mileage on it so if you never want to miss another one of
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