Rev up your engines, tyler says scotty what's the best type of
brake pad to buy, now when I was a kid brake pads were made out of asbestos, it takes heat,
it stops really well, it doesn't have any problem with overheating, they were nice and
silent, but of course asbestos causes lung cancer, it's against the law in the US to
sell that stuff, they still sell it in some parts of the world, but they don't anymore
because it causes lung cancer, over the years decades ago when they started getting rid
of the asbestos, they didn't know how to make brake pads so they made them and some of them
were fiber glass and they made horrible noises when they were almost brand new, they coated
them and when the coating came off they made noise, but today the ceramic pads are the
best and if you want the best of the best, if they make akebono pads use them because
they seem to make the ceramic mixture, they last a long time, they stop well, and they
really don't make any noises, which is great having one that doesn't make any noise and
lasts a long time, so the good ceramic ones are the best ones to use these days,
Sebastion says what car should I get, an 04 toyota camry LE or a 2007 lexus es 350 b,
it depends on what you got in your pocket book, and how much you want to spend, the
toyota camry le those things can run forever, their nice cars they ride quite well, the
lexus es 350 b is more of a luxury car, it's going to get worse gas mileage, it's going
to cost more money to fix as it ages because the parts cost more the luxury cars than they
do for the normal cars, even though it's the same company making them toyota makes both
of them, how much money do you want to spend, how much
do you want to spend for insurance, it's going to be cheaper to insure the camry than it
is the lexus, you got to put all that together and decide what you want, their kind of apples
and oranges there, I mean me if I wanted a dependable transportation I'd get the camry,
if you wanted a luxury car get the lexus, your just going to pay more for the lexus,
even though it's the same company that makes them, the parts still cost a lot more for
the lexus than they do for the camry, sunny says scotty my 2008 dodge avenger gets
terrible gas mileage like 350 km a tank in the city anything I can do to improve it,
in the city it gets horrible gas mileage, it's probably the way your driving, I remember
when I was a young mechanic and I was learning from my grandfather, we had a customer who
had a buick and he said the same thing, I'm getting horrible gas mileage in town, so my
grandfather looked at it and he said it's running fine let's take it for a ride, he
went for a ride with the customer and the guy would just slam on the brakes when he
got to a stop sign and then he would slam on the accelerator and peel out going and
my grandfather said, it's the way your driving it's not the car, that's just the way it is,
if it runs perfectly fine, mechanics like myself have very expensive equipment that
we can take a car like that hook it up, road test it, and then we can look at all the live
and mode 6 data and tell you if it's running right and if it's set up the correct way,
but if you drive real fast in town in that car your going to get horrible gas mileage,
that's just the way that it goes, as an example for a week I had a shelby cobra gt500, I got
3 miles a gallon driving it in town because I was driving like a maniac, and that's just
the way those cars are going to be if you drive them hard,
shelly says scotty I got a 99 vw beetle, she needs a little work and is high mileage should
I put money into her, no, unless your nuts about the thing and you want to keep it forever,
and if it's a manual transmission cuz their so much better with a manual transmission,
their automatic transmissions are garbage, if it's an automatic transmission for sure
don't put money into it, it's not worth putting it in, you'd put many times more than what
the car is worth doing a transmission over, I know guys that have the diesel version with
the manual transmission and the like them and they keep them up and if they like that
vehicle, hey keep putting money and fixing it, there's nothing wrong with that, but if
it's a gasoline one with an automatic transmission don't put money into it it's not worth it,
jc says I got a 2002 Lincoln navigator it's hard to start but it runs fine after it warms
up any ideas, when a car is hard to start up but then it warms up and it runs fine,
you got to figure out why it's not starting, it's either not getting correct spark to the
engine, or correct fuel to the engine, so you got to pin point which one it is, I've
got a video, fixing a car that cranks but doesn't start up, you can watch that, that
will show you what you can test, you can test the fuel pressure, you can test all kinds
of things, knowing Lincolns and that thing is 17 years old, a lot of times it's just
a weak fuel pump, which you can have pressure tested, give it to a mechanic let it sit overnight
and when he tries to start it he'll have a gauge on the fuel pressure and if he see's
it's got no fuel pressure or low fuel pressure then you know it needs a new fuel pump, pray
it's something that simple because it can be a worn out fuel injectors, it can be vacuum
leaks, it can be all kinds of things, but you'd want to pressure test the fuel pump
first, that's the most logical thing, so if you never want to miss another one of
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