rev up your engines, toby says do recalls last a long time, well
at least here in the us recalls last forever as long as the company is still around, if
a car is recalled for something then it has to be fixed forever there's no time limit
on it, but it's only recalled once, you buy a car that's 10 years old and you see it's
got a recall for it and you got to replace the engine, well if you go in and they give
the vin number and they run it and say oh the previous owner had the engine replaced
under this recall you don't get another one, but there's no time limit on them in the us
if it's recalled it's recalled forever, cuz a lot of it is for safety reasons and the
want to keep thing safe the don't want to un recall thing that are for safety reasons,
cap says I got a 1998 accord the ac doesn't work the repair costs are more than the car
is worth, I live in Georgia and it's going to be hot soon what should I do, move to Alaska,
I don't know how humid it is where you are, guys actually can use swamp coolers that you
can stick in the window that use the evaporation of fibers and that will cool you off, but
if you live in a humid area they don't work at all you know, you roll your windows down
and wear shorts all the time, if it's more than the car is worth it's really not worth
fixing, now when I was young conversion kits and converted an entire car that didn't have
ac to have ac for a little bit of money, but today I've actually priced it for customers
and it was too high, these kits now cost just as much as repairing them with the factory
parts so your not going to save any money doing that either,
logan walker says scotty what could be the cause of a rough idle in an 03 silverado,
it's 225,000 miles and runs good when it's driving, that many miles the engine is somewhat
worn, first thing you would do is have all 8 spark plugs taken out of the engine, and
have what's called a wet and dry compression test done, you take the compression of all
8 cylinders dry, then you put like 1/2 tbsp of oil one at a time in each cylinder and
then do the wet compression readings, if you find that the pressure goes up in a lot of
them when it's wet it means the piston rings are worn out and there's nothing you can do
but rebuild the engine, those though that are close and the engine still shows good
compression, it can be that you have a vacuum leak it's sucking air you can check for vacuum
leaks, it could be that as old as that thing is the fuel injectors are probably dirty,
you could have the fuel injectors pressured cleaned, I have a video on that how to clean
fuel injectors without removal from the engine, there's a lot of things you can check, but
start with the compression test cuz it could just be the engine is flat worn out, and they'll
idle poor but they can run good once they get going, always check something like that
first cuz you don't want to be running all over only to find out the engine is worn,
geek says scotty I got a 2000 honda accord is has loose transmission mounts, bad ac control
unit and leaks water in the drivers floor, is it time to move on, it runs great, well
you know it depends on the mileage and what it looks like, your going to put some money
on that stuff if you're going to have a mechanic fix it, so if you're going to have a mechanic
fix it my advice is I'd say move on, if you're going to fix it yourself though and you want
to try and fix it a little here and there and you don't mind rigging things like you
say it has a bad ac control unit, well if you can put a toggle switch on the dash, and
run a wire from the battery to the toggle switch and the toggle switch to the ac compressor
and then it blows cold you can do that yourself, I got videos showing people how to do it so
you know if you're going to fix a little bit yourself maybe try that,
fernandez says should I buy a 2010 toyota fj cruiser, well if you like it go right ahead,
their well built vehicles and they don't make them anymore, I think it was more of a marketing
thing for toyota, cuz I mean their kind of gas hogs, they use a lot of fuel up, but they
do run and don't have any real problems, and if you like that type of vehicle and your
happy with the gas mileage that it gets and how it rides go right ahead, you know I got
customers with them that love them their nuts about them and they'll probably never get
rid of them, but they stopped making them, it was a marketing thing on toyotas behalf
really, hermit says scotty I want to buy my first
used suv what would be your choice affordable please, ok your going in the wrong direction,
affordable and suvs at least the good ones they don't belong in the same sentence, their
so popular everybody wants them, so the sales price of them is high and higher and higher
and higher, your always going to pay a lot of money for them, now I mean the best ones
out there are the toyotas and lexus but you're never going to get one cheap that's less than
250-350,000 miles on it cuz everybody knows their good vehicles, if you got a limited
amount and you want something that might last a few years you could always try something
like a ford explorer, you know I got customers that bought used ones that had reasonable
mileage for $3-4,000 and they had them for a few years and they were ok, you know you're
never going to find a toyota in that price range unless it's got tons of miles cuz everybody
knows their good cars, and their going to pay a lot of money for them, if you really
have to have an suv that's what your stuck in, I mean if you want a good used car you
can find corollas and camrys all over the place but the suvs the prices are always high,
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