Rev up your engines, good day from Australia would you recommend
the toyota 86 as a first manual car, also in Australia there's restrictions on first
cars, what other North American standard cars would you recommend, interesting, restrictions
on first cars, I guess they don't want you to have too much horsepower,
they know you Aussies are all crazy huh, yeah the toyota 86 you know it's a Subaru,
it's got the boxer subaru engine, toyota for some weird reason they make great cars, but
they've always messed with sports cars with other people's engines,
the first real toyota sports car that they made was made in the 1960's and they only
made a few thousand of them, it had a Yamaha engine in it,
then the Celicas for a while had a Yamaha motorcycle basically designed engine and now
their going with Subaru, and subarus can have problems here and there
but if you get a manual transmission in one, that's their weak point their automatics,
their fun to drive, I got a customer that bought one and I do have to say, I'm kind
of disappointed, they did buy an automatic transmission and
to me it was a very slow car, I mean I thought it was kind of slow car but you get a manual
transmission it would be a lot quicker, it could be fun to drive and I'm sure they'll
last, rankin says scotty I got 2003 nissan frontier,
I've never changed the automatic transmission fluid, should I do it now thanks,
well if it's working perfectly fine, no, and here's why, when fluid is working in the
automatic transmission it uses fluid dynamics to drive your car,
it's actually the fluid and the friction inside that's inside the torque converter that's
making your car go, and it has to be that was because in an automatic
transmission, you step on the brake and come to stop, the engine is still spinning,
if it was a manual transmission and you had it in gear the car would stall, the reason
automatic don't stall is because they have the torque converter and that has some slippage
and when you're stopped, it slips and it doesn't stall the engine,
well when you get an old vehicle and the fluid gets dirty, dirty fluid has more friction
in it and if you change it now, and put real clean fluid in, it's more slippery and I've
seen people do that and then the transmission slips and it didn't before it changed the
fluid, that old I'd leave it alone, if you buy it brand new and change it every
50-60,000 miles you keep doing it, if you don't and you got a lot of mileage,
don't change it now it could destroy things, why gamble, that things has a certain lifespan
anyways it's a nissan automatic transmission so it's going to wear out anyways,
I wouldn't push my luck on that, scotty I have a 07 toyota tundra that needs
an air pump, they say for smog, can I just unplug them
since they cost over $2,000 to replace, here's the thing, that was a design flaw on the v8
engine, it was a very poor design, and if it runs ok otherwise, all it is, is
a anti pollution device, if you live in an area where they don't do
anti pollution inspection on your cars and you unplug it, no one is going to know or
care, but if you live in an area where you get your
car inspected, it's never going to pass the inspection legally, so that's more or less
your choice, I know I got people calling me from North Dakota and say, scotty they don't
inspect anything here we take everything off, catalytic converter, smog pumps,
and if nobody cares, realize your going to be polluting the air a little bit more, but
if you live in an area where they do inspections you'll never get it legally inspected,
all that stuff, sometimes on the toyotas if it does break and if it sucks too much air,
it will make it run way too lean and it will actually run poorly and then you'd have to
fix the thing, but I've seen a bunch of them here where they run ok, but they just trip
the code for the smog pump because they basically built them wrong, you take it off and it runs
better, like I said it's not going to hurt anything other than you can't get it legally
inspected if you live in an area where they legally inspect it,
modern hustler, we recently bought an 05 crown vic for a first time driver, what do you think
we paid $2,000 and it has 96,000 miles is that a good deal,
hey if it runs good and works good, yeah that's a good deal, everyone knows those things are
called grandpa cars and grandma cars but they can last a long time, 96,000 miles is nothing
for those that probably has a v8 and those engines can run forever,
and since it's a newer one 05, on the highway I've got customers that get 20 something miles
a gallon driving them around on the highway, it could be a very good car and of course
it's very safe because it's so big, so it's a first time driver, you're going to feel
a lot safer inside one of those than you are in a little honda civic or smart car or something
because it is a big car and it has air bags, daniel says scotty I have a manual car and
it still has a cable, it makes a strange noise when I push the clutch
and after I push it a whole bunch of times the sound goes away what could it be,
ok well it's a cable, the first thing you want to do is get yourself a flashlight, you
know one of those small ones like I have that are super bright and look at both ends of
the cable under the dash and the other end where it goes into the transmission and make
sure the cables aren't bad, if those cables are bad their a bunch of strands together
and if some of them are bad get another cable assembly right away, if they aren't bad, get
some good lubrication oil, I'm a motorcycle guy so you can go to any motorcycle shop or
go to Amazon or Ebay and buy a can of motorcycle cable spray lub, it's a special lub just for
cables and lubricate the thing and then, it's a good idea to lubricate cables anyways, they
never tell you to because they want them to wear out but if you do they last a lot longer,
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