rev up your engines, teriyaki one-two-three, asks what do you
think about newer Honda Odysseys 2006 and up, the Honda Odysseys have always had
problems with their automatic transmissions, period they just do
and even the 2007-08s, I had customers that they went bad on them, they just have
never built good automatic transmissions, and I had some customers with the
odyssey's that have the v6 engines, the cams were wearing out in the engines and
they had to replace the cams, rebuild the engines which is a very expensive
proposition, Honda did replace a lot of automatic transmissions free when people
found out and called them up, but really I'm still not a fan of them, Toyota Sienna
vans lasts so much longer and have so little problems, that it would be
foolhardy to buy an odyssey van versus the Sienna van if you want something
that's reliable, erased identity that's a good one, says Scotty I've got an 04
Pontiac GTO for ten years, starting to show massive age, needs a ton of parts, ditch it
or rebuild this non classic GTO thanks, well I mean if you're nuts about it, and you
want to rebuild it, but it's never gonna be a classic, you even said non classic
so it's never gonna be worth all that much money, if you're gonna spend
thousands and thousands, I wouldn't advise doing it since it's not a classic
those things are never gonna be classics, they made too many of them and had too
many problems with them as they age so, I'd probably say nix on that one
Peter Rodriguez and Peter says, hey Scotty I'm looking to buy an 87 Chevy
350, but what car or truck to buy that's best to own, I'm not a GM fan but back
then they made pretty solid vehicles, you want a 350, I'd say you want
a truck just get their 350 full-sized pickup truck, I got customers that still
owns one of those things with a v8 and it will still burn rubber, and even
though it's an automatic transmission, it still works and they didn't even have to
rebuild it yet, they made them pretty solid back then, the main thing though is
depending on where you live, you want to check for rust damage usually in the frame
if you live like in Michigan or New York or someplace where they throw salt on the
road in the winter, you want to check the frame because if the frames rot and you
don't want to buy it, it's not worth buying
but as long as the frame solid, those big old 350 v8 engines can go forever
Abdullah and he says Scotty, my car has a weird sound, it looks like it's
coming from the pulleys, I drive it about 20
minutes it goes away, what's the problem well your fan belts drive an awful lot
of stuff, so you say make some noise when you start and then quiets down when it
gets hotter, that's kind of a classic sign of either the water-pump
or the alternator, so what you want to do is, take the fan belts off when it's cold,
and then start spinning all the pulleys one at a time, and when one of them
starts going and others are quiet, you know that the bearings are wearing out
on that particular pulley system, it's an easy way to do it, that's how I do it
as a mechanic when I'm checking stuff out so just take the fan belts off when it's
cold spin them all and you'll probably find that
one is making the noise and you know that's the
worn out one, Kevin Michael says what's the best new battery for a 2015 s60 t5 Volvo
okay you get one of those absorbent glass mat batteries the AGM batteries, they
hold more power they tend to last longer if you take care of the vehicle, they do
cost an awful lot more, but Volvo's have very high tech electronics and you want
to have a battery that has an awful lot of power in reserve, so that if something
goes wrong all the electronics will still work correctly, and one that can
take lots of start and stopping, especially if you live in a cold area, a
lot of people have Volvo's up north where it's cold, and that battery's gonna
hold up a lot more, you pay a lot more money for them yes, but they do last
longer and they put out more power as long as you maintain them like anything
else you, keep corrosion off of them, spray them with the anti-corrosion sprays
so they don't get any build-up, and that's probably the best one for that
volvo, Mark Williams and Mark says, my driver-side power seats switch stopped
working, it's stuck in a position that's uncomfortable for me, nobody carries the
switch, the dealership wants 200 bucks for a
switch, I want to keep it what are the options thanks, okay well if you really
want to be cheap, it's a switch, take the switch out, find out which are power and which
are ground, and which ones you give power and ground to, to move it back and
forth, and just do that until you get in a position that you want it in and leave
it there, that makes the absolute most sense, and if you can't figure that out,
a lot of them, you can take the motor off, take the seat out of the car take
the motor off, and then put it in a position that you want and just lock it
in place there, by either putting the motor back in, or if you have it in a
position that you want, you could just put a couple of bolts and nuts on the
frame itself in that position, and bolt it down there, I've done that for people
when they didn't want to spend a fortune fixing one of those chairs, it got stuck
in a bad position, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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