rev up your engines
dodge is at it again they just recalled 10,000 pickup trucks for fracturing driveshaft
problems he's a big truck she got the engine in the front and a big driveshaft
and then the rear differential drives him down the road turns out that they
didn't weld the things correctly in the back of the driveshaft and the weld can
snap off and while you're driving down the road the driveshaft can fly right
off they've always had problems with these dodges this is nothing new but
that they haven't fixed them it's amazing to me well actually it's not
amazing at all because now Fiat on someone of course if anything was going
to happen bad it's gonna be Fiat taking over Chrysler and the Italians getting
involved with a company they're already made poorly-designed adult vehicles
really can you imagine if you bought a brand new pickup truck these are ones
that were built between March 16 2018 and April 20th 2018 they gotta replace
the drive shaft assembly because the thing wasn't welded correctly now I mean
come on welding has been going on for a really really long time you would think
that they would have something as simple as welding things together down pat but
obviously somewhere online they cheapen the process and it isn't working right
and these weren't welded correctly or who knows maybe there's one guy in there
well do I know if it's a guy or a robot if it's a robot I guess you can't fire a
robot you just reprogram them huh mr. Hawkins Scotty do I really have to
use a battery saver memory tool to change my battery I've got a 2002 Toyota
Camry well you don't have to if you got one of those dumb radios that's got the
anti-theft device it'll reset that so make sure before you do that that you
have the code it originally came in the owners manual there's a little plastic card and it
had the radio code so when you change the battery you put the radio coding so
the radio would work and you'll find being a 2002 Camry if you don't put the
memory saver in and you put a new battery in it will idle bad
for a while because the computer will go back to the original settings and it'll
shake a lot at idle but after you drive it a couple of days live all right back
to normal all the computer will figure it out
I don't good so it's not like it's gonna do any permanent damage but if you don't
want to mess with any of that stuff you can get for 10 bucks on these battery
saver once you just plug it in the OBD part and then when you change the
battery it doesn't in fact any of the memory of the computer it's an easy
thing to do go on Amazon you get those things for like 10 bucks they don't cost
much and they'd fit all cars in the United States from 1995 on so you can
use them for everything Watto 8 i got a 98 Toyotas I heard you speak poorly I'm
the reason I got one for 350 bucks it runs great I've got fun with it you got
yourself a 22 year old Toyota for 350 bucks 250 bucks is nothing for cars if
that thing runs and goes down the road hey yeah you got a great deal but on the
other hand you just bought a Toyota for 350 bucks that kind of tells you that
they don't really have any much values mr. sells you got it so cheap somebody
saw the cheaper cuz odds are some kind of problems I'll tell you right now it's
98 yourself the things probably gonna end up burning oil because they have bad
valve seals in them but I mean you paid 350 bucks what the heck of it
runs and gets you from here to there and lasts more than a few months you're
coming out like a gangbuster realize the average total expense for an automobile
in the United States these days for the average American is a cost of about
$9,000 a year you just paid 350 for your car so if it lets you know any period of
time you're making out like a gangbuster, beaver says scotty first time driver I'm
looking about 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis with 56,000 miles on it what do you
think it's a 16 year old mercury but it's only got 56,000 miles I would
demand to see the proof that that's the real mileage of the vehicle look at the
inspection reports cuz they have the state inspections each year it
has the mileage in if the mileage makes sense in all those years if at one point
in time it says 120,000 miles then next year it says 40 you know they change
that's been honored if you don't mind driving a grandpa car is your first car
are the Mercury Grand Marquis are known as a grandpa car those things can run
forever especially got the v8 engines those v8 engines can just run and run
and run those are well made vehicles Julie yep Jake
Scotty what are your thoughts on an 03 tundra with 160k
miles guy is asking seven grants okay the tundra sir well-made pickup
trucks but he's asking too much money people always ask too much money for
Toyota pickup trucks the problem is this they look and see what these made-up
book value systems say and what they ask it to dealer for used ones well the
dealers they're all financing the car to you so they're getting paid so many
hundred dollars a month you're buying a car from an individual you're paying
cash or one lump sum therefore the price goes down that's just the world they're
not financed if the guy says oh no this what they're worth say okay well I'll
pay you so much month oh no I want the whole thing and say well the deal is
gonna sell me the same thing for the same price and I only have to pay him so
much a month so I'll go there and then you'll see the guy probably come down
brick gee I'm looking at a 2011 Toyota Highlander but not only has a
four-cylinder engine is that enough grunt depends on what you want to do
with the Highlander you just driving around I got cause doors in one the way
the floor bangers and are totally happy they drive all over the place take their
family on vacations to Yellowstone and stuff and we're in Texas it's a long
drive there's absolutely nothing wrong with it but if you're planning on towing
anything or carrying a lot of weight it'd be better off with a v6 cuz it's
got a lot more power that's just the way that it goes but go to a dealer Road
road test them and see how you feel with the power if you're happy with the for go
ahead and get it if you're not try the v6 if you're happy with the six you
can always road test those things for nothing that the dealers they're just drooling
at the mouth waiting for somebody to come in and wrote to us to try to sell
them a car so take advantage of that road test them see which ones you like
which ones you don't JK Scotty I got a Oh 5 Laredo 4x4 v6 sometimes when I
started the idle drive slow watch my video make your car run better with a
little spray cleaner you get two cans of spray cleaner for about maybe fourteen
bucks total both of them clean the throttle and clean the mass airflow sensor
clean it all and that might very well fix it now if it doesn't fix it then you
probably have a vacuum leak somewhere in that case watch my video finding engine
vacuum leaks with a cigar and you can blow smoke in a few cigar you can use
any kind of equipment to blow smoke in and see where there's a vacuum leak
because when you start an engine and it's cold if you got a vacuum leak
it's gonna make the otter go up and down as the computer compensates and makes it
go higher and then when it starts to get low the vacuum sucking too much air so
it goes low and then it tries to compensate and it goes up and down and
up and down so you could have a vacuum leak you can also use your ears if one
is doing it here then just follow your ears me if you're lucky just one of
those vacuum lines fell off or cracked and then you can put a new vacuum line
on and if you do my advice is put a little that 3m trim adhesive on it first
so that when you push it on it sticks on and won't come off again as they get older
oil and grease gets on a lot of times they'll just slide off and you can
clean them off put a little that 3m adhesive on it and then it won't come
off the next time mark 2018 Scotty I recently purchased the 1995 Nissan
Maxima I noticed the power steering fluid is a bit dirty should I change
well definitely is a basically non compressible fluid that takes a lot of
hydraulic pressure some of those things are 1,500 pounds per square inch
pressure dirt is friction and with that kind of pressure that can actually turn
into a cutting fluid and it can eventually cut the seals on the pump cut
the hoses and destroy the system so you can do a trick that I always do is you
get a big old turkey baster anything and you suck it out of the reservoir and
then fill that up then drive around the block and then do that again you do that
five or six times you get most of the fluid changed and if you're a real
fanatic do it again in a month later and then it'll be a lot cleaner it is a good
idea to do that because you don't want to have to pay for a power steering rack
on that car would cost a fortune, 88 what suv do
you recommend between a 4runner or a highlander okay well it really depends on
what you want you have to make the decision here those are both excellent
vehicles but you have to make the decision because a 4runner you know
that's more of a truck it started out as just a pickup truck and then they stuck
to seats in the back of it got rid of the bad the original ones looked exactly
like a pickup truck we're a Highlander is more of a fuller sized SUV what do
you want you know do you want a truckie thing or do you want a more carry thing
they're both excellent vehicles I got customers with both of them that have
three four hundred thousand miles on things so they both last but you have to
decide really you want I can't make that
decision for you Jordan Charles ruse I installed a new
alternator in my 1992 honda accord it was charging fine now second kind of
squirrely and turn headlights on things get dim what could be wrong okay make
sure that the alternator is good because these days almost every single stinking
alternate you buy isn't new it's either rebuilt or remanufactured and sometimes
it's done really poorly so I had that check to begin with but if that's okay
have your battery and the battery terminals check for corrosion because if
I take the terminals off the battery and then put my machine on the battery and
touch the battery and it says the battery's no good I have to replace the
battery first because if I check an alternator with a weak battery even my
fancy machines can say that the alternator's no good even though it
actually is good I did that once years ago I thought I was in a hurry I checked
it and I put it on and did the same thing and I checked the battery and
found out it was demanders luckily I bought it from the place that I've been
dealing with for years and I said I didn't need an alternator they gave me
the old one back and I bought a new battery so I didn't have to charge the
car sir for an alternator but I learned my lesson and now I always check the
batteries first because could just be a weak battery
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