rev your engines mg says scotty in a modern vehicle if someone were to put a
cold air intake and free-flowing exhaust with the fuel management system dump
more fuel in the gaining any increases in fuel economy you can't just take off
the factory equipment throw stuff like a cold air intake different exhausts
without reprogramming the car on any modern car if you want it to really run
correctly there but all kinds of studies done where they tested them before and
after putting the cold air intakes and exhaust and find out that over time they
wouldn't run right unless they reprogram your computer is measuring stuff with
the oxygen sensors and the back pressure and all kinds of stuff and if you just
change it on the computer doesn't know it's not gonna guess right and a car
won't run right so don't do that it's a stupid thing to do anyway race guys do
it yeah man they got guys that program one before the race every race to take
in consideration the temperature the humidity the barometric pressure the
altitude all kinds of stuff you can't just bolt I don't think it'll run better
right obonda hey Scotty what do you think of the honda civic type-r those
are excellent screaming little cars now they're not giving them away
they're close to 40 grand now they are a race design civic with a fast engine
they only come in a standard transmission I get a customer just
bought one I love driving around he brought it over here to let me drive it
around see what it's like I was impressed now Scotty's a cheapskate I'd
never buy a new one it costs too much money I have to wait until they got
really old and my Toyotas jelly don't break so you know I got three cars in
one person I have no reason to buy anymore so I probably never will they're
excellent little cars they handle they got tons of acceleration a lot of
horsepower but there are expenses they're not giving those things away
from what I've seen they're generally even a scan over sticker price at the
dealer because they're selling them so fast cuz people want that type of car
small little zippy racecar that's what they're gonna buy Cheyenne Martha
Scottie I'm problem put my gear in reverse sometimes they're a terrible
noise and when I put it in reverse it takes several tries for it moves cars
the Suzuki Swift low mileage maybe low mileage but it's a Suzuki Swift Suzuki's
do not make good cars which is kind of because they make fantastic motorcycles
I add a Suzuki 750 she said thing 159 miles an hour started every time had a
great sound never leaked oil this is the crate motor stuff I gave it to my son
their cars exact opposite kind of junky clunky little things they don't sell
Suzuki's in the United States anymore the cars cuz they sold so bad they
pulled out of the United States entirely new transmissions going out you hear
noise and it doesn't move it's just flat going out the money it costs to fix one
of those things my advice is if you can find a used transmission there small
vehicles maybe see what a guy charged to put one in and gamble with the used
transmission but I wouldn't put too much money into that thing they're not worth
anything if you're in the United States now other parts of the world a lots of
guys fix them in the parts availability is higher so you might just have it
fixed then if you live in Europe or Australia or something but in the United
States it's not worth fixing really see says Scotty I got a 2002 rsx
when I let go of the gas the car seems to lurch forward what
do you think is the issue 99% of the time when you're driving a car and you
let go of the accelerator and it lurches you got an automatic transmission
problem that it's just catching and that's what happens they kind of lurch
it's sad but true now let's say you got a standard transmission well in that
case if it lurks when you took off in a gas it could be a problem in your fuel
management system worse when you take your foot off the gas it's confused and
it's supposed to let the fuel injectors gradually lose fuel and I might be
cutting them off too fast and then turning them back on I can lurch most of
the time they do it on those it's an automatic transmission if the
transmission starting to collage now the other hand I think customers the cars
like that and they drove them for 2-3 years more and they still went down the
road and they just live with little bit alerts when it again doesn't necessarily
mean you got to rebuild the transmission right away Oh doc says a Walmart brand
oil and synthetic long miles filters any good sure yeah Walmart doesn't make
anything they just buy stuff from other people there's nothing wrong with buying
their synthetic oil all the oil is sold in the United States has to meet certain
standards in anyways when you buy a higher-end long mileage filter fram
makes them for them and the same one is the
high-end Fram and the high-end Frams are excellent filters now the low end
frames are crap because they're just cheaply made low price it's no arguing
that but fram have been making oil filters
for a long time they also make high-end filters and they make them for a lot of
different companies do and they're all the same because fram is making them and if
you are gonna buy one of those friends do buy the extended one because it's a
much better filter than their cheap ones that are just the normal ones they're a
lot better built, I got a whole video on that you can watch radioactive bananas's I
don't want a new car as I can't fix them maybe in a program child, give me
a 65 Pontiac Bonneville is my first car I love the tanks yeah well you could
something old like that sure they're easier to work on I was working on
customers car he had bought a 65 Mustang GT and yeah it's a fancy little car
wasn't really nice shined up one but it's simple defects it's got a
carburetor bolts on kind of five-speed transmission they put an aftermarket on that
but still it's a standard transmission simple to drive less things
to figure out to go wrong cuz you're doing a shift not computers so you know
if it's not chipping right you know you're not doing it right or you need a
new clutch it's pretty much what goes wrong with them
real simple mechanical stuff you can easily fix yourself there's not a bad
idea buying something like that the only real downfall something like a 60 I it's
gonna get horrible gas mileage those old cars are big heavy tanks and they suck
the gas down there's no arguing that and you're gonna get in the teens in town
there's no or even lower you might get six miles a gallon with you driving
hard in town, rss production says Scotty I got an 05 Acura MDX 206,000 miles
would you recommend using royal purple oil and that old of the vehicle well
yeah it's actually wrong I know a lot of people that use it for their race cars
now the Acura is a pretty high-tech engine the v6 engine and those are
pretty high-tech engines time to make some they're excellent engines and if
you don't mind spending that kind of money for the oil it's kind of overkill
cuz I'm sorry you're not gonna be raising it you're not taking it to the
high extremes but especially if you live in a place like Alaska work it's real
cold or North Dakota sure it's a better oil because it flows better when it's
cold outside in that case you better off getting a really good oil like that
because it will flow better than a regular oil cuz it's made for colder and
higher temperatures it's got a longer temperature range than the other oil
pantera says Scotty my cruise control stopped working in my 90s accord what
can I do to fix it okay well it's an old car at least the old ones were
mechanical and vacuum activator there's vacuum lines that go to it
sometimes they fall off rot and they suck air and then it's not gonna work
and the actuator that's by your throttle that also is a vacuum solenoid that
could have a care in the diaphragm and that'd need replacing of course check
the fuses make sure the switch works when you turn it on and off now if it's
not that then it's the module and they're so expensive and I think so old
if you really want a cruise control my advice go get a guy installing
aftermarket ones they're not all that expensive and you can just start from
scratch because that kind of stuff modules for those aren't old Honda
you'll be able to get it at Honda dealer if they still sold them and it would
cost a small fortune for usually $100 you can get a kit to put a brand
new one on the whole system and just do that rather than try to fix that old
thing matthew miller says Scotty what are your thoughts about a car made entirely
of plastic well you know strangely enough oh she's just like thirty years
ago I was reading Popular Mechanics magazine rather ironic now that I'm like
the most popular mechanic and I read it and ford was working on this pinto engine
and they were making the whole thing out of plastic the Pistons everything and of
course the thing melted after a while and all the plastic parts broke making a
car totally out of plastic not a smart idea now I mean if we're all gonna be
riding around in tiny little cars I guess you could make the bodies and
everything out of plastic they wouldn't weigh much they'd get better fuel
economy or electric cars make the bodies out of plastic and if everybody's
driving a small plastic car it's perfectly fine but on the other hand if
you got guys driving big semi trucks and about 350 trucks down the road and
you're in this tiny little plastic car if they run into you can kiss your hiney
goodbye so, David says hey Scotty I got an 06 Ford Ranger the AC works on
Max AC but not on normal what's the problem
if you have to turn it on max ain't seeing it blows cold and you put on
regular AC and it doesn't blow at all probably you need a new control unit
that switches sound like what controls it is turn it when it's on regular AC
and also a power when it's unmatched if it only has power once on max that
generally means that switch assembly is broken if by any chance you mean that it
only blows on high-speed but not on any of the lower speeds that's the ball or
motor resistor or something in that case you'd buy a new blower motor resistor
some because when they go bad you'll lose different speeds but you'll always
have full speed because it bypasses the resistor for full speed so you might
want to check that too, Jarrett's Kayla says this guy's got he doesn't have any
clue he's ours you're painting himself well the reason I'm repeating myself
because people ask similar questions so I have to give them the correct answer
the correct answer will be a repeat of one of my previous ones cuz I'm telling the
truth now if I was a liar I'd be giving
different answers it's the same question all the time but I'm repeating myself
because I'm giving you the correct answer over and over and over again so
people will understand what the truth is and not make up lies every time
something's good yeah it's telling the truth could be boring after a while if
you keep telling the truth even that's why people lie all the time in our
society they're bored so they just decided to lie to make things a little
spicier and make this a little more action to me I'm old-fashioned I just
tell the truth all the time, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell