Rev up your engines, igbo says scotty my 2018 rav4 push button
start car stolen here in the UK, any immobilizer tips for me, yeah I even made a video about
that, the problem with those immobilizer cars that have those stupid keyless ignition system
is, any pro can steal them, you can buy even from ebay, keyless remote system, you can
buy just the fob and then it has to be programmed for your car, if a guy gets into your car,
you leave it unlocked or if he's around when you are and you push the button to lock it
and unlock it, he can record that and unlock it, and once he's inside with that fob himself,
he can have a computer like I have that mechanics have for reprogramming them, the key that
he has bought on ebay and program your car in 10-15 minutes if he's got time, he can
reprogram it and drive away with your car and it's his, if you do have a car like that,
the best thing to do is at least get one of those locking steering column kits, he's gonna
see that he's gonna walk away, cuz he's gonna know he can't drive it without getting that
out and he's probably not ready to get rid of that stuff, cuz he's doing electronic stealing
not mechanical stealing, and of course you can get stuff like lo jack on them, you can
even put a fuel cut off switch on top of what you already have and then if you turn that
off every time you shut the car off, he's not gonna be looking all around for a shut
off switch, he's gonna figure, oh it's got this so no one is gonna try to steal it cuz
they this you can't but that immobilizer switch if you put a little key in their to turn it
off, then it won't start, most people don't want to go that far, but if you do and you
hide it in a good place, a real thief can keep looking and find it but most guy are
going to do the computer, push the button, and if it doesn't star their going to run
away, brandon says scotty I got a 2012 silverado
5.3, the spark plugs are fouling out and covered in oil could this be the active fuel management
system, I do short trips and lots of idling thanks, well not really, when they foul out
and their covered in oil, that means that you've got a problem inside the engine, either
the piston rings are worn, or the valve seals are worn and it's sucking too much oil in
and burning it and clogging it up, now of course try the simple thing, change the pcv
valve, you know cuz if the pcv valve is bad, meh it's a cheap fix, you can fix it, I always
try that, but on those gm engines, their v8 engines are just weaker these days, when I
was a kid I learned how to drive on a Chevy with the 350, and that thing just ran forever,
I mean it had a strong v8, the body rotted out and my father sold the car to a junk man
and he took the engine out and put it in his junkyard truck where he hauled junk around
in it, and it kept going so, you know they don't make them like they used too, mainly
it means you got an internal engine problem on it, have a wet and dry compression test
done on the engine, and if it's going out, my advice is probably get rid of the vehicle
if not I'd put another engine in it, joey says scotty I'm looking to buy a 2007 toyota
camry hybrid with 280,000 miles, it needs a new battery pack, is it worth the hassle,
I can get the car for less than $2,000, if you can get it for less than $1,000 sure,
but 2 grand nah it's not worth it, cuz here's the thing, guys sell reconditioned battery
packs, well ask them about the guarantee, usually it's a year or so, if you need a new
battery pack they can cost $4-5,000 or more, and that's the way to go if you're going to
buy a car like that but I wouldn't put that kind of money into that car, if you're willing
to buy a car like that and put in a reconditioned battery pack, realize it might go bad in a
year or so, I'm not a fan of buying used old hybrids with that much miles on them, because
on top of that it's got 280,000 miles and it's 12 years old, if the generator goes out
that's $5,000 to put a generator in it too so, if you can get one and it runs and the
battery pack works good for that kind of money go ahead and toy around with it, but if you
know you've got to spend that right away, I wouldn't buy it,
greg says scotty I've been looking at this used 2015 hyundai genesis coupe 3.8 v6 with
12,000 miles manual transmission, is it a good choice for an 18 year old, ok for your
head and your image it probably is, but that's an extremely fast car, you might kill yourself
in it, my advice for 18 years old is, don't buy too fast of a vehicle to start out with,
as an example, when I was a kid learning how to drive motorcycles on a BSA lightning, at
the time that was the fastest production motorcycle in the world, I'm lucky I didn't kill myself
on it, today, and it only had like 65 horsepower, toady you can get a brand new motorcycle that
has over 200 horsepower, I don't advice a young person to get that, you might kill yourself,
look for a somewhat slower vehicle if I were you,
oh yeah yeah, scotty are black oil based undercoating for frames reliable, well they can be but
here's the thing, if you're talking about undercoating a frame, you can't undercoat
a rust frame, so if it's already rusting and you coat it, you're just sealing the rust
in and it will rot right through, if you have a frame that isn't rusted, sure you know go
right ahead it works, but if you just coat over the rust it's just going to continue
to rust and come out, cuz you have to understand frames, water gets inside the frames, they
have holes in them anyways, just to let water come out, and it fills up with water so water
can also get in, and it's going to be rotten from the inside out, and if you coat the outside
it isn't going to fix anything, but if it isn't rotted already yeah it's a good idea,
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