rev up your engines
here we go BMW has now been completely yuppified 3-series BMW is now is only
sold with an automatic no more standard transmissions when I was a young
mechanic in the 60s BMWs we're known as a niche car cute little four-cylinder
sports cars standard transmissions fun to drive some guys bade rally cars out of them
but now they're making it so in the 3-series you can't even buy a standard
transmission for it they're only available in the United States and
automatic and in Europe only the diesels are gonna be available with the manual
transmission so I guess BMW has given up with their idea of the ultimate driving
machine and have left it to people who want to drive around in automatic
transmissions handwriting in the wall on that one
hey I'm planning on buying a used 2013 Toyota Corolla LE
81 thousand miles but the AC doesn't work my advice never buy a car that
doesn't have working AC if you want AC air-conditioning work can get very
expensive and you really never know if it's six tried until you fix it and then
it's driven around a while unless you replace absolutely everything one of the
big reasons that a lot of people let's say they take a car to the dealer that's
like eight nine years old the dealer's gonna try to sell him the compressor or
condenser and evaporator expansion valve and drive just about every part on the
car cuz they're covering their own heinie if they replace everything yes
it's gonna last for a really long time but most people don't spend that kind of
money and if you're buying a used car there's plenty of Mato that of air
conditioners at work don't buy one that doesn't have working air conditioner
unless you live someplace like Alaska where you don't even care about the air
condition then you should take less for it but if you need AC don't buy a used
car it doesn't work it might sell just needs refrigerant how do you know and if
you fill it up maybe it's all gonna leak out and then you find out it's gonna
cost twelve hundred bucks to fix it don't buy a used car with no AC if you
want AC hey Scotty what do you think of a
93 Acura Legend 120,000 miles were they good Acuras they were great cars back in
the day but what are we talking about here we're talking about a 27 year old
car that is old assuming you're talking about I used one you don't pay much for a car
that's got 120,000 miles on it and it's 27 years old it can be a fun toy but
realize those things have rubber timing bounce if the belt breaks the piston set
the valves goodbye engine then you junk it because that would cost four to six
thousand dollars to rebuild an engine on one of those things if you want to knock
around toy and it's in good shape buy it if it's cheap enough but don't think
you're gonna buy a car like that and drive it every day and put 1520 thousand
miles a year on it because then it'll start getting expensive to fix
can't take hey scotty my radiator broke car got a little more hot
than it should and it doesn't seem to be running right you probably started to
blow the head gasket I've got a video how to tell if your head gaskets blown
watch the video it's a little block leak test kit you can get on Amazon on sale
for about 30 bucks they're very easy to use and you can see if the head gasket is starting to blow
now if it isn't you can pray that it isn't and that sometimes
when the radiators blow they throw coolant everywhere
well coolant gets on electrical parts especially hot coolant it can start to
short them out I mean it could be as simple as the spark plug wires got wet
the ignition coils got wet even something like a throttle position
sensor if it got wet enough and it doesn't give the right data it could
cause problems so pray that it didn't blow the head gasket but check for the
blown head gasket first cuz if it's not that then start checking the electronics
will says my car developed a grinding noise that only occurs when I
put it and drive let's pray it's something that's not that bad if it only
others when you put it in and drive you want to pray it's like a CV joint or an
axle starting to wear out when it hits it and drive or strain on it and it
grinds but from my experience unfortunately a lot of times that's
internal transmission wear and that is often super super expensive specially
you got an automatic transmission you put it in Drive and you stutter and
grinding noises you want a pinpoint the noise of course I've got a video finding
a source of car noises watch that shows you how you can find exactly where the
noise is coming from and if it is coming from inside to transmission then you got
to decide do you want to fix it spend a whole bunch money or just get rid of the
car get something else a lot of times it's more cost-effective to get rid of a
car that has like that, hey scotty what do
you think of those old 84 to 89 toyota vans they looked weird yeah they kind of
look weird but man those things could run my brother not had one here in
Houston down they move to teach in London for some years and they brought
it with them and ended up selling it some English guy under the table yes
you're not supposed to import cars in England and sell them but they got a
real cash economy in England so people can buy past events so there's a real
underground cash economy at London no sinks could run forever they were
interesting because the engine was in the middle but the air conditioner
alternator was in the front they had a drive shaft from the transmission that
went back to drive the car was rear-wheel drive van but they all said a
drive shaft that went to the front that ran the power steering and the air
conditioner and as such they were very expensive vehicles to build and the main
reason they stopped building and was because they cost too much money to
build, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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