rev up your engines, sloppy joe says Scotty I'm looking for a second car, should I
buy a new or used one, I don't know a lot about working on cars and a lot of places
are offering 0% financing on new cars, what do you think, one I always believe in
buying used cars I've had customers that were foolish enough to buy a new car
decide they didn't like it, trade it in and they got about 50% of
what they paid for the vehicle, so you know you lose them too much money, but
when it says 0 financing, realize that that's just a scam, even if they do give
it to you a lot of times it will say for qualified buyers, but even if you qualify
that's on whatever price they decide to say the car is, and if you look at the
list price of a modern-day car, nobody but a fool pays that list price, you
always get it for thousands and thousands less, so if you're paying list
price and your getting 0% financing, you'll probably be better off paying interest and
get a better price than paying all that extra money for a vehicle that they've
set the price in stone and they're just giving you less financing on it, you know
that's not something that you want to do, if you can finance it somewhere else
or even better if you can find a good used car and pay cash for it, then you've
got no financing and you own it you don't have to worry about anything
that's really the absolute best way to go when you're buying a car Bar None
David Haha says Scotty when are you gonna buy
a new used car, well I'll never buy a new car because it's a waste of money, I'll
buy a used car when it's got maybe eight or ten years old, if it's a Toyota say
it's got 70-80 thousand miles it can still have 80 percent of its lifespan,
well I'd rather pay twenty to thirty percent of the original sticker with 80%
of the lifespan, then a hundred percent of a new car, cuz the price is just too
high, but as for am I gonna get a new used car, I don't have any reason too, I
got a Celica that runs like a clock, the matrix it runs like a clock, my wife's
got the Lexus that runs like a clock, and we generally fly everywhere on vacation
anyway, and then we rent a car or use uber when we're on vacation in a big city, so we
really don't go any cross-country travel we do that with planes, good says Scotty I'm
thinking about buying a first generation Chevy
silverado extended cab, are they reliable and dependable, how many miles is
reasonable in a price range thank you okay first-generation Silverados were
pretty well made vehicles, the only thing is they're pretty old, if you're buying something
that old, theirs all kinds of problems they could
have, I personally wouldn't buy any vehicle like that if you're paying any
amount of money that's got more and maybe 150,000 miles on it, cuz then
you're gonna have to worry about transmissions going out, engines and all
that stuff, but again it depends on what you're paying, if you're buying one they
were pretty well built and say you got to put eighteen hundred into a rebuilt
transmission, well go ahead if the engines is in
good shape, I mean go ahead those are vehicles that you can keep fixing and
fixing and fixing, they're nothing like the later model GM cars and trucks that
have problems up the wazoo, the old ones are pretty reliable, so I mean if you
want to find one that's in decent shape and maybe put some money into it, go right
ahead, or find one that somebody took really good care of it, I wouldn't buy a
new one but those old ones the first-generation ones were pretty well
made, Jason says Scotty I replaced the alternator on my car and now the idle
goes up and down when I put a full load on, could it be the alternator I changed
or something else, it's a CARQUEST alternator and belt, double
check your work area first, that's just something that you have to do, because if
it didn't do it before and it does it now, you could have knocked off a vacuum
line, got a wire loose or something, you want to really check that CarQuest
hey I have questionable quality with some of their stuff, so first thing I'd do is
take it to a guy like me and load test that alternator and if they load test it
I can load test an alternator in two minutes, and if I load test it and say that
the alternator is no good, then the
alternator is no good, and I would just take it back to them and say, give
me my money back, and go get a quality one, one that's an actual Denso
rebuilt and not some CARQUEST one, you want quality with an alternator because,
you know even though it's gonna cost you more, it's really important for modern
computer run cars to have a good supply of electricity,
Aldo says my speedometer starts to work but then it stops, if it comes and it
goes generally it's a problem in the
electronics, when I was younger all cars were simple, all they had was a speedometer
cable that went from the transmission to the speedometer head in the dash, and the
cable would break or the dash unit would break, and it's really easy to check you just
have to pull the cable out of the dash drive around and put your finger on it, if
it still spins you know the cables okay and
then it's the dash unit, but today they're all electronic and they've been
that way in most cars since maybe 94 so it's been a long time, it has speed sensors
on them, a lot of times the speed sensor start to go bad, and then you just
replace them, usually they'll cost 40-50 bucks, they just bolt in and out, but if
it's not that, then it's generally the head unit in your dash and those are pretty
expensive, if that's the case a lot of guys will just go to a junkyard buy the whole
dash, used one if it's an older car for maybe 50-60 bucks put the whole thing
plug it in and away you go, sensors easiest thing to
try out first though, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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