Rev up your engines, studio one says scotty what do you think about
certified pre owned vehicles, especially Lexus, certified pre owned to me it's a bunch of
non sense, it's just that they put a name on it and charge more money because their
all a dealership, I'll give you an example, I once went to a toyota dealership, a customer
paid me to check out a car for them and I check it out and I looked, it was a quart
low on oil and the oil was dirty and it said it was a certified pre owned vehicle,
so I told the guys at the dealer I said, you know the thing was low on oil and it was dirty
and they said, oh well we haven't changed the oil yet, I said it doesn't matter it's
too late, it dirty and it's burning oil, the engine has been damaged and I told the customer
not to buy it, and of course all they'd have to have done
was change the oil before I checked it and I would have never noticed that,
but they didn't, a lot of it is non sense, they don't have anybody go with a fine tooth
comb to check it out you know, it's just a sales joke you know, and since their all dealerships
they charge too much money for their cars anyways, I once bought a toyota celica for
my son for $900 and he drove it for ages, and that same one when I was looking for one,
I found a toyota celica that was the same age, it was 15 years old at a toyota dealer
and it had 50,000 miles more than the one I paid $900 for and they wanted $6,500 for
it at the dealer, so and it was certified pre owned you know, a joke if you ask me,
scotty what do you think about Chinese car brands selling cars in Europe now, their at
great prices is it a good buy, it's like everything else made in China,
there's good things and there's bad things, your not going to be able to tell one from
the other until they've been out for a really long time,
or your not going to be able to tell until you buy one and experiment with it and see
what happens, from what I've seen in my experience with
people all over the world that email me, that company Geely they make pretty good vehicles,
and if it's one of those, maybe it would be a bad idea to buy one, you got to do a little
research first, eventually their probably going to be selling cars all over the place
because, I know GM now sells more cars now in China than they do in the US,
but those are all made in China they don't sell then in the US yet, but I'm sure one
day they will, just like Ford announced they weren't going
to be making cars anymore in the US just SUVs and trucks and the Mustang which is their
big sports car, but their making cars in China and I'm sure
at some point in time they'll probably start importing them to Europe and the US and selling
them, you know eventually they'll probably be making
really good cars but you want to do a little research first on which models people have
had and which ones had the least problems, and they don't sell them here yet so I can't
say from my experience, Maverick says good morning scotty my 04 honda keeps shutting
off every time I stop or turn it on, you know what they problem is thanks keep doing what
you're doing, oh I'm having fun I'm not going to stop,
if it keeps shutting down, the first thing you do it the obvious things, take out the
air filter, I've had more customers bring me cars and the only thing wrong was the air
filter was full of crud, you might just need an air filter, now if it doesn't,
there are things that can get dirty and clog up, get 2 cans of the spray cleaner that will
cost you $14 combined and will take you maybe 45 minutes to run them through and clean it
and that might solve the whole thing, I see that all the time,
if not that, listen for vacuum leaks, if you hear a sucking noise while you're driving
down the road or you open the hood and hear it sucking air, it's a vacuum leak and fix
the vacuum leak because that will do it too, j johnson says scotty I'm thinking about buying
a used prius 5, what should I watch out for, well one I wouldn't buy a used hybrid car
because their too complex and when they get old they cost an absolute fortune to repair,
but if you're going to buy a used one, pay a guy like me to check it out beforehand,
because that machine I just showed you that cost me $5,000, I plug that into that prius,
I will get thousands of pages of data that can be checked,
got to pay a mechanic to check out one of those, don't ever think about buying one without
a mechanic checking it out who knows all about priuses and understands how they work, and
if you want to gamble it go right ahead, zed says I got a ABS light on a toyota 3s
fe engine, the code scanner just says ABS failure, cables look fine,what the possible
reason, here's the thing about ABS, anti lock braking
systems are all run by computers, there's sensors on each wheel, their very complicated
systems, you got a cheap scanner and it just says ABS failure,
you got to find a guy like me, that has one of these scanners, this is a $5,000 one, we
go in, we can see the wheel speed sensors, we can see all, I'll get like 50 lines of
data on the ABS system and I can figure out what it is,
you can't work on them without one of those computers and a guy who knows how to operate
it, now most ABS systems are fail safe, is the
ABS brakes go bad, it goes back to normal non ABS brakes likes most of my cars are,
and it perfectly fine, but if you want it fixed, you're going to have to find a guy
like me that's got an expensive machine, because you're not going to buy a $5,000 machine and
learn how to operate it, find a guy like me that says they'll check it out for $85 and
they'll tell you what they found wrong with it,
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