rev up your engines, bernie says scotty what do you think of the
new rav4, I have to tell you a lot of people say, oh scotty toyota pays you money to talk
about them well no they don't, the new rav4 it's not as good as the old rav4,
I have had problems when I got later model rav4s and they have had problems that cars
didn't have in the past unless they had 300-400 thousand miles on them, the quality has gone
down somewhat I've seen it, their still good vehicles but I mean it's kind of annoying,
one of my customers has one, it's 2 or 3 years old, the electronic door locks broke on it,
it shouldn't break on a toyota at that small period of time it shouldn't break like that,
their quality isn't what it used to be and most of the manufacturers to tell you the
truth aren't, their all kind of going down hill in quality to some extent, especially
with the use of more plastic parts, more electronics and more computer controlled stuff, they find
out they can make them cheaper and then when they get older they either spend a lot of
money getting it fixed or they buy another car so, their not as well made as they used
to be I have to say that about the rav4, All says why do cars lose coolant but their
not leaking anywhere, theirs only 2 things that can do that, if your radiator cap is
leaking, it will leak steam which won't drip and it will loose coolant, so change the radiator
cap they don't cost much right, but unfortunately when they loose coolant but it doesn't leak
anywhere the car is burning it because the head gasket is starting to blow,
realize that you got the block, then you have the head gasket, then you have the head with
the valves that's bolted on, the head gasket seals compression from the
engine cylinders, seals the oil galleys that lubricate the head, and also seals the coolant
that cools the head, if the coolant parts of the gasket are starting to break down,
then coolant will leak from inside the cooling tubes of the engine and then go inside the
cylinders and be burnt up, you won't see it but it will burn up and that's how you lose
the coolant, pray it's a radiator cap it's a lot cheaper fix,
cory says scotty I have a pontiac g6 gt my remote start triggers the panic alarm any
fixes, here's the thing about remote start systems, I hate them, their extremely complex,
I had a customer one time brought me an aftermarket kit and said, will you hook this up to my
car, and I looked at it and I looked at the directions and I said,
there's no way I'm hooking this up to your car, there's so many wires that have to be
sliced in correctly and one mistake it can ruin the computer of the car, it can make
it so it has starting problems when you use the key, they are rats nests to get into,
yours has a problem it's turning the panic alarm on now when you use it, my advice would
be, if it's an aftermarket one go to whoever installed it and see if they can figure it
out, odds are they can't because they just bought it in a box and put it in, if it's
a factory one take it to the dealer and see what they say,
do what I tell people just don't use the system anymore, they break down when they get older,
that's a pontiac that's a GM product which are notorious for having electrical problems
in the first place, and when you add that complex system on it, it's only going to create
problems as it ages, I've had customers with those systems that call me up and say, oh
my car won't start now and I'll say, well you got your remote starting system, they
say yeah and it's been acting up lately and now it won't even start with the key and I
said, I told you not to put that stuff on in the
first place, so I mean if you do want it fixed your going to have to fix somebody who works
on those and hardly anybody does, especially if it's an aftermarket system,
but like I say if it's a factory system take it to the dealer and see what they say, alpha
says I had the ball joints changed on my vehicle, now it's making a noise help,
that means that it's no longer correctly aligned, tires have to be aligned correctly for each
design of a car so they corner correctly and also go straight when your going straight,
now you might think, well that's simple you just align the wheels so their pointed perfectly
straight but no that's not how it goes, all of them are off to one angle or another to
compensate for the design of the car and how it corners and the type of tires the have
on it, it's very complex stuff, you change the ball joints and now it's making a noise,
that means that now your alignment is off, somebody put on cheaply made ball joints that
weren't the right size and now the tires are sitting at the wrong angle, or when the work
was done, the guy knocked the alignment out, maybe he took off the tie rods and now they
have to be readjusted because he didn't put them on exactly the same as they were before,
or he bent something while he was doing that work, but when your tires are no longer aligned
correctly they will squeal because their like an eraser their not rolling right and their
rubbing rubber off when your going and that's where you hear the squealing from, I see that
all the time on people that do bad workmanship, I've had customers go to another mechanic
and they'll say I did this and now their squealing and I'll look at it and say, well your alignment
is off you know they should have told you it needed an alignment and if they didn't
know I'd say go to a different mechanic, they don't know what their doing, have the alignment
checked first, so if you don't want to miss another one of
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