rev up your engines today I got a customer with a 2009 Kia Forte he had to
buy used because someone stole his Camry yes people do steal them even has a video
from the parking lot of these guys going and they stole both his Camry and his
wife's Honda Civic right next to each other they had little videos of them
fooling around and they drove both cars up so he had to buy something and he
bought this and now he's wondering should he keep this or not well I did
the usual scan tool and the only codes that really had that were hardware for
anti-lock brake system wasn't working right because the wheel speed sensors
weren't functioning three of the four were bad so yeah not a reason to get rid
of a car now since there were no codes check engines lights not on and other
than the stupid codes for the wheel speed sensors starts kind of odd so
let's start by checking the battery on the starter get it on the positive to
the negative terminal time and in this case 600 cold cranking amps so we'll go
to the machine what's that in vehicle battery test stop
post regular called cranking and it's 600 so we'll bump it down to 600 you
gotta check them correctly there we go 600 and it says there's a service
charge detected so we'll turn on headlights okay they're on the machine
knows they're not says turning off so we'll turn them off retest they're
definitely above 32 um in short sleeve shirts and the result is the battery's
good but it needs to be recharged now this often happens in vehicles that
sit too much but we're gonna test the alternator now make sure it's not the
problem so we'll get back here start engine
starter up it says the cranking voltage is normal
means the starters okay see cranking voltage normal stars okay so now we
press under again and it's showing that it's charging
fourteen point two seven vultures is pretty good but we need to do more so
now we're gonna rub the engine like it says
then press Enter now just put the load on so we'll put
that out and put the bar on and we'll start it again we'll wrap it up again
and we'll push down there and see what happens
analyzing data it's normal so I figured out a bunch of stuff now the battery
needs recharging it's low but the alternator is putting out the right
power for some reason the battery's just not fully charged I'm assuming the
customer isn't driving it enough and it's it's awful long time you can see
you look at the pain it's all dirty as bird poop on it so it probably sits a
lot in that case if you have a car like this get yourself a battery charger you know
weekend once in a while plug it in and give it a full charge cuz cars do need
to be recharged a lot and if you don't use them all the time the battery will
show low and you can get problems from that but of course there could be a
battery drain that's draining the battery so I'm gonna get my clamp on
meter we're gonna turn it on to the small setting here and then we look at
it you notice it says AC so we have to do is we have to select here now it's DC
cuz we want to measure DC right here we have to zero it not zero and we'll clamp
it on and see what kind of a joint is in these machines are so accurate they pick
up stray stuff so in the area you're working once you put it to DC you have
to zero it so you get a true reading then when you clamp it on you'll see how
much drain exists and in this case that's zero point zero zero eight which
isn't much and that's very little for a modern car a normal drain can be up to
0.05 and this is way below that it didn't even make it a point zero one
it's zero point zero zero eight so it's very little drain so there's not a drain
I'm assuming it just doesn't driving enough and the battery needs to be
charged up my cell occurs turn into a car like that I don't use up that much
anymore I put the battery charger on a two or
three times here to charge it up good then it starts fine and when it doesn't
I just recharge it cuz I know I'm not driving that much so these meters are
great to finally drain just to remember you can see it's got a reading now
always zero with before you do the reading in the area otherwise see even
in the area here is stuff there there we go now it's zeroing but you move it
around it picks up stray electricity from all over the place so we'll
continue to check stuff and look at this it still has the transmission dipstick I
love this most cars don't happen anymore this one does that's a plus Oh check the
engine oil it's fall smells like oil doesn't smell like gasoline from diluted
gasoline means the engines in decent shape so close to attack you for spend
what see how she starts up start up pretty good will back her up few odd
noises here and there typical for an older kia now it's only got 74733
miles on it now we'll see how it accelerates well we can't do it right
now there's some idiot in the road decides to block the road what a moron
here we go
that's a lotta noise like a can not great acceleration but the transmission
feels smooth enough for one of these band as we hit bumps you can feel the
bumps but no more than usual for one of these things they're not that smooth
right even but yeah it's not losing steering control and it rides normal for
one of these things now I feel the main problem the customer has of this car yes
he had his Camry stolen and he replaced it with this now even though the Camry
was eight years older than this it rode a hundred percent better smoother
transmission more power he was just in a hurry because those cars are stolen and
he had to get a car for one of these Kia's this one is actually in very good
shape you just have to understand what you're getting when you're buying one of
these let's share this thing has four doors like the Camry but that's about
the only real similarity rise a little bit rough there's nothing wrong with the
car as a transportation car it's nothing like the Camry but he's got it he might
as well they just take care of it it's the kind of box car and good enough a
econobox car now I mean if you're going from a Camry to this sure you're not
gonna be satisfied the only thing you might be satisfied to us is the gas
mileage that it didn't cost that much to buy you're not gonna be overly satisfied
because the camera is a nice luxurious ride these things aren't that isn't the
cars problem that's that you might expect too much from one of these cars
don't you want cheap relatively reliable transportation it's only got 70
something thousand miles it's a perfectly good car for that just don't
expect a smooth ride smooth shifting and better handling that's not gonna happen
in one of these things and here's some bonus questions and answers mark Pegasus says
scotty are the newer Lexus vehicles as reliable as the older ones well
generally they are cuz a lot of them are still made Japan now they make them in
Cambridge Ontario but the Canadians do a good job but realize Toyota owns a Lexus
same company and they have a recall for a bunch of their fuel pumps now and
they're not telling old Scotty why so then maybe they'll find out that
we made all the fuel pumps around I don't know cuz they won't tell me so I
don't know exactly what's wrong other than there's a fuel pump problem so if
they do figure it out maybe they'll better fuel pumps in the new ones in a
few months and then they won't have the problem that those have but I'd hold out
I don't know one until then in anyways I never buy a new car too cheap
you lose too much money buying a new car it's plenty good used ones out there
Thomas duty says should I go with a four six owner Tacoma I don't do any toner be
used as daily drivers and light hauling oh go with the 4 cylinder one that's what
my son did he found out that the pulling capacity of the four versus six isn't
really not different anyway and the force they cost less they're solid
reliable engines they can actually last longer than the six-cylinder engine so
yeah definitely get the 4 and the automatic transmissions are
pretty dependable one of two it's not like Toyota makes bad automatic
transmission so yeah I would go the Fords it's a lot cheaper to Andrews
Campos said what's a good scanner that can be seen on a phone or a tablet I
like the blue drivers Canadian guys they do good software now they're made in
China but they're designed and engineered in Canada and they're like 99
bucks they go on a smart phone and they do an awful lot for 99 dollars
I've had people and other companies promise me stuff that say oh they do all
this and that then I find out they really don't do everything that they
said the blue driver guys does pretty much what they say plus they're nice
guys if you got a problem you're gonna actually call them up in a week days and
they'll talk to you they will actually talk to you with shots back out of me I
talked to their engineers when they do have a glitch I'd say you know you got
this glitch and they end up fixing it later so you know for 99 bucks the blue
driver one I think it's probably the best out there for something like that
and now because it basically is as good as some of the 250 dollar hand scanners
that I haven't of course you can use it on your phone they don't have to build
all the hardware they're just building a dongle and the software it runs the
whole thing understand especially if you got an Android I'm an Android man
because you can use them on cars even my laptop that's why you can get some of
these aftermarket company software put it on your phone your laptop and if you
look at the files they're not that big well that's because they're just
activating a bunch of software that's already in yours it's why I like Android
yeah the Apple stuff me it's really garbage for car analytics it really is
James salsa says Scotty did you ever wear a suit yeah you know I'm a typical
mechanic I wear suits and what is that's it yeah I got a good suit in
there you know I used to wear to award ceremonies and stuff when I was on
television when I won an Emmy and stop but I mean that it's a lot of hoo-ha you
know what you see is what you get people meet me on the street in a garage shirt
or Scotty shirt or a t-shirt or something to me somebody's wearing a
suit they're trying to pull a fast one on you you know they got some angle that
they want to get trying to get something out of you I'm not into that stuff I
think it's stiff it's not real certainly not me but weddings and funerals while
you do it for the respect of the people there so that I'll do, so if you never
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