rev up your engines, Thomas Jefferson says hey Scotty what
do you think about Ferrari cars are they reliable, yeah they're really reliable
they're very reliable that you'll spend all your money fixing the stupid things
those are Italian exotic cars and price some of stuff, years ago when they
still had distributor caps, I could get a distributor cap for a Toyota for 10
bucks and on the Ferraris the distributor caps were like four hundred
and fifty dollars for the same stupid part but it fit on a Ferrari, it's just
all those cars, their rich men's toys and they fall apart, and if rich men
want to spend that kind of money that's their business, the funny thing is
they have terrible resale value too, say somebody pays 220 grand for one, well
you can pick them up all day for 20 30 40 grand nobody wants those things
they know they're endless money pits Anchor says any comments on Fiat
Chrysler merging with Renault, yeah two wrongs don't make a right so when Fiat
Chrysler merged that's proven already that two wrongs don't make a right,
well here you got three wrongs not making a right, well four if you include
the renault nissan merger, it's kind of like the Three Stooges and now they're going
to the four one, I don't think it's such a smart thing to do but that's
business and money, and these giant corporations want to make a profit, like
an example I always give McDonald's sells lots of hamburgers right, they're
not good high-end burgers if you eat them all the time they're not healthy
for you, but they selling a lot of them because they're cheap and people
like eating, it's not necessarily a good thing so all these people merging
together they may make a profit out of it, but it's not necessarily a good thing,
he says Scotty I got an 04 Mercedes s500 with 39,000
miles, no issue is it a good for a road trip what should I check, okay well I'm
assuming you of the original owner I think 16 years old and it's only got 39,000
miles it, it should be a pretty good shape I'm not a fan of those Mercedes they're
endless money pits on the s500s lose their value as one of the fastest
value losing car in a world, as long as it's full oil that's not leaking
anywhere it should have no problem at all realize when you go on a trip, if
you're going 70 miles an hour that's equivalent to 10% of city driving,
so you drive say to California it's a 2,000 mile trip that's like the
equivalent of a 200 miles stop and go traffic in town, so
it doesn't really wear anything you don't really have to worry about it,
Jackson CA asked what's the hardest repair job you ever had to do,
oh I was stupid to even try, it was a Porsche 911 and it was one of the
early ones where instead of making them right and the engines are metal and the
intake is metal, the intake was plastic and the manifold gasket went bad and I
actually did it on the vehicle and it took me forever, and I was cursing and
swearing, and I talked to a Porsche mechanic a few months later, he says oh
you're out of your mind I'd never do that, he says we just pull the engine out
of the car and do it on the ground and put the engine back in, I said yeah but
that's a lot of money, he said we don't care if they're dumb enough to buy a Porsche
so we'll charge him $1500 labor for changing the gasket, they wanted to buy
the Porsche they can pay for us to fix it, but I did get it done you know it
was a real pain in the butt, and I'd never do another one,
Jordan SS hey Scotty I got a 2009 Scion tC it squeaks when I touched the brakes
for a little while, I checked them and they were fine, they squeeze the metal
rotors and they just bare steel they turn all the kinetic energy or car of
motion into heat and they dissipate the heat there, so they get real hot well
guess what happens the hot steel when it cools down it absorbs moisture, there's a
lot of moisture in our atmosphere, then they rust and then they'll make a little
bit of noise for a while, until they rub the rust off, so if they're fine
it doesn't mean anything they're thick don't worry about it, but if it really
bothers you the next time you do brake pads, use akebono brake pads because I
don't know what they put in them but they don't make much noise at all, even
if the rotors get rusty they don't seem to make a noise, the Japanese that
make these Akebono they seem to really understand composition of the brake pads
and there's don't squeak at all, so if it bothers you put some akebono pads, but
if you don't care and you see their thick just ignore it,
waldo finds you says should I turbocharged my weekend motorcycle, sure
if you're insane, I know a guy who does that for a living
he's called mr. turbo and he's off 59 North Highway here in Houston Texas and
he turbo charges anything you want, he does a lot of motorcycle turbo charging,
just realize that if you turbocharged a motorcycle, one a lot of times you're
gonna lose control when you really take off fast, cuz it's got so much power and
it's only going to one wheel and to a lot of times you're gonna end up blowing
up the engine, because motorcycles are made to go really fast and
pretty much cutting-edge technology as it is, and you add a turbo and strain the
engine even more, the mr. turbo guy told me was there one time he was talking to
guy from Jamaica and he wanted a turbocharged this Honda motorcycle and
he told me said I can get 300 horsepower of the engine but it's only gonna last
for a couple of minutes it's gonna blow up, and then Jamaican guy just said I don't
mind, I don't care we're racing them in quarter-mile drag races and I bet a lot
of money on each race, so he didn't care but if you want it to last not a smart move,
thug bunny says Scotty I got an 01 Jeep XJ that has
a check engine light but obd scanner says it has no codes what could it be
have a higher level scanner hooked up to it, cuz some are scanners are so cheap
they don't work that well I've had many customers bring me a car and said it's a
light on but I can't get a code, and I put on my $5,000 scanner and it finds
all kinds of codes, so you might want to start there, if even that doesn't come up
with a code and your check engine light is on, that generally means that you have
a wiring short in the computer wiring somewhere or you got a circuit in a
computer that's breaking down that's turning it on, when it really isn't a
fault, a lot of times take if it's a Chrysler I can just about guarantee it's
the ECU the main control unit that's gone bad, it's
typical thing on chryslers, Fidel Castro I thought he was dead
Alfa Romeos are endless money pits he says, yeah you got that nail on the gead
they always are and they always were and they probably always will be, it's
Italian company, I mean they got a new the little Sportster that's real fast and
everything but they already fall apart Italian stuff yeah looks good but then
it falls apart after a short period of time, but doesn't surprise me I've had
customers with them in the past they pulled out of the United States decades
ago and now they're back surprise Gerhard says just bought a 2012 Sequoia
what are your thought on this, well they're great
vehicles if you know if you don't mind the horrendous gas mileage
there are huge giant vehicles with big Toyota v8 engines in them, they can run a
really long time, but in town they are tremendous gas hogs
if you want a vehicle that big to carry a bunch of people around in, it's a
great one for buy, but it's a gigantic gas hog, there's no ifs or ands about it
customers of mine that I have almost every single one of them, when they bring
it over I say well just thought
curiosity what kind of gas mileage do you get
and they said I don't know we don't even check, we know it's bad because when we
drive in town we always gotta fill it up, if
you don't mind that they're excellent vehicles, Brandon does gaming says
thoughts on a 2003 Nissan Xterra well strangely enough I just worked on one the
other day and I told the guy to get rid of it, as they age they wear out, now is that
163 thousand miles and he wanted to know what a noise was, so I drove it and I
could hear it only when you took your foot off the gas you hear a clunk and I
knew it wasn't a transmission, but I pulled out my fancy little noise machine, like
little sensors and transponders and you clip them on different parts and I clip
them on parts of the car and I put on my headphones and drove it around, I when it
clunked I'd switch my receiver to the four different things, well when I went
to the number two that was on the transmission I could hear the clunk, so I
knew it was clunking into transformation I got a code that was incorrect
transmission gear, which means the transmission is wearing out inside, one of
those nissans I'd get rid of it rather and put money into it, they're fun
when they're new, and when their old they generally wear out, and his had 163k, but
if you're gonna buy use one and say it's only at
ninety or a hundred thousand and it didn't clunk, you still I get another
sixty seventy thousand miles on it, but don't pay much for one it's not worth much,
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