rev up your engines g/b ford says, why are pickup truck drivers
the worst drivers and why do they always wear hats, well I disagree with that the
worst drivers are people that are driving mercedes-benz and Porsches, I
just had a guy in a Porsche just pull over three lanes and make a left turn in
front of me, they think they own the road they never use their turn signals it's
pretty much the same thing with Mercedes Benzes, but if people don't like to pick
up drivers, now here in texas they wear hats cuz they think their Cowboys, a lot of
people get in a pick up truck they automatically think up their a cowboy
now they are big their high up in the air, I was driving around in a car one time
and a guy cut me off in the pickup truck and he pulls into a parking lot so I
pulled behind him and I jumped out of the car I
came out and said you need a smack in the head
he took one look at me and he drove off in his pickup truck
he was afraid I was gonna beat him up, so a lot of it is just a facade don't be
fooled by the facade, Gustav says what are your thoughts on large sedans
what's the best one in your opinion, well it depends on what you mean by large, I
got my wife years ago when a customer's father died a beautiful 2002 Lexus ES
300 and it's big enough sedan for me and it's fantastic if you want even
bigger I mean get yourself a Mercury Grand Marquis, yeah they call them grandpa
car same thing with Lincoln Towncar and they're decent vehicles you want a big
old couch to drive around in they're still relatively dependably, they
don't make them anymore but their large sedans they can last a long time
jo o8 I'm looking to buy an 06 Lincoln Navigator with 130,000 miles is it a good
bye those are the type of vehicles
you're better off buying new and then keeping it for a hundred thousand miles
then getting rid of it I have customers with older used ones
that they bought and they told me they'll never buy another one because it
had too many problems, they bought them when they had 130-140,000 miles
on them and then it's time went on things broke the electronics went out,
the automatic transmissions broke, I would not buy one of those high mileage
unless you absolutely positively had to have a big vehicle like that and you're
using it to take a lot of people around you got it really cheap it's
not something you're gonna find is really dependable as it ages, sinister
pictures says Scotty I recently ran into 2019 Hyundai Elantra on a business trip, I
just loved it, I'm thinking about buying one well see here's the problem,
you rented a new one and that's the thing about Korean cars they're okay when
new, now if you're the type of guy that drives a car less than 10 years less
than a hundred thousand miles you probably will be happy with a Korean car
they cost less, but if you're the type of guy like me that wants to drive a car
for twenty thirty years and hundreds hundreds of miles, then get a Toyota or
Honda, don't get a Korean car cuz they're generally okay but they're not gonna
last as long, but like I said if you don't want that many miles, that many
years go ahead, I got customers to do that in every six seven years I just buy
another Korean car, search for first car says I bought a Toyota Corolla 98 for
a cheap price and I don't know if it's reliable or not, well historically
they're reliable as can be but it's a 98, so you're talking about a 20 year old
car, those things can a long time I've seen some of them with five hundred
thousand miles on it, you change the oil regularly, don't overheat the
engine, if it's an automatic transmission you don't want to be jackrabbit starting
you want to baby it, my 94 Celica which is basically a corolla engine and transmission,
I baby it and it shifts like a dream of
240,000 miles so, you say you got it for a cheap price, I'm assuming it's probably
really high mileage or something, just keep babying it, they're well-made cars
you got it cheap, if you got that thousand dollar car and you don't put much
money into it, and it lasts you even a year or two you made out like a gangbusters,
so don't complain about that don't put an engine in it, don't put a transmission
in it, don't put a whole bunch of money in it, but you never know how long one of
those things is gonna last stuff stuff says my car has TPMS the
tire pressure monitoring system, if I replace them with none tmps wheels for
my winter tires will I have a problem, no you just have the warning light come on
through the tire pressure monitoring, the light will come on because it doesn't
have any, it won't hurt anything all it is, is that each wheel has a little
transmitter inside the valve stem and it tells the unit when the pressure gets
low, and it'll just stay light on because it realizes that those tires
don't have them on anymore, well eg says I know you like Akebono brake pads
but what rotors would you use, here's what I found out from years of
experience, you put Akebono brake pads on your car, it really doesn't matter what
rotors you use, if they're old ones and it didn't shake when you brake that
means they're not warped, you could just use them over, I even had a guy with a
florid Explorer and he got big grooves in the rotors and he didn't want
to spend much money, so he put brake pads on it on the old worn out
rotors, and it still stopped okay and he sold the car didn't make any noise so
nobody noticed, any rotor company they're all made out of steel you know
that much difference, so any rotors would work perfectly fine, if you use a
akebono pads cuz those pads are so good that they can generally work with
anything, but of course if your rotors are really gouged you want to change them,
that guy was just selling the car and didn't want to put any money into it, adam s,
do manual transmissions have transmission oils that need changing, no
they're just splash lubrication automatic transmissions have filters and
they have an oil pump that pumps the oil throughout the system to make it work
just like your car's engine, it has an oil pump that pumps oil through the engine,
but manual transmissions are splash lubrication there's just gears they spin
around and on the bottom and it splashes the oil over, yeah you could
still change it every 80,000 miles but all you do is take out the oil drain
plug and it drains out, then there's a side plug and you pour it in there until
it comes out the side and it's full, it's very
easy to maintain manual transmissions they don't have filters, john
six says Scotty I'm always driving a standard transmission with the diesel engine, for
the first 30 minutes it runs fine but once it's warmed up it starts to stumble
what could be wrong, colder engine is fine with extra fuel, but once it's
warmed up extra fuel will make the vehicle stumble, their diesels and
standard transmissions, you know it's not the automatic transmission acting up
because it doesn't have one, so you know it's something any engine system and
from my experience it's one of two things, either the engine is flat wearing
out and have a compression test done on the engine to see if it's flat worn out
it could just be it's at the end of its life, or you got a fuel
injection problem or maybe the injectors are leaking as it warms up they're
dripping too much fuel in, I see that a lot, because a warm engine if it gets
extra fuel it'll start stumbling around, perk 1 2 3 4 says I'm considering
changing the timing got myself in a 2014 Honda Odyssey I've never changed I'm
assuming you got a v6, some of them 4 cylinders but all the ones I work on are v6s, v6
engines on those Honda's are relatively hard to change timing belts for one
main reason, they got 2 cams they got a cam on the passenger side
firewall on your right side, you got another cam on the left side now the
other one is very hard to access and to line up the
little marks when you take it apart and put it together, if you are going to do
it, you have to buy a kit that will lock the cams in place, because if you don't lock
those cams when you put that belt on, odds are the left side one is gonna move
to the side and then you're gonna have problems, Haynes manual which they make
for those and by the tool that locks the cams and go ahead if not pay mechanic to do
it, you gotta have cam lockers for that, sir
says Scotty how did you meet your wife, it's a rather hilarious story well it
turns out that I was back from school break when I was going to university
Illinois and I asked my mother who worked at the Board of Education, I said
to her have you seen any cute babes I could date, and she said oh why don't you
date Leslie down the street, well she thought of that because in the late
1800s my grandfather was given four tablespoons of kerosene that almost
killed him, but did it affect his health until later in the 1970s, and Leslie my
wife's mother and father were both in a hospital problem with her inner ear her
anvil and stirrup, the bones were kind of deteriorate in size, so thanks to
kerosene a few diseases, that's how I met my wife
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