rev up your engines, lady says Scotty what do you think about 2018 to 2019
Corolla vs. Honda Civic 2018-2019, the Civic looks better but is the head good,
manual transmission of course, if you're talking about manual transmissions in
that case I would get the Civic, because it's a much faster car, it is a somewhat
better looking car, and it really does handle better, now in terms of long life
odds are the Corolla is gonna last a little bit longer, but a Honda Civic
especially a modern one with the standard transmission they are really fun to
drive around, they're good-looking cars, in that case with manual transmission I
would probably get the Honda Civic because they are zippy little cars
and if you really want to get it, get that that racing one the type R,
that is a screamer, Nik Woodfield says hey Scotty do you
recommend people finance their cars or pay cash, I paid cash for every car I
ever bought and man I tell you I've gotten deals, in my entire life my own
personal cars that I drove, I spent 7,500 bucks and that's 51 years of driving
cars, I've spent seventy five hundred bucks
total for every car that I personally owned, now that doesn't include my wife's
cars cuz you like fancier cars, but it's all I spent,
you can save so much money paying cash for cars, cuz I don't care what anybody
says, oh it's the same price cash or credit that's BS, if you go down the
street and somebody really needs money one of the few things that most people
have that they can sell fast is their car, now selling a house that could take
a year or more to sell a house, but selling a car you could sell it fast and
it's about the only thing you can get some serious money for these days, so you
can get a deal when you pay cash for a used car, men dunk says what are
your thoughts on book time pay, he's talking about labor rates, if a mechanic
works on a car, a lot of times they look it up on a labor and it says
that's a four hour job to charge $100 an hour they charge $400 labor, well I don't
like that stuff because a lot of it is total nonsense,
and if you're working like at a dealership, even the mechanics get
screwed over on that deal, cuz let's say mechanic has a four hour job and he does
it in two hours, he gets paid the full pay for the first two hours, but the
second two hours they only pay him a percentage of his pay,
so even he gets screwed over the job even though if you bring your car to a
dealer and they charge 120 dollars an hour and they say it's four hours,
they're gonna charge you four hundred and eighty dollars labor, but the
mechanic isn't seeing this full percentage, so I really think that the
book pay is a lot of baloney and it really leads from dishonesty, both for
the mechanics that work at a dealer and for the person who's paying for the car,
I don't really believe in that stuff, you just see what it takes to do something
and give somebody an honest price that's all I've been doing my whole life,
the grandfather was the same way he never looked up labor on stuff he said,
well here's the job and here's what it costs,
Georgie Mac says when a car loses oil and you don't see blue smoke
or oil spots on the ground where is the oil going, well it's burning, simply is burning,
it because you take oil, when oil leaks just a few drips will make, you know
an 8 foot wide circle in your driveway eventually, so if it's leaking and
you're losing oil you're gonna have drips all over the
place, if you have like a quarter of a quart of oil it'll be like a football
size, you're gonna see it, now a lot of times when they burn oil these days,
modern cars are pretty efficient, you won't see the smoke come out of the back
because it burns everything pretty cleanly, and the catalytic converter will
get rid of the rest, but they'll always leave telltale marks on your spark plugs,
so if your losing oil and you don't see it dripping
and you don't see a lot of smoke coming out, pull out a couple spark plugs and
odds are you're gonna see burnt carbon on the electrodes of the spark plug and
that's telling you that it's burning oil, and in that case
just changed the spark plugs more often if you don't want to rebuild an
engine which costs an awful lot of money these days, and hardly anybody knows how
to rebuild modern engines anymore, guys I've seen that said they knew how to do
it, sometimes I've seen a customer have one
rebuild an engine and they'll say, oh yeah the guy who rebuild my engine for
twenty-five hundred dollars and then the next year they tow it to my house and say
what's wrong, I say your engine's blown again because the guy didn't rebuild it
right, so it's really not something most people even know how to do anymore
Robin says how are proton cars in Malaysia are they any
good, well I've never personally worked on one cuz they don't sell them in
Texas, but I have friends all over the world and I have friends in Malaysia and
they like those cars, they say that they're decent cars, they don't sell them
over here so I can't say, I'm sure they would never really be big sellers in the
United States cuz they're kind of micro cars, but my son's married to a woman
from Singapore and when they go over there almost all the cars he said are
micro cars and they sell decent over there, so I mean if you need a small car
and you live in a really congested area where it cost a fortune for gasoline and
they're probably pretty decent of cars, but they're too small from what I've
seen to really fly in the United States, Americans always like a little bit
bigger cars, they don't really go for micro cars, so if
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