rev up your engines car enthusiasts says Scotty I got a 1986 LTD Crown Vic or a Chevy Malibu
71 is a classic project car which is more reliable cheap parts greetings from
Germany I go with a 71 Malibu because the 71 Malibu is a lot simpler than an
86 Crown Vic it's carbureted the crown of X
fuel-injected you would have more fun with that Chevy coz back in some nice
they were making pretty good cars yeah I learned how to drive on a Chevy it was a
69 and let me tell you there was a solid built car I'd definitely go Malibu now
parts are readily available because they didn't have that many different types of
parts back in those days and being carbureted it's simple let's say the
carb craps out you got brand new Edelbrock carburetors just bolt it on
Peter Lombardi says thoughts on a $15,000 2000 Rolls Royce Silver Seraph with good
maintenance record yeah you want to throw $15,000 in a money pit go right
ahead you know that's your money that's nothing for a Rolls Royce maintenance
record means nothing it's a 20 year old Rolls Royce stuff like I worked on once
in a while even sound like a brake rotor that you can get an autozone for 25
bucks for a Ford yeah there'll be nine hundred dollars for a Rolls Royce
everything I was called support you and I aren't that well made you know they
really aren't they cost an absolute fortune to maintain I mean if you got 15
grand burn a hole in your pocket you want a weekend toy go right ahead but if
you value to money don't even think about buying that thing TJ says it's a
Saturn I200 to 150,000 miles reliable
well it might be you know I mean it been bankrupt for quite some time GM shut
them down for all kinds of different problems the 200s were a relatively
reliable thing now that's a lot of miles and of course don't pay much for it
they're worth absolutely nothing but I get customers buying for five hundred
bucks and driving three or four years and they're still driving them and I
don't have to spend too much time fixing them I mean if it's in decent
shape it could be okay knock around don't pay much for the door there's
absolutely no value programming so Scotty why did Pontiac go bankrupt
well Pontiac really didn't go bankrupt GM just stopped making Pontiacs the
company Pontiac went out ages ago GM bought them out and in the end for
decades they weren't really Pontiacs they were just GM cars called and
Pontiacs they're all made with the same parts and stuff and GM just pulled the
plug because they decided they weren't selling money they had a very bad
reputation for very good reasons and so they just said well we're not gonna make
Pontiacs anymore the actual Pontiac brand never existed for a long time it
just got bought out just like jeeps jeeps were made by the willys-overland
company and then AMC bottom and a chrysler bought AMC and there's nothing
to do with the Willys company anymore same thing there they just didn't make
that good vehicle that was in name only anyways he enhances I need a Cressida my
wife had a crescent and she loved it but when it was like 25 years old it just
the paint was coming off the leather seats are all cracking the air
conditioning system had to be done over cuz it had freon and not the 134a and
the transformation was starting to get a little funky on it being that all the
money you'd have to put into one of those now if you really like the car and
you want to completely do it over go right ahead but realize you're gonna
spend thousands of thousands of thousands of dollars on a car yeah
you'll never recoup your investment because they're not collectors items
they still made a whole bunch of them so they'll never really be collectors items
but I mean if you can find a cheap one you want a knocker on one seat you can
find one it still runs what the heck but I wouldn't put too much money into one
when Scotty gets rid of a car it's kind of telling you yeah it's time to say
goodbye Chinese characters says
can't read Chinese characters I know Mandarin at all hey Scotty what are your
thoughts on body used Tesla Model X P 100 D well you know you can get them a
lot cheaper I'll give you an idea at a customer that bought a Model S from
somebody the guy paid 126 to the Model S and he paid 45 for it used with only
15,000 miles on it so you can get him a lot cheaper I'm not a fan of the Tesla's
but if you can get it cheap enough and you want one go right ahead you'd be a
fool to buy a brand-new one just pean you anywhere but you can find a low
mileage one what that can you really one you're gonna pay an awful lot less
money for they have really low resale values it's just all those things aren't
Mara Alvarez says what do you think about an oh wait hundred Civic Si for 6k
192 thousand miles got it they could be great cars but there's no way I'd pay
six grand for a car that's 12 years old and has 192 thousand miles on it that's
just too many miles the guys living in la-la land here in Houston cash that
vehicle would be worth maybe four three four thousand tops I try to pay less now
of course it depends where you are like if you're in Canada that's the price
that they go for cars go from where there see what cars go for in your area
but me I wouldn't pay that kind of money for a car with that kind of mileage with
no guarantee that's just too much riverboat gambling as far as I'm
concerned buh-buh-buh says is a 2006
mitsubishi lancer automatic transmission reliable currently have 153 miles sad
but true they usually aren't all that reliable but if you of 153 and is still
working baby it the engines are stronger than a translation if you drive
conservatively you never know as long as it lasts keep driving it hey it's 14
years old has 153 thousand miles you try selling or trading in you won't
guarantee anything for so keep driving a baby you never know you know I've even
seen some Chrysler's making over two hundred thousand miles some people got
when it was well made or they really baby their cars if your baby your car
could be the group abide Scotty help I got a 14 Subaru Forester it's like a power
and accelerate I cleaned the MAF throttle body new plugs oil change
filter runs fine for a day then bogs down again you tried the obvious things now
it's time for a little analysis instead of guessing you cleaned the maf get a
scan to analyze the data could be the man that just flat worn out and it needs
to be replaced if you feel felt is clogged or the fuel pumps weak you can
press your test the fuel pump change the filter first if it's clogged the
pressure will be low and it's not the pumps fault if the filter clock change
the filter then pressure test the pump if the pumps good then it's not that if
it's bad you replace the pump the other thing is the catalytic converters could
clog up they build up back pressure then you can't accelerate right and they can
be pressure tested too we mechanics will just take out the oxygen sensor put a
pressure gauge in and see how much pressure there is if there's too much
pressure means the cats clogged and you'd have to
replace those are the most common things rising phoenix 317 says Scotty I have an
08 Ford Fusion four-cylinder 150 thousand miles every morning I started
squeals for five to ten minutes goes away worse than cold weather okay I'll
tell you just have a bad fan belt have these stupid automatic tensioners and as
they age the tensioners don't tension enough and so when they're cold pull
off and squeal do look at the fan belt if the fan belt is all cracked and worn
you need to replace it anyways just do the belt the belt looks okay you might
get a new tensioner tensioners do wear out on those things and there are
automatic tensioner there's nothing you do them when they wear out you replace
them but if you are gonna change the tensioner you might as well change the
belt to change them all up once in have to think about it for years
chaotic joints says Scotty got 05 Trailblazer wouldn't start told it to
the mechanic think it was fuel pump he put gas and it started what's going on
here now if you're saying that he put gas in the gas tank get it started you
just ran out of gas I mean it happens if it just started on its own by
pumping the gas there isn't getting fuel or isn't getting ignition I got a whole
video fixing the car the cranks that doesn't start it up if it happens again
you gotta go through all those processes to see us at losing spark isn't losing
fuel there's a zillion things that can do it start with the basics if the
battery load tested a weak battery will do that to no but your reason cars won't
start see if there's any codes if it's a really bad thing it'll trip a code so
like true can it go through that and if he can't find anything what you
generally guess it on something like that
that age being GM weak fuel pumps will do that they won't trip any code so you
could be you need a fuel pump probe driver says Toyota changing the game
well recently they've been changing the game badly they just recall like 1.5
million Toyota's and licenses for the fuel pumps might stop and here's the
weird thing they're gonna recall them and he said
they're gonna tell the clients in May hey it's March now why don't they tell
the people right away you know no they're gonna wait few on a late model
Toyota you better watch it that fuel pump dies are you going
on the highway the car will stop running somebody just slam into you they are losing their
quality like everybody else it seems the kind of bees me off I got a 94 Celica
still is the original fuel pump and it runs fine Nippon Denso pumps I don't
know if they changed where they're buying the pumps from if they did shame
on them cuz those never had problems they would just pump and pump
for years but now they're having problems willie says are there any other YouTube
channels that you trust well I only trust three things me myself and I and I'm
kind of wondering about me you can only control what you do that's one of the
reasons I went into fixing cars I didn't want other people fixing my cars I
didn't have much money when I was a kid so I had to do it myself I had an open
once again the carburetor went and the parts are so expensive
I got a Kellogg's cereal box and I cut gaskets out of the cereal box and it
worked for years that way basically only trust myself I don't know what other
people who got up people are being paid off to say something that's bad is good
or vice versa cuz somebody's trying to bad-mouth somebody who actually is good
I have no idea I only know what I've been doing for 52 years and so I can
pass the truth on to everybody out there so I really can't say I don't know if
anybody else is telling the truth or not
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