rev up your engines
jordania says Scotty what do you think of a 99-04 Jeep Grand Cherokee
specifically the outsets 4.0 and a v8 4.7 variants okay not a Jeep fan these
days but that was before fiatter taking over the company those six cylinder four
liter engines can run forever I've seen those things with four or five hundred
thousand miles the engines are fantastic and the 4.7 v8 there are also very
strong engines now the problem with both of those vehicles and especially the v8
they are tremendous tremendous gas hogs Jeep was one of the biggest
traded in vehicles when some of these places had cash for clunkers programs
because they got such horrible gas mileage and as they age they broke was
like the most traded end vehicle on a cash for clunkers program so that tells
you something about it but if you're talking about an older one and it
doesn't have outrageous miles you can get them cheap and it might be a nice
Knockaround vehicle you don't buy a vehicle like that and think hey I'm
gonna put twenty thousand miles on it use it as an everyday driver now they're
not made for that if you want a weekend coin you can find a good one with lower
mileage a have some fun with it cynic says Scotty what are your
thoughts on 1989 honda CRX control manual transmission i'm looking about
okay those are great cars back in the day it's still running it shows that how
well-made it was 31 year old car that's an old car if you want something as a
Knockaround car and it runs on the ship's good doesn't overheat you don't
see a bunch of smoke come out of the exhaust burning oil when you're driving
it go ahead don't pay much more it's not worth all that much money but don't
think you can buy a car like that and drive a twenty thousand miles a year
without spending a lot of money when cars are 31 years old all the rubbers
old you're gonna have to eventually replace it all depends on what you're
new you get it cheap it could be a fun knock around card yes but don't do like
some of my customers and think oh I can get a good price on that and then it
gets good gas mileage and I'll start driving it as my regular commuter car no
not a smart move because all that rubber stuff is gonna start breaking and you
can get parts for them cuz it's odd yeah but you got any fix that are a lot of
the time I try to find something new or if you wanted an everyday dependable car
but if you want a fun little knock on toy go ahead yeah just don't pay that
much they're not worth that much money when they're that old and they're just a
run of them not a product they mass-produced and I
hundreds of thousands of those things bar says Scotty I recently
acquired at 2001 mitsubishi montero sport 180 thousand miles says misfire
and one of the cylinders I'm gonna do a tune up but you're not drive it till the
wheel falls off or get rid of it well that depends
now you said you acquired it if you got it for nothing
driving until the wheels fell off if you bought it hopefully in pay much for it
because v6 Montero's the engines and transmissions with 180,000 miles are on
their last legs and you will put a small fortune in it if you did pay any kind of
money for it I'd say get rid of it immediately before you start throwing
money into it do tune it up and pray that the misfire is a spark plug or
spark plug wire or something like that don't put any money into the engine if
you find out the head gaskets gone get rid of it immediately do not try to fix
them putting a head gasket in one of those v6 Montero's and it can cost you
anywhere from 1,200 to $3,500 and that's if the rest of the engine isn't damaged
so don't go too far and if you get misfire gone what the heck why not drive
it till the wheel falls off if you have no money or very little money involved
in it I hope you didn't pay much acorn says is it ok to spray at205 reseal on
a CV axle boot to keep it supple yes the at205 reseal is a rejuvenator of rubbers
and really do anything to any other materials but it's great for rubber so
if you're spraying it on it will keep the rubber rejuvenate its note won't
crack as much I personally do that on my own cars some guys will spray em on the
radiator hoses to here's a caveat for that radiator hoses as crazy as it
sounds they actually crack on deteriorate from the inside out you know
in a car that's 15 years on the outside looks okay but the inside is all
starting to go bad if you got a car that old take one of the hoses off and look
inside you see it's all cracked replace it then but for the CV rubber boots worn
there's really no pressure on them there's no pressure that's pushing out
like a radiator hose and they wear out from the outside cuz the inside is
coated with grease so yeah actually it's but I did keep them lasting as long as
possible, Bradley Nolan says I'm considering
buying a 2016 Lexus NX with 80,000 miles with the 2-liter turbo would this be a
good vehicle to last the 2-liter turbo is a smaller
engine with the turbocharger on now Toyota's make good engines yes but
there's no way a turbocharged four-cylinder engine will last as long
as a normally aspirated 6-cylinder engine there's so much less
I've seen those 6-cylinder Lexus engines with 300,000 miles on they still don't
burn all out never seen a 4-cylinder turbo good even half that before they
started burning my joy so it can be an OK car for driving around if you're
really baby cars but if you drive them hard you're better with a 6 it's how you
drive if you're a real fast driver have your foot on the accelerator I get a 6 I
wouldn't get a Ford turbo because it will wear out faster there's no doubting
man Keith w says is a 2013 Ford Taurus any good it depends on two things one
the transmissions were somewhat weak you want if you think about buying one have
a mechanic get his fancy scam tool road test to check the transmission data to
see if the transmission is good check did somebody actually take care of it if
it was taken care of it could be a decent car now it's 17 years old so one
don't pay much money for it's not worth anything it's not it never be a
collector's item or anything if it's got like 150 60,000 miles it's probably all
worn out and I wouldn't buy it at all unless it was five hundred bucks or
something but it was lower mileage and mechanics said it was a good car could
be decent just don't pay too much money for it nobody pays too much money for a
17 year old car unless it's some kind of collector's item default skin 2018 says
Scotty is it a good idea to run an open thermostat that stuck my car seems to
run well the thermostat when it's shot let's the engine warm up faster then it
opens up if yours is stuck open you may not even notice the
difference in the summer when it's hot outside cuz it opens up anyways you live
up north it's not gonna run well when it gets cold because then the engine is
gonna run too cold how you can tell whether it's gonna damage the car not
it's watch it's a temperature gauge in your car let's say your temperature
gauge normally runs right in the middle if it continues to run right in the
middle after it warms up sure it's not gonna hurt anything but when it's really
cold outside and it serves that stuck open it won't run in the middle anymore
it will run way colder and an engine that runs cold is bad for two
reasons one it doesn't get up to operating temperature it's gonna get
worse gas mileage but running at that lower temperature can actually damage
the engine bearings and stuff over time now I'm talking about thousands and
thousands of thousands of miles but now let's say you lived in Australia where
it's hot all the time as long as the temperature gage ran in the middle of
why you warmed it up it wouldn't hurt the car at all it's the temperature
gauge that matters you watch that gauge and if it doesn't run normal you'd want
to put another one in cuz they're made to run best at the normal temperature
they're designed for not too cold James Thompkins says I bought a 2016
camry xse with 45,000 miles after having a bad experience with the 2015 Chrysler
200 C traded it in for the camry and I'm happy smart move
you know the Chrysler 200 C's they don't even make them anymore they're rolling
piles of junk that's one Fiat had taken over and they had a lot of Italian parts
I ran in one once just to see it they were like I thought phenomenal gasps
mileage I got 40 something miles a gallon on highway arguing that but it was at
any piece of junk and it was one of those Fiat automatic transmissions and
it shifted hordley even though it only had like 12,000 miles on it so you made
a smart move there I agree with you you didn't go from the frying pan into
the fire he went from the frying pan onto a nice couch that was a smart move
747flier says hey Scotty I never changed the transmission fluid on my 03 Corolla
with the standard transmission only 35,000 miles let's shift great should I
change it or leave it on okay well it's got a standard transmission so
I mean you leave it alone now standard transmissions are completely different
than automatic transmissions an automatic transmission as you're driving
the fluid dynamics shifted that goes by pressures and the friction that's in the
fluid to make the car drive it has to be clean it can clog up little holes not
shift right a standard transmission just has gears you're shifting it with your
own hands the only thing that goes on inside a standard transmission is
there's standard transmission fluid and it's splash lubrication the gear
spinning pick it up and throw it all inside and it lubricates it by splash so
it's not that important that it is perfectly clean now if you want to be a
fanatic you change the standard transmission fluid
every 80,000 miles or something that's what I do my own cars
it's only splash lubrication it's not that important you don't wake up 35,000
miles even though it's 17 years old I wouldn't worry about it but when you get
80 90 thousand miles that changed the fluid it's easy there's a drain plug in
a template you drain it all drips out then you go to the add plug and you pour
it in until it starts coming back out the add plug in it's fault really simple
job to do letting the plane ask hey my mom's car wasn't a path the tornadoes in
Dallas but she was on the edge a tree limb fell and nearly crushed a car only
came out it was dirt and leaves on the pain crack casing I left taillight does
anything else she should look for she drives it around
fix the taillight it's cranked and stuff you might get a ticket if you change
some people's faces it can be harassment there as long as it runs okay and it didn't
get any water into the car you really shouldn't have to worry about anything
other than the paint being scratched and stuff like that you got lucky on that
one because it didn't crunch down a lot of times you say that's a 2015 Infiniti
if they get a big tree on and they'll just total the car because the bodywork
will be more than the cars worth being a five-year-old infinity so at least you
got lucky there and you can still drive the car around I would say park further
away from trees don't park right under the trees with big limbs on them things
are falling down a crash around you when we have hurricanes in Houston you know
what I do I actually pull my cars out into the front of the house on the
street cuz it doesn't flood where I am but my driveway has big trees in it and
I don't want the trees falling down one time we did have a tree fall right out
of my driveway it was a long time ago when I wasn't a complete slob like I am
today and my garage had enough room that my car was parked in the garage so it
turns out to my old Toyota Corollas that farmers parked in a garage
one tree landed in front of it I couldn't get it out luckily I upside
entrances to the garage cuz it was blocked and I went I got my
chainsaw cut it into pieces I could get the car not always said the storms
coming don't get in your trees monkey car away from what's a smart thing to do
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