people are always asking me Scotty what do you think of the Honda CRV SUVs well
here's a 2002 with a lot of mileage as you can see it's gonna one
eighty-seven thousand six hundred and twelve miles still start right up
typical Honda engine still has a smooth transmission and the
interiors pretty much Honda it's utilitarian as you can see the back
seats down you got a lot of space one of these things to all stop and this is a
fancy one it's even got a moonroof sunroof whatever you want to call it now
this is a fancy real-time four-wheel-drive
I'm even though it's got all their mileage on it closes in on two hundred
thousand miles the system has performed flawlessly for the customer the engine
itself four-cylinder engines they got plenty enough power for this vehicle but
there are no racehorses so they do not burn the automatic transmissions out the
Hondas and Acuras that i see having problems generally are the v6 engines be
put on a lot of horsepower they strain the automatic transmissions and the
four-wheel drive systems saw our often see Acuras and Honda's transmission
problems with the big v6 engines this four-cylinder puts out 160 horsepower
which is pulling it off to pull this vehicle around but it's not putting too
much torque on a transmission to burn the things out hence it's got almost
200,000 miles and the transmission and all-wheel drive system has never had a
problem and the basic transmission practical four-speed
Honda automatic transmission Honda makes and designs them themselves and these
have very few problems when they're hooked up to one of these four-cylinder
engines and yes it's not that great on gas because it's a four-wheel-drive
system 20 in a city and about 24 on a highway so it's not great on gas mileage but
they can run forever to compare this all-wheel drive Honda CRV to say a
comparable 2002 Subaru all-wheel drive Subarus making all-wheel drive for
really long time they get them pretty perfected the Subaru boxer engines have
a tendency of blowing head gaskets they'll rarely be running as good as
this Honda does with almost two hundred thousand
and they also have automatic transmission problems in the Subaru
Honda makes a better automatic transmission the Subaru does now this
thing may be 18 years old but it's still got the original air-conditioning
compressor now as you can see here the power steering pump is starting to leak
a little that's typical on most Honda's you can just add the fluid every once in
a while if it gets to a point where it leaks out all the time you're gonna have
to replace the pump but as you can see at least the pumps on the top it's a
very easy job it's almost as if Honda knew well our pumps leak when they get
old so let's put them on the top side be real easy to change some cars man I
could take you 3-4 hours to get that pump off this thing take you ten minutes
see what it looks like under there for anything really badly leaking or better
broken let's start looking around and aside from power steering fluid
dripping down which you already know the brakes are clean the frame all looks
fine and when we check the back side boots are all nice and clean not rip you
can see the frame is all solid not bent everything is pretty much original
equipment hey it still got the original muffler on you know they make good
aluminumized muffle it's got a little surface rust there but it still hasn't
rotted through and it's 18 years old and a left rear tires were normally got tons
of tread same thing it's clean with no weird wear spots and the front tires now
they're a bit worn here you can see there's a little bit of scalloped where
here so it probably needs a front end alignment on this side go go to the
other side check that out and we got the same thing a little bit of where it
needs front tires and an alignment for sure but I'd expect that with the car
that's got almost 200,000 miles on that's just typical wear and tear you
don't put a car down because of that rubber wears out over time and as your
tires start to get thinner you will get an accentuation of odd wear you get 40
50 thousand miles out of a set of tires and then they start showing where most
cars are gonna do that because they're not perfect when they're that old let's
say you put a pair of new tires on this thing a name within a few thousand miles
starting to wear odd then you know you really got some front end problems
they're gonna have to be looked into in this case not so it was showing a road
test start her up backing up
transmission engaged perfectly okay we'll give it a little gas and see what
happens got decent acceleration chef's good as we turn just a little low on
fluid and we know it's leaking so it's gonna have to be replaced at some point
in time but we'll just add fluid for now it's got a little bouncing when you hit
bumps but hey they always ride a little bit on the rough side and as they age of
course the struts are all worn but hey it's totally controllable it's not like
it's an uncontrollable vehicle I've had customers over-the-air say oh it's got
all this mods I want to put struts on it and they do and then they're
disappointed because they find out and maybe it rides 10% better not all that
much if they're not worn out making all kinds of noise and shaking at the
highway you can live with with an old vehicle like this but like an old
workhorse you're not gonna take it to do the hundred-yard dash anymore good baby
a little make it last as long as possible I'm gonna scan it to get it
overall perspective of what kind of shape it's in with all this mileage now
it's doing its thing reading everything it was a cold peel 4/20 camp system
efficiency below threshold very typical for these old Honda's as they age any
impurities in a system can start the clog up the catalytic converter and it's
not as efficient as it used to be it's a combination of everything the engine
being worn the fuel injectors being worn it only does this when it reaches a
certain parameter so a lot of times you can put cleaner in a gas tank top clean
a catalytic converter go to a higher grade of gasoline driving around for a
couple hundred miles a lot of times the cold will go away because they'd help
clean it a better burning fuel is gonna make it work more efficiently but this
thing runs perfectly fine the customers got no qualms about how it runs
they were just wondering why the check engine light was coming on and that's
why so I'm gonna throw some cleaner in a gas tank and tell her drive it around
for a couple hundred miles didn't bring it back let me reach a cat then now I've
had customers drive them years that way I even had one customer with the CRV
four years in a row the inefficient catalytic converter and then it
came the fifth-year to have me check it out and inexplicably the cold was gone
and I said why did you put a kettle link inverter on it they said not we didn't
do anything we just switched the gas and the gas station by us went out of
business so instead of buying it from an excellent station we're now buying it at
a Shell station so the only thing I could figure was well the Shell gasoline
burnt better than the Exxon did and since had burnt better the catalytic
converter did not have to work as hard to get rid of unburned hydrocarbons and
the light went off and it stayed off for the next three years until he sold the
car it was still off so things like that can happen now if you have an old car it
has a card like that fuel injector cleaner just make sure that it contains
the nitrogen based cleaner that's called PEA it's a nitrogen based cleaner
that works with modern cars and modern gasoline to clean things up and it can
very well make the car cleaner run more efficiently and get rid of an
inefficient cat code especially in a vehicle like this because it's running
perfectly fine otherwise she has no problem with the starting running but
there is one more thing I'm gonna check if she said that it seems to run a
little bit warmer than normal and she did a bunch of stuff for pleasure so I'm
gonna start it up and what the a/c turned on full-blast I'm gonna check the
cooling fans and as we can see that one's working and that one's working
the coolant fans are both working perfectly fine the coolant in the
radiator is full and a rock dust in Iowa and see how it runs now if I find that
it runs perfectly fine with the a/c on full blast but then I turn the fans off
turn the a/c off and if it runs a little bit hotter that means that the fans
aren't working right when the a/c is turned off cuz that AC automatically
turns to fans on and they're working so that systems working but the regular
system may not be working perfectly so we're gonna check that we can't get for
a good road test about 45 minutes including at least 20 minutes on a
highway and after our big road test 45 minutes great nose temperature gauge
stays even below the middle with the a/c on or the a/c off and the check engine
light is gone so now you know the truth about Honda cr-v
here's some bonus questions and answers cabbies says thoughts on how long a BRZ
can last new that's how you drive it they're fun little sports cars are
driving around but you know a lot of guys get that kind of car because they
want to drive like maniacs so they drive like maniacs and you can work anything
out if you drive like a maniac that's just the way machines are when I had
2013 Shelby Cobra at 666 Horsepower I drove it like a maniac if I would have
had it for more than a week I had it I probably could have worn the thing out
in a few months but if I would have taken the same vehicle and just drove
the speed limit all the time if you take care of it they can last a long time but
you do need to take care of it Tom Hansen Scotty do you recommend replace
the timing chain and interference engines and say hundred thousand miles
as a preventative means only on crappy cars something like a Nissan I would
because they're crappy and their problem something like a Toyota no I have never
ever seen the Toyota timing chain break and I've been working on for 50 years so
I know I wouldn't waste my time but I got a Chrysler Fiat Nissan yes I
probably would add a hundred thousand miles cuz I wouldn't trust them that the
engine would be destroyed but not a well built vehicle no you don't have to worry
about it as long as you change your oil cuz realize the timing change the metal
change it's lubricated by engine oil and if your engine oil gets dirty and gets
low it's not lubricated right and will wear out faster plus if you have a GDI
turbocharged engine the chains wear more too from the little blow bar that they get
and the extra strain on them so in that case yeah find a GDI engine I would
change the timing chains every hundred thousand miles or so girl says
what causes rear brakes to wear out quicker than the front of an SUV the
brakes are working fine I noticed the rear brakes walk we're going to the
front okay there's only really two things one is if
you tall a lot and have a lot of weight in the back then there's more weight in
the back and it's harder to slow it down and wear the pads out more commonly the
systems have proportioning valves so that a certain percentage of the braking
is on the front which is normally more and then a little bit losses to the back
if that proportioning valve breaks and doesn't work right it could give too
much power to the back and they'll wear out so I knows more often the
proportioning valve is going bad and it's sending too much power to the back
making them wear out faster now of course you want to check to make sure
they're not dragging if the calipers are sticking their dragging and they're gonna
go so you got to check that too but if they're worn totally evenly and one side
isn't thin on the other sides thicker which would mean that side that's
thinner has sticking calipers more often submit proportioning valve but son CI 84
Scotty I'm thinking about buying a know 500 of an for work that's 200,000 miles
on it I'm a painter what are your thoughts would it be the cheapest most
reliable van okay do not buy that Honda honestly I can tell you're a painter and
not a mechanic cuz we mechanics on those odyssey vans are horrible transmissions
bring the v6 engines are probably the cams breaking the air conditioning
systems brake you want a reliable van try to find a Toyota Sienna van or if
you can't because they're so popular and people want so much money for maybe a
look at a Ford van some of the Ford vans are decent yeah but do not buy a Honda
Odyssey van they are not reliable at that mileage generally start falling
apart done they made too many mistakes with those Odyssey vans it's like I
always say about Honda they make great vehicles to most of the time but they're
better at smaller vehicles the starter is a motorcycle company not at bigger
vehicles so I wouldn't buy an odyssey van especially a used one Lorraine's
Eaton says I got an 01 Chevy Tahoe v8 fuel gauge keeps bouncing all over the
place there's only two things that really do that one is the sending unit a
gas tank wears out and then it starts the gasoline vapors eat up the circuit
board then it gets weird readings that's very common size but of course you got
dropped the fuel time for that first thing I'd say it'd be check wiring going
into the fuel tank it's a known flaw it's a 19-year old Chevy truck they got
wiring harness shorts all the time when I bailed them they built them so cheap
the wiring harnesses are too tight and just remittance that tightness wiggles
them and then they short out and yours is probably starting to short out and
then it'll get erratic and go all over the place check the wiring first the GM
cells are wiring repair kit you don't have to buy theirs you could just cut
wires and solder new ones in but it's so bad the GM actually sells a kit for
repairing him because they've had so many problems with the worst wiggling
from being to tighten and then just coming apart starting to short out
that's the problem sicker says Scotty I have a Nissan Patrol 1998 when I'm
driving over 25 kilometers because of an Australia the drivers wheel starts
flopping around side to side I'm holding the steering wheel straight okay well
you got a serious problem there if it's flopping side to side don't drive it
anymore please yeah knock off the front end all you got to do is pull on it at 3
and 9 o'clock and 12 and 6 and see what's wobbling pray it's something
simple like the tie rods worn out that's cheap
now might be the lower ball joint could be that could be the strut itself maybe
the strut mounts breaking miss wobbly but if its liable on that bad you're
gonna physically see it when you jack it up in the air and pull on it so do that
I got a whole video on how to check out your own car's suspension system watch
that you can easily check it yourself and then you can decide hey if your
mechanical off change the tire rods no big deal but if it's bigger like the
struts need done or the control arms worn now you want to pay mechanic
Billy's why does it come says I got a no sub GMC truck it cranks won't start
and it has no spark I looked at everything spark plugs can't find
anything wrong no and he also says he has no codes they lose power the
ignition control module and ignition coil those wires there's a white black
wire they just made them too short they robbed and that white black wire comes
apart if you gotta get a little razor blade and slice through all that
insulation slice it off to the side and look at that white black wire follow it
if you see anywhere it's close to rubbing check that first and then you'll
see probably the white black wires come apart it was a design flaw no they just
made it too close and the wire just comes apart because it's rubbing from
cheap manufacture the thinks 13 years old it took 13 years to wear it through
but still if they were to put another inch of wiring so it wasn't so tight to
save a billionth of a penny it wouldn't arrive loose in the first place,
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