rev up your engines, Johnson says Scotty what are your thoughts of the
Hummer one two three series are they reliable cars or endless money pits big
fans, okay well you know they stopped making them they used to make them down the
street in Shreveport Louisiana for me here in Houston, they were an interesting
thing you know, I mean basically they're kind of like a civilian version of the
Hummers that the Army's using and stuff but for the private sector and they were
pretty much endless money pits, I've got a customer with one it's always breaking
down and with the gasoline engines that were kind of underpowered for the
vehicle, the diesel engines yeah they're gonna last a lot longer there's no
arguing that but, their tremendous gas hogs too, the army didn't care their driving
tanks around they don't care, but for an average vehicle to drive around in, you
can pick them up pretty cheap now because their values since they stopped
making them kind of plummeted, if you want something like that and it's going to be a toy
you're gonna drive it you know hundreds or a couple thousand miles a year go
ahead but don't think it's gonna be dependable reliable, Sam says
Scotty what's a better first car, a 2000 TransAm w6 automatic or 2007 Mustang GT
manual, well the Mustang manual by far, the Trans Am 2000 that was one of the worst
years of them, they were they were not very good and it's the v6 automatic
definitely the Mustang manuals are much better vehicle then that Trans Am the 2000
the Trans Ams were meh and the sixes were meh too, so you'd definitely want to go
with a Mustang for that if you know what that as your first one, Ed China says
is this the real Ed China, I doubt it, but if it is hi Ed I loved you show, you were honorable guy
and left when they started to blank the show, the new one stinks, he's asking what do you
think of these hydrogen fuel-cell kits, they're a scam you know hydrogen fuel cell
kits they're trying to make water into hydrogen and then burning it
in your car, the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen and water are so strong that
breaking them into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis takes more energy
from your car's electrical system then you ever get back burning the hydrogen
now you could, an actual hydrogen you'll car yeah it's using hydrogen in a
fuel cell and it turns it into electricity and has water vapor as a
by-product, those actually work but the very complex, these ones where people say
oh you can run your car in hydrogen by making electrolysis and burn the hydrogen, that's
nonsense you have to generate the electricity with the alternator and you
use more energy generating that electricity to make the hydrogen from
water than you ever get burning hydrogen in your car, those are just a plain scam
cuz if they work people would build cars that way it's only common sense you
know, if somebody invents something that really works good for fuel and gas
mileage they'll sell it believe me because hydrogen burns cleaner than
gasoline they could bypass all the pollution laws just by burning hydrogen
because it burns cleaner, Lucas says can you drive a car with a clogged catalytic
converter, ok good question depends on how clogged it is, now if the catalytic converter
is really clogged up, your vehicle will only go to a certain speed
I've had people bring it to me and they wouldn't go over 50 miles an
hour and you'd watch the temperature gauge and instead of running like under
halfway, they might run three quarters, then you're gonna have to change it out
because it just won't run right,but if you got one of those codes that says
inefficient catalytic converter but it runs ok otherwise and it goes
whatever speed you want, I've had people drive them 10 years that
way, but just depends on how it runs and how clogged up it is inside if, you
really want to find out, you get a mechanic like me and you take out the
oxygen sensor that's before the cat and put a pressure gauge on and we can see
how clogged up it is by how high the pressure is and if the pressure is too
high then we'd say, no it's too high you're just gonna have to change it out
none your business asks, what advice you would you give someone who wants to
start a subaru only repair shop, one make sure you're in an area where they sell a lot
of Subarus, if you live in Colorado in snow country
Maine, Alaska, those things are all wheel drive and people love them in the snow
if you're in an area where there's a lot of Subarus, go right ahead you know
there's nothing wrong with that there's a lot of them out there and they
break they blow head gaskets, the automatic transmissions are garbage you
spend a lot of time fixing them, you could make a good living fixing Subarus
if you're in an area where there's a lot of them, here in Houston Texas they're not
very big sellers they're not that popular, but if you live in a place where
it is, always check the market in the area that you live in, you know like
where I am convertibles aren't that big cuz it's so hot in the summer we don't
want to open our tops it's hot and humid all the time
we're running air conditioning, so you know, although I do see a lot of people
riding around in a little convertibles where they got the top down, but then they have
the air conditioner blowing full blast in their face even with the top-down, so if
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