rev up your engines GM has a lawsuit against them now saying
that they were selling diesel pickup trucks in the United States they
couldn't run correctly on American fuel it turns out that a bunch of them had
Bosch German fuel pumps refined slightly differently so people are saying that
it's wearing the fuel pumps out the fuel pumps are throwing metal shavings into
the fuel injection system and destroying them of course GM denies all this stuff I
mean they seem to deny everything they denied that ignition switch thing where
they even changed the number of the ignition switch replacement parts so
people wouldn't notice that the old ones were designed wrong and then they got
sued and then they had to pay out a bunch of money for that stuff that they
were doing and now they're claiming that oh no that's not the case well I mean if
people are having problems what only time is gonna tell us what happened I
think it's got the interest soon yeah they couldn't even design their own fuel
pumps they're buying the German fuel pumps and they didn't even probably
think before they put them in the vehicles, jackie says Scotty what would be a
great first car for about two grand if you want reliability get an old Corolla
or an old camry, now for two grand its odds are it's
gonna be pretty old you don't get much for two grand these day two grand today
is equivalent to when I was a kid to a hundred dollar car and usually can't get
much for a $100 car, do the old trick that I've always told people do you're
gonna pay that much money for a car get one with a paint's peeling off they
don't have any value when the paint's peeling off and then if you really care
go to one of those places like Earl Scheib that'll paint a car when they're
gonna sale for 250 bucks or one that's got bashed in founders it still works
good but when they look bad to go for a lot less money, sing says
all wheel drive or front wheel drive or rear wheel drive for a winter all-wheel
drive works better than waiting at all the wheels driving but do you really
need that much as an example my mother's 92 she still lives in Agra Falls she
drives two Toyota Corolla front-wheel drive car in the snow doesn't you put
snow tires on they plow the roads in Niagara Falls and she never has any
problems now if you going skiing and mountains and stuff all-wheel drive is
much better front-wheel drive is pretty good and of
course rear-wheel drive is the worst for snow you spin around it turns out that
vehicles are more controllable if you pull them rather than push them so with
front-wheel drive you got better snow control and rear-wheel drive because
you're pulling instead of pushing but if you live where they plow the roads you
don't care one way or another most guys are front-wheel drive these days anyways
clam dick said why shouldn't you use full synthetic on an engine at state
semi synthetic 97 Ford Puma you could if you would have from the very beginning
but my advice to people and I engineers have argued this back and forth with me
but I don't care I've seen it happen you have an engine that you've been using
regular oil or semi synthetic oil and you switch to full synthetic oil and
it's been using the other oil for a long time a lot of times they'll either start
burning or leaking oil because the full synthetic oil flows better it's thinner
and a lot of times it'll leak or burn a lot sometimes the engines start making
noises if you start it out with it you generally don't have that problem but I
would just leave it alone today if you want to buy a new car and put full
synthetic go right ahead but don't switch after it's had a hundred thousand
miles of some other type of oil, Jacob Roger says Scotty I got a 98
Chevy s10 with a locked up 4 cylinder can it be unlocked if your engine's
locked up it means it has internal problems and odds are you're gonna have
to take it all apart and rebuild it or that old clunker try to find a used
engine from a junkyard and put in it if you want to try you can get a long
extension bar in a socket put it on the front crank pulley bolt try turn it back
and forth and back and forth and if you can break it loose say take the spark
plugs out and put oil in them leave the spark plugs out with oil in the holes if
you can break it loose maybe you can get it running again who knows I've done
that some times in the past Donald says how often should you change
brake fluid love your channel all your information and tips I personally have
had Toyotas that had 250,000 miles on I never changed the brake fluid and never
had to change anything but the brake pads the cylinders didn't leak but on
the other hand if you got some piece of junk like a Chrysler
I changed the fluid none have them every four or five years they're not made that
well and they will absorb a lot a lot of a prett have problem if you really want
to see if yours is any good there are tests that we make
do we have little machines a test for the percentage of water in them and the
percentage of copper because a lot of times the copper from the lines will
infiltrate into it it won't work as well so it can be tested if you got an honest
mechanic he can tested for you tell if it's good or not
Rossler go says Scotty my 2010 corolla tire spin when I hit a bump okay if you
get spinning tires half the time it's just the tires are worn out or they're
crappy tires if you buy crappy tires if the rubber isn't soft enough it's too
hard it will actually spin you hit a bump and hits and it spins because it's
too hard and it slips you want to have tires that are reasonably soft so they
grip if you're watching those car races you might think tires in those car races
they're changing them every 110 miles cuz they're so soft and they're going so
fast that they just erased themselves going around a track at that speed and
at that temperature you don't want tires that last 150 miles
but you don't want really hard ones to skip check the tires first if it's not
the tires generally it's the shocks wearing out and then they're bouncing and
slipping after you hit a bump, Jeremy says what do you think of body kits well
if you wanna make your car look tougher go ahead and bolt or not it doesn't you
know generally affect how they run or anything problem I see with them I see a
lot of kids that put body kits on these Honda Civics they put them way too low
and then the pieces get ripped off every time to go over a speed bump or they hit
something and pieces come flying off, do whatever you want it's your car I
personally think hey the way they're made is good enough for me there are
transportation devices you know and motorcycles generally my thing with them
is naked take everything off of them except the motor and wheels so I don't want
anybody on them at all so if you never want to miss another one
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