rev up your engines alright people are asking me hey Scotty what's the most
unpopular car in the US well this year it's the Fiat 124 spider
they're probably gonna retire it not make it anymore but it is the lease sold
car in the United States for any mass-produced cars that are sold here
now granted the newer one 124s aren't as bad as the old Fiat
because they share the platform with the Mazda Miata they've got a Fiat engine in
it well for my money I'm gonna buy a Mazda Miata I would want a Mazda engine
and they're pretty dependable in those little Miatas where the Italian engines
are notorious for being totally undependable as time goes on now of
course the way the Fiats got their engine set up it's faster than Miata but
it's also a lot less reliable and as it shows it's the least popular car in the
United States maybe you want to go buy one they're so unpopular you could probably
get a really good deal on one I need do it have a lot of Mazda Miata designs on
them and if you're not grading a car it might last a while the problem the
Italian cars is they are zippier guys tend to race them and rev them up higher
then they blow up faster if you do get an Italian kind of like that and you drive
it conservatively they can last a while but still for my money if you want to
get a sports car get the Miata don't get a Fiat copy of the thing next question
is Isaac Dean 28 I want to make a purchase my first car done research but
I'm looking at 2010 2lt Chevrolet Camaro I love it but I'd like to know if
anybody knows if I should buy it or not if you value your money do not buy it
those things are money pits as they age and you're talking about buying a 2010
that's a 10 year old Camaro generally guys abide those cars beat the heck out
of now if you're really nuts about a car like that you're better off getting one
as a toy for a weekend toy you're saying this is the first car you ever buy you
don't want to buy this as the first car you're gonna be spending money hand-over-fist
fixing the thing having problems with it buying a used one like that I wouldn't
ever advise you to buy one of those things as your first car, nice storm
says scotty been watching your videos like crazy need your help I'm torn between
the 2017 4runner TRD pro or 2017 Volvo xc90 t6 r design if you value your
time money get the Toyota believe me the Volvo's yeah they're interesting
they're are kind of fun to drive around but they do not last now if you were
talking about mobiles in the 1960s and 70s and early 80s they really lasted a
long time they're not gonna be making cars in the future gasoline vehicles
they said Chinese companies bought them so they're only gonna make a hybrid
electric and pure electric cars that's all they're gonna be making they're
gonna do whatever they want to go electric hybrid and you're stuck with a
vehicle that's got a gasoline or diesel engine in it tough luck Toyota is going
to be making those things for a long time don't even think about buying that volvo
unless you've got a lot of expendable income and you're not gonna keep it all
that long the Toyota you can keep forever the Volvo yeah 2017 I'd say it's
generally gonna be falling apart when they're six to eight years old they
start to fall apart there's a question people are always asking me I gotta get rid
of my car it's a junker it doesn't run I got
a scrap it how do I get the most money how
do I do it right there's so much information on the Internet today
first check locally in your area well just a straight junkyard give you for
the vehicle call a few up, what will a recycler give you for the car you might
find that some recyclers will have to give you more than a junkyard will cuz
if you got a car that say it's got a big catalytic converter with fly to platinum
really nice aluminum wheels and they can recycle the aluminum and get more money
or maybe they're a place that they like tires and wheels and different things
I'm even get more money from them because you've got fancier wheels on it
you gotta realize what kind of a car you have years ago generally you got the
most money for the bigger vehicle you scrap because it weighs more but with
the global price of recycled materials dropping like a stone you don't get much
for the weight of the vehicle anymore there's like a glut in that market so
maybe you got a car that's more popular and you think and somebody wants to
buy it just for the parts on it realize that you scrap a car they're not
gonna give you that much money for it but maybe you've got a cars got a blown
engine but the transmission is still good it's got good tires and
body's in good shape there are lots of guys out that'll buy a vehicle like that
and either use it to fix up other ones or they'll end up fixing the thing up
themselves and you're gonna get a lot more than the scrap value for the car
when you sell it to somebody like that so put all your options out there when
you're gonna get rid of the car just don't call the junkyard and say oh there
take it away and they'll come and say either give you a nothing or give you 50
bucks for the car use your head and do a little research first catch says Scotty how
often would you change the oil in a 2019 Toyota Camry 0w
16 oil okay I don't care what anybody tells you about long extended oil
changes I would still change it every 5,000 miles in normal stop and go city
driving now if you do a lot highway driving you could bump it up to seven or
eight thousand miles but if you do city driving like me most of the time I would
still change it every 5,000 miles you do not want to ruin an engine because of
oil that's a very light oil you want to keep it clean so it lubricates the
engine and doesn't cause any problems so I would change it every 5,000 miles myself
James 1987 I have a 2005 Nissan Murano bought a new battery and alternator I
got power but it won't turn over you find that you got a new battery and a
new alternator and it won't turn over first we got a seat if you're speaking
the same language as me to me when you say it won't turn over that means you
turn the key and absolutely nothing happens the engine does not turn over if
that's the case I'll tell you got a bad starter or the wiring to the starter is
bad go in there have somebody hold the key on and whack the starter with a
hammer if it starts to work your starters bad replace the starter if it
doesn't do anything then check the power and see if power is going to the starter
when you turn it till you start get a little test light put it on the starter
when you turn the key see if that lights up or not or use a voltmeter same thing
to test it now a lot of times guys say it doesn't turn over they don't mean the
real thing they mean if the car doesn't start but it spins which is turning over
but it spins and it won't start now if your spins and it doesn't start there
are a zillion things that can make it that start I got a video on that called
fixing the car that cranks what doesn't start up watch that video give you
everything to check to see if the car won't start fixing a car the car
but doesn't start, up come faster says Scotty I'd like to buy a Lexus IS
convertible what's your opinion what to watch out for you always have to have a
guy like me a professional mechanic check it out before you buy see if it
was wrecked flooded stolen if it's got electronic problems with these fancy
computers that we have we can check everything within an hour and tell you
what kind of shape the vehicles with Lexuses the main problem that I find is
how much they cost they cost a fortune and even a used
ones generally go for a whole bunch of money the problem with lexuses is their
very expensive cars cuz people know they're well made and they hold their value
better than a lot of other cars to do that's the main problem with them is
that they're very expensive but like I said anytime you're gonna buy a used car
you gotta have a mechanic who knows what he's doing check it out cuz there's just
too many things that can go on in a modern car that people aren't gonna tell
you they're gonna lie cheat and steal just to sell something that they don't
want anymore so you always have to have a mechanic check out to see I've had
some customers bring me four or five Lexuses before they finally buy one
because I find out that the previous ones that all had been wrecked or
flooded and so they didn't buy them done bk5 says are NGK spark plugs
good for old trucks like a 2007 Tacoma and other cars are there any
benefit I did better than the Iridium once thanks spark plugs do one thing they
make a spark the OEM plugs were designed perfectly fine for the vehicles they
spark and work fine the only difference between most of the brands is how long
they last originally they were copper and the copper wears out faster because
it's softer conducts electricity quite well but it wears out faster when I was
a kid sometimes spark plugs would wear out in 15 20 thousand months the reason
now that they use an Iridium because iridium wears even slower than platinum
so they came out with a platinum once it lasted a long time but some of these
iridium's I've seen cars that had two hundred thousand miles and they were
still working perfectly fine they're not gonna run any different it's just that
if you don't change your spark plugs it's all last longer before they wear
out they'll still run pretty much exactly the same cuz all they're doing
is creating a spark to fire to gasoline it's not some magic thing where years ago
I remember there was split fire plugs and forked
tongues where they fired and they said Oh get better gas mileage more horsepower
a lot of baloney it's just firing a spark doesn't make all that much difference as
long as it's the right heat range and the right size for your vehicle it's gonna
work perfectly fin,e next questions driver dad
says Scotty I got an 2001 Chevy prism the
electric fans don't kick on when they turn the AC on but when the temperature
gets up there they turn on can I run a toggle switch to turn them on manually
19 years old an old vehicle you can easily run a toggle switch with the fuse
and if you really want to do it safe put a relay in line because the relay
will take the power better but I've actually done a bunch of those if you
use thick wire like say 14 gauge wire and like a 25 amp fuse and a good toggle
switch I've actually found that don't go to the auto parts stores to get a toggle
switch because they sell chinese-made junk what I do this I got a hardware
store and I've got a metal switch the the kind they use for our turning
appliances drills and stuff on and off I don't use one of those switches suddenly
lasts forever cuz I used to use the cheap junk they sell at the auto parts store
this plastic they all ended up melting cuz their junky so get a good metal
toggle switch and do it it'll simplify things and it's a lot easier and you
don't have to deal a lot of the computer stuff and sensors and stuff that could go
wrong to make it not work when you turn the AC on, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell