rev up your engines Valdez says scotty is it worth the
flipping cars, well here's the thing how are you gonna do it and what kind of a
mindset you have, because car flippers they're buying a car at one price and
then selling it at a higher price, selling used cars is a dirty business, to begin
with and if you're gonna do that for a living, unfortunately I know a lot of guys that
have done it and they started out with a good idea, oh I want to get good used
cars for people a lotta Lotta, but what happens is then greed takes
over and they start buying junkier cars at auctions and then sell them for as high
as they can and hope that they last, and there are so many people out there
trying to flip cars there's always somebody that'll do it cheaper than you
so you won't make that much profit, so then in order to make profit you'll do
some sleazy deals like buy a car that you knew was wrecked or flooded and
don't tell anybody about it and try to sell it, it's not a business I advise any
honorable people to get into because it's not good karma you know unless you
were the type of guy that did it on the side for a little bit of fun new cars
and you'd buy a car from somebody say that retired or from an estate sale and
polished it all up and sold it for a little profit okay, but most of it turns
into a dirty business, top tune so Scotty what are your thoughts on the 2017 Dodge
Journey Pentastar v-6 all-wheel drive with an automatic transmission, not much
I certainly would not buy when I work on enough dodges to know that since Fiat
took over their quality has been going down further and further and further
now those engines are better than they used to be they had a
lot of problems with the early ones, but still I would not buy a Dodge that is
either an automatic transmission and all-wheel drive, I see too many of those
things break and cost a fortune to repair as they age if you really want to
get something like that my advice is leasing one, that way when it's off lease
that's the end of it, you don't have to worry about repairs, you don't have to
worry about it breaking down on you, and you'll pay whatever the lease is you
know exactly what you're gonna lose, because if you actually buy one and then
want to get rid of it when it's two three years old you'll lose a lot more
money than you paid, Lisa says how much should I
pay for head gasket work on the 2000 Cavalier 2.2, I mean I wouldn't pay
anything I'd junk the car, I wouldn't bother fixing it, here is the problem with
engine work, that's a 2.2 engine known for having problems, you don't know if
the heads warped, the block is cracked the piston rods are bent, you don't
know until that engines all torn apart and hardly anybody does good engine work
anymore, somebody could give you a quote for just a head gasket job, they don't know
what's wrong with it until they take it all apart and then they can start adding and
adding, and in order to do a really good job you got to strip the head, send
it to a machine shop, they have to machine it, then you got to readjust the
valves all kinds of stuff needs to be done and it's thousands and thousands of
dollars and in a 2000 cavalier it's worth basically nothing, I personally wouldn't
I mean if you got to keep the car, I'd rather go to a junkyard and get a low
mileage used engine, put an engine and then try to fix that thing, casalblancas Scotty
how do you tell the difference between a head gasket that's
bad or a piston cracked, my 02 accord burns oil, there's lots of tests that can
be done for a blown head gasket, but the best test is a leak block test,
I've got a video how to tell if your head gasket is blown, you buy one of these
little test tubes put this blue fluid in if it turns yellow it means there's
exhaust gas in the radiator which means that gaskets blown, those kits cost about
35 bucks or so on Amazon you can do them that's the best test if a piston is cracked,
if it's cracked all the way through to the top you can take out a spark plug
and then you can get a borescope and you can look inside to see if it's cracked
and you can also some of them have a reverse mirror you can stick in to look
up to see if perhaps the valves are cracked, you can check those by looking
at them, Randolph Palmer says I bought a ten-year-old chevy cruze which has been in
a minor flood and wreck, is it a good idea to take a cross-country on family road
trip through the desert mountains, only if you want to end up in one of those
horror movies where you're either in the mountains or the desert and your car
breaks down and there's zombies living in radioactive caves, you know the Cruz
is one of the worst vehicles ever made and that thing's been a minor flooding
wreck, no I would not trust it, if you really want to go cross country get a rental
car, you know they don't charge you for mileage anymore so rent a car put the
mileage on a brand new car that's dependable, I would never do it with that
car, Julio says scotty my wife was told her
three year old Toyota rav4 needs a belt she went to get an oil change, think
she's getting ripped off, kind of sounds like, I've seen those belts go
well over a hundred thousand miles, she doesn't have that kind of mileage on it,
all you got to do is get a flashlight shining on the belt look at the grooves,
they got all those grooves on serpentine belts if they're not cracked
and it doesn't make any noise it's perfectly fine, they start squealing yeah
then they're stretched and you got to buy another one, they're cracked they're
worn you need to replace them, but if not like I said I've seen those things go a
hundred thousand miles and they're still working fine, york and he asks hey Scotty
my old Ford Ranger is getting a small evap leak
error, I changed the gas cap once that fixed it for a while but it's happening again
any suggestions, did you use an OEM gas cap, cuz if you want any discount auto
parts are about the cheapest one a lot of times they just aren't any good, so
I'd say just go buy a gas cap from the dealer first and see if that fixes it, if
it doesn't those small leaks can be real
stinkers to find, I as a mechanic have a smoke machine it cost a thousand
smackers with the gauge on it where I inject smoke and a scan tool that does
bi-directional testing so I can test valves are working right, but a lot of
times if you want a wild guess when they do a small leak like that and it's not
the gas cap, a lot of times it's EVAP canister vent valve, you might just buy
one and try that, that often fixes it, Lucas says Scotty how much is too much to
pay for a first car depends, on how much money you got what you want to do I mean
the first car I ever bought was an Opel I paid five hundred fifty bucks for it
cuz a kid with a Jeep ran into it on the used car lot and my father knew the guy
he wanted to get rid of it, so I got it for 550 and fixed the fender myself and
I drove that thing for like eight years it served me good five hundred fifty
bucks and I sold it for five hundred so it only cost me 50 bucks for all those
years, if you can find something to like say a nice Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic
used a little bit older depends on just what you want to spend, cuz it's a hard
deal finding a good Toyota or Civic for you know one or two grand but if you got
five grand to spend you can usually find a good used one
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