rev up your engines, Thomas Rossi says what are your thoughts on Stabil, I'm
wondering whether to put the stable gas treatment into my vehicle, I'm storing
them okay, it does work, modern gasoline isn't made to last all
that long, so if you got something that's sitting for six months or more it's a
good idea to read the directions on the Stabil can, put that in to keep it from
deteriorating while it's sitting there, now that said I've read the Stabil
instructions and normally they're telling you that it's only good for
maybe a year or year and a half, so if you storing it for a real long period of time
you're better to empty a whole fuel system out and leaving nothing in it
then you are leaving fuel and expecting it to be good, because modern gas
is a lot weaker than it was when I was a young mechanic in the
sixties, back then you could have a motorcycle let it sit for three or four
years with the gas in the tank and then just crank it up and it would start right
up drive it around a little and then fill
up with new gas that'd be okay, modern gasoline isn't that stable, it won't last
that long and even with the stabilizer stuck in it, it's still not going to be all
that long life and they even warn you on the directions if you read the directions,
horse says scotty how reliable are Honda cr-v 2003 compared to other cars, well
actually that's one of Honda's best vehicles, the CRVs can run a long time, I
got a customer's one it's got three hundred twenty thousand miles and still
runs like a clock sure it rattles a little here and there
you know, I mean anything that old is gonna start rattling, but they can run forever
if you take care of those things, change the oil regularly, don't overheat the
engine, you know those things were solid built vehicle, I'm amazed at some of the
abuse that my customers ones have take some of them the only thing they do is
change the oil they don't do anything else and they're still running down the road, they
are very good vehicles you know, the only real problems that I've seen with the
cr-v's are, I live in Houston and it's real hot down here all the time, that their air
conditioners were poorly made on some of them and air conditioning compressors
would blow right off, the shafts were too small and they'd snap and you had to
replace the air conditioning compressors but other than that they're pretty
decent vehicles, Jeremiah says Scotty I have an
2001 Dodge Ram 1500 5.9 liter and the tranny went out, the engine runs great
should I get a junkyard transmission for five hundred and fifty dollars Thanks,
you gotta put your thinking cap on for this one, those have horrible
transmissions, but it's 18 years old if you buy an 18 year old junkyard
transmission that's one of the few things that's gonna fit, the new ones
won't fit that old vehicle, you're taking a
real gamble, I mean 550 bucks isn't all that much money but then you got to put it on
do all that work and if it doesn't work you're back to square one, most guys that
they like the vehicle, they'll get a factory manufactured one, put it in and
then it can run for quite some time, they do a decent job at the factory
remanufactured once, but just buying one from a junkyard, now let's say it was a
Toyota, I'd say sure cuz the toyota transmissions hardly ever break, so if
you buy used one in a junkyard odds are it's gonna still be pretty good but the
Chrysler's, they break all the time and if you buy you used transmission you're
really taking quite a bit of gamble right there, I personally wouldn't do it,
F quiz says hey what brand-new two-door car would you recommend or any
regular sedan out there and the market, get a Toyota Corolla those things can
run forever, they make them with various doors of course but you can still get a
two-door or a Honda Civic, if you like standard transmissions the Honda Civic
would be a better choice, because they're really zippy little cars but their
automatic transmissions are a little iffy, so if you're talking about a
two-door automatic transmission car, I'd say get a Toyota Corolla that would be
the best thing that you could get, it's going to
last a long time not have any problems and still not cost all that much money,
if you like a Camry yeah they're even better but they cost a lot more money
than the Corollas do, some guy says Scotty what do you think about older Suzuki
cars like the Baleno sedan 97, I heard Suzuki makes great engines but the rest of
the car is weaker, yeah that is true Suzuki was originally a motorcycle company,
actually before that they made looms to make fabric and stuff but they ended up making
motorcycles and they make great motorcycles, killers I had a Suzuki 750
that thing was bulletproof 170 miles an hour, I mean no problems at all and their
car engines they're decent but the rest of the vehicles are kind meh, they pulled
on the United States decades ago because they had so many problems with people not
being able to fix them and with them breaking down and with themm their
motorcycle engines of course are small and put out a lot of horsepower for
two wheels, but for four wheels there were underpowered vehicles, but I mean if you
like the Baleno sedan 97 you can get one cheap enough, if you're somewhere else in
the world besides the United States go right ahead,
it's just that here you can't get parts for Suzuki cars it's a pain in the butt, so I
would not advise anybody to buy a Suzuki car in the United States because they're
just so hard to get parts for, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
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