Rev up your engines, jose m says scotty I just bought some wiper
blades a few months ago and their already worn, what can I do to make them last longer,
the problem with wiper blades are, you got to make them thin to they wipe clean and don't
make noise, if you make them real thick they make a lot of noise, so the thinner they are
the faster their going to wear out, of course if you want the blades to last a long as possible,
you want to clean them every once in a while, I've got a video that shows you how to do
that, you get alcohol and wipe it with a clean paper towel and you'll see a lot of black
stuff comes off, that's the old dirty rubber stuff, I use nu finish on the windshield you
polish it because it's not a wax it's a polish, and polish the windshield and that makes it
a lot smoother so it lasts longer and if you really want to go far do what I do is, I buy
silicone windshield wiper blades for my car, they cost more but I put one on my old 81
toyota corolla sr5 and I had it on there for 8 years and it was still cleaning those silicone
blades can last a long time, you might think about that but if you don't want to spend
more just keep cleaning them and use some nu finish on your windshields and it's going
to last a lot longer, asm hello scotty, I got a crack in my windshield is it ok if I
install a Chinese windshield, I have had literally hundreds of customers do that, have a Chinese
windshield installed on their cars, and they had no problems at all they cost less, people
that are absolute fanatics about safety they won't do it, your windshield is actually part
of the safety device of your car, if it rolls over that's part of the structure of the car,
and it helps hold it if it rolls over, if you're a fanatic stick with the OEM factory
windshields, I've had hundreds of customers that had no problems at all, they cost less,
sometimes less than like 20-30% that an OEM one costs, but if you are a safety fanatic
stick with the OEM one, campbell says scotty I got a 93 ford f150
that shakes when I'm at 65-70, do you know what it could be, ok first thing take it to
any good front end shop or tire store, have them balance your tires, if your tires are
out of balance it's going to do that, have them look at the tires and if their really
badly worn you got to get new ones anyways, this is rare but I've seen it happen, over
the past 51 years I've seen a few cars that did that and it was because the alignment
was off, there are certain situations where if the alignment is off just a tiny bit at
those speeds it will shake, so it could be the alignment too but most of the time it's
that the tires are worn out or their out of balance, so have that checked first, and have
it checked by a place that really knows tires, a good front end alignment shop or a very
good tire shop, you know you got to be leery of some of these tire chain places, I've had
people buy tires at one of these tire change places, and then they come to me and say,
my front is shaking and I say, well your tires are out of balance, I don't really balance
tires, but I got a machine that can check them and I took them off and put them on a
machine and the bubble went way over to the side and I'm like gesh you just bought these
tires and they didn't even balance them right at one of these stupid discount places, so
I sent them to my front end place and they balanced them perfectly and then they had
no more problems, zorro says scotty what's the best hybrid to
buy now a days, well still really you want to buy a hybrid get a toyota prius it's a
state of the art, they've been making them for 21 years now, they got them pretty much
perfected for that design, my customers with them, they have problems with them when their
old and they've got 150-200,000 miles and their 15-18 years old yes, but if you're talking
about buying a brand new one you can't beat buying a toyota prius, their the ones that
were the originals, a lot of the other ones are just copying them and they don't even
make the engines and the electronics they just buy the stuff for toyota so, if you want
to get a hybrid still the best one is prius there's no ifs ands or buts, my sister in
law just bought a brand new one a few months ago, she's really happy with it so, if you
want to buy a hybrid that would be the way to go cuz it's really been out the longest
and has the least problems, black neon says hey scotty I need help, I
got a loud ticking noise when it starts it's coming from my engine but when it warms up
in the morning it goes away after 15 minutes of driving, what could be the reason, generally
that's worn hydraulic lifters, go to my website scottykilmer dot com, post a video and I'll
listen to it, and I can tell you buy hearing it, it's generally the lifters, they wear
and as they age when their cold the pressure doesn't build up so they tick but once the
engine warms up the oil gets hot and the lifters are warmed up and it goes away it's usually
the lifters, so make a video and let me listen to it and a lot of guys will just live with
that because many modern cars, let's say you got a v6, that's a lot of money to change
all those lifters, so a lot of people will just live with it, and a lot of guys will
do a trick of, before they change the oil the next time they'll get a good engine flush
flush like kw and they'll flush the engine out and get all the crud out and then the
noise will go away, you never know it might be worth it to try it once,
so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring
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