rev up your engines g garner says Scotty what do you
think of the chevy cobalt 4-cylinder not much okay not for a small engine it puts
out a decent amount of power yes they don't hold up over time the whole car
itself is a pile of junk and it doesn't hold up over time if you want to get a
small car that's got some zip and it's gonna last a long time go buy a Toyota or
Honda they run circles around those things but on the other hand I always
want to tell people you got options let's say you're gonna buy you used one
you can pick those things up for down to nothing and if you don't mind driving
around one if you get it so cheap for $1,000 $1,500 and it still runs and
shifts okay and it lasts a while now you're making out okay I mean in a long
run now it's not a good decision but if you can get one cheap enough what the
heck you're never gonna get a good Toyota or Honda cheap because everybody
knows they're good cars and they go for a lot of money use but those things they
got bad reputation for various good reasons but you can get them dirt cheap
I've had customers buy those old sandals for $1000 and driving for four or five
years and maybe spend five six hundred bucks with me fixing them over four
years that's perfectly fine form you know on their ugly looking cars and
those particularly ones that bashes on them so they got then real cheap but if
you want a knock around car something like that could be okay if you get a dirt
cheap but just don't think it's gonna last forever
and you're gonna be able to drive it for twenty thirty thousand miles a year and
drive it for years that's not gonna happen Nick 20s says Scotty what are your
thoughts on discount gasoline sold Costco Kroger and kwiki gasoline any
good okay every gasoline sold in the United States has to meet certain
minimum standards its law and generally in each area there's all you want to
supply or gasoline all the other companies buy it like shell is the
largest refinery in the world the last time I checked so a lot of the gasoline
is refined by shell and then say if you buy Exxon gasoline in your area if shell
made the gasoline your buying shell gas and the only difference does Exxon is
putting their protect and it is on top of it and dying at the
color that they want their gasoline to look so you know it's not like you got
a wide choice it where the actual gas things coming from anyways it's the
same thing with batteries there's only a handful of battery manufacturers left
over in the United States so even though there's 40 different brands if there's
only three companies making them the brand doesn't really mean up that much
you gotta find out who's making that brand for gasoline in most areas same
company making all of it, trade be hey from Canada I got an 06 5
speed manual Volkswagen Jetta 1.9 TDI with 173 thousand miles on it
hey you're in Canada you're supposed to say kilometres I'm wondering should I
sell it before it has engine problems or hold on to it I got a new timing belt
and clutch I change the oil every 5,000 miles and do highway driving what the
heck drive it it's worth very little with that mileage on it and being 14
years old and you never know I've seen some of those things with 300,000 miles
on I just say drive it till the wheel falls off cuz if you try selling up now
you're gonna get nothing for the vehicle what the heck there's Scotty telling you
to keep a VW that's a rarity I believe me but it's a standard
transmission it's a diesel it runs just keep driving it chains and you never
know how long this thing's gonna last let's you're gonna get much worried if
you sell it and what the heck up you get years more out of it you're making out
like a bandit, ronald regan, gee I thought he was dead
hey Scotty my daughter's 2010 Ford Focus started cranking by a few
seconds normally it starts right up tried to spray cleaner remedies and it's
slightly better but still randomly cranks longer does the cleaning helped
of course try it again now if it still doesn't change the fuel filter first
since the fuel filter gets clogged it'll do that that doesn't do it
pressure test a fuel pump now you always have to change the fuel filter and a ten
year old car before you price your test the fuel pump because if the fuel
filters clogged up you're gonna get false readings well why don't you change
the filter if that doesn't fix it then test the fuel pump pressure and if it's low
replace it, it mean design its way out which is typical when they get to be 10
years old like that it could just be that the fuel pump is starting to go out
from old age they're electric pumps after a while they wear out just like
anything else does, flabo I'm cleaning out my dad's old
garage I found tons of old new stock 62 Ford parts and several cases of oil
transmission fluid in the old metal case is dated 1971 is that me this oil still
good I mean you might want to use it for a lawn mower or something if you wanted but
don't do that either, put in on ebay people collect
stuff like that you won't believe what people sometimes will pay for these old
cans with the old oil in them and even the old 1962 Ford parts put it on eBay
you never know what people are gonna bid for these days and those old metal cans
that they don't make anymore those are collectors items lots of guys
have museums they want that stuff and they pay a pretty penny for it why use
it for oil they can get for two dollars a quart when you don't know what you're
gonna get for that stuff when it's that old and this is the original can people
collect all kinds of weird stuff these days they might give some pretty good
money for that stuff so I put it on eBay if I were you, honest mechanic Scotty my
grandpa's a 69 Firebird 400 hasn't run in 20 years I want a surprise I'm
getting it run I know I need a battery plugs tires and brake fluid there I also
need new fuel lines and brake hose lines what else do I need you want to check
anything that's rubber to see if it's cracked and stuff cuz you don't want to
be on safe but of course yes to be perfectly safe you'd have to do the
whole car all the rubber stuff and that's an awful lot of money so you're
gonna want to clean the gas tank out there's probably crowd in it putting in
fuel and change the fuel filter I changed the coolant and you know why all
transmission fluid and then see what happens because you don't want to go too
far until you see that it's running and that it's going good once you do all
that don't give it a grandpa drive it for you know 10 15 20 miles and see if
there's anything that's leaking if anything's not working correctly and
then kind of go from there because when you get an old vehicle like that I mean
it's a 69 you kind of restore it gradually if it's gonna be kind of a toy
car the original equipment cost a fortune to do and most people aren't
gonna do that you want to make it a safe car do what I said and then drive it
around for you know 20 30 40 miles and see how it feels and then
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