rev up your engines, Scarface asks Scotty I just changed the
front brakes on my 2004 Camry, any advice to make them last as long as possible
okay if you want your brakes to last long here's some good tips, 1 realize
that when you stop your car the brakes turn the kinetic energy of your car into
heat and they dissipate them on the brakes and the rotors, so say you're
driving and there's a big puddle or there's a lot of water you're driving through
don't be slamming your brakes on, one it's not safe you'll slide, but if you
have redhot brakes and they get ice-cold water, it can warp the rotors, it can do
damage so drive very cautiously when it's raining, don't slam your brakes on then
and of course if you want them to last twice as long you want to make sure you
brake conservatively, I'll give you an example years ago my sister who was a
maniac driver when she was young she know how to drive there's no arguing
that, but she wouldn't look far ahead and plan where I'd be looking miles down a
road she's not, so if something happens she'd slammed the brakes on and she didn't hit
anybody, but she'd slam the brakes on where if you look ahead and plan ahead
and don't use the brakes that much they can last a long time
I've had cars personally and I got a hundred thousand miles out of brake pads
on a Toyota, if you want to be conservative you can do things like that
and of course one of the best ways to make your brakes last is by quality
brake pads that are made well, the cheaper brake pads can often be so cheap
that they just rub out, you know every time you brake a little bit of the friction
material wears off and made cheaply it'll wear
off too fast, I've seen cheap brake pads believe it or not that wore out in 7,000
miles, now those were people that braked all the time, the other thing is and it may
sound crazy but, I had a customer he kept going through brakes and he was claiming
I wasn't doing a good job, I said let me go for a ride with you, and I went for a
ride with him, he's driving down the road he's got one foot on the gas and the
other on the brake, then I get out of the car and I watch him and the brake light is
on the whole time, and I said you know
you're driving with your foot on the brake, he said well they taught us that
way at driver's ed, have one foot on the gas and one on the brake, and I said no you
don't want to drive that way, a lot of it has
to do with you driving skills too, don't be an excessive
braker who's always slamming on the brakes, hunter says Scotty my
sister's looking to buy a 2004 Jeep Liberty and I want to know if their good
reliable cars, and what should I look for when I'm buying the car, one tell your
sister never to buy those, those are one of the worst vehicles Jeep ever made, they
really started to make them cheaper because they wanted to try to sell more
cars and lower the price a little bit over the better made jeeps, and really
the quality of those things is garbage some of the time some years the jeep
liberties are rated as one of the worst ten vehicles of the year,
so I definitely would not buy that if she wants to buy something like that,
tell her to get something like a Toyota rav4, or a Honda CRV something that's gonna
last a long time, and even with the hundred thousand miles could still go
another hundred or two hundred thousand, but the
Jeep Liberty's no they're not good you don't even want to
martin says grettings Scotty my question is an older v8 stick-shift Mustang a good
buy, well it can be if the car is in good shape, realize that Mustangs generally
people buy them and they drive them hard, well you can drive a standard
transmission pretty hard without doing any damage, but an automatic transmission
that's another ballgame entirely, you'll often burn out the automatic
transmissions, the first things that I see go out on v8 Mustangs are their
automatic transmissions, since that's got a standard it can be in good shape, you
still want to check it out you know I've got videos how to quickly check out a
used-car, watch that and do all those tests and stuff, but it's a much better
buy than an automatic transmission that could have problems and maybe it's weak
but it works okay now and then two months later it breaks and cost you
thousands, so it is better to get a stick shift on those, Jet dave and he says hi
I barely use my diesel pickup truck, should I use a premium diesel like shell
v-power to keep my engine healthy, well I would because here's the thing about
diesel fuel, a lot of people don't understand and sometimes I can't even
get it my mind but it's true, diesel fuel there is fungus that can actually grow
inside diesel fuel, gasoline on the other hand is extremely noxious and extremely
caustic nothing grows in it, but diesel fuel just sitting there, there's fungus
that can grow inside it and it clogs everything up,
so you want to have the highest quality fuel in that thing and if you don't use
it much, I would advise you to put some of those anti fungal additives into the
tank a couple times a year at least because you don't want that stuff going
in there and clogging it up, it's completely different deal than gasoline,
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