rev up your engine anthony asks I recently changed the oil
last week on my 94 cutlass with 53,000 miles Wow hardly any
miles on a car that old man, but after I changed the oil I
noticed there was oil all over the place so I checked everything in the drain
plug was tight but the oil filter seemed tight I took it off and then turned it
back on and now I checked it's not leaking what do you think okay it could
be a classic problem that I've seen many times so you want to check this right
away take the oil filter off entirely look at the end of the oil filter and
get your flashlight and look at the block of the engine where the oil filter
screws on you could have double gasket it it could have been that the old
gasket on your old oil filter came off and when they're like that sometimes the
leak and if you tighten them up they won't leak but it's dangerous having two
gaskets they'll take it off and if you do see two gaskets that was the whole
problem now if it doesn't leak anymore after I check that odds are and it
didn't have the double gasket out there you just didn't have the oil filter I
thought nothing it was squeezing out of the sides but I often see people do that
with double gaskets and you can earn your engine later so take it off make
sure it is not double gasket with two gaskets instead of just one, Electra
Marisa should I buy 2014 Kia Soul okay well I personally think it's one of the
ugliest vehicles ever made but beauty's now maybe older I realize it's Kia they
have a limited lifespan if you buy 2014 let's say it's got fifty sixty thousand
miles it still might go trouble-free till it gets 120 or something thousand
miles there are ok cars but you don't want to buy our mileage one cause they
kind of fall apart as they age it all depends on the price point and what you
can get it for how many miles it has on it you're not gonna get to 300,000 miles
I could Toyota or Honda but if you can get one cheap enough and you want to
drive that weird-looking thing around go right ahead just don't buy one that has
too many miles on it,
Sergio Nunez says what do you think of the Acura TL those are excellent built
cars they handle well they got those Honda engines and their solid built engines the
only problem with acuras are as they age and they get really high mileage
the parts are super expensive and then something that cost a hundred dollars on
that might cost 350 for an Acura they are well built cars and are fun to drive
if you like sporty little cars they can be excellent cars to drive on
and you'd use ones that a decent deal too I had a customer just buy a used one he
paid three grand for it it was a pretty decent car for $3,000 so you know it's
nothing with that the new ones are pricey but you know most new cars are
rather price that's why I was buy used ones, ygg says I'm just curious about his
thoughts regarding performance VW reliability when taken
care of including GTIs, VW makes good engines they always did they
used to be solid reliable entire cars like the Beatles they could run forever
they didn't cause much they got more and more high-tech hey they own porsche
they own audi they bought a lot of companies up and they're too high
technology these days you buy one it generally turns into an endless money
pit as it ages who wants to get stuck with that plus there's a lot of plastic
junk on all of them, I got customers the last 20 years not a single one ever
bought a Volkswagen and then bought another one the door handles that keep
breaking off the air conditioners would break they're just are not very well
built reliable vehicles anymore but they are fast and they drive what when
they're working of course they're not as bad as I say alpha romeos but they
still are money pits as they age, grant Jose asks Scotty my friend selling his
2002 mx-5 miata 125,000 miles for 1,200 bucks you think it'd be a good weekend
car are they reliable well if he's taken care of it 127 thousand miles
isn't that much on one of those Miatas they're well-made vehicles now hopefully
it's a standard transmission because those are really fun to drive with
standard transmissions and they're pretty bulletproof they can run forever
if it is an automatic transmission Miata you want a road test see if it's
shifting right and if it doesn't shift right don't buy it because the trannys
done those things the automatic ones are absolute garbage you don't want to buy
one with an automatic transmission every time I have a cost or more it's one the
reason they generally get rid of it is because it's an automatic transmission
Miata and the transmissions going out when I tell them to gonna cost them
three to five to fix it they just say and they get rid of the
vehicle so if it's a standard transmission and it runs good I'd say
it's a good price and it could be a fun car to drive around for quite some time,
Randy asks 2014 Scion tC I heard people have electrical idling issues after they
disconnect to reconnect the batteries there anything I should know when I need
this to clean my terminals a lot of toyota products and that's
the products do that you disconnect the battery they go back to scratch and they
got to relearn the idle configurations if you don't want that to happen do what
I do when I'm working on customers cars get a battery memory saver autozone
sells them for like 12 bucks you just plug it in the OBD port and then it
powers the computer so when you disconnect the battery and clean it and
put it on the computer hasn't lost power they're called battery memory savers you
can get them anywhere you can get them on Amazon they're just a simple device
with 12 volt power or they're really cheaper once they plug in and they got
two terminals and you connect them to a 12 volt battery like a motorcycle
battery or any 12 volt battery supply another battery from another car and
then it keeps the computer memory alive it's a good idea to get one for any
modern car, I says Scotty what do you think of a hundred bucks for a pick up
part transmission worth the gamble for my oh three Jeep Grand Cherokee when a
transmission fails alright well you kind of answered your own question you're
going to pick apart okay they buy those cars for almost nothing then you got to
go and pull the transmission out of it and buy it for honor bucks it's a wild
gamble you have no idea it's gonna work it's not gonna work
and it's a lot of work taking a transmission out of a car and putting it
into another one I would gamble something that cheap I'd rather go to a
quality yard that maybe you're gonna pay four or five hundred bucks for a used
transformation that you can see it's in the vehicle how many miles are on it
rather than some piece of junk that's in a pickup park they're gonna take apart
because they're junk they don't pay much for them and they don't charge much for them
you want a door or hood stuff like that wheels you
can see it but something like a transmission I'd kind of shy away from that
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