rev up your engines, Lucas Ritter says, what do you think
about the Jeep 2015 or so, jeeps are becoming trendy should I get an
automatic transmission, well personally I would not buy one, jeeps are made by
Chrysler, Chrysler got bought by Fiat, now a lot of people are really getting
confused you know as you say this is trendy, well people watch ads things
become trendy, doesn't mean it makes any sense
like those ads they have, renegade Jeep renegade, Jeep renegade isn't a Jeep it's
a fancy four-wheel-drive Fiat 500, it's a four-wheel-drive Fiat it has nothing to
do with Jeep, it's just they decided to sell their stuff and call it a Jeep and
the quality of those things, do a little history lesson, research Fiat and the
problems they've had and you'd see, gee I don't think I'm gonna buy a Fiat, I mean
I read recently that Fiats even contemplating not selling Fiats in the
United States, they're not gonna get rid of the Chrysler Fiat merger, but they're
gonna, they might be stopping selling Fiats because they have such low
sales that the slide them in like they'll say, well this is a Chrysler 200, well
it's got a Fiat engine, a Fiat transmission, some of them have Alfa Romeo
engines in them, it's Italian stuff it's not Chrysler at all, so you know I would
not buy a modern-day Jeep, if you want a jeep get an old one and it's been fixed
up or fix it up yourself, those old ones that had the straight six, I worked on a
Grand Cherokee was a 1986 still ran like a clock, the AC still blew cold, so you know the
old ones are fun but the new ones I wouldn't buy one, squeezy says Scotty what
do you think of the older TDIs, okay well TDI you know you're talking
about turbo Diesels, if it's a brand that's been making them for a long time
they're very reliable, diesels are inherently reliable engines if they're
made right, they're stronger made because they have more compression, they don't
have an ignition system so they're simpler, but the one thing about diesels
are, is they don't have that much acceleration, they have torque once they
get going but not acceleration, and that's why they turbocharged diesel
engine, the first people that really mass producing that stuff was Mercedes with a
300 D, the 300 D was a big heavy car and it could go and last a long time, but
really slow with a 5-cylinder diesel engine, soon as they made them with
turbos they sold a lot more of them because there's a lot more pick up, and if
they're well made, they can last a long time
most diesel trucks these days the big ones, are turbocharged they have to
because they're pulling a lot of weight and that's the only way they can get
acceleration is by sticking turbochargers on them and as long as it's a company that's
made them for years they can be very dependable vehicles, Jackson McNichols my
2003 Ford Ranger shifts into fourth gear at about 2,000 rpms when all the
other times it shifts at about 37 how can I fix that, okay well your
transmission is just basically wearing, it should shift before 3,700 RPMs into
the other gears, it's just old age now the problem is, it's a Ford and it's old
if you do change the filter and fluid now, it can actually make it worse, so my
advice would be, take one quart of transmission fluid out, put in one quart
of Lucas automatic transmission additive and sometimes that'll make it shift
normally through the whole range, but hey it's still shifting and if it's running
okay, I wouldn't complain too much on something that's that old, because
eventually it would have to be rebuilt and that cost a lot of money and if it's
still working and you might be able to get years out of it if you baby it, but do try
taking one quart out and putting one quart of the Lucas automatic
transmission additive in, a lot of times it'll help it after a couple hundred miles of
driving, Stone25 Steve here, how do you find bad electrical wire under the hood
well the first thing is, use your eyes be visual, if it's really old car, you'll
see that the wires are copper and then they're coated with a plastic coating if
the plastic coating if you bend it and it cracks and rips, you're gonna have to
replace all that wiring, because it's just going bad, now if it's the thing
that you can't personally see, then you test them, I have a video called how to
find electoral shorts in your car watch that, basically what you do is what's
called load testing, you get a meter and then you do ohms resistance testing of
the wiring, and you know that hey if it's too high, some is wrong,
there should be very little resistance in copper wiring and for that what you do
is test it from end to end, like you got a sensor you unplug the sensor, then you
check the wiring and go to the other end of the wiring and then unplug that and
then test the wire to see if there's a short in it, that's the best way to test it
because you can't really test it when they're plugged in because then
you're also testing what's at each end, you got a check section at a time
that's why on wiring harness they have connectors that you can disconnect and
once you to disconnect them you can easily check that section of the wiring, so
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