rev up your engines Jack says hello
someone suggested Consumer Reports is a good source to research the reliability
of a vehicle make and model is it true well it is to some extent but the
problem is you can never really trust print media because a lot of times the
people that work for print media don't make all that much money
I had a friend once that I met when I was in Los Angeles and he worked for one
of these magazines and I said well what do you get paid and he said I get paid
$1000 an article and I'm like okay so if you make 12 articles a year you get
$12,000 that's not very much money it leaves things open for bribery a lot of
companies spend them millions and millions designing and building vehicles
and I sure they spend millions of millions advertising them I personally
don't trust people who are not mechanics like myself who actually work on them
and see what the problems are or own them for years to see how reliable they
are over time the only way you can tell is from the horse's mouth
I had no ulterior motive I fixed all kinds of cars for people I don't sell
cars I don't buy cars except my own I need one I'll tell the truth to me it
makes no difference I say tell how to make good cars they do they start making
crappy cars somebody makes better ones I'll say yes that's the case these
things I just see what's out there and tell the truth I have no ulterior
motives well actually my real motive is to tell the truth because the
more I tell the truth some more people out there see Scotty tells the truth
the more people watch the more people I help out and the more money that I make
on the advertising that Google runs I had no control over they advertise they
just run them, gwl 78 says why do American cars have such big engines well
they're starting to try to get smaller American sites like big fast cars when I
was kid everybody wanted a v8 engine for power when I was kidding against it was
30 cents a gallon it didn't cost much people didn't care if they drove a gas
hog it didn't make that big of a difference but now just see even the big
Chevy pickup trucks they're going for v6 doesn't even have a four-cylinder one now
Americans always want vehicles that can take off that can go fast and that's why
they went to bigger engines same thing with like giant suvs,
gasoline is still cheap for some strange world economic reason but eventually
it's a limited commodity there's only so much oil the person will start going up
higher and higher and higher in a way it's really high when gas in the United
States is going for five six seven dollars a gallon these gigantic SUVs
that only get like 12 miles a gallon in town people will stop driving them at least
most people will Khalid says what are tips
when buying a new car thanks in advance kind of decide what you want before you
go looking for a car because if you start looking at a car the salesman
is gonna try to sell you the kitchen sink and everything else and add on
and say oh this guy wants this and this and they'll try to sell you in the car
that they make the biggest profit on what kind of car you want and then
decide are you gonna finances or take cash cuz you're gonna take cash you're
gonna get a better deal they won't tell you that right off the bat but
eventually they will cuz you're not financing it but you must understand
what's your payment the whole price of the car not just the monthly payment
because a lot of people oh they give me a monthly payment of one eighty nine
ninety five but how long is it then are there any balloon payments on it you
have to study the financing before don't have it happen in the middle of it and
of course before you even go looking for a car ask guys like me
what's a reliable for when I'm looking for you know do I want a nice economy
car like I told you how to Corolla or you want a big four-door sedan what do
you want you gotta decide before you go out cuz don't make decisions while
you're looking it'll make it way too complicated you want to simplify it, Greg
Gilliam says Scotty relaunched Ford Ranger get one used or wait until
there's major issues I never believed buying any new models because you had no
idea what changes occurs and I don't either they can give you a song and
dance routine about oh this that and everything else who knows would actually
happen until they're out for a few years they get 50 60 70 80 thousand miles some
more and see if they hold up why be someone else's guinea pig let other
people be the guinea pigs and then do like I do buy a good vehicle that showed
it was reliable and since it's four or five years old or longer you pay a lot
less as an example I bought my wife's Lexus ES 300 for three grand and yeah
was ten years old but that was less than one tenth of the price at sixty thousand
miles I seen them go three hundred thousand miles
easy with no problem you're getting a car that still has probably 80% of its
lifespan and I paid one tenth of the original price so that's
the best way to go, rick s90 Scotty how long
do manual clutches on average last for compact subcompact cars thanks
well they generally last longer than for bigger cars because they weigh less so
there's less strain on but ultimately the life of a clutch depends on you the
driver if your conservative you don't peel out you just shift gears smoothly
you can easily get a hundred thousand miles out of a compact or subcompact
clutch but I've had customers that getting the hard drive they've got one
foot on the clutch there were forever shifting gears and
peeling out and sometimes they'd wear clutch out in twenty five thirty
thousand miles if you don't drive conservatively you can wear em out a lot
faster but if you're conservative they can last a long long time,
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