rev up your engines, Joe Joe asks Scotty what's the best car to
buy for $500, now if you can find an old corolla or a Camry Toyota go ahead buy one
if it still runs and shifts okay, but since you're talking about a unique
situation, buying a car for 500 bucks is practically nothing these days, so even if
it's something like an old Buick, go ahead and buy it if it runs good and
shifts good and stops, because you're not gonna get much for five hundred bucks
these days, maybe you'll get lucky and an old person passed away and you get an
estate car or kid joins the army and their selling his car and it's in good shape, you
never know what you're gonna run into, I mean you can get accidental good
cars there's no ifs ands or buts about that, but if you find one it's 500 bucks
and it runs and it shifts good, you can buy just about any car if it lasts you more
than a few months you're making out like a gangbuster, it costs you 70-80 bucks
a day just to rent one, VTEC for life says, Scotty are there
still reliable old BMW or Audi's if so what's the best miles to buy them at, if you're
talking about really old, yeah I mean I worked on in the 1960s and 70s and 80s
and they were pretty solid built cars, the part still cost a lot of money yes
but they were really solid reliable cars, but of course you go back that old their
dinosaur cars, and you'd have to restore them, but if somebody's already restored
it you get one at a good price hey why not, I mean they are fun cars they're well
built cars, it's just that when you get into the cars that are from the sixties
or seventies or even the eighties, they're so old there's so much stuff
that could be worn out on them, you know that it's more a toy, I would buy a car
like that if you wanted to toy to play with, and drive around yes, but I would
not buy a car like that as an everyday driver, Green tree says mr.
Kilmer what do you know about hydrogen powered
cars, how do they work, do you have any experience with them and what do you think
their prospects are, here's the thing most people when they talk about
hydrogen powered cars they're talking about a fuel cell car, Toyota sells them
in California now, now a fuel cell car uses hydrogen, the hydrogen goes into a
fuel cell, and it turns that hydrogen into electricity that runs electric
motors so they're just like a Tesla they're 100% electrically driven,
then the waste product is just water vapor that comes out the tailpipe so
they don't pollute, now you can also run cars on hydrogen, any car that's an
internal combustion car, you can convert it to hydrogen if you wanted, it's not
that complex of a thing, it's like the people that convert cars to run on natural gas
on propane and stuff that's totally doable too, but where are you gonna get the
hydrogen from that's the problem, you'd have to make a hydrogen infrastructure
and realize hydrogen is very explosive so it's a real pain in the butt to store,
so it's gonna be a while before anything like that really goes whole hog in any
country, because the infrastructure would be so expensive to create, Ruben Tatum
says, do you trust parts from Rock Auto well it depends what you're buying, it's an
online seller, I have had customers, I don't buy much online, I'm in a big city
Houston there's plenty of warehouses around and they give discounts to
professional mechanics which I am one and I've been dealing with some of these
places for over 40 years so I try to get local stuff because my
customers what their cars fixed as fast as possible, and I try to do it if they
get it in by 8:00 in the morning it's out by 5 in the afternoon, so I don't deal
with that much, but I get some customers buy stuff from rock auto and I put them on
they were okay, but I've had some people buy them and they were really cheaply
made Chinese junk, so it depends on what parts you're buying, and when you buy
stuff online realize that if it's wrong you gotta wait, there's a time lag, it can
be a real pain buying stuff online and a lot
of times they don't tell you where it comes from until you get it and it's too
late then, Sebastian B says Scotty I need to buy a new 4x4 SUV it's for work do
you have any suggestions, do you have that an SUV, cuz here's the thing, there's
plenty of them out there, the Toyotas, the Lexus, the Acura
they're really well made SUV and their going to last a long time, but they cost
a small fortune especially a four-wheel drive, but you know if you have to get a
four-wheel drive and you have to get an SUV, get a Toyota or lexus if you want
it to last the longest, if you want a lower price one, hey I go Ford they make
decent that four-wheel drive stuff, and the prices are going to be quite a bit
lower than a Toyota or a lexus but they won't last as long, the Fam says my 95
chevy c1500 with the TBI 350 sometimes surges and loses power after it's been
warmed up after 30 minutes of driving after I shut the truck of,f what can
cause that, well it's an old truck and when they do that and they're warmed up and
they sit, odds are your throttle body injectors are leaking, and so when it's
hot, it fills the intake with gasoline then it's flooded out, I see that all the time
now since it's an old TBI one, you can get rebuild injectors and seals
pretty cheap and you can do it yourself, they just screw in and out, try that
first it's pretty obvious thing that happens, they flood out when they get
that old and they sit, now when the engine is cold it doesn't
matter because if it drips a little gas it will start up better, a cold engine needs
more gas, but a hot one doesn't, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
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