Rev up your engines, abdullah says hey scotty is there a way to
predict if the battery will not be able to start my engine, well of course there is,
I've got a good battery checking machine, the best one that I use is called a midtronics,
it's a very good electronics company, all I have to do is put that battery tester on
a battery it takes 30 seconds, and it says if you want to check the battery yes, then
you look on the battery for the ratings and if it's like 750 CCA then I set it for 750
CCA and I push the button and it tests the battery, it's a very accurate system, I advise
people if their worried and they got an older battery find a guy like me or places like
autozone do it for free, have the battery load tested, just make sure
you have it load tested by an honest mechanic, because if their scammers, say you have a
650 CCA battery, to make it look bad, all I would have to do is hook that tester up
and instead of saying it's 600 CCA put it to like 800 amps testing and it would say
it's bad because it's an older battery and it's a lower rated battery, so you got to
make sure it's an honest person checking it with the machine in the first place because
a lot of guys want to sell you stuff, so watch them check it,
urgent says scotty what do you think will last the longest with the least amount of
problems, a 2008 nissan maxima automatic with 65,000 miles or a 2006 acura tsx manual with
135,000 miles, well I would go with the acura on that because those nissan maximas had problems
with their automatic transmissions and electronic problems in 2008, that was after renault merged
with nissan, I would go with the tsx manual because it's a fancy honda and honda makes
great manual transmissions and great engines, the weak thing of an acura tsx is their automatic
transmissions but that has a manual so I would go for that even though it has almost twice
the mileage that the nissan has because if a nissan automatic transmission goes out it
would cost more money than the car is worth to fix, and the acura manual would be more
fun to drive, hey scotty I live in Canada I would like to
know what you would recommend, a second hand rav4 or a second hand subaru impreza, I went
to university in Toronto a long time ago when dinosaurs roamed the plains there, you've
got an interesting choice there, the rav4s last a long time and their really well made,
but all the subarus are all wheel drive, it depends on where you live in Canada, now when
I was living in Toronto it didn't snow all that much and they plowed the roads and just
regular 2 wheel drive worked perfectly fine, but if you live up north or out west where
it snows a lot more, the AWD is a pretty good system, now if you have a rav4 with 4 wheel
drive yeah, but most of the subarus are AWD where only a few of the toyotas are all wheel
drive, so you have to decide if you want AWD or not, if you don't want AWD get the rav4,
but if you do, your probably better off with the subaru there,
firewall says scotty would it be dumb for me to put $20,000 on a 1996 Chevy Impala SS
with 20,000 miles, well I wouldn't spend that kind of money, but you know if your talking
about an SS that's a fancier one that's got the v8 and their kind of fun to drive around,
what you have to do with a vehicle like that though is, you have to make sure that's the
real mileage because that's a 23 year old vehicle,
you got to get proof, registration, when it was inspected, make sure the mileage always
was the same and it went up a little at a time, and that it just doesn't have a different
speedometer put in it, because if you're going to pay that kind of
money you got to make sure that's the real mileage of a vehicle, now back then GM was
building a lot better vehicles than they make today so it could be a really good vehicle
but you would want to prove that it actually had only 20,000 miles on it,
axis of evil says, my chrysler 300c will hang up in second gear once in a while, I'll have
to low it down so it drops a gear then it seems ok any idea what can be causing the
issue, those are notorious for having horrible automatic transmissions and your getting a
problem inside it, any automatic transmission that acts like that has internal problems
that are starting to wear, like years ago Mercedes put a bunch of transmissions in their
300D and the 300D were pretty good engines, but the transmissions were a little bit weak
and most of my customers that got really old, that's what they do, they'd step on the gas
and they'd take off but if they wanted to shift a gear they'd take their foot off the
gas a little and then it would shift into the next gear, it's always a sign that the
inside of the automatic transmission is starting to have serious problems, if you baby it and
it goes ok, you know those things aren't worth that much money as they age you didn't say
what year it was, but you might just want to baby it because if you're going to have
to have a rebuilt transmission put in one of those things it's going to cost thousands
and thousands of dollars, so you might think twice, you might even think about getting
rid of it and getting another vehicle that doesn't have a problem like that,
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