rev up your engines, Stephen 1203 how many years should I go
before I change my car battery, it's not just years it's a combination of a whole
bunch of things, how far you drive, where you live, if you live like an Alaska it's
not gonna last as long the cold weather will knock it out, and if you live in a
real hot climate where you run the AC full blast all time in the summer
that'll help wear it out faster, when I was a young mechanic batteries were
better made and sometimes you get five to eight years out of a battery, these
days most batteries average, I'd read some study of the other day, they said
the average battery lasts maybe 3.2 years,I've had it my own cars
I've had batteries last one year, two years, three years and five years but
never much more than five years anymore, because they really are making those
things cheaper than they were making it before, even the quality batteries like
the Optima batteries that were those spiral batteries, theoretically it's a
better design because they're spiral like a snail's shell that's the most
efficient use of space, but when it first came out those Optima batteries were
great, in the last three four years any of my customers that bought those Optima
batteries, every single one of them went bad with a year year and a half, from
what I read somebody else bought the company, they started making them cheaper
so I wouldn't waste $200 or $300 on one of those things if it's not gonna last that
long, your best bet is to buy quality battery at a local place that sells a lot
of batteries, I personally use an autozone cuz there's one three blocks north of me
and they give a really good guarantee, usually it's two-year free replacement
and prorated after that, that's what I do and if you want to worry about how long
it's gonna, last pay a mechanic like me to check it once a year or something
where are computers give you the percentage life of the battery when it
gets below certain percentage that says replace battery soon, then go ahead and
change it, k9 Sammy says Scotty are remanufactured transmissions worth it, I
got an 09 Saturn that needs transmission work, it's out of warranty should I junk it, no
other problems but a bad transmission, it's a Saturn Vue you know they're
really not worth that much and it's a ten-year-old car, if you can get
remanufactured one that's giving you say a three-year warranty or something you
want to spend that money go right ahead, but if all their going to give
you is a six months or a year and you're gonna spend that kind of money, I'd junk
the car I really would, and unfortunately with
that model I wouldn't advise going to a junkyard and trying to use transmission
because the transmissions in those things are garbage, and odds are if the
cars in a junkyard and you use a junkyard transmission, it won't work or
it'll break soon after, they were just terrible transmissions, it's one of the
reasons they'll make saturn's anymore, be chilled and he says Scotty love your
vids, I gotta know to Mazda Tribute, I have no problems on the transmission but
the engine blew, should I replace it or look for another one, okay well you
got decide how much money you want to put into it, and what you're gonna get
because if you're using a used engine that's pot luck, salvage yards you're
lucky if you get a 30 or a 90 day guaranteeing and you really want to spend
1,800 to 3,900 bucks parts and labor to put a used engine in, you know I really
wouldn't go that route and since you have two hundred six thousand miles, I'd
say yeah you're talking about a Highlander in the rest to your question
I'd say get a highlander or get a rav4 and forget it, cuz you're lucky you got two
hundred six thousand miles out of one of those Mazda Tribute, most of my customers
that have those, the transmissions go out a little bit over a hundred thousand
miles not over two hundred thousand miles
waldo twenty-three and Waldo says, hey Scotty I had the following problem
on my Nissan Sentra 2000m I changed the crankshaft sensor a lot of
timesm maybe every other year what do you think the problem ism one only buy OEM
crank sensorsm it's very particular when you're using those electronic parts that
measure magnetic wavesm you can't use cheap ones made in China
but if you using the OEM ones, and it keeps going out and keeps tripping the code, a lot
of times that means that your timing chain has stretched, and as they stretch
the data that the sensor gives to the computer becomes imperfect and it'll
often trip the code for the sensor instead, the only other thing that really
can do it is, either the wiring is going bad to the sensor, between the wiring in the
computer, so unplug both ends and ohm them get a meter and do the resistance
readings to see if that's okay, and hope that it's not a wire starting
to go out on it, odds are your timing chain is
probably stretching, I see that all the time in those things, hand over first says,
Scotty I changed my last oil yesterday and I noticed
a different oil cap, my regular mechanic changed the oil last time, the old cap
was solid on the bottom, the old cap on it now it's hollow inside, will make a
difference in my oil pressure, no that doesn't make any difference, all it is is to seal
the system, and of course a lot of the newer ones the replacement ones are
hollow inside because it's cheaper, they use less material when they build them
but that isn't gonna affect anything, because it's just air inside there
anyway, you know that isn't gonna make any difference, now on the opposite side
let's say somebody changed the oil pan on the bottom of the engine, and they put
one in that had more space in it, well then the reading on your oil dipstick
would be wrong, because the oil would sit lower, but the cap itself that doesn't
mean anything, don't worry about that, that doesn't mean anything at all, so if
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