rev up your engines from my experience of any poorly built
cars when people buy them and then they find a problem then they take it back to
the dealership ninety percent of the time the dealership either doesn't fix
it or they say well there's no problem they're all like that, you ever run
into that you buy a car yourself here's what I tell people to do because I've
had my customers do it I told them and they said gee thanks Scotty it really worked
out good, you buy a new car and it's got a problem and they say oh no they're all
like that go to another dealer road test one bring your camcorder or your phone
and use that and if it doesn't make that kind of noise or doesn't shift weird
like that one say I just road test and one there it doesn't do it that's BS fix
use your head when it comes to dealing with these guys cuz they lie all the
time but if you use your head and you show them hey this car doesn't
do it it's the same car as the one I bought how come mine is and if it's under
warranty they'll have to fix it if you've got
proof like that, John says I've been taking about getting a cheap 2007 Subaru
Outback as a second car for two thousand dollars alright two thousand dollars
isn't that much for car it's a 13 year old Subaru they've had head gasket problems
they have automatic transmission problems but that's not much money if
you like the vehicle before you buy find a guy like me a pro mechanic take it to
him I charge 100 bucks when I check them out I would do block leak test with my
machines that gaskets leaking I said I'll buy a road tested feel the transmission
and I would put my fancy $5,000 scan tool and go through the transmission to see if
it's got any problems and if it didn't I said go ahead and buy but don't buy it
and just drive it around without a mechanic checking it out
because they can be money but they can okay I had customers buy them like that
and if I check that out sometimes they can drive in 3 4 years not to have a
fortune sent on them too, but you gotta get checked out first
dm 17 says what's the best use convertible I was looking at a Porsche
Boxster things are endless money pits i customer buy one and headlight stopped
working and it was bad enough that the stupid headlight switch was like $395
but I got out my computer I'm looking at right now and I used all data which is
fantastic information for fixing cars you ever want to get information use all
data you can DIY stuff for like 30 bucks here which
is dirt cheap mine cost thousands cuz it doesn't mom I'm a professional mechanic
but so I looked it up I added up what all including had lights in the computer
that runs the headlights and all the relays and switches and everything and
if you had to replace the whole just headlight system and that stupid Boxster
it was gonna be like five or six thousand dollars from me during this
money but stay away you want a nice cute low convertible get a Mazda Miata
there's zillions of them they're cheap they're not race cars the problem is if
you get any kind of a race car convertible they generally have the heck
beat out of them or they're just bad like the Boxster from the get-go and unless
you buy one new what can last years and not fall apart
but you buy one for I don't know $70,000 and sell it when it's five years old
you'll get like fifteen or twenty sir you lost fifty fifty five thousand
dollars do you really wanna do that you get a nice used Mazda Miata for four or
five grand if you look around 220 says I'm 17 about to buy my
first used car what do you think about a2012 Honda
Civic lx, those are great vehicles make sure that you know it
doesn't have any problems a mechanic like me to check it out before you buy
it but that can be a very good choice are you 17 if you know how to drive a
standard I knew how to drive standard then because
I started driving I was 14 working my father's gas station driving around in
and out of the bays and around the parking lot and stuff if you can drive a
standard get a standard they're much better than the automatics but if
you can't the automatics can still last you just don't want to drive
like a maniac because you can burn them out I had a customer had one any burners
out but the standard ones they're a lot stronger, benny-boy Kent says my car
steering wheel starts shaking around 55 miles an hour any causes I had the first
thing just put the front tires in the back in the back of the front if it goes
away it means that the front tires are out of balance and a lot of times it
doesn't shake cause you put them in the back you can just leave them there I do
that all the time I'm cheap but if you were fanatic then you could get the rear
tires balanced now if it's not the tire balance you can have a worn tie rod
ball-joint you want to jack it up pull see if you got any wobble and I play or
this is a rarity but it can happen if everything else is okay nothing's worn
the tires are fine they're bounced okay it could be it's out of
that's a rarity but every once in a while I get a customer with a car like
that I send it down the street to cotton brothers that are my front end guys and
they say Scotty all right it was out of alignment we aligned it and then it
shaking one away but that's the last thing to do because normally it's just
the tires are out of balance or if you see them they're all worn out by new
tires cuz worn-out tires are gonna make it shake to, Maillol one two
three hey Scotty what causes alternators to go bad if they're just cheap junk you
buy cheap junk rebuilt one made in Mexico they just are made bad and they
wear out too fast but the normal ones you got a good one brand-new factory one
on your car eventually they wear out because they spin and they are bearings
on the front in the back and the bearings eventually will wear out and
it'll start rattling and making noise then you gotta replace them but from my
experience the way that they generally wear out the worst is by poor battery
maintenance because if you've got a weak battery say it's all faded inside we
mechanics have machines to check for that but you keep driving the car cuz it
does start then the battery is gonna be keep charging it too much
it's an alternator will charge the battery too much and you'll have
problems with an overcharging and it will eventually burn the alternator out
because the alternator has to work too hard that's I tell people every year two
or three years you know mechanic like me see from our machines on it give us the
percentage of wear and we can say well yeah I only got 20% you might as well
change it or if we say I got sixty five percent you can wait quite some time
before it goes out on you but you'll want to check because when it gets lower
the alternator is to work harder and it will burn out faster that batteries are
a lot cheaper than alternators too, so if you never want to miss another one
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