rev up your enginesm pully says hey Scotty thanks for your
advice about a 2006 Toyota Matrix hundred and sixty thousand miles, does
driving with the OD off save gas, no and uses gas, the overtime is
overdrive, you want to keep the overdrive on because when it gets into OD, it goes
into the next gear and that makes the engine spinless, it operates at a lower
rpm, you want to keep the OD on that's to get better gas mileage, also
when I start theirs a squeak near the serpentine belt, okay that's a 2006
matrix, a lot of times you just need a fan belt replaces the fan belt, but if
that doesn't fix it, the automatic tensioner is on those wear out it's a
design flaw, you would change both the belt and the automatic tensioner, because
the automatic tensioners do get weak on those and squeal, you can get an
aftermarket one, I buy all the time an autozone they're half the price of the
dealer one and they work perfectly fine, Tila are you ever gonna talk
about Nissan Muranos 2010 to 2019, okay I'm talking about them now, I'm not a fan
of Nissan after Renault bought the company early 2000, the quality has gone down
and the Muranos hey there a cheaper SUV, I mean if you want a cheap SUV and you
buy a new one it might last a few years you know might last eighty ninety
thousand reasonably trouble-free, but you know they don't hold up like a Toyota or
Honda, check the resale values they're cheap, I've had customers by those
Murano's really dirt cheap used, but then they fell apart if they kept them for 10
12 years, or if they put another 80 90 thousand miles it cost them a fortune so
they're not a long-term vehicle really, Jason Barkov says what are your thoughts
on a certified pre-owned 2016 volvo v60 cross country, volvos are money pits as
they age but they're good for a certain amount of time, that said realize that a
Chinese company owns Volvo, and they said that they're only gonna make electric
and electric hybrid cars in the future, so I wouldn't pay much money for a used
Volvo SUV that their not gonna be making anymore, parts are already expensive enough
for those things, and if they stop making the
parts for them, after all it is a Chinese company now they don't have to take care
of the things they made when they were making them in
Sweden, I personally wouldn't pay much money for it, their money pits as they
age anyway, and with them not making normal gasoline cars the future, I
wouldn't pay much for one, Abram Austin says hey Scotty what do you think about
magneride suspension, they ride really well when you put that much technology
into a vehicle it can ride well, but with that kind of technology comes a big
price when they break down, because all that stuff that's computer controlled
electronically controlled, hydraulically controlled, that stuff costs a lot of money
to build right and when they break they cost a ton of money to fix, in the past when
Mercedes did that, I saw a lot of people try to go to regular systems when
there's broke, they would say oh I see that KYB makes a kit that you can
replace them with, I'm gonna do that because I don't want to spend $4,000
replacing the struts on my car, so you can have that technology and it works
quite well when it works, but when it breaks whoo good luck paying for it, Jose
Torres Scotty in a battle of the box vehicles, what's best Kia Soul, honda element
Scion xB, or Jeep renegade, I've got a element and I love it, ok well you picked
a really good one,
between those I'd say the elements and the Scion xB are the best ones, and
really the elements for the first one to come out as they get old you picked a
really good one having a Honda Element I've got a customer with an element it's
a standard transmission and it's 300,000 miles on it, it will still burn rubber in
all five gears, so I mean those things are solid built vehicles you want a vehicle
like that they are solid, garzo says what your thought on pop-up headlights
and how to keep them working, the reason they want to pop-up headlights with
aerodynamics, because in the olden days they all had those square headlights and
so if they're hidden in the daytime the air flows over better and then at night
they pop up, well that's all a complete waste of time these days, because now the
headlights are part of the body they're molded plastic and they fit right flush
with the fender, so you don't have to think about it's the thing in the past,
but if you have a car that has pop-up headlights, what you want to do is they
pop up and there's normally arms going to a motor linkage, lubricate that
all the time was like spray lithium that's a
a good lubricant, because you want to keep them lubricated, and most
of them are electronic, the electronic once you want to make sure all the seals
where they plug in electronically are nice and strong and that the rubber
hasn't ripped and then dirt and dust can get inside and corrode them, and if
you don't use it cuz it's kind of a classic car, do use them every once in a
while because they will lock up from non use if you don't use them much, so if
it's a toy vehicle you can take it on parades or use it on the weekends even if
you don't drive it much at night, hey drive around with headlights on
sometimes, because you want them going up and down so they don't lock in one place,
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