rev up your engines, carol v says is it possible
to make tires so they don't wear out, well there's always friction the way to your
car is driving and then when you stop the tire has to get friction to hold
down, tires will always wear out, but I remember ages ago when I was a young
mechanic I was reading a magazine and they were touting they can have silicone
tires now that will last 100-150 thousand miles well that never came to
fruition, and I got it in my own head and think today I thought they probably
couldn't make them but why would they want to make them, because then they
kicked themselves in their rear end, why would a tire company start making tires
that last 150,000 miles when they can wear out in 50 to 60,000 sell you
another set of tires, it probably has something to do with I mean they're
always gonna wear out at some point in time, but I'm sure they can make it
last a lot longer than they actually do, but they'd probably be kicking themselves in the
rear end just like a similar thing is windshield
wiper blades you can actually buy silicone wiper blades and they cost more
there might be twenty five dollars a piece, but I had ones on my old Toyota
that had on for 20 years and they still work, cleaned them every once in a while,
you'll never get that out of just plain old rubber blades, so there's
got to be a point in that they don't want to make them to last too long,
chaddy Audi says what's the best used car BMW e60 1 or Volvo v70 n well you
might have used European car you're gonna buy a money pit with either of
those, I don't care which one you buy, on that situation I'd have to say to BMW,
because realize that Volvo has been bought by the Chinese and they say that
in the future they're only gonna make electric cars and hybrid cars, and so
eventually you're not gonna be able to get parts, people aren't gonna work on
those cars, the BMW is big enough that I don't see them going bankrupt any time
soon, people love driving their cars around, they like spending money on their
BMW, they do handle well I'll give them that so I'd have to say bmw on that but I
would buy neither of them, plain trim Rob so Scotty is it necessary to have a
catalytic converter in a state where there are no inspections, I believe it's
federal law in the United States you gotta have a catalytic converter,
so if you take it off you're breaking federal law, but the only
thing the catalytic converter serves a purpose is to burn un burned
hydrocarbons that come out of your engine and of course if you take it off the
vehicle will run better that's just the way it goes,
but it also pollutes more, so I believe it's against federal law to do that, but
I mean if they don't inspect your car in your state it's your car you know you
can do whatever you want with it, as far as I'm concerned, but I believe you'd be
breaking federal law, Jamie says Scotty does have an a/c on always make my gas
mileage worse in town, on a modern car a tiny bit but not on the highway, cuz
here's the thing I just read a study that a guy did he had a Mustang and he
rolled the windows down and went on a 400 mile trip with the a/c turned off,
then he rolled the windows up and turned the a/c on and it turns out they got
about exactly the same mileage both ways because in highway speeds rolling down
the windows created more air turbulence and the friction of the car having to go
through that, that lowered the gas mileage about exactly the same as
rolling the windows up and being aerodynamic and turning the a/c on, so
modern car it doesn't do that much and in town maybe tiny bit more but it
really doesn't make all that much difference, they don't strain that much
when I was a young mechanic, yeah the GM's had those a8 cylinder air
conditioning compressors that were huge or three pounds of freon in them and
yeah they could drain your gas mileage but not on a modern-day car, jake says
I got 2013 Sonata brought in for a recall 70,000 miles because the original
engine was bad, they replaced it for nothing and now it's running smooth, you got
lucky that they replaced it for nothing but if I had a Toyota and the engine went
bad even if they replace it I think, hmm do I really trust this company they sold
me a car with a bad engine, and a lot of bad engines in those Hyundai they
recalled a whole bunch of them cuz they didn't build them right and they messed
up somewhere down the line when they manufactured they get metal fragments
inside them, so basically I don't trust the company that builds an engine that
breaks that fast, it's the way I feel about it that's why I tell people even
Toyota's don't buy a new model that just came out, especially if it's got a new
engine or transmission let it run a few years to see how time works and how it
settles out, and if it's a good vehicle or not,
and if I had a vehicle the engine went out at 70,000 miles, I don't care if they
put an engine for free I would not buy another one, son Sully kid says my
grandma's owned the 2004 Taurus for years, once in a while it slips into second
gear and the transmission fluids bubbling, well I'm surprised that a 16
year old Ford Taurus is still going down the line, you said at your grandma's I'm
assuming she really drives like a grandmother and if she does that's why it
lasted as long as, I had customers those things they went out
with five or six years old and that thing is 16 years old, just basically baby
the thing it's so old even if you change the fluid and filter now that may
damage it and it might start to slip even worse, just live with what that is
and if it's grandma's car, and say grandma gets old enough doesn't drive any more,
don't take it off her hand and start driving it fast because I had
people do that into with a few months they go out and transmissions
don't even work, if it's been baby by Grandma, let her just still drive it and
baby it, you know as long as it runs you don't put any money on old thing like
that mark see says are hot air balloons
reliable, well their as was reliable as the person who's maintaining and to make
sure they're not ripped and that your little burners working correctly, but
when you're talking about flying it around its reliability is dependent only
upon which way the wind is blowing and that's not reliable, I've been up in hot air
balloons and it's kind of fun I gotta say, but I mean a great
place to do it is New Mexico because you go in the middle of nowhere where
there's nothing around, so you don't have to
worry about it and power lines are running into something and wide-open
spaces it's really fun, or a lot of places that do it at urban areas they're
tethered balloons so they just go up and down on a cable and they can't go any
far that's the safest way, I mean in Niagara Falls they got one for tourists
to see the Falls and it just goes up on a tether and comes back down you want to
try one out start that route, you can't use it for transportation though you
never know where you end up, Manny Pacquiao says yo Scotty are Suzuki
Hayabusas a good daily driver those are screaming motorcycles they
were the first real motorcycle you could buy stock that would go 200 miles an hour
I think the rev limit is now, but they used to go 200 miles and
and they're totally dependable vehicles if you have a vehicle they can go 200
miles an hour and you drive the speed limit 30 miles an hour let's face that
sucker is gonna last forever, yeah you're not gonna wear the thing out, but realize
it's a heavy motorcycle and if you're driving in town those heavy
motorcycles they're not that nimble for doing in town traffic things you're
better off with a 600cc Suzuki then because it's lighter weight it'll handle
better in traffic and it's got plenty of power too, mr. snow monkey 32
Scotty huge fan I'm thinking about buying a new SUV too starting between a
Ford Explorer or the Highlanders thank you, well the Highlander by far it
all last that thing two or three times they make great if you can afford the
price of a Highlander if you can't afford the price of a new one get a used one
I got a customers one original engine the trannys got five hundred and fifty
thousand miles on that sucker and it still runs good you can't even questions
just a matter of the price, just a matter what you're upfront cost is gonna be, try
says take your sunglasses off, well you wouldn't want me to because if I took my
sunglasses off I wouldn't be able to read the questions on my computer screen
I wouldn't be able to see the camera cause if I go like this, everything's
blurry accept this that close to my head and even that's blurry there so, and I got
stage lights pointing back this way up my head so you can see me, so I'm not
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