Rev up your engines, taser eyes says scotty what do you think about
the Ford Escape, ok I got a customer with one and she's got 150,000 miles on it and
it's been a pretty good vehicle for her, she bought it used with like 60,000 miles and
she's happy with it and I've had customers with it that are happy with it you know,
the only thing I warn people is, if you're going to buy a vehicle like that I would stay
away from the hybrid versions because the hybrid versions as they age the parts cost
a lot of money, the batteries cost a fortune and everything just costs more money and yeah
you get better gas mileage but you never get back the difference between the gas mileage,
the price you pay for the car and then the repairs as they get older, they just get to
be too expensive, unless you can amortize it and put a ton of
mileage on it, like an uber driver, I know uber drivers that have those things and they're
putting on like 60,000 miles a year so, they are amortizing it with better gas mileage
especially if they drive in town a lot, but for the normal person you never get your money
back, Gola says scotty what do you think of the
dodge hellcat I know your not a fan of Chrysler but I think they're the best bargain for power
and dragging thanks, well yes the dodge hellcat puts out a really
large amount of power for the money that it costs, now strangely enough,
Musk with his Tesla, the top of the line Tesla goes 0-60 and 0-100 faster than the Hellcat
because it's got electric motors that have 100 percent torque all the time so they just
take off like gang busters, and a hellcat costs a lot less, if you want
something dragging and pushing around yeah the hellcat is a screamer of a vehicle but
then again it's a Chrysler product and it's going to break down especially if you drive
it like a Hellcat you know, but for the power and money you know,
you want to spend that kind of money go right ahead, there's nothing wrong with that, just
realize it isn't going to be running down the road 10 years from now without putting
a fortune into it as it wears out, eagle says hey scotty, I want to get a audi
a3 2007 diesel for around 6,000 euros, there's a lot of them around where I live so tell
me is an Audi worth it, ok I would never buy one of those in the US
parts costs a fortune, their endless money pits but I just came back from England and
a lot of people have them, you're talking about a manual transmission diesel engine,
it's a VW engine really, they're pretty reliable engines and at that
price in Europe it's probably a decent buy and guy know how to work on them there and
as long as you maintain it that would probably not be a bad buy in Europe,
you know they don't last forever but it's a 07 and if it doesn't have that many miles
because in Europe they generally don't drive them as far, it could be a decent deal and
what I like about Europe from what I've seen is the used car prices are much lower than
in the US because they don't go by that fake book value that they give in the US where
they say a 10 year old car is worth a whole bunch of money, where in Europe they're going
for 2,000 US dollars and in the US the same vehicle might go for 8,000 US dollars, so
if you can get them cheaper there why not, everything you didn't know says, scotty whats
the difference between all wheel drive and four wheel drive, all wheel drive systems
generally their all wheel drive all the time or they automatically turn themselves on and
off depending on the conditions, if it's snowing or raining or whatever, four wheel drive means
all four wheels can be operating and you get the choice like you can put it on four wheel
drive, high four wheel drive, low or just rear wheel drive high, so it's always just
in rear wheel drive, it's all adjustable and for most people four
wheel drive is actually better than all wheel drive because all wheel drive you're going
to get worse gas mileage because your running all four wheels, there's more friction involved,
you get worse gas mileage, where a four wheel drive you can run it four
wheel drive when you need it in the snow or if it's raining and you're going to drive
fast and you want better traction and cornering, but when you want better gas mileage just
going 60 mph down the highway on dry road, you can put it in just rear wheel drive,
v8 lover says scotty I got 2001 chevy suburban 2500 with 235,000 miles, every time I go on
the interstate speed the rpms are running high like 2,200 rpm what do you think, well
your transmission starting to go, your lucky you got 235,000 miles, all my customers that
have suburbans have had their transmission overhauled generally long before that, usually
at 135,000 miles, you probably baby your vehicle so your getting more mileage out of the thing,
which is a good thing for you, but it's going to need rebuilding at some point in time,
and now yours is going higher it's probably not shifting into overdrive, you know you
might check with a good mechanic like me to see if maybe they can do something to the
overdrive and try to get the overdrive to work again, but with that mileage your probably
going to need a full overhaul in a short period of time, I rarely see them last that long
on those things, tree line says scotty I got a non vtec integra
with 90,000 miles, my timing belt was changed 20,000 miles later than it was suppose to,
at idle there's a bit of vibration, should I be worried, you know I wouldn't worry about
it, odds are the guy that did the timing belt didn't do it perfectly, if you find out it
vibrates more now than it did before you had the timing belt, the guy just didn't do a
perfect job, I see that all the time, because with those things you have to have it just
right and when you change the timing belt and put the new one on, a lot of time when
you let the tensioner go, the cam will move one tooth and it will be off one tooth, I
see that all the time, it doesn't really hurt anything if your gas mileage is about normal,
ah if I were you I would live with it, you know because you'd have to take it all apart
again and if you paid the same guy he might screw up again,
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