rev up your engines, AA guru says would you do TV or radio
again, no cuz they're too tied in with their sponsors and theire advertising
look around here you don't see any sponsors, because I'm only sponsored by
the truth, and yes I do make money doing this, it's Google advertising Google does
shotgun ads on my videos, they run ads just open-ended ads I have
nothing to do with which ones run, I do make money that way but I don't have anything
to do with ads you see I say good things about
companies, I say bad things about the same companies if they make mistakes, on
TV and radio they are so tied in with their advertisers, when I used to do TV
they flat-out told me there's some things I couldn't talk about because
they had sponsors that sold those cars so now no anything-goes, if somebody
makes something good I'll talk about it if they make it bad I'll talk about it,
and as a mechanic since I still do it for 51 years and I'm still wrenching, I
see what's good and what's bad, which tools work, which tools don't, and it
changes all the time and I have to keep up with that stuff, and on TV and radio
no, I mean this is so cool that Here I am live on YouTube and
anybody in the world with a phone can ask me a question, well I guess the Chinese
can't because they ban YouTube there but anybody in the free world can ask me
questions and get an honest response, I think that's cool as can be and you
can't beat that, I'm not tied into the advertisers so I can tell the truth and
there's not that many people that can say that these days, joe says Scotty
what do you think about the SKYACTIV Mazda engines, Mazda cx-5, I'm not a fan
and I'm not a fan because I fix those things for a living,
and very often I see customers who buy one used, I had a customer buy one used
last year, and had like 110 thousand miles and I thought, oh what a deal I
only paid $4,000 for it, about a month later they brought it to me and I said
the engines gonna have to be rebuilt, the timing
chain is coming apart, you want to buy one brand new and keep it for 100 thousand miles
or so you might not have very many problems at all, but they're not the type
of vehicle that you should ever buy used unless you get them dirt cheap, I mean I
get customers that buy them dirt cheap and some of them buy them for $1000
or maybe 1500, and if they get a year or 2 or 3
out of them they're making out like gangbusters, but you don't want to
buy one used with over a hundred thousand miles and think you're gonna
get it long before you have to put some serious money into it most of the time, fire
funny asks, when I start my engine it starts only on the
fourth to sixth try, what could it be well that often happens as cars age,
if the spark plugs are a little worn if the air filters clogged, fuel filter is
clogged it can do that, so of course you want to change all the stuff that you
would in a tune-up, spark plugs, air filter, fuel filter if it's not that then
a lot of times it's normally the fuel pump is getting weak and you can have a
mechanic check it with a gauge if you don't have a gauge when it's cold and
see if the pressure is right when it's cold and if it isn't right
generally the pump is going out and you need a
new pump, now if the pressure is okay it can be dirty fuel injectors, I got a
video how to clean fuel injectors without removal and you might try having
the fuel injectors clean next if all the other things didn't cause it, those are
the most common things, raptor says Scotty I got an 05 Lexus GS 300
hundred forty six knots miles, it vibrates at high speeds and gets worse the
faster I go what could be the problem, anytime you get vibrations in a car go
to any front-end alignment shop and have them check the balance on your tires, it
can be as simple as your tires are out of balance or if the wheels are bent and
that makes them out of balance they can check all this stuff really quickly and
a lot of times that's all it is, now if it isn't that it can get complicated, bad
ball joints, bad tie rods, worn drive shafts that spin and start to wobble at
higher speeds, but always start with the simple obvious things, and I mean if you
want to check stuff yourself, Jack it up in the air and pull on the wheels
and pull on them at 3:00 and 9:00 o'clock, and pull them at 6:00 and midnight
you get wobbly and see oh maybe it's a ball joint and you can see it wobble, or
a tie rod you can see it wobble, do the obvious
things first and if you can't figure it out then go to a good front-end shop and have
them check the balance of the tires and the alignment first, York says
hey Scotty what do you think about switching out the transmission oil pan
for one that has a plug in those sealed transmissions, I think it'll help doing
drain and fill, if you want that would be, if you can find a company that makes
them go right ahead that's a very smart thing to do, what you can do is you just
drain it out there, measure exactly what came out and put the same amount
back in, it makes it so much easier but of course their not making it that way because
they want to rip you off, they want to make it so you pretty much have to go
to the dealership, somebody who wants to do all the ridiculous things, some of
those things take an hour or hour and a half, you got a road test them, check it and
then you got to add a little bit more check it and some of them have computer
sensors you got to have a machine to read those sensors, but if you had a pan
with a drain you could just drain it fill it back up and put in exactly amount
that came out, Abboud one two three says Scotty
what about opel kadett, the first car I ever owned was an opel kadett, I paid 500
bucks for it cuz some kid was on the used-car lot spinning, and he slid out
in his Jeep and he ran into it and bashed it in, so I got it for 500 bucks
and I had to fix the bodywork on it, they were fun cars, it was very basic car it had
all of 59 horsepower, it couldn't get out of its own way, but it lasted a long
time I drove it all over the place, I sold it for 50 bucks less than I paid
for it like five years later too so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!