rev up your engines, Smurf ask Scotty the front tires are worn in my 2008 accord
and need replacing, is it okay to buy used tires to save some money, well normally
I would advice against buying used tires,
because I know guys who run tire stores and when people buy tires they generate
buy new tires, cuz they either have a problem with their old tires, they're
noisy or they get flats all the time, or they're just worn out and who wants to buy
tires like that, I say you're better off pricing new tires seeing what range, what
kind of tires you want, like you don't need a Z rated tire if you're not
driving over 100 miles an hour and you might just need normal economy tires, but
there's one situation where I'd say go ahead and buy used tires, and that's from
a junkyard, car get wrecked and the engines blow up for various reasons, they
might have very good late-model tires on them and they take the tires off and
sell them, if you look at them and they're not cracked and ripped, I got a
lot of customers actually buy tires from a junkyard and they save a whole bunch
of money, but that's about the only place that I go and do it because you go to a
tire store yeah why are the used tires there you know,
why did people buy new tires, unless it's a crooked tire store that's always
selling people tires that don't need them, Nicholas says Scotty
is it safe to keep driving with a leaking power steering pump as long as I
keep replacing the fluid, okay you keep replacing the fluid it's not gonna
damage the power steering system cuz you keep the fluid up, but it depends where
the fluid is going, cuz it's gotta be leaking somewhere and if it's leaking
all over your engine it can ruin the alternator, it can ruin the fan belts, and
can get on sensors and destroy them and if it's a really bad leak it could squirt
on the exhaust and start a fire, so you want
to see where the leak is actually coming from and if it's just kind of dripping on
the ground and you want to keep adding it you know
go right ahead, I've had customers do that for years,
especially if it's small leak and say they only
have to put a bottle of those eight ounce things in once every month or
something like that then it's not that big of a deal, Richard says
what do you think about a 69 Buick Wildcat and a 78 cadillac deville were
they reliable back in the day, which one is better now
which one should I get or not get, oh definitely get the 69 Wildcat, my
grandfather owned one of those and he was a mechanic, those were nice cars
their somewhat collectable, the Cadillac DeVille they were cookie cutter
cars, and 78k cadillac wasn't making the greatest cars in the world, they started to
make them cheaper, the 69 buick Wildcat that's a cool car to get, get that and
fix it up well if you have to, it doesn't need fixing up, just buy it as is and
take care of it, that's definitely what I do, I'd stay away from the Cadillac cuz I
had a customer that actually bought that same one, it was an endless money pit and he ended
up selling it for about 8 grand less than he had into the thing, when he was finally
done, his wife made him take it out of the garage she was sick of looking at it,
AR conquest says, Scotty I bought a 2002 Buick Century with 50,000 miles for 5
grand, did I get a good deal it has a 4-speed automatic transmission and a v6
well you're kind of in a bizarre situation, it's a 17 year old car now
it's only got 50,000 miles and you paid five grand, for the mileage that's a good
price, but for the year you kind of overpayed, cuz the Buick Century
isn't really a collector's item or anything, but if it runs good everything
works, Hey be happy cuz look what a brand new car
costs, and if that's the real mileage with fifty thousand real miles it can still
go quite some time, and back then they were making them better than their making
them today, so you know it could be a fine deal for that, I would've just paid
less just because of the age, 17 year old Buick it doesn't go for that much
money, elevated sign says Scotty what do you think about the Infiniti g35 coupe, I
bought an 06 G 35 automatic for five thousand bucks with one hundred and ten
thousand miles it runs strong, the are fun to drive, but it can be
very very expensive to repair generally they don't start falling apart til they get
maybe 170-180, so baby it even though it's a fast car don't drive around like
a maniac, baby it and you never know how it's gonna last, you didn't pay that much for it,
imagine you know you paid so much less than the original owner paid for it, and
hey you can get your money's worth if it lasts for
a couple of years for you, just baby it though, don't drive it like a maniac race
car cuz they can go really fast but then they have a tendency of falling apart
especially when their automatic transmissions, that's the weakest part of
them, coins nine hundred says Scotty I want to get a classic car as my first car
any suggestions, well it depends on what kind of car you want and how much you want
to spend you know, you want a real classic
get like a 67 Mustang, but you're gonna pay a
lot of money for one they're very expensive, it all depends on what you
want to pay and what you want to get, now let's say you want a sixties car, if you
want something that's kind of a little bit unique and isn't gonna cost as much realize
the Mustang was based on the same chassis as the Ford Falcon, and you can
get those a lot cheaper and fix one of those up, they can run quite well especially if
they got the v8 engine in them and you're gonna pay a lot less, it all
depends on how much you want to pay and what kind of a vehicle you want to get,
if you stick to like a Ford from that era, parts are readily available they can
run a really long time, that's not a bad way to go, so if you never want to miss
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