rev up your engines
now here's the sad bit of news as far as I'm concerned Toyota is going to be
making more pickup trucks in Mexico and not in the United States they're moving
all of the Tacoma production the midsize pickup to Mexico they're not
making any in the United States anymore in 2021 they say that they're going to
be making a hundred thousand vehicles a year at the Mexican plant that they
weren't making before they still were making the United States because you're
2021 it's gonna be all shifted down to Mexico not to me that's a sad move he
can imagine Trump isn't there like that one when the Toyota executives were
asked well what do you think about this yeah you know moving jobs down to Mexico
and they said quote we don't make business decisions based on politics
we're a company that thinks long-term hey let's have the truth you just want
to make them cheaper and cheaper to make in Mexico there's no if ands or buts
about it and that's why they're moving the business decision is that they can
make them cheaper they're not charging any less they're expensive trucks
they're well-made trucks but they're expensive trucks and adjust to my own
personal experience the work in our cars for 52 years
I see the cars that come out of Mexico the quality is lower period I don't care
I just have seen that maybe Toyota proved me wrong and five years now
people will say oh my pickup that was made in Mexico was just as good as the
one that I bought that was made in the United States or made in Japan but I'm
gonna hold my breath on that one you got something quality why would you change
it of course it's just to make them cheaper to have more profit that's kind
of obvious it's a business decision but people buy Toyota because their quality
they're gonna be in for a rude awakening if their quality goes down and you pay
people less to make stuff generally the quality does go down that's just the way
the world works if all the people at the top make all the money and the workers
don't what kind of jobs are the workers gonna do and I've seen that from things
made in Mexico Dodge Maiden those horrible neons down there which they
don't make anymore they made the PT Cruisers that were
really poorly made cars in Mexico if I was running a business and I had people
buying my pickup trucks and they liked them I would leave
I wouldn't just move to another country because there were somewhat cheaper to
build down there but that's what they're doing and I personally think that's a
bad move I'm at the other end I have to fix the things and tell my customers
what's reliable and what isn't I don't want him to buy unreliable cars I care
about my customers care of all you people watching me I can help millions
of people I can't fix your cards with my hands I don't have that many hands and
time to do it but I can give you advice that will help you out in this case I
think we're in a production of the Tacomas to Mexico which they say 95% of
are gonna be sold in the United States I think that's a bad move well here's one
for you Honda folks the 2020 Civic type-r has a little price increase it's
gonna be 695 more now that means that they start at 37 thousand nine hundred
and fifty dollars if you would have told me decades ago that people were gonna
saying it's a bargain to get a Honda Civic for almost thirty eight thousand
dollars well in terms of today yes it is for what you get they call them hot
hatches hot hatchback they're fast there's like miniature racecars there's
no arguing that there's Tremont cars my customers that have them absolutely love
them some of them went a few states over to try to find one that they could even
buy because most of the stuff is sold pretty fast there is a decent use market
because some people get them and they are fast little cars but on the other
hand there are also little cars and some people just don't like the ride
because they think they're too stiff little rough riding but that's because
that's what they are it's got a 13 percent bigger opening and a bigger
radiator core and I claim that the temperature can be 18 degrees cooler if
you take it on the racetrack or drive it at the full speed or the faster you go
the more you strain an engine the more air you need to come in to cool it the
bigger radiator you need I remember when I had a 2013 Shelby gt500 that thing
didn't even have a girl in the front just had a big hole cuz they decided
that we need as much air as possible to cool everything if you're going 200
miles an hour which a thing could do they don't have a grill there cuz that
blocked the airflow so they just had a giant gaping hole like a shark's mouth
that's sucking the air into the engine there's a reason for these
that's why I got a bigger grill and they bigger radiator on these and bushings
have been upgraded made them stiffer they matched with the suspension like I
say if you want a little bitty hatch Racing car
it certainly is the one to get so you might think $38,000 Rhonda that's a lot
of money yes a lot of money but it's a lot of car if that's what you want don't
think you're gonna buy that and get a luxurious ride it's not luxurious right
it's a racing type ride they really handle well a corner like demons they're
not gonna ride like a big lights of course not and they're relatively
bare-boned inside and doesn't have all electronic stuff that a lot of cars have
but that's not what this thing is for this thing is for really zipping around
and and even though there's 695 dollars more you're still getting a lot of bang
for your buck if you don't mind spending that kind of money
blunts flow says I'm looking to buy 2013 Highlander SE with 80,000 miles I look
at the TSB 's and data from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Association
there's 170 complaints this model that's normal they look for any particular okay
well that can be relatively normal because of our society these days people
complain about everything some people might even complain about the color of the
vehicle you know those are really well made vehicles I got customers with
Highlanders that have 500,000 miles and they're still got original engines and
transmissions on them they are really well built vehicles you're gonna complaints of all
kinds and nitpicky things here and there people just love to complain you know I
mean I give out free advice to people and people still even complain about it
if I say well you know you can use this data system to fix your car the
particular one is all data and no see but Scotty it's not free I'm like if you
don't spend twenty nine dollars a year for information to save you thousands
fixing your car but don't even complain about that so people complain about
everything now if you got about used one drive it make sure it runs good shifts
good but still don't trust anybody take it to a qualified mechanic like me who's
gonna tell you the truth when I hook up my scan tools it can't hide any of that
then I'll get pages and pages of data that I look at analyze I spend about an
hour analyzing the used car for somebody and I will know if anything's hidden I'm
gonna find no offends our butts on there long as the mechanic says it's okay they
can be great vehicles Larry's lost at 8 to 1 sounds I got a
2008 kia optima and my left front and right rear brakes
lock up help okay yeah you would well that mean fishtailing all over the place
you wouldn't want that of course if you had any work done on a vehicle you might
have air in the system and that makes those ABS systems go ballistic so if you
have had worked on either go back or if you don't trust to go somebody else
haven't bleed air out of the system you could have air in the system if somebody
worked on a system now let's say nobody's worked on the system this just
came out of the blue well I fixed them before and it was always a bad ABS
module ABS module is basically the giant brains of the anti-lock brake system and
when they go haywire they're supposed to control the wheels from not locking up
and so if they are locking up now those are in different circuits left front and
the right rear you know the front ones over one circuit the back ones are
another so if you got one up front and one out back and they're both locking up
all four of our control by the ABS module so I unfortunately you're gonna
have to replace last last one I fixed the key like that exactly what it did
the same exact thing and I had to replace the brake module which is very
expensive part but that fixed it and that really is the only thing that could
possibly do that unless your car's been in a wreck and things got bent and stuff
and lines were pinching but if you didn't you're gonna need a new module
King Edward to 427 says I got a 2012 Acura MDX v6 my check engine light is on
and it's got the codes for running too lean p0171
but it runs okay what can I do it's saying that your fuel system is to
lean can run lean for many many reasons you didn't give the odometer rating but
it is eight years old when I run Lane but they seem to run okay y'all ways
check for vacuum legs you hear it hissing or something but generally you
got a vacuum leak it's not gonna idle very well because they have to run
perfect at idle and if it's got a vacuum leak it's gonna run poorly at idle but
you said it runs okay for my experience of those try this I got old video on
make your car run better with a little spray cleaner clean the maf
sensor on those maf sensors can get dirty takeout let me have censored bolts off
you spray it with math sensor cleaner let me use a MAF sensor clearance
special cleaner my old video shows you how to do the whole thing it's not that
complex not a tear drive for half an hour put it
in and you might find they don't fix it entirely because since it's saying both
banks are lean what affects both banks is the mass airflow sensor because it
feeds the whole engine so if it's making the car run lean it's gonna make the
whole engine run me if it was only one side bank one and not Bank 2 it couldn't
be the MAF sensor because that affects them both so clean the mafs and a
lot of times that's gonna fix your problem though you might actually need
one but let me tell you you said it's running okay and when they're dirty they
can run good enough that you won't notice much difference if they're bad
you're gonna notice the difference they're really accelerate poorly
so clean the map sense at first you might find that's a simple fix and
you can thank Scotty for making you only buy can of mash sensor clear and yes
they're not cheap but I mean what's nine bucks, so if you never want to miss
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