Rev up your engines, mike says how many miles does scotty's wife's
lexus have, well I bought it from a customer of mine and his father died and he didn't
want it, it only had 60,000 miles when I got it, now it's got like 78,000 miles on it,
it's the best car we ever bought for $3,000, those things run forever you know, I had a
customer who bought the same exact car I worked on Thursday, there were two of them and they
were exactly the same, same gold and wheels same everything, she paid like $5,500 and
it had 120,000 miles, so I got a pretty good deal, but those things will run forever, if
you're thinking about getting a lexus get the 6 cylinder engines, cuz they last a lot
longer and they get better gas mileage than the 8's, there's really a big difference in
them, the customers I have with older 8's they all started to get expensive to repair,
with the 6's they don't, kodiak says what do you think of the 1996
suburban, they were great vehicles back in 96, the were solid, reliable, I got a customer
who's still driving his around and he loves the thing, he has no problems with it and
he gets them all over the place, now yes it's a huge gas hog, the gas goes in and the gas
goes out the tailpipe, their gas hogs, but they were really well built, now the modern
ones I see the rear ends go out, I see the transmission go out, I see the engines burn
oil, their no where near the vehicles that they used to be, back then they were solid
built and here in Texas they don't rust, so unless you take them to Galveston and the
ocean and saltwater, so you can get old ones that still have solid frames and keep fixing
them and driving them, overwhelming says what do you think of a Nissan
VG single cam engine, those are good engines if you take care of them, the thing that people
don't get about engines is, now they add more and more cams and originally the only had
one, the extra cams are to get extra horsepower or to burn more efficiently and have more
valves, ok when I was a kid if you had a 4 cylinder engine, it had 8 valves, an intake
and an exhaust valve for each cylinder so that's 8, now they have 16, two cams, and
it's a v engine they generally have 4 cams, it makes them more efficient but of course
it also makes them wear out fast, cost a ton more money to rebuild when they need rebuilding,
so as most things, some things get better, the gas mileage and the power, but then the
repair prices go up, so in the old days you could buy used cars and you could drive them
and fix them reasonably cheaply, you can't do it with modern cars, when their old if
they are wearing out a lot of times you just say goodbye to the car rather than do the
engine over because it costs too much money to do it right,
corrupted forever says I bought a pontiac firebird v6 it needs a tune up and other stuff,
I bought it for $900 should I keep it or resell it what do you think, now if you really like
the car, and you're happy with that v6 engine's lack of power, go ahead and keep it, if it
looks in good shape, if the body is not rotted or something, because it's a v6, the v6 does
not have resale value, everybody wants the v8's in those firebirds, and since you don't
have the v8, you're not gonna get that much money if you fix it all up and then sell it,
but if you like the way that it is, be happy with it and drive it around and fix it up,
just realize you don't want to put a bunch of money into that thing, cuz being a v6 it's
never gonna be worth all that much money, tulip says how often do you recommend changing
transfer case oil on an suv, I advise changing it every 40,000 miles or so regardless of
what people say, fluid doesn't cost much, a transfer case to replace one or rebuild
it costs thousands and thousands of dollars in any modern vehicle, changing the fluid
is a good thing, now I know a lot of these companies now say, it's a lifetime fluid,
asks the engineers what they mean by a lifetime fluid, I have and you know what they mean,
well it's good for the lifetime of the transfer case or the transmission itself, and I'm like
ok well what's that, well it depends on how they wear, I said well what's the warranty
for, well the warranty is 50,000 miles, well so I'm going to change the fluid every 40k
myself, and maybe it will go 200-300,000 miles and not just chance it and then after it gets
100k it breaks and they say, well now it's broken you change the fluid and the transfer
case, those things are expensive, recluse says what's your favorite repair manual,
well I like the alldata .com the internet website, I'm a professional mechanic, so I
have the subscription to all the cars that are in it and it's a great information system,
if you do your own cars there's all datadiy .com which is $20 a year, you get one car
at a time, and then it's $20 for extra cars, it's the same information I'm getting only
you only get one car at a time instead of all of them, I used to use books all the time
but now you hardly ever see anybody making them again, because the problem is there's
all these different models coming out, somebody has to get the book and they have to get one
of those models and they have to take it all apart and take all the pictures and show the
stuff, that is so labor intensive, and then hardly anybody buy books anymore, they don't
make any money, so almost all that stuff is going to online, that's just the way it is,
people aren't into books much anymore, go online you know if you got an older vehicle
sure go get an old book that somebody made, they were great books but like I say their
not making that many of them anymore, so if you never want to miss another one of
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