rev up your engines
Michael cologne he says 07 Acura RDX 90,000 miles called P2263 issued a
check engine light the dealer once replace the turbo for six grand it pulls
fine and I don't feel any difference I can't pass inspection please help yeah
you know when you get vacuum leak or stuff wrong with the system it won't
pass emissions testing they're trying to say the problem is in your turbo it very
well could be but if it runs okay so you're stuck between a rock and a hard
place find a mechanic like me maybe he could just reset it drive it a little
and if it'll pass the emissions test then go get it tested right away I do
that for customers all the time when he got some nagging thing that's gonna cost
a fortune but it runs okay a lot of times you can reset it if it's got some
kind of a vacuum leak at least just patch it with duct tape or something you
just take duct tape up if you want as long as it runs okay you know there's
always ways to get around stuff if four car runs perfectly fine door somebody's
trying to rip you for that kind of money now if you do have to replace the turbo
don't pay 6 grand don't go to a dealer you can get refurbished ones from many
places all over the world online and replace it with a recondition one this
places that will take yours and refurbish it for you Greg says Scotty
is a 2.7 liter EcoBoost a good reliable engine over time understand what
EcoBoost is it means that it's GDI gasoline injection with insane
high-pressure spraying of fuel directly in the engine and also turbochargers
which brings more air in the engine so there's more pressure in the engine and
guess what the more pressure the fast or something will wear out over time if you
took that same engine and it was just a normal engine with fuel injection and no
turbos and drove them both in the same vehicle the one that's the EcoBoost is
gonna wear out faster and it's just the way that it goes strain more they're
gonna wear out faster they work fine for you know usually the first few years
100,000 miles or more but eventually it will wear out fast to
realize that if you're the type of person to trade your vehicle in every
100,000 miles your style you probably be happy with but if you want really really
long-term now you better not to buy that complex stuff Senya treasure like says
when should I change all the fluids in my 2014 Durango Hemi I only drive 5,000
miles annually well oil it doesn't matter its mileage and/or age so you
want to change the engine at once a year use good synthetic oil change it once
here that's fine the rest of the stuff you're probably gonna go more by time
than mileage like I would change the transmission fluid but if you only
driving 5,000 miles a year I change it once every five or six years yeah and
the coolant you go by the not the mileage but the year like a few at that
Toyota hoat coolant that's good for up to seven years the Dodge coolant I
believe the factory stuff is good for five years find out how long it is and
then change it by the years not the mileage because things wear out over
time find out what time for each and change
it at that time instead of the mileage because you're not putting on the
mileage they still degrade over time specially the engine oil, J Texas 1974
live free or die Scotty can you tell me how long you can drive a car
with a failing or bad torque converter thanks well of course that depends on
how bad the torque converter is yeah I got customers with torque converters
that are weak that drive them for years and years and years in my 94 celcia has
an automatic transmission the torque converter is weak but it was a weak when
I bought it used and it's still weak and I still drive it the only problem with
that is it shakes a lot in drive so when you're driving if you leave it and drive
the engine shakes and idle I just put it neutral and it runs smooth this can be
so I Drive it that way I really don't care I'm not gonna take the transmission
off just to change the torque converter and if it still works like that who
cares but there are torque converters that physically fall apart when they
start making noise or when the gears start to slam into gear when you're
driving then they're not gonna let us talk that long it depends on how badly
worn they are cuz they will wear in different models in different ways some
of them just have bad welds GM had some with bad welds
when the welds break then it starts falling apart clang and then you got to
change it sooner than later or it will destroy a bunch of other stuff Garcia says
Scotty I was a feeling driving on GT Mustang 65 I've been 2005 in a Celica
2002 I feel like you oh yeah yeah the old cars the fun to drive they're real
cars that's said they're not like a modern car you get
turn the key and take off and that's all you got to think about stuff that's 65
GT that I was showing it's got a hand choke you gotta start it up play with
the chock a little let it warm up a few minutes before you drive it seriously
and you know it's a standard transmission so you gotta shift gears
and it's an old one so that's the clutch it's relatively stepped you got to be
used to pushing down on that hard clutch with your left foot the only thing I
ever drove this stiffer than that was a customer had a Corvette and that you
he had to use both feet on a clutch pedal to get it down it was so
hard to push it down on that Corvette they were notorious for having sticky
clutch pedals but you know it's another experience you're actually being part of
the Machine and you feel it and you get feedback and bumps and it's a real
driving experience you know if you're the type of person that just wants a
smooth thing definitely get a new one don't get it old one, station money says
I got a 07 Ford Focus that has a pinging sound under load when I use 87
octane using 89 there's no pinging how can I get it to stop pinging when using
87 octane you know the problem is it's 12 years old
it's just worn with the higher octane gas I mean you're better just to use it
because all kinds of things are going on there it's probably that your timing
belt your timing chain is worn somewhat the engine has a little carbon in it I
mean if you want to try my advice would be paying mechanic like me to carbon
clean your engine because if there's carbon buildup that increases the
compression ratio and you need to higher test gas so it doesn't ping sometimes on
those just having them carbon cleaned then they'll run normal on the cheaper
gas I tried that burst they make the most logical thing to do
keoki Tara's says Scotty I changed the sway bar links on my 08 Pontiac g5
but it still rattles when I hit bumps what could be wrong you change the sway
bar links those are links at the end right the
sway bar itself has to hold downs they have rubber bushings on them check the
rubber bushings they could be worn out too but of course realize there are a
zillion things that can make rattling noise on a suspension system jack it up and
pull on it and hope you can duplicate the noise now if you can't I have a video
called finding the source of car noises watch that video and with that machine
if you don't want to buy one you're gonna use one on eBay for like 50 60
bucks or a new one 410 bucks it will pinpoint any sound in a car but check
the bushings first you changed the links on the end of the bushings are
worn it'll still rattle around when you hit bumps, res says toyota oem coolant
or third party pink acceptable it's okay to mix different
brands of engine coolant all right well I always try to use the same thing but what's
in them is what counts and from my experience I look around all the pink
and red coolant that I've ever found was whole coolant hybrid organic acid
technology called the new style one that Toyota's use and as long as it's hoat
coolant you can mix them it's perfectly fine just like any olden days you didn't
care if you use impressed on coolant factory GM coolant whatever as long as
it was the same type the older type coolant was called inorganic acid
technology IAT and the new one is OAT organic acid technology and the real
fancy ones like Toyota's are Hoat hybrid organic acid technology as long as you
keep the same oats or hoat coolant in it it's fine you can mix them, mike says
Scotty my 2015 Mazda 3 left front wheel vibrates at 25 to 35 but it goes away at
a higher speed what can cause that you got sympathetic vibrations in there
odds are to be rebalanced or the tiger might just be shot go to a good place
where they balance tires have them check the balancing of the tire if it's off
balance that can do that or it's a tire itself a shot that often happens when
they're made of various belt wound around in a circle and if the belts
break internally then they're no longer perfectly round and at a certain speed
they'll go like mad but don't want to get spinning faster it expands out and
becomes perfectly round again so had the tire check praise just needs to be
but if the tires crap pink albino your tire because that will do different
things at different speeds cuz it's rubber and can stretch and change as it
speeds up it's not like a man on a solid steel where the speed doesn't change the
shape, Steven Mayer says Scotty are you stoned dusted sunglasses no I'm blind as
a bat if I take them off I am blinded and I have studio lights pointing at me
so you can see me otherwise you wouldn't be able to see me all that well I put
them on I don't look as old it's a show business thing with sunglasses on
you don't look as old but now I'm not stoned I haven't done that stuff since
college and that was let's see 42 years ago that's what I graduated, game says
Scotty I have a 2010 Mazda 3 the sound stopped
I had the Bose package mechanic told me to replace an amp or get a new radio why
are the speakers what should I do yes when you buy a vehicle with a fancy
stereo system and it breaks often either to get new parts hardly anybody ever
fixes them right or to replace the whole thing with a factory unit cost a fortune
you're better just going aftermarket I do it in all my cars because the
aftermarket stuff these days every two years they're they work twice as well
and it cost half as much so your carts a few years old
you put modern stereo in sounds tons better and it costs pretty nothing
compared to the original so do that just get another new one
research what particular ones you want like if you don't have an android and you want to
put an android in now if you want an Android there's good androids out there now
for a little was doing her 50 bucks don't buy the $80 androids they stink
I've tried them out but the more expensive ones they're pretty good
androids that are easy to wire it I got a video on that it's it's not that hard
to do, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell