rev your engines, gauge Hayden says what do you think of CVT transmissions I
recently drove a Nissan CVT and it was the worst thing I've ever driven, I'm not a
fan of CVT transmissions in general, but you have to understand, there's like six
or eight different varieties of them, now all these companies have different
setups, so it's not all the same design, and the Toyotas I haven't seen any real
problems with them, I personally don't like them myself I just don't, I like a
standard transmission, you get more control but they're going toward the CVT
and I certainly would never buy a Nissan with a CVT because even from the
beginning Nissan had problems with their CVT when they're going from a regular
automatic to a CVT type of automatic transmission, I'm not a fan of it and I
definitely would never mind Nissan with the CVT unless they radically change
stuff, I mean who knows maybe 10 years from now I'll say, hey they're good but believe me
I work on the things, I talk to all my friend mechanics too that are
transmission specialists to keep up with it and I say, you know what's you see that's
good now, what do you see this bad, so I keep it all in my head so I can tell you
people the truth about what's going on, and I'm not just some guy talking
through his hat that the company's paiding me money to say, oh those are great cars
and then they give me money in the back door, I don't do that so, you never know
maybe ten years now I'll say, hey they're good cars, but from my experience
from Nissan I don't think, so Ashley says, Scotty what do you think of Root
that new car insurance app, okay if you don't mind the car companies getting all
the information about your driving, and you're a very conservative driver, go
ahead and do it, because it's gonna show that you're driving correctly, and maybe
you're driving low mileage, like in my own personal car sometimes I put nine
hundred or thousand miles a year ,because I work out of my house and when I travel
I fly, I even take uber to the airport because it's cheaper to take uber to the
airport than it is to park my car there for a couple of weeks, so I'll just take
uber and I don't put much mileage on my cars, so if I put one of those in they'd
see hey this guy ony drive a few miles a year and you'd probably pay less
to the insurance, but if you are a person who drives like a maniac, don't even
think about that, because they're probably gonna raise your rate to see how fast
you're driving, how fast you stop, all that information is stored and sent to
the insurance company so realize that, don't think that, oh I can drive really
fast and get better insurance rates you won't, O'Connor says Scotty I'm
looking to buy a 2008 Lexus is250 is the automatic transmission reliable
should I buy itwith the manual transmission thanks,
no they're very reliable, you know basically it's a Toyota and they had reliable
transmission on them and you'd have a hard time finding the manual transmission
they didn't sell that many, they are more fun to drive with a standard they're a
lot faster, there's no arguing that, but their automatic transmissions are reliable I
personally never seen one break, so it's not something that you got to think it's
gonna break down on you, the manuals are more fun to drive if you like
driving fast I would hold out and look for manual transmission just because
they're more fun to drive, Tusan says Scotty what do you think about rust
converters, I have rust on my Ford Focus wheel arches and I'm trying to stop it for a
while, okay for those of you who don't know rust converters
are those things that you get out of a bottle and you paint it on the rust and
it's supposed to convert the rust into a solid primer that you can paint over, now
for really light surface rust, it helps some it's no miracle because if you know
anything about metallurgy, the steel on a car it rusts actually from the inside out
so once you see it it's already too late it's starting to rust, but you did say
for awhile so you could do something like sand down some of the rust at
least, then put the rust converter and then you could cover up with fiberglass
and bondo if you really wanted, it's not a permanent fix, but it can fix it
for a while and it can slow it down, when I was a kid and cheap, I used to try that
stuff all the time, I lived up in Niagara Falls in the Rust Belt, and yes you know
I'd do it but then invariable in a year year and a half two years and it would start
rusting in the same hole again anyways, Chris says Scotty I have a 2007 Caliber SXT
what do you think is a good way to check the power steering rack it seems
to rattle when I'm going 25 and I'm going slightly left through a neighborhood, I
got a video for that, how to check your own car's
suspension, basically what you do is, you jack the car up in the air, look for play
look to see if there's any parts that are worn, or the rack itself a lot of
times the mounts are rubber, they'll rot and then when you're pulling it you
would see that the whole rack assembly moves back and forth a little that would
mean that the mounts are going bad on it, so you want to check all that stuff now
if you can't find anything, most honest front-end shops give free estimates, take
it to an honest guy who knows what they're doing, sometimes it's as dumb as
the alignments off on one side, but you can check the obvious stuff yourself by
jacking it up in the air, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car
repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!