Rev up your engines, ashton the man says can I put smaller wheels
on my car, well you can do whatever you want, here's the thing, cars were designed for a
certain size wheel, you start changing that it's going to ride different, the speedometer
is going to read different but if you put smaller wheels on a car, realize that what
you'll have is, you'll have a vehicle that accelerates faster but it has a lower top
end, it won't go as fast in the long run, if you want something that goes 0-30 a lot
faster go ahead and put smaller wheels on it, but realize the bottom might drag and
it's going to corner weird, that's why the original minis that they made in England had
little tiny wheels on it, because they wanted to go faster for a lower speed, their top
speed was garbage they didn't go that fast, but they used them for rally dirt racing where
they never went that fast anyways, you can if you want you know,
max says scotty what's your opinion of a 2016 chrysler 200c awd with a v6, I wouldn't touch
that with a 10 foot pole, that was built after fiat took over chrysler,
it's got a bunch of Italian parts on it and the customers of mine that bought them, hey
they loved it when they first got them because their real zippy and then they fell apart
and they hate it and said, I'll never buy another one of these fiat chrysler products
again, they just had too many problems as they wore out and of course their resale values
are terrible, so if you did buy one and then wanted to sell
it, you'd lose so much money it would make your head spin, always look at resale values
of cars if you're thinking about buying a car, and if you see, man they got really low
resale value, theirs a reason that they have low resale value,
it's because their made poorly, NA says scotty what do you think about the
5.0 v8 engine ford made are they reliable, oh yeah the 5 liter v8's are one of the best
engines ford ever made, I got a customer with an old one and he's beefed it up, it's an
old foxbody and man that thing is fast, it scares me, whenever I work on it of course
I want to take it out and see how fast it is, but it's so fast that it scares me especially
in an older vehicle like that, that the suspension is a little bit iffy and it's got so much
horsepower it's kind of scary, those are reliable engines that as long as you change the oil
and don't overheat them, post says is a VW passat b5 a good car I'm
thinking about getting one my friend had one for 5 years and 300,000 miles and it still
runs like new, well your friend is one lucky character, now
if you're going to buy a VW passat and you're happy with a manual transmission, it can be
a good car, yes but they have one of the worst automatic transmission ever made, bar none,
they cost a fortune to repair and they break all the time,
but if you don't mind driving a standard they can be decent cars, but don't buy an automatic,
they're bad in a VW, marcus says hey scotty greetings from Germany,
what do you think about a 05-09 Mustang with a 4.6 liter, of those are strong engines you
know, it's based on a truck engine, and those are really strong engines if you take care
of them they can last a long time, I didn't know if they sold them in Germany or not,
I know they didn't sell them in England because I was just there, I didn't know if they sold
them in Germany or if people imported them from the US to Germany and then sold them
there, their strong engines, Lisa says scotty thoughts on early 90's chevy
suvs and trucks, it depends on what kind of set up they had,
the early 90's chevy pickup trucks and the suvs that had v8 engines in them, they were
very solid built vehicles, they could last a long time, nothing like the new ones, the
new GM stuff, they don't make what they used to, that said,
I would never buy one of those that had the v6 engines in it, the v6 engines didn't have
enough horsepower, they broke more often, they had more internal failures than the v8's
did, and just didn't have enough power to move them around with,
and really back then the v6's didn't get that much different gas mileage than the v8's did,
their not like the modern ones that are completely modded, you could get a v6 engine in those
days that maybe put out 170 horsepower, you can get a v6 today that puts out 375 horsepower,
their completely different engines, back then you had to go v8 if you wanted something that's
going to last, Jerry says help I got a 2007 town and country
minivan and the instrument cluster is turning off and on crazy, what's the deal with this
help, ok it's a 12 year old chrysler product, chrysler
products aren't that well made to begin with, but the dashes were one of those poorer things
they made, especially if you live where I do in Houston where it's hot and humid,
the circuit boards are made out of plastic and then they have stuff soldered and the
solder on the board generally comes apart and they start doing stuff like that,
now taking the dash apart on that thing is actually a pretty simple thing it's not that
hard to do, you could do it yourself and then you could see if the circuit board is coming
apart some guys will get a soldering gun and they'll solder it back together or they'll
just say, well that one is done I'll go to a junkyard
and get a used one and look at it and see if it looks ok and try that, but that's the
main problem with those things, the circuit boards start to come apart because of cheap
manufacturing, so if you never want to miss another one of
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