rev up your engines, panda potato says
Scotty got a question my sister found a
95 Volvo 850 for 350 bucks it just needs
a rear bumper and a $200 for head gasket
is it worth the buy the tags
are just behind it, runs strong and all
okay well here's the thing, you said it needs
a head gasket but it's running strong
when the head gasket is going they don't run
strong if it has an engine problem you
don't want to buy it because you never
know what's wrong like I said earlier
you got to pull the head off the engine
which is a big job and if there's other
things broken like a warped head or a
broken valve then it's gonna cost a lot
of money to fix, they were solid built
cars back then and they could last for
sometimes 400-500,000 miles back in 95
Volvo made pretty solid cars but if it's
got an engine problem I'd be a real
leery about buying it myself
bumper bumper who cares but I would have
a mechanic look at that engine before I'd
even spent any money and even though
it's only 350 bucks you could be peeing
350 bucks away because if you're gonna
do the engine work yourself and it's
only 200 bucks for the kit and you want
to do it fine, but you might take it
apart and say oh the engine is shot, the
head is broken, it's not worth fixing then
honest
are Hyundais and Kias reliable cars well
they can be in the short run, they're not
as reliable as Toyota's and Hondas but
I've got customers that buy them and they
want to buy the cheapest car they get
their hand on and they take care of them
and my tax accountant used to have a Kia
and she had it, it was 15 years old and
it was starting to break then, but she
got you know a hundred thousand miles out of
it and she was happy, I got a customer
who's a sales rep and he's got a Kia
with 250,000 miles on it, now he put it
on in two and a half years so it's
highway mileage but they can be reliable
over periods of time you know a hundred
thousand miles or less they're generally
pretty reliable but they're not like a
Toyota or Honda where they can go for
five six hundred thousand miles they
just won't lasts that long
Minnesota says Scotty love
the show, my wife wants an all-wheel
drive vehicle for winter driving what do you
recommend
okay you can't beat the Toyotas they
last the longest, they go forever now if
you want to get something that cost a little bit less
get a Subaru they're all wheel
drives are good vehicles
you know they made all wheel drive
vehicles for a really long time, if she
can drive a standard, get standard, if not
you get an automatic they won't last as
long but if she has to drive an
automatic and has to get all-wheel-drive
get either a Toyota or a Lexus if
she wants a little bit fancier you're
gonna pay a little bit more for it and
with the snow you guys get up there in
Minnesota that's probably not a bad idea
to get one of those all-wheel drive
vehicles for driving on the snow so you
don't get stuck anywhere, I mean they do
work better in the snow well there's no
argue with it, here down here in Texas it hardly
ever snows in southern Texas so it's
kind of a waste of money getting an
all-wheel drive car, trumpet guy seven three says, Scotty
I got a 2011 jeep liberty replaced the
heater core three years ago last winter
it started to blow heat on the passenger
side and not on the driver's side is it the heater core
or something else, if it's low on
coolant and there's air in it, it can do
that but also realize that if that Jeep
has dual climate control there's an
actuator for heat on the right side and
there's an actuator for heat on the left
side and a lot of times the actuator
on the left side goes bad so in that case
you got to get a guy like me who has a
dealer level scan tool and then we can
activate the actuator on the right side
on the left side and do testing because
taking that dash apart is a very expensive
endeavor and you don't want to just
guess you want to have a guy who can get
a bi-directional scan tool, it can
actuate both sides and see that okay the
left side is not actuated so we got to
take that apart and fix it you don't
want to guess with stuff like that
because it's very expensive but with a
bi-directional scan tool you can
actually analyze all that stuff and fix
it correctly,
Jose Duran says Scotty I got a Honda
Odyssey 2007, has a grinding noise while in low
gears forty-five to sixty two the
transmission got rebuilt and still have
the sign, please help thank you, okay you
want to pray that it's the wheel bearings
that are doing it but from my experience
it's still in the transmission, those were
horrible automatic transmissions I had
some of my customers get free ones from
Honda because they had kind of a secret
recall on them, guys say they rebuild
those things, a lot of times
they don't fix them right, in order to
rebuild those that were designed wrong
you would have to change every stinking
bearing inside the transmission and when
guys rebuild them, they usually don't do
that because it costs too much money for
the parts, I would kind of figure the guy
did a crappy job, take it to another
transmission shop and see what they say
most give free estimates and if they say
it's inside and that's where the problem
is coming from, take it back to the guys
who rebuilt it saying a crappy job
either give me my money back or fix it
right because I see that all the time, I
was reading the other day something like
33 percent, one out of three transmission
rebuilds done in the United States these
days, are done incorrectly the first time
so a lot of times you better getting a
factory rebuilt than having a guy on and
a shop rebuilding it, so if you never want
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