people are often asking about pickup trucks so i'm gonna show you a honda
pickup truck this particular one is a 2013 honda
ridgeline and even though it's a honda made in
alabama and 70 percent of its parts come from the us and canada
even the engine and transmissions are made here now as you can see it's a nice
truck nice looking truck 2013 so it's eight
years old got the old trailer hitch good towing
capability this one can tow five thousand pounds
and you can put about a thousand pounds in the bed so it's a serious truck now
they weren't giving away this was thirty seven thousand dollars and it was brand
new customer bought it used for eight thousand dollars and as far as
i can tell it's still got a lot of life left in it as you can tell by looking
under the hood it's got a classic honda v6 engine puts out 250 horsepower
and 247 pound-feet of torque not outrageous numbers
but certainly enough to pull it down the road now like any
large pickup truck it's a gas hog this is a four-wheel drive version gets about
13 to 14 miles a gallon in a city gets about 19 on a highway as we can see by
looking inside got some mileage on it as you can see
it's got 143 000 miles on it ac still freezing cold
got a nice black interior enough space here
and when we go in the back it's still got decent room in the back
plus it's got air conditioning vents in the back so you're not going to sweat
nice headrests nice armrest or you're going to have three adults
sitting inside not a gigantic bed but like i said you can put a thousand
pounds in it it's got really nice wheels fancy disc
brakes all in all it's a pretty nice truck
now 37 grand when it's new bit pricey for me but
he paid eight and it's in excellent shape it's got some problem with the
airbag system at some point in time they deployed
i'm trying to reset it but it won't reset because whoever fixed it
either didn't fix it at all or did a crappy job
no matter what i do with my machine it will not get rid of the airbag codes
here it keeps two fault codes forever even when i reset them but then again
seat belts work really well they got fancy honda seat belts here
as long as you remember to buckle them up
airbags yeah i don't trust them myself vehicle gets old
obviously these have blown off at some point in time and nobody fixed them
right but actually if you want to get legal
about it he bought this car used the guy that stole them the car
sold him a car with airbag systems that aren't working right they're actually
breaking the law he could get them to either fix him free
or give him his money back if he wanted to he likes the truck
but it could get really expensive fixing it right there are all kinds of laws for
airbag systems and if a car dealer sells you one with inoperative
airbag systems they are actually legally responsible for the system they didn't
tell them it wasn't working i'm finding that
it isn't working now a lot of stuff when you buy used things have to do with
state laws but this is a federal law airbags are
federal laws they can't be selling of this stuff it's out of work especially
like this it's got serious trouble codes i erase them and as soon as i start the
car the codes come right back which means there's a serious problem
with the airbag system that's something that this is why you pay a guy like me
to check out the car before you buy it he already bought this thing because on
this baby no matter what you do that old airbag lights gonna be glowing
in your face but otherwise it's an excellent vehicle
i'll show you as we take it for a test drive we'll close the old hood
climb inside and we'll crank it up but like i said the old airbag light
it's not going to go off now the first thing you notice hey
you're up high it's a big truck and it rides like a big
truck not outrageous handling but not terrible
either it's a truck that corners like a truck
not the tightest turning radius but it's a pickup truck that's not what you get
it for now we'll stop and see if we can catch
up to the pickup truck we'll take off
not outrageous acceleration but not bad and it shifts pretty smoothly even with
all these miles basically it's honda's version of an
american pickup truck and i gotta say they did a pretty good
job all in all it's a nice larger pickup now honda
is not known for giant vehicles the original
stuff that honda sold or just rebadged the zoo zoos
but now they're making their own and these are made in alabama
and they're solid my customers with them have all been pretty happy with them now
none of them are all that happy with the 37 000 original price
and some aren't happy with the fact that the four-wheel drive
only works in slow speeds not at higher speeds
but i mean really you need it to get out of mud and stuff if you're going 60
miles an hour do you really need all-wheel drive
to pick up the four-wheel drive system works perfectly fine at lower speeds
and being a honda it has an extremely reliable engine
and the transmission is very reliable too now honda designs and builds their
engines and their drive trains they're very
reliable this baby's got all that mileage on it
everything on it still works perfectly fine except for the airbags
and i really can't blame the vehicle because at some point in time
within a wreck and some of the airbags were deployed it was never fixed right
in the first place because every time i reset the code it
just comes back and the last time i did it's had a problem in the driver's side
door i'm assuming that it doesn't even have
an airbag inside there anymore a lot of guys just disconnect the stuff
and then leave it alone but like i said this guy bought it from
a used car lock they sell them a car where the airbag system doesn't work
guess who's liable to be sued if something happens
the guys that stole the car with an inoperative airbag system
now he didn't know it to begin with but he sure knows that now that scotty's
found it out with his machine now you might get mad at me harping all
the time but really this shows why you're gonna buy a used vehicle
have a mechanic like me check it out you can say i hook up that machine within
five minutes it told me all kinds of stuff and give the data to
the customer they can decide to the guy that sold them it for selling a car with
inoperative airbags because this video will be out there for
anybody to see that hey yes indeed he was sold a car that
doesn't have operated airbags they can't hide from that one but all in
all this is a good solid work truck and he didn't pay 37 he
paid eight and yeah it's got a lot of miles it can
go a long time i got accused with one of these this 340
000 miles on it get a used one in this case if you don't care about air
bags you can save a lot of money and get a
really solid truck now yeah brand new one like this it's
not 37. it's 44 000 now price is going up just like
everything else good reason why you might think about
buying a used one it's still got a lot of life in it and
here's some bonus questions and answers jimmy g says i'm thinking about buying
this ford f-150 it's 12 years old and they say it's got a new engine and
transmission uh should i buy it well here's the
problem you got to be very leery when people say new i mean so many
people have used this oh i got a new engine
transmission and you find out that the engine came from a junkyard and so did
the transmission in that case i would not buy it you're
taking a gamble you got no idea what the real mileage is on either the
engine or the transmission and if you take
say a foreign car like toyota you cannot get new engines or new transmissions
they don't sell them you're either going to get junkyard used
or you're going to get a rebuilt and of course the rebuilt ones
they're only as good as the people who rebuild them
you would have to know who rebuilt it that they're going to do a good job
i read somewhere the other day that one third of the automatic transmissions
rebuilt in the united states did not function properly after the
first rebuild they either have to be done again and again or they just give
up and get rid of the car or try another transmission versus
fixing that one you got to find out hey where did the engine come from where
did the transmission come from but really when people say that kind of
stuff unless you're getting a dirt cheap for
like a thousand bucks i wouldn't gamble with it myself because
who knows who knows i've had guys buy engines from junkyards and then they
bring it here and i take off the valve cover and they're just covered with
sludge because hey why do you think some cars are in
junkyards because people didn't take care of them
then they're not in very good shape but if you start taking parts off of the
dead cars they may not be that good either jerry pence says 0-6 aquarius
used castro conventional 530 will hurt to use full synthetic as it's way
cheaper from costco now there's nothing wrong with those
oils but let me tell you something don't ever in an old vehicle switch from
conventional to full synthetic the full synthetic oil is thinner and flows
and they will often start leaking and burning oil over and over
with the engineers about this and they say nah scotty that's impossible that
can't happen well i say bs to that because i've seen
it so many times somebody have a car 150 000 miles runs
perfectly fine they've been using conventional oil
they switched to full synthetic oil even a really expensive one like mobil one
they start leaking and burning oil and they didn't in the first place so don't
switch they're used to one kind of oil leave it in there especially with
something with high mileage marcel van gelderen says scotty in the philippines
they're selling more chinese cars like geely cool ray how are they
well like i said they don't sell them in the united states yet but it's a
gigantic chinese car company like i was saying a few
minutes ago they got people to know how to work on them in the philippines there
i'd say go right ahead because i'm sure they're very well priced compared to the
others if you compare them to a toyota and you
find a toyota cost like three times as much go ahead and get the gili
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