rev up your engines, manuel 0027, how often do you change
transmission fluid on a car and how can you check if it needs some in a car that
doesn't have the transmission measuring stick, years ago many of the
manufacturers started getting rid of the transmission dipstick, so you can't
check it with a dipstick anymore, now as for when you need to change it, a lot of the
manufacturers now call it a lifetime fluid, which is a bunch of bologna, I asked
an engineer once, what do you mean by lifetime fluid, he says well the fluid is
good for the lifetime of the transmission and then I said, well how
long is the lifetime of transmissions, the warranty is like 60,000 miles, well
that's the way it goes, well you still need to change it, in most cars I would still
change the fluid every sixty to eighty thousand miles, you want clean fluid but
here's the thing, you can't check it yourself anymore, now all cars are
different they all have different things but on most of them, I have to use a
high-level scan tool, I have to plug it in and then do some bi-directional
testing and it will you if the fluid is low or not, for your own peace of mind
most cars, look under transmission if it's all dry and then later you
look and it's still all dry, then it's still full cuz it can only leak out and
if it's not leaking it's still full, in many of the cars it's a very complex
multi-phased like in a BMW, it's like an hour job of putting the computer and
check and running it, adding a little here, driving it around, it's a royal pain
in the butt, you just want to check it every once awhile by looking under the
transmission, if it's all dry then it should still be full
Nick Nick says Scotty what do you think about the new BMW twin turbo inline six
engines in terms of power and reliability, okay the thing about BMW is
their inline 6-cylinder engines were always excellent engines, the Germans
usually make pretty good engines, and if you turbocharge them of course you get more
power, that's the downside of an inline six is that it doesn't put out the power
like a v6 does, so most people went to v6 away from inline plus the in lines are
longer and they take up more space, you might say, Oh Scotty always poo-poos BMW
i poopoo the cars as a general cuz they're over engineer, a lot of plastic
junk that brakes on them, but the engines themselves are really solidly
built, they're very powerful there's nothing wrong with the engines, it's the
entire car and the money that they cost it's way too high, that I'm against in
those thing, years ago I had customers in the seventies and eighties had those straight
six-cylinder BMW some of them had three hundred thousand miles on and the
engines had never been touched and they were still running strong, cane
godparents there's a name for you, what do you think about frame rebuilding it's
all rusted out where the shocks are on my clients 2004 Jeep GC, okay here's the
problem, when frames rust, the rust just eats everything up from the inside out to
really rebuild the frame if you're gonna replace it, you got to take the whole
body off the car, bolt everything off the frame and put it back together, it's
generally not worth the money on a vehicle to do something that's 15 years
old, if one section is rotten away like you
say where the shocks are, a good welder can cut off the rotten part and weld on new
steel, realize that welding the weld is actually stronger than the steel it's
welding together so a good welder, where he joins it together that's stronger
than the rest of the car, so it can be done if you want to spend the time and
energy and if it's only a tiny part, if the whole thing is rotten forget it
it's not worth fixing because there's just too
many pieces that are gonna have to be replaced and like I say, doing the whole
frame cost more than most vehicles are worth, the only people that do that are
people are doing like frame off restoration of a classic car where they'll
take it completely apart and either fix the frame or buy another frame and put
it all back in and that's very expensive to do, Zach says my wife has an 04 Ford Focus,
I changed the spark plugs and wires, now the car has a rough idle
and hard to accelerate out of first gear I don't see the wires arching at night
any thoughts, okay when you start disturbing things just going in there and
unplugging the wires, putting in new spark plugs and putting them back on,
there's lots of things that can be disturbed, you said you changed the
wires, one did you use quality wires if you use the cheapest ones you could buy
at the most discount auto parts store, I had that bite me in the rear end one
time, it was the wires they were bad so if you got cheap wires try other wires
could just be the wires are bad, but if distributor cap on it, change the cap
because the wires plug into the camp, if you got a bad coil, just unplugging the
spark plug wire and plug in another one the coil could get cracked, a lot of times
it's something that you either did directly or indirectly touched and broke
something, I see that a lot when the cars are that old, cuz there's so many
wires and plastic pieces that can be brittle, so check that and check vacuum
lines to see if you crack the plastic line that's sucking air, so if you never
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