Rev up your engines, cara says scotty I recently bought a 06 scion
tc 112,000 miles for $2,000, it just needs dent repair on the quarter panel is that a
good buy, oh yeah that's what I tell people to do all
the time, if you and to save money buying a toyota or honda get one that has body damage,
as long as a mechanic says, well no that's just body damage it didn't hurt anything it's
a fender or a bumper or something, because body work can cost a lot of money
to get done perfectly but it really lowers the value of the car, and if you don't care
about dents, like you live in New York City where you're going to get more dents anyways,
people like pre dented cars in New York City because then they're not buying a nice undented
car and getting mad when somebody smashes into it, they just say, ah well it's already
a New York City car it has the dent built in so, you got a good deal theirs nothing
wrong with that, beast bg, scotty what do you think about Russian
soviet made ladas, well I know a lot about them because I used to live in Canada, now
the Russias, they started in 1970 and they made the Ladas which were basically a copy
of a 1966 fiat 124, so they were basically copies of a car that wasn't that great to
begin with, but of course they sold millions of them in
Russia because when basically it's about the only car you can get and there's a waiting
list for them, they sold millions of those things, some people though hey you know it
beats riding a horse or walking when it's freezing cold outside,
they did sell them in Canada and they sold thousands of them a year when they started
selling them, their pretty hardy cars you know and if you want a little bitty car to
get around in and they had 4 wheel drive ones so they were good in the snow in Canada and
their light little car they got really good gas mileage,
but of course back then it was the only thing the Russians could buy so, it's kind of like
a captive market there, they made a whole range of cars eventually of course even police
cars in Russia but the main one was the copy of the fiat 124, and they were just junky
little cars but if that's all you had, it beats walking I guess,
alex says what do you think about the Hellcat, oh their screaming cars to drive, I drove
one once on a test track, that thing was fast, it had 700 something horsepower, their really
fun to drive, of course that said, they get terrible gas mileage, your insurance is going
to cost you a small fortune and guys tend to beat them so they tend to kind of fall
apart as they age, and then their not worth that much when their
really older, but if you got a whole bunch of money and
want to buy a brand new one, buy one that's got low mileage their a lot of fun to drive
I'll say that, Ivan, my toyota care is ending soon and it's
a 2017 tacoma and after it ends I'm going to do oil changes, do you think it's a good
idea to stick with all toyota products, like oil filter, oil and antifreeze,
doesn't really matter as long as you use the quality stuff, now you want to stick to like
their antifreeze, toyota uses what's called HOAT hybrid organic acid technology, but you
don't have to go to toyota you can buy them from somebody else, it really doesn't make
all that much difference, as long as you buy that same quality, realize
toyota doesn't make coolant, they don't make engine oil, they don't make transmission fluid,
they just buy it from somebody else, so as long as you're getting stuff that has
the same specs, it's perfectly fine to use them,
james says scotty I have a 2000 celica new water pump is leaking badly I believe the
coolant is getting past the o ring what gives, first of all if you did buy a water pump for
that, you're better off buying an OEM water pump and like I said before you don't have
to go to toyota, lots of places make these pumps that you can buy, you don't have to
buy them from toyota, but you don't want to buy one of these cheaply
made, cheapest Chinese ones out there and put it on because a lot of times their poorly
made, but when you do do a water pump job, you have
to make sure the mating surfaces are perfect, you have to clean them off, I have special
little thin scrappers sometime I use razor blades,
you got to get all the old material off and then if you got one that's got the o ring
on it, put the o ring on the pump first, and when you do that, put a little bit of weather
stripping glue, put the o ring on the pump, then let it dry for about an hour,
then it's not going to fall off and move, then when you put it back in place it's not
going to leak, even I in my many years of fixing cars have had ones where, I didn't
do that and the o ring slipped and when I put it on and then it leaked so, you want
to check that too, that does happen, harley says my 05 toyota mr2 spyder central
remote locking only works sometimes, I have the problem with both keys and the batteries
are new, any idea, yeah they had problems with those systems, if unfortunate but the
receiving unit that's in there, the control module goes bad on those things as they age,
they cost a small fortune to buy and then they have to be reprogrammed, if I were you
I'd just live without the thing, you know because if you price what it costs to buy
the parts for that, it will cost you so much money and I had quite a few customers with
them as they age, those things just broke down and I'd just say forget it because unless
you're willing to spend a whole bunch of money replacing that module and having it reprogrammed
you know it's really not worth it, so if you never want to miss another one of
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