rev up your engines, Christina Cervantes says what do you
think of a 2005 Nissan Maxima with a
manual transmission oh those are
screaming cars I got a customer with one
whenever they bring it in for
maintenance I love driving it
that's six-cylinder engine with a
standard transmission and the main
problem with the Nissan Maximas was their
automatic transmission if that one's got
a standard transmission hey it can be a
screaming fun car to drive around in
just take care of the engine, changes
oil regularly, change the coolant every
three four years and it could last a
long time, those standard transmission
Nissan's were well made there's
absolutely nothing wrong with that just
change the oil a lot maintain it don't
overheat the engine that could be a fun
car to drive around,
hey Jim from Carfax the American Hero
hey Scotty how reliable is the 2007
Boxster or 911 I'm looking to buy an
older Porsche but I want to spend a
fortune and repairs well then don't buy
one. I got a customer that just bought a
Boxster and now he's crapping in
his pants over what he's paying on
repair and stuff I mean a lot of it he's
just not fixing like the stupid
convertible top broke and these guys
wanted 1,500 bucks to fix it, so for 100
bucks
I took all the motor assembly off and
now he just opens the closes by hand
and it works perfectly fine that way
most guys aren't gonna do that but he's
finding the repairs on that thing are
just endless and you know most guys that
buy a Porsche beat the heck out of it
and so you're buying a used one
generally like even his when he left it
here and I was working on it for
a weekend I started it up Sunday morning
ice cold and blue smoke came out of the
pipes which means the engine is worn so
you know he got it as the weekend toy and he has
fun with it but you know it's not
something that you'd even think about
buying if you don't want to spend a
fortune on parts and fix it, they're
just endless money pits, little skipper
says hey Scotty I love your videos if
I lift a truck with a motor blow up
generally it doesn't bother the motor the
motor is just sitting there up in the
air now the main problem is the
transmission and a motor will be sitting
there, but if the rest of the body
is lower the end of the transmission
tail shaft and all the drive shafts are
sitting at the wrong angle
I had a customer do that with one and he
towed it over to me says it's not running
what happened and he had lifted it so
much that the back of the transmission
is called the tail shaft, the back of the
tail shaft just snapped right off of the
transmission it won't harm your engine
the engine doesn't care, but it's all the
other parts that can break when you're
going, that's what you have to
worry about when you're lifting a truck
Michael Martin hey Scotty
is a brake fluid flush necessary at
sixty thousand miles for a Nissan Altima
now that's a good question what you have
to understand is brake fluid is what's
called hygroscopic, it absorbs water
vapor now the systems in any brake
system are not totally sealed they have
a little bit of air that get in so the
fluid can go up and down, so there's ways
some water vapor being absorbed into the
brake fluid that degrades it, now if you're
the type of guy that keeps your car
forever I would change it every sixty
thousand miles but if you don't, I'll
give you an example I had a customer with a
Nissan it was twelve years old
he'd never touched the brake fluid and
it still worked perfectly fine, didn't
leak anywhere, it stopped, it's over a
very very long period of time that water
vapor is gonna bother the system now the
Japanese cars are a little tighter built
and say the American cars, so if you have
an American car I would definitely
change the brake fluid every six to
eight years or so if you're gonna keep
your car forever because it's gonna last
longer that way, but if you're the type
of guy that gets rid of your car when
you get over a hundred thousand miles or
so, you don't have to do anything to it
really if you want the truth, Allison
four eight one nine five nine, Scotty how
do you tell if your U-joints are bad when your
driving a 2006 Crown Vic, easy watch my video
replacing fixing a drive shaft on your
car and it shows me doing it on one
it's real easy actually though you just
jack the vehicle up in the air, put it on
jack stands, and put the car in neutral
and then you grab the drive shaft and
you try to twist it and if you twist it
and you see the u-joints in the front or
back going clunker clunker clunker
they're worn, now when you're driving
it it's pretty easy when their really
worn when you're just sitting there and
when you take off your a clunk and then
when you take your foot off the gas you
hear a reverse clunk cuz there's back
pressure on the driveshaft but they're
real easy wants you jack it up and pull
it you'll see the joints clunk and
you'll see them moving and they
shouldn't move at all so it's pretty
easy to check it's not a hard thing to
do at all, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos,
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