rev up your engines, George smarten
George says, hey Scotty what do you
think about blue HDI engines I have a
Peugeot 208 with a blue HD engine has
100 horsepower and 215 Newton meters I
guess of torque and it's very low
emissions okay I'm not a fan of French
cars but I guess they make pretty good
diesels, they don't sell them there in
the United States, but the blue HDI engines are
a design that as strange as it sounds
they use a type of like a urine it uses
urea and that mixes every once in a
while
shoots through the system cleans out the
catalytic converter because the problem
they had with diesels was they have a
lot of particulates and so they put a
filter on a catalytic converter
system but it would clog up all the time
so that cleans them out, now if you do
have one you have to go religiously by
the servicing of that BlueTEC system you
have to keep that fluid topped up you
have to make sure that it's working
correctly if a code comes up go to a
mechanic like me to check it because
I've had people bring them to me that
they didn't maintain them and then it
costs thousands of dollars to fix them
so if you keep that system up and keep
that blue fluid in there yeah they can
be great vehicles, race place, hi Scotty I
recently bought a used infiniti g37 with
one hundred and thirteen thousand miles
for seventy-five hundred bucks do you think
it's a good car for the price
okay well price a brand new one they
cost a heck of a lot more than that
thing you got to worry about with
Infinitis are it's combination of
mileage and age, when they get older they
can be very expensive to repair they can
have electronic problems and automatic
transmission problems and catalytic
converter problems but if yours runs
good now and it doesn't have any check
engine lights and you get no problems
getting it inspected when it's state
inspection if you live in an area where
it's inspected they can be decent cars
just, my advice is with that mileage on
it don't use it as a heavy mileage car I
would not put twenty thirty thousand
miles a year on that car because you're
gonna wear stuff out, if you're using
that as a secondary car that can be fine
for the price you've payed, but I would
not want to use it as an
every day runner cuz you will wear it
out if you do that, it's got so many
miles on it eventually something's gonna
go wrong if you put 20-30 thousand miles
a year on it, Milton Carballo says, Scotty I
got a new Camry SE 2018 how good
would you say the stock brake pads are
of their excellent brake pads I mean in the
previous generations I've had customers
with Camrys and some of them got a
eighty ninety a hundred thousand miles
or more out of the original brake pads
they work quite well now, when I replace
them for people a lot of guys like the
Akebono and I put Akebono
replacement pads they don't make any
noise either and they can last a really
long time but to stock ones are
excellent pads, that I tell people is see
what they cost if the Akebonos are a
lot cheaper by the Akebonos if the stock
are the same, you can go with stock
there they're good pads there's nothing
wrong with them, Roger says my 2014
Escape is telling me it's a required oil
change there's only about a thousand
miles on the oil, I checked the oil pan
any suggestions, okay well one I don't
really like warning systems and when
it's time to change the oil because they
break down a lot, sometimes they tell you
it never needs changing or sometimes
like in your case it seems it needs it
really soon but here's the thing if you
don't drive that vehicle much, you went a
thousand miles but let's say it's been
over a year it's gonna tell you it's
time to change it because there's a time
frame on there too and the computer says
if you haven't changed it in a year it's
time to change it, if you don't drive
much water and corrosive stuff can build
up in the engine oil and so even if you
don't drive your car all that much you
should change it once a year change the
oil once a year, if you've got a thousand
miles on it you put it on in three
months and it says you need to change
the oil then there's something wrong
with that warning system it's not
working correctly,
Kevin Frink says Scotty I have a 1995
Chevy Blazer I'm not getting any power
from the battery to the inside of the
car but it gets power if I connect a
jumper cable to the junction box or
starter, okay well then between the
battery to the ignition switch or the
ignition switch out, you have an
electrical short, you want to get a meter
and you want to test them, you could be
losing power somewhere between the
battery and the ignition switch check
that wire first and if not that and you
power going to the ignition switch, turn
the ignition switch on and if you got no
power going out, that means the ignition
switch is bad, now if power goes out
when you turn the ignition switch on
then there's a short somewhere between
there and the fuse box and everything
else that it sends power to, you always
have to be logical with electricity because
you can't see electricity so you have to
be logical and do really in-depth
testing to find out what's wrong with
electricity, but with a little meter
you know you can learn a lot watch my
videos, watch electronics specialty
videos and they can show you how to use
those meters they come in real handy and
they're not that expensive, for $40 you
can get a really good one these days, so if
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