rev up your engines, philly, is a certified toyota
used car worth paying for more than a non-certified, my advice is your buying a
used car, you want to drive it around a little check it out all that stuff, but
you always want to pay a mechanic like me to check it out before you buy it
this certified car, a lot of it's a bunch of baloney, I get people, matter of fact I
had a guy a couple days ago with the Toyota, brought one from a Toyota dealer I
find all kinds of things, including that it had been in a
wreck, even though it included a Carfax that said it had never been wrecked, we
laughed our butts off because we looked in the glove box and there was a receipt
for $3,800 worth of body work, you think at the dealer they would have at least
gotten rid of that receipt and thrown it away, but the guys didn't look inside and
there was this receipt for $3,800 of body work, and then when I
looked I could see where a lot of parts had been changed, and they left some
other parts off, that certified stuff is a bunch of nonsense as far as I'm
concerned, the real certification you want in a used car is having your mechanic
check it out before you buy it left right, will changing spark plugs
improve fuel economy on a 2008 Toyota Yaris, if they're really worn out yeah,
but generally they don't wear out all that much anymore, because they use
platinum and iridium which can last well over a hundred thousand miles, if they
are worn out really badly, sure you'll get better gas mileage, but usually it's something
else that does that, and that's just kind of, you got to check them every once in a
while, but unless they're really worn out they don't affect a modern car all that
much, like they did in my day when I was young mechanic, you'd be lucky if
you got 15,000 miles out of a set of spark plugs, now some 150,000 miles if
if their iridium plugs Rodriguez how can I make my Mini
Cooper last, don't drive it much, I was just working on one the other, I
mean those things just fall apart when they age, you know when they get to be up
to ten years and one hundred thousand miles or more, they generally start
fall apart, realize it's a German design car, BMW makes them they got a bunch
of BMW parts and they're built in England, over engineered
but put together by Englishman, not a great combination, their cute looking and
everything but, you know you gotta take care of it, change the oil every three to
five thousand miles, don't overheat the engine, stay away from water
because their low and they flood out, and just drive it normal, don't drive it
like a race car, cuz they don't hold up over time if you drive too hard, one
broadcast hey Scotty, I noticed some cars on a highway the rear wheels are
bouncing up and down fast is that just bad shocks, normally it's bad shocks
because if they go out and instead of being tight they're crazy and go
up and down the their worn out, if you have really bad tires yeah it can do that too
or if you have worn suspension parts it can also make them bounce, but usually
it's just the shocks are worn out, and if you see them going down the road and
they're fine, but then when you hit bumps they start bouncing then you know pretty
much it's the shocks, Los Angeles unstoppable bubba, doing lyft and ride share
what kind of car should I get, me I'd get like a Toyota Corolla, they thing can run
forever and get good gas mileage, now if you're gonna buy new and you're gonna do
it seriously for a living, you could go and get like a Toyota Prius, because I
know a lot of guys that do uber and lyft and they drive Priuses for one reason, if
you got a new Prius and they generally last 150,000 miles trouble-free if you
buy them brand new, they regenerate power so
in town some of those things can get over sixty miles a gallon,
cuz they regenerate electricity and if you get just a regular Corolla driving
in town, you're lucky if you get 20-something miles in town, so you
might think about getting a Prius if your gonna buy a new one, but I would not buy a
used one, but a new one yeah, noah says what's your thoughts on Mustang
fox-body, they're fast cars I had a customer with one, he built his up, he's got
580 horsepower, it scared me when I drove it around, it had a five speed transmission,
it was fast, but personally I think they're ugly
as can be, I think the Fox Body Mustangs were the
ugliest cars ford ever made, I don't know why they made them, now of course if
you look at the modern Mustang, it takes most of its styling from the older
sixties Mustang, and I think they look great the Fox Body I mean they can run great
you can really make them go, but to me they're ugly as sin, that's
just the way I feel about them, useful reviews says, can you talk about reliable
German cars do they exist, well yeah they actually just exist in Europe, they sell
a lot of German models they don't sell here, when I was in England lots of
people drove around in Volkswagen, especially Volkswagen diesels, but even
the English people they were really mad because for years their government said
buy Diesel's, better get better gas mileage save the economy ba, and now they
realize diesels pollute and they're making the British get rid of all their
diesels, so that's what happens when governments control things, often they don't know
what they're talking about, and then they just turn on a dime and go in the other
direction any giant bureaucracy to me is a bad
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