rev up your engines, lemonson asks, where did you learn most of everything
you know about cars, well from all over the place, I started when I was 14 at the
corner Texaco gas station my grandfather was a master mechanic and I started
working on the weekends when I was 14 and he wouldn't teach me anything he hated
teaching people things, he had no patience but he let me watch, and you can learn a lot by looking with your eyes and
then it just goes on, I fix them, learn, in those days cars weren't that complex
so you could pick up stuff real fast as time went on it got more complicated but
that's where, you're watching me on the Internet you can get so much
information on the Internet and today with YouTube, people watch my
YouTube repair videos, I watch other people's YouTube repair videos if I work
on a car that I'm not that interested in researching like I don't like Jaguars
they fall apart all the time, so somebody brings me one that's got a weird problem, hey I
watch YouTube somebody else who works on them all the time and they'll say, hey
look behind the radiator there's a piece of wire that falls off on these and then
you learn how to fix them that way and for pure information, oh the Internet
has everything now, you can get raw data you can get freeze-frame graph analysis
you can get all kinds of stuff on the internet, so it's really great for
working on cars now, Akash says what gas do you use Scotty
well I use the nearest one I can find, two blocks from my house there's a station
it's now Exxon gas, but before that it was Chevron gas and before that, it was a
Shell gas, somebody keeps buying the station and then they change what kind
of gas they put in it, regular cars Toyotas that I drive, they'll run on anything
doesn't really matter, now I do have to say though I've got a Triumph Thruxton
motorcycle and when I fill that up, I go down the street to the shell and I put
in the hi-test Shell gas that Shell super V and it seems to run a little bit
better with it cuz it's a high compression engine and it's an
air-cooled motorcycle, but for most cars yeah you can run them on just about
anything in the United States that anybody makes
cuz it's all well-made gasoline, there's laws for it, it has to meet certain
anti-pollution specs there's all kinds of
things they all have certain amount of additives in them so yeah
doesn't really matter most cars, Benjamin Schuler says, what do you think about
buying an 02 Dodge Dakota with 60,000 miles and the engine has been rebuilt
well you kind of answered your own question there, if that thing's only got
60,000 miles on it and the engine had to be rebuilt it wasn't very good to begin
with now, if you mean that the engine rebuild itself was done 60,000 miles ago
and it's a 2002 Dodge Dakota, I doubt if I'd buy it because the engines were okay
in those, especially the V8's they were decent engines, but the rest of the truck
was pretty much junky, the electronics go bad, the air conditioning systems go
bad, the suspension systems are weak, the ball joints break on them, so I mean
really I wouldn't buy one of those in the first place, but let's say it's
really cheap and it runs good, if you can pick it up for you know a thousand bucks
or something you want a truck what the heck buy it and see how long it lasts
modern stuff cost money, I was shocked the other day when
somebody brought me over a brand new f-150 that they bought just to say hey look
at my new truck and find out that they spent over 40 thousand bucks for they
pick up truck I'm like whoo, so if you can get one for a thousand bucks and it runs
what the heck see how long it lasts, Richard Rodriguez says my 93 accord won't start
it has a battery, starter, alternator, spark plugs and distributor wire new, what could be
the problem why won't it start, well there's a lot of reasons the car won't
start I have a perfect video that millions of people watched
that's called, fixing a car that cranks but doesn't start up, watch that video it
files them all out, but knowing those Accords often they just lose spark
because the pickup on the distributor goes bad, most guys will just buy a brand
new distributor and put it in, so the first thing you want to check see if
it's got spark, you get a little spark plug tester it goes on spark plug wires
and flashes every time and if so many else cranks it over you look at it
should go flash flash flash flash it if it isn't you got no spark and in that
case just buy a brand new distributor, that's the most common thing, but there's
a lot of things that can do and go wrong so you really want to watch my video
fixing the car that cranks but doesn't start up, so you can check every single
one of them cuz you never know which ones gonna go bad at any
one time, Brian Howard says, can you please tell me how to get dried soap
scum off my car, it's open water isn't working and Windex and windows doesn't
work either, any really good car wash that you can buy, I like to Meguiars car
wash, comes in a big liquid container and you put, they say use a cap full, a cap full I use
like ten times that much in the water, then use really hot water from your
house, run the bathtub till it's steamed and then put your bucket under there
and mix the water and soap there and then go outside and the heat should get the
soap scum off, it really should clean it off, I mean there's no way that it
shouldn't get it off, if it's so bad that you can't get it off, then my advice
would be go to one of those steam cleaning places and have them steam
clean it off, because the steam will take the soap scum off there's no arguing
that, steam gets hot enough that it'll take the soap scum all off your paint
and they got those wands with a steam cleaner and they can clean it off, generally
though a bucket hot water and good cleaner like that will do it, it will
take it off, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!