rev up your engines Melissa McClane says what's the most dependable SUV on the market
today to buy brand-new well I'd have to say the Toyota Highlander those things
can run I got a customer with one he got 500,000 miles on it still got the original
engine and transmission I had to put an ac compressor on it and
brakes and stuff but to the price and what you're gonna get
I mean the Lexus is decent too but they cost so much money they're getting
the astronomical with what they want for those things and the other stuff they're
fine and flashy when they're new and then they go they cost a fortune and
then they have no resale value so you get nothing for them
Lane says 2001 jeep cherokee sport run don't walk away from that thing
those aren't one of the biggest money pit cars Cherokees went ahead that
buyback the lemons and buy back the junker clunkers program where you'd get
rid of your junker and give you a credit for getting another car that was one of
the highest ones that was traded in because of the problems they have as
they aged do not buy a vehicle like that now I mean if you really got to get one
you can get one dirt cheap and you can have it it's a toy on the weekend and
the mechanic says well it's okay go ahead but don't pay much for it they're
not worth anything and they're generally ready to have all kinds of problems
harvesting says Scotty 06 Toyota four-runner
2009 honda accord both have 150 thousand miles for around eight grand out of those you
gotta depend what do you really want because the 4runner is an excellent
vehicle they can run forever but it's pretty gas hog too and you know it's
based on a truck chassis it's a big old SUV the Honda Accord Coupe is a nice
sized coupe gonna get much better gas mileage than the 4runner they're both
pretty well made if you're talking about a Honda Accord Coupe with 150 thousand
miles for 8 grand and it's got an automatic transmission no way I wouldn't
pay that they're not worth it the transmissions can have problems in that
case I definitely go to the 4runner but they're different type vehicles so you
really gotta decide what do you want you know it's like saying don't want a
pickup truck or do you want a smart car figure out what you want first but
size-wise jay says Scotty I just bought an 07 Toyota Sequoia
with 160,000 miles one what should I look for well you said you
just bought you should have a guy like me check it out before you buy it
yeah you don't put the cart before the horse you're supposed to check it out
before you buy it with that kind of mileage on it find a guy like me that
knows cars and we charge anywhere from eighty to a hundred bucks to fully go
over your vehicle spend about an hour and a half going over it putting our
fancy scan tool testing and looking at recorded data looking at the live data
and analyzing I can stick my five thousand dollars scan tool I watch
the live data and I can get so much information from what I know of cars and
what they have data tells me to see what kind of shape it's actually in there's
efficiency ratings where I can see okay the total efficient car it'll be one
point zero zero zero something now is point nine nine eight day that's still
pretty good you know but it's point nine two oh not as efficient as it used to be
and if it's pointed something I would have said Tony buy the thing yeah
there's so much data we can get from those things pay a guy to look at it he
can tell you really the truth of what kind of shape it's in the computers
can't lie and that's a 2007 so it's got all kinds of data that we mechanics can
get I just checked out 2007 the other day for a guy with one I told him I said
it's got all this nitpicky stuff wrong with it but it's still a real solid car
cuz you're always gonna find stuff wrong with something that's 13 years old like
that with a fancy scan tool cuz it goes into the real nitty gritty stuff the
airbag sensor but not work right one time I mean you get all kinds of data of
that stuff you're not really gonna worry about it but you want to have a good
stuff looked at so pay a mechanic if you can find somebody like me where you live
not just says Scotty my old one Honda Accord is a new battery but it's totally
dead could it be a bad alternator well it could be a bad alternator too
but if you put a new battery that's totally dead that itself is nothing to
do with the alternator if it's completely dead you turn the key and the
idiot lights don't even come on you're not getting power from the battery to
any of the systems so the first thing you want to do is turn the headlights on
if the headlights don't work you got a wire in short check the positive and the
negative cable follow them back look for short see where something's looser
corroded let's say you turn your headlights on
the headlights come on but you turn the ignition and nothing happens those cars
notorious Honda's for having bad ignition switch is it gonna be simple
you need a new nation switch this place is like autozone will sell you one for
like 65 bucks or something you can easily go in there unscrew the old one
there's a Phillips head screw comes up let another one end and away you go
that's a very common problem so do all those tests first to see what's working
and what isn't and then go from there let's say you mean totally dead that you
turn the key on and the lights come on but you turn it to start if nothing
happens in that case it's the starter cords eat up starters all my customers
with Honda Accords lately I put many starters on and they seem to be making
weaker and weaker starters I notice of course I have one set of three four
years old starters a shot already that I had to replace Richard says I need a
second opinion got an 05 Buick Century and over 150,000 miles got a bad
windshield seal I'm water inside but it's still run so I try and fix it or
get rid of it well and run you're gonna get absolutely nothing for 15 year old
bureau 150,000 miles what the heck now unfortunately to fix a windshield seal
leak the only way to correctly do it is to take the windshield out clean it all
off reseal and put it in and they're almost always gonna shatter when you do
I tell you not to buy another windshield because if you just try to put caulk
around it or whatever that never works permanently I mean if you want to try I
do it on a dry day take off all that covering it covers the windshield that's
all just cosmetic get to where it is and just get some nice polyurethane sealer
make sure it's all dry put it all around and pray that it stops a leak but
normally the only kind it really works just pulling it out put it in try the
top see what happens with the heck I mean you're gonna get nothing for the
vehicle so you might as well give it a little try and then drive it that have
something big breaks you would get rid of it you would get nothing for it if you sold
it anyways Michael Garrett says what's a good source to find value used cars yeah
that's a real tough one ease days because okay let's take it when I was
young companies that gave Blue Book values the big one was Kelly's Blue Book
and it was the guy's last name was Kelly and he was pretty honest and he gave
good values on it but he ages ago that company got bought out by a big
corporation and guess what they do one of their big things of selling used cars
so of course they artificially inflate the value of its crap the book values
are garbage these days it means absolutely nothing like I said many
times it's just total fantasy land you'd ask you guy like me ask pros that are in
the business and now tell you cash this cars worth this much money don't listen
to the BS because if they say a car is worth $15,000 and used-car Lots are
selling that yeah they're selling for 15 grand and they're getting a $500 deposit
and it's gonna take two or three years for them to get monthly payments that's
different than paying cash for a car cash they go for a lot less I've seen
cars that the book value was 15 for cash they went for 75 you know you got to
find somebody who's honest is gonna tell you the truth about it that you know
fixes cars not the guys who are selling you the cars and unfortunately all those
book things are total BS because almost all of them I'm today tied in with
people who sell used cars for a living sad but true, yeah alright 55 says Scotty
what's your opinion on aluminum is the material for body panels what's great it
doesn't rust but it's harder to do bodywork on them if guys have to know
how to paint him cuz painting aluminum is different than painting steel it's
got different properties and stuff yeah it's totally fine it it makes less
weight so they get better gas mods they have higher fuel efficiency for does the
nose f-150 and I believe they lost something like about 800 pounds of
weight doing it the only problem is when they need repair they're harder to
repair cuz see a lot of the stuff that's aluminum isn't welded on anymore it's
glued on gates and stuff they're aluminum frames aren't welded together a
lot of places they're actually glued together with special polyurethane glue
very special gluing and they're pressed of the giant you know 25 ton press that
squeezes it all that it's complex tough but if they get in a wreck and broke
nobody knows how to fix them that's the problem with that, williams says do you
like old MGB sports cars yeah I had a friend that was nuts about them I used to ride around
I used to work out a lot of them and I really liked them back in the day cuz I
used to work out a lot and I made a lot of money working on back in the day
people used to say why doesn't somebody figure out how to put a Japanese Toyota
engine in an MGB sports car and they saw the heck out of their cute cars are fun
to drive around but I mean they rolled English knuckle but cars that did
squirrely double carburetors you had to just all the time and they were just
kind of cheaply made they'd wear out rarely would they go more than one
thousand miles back in the day they weren't such dependable cars in the very
end I know when they stopped making up they had old World War two air force
bases in a country in England when they had just parked thousands of the things
that they couldn't sell there were really junky little cars they look cute
though Ricardo Castro says what's your opinion on a Honda rebel 500 those are
very dependable little motorcycle Honda's always made good motorcycles and
that was the rebel thing that you know kind of stylish little kind of chopper
ish style that they came out ages ago and they can run forever now they're not
particularly fast motorcycles but if you want a little cruzi thing and you like
the style go right ahead you know me myself I always liked a little bit
faster motorcycles than that a guy who owned one of those and I drove it
around I said well you know it seems okay so but it's awful slow you know
there's something wrong with it he said no I don't care about the acceleration
alwasy ran that way he was asking about hard handle and I said well
handled okay but it didn't have much get up a go but that's all those things are
they're not I'm used to I always like driving the fastest bikes out there that
have a lot of grunt they have a lot of torque at English motorcycles I had a
BSA when it was the fastest production motorcycle in the world but you're on
the way back in the 60s so if I get on something that doesn't go that fast I
think well this seems kind of slow so but those rebels are very nice
motorcycles riding around if you like the style and you're happy with as fast
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