rev up your engines, Marco's Delgado says Scotty I want to
get an HHR with a manual transmission has 130,000 miles what are your thoughts
okay I don't like those GM products they generally don't hold up over time, but
it's a standard transmission the worst thing about the HHR are their automatic
transmissions are garbage and you don't have one it's a manual transmission, now
that sets got 130,000 miles it's got a little bitty four-cylinder engine in it
don't pay much for it, because they are worth much when they're used, you get a
standard you get it at a cheap price right, change the oil a lot take care of
it, who knows but don't pay much for it because just realize it when they get older
they're not worth that much money and you want to pay much for it, and if you
get it cheap enough, hey you never know it might last a long time just don't pay
too much for it because it isn't worth that much, Theresa B says I got a 1998
Ford Taurus W hundred and sixty-four thousand miles for free, but the radiator
was rusty, flushed alone, suspensions bad valve cover transmission leaks
needs transmission motor mounts are Ford Taurus is good car, okay
that's 98 Ford Taurus they actually had quite a bit of problems, now the thing is
you got that car for nothing, it runs decent and shifts decent do the
valve cover, oil leaks if it's not leaking that bad, transmission fluid and
engine oils cheap just keep adding it, and if the suspension is bad get some
struts and put them on it on and it will ride a lot better, just don't put a whole bunch
of money into it, my advice would be, drive a little while see how you feel
with it, does it feel solid enough does it run and shift good enough and if it
does fix things a little at a time, if it doesn't have just drive until the
wheels fall off and get rid of it, you got it for nothing so you're not really
gonna be losing anything, MDS 81 68 says, Scotty I have a shake or
wobble in the front when I take off from a stop once in a while I thought it
could be the engine, clean the MAF throttle port cleaner I had strut
replaced and it's still shaken or wobble when I take off from a stop, a lot of
times it's just the motor or the transmission mount is worn, because when
you take off, there's more torque on the engine and so if the mounts are gone it will
wobble as it bounces back and forth you want to check those mounts first to
see if there's any problem with that, now let's say you have a car that is a
notorious problem like say, a Chrystler minivan that's doing
that odds are two transmission is starting to
go out, because when you take off, if it wobbles a lot of times it's the
transmission just starting to go out, because if you got a suspension problem
like a bad tire or worn tie rods, the faster you go the more it's gonna wobble
and yours is the other way around, it's wobbling when you're taking off, you want
to pray that it's not an internal transmission fault, because if it's that
you would have to go and get it rebuilt which costs a fortune, so pray that it's
a motor or transmission mount first because they're very easy to check, Zeno
2019 says Scotty I got a 2004 Trailblazer
and my dash lights aren't working what could be the cause, people had the radio
out before the original dash cluster and we got three more clusters put them
in and the light still didn't work what could it be
it could be not having the radio when you swap it out, because GM has these
insane designs, some of the modern cars won't even start if you swap the radio
because part of the starting system is in the radio circuitry, so you want to
check all the wiring by where the radio was, something could easily be off now if
you hadn't had that radio taken out and not replaced, the problem often is on those
you turn your lights on then you got those things to make the lights brighter
or dimmer, that part often breaks now that can be bypassed
because you can just take the wire off of that and you can run it directly to
the clusters, when you have the car running the cluster will get 12 volts
all the time and then the lights would stay on, you couldn't adjust them and
make them dim or make them bright they'd be bright all the time but hey, look at
me I'm getting old I want a bright so I want those things as bright as they can
be, first thing I do is go to the light feed on that cluster and just give it 12
volts and as it lights up, just rewire it so that power comes from the ignition
switch to there when you start it up and they'll be lit up all the time, Edoardo
Becerra says, Scotty hello from Italy I have a 1984 Audi Quattro it overheats the
fan works I checked the inlet and outlet temperature the two radiators and enters
in at 240 and exits at 140 what can it be, okay well it's leaving at a lot lower it's your radiators are losing a hundred degrees
so they're getting rid of heat they're doing their job, now the problem with
Audi's is, as they age they often have problems with blown head gaskets, your
engine could just be putting out so much heat that it's overheating
you want to watch my video, how to tell if your head gasket is blown, do that test
because if the head gasket is blown it'll overheat no matter how fast your
radiator can dissipate heat the engine will create too much heat and then it will
keep overheating, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
videos, remember to ring that Bell!