Rev up your engines, john neil says thoughts on the vw gti I want
to keep it new for a long time, then don't buy one or buy one and park it on your front
lawn and use it as a lawn ornament, volkswagens quality over the last few decades has just
been going down and down, plastic stuff their throwing on them, they
cost a fortune to maintain, I mean their just money pits as they age, and they aren't cheap
to fix their not like the old vws of the 60's that you could change the oil with 3 quarts
of oil for $3 and everything was easy to fix, they are complex European money pits as they
age, you don't want to buy one of those things if you're going to keep your cars for a really
long time you won't be happy, the ac compressors break on them all the time, I'm always fixing
them on people's vws, think some other way, you want a sporty car, maybe get one of those
new Subarus with a manual transmission that Toyota sells but their not toyotas they just
make them and put a toyota badge on them if you want a sporty car you might try one of
those, martin says scotty what's a typical list of
jobs a home mechanic can do for themselves thanks,
change the engine oil and filter, change the brake pads that's a simple job, change the
serpentine fan belts, now with that your going to have to buy a special tool for most cars
but now with this aftermarket stuff, I have special tools that are made to take fan belts
off and in my day years ago I had to buy those tools for $150-200 a set but now you can get
aftermarket ones that work perfectly fine their just made out of steel for $35-40 on
Amazon if you price around, you can do all that kind of stuff, change alternators, check
batteries, I mean now a days you can get good battery checkers and alternator checkers on
Amazon and most of them are $50-60 for quality units, don't buy the $19 units their garbage,
I've tried them out, but the $50-60 one for battery and alternator checkers they work
pretty well, you know there's a lot of stuff you can still do yourself, wheel bearings
and stuff like that because it used to be when you had to change front wheel drive wheel
bearings you needed a machine press which was a pain and your not going to do it yourself,
but their almost all sealed units now where you have to replace the whole hubs so you
just unbolt the axle shaft and theirs 4-6 bolts that hold that hub assembly in and then
the hub assembly just comes out, you put the new one in and put the 6 bolts and put it
together and away you go, there's a lot of stuff you can do yourself
now a days, zeton says scotty can you please help me please, I need to choose a used modern
car for my family, 2 adults and 4 children, we want to spend around $30,000, well there's
a bunch of you so there's 6 of you, if you don't mind fitting into a toyota camry you
know that's not that bad of a deal, but if your talking about you want enough room for
everybody, I you don't mind a van get a toyota sienna van and those things can run forever,
my son got a used one a couple years ago, two adults and two grandkids and they love
that sienna they travel all over the country in it, so you might think about that, now
if you want to get an suv instead, you could get any of the toyota or leuxs suvs a used
one for $30,000 you should be able to find one and they hold up and they don't really
have problems, my one advice is don't waste your money on
an all wheel drive one because they cost more to maintain and they get worse gas mileage
and you really don't need that stuff, unless you live in Alaska or something where it snows
like mad, Christine says why do gas fumes come out of
my gas tank, it smells bad in the cabin when it's 100 degrees or over, is it safe, Hyundai
elantra 2016, well no it's never safe if you've got fumes coming out it's not safe at all,
first thing you want to do is just change the gas cap it could simply be a bad gas cap,
now if it's not that one of the problems that those cars have is what's called a bad evap
canister vent valve, and you might just guess by buying a new evap canister vent valve and
either putting it on yourself or paying a mechanic to put it on,
mugs says do you get asked to beam people up, yeah cuz I'm Scotty right, yeah sometimes
people do, let me tell you that's a myth, I spent a bunch of time years ago when I was
on tv, researching and try to see when captain kirk says to scotty, beam me up scotty, and
believe it or not on the original show it was never said, he never said beam me up scotty,
it's one of those urban myths that people think it was said, now if anybody out there
can find a clip of a star trek, an original one where he says, beam me up scotty, please
send it to me on a link so I can see because I searched years ago and I could never find
him say it, people say beam me up scotty all the time to me but it was actually never said
on the show in the first place, so if you never want to miss another one of
my new car repair videos, remember to ring that bell!