rev up your engines
Michael Martin and he says hey Scotty I have a Toyota Corolla was built in
Canada is the Canadian plant good yes as far as I'm concerned they're just
about as good as the Japanese and building cars we got one on a drive word
we got a 2007 Toyota Matrix which was originally known as the Toyota Corolla
matrix was made in Cambridge Ontario unfortunately they stopped making them
and now they're making Lexuses and they planned instead but no Canadians make
good cars when I was kid I had a Ford Maverick was made outside Oakville
Ontario was a great car I think 500 bucks
we drove it around for about eight years
Canadians know how to make cars did I make beer and they know how to play
hockey so three shares to the Canadians David
Grasso Scotty what do you think about the Chevy Traverse new models I mean
better than the older models we're still junk GM is not improving their quality
they've had problems for a long time decades I'm assuming no we're not gonna
be much better I can't see any real changes they're making an a manufacturer
of quality and their parts I would buy when going by the track
record of the past and what they've been headed towards I certainly would not
waste my money unless it's a deal work you're leasing it for a business and
it's a tax write-off and you're only leasing it then you don't care what the
heck it's under warranty if you don't mind that go right ahead leasing is
different than owning if it breaks you give it back to the dealer not like if it
breaks you got paid for it or you sell it and lose most your money
Silvan king says mr. Kilmer should I buy 2012 Chrysler 200 for 2,500 bucks it
is 120 thousand miles with a 2.4 motor will be my everyday driving car they don't
make them anymore for various good reasons the 200 was mainly fiat
technology engines and transmissions which were terrible to begin with 2500
bucks isn't much for a car these days but it does have 120,000 miles if I were
you and you want an everyday driver look for an older Toyota you know you're not
gonna find a 2012 Toyota for 2,500 bucks but you can find one that's maybe 10 or
12 years older it can still be a decent car or an old Camry
it can still be a decent car cuz you paid 2,500 bucks for that I
our it'll break pretty soon with 120,000 and my experience with those the
transmissions were the first things that went out then you're looking at three to
five grand for that so you know I'd stay away from that if I were you nyg
Mustang says Scotty got a 93 Chevy c2500 pick up the passenger side window
squeaks bad when I lower it raised there any quick fixes yes I just fixed a
Chrysler van with the same exact problem roll the window down then you
see where the window goes down to the front in the back there's the little
runners which are the grooves in the door that the glass slides up and down
inside I know each edge what's down spray that edge with spray silicone lube
you can get auto parts stores hardware's any words spray silicone lubrication let
it soak for a couple minutes we run it back up we run it back down spray it
some more do that four or five times when you're done wipe all the overspray
off a lot of times it'll stop entirely because that's the main reason you got a
glass riding on rubber the rubber gets old and dry and then it stops the
silicone is relatively waterproof so you don't have to do it every day but if you
do it a few times a year hopefully they'll get ready to squeak it if it
doesn't mean you need a new motor and regulator assembly and they're not cheap
if it works I'd live with that Diego says Scotty I have a chevy cruze
p0420 that's inefficient catalytic converter
I replaced the catalytic converters an obstinate oxygen sensor the code
comes up what could it be that's why I tell people just don't guess with
anti-pollution equipment codes po420 is a generic code that says the catalytic
converter is working inefficiently there's dozens of things that can do
that a few of an engine that burns oil it can do that if you ever had guessed
its water can do it if you are an engine that's running too rich it can do it if
you are an engine running too lean that can do it and there's dozens of things
that can do all those things that's the unfortunate thing you replaced the
converter and oxygen sensor didn't fix your code then you got some other problem
like lean engine rich engine blowing head gasket there's all kinds of things
if it bothers your and it doesn't run right you got to see a mechanic like me
to get it all checked out and a good one not some shyster guys just gonna charge
your money over money over money and not fixing anything but change you bunch of
parts but if it runs perfectly fine you're gonna ignore it
I've had customers had that code for five years I had
one customer with the Toyota he had that code for five years he did nothing the
sixth year he brought it in and it went away all by itself I said have you
changed anything he said yeah I get this new gas station it's a different brand
closer to my house I said well that gas is better than the other one and now
it's not running and efficiently anymore so it could be strange thing to do it
runs okay a lot of guys have gotten four years that way Philip Barris says Scotty
what do you think of the new kia suv is it worth the money you
never know if anything new was worth the money till it's been out a while as I've
been telling people for years you buy a new product you have no idea if that new
technology is gonna hold up over time Kia Hyundai basically the same company
now they've got mergers going on together so it's basically same company
the Korean car manufacturer they used to make little junky cars now they make
them better than they used to that said they're not as good as Toyota's and
Honda's it used to cost a lot less than that I just now they're pretty close
last time I checked that SUV Kia vs. Toyota Honda it was you know maybe six
eight percent cheaper but not much they used to be forty fifty percent cheaper
so you're not saving all that much money me I go up buy a Toyota Honda before I'd
buy one of those but you know it's your money if you buy one and it doesn't have
problems a lot of times they'll be pretty problem free for the first
hundred thousand miles if you're happy with that go right ahead and get it but
I'm just not a Korean car fan and I can never forecast the future of a car it's
a new model you have no idea what's gonna happen until it's been out a few
years and if you buy it and it does their problems who's stuck with the
problem you are Andrew Johnson says what about Radiator tablets as opposed to
liquid stop leak I see you watched my thing on liquid stop light years ago the
best ones were pellets barse old ones and it said pelletized for your safety
because the theory was he put the pellet in it's not gonna clog up any other
tubes because it's too big to fit in the tube so it's gonna dissolve well the
liquid one's already pretty much dissolve they're a liquid anyways it
turns out that the liquid is more efficient at sealing them I asked an
engineer while back and he explained yeah you know we used to do the pellets
because the pellets were safer he wouldn't clog up but the liquored ones
we use are just too safe and if you say really want to try a sealer and you're
gonna use a liquid one here's a trick that I do
all the times drain a bunch of the coolant out cuz it's probably old and
dirty anyways and then get a gallon jug of coolant and dump a little of it in a
jar and then pour your liquid sealer in that new coolant shake it up in a jar
then it's dilluted even more then pour it into the engine and then you never
have any problems with things clump it up I do that a lot of times, kalbi sylphy
says Scotty in my 09 ford focus leaks a greasy fluid but only when I'm
gonna steeper incline what could it be well you gotta figure out what kind of
fluid it is there's all floors are somewhat greasy in cars power steering's
grease and you know has greasy transmissions fluid is greasy even
antifreeze is somewhat greasy and slimy when you put it on your finger you got
to figure out what is it it's only a steep incline what you want to check is
the obvious things like a coolant leak say it's leaking on the engine it'll
just sit there in a vat break but if you go on a steep incline then it's gonna
drip off the engine to go on a crown so look for the area that it's coming from
and of course use your noggin see what fluid you're losing if it's power
steering fluid reservoir elbow low radiator the radiator will be alone and
you know all the dipstick will show its long check to see what you're losing
luis says what do you think of a 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander got a good
deal on a lifetime warranty well I don't know what kind of lifetime warranty you
got but I use Mitsubishi nobody's gonna fix anything on it for free forever
that's a load of BS I had customers buy those things and then when they actually
had a problem and I called the number sometimes the company was bankrupt it
didn't exist or they wouldn't pay what the job was really worse their
warranties would pay like $200 for $100 jobs so I told him to go take a hike the
companies and I told the customer look you want to pay me I'll fix it but I'm
not gonna fix it for $200 it's a bunch of nonsense so I'd be real leary about
that now the Outlanders when they're low mileage they can be perfectly fine but
as they age to become endless money pits almost all of my customers they had
Outlanders if they had them over a hundred thousand miles ended
up either putting a ton of money in a
transmission in the engine or they got rid of them because they're having too
many problems if it's real low mileage bring it last a while if it's got a
hundred something on it you got taken if you've got it with that kind of mileage
because there were practically nothing then DIY houses says what do you think about Mazda
Miata cars okay the Mazda Miatas are cute little
sports cars they made them for decades and I remember years ago I used to work
on the English sports cars made a lot of money doing it cuz they were always
breaking riding somebody would say why is it somebody figure out how to put a
Japanese engine and transmission in an English sports car well monster took one
better they built a Japanese sports car that
was like the classic English sports cars only it didn't break down all the time
and the Miatas are an example of that they're not race cars are not super fast
but the cute little cars that can hold up a long time especially with the
standard transmissions now the older automatics they were garbage pieces of
junk but the newer mazda automatic transmissions they've really improved so
the newer ones actually have pretty good automated transmissions in them if you
want a sports car with an automatic transmission in that price range you
really can't beat a Mazda Miata they're cute they're funny they're zipping around
and there's so many of them out there you can get your pick and used ones if
you're looking for a used one Alex says Scotty is it bad to start and second
gear in an automatic well it's not a good idea to do it all the time but if
you look at a lot of modern cars some of them are actually set up that way if it
doesn't hurt anything I mean a car is made to start up in first gear because
it's a lower ratio so yeah better acceleration it's not hurting the engine
any it's just you're gonna have a lot slower acceleration but on ice and snow
that's what you want you don't want to step on a gas in the wheel spin so they
start off in second gear in the snow Volvo was one of the early ones
that's no issue where it would start off in second gear and then of course being
European a lot of broken they only stayed in second gear and you had to fix
the stupid things but it's not gonna hurt anything specially on ice and snow
that's a better idea so you don't slip and slide and run into something
Austin Riordan says Scottie what are you thinking the newest Volvo SUVs my mom's
not gonna get a newer suv with all-wheel drive well you know they make
good vehicles but as time went on especially 2000s and newer Volvo got
into real high technology and they're got a lot of problems and they're very
expensive money pits but realize Volvo is now owned by the Chinese and they
stated this year that as a 2020 they're only gonna make
an electric cars and hybrid electric cars so if you buy a plane Volvo SUV
gonna get more and more expensive to get them fixed the parts are gonna cost more
and less unless people are gonna work on the things because they're not gonna
keep up with all the stuff though who's not gonna be making them anymore
so parts are gonna get harder to find if you can get one cheap yeah I mean she
really wants an suv I'd say get a used Lexus I wouldn't buy a used
Volvo for something like that now since they're not gonna be making them anymore
they're just pulling a rug out from under those anyways Brian Morris says
your opinion on supercharged into 2016 of v6 Mustang well the supercharger is a
quick way to get more horsepower because it just bolts on turbochargers they use
the exhaust gas so then you got to change the exhaust system and have an
intercooler I superchargers just bolt right on you get instant power now thing
is those v6 engines they don't have that much power so you give them too much
power one if it's an old one so it's got 120,000 miles I don't you'll blow the
engine the transmission design that thing is made for the horsepower of a
normal v6 if you bump it up another hundred some horsepower odds are you're
gonna destroy the transmission to now it's it's a standard transmission
there's lots of that you might wear the clutch out faster but if it's an
automatic transmission you're probably gonna have to either rebuild or replace
it with a beefier transmission if you do supercharged you realize you put that
much extra power and you got to think about all the rest of the car too and
especially if it's an older car with higher mileage on it Tony says what do I
do when I'm being tailgated by some jerk well my advice first is to get out of
the way you never know what one of those lunatics is about to do don't get in a
game where you tap your brakes and then either ram into you or they slam their
brakes on then they decide they're gonna pass you and create a problem it's best
when there's lunatics around you to get out of the way like if somebody's going
really slow get around them and get out of the way as fast as you can if
somebody's going really fast get out of the way so they can pass you and then
you know maybe you'll see a cool rock is way in front of it run into
something but it's not you that's getting run into your being tailgating
best thing to do is let the guy go by it's too dangerous and you never know
what kind of a lunatic is behind you I mean look at the deport cops they pull
over people sometimes to get their heads blown off because they pulled over a
lunatic well somebody's really tailgating it who knows what's going on
in their mind if they're on crack or they're on meth just get out of the way
let them go by and then go on their merry way you want to think about it
many more natete mouthed off says Scotty why don't you use a column lift to pick
cars up with two reasons I'm cheap and I don't want to get any fatter than I
already am you get a lift that lifts a car up then you're not crawling under
cars wiggling around that's exercise keeps us pride keeps
your back in shape from moving and twirling around and anyways my wife
would like it it would look ugly she wouldn't like it in the driveway but
yeah you know they cost quite a bit of money to get a decent one thousands and
thousands of dollars I've never had one the last time I used the lift was when I
was kid 14 years old work at my father's Texaco gas station no we had three of
them in a garage was a professional garage there they are but I mean my
grandfather he had a big gut on him he's been a mechanic his whole life cuz he wasn't
doing a crawl anymore he was just walking around so there's two main
reasons for that, Kanoe Donna says scotty what do you think of a isuzu trucks
they came to the United States decades ago then they left from bad sales they
make decent trucks and the Isuzu company itself makes excellent diesel engines if
you see those little trucks going around with the long beds for
towing people's cars around those almost all have the isuzu diesel engines and
those little diesel engines couldn't run a long time I got a guy who drives got
ones got half a million miles and still running strong now they don't sell that
many trucks in the United States to normal people they're not running tow
truck businesses and they're okay but you know they just don't sell enough of
them you get a Toyota or a Ford Ranger there's tons of them out there you can
get them cheap you can get parts for them I don't particularly advise
everybody buy one in the United States but other parts of the world go right
ahead if there's parts available and your prices are going up go ahead and
rest because they're decent trucks their cars
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