rev your engines Simon says scotty what do you think of a new 2020 ford ranger
2.3 liter ecoboost ranges are good vehicles I'm not particularly a fan of
the small four-cylinder GDI turbocharged engines because they will not last as
long as the nine turbocharged ones period but if you want that kind of
horsepower you buy something like that you want to change the engine oil filter
and use full synthetic oil I mean change it every 5,000 miles with full synthetic
not ten or twelve or fifteen change it a lot to keep it clean it can last a long
time but if you're the type of guy that's gonna get something like that and
since it's so big you're gonna drive the heck off a drag it and drive super fast
it won't hold up over time you'll burn the engine out I wrote tested them and
yeah they work fine when they're new when they get old they wear out faster
and if you really beat them and drive out you already even faster so you're
gonna be conservative driver go ahead and buy one if you drive a little faster don't
go for the GDI turbo EcoBoost cuz they won't hold up over time love lowers
power those zip around yes but it won't last as long pet says 2010 FJ
cruiser 140,000 miles is it worth it thinking of buying one they were great
vehicles doesn't have 140,000 miles that's a lot of miles but they pretty
much hold their value because they don't make them anymore and they're popular I
noticed lately the price has been going up on so it could be a very good vehicle
you wouldn't want a mechanic like me of course to check it out before you buy
don't trust anybody when you're buying two used vehicle you got no idea what's
going on with it but they were very well made vehicles for what they are that's I
believe they really stopped making it more or less because of their low gas
mileage and that was bringing Toyota's corporate fuel gas mileage down so they
got rid of it now they're talking about building a smaller version of and that
doesn't have the big v6 it's got a four-cylinder engine and I never even
talking about putting diesels and some of them for a better gas mileage so but
don't know why bell vehicles it was taken care of
you just don't pay too much with that kind of mileage, Pookie says I want to
buy a small car for city driving what do you think 09 Honda Fit manual
transmission of 130,000 miles for 3250 yes I mean snap it up if it runs
the engines in good shape those standard transmissions I got a customer one of
those 325 thousand miles those things are solid well-built if you like it
where you look at it you must like it and it checks out with a mechanic
buy it you better hurry up because it's probably a bunch of people if they see
it they'll probably buy it before you buy it yourself
Paul the last go I got a 2008 Volvo s60 2.5 turbo is it a good family car I mean
the first kid want a safe car with good guess my way no no that's kind of an
oddball situation you're in it was brand
new it was extremely reliable but it's
twelve years old now the 2.5 T is a 5 cylinder in-line turbocharged engine all
turbocharged engines are less reliable as they age period if it's a little
mileage it could still be a decent car for a while but it's got a hundred and
forty hundred and fifty thousand miles on it no wouldn't be a smart thing to
buy because you're gonna spend a fortune maintaining them and realize Volvo got
bought by Chinese corporation it says in 2020 they're only gonna make electric
cars and hybrid electric cars and they're gonna give up with regular
gasoline cars so unless you got that at a really cheap price I'd look elsewhere
for a reliable car for a family because it could end up being a money pit if
it's got high mileage on it but I mean if you find one with 50 60 thousand and
get it cheap enough they have horrible resale value you could have a fun car
for a while Hummer guys says what's your opinion and 99 are older suburban okay
yeah back in the day they made pretty good vehicles I'd customers are those
things they get two hundred something thousand miles out of him pretty much
trouble-free if you don't mind a big gigantic gas hog and of course if it's
got a lot of miles on it now you can have to do it over the rear ends go out
to transmissions go out eventually the engines burn out too now the modern ones
no they don't last all that long but if you didn't mind buy an older one that
he's into been completely redone or buy an old one and put another engine
transmission rear end in it yourself or pay a mechanic to do it that's not all
that bad of an idea but don't pay a whole bunch of money for one they're not
worth that much money they'll never be collectors items so if you can get one
cheap enough with no rust you want to fix it up go ahead go seven seven seven
says how our Toyota Venza like are they worth
them anymore but it wasn't because there were pieces it was junk it was because
they were marketed in a wrong segment a Toyota Venza is in between a Toyota
Matrix which they also don't make anymore and a fancy Lexus SUV they cost
more than a matrix and less than the Lexus they didn't have all the luxury
a lexus had but they had more luxury than the matrix but it turns out that
they didn't sell all that many of them it was kind of in the wrong stage of
marketing there's absolutely nothing wrong if you can get a used one at a
good price hey they can last a really long time same thing with the Toyota
Matrix they stopped making them but they're great cars and then two Toyotas
things like I say a lot of this stuff is marketing they now have the Toyota
Corolla hatchback well it's the Toyota Matrix originally the Toyota Matrix was
even called Toyota Corolla matrix then they shortened it to Toyota Matrix so
space you can just bring back the matrix but to call another Toyota Corolla cuz
everyone loves Toyota Corollas it's a largest selling car in the history of
mankind I don't know forty million something of them sold so far so
why not use a name that everybody knows anyways they should have just kept it to
yo to control the matrix the name but now they brought it back so there's
nothing wrong with them so they're good cars they just don't make them cuz it was
kind of a marketing flaw in the middle but buy one it's not like a problems or
anything banker says can a timing belt be replaced with an equivalent timing
chain well you could do anything you want if you want to spend a small
fortune the reason they made rubber timing belts is guess what
cuz it's cheaper to make the cars that way a belt cost less then a chain it's a
rubber belt versus the metal chain and then the sprockets that drive the rubber
belt they don't have to be a strong cuz they're rubbing running on a rubber belt
so the sprockets can be made cheaper why are you going to a timing chain you
gotta have stronger sprockets you also have to have it encased in an oil bath
so that costs more money to make if you really wanted to you could figure we're
putting a timing chain but then you'd have to have an oil lubricating it will
cost a small fortune you better off just buying an engine it has the timing
chain in it then changing it over cuz it would be a really expensive thing they
just did it because it was cheaper to make it that way and if you look at all
the modern cars almost all went back to timing chains because the handles
variable valve timing setups were they Rev high
and since the cams are moving with the variable valve timing the rubber belts
couldn't take the strain but a timing chain can so now good they're back to
change which I looked in the first place because they're better made they last
longer and there's less maintenance to do one well what chores Scotty I got
an 07 Scion tC whenever go over seventy smell burning popcorn what kind
of possible you name bernie popcorn well maybe somebody spilt some popcorn on
your exhaust manifold and it's starting to burn you only smell when you're going
over seventy and you actually smell it in the car you probably have valve cover
gasket leaking it will drip on the exhaust manifold and then you'll smell
it burning because if it's something coming out of your exhaust you're not
gonna smell it at 70 miles an hour cuz the exhaust is in the back and going 70
miles an hour that wind is gonna keep it behind you now if you smell it when you
come to a stop ya the wind can blow your exhaust back into the front and then you
could smell it be gone salvage you're only gonna smell air that's in front of
you and what's in front of you is the engine under the hood and if oil is
dripping from a leaky valve cover gasket it'll smolder and then you'll smell it
Bernie perhaps something simple like that because anything else can get
complex and expensive but it's usually just a leaky valve cover gasket you can
change that yourself I know four cylinder engines it's it's no big deal
pretty easy to do graded bacons says are ex cop cars
good for teenagers as a first car one thing they're safe cuz they're so
freaking big something do hit something they're probably gonna be safe inside on
the other hand they are so big and it's a new driver learning how to drive they
might end up running into a bunch of stuff and they also have very fast
engines so the teenagers are going to be driving faster now it's a teenage girl
they seem to be more conservative driving there's a teenage boy I wouldn't
get him a car with an engine that's that big cuz they're probably gonna wrap it
around a tree now they might be safe inside but he'd be better off not such a
large engine so they can't get in trouble from going too fast
YouTube observer says Scotty I still feel a hot air coming out of the vents
even when my heaters turned off any ideas there's no seven Jeep Grand
Cherokee there's not matter cars work they're not like cars in the olden days
the only days you turn the heater on or off and there was a slide you pulled the
slide modern cars the heater carts off always has hot air
there's no reader control valve when you turn heat on and off is there a heater
box plastic box and when you turn the heat on the little actuator doors open
that box up little bits at a time to let the hot air get into you and the more
heat you ask for put it up to 90 degrees they open the
little doors more some more airflow stone when you turn the heat off the
doors are supposed to close entirely your doors aren't closing anymore
and it's a shame you got a Jeep because the last time I fixed one of those and
had to change blood door actuators it was over a thousand dollars taking that
entire day apart it's one of the poorest design heating the air conditioning
systems I've ever seen in my life but that's just how chrysler products have
been for quite some time even in the 70s they were horrendous pieces of junk and
now they're even worse than they used to be dog says Scotty I got a 2019 honda civic
1.5 turbo GDI should I switch to the new 0w 16 when it comes out yeah it's
supposed to come out middle of 2020 definitely switch to it that is gonna be
the bee's knees for oil I've talked about that in the video they had to come
up with a new oil for the GDI turbocharged engine because of oil
dilution problems we're on the timing chain we're on the cams they had all
kinds of problems excessive oil consumption and this new oil is gonna
work a lot better they but a lot of research and development I definitely
would switch to that when it comes out with that engine
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