rev up your engines, eldar says scotty do you think a cadillac
cts is reliable, especially the older generation, no their not reliable at all,
if you go for a v8 engine if it's not the northstar engine they can be ok, if it's northstar
engine run, but if it's a v6 engine their all junk as
they age, you'd never want to buy a used v6 cadillac engine they add turbos to them and
stuff to get enough power but they don't hold up they can't take it,
if you do find one that's a v8 and has a manual transmission, I've got customers with them
their fun to drive, their still going to have a lot of problems
with motor mounts breaking and then you're going to have to spend $1,000 or so changing
the motor mounts out but they can be fun to drive,
I still wouldn't buy one though myself, Peno says greetings from Romania, my father
wants to buy a new 2018 Mazda CX-5 what do you think I want a gas engine and a manual
transmission, I'm on the fence on that one, it's a manual transmission which is good but
it's a CX-5 and that's bad, when those things age, they have engine problems
they have this vvt system that breaks down and it costs thousands of dollars to fix,
I've seen customers be trouble free for 100-120,000 miles on those, but I've had customers buy
them used with 120-130,000 miles then the engines broke and then they would have to
put almost all the money they paid for the vehicle into just fixing that one part of
it, so realize that, now if your a person that's
going to buy a car and your happy with 100-120,000 miles of reasonably trouble free driving go
right ahead, but don't think it's going to go 200-300,000 miles like a Toyota or Honda
can often go, rj87 says scotty, I found a 2005 Kia with
under 100,000 miles for $5,560 did a test drive and scan and everything is good, should
I buy it, well like I said I'm not a fan of those things,
but if it runs good, your talking about a 14 year old Kia, under 100,000 miles I'm assuming
it's close to 100,000 miles for $5,560, it's too much money for my taste but it depends
on where you live, if you live in Canada that's what they go
for, Canadian dollar is worth less and cars cost more there, if you lived in Texas here,
14 year old Kia I wouldn't pay more than $2,500 tops for that car, and a lot less if I could
get away with it, but if you like it depending on the prices
in your area go ahead, mr anaconda says scotty isn't GM's 3400 engine
one of the best v6's they ever made, yes they are, that was a very good engine, it was the
rest of the vehicles that the electronics were bad, the automatic transmissions were
garbage of you really poured them on, if you an old man or old lady and you only drove
45-55 on the highway but younger people that had them and their doing burnouts and spinning
around it would eat it, I had a customer eat out a transmission in 15,000 miles, he destroyed
the thing so, they don't hold up with that kind of power, but the engine itself they
are very good engines, there was nothing wrong with that engine design they were solid and
reliable and they didn't have any problems really,
chris says scotty what's the best way to find a good mechanic like yourself, it's hard to
find a good mechanic these days, there's no arguing that, I'm the last of a dying breed,
I learned from my grandfather who was a mechanic and we care about our customers, these days
there's hardly any independent good shops lying around, most places are affiliated with
a dealership or their a huge chain and the people that run it they put all the workers
under intense pressure to sell things to the customer, so that people that are doing the
work, they'll get a cut of what's sold so of course their going to tell you you need
$1,500 of work because part of that is going in their own pocket, it's very hard now I've
never advertised in my life, it's all word of mouth, so ask your friends see who they
use, look around, read reviews on the internet but of course
you got to take it all with a gain of salt because, I know a guy down the street and
when his workers aren't busy, he has them going on the internet pretending to be other
people saying what a great mechanic he is, when he's actually a lousy mechanic so a lot
of stuff on the internet you can't believe that you read anymore, because everybody knows
you know that people are putting false reviews on their just to get more people to say good
things about them so, you really need your friends word of mouth,
find somebody and then talk to them, find an older guy like me or a middle age guy that
has experience you know, experience beats everything when it comes to fixing anything,
just like a doctor, I once saw a doctor who was 25 years old and she was an idiot she
didn't know what she was doing and I said when did you get your diploma and I looked
on the wall and there it was, University of Houston and it was the year before,
and I said no wonder you've never seen anything like this before, you've only been doing this
for one year, you need experience, alexander says scotty I got a 2013 Dodge Dart
what do you suggest I do when the steering wheel is a bit harder to turn when driving,
does the computer need replacing, 2013 dodge dart, it's really a fiat it's got
all fiat technology in it, and Italian stuff, the electronics break, you probably are starting
to have a problem in your electronic power steering system, that's typical on those things
as they age, the only way that thing can be tested, you
got to get a guy like me, a professional mechanic, and we get out our $5,000 scan tool and then
we run all the tests that we can on the electric power steering system, we push on the steering
system and then it gives us all these different tests that can be done and if there is a code
for the power steering, we'll get it, your not going to get a check engine light on it
because they don't set them up that way, they're kind of evil that's only for anti pollution
stuff, it has nothing to do with power steering, we have to analyze all that stuff and then
see what's going on, if it's only every once in a while and it's
a little harder, a lot of people will live with it,
put do have it scanned first and see if there's anything starting to go out, sometimes it's
a sensor and it's not that expensive, but you have to find an honest mechanic because
a lot of guys they're just going to tell you that you need a new power steering motor,
you got to find an honest mechanic and that's a hard thing to do these days, it's unfortunate
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