Rev up your engines, Chima says Scotty what do
you think about Acuras sedans are they
worth the money regards from Mexico, okay
well you know one of the first really
well-made Japanese luxury sedans was the
Acura Legend the v6 engine and I mean it
was a long time ago, pushing thirty years
ago, they were excellent cars now they
were high tech with a v6 engine but people
love those cars they make good cars it's
just a fancy Honda and of course you
pay more money for them, the parts cost
more when you have to fix it but they
can be excellent cars but like any Honda
automatic transmissions are always a little
bit on the weak side and especially if
you're talking about the Acura SUVs
because the Acura SUVs I've had many
customers have the automatic
transmissions go out on those especially
the four-wheel or all-wheel drive Acura
SUVs and man some of those got five six
thousand dollar repair bill when those
went out so if you were really looking
at a luxury SUV I'd go with Lexus before
I'd go with Acura, Scarface says Scotty
you talk about how you shouldn't change
tires or suspension cuz it messes up the
geometry what are your thoughts on
modding tacoma's for off-roading okay
well now you're talking a different
ballgame you're talking about modifying
a pickup truck to go off-roading and I'm
assuming you're talking about a
four-wheel drive one too, if you're
really gonna go off-roading you don't
really care about the geometry all that
much because you're not driving 80 miles
an hour you're going off-roading you're
going at lower speeds, modify them to
your heart's content just realize it
you've lifted up real high and the drive
joints are now in a steeper angle the u-joints
will break and pieces will wear out
faster, but you're going off-roading and
if you're going off-roading you're gonna
expect stuff to break that's the name of
the game, it's not like hey you're gonna
drive it a hundred thousand miles
trouble-free, you go off-roading you're
gonna find things are gonna break and
then you modify them and you want it
higher for climbing on rocks and stuff
like that, so there's nothing wrong with
that, just don't you know think you're
gonna modify it for off-roading and
it's gonna be trouble free driving in
the city, if you really want to do
off-roading do like guys that I know
do, they got one that's their off-road toy
and then I got another one that's the
regular truck to use in town it's not a
good idea to use an off-roading truck in
town, gets worse gas mileage, things wear
out and you know one should be for the
street one should be for the off-roading
Eli says Scotty what do you do if
moisture gets inside your headlights
okay here's a trick I did years ago
when moisture gets inside headlights
it's getting in there cuz there's a crack
somewhere so you gotta seal the crack
find where the crack is and seal it and you
can use silicone clear sealer and stuff
now if you want to get it out on the
fast, you can take the bulb out on the
inside and then get a hairdryer and dry
it out until it's all gone or you can do
what I often do, usually the plastic
the assemblies are plastic I got these
giant drill bits that are like two three
feet long and I stick them on my drill and
then I go under the car and inside where
you can't see it, I drill a couple
holes in the middle of the bottom of the
headlight because water's always gonna
drain down, so if any water gets inside
it's gonna drain down there and if you
would have to say halogen light bulbs
they put out a lot of heat and that heat
will evaporate the moisture and since
there's those holes now the moisture
will go out the holes, if you still have
a little moisture coming in from cracks
it won't evaporate, cuz there's not big
enough hole for it to evaporate but once
you drill a couple holes on the bottom,
then hey it will go out of those holes
and I often do that on people that don't
want to spend money and buy new
headlight assemblies, drill a little
holes on the bottom you can't see them
cuz it's inside and then the water that's
inside the halogens I'll heat it up
enough that the moisture will go down
and leave, Cavill says Scotty I got 2012
Camaro that makes a rattling noise and I
step on the gas, did a little research
and saw it could be a loose exhaust pipe
what your opinion, sure Jack it up in the
air and see, now often it's your catalytic converter
rattling, inside the
catalytic converter that burns
hydrocarbons, there's a substratum and
they have little holes with the platinum
on and then the gas goes through and the
platinum burns the hydrocarbons when
they get older they will rattle so if
you jack it up and you see the catalytic
converter and you got a little rubber
mallet and you hit it, and here it's rattling when you
tap it means the cat's going out, but if
it runs okay
you don't have any problems, you can live
with it when it really gets bad and the
pieces break and jam the exhaust, it built
up too much bad pressure then it will only
go like 55 miles an hour and no faster
and you notice the temperature gauge will
start running a little hotter because
the hot exhaust gas is backing up into
the engine, but it runs okay you know
you can live with it, it isn't going to hurt
anything, System max says I got a 99
Oldsmobile intrigue, the emergency brake
light comes on after driving a while
when it turns off when I stopped at a
light, the ebrake is off, okay there's only
three ways that brake light can come on
one is, you're low on fluid check the
fluid, if you're low on fluid the float
goes too low and then it gives you a
warning, if the switch on your emergency
cable is not working, it'll stick on like
that and the other one is the worst one
if your brake system is losing pressure
there's pressure sensors that'll put
that light on, so it could be that too
but a lot of times your just low on brake
fluid or the switch that activates it
isn't working anymore and you need to
replace it, so check those it's got to
be one of those three things, so if you
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