rev up your engines, Horaldo says Scotty I'm thinking about buying the 1980-90
Toyota Corolla what do you think, well there were great cars but you're going
anywhere from what a 39 year old car to a 29 year old car they're old
you never know, I mean find a customer once and it was an old lady and she said
you know they told me I should buy another car, she had one and it was 30
years old, it had 26,000 miles on it, I said no let me fix it for ya you don't
need to buy another car, these things are indestructible and yes it's 30 years old but
you only got 20 something thousand miles and I've seen them with 500,000 miles so I said
the thing really is worn that much and I fixed it for a few hundred bucks and she
went on her way and was happy, if you could find a gem like that from a little
old lady or old man that maybe was an estate sale or they lost their license
couldn't drive, go right ahead, when a car is 30 years old there can be a lot of
stuff just flat worn-out, you'd want somebody to check it out before you buy
it or if it's a deal where they're selling it for three four five hundred
bucks and you drive it and it seems to run okay, what the heck buy it, el gato
says if I don't drive five thousand miles in a year should I still change my
oil once a year, what do you think about mobile once a year versus other
synthetic oils, if you don't drive 5,000 miles a year you still want to change
your oil once a year because water vapor gets in it, the additives degrade
and so change once a year, the only time I break that is, if I have a toy like a
motorcycle and I Drive it 500 miles a year, okay I admit I might only change it
once every four five years, cuz really it's not gonna have any harm that tiny
amount, but if you drive normally less than five change it once a day, you know as
for the mobile one, all synthetics oils are pretty good
mobile oil is a decent synthetic oil, it cost awful lot of money but don't listen that
one they said you can change your oil every 20,000 miles, you can only do that
if you drive on the highway and because highway mileage going 60 is equivalent
to 10 percent of city, so 20,000 miles on highway in a year would be equivalent to
2,000 miles stop and go in city, you still got to change it once a year
so you know I wouldn't buy it super expensive unless
you were driving on highway all the time or were gonna to drive it for 20,000 and I
wouldn't do that anyways, I'd still change it every 10, pH says Scotty what
do you think of BMW motorcycles, I know a lot about them, those were originally, they had
the boxer engines with one cylinder on each side, they were in destructible, they didn't
have that much power, the Nazis used them in World War two in the desert some of
those things are still running, excellent strong engines, not that much
horsepower but they kept beefing them up, now they make a four cylinder in-line
just like the Japanese engines, it wins a lot of the races
I saw it kept winning the Isle of Man race in England, that was the biggest
fastest over 200 miles an hour and running on streets, they make excellent
speed motorcycles, now their speed motorcycles do burn a little oil because
of the design, a lot of people buy them they get kind of peed that they bought a
BMW super expensive four-cylinder engine and now it burn some oil, but oil is cheap and
those engines are really well made, if you don't mind paying the price today
they are a very expensive engines and machines to buy, they're not giving
them away, but they're well-built motorcycle if you like a bigger heavier a
motorcycle and the touring motorcycle, they're probably one of the best touring
motorcycles in the world, I'm into motorcycles but I'm not a tourer
I'd be bored out of my mind sitting for 10 hours. I'm the type of guy that likes
to get on and go spin real fast and have some fun and come back and do something
else, just like sailing, I tried sailing and I
thought it would be great, then I get on a sailboat and we got on one once that was
going from Houston to Galveston and back and there was a big Canadian
northern storm coming in and we got going the guy said like 10 knots, it's like
what 11 miles an hour and he said we're really screaming, oh my god this is gonna
take us six hours to get down to Galveston, it takes me 40 minutes in a car
you know I said this is too slow for me and I never did that again,
Armando says Scotty I got a Dodge Avenger 2012, it won't go over 40, the
horn honks on its own and sometimes it dies right after starting up it
doesn't have gas, if the horn is honking on its own, a lot of times you have some
kind of an anti-theft system, so find a guy like me a professional mechanic
knows what he's talking about, have him hook up a scan tool and run a test
on that first, now if that's okay it won't go over forty
there's really only two major things that do that, either your fuel filter is clogged
or the fuel pump is going bad, you can have that pressure tested, that's a simple
test that can tell you whether that's working or not, and if that isn't, the catalytic
converter can clog up and there's also simple test for that, all we
mechanics do is, you take off the oxygen sensor that's in front of the
catalytic converter and put a tester meter on and then we see if the back
pressure is too high, then the cat is clogged and you need to replace the catalytic
converter have those tested, cuz that's the most common thing, but that would
have nothing to do with the horn honking, so I'd checked the alarm system first, so
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