rev up your engines, Pedro Vasquez says Scotty I
got a 2011 Chrysler 200 knocking sound and bad oil, well you know
they don't make them anymore you know a Chrysler 200 is basically all
Fiat that's a Fiat engine a Fiat transmission then they were garbage
you got flakes in your oil and a knocking sound your engines probably
shot, me I'd just get rid of the thing they're worth absolutely nothing or
drive it keep oil in it as it burns in or leaks or whatever it does and then
when it does finally break just junk the car cuz it's worth nothing they have no
value if you can sell it now for any amount of money go right ahead but most
people won't give you anything for that thing they were just rolling piles of
junk I rented one once when I went to Nashville to visit one of my sons what a
pile of junk that thing was uh I mean it got great gas mileage I'll give you that
but anything else meh, John Smith says opinion on an 02 Chevy Suburban thank
you well the o02 ones were a lot better made
then the ones are today they had more solid engines more solid
transmissions more solid rear ends now you take into consideration that's a
tremendous gas hogs those things just suck the gas in and throw the ants out
the tailpipe because they're big heavy vehicles with giant v8 engines but
that's not to high mileage I mean I wouldn't buy one had to 250,000 miles
unless you're paying nothing for it and you expect to put an engine
transmission or rear-ended over time but they're all better than the new ones are,
Youngblood says Scotty is a 2001 2.5 automatic Jeep Wrangler with 150,000
miles good buy for 4,500 bucks ok it's 19 years old it's got 150,000 miles an
unfortunate injury yeah mechanic checks it out and says it's okay we got
machines we can hook up and we can anything wrong I wouldn't pay more than
3 grand for to thing tops because it's only got that little
four-cylinder engine and automatic transmission that's extremely weak and
and unless they could prove they either put a brand new engine or a brand
new transmission that I wouldn't get that much money for it if you want a toy
like that and you get it cheap enough go right ahead but if you're gonna drive
that every day I wouldn't even buy that thing Durex says why would an engine
lower octane gas and not on a higher octane gas two things one if it was made
for high octane gas you need high octane yes cuz that's pre-ignition higher
octane gas can take more pressure before it actually starts on fire so I mean if
you're gonna make a Molotov cocktail like the Russians did in World War two
you'd want to use the cheapest gas you can because it blows up faster the other
thing is if your car is carbon build up and it's gotten a lot of carbon buildup in
the edge in the carbon what does it do it takes up space it takes up space tha
increases the compression ratio and that if you put high-octane gasoline because
it needs to be cleaned out the other thing is if your timing chains one and
the timing has gotten a mess topic and knock then because the timing is off
you're gonna need timing chain or a timing belt, clash of Neil says hey
Scotty is a Prius Prime a good buy if you want a hybrid car those are good hybrid
cars Toyota makes a good hybrid cars I am NOT a fan personally if any
hybrid car because I have to fix someone or old and I see generators gone $5,900
I see batteries go on five six thousand dollars to replace the battery with a
new one now yes you can put in remanufactured ones but they generally
come with a year guarantee all they are is an old battery that some of the cells
have been replaced the other ones are still old as the hills so it's not gonna last
long long long time so I'm not a fan myself but if you're talking about
buying a brand new one a lot of times you can get 150,000 or more out of a
trouble-free before things start to happen, Keshawn
says Scotty my Chevy impalas giving a signal it's a service traction control
what's that your traction control does exactly what it says, it controls how it
goes down a road if say you step on the gas and one wheel starts to slip and the
other goes straight then the track control will have to start breaking the
one that's going faster so they'll both go at the same speed it's all computer
stuff your computer is not warning you there's a problem with that system it's
an add-on system I mean some guys driving forever like that and just stay
back with it doesn't work anymore I don't care but if you want to know what
it is you got to pay a guy like me to hook up is $5,000 can tool and analyze
it and tell you what's going on with the system typical on GM products though
they break all the time, Jason Takes Manhattan hey Scotty is shifting between Drive and
neutral while driving harming the transmission well you know if you just don't when you
come to a stop and you're sitting there don't really hurt anything
you are gonna be sitting say at a train stop and the trains go on for
five minutes it's a better idea to put it in neutral or should turn the car off
but if it's hot and you want to keep cool either put it in neutral or parked
because you haven't Drive there's a more drag and that makes the transmission
get hotter it doesn't really hurt anything it's not a bad idea you know
automatic transmissions do it heck when you're driving a standard
transmission you do the same thing you come to a stop you put it neutral and
you just sit and wait until it's time to go again
you basically doing the same thing and I'd do it myself all the time got
240,000 miles transmission so it's just fine so it obviously hasn't hurt anything
corny man says Scotty my mom needs new tires 407 Ranger rover and money is an issue
is there one somewhere you suggest you go for really good price on tires well one
she's got a 13 year old Range Rover and money is an issue
she's driving the wrong vehicle those things are endless money pets but what you want
to do price all over the place most places will match see what kind of tires
you can get that's a Range Rover it's a big vehicle with big tires you're not
gonna get any really cheap tires on it because their oddball size they're big
tires and you don't want to buy some cheap piece of crap that's gonna fall
apart and I like the cheapest Chinese tires you get but at least price around
go to the discount tires go on all the internet to see what the best price you
can get on tires and go there but really she's driving the wrong vehicle if money
is tight, no name says why not challenge yourself with an old luxury
car or new Mercedes BMW Jaguar now I don't like wasting my body and people
say oh they're fun to drive yeah big deal I Drive it when I'm working on my
customers cars and then I see how they ride it silly well they're real nice
like that but really you can't improve my wife's 2002
es 300 Lexus nothing rides like a flying carpet as it is and it's fast enough
it's got a v6 engine I mean it'll do 80 miles an hour all day long you won't
feel anything I don't even go any faster than that so I'll never waste my money
any of those things and I'll never get a classic one cuz they're
always breaking the rubber breaks all the plastic parts snap on them and add
they're just a real pain in the butt when their old and you gotta fix them,
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