rev up your engines, mh says Scotty do you care for the Ford coyote 5 liter motor
they put an f-150 and Mustang, yes its excellent engine great powerful v8
engine, you know they're really well made now some of those had transmissions that
had problems, it wasn't the engines fault the engines are real strong, but some of
those the transmissions went out, especially some of the standard
transmissions they started making them in China, yes in China, I had a customer
went through four standard transmissions on that coyote engine, four of them on a
Mustang and they finally just said the heck with it and they got rid of it, now
they got free ones because they're under warranty, but I mean jeez after four of
them break down I'd be really iffy about it too, and
when she found out that it was made in China she was really mad, the engines are
good though, francisco reina says how often should you use fuel injection cleaners when
you fill up sir, well actually if you got a car and you take care of it and buy good
fuel never, modern cars at least in the United
States the fuel you buy has additives in it that are legislated by the government
so they don't pollute to make the engines run better and so they don't burn
oil and you don't need to do anything, now if
you've got one of those horrible GDI gasoline engines the gasoline direct
injection, that only have GDI and they don't have the port injectors too, and
they carbon up inside yeah then I would say do it at least six times a
year, and get a special cleaner that's made for GDI engines because they can carbon
up, but if you don't normal ones you really don't ever need to do it, you buy
an old junker and it needs cleaning sure but if you buy a car and you take care
of it and you put in good gasoline, you really don't need to put any additives
in them, a lot of that is just salesmanship by companies that are
trying to sell you something, memes ask Scotty my friend is selling a 2010 Subaru
WRX with a rebuilt engine at 60,000 kilometers, he's selling it for ten thousand
five Canadian is it worth it, what's your
opinion on WRX, okay you're in Canada and I lived in Toronto a long time ago, I
know everything in Canada cost more money, maybe six grand here in Houston but I
know Canada they go for more, now here's the problem I would demand paperwork
from whoever rebuilt it what kind of guarantee the guy gave, if he has none
he's says well this guy rebuilt it for me, don't even
think about buying it, you gotta get absolute paper working and research the
guy that did it, see if he really knows what he's doing or just some guy that
put a head gasket in it cuz of blew the head gasket, now if it actually was
rebuilt correctly and especially if it's a standard transmission, a lot of the WRX
are standards, go ahead and buy it if you like
the vehicle but make sure it was rebuilt correctly,
Ken lee says hey Scotty should I get a Honda Fit or a Toyota Yaris, well in that
case I'd get the fit and here's why, Toyota
Yaris isn't a Toyota it's just a rebadged Mazda, they're made by Mazda and
they call them Toyota Yaris and the Honda fits are much better, they got
better engines and better transmissions then what the Mazda has in it, so I'd go
with a Honda there, now especially if you drive a standard transmission, the Honda's
are okay with the automatics, but with the standard they're excellent vehicles
even with an automatic though I'd still go with the Honda, cuz Mazda automatic
transmission stink, and that Toyota Yaris is really Mazda, mr. car to get 12 says
Scotty how are the facelifted 98 to 2001
sl500 in reliability, the engines are well made
Mercedes makes very good engines there's no arguing that, now it's a 500 so it's
pretty much of a gigantic gas hog in town, a heavy vehicle with a big v8
engine they just sucked that gas down, all the electronics the automatic
transmission, all that stuff can turn into endless money pit, it's old now but
82,000 miles is low mileage for a car that's 21 year old car, so that's real
low mileage if it's 82,000 miles, don't pay much though they're worth nothing in
the real world, don't pay that much money for them, you get one cheap enough and you
want a weekend toy go right ahead, but don't think about buying one of those and think
you're gonna drive it as an everyday driver and put 15-20 thousand miles a
year on it, it would bankrupt you, Joe Martin says
can a clogged catalytic converter and make your car start and then die, it certainly
can, it's just like stuffing potatoes in an exhaust, which kids did when I was
young when they wanted to fool somebody, they'd shove a
potato up the exhaust then the car wouldn't run right and
they go nuts trying to figure it out, unless they were smart
just went to the tailpipe and put their hand at the end and saw that hardly any
air was puffing out when it was running and they know it was clogged up, that's one
way you can test a clogged catalytic converter go to any normal car when it's ice-cold
so you don't burn yourself, start it up put your hand on the exhaust coming out
the back and you'll feel it puffing out you know that's normal you can feel it, then
if it's clogged up if you touch it hardly anything comes out you know it's
clogged up, now we mechanics have gauges we take out the oxygen sensor and we
screw in a gauge and we see the pressure and the pressure should only be maybe
one one-and-a-half psi and if it's five to eight before the cat and then nothing
after it you know that the cat's clogged and it needs to be replaced, pretty easy to
check but it will make a car stall out so if you never want to miss another one
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