rev up your engines, valor and he said hey Scotty what do you
think of a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder, we need a cash car for my wife's commute to
her new job and of a budget of a thousand bucks, any other recommendations
okay a thousand dollars for car these days is practically nothing, that's
equivalent to let's say a hundred dollars when I was a young mechanic for
a car, and you didn't get much for a hundred dollars unless you got lucky got
the neighbor's car or something that they were tired of it maybe had some
rust or something, I'm not a nissan fan but the 03's were okay, so if you find
one and it runs good and the transmission shifts good and you don't see
a bunch of oil leaking on the bottom, it
could be an okay runaround vehicle for a thousand bucks,
of course I think try to find a Toyota Corolla or a Toyota Camry, but you're not
gonna really find a very good one for a thousand dollars in most cases, if you
can go right ahead, look for a Corolla or Camry, but if that thing's okay for a
thousand dollars, especially if you know the people and you know the history of
the vehicle it could be an okay commuting vehicle, just don't put a lot a
lot a lot of miles on it, cuz if you do it'll wear out being 16 years old and
you didn't say how many miles it had on but on the other hand let's say it's got
200,000 miles on it, don't buy it then that's too many miles, dolphin back 50, is
it true that all maintenance must be done at a certified shop or dealer to
keep the car warranty in effect, cuz I've been changing my own car oil and such
and I'm worried, you have to read the warranty of course, that's why I tell
people I don't really believe in them their insurance policies, but long as you
keep the receipts for your oil changes that's legal, I've had customers here in
Texas they tried to wheedle their way out of something, they prove that they
had bought the oil filter and changed the oil themselves, hey that one
particular car I'm talking about they actually hired a lawyer, and the lawyer
said no they changed the oil they got the receipts for that, and they ending up
getting stuff fixed under warranty yeah but who wants to get involved in
that stuff in the first place, stay away from most of those warranties, their
not worth the paper that they're printed on when it comes down to it, Chris JD
Scotty I bought my wife an 06 lexus one hundred and fifty five
thousand miles, no repair history not sure if the timing belt was replaced, I
looked the outside there aren't crack should we replace it, I would
replace it, it's got 155 thousand miles and they tell you to change it about
every hundred, and it's 13 years old it's definitely it's a very crucial part, and
once you change it then you're not gonna have to think about it for a hundred
thousand miles or eight ten years, and have it done by a pro mechanic who knows
what he's doing, because those v6 engines they're well built engines but the cam
that's on the passenger, that's very hard to set up it's in a place where you can
barely see the stupid thing, and the only way it can be done correctly is with a
professional mechanic who has a good set of cam lockers, so when they take it
apart before they take the old belt off they move it into position, and then they
lock it with this cam locking tool and if you don't have that tool, odds are
when you put that belt back on it'll slip a tooth or two and the car won't
run right and you'll be furious about it so make sure you use a good mechanic who
knows what he's doing, schye and he says scotty we're looking to
buy a 2014 toyota corolla with standard transmission,
but it spent time being flat towed behind a motor home,
can this create damage, it's a manual transmission, so you don't have to worry about it,
if it's an automatic transmission I wouldn't touch it
with a 10 foot pole, cuz their not made for the wheels spinning
and the engine not running to make the oil pump in
the automatic transmission go,
but manual transmission they only have splash lubrication
so it just splashes as it spins around no there's nothing wrong, if they left the
tires all evenly so they all rolled down all fine,
and you road test it and it drives fine, don't worry about it in a manual,
but from my own experience never buy one that's an
automatic, even if they say, well we disconnected the
drive shaft, people can tell you all kinds of lies,
but with a manual transmission you don't have to
worry about towing them, colt 97 my
friend's 2010 cts 3 liter as a high-pitched noise when you accelerate,
it only lasts a few seconds and there are are vibrations in idle and if you
accelerate hard the engine feels like it jumps forward, you want to pray it's not
the transmissions, those CTS had horrible transmissions, have your friend find a
mechanic like me who knows what he's doing, and we'd hook up our dealer level scan
tool and we take it for a road test look at the live data, the mode six data,
and any historical codes, and you want to pray it
something like a bad ignition coil, a bad ignition coil will do that, and it's you
know nine years old and it's a Cadillac so those could go out, there's a lot of
things that could be, you want to pray it's not the transmission going out
though, cuz that's the weak link of that cts, so if you never want to miss another
one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!