rev up your engines Tyler Wallace says Scotty is an 08
Saab 9-3 worth buying for 300 bucks runs and drives well what the hack 300 bucks
is nothing and if it runs and drives go ahead just realize the Saab 9-3 was one
of the cars that really drove Saab completely into bankruptcy I've had
customers in Houston that had them they were kind of a weirdo car weirdly
enough a bunch of my customers here they had and we're all architects I guess
it's kind of an architect thing they liked oddball things but even they ended
up getting rid of them because the company went bankrupt the parts cost a
fortune they're very expensive to repair but heck if it runs and it's 300 bucks
what the heck I got went to Boston a month ago and it cost me 500 bucks to
rent a car for five days you got one for $300 if it still run what the heck
but it's so something with an engine and transmission goes with just junk the thing
don't put any money in a fix-it that that'd be stupid it's not worth putting
money into those things when they're that age and being a sob a company
that's bankrupt for many good reasons Gaming rooster says what do you think
about a BMW 4 Series Coupe brand-new well if you have an endless supply of
money and you don't care about money go ahead and buy when they're fun to drive
their values dropped like a stone I was just pricing those things the other day
and it turns out in the first three years they lose like forty four point
four percent of their value so that shows you that another one they're
overpriced and all of their value because they cost a lot of money to fix
as they break down they are fun to drive but if you value your money you know if
you really want to get one of those lease it
then you lose less money you're really nuts about it lease it and have some fun with
it for two three years leasing the thing cuz
you're gonna lose more money buying it sell it when it's three years old then
you're gonna just lease it so go ahead just lease
one if you really like them you see how much money you lose you know what the
monthly payment is you know exactly what you're gonna lose then there's gonna be no
surprises for repairs because it's a new car you lease it and it's under warranty
you're not responsible for the repairs Gambel says Scotty I bought a 2011
Infiniti G 25x for nine grand has hundred thousand miles with no issues
good buy, no I would say goodbye people you don't want to buy infinities that
thing's nine years old it's got a thousand miles you don't want to buy
them when they're ten years old and have over 100,000 miles they generally turn
into endless money pits now you paid 9 grand if you looked at
what the list price was it was a whole bunch more from that so at least the
only thing you have to lose is $9,000 now if you baby it maybe you won't have
any problems for maybe you'll be the lucky one but I see catalytic converters
automatic transmissions going out, engines blowing head gaskets on those things as
they age so if you do like the car my advice use it for a weekend run around
fun car maybe you'll like it maybe you won't have too many problems but if you have
the possibility by like on a civic or corolla for your work car
to put all the miles on that and to keep the infinity as a toy that might be okay
then, collin says scotty I got an 03 Highlander after not driving in a while
at idle it lost power several lights came on and the steering and when I turned it
off it was suddenly okay okay what you want to check on that is the simplest
thing on a planet have your battery load test it places like autozone do it any
good mechanic can do it in two minutes if your battery's getting weak
everything won't work right just a bad battery and while you're at it also have
the alternator tested because if your alternator isn't charging the battery
you'll have the same thing and you said you turn it off then turn it back on
again I started working it's got to be something electronic because the only
thing that changes by shutting the car off turn it back out again is the
electronic is in the computer system so if you ever car that's running like crap
you shut it off turn it on and it runs perfect in you got some kind of
electrical problem and start looking at that first, AC says do I need to
change the water pump at a hundred thousand miles I've ever car with a timing
chain thanks you don't just go out and change
one because here is the problem you have to understand your engine exact design
now let's say you got one of those older Nissan's that has a metal timing chain
but that metal chain operates the water pump I definitely change it now because
if it breaks it's an interference engine the timing chain will fly off the pistons
will hit the valves would be goodbye engine
but on the other hand if you've got an engine that's got a timing chain and the
water pump just runs on the outside of the engine off the fan belt if it's not
leaking it works fine I wouldn't even bother more important is to change your
coolant let's say you got coolant that's good for four years or 100
thousand miles change it every four years or hundred thousand miles that
keeps the water pump from getting corroded and wearing out inside and if
you do that you got a well built cars I've seen some Japanese guys with two
hundred thousand miles still there the original water pump but it works fine
it's up to you and your engine design learn as much as you can about your
particular engine design first, Connor says Scotty what do you think of a
Polaris slingshot well you know they're fun toys those are those three wheel job two
wheels in the front and one wheel in the back and they're fun toys it's a woman
that lives down the street for me that soup one all up puts out three hundred
something horsepower she loves driving around now I realize you're gonna get
wet in the rain just like a motorcycle but you don't have to worry about them
tipping over terrain and sliding over the kind of fun toys and they're cheap
enough especially used that they can be fun I did a thing years ago on the
Canadian guy who had the expense of three wheel drive ones and they started
at $80,000 with the BMW engine in it but these Polaris is their twenty-something
ran I've seen people get decent used ones for five or six and they got Chevy
engines in them so the parts aren't exotic you can get parts for them it's
not that hard to get parts for that kind of fun toys for people to mess around
with do you want a vehicle like that yeah they're not bad at all,
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