Rev up you engines, Martin Sue says scotty how are you,
are Infiniti I30's from 1996-99 good cars, would they be reliable and low maintenance
cars since they're similar to the Nissan Maxima of the same era with the same engine,
yes they were well made cars it was after that the Renault merged with Nissan so they
were better made cars those days, now you do have to realize that if you do
get a 1996 that's a 23 year old car, it's an old car don't pay much for one,
regardless you're not going to get any warranty on it,
but they can still be good cars yes, but don't ever pay much for a 23 year old
car, it's foolhardy because you're not getting
any warranty now the only way I'd pay money for a car like that is if you really liked
it and you got it from the original owner and it was an old man and he had 60,000 miles
on it or something, otherwise you don't pay too much because they're
going to have mileage and they're just old, McLovin's fun house says,
how long can an average car sit when it's turned off without the battery dying in it,
ok that depends on what kind of car you got, see all cars these days have some parasitic
drain when you turn it off the battery does drain power and that's because there's all
these computer modules now a days, now if you take a really high end car like
a Mercedes, I've seen them drain the battery in a week
because they're running so much stuff, burglar alarms system all kinds of computer stuff
are running the whole time, so a lot of time they'll go out in a short
period of time, but you take like a Toyota or a Honda they
generally don't drain that much I've had customer leave them at the airport for a month and
get back in and they start right back up with no problems at all,
but if you're ever really worried I made that video a few weeks ago about those solar battery
chargers if you're sitting at an airport for like 60-70 bucks you can buy a nice solar
battery charger, plug it into the cigarette lighter and leave it on the dash,
and that will keep it charged and you don't have to worry about the battery going bad,
it's not really a bad idea, Kevin says I want to buy a Silverado 2500
HD gas job with a 6 liter gasoline engine, any advice or should I save up for a diesel,
yes save up for a diesel, if you want a big truck like that you're better off with a diesel,
they're made to haul stuff, they're made to tow stuff and that's just a better deal if
you're going to pull a lot of weight you won't be happy with a gasoline engine,
because gasoline engines are gas hogs when they're pulling a lot of weight, they're not
made for towing that's why all the big trucks the 19 wheelers are diesel because if they
were gasoline engines, they'd get 3 or 4 miles a gallon and that's why they're diesels,
save up for the diesel it would be a wiser one and truthfully I'd save up for the Ford
diesel if I were you I wouldn't buy a GM diesel I'd buy the Ford before that they're better
made, Dora says, scotty do chemical rust treatments
actually work, well to some extent they do, realize that
they're not miracles, if you have a rust bucket and you get that
chemical treatment that you put on that says, converts rust into paint primer, now it does
to some extent but only weakly rusted stuff, like if you've got a big area and it's all
rusted and it's flaking off, you got to at least get sandpaper and a metal
brush and wipe off all the pieces that flake off that fall off, sand it down to the bare
metal and then you can use that rust preventative paint stuff that will help it somewhat but
you know if you're really rotten away you got to cut all the rust away weld on now metal,
and then prime it and then paint it, that's the only thing that's really going to last,
but if you got little surface stuff and you can buff it off a little,
yeah they can last for a while, I use to use them when I was a kid and I didn't have any
money and sometimes it lasts for 3 or 4 years before it would start to rust through again,
Sultan says scotty my car gives an error code, throttle position sensor failure,
and the car hesitates and shuts off at low rpm what should I do, well change the throttle
position sensor if you've got a car that you can change it,
on many cars you can buy just the throttle position sensor bolt it off and bolt another
one on and away you go, now other cars you have to buy the entire
throttle assembly, a lot of modern cars are so computerized and they're so complex that
they only allow you to buy the entire throttle assembly, I had a Ford a few weeks ago that
was like 4 years old and the throttle assembly was bad and I had to buy the whole throttle
assembly but Ford knew they had a problem so I went to the dealer and they had a newly
designed one, it was only like hundred and fifty bucks so I bought the brand new one
and put it on and it ran fine, but if you can buy a throttle position sensor
go to a place like Autozone and see if they sell them, just replace the sensor first,
so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring
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