Rev up your engines, daniel yeager films says, reading some of
the earlier comments from my experience ecoboost engines are great when taken car of but awd
models tend to get pretty bad fuel mileage, is that true, yeah it's true you know, here's
the thing, if you have an awd vehicle, all your wheels
are driving, there's more friction involved, you have more weight too because, now instead
of just having an engine and a transmission that sends power to two wheels, you got an
engine and a transmission that sends power to two wheels and then the transfer case that
sends power to the other two wheels, so they weigh more and there's more friction,
they get worse gas mileage, there's one vehicle that actually gets better gas mileage awd,
but it's not even really gas miles, it's the Tesla, if you get one of those fancy
model s for $100k or something, it's awd one uses electric motors, it actually uses less
electricity running the one with awd than the two wheel drive because it's electronic
and it's all computer controlled, but with most vehicles that's not the case,
awd drive are going to get worse gas mileage than 2wd vehicles are, and as for the ecoboost,
hey if you take care of it, change the oil and filter a lot, yeah you can get a lot of
life out of them, but don't drive like a maniac because it's turbocharged you drive faster,
the faster you drive the fast things wear out, it's common sense with that,
terra car says, is a 1995 mercury cougar a good car for $1,100, you're talking about
what, a 24 year old car, ok that's an old car, lots of things can go
wrong you know, $1,100 isn't much money, if you get in it
and road test it, drive it and it seems to be going good, it backs up, it shifts gears
good, it doesn't shake on the highway, the heat and ac works,
what the heck $1,100 isn't all that much money, you know if you rent a car it's going to cost
you that for less than a month of renting a car so,
if it does show ok, just realize that it's not a smart idea to buy,
a car that's 24 years old and think it's going to be your every day driver and put 20,000
miles a year on it because it's generally going to have a lot of problems, just realize
that, king kobo, I got an 08 volvo 2.4 manual from
Sweden and a 2011 vw jetta s automatic from Mexico, I need to sell one which should I
sell, both have about the same mileage and are taken care of,
well keep the volvo, the weakest part of those volvos are their automatic transmissions,
it's a manual, and the vw jetta is an automatic and their
automatics are terrible so keep the volvo, the big money problem with volvo especially
in the US, is the automatic transmissions have a history of failure, super expensive
to fix, but the manuals are pretty much bulletproof, keep the volvo on that one,
bobby says I got a 2002 camry v6, I changed the battery yesterday, still it won't idle
it just stalls, how long before the computer resets itself,
yeah you know that's a problem with camrys, if you change the battery out or disconnect
the battery and then put in on, a lot of times they start idling like crap, here's the proper
reset, and it usually works ok, is when you do change the battery, and then
you restart it and it idles poorly, sit in your driveway put it in park, put your
foot on the gas until it's about 2,200 rpm, let it sit there for 5 minutes at 2200 rpm,
take your foot off the gas, let it idle another 5 minutes, then drive it around and you find
that should reset it pretty good, now if it doesn't, drive it around it should
reset it in a day or two, just normally driving it, but if it doesn't then, my advice is,
I've got a video called make your car run better with a little spray cleaner, you want
to spray the sensors on it because sometimes when their dirty and you reset the battery,
they get funky and they need to be cleaned out so that it will idle better, I had to
do that with a few of them over the years, bird says, after replacing the fan clutch
my ac is colder what gives, you're getting better air flow, most vehicles
now have electric fans so it doesn't really matter, but when you have a mechanic fan that
runs off the fan belt and you have a fan clutch, that's sucking air over the radiator but the
condenser for the ac system of course is in front of the car's radiator, so that gets
more air sucked through it and yes, your ac will be colder because your getting more air
flow, now not that many cars use fan clutches anymore like I said, almost all electronic
fans, but if you do have one they do work better when you put a new fan clutch so it
sucks more air, kfc says morning scotty, I got a 2000 camry it clicks and creaks only
when I pull out of parking spots, my steering wheel squeals like a rubber boot only when
I turn it fast, any ideas, as for the steering wheel squeaks only if you turn it fast, if
it's coming from the inside, the steering wheels and stuff they wear over time, things
can rub, for that you can spray some wd40 it doesn't hurt electronics around it and
spin it and spray it and if that goes away great,
now as for the clicking and creaking, something that old, it's a 2000 so you know it's a 19
year old car, the rubber bushings get worn over time, of course you jack it up to see
if any parts are worn and pull on the tires, but if you don't find any wear, all those
rubber parts you see, hey you can spray them with stuff like wd40 and it will lubricate
them and it will stop creaking for a while and you can keep doing that, do look closely
because it's an old car, and if you see the rubber is all cracked it's probably a good
idea to start changing the stuff out rather than just spray oil on it and make sure theirs
nothing that's really cracked and rubber and parts are breaking off, so if you never want
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