rev up your engines, Tyler m says Scotty I'm thinking about
buying a 95 miata convertible, is it worth it and what are the downsides, the
miatas are a decent cars, but here's the thing, I don't advise people to buy
convertibles period, being a famous youtuber I get companies giving me their
convertibles to road-test, and yes they're fun to drive around on a
nice sunny day, but they have too many downsides, first if you ever rode in a
convertible in heavy traffic especially in a highway, the first time I ever did
it, it scared the bejesus out of me because I thought, what's that noise
what's that noise, and it was an 18-wheeler way back coming to pass me
you hear a lot of sounds that you would never hear otherwise, and be in a ragtop
hey the convertible top somebody gets a knife, they can rip it and get in and steal
anything that's in the car and then your stuck with buying an expensive new top
plus the tops themselves over time, they just flat wear out and they look
horrible and they're dirty, and of course almost all of them leaked over time, when
it rains outside they'll get wet inside, I've had more customers convertibles they
stunk like mold, you look under the seat that's mold
under there, they're a real pain to take care of you know they just are, now the
one advantage though that Miata is, if you get the hardtop and the soft top okay
you can put the hardtop on most of the time and then use the soft top once in a
while, that's not a bad design really, but for a regular convertible I'm not a fan
I'd never personally bought one myself, I probably never will, Michael asks dear Scotty
I've been watching your videos on YouTube for a long time and find it
interesting, if you could buy any car from Kia, Hyundai, Volkswagen, or Fiat
which one would be better for a good reliable car, I know you don't like any
of them just curious to know, I wouldn't buy any of those cars, but if I had to
buy one of those cars, I would buy a Kia because their quality has gone up a lot
in the past, they used to be really junky little cars, now they're decent cars
they're not gonna last as long as the Toyota or Honda but, the Volkswagens and
Fiats, you lose so much money in them because their resale value
absolute garbage, and they don't hold up all that well, where are the kias they
hold up longer, I had a customer with the Kia, he was a sales guy
for a big food chain here in Texas, and he put 200,000 miles on his Kia in the
first two years and it was still running okay, so you know, hey that'd be what I pick
out of those mike says
I got a question with the 2014 Mazda cx-9, it's funny that Scotty said don't
buy this one in the latest video, anyway its under powertrain warranty but
does anyone know why the power transfer unit in the rear transfer case would
leak, the car's only got 50,000 miles and automatic transmission, yeah because it's
a mazda, their cheaply made there's just no if
ands or buts about it, mazda throughout history has had transmission and
drivetrain problems in all of their vehicles, I remember 35 years ago
customers would bring me Mazdas and I'd say well your transmissions going out
they just don't make them all that well it's a big reason I say don't buy one
but if you're gonna buy mazda and get a standard transmission, that's another story
I've had customers with Mazda with standards that would get 200-300,000
miles sometimes out of them and they can be decent cars then, but you don't want to
buy a Mazda with an automatic transmission
it's just cheaply made, like fifty five thousand miles on it and you got leaks
those seals should be made to last a really long time, oh it's a
2014 so it's only five years old the seals should certainly last longer, I've
had Toyotas that were 25 years old the
seals were still good, so another reason not to buy one of those things, otis says
scotty I got 07 honda civic with 108,000 miles and 6 speed manual tranny
after the engine warms up it shakes it idle, I can hear a knocking under the
hood, no error codes, could it be the alternator or AC compressor, well you want
to pray that it's that, very easy to check, drive it and warm it up and you hear
the noise, quick take the belts off,
if the noise goes away great then figure out what it is, but from my experience,
when it warms up if it's shaking at idle and you hear a knocking, it's usually an
internal engine problem I had a customer with one of those and
the engine was going out inside it turns out it was that variable valve timing
stuff was wearing out and it started knocking and rattling inside and it's a very
big expense to do it, but do as I said warm it up drive it and take the belt off,
pray the noise goes away, then pull on all the pulleys and belts and
see if you can figure out which ones making the noise, pray it's that
because odds are it's not and it's the engine, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell!