rev up your engines, JC McMurray says Scotty what do you think of a 2008 BMW
528i and when are you getting your TV show, I used to have a show on CBS called
crank it up with Scotty, I'll never go back to TV, TVs a dying medium this is
YouTube this is the future the internet, actual interactivity you're talking to
me I'm given answers, anybody with a phone on the planet, I guess unless
you're in China where they got a band and you can't watch YouTube, can ask
me questions, can learn about cars television dying medium controlled by
people who don't know what they're doing, they're living twenty thirty years in
the past they still think they're gonna go with their little advertisements and
stuff but it's dying, it's dying fast, the Internet's the place to be, as for
the 2008 BMW 528i those things are money pits when they're
that old, but that said you can get them dirt cheap they have no resale value and
if you can get one cheap and you want a weekend toy for tooling around, I got a
customer with one he bought when used for like four grand and he likes it he
drives that around he only uses on the weekend, he drives civic in
regular traffic when he goes back and forth to work, so if you want to do that
but don't pay much more them cuz they're not worth anything anymore
rusty doc says hey Scotty help me fix my Audi it's killing me, I'll give you the
best fix for an Audi, sell the thing get rid of it and get a Toyota or Honda and
then you'll be happy, those things are endless money pits, when I was a young
mechanic, they started bringing them in the United States and a customer brought us one, it
needed a fan belt changed, and in order to change the fan belt you had to jack
the engine up in the air and remove the motor mount to replace the fan belt, even
back then I thought, what kind of a moron designed these cars and now that's
nothing compared to the stuff that those things have them on these days
those are money pits, they break as they age, check they're
insanely low resale value, their worth nothing at stage because everybody knows
they're junk and it cost too much to fix and they break all the time, if you can
find an honest mechanic like me have them look at it and tell you what he
thinks, and if he says maybe you can fix this for a few hundred then sell it, do
that and if it's gonna cost too much to fix it just get rid of it, your gonna lose
money anyway you look at it, but then you don't have to think about it anymore
when you get rid of the piece of junk, srl says scotty
should I use a hose to clean my engine bay, personally I'd never waste my time
even cleaning it , you don't live under there, you don't eat under there, you don't
picnic under therem and if you start hosing down an engine there's so much
electronics on a modern-day car, now when I was a young mechanic that wasn't the
case, when I was young mechanic they had carburetors, and they had an ignition
distributor if you cover it up the carburetor and an ignition with a
plastic bag you can hose away to your heart's content and you weren't gonna
hurt anything, but modern cars you can ruin so much
electronics, don't even waste your time there's no reason to clean an engine bay
doesn't matter if it's dirty, the engine doesn't care, they're all water-cooled
engines, your radiator cools the engine so it doesn't overheat, now if you have
an old Volkswagen Beetle with the rear engine and it's an air-cooled engine
yeah you want to clean the fins every once in a while because that's where the
heat is dissipated, and the fins on the engine are cylinder heads, but on modern
cars are water cooled and the only thing you need clean is the radiator, you got
mud and bugs on your radiator yeah clean them with a hose but don't waste your time under the good,
grim says what's your opinion on a 2018 honda civic type-r, they are fun
vehicles, I've got a few customers with them and they loved them, they wanted a
little fast car that zippy or standard transmissions they got a good Honda
engine, those are excellent vehicles, if you want a small quick vehicle that
handles well and lasts, get one of those, their not give it away, I had one customer buy a
used one, he had to go the whole way to Colorado to find one a good buy cuz
they're hard to find, Freddy says Scotty I have an 04 g35 the
steering is hard but it doesn't have any leaks what could it be
on those if you have any leaks and the steering's hard, it's almost always the
power steering pump, the pump builds up a lot of pressure sends the pressure to
the rack, and that pressure makes it easy for you to push on those, almost always
when I change the pump it fixes the problem like that, now if your rack is
going out it could also be hard to steer, the racks cost a small
fortune, the pumps are a lot cheaper and a lot easier to replace, if you don't
have any leaks and you got a problem the first thing to do is put another pump on
that I fixed lots of them that way, mixed boy 3:18 so say Scotty what do you
think of a 2013 Ford Fusion 126 EcoBoost with 120,000 miles, I wouldn't buy it
with that kind of mileage on it, it's a tiny little engine and it's got gasoline
direct injection and turbocharger, all that stuff going to wear the engine out faster
makes it rev higher, pushes more pressure inside the engine, I wouldn't buy one
now I mean if you could get a standard transmission one and it was
dirt cheap and you want kind of a toy you can go ahead but I would not pay
much money for it, and it'll make them anymore either, so if you never want to
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