rev up your engines
Juan says Scotty I'm looking to buy a
used car but it's from a rental company
hurts to be exact, what do you think
about that Thanks, okay put on your
thinking cap
I rent cars all the time I travel all
over the world checking out cars and
making videos and stuff, so I rent a lot
of cars when I rent a car what do I do
I beat the heck out of it cuz it's a rental car you
know sometimes you hit curbs, all kinds of things can
happen with a rental car do you really
want to buy a car a bunch of people like
me drove all over the place
not that smart of an idea I really
wouldn't wanna buy one and you don't get
that great of a deal either because they
just say, oh it's a two-year-old car
here's what it's worth and when they
sell them used, you can't say I'll pay
you less they'll say, no this is the
price that we give, take it or leave it I
personally would not buy one especially
when you consider how are they
maintained, generally they're like
pimply-faced teenager kids that might
change the oil a little once in a while
the back room but they really don't do
that much to them
I'm not personally a fan and I've had
customers buy them and some of that okay
luck but some of them had really bad
luck too, so I'd pass on buying a rental
car myself,
Karishma 1997 says Scotty I'm thinking
about buying 2016-18 Ford Focus rs
later as a weekend driver are they
well-built any problems to look for other than
head gasket failures, okay those are pretty
well built cars just realize don't pay that
much for it because they're not gonna
be making them anymore so when they
stop making cars the value goes down
unless they're collectors items and those aren't
by any stretch collectors items
like a Mercedes
that's going to be worth millions one day
they're never gonna be collectors items so if
you can get one cheap enough hey ride
nice and you want a weekend car they do
ride quite well that's when you know Ford
took a lot of when they owned part of
Volvo they took a lot of that technology
from Volvo so they ride really well
you know there's nothing wrong with that
just don't pay too much for it, Martin
the Panda says hey Scotty what do you
think of Opel, you might know what I said about
German cars but Opel was the first car I
owned as a kid, I paid 550 bucks and I
drive the heck out of that thing for six
years and I sold it for five hundred
when I was done
Opels kind of like Ford model-t they
made some of the early cars in Germany
they made cars in Germany, v8's stuff that they never sold over
here, I personally wouldn't buy one
at least here in United States since it's hard to get
parts for them, guys don't know how to work
on so, but they got some
interesting technology with them and if
you live in Europe or someplace yeah
they sell a lot of them there's a lot of
parts available for them, Adam Liquor
says Scotty in your professional opinion should
I put a two and half inch leveling kit
on a Ford f-150 or should keep it factory
I don't haul anything ever keep, it
factory it was designed that way,
a leveling kit, yeah that's just for show
it's stupid on a truck, a truck is
designed the way that it is, leave it alone
once you start messing with that
suspension, it messes with the drive
train, it messes with the handling, that
truck for what it is, is pretty well
designed and if you're not hauling a
bunch of stuff around leave it the way
it is, it's gonna run the best it possibly can
the way that it's set up and you
don't want to start messing with
the geometric angles and the way this
thing is designed it would be kind of
foolhardy to do something like that,
McGee says is a 1994 Chevy g20 van a
good conversion van
well back in 94 Chevy was making better
vehicles yes I'm not a fan of GM these
days but back then those are decent vans
I got customers with them that
especially if they got the v8 350 s in
them they could run a really long time
now their gas hogs there's no if ands or
are buts about it, but they're well made
and they can last a long time, it's a 94 so what
are we talking 25-year old vehicle,
it's old so you want it checked out
before you bought it or if you get it
for practically nothing fix it up and drive it
around I mean they were much better made
in those days than they are today
there's no arguing that,
Kenneth Meyer says, Scotty what's your
take on the Nissan Versa note, well it's
interesting technology there's no
arguing that, I am NOT a fan of Nissan
and Nissan has been on the verge of
bankruptcy for ages, Ford was gonna buy
them but then when their stock went down
ages ago they gave up with the idea of
buying Nissan, it doesn't hold up over
time, they put some technology into them
yes, but their automatic transmissions
they've had problems with, air
conditioning systems, engines blowing head
gaskets
I am NOT a fan of any of their products
i person you would not buy any
now I've rented them to see how they
drove when I go places and they can be
okay to drive around, I've driven notes
when I rented cars and they were okay
but uh you know their kind of clunky little
cars that don't ride all that well,
I'm not a fan of them, so if you never want to
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