rev up your engines Keith Roy says Scotty should I buy a 2008 Honda Accord
with the bad VTEC actuator manufacturer said there's no harm to the engine
well technically there's not harm to the engine but you lose a lot of pick up and it
won't run right and you don't really know what the problem is until somebody
takes the engine apart and finds out what's wrong don't ever buy a car that
has any code that has anything to do with the VTEC system because you never
know what's actually wrong until it's fixed, those codes that everybody
gets including me are relatively generic codes and there could be it sometimes 10
to 20 different things that cause the same code and never buy a used car that
has a code that has a VTEC problem it's just not worth it, Abu taalib says
synthetic oil vs. mineral oil in terms of long longevity, the synthetic oil does
generally last longer but you have to realize there's no such thing as just
oh synthetic oil, theirs laws for what synthetic oil is constituted of in
the United States and it has to do with regular oil that has been somewhat
modified and there's no rules exactly how to modify it, so they can be done
various ways, the only true 100% synthetic oil that I know of is the
pennzoil pure platinum one, it's made in a factory that takes gas that comes
out of the ground and converts it into oil, that's a process the Nazis
invented in World War two, they took coal they turn it to gas then they turned it
into diesel oil and lubricating oil for the tanks and stuff, it's kind of an
inefficient process, but that's what it's made out of, so it turns gas in the oil
and that's a full synthetic oil, it a very good oil but it costs an awful lot of
money, the synthetic oil generally do lasts longer but some of these people
are claiming now like the Mobil one that you can change your oil every 20,000
miles that's under very different situations, like if you only drive on the
highway and you still change it once a year or so, it's kind of BS really but they
do last longer but since you're paying two to three times as much, you got to
decide what would I rather do, change my regular oil twice as much as the
synthetic oil for the same price, which to me is a better deal
because then, hey you're getting clean oil every three to five thousand miles
instead of going eight or nine, or pay for the more expensive one and change it
less frequent, it's all your choice, Thomas, Scotty I have a 2013 Toyota
Matrix with 85,000 kilometers oh you must be in Canada, wanting to replace the
ATF with a simple drain that fill only two and a half quarts drained out, using
WS fluid, is drain and dual effective for these transmissions
yes it's very effective, those cars have very good transmissions as a matter of
fact, my wife used to have one I inherited it, a 2007 matrix which was made
in Cambridge Ontario yes it was a Canadian car, best car we ever had for
a small car, now doesn't ride as good as the Lexus that I got her but it runs great
that's a very good way of taking care of those cars, eighty-five thousand kilometers is
like what, forty something thousand miles just keep doing that and use the quality
fluid it doesn't cost much and that's how you maintain them, the problem with
transmissions are, only some of the fluid comes out when you change it so if you
do it religiously like you're gonna be doing it, do it every forty fifty
thousand miles, it's fine it stays clean but if you're waiting till it's got a
hundred and fifty thousand all the dirt is still in most of it that's left and
that little bit you take out doesn't help it, so just keep doing it you're
doing the right thing, Daniel Harris says Scotty what do you think of a 2008
Volvo xc90 with 3.2 all-wheel drive I bought one with ninety thousand miles
I'm worried about the transmission valve body as there was a factory defect, one I
would never buy a late-model Volvo, pretty soon Volvo was gonna stop making
gasoline and diesel cars, 2019 they're owned by Geely a Chinese corporation now
and they said in 2019 which is next year, they're only gonna be producing electric
cars or hybrid cars, but you bought and I hope you didn't pay too much for it
because they really don't have that good resale value, but you have it you might
as well as take care of it, but there you know there's a defect on those things
and there's not gonna do, Volvo never warranties those things for very long and
especially not an 11-year old one, that if you are worried you can sell it for
close to what you paid, I say do that now, David says I
have a Ford Fusion Hybrid that jerks when it switches from gas to
battery at 47 miles per hour is that normal, if not what's the issue
well it's not normal normal of course they don't do that when they're brand new
you've got one of those fancy hybrid cars and now it's getting old and
as they age, man think it expensive to repair, super expensive to repair if
that's all it does and works fine otherwise personally I'd live with it
but if you do want to see what's wrong, you're gonna have to pay a guy like me, I
have equipment to work on them, hook up their fancy $5,000 and up scan tool take it
for a road test until it does that problem, then we push a button and the
button saves the data for the last 45 seconds, so once it starts shuttering and
doing that I push the save and it saves back in time 45 seconds, cuz it's always
saving 45 seconds then I analyze the data and see if there's any codes and
see what could possibly be wrong, guy like me a really good mechanic is gonna
need it for that, but if you can do that and you want to pay for that go ahead
and you'll get more information but when he tell you what it's gonna cost to fix
it you'll probably say whoa I don't want spend that kind of money, so if you never
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