rev up your engines, zack says Scotty my old family are GM fans, do you
know when GM car started to make them poorly, my guess would be when they went
bankrupt around 2009, well they started to make them poorly long before that, even
in the early 2000s they started to make a lot cheaper stuff, I don't know how
true it is, but I talked to an engineer and an engineer told me one time that GM
and Ford were going neck to neck and people thought, Oh GM's are made better
than the Fords and then they did a little research and GM found out that
they were spending 20% more building their vehicles and that's why they were
better vehicles back decades ago, well according to the engineer that I was
talking to, GM looked at and said gee were spending 20% money more than Ford
building our cars, let's make them cheaper, so they did and then the quality
went down, I know if it's true or not but an engineer told me that, but they
have been going but down since the early 2000s, it's just the nature of the
beast with corporations these days, they want to make a profit and they want to
make things as cheap as they can and pay people that make them as little as
possible, so they make more profit for the corporation that's the way that
things go and sometimes it takes the wrong turn like GM did and make products
that you don't hold up like they used to, I learned to drive on a Chevrolet
Biscayne the thing was like a tank it had a
302 v8 in it and that thing just ran forever but not the new ones their not made
that wa,y no Oberto says Scotty I am seriously considering buying the
2019 Land Cruisers, do you consider it to be
the best quality built SUV I'm aware of the gas mileage, yes they are for that
kind of a vehicle if you're willing to spend that kind of money and get that
kind of low gas mileage, they are well build vehicles my customers with them are all
pretty well happy with them, other than the horrible gas mileage and if you're
willing to spend that kind of money, they can last a long time, I got customers
with those thing that have three hundred and fifty thousand miles on them and they're
still running strong, yeah if you don't mind spending that kind of money go
right ahead, me I'm too cheap I'd never spend that kind of money, Rambo ask
Scotty what do you think about me buying a 2004 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
all wheel drive with 140,000 miles straight 6 for six grand
from my uncle as a first car, well first of all some uncle he should
give you the car, now I'm not a Jeep fan by any stretch of the imagination but
back in 2004 they were building much better ones than they are today now that
Fiat owns them, that straight six-cylinder engine can last forever I've seen those
things go 400,000 miles, good engines the transmission that's an OK transmission
it's not great but it's not totally horrible, it's a 15 year old Jeep try to
get it for a little bit less than $6,000 see if you can barter it, they can be fun
vehicles to drive around, realize they're somewhat gas hogs because jeeps are
trucks their high up in the air, their not aerodynamic or anything but it can be a
fun thing to drive, just try to get it a little bit of lower, Scotty my SUV keeps
going out of alignment I had new shocks replaced and no one seems to get the
alignment right, any ideas what as to what it can be,
here's the thing, front end alignment work we're talking about thousands of an
inches here thousands of an inches there it's gotta be a pro who knows what he's
doing, so your best to find a front-end shop that's all they do, here
in Houston I use cotton brothers front end, they know what they're doing they
can fix any alignment problem, now the second thing is, modern vehicles
especially the SUVs they're not like vehicles when I was young, when I was
young they had all kinds of adjustments there were like six different
adjustments you could do, today a lot of times the only adjustment you can do is
the caster and the camber that's it you can't do anything else, so it might
be that the alignment is off because the struts bent or an a frame is bent, that's
why you have to start with a really good front end guy, who knows what he's doing
and does good work you have to start there, because otherwise all bets are off,
Devon says Scotty and I got a 93 3 liter 4runner, it does 16-17 mile per gallon
on the highway but does five to six in the city any reason why, I live in Fresno
with hardly any traffic on the streets Thanks, okay first of all, when you're
driving it in town does it get into top gear, if you drive it really slow and the
transmission doesn't shift into top gear, you're gonna get crappy gas mileage
like that, 16 to 17 is what those things get on a highway, so it's working
normally at highway speed, so I'm assuming it's not shifting into the top
gear when you're driving in town, go 35 miles an hour count the shifts as it shifts
and it should be into the top gear if it isn't, you got a problem with your
transmission not shifting into gear that's about the only thing that would
make sense cuz if you have any other problem with the vehicle, it's gonna get
horrible gas mileage on the highway too, the only difference is, it's shifting
into the higher gear on the highway maybe it's not doing it in town, you should
still get at least 12 or something in the city not 5 or 6, so if you never want
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