rev up your engines
Jimmy Joe says Scotty I bought a 2017 Cadillac ct-6 with 30,000 miles on it I paid
40 grand for this car what's your opinion well my opinion is they saw you
coming a mile away Cadillacs actually have horrendous
resale value paid wait wait too much money for that car I had a customer and
had one of those a little bit earlier once the same basic car and he got rid
of consider it was costing too much money because it was breaking all the
time he paid way too much for car that has bad track record it's relatively
fast don't drive it as fast as you can because if you do you'll burn out the
engine and transmission faster than normal now if you drive it
conservatively you might get lucky and it might last you way overpaid for that
car one of those things of use don't ever believe all these ridiculous books
like Edmunds and stuff that give you the value as a car those companies that now
give the estimate of what cars are worth are owned by giant corporations that
sell lots of used cars so of course they want the value to be as high as possible
because it's the stuff that they're selling just like take a diamond ring to
a jeweler to get it appraised they'll say that ring is worth $5,000 then say
what will you give me for that ring and they don't even want to give
you a 1500 unfortunately you got taken with the price but you got it and if you
try to sell it now you're gonna lose a fortune so baby that car take care of it
change the oil all the time and pray that it lasts at least eighty or ninety
thousand miles before it starts breaking down because all those Cadillacs break
down as they age they're just GM you know they're made on the same assembly
lines as all the other jams and they have just as poor quality control as the
other ones the days of it's a Cadillac or the Cadillac of whatever they were at
the top of the line well that's not true it hasn't been true for decades, any
chief says 2014 Audi a5 2.0 ninety eight thousand miles burns a quart of oil every
thousand miles how much trouble am I in, is this
common well it's very common you're in a lot of trouble because you've got a
two-liter audi those things are just endless money bits as they age the
problem is yours is six years old it's worth not much money if you sell it
now you're not gonna get much money for it so if you keep adding on you can
drive it what the heck keep driving if you are curious you
never know there might be some fool out there you might just put it up for sale
i price and see if anybody's dumb enough to pay a large money for then get rid of
it I had a customer do so once on an Audi I wouldn't have given her 1,500
bucks for that car she sold it to some fool out in the country for ninety eight
hundred dollars so you never know but you got it you're not gonna get much for
it you keep adding the oil as it burns what the heck I've had customers drive
those things years that way and and just keep adding oil as it burns out but it's
a good lesson to you never buy another one because their money pits and they're
not all that well built they burn oil as they age they're not like you know this
old solid German reliable run forever vehicles they haven't been that way for
a long time the last audi that I saw that was made like that
was back in the 1960s when they started bring him into United States they burnt
p30 says Scotty got an 07 vw gulf 179 thousand kilometers okay so that's
like what I don't know eighty-five thousand miles cranks but won't fire
always starts on the second try okay when they crank but they don't start on
a first try and then they're doing a secondly a fuel problem it's not sending
fuel the fuel pump is probably weak haven't pressure tested and if it fails
the test go ahead and put another pump on it it's typical on Volkswagens if
it's not that sometimes it's just that the fuel injectors are getting dirty and
kind of clogged up you might need to try some fuel injector cleaner and gas tank
which helps a little or pay up professional mechanic to use this
pressure machine and pressure clean the fuel injectors because a dirty fuel
injector can do that too but I vote so I gets more commonly it's the fuel pump
starting to go out so we have it pressure tested and while you're at it
you might have a mechanic if you get a mechanical look at it check the MAF
sensor and that's air flow sensor cuz they're notorious for having problems
sometimes just clean it I got a video that shows you how to clean them they
have sensor with MAF spray sensor cleaner and that could fix it do it you
try that yourself Sh'ma asks hey I'm seeing my nissan altima o2014 the
the power steering fluid is overfilled should I remove it or leave
it well if you don't remove it or remove
itself here's how it works power steering pumps they can put upwards of 1,500 psi
pressure pounds per square inch that's a lot of pressure right as they run they
get hot and what does fluid do is it gets hot it expands that's the reason
this says fill to the fill line cuz if you overfill it what will happen is when it
gets hot well then spend and then leak out so if you don't
empty it out it'll actually empty itself out they do have vent valves on the cap
so that they don't blow anything up so to get too high it'll just leak out of
the vent valve and it might make a mess so you might as well as when it's cold
put it to the line suck out the excess stuff because if you know like I say if
it's really overfilled it won't have to itself get hot it'll expand that little
leak and make kind of a mess so it really would be a good idea for you to
take it out now put it where it should be
mark 2018 ask Scotty I got a 95 Nissan Maxima one hundred and sixty three
thousand miles it's hard to shift from park to reverse
my foots on the brake I have to pull really hard but all the other gears work
fine okay pray it's a simple thing and it often is
is that you need a new shifter cable you're pulling on your automatic
transmission shifter there and the bottom of that there's a loop the loop
goes through a metal cable and the other end of the metal cable goes in the
transmission where it pulls the lever it's probably worn out I mean what that
thing is it's twenty-five years old so you're probably gonna need a new cable
something they are kind of a pain in the butt to put in because they go under and
then under the car and under transmission go get a new cable or if
you really cheap get some wd-40 take the plastic crap off the inside where the
shifter is spray that under the cable and then go under the car and spring the
other end of the cable and if you're lucky maybe it's rusty and that'll help
it off but my notes for my experience you're just gonna have to buy a new
cable put a new cable assembly on it challenge your ask Scotty can you give
me advice about a Dodge Challenger I want to buy a 2015 with a v8 engine 5.7
are they reliable cars ok well I'm not a big chrysler fan by any stretch of the
imagination but those are screaming muscle cars they're in the problem lies
a five-year-old muscle car generally people buy muscle cars to drive like
absolute lunatics so in five years they generally pretty much destroy most of
the engine of transmission drive out that way you're buying that from an
older guy who doesn't drive like a maniac
could be a very good car most guys buy those cars are younger or they're old
guys that are speed demons my grandfather even when it was in the 70s
he was a maniac driver he'd regularly drive over a hundred miles
when he was already getting someplace you would want that thing checked out with a
fine-tooth comb buy a real good mechanic like myself before you even thought
about buying being that all they could be okay but yeah people ragged the heck
out of them and when you're buying a used car like that be very very leery
now you can't get a much better price because they do a bad resale value
because people do beat of an antenna to have a bad reputation that's horrible
used-car so maybe you could find a good one with low mileage that has been taken care of but you
got to get it checked out SUVs are very popular
hardly anybody drives around in our cars anymore everybody's buying SUVs in the
United States SUVs inherently by their size their
heights they're not aerodynamic and people want to reason the amount of
power they don't want a wimpy one it doesn't go they don't get such hot gas
mileage so it turns out that since people are buying all these SUVs the gas
mileage ratings of each company actually going down because the fuel efficient
ones are the small little cars not the big SUVs even a midsize SUV is pretty
much of a gas realize that you can't make a heavy vehicle that's high up in
the air it's gonna get really good gas mods because on a highway the wind's
blowing on it it's big it takes up a lot of space it's got to push a lot of air
out of the way to move down the road and as I said previously Americans want to
drive fast they don't want some lumpy little thing that's got 40 horsepower
and it's 300 horsepower so yeah they're not gonna get such great cats much and
you're driving around trying to mandate better gas much the people are betting
with their dollars they like SUVs they don't really care that much about gas
mileage it until price gets really high eventually well guess liens are only so
much gasoline out there it's a limited commodity so eventually the price is
gonna go up that's just common sense SUV's will start to kind of fade away
grandfather big Cadillacs with these giant straight eighths eight cylinder in
a row huge things got like three four miles a gallon people didn't care when
gasoline was ten cents a gallon but when it started to go up was the end of those
dinosaurs so eventually the SUVs will be taken over by something else as time
goes on but as it stands now it's making all against much ready it's good out for
all the companies I can't find Amazon basic engine all you
spoke up if they stopped selling it well I just looked on my phone and they're
selling it there it is all over the place I buy the stuff online now and
have it shipped there so I don't have to even deal with driving down a road to
buy oil and I get a better price there anyway so I'm real happy with that stuff
check it again you must have some kind of a glitch all I did to find out was go
to my Amazon and just type to the Amazon basic oil and there they all were they
showed up so musta made a mistake because I just found it in a microsecond
looks like Ford is getting serious about electric cars they're creating what they
call a Mustang inspired SUVs gonna be an electric vehicle and they're gonna offer
free access to all these 35,000 charging ports and you're on the United States
get free electricity from these things they're obviously serious about it ford
starts mass-producing they got dealerships all over the place be given
free access to all these parts for two years
take Tesla what do you do if it's broken they really don't even have any dealers
here in Houston there's a Tesla place you can buy cars it's in the Galleria
that's a rich shopping mall then our mechanics what if they break boards got
a whole set up of dealerships or people that can fix stuff give sales they can
do all kinds of stuff their infrastructures already in place they
could plug in kind of as a joke electric cars into that infrastructure
Tesla is what they make them and then you need them fixed take them back to
the factory places to fix them soon as electric cars do start to get popular
there's gonna have to be people who can fix some people that have a giant setup
for repairing them like for parts that you can buy readily and places you can
charge you up again so I mean if Ford is getting serious into it and I can see
they are cuz they invested a 500 million in this electric truck company in
Michigan do they seem to be getting serious about this electrifies Elon Musk
I'd be kind of quaking in my boots with the dust look other people come into the
marketplace say it's a competitive world now it's no longer tesla or
nothing it's gonna be a whole bunch of them out there eventually and if there's
an infrastructure behind him hey that infrastructure goes a long way towards
selling a product, so if you never want to miss another one
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