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Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to help you answer the eternal question, what is it time to say
goodbye to your old car, now sometimes it's quite obvious, as in the case of this
old Chrysler, it's all smashed up, the alarm system won't turn itself off, the
interior is just falling apart, and it doesn't run for more than a few seconds,
so it's a pretty easy decision in this case, to send it to the auto graveyard,
but often it's much harder to make a clear-cut decision on whether you should
keep putting money into a car, or give up and get another one, so today I'm going to
give you some tips on how to decide whether you should get a new car or not,
now you can't just go by mileage for example my Celica here has two hundred
and thirty four thousand odd miles on it, and it still runs like a clock, shifts like
a dream, has freezing cold air conditioning, so you can't just go by mileage, now the
real trick is deciding what problems your car has, or doesn't have, to decide
whether you should get rid of it or not, for example, if your car is like mine and
doesn't burn any oil between oil changes, the engine is in pretty good shape, but
if you find your cars going through an awful lot of oil, means the engine is
just flat starting to wear out, and it's time to get a new car, because engine
work on modern cars is very expensive, and often it's never done right and the
car never runs right again anyway, now with the use of computers going wild in
modern cars, you can take advantage of that by using one of these giant scan
tools to check all that stuff, because when you hook one of these machines up,
you can check virtually all the computer electronics on the car, and if you don't
have any serious problems this will tell you right away, I personally spend a lot
of my work time using these computers to tell customers what's wrong with their
cars, and sometimes I just say, hey you might think about getting a new one,
because the electronics are just going out on this one, and that's where you
need to find a good honest mechanic like me, because unfortunately there's lots of
guys out there that aren't going to tell you the truth, over the years I've met
lots of mechanics that will tell people they got a decent car because they think, hey
in the next couple of years I'm going to make a lot of money fixing that junker,
so you need a good mechanic to give you advice, one who cares to give good
service to his customers and not just see them as a way to make money, and I've
been doing this for the last forty five years and have lots of happy customers
and I don't have to spend a nickel on advertising, because if you make
people happy, believe me they're going to tell people about you, and you'll have
more customers than you can ever handle, so you can be honest with the ones that
you have, you don't have to make up stuff, you just have to fix the things they
actually are broken and telling the truth, because the truth isn't always as
obvious as this junker Chrysler behind me, and with modern cars getting more and
more complicated, you really need to find an expert who understands them, who's
going to be honest with you, to tell you the truth about whether your car really
needs to be replaced or whether you can fix it at a reasonable price,
I became a mechanic years ago, because I didn't trust anybody to work on my cars
so I figured, why not learn how to true it myself, and although I seem to be
somewhat of a dying breed these days, there's still plenty of guys like me
around that you can find that will give you honest advice, but if you can't find a
guy like me, here I am on the Internet, you can get a hold of me and ask
me a question I'll answer it, and I can certainly tell you if the car you
already have is a problem car and is starting to go out, and whether your
choice of a new car is a good one or not too, because that's half the battle buying
the right car in the first place, and remember if you've got any questions just
visit Scotty Kilmer Channel.