rev up your engines now people always asking me Scotty should I buy a Kia SUV
well one of my costumers did this is a 2016 Kia Sorento I'm gonna show you the
pluses and minuses of it now the base model like this that has a four-cylinder
engine in it they cost pretty much the same as a Toyota rav4 in 2016 if it was
a base one this first on this one was around $26,000 but then again 2016 you
could have gotten a rav4 for just about the same exact price now if you're
talking about adding a luxury on yeah the Toyota luxury models cost a lot more
than the Kia luxury models do but for a basic model you no longer saving the
same amount of money that you would years ago when the kids were a lot cheap
take a look inside it this baby was made in Georgia
so if you've gone for a luxury model yeah with an SUV you're gonna save a
reasonable money buying a luxury Kia versus the luxury Toyota but in a base
model now you're not really saving that much money now so far and 4 years
ownership my customers real happy with this he's put on sixty five thousand
miles another than changing the oil and filter and today I'm changing the front
brake pads he hasn't really put any money into the car at all now when we look under the hood
she's got a four-cylinder gasoline direct engine take this crap off we can
see it better high tech double overhead cam engine it's got a
timing chain not one of those crappy rubber timing belts timing chains you
don't have to worry about it's a high-tech car this engine was rated at
17 miles a gallon in town and 23 on our way we're inequivalent 2016 rav4 it's a
lot better gas mileage it gets 23 City 30 highway and when you look at it
pretty much the same size as the red floor it's not any bigger or smaller
it's comfortable inside besides the cloth seats but they got nice support
it's got all the bells and whistles in any modern car has a nice back seat it's
got a decent little trunk and of course like all of these the seats in the back
fold down so you can really care a lot of stuff so it's pretty comparable
to a rav4 though the rav4 gets a lot better gas mileage I do have to say they had
engine problems the ones that were built in Georgia originally got a custom with
the 2012 the engine blew up on it caught fire that was back then they haven't had
any problems in the 2016 up that I've seen personally or that I've read about
so let's say you're thinking about buying one of these things use 14 15 16
or newer you definitely don't want the older ones 2012 they had engine problems
there's no arguing that but if you're more into speed but a more horsepower
than the Toyota rav4 stood back in 2016 they went from 185 horsepower up to 290
horsepower where the rav4 are went from 176 to only 194 so you'd get more
horsepower one of these is that's what you're looking for just realized you're
gonna get worse gas mileage one of these and you're willing a rav4 and also
realize that when I'm talking price on these things I'm talking about the
suggested retail price you're gonna find in most areas in the United States
especially you can actually pay a bit more for the Toyotas and you can often
get the kias for a bit less they often have sales buy them at the end of the year
you're never going to get Toyota to come down much on their cars because they're
popular they sell them all they're not gonna go down where the kias they'll
often have sales where you can get a new Kia quite a bit cheaper than a new
Toyota which is what my customer did here his previous car was a rav4 had
a ton of miles on it decide he was gonna try something else
he thought he'd try the Kia and for what he bought here in use he would've had to
pay about $6,000 more for a rav4 vs. Kia that he actually bought and so I asked
him how do you feel about it he's had it for four years but only
65,000 miles nevertheless he said he's totally satisfied with vehicle he likes
the extra acceleration now as for the transmission in this thing it's a
6-speed automatic which designed and built by the Koreans Kia they mass
produce a six-speed automatic they make tons of them and I do have to say I
personally have never seen one of these six-speed Automatic sand the key is a
model ones go bad and that's respect Kia made a
smart move this model they weren't using those crappy jatco transmissions the
company that Nissan owns that are some of the worst ever put out they do it
in-house and as such they've proven to be very dependable now they're very
zippy cars but on the other hand you're gonna get a little bit worse gas mileage
that's just how the world works you can't take off like a maniac and get
great gas mileage a quick or a transmissions just to the higher gears
the better the gas mileage the slower it shifts to higher gears the faster the
acceleration and they're going for acceleration on these things as you can
see they're stylish SUVs there's nothing wrong with the style and when we go
under it's a traditional front-wheel drive vehicle drive axles on the left
and right side it's a traditional front-wheel drive with the transverse
engine and transmission guy on the back you can see it's just front-wheel drive
there's just regular wheels back here with independent suspension it's got a
nice suspension system and since they put the spare tire under here it leaves
more room inside and it's got the setup on the top so you can put any kind of roof
racks on here you can attach if you want a little more speed but get a little
worse gas mileage the newer ones like this 2016 are proving to be pretty
dependable unlike the earlier ones when they had production problems in Georgia
and the six-speed automatic transmission scheme makes a zillion of them they had
no real failure with them and especially if you want a more luxurious SUV you can
get a higher line Kia a lot cheaper than a higher line Toyota my son bought a
brand-new Tacoma but he went base model because he saw if you were to gotten the
v6 with all the add-ons it would have cost him another seven eight thousand
dollars and it's the same basic vehicle know me I'm chief if I was gonna buy an
SUV for some reason I started losing my mind I was gonna buy a brand new vehicle
I would buy a brand new base rav4 over to Kia if I was a luxury guy and when it
all the bells and whistles I'd probably buy a brand new Kia with all the bells
and whistles and save quite a bit of money so I'll depending on what you want
the Kia the modern ones could be a decent buy for you I'm talking new
vehicles here you want to buy a Kia buy a new one or one that's really
mileage and don't buy one that say earlier than 2014 cuz they did have
engine problems with them and here's some bonus questions and answers cache
access Scotty I got a manual transmission 1999 Mazda Miata cylinder
number three misfire trips on the code but it runs fine what could it be
okay it's a very small misfire do you think it runs fine the computer should
measure things and thousandths of a second so they see glitches they're
gonna say you have a misfire may or may not make it run bad your case you said
it's not making it run bad the things old it's a 99 I would change the spark
plug wire set I knows is cheap there's only four wires all the spark plugs see
what happens now if a dolphin's going away it can be all kinds of things from
a head gasket starting to go on number three valve spring fuel injector could
be a lot of stuff but you say it's running fine so change the four spark plugs
change the four spark plug wires odds are it's going away from my experience
on those that almost always fixes them if they run fine but
tripping misfire code, Gloria Bakken says my 2006 hyundai alternative keeps
going out third one in six months the dashboard and lights blinking after the
last one put on yesterday something's killing the alternator help alternators
charge the battery how do they do it there's wires that go between the
alternator and the battery and your ignition key somewhere you probably have
a short that's not working correctly corrosion also have your battery low
tested because realize the alternator and a battery what do they do they work
in tandem and if either of them is weak they're gonna destroy the other one all
right a customer once you can put in alternators in the car and so he brought
it to me and said Scotty will you check it out
first thing I checked out was his battery and my battery tester machine cost me
nine hundred bucks not a cheap one said bad cell and battery replaced battery
now a bad cell in the battery can still start and run it for quite some time but
that will end up destroying the alternator so you want to road
test it and pray just the battery if it isn't you got a wire and shorting you
gotta find where the shortage between an alternator and the battery if they keep
dying while driving down the road Jose Padilla says Scotty
I bought a brand new head lamps from my 09 Pontiac g6 I need to adjust some
only problems they won't move you said headlamps I am assuming you
mean the headlamp assembly that's what the headlamp is if you just change the
bulbs that's a completely different thing but I'm assuming that you mean the
whole assembly you bought those assembly somewhere they might just be cheaply
made Chinese crap I've seen it I've had customers buy them and then the
adjusters don't work because they're so cheap they don't move the things up and
down if that's the case you just got yourself a cheap thing that doesn't work
right and I've seen that so much from some of the Chinese critics out there
if you turn them and nothing happens do it at night believe me you just see more
do it at night against your garage door and if you turn it and you see they
don't move either way cuz you're supposed to have back and forth
horizontal adjustment and the vertical adjustment if you turn all those and it
doesn't just anything you just got a crappy thing now if you're just talking
about you just change the bulbs that would mean that your old assembly just
worn out and all that stuff is plastic crap these days a lot of times it's just
pinned and won't turn anymore because it's so cheap the gears are broken
inside but I'm assuming you bought a new one and if you did you got a bad new one
and it isn't moving, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
videos, remember to ring that Bell