rev up your engines, stone says Scotty I got an 07 honda civic sport coupe
with a five-speed manual transmission, when I shift to fifth and accelerate the
RPMs go up faster than the speed, well you need a new clutch your clutch is
slipping, fifth gear is the lowest ratio one, so the more torque your engine has
the easier it's gonna slip, so when you get into fifth and it starts that, means
the clutch is starting to slip so put a clutch in
it soon ,before it wrecks the flywheel flywheels cost a lot of money, the
clutch kits only like, you can get a good a clutch kit for that for 120 bucks all
the new parts, but you don't get a flywheel, you buy that rather than wait
until it eats up the flywheel and then you're gonna spend three times that on
the flywheel alone so, it's slipping it's time to put another clutch in it, what
Josie does TV says Scotty my automatic transmission won't move on its own in
drive in really cold weather even after warms up for 34 minutes unless I hit the gas,
is this normally cold weather it's a 2000 New Beetle, no it's not normal it
means your transmission is starting to go out, so baby the thing, warming up
before you drive it, and as soon as it gets warm in your area, and the weather's
so nutty who knows what that's gonna be, sell the thing, because it means
your automatic transmission is starting to go out, that's typical in a New Beetle,
and in order to redo an automatic transmission in a new beetle, the last time
I had a customer have that done, I don't do it but I know guys that do it they're
experts, and it costs them about five grand to have it completely done over so
that it worked right, so my advice is baby it, warm it up, and as soon as the
weather gets warm outside sell that thing and get rid of it never buy
another one, Marvin says hey Scotty is a 2007 Volvo s60 r all-wheel drive any
good thanks well you know they are fun to drive, 60
r's are zippy they're fun to drive around, it's all wheel drive on top of
being a Volvo and I'm sure it's an automatic transmission, they're endless
money pits as they age, every customer of mine that bought one of those things, they
liked them to begin with but as they started to break down, they started
thinking hmm did I buy the wrong car, and if they kept it another year or
two they realize yes they bought the wrong car and they got rid of it,
now if you're thinking about buying one of those things, it's an 07 it's 12
years old, if you can get a dirt cheap and keep it for a weekend toy it can be
fun, but I would not buy a car like that pay any kind of serious money and expect
to drive it every day hitting says Scotty do you have any
experience with a used 2011 Hyundai Genesis v6 as a nice commuter car, hear
they're relatively reliable, yes they are relatively reliable but that's sad, I
would not buy a v6 Hyundai that's used with many miles on it, I mean if it was
low mileage yeah if you get a good price you might be able to drive it a while,
but if it's got 100 something thousand miles on it, I personally
wouldn't buy it because the v6 Hyundais as they age they're very expensive
to repair, their the type of car that if somebody buys one new and they drive it
for a hundred thousand miles and they don't have any problems, they like it then
great you know, but then it's time to sell it on rather than to try to keep
going, because those things won't go like a Toyota or Honda where they'll go to
three four hundred thousand miles, they become money pits long before that, they
have a much more limited lifespan Thomas Hall says what's good for buying
classic Ford Bronco what year should I get,
Ford Broncos if you like the Bronco style, and they were really the original
SUV when it comes down to it, go get an older one that's carbureted, you don't
what the ones that have the throttle body fuel injection, because they had a
lot of problems with them, but get an old carbureted one and fix it up, because
they're simple, they can run a long time all the parts are readily available, you
can still get parts for them, because people like them, and they had common engines that
Ford used in a lot of their stuff, and I got customers with them that love them it's
their toys, of course down here in Texas they don't rust, so you have to worry
about the frames rotting, you would just say if you're up north you don't want to
buy one with the rotten frame, crawl under it and whack it with a hammer, and if
the frames are cranking and rotting then don't even buy it then it's not worth
anything OP says is a 2000 Pontiac
Firebird 3.8 a good sports car, okay here's the thing the 3.8 is a v6 engine,
most people don't want a v6 engine in that Firebird they want the v8, now if
you're happy with the power and speed that the v6 engine puts out, go right
ahead just realize that it's never gonna be a collector's item so don't pay a lot
of money for it, because everybody wants the v8 engines they don't want those v6,
now if you are gonna buy one, you want to make sure that the engine and
transmission are in good shape, pay a guy like me to check it out for sure, because
they can have problems, their GM products but if it checks out ok and you get it at
a good price, it can be a fun car to drive
around, just realize it's never gonna be worth that much money because it's got
the six-cylinder engine that nobody really wants that collects them, so if you
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