rev up your engines today I'm going to talk about Chevy Silverados this
particular one is a 2015 LTZ pretty much top of the line for them
that's a sharp-looking pickup as you can see it is kind of a show truck as you
can see here it's got the short bed on it it's not a full sized bed it's more
of a show-off truck than anything else look at the rims they're not made for
going through mud but is you gonna see here you can already see the quality's
kind of cheap okay a time lock that's why it's on lock look pull on it nothing
happens you got to jerk it around it's just cheaply made
tailgate I can feel the plastic already coming apart five years old and the
latch is starting to go I know it's gonna snap off I fixed a bunch of these
come on now yeah I mean this was a $43,000 truck when it was new when it's
only five years old cheap plastic wrap on the handles it's a truck come on now
when we check under the hood it's got a nice v8 engine puts out 355
horsepower but of course all that power comes at a price on a big heavy truck
this particular one gets about 15 miles a gallon in town 19-20 on a highway
now as we check the interior the truck has lots of room turn the key and yeah
still got a key which I like starts right up the electronic stuff but it
don't have that many miles on it it's got 67,201 miles and that's small
mileage and barely five years old it's got a big problem got the AC on the wall
but it just got room temperature air coming out of it
it's those refrigerant the customer filled it up and it lasted a few weeks
and now it's blowing warm again I met whole video on this you can watch it but
basically what I did was I emptied it all out with my recycling machine I
filled it back up again put leak dye in normally you'll see where the leak has
come with a dye but it didn't show anything till I got my sniffing machine
out it smells refrigerant leaks that's a normal beat when it beeps fast means
errors are fragrantly but as you can see there it checks for
other gases too I just did a couple of tacos and I guess they're all gassy from
my mouth because it's beeping from that but in this case when I stuck it inside
the AC dash it started beeping meaning that the evaporator inside the dash is leaking
that's bad not that it's leaking due to their horrendous modern designs this is
a 15 hour job tearing the whole dash apart to replace it it's well over with parts
and labor and everything a $2,000 job on a vehicle it's just barely five years
old it's got 60,000 miles on it to me that's
uncalled for that is just poor manufacturing by GM like I've been
saying it'll make the greatest stuff anymore now it's bad enough that it's
leaking but in the olden days the GM truck had the evaporator here under the
hood I could change an evaporator out in about an hour not 14 15 hours one hour
but they decided to move it all inside so you got to take the whole dash apart and
like I say it's a 14-15 hour labor job and the cost of labor the cost of parts
be around 2,000 bucks to fix the stupid leak on something that should look like
that fast again there's my 94 Celica 240,000 miles
old as the hill still got the original evaporator and still blows freezing cold
GM quality not there anymore now this baby's got all the creature
comforts it's got heated and cooled electric seats and when you go in the
back you can see a back seat isn't a joke it's got a lot of space to sit in a
nice little area to put stuff in cheaper quality and design even an air
conditioning system blown out here like the Toyota Sequoia I showed the other day
you just get near from the front they could have easily put Vents in here but
I guess it would have cost him too much or maybe they couldn't figure out how to
do it more interested in having an armrest it's got cup holders in it now
you're not gonna get stuck with this think as you can see here's the front
end and there's the drive shaft on the right side it's all wheel drive so
you're not gonna get stuck in the back it's got a big beefy round here
got put oversized shocks on it got a big old
tire you know it's a solid built truck you'll argue on that and as I say
when you climb inside plenty comfy it's a nice comfy big truck traction
control on or off and you're gonna just the petals and stuff you know that's got
a lot of creature comforts there's no arguing with that let's start it off
take it for a spin it's got the obligatory backup camera that's got decent cornering for a
big old pickup truck we're not gonna wait for this guy who rudely pulled out
in front of us and that typical these days got some pickup they all the engine
hey rise like a typical pickup truck it out you're gonna feel bumps they're
sloshed out by the weight and everything but you see when we get these bumps
rumbles around it's a pickup truck it's not a Lexus or a Cadillac you know it's
a pickup truck but for a pickup truck rally it's got pretty smooth ride
good enough when you going straight not hitting any big bumps and if you used to
driving the land yachts around like I do when I was a young kid you got a point
and steer you know it's not the best of steering but you know it's a big old
truck that's what it's gonna act like like I said it's got a pretty cavernous
back seat yeah climb inside it's not particularly cramped this is a tiny
little backseat it's got plenty of room but I do have to say for almost $50,000
five years ago and this thing already needs two thousand dollars plus of
air-conditioning work on it the quality just isn't there as the old saying goes
chrome doesn't get you home really chrome veneer is very thin it's what
lies under that veneer that's important so when you consider what's under this
veneer I'm not very impressed with this I could have done a heck of a better job
for all that money and there's some bonus questions and
answers enrique garcia says how reliable are the toyota yaris
they're not bad vehicles I've customers with them with 150,000 miles or more the
kind of little little tinny washing machine cars you go down the road you're
gonna feel every bump cuz they're little they got a smaller wheelbase they're a
basic car their interiors are kind of ugly and not all that comfortable but if
you want a car to get from here to there and especially if you're buying to use
one cheap think it's no go for years and only give me a decent knock around car
me I mean if I was gonna get a car I'd much rather get a Toyota Corolla 4-door
than the Yaris cuz it rides so much better than nice looking car too but if
you want a real cheap car to get around and they're not bad hot ski 83 says Scotty
what's your take on a Toyota Venza alright there were great cars but it was
a marketing failure by Toyota they had either six or four cylinder engine most
had six and they were an SUV now they were in between the matrix and like
a lexus RX they were in between and they're in between the price and it just
never really fit you know like the matrix had cost a lot less people that
really wanted luxury went out got Lexus the same company as Toyota venza
they never really took off they were actually priced to quite a bit too
high for what you got because you didn't get enough for the high price the lower
priced ones hey you got pretty much the same thing other than you didn't get a
v6 engine and a matrix but they're plenty fast enough with a 4 it was
a marketing failure but as a manufacturing car it wasn't a failure
they're good cards they have any particular problems that were just in
the wrong price range for what you got and then they stopped making them
joe says scotty which ones should I buy toyota 86 vs. Scion fr-s vs. Subaru BRZ well
they're all made by Subaru so my advice is buy the one that costs the least if
you want one cuz they're all made in a Subaru factory Toyota doesn't make them
they're all made in the Subaru factory so what the heck by the whatever the
cheapest priced one you could find cuz they're all basically the same vehicle
made by Subaru in a Subaru Factory and then just rebadge this Toyota's or Scion
so wherever you get the best price go ahead get a new good vehicles you know
they're not Toyotas they're boxer engines they're not Toyota engines the
Subaru boxer engines if you want a boxer engine go ahead but if you don't like
them don't buy it cuz they're all boxer they can have problems as they age, salad
dressing says what's the cheapest and more reliable car for a new driver
okay cheaper reliable mmm of course you look at like a Toyota Corolla or an old
Toyota Camry they can run forever even with high mileage I meant people buying
with one hundred and fifty thousand and they're still driving them with two
hundred and fifty thousand you don't want to pay much for a car that's got a
lot of mileage but there's such reliable cars and since they made millions of
miles I think they sold over 30 million Corollas parts are available they get
wrecked they're in a junkyard so you can get used parts cheap if you wrecked yours
and you want to bolt some parts on for what your wrecks oh really
Toyota Corolla would probably be the best final one and if it's old oh yeah
it still runs good it could be a good vehicle, 72 novices do you think the
insane incentives being offered by the manufacturer boost sales of their
overpriced vehicles as far as I'm concerned the Great Recession is already
here and it's probably gonna last for quite some time not just the virus but
everything else a bloated stock market the rich taking everything into people
the middle class as usual getting screwed over like they always do when
all the deals have to pay for everything I think they're gonna have a real hard
time selling these expensive vehicles no to keep making the bigger and bigger
SUVs I saw one the other that got paid eighty thousand dollars for an
american-made SUV and I'm like that's insanity well I guess a few months from
now I don't think they're gonna be selling that many of these 80 thousand
SUVs anymore so you can get all these incentives you want no interest blah
blah blah but I don't care I'd rather pay cash for a car that's five grand
used and get no interest on an easy house another car
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