rev up your engines, dog 996 oh hey Scotty what's your opinion on Marvel
Mystery Oil, Marvel Mystery all I've been using that stuff since I was a kid, it is
a very good oil we get old junkie engines we'd soak them in it, break the
rust loose sometimes get them running, it's a very good oil for getting rust
and crud out, the thing is you can't use it like we did in the olden days we
would actually pour it in the carburetor and it would help lubricate the valves
and clean stuff out, some old timers will continue doing that on modern cars, no
don't do that because it's an oil and if you pour oil in your air filter, that
won't ruin the catalytic converter, it can ruin the oxygen sensor, you don't
want to do it on a modern car and the old ones you could, but it is a very good
oil if you got old rusty stuff you can soak em in them, you got an old car that
you're fixing up you can soak the stuff in it and put it in and lubricate stuff
with it, but you don't pour it into the gas of a modern car you don't do it in a
modern car, mr.sheng says yo Scotty what are your thoughts on a 2014 BMW X3 with
40,000 miles for $19,000, well if you consider how much money some fool paid
for that thing when it was brand new, you're saving a whole bunch of money
but they become endless money pits, and your decision on that would be, how long are
you gonna keep it, cuz let's say you're gonna keep it for two or three years
well if you keep that thing for two or three years and then try to sell it and
then the thing is gonna be eight nine years old
you paid 19 grand you'll be lucky if you get six for it, so if you're willing to
lose that kind of money and buy a BMW go ahead, the mileage is low enough that it
shouldn't have any serious problems, but if you plan on keeping that thing
forever don't waste your money you'll lose all 19,000 when it starts falling
apart and then nobody's gonna buy it off of you when it needs an engine or
transmission, osvaldo D says hey Scotty what do you think about a 96
four-cylinder Toyota Tacoma, any issues I might run into, Toyota Tacomas were one
of the best smallish pickup trucks ever made, a lot of those years had a problem
with the frames rusting, it's old enough now that if you got one that was bad
just jack it up in the air, crawl under there if that frame is
rock-solid you hit it with hammers and there's no rust that doesn't go in
there's absolutely nothing wrong with buying that, but if the frames rotting
don't buy cuz it needs a new frame, unless you can call Toyota and pretend
that you've already bought it and say hey I got this 96 Tacoma the frame si rotting
on it, will you give me a new frame free and if they say yes, then but it and let them
put a new frame, I had customers do it and they got a new frame put on by
Toyota, turbosquid says Scotty I got a 09 Civic and the battery terminals
keep corroding, I changed them multiple times, the corrosion keeps coming back
how can I fix this, okay well if you really want to fix it permanently just throw the
battery away and get another one, you got a crappy battery it's outgassing
too much, if battery's are cheaply made, then the outgas would be by the
battery terminals and that acid in the vapors will eat them up, and start
corroding them, if you want to try the cheaper fix, go to like autozone and they sell
those green and red battery terminal protectors, you take the terminal battery
cables off, then you clean them all off then you put those things on and they
absorb some of the acid and then put the cables back on, but if that happens even
with that, then just get another battery it means your battery is no good and it's
outgassing too much it shouldn't outgas too much and of course do have your
alternator load tested, because if it's putting out too much voltage it'll boil
the battery all the time and then it will out gas too much so, that's a simple
test mechanic like me can do it minute with equipment to see if it is, Alex
Bachman Scotty my wife's 2012 Honda Civic EX has a check charging system light, we
have had several mechanics check the alternator, starter, battery, and the general
charging system, each mechanic said all the systems are fine what could this be
realize that you got a 2012 Honda, the charging system in that car is
run by the main computer and a lot of times that has a problem and
that's what it does, it'll give you that warning, if you find a guy like me that
will honestly put his gauges on your car while you watch, and if he checks the
battery with it and then checks the alternate and if he says the battery's
good and the alternator's charging fine, just ignore it, but if he says no it's not
charging right it could easily be a problem in a computer or the wiring
coming from the computer, I see that a lot in Honda's as they age because they're
so complicated, they're making things too complicated, instead having a little
mechanical voltage regulator to regulate the voltage, they now do a computer that
controls the whole thing and of course when it breaks then you gotta buy a
computer that cost over a thousand bucks, so more planned obsolescence on the way,
lakeside Oats Scotty I'm thinking about getting the 2002 oldsmobile Alero with
one hundred and sixty-three thousand miles on it, should I go ahead, that's a
reasonable amount of mileage if you're not paying much go ahead
they can be o.k. vehicles not great but they're not terrible, you get it cheap enough and
it runs okay why not but don't pay much it's not worth much being it's a
17 year old GM car, it's value is practically nothing, if you can get it cheap
and it runs okay, go ahead, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!