Rev up your engines, hey scotty my name is hank, I had an 01 toyota
camry and got it from my grandparents and it was totaled about 2 months into owning
it, about the transmission being replaced about 150,000 miles, the car now has 194,000,
I woke up and drove my car to go get coffee and off the highway exit my transmission fell
off the mounts and fell apart going 60 mph, no one was behind me but I got to see the
transmission flip and tumble what a mess, but it was a nice ride, now that I'm not blaming
that on the transmission, whoever did the work, because if the transmission actually
fell out of the car, they didn't bolt it on right, the mounts were worn and they left
the old ones and they broke and fell down, but if you saw it tumbling back they just
didn't tighten it right, here's something that I see all the time, which a lot of people
don't understand but when they do have transmission work done they have to learn what exactly
is happening, a lot of people when a toyota transmission does go out, they take it somewhere
and they people they take it to will just go buy a used transmission from a junkyard
and put it in, you have no history those things are relatively hard to rebuild correctly,
if their just putting a used one in that's just pot luck, that's just gambling, are they
getting a factory rebuilt one, are they rebuilding it themselves, or are they using a used one,
with toyotas you can't buy a new automatic transmission they don't sell them, I wouldn't
blame that one on the toyota, I'd blame that on the people that worked on the toyota, cuz
I've personally never see that myself, when I work on a car I put them together tight
they don't fall apart when people drive down the road later,
chinese big fun, hi scotty I want a bigger suv, 2014 explorer or 2011-14 4runner thanks
a lot, ok well if you want to buy something that's going to last forever, get the 4runner
your going to pay a lot more there's no arguing that, they go for a whole bunch more, that's
new enough that it's going to be super expensive, you can get the explorers a whole lot cheaper,
sometimes you will pay 25% of what the toyota goes for against an explorer, they can ok
short run cars, customers buy those explorers for $4-5k and keep them for a few years and
were happy, but if you want long term that will run for years and years go the toyota,
your going to pay a lot more but you get your money's worth, but short term I've had people
get explorers and they were ok they were happy with them for what they paid,
brian says does putting 303 on your tires and wiper blades make it last longer, ok your
wiper blades yes, cuz their thin and rubber and they have to have a thin edge to wipe
and make it clean so they don't jutter back and forth, they always ask me, scotty why
don't they just make them thicker they'll last longer, well if they do then they make
all kind of noise, so they have to be thin, but tires no, the tires are just going to
wear out, look your tires are riding on the ground right the tread, the tread is where
all the wear occurs, and if you get your tires worn and the tread start to crack, it doesn't
matter what the rest of the tire is like, it's cracked it's worn and it's time to replace
them, rubber only lasts so long on tires, that's not going to make them last any longer,
but it will make your wiper blades last longer, there's a lot less technology in the wiper
blades than in the tires, surviving susan says, is it really necessary
to torque an axle nut to exact specs, yes it is as a matter of fact this morning I shot
a video on just that, you really need to torque them to exact specs because wheel bearings
if they are over torqued and too tight, their over stressed and their not going to wear
out right away but sometimes within 6 months or a year you start to hear them roaring and
their worn out from being torque too tight, and on the other hand you don't want them
too loose either cuz if their too loose then they rattle around, wheel bearings generally
these days are roller bearings ball bearings inside, some of them are tapered bearings
but either way their steal their hard as can be, just a little bit too much extra pressure
on them over thousands of miles and millions of spins around it will wear them out early
if you don't do it right, some cars are really touchy about it like VW, their really touchy
about it, miguel says scotty life hacks everything I'm sure there's a reason behind his hair
style, yeah it's called laziness, I've had this hair style since I was in university
and that was 45 years ago, there's just less of it, I mean I always had a high forehead
here but now it's a little bit further back, I'm used to it, I live with it, and that's
the way it's gonna be, I'm not going to be one of these guy who's gonna shave his head,
because personally I think that white guys like me, if they shave their head they look
like somebody who just escaped from a lunatic asylum, other people can pull it off but white
dudes especially of Germanic origin, if you shave your head you look like an insane berserker
like the vikings when they shave their heads so I'm going to keep my hair style that's
the way that it goes, so if you never want to miss another one of
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