rev up your engines, Jay Britton says, Scotty do you think that rotary engines
are worth the unreliability, well it depends on what you want, now Winkle was a German
guy I believe. invented the Wankel rotary engine and the thing was, it got a lot of
power for a small size, they don't have Pistons that go up and down, they have a
rotor that spins and each edge is like a giant triangle, they have apex seals
and that seals it while it spins around, well if you use your head, spinning is a
lot better than going up down, up down, up down,
so it's smoother and for a small engine you get a lot of horsepower, like
the original Mazdas there are tiny little engines, they were less than 1.1 litre
1,100 CC, but they put out a lot of horsepower
Norton the motorcycle company in England, they actually made a motorcycle that had
a rotary engine and it won a bunch of races but then they wouldn't let them
race anymore, they said you can't race rotary engines again Pistons it's not
fair, so if you get a Mazda with a rotary engine
their zippy little cars, but since they got those apex seals, they almost always
end up burning oil and the engines burn out, if you can get one cheap enough that
runs good, yeah they can be a good toy, but I wouldn't, you can't buy a new one now
because they don't make them anymore but a few years ago they brought back the, I
guess it was rx-8 and the engines still had problems, if you can get one used
cheap that's low mileage and runs ok, fun toy just don't pay a lot for one, Fernando
mosquito says, Scotty what do you think about the Ford Edge 2013 and 2015
ok I'm driven them, I've driven them when they were new, I got customers who owned them when they were used
and if you want that type of a vehicle, they're good, you know you're looking for
kind of a mid SUV they're decent vehicles, now my experience with those
things, if you're gonna get one of those things, you're really better off getting
the six cylinder one instead of a four-cylinder engine, the fours are a little on the weak side
you want to get the six-cylinder ones, and if you're thinking about buying a
used one of course like any other car, you'd want to take it to a mechanic like
me, pay them whatever they want, $80,90, or $100 to spend an hour or two going through
it, checking all the data with their computer and making sure that it's in
decent shape and that doesn't have any serious problems, but they can be good
vehicles, I got a customer that's got one it's got 250,000 miles, she's real happy
with it, you know she got the six cylinder engine and she doesn't beat it
she's a normal driver, and now she's been pretty happy with the thing, fake name says
Scotty please help, I got a 2000 Neon and my passanger threw up in a
defroster vent, how can I clean it out, do I need to pull the dash, you would be
better to pull at least that part out to clean it, because once that stuff is in there
now I found something that works quite well
they make these ultrasonic cleaners and if you can clean that as good as you can
out, take some of the dash out and get in there with like a vac and suck out all
the crud out as you can, and spray Lysol and suck it out, if you get it ultrasonic
cleaningm that often will get rid of the rest of the smell in it, and I did find
there's a lot of these good air purifiers that you can buy and put it in
and that they do have good filters and good cleaners that they'll be putting
negative ions out and that will get rid of a lot of the smell over time, it'll be
gone completely, I've had very good luck with a lot of that stuff, and their
also are a lot of cleaning sprays now that are biologically activated where
you spray them in the vents and they're little bacteria, they actually will eat
all that stuff up and then get rid of it you might want to try one of those, I've
had people have good luck with some of those, next year says please help me
Mr. Scotty, I got a 1998 Proton what do
you think about STP products, they make very good product, they always had, you know
the first thing was STP oil, which was real thick oil they sold it a lot when I
was a kid in the 60s, because people had cheaper cars the engines wore out faster
it was a heavier thicker oil that had additives like molybdenum bisulfate that
can actually cling to the metal and that can burn less oil, and now of course they
make all kinds of products, they make a very good synthetic oil that's a low
price, they make good products, there's nothing wrong with STP oil products they
make good products, just if you got a modern car that says it has to use 0w10
oil, you don't want to be putting STP thick oil treatment in it as
it ages, because that's too thick and it can clog stuff up, KF says, when my AC is on
car doesn't overheat and when I Drive it it'll try to overheat, but not as much as
when I stand, still thanks that is a classic sign of your cooling fans aren't
working right, when your cooling fans are working right they suck a lot of air
through the radiator and cool the engine, if your car is sitting there, it has a tendency of
getting hotter, but when you're driving 65 miles an hour down the highway it
doesn't, that's because at sixty five you don't need any fans, you got 65 mile
an hour wind blowing into the radiator, the same thing happens with your air
conditioning, if you turn your air conditioning on, that will automatically
turn your cooling fans on in most cars full blast, so I've got a lot of
customers that say, you know it's weird I run my air conditioner the car doesn't
overheat, but if I don't run it it does, that means that the cooling fans aren't
working when you have the engine running by itself, but there's a separate system
that runs the cooling fans when you turn the AC on and that one was working so I'd
check the cooling fans if I were you, so if you never want to miss another one of
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