rev up your engines, Eric and Eric says what are your
thoughts on a 2010 Ford Focus, I'm not really a fan of them because I've had a
few customers that have bought them and we're extremely disappointed as a
vehicle aged, 2010 has a tremendous amount of plastic stuff under the hood
and a lot of it melts cracks and breaks, I've had customers buy them brand new, and
keep them for 80,000 miles and not have any
problems with them, but as they aged and got to be 8-10 years old they tend to
fall apart, the plastic breaks they have very poor resale value, and on some of
those there's actually a class-action suit against the automatic transmissions,
so I'm not a fan of those at all, now if you would have said Ford Fusion, I'd say
those are pretty good cars, but the focus that was a cheaper car and it's pretty
cheaply made actually, Michael Young says what do you think about a 97 Jaguar
vanden plas, okay beautiful looking cars and they make great lawn ornaments that
you can park and polish and look at it they really look nice, their endless
money pits as they age, they cost a fortune to keep the things up, but that
said I have had customers that were English guys that loved English cars, and
they'd buy one in the United States dirt cheap and they would just keep it as a
weekend toy, and they'd only put like a thousand miles a year on the vehicle, and
then they didn't care if they bought them with low enough mileage and they
weren't completely falling apart they can be a fun toy, but don't ever buy one
of those things and think you can use it as an
everyday driver and put fifteen thousand miles a year on it without bankrupting you
Lee Shaffer asks, were those little fifties Thunderbirds good cars
mechanically or nothing but trouble, well in their day they were good cars
but you gotta take in consideration you're talking about the nineteen
fifties, and that was like almost 70 years ago, you get a car of that old it's
gonna be nothing but trouble, I know guys here in Houston that have them and they
keep them for parades and stuff and car shows, they don't drive them around much
there's no air conditioning, the original ones didn't even have seat belts in them
and their big heavy vehicles with giant v8 engine
so the tremendous gas hogs too, it's more of a collector's things, if you like them
you buy one and collect them and if it's got the original serial numbers and
everything it's worth a lot of money, then you just upkeep it and keep the
insurance on in case it's stolen. and then when you're tired of it you sell
it to another collector, they're not an everyday drive everything, Tony b
says Scotty I have a leak in my power steering in an 02 Grand Cherokee, could
it be the pump or the reservoir lines, it seems to be leaking from the side of the
pump, well it sounds like the pump, 1500 psi pressure is a lot of pressure, what you
want to do is, you can never miss it this way, you get some ultraviolet leak dye
stuff doesn't cost much, you can get a kit at autozone for like 20 bucks, you
put a little bit maybe a quarter of an ounce or so into the power steering, then
you drive it around and then with the little
yellow sunglasses the kit comes with and a UV light, you search around and
wherever that green dye comes out you know that's what's leaked, it's probably
your pump cuz you say it's leaked around there, but you're supposed to check with
the dye because you can have more than one leak, where they mainly leak are the pump
seal, the high-pressure hose or the rack itself, and if the rack leaks those boots
on the outside when you squeeze them you'll see the dye come out of them, ali says
tsx is burning oil
I changed the PCV valve, but I noticed there was oil on top of the engine cover
what could it be, pray it's just your valve cover gaskets
leaking, they often do that, will leak and drip on it and make the top of the
engine all oily, change those, the gaskets themselves are cheap the labor is kind
of a pain, but change them out and see what happens, now if that doesn't fix it
and you change the PCV valve and it's actually burning oil, there's nothing to
do other than rebuild the engine, I would just live with it and add oil as a
burnt, cuz I got customers with them and drive them years that way and they just
add oil, they keep a couple plastic quarts in the trunk and when it
needs a quart they put it in, and then when they run out of that to get another
couple quarts to throw them in the trunk for when they need it
obadia says what do you think about buying a used Maserati
Quattroporte 2009's, a four-door Maserati I wouldn't even buy a new one I sure
wouldn't buy a used one, those things are the biggest piles of junk, they're just
endless money pits, that's basically a snob mobile car, it's a Maserati it's got
four doors that's why it's called Quattroporte that means four doors
you want to get a sports car get a sports car, why are you gonna get a four door
one, it's like the other day what did I see, I saw a Porsche station wagon going down
the street in Boston, I'm like what is the point you know, I don't understand
people, why they pay all this money just cuz there's a name on it you know
the world is crazy it's gone insane, but if you value
your money don't buy that Maserati, so if you never want to miss another one of my
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