rev up your engines ad 54 I got a 2018 rav4 and it's making noises but the
brakes and somebody told me I need rotors unfortunately let's just say it'll make
things like they used it my 94 Celica it went 200,000 miles before the brake
rotors had to be changed 200 times they still work but then the steering was
shaken right I have many customers with late model
Toyota some of them are only a year or two old
they got 20-25 thousand miles on them and the rotors are warped already they just
make things cheaper than they used to now it's a good thing that's a
relatively cheap part on those things I'll often go to a place like Auto Zone
and buy the Chinese made replacement ones and they work perfectly fine and I
put those on but yes as far as I'm concerned that's not a good thing that
they're worn already because they used to last a lot longer the steel used to
just be thicker and stronger builder obviously using cheaper materials and
they used before it's unfortunate but that's what happens and they're also
using more aggressive brake pants and the more aggressive brake pads of course
they're gonna wear the rotors faster and the old days when they were just plain
old organic brake pads or they were made from asbestos which is a relatively soft
material the rotors would last longer but not with the aggressive brake
materials that some companies use the brake pads will wear the rotors out
faster so like I say it's no big deal you can get the discount ones put them
on yourself I did a whole video that shows people how to replace rotors it's
a very simple job in those anyways first thousand says scotty what do you
think about a 1993 BMW 525i today are they still reliable back in 1993 the 525i
were actually excellent vehicles but and this is a big but we're talking
about a 27 year old BMW a car that olds gonna have problems just from old age on
cheap enough that didn't have you know 150,000 miles on it and lower mileage it
could be a fun weekend toy I got a customer that own them
and uses it as a weekend toy it's a fun car there's nothing wrong with it but don't
pay much for it don't think you can buy that old 27 year old BMW and drive it 15
20 thousand miles a year if you try that or probably bankrupt you the rubber rots
everything rots over time and it's gonna start leaking Abraham Virginia says 2004
Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 130,000 miles automatic 4 liter could it be a good
daily driver the four liters were no straight six-cylinder engines and yes
they could last a long time you take that to a mechanic like myself and he
checks it all out with all the scan tools and drives it for 20 minutes and
sees how it feels if he says it's a good vehicle ah don't pay much 16 year old
Jeep with 130 thousand miles isn't worth that much money I've had customers my
things like that and drive them for five years and they put a little bit of money
in fixing us up but as long as the engine and transmission holds up but do
we have a mechanic check it out because those things had relatively weak
automatic transmissions and weak electrical systems so you'd want the
mechanic to make big pointer checking the transmission is not good and checking
the electronic systems with the scan tool to make sure that those two parts
are in good shape ch3 plz says 102 Crown Vic 70,000 miles
$1,500 what do you think I think you got one heck of a deal yeah it's 18 years
old but if that's really only 70,000 miles those big v8 engines that they
put in those crown vics they just ran and ran I got a customer with one that's got
250,000 that still runs okay you realize what it is now it's gonna be a gas hog
in town but I'm not obvious things can get 20-something miles a gallon they're
okay on high weight to know their car at 17 years old but you only paid 1,500
bucks who knows if that one 150 and you get 75 thousand miles on it for
fifteen hundred dollars and is a fantastic deal debo Gotti says since I
got a 2014 Volkswagen CC the engine either stalls or shuts out no matter how
fast I'm going no warning lights can you tell me what the problem is pray it's a
simple one like your fuel pump is either wearing out or the filters clogging up
the computer has no idea what the fuel pressure is stop the fuel pump pressure
goes down the engine can stall but there won't be any code cuz
the computer doesn't know what it is true for most cars is if you don't get
any warning lights on it on your car kids die most things if you lose spark
if the fuel injector stop pulsing if sensors break like the crank sensor
it'll trip a trouble code the check engine light will come on but a lot of
cars do not have any type of pressure sensors for the fuel pressure so the
computer doesn't know what the fuel pressure is so if the fuel pressure does
go bad it'll stall but the computer won't know it so check that first that's
the most common thing pray it's that easy cuz that's a Volkswagen they're endless
electrical nightmares could be a computer flog to pray it's just the fuel
filter going out or a clogged fuel filter change the filter first that's
the cheapest thing to do Gavin basta says Scotty what are your
thoughts on a GMC Sierra 2500 as a beat around work truck with 230,000 miles
okay if you're gonna buy one don't pay much for it it can be a good beat around
work truck realize that it's big 2500 as gas hogs got two hundred three thousand
miles but I would shock that if I was thinking about buying a beater truck
would be test the transmission if you don't know how pay a mechanic with a scan tool or
just road test it go up hills and down hills take it on the highway if it
shifting good and doesn't shutter and stuff could be good now if it shifts
poorly and shutters or shifts don't buy it because the transmissions going out they
generally don't even last that long maybe it's already on its second who
knows but it's passes the test could be a good beater truck just don't pay too
much for it, mix 03 says Scotty I found a 2016 mercedes-benz e-class
with 10,000 miles will it do 40,000 miles will it do 40k miles without any trouble
hope it should they are endless money pits but you're talking about a three
year old vehicle with 10,000 miles on it you know I would hope so but here's the
thing it's only got 10,000 miles it's 2016 before you even think about buying
that thing make sure a mechanic like myself checks it out because somebody
might be selling because it was wrecked flooded stolen you want that checked out
with a real fine-tooth comb because if it has been flooded erect the electronic
systems will go haywire and then whatever money you spent will be flushed
down the toilet and when you try to sell it you'll lose the shirt so you want a
mechanic to check that out closely before he's thinking about buying and
don't pay too much money cuz they know the resale value but it should go fifty
thousand miles pretty trouble-free even a Mercedes
their normally not that bad unless they've been wreck flooded or stolen so you want
to make sure it wasn't David Pritchard said hey Scotty what's your opinion on a
Chrysler Crossfire well you know they were beautiful looking vehicles really
snazzy looking but they were actually piles of junk when they got old they
broke down electronically the transmissions and break down and they
have absolutely no resale value the customers mind that bottom they love
them to begin and they were Zippy look cool but then when I got older they
started falling apart they were like Scotty we should have listened to you
and not bought a Chrysler and speaking of that did you see now that Fiat
Chrysler and now merged with peugeot the French automaker oh my god we have the
Three Stooges now Chrysler Fiat peugeot it turns out that Chrysler Fiat tried to
merge with Renault but the French wouldn't even go for that because
renault is a bigger company so instead they went with peugeot so I guess
one Frenchman said no no and then they went to another one that said we we bad moves
for people who buy cars oh oh man I wouldn't wanna buy any of those, olmeyer
Delacruz says Scotty big fan from California my 03 Lexus GS 300
check engine came on with P0171774 too lean when they run lean and you got them
running lean on both banks it's generally an air leak somewhere so you
want to check for air leaks now I've seen I know sometimes it's as dumb as
somebody changed the air filter well the air filter housing has a vacuum
hose on it and that often falls off and it will make the whole thing run lean so
will a bad PCV valve will make it run lean sometimes they're dirty map sensors
and make it run lean you might want to take the MAF sensor I'm cleaning I got a
video on how to clean map sensors it could easily be something like that you
start with the simple things that work your way out and if you know a little
bit about cars and have a scan tool go into the live data on the scan tool and
see when it runs lean because when it has those codes
it also has stored trouble codes so you go to the freeze frame data on your
little scan tool and then it'll show you one that occur
now if it occurred when it was idling it's almost always a vacuum leak if it
occurred at higher speeds it could be the MAF sensor or the fuel pump is weak
running lean at low speeds is generally a vacuum leak but in high speeds vacuum
leaks don't affect it that much so you learn about me analyze we can figure it
out, edd says 2012 Toyota Corolla I have an issue with my blower motor not
turning off change the resistor and nothing changed stuck and I said I can
change the resistor it's stuck in highest setting and it won't turn off
for some reason that baby is getting power and the power is not stopping the
first thing I would do would be hey go to your blower motor relay and they
relay center replace the relay it could be the relay is stuck on that's always
sending power to the fan it's not that for my experience with Toyotas then the
switch itself has gone bad and it's just broken on the full speed even though
you're turning it the contact is stuck on full so it's always going full speed
doesn't like the only things that I've ever seen on a Toyota make it stay on
all the time and you can't turn it off, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell