rev up your engines for you car purists out there you might be happy with the
Mazda Miata they're continuing their stick shift standard transmission even
in 2020 while everybody else seems to be getting rid of them the majority of the
Mazda Miata convertibles that were sold in the United States were still standard
transmissions I do we have to say I've got customers worth a man I love driving
the ones with the standard little fun cars the ones with the automatics the
kind of doggish and Mazda's automatic transmissions weren't always the
greatest to begin with but with the standard those cars are fun to drive
around they've been selling these Mazda Miata switch you technically called the MX-5
for quite some time now and it's like one of the few bastions of the
sports car that they average person can afford and that it doesn't fall apart
like an Italian sports car they just keep running and running and for people
like toying with them people actually race them they have classes where they
race you can buy a cheap old used one and fix it up or you can get a nice
brand new one that shiny thing you got quite a choice and from popper to
the rich guy either one could own that car there's a cute little sports cars
I'm not a big Mazda fan myself but they really hit the nail on the head when
they made those Mazda Miata convertibles and they're still making them in stick shifts hey
you want a little cute convertible you gotta have a stick shift that's part of the
whole game yes it's official Ford is going to be making the Ford Bronco again
in 2020 standard production in 1996 and they're making them again now they don't
actually have them out yet but they are gonna be making them and they're gonna
have some pretty interesting stuff and they're gonna have them so that the
doors and the roof also come off they can be removable like in a Jeep it's not
just a concept now they're actually making the Ford Broncos back in November
Ford revealed what they calls the Bronco R and they took it to the Baja to
win the Baja race and get some kudos but that kind of fell flat on its face talk
didn't finish the race they said that it got pinned by another
trucking the race and got knocked apart and couldn't finish the race because
mechanically they didn't want to damage the whole thing or destroy it so they
pulled it out of the race what doesn't bode well really all the
money they put into it you think they could have had some spares and put in a
more gentlemanly effort to win the race other than just quitting but I guess the
times they are a changing it used to be people went all out as hard as they
could to win something but now I guess the bean counters are behind it all and
they didn't want to try to go too far this kind of flies in the face and that
Ford versus Ferrari the movie about the past off board just threw all in to win
the race there the endurance race well here they're not finishing it they're
kind of afraid so I gotta say give them a few stars down from that in the past
they went all out but now they're worried and Ingo out hey I would have
gone on put some more into it my own beliefs aren't things like this all
right if you're gonna do something do it as well as you can don't hold back
especially if it's something like a race I mean come on now it's like the
football players they stop their towing and they won't play the rest of the game
I mean boo if a guy like that was on my team next time he came out I'd boo people
should go all out so boo on that but at least they're bringing the Bronco out
they don't have it all in stone how it's gonna be produced but they are actually making one
in 2020 surely says got an 06 mazda 3 2.3 automatic
transmission transmission will not shift about fourth gear won't go into fifth
gear there are the greatest transmissions in the world but if all
the other gears shift perfectly fine I know it's generally it's not the
transmission itself that is the problem when there is either an electronic
problem or some kind of problem in the engine system that Mazda set up the
computer it'll stop at fourth gear and it won't go into fifth gear won't go
into the overdrive gear now there can be lots of things even something as weird
as you got a bad spark plug and it isn't running right so you want to check all
that stuff but let's say your cars running fine you didn't say it was
running poorly if it's running perfectly fine I won't go into fifth gear
my advice change the vehicle speed sensor but
as I fixed one like that a couple months ago turns out it did the same exact
thing I was running my live data machine and I looked through stuff and I saw the
vehicle speed sensor dad it was weird sometimes it would drop off sometimes it
would show the wrong speed so I just got it just bolts on the transmission a
simple job I got one at autozone and I put it on and guess what it shifted
into fifth gear so pray it's the vehicle speed sensor but cars are
machines they break and pattern so since I fixed one that way could easily be
just your vehicle speed sensor it's making it not shipped into the top gear
James knows better says I got a 1999 dodge ram 1500 took it in they take a
transmission rebuilt but it won't start and mechanics say it says no
communication the scan tool won't work one I would never go back to those guys
I'm assuming you want their transmission shop if you drove that thing in it was
running and now it won't even start won't communicate they messed up the wiring
or sensor somehow now realize when you pull a transmission off there's all kinds
of crap has to be taken off and even once myself I was doing it on a Chevy
Camaro with a v6 engine and was one of those hard ones that was made in Quebec
there were absolute piles of junk it was almost impossible working room
well I got the transmission back on same thing car would start I look and lo and
behold the wires that were all over the place there was no working room well
when I put the transmission back in they got pinched and it cuts some of the
wires and rather than take the whole thing apart again which was like an
eight-hour job I just looked at it and said ha ok those wires a pinch so I just
cut the wires at each end where they were pinched in the transmission and I
just splicing the wiring in and a way it went so tell the guys to find problem
they create it by doing a transmission job and if they can't
you're gonna tow it to another garage and they're gonna pay for the repairs
then maybe they'll hire somebody from the outside to come and find out what
they did wrong either way I never go back to the guys cuz they're not very
good mechanic so you didn't do the job right and all that worked on the
transmission off to so many wires and sensors you can get damaged
odds are they damaged one of them, james says I got an 03 Chevy
Monte Carlo v6 check engine light on p0442 evap small leak all right those
are always fun now of course change the gas cap first a
lot of times it's just the gas cap go by gas can't put it on if it goes away
great and obviously you got a scan tool so change the gas cap reached up to code
drive it pray it doesn't come back now if it does come back two things that
normally go wrong one is the EVAP canister vent valve
they'll often stick open and no leak out so you might want to check that and if
you don't have to check it just buy one and the other is the purge solenoid can
go bad too so it's always purging which is always leaking and you'll get a thing
for smaller those are really the three things that generally go wrong not to
check those other two you gotta really have a bi-directional stand tool smoke
machine that's a real involved thing so a lot of guys will just guess with
either a canister valve or a purge of one of them is probably sticking open a
little bit but then again you know it's a 2002 and jelly they run perfectly fine
so if you don't care isn't gonna hurt anything driving around that way don't
comes time to get it inspected if they do state inspections in your state then
you'd have to fix it to get it inspected but if they don't do such things in your
state head you can just live with that stuff I had customers drive them years
that way with no problems at all Shirley Jones 33 says my husband's 2012
Dodge Ram truck has the SRS light on and he took it in and it had code b1c13
which is drivers headrests control circuit high, they made the wiring cheaply
on the drivers had dressed assembly on the seat and the wiring on those things
shorts out it just was a design flaw of those things they should have
recalled them fitting recall typical for dodge it is repairable if you want to go
through the hassle of buying the right part what you have to buy is the
driver's seat headrest wiring set cuz they're just pieces of junk
don't try fixing them when you're dealing with stuff like airbags believe
me you don't want to mess with fixing something and it boils when you don't
want it to it doesn't blow in your one you gotta buy the harness and if I were
you I would complain to Dodge to see if maybe they'll do it for free or at least
give you the part for free cuz it's a known flaw in those things they just
build them cheap and then the stuff breaks down on them
I wouldn't be surprised that some time there will be a recall for them when I
don't know over recall it yet but I would be surprised the future that they
end up recalling that amongst all the other zillion recalls that Chrysler has
for their products bellies bone-dry says got no sub Ford Mustang v6 four liter my
fuel tank will only fill halfway here's something you may not know you know it's
called a saddle gas tank just like the sale you put on a horse your gas tank is
like a sail there's the middle and then the tanks on the left and the right side
that's how it's made and unfortunately the one side gets dry and doesn't refill
you never want to run those things down close to empty because if you do don't
when you try to fill it up sometimes air stays in the one side and it's hard to
fill it'll only fill half way even though your gauge says it's full one
side of the saddles fooling the other side's full of air now I've seen that
for customers of mine that kept running long yes I said don't run out
long gas again and I dropped the tank and I see the one side is empty so then
I would just put three gallons of gas on the empty side and then it would fill up
the whole way when it gets really low it won't reveal sometimes so don't run your
car bone-dry on that particular one when you get like between 1/2 and 1/4 fill
back up again but now you might have to drop the tank and fill up that other
side cuz that air sometimes won't purge out of the things most gas tanks are
just one tank like a fish tank can I fill up it'll saddle tanks they can be
staggers it's kind of stupid design really you know I mean for race cars
it's fine but for a normal driving car it's kind of a stupid design
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