rev up your engines, Gonzalez says Scotty why do four-cylinder Toyotas
vibrate in idle, a lot of cars vibrate in idle, the ones that don't have
actually anti vibration parts inside the engine, like you take a lot of the
four-cylinder especially the older Honda Accords, they were extremely smooth but
what they had was, they had a timing belt that ran the cam to run the valves, but
then inside that, they had another belt that went to an anti vibration shaft
that spun to get rid of the vibration of a four-cylinder engine, and man they were
really smooth, now cost more money to make them that way and you lose a little
bit of horsepower in the engine for that, but engines can be made that way, now
Toyota and to my knowledge I've never seen one, never made anything had
anti vibration systems in them so they'll vibrate a little, it doesn't hurt
anything and you actually get better gas mileage if you don't put that in, because
it takes energy to run the anti vibration system, most four-cylinder
engines are going to vibrate a little because they're little and they only
have four cylinders, the more cylinders you add the smoother they are, that's why
ages ago a lot of the big fancy ones went to v12 of course they're really
smooths with v12, you got six cylinders on each side and they all balance each
other out, Caraballo says Scotty is a scion fr-s a good sporty looking
reliable car looking to buy one at a good price
you know their sporty good-looking cars I got a customer that's got one that he
bought it for that very same reason, it was a four-cylinder one, he's loved the car
he got a standard transmission and he likes how fast it is he drives like a
maniac, so know you he liked the acceleration of it but if it's an automatic you know
they're a little out of slow side I gotta say, but as a standard they're a
very quick little car and if you change the oil regularly they're very reliable
cars too and you can't really call it a sports car but you did say sporty and
they are sporty cars, you know Toyota never really was in the sports car
market, that isn't their thing, look at their new one it's basically it's really a
Subaru makes them, I'd driven them and you know they're nice cars they can get
around their sporty but they're not sports cars, they're not all that quick
and for the money of a brand new one I'd buy something else myself,
Kevin Clarke says, on a lease car should I change the oil
or have the dealership do it, change it yourself, oil is oil as long as you
change the oil, you don't have to pay a bunch of
money at some dealership that has something done, you're leasing it's not
even your car so you know what do you care, just and it's law
I know it's law because of the Magnusson warranty act is, as long
as you keep the receipts of where you buy the oil and filter from and change
it, you're proving that the oils been changed for, I know when you take the lease
and you got to prove that you've maintained
the car they can charge money for it, but as
long as you keep the receipts it's legal because I had a customer they tried to
get him over and said hey you didn't maintain your
car and he said no here's all the receipts of the oil and I changed it and I
said, you know as an additional thing if I were you, take a picture every time your
changing the oil just to say here's a picture of me change the oil
and here's the receipt then they can't get you and you'll save money that way, John
says Scotty what do you think of the 2001 Nissan Altima, not much I
had customers with them and they had engine head gasket problems or automatic
transmissions are garbage they went out all the time, I would never advise somebody
to buy one of those, now if you buy brand new one, that might work okay for you
know the first eighty ninety thousand miles and if you're happy with that
you can go ahead, but they're not gonna run like a Toyota or Honda go two three
four hundred thousand miles, they'll bankrupt you then because after
that Renault and Nissan merged and then the Nissan quality just went to be down
the toilet, Nissan's been on the verge of bankruptcy
for a long time, they've had a lot of problems with productions and with sales
I mean Ford almost bought them a long time ago but then the Ford stock went down
when the market crashed and they gave up with buying them too, Weaver says Scotty I
got an 04 Buick Regal every 3,000 miles
I have to add a quarter of oil no spots on the driveway and I replaced the PCV
valve each time what could it be hey it's a 15-year old Buick, it's just
burning oil either the valve seals are a little rotten and worn and their sucking oil
into the engine or the piston rings are worse, if you actually want to know what
it is , do what's called a wet and dry compression test, you take all the spark
plugs out, then you do a compression test with the compression reader then you put
like a half a tablespoon of oil in each cylinder hole and retake the compression
level and if the pressure goes up quite a bit,
it's the piston rings that are worn but if the pressure stays the same, then it's
the valve seals that are worn and you can tell that the valves are worn so you could
test it that way, either way you got to rebuild the engine so you know, it's not
worth fixing on some one thing like that, so if you never want to miss another one
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