rev up your engines, Steve from Atlanta Georgia, what
about buying a bmw x5 is it a good move, only if you live in an alternative
universe, the bmw x5 was one of the highest repair cars in the world, they
are endless money pits as they age, and the stinker about that is, okay say okay
I'll buy new one then, then I don't worry about it till it breaks down, well they
still break down when they get to be five to eight years old anyways, but they
lose so much value, that if you really want to BMW x5 you're better to lease a new
one for a couple of years and then get rid of it, and you lose the lease payment
but that's a lot less than it will depreciate in those years of ownership
there aren't one of the worst cars in the world when it comes to endless money
pits, when I used to do a TV gig one of the anchors there and those anchors made
you know three-four hundred grand a year for talking on TV, he had one he got
rid of it in a year he said, oh god it was a
money pit I didn't want that thing anymore, and he made that kind of money
and even he didn't like it, Anders possio says
Scotty what's your opinion on a Ford Escape 05-0, and why does the
Pontiac Vibe cost less than a Toyota Matrix, would a Pontiac Vibe be a safe buy
okay we'll start with the Pontiac, they cost less because they were Pontiacs now
most of the vehicle was a Toyota Matrix, engine, transmission, brakes, and all that
stuff, but a lot of body parts were made by Pontiac, its value is less it's just
just the way that it goes, it could be a very good buy because it's got a Toyota
engine, transmission, and brakes, so if you don't mind the slightly uglier Pontiac
body style on it, go ahead and get one you know they could be good cars, now Ford escapes
I've had customers that had ford escapes and loved them, they can last
quite some time, you can get a used one cheaply enough, if you're thinking about
buying a used one though, pay a mechanic like me to check it out first, and the
main thing is, have them check out that transmission cuz that's the weakest
thing, if the transmissions off a little you wouldn't buy it, but if an older
person drove it or the person didn't beat the car much, they can last a long
time, I got a lady who's got one that has 240,000
miles, original engine and tranny, but I've seen kids burn them out faster, so
you want to have that checked out if you're gonna buy one, lele says scotty what
do you think about safety between a big SUV truck frame and cars, I've seen car
crashes usually the cars are hurt badly, should I get a bigger SUV, of course it's pure
physics and logic the bigger vehicle you are in, the safer you're
gonna be in a wreck, when things get in in a wreck, all the energy, kinetic energy
of that speeding vehicle has to be
dissipated somehow, if you're in a big vehicle and you run into something your
energy is going to be dissipated by crushing the smaller vehicle, and it's
gonna push it around, if you're in a small vehicle, you're gonna get crushed
more, now look at a Formula One racecar they're tiny, but those guys can fly
through the air and they come apart, but they're in the safety capsule and so
they can survive it, cars aren't that way, so of course you are safer in a bigger
SUV that's just common sense, that's the way that they are, and the modern ones all
have airbags, so I mean if you're really
worried you're better off with a bigger vehicle then a smaller one, that's just
the way that it goes, the smaller ones are safer than they used to be, because they
have all crumple zones, but they still you're gonna be safer in a bigger
vehicle with a crumple zone, than a smaller one, mr.
Rodriguez says Scotty, 2015 Mustang EcoBoost reliability, 27,000
miles is it a money pit, well you know it depends if somebody took care of it or
not, the problem with EcoBoost is, it's got GDI injectors, it has turbo chargers
on it and puts more stress on the engine, so
you have to change the oil religiously and use good high-quality gasoline, if
that was done it can be a reliable vehicle, but it's not a vehicle that
you're gonna abuse and think, well I don't have to change the oil much, on
a vehicle like that I'd change the oil and filter every 5,000 miles,
I'd use full synthetic oil and I would buy hi test gas, because they run
better with hi test gas with those turbochargers on them, you can't just run
the cheapest gas, the cheapest oil and
expect them to be reliable, you do have to take more care of those things than
you do of a regular one, 115 says Scotty how tall are you, well that's an
interesting story because I used to be taller, I'm getting old and I have shrunk
I used to be 511 and a half, and now I'm like five ten and a half, but part of it
was when I was younger I had a BSA lightning that was chopped, and it had no
shock absorbers on the back just bolt on struts, so every time you hit a bump it
compressed your back bone, and I was going to school in Canada at the time in
Toronto, and one of my friends was doing this research on Eskimos and it
turns out these Eskimos had all shrunk one and a half to two inches when they
started to get snowmobiles, cuz snowmobiles don't have much of a suspension
system, and their riding them on the ice pack bang bang bang and it shrunk them and compressed
their vertebrate, so that happened to me too
it's, a warning to people you really want shock absorbers on your vehicles, or all
that banging over time, special if you drive fast, it's gonna make you shrink
somewhat, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that Bell!