Rev up your engines, ted tuner says scotty what do you think about
putting tire dressing on my tires to make them last longer, don't, one it really won't
make them last longer anyways, but that's basically silicone stuff, it's almost always
a silicone based shine and silicone is kind of slippery and if you corner hard and you
get on the edge of the tread and you got some of that on there it's gonna slide, I did that
ok a motorcycle once when I was a foolish young kid and almost killed myself and I realized,
I'm not going to clean these tires, on motorcycle tires you can clean them with water and a
scrub brush to get mud off of them if you went through mud and then dry it and leave
it at that, you want the bare rubber on the road,
the dressing doesn't help anyways because of course it's going to crack in between the
treads too it's gonna crack all over the place, is it's not something that you want to mess
around with on tires, guy do it and they think they look shiny and stuff but it really doesn't
serve any purpose, if you want to clean them, clean them with soap and water and then polish
them off, and when you do see cracks in your tires get new ones, it's a structural thing
it's not a superficial thing, patricia says scotty I got a 08 honda pilot
that burns a 1/4 gallon of oil in between changes what can I do to fix it, it only has
87,000 miles, you want to do the obvious thing is change the pcv valve, pray that that's
bad, because if they stick open then they can suck oil in, it's like a $10 part, so
try that first, now if that doesn't fix it then it means your engine is just worn and
if that's the case just live with it, because to rebuild the engine it would either mean
the valve seals are bad, or the piston rings are worn, and any of those things cost thousands
and thousands of dollars to rebuild the engine, so try the pcv valve first,
you might try a higher grade of oil too, I had a customer like that once and I told him,
just Castrol GTX it's really good oil I've been using it in my cars my whole life, and
they did and then it went down and used a lot less oil, so you can always try something
like that too, something random asks scotty what's your opinion
on a 2007-2014 cadillac escalade, ok their endless money pits, I had customers with them,
as they aged everything was breaking electronically, one of them the transmission went out, and
a lot of them started burning engine oil as they got older, the quality of cadillac is
long gone, in my grandfather's days you know in the 1940's and 50's and early 60's they
were just bulletproof vehicles that would run forever, but not anymore, I wouldn't buy
a new one and now if you could get a used one dirt cheap and you were using it kind
of as a toy on the weekends and it runs good now and you get it cheap maybe go ahead, but
in the long run their not that great of a vehicle, you're not going to get your money's
worth out of them, gordon says scotty I got a 2004 mustang with
p0173 is it a vacuum leak most likely, when they run lean a lot of times it's a vacuum
leak, so watch my video, finding engine vacuum leaks with a cigar, it shows you that you
can blow smoke in and find where it's coming out, do check that it's the most common thing,
but there's a lot of things that you can get running lean, if your maf sensor is dirty
it can run lean, if you fuel pump is weak and it doesn't pump enough volume fuel and
the car runs lean, there's a lot of things that can make a car
run lean, but vacuum leaks are the easiest thing to check and the most common on a vehicle
like that that's 15 years old, rubber hoses crack, gaskets leak, so you want
to check that first, rubble says scotty what do you think about
a 2006-2012 mitsubishi eclipse gs or gt, I'm not a mitsubishi fan, but if you're getting
one of those with a manual transmission and you take care of them and change the oil regularly
they can be good fun and zippy little cars, that said don't ever buy one with an automatic
transmission their absolute piles of junk, and the advantage of if you buy one of those
used is, yeah the toyotas are going to outlast them a lot, but the toyotas always go for
a lot more money even used, and if you can find one of those at a decent price with a
manual transmission, hey you can get your money's worth out of it, I've had customers
buy those things used for a couple grand and drive them for sometimes 6-8 years more, hey
they're making out like gang busters that way,
vlog says I have a ford fusion se and the wipers randomly come on by themselves why,
kind of a design flaw of that, and most of the time if you replace the wiper motor assembly,
the wiper motor assembly, and you can get them remanufactured, the motor and the circuit
board, what happens is the circuit board on those things starts to go bad, and then if
you hit a bump or something it turns itself on and then later turns itself off, it's a
very common problem with those, now I've seen guys that are very electronically savvy and
they'll actually remove the motor and the circuit board and they'll check it with a
circuit tester and they'll re-solder some of the connectors like the ground connectors
that often go bad, maybe you can take it apart and try to fix it yourself, most of the time
when I get those I just put in a remanufactured unit because the ones I buy generally come
with a 4 year warranty, so once you put it in you don't have to think about it for years
and years, so if you never want to miss another one of
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