rev up your engines, Austin says Scotty I got a 2014
Mercedes e-class with 29,000 miles, burns a quart of oil after 3,000 miles of
driving, manual says that's normal what are your thoughts, yeah normal to one man
that's abnormal to another, if it burns that much oil it's just cuz it wasn't
made correctly, and Mercedes are just being evil swine saying that's normal
I've had the same thing with customers with GM, they'll go back to GM and I'll
say I changed my well every 5,000 miles it burns two quarts of oil during that
period of time, and they say well that's normal for those engines, yeah it might
be but it's because they're not built correctly, that's the only excuse because
they'll be lying to their teeth about what's normal or what isn't, because they
don't want to have to rebuild your engine, you know they have no interest in
that, of course once it's out of warranty and it starts to really go out, they'll say
oh yeah we'll rebuild your engine for $6,500, Makara Bautista says Scotty what
do you think of importing and daily driving a 25 year old JDM car with low
kilometers on it, there can be great cars yes, but realize they are cars from
another country that are slightly different
I've had people buy like just an engine from one, and when they put it in their
American version car it'll fit but a lot of little modifications have to be done
like you have to change the intake or the exhaust manifold, and when it comes to
actually rebuilding the engines, the parts are completely different and you'd
have to go to Japan to get the parts for them, just to understand that, they can be
good cars and if they're low kilometers maybe they won't break for a while
just don't pay too much for them because when you get into oddball things stuff can
get expensive fast, lobo says Scotty on the new f-150 should you go with a 5.0
or the EcoBoost, me if I was getting an f150 I'd go with five liter
EcoBoost I mean you got a lot of power.
you get better gas mileage and ladi Dadi
but that's complicated stuff GDI gasoline injectors.
a lot of pressure inside those things.
you also have turbochargers two of them.
those things are gonna break down and cost a lot of
money, in the long run the five liters gonna last longer,
that's the way it goes, the less strain an engine has, the longer it's
gonna last, and if you're getting the big f150 generally gonna haul stuff,
pull stuff, and you'd want to v8 engine is better for
doing that stuff, progressive G says hello Scotty what do you think of the old
school 2003 infiniti m45 115,000 miles runs well but gas mileage
is going down, those are really fun cars to drive but as they age they can get
really expensive to repair, now you only have a hundred and fifteen thousand
miles so it's not real high mileage for one of those, if your gas mileage is going
down there's two main thing that can do it, the
first thing is clean your MAF sensor, the mass airflow sensor, I got a video if
your car run better with the spray cleaner, watch that and you can buy the two
cans of spray cleaner for like fifteen sixteen bucks total so it's easy
enough to do, a lot of times that will fix it, if the spark plugs are old of course
put new spark plugs in, change the air filter, to do the simple things a lot
of times the gas mileage will come back, just baby it because those things are fast
cars, but as they age they'll still go fast but then they'll go fast and
something will go wrong, so treat it as an older car and you never know how long it's
gonna last,
the poncho pancha says Scotty my 96 Toyota Avalon is leaking
oil I checked the pan and the filter, where
would be the best place to check, should I keep it or sell it, those are good
vehicles you know I mean it can run a really long time, the problem is the
valve cover gaskets and the back valve cover gasket on that v6, you got to take
the intake manifold off to change it, it is a gigantic job most mechanics charge
well over a thousand bucks for that, if you do want to find out where it's actually
leaking from, just watch my video finding and fixing car oil leaks Scotty,
I use ultraviolet dye, you pour a little dye in the engine oil and then
you look at it with these funky yellow sunglasses and a UV light, you can get a
kit at autozone cost like thirty five dollars for doing those tests, then
you'll see exactly where it's leaking from, and from my experience on those it's
usually the back valve cover gasket and it is a job to change that thing out,
King little mega GT says hello what do you think about opel thanks, people know that
I'm not a fan of German cars but actually the first car I owned was an Opel, I was a
kid and I bought it for 550 bucks and drove it
for years and years and years, took it all over the place I mean I had fun in that
car, now worldwide they do make a whole range of cars, when I was in England
last summer a lot of people were driving opels and they liked the cars you know
that was one of the early manufacturers of cars in Germany, they made some decent
solid cars, here in the United States people don't buy them because you can't get
parts for them, guys don't know how to work on them, for a while Cadillac was
selling this car they called the Cadillac but it was really a v6 rebadged
Opel and they were disaster areas, because nobody had parts for them and
nobody knew how to fix them, the German mechanics would say, that'sCadillac I'm not
gonna touch it, and the cadillac mechanics would say, hey that's a
german car I don't know how to work on it get out of
here, so you know they're not a good idea in the united states but in other parts
of the world they can be perfectly good cars, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell!