rev up your engines, JC says man Scotty did time in
prison he's a smart guy, well you must be in an alternative universe because I've
never been to prison or jail I never got caught for anything
I spent most of my life fixing cars and I'm busy working all the time I
don't have time to get in trouble, when I was younger I went to university and hey I
always lived on campus so you know you walked around everywhere, kind of hard to
get in trouble when you're just walking around if you went out drinking you're
not gonna get any trouble cuz you're just walking around in the snow in
Canada so, Gari says what do you think of an slk55 AMG 2015 model
please, I got a customer with one they're really
fun to drive, but if you're the owner you better have a lot of money because my
customer that owns one, they pay me a lot of money to fix that thing, it breaks all
the time, I mean one of those things shock absorbers are like 1,700 bucks apiece
and there's four of them, you got to change them in pairs, you're talking
about Mulla Mulla, if you got the moola you
want to spend it you want to drive around in that thing go right ahead, but if
you don't want to spend a lot of money, don't even think about buying that thing
they are endless money pits as they age, ruben says Scotty I bought an
accord 2013 was a CVT with 90,000 miles, should I change the transmission oil, yes
but pay a professional mechanic to do it because it's very hard to do correctly
and you want to have it done correctly and you want to use the Honda fluid
Honda's are very particular about that, but I would have a changed by a
professional because you don't want to take a chance with the CVT transmission
they are so super expensive to rebuild, pay a mechanic who knows what he's doing
using Honda fluid and I would do it then probably every 60,000 miles after that, RM
and he says what can you do to tune up an
old car with about 155,000 miles on it I'm getting worse gas mileage than before
just want to know if there's anything I can do thanks, you want to start with the
basics, you want to make sure the spark plugs are good, take out one and check it,
the air filter is clean, the fuel filter is clean, you want to do the basic things,
now if all that is done and it still gets bad gas mileage, then you got to get
into more complex thing, I have a video called
make your car run better with a little spray cleaner and in that video I show
you how you get two cans of spray cleaner their different kinds, and how to
clean the fuel injection system, you try that one next, because when you get
further than that, sometimes you have to either buy new fuel injectors or if your
engine's wearing out and need a valve job that gets very expensive, always try the
simple things first and of course cleaning the sensors that I show that
video are really good way in a car that's older that has got dirt
buildup on it you haven't cleaned in quite some time, zero says Scotty I'm
looking to get a Camaro 2017 as a first car how reliable is the v6, the v8s
are their money makers and they're decent engines they're fast, they're well
made, the v6 most guys don't want a Camaro with a v6, now if you drive it
conservatively I mean what would be the point of buying a Camaro driving it conservatively,
but if you do it could last a while the GM v6 engines have always been on
the weak side that they used in the Camaros, I've had customers with them
that the engines went out early or they burn a lot of oil, if you want a Camaro
you're really better with a v8 and not messing with the v6, cuz then
if you're gonna sell it later you're not gonna get much for it cuz they all
want the V8's nobody wants to buy the v6 used in those things, that one gamer says
Scotty I'm thinking about buying an 08 Toyota Tundra, what's your
opinion on the 5.7 liter v8 from 2007 to 2013,
they're very strong engines if you take care of them, they can last a really long
time, of course that's said it's a big truck
it's a big engine and they get really horrible gas mileage, if you don't mind
poor gas mileage go out and buy it if it's in decent shape, if somebody has beat
the heck out of it and didn't take care of it of course you don't want to buy it
it's you know the same basic engine that they put in the Lexus, they're complicated
engines and they're super expensive to rebuild if people finally wear them out
so you want a guy like me to check it out before you buy it
but they can last an awful long time if they're taken care of, hunter foster says
hey Scotty have you ever worked on a hand-cranked Ford Model T before, yeah
when kid in the sixties one of the guys in
Lewiston New York where my father's garage was, they had a Model T Ford that we
worked on, we'd work on it matter of fact in the back
my grandfather talk about a hoarder, this is in the 1960s he still had Model
T water pumps and mufflers in the back stored with all the parts, when they finally
shut down the garage he ended up selling that stuff in bulk to a guy that did
Model T parts so, yeah I worked on them their really maintenance high, every
winter you'd have to tear the engines down, clean the valves, they really
compared to modern cars you know they weren't reliable at all, but they
were the first big sold cars so a lot of people bought them, so if you never want to
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