rev up your engines I'm gonna tell you why you should not
buy a car with a CVT transmission if you live in a mountainous area or if like me
you rent a car on vacation in a mountainous area I recently went to
Maine beautiful place unbelievable food sceneries insane but I ranted a focus it
was a good car 4-cylinder engine got great gas mileage but it had that stupid
C V T transmission and the problem is when you're in a mountainous area going
downhill they free will if you have the regular automatic transmission or a
standard transmission you can put it into a lower gear so when you're going
downhill it won't free will and it'll just go at a certain speed the CVT
transmission was so bad it isn't all that mountainous in Maine it's not
insane mountains like the Rocky Mountains or anything that was that
gradual hill top and hill the speed limits 40 so I'm going 40 I'm going
downhill I take my foot off the gas by the time I made it to the bottom of the
hill what are we talking about hill that was maybe half a mile long it was going
65 miles an hour when he got that about it I had to have my foot on the brake
while I was going downhill or it just kept going faster and especially when
you're doing curves and stuff but we just keep accelerating going downhill so
if you live in an extremely mountainous area or like me go on vacation and one
and rent a car my advice to stay away from these CVT transmissions because
they're gonna be freewheeling like that you gotta have your foot on the brake
and of course you can't be going down like a Rocky Mountains for miles and
miles and miles and your foot on the brake yeah it overheat the brakes to
begin with Nick Fisher says I got a Mazda Protege 1999 it's leaking oil
between the oil pan and the transmission probably got a bad rear main seal the
back of the engine where the crankshaft spends has an oil seal and when that
leaks it'll leak between oil pan and the transmission and drip down and if that's
the case you either have to pull the engine or the transmission it's usually
easier and cheaper to pull the transmission but for years I've been
using this stuff at-205 reseal tape an 80 and then the number 205 reseal by
Canada that put in the edge you know I've seen
work miracles and stop leaking and the next time you change your I'll just put
another can of the stuff and it worked quite well it's a polymer doesn't clog
anything and it works great if that doesn't work then you're gonna pull the
transmission off and that's really expensive, savage boots us hey I'm
looking at 2018 Acura TLX with 31,000 miles as the first car would that be a
good vehicle if you can afford it yeah you know those are excellent vehicles
and only 31,000 miles it's gonna last quite some time but as I always say when
you're buying a used car trust no one I mean zero trust no one
pay a mechanic to check it out because it could have been wrecked flooded
stolen you had no idea and we mechanics when we hook up our $5,000 scam tools
and go through that data nothing can be hidden from that that I had one a couple
weeks ago I did for our customer was an acura and I found all these things wrong
even though the CARFAX said it had been in a wreck I knew it had been in a wreck
because I could see overspray under the car with a fixed parts and then they
didn't cover it up so the new paint was sprayed on suspension parts that should
have been naked so always have a mechanic check out a vehicle that before
you buy it, an independent mechanic to don't go to a dealer they said well we checked
it out no no no somebody who doesn't work for the people are selling the car
yeah been checking up crazy capital says my mom's 06 Toyota Sienna vibrates
and roars and struggles to get up hills but it's fine when it's on flat
you have what's called a problem under load when the engine is loaded with all
that strain to go up a hill the most common thing for that yes first change
the fuel filter it's what 14-year old car cloud fuel filter can do that it's
not that have the fuel pump pressure tested it could be a weak fuel pump
doing it now if you really haven't taken care of the vehicle some as dumb as a
clogged air filter if it's really clogged can do it so check the air
filter of course in a dirty or worn mass airflow sensor can do that too but
always start with the obvious things and work it up even if it has really old
spark plugs I mean that's a 14-year old Toyota Sienna but I've seen it when they
still have the original spark plugs and me just taking out these old worn spark
plugs foot new ones and could fix a problem like that sometimes so check one
of the smart books is your V spark plugs, v says
how good of a gas mileage is this for a 5.4 4 liter
expedition I took a truck and got 24 and a half miles of gun that's as good as
you're ever gonna get you must be a pretty good conservative driver on a big
ol v8 engine like that but as you found out they have improved how they work
you're getting twenty four and a half miles of counting I got customers in the
past you go with the original expeditions some my customers were
getting like 13 miles a gallon with those things so ya know you're getting
good gas mileage you're obviously a conservative driver too cuz I mean I'm
driven those things around I can get 10 miles a gallon if I drive like a maniac
even today, go Ram and he says hey my friends I'm in a bit of a pickle I got a
brand new AC compressor and I want to have it put on but I can't find any
mechanics that will install it cuz he said I bought the part theoretically or
simple but we're not Superman we can't see through all the metal parts to see
if there's any problems inside when you have an AC compressor go bad on a
vehicle a lot of times it goes bad not because just the compressor itself wore
out but there's other problems that cause the compressor going bad so if you
just stick a compressor on a vehicle rolling a dice and you want to hope that
it doesn't come up Snake Eyes and bite you if you are changing a compressor
change the orifice tube change the AC dryer accumulator and if the compressor
itself was locked up the old one actually locked up physically and burnt
the belt off I would change the condenser in the front too I was young
mechanic the condensers had pretty big holes he flowed through quite well now
there's skinny little flat ones and if your compressor blows it's gonna throw
metal into the condenser because that's where it blows first the pressure and
the little metal pieces of clog you can't flush them out because way they
cross flow flushing machine is useless if you can find a guy who are willing to
change say the compressor and the orifice tube and accumulator and gamble
on the rest go ahead but he'll probably want you to sign something writing it
says hey this doesn't work don't blame me because I advise changing these other
parts taxi cloud thanks Scotty recently I've been hearing knocking sound
whenever I release my brakes when you step on your brakes that loads the
suspension system the brakes are locking so this is
tensions gonna move and if when you release the brakes you hear a knocking
sound something's worn now a very common thing for that is worn strut mounts
because the struts are sitting like this and they go up and down to absorb shocks
when you brake they jerk a little the top is the strut mount so they made out
of rubber they're worn they'll push for it and when you let go they boying back
in place you hear a knocking sighs check that of course check ball joints tie
rods any kind of stuff for wear but the most common thing is worn strut mounts
check that first laying the plain I'll need a suggestion me my friend looking
to do storm chasing in the near future what should I get
I did a little video of my friend Hank and he uses a Toyota rav4 he
actually likes the rav4 best he's not one of these crazy guys that's gonna go
off-road put his life of danger he wants to get good shots he's not a scientist
he's not doing research he's taking really good pictures of tornadoes he
loved his Toyota Camry but some guy someplace in North Texas and
smashed and destroyed his car and he had to total it because it was all bashed in
from the guy running into him while he was just coming back from
chasing it's done so any reliable little car now if you're looking for safety
what you want is a big heavy vehicle that's low to the ground cuz you don't
want something that's gonna blow over that's the advantage of like a roller or
a Camry they're relatively low to the ground so they're gonna be hard to tip
over you want something that isn't easy to tip over if that's the case,
so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember
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