rev up your engines
pecan says I live in Michigan I make truck parks for Detroit Diesel Scotty
knows his stuff well thanks I've been doing it for 52
years I like somebody who you know knows a little bit about the business agrees
with me because hey people I'm here to help everyone out with their car
problems with no b.s I'm not being paid by one company to say this is good great
product when it really isn't I see it I have to fix them I'll tell you the truth
of the matter is the main reason I got into telling people about cars I've
never been working on for 52 years I started because over the decades I
get really peed off at the manufacturers for making crappy designs poorly built
cars now I can tell millions and millions of people this morning I just
got my nine hundred millions YouTube view so I'm helping a lot of people out
and I like doing it and now I'm gonna stop me
kudos there I'll keep trying to do my best
Andrew Getty says Scotty my wife's mother plans to trade out her Honda
Element later this year choices her Mazda cx-5 2016 Hyundai Tucson 2016
Honda CRV 2016 a Toyota rav4 2015 what do you think I mean really if I was her
I'd keep the element those things could run forever but she really wants to it's
kind of a toss-up between the Honda CRV and rav4 they're very similar vehicles
Road them both see which one she likes cuz they're both well-made now of course
she's talking used so you want a mechanic like me to check it out
trust no one when you buy a used car it's a dirty business people lie cheat steal
all kinds of stuff good cars out there but you want to make sure I'm a mechanic
check it out I can tell within an hour if it's been wrecked flooded stolen you
can't hide information from my giant $5,000 can tool it's all there and if I
see something that's off or say some data that I'm supposed to get that
the data is no longer there meaning that someone has disconnected
something then I just tell the customer don't even think about buying it it's
got some type of problem you don't wanna get involved in it you don't own it yet
don't buy it but what those really the Honda CRV and the Toyota rav4 they're
relatively similar vehicles whatever she really likes, Anthony cronic says I got
friend there's a Kia SUV Sportage you something I forgot it as GDI he sprays
cleaners through the intake past the MAF sensor
every 2,000 miles this too much is he crazy actually it's not crazy because
GDI gasoline direct injection the gasoline is sprayed directly into the
engine that's what's called GDI on a regular fuel injected systems the fuel
injectors on the intake manifold so when they spray they spray over the intake
valves and get sucked into the engine gasoline is a very good cleaning solvent
so that keeps crud from building up on the intake valves GDI system nothing
goes over the intake valves except air and oil and crud from the PCV the
positive crankcase ventilation system so that will keep it from happening and he
does it every 2,000 miles hey it's gonna keep problems from occurring this really
as long as you use a good cleaner that's made for GDI cleaning there's a ton of
them out there I got a video on that make your car run better with a
little spray cleaner watch that and as long as you use a good clear perfectly fine doing it
ender says my grandma drives a 94 Chevy Cavalier it has the original engine and
transmission how is it not dead yet she has 180,000 miles on it okay you already
answered your own question it's your grandma I'm assuming your grandma is a
very conservative driver and if so even an American car can hold up you change
the oil regularly and just take normal care of it the reason that especially
something like the cavalier goes bad is because the engines generally have more
horsepower than the transmission can take so the transmissions burn out and
then once somebody's got when it's 10-12 years old and they find it's gonna cause
some three to six grands I have another transmission put in they get rid of the
car if she babied it you never know I've even had grandma's get that kind of
mileage out of Chrysler products which is almost unheard of but if she drives
like a true classic grandma that's why the car lasted so long now that's a
definite car that you don't want to buy used I had a customer do that he bought
a used grandpa car and then he went around driving a thing over 100 miles an
hour on highways here in Texas and it's six months it was falling apart both the
engine and transmission suspension was falling apart cuz he bought a 12 year
old grandpa's car and he didn't drive like a grandpa, the une says I got an 89 Honda Accord starting here whining some
from the rear back part of the car what on earth could it be depends want it's
making a noise if it only makes it while you're driving the faster you go the
faster why is the wheel bearings going back there when the wheel bearings go
bad as you go the faster you go let's say it makes the noise of you just
sitting there with the engine running that made your fuel pump starting to go
out it is an 89 and the fuel pumps are inside a gas tank you'll hear noise from
the back there I've been whining and it means it sees the time you get a new
fuel pump or the fuel filter is clogged it's building up too much pressure and
making the pump one so you got to figure out does it whine when it's just sitting
there running up so fuel pump if it's moving wheel bearings going out, Patrick
roussel says I let my car sit for a month and the tires are all low and even
after refilling them they all leak within two days first thing you want to
do is look at the tires see if they got a bunch of cracks on them and if you
can't remember how old they are because as they age the rubber cracks
ultraviolet rays the Sun get to it they tear it right then they leak through the
cracks through osmosis if they're old and cracked you need new tires they just
flat worn out now if they're not old worn out crack what's gonna happen is if
they sit for a long time some air can leak out and if it does then all the
seams where the tire meets the rim they might not be sealing right now so what
you're going to do then is and you want to take it to a tire shop and they would
unmount them and then lubricate the inside of the rim with tire lube there
is such a thing it's raking the rubber pop under the metal rims then filling
back them up with air would be okay but do check them for cracks and if they're
more than five six years old just replace them because when they get that
old then they don't seal right anymore Diaz Vestas says Scotty can I change my
own oil and filter my new Kia Forte 5sx without voiding any type of warranty
well of course you can at least in the United States there's a thing called the
Moss Magnuson warranty act and unless they're changing the oil and built
they're free at the dealer for you they cannot say you have to have them do it
and use their parts years ago they tried doing that kind of crap I said that you
didn't use our filter or we didn't do the work well guess what it got taken to
court law and the law is now you can change it yourself just keep the
receipts and a good premium oil filter and you gotta give any problems at all
with I advise doing it yourself cuz nowadays who knows you go to an oil
change place a lot of times they give you a bulk oil comes out of a big drum
how do you know what's in there you better to buy them one quart at a
time of the quality stuff and know what you're getting, euro says Scotty I have a
Suzuki Grand Vitara one hundred and forty thousand miles is it a good
reliable car one it's not a car it's a small that's you reach I think it has
been if it's got 140,000 miles yeah put much money into it but here in the
United States not a smart idea they pulled out decades ago it's very hard to
get parts form generally if they have an automatic transmission that's gonna be
shot once it gets 150,000 miles but if it's a standard transmission you've
taken care of it keep changing the oil and filter and baby you never know how
it's all this other parts of the world they love them I was in the British
Virgin Islands they all Drive and they love them but here in the United States
not so much Brandon sparks says Scotty mice got in my garage how can I
check if they've done anything to my car well they haven't stolen and driving
around cuz they're too small they can't reach the pedal the main thing that they
do is they build nests and for some really bizarre reason they like chewing
on electrical wiring they they get a little thrill the 12 volts isn't strong
enough to kill them and they get kind of a thrill biting into the wires from what
scientists telling me check all the wiring and look to see if there's a
little nest anywhere I look around the area especially under the hood to see if
those thin little wires have bite marks and stuff I know if they do but it's
still running okay here is a quick fix that actually works quite well
there is you can get bottles of the stock it's called liquid electrical tape
and it seals any problems in wiring let's now you have a normal old car that
just is wearing out and all the plastic is breaking on the wires and you can see
the metal underneath well you can just go and coat them with this liquid tape
it's just black grease tar stuff comes with a little brush and a can and you
can paint it so if you see where they chewed on the wire
paint it all like that and from what I've seen they don't like chewing on
that stuff cuz it tastes raunchy so I've done that on cars and then they never
bit those areas again so the office there must not like the stuff
and then maybe you got a cat or something to chase the mice out of the garage
techno fund says what is the best impact wrench well if you want pure power you
go with an air impact and an air tank and a compressor now the electric impact
wrenches are better than they used to be like a Dewalt electric impact wrench
is a decent impact wrench the thing is they never put out the power that the
air impact wrenches put out I got an air impact wrench and it's got 1,400 pounds
foot-pounds of reverse torque that's a lot of power I've seen the electric ones
to put out 550 600 but that's not even close to that and the problem with the
electric ones are from the electric wants being electric motors they're
bigger I got an electric one I use it a lot now
cuz sometimes I'm too lazy when I'm taking off tires and I don't feel like get my
air hose out and hook everything up I just plug in my electric impact wrench
and all I need is a wire then that's no big deal I got extension wires all
over the place and I take the wheels off that way but the air impacts are much
better and I personally like the aircat ones because not it cost about a hundred
and fifty two hundred bucks more than the cheaper ones but they have a lot
torque and they're a lot quieter so they don't bother your ear so if you're really
looking for something good those air count ones are excellent ones and they
are better than the electric ones all around cuz there's so much smaller that
if you're doing a lot of work you can get into tiny crevices with the big
electric ones you can't fit them in, so if you never want to miss another one
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