Rev up your engines, nathanal says, scotty what's your thoughts
on Suzuki as a brand as they reliable and well made,
ok well here's the thing they make screaming killer motorcycles, I use to have a Suzuki,
racing Suzuki man that thing was fast, it would go 170 mph like that,
but their cars are kind of little puddle jumpers they pulled out of the US years ago from bad
sales because they got a reputation as crappy little cars that rattled that the dealers
didn't stand behind them and I mean they couldn't compete with Toyota and Honda the quality
just wasn't there, now in other parts of the world people like
them because they get really good gas mileage, I know in Asian people drive a lot of them
around, and when I went to the British virgins islands
everybody was driving those little Suzuki jeeps around because that was the only jeep
that they could get and since the island was only like 3 miles wide and 20 miles long,
you don't drive that much so anything can kindly work,
but I would never buy one in the US because they're hard to get parts for and they just
don't hold up, Joseph says scotty I have a 96 honda accord
with 260,000 miles and the exhaust pops when it idles, what could be the problem,
ok then your exhaust pops that means that you have a miss, that is raw gas not burning
and getting in the exhaust and then exploding in the exhaust,
so it can be worn spark plugs it can be bad spark plug wires, it can be dirty fuel injectors
and it can even be a head gasket starting to blow,
so you start with the simple stuff tune it up,
change the spark plugs, change the spark plug wires, have the fuel injectors pressure cleaned
and pray that that fixes it and that it's not an internal engine problem like a valve
or a head gasket starting to blow, viera says scotty what are your thoughts on
a Ford f150 2004 ok those are good trucks, especially if you got a v8 engine, they're
made for v8 engines, now it's 15 years old so if you're going to
buy one you want a guy like me to check it out first, we have scan tools when we hook
them up even on a 2004 we can get like 1,000 pages of data that we can analyze and our
good scan tools are really cool because they're color coded, we don't sit there and look at
a 1,000 lines of data and analyze it and say hummm it that right or is that right,
no they're color coded and if they're green that means they're good, if they're yellow
it mean they're transitional and if they're red that means that data is in the bad and
there's a problem in that area, so it's not like we're analyzing that data all the time,
we get a lot of help from the machine itself, but that checks out with that they can be
great trucks that last a long time, Johnathan says scotty I have a 2015 dodge
challenger rt and the brake fluid is black should I upgrade to dot 4 brake fluid and
what degree is the boiling point for high speed racing on track days,
ok the first thing is, you can buy some really high level brake fluid, do not buy the ones
that are synthetic silicone based ones because you probably have abs and that doesn't work
with abs, what you want to do it buy the highest quality
regular brake fluid that you can get that's safe for abs systems and that will be perfectly
fine, you want to do it because if it's black it's
got a lot of corrosion in it and you don't want to have problems especially if you're
racing it around, just don't use the silicone stuff because the full synthetic silicone
stuff is not compatible with abs braking and I'm sure you got abs brakes on that,
johnathan says scotty I got a 2005 toyota prius with 119,000 miles for 3 grand,
the car runs great but I have 2 issues, the ac doesn't work but it does blow air and we're
only getting 40 mpg when it says 51-59 mpg, what could be wrong,
well as for it's not blowing ac, realize that the prius has an electronic ac compressors
on them, they don't have belt driven ones, they're electronically run and I believe they
run on like 240 volts, they're very complex stuff so have a guy check that who works on
those systems, they're very complex, now as for your poor gas mileage, many times that
is a 14 year old prius the main hybrid battery in that thing gets weak and goes bad and you
get worse gas mileage, I see that all the time,
now you're going to have to find a guy like me,
or a guy that works on nothing but electric cars and hybrid cars and we have special computers
and we hook them up to the computer and in about 50 minutes it does a complete test of
the hybrid battery and if tells you if any of the cells are bad and need replacing,
because that's generally what makes them get worse gas mileage on those, when the battery
starts to go bad, the big hybrid battery you get worse gas mileage because it's not regenerating
and then repowering the energy when you brake and regenerate power, I see that all the time
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