rev up your engines, mirco del Carpio says what is the worst car sold in
america, I'd have to say the Fiats ,you know Fiat bought Chrysler and then they
started selling their Fiats with the Chrysler's and their sales are now so
crappy that they're even considering pulling the Fiats out of the United
States and just putting fiat engines and stuff into Chrysler's and calling them
Chrysler's, but not even trying to sell the Fiats anymore because there's junky
cars and they have such a bad reputation in the United States from the past
anyways everybody calls them, fix it again Tony cuz they're always breaking,
and I had a few customers that did buy the Fiats in the last three years and they
were all piles of junk and the people got rid of them and said I'll never buy
another Fiat the rest of my life, Anthony says Scotty what's your opinion on a
Volvo 242 1982, those things were tanks, back in the day I had
quite a few customers they had those 242s they could run forever if you took
care of them, they were solid reliable cars and they had a lot of power even
though they didn't have a gigantic engine and they rode quite well of
course being a Volvo they were extremely safe inside too, now of course if you're
talking about buying one now, you're talking about buying what a 37
year old car and you're taking your life in your hands driving around a 37 year
old car, you never know what's gonna break their that old, the rubber, the brakes,
everything's gonna to be going at any second, but they were really solid with
built cars back in the day, Kelly blender says Scotty what's your
opinion I'm trading my 97 Jeep Cherokee XJ for a toyota 4runner
well if you can trade it and get it even trade go right at cuz that 4runner
will out last that Jeep, it'll last so much longer than a jeep there's so much
better made than the jeeps are, odds are you have to pay more money so it
just depends on how much money you want to pay, or if you can find some fool that
wants a Jeep and give you a 4runner take advantage and take the 4runner give
them the Jeep, Steve Lee says Scotty I have a squeaky noise
from the wheels it stops when I brake, wheel bearings or brake pads, that's
normally brake pads, because the brake pads have what are called squealers on them,
prongs that stick out just a little bit above when you're down
metal and metal on the pads, so when you're just driving they drag and squeak
but as soon as you step on the brakes they push so hard that the noise stops
cuz it pushes them out of the way, just pull off the wheels look at the brake
pads and if they're you know thin as a dime then you know it's time to replace them, now
occasionally wheel bearings can make noises, but generally wheel bearings
won't squeak, when they wear they roar and the faster you go, the louder roar
you're going 30 they go roo, and then you're going fifty they
get louder, they don't generally squeak, Romero hey Scotty opinions on a
96 Ford Ranger, those old pickups could last a long time, there a smaller pickup
they're not like a big f150 for hauling tons of stuff around but they can last a long
time, especially if they're standard transmissions, they can be pretty
bulletproof with a standard transmission their weakest point is the automatic
transmission, hey if it's a 96 and it's still driving down the road and running
that'll tell you something, you're talking about
what you know twenty three year old vehicle that's still run strong, yeah
it's pretty solid built a lot of them, David Holloman says, I got an 06
Cadillac DTS v8 Northstar 130,000 miles for $2,700, okay well that's not much
money, but it's a Northstar engine and it's a 13-year old Cadillac, if you're
planning on driving 20,000 miles a year or so, don't buy it'll bankrupt you, but
if you want it as kind of a toy weekend car, go ahead that's hardly any
money and if it runs good now, but before you put any money down, you have a
mechanic check the head gasket, I've got a video that shows how to tell if your
head gaskets blown you can watch that the kit cost 35 bucks on Amazon and
it'll tell you if the head gasket is blowning if the head gasket is blowing you walk, because
do a head gasket job on that thing it's like a five to seven thousand dollar job
and you wouldn't want to buy it then, you want to check that first, Christian
Ivanoff says Scotty my 1990 Mazda Miata aluminum oil pan is stripped, should I try
to re-thread it and put a larger bolt on, why yes because aluminum
is soft is pretty easy to rethread them they have kits just for those aluminum
things, the first thing I do is, get yourself an oversized drain plug that's
self threading I fixed one I don't know about three
months ago on one and it worked great, I went to Autozone I said, hey can you get
me these oversize self-threading oil drain
plugs for this Mazda, they said sure they had one in the back, they got it to me
and I put it in and I screwed it in and then I screwed it out, and then any
threads would come out and then I screwed it back in again and filled up
and away you went, aluminum pushes out to the side unlike steel and so a lot of
times you won't even get any particles coming out, but even if you get a few
particles when you take it out they'll all drain out when you put a quart of
oil in it, it'll come out of the bottom and then you can put it back in again, I've
done lots of them that way, so if you never want to miss another one of my new
car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!
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