3 Worst Used Cars Only Stupid People Buy

rev up your engines matthew smith says when luxury goes down it's not usually worth it like an irx a 318 ti or a cla yeah you know i gotta admit you you hit the nail on the head there the thing about it is if a company makes luxury cars that's the whole thing they cost too much money of course but they originally start out it's pretty well made vehicles then they start making cheaper ones take the mercedes cla they're pretty crappy cars riding one a few months ago when i was working on one and she said this thing really rides like crap i said yeah it's a small mercedes it's not like the old ones they're just the cheaper they make them they don't ride quite as well the 318 bmws are kind of cheap you go to the lowest level of a luxury car manufacturer it used to be that they were all luxury but now they're trying to cash in and they're making cheaper cars with the same brand name but they have none of the luxury that the old ones did so i personally wouldn't buy any of them either dakota lessard says scotty i'm going to look at a 2013 honda fit base model 1.548 000 into 73 000 miles any good oh those are great vehicles now the price you pay is your own you're getting no guarantee for a nine-year-old car but they can last forever i got a customer with one's got 350 000 miles on it so they can last a really really really long time the prices between you and the seller the vehicle itself have a mechanic like me check it out if he says it's okay go ahead buy it man got all seven says scotty i was working on an old datsun pickup with a straight forward and four cylinders but eight spark plugs what gifts okay people have tried that for years to save gas mileage and to pollute less the newer mercedes they got a bunch of made cylinders that have 16 spark plugs two per cylinder those are to stop pollution in the case of that datsun it was to get a little bit more power out it was a design that you got a tiny bit more power but that's the reason they did it the spark plugs are on each side of the cylinder to get a complete combustion a little bit more power it didn't do all that much more gimmick than anything else then of course when they broke the distributor had to have the eight spark plug wires on it so everything cost more and kind of an oddball they didn't fit any other vehicles so you had to go to the dealer and buy parts if they broke but that's mainly what it was for to get a little bit more power and the late model ones is to get a little bit less pollution so they burn cleaner ben rich says what about a 2013 ford escape they can be okay vehicles they're not great vehicles but they're not horrible vehicles they can be decent vehicles now if you can get a good price on a used one it could be a good car you want a guy like me to check it out for you i had a customer in houston had one she had 170 000 miles and it was still running okay you know but that said you don't pay that much for one they don't have that high resale value and if it's high mileage eventually they wear out the first thing to go out is always the automatic transmission and generally they crap out 150 to 180 000 miles so you don't want to buy one with that kind of mileage if it still has the original transmission unless you get a dirt cheap because then you'd have to be prepared to shell out four or five grand for a new transmission if it cracks up chloride prima says what causes your car to smoke only on a cold startup okay the classic of if it only smokes on a cold startup is your valve seals are kind of worn because when you drive your car and shut it off if the valve seals are bad when the oil drains back down into the engine some of that oil will drain by the valves because the seals are gone and then sit inside the engine and when you start it up you'll burn it and get white smoke until it burns off but if it doesn't use much oil and it only does it on startups live with it i've had cars that did that for years and i still drove them i'd afford that did that for years i paid 550 bucks for it drove it for 12 years then sold it for 250 bucks and it was still running it's still smoked when it was cold but it still ran lenola rivera says do you think nissan's going to be reliable in the near future one word no when they were dotson they were fantastic cars then they just changed the name to nissan it was the same company in japan but then around 2000 they got butt out by the french company renault and ever since then they've been going on a toilet i don't see them getting better any time soon you saw that deal where that one guy they were trying to take him to court and put him in jail in japan one of the heads of nissan and he snuck out and went back to the middle east where he was from originally i don't foresee that company doing anything good the only hope for them is maybe they'll make the right guess on electric cars and get the right type of battery and build electric cars better you never know but for gasoline and diesel cars i don't have much hope for them stealth 76 says what do you think about 2 000 honda civic 650 bucks with body damage car runs and shifts good why not i mean if you don't care about having an ugly car with bastion fenders and you want a knock around toy or somebody's using it to mow lawns and throwing the lawnmower in the back of the hatch what the heck why not you know that's the thing i tell people body damage it doesn't affect the drivability of the car might look ugly as could be and if you don't care and it's a knock around car go right ahead cars are totaled all the time because fenders or bumpers are smashed in when they're that old you know what are you talking about 21 year old car if a fender gets smashed in that'll total the car in most insurance companies so what the heck if it runs it drives good and it's bastion you don't mind the bashes go ahead or maybe you want to learn how to do bodywork those old civics you can get fenders bumpers real cheap from china that fit and put them on a painting you might want to learn how to do some bodywork fabian tori says i got a new alternator new battery but my battery drains nothing's plugged in help dodge journey 2015. okay you've got what's called a dead short that means when your car is turned off your battery is draining like if you have a flashlight and you leave it turned on of course it's going to drain the battery and that's it i have a video called fixing battery drain in your car scotty type that in google youtube watch the video you can find out how you can check for battery drain by putting a meter on and then pulling the fuses out and when you have a drain and you pull out a fuse and the drain goes away that means that circuit has the short then you have to find what is shorted out make sure it's not your brake lights staying on sometimes they stay on look at the car at night and you're driving when it's dark see if any things are glowing that you can see something's still on but if you can't you got to do that test in my video fixing battery drain in your car lil j214 says scotty thoughts on a lincoln town car well in o6 they were building decent cars on a highway you can get 20 something miles a gallon or gas hogging in town but they're not making them anymore they stopped making them but you can always get parts for them and if it's an 06 you could probably get it pretty cheap have a mechanic like me check it out make sure it's not a junk or the engine and [ __ ] are okay but other than that they're called panther bodies they're real strong frames and they can last a really long time just don't overpay it's not collector's item it never will be but it could be good transportation if you can get it cheap enough zt castiglia says scotty what's the best way to clean a car best soap sponge glass cleaner etc okay one you don't use a sponge sponge scratches i like any of the good soaps made for washing cars like maguire's you name it there's a million of them all auto parts storage selling they're all good cleaners as long as they say for cars don't use dishwashing soap it's not right you want a car wash put it in a clean bucket don't use a sponge they scratch get yourself one of those little mitts that's made out of wool the little wool mitts they make them especially for cleaning cars the wool is really good it doesn't scratch anything and when you're done you can squeegee it out rinse it dry it use it over many times glass cleaner you know you want the best glass cleaner the best glass cleaner is mixing like one part vinegar to three parts water and cleaning it that way it doesn't streak vinegar is cheap and it does a really good job just use nice towels i use those blue shop towels now they're like 350 a roll in most stores but i buy them online from like walmart and they're delivered to my house and they're only like a buck and a half a piece instead of 360. i'm cheap but those blue shop tiles are great for cleaning best laptop as the first car was better oh three four runner or sequoia well i would just say the 4runner for one main reason it's not as big of a gas hog as the sequoia they both run forever they both have full frames they're really well made but a forerunner can get decent gas mileage the sequoias are just gas hogs they can run forever but every single customer i've ever had to bought one i asked them what your gas mileage just said we don't know we know it eats up a lot of gas and we're afraid to see how low it is so we never check them they run perfectly fine they go for hundreds of thousands of miles they're gas hogs sequoia giant trees right they're going to be gas hawks but they can run forever so you might get a four runner because one you can generally get it cheaper and two is going to get a little bit better gas mileage because the four runners most of them are v6 where the sequoias all got big old v8s that are even bigger gas hogs dw please what soap to wash a newly painted car no soap at all now i ask my pain body guys and they say once your car is painted new paint don't wash it for three weeks yell out of dust or dirt do what i do leaf blower just blow the dust off do not wash it for like three weeks you said that's the absolute best to make sure the paint and everything is fully cured then when you do want to wash it like i said earlier meguiars makes a good car wash where you mix the concentrate in a clean bucket with water and then you use a wool mitten because that's really good for cleaning never use a sponge and then when you're done wash it off you can either squeegee it or i actually like using the blower the leaf blower to blow all the water off it's a lot neater you don't want to scratch anything with that you might scratch with microfiber towel you might have dirt got on it somewhere and scratched it a blower just blow it all off it's a good way to dry it off but wait three weeks after it's painted don't just start cleaning it right away so if you never want to miss another one of 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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021