Here's Why Chevys are Crap

rev up your engines, Christian Pete says I got a 06 Chevy HHR heard some GM vehicles won't work right with aftermarket radios yeah you know it's true it's insane for some reason a lot of the vehicles GM made it that the radio is part of the anti-theft system part of the starting system of the car and I have had people but aftermarket radios and the car once thought they told it to me and I explained to them you know it's got the stupid interface for the starting system I've also seen ones that they didn't even touch of it's a factory radio but something broke inside it in the car wouldn't start I don't know what this GM engineers have in their minds or snuck up their rear ends but they're certainly not doing it right when they design stuff like that that's just plain stupidity and they've done it, v6 rice burner says Scotty I heard that if the ground straps to your engine is broken your wheel bearings can burn up you know that sounds crazy but it's true you gotta have a good strap from your negative terminal your battery to both the body of the car and the engine you don't then ground its gonna seat you all kinds of sources and since the tires are on the ground it can even go through the wheel bearings make them run hotter make them burn out, so what you want to do is everyone so how did you check your ground straps it's very simple they'll corrode it the battery clean them or if they get loose tighten them up and then the other end they just bolt on you can unbolt them see if they're rusted or corroded make them all shinny again and then put them back on again it's an easy thing to do and it's often to collect it on older cars people don't even think about it, James Royal the first and he says I recently replaced the catalytic converter on my Chrysler and my mechanic tells me the catalytic converter is tripping a code that it's bad what could be wrong all right well the first thing is it's a Chrysler unfortunately what people need to understand about catalytic converters is they burn unburned hydrocarbons so you don't pollute if a catalytic converter goes bad unless you hear it rattling and it's physically broken into pieces of rattling around inside there's something that made it go bad the engine is burning oil the engine is running rich the engines running lean fuel injectors are dripping too much fuel and that runs the catalytic converter or somebody was dumb enough to spray silicone spray cleaner or using something like seafoam and pouring it right in the gas tank and then it can mess with the catalytic converters they go bad cuz there's a reason it hides out with yours you got a serious problem master mechanic who said you need a catalytic converter again why is this going on they don't generally go bad on their own unless I say they break and you hear them rattling, there's a reason they go bad and if you just replace the cat you'll just keep replacing and replacing, williams GMC say if antifreeze gets into my engine and i catch it in time do i have to replace all angeles if you catch up in time and it did damage you thing you won't have to but here's what you have to worry about your combustion chambers the piston goes up it's compressing air and fuel spray so that compress is pretty good if you got a whole bunch of coolant that leaked inside there when it goes up and it's tell us to go further if it's pushing against coolant the valves are closed it still can push because the engines got to spin it will bend the piston rods goodbye it'll run bad, so if you find that it still runs good now and you change the oil and filter you're not getting any foamy or a water mix yeah you could continue in a job you want to pray that not too much got inside there, I'm at 9903 says my 07 hybrid camry with 187 thousand miles is not getting as good gas mileage as it used to okay it's a hybrid often that's the big giant battery the really expensive one as they get older they lose percentage of the power and as they do your gas mileage will go down I see that all the time in the hybrids now it is a hybrid it's not a full electric car so you want to check the spark plugs on your regular engine that's a gasoline four-stroke engine they are filled there's stuff like that but if they're all ok and it runs perfectly fine odds are your hybrid battery starting to wear out and then when you find the price of that hybrid battery you might just live with a little bit worse gas mileage Wilhemina j says, Ford f-150 I was going down the road and the speedometer just stopped working and all kinds of lights came on all right you want to pray that it's just the speed sensor there's an electronic speed sensor on a transmission measures how it spins around sends an impulse to the dash and makes the speedometer work now even though your speedometer looks like the old-fashioned kind they have a speedometer cable it doesn't work that way the signal on a transmission is digital and it goes to the dash and the dash changes the digital one to a stepper motor and a motor turns it so it's actually turning but it's not directly with the cable you want to pray it's just that because if it isn't it could be something's broken in the transmission and then you won't get a signal from the sensor praise the sensor simple you can unbolt it by one and put on yourself too, very easy fix, Easy Rider says Scotty why does the low oil light comes on in a 2007 Express but it's full on the dipstick, knowing those things just change the oil pressure sending unit they don't cost much both off full time that could fix all your problems if that isn't the problem then you basically want to go to a mechanic like me we put our actual oil pressure gauge on that's a physical and it gives the actual pressure and if you do have low oil pressure that can get super expensive it can be a bad oil pump it could be bad bearings worn in the engine they'd have a bigger space so oil takes up a bigger space that makes the pressure go down you want to pray it's just the oil pressure sending unit from my experience on those it often is, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 5min 27sec (327 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 27 2019