rev up your engines,
valor and he said hey Scotty what do you think of a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder, we
need a cash car for my wife's commute to her new job and of a budget of a
thousand bucks, any other recommendations okay a thousand dollars for car these
days is practically nothing, that's equivalent to let's say a hundred
dollars when I was a young mechanic for a car, and you didn't get much for a
hundred dollars unless you got lucky got the neighbor's car or something that
they were tired of it maybe had some rust or something, I'm not a nissan fan
but the 03's were okay, so if you find one and it runs good and the
transmission shifts good and you don't see a
bunch of oil leaking on the bottom, it could be an okay runaround vehicle for a
thousand bucks, of course I think try to find a Toyota
Corolla or a Toyota Camry, but you're not gonna really find a very good one for a
thousand dollars in most cases, if you can go right ahead, look for a Corolla or
Camry, but if that thing's okay for a thousand dollars, especially if you know
the people and you know the history of the vehicle it could be an okay
commuting vehicle, just don't put a lot a lot a lot of miles on it, cuz if you do
it'll wear out being 16 years old and you didn't say how many miles it had on
but on the other hand let's say it's got 200,000 miles on it, don't buy it then
that's too many miles, dolphin back 50, is it true that all maintenance must be
done at a certified shop or dealer to keep the car warranty in effect, cuz I've
been changing my own car oil and such and I'm worried, you have to read the
warranty of course, that's why I tell people I don't really believe in them
their insurance policies, but long as you keep the receipts for your oil changes
that's legal, I've had customers here in Texas they tried to wheedle their way
out of something, they prove that they had bought the oil filter and changed
the oil themselves, hey that one particular car I'm talking about they
actually hired a lawyer, and the lawyer said no they changed the oil they got
the receipts for that, and they ending up getting stuff fixed under warranty
yeah but who wants to get involved in that stuff in the first place, stay away
from most of those warranties, their not worth the paper that they're printed
on when it comes down to it, Chris JD Scotty I bought my wife an 06 lexus
one hundred and fifty five thousand miles, no repair history not
sure if the timing belt was replaced, I looked the outside there aren't crack
should we replace it, I would replace it, it's got 155 thousand miles
and they tell you to change it about every hundred, and it's 13 years old it's
definitely it's a very crucial part, and once you change it then you're not gonna
have to think about it for a hundred thousand miles or eight ten years, and
have it done by a pro mechanic who knows what he's doing, because those v6 engines
they're well built engines but the cam that's on the passenger, that's very hard
to set up it's in a place where you can barely see the stupid thing, and the only
way it can be done correctly is with a professional mechanic who has a good set
of cam lockers, so when they take it apart before they take the old belt off
they move it into position, and then they lock it with this cam locking tool and
if you don't have that tool, odds are when you put that belt back on it'll
slip a tooth or two and the car won't run right and you'll be furious about it
so make sure you use a good mechanic who knows what he's doing,
schye and he says scotty we're looking to buy
a 2014 toyota corolla with standard transmission, but it spent time being flat towed behind
a motor home, can this create damage, it's a manual transmission,
so you don't have to worry about it, if it's an automatic transmission I wouldn't
touch it with a 10 foot pole,
cuz their not made for the wheels spinning and the
engine not running to make the oil pump in the
automatic transmission go, but manual transmission they only have splash
lubrication so it just splashes as it spins around
no there's nothing wrong, if they left the tires all
evenly so they all rolled down all fine, and you road test it and it drives fine,
don't worry about it in a manual, but from my own experience never buy one that's
an automatic, even if they say, well we disconnected
the drive shaft, people can tell you all kinds
of lies, but with a manual transmission you don't have
to worry about towing them,
colt 97 my friend's 2010 cts 3 liter as a
high-pitched noise when you accelerate, it only lasts a few seconds and there
are are vibrations in idle and if you accelerate hard the engine feels like it
jumps forward, you want to pray it's not the transmissions, those CTS had horrible
transmissions, have your friend find a mechanic like me who knows what he's
doing, and we'd hook up our dealer level scan tool and we take it for a road test
look at the live data, the mode six data, and any
historical codes, and you want to pray it something like a bad ignition coil, a bad
ignition coil will do that, and it's you know nine years old and it's a Cadillac so
those could go out, there's a lot of things that could be, you want to pray
it's not the transmission going out though, cuz that's the weak link of that
cts, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember
to ring that Bell!
