rev up your engines,
Joe Joe asks Scotty what's the best car to buy for $500, now if you can find an old
corolla or a Camry Toyota go ahead buy one if it still runs and shifts okay, but
since you're talking about a unique situation, buying a car for 500 bucks is
practically nothing these days, so even if it's something like an old Buick, go
ahead and buy it if it runs good and shifts good and stops, because you're not
gonna get much for five hundred bucks these days, maybe you'll get lucky and an
old person passed away and you get an estate car or kid joins the army and their
selling his car and it's in good shape, you never know what you're gonna run into,
I mean you can get accidental good cars there's no ifs ands or buts about
that, but if you find one it's 500 bucks and it runs and it shifts good, you can buy
just about any car if it lasts you more than a few months you're making out like a
gangbuster, it costs you 70-80 bucks a day just to rent one,
VTEC for life says, Scotty are there still reliable old BMW or Audi's if so
what's the best miles to buy them at, if you're talking about really old, yeah I mean I
worked on in the 1960s and 70s and 80s and they were pretty solid built cars,
the part still cost a lot of money yes but they were really solid reliable cars,
but of course you go back that old their dinosaur cars, and you'd have to restore
them, but if somebody's already restored it you get one at a good price hey why
not, I mean they are fun cars they're well built cars, it's just that when you get
into the cars that are from the sixties or seventies or even the eighties,
they're so old there's so much stuff that could be worn out on them, you know
that it's more a toy, I would buy a car like that if you wanted to toy to play
with, and drive around yes, but I would not buy a car like that as an everyday
driver, Green tree says mr. Kilmer
what do you know about hydrogen powered cars, how do they work, do you have any
experience with them and what do you think their prospects are, here's the thing
most people when they talk about hydrogen powered cars they're talking
about a fuel cell car, Toyota sells them in California now, now a fuel cell car
uses hydrogen, the hydrogen goes into a fuel cell, and it turns that hydrogen
into electricity that runs electric motors so they're just like a Tesla
they're 100% electrically driven, then the waste product is just water
vapor that comes out the tailpipe so they don't pollute, now you can also run
cars on hydrogen, any car that's an internal combustion car, you can convert
it to hydrogen if you wanted, it's not that complex of a thing, it's like the people
that convert cars to run on natural gas on propane and stuff that's totally
doable too, but where are you gonna get the hydrogen from that's the problem, you'd
have to make a hydrogen infrastructure and realize hydrogen is very explosive
so it's a real pain in the butt to store, so it's gonna be a while before anything
like that really goes whole hog in any country, because the infrastructure would
be so expensive to create, Ruben Tatum says, do you trust parts from Rock Auto
well it depends what you're buying, it's an online seller, I have had customers, I
don't buy much online, I'm in a big city Houston there's plenty of warehouses
around and they give discounts to professional mechanics which I am one
and I've been dealing with some of these places for over 40 years
so I try to get local stuff because my customers what their cars fixed as fast
as possible, and I try to do it if they get it in by 8:00 in the morning it's out
by 5 in the afternoon, so I don't deal with that much, but I get some customers
buy stuff from rock auto and I put them on they were okay, but I've had some people
buy them and they were really cheaply made Chinese junk, so it depends on what
parts you're buying, and when you buy stuff online realize that if it's wrong
you gotta wait, there's a time lag, it can be a
real pain buying stuff online and a lot of times they don't tell you where it
comes from until you get it and it's too late then, Sebastian B says Scotty I need
to buy a new 4x4 SUV it's for work do you have any suggestions, do you have
that an SUV, cuz here's the thing, there's plenty of them out there,
the Toyotas, the Lexus, the Acura they're really well made SUV and their going
to last a long time, but they cost a small fortune especially a four-wheel
drive, but you know if you have to get a four-wheel drive and you have to get an
SUV, get a Toyota or lexus if you want it to last the longest, if you want a
lower price one, hey I go Ford they make decent that four-wheel drive stuff, and
the prices are going to be quite a bit lower than a Toyota or a lexus but they
won't last as long, the Fam says my 95 chevy c1500 with the TBI 350 sometimes
surges and loses power after it's been warmed up after 30 minutes of driving
after I shut the truck of,f what can cause that, well it's an old truck and when
they do that and they're warmed up and they sit, odds are your throttle body
injectors are leaking, and so when it's hot, it fills the intake with gasoline then
it's flooded out, I see that all the time now since it's an old TBI one, you
can get rebuild injectors and seals pretty cheap and you can do it yourself,
they just screw in and out, try that first it's pretty obvious thing that
happens, they flood out when they get that old and they sit,
now when the engine is cold it doesn't matter because if it drips a little gas it
will start up better, a cold engine needs more gas, but a hot one doesn't, so if you
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