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rev up your engin okay today we're talking about a 2005 Toyota Matrix guy bought it used for like 1,300 bucks and probably the main reason they got it so cheap was the transmission was broken they thought it was a clutch but it wasn't so they put a used transmission in it and that cost them like 1,300 bucks 1,400 bucks so he's got about three grand in the car now which is course nothing for a vehicle these days so we're going to see it's got check engine lights and all that stuff on it as you can see it's got Tennessee tags it is the XRS version of The Matrix it was made in Cambridge Ontario he's got a little bitty oil leak so the first thing we're going to take the oil cap off and pour some UV D in it we just pour it in put the O cap back on while we Road tested the dial go through the system and the little dial come out we able to use my yellow sunglasses and it you be like to see exactly where it's leaking from but it's got to check engine light andall so we're going to scan it as per usual it just plugs in the data Port there we're going to try out this new X tool it's got 17,1 169 mes on it automatic detection detecting hey the interior is still in good shape these cloth seats can last forever that's why I like them just like my wife's Matrix there's a lot of room in these things say something I don't like a sunroof and it leaked on him he had to clean out the drains cuz it was leaking so close it and leave it closed is my advice automatic scan here we go scan it pretty quickly and it's SC CS for the stupid airbag system you never really expect them to work all that well in a car that's this old the trouble codes and it says indicator of Auto pattern seat airbag active mode that's a weird one realize this does have those defective toot airbags I personally wouldn't trust them put the old seat belt on when you're driving we'll clear it just to see if it comes back later and now we'll go to the other trouble codes the all the other trouble codes were here for the main system engine and electronically controlled transmission you got turn it off turn it on again cuz it's an old car and that's hard work so here we go read the code and it's got secondary air injection pump is stucking off secondary air injection pump is stucking off secondary air injunction pump is stuck we'll clear that for one main reason this is tenness see they don't do any kind of emissions testing the car will run perfectly fine as it does so we don't care it would be a relatively expensive repair if you live in an emissions area cuz normally with that you got to replace the stinking pump and they're extremely expensive if you don't live in one of those areas here's a picture one of the pump in this case it's a used one for sale cuz they're so expensive knew a lot of guys will try a used one if they really go bad they'll off an idle bad let's see what this thing does we'll start her up it's idling perfectly fine hear that rling noise the Catal converter is rattly now it runs okay and it's not tripping any cat coats you can drive with the rattling catalytic converter all you want but if it finally breaks off the pieces will Jam in the back and it'll clog it up and then when you got to the back hardly any air will come out but it's coming out fine and it runs good enough so you don't have to worry about it and this being Tennessee a lot of guys will just throw them away rather than buy one if it finally does break and clog everything up now the average price to replace a cat on this is between $1,900 and $22,000 it's part of the exhaust manifold assembly so it's very expensive s it runs okay and nobody cares there's no check engine light for that just leave the thing alone so now we're going to look at live data to see what kind of shape this thing is in now I got to say this machine it kind of updates rather slowly M airflow sens is good and stable now we can see longterm fuel trim here is 2.31% that means it's adding 2.31% kind of typical a lot of times these things will run a little bit lean as they age you're going to get better gas Modge you might put some a bur ber he's cleaner and if you want it to run less lean but you'll probably get worse gas modage if it's not running as lean so that I would just leave alone my Matrix hey it runs somewhat lean but it gets 37 m a gallon on Highway doesn't burn oil so I don't care you can see the engines working perfectly fine zero misfires for all four cylinders they're all zero now we're going to take it for road test but see on this 2005 look this is all metal we go 2 years later to this 07 Which is my matrix it's all plastic cheaper M they just go to it cuz it's cheaper that's all this is a much better design metal let close who it take for a spin the only light is the tire pressure monitoring system and hey it's an old car you know it's almost 20 years old so tire pressure monitoring batteries are worn out who cares get a pressure gauge to measure it rather than replace four loads for a bunch of money up camera cuz it's old but it's got a CD player and aside from the rattling catalogic converter so rides quite well and being a manual transmission it's a lot zippier than mine so corn quite well these things are made for cornering now they're rather rough rid on a bumpy road but they really do corner quite well even my wife says in hers it wants to go fast stanging enough she drives a lot faster than Alexis cuz Alexis just cruises along but she says the Matrix just wants to get out and go and they really do if you drive them right brakes work perfectly fine when you hit the brakes look no problems at all we'll wait till people go by so we'll have some space for our little drag strip here now it's not a race car but need of the stretch of the imagination but it's fast enough nobody's behind us so here we go hey it burns rubber hey this thing is still Zippy it's a lot zippier than ours cuz it's a manual transmission you get a lot more speed out them just keeping a lower gear and they'll accelerate better so if you want to pass someone oh you got got to do is we're in third gear now which just going on to second gear Zippy fun to drive and of course when you're really pushing it all that exhaust gas is going out the cett converter stops rattling then but hey it's got plenty of acceleration if it had a Clogg cat it wouldn't be driving this fast and zooming up so it's not clogged yet sometimes you can drive them years that way stable going down the road and really aside from the rattling caly inverter it's pretty quiet it's quieter than my wife hers had been in a couple of wrecks before we bought it so sometimes get some wind noise this one doesn't really have the wind noise I'm just kind of surprised that the transmission had to be replaced cuz all this used one works perfectly fine before this i' never seen a standard transmission brake in The Matrix so I don't know I might question did it really need replacing or not I don't know this one works fine it's a used one supposedly I don't know I didn't see the job done either but it's rare that these standard Transmissions going out and that's for my wife that's got the four-speed automatic I've never seen one of those breaks but who knows the owner before him might have just beaten the heck out of it jammed it into reverse when they were going forward and that of course will break anything I've seen that happen just a shame that that cat is rattling cuz as you can hear it's kind of annoying it's not affecting the running yet eventually it'll probably break into pieces and it will but it isn't yet now other than the rat runs perfectly fine so let's check about that oil leak now that we've taken a spin for the leak D to go through the system okay so I got my yellow sunglasses over my regular ones and it's cool UV light we'll crawl under there and look for where the leak's coming from and just as I suspect it's the front main seal of the engine where the crank case pulley goes over the crank case there's a seal inside there now you can take the engine apart replace the seal reasonable job but I'm going to try this at 205 reeal I've had very good luck with it you pour it in it rejuvenates the seal and then the leak stops I'll give this a try I know it looks like water but it isn't we'll just pour the whole bottle in it's a liquid polymer and it rejuvenates the rubber on the oil seal kind of amazing stuff now if you have an oil gasket leak it won't fix it it only works on the seal because the seals have a spring inside that holds them in place and since that's holding it tight if the rubber is kind of worn this can rejuvenate the Rubber and it can stop leaking if it doesn't work you can always take the engine apart and replace the seal it won't hurt anything and I've seen it fix quite a few of these you get them two 250 mes of driving and then see if the drip stops great now I mean if you don't want to take everything apart and it's only dripping a little you can just add oil as it leaks out it's not that big of a deal you know you can either try this and it doesn't work take the engine apart and put a new seal on it or just live with the leak I've seen them drip for years before they really go when it's really bad they'll leave G organic puddles make a mess then you know it's time to change the seal but this stuff works pretty good we're going to see if it works gu I'll tell me in a few weeks if it stopped or not so there you have it an5 Matrix 170,000 Mi still runs like a clock you had a c the converter rattling but it still runs okay you can replace it if you want to spend a whole bunch of money you take it off if you want to break the law but the car itself hey made Cambridge Ontario still runs like a top breakes like a top doesn't burn oil mind you it leaks a little you place a seal but for the money he's got invested in this thing less than 3,000 bucks hey you got a good deal and really it still looks good too I got to say I'd rather have these factory wheels than the ones mine came with what can you do I bought it as a used car and it came with these and it still rolls down the road perfectly fine they don't leak any air so I'm not going to be changing them anytime soon so if you never want to miss another one of my new car videos remember to ring that [Music] Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 16 2024