rev up your engines,
Tyler m says Scotty I'm thinking about buying a 95 miata convertible, is it
worth it and what are the downsides, the miatas are a decent cars, but here's the
thing, I don't advise people to buy convertibles period, being a famous
youtuber I get companies giving me their convertibles to road-test,
and yes they're fun to drive around on a nice sunny day, but they have too many
downsides, first if you ever rode in a convertible in heavy traffic especially
in a highway, the first time I ever did it, it scared the bejesus out of me
because I thought, what's that noise what's that noise, and it was an
18-wheeler way back coming to pass me you hear a lot of sounds that you would
never hear otherwise, and be in a ragtop hey the convertible top somebody gets a
knife, they can rip it and get in and steal anything that's in the car and then your
stuck with buying an expensive new top plus the tops themselves over time, they
just flat wear out and they look horrible and they're dirty, and of course
almost all of them leaked over time, when it rains outside they'll get wet inside,
I've had more customers convertibles they stunk like mold,
you look under the seat that's mold under there, they're a real pain to take
care of you know they just are, now the one advantage though that Miata is, if
you get the hardtop and the soft top okay you can put the hardtop on most of the
time and then use the soft top once in a while, that's not a bad design really, but
for a regular convertible I'm not a fan I'd never personally bought one myself, I
probably never will, Michael asks dear Scotty I've been watching your videos on
YouTube for a long time and find it interesting, if you could buy any car
from Kia, Hyundai, Volkswagen, or Fiat which one would be better for a good
reliable car, I know you don't like any of them just curious to know, I wouldn't
buy any of those cars, but if I had to buy one of those cars, I would buy a Kia
because their quality has gone up a lot in the past, they used to be really junky
little cars, now they're decent cars they're not gonna last as long as the
Toyota or Honda but, the Volkswagens and Fiats, you lose so much money in them
because their resale value absolute garbage, and they don't hold up
all that well, where are the kias they hold up longer, I had a
customer with the Kia, he was a sales guy for a big food chain here in Texas, and
he put 200,000 miles on his Kia in the first two years and it was still running
okay, so you know, hey that'd be what I pick out of those
mike says I got a question with the 2014 Mazda
cx-9, it's funny that Scotty said don't buy this one in the latest video,
anyway its under powertrain warranty but does anyone know why the power transfer
unit in the rear transfer case would leak, the car's only got 50,000 miles and
automatic transmission, yeah because it's a mazda, their cheaply made there's just no
if ands or buts about it, mazda throughout
history has had transmission and drivetrain problems in all of their
vehicles, I remember 35 years ago customers would bring me Mazdas and I'd
say well your transmissions going out they just don't make them all that well
it's a big reason I say don't buy one but if you're gonna buy mazda and get a
standard transmission, that's another story I've had customers with Mazda with
standards that would get 200-300,000 miles sometimes out of them and they can be
decent cars then, but you don't want to buy a Mazda with an automatic
transmission it's just cheaply made, like fifty five
thousand miles on it and you got leaks those seals should be made
to last a really long time, oh it's a 2014 so it's only five years old
the seals should certainly last longer, I've had
Toyotas that were 25 years old the seals were still good, so another reason
not to buy one of those things, otis says scotty I got 07 honda civic with 108,000 miles
and 6 speed manual tranny after the engine warms up it shakes it
idle, I can hear a knocking under the hood, no error codes, could it be the
alternator or AC compressor, well you want to pray that it's that, very easy to
check, drive it and warm it up and you hear the
noise, quick take the belts off, if the noise goes away great then figure
out what it is, but from my experience, when it warms up if it's shaking at idle
and you hear a knocking, it's usually an internal engine problem
I had a customer with one of those and the engine was going out inside it turns
out it was that variable valve timing stuff was wearing out and it started
knocking and rattling inside and it's a very big expense to do it, but do as I said
warm it up drive it and take the belt off, pray the noise goes away, then pull on
all the pulleys and belts and see if you can figure out which ones
making the noise, pray it's that because odds are it's not and it's the
engine, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
remember to ring that Bell!
He’s an old angry man. He used to have good info. Now he he’s just cranky and hates on everything... his voice also drives me nuts.
Haven't paid attention to him in a good while. He used to make helpful videos but all his stuff is now opinion & clickbait-y BS.
Well he did say except Miatas with hardtops. And who is this guy?