rev up your engines,
carol v says is it possible to make tires so they don't wear out, well
there's always friction the way to your car is driving and then when you stop
the tire has to get friction to hold down, tires will always wear out, but I
remember ages ago when I was a young mechanic I was reading a magazine and
they were touting they can have silicone tires now that will last 100-150
thousand miles well that never came to fruition, and I got it in my own head and
think today I thought they probably couldn't make them but why would they
want to make them, because then they kicked themselves in their rear end, why
would a tire company start making tires that last 150,000 miles when they can
wear out in 50 to 60,000 sell you another set of tires, it probably has
something to do with I mean they're always gonna wear out at some point in
time, but I'm sure they can make it last a lot longer than they actually do, but
they'd probably be kicking themselves in the rear end
just like a similar thing is windshield wiper blades you can actually buy
silicone wiper blades and they cost more there might be twenty five dollars a
piece, but I had ones on my old Toyota that had on for 20 years and they still
work, cleaned them every once in a while, you'll never get that out of just plain
old rubber blades, so there's got to be a point in that they don't
want to make them to last too long, chaddy Audi says what's the best used
car BMW e60 1 or Volvo v70 n well you might have used European car you're
gonna buy a money pit with either of those, I don't care which one you buy, on
that situation I'd have to say to BMW, because realize that Volvo has been
bought by the Chinese and they say that in the future they're only gonna make
electric cars and hybrid cars, and so eventually you're not gonna be able to
get parts, people aren't gonna work on those cars, the BMW is big enough that I
don't see them going bankrupt any time soon, people love driving their cars
around, they like spending money on their BMW, they do handle well I'll give them
that so I'd have to say bmw on that but I would buy neither of them, plain trim Rob
so Scotty is it necessary to have a catalytic converter in a state where there
are no inspections, I believe it's federal law in the United States you
gotta have a catalytic converter, so if you take it off
you're breaking federal law, but the only thing the catalytic converter serves a
purpose is to burn un burned hydrocarbons that come out of your engine
and of course if you take it off the vehicle will run better that's just the way
it goes, but it also pollutes more, so I believe
it's against federal law to do that, but I mean if they don't inspect your car in
your state it's your car you know you can do whatever you want with it, as far
as I'm concerned, but I believe you'd be breaking federal law, Jamie says Scotty
does have an a/c on always make my gas mileage worse in town, on a modern car a
tiny bit but not on the highway, cuz here's the thing I just read a study
that a guy did he had a Mustang and he rolled the windows down and went on a
400 mile trip with the a/c turned off, then he rolled the windows up and turned
the a/c on and it turns out they got about exactly the same mileage both ways
because in highway speeds rolling down the windows created more air turbulence
and the friction of the car having to go through that, that lowered the gas
mileage about exactly the same as rolling the windows up and being
aerodynamic and turning the a/c on, so modern car it doesn't do that much
and in town maybe tiny bit more but it really doesn't make all that much
difference, they don't strain that much when I was a young mechanic, yeah the
GM's had those a8 cylinder air conditioning compressors that were huge
or three pounds of freon in them and yeah they could drain your gas mileage
but not on a modern-day car, jake says I got 2013 Sonata brought in for a
recall 70,000 miles because the original engine was bad, they replaced it for nothing
and now it's running smooth, you got lucky that they replaced it for nothing
but if I had a Toyota and the engine went bad even if they replace it I think, hmm
do I really trust this company they sold me a car with a bad engine, and a lot of
bad engines in those Hyundai they recalled a whole bunch of them cuz they
didn't build them right and they messed up somewhere down the line when they
manufactured they get metal fragments inside them, so basically I don't trust
the company that builds an engine that breaks that fast, it's the way I feel
about it that's why I tell people even Toyota's don't buy a new model that just
came out, especially if it's got a new engine or transmission let it run a few
years to see how time works and how it settles out, and if it's a good vehicle or
not, and if I had a vehicle the engine went
out at 70,000 miles, I don't care if they put an engine for free I would not buy
another one, son Sully kid says my grandma's owned the 2004 Taurus for
years, once in a while it slips into second gear and the transmission fluids
bubbling, well I'm surprised that a 16 year old Ford Taurus is still going down
the line, you said at your grandma's I'm assuming she really drives like a
grandmother and if she does that's why it lasted as long as, I had
customers those things they went out with five or six years old and that
thing is 16 years old, just basically baby the thing it's so old even if you
change the fluid and filter now that may damage it and it might start to slip
even worse, just live with what that is and if it's grandma's car, and say grandma
gets old enough doesn't drive any more, don't take it off her hand
and start driving it fast because I had people do that into with a few months
they go out and transmissions don't even work, if it's been baby by
Grandma, let her just still drive it and baby it, you know as long as it runs
you don't put any money on old thing like that
mark see says are hot air balloons reliable, well their as was reliable as
the person who's maintaining and to make sure they're not ripped and that your
little burners working correctly, but when you're talking about flying it
around its reliability is dependent only upon which way the wind is blowing and
that's not reliable, I've been up in hot air balloons and it's kind
of fun I gotta say, but I mean a great place to do it is New Mexico because you
go in the middle of nowhere where there's nothing around, so you don't have
to worry about it and power lines are
running into something and wide-open spaces it's really fun, or a lot of
places that do it at urban areas they're tethered balloons so they just go up and
down on a cable and they can't go any far that's the safest way, I mean in
Niagara Falls they got one for tourists to see the Falls and it just goes up on
a tether and comes back down you want to try one out start that route, you can't
use it for transportation though you never know where you end up, Manny
Pacquiao says yo Scotty are Suzuki Hayabusas a good daily driver
those are screaming motorcycles they were the first real motorcycle you could
buy stock that would go 200 miles an hour I think the rev limit is now, but they
used to go 200 miles and and they're totally dependable vehicles
if you have a vehicle they can go 200 miles an hour and you drive the speed
limit 30 miles an hour let's face that sucker is gonna last forever, yeah you're
not gonna wear the thing out, but realize it's a heavy motorcycle and if you're
driving in town those heavy motorcycles they're not that nimble for
doing in town traffic things you're better off with a 600cc Suzuki then
because it's lighter weight it'll handle better in traffic and it's got plenty of
power too, mr. snow monkey 32 Scotty huge fan I'm thinking about
buying a new SUV too starting between a Ford Explorer or the Highlanders
thank you, well the Highlander by far it all last that thing two or three times
they make great if you can afford the price of a Highlander if you can't afford
the price of a new one get a used one I got a customers one original engine
the trannys got five hundred and fifty thousand miles on that sucker and it
still runs good you can't even questions just a matter of the price, just a matter
what you're upfront cost is gonna be, try says take your sunglasses off, well you
wouldn't want me to because if I took my sunglasses off I wouldn't be able to
read the questions on my computer screen I wouldn't be able to see the camera
cause if I go like this, everything's blurry accept this that close to my head and
even that's blurry there so, and I got stage lights pointing back this way up
my head so you can see me, so I'm not gonna take them off, so if you never want
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