Why Not to Buy a Toyota Corolla

rev up your engines jarred madam says Corolla vs. Camry well that's your decision they're both excellent cars but the camrys cost more than the Corollas you want to pay more to get a bigger car you get a little bit better gas mileage with the Corolla but you're gonna get a lot better ride in a Camry that is your decision of what you want to spend how much money you want to put into a vehicle and how long you're gonna keep it now what you're gonna use it for because the Camrys rides so much better than the Corollas do I mean they just do when I rent cars I've always trying to get a Camry cuz if they ride great especially if I'm taking my 92 year old mother somewhere I wanted to be comfy so I would rather rent a Camry cuz it's gonna ride better they even though it gets a little bit worse gas mines in a Corolla it isn't that much different at myself I'd go for a Camry but you pay a lot less for the car all then they both last a long time Sarah 107 1294 I need to sell my Nissan Altima 2016 not for watching your channel my friend I won't be able to sell it how long should it take to sell it I'm not asking a lot well if you're not asking a lot you'll be able to sell pretty fast my first thing would be it's a 2016 drive it to a car max they buy cars see what they offer you for the thing you never know they might offer you more than you think and they just get rid of the stupid thing now if they hardly offer you any more Don it runs okay my advice is you drive it until it falls apart and then just get rid of it because if you're not gonna get much money for it you might as well as Drive the stupid thing you own it by lose a whole bunch of money sometimes they can last reasonable amount of time I'd never tell somebody to buy one but if you already have it you're not gonna get much for it you might as well as keep it and drive it no there's Scotty telling you keep a nice sum which I normally don't say but if you can't solve for much money it runs okay muzzle was just driving under the ground of smelly clown Scotty I keep hearing on Nissan a chrysler used to be good car company before ever knowing Fiat bottom as a car company ever improved the brand after purchasing that you know a lot of times it's just like a fire sale as far as I'm concerned for a short period of time Jaguar actually got better when Tata the Indian company bottom they put a lot of money into them and they started to make a profit Tata after they bought Jaguar and Land Rover they to make a profit but then a couple of years it all started to go downhill now from what I see Jaguar and Land Rover are 50% owned by Tata and by a Chinese I think it's cherry the company or who knows maybe the clouds go up again then because the Chinese I'm wearing the building quality these days than they used to be but not really one things merge there's a problem in one or both companies that's not generally such a hot deal Lobo okay there I got a Fiat Punto Grande 2007 the starter motors been grinding for a month and not won't turn on and on there's a strange noise alright you should have replaced the starter when it's grinding here's how they work you turn the key the starter sense power from the battery it spins the engine it's got a gear on the starter that meshes with your flywheel and spins it around teeth on the flywheel your grinding that's the starter and the flywheel grind in each other apart if you've ruined the flywheel now you're gonna have to pull the transmission off the vehicle change the expense of flywheel in the starter and away you go if it just starts to grind you should immediately take the starter off put a new start around starters are easy and cheap to replace fly wheels can cost you well over $1000 so try another starter and see what happens I mean it's a Fiat so my advice is if you do put a starter and start selling as fast as you can because they're piles of junk era 1071 924 Scotty I love you YouTube channel you're entertaining I want to purchase an SUV crossover with some dowels and whistles and have 18 grand won't be the best reliable bang for my buck Toyota or Lexus if you want long-term for 18 grand if you want all the bells and whistles it's gonna have some mileage on it's gonna be somewhat old you could easily find say a Ford Expedition or a big GM but two pieces junk as they age you're not gonna be happy with that and more reliability of a Toyota or Lexus and you'd be happy in a long run let's say you want a fancy entertainment system heck you can get a good Android system for a couple hundred bucks and a guy like me can put it in for a hundred bucks rather than buying one car that has one in and it's got all the bells and whistles of eight thousand dollars in extra add-ons when you don't want them also you might take less bells and whistles and an immodest goes my Frank Guerra I gotta know 3.2 caught a 4.7 truck overheated and turned off not doesn't want to start no power put a battery charger on nothing the first thing you want to do I got a video getting an old car running a set for years watch that the first thing you want to do is get a long extension bar and a socket on the end on your crank ball well the fan belts are driven put the socket on there try to turn the engine over you can't turn the engine over make it spin whole 360 degrees and not again the engines locked up and it's toasters junk that when they overheat and do that that's often what happens to them they will lock up now you want to pray that it was something like your alternator went bad and then you ran out of power so then the car won't start try a battery from somebody else's car put it in your car and see if it'll start pray it does because if a dozen odds are you overheated the engine and locked it up never drive a car that's overheating until it stops Ronnie because you can destroy now there's a kid back in the day everything was cast-iron the engines the blocks the heads and they could overheat and sometimes cool down and start up a run down the road but the new ones are all aluminum and when they overheat they generally warping you can say goodbye to your crash they'll never drive when it starts overheat and turn the thing off tow it somewhere don't try to drive it there's one they might get rid of the car mirrors the United States is beginning testing of cars that don't have mirrors anymore but just cameras there's already some vehicles in Japan Toyota and likes yourself that have the cameras on them instead of side view and rear view mirrors they don't have any United States yet they're still have traditional mirrors on the lookout of retrain people so that they got something to look at and if it's more direct I kind of agree with that because when you look at the side view mirrors you're turning your head right well if there was an upfront display where you had both the rear view say in the middle and each side camera next to it that you could just glance you could see if anybody was coming and your brain could realize that a lot faster than having to turn your head and look at the mirrors because let's face it you turn your head and look at the mirror and I'm looking straight ahead if you're looking straight ahead and there's a camera system hey that's not a bad idea I think that's a pretty good idea one of the few really modern tech things that I think makes if you don't have to turn your head to look at a mirror makes a lot more sense of having to turn your app Kimberly Ibarra says what is the best economical used car to trade in for I'd say Toyota Corolla da canonical they'd run round Ron Ron Ron not any problems number two would be the Honda Civic the Toyotas are a little bit better the civics are also excellent vehicles I don't want to lose though you'd probably be really happy with their well made to get good gas mods they can run forever and the insurance on them isn't all that expensive because they're not a big fast car where you're gonna pay a ton for insurance because it goes too fast it's big and can do a lot of damage it's a smaller car so you're gonna save money on both ends they're thinking about getting a Ford Ranger 97 trying to convince my dad he says no cuz it's too old but the one I'm looking at is in good condition those Rangers couldn't get good trucks if they're not too high mileage and you have a mechanic like me check it out there's nothing wrong with getting an old one like that the parts available you can fix them parts aren't all that expensive for those either because they're Fords there's absolutely nothing wrong with it if you get one that's still got a lot of life left there now that said I would tell you to probably stay away from the four-wheel-drive ones because that old the four-wheel-drive stuff can get really expensive to work on it can break stick to just the plain rear-wheel drive ones you need to have a better result getting trucks are gonna last as long but since their Fords there's so many parts available and they're relatively decent built trucks there's nothing wrong with that Omar means assess Scotty why does my 2017 Dodge Charger say service electronic throttle body and it idles roughly well because computer knows there's a problem and so it says service the throttle body so my advice is watch my video make your car run better with a little spray cleaner bite a spray cleaner for like 12 13 dollars from the two bottles and do it yourself clean it up a lot of times carbon builds up on those things the cleaning can fix them it's a pretty simple thing to do you can do it yourself and pray that that fixes it and that it's not an electronic failure because dodges are notorious for having electronic problems as they age they just have weak electronic systems they always have it doesn't matter that fiat took over fiat is the company that has a history of electronic problems so it's like bad plus bad isn't good the viral opes Scottie I live in Europe here we drive a lot of Opel what do you think of them well strangely enough the first guy out rolled was an Opel I got it for 550 bucks and I drove the crap on it but was very hard to get parts because Buick imported them in the United States and so when the carburetor kept acting off I actually made gaskets for it out of an old Kellogg's cereal box thought it out drilled holes and it worked her to be fine so now opals are one of the early car manufactures in Germany they make some good cars there's no arguing that and you sell them I was in England there were a lot of them there and people liked them so you know there's absolutely nothing wrong with an Opel I know in Europe for ages they sold luxury cars - with big v8 engines in them we only got the ones haven't a little bitty four-cylinder engines back in the day and a lot of kids bottom cuz they didn't cost much Daniel Green says do you know what could cause the PCM to overeat and a 99 Dodge Durango well here's some problem with computers the computer has one tiny fuse for the whole computer treater itself if you look at it you see a bunch of connectors with tons of wires that go into it now those wires that fuses on it soft you have a short and wiring or any of the sensors that feed it can make the PCM overheat and you got to figure out which one it can be a cow figuring out which one is starting to short out and of course it could just be knowing dodges the computer itself squaring out and the internal circuit boards are starting to warp and short out and there's overheating because it's shorting out inside like a bad toaster and smoke starts coming out of you know it's time for a new one but like I said it could be any wire or any sensor I've had people think oh well to overheat I'll just put a new computer they put it in and it overheats to because it's something else that causes it that is a no-fun thing to trace down all of those wires but you're gonna have to start tracing those you want to figure out what it is Scottie have you ever owned a Crown Vic okay crown vics are known as grandpa cars but the crown vics are great grandpa cars you know you can put a lot of people in them they get decent gas mileage for their size on highway a lot of coasters with them and they like you know but they are a grandpa car and I don't want to be sick of myself as a grandpa that's state of mind yellow on the popo says Scotty my car makes a grinding noise when I turn the wheel and accelerate the track control light comes on okay generally when you get that so we Barin going out makes a grinding noise that's the wheel bearing grinding and the traction control I can come on because there's ABS sensor and four wheel bearings going it's gonna start wobbling around and then the ABS sensors gonna give ridiculous data to the computer which is going to turn the light on so check the wheel bearings first that's the most common thing I got a video how to replace wheel bearings on your car watch and it shows how you can check them out and you can decide you really want to do a job that bigger you're gonna pay a mechanic to do it Stan in Indiana a state trooper was driving on a roll and lo and behold the person in front of them threw a dirty diaper out of the window of their car that smacked right under the troopers windshield a dirty diaper legolas decided chopper pulled them over and gave him a ticket for littering he was probably laughing his rear end off it didn't hurt anybody didn't break the windshield aside or anything think twice before you throw dirty diapers out the window on the highway it's dangerous anyway I mean a third month some got a motorcycle and you throw that diaper in a book could kill them out if you're thinking about getting electric car maybe you should sink seriously a buying an off lease electric car it turns out that they have horrendously low resale values and let the original lessee pay off the big bunk and then you can get a deal for example a 2016 Nissan Leaf which originally listed almost $30,000 goes for about $10,000 in a New York City car dealership goes for one third of what it was originally and I know you can get deals like this because I have a customer who recently got a Model S the top-of-the-line Tesla he bought it with 15,000 miles on it the original owner paid a hundred and twenty something thousand dollars for it he bought it with 15,000 miles on for $45,000 no I still wouldn't pay forty five grand for it but he paid what just about one-third what the originally I did it's only got 15,000 miles on it so if you really are thinking electric car let some fool take the middle the first one and then get a little mileage one later on cuz let's face it a lot of these electric cars dick low mileage because you can't drive from cross country they don't have the range so if you don't want electric truck not a bad idea buy used ones even better than used gasoline car even they don't drop values that fast there's a company out there they're made a Lexus completely out of cardboard that you can drive around a company called laser cut works made to think diagrams from Lexus to make sure all the parts are the right size and they built a Lexus out of cardboard and put an electric motor inside so it could be driven around of course this is just a one-off thing to highlight what these guys can do a laser cut work so I guess it's kind of an advertising thing for but out there somewhere on the planet there's a Lexus may not completely on a cardboard is an electric motor that you can drive around I would guess that you don't want to take that baby out in the rain or it's going to be a soggy wet car portlets it's not something people are gonna want to mass-produce that's for sure progressive three to three Scotty I'm considering buying it used out for romão GT in Europe what should I look for I have no experience with cars look for a psychiatrist you might be going insane those things are endless money pits and the only thing worse than an alpha I'm here GT is a used a GT guys buy they beat the heck out of NATO all up over time and you said you would have more experience with cars at all do not buy that car it's something more illogical don't buy that sports car it's probably gonna fall apart in front of your very eyes if it hasn't already now if you absolutely positively must don't go to a dealer of course the dealer's gonna tell you to buy it cuz they're gonna make a fortune fix it if you don't want to get one of those find an independent mechanic like me who's giving you an honest advice I give honest advice to customers I mean I have people I hate Porsches I people bring me them I check them out before they buy mine I tell them the truth I say look well if you don't mind an endless money pit here's the shape this one is in now and I'll hook up my $5,000 can't all go through it there's almost always a bunch of little things wrong and I said well if you don't mind all this little crap and you just want a toy for the weekend sometimes I said go ahead and buy it if you can get it cheap enough but with that outfit I'd say never ever buy one of those things especially and used one very Kindle the turn signals won't work on my 2003 l200 Saturn the bulbs are okay to check the Bob's all four of an al work the first thing to do is a fuse for all the whole turn signal system let's say the fuse is blown your place it and it doesn't blow sometimes they'll wear out that thing is what 17 years old but if it's not the fuse that's okay generally it's the flasher unit you go to a place like autozone and say I need to turn signal flasher for my Saturn not only gonna show you a picture where it is they can sell you and it can help show you how to put it in it's a pretty simple job if it's not back then often it's the turn signal assembly off of your steering wheel would you click the arm up and down those break down that take the steering column apart it's a real pain in the butt to do you'd probably want to pay a mechanic to do that pray it's not that cuz that's the most expensive thing that can go wrong often is just a turn signal flasher you'd get it in the auto parts store smithereens Scotty Angela lair for news Anna can you recommend a scanner for a 92 Mitsubishi GTO I bought a box obd2 but it won't work that's obd one that's on yours and our places that say yeah you can get an adapter to put on an old biddy you point out anyone those things hardly ever work i've got like six of them behind me hanging on a wall and none of them would ever work when i tried using the obd2 on obd one if you really want to get a scan tool for that you got to realize you're not gonna get that much data cuz it's so old but in my case I don't wall back there I got an old snap-on we called them brick scanners cuz they look like a brick go to ebay you could probably get a used one somewhere on eBay cheap enough and just make sure that you can get one that has the Mitsubishi adapter that fits on the Mitsubishi and has the Mitsubishi data port that goes in the way they work is each one of those things have two Clips ones for foreign ones for American and then the other side is for the model so you'd need the Asian cartridge that clips on one side the Mitsubishi chip that goes on the other and if people can sell you one of those go ahead you won't get all that much data but that's about as much as you're gonna find if you want to try to find a machine that does that because doing all Beauty two to one convergence my experience of sync don't work at all JC 83 Scotty I got a 2016 Honda Civic with 90,000 miles the AC bond hot and the compressor and the fans are not turning on any suggestions anytime you're a CEO work you start with the most logical thing first you if you don't have them paying mechanic put a set of AC gauges on the low side in the high side see what the pressures are you see the pressures low you know it's low on refrigerant so you attempt to add some refrigerant to see if it'll turn on you're saying the compressor isn't turning on you start adding a little refrigerant starts to turn on thinking Oh was law and refrigerant there comes the hard part cuz if it's longer frigid you have no idea how low it is the only way to correctly fill it just like I do I'm a mechanic I've got it the equipment I recycle the old stuff suck off to nothing and then I put in a factory load by weight I go by kilograms like it's a point seven six old kilograms that's what I put back into the system and then you know what's full now let's say you put it on and it won't take any at all well then odds are you got some kind of a problem in the compressor or some other serious problem that you're really better off having a mechanical get because diagnose an AC stuff can get really complicated but a lot of times it's just low and refrigerant have that checked first exams of seven Scotty do I need to get in alignment after I get new tires in the 2010 Honda Accord to make sure they don't wear unevenly it doesn't pull or shake at high speeds thanks you're kind of taking a gamble so you know and the line it cuz they're always gonna try to sell you stuff when they do that and whether it's in alignment or not they'll probably say it's a hot an alignment we're gonna charge you for an alignment what you can normally tell though if you don't want to gamble is look at your all tires and if there weren't perfectly evenly even though they're worn out don't waste your money but if the scalp and one side or worn the Miller side then yeah you want to get it aligned but if your alters even though they're worn out we're pretty evenly worn and you don't need alignment junuh suit Chevrolet 2000 K 1500 times I have the fuel system all apart were to be good idea to replace the o-rings as well yes you really have to buzz all rings are really made for one-time use so buy some aftermarket crap buy OEM or rings I tried to save customers money by doing that kind of work and either trying to use the o-rings over and lubricate them a gasoline before I pop them in or by going to a discount auto parts store and buying the o-rings well a lot of times both of those methods failed and actually the worst one was the aftermarket ones they often leak sometimes you get lucky and reuse the old ones but the aftermarket Ovenden so get the original equipment Oh rings when you put it back together don't attempt to put it together without new o-rings that's where all the pressures being held from the engine make sure you put new o-rings when you do that job Swift guys Scottie watch your videos now you know I'd like to know what do you think of a 2017 Suzuki Swift automatic transmission that was reconditioned in Japan all right if you don't live in the United States and it was reconditioned in Japan by quality company go right ahead in the United States those things were massive failures they haven't sold them for a long time Suzuki pull out of the American market I know people live better the Virgin Islands lots of people drive Suzuki around other parts of the world can get parts or mechanics know how to work on that could be a good idea but if you live in the United States no I would not buy that vehicle that would be a foolish move the parts are expensive hardly anybody knows how to work on and a company doesn't even exist there other than a motorcycle sir which is kind of weird because they make great motorcycles but they made such crappy cars so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 21min 7sec (1267 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 31 2019