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Rev up your engines, Robert says, what do you think of the old

Toyota Tercels, ok well their kind of a weird car, we mechanics,

now you always say or everyone says, oh scotty Toyota must pay you money to say how great

their cars are, no they don't, we mechanics call the Toyota Tercel the Toyota

Terd because they were terds, they had more problems with them blowing head

gaskets, the valve seals going bad and burning oil and bad carb systems,

originally a bunch of those had a motorcycle side draft carb that was one of those worst

designs ever made, they cost a fortune to buy, they were very hard to rebuild,

they could still run, they were a Toyota, but between the horrible carbs they put on

them and the engines that either blew head gaskets or burnt oil like mad, they stopped

making them because they got such a bad reputation but that said, I've had customers buy used

ones for nothing, for $500 and then maybe they burnt a little oil, but they drove them

for 8 years so if you could buy a car for $500 bucks and drive it for 8 years by adding

oil every once in a while when it burns it, what the heck why not,

dark blue says scotty what's better, an 89 chevy caprice or a 91 grand marque, you know

those are both actually decent cars, I'd go for the grand marque because of the rear wheel

drive and the 5 liter v8 that most of those had was a pretty good engine, 89 caprice was

a decent vehicle but the gran marque with the rear wheel drive, and the 5 liter v8 ford

engine, those things can run forever, of course the grand marque is knows as a grandpa car

and the caprice are a little more sporty looking cars so if your going by looks go for the

caprice but if you want something that lasts long go for the grand marque that would make

more sense, silas says scotty I'm an Uber lift driver

and have an 09 honda odyssey and was curious about your opinion on honda odyssey vs toyota

sienna for my next upgrade, go toyota sienna by far, the odyssey vans have a history of

nothing but horrible automatic transmission problems,

honda makes great engines yes good engines, but it was originally a motorcycle company,

motorcycles don't know much about automatic transmission and on those odysseys I have

had many customers get free automatic transmissions from honda under the secret warranty they

have, because so many of them blew the transmissions, I would not buy a Honda odyssey van, I have

never had a customer buy a honda odyssey van then buy another one, but I have had many

customers buy toyota siennas, now a lot of them never bought another sienna because they

didn't have to, they're still driving them, but I have had ones that put on 350-400,000

miles and after that then they bought another sienna van,

machine geek says scotty I got a e39 m52 BMW engine and wanted to know how hard it would

be to rebuild it at home, ok that's a bmw engine, their well made engines,

hey Germans know how to make engines, but rebuilding something like that at home, you

know your not going to have the equipment, you can't mill a head, you can't hone those

cylinders correctly to thousands of an inch, you got to send all that stuff out, I mean

if you know a good machine shop and you want to strip it yourself and then send the block

and send the head out and send the cams and the crank out to be checked and milled if

they have to and then get oversized bearings go right ahead but it's not something that

your going to be able to do correctly all by yourself because your just not going to

have the equipment to do that kind of stuff, the equipment that measures and can mill those

things costs thousands of dollars so your not going to be doing that, but if you want

to take it apart piece by piece and send it to a machine shop go right ahead you can learn

a lot that way, tora tora says scotty I got a 07 saturn aura

it says the service traction control and the transmission knocks hard when it comes out

on the display how can I get this fixed, ok it says you got a problem in the traction

control, that is a computer run system, the only way you can figure out what's wrong is

you got to find a guy like me, then we get our fancy scan tools that cost thousands and

thousands of dollars and that we have to spend thousands every year paying for upgrades to

get all the upgraded software to see whats wrong with you traction control system, it's

all run by computers, it uses you ABS brake system, it uses the wheel speed sensors it's

very complicated, now if it runs ok otherwise than a clunk here

and there, on that old saturn aura I'd live with it, but if you do want to know what's

wrong with it, say if you were in the Houston area you'd come to me and I'd say, ok I charge

$75 to diagnose a car, I'd hook up my machine, I'd check the traction control then I'd show

you on the screen, here's the data drive it down, maybe if your lucky there's a bad wheel

speed sensor and I'd say ok this is what's wrong and I'd look it up on my computer and

here's what it costs to replace it if you want to fix it, you have to start there, and

if it's too much money just live with it, it isn't going to hurt anything,

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