Rev up your engines, Collins says, Scotty I’m thinking about buying a MK2 Golf as my first car what do you think about them, ok I’m not a fan of Volkswagen because they tend to fall apart, the ones they sell over here after so many years, and they cost so much money to repair people just get rid of it, every customer I’ve had in the last 15 years in the US that bought a Volkswagen never bought another one, but I know they’re very popular in Europe I just came back from England, and parts are cheaper there, a lot of times people buy them there in Europe and they’re relatively happy with them, so if you live in Europe and there’s mechanics around that work on them and do good work, might not be a bad idea, but in the US it’s a dumb idea, because they just fall apart, the only customers I’ve ever had lately that would buy something like that is, they buy it used dirt cheap, they get a car that had 80,000 miles on it for like $1,500 so they don’t have much invested in it, it might last a few years, they make out like gang busters, but buying a new one is really stupid because their resale values plummet, don’t ever buy a new Volkswagen because when it’s time to sell it, you’re going to lose most of your money, Martin says, hey Scotty, I got a 1999 Ford Ranger and the AC only comes out of the defroster vents, I’m wondering what could be the problem, ok realize that all modern cars, the default is defrost, and the reason it’s that way is, if you have a problem in your venting system, and things start to break, it will automatically go to the default position, which is the defrost, because they want you to be safe, they don’t want the windows fogging up if it’s raining outside, so if the system is breaking down it’s better to have it blowing on the windshield so you can see where you’re going, maybe your not going to be so comfortable but your not going to crash into somebody, because the window is fogged up, even though it’s an older vehicle, it’s still all computer controlled, so it’s probably you got a problem in the actuator door inside the dash, and the only way you can really analyze that stuff, you got to find a guy like me, and we hook up our high level scan tool and we can do bi directional testing and we can test different actuators and see what’s broken and generally on that we got to take the whole dash apart, now I mean you can check electrical connections, see if any vacuum lines came off, but normally on those it’s a
problem in the actuators and you can’t guess, because it’s such a complicated system you got to have a guy with a dealer level scan tool and analyze it doing testing back and forth unfortunately, Chen says, Scotty I’m about to buy a Dodge Caliber what’s your general opinion about the car, I don’t have that much money to spend on a car, well if you don’t, don’t buy that car, those things are endless money pits as they age, if you don’t have much money to spend on a car, hey look for like an old Toyota Corolla or an old Camry, I’ve seen them go 400-500 thousand miles, I’ve had people buy used Camryss and Corollas with like 180-200 thousand miles on them, they didn’t pay all that much, and sometimes they were still driving them 4 or 5 years later with another 100,000 miles, that would be the better thing for you to do, those Dodges, they fall apart as they age and if you don’t have much money to spend you do not want to buy a used Dodge, that would be a big mistake, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that bell!
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