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Rev up your engines, Arron says scotty have you heard about Chevy

bringing back the all new Blazer and what's your opinion, what about ford bringing back

the bronco, ok everybody knows that suv or suv type vehicles

are popular, you know really the original kind of suv was

the ford bronco, although they didn't call it an suv then but it had a back closed in

and it could go all wheel drive, originally the suvs were taken off road, sports

utility vehicle, that's what the s stands for,

now their more taking kids to soccer games and stuff,

and even porsche makes suv now, I guess their even making a lambo suv, but the blazer, I

wouldn't be impressed, GM quality to me, their quality isn't all

that good, now the bronco, that might be decent, Ford has always made good trucks it could

be another one, their going by the old name, you know everybody thinks bronco what do they

think, OJ Simpson driving away in a bronco 30 mpg on the highway with the state troopers

chasing him you know, it's got a name so, and ford makes pretty good trucks, I'd look

at that long before anything GM is making, Michael says, scotty what are your thoughts

about the mainstreaming of gdi engines in terms of reliability in the long run thanks

a lot, ok well the gasoline direct injection engines,

where they are spraying gas directly into the engine into the block instead of sending

it through the intake and it cleans the valves, it has the advantage that it gives more horsepower,

it's more efficient, so you get better gas mileage, but it's a lot more pressure,

the original ones did have a big problem that the intake valves would carbon up, because

it was the fuel that cleaned the intake valves, then when you go to direct there's no fuel

touching the intake valves, so your PCV valve and all the anti-pollution equipment that

throws oil droplets in will easily clog those up,

now the newer diesels, at least the good ones, the have 2 systems now, they have a gdi system

on the engine block but they also have the conventional fuel injectors, so every once

in a while it runs those and it sprays cleaner that keeps it from clogging up, so if you're

buying a new car and it gdi, make sure it's the dual system, because if it isn't don't

buy it, you want to have both systems built into it,

so it cleans it and uses the gdi for good gas mileage,

if you get one that only has the one, my advice is I wouldn't buy it, or I would put an oil

catch can on it, Alex says scotty I got a 2004 Volvo V70 titanium

edition with 308,000 miles and no major issues, one of 500 made, I want to keep it on the

road, what can I do to make it last, ok you got a limited edition, and they spent

more time building them their a lot better, because most of my customers with Volvos,

they're not happy, as they age they fall apart, you got a good one, so just continue to change

the oil and filter regularly, change the coolant once every 3-4 years, service the automatic

transmission every 30-40,000 miles, take care of it to make it last, because believe me,

I don't think their ever going to make any Volvos that last that long again, that was

what 15 years ago, now they, Volvos it's always been a problem

company lately, people have bought it, then they sold it, and their kind of iffy how long

the company really is going to last, what keeps them going is their big truck division

you know, here in Houston all our garbage trucks are Volvo garbage trucks and a lot

of the 18 wheelers are Volvo engines, they make really good big trucks, that's where

their real profit is, Goku says, thoughts on a 2011 Ford Fusion,

I'm think about buying one with 100,000 miles, ok those can be very good cars, the design

of that is when Ford had a bunch of stuff going with Volvo, and they ride really well

because they took Volvo's suspension stuff, but their using a Ford engine and not the

Volvo stuff, so they have kind of the best of each company in them, and they can be very

good cars, now 100,000 is 100,000 miles, you don't pay

much for a car that has 100,000 miles, at least you don't if you're using your head,

so don't pay that much for it, but it can still last a long time, those are pretty good

cars, I've had customers with them and they've been very happy with them,

Sultan says scotty my engine is leaking from the side how do I fix it, well it depends

what's leaking, if it's engine oil, watch my video, finding and fixing car oil leaks,

you put UV dye into the system, you can buy a kit for about $30 online, then you drive

it for 5 minutes, then you get these cool funky yellow sunglasses and a little UV light

and you see exactly where it's coming from, now in your case, if it's engine oil, you

want to pray that it's just a valve cover gasket leaking, then you'll see where the

valve cover gasket is and you'll see the green dye is coming out from the top going down,

simple, you want to pray it's not your head gasket

leaking because if it's in the middle where the head bolts to the block, and oil is leaking

out of there, you got to put a head gasket in and that's a very expensive job that really

anybody but a mechanic shouldn't try that job because it's very expensive and it's very

complicated to do so, pray it's just a valve cover gasket, that test will show you,

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