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rev up your engines, Adrian says Scotty how do you think about

Lexus is 200-300 service cost, motor, transmission and so on

they're well made vehicles the problem is they cost too much when they're new

that's just the way that it goes, my wife is presently driving a 2002 that

I bought for 4 grand used from a customer when his father died and had a

heart attack and he didn't want it, now was an old car what 12 years old when I bought it but

it's been the best car I ever had it's fantastic, but on the other hand I

wouldn't have paid 37,000 for a new one which is what his father paid for it so

you know but if you can get a used one at a good price they're great cars their

maintenance isn't all that high and there's a lot of stuff you can do yourself

change your own filters and stuff don't trust people there's a lot of crooks out

there you learn how to change your own oil or stuff or if there's an oil

change place near you, get a relationship with them where they let you watch where

they change it, so you know they're actually doing the work they say they do

so you know they aren't that expensive to maintain if you get one that's got at

least less than a couple hundred thousand miles on it, z ton says will the

1998 jaguar XKR go up or down in value okay well you know it's 20 years old and

you can probably get one pretty cheap you never know if it's in really good shape

and you buy it cheap yeah might go up in value who knows, don't buying it as an

every day driver, buy it as a toy and if it's in decent shape I've had some

customers that would do that and especially if it's a convertible

convertibles are always worth money and you never know it's never gonna be worth

a ton of money, but you can get one cheap enough and use it as a toy yeah I've had

customers do that but I've also that but I've also had customers that were dumb and they paid too much

money for them and then five six years later they sell them and they lose 90% of what

they paid for the thing just realise that, you can buy it cheap enough and you

want a toy, especially if it's a convertible, why not but just don't think

it's gonna be an everyday driver, things like that just don't happen, ash

ex says, what do you think of a 2007 Honda Civic with 83 thousand miles and

an automatic transmission, they can be great cars

yes Honda makes weak automated transmissions, but that's a little bit

Civic and if the previous owner wasn't an eighteen year old kid who did

burnouts and stuff all the time they can still last a long time

I got customers Honda Civics that have 240,000 miles with an automatic

transmission, the one I'm talking about is this woman who's a schoolteacher and she

drives conservatively and it still works perfectly fine, so there's nothing wrong

with buying a car like that but realized it's a 12 year old car, so its value is

not all that high, just don't pay too much for it if you're buying a used one

and of course have a guy like me check it out before you buy, we've got these

high-level scam tools we plug them in and we can tell you just about

everything that needs to be known about that vehicle in 20 30 minutes of

checking it out, Atom Bomb Scotty what's the story about the downfall of the

American Motor Company AMC well you know they didn't exist for all that long, they were a

combination of I believe Nash, Rambler, and Jeep they were all combined and it

was a small company and so they didn't make that many cars, then when they

started to ramp it up, you know their big ramp up car was that crazy

AMC with the big windows on it that's really weird-looking and for a while was

popular they sold a few hundred thousand because it was kind of a unique looking

car with the big windows going all the way around, but they found out after the

first two years everybody in the United States that wanted to buy something that

looked weird like that bought it, then they couldn't give the things away

then they shoehorned a v8 engine in them that was hard to work on that was all jammed

in and then the EPA came along and said we're gonna make pollution control and

it lost the horsepower that they had, and then you know they kind of merged with

Renault the French company and they made that Renault Alliance which was one of

the biggest pieces of crap that was ever made, Chrysler bought them away from Renault

for peanut money just because they wanted to Jeep version and they shut

down AMC entirely and just sold jeeps, and that's the basic and a nutshell what

happened to AMC, face says Scotty I got a 2013 Toyota Corolla with 155 thousand

miles, when I break on the highway the steering shakes, do I need to replace the

brakes, yes you need to replace the front brakes and the front rotors don't turn

the rotors they're not that well made, once their warped they're warped you buy

new ones, but that said, you go to a place like autozone you can get brand-new

rotors for like 30 bucks apiece for those things

they aren't that expensive and put new pads, what happens is, when you brake at

higher speeds the rotors are warped, now they're supposed to be flat so when they

break they stop squeeze them and they stop, but when they're warped and it's

only a few thousands of an inch, then the brake pads go in and out now they only

go in and out a few thousandths of an inch, but the wheels are spinning pretty

fast at 60 miles an hour when you do hit that, that pulsing makes the steering

wheel shake, so change the rotors and the pads, use new ones, so if you never

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