Heres Why Cars Have Stupid Designs
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Date: 2019-05-28
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Seth Presser
Scottie. ah man, sorry to have to correct you. but i gotta say something about your Isuzu comment. the Rodeos, Troopers where equipt with excellent engines. Actually the 3. 5lt, and the more importantly the 3. 2lt where a HONDA designed engine, if you rememmber the honda passport was just a rebadged rodeo with the 3. 2lt v6. and the 3. 5lt in the Troopers where the same engine with just a lil more bore. but, i will agree there where issues with them. the issues with all of them, the Rodeo, the Trooper, the Passport, and there was even a acura in there. the Issue was the General Motors 4L30E transmission. a real POS. and as far as the deisels go, yes their deseil engines where and are good. pre DEF generation. i use to be a mechanic at a Isuzu truck dealer, and the DEF equipted engines are nothing but problems.
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Scottie. ah man, sorry to have to correct you. but i gotta say something about your Isuzu comment. the Rodeos, Troopers where equipt with excellent engines. Actually the 3. 5lt, and the more importantly the 3. 2lt where a HONDA designed engine, if you rememmber the honda passport was just a rebadged rodeo with the 3. 2lt v6. and the 3. 5lt in the Troopers where the same engine with just a lil more bore. but, i will agree there where issues with them. the issues with all of them, the Rodeo, the Trooper, the Passport, and there was even a acura in there. the Issue was the General Motors 4L30E transmission. a real POS. and as far as the deisels go, yes their deseil engines where and are good. pre DEF generation. i use to be a mechanic at a Isuzu truck dealer, and the DEF equipted engines are nothing but problems.
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R C Nelson
Seeing how a variety of cars, including expensive ones, put the batteries in weird places I dont see why Scotty has it in for Dodge so much. I agree its in a dumb location, but apparently other car makers face the same problem of under-hood space and act accordingly. Scotty brings up his dads dim view of Chrysler products long ago for nonsensical reasons. They were well-engineered cars, but they did have a problem in the late 50s with body rust. That was about it. But so did Nissan decades later even with higher tech solutions. Hes gotten it into his head that every time a Chrysler product breaks down its somehow unique to the brand--like people who look at all kinds of cold, hot, wet, dry, windy, calm weather and blame all of it no matter what on climate change.
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Seeing how a variety of cars, including expensive ones, put the batteries in weird places I dont see why Scotty has it in for Dodge so much. I agree its in a dumb location, but apparently other car makers face the same problem of under-hood space and act accordingly. Scotty brings up his dads dim view of Chrysler products long ago for nonsensical reasons. They were well-engineered cars, but they did have a problem in the late 50s with body rust. That was about it. But so did Nissan decades later even with higher tech solutions. Hes gotten it into his head that every time a Chrysler product breaks down its somehow unique to the brand--like people who look at all kinds of cold, hot, wet, dry, windy, calm weather and blame all of it no matter what on climate change.
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Daniel Löfblad
Hey Scotty Last year i bought a 2011 Dacia Sandero, powered by a 1, 6 flexfuel k4m 696 engine from Renault. It had less than 20000 miles on it, needed a brake job due to the car been sitting. Ive started working on one of its drawbacks of the car, its noise. Putting isolation in the trunk and ive started to undercoat the car. Ive figured i need to rust proof the car since its a super corrosive environment. Ive had the timing belt changed because the service manual rcommended 7 years or 75000 miles. What future repairs do you see coming? What kind of preventive service and repairs should i put into it to keep it on the road and in excellent condition?
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Hey Scotty Last year i bought a 2011 Dacia Sandero, powered by a 1, 6 flexfuel k4m 696 engine from Renault. It had less than 20000 miles on it, needed a brake job due to the car been sitting. Ive started working on one of its drawbacks of the car, its noise. Putting isolation in the trunk and ive started to undercoat the car. Ive figured i need to rust proof the car since its a super corrosive environment. Ive had the timing belt changed because the service manual rcommended 7 years or 75000 miles. What future repairs do you see coming? What kind of preventive service and repairs should i put into it to keep it on the road and in excellent condition?
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Rowen Tan
Hi Scotty i own a Mazda 2 DE with an auto tranny and recently is has been having problems shifting into reverse and jerky shift from 2nd to 3rd. If i shift the gear through out all the range to L before shifting into reverse and it could just shift into reverse fine. Could this be a faulty TCU, shift solenoid or could it just be a clogged tranny path? The transmission fluid is change according to owners manual specified duration. I has done 180, 000kms so far. Any advice for me as I dont intend to spend a fortune rebuilding the transmission for a minor issue. Thanks Scotty.
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Hi Scotty i own a Mazda 2 DE with an auto tranny and recently is has been having problems shifting into reverse and jerky shift from 2nd to 3rd. If i shift the gear through out all the range to L before shifting into reverse and it could just shift into reverse fine. Could this be a faulty TCU, shift solenoid or could it just be a clogged tranny path? The transmission fluid is change according to owners manual specified duration. I has done 180, 000kms so far. Any advice for me as I dont intend to spend a fortune rebuilding the transmission for a minor issue. Thanks Scotty.
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ThatOneGoyJoey
Ive been watching Scotty for a few years now. Heres what i have learned: 1. Toyotas will outlast any other car on the road due to their reliability. 2. Manual transmissions are superior to automatics3. Change Oil regularly 4. Theres no such thing as a simple fix in a tube for complex issues5. F-150s with the 5. 0 are the best new pickup trucks6. Always take your car or truck to a reliable and honest mechanicThat being said, REV UP YOUR ENGINES Thanks Scotty for the hours and hours of entertainment and knowledge. I now have begun working on my own vehicle.
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Ive been watching Scotty for a few years now. Heres what i have learned: 1. Toyotas will outlast any other car on the road due to their reliability. 2. Manual transmissions are superior to automatics3. Change Oil regularly 4. Theres no such thing as a simple fix in a tube for complex issues5. F-150s with the 5. 0 are the best new pickup trucks6. Always take your car or truck to a reliable and honest mechanicThat being said, REV UP YOUR ENGINES Thanks Scotty for the hours and hours of entertainment and knowledge. I now have begun working on my own vehicle.
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Chris Madden
Scotty, I always wondered why Dodge/Chrysler did that I mean, what idiotic set of mechanical engineer teams would design a vehicle and place the battery inside the Left Fender Well of their cars Its an absolute pain in the butt to get that thing out and replace the battery without taking the Left Front Wheel off and undoing the splash shield before you even get to the thing Worse than when Cadillac would put their battery underneath the back seat of their early 2000s DeVille using the Northstar Engine Its amazing.
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Scotty, I always wondered why Dodge/Chrysler did that I mean, what idiotic set of mechanical engineer teams would design a vehicle and place the battery inside the Left Fender Well of their cars Its an absolute pain in the butt to get that thing out and replace the battery without taking the Left Front Wheel off and undoing the splash shield before you even get to the thing Worse than when Cadillac would put their battery underneath the back seat of their early 2000s DeVille using the Northstar Engine Its amazing.
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my Porsche had the battery in the front. engine in the middle. easy enough to change. have to step into the front trunk to do it. my mercedes and jaguar had that battery in the trunk which is just fine. not sure why dodge didnt just put it in the trunk. having to remove the wheel or seat or anything to get to it is ridiculous. especially for us in the north. my battery died when it was well below zero. I would have been dejected and pissed if I had to remove the tire or seat in that horrible weather.
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my Porsche had the battery in the front. engine in the middle. easy enough to change. have to step into the front trunk to do it. my mercedes and jaguar had that battery in the trunk which is just fine. not sure why dodge didnt just put it in the trunk. having to remove the wheel or seat or anything to get to it is ridiculous. especially for us in the north. my battery died when it was well below zero. I would have been dejected and pissed if I had to remove the tire or seat in that horrible weather.
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Kelly Breen
Probably the most ridiculed car ever was the Russian Lada. You you could disassemble the entire car with a basic tool kit and the engine could be removed without even putting it on a hoist. Each component was easy to reach and if you needed to replace it you did not have to remove 5 other things first. For the money there is no question it was hands down the most economical and reliable vehicle I have ever owned. The heater was outstanding. They were loud cramped and a bit crude, but I wish I still had mine.
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Probably the most ridiculed car ever was the Russian Lada. You you could disassemble the entire car with a basic tool kit and the engine could be removed without even putting it on a hoist. Each component was easy to reach and if you needed to replace it you did not have to remove 5 other things first. For the money there is no question it was hands down the most economical and reliable vehicle I have ever owned. The heater was outstanding. They were loud cramped and a bit crude, but I wish I still had mine.
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jockeye
My knock is the location of the brake pedal, right next to the gas pedal. As an engineer, I believe driving with both feet can shave fraction of a second off of braking time and thus avoid accidents. In 60years of driving, I estimated that about a dozen minor accidents was avoided. OK, OK nay sayers will say you maymix up the pedals and blah, blah, etc. But the reality is once your drive with both feet, it is fully automatic which feet to use in an event of an emergency.
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My knock is the location of the brake pedal, right next to the gas pedal. As an engineer, I believe driving with both feet can shave fraction of a second off of braking time and thus avoid accidents. In 60years of driving, I estimated that about a dozen minor accidents was avoided. OK, OK nay sayers will say you maymix up the pedals and blah, blah, etc. But the reality is once your drive with both feet, it is fully automatic which feet to use in an event of an emergency.
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