Here's How a Mechanic Checks and Buys a Car
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Date: 2019-09-05
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mac daddy
The Chrysler sensors are junk and just because they send back a signal to your scan tool that it 'passed' doesn't mean the part is actually good. It just means that their crappy sensor can't find the real problem if there is one. It also can't tell you when a part is about to fail. I have seen many cars pass the scan test and then a few hundred miles later the transmission craps out. The scan tool will also not tell you when the head gasket is about the blow. When the shocks will just suddenly leak. When the mini van sliding door will get stuck in the open position. Blah blah blah. Bottom line: don't just depend on the 'scan tool. If you are considering a car that you want to buy, give the owner 10 bucks and tell him that you want to leave the car on for a couple of hours. Then you have a good chance of seeing the leaks, electrical gremlins and blown gaskets.
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The Chrysler sensors are junk and just because they send back a signal to your scan tool that it 'passed' doesn't mean the part is actually good. It just means that their crappy sensor can't find the real problem if there is one. It also can't tell you when a part is about to fail. I have seen many cars pass the scan test and then a few hundred miles later the transmission craps out. The scan tool will also not tell you when the head gasket is about the blow. When the shocks will just suddenly leak. When the mini van sliding door will get stuck in the open position. Blah blah blah. Bottom line: don't just depend on the 'scan tool. If you are considering a car that you want to buy, give the owner 10 bucks and tell him that you want to leave the car on for a couple of hours. Then you have a good chance of seeing the leaks, electrical gremlins and blown gaskets.
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Gary Roach
Let me tell u Toyota and Hondas aren't as good of vehicle as u saying sir I have worked on them all here in Nebraska and I don't care what kind of vehicle u have now day bc if u take all the computer junk out of them they all the same period so plz stop bashing General Motors on what they produce bc I am telling u that they all junk now days if u want something that runs good and u can repair on ur own buy something from 1985 or older bc after 1985 they started to make junk vehicle with all this computer crap in them and it's gets worse every year now
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Let me tell u Toyota and Hondas aren't as good of vehicle as u saying sir I have worked on them all here in Nebraska and I don't care what kind of vehicle u have now day bc if u take all the computer junk out of them they all the same period so plz stop bashing General Motors on what they produce bc I am telling u that they all junk now days if u want something that runs good and u can repair on ur own buy something from 1985 or older bc after 1985 they started to make junk vehicle with all this computer crap in them and it's gets worse every year now
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Jesse C
I dunno. here in Florida no ac is the difference between paying 10, 000 and paying 5, 500. I can get the parts for way cheaper than that, heck you can buy a 150 compressor from China (I've got one on my car, has given me nice cold AC for the last 3 years actually, can be a big deal if you can do the work yourself I'd say fixing it the first time might cost 1, 000 to do it yourself and pay for the initial evacuation if it even needs one, but after you have the gauges and vacuum pumps and stuff it's real cheap to fix your own AC.
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I dunno. here in Florida no ac is the difference between paying 10, 000 and paying 5, 500. I can get the parts for way cheaper than that, heck you can buy a 150 compressor from China (I've got one on my car, has given me nice cold AC for the last 3 years actually, can be a big deal if you can do the work yourself I'd say fixing it the first time might cost 1, 000 to do it yourself and pay for the initial evacuation if it even needs one, but after you have the gauges and vacuum pumps and stuff it's real cheap to fix your own AC.
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engelsseele2
What annoys me the most is auto shops was people with 10+ years of experience and only want to pay them like they just started learning to work on cars. It is a field I am starting to hate having gone into. Great for working on my own stuff. MASSIVELY great for working on the side. But so many places only want to pay me 14-16 a flag hour with 4 ASE(s. Frankly it is getting on my nerves. Then on top of that I see people with every single ASE you can have and they don't even know how to drain the oil pan on a vehicle.
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What annoys me the most is auto shops was people with 10+ years of experience and only want to pay them like they just started learning to work on cars. It is a field I am starting to hate having gone into. Great for working on my own stuff. MASSIVELY great for working on the side. But so many places only want to pay me 14-16 a flag hour with 4 ASE(s. Frankly it is getting on my nerves. Then on top of that I see people with every single ASE you can have and they don't even know how to drain the oil pan on a vehicle.
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Justin L
7 days return option? Sounds like a Carvana/CarMax car. They are a bad deal because for what their no haggle price is, you can simply go to a dealership and buy a CPO car that comes with a 100k/7 year warranty from the manufacturer. CarMax/Carvana only give you about a 90 day warranty, and they charge thousands extra for a long aftermarket warranty. If you want a car, find a CPO at a local dealer, get your mechanic to check it out, then buy it.
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7 days return option? Sounds like a Carvana/CarMax car. They are a bad deal because for what their no haggle price is, you can simply go to a dealership and buy a CPO car that comes with a 100k/7 year warranty from the manufacturer. CarMax/Carvana only give you about a 90 day warranty, and they charge thousands extra for a long aftermarket warranty. If you want a car, find a CPO at a local dealer, get your mechanic to check it out, then buy it.
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Robert Harvilla
Hey Scotty, you're missing the point of the different paint thicknesses. Fiat Chrysler can say it wasn't because they painted unevenly and inconsistently, it's for saving weight and saving money on paint. By painting some parts thinner than the rest, they can save gallons and gallons of paint over the entire production run of the car factories, and save precious weight to trim the fractions of seconds off of lap times. LOL
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Hey Scotty, you're missing the point of the different paint thicknesses. Fiat Chrysler can say it wasn't because they painted unevenly and inconsistently, it's for saving weight and saving money on paint. By painting some parts thinner than the rest, they can save gallons and gallons of paint over the entire production run of the car factories, and save precious weight to trim the fractions of seconds off of lap times. LOL
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Ricardo Gutierrez
I would expect my mechanic to at least check the suspension components. Like a basic check on each tire ( 12/6, 3/9 ). How about on the test drive, making sure cars stays straight at high speeds, steering wheel is straight. How about checking brake conditions, rotors. This check seems to basic for me.
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I would expect my mechanic to at least check the suspension components. Like a basic check on each tire ( 12/6, 3/9 ). How about on the test drive, making sure cars stays straight at high speeds, steering wheel is straight. How about checking brake conditions, rotors. This check seems to basic for me.
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6 6
I see from the 08's they've added the downshift feature even to the corollas to help wear the transmission a little faster. At least it saves my brakes which cost nothing and take 0 minutes to change. Open source computers people. Anything else should be charged for the crime it is. Think MCAS.
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I see from the 08's they've added the downshift feature even to the corollas to help wear the transmission a little faster. At least it saves my brakes which cost nothing and take 0 minutes to change. Open source computers people. Anything else should be charged for the crime it is. Think MCAS.
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