A Guy Bought Two Old Cars and Found Out What Not to Buy

He went to the car lot and bought two old cars, both from different places, Arizona and Texas, which had been traveling through Tennessee. When he bought them, they were still running well, but after a few years, the engines started wearing out and one of them finally came to an end.

He realized that he could replace the engine with another one from his other cars in the house. Since he has two old cars, he can use them as a spare part to fix the other car, which is not a bad deal at all. However, when he went to check the condition of these cars, he found out that they were rusting away.

He learned that once steel starts to rust, it doesn't stop and no matter how much you coat or patch them up, they will eventually need to be replaced. The manufacturer's warranty is not enough to save these vehicles from their fate. After a while, the car ends up in a junkyard where it is scrapped for parts.

Important Questions and Answers

There is one interesting question about politics that shows how strange things can happen when politicians make deals. A joint resolution was passed by the Senate that predicted Chinese companies would win the bid to build electric charging stations in America. The resolution stated that the government would not fund these projects if they were not built by American companies.

However, President Biden waved this rule and allowed foreign companies to compete for these contracts. One of the House Republicans said that Biden's decision was a betrayal of his promise to power our foreign diversities like China by pouring hard on American taxpayer dollars into foreign markets.

The problem is that most of the electric car batteries and chargers come from China, which means that even if American companies were supposed to build these things, they wouldn't have been able to do it anyway. The Biden Administration decided to wave the requirement that American companies would be the ones to build these charging stations in America.

A Bonus Question

There is another interesting question about politics that shows how easily politicians can make promises they don't intend to keep. Three years ago, the government said they were going to spend billions of dollars building electric car chargers across the country. They even created a company called Electrify America to handle this project.

However, three years later, there are no electric car chargers built yet, and it's clear that the government has not fulfilled its promise. The idea was to make people buy electric cars and provide them with charging stations, but since there aren't enough chargers being built, the government is now saying that they can buy these things from other countries.

The problem is that this means that American tax dollars are going to be used to fund foreign companies instead of supporting American businesses. This is not what politicians promised when they said they were going to fix America and rebuild it. It's actually destroying America by sending money to China.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enrev up your engin when should you keep a car when should you get rid of a car here is a 2004 Matrix all-wheel drive for 2500 bucks we're going to go through it so you can see what you would go through deciding are you going to keep a car are you going to buy a car that's used is it worth buying this particular one is as you can see here the 1.8 L engine probably the best engine they ever made same engin in the Weiss Matrix they can run forever and they get phenomenal gas mileage too got a four-speed automatic transmission it can also last forever my advice with these is it's the bigger engine I wouldn't buy it they had problems burning oil but this isn't the next thing you want to look at is rust you can see these headlights have all faded away you can polish and try to clean them or put better looking new ones like I did these things are 42 bucks a piece so you can just buy new ones if you want now he got another one but it's got 260 it isn't rusted on the bottom 70,000 Mi more than this but it's not rusted on the bottom so let's take a look underneath I got to be honest the UN the body frame is rcking away sad but true this the driver's side let's check out the passenger side there's some superficial rust but the passenger side isn't all totally corroded like the driver's side is on the outside of the passenger look it's clean but on the driver's side you can see it's rusting okay how on Earth did one side of the car rust not the other well I'm going to tell you how water gets in through the pillars leaking which he knows are leaking it gets down there and it rots things away over time now I'm going to continue going through the vehicle I'm going to hook up my fancy scan to see what chaping in but since he has another one with no rust at all his wife isn't going to be happy but I'm probably going to tell him the other one and he said he can bring it here bring me that one to check out cuz I'm telling you right now this is a unibody card there's no frame on body the whole thing is the frame in body that's why it's called unibody once it's rotten like that you really can't do deadly squat I mean you can't cut giant sections off and weld new sections in you know that's just not a plausible thing to do in the case of this one it's just got two much rust on that side eventually of course the other side would rust but you could see it went the whole way through since it is youa body it's not totally bad it's mainly on the side there but of course eventually hit enough bumps and the frame will just do body come apart it's not like it's going to happen tomorrow but it lives in Indiana I think it spent its lifetime in Wisconsin he thinks it came from Wisconsin which would make sense they rot out like that from all the salt that they put on on the roads there and this is why one if it's got the bigger engine probably don't buy it two if that unibody is riding away definitely don't buy it but we're going to put on a scandle just see kind of shape the rest of it's in so here we go with our hotel we're going to do a full diagnosis of it we doing Auto Vin you can see it's got 19241 miles on it you can see these things are great they got so much room this one's fancy it even has a sunro and it is all-wheel drive all right let's see if there's any trouble codes trouble codes that's good so let's look at live data remember black is good red is bad all that M the short-term fuel trim is zero it's perfect never ceases to amaze me how well these things can run 192,000 Mi and the fuel trim is zero meaning it's not adding or subtracting fuel you'd think it would be off usually they're off maybe half a percent or maybe 1% this isn't zero okay you can see it runs perfectly fine you know shifts good handles good these things are always fun to drive around no they do have somewhat of a rough ride but that's just the way that they're set up for they've got kind of a motorcycle Canever system in the back so they're rough riding but when you're on a smooth Road they're fine and this one handles perfectly fine it's just a shame that that unibody is starting to ride away we'll take it to our little drag strip in a second so here we go let's see there's nobody behind us here we go with a drag strip test not a race car but tranic shifts like a dream I wife Matrix a little bit quicker but you know you're going 40 you want to pay somebody look the speedometer slowly but surely reaches up towards 60 I mean that 2022 Corolla I shot the end day was much faster than it is nice stable driving platform well if it wasn't rusted it's a great vehicle it might go a few years before it finally rots enough that the seat will start sinking to the left it's only going to continue to rust once rusts starts it can't stop if it was body on frame vehicle if you wanted you could take the body off the frame put another frame on which costs a fortune hardly anybody does that right or Guys will'll box them in they'll get sheet steel and they'll box it in weld it in on the frame and if they're not carrying heavy loads it might last quite some time I did that with my son Toyota pickup truck and he drove it another six years until he sold it he didn't carry heavy weights and he didn't tow anything with the truck so it didn't make all that much difference and since this is UN Andi body you're just driving it around it's still might go for a few years and he's an honest guy he doesn't want to fill it with Bondo spray painted and sell to somebody else so it might still last a few years it'll run I guarantee you whether the body falls apart or not the engine transmission will continue to spin and since he has two of these things he's even thinking well maybe I'll just keep this and then if the engine finally wears out he I'll take the engine out of this put in the other one I mean this guy's got like 10 cars in his house so he can do whatever he wants with it and it's not a horrible deal but as youve learned today you look at one of these things see which engine if it's the 1.8 keep going those are great engines right my Matrix came from Arizona when I bought it spent its life in Texas and Tennessee now it goes to Rhode Island but not in the winter so I don't get the salt on it right if it's rotten like this you don't want to buy one of these otherwise hey it's an excellent vehicle heed my warning Jack it up look under it before you buy something and find out that gee it's kind of rusted away still it might go a few years what the heck but it's not a totally safe vehicle of course with it starting to ride out and eventually once steel starts it doesn't stop and you can coat this all you want it's still going to continue to rust you'd have to cut all the metal off and since the uni body frame nobody really does that guys just patch him up and then paint him and sell them to somebody else and eventually when I rock completely through they end up in a junkyard and here's some bonus questions and answers here's hilarious one showing that politics makes strange bed fellows finally the house jointed the Senate and it struck down the bid Eevee charger rule that predicted Chinese companies they were saying well they want to build all these charges right to get American jobs and build the charging systems to build it up for electric cars right well it turns out that President Biden waved the by America requirements for taxpayer funding electric charging stations right as one of the House Republicans said Biden's waiver of the by America requirements and power our foreign diversities like China by pouring hard on American taxpayer dollars into foreign markets of course the problem is you know the United States there there aren't that many people that build the stuff most of the electric stuff batteries chargers comes from China right I guess the Biden Administration decided oh well well we don't have enough American one so we'll wave the requirements that be an American company and we can buy it all from China right the whole thing is our taxpayer dollars at least you go to Americans and American companies building this stuff personally I think this whole electric car stuff is a line of horse Manu they did this we're going to make Chargers in America three years ago they said they were going to spend billions right and you know how many chargers they built since then and now none they haven't built a single one yet this Electrify America stuff right they haven't built a single one that the government said we're going to spend billions building these Chargers three years later they haven't build a single one so I guess the government decided Well we haven't built any but where are we going to get them from we said that oh we want to buy America but we'll we'll put a restriction that oh we can buy from other countries cuz there's not enough and we have to start building them they're trying to make people buy electric cars and they find out there's nothing there they want to make American jobs but then they say hey oh you can buy the charges with our federal dollars from China now ha I think it's hilarious that both the Senate and the house said no you can't do that right as you can expect in bureaucratic Washington this resolution now will make its way to Biden's desk and the White House has stated the president will veto it so he wants to continue to allow us to buy the Chinese stuff instead of American people need to know about this stuff it's what I like talking about it they talk one talk don't listen to the blah blah come out of their mouth follow the money in this case the money wouldd be going to China to buy these things and it's not a good thing write your representatives tell them you think this is disgusting and if Biden does veto the thing hey there's a good thing for this coming election he's sending money to China our tax Bay dollars going to China by these people that supposedly say I'm gonna fix America him and his Ira that was going to rebuild America well it's more or less destroying America it isn't building it sending more money to China what's more convenient we can get it done faster the government never gets anything done fast look three years later they haven't built a single charger with the money they have it's ridiculous do thing's ridiculous so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell aahah\n"