Goodbye BMW

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#### BMW M Series Recall: A Quality Issue

BMW has faced a significant quality issue with their M series vehicles. The company has halted sales of these high-end cars, which were once known for their superior performance and engineering. There are reports of serious problems in the wiring harness that can cause the transmission to shift into neutral or even stop running while driving on the highway. BMW plans to recall almost all M series cars produced in recent months, with recall notices likely sent out in February 2022. However, owners may not be informed until then.

This issue raises concerns about BMW's current quality control and manufacturing standards. Scotty questions whether these vehicles are still worth their high price tag, given the difficulty and cost of repairs. He advises potential buyers to think carefully before purchasing an M series car at this time.

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#### Toyota Solara Transmission Concerns

A viewer shared concerns about a 1999 Toyota Solara with 299,000 miles, reporting issues with the automatic transmission slipping into low gear. Scotty acknowledged that this is not uncommon for vehicles of this age and mileage. He suggested changing the transmission fluid and filter to see if it improves performance but noted that the transmission is likely nearing the end of its life.

While Toyota engines are known for their durability, the automatic transmission in these older models can be a weak point. Scotty recommended considering whether to invest in repairs or look for a more reliable vehicle as the mileage continues to climb.

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#### Cadillac CTS-V Reliability Issues

A viewer asked about a 2017 Cadillac CTS-V with 110,000 miles, wondering if it's worth keeping. Scotty expressed skepticism about Cadillac’s reliability, especially for vehicles of this age and mileage. He advised the owner to evaluate their financial situation, as selling the car now might result in a significant loss due to depreciation.

Scotty suggested waiting until the car reaches higher mileage (around 70,000 miles) before considering replacement, as older Cadillacs often start to show signs of wear and tear. If the vehicle remains reliable, it could be kept for now, but the owner should be prepared for potential future issues.

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#### Ford Fusion: A Decent Choice with Manual Transmission

When asked about a 2012 Ford Fusion with a six-speed manual transmission, Scotty gave it a cautious thumbs-up. He acknowledged that the car has decent ride quality and durability, especially compared to its predecessor models. However, he warned against purchasing an automatic version due to known issues with the transmission.

Scotty noted that the Fusion’s manual transmission can last longer, making it a more reliable choice for drivers who prefer stick shifts. Overall, he recommended the model as long as it has the manual transmission and is in good mechanical condition.

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#### Chevy Truck Electrical Problems

A viewer shared concerns about their Chevy truck frequently stalling unless the check engine light is on. Scotty diagnosed this issue as likely related to electrical problems, such as a failing main computer or faulty sensors. He emphasized that GM vehicles are notorious for poor grounding systems, which can lead to these types of issues.

Scotty advised the owner to have all ground wires checked and replaced if necessary. He also warned that GM’s history of poor electrical system design means this problem is not uncommon in their vehicles.

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#### Oxygen Sensor Cleaning: Not Effective

A viewer asked if it’s possible to clean an oxygen sensor using CRC products. Scotty explained that while cleaning the intake valves might be effective, oxygen sensors are bolted into the exhaust system and cannot be cleaned effectively. He noted that modern oxygen sensors often fail due to electronic issues rather than physical blockages.

Scotty recommended replacing the oxygen sensor instead of attempting to clean it, as the process is unlikely to resolve the underlying problem.

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#### Rebuilding a 66 Mustang Engine: Worth It?

Connor Bell asked if rebuilding a 302 engine in his 1966 Mustang was worth the effort or if he should consider buying a cheaper "beater" car instead. Scotty advised against abandoning the Mustang, as it is still a valuable classic car if restored properly.

He suggested purchasing an older reliable vehicle (like a Corolla or Camry) for everyday use while focusing on restoring the Mustang over time. If the Mustang is in decent condition and retains most of its original parts, Scotty believes it would be a worthwhile investment.

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#### Final Thoughts: BMW’s Declining Quality

Scotty concluded his discussion by expressing disappointment with BMW’s current state. He questioned whether the brand still deserves its reputation as the "driver’s car." With recent quality issues and high repair costs, he suggested that BMW is living off its past reputation rather than delivering on its promises.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enrun up your engine so much BMW quality and their fancy cars BMW has a stop sale on their M series now which is their fancy cars supposed to be the best cars used to be they were the best cars that they made but obviously not anymore they're not selling the ones that they have and they're going to recall almost all the M cars that they've made in the last few months there's a problem in the wiring that the transmission could shift into neutral could stop running going down the highway this is how bad it is they said that they're going to send recall notices probably in February 2022 owners already have them do not sell on the ones that they have in stock till affects them and they're not even gonna give recalls to the owners of the cars until February well hey if you own one now and you don't know about it you won't even know they're being recalled and the thing might have a problem when you drive down the road and shift itself into neutral cuz the wiring harness on the transmissions bed now these are very high-tech cars do I tell people not to buy them they're extremely hard to fix when they do break they cost a fortune to repair here they're not even building them right anymore and they used to be their quality cars so huh is what I say to BMW they're just living on a myth they're myth of its the drivers car the experience of a BMW has the experience might be it'll shift into neutral when you're on the highway somebody will slam in here cuz your car I'll stop accelerating start slowing down a lot of hype and not stuff to follow up behind it anymore I've been fixing these cars since the 1960s I worked on when I was a kid too and I tell you back then they were really solid built cars they were relatively expensive and they were kind of a niche car for people that were into sports cars and they were smaller in the United States now they didn't sell the big ones like they do today they're all four-cylinder once but they can't last a long time but today their quality obviously it's going downhill come by Casa Scotty how do you like the Nissan Titan I know you like the Nissan Frontier and I was wondering if you think anything about tines decent big truck me I get a four-door Toyota before I'd buy one of but recently they started putting those Cummings diesel engines which are axle and engines Nissan doesn't make them just like I said years ago if you're gonna buy a Dodge pickup get one that's got a call means diesel engine can't chat so Scottie I have a question I just purchased a 97 Toyota probably with a supercharger the previous owner is 20 50 and it said it should be 530 what do you think I should do you know it's cool I've never seen a pro via with the supercharger on it I know they made them but I never actually saw one the problem with all four of you has worked there were great fans that could run forever but they wouldn't get out of their own way they were not very fast so I could see putting a supercharger in it now it's an old vehicle it's a 97 it was simple well I'm sure the guy went to 2050 cuz it was probably used in a reasonable amount of five-thirty oil on an old engine like that you can go to a heavier oil on a modern when you can't because they have variable valve timing GT I guess I mean and they have a lot of things with a lot of small holes that you need a lighter weight oil for lubrication especially on start-up workers but a net engine yeah on my 94 Salih kha that's what I use I use 20 50 caster on this to have your stuff cuz it's an old engine with a lot of mileage and it works better that way you can't do it on a modern engine yet but it'll sold once yeah I would probably stick to it you probably put it in there for a reason as long as it runs good and doesn't use much oil stick to that we're pick number nine sighs I watched your video regarding the CRC intake valve cleaning how often should he do this on a GDI system yeah you know it's good video it's a good product to see our ccleaner I would say maybe do it every other oil change if you want to make sure you keep tit from building up see the thing is it takes a long time for that carbon to build up but it's very hard to get off so you don't want it building up kind of like your teeth you want to have your teeth cleaned every so often cuz if you don't that plaque will build up the hard shell of the bacteria builds up and then it coats your teeth if you keep cleaning it little by little it works better then wait until it gets really built up because if it's super built up there the cleaner may not get it off where if it's just starting and it's only on a little bit the cleaner can work better so I'd say every other world change is probably perfectly fine it's a spray can you can watch my video CRC cleaner valve cleaning Scottie on YouTube or Google and you'll see the video you watch it's a very simple process anybody can do drums in trash 96's golly I got a 99 Toyota Solara 299 thousand miles of transmission slips low only one it's called 21 years old two hundred ninety nine thousand miles the transformation starting to wear me I'd live with this all that mileage on it now let's say you've owned it for a long time and you've changed the automatic transmission fluid religiously I would change the automatic transmission fluid and on that particular model the filter do and see what happens it might help it but if you have and don't because then it might start to slip the fluids really old and has been changed in a long time I would kind of live with that because it's on the end of its life using toyota transmissions we're out and that's a big v6 engine and the transmission is the weaker link of that the engines can go forever but eventually an automatic transmission will where it's starting to work if it only doesn't when it's called me personally I just live with it g-man six you thought so Scotty I got it 2017 Cadillac cts-v and there's 110,000 miles no problem so far I got it no and I was gonna keep it but I don't know where after hearing what you have to say about Cadillacs all right we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place it's only a three year old car so I'm sure you still owe a lot of money on it if you were able to sell that thing and not lose money I'd say fine sell it now get rid of the thing and get something else like you want a nice car get Alexis get an accurate get a nice car it's gonna last a long time cuz those things fall apart as they age now you only got eleven thousand miles and it's 2017 even a kerlix don't fall apart that fast if you'd have to sell it and lose a lot of money I'd just keep driving a thing and I'd get rid of it when you got seventy thousand miles or something you don't drive much mileage so maybe you can drive it a while but when it gets to seventy thousand miles or so it'll probably start falling apart like most old Cadillacs do so dance see you can sell it for if you can't get decent money I just keep driving there's only eleven thousand miles I would never buy another 108 Deneb so Scotty what's your opinion on a 2012 Ford Fusion with L for 2.5 liter engine a six-speed manual transmission okay a decent car because it's got the manual transmission the automatic transmissions were weak on that year I wouldn't buy one with automatic transmission but that's a six-speed and that can last quite some time that's the fusion that still had some of the Volvo technology so they ride really well they're decent cars when I'm running cars when they had those it's a world now but when they did I'd often run a fusion and I was happy driving around they're kind of fun cars and driving around and with the standard yes they're decent cars and that it was not a Matic yeah you're all fusing with automatic you're probably gonna have transmission problems if you don't have them already in a near-future but with the standard they might last a long time rock Rizzo says my friend as a Chevy trucks been in a shop more then it on the truck won't stay running unless the check engine light comes on if it only runs on the check engine light is on that means it has a problem something electronically it could be the main computer itself is going out could be the wiring feeding the main computer is gone or it could be one of the sensors on a fuel injection system of which there's dozens of different ones has gone bad that's why it only runs with a check engine light on there is an electronic problem either it's got a ground wire problem which is very common or the main computer is going bad GM's are notorious for having ground problems their vehicles they have throughout history they just don't make the ground system for all the electricals that well realize you got positive electricity it's 12 volts you got to have power positive 12 volt but you got to have ground negative 12 volt to make the circuits work and on GM they just met cars with crappy ground so have somebody check all the grounds out first rusty Shackelford said can you clean an oxygen sensor well you can try but it really won't do much they're bolted into the exhaust system and if they get all clogged up with carbon and gunk generally it's just too late anything that's strong enough to clean that would probably ruin the sensor itself it has precious materials in them that if they're that bad that got that clogged and it got burnt out it wouldn't do any good plus a lot of times modern oxygen sensors go bad because the electronics inside break they shorted out the heater shorts out and cleaning won't fix that because they're electronically short enough so if you got a cold for a bit oxygen son sir my advice is just replace it because cleaner that generally isn't gonna do any good they're not made to be clean and since they're so hot anyways all that stuff is so big Bonnie you really can't the clean there's no help them you can try to clean a catalytic converter I've seen it work but not the sensors Connor Bell says is it worth it to rebuild the 302 engine my 66 Mustang I should I buy a cheaper beater car what depends what you want to do if I were you I'd buy a cheap beater car and I'd fixed the 66 Mustang huh hey a 66 Mustang is worth some money I would keep it and fix it up things worth some money and then just go out get an old Corolla old Camry or something and use that as your everyday driver why not I mean that would make the most sense but sixty six months unless it's all rotted up and in Detroit or something it's all rusted and falling apart it's worth some money I'd keep it and I'd fix it up over time and if it's still almost all original equipment I definitely would fix it up because then it's worth some serious money so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bellrun up your engine so much BMW quality and their fancy cars BMW has a stop sale on their M series now which is their fancy cars supposed to be the best cars used to be they were the best cars that they made but obviously not anymore they're not selling the ones that they have and they're going to recall almost all the M cars that they've made in the last few months there's a problem in the wiring that the transmission could shift into neutral could stop running going down the highway this is how bad it is they said that they're going to send recall notices probably in February 2022 owners already have them do not sell on the ones that they have in stock till affects them and they're not even gonna give recalls to the owners of the cars until February well hey if you own one now and you don't know about it you won't even know they're being recalled and the thing might have a problem when you drive down the road and shift itself into neutral cuz the wiring harness on the transmissions bed now these are very high-tech cars do I tell people not to buy them they're extremely hard to fix when they do break they cost a fortune to repair here they're not even building them right anymore and they used to be their quality cars so huh is what I say to BMW they're just living on a myth they're myth of its the drivers car the experience of a BMW has the experience might be it'll shift into neutral when you're on the highway somebody will slam in here cuz your car I'll stop accelerating start slowing down a lot of hype and not stuff to follow up behind it anymore I've been fixing these cars since the 1960s I worked on when I was a kid too and I tell you back then they were really solid built cars they were relatively expensive and they were kind of a niche car for people that were into sports cars and they were smaller in the United States now they didn't sell the big ones like they do today they're all four-cylinder once but they can't last a long time but today their quality obviously it's going downhill come by Casa Scotty how do you like the Nissan Titan I know you like the Nissan Frontier and I was wondering if you think anything about tines decent big truck me I get a four-door Toyota before I'd buy one of but recently they started putting those Cummings diesel engines which are axle and engines Nissan doesn't make them just like I said years ago if you're gonna buy a Dodge pickup get one that's got a call means diesel engine can't chat so Scottie I have a question I just purchased a 97 Toyota probably with a supercharger the previous owner is 20 50 and it said it should be 530 what do you think I should do you know it's cool I've never seen a pro via with the supercharger on it I know they made them but I never actually saw one the problem with all four of you has worked there were great fans that could run forever but they wouldn't get out of their own way they were not very fast so I could see putting a supercharger in it now it's an old vehicle it's a 97 it was simple well I'm sure the guy went to 2050 cuz it was probably used in a reasonable amount of five-thirty oil on an old engine like that you can go to a heavier oil on a modern when you can't because they have variable valve timing GT I guess I mean and they have a lot of things with a lot of small holes that you need a lighter weight oil for lubrication especially on start-up workers but a net engine yeah on my 94 Salih kha that's what I use I use 20 50 caster on this to have your stuff cuz it's an old engine with a lot of mileage and it works better that way you can't do it on a modern engine yet but it'll sold once yeah I would probably stick to it you probably put it in there for a reason as long as it runs good and doesn't use much oil stick to that we're pick number nine sighs I watched your video regarding the CRC intake valve cleaning how often should he do this on a GDI system yeah you know it's good video it's a good product to see our ccleaner I would say maybe do it every other oil change if you want to make sure you keep tit from building up see the thing is it takes a long time for that carbon to build up but it's very hard to get off so you don't want it building up kind of like your teeth you want to have your teeth cleaned every so often cuz if you don't that plaque will build up the hard shell of the bacteria builds up and then it coats your teeth if you keep cleaning it little by little it works better then wait until it gets really built up because if it's super built up there the cleaner may not get it off where if it's just starting and it's only on a little bit the cleaner can work better so I'd say every other world change is probably perfectly fine it's a spray can you can watch my video CRC cleaner valve cleaning Scottie on YouTube or Google and you'll see the video you watch it's a very simple process anybody can do drums in trash 96's golly I got a 99 Toyota Solara 299 thousand miles of transmission slips low only one it's called 21 years old two hundred ninety nine thousand miles the transformation starting to wear me I'd live with this all that mileage on it now let's say you've owned it for a long time and you've changed the automatic transmission fluid religiously I would change the automatic transmission fluid and on that particular model the filter do and see what happens it might help it but if you have and don't because then it might start to slip the fluids really old and has been changed in a long time I would kind of live with that because it's on the end of its life using toyota transmissions we're out and that's a big v6 engine and the transmission is the weaker link of that the engines can go forever but eventually an automatic transmission will where it's starting to work if it only doesn't when it's called me personally I just live with it g-man six you thought so Scotty I got it 2017 Cadillac cts-v and there's 110,000 miles no problem so far I got it no and I was gonna keep it but I don't know where after hearing what you have to say about Cadillacs all right we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place it's only a three year old car so I'm sure you still owe a lot of money on it if you were able to sell that thing and not lose money I'd say fine sell it now get rid of the thing and get something else like you want a nice car get Alexis get an accurate get a nice car it's gonna last a long time cuz those things fall apart as they age now you only got eleven thousand miles and it's 2017 even a kerlix don't fall apart that fast if you'd have to sell it and lose a lot of money I'd just keep driving a thing and I'd get rid of it when you got seventy thousand miles or something you don't drive much mileage so maybe you can drive it a while but when it gets to seventy thousand miles or so it'll probably start falling apart like most old Cadillacs do so dance see you can sell it for if you can't get decent money I just keep driving there's only eleven thousand miles I would never buy another 108 Deneb so Scotty what's your opinion on a 2012 Ford Fusion with L for 2.5 liter engine a six-speed manual transmission okay a decent car because it's got the manual transmission the automatic transmissions were weak on that year I wouldn't buy one with automatic transmission but that's a six-speed and that can last quite some time that's the fusion that still had some of the Volvo technology so they ride really well they're decent cars when I'm running cars when they had those it's a world now but when they did I'd often run a fusion and I was happy driving around they're kind of fun cars and driving around and with the standard yes they're decent cars and that it was not a Matic yeah you're all fusing with automatic you're probably gonna have transmission problems if you don't have them already in a near-future but with the standard they might last a long time rock Rizzo says my friend as a Chevy trucks been in a shop more then it on the truck won't stay running unless the check engine light comes on if it only runs on the check engine light is on that means it has a problem something electronically it could be the main computer itself is going out could be the wiring feeding the main computer is gone or it could be one of the sensors on a fuel injection system of which there's dozens of different ones has gone bad that's why it only runs with a check engine light on there is an electronic problem either it's got a ground wire problem which is very common or the main computer is going bad GM's are notorious for having ground problems their vehicles they have throughout history they just don't make the ground system for all the electricals that well realize you got positive electricity it's 12 volts you got to have power positive 12 volt but you got to have ground negative 12 volt to make the circuits work and on GM they just met cars with crappy ground so have somebody check all the grounds out first rusty Shackelford said can you clean an oxygen sensor well you can try but it really won't do much they're bolted into the exhaust system and if they get all clogged up with carbon and gunk generally it's just too late anything that's strong enough to clean that would probably ruin the sensor itself it has precious materials in them that if they're that bad that got that clogged and it got burnt out it wouldn't do any good plus a lot of times modern oxygen sensors go bad because the electronics inside break they shorted out the heater shorts out and cleaning won't fix that because they're electronically short enough so if you got a cold for a bit oxygen son sir my advice is just replace it because cleaner that generally isn't gonna do any good they're not made to be clean and since they're so hot anyways all that stuff is so big Bonnie you really can't the clean there's no help them you can try to clean a catalytic converter I've seen it work but not the sensors Connor Bell says is it worth it to rebuild the 302 engine my 66 Mustang I should I buy a cheaper beater car what depends what you want to do if I were you I'd buy a cheap beater car and I'd fixed the 66 Mustang huh hey a 66 Mustang is worth some money I would keep it and fix it up things worth some money and then just go out get an old Corolla old Camry or something and use that as your everyday driver why not I mean that would make the most sense but sixty six months unless it's all rotted up and in Detroit or something it's all rusted and falling apart it's worth some money I'd keep it and I'd fix it up over time and if it's still almost all original equipment I definitely would fix it up because then it's worth some serious money so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell\n"