If You Want Better Gas Mileage See the Air Fuel Ratio Sensor Minus 0.01

If you want better gas mileage, see the air fuel ratio sensor minus 0.01. You know so it's subtracting you know a tiny bit it was almost perfect against zero so it really is pretty much meaningless. The car's just running too good so let's take it for a spin. You've got to Look Backwards while we drive, I stick a camera like this and look at it, I use my head though, I find the head works just as well.

The vehicle still idles like a dream. We're going over the big hump here, really considering that still has the original four struts on it, and it's got 234,000 miles on it. It's still rides pretty good, such just say they don't make them like they used to. You want to spend close to $1,000 replacing everything, I wouldn't, it still goes good enough.

Here we go, nobody to the right, somebody to the left here we go, we'll give it some gas that engine sounds strong shifts like a dream. Hey, these things are just made like tanks if somebody put me in this car blindfolded there's no way I think it has 240,000 miles on it still corners like a dream the brakes are smooth, the ABS system still works. I mean, this car still runs pretty much the same as it did when it came off the factory floor except it bounces a little bit more, the struts have 240,000 miles on them, and MOS you really can't complain about that.

Sure, he bought an alternator for it a few years ago, not that big of a deal, he did it himself. No, he wants me to tell him if you could take it from here to Florida for a trip, heck, I'd take it from here to California and back, I wouldn't care. So there you have it, he's cleared for takeoff if he wants to go to Florida anytime. Hey, sure it's got a lot of miles on it but really when you consider what he paid for $144,000 almost 200,000 miles ago and it still runs like this, hey, you really can't complain that's why they sold so many of these.

So millions, millions, and millions of these things because they're boringly predictable. They don't break down, they get to where you're going, they get good gas mileage. When you do have to fix them there's always parts available, cuz they sold so many of them and there is an insane aftermarket. You can do whatever you want or don't want to do to them if you're a young kid you want to soup them up, go right ahead waste your money but most people they're just going to be driving this thing around till Hades freezes over.

Bonus Questions and Answers

GM Says They Think the US Can Dethrone China as the EV Battery King

Kurt Kelly from General Motors who is the boss of their GM battery Department says China's a headbutt. Hey, we can beat him thanks to government policies encouraging local development manufacturing of battery cells in other words it's just another pitch for our government tax money to go to private corporations.

We can beat those Chinese but you got to give us a few billion to help us out right that's what I say. GMS have been making crappy cars for quite some time why should we give them a whole bunch of money to make crappy electric cars that nobody wants? They spent years touting their ultimum Battery Technology and now they got rid of the name oh we can't use that, they're not the ultimate ones they're kind of crappy well let's change the name that'll fix everything right.

And in this case, they say everything's going to be fixed from the Chinese Domination by taking our tax pay dollars and giving them the GM you know what I say don't give them a penny. It's a joke it's stupid the government should have nothing to do with industrial policy of making electric cars paying the people to make batteries for cars that people don't want to buy.

There's a lot of other things we can put government money into besides wasting it on the stupid idea of battery electric cars and these corporations being dead from the neck up once they start, they just keep going on the same path. They're on the highway to hell and they keep going full speed, they don't care that it's the wrong way but then they say we can beat the Chinese just give us some money please.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engraev up your engines all right here we have another boring Camry so boring it's got 230,000 miles on it it runs fine everything still works guy bought it with 40,000 miles on it he's probably the second owner of the car and we're going to go through it and show you why it made sense to buy one of these back in the day not it's 11 years old but you would know by looking at it even though it's a massachus car they knew how to rust proof these things you notice there's no roster pitting and this is an se you can see even the wheels are still in decent shape he drives it every day even though he's in Massachusetts he doesn't hide it in the winter it would be coated with salt then but he washed it obviously here but it shows that even all that salt hasn't bothered the car that much being in 2014 2.4 L 4 cylinder engine this is the one that replaced the earlier ones that were like in the 2007's 8S N9 that burn a lot of oil these are pretty much bulletproof engines and you can see now he did have to replace the alternator a little while ago cuz I can see a tag on it and he bought one but then he found out later down the street there was a guy who rebuilt alternators who would have saved the money and done it for only 60 bucks when I was young everybody said foreign cars parts cost a fortune nobody knows how to work on them well guess what this isn't a foreign car it was made in Kentucky their simple basic technology that can last a long time Unfortunately today you got no choice the 2025 new Camry only come hybrid yeah they get 51 mil a gallon but they have levels of technology to make your head spin I don't know about 230,000 miles on one if it's going to be running as good as this thing is these were when cars were probably the epitome of what Toyota ever made but solid engine but no complex crap does it have a Turbocharger no not a timing chain no rubber belt to worry about now it does have one thing that I'm not a big fan of but he replaced the alternator these are called overrun pulleys instead of having a solid pulley that your belt spun on it's got an overrun pulley and what happens when they get old then those overrun pulleys will break and it's the oddest thing you'll turn your car off and then you'll hear this horrible noise well that's the overrun pulley wear out then you got to buy a new assembly which the old ones didn't have that not it's a minor thing I mean you replace the alternator once but kind of the beginning of Technology really isn't all that necessary and the main reason they did it was because they said well it makes them quieter and yeah they're quieter when it works but they're a lot louder when they don't work and they break car 200 something th000 miles but it still gets like 32 m a gallon that's in Massachusetts that's just superficial rust the Metal's still real solid on a strut Tower but you'll always get rust like that and corrosion like this but that doesn't really mean anything look inside hey other than the wear here these seats are still in pretty good shape in the back not too many people have use these even better and of course they got the airbags in and they're extremely safe Vehicles sound solid look inside still really clean Dash is in good shape these cars never had the problem that some of the Toyotas and Lexus were these got sticky and gooey these never had that problem baby's even got paddle shifters on it look you can put it in manual shifting you can use the paddle shifters are up Toyota starts right up and you can see it's got you can see it's already detected it's working pretty fast we get a little glare cuz the sun's out today well it makes it a little stylistic here we'll do a standalone diagnosis he read the VIN number all right know it's a Camry North America 2014 2 arf4 lot of smart key we can do a full topology scan so a away we go and while it's doing it I mean the rest of the vehicle's still in excellent shape even though it's got like 237,000 M on it added his own garment stuff here it didn't come with that of course now we can see it's got 15 trouble cards a lot of them probably aren't going to mean much so we'll start with the AC which still works lost communication hellow sensor circuit now we're going to erase these codes because the batter's been replaced a lot of times people don't reset these codes there's absolutely nothing wrong with it it works fine so that means I'm probably going to get a bunch of codes and communication codes because there was low battery voltage at some point in time and nobody reset it combination meter is probably going to be more of these crazy communication codes circuit open but they all work so some point in time something probably happened somebody fixed it but they never erased the codes I see this on many cars with high mileage people fix things they don't have a high level scanner like me and they don't know they got to erase it or it'll stay there forever until somebody erases it go over here to the BCM the body control mod it'll probably be more of these crazy codes what I tell you lost communication lost communication blah blah blah so we'll erase those now let's say instead of me just checking this up for a guy who's thinking about driving it to Florida cuz he bought it used years ago it was just a check out of a used car these codes don't mean anything so don't be afraid if you get codes if you know a guy like me who can tell you what it means and so I erased all the other codes because they're all communication codes they're all gone now so we're going to start her up and we're going to look at the main data which is the ECM Black's good Red's bad mass airflow sensors fine black here it looks pretty good battery voltage is good 13.94% generally you're gonna use a little bit more fuel I've had that happen in ages past where I tune up somebody's car and I say GE it really runs great now but my gas mileage is down I say well that's because it runs really good you're probably driving faster you're going to get worse gas mileage a lot of times you want your car to run a little bit lean if you want better gas mileage see the air fuel ratio sensor minus 0.01 you know so it's subtracting you know a tiny bit it was almost perfect against zero so it really is pretty much meaningless the car's just running to good so let's take it for spin you got to Look Backwards while we drive you know I stick a camera like this and look at it I use my head though I find the head works just as well 234,000 Mi still idles like a dream we going over the big hump here and really considering that still has the original four struts on it and it's got 234,000 miles on this horrible Road Island bumpy roads it's still rides pretty good such just say they don't make them like they used to and sure it balances a little bit more than it used to too but I mean you want to spend close to 1,000 bucks replacing everything I wouldn't it still goes good enough and here we go nobody to the right somebody to the left here we go we'll give it some gas that engine sounds strong shifts like a dream hey these things are just made like tanks if somebody put me in this car blindfolded there's no way I think it has 240,000 Mi on it still corner like a dream the brakes are smooth the ABS system still works I mean this car still runs pretty much the same as it did when it came off the factory floor except it bounces a little bit more the struts have 240,000 miles on them MOS you really can't complain about that and sure he bought an alternator for it a few years ago not that big of a deal he did it himself no he want me to tell him if you could take it from here to Florida for a trip heck I'd take it from here to California and back I wouldn't care so there you have it he's cleared for takeoff if he wants to go to Florida anytime hey sure it's got a lot of miles on it but really when you consider what he paid for $144,000 almost 200,000 miles ago and it still runs like this hey you really can't complain that's why they sold so many of these so millions millions and millions of these things because they're boringly predictable that they don't break down they get to where you're going they get good gas mileage and when you do have to fix them there's always parts available cuz they sold so many of them and there is an insane aftermarket you can do whatever you want or don't want to do to them if you're a young kid you want to soup them up go right ahead waste your money but most people they're just going to be driving this thing around till Hades freeze is over as the bell rings if you can find something like this sh snap on it don't even think twice cuz if you get bored with it somebody else will buy it from you for probably more than you paid for it in the first place and here's some bonus questions and answers now here's something I can't help but laugh at GM says they think the US can Dethrone China as the EV Battery King Kurt Kelly from General Motors who is the boss of their GM battery Department says China's a headbutt hey we can beat him thanks to government policies encouraging local development manufacturing of battery cells in other words it's just another pitch for our government tax money to go to private corporations we can beat those Chinese but you got to give us a few billion to help us out right that's what I say GMS have been making crappy cars for quite some time why should we give them a whole bunch of money to make crappy electric cars that nobody wants they spent years touting their ultimum Battery Technology and now they got rid of the name oh we can't use that they're not the ultimate ones they're kind of crappy well let's change the name that'll fix everything right and in this case they say everything's going to be fixed from the Chinese Domination by taking our tax pay dollars and giving them the GM you know what I say don't give them a penny it's a joke it's stupid the government should have nothing to do with industrial policy of making electric cars paying the people to make batteries for cars that people don't want to buy there's a lot of other things we can put government money into besides wasting it on the stupid idea of battery electric cars and these corporations being dead from the neck up once they start they just keep going on the same path they're on the highway to hell and they keep going full speed they don't care that it's the wrong way but then they say we can beat the Chinese just give us some money please so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell\n"