**Buying and Selling Used Cars: A Smart Decision**

When it comes to buying and selling used cars, there are several things to consider before making a decision. One popular option is to restore a classic car instead of buying a new one. According to Scotty, "you can leave the old paint on" which means that if you decide to sell the car later, you don't have to spend money to repaint it. This can be a cost-effective way to own a high-end vehicle without breaking the bank.

However, not all used cars are created equal. For example, Scotty advises against buying an air-cooled Porsche engine, especially if it's old and has high mileage. These engines are "endless money pits" that require constant maintenance and repairs. On the other hand, big V8 engines can be solidly built and reliable if they're taken care of.

When considering a used car purchase, Scotty recommends doing your research and comparing prices. He notes that the Chevy Bolt has posted the highest ever retail sales in September, despite relatively small numbers compared to last year's sales. However, even with this popular electric vehicle, sales are still not astronomical. In Mexico, however, sales of electric cars actually decreased by 55%, but this is likely due to a few factors, including a relatively small market and the fact that most electric cars sold in Mexico are imported from other countries.

In Brazil, on the other hand, sales of electric cars increased significantly in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year. This suggests that there may be a growing interest in eco-friendly vehicles in the country. However, it's worth noting that even in popular markets like Brazil and the US, electric cars are still not flying off the shelves.

**Maintenance and Repairs**

When it comes to maintenance and repairs, Scotty offers some practical advice. If you're experiencing a rattling noise when your car starts up but it goes away immediately, it's likely due to the timing chain or variable valve timing assembly. These components can sometimes make a rattle as they age and warm up.

However, if this problem persists, it may be more expensive to fix than you think. Changing the timing chain or adjusting the variable valve timing sprocket can cost thousands of dollars, especially in older cars with high mileage. In some cases, it may even be more economical to simply replace the engine altogether. Scotty notes that many people spend a fortune repairing engines and then end up spending even more money on a new one.

So, if you're experiencing issues with your car, it's often better to keep driving it and decide whether or not to repair it later. If you've got a reliable car with plenty of miles left on the clock, it may be cheaper to just buy another one rather than putting in thousands of dollars for repairs. As Scotty says, "you gotta use your head" when making decisions about car maintenance.

**Conclusion**

Buying and selling used cars requires careful consideration and research. Whether you're looking to restore a classic vehicle or simply find a reliable ride, there are many factors to keep in mind. From the pros and cons of electric cars to the cost-effectiveness of repairs, it's essential to be informed before making a decision. By following Scotty's advice and doing your own research, you can make smart choices about your car purchase and enjoy years of trouble-free driving.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enpeople often say porsches are endless money pits here's something that's the exact opposite this was purchased for four thousand dollars now it didn't have the funky paint job on it then it was just normal and in a couple weeks it's going to be wrapped and i'll show you that and it'll really look sharp then but in terms of mechanics if you take care of them you buy the right one cheap enough can have some cheap fun with a porsche now originally this cayenne s was about a 58 000 car so you could save a lot of money buying a used one now believe it or not this porsche used to be owned by a pastor at the 101st airborne here now why a pastor would want to drive like a bat out of you-know-what it's beyond me but that was the case when he got touring he sold it to the present owner for four thousand dollars and if you listen to it check it out it runs like a clock now it does have 170 000 miles on it it shows that german technology when it works can still work quite well sure the paint's a joke like i said until they decide to wrap the thing and make it look nice but if you take care of these things can go a long way got a lot of power of course they handle like a dream we'll show you later when we're driving around want to have one of these things planted like he did if you can find an older one that still runs good can have a lot of fun at a relatively low price and this one even came with this fancy alpine setup that you can do all kinds of things you can remap ecu's it does just about everything and it came with the vehicle now as we check under the hood this is not antique technology boxer engines this is a modern porsche engine and with their all-wheel drive system you're not going to get stuck and with this paint job you're not going to care if you get in the mud and since this one already looks like it went through the zombie apocalypse hey if it does happen you're all set up already they'll never catch you in this thing no it may be getting a little bit old but man it's still comfy the leather seats were thick enough they're not even worn out yet very comfortable got the tiptronic transmission in it you can shift it yourself or let the machine do it all play with the all-wheel drive all you want with the different settings of course there's plenty of room in the back germans are rather large people i know i have many german relatives who are large and since you can't drive them like a maniac well everybody's got a little handhold here so not to worry about your lateral sway now it used to live inside here but the last big wind in tennessee kind of mangled this little house but as you can see inside actually it's a nice little house here the wind just kind of destroyed some of the metal and they could have made it a little bit stronger i guess this wasn't built in deutschland this was made in china but enough talk let's see how this thing rides makes a great sound being a v8 engine almost as good as that corvette i shot the other day up on the gas this thing goes but it handles too this isn't just a straight speed burner with the all-wheel drive system that it has you can drive really fast even in the snow if you know what you're doing maybe i'll drive these things for gas mileage but this thing will get 21 miles a gallon on a highway you know and that's pretty much equivalent to any modern suv that's all-wheel drive i drove a lexus and it only got 19 miles a gallon when i drove it from houston to san antonio and back and that was a brand new one these things have some really good technology in them if you get them this cheap four thousand dollars hey you could have a lot of fun now sure this porsche looks like it just came out of the woods and sort of it did not the black forest of germany the hills of tennessee now i do have to say i would never tell a customer to buy a 911 with this kind of mileage on it it would be an endless money pit but you can see with this v8 engine in you're talking about lower rpms you're talking about a stronger built engine you're talking about an all-wheel drive system that's made to hold up the germans have been making all-wheel drive for a long time and of course this actually can be a practical vehicle a lot of room here the seats come down got a lot of space that you can put stuff in in comfort and this one serves as a mobile billboard for taco loco i gotta say i was worried when i moved to tennessee where am i gonna get some good tacos right moving from houston well these guys make better tacos than they did in houston the guys from the caribbean via brooklyn you never know who you're gonna meet i'm really pleasantly surprised that i can get some great tacos here in tennessee you might be surprised what you're gonna find heck they even got a hockey team in nashville really wonder about this it's still the same car watch this did that as a giant joke it's just a funny rap the paint as most german things is still an immaculate shape talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing now when he re-wraps it he's going to do what he calls a hypershift he's going to put a bunch of different colors on so as you walk around the vehicle the color keeps changing there's a lot of stuff you can do with wraps and we're going to film that when he got that done and you get to see how a car is wrapped the right way and all the different choices that you'd have so if you think about it for a lot of people raps the way to go when i was young everybody wanted to keep up with the joneses so you'd buy a new car every two or three years right well why not keep a good car and just wrap it every two or three years to whatever color or shape or whatever you want to do you learn how to do it yourself or you pay a guy to do it it's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying another car and there's the interesting thing about rap it comes right off doesn't ruin the paint underneath you want to go back to regular paint you can buff it out you want to repaint it or want to re-wrap it you can go right ahead it doesn't destroy the paint underneath something a lot of people might think about if you're into changing things and you don't want to spend all your money so if you thought you could never get a porsche for four thousand dollars you don't need this you can leave it this way if you want you might be surprised at the deals that are out there but do take scotty's advice stay away from the boxer air cooled engines if you're talking about old and high mileage they're endless money pits these big old v8s it's another story entirely if they were taken care of they're solid built and a lot of guys that buy these hey the chaplain he didn't work on the car he paid a good mechanic to take care of it for him and when you buy a car like this you can have a lot of fun for a little bit of money i mean let's face it it was 53 000 less than it was new what do you have to lose and here's some bonus questions and answers well here's some interesting news for gm and electric cars the chevy bolt posted the highest ever retail sales in september now we're still talking relatively small numbers because in 2019 they only sold about 13 000 of these electric cars won 2020 so far they've sold about 14 000 of them not gigantic numbers but it's increasing now in mexico sales of the electric cars actually went down 55 but when you think about it they sold nine in the third quarter of 2019 and they only sold four in the third quarter of 2020. so they're not selling like hotcakes or tamales in mexico the whole third quarter they only sold four of these things but the same time sales went up 1500 in brazil because last year in the third quarter they sold one and this year in the third quarter they sold six like i say you know electric vacation is going gonna take a long time for this stuff to build up and in but i gotta say i got a customer that's got one and they're happy with it you know they wanted a little electric car that's got a decent range and they're totally happy with that they plug it in their condo at night to recharge it and you know they're happy with the car the little commuter cars are decent for stuff like that but it's gonna be a long time before those things become really popular i mean look at brazil they sold one last year in the third quarter now they sold six so they're not flying off the shelves b posadi says i have a rattling noise on my car in a cold start but it immediately goes away that's generally something to do with the timing chain or your variable valve timing assembly there are many cars that do that as they age and if you don't want to spend a fortune you can continue to drive them i see many toyotas that are 5 10 years old with variable valve timing when they first start them up they make a rattle that goes away some of these have two three hundred thousand miles on it but they still run okay now to fix it you gotta change the timing chain sometimes you have to mess with the variable valve timing sprocket very expensive but if it immediately goes away a lot of times you can live with it for quite some time realize you're going to spend thousands of dollars rebuilding the engine repairing stuff and it's kind of like robbing peter to pay paul when it comes to repairing engines so you spend a bunch of money fixing that but if you got two 300 000 miles your pistons are worn the bearings are worn valves are worn everything's worn why would you put a bunch of money into fixing one thing my advice is you just keep driving them and then if it finally does go out and the engine blows you decide do i want to put another engine in it a used engine or a rebuilt engine or get another car that's when you use your head and realize that say you got 400 000 miles maybe just get rid of the car and maybe buy another one if it's a toyota corolla that's got 150 000 and you got a lot more miles left on it because a lot of times you can buy one with 150 000 miles for less money it's going to cost you to put an engine and realize that so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bellpeople often say porsches are endless money pits here's something that's the exact opposite this was purchased for four thousand dollars now it didn't have the funky paint job on it then it was just normal and in a couple weeks it's going to be wrapped and i'll show you that and it'll really look sharp then but in terms of mechanics if you take care of them you buy the right one cheap enough can have some cheap fun with a porsche now originally this cayenne s was about a 58 000 car so you could save a lot of money buying a used one now believe it or not this porsche used to be owned by a pastor at the 101st airborne here now why a pastor would want to drive like a bat out of you-know-what it's beyond me but that was the case when he got touring he sold it to the present owner for four thousand dollars and if you listen to it check it out it runs like a clock now it does have 170 000 miles on it it shows that german technology when it works can still work quite well sure the paint's a joke like i said until they decide to wrap the thing and make it look nice but if you take care of these things can go a long way got a lot of power of course they handle like a dream we'll show you later when we're driving around want to have one of these things planted like he did if you can find an older one that still runs good can have a lot of fun at a relatively low price and this one even came with this fancy alpine setup that you can do all kinds of things you can remap ecu's it does just about everything and it came with the vehicle now as we check under the hood this is not antique technology boxer engines this is a modern porsche engine and with their all-wheel drive system you're not going to get stuck and with this paint job you're not going to care if you get in the mud and since this one already looks like it went through the zombie apocalypse hey if it does happen you're all set up already they'll never catch you in this thing no it may be getting a little bit old but man it's still comfy the leather seats were thick enough they're not even worn out yet very comfortable got the tiptronic transmission in it you can shift it yourself or let the machine do it all play with the all-wheel drive all you want with the different settings of course there's plenty of room in the back germans are rather large people i know i have many german relatives who are large and since you can't drive them like a maniac well everybody's got a little handhold here so not to worry about your lateral sway now it used to live inside here but the last big wind in tennessee kind of mangled this little house but as you can see inside actually it's a nice little house here the wind just kind of destroyed some of the metal and they could have made it a little bit stronger i guess this wasn't built in deutschland this was made in china but enough talk let's see how this thing rides makes a great sound being a v8 engine almost as good as that corvette i shot the other day up on the gas this thing goes but it handles too this isn't just a straight speed burner with the all-wheel drive system that it has you can drive really fast even in the snow if you know what you're doing maybe i'll drive these things for gas mileage but this thing will get 21 miles a gallon on a highway you know and that's pretty much equivalent to any modern suv that's all-wheel drive i drove a lexus and it only got 19 miles a gallon when i drove it from houston to san antonio and back and that was a brand new one these things have some really good technology in them if you get them this cheap four thousand dollars hey you could have a lot of fun now sure this porsche looks like it just came out of the woods and sort of it did not the black forest of germany the hills of tennessee now i do have to say i would never tell a customer to buy a 911 with this kind of mileage on it it would be an endless money pit but you can see with this v8 engine in you're talking about lower rpms you're talking about a stronger built engine you're talking about an all-wheel drive system that's made to hold up the germans have been making all-wheel drive for a long time and of course this actually can be a practical vehicle a lot of room here the seats come down got a lot of space that you can put stuff in in comfort and this one serves as a mobile billboard for taco loco i gotta say i was worried when i moved to tennessee where am i gonna get some good tacos right moving from houston well these guys make better tacos than they did in houston the guys from the caribbean via brooklyn you never know who you're gonna meet i'm really pleasantly surprised that i can get some great tacos here in tennessee you might be surprised what you're gonna find heck they even got a hockey team in nashville really wonder about this it's still the same car watch this did that as a giant joke it's just a funny rap the paint as most german things is still an immaculate shape talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing now when he re-wraps it he's going to do what he calls a hypershift he's going to put a bunch of different colors on so as you walk around the vehicle the color keeps changing there's a lot of stuff you can do with wraps and we're going to film that when he got that done and you get to see how a car is wrapped the right way and all the different choices that you'd have so if you think about it for a lot of people raps the way to go when i was young everybody wanted to keep up with the joneses so you'd buy a new car every two or three years right well why not keep a good car and just wrap it every two or three years to whatever color or shape or whatever you want to do you learn how to do it yourself or you pay a guy to do it it's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying another car and there's the interesting thing about rap it comes right off doesn't ruin the paint underneath you want to go back to regular paint you can buff it out you want to repaint it or want to re-wrap it you can go right ahead it doesn't destroy the paint underneath something a lot of people might think about if you're into changing things and you don't want to spend all your money so if you thought you could never get a porsche for four thousand dollars you don't need this you can leave it this way if you want you might be surprised at the deals that are out there but do take scotty's advice stay away from the boxer air cooled engines if you're talking about old and high mileage they're endless money pits these big old v8s it's another story entirely if they were taken care of they're solid built and a lot of guys that buy these hey the chaplain he didn't work on the car he paid a good mechanic to take care of it for him and when you buy a car like this you can have a lot of fun for a little bit of money i mean let's face it it was 53 000 less than it was new what do you have to lose and here's some bonus questions and answers well here's some interesting news for gm and electric cars the chevy bolt posted the highest ever retail sales in september now we're still talking relatively small numbers because in 2019 they only sold about 13 000 of these electric cars won 2020 so far they've sold about 14 000 of them not gigantic numbers but it's increasing now in mexico sales of the electric cars actually went down 55 but when you think about it they sold nine in the third quarter of 2019 and they only sold four in the third quarter of 2020. so they're not selling like hotcakes or tamales in mexico the whole third quarter they only sold four of these things but the same time sales went up 1500 in brazil because last year in the third quarter they sold one and this year in the third quarter they sold six like i say you know electric vacation is going gonna take a long time for this stuff to build up and in but i gotta say i got a customer that's got one and they're happy with it you know they wanted a little electric car that's got a decent range and they're totally happy with that they plug it in their condo at night to recharge it and you know they're happy with the car the little commuter cars are decent for stuff like that but it's gonna be a long time before those things become really popular i mean look at brazil they sold one last year in the third quarter now they sold six so they're not flying off the shelves b posadi says i have a rattling noise on my car in a cold start but it immediately goes away that's generally something to do with the timing chain or your variable valve timing assembly there are many cars that do that as they age and if you don't want to spend a fortune you can continue to drive them i see many toyotas that are 5 10 years old with variable valve timing when they first start them up they make a rattle that goes away some of these have two three hundred thousand miles on it but they still run okay now to fix it you gotta change the timing chain sometimes you have to mess with the variable valve timing sprocket very expensive but if it immediately goes away a lot of times you can live with it for quite some time realize you're going to spend thousands of dollars rebuilding the engine repairing stuff and it's kind of like robbing peter to pay paul when it comes to repairing engines so you spend a bunch of money fixing that but if you got two 300 000 miles your pistons are worn the bearings are worn valves are worn everything's worn why would you put a bunch of money into fixing one thing my advice is you just keep driving them and then if it finally does go out and the engine blows you decide do i want to put another engine in it a used engine or a rebuilt engine or get another car that's when you use your head and realize that say you got 400 000 miles maybe just get rid of the car and maybe buy another one if it's a toyota corolla that's got 150 000 and you got a lot more miles left on it because a lot of times you can buy one with 150 000 miles for less money it's going to cost you to put an engine and realize that so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell\n"