**The Importance of Proper Engine Maintenance**

When it comes to engine maintenance, there are several key factors to consider in order to ensure that your vehicle runs smoothly and efficiently. One of the most critical aspects of engine maintenance is the use of oil. The oil plays a crucial role in lubricating the moving parts of the engine, which helps to prevent wear and tear on the components. However, if the oil becomes old or degraded, it can cause serious problems for the engine.

Some car owners have noticed that their older vehicles no longer splash up oil as much as newer models do. This is because many modern engines have a different design, with features such as sealed netting that prevents oil from splashing out of the engine. However, this does not necessarily mean that the engine is in better condition. In fact, the lack of oil splash can be a sign that the engine is no longer receiving the necessary lubrication.

As a result, many car owners are forced to take more frequent oil changes in order to keep their engines running smoothly. Additionally, using high-quality synthetic oil can help to reduce wear and tear on the engine over time. However, it's also worth noting that some newer models of engines may be prone to issues such as faulty lifters and worn-out cams due to a lack of proper lubrication.

**The Case of Volkswagen Diesel Engines**

When it comes to diesel engines, there are several factors to consider when purchasing a used vehicle. One of the most notable examples is the controversy surrounding Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" scandal, which revealed that the company had installed software in their diesel engines to cheat on emissions tests. Despite this, many owners have reported that their diesel engines can last for hundreds of thousands of miles with minimal maintenance.

In fact, one owner reported having a 2004 BMW 320d that he purchased for $80 and was able to drive it for thousands of miles without major issues. This highlights the importance of choosing a reputable dealer when purchasing a used vehicle, particularly if you're interested in a diesel engine. Additionally, it's worth noting that some countries have implemented regulations to limit the sale of certain types of engines, such as electric cars in Europe.

**Chip Tuning: A Double-Edged Sword**

When it comes to tuning your car, there are several options available, but one popular choice is chip tuning. Chip tuning involves modifying the computer settings of your vehicle's engine to increase its power output and improve its fuel efficiency. However, this can have a negative impact on other aspects of the vehicle's performance.

As Adrian Kublin notes, "A lot of things are in your mind because you can't get more power and better gas miles... You're going to get one or the other." This is because modifying the engine computer settings can either increase power output or improve fuel efficiency, but not both at the same time. For example, if you tune your engine to produce more power, it may burn more fuel, which could reduce its overall fuel efficiency.

**The Future of Fuel: Electric and Hydrogen**

As concern about climate change and air pollution grows, there is a growing trend towards electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. However, some experts are warning that these alternatives are not yet ready for widespread adoption in the United States.

One expert notes, "Don't worry you didn't make a mistake yet... But I think the biggest mistake today as far as I'm concerned would be buying an electric car today and find out that the lithium-ion battery cars failed." This highlights the risks of investing in emerging technologies without doing thorough research. Instead, experts recommend waiting until these technologies have proven themselves before making a purchase.

**Replacing Throttle Body Injectors**

For those who own older vehicles with throttle body injection systems, there is one relatively simple fix: replacing the throttle body injectors. According to Tom, this can be done by purchasing new fuel injectors from a discount auto parts store and following the manufacturer's instructions.

In fact, Tom notes that replacing the throttle body injectors was an easy solution for his 87 Chevy R10 with the throttle body injection system running rich. By taking the necessary steps to replace the faulty components, Tom was able to restore his engine to its former condition and eliminate the problem of excessive oil consumption.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enjimmy long says scotty love your channel i got a 20 20 honda civic 2.0 how many miles should i go for the first oil change it's a very good question and what you want to do you want to change your oil every 5 to 7 000 miles use full synthetic oil now the first oil change when i was a young mechanic we'd say go 500 miles change zero to get the metal fragments out modern engineering metallurgy is much better you don't have to do anything just treat it like a normal car change it maybe at 5 000 miles and just keep changing that way and use synthetic oil and since it's a 2020 you know what my advice is use that new gf6a oil it's made for those engines it costs a little bit more now any company sells it you don't have to buy it from one particular company it's a type of oil gf6a buy that for your honda it's going to make it last longer here we go again with the undyne kia and i had to recall more than 425 000 cars for engine failures turns out they didn't build them right they're warning their owners to look out for smells ah noises cars that aren't running right turns out they didn't make the connecting rods right inside the engine now you know that much about cars there's pistons they go up and down all right then there's the rods they connect the piston to the crankshaft and if the connecting rods aren't made right and the bearings are off they can throw a hole in the side of the engine not only could it start a fire but of course the engine is going to go come to a dead stop while you're going if you're going 60 miles on a highway your wheels are going to lock up in the back because it's going to just lock right up or if it's front wheel drive the front wheels will lock up because the engine will stop moving they've had problems with this engines forever it seems the ones they built in the united states supposedly one of their machines and the machine shop was bad and then metal fragments are going inside the engines this is a big reason i tell people not to buy those things now the odd thing is which the consumers are complaining about they recalled some of the engines but not all of them even though some models have the same exact engine they're recalling some of those models and not some of the other ones even though they have the same exact engine in them so it shows you the key in yonda they're not standing behind their products they're trying to hide it they're fighting a tooth and nail they don't want to have to put new engines in all these cars because it's going to cost them a small fortune well do you want to be stuck with a vehicle that has an engine that blows up while you're driving down the road maybe starts on fire no that's why i tell people kia and yondai hey they may talk to talk but they don't walk the walk they don't make the greatest vehicles they have a history of engine problems i personally would not buy one some people like them they last a certain amount of time but with problems like that i think better things to do with my money than have to waste it on an engine or wait on a company that decides well you know your car's got the same engine as the one we recalled but we're not recalling your car total nonsense jesus garcia got an 05 mustang 4.6 v8 it turns off unexpectedly and won't start sometimes mechanic couldn't find a problem let's hope it stops and it doesn't start for quite some time because if that's the case you can watch my video fixing a car that cranks but doesn't start and when it isn't starting you can find out what it is could be the fuel pump could be ignition system now if it normally will die but then it starts right up that ain't gonna work all that well the way that a real mechanic does it your mechanic obviously either isn't real or he doesn't care a mechanic like myself will drive it with our fancy scan tool hooked up then when it dies i push a button it memorizes back 45 seconds and i can see exactly what went out it could be the fuel pump that's common it'll start to go out could be the ignition system going out could be the computer going out let's pray it doesn't start for quite some time then you can watch the video and do all those tests and figure out yourself just as a wild gas i'd say fuel pump because uh you said it's uh what it's a 16 year old mustang odds are the fuel pump's just going up it's a very common thing and i'll knock them out jim morrow says what can cause a shaking steering wheel well lots of things can let's say you're driving down a road and you hit bumps and it shakes that's normally your shocks or struts are worn out let's say it doesn't shake until you hit the brakes and it shakes that means your front rotors are warped and the pads are warped and when you hit them it'll go like that and of course if you have out of balance tires when you get to a certain speed you get what's called a speed wobble and that makes the steering wheel shut those are the main ones but occasionally it's relatively rare if your friend in alignment is off occasionally that can make the steering wheel shake too it's a rare one maybe two out of a hundred but it can happen deandre richmond says scotty i just purchased a used 2014 dodge charger with 43 000 miles i may be paranoid but i think there's a slight ticking noise when it's idle hemi ticker is just the hemi all right well you have a tick and it is the hemi engine they designed those things wrong back then in 2014. they made it for more power and what they did was your cam used to be lower closer to the crankshaft the crankshaft would throw oil on it and lubricate it well they decided for more power to move the cam up higher so at lower idle speeds the oil doesn't get splashed up and they wear and make noise the older ones didn't do it but the newer ones did because they changed the design and so you get a tick ticking net i can guarantee your lifters are probably starting to go from lack of lubrication that also can wear the cams but most guys live with it because if you do have to replace the cams all the lifters you're looking at at least a five thousand dollar job with any honest mechanics so you might live with it change your oil a lot more maybe try the best oil you can a really good synthetic oil see if it helps a little nicholas hall says scotty vw cylinder diesels from dieselgate lots of low mileage cars you recommend these diesels since drivers in europe seem to love them okay numerolo realize in europe they're talking about making diesels illegal in the future so in europe maybe not a smart idea but in the united states so one thing about volkswagens their diesel engines can last a long time i got a friend in toronto he's got 350 000 miles on him the dieselgate was because they polluted more they actually ran better but they cheated and they polluted more they're good engines i'm not a volkswagen fan but if you can get a cheap low mileage diesel it can last quite some time with very little maintenance if you just change the oil regularly but don't overpay and since you know their diesel gate they had to buy them back they're probably going to ask way too much money in the first place realize volkswagens in the united states they resell practically nothing so don't pay much for it even if it is a diesel tom's adrian's kublin says what do you think about chip tuning i got a 2004 bmw 320d i paid 80 pounds and it's powerful and economical well you're obviously in england you're talking pounds and really there's hardly any diesel bmws over here here is the thing a lot of things are in your mind because you can't get more power and better gas miles you're going to get one or the other you can get them tuned so they have more power but you'll get worse gas mileage and vice versa you can tune them so they get better gas mileage but they'll have less power you're kind of imagining things there those get good gas mileage because they're diesels anyways but you can only do one or the other you can't do both it's pure physics as my old physics professor mr philby said in physics you can't get something for nothing he's long gone but the idea still fits pred fall says scotty just bought 09 rx350 kind of regret because states are pushing electric or hydrogen don't re-craft those are great cars and this is all future nonsense some of them say well by 2030 we're gonna only let you buy electric cars yeah buy electric cars buy they're not saying you can't drive your gasoline cars they're just saying you can't buy a new one it's going to be a long time before gasoline cars are out of the roads in the united states there's too big of an infrastructure nobody knows what kind of electric cars are even going to make it it might not be the tesla lithium-ion battery electric cars it might be hydrogen fuel cell ones that you fill up just like a propane tank and you don't have to buy those expensive batteries the biggest mistake today as far as i'm concerned would be buying an electric car today and find out that the lithium-ion battery cars failed they're going to be hydrogen fuel cells i bought the wrong one or conversely i bought a fuel cell car oh and now they're never going to have fuel so that was a waste of money don't worry you didn't make a mistake yet bill paige says i got an 87 chevy r10 with the throttle pi injection runs rich any suggestions well those old ones that had the throttle body and the injectors were in it what the heck uh go to any discount auto parts store you probably got the one that has two fuel injectors by the view of fuel injectors in the seals they'll come with directions and it's very easy to replace the throttle body injectors they don't cost that much to do that you'll probably find that'll fix most of the problems they get old they just don't work right they weren't that efficient to begin with that's why instead of having the throttle body injectors they're now one for each cylinder instead of two one for each side like a v8 one side had one the other side another it's much better to have an ejector for each cylinder that's why they don't use that system anymore so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell youjimmy long says scotty love your channel i got a 20 20 honda civic 2.0 how many miles should i go for the first oil change it's a very good question and what you want to do you want to change your oil every 5 to 7 000 miles use full synthetic oil now the first oil change when i was a young mechanic we'd say go 500 miles change zero to get the metal fragments out modern engineering metallurgy is much better you don't have to do anything just treat it like a normal car change it maybe at 5 000 miles and just keep changing that way and use synthetic oil and since it's a 2020 you know what my advice is use that new gf6a oil it's made for those engines it costs a little bit more now any company sells it you don't have to buy it from one particular company it's a type of oil gf6a buy that for your honda it's going to make it last longer here we go again with the undyne kia and i had to recall more than 425 000 cars for engine failures turns out they didn't build them right they're warning their owners to look out for smells ah noises cars that aren't running right turns out they didn't make the connecting rods right inside the engine now you know that much about cars there's pistons they go up and down all right then there's the rods they connect the piston to the crankshaft and if the connecting rods aren't made right and the bearings are off they can throw a hole in the side of the engine not only could it start a fire but of course the engine is going to go come to a dead stop while you're going if you're going 60 miles on a highway your wheels are going to lock up in the back because it's going to just lock right up or if it's front wheel drive the front wheels will lock up because the engine will stop moving they've had problems with this engines forever it seems the ones they built in the united states supposedly one of their machines and the machine shop was bad and then metal fragments are going inside the engines this is a big reason i tell people not to buy those things now the odd thing is which the consumers are complaining about they recalled some of the engines but not all of them even though some models have the same exact engine they're recalling some of those models and not some of the other ones even though they have the same exact engine in them so it shows you the key in yonda they're not standing behind their products they're trying to hide it they're fighting a tooth and nail they don't want to have to put new engines in all these cars because it's going to cost them a small fortune well do you want to be stuck with a vehicle that has an engine that blows up while you're driving down the road maybe starts on fire no that's why i tell people kia and yondai hey they may talk to talk but they don't walk the walk they don't make the greatest vehicles they have a history of engine problems i personally would not buy one some people like them they last a certain amount of time but with problems like that i think better things to do with my money than have to waste it on an engine or wait on a company that decides well you know your car's got the same engine as the one we recalled but we're not recalling your car total nonsense jesus garcia got an 05 mustang 4.6 v8 it turns off unexpectedly and won't start sometimes mechanic couldn't find a problem let's hope it stops and it doesn't start for quite some time because if that's the case you can watch my video fixing a car that cranks but doesn't start and when it isn't starting you can find out what it is could be the fuel pump could be ignition system now if it normally will die but then it starts right up that ain't gonna work all that well the way that a real mechanic does it your mechanic obviously either isn't real or he doesn't care a mechanic like myself will drive it with our fancy scan tool hooked up then when it dies i push a button it memorizes back 45 seconds and i can see exactly what went out it could be the fuel pump that's common it'll start to go out could be the ignition system going out could be the computer going out let's pray it doesn't start for quite some time then you can watch the video and do all those tests and figure out yourself just as a wild gas i'd say fuel pump because uh you said it's uh what it's a 16 year old mustang odds are the fuel pump's just going up it's a very common thing and i'll knock them out jim morrow says what can cause a shaking steering wheel well lots of things can let's say you're driving down a road and you hit bumps and it shakes that's normally your shocks or struts are worn out let's say it doesn't shake until you hit the brakes and it shakes that means your front rotors are warped and the pads are warped and when you hit them it'll go like that and of course if you have out of balance tires when you get to a certain speed you get what's called a speed wobble and that makes the steering wheel shut those are the main ones but occasionally it's relatively rare if your friend in alignment is off occasionally that can make the steering wheel shake too it's a rare one maybe two out of a hundred but it can happen deandre richmond says scotty i just purchased a used 2014 dodge charger with 43 000 miles i may be paranoid but i think there's a slight ticking noise when it's idle hemi ticker is just the hemi all right well you have a tick and it is the hemi engine they designed those things wrong back then in 2014. they made it for more power and what they did was your cam used to be lower closer to the crankshaft the crankshaft would throw oil on it and lubricate it well they decided for more power to move the cam up higher so at lower idle speeds the oil doesn't get splashed up and they wear and make noise the older ones didn't do it but the newer ones did because they changed the design and so you get a tick ticking net i can guarantee your lifters are probably starting to go from lack of lubrication that also can wear the cams but most guys live with it because if you do have to replace the cams all the lifters you're looking at at least a five thousand dollar job with any honest mechanics so you might live with it change your oil a lot more maybe try the best oil you can a really good synthetic oil see if it helps a little nicholas hall says scotty vw cylinder diesels from dieselgate lots of low mileage cars you recommend these diesels since drivers in europe seem to love them okay numerolo realize in europe they're talking about making diesels illegal in the future so in europe maybe not a smart idea but in the united states so one thing about volkswagens their diesel engines can last a long time i got a friend in toronto he's got 350 000 miles on him the dieselgate was because they polluted more they actually ran better but they cheated and they polluted more they're good engines i'm not a volkswagen fan but if you can get a cheap low mileage diesel it can last quite some time with very little maintenance if you just change the oil regularly but don't overpay and since you know their diesel gate they had to buy them back they're probably going to ask way too much money in the first place realize volkswagens in the united states they resell practically nothing so don't pay much for it even if it is a diesel tom's adrian's kublin says what do you think about chip tuning i got a 2004 bmw 320d i paid 80 pounds and it's powerful and economical well you're obviously in england you're talking pounds and really there's hardly any diesel bmws over here here is the thing a lot of things are in your mind because you can't get more power and better gas miles you're going to get one or the other you can get them tuned so they have more power but you'll get worse gas mileage and vice versa you can tune them so they get better gas mileage but they'll have less power you're kind of imagining things there those get good gas mileage because they're diesels anyways but you can only do one or the other you can't do both it's pure physics as my old physics professor mr philby said in physics you can't get something for nothing he's long gone but the idea still fits pred fall says scotty just bought 09 rx350 kind of regret because states are pushing electric or hydrogen don't re-craft those are great cars and this is all future nonsense some of them say well by 2030 we're gonna only let you buy electric cars yeah buy electric cars buy they're not saying you can't drive your gasoline cars they're just saying you can't buy a new one it's going to be a long time before gasoline cars are out of the roads in the united states there's too big of an infrastructure nobody knows what kind of electric cars are even going to make it it might not be the tesla lithium-ion battery electric cars it might be hydrogen fuel cell ones that you fill up just like a propane tank and you don't have to buy those expensive batteries the biggest mistake today as far as i'm concerned would be buying an electric car today and find out that the lithium-ion battery cars failed they're going to be hydrogen fuel cells i bought the wrong one or conversely i bought a fuel cell car oh and now they're never going to have fuel so that was a waste of money don't worry you didn't make a mistake yet bill paige says i got an 87 chevy r10 with the throttle pi injection runs rich any suggestions well those old ones that had the throttle body and the injectors were in it what the heck uh go to any discount auto parts store you probably got the one that has two fuel injectors by the view of fuel injectors in the seals they'll come with directions and it's very easy to replace the throttle body injectors they don't cost that much to do that you'll probably find that'll fix most of the problems they get old they just don't work right they weren't that efficient to begin with that's why instead of having the throttle body injectors they're now one for each cylinder instead of two one for each side like a v8 one side had one the other side another it's much better to have an ejector for each cylinder that's why they don't use that system anymore so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell you\n"