**A Reluctant Driver's Journey with a Trusty Old Car**

Ben had always been a bit of a skeptic when it came to buying new cars, but his friend convinced him to take a look at a 1990s Toyota van that had seen better days. The van had been purchased for a song - $3,000 - and was still in decent shape despite its age. However, as Ben took the van out for a spin, he quickly realized that it wasn't going to win any awards for style or performance. But, to his surprise, it still managed to run well, albeit with some quirks.

One of the first issues Ben encountered was the noxious radio that wouldn't shut off. The van's speakers were still loud and clear, but the volume control seemed to be stuck on full blast. As he drove down the road, Ben could feel the brakes acting up, and the anti-lock braking system (ABS) seemed to be wonky, making one hit him bounce around a lot. Despite its rough edges, the van was still able to hold together long enough for Ben to get it to his destination.

As Ben continued to drive, he couldn't help but think about the costs of repairing such an old car. He had heard horror stories about how expensive it could be to fix cars as they age, and he worried that the van might become a money pit. However, despite its questionable reliability, the van still managed to go down the road decently, even with its wonky brakes.

**Choosing the Right Luxury Car**

When asked by Scotty about the best new luxury car to buy, he advised his listeners to consider Lexus. While none of the newer models were particularly impressive, he had personally owned a Lexus and thought it was a reliable choice. He warned, however, that owning a V8 engine could be expensive in the long run, as they tended to wear out faster than other engines. Additionally, hybrid versions of luxury cars were often overpriced when they finally broke down.

For those looking for a more affordable option, Scotty suggested considering a Lexus without an engine upgrade - specifically, the 6-cylinder model. While not the most powerful engine, it was still reliable and offered good fuel efficiency. If budget wasn't a concern, he also mentioned that some smaller engines, such as the 4-cylinder, were worth considering.

**Troubleshooting a Troublesome Transmission**

When a listener asked for advice on how to diagnose a problem with a transmission in their 2015 Genesis sedan, Scotty offered some practical tips. The car was experiencing issues when stopped on hills, and it would roll backwards if the foot off the gas pedal was not applied firmly enough. While this suggested that there might be an issue with the engine's idle control, Scotty warned his listener that a faulty transmission could also cause similar symptoms.

To troubleshoot the problem, Scotty advised checking the fuel filters and the transmission fluid levels to ensure they were at optimal levels. He also recommended having the car's computer system checked for any error codes or problems. If the issue persisted, it was likely that there was something more serious wrong with the car's systems - but it didn't necessarily mean that the transmission was the problem.

**Deciding Whether to Keep or Sell an Old Car**

When a listener asked Scotty about his advice on whether to keep or sell a 2015 Genesis sedan with 90,000 miles, he took a pragmatic approach. The car had been well-maintained and still ran smoothly, but it was unlikely that anyone would offer much money for it in the used car market. Considering this, Scotty advised his listener to weigh the costs of keeping the car against the benefits of selling it.

If the listener couldn't get a good price for the car, it might be more practical to keep driving it until it finally gave up. After all, many cars can still run well with 100,000 miles or more on them - but if the owner was looking for a reliable ride without breaking the bank, Scotty suggested taking a closer look at other options.

**Personal Experience with Genesis Cars**

Finally, Scotty shared his own experience with a Genesis car. Despite its age, a custom Genesis had been purchased in 2010 and still went strong - albeit not exactly like new. With over 150,000 miles on it, the car was proving to be reliable and long-lasting. While this didn't necessarily validate the reliability of all Genesis cars, it did suggest that proper maintenance and care could extend their lifespan.

For those considering purchasing a used Genesis, Scotty advised caution - but also recognized that with proper care, these cars could still offer good value. By taking the time to research and inspect the car thoroughly, owners could potentially find a reliable ride at a reasonable price.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enrun up your engine today I'm gonna talk about the quality or lack thereof in GM products now as you can see paint and trim wasn't something they really were that good ad you see it's rusting off here hurts just flagging off all the way around and when we get to the back you can really see where the paint is flaking off of this thing realize this baby was one of the early ones that used a water-based paint perhaps Jim should have tested this water-based paint a little bit better apply it a little bit differently because this is all occurring because the water-based paint is just flagging off but check out this Toyota it's about the same age as that Chevy it was water-based paint it looks pretty good I guess Toyota tested it out better first before they just started put it on vehicles having its leg off now I'm not a big fan of water-based paint but as you can see in a Toyota it can be done correctly under the right circumstances with the right painting booth materials and the right type of paint applying at the correct light but in this case that really messed up big time somewhere so in terms of aesthetics I give this Chevy an ass totally failed on the paint that's going to the hood now this baby has the old-style v8 engine hidden way under here pretty much impossible to work out when you're accessing it from under the hood so in this case you got over the door you really want to work in the engine you got to take this whole panel assembly on the engines under there in terms of access and working ability give another F on this one when I was a young mechanic working a lot of these things there are pain to work on I thought well at least in the future don't make them better well in this case man the actually made it worse no these Express van started in 1996 basic van look at a 2021 it doesn't look that much different than this a commercially designed van as you can see there's no windows on the side and when we open up you can see that there is a lot of room inside these things these things are spacious inside now they come with various engines but unfortunately had a v6 engine which you're so underpowered for this thing pulling an around but if you're really loaded up with stuff it's just didn't have enough horsepower to really get it up and going very well now you can see here it says vortac that's supposedly in a combustion chamber it created a vortex so it burnt more efficiently had more power but doesn't matter with a v6 engine these things are dramatically under power the gas hogs anyway you might as always get a v8 engine if you're gonna get something this big you put in a puny engine it's going to be strained all the time and it's still not gonna get very good gas mileage know if you don't care about falling off paint and an old-fashioned body style this old five has lasted a while as you can see this thing that's two hundred four thousand miles on it unfortunately the radios broken and you can't even turn it off it ain't no longer covered all the door handle broke off from check the other side same thing that one's gone too and strange it up this radios not stuck on some station with so many speaking Chinese I don't know that's a kind of omen I find that rather strange because last year GM sold a lot more vehicles in China than they did in the United States they're very popular there for some reason but those are GM vehicles that are actually built in China too and here's a weird one I got these giant dipsticks because they engine a transmission are way back there and this one will go back in something's broken inside this giant kinky thing that's just poor build quality now my customer here wants me to do a total look over the vehicle so I'm gonna do a giant scan now he wants to see is it worth putting a little money and keeping it for a while or just getting rid of the thing now so we'll just get inside kind of the day my girls and I don't know about you but having this radio that you can't shut off with drive me nuts I just tear the thing out and throw it away well it's not scanning it going through all the systems you'll see what it says see all bunch of bolts already six seven eight nine fourteen fifteen eighteen folks get oxygen center mass airflow sensor and your coolant and rich torque converter solenoid control circuit and the transmission components left basically a child's me that the vehicles actually in pretty around a shake customer it's just using this as a weekend knock around he throws the crap in it so only a fool throw the money it would cost to fix the transmission although sensors cause after all it's got over 200,000 miles on it and it still runs halfway decent I mean it was never a rocket to begin with but it still goes down the road and it chips good enough to get from point A to point B because those cars are just the tip of the iceberg it also had problems with the ABS system which is typical on these I've replaced so many of the ABS main break module assemblies they were just made like garbage and they go bad all the time and when I look at the ABS code sure enough it's got problems with the module with the speed sensors he don't care cuz he drives it conservatively just for Knockaround jobs it's not like he's driving and the thing to California backs I mean really seeing all the problems this vehicle has Mali controls in these things isn't all that great you can still drive the thing around let's say you live out in the country where they don't do all they had emissions inspections I got a saw and lives outside Nashville there to inspect cars at all there so he could drive a thing like this knowing no you know get him or he's gone most of the time and he doesn't have to worry about making it past the emissions and the state inspection systems you can drive one of these things around but if you live in an area where they have strict emissions testing and safety instructions to sting would you pass any of the tops without spending a small fortune in repairs to make it pass all those tests no take first Ben well see if it starts huh it does start up and that goes up noxious radio that won't shut off you know really it does go down the road here and I can feel the brakes the ABS acting up the kind of wonky one hit him bounces around a lot it's just good enough for some old thing like this if you wants to keep it and driving around what the heck it's certainly not gonna win any beauty contests but hey it still goes down the road decently I've seen Toyota vans with 500,000 miles on it pretty much everything still works perfectly fine pieces haven't broken up and they don't have any problems to get their car legally inspected every year but in this guy's hack he owns it it runs why not just drive it till the wheels fall they might actually do that one day but what the heck and here's some bonus questions and answers rain swatches so Scotty what's the best new luxury car to buy Lexus or Zakir better oh I'd say Lexus is definitely I don't think any of the new ones are the best ones to buy buy music I did get a Lexus I get Alexa 60,000 miles from her work for three grand that's sixty thousand miles on it still runs like your clock you know eight years later so there's nothing wrong with doing that but if you got the money definitely I get Alexis we hold up the longest but as I always warn people I do not advise to get the v8 version because they get expensive as they age they get worse days mugs and don't even think about hybrid version because they're over expensive when they finally break down just the plain Jane 6-cylinder one hey those are fine and if you don't mind a smaller engine the four-cylinder ones are good in the smaller ones Stowe no one says hey I got a note to a Camry 130,000 miles when I stopped on hills it rolls back considerably and it's hard to get up do you think there's a problem with the transmission I would assume it the O threes are notorious for having transmission problems but now here's the way you can test them if you're just sitting her and your foots off the gas and you're on a hill and it's rolling back well you got to put your foot on the brake realize that maybe it didn't earlier now if you didn't early need to do now that's not necessarily a transmission problem that would be the cars got a little bit too low and idle isn't holding it up on an incline that starts slowing back and since it's done I think you're right it's not running right no more to accelerate right if that's the case you want to check things like see if the fuel filters clogged tune it up a lot of times you get the fuel injectors pressure cleaned when they're not old 17 years old but that's only if you have your foot off the brake if your foots on the brake that is complete everything cuz it should not roll with your foot on the brake but I'm assuming it's happen with a foot off the brake and it doesn't mean it's the transmission it could easily be something else that straining the edge it's idling too low then it's gonna roll backwards and it's not gonna accelerate because it's not running correctly so check all those things first thought Mike says I have a 2015 Genesis 3.8 liter sedan with 90,000 miles should I keep it or sell it I know how costly it's gonna be in the future they're all cake vehicles as they age they can become problematical but you still have 90,000 miles maybe put it on the market see what you can get for it if you can get some serious money for it by all means get rid of the thing but it is a five year old Genesis with 90,000 miles a lot of times you won't get much money for that vehicle if you're not gonna get much money you're screwed that way so in that case I would just say drive a thing till the wheels fall off you never know how hard it's gonna last it could last a lot longer you never know I got a custom with the Genesis is 150,000 still going ok so you got to decide financially what's the bad thing is I never tell someone do you get rid of a car that's running good if they're not gonna get ugly anything for it it's only a logical decision I personally would have bought one in the first place but you haven't take care of it if you're gonna get any money selling it keep it and see what happens so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that Bellrun up your engine today I'm gonna talk about the quality or lack thereof in GM products now as you can see paint and trim wasn't something they really were that good ad you see it's rusting off here hurts just flagging off all the way around and when we get to the back you can really see where the paint is flaking off of this thing realize this baby was one of the early ones that used a water-based paint perhaps Jim should have tested this water-based paint a little bit better apply it a little bit differently because this is all occurring because the water-based paint is just flagging off but check out this Toyota it's about the same age as that Chevy it was water-based paint it looks pretty good I guess Toyota tested it out better first before they just started put it on vehicles having its leg off now I'm not a big fan of water-based paint but as you can see in a Toyota it can be done correctly under the right circumstances with the right painting booth materials and the right type of paint applying at the correct light but in this case that really messed up big time somewhere so in terms of aesthetics I give this Chevy an ass totally failed on the paint that's going to the hood now this baby has the old-style v8 engine hidden way under here pretty much impossible to work out when you're accessing it from under the hood so in this case you got over the door you really want to work in the engine you got to take this whole panel assembly on the engines under there in terms of access and working ability give another F on this one when I was a young mechanic working a lot of these things there are pain to work on I thought well at least in the future don't make them better well in this case man the actually made it worse no these Express van started in 1996 basic van look at a 2021 it doesn't look that much different than this a commercially designed van as you can see there's no windows on the side and when we open up you can see that there is a lot of room inside these things these things are spacious inside now they come with various engines but unfortunately had a v6 engine which you're so underpowered for this thing pulling an around but if you're really loaded up with stuff it's just didn't have enough horsepower to really get it up and going very well now you can see here it says vortac that's supposedly in a combustion chamber it created a vortex so it burnt more efficiently had more power but doesn't matter with a v6 engine these things are dramatically under power the gas hogs anyway you might as always get a v8 engine if you're gonna get something this big you put in a puny engine it's going to be strained all the time and it's still not gonna get very good gas mileage know if you don't care about falling off paint and an old-fashioned body style this old five has lasted a while as you can see this thing that's two hundred four thousand miles on it unfortunately the radios broken and you can't even turn it off it ain't no longer covered all the door handle broke off from check the other side same thing that one's gone too and strange it up this radios not stuck on some station with so many speaking Chinese I don't know that's a kind of omen I find that rather strange because last year GM sold a lot more vehicles in China than they did in the United States they're very popular there for some reason but those are GM vehicles that are actually built in China too and here's a weird one I got these giant dipsticks because they engine a transmission are way back there and this one will go back in something's broken inside this giant kinky thing that's just poor build quality now my customer here wants me to do a total look over the vehicle so I'm gonna do a giant scan now he wants to see is it worth putting a little money and keeping it for a while or just getting rid of the thing now so we'll just get inside kind of the day my girls and I don't know about you but having this radio that you can't shut off with drive me nuts I just tear the thing out and throw it away well it's not scanning it going through all the systems you'll see what it says see all bunch of bolts already six seven eight nine fourteen fifteen eighteen folks get oxygen center mass airflow sensor and your coolant and rich torque converter solenoid control circuit and the transmission components left basically a child's me that the vehicles actually in pretty around a shake customer it's just using this as a weekend knock around he throws the crap in it so only a fool throw the money it would cost to fix the transmission although sensors cause after all it's got over 200,000 miles on it and it still runs halfway decent I mean it was never a rocket to begin with but it still goes down the road and it chips good enough to get from point A to point B because those cars are just the tip of the iceberg it also had problems with the ABS system which is typical on these I've replaced so many of the ABS main break module assemblies they were just made like garbage and they go bad all the time and when I look at the ABS code sure enough it's got problems with the module with the speed sensors he don't care cuz he drives it conservatively just for Knockaround jobs it's not like he's driving and the thing to California backs I mean really seeing all the problems this vehicle has Mali controls in these things isn't all that great you can still drive the thing around let's say you live out in the country where they don't do all they had emissions inspections I got a saw and lives outside Nashville there to inspect cars at all there so he could drive a thing like this knowing no you know get him or he's gone most of the time and he doesn't have to worry about making it past the emissions and the state inspection systems you can drive one of these things around but if you live in an area where they have strict emissions testing and safety instructions to sting would you pass any of the tops without spending a small fortune in repairs to make it pass all those tests no take first Ben well see if it starts huh it does start up and that goes up noxious radio that won't shut off you know really it does go down the road here and I can feel the brakes the ABS acting up the kind of wonky one hit him bounces around a lot it's just good enough for some old thing like this if you wants to keep it and driving around what the heck it's certainly not gonna win any beauty contests but hey it still goes down the road decently I've seen Toyota vans with 500,000 miles on it pretty much everything still works perfectly fine pieces haven't broken up and they don't have any problems to get their car legally inspected every year but in this guy's hack he owns it it runs why not just drive it till the wheels fall they might actually do that one day but what the heck and here's some bonus questions and answers rain swatches so Scotty what's the best new luxury car to buy Lexus or Zakir better oh I'd say Lexus is definitely I don't think any of the new ones are the best ones to buy buy music I did get a Lexus I get Alexa 60,000 miles from her work for three grand that's sixty thousand miles on it still runs like your clock you know eight years later so there's nothing wrong with doing that but if you got the money definitely I get Alexis we hold up the longest but as I always warn people I do not advise to get the v8 version because they get expensive as they age they get worse days mugs and don't even think about hybrid version because they're over expensive when they finally break down just the plain Jane 6-cylinder one hey those are fine and if you don't mind a smaller engine the four-cylinder ones are good in the smaller ones Stowe no one says hey I got a note to a Camry 130,000 miles when I stopped on hills it rolls back considerably and it's hard to get up do you think there's a problem with the transmission I would assume it the O threes are notorious for having transmission problems but now here's the way you can test them if you're just sitting her and your foots off the gas and you're on a hill and it's rolling back well you got to put your foot on the brake realize that maybe it didn't earlier now if you didn't early need to do now that's not necessarily a transmission problem that would be the cars got a little bit too low and idle isn't holding it up on an incline that starts slowing back and since it's done I think you're right it's not running right no more to accelerate right if that's the case you want to check things like see if the fuel filters clogged tune it up a lot of times you get the fuel injectors pressure cleaned when they're not old 17 years old but that's only if you have your foot off the brake if your foots on the brake that is complete everything cuz it should not roll with your foot on the brake but I'm assuming it's happen with a foot off the brake and it doesn't mean it's the transmission it could easily be something else that straining the edge it's idling too low then it's gonna roll backwards and it's not gonna accelerate because it's not running correctly so check all those things first thought Mike says I have a 2015 Genesis 3.8 liter sedan with 90,000 miles should I keep it or sell it I know how costly it's gonna be in the future they're all cake vehicles as they age they can become problematical but you still have 90,000 miles maybe put it on the market see what you can get for it if you can get some serious money for it by all means get rid of the thing but it is a five year old Genesis with 90,000 miles a lot of times you won't get much money for that vehicle if you're not gonna get much money you're screwed that way so in that case I would just say drive a thing till the wheels fall off you never know how hard it's gonna last it could last a lot longer you never know I got a custom with the Genesis is 150,000 still going ok so you got to decide financially what's the bad thing is I never tell someone do you get rid of a car that's running good if they're not gonna get ugly anything for it it's only a logical decision I personally would have bought one in the first place but you haven't take care of it if you're gonna get any money selling it keep it and see what happens so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remembering to ring that Bell\n"