"Finding a car like this raises questions for many people like how expensive it is to fix a car like this, where can you buy the parts from, are these DIY cars."
"When I hear about having to do rod bearings as a maintenance item... how is that fun?"
"After you've done your paint correction, after you've laid some type of sealant on it, if that's what you chose to do, you should always protect the paint after you cut it and polish it."
"Nearly every single nut and bolt on this car is going to be worked on, repaired, or replaced."
"Your tires will be balded and you'll be running on rims."
"The SF 3500 is a really good option to go in afterwards that won't still take out some very fine swirls."
"Over-servicing your car is probably a bigger problem than not servicing it at all."
"Safer cars can generally equate to less repair costs."
"Sounds a lot better with the new sparkplugs in there."
"For a boosting or adding protection on your wheels... Geon Wet Coat, graphene spray coatings."
"Cars break all the time, things are wrong with a car that you can't always tell. So get the car inspected every single time."
"It is the worst thing in the world when you've done all this work on the inspection you you present this car to the customer and guess what the radio has problems because it needs an update."
"There's nothing really major wrong with these cars... they're usually taken care of, warranty, what not, all this good stuff."
"There has to be a better way to get the ice off the car, yeah, I mean I'm using a discount card so I'm only getting 15% off, I love his laugh, his laugh is don't give it a half off rate, nine nine."
"Cover the car in snow foam including the wheels and arches."
"Toyota has tuned this chassis to be really, really easy... it's easy to live with, it's easy to charge, it's easy to own and maintain, it's easy to drive..."
"If you have a dent in your car you can actually remove it using a toilet plunger and boiling water."
"This dent is pretty much completely gone, you can hardly see it at all."
"It's much easier to color sand and polish this drawer off of the car."
"Number one spot because of its ease of use, low dusting, and can be used by even people starting off in the paint correction world."
"Let's clean the shop up, let's put the car in the Hoist so now it's 3am it looks good not really a need for that but in the moment I was like yeah this is cool."
"Both cars are running great, in spite of the issues."
"It's the perfect car because 93,000 miles, there's bound to be maybe a few things you find."
"Remember, the paint should not be scratched by your drying process."
"Drying is even more important than washing in some cases."
"The key is to minimize potential scratching during the drying phase."
"Towel change the way your car looks, it's one of the best things I think that's come out in a long time."
"Avoid throwing the carpets in a leftover puddle from your previous wash and just keep them to the side for now."
"Exterior-wise, pretty simple: headlights, trim, the rear bumper. Those are all things I could quickly fix."
"I'm excited...the DeLorean is all cleaned up and looking pretty."
"Washing, decontamination, paint polishing, and then paint protection."
"Floor mats are one of those things that you want to swap out every year or two to refresh the interior if your car keep it looking brand new."
"I was finally tired of looking at the car with mismatched panels."
"Buy a car look after it keep it on the road forever and enjoy it and your carbon footprint and your general environmental harm footprint will be much lower than replacing your car every 3 years."
"Inspect, pre-wash, decontaminate, polish. The steps to detailing ensure your brand new car shines like never before."
"So the actual battery is not under here for the vehicle it's underneath the passenger seat but here's the positive post in case you need a jumpstart."
"Should you wax by hand or machine? Doesn't matter. You do what you want."
"Clean and condition your leather seats. The conditioning side is to help keep those seats pliable, to restore their shine or original color, and to also resist cracking and add a barrier essentially from future staining."
"I love the fact that you could just take this to a Honda dealership and get the oil change and have it serviced."
"You want to get a lot of oxygen in there kind of helps it out but I gotta say I didn't have a Magna Steyr and I think I did okay."
"Degrease the tires before applying a new tire dressing."
"Apply a silica spray sealant once every two months and it's also gonna restore the properties that you always love."
"A lot of this might look like overkill but... all the way over to the G 6x6."
"There's a little arrow next to the refueling indicator on the car's dashboard."
"You're either going to take it to a Maserati dealership and spend whatever amount of money it's going to take to make this car be happy and totally refined or you're going to sell it as is to somebody who gets it and is willing to take the risks."
"If the fuel line is clogged, well, that's a problem. That doesn't matter how good everything else is, right?"
"I believe in driving cars, I don't believe in garage cleaning them."
"So with that done and out of the way before we put the intakes back on we need to get our charge piping back on these go in super easy."
"Hopefully, this video gave you some valuable insights to help you have a more successful day at your first car I love to meet."
"Vinyl wrap is way less money than actually just repainting your car."
"Makes the paint pop, a ceramic coating that performs really well."
"People don't realize these cars are like Lego blocks, super easy to work on."
"This might think so: bone stock 5m, got A/C."
"What the hell is going on? Must've forgot to get the oil change or something."
"We have done the right thing by this car and it's getting the nut and bolt restoration it deserves."
"This is the best way to dry off a car especially when you spend the money to get ceramic coating just works so well takes no effort no water marks and uh it's the lazy way so I know everybody wants to save extra time washing their car for sure."
"Even if you're lucky enough to get approved for the auto loan for like a Lambo what happens when you run over a nail what happen when uh the head goes out you don't want those troubles."
"Usually when you have a low amount of owners with a high amount of miles, it results in a car that's been very well taken care of."
"The easiest way that you have white smoke, bubbling coolant, and overheating is you have a leak in the head gasket between the cooling jacket and the cylinder."
"This is what I mean by paying attention to details; it gives you that brand new car vibe."
"Replacing the headlights is as much aesthetic as it is a safety upgrade."
"Now I wonder if insurance companies would cover you misfueling your car."
"This Tacoma looks like a brand new truck at 340,000 miles, not thanks to build quality, but thanks to the owner who truly appreciates it, truly loves it, and takes care of it so well."
"This car said it needed brake pads; it wasn't kidding."
"I'm actually raising the car up which is counterintuitive, but the roads that we have here are just so harsh and bumpy."
"That's 100% Rock chips, they're little divots in there."
"You actually need to take better care of an older car than you do a newer car."
"There's things that you can easily do yourself every once in a while to maintain your car correctly."
"The software upgrade is one of the most underrated things that you can do if you're going to spend a huge proportion of the rest of your life driving."
"If you're scared, go to a church. The transmissions are always going to be expensive in a GTR."
"Put good gas in it, keep your tires inflated, and make sure you got oil in the car."
"There's no car on Earth that never breaks."
"If you ever drive your car and it sounds like someone's got a la bag of potato chips and they're crinkling it and it drives you crazy, it's actually what's happening."
"Blowing tons of smoke, something that you're not going to mess when you view a car."
"Water ingress can be quite bad and unfortunately it does start to affect the light unit."
"It was satisfying in the end to see him just wax his car, you know."
"The car is gonna ride like a new car, it's gonna ride better than when it was new."
"After the undercarriage, I like to clean the brakes, suspension, and of course the wheel well area."
"Every car owner knows that it is not at all possible to wash a car just by taking the first rag in her hands."
"A professional kit for restoring plastic and vinyl parts. The kit contains everything you need to give faded car parts a deep shine like a professional polish."
"Keep the vehicle completely wet. You don't want to let those waters, uh, those that beading, any kind of water, dry onto the panel, otherwise you're gonna get water spots. So keep it wet."
"The drive shafts or the CV shafts, they're a little bit of a weak point."
"Ethanol-based liquid on windshield wipers prevents sticking even in harsh winters."
"Dealing with water damage to the car's interior is far less costly than having to replace the entire engine."
"Wash your vehicle regularly to protect it from rust."
"While you're inspecting your tie rods, it's a good idea to check the rest of your suspension."
"Part of owning a few different cars is the ability to maintain and troubleshoot them yourself without having to run up to the dealership every time something comes up."
"But if I just bought this, I'm probably gonna do back-to-back oil changes. Even though I use full synthetic, I'm gonna probably do it in under two thousand, three thousand miles."
"Welcome back everybody! Today we're going to be talking about some of the common S chassis problems you'll have during your ownership of one of these cars."
"If you're in the market for like a 2,000 ceramic coating or something like that, it should not be out of the ordinary. It should not be shocking to you that you should be doing that at least twice a year."
"...the main things you're looking for is that the car is running smoothly it's not choppy and the transmission's shifting well and the suspension is in solid shape."
"You can actually just type in wiper refills for most years, makes, and models on your car to find not only an OEM version that's right from your manufacturer... but you can also usually get just a cheap replacement."
"...if one of these fuses was to blow, there's a red LED light that illuminates next to it to indicate that that particular fuse circuit blew."
"If you know your car's got a few issues...you're definitely going to lose out on value that way 100%."
"As we saw, if there's a real problem with the car, the check engine light is just going to come back on when the car detects the problem again."
"Next, we're going to remove the fender liner."
"I've never changed my car's oil, but I don't actually drive it that much."
"So, many people try to lift them right here and it just crushes. It'll just cave in. It is not meant to be lifted there. So if you have one of these Beetles, and even if you're just putting a jack under the car, do not put it right here."
"So, what happens is, as the pads start to contact the rotor, it actually will start making your steering wheel do this. And when I feel that, I know it's the brakes. There's no other thing it can be."
"Take some painters tape or mild tape and outline your headlight just like that around the front bumper."
"Jeeps are absolutely notorious for getting rock chips and cracks on their windows."
"We've got a very good trim restorer, not a kind of shine stuff you put over the top, but a restorer to go on the trims of the plastics there."
"These cars definitely benefit from Rotella so of course before you delete this car you cannot use Rotel t6 it's not an approved oil and that's because the ashes that get created from the Rotella oil don't do well with the DPF system."
"Maintenance for the IS is a lot less compared to other cars in its segment."
"This might take a while. How many quarts of oil does this hold? Uh, a lot. It's probably more measured in gallons."
"Do not let the fuel cap hang because it could scratch your paint."
"Now, I do also love the fact that this car does not require very much in terms of maintenance. So, in the last 18 months, all I've really had to do is replace the cabin air filter, I've replaced the windshield wipers."
"I'm going to start right about here that's because this is where the Pyro fuse is contained and it's been causing me nothing but problems so I can start to remove that from the car."
"Roll down all of your windows, whether it's cold or hot outside, and turn on the heater full blast, full everything as hot as it'll go as fast as the blower will go, and create air into the heater core and right back out just as fast as you can get it out."
"Regular maintenance on this car is actually pretty easy to do, and the parts are both cheap and available."
"One of the best financial decisions that a person can make in this day and age as a car owner is to find a good mechanic."
"I shall catch you guys very soon on a brand new video maybe fixing my car."
"What's the safest way to clean a Tesla? Hand wash by far, simple and easy."
"Absolutely spectacular. Now we all know when a car leaves any manufacturer and comes to the United States it's been on a boat for God knows how long. It's going to need a little bit of love."
"It's a really wellmade thing that I intend to keep up and keep nice keep it looking good keep it running good give it what it needs not let it sit drive it all the time and I think it's important to keep cars like this around to keep the old owner's story going."
"If you've ever wondered what all the notches are in a car tire, it's for traction on the road. However, there are also a good indicator if your tire is getting too worn down. If those notches aren't so deep anymore and are almost flush with the road, it's time to replace them."
"Washing and maintaining your car is actually a hobby that pays you back."
"Do your oil changes yourself. That's a great start to maintaining your car."
"Extend the life of your car's sills with protective stickers."
"It was a good decision to keep the car and just spend money on repairs."
"They've thrown everything at this car... as you know it can sometimes be a 50 cent part that causes a failure like that."
"Pulling up to North, there are two cars and the packing commences. Now the idea is to spend some time and get the car sorted so when we come back less work to do."
"...painting the engine bay with the engine in the car...pain in the ass, right?"
"But we're gonna get right to it and it should be an easy job just like everything else in this car has been."
"In all the years I've been here, which is 17 years, I've probably seen two [cars with IMS failure], oh really, something like that, yeah."
"The general consensus would be that cars that are raced or driven hard are cars that are going to blow up more. And any kind of blow-up, no matter what, is mechanical failure, typically related to hard driving."
"This car can do it. I've heard that this car can go over 500,000 miles if you take care of it, maintain it."
"These cars are so easy to work on. If you've never touched a spanner in your life and you want to actually work on your car and learn basic maintenance, this is probably the perfect one."
"An oil air separator like this maybe slightly larger probably is a really good investment on pretty much any turbo diesel or any direct injection car."
"We got lots of stuff to talk about. The Carrera GT needs to get the top hat put in so we got to move some cars."
"It just goes to show when you garage and take good care of a car, it'll just, it won't wear out, it won't be any worse for wear."
"Maintenance on these cars isn't too terrible. You don't have the belts so you don't have to worry about that. You're pretty much just looking at fluids, plugs, and filters on these cars, so it's pretty reasonable."
"It's like buying a car and doing your own oil changes and like switching out your own tires."
"The car can last well over three hundred thousand miles if taken care of."
"Doing regular maintenance on a DB9 is actually quite easy and enjoyable."
"The oil filter is down there, it's just this plastic cap we need to remove these little tabs here."
"Like I said, I'm on a very tight timeline on when this needs to get secured to the roof because I didn't spend all this money to have my car leak."
"I think you're at the point where if you break a major component you can total the car. Probably you blow a gearbox or the IMs goes and you total the car."
"So I want to go over any parts that I've had on my car previously and now currently any problems that I've had with those parts and things that could be remedied or things that you should do differently."
"McLarens are mostly held together by double-sided tape."
"As long as the owner has been good to it, has done all the required maintenances on time, these cars shouldn't have any issues in general."
"And then once you're finished, just make sure that handbrake light is on and then you can leave your car."
"All you gotta do, make sure she's in park, foot on the lava key, key on, and all you'll want to do is jump underneath the old."
"I think it's a good example of what a driver who cares about their car and keeps up with it because they want to drive it so much what that can do for a vehicle even at high miles."
"The biggest thing you can do to ensure a long service life is fluid maintenance on the DSG."
"One thing that you must know if you own or planning on owning an ecos or an eqe is that if you get a puncher you have a tire inflation kit in the boot."
"Of the things that will cause your car to go into reduced power mode, the most common thing that I have seen recently within the last couple years is the accelerator pedal."
"Most communities offer basic car care and maintenance courses and I highly recommend that everyone takes them at least to know the basics."
"But I love to wrench on cars; it's something I just started when I was in high school."
"People talk about how a clean car just runs better, and there should be some truth to that."
"So now with the duck head at the 12 o'clock position my tire pressure sensor is still at the three o'clock position."
"Service brake lagging, get it back, that's the pack, the push, emissions not tested car misfiring badly and running poorly."
"Alright so we just finished jet sealing the whole entire car the protection's there the shine is there and I'm loving it even neighbors are passing by just looking at me but it's amazing."
"Because I've been so busy, I've been a bit lacked with the first oil change on the mark 8."
"You have to drive the car pretty gently for about 10 or 15 miles to wear that zinc plating off."
"What we're going to need to do is get the wheel off the car, we'll give it a good clean over first, hot soapy water, really give it a good cleanup."
"You don't have to spend a lot of money to maintain your car to keep it up for safety and everything so that's what you want to do, you want to keep everything nice and safe especially in the winter months."
"Close the hood, depending on your dealership maybe put a loop sticker for their next service, and call it a day."
"If you say the suspension of my GT3 is broken that sounds really bad well I mean it is really bad mate I mean it's not like broken as in snapped it's leaking it's a real shot the drive shaft."
"If you're buying an N14 engine Mini and you don't want to do any maintenance on it, it's the wrong car."
"Okay one thing to note I got this secondhand off another car if you were to buy it brand new there would be a few things you have to transfer from the old one to the new one."
"Always, always remove the negative first. So on any negative grounded car, always remove the negative first."
"... and it's also going to increase the resale value of the car if you can make the engine bay look better."
"I think I managed to Nick this because uh it didn't have any service history with it but I think we can find some and I thought I' take a chance some may actually be in there anyway um so yeah that was one that I managed to get."
"Safety is pretty dang important, especially when you're working on cars."
"What all this rain AKA God's polish is hiding is quite a lot of stone chips in this Bonnet."
"...if the manufacturer specifies that the car has to run with synthetic oil, then that's your answer, you have to run the car with synthetic oil."
"Make sure you have a spare, make sure you know where the tire tool is, make sure you know where the jack is."
"He's brakes failed we'll even zoom in on that but if I break cable yeah it's more than substantial for what you need to do all right Tim we're just going for a little walk for a driver's breathing now this is all about your flags and stuff before you go."
"Change your dexcool at least once a year, once every other year. It's not a lifetime fluid."
"If you keep all these things changed over the life of the vehicle, you'll find that it will last, it will literally last forever."
"Tires are the single most important mod/maintenance item to ever exist for your car."
"It says the secondary air injection system something like that I'm gonna have to have my mechanic check it out."
"Just when your car doesn't start, check the check engine light."
"Don't worry too much about fitting a larger capacity battery than the stock one that came with your car provided it's the same voltage and it can even have a higher C rating without causing a problem."
"Your annual can be everything from less than that if you know somebody who is a mechanic who will do it for cheaper."
"It eliminates reflections on cars, which means you firstly don't have to edit as much but also just keeps the car looking really clean."
"Service history is crucial if you want to know everything that's been done to it."
"I thought these headlights were just going to basically pop right out of here because you know there just two bolts up here and then one bolt down here but I forgot about the fact that there is a bolt way up in there."
"Treat it as if it's a rent car and if it lasts you three or four years and you have no problems and you go to sell it you've won."
"These are minor things, these are not things that are affecting the structural integrity of the car."
"...the easiest way to make your car go fast is by cleaning your tires..."
"Keeping your car up to date with maintenance and replacing parts like that dual bowl master cylinder to make your car safe will go a long way and allow you to keep enjoying your car."
"By watching this video, you can now say I have a clearer idea now what could expect, what's possibly wrong with my car, and how to handle this situation."
"...generally speaking when these cars hit 90 to 100,000 miles you are literally driving around a ticking Time Bomb."
"For those who may be uninitiated in the timing belt job on the Porsche 944, it's natural for there to be a little bit of trepidation around the job."
"The main takeaway of this video is don't buy a Jeep that has frame rust or massive body rust."
"Tom Jared reminding you guys to always make questionable choices but not with your brakes."
"They're there to keep the car as beautiful as possible for as long as possible without damaging it."
"You can put a load of stuff on the top, so get that serviced and insured and you can go to every classic car event next year."
"It runs guys with my little toggle I am done trying to figure out if there is some module or relay or computer on this car that has been wired in like everything else that's not working."
"The steering box felt quite vague and quite loose and quite worn out, which is probably because it was."
"These cars need a lot more love than they're currently getting."
"Idle it needs to be 14.7, cruising down the freeway, it's probably gonna be right around 14.7 as well."
"It's very good to be aware of these things on the car so that you do not damage your engine."
"Staying away from those things will allow you to enjoy the car way more."
"If you maintain your car regularly, you get less contamination buildup."
"No car is going to be 100% perfect unless it's completely repainted and you're spending thousands and thousands of dollars to make sure that there is not a scratch not a defect."
"Never used undiluted IPA on your paintwork as that can dissolve or attack or eat away at the clear coat over time."
"Once you verify that the clutch at least appears to be working you'll go ahead and install the couple of dust shields that came with the slave cylinder elimination kit."