Posted on 08/29/2020 4:00:02 PM PDT by dennisw
Not mine. I don’t allow my engine oil to get black. slightly dark gold maybe but still transparent on the stick. That’s it. It’s real cheap insurance to change your oil. Life blood of the engine.
Owner 2 Purchased: 2020
Personal Vehicle
Mileage Source Comments
03/27/2020 3,849 Florida Motor Vehicle Dept.
Vehicle purchase reported
04/01/2020 14,121 Florida
Motor Vehicle Dept. Pompano Beach, FL Title #0124641989
Looking at the report, the mileage is slowly trending up until at the end where it jumps 10K in about 4 days. I think it is just a coding error.
Thanks for your wisdom!
the rotors could be unevenly worn— was it driven often in a mountainous area? no expert but rotor wear could be associated with ~40k miles or more of ordinary flatland driving. the battery could possibly have been a victim of light abuse such as too often engine left off with accessory such as radio or ac on until completely drained.
great!
your buddy may wish to just install a cd player?
i tried to buy a Mustang from local dealer. Dealer had hired a full staff of 18 year old kids from the local high school.
OK so far.
well, in former times 18 year old guys mostly know all about cars!
not these kiddies!
i asked several of them (I made several trips to get a different sales kid each time trying to find out the answer)
and none of them could even tell whether the engine was aluminum or “normal”... ha! anything more complex was totally hopeless.
one time the adult sales manager walked by so I asked him. he looked to be about 40 or so and should have known or perhaps at least asked the shop guys for an answer. No he could not be bothered. He simply sent me home to look up the answer for myself on the internet. That’s what he told me to do!
So, I finally gave up and bought the car from an out of state dealer who spent the time to explain everything I wanted to know. it took a trip but it was better than trying to deal with someone who did not wish to offer any help
but ... here is the purpose of this note... all of those 18 year hold high school kids had the very same sales talk. I would ask to see the engine (so I could start asking my engine questions) and the kids would not open the bonnet before insisting I sit in the car and then the kids would give me a guided tour of all 83 buttons and knobs that controlled the stereo! HA! maybe your friend is lucky his new car did not have a stereo or whatever in it, or he might still be captive in it with a kid at the dealer’s lot. smile smile smile
Not necessarily. My husband put only 11k miles on a 2017 Civic, and I’ve maybe put 10 or 12k miles on my ‘99 4Runner in the past five years.
Always just assume that the higher value is accurate for safety and value’s sake.
Who knows, though? Maybe the owner was a little old lady who went to church and to the grocer, like my ex’s nana. She had an ‘86 Cadillac with maybe 10k miles.
Here is the car he got.
Reliant Robin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
There may be a way through the OBD II diagnostic system to determine the correct value but you’d probably need one of the more sophisticated models and not just a basic reader.
Dude... You can see your rotors... you can touch them...drag your thumbnail across the face.... They should be reasonably smooth... If not they are shot... If they are smooth, have them checked for warpage
Out here in the desert, if you get three years out of a battery, consider yourself lucky! I like to use Optima batteries, they are more money but you can get six plus years out of them here.
Something else to keep in mind since it was not mentioned yet. On some models brake pulsing can also be caused by an issue with the antilock brake system. And the ABS light doesn’t necessarily need to be on for this to happen.
Look at the carpet on the drivers side as well, a car with that few miles should look fairly pristine. Look for wear on the drivers seat and seatbelt too.
My wife’s 2018 van does not have an obvious CD slot. The touchscreen face of the radio flips down to show the cd slot. It will also play DVDs while the engine is not on. All vehicles from 2018 forward are required to have backup cameras, so they all have a screen. Maybe his is tucked behind the screen.
I bought a 2014 Honda Fit when I was “downsizing” it was a great little car but didn’t meet my needs because it was too small. I was impressed by the quality of the little car! As far as the pulsing with the brakes, it’s usually caused by warped rotors. The warp is usually caused by dragging the brakes. I inherited my aunts 65 Buick Riviera with 40k miles and totally shot brakes. Aunt Barb drove with one foot on the brake all the time.
Brakes pulse because someone did a hard stop and kept their foot on the pedal. Doing this transfer pad material to the rotor where it stays and becomes a pulse.
Wrong- the cause is heavy braking several times and holding pressure by staying on the pedal Will create a Hot Spot on the Rotor and Warp the Rotor. This can also make the Steering Wheel shake. Brake Pads leave dust that will collect around the Calipers and the inside of the Wheels but where the Pads are in contact will be clean but there’s dust all around.
I have done Thousands of Brake System repairs over the last 40+ years on anything from VW Bugs, Chevrolet, Jaguars to Rolls Royce and Utility ,Cattle Trailers, FedEx Vans and Trucks on Vehicles from the early 1900’s to 2018.
I spent 18+ years selling Auto & Truck Parts and another 16 turning wrenches for a Living.
I use a USB and have only put 1 CD into my CD player just to check that it works...my current USB has a tad over 5K tunes on it...your friend should look into ripping his CDs so he can put them all on a single USB and never have to change a CD again..
Passenger vehicle rotors these days(and for the last 50 years) are stress relieved and do not "heat warp". Don't take my word for it. Spend the next couple hours learning about what it is that causes brakes to pulse. When you realize it's because pad material is transferring to the rotor, a light bulb will go off. Every time you stood next to a lathe cutting a rotor, didn't it ever make you wonder why the center of the rotor ran perfectly true yet the tool was only hitting at one spot? Check the runout on the center of the rotor, notice that the dial indicator isn't moving. Did the Rotor ever turn like wheel on cart a that Our Gang used on the Little Rascals? No it didn't, because the rotor wasn't warped in the slightest.
If you're doing appeal to authority, I have done brake jobs for the past 30+ years as well. Brake jobs alone probably paid for 10% of my college tuition.
I have not worked on anything with air brakes so if they warp after dragging for hundreds of miles, I wouldn't be surprised. Heavy duty is a different game. Cars though? It's pad material from hot components that bond to the rotor.
Can rotors break, rust, or get damaged and pulsate? Sure. That's not what's going on in an otherwise normal rotor that pulses.
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