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rev up your engines today I'm going to talk about the perfect beater work car

in this case it's a 2004 Toyota Corolla and the customer just bought for that

very purpose for $1,500 as you can see the hubcaps are gone we go inside the

cover for the locks is gone it still works the cover is gone and we get inside not

all that worse for wear the armrest these are all torn up there's only dented a

little the back seats aren't in that bad shape really so as you can see yeah the

weather stripping is ripped and these are all messed up people obviously have been

breaking into the car using those jimmies to open it up some to either

lock themselves in or tried stealing the car but what makes it the perfect beater

work car is under the hood and yes the prop that holds the hood open is gone so

we use this piece of plastic tubing here nice and strong at each four-cylinder

Toyota engines can last forever yes can the automatic transmission in

this 2004 it's really not all that different from the transmission and my

old celica it's got two hundred and thirty some odd thousand miles on it

they're very dependable vehicles I'm sure the emblem is all worn out

but hey this thing's only got one hundred and twenty two thousand six

hundred ninety miles that's not much for Corolla now there's no saying how many

owners a 16 year old Corolla has since they're so reliable you don't have to

worry all buying just a one owner one like with some other cars these things

can just go and go now in the case of this Corolla customers just bought he

wants me to tune it up and give it an overall check off so the first thing

we're gonna do is pop out the spark plug that will give us a this really good idea what kind

of shape the engine is in the stupid beauty Cover doesn't serve any real

purpose then it'll pop out the spark plugs loosen all the nuts to hold the

coil on plugs in take them out one at a time yeah well take out the spark

plugs no one knows what kind of shape this thing is going to be in until we take it apart and out

it comes they analyze it we can see their tan-colored which is what you want

it's a little bit of oil burning residue which is typically worn

we're gonna change him up but they're the right color the engines firing good

it just burns a little oil what you can expect on an older engine of course

you're gonna check the air filter pop it out it's really dirty

as you can see needs an air filter do so the first thing to do is get a new spark

plugs in an air filter now when I scan it with a computer and it got a code for small

evap leak so I'm gonna change the gas cap to it could easily have a leaking

gas case so we'll pop a gas cap open up take off the old one and put the new one

out that's a nice click I know one's got a torn gasket so that makes sense my

normally put spark plugs in dry but I'm using some of this all-in-one oil and

I'm going to lubricate the threads a little bit here because if you remember

when we tried to get it out you could hear it was really tight this one we

want a little Lube because we don't want to ruin the aluminum heads if they're a

little bit corroded and you put them in you can have problems so in this case we

don't normally do it but on this I'm putting a little oil on the threads so

then when we put them in our magnetic socket that holds it in when it goes in

it's gonna go in smoothly you can see I can even do it by hand most of the way

then we'll get it snug with a ratchet and if you do the other three we're

gonna inspect those plugs too and here's number two it looks the same as number

one just the right collar got a little bit of oil burning on it but like I say

that's normal for an engine like this but this kind of mileage this one's

gonna require a little prying so I get up giant screwdriver oh wow that one's

really stuck there we go finally it came off let's hope it doesn't have any

problems inside out it comes looks the same as the other ones but you can see the

top the rubber kind of melted on goo from the years these plugs were in there

sometimes they'll stick like that just keep wiggling and prying you'll get them

off now we put this one back in with a new plug the last one number four and

it's also the same it's the right color it's got a little bit of oil burning

nothing outrageous they've been in there a long time so we'll put the last plug

in the coil assembly back don't forget the hold on bolts for each

one and you'll put the stupid beauty cover back on

not that it does anything and of course pop the air filter back in, got to wiggle it

a bit then it snaps on now due to age and

probably lack of proper maintenance the oil seals on the front of the engine are

leaking a little bit of oil rather than tear low allows you to part on this

beater car I'm gonna stick some of this at205 reseal it can rejuvenate rubber

seals you just pour it in the engine oil back off pour the whole bottle and then

it goes there we start her up warming up

you some of this pink Toyota coolant because you realize when you buy a

beater car at the type of car you check the oil every so often the coolant you

just make check of stuff cuz it's gonna leak a little oil it's obviously

using a little bit of cool you just keep popping that stuff up being a Corolla

let's go last for years and years if you keep up with the fluid now well take it

for a spin and accelerates pretty good for one of these now you notice the

airbag light is on heck the airbags on these things who knows how many times

this thing's been wrecked and you have the rides a little bouncy when you hit

bumps cuz the struts are worn but hey get you down the road it's a good work

car for 1,500 bucks could last for years and yeah if you hit the brakes hard at

higher speeds the sturdy wall shakes a little cuz the rotors just somewhat

warped but what the heck it still stops the car you can put new rotors and pads

on if you want but I don't think this guys is going to even care because he's going

to college now and he got himself a good college

beater car and look the power door locks still work so if you're looking for a

good beater work or college car something like this 04 corolla could be just the ticket

for you and here's some bonus questions and answers well hyundai is making

solar power somewhat real now now a lot of people always figured hey sunshine

you got electric car when I put solar panels on it and get power from the Sun

previously people have done so but it was such a small hot actual power that

they got that it was kind of a joke but hyundai is

gonna be offering solar charging on their new Sonata and they claim that if

you live in sunny areas that it will generate enough power to go 800 miles

extra in a year now if you think about it that's you know less than three miles

per day so we're not talking about masam but you get a free 800 miles driving

I'm sure it's kind of a you know sales gimmick you think I can't quite imagine

that the money it costs to buy the car built it that way the price of it'll be

so much higher with that stuff I bet you'll never recoup the extra money you

paid for the panels and all the technology and you're only getting 800

miles a year max and if you use electrical power generation for cars I

know with the Tesla's to go 800 miles it's not costing you all that much money

sometimes to go 800 miles you're talking about less than thirty forty dollars

where does a lot electricity if that's the case and you're paying a ton more

for this solar paneled car to get extra eight hundred miles a year it's really

not worth of money that you're spending either but hey who knows maybe the

technology eventually go that you get eight thousand miles a year extra

driving capability an electric car but as it stands now the new sonata that

they're coming out with says that the solar panels if you live in a sunny area

will give you 800 free miles of driving per year well the Germans are at it with

their march towards technology they seem to be nuts about that stuff they are now

creating smart visors Bosh's virtual visor electronics for a visor instead of

an actual physical visor that you move back and forth it's a transparent LCD

visor and what it does is it tense the areas that need to be by having a camera

that's facing your face analyzing what's happening on your head and then the

transparent LCD starts to put like sunglasses in the parts that's blocking

your eye if the Sun is coming in too deeply this is still a few years from

being sold in fabric to the public but they're trying it out Bosch is a pretty

big company so putting this kind of money and odds are somebody like mercedes

is gonna end up having a virtual visor on it but here's where sometimes

maybe technology goes a little bit too far these sunglasses yeah mine's wearing

them so it doesn't mean anything to me and if you have a physical visor that

you can flip back and forth and block the bad part of the Sun it's a pretty

simple trustworthy bulletproof system for blocking the Sun

you got a man you got some LCD screen of things gonna break or it's gonna block

at the wrong time but hey that's the Germans for you they always take

technology as far as you possibly can then a little bit further, try step says

Scotty got a 2014 4runner starting to make noise on a driver side door and

windshield how can I find out what it is all right

of course you open the door and look for the windows stripping and a lot of times

that rubber stripping is cracked or ripped or sometimes they pop out of the

holes you want to check that now you do have to pinpoint where the noise is

coming from which can often be a stinker but here's a really good way get your

cell phone start recording go all around when the noise gets the loudest just by

using that then you can play it back because generally when do they make

noise when you go in at higher speeds when you go to outer space you gotta pay

attention to what you try but use your phone to record the noise and then you

can go back and analyze it from my experience for those things look closely

at the weatherstripping to see if it's come off or gone on and also look at

your sideview mirror because yes since it's a truck maybe it's bumped into

things they bump into things what happens is the gasket underneath gets an

air opening and it's bent and then the air rushes through there so check that I

fixed mine like that my matrix is doing was driving me nuts

and it turns out what was it I took off the sideview mirror and I saw a piece of

the door I'd been in so then I just got some foam insulation at the stor

and put that on then I put the mirror and gasket on that there was no

more hole and no more noise either, so if you never want to miss another one

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