[0:00] rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about the five best used cars that you
[0:09] can buy, now I know there's lots of people
out
[0:11] there talking about what's good and
what's bad but really, if you want to
[0:16] learn about what used cars to buy, ask a
mechanic like me, because just out of
[0:22] curiosity I Googled, some of that advice
on the internet, whoa stay away from it,
[0:28] I even saw some that had three of the
top five being chrysler products, which
[0:33] every mechanic knows they're some of the
worst made vehicles out there, to say
[0:37] they're good to buy used, you don't want
to listen to people's advice that don't know
[0:41] what they're talking about, I hate
it when I buy something that doesn't
[0:45] hold up over time, and over the last 51
years
[0:48] I hate it when my customers buy cars
that don't hold up over time, hey I like
[0:53] my customer I want them to tell their
friends about me to say hey he's a good
[0:57] mechanic he knows how to fix your car
and it isn't always breaking down all
[1:00] the time and he's making up stuff just
to make money, so of course
[1:03] don't listen to used-car advice from
somebody say who only works on Jaguars,
[1:07] he's gonna tell you to buy a Jaguar you
know, I work on all kinds of different
[1:12] cars, I don't care what people drive but
if they want a good car
[1:17] I'll give them advice and here's my
advice on the five used cars to buy, and
[1:21] number five is a 2012 Honda Accord, and I
know some people are gonna say, hey
[1:27] Scotty you warned us about Honda's with
weak automatic transmissions, and that is
[1:31] true the 2005 to 2010 Honda Accords with
automatic transmissions have a recall
[1:38] for their automatic transmission because
it had a design flaw, but not to 2012,
[1:43] I've got customers with 2012 Honda
accords and they love the cars, from my
[1:48] experience of my customers cars the four
cylinder ones seemed to the last absolute
[1:53] longest, some guys want the v6 s because
they want more power and stuff, but they
[1:58] do have a tendency of wearing out a
little bit faster and the 4's have
[2:01] plenty of power and get quite a bit
better gas mileage, and a lot of family
[2:05] guys love these Accords because they're
zippy sporty cars, you get a four-door yeah
[2:11] you can fix a whole family in there
but it's not like you're driving around
[2:15] in a minivan, and here you want to
realize another thing about buying a
[2:19] used car, don't always go for the
cheapest price, because a lot of the reason
[2:24] cars are cheap is because they aren't
very good cars, you're gonna pay a reasonable
[2:29] amount
of money for a 2012 Honda Accord
[2:31] that's in good shape, but hey I've seen
them with three four hundred thousand
[2:36] miles on them,
so you're gonna get a lot of mileage out
[2:39] of the things, as long as they don't
already have three or four hundred
[2:42] thousand miles on them, now
number four on the lists of 2012 Ford
[2:47] Fusion, used their often seen as an
inexpensive family saloon, one of the
[2:53] reasons this those were made when Volvo
and Ford were having to get together
[2:59] part way, the first time I ever had one I
rented it when I was on vacation at an
[3:04] airport, and I was totally impressed by
how it rode, I was never really a fan of
[3:11] the Ford Taurus myself, but when I rented
this
[3:13] fusion I was impressed, they proved to
be very reliable cars too, and they
[3:18] didn't have the transmission problems
that a lot of the Taurus hand, it was a
[3:22] pretty good move, now I mean Ford's not
making cars anymore they said they're
[3:25] only gonna be making one the Mustang and
then SUVs and trucks, but the Ford Fusion
[3:30] is a really solid built car, and since
Ford isn't going to be making cars
[3:34] anymore, you can generally pick up a used
car cheaper, because when a company stops
[3:40] making cars the value of the old one
goes down, if they're still well made,
[3:45] Ford still gonna make parts for them, hey
you might get a really good price on a
[3:48] used fusion, now number three on the list
is a 2013 Honda Civic, those things were
[3:55] reliable solid little cars
Honda sure went a long way from their
[3:59] first Honda that they sold in
the United States to this Honda Civic,
[4:04] you'd think they came from different
planets if you look at both cars, a lot
[4:07] of young people like the civics because
they're zippy, a lot of guys soup them up
[4:12] and put a lot of horsepower in there, Honda
engines they can take it, but at the same
[4:15] time they're very dependable
transportation, I have many middle-aged
[4:21] and older people, they bought civics
and they love them,
[4:24] and they would say it always starts, it never
breaks
[4:28] down, and it hardly uses any gas, and sure
they hold their value, which is the
[4:33] reason I say don't go too cheap when
you're buying a used car
[4:36] think about expense over time,
that's one reason my son who I was going
[4:42] to get him I used Tacoma pickup
truck, he end up buying a new one because
[4:45] he said, dad I'll probably keep this
thing for 30 years, it's gonna cost me
[4:49] hardly any money per month if I keep
this thing for 30 years
[4:53] so I'll just buy a brand new one, but if
you're buying a used car and you want to
[4:57] save a lot of money,
hey that Civic is a great pick, yeah
[5:01] you're gonna pay more for it certainly
then a used Chrysler or used GM smaller
[5:07] car, but it's gonna outlast them
sometimes two, three, four times as long
[5:14] with probably maybe 20% of the repair
bills that you're gonna spend on those
[5:19] cars that aren't as well made, and of
course realized if you're buying used like
[5:22] that, your insurance rates, because let's
face it you buy a brand new car, say
[5:27] it's wrecked or stolen or flooded
whatever, the insurance company has to buy
[5:31] you a new car, that's a lot of money, well
they used cars they have less value so
[5:36] the insurance is less on them too, and
with the smaller four-cylinder engine
[5:40] the insurance is less on that, because
it doesn't have the big power of a v6 or
[5:44] a v8, you're saving all kinds of ways if
you get a you Civic, now number two on
[5:49] the list of best five used cars to buy,
is a 2012 Toyota Corolla, Corollas can
[5:55] run virtually forever if you take care
of them, I remember years ago a mechanic
[6:01] friend of mine he was having a party, and
they said let's see if we can blow up a
[6:05] Toyota Corolla engine, so he emptied out
most of the engine oil and that put a
[6:09] brick on the accelerator and it was just
sitting there revving, and it ran
[6:13] for quite some time and then finally one
of the cylinders blew and went bang and the
[6:18] cylinder broke, but then it was still
running awhile and only three cylinders
[6:21] I mean the things are really strongly
designed, Toyota used the Corolla
[6:29] design on a lot of cars, that's a 07
matrix it's really a Toyota Corolla, my
[6:34] Celica it's a 94 Celica,
it's really Toyota Corolla too
[6:39] it has the same engine, transmission, just
a different body style and a little bit
[6:43] different suspension is all, I gotta laugh
these days when I get some customers say
[6:47] I just have to get an SUV for my family,
and I say my kids, two sons, me, my wife we
[6:55] road around for years in an 81 Toyota
Corolla four-door, they fit in that
[7:00] Corolla we went all over the country in
that thing, and did it ever leave us
[7:03] stranded,
no it didn't, and one big advantage of
[7:06] buying a car like a 2012 Toyota Corolla is,
they made tons of them, they sold tons of
[7:13] them, so there are always going to be a
reasonable amount of them out there for
[7:17] sale, if a company makes a really
good car but they don't sell all that many
[7:21] of them their aren't gonna be that many used
ones for sale they're gonna be hard to
[7:24] find, but there are Corollas all over the
place in all kinds of different shape, maybe
[7:29] you're a fixer-upper, so you're gonna buy
one that maybe has 300 thousand miles
[7:34] you get it cheap, fix it up and drive it
around, or maybe you don't really care
[7:37] that much about body style, so if they
didn't take care of the paint and had a
[7:41] few dents on it, you just drive it
around that way as a beater car and you don't
[7:45] care to put any money into it, because
since they made so many of them, there is
[7:50] an insane aftermarket for those things,
let's say you go and you need to get a
[7:56] Fender, well you go to the Toyota dealer
and the fender who knows what they want
[7:59] maybe five or six hundred bucks, you can get
one made in Taiwan for like $50, sheet
[8:04] steel stamped on who cares you're just
gonna have it bolted on and painted, so
[8:09] you can get parts that work perfectly
fine dirt cheap for those things, so take
[8:13] advantage of mass production if you want
a really good car for getting you around
[8:17] hey get to use Corolla, now number one
on the list is the 2011 Toyota Camry
[8:24] which is no surprise to most people, and
I know some people are gonna say, Oh
[8:28] Scotty what a boring pick 2011 Toyota Camry,
well yeah that's exactly why I
[8:33] pick it as a good used car to buy, it's
boring, you buy it it's not gonna break
[8:38] its gonna start every time, and their
still fun to drive they got more zip
[8:43] than a Corolla does, but they're totally
dependable, here again though I say, I
[8:48] advise people buy the four-cylinder
version, it's got plenty enough horsepower
[8:51] to get you around, the 6's, hey they're gonna
get worse gas mileage
[8:55] and they will wear out faster I
mean yeah okay
[8:57] so it might wear out at 300,000 miles
instead of 500,000 miles, but still it's
[9:03] gonna wear out fast, and as an
interesting fact generally the cheaper
[9:07] models of manufacturers sell more cars
than the expensive ones, but in 2011
[9:13] Toyota in the United States sold more
Camrys than they did Corollas, normally
[9:19] it's cheaper models that sell more, but
the Camrys were so well made that they
[9:23] actually sold more Camrys than they did
Corollas in the United States in 2011
[9:28] you can easily fit a whole family in a
Camry they got tons of room inside I've
[9:33] had customers that are real tall at six
six or six seven and they'd always say, I
[9:36] can't
get a Toyota I'm too big I don't fit in,
[9:39] I said get in a Camry and sit in it and see
what you think, and they did and they said,
[9:43] whoa
hey comfy car enough room for me
[9:45] you're gonna pay a reasonable price for
one of these cars, they hold their value
[9:49] because they're so well made, but don't
do like one of my customers did who was
[9:54] looking at a used Camry and then they
said, oh look I can get this Chrysler at
[9:59] half the price and it's got a v6 engine
and leather seats and all this, and then
[10:05] a couple years later they came in and
they said, we got to get rid of that
[10:09] Chrysler what a pile of junk and what did
they do, then they went out and bought a
[10:13] used camry, so my advice on that one
is, learn from other people's mistakes, if
[10:18] you don't have to make the mistake
yourself
[10:20] hey learn from somebody else's mistake,
make sure you get a decent used car
[10:25] because there's the old saying, oh I
never buy a used car cuz you're buying
[10:28] somebody else's problems, well if you're
gonna buy a camry, if it was taken care
[10:33] of it's not gonna be anybody's problem,
but of course as I always tell people
[10:38] when they're buying a used car,
have a mechanic check it out before
[10:41] you buy it, because you can't trust
anybody when it comes to buying used
[10:45] anything, cars can be wrecked, flooded,
stolen, started on fire there's all kinds
[10:51] of things that can happen, so you want a
mechanic
[10:53] to check it out and with this modern
technology on all these late model cars
[10:57] hey when we mechanics plug our machines
in, we get more history make your head
[11:02] spin, and within an hour any mechanic
can tell you, yeah that's a really good
[11:05] car or no stay away from that one, so now
you know the five best cars that you can
[11:11] buy used if you want peace of mind, and
have a nice solid reliable vehicle to
[11:17] drive around in, so if you never want to
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