Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "I Do Cars" channel.

  1. I'm an Australian. We never got thrm but EVERY SINGLE person and mechanic says they're rubbish because the head bolts are too small.
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  2.  @Genesis385  we have them in genesis I thought. But there's few genesis her but TONS of Hyundai and kias. Like they outnumber fords. We DON'T HAVE all the kia and Hyundai issues America has because the Korean made stuff we get is better quality than the US made kia and Hyundai.
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  3. Perhaps who KNOW get professional machining shops to tap the block with bigger threads. That's the ONLY way to go with these engines I'm told.
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  4.  @Genesis385  this is idling too long, not lack of oil changes
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  5. They're a beautiful car. Nice big machine with more bits and bobs than you can think of. But word of advice. Turn off the crash avoidance because if someone next to you is waiting to turn and you come up BESIDE them on a green light, it think you're about to rear end them even though they're in the NEXT lane. The thing will then automatically SLAM the brakes on and anyone behind you will rear end you. Badly designed collision avoidance on them.
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  6. It's like girls who buy the latest high end iPhone and don't put a $20 case on it. There's PILES of videos of them dancing like some tiktok dance and an $800 iPhone hitting the concrete with no case on it.
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  7. Half the bad reputation is from the cheapskates with no idea on cars who never do oil changes.
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  8. Turbo 6 was lighter and the car became more powerful than the V8. Which is odd but that's what happened
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  9.  @rushking19  sigmas are brilliant. I have a trajet with the 2.7 V6, i think it's the delta but I forget great little engine and apparently they're good on propane but their catalytic converters get blocked from it. I had the valve cover gaskets redone but that's pretty much it. Sometimes the throttle sticks when you start and it'll rev high. But a few flicks of the accelerator before you start fixes that. This is a 21 year old engine with like 115 thousand miles, formerly a company vehicle that was rarely ever used and I only do a few thousand a year in it because it's my backup vehicle.
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  10.  @BiffBuffchest  more CHEAP kia owners. Not genesis which is NOT a cheap vehicle. It's cheaper as far as luxury cars but not cheap like a kia
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  11. But this one was good enough to be sold as a second hand engine by a junkyard. So it likely was running last and has been left possibly upside down considering the oily plugs.
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  12.  @michaelfrohn255  briggs and stratton has started a new advertising campaign. "Never change the oil". So just destroy it and then buy a new mower every 5 years....
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  13. Some soccer mom driving slow and waiting outside of school for the kids for 20 minutes idling because she wanted the AC or heat.
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  14. The delta and sigma from the early 2000s are great engines. Both timing belts with the sigma having the longest one you've ever seen.
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  15. Or an idiot
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  16. I thought we had them in the genesis here
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  17. The GOOD big rig radiators have a sight glass on the side up top. I used to work for a company who built radiators for specialist mining equipment, huge generators and one big trucking manufacturer. Whoever paid for the top notch package on a truck would get the sight glass. So you can see if you've got coolant without taking the cap off and exposing yourself to a geyser of hot coolant.
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  18. Soccer mom driving slow and idling for 20 minutes waiting for the kids to get out of school, because she wants the AC or heat while she waits. Meanwhile the carbon builds up...
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  19. Probably trouble starting with the 2 year old fuel
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  20. I would like to say the AMERICAN MADE thetas were turds. Here in Australia we have KOREAN made ones and they're ALL FINE. Honestly a few years ago I should have been exporting thetas to the USA. But the effort and having to get contacts it was easier and more sure to work a normal job. We are well paid here in Australia.
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  21.  @scott8919  and in Australia they're all korean made AND FINE. I should have been exporting them by the hundreds
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  22.  @noelpeterson5591  they didn't in the 90s. They're now BASIC but quite good. Better than ANY damn ecoboost.
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  23. There's a few that Mitsubishi and Hyundai done together. I have seen a video where they had a Mitsubishi block with all Hyundai parts and it WAS FINE
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  24. Kia Hyundai has PILES of V6s, more than 4 cylinder cars
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  25. YES WE DID. In the genesis I believe. There's not tons of genesis but they're around
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  26. Soccer mom. Idling waiting fir the kids to get out of school because she still wanted the AC or heat while she waited.
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  27. I wouldn't be surprised that the person who added all the RTV added stop leak to it as soon as the engine was back in the car "just to be sure". My father had an Australian Ford engine using coolant and he assumed it was a head gasket leak damaged the head bolts getting them off but that engine needs new head bolts because you're not supposed to reuse them anyway. It was all clean in there but there was a void in the casting near the intake manifold. New head gasket, head bolts and valve cover gasket and the bastard STILL leaked. So he put stop leak in it and it WORKED. He would NEVER change the coolant, only top it up. By coolant I think it was rainwater because he had a habit of flushing the coolant and replacing it with rainwater. He believed that no gunk could build up that way. Not saying its true but he believed that.
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  28.  @nigelalderman9178  DPFs just need to get hot to work well
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  29. I was considering getting one eventually when they were new, like maybe one at 8 or 10 years old. I swear we had these in 2016, but we often get stuff quite early in Australia. Until I heard 1 in 7 transmissions are bad. And EVEN NOW when they're hitting around 5+ years old there's ALMOST NONE still driving around. Lucky to see ONE A MONTH, even though I work in the biggest city in Australia. I assumed they'd have brilliant fuel consumption similar in cost to my larger Australian built ford propane cars that I have had multiple of, all 4.0 in 6 cyl. But I'm not buying anything with a bad transmission because I live on ONE HELL of a hill.
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  30. A got a 21 year old trajet van with a delta. They run well
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  31. Noone has a genesis taxi. MAYBE a wedding car but that's unlikely. I bet it was a soccer mom waiting for the kids to get out of school, idling for 20 minutes because she wanted the AC or heat while she waited. Plus the 1 mile trip to the shops weekly.
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