Big changes for the CAR WIZARDS! Also, is it wise to fix late model cars? 

Exactly 💯 teaching these days has gotten so political that it's not like in The old days...

She seems like she's an awesome lady!

Congrats!

I don’t blame her with all the lgbt crap

@@derondewitz2463 He's a lucky fella, that's for sure.

Yeah and I can only imagine the stuff they pulled during convid

It's trending currently

My friends wife taught full time for decades - eventually similar thing happened, they got wealthy enough she didn't have to work full time anymore - so she just did substituting because she still enjoyed teaching - the problem then became she was substituting all the time to the point it was nearly full time anyway - at that point she quit.

It’s a complicated problem. The politicians from both parties are ruining education. The kids play on their phones and will cause trouble if you ban them. They can’t read. We teach to “outcomes” tests instead of using a grade for the Outcome. Salaries and morale are low. I retire in 4 years, God willing.🎉

My wife just called it quits also. Loan officer for a credit union.

Sorry for your loss

I send Hugs sorry for your loss .

The ensample of OP's wife, and my late wife prove the Truism--"No Man is promised tomorrow". "Do you love life, waste not time, it is the stuff of life" "Poor Richards Almanack

My wife and I had 65 years married, 4 daughters, we loved each other dearly. We both got covid and it took her very quickly...almost got me, too. All my daughters and me take turns grieving; that was in Oct. 21...miss her so much. We were always a very loving family....loving the Lord made the difference. I'm 87, so I'll be with her before long. ❤

Sir Sorry for your loss .It got me missing mine

Amen

And we're losing them and gaining kerap.

We are retired RNs. I feel Mrs Wizard’s relief. On the Wizards advice, we bought a near-pristine 2003 LeSabre 3.8L w/21,733 (now 30,014) original miles. We’ve taken long road trips in this 20-yr-old boat and left the 560SL in the garage. LeSabre is my daily driver. Everything works like new. Thx for the recommendation Wiz and Congrats to Mrs Wiz🎉😊

Congrats to her. Also in case anyone needs school work done please get in touch with us

Oh, i agree…it’s definitely far more difficult these days for sure, unaccountable parents, raising unaccountable children

Actually it is much harder than people think!

@@JDMHaze Not to mention Teachers lying to Parents about their kids pr0n0un5. This impacts trust between parents and the school.

The sad thing is that good people like you aren't taking teaching jobs. The agenda driven indoctrinators are.

Same thing happened to my buddy, except as a 21 year old graduate sitting in a senior high school class of mostly smoking hot girls he realized he was cruising towards a jail sentence for banging a school kid and looked elsewhere for a career

​@@bodysuitguy someone's leaving out part of the story. The part where the girls were probably hitting on him and trying to somewhat seduce him which is how he realized he was going to wind up in trouble.

​@@lyleg.9192 Almost certainly

@@lyleg.9192 he knew he would not be able to resist the temptation of a horny 18 year old hottie. I reckon he would have lasted about 3 weeks before he had banged one of them!!!😂

Ive been a sub as long as his very first video with Tyler hoovie lol

Love the car wizard the best mechanic vids and truly informative with some lol moments mixed in

@@whiterastaproductions1846the death stare…😂😂

indeed, funny thing is since the first I saw her, working on their fixer up yacht years ago; I knew she had to have been a teacher. And not just that, but from her ability to explain and kind mannerism; she was highly likely that one teacher the kids at her school universally regarded as their favourite. Some people are just born to teach. It actually made me nostalgic for my childhood as I had a teacher just like that in year 7.

Then they should pay us enough to make it worthwhile. Education budgets have increased, but our salaries have only kept pace with inflation since the 1960s... If you want talented teachers, make it an appealing profession and treat us like professionals who know what we're doing.

Issue is desruction of social safety net, idea that paying taxes is bad and classism that puts private schools above common good. Lots of issues but teachers themselves are still part of the problem since they don't vote or take much action towards a better society.

American test scores have been going down for a long time. The entire institution is rotton, teacher and principal.

During the mid-2010s my sister got a job as a teacher at a school for gifted children, but she resigned after a year because the principal acted like Lumbergh from the 1999 movie “Office Space.” My sister told me that other teachers who hired on the same year she hired on also left because of him. BTW, “Lumbergh“ is no longer there. My sister was DAMN glad to hear that!

@@nonelost1 my little brother's classmate was expelled after the teacher caught him dipping his privates into her cup, while recording it for TikTok... I don't get it.

they dont care about quality as long as they are cheap...

That happens to me in my Lacrosse. 85 mph feels like 50 mph. I love Buick sedans!

Yeah, I really want a Lucerne. It'd be great for our family.

Isn’t a Buick Lucerne made of milk? 🤔😆🥛

Found an honest mechanic, but they charge 15-25% more than the crooks. Trade off is they never recommend unnecessary work. That's what things have come to because who wants to argue with a auto shop when all you wanted was new brake pads, but they want to replace the rotors, drums, pads, shoes, calipers, wheel cylinders, etc costing over $900+.

You got lucky, really lucky. The 3800 series II from 1995 through the 2005 model year typically burned through intake manifolds every 60,000 miles or so. Unlike the 3100/3400/4300 series it wasn't just the gasket that failed, but the entire upper intake plenum. GM thought it was a good idea to run a piping hot metal EGR tube through the plastic manifold. Failure was guaranteed from the factory. If not caught and repaired quickly enough the coolant the failure dumped into the engine oil would quickly destroy the engine. Often the failure was rapid and there would be no sign of an issue until the engine seized.

​@@jblyon2 The series 3 came out in 2004.. With aluminum intake

​@@jblyon2 look at wizard video about the 3.8L he calls it absolutely bulletproof and one of his fav engines

@@jblyon2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rK9Y-a1-6JU.html

My 05 Lacrosse made it to 280k miles. Had I put a couple grand into it, I probably could have easily gotten another 100k out of it. But I fell into a smokin' deal on a newer Impala that I just couldn't pass up. There's a good chance I go back to a Buick once these Impala runs its course.

Agreed! This year, I'm putting $3,500 into maintenance for my '03 Honda Element and '11 Lexus ES 350. Would love to replace the older vehicle, but prices for new and used vehicles are still insane.

A person with common sense a rarity these days.

@@slickfox33 I dunno. New lift struts are pretty damn kewl. Still like it ever time I swap out one of my blown ones, or a pair. >PooF

​​@@timewa851 sometimes the hood or trunk replacement struts are holding more pressure and they make it seem like you have an auto lifting unit because when you pop it it basically goes up by itself

A new strut is $27, they're far from expensive.

Even cheaper from rock auto. I even bought the same brand as OEM (stabilus). Replaced all 5 on my 2013 grand Cherokee, which all still worked but were started to get corroded and weak. Was so satisfying. Cost under $70 and took 15 minutes.

Would like to have done that with my teachers, but left the country and never returned, 50 years gone now.

Excellent comment. Very well said. It will make them cry. Good teachers and nurses go way beyond what is asked of them without falter or complaint.

What's the secret to keeping the transmission alive on the LeSabre???

Drive it like a normal LeSabre owner! My 2005 LeSabre has about 77,000 miles and I just added one 2 oz. tube of "LubeGard Instant Shudder Fixx" and now it's smooth as silk. Having a 2005 aftermarket $3,000 leather interior that still smells new is an added bonus!

@@jeffshadow2407 I'm actually quite an aggressive driver, not reckless, you can't go by my brother-in-law, he drives 60 sometimes 50 in a 65 zone. When I do 80 or 90, not that often mind you, she doesn't complain, I maintain her regular oil changes etc, I do mainly highway driving, she's never left me stranded, always starts right up, I've driven her in ice snow storms, even through the remnants of hurricane Ida a couple of years ago when I didn't think it was as bad as it was, I drove through some pretty badly flooded local roads, I turned around to head back home here in central Jersey, one place in particular the water was so deep that I was sure I was going to start floating or at least stall out but nope, I made it through and back home safely, this was all at night, I'll admit I was a bit scared. The next day the sun was out and I headed to where I was trying to go the night before, there were abandoned cars all over the shoulder of 287.If I have one complaint it's the dashboard, GM dropped the ball on that part.

Change transmission fluid every 40k miles

I remember having a 90 Park Ave. One of the best cars I've owned other than my old Camry.

*I prefer the Lacrosse since the battery isn't located underneath the damn rear seat*

Buicks are premium cars. Just a step under Cadillac.

20 years are more than enough for teaching. The cultural and social structures are starting to cracking badly and its not fun job to witness that daily

Yeah, I weep for our future generations. Fewer and fewer people want to become teachers and the culture wars things makes the profession a minefield. As a result, our kids are going to become less and less educated and properly prepared compared to the past.

Disinterested kids perpetually on their phones and parents who make every excuse possible for their horrible children don't help things.

And don’t forget the parents that’ll complain up a storm if you read the wrong book!

Not to mention kids who just spent 2 years at home and have absolutely no respect for authority, and parents who are even worse!

Just don’t drive for 11 hours straight like I did 2 months after I got my 2006; even with the heated seats I was completely exhausted from the drive.

@Steven Strain The best teachers teach, they don't indoctrinate. In the 1980s, I could never tell if my teachers were conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican. Now, it's very obvious that they do follow the Democrat agenda.

Not sure on DOD on the Buick in the video. BUT 2007-2008 Impalas with 3900 had DOD. 2006 did not, and they dropped DOD in 2009 on the Impalas. 3900 was a TERRIFIC engine with the exception of oil leaks. They leak oil from everywhere. The one in the video is pretty dry, with the exception of oil running down the starter. 4t65e was also not the greatest transmission.

@@mph5896 yeah tbh I can't name a good fwd transmission from GM, AFAIK they don't exist. I've also heard some people had issues with leaks on those 3900s, but I've also seen ones that haven't had much more than a little seepage after 100k+. Kinda like the 10 bolt 8.5" rear end on GM half tons, some people have them chewed up in a matter of months, others never have any issues with them.

@@SaxaphoneMan42 Yeah, that one in the video is quite dry. My brother has an 11 Impala 3900. The thing is literally leaking oil hard from every gasket. I'll have to break it down to a short block for a reseal at some time or another.

We have a 2007 Uplander with this motor, no DOD thankfully but the rear exhaust manifold has a few broken studs and a bit of an exhaust leak. Lots of power !

I bet wizard has alot of " behind the scenes" situations

You've experienced the reasons Car Wizard likes V6 Mustangs so much.

The "burden" of teaching by sitting in their jammies on the couch

yea. his wife quit too. from their marriage

​@@couldnotfindcoolname yes, she was a real "C."

​@@couldnotfindcoolname he needed to be like Trump, and gotten a rock solid pre nup. And now the "West," has screwed him over.

​@@couldnotfindcoolnamedid Hoosier talk about his divorce?

@@halecooley8296 I don't think so but she is taking half his stuff and she don't want cars, she wants cash.

Some don't realize what they have, Others like You know what time it is. 🇺🇸👍

He did say that, but you know what he meant.

Fiero was only one of them, they were also in the 6000, Grand Prix, Sunbird, Phoenix, Firebird/Camaro, Beretta, Cavalier, Corsica, Citation, Celebrity, Lumina, Century, Cutlass Ciera, S-10/Blazer, Buick Skykark, Century, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Omega, Firenza, Isuzu Trooper 2 Pup, Rodeo, GMC S-15/Jimmy/Sonoma, Jeep Cherokee, Comanche, Cadillac Cimarron.

@@florincars I didn’t say it was ONLY in the Fiero GT. Just that it was in that car, and was a good engine.

My mother had a 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera with the 2.8L V6 and it was a reliable car. The engine was smooth and the car rode comfortably. I actually passed my driving test in that car. She eventually traded it in for a 1998 Toyota Camry not because the Olds was bad, it was because she felt that the car was getting old and she simply wanted an upgrade.

The 2.8 wasn’t that good in the S10 trucks.

Did he say it's a V8?

I've been impressed with the power of every vehicle I've driven with the 3.4L. They're torquey little buggers. Despite the long gearing of the era's 4-speed autos, they pulled strong.. at least compared to Japanese cars at the time. Frankly, if people insist that Subarus are reliable despite their unrivaled head gasket failure rate, why should the 3.4L be dismissed for a similar tendency?

@@omgcool7206 I never had gasket problems - though my 3.1's where pre-dexcool (leading suspect of cause), and I do think GM solved those problems (but when I can't pin down). Even the 3.1 was quite torquey in the right car (clutch engaged and rolling at 1500rpm in 2nd gear (Getrag/Issisu manual trans), then just smash the peddle to the floor for an instant gut wrench and smoke show - yes I was quite brutal on my cars in my late teens/early 20's - learned the hard way that gets stupidly expensive on maint costs).

@@nukedathlonman I have two FWD 3.1 liter Malibus - a 2001 which only had the lower intake manifold gasket failure, and a 2000 I bought from a co-worker's dad 4 years ago for $250 that also had bad head gaskets. I previously had two previous-generation 3.1 liters (in a 1994 Lumina and 1994 Sunbird) that only need valve cover gaskets. EVERY GM car I've owned has had DexCool except my 1986 Cavalier. The issue with the 3100 ("M" and "J" code) and 3400 engines is that the lower intake gasket material on the earlier generations was changed to plastic (with rubber molded in for port sealing. The plastic would crack, the rubber would shift, and coolant or oil would either leak from the outside OR coolant would leak into the oil. If the latter happened, it would usually occur suddenly and QUICKLY fill the crankcase with coolant. You can imagine how the engine could overheat and destroy the head gaskets if the engine wasn't shut down. Fel-Pro eventually made a lower intake manifold gasket set that was constructed with aluminum, but the first set I installed was before then lasted about the same 70K miles as the first set. That car currently has 260K miles on it. I've done gasket replacement on several cars with every variation of the leak (as described above), and Fel-Pro's "problem solver" product is the real deal. I've been hard on cars my whole life, and I've discovered abuse is FAR better than neglect and inattention. You're right about abuse causing problems though - my Sunbird had the manual tranny (BTW, V6s were only mated to the Muncie-Getrag 282/New Venture Gear T550, while the I4s used the Isuzu) and I made a "money shift" that sent the engine to 8300 RPM. The engine only lasted about 140K miles, while the Lumina's was still pulling when we gave it away with 300K miles on it after buying the 2001 Malibu.

@@good4jg Yea, my Cav (93) def did not have Dexcool in it and was not indicated for use of dexcool like on my later cars. But that car eventually popped a lifter, wrecked a rocker and push rod, then finally blew the head gaskets. It was a Gen II. Depending on application, not all 3.1's where 3100's in '93/94 (this is tail end of the splayed valved Gen II engines) - there was some changes to signify the Gen III 3100 series (new intake with sequential efi, roller rockers, stiffened block, Dexcool, and some other things I can't recall right now).