Best Cars To Buy Philippines

The only brands of cars to buy!

Best Cars to Buy

Want a car that will last a long time and will not become a money pit? Then Honda and Toyota are the only cars to choose from! Those manufactured in Japan are best. Japanese workers are most diligent and maintain highest quality standards.

I am a big fan of Scotty Kilmer. After watching many hours of his YouTube channel videos, I am convinced that most other brands are "crap" compared to Honda and Toyota.

Watch and subscribe to Scotty Kilmer on Youtube.

Whatever brand of car you buy be sure to change your oil and filter every 5,000 miles (or 8,046.72 km) or every 6 months (whichever comes first), change your timing belt every 100,000 miles (160,934.4 km) and turn your engine off if it is overheating.

If a manufacturer advises you can wait longer for oil and filter changes do not wait longer! Dirty oil destroys engines.

If your car has a timing belt and it breaks your engine may be destroyed.

If you are considering buying a used car have a good mechanic check it out thoroughly. Read the engine computer with a top quality car code reader diagnostic tool. The better the reader the better your diagnosis will be. Don't settle for the inexpensive readers. A really good mechanic will have one like this. In fact a really cheap one could destroy a car's computer.

Pull a spark plug. If it is black with oil Do Not Buy the car!

If the car is rusty Do Not Buy it!

If the car smells musty or if there is water in the headlights Do Not Buy it (it may have been flooded).

About Scotty Kilmer (excerpt from Wikipedia)

Early life

Scotty Kilmer was born on October 2, 1953, in Niagara Falls, New York. At age 14, he learned to be a mechanic from his grandfather, Elmer Kilmer, who was the chief mechanic at the Texaco gas station which Scotty's father owned. He studied at York University for his undergraduate degree and then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving a master's degree in anthropology. He was in the process of working towards his Ph.D., but eventually quit, due to his dissatisfaction with the university tenure system. Kilmer would then go on to become a mechanic and move to Houston in 1980. Upon the suggestion of his wife, Kilmer wrote a book, Everyone's Guide to Buying a Used Car and Car Maintenance, originally published in 1994. Its release led Kilmer to be on the front page of the Houston Chronicle, which attracted the attention of the local CBS affiliate KHOU.

Career

Before YouTube, Kilmer had a television show on KHOU titled Crank it Up with Scotty. In this series, he showed the audience how to diagnose minor automotive mechanical problems, offered opinions on vehicle engineering, and provided solutions to low-profile problems. In 2004, Crank It Up earned a Regional Emmy Award for "Outstanding Interactivity"; Kilmer subsequently received an Emmy for "Best Interactive Car Talk Host.." His YouTube channel is much the same, and he answers questions about car problems and the vehicle industry, and gives advice. Kilmer typically uses his customers' cars in his videos as a point of comparison or other demonstrations with various products he uses as a mechanic.

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Years ago we were traveling by taxi a lot. Most taxis here are Toyotas. We had a favorite driver and one day I asked him which brand was best. He replied, without hesitation, "Toyota." I ask why and he explained, they are all over the Philippines and therefore when you need parts they are readily available. Made sense to me. Hondas are also all over the place because, like Toyota, they have a very good reputation, so today we own a Honda. Our next car may be a Toyota.

Honda plans to introduce 30 new electric vehicles by 2030.

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Buying used cars in the Philippines.

I found this in comments about this video.

Comment by a factory worker.

"I work in a GM plant which used to be a joint venture between Japanese automaker and GM. First 10 years there we had to implement KAIZEN as the Japanese insisted on it. Then GM bought out the Japanese portion and we became 100% General Motors. Our assembly plant hasn't been the same ever since and quality has been declining rapidly, mainly due to difference in philosophy and approach. When we were half Japanese, when employees spotted defects and stopped the line to correct or report it, we were praised, and we would often receive gift cards etc... Under General Motors if you stop the line to point out a defect you can actually get in trouble, you're told that this is for Quality department to worry about it and not you, and if everyone will start stopping line for every little thing, we won't get our numbers. And a lot of issues won't get picked up by Quality because by the time it gets to them, other parts covered the defect etc... Also, under Japanese involvement we had Quality Check Team at the end of every line, and we had shower booths to test for leaks. Since GM took over completely, they completely removed shower booths, we no longer test for leaks, and we only have check team at end of Final line, where they are very limited to what they can detect."

A comment by a Toyota owner.

"Looking at future service schedules nothing popped out, same oil and check list with air filter thrown in every 25,000 miles or so. Basically Toyota maintenance is oil changes for the first 100,000 miles.

Word of warning, the local Toyota dealer attempts to make up for the lack of recommended services by asking if you want their “preventive service” for $200. When I asked what was included in such service they listed a bunch of silly things like filling the tires with nitrogen, and a protective coat on paint. Knowing a bit about cars I could find nothing on the list that was anything but a scam.
Love Toyota cars, Hate Toyota dealers."

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