April 16, 2025 • 16 mins
Matt Bullen has 38 years' experience as a mechanic in the automotive industry, he’s worked for pretty much every franchise brand – from the Japanese through the Europeans – you'll find him at Excel Autos in Whakatane, and today he joined the Afternoons team to answer questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
So Matt Bullen has thirty eight years experience as a
mechanic in the automotive industry. He's worked for pretty much
every franchise brand from the Japanese through to the Europeans
and you'll find him at Exil Autos and Fakatane and
once a month he joins us here at news Talk
ZB to answer your questions about vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Matt get at of you.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Good afternoon guys.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
How are you very good?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Let's get him with a text message to start off. Hey,
Matt and Tyler, I have a question for your brilliant
mechanic expert. Please. I have a twenty sixteen Ford Transit
custom van turbo Diesel six SP manual and the engine
malfunction warning keeps coming on. It has had a software
upgrades and numerous resets by the Ford dealer, but no luck.
It's so irritating and I'll never know if there is
(01:00):
actually an engine fault. I'm at the end of the road.
Thanks Matt. Any thoughts.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
To scan it and find out why that the engine
light comes on? Because one of the sensors in the
engine has detected a figure outside its parameters. Right, Normally
the sensors all have certain parameters that they lie within.
The common one isn't a oxygen sensor, you get very
(01:28):
it's common to have an oxygen sensor code. That may
be a faulty oxygen sensor, but it could be an
airlak or a block air filter. It's just that the
oxygen sensor has detected a reading that it doesn't like,
so you need to scan it. Somebody's going to have
to scan it, find out what what code is causing
that light to come on, and start from there. If
you've been to the four dealer, may haven't been able
(01:48):
to do it. I'd probably recommend going what electrician?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Or you could just put a piece of tape over
the area where it flashes up so you can't see it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, they can work for a little while. Mat, Yeah,
not a good idea. A hundred eight hundred eighty ten
eighty is the number to coo. If you've got a
question for Matt, Now is your opportunity sun the show?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
You got a question, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Just a fairly general question. I took a diesel vehicle
to a mechanic with a fuel injection issue which they
said that fixed, and when they were testing it or
running it to make sure a bearing not developed in
the engine, which they said was unrelated to the work
that were they they have done for the thing, So
(02:31):
what sort of It just seems really bizarre for a
vehicle that had done just over one hundred thousand caves
to run a bearing whilst they were fixing it for
the thing. I'm just wondering if there's any any rights
you're entitled to it the Punz.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, look, it could be coincidental, but I don't like
coincidences that that is a bit weird to have that
happen while it's being serviced. Bearings generally run because they
run out of lubrication. So did they do any other work?
Did they drain the or did they change? Did they
service it? What was the reason that the injectors were done?
(03:10):
Was it was it low on all pressure? Maybe the
inject default was due to all pressure as well, a
lot of injectors rely on engine oil pressure to operate
as well. It may have been the existing condition.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yep, it was a crack in one of the injector
lines which they replaced and when they when the line
was cracked and let air into the system. So that's
what they were effectively remedying. So they replaced the lines
and bled it up, and they they kept they kept
the car at quite a period of time to keep
running it and bleeding it. And they said, they left
(03:42):
it idling for a few hours and what have you
to have it go through. And then it developed this
knock whilst it was they were doing that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Based on that, it kind of sounds a little bit suspicious. Well,
you know, without actually seeing the vehicle, but if it's
developed a bearing knock, it's going to need to be
stripped down and have an engineer re condition to tell
you why it did it. But it does kind of
sound a bit suspicious to replace the injective pipe. Really,
it's you know, it's not it's not a day's work.
That's it can be a pretty quick job to do.
So was it a franchise garage? Was the brand of
(04:18):
the vehicle?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Garage was at a Ford and it was with an
m A mechanic, But it wasn't a franchise garage, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, okay, thank you call Sean.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That has helped all the best with that one text
question here, Matt, I have a Mitzbische per pergio for
and for about two days it made a violent bang
when starting it up. I was about to take it
to my mechanic and it's stopped and hasn't done it since.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Am I in the clear from Dan.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
This is a classic.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You taken the mechanic and it stops happening.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh heck, I mean when he sees violent bang, that
edding violent in there doesn't sound good.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, it's a pageiro so it won't have a trunk,
so it can't be someone that's been shoved in the
trunk in a movie in Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, look, yeah you need that. Somebody needs to look
at it. But if it's not doing it, it's impossible
to find. You know, when noises happen to a customer
and then they don't happen to ask, it's really difficult
to find. If it's just when you're starting it. It
could be a front pulley, a green shaft or something
like that, but very difficult to diagnose without actually doing it.
(05:31):
You might just have to monitor it and see if
it keeps doing it. If it gets worse or gets
more regular than get into another garage.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call, and now is your opportunity to chat to Matt.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, you've got a question for Matt.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Oh, Kim here, Yeah, I haven't. Oh yeah, I have
a ninety one is in primere. It's an automatic, and
when I put it into drive, it doesn't get mobile,
you know, for about ten seconds, and then it'll go.
That's just from a cold start.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
When it's and when you're dry, haven't it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Can you feel the gears changing? Can you feel it
going through the gears?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Not not that smooth though.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Just a little.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You go, Mat, Yeah, it might be an auto. It
might be an automatic problem. It may also be a
command problem, maybe stuck in third years. Sometimes it might
be in limp mode. But you're really probably gonna have
to get to an auto transmission specialist.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Hopefully that helps.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Kim. There's no lights on, there's no lights on the dash.
It's probably not an engine problem. It might be an
automatic transmission problem.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeh yeah, good luck with that, Kim.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Connie, how are you you're on with me?
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hello, Matt, My daughter has had a had a tea.
There can keep squeaking every time you start. That's the
noos and tita is it?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, and it just squeaks when she starts it.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Yeah, there's squeaking noise.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So she doesn't replaced recently the belts replaced. Yeah, yeah, okay,
it does sound like a belt noise. You could try
when she starts it, if it's squeaking, turn the air
conditioning on and off and see if that makes a difference.
That will load up one of the belts. But if
it just squeaks when it starts, it does sound like
(07:27):
if it's worse when it's wet or is it? Does
it do it all the time or just when it's cold?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Stick?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah. Sometimes when you get your belts replaced, sometimes they
stretch a little bit and you might need to go
back and have them readjusted.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
A Yeah, it could be a rodent sleeping in there
as well.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, yeah, it could be a little little mice. Yeah. Yeah,
you know, mate, you're on with Matt. What's your question?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, mate, Yeah, Hey, I've got to twenty
seventeen holding Colorado. It'll turn over. But what fire? I
just wondered if you got the idea, just won't it'll turn,
you know, crank, crank, but it won't fire diesel diesel.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeas.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
How long since it's been serviced, has head has had
a fuel filter?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Yeah you have changed, You've changed all the filters.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Okay, you've done that, You've done it yourself.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'll bleed and I'll bleed the problem started. Yeah, No,
it's actually sort of ah well yeah, it's just sort
of come on, I just wonder deliver it was a
you know, the electronic or the fuel pumping the tank
or whatever. But but yeah, it's a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Of a just trying to what a Colorado system looks like.
But you're probably going to have to prime the fuel.
If it's gone electric pump, you can do it by
cycling the key, turn the key on and off a
few times.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, it hasn't.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It hasn't got a mechanical lift pump that you can
pump by hand.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
No, no, no it's not. It's not not my older
one's got but this one, the new one that has
not got to sort.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Of yeah, yeah, sounds like a fuel issue. But you're
gonna have to get somebody You're gonna have to get
somebody to have a look at that one. Probably Diesel
specialis store holding specially.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I thought i'd just see
if you if you knew.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well that it's very common to have them trap here
and sometimes they can be hard to start. Rangers can
be really hard to start after you've changed the fuel folter.
So yeah, I try cycling it a few times and
get that fuel pumped up. But yeah, you might have
to get somebody to have a look at that one.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Good luck, Kevin Nick.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You're on with with Matt now and you've got a
question tobut your subari.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Yeah, I've got a two thousand and five outback and
the driver's door and the passenger jaw on the driver's side.
We use a key for lock and unlock that clicks,
but it doesn't lock it unlocked. The other two doors do.
They're fine, and I've tried to turn the child lock
on off, but they make the noise. They just don't
(10:17):
lock or unlock them meanly.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So the driver's door doesn't unlock.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
In the back door, yeah, the driver's door and the
back door on the driver's side, but they have a
two one.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
But the other side. Yeah, probably a weak actuator in
the door.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Do I protect the doors to bit sweat your water?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably a weak actor. They I mean
they can't get dirty and just sticky and just really
hard to move. And they're not they're not just not
powerful enough to move them if they're too dirty. But
probably a weak actuator. It's a bit odd that it's
both doors.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Though, Yes, weird that came ba at the same time.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
Who is that.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Unless you're confidence pulling the pulling the door panels off,
you could try pulling the panels off and trying it
and see if it works with the door panels off.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I mean that that feels like a pretty big
job for a layman.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mat.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean, would you if you don't know what you're doing,
it's probably not the one to give a crack.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Possibly something. I'll go to Anuto electrician four as well.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, no, very good.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One hundred and eighty eighty is the number to call
if you've got a question for Matt.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Now is your chance?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
This person says they've got a toyet of wits that
has a pair of testicles hanging off the toe bar.
They are now getting a bit of gravel rash. What
can I do about that?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Perhaps give them a saucer of milk?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, exact, Yeah, very good, good answer. That's that, Kevin.
You've got an issue with your clutch.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
Yeah, it's two thousand and seven ra Yeah, HS three.
It's a six leader six speed manual. When you drive
it real hard, the clutch can drop straight to the
floor and that won't lift back up. Yes, to lift
it up would yeah, not all the time, but sometimes
(12:08):
when you're driving at half.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yep. The last one I saw doing that, The last
one I saw doing that, and it wasn't an HSV. Well,
I can't remember what vehicle was, but the the firewall
had cracked and the whole assembly, the mount point for
the clutch pedal was loose. But it also could more
likely probably just the hydraulic problem. It could be a
master cylinder or a slave cylinder.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I've replaced both of them.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Okay, does and the clutch doesn't slip when you're driving
it normally pull the carpets, pull the carpets back, get
in there with a torch and just make sure there's
no cracks around. Whether whether clutch assembly has bolted to
the mask to the firewall. Make sure the whole thing's not.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Moving all the best with that, Kevin, That sounds like
it potentially could be serious. Text question Yeah, text questionnaire
for your map and this stixes. It's a tough one
for you, holding VT. You get a lot of holding
questions today with a random misfire has good compression, new plugs, leads,
coil pack sensors.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Et cetera, et cetera. What am I missing?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh? Yeah, if it's common common plugs and leads on those, Yeah,
you need to I need to drive it. Well, somebody
needs to drive it. You can tell a plug miss
from a surge or maybe clean the throttle body. But yeah,
it's yeah, I'd need to drive somebody would need to
drive that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yep, very good, Rich, it's you got some problems with
you in this in Yeah.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
I bought a Bran new in this in extrail DPO
one in July twenty three from after driving it for
ten minutes to get home, there was black smoke pouring
out from under the dish. Ever since then, as I've
had mirrors, windscreen, wipers, breaks, jamming on, so many things
go wrong with it. And had it for four months,
(14:03):
said it's.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
All because it was very new and twenty three. It's
all under warrant. You can take it back to the scene.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah, well they're doing it under warranty, but it keeps
coming back. Say there's nothing wrong with it, and I'm
sure having breaks gemming on.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
The latest one is the three three folks came up
on the screen, took photos of them and the car
stopped in the middle of the road and said, do
not get back into the car. They out of the
car and they're replacing the ulph nator on it, but
the brakes are still jamming on and this they're out
of the two not quite two years I've had. It's
spent five months the workshop, but they're refusing to really
(14:39):
do much about it, supposedly changing.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yep. I'd be going back to the sales department telling
them that you are not heavy with it, and then
you either want a refund or another car. Now I
can't give you legal advice, but that's where i'd be going.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, very good to your old car.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Should not be doing that. Yes, a misachief I dealer
principal or the sales department.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, someone phoned in apparently met and they said the
consumer guarantees that not that for purpose. Get a lawyer
about he's so, yeah, yep, potential there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Go back to the dealer principle, and so this car
needs to come back on another one or all my
money back.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Hey this six, and met says looking up Gavin Dater's
car from a two thousand and seven Mesda. Alex Alexa,
can you recommend any hatchbacks that are reliable and good
mechanically please? Tota Coroler that's the best one.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yep, I got two?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, okay, right?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Is it all?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
You've had a Corolla?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Fantastic? I think we've got time.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, as long as you're quick and it metal just
have to be a short answer, but we'll go for it.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Yeah, get it, guys. I love what you're doing here,
great odear. I bought a fencing business, and I know
the truck's been absolutely abused and I've abused it for
about the last twenty thousand. K's just home big loads
Dmax twenty. There's a time to get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
There's a few things creeping in, like clutches against sticky.
Other than that, it's been pretty good. But do you
reckon it can keep trying to.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
All right, Matte, big question.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
They went great to begin with.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Very good, well all the best mate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You're accountant a new vehicle.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, very good, Matt. We'll run out of time.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Definitive answer again.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, get rid of the DMX.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Thank you very much again mate, Always enjoy having you on.
So we'll check again in about a month's time.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
May It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, all right, that is Matt Bollin met the mechanic
of course, part of our US the Expert series, and
there's always advice offered on the segment has done in
good faith and should always be confirmed by a physical
inspection of your vehicle.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
So Matt Bullen has thirty eight years experience as a
mechanic in the automotive industry. He's worked for pretty much
every franchise brand from the Japanese through to the Europeans
and you'll find him at Exil Autos and Fakatane and
once a month he joins us here at news Talk
ZB to answer your questions about vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Matt get at of you.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Good afternoon guys.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
How are you very good?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Let's get him with a text message to start off. Hey,
Matt and Tyler, I have a question for your brilliant
mechanic expert. Please. I have a twenty sixteen Ford Transit
custom van turbo Diesel six SP manual and the engine
malfunction warning keeps coming on. It has had a software
upgrades and numerous resets by the Ford dealer, but no luck.
It's so irritating and I'll never know if there is
(01:00):
actually an engine fault. I'm at the end of the road.
Thanks Matt. Any thoughts.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
To scan it and find out why that the engine
light comes on? Because one of the sensors in the
engine has detected a figure outside its parameters. Right, Normally
the sensors all have certain parameters that they lie within.
The common one isn't a oxygen sensor, you get very
(01:28):
it's common to have an oxygen sensor code. That may
be a faulty oxygen sensor, but it could be an
airlak or a block air filter. It's just that the
oxygen sensor has detected a reading that it doesn't like,
so you need to scan it. Somebody's going to have
to scan it, find out what what code is causing
that light to come on, and start from there. If
you've been to the four dealer, may haven't been able
(01:48):
to do it. I'd probably recommend going what electrician?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Or you could just put a piece of tape over
the area where it flashes up so you can't see it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, they can work for a little while. Mat, Yeah,
not a good idea. A hundred eight hundred eighty ten
eighty is the number to coo. If you've got a
question for Matt, Now is your opportunity sun the show?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
You got a question, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Just a fairly general question. I took a diesel vehicle
to a mechanic with a fuel injection issue which they
said that fixed, and when they were testing it or
running it to make sure a bearing not developed in
the engine, which they said was unrelated to the work
that were they they have done for the thing, So
(02:31):
what sort of It just seems really bizarre for a
vehicle that had done just over one hundred thousand caves
to run a bearing whilst they were fixing it for
the thing. I'm just wondering if there's any any rights
you're entitled to it the Punz.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, look, it could be coincidental, but I don't like
coincidences that that is a bit weird to have that
happen while it's being serviced. Bearings generally run because they
run out of lubrication. So did they do any other work?
Did they drain the or did they change? Did they
service it? What was the reason that the injectors were done?
(03:10):
Was it was it low on all pressure? Maybe the
inject default was due to all pressure as well, a
lot of injectors rely on engine oil pressure to operate
as well. It may have been the existing condition.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yep, it was a crack in one of the injector
lines which they replaced and when they when the line
was cracked and let air into the system. So that's
what they were effectively remedying. So they replaced the lines
and bled it up, and they they kept they kept
the car at quite a period of time to keep
running it and bleeding it. And they said, they left
(03:42):
it idling for a few hours and what have you
to have it go through. And then it developed this
knock whilst it was they were doing that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Based on that, it kind of sounds a little bit suspicious. Well,
you know, without actually seeing the vehicle, but if it's
developed a bearing knock, it's going to need to be
stripped down and have an engineer re condition to tell
you why it did it. But it does kind of
sound a bit suspicious to replace the injective pipe. Really,
it's you know, it's not it's not a day's work.
That's it can be a pretty quick job to do.
So was it a franchise garage? Was the brand of
(04:18):
the vehicle?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Garage was at a Ford and it was with an
m A mechanic, But it wasn't a franchise garage, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, okay, thank you call Sean.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That has helped all the best with that one text
question here, Matt, I have a Mitzbische per pergio for
and for about two days it made a violent bang
when starting it up. I was about to take it
to my mechanic and it's stopped and hasn't done it since.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Am I in the clear from Dan.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
This is a classic.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You taken the mechanic and it stops happening.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh heck, I mean when he sees violent bang, that
edding violent in there doesn't sound good.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, it's a pageiro so it won't have a trunk,
so it can't be someone that's been shoved in the
trunk in a movie in Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, look, yeah you need that. Somebody needs to look
at it. But if it's not doing it, it's impossible
to find. You know, when noises happen to a customer
and then they don't happen to ask, it's really difficult
to find. If it's just when you're starting it. It
could be a front pulley, a green shaft or something
like that, but very difficult to diagnose without actually doing it.
(05:31):
You might just have to monitor it and see if
it keeps doing it. If it gets worse or gets
more regular than get into another garage.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call, and now is your opportunity to chat to Matt.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, you've got a question for Matt.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Oh, Kim here, Yeah, I haven't. Oh yeah, I have
a ninety one is in primere. It's an automatic, and
when I put it into drive, it doesn't get mobile,
you know, for about ten seconds, and then it'll go.
That's just from a cold start.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
When it's and when you're dry, haven't it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Can you feel the gears changing? Can you feel it
going through the gears?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
Not not that smooth though.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Just a little.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You go, Mat, Yeah, it might be an auto. It
might be an automatic problem. It may also be a
command problem, maybe stuck in third years. Sometimes it might
be in limp mode. But you're really probably gonna have
to get to an auto transmission specialist.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Hopefully that helps.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Kim. There's no lights on, there's no lights on the dash.
It's probably not an engine problem. It might be an
automatic transmission problem.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeh yeah, good luck with that, Kim.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Connie, how are you you're on with me?
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hello, Matt, My daughter has had a had a tea.
There can keep squeaking every time you start. That's the
noos and tita is it?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, and it just squeaks when she starts it.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Yeah, there's squeaking noise.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So she doesn't replaced recently the belts replaced. Yeah, yeah, okay,
it does sound like a belt noise. You could try
when she starts it, if it's squeaking, turn the air
conditioning on and off and see if that makes a difference.
That will load up one of the belts. But if
it just squeaks when it starts, it does sound like
(07:27):
if it's worse when it's wet or is it? Does
it do it all the time or just when it's cold?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Stick?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah. Sometimes when you get your belts replaced, sometimes they
stretch a little bit and you might need to go
back and have them readjusted.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
A Yeah, it could be a rodent sleeping in there
as well.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, yeah, it could be a little little mice. Yeah. Yeah,
you know, mate, you're on with Matt. What's your question?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, mate, Yeah, Hey, I've got to twenty
seventeen holding Colorado. It'll turn over. But what fire? I
just wondered if you got the idea, just won't it'll turn,
you know, crank, crank, but it won't fire diesel diesel.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeas.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
How long since it's been serviced, has head has had
a fuel filter?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Yeah you have changed, You've changed all the filters.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Okay, you've done that, You've done it yourself.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'll bleed and I'll bleed the problem started. Yeah, No,
it's actually sort of ah well yeah, it's just sort
of come on, I just wonder deliver it was a
you know, the electronic or the fuel pumping the tank
or whatever. But but yeah, it's a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Of a just trying to what a Colorado system looks like.
But you're probably going to have to prime the fuel.
If it's gone electric pump, you can do it by
cycling the key, turn the key on and off a
few times.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, it hasn't.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It hasn't got a mechanical lift pump that you can
pump by hand.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
No, no, no it's not. It's not not my older
one's got but this one, the new one that has
not got to sort.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Of yeah, yeah, sounds like a fuel issue. But you're
gonna have to get somebody You're gonna have to get
somebody to have a look at that one. Probably Diesel
specialis store holding specially.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I thought i'd just see
if you if you knew.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well that it's very common to have them trap here
and sometimes they can be hard to start. Rangers can
be really hard to start after you've changed the fuel folter.
So yeah, I try cycling it a few times and
get that fuel pumped up. But yeah, you might have
to get somebody to have a look at that one.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Good luck, Kevin Nick.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You're on with with Matt now and you've got a
question tobut your subari.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Yeah, I've got a two thousand and five outback and
the driver's door and the passenger jaw on the driver's side.
We use a key for lock and unlock that clicks,
but it doesn't lock it unlocked. The other two doors do.
They're fine, and I've tried to turn the child lock
on off, but they make the noise. They just don't
(10:17):
lock or unlock them meanly.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So the driver's door doesn't unlock.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
In the back door, yeah, the driver's door and the
back door on the driver's side, but they have a
two one.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
But the other side. Yeah, probably a weak actuator in
the door.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Do I protect the doors to bit sweat your water?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably a weak actor. They I mean
they can't get dirty and just sticky and just really
hard to move. And they're not they're not just not
powerful enough to move them if they're too dirty. But
probably a weak actuator. It's a bit odd that it's
both doors.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Though, Yes, weird that came ba at the same time.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
Who is that.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Unless you're confidence pulling the pulling the door panels off,
you could try pulling the panels off and trying it
and see if it works with the door panels off.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I mean that that feels like a pretty big
job for a layman.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mat.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean, would you if you don't know what you're doing,
it's probably not the one to give a crack.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Possibly something. I'll go to Anuto electrician four as well.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, no, very good.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One hundred and eighty eighty is the number to call
if you've got a question for Matt.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Now is your chance?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
This person says they've got a toyet of wits that
has a pair of testicles hanging off the toe bar.
They are now getting a bit of gravel rash. What
can I do about that?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Perhaps give them a saucer of milk?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, exact, Yeah, very good, good answer. That's that, Kevin.
You've got an issue with your clutch.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
Yeah, it's two thousand and seven ra Yeah, HS three.
It's a six leader six speed manual. When you drive
it real hard, the clutch can drop straight to the
floor and that won't lift back up. Yes, to lift
it up would yeah, not all the time, but sometimes
(12:08):
when you're driving at half.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yep. The last one I saw doing that, The last
one I saw doing that, and it wasn't an HSV. Well,
I can't remember what vehicle was, but the the firewall
had cracked and the whole assembly, the mount point for
the clutch pedal was loose. But it also could more
likely probably just the hydraulic problem. It could be a
master cylinder or a slave cylinder.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I've replaced both of them.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Okay, does and the clutch doesn't slip when you're driving
it normally pull the carpets, pull the carpets back, get
in there with a torch and just make sure there's
no cracks around. Whether whether clutch assembly has bolted to
the mask to the firewall. Make sure the whole thing's not.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Moving all the best with that, Kevin, That sounds like
it potentially could be serious. Text question Yeah, text questionnaire
for your map and this stixes. It's a tough one
for you, holding VT. You get a lot of holding
questions today with a random misfire has good compression, new plugs, leads,
coil pack sensors.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Et cetera, et cetera. What am I missing?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh? Yeah, if it's common common plugs and leads on those, Yeah,
you need to I need to drive it. Well, somebody
needs to drive it. You can tell a plug miss
from a surge or maybe clean the throttle body. But yeah,
it's yeah, I'd need to drive somebody would need to
drive that.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yep, very good, Rich, it's you got some problems with
you in this in Yeah.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
I bought a Bran new in this in extrail DPO
one in July twenty three from after driving it for
ten minutes to get home, there was black smoke pouring
out from under the dish. Ever since then, as I've
had mirrors, windscreen, wipers, breaks, jamming on, so many things
go wrong with it. And had it for four months,
(14:03):
said it's.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
All because it was very new and twenty three. It's
all under warrant. You can take it back to the scene.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah, well they're doing it under warranty, but it keeps
coming back. Say there's nothing wrong with it, and I'm
sure having breaks gemming on.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (14:15):
The latest one is the three three folks came up
on the screen, took photos of them and the car
stopped in the middle of the road and said, do
not get back into the car. They out of the
car and they're replacing the ulph nator on it, but
the brakes are still jamming on and this they're out
of the two not quite two years I've had. It's
spent five months the workshop, but they're refusing to really
(14:39):
do much about it, supposedly changing.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yep. I'd be going back to the sales department telling
them that you are not heavy with it, and then
you either want a refund or another car. Now I
can't give you legal advice, but that's where i'd be going.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, very good to your old car.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Should not be doing that. Yes, a misachief I dealer
principal or the sales department.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, someone phoned in apparently met and they said the
consumer guarantees that not that for purpose. Get a lawyer
about he's so, yeah, yep, potential there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Go back to the dealer principle, and so this car
needs to come back on another one or all my
money back.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Hey this six, and met says looking up Gavin Dater's
car from a two thousand and seven Mesda. Alex Alexa,
can you recommend any hatchbacks that are reliable and good
mechanically please? Tota Coroler that's the best one.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yep, I got two?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, okay, right?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Is it all?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
You've had a Corolla?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Fantastic? I think we've got time.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, as long as you're quick and it metal just
have to be a short answer, but we'll go for it.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Yeah, get it, guys. I love what you're doing here,
great odear. I bought a fencing business, and I know
the truck's been absolutely abused and I've abused it for
about the last twenty thousand. K's just home big loads
Dmax twenty. There's a time to get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
There's a few things creeping in, like clutches against sticky.
Other than that, it's been pretty good. But do you
reckon it can keep trying to.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
All right, Matte, big question.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
They went great to begin with.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Very good, well all the best mate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You're accountant a new vehicle.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, very good, Matt. We'll run out of time.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Definitive answer again.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, get rid of the DMX.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Thank you very much again mate, Always enjoy having you on.
So we'll check again in about a month's time.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
May It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, all right, that is Matt Bollin met the mechanic
of course, part of our US the Expert series, and
there's always advice offered on the segment has done in
good faith and should always be confirmed by a physical
inspection of your vehicle.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
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