September 19, 2024 • 41 mins
The WBZ NightSide Car Guys, Larry Rubenstein and Scott Rubenstein join us to talk all about cars. Do you have a question about your vehicle? Is your car is making a noise that just doesn’t seem right? Larry and Scott discussed the answers to all of your car questions!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night's Eyes, Dan Ray, I'm telling you Mazy Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back everyone, if you're just joining us. My name
is Dan Ray. This is Nightside and WBZ in Boston,
and we had the lighted to have with us the
WBZ car guys, veteran guest here on Nightside and on
several of the VZ talk programs, Larry and Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Rubinstein, and we are gonna go right to the calls.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Gentlemen. I think we had a clean first hour. I
don't think we've left anything on the table. If we're
ready to go, let's start hour number two.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
No, no, we got Okay, well, I've got I did
leave something on the table. And I really want to
humbly change my opinion. I believe the last call we
have was Wayne, Yes, Wayne, and I think I yeah.
I think I got a little confused with some numbers.
I didn't realize there was one hundred and fifty K
on this and I actually rethought my opinion and I'm
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changing it. And the reason why is if at that
mileage it's Frida rad differential, Regardless of my opinion, the
rad differentals means it was probably neglected and the fluid
was probably never serviced in it, something that I'm always
telling customers about at my current place that I work at.
So if he neglected if then the red differential was
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neglected for all that time, it makes me rethink and
ask myself what else was neglected in that one hundred
and fifty thousand miles. With that being said, I actually
agree with Larry and think that it's best that he
probably walks away from it and looks at a different model.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
All right, well, Wayne, Wayne, you've had a second thought.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Here, so you can get two thumbs down from us
and find something else.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You got it, You got it, Wayne. Okay, let's now
go to Jay and Plymouth. Jay, you called back. I
promised i'd put you to the head of the line,
and here you are. You're on, Jay, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I could hear you. Fine. I know you dropped off
before and I'm trying to do this as an accommodation
for you. Go right ahead. You're on with Larry Scott.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, thank you, guys, because I was I was in
my car and I'm on top play. You know, they
didn't have any auto mechanics classes where I went to
high school. And my problem I have is I have
a twenty twenty three Chevy bolt and apparently there are
rodents that really love eating the wires because they have
one or soy being component and I have I got
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peppermint spray. But I wondered, what else can I do to, maybe,
you know, get rid of this problem.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
What you do have an answer?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What do you got mice?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And I've got one too?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Go ahead, dead, Yeah, I'm sure they're not rats, but yeah,
I think it's mice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm thinking I think in mothballs, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Go ahead, all right, Well, first of all, we have
had customers that have that problem. There is a product
though called mouse Blocker, which you put under the hood
of your car, and it's attaches to your battery. The
install that is maybe twenty minutes at best, and it
has flashing lights and it makes noises and it keeps
the rodents out of your engine bay. Now will they
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go into your car? I don't know. I hope not.
They'll hopefully stay away from your car. But if you
keep food in your car, like packages of peanut butter
crackers and things like that, you're sending an open invitation
for these critics to come in and get fed. As
far as your engine harness goes. Honda makes a hot
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mustard tape and what people have been doing is buying
rolls of this tape and taping over the wire harness
with mustard tape, and that has resolved the issue. Because
a fuel injection harness or a computer harness can cost
thousands of dollars. However, be aware of this problem.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Jay.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
If you get a computer harness that is eaten by
rodents and you've got a bill that's going to exceed
a thousand dollars, your insurance will cover it.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well really, oh is that really?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Really? Yeah? And you have to let them know and
they will cover it. Similar to a car accident or
something of that nature. You are covered if the harness
gets eaten. Scott, you said that you wanted to add
to it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, I mean, first of all, that was wonderful advice
and exactly so. Firstly, in our shop, we've had I
can think of at least four this past season that
have done upwards five to ten thousand dollars worth of
damage due to destroying wiring harnesses. And what's required to
not just get the smell out, but the tear a
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car apart, dig through all your wiring harnesses and repair everything.
The only other suggestion I had so calling your insurance
company is a brilliant idea, and they I've had more
insurance companies coming in and look at the vehicles. With
that being said, another product I know of. It's different
than most blocker. It's a product they sell I believe on.
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It's called Grandpa Gus comes with like six pouches. It's
a very strong min mint smell. You can put them
under the engine bay, you can put them in the vehicle.
Funny quick, funny story. I had a customer in last
week who was complaining that she has saw some mouse
signed the mouse heard in the vehicle, and she wanted
us to eradicate the mouse, but not kill it. And
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I kind of had to, and I I pleasant, I
have a story I did once myself save a mouse
from a glute trap, so I get the caring about animals.
With that being said, you have to put a price
on it. Is it worth not eradicating that mouse in
a lethal way if need be ten thousand dollars, Because
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like I said, that's how much it can cost. Effects
of these things get in there and new damage.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
By the way, James, I could just add I'd like
the channel Mint Romney for a moment here.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't think we should call them rodents. These are varmit.
Just there we go.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We talked about shooting varmits, so I'm gonna channel Mitt
Romney and uh get rid of your varmits. I hope
this has helped you.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I don't have a gun, Dan, so I don't know about.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To shoot them.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
There's a very timely question, Dan, this is.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
A very timely question. He's talking about a mouse entering
your cow illegally, the damage they can carve.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, obviously the de mice do not have legal access
to the.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Vehicle, breaking and breaking it In breaking and entering, the
death penalty would work.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I think you have to.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I think you have to deport the mice and build
a wall to keep them out. There you go.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He was born in America though, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
David boy Well, that's a little different story.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, due process right, Yes, okay, Day, that was a
great call.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Thanks for calling back.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
All right, Hi, thanks Danny, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think we're going to top that call. But we're
gonna try We'll be back with more calls. If you'd
like to join the only line that's open. Listen up six, one, seven, nine,
ten thirty. I don't want anyone uh breaking their knuckles,
their fingers or their fingernails dialing the other number because
those lines that line is full. I told you would
have a good entertaining program tonight, no doubt about it.
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Let's keep rolling here. Coming back on Nightside after the break,
and by the way, the Patrios game is over there.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Lost twenty four to three to the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So Pats are.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
One and two in the Red Sox tonight only could
muster one hit from the number nine hitter in the lineup.
They lost it two to nothing. They were almost no
hit tonight. Tough night for Boston teams.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studio on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We're in the Window World Nightside Studios with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
The WBZ car guys. I really want to say the
w I want to say the Nightside car guys, but
if they're the WBC, they're bigger than Nightside. Let's go
right back to the phones. Folks have been very patient,
Sheldon in Sharon, Sheldon, you're next on Nightside. Thank you
for holding through the news. Go right ahead. You're own
with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Hello, gentlemen, I have an interesting problem.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
I think I might be able to.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Stump.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
I had a check engine light, APO, so I went
and I bought a hermostat.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You're a little muffled, hey, Sheldon, do be a favor.
Are you on a speaker phone a headsetters? You're just
a little muffled?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Here?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Does it sound better? I have to hold my phone
partner away.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Well, he's bick to this phone. I just want to
let people know a code P zero one twenty on
all vehicles as an insufficient cooling temperature, usually seen when
the engine doesn't warm up the full operating temperature, so
the thermostat would depth. I can see where you're going
with this. What do you got?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah? A little better. I don't know what type of
phone you're on, but give it up. Give it your
best shot, Sheldon, Go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Okay, So I had to check engine light. I bought
the part. I saw that it takes a lot of
It takes several hours to to replace it on a
twenty twelve forward focus. It's underneath the car and a
lot of things had to be moved. So I took
it to my mechanic and before I got there the
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code went away. But the reason I was worried about
this was that I would get a flapping sound when
I would turn turn the car on, playing with the
air conditioning stuff. The flapping sound go away. If I
was on recycle, if if I one fresh air, flapping
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sound would come on. It was not by the fan speed,
and it sounded like some sort of fluffer of was
causing it. When I went back to the when it
got some mechanic, the chickens and light had gone away,
and my mechanic said that you should probably change it anyway,
So we changed it and it made no difference on
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the flapping sound.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Okay, So if that flapping sides you're hearing when you're
working with the h back controls is a blend or actuate.
Now what that means is that when you go from
let's say, from recycle to fresh air, there's a little
door that opens and closes to either let fresh air
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come in to your HVAC system.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Or that's what it sounds.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
We are to recycle the ear that's inside of the car. Now,
there are several actuators or blendors in their car. There
is another one that controls the temperature, how much heater
core access or how much air conditioning access. It's very
easy to tell which one has gone. It's just a
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very small motor, about the size of the half of
a roll of quarters. And the problem is it's got
metal shafts in very cheap plastic gears, and the gears
strip out. The biggest problem with those. Those motives themselves
are actually very low in cost, but in some cars,
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gaining access to them is horrible. In some cases you
have to entirely remove the instrument panel from the debt,
from the gloff compartment all the way to the speedometer.
In some of them you can just take out the
glove box assembly and get to them.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I have a partial solution. If I turn it on
with the fan on, I don't get the problem.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
M Well, it's going to come back and bite you. Eventually,
you know that the problem is here. What's the year
of the car?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Seldom twenty twelve.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I've got two hundred and nineteen thousand miles on it.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Okay. So practically speaking, how how much longer do you
want to keep the car?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I'll keep it till the falls apart, until.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
It falls apart, okay. So, knowing that you have a
blend or issue, why don't you get an estimate and
see if it's worth it? Because if this fails in
the middle of the winter and you can't get heat,
you're going to be sorry you did not heed this advice.
I'm trying to help you out.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I hope that helps.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
It's just a question, I hope.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
So we get the flapping sound or not? Well that Michael, right,
get lapping.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
That flapping sound means that your HVAC unit is not
working the way that you're asking it to the fact
that you could do it with your with your fan
motor on, that's only going to work for so long.
And that's why I asked you, how long do you
plan to keep this? So why did you at least
get a price estimate of what it's going to cost
to change that and then you can make the intelligent
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decision as to which way you want to go. Sheldon?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
All right, Sheldon, I think you got some good advice
and I got full line, so I got to keep rolling.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Nice all right, take care of Sheldon.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You have a good night. And some of these are
it's like people whatever, We'll see what people think. Let's
go next to Angelo in Newton. Hey, Angela, welcome back
to night. So on your own with the WBC craw guys.
Go ahead, Angelo, I'm doing Dan.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Thank you for taking my call that I got a question.
I have a nineteen ninety six athlete fifty four, a pickup,
and it got forty eight thousand miles on it, and
all of a sudden it stops. I can crank the
engine and the billy wants to start and wants to stop.
Sometimes it starts idling ruck. If somebody told me that
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could be the gas, is that true, and they said
I should throw a fueling jet the cleaner in it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
It certainly couldn't hurt, but I'm doubtful that's the problem.
So when you start to let me ask you a question,
what is a ninety six five oh five eight? It's
four to sixty's got the big six point eight liter?
It should be yes, I think it was a six
six eight, Okay, No, seven to five. Excuse me, that
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was a seven point five. I you remember those? Yep,
it was a seven to five. So you start the
vehicle and it wants to stall right out on you.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
No, it stopped. I can crank the engine, but it
takes a while, but to start, it won't start right away.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Okay. And what does it take for it to start?
Is it just always an extended crank and then once it,
once it does finally started, it runs fine.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Yeah, but then after a while sometimes it starts iving.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Grow up.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's vitally okay. Does it seem like it's misfiring and
like it's down a cylinder? No, I'm more inclined to
think you have a fuel pressure problem. If you if
you get up on top of that big motor, you'll
see you got a couple of fuel rails up there,
and it'll be a little port. It looks like almost
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like a valve stem. It's a fuel pressure tap. Is
this something you working on yourself or having a having
a having a mechanic look at for you.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
I don't have to have a mechanic look at it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Okay, So so they should be I mean, this is
pretty old technology for where we're at nowadays. Unfortunately with
the with the older technology, it doesn't give us a
lot of the info we get nowadays with all the
computers in there. With that being said, the very first
thing I would start to do is stop by checking
the fuel pressure on it during cranking. You could those
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were known for having leaking fuel pressure regulators, so I
wouldn't be surprised if there's a vacuum line that lives
on top of the fuel pressure regulator that you may
want to suggest if they check out, if they remove
the top of the vacuum line and find that it's
all gas written because if the regulator is faulty, you're
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not going to get proper fuel pressure up to the rail.
So but I would that would I would absolutely start.
I you know, you can certainly try a can of
injection cleaner, but I'm hard pressed to think that there's
any mechanic in a bottle, not that I've ever seen,
but but definitely cannot hurt your cost. Start with the
fuel pressure check and that'll get you going in the
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right directions.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
By somebody says it could be even buying cheap gas too.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Is that right? Yet? Cheap cheap gas doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I mean because you could have a you couldn't get
that usually turned out the new ball and me the
combustion cham aside. You end up with a vowve the
deposits and the thing is that nature. If there's water
in the gas, that's a different story. But at the
same time that they do the fuel pressure test, they
can take a fuel sample and you can test it
for water.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Okay, because I need to put regular.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Hope that helps. I got other folks behind us here,
angel I think you got a good answers.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Okay, Okay, guys, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Angelo. I hate here. I just I want to give
everybody a chance. Gonna go next to Michael in Attamborough. Mike,
you were next on night side with the car guys to.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
The car guys the professor. I bought another odd ball
car to go along with my original lawn, the insight,
which is a quite desired him and I did get keybones,
but I still had it repaired.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
By the way you take a left trun out of
anywhere and someone hits it, your fallt unbelievable. Unbelievable, even
though you look. I bought and none of the little jokes.
Mercury Milan twenty ten hybrid.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I love the car.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I love it and comfortable, first first time I bought
anything other than a GM with the tufting of.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I'm getting.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I'm getting from the front end. On occasion, I'm told
maybe a swave, that maybe a ball joint.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
What do we got?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
What?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
What are you getting again from the frontis I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
A crunching.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
He's trying to make a noise, my phoney, gun badok So,
if you get a crunching noise up and down, in
most cases, that is a ball joint most cases. Now,
if you have it on a drive on lift, the
type of lift that you drive onto and then they
put the car up so your wheels have all the
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pressure on them. If somebody bounces the car up and down,
and you have a stethoscope and the different components, you'll
be able to isolate exactly where that noise is because
a similar noise could also be coming from a tirod
end ball in soccer assembly or a ball joint ball
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in soccer's assembly. There are a couple items okay, okay,
that year, but I'm sitting there right now twenty ten.
Do some of them still have the grease thing? I
think some of them still have the grease from the
fact time. Usually if they have been replaced, Yes, they
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should have a zert fitting on them.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Okay, So that thing can that think can break when
I'm driving right?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
It certainly can't. Yeah, I mean, this is not something
that you want to mess with, you know, try to
in the next couple of weeks. Go to a shop
that has a has a drive on left. And what
we used to do in my shop is have one
tech up top bouncing the car up and down, and
the other tech with a stethoscope clime isolated. Uh. Now,
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Scott had a great tool, but not many people have it.
And it's a series of microphones that you attach to
the different components and you can see on a gauge
which one of the microphones is picking up the loudest noise,
and that tells you exactly where the.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Noise that's coming from. It's not visible, but ty Rod,
I mean of the pot the breaking.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Right there, there is a ball and socket and case
in that in the metal there's a ball and socket.
When they start to rot out, that's when they make
that crunching noise.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, by gentlemen, we're at the bottom of the hour.
I hate to break this up, but Michael, give us
that crunching noise one more time before you leave. Good job,
good job, Thank you, Michael. It's always an entertaining phone call.
I hope that helps. Thanks Mike, appreciate it. Scott Larry
will stay with us through the news.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The only lines that are open right now is the
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty line, And
if you call right now, we'll get you in before midnight.
I guarantee you that whatever question you have about cars,
your automotive questions, as you can tell, Scott and Larry
are pretty well versed in this stuff. I gotta tell
you they don't get stumped. And I know some of
you are asking questions and you're you're looking for an answer,
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but you got to take the answer that they're gonna
give you. Okay, they're giving you their best advice, and
if you keep coming with the same question, they're not
gonna change the advice. They're gonna tell you what they
truly believe. These gentlemen are the consummate professionals. I can't
tell you how much I admired the knowledge base. If
you want to jump on six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. I loved the crunching noise from Michael.
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That was probably so far well one of the best
qunching noises I've ever heard. We'll be back on night
Side after.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
All right, gentlemen, we have full lines. We're gonna get
to everybody in here tonight, that's for sure. Anybody who's
on the line, you stay right there. We'll hopefully get
to even a couple more people. But let's go right now, Nodland,
we have full lines. Gonna go next to Jane and Shrewsbury. Jane,
you're on with the BZ car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 13 (22:51):
Go ahead, Jane, Hi, everybody, I'll get right to it.
I have kind of a multi part question, Dan, Okay, sure,
I have a twenty year old Sienna xcelly good trim
line that supposedly has no major problems with the undercarriage
because I had the brakes done recently. So I'm just
curious about your opinion as to whether or not it
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makes sense to it only has eighty thousand miles, makes
sense to keep driving a twenty year old car? Or
did they truly start to have things that break and
it's better to get rid of it now while it's
basically still in pretty good condition.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Because it is a Sienna. Drive it till it don't
drive no more. That's a great vehicle. Okay, and back
they were making great vehicles then too, and they still
are now. I mean they do it. They have had
a couple of cars that I would not say is
good to buy. But you've got yourself a great vehicle
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unless you have money to burn, drive it till it
don't drive no more.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Better, mindsel.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
I have a one noise that I won't make. That's
just a humming noise. It started to sort of hum accelerate,
and I had two mechanics listen when it first started,
and they said they didn't hear anything. But now it
happens more often. It doesn't seem to affect the handling,
but it kind of hums. Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 10 (24:23):
You know?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I got the call. It was a little bit broke,
broken up, Scott. Did you hear her question in full?
Speaker 14 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It was another concern with humming. So we had we
had a question, if you listen to the show earlier
tonight where somebody had mentioned a humming noise. Uh, does
say it only happens when you're accelerating it? Did it
happen a certain speed?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
No, it's accelerating sort of generally, I'd say not constant.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Not constant, Okay, so when you get up to like
above a certain speed, it doesn't stay air.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Or it's just a little bit intermittent. I think it's
not the whole time you're accelerating noises.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
There's only hard to diagnose over the phone. There was
a constant, I'd lean towards the wheel bearing, but I
really would now that you're the noise is more happening
more often. I would take it back to your mechanics,
who sounds like they've done a good job taking this,
taking good care of this vehicle for you, and let
them listen to it and try to get your point in.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
The right direction.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Could be anywhere from a wheel bearing as we talked about,
to tires to it. Tires really wouldn't be intermittent. Bearing
wouldn't be so intermittent. I'm more inclined to think possible
transmission from description. But again, I really think there's something
that needs to be heard in person.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Okay, so what do you think about the possibility that
it could be in an inboard CD joint? Possibly, but
I mean you.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Tend to hear You tend to hear those knock more
than anything.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Not the outdoard but the one on the inboard.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Anything as possible. But again I'm gonna pick to what
I say. I really think this needs to be driven
and listen to on the road to try to get
a sense of the direction.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Of where we need to go using a tool like
the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, we all done here, Jane.
Speaker 13 (26:13):
I wanted to ask a more general question that I
think the audience would be interested in, and that is,
I haven't even older Sienna that I want to replace,
and nowadays you find a lot more of them with
all wheel drive, and usually run flat tires. Run flat
tires decrease your gas mileage, and I think they're probably
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more expensive to replace. So I'm just curious about your
feelings about all wheel drive, the cost of that, the
run flats.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Both right on both counts. Yeah, they get all wheel
drives in general, do get four miles? You're now driving
four wheels compared to a two wheel vehicle, Whether it
be front or red. Driving four wheels is always going
to cost more fuel correct run flat tires, yes, significantly,
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you know, more expensive than a traditional you know, inflated tire.
So yeah, very correct on both points. With that being said,
it comes to the trade off. Can you can you
beat the reliability in various weather conditions driving an all
wheel drive vehicle? And that we have to you're paying
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for safety and you're paying for the peace of mind
that you know you'll be able to get through most
types of weather.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
Right right, that makes sense. I don't do a lot
of heavy snow driving. But my final thing is what
do you recommend for lubricating the window gasket? I had
a window go off track from sticking because of the
building up.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
If you, yep, if you just go to a one
of your local parks stores and just tell me you
want a silicone spray and you just want to you know,
put the window down in get you know, try to
get up as tight in that channel as possible, and
then make sure you wipe it off clean and then
when you close it, run the window up and down
a few times to make sure it doesn't kind of
smudge on the window. Because you'll need a good. You
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know windocks or whatever. They get that off, right.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
I think a lot of people save a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
All right, great things.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I gotta get out of Thanks chains. Always appreciate your time.
Right now. Let me go next to Bill and door Chester. Bill,
you're a the VC car guys going ahead? Built Hi guys,
how a U we're doing? Question?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I have two thousand and eight four focus.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Every time I back up in the morning, the driveway
hit my bike steel.
Speaker 12 (28:43):
All ray, I think it's cover the front.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Well, there's moisture on the car.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
In the morning, I go, I go back up to
the s wheel where I release.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
The emergency brake. I put the emergency brake.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
On every night.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Where I go in the morning, they still terribly backing up?
How you go on to the squirrel? Does do you
hear the squaling noise if you don't use your emergency
break like like I always need the submersion break when
I shot the car. But does it squeal? If you
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would you please experiment one time not use your E
break and see if you still have have the squeal?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Okay, how are you trying that?
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Okay? That will tell us whether it actually is the
front or it's the rare. If it was moisture, it
would be more of a grindy sound, it wouldn't be
a squealing sounding.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Sound.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Can be caused by glaze pads. It can be caused
by sticking rotors. There's a there's a couple of things.
But let's try it without the e break one time
and let's see if the squal is gone, and that
way you'll know whether you have a table that's sticking.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, all right, great, thanks Bill, good questions, Thank you.
Let me get in here before we got to go
to break and we are going to go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Hold on, Tony before you get this collar end.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You've been a little.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Bit confused as to what to call us, and I've
talked to Scott, I've talked to Sandra, and we'd be
honored if you just call us Dan Ray's night side
car guys. That would be fine.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, agreat that's a promotion, the night side car guys,
the w busy nightside car guys. That'd be great. Thank you, guys. Best,
let me go to Tony Tony in Ohio. Tony, go right ahead,
you next on nightside.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Yes, I've got a twenty twenty Kia soul and I
got a break light issue. Uh, the lights work, but
I have to depress too far before they engage the lights.
And I replaced the switch at the pedal from a dealer.
It's a dealer part, but it's the same. It doesn't
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I've got the same problem. Uh is there a second
switch because this has no moving parts. It's it's I
don't know if it's a sensor.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Is it the dashboard brake warning light that that you're seeing.
Speaker 14 (31:15):
No, it's the brake lights, the brake lights at the back.
You know you put your brake on the light your
brake lights. There's nothing on the.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Dash okay, so you aren't getting want of light on
the dash. And they have replaced the brake light switch,
the one that's over by the pedal.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
Yes, is there, and it makes it sound like when
you put your brake on, you know, to engage the shifter.
And I'm wondering if there's a switch connected to that.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
So the well, the problem again you have the brake
lights won't shift.
Speaker 14 (31:54):
Yes, yes, the brakes work, but I have to depress
too far before they the light engage before.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Like the okay, all right, sorry, so yes that that
can be done with all with adjustment.
Speaker 14 (32:09):
Well, there's there's no moving parts on it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
How can you have a break switch with no moving parts?
Speaker 14 (32:17):
Well, that's that's what I'm thinking, and that's what we get.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Something's gonna be moving.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
The bracket that holds this switch is an adjustable bracket.
In fact, when you put in the switch, there is
an adjusting process to it where you pull it all
the way out. It's it's just not plug and play.
You have to adjust the switch when you install it.
Speaker 14 (32:40):
Okay, okay, I'll I don't want to tie you up.
You guys got a lot of calls. I'll just I'll
try it. I wasn't thinking about that. I'll try that adjustment.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Thank you to appreciate the break you become a regular caller.
Love love to hear from folks in Ohio. Thank you
very much. I have a great night. Okay, think all right,
we're gonna take one quick break here and Phil, Ron,
Katie and there. We are going to do our darness
to get all four of you in here. So you've
got to be quick and direct and as well, Scott
and Larry and I will as well, and we'll get
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out of the way. Get this last commercial break in.
This has been a great night for the BC Car Guys,
end for the night Side audience. We'll be back on
Nightside with the night Side WBC Car Guys right after this.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay, we're going to try to do the impossible.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We're going to try to get four calls in in
about seven minutes. Let's go fill in Boston, Phill Next
up on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Speaker 15 (33:37):
Okay, quick one twenty fourteen Honda Civic. I don't know
what side the engine eight thousand dollars. I hadn't the
beast a new side to put in and Dad disconnected
the bat or whatever that tells me. That's supposedly once
that happens, if I get a stick, it's got to
go to the system again. Gotta program, you know, if
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you're driving like a hundred mine and the bottom liners
it's the bottom line is. But now I get the car.
I turned the key and there's nothing there. There's no
noise at all. I beeped the horn and I just
by luck, I'm starting it up. I bought a portable charge.
I carry him in the car. Hoping that will work.
I was told it might be the starter, the connection,
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the starter, valve. What the bottom line is. I'm I
don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Man, I gotta be quick here, Phil, what's your question?
Speaker 15 (34:31):
The question is a good question, ignition. Should I if
it's not cars not starting properly? Should I look at
the the starter that the I mean the h but
the endine the start Of'm nervous. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, but you know I gotta you gotta give me
a question.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I got three people waiting behind you. Feel.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
What's your question?
Speaker 15 (34:52):
What did the steering? The fuel? I got a feel, Papa,
feel jet. I don't know what I I gotta get it.
The cow will start.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Relax, my friend, relaxed, so queer quick. Okay, if the
vehicle is not even cranking, and you're saying you don't
even have the engine, spin right, no, spin nothing, don't
forget about fuel and anything else. Gotta we got to
focus on the starter. Three main things you need on
the starter. You need to have a good ground at
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the starter itself. You need to have a good mean
twelve vot positive source at the starter, and you need
a trigger. And the trigger wire comes from the vehicle
being in park. Those three things. Starter on a vehicle
is the most is the simplest thing to diagnose. Okay,
A simple test light is really all you need to
test that system.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right, fair enough? Pheel. I hope that helps. It's a
complicated problem.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
You do.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Thank you, Thank you, Phil Ron, You're.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Next on nights. I gotta be quick.
Speaker 12 (35:54):
Wrong, go ahead, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Dan.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
That's been in two thousand, Cameron Toyota one hundred and
ninety two thousand miles on it and it's in the
past year. It's cost me thirteen hundred for one repair
for rodents. The second I had full joint, failed ball
joint and other things underneath the car across me forty
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six one hundred. And then just yesterday it's that the
check engine light is on. They suggested the teleconvernment is
going at the cost of about three thousand. So the
cours go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
What's the question? I think, I know where you're going here.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Yeah, Well what do I do? It's time to unloaded?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I think, yes, yes, how many?
Speaker 7 (36:51):
How many thousand miles on it? Okay, not a little
bit only it's a little bit early. But by what
you have just said it's time to trade it in
because it's just going to keep costing board. Now your
repairs exceed the value of the car. You've got all
the signs. If there were me, I say bye bye.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
All right, Rod, you got it. That's a three to
nothing vote to get rid of the car.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Thanks Roan, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Let's keep it got too Claire and Florida get clear,
and then we got Katie Claire go right ahead.
Speaker 16 (37:23):
Hi, good evening, Thank you for taking my call. I
have like twenty nineteen Nissan Rogue Sport, and I've moved
it from Connecticut, from Massachusetts to Connecticut to now Florida temporarily.
My question is is whether I should there should be
a change in maintenance since I moved to Florida compared
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to Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Florida, thank you so much easier. It's a Florida is
going to be much Yeah, Florida's going to be much
easier on this vehicle than New England could have a treated.
So I say, there's like the Larry was starting to
go with it. Keep doing the good maintenance you've been doing,
You're going to find it. It goes to a lot
less dollars to keep this thing going down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Good question, good quickly answer. Thanks Claire, last falling of
the night.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Katie in New York, Kitty, we got about a minute.
Speaker 17 (38:16):
Go ahead, Hi, guys. I has a two thousand and
one Lexus four point thirty. It has two hundred and
sixty six thousand miles on it. We bought it for
sixty thousand dollars new back in two thousand and one.
I just had to put ignition coils and spark plugs.
Speaker 18 (38:33):
I love the car. Do I keep it?
Speaker 17 (38:36):
Or is it just getting too old? Miles two hundred
and sixty six thousand.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
That car should give you roughly four hundred thousand miles,
so you're just a little bit over halfway done with it.
That's the great engine. These things will run forever with
a minimum amount of maintenance.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Oh my gosh, it would day all right, three four
thousand dollars until you get a three four thousand dollars
spence coming your way. I agree with Larry, Yeah, keep
it going.
Speaker 18 (39:11):
Oh that's great. Thanks a lot, guys.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Where are you calling from New York?
Speaker 18 (39:16):
Well, I'm just I'm I'm north of Albany by about
a nice little town called half Moon. I've lived many years,
my whole life in New England, and then circumstances.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Quick question. Is this your first time calling?
Speaker 18 (39:34):
No, I've called you once before.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
A long time about call more often.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Okay, I loved your call. Thanks very much, gentlemen. I
can't tell you how much I thank you. The w
BUS Night side Car guys Larry and Scott Rubinstein. Thank
you guys. You're amazing, amazing guests, and you also are
so generous with your time to my audience. I just
can't thank you enough. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I miss seeing you studio, but it's so easy.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No one has to drive home when we're doing the
show remotely, so we'll catch it again once, maybe a
little after Thanksgiving when the snow is going to start
to swirl, because we want to remind people to drive
safely in the winter time. Larry, Scott, thank you so much.
Say hi to everybody for us up there.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Okay, thank you Dan, Thank you Dan, good night, good
night everyone.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
WBZ night side car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. They
are the best. Thanks guys, keV a great night and
I can't thank them enough. So I'm done for the night,
Rob Brooks. We're a good traffic police officers. Tonight with
all the calls, a lot of calls tonight, we actually
ended up I think about seventeen calls, which is a
good number of calls because some of them are complicated.
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I am back tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, of course, is Friday.
We will do the twentieth hour tomorrow night. Marita will
be here in the morning and I'll be here tomorrow.
Marita will be here at four thirty in the afternoon.
I'm going on Facebook right now. If you want to
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Of course you can always check us out, like us
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(41:06):
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Is who passed fourteen years ago in February. That's where
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I do believe you'll see them again. Hope see you
anymorrow night on night side. Everybody have a great Friday.
It's Night's Eyes, Dan Ray, I'm telling you Mazy Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back everyone, if you're just joining us. My name
is Dan Ray. This is Nightside and WBZ in Boston,
and we had the lighted to have with us the
WBZ car guys, veteran guest here on Nightside and on
several of the VZ talk programs, Larry and Scott.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Rubinstein, and we are gonna go right to the calls.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Gentlemen. I think we had a clean first hour. I
don't think we've left anything on the table. If we're
ready to go, let's start hour number two.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
No, no, we got Okay, well, I've got I did
leave something on the table. And I really want to
humbly change my opinion. I believe the last call we
have was Wayne, Yes, Wayne, and I think I yeah.
I think I got a little confused with some numbers.
I didn't realize there was one hundred and fifty K
on this and I actually rethought my opinion and I'm
(00:52):
changing it. And the reason why is if at that
mileage it's Frida rad differential, Regardless of my opinion, the
rad differentals means it was probably neglected and the fluid
was probably never serviced in it, something that I'm always
telling customers about at my current place that I work at.
So if he neglected if then the red differential was
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neglected for all that time, it makes me rethink and
ask myself what else was neglected in that one hundred
and fifty thousand miles. With that being said, I actually
agree with Larry and think that it's best that he
probably walks away from it and looks at a different model.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
All right, well, Wayne, Wayne, you've had a second thought.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Here, so you can get two thumbs down from us
and find something else.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You got it, You got it, Wayne. Okay, let's now
go to Jay and Plymouth. Jay, you called back. I
promised i'd put you to the head of the line,
and here you are. You're on, Jay, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I could hear you. Fine. I know you dropped off
before and I'm trying to do this as an accommodation
for you. Go right ahead. You're on with Larry Scott.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, thank you, guys, because I was I was in
my car and I'm on top play. You know, they
didn't have any auto mechanics classes where I went to
high school. And my problem I have is I have
a twenty twenty three Chevy bolt and apparently there are
rodents that really love eating the wires because they have
one or soy being component and I have I got
(02:17):
peppermint spray. But I wondered, what else can I do to, maybe,
you know, get rid of this problem.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
What you do have an answer?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What do you got mice?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And I've got one too?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Go ahead, dead, Yeah, I'm sure they're not rats, but yeah,
I think it's mice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm thinking I think in mothballs, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Go ahead, all right, Well, first of all, we have
had customers that have that problem. There is a product
though called mouse Blocker, which you put under the hood
of your car, and it's attaches to your battery. The
install that is maybe twenty minutes at best, and it
has flashing lights and it makes noises and it keeps
the rodents out of your engine bay. Now will they
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go into your car? I don't know. I hope not.
They'll hopefully stay away from your car. But if you
keep food in your car, like packages of peanut butter
crackers and things like that, you're sending an open invitation
for these critics to come in and get fed. As
far as your engine harness goes. Honda makes a hot
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mustard tape and what people have been doing is buying
rolls of this tape and taping over the wire harness
with mustard tape, and that has resolved the issue. Because
a fuel injection harness or a computer harness can cost
thousands of dollars. However, be aware of this problem.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Jay.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
If you get a computer harness that is eaten by
rodents and you've got a bill that's going to exceed
a thousand dollars, your insurance will cover it.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well really, oh is that really?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Really? Yeah? And you have to let them know and
they will cover it. Similar to a car accident or
something of that nature. You are covered if the harness
gets eaten. Scott, you said that you wanted to add
to it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well, I mean, first of all, that was wonderful advice
and exactly so. Firstly, in our shop, we've had I
can think of at least four this past season that
have done upwards five to ten thousand dollars worth of
damage due to destroying wiring harnesses. And what's required to
not just get the smell out, but the tear a
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car apart, dig through all your wiring harnesses and repair everything.
The only other suggestion I had so calling your insurance
company is a brilliant idea, and they I've had more
insurance companies coming in and look at the vehicles. With
that being said, another product I know of. It's different
than most blocker. It's a product they sell I believe on.
(05:00):
It's called Grandpa Gus comes with like six pouches. It's
a very strong min mint smell. You can put them
under the engine bay, you can put them in the vehicle.
Funny quick, funny story. I had a customer in last
week who was complaining that she has saw some mouse
signed the mouse heard in the vehicle, and she wanted
us to eradicate the mouse, but not kill it. And
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I kind of had to, and I I pleasant, I
have a story I did once myself save a mouse
from a glute trap, so I get the caring about animals.
With that being said, you have to put a price
on it. Is it worth not eradicating that mouse in
a lethal way if need be ten thousand dollars, Because
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like I said, that's how much it can cost. Effects
of these things get in there and new damage.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
By the way, James, I could just add I'd like
the channel Mint Romney for a moment here.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't think we should call them rodents. These are varmit.
Just there we go.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We talked about shooting varmits, so I'm gonna channel Mitt
Romney and uh get rid of your varmits. I hope
this has helped you.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I don't have a gun, Dan, so I don't know about.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To shoot them.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
There's a very timely question, Dan, this is.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
A very timely question. He's talking about a mouse entering
your cow illegally, the damage they can carve.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, obviously the de mice do not have legal access
to the.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Vehicle, breaking and breaking it In breaking and entering, the
death penalty would work.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I think you have to.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I think you have to deport the mice and build
a wall to keep them out. There you go.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He was born in America though, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
David boy Well, that's a little different story.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, due process right, Yes, okay, Day, that was a
great call.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Thanks for calling back.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
All right, Hi, thanks Danny, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think we're going to top that call. But we're
gonna try We'll be back with more calls. If you'd
like to join the only line that's open. Listen up six, one, seven, nine,
ten thirty. I don't want anyone uh breaking their knuckles,
their fingers or their fingernails dialing the other number because
those lines that line is full. I told you would
have a good entertaining program tonight, no doubt about it.
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Let's keep rolling here. Coming back on Nightside after the break,
and by the way, the Patrios game is over there.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Lost twenty four to three to the New York Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So Pats are.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
One and two in the Red Sox tonight only could
muster one hit from the number nine hitter in the lineup.
They lost it two to nothing. They were almost no
hit tonight. Tough night for Boston teams.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studio on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We're in the Window World Nightside Studios with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
The WBZ car guys. I really want to say the
w I want to say the Nightside car guys, but
if they're the WBC, they're bigger than Nightside. Let's go
right back to the phones. Folks have been very patient,
Sheldon in Sharon, Sheldon, you're next on Nightside. Thank you
for holding through the news. Go right ahead. You're own
with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Hello, gentlemen, I have an interesting problem.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
I think I might be able to.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Stump.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
I had a check engine light, APO, so I went
and I bought a hermostat.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You're a little muffled, hey, Sheldon, do be a favor.
Are you on a speaker phone a headsetters? You're just
a little muffled?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Here?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Does it sound better? I have to hold my phone
partner away.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Well, he's bick to this phone. I just want to
let people know a code P zero one twenty on
all vehicles as an insufficient cooling temperature, usually seen when
the engine doesn't warm up the full operating temperature, so
the thermostat would depth. I can see where you're going
with this. What do you got?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Now?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah? A little better. I don't know what type of
phone you're on, but give it up. Give it your
best shot, Sheldon, Go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Okay, So I had to check engine light. I bought
the part. I saw that it takes a lot of
It takes several hours to to replace it on a
twenty twelve forward focus. It's underneath the car and a
lot of things had to be moved. So I took
it to my mechanic and before I got there the
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code went away. But the reason I was worried about
this was that I would get a flapping sound when
I would turn turn the car on, playing with the
air conditioning stuff. The flapping sound go away. If I
was on recycle, if if I one fresh air, flapping
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sound would come on. It was not by the fan speed,
and it sounded like some sort of fluffer of was
causing it. When I went back to the when it
got some mechanic, the chickens and light had gone away,
and my mechanic said that you should probably change it anyway,
So we changed it and it made no difference on
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the flapping sound.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Okay, So if that flapping sides you're hearing when you're
working with the h back controls is a blend or actuate.
Now what that means is that when you go from
let's say, from recycle to fresh air, there's a little
door that opens and closes to either let fresh air
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come in to your HVAC system.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Or that's what it sounds.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
We are to recycle the ear that's inside of the car. Now,
there are several actuators or blendors in their car. There
is another one that controls the temperature, how much heater
core access or how much air conditioning access. It's very
easy to tell which one has gone. It's just a
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very small motor, about the size of the half of
a roll of quarters. And the problem is it's got
metal shafts in very cheap plastic gears, and the gears
strip out. The biggest problem with those. Those motives themselves
are actually very low in cost, but in some cars,
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gaining access to them is horrible. In some cases you
have to entirely remove the instrument panel from the debt,
from the gloff compartment all the way to the speedometer.
In some of them you can just take out the
glove box assembly and get to them.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I have a partial solution. If I turn it on
with the fan on, I don't get the problem.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
M Well, it's going to come back and bite you. Eventually,
you know that the problem is here. What's the year
of the car?
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Seldom twenty twelve.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
I've got two hundred and nineteen thousand miles on it.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Okay. So practically speaking, how how much longer do you
want to keep the car?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I'll keep it till the falls apart, until.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
It falls apart, okay. So, knowing that you have a
blend or issue, why don't you get an estimate and
see if it's worth it? Because if this fails in
the middle of the winter and you can't get heat,
you're going to be sorry you did not heed this advice.
I'm trying to help you out.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I hope that helps.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
It's just a question, I hope.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
So we get the flapping sound or not? Well that Michael, right,
get lapping.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
That flapping sound means that your HVAC unit is not
working the way that you're asking it to the fact
that you could do it with your with your fan
motor on, that's only going to work for so long.
And that's why I asked you, how long do you
plan to keep this? So why did you at least
get a price estimate of what it's going to cost
to change that and then you can make the intelligent
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decision as to which way you want to go. Sheldon?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
All right, Sheldon, I think you got some good advice
and I got full line, so I got to keep rolling.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Nice all right, take care of Sheldon.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You have a good night. And some of these are
it's like people whatever, We'll see what people think. Let's
go next to Angelo in Newton. Hey, Angela, welcome back
to night. So on your own with the WBC craw guys.
Go ahead, Angelo, I'm doing Dan.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Thank you for taking my call that I got a question.
I have a nineteen ninety six athlete fifty four, a pickup,
and it got forty eight thousand miles on it, and
all of a sudden it stops. I can crank the
engine and the billy wants to start and wants to stop.
Sometimes it starts idling ruck. If somebody told me that
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could be the gas, is that true, and they said
I should throw a fueling jet the cleaner in it.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
It certainly couldn't hurt, but I'm doubtful that's the problem.
So when you start to let me ask you a question,
what is a ninety six five oh five eight? It's
four to sixty's got the big six point eight liter?
It should be yes, I think it was a six
six eight, Okay, No, seven to five. Excuse me, that
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was a seven point five. I you remember those? Yep,
it was a seven to five. So you start the
vehicle and it wants to stall right out on you.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
No, it stopped. I can crank the engine, but it
takes a while, but to start, it won't start right away.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Okay. And what does it take for it to start?
Is it just always an extended crank and then once it,
once it does finally started, it runs fine.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Yeah, but then after a while sometimes it starts iving.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Grow up.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's vitally okay. Does it seem like it's misfiring and
like it's down a cylinder? No, I'm more inclined to
think you have a fuel pressure problem. If you if
you get up on top of that big motor, you'll
see you got a couple of fuel rails up there,
and it'll be a little port. It looks like almost
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like a valve stem. It's a fuel pressure tap. Is
this something you working on yourself or having a having
a having a mechanic look at for you.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
I don't have to have a mechanic look at it.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Okay, So so they should be I mean, this is
pretty old technology for where we're at nowadays. Unfortunately with
the with the older technology, it doesn't give us a
lot of the info we get nowadays with all the
computers in there. With that being said, the very first
thing I would start to do is stop by checking
the fuel pressure on it during cranking. You could those
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were known for having leaking fuel pressure regulators, so I
wouldn't be surprised if there's a vacuum line that lives
on top of the fuel pressure regulator that you may
want to suggest if they check out, if they remove
the top of the vacuum line and find that it's
all gas written because if the regulator is faulty, you're
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not going to get proper fuel pressure up to the rail.
So but I would that would I would absolutely start.
I you know, you can certainly try a can of
injection cleaner, but I'm hard pressed to think that there's
any mechanic in a bottle, not that I've ever seen,
but but definitely cannot hurt your cost. Start with the
fuel pressure check and that'll get you going in the
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right directions.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
By somebody says it could be even buying cheap gas too.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Is that right? Yet? Cheap cheap gas doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I mean because you could have a you couldn't get
that usually turned out the new ball and me the
combustion cham aside. You end up with a vowve the
deposits and the thing is that nature. If there's water
in the gas, that's a different story. But at the
same time that they do the fuel pressure test, they
can take a fuel sample and you can test it
for water.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Okay, because I need to put regular.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Hope that helps. I got other folks behind us here,
angel I think you got a good answers.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Okay, Okay, guys, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Angelo. I hate here. I just I want to give
everybody a chance. Gonna go next to Michael in Attamborough. Mike,
you were next on night side with the car guys to.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
The car guys the professor. I bought another odd ball
car to go along with my original lawn, the insight,
which is a quite desired him and I did get keybones,
but I still had it repaired.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
By the way you take a left trun out of
anywhere and someone hits it, your fallt unbelievable. Unbelievable, even
though you look. I bought and none of the little jokes.
Mercury Milan twenty ten hybrid.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I love the car.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I love it and comfortable, first first time I bought
anything other than a GM with the tufting of.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I'm getting.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I'm getting from the front end. On occasion, I'm told
maybe a swave, that maybe a ball joint.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
What do we got?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
What?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
What are you getting again from the frontis I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
A crunching.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
He's trying to make a noise, my phoney, gun badok So,
if you get a crunching noise up and down, in
most cases, that is a ball joint most cases. Now,
if you have it on a drive on lift, the
type of lift that you drive onto and then they
put the car up so your wheels have all the
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pressure on them. If somebody bounces the car up and down,
and you have a stethoscope and the different components, you'll
be able to isolate exactly where that noise is because
a similar noise could also be coming from a tirod
end ball in soccer assembly or a ball joint ball
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in soccer's assembly. There are a couple items okay, okay,
that year, but I'm sitting there right now twenty ten.
Do some of them still have the grease thing? I
think some of them still have the grease from the
fact time. Usually if they have been replaced, Yes, they
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should have a zert fitting on them.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Okay, So that thing can that think can break when
I'm driving right?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
It certainly can't. Yeah, I mean, this is not something
that you want to mess with, you know, try to
in the next couple of weeks. Go to a shop
that has a has a drive on left. And what
we used to do in my shop is have one
tech up top bouncing the car up and down, and
the other tech with a stethoscope clime isolated. Uh. Now,
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Scott had a great tool, but not many people have it.
And it's a series of microphones that you attach to
the different components and you can see on a gauge
which one of the microphones is picking up the loudest noise,
and that tells you exactly where the.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Noise that's coming from. It's not visible, but ty Rod,
I mean of the pot the breaking.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Right there, there is a ball and socket and case
in that in the metal there's a ball and socket.
When they start to rot out, that's when they make
that crunching noise.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, by gentlemen, we're at the bottom of the hour.
I hate to break this up, but Michael, give us
that crunching noise one more time before you leave. Good job,
good job, Thank you, Michael. It's always an entertaining phone call.
I hope that helps. Thanks Mike, appreciate it. Scott Larry
will stay with us through the news.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The only lines that are open right now is the
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty line, And
if you call right now, we'll get you in before midnight.
I guarantee you that whatever question you have about cars,
your automotive questions, as you can tell, Scott and Larry
are pretty well versed in this stuff. I gotta tell
you they don't get stumped. And I know some of
you are asking questions and you're you're looking for an answer,
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but you got to take the answer that they're gonna
give you. Okay, they're giving you their best advice, and
if you keep coming with the same question, they're not
gonna change the advice. They're gonna tell you what they
truly believe. These gentlemen are the consummate professionals. I can't
tell you how much I admired the knowledge base. If
you want to jump on six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. I loved the crunching noise from Michael.
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That was probably so far well one of the best
qunching noises I've ever heard. We'll be back on night
Side after.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
All right, gentlemen, we have full lines. We're gonna get
to everybody in here tonight, that's for sure. Anybody who's
on the line, you stay right there. We'll hopefully get
to even a couple more people. But let's go right now, Nodland,
we have full lines. Gonna go next to Jane and Shrewsbury. Jane,
you're on with the BZ car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 13 (22:51):
Go ahead, Jane, Hi, everybody, I'll get right to it.
I have kind of a multi part question, Dan, Okay, sure,
I have a twenty year old Sienna xcelly good trim
line that supposedly has no major problems with the undercarriage
because I had the brakes done recently. So I'm just
curious about your opinion as to whether or not it
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makes sense to it only has eighty thousand miles, makes
sense to keep driving a twenty year old car? Or
did they truly start to have things that break and
it's better to get rid of it now while it's
basically still in pretty good condition.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Because it is a Sienna. Drive it till it don't
drive no more. That's a great vehicle. Okay, and back
they were making great vehicles then too, and they still
are now. I mean they do it. They have had
a couple of cars that I would not say is
good to buy. But you've got yourself a great vehicle
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unless you have money to burn, drive it till it
don't drive no more.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Better, mindsel.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
I have a one noise that I won't make. That's
just a humming noise. It started to sort of hum accelerate,
and I had two mechanics listen when it first started,
and they said they didn't hear anything. But now it
happens more often. It doesn't seem to affect the handling,
but it kind of hums. Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 10 (24:23):
You know?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
I got the call. It was a little bit broke,
broken up, Scott. Did you hear her question in full?
Speaker 14 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It was another concern with humming. So we had we
had a question, if you listen to the show earlier
tonight where somebody had mentioned a humming noise. Uh, does
say it only happens when you're accelerating it? Did it
happen a certain speed?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
No, it's accelerating sort of generally, I'd say not constant.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Not constant, Okay, so when you get up to like
above a certain speed, it doesn't stay air.
Speaker 13 (24:53):
Or it's just a little bit intermittent. I think it's
not the whole time you're accelerating noises.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
There's only hard to diagnose over the phone. There was
a constant, I'd lean towards the wheel bearing, but I
really would now that you're the noise is more happening
more often. I would take it back to your mechanics,
who sounds like they've done a good job taking this,
taking good care of this vehicle for you, and let
them listen to it and try to get your point in.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
The right direction.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Could be anywhere from a wheel bearing as we talked about,
to tires to it. Tires really wouldn't be intermittent. Bearing
wouldn't be so intermittent. I'm more inclined to think possible
transmission from description. But again, I really think there's something
that needs to be heard in person.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Okay, so what do you think about the possibility that
it could be in an inboard CD joint? Possibly, but
I mean you.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Tend to hear You tend to hear those knock more
than anything.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Not the outdoard but the one on the inboard.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Anything as possible. But again I'm gonna pick to what
I say. I really think this needs to be driven
and listen to on the road to try to get
a sense of the direction.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Of where we need to go using a tool like
the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, we all done here, Jane.
Speaker 13 (26:13):
I wanted to ask a more general question that I
think the audience would be interested in, and that is,
I haven't even older Sienna that I want to replace,
and nowadays you find a lot more of them with
all wheel drive, and usually run flat tires. Run flat
tires decrease your gas mileage, and I think they're probably
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more expensive to replace. So I'm just curious about your
feelings about all wheel drive, the cost of that, the
run flats.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Both right on both counts. Yeah, they get all wheel
drives in general, do get four miles? You're now driving
four wheels compared to a two wheel vehicle, Whether it
be front or red. Driving four wheels is always going
to cost more fuel correct run flat tires, yes, significantly,
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you know, more expensive than a traditional you know, inflated tire.
So yeah, very correct on both points. With that being said,
it comes to the trade off. Can you can you
beat the reliability in various weather conditions driving an all
wheel drive vehicle? And that we have to you're paying
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for safety and you're paying for the peace of mind
that you know you'll be able to get through most
types of weather.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
Right right, that makes sense. I don't do a lot
of heavy snow driving. But my final thing is what
do you recommend for lubricating the window gasket? I had
a window go off track from sticking because of the
building up.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
If you, yep, if you just go to a one
of your local parks stores and just tell me you
want a silicone spray and you just want to you know,
put the window down in get you know, try to
get up as tight in that channel as possible, and
then make sure you wipe it off clean and then
when you close it, run the window up and down
a few times to make sure it doesn't kind of
smudge on the window. Because you'll need a good. You
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know windocks or whatever. They get that off, right.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
I think a lot of people save a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
All right, great things.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I gotta get out of Thanks chains. Always appreciate your time.
Right now. Let me go next to Bill and door Chester. Bill,
you're a the VC car guys going ahead? Built Hi guys,
how a U we're doing? Question?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I have two thousand and eight four focus.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Every time I back up in the morning, the driveway
hit my bike steel.
Speaker 12 (28:43):
All ray, I think it's cover the front.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Well, there's moisture on the car.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
In the morning, I go, I go back up to
the s wheel where I release.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
The emergency brake. I put the emergency brake.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
On every night.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Where I go in the morning, they still terribly backing up?
How you go on to the squirrel? Does do you
hear the squaling noise if you don't use your emergency
break like like I always need the submersion break when
I shot the car. But does it squeal? If you
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would you please experiment one time not use your E
break and see if you still have have the squeal?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Okay, how are you trying that?
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Okay? That will tell us whether it actually is the
front or it's the rare. If it was moisture, it
would be more of a grindy sound, it wouldn't be
a squealing sounding.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Sound.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Can be caused by glaze pads. It can be caused
by sticking rotors. There's a there's a couple of things.
But let's try it without the e break one time
and let's see if the squal is gone, and that
way you'll know whether you have a table that's sticking.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, all right, great, thanks Bill, good questions, Thank you.
Let me get in here before we got to go
to break and we are going to go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Hold on, Tony before you get this collar end.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You've been a little.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Bit confused as to what to call us, and I've
talked to Scott, I've talked to Sandra, and we'd be
honored if you just call us Dan Ray's night side
car guys. That would be fine.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, agreat that's a promotion, the night side car guys,
the w busy nightside car guys. That'd be great. Thank you, guys. Best,
let me go to Tony Tony in Ohio. Tony, go right ahead,
you next on nightside.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Yes, I've got a twenty twenty Kia soul and I
got a break light issue. Uh, the lights work, but
I have to depress too far before they engage the lights.
And I replaced the switch at the pedal from a dealer.
It's a dealer part, but it's the same. It doesn't
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I've got the same problem. Uh is there a second
switch because this has no moving parts. It's it's I
don't know if it's a sensor.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Is it the dashboard brake warning light that that you're seeing.
Speaker 14 (31:15):
No, it's the brake lights, the brake lights at the back.
You know you put your brake on the light your
brake lights. There's nothing on the.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Dash okay, so you aren't getting want of light on
the dash. And they have replaced the brake light switch,
the one that's over by the pedal.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
Yes, is there, and it makes it sound like when
you put your brake on, you know, to engage the shifter.
And I'm wondering if there's a switch connected to that.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
So the well, the problem again you have the brake
lights won't shift.
Speaker 14 (31:54):
Yes, yes, the brakes work, but I have to depress
too far before they the light engage before.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Like the okay, all right, sorry, so yes that that
can be done with all with adjustment.
Speaker 14 (32:09):
Well, there's there's no moving parts on it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
How can you have a break switch with no moving parts?
Speaker 14 (32:17):
Well, that's that's what I'm thinking, and that's what we get.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Something's gonna be moving.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
The bracket that holds this switch is an adjustable bracket.
In fact, when you put in the switch, there is
an adjusting process to it where you pull it all
the way out. It's it's just not plug and play.
You have to adjust the switch when you install it.
Speaker 14 (32:40):
Okay, okay, I'll I don't want to tie you up.
You guys got a lot of calls. I'll just I'll
try it. I wasn't thinking about that. I'll try that adjustment.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Thank you to appreciate the break you become a regular caller.
Love love to hear from folks in Ohio. Thank you
very much. I have a great night. Okay, think all right,
we're gonna take one quick break here and Phil, Ron,
Katie and there. We are going to do our darness
to get all four of you in here. So you've
got to be quick and direct and as well, Scott
and Larry and I will as well, and we'll get
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out of the way. Get this last commercial break in.
This has been a great night for the BC Car Guys,
end for the night Side audience. We'll be back on
Nightside with the night Side WBC Car Guys right after this.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay, we're going to try to do the impossible.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We're going to try to get four calls in in
about seven minutes. Let's go fill in Boston, Phill Next
up on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Speaker 15 (33:37):
Okay, quick one twenty fourteen Honda Civic. I don't know
what side the engine eight thousand dollars. I hadn't the
beast a new side to put in and Dad disconnected
the bat or whatever that tells me. That's supposedly once
that happens, if I get a stick, it's got to
go to the system again. Gotta program, you know, if
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you're driving like a hundred mine and the bottom liners
it's the bottom line is. But now I get the car.
I turned the key and there's nothing there. There's no
noise at all. I beeped the horn and I just
by luck, I'm starting it up. I bought a portable charge.
I carry him in the car. Hoping that will work.
I was told it might be the starter, the connection,
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the starter, valve. What the bottom line is. I'm I
don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Man, I gotta be quick here, Phil, what's your question?
Speaker 15 (34:31):
The question is a good question, ignition. Should I if
it's not cars not starting properly? Should I look at
the the starter that the I mean the h but
the endine the start Of'm nervous. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, but you know I gotta you gotta give me
a question.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I got three people waiting behind you. Feel.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
What's your question?
Speaker 15 (34:52):
What did the steering? The fuel? I got a feel, Papa,
feel jet. I don't know what I I gotta get it.
The cow will start.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Relax, my friend, relaxed, so queer quick. Okay, if the
vehicle is not even cranking, and you're saying you don't
even have the engine, spin right, no, spin nothing, don't
forget about fuel and anything else. Gotta we got to
focus on the starter. Three main things you need on
the starter. You need to have a good ground at
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the starter itself. You need to have a good mean
twelve vot positive source at the starter, and you need
a trigger. And the trigger wire comes from the vehicle
being in park. Those three things. Starter on a vehicle
is the most is the simplest thing to diagnose. Okay,
A simple test light is really all you need to
test that system.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right, fair enough? Pheel. I hope that helps. It's a
complicated problem.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
You do.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Thank you, Thank you, Phil Ron, You're.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Next on nights. I gotta be quick.
Speaker 12 (35:54):
Wrong, go ahead, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Dan.
Speaker 12 (35:58):
That's been in two thousand, Cameron Toyota one hundred and
ninety two thousand miles on it and it's in the
past year. It's cost me thirteen hundred for one repair
for rodents. The second I had full joint, failed ball
joint and other things underneath the car across me forty
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six one hundred. And then just yesterday it's that the
check engine light is on. They suggested the teleconvernment is
going at the cost of about three thousand. So the
cours go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
What's the question? I think, I know where you're going here.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Yeah, Well what do I do? It's time to unloaded?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I think, yes, yes, how many?
Speaker 7 (36:51):
How many thousand miles on it? Okay, not a little
bit only it's a little bit early. But by what
you have just said it's time to trade it in
because it's just going to keep costing board. Now your
repairs exceed the value of the car. You've got all
the signs. If there were me, I say bye bye.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
All right, Rod, you got it. That's a three to
nothing vote to get rid of the car.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
Thanks Roan, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Let's keep it got too Claire and Florida get clear,
and then we got Katie Claire go right ahead.
Speaker 16 (37:23):
Hi, good evening, Thank you for taking my call. I
have like twenty nineteen Nissan Rogue Sport, and I've moved
it from Connecticut, from Massachusetts to Connecticut to now Florida temporarily.
My question is is whether I should there should be
a change in maintenance since I moved to Florida compared
(37:45):
to Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Florida, thank you so much easier. It's a Florida is
going to be much Yeah, Florida's going to be much
easier on this vehicle than New England could have a treated.
So I say, there's like the Larry was starting to
go with it. Keep doing the good maintenance you've been doing,
You're going to find it. It goes to a lot
less dollars to keep this thing going down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Good question, good quickly answer. Thanks Claire, last falling of
the night.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Katie in New York, Kitty, we got about a minute.
Speaker 17 (38:16):
Go ahead, Hi, guys. I has a two thousand and
one Lexus four point thirty. It has two hundred and
sixty six thousand miles on it. We bought it for
sixty thousand dollars new back in two thousand and one.
I just had to put ignition coils and spark plugs.
Speaker 18 (38:33):
I love the car. Do I keep it?
Speaker 17 (38:36):
Or is it just getting too old? Miles two hundred
and sixty six thousand.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
That car should give you roughly four hundred thousand miles,
so you're just a little bit over halfway done with it.
That's the great engine. These things will run forever with
a minimum amount of maintenance.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Oh my gosh, it would day all right, three four
thousand dollars until you get a three four thousand dollars
spence coming your way. I agree with Larry, Yeah, keep
it going.
Speaker 18 (39:11):
Oh that's great. Thanks a lot, guys.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Where are you calling from New York?
Speaker 18 (39:16):
Well, I'm just I'm I'm north of Albany by about
a nice little town called half Moon. I've lived many years,
my whole life in New England, and then circumstances.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Quick question. Is this your first time calling?
Speaker 18 (39:34):
No, I've called you once before.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
A long time about call more often.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Okay, I loved your call. Thanks very much, gentlemen. I
can't tell you how much I thank you. The w
BUS Night side Car guys Larry and Scott Rubinstein. Thank
you guys. You're amazing, amazing guests, and you also are
so generous with your time to my audience. I just
can't thank you enough. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I miss seeing you studio, but it's so easy.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No one has to drive home when we're doing the
show remotely, so we'll catch it again once, maybe a
little after Thanksgiving when the snow is going to start
to swirl, because we want to remind people to drive
safely in the winter time. Larry, Scott, thank you so much.
Say hi to everybody for us up there.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Okay, thank you Dan, Thank you Dan, good night, good
night everyone.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
WBZ night side car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. They
are the best. Thanks guys, keV a great night and
I can't thank them enough. So I'm done for the night,
Rob Brooks. We're a good traffic police officers. Tonight with
all the calls, a lot of calls tonight, we actually
ended up I think about seventeen calls, which is a
good number of calls because some of them are complicated.
(40:44):
I am back tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, of course, is Friday.
We will do the twentieth hour tomorrow night. Marita will
be here in the morning and I'll be here tomorrow.
Marita will be here at four thirty in the afternoon.
I'm going on Facebook right now. If you want to
say hello, go to WBZ Nights Out with Dan Ray.
Of course you can always check us out, like us
on Twitter, follow us all that stuff. You guys know
(41:06):
how to find us. As always, all dogs, all cats,
all pets go to Heaven. That's Mi Pelle Charlie ray
Is who passed fourteen years ago in February. That's where
all your pets are. They loved you and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. Hope see you
anymorrow night on night side. Everybody have a great Friday.
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