December 19, 2024 • 38 mins
Is your car making a nagging sound that you just cannot figure out what the cause is? Are you wondering what type of vehicle would be a good fit for you and your lifestyle? Larry Rubenstein and Scott Rubenstein joined Dan to answer listeners’ car questions!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy
Boston News video.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, welcome back, thanks very much, Dan Watkins, as
we head into our ten pm hour, and we are
delighted to have with us as we here have a couple,
well two or three times a year now the WBZ
car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein, gentlemen, welcome back to Night's.
I hope everybody's feeling better than I am.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well. I am feeling good today and good evening to you. Dan.
I am hoping that the medicine you took is putting
you back to the road of recovery.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, I hope so too. I mean, I feel better
than I did yesterday. And sixteen hours of sleep. That's
that's the longest amount of sleep I've ever had in
my life. So I'm happy about that. And this is
wrapping the year with you guys, and then tomorrow night
with the charity combine, it's gonna be great. So let's
talk about cars. Rob was saying to me during the break.
(01:00):
He said his car seems to know when to break down.
He said, if he gets some money back in taxes
from the government, the car works perfectly. But when he's
a little short of cash, that's when the car breaks down.
I tried to explain to him, the car really doesn't
intellectually know that. Rob just probably feels that way. Are
we correct on that? I know that's not an automotive
(01:22):
a technical automotive question, but I suspect there were some people.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Who have that feeling.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, in my case, Dan, it was the exact opposite.
When I was starting out younger, before I had a family,
just starting to have a family. Whenever I got my
income tax refund checked back, the transmission would go or
the radiator would go, and thankfully I had the money there,
but you know, that's money I would have rather have
(01:48):
put into my savings accounts. So my problems were just
the opposite.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, Rob, that hopefully is going to make rub feel
a little a little bit better. Were looking for We're
gonna hit cold weather. People are going to pull.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Out some morning this week and the car is going
to tell them that the tire is the right rear
tire or the left front tire is low.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, one of the reasons why the tire goes low
is because when you heat up a tire, the air expands.
When you cool the tire, then it can contracts. When
it contracts, the pressure drops down, so your tire pressure sensor.
If a person is complaining that the tire pressure sensor
light is on in cold weather, it's because the air
(02:39):
in the tire has contracted to the point that it's
down below the threshold that the manufacturer of the car
wants to see for tire pressure. So I am retired now,
as you know. But when we had the shop, if
a car called for thirty three during the winter, we
would put in thirty five because we know this is
(03:00):
i'm I'm gonna happen, and it really doesn't hurt to
put those extra few pounds in.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Good good to know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Let's get this clarified because people often asked me. As
a matter of fact, one person today wrote and they
wanted to know you guys, I know the shop is closed.
Root one Auto, which for many many years was your headquarters.
You sold that the root one Auto was still in
business in the same location.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Correct, it's in the same location. The family that bought
it has done a terrific job of overhauling it from
top to bottom, all new floors, all new equipment. You know,
a new broom comes in, as the old saying goes,
(03:45):
and they just went to town and that place is
absolutely gorgeous now it is the taj Mahal.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Okay, but you still are you still writing your pieces
for the local newspaper up there as well?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur, as you,
I'm sure, as certain as you have seen too, I
am not. I do consult at Ruwanado frequently. In fact,
I was there yesterday for a few few hours. And
I work with them, and I have the distinct pleasure
(04:23):
of having the All Data information system at my ready.
They've been good to me for the past twenty years
and giving me access to all the repair information that
we've ever that we've ever needed. I just talked to
the All Data people in San Francisco just last week
and they're just really, really great. Anything you need to
(04:46):
know about your car, it's there, I mean, and even
the information system like this which you need on today's cars.
A homeowner, for very short money and do it yourself
guy can buy just a subscript option for his particular
car and have all the same information that I have.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Interesting, So that's a subscription. And what is the webs
is their website. I assume.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All that a L L D A T A.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yes, yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
About that, okay, and you can you can put in
what type of car you have, what year, and you
can get all the information you need about your particular.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Vehicle, every everything that the manufacturer has put out about
the way to repay your vehicle, the part numbers, how
long it takes, the method to do the job, the
tools you're gonna need, I mean, everything is right there
so that the di Y guy, if he wants to
(05:53):
invest in the tools and in the scanners and things
like that, he can fix anything on the car that
he needs to. The information volume is mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm not a di Y guy, but I know
that Scott is very much a DIY guy. What are
you doing these days, Scott? Because people know that when
when Route one Auto was purchased you you're working up
in New Hampshire, correct?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I am?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I am. I am currently a service advisor over at
FoST Motors up in Extra New Hampshire. We are the
the actual biggest largest still at this crisis jeep Dodge
dealer in all of New England. Proud to say that
with some more units than anyone else. So with the
more units, that means we have a ton of service customers.
(06:44):
So now I've gone from being a jack of all
manufacturers so per se, to strictly working with Jeeps and Dodges, Rams,
chrys All Chrysis products. Now all right, and there's plenty
of month ed effects.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay, well, I'm going to take a quick break here.
It's sixteen and we're gonna go to phone lines. Folks
are waiting six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
one line at six one, seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
I don't want to make people wait, so we're gonna
get to phone calls forthwith. Right after this quick break
on Nightside. It's a Thursday night. It's gonna get cold
(07:18):
this weekend. Whatever questions you have for Scott and Larry,
they're here to take the questions and give you their answers.
Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Go right to the calls.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let's start off with whoever's been waiting the longest, and
that would be Ken in Florida. Ken, you are on
with the WBZ car guys Scott and Larry.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Right, damn, this is great. I've meant to call talk
to these guys for years. Dan, real quick. I hope
you're feeling better. Get some good rests uh. When I
come back up there in June, I would love to
have lunch and or a cold one with you when
I come back up.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Can be arranged.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
That could be a ranged We'll reach me our guys.
I'm in Selfless, Florida. I moved from Paul, Massachusetts five
years ago. In twenty eleven, I bought an Audi Quatro wagon,
you know, all wheel drive, a four with the turbo.
It was used with twenty four thousand miles and now
has one hundred and seventeen thousand. I try to take
(08:22):
care of it. I've had some work on the sensors
or whatnot. It's run rough lately. It's been running rough
and when I get gassed after I filled up with premium,
it has difficulties starting up. They have to acceperate. I'm
a will to user, so I use hand control, so
I accelerate and it does startup. I brought it to
(08:46):
a Firestone dealership and they said that they don't have
all the codes, but they said that number one, it
needs something's not opening. I don't know, I'm sort of
laugh I have to look.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
At the receipt.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
And also I need motor mouths, which are about seventeen
hundred dollars. I'm not crazy about that, but I want
to keep it running. It's only one hundred and seventy
thousand miles and I don't Two quick questions. One, what
you're opinion on gas added is in?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Two?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
What about the motor mouths? And how can I keep
this running at only hundred seventeen thousand miles for a
few more years until I have the cash? Oh oh, sorry,
One last question. One of these endurance I was thinking
about purchasing one of those plans where you get the endurance,
you know, the insurance coverage.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
All right, very very good question. So well, we'll try
to address them one at a time. There, good question
for you. When you say that you have a problem,
it's only after you slow it up with a full
tank of fuel.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Yeah, because I'm usually running late going to work and
I run it on it's almost on empty. And one
time I had called Triple A would start in the
Triple A said, you've got to give us some gas.
But I've never had to do that. I just turned
the key and it would start right up. So now
it now it reluctantly start when I get gas.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Okay, if you fill it, you a half a tank,
do you still have the same problem.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yes, but you used to fill it. But yes, even
I have to take and I buy Premium ninety.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Three, super super weird problem. The only thing I can
think of is that possibly when the fuel is going
in that possibly it's running up the vtlines and almost
almost flooding. The flooding the engine is almost what it
seems like it's doing. No kinds of check ingel for
an EBAP system related code.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Huh, Now I have to check engine light on for
something else. But my Firestone dealer said I need to
go to Audi, which I don't want to do. So
after that, I don't blame you.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
On start after that though. So anyway, that's one problem.
And then the other was.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The motor mounts.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
So what was your question about the motormounts. If they're
if they're broken, the phone, I mean, they's got to
be done.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It's running a little rough, you know, not shaking, not stalling.
But I do go off a bridge to work down
here in Florida, and I get nervous that I'm going
to like suddenly break down on a bridge the check
engine like they don't have the code for that, and
then until I worry about that, and then it uh yeah,
I just want to want to keep it running.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I want to baby it.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Because it's only got a one hundred and seventy thousand
miles on it, right.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So I mean then you if you if it's a
vehicle you want to hold on to, then you owe
it to your vehicle to a get that check engine
like checked out.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That is important.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
It's giving you a warning sign. So if the Firestone
dealership can't handle it, then you either take it back
to an Audi dealer or you need to find someone
that's a European specialist. As you take BMW's and things
like that, nature should be able to take a look
at that for you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I don't know. And funny just to keep it running
longer could run for another one hundred thousand miles, I
would think at.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Least it should.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But you owe to the vehicle to you know, find
out what's going on, because you could be making a
minor situation turn into a major situation, so I would
address that check engine light sort of.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Then later, all right, what do you have?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You get some good information, please act on it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, the gap additors, all right, I'm sorry. One more.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Going on a long time here? What what is? What's
your last point?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Is Japan additive? Like an additive like an STP or something.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I think that the additives that are in fuel nowadays
should be plenty for what you what you need, what
you have?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Good, right to go, Thanks, Keed, got to get more, folks.
Thank you much. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Ken.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Next up, let's go too. Bob in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think, Bob, you were the person who wrote me
an email today, if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Dan, No, I left him a voicemail yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Okay, and I communicated back with you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Right, yes, yes, I want to say thank you very
very much for calling me. You've telephoned my home around
ten forty this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
No problem, no problem, That's what I try to do.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
People look at you, and I want to wish you
a merry Christmas, and I hope you're feeling better.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Not great. Okay, go ahead, you're on the air. Good time.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Larry and Scott. Hi Scott, I have a two thousand
and five Hyundai Accent, and I owned this car for
a little over nine years since, since September of twenty fifteen.
And the biggest problem I had with this car, guys,
(13:54):
is it was the starter. I don't know what it
was about the two thousand five Hyundai Accents. This is
a two door hatchback. When I bought this car in
September of fifteen, it had a pretty low mileage on
it at the time. It has about around ninety thousand
miles right now. And like I said, I've probably been
(14:20):
in the nine years that I've had this car, this
car has had about four or five starters in it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No, are you kidding?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I've had to replace the starter about four times, maybe five.
I've actually, to tell you the truth, I've literally lost count.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
All right, So Bob, let me ask you this. When
the starters go bad, are they grinding when you go
to starter or are they just clunking?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No, they're a tremendous hesitation I was having.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
I did replace the starter earlier this year by an
auto mechanic. He put in a new starter around January
or February when we had a very cold snap. And
the starter is actually performing better now, much better. But
when I was having all these problems guys. Yeah, like
I said a moment ago, when I would turn the
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key big time hesitation, it would it would grind, it
would go, and then it would and then it would
turn over.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, all right, So there was a problem with these
and if your technician had done a voltage drop test,
he probably would have seen it. Where the starters we
were mounting up, there was paint on there, so the
starter was not making a good ground. Oh well, what
(15:42):
so the trick on that, and it really isn't a
trick is when you pull the starter out, you clean
the mounting surface of all of the paint that's still
on there, so when the starter bolts in, it has
a good ground. So the circle wasn't complete and that
in turn was causing this starter to burn out.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, that's what was that one.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I think I think my auto mechanic earlier this year,
in January February, I think he did. I think he
performed what you just.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Said, bolt a drop jest.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Yeah, and he did the ground or whatever whatever that
was right, And the primary reason I called in to
I is I wanted to get information about the location
of your shop, but I understand you sold it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I did, but I need I need to tell you
the guys that I have it now. They do a
good job. As I said that the opening of the show.
I was there for a few hours yesterday doing some consulting,
taking a look around. Two of my two of my
guys that I employed for over twenty years are still
there working now. So they came as part of the pack.
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When Scott and I sold our shop, they stayed with it.
So it's pretty much the same group of people, except
the management, if you will, has changed, and they've got
great equipment. And you know, if there was a problem
that I couldn't handle, I wouldn't hesitate to go go there.
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There are two eighteen Newbery Street in PbD. They kept
the same phone number nine seven eight five three two
for zero zero one. The main person there is named Rob.
You want to talk to him or Chris and let
him know that we've talked here on the show, and
(17:41):
I'm sure that they'll take great care of you.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Rob, Chris. And is there somebody named Steve there too?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Steve Steve, he's been with me for oh gosh, probably
close to thirty years, twenty five years, Tony, Tony is there, Tony,
it's been with me for thirty years.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So yes, And who is Linda? Is Linda the reception
at start?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Oh crow, Bob, so you know how to find him? Okay,
you got the right place.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
I think, I'm I'm I'm pointed in the right direction.
Thank you, Dan, Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to
you and to all your listeners. Thanks Rob, appreciate it,
Thanks to you, Thank you, Larry, thank you, thank you, Scott,
Bye bye, welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Here comes the news. We get back more with the
BZ car guys, Scott and Larry. And by the way,
the only line that is opened to six one seven,
getto on board. We'll get you through, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Coming back on night side.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Back to the phones we go for the WBZ car guys,
the WZ nice that car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Let me go to June in Providence, Rhode Island. Hi, June,
how are you welcome back?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Good?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Thank you. I have a question. I don't have a
problem with my vehicle. Currently, I drive a twenty eighteen
fort Explorer Limited and it has about one hundred and
eight thousand miles. But I'm seriously thinking of giving that
to a family member and buying myself a new vehicle.
(19:17):
And I had This is my third Ford Explorer. I
really like them. They're not too high to get in
and out of, and when I fold down all the seats,
I have quite a bit of, you know, capacity to
lug stuff around and transport things. So I'm looking at
a new one, might a V six, but the new ones,
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if you want a V six, you have to have
the second row captain's chairs, not a bench seat, okay,
And so the other alternative is to have a four
cylinder engine. But I looked up the horsepower and it's
even more horsepower than my V six. But somebody told
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that's because the engines are more sophisticated and the technology
is better, and I wanted to kind of get your
input on that. And the other vehicle I was thinking
about was the Toyota Grean high window.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Ooh, tough choices. I mean, you've had Explorers for a
while and there's once obviously treated you very good and
not good enough that you want to give it to
a family member. So and Explorers certainly have come a
long way, but you're putting it against such a high name.
I mean, if you've listened to our show before, you
(20:36):
know how much Larry, how high Larry and I think
of Toyota vehicles in general. Have you taken out either
vehicle or a road test yet?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Well, I was, as Dan knows, I was out in
LA for November, so I went to the LA Auto Show.
So I looked at the vehicles there, and I had
a rental that was a Ford Explorer, right, So the
only question with the Toyota was it seems a little
higher to get in and out of. I'm not very tall,
(21:11):
and I find that like, I'm not too crazy about
that aspect, but everything else seems pretty good about it.
And I also thought about buying the Highbred version because
I drive quite a bit and it's not so much
that I'm looking not to spend our guess, but like,
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Be a polluter.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Are you Are you a local commuter? Do you drive
short distances to work every day?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Said?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I'm retired. I just drive a lot. I go wherever
I want, you ever I want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
It's a majority.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I think we could talk a lot about the
different cars. I think you've got to kind of make
a decision yourself. I don't know if these guys can
make a decision for you.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Well, I just wanted to know about that that four
cylinder engine in the Ford Exploit, is it going to
be as responsive as my v sticks that I have
in the twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Four cylinder technology has come such a far away. And
then I think, if you want to personally, if I
had to choose, I would rather see you go with
the four cylinder Ford over necessarily picking just for a hybrid.
You've already given the Explorer. You like the Explorer, You're
comfortable in the Explorer. I'm not a guy that's sold
(22:31):
on hybrids. As somebody that gets to work with them
every day. I don't think that they're necessarily a future
A long term Yeah, but you've got to go with
what's comfortable. Like you said, you're retired, now, that's maybe
one of your last vehicles. You want a vehicles say
you love driving every day, So that's the fun part
about buying a new vehicle. Well, test them both and
(22:54):
see which one feels better to you.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Okay, all right, thanks Jude, look that help the little bit.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Thanks, great night.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
All right, let's keep rolling here. You're going to go
next to Marty and Florida Marty, You next to Nights.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
I right ahead, buzzre excellent shoe guys. Listen, I really
don't have a problem, but I wanted your opinion first
of all. Coincidentally, I bought an Explorer in nineteen ninety two,
an XLT brand new in South Florida.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I got rid of it with.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Two hundred and twenty five thousand miles thanks to cash
for Clnkers. It was the worst vehicle I ever had.
Everything went wrong and it started to rot and leak whatever.
So I got rid of it. Then I bought cash
for Clonkers. I bought it an on nine Dodge Nitro
with two thousand miles. It was a demonstrative model. I
(23:46):
have two hundred and twenty six thousand miles on it now. Well,
I should say that last year the dealer said it
was the leakage of anti freeze into.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Its bark plug.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
They gave me an engine for free because I had
that the powertrain warranty since then I've been riding and
writing and writing and writing. I wanted to find out
two things from you, what do you think of the
Dodge and I trow, and maybe some feedback from people
out there, because if this vehicle ever went, I would
(24:20):
be inclined. They don't make it anymore, but I'd be
inclined to buy another used line because it's the best
vehicle I ever had on the highway when I go
to North Carolina, it gets twenty twenty one twenty two
miles to the gallon, doesn't use any oil, and it's
just a great vehicle. If I just wanted some feedback
from pros like you.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Question for was it then I've got a two liter in.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
It, it's four it's a six cylinder engine.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh, it's got the sixth on so it has probably
the three point five I think so, yeah, it's either
are three or three five. Back then, first of all,
it's super impressive to hear that, you know, in being
somebody that works for Stillantis nowadays, it's great to see that.
Back then, you've got a product that you know has
(25:10):
gone fifteen years, two hundred plus thousand miles. I think
it's even better. We get to deal with some of
the lifetime warranty stuff. I think it's great that they
were able to warrantye that engine for you. So your
question was would you buy another one?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
In other words?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
In other words, is somebody I saw some recently some
use Oh I should mention I do have a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
My horn act up. Once in a while. My horn
goes dead.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Okay, well ninety spring, it's racing.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
It'll do ninety like nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So is it something? What do you feel about them?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I feel that you know, I was never a personally
a huge fan of a nitdro back in the day.
It's not just not my style of vehicle. But I
think obviously for fifteen years, you know, you see what
you've gotten and it's definitely proven itself. So I think
I think you're more of an expert on the vehicle
than I am, because you've lived it for fifteen years,
(26:13):
two hundred thousand miles more wise, Yeah, so why wouldn't
So are you looking at the point where you are
going to replace this vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Or no, I'm going to keep it as long as
it runs.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
But I'm saying that if I saw somebody selling one,
I don't know why anybody want to sell it, you know,
or used one. But I was just wondering if you
have any heard of any people havny problems with it?
Is mine and anomaly or is that the way they
will are?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I just I think that back then there was a
good vehicle, and obviously you've done your maintenance and take it.
A lot of vehicles get a bad reputation because people
don't do maintenance. But if people take care of their stuff,
they will. There are plenty of good vehicles out there
to get a bad reputation because they were not maintained properly.
So keep doing that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I think we've I think we've gone through a lot
of conversation here on this. I gotta keep rolling.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Marty, thanks so much, good shows always.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Thanks Chris good.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Let me take a very quick break.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I got Jeene and Linda and Ed and ed, a
couple of edds, two EDGs in Marshfield. We got we
got the market cornered with EDGs and Marshfield and we'll
be back on nights. O have the only one open,
the only line open right now six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty back on nights out of the w
BZ car guys.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nights Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, keep rolling here on night side. Let me see
who is up next. We're gonna go to uh Linda
in Weymouth, Linda tight on time you go right ahead?
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
First off, your telephone number was nine eight three to
two one.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Rightio is the other person that you want to ask
for the Sergio is one of the owner and he's
in the shop ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Is that the right number?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah? Nine seven eighty five three two for zero zero one?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
Okay. I have a Ford Focused twenty thirteen. It says
eighty six thousand miles, but I had the transmission replace.
They also changed the mileage when changed the transmission. My
check on just check engine light had been on and
that's what they said.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Was okay, so you've got a thirteen Focus and what
miles did the transmission have to be changed?
Speaker 8 (28:40):
I don't know what it was about a year and
a half ago and I'm presidently, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
How many miles do you have on the car now?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Eighty six thousand. I'm looking at replacing it with a
honder CRV twenty sixteen, and what how do I trade
it in or what value should I get for it?
If it's got that check light on still again? It
said it's going to cost forty four thousand something to
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replace it, the engine light, their transmission.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So what I don't quite understand exactly what it is
that you would like to know? What is the force?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
What do I trade in? How do I trade in
the car when it really doesn't have a life after
I trade it in? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Okay? Yeah, so you go, who's the now? You said
you were buying a twenty sixteen Honda.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Yes, CRV with one hundred and one two?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And are you buying this from? Are you buying this
from a dealer or a private party?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
A dealer? I've been there twice before, and they're going
to get me a discount for being repeat persons.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Okay? And how much are they going to give you
in trade? Have you asked? No?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I haven't. I haven't gotten that bar yet.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You're not going to get I can't look it over, Linda,
I'll tell you right now. I don't know as much
as these guys. You're not going to get much on
a car like that.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
I was thinking salvage value.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Okay, if if if the car didn't have a check
engine light on, it would be worth anywhere from two
thousand dollars to four thousand dollars. Okay, if you can
use the tax right off. There's many charities that you
can give it to, because you really can't sell a
car to a private party with the check engine light
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on without expecting repercussions.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Okay, and Miguala would know how to how do you
go about doing it? For caster kids? A side saying
the call and okay. The other thing is I found
a but June, you have a handle that goes into
the car once the door is open to help get
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up into the seat. I got it at a I
don't know, a discount place and I'm holding on to it.
I was going to give it to someone, but I'm
holding on to it. I don't think I'll be needing
it because it's not that much higher.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
That's good. That's good, Linda. Thank you for the challenging
questions for my men. Challenging questions, Linda, thank you so much,
talking again, good night, Edin Marshall. I had no clue there, guys,
I really didn't edit Marshfield ed your next on Knights,
I go ahead, ed In Marshfield. There's two heads here
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in Marshfield. So the ed In Marshfield whose number ends
with well, it's the same guy. Because you've got two
lines died up, let's drive the other one. Rob Eden Marshfield.
Next on Knights, I go.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Ahead, Oh yeah, this is there right, yes, good, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, can we get any fine, but we're slowing the showdown,
so go.
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Ahead, okay, okay, yeah, quick question. I have a Lexus,
uh two thousand and seven, Alexis. I asked two point fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I bought it with one.
Speaker 12 (32:25):
Hundred and twenty five thousand. Unfortunately, I kind of let
the transmission fluid go. I have two hundred and five
on it now, and I don't know if what your
advice is to do the do the fluid change or
just let it go and see how long I get
out of it out of the vehicle.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
No way would I ever think to do anything with
that transmission fluid at this point. Are you having a
problem with transmission now? No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
So my my problem is is that I have a
funny feeling that as soon as you try to flush
that fluid or do anything like that. I mean, you
know what, if you're going to do anything, maybe so fluid, right,
you can do a fluid replacement where you simply just
drop the pan out of the you know, drop the
fluid out of the pan. And I'm not sure if
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that one has a drain colling on it, and maybe
a refill with some fresh fluid. But to use a
machine where you're actually flushing out the valve body and
the lines and the cooler have a funny feeling you're
looking for problems.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
Okay, And one more quick question is I've been using
Mobile one oil on it, and I know some people
say the synthetic of the time can cause the main
sale to leach. What's your what's your advice on that?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I'm one that in back in seven, I think it
was still a petroleum base, maybe a blend recommended back then.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
But if you've been using it, how long, I gonny,
how love many miles?
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You've been using Mobi one four.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
Eighty thousand since eighty thousand five?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yeah, in eighty thousand, I mean it's done. You well,
I don't see any reason to change from it at
this point, and and I don't there's no way that
a motor oil causes the seal to leak. Understand this,
Synthetic motor oils are much slicker in the property values
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compared to a petroleum base that they're thinner, they're lighter,
they almost create a bonding agent to the walls into
metal surfaces. Okay, if a feal leak, it's because the
seal has failed over time, So oil doesn't cause a leak.
It could be more susceptible to leaks because of how
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slick synthetic oil is and the way it bun baunch
the metal. But I don't see at this point. The
only thing I would say, if anything, are using the
regular mobile one of the high mileage mobile one, the
high mileage high mileage, I would yeah, that's what I.
If I were in the opposition to somebody that had
used Mobile one for a good amount of time, I
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would go, you know, like you said, you're already in
the high mileage. I would stay with that until it
proves you wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Just a just a little interest. God, is that toyo
wants straight five W thirty in it? They do not want? Well, yeah,
but because.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
He's already to write eighty thousand, you don't change over
now right, No, no, I agree, I said, just a
point of interests that from day one, that's all that
they wanted day one, right, But yeah, you don't I
think you know this is like, yeah, you don't want
to see just like you ask me about the transmission fluid.
You've got eighty thousand miles plus of doing something a
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certain way. I would not stop messing with something that's
been working, or you're apt to cause more problems.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
All right, and I think you get your answers. I
think we lost in which sometimes happens. Okay, thank you,
I appreciate all right, what do we get left here?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Rob? How much time? Two minutes? Let me see if
we get Gene and evertton here real quick. You just
have to wake through the news Gina and.
Speaker 11 (36:24):
Ever Okay, thank you, Hi Dan, I'm very sorry they
are sick. Rest and get more sleep. You always heal
when you're sleeping, Okay, when you're resting. So just okay,
that's it, all right, guys. Quick question okay, two things.
My car has seventeen five hundred miles on it, it's
a twenty twenty one hundred record. When is a break
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fluid required? When is a transmission fluid required when you
know to replace them, and when there's an alignment required,
is it required yet?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Alignments should be done about once the year, especially with
these Massachusetts roads. Okay, I would yeah, yeah, because our
roads are not very good. One alignment cost you less
than a single tire, and if you want to tires
to last, then you want to align them so that
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they're running properly. And that's also going to give you
better few mileage if your tires aren't fighting you.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
As far as what about the break.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I know you don't have a lot of break fluid.
I wouldn't change that break fluid at thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Not at the seventeen five that I have right now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
No, No, I think that you're spending money you don't
need to stand.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
Okay, I don't know why they're saying they recommend it.
But in transmission fluid, Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
If they're saying it. If they're recommending it, you want
to look in your owner's manual, Okay, trim as far
as your trans fluid goes, I would. I would go
sixty thousand on that. During the break, I'm gonna dig
into my into my all data, and I'm going to
find all that information, and when Dan comes back from
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the break, I'll be very accurate and what I'm telling you.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
It's a twenty twenty hands record and it's a turbo engine.
That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
All right, you keep listening, Gene. Okay, we're gonna wrap
it up here. Thank you very much. We are done
for this hour. We have a bunch of lines mostly
six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty. You can call now.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
We'll get you real quickly on as right after eleven
o'clock news one line at six one seven, John and Drake.
It awaits. He starts us off on the other side.
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy
Boston News video.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, welcome back, thanks very much, Dan Watkins, as
we head into our ten pm hour, and we are
delighted to have with us as we here have a couple,
well two or three times a year now the WBZ
car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein, gentlemen, welcome back to Night's.
I hope everybody's feeling better than I am.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well. I am feeling good today and good evening to you. Dan.
I am hoping that the medicine you took is putting
you back to the road of recovery.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, I hope so too. I mean, I feel better
than I did yesterday. And sixteen hours of sleep. That's
that's the longest amount of sleep I've ever had in
my life. So I'm happy about that. And this is
wrapping the year with you guys, and then tomorrow night
with the charity combine, it's gonna be great. So let's
talk about cars. Rob was saying to me during the break.
(01:00):
He said his car seems to know when to break down.
He said, if he gets some money back in taxes
from the government, the car works perfectly. But when he's
a little short of cash, that's when the car breaks down.
I tried to explain to him, the car really doesn't
intellectually know that. Rob just probably feels that way. Are
we correct on that? I know that's not an automotive
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a technical automotive question, but I suspect there were some people.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Who have that feeling.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, in my case, Dan, it was the exact opposite.
When I was starting out younger, before I had a family,
just starting to have a family. Whenever I got my
income tax refund checked back, the transmission would go or
the radiator would go, and thankfully I had the money there,
but you know, that's money I would have rather have
(01:48):
put into my savings accounts. So my problems were just
the opposite.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, Rob, that hopefully is going to make rub feel
a little a little bit better. Were looking for We're
gonna hit cold weather. People are going to pull.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Out some morning this week and the car is going
to tell them that the tire is the right rear
tire or the left front tire is low.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, one of the reasons why the tire goes low
is because when you heat up a tire, the air expands.
When you cool the tire, then it can contracts. When
it contracts, the pressure drops down, so your tire pressure sensor.
If a person is complaining that the tire pressure sensor
light is on in cold weather, it's because the air
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in the tire has contracted to the point that it's
down below the threshold that the manufacturer of the car
wants to see for tire pressure. So I am retired now,
as you know. But when we had the shop, if
a car called for thirty three during the winter, we
would put in thirty five because we know this is
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i'm I'm gonna happen, and it really doesn't hurt to
put those extra few pounds in.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Good good to know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Let's get this clarified because people often asked me. As
a matter of fact, one person today wrote and they
wanted to know you guys, I know the shop is closed.
Root one Auto, which for many many years was your headquarters.
You sold that the root one Auto was still in
business in the same location.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Correct, it's in the same location. The family that bought
it has done a terrific job of overhauling it from
top to bottom, all new floors, all new equipment. You know,
a new broom comes in, as the old saying goes,
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and they just went to town and that place is
absolutely gorgeous now it is the taj Mahal.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Okay, but you still are you still writing your pieces
for the local newspaper up there as well?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur, as you,
I'm sure, as certain as you have seen too, I
am not. I do consult at Ruwanado frequently. In fact,
I was there yesterday for a few few hours. And
I work with them, and I have the distinct pleasure
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of having the All Data information system at my ready.
They've been good to me for the past twenty years
and giving me access to all the repair information that
we've ever that we've ever needed. I just talked to
the All Data people in San Francisco just last week
and they're just really, really great. Anything you need to
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know about your car, it's there, I mean, and even
the information system like this which you need on today's cars.
A homeowner, for very short money and do it yourself
guy can buy just a subscript option for his particular
car and have all the same information that I have.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Interesting, So that's a subscription. And what is the webs
is their website. I assume.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All that a L L D A T A.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yes, yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
About that, okay, and you can you can put in
what type of car you have, what year, and you
can get all the information you need about your particular.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Vehicle, every everything that the manufacturer has put out about
the way to repay your vehicle, the part numbers, how
long it takes, the method to do the job, the
tools you're gonna need, I mean, everything is right there
so that the di Y guy, if he wants to
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invest in the tools and in the scanners and things
like that, he can fix anything on the car that
he needs to. The information volume is mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm not a di Y guy, but I know
that Scott is very much a DIY guy. What are
you doing these days, Scott? Because people know that when
when Route one Auto was purchased you you're working up
in New Hampshire, correct?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I am?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I am. I am currently a service advisor over at
FoST Motors up in Extra New Hampshire. We are the
the actual biggest largest still at this crisis jeep Dodge
dealer in all of New England. Proud to say that
with some more units than anyone else. So with the
more units, that means we have a ton of service customers.
(06:44):
So now I've gone from being a jack of all
manufacturers so per se, to strictly working with Jeeps and Dodges, Rams,
chrys All Chrysis products. Now all right, and there's plenty
of month ed effects.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Okay, well, I'm going to take a quick break here.
It's sixteen and we're gonna go to phone lines. Folks
are waiting six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
one line at six one, seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
I don't want to make people wait, so we're gonna
get to phone calls forthwith. Right after this quick break
on Nightside. It's a Thursday night. It's gonna get cold
(07:18):
this weekend. Whatever questions you have for Scott and Larry,
they're here to take the questions and give you their answers.
Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Go right to the calls.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let's start off with whoever's been waiting the longest, and
that would be Ken in Florida. Ken, you are on
with the WBZ car guys Scott and Larry.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Right, damn, this is great. I've meant to call talk
to these guys for years. Dan, real quick. I hope
you're feeling better. Get some good rests uh. When I
come back up there in June, I would love to
have lunch and or a cold one with you when
I come back up.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Can be arranged.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
That could be a ranged We'll reach me our guys.
I'm in Selfless, Florida. I moved from Paul, Massachusetts five
years ago. In twenty eleven, I bought an Audi Quatro wagon,
you know, all wheel drive, a four with the turbo.
It was used with twenty four thousand miles and now
has one hundred and seventeen thousand. I try to take
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care of it. I've had some work on the sensors
or whatnot. It's run rough lately. It's been running rough
and when I get gassed after I filled up with premium,
it has difficulties starting up. They have to acceperate. I'm
a will to user, so I use hand control, so
I accelerate and it does startup. I brought it to
(08:46):
a Firestone dealership and they said that they don't have
all the codes, but they said that number one, it
needs something's not opening. I don't know, I'm sort of
laugh I have to look.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
At the receipt.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
And also I need motor mouths, which are about seventeen
hundred dollars. I'm not crazy about that, but I want
to keep it running. It's only one hundred and seventy
thousand miles and I don't Two quick questions. One, what
you're opinion on gas added is in?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Two?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
What about the motor mouths? And how can I keep
this running at only hundred seventeen thousand miles for a
few more years until I have the cash? Oh oh, sorry,
One last question. One of these endurance I was thinking
about purchasing one of those plans where you get the endurance,
you know, the insurance coverage.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
All right, very very good question. So well, we'll try
to address them one at a time. There, good question
for you. When you say that you have a problem,
it's only after you slow it up with a full
tank of fuel.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Yeah, because I'm usually running late going to work and
I run it on it's almost on empty. And one
time I had called Triple A would start in the
Triple A said, you've got to give us some gas.
But I've never had to do that. I just turned
the key and it would start right up. So now
it now it reluctantly start when I get gas.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Okay, if you fill it, you a half a tank,
do you still have the same problem.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yes, but you used to fill it. But yes, even
I have to take and I buy Premium ninety.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Three, super super weird problem. The only thing I can
think of is that possibly when the fuel is going
in that possibly it's running up the vtlines and almost
almost flooding. The flooding the engine is almost what it
seems like it's doing. No kinds of check ingel for
an EBAP system related code.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Huh, Now I have to check engine light on for
something else. But my Firestone dealer said I need to
go to Audi, which I don't want to do. So
after that, I don't blame you.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
On start after that though. So anyway, that's one problem.
And then the other was.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The motor mounts.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
So what was your question about the motormounts. If they're
if they're broken, the phone, I mean, they's got to
be done.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
It's running a little rough, you know, not shaking, not stalling.
But I do go off a bridge to work down
here in Florida, and I get nervous that I'm going
to like suddenly break down on a bridge the check
engine like they don't have the code for that, and
then until I worry about that, and then it uh yeah,
I just want to want to keep it running.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I want to baby it.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Because it's only got a one hundred and seventy thousand
miles on it, right.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So I mean then you if you if it's a
vehicle you want to hold on to, then you owe
it to your vehicle to a get that check engine
like checked out.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That is important.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
It's giving you a warning sign. So if the Firestone
dealership can't handle it, then you either take it back
to an Audi dealer or you need to find someone
that's a European specialist. As you take BMW's and things
like that, nature should be able to take a look
at that for you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I don't know. And funny just to keep it running
longer could run for another one hundred thousand miles, I
would think at.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Least it should.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But you owe to the vehicle to you know, find
out what's going on, because you could be making a
minor situation turn into a major situation, so I would
address that check engine light sort of.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Then later, all right, what do you have?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You get some good information, please act on it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, the gap additors, all right, I'm sorry. One more.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Going on a long time here? What what is? What's
your last point?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Is Japan additive? Like an additive like an STP or something.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I think that the additives that are in fuel nowadays
should be plenty for what you what you need, what
you have?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Good, right to go, Thanks, Keed, got to get more, folks.
Thank you much. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Ken.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Next up, let's go too. Bob in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think, Bob, you were the person who wrote me
an email today, if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Dan, No, I left him a voicemail yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Okay, and I communicated back with you.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Right, yes, yes, I want to say thank you very
very much for calling me. You've telephoned my home around
ten forty this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
No problem, no problem, That's what I try to do.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
People look at you, and I want to wish you
a merry Christmas, and I hope you're feeling better.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Not great. Okay, go ahead, you're on the air. Good time.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Larry and Scott. Hi Scott, I have a two thousand
and five Hyundai Accent, and I owned this car for
a little over nine years since, since September of twenty fifteen.
And the biggest problem I had with this car, guys,
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is it was the starter. I don't know what it
was about the two thousand five Hyundai Accents. This is
a two door hatchback. When I bought this car in
September of fifteen, it had a pretty low mileage on
it at the time. It has about around ninety thousand
miles right now. And like I said, I've probably been
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in the nine years that I've had this car, this
car has had about four or five starters in it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
No, are you kidding?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I've had to replace the starter about four times, maybe five.
I've actually, to tell you the truth, I've literally lost count.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
All right, So Bob, let me ask you this. When
the starters go bad, are they grinding when you go
to starter or are they just clunking?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No, they're a tremendous hesitation I was having.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
I did replace the starter earlier this year by an
auto mechanic. He put in a new starter around January
or February when we had a very cold snap. And
the starter is actually performing better now, much better. But
when I was having all these problems guys. Yeah, like
I said a moment ago, when I would turn the
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key big time hesitation, it would it would grind, it
would go, and then it would and then it would
turn over.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, all right, So there was a problem with these
and if your technician had done a voltage drop test,
he probably would have seen it. Where the starters we
were mounting up, there was paint on there, so the
starter was not making a good ground. Oh well, what
(15:42):
so the trick on that, and it really isn't a
trick is when you pull the starter out, you clean
the mounting surface of all of the paint that's still
on there, so when the starter bolts in, it has
a good ground. So the circle wasn't complete and that
in turn was causing this starter to burn out.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, that's what was that one.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I think I think my auto mechanic earlier this year,
in January February, I think he did. I think he
performed what you just.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Said, bolt a drop jest.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Yeah, and he did the ground or whatever whatever that
was right, And the primary reason I called in to
I is I wanted to get information about the location
of your shop, but I understand you sold it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I did, but I need I need to tell you
the guys that I have it now. They do a
good job. As I said that the opening of the show.
I was there for a few hours yesterday doing some consulting,
taking a look around. Two of my two of my
guys that I employed for over twenty years are still
there working now. So they came as part of the pack.
(17:00):
When Scott and I sold our shop, they stayed with it.
So it's pretty much the same group of people, except
the management, if you will, has changed, and they've got
great equipment. And you know, if there was a problem
that I couldn't handle, I wouldn't hesitate to go go there.
(17:21):
There are two eighteen Newbery Street in PbD. They kept
the same phone number nine seven eight five three two
for zero zero one. The main person there is named Rob.
You want to talk to him or Chris and let
him know that we've talked here on the show, and
(17:41):
I'm sure that they'll take great care of you.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Rob, Chris. And is there somebody named Steve there too?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Steve Steve, he's been with me for oh gosh, probably
close to thirty years, twenty five years, Tony, Tony is there, Tony,
it's been with me for thirty years.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So yes, And who is Linda? Is Linda the reception
at start?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Oh crow, Bob, so you know how to find him? Okay,
you got the right place.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
I think, I'm I'm I'm pointed in the right direction.
Thank you, Dan, Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to
you and to all your listeners. Thanks Rob, appreciate it,
Thanks to you, Thank you, Larry, thank you, thank you, Scott,
Bye bye, welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Here comes the news. We get back more with the
BZ car guys, Scott and Larry. And by the way,
the only line that is opened to six one seven,
getto on board. We'll get you through, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Coming back on night side.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Back to the phones we go for the WBZ car guys,
the WZ nice that car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Let me go to June in Providence, Rhode Island. Hi, June,
how are you welcome back?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Good?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Thank you. I have a question. I don't have a
problem with my vehicle. Currently, I drive a twenty eighteen
fort Explorer Limited and it has about one hundred and
eight thousand miles. But I'm seriously thinking of giving that
to a family member and buying myself a new vehicle.
(19:17):
And I had This is my third Ford Explorer. I
really like them. They're not too high to get in
and out of, and when I fold down all the seats,
I have quite a bit of, you know, capacity to
lug stuff around and transport things. So I'm looking at
a new one, might a V six, but the new ones,
(19:39):
if you want a V six, you have to have
the second row captain's chairs, not a bench seat, okay,
And so the other alternative is to have a four
cylinder engine. But I looked up the horsepower and it's
even more horsepower than my V six. But somebody told
(20:00):
that's because the engines are more sophisticated and the technology
is better, and I wanted to kind of get your
input on that. And the other vehicle I was thinking
about was the Toyota Grean high window.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Ooh, tough choices. I mean, you've had Explorers for a
while and there's once obviously treated you very good and
not good enough that you want to give it to
a family member. So and Explorers certainly have come a
long way, but you're putting it against such a high name.
I mean, if you've listened to our show before, you
(20:36):
know how much Larry, how high Larry and I think
of Toyota vehicles in general. Have you taken out either
vehicle or a road test yet?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Well, I was, as Dan knows, I was out in
LA for November, so I went to the LA Auto Show.
So I looked at the vehicles there, and I had
a rental that was a Ford Explorer, right, So the
only question with the Toyota was it seems a little
higher to get in and out of. I'm not very tall,
(21:11):
and I find that like, I'm not too crazy about
that aspect, but everything else seems pretty good about it.
And I also thought about buying the Highbred version because
I drive quite a bit and it's not so much
that I'm looking not to spend our guess, but like,
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Be a polluter.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Are you Are you a local commuter? Do you drive
short distances to work every day?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Said?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I'm retired. I just drive a lot. I go wherever
I want, you ever I want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
It's a majority.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I think we could talk a lot about the
different cars. I think you've got to kind of make
a decision yourself. I don't know if these guys can
make a decision for you.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Well, I just wanted to know about that that four
cylinder engine in the Ford Exploit, is it going to
be as responsive as my v sticks that I have
in the twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Four cylinder technology has come such a far away. And
then I think, if you want to personally, if I
had to choose, I would rather see you go with
the four cylinder Ford over necessarily picking just for a hybrid.
You've already given the Explorer. You like the Explorer, You're
comfortable in the Explorer. I'm not a guy that's sold
(22:31):
on hybrids. As somebody that gets to work with them
every day. I don't think that they're necessarily a future
A long term Yeah, but you've got to go with
what's comfortable. Like you said, you're retired, now, that's maybe
one of your last vehicles. You want a vehicles say
you love driving every day, So that's the fun part
about buying a new vehicle. Well, test them both and
(22:54):
see which one feels better to you.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Okay, all right, thanks Jude, look that help the little bit.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Thanks, great night.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
All right, let's keep rolling here. You're going to go
next to Marty and Florida Marty, You next to Nights.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
I right ahead, buzzre excellent shoe guys. Listen, I really
don't have a problem, but I wanted your opinion first
of all. Coincidentally, I bought an Explorer in nineteen ninety two,
an XLT brand new in South Florida.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I got rid of it with.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
Two hundred and twenty five thousand miles thanks to cash
for Clnkers. It was the worst vehicle I ever had.
Everything went wrong and it started to rot and leak whatever.
So I got rid of it. Then I bought cash
for Clonkers. I bought it an on nine Dodge Nitro
with two thousand miles. It was a demonstrative model. I
(23:46):
have two hundred and twenty six thousand miles on it now. Well,
I should say that last year the dealer said it
was the leakage of anti freeze into.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Its bark plug.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
They gave me an engine for free because I had
that the powertrain warranty since then I've been riding and
writing and writing and writing. I wanted to find out
two things from you, what do you think of the
Dodge and I trow, and maybe some feedback from people
out there, because if this vehicle ever went, I would
(24:20):
be inclined. They don't make it anymore, but I'd be
inclined to buy another used line because it's the best
vehicle I ever had on the highway when I go
to North Carolina, it gets twenty twenty one twenty two
miles to the gallon, doesn't use any oil, and it's
just a great vehicle. If I just wanted some feedback
from pros like you.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Question for was it then I've got a two liter in.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
It, it's four it's a six cylinder engine.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh, it's got the sixth on so it has probably
the three point five I think so, yeah, it's either
are three or three five. Back then, first of all,
it's super impressive to hear that, you know, in being
somebody that works for Stillantis nowadays, it's great to see that.
Back then, you've got a product that you know has
(25:10):
gone fifteen years, two hundred plus thousand miles. I think
it's even better. We get to deal with some of
the lifetime warranty stuff. I think it's great that they
were able to warrantye that engine for you. So your
question was would you buy another one?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
In other words?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
In other words, is somebody I saw some recently some
use Oh I should mention I do have a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
My horn act up. Once in a while. My horn
goes dead.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Okay, well ninety spring, it's racing.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
It'll do ninety like nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So is it something? What do you feel about them?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I feel that you know, I was never a personally
a huge fan of a nitdro back in the day.
It's not just not my style of vehicle. But I
think obviously for fifteen years, you know, you see what
you've gotten and it's definitely proven itself. So I think
I think you're more of an expert on the vehicle
than I am, because you've lived it for fifteen years,
(26:13):
two hundred thousand miles more wise, Yeah, so why wouldn't
So are you looking at the point where you are
going to replace this vehicle.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Or no, I'm going to keep it as long as
it runs.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
But I'm saying that if I saw somebody selling one,
I don't know why anybody want to sell it, you know,
or used one. But I was just wondering if you
have any heard of any people havny problems with it?
Is mine and anomaly or is that the way they
will are?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I just I think that back then there was a
good vehicle, and obviously you've done your maintenance and take it.
A lot of vehicles get a bad reputation because people
don't do maintenance. But if people take care of their stuff,
they will. There are plenty of good vehicles out there
to get a bad reputation because they were not maintained properly.
So keep doing that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I think we've I think we've gone through a lot
of conversation here on this. I gotta keep rolling.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Marty, thanks so much, good shows always.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Thanks Chris good.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Let me take a very quick break.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I got Jeene and Linda and Ed and ed, a
couple of edds, two EDGs in Marshfield. We got we
got the market cornered with EDGs and Marshfield and we'll
be back on nights. O have the only one open,
the only line open right now six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty back on nights out of the w
BZ car guys.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nights Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, keep rolling here on night side. Let me see
who is up next. We're gonna go to uh Linda
in Weymouth, Linda tight on time you go right ahead?
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
First off, your telephone number was nine eight three to
two one.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Rightio is the other person that you want to ask
for the Sergio is one of the owner and he's
in the shop ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Is that the right number?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah? Nine seven eighty five three two for zero zero one?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
Okay. I have a Ford Focused twenty thirteen. It says
eighty six thousand miles, but I had the transmission replace.
They also changed the mileage when changed the transmission. My
check on just check engine light had been on and
that's what they said.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Was okay, so you've got a thirteen Focus and what
miles did the transmission have to be changed?
Speaker 8 (28:40):
I don't know what it was about a year and
a half ago and I'm presidently, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
How many miles do you have on the car now?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Eighty six thousand. I'm looking at replacing it with a
honder CRV twenty sixteen, and what how do I trade
it in or what value should I get for it?
If it's got that check light on still again? It
said it's going to cost forty four thousand something to
(29:13):
replace it, the engine light, their transmission.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So what I don't quite understand exactly what it is
that you would like to know? What is the force?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
What do I trade in? How do I trade in
the car when it really doesn't have a life after
I trade it in? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Okay? Yeah, so you go, who's the now? You said
you were buying a twenty sixteen Honda.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Yes, CRV with one hundred and one two?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And are you buying this from? Are you buying this
from a dealer or a private party?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
A dealer? I've been there twice before, and they're going
to get me a discount for being repeat persons.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Okay? And how much are they going to give you
in trade? Have you asked? No?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
I haven't. I haven't gotten that bar yet.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You're not going to get I can't look it over, Linda,
I'll tell you right now. I don't know as much
as these guys. You're not going to get much on
a car like that.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
I was thinking salvage value.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Okay, if if if the car didn't have a check
engine light on, it would be worth anywhere from two
thousand dollars to four thousand dollars. Okay, if you can
use the tax right off. There's many charities that you
can give it to, because you really can't sell a
car to a private party with the check engine light
(30:41):
on without expecting repercussions.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Okay, and Miguala would know how to how do you
go about doing it? For caster kids? A side saying
the call and okay. The other thing is I found
a but June, you have a handle that goes into
the car once the door is open to help get
(31:06):
up into the seat. I got it at a I
don't know, a discount place and I'm holding on to it.
I was going to give it to someone, but I'm
holding on to it. I don't think I'll be needing
it because it's not that much higher.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
That's good. That's good, Linda. Thank you for the challenging
questions for my men. Challenging questions, Linda, thank you so much,
talking again, good night, Edin Marshall. I had no clue there, guys,
I really didn't edit Marshfield ed your next on Knights,
I go ahead, ed In Marshfield. There's two heads here
(31:45):
in Marshfield. So the ed In Marshfield whose number ends
with well, it's the same guy. Because you've got two
lines died up, let's drive the other one. Rob Eden Marshfield.
Next on Knights, I go.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Ahead, Oh yeah, this is there right, yes, good, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, can we get any fine, but we're slowing the showdown,
so go.
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Ahead, okay, okay, yeah, quick question. I have a Lexus,
uh two thousand and seven, Alexis. I asked two point fifty.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I bought it with one.
Speaker 12 (32:25):
Hundred and twenty five thousand. Unfortunately, I kind of let
the transmission fluid go. I have two hundred and five
on it now, and I don't know if what your
advice is to do the do the fluid change or
just let it go and see how long I get
out of it out of the vehicle.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
No way would I ever think to do anything with
that transmission fluid at this point. Are you having a
problem with transmission now? No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
So my my problem is is that I have a
funny feeling that as soon as you try to flush
that fluid or do anything like that. I mean, you
know what, if you're going to do anything, maybe so fluid, right,
you can do a fluid replacement where you simply just
drop the pan out of the you know, drop the
fluid out of the pan. And I'm not sure if
(33:16):
that one has a drain colling on it, and maybe
a refill with some fresh fluid. But to use a
machine where you're actually flushing out the valve body and
the lines and the cooler have a funny feeling you're
looking for problems.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
Okay, And one more quick question is I've been using
Mobile one oil on it, and I know some people
say the synthetic of the time can cause the main
sale to leach. What's your what's your advice on that?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I'm one that in back in seven, I think it
was still a petroleum base, maybe a blend recommended back then.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
But if you've been using it, how long, I gonny,
how love many miles?
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You've been using Mobi one four.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
Eighty thousand since eighty thousand five?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yeah, in eighty thousand, I mean it's done. You well,
I don't see any reason to change from it at
this point, and and I don't there's no way that
a motor oil causes the seal to leak. Understand this,
Synthetic motor oils are much slicker in the property values
(34:30):
compared to a petroleum base that they're thinner, they're lighter,
they almost create a bonding agent to the walls into
metal surfaces. Okay, if a feal leak, it's because the
seal has failed over time, So oil doesn't cause a leak.
It could be more susceptible to leaks because of how
(34:50):
slick synthetic oil is and the way it bun baunch
the metal. But I don't see at this point. The
only thing I would say, if anything, are using the
regular mobile one of the high mileage mobile one, the
high mileage high mileage, I would yeah, that's what I.
If I were in the opposition to somebody that had
used Mobile one for a good amount of time, I
(35:12):
would go, you know, like you said, you're already in
the high mileage. I would stay with that until it
proves you wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Just a just a little interest. God, is that toyo
wants straight five W thirty in it? They do not want? Well, yeah,
but because.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
He's already to write eighty thousand, you don't change over
now right, No, no, I agree, I said, just a
point of interests that from day one, that's all that
they wanted day one, right, But yeah, you don't I
think you know this is like, yeah, you don't want
to see just like you ask me about the transmission fluid.
You've got eighty thousand miles plus of doing something a
(35:55):
certain way. I would not stop messing with something that's
been working, or you're apt to cause more problems.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
All right, and I think you get your answers. I
think we lost in which sometimes happens. Okay, thank you,
I appreciate all right, what do we get left here?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Rob? How much time? Two minutes? Let me see if
we get Gene and evertton here real quick. You just
have to wake through the news Gina and.
Speaker 11 (36:24):
Ever Okay, thank you, Hi Dan, I'm very sorry they
are sick. Rest and get more sleep. You always heal
when you're sleeping, Okay, when you're resting. So just okay,
that's it, all right, guys. Quick question okay, two things.
My car has seventeen five hundred miles on it, it's
a twenty twenty one hundred record. When is a break
(36:48):
fluid required? When is a transmission fluid required when you
know to replace them, and when there's an alignment required,
is it required yet?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Alignments should be done about once the year, especially with
these Massachusetts roads. Okay, I would yeah, yeah, because our
roads are not very good. One alignment cost you less
than a single tire, and if you want to tires
to last, then you want to align them so that
(37:27):
they're running properly. And that's also going to give you
better few mileage if your tires aren't fighting you.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
As far as what about the break.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I know you don't have a lot of break fluid.
I wouldn't change that break fluid at thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Not at the seventeen five that I have right now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
No, No, I think that you're spending money you don't
need to stand.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
Okay, I don't know why they're saying they recommend it.
But in transmission fluid, Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
If they're saying it. If they're recommending it, you want
to look in your owner's manual, Okay, trim as far
as your trans fluid goes, I would. I would go
sixty thousand on that. During the break, I'm gonna dig
into my into my all data, and I'm going to
find all that information, and when Dan comes back from
(38:17):
the break, I'll be very accurate and what I'm telling you.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
It's a twenty twenty hands record and it's a turbo engine.
That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
All right, you keep listening, Gene. Okay, we're gonna wrap
it up here. Thank you very much. We are done
for this hour. We have a bunch of lines mostly
six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty. You can call now.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
We'll get you real quickly on as right after eleven
o'clock news one line at six one seven, John and Drake.
It awaits. He starts us off on the other side.
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