Mr Mechanic 11-1-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure

(00:24):
just by.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
How you're walking.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engine lights don't stand a chance. This is
the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
This is an interactive call in show where you got
the questions and we'll get you the answers, get you
an idea where you're going, what you need to do,
or in a lot of case, we'll just help you
fix it right there. Because I've been through enough of
those to figure out what it is. As it said,

(01:06):
we already Cannon Service Centers at fiftieth and Dodge eightieth
and Dodge and guaranteed breaks forty ninth Avenue and dodge stopping.
Let's see us. We've been doing this for forty plus years.
We've seen a thing or two and can help you
out with me as always is Kyle. Good morning, Kyle. Yeah,
nice little bit dreary day, but still a little light coat.

(01:28):
Still go fix the car outside. Yeah, I've fixed cars
and worse than this. Yeah, way worse than this. Could
be one hundred degrees out. You're sweating and it gets
in your eyes and you can't see what you're doing. Yeah,
that's worse. Everybody's different. I would prefer to have a
little cold, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like ultimately, seventy degrees
is perfect, Yes, seventy degrees. A little breeze, you know,
maybe from the south would be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Ye know. Well that's why from the south, I don't know,
because these houses on the north side.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, so you know I got a hill to the north,
I mean from the south. Yeah, I can get all
of that. The benefits are better for me with the
south breeze and the north.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, I'll accept it.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, that's my observation.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's my neighborhood, kind of specific, kind of specific. Yeah,
you know, here was something interesting I thought before we
get into a call. But and I thought they should
have been doing this a long time ago. Stilantis is
going to in twenty twenty eight come out with a
full size vehicle like a Tahoe suburban something like that

(02:40):
Stilantis Dodge Ram. Okay, that's that They like kind of
left that whole segment to the suburban and Tahoe And
now actually Ford is selling more expeditions than suburbans at
this particular point, but they Ford left out the small

(03:02):
Tahoe version. Okay, So finally, after so many years of whatever,
Ram is going to come back in to uh have
a full size suv. And I've seen one of those
Grand Wagon ears the other day. That is a big vehicle,
A big vehicle. It's really big vehicle. Long. Oh god,
it's it's like it's it's they put another twelve or

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eighteen inches in right behind the front seats. I mean,
it's it's a big vehicle.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
And then maybe that's what they go any bigger with
that thing, you'll need a commercial driver's license.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
You'll have to put air brakes on that soccer. You
just put not for hire. You don't need a cdo
there you go? There you go? Does that work? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
So you need to tell me, like if I get
a not a hire license plate, I can just buy
a semi truck and drive it to work.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's what I've been told. I don't know that for fact.
Anybody out there that knows that particular information. You'll give
us a call, let's know, because I'll do that.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'm interested posed to do it now, like I'll drive
a semi truck around town. You know, I don't want
to do it commercially.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think you can do it for those big old
diesel pusher campers that are about the size of.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
A Oh I let anybody behind the wheel of that day.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I've seen it, so yeah, I'm guessing they can. I
don't know the answer, but I see a lot of
that stuff, so I just figured it was all not
for hire on the farm. You can do whatever. But
when did you drive your first semi fourteen? Close? That
was the first car. But I don't think I got
behind a semi in fourteen. But I'm sure there's somebody

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listening to us that did. All right, we're gonna head
over to John John's got a ninety eight Chevy pickup.
Finally fixed, John, What did it?

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yes, thanks to you guys and a little bit technology
and the glace of gods, we found out what was wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
On that darn thing.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was the EVAPPS which was stuck open. I was
just partially off off the seat because the charcoal was
in it.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Sure, we blew it out.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's working, and we blew up the line and put
it back together and I RaSE the code it had
to come back on.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
No, awesome, awesome. So did you hook the EVAP back
up to the or did you just take it out
of the system.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, we hooked it back up.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh, okay, okay, and got it.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
We about a.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Month and a half prior we were placed to character okay,
and we just I just happened to run across it.
I thought, gosh, we never checked that yet, you know,
And we checked it, and sure enough, that was a problem.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It's amazing how those little things that you don't think.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Uh, are you anything or mean anything.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Are involved whatsoever? Just seemed to be the problem. We'd
run across that more than a few times too. Yeah. Absolutely,
you know, I.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Kept meaning to check that thing I just kept forgetting.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, you know, your head for the bigger stuff, and
you just there's some stuff that can't be involved. But
it's all intertwined somehow, sometimes big, sometimes small. But great, John,
I'm glad we got everything between you and us. We
got it figured out.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You two as well appreciate the call. All right, we're
gonna held it over to John. It's got a eight
dodge charger. John, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Well?

Speaker 7 (06:22):
I replaced an aldinator because the breeding lawyer wasn't charging,
and put the new altinator on it and went to
start it. And the dash doesn't light up or anything.
Let it sit for a little bit. Read a something
online that's said to take the battery cables off and

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let all the modules reset. It started once and now
it's just back to nothing.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Hmm.

Speaker 7 (06:51):
The research I've done says it can be that windnode module,
the ignition module.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
So when you when you say.

Speaker 7 (06:59):
Back to no loss, those are pretty expensive.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh yeah, So when you say back to nothing, tell
me what that means that it won't start or it
just it starts and and.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
Well it doesn't even crank, the dash doesn't light up, nothing,
you just get Now, all the the key fobs work, sure,
but they won't work to start it?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Is this of the era of Dodge And I'm trying
to remember when they did this? But can you pop
the button out of there and put your key in
the ignition node and turn.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
The car on?

Speaker 5 (07:35):
No?

Speaker 7 (07:36):
Nope, that's the key fob. Is the ignition okay?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Or is the key?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Sure? Okay?

Speaker 5 (07:42):
That's what they call it Gen three okay?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Okay, yeah, because some of those you can pop the
top off and you can actually stick a key down
the center of it and it turns like a normal key.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
So when we did this alternator, was the battery disconnected?

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay? And did the battery go bad on its own?
Excuse me? Did the allnator just go bad on his own?

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Or did it theator just went bad on its own?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
It just wasn't charging.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, great, Yeah I said it wrong. But did the
alternator didn't melt down or anything? Because these will have
a tenacity to melt okay, yeah, because they'll have a
tennacy to melt down on these cars and uh, pop
fuses left and right.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
So I have seen this before. Generally, generally it happens
when the diode stater section goes out of an alternator.
Because what happens when that section of the alternator goes out,
you get alternating current in your direct current system. Is

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what's going on. And modules don't like alternating current and
it can cause a lot of issues, this being the
most severe generally. I mean, I've seen cars come in
with this issue and have you know, weird noises one,
but I mean you get weird readings on the five

(09:04):
vault reference line is generally where I see it. And
you'll look at the five volte reference line and say, well,
I got two volts of alternating current. So there's your issue.
But I think where we need to start. Do you
have a scan tool of any kind where you can
scan this car?

Speaker 7 (09:22):
I do, and it has the B I can't think
of it. It's got B codes in it, okay, But
all they are is in relation to not powering up,
which would lead back to that ignition module.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So, I mean it's not uncommon to see these fail
I've replaced quite a few of them in chryslers, especially
the earlier ones, because it was still kind of experimental
at that kind that time. But I think we need
to get into, you know, maybe a more in depth
look at what's happening. Can you scan the ignition node itself?

Speaker 7 (10:02):
It doesn't power up to do it, okay, because I
can't turn I can turn the key, but.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
So you can't even do anything. Okay, So I think
what we need to do, and it's can be kind
of a pain in the neck. But before we just
go and put an ignition note in this thing, we
need to get that down, check all the powers, ground
everything to it. Make sure that we are getting good

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power to this thing.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
Before I'm the blue and red wire. It's got twelve
volts in the ground?

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Is good? That said that, those are the.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Two to check, okay, because generally that's kind.

Speaker 7 (10:39):
Into the module and good ground.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's okay. That's kind of where everything starts. Is that
is that wins module? Yeah, pretty much where it starts.
So I think I think you're heading in the right direction.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think those can be
And I don't think that's a plug and play. No,
it has to be programmed. Yeah, it has to be
programmed after you plug and play it, so right or
plug it in.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
I saw a company out of Laredo, Texas that can
program them to a specific VIN. Sure, Oh okay, they're
still twelve thirteen bucks.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
And even if you get that program to the VIN,
you're still going to have to write the skim code
in that. When you get it the skim code, you
can just call your dealership and give them your VIN
number and say hey, I'm the owner, and it's a
four digit code, but you'll have to go through a
scanner and and it just basically tells the car that hey,

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this keyfob goes with this car and you're set to go.
It's a pretty painless process.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
We can do that locally too, can't we. Oh? Absolutely,
Hey John, hang on, hang on just a minute, hang
on the line, and we're going to talk to you
off the air, just real quick, and we're gonna take
quick breaking the mister Mechanic show and be right back.

Speaker 8 (11:53):
Let's go, boy, and all your tires co next to it,
all your wives. Then I start a banana in your tibbie.
I didn't let your hood when I told you it
was good. Then I farted in your seat.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh man, that's right.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
The best thing about being mean mechanic is when you
break down. I don't pat the gale.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Bob whoa, who oh.

Speaker 8 (12:23):
I'm totally crazier, totally lazer and kind of hazer from
the fifth of Jack I drank now, I'm kind of
buzzed in your cattle, like greasy hands, greasy pants.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
On your leather seats.

Speaker 8 (12:40):
Man, I'm a mean caannock. Who Let's go, boy.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Let's shoot over to Mike. Mike's got an eight Explorer
with battery cable trouble, Mike, what's up?

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah? That cover on it and there's all kinds of
corrosion or eat there. What's the best thing to put
on that to keep the crosion from coming back?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well? What we do? What I do? Not everybody does it,
but I get some super hot water warm the tea
kettle up. Get that. That's the best way to get
it off there to get all the corrosion off. And
what I take is you wheel bearing grease. I just
take some wheel bearing grease, put it on my finger
and kind of smear it around everything that's metal. You

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can also buy stuff from the part store for nine
dollars a can and spray it all over there and
make it red. But you're just creating a barrier is
all you're doing, and you're not putting it on the
inside of the cables, just the outside of the cables.
I do it on both and then it has a
tendency to move towards the next metal piece, whatever that is,

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whether that's the fender, whether that's the rod that holds
a battery down.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
One other thing I found that I used on my
old car. That's I kind of read it and I
was like, this ain't gonna work, So of course I
did it. Yeah, take a penny or two pennies and
just a little dot of silicone and stick it right
in the middle between the two terminals.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, sacriphones, sacrificial.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, and the penny just literally dissolves.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I thought you were going to tell me that
you'd smear hemorrhoid cream all over the the like the
light acane. You have a reaction. So you got some
extra hemorrhoid cream, put it all over the battery cables.
You should be fine too. But that's that's honestly, that's
what we do. We just a little bit of grease,

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a little bit of a basilene maybe. You know basoline's cheap.
You know, you can buy that stick it out in
the garage just a little bit. You're just creating a barrier,
that's all. You're just saying, Hey, leave me alone, go
towards the other metal piece, because all your batteries are
off gassing just a little bit, and that's what causes that,
I see. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Uh, one question, bet h. On the inside where you
plug you like you're you needs to be the siguette rider.
Now you put your phone into it. That's that socket
that power port. It doesn't Yeah, it doesn't work. Is
it very easy to put another one in there?

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Easy as relative, easy as relatives to where that power
port is and how much crap you got to take
a part to get to it. Yes, it's not too bad.
But sometimes there's.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
You got to pull a facial panel off. Yeah, that
I'm guessing. This is the one that's kind of up
there by the radio, kind of in that general.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
This one on the console.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Okay, so yeah, are you sure the fuse is good?

Speaker 5 (15:50):
No? I haven't checked that.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
So I would check the fuse, get yourself a test light.
Check down the center of it, right down, the very
center of the middle is going to be your power
and the sides are going to be grown. See if
you've got power down the center. If not, go check
the fuse, like Kyle says. And if you've got you know,
I've got to blow and fuse, put it in there
and then go recheck that. And if you, uh, everything's

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good and you still don't have power, then you you've
got a problem there. So now they're not too difficult.
It's just plastic around it and you just gotta be careful. Okay,
you bet, Mike appreciate the call.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Also, don't drop your test light when you're testing the
power in the middle, because you will.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Have a bad fuse after that. Yeah, I've proven that,
and you get to go buy a new You get
to go buy a new light too. Yeah. All right,
where are we heading? Neck?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
All right?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
We heading where to Frank? Frank's got a twenty two Cadillac. Frank,
what's up today?

Speaker 6 (16:42):
All right? I got two questions. The first one is
do you have someplace where all your little jingle songs
are located? Because some of them are kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
I do you know, I've got to go. I've got
him somewhere, I've got him on a CD somewhere, and
I've got to ask that guy where they are at.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
You can get them all on iHeartRadio. You have to
listen to the like all the back shows, but they're all.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
We've been talking about getting a CD for that, and
I'll call on Reminds for it.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
This Christmas Erick Stocking stuff.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Problem is, you know, Mike, I've got older cars, so
I can play the CD, but I can't play it
in my wife.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Oh yeah, Well maybe it's easier to throw it on
an MP three a little yeah, you know, or I'll
have to.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
I've got an eight track player in my car. Bob,
come and get it on eight track?

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, yeah, I know. He's a very creative.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, I don't think so we need to bring back
eight tapes all right.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
Anyway, getting back to the twenty two Cadillac, it's my
wife's car. We bought it when it was a year
and a half old with less than ten thousand miles.
She's put fifteen thousand miles and twenty months. She's had
it twenty four months, so it's real little miles. So
I've let the dealership take care of it until it's

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out of warranty. I opened it up to look in
the engine compartment. There's two batteries in there, regular battery.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
And then some little start stop battery.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Is that the thing for her push button start?

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
No stop for the push button start is for the
stop start when you come to a stop light and
the car dies.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
For the car, oh, the car quick?

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Well that annoying feature that I think is just a
stupid Yeah, okay, we can.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Get rid of that for you too, should you want
to get rid of it, just so you know, but
go ahead? Really yep, yeah, you can bypass it.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
All right, okay, all right? Well that might be because
it even bothers her. But I looked at that and
I was going, what is this little battery for? And
I guess I could sit down and read the whole book.
But I don't drive that car but maybe once every
six months, so it's not important to me until something

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happens to.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
It, exactly. I'm not even sure there's a book to
read anymore. I think they just give you a QR
code and you got to go read it online. I
don't think they even come with the book anymore.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
But oh no, there's a book.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
When we bought it.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
We had to go fill it with gas and it
took us fifteen minutes reading this stuff in the book
to figure out how to change the tripo dominant. Yeah,
and it's just crazy, all right. I just wasn't sure
why it was there, because my son's e Mustang has
the big battery and then that twelve old And I've

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found out because I had to go try and jump
his twelve volt because it wouldn't start one day and
he got to have it towed to the dealership.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
So when you get to the point where you replaced
the big battery, just replace that one too. Just know,
by the time, by the time you get you know,
a big size AMG or AGM battery and then that
one there, you're probably going to be into at least
four or five hundred dollars to replace all those. But
when they when the AGM batteries go bad, they just
go back. There's no that crank and slow kind of stuff.

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They just decide to die. And that other one's just
it's going to go at the same speed, same rate.
They both got the same amount of time on them.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
So yeah, all right, well it's over three years old,
so I'm starting to check. But all right, there is
a way to bypass that that one feature.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yep, permanently. Yep, I gotta. I got a place that
I use that works really good. I've done quite a
few of them, and he just they work slick. So
uh yeah, come see us when you're ready and we'll
help you out.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
You bet appreciate the call, Frank, appreciate the call. All Right,
we're gonna take a quick break in the miss Mechanics
show five, five, eight, eleven tens numbers to get in.
Be back in a minut I'm going to head back
into the lines. Richard's got a twenty one Silverado. Richard,
what's up today?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yes, I took my twenty one Silverado in to at
one hundred and twenty two thousand miles. I thought, well,
maybe i'll have him checked. This suspension's greek grease. Everything
took to my local mechanic and he comes back and
tells me that there are no grease erks on my suspension.

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This is a work truck. And he says, there's no
nothing to greece.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well, I can tell you that he's correct, and it
doesn't matter that it's a work truck. Yeah, there's nothing
to grease on a Denali either. And that's a few
steps up that up above that. They're just they just
don't know your replacement parts that you put in there.
Aftermarket good aftermarket parts. You can get grease points, but

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they're using instead of metal inside there, they're using nylon
and plastic pieces and they pre grease those on the
ind and you just don't need that lubrication like you
used to. It's nice to have, but honestly, technology has
come up to the point where things are tighter, and

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things are you you put a little bit of grease
inside those, and that's why if you'd ever look at
it at the upper ball joint, you'll see a little
bubble on it instead of being flat. A lot of
times that little bubbles because there's grease inside there, and
as it gets hot, it leaked down around the nylon
and and or whatever material they have in there. And
it's just it doesn't need it as much as it

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ever used to.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Okay, I have a second question real quick, if I may,
sure it's kind of the business end of it. I
had a the the uh, when you stop the stop
light and the andine shuts down, and then after a
certain amount of time where you take foot off the brain,

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it's supposed to start back up.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Well, I had it where it didn't start back up,
and I was stuck at a stop light in the
middle of Highway three seventy for like twenty five minutes
and it would not start back up. I shut everything down,
turned the key fifty two times before it finally started
back up. I took it to the dealership and they

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had it for two weeks and then came back and
they said it was fixed. The she was six hundred
dollars for diagnostics and one hundred and twenty nine dollars
for some module. As soon as we went and picked
it up, it did it again. I took it back

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again and they said it was a short.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
In the starter, exactly where I was going to go.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
And I said to them, I said, well, so you
charged me six hundred dollars in labor and diagnostics one
hundred and twenty nine dollars for module, but that wasn't
what the problem was yet they made me pay for it.
I'm just it's just kind of a a business end
question of it.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, yeah, so there's a lot of things involved in
the start stop that go on with that, and you
can test out as much as you can. Sometimes you
can get it to act up, and sometimes you can
make an informed decision as to what is actually wrong.
Sometimes you've got to make a decision as to this

(24:47):
looks good. This looks good, and that looks good. The
only thing really left is this, And we're going to
take an educated guess, and that's what it is. I did,
not knowing all of what happened there, I would say
the educated guess probably was that, and it turns out
to be the starter. And what should have happened, in
my opinion and probably yours too, there should have been

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some compensation. There should not have been any maybe labor
on the starter and maybe cost on the part. That's probably,
you know, if that had happened to us. So it's
for example, that's probably how I would handle it, you know,
just you know, cost on the part, no labor. It's
one of those things I can't catch. You would have

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known all this before that came about. In other words,
you would have known the possibilities of that going on
before we did anything on the spending that kind of money,
just because so you just you just need to know upfront.
If you talk about it up front, there's you just
manage expectations of what's going on. But the only thing

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is and.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
That's kind of what I that's kind of what I
did with them and kept asking him, you know, because
it took two weeks to get it the first time
and then found out that wasn't.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
What it really was. Yeah, but I just thought it.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Was kind of a business end question of it.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
Well, because.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
It's a difference between talking to the service manager and
the service writer and that versus talking to the guy
that owns the place. That's the difference I see.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Okay, well, thank you. That gives me some insight for
any possible future problems.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, and I was going to tell you that when
you when you were telling me that whole scenario, I
had started right in my mind because that's exactly what
I thought it was to start with. Because I've had
many of these. Now we're starting to get into a
bunch of start stops going on. We've had a tremendous
amount I would stay tremendous, but we've got an extraordinary
amount of these expensive starters that have gone bad. And

(26:52):
in these later trucks, they're just overworked. They're overworked. You're
working them two three times as much as you do.
And like I told the previous caller, if you and
listening for the whole show, we do have some people
that that we buy stuff from on an aftermarket, stuff
that gets rid of that start stop so you can
get your starter down to a normal workload versus twice

(27:13):
the workload.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
So well, thank you very much. I appreciate your opinion, you.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Bet Richard, appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna head
over to John. John's going to ninety four Silverado. John,
what's up today?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Silverado with heater issues?

Speaker 10 (27:28):
So if at ils and sitting in the driveway after
fifty minutes, there'll be some heat you can still coming out,
but if you take it and start driving, the heat
goes away. And what I've been so far replaced the thermostat,
replace the heater core and unrelated us on the leak
in the radiator, replace that, and I pulled the glove box.

(27:49):
And watch the heat activator function and the other two
activators if you're to function too. And I'm at a loss.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
So guy, we got heat of an idol and heat.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
What kind of heat do we have at an idol?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Good strong heat or a little bit of heat?

Speaker 10 (28:08):
No? No, a little bit of heat if you turn
the thing on. I mean there's heat coming what what
also happened about eight hundred miles ago. I don't ride
this silver out of it just sits in the machine
shed and when we need it, we take it and
might go months without being driven.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
But I had a.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
Mechanic put a intake manifold gasket on it the last fall,
and I think I've driven it once last winter and
I didn't notice the heat issue. But uh, I'm just
wondering if could that manifold gas could have been thrown
incorrectly or somehow something blocked it.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Absolutely absolutely so did you have the heat problem before?

Speaker 10 (28:45):
No, never had heat trouble before. Okay, I can't say
that I ever cutted the heat after.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, so absolutely the intake manifold can be bad because, uh,
only heat I can't remember is the front or the rear.
It's been a while, Kyle, I think it's the front.
Where's the back anyway, so that one's going to have
a port at the back.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, and it's going to come off the water pump
as well, I think. Or no, it comes off the
back of the manifold and then goes to the radiator.

Speaker 10 (29:12):
Right, your heat is correct, and I felt the water
going into it with you know, grabbing that one, and
it's nice and hot and the engines it'll almost bring
your hands. But once I've driven it and stuff, I
grabbed the other one coming out and it was cool
and that was my initial reason. Oh, it had to
be the most likely the heater core, but unfortunately it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah. See, you can flip those gas gas into end
or actually they're side to side, not ended in, but
you can flip them from side to side and you
will block off the coolant port.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
Okay, well, I guess I can.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Can You might want to try to get you know,
nowadays they have whatever I want to scopes you can
get to. We got a scope that you can get
off of Amazon for sixty bucks. Kind of go down
the tube and just kind of look over and see
if it's blocked, so you don't have to take a
completely hord. But yes, to answer your question, you can
reverse them and you can cause problems that weren't there before.

Speaker 10 (30:03):
I've got one of those scopes for a rifles. I
think it's flexible. I think I can give it a
little exam that way.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Here you go. Thank you very much, you bet, John
appreciate the call. All right, take quick break on the
Mister Mechanics Show, come back and red answer everybody else's
calls and be back in a minute. Jump it back
into the calls. Karen's got a twenty five Subaru forester, Karen,
what's going on today? Yes?

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Hi, how are you?

Speaker 11 (30:28):
Quick question? It sounds like you've already hit on my concern.
I'm not mechanical at all. My husband kind of works
with that. Why do they even have that start stop feature?
You know where the car stops at a stop sign.
We always shut it off. It just seems like it
would ruin the starter.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
It does, It.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Does emissions, emission controls is what it is. In fact,
I just put one in a an a the same
exact question from a friend of mine the other day
that we I put a star in her car because
it just finally went bad, and that she says, well,
did that contribute to it? And I said, well, yeah,
it did, because you're using it twice to three times
as much. So we got a kid offline and that

(31:12):
we've found that works great, and we just bypassed it
for her so she don't have to worry about it anymore.
It is so in where we're at in this part
of the country, it's just an annoyance. But if you
live in if you lived in a big city, you know, Boston,
New York, you know, la, things like that, where it
would shut off, it saves a tremendous, tremendous amount of

(31:33):
emission controls and pollution that's coming out the back of
the tailpipe. But we're not sitting here at a stop
sign for any more than two minutes at the most
before we're off and going, So that makes.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
A lot of sense.

Speaker 11 (31:45):
Yeah, where do we have a place where where we
can go to get it shut off?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, we just give us a call if you want
get on the station's a call and we'll find a
spot and we'll direct you to that way. I don't
do too much of it out on the air as
far as you know, advertising that way. But you can
either can we can give you the website if you want.
You know, we're not you know, we don't care, but
we can give you that stuff, that information, or we
can do it for you, order it and do it

(32:12):
for you. Whichever one you do. It does. Some of
them are are easy. Some of them are a little complicated.
Nothing's terrible, but it just takes that away.

Speaker 11 (32:24):
So well, I appreciate it. You kind of confirmed what
I was thinking. But all right, we'll look into shutting
that thing off.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
All right, sounds good. Appreciate the call.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
Thanks for your help, you bet.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
All right, We're gonna head over to Roger. Roger's got
a twenty fourteen town in country Roger. What's up today?

Speaker 9 (32:42):
Okay? Well, I've got a one of those rechargeable flashlights
in the back compartment, okay, and it's no longer working.
And I did get a new battery from the dealer
and that didn't solve the problem. So any ideas for me?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Rechargeable flashlight? It's built into.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
The car, Yeah, in the very back.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
So I guess I haven't seen this particular thing. So
my guess is if you've got a flashlight, so it
it just helped me a little bit. It pushes into
a holder and then just sits back there and charges
while you're running around, and then you you can grab
it and use it whenever you want. Kind of thing.

Speaker 9 (33:22):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Okay, So I'm I'm going to assume you've only got
a couple of things going on here. Either you got
no power to your charger, correct, or you got a
bad chargers yep, yep, one of the two, or the
batteries bad in the in the headlight or the light.
But you already took care of that. So my guess
is that it's not being charged. Not being recharged so

(33:44):
you can charge it up. Does it have a port
that you can charge this up at a different location
like at home on a on a different charger, or
it's it got a or if it's a very specific
to the car.

Speaker 9 (33:55):
I think it's just to the car because there's kind
of a couple of little prongs or something that snap in.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
What do you suggest, Kyle, we go look for fuses
first and then.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah, I mean I'm new to this.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
But but so it's it's it's a charger, that's all
it is.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I mean, it's got to have power, it's got to
have ground, it's got any charger. It's built into the car.
So when you take that flashlight and push it into
its holder, do you see any lights that come on
or should come on?

Speaker 9 (34:26):
No, it's it's there's no lights on the outside of
it at all.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Okay, Well, we got to start with power and grounds.
I agree with Kyle. We got to start with power.
See see what it is there, check your fuses, go
find your owner's manual or fuse box and see what
specifically is going to that. And then it's going to
be like any other battery charger you have at home
for your cordless whatever. It's just going to be a charger,

(34:51):
but it's going to be wired into the car. Not
so much wired into the car, but it's gonna be
a charger there that that has a plug in.

Speaker 9 (34:58):
And Okay, that should be I can I can bring
it into your shop, right, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, we could certainly take a look at it and
see it. Kyle and I haven't seen one of those yet,
so we might as well. Might as well get involved.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, I'm gaming, Yes, I'm game all day.

Speaker 9 (35:19):
What's a hour diagnostic charge?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh yeah, roughly, it kind of varies up and down though,
it kind of depends on what we're getting into. So
I don't know what you're going to reach that level,
but there may be some disassembly in order to kind
of figure out what it is. You might be half
of that. It just you just gotta you just have
to spend time get into the wiring diagrams and figure
out what it is. But you know, yeah, well.

Speaker 9 (35:43):
I have no mechanical ability whatsoever. But I thoroughly enjoy
your show because I'm convinced that you guys can fix
anything we can.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I like that the are you go? I appreciate the call.
You're the best call all day. Thanks again, Thanks Roger,