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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,
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and that he can tell your tires all pressure just by.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
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 3 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
Five five, eight, eleven, tens and numbers to get in.
Give us a call early so we can get to
your calls. It's a there's no Husker football game on
this week, so they got plenty of things you can
sit and call and talk about other than breaking your leaves.
But you should be done with that by now. Yeah,
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it's sitting next to me. It's always is Kyle. Good morning, Kyle,
good morning. We're back live. We had to go to that.
We were off last week, just had to go to
a trade show, so I had to go see some
things that are interesting in the automotive world. And those
kind of things are what you need to do to
keep up with what we do. Tell you what you
know I've seen. I heard on the news the other
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day that they're touting fifty year mortgages. Who Okay, the
houses are getting expensive, but you know you kind of
treat that like you know, some people want to pay
their house off, and I get that, but you know
sometimes you just try to get the lowest rate and
sure know that you're never going to pay it off.
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And I mean call it a day.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Fifty years, I mean that's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, they still get through when the reason I
the reason I brought was if we have fifty year
home loans, do you suppose we're going to head towards
fifteen year car.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Loans around here? The car ain't gonna make it that long.
I mean they just rushed away. I mean there would
have to be.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, then you can just take your pile of dust
back in and say here, here you go take your
ashes back in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I brought this for warranty. You got a dust panful
of rusty car parts.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, it's uh. The reason I bring that up is
because they had eighty four year loans on automotive accounted
for seventeen point six of the new car financing. Okay,
seventeen point six percent of what's going on out there
is eight you know, eighty four month loans.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, you know they're getting more expensive. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And yeah, you can draw that out, you get a
lower payment, it becomes affordable.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, it becomes affordable. And you know if you get
if you get the right car, that's okay, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But you don't want to draw that out on like
a key of Rio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Or no, you don't, you know you don't. I'm just
I'm pausing a second there because I'm had I'm thinking
of somebody come in the other day, a customer come
in the other day and says, hey, you know, I
just got a new car. Come outside, tell me what
you think about this. And there was a long pause,
and he looked at me, and I looked at him,
and he said, I didn't get the right car, did I?
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I said, no, it's it's fine. It's good for me.
It's going to be bad for you, it's going to
be good for me.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I didn't you know, I didn't know what to say
other than that, I'm not going to tell you what
it was, but it yeah it. Somebody brought it home
to him. He didn't actually go buy it. This was
presented to him as this is what we're gonna da
what you don't want to do. I mean, they're a
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turn of a key.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I will make your money disappear.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, yes, And you know there's a lot of cars
out there. And what I urge is go talk to
somebody that when you go buy a house you get
a home inspector, don't you Why would you do that?
You want to see what's going on and what's going
you know, what's the bad because you don't know anything
about it. Most people don't know anything about it. And
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consult somebody that does and say, hey, what what have
you seen? You know? What models? Should I stay away from?
What you know? What don't you like? What do you see?
A bunch of what's going to make you a bunch
of money and make me sad? And then you'll get
the answers that you see and you kind of go
from there because if you go, everybody now dresses everything
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up to make it nice and shiny and cool looking,
but nothing is ever said or knowing about But what's
the cost of repair? On the other side, we ever
hear that. We all know without a doubt what it's
going to cost to refix a Jaguar Range, Rover Bentley,
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things like that. We know that's going to be expansive.
You don't think the normal cars are going to be
that way? They are, they are there, they are, they
will be so just I guess, be informed.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Do you know what jeep stands for? Right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just another I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Just empty every pocket.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just empty every pocket. I got a story, not a
story about them, but an engine story will do later on.
So let's jump into the calls and head over to
Rick's kind of niney nine Ranger. Rick, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
My call today is surround ball joints. Okay, I have
this vintage Ranger. I just replaced all the ball giants,
and new replacement ball giants, unlike the original, are greafable.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
My question is are those new balls giants out of
the box freak or do I need to grease them now?
And how much.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There's a little bit of grease in them when they
come from the factory agreed generally, what I'll do. I'll
press in my new ball joints, get everything in there,
turn the steering a little bit, and then you know,
give them two or three pumps of grease yep, just
enough to kind of cover the entire ball socket area.
And then as you change the oil, I mean, climb
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under there with your grease gun and grease them up
every service.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, and everybody has a tendency to keep pumping grease
in there until they can see it squirting out of
the boots and everything else, which is, don't be that guy,
don't be that guy. Yeah, there's some in there. I
agree with Kyle. Two three pumps and it's in there,
and just keep doing that over a period of time,
and if you find one that doesn't take grease down
the road, you know, year or two down the road,
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replace that zerk because that's most people go ah, I'll
do it next time, and then the ball and goes
out because it never gets recreased.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Then, appreciate the call. Rick, you bet we're gonna head
over to Bill. Bill's got an eleven Mercury Milan. Bill,
what's going on today?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh, I've got a quandary regarding the brake lights on
this car.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I step on the brakes and the brake lights come on,
and the third brake light comes on when I turn
on the headlights. The brake lights are on constantly.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, So here's what.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I and I'm wondering if it's not the switch or
it's a fuse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, it's not going to be a fused because they're
all working.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So all the lights kind of go through the turn
signal switch on that car.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But what have you done prior to this anything? Are
you just hiring at the moment?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
No? No, I took it to a mechanic and he
replaced the fuse and it brought on it before no
brake lights were I could turn on the headlights, but
no rear tail lights were on. And then he replaced
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the fuse and charged me an exorvant a mile and
then I was driving and all the time the brake
lights were on. But prior to that there was no
brake lights or no rear lights until I hit the brake.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, are you sure all he did was a fuse?
Because I mean, to put a fuse in a car,
it shouldn't be that much money at all. Now talking
could change it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It makes it sound like we've changed some baalds, don't it,
And now we're maybe didn't get the right bulbs in there.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
It's it's not a bulb, it's an led uh.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, Okay, both the.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Tail lights are LEDs, so except for the turn signal.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, so huh. So he was under the dash for
something if he's in that fuse panel that holds that fuse. So,
I mean there's a part of me that can suspect
foul foul play here, But I think we need to
start with the basics and looking at what's going on
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underneath this dash. Is there any wiring that's been added?
Has anything been messed with?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, you got two separate systems here. You're breaking turn
signals work on one system and then your tail lights
are totally different, totally different filment of the bulb or
led side, so enough for them to be on all
the time. Something's crossed. Yeah, something's crossed. So if we
didn't have the problem before we in, and now we
have the problem. We come out. We got to take
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a giant step back and say what did we do?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So if there was a bad fuse, we can suspect
maybe there is an internal short in the turn signal switch, right,
which could possibly be.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The reason that we're crossing over them. Yeah, like he was,
you were talking before we got a turn signal problem
where the headlights and everything kind of go together. So
this is this switch on the dash or is it
on the stock?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
It's on the dash. The headlight switch is on the dash, Okay,
And I bought a new headlight switch, but he he
didn't put that in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think you gotta go look at a diagram see
where it's at, because I think you for some reason,
if you're adding break if you're putting brake lights and
it's it's backfeeding basically into the tail light system, that's
where it's at. And since everything is plastic, more than
likely something is burnt and causing the connections to go
backwards and that's why the fuse blew. So the blowing
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of the fuse and replacing of the fuse was the
first clue that we got an issue somewhere else.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Mhm, okay, And you don't think it would be the
headlight switch, Well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
What I would do is pull that switch off out
and I would look at the back of it and
see how to see what kind of see if there's
any things melted back there is what I would do. First,
the blue the fuse. The fuse didn't blow on its own,
some cause it to blow. And as soon as you
find the connection, either in the turn signal or the
headlight switch, you're gonna find your culprit. That's what we're
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gonna do. We're gonna start tearing it apart a little bit,
and we're gonna start seeing where we can find things
that are plastic that are burnt.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And the.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Turn signals always have worked, always.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Have worked, right, but everything runs through that. So your
turn signals, your brake lights. So when you step on
the brake, that's how you can have turn signal to
the left and still have break on the right because
they run through each other. Now that tail lights are
totally separate entity, totally separate circuit y, yep, it gets
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complicated a little bit. In order for in order for
you to be able to tell people you're turning and
put put the brake light on. It has to be
that way. So that's that's what that's what we would
do first, to start pulling that switch out of there.
If you've got one pulled apart, let's take a look.
Let's see what's burning there. And I'll tell you one
thing you can do. When you got a part like that,
and stick it up to your nose and smell it.
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If it smells like plastic, it's probably okay. If any
whiff of u of burnt electrical, put a new one in,
and you might have more than one problem, because one
plastic bad connection melted leads to something else with high resistance.
Try it, Try it, Try that, Try that now, and
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if there's if any more we can help you with,
let us know.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All right, no problem, all right, we're gonna take quick break.
Uh five, five eleven tens the numbers to get in
me back in minute.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
You need an oil jack, don't forget tilver.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Frank, Frank's got an eleven Hundai Odyssey. Frank, what's up today,
Franco Frank Frank? All right, but put Frank on hold.
He'll come back. We're gonna head over to Paul. Paul's
got a thirteen four escape. Paul, what's going on today?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
I need some guidance here. I got three questions for you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
First of all, is this the kind of vehicle you
would take a five year loan out on?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
No, okay, how do I remove the battery?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I don't think that's that's too terrible difficult. I think
that's in right behind the left headlight if I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, a couple of terminals.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh, this is a thirteen scale. Oh, this is the
one that's underneath the windshield, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Well you got to take the cowl out of it,
is what I do?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, Or you can take the air box, airbox and
everything else out. But once you take the cowling off
and the windshield wipers off and everything, it comes right out.
There's more plastic on plastic clips that it's easier than
what you think. It just it just looks like it's
a lot and then you just pull it straight up
and out. I find it easier to do that, and
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so does Kyle, because when you go the other way,
you have to uh slight it one way and then
tip it on in and then pull it out and
then just there's.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
A lot more stuff to take apart. That's not fun
to take apart.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's hard to grab. It's hard to grab. But when
you take the cowl off, you can just slip it
straight out.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Okay, question the three.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Uh this vehicle had a coolant.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Leak fixed and after driving in a while started leaking again, so.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
She parked it.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Is there like a most likely coolant leak on this
type of.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Car, so at one point, just about anything underneath the hood.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, if it's got coolan going through it, it's gonna leak,
especially on that car. Yeah, they are. That is their
biggest issue is coolant leak.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
One of the biggest ones they have is a plastic
coolant housing on the side of the engine block towards
the driver's side, but the thermostat is also They've also
got a bike hoses Peter hoses, bypass hose. It runs
over to the UH surge tank surge tank coolant reservoir
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and the hoses that come off of that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We've we fixed a ton of leaks on these Yes,
I mean, if it's on the road, it's leaking coolant.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I hate to tell you that, but you asked so.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
So don't get the five year loan.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
No, no, And this is like I was talking this time.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I think she was putting water in it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
And it sat for a year, so it probably blew
something else.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Thought you think if.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It froze, it did.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yep, it did. It froze, It did for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I think you guys have saved me a lot
of time, and I thank you very much for that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You bet. We appreciate the call as always. All right,
we're gonna head over to UH two. All right, Frank, Frank,
you're back on the Odyssey. Frank, what's up today?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Yep, yep. Sorry, I put the phone down and walked away.
It's Odyssey in the last six weeks for some goofy reason,
and I would get an error code up where the
information stuff is for the tripo down and all that.
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It would say change back battery, and the battery icon
down on the lower part of the dash would come on,
and I checked the battery, and I checked the alternator
at one of the stores, and so one of the
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things it said was disconnect the battery posts wait ten
seconds and reset itself. Okay, My problem is it kept happening.
So I went to pull the battery cables off, and
I just touched the battery cave, the positive one, and
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it came up like it was. It was the bolt
was tightened, but it wasn't down tight on the post.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Right, So the lot of the terminals loose, and all
those the posts on a battery are tapered. They don't
look tapered, but there are tapered, and sometimes they get
stuck and what have you. And you really almost have
to take something and kind of pound them all the
way down to the base of the battery to get
a good connection on it.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
And well I took a socket and and and a
large socket and the camera.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And good idea to tap it down.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
But but the thing is, it looks like the where
the bolt and nut are for tightening the the thing
that it looks like it's twisted somewhat where the round
part is that goes over the post.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Somebody's probably overtightened it.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
And so is there a big issue. I haven't taken
one of these things apart. As long as well.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That cable in that that cable in can we can
we can put replacement cable ins on it and solve
that problem if it's if it's too screwed up. Sometimes
you can take things off and put marine cable ins
on there and just put eyelets on it and cause
solve that problem. Or the next step is to have
to put a positive battery cable on, which turns into
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a lot of It can be a huge thing just
based on the fact that there's a lot of stuff
hooked to that. So that gets kind of pricey. But
I would have to kind of look at it. But yes,
usually a repair end can be done in most cases,
depending on depending on how much depending on how much
slack you have in the in the cable to do
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it right.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Okay, well I'll take a look. It's just you got
to take part of the air breather off. Look at both.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, agreed. But one other quick, one other quick question
for you. This this message on the on the the
dash that says, uh, check battery or replace battery.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Change?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, is it is it possible that the change battery
is coming from the key fob remote. It's asking me to.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Place the battery on the key fob remote and it's
still happen.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
And that's when I found out the cable the post that. Okay,
that's when I found out.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
It was okay, good, good. So it's it's detecting that
it's not getting charged like it should get charged. That's
that's what it's detecting. It's the car is smart enough
to say, hey, that all Nator's not charging me like
I should. So that's what it's doing. So yeah, try
that and if you need some help, let us know.
We're more happy to try to help you. You bet
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appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The call.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break on the
mist Mechanics show five, five, eight eleven ten. We back
in the minute. Richard's got a new car question. Richard, Shoot, hello, hello,
new car question.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Well, this should be quick. I've never been excited about
a hybrid, but I'm starting to look at one for
twenty five or twenty six. Whether I can find on
the floor. But my big concern is I've always gone
to Florid or someplace for four or five months, and
with a record car, I could put a tricker on
there and when I come back to the car runners perfectly.
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Can I do the same thing on a hybrid?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You can on the twelve volt battery? Correct, that's the
only battery you can charge on your own. On a hybrid,
they have two batteries. You have a twelve volte battery
you know that works your windows, radio, you know, lights,
other amenities and stuff like that. Your drive train battery though,
that's about eight hundred and eighty volts. Yeah, and we
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don't want to trickle that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That'll smoke that much, that little trickle, that'll put that
into a fire. So no, yeah, and you're not You're
not gonna easily be able to get to that anyway.
You're gonna have to disassemble some stuff to even get
close to that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You aren't gonna be able to hook anything to it without,
you know, causing serious injury to yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Twelve ol battery.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Only, but it could sit for four or five months
and come back and then run perfectly as long as
the twelve volt is uh correct? Correct?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Correct? Okay, correct?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
All right, I need to know that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Thank you very much, you bet, you bet. Richard appreciate
the call. All right, we're gonna head over to uh Travis.
Travis got a twenty six Chevy pickup. Travis, what's up? Yeah,
he must have set his phone down too. We'll come
back to Travis. All right, Jack, you're up thirteen Dodge
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Journey intermittent.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Control. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I can set it,
it works, it shuts off, I shut the car off,
started engage it. It works, and then sometimes it just
will not.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Work at all.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I checked on it, and it has a myriad of
fixes on it. I don't have a marriad of money
to repair it. What's the first and cheapest way, I shay,
three person can repair it?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, Well, I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Think you can do both of those.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I can tell you. On this particular car, I've seen
an incredible amount of issues with these cars, all of
them being electrical.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yes, they have.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Very poor electrical systems on these vehicles. Okay, that being said,
I mean I've been from one end of the bumper
to the other on these cars. As far as problems
and finding them, I've found problems in places that problems
shouldn't even be able to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Wonderful, I know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I think I would also start by make sure the
positive and negative battery cables are super super duper clean
inside and out, always on a Chrysler. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So, I mean, aside from that, I'm not sure I
can tell you like any kind of shade tree kind
of fix for this, because I mean, anything we're gonna
do on this is gonna be I mean, I'm gonna
plug a monitor into it, I'm gonna scan the body
control module. I'm gonna take this thing. I'm gonna get
it out on the highway. I'm gonna get it up
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to about ninety five miles an hour. I'm gonna turn
the cruise control on and I'm gonna see on my thing,
does it say the cruise controls on? Does the computer
say that it's getting a signal? If it doesn't, I'm
taking it up to one hundred and fifteen and then
we'll try it there and if it doesn't work, we'll
back off and we'll get back to the shop.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So, any that's just a walk through my normal That's
a normal Tuesday for me, by the way. But so
this system is kind of complicated. I mean because you
got steering wheel controls and those go down the steering
column through croc spring that has a high failure rate.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Very high.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And then I mean you've got your body control module,
which also has an incredibly high failure rate on this car,
and then from there it spits this signal out to
what's called a tip them or totally integrated power module
has an incredibly high failure rate on there. So basically
what I'm doing is I'm doing my road test and
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then I'm narrowing down where does which module says that
this is not okay to happen.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You might want to start by scanning the computer to
see if there's any codes in there that would leads
you to any other leads you in an area. Does
everything on the steering wheel work, does a horn work,
everything else works, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Okay, I mean the radio, the phone, all that business
I have no issue with.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Okay, so the better than the average chance that you
don't have a clock spring problem. But that not a
complete out the out of the ballpark either. I think
you got to start with by doing a body scan,
not just a code scan, but not just an engine scan,
but you got to do a BCM scan to see
if there's anything in there, because that that could save
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you a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
That probably a lot of money too.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, yeah, I do this. Get this scan done before
you take your battery apart, yep, otherwise we could miss something.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
All right, appreciate it. Guys, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bet appreciate it. The call all right, Travis is back,
Travis twenty six Chevy pickup. Travis, what's up today?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:44):
First off, I just want to say, caught a caught
you in a the beginning of the show, you were
talking about the fifty year mortgage. Yeah, and you inadvertently
said eighty four year auto loan, which that's pretty correct when.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It comes to them, right, you're right, yeah, eighty four month.
I correct that, Yes, and eighty four months.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I know. I think it's kind of spot on.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, we're getting there.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
And also so so this is not my pickup. My
son bought this new pickup, huh, and he was asking
me about any kind.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Of preventative.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Like under the wheel well spray or something, anything you
would recommend.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
For this brand new pickup beings it's so expensive.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
And even try to you know, either from rusting if
there's anything, or what you suggest outside.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Of driving it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're talking about those rear quarter panels that rode away
on them, right, Yes, you can get the insides of them.
Lie next, like your wheel wells themselves, you can get
those line next. But I think the best thing.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
For him is can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Every so often before winter or after winter, right around
the winter time, take the tail like buckets out, take
it to the quarter wash yep. Hose everything out inside
that quarter panel.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
That's what That's what I used to do. That's what
a body shop guy told me one time. He is uid. Yeah,
I used to take him out, spray in there and
then let him drain out. And it just kind of
because you got metal meeting metal and it's already had
some corrosion protection in there. The more stuff you spray
in there.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Is just keeping it clean, keeping the corrosive stuff off of.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It pretty much pretty much.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I don't know it's gonna on the twenty sixth or
they kind of went in there and did that little
fender lip. Now, so it used to be just metal
to metal and now they've kind of covered it with
that plastic strip, which I think that you'll start to
see a little bit of rust in that area, but
you won't notice it until it creeps up past that plastic.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Then you got a big roast spot.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, And then you got a big reast spot. So
that's about it. Other than that, most of the those
new trucks frame wise, uh, come fairly well coded because
I've looked underneath quite a few of them over there,
you know, since they're starting to change that body style
and uh not a tremendous amount on the body, but
that's they're all dipped now in the corrosive stuff. So
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I agree with Kyle, that's probably about the best thing
that you can do. Okay, regular, Yeah, no, appreciate you listening.
All Right, We're gonna head over to want to do
one more. All right, all right, let's take a break.
All right, Hang tight, guys, We're gonna take a quick
break and be right back to answer the rest. Tim's
got a twenty ten Honda cord. Tim, thanks for waiting.
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What's going on today?
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Thanks for taking my clon Enjoyers show you bet So
the piston on the on the break to ver? Is
there a mechanic strict to break that loose?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
So you're trying to get the caliber off, is what
you're trying to do?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Or you're trying to get it to press back to
do your break?
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Yeah, I'm trying to get a press back inside the
calipers like break pads on it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Okay, So something if it's not moving, something needs replaced.
That's the only thing about it. So what you're going
to do? Are you using like a compressor tool or
what are we using to try to push this back?
Speaker 12 (30:21):
Yeah? I have the Maynox tool that spends the supposed
to spend the piston back.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, so we're talking rear brakes, yeah, okay, So refresh
my memory on this is this Is there like a
plastic motor looking thing with some wires on the back
of this caliber.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Or is this just just straight caliber?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Straight caliber with a mechanical parking break going to it?
So we got a cable back there, all right? So
with this tool that you're using, and I've had this
issue before, So before we go and buy a new caliber.
The thing about these cause like if you look at
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it like it wants you to put a wrench in
a ratchet on one thing and turn it, well, you
get way too tight. So my advice to you before
we go and do this, if you can put the
thing on there without you know, bracing it down and
just get this piston turning. Does the piston can it
make a three hundred and sixty degree turn? If it can, great,
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If it can make a three hundred and sixty degree turn,
it should be able to push back. If it can't,
there's rust build up inside that caliber bore and it
needs to be replaced anyhow.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You'll never get it past the rust bridge that's on
the inside if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So once you get it turning and it turns a
full turn, just use your fingers and kind of turn
that other guide back. That'll kind of push it back.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It probably will also help too if you've got somebody
else maybe holding the galloper. Why you're doing this because
this is they aren't fun. They aren't fun. And if
you have somebody else holding it still while you're actually
have your two hands working this back and forth, it'd
be a heck of a lot easier than just you
because you need one more hand and you don't have it.
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's all just there's a lot of guys that I
help with this. They have a wrench on the tool
and they have their socket ratchet trying to turn it
and you end up wedging the piston.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, you cock it to one side, and when you do,
that's what your problem comes in. So you almost have
to turn it a little bit, push it back. Turn
it just a snitch, turn it, push it back and
just do it by hand a little bit at a time.
The more gentle you are with it, the easier it is.
I mean, it's kind of a weird deal how it works.
And the great thing is is that after this car,
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we went to electronic brakes, which you need a tool
to push back. But they got rid of this crappy design.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I know that doesn't help you now, but do it,
Kyle says, you'll get it back. And if it doesn't,
go get a caliper because the rust ridge is too
big and you're just gonna fight it the whole time,
and then it's gonna be stuff and it's gonna burn
the breaks up. So, oh, thanks Philos, you bet appreciate
the call. All Right, we're gonna head over to Larry.
Larry's got a twenty sixteen Dodge power wagon. Larry, what's
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going on today?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Hi, Hey, I'm calling for my cousin. He's got a
about a ten year old car wagon and the lights
come on by by themselves and the door locks will
activate by themselves. He told me that he can't get
out and fill it full of gas without having a
spare key in his in his pocket because it'll lock
up behind him.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Interesting ignition. So you're talking headlights pop on for no reason.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, and the door locks do their things, so yeah
periodically okay, and so.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
This one vintage one minute Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
What we got? What I would do first, there's on
a Chrysler. Like I told the last guy with the
Dodge Journey, there's a lot of electrical issues that you know,
Chrysler's fought during this era, and WCM modules were an
issue for this. It's a wireless control module that detects
your keyfob everything like that. It sounds like a courtesy
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circuit is kind of coming on, like it's picking up
a key signal or something like that. So I don't
know really how to tell you how to check it,
you know, without having a scan tool that can dig
that deep into it. Unfortunately. I mean, we've seen these
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issues before, not often though,
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,
(00:21):
and that he can tell your tires all pressure just by.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
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Give us a call early so we can get to
your calls. It's a there's no Husker football game on
this week, so they got plenty of things you can
sit and call and talk about other than breaking your leaves.
But you should be done with that by now. Yeah,
(01:06):
it's sitting next to me. It's always is Kyle. Good morning, Kyle,
good morning. We're back live. We had to go to that.
We were off last week, just had to go to
a trade show, so I had to go see some
things that are interesting in the automotive world. And those
kind of things are what you need to do to
keep up with what we do. Tell you what you
know I've seen. I heard on the news the other
(01:28):
day that they're touting fifty year mortgages. Who Okay, the
houses are getting expensive, but you know you kind of
treat that like you know, some people want to pay
their house off, and I get that, but you know
sometimes you just try to get the lowest rate and
sure know that you're never going to pay it off.
(01:49):
And I mean call it a day.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Fifty years, I mean that's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, they still get through when the reason I
the reason I brought was if we have fifty year
home loans, do you suppose we're going to head towards
fifteen year car.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Loans around here? The car ain't gonna make it that long.
I mean they just rushed away. I mean there would
have to be.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, then you can just take your pile of dust
back in and say here, here you go take your
ashes back in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I brought this for warranty. You got a dust panful
of rusty car parts.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, it's uh. The reason I bring that up is
because they had eighty four year loans on automotive accounted
for seventeen point six of the new car financing. Okay,
seventeen point six percent of what's going on out there
is eight you know, eighty four month loans.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, you know they're getting more expensive. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And yeah, you can draw that out, you get a
lower payment, it becomes affordable.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, it becomes affordable. And you know if you get
if you get the right car, that's okay, yes it is.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But you don't want to draw that out on like
a key of Rio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Or no, you don't, you know you don't. I'm just
I'm pausing a second there because I'm had I'm thinking
of somebody come in the other day, a customer come
in the other day and says, hey, you know, I
just got a new car. Come outside, tell me what
you think about this. And there was a long pause,
and he looked at me, and I looked at him,
and he said, I didn't get the right car, did I?
(03:29):
I said, no, it's it's fine. It's good for me.
It's going to be bad for you, it's going to
be good for me.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I didn't you know, I didn't know what to say
other than that, I'm not going to tell you what
it was, but it yeah it. Somebody brought it home
to him. He didn't actually go buy it. This was
presented to him as this is what we're gonna da
what you don't want to do. I mean, they're a
(03:57):
turn of a key.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I will make your money disappear.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, yes, And you know there's a lot of cars
out there. And what I urge is go talk to
somebody that when you go buy a house you get
a home inspector, don't you Why would you do that?
You want to see what's going on and what's going
you know, what's the bad because you don't know anything
about it. Most people don't know anything about it. And
(04:22):
consult somebody that does and say, hey, what what have
you seen? You know? What models? Should I stay away from?
What you know? What don't you like? What do you see?
A bunch of what's going to make you a bunch
of money and make me sad? And then you'll get
the answers that you see and you kind of go
from there because if you go, everybody now dresses everything
(04:46):
up to make it nice and shiny and cool looking,
but nothing is ever said or knowing about But what's
the cost of repair? On the other side, we ever
hear that. We all know without a doubt what it's
going to cost to refix a Jaguar Range, Rover Bentley,
(05:07):
things like that. We know that's going to be expansive.
You don't think the normal cars are going to be
that way? They are, they are there, they are, they
will be so just I guess, be informed.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Do you know what jeep stands for? Right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Just another I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Just empty every pocket.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Just empty every pocket. I got a story, not a
story about them, but an engine story will do later on.
So let's jump into the calls and head over to
Rick's kind of niney nine Ranger. Rick, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
My call today is surround ball joints. Okay, I have
this vintage Ranger. I just replaced all the ball giants,
and new replacement ball giants, unlike the original, are greafable.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
My question is are those new balls giants out of
the box freak or do I need to grease them now?
And how much.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
There's a little bit of grease in them when they
come from the factory agreed generally, what I'll do. I'll
press in my new ball joints, get everything in there,
turn the steering a little bit, and then you know,
give them two or three pumps of grease yep, just
enough to kind of cover the entire ball socket area.
And then as you change the oil, I mean, climb
(06:27):
under there with your grease gun and grease them up
every service.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, and everybody has a tendency to keep pumping grease
in there until they can see it squirting out of
the boots and everything else, which is, don't be that guy,
don't be that guy. Yeah, there's some in there. I
agree with Kyle. Two three pumps and it's in there,
and just keep doing that over a period of time,
and if you find one that doesn't take grease down
the road, you know, year or two down the road,
(06:52):
replace that zerk because that's most people go ah, I'll
do it next time, and then the ball and goes
out because it never gets recreased.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Then, appreciate the call. Rick, you bet we're gonna head
over to Bill. Bill's got an eleven Mercury Milan. Bill,
what's going on today?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh, I've got a quandary regarding the brake lights on
this car.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I step on the brakes and the brake lights come on,
and the third brake light comes on when I turn
on the headlights. The brake lights are on constantly.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, So here's what.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I and I'm wondering if it's not the switch or
it's a fuse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, it's not going to be a fused because they're
all working.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So all the lights kind of go through the turn
signal switch on that car.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But what have you done prior to this anything? Are
you just hiring at the moment?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
No? No, I took it to a mechanic and he
replaced the fuse and it brought on it before no
brake lights were I could turn on the headlights, but
no rear tail lights were on. And then he replaced
(08:25):
the fuse and charged me an exorvant a mile and
then I was driving and all the time the brake
lights were on. But prior to that there was no
brake lights or no rear lights until I hit the brake.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, are you sure all he did was a fuse?
Because I mean, to put a fuse in a car,
it shouldn't be that much money at all. Now talking
could change it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It makes it sound like we've changed some baalds, don't it,
And now we're maybe didn't get the right bulbs in there.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
It's it's not a bulb, it's an led uh.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, Okay, both the.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Tail lights are LEDs, so except for the turn signal.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, so huh. So he was under the dash for
something if he's in that fuse panel that holds that fuse. So,
I mean there's a part of me that can suspect
foul foul play here, But I think we need to
start with the basics and looking at what's going on
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underneath this dash. Is there any wiring that's been added?
Has anything been messed with?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, you got two separate systems here. You're breaking turn
signals work on one system and then your tail lights
are totally different, totally different filment of the bulb or
led side, so enough for them to be on all
the time. Something's crossed. Yeah, something's crossed. So if we
didn't have the problem before we in, and now we
have the problem. We come out. We got to take
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a giant step back and say what did we do?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So if there was a bad fuse, we can suspect
maybe there is an internal short in the turn signal switch, right,
which could possibly be.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The reason that we're crossing over them. Yeah, like he was,
you were talking before we got a turn signal problem
where the headlights and everything kind of go together. So
this is this switch on the dash or is it
on the stock?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
It's on the dash. The headlight switch is on the dash, Okay,
And I bought a new headlight switch, but he he
didn't put that in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think you gotta go look at a diagram see
where it's at, because I think you for some reason,
if you're adding break if you're putting brake lights and
it's it's backfeeding basically into the tail light system, that's
where it's at. And since everything is plastic, more than
likely something is burnt and causing the connections to go
backwards and that's why the fuse blew. So the blowing
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of the fuse and replacing of the fuse was the
first clue that we got an issue somewhere else.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Mhm, okay, And you don't think it would be the
headlight switch, Well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
What I would do is pull that switch off out
and I would look at the back of it and
see how to see what kind of see if there's
any things melted back there is what I would do. First,
the blue the fuse. The fuse didn't blow on its own,
some cause it to blow. And as soon as you
find the connection, either in the turn signal or the
headlight switch, you're gonna find your culprit. That's what we're
(11:41):
gonna do. We're gonna start tearing it apart a little bit,
and we're gonna start seeing where we can find things
that are plastic that are burnt.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And the.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Turn signals always have worked, always.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Have worked, right, but everything runs through that. So your
turn signals, your brake lights. So when you step on
the brake, that's how you can have turn signal to
the left and still have break on the right because
they run through each other. Now that tail lights are
totally separate entity, totally separate circuit y, yep, it gets
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complicated a little bit. In order for in order for
you to be able to tell people you're turning and
put put the brake light on. It has to be
that way. So that's that's what that's what we would
do first, to start pulling that switch out of there.
If you've got one pulled apart, let's take a look.
Let's see what's burning there. And I'll tell you one
thing you can do. When you got a part like that,
and stick it up to your nose and smell it.
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If it smells like plastic, it's probably okay. If any
whiff of u of burnt electrical, put a new one in,
and you might have more than one problem, because one
plastic bad connection melted leads to something else with high resistance.
Try it, Try it, Try that, Try that now, and
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if there's if any more we can help you with,
let us know.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All right, no problem, all right, we're gonna take quick break.
Uh five, five eleven tens the numbers to get in
me back in minute.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
You need an oil jack, don't forget tilver.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Frank, Frank's got an eleven Hundai Odyssey. Frank, what's up today,
Franco Frank Frank? All right, but put Frank on hold.
He'll come back. We're gonna head over to Paul. Paul's
got a thirteen four escape. Paul, what's going on today?
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
I need some guidance here. I got three questions for you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
First of all, is this the kind of vehicle you
would take a five year loan out on?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
No, okay, how do I remove the battery?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I don't think that's that's too terrible difficult. I think
that's in right behind the left headlight if I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, a couple of terminals.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh, this is a thirteen scale. Oh, this is the
one that's underneath the windshield, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Well you got to take the cowl out of it,
is what I do?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, Or you can take the air box, airbox and
everything else out. But once you take the cowling off
and the windshield wipers off and everything, it comes right out.
There's more plastic on plastic clips that it's easier than
what you think. It just it just looks like it's
a lot and then you just pull it straight up
and out. I find it easier to do that, and
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so does Kyle, because when you go the other way,
you have to uh slight it one way and then
tip it on in and then pull it out and
then just there's.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
A lot more stuff to take apart. That's not fun
to take apart.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's hard to grab. It's hard to grab. But when
you take the cowl off, you can just slip it
straight out.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Okay, question the three.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Uh this vehicle had a coolant.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Leak fixed and after driving in a while started leaking again, so.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
She parked it.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Is there like a most likely coolant leak on this
type of.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Car, so at one point, just about anything underneath the hood.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, if it's got coolan going through it, it's gonna leak,
especially on that car. Yeah, they are. That is their
biggest issue is coolant leak.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
One of the biggest ones they have is a plastic
coolant housing on the side of the engine block towards
the driver's side, but the thermostat is also They've also
got a bike hoses Peter hoses, bypass hose. It runs
over to the UH surge tank surge tank coolant reservoir
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and the hoses that come off of that.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We've we fixed a ton of leaks on these Yes,
I mean, if it's on the road, it's leaking coolant.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I hate to tell you that, but you asked so.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
So don't get the five year loan.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
No, no, And this is like I was talking this time.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I think she was putting water in it.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
And it sat for a year, so it probably blew
something else.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Thought you think if.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It froze, it did.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yep, it did. It froze, It did for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I think you guys have saved me a lot
of time, and I thank you very much for that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You bet. We appreciate the call as always. All right,
we're gonna head over to UH two. All right, Frank, Frank,
you're back on the Odyssey. Frank, what's up today?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Yep, yep. Sorry, I put the phone down and walked away.
It's Odyssey in the last six weeks for some goofy reason,
and I would get an error code up where the
information stuff is for the tripo down and all that.
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It would say change back battery, and the battery icon
down on the lower part of the dash would come on,
and I checked the battery, and I checked the alternator
at one of the stores, and so one of the
(17:33):
things it said was disconnect the battery posts wait ten
seconds and reset itself. Okay, My problem is it kept happening.
So I went to pull the battery cables off, and
I just touched the battery cave, the positive one, and
(17:57):
it came up like it was. It was the bolt
was tightened, but it wasn't down tight on the post.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Right, So the lot of the terminals loose, and all
those the posts on a battery are tapered. They don't
look tapered, but there are tapered, and sometimes they get
stuck and what have you. And you really almost have
to take something and kind of pound them all the
way down to the base of the battery to get
a good connection on it.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
And well I took a socket and and and a
large socket and the camera.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And good idea to tap it down.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
But but the thing is, it looks like the where
the bolt and nut are for tightening the the thing
that it looks like it's twisted somewhat where the round
part is that goes over the post.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Somebody's probably overtightened it.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
And so is there a big issue. I haven't taken
one of these things apart. As long as well.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That cable in that that cable in can we can
we can put replacement cable ins on it and solve
that problem if it's if it's too screwed up. Sometimes
you can take things off and put marine cable ins
on there and just put eyelets on it and cause
solve that problem. Or the next step is to have
to put a positive battery cable on, which turns into
(19:29):
a lot of It can be a huge thing just
based on the fact that there's a lot of stuff
hooked to that. So that gets kind of pricey. But
I would have to kind of look at it. But yes,
usually a repair end can be done in most cases,
depending on depending on how much depending on how much
slack you have in the in the cable to do
(19:51):
it right.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Okay, well I'll take a look. It's just you got
to take part of the air breather off. Look at both.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, agreed. But one other quick, one other quick question
for you. This this message on the on the the
dash that says, uh, check battery or replace battery.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Change?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, is it is it possible that the change battery
is coming from the key fob remote. It's asking me to.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Place the battery on the key fob remote and it's
still happen.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
And that's when I found out the cable the post that. Okay,
that's when I found out.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
It was okay, good, good. So it's it's detecting that
it's not getting charged like it should get charged. That's
that's what it's detecting. It's the car is smart enough
to say, hey, that all Nator's not charging me like
I should. So that's what it's doing. So yeah, try
that and if you need some help, let us know.
We're more happy to try to help you. You bet
(20:57):
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The call.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break on the
mist Mechanics show five, five, eight eleven ten. We back
in the minute. Richard's got a new car question. Richard, Shoot, hello, hello,
new car question.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Well, this should be quick. I've never been excited about
a hybrid, but I'm starting to look at one for
twenty five or twenty six. Whether I can find on
the floor. But my big concern is I've always gone
to Florid or someplace for four or five months, and
with a record car, I could put a tricker on
there and when I come back to the car runners perfectly.
(21:33):
Can I do the same thing on a hybrid?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You can on the twelve volt battery? Correct, that's the
only battery you can charge on your own. On a hybrid,
they have two batteries. You have a twelve volte battery
you know that works your windows, radio, you know, lights,
other amenities and stuff like that. Your drive train battery though,
that's about eight hundred and eighty volts. Yeah, and we
(21:59):
don't want to trickle that.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That'll smoke that much, that little trickle, that'll put that
into a fire. So no, yeah, and you're not You're
not gonna easily be able to get to that anyway.
You're gonna have to disassemble some stuff to even get
close to that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You aren't gonna be able to hook anything to it without,
you know, causing serious injury to yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Twelve ol battery.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Only, but it could sit for four or five months
and come back and then run perfectly as long as
the twelve volt is uh correct? Correct?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Correct? Okay, correct?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
All right, I need to know that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Thank you very much, you bet, you bet. Richard appreciate
the call. All right, we're gonna head over to uh Travis.
Travis got a twenty six Chevy pickup. Travis, what's up? Yeah,
he must have set his phone down too. We'll come
back to Travis. All right, Jack, you're up thirteen Dodge
(22:52):
Journey intermittent.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Control. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I can set it,
it works, it shuts off, I shut the car off,
started engage it. It works, and then sometimes it just
will not.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Work at all.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I checked on it, and it has a myriad of
fixes on it. I don't have a marriad of money
to repair it. What's the first and cheapest way, I shay,
three person can repair it?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, Well, I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Think you can do both of those.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I can tell you. On this particular car, I've seen
an incredible amount of issues with these cars, all of
them being electrical.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yes, they have.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Very poor electrical systems on these vehicles. Okay, that being said,
I mean I've been from one end of the bumper
to the other on these cars. As far as problems
and finding them, I've found problems in places that problems
shouldn't even be able to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Wonderful, I know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I think I would also start by make sure the
positive and negative battery cables are super super duper clean
inside and out, always on a Chrysler. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So, I mean, aside from that, I'm not sure I
can tell you like any kind of shade tree kind
of fix for this, because I mean, anything we're gonna
do on this is gonna be I mean, I'm gonna
plug a monitor into it, I'm gonna scan the body
control module. I'm gonna take this thing. I'm gonna get
it out on the highway. I'm gonna get it up
(24:30):
to about ninety five miles an hour. I'm gonna turn
the cruise control on and I'm gonna see on my thing,
does it say the cruise controls on? Does the computer
say that it's getting a signal? If it doesn't, I'm
taking it up to one hundred and fifteen and then
we'll try it there and if it doesn't work, we'll
back off and we'll get back to the shop.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So, any that's just a walk through my normal That's
a normal Tuesday for me, by the way. But so
this system is kind of complicated. I mean because you
got steering wheel controls and those go down the steering
column through croc spring that has a high failure rate.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Very high.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And then I mean you've got your body control module,
which also has an incredibly high failure rate on this car,
and then from there it spits this signal out to
what's called a tip them or totally integrated power module
has an incredibly high failure rate on there. So basically
what I'm doing is I'm doing my road test and
(25:30):
then I'm narrowing down where does which module says that
this is not okay to happen.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You might want to start by scanning the computer to
see if there's any codes in there that would leads
you to any other leads you in an area. Does
everything on the steering wheel work, does a horn work,
everything else works, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Okay, I mean the radio, the phone, all that business
I have no issue with.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Okay, so the better than the average chance that you
don't have a clock spring problem. But that not a
complete out the out of the ballpark either. I think
you got to start with by doing a body scan,
not just a code scan, but not just an engine scan,
but you got to do a BCM scan to see
if there's anything in there, because that that could save
(26:19):
you a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
That probably a lot of money too.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, yeah, I do this. Get this scan done before
you take your battery apart, yep, otherwise we could miss something.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
All right, appreciate it. Guys, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bet appreciate it. The call all right, Travis is back,
Travis twenty six Chevy pickup. Travis, what's up today?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:44):
First off, I just want to say, caught a caught
you in a the beginning of the show, you were
talking about the fifty year mortgage. Yeah, and you inadvertently
said eighty four year auto loan, which that's pretty correct when.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It comes to them, right, you're right, yeah, eighty four month.
I correct that, Yes, and eighty four months.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I know. I think it's kind of spot on.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, we're getting there.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
And also so so this is not my pickup. My
son bought this new pickup, huh, and he was asking
me about any kind.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Of preventative.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Like under the wheel well spray or something, anything you
would recommend.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
For this brand new pickup beings it's so expensive.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
And even try to you know, either from rusting if
there's anything, or what you suggest outside.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Of driving it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You're talking about those rear quarter panels that rode away
on them, right, Yes, you can get the insides of them.
Lie next, like your wheel wells themselves, you can get
those line next. But I think the best thing.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
For him is can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Every so often before winter or after winter, right around
the winter time, take the tail like buckets out, take
it to the quarter wash yep. Hose everything out inside
that quarter panel.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
That's what That's what I used to do. That's what
a body shop guy told me one time. He is uid. Yeah,
I used to take him out, spray in there and
then let him drain out. And it just kind of
because you got metal meeting metal and it's already had
some corrosion protection in there. The more stuff you spray
in there.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Is just keeping it clean, keeping the corrosive stuff off of.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It pretty much pretty much.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I don't know it's gonna on the twenty sixth or
they kind of went in there and did that little
fender lip. Now, so it used to be just metal
to metal and now they've kind of covered it with
that plastic strip, which I think that you'll start to
see a little bit of rust in that area, but
you won't notice it until it creeps up past that plastic.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Then you got a big roast spot.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, And then you got a big reast spot. So
that's about it. Other than that, most of the those
new trucks frame wise, uh, come fairly well coded because
I've looked underneath quite a few of them over there,
you know, since they're starting to change that body style
and uh not a tremendous amount on the body, but
that's they're all dipped now in the corrosive stuff. So
(29:17):
I agree with Kyle, that's probably about the best thing
that you can do. Okay, regular, Yeah, no, appreciate you listening.
All Right, We're gonna head over to want to do
one more. All right, all right, let's take a break.
All right, Hang tight, guys, We're gonna take a quick
break and be right back to answer the rest. Tim's
got a twenty ten Honda cord. Tim, thanks for waiting.
(29:39):
What's going on today?
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (29:42):
Thanks for taking my clon Enjoyers show you bet So
the piston on the on the break to ver? Is
there a mechanic strict to break that loose?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
So you're trying to get the caliber off, is what
you're trying to do?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Or you're trying to get it to press back to
do your break?
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Yeah, I'm trying to get a press back inside the
calipers like break pads on it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Okay, So something if it's not moving, something needs replaced.
That's the only thing about it. So what you're going
to do? Are you using like a compressor tool or
what are we using to try to push this back?
Speaker 12 (30:21):
Yeah? I have the Maynox tool that spends the supposed
to spend the piston back.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, so we're talking rear brakes, yeah, okay, So refresh
my memory on this is this Is there like a
plastic motor looking thing with some wires on the back
of this caliber.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Or is this just just straight caliber?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Straight caliber with a mechanical parking break going to it?
So we got a cable back there, all right? So
with this tool that you're using, and I've had this
issue before, So before we go and buy a new caliber.
The thing about these cause like if you look at
(31:05):
it like it wants you to put a wrench in
a ratchet on one thing and turn it, well, you
get way too tight. So my advice to you before
we go and do this, if you can put the
thing on there without you know, bracing it down and
just get this piston turning. Does the piston can it
make a three hundred and sixty degree turn? If it can, great,
(31:28):
If it can make a three hundred and sixty degree turn,
it should be able to push back. If it can't,
there's rust build up inside that caliber bore and it
needs to be replaced anyhow.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You'll never get it past the rust bridge that's on
the inside if that's the case.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So once you get it turning and it turns a
full turn, just use your fingers and kind of turn
that other guide back. That'll kind of push it back.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It probably will also help too if you've got somebody
else maybe holding the galloper. Why you're doing this because
this is they aren't fun. They aren't fun. And if
you have somebody else holding it still while you're actually
have your two hands working this back and forth, it'd
be a heck of a lot easier than just you
because you need one more hand and you don't have it.
That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's all just there's a lot of guys that I
help with this. They have a wrench on the tool
and they have their socket ratchet trying to turn it
and you end up wedging the piston.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, you cock it to one side, and when you do,
that's what your problem comes in. So you almost have
to turn it a little bit, push it back. Turn
it just a snitch, turn it, push it back and
just do it by hand a little bit at a time.
The more gentle you are with it, the easier it is.
I mean, it's kind of a weird deal how it works.
And the great thing is is that after this car,
(32:47):
we went to electronic brakes, which you need a tool
to push back. But they got rid of this crappy design.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I know that doesn't help you now, but do it,
Kyle says, you'll get it back. And if it doesn't,
go get a caliper because the rust ridge is too
big and you're just gonna fight it the whole time,
and then it's gonna be stuff and it's gonna burn
the breaks up. So, oh, thanks Philos, you bet appreciate
the call. All Right, we're gonna head over to Larry.
Larry's got a twenty sixteen Dodge power wagon. Larry, what's
(33:16):
going on today?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Hi, Hey, I'm calling for my cousin. He's got a
about a ten year old car wagon and the lights
come on by by themselves and the door locks will
activate by themselves. He told me that he can't get
out and fill it full of gas without having a
spare key in his in his pocket because it'll lock
up behind him.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Interesting ignition. So you're talking headlights pop on for no reason.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, and the door locks do their things, so yeah
periodically okay, and so.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
This one vintage one minute Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
What we got? What I would do first, there's on
a Chrysler. Like I told the last guy with the
Dodge Journey, there's a lot of electrical issues that you know,
Chrysler's fought during this era, and WCM modules were an
issue for this. It's a wireless control module that detects
your keyfob everything like that. It sounds like a courtesy
(34:24):
circuit is kind of coming on, like it's picking up
a key signal or something like that. So I don't
know really how to tell you how to check it,
you know, without having a scan tool that can dig
that deep into it. Unfortunately. I mean, we've seen these
(34:46):
issues before, not often though,
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