Mr Mechanic 11-22-2025

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 waln as Premium unletted.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Legend has it that Kyle can change.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Your oil with his toes.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And that he can tell your tires aale pressure just.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
By how you're walking.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed together to form
the greatest superhero known to man, Mister Mechanic check engine
light Stone, stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
On eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Great Saturday morning to This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
Get in early so we can answer your questions and
get you back out to the garage get that car fixed.
We are an interactive calling show. If you haven't heard
us before and you have some questions, we'll give you
the answers, either the exact answer or get you started

(01:07):
in the right direction at least and sometimes that's just
what you need. And then start in the right direction
we were also on the podcast. So find your local podcast.
You know, the one we prefer is the iHeartRadio It
that's that's the best one out there, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Anyway, you can find out you can listen to all
back episodes, anything along that line, and you know, if
there's something you missed or say, what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
What was it? He told me?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Anyway, so you can the end of the hour, you
can get back on there and listen to what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You've got enough backloaded shows to make it halfway across
this country.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I've done my research, do we Yeah, I've listened to
a few of them. It always sounds weird when you
listen to yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, but you know you can make it almost upstate
New York.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Okay, it seemed like we fixed them all anyway. That
was just my personal opinion. You know, I read up
this the other day. It was kind of interesting, and
you just don't see too many.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Of these Dodge. You know, Dodge is trying to figure
out what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Remember when all the hemies this is a last HEMI
we're going to have and we're going all electric And then.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We've heard that and seen that go off. The rails.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Now we're off the rails and now we're back to
more power. Yeah, we're going to have ICE engines, which
are internal combustion engine. Is what ice means anymore, Just
so you don't confuse with everything else. But that's what
they've determined. That's what they acronym that they've used. But
the twenty six Dodge Chargers scat pack is. Now they've

(02:43):
come out with this straight six called the I think
it's what was there. The hurricane. Is that what they
call it? Yeah, the hurricane, the tornado, the aftermath, I
don't know what they call it anyway, it's a.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
The Hurricane motor was originally the Willie's motor, that four
cylinder and those army jeeps those were Hurricane O. Those
were hurricanes. Yeah, they were a Kaiser engine.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well yeah, I just didn't know they had that kind
of name to it. Anyway, they're going to head over
to a twin turbocharged straight six, you know, and straight
six any kind of straight engine that you produce, whether it's.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
A cork manufacturing machine, it is.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
And they anytime you take away the V eight and
put it into a straight six of anything four six eight,
anything that is just the crank chaft stronger, everything stronger.
And then when you put it into a twin turbo charge,
it's gonna have five hundred and fifty horsepower kind of
right out of the box at twenty about twenty six

(03:43):
combined mile per gallon. That's not bad.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
So I have two questions going into this sure and
true Dodge fashion. Is this a traditional straight six or
is it slanted. If it's Dodge, it's got to be
a slant six. But it should be should be? Should be?

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I mean, I think the slant came out of the
fact that it was a V eight to begin with,
and they just wopped off one half a bank and
made it a six cylinder.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Made it work. That was a reliable motor. God, God,
really it was. It was. It was very reliable.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
A pain in the butt to work on trying to
set points and change plugs because it was all, yeah,
you got a weird angle going all weird angle, all
laying in the passenger fender.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
But they were durable and they lasted forever. I'm kind
of curious to see this car now because remember we
did away with the straight sixes, because I mean, Jeep
used them forever. The four Leader was their workhorse through
the early two thousands. H But we did away with
them because a crash test for ratings. Yes, you have
to do that, you got No are they moving this

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straight six back and sacrificing interior space or how is this? Well?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
You see him in Dodge pickups? I have yet to
kind of I've seen them, but I just haven't, you know,
pulled all the plastic off and really take a look
at I'm assuming they're a straight up six instead of
a slant. That wouldn't make any sense. I mean, we
can't go back to what works. What's wrong with you, Kyle?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, I just take the fun out of everything. There
I go thinking again, stop it, stop thinking. Just just
traditionalists around here.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, No, we don't want anything that works none whatsoever.
All Right, we're gonna head over to Doug. Doug's got
a twenty twelve forward with the battery problem. Doug, what's
up today?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:29):
This has been.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
The battery terminals seem like it They're always growing junk
on them, the white stuff, And I'm just curious. I
know that's been going on for years with vehicles. Bit
is the battery is just le is? Do I need
a new battery. It's probably a couple of years I
bought it used, so I don't know the age of
the battery.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, so what it's doing is it's off gassing's that's
what it's doing. It's it's sulfating a little bit. It's
heading towards the first metal thing that you can find.
We talked to actually, we talked about this last week.
Kyle was mentioning you could stick a find a penny
or something and put it right in the middle of

(06:14):
the battery, give it a sacrificial anode to go to.
What we do on occasions if we got something like
this is we either take some what's around the shop,
either wheel bearing grease, dielectric grease.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Some kind of heavy petroleum heavyduct.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, heavy petroleum product, and put it over top of
that and it keeps data out of there and you
can wipe it off with the rag. It's kind of
gooey when you're checking stuff, but it keeps it off
of the terminals and it works good. I use wheel
bearing grease just because it's in the shop and heint
nobody else going to really mess with it, and you
can wipe it off with a.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Rag and it is a contact inhibitor as well.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, yep, So that's and if you got you know,
the battery hold downs is going to head straight towards that.
That's what we do to solve that problem. Now, to
ask your question, is that is that being caused by
something else? Well, it could be caused by something inside
the battery. Could also be caused by the fact that
your electrical assistance may be overcharging. You know, maybe it's

(07:16):
it's it's bubbling out because it's charging fifteen two or
fifteen to five where it's not enough to kick a
light on. But yes, it's just kind of starting to
boil the battery a little bit because it wants to
be fourteen zero point two. Fourteen point seven's your sweet spot.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
To check your battery case, I mean, if you have
a just a vault home meter, I mean you can
check your battery case to hook up your ground lead
to your ground strap and touch your positive lead to
the plastic part of the case. If you're getting any
kind of reading, I mean, you know that you're shelling
out voltage.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Here's something we found here. Well here's something else we
found on a battery the other day too. Somebody had
installed a trailer hitch on a car, and it had
been there for a while, but it finally just worked
its way loose, and this was creating a bad connection
at the negative post, and we put a heat gun
on this, and believe it or not, that post was

(08:14):
two hundred and twenty degrees from the bad connection that
created there. So we took them off, cleaned the cables
up really well, tightened everything back up, and then once
we got done with all the connections, we had just
room temperature at that particular post once we got done.
But I was amazed to see that it was two

(08:35):
hundred and twenty degrees. We did that just just on
a lark to see, Hey, wonder what that really temperature is.
So it was so I guess when I'm going back
to yours is if you're the internal part of the
terminals are dirty and the posts are not as clean
as they should because of the black arcing in there,

(08:56):
that can also cause that problem. I resistance, high temperature. Yep,
both of those. Hope that helped. You got something to
do this afternoon for the game. You bet appreciate the call. Yeah,
you know. And the other thing that we I've noticed
too is the old flood acid batteries, the old style batteries.

(09:19):
They used to give you a little bit of warning,
so in the morning and go then finally take off
and start going. You know, I think I need a battery.
But now with these new glass or absorbed glass MATT
batteries a GM as they call them, they'll just be
fine one day. Yeah, all of a sudden, they're done.

(09:42):
There's no warning to them. They're just done. And we
carry all these batteries now or they're put them in
the manufacturers because of the high electrical load on everything.
But there's just no warning to them. And you need
to know that they're pretty expensive. Barry, they've almost double
the price of the normal old batteries. But it's if

(10:05):
you put a normal old battery in and you can
probably do that, just know that you're not gonna get
the whole time out of it.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
But with AGM, I mean the proof is in the pancakes.
You pick that thing up, it's heavy. Oh it's heavy. Yeah,
you're getting your money's worth out of those.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
So you don't use one arm to grab that battery.
You gotta use two of them in the hooks. So
all right, we're gonna take a quick break on the
mister mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven, tens of numbers
to get in. We've got some open lines for you
see in a minute.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
The problem is all inside your tire, he said to me.
The answer is easy if you simply stop the league.
Listen closely and you'll hear the air squeak. There must
be fifty ways to change your tires.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Fifty ways to change your tires.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
You gotta get out the jack Zach.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Watch out for the rim Jim.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
You don't need to be quick slip, just get the
job done. Batten up those quolts code. It don't cost
you too much, Gus. Then give a good tick Mitch,
and the job is. My name is jetting Din.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Tony's got a nineteen jeep Wrangler. Tony, what's up today?

Speaker 7 (11:35):
Yeah, hey guys, thanks thanking my call. Take out a
twenty eighteen Wrangler, and I bought it. I bought it
with two problems? Can I get it? Can I get
it two for one today? Sure?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Bet, just because you have a job. I'm surprised you
bought it with only two problems.

Speaker 8 (11:51):
Go ahead, yeah, only two?

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Yep, you got it? Well, there's it.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Requires I believe some type of programming. But anyway, the
first thing is a smart bar, this way bar. I
bought it non functioning. The guy I bought it from
had it. He brought it into a dealer and the
dealer kind of told him they did some diagnosis on it,
said it needs to be replaced. So okay, I went
and bought one. I actually got it off to the
eBay and used one pretty nice one. All the numbers

(12:16):
match on it. Installed, it still not working. I ran
it through. I had a J scan tool. I ran
through J scan and it connects. It's able to see
the sway bar. Of course, it shows it as a
different bin number on the sway bar, and it still
is not able to disengage. So I don't know if
it needs programming on it to program it to the vehicle. Possibly,

(12:39):
that's kind of my question. Maybe that's where I need
to go.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yes, that vin has to match in every module.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Ah, okay, that.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Way, I mean it's it is a program. I mean
you have to go in there, you have to use
a J box. It has to be programmed. There is
software you have to buy it to do it. But
in my opinion, it's more of a initialization. I mean
you're just erasing one VIN, writing another one, saying to
all the other modules, hey, this guy's new on the block,
but we're gonna hang out with him anyway, and then

(13:09):
everything starts working. I mean if it doesn't, if it
sees a VIN that isn't matching, it'll just shut that
down in time.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Ah okay, So I'm surprised I could even communicate with it.
I mean Jascon was able to communicate, show me what
what the module idea is, and then number.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But yeah, just yeah, because I mean basically all you
need to communicate, I mean I don't even have to
plug it into the car. I can communicate with it
sitting on my toolbox. You just need to apply power
and ground to the module and then have a clean
can line and you're communicating. Just fine. That's one good
thing about Chrysler products. I mean you can kind of
swap between those. I mean on some GM models that

(13:44):
you have done that, I mean you could break the
entire car so kind that window open.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
So yeah, you got to be careful anymore with electronics.
So what you just plug in and see what works,
Because like he said, when you when you use that
term brick the car.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Are you you lock out every module? You can't communicate
with them, They just go to sleep and stay asleep. Yes,
then it turns into that turns into a thousand what's
your what's your second question? Now I'm my seat.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Well that one was too easy, so yeah, definitely the
second one. All right. So passive entry, so when you
touch the door, it opens up, you know proxy, it's
like the the keyless proximity unlocked. Well anyway, so when
I've come to find out it doesn't work on the
passenger or the driver door, but it works on the
gate door in the back, it's odd to me. So

(14:37):
I started trouble student. Here's how far I got. I
removed the handle from the gate door and attached it
to the electronics. It doesn't fit on the driver side door.
I just I just plugged it in and touched it
and it worked on the driver door. So I thought, oh,
it's got to be a handle, right, Maybe something in
the handle is not working. So I ended up getting
one from a more par product direct replace for it

(15:00):
and connected it up and it still doesn't work on
that driver's side. So I'm not sure if there's a
programming issue. I went through an enabled passive entry and everything,
but something else is going on.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I think that's kind of a weird issue. There may
be some kind of an initialization to it, but it's
kind of hard to say. Because you took one that
you knew worked, plugged it into a door that it
didn't even fit on, and it did work on that door.
So that tells me the entire circuit is fine. It

(15:34):
could be a bad handle. I mean we've had bad stuff,
you know, stuff not work out of the box. I
mean it is new, you know what news stands for.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
I totally agree it.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Could be that generally with these I mean, with your
scan tool that you have, does it give you the
ability to look at the body control module or door
control module?

Speaker 7 (15:58):
I think it probably does. It's a jol okay, I
a license on it, so it may give me that.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Okay, So see if you can get into the body
control module and view a data list. You know, a
data list will show you you know, hey, is there
an approach on this? Is somebody pushing the button on
the door handle? Is this handle active? And you know,
just see kind of what your list shows you, and

(16:24):
then swap out your handle from the back and that
you know works on there, and then see where then
see what your scanner shows you.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, if you're pressing the button and sees that you're
pressing the button, that's that's a big deal Versus I'm
pressing the button and I can't see anything happening.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yep. Yeah, that's kind of where I go with those.
And I mean I've definitely been in your shoes before,
and it's always something simple. We know our system works
because you've proven that by swapping handles. Now we just
have to figure out the last little bit, the last
leg of it, which should be pretty easy. I mean,

(17:02):
there may be an initialization to it, but I doubt
it because you just swapped one. But I mean you
swapped one from the same car. Do they learn as
a pair? I mean that's another big question that can.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, if you bring something outside in, it doesn't know
and you have to initially they all come dumb and
you've got to make it smart.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
If that makes sense, Yeah, because it essentially I mean
it's like the button you push to start the car.
It has to recognize this key, otherwise anybody could walk
up and push the button. So you may be into
learning this a little bit. I mean it should be
fairly simple. I would think you may need the skim
code from the dealership to do it. It's a four

(17:46):
Chrysler calls it a skim code, but they all use it.
That's just kind of their security system number that you know.
I type in this number to this handle, Now it
knows what to do. Yeah, that may be what needs
to be done.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
Yeah, I hope.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
I hope that head you in the right direction.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Sounds like I just need to have that small bar
program to the vehicle and passive entry. I have everything
enabled that I can think of. And uh and Jay
scanners shows the passive entry enabled on the vehicle too.
There's a setting for it. So anyway, PESCA is gonna
require some more troubleshooting. But yeah, I appreciate the tips

(18:26):
for sure. Is that something you guys do in your shop.
Do you guys have the ability to program those modules?
Though you do?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (18:34):
Okay, well I might hit you up because that's kind
of my next step.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure, all right, Yeah, absolutely, we didn't get it all
working for you, okay, probably? Sweet Okay, appreciate the call time.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
I appreciate you, bet, thanks a lot, take care of guys.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
All right, all right, we're gonna grab another the call
one take break. All right, we're gonna head over, Bob,
Bob batter He's got a question, Bob, Hello, Hello, what's
going on?

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Hello? I've got a Highlander that I've bought new in
twenty eighteen. Got eighty seven months out of the original battery,
and I noticed that the stop start automatic feature stopped
working and there was a charging signal on my dash
at various times, so I figured my battery was about due.

(19:19):
I got eighty seven months out of it. I was
happy with it. Yeah, I want to look at the
battery and it was enhanced flooded battery. So you go
to buy a new one and see the AGM batteries,
which I'm just wondering, are they compatible or can you
use them interchangeably?

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yes, as far well interchangeably as far as you can
go up to that, I don't know. What we have
found out is if you have an AGM battery and
you go down to a flood acid battery, they will
still work. It's just that the life that you've got
out of it, you're not going to get that out

(19:59):
of it. Just don't get it out of that or so.
But if you had a flat acid battery and you
go up to an AGM, you can go that direction.
We've never had a problem with it that way.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Okay, good to know. And is there a secondary battery
in that vehicle?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
What kind of car was it again?

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Toyota, yes, sEH, yes, and no so some of the trucks,
I'd have to look that up. Some of the trucks
they just put a bigger battery in and that also
covers the start stop portion of it. A lot of
cards with the four cylinders and you know things of

(20:37):
that nature, they do run two batteries.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Well, this is a six cylinder. But what I'm what
I'm wondering is since the stop start feature quit working
and the battery was charging when I was driving it,
when I stopped at a stoplight to stop start wouldn't engage.
It would just keep running. So I'm wonder and it's
that would indicate that the battery was operating to stop

(21:04):
start feature, but it didn't have enough power. Felt it
didn't have any enough power to make it work.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I would agree with that. I would agree with that.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
And most of the time, if they have room, they'll
put the start stop right next to the main battery,
and I would imagine underneath the hood of that there's
probably enough room. Otherwise they'll they'll hide it in a
different area. But yeah, like for my vehicle, I got
a Chevrolet and that has just got a big battery
in there. But just don't they use the start stop
off of that battery in the regular vehicle at the

(21:35):
same time they don't put an extra one in. But okay,
I can't remember right off top of my head whether
that's two, but I bet you it's just one.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
I would imagine, Yeah, yeah, Okay, great show, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
All right, appreciate the call, Appreciate you listening. All right,
We're gonna take quick break in the mister Mechanics show
five five, eight to eleven tenses numbers to get in.
We've got some open lines. We'll see you in a minute.
We've got a couple of open lines for you, so
give us a call. We we are you know, we
are Buchanan Service Center. Were a fiftieth and Dodge, eightieth
and Dodge and guaranteed breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge.

(22:11):
We do breaks right the first time, So stop in, uh,
fix your card, get some gas, get some pop and
candy bar, and off you go to watch the game.
We're gonna head over to Chris. Chris has got a
ninety six Ford Explorer. Chris, what's up today?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
I got a quick question on your opinion on a
rear turn signal lamp. I went through the car wash
about three weeks ago. On my way out, I got
the indicator on the desh that the lamp was out,
so I planned on changing it. A day later, I
got in, started it up, and it worked. I've driven
in a rain since and it continued to work. And

(22:50):
then I did another car wash and I got the
same indicator that the lamp was out again a day later.
It functions. The tail light lens itself is completely intact
and tight. Does that sound like a faulty connection or
should I just change the lamp?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
So, have you taken the light bulb out yet to
look at it?

Speaker 6 (23:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, that's where we need to start. Let's get that
that light, that light off of there. Pull the ball
about the back. Let's take a look at this light bulb.
That's the first place I might to go.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
So it has it has a filament in there, and
those filaments are just like a normal light bulb in
a house, they can bounce up and down and be
out and then next thing, you know, they can bounce
on another another pothole, and then they connect themselves back
up and it works just fine. Ultimately, a lot of

(23:48):
times when I take a ball about and I and
I look, you can look at it, you know, hold
it up to the sun or to the light, and
you can see if that that filament in there is
dropped down, which you know it's bad, or if it's
just straight across. A lot of times I'll take it
on the counter and just tap it twice, you know,
just lightly, and then I look at it again. A
lot of times that's just enough for that filament just

(24:09):
to fall away. So on a normal bulb, tapping that
bulb the glass portion of it just lightly on the
counter should not make that have a problem at all.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
So the fact that you're going through a car wash
and this is happening. I mean also when you pull
this bulb out, look at the bulb itself, like is
it white? Is there anything to give you the sense
that water has touched it? Just because there isn't a
crack on the lens doesn't mean that lens isn't leaking,
and car washes generally will find those leaks like that

(24:43):
because it shoots water high pressure sideways from underneath from
every angle. When it's raining outside, the rain just comes
down and goes right over it and you'll never see it, right,
But a car wash can bring those kind of gremlins
out also just because of the way it works. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Also when you when that's sealed inside that tail light,
headlight or whatever, uh, plastic housing, it's heating up inside there,
and when it rains it just sucks the moisture in
and causes a bad connection too. So always look at
your connection at the at the the bulb and then
look down inside the connector. Sometimes you'll see some corrosion

(25:20):
down inside there too, and that a green connector can
certainly cause that problem too, and they're hard to clean too.
So if it's really green in there and not making
a good connection, and you're better off getting a different connector.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
And that's if it is green. That that is the
whole integral part of the entire length, right.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, no, not on that.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
You can you can buy a harness, yeah, yeah, you
can buy And that's that's old enough that you can
buy a bulb, you can buy the connector, and then
there's a well there's a there's a socket. You can
buy the bulb, the socket, and then there's a connector
piece of pushes into the back of that.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
So yeah, well I'll start with the bulb. I just
didn't know if I had a bigger issue with it.
Intermit M coming back on with the carl wash about a.

Speaker 7 (26:09):
Day later after.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I would doubt it.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
I think that's just symptomatic of what it is. And
then the last thing is is that if you're going
to replace the one, do the other side. They both
have the same amount of on time, so it's not
if it's when the other side is going to go bad.
So usually that's why they're most of the time they're
sold in pairs. And look at your tail light, break light,

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tail light or whatever, and see if you've got four
break lights there, or you know, two on each side,
or if you just got one on each side, and
buy the appropriate bulbs and otherwise you're just gonna be
doing it again on the air side. Been might as
well do them both. You already figured out how to
get one off. It's really easy, got tools out and
everything else, so get the whole car apart.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, yep, that sounds like the plan. I appreciate your help.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
You bet, Chris appreciate the call. Yeah, you know, A
lot of time is that. I will bring that up
a lot of times when we're doing headlights. You know,
I got a headlight out, can you replace that? Sure,
no problem. And I always come back and ask do
you want to do the other side? And I say,
it's got the same amount of on time, which you know,
you turn the headlights on, they both come on the
same time, and it always seems like it's i'd see

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half the time they're back within about a week, where
the other one's gone bad. So you might as well
just do it at the same time. Some of these
headlights are not easy to do. I mean his term
signal BOWLB. That's not going to be a hard job.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
No, that's easy. I mean, but some of these headlights,
I mean, we got to take the whole front of
the car apart. Yeah. By the time you're done, I mean,
it looks like.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
All for the sake of all, for the sake of
fit and finish is really what it boils down to.
And then the engineer a lot of engineers on certain
cars say, you know you're gonna have to service that.
Why don't we just put something in there allow you
to be able to do that or pop the headlight out.
Bobo's great. These are the one of the great for
popping the whole headlight out.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh yeah, you got those two bars and now it comes.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah that guy that can thing you want that guy
that ends in your dad, Yeah, he just has two
pole handles. The whole head light comes out, You fix it,
and you stick it back in, and it's just works that.
It works right every time. And then you've got some cars,
and this all really has to do with the price
of the car, that the cheaper the car is, the
more difficult they're getting because they don't care because they've
got to cut somebody out of the system.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Remember Volkswagen Beetle did that with that little lever thing
that you turn and you got to pull the headlight out.
That never worked, and then it's all full of salt
and gravel from the road every time. Every time you
do that, that's towards the whole houses.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
That is strictly a headlight that that car needs to
be only sold in Texas and California, because otherwise you
when you sell that car in this particular part of
the country. You're right, it's full of salt, it's full
of gravel. I'm so happy those cars went away. Oh
my god, at least with the head.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
And then if you were lucky enough to get it
back in, you better hope that the connector pop out
the back of the thing while you were wrestling with it.
Now you've got to pull it all back apart.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
I'm gonna have nightmares tonight, Kyle. Thanks for bringing that up.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Hey, that's what I'm here for. Let's go to Clyde.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Clyde's got a twenty twelve Camaro. Clyde, what's up today?

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call, guys, and appreciate your program.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
You bet appreciate you listening.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
All right. I have a twenty twelve supersport Camaro driver's
side Boston speakers in it and on the driver's side door,
the speaker cuts in and out. If it was your car,
who would you take it to or what would you
look for or what would you suggest here?

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Well, the first thing I'm going to look at anytime
I have something in a driver's door that's kind of
in and out kind of intermittent like that. The first
thing I'm going to look at is the wiring in
the door jam. That's a great place to start because
it's a speaker. I mean, it's really hard to test.
I mean, you can get out of scope and run
some wire and test this thing, but I've never had

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any luck with that. I mean, if you have a
spare speaker, I mean you can plug it in and
see if it works, and you know that it's clear,
and then we know it's the speaker. But if it's
not the speaker and you plug in another speaker and
it's still doing the same thing, you know, just sitting
here on your lap, Well you've got the door panel
off and apart, then, I mean, because that door opens

(30:27):
and shuts and opens and shuts, and I mean, I
know everybody in the world is taking a piece of
wire and just kind of or a paind clip and
just kind of twisted the same thing.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean, they yeah, and they got they got weather
pack connectors on those doors.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
On a lot of them.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Used to be you just had passed through pass through wires.
Now they got weather pack connectors that are in there.
And that just means that not all the water gets in,
but doesn't mean that some water don't get in. Oh yeah,
and General Motors has had a problem with that.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
It sounds great. Sometimes I can tap on the steering
wheel and it'll come on. You know, it'll sound great,
and then it'll cut out sound great. So you think
maybe in between the door and the door jam, maybe
it'd be the first place.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's where I would look, because I mean that's the
most heavily used portion of this wire on us.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Yeah, and then to do a lot of visual inspections
because uh, static like that usually means a poor To me,
it means either poor connection on a ground side or
something like that. It's just not making a good ground And.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I mean the simple fact of it. I mean those
speaker wires, those are the smallest wires in that wire loom. Yeah,
they're going to be the first ones to go.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
You know, is there companies in town you'd recommend or
if I called your shop and get recommendations, or what
are your thoughts there? Because I don't know if this
is a do it yourself project.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Man, Yeah, it might be, uh one of those things
that we don't deal with a lot of speaker stuff.
So yeah, when he gets uh, when we get done
with here, we'll just we'll put you on hold real
quick and then we'll talk to you off the air
and give you a couple of recommendations.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, I appreciate.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna keep going. All right, we're
gonna take a quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show.
We'll be back in just a minute. We've got a
couple of calls. Uh, let's head over to Paul. Paul's
got a question about gas.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
Hey, could you go over to the topic of seasonal
gas changes?

Speaker 7 (32:18):
Gasoline changing seasons.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, you mean as to.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Uh, why they change it?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, I don't know it.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I think everybody's a lot a lot of times you're
caught up with the fact that the gas has been set.
Well you're talking about lawnmowers and snowblowers and things like that.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
You're talking about the additives we put in gas at
the stations.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, well, like there's summer gas and winter gas.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Right, Yeah, there's there's summer diesel and winter diesel, but
not they do blend. They do blend a little bit
depending on the cold weather a little bit.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
But if you're.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
Running it, Yeah, for the most part. If it gets
super super cold, you can have a phase separation on alcohol,
but that doesn't happen all that long. And unless you're
not driving the vehicle, if you're driving it all the time,
then that usually doesn't doesn't come about. But if you're

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running like let's just say a premium product, you know,
with with no ethanol, there's they're going to do that
at the refinery side. They're not really going to do
anything here at the local station side. It's your at
your local station. But if you're running premium, you can
and loans. It's in a sealed can and doesn't isn't

(33:42):
exposed to air. As far as changing it, I never
personally do it. No, No, I mean I keep gas
in the garage for for something I may need on
on something else. But if I don't use it, a
year may go by. Am I just porting truck and
and off I go?

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, the old what about you're not going to drive
all winter?

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I've I mean what I normally do, and the cars
that I have, I feel the tank all I feel
the tank all the way full. Because I've got some older,
older cars in the forties and fifties and sixties, I
feel the tank all the way full. And if it
sits in a cold garage then.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Uh, moisture can't get in no problem.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah there's if there's gas in it, the moisture can't
get in it. So if you leave it a quarter,
what's that is.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
The stabilizer good for it?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
You can add some stabilizer to it. A little bit
goes a long way. Read the instructions. You can use stabilizer.
Uh see foam is another product. You can use that,
but use you don't, you know, you don't want to
use too much of that. You want to use as directed.
But any kind of old cars out there that have

(34:53):
you know, carburetors on them, I always run a premium.
Same with the snowblowers, same with weed eaters, same with
anything that has a little gas, uh gas carburetor to it.
I mean the carburettors are cheap anymore for that stuff
off the internet. But I'm always about I wanted to
fire up every every year. In fact, I just fired
my snowblower up the other day, and uh that runs

(35:17):
a mix, and I personally I see a ton of
people coming in every winter pouring out their old mix
and getting new mix.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
I've never had it. I just leave it. I've never
had a problem. I just you got a question. I mean,
if you're questioning it, just pour a little on the
ground and set it on fire as a burden. I mean,
you're good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah, it's all about keeping it in a closed container too,
if it's just you know, otherwise it's just evaporating around
and who knows what's getting into it or crawling into
it and dying.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
But no, I don't.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
And if it sits around for a couple of years,
it's just not that big a deal. If you use
good quality fuel and keep it, keep it tight, it
just isn't.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Maybe way back in the day it was, but it's
not nearly the problem it is now with few injection
and things of that nature.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Love the Mister Mechanics show.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
We love you. Listen, appreciate it.