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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
He's a four time tire rotation champion. When he was
a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid. Bob's
so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
and that he can tell your tires all pressure just
(00:24):
by how you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
He's Bob, He's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
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 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a mister Mechanic show.
Five five eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get
in where you can in service centers at fiftieth and Dodge,
eightieth and Dodge guaranteed breaks, forty ninth Avenue and Dodge.
Stop in see us and I'll get you back on
the road or you know whatever you got going on today.
Good morning, Kyle. Yeah, the the roads aren't too terrible bad.
(01:09):
You know ones where they sprayed all that brine. You
know the money solution, you know that helps us and
hurts you, yeah, because everything everything rusts away, and but
you know some of the side streets that they didn't
get on there is kind of you know, it kind
of hit, hit and miss. Three to four inches is
kind of what it looks like so far, but looks suck.
(01:32):
We might be out of it. Who knows. I' there
that much out there, you know. I think it's more
north than it is south because down it somebody else
that I talked to didn't have much out It's like
a hundred and eighth and next did not really have
anything out there, and I've got four four plus inches
at home. Yeah, but it's I think it's kind of
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hit and miss. You don't know. So I did follow
a truck into workday and or not worked another show today,
and he was spinning all over the place and couldn't
go anywhere in this truck, and he was having a
hard time getting up hills, and then a chunk of
snow fell off the bumper, and then I confused from Arkansas, so.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Probably not used to this.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No, I'm surprised he was.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Out Yeah, but well you got to experience it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I think he was having more fun than he
used to doing anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, you gotta find sport in it all the way
until you break something.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, and then it's not fun anymore. No, and then
it's expensive. Then it's expensive. So yesterday was a big
tire day, putting snows on, swapping snows over, buying snow tired,
putting new tires on. It was just a big, big day.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, we were I think they's the rest of
the weekend's not going to be any different. Because if
you've got a car in this city, your tires are low.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your tires are low. Yeah, tire lights on, and you know,
there's a big time. Sometimes you'll kind of mistake that
higher light sometimes for a for a check engine light,
because they're both yellow. Yeah. And you know, I've had
plenty of people come in and say, Hey, the Genie
(03:12):
light's on. Can you do something about the Genie light,
the Genie lamp with the drips, Yeah, the Genie lamp
with the drip. If you got a Genie lamp, put
the drip on.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, something magical's about to happen inside your engine.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's about magical it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So we had a Honda in the other day and
this thing was clattering, and of course the Genie light
was on, which means no oil in your car, or
you got an oil pressure switch, or there's a like
Kyle said, there's something magical about ready to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, and being a Honda, I mean that one didn't
just run out of oil that moment. Now it's been
out for a couple of weeks, if it's been clattering.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And I talked to him a little bit about it,
and he says, yeah, I know it was, but my
sticker said, I wasn't due for a while. So it
runs on oil. Yeah, that's what gas is made of.
The dash is made of Anyway, we put oil, changed oil.
(04:07):
We pulled the drain plug. Literally nothing came out. We
it clattered for a long time until it finally got
everything circulated through the engine and then it backed it
sounded smooth again.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know, that brings up a good point. You know,
the dash is made of oil. All that plastic I
mean when we think about it, I mean, we had
real dinosaurs. Now they're gone. Now we had plastic dinosaurs
made out of real dinosaurs. Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They are well, could you get some DNA from your
dash in order to remake dinosaurs so we can kind
of get going with that.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, forget leather, I got tri serotage.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll get on that test though. Okay, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right, let's jump into the calls. We've got John
with a ninety eight pickup, John, what's up today?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
We're doing great.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Clay, you got to you got the cork today in
the snow?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh yeah, we're always going to make it in there's
there's not enough snow for us to stay home.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, that nineteen shouldn't pick up. I've been telling you
about the last month or two. We finally fixed it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yep, I remember, and.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I had that seventy four code and I'll tell you
what it was. It's just something really really simple. It
was the e FE valve on the antake menifold. This
has got a five to seven leader of Chevy Motora
small block and I finally got around and checking it,
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believe it or not, and we pulled it off. The
antache menifold had a little old ring on, you know,
to seal it, and it was full of charcoal from
the old cancer that we replaced.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh yeah, we blew it out and the light went out.
Yeah those yeah, you know, I used to have a
lot back in that era, that day that what had there.
You're talking e g R. You're talking e g R
about weren't you no Eva? So that's right, Yeah for
the Yeah, we used to have a lot of charcoal.
(06:16):
Cancer stuff get caught in that like e g rs.
The the carbon we get stuck and hang those opening
and run rich and cause those codes. Yeah, it was
kind of a big problem.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, we just had charcoal stuff in it. But a
minute it was off the pedal a little bit. You know,
it's caused e vacuum rates. But we blew it out.
We checked it with a twelve vol and it weren't
just fine. The light went out.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Feels great. Feels great to get that problem solved and
know that you did it well.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, thank you for your help.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh no problem, hell but.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Minutes so I used I love this show and I'll
get out the phone. Let you get the people on there.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Thank you, you bet, we bet. I appreciate you calling, John,
appreciate you calling you know, and that's the good thing.
That's what I miss about OBD one. You know, and
this is an OBED two car, but it's still really
close to OBD one. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You didn't get any of these codes like EGR or
EVAP insufficient flow or each EVAP purge during non purge codes.
None of those four hundred's nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It's it was all. I would say ninety five percent
of it was by sea your pants diagnostic.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, then, I mean we didn't get any of those
strange codes. I mean there was no gas cap code. No,
there was nothing for it. No, you know, there's those
were the good old days. The light was on, you
had a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know if they were good old days. Some
of the repairs were good old days. Yeah, I do still,
even though I can still over haul carbureders, I don't
like working on carbrets. You know, certain ones are great,
the ones that just are problem ridden and you can't
get away from it no matter what you do.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And you mean this afternoon, you're not going home to
tear a part of VV car. No, get it running good?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, there there is no running. There is no good
running VV carb rat there is. That's doesn't We're not
with that attitude. You got to re engineer that word
does not exist. All right, we're gonna head over Tom.
Tom's got a two thousand and four buckles's saber, Tom,
what's up today?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Oho two thousand and FOURDS has a two hundred and
fifty five thousand miles on it, and it has been
making speed related noise. I thought it was like in
the transaxle, but it turns out its wheelbarings. I could
never figure out because it never changed when I turned anyway.
I'd taken it into evaluate and they said, with this
(08:48):
many miles it also, by the way, it also has
the code about to the long shift code. Yeah, yeah,
eleven or something. Yeah, it's kind of comming, but it
hasn't been a problem. But they say the transmission probably
has a whole lot of wear, which is probably true.
But so my question is, I've changed the fluid twice
(09:09):
in here, and the last fluid is sixty two thousand
miles on. Is it advisable or worth it to drop
the pan change the fluid again, because I've heard you
talk about situations where you should not change the fluid.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well you've been keeping up with it though.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, it isn't like this is two hundred and
some one thousand you're calling to say, hey, should I
change just now? I got a problem? Yeah, which we're
going to tell you no. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean if it hadn't been maintenance and you don't
know any history on it, I mean, this transmission could
be one hundred thousand miles on this fluid. You don't
want to touch that stuff, right, if it's moving, just
let it keep moving. But I mean, since you've been
servicing it, I don't think that you're going to have
any of those kind of O casey.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I wonder if I think of check checking how much
you know oil? I mean, iron filings are stuck.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
To that magnetudy well, and that code is there because
it's long ship shift adaptive on it, and it is
it's it's out of the limits and it's going to
the point where it says I can't compensate for the
worn out clutches in this transmission and at some point
it's just going to be done and you're going to
have to get something new or something used that's one
(10:20):
hundred thousand miles lest.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That'd be nice. Yeah, okay, okay, well, yeah, I appreciate it,
appreciate all your advice and like listening.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
To your show.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, great, God you're up this morning and appreciate you calling.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break in the
Mister Mechanics show five five eight eleven ten. There's a
couple of open lines for you. Will be back in
a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
YO to all the other mechanics out there, I only
got one thing to say if you ain't missed the mechanics.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Oh, you need to know where you.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Can't fix this, my mom.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The mechanic works on my car, makes me drive on
the barby texting more. Your antire breaks shown no matter
what the type of weather. It feel good when you
don't break down. I jump on my ride and I
drive all around every Saturday. I call this the mechanic.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Fix it fall into the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't mean to this, but you can't fix this.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You all home boy.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I told you you can't fix this.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can't fix this.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
You're not even holding no Ridel. You can't fix this.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Stop air hammer time. Give it's a call. You know
we're here.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We need a mechanic here in the studio. I think
Bob's cross stretched his microphone.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You all right over there, box, I'm fine, Yeah, here's
something interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We're live, pal, We're live.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No problem. Here's something interesting I seen the other day.
Las Vegas just added ten Tesla cyber trucks that are
fleet and they didn't pay for them.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Las Vegas, like the city. Yeah there.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Are they using them for like police cars or what
are they?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're using for police cars. Police on the side,
got all the sirens and uh yeah, the whole nine yards.
They just they just you know, I suppose if you're
depending when you come out of a casino and just
how much you've drinked, so you think you've got to
land on a different planet or you're the same planet. Boy,
that could happen. That could happen. Definitely could happen. But
(12:35):
it was given to them by a billionaire that donated
all the modified cyber trucks because you know, you're not
doing anything else with them, because uh, the majority of
the public probably would buy them if they looked halfway decent,
which they don't, I tell you. But so if you're
in Las Vegas, and we were there a few weeks ago,
we didn't see any No.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We didn't see any of them. We did see those
Evy taxi cabs, a little Cinderella coach looking thing.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, you can drive it around. Yeah, those were interesting.
You just get to yourself an app and then they
will just show up on the corner there for you.
And when you do that, they just hop in and
you get a little bit of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
There's no driver, there's no nothing that just drives you around.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, I think ain't that interesting? All Right, we're
gonna head over back to the calls. We got Roger.
He's got a two thousand and four Dodge pick up. Roger,
what's going on today?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Hey Bob, this is Roger from Palm my Eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I suppose you know me, but yeah, yeah, Roger, what's up?
How's that? Corbette?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
I figured since I bug you enough, I figured i'd
call you. You got a two thousand and four Dodge
two wheel drive and the power steering is just to
kill her on it. But I don't know if it's
a pump or or something. Every time you turn, it's
like a wrestling match. It's my son's driving it, and
you know, I don't know what's up. Where the first starts.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, he's building muscle. I wouldn't even fix it. It's
build muscles for him, So you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Need to get in shape.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, I mean he doesn't have to go to the gym.
You can just drive the truck.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
So, uh well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's it's cheaper than a gym membership than you know,
filling it with gas.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Yeah, but his wife's getting strong and.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So generally with those, I mean you can. Because it's
just a pump and gearbox set up on that truck,
you should be able to start the truck, pop the
cap off the power steering reservoir and you should see
it kind of moving around in there. That tells you
you got to flow.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
If you're pumping.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
If your fluid isn't moving around in there, odds are
you got a pump?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So I mean the other way you can check it.
You can take the pressure line off the gearbox. Have
somebody started. If you're spraying fluid everywhere, we know we
got pressure and you know you got a gearbox issue.
But I mean they're a pretty simple unit. I mean
we did a lot of pumps, did a lot of gearbox.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, they're not really really common.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
This truck doesn't have very much on it. I bought
it from an old in Sore.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Getting any kind of power steering esque noises out of
this thing like a wind.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
No, well, yeah, you know it turns, has the power
steering turn when you go it you know there, Okay,
when you do it, when it gets you know, when
it gets in a tight But you know, the more
you push on the gas, the better the stearing is.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, I'm just going to ask that if it got
any better.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sounds like the pump's getting slow.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The one thing you can try is uh is try
flushing it out. You drop a hose and put all
new fluid in it and see if that gets you anywhere.
If not, you're going to be putting another pump on it. Anyway.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Yeah, it's it's worth enough to drive, and I mean
it gets gets them around. So okay, well I'll check
the fluid and the pump and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Appreciate it. How's the Corvette doing.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Oh, it's getting getting not quite back together. We're polishing
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So okay, all right, Well a little bit of a
little bit of a time, but you'll you'll have a
nice car when you get done.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yeah, we'll get her.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
We'll get her done so we can drive it in
the spring.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
There you go, Yeah, you got It's appreciate the call, Roger, Yeah,
see you later.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, it's a time of year for that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It is. He found himself a barn find nine thousand
mile eighty one Corvette. Okay, so he's uh, in the
process of putting that back together.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Boy, those are getting few and far between. You know,
we're not hearing about the barn.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah. Well, you know, dropping the gas, doing the doing
the tires and you know, all that basic stuff that you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, those days maintenance, but they're behind us. I mean,
there's nothing in barns anymore. I mean yeah, I mean,
nobody's gonna open a barn in forty years. But this
is a ninety one Civic that's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Or an eighty four Dodge Omni like we did the
other day with the ed what was it, forty thousand.
They're out there, you know, they're out there. Oh yeah,
what do we do with the Dodge Omni? And then
we found another one that the Dodge neon.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
O with like twenty miles on.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Somebody bought one of those and thought they really had something.
This is one we're going to save or somebody bought
it and then brought it home and then they died.
It's like we Dodge Neon did not last. I mean,
thank god for that, but it was I mean, people
liked them when they came out in the mid nineties,
like they were all over them, like this is a
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cool car, this is well they were kind of cheap, yeah,
they were. And typically when you're out looking for a car,
cheap does not equate into long lasting. It just it
just doesn't unless you are very diligent at taking care
of it. If every car is usually a pretty good
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car if you take care of it. But it doesn't
seem like anybody that will buy that kind of car
ever takes care of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Maintenance is not in their mind. No, I mean in
that car.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Got the horror stories from twenty years ago. I mean,
the timing belt was just a pain in the neck
and that could have been totally avoided. And they did
the same engine in the Stratus with the same bracket.
You had to take all the motor mounts out and
essentially move the motor to the other side of the
engine to do this timing belt.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And I hated him and that was such a great idea.
We thought, you know, a Christler thought, let's make a
pt cruiser. Let's make the tying belt even harder to do.
Oh god, you know they were those cars were kind
of cool for everybody wanted one right out of the box.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And again, if you've maintained that car. It got a
customer that's got a couple of them, and he maintains
them really well, and and they're still around. He's still
you know, there's one.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That comes into the shop and it's got a million
miles on it and it shows the miles. Yeah, and
I'm like, when is this car going? I mean, I've
been telling the guy who's got to replace the timing
belt for the better part of five years now, and
somehow that thing's hanging on.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah. Yeah. There are some cars out there that are
no matter how much abuse you give them, they just
keep rolling. They just keep rolling. And Honda and Toyta
are the ones that come to mind. And you know,
the probably the best little small car out there for
back in the day was that Toda Corolla. It just
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kept going, just kept going, going, going, going going. You
couldn't kill it. It had to In this kind of
area it would rust away.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah. I saw one of those funny things online is
there's a recall on your eighty nine Corolla, because if
you're still driving this thing, it's just it's flat out
time for a new car.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We've got a couple of them that come into the station.
They're I think in eighty nine and like a ninety two,
and yeah, it's there, she's still she takes some immaculin
care of the car.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, we had a couple that came in years ago
when I started with the company, and that's all they
had was Corollas or Avalons. And yeah, I mean we
did the timing belts, we did the oil pumps, we
did all the seals and everything was just regular maintenance
to those guys. And those things had close to five
hundred thousand on them.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah. Yeah, if you just keep up on them, they
will all right. We're gonna take a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics Show. Five, five, eight to eleven ten
is the numbers to get in. We got a couple
open lines for you, so give us a call. We
back in a bit. They must all be out scooping
the snow.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, hopefully everybody's snowblower. Still they must be we haven't
gotten a call about a snowblower.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, it's still snowing, guys. I got out there, sit
back and hang out for a bit until it quits snow,
and then go out. Yeah, don't do it twice.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I got my snowblower up and running yesterday, you know,
which is the perfect time for it. You know, you
get it out, make sure it's working, get it started up,
get it warmed. That way. If you know something is
a ride and I need a spark plug or you know,
carburet or seal something like that, I've got four or
five days to get it rounded up and make the
purchase and get it fixed right in time for the
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snow to be melted and gone. That's how I plan it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Buying ran great when I put it away last year,
so I have no doubt that it's going to run great.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah this time, Oh you bad, got a doubt in
my mind. I should fire up first. Pull yeah first.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
If you don't even primate it's electric. Wow, I don't
pull anything anymore. It's electric.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well, mister technology, you're right.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Why would you for an extra fifty bucks? Why in
the world would you not plug it into the wall
and just hit the electric start. That was that was
what my thought was. Back to this Las Vegas deal.
I didn't realize these were out running around. Had had
I known that when we were there, I would have
tried to get you into one.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I don't need any help with that. I've proven that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The annual fuel cost savings is between eight, well about
eighty eight hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well, that ain't bad. You only had to buy one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars truck, right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, no, that's the annual fuel savings, okay, And then
they figure thirty five hundred in regular maintenance sets here
unless something really falls off.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So they're planning on putting one set of tires on
this thing, oh thirty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Well, that's one thing we have noticed that Teslas don't
really do, or any of the Tesla models, is they
haven't had a lot of problems with them other than
people hitting potholes and ruin and rims. Is they do
not last on the tires. No, they're too heavy, and
they're expensive. You bet they are. And every thirty to
forty thousand miles at the outside, depending on what part
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of the country you live in, and you can run
them down. They all wear extremely heavy on the inside
edges of the rear tires, so rotating them just wears
them all out at the same time on the inside edges.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And I guess Las Vegas is probably a great test
candidate for that vehicle because it is going to absolutely
bake that car.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, yeah, and the rubber is just gonna it's gonna
be one hundred and ninety there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So the Reverend's stopped anywhere for a while. I mean,
your tires are gonna stick to the concrete.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, So I if they get a set of thirty
thousand miles out of those, I'd be amazed. But we
need to follow up with this. Yeah, as far.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
As uh, I'll get in touch with the Las Vegas PD.
You know, we're going to get a guy on the ends.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
These things are just futuristic enough. You wondered if people
are trying to get arrested there. I don't know. Yeah,
just so I can say you were in the back
of one.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Oh, it'll be some internet thing, get my picture in
the car.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, yeah, something along that line. Speaking of the electric cars,
I did notice the other day on an article that
I read that if you want a F one to
fifty lightning and that's just been your car, that's you know,
other than the price, you know, you don't want to
spend ninety to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. They're
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stopping production or they're gonna stop production, and there's about
five thousand left of them in the country, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And I've been saying this for years, like ever since
this whole ev turn kind of happened. You know what,
two three four years ago, I think that Milwaukee needs
to make a car.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, well they have been eighteen They already got the
patent on the lithium battery for the other things. So
why not the Milwaukee Tool Company?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You bet?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, an M eighteen or M twelve car, you bet. No,
that's the battery side. Yeah, that's a battery size. That's okay, Yeah,
that's the eighteen vault or the twenty vaults or I.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Mean they've got everything else. I mean, you don't believe
me walking my garage, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Battery. They do have great tools, you bet they do. Yeah,
they got great tools.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, who say they wouldn't make a great car. You know,
I think I think they needed to do it. They'd
be like red and black.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, you put them on the dash so you could
change them out as you're driving.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I mean, it probably only take fifteen hundred of those
batteries to get it going. But they'll come up with
a new battery.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They could make it stylish, you know they can. And
you know if they start start catching fire, you could
quickly get them off since they're located on the dash.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Just pitch it out the car, just pitch it out
the window. Only you could prevent forest fires.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh you can start them, yeah, by pitching out the window.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And I did see another car company's speaking of electrics too,
is that they have since all these cars melt down,
so they actually have a retro dumpster. You've seen these
these big dumpsters.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
We got a picture of it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, well I didn't mean the Tesla truck, but yeah,
it looks like a Trump dumpster dumpster a little bit. No,
they have these heavily lined dumpsters that are all sealed
off that hold water and they are are specifically for
the lithium cars. They've kind of developed that you can
stick him in there, and at least do you have
(26:02):
a place for them to sit there and bubble tell
they're dad.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And where do they put these dumpsters at?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I would suppose at the firehouse. I don't know where
they put them at.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Because I can just imagine you got that thing back there,
brew it and here's some guy with a bag of
like fish guts or something. He's just looking for a
quick can that's in the dark, and you could throw
him in.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't know, I've been that guy before. I don't
know how you grab him and get him in there
or where you it's just a prototype, But I don't
know where you stick him at. I don't know. You
wouldn't want to put him anywhere that the caustic smoke
that's coming off of those would be anywhere. But they
make them. They make a dumpster sized deal that you
can drop your ed into.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And you know, I was actually pondering getting into the
whole ev circle this week. I saw one come up
for sale online, went across my feed, and I didn't
get a chance to buy it in time. It ended
up selling. But oh well, nineteen oh eight Baker.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Real, Oh yeah, yeah, back when they first were yeah,
you bet. Back when they first were new, I would
drive that thing around. I mean it was cool. Can
you even get a battery for it? I suppose you
can read it was going, So somebody got a battery.
You can retro fit a golf cart to some lithiums.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
If anybody can get it going, it's me, I think.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah. If not, well, there's only five five thousand of
these uh electric F one fifties gonna be. They're out
there and already produced. So uh, you gotta go get
yourself one if that's If that's truly what you want,
I kind of think they.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I want to drive around this nineteen oh eight baker.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Here and yeah, yeah, how fast does I think? Go six?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I think top speed of twenty five?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Twenty five? Yeah, and you go where where's the speed
limit twenty five in town?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Anywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I go? Oh? I suppose, yeah, I suppose if you're people.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Be flying by honking, don't be mean, go green.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
They were all black anyway back then, you bet they were. Yeah.
I think they missed the boat. We jumped. We'd jumped
too far ahead and went straight to the EV's and
where we should have kind of jumped into the gas hybrids,
because that seems to be where a lot of people
were going and a lot of manufacturers are going, and
that kind of gets you, gets you reped up for
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maybe ev in the future, sure, if it gets that far.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But you know, I mean the hybrids that are coming out,
I mean they're dependable. I mean, at least Toyotas and
you know a few other manufacturers. I've seen some issues
with Hyenda, but I mean nothing that isn't prevented maintenance related.
I mean, there's a battery at a twelve volt source battery.
It's kind of a pain in the neck to replace,
but it has to be done. I mean, like any
twelve volt battery in these cars, they have to be done.
(28:41):
But that's the only issue I've really seen with them.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you know, And speaking of batteries too, on a
different topic, I noticed that three times this week we
had a these new you got a newer car from
like twenty twenty on up or maybe nineteen on up.
They run a lot of the A MG batteries or
AGM excuse me GM AGM batteries, and these AGM batteries
(29:06):
will they don't give you any warning. And two customers
just drove it home and everything was fine, and then
they just wouldn't start. I mean in a short amount
of time. They drove home and then they were going
to get back out fifteen minutes later to go somewhere
else and it was dead boom, just like that. So
where your old flood acid batteries, the old ones with
(29:31):
the plates in them, and you just put water in them,
you get the old warning there are. Yeah, you get
the kind of the slow crank, and it's like a man,
I know what that is, because everybody's had a battery
go dead, but the other ones just don't. They just
seemed tone they're gone. They just dead short immediately and
just when they're done, they're done. And there's a few
(29:51):
of these that we've had to we went out to
jump started to get them in here, and so we
could some of them won't jump start. They won't jump start,
they won't do you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Get that battery out of there, you're done.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
They'd haul them in. So preventive maintenance there is probably
more than anything on the batteries. And yeah, one of
those was hot. Hours later, I mean like four or
five six hours later they were it was still the
battery was still hot. So all right, we're gonna take
a quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show, and we'll
come back and answer a call after that one back
(30:24):
in a minute. Randy's got a twenty fifteen Chevy pickup. Randy,
what's up today?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah, good morning, Hey guys. I'm not really a gearhead,
but my pickups a little pet of mine, and I've
had troubles with the radio and touchscreen from the get go.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Dealer.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Could never get it fixed. Sometimes the radio stations jump around,
other times I can't move around on the touch screen
and temperature time nothing works on there. I'm just wondering
if there's a solution to the problem.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, I can tell you that they had a solid,
solid radio from that The run they had was seven
to thirteen, and as soon as they switched it from
the fourteen model that came out, it was just nothing
but problems.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
The screens have had problems, the modules have had problems,
some of them. We've gotten some issues resolved just by
disconnecting a battery and then you know, it'll kind of
reset everything, yeah, reboot. But I don't know if there's
been a redesign to either of these units.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
No, you know, what I would probably do if it
was my truck is I would kind of seep seek
the aftermarket just a little bit, like maybe a radio
or a stereo place here in town, you know, And
a lot of times they may be able to somebody
has already figured out this problem and they already said,
(31:56):
you know, let's just go around it because we can't
get it fixed, and let's just go to the aftermarket.
And it might cost you. It depends on how much
radio means to you. I know, I can't ride around
in a truck that's got no sound in it. It
just drives me nuts. But you know, I bet you
could get something that incorporates that screen and maybe even
(32:18):
in the heat. Yeah, I have seen the units out
there that they just kind of put right over top,
and then you can get rid of like in an
O seven, they'll put a screen in it and the
dash controls for the heater already in there and everything.
You just kind of pop and snap it right over
top where it's at. That's what I would start with Amazon,
(32:39):
and then kind of put in you know, put in
your truck and then put radio assembly in there or
new radio and kind of see just kind of play
around with that just a little bit, see what what
comes up. I don't know if they have a plug
and play thing that maybe not anything that you want
to accomplish. Otherwise, kind of maybe take some pictures, see
(33:01):
what you find on on Amazon, and then maybe take
it to a stereo place and say, hey, what can
you guys do and to get your get past that
problem because getting a used one or getting a new one,
or it's just gonna you're gonna be in this. You're
gonna spend money and be in the same boat. But
that's what I would do. What about you, Cole?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I agree?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, try try that avenue.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Thank you, Thank you guys, you bet.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna have hell
with to Bob. Bob's got an O six total Corolla. Bob,
what is up today?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
That's on my uh son in law. It's two thousand
and six. Where I had the MiG shutter thing on
the front end, Yeah, yep, one one being the left
front califu.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh yeah okay, yeah, yeah yeah, the shutter as far
as vibration, right yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Where I drove it back from the golf course. Everything
was fine and fact you're over for round by your
months and nothing happened, and then I heard a little
bit of a metal sound coming out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, calipers were all of a sudden just kind of
uh turned sideways in the uh in the boarder there
and there'll just stick. And you know, that's kind of
why you recommend replacing the brake fluid is because brake
fluid grabs moisture, and moisture just kind of heads down
the system and uh, it will get stuck in there.
(34:33):
But yeah, and also the pins, the pins will get
stuck in there too and hold a caliber on and
kind of start burning up pads. We see that a lot,
so we'll good. So you put a new new caliper
on it, bled it all out and you're good.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
And go oh yeah, yeah, and well I'll replaced both
both calipers on the front and the Yeah, got drums,
so that's that. Uh Hey, does h does that have
a timing belt like the Honda's dower? Is that a
chain thing you mentioned something about because it's got like seventy.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I think that's a chain. I think that's a chain. Also,
did you want to switch at the belt?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
No, No, My my Hondas are gone. My daughter still
got an out of sea.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
But yeah, oh.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Guess what didn't see the bone yard. It's going to
be coming back to visit you one these days. Then
told him, didn't he sound with the Oh it was
the candler converter went bad.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
My son in law just threw his hands up. Well,
it went through a couple of my granddaughter's boys friends
and in any way, I had to bail around for
about a grand and so it's come.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Back to the fleet, gotcha. I'm gonna have to give
you a call, Bob, when I need a car, because
sometimes I don't have enough.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
When's that been the case?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Never
Meet Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
He's a four time tire rotation champion. When he was
a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid. Bob's
so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
and that he can tell your tires all pressure just
(00:24):
by how you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
He's Bob, He's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
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 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a mister Mechanic show.
Five five eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get
in where you can in service centers at fiftieth and Dodge,
eightieth and Dodge guaranteed breaks, forty ninth Avenue and Dodge.
Stop in see us and I'll get you back on
the road or you know whatever you got going on today.
Good morning, Kyle. Yeah, the the roads aren't too terrible bad.
(01:09):
You know ones where they sprayed all that brine. You
know the money solution, you know that helps us and
hurts you, yeah, because everything everything rusts away, and but
you know some of the side streets that they didn't
get on there is kind of you know, it kind
of hit, hit and miss. Three to four inches is
kind of what it looks like so far, but looks suck.
(01:32):
We might be out of it. Who knows. I' there
that much out there, you know. I think it's more
north than it is south because down it somebody else
that I talked to didn't have much out It's like
a hundred and eighth and next did not really have
anything out there, and I've got four four plus inches
at home. Yeah, but it's I think it's kind of
(01:53):
hit and miss. You don't know. So I did follow
a truck into workday and or not worked another show today,
and he was spinning all over the place and couldn't
go anywhere in this truck, and he was having a
hard time getting up hills, and then a chunk of
snow fell off the bumper, and then I confused from Arkansas, so.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Probably not used to this.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
No, I'm surprised he was.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Out Yeah, but well you got to experience it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I think he was having more fun than he
used to doing anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, you gotta find sport in it all the way
until you break something.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, and then it's not fun anymore. No, and then
it's expensive. Then it's expensive. So yesterday was a big
tire day, putting snows on, swapping snows over, buying snow tired,
putting new tires on. It was just a big, big day.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, we were I think they's the rest of
the weekend's not going to be any different. Because if
you've got a car in this city, your tires are low.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your tires are low. Yeah, tire lights on, and you know,
there's a big time. Sometimes you'll kind of mistake that
higher light sometimes for a for a check engine light,
because they're both yellow. Yeah. And you know, I've had
plenty of people come in and say, Hey, the Genie
(03:12):
light's on. Can you do something about the Genie light,
the Genie lamp with the drips, Yeah, the Genie lamp
with the drip. If you got a Genie lamp, put
the drip on.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, something magical's about to happen inside your engine.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's about magical it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So we had a Honda in the other day and
this thing was clattering, and of course the Genie light
was on, which means no oil in your car, or
you got an oil pressure switch, or there's a like
Kyle said, there's something magical about ready to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, and being a Honda, I mean that one didn't
just run out of oil that moment. Now it's been
out for a couple of weeks, if it's been clattering.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And I talked to him a little bit about it,
and he says, yeah, I know it was, but my
sticker said, I wasn't due for a while. So it
runs on oil. Yeah, that's what gas is made of.
The dash is made of Anyway, we put oil, changed oil.
(04:07):
We pulled the drain plug. Literally nothing came out. We
it clattered for a long time until it finally got
everything circulated through the engine and then it backed it
sounded smooth again.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know, that brings up a good point. You know,
the dash is made of oil. All that plastic I
mean when we think about it, I mean, we had
real dinosaurs. Now they're gone. Now we had plastic dinosaurs
made out of real dinosaurs. Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
They are well, could you get some DNA from your
dash in order to remake dinosaurs so we can kind
of get going with that.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, forget leather, I got tri serotage.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll get on that test though. Okay, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right, let's jump into the calls. We've got John
with a ninety eight pickup, John, what's up today?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
We're doing great.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Clay, you got to you got the cork today in
the snow?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh yeah, we're always going to make it in there's
there's not enough snow for us to stay home.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, that nineteen shouldn't pick up. I've been telling you
about the last month or two. We finally fixed it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yep, I remember, and.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I had that seventy four code and I'll tell you
what it was. It's just something really really simple. It
was the e FE valve on the antake menifold. This
has got a five to seven leader of Chevy Motora
small block and I finally got around and checking it,
(05:41):
believe it or not, and we pulled it off. The
antache menifold had a little old ring on, you know,
to seal it, and it was full of charcoal from
the old cancer that we replaced.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh yeah, we blew it out and the light went out.
Yeah those yeah, you know, I used to have a
lot back in that era, that day that what had there.
You're talking e g R. You're talking e g R
about weren't you no Eva? So that's right, Yeah for
the Yeah, we used to have a lot of charcoal.
(06:16):
Cancer stuff get caught in that like e g rs.
The the carbon we get stuck and hang those opening
and run rich and cause those codes. Yeah, it was
kind of a big problem.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, we just had charcoal stuff in it. But a
minute it was off the pedal a little bit. You know,
it's caused e vacuum rates. But we blew it out.
We checked it with a twelve vol and it weren't
just fine. The light went out.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Feels great. Feels great to get that problem solved and
know that you did it well.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, thank you for your help.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh no problem, hell but.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Minutes so I used I love this show and I'll
get out the phone. Let you get the people on there.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Thank you, you bet, we bet. I appreciate you calling, John,
appreciate you calling you know, and that's the good thing.
That's what I miss about OBD one. You know, and
this is an OBED two car, but it's still really
close to OBD one. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You didn't get any of these codes like EGR or
EVAP insufficient flow or each EVAP purge during non purge codes.
None of those four hundred's nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It's it was all. I would say ninety five percent
of it was by sea your pants diagnostic.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, then, I mean we didn't get any of those
strange codes. I mean there was no gas cap code. No,
there was nothing for it. No, you know, there's those
were the good old days. The light was on, you
had a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know if they were good old days. Some
of the repairs were good old days. Yeah, I do still,
even though I can still over haul carbureders, I don't
like working on carbrets. You know, certain ones are great,
the ones that just are problem ridden and you can't
get away from it no matter what you do.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And you mean this afternoon, you're not going home to
tear a part of VV car. No, get it running good?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, there there is no running. There is no good
running VV carb rat there is. That's doesn't We're not
with that attitude. You got to re engineer that word
does not exist. All right, we're gonna head over Tom.
Tom's got a two thousand and four buckles's saber, Tom,
what's up today?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Oho two thousand and FOURDS has a two hundred and
fifty five thousand miles on it, and it has been
making speed related noise. I thought it was like in
the transaxle, but it turns out its wheelbarings. I could
never figure out because it never changed when I turned anyway.
I'd taken it into evaluate and they said, with this
(08:48):
many miles it also, by the way, it also has
the code about to the long shift code. Yeah, yeah,
eleven or something. Yeah, it's kind of comming, but it
hasn't been a problem. But they say the transmission probably
has a whole lot of wear, which is probably true.
But so my question is, I've changed the fluid twice
(09:09):
in here, and the last fluid is sixty two thousand
miles on. Is it advisable or worth it to drop
the pan change the fluid again, because I've heard you
talk about situations where you should not change the fluid.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well you've been keeping up with it though.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, it isn't like this is two hundred and
some one thousand you're calling to say, hey, should I
change just now? I got a problem? Yeah, which we're
going to tell you no. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean if it hadn't been maintenance and you don't
know any history on it, I mean, this transmission could
be one hundred thousand miles on this fluid. You don't
want to touch that stuff, right, if it's moving, just
let it keep moving. But I mean, since you've been
servicing it, I don't think that you're going to have
any of those kind of O casey.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I wonder if I think of check checking how much
you know oil? I mean, iron filings are stuck.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
To that magnetudy well, and that code is there because
it's long ship shift adaptive on it, and it is
it's it's out of the limits and it's going to
the point where it says I can't compensate for the
worn out clutches in this transmission and at some point
it's just going to be done and you're going to
have to get something new or something used that's one
(10:20):
hundred thousand miles lest.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That'd be nice. Yeah, okay, okay, well, yeah, I appreciate it,
appreciate all your advice and like listening.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
To your show.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, great, God you're up this morning and appreciate you calling.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break in the
Mister Mechanics show five five eight eleven ten. There's a
couple of open lines for you. Will be back in
a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
YO to all the other mechanics out there, I only
got one thing to say if you ain't missed the mechanics.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Oh, you need to know where you.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Can't fix this, my mom.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
The mechanic works on my car, makes me drive on
the barby texting more. Your antire breaks shown no matter
what the type of weather. It feel good when you
don't break down. I jump on my ride and I
drive all around every Saturday. I call this the mechanic.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Fix it fall into the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't mean to this, but you can't fix this.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
You all home boy.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I told you you can't fix this.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can't fix this.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
You're not even holding no Ridel. You can't fix this.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Stop air hammer time. Give it's a call. You know
we're here.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We need a mechanic here in the studio. I think
Bob's cross stretched his microphone.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You all right over there, box, I'm fine, Yeah, here's
something interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We're live, pal, We're live.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No problem. Here's something interesting I seen the other day.
Las Vegas just added ten Tesla cyber trucks that are
fleet and they didn't pay for them.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Las Vegas, like the city. Yeah there.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Are they using them for like police cars or what
are they?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're using for police cars. Police on the side,
got all the sirens and uh yeah, the whole nine yards.
They just they just you know, I suppose if you're
depending when you come out of a casino and just
how much you've drinked, so you think you've got to
land on a different planet or you're the same planet. Boy,
that could happen. That could happen. Definitely could happen. But
(12:35):
it was given to them by a billionaire that donated
all the modified cyber trucks because you know, you're not
doing anything else with them, because uh, the majority of
the public probably would buy them if they looked halfway decent,
which they don't, I tell you. But so if you're
in Las Vegas, and we were there a few weeks ago,
we didn't see any No.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We didn't see any of them. We did see those
Evy taxi cabs, a little Cinderella coach looking thing.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, you can drive it around. Yeah, those were interesting.
You just get to yourself an app and then they
will just show up on the corner there for you.
And when you do that, they just hop in and
you get a little bit of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
There's no driver, there's no nothing that just drives you around.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, I think ain't that interesting? All Right, we're
gonna head over back to the calls. We got Roger.
He's got a two thousand and four Dodge pick up. Roger,
what's going on today?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Hey Bob, this is Roger from Palm my Eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I suppose you know me, but yeah, yeah, Roger, what's up?
How's that? Corbette?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
I figured since I bug you enough, I figured i'd
call you. You got a two thousand and four Dodge
two wheel drive and the power steering is just to
kill her on it. But I don't know if it's
a pump or or something. Every time you turn, it's
like a wrestling match. It's my son's driving it, and
you know, I don't know what's up. Where the first starts.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, he's building muscle. I wouldn't even fix it. It's
build muscles for him, So you.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Need to get in shape.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, I mean he doesn't have to go to the gym.
You can just drive the truck.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
So, uh well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's it's cheaper than a gym membership than you know,
filling it with gas.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Yeah, but his wife's getting strong and.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So generally with those, I mean you can. Because it's
just a pump and gearbox set up on that truck,
you should be able to start the truck, pop the
cap off the power steering reservoir and you should see
it kind of moving around in there. That tells you
you got to flow.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
If you're pumping.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
If your fluid isn't moving around in there, odds are
you got a pump?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So I mean the other way you can check it.
You can take the pressure line off the gearbox. Have
somebody started. If you're spraying fluid everywhere, we know we
got pressure and you know you got a gearbox issue.
But I mean they're a pretty simple unit. I mean
we did a lot of pumps, did a lot of gearbox.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, they're not really really common.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
This truck doesn't have very much on it. I bought
it from an old in Sore.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Getting any kind of power steering esque noises out of
this thing like a wind.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
No, well, yeah, you know it turns, has the power
steering turn when you go it you know there, Okay,
when you do it, when it gets you know, when
it gets in a tight But you know, the more
you push on the gas, the better the stearing is.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, I'm just going to ask that if it got
any better.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sounds like the pump's getting slow.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The one thing you can try is uh is try
flushing it out. You drop a hose and put all
new fluid in it and see if that gets you anywhere.
If not, you're going to be putting another pump on it. Anyway.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Yeah, it's it's worth enough to drive, and I mean
it gets gets them around. So okay, well I'll check
the fluid and the pump and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Appreciate it. How's the Corvette doing.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Oh, it's getting getting not quite back together. We're polishing
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So okay, all right, Well a little bit of a
little bit of a time, but you'll you'll have a
nice car when you get done.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yeah, we'll get her.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
We'll get her done so we can drive it in
the spring.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
There you go, Yeah, you got It's appreciate the call, Roger, Yeah,
see you later.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, it's a time of year for that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It is. He found himself a barn find nine thousand
mile eighty one Corvette. Okay, so he's uh, in the
process of putting that back together.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Boy, those are getting few and far between. You know,
we're not hearing about the barn.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah. Well, you know, dropping the gas, doing the doing
the tires and you know, all that basic stuff that you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, those days maintenance, but they're behind us. I mean,
there's nothing in barns anymore. I mean yeah, I mean,
nobody's gonna open a barn in forty years. But this
is a ninety one Civic that's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Or an eighty four Dodge Omni like we did the
other day with the ed what was it, forty thousand.
They're out there, you know, they're out there. Oh yeah,
what do we do with the Dodge Omni? And then
we found another one that the Dodge neon.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
O with like twenty miles on.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Somebody bought one of those and thought they really had something.
This is one we're going to save or somebody bought
it and then brought it home and then they died.
It's like we Dodge Neon did not last. I mean,
thank god for that, but it was I mean, people
liked them when they came out in the mid nineties,
like they were all over them, like this is a
(17:30):
cool car, this is well they were kind of cheap, yeah,
they were. And typically when you're out looking for a car,
cheap does not equate into long lasting. It just it
just doesn't unless you are very diligent at taking care
of it. If every car is usually a pretty good
(17:50):
car if you take care of it. But it doesn't
seem like anybody that will buy that kind of car
ever takes care of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Maintenance is not in their mind. No, I mean in
that car.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Got the horror stories from twenty years ago. I mean,
the timing belt was just a pain in the neck
and that could have been totally avoided. And they did
the same engine in the Stratus with the same bracket.
You had to take all the motor mounts out and
essentially move the motor to the other side of the
engine to do this timing belt.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And I hated him and that was such a great idea.
We thought, you know, a Christler thought, let's make a
pt cruiser. Let's make the tying belt even harder to do.
Oh god, you know they were those cars were kind
of cool for everybody wanted one right out of the box.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And again, if you've maintained that car. It got a
customer that's got a couple of them, and he maintains
them really well, and and they're still around. He's still
you know, there's one.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That comes into the shop and it's got a million
miles on it and it shows the miles. Yeah, and
I'm like, when is this car going? I mean, I've
been telling the guy who's got to replace the timing
belt for the better part of five years now, and
somehow that thing's hanging on.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah. Yeah. There are some cars out there that are
no matter how much abuse you give them, they just
keep rolling. They just keep rolling. And Honda and Toyta
are the ones that come to mind. And you know,
the probably the best little small car out there for
back in the day was that Toda Corolla. It just
(19:24):
kept going, just kept going, going, going, going going. You
couldn't kill it. It had to In this kind of
area it would rust away.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah. I saw one of those funny things online is
there's a recall on your eighty nine Corolla, because if
you're still driving this thing, it's just it's flat out
time for a new car.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We've got a couple of them that come into the station.
They're I think in eighty nine and like a ninety two,
and yeah, it's there, she's still she takes some immaculin
care of the car.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, we had a couple that came in years ago
when I started with the company, and that's all they
had was Corollas or Avalons. And yeah, I mean we
did the timing belts, we did the oil pumps, we
did all the seals and everything was just regular maintenance
to those guys. And those things had close to five
hundred thousand on them.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah. Yeah, if you just keep up on them, they
will all right. We're gonna take a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics Show. Five, five, eight to eleven ten
is the numbers to get in. We got a couple
open lines for you, so give us a call. We
back in a bit. They must all be out scooping
the snow.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, hopefully everybody's snowblower. Still they must be we haven't
gotten a call about a snowblower.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, it's still snowing, guys. I got out there, sit
back and hang out for a bit until it quits snow,
and then go out. Yeah, don't do it twice.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I got my snowblower up and running yesterday, you know,
which is the perfect time for it. You know, you
get it out, make sure it's working, get it started up,
get it warmed. That way. If you know something is
a ride and I need a spark plug or you know,
carburet or seal something like that, I've got four or
five days to get it rounded up and make the
purchase and get it fixed right in time for the
(20:57):
snow to be melted and gone. That's how I plan it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Buying ran great when I put it away last year,
so I have no doubt that it's going to run great.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah this time, Oh you bad, got a doubt in
my mind. I should fire up first. Pull yeah first.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
If you don't even primate it's electric. Wow, I don't
pull anything anymore. It's electric.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well, mister technology, you're right.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Why would you for an extra fifty bucks? Why in
the world would you not plug it into the wall
and just hit the electric start. That was that was
what my thought was. Back to this Las Vegas deal.
I didn't realize these were out running around. Had had
I known that when we were there, I would have
tried to get you into one.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I don't need any help with that. I've proven that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
The annual fuel cost savings is between eight, well about
eighty eight hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well, that ain't bad. You only had to buy one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars truck, right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, no, that's the annual fuel savings, okay, And then
they figure thirty five hundred in regular maintenance sets here
unless something really falls off.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So they're planning on putting one set of tires on
this thing, oh thirty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Well, that's one thing we have noticed that Teslas don't
really do, or any of the Tesla models, is they
haven't had a lot of problems with them other than
people hitting potholes and ruin and rims. Is they do
not last on the tires. No, they're too heavy, and
they're expensive. You bet they are. And every thirty to
forty thousand miles at the outside, depending on what part
(22:38):
of the country you live in, and you can run
them down. They all wear extremely heavy on the inside
edges of the rear tires, so rotating them just wears
them all out at the same time on the inside edges.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And I guess Las Vegas is probably a great test
candidate for that vehicle because it is going to absolutely
bake that car.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, yeah, and the rubber is just gonna it's gonna
be one hundred and ninety there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So the Reverend's stopped anywhere for a while. I mean,
your tires are gonna stick to the concrete.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, So I if they get a set of thirty
thousand miles out of those, I'd be amazed. But we
need to follow up with this. Yeah, as far.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
As uh, I'll get in touch with the Las Vegas PD.
You know, we're going to get a guy on the ends.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
These things are just futuristic enough. You wondered if people
are trying to get arrested there. I don't know. Yeah,
just so I can say you were in the back
of one.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Oh, it'll be some internet thing, get my picture in
the car.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, yeah, something along that line. Speaking of the electric cars,
I did notice the other day on an article that
I read that if you want a F one to
fifty lightning and that's just been your car, that's you know,
other than the price, you know, you don't want to
spend ninety to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. They're
(24:00):
stopping production or they're gonna stop production, and there's about
five thousand left of them in the country, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And I've been saying this for years, like ever since
this whole ev turn kind of happened. You know what,
two three four years ago, I think that Milwaukee needs
to make a car.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, well they have been eighteen They already got the
patent on the lithium battery for the other things. So
why not the Milwaukee Tool Company?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You bet?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, an M eighteen or M twelve car, you bet. No,
that's the battery side. Yeah, that's a battery size. That's okay, Yeah,
that's the eighteen vault or the twenty vaults or I.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Mean they've got everything else. I mean, you don't believe
me walking my garage, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Battery. They do have great tools, you bet they do. Yeah,
they got great tools.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, who say they wouldn't make a great car. You know,
I think I think they needed to do it. They'd
be like red and black.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, you put them on the dash so you could
change them out as you're driving.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I mean, it probably only take fifteen hundred of those
batteries to get it going. But they'll come up with
a new battery.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They could make it stylish, you know they can. And
you know if they start start catching fire, you could
quickly get them off since they're located on the dash.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Just pitch it out the car, just pitch it out
the window. Only you could prevent forest fires.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh you can start them, yeah, by pitching out the window.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And I did see another car company's speaking of electrics too,
is that they have since all these cars melt down,
so they actually have a retro dumpster. You've seen these
these big dumpsters.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
We got a picture of it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, well I didn't mean the Tesla truck, but yeah,
it looks like a Trump dumpster dumpster a little bit. No,
they have these heavily lined dumpsters that are all sealed
off that hold water and they are are specifically for
the lithium cars. They've kind of developed that you can
stick him in there, and at least do you have
(26:02):
a place for them to sit there and bubble tell
they're dad.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And where do they put these dumpsters at?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I would suppose at the firehouse. I don't know where
they put them at.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Because I can just imagine you got that thing back there,
brew it and here's some guy with a bag of
like fish guts or something. He's just looking for a
quick can that's in the dark, and you could throw
him in.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't know, I've been that guy before. I don't
know how you grab him and get him in there
or where you it's just a prototype, But I don't
know where you stick him at. I don't know. You
wouldn't want to put him anywhere that the caustic smoke
that's coming off of those would be anywhere. But they
make them. They make a dumpster sized deal that you
can drop your ed into.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And you know, I was actually pondering getting into the
whole ev circle this week. I saw one come up
for sale online, went across my feed, and I didn't
get a chance to buy it in time. It ended
up selling. But oh well, nineteen oh eight Baker.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Real, Oh yeah, yeah, back when they first were yeah,
you bet. Back when they first were new, I would
drive that thing around. I mean it was cool. Can
you even get a battery for it? I suppose you
can read it was going, So somebody got a battery.
You can retro fit a golf cart to some lithiums.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
If anybody can get it going, it's me, I think.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah. If not, well, there's only five five thousand of
these uh electric F one fifties gonna be. They're out
there and already produced. So uh, you gotta go get
yourself one if that's If that's truly what you want,
I kind of think they.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I want to drive around this nineteen oh eight baker.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Here and yeah, yeah, how fast does I think? Go six?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I think top speed of twenty five?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Twenty five? Yeah, and you go where where's the speed
limit twenty five in town?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Anywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I go? Oh? I suppose, yeah, I suppose if you're people.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Be flying by honking, don't be mean, go green.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
They were all black anyway back then, you bet they were. Yeah.
I think they missed the boat. We jumped. We'd jumped
too far ahead and went straight to the EV's and
where we should have kind of jumped into the gas hybrids,
because that seems to be where a lot of people
were going and a lot of manufacturers are going, and
that kind of gets you, gets you reped up for
(28:15):
maybe ev in the future, sure, if it gets that far.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But you know, I mean the hybrids that are coming out,
I mean they're dependable. I mean, at least Toyotas and
you know a few other manufacturers. I've seen some issues
with Hyenda, but I mean nothing that isn't prevented maintenance related.
I mean, there's a battery at a twelve volt source battery.
It's kind of a pain in the neck to replace,
but it has to be done. I mean, like any
twelve volt battery in these cars, they have to be done.
(28:41):
But that's the only issue I've really seen with them.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you know, And speaking of batteries too, on a
different topic, I noticed that three times this week we
had a these new you got a newer car from
like twenty twenty on up or maybe nineteen on up.
They run a lot of the A MG batteries or
AGM excuse me GM AGM batteries, and these AGM batteries
(29:06):
will they don't give you any warning. And two customers
just drove it home and everything was fine, and then
they just wouldn't start. I mean in a short amount
of time. They drove home and then they were going
to get back out fifteen minutes later to go somewhere
else and it was dead boom, just like that. So
where your old flood acid batteries, the old ones with
(29:31):
the plates in them, and you just put water in them,
you get the old warning there are. Yeah, you get
the kind of the slow crank, and it's like a man,
I know what that is, because everybody's had a battery
go dead, but the other ones just don't. They just
seemed tone they're gone. They just dead short immediately and
just when they're done, they're done. And there's a few
(29:51):
of these that we've had to we went out to
jump started to get them in here, and so we
could some of them won't jump start. They won't jump start,
they won't do you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Get that battery out of there, you're done.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
They'd haul them in. So preventive maintenance there is probably
more than anything on the batteries. And yeah, one of
those was hot. Hours later, I mean like four or
five six hours later they were it was still the
battery was still hot. So all right, we're gonna take
a quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show, and we'll
come back and answer a call after that one back
(30:24):
in a minute. Randy's got a twenty fifteen Chevy pickup. Randy,
what's up today?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah, good morning, Hey guys. I'm not really a gearhead,
but my pickups a little pet of mine, and I've
had troubles with the radio and touchscreen from the get go.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Dealer.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
Could never get it fixed. Sometimes the radio stations jump around,
other times I can't move around on the touch screen
and temperature time nothing works on there. I'm just wondering
if there's a solution to the problem.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, I can tell you that they had a solid,
solid radio from that The run they had was seven
to thirteen, and as soon as they switched it from
the fourteen model that came out, it was just nothing
but problems.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
The screens have had problems, the modules have had problems,
some of them. We've gotten some issues resolved just by
disconnecting a battery and then you know, it'll kind of
reset everything, yeah, reboot. But I don't know if there's
been a redesign to either of these units.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
No, you know, what I would probably do if it
was my truck is I would kind of seep seek
the aftermarket just a little bit, like maybe a radio
or a stereo place here in town, you know, And
a lot of times they may be able to somebody
has already figured out this problem and they already said,
(31:56):
you know, let's just go around it because we can't
get it fixed, and let's just go to the aftermarket.
And it might cost you. It depends on how much
radio means to you. I know, I can't ride around
in a truck that's got no sound in it. It
just drives me nuts. But you know, I bet you
could get something that incorporates that screen and maybe even
(32:18):
in the heat. Yeah, I have seen the units out
there that they just kind of put right over top,
and then you can get rid of like in an
O seven, they'll put a screen in it and the
dash controls for the heater already in there and everything.
You just kind of pop and snap it right over
top where it's at. That's what I would start with Amazon,
(32:39):
and then kind of put in you know, put in
your truck and then put radio assembly in there or
new radio and kind of see just kind of play
around with that just a little bit, see what what
comes up. I don't know if they have a plug
and play thing that maybe not anything that you want
to accomplish. Otherwise, kind of maybe take some pictures, see
(33:01):
what you find on on Amazon, and then maybe take
it to a stereo place and say, hey, what can
you guys do and to get your get past that
problem because getting a used one or getting a new one,
or it's just gonna you're gonna be in this. You're
gonna spend money and be in the same boat. But
that's what I would do. What about you, Cole?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I agree?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, try try that avenue.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Thank you, Thank you guys, you bet.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna have hell
with to Bob. Bob's got an O six total Corolla. Bob,
what is up today?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
That's on my uh son in law. It's two thousand
and six. Where I had the MiG shutter thing on
the front end, Yeah, yep, one one being the left
front califu.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh yeah okay, yeah, yeah yeah, the shutter as far
as vibration, right yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Where I drove it back from the golf course. Everything
was fine and fact you're over for round by your
months and nothing happened, and then I heard a little
bit of a metal sound coming out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, calipers were all of a sudden just kind of
uh turned sideways in the uh in the boarder there
and there'll just stick. And you know, that's kind of
why you recommend replacing the brake fluid is because brake
fluid grabs moisture, and moisture just kind of heads down
the system and uh, it will get stuck in there.
(34:33):
But yeah, and also the pins, the pins will get
stuck in there too and hold a caliber on and
kind of start burning up pads. We see that a lot,
so we'll good. So you put a new new caliper
on it, bled it all out and you're good.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
And go oh yeah, yeah, and well I'll replaced both
both calipers on the front and the Yeah, got drums,
so that's that. Uh Hey, does h does that have
a timing belt like the Honda's dower? Is that a
chain thing you mentioned something about because it's got like seventy.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I think that's a chain. I think that's a chain. Also,
did you want to switch at the belt?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
No, No, My my Hondas are gone. My daughter still
got an out of sea.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
But yeah, oh.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Guess what didn't see the bone yard. It's going to
be coming back to visit you one these days. Then
told him, didn't he sound with the Oh it was
the candler converter went bad.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
My son in law just threw his hands up. Well,
it went through a couple of my granddaughter's boys friends
and in any way, I had to bail around for
about a grand and so it's come.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Back to the fleet, gotcha. I'm gonna have to give
you a call, Bob, when I need a car, because
sometimes I don't have enough.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
When's that been the case?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Never
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In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
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