Mr Mechanic 8-9-2025

Episode Transcript

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 unleaed. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires aale pressure

(00:24):
just by how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and
every Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest
superhero known to man. Mister Mechanic check engine lights dope,
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.
This is an interactive calling show. You got the questions,
We'll give you the answers. Get you moving on to
get that car repaired or shoot you towards a car
to to go look at, maybe buy, or to avoid.

(01:06):
Had a couple of calls that week this week for
what should I buy? What should I avoid? So sitting
next to me, as Kyle's always always didn't. Hopefully nobody
had any major damage to cars this morning. You know,
no tree limbs or came down on cars. I'm sure
there was a few this morning came a little early,
it did, didn't it. Yeah, there's my phone's going off

(01:27):
and I was like, what is this? The alarm is
not set for five thirty on Saturday. Kind of skirted
Omaha a little bit, but the outer edges west and
things like that got it. But I'm you know, if
you're in the middle of you know, an old neighborhood,
those trees look great and you just never know the
last windstorm it's going to be before that big limb

(01:48):
comes down. Yeah it's been fine for sixty years. Yeah,
but you just can't say some of them are pretty sturdy,
most of them. Yeah, you just can't see just how
hollow they are on the inside. Yeah, you know, So
hopefully nobody had any major damage or you still got
to ride to work and don't have to call and
say guess what. You know, that's always a terrible deal.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Here was an interesting article I found. The minimum This
is a stat that they have, so the minimum speeding
ticket cost if you were going ten mile an hour over. So,
for example, if you're going seventy five and you get
caught going eighty five, what is that? What's that number?
And interestingly enough, Nebraska is at twenty five hours. That

(02:37):
ain't bad, no, and so also New Mexico has that
number two right at twenty five bucks. Montana.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
To me, that's worth it if I get to find
a deal on gas. I mean, I'm making up for
it anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, no big deal, you know. And these are the
lowest ones here Montana, in North Dakota they're at forty BUCKSCA.
New Mexico they're they're right at twenty five bucks. And
this is ten mile an hour over and above. So
who you're gonna ask us who's the most expensive? Well
take a stab there, California, Oh gosh, how'd you know?

(03:14):
And uh, Arizona. I know, Arizona's pretty tough on all
that kind of stuff there. So Arizona's two hundred and
thirty one dollars the minimum speed speeding ticket going ten
mile and over h Yeah exactly, that's a.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Bit of change. Like I've probably you know, set the
cruise for that one.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, you know, everybody's driving over anyway, and they get
mad at you if you don't keep up with the traffic. Yeah,
so I just do you want.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
To get yelled at by the copper the guy next
to you?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah? Yeah, road rage guy or not. But Arizona's two
thirty one, Texas is two twenty three, North Carolina's two
oh three, and Florida is two oh four. It's kind
of an interesting you know, I just.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are our other interior states? I mean, are they
kind of all on average around the twenty five dollars
around US?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas one hundred and eighteen.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Wow, so we're actually doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Mm hmm, Colorado one fifty one.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know what would make that, you know, just better
for me anyway, at least in my opinion. I wish that,
you know, when you get pulled over and you get
a speeding ticket, I wish that you could just pay
it right there, like the policeman's a point of sale.
Here's twenty five bucks. You know, let's forget this happened.
That's a great that's a great idea. Plus the four percent,
I mean, you skip the whole you know, mailing in

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your fine and all this and the stamp. I mean,
just put a cash drawer in his car. It'll be safe.
He's got a camera on him already, so we don't
got to worry about theft. Here's twenty five bucks, you
know where you can tap your card and.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I kind of like that, Like, I mean, if they
can do it at Sonic, why can't we do it
on the side of the highway and just you know,
skip the hassle.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
So State patrol kiosk right there. Yeah, okay, that's a
good idea, Kyle, Maybe the only kind I have. Maybe
you save a lot of trips for the officer back
and forth and they say it, come on, you already
know you're speeding one, Why do you got to go
to court over? I agree with you, Kyle, I just
tap here.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I mean, if I'm going, you know, clearly one hundred
miles an hour over the speed limit, well then you
get a get all true grid on me go ahead,
I deserve it. But ten miles an hour over, yeah,
take my information.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
You get a free ride downtown if you get that.
That that kind of far.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh Yeah, they.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Don't like that at all.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Cracking down really hard, which I think is a great thing. Yeah,
we've all been on the road, and then somebody just
goes flying by you at a very unsafe speed limit.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
The only time that I seem to speed when I
go around people is when I've got a camper in
the left lane that just won't move out of the
left lane. Come you go over in the media and
Hecker Highwater four high is there on crew is control
and I'm in the left lane there in the left
lane and just will not move. So I've got to

(06:07):
go around on the right yet, uh quick as I
can to get away from whatever's going to happen there.
All right, Well, we're gonna shoot into the calls here.
We're gonna head over to Rich. Rich has got a
two thousand vehicle El Dorado, El Dorado Rich. What's up?

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah, he say, Yeah, I'm just I don't have it yet.
I'm thinking about buying it.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Just heard a lot of good things and bad things
about that north Star engine.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
What's uh?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
What do you guys tell me about that?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Well, you tell us which ones you want to hear first. Yeah,
generally we only get too bad. We don't never see
them when they're good.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Let's let's let's stend up with the let's end up.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
With the good then end up with the good. Okay,
let's see leake oil. Yeah, ready for that. The day
it was purchased, it was is leak and oil and
you can't you can't. Yeah, it leaks oil from all
sorts of spots and you can't fix any of it
other than the valve cover gaskets in the car. The

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rest of it. You got to drop the whole subframe,
whole front suspension subframe, and everything else, take the engine
out and turn it upside down and reseal it. So
that's probably your that's probably your biggest thing.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
And that goes the same for pretty much any component
you're going to replace on that engine. It's easier to
take the engine out.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Maybe intake starter is underneath the intake water pump.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Isn't bad.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
No water pumps easy.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
With the crossover that the water pump goes into isn't good.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Not good. They leak. What else they do have on
some of these They did have a recall on these
engines because they were all aluminum and the and the
water would seep through the aluminum block. They had a
special pellet that you put in there in the cooling
system to kind of help seal everything on the internal

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side of it, so you can have coolant leaks just
weeping out of the block for no reason.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Porous aluminum was used. I mean it was a degree
call campaign. I mean even when I started at five,
they were still doing them.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, it's got sleeve liners in it, and that's how
you get the illuminum block, and you know things like that.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
What else on that on that particular car, transmissions, transmissions
were a problem. They had problems with selenoids and the
bottom transmissions. If they're electronic struts, those are out rageous
to the back. The back shocks always went bad. It
depends how well this car was taken care of.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, I mean we could go on. I mean for
a two thousand. I mean we've seen that car from
its beginning till now and all the horror stories in between.
If I were to even look at this car, I mean,
it would have to be a diamond in the rough.
I mean it would have to be.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, mot motor mounts go bad all the time. Because
it has great horsepower. It'll get up and go oh yeah,
but it rips the motor mounts out of it, and
those aren't very easy to get done.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
So say, nothing to replace, and stuff's gonna happen, Stuff's
gonna go. I mean, it's a twenty five year old
car now, I mean, the only guarantee you're getting at
this rate is something's gonna break.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, right, right, let's think it's only got eighty thousand
miles on. It's pretty well baby, it's taken care of.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. You might got a diamond in
the rough there.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Agreed. You're not gonna find a lot of them out
there for parts. So eBay is probably going to be
your friend, along with carparks dot Com. They'll they'll be
able to search salvagejars around the country. But Cadillac ain't
gonna have utch for you anymore.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, geez. So I keep these things on road just
just uh check in fluids and oils and everything all
the time continually.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yep. Yeah, I mean it's just sometimes those little leaks
turned into big leaks, so you just have to just
kind of monitor it.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Overall, it wasn't a bad car. It's just that Kyle's right,
We just we just tossed in twenty twenty some odd
years of everything we've seen on that car, and we
didn't even cover everything.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, well yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Buy it, drive it sparingly, and you should be fine.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
How's that that?

Speaker 5 (10:22):
That's that's a good news.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's a good news.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yep, well, I appreciate you guys stories and that read
some stuff about that motor.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
But but from.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Day one they had trouble. So yep, yeah, not even
don't even get any miles.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
On of They didn't even get sold yet.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oil. Yeah, Leacon oil. Now the engine itself maybe wasn't
too bad, but from the day it came out, it
wasn't very long for it was Leacon oil, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, all right, guys.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
You bet appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna take
a quick break of the Mister Mechanic Show, come back
and answer a few more calls.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
It's time to pop the hood boss and see what
she's working with.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Driving driving, driving on these roads.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
We're driving, gonna get some gas out BUCkies. Yeah, through rain,
wind and weather the place and get together wishing marbles,
buy my saw.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I love you, Bob.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
All the things I'm missing, good service, food and kissing
are waiting at the end of my rod.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Fill it out, driving out, drive it out, kill it up.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Fill it up, driving.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
Out, Bucky, clean it up, drive it, clean it up,
clean it up. Drive it in a bucking.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Crib it in a bucking yeah, drive it in a
bucking way.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Where do we get this?

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Which show?

Speaker 1 (11:56):
We're gonna shoot over to?

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Mark? Mark's got a two thousand twelve jeep wrangler? Mark?
What's up today?

Speaker 8 (12:04):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Guys?

Speaker 9 (12:05):
How are you great?

Speaker 8 (12:09):
Okay? Every time I apply the brakes the front right
side dis break, it sticks and I won't release. What
do you suppose would because of that?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hmm? Well, is a drummer disc brakes on this one
in the back as okay?

Speaker 8 (12:28):
And it's only only the one because I I'll pull
over and I'll feel them all and they're all cool.
Just the right front one is hot.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Okay, all right, So we have a mister mechanic signature
test for this.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
So what you're gonna do is you're gonna take that
break caliber off the car and see if it moves back.
If it doesn't move back, we're going to open the bleeder.
Then see if it moves back. Because you've got one
or two things happen. You've got a hoser a caliber. Yep,
that's it. So I mean, unless your pads are hanging up.
So take your pads out, make sure that they move.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
So what you what you can do there is drive
it around and then kind of get it to the
point where it's kind of hot, and then pull it
into the driveway and then crack the bleeder and see
whether or not your wheel can move. You know, jack
it up, crack the bleeder. See if your wheel moose,
if your wheel mouse, if your wheel moves, your your
caliper just released, So we know the calipers working fine,

(13:29):
and your hose is bad. If the uh, if you crack.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
It loose, yes.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yes, So if you crack the line and everything still
is tight, more than likely you've got a hose. It's
bad because when you step on the brake, you've got
eighteen hundred pounds of pressure pushing through that hose going
to the caliper. Okay, when you let off the break,
you have static pressure coming back, which means there's no

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there's no force coming back, it's just static flow coming back.
That's why it sticks on like that. So the static
pressure takes a while for it to bleed off. That's
why when you come back half an hour later, everything
seems fine, right, Well, Kyle's exactly right. You've also got
to pull the wheel off at some point, and you've

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got to pull the caliper off, and you've got to
make sure the pads aren't stuck in the anchors because
all the salt that we put down the road, that
those things are just buried in there and then caught
off to one side. So there's more just to what
you the question you asked. You have to look a
little deeper into it.

Speaker 8 (14:40):
Okay, well, it had less than a year ago, it
had a complete break job done on it, so everything
fairly new.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Sure, Well, it depends on how much this is how
long this has been going on, because you can just
now notice it now how long has it been since
this pad, this caleish caliper's been sticking on for just
a little bit, which means you'll have the right front
brake pads that are all worn down and the less
sides are brand new. You won't know that to your

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total part.

Speaker 8 (15:13):
Okay, well, this is the second time I've had this
issue I have. I have a ninety seven, and believe
it or not, it did the exact same thing that
right front was locking up. I replaced everything on that
darn thing. I mean everything except the ABS valve. That

(15:34):
was the only thing left to replace, and I replaced
that and it cured the problem. Oh, I'm wondering if
it could be the ABS valve on this cheek.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Were we go that far? We got to start with
what we what we've said, We've got to trace it
back down. I mean, if we're going to diagnose it,
I mean that's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Technically, yes, technically you are correc it could be, but
I'm not going to start with the most expensive part.
I'm going to start by checking it out first. That's
what I'm going to do now. So what you just had,
what you just described was one percent of what goes
on ninety eight percent of it a ninety nine percent
of the time you've got a caliper hose. That's why

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we head there first. But you're not wrong. We've also
replaced ABS pump modules and control units for that very
reason too. But that's typically not that. Those are all
internal stuff that goes on that goes bad, and a
lot of times that stuff goes bad internally because with

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American cars we don't really get into and we should.
We should get more. Everybody should get into more of
flushing out the brake fluid because that stuff gets.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Old, gooey, and when we leave it in.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
There, the selenoids stick inside those ABS units and that's
what kind of causes that problem. So right, yeah, it
can happen, but it's one percent. So try the other
way first and then kind of move towards that.

Speaker 8 (17:07):
Yeah, I'll do what you said. I'll try that because
I priced out the aps fouves and I'm like, wha.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Man, exactly, let's we'll always try to go cheap first
and fix the problem before we go expensive and fix
the problem.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Okay, great, thank you for the You.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Bet appreciate it the call. All right, we're gonna head
over to Sam. Sam's got a Hyundai Sonata. Sam, what's
up today?

Speaker 10 (17:32):
Yes, I recently got the car. It's in excellent shape
and I just have a couple of tips, questions like
how to take care of it. It's got sixteen thousand
miles on it. I've got the original owner's manual which
I'm going through. So but there might be a couple
of tips on a two thousand and nine Hyundai Sonata
that you guys run into. I'm not looking for an

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entire answer, just some quick tips on how to take.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Care of it.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Well, you know, they're not too terrible bad, except for
the engines have problems.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
That might be a little early for that. Wasn't that
in twenty twelve? Kind of in that era, I mean
the era of car. Is it the V six?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes, okay, I don't think they had that near the
problem with that. They didn't have near the problem with
the V six as they did the four cylinder in
that era.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
They got some oil leak issues, but other than that,
I mean they were a pretty sturdy vehicle.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, So if you've got all the records, I guess
what we're going to advise is if you got all
the records and know when things have been done, great,
then you can kind of count on that. A lot
of times I get this question, is what should I do?
It's a it's a new car to me, but I
have no history of anything before. We just kind of
recommend just starting over because now you know what you've

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done starting today.

Speaker 10 (18:51):
It's okay, But I do have a lot of the
almost all of the original records.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Awesome, awesome, great bias.

Speaker 10 (18:59):
If there's any other quick I'll get off the air hair.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, absolutely appreciate the call. So when you get an
eighteen thousand mile car like that, you just have to
kind of go, it's obviously ten plus years.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Old and you've just not been driven a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, it hasn't been driven through. So what generally happens
to cars that sit and have low mileage and all
of a sudden you start pressing them into service. We
see repairs happen in threes. You'll have and you don't
really know what it is. You might have a blown
hose here, you might have something go on here, and
then you have the third one goes on and.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
If you should get a good eye on or just
replace any of the rubber, Yeah, because that stuff's going
to take a harder beating than anything else. Rubber hoses,
rubber bushings, things like that, and it dries up.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
And yeah, have the cars inspected, you know, have somebody
inspect it and kind of take a look at it.
With it being that and low mileage, You're right, if
the tires haven't been changed, then they're going to be
they're going to be due. Look at the brakes, just
kind of giving an overall view. Pay somebody to take
a look at it good. And then the only thing
you can do is just kind of press it into

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service and drive it and see what happens. See what happens.
It's beauty you can do. And if you don't have
those services, like I was gonna mention to him, is
that you just start over. You start over with changing
the oil and the coolant and maybe the transmission service.
Because if it's all been done, great, If it hasn't
been then you know where to start from. Otherwise you're

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and you don't have to do it all once. Now,
do a little bit at a time, and you know,
over a few months, then it's all taken care of. Me.
You know where your car's at. So but yeah, you
take care of it's gonna last you a long time.
So all right, we're gonna take quick break in the
Mistru Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven, tens of numbers
to get in. We've got smoping lines. We'll be back

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in a minute. All right, we're gonna head over to mo.
Moe's got a twenty fifteen f one fifty mo. What's
up today?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, Hey, how's it going? Yeah? So, uh took my
car through the car wash, my truck to the car
washed up, of which goo came out of the car wash,
and my FM or my AM radio wasn't working. So
I have FM, but I have no AM.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Interesting and this all happened with a car wash.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Intend to get damaged, came out of the car wash,
came out of the car wash. It was all static.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
And does intenna still Obviously the antenna is still there.
You'd have noted that. But I think something got damaged
in the antenna. It's kind of what I think, just
because you had it. You're really boiling down to you
either got a problem with the radio or a problem
with the antenna that has to ground to the fender,

(21:41):
and then there's just a It just basically bolts in
grounds to the to the car body and then goes
over and plugs into the radio. Does it make any
difference if you would go over and grab your This
is gonna sound stupid, but if you grab a hold
of the base of the antenna and stick your arm
in the air, do you get any uh? Do you
get any frequency? Does it come back?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I haven't tried that. You might try that.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, You're just I'm not trying to make you look funny.
But I'm just saying that you're just becoming the antenna.
So I'm just trying to do some diagnostic here, and
I've done this before. Is that you just grab a
hold of the base of the antenna and uh, you know,
put your arm in the air so that you get
something in the air outside and then and see if
it comes back. If it does, you know, you're the antenna.

(22:27):
And that's where your problem is.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
All of us from the eighties had that same struggle
trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons on a cloudy day.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yes, yes, we.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
All that's your Yeah, I mean, what's the difference screen
or the AM and FM frequency? Because FN comes in fine,
it's just AM.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Uh you know.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Actually FM is just a straight line pattern and it
just goes from where it is a straight line horizon
and then it drops off where the AM bounces off
the stratosphere and comes back and forth, and that's what
it hits to you. But it's it's uh, it travels farther.
It's kind of kind of a.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
To do a totally different pattern.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yes, totally different pattern.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
If the antenna isn't working, it ain't picking it up.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, it's kind of a. I wouldn't. I don't want
to say weaker signal. It's just harder to bring in
unless you have something sticking in the air and trying
to grab that. And like I say, FM is just
straight line. But I think you've got a problem that
something broke internal. The car wash was probably whipping that
intenta around and yeah, it probably did that.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
So that's okay. So I guess the second question is
if I need a new antenna, I mean, can I
get an aftermarket one or do I need to go
to Ford or what do I gotta do?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Describe because I can't picture the twenty fifteen and antenna.
Some of them were on the roof and some of
them were a long whip on the fender, which one
is on the.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Fender on the passenger side fender like two and a
half feet tall.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Okay, go to you can go to Ford, or you
can go to in order to get one that fits, right,
I probably would go to Ford or go to the
salvage yard and just take one off from there. Yeah,
that's probably what I would do.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, Yeah, very good? Yeah, great, all right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
You bad appreciate it. The call, all right, we're gonna
head over to uh Peggy. He's got a twenty fifteen equinox. Peggy,
what's up today?

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Hi there? Hello, Yes, hello, I I'm almost aby and
I have one hundred and thirty two thousand miles on
this equinox. I've read that it'll only go one hundred
and fifty and that it starts to burn oil. Should
I look at a new vehicle or should I just
hope it hits two hundred?

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Generally they start burning oil earlier in that.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Well, the last time I had the oil changed, it
was low, but I waited five thousand miles.

Speaker 9 (24:57):
To do it.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, I mean they all burn oil, they they do.
Kyle's Kyle's right, But what is your experience so far?
I mean, if you change.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
The oil, ye be a great car.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
How much oil are you using at this picure point?

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Well, this is the first time that they told me
it was low.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay, and that's what a court low to courts low okay, okay,
and then court in how many miles? Three thousand, five
thousand fire down? Good. I don't think you're terrible bad there.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
If you told me it was a court in one
thousand miles, I'd say it's time to sell it. And uh,
but if you're a court every five thousand miles, you're
on the I think you're in the Oka range. If
you look in the owner's manuel, they're going to tell
you there's nothing wrong. But you're you're getting to that now.
And the reason I asked this all these questions is

(25:52):
because you said you were eighty. How many miles you
put on it a year?

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Well, I've had it a full ten years, still one
hundred and thirty two, about thirteen thousand, maybe fifteen thousand
a year, okay.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
And you're still driving. You're still driving about ten a year.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
I drive it every year, every day, and I take
one long trip a year, okay, maybe thousand miles.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
I think you're going to be just fine.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I do. I agree with Kyle. I think I would
monitor it, since you kind of already have this and
as knowledge now, I think I would not wait five
thousand miles to see if it's going to burn a
quart of oil. I think I would wait check it
every twenty five hundred, okay, just to see where you're at.
And you can give yourself a gauge and say, okay,

(26:39):
well I don't burn any in twenty five hundred.

Speaker 9 (26:41):
I'm just going to wait five thousand, So okay, one
more question.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
I've never had the transmission or the radiator flushed. I
have it planned to be done on Monday. The book
says every thirty thousand miles, but I've never done it.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
You know, we generally recommend about every sixty thousand miles
on those, even though the book says thirty. I think
that's a little early to do that. The coolant won't
be a problem the transmission as long as it looks
clean and red and and uh, I'm glad. I'm guessing
you're not go ahead.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Ye, there's no way for me to check the transmission
to take the pluck at the bottom, which is stupid.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I think it's I think you're probably going to be
fine to change it. I'm guessing that you're probably not
very hard on a car, so uh, and that you're
probably a pretty easy driver in this thing and really
hasn't been run through the ringer like some can. So
I think you're going to be fine on doing both
of those.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Awesome, that's a really I don't have to buy in
your car.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, and then that's that's why you're monitoring the oil
because it starts taking two courts every five thousand miles. Well,
you know where you're you're going and where you gotta go.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Okay, thank you, you.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Bet Peggy appreciate the call. That wasn't very nice, Kyle.
What telling her to burn an oil before that?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Well, I'm just here with the facts. I've seen them
come in with fifty thousand miles of not a cordo,
not a drop on the stick, not a drop on
the sticks.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Oh man, nothing. It's supposed to take five quarts oil
and uh you pull the drain plug and nothing comes out. Yeah,
that's not You can't do that to that car, not
that one. You can do that to a Honda, Sure
you can. You can do it to a Toyota. I've
seen it multiple times, multiple I can't count me now
many times i've seen.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
I've seen Toyotas come in with no oil filter on
them and nothing in the pan and it's not making
a noise.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
I know this is going to be bad.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Then you screw a filter on there and here's the
car coming back five thousand miles for its next oil.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Next oil change. I've seen them with the light flickering
and that's that's why they brought it in. Because the
oil light was flickering. They thought there must be something
wrong with the oil pressure switch, and so we pulled
the dipstick, there was nothing there, pulled the drain plug
and literally nothing hardly. They just dribble, dribble, came out
with the drain plug back in, filled it up. Light

(29:02):
was out.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Then we had to explain to why that was the
way it was. Yeah, so gosh, they make durable engines.
They didn't some things. You're like, why did they go
so cheap on that?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, you know, it all depends on who's in charge
of what. I did read an article not too long
ago that they did a test and some engineers did
to test it to it. It was the old I
can't remember what it was, bad, bad, twenty two R engine.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
I think it was okay.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
They had taken the oil out of it and they
drove it, and they drove it fifty miles and it lasted,
and they got multiple times did they drive it? And
they finally got tired with the test and said, well,
if we ain't going to blow it up in this
amount of time, so they just put oil back in
and aborted the test. Yea, So maybe that's how we

(29:53):
should do that. Maybe we should take all the oil
out of it and then if it can run fifty
miles with no oil already in it, then then it's
a good engine. And that's what we use.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Because we were talking about this last weekend about loud engines,
like because some of these engines are you know, with
direct injection everything else like that, they're loud. They aren't
quiet anymore.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Noose, those direct injected injectors make a lot of clicking noises.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, And I think it was that guy last week
with the Ford that had engine noise and where like, yeah,
this is normal because every forward V six turbo is loud.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Then I mean you go back to the fifties. We
both had old straight sixes from the fifties. You can't
hear them running.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I know it. Yeah, my old forty eight pickup. When
you started up and it runs, you can stand next
to it and you can't hardly you can tell something's
going on, but you can't tell the engines running.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
And the clearances in that engine are ridiculous. I mean
they could throw a cat through the We're talking about
the board box, plastic gauge.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah, you know, in some respects we've gotten worse on things,
and other respects we've gotten majorly better. So tell you what.
All right, we're gonna take a quick breaking the mister
mccanks Show'll be back in a minute. Travis has got
an O six CRV. Travis, what's up today?

Speaker 9 (31:08):
Yeah? I just bought this car, and uh, you guys,
so we're gonna love this. It's gonna be a softball
for you. I don't remember the code number. I think
it was A three oh four. It's a and it
gave me. I think it listed everything possibility besides the
air and the tires to be changed.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (31:28):
It could be the crank sensor, it could be the
v tex sensor, it could be the and I've changed
the variable valve timing, oil solenoid, I think knock sensor.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
So a PO three oh four is cylinder four misfire?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Is that? Is that what your code was?

Speaker 9 (31:44):
I think it was. Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Okay, so your car is running bad, shaking, maybe the
check engine light's flashing. Yeah okay, So what we need.

Speaker 9 (31:52):
To do is when it comes out of that also,
sure you.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Bet it does typical problem. So we need to check spark,
get that coil on cylinder number four. We got spark.
We need to look at our spark plug.

Speaker 9 (32:07):
And I change those. I didn't mention that, Sorry I didn't, Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
So yeah, we're just looking at cylinder number four.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
So it's affecting cylinder number four, whether it's plug, wire,
ejector vacuum leak. Yep, those are the four biggies.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
So if you get a flashing check engine like when
it's flashing, and this could be somewhat difficult to do, generally,
we'll just hook up either a inline spark test or
to that coil and let it hang there and go
and drive the car until we experience a misfire and
get out as you're light flashing or not. Because coils

(32:46):
can break down in a lot of different ways. Sometimes
they'll have sparks, sometimes they leak spark, and you get
your intermittent like you're describing, So there would be more
I put a bunch of coils in Honda's I mean,
we do coils all the time. It's uncommon.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
And here's another thing you can do too. If you
want switch number four coil for number one coil, wait
for it to missfire and see if it followed from
number four, and now you have a misfire for number one. Yep.
So now what you did will effectively throw it to
a completely different cylinder that had no problem at all.
And now you've moved the misfire from one from four

(33:23):
to one, and now you got no you got coil problem,
and you don't have an injector problem. You don't have
a vacuum problem because you've you've moved it to the
other side of the engine.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
These engines are incredibly reliable. Yeah, I yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I got two.

Speaker 9 (33:39):
I got to well this is a third one actually now, but.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Sure, and I can tell you know, yeah, when you
google that code, I mean you're going to get a
laundry list of every and it's going to be very intimidating.
But I'm guessing you got a bad coil.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, A little bit of time in diagnosing it and
moving the coil from one to the other allows you
to be able to sit down and diagnose it. And
it may it may take a it may take an afternoon,
may take a day or two. But at least you're
not buying a bunch of parts.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
Yeah, so that's Yeah, the crank sensor is probably not
as no.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
I've ever put one of those in not in a Honda.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I mean, is it possible, Yes, Yes, it's possible for
a crank sensor to pick on one cylinder. Though generally
what I'm going to see in that scenario isn't the
crank sensor. It's going to be the reluctor that it
picks up. Yeah, there's going to be a tooth broken
off of it, or it's kind of slipping on the

(34:39):
crank shaft one or the other, and either of those
scenarios I might have only seen once. Yeah, and there
was definite reason for why this happened.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yes, it was stick got jammed up in there or something.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, I remember I saw it on a niss On
one time, and the guy had had it apart and
he must have dropped it and broke it. I mean
it was operator error.