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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Those Windshiel W Steven out of Temple, keeping hythm the
songs on the readio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I gotta keep.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What baby song you?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Maybe you want to roll my windows down and close.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC talk station. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
entire Center, and I'm here every Saturday from one to
two to take all of your car questions. The number
to call five to one, three seven nine fifty five hundred.
That number again, five to one, three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. Again here every Saturday to answer any
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car question you might have. So I love that intro.
That's my favorite intro. So save that. I love that
intro so uh so uh. Most of you might be
out in the yard or maybe tinkering with the car
because there's this little thing that's out currently today and
that's the sun. It is Saturday, and it's a gorgeous,
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absolutely gorgeous day. So a little chili, but you know,
not nothing that you know, you can't just throw a
light jacket on and do some yard work. My wife
were My wife and I were out in the yard
a little bit this morning. I was actually trying to
uh get get my pedal bike out. So we're gonna
try to with my three boys, me, my wife and
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the three boys. We're gonna try to get get ourselves together,
get get some bikes and maybe try to do the
summer you know, go up and down the bike trail.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So the boys are all old enough that they can
ride their bikes by themselves, you know, there's no training
wheels or anything like that. And I was like, you
know what that's that It sounds like a lot of
fun for me. I don't know, halfway through it, I'll
probably regret it, but you know, but I'm like, God,
So I dropped my bike off and have a service
because it's been sitting in the shed for I don't know,
I'm teen years and tire are all flat and whatnot.
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But you know, I dropped it off and kind of
find found myself in the position that I usually I'm
usually at the other end of it, right, So usually
people come into me they've got a car problem, maybe
one car, you know, once they're car tuned up and
don't necessarily know the process. So I kind of just
walked in there and and I said, hey, I don't
want to know which process is. But I said, I've
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got a bike i'd kind of like to have like
maybe looked.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Over, tuned up or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And and I said, you know, how far out are you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you take walk ins?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And and uh so kind of reminded me of what
I you know, just being on the other end of it,
because you know, you just don't know every kind of
shops a little bit different, right And it's kind of
a mom and pop bicycle shop. It's called Gym's Bicycle
Shop right there in deal Deer Park Delanvale area. And
you know that they've always been great to me and
I've been there a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But anyways, you know, again just found myself.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, I can you know, I can work on
my bike, but you know, I always try to give
back to the to the community as well.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, can I fix my bike? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do I necessarily have the time, not necessarily not not really.
So it's just kind of one of those things where
take it to a local, you know, local repair shop. Again,
I like to always give back to the community, just
like people do with me.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right So, but.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Anyways, it was it was a very crazy, busy, busy
week some of the service though, has been a little soft,
and I know we're kind of in that transition period,
right and we just got I would I would, you know,
when I dropped my bike off today, the lady was like, yeah,
we're probably like eight to ten days out before we
can get to it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I said, Okay, that's fine, you know, not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Don't mind, because I got it in earlier enough, right,
But far too often we get to the point where,
you know, we hit those you know now, I'm telling
you it's it's right around the corner. We're gonna get
those ninety degree days and you're gonna be smeltering and
you're not gonna have air conditioning, and then you're gonna
be calling me and I'm gonna say, hey, well, you know,
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we're two weeks out and you're like, I can't drive
my car for the next two weeks, but no air
conditioning right now. I will tell you with like as
an example for the air conditioning, if it's a really
cold morning, there's not much that we can do. But
once it starts getting into the sixties and seventies and
you kind of feel like it's getting a little steamy,
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that's when you need to bring it in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's when you need to schedule it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Call us up and schedule it so we can start
taking a look at that stuff before your summer break.
Far too often, and you know, I'm sometimes guilty of
it myself, we wait till the last minute. Right you're
leaving for a trip on Monday, and you call, You're
calling me on Friday. I need to get my car
in because I'm leaving on Monday, and we can't do
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it right. And I want to get I want to
get to everybody's car. I want to service everybody's car.
So again, I'm telling you it's right around the corner.
We're gonna start getting those hot temperatures and you've got
to start thinking about what you need to do to
get your car serviced for the summer. If you've taken
a big summer trip, you want to get there. You
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want to get there in now. You get in there now,
because again a lot of times, you know, there's sometimes
I mean, I mean, you know you've got parts that
I can't get.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know, they're on back order.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I've got a vehicle at my new shop right now
that the convertible top's not working. Now they got it
in early enough, but the parts on back order, it's
like four to five weeks, right, so that should put
them out about the time where the convertible top can
go down, right, because they got it in on time.
So we got to have the conversation that this is
when we need to start thinking about the summer summer
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trips and getting the car ready for summer tires, brakes,
oil changes, and air conditioning, you know, getting your battery checked.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Phone call from a colleague and a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yesterday his mother in law or his mother was picking
his daughter up from school and she just pulled up
to pick her up and shut the car off and boom,
battery is dead. I mean the car didn't even sit
for a long period of time. She literally was in
line to pick to pick his daughter up, and she
went to start the car and it was dead. Dead
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is a door now?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He called me. Luckily I was close by and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I ran over there and when I got there, the
battery only had six volts.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And she's like, what didn't really give me any warnings? No,
they most time they don't. Some will do some will
crank slow, or you can get the battery tested and
I can test and say yeah, it did test bad
and you need to replace it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
She thought that she hadn't replaced the battery at all,
And I'm like, well, you know, batteries again, they only
last you know, three to four years, that's the average
life of a battery in this region, right, So, or
too often I have the conversation where people go, well,
I just replaced that, you know, five years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well that's that's about all you get at them.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It depends on how long it sits, how long you
drive it, and the brand in the in the price.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So, these are all things that you need to think
about going into these these summer months. A lot of
times when we get extremely cold temperatures that will shock
a battery, When we get extremely high temperatures that will
shock a battery. You know, we get into we get
into ninety five plus one hundred degree days. You know,
that puts a lot of stress on starters, It puts
a lot of stress on alt ares, puts a lot
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of stress on batteries, you know. So these are things
that we need to start thinking about again if you're
going to take a road trip for the summer. So
because again we're in spring, and it's it's not going
to be it's not going to be too far away
before we get those hot temperature. So all right again,
I'm taking your phone calls and I recall five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. Let's go, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We have Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome to the car show.
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Dan?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
How's a go?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I called you a couple of weeks ago in this
twenty eight seven Cheap Liberty one hundred and seventy miles
about the transmission and the filter.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, I went ahead.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
And changed yet and it worked out real good. It's
jumping off the line.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now, really good. Good?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So you just did you do the correct me if
I'm wrong, because I you know, I talked to so
many people, but we were discussing as far as doing
a service or doing a draining fill. Did you end
up just replacing the filter and what was in the pan? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And you noticed a big difference.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Oh yeah, it doesn't hesitate when you start up from
the dead stout if it's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Okay, good.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Another question.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thanks for the update. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Yeah, okay, on a twenty four Chevy Trailblazer six cylinder.
It's got like one hundred and seventy five thousand miles
on it, there's a ride knock. And is it best?
Is it cheaper to rebuild those engines or just get
a new engine?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Just get a new engine?
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, because a lot of times, you know, it's it's
just so expensive. It's so pricey because not only are
you paying to have the engine removed, but then you're
paying to have it tore down and everything replaced, and
and and you know, I mean, we just did one
a new at my new Shot. We just did one
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on a on a Audi that needed some valves and
we ended up just it was burning oil. We ended
up rebuilding it. But the reason we did that was
a new one wasn't an option, and uh, a used
one I didn't recommend because again, the Volkswagens burn oil
quite a bit, so really the best option was just
to rebuild it. That might make sense on a particular car,
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like you know, like an Audi or whatnot, but on
the Trailblazer I.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Would probably just put a a re manufactured or a
used one in it. Preferably remanufactured.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I would look at Jasper Jasper Engines and Transmissions.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's who i'd recommend.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Okay, what would be like a ballpark figure on something
like that? All right, man, Because they used ones, they're
like four to five hundred. But to put him in
thirty hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, I would say you're probably at five to six
grand probably to put a re manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It might even be seven. It's a lot. It's it's
it's a lot.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Okay, all right, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Dan, Hey, thanks for the call. You have a great day.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
All right again, we're taking your phone calls and never
to call five one three seven fifty five hundred. That
number gain five to one three seven fifty five hundred.
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Speaker 1 (11:30):
The number to call five one, three, seven four nine
fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto Entire Center.
Past couple of weeks I kind of mentioned to you
we had a new addition to the Donovan Entire family
as well, not the family, the family business.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I should say.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No more kids for me, but but yeah, so we've
now you know, you can go to donovantire dot com
and find your nearest location. But I recently and we
kind of made the announcement earlier this week. We sent
out a big newsletter. But there was a repair shop
that had been been that had been in business for
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thirty four years. It was called Auto Foreign. It was
at the corner of Montgomery Road in Dana, Okay. And
a great business, great customer base. Absolutely, Man, what a
great group of customers. They really Uh the owner, he
did a phenomenal job running the business. And uh, you know, again,
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I'm very happy to announce that Donovan's has purchased Auto
Foreign in it's just outside of Norwood. Again I call
it Norwood, but there's literally a set of train tracks
that divides us from Norwood. But yeah, a corner of
Montgomery Road and Dana, right across from XAVIW Xavier University.
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And again they did you know they work on they
worked on all foreign vehicles. Now, of course, with it
being Donovan's, we we will continue, say grave to provide
the same great service that Auto Foreign did provided. And uh,
just just a new name, that's it. And man, I've
got a great group of guys and uh, we're kind
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of in a little bit of that transition period from
going to Auto Foreign to Donovan's Auto Form.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But again, uh, we did purchase it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
The they were looking to you know, uh, the owner
was looking to retire and I want the Donovan brand
to continue to grow, and I want to continue to
you know, fix cars. Uh, this is a passion of
mine and my only passion, one of my only passions
was to run the family business and uh, you know,
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work for Donovan's Tire. I mean, it's it's what I do,
It's what I love, and it's you know, what I
will continue to do. And again I I I truly
do love and enjoy what I do. You know, there
there are there ups, and there are the good days
and the bad days, right, you know, but I mean
that's life.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But I could say at the end of the day,
and I most people can't say this, but you know,
I never dread going to work.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know, I really do enjoy what I do.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So and that's why I'm here every Saturday to answer
your car questions because I want to continue that and
I want to continue to be able to help your
car and fix your car and help you out in
the process.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I a gentlemen call me last week.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Unfortunately, he was calling about a starting issue and I
was actually hoping if he's listening, hoping to have him
call in because I'd like to get an update. So
I was trying to meet up with him on Wednesday
because he was gonna he had it at the dealer.
And again I'm not picking on dealers, but the information
he was given me wasn't adding up, and he was
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meeting with the dealer to figure out what what the
what he was, what the next step was. And unfortunately
I couldn't make it. I just just too busy. But
you know, that's what I'm here to do is try
to help you and guide you through whatever car problem
you may have, and uh, and just give you the
best information that I possibly can do. I know everything now,
can I fix every single car now?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But if I can.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Help you and guide you in any way, shape or form,
that's what I'm here for. So again, then number to
call five one three fifty five hundred. Let's go to
the phones. We've got Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
How can I help Hi?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Dane?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Good morning, good morning, good afternoon. How are you?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I'm doing fine? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You?
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right? I have a twenty fourteen Volksweg and torig
TDI in his head ted the upgrade to the diesel engine.
I love the car. I got about one hundred and
thirty thousand miles on it. Last month, I noticed a
little drop of oil on the garage floor, and that's
uncharacteristic for it, and I started taking a look and
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I discovered a lot of oil in the it's a
V six engine. Down into V area, there was a
little pool of oil, and I had noticed that I
had started losing a little bit of oil and a
little bit of cool. In did some research, found out
it's characteristics for these engines to have the engine oil
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cool or fail, and sure enough, that's what was going
on with mine. So I jumped in and I replaced
the oil core, cleaned everything up, got it all back together.
It's running really dry. You know, everything looks great, except
I'm starting to get or I have been getting MIL
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indicator whites. And the code i'm getting is a P
zero four zero five. The EGR sensor a circuit low
and I can clear that and if I'm driving, it'll
stay off, but it eventually comes back. And I went
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through and I checked, I took a look at all
the connectors. I can't confirm that they're all good, but
I took a quick run through. But I'm a little
bit stumped right now, and I'm looking for some ideas
on to find out. I can't find a schematic or
a troubleshooting chart for those My meter or my reader
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only reads it doesn't do any diagnostics. So I'm looking
for some ideas.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So as far as the work, when did you replace
that cooler?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
About a month ago?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And then how long ago was it when the light
started coming on?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Right away?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right away? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Yeah, and I might say, I don't know for for
the audience, that cooler is buried, like I said, down.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
In the value of the value of the engine.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Yep, yeah, behind the EGR cooler underneath the intake manifold.
So you got to pull all that stuff out, so
you're disturbing all the all the lines and everything down
in there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, So you obviously you had to unplug the e
g R or whatnot in order to do the job.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And then immediately after that you get the code. Yeah okay.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And then as far as I mean, did you look
like you said, did you look at the connector make
sure none of the pins were you know, bent or
anything like that.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
You actually probably undo probably about a half a dozen
different electrical connectors. I did take a look at a
number of them. I did a reasonable review, but not
an in depth. And those connectors on those Volkswagen and
Audi and Portrait connectors through those little fin wires, and
it's hard to see down into, you know, to them sometime.
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I didn't see any bent pins on the one side
where you have the pins. The pins all look fine,
but I couldn't see down to the receptacle of the pin.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, and you said, you said you did clear the code,
But how long does it take for it to come back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
A couple of drive cycles.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Now, let's say that I have no codes, I start
the engine and I go out to drive. I'll probably
get a code. I can I can vary it by
how I shift the engine, but I'll get a code,
probably within ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, all right, cool, all right, well I would probably
So what I'm going to probably suggest, if you have
time during the week, I have a Audi Volkswagen technician
that is very very good, very very thorough, and could
you give me, excuse me, hold on a second. Would
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you be able to give me a call at my
shop and I will will we'll converse with him and
just try to see if he can try to pinpoint
and get this taken care of for you a little
bit better.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Well, I'd love that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, he's very, very knowledgeable, knows this stuff, and I
think he would be able to help you out pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
And that's the kind of expertise I'm looking for. And
there's just unfortunately not a lot out in the internet
on this.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I know, I know, And like I said, he.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
He's been working on Volkswagen Outi's for eighteen no total.
I mean, he worked at the dealer for seventeen years,
but he's working on him for nineteen years.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And I'll tell you what, I.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Am extremely impressed by his ability and what he can
figure out and what he does. And I really think
that he's the expert that can really help you out.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Like I said, he's at my new shop that that
I just acquired.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And I could give you the number, and it says
you're calling from Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
The school danger though, so I know that area.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, ye, we're where a stone's throw away. I mean
I can look out our front window and staring at Xavier.
So yeah, let me give you the number and and
you give me a call any day through the week,
and I if sometimes I'll step out for you know,
I'm test driving a car or this or that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And if you ask for Dane, of course Dane Donovan.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But if for some reason I'm not there or whatnot,
just say I spoke with him on the radio on Saturday.
He asked me to leave a message. So just leave
a message and I'll call you back. If you have
a pen and paper, I can give you that number.
Go I'm ready Area code five one three seven three
one eight nine eight nine five one three seven three
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one eight nine eight nine. So what's unique is the guy,
the gentleman that I bought the business from, the eight
nine eight nine is Volkswagen. Volkswagen, so that that was
his passion. The guy that started the business, his passion
was Volkswagen. And then and obviously it you know, it
formed into just an all foreign shop. But yeah, so
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you give me a call, and if you can't get
a hold of me, just say, hey, can I please
leave a message. If I don't answer, a gentleman by
the name of Mike will answer and he'll take my
message for me.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay, okay, all right, great, all right, Well thank you
for the phone call. You enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I will you do the same, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Take care, bye bye, all right, so again taking your
phone call. So number to call five one three seven
nine fifty five hundred. Let's go back to the phones
we've got les. Welcome to the car show. How can
I help?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yeah, it's Las like Laslow.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Las okay, Las Low Okay, sorry, gotcha?
Speaker 10 (22:45):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So I've got a two thousand and six Toyota Avalon Limited,
and what it's been doing is it's.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The push button start.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So well, if I push the button, it may ninety
nine percent of the times it'll start up, but every
once in a while it'll take like three or four tries.
And I've even noticed, like if I hang on to
the button, like keep it depressed, it'll run.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
As soon as I let off the button, it'll stop.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The only work I've had done to the car myself,
because obviously it's used.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They did put a number two coil pack in there. Okay,
That's all I've had done.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So when when it won't start, when you push the
button and it won't start, does the car crank at
all or just it just does nothing?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Good, strong crank, and it'll say it's intermittent, so it'll
say two cranks and stop, and then the next then
I wait like ten or twenty seconds, try it again
and it might run, but soon as I let off
the button it'll die.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And then say like the.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Fourth time, the fourth dry, it'll run great, And then
it'll run great for the next three weeks. And then
we're oddly and I tried to keep my eye on
well was it cold weather?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You know it's not.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I don't see any.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Trend, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And then.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Any lights on in the dash or any and when
it won't start, is there any lights that are coming
on or check engine light on or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, when you very first started, of course all the
lights come on, but nothing sustained like check engine. There's
even another one that says, uh something else. There's another
check engine light, but it has to do specifically with
the oil and like just change the oil.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
So just like a maintenance required light or something that's required.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, okay, all right, well cool boy, that's I haven't
heard of that problem.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I haven't seen that problem.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I mean, I think initially obviously, if it's cranking, I
mean you know, initially it could be the fact that
you're holding if you're holding the button down and it'll start,
but then as soon as you shut as soon as
you let go of the button, it shuts off.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm inclined to think that it has.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Something to do with the button, Okay, yeah, because you
know obviously it's intermittent, right, and you know you're you're
having there's no rhyme or reason when it does it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Number two, if you hold the button down, it'll run,
but then the minute you let off, it shuts off.
And if it's cranking, it sounds like it's getting fuel
and the starter's work and everything else. And if you
let go of the button, it shuts off or it
quits dies. I'm i I'm leaning towards the button now. Now,
I'll be honest with you. I don't think i've ever
seen a button go I've never seen one go bad,
(26:04):
per se. But just because I haven't seen it go
bad doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean, but I'm
I'm I'm leaning towards that button's probably got to be bad,
does it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Does it have a little green light.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
On the button?
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
When you touch the brake pedal.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Then it'll go from I think it's orange, from orange
to green and then you can start.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Okay, have you paid attention?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I'm just curious, have you paid attention to her pushing
that button and just seeing, you know, putting your finger
a little maybe below that light, just to see, you know,
if the color changes or the light changes or anything
like that. I think sometimes too they can turn red.
I would maybe try to look at that, but I'm
I'm leaning towards that buttons probably bad. But you know
(26:53):
the problem is is that's one of those things where
there's no check engine light, there's no real indication that
there's a problem. Then you know, as soon as you
let off the button, it shuts off. So again I'm
inclined to think that that button's probably bad.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay, try to yeah, try to try.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
To do like a a hard reset on the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Do you know how to do that?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, so a lot of times too. It's just worth
a shot. If you take both the negative and positive
battery cable ends off, taking both off obviously, negative off first,
positive off second, and you hold both of those cable
ends together, hold them together for about a minute and
(27:37):
basically what that does is kind of like a hard reset. Right,
So if your computer's acting up, what do you do
you restart it? If your phone's acting up, what do
you do you restart it? So by shutting the vehicle off,
you're not really restarting anything.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So by taking both.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Battery cable ends off, holding them together basically restarts every
kind of module switch, every kind of electrical component, because
sometimes you know, that switch may sometime be it might
be like losing its path or whatnot. Again, I don't
I'm not saying that this is going to fix it,
but it's worth a shot. Doesn't cost you anything. It's
not gonna hurt anything. You've got nothing to lose other
(28:13):
than you know your the the one minute that you've
got to hold the battery cable ends together. I would
just try that, see if anything changes, all right, all right,
and you and then you yep, and then you report
back to me. You let me know if anything changes
or if you've got it narrowed down. All right, all right,
we'll do thank you, have a great weekend, all right,
(28:33):
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Speaker 2 (30:30):
We've got Joel. Hey, Joel, Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
I've called a couple of times before, but I got
a theory on your boil consumption on newer cars. Yeah,
and the tire where on toyotas.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Okay, well I'm interested in hearing this.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
Okay, I thought, so, okay, when you're decelerating going down
the hills, et cetera. Maybe even down shifting. I got
paddle shifters on my twenty thirteen camera, and I like
to put the roads like on Stroop and Dorothy here
and Kettering are too steep to just keep hitting your brake.
(31:12):
I don't like to do that, so I downshift, and okay,
when you're when you're selling, when your piston goes down,
it creates a vacuum when your thottle plates closed, right, Well,
the more vacuum you pull, the more it sucks oil
(31:33):
past your rings from the crank case and non on
the cylinder walls up into the air chamber and it
burns oil slowly.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
Yeah, Well, all the newer cars, at least mine automatically
down shift if you've got an in cruise control and
it automatically downshifts in the fourth gear from assists, and
that it's more suction and a constructive oil right past
the rings more.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know, I've never had I've never I mean, it
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I've never had anybody explain to me.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Like that, But that's what that's what I think.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Yeah, I think I'm a you know, I used to
be a garage mechanic, I mean just in my own garage.
But I can't do that stuff anymore. But anyway, I
think about these physics and what happens, and I think
that that the oil gets sucked past. I'm adding a
(32:34):
court of oil every eight hundred miles on my Toyota
Camry with one hundred and forty seven thousand miles, and
my last oil change I had was one hundred and
thirty five. So I've been changing my own oil by
adding the court. I know that's not I know you
think that's terrible, but I can't afford oil change right now.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, I know, I it's it happens a lot, you know,
I I you know. Man, Oh the amount of the
amount of cars nowadays that are burning all as oil.
It's just crazy.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Yeah, you've been You've been saying for months to check
your oil. So I check it regularly and thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Absolutely, it's the most important thing that you can do.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
What do you think about my vacuum theory?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Again, I've never heard anybody explain it that way. I
think you might be onto something there.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Well, I don't have a lot of new cars. I
just got a thirteen camera, but to the newer cars
down shift by themselves. They got electronic transmissions with brains.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean that's the thing is like these cars are
just they're they're just you know, computers on wheels, right,
and they're you know, you don't realize it. And I
mean the card, I mean it does everything for you everything.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I mean, heck, you know some of them even drive
for you. Right, you don't even have to. You don't
even have to.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, there should go to drive to Florida with a
vehicle that had adaptive cruise control and you you want
to talk about, Man, what what a difference if you're
on a long road trip. Adaptive cruise control is the
nicest feature on a vehicle, one of the nicest vehicle.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Nicest features on a vehicle. Man, is it amazing?
Speaker 9 (34:30):
It's so I was hoping you'd say that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I was driving. I was driving it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I would drive at night because what I when I
had I've got three boys, right, so when they were younger,
what I would do is I'd leave.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
At night and I would drive through the night.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And I tell you what I mean, I I'd go
with I'd go hours without touching a brake, pedal or
gas pedal, you know what I mean. Obviously I'm holding
the steering wheel or whatnot. But the fact that I
don't have to keep turning on, turn it off, on off,
it's it's a nice feature.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Oh, you don't have to disengage it or anything, you
know that adaptive cruise control.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
If a car gets over in front of you, it'll
slow the car down by itself, if the car gets right, right, right,
if it gets back right, and then if some if
a car is you know, you're creeping up on a car,
it keeps you in pace with that car. So if
that car is moving sixty five miles an hour and
you are right and you're going seventy five, it'll bring
you back down to sixty five and keep you in
(35:30):
pace and keep you in a safe distance.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
So it's an amazing.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
Does it apply the brakes and doing something?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Oh and.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
It still engages. Okay, well that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (35:46):
So I use it.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
I use the daily, even in kettering and dating and
stuff just down the street because it keeps me from
getting people right. But they are always under they're always
under phones.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Oh I know, Oh I know.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, hey, Joel, I got I gotta get yeah, I
gotta get going. But I appreciate the phone call and
a great theory. So you know, I don't know why
these cars are burn all so so dag on Bat,
I mean it's it's oh man, it's this massive problem.
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Speaker 1 (37:08):
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Speaker 2 (37:18):
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Speaker 2 (37:49):
Here's to you. All right, let's go to the phones
because we are run out of time. We've got Dwayne A. Dayne.
Welcome to the car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 10 (37:56):
Good afternoon, Dane, Good after at six Honda Ridge Line.
I've always had a soft pedal, and I've owned this
truck from brand new, but the pedal's getting softer. I
can't How do I go about, Dane determining if it's
a break booster issue, or even the master.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Cylinder that's sailing, you're getting weaker. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Typically if a booster is bad, right, you're gonna get
a hard pedal, like the petal's really really hard and
the car is not stopping.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
If you're getting a soft pedal, that's usually an indication
that it's a master cylinder issue. Now now there's now
we don't there can be other issues.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Have you had how many miles around the vehicle?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Three top runs like I drive it to Florida tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Good, all right, good good?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I love Honda's Let me ask you something, when was
the last time you had the break fluid flushed.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Thirty thousand, thirty five thousand miles ago?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And was it soft that after the brake fluid was flushed?
Did it still feels soft to you?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, it's I've owned this truck from day one in
May of five, and it's always been soft, right, but
now I'm noticing it's soft or and it concerns me.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There you know again three hundred thousand miles and yeah,
maybe the master center could be could be your your issue.
The other thing if you did have it flushed thirty
thousand miles ago a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
When was the last time the brakes were replaced?
Speaker 5 (39:37):
I replaced all the rotors and all the pads at
the same time, thirty thousand miles ago.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Thirty thousand miles ago.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Yeah, with oh weem product yet, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And obviously when you had the job, when you had
the job done, they didn't tell you anything about I'm
sure they serviced the cowpers to make sure that the
pens were.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Good and they were grease, that they slide really nice.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Sure, I'm about that good good.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So what happens on some vehicles too, if you get
a lower soft pedal, what will happen is the brakes
will kind of wear out right, and the caliber pins
will rustle, will be frozen. So what happens is the
basically the caliber piston has to do all the work
and it has to you know, it no longer slide in.
That piston's coming all the way out, which will cause
(40:21):
it lower kind of soft pedal as well. If the
caliber slides were taken care of properly, and you just
had the brakes for place thirty thousand miles ago, and
you've had the brake fluid flushed, I'm willing to say that.
I mean, we've kind of narrowed it down to probably
(40:42):
probably is the mass cylinder, and again.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
A booster, if.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
It's bad, will cause the pedal to be stiff. So
I'm leaning towards I think your next step would be
to put a master cylinder on it.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
It's I'm assuming it's original, correct, Oh.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah, it's all original? Oh yeah, oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
All right, Okay, I mean that's where I would start.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
If you've it sounds like you've done your homework, You've
done all the break Excuse me, you've done all the breaks.
You've done a break food flush, all the pins, all
the calibers are good, and you're not having a stiff pedal.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You're just having a soft pedal.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
So I would inclined to tell you probably that the
mass or cylinder would be the next step. Now I
will tell you that sometimes air can get trapped.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Does it have abs analog breaks?
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Oh? Sure, from the factory.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
So are you are you having a service at the
dealer or service at an independent shop?
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Oh? Independent shop for sure at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, So I will tell you if if you go
the route of doing the mass or cylinder, and you
still feel as if there is a issue with a
soft pedal. Sometimes air can get trapped in that AB
pump or SLASH module. O. Hey, air can get trapped
in there, and you have to be able to with
a scan tool.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
You're not gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Hopefully the independent shop you're taking it to with a
scan tool go in there and they have to basically
activate the ABS pump or the module itself to try
to get that air out. So we might be dealing
with maybe dealing with something like that. So because the
problem is, yeah, sometimes when you do a break fluid flush,
you know those valves in that ABS module, right, you
know the ABS module the pump really is is designed
(42:30):
to write if you get into it a situation where
you have to slam the brakes. ABS is designed to
pump that pedal and that's what that module SLASH pump does,
and sometimes air gets trapped in there because that pump
is not being activated properly. Now I have seen Now
this is your discretion, and I would do this. I
(42:50):
would do this in a safe environment. But I have
seen where people are having a soft pedal or dealing
with your particular situation, and I've seen it work first handed.
But a lot of times if you go to like
a gravel lot right right obviously.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Where there's nobody around or what, do this in a.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Safe manner, but actually activate the ABS, get into a
gravel lot and slam on those brakes and try to
get that that module to activate, which a lot of
times will then push that air through and get that
air out of the system. So that's kind of like,
that's kind of like to do it yourself for you know,
way of doing it without a scan tool is try
(43:32):
to activate the ABS in a safe manner and get
that air out of the system.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I've seen it work first handed.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I had a gentleman call me and was having that
problem and he did a little bit of research online
and I'm like, I had never heard of it, and
he did it and he goes, damn it fixed my
pedal immediately and I didn't have any more pos So
I've seen it happen.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
So you can try that. Try you know, try that first.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
If it doesn't work, master selling, and if the masters
owner still doesn't take care of it, I would maybe
take it to someone who can use a proper scan
tool that's going to be able to properly bleed the
break system the correct way.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Yeah, bleed a bs pump. All right, your dad's tut you.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, all right, well I appreciate it. Thank you for
the compliment. So well, he has a he has he
has taught me. Well, he's a uh he's been a
very great uh role model, slash mentor slash father.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You know, he's been, he's been all of that. So yeah,
very very blessed. You're right.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Well, cheer on those spoiler makers tonight. We're all cheering
over here.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yeah, yeah, I heard that that game's going on tonight.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
What time? Six nine? All right, well, good luck to you,
all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Here, all right, bye bye, all right, real quick, I
got I don't even you think we've got enough time. Okay,
all right, let's go to John. Hey, Jo, I uh,
I want to get to you. I just I'm got
about a minute and a half. How can I help you?
Speaker 11 (45:05):
Okay, I'll make it quick. I'll mix up your day.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Here.
Speaker 11 (45:08):
I've got a nineteen forty seven all of her tractor.
It's a small tractor. I bought it an auction.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Okay, it was.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
It was restored about ten years ago, and I guess
it sat in the barn and I bought it, and
you know, I'm kind of taking apart, painting up to
what was you know, kind of rusted and this and that,
and taking the sheet metal off and part of the process.
I took the radiator off and looked at it, and
I thought, well, when I have it off, I'll take
it to a radiator shop and have them, I guess,
(45:37):
flush it, clean it whatever, make sure it's good. But
then I'm thinking, why I have all that apart? Should
I flush out the motor somehow while I can get
to it real good? Or is there a nut or
is there a way to do that or cay wise
or just stick a hose down it or.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, So what I would recko them?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Then you do is take the Uh I'm sorry, I
don't know a ton about tractors, but it's I would
assume it's got a Does it have a thermostat?
Speaker 11 (46:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Okay, So what I would do is I would get
a thermostat for I would take the thermostat out and
then I would force I would maybe uh, you know
c l R.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Uh you've heard of c l R. Right, Maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Fill the block with CLR and then I would do
a flush. Like I said, take that thermostat out so.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
That that that that that.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That CLR and that water are going through the whole
block to try to it wouldn't hurt, but I would
use c l R. Take the thermostat out so you know,
obviously with the thermo sat in there, it's not gonna
do that unless it gets up to operating temperature. But
take it out so that you can get that constant
flow through that block.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
And the only chemical I would recommend is c l R.
Speaker 11 (46:50):
All right, does the motor have to be running to
do that?
Speaker 2 (46:54):
No, sir, nope, No, sir nope. All right, all right,
we were out of time. Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Have a great weekend for those golfers out there. It's
Master's Week, one of my favorite weeks of the year.
But I will be back next Saturday to answer all
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What baby song you?
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Maybe you want to roll my windows down and close.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
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entire Center, and I'm here every Saturday from one to
two to take all of your car questions. The number
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That number again, five to one, three seven four nine
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car question you might have. So I love that intro.
That's my favorite intro. So save that. I love that
intro so uh so uh. Most of you might be
out in the yard or maybe tinkering with the car
because there's this little thing that's out currently today and
that's the sun. It is Saturday, and it's a gorgeous,
(01:11):
absolutely gorgeous day. So a little chili, but you know,
not nothing that you know, you can't just throw a
light jacket on and do some yard work. My wife
were My wife and I were out in the yard
a little bit this morning. I was actually trying to
uh get get my pedal bike out. So we're gonna
try to with my three boys, me, my wife and
(01:34):
the three boys. We're gonna try to get get ourselves together,
get get some bikes and maybe try to do the
summer you know, go up and down the bike trail.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So the boys are all old enough that they can
ride their bikes by themselves, you know, there's no training
wheels or anything like that. And I was like, you
know what that's that It sounds like a lot of
fun for me. I don't know, halfway through it, I'll
probably regret it, but you know, but I'm like, God,
So I dropped my bike off and have a service
because it's been sitting in the shed for I don't know,
I'm teen years and tire are all flat and whatnot.
(02:05):
But you know, I dropped it off and kind of
find found myself in the position that I usually I'm
usually at the other end of it, right, So usually
people come into me they've got a car problem, maybe
one car, you know, once they're car tuned up and
don't necessarily know the process. So I kind of just
walked in there and and I said, hey, I don't
want to know which process is. But I said, I've
(02:26):
got a bike i'd kind of like to have like
maybe looked.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Over, tuned up or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
And and I said, you know, how far out are you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do you take walk ins?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And and uh so kind of reminded me of what
I you know, just being on the other end of it,
because you know, you just don't know every kind of
shops a little bit different, right And it's kind of
a mom and pop bicycle shop. It's called Gym's Bicycle
Shop right there in deal Deer Park Delanvale area. And
you know that they've always been great to me and
I've been there a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But anyways, you know, again just found myself.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, I can you know, I can work on
my bike, but you know, I always try to give
back to the to the community as well.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, can I fix my bike? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do I necessarily have the time, not necessarily not not really.
So it's just kind of one of those things where
take it to a local, you know, local repair shop. Again,
I like to always give back to the community, just
like people do with me.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right So, but.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Anyways, it was it was a very crazy, busy, busy
week some of the service though, has been a little soft,
and I know we're kind of in that transition period,
right and we just got I would I would, you know,
when I dropped my bike off today, the lady was like, yeah,
we're probably like eight to ten days out before we
can get to it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I said, Okay, that's fine, you know, not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Don't mind, because I got it in earlier enough, right,
But far too often we get to the point where,
you know, we hit those you know now, I'm telling
you it's it's right around the corner. We're gonna get
those ninety degree days and you're gonna be smeltering and
you're not gonna have air conditioning, and then you're gonna
be calling me and I'm gonna say, hey, well, you know,
(04:09):
we're two weeks out and you're like, I can't drive
my car for the next two weeks, but no air
conditioning right now. I will tell you with like as
an example for the air conditioning, if it's a really
cold morning, there's not much that we can do. But
once it starts getting into the sixties and seventies and
you kind of feel like it's getting a little steamy,
(04:31):
that's when you need to bring it in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's when you need to schedule it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Call us up and schedule it so we can start
taking a look at that stuff before your summer break.
Far too often, and you know, I'm sometimes guilty of
it myself, we wait till the last minute. Right you're
leaving for a trip on Monday, and you call, You're
calling me on Friday. I need to get my car
in because I'm leaving on Monday, and we can't do
(04:55):
it right. And I want to get I want to
get to everybody's car. I want to service everybody's car.
So again, I'm telling you it's right around the corner.
We're gonna start getting those hot temperatures and you've got
to start thinking about what you need to do to
get your car serviced for the summer. If you've taken
a big summer trip, you want to get there. You
(05:16):
want to get there in now. You get in there now,
because again a lot of times, you know, there's sometimes
I mean, I mean, you know you've got parts that
I can't get.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know, they're on back order.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I've got a vehicle at my new shop right now
that the convertible top's not working. Now they got it
in early enough, but the parts on back order, it's
like four to five weeks, right, so that should put
them out about the time where the convertible top can
go down, right, because they got it in on time.
So we got to have the conversation that this is
when we need to start thinking about the summer summer
(05:51):
trips and getting the car ready for summer tires, brakes,
oil changes, and air conditioning, you know, getting your battery checked.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Phone call from a colleague and a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yesterday his mother in law or his mother was picking
his daughter up from school and she just pulled up
to pick her up and shut the car off and boom,
battery is dead. I mean the car didn't even sit
for a long period of time. She literally was in
line to pick to pick his daughter up, and she
went to start the car and it was dead. Dead
(06:23):
is a door now?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He called me. Luckily I was close by and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I ran over there and when I got there, the
battery only had six volts.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And she's like, what didn't really give me any warnings? No,
they most time they don't. Some will do some will
crank slow, or you can get the battery tested and
I can test and say yeah, it did test bad
and you need to replace it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
She thought that she hadn't replaced the battery at all,
And I'm like, well, you know, batteries again, they only
last you know, three to four years, that's the average
life of a battery in this region, right, So, or
too often I have the conversation where people go, well,
I just replaced that, you know, five years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well that's that's about all you get at them.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It depends on how long it sits, how long you
drive it, and the brand in the in the price.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So, these are all things that you need to think
about going into these these summer months. A lot of
times when we get extremely cold temperatures that will shock
a battery, When we get extremely high temperatures that will
shock a battery. You know, we get into we get
into ninety five plus one hundred degree days. You know,
that puts a lot of stress on starters, It puts
a lot of stress on alt ares, puts a lot
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of stress on batteries, you know. So these are things
that we need to start thinking about again if you're
going to take a road trip for the summer. So
because again we're in spring, and it's it's not going
to be it's not going to be too far away
before we get those hot temperature. So all right again,
I'm taking your phone calls and I recall five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. Let's go, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We have Dave. Hey, Dave, welcome to the car show.
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Dan?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
How's a go?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I called you a couple of weeks ago in this
twenty eight seven Cheap Liberty one hundred and seventy miles
about the transmission and the filter.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, I went ahead.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
And changed yet and it worked out real good. It's
jumping off the line.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now, really good. Good?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So you just did you do the correct me if
I'm wrong, because I you know, I talked to so
many people, but we were discussing as far as doing
a service or doing a draining fill. Did you end
up just replacing the filter and what was in the pan? Right?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And you noticed a big difference.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Oh yeah, it doesn't hesitate when you start up from
the dead stout if it's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Okay, good.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Another question.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thanks for the update. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Yeah, okay, on a twenty four Chevy Trailblazer six cylinder.
It's got like one hundred and seventy five thousand miles
on it, there's a ride knock. And is it best?
Is it cheaper to rebuild those engines or just get
a new engine?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Just get a new engine?
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, because a lot of times, you know, it's it's
just so expensive. It's so pricey because not only are
you paying to have the engine removed, but then you're
paying to have it tore down and everything replaced, and
and and you know, I mean, we just did one
a new at my new Shot. We just did one
(09:23):
on a on a Audi that needed some valves and
we ended up just it was burning oil. We ended
up rebuilding it. But the reason we did that was
a new one wasn't an option, and uh, a used
one I didn't recommend because again, the Volkswagens burn oil
quite a bit, so really the best option was just
to rebuild it. That might make sense on a particular car,
(09:45):
like you know, like an Audi or whatnot, but on
the Trailblazer I.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Would probably just put a a re manufactured or a
used one in it. Preferably remanufactured.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I would look at Jasper Jasper Engines and Transmissions.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's who i'd recommend.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Okay, what would be like a ballpark figure on something
like that? All right, man, Because they used ones, they're
like four to five hundred. But to put him in
thirty hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, I would say you're probably at five to six
grand probably to put a re manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It might even be seven. It's a lot. It's it's
it's a lot.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Okay, all right, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Dan, Hey, thanks for the call. You have a great day.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
All right again, we're taking your phone calls and never
to call five one three seven fifty five hundred. That
number gain five to one three seven fifty five hundred.
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your car questions.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The number to call five one, three, seven four nine
fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto Entire Center.
Past couple of weeks I kind of mentioned to you
we had a new addition to the Donovan Entire family
as well, not the family, the family business.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I should say.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No more kids for me, but but yeah, so we've
now you know, you can go to donovantire dot com
and find your nearest location. But I recently and we
kind of made the announcement earlier this week. We sent
out a big newsletter. But there was a repair shop
that had been been that had been in business for
(12:10):
thirty four years. It was called Auto Foreign. It was
at the corner of Montgomery Road in Dana, Okay. And
a great business, great customer base. Absolutely, Man, what a
great group of customers. They really Uh the owner, he
did a phenomenal job running the business. And uh, you know, again,
(12:32):
I'm very happy to announce that Donovan's has purchased Auto
Foreign in it's just outside of Norwood. Again I call
it Norwood, but there's literally a set of train tracks
that divides us from Norwood. But yeah, a corner of
Montgomery Road and Dana, right across from XAVIW Xavier University.
(12:55):
And again they did you know they work on they
worked on all foreign vehicles. Now, of course, with it
being Donovan's, we we will continue, say grave to provide
the same great service that Auto Foreign did provided. And uh,
just just a new name, that's it. And man, I've
got a great group of guys and uh, we're kind
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of in a little bit of that transition period from
going to Auto Foreign to Donovan's Auto Form.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But again, uh, we did purchase it.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
The they were looking to you know, uh, the owner
was looking to retire and I want the Donovan brand
to continue to grow, and I want to continue to
you know, fix cars. Uh, this is a passion of
mine and my only passion, one of my only passions
was to run the family business and uh, you know,
(13:45):
work for Donovan's Tire. I mean, it's it's what I do,
It's what I love, and it's you know, what I
will continue to do. And again I I I truly
do love and enjoy what I do. You know, there
there are there ups, and there are the good days
and the bad days, right, you know, but I mean
that's life.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
But I could say at the end of the day,
and I most people can't say this, but you know,
I never dread going to work.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You know, I really do enjoy what I do.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
So and that's why I'm here every Saturday to answer
your car questions because I want to continue that and
I want to continue to be able to help your
car and fix your car and help you out in
the process.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I a gentlemen call me last week.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Unfortunately, he was calling about a starting issue and I
was actually hoping if he's listening, hoping to have him
call in because I'd like to get an update. So
I was trying to meet up with him on Wednesday
because he was gonna he had it at the dealer.
And again I'm not picking on dealers, but the information
he was given me wasn't adding up, and he was
(14:45):
meeting with the dealer to figure out what what the
what he was, what the next step was. And unfortunately
I couldn't make it. I just just too busy. But
you know, that's what I'm here to do is try
to help you and guide you through whatever car problem
you may have, and uh, and just give you the
best information that I possibly can do. I know everything now,
can I fix every single car now?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But if I can.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Help you and guide you in any way, shape or form,
that's what I'm here for. So again, then number to
call five one three fifty five hundred. Let's go to
the phones. We've got Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
How can I help Hi?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Dane?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Good morning, good morning, good afternoon. How are you?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I'm doing fine? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You?
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right? I have a twenty fourteen Volksweg and torig
TDI in his head ted the upgrade to the diesel engine.
I love the car. I got about one hundred and
thirty thousand miles on it. Last month, I noticed a
little drop of oil on the garage floor, and that's
uncharacteristic for it, and I started taking a look and
(15:55):
I discovered a lot of oil in the it's a
V six engine. Down into V area, there was a
little pool of oil, and I had noticed that I
had started losing a little bit of oil and a
little bit of cool. In did some research, found out
it's characteristics for these engines to have the engine oil
(16:16):
cool or fail, and sure enough, that's what was going
on with mine. So I jumped in and I replaced
the oil core, cleaned everything up, got it all back together.
It's running really dry. You know, everything looks great, except
I'm starting to get or I have been getting MIL
(16:39):
indicator whites. And the code i'm getting is a P
zero four zero five. The EGR sensor a circuit low
and I can clear that and if I'm driving, it'll
stay off, but it eventually comes back. And I went
(16:59):
through and I checked, I took a look at all
the connectors. I can't confirm that they're all good, but
I took a quick run through. But I'm a little
bit stumped right now, and I'm looking for some ideas
on to find out. I can't find a schematic or
a troubleshooting chart for those My meter or my reader
(17:21):
only reads it doesn't do any diagnostics. So I'm looking
for some ideas.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So as far as the work, when did you replace
that cooler?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
About a month ago?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And then how long ago was it when the light
started coming on?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Right away?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Right away? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Yeah, and I might say, I don't know for for
the audience, that cooler is buried, like I said, down.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
In the value of the value of the engine.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Yep, yeah, behind the EGR cooler underneath the intake manifold.
So you got to pull all that stuff out, so
you're disturbing all the all the lines and everything down
in there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, So you obviously you had to unplug the e
g R or whatnot in order to do the job.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And then immediately after that you get the code. Yeah okay.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And then as far as I mean, did you look
like you said, did you look at the connector make
sure none of the pins were you know, bent or
anything like that.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
You actually probably undo probably about a half a dozen
different electrical connectors. I did take a look at a
number of them. I did a reasonable review, but not
an in depth. And those connectors on those Volkswagen and
Audi and Portrait connectors through those little fin wires, and
it's hard to see down into, you know, to them sometime.
(18:51):
I didn't see any bent pins on the one side
where you have the pins. The pins all look fine,
but I couldn't see down to the receptacle of the pin.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay, and you said, you said you did clear the code,
But how long does it take for it to come back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
A couple of drive cycles.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Now, let's say that I have no codes, I start
the engine and I go out to drive. I'll probably
get a code. I can I can vary it by
how I shift the engine, but I'll get a code,
probably within ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, all right, cool, all right, well I would probably
So what I'm going to probably suggest, if you have
time during the week, I have a Audi Volkswagen technician
that is very very good, very very thorough, and could
you give me, excuse me, hold on a second. Would
(19:54):
you be able to give me a call at my
shop and I will will we'll converse with him and
just try to see if he can try to pinpoint
and get this taken care of for you a little
bit better.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Well, I'd love that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, he's very, very knowledgeable, knows this stuff, and I
think he would be able to help you out pretty quickly.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
And that's the kind of expertise I'm looking for. And
there's just unfortunately not a lot out in the internet
on this.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I know, I know, And like I said, he.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
He's been working on Volkswagen Outi's for eighteen no total.
I mean, he worked at the dealer for seventeen years,
but he's working on him for nineteen years.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And I'll tell you what, I.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Am extremely impressed by his ability and what he can
figure out and what he does. And I really think
that he's the expert that can really help you out.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Like I said, he's at my new shop that that
I just acquired.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And I could give you the number, and it says
you're calling from Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
The school danger though, so I know that area.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, ye, we're where a stone's throw away. I mean
I can look out our front window and staring at Xavier.
So yeah, let me give you the number and and
you give me a call any day through the week,
and I if sometimes I'll step out for you know,
I'm test driving a car or this or that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And if you ask for Dane, of course Dane Donovan.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But if for some reason I'm not there or whatnot,
just say I spoke with him on the radio on Saturday.
He asked me to leave a message. So just leave
a message and I'll call you back. If you have
a pen and paper, I can give you that number.
Go I'm ready Area code five one three seven three
one eight nine eight nine five one three seven three
(21:45):
one eight nine eight nine. So what's unique is the guy,
the gentleman that I bought the business from, the eight
nine eight nine is Volkswagen. Volkswagen, so that that was
his passion. The guy that started the business, his passion
was Volkswagen. And then and obviously it you know, it
formed into just an all foreign shop. But yeah, so
(22:07):
you give me a call, and if you can't get
a hold of me, just say, hey, can I please
leave a message. If I don't answer, a gentleman by
the name of Mike will answer and he'll take my
message for me.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay, okay, all right, great, all right, Well thank you
for the phone call. You enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I will you do the same, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Take care, bye bye, all right, so again taking your
phone call. So number to call five one three seven
nine fifty five hundred. Let's go back to the phones
we've got les. Welcome to the car show. How can
I help?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yeah, it's Las like Laslow.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Las okay, Las Low Okay, sorry, gotcha?
Speaker 10 (22:45):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So I've got a two thousand and six Toyota Avalon Limited,
and what it's been doing is it's.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The push button start.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So well, if I push the button, it may ninety
nine percent of the times it'll start up, but every
once in a while it'll take like three or four tries.
And I've even noticed, like if I hang on to
the button, like keep it depressed, it'll run.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
As soon as I let off the button, it'll stop.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The only work I've had done to the car myself,
because obviously it's used.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They did put a number two coil pack in there. Okay,
That's all I've had done.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So when when it won't start, when you push the
button and it won't start, does the car crank at
all or just it just does nothing?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Good, strong crank, and it'll say it's intermittent, so it'll
say two cranks and stop, and then the next then
I wait like ten or twenty seconds, try it again
and it might run, but soon as I let off
the button it'll die.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And then say like the.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Fourth time, the fourth dry, it'll run great, And then
it'll run great for the next three weeks. And then
we're oddly and I tried to keep my eye on
well was it cold weather?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You know it's not.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I don't see any.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Trend, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And then.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Any lights on in the dash or any and when
it won't start, is there any lights that are coming
on or check engine light on or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, when you very first started, of course all the
lights come on, but nothing sustained like check engine. There's
even another one that says, uh something else. There's another
check engine light, but it has to do specifically with
the oil and like just change the oil.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
So just like a maintenance required light or something that's required.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, okay, all right, well cool boy, that's I haven't
heard of that problem.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I haven't seen that problem.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I mean, I think initially obviously, if it's cranking, I
mean you know, initially it could be the fact that
you're holding if you're holding the button down and it'll start,
but then as soon as you shut as soon as
you let go of the button, it shuts off.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm inclined to think that it has.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Something to do with the button, Okay, yeah, because you
know obviously it's intermittent, right, and you know you're you're
having there's no rhyme or reason when it does it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Number two, if you hold the button down, it'll run,
but then the minute you let off, it shuts off.
And if it's cranking, it sounds like it's getting fuel
and the starter's work and everything else. And if you
let go of the button, it shuts off or it
quits dies. I'm i I'm leaning towards the button now. Now,
I'll be honest with you. I don't think i've ever
seen a button go I've never seen one go bad,
(26:04):
per se. But just because I haven't seen it go
bad doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean, but I'm
I'm I'm leaning towards that button's probably got to be bad,
does it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Does it have a little green light.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
On the button?
Speaker 9 (26:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
When you touch the brake pedal.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Then it'll go from I think it's orange, from orange
to green and then you can start.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Okay, have you paid attention?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I'm just curious, have you paid attention to her pushing
that button and just seeing, you know, putting your finger
a little maybe below that light, just to see, you know,
if the color changes or the light changes or anything
like that. I think sometimes too they can turn red.
I would maybe try to look at that, but I'm
I'm leaning towards that buttons probably bad. But you know
(26:53):
the problem is is that's one of those things where
there's no check engine light, there's no real indication that
there's a problem. Then you know, as soon as you
let off the button, it shuts off. So again I'm
inclined to think that that button's probably bad.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay, try to yeah, try to try.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
To do like a a hard reset on the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Do you know how to do that?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I do not?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, so a lot of times too. It's just worth
a shot. If you take both the negative and positive
battery cable ends off, taking both off obviously, negative off first,
positive off second, and you hold both of those cable
ends together, hold them together for about a minute and
(27:37):
basically what that does is kind of like a hard reset. Right,
So if your computer's acting up, what do you do
you restart it? If your phone's acting up, what do
you do you restart it? So by shutting the vehicle off,
you're not really restarting anything.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So by taking both.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Battery cable ends off, holding them together basically restarts every
kind of module switch, every kind of electrical component, because
sometimes you know, that switch may sometime be it might
be like losing its path or whatnot. Again, I don't
I'm not saying that this is going to fix it,
but it's worth a shot. Doesn't cost you anything. It's
not gonna hurt anything. You've got nothing to lose other
(28:13):
than you know your the the one minute that you've
got to hold the battery cable ends together. I would
just try that, see if anything changes, all right, all right,
and you and then you yep, and then you report
back to me. You let me know if anything changes
or if you've got it narrowed down. All right, all right,
we'll do thank you, have a great weekend, all right,
(28:33):
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Speaker 2 (30:30):
We've got Joel. Hey, Joel, Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
I've called a couple of times before, but I got
a theory on your boil consumption on newer cars. Yeah,
and the tire where on toyotas.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Okay, well I'm interested in hearing this.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
Okay, I thought, so, okay, when you're decelerating going down
the hills, et cetera. Maybe even down shifting. I got
paddle shifters on my twenty thirteen camera, and I like
to put the roads like on Stroop and Dorothy here
and Kettering are too steep to just keep hitting your brake.
(31:12):
I don't like to do that, so I downshift, and okay,
when you're when you're selling, when your piston goes down,
it creates a vacuum when your thottle plates closed, right, Well,
the more vacuum you pull, the more it sucks oil
(31:33):
past your rings from the crank case and non on
the cylinder walls up into the air chamber and it
burns oil slowly.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
Yeah, Well, all the newer cars, at least mine automatically
down shift if you've got an in cruise control and
it automatically downshifts in the fourth gear from assists, and
that it's more suction and a constructive oil right past
the rings more.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know, I've never had I've never I mean, it
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I've never had anybody explain to me.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Like that, But that's what that's what I think.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Yeah, I think I'm a you know, I used to
be a garage mechanic, I mean just in my own garage.
But I can't do that stuff anymore. But anyway, I
think about these physics and what happens, and I think
that that the oil gets sucked past. I'm adding a
(32:34):
court of oil every eight hundred miles on my Toyota
Camry with one hundred and forty seven thousand miles, and
my last oil change I had was one hundred and
thirty five. So I've been changing my own oil by
adding the court. I know that's not I know you
think that's terrible, but I can't afford oil change right now.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, I know, I it's it happens a lot, you know,
I I you know. Man, Oh the amount of the
amount of cars nowadays that are burning all as oil.
It's just crazy.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Yeah, you've been You've been saying for months to check
your oil. So I check it regularly and thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Absolutely, it's the most important thing that you can do.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
What do you think about my vacuum theory?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Again, I've never heard anybody explain it that way. I
think you might be onto something there.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Well, I don't have a lot of new cars. I
just got a thirteen camera, but to the newer cars
down shift by themselves. They got electronic transmissions with brains.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean that's the thing is like these cars are
just they're they're just you know, computers on wheels, right,
and they're you know, you don't realize it. And I
mean the card, I mean it does everything for you everything.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I mean, heck, you know some of them even drive
for you. Right, you don't even have to. You don't
even have to.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, there should go to drive to Florida with a
vehicle that had adaptive cruise control and you you want
to talk about, Man, what what a difference if you're
on a long road trip. Adaptive cruise control is the
nicest feature on a vehicle, one of the nicest vehicle.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Nicest features on a vehicle. Man, is it amazing?
Speaker 9 (34:30):
It's so I was hoping you'd say that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I was driving. I was driving it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I would drive at night because what I when I
had I've got three boys, right, so when they were younger,
what I would do is I'd leave.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
At night and I would drive through the night.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And I tell you what I mean, I I'd go
with I'd go hours without touching a brake, pedal or
gas pedal, you know what I mean. Obviously I'm holding
the steering wheel or whatnot. But the fact that I
don't have to keep turning on, turn it off, on off,
it's it's a nice feature.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Oh, you don't have to disengage it or anything, you
know that adaptive cruise control.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
If a car gets over in front of you, it'll
slow the car down by itself, if the car gets right, right, right,
if it gets back right, and then if some if
a car is you know, you're creeping up on a car,
it keeps you in pace with that car. So if
that car is moving sixty five miles an hour and
you are right and you're going seventy five, it'll bring
you back down to sixty five and keep you in
(35:30):
pace and keep you in a safe distance.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
So it's an amazing.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
Does it apply the brakes and doing something?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Oh and.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
It still engages. Okay, well that's the way to go.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (35:46):
So I use it.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
I use the daily, even in kettering and dating and
stuff just down the street because it keeps me from
getting people right. But they are always under they're always
under phones.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Oh I know, Oh I know.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, hey, Joel, I got I gotta get yeah, I
gotta get going. But I appreciate the phone call and
a great theory. So you know, I don't know why
these cars are burn all so so dag on Bat,
I mean it's it's oh man, it's this massive problem.
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because we are run out of time. We've got Dwayne A. Dayne.
Welcome to the car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 10 (37:56):
Good afternoon, Dane, Good after at six Honda Ridge Line.
I've always had a soft pedal, and I've owned this
truck from brand new, but the pedal's getting softer. I
can't How do I go about, Dane determining if it's
a break booster issue, or even the master.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Cylinder that's sailing, you're getting weaker. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Typically if a booster is bad, right, you're gonna get
a hard pedal, like the petal's really really hard and
the car is not stopping.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
If you're getting a soft pedal, that's usually an indication
that it's a master cylinder issue. Now now there's now
we don't there can be other issues.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Have you had how many miles around the vehicle?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Three top runs like I drive it to Florida tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Good, all right, good good?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I love Honda's Let me ask you something, when was
the last time you had the break fluid flushed.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Thirty thousand, thirty five thousand miles ago?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And was it soft that after the brake fluid was flushed?
Did it still feels soft to you?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, it's I've owned this truck from day one in
May of five, and it's always been soft, right, but
now I'm noticing it's soft or and it concerns me.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There you know again three hundred thousand miles and yeah,
maybe the master center could be could be your your issue.
The other thing if you did have it flushed thirty
thousand miles ago a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
When was the last time the brakes were replaced?
Speaker 5 (39:37):
I replaced all the rotors and all the pads at
the same time, thirty thousand miles ago.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Thirty thousand miles ago.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Yeah, with oh weem product yet, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And obviously when you had the job, when you had
the job done, they didn't tell you anything about I'm
sure they serviced the cowpers to make sure that the
pens were.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
Good and they were grease, that they slide really nice.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Sure, I'm about that good good.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So what happens on some vehicles too, if you get
a lower soft pedal, what will happen is the brakes
will kind of wear out right, and the caliber pins
will rustle, will be frozen. So what happens is the
basically the caliber piston has to do all the work
and it has to you know, it no longer slide in.
That piston's coming all the way out, which will cause
(40:21):
it lower kind of soft pedal as well. If the
caliber slides were taken care of properly, and you just
had the brakes for place thirty thousand miles ago, and
you've had the brake fluid flushed, I'm willing to say that.
I mean, we've kind of narrowed it down to probably
(40:42):
probably is the mass cylinder, and again.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
A booster, if.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
It's bad, will cause the pedal to be stiff. So
I'm leaning towards I think your next step would be
to put a master cylinder on it.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
It's I'm assuming it's original, correct, Oh.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah, it's all original? Oh yeah, oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
All right, Okay, I mean that's where I would start.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
If you've it sounds like you've done your homework, You've
done all the break Excuse me, you've done all the breaks.
You've done a break food flush, all the pins, all
the calibers are good, and you're not having a stiff pedal.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You're just having a soft pedal.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
So I would inclined to tell you probably that the
mass or cylinder would be the next step. Now I
will tell you that sometimes air can get trapped.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Does it have abs analog breaks?
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Oh? Sure, from the factory.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
So are you are you having a service at the
dealer or service at an independent shop?
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Oh? Independent shop for sure at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, So I will tell you if if you go
the route of doing the mass or cylinder, and you
still feel as if there is a issue with a
soft pedal. Sometimes air can get trapped in that AB
pump or SLASH module. O. Hey, air can get trapped
in there, and you have to be able to with
a scan tool.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
You're not gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Hopefully the independent shop you're taking it to with a
scan tool go in there and they have to basically
activate the ABS pump or the module itself to try
to get that air out. So we might be dealing
with maybe dealing with something like that. So because the
problem is, yeah, sometimes when you do a break fluid flush,
you know those valves in that ABS module, right, you
know the ABS module the pump really is is designed
(42:30):
to write if you get into it a situation where
you have to slam the brakes. ABS is designed to
pump that pedal and that's what that module SLASH pump does,
and sometimes air gets trapped in there because that pump
is not being activated properly. Now I have seen Now
this is your discretion, and I would do this. I
(42:50):
would do this in a safe environment. But I have
seen where people are having a soft pedal or dealing
with your particular situation, and I've seen it work first handed.
But a lot of times if you go to like
a gravel lot right right obviously.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Where there's nobody around or what, do this in a.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Safe manner, but actually activate the ABS, get into a
gravel lot and slam on those brakes and try to
get that that module to activate, which a lot of
times will then push that air through and get that
air out of the system. So that's kind of like,
that's kind of like to do it yourself for you know,
way of doing it without a scan tool is try
(43:32):
to activate the ABS in a safe manner and get
that air out of the system.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I've seen it work first handed.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I had a gentleman call me and was having that
problem and he did a little bit of research online
and I'm like, I had never heard of it, and
he did it and he goes, damn it fixed my
pedal immediately and I didn't have any more pos So
I've seen it happen.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
So you can try that. Try you know, try that first.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
If it doesn't work, master selling, and if the masters
owner still doesn't take care of it, I would maybe
take it to someone who can use a proper scan
tool that's going to be able to properly bleed the
break system the correct way.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Yeah, bleed a bs pump. All right, your dad's tut you.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, all right, well I appreciate it. Thank you for
the compliment. So well, he has a he has he
has taught me. Well, he's a uh he's been a
very great uh role model, slash mentor slash father.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You know, he's been, he's been all of that. So yeah,
very very blessed. You're right.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Well, cheer on those spoiler makers tonight. We're all cheering
over here.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yeah, yeah, I heard that that game's going on tonight.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
What time? Six nine? All right, well, good luck to you,
all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Here, all right, bye bye, all right, real quick, I
got I don't even you think we've got enough time. Okay,
all right, let's go to John. Hey, Jo, I uh,
I want to get to you. I just I'm got
about a minute and a half. How can I help you?
Speaker 11 (45:05):
Okay, I'll make it quick. I'll mix up your day.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Here.
Speaker 11 (45:08):
I've got a nineteen forty seven all of her tractor.
It's a small tractor. I bought it an auction.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Okay, it was.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
It was restored about ten years ago, and I guess
it sat in the barn and I bought it, and
you know, I'm kind of taking apart, painting up to
what was you know, kind of rusted and this and that,
and taking the sheet metal off and part of the process.
I took the radiator off and looked at it, and
I thought, well, when I have it off, I'll take
it to a radiator shop and have them, I guess,
(45:37):
flush it, clean it whatever, make sure it's good. But
then I'm thinking, why I have all that apart? Should
I flush out the motor somehow while I can get
to it real good? Or is there a nut or
is there a way to do that or cay wise
or just stick a hose down it or.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, So what I would recko them?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Then you do is take the Uh I'm sorry, I
don't know a ton about tractors, but it's I would
assume it's got a Does it have a thermostat?
Speaker 11 (46:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Okay, So what I would do is I would get
a thermostat for I would take the thermostat out and
then I would force I would maybe uh, you know
c l R.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Uh you've heard of c l R. Right, Maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Fill the block with CLR and then I would do
a flush. Like I said, take that thermostat out so.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
That that that that that.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That CLR and that water are going through the whole
block to try to it wouldn't hurt, but I would
use c l R. Take the thermostat out so you know,
obviously with the thermo sat in there, it's not gonna
do that unless it gets up to operating temperature. But
take it out so that you can get that constant
flow through that block.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
And the only chemical I would recommend is c l R.
Speaker 11 (46:50):
All right, does the motor have to be running to
do that?
Speaker 2 (46:54):
No, sir, nope, No, sir nope. All right, all right,
we were out of time. Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Have a great weekend for those golfers out there. It's
Master's Week, one of my favorite weeks of the year.
But I will be back next Saturday to answer all
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