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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm crazy, got a Mercury.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ma Chevy to the Liddy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
So good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I
am Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions. The
number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Dealing with a little bit of a distraction here. I
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can't cut my finger on the way in here, trying
to get my headphones out of my truck and somehow
cut my finger and can't get stop bleeding. So, uh,
it's always interesting, it's always something, and I'm always busy something.
But again, I'm here every Saturday again Dane Donovan from
Donovan's Auto entire Center. And uh, I'm here every Saturday
to answer all your car questions. Any question you may
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have that pertains your vehicle, and I might not have, uh,
you know some I mean we don't do any type
of transmission work, but you know there's always somebody that
can refer you to.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And you know, again, I love what I do.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I enjoy what I do, and I've I've told you
guys this time and time again, but you're it's it's
it's always constantly evolving it's always changing and I'm always learning,
which I which I enjoy. I think it's one of
the best parts about the job is no day is
the same.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, it might be the same car issues, but every car,
every customer, every situation is in noise and whatnot is different. Right,
there's no it's it's just not a very I don't know,
it's it's it's hard to explain, but it is what makes.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The job, part of the job enjoyable. Yes, I enjoy cars,
Yes I like cars.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm not a car collector or anything like that, but
I really really do enjoy trying to help people out
and get their car fixed and get them back out
on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's that's all we're here for.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A Donovan's Atto entire center is to help you out
and get your car back out on the road so
you can get you you know, get yourself to work,
get your kids to sports, which that's what we're doing
all day today, which is typically every Saturday and Sunday
for us. As you know, I've got three boys, they're
all in sports. My son had a basketball game this morning,
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and then my oldest son has a basketball game at six.
So but again that's why you need the car, That's
why you need you know, you needed to perform at
its top and make sure they can get you from
point A to point B. And again, as you may know,
these cars are not getting any cheaper to purchase. They're
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very expensive, so you want to make sure that you
protect your investment and make sure that you're getting your
car serviced regularly. Now again, I know this is I
know we get busy, and believe me, I mean I'm
busy myself and a lot of time. I mean, you know,
I do everything I can to to you know, get
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to my you know, get to my vehicles or whatnot.
But sometimes I'll get my wife's car and you know
it's overdue for a woral change, and you know, we
got to get that done right. It's important. These things
are important, especially going into the Winner right. And I
can tell you from this week alone, we were absolutely
at all of our locations were absolutely slammed with cars
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that were broken down and a lot of heating issues,
a lot of battery issues, a lot of not starting issues.
Because as you know, this week it was extremely cold
and and I've been kind of leading up to this
like this is the time that we need to start
thinking about getting this car.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And now I know it's Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I know it's thinking about the holidays and what you
need to do to get the get through the holidays,
but you need to also make sure that you can
get from point A to point B, get to work,
and make sure that you know you're not, you know,
dealing with an issue where your car won't start and
now you're you know, scrambling to try to get to work,
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get to get to sports or whatnot. And it's it's
just it's it's very important. Now again, we don't we
can't always predict when the car is going to break down.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean I can test your battery today and it'd
be dead as a door nail tomorrow. That can't happen.
But nine out of ten times there will be signs.
We can test your battery, and we test it for free.
We don't charge you anything. Come by, we'll test your
battery and uh, if you need a battery, we'll put
a battery in it for you. And that's this is
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the time of year to do it, I'm telling you.
And if I had multiple cars this week, multiple cars
with heating issues or over heating issues, and again because
the cold breaks these things down. So it would be
important to schedule your appointment now, try to get it in,
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Try to get it looked at, so you're ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Belts, hoses, filters, air pressure.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean I probably had at my new location, probably
had twenty twenty cars that came in and said, hey,
my low tire light's on.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, why is low tirelight on?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because for every ten degrees that the temperature drops outside
ambient air temperature drops, you lose one pound of air. Okay,
So let's just go back if you changed. Let's just say,
you know in June or July or maybe even September October,
if you had your oil change right and they checked
your air pressure and it was at thirty five where
it needed to be, well, guess what when it was
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felt like zero this week, guess what. Your air pressure
dropped tremendously and your tire light came on. Now, that
doesn't necessarily mean that the tire's flat, but it means
that the tires one or multiple tires are low and
that's because of the temperature outside and that's what drops it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So and again, if your low tire lights on. We
got to think about this too. When your low tire
light is on, that isn't an indication again low tire,
but you're the rolling resistance increases, which means you use
more gas. Nobody wants to spend more money on gas,
and you prematurely wear out your tires. Right, So something
as simple as just making sure that you take care
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of your air pressure will prolong the life of your
tires and increase your gas mileage. And and you know,
everybody all the time when they come in and I'm like, hey,
your tire light's on there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I don't worry about it. Now. I understand that
you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Have to replace these tire pressure sensors that are in
this that are in your vehicle, but you still need
to make sure that your air pressure is checked regularly.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's something that is so simple and everybody can do it now.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I you can take your you can bring your car
to any dot of entire location in the try in
Cincinnati area. Any come in, just say hey can check
my air pressure. If you don't want to get out
in the the you know, the brutal cold, and pay
a dollar fifty for some air pressure. I see people
All the time I drive past gas stations, I see
people putting air in their tires.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And two things.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
One, it's it's one thing when we get this cold snap.
If your tigh light comes on, that's one thing. But
if you're having to put air in a tire, you know,
every couple of weeks or once a month, you have
a slow leak in that tire, and it's something that
you should address otherwise it's gonna create bigger problems. You
run that tire low, you end up potentially ruining the tire,
which will cost you hundreds of dollars. So you want
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to make sure that you know your air pressure is
checked and that you're ready for winter, ready for what
winner may bring us again, you know, for the past
for many years now, I mean we've had some mild winners, right,
but we still get these cold snaps, and then all
of a sudden we're in panic mode and then we're
scramble mode. And and that's what happened this week. I was,
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you know, very overwhelmed yesterday because there was a lot
of people, I mean all week. I mean, my car's broken.
My car's broken, it's overheating. I don't have any heat
I don't, you know, And so I want to get
to everybody. I want to help everybody and get all
their car fixed, get everybody's car fixed. But we have
to be a little bit proactive, and we have to
make sure that we're getting the cars in inspected. I know,
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it's a hassle, you know, I I you know, I
don't like going to the dadists. It's a hassle, right I,
you know, but it's something that you just you gotta
do it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You got to make time for it, schedule it so
that you prevent any type of scrambling.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And you're broken down.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And now you don't have a car, and then I'm
you know, have just bombarded with the vehicles and then
you know, I'm trying my best to get to everybody's car,
but you know, I but then you get into scramble mode,
and so it's it's just you gotta make sure that
we're getting these cars in, getting them inspected. It's not
winter yet, it's coming up, but we got a really
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really good dose of it this week. You know, again,
batteries wipe or blades, you need to make sure that
you have the proper white you know that when it
gets there's salty outside, you get that glare on the windshield.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's important.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You need to make sure that your washer fluids filled
correctly in full, your air pressures checked.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And it's something simple.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I mean, we don't you know, we charge to do
kind of fool like a whole checkover. It's eighty nine bucks, right,
check the whole car over. And if there's something that
needs to be done. You know, we don't charge you
for the checkout, right, We just you want to make
sure that your car is ready for whatever Mother nature
in winter brings us. Right, it's important. And then you
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know the other thing is again I talked earlier about Christmas.
We got Christmas coming up, right, and sometimes some of you,
especially me, you don't know what to get everybody for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, So if you have a son or a daughter
of this maybe home from school.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Right, it might not be the best Christmas present ever,
But you know, or if there's a family member that
maybe is struggling and needs some car repair something like that,
instead of giving them a you know, a tie or
a gift car, think about, hey get a gift card
to dominance, or hey, I'll tell you what man, I
you know, does your car need any repair?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Maybe you need some wiper blades, or maybe you need
an oil change. Here, let me take care of this
oil change for you for Christmas. You know something, it's
it's a little different again. Cars aren't really you know,
not everybody wants to spend spend money on Christmas for
their cars. But again, think about when you're your you know,
your your students or your children, not your students, well
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they're students, but your children are home and maybe get
it in.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now's the time going into Christmas.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I get so many people go, hey, my daughter's in
town this week and I need to get the car in. Well,
at this point, you know, I can't get it in right.
So then you're scrambled to go somewhere else, somewhere that's
probably not reliable or trustworthy or you don't know, and
then you're sold things that you don't need. Okay, we
talk about it all the time that we're the honest choice,
and that's a god, you know, that's the truth. We
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do everything that we can, and we prioritize right, so
sometimes you can I had a nice young lady that
brought her car lest it's a BMW and older BMW's
can be very expensive to upkeep. And at first she
was bombarded with you know, a seventh it was almost
seven thousand dollars, right, And initially she was upset, but
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she came in and said, hey, can you explain everything
to me? And you know, so I explained everything to her,
walked her through everything, and once she once she was understand,
you know, because she didn't. She's like, I, Dane, I
don't know cars. I don't know them. All I know
is that you're saying that I need seven thousand dollars
of work. I'm to fix all of your concerns. At
seven thousand dollars. Do we need to fix all your concerns? Now,
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here's priority. We break it down. Here's priority, here's her
safety concerns, here's probably what's next on your list, and
here's some type of preventative maintenance that maybe needs to
be done at a later date.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right. And so sometimes some sometimes.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
People look at the overall cost opposed to hey, let's
break this down. What do I have to do? What
do I need to do? And so on and so forth.
She loves the car, she just bought it. So I
talked to her and she was you know, I said,
I appreciate you coming in and talking to us because
I know it's a lot, but we don't need to
do all this. And once we walked her through everything,
she was happy and she goes, all right, Dane, go
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ahead and do half the work now and I'll come
back and do the other half later.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And she was happy. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So if you bring your car in and they give
you your mechanic, or you come to Donovan's or any
other mechanic, ask can I get a breakdown?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What's a priority? What do I need to do first? Maybe?
What can I kick down the road and maybe do
at a later date?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And then what is some type of is any of
this preventative maintenance that I can do maybe next year? Right?
Those are the questions you should ask, and those are
the questions that I like to get. Those are what
I try to tell my customers so we can break
it down, so it's not an overall what do I
need to do? It's you know, how much is it?
You got to ask those questions? So, all right, taking
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Speaker 3 (13:51):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number a gin five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. It's brutally cold, it
has been all weak and there's things that you can
do and should do to make.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Sure that your car is ready for winter.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So if you've I've got some tips I'd like to
talk about earlier or later. I'm sorry and uh so,
but phone lines are wide open. Uh so if you've
got a question, I'll get to you fairly quickly. So
but as of now, we're going to go to David. Hey, David,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
How you doing Dan?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
How are you good? Got a simple tip for the winner?
Keep your car in the garage?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What a concept?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Right?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yes, close your mind. How many people that live on
my street keep the car out on the street when
they have a garage that they don't use.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, it's it's it's it's a great believe it or not. Too.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
My my wife texts me on Monday and says, I
need the garage cleaned out so I can start parking
in the garage for winter. And I said, yes, dear,
I will get that done. So we had some we
had uh we've just got all you know, they're just
the kids.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Bikes and balls and you know whatever I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But so yeah, my project was I'm not gonna be
able to do it today, but I think my project
tomorrow is I got to clean the garage out because
my wife does not like coming out to a cold car.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
She and believe it or not, yes, it helps a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yes it does, and especially with you know, and you
know the thing so many times, you know, we get water, snow,
ice or whatnot. People go to roll the windows down,
the break window regulators. They leave their wipers home when
they park the car. Then when they go to turn
the car and the wiper comes on, it breaks the
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wiper linkage, breaks the wiper motor. And you know, I
have an older f one fifty and the way it's designed,
every time it gets colder, it rains and it freezes.
When I open up the door, the door seal rips
off the truck.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I got to put it back on.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And so but I let my wife park in the garage.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I just park. I have to just park outside. I
deal with it.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
But I feel your pain.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But no, I mean you you're great. I mean it's
a it's a great point. And if you can, if
you have a garage, I mean even in the I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It doesn't even have to be in the winter.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
If it's in the summer too, Man, you get so
much more life out of a vehicle by keeping it
in a garage, I'm telling you, or at least a
car port.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, it will blow your mind how many people don't
put their car in the garage when they actually have
a garage.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well we turn it into a storage unit, you know. So,
and I'm I'm all right, Well, what can I help
you with?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
I I just got a simple question about oil changes.
M I got a twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love this question, by the way, Now, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Got a twenty twelve Folkswagen pacad. Okay. Now, I get
these little flyers in the mail all the time from
over Back and Wyoming, and they're all out in my wheelhouse.
I live out in Glendale, and I come over and
let you do it, but you're out of my wheelhouse
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distance wise.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I got you.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
So, I got a question a full European. One of
the flyers I had was for a full European synthetic
oil was eighty nine dollars. Full synthetic was like sixty
nine dollars and then just regular oil chain. Right around
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a corner, he's aalking offering a full synthetic oil change
with free seasonal checkup for thirty two ninety nine, which
I thought it's very good. Now here's the thing. What
is the difference between full European synthetic and just full synthetic?
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And why is there such a gap in the price.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So great question.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So yeah, to be honest with you, as long as
it's the same grade of oil, right, So as.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Long as so the euro is just five Okay, is
that what the car calls for?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I think it does, but I can't remember, but I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So the the euro is supposed to be you know,
it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like originally basically you know, designed for your car for
euro vehicles, right, and the euro oil is more just
because it's they charge us more.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
It you just say it the full synthetic versus the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There's no difference.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
A whole lot of different No, there's what I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, there's no, there's no difference. All it is is
just they charge us more. And maybe you have listen,
I mean I I do. I do have some euro
oils because some euro oils it depends on the gray.
You know, A zero W forty or a zero W
thirty is considered euro and it's more.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But yeah, I'd be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I get where you're I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It's it's it's just like buying the eighty seven octane
or the ninety three octane.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean, are you.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Gonna notice anything different as a cargon to perform any different?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Not really? You know some you know. I mean, I
don't think you.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Need to pay the most important part and the reason
why I said that when I said, I love this question.
The more important thing that the best thing that you
can do. I don't care as long as you put
the right weight in, But as long as you change
the dagon oil on a regular basis, your car will
last three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
All right, But I'm pretty good at that, but I'm
not perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well, you just just know, I mean, the volts wagons
and Audi's. Over time, the rings will start, you know,
letting go, and the thing will start start burning oil.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's the more important thing. And that's what I harp
on all the time. I have a car. Again, when
I started this twenty five years ago, in this business,
no car burned oil. It is almost unheard of, you
know what, lake oil, but not burn every And it
went from maybe you know, every other.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Month, once a month, maybe once a week.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Every single day I have a vehicle, and just in
my shop where I'm at, not even all our shops,
but every single day I had an accurate TSX yesterday,
guys said he and he told me the truth.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I said, hey, it needs a timing chain chain stretched,
and it's typically a lack of you know, oil, because
what happens to the chain get hot, they stretch and
you need to replace the chain. So it's three thousand
dollars replace the chain on this thing. And he told me,
he goes, Man, it's been going through a lot of oil.
And I'm like, yeah, that's that's why the chain is stretched.
And I said, I want to let you know, and
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I want to reiterate to you. We're gonna put a
chain on this and fix this car and get your
check engine line out, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Want you to know it's gonna still continue to burn oil.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So unless you keep your eye on the oil level,
this is gonna happen again. So prevent to prevent you
spend on another three thousand dollars. Make sure you're checking
the oil regularly.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He's like, man, it's it's hard to do that every
single day. And I'm like, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So that's why I talk about all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I mean, I try to kick this dead horse all
every single Saturday. But I'm telling you it is this
single biggest problem with vehicles today. Anything that's probably twenty
ten and newer, your car's burning oil.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You need to know about it. You need to be
changing it regular you know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And what angers me and frustrates me about the industry
is that they keep telling people to go farther and
farther and farther.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
On their oil changes.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And the problem is the cars burn more and more
and more oil.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And then these cars come into me and I have
they don't have any.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Oil in them.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So just you know, you don't need to do the
year old.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Just as long as it's five to thirty synthetic, you're
fine changing it five thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You'll be good to go. Just make sure you're checking
it in between intervals.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Hey, Dan, one other thing, Yeah, if it wasn't for
your grandma Betty, Yeah, I wouldn't be here. Oh, how
so because she introduced my mom to my father. Really, yes,
that's the history. The family came on board.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know, that's great. I appreciate that she was. She
was a great lady.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
She was my mom's best friend, going back to when
she was a kid on two Lane Avenue. They lived
across the street from another and I think it was
unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's correct, ye to Lane pleasant Ridge.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And I knew your father. I'm old enough to remember
sitting on refrigerators in your grandfather's shop on my free road.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, you know that's a great story, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The other thing is I had a I had a
customer in uh last week and uh huh. You know
she's been bringing her car to the new the Auto
fourn so I bought Auto Foreign. And anyways, her father
comes in and says, hey, I knew your grandfather and
your grandma. He goes, in fact, I bought a refrigerator
from your grandfather fifty five years ago and it's still
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in my garage and.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's still working. And I'm like, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I said, if if you can take a picture that
had sent it to me.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I was like that that would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So because yeah, well my grandfather started, I mean he
was changing tires outside all year round in the snow,
the heat, whatever, and then he sold appliances in the front.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So it was nineteen fifty eight yep when he opened
that shop yep on Montgomery Road.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Correct, that's correct. Yep. Yeah, buildings still there. It's it's
now a restaurant, but it was, it was, it was.
It was great.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
So you need to take another call, man, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well take care. I appreciate the appreciate the phone call
in the story. So oh man, you never know when
you're going to run into somebody like that. So that
was awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So all right again, taking your phone calls and number
to call five.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
One three seven four nine fifty five hundred coming up.
We've got tom phone lines are wide open, so I'd
love to hear from you guys. If you've got a question,
give me a call the number again, number to call
five one three seven fifty five hundred. You're listening to
the Car Show and fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I have been a customer of Donovan's for ten years.
It's not always easy to find a mechanic that you
can trust that isn't going to take advantage up you.
They treated me respectfully, not talk down to me. There
are mechanics right down the road, but I chose to
keep coming back here because they treated me as family,
so much so that four years ago I started working here.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Hi Dale Donovan from Donovan's Otto and Tire Center, the
honest choice for car repair and Cincinnati since nineteen fifty eight.
Find the one nearest you at donovantire dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No shaming here. We like to hear your thoughts and opinions.
Fifty five KRC the talk station Welcome back, taking your
car questions.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Phone lines are wide open.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So if you have a car question or uh maybe
you want to I gotta text message from a customer
mind and was like, hey, can you think you think
you can have this this car fixed? I'm gonna give
it to my wife for Christmas, and uh so you
know that that's good idea too. You know you want
to buy the you know your husband or wife or
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one of the kids, Uh a car for Christmas? You
want to get it inspected if you're buying a used car.
And I've always told everybody on this show, if you're
ever ever buying a used car, please get it inspected.
I'm not saying you know wherever it's at, even if
you find one in Florida, find a reputable shop in
Florida and just say hey, listen, and dealerships will let
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you do it, okay. I don't care if it's at
a used car line or a dealership. You tell them, hey, listen,
I want my mechanic or a mechanic to look at
it and tell them, even if it's out of town,
get it inspected.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You want to make sure that you're I mean, you're
gonna spend a lot of money, right. We don't buy
houses without getting them inspected. Why would you buy a
car not in not getting in space, especially the fact
that cars now cost as much as houses, right, I mean,
so it's something that you should think about as well.
So all right, getting the overcall five one three, seven,
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nine fifty five, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to the Car Show.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
How can I help I've had a tip for everybody.
I've been using this product. It's called sill Glide made
by AGS company. You put it in your window tracks
and on your weather stripping and make them go up
and down so much easier on the glass windows, and
your doors don't stick and freeze shut, and it's harmless
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on paint.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a great point.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And I was talking earlier in the show like I
had you know, those are a couple you know, making
sure like if we're not as great at turning the
wipers off when we park the car, you know, pull
the wiper blades off the windshield, right, it's gonna say
hopefully if you left them all great they you know
you don't ruin a strip out a wiper motor or
transmission or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yes, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Product three M makes a silicone paste that you could
run inside the channels to help glide. Because what happens is,
you know, we get that snow, we get that ice,
and when we go to get our morning coffee or
breakfast or what now, we roll that window down and
pop because the windows frozen to the wind the track
and you do you know, four or five hundred dollars
with the damage because that window was frozen. So right,
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roll it down, put a little bit of PAM three
M silicone paste or what was.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The other product you you were talking about, what was
it called.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It's made by AGS Company's still glide seal Glide.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Okay, yeah, any.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Advanced auto and okay from place? Give it on an
Amazon thirteen dollars an eight ounce tube.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Okay, No, that's a that's a great that's a great idea.
And I was going to talk about that is just
you know, these are things that we can do to
maybe prevent major breakdowns or you know, breaking window regulators
or you know.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So all right, well I appreciate the tip. Okay, thank you,
thank you, have a great day. You know.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's the thing is like there are things that we
can do to prevent breakdowns, and and again they're simple things.
Right if you're at home right now, if you're listening
to the show, roll all your windows down, you know, get.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
A paper towel.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Why not put a little bit of PAM on it,
or you can go out and grab that silicon paste.
I we use the three M silicon paste just holds
up a little bit better and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It sticks around a lot longer, right, and it allows.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That window to glide smoother up and down that channel.
So you prevent rolling a window down in the winter
and then breaking a window regular I mean, some of
these window regulators can be you know, five six, seven,
eight hundred dollars, right. A can of silicone paste will
cost you, you know, five ten thirteen bucks. Right, hit
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the windows right before we go into the these really
really cold times, and you know, you potentially save yourself
from doing you know, you know, just just think right,
say it's this week, it was felt like zero.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It was like, I think, was it Friday or Thursday?
Sixteen degrees outside, but felt like zero.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Can you imagine if you rolled your window down and
get a cup of coffee and that window that regulator broke,
and that window fell down in that channel. Now you're
driving your car around with that stuck down, and right
now you're in panic mode. But if you go out
and get yourself a can of silicone spray or some
three M spray or like I said, even some pam
running inside that channel, just to make sure that you
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prevent a window regulator from breaking, save yourself a ton
of money and a ton of headache. Right, So, and
even on the trunk seal. You know you've got a
trunk seal too. You know a lot of us have
power power tailgates right on our SUVs.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well think about it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
If that thing's frozen into that seal, that's gonna make
that motor work harder. And believe me, those tailgate motors
can be expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I know on a lot of the.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Forront on the raft fours, they're electronic lift gates. They break,
it's like twenty two hundred dollars to replace them. I
mean it is expensive and there's no alternative. You can't say, oh, well,
can we just put the old stuff back at No,
you can't. I mean that's what you have to stick
back in there, or you just don't have them at all,
which is not convenient.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So but think about it.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Throw a little bit of silicone spray on there, just
prevent that resistance and allowing it to hopefully stick around
and last longer. Those are the things we got to
think about and talk about some all right again, the
phone call the phone number to call five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five one hundred coming up.
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Speaker 1 (32:47):
This is fifty five KRC and iharbor in the station.
Welcome back, taking your car questions. The number to call
five to one three seven.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Four nine fifty five hundred. That number again, five one,
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan
from Donovan's Auto entire Center and celebrating sixty seven years
in business and doing well and looking to always improve
and expand and UH and ultimately at the end of
the day, here to help you out with your car problems.
(33:20):
That's again. I enjoy what I do and I'm here
every Saturday. So if you've got to guide you with
your car needs, whether you're here, I mean I had
to call her earlier today. That was calling from Texas, right,
And you know my job is to try to help
you fix your car and get you back out on
the road and just give you that guidance, right, because
(33:42):
I feel that a lot of times we are misconstrued
by the industry as to how often we should be
doing things. Primarily which I talk about all the time.
You hear me talk about it is oil changes. Something
so simple. You want to get the most life out
of your car. You want to have your car for
three hundred thousand miles, change your oil every five thousand
(34:03):
miles period, no other discussion. There's nobody else that can
tell me that, you know, they got three hundred thousand
miles changing the oil every you know, once a year.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's ridiculous. So all right, let's go back to the phones.
We've got Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (34:20):
I took my car in. It's a two thoy nineteen
jeep Cherokee. Got oil change. I always change the oil
five thousand or less. But I was told that I
need to think about replacing the oil filter housing, color
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cooler housing with temperature sensor, oil pressure sensor, and intake
manifold gasket. And I'm not a car person. I'm just wondering,
that's something I've never heard of before. In my car,
our runs great. I don't have any real problems with it.
(35:04):
I keep it in the garage. So I'm just wondering,
can you give me some uh some help with that?
Is absolutely something common.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That is that is very very very very common we have.
We do a tremendous amount of those. We did one
earlier this week. So let me ask you something, Ray,
Do you have it? Do you have any Did they
mention that you had an oil leak?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Okay, So typically what they'll do is it's a very
very common problem.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
They leak oil. Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So if they didn't mention, you're gonna it's it's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, yes, you're gonna need to do it. Okay. We
do a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Now, if they didn't mention to you that you had
an oil leak, and they maybe the service advisor just
didn't tell you why you need it, But most likely
it's led to it's because they leak oil. It's a
poor design. And yes, the oil filter housing with the cooler,
the temperature sensor, and the oil pressure sensor, they're all
built into this housing and you have to remove the
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intake to do it, so you compromise the gasket, so
you have to get an intake gasket and then that housing.
So yes, it's a very common problem we do, especially
this time of year because again with cold those gaskets fail,
they contract and they make a big oil leak that.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
They probably want.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
They probably failed to mention that to you. That's why
they want to replace it. But if you're not, I
would call maybe call back and say, hey, why do
you want to replace this?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Is it because I'm leaking oil?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Twenty nineteen seems a bit premature, but yeah, most likely, Again, regardless,
you're gonna need to do it because it's a very
common problem.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
What about the cost I got a price, gave me
a price over fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, that's a little steep. Was that at the dealer?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry, No, that's
a private grudge.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Okay, yeah, if you told me, if you told me
or asked what it would be, I would probably say
around twelve hundred bucks. It's a it seems a little steep,
but again it depends on what part they're using. Hopefully
they're using a part from the dealership, because do not
buy an aftermarket one. Do not buy an after bid one.
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Buy one from the deal you know, from mo part
the deal. You don't have to take it to the dealer,
but you want to make sure whoever does the work
that you tell them that you want an original equipment part,
meaning that it comes.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
From the dealer.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Because they're aftermarket ones out there in their garbage. You're
just gonna have to buy one from the dealer. But
fifteen's not fifteen's not ridiculous. But probably around twelve hundred
bucks is the average price. But it's a little steep,
but it might be because they're degreasing the engine and
and everything else. So it's hard to say, but it's not.
(38:06):
It's not ridiculous, it's not completely out of it's not
I know, it's I know, fifteen hundred dollars is expensive,
but they're not pulling the wool of your eyes.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They're not taking advantage of you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I mean, that's that's a fair price. But you know,
so you're gonna need to do it. But you call
them back whoever looked at it, and you tell why
do I need that? And if they said because it's
leaking oil, which ninety nine percent of the time it's
because it's leaking oil, then yeah, you're gonna have to
do it.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Okay, all right, man, I appreciate that. Right, that was good,
good explanation.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You're very very welcome. You call me anytime you need anything.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Okay, I will thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You're very welcome. You take care.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
So all right, we're running out of time here, but
I have here, uh my my boss at home, my
wife Julie.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
How can I help you? Dear?
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh, this is decclan. What are you doing.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Here's a joke for you.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
A joke? All right, well, let let me hear it.
Speaker 8 (39:12):
What today love that to the sports car?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
What was it? Buddy?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
What did the tornado say to the sports car?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Hmmm? I don't know what What did he say?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Watch a go first?
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Great job? That's great. Do you look that up yourself?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
H well, I like it. I liked it. That was good.
That was a good one. We'll be home.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Hi, buddy, thank you all right, buddy, love you, love
you all right, bye bye.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
He's he's he's my he's my joker. I'll tell you
what he can and uh that's declan.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
He can.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
He can lie to any any any room that he's in,
any uh situation he's in. That boy can light up
the room. Man, He's he's something special. So, uh, I
appreciate the phone call. So but uh listen, we want
to make sure I'll be back next Saturday to answer
all your car questions. Okay, first and foremost, I do
appreciate everybody calling today, and uh the great tips, the
(40:28):
great you know, you know, the great story about you know,
the gentlemant call from Glendale about my uh my grandparents,
and you know, I know he's looking up, you know,
looking down on us and making sure that Donovan Tyre
continues to succeed. And we really really do appreciate especially
(40:50):
this is the time, this is the time of the
year that you know, you know, we love one another
and appreciate everybody, and from the bottom of our hearts
and the down of entire family and team, we really
do appreciate our employees, all of them and what they
do for us.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
We appreciate all of our customer.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Base, because again, without you, the customer base, we're not
Donovan Tire.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
We appreciate everybody that.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Instills their trust faith in us and know that when
they drop their car off that they are being taken
care of. And again, if it's not for the customers,
you know, Donovan Tire doesn't exist. So we really do
appreciate everybody, and thank you to all the listeners as well.
I'm here every Saturday to answer your car question so
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i can help you out. And I'm not here to
I'm not here to you know, get your business and
have you come in.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I'm here to try to help you out.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
And again with iHeart, you can call from anywhere in
the country, anywhere in the world really, and the show
was about trying to help you out navigate your car
questions and your car problems and getting your car back
out on the road right because we all have we
all live busy lives and you want to take something
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off your plate right, and making sure that your cars
maintained and getting the proper information like the gentleman just
called and said, hey, you know my repair shop said
I need this.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What are your thoughts. Yeah, it's a very common problem
and most.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Likely yes, he needs it, and it's leaking oil, right,
And that's why I come back every Saturday. And this
is why I'm here, because I want to help you
out and get your car fixed.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Whether you bring it to me or not, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I'm here to help you out and give you the
best advice that I can so you can get your
back your your your car back out on the road
so you can get to work, or take care of
your family, or get your kids to sporting events or
you know, or just if you're going on a trip
and you want to make sure that you're ready to go,
or make sure it's ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I really do appreciate everybody calling, all of our employees
and all of our customers. Guys are great. I can't
thank you guys enough. And again that's why we do this.
So I'll be back next Saturday, answer all of your
car questions, make sure that you're getting at Christmas shopping
and getting I know my wife's getting it done, and
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I'll be back again next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
To answer all your car questions.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
I'm Dane Donna from Donovan's Auto entire Center, and you're
listening to the car show on fifty five KRC, the
talk station
I'm crazy, got a Mercury.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ma Chevy to the Liddy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
So good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I
am Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions. The
number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Dealing with a little bit of a distraction here. I
(00:33):
can't cut my finger on the way in here, trying
to get my headphones out of my truck and somehow
cut my finger and can't get stop bleeding. So, uh,
it's always interesting, it's always something, and I'm always busy something.
But again, I'm here every Saturday again Dane Donovan from
Donovan's Auto entire Center. And uh, I'm here every Saturday
to answer all your car questions. Any question you may
(00:54):
have that pertains your vehicle, and I might not have, uh,
you know some I mean we don't do any type
of transmission work, but you know there's always somebody that
can refer you to.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And you know, again, I love what I do.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I enjoy what I do, and I've I've told you
guys this time and time again, but you're it's it's
it's always constantly evolving it's always changing and I'm always learning,
which I which I enjoy. I think it's one of
the best parts about the job is no day is
the same.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, it might be the same car issues, but every car,
every customer, every situation is in noise and whatnot is different. Right,
there's no it's it's just not a very I don't know,
it's it's it's hard to explain, but it is what makes.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The job, part of the job enjoyable. Yes, I enjoy cars,
Yes I like cars.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm not a car collector or anything like that, but
I really really do enjoy trying to help people out
and get their car fixed and get them back out
on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's that's all we're here for.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A Donovan's Atto entire center is to help you out
and get your car back out on the road so
you can get you you know, get yourself to work,
get your kids to sports, which that's what we're doing
all day today, which is typically every Saturday and Sunday
for us. As you know, I've got three boys, they're
all in sports. My son had a basketball game this morning,
(02:21):
and then my oldest son has a basketball game at six.
So but again that's why you need the car, That's
why you need you know, you needed to perform at
its top and make sure they can get you from
point A to point B. And again, as you may know,
these cars are not getting any cheaper to purchase. They're
(02:44):
very expensive, so you want to make sure that you
protect your investment and make sure that you're getting your
car serviced regularly. Now again, I know this is I
know we get busy, and believe me, I mean I'm
busy myself and a lot of time. I mean, you know,
I do everything I can to to you know, get
(03:06):
to my you know, get to my vehicles or whatnot.
But sometimes I'll get my wife's car and you know
it's overdue for a woral change, and you know, we
got to get that done right. It's important. These things
are important, especially going into the Winner right. And I
can tell you from this week alone, we were absolutely
at all of our locations were absolutely slammed with cars
(03:28):
that were broken down and a lot of heating issues,
a lot of battery issues, a lot of not starting issues.
Because as you know, this week it was extremely cold
and and I've been kind of leading up to this
like this is the time that we need to start
thinking about getting this car.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And now I know it's Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I know it's thinking about the holidays and what you
need to do to get the get through the holidays,
but you need to also make sure that you can
get from point A to point B, get to work,
and make sure that you know you're not, you know,
dealing with an issue where your car won't start and
now you're you know, scrambling to try to get to work,
(04:05):
get to get to sports or whatnot. And it's it's
just it's it's very important. Now again, we don't we
can't always predict when the car is going to break down.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean I can test your battery today and it'd
be dead as a door nail tomorrow. That can't happen.
But nine out of ten times there will be signs.
We can test your battery, and we test it for free.
We don't charge you anything. Come by, we'll test your
battery and uh, if you need a battery, we'll put
a battery in it for you. And that's this is
(04:35):
the time of year to do it, I'm telling you.
And if I had multiple cars this week, multiple cars
with heating issues or over heating issues, and again because
the cold breaks these things down. So it would be
important to schedule your appointment now, try to get it in,
(04:56):
Try to get it looked at, so you're ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Belts, hoses, filters, air pressure.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean I probably had at my new location, probably
had twenty twenty cars that came in and said, hey,
my low tire light's on.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, why is low tirelight on?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because for every ten degrees that the temperature drops outside
ambient air temperature drops, you lose one pound of air. Okay,
So let's just go back if you changed. Let's just say,
you know in June or July or maybe even September October,
if you had your oil change right and they checked
your air pressure and it was at thirty five where
it needed to be, well, guess what when it was
(05:34):
felt like zero this week, guess what. Your air pressure
dropped tremendously and your tire light came on. Now, that
doesn't necessarily mean that the tire's flat, but it means
that the tires one or multiple tires are low and
that's because of the temperature outside and that's what drops it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So and again, if your low tire lights on. We
got to think about this too. When your low tire
light is on, that isn't an indication again low tire,
but you're the rolling resistance increases, which means you use
more gas. Nobody wants to spend more money on gas,
and you prematurely wear out your tires. Right, So something
as simple as just making sure that you take care
(06:13):
of your air pressure will prolong the life of your
tires and increase your gas mileage. And and you know,
everybody all the time when they come in and I'm like, hey,
your tire light's on there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I don't worry about it. Now. I understand that
you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Have to replace these tire pressure sensors that are in
this that are in your vehicle, but you still need
to make sure that your air pressure is checked regularly.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's something that is so simple and everybody can do it now.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I you can take your you can bring your car
to any dot of entire location in the try in
Cincinnati area. Any come in, just say hey can check
my air pressure. If you don't want to get out
in the the you know, the brutal cold, and pay
a dollar fifty for some air pressure. I see people
All the time I drive past gas stations, I see
people putting air in their tires.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And two things.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
One, it's it's one thing when we get this cold snap.
If your tigh light comes on, that's one thing. But
if you're having to put air in a tire, you know,
every couple of weeks or once a month, you have
a slow leak in that tire, and it's something that
you should address otherwise it's gonna create bigger problems. You
run that tire low, you end up potentially ruining the tire,
which will cost you hundreds of dollars. So you want
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to make sure that you know your air pressure is
checked and that you're ready for winter, ready for what
winner may bring us again, you know, for the past
for many years now, I mean we've had some mild winners, right,
but we still get these cold snaps, and then all
of a sudden we're in panic mode and then we're
scramble mode. And and that's what happened this week. I was,
(07:49):
you know, very overwhelmed yesterday because there was a lot
of people, I mean all week. I mean, my car's broken.
My car's broken, it's overheating. I don't have any heat
I don't, you know, And so I want to get
to everybody. I want to help everybody and get all
their car fixed, get everybody's car fixed. But we have
to be a little bit proactive, and we have to
make sure that we're getting the cars in inspected. I know,
(08:12):
it's a hassle, you know, I I you know, I
don't like going to the dadists. It's a hassle, right I,
you know, but it's something that you just you gotta
do it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You got to make time for it, schedule it so
that you prevent any type of scrambling.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And you're broken down.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And now you don't have a car, and then I'm
you know, have just bombarded with the vehicles and then
you know, I'm trying my best to get to everybody's car,
but you know, I but then you get into scramble mode,
and so it's it's just you gotta make sure that
we're getting these cars in, getting them inspected. It's not
winter yet, it's coming up, but we got a really
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really good dose of it this week. You know, again,
batteries wipe or blades, you need to make sure that
you have the proper white you know that when it
gets there's salty outside, you get that glare on the windshield.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's important.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You need to make sure that your washer fluids filled
correctly in full, your air pressures checked.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And it's something simple.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I mean, we don't you know, we charge to do
kind of fool like a whole checkover. It's eighty nine bucks, right,
check the whole car over. And if there's something that
needs to be done. You know, we don't charge you
for the checkout, right, We just you want to make
sure that your car is ready for whatever Mother nature
in winter brings us. Right, it's important. And then you
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know the other thing is again I talked earlier about Christmas.
We got Christmas coming up, right, and sometimes some of you,
especially me, you don't know what to get everybody for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Right, So if you have a son or a daughter
of this maybe home from school.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Right, it might not be the best Christmas present ever,
But you know, or if there's a family member that
maybe is struggling and needs some car repair something like that,
instead of giving them a you know, a tie or
a gift car, think about, hey get a gift card
to dominance, or hey, I'll tell you what man, I
you know, does your car need any repair?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Maybe you need some wiper blades, or maybe you need
an oil change. Here, let me take care of this
oil change for you for Christmas. You know something, it's
it's a little different again. Cars aren't really you know,
not everybody wants to spend spend money on Christmas for
their cars. But again, think about when you're your you know,
your your students or your children, not your students, well
(10:29):
they're students, but your children are home and maybe get
it in.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now's the time going into Christmas.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I get so many people go, hey, my daughter's in
town this week and I need to get the car in. Well,
at this point, you know, I can't get it in right.
So then you're scrambled to go somewhere else, somewhere that's
probably not reliable or trustworthy or you don't know, and
then you're sold things that you don't need. Okay, we
talk about it all the time that we're the honest choice,
and that's a god, you know, that's the truth. We
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do everything that we can, and we prioritize right, so
sometimes you can I had a nice young lady that
brought her car lest it's a BMW and older BMW's
can be very expensive to upkeep. And at first she
was bombarded with you know, a seventh it was almost
seven thousand dollars, right, And initially she was upset, but
(11:21):
she came in and said, hey, can you explain everything
to me? And you know, so I explained everything to her,
walked her through everything, and once she once she was understand,
you know, because she didn't. She's like, I, Dane, I
don't know cars. I don't know them. All I know
is that you're saying that I need seven thousand dollars
of work. I'm to fix all of your concerns. At
seven thousand dollars. Do we need to fix all your concerns? Now,
(11:43):
here's priority. We break it down. Here's priority, here's her
safety concerns, here's probably what's next on your list, and
here's some type of preventative maintenance that maybe needs to
be done at a later date.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right. And so sometimes some sometimes.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
People look at the overall cost opposed to hey, let's
break this down. What do I have to do? What
do I need to do? And so on and so forth.
She loves the car, she just bought it. So I
talked to her and she was you know, I said,
I appreciate you coming in and talking to us because
I know it's a lot, but we don't need to
do all this. And once we walked her through everything,
she was happy and she goes, all right, Dane, go
(12:17):
ahead and do half the work now and I'll come
back and do the other half later.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And she was happy. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So if you bring your car in and they give
you your mechanic, or you come to Donovan's or any
other mechanic, ask can I get a breakdown?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What's a priority? What do I need to do first? Maybe?
What can I kick down the road and maybe do
at a later date?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And then what is some type of is any of
this preventative maintenance that I can do maybe next year? Right?
Those are the questions you should ask, and those are
the questions that I like to get. Those are what
I try to tell my customers so we can break
it down, so it's not an overall what do I
need to do? It's you know, how much is it?
You got to ask those questions? So, all right, taking
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Speaker 3 (13:51):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number a gin five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. It's brutally cold, it
has been all weak and there's things that you can
do and should do to make.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Sure that your car is ready for winter.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So if you've I've got some tips I'd like to
talk about earlier or later. I'm sorry and uh so,
but phone lines are wide open. Uh so if you've
got a question, I'll get to you fairly quickly. So
but as of now, we're going to go to David. Hey, David,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
How you doing Dan?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
How are you good? Got a simple tip for the winner?
Keep your car in the garage?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What a concept?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Right?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yes, close your mind. How many people that live on
my street keep the car out on the street when
they have a garage that they don't use.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, it's it's it's it's a great believe it or not. Too.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
My my wife texts me on Monday and says, I
need the garage cleaned out so I can start parking
in the garage for winter. And I said, yes, dear,
I will get that done. So we had some we
had uh we've just got all you know, they're just
the kids.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Bikes and balls and you know whatever I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But so yeah, my project was I'm not gonna be
able to do it today, but I think my project
tomorrow is I got to clean the garage out because
my wife does not like coming out to a cold car.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
She and believe it or not, yes, it helps a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yes it does, and especially with you know, and you
know the thing so many times, you know, we get water, snow,
ice or whatnot. People go to roll the windows down,
the break window regulators. They leave their wipers home when
they park the car. Then when they go to turn
the car and the wiper comes on, it breaks the
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wiper linkage, breaks the wiper motor. And you know, I
have an older f one fifty and the way it's designed,
every time it gets colder, it rains and it freezes.
When I open up the door, the door seal rips
off the truck.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I got to put it back on.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And so but I let my wife park in the garage.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I just park. I have to just park outside. I
deal with it.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
But I feel your pain.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But no, I mean you you're great. I mean it's
a it's a great point. And if you can, if
you have a garage, I mean even in the I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It doesn't even have to be in the winter.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
If it's in the summer too, Man, you get so
much more life out of a vehicle by keeping it
in a garage, I'm telling you, or at least a
car port.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well, it will blow your mind how many people don't
put their car in the garage when they actually have
a garage.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I know.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well we turn it into a storage unit, you know. So,
and I'm I'm all right, Well, what can I help
you with?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
I I just got a simple question about oil changes.
M I got a twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love this question, by the way, Now, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Got a twenty twelve Folkswagen pacad. Okay. Now, I get
these little flyers in the mail all the time from
over Back and Wyoming, and they're all out in my wheelhouse.
I live out in Glendale, and I come over and
let you do it, but you're out of my wheelhouse
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distance wise.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I got you.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
So, I got a question a full European. One of
the flyers I had was for a full European synthetic
oil was eighty nine dollars. Full synthetic was like sixty
nine dollars and then just regular oil chain. Right around
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a corner, he's aalking offering a full synthetic oil change
with free seasonal checkup for thirty two ninety nine, which
I thought it's very good. Now here's the thing. What
is the difference between full European synthetic and just full synthetic?
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And why is there such a gap in the price.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So great question.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So yeah, to be honest with you, as long as
it's the same grade of oil, right, So as.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Long as so the euro is just five Okay, is
that what the car calls for?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I think it does, but I can't remember, but I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So the the euro is supposed to be you know,
it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like originally basically you know, designed for your car for
euro vehicles, right, and the euro oil is more just
because it's they charge us more.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
It you just say it the full synthetic versus the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There's no difference.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
A whole lot of different No, there's what I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, there's no, there's no difference. All it is is
just they charge us more. And maybe you have listen,
I mean I I do. I do have some euro
oils because some euro oils it depends on the gray.
You know, A zero W forty or a zero W
thirty is considered euro and it's more.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But yeah, I'd be honest with you.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I get where you're I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
It's it's it's just like buying the eighty seven octane
or the ninety three octane.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I mean, are you.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Gonna notice anything different as a cargon to perform any different?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Not really? You know some you know. I mean, I
don't think you.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Need to pay the most important part and the reason
why I said that when I said, I love this question.
The more important thing that the best thing that you
can do. I don't care as long as you put
the right weight in, But as long as you change
the dagon oil on a regular basis, your car will
last three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
All right, But I'm pretty good at that, but I'm
not perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well, you just just know, I mean, the volts wagons
and Audi's. Over time, the rings will start, you know,
letting go, and the thing will start start burning oil.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's the more important thing. And that's what I harp
on all the time. I have a car. Again, when
I started this twenty five years ago, in this business,
no car burned oil. It is almost unheard of, you
know what, lake oil, but not burn every And it
went from maybe you know, every other.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Month, once a month, maybe once a week.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Every single day I have a vehicle, and just in
my shop where I'm at, not even all our shops,
but every single day I had an accurate TSX yesterday,
guys said he and he told me the truth.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I said, hey, it needs a timing chain chain stretched,
and it's typically a lack of you know, oil, because
what happens to the chain get hot, they stretch and
you need to replace the chain. So it's three thousand
dollars replace the chain on this thing. And he told me,
he goes, Man, it's been going through a lot of oil.
And I'm like, yeah, that's that's why the chain is stretched.
And I said, I want to let you know, and
(21:37):
I want to reiterate to you. We're gonna put a
chain on this and fix this car and get your
check engine line out, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Want you to know it's gonna still continue to burn oil.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So unless you keep your eye on the oil level,
this is gonna happen again. So prevent to prevent you
spend on another three thousand dollars. Make sure you're checking
the oil regularly.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He's like, man, it's it's hard to do that every
single day. And I'm like, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So that's why I talk about all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I mean, I try to kick this dead horse all
every single Saturday. But I'm telling you it is this
single biggest problem with vehicles today. Anything that's probably twenty
ten and newer, your car's burning oil.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You need to know about it. You need to be
changing it regular you know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And what angers me and frustrates me about the industry
is that they keep telling people to go farther and
farther and farther.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
On their oil changes.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And the problem is the cars burn more and more
and more oil.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And then these cars come into me and I have
they don't have any.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Oil in them.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So just you know, you don't need to do the
year old.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Just as long as it's five to thirty synthetic, you're
fine changing it five thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You'll be good to go. Just make sure you're checking
it in between intervals.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Hey, Dan, one other thing, Yeah, if it wasn't for
your grandma Betty, Yeah, I wouldn't be here. Oh, how
so because she introduced my mom to my father. Really, yes,
that's the history. The family came on board.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know, that's great. I appreciate that she was. She
was a great lady.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
She was my mom's best friend, going back to when
she was a kid on two Lane Avenue. They lived
across the street from another and I think it was
unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's correct, ye to Lane pleasant Ridge.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And I knew your father. I'm old enough to remember
sitting on refrigerators in your grandfather's shop on my free road.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, you know that's a great story, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The other thing is I had a I had a
customer in uh last week and uh huh. You know
she's been bringing her car to the new the Auto
fourn so I bought Auto Foreign. And anyways, her father
comes in and says, hey, I knew your grandfather and
your grandma. He goes, in fact, I bought a refrigerator
from your grandfather fifty five years ago and it's still
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in my garage and.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's still working. And I'm like, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I said, if if you can take a picture that
had sent it to me.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I was like that that would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So because yeah, well my grandfather started, I mean he
was changing tires outside all year round in the snow,
the heat, whatever, and then he sold appliances in the front.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So it was nineteen fifty eight yep when he opened
that shop yep on Montgomery Road.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Correct, that's correct. Yep. Yeah, buildings still there. It's it's
now a restaurant, but it was, it was, it was.
It was great.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
So you need to take another call, man, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well take care. I appreciate the appreciate the phone call
in the story. So oh man, you never know when
you're going to run into somebody like that. So that
was awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So all right again, taking your phone calls and number
to call five.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
One three seven four nine fifty five hundred coming up.
We've got tom phone lines are wide open, so I'd
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Speaker 4 (25:21):
I have been a customer of Donovan's for ten years.
It's not always easy to find a mechanic that you
can trust that isn't going to take advantage up you.
They treated me respectfully, not talk down to me. There
are mechanics right down the road, but I chose to
keep coming back here because they treated me as family,
so much so that four years ago I started working here.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Hi Dale Donovan from Donovan's Otto and Tire Center, the
honest choice for car repair and Cincinnati since nineteen fifty eight.
Find the one nearest you at donovantire dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
No shaming here. We like to hear your thoughts and opinions.
Fifty five KRC the talk station Welcome back, taking your
car questions.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Phone lines are wide open.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So if you have a car question or uh maybe
you want to I gotta text message from a customer
mind and was like, hey, can you think you think
you can have this this car fixed? I'm gonna give
it to my wife for Christmas, and uh so you
know that that's good idea too. You know you want
to buy the you know your husband or wife or
(26:33):
one of the kids, Uh a car for Christmas? You
want to get it inspected if you're buying a used car.
And I've always told everybody on this show, if you're
ever ever buying a used car, please get it inspected.
I'm not saying you know wherever it's at, even if
you find one in Florida, find a reputable shop in
Florida and just say hey, listen, and dealerships will let
(26:57):
you do it, okay. I don't care if it's at
a used car line or a dealership. You tell them, hey, listen,
I want my mechanic or a mechanic to look at
it and tell them, even if it's out of town,
get it inspected.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You want to make sure that you're I mean, you're
gonna spend a lot of money, right. We don't buy
houses without getting them inspected. Why would you buy a
car not in not getting in space, especially the fact
that cars now cost as much as houses, right, I mean,
so it's something that you should think about as well.
So all right, getting the overcall five one three, seven,
(27:33):
nine fifty five, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to the Car Show.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
How can I help I've had a tip for everybody.
I've been using this product. It's called sill Glide made
by AGS company. You put it in your window tracks
and on your weather stripping and make them go up
and down so much easier on the glass windows, and
your doors don't stick and freeze shut, and it's harmless
(28:01):
on paint.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a great point.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And I was talking earlier in the show like I
had you know, those are a couple you know, making
sure like if we're not as great at turning the
wipers off when we park the car, you know, pull
the wiper blades off the windshield, right, it's gonna say
hopefully if you left them all great they you know
you don't ruin a strip out a wiper motor or
transmission or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yes, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Product three M makes a silicone paste that you could
run inside the channels to help glide. Because what happens is,
you know, we get that snow, we get that ice,
and when we go to get our morning coffee or
breakfast or what now, we roll that window down and
pop because the windows frozen to the wind the track
and you do you know, four or five hundred dollars
with the damage because that window was frozen. So right,
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roll it down, put a little bit of PAM three
M silicone paste or what was.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The other product you you were talking about, what was
it called.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It's made by AGS Company's still glide seal Glide.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Okay, yeah, any.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Advanced auto and okay from place? Give it on an
Amazon thirteen dollars an eight ounce tube.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Okay, No, that's a that's a great that's a great idea.
And I was going to talk about that is just
you know, these are things that we can do to
maybe prevent major breakdowns or you know, breaking window regulators
or you know.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So all right, well I appreciate the tip. Okay, thank you,
thank you, have a great day. You know.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's the thing is like there are things that we
can do to prevent breakdowns, and and again they're simple things.
Right if you're at home right now, if you're listening
to the show, roll all your windows down, you know, get.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
A paper towel.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Why not put a little bit of PAM on it,
or you can go out and grab that silicon paste.
I we use the three M silicon paste just holds
up a little bit better and.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It sticks around a lot longer, right, and it allows.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That window to glide smoother up and down that channel.
So you prevent rolling a window down in the winter
and then breaking a window regular I mean, some of
these window regulators can be you know, five six, seven,
eight hundred dollars, right. A can of silicone paste will
cost you, you know, five ten thirteen bucks. Right, hit
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the windows right before we go into the these really
really cold times, and you know, you potentially save yourself
from doing you know, you know, just just think right,
say it's this week, it was felt like zero.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It was like, I think, was it Friday or Thursday?
Sixteen degrees outside, but felt like zero.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Can you imagine if you rolled your window down and
get a cup of coffee and that window that regulator broke,
and that window fell down in that channel. Now you're
driving your car around with that stuck down, and right
now you're in panic mode. But if you go out
and get yourself a can of silicone spray or some
three M spray or like I said, even some pam
running inside that channel, just to make sure that you
(31:03):
prevent a window regulator from breaking, save yourself a ton
of money and a ton of headache. Right, So, and
even on the trunk seal. You know you've got a
trunk seal too. You know a lot of us have
power power tailgates right on our SUVs.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well think about it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
If that thing's frozen into that seal, that's gonna make
that motor work harder. And believe me, those tailgate motors
can be expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I know on a lot of the.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Forront on the raft fours, they're electronic lift gates. They break,
it's like twenty two hundred dollars to replace them. I
mean it is expensive and there's no alternative. You can't say, oh, well,
can we just put the old stuff back at No,
you can't. I mean that's what you have to stick
back in there, or you just don't have them at all,
which is not convenient.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So but think about it.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Throw a little bit of silicone spray on there, just
prevent that resistance and allowing it to hopefully stick around
and last longer. Those are the things we got to
think about and talk about some all right again, the
phone call the phone number to call five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five one hundred coming up.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
We've got ray. You're listening to the car show on
fifty five KRC the Talk station.
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Speaker 1 (32:47):
This is fifty five KRC and iharbor in the station.
Welcome back, taking your car questions. The number to call
five to one three seven.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Four nine fifty five hundred. That number again, five one,
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan
from Donovan's Auto entire Center and celebrating sixty seven years
in business and doing well and looking to always improve
and expand and UH and ultimately at the end of
the day, here to help you out with your car problems.
(33:20):
That's again. I enjoy what I do and I'm here
every Saturday. So if you've got to guide you with
your car needs, whether you're here, I mean I had
to call her earlier today. That was calling from Texas, right,
And you know my job is to try to help
you fix your car and get you back out on
the road and just give you that guidance, right, because
(33:42):
I feel that a lot of times we are misconstrued
by the industry as to how often we should be
doing things. Primarily which I talk about all the time.
You hear me talk about it is oil changes. Something
so simple. You want to get the most life out
of your car. You want to have your car for
three hundred thousand miles, change your oil every five thousand
(34:03):
miles period, no other discussion. There's nobody else that can
tell me that, you know, they got three hundred thousand
miles changing the oil every you know, once a year.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's ridiculous. So all right, let's go back to the phones.
We've got Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (34:20):
I took my car in. It's a two thoy nineteen
jeep Cherokee. Got oil change. I always change the oil
five thousand or less. But I was told that I
need to think about replacing the oil filter housing, color
(34:43):
cooler housing with temperature sensor, oil pressure sensor, and intake
manifold gasket. And I'm not a car person. I'm just wondering,
that's something I've never heard of before. In my car,
our runs great. I don't have any real problems with it.
(35:04):
I keep it in the garage. So I'm just wondering,
can you give me some uh some help with that?
Is absolutely something common.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That is that is very very very very common we have.
We do a tremendous amount of those. We did one
earlier this week. So let me ask you something, Ray,
Do you have it? Do you have any Did they
mention that you had an oil leak?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Okay, So typically what they'll do is it's a very
very common problem.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
They leak oil. Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
So if they didn't mention, you're gonna it's it's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, yes, you're gonna need to do it. Okay. We
do a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Now, if they didn't mention to you that you had
an oil leak, and they maybe the service advisor just
didn't tell you why you need it, But most likely
it's led to it's because they leak oil. It's a
poor design. And yes, the oil filter housing with the cooler,
the temperature sensor, and the oil pressure sensor, they're all
built into this housing and you have to remove the
(36:13):
intake to do it, so you compromise the gasket, so
you have to get an intake gasket and then that housing.
So yes, it's a very common problem we do, especially
this time of year because again with cold those gaskets fail,
they contract and they make a big oil leak that.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
They probably want.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
They probably failed to mention that to you. That's why
they want to replace it. But if you're not, I
would call maybe call back and say, hey, why do
you want to replace this?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Is it because I'm leaking oil?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Twenty nineteen seems a bit premature, but yeah, most likely, Again, regardless,
you're gonna need to do it because it's a very
common problem.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
What about the cost I got a price, gave me
a price over fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, that's a little steep. Was that at the dealer?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry, No, that's
a private grudge.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Okay, yeah, if you told me, if you told me
or asked what it would be, I would probably say
around twelve hundred bucks. It's a it seems a little steep,
but again it depends on what part they're using. Hopefully
they're using a part from the dealership, because do not
buy an aftermarket one. Do not buy an after bid one.
(37:30):
Buy one from the deal you know, from mo part
the deal. You don't have to take it to the dealer,
but you want to make sure whoever does the work
that you tell them that you want an original equipment part,
meaning that it comes.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
From the dealer.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Because they're aftermarket ones out there in their garbage. You're
just gonna have to buy one from the dealer. But
fifteen's not fifteen's not ridiculous. But probably around twelve hundred
bucks is the average price. But it's a little steep,
but it might be because they're degreasing the engine and
and everything else. So it's hard to say, but it's not.
(38:06):
It's not ridiculous, it's not completely out of it's not
I know, it's I know, fifteen hundred dollars is expensive,
but they're not pulling the wool of your eyes.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They're not taking advantage of you.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I mean, that's that's a fair price. But you know,
so you're gonna need to do it. But you call
them back whoever looked at it, and you tell why
do I need that? And if they said because it's
leaking oil, which ninety nine percent of the time it's
because it's leaking oil, then yeah, you're gonna have to
do it.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Okay, all right, man, I appreciate that. Right, that was good,
good explanation.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You're very very welcome. You call me anytime you need anything.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Okay, I will thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You're very welcome. You take care.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
So all right, we're running out of time here, but
I have here, uh my my boss at home, my
wife Julie.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
How can I help you? Dear?
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh, this is decclan. What are you doing.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Here's a joke for you.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
A joke? All right, well, let let me hear it.
Speaker 8 (39:12):
What today love that to the sports car?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
What was it? Buddy?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
What did the tornado say to the sports car?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Hmmm? I don't know what What did he say?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Watch a go first?
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Great job? That's great. Do you look that up yourself?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
H well, I like it. I liked it. That was good.
That was a good one. We'll be home.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Hi, buddy, thank you all right, buddy, love you, love
you all right, bye bye.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
He's he's he's my he's my joker. I'll tell you
what he can and uh that's declan.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
He can.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
He can lie to any any any room that he's in,
any uh situation he's in. That boy can light up
the room. Man, He's he's something special. So, uh, I
appreciate the phone call. So but uh listen, we want
to make sure I'll be back next Saturday to answer
all your car questions. Okay, first and foremost, I do
appreciate everybody calling today, and uh the great tips, the
(40:28):
great you know, you know, the great story about you know,
the gentlemant call from Glendale about my uh my grandparents,
and you know, I know he's looking up, you know,
looking down on us and making sure that Donovan Tyre
continues to succeed. And we really really do appreciate especially
(40:50):
this is the time, this is the time of the
year that you know, you know, we love one another
and appreciate everybody, and from the bottom of our hearts
and the down of entire family and team, we really
do appreciate our employees, all of them and what they
do for us.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
We appreciate all of our customer.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Base, because again, without you, the customer base, we're not
Donovan Tire.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
We appreciate everybody that.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Instills their trust faith in us and know that when
they drop their car off that they are being taken
care of. And again, if it's not for the customers,
you know, Donovan Tire doesn't exist. So we really do
appreciate everybody, and thank you to all the listeners as well.
I'm here every Saturday to answer your car question so
(41:42):
i can help you out. And I'm not here to
I'm not here to you know, get your business and
have you come in.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I'm here to try to help you out.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
And again with iHeart, you can call from anywhere in
the country, anywhere in the world really, and the show
was about trying to help you out navigate your car
questions and your car problems and getting your car back
out on the road right because we all have we
all live busy lives and you want to take something
(42:12):
off your plate right, and making sure that your cars
maintained and getting the proper information like the gentleman just
called and said, hey, you know my repair shop said
I need this.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What are your thoughts. Yeah, it's a very common problem
and most.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Likely yes, he needs it, and it's leaking oil, right,
And that's why I come back every Saturday. And this
is why I'm here, because I want to help you
out and get your car fixed.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Whether you bring it to me or not, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I'm here to help you out and give you the
best advice that I can so you can get your
back your your your car back out on the road
so you can get to work, or take care of
your family, or get your kids to sporting events or
you know, or just if you're going on a trip
and you want to make sure that you're ready to go,
or make sure it's ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
I really do appreciate everybody calling, all of our employees
and all of our customers. Guys are great. I can't
thank you guys enough. And again that's why we do this.
So I'll be back next Saturday, answer all of your
car questions, make sure that you're getting at Christmas shopping
and getting I know my wife's getting it done, and
(43:21):
I'll be back again next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
To answer all your car questions.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
I'm Dane Donna from Donovan's Auto entire Center, and you're
listening to the car show on fifty five KRC, the
talk station
The Car Show with Dale and Dane Donovan News
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