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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of those winds you why first stepping out of temple
keeping bin d them of the song on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I gotta keep ro baby a song and.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Maybe want to roll my windows down and close.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
five KRC the talk station. I'm Dame Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center taking your car questions. I'd love to
hear from you the number to call five one three
seven fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three
seven nine fifty five hundred. I hope everybody's enjoying the holidays. Uh,
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you know, we've got a big week coming up here.
You know, I don't know if you know, but a
couple of days from now Wednesday morning, we've got a
lot of them. Uh, We've got some presents coming and
then we've got Santa coming. So I hope everybody's out
there getting their shopping done.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I know I was earlier this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
In fact, I had to text my producer and said, hey,
I am stuck in a line at a store and
I and just.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I made it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Actually was a little bit earlier than I typically typically,
well usually I'm late, so early for me is like
on time. So but yeah, it was it was here
on time today, so but I didn't think I was
gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It was brutal out there just doing some shopping. And
you know, it's tis the season, right, So a couple
of days we've got Christmas and then next week we've
got New Year's and it's twenty twenty five. I cannot
believe how quickly this year has uh has flown by,
and you know, you just you don't you don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, you just go through the day to.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Day, the day to day operations, and you just don't
realize and all of a sudden you blink and boom,
Year's over.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
So, but would be a good idea if you're looking
or thinking about, right, maybe a Christmas present for a
loved one or a family member or a child. Not
a bad idea to get their car repaired. Right, So
they're going to be in town, so probably most college students.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They're probably in town.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Would be a great time to think about that car
instead of calling two days before you know, oh my,
you know, my son and my daughter's leaving for school
two days can you get them in you know, now's
the time to do it. Think about that and just
make sure that that car is ready to go back
to college.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I know it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know it's challenging to try to get the car
out of the out of their control so you can
get it to the repair shop.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But now's the time to start thinking about that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And again, not that anybody wants to get a set
of tires for Christmas. I know that's not probably what
anybody wants, but some people will probably appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right. You might have a friend or a family member,
or maybe just somebody in your local church or your
or your or your.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Local you know, Bible group or you know whatever your
local neighborhood group what and and and they might not
be able to afford some type of car repair or
some type of tire repair or replacement. And it's just
you know, sometimes we get caught up and giving somebody
a present or giving somebody a gift card. Right, but
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let's think about the you know, if you see a
local member of your paris.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That is struggling or maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You know, might need some type of car repair or
a free oil change or or tires or brakes or
something like that I think sometimes we don't think about
those things. We think about just giving gifts. And I
understand that putting tires on somebody's car or it's not
like this magical thing and everybody's going to be stoked
about it, right, but it's something that would they would
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greatly appreciate in the sense that they need that transportation,
They need that vehicle to get there, to get to work,
or to get their children to sports, or get their
children to school or something like that. So just you know,
it's just something to think about, and it doesn't it
can be who any of the listeners. You know. You
don't have to bring it to Donovan's. You can take
it to any of your local repair shops. But just like, hey, listen,
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I want to give you a free set of tires
for your car, you know, and I really think that
people would appreciate that. So it's just a thought. I'm
not saying that you have to do it. It's just
a thought that, hey, look, there are when you're maybe
racking your brain trying to figure out what to get somebody,
and if there's somebody that's in need of some type
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of car repair, would be maybe a great gift. That
I think that they would help. It would definitely help
them out. So it's just a thought, so especially going
into uh are our Christmas or you know, we we've
only got a couple of days left, so think about it.
And we've already seen a little a little bit of snow.
Nothing's really stuck to the ground. Ground's been kind of
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too warm. But listen, we all need tires, we all
need to get back and forth to work in school.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's just something to think about, right.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So uh again, I'm here, love to take your car
questions and number to call five one three seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That number again, five to one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you,
So please give me a call. We're gonna go to
the phones. We've got Bill, Hey, Bill, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
How can I help either?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I have the weird one of the day, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The first first one, first one out of the day too.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah. I bought a twenty one Tundro when I knew
that they were getting away from the B eight.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Why we're in the truck.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Loved it.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
I got we were ended in total in twenty two. Okay,
So I negotiated with the insurance company to pay premium
to get me another twenty one used and I bought
it from a Toyota dealer out of state. The truck
had seventy nine hundred miles on it and it was
pretty close to what I had, so visit deal and
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had the insurance company paid for the premium. I think
Toyota called the platinum warranty on the on the vehicle
and got the truck. Love it, still driving it. My
problem is the first time I took it in for
an oil change, they recorded the mileage, and when I
took it into the second oil change, I had the
truck for over a year now, it had the same mileage.
(06:34):
So the text said, hey, no problem. I couldn't figure
out how to set the I thought it was stuck,
you know, the trip or something was stuck. Text says,
no problem, we'll take care of it bringing in for
a electrical. So I bring it in and he says,
no charge, and you've got the Platinum service. You know
it won't cost you anything. I take it into the electrical.
They find out that the truck was originally built in Canada,
traded in in the States, and the dealer in the
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States that took the truck in swapped the kilometer driven
chip on the odometer for one in Imperial miles, and
in the process rolled the mileage back. So not only
did I not get a truck with seventy nine hundred
miles on it, I got a truck with closer to
forty thousand miles on it. And I've emailed and called them.
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I've been emailing and calling trying to get a live
human for about two months now, and I can't get anyone.
I've sent paper letters through the mail. I know they
got them. You know, I use the tracking information or whatever.
No one will talk to me. So I'm ready to
go to the next level. And that's fire an attorney,
I guess, and do something litigation wise. Is there an
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attorney or an attorney group in Cincinnati that specializes in
auto title and similar issues that you've ever dealt with.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh, that's a that's a great question, and I no,
I man, okay, So well that's that is? That is uh,
that is I've never heard that. That's wild. I didn't
even know.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So. So the dealership, So the dealership that you bought.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It from out of state, they did the chip swap
or okay, and.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Matter of fact, the Toyota Tech they apparently have a
guy that goes dealership to dealership that does her electric work.
He was able to pull up and showed me where
they changed the chip and where they attempted to mess
with whatever. The the control module is that manages the
odometer and oh it gets better when they figured this out.
(08:36):
I got built for the tech time, even though it
was a part of the platinum wartee because Toyota canceled
my warranty because they can't verify the mileage. So I
got to bill to find this out too, and then.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Process, Oh my gosh, what a man that. I'm sorry
you have to go through that. I what a you know,
I have never ever heard that. I mean, I've heard
people rolling o doomeinters back, but in this with the
software that's out there, it's almost impossible. But apparently somebody's
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figured it out. So you got so the truck really
has forty seven thousand miles on it, not seventy nine.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
They're figuring it's somewhere that I got the truck somewhere
between twenty seven and thirty thousand miles based on the
points that they see in the computer, and I'm not
sure exactly how they did this. They gave me a
print out. I don't have a whitnism driving the truck.
The odometer reads seventy nine to fifty six. And now
that I think once this guy pointed it out on
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the oil change, I'm like, yeah, it's been reading that
since I got it. You know, I just figured I
was screwing up, not figured not getting it out of
trip or something like that. So I bought the truck
advertised seventy nine hundred miles on it, and they think
that a year into this it's closer to forty. And
I may have put six or seven on it. I
actually have two trucks, and so I'm I'm looking at
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all I said to put a set of tires on it.
That blew me away too. I'm like, huk's to a
set of tires in eight thousand miles. So that so
I'm looking at depreciation on the mileage, the value is lower.
I paid a premium for this truck to get one
of eight thousand miles on it. Well, State Farm paid
a premium for it, but you get the point. And
then I paid like an extra three or four grand
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State Farm did for this platinum warnty, which Toyota is
now canceled because of the mileage difference.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
She si PETE.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
So my total, my total out. I don't know about
depreciation on the value, but I'd say I'm probably out
close to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wow. Cool, What is the deal? I'm assuming you've called it?
What's the dealership saying?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
I can't get a human to talk to me?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I've emailed the salesman that I bought it from, and
then I about a couple of months ago, I get
a random like hey, or have you thought about buying
a new truck? Email from the dealership. So I get
this guy's email address, I send him a copy of
the of what I said to the salesman.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
I called the dealership. I got the sales manager and
the general manager's information. I left voicemails on probably five
or six occasions for each one of them, and I've
emailed both of them. My last was a letter and
a copy of the information that I got from Toyota
with you know the service ticket number and you know
how they do it in their in their computer system.
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I sent all of that to them with a you know,
a signature required. They signed for it, and I've called
two or three times in the last two weeks trying
to get someone to talk to me about it, and
no one will take my call. So they've not acknowledged me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Gotcha, what what state? I mean, you don't have to
What state is this dealership?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Been Wisconsin and I'm in Ohio right right, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Matter of fact, I've been in your shop several times
there on Ridge. You guys put tires on my F
one fifty the last time. That's what I figured I'd
give you guys a shot. I had no clue what
I management.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, I mean, I have twenty five years of doing this.
I've never heard of. I mean, I've seen people roll
like the you know, the old school old domes back,
but in this digital world, I've never seen or heard this.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
So I don't work from the people were from from
Toyota doesn't say odonanger fraud, but the the service writer
at the Toyota dealership basically took me inside and said, hey,
we're not going to write this down, but you probably
are gonna end up doing something legal with these people
because it looks like what they did was nefarious. Yeah,
and it's a legit Toyota dealership.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
And wis Coston, Man, I wasn't a buyer lot or
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's a legit dealership.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Yeah, all right, Well I'm sorry, Yeah, I figured being exasperated.
I don't know where we're else to look. Well an attorney.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Summer Yeah, Bill, so real quick to uh. It looks
like my next caller's name is Larry. He said he
has a tip for you, So I'm gonna hang out
with you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So continue to listen. He says he has a tip.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, so just stay on, you know, just continue to
listen and then I'm gonna talk to Larry and we'll
find out. But I do need to take a short
break and then i'll get I'll.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Get to Larry. All right, Good luck, bough Man. I'm
sorry you have to go through that. Man. Merry Christmas,
all right, all right, take care, bye bye. Man. I
tell you what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Even even if you brought your car to me and
I inspected it, I'll be honest with you, I don't
we would have never been able to catch that because
we don't have the software to get in there and
do that. But how deceiving, and it's just that's why
it's important to make sure that when you're buying a
vehicle that you get it inspected in it also, well
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I'll talk about it a little bit, but buying aftermarket
warranties as well. I'm furious with a customer, or not
not a customer, but a insurance company that I'm dealing
with right now too. And it's it's important that you
continue to listen to say you need to hear this
because it's just it's not right to buy aftermarket car warranties.
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And it's not right what you know, Bill had to
go through as well. So it's it's important to get
these cars inspected. But I'll be honest with you, I
don't know that we would have been able to call
it because we we would not have been able to
get into the software and determine that. So all right, again,
taking any phone calls in order to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred that number again,
five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Phone lines were wide open. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
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Speaker 1 (14:44):
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Speaker 4 (15:20):
Taking your car questions the number to call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. I always have to pause,
and I do that even though I do this every Saturday.
You know, I've got my all my other locations and
all their numbers, and you always tend to give the
wrong number out I do it. I might do it
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maybe maybe I don't know. Maybe once a month, maybe
once every other week. You know, I've got You've got
the ridge location, the oil change shop, the new auto form,
and you get the radio station. So I want to
make sure I'm sure you know I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope I don't. I'm gonna knock on wood.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Hopefully I don't jinx myself the number to call five
one three. All right, let's go back to the phones.
We've got Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
How can I help Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh, I'm sorry, Larry. I apologize.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
See I screwed it up, Larry, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It was afore Bill we were talking about Bill, So
I apologize.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I heard his story, and first, just if he's listening,
I wouldn't really go to the attorney route because that
can get costly.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
And second, he probably would have.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
To find an attorney license in Wisconsin. Now I do
know firm in Wisconsin. But the easiest thing for him
to do, and he can do it right now, is
get on the computer, google the Attorney General's office in
the state of Wisconsin and follow a complaint against that dealership,
and by god, they'll get it straightened out for him.
They'll threatn I'm going to put people in jail because
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what they did was a criminal activity.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
What he needs to do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
If he's listening, contact Wisconsin State of Tennery's office and
you can file a complaint right online.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay, they'll go after him.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
They'll go after him for him.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I told Bill to stay on.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I told Bill that I was going to get to
you in that to continue to listen.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So stay attorney's office, file a complaint, and.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, yeah, because I mean that's all must a criminal matter.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
I mean it is a criminal Absolutely, they'll pay attention
to them.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Because they can go in here and shut that whole
dealership down. But other than that, I have a.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
Quick question on my own car.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I have a Minza five to ten and I was
just wondering your fault. So I was thinking about trying
to get some kind of ear injection on it and
maybe possibly get a more better muffler or sports muffler,
just to kind of hop it up a little bit.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Do you think that worked for me?
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, I would get uh if I were you. If
it's available Bozel.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Bozo.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Have you ever heard of Bozel?
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No I have not. I mean, you know, it's kind
of hard to find a cold air injection for two
point three that I believe this is uh.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, I mean cold well, the cold air are you
talking about the cold air intake?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I just want to open it up, you know,
an open air one, so to speak, a tube and
then the fielder.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
But it just really seems really hard to.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
Find any dealerships that are willing to do anything car
dealerships that are are not car dealership with mechanic shops.
It's really want to get into that. I mean it's
pretty much just uh, you know, OEM parts and that's it.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, I mean, well you mentioned did you say you
mentioned you wanted to do the exhaust as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's I've got one hundred and fifty on it and
it's got the original muffler on it, so I mean
hurt the replaces. I may get like a flow master
if I didn't know your thoughts on that. I mean,
I don't want nothing to sound too tacky, but uh yeah,
you know I have. Over the summer, I had a
gentleman cut my uh. I think it's called the reservoir all. Really,
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that's why I started thinking about more power, because I
cannot believe the amount.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
Of power and torque the horse power increase by just
cutting that off. It's it's it's insane. Yeah, and I
just want to you know, I've got a fifteen year
old car. I just want to be able to keep
up with today's traffic. And I'll tell you what it
doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, like I said, bozel is an exhaust, it's a muffler.
It's it's an exhaust system that would kind of expand
on the resonator being out. But as far as like
as far as like a cold air intake, I mean,
I don't know if anyone.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Not recommend it for the winner because it gets too cold.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I mean yeah, if I, if I were you, I
would just stick to like just do a kN K
and n CANN.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
And I could buy one of those myself and just
put it in.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I mean, but they have them like cone shape, so
I mean, you can buy one that is just a
regular standard filter rate, which is fine. The problem here,
here's my The problem with the cold air intakes is
a lot of times you know you're you're messing with
the mass hair flow sensor, and you know you can
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get a leak in the system and cause all kinds
of it can cause check engine lines and issues. So
if you went with just a straight up cann filter
change and then the bozil exhaust with the resonator gone.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I think that's where you'll benefit the most.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, well, that actually helps me out a great deal.
I'm glad that because I wanted that's the route I
was thinking about going, exactly what you just told me.
So thank you very much for that recormation trying to
stay away from, you know, the cold air intakes. I'll
tell you years ago, I had a Honda Preate loot
and I went.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
To one of these fast oil and loop shops and
they said, oh, you need a new air filters.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
They put one in, and I'll tell you it just
took about fifty percent of my power aways from that
little car.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Yeah, it was fun to drive.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
It was fun to drive before I went there and
put a probably place some type of cheap air filler.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Or who knows how they might have installed it wrong.
But it is really time the.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Power down off of it.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
So okay, thanks all, I've got stuff. Once off to
that gentleman.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, well, thank you, I'll take care. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The phone lines are man, I appreciate everybody call them,
and you guys are man lighting us up.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So the number call five on three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. Let's go to Gary and Georgetown. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 13 (21:30):
Hello?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Do I need to get off the speaker phone?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes please? If you could?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Okay that better?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Two things illegal issue. But the guy in Wisconsin, what
you need to remember that's one of the Blue States
and back time's not mistaken. That's where Tim Walls came from.
I would not depend on their boards. You have a lawyer,
local lawyer, or do it yourself. You send them saying
you got thirty days to respond, or on you to
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court in Cincinnati or whatever, well, whatever city he's in.
You make them come to you and say we're going
to talk about this in front of a local judge.
And oh it was amazing how these people will settle
with you when they find out they're not going to
be able to do anything but get summoned to court.
And you know, Wisconsin's what three hundred miles away from here.
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Pay a lawyer to come down here. They'll settle with
you out of court. I did this with an insurance company.
My mom had a bad insurance problem. And the insurance
people said, oh no, we can't settle with her. The
end result, well that was they not only paid my
mom's claim, but they also paid me five hundred dollars
as a consulting fee, just to keep you pursuing them.
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But you know, sue them locally here in the area.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Don't.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
Don't try to get an attorney in Wisconsin. The other
thing is on the mufflers. I heard you were talking
about that. I've got a very rare Toyota. It's an
eighty seven yum that has that high performance four valve
for cylinder two liter and if I see transmissioned I
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when I got the car, it had about two hundred
thousand miles on it, and I had a somebody put
a core term turbo muffler on it, which is cute
but it's noisy. I did some praying. A lot of
people don't want to hear that I do. All of
me had to do this thing. I went underneath the
car and majured the space that I could have and
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muffler put in. I then went to the muffler catalogs
at the local car dealership excuse me, the parch companies,
and said, what have you got here in a This
was a twenty nineteen twenty twenty twenty one muffler. I
got the highest performance, quietest muffer I could for I
think it was a Cadillac, but it was a twenty
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twenty one model muffler being put on a nineteen eighty
seven cars. The new mufflers have all of the built
in tricks that most of these hype performance mufflers do,
but they're made to be quiet. So this was a
single in let, dual outlet muffler. It was about twice
the size of the turbo muffler that I took off
of there. Then I added two of those little resonator tips,
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got them from all the Zonner something and well to
them on. Don't put them all with the bolt, so
you'll find them lying by the side of the road
like I've seen another one lying there. They put them
on and then have somebody tack well the thing right
up against the muffler. Well, when I did that, the
call got way more power, and it was actually quieter
than what I took off of there. Some getting better mileage,
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better power. And what I did was that, you know,
put a stock muffer, but it was for a bigger cost,
like one of those big three hundred and ninety or
whatever cuping ung engines versus my little ninety one c
C engine you know, whatever it is. Pardon me, two
thousand cc ninety one kis against this, but that's what
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worked for me, and I got the high performance, but
without all the rockets.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
All right, well, great, I appreciate that.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Okay, Well have less and y'all have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You too as well. Thank you for the question. You
have a great day. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
All right again, take your phone calls and I'm gonna
call it five on three seven. Uh coming up, We've
got uh, we have Jim, Jim, Yeah, Jim, Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Tim and Tom so Uh everybody.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I appreciate your phone calls and continue to hold and
I will take care of them. And thank you so
much for listening to our show on fifty five krs
the talk station.
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Speaker 2 (26:17):
Welcome back and taking your car questions.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
The number to call five one three, seven, four nine
fifty five one hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
entire Center located in the heart of Cincinnati, Ohio, of course,
and we have multiple locations, so just go to donovantire
dot com and you can find your local closest location whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Part town you're in.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So love to hear from you, so love to take
care of it, and that's why I'm here every Saturday
to answer your car questions. So whatever it may pertain
to the vehicle, that's what I'm here for. And I
do this every Saturday just to you know, and it's
not to just have you come to Donovan's. It's just
to give you guidance and to try to help you
out because there are so many conversations that we need
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to have, and there's so many times and if you
listen to me a lot, there's so many times I
talk about, you know, oil changes, which is the simplest,
most ridiculous thing that I get upset about. And then
you know, just general maintenance and making sure that you
know you can keep your car on the road as
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long as you possibly can. I know that it's a
depreciating asset, but really you need to make sure you
keep that car on the road as long as you
possibly can. And that's what I'm here for again every Saturday.
And if you don't have time, or if I can't
get to you on Saturdays, you're welcome to call me
at work Monday through Friday. I will take your question
(27:46):
and you can call me and say, hey, Dan, what
do you think about this? Love to hear from me.
I'd love to take care of you. This all right,
let's go back to the phones we've got Jim. Hey, Jim,
welcome to the car show. I appreciate your holding. How
can I help you?
Speaker 15 (27:57):
Yes, I'll friend of mine was telling me that the
unletted eighty eight is a lot better than the regular
eighty seven and the medium eighty nine in the premium
ninety three are those made for certain cars or for
or certain engines.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's the blue hose the gas stations.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, I've never what I've never seen a blue hose
you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
There's the e eighty five, which is the yellow cap
and the yellow hose, and right next to that it
is a blue hose with eighty eight, and.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Then next to that is the stuff that we.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
All use eighty seven, eighty nine and ninety three.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll be honest with you, I've never seen a blue
I mean, obviously, the e eighty five is fanol that.
I mean some cars. You can't put that in every car.
But the blue hoe's what part I don't. I mean,
I've only I've only seen eighty seven eighty ninety three.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
Okay, I mean Thornton's cases, they've got them.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I guess I need to.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Pay attention more. I've never seen that. But okay, I've
never seen that. But geesel pizza. So where do you
see them at?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
At Thornton's Thornton's and Casey's.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Casey's. Where's Casey's at?
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Is there one close Uh, it's up here in Butler County, Okay,
there's four or five of them up this direction, but
Thornton's is all.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Over right, So you've got you've got your standard hos.
You know, obviously you got diesel. You're eighty five, and
you're eighty seven, eighty nine and ninety three.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But there's an eighty eight with a blue hose.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yes, good God, I don't know what rock I've been
living under, but.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I I don't. I've never seen I've never seen one.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
But anyways, anyways, we've had this conversation before. I mean,
as far as your eight, you know, obviously you have
to make sure obviously, if your car is gasoline, you
don't use diesel, right, and then if your car is not.
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But as far as eighty eight, god, I've never I've
just never seen it. But anyways, should it shouldn't be
an issue. I've never I've had this conversation multiple times.
I've never seen somebody's car break down or prematurely break down,
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or there're be an issue because of the fuel that
they used, in the sense that as long as it's unleaded, right,
you gotta make sure if.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You're takes eighty five and you can.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Put it in there if it takes diesel, but as
far as eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And okay, I don't think you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Have anyka You'll you'll have to look next time. Okay,
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I've never seen a blue gas hose. I mean, listen,
I'm I'm forty years old. I have never seen a
blue gas hose. I'm I guess I'm just puzzled.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I just I don't know. I'm gonna look.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I'm driving past the Thornton's after i leave here, and
I'll find out if they've got a blue hose.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But I've never seen it.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
If you've seen it, call me apparently I've I'm pretty
I'm a pretty vigilant person, and I have never seen
a blue gas hose. So I'm I don't know, I
don't know what he Maybe I've just completely missed the question.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
So all right, let's go back to the phones you've got. Dan. Hey, Dan,
welcome to the car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I'm a long time listener to the Car Show on Saturday,
and I have an Accura two thousand and seven TSX,
and I brought It has two hundred and fifty nine
thousand miles, and I brought it to your shop a
short time ago. I don't know if you remember me
or not.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I do. It's a white car.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
It had like two hundred and yeah fifty or two
hundred and thirty thousand miles on it, two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hundred and fifty nine thousand, and I had all kinds
of trouble with an FCN failure and all kinds of
communications that were showing on the display, TSP, TSPM issues,
kind of the display was acting like an alternator was
going out, and my regular, my regular mechanic, he did
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not have all the diagnostics that he needed. And I
had called you on the phone, and once again you
don't know me from Adam. I call you and I
share with you what's going on, and you said, let
me look into it a little bit. And then the
following day you and I communicate once again and we
talked about it, and you're still really not sure what
the problem is. And then you say, I'll get back
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to you. And what you did was you did a
bunch of research. And that's what the listening audience needs
to know about the call.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Today.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You went out of your way. You went the extra
mile from me, and you found out what was wrong
with my car. I ordered a part that was necessary
off of Amazon. I brought the car over to your
shop and you worked on it. You had it for
three or four days, if I recall, and you and
a number of your technicians had driven it around. I
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called you on a Friday and you said, hey, let
me keep it over the weekend, and you come back
on Monday. And I came in on that Monday and
I said what do I owe you? And you said, well, listen,
take it home. And this is what's really unusual that
your listeners really need to hear this. This is unbelievable.
And I will continue to bring my cars to you
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because of this. You said to me, take it home.
I didn't pay anything at that time. Take it home,
drive it, make sure that it's fixed correctly, and then
get back to me. And that's what I did. And
I'll tell you what that car has been driving magnificently.
I'm a nut about my car. The communications on the
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car from the repair are perfect.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
The cars running like a gem.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I've got to fifty nine on it right now, and
I will keep it for a long time to come.
For those of you out there who are listening to
the car show today, I'll tell you what. You want
to go to a place that is clean. You want
to go to a place where they have professionals in
the office. Go to Dane's Carcare. They do a great job.
So that's the reason for my call, buddy, Dan.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I appreciate that, I really do, because you know, that's
why I'm here, That's what you know, that's what ultimately
I'm just here to do. I don't always fix everybody's
car perfectly, but to get in a praise like that,
I really do appreciate it because.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I yeah, ninety nine percent.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We live in a society whether no matter if you're
a dentist or car McCant whatever, right, we live in
a society where you only hear negative feedback, you never
hear a positive feedback.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
And I appreciate that, I really do.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
You're very welcome, and Dane. My father owned two service
stations and he had two men that worked for him
his entire career, their entire careers. One he was honest,
He was a good businessman. He was straight up front,
very forward, and he charged a fair price. Everybody's in
business to make a dollar, no doubt about it. But
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it was a fair price and if there was ever
an issue, you know, they came back and Dad fixed
it and there was no problems. So once again, I
thank you, buddy, and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right, Well, thank you so much. I can't thank
you enough for the phone call.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It it means a means a world to me, because
I mean, that's that's what I'm here to just help everybody. Yes, yes,
of course I'm here to work on cars and make money,
but it's it's also about taking care of the customer.
And you know, especially this time of the year, it's
it's it's about taking care of customers and taking care
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of people. Unfortunately, we live kind of in a society
where that doesn't always happen, right, But I'm kind of
getting choked up because I mean, you just.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
In the bottom of my heart, it's always about.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Making an honest living and you know, just taking care
of people.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And I genuinely want to do that.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
And I don't want anybody think, especially if I'm on
this radio station and somebody brings their car to me,
that my motive here is to drive you to to
Donovan Tire and to get more business.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That my motive is to an our motive and our
job as.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Mechanics and at Donovan Tire is to make sure that
you can get back out on the road and then
we fix your car correctly. And sometimes it takes I
sometimes it might take two or three trips before we
get it right. But I'm gonna at the end of
the day, I'm gonna make it right. At Donovan's We're
gonna make it right. And I you know, for that gentleman,
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you know, I said, hey, listen, you know, let's see
what we can do. And and we fixed it and
and that's that's That's all I can ask for, is
that somebody appreciates the hard work and what we do
at Donovan Tire right and what we why we're here
every Saturday at this at the station to make sure
that we could try to get your car fixed and
(37:52):
not always necessarily cause you know, at iHeart, you know,
everybody can you can hear me from anywhere in the world, right,
as long as you have.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
An Internet connection, you can hear me.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
And it's it's purely to make sure that we could
try to help you out and fix your car and
make it right. And if you're locally and you and
you listen and I and you want to bring your
car to me, I want to make sure that I
take care of you. But if you're not, if you're
calling from Florida or you know, we get a lot
of calls from Florida, New York. And if I can
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help you and guide you, that's why I'm here. And
so I can't. I can't appreciate the phone call enough.
It was really do appreciate it so and that's that's
why I do what I do. So, uh, thank you
so much. So all right, coming up, We've got We've
got Tim, Tom and Rick. You're listening to the car
showing fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 4 (39:12):
Welcome back taking your car questions. I really do appreciate
everybody calling. Man, I wish I could get to everybody.
I think I'm gonna be honest with you. Uh, I
will try to get to everybody. We've got Tim, Tom,
and Rick. Let's go back to the phones. We've got Tim.
Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (39:31):
I have a nineteen ninety five Chevrolet thirty five hundred
HD with the seven point four and I'm thinking about
replacing the throttle body fuel injectors. Would it be better
to get the Delco injectors or like I said of
echellons from NAPA.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Sorry I'm coughing, uh no, Delco one hundred percent Delco? Yeah.
You know. Are you gonna do the work yourself?
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
And I tell people every time, if you're doing the
work yourself, you're already saving a tremendous amount of money, right,
So spend the money and get the quality, especially an injector.
If it was like break pads or an air filter. No,
you don't need an AC delco. You're you're talking about
a fuel injector get the AC delco, get the original equipment. Yes,
it's gonna cost you a little bit more, but you're
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doing it yourself. You're already saving money on the labor
and the diagnostic and everything else.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So buy the Delco.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
You think I should put the fuel pressure spring in
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, it.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
Runs okay, but the gas milage isn't very good.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well you think about is it? I'm sorry you may
have said this, is it a diesel or it's yeah
for okay? Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Not gonna be very few efficient. But I was trying
to get a little bit more than six miles a gallon.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, I how many miles are on it?
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Like a hundred and seventy?
Speaker 9 (41:19):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (41:20):
I mean, have you recently done a tune up as
far as you know, spark plugs and.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Yeah, I got plug caps, wires, new fuel pump, and
I put the map sensor and a new UH temperature
sensor for the engine.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
All right.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Now, dude, No, I mean if you've done all that,
then you have ac DUCA fuel injectors.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I mean, you know, you could run into.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
The issue where you know, you could have a break
calip or something that's hanging up or low tire pressure
that can cause you know, bad fuel economy as well.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I mean, don't rule that out.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Well.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
I already put all new Breake calipers on at when
I bought the truck, because okay, it's an old County
truck and it was, you know, like one of those
female drivers where the disc wasn't turning anymore because it
wore through to the fins and broke free from the hub.
Speaker 16 (42:15):
Yeah, good lord, Yeah, okay, yeah, do the Delco And
if you've done everything else, then I would do Delco
hands down.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Okay, that's what major question was.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
All right, Tim, thank you man, I appreciate the question.
Have a happy holiday. All right, Let's go to the
phones real quick. We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to
the car show.
Speaker 13 (42:36):
How can I help Hey, Tom?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah? Absolutely, I don't want to be rude. I don't
want to cut you off.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I just we're going to run out of time here
in about two minutes, so I'd love to help you out.
Speaker 13 (42:50):
Yeah, I can get right to it. This is a
simple one. Probably. I have a ninety one Martha r
X seven. Of course, it's a rotary convertible, and I
haven't driven it. It's been sitting in the garage for
about three years, hands about, you know, forty forty five
thousand miles on it, and I'm ready to pull it
out of the garage and you know, drive it around
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a little bit, and I'm wondering what I need to
do to not damage it when I started back up.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Well, that's a great question. I mean, to be honest
with you, has the gas been in there? So the
gas hasn't been changed in three years?
Speaker 2 (43:29):
That's correct, Okay. I mean I.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Personally, I wouldn't try to start it. I think you
might cause yourself some headache. What I would recommend is
it getting towed to a repair shop, draining the gas,
and then with the rotary engine. I mean, there's a
certain way that those things have to be. Typically what
we would do, because when Maser brought that rotary engine back,
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they would have all kinds of starting issues and you
literally would have to take the spark plugs out, fill
the engine with transmission fluid to try to get that
thing on.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I personally, wouldn't try to start it.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
I would get it to a recommend or, you know,
a reputable car shop and get the gas out of
there and try to do new spark plugs and then
probably fill those cylinder holes with I'd get it to
a reputable shop. I wouldn't try to start it. I
think you might give yourself a little bit of a
might create more of a headache and cost you more money.
Speaker 13 (44:26):
Yeah, I don't want to heart it after I screwed up.
Which one of your locations is closest to Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah, it would be my Auto Foreign of Northern Kentucky.
Might the shop that I'm at every every day is
it's Donovan's Auto Foreign.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
We would be able to handle that for you.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Uh yeah, that's the new one. We're about ten miles
out of downtown, so.
Speaker 13 (44:53):
Super super all right. Well, well I'll see you there.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Yeah, call me up on Monday. I'll be there Monday.
Call me up and I'll schedule you. All right, Thank you,
Thanks Tom, take care, Rick. Listen, Rick, I apologize, I'm
sure you're listening. I'm sorry we're out of time. I
really do appreciate it. Please call me you can call
me this week if you'd like, or call me next week.
Thank you everybody for the car questions today. Everybody have
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a happy and safe Christmas. I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all your car questions. You're listening to the
Car Show on fifty five KRC, the talk station
Of those winds you why first stepping out of temple
keeping bin d them of the song on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I gotta keep ro baby a song and.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Maybe want to roll my windows down and close.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
five KRC the talk station. I'm Dame Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center taking your car questions. I'd love to
hear from you the number to call five one three
seven fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three
seven nine fifty five hundred. I hope everybody's enjoying the holidays. Uh,
(00:48):
you know, we've got a big week coming up here.
You know, I don't know if you know, but a
couple of days from now Wednesday morning, we've got a
lot of them. Uh, We've got some presents coming and
then we've got Santa coming. So I hope everybody's out
there getting their shopping done.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I know I was earlier this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
In fact, I had to text my producer and said, hey,
I am stuck in a line at a store and
I and just.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I made it.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Actually was a little bit earlier than I typically typically,
well usually I'm late, so early for me is like
on time. So but yeah, it was it was here
on time today, so but I didn't think I was
gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It was brutal out there just doing some shopping. And
you know, it's tis the season, right, So a couple
of days we've got Christmas and then next week we've
got New Year's and it's twenty twenty five. I cannot
believe how quickly this year has uh has flown by,
and you know, you just you don't you don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, you just go through the day to.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Day, the day to day operations, and you just don't
realize and all of a sudden you blink and boom,
Year's over.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So it's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
So, but would be a good idea if you're looking
or thinking about, right, maybe a Christmas present for a
loved one or a family member or a child. Not
a bad idea to get their car repaired. Right, So
they're going to be in town, so probably most college students.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They're probably in town.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Would be a great time to think about that car
instead of calling two days before you know, oh my,
you know, my son and my daughter's leaving for school
two days can you get them in you know, now's
the time to do it. Think about that and just
make sure that that car is ready to go back
to college.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I know it's difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know it's challenging to try to get the car
out of the out of their control so you can
get it to the repair shop.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But now's the time to start thinking about that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And again, not that anybody wants to get a set
of tires for Christmas. I know that's not probably what
anybody wants, but some people will probably appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right. You might have a friend or a family member,
or maybe just somebody in your local church or your
or your or your.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Local you know, Bible group or you know whatever your
local neighborhood group what and and and they might not
be able to afford some type of car repair or
some type of tire repair or replacement. And it's just
you know, sometimes we get caught up and giving somebody
a present or giving somebody a gift card. Right, but
(03:35):
let's think about the you know, if you see a
local member of your paris.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That is struggling or maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You know, might need some type of car repair or
a free oil change or or tires or brakes or
something like that I think sometimes we don't think about
those things. We think about just giving gifts. And I
understand that putting tires on somebody's car or it's not
like this magical thing and everybody's going to be stoked
about it, right, but it's something that would they would
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greatly appreciate in the sense that they need that transportation,
They need that vehicle to get there, to get to work,
or to get their children to sports, or get their
children to school or something like that. So just you know,
it's just something to think about, and it doesn't it
can be who any of the listeners. You know. You
don't have to bring it to Donovan's. You can take
it to any of your local repair shops. But just like, hey, listen,
(04:29):
I want to give you a free set of tires
for your car, you know, and I really think that
people would appreciate that. So it's just a thought. I'm
not saying that you have to do it. It's just
a thought that, hey, look, there are when you're maybe
racking your brain trying to figure out what to get somebody,
and if there's somebody that's in need of some type
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of car repair, would be maybe a great gift. That
I think that they would help. It would definitely help
them out. So it's just a thought, so especially going
into uh are our Christmas or you know, we we've
only got a couple of days left, so think about it.
And we've already seen a little a little bit of snow.
Nothing's really stuck to the ground. Ground's been kind of
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too warm. But listen, we all need tires, we all
need to get back and forth to work in school.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's just something to think about, right.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So uh again, I'm here, love to take your car
questions and number to call five one three seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That number again, five to one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you,
So please give me a call. We're gonna go to
the phones. We've got Bill, Hey, Bill, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
How can I help either?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I have the weird one of the day, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The first first one, first one out of the day too.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah. I bought a twenty one Tundro when I knew
that they were getting away from the B eight.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Why we're in the truck.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Loved it.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
I got we were ended in total in twenty two. Okay,
So I negotiated with the insurance company to pay premium
to get me another twenty one used and I bought
it from a Toyota dealer out of state. The truck
had seventy nine hundred miles on it and it was
pretty close to what I had, so visit deal and
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had the insurance company paid for the premium. I think
Toyota called the platinum warranty on the on the vehicle
and got the truck. Love it, still driving it. My
problem is the first time I took it in for
an oil change, they recorded the mileage, and when I
took it into the second oil change, I had the
truck for over a year now, it had the same mileage.
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So the text said, hey, no problem. I couldn't figure
out how to set the I thought it was stuck,
you know, the trip or something was stuck. Text says,
no problem, we'll take care of it bringing in for
a electrical. So I bring it in and he says,
no charge, and you've got the Platinum service. You know
it won't cost you anything. I take it into the electrical.
They find out that the truck was originally built in Canada,
traded in in the States, and the dealer in the
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States that took the truck in swapped the kilometer driven
chip on the odometer for one in Imperial miles, and
in the process rolled the mileage back. So not only
did I not get a truck with seventy nine hundred
miles on it, I got a truck with closer to
forty thousand miles on it. And I've emailed and called them.
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I've been emailing and calling trying to get a live
human for about two months now, and I can't get anyone.
I've sent paper letters through the mail. I know they
got them. You know, I use the tracking information or whatever.
No one will talk to me. So I'm ready to
go to the next level. And that's fire an attorney,
I guess, and do something litigation wise. Is there an
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attorney or an attorney group in Cincinnati that specializes in
auto title and similar issues that you've ever dealt with.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh, that's a that's a great question, and I no,
I man, okay, So well that's that is? That is uh,
that is I've never heard that. That's wild. I didn't
even know.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So. So the dealership, So the dealership that you bought.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It from out of state, they did the chip swap
or okay, and.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Matter of fact, the Toyota Tech they apparently have a
guy that goes dealership to dealership that does her electric work.
He was able to pull up and showed me where
they changed the chip and where they attempted to mess
with whatever. The the control module is that manages the
odometer and oh it gets better when they figured this out.
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I got built for the tech time, even though it
was a part of the platinum wartee because Toyota canceled
my warranty because they can't verify the mileage. So I
got to bill to find this out too, and then.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Process, Oh my gosh, what a man that. I'm sorry
you have to go through that. I what a you know,
I have never ever heard that. I mean, I've heard
people rolling o doomeinters back, but in this with the
software that's out there, it's almost impossible. But apparently somebody's
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figured it out. So you got so the truck really
has forty seven thousand miles on it, not seventy nine.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
They're figuring it's somewhere that I got the truck somewhere
between twenty seven and thirty thousand miles based on the
points that they see in the computer, and I'm not
sure exactly how they did this. They gave me a
print out. I don't have a whitnism driving the truck.
The odometer reads seventy nine to fifty six. And now
that I think once this guy pointed it out on
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the oil change, I'm like, yeah, it's been reading that
since I got it. You know, I just figured I
was screwing up, not figured not getting it out of
trip or something like that. So I bought the truck
advertised seventy nine hundred miles on it, and they think
that a year into this it's closer to forty. And
I may have put six or seven on it. I
actually have two trucks, and so I'm I'm looking at
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all I said to put a set of tires on it.
That blew me away too. I'm like, huk's to a
set of tires in eight thousand miles. So that so
I'm looking at depreciation on the mileage, the value is lower.
I paid a premium for this truck to get one
of eight thousand miles on it. Well, State Farm paid
a premium for it, but you get the point. And
then I paid like an extra three or four grand
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State Farm did for this platinum warnty, which Toyota is
now canceled because of the mileage difference.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
She si PETE.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
So my total, my total out. I don't know about
depreciation on the value, but I'd say I'm probably out
close to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wow. Cool, What is the deal? I'm assuming you've called it?
What's the dealership saying?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
I can't get a human to talk to me?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I've emailed the salesman that I bought it from, and
then I about a couple of months ago, I get
a random like hey, or have you thought about buying
a new truck? Email from the dealership. So I get
this guy's email address, I send him a copy of
the of what I said to the salesman.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
I called the dealership. I got the sales manager and
the general manager's information. I left voicemails on probably five
or six occasions for each one of them, and I've
emailed both of them. My last was a letter and
a copy of the information that I got from Toyota
with you know the service ticket number and you know
how they do it in their in their computer system.
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I sent all of that to them with a you know,
a signature required. They signed for it, and I've called
two or three times in the last two weeks trying
to get someone to talk to me about it, and
no one will take my call. So they've not acknowledged me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Gotcha, what what state? I mean, you don't have to
What state is this dealership?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Been Wisconsin and I'm in Ohio right right, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Matter of fact, I've been in your shop several times
there on Ridge. You guys put tires on my F
one fifty the last time. That's what I figured I'd
give you guys a shot. I had no clue what
I management.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, I mean, I have twenty five years of doing this.
I've never heard of. I mean, I've seen people roll
like the you know, the old school old domes back,
but in this digital world, I've never seen or heard this.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
So I don't work from the people were from from
Toyota doesn't say odonanger fraud, but the the service writer
at the Toyota dealership basically took me inside and said, hey,
we're not going to write this down, but you probably
are gonna end up doing something legal with these people
because it looks like what they did was nefarious. Yeah,
and it's a legit Toyota dealership.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
And wis Coston, Man, I wasn't a buyer lot or
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's a legit dealership.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Yeah, all right, Well I'm sorry, Yeah, I figured being exasperated.
I don't know where we're else to look. Well an attorney.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Summer Yeah, Bill, so real quick to uh. It looks
like my next caller's name is Larry. He said he
has a tip for you, So I'm gonna hang out
with you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
So continue to listen. He says he has a tip.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, so just stay on, you know, just continue to
listen and then I'm gonna talk to Larry and we'll
find out. But I do need to take a short
break and then i'll get I'll.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Get to Larry. All right, Good luck, bough Man. I'm
sorry you have to go through that. Man. Merry Christmas,
all right, all right, take care, bye bye. Man. I
tell you what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Even even if you brought your car to me and
I inspected it, I'll be honest with you, I don't
we would have never been able to catch that because
we don't have the software to get in there and
do that. But how deceiving, and it's just that's why
it's important to make sure that when you're buying a
vehicle that you get it inspected in it also, well
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I'll talk about it a little bit, but buying aftermarket
warranties as well. I'm furious with a customer, or not
not a customer, but a insurance company that I'm dealing
with right now too. And it's it's important that you
continue to listen to say you need to hear this
because it's just it's not right to buy aftermarket car warranties.
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And it's not right what you know, Bill had to
go through as well. So it's it's important to get
these cars inspected. But I'll be honest with you, I
don't know that we would have been able to call
it because we we would not have been able to
get into the software and determine that. So all right, again,
taking any phone calls in order to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred that number again,
five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Phone lines were wide open. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
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Speaker 4 (15:20):
Taking your car questions the number to call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. I always have to pause,
and I do that even though I do this every Saturday.
You know, I've got my all my other locations and
all their numbers, and you always tend to give the
wrong number out I do it. I might do it
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maybe maybe I don't know. Maybe once a month, maybe
once every other week. You know, I've got You've got
the ridge location, the oil change shop, the new auto form,
and you get the radio station. So I want to
make sure I'm sure you know I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope I don't. I'm gonna knock on wood.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Hopefully I don't jinx myself the number to call five
one three. All right, let's go back to the phones.
We've got Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
How can I help Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh, I'm sorry, Larry. I apologize.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
See I screwed it up, Larry, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How can I help you?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
It was afore Bill we were talking about Bill, So
I apologize.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
Can I help you?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I heard his story, and first, just if he's listening,
I wouldn't really go to the attorney route because that
can get costly.
Speaker 11 (16:33):
And second, he probably would have.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
To find an attorney license in Wisconsin. Now I do
know firm in Wisconsin. But the easiest thing for him
to do, and he can do it right now, is
get on the computer, google the Attorney General's office in
the state of Wisconsin and follow a complaint against that dealership,
and by god, they'll get it straightened out for him.
They'll threatn I'm going to put people in jail because
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what they did was a criminal activity.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
What he needs to do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
If he's listening, contact Wisconsin State of Tennery's office and
you can file a complaint right online.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay, they'll go after him.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
They'll go after him for him.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I told Bill to stay on.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I told Bill that I was going to get to
you in that to continue to listen.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So stay attorney's office, file a complaint, and.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, yeah, because I mean that's all must a criminal matter.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
I mean it is a criminal Absolutely, they'll pay attention
to them.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Because they can go in here and shut that whole
dealership down. But other than that, I have a.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
Quick question on my own car.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I have a Minza five to ten and I was
just wondering your fault. So I was thinking about trying
to get some kind of ear injection on it and
maybe possibly get a more better muffler or sports muffler,
just to kind of hop it up a little bit.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Do you think that worked for me?
Speaker 10 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, I would get uh if I were you. If
it's available Bozel.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Bozo.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Have you ever heard of Bozel?
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No I have not. I mean, you know, it's kind
of hard to find a cold air injection for two
point three that I believe this is uh.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, I mean cold well, the cold air are you
talking about the cold air intake?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, I just want to open it up, you know,
an open air one, so to speak, a tube and
then the fielder.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
But it just really seems really hard to.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
Find any dealerships that are willing to do anything car
dealerships that are are not car dealership with mechanic shops.
It's really want to get into that. I mean it's
pretty much just uh, you know, OEM parts and that's it.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, I mean, well you mentioned did you say you
mentioned you wanted to do the exhaust as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's I've got one hundred and fifty on it and
it's got the original muffler on it, so I mean
hurt the replaces. I may get like a flow master
if I didn't know your thoughts on that. I mean,
I don't want nothing to sound too tacky, but uh yeah,
you know I have. Over the summer, I had a
gentleman cut my uh. I think it's called the reservoir all. Really,
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that's why I started thinking about more power, because I
cannot believe the amount.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
Of power and torque the horse power increase by just
cutting that off. It's it's it's insane. Yeah, and I
just want to you know, I've got a fifteen year
old car. I just want to be able to keep
up with today's traffic. And I'll tell you what it
doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, like I said, bozel is an exhaust, it's a muffler.
It's it's an exhaust system that would kind of expand
on the resonator being out. But as far as like
as far as like a cold air intake, I mean,
I don't know if anyone.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Not recommend it for the winner because it gets too cold.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I mean yeah, if I, if I were you, I
would just stick to like just do a kN K
and n CANN.
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
And I could buy one of those myself and just
put it in.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I mean, but they have them like cone shape, so
I mean, you can buy one that is just a
regular standard filter rate, which is fine. The problem here,
here's my The problem with the cold air intakes is
a lot of times you know you're you're messing with
the mass hair flow sensor, and you know you can
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get a leak in the system and cause all kinds
of it can cause check engine lines and issues. So
if you went with just a straight up cann filter
change and then the bozil exhaust with the resonator gone.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I think that's where you'll benefit the most.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, well, that actually helps me out a great deal.
I'm glad that because I wanted that's the route I
was thinking about going, exactly what you just told me.
So thank you very much for that recormation trying to
stay away from, you know, the cold air intakes. I'll
tell you years ago, I had a Honda Preate loot
and I went.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
To one of these fast oil and loop shops and
they said, oh, you need a new air filters.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
They put one in, and I'll tell you it just
took about fifty percent of my power aways from that
little car.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Yeah, it was fun to drive.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
It was fun to drive before I went there and
put a probably place some type of cheap air filler.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Or who knows how they might have installed it wrong.
But it is really time the.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Power down off of it.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
So okay, thanks all, I've got stuff. Once off to
that gentleman.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, well, thank you, I'll take care. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The phone lines are man, I appreciate everybody call them,
and you guys are man lighting us up.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So the number call five on three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. Let's go to Gary and Georgetown. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 13 (21:30):
Hello?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Do I need to get off the speaker phone?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes please? If you could?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Okay that better?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Two things illegal issue. But the guy in Wisconsin, what
you need to remember that's one of the Blue States
and back time's not mistaken. That's where Tim Walls came from.
I would not depend on their boards. You have a lawyer,
local lawyer, or do it yourself. You send them saying
you got thirty days to respond, or on you to
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court in Cincinnati or whatever, well, whatever city he's in.
You make them come to you and say we're going
to talk about this in front of a local judge.
And oh it was amazing how these people will settle
with you when they find out they're not going to
be able to do anything but get summoned to court.
And you know, Wisconsin's what three hundred miles away from here.
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Pay a lawyer to come down here. They'll settle with
you out of court. I did this with an insurance company.
My mom had a bad insurance problem. And the insurance
people said, oh no, we can't settle with her. The
end result, well that was they not only paid my
mom's claim, but they also paid me five hundred dollars
as a consulting fee, just to keep you pursuing them.
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But you know, sue them locally here in the area.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Don't.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
Don't try to get an attorney in Wisconsin. The other
thing is on the mufflers. I heard you were talking
about that. I've got a very rare Toyota. It's an
eighty seven yum that has that high performance four valve
for cylinder two liter and if I see transmissioned I
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when I got the car, it had about two hundred
thousand miles on it, and I had a somebody put
a core term turbo muffler on it, which is cute
but it's noisy. I did some praying. A lot of
people don't want to hear that I do. All of
me had to do this thing. I went underneath the
car and majured the space that I could have and
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muffler put in. I then went to the muffler catalogs
at the local car dealership excuse me, the parch companies,
and said, what have you got here in a This
was a twenty nineteen twenty twenty twenty one muffler. I
got the highest performance, quietest muffer I could for I
think it was a Cadillac, but it was a twenty
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twenty one model muffler being put on a nineteen eighty
seven cars. The new mufflers have all of the built
in tricks that most of these hype performance mufflers do,
but they're made to be quiet. So this was a
single in let, dual outlet muffler. It was about twice
the size of the turbo muffler that I took off
of there. Then I added two of those little resonator tips,
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got them from all the Zonner something and well to
them on. Don't put them all with the bolt, so
you'll find them lying by the side of the road
like I've seen another one lying there. They put them
on and then have somebody tack well the thing right
up against the muffler. Well, when I did that, the
call got way more power, and it was actually quieter
than what I took off of there. Some getting better mileage,
(24:44):
better power. And what I did was that, you know,
put a stock muffer, but it was for a bigger cost,
like one of those big three hundred and ninety or
whatever cuping ung engines versus my little ninety one c
C engine you know, whatever it is. Pardon me, two
thousand cc ninety one kis against this, but that's what
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worked for me, and I got the high performance, but
without all the rockets.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
All right, well, great, I appreciate that.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Okay, Well have less and y'all have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You too as well. Thank you for the question. You
have a great day. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
All right again, take your phone calls and I'm gonna
call it five on three seven. Uh coming up, We've
got uh, we have Jim, Jim, Yeah, Jim, Dan.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Tim and Tom so Uh everybody.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I appreciate your phone calls and continue to hold and
I will take care of them. And thank you so
much for listening to our show on fifty five krs
the talk station.
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The number to call five one three, seven, four nine
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Speaker 2 (26:42):
Part town you're in.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
So love to hear from you, so love to take
care of it, and that's why I'm here every Saturday
to answer your car questions. So whatever it may pertain
to the vehicle, that's what I'm here for. And I
do this every Saturday just to you know, and it's
not to just have you come to Donovan's. It's just
to give you guidance and to try to help you
out because there are so many conversations that we need
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to have, and there's so many times and if you
listen to me a lot, there's so many times I
talk about, you know, oil changes, which is the simplest,
most ridiculous thing that I get upset about. And then
you know, just general maintenance and making sure that you
know you can keep your car on the road as
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long as you possibly can. I know that it's a
depreciating asset, but really you need to make sure you
keep that car on the road as long as you
possibly can. And that's what I'm here for again every Saturday.
And if you don't have time, or if I can't
get to you on Saturdays, you're welcome to call me
at work Monday through Friday. I will take your question
(27:46):
and you can call me and say, hey, Dan, what
do you think about this? Love to hear from me.
I'd love to take care of you. This all right,
let's go back to the phones we've got Jim. Hey, Jim,
welcome to the car show. I appreciate your holding. How
can I help you?
Speaker 15 (27:57):
Yes, I'll friend of mine was telling me that the
unletted eighty eight is a lot better than the regular
eighty seven and the medium eighty nine in the premium
ninety three are those made for certain cars or for
or certain engines.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
It's the blue hose the gas stations.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, I've never what I've never seen a blue hose
you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
There's the e eighty five, which is the yellow cap
and the yellow hose, and right next to that it
is a blue hose with eighty eight, and.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Then next to that is the stuff that we.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
All use eighty seven, eighty nine and ninety three.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll be honest with you, I've never seen a blue
I mean, obviously, the e eighty five is fanol that.
I mean some cars. You can't put that in every car.
But the blue hoe's what part I don't. I mean,
I've only I've only seen eighty seven eighty ninety three.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
Okay, I mean Thornton's cases, they've got them.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I guess I need to.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Pay attention more. I've never seen that. But okay, I've
never seen that. But geesel pizza. So where do you
see them at?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
At Thornton's Thornton's and Casey's.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Casey's. Where's Casey's at?
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Is there one close Uh, it's up here in Butler County, Okay,
there's four or five of them up this direction, but
Thornton's is all.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Over right, So you've got you've got your standard hos.
You know, obviously you got diesel. You're eighty five, and
you're eighty seven, eighty nine and ninety three.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But there's an eighty eight with a blue hose.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yes, good God, I don't know what rock I've been
living under, but.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I I don't. I've never seen I've never seen one.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
But anyways, anyways, we've had this conversation before. I mean,
as far as your eight, you know, obviously you have
to make sure obviously, if your car is gasoline, you
don't use diesel, right, and then if your car is not.
(30:30):
But as far as eighty eight, god, I've never I've
just never seen it. But anyways, should it shouldn't be
an issue. I've never I've had this conversation multiple times.
I've never seen somebody's car break down or prematurely break down,
(30:52):
or there're be an issue because of the fuel that
they used, in the sense that as long as it's unleaded, right,
you gotta make sure if.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You're takes eighty five and you can.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Put it in there if it takes diesel, but as
far as eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And okay, I don't think you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Have anyka You'll you'll have to look next time. Okay,
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I've never seen a blue gas hose. I mean, listen,
I'm I'm forty years old. I have never seen a
blue gas hose. I'm I guess I'm just puzzled.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I just I don't know. I'm gonna look.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I'm driving past the Thornton's after i leave here, and
I'll find out if they've got a blue hose.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But I've never seen it.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
If you've seen it, call me apparently I've I'm pretty
I'm a pretty vigilant person, and I have never seen
a blue gas hose. So I'm I don't know, I
don't know what he Maybe I've just completely missed the question.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
So all right, let's go back to the phones you've got. Dan. Hey, Dan,
welcome to the car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I'm a long time listener to the Car Show on Saturday,
and I have an Accura two thousand and seven TSX,
and I brought It has two hundred and fifty nine
thousand miles, and I brought it to your shop a
short time ago. I don't know if you remember me
or not.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I do. It's a white car.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
It had like two hundred and yeah fifty or two
hundred and thirty thousand miles on it, two.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hundred and fifty nine thousand, and I had all kinds
of trouble with an FCN failure and all kinds of
communications that were showing on the display, TSP, TSPM issues,
kind of the display was acting like an alternator was
going out, and my regular, my regular mechanic, he did
(32:53):
not have all the diagnostics that he needed. And I
had called you on the phone, and once again you
don't know me from Adam. I call you and I
share with you what's going on, and you said, let
me look into it a little bit. And then the
following day you and I communicate once again and we
talked about it, and you're still really not sure what
the problem is. And then you say, I'll get back
(33:13):
to you. And what you did was you did a
bunch of research. And that's what the listening audience needs
to know about the call.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Today.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You went out of your way. You went the extra
mile from me, and you found out what was wrong
with my car. I ordered a part that was necessary
off of Amazon. I brought the car over to your
shop and you worked on it. You had it for
three or four days, if I recall, and you and
a number of your technicians had driven it around. I
(33:43):
called you on a Friday and you said, hey, let
me keep it over the weekend, and you come back
on Monday. And I came in on that Monday and
I said what do I owe you? And you said, well, listen,
take it home. And this is what's really unusual that
your listeners really need to hear this. This is unbelievable.
And I will continue to bring my cars to you
(34:05):
because of this. You said to me, take it home.
I didn't pay anything at that time. Take it home,
drive it, make sure that it's fixed correctly, and then
get back to me. And that's what I did. And
I'll tell you what that car has been driving magnificently.
I'm a nut about my car. The communications on the
(34:25):
car from the repair are perfect.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
The cars running like a gem.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I've got to fifty nine on it right now, and
I will keep it for a long time to come.
For those of you out there who are listening to
the car show today, I'll tell you what. You want
to go to a place that is clean. You want
to go to a place where they have professionals in
the office. Go to Dane's Carcare. They do a great job.
So that's the reason for my call, buddy, Dan.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I appreciate that, I really do, because you know, that's
why I'm here, That's what you know, that's what ultimately
I'm just here to do. I don't always fix everybody's
car perfectly, but to get in a praise like that,
I really do appreciate it because.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I yeah, ninety nine percent.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We live in a society whether no matter if you're
a dentist or car McCant whatever, right, we live in
a society where you only hear negative feedback, you never
hear a positive feedback.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
And I appreciate that, I really do.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
You're very welcome, and Dane. My father owned two service
stations and he had two men that worked for him
his entire career, their entire careers. One he was honest,
He was a good businessman. He was straight up front,
very forward, and he charged a fair price. Everybody's in
business to make a dollar, no doubt about it. But
(35:52):
it was a fair price and if there was ever
an issue, you know, they came back and Dad fixed
it and there was no problems. So once again, I
thank you, buddy, and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right, Well, thank you so much. I can't thank
you enough for the phone call.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It it means a means a world to me, because
I mean, that's that's what I'm here to just help everybody. Yes, yes,
of course I'm here to work on cars and make money,
but it's it's also about taking care of the customer.
And you know, especially this time of the year, it's
it's it's about taking care of customers and taking care
(36:26):
of people. Unfortunately, we live kind of in a society
where that doesn't always happen, right, But I'm kind of
getting choked up because I mean, you just.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
In the bottom of my heart, it's always about.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Making an honest living and you know, just taking care
of people.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
And I genuinely want to do that.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
And I don't want anybody think, especially if I'm on
this radio station and somebody brings their car to me,
that my motive here is to drive you to to
Donovan Tire and to get more business.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
That my motive is to an our motive and our
job as.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Mechanics and at Donovan Tire is to make sure that
you can get back out on the road and then
we fix your car correctly. And sometimes it takes I
sometimes it might take two or three trips before we
get it right. But I'm gonna at the end of
the day, I'm gonna make it right. At Donovan's We're
gonna make it right. And I you know, for that gentleman,
(37:29):
you know, I said, hey, listen, you know, let's see
what we can do. And and we fixed it and
and that's that's That's all I can ask for, is
that somebody appreciates the hard work and what we do
at Donovan Tire right and what we why we're here
every Saturday at this at the station to make sure
that we could try to get your car fixed and
(37:52):
not always necessarily cause you know, at iHeart, you know,
everybody can you can hear me from anywhere in the world, right,
as long as you have.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
An Internet connection, you can hear me.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
And it's it's purely to make sure that we could
try to help you out and fix your car and
make it right. And if you're locally and you and
you listen and I and you want to bring your
car to me, I want to make sure that I
take care of you. But if you're not, if you're
calling from Florida or you know, we get a lot
of calls from Florida, New York. And if I can
(38:21):
help you and guide you, that's why I'm here. And
so I can't. I can't appreciate the phone call enough.
It was really do appreciate it so and that's that's
why I do what I do. So, uh, thank you
so much. So all right, coming up, We've got We've
got Tim, Tom and Rick. You're listening to the car
showing fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 4 (39:12):
Welcome back taking your car questions. I really do appreciate
everybody calling. Man, I wish I could get to everybody.
I think I'm gonna be honest with you. Uh, I
will try to get to everybody. We've got Tim, Tom,
and Rick. Let's go back to the phones. We've got Tim.
Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (39:31):
I have a nineteen ninety five Chevrolet thirty five hundred
HD with the seven point four and I'm thinking about
replacing the throttle body fuel injectors. Would it be better
to get the Delco injectors or like I said of
echellons from NAPA.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Sorry I'm coughing, uh no, Delco one hundred percent Delco? Yeah.
You know. Are you gonna do the work yourself?
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
And I tell people every time, if you're doing the
work yourself, you're already saving a tremendous amount of money, right,
So spend the money and get the quality, especially an injector.
If it was like break pads or an air filter. No,
you don't need an AC delco. You're you're talking about
a fuel injector get the AC delco, get the original equipment. Yes,
it's gonna cost you a little bit more, but you're
(40:24):
doing it yourself. You're already saving money on the labor
and the diagnostic and everything else.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So buy the Delco.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
You think I should put the fuel pressure spring in
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, it.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
Runs okay, but the gas milage isn't very good.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well you think about is it? I'm sorry you may
have said this, is it a diesel or it's yeah
for okay? Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Not gonna be very few efficient. But I was trying
to get a little bit more than six miles a gallon.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, I how many miles are on it?
Speaker 6 (41:17):
Like a hundred and seventy?
Speaker 9 (41:19):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (41:20):
I mean, have you recently done a tune up as
far as you know, spark plugs and.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Yeah, I got plug caps, wires, new fuel pump, and
I put the map sensor and a new UH temperature
sensor for the engine.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
All right.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Now, dude, No, I mean if you've done all that,
then you have ac DUCA fuel injectors.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I mean, you know, you could run into.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
The issue where you know, you could have a break
calip or something that's hanging up or low tire pressure
that can cause you know, bad fuel economy as well.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I mean, don't rule that out.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Well.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
I already put all new Breake calipers on at when
I bought the truck, because okay, it's an old County
truck and it was, you know, like one of those
female drivers where the disc wasn't turning anymore because it
wore through to the fins and broke free from the hub.
Speaker 16 (42:15):
Yeah, good lord, Yeah, okay, yeah, do the Delco And
if you've done everything else, then I would do Delco
hands down.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Okay, that's what major question was.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
All right, Tim, thank you man, I appreciate the question.
Have a happy holiday. All right, Let's go to the
phones real quick. We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to
the car show.
Speaker 13 (42:36):
How can I help Hey, Tom?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah? Absolutely, I don't want to be rude. I don't
want to cut you off.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I just we're going to run out of time here
in about two minutes, so I'd love to help you out.
Speaker 13 (42:50):
Yeah, I can get right to it. This is a
simple one. Probably. I have a ninety one Martha r
X seven. Of course, it's a rotary convertible, and I
haven't driven it. It's been sitting in the garage for
about three years, hands about, you know, forty forty five
thousand miles on it, and I'm ready to pull it
out of the garage and you know, drive it around
(43:11):
a little bit, and I'm wondering what I need to
do to not damage it when I started back up.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Well, that's a great question. I mean, to be honest
with you, has the gas been in there? So the
gas hasn't been changed in three years?
Speaker 2 (43:29):
That's correct, Okay. I mean I.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Personally, I wouldn't try to start it. I think you
might cause yourself some headache. What I would recommend is
it getting towed to a repair shop, draining the gas,
and then with the rotary engine. I mean, there's a
certain way that those things have to be. Typically what
we would do, because when Maser brought that rotary engine back,
(43:52):
they would have all kinds of starting issues and you
literally would have to take the spark plugs out, fill
the engine with transmission fluid to try to get that
thing on.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
I personally, wouldn't try to start it.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
I would get it to a recommend or, you know,
a reputable car shop and get the gas out of
there and try to do new spark plugs and then
probably fill those cylinder holes with I'd get it to
a reputable shop. I wouldn't try to start it. I
think you might give yourself a little bit of a
might create more of a headache and cost you more money.
Speaker 13 (44:26):
Yeah, I don't want to heart it after I screwed up.
Which one of your locations is closest to Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah, it would be my Auto Foreign of Northern Kentucky.
Might the shop that I'm at every every day is
it's Donovan's Auto Foreign.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
We would be able to handle that for you.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Uh yeah, that's the new one. We're about ten miles
out of downtown, so.
Speaker 13 (44:53):
Super super all right. Well, well I'll see you there.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Yeah, call me up on Monday. I'll be there Monday.
Call me up and I'll schedule you. All right, Thank you,
Thanks Tom, take care, Rick. Listen, Rick, I apologize, I'm
sure you're listening. I'm sorry we're out of time. I
really do appreciate it. Please call me you can call
me this week if you'd like, or call me next week.
Thank you everybody for the car questions today. Everybody have
(45:17):
a happy and safe Christmas. I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all your car questions. You're listening to the
Car Show on fifty five KRC, the talk station
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