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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Chevy to the limit. So good afternoon and welcome
to the car show. I am Dame Donovan taking all
of your car questions. Thember to call five one three
se number again five one three seven four nine. Love
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to hear from you again the number to call five
one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. I hope
everybody is enjoying this wonderful weather we're having, right, It's
like and uh so uh like I said last week,
we were in Florida right after Christmas and it was
seventy and sunny, and then we came back to the
snowmageddon and uh, man is it has it been bitterly cold?
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And uh? I mean it down to the point where
it's just like, man, it hurts to walk outside. But
you know what we have to keep chucking on. We
have to keep our cars rocking and rolling and ready
to go and make sure that it's ready for this weather.
And you know I let up to this back in
November and December, right, it is something that we have
to make sure that our cars are ready and prepared
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for whatever Mother Nature brings us. Right now. I know
that in years in the past, right, we've we've had
some pretty mild, pretty mild winters, and we haven't it's
not been too bad. But I'll tell you what, man,
we are busy, busy, uh, because there's a lot of
things that break when it gets this cold. A lot
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of door lock actuators, batteries, starters, alternators, wiper blades, door handles.
I mean, you name it. When it gets this cold,
you know, you know, a lot of things break. And
we have been very blessed, but very busy at Donovan Tyre.
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We have one in blue Ash one plus Ridge in
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of train tracks sets us apart from Norwood to Evanston. So,
but it's at the corner of Data and Montgomery, right
there by Xavier University. So if you know where Zavier is,
we are close by. So again I'm taking your phone
calls and we'll call five one three, seven fifty five hundred. Again,
I hope everybody's having a great twenty twenty five. It's
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been a very cold and bitter twenty twenty five. But
for the most part, uh, for the Donovans and the
Donovan family. You know, we're all doing well. So but
I do want to talk about and uh again, it
looks like the phones are lighting up. I really do appreciate.
I'm gonna get to all of our callers today. Uh So,
if you're you want me to get to you, please
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call now, simply because a lot of times at the
kind of towards the end of the show, I'm short somebody.
I have to cut somebody off and have them come back.
Call back the next day. I'm sorry the next week.
But if you've got a question, please call Love to
talk to you, Love to try to help you with
your car problems, car questions or whatever. But what I
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want to talk about, and I've talked about this before
on the show. And a great customer came in yesterday.
She bought a brand new Ford Bronco. Right, and she
came in and she goes, dang, I just bought this car,
said man, looks great. And she goes hands me this
pamphlet and says, hey, they want me to buy this
warranty for the car, and what are your thoughts? So
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I looked at it, and I'm like, Okay, this is
an aftermarket warranty. Okay, most of you who listen regularly,
I am completely against these things, and I felt that
I needed to talk about it again and iterate to people. Okay,
I recently had the opportunity to buy a new vehicle myself,
first one and I'm forty years old, first one I've
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ever purchased forty years of my life. First new car
I ever purchased a It's a four. And again, very
blessed and grateful that I got that opportunity. And when
I was purchasing purchasing it, I asked if there was
any type of extended factory warranty. Now, this is important.
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Extended factory warranty. Listen to me here. It's very important
if you're purchasing a new vehicle and you do want
to have added protection because these cars, again you say,
I mean most of your cars are you know, if
you buy an suv or a truck or whatnot. I mean,
these things are starting fifty sixty, seventy eighty thousand, you know,
I mean some of them are one hundred thousand. Right,
you want to make sure that you protect when I
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say investment, I understand it's a depreciating asset, but you
want to protect it, right. You want to make sure
that if all these vehicles now nowadays have all these electronics,
they've got all this technology, and that's great and a
lot of it saves lives, but it comes at a
cost of a cost that if it fails or breaks,
it's going to cost you a lot of money. Right.
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So if you're in the market to buy a new vehicle, okay,
a new vehicle, ask your salesperson if there is an
extended factory warranty. Okay, I asked my salesman. I said, hey,
do you have an extended factor warranty? And guess what
they do? So when I purchased my Ford, it was
a you know, the standard across the board for all
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makes and models is, except for Hyundai and Kia, three
years thirty six thousand miles. Okay, three years thirty six
thousand miles. Now that's great, but you know, we tend
to keep our cars longer, and this stuff gets more
and more expensive as you know, as it goes on.
So I purchased my extended factory warranty to a seven year,
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one hundred thousand mile warranty. Now, yes, did it cost
me an additional amount of money? Yes, okay, but it
is an extended factory warranty. Okay again let me. I
want to beat this in your head. Factory warranty. Okay.
This young lady came in. She goes, dang, they want
me to buy this warranty and it's thirty five hundred
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dollars and what are your thoughts? And I looked at it,
and I said, you don't want that. Okay, that's an
aftermarket warranty. And she's like, well, you know it's going
to cover this this it's it's cover I'm covered at uh.
I think it was ten years, one hundred and fifty
thousand miles and and you know it. You know, it's
thirty five hundred bucks. And I said listen, and she
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agreed with me, and she was she was like, hey,
I'm here to listen to what you have to say.
And you know, these after market warranties are garbage. Okay,
they are a waste of your money. Please. You know
they want to sell it to you. And yes, you know,
it seems like it's it's just just this great thing
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and you're gonna be covered. Okay, I can tell you
first handedly that what I see that they, what these
warranty companies do to people is in my opinion of crime. Okay,
First of all, they do not cover any type of diagnostic.
They do not cover shop supply fees, They do not
cover any type of uh you know, diet. Well I
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said diagnostic, but they do not cover diagnostic. They don't
cover yeah, you know, they'll only cover certain amounts, so
dependent upon the warranty company. Right. So, uh, if you
go to a shop that there their labor rates one
hundred and twenty five dollars an hour, well your your
aftermark warrants company goes, oh, we'll only pay seventy five, right,
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and so you end up, really, you end up paying
for these repairs. Anyways. You might get a little bit
off of it, but you don't, won't They don't, you know,
they want to present this as like this is just
this great thing and you're gonna be covered. You're not.
And I've seen it time and time again that you know,
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these people buy these these aftermarket warranties and they really
don't cover anything, and I used to say that it
was kind of like catastrophic, right. It was like, oh,
you know, if your engine fails, right, but I have
a great customer, great customer, Honda Pilot purchases it, pays
I think five thousand dollars for this after market warranty
and purchases it and lo and behold it's a Honda
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great product. Engine fails. Okay. Now if you open up
his little pamphlet that's covered. Engine is covered, it says that, right.
So I call the warranty company and they say, well, yeah,
the engine's covered, but we're gonna send our technician out
to look at the vehicle, all right. So now we're
waiting three or four days before they send their technician
out basically to verify that what I, you know, said
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it needed. That's what their technician said. So now they
don't give you any type of loaner car or anything
like that. So now you're waiting three or four days.
Now what they tell me is okay, yep, engines locked up,
but we need you to tear that engine apart and
find out exactly what caused the failure inside the engine. Okay.
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Oh and by the way, we're not going to cover
you to tear that engine down and find out exactly
what's going to cause the engine. You know, we're not
gonna cover that. The customer needs to pay for that.
So now the customer's on the hook for about you know,
two three thousand dollars for me to take that engine out,
tear it apart, and find exactly what part in that
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engine failed. Okay, Now, I explained to the warranting com
I said, well, what if I tear it all apart,
I can't find exactly what part failed, Like, well, then
we won't cover anything. And to me, that was completely dishonest.
And I'm like, so, I'm like, you want the customer
to pay three thousand dollars for me to tear that
engine out, tear it apart, find what failed, and if
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I can't find anything that failed, in the customer not
only has to paid three thousand, but then he has
to pay another ten thousand for an engine. Yes, and
that that was the last straw for me that led
me to was like just never again am I gonna
ever recommend an aftermarket warranty company Because this gentleman in
the literature says that the engine was covered and what
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they did to this gentleman. Again, to me, was was criminal.
So I wanted to again reiterate, if you're buying a
new car, please ask if they have an extended factory warranty.
If not, do not buy any type of aftermarket warranty. Okay,
it's a waste of your money. Take that. If it's
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thirty five this young lady that was at the shop yesterday,
it's thirty five hundred, do take that money. Put in
stock market, right, You're gonna earn hopefully five to eight
percent on it. And if something does happen in one
hundred thousand miles, that money's grown and you're gonna you know,
So please don't buy an after market warranty. If anybody
out there listen, has have I seen in the past
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that somebody does have one and it's covered some of
their costs? Yes, okay, you see them on the commer,
on the on the TV all the time. I'm bombarded
with him. I see him all the time, you know,
on social media, on TV or whatnot. And you know,
my blood pressure starts to raise because from my perspective,
what I've seen, what they do to people is criminal,
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and I just I just don't recommend them. So if
you're again, if you're buying one, please don't buy an
after market warrnty. Just take the money and put it
in the stock market and or invested in something, and
you know you're better off. Okay, So all right? Uh,
the number to call five on three that number gain
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Taking your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven four fifty five hundred. That number again, five
one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. Yes, I
am in studio, but again I did it again, and uh,
I left my headphones not at home, but I left
them in my other vehicle. I just I put him
in there on Saturday, right, and then I you know,
(13:09):
out of sight, out of mine. And then I was telling,
you know, damn my producer. You know, I had it
in my head. I was like, twelve thirty is I'm
gonna start my truck, I'm gonna take a shower, I'm
gonna be early today. And then I'm grabbing all my
stuff together and I'm like, where are my headphones. Oh,
They're in my other vehicle, which is at work. So
once again I did it again. So uh, but I
(13:30):
am here taking your phone calls and we'll call five
one three seven that number again, five one three seven
nine fifty five hundred. Now to add to that beginning segment,
which again was a couple of weeks ago. But I
and I don't want to get on the you know,
talking about that after market warranties because you guys heard it.
But I do want to talk about when you're buying
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a used vehicle, okay, and making sure that you get
it inspected by a AIC, A mechanic, your mechanic, any mechanic.
I had a young gentleman this uh Thursday, came in
and he said, hey, I can smell I can smell
exhaust that smells wanting burning. Can you take a look
at it? And I popped the hood and this thing
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was just underneath the hood was just an absolute rusted mess.
Rusted outside of the truck looked great, but underneath the
hood things that don't typically rust here in Ohio or
in Cincinnati. The valve cover gasket bolts were just they
were gone. I mean they were just completely rusted to
just a ball. You couldn't even get a socket on them, right.
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And so I'm like, oh, man, I I knew this
car instantly was from up North. And he's like, well,
I bought it. I said, where'd you buy this thing?
And he said, oh, I bought it from some mom
and pop shop. And I'm like, in Harrison, Ohio. I said,
oh okay, and he goes, why what's wrong? I said, man,
this thing is really really rusty. And he goes, yeah,
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and I knew it, but I wasn't gonna I wasn't
gonna say it, but uh, really rusty. I'm like, man,
this thing is a rusted mess. And I'm like, where'd
you get this thing? And he's like, you know, again,
from a place in Harrison. He goes, well, spend some
time in Pennsylvania, but most of its life it was
up in Canada. Oh And I'm like, well that that
makes a whole lot of sense. So unfortunately, yes, we
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do live in Ohio. We do live what's considered the
rust belt. Okay, but I'm telling you cars that are
up from like like Cleveland, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada. You
do not want to buy any of these vehicles. Okay.
They are a rusted, rusted, pitted mess and it makes
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a tremendous amount, you know, because you know, the gentleman
was kind of like, oh, man, well I'm in big trouble.
I'm like, no, I mean not necessarily. But the problem
is is all of the work that we're gonna do
this car is gonna be it's gonna cost you double
really and labor because you can't get anything off. You
can't get any sockets on the on the bolts. And again,
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you know, talking about the aftermarket warranty companies. If you're
buying a used vehicle, and I've said this so many
times on this show, if you're buying a used vehicle,
you need to get it inspected, Okay, either again by
us at Donovan's or your mechanic or if it's out
of town. Right, if you're say you're buying a car
in Florida, right, that should be that should be fine, right,
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but don't you know you find a reputable shop in
that area and just say, hey, listen, you tell the dealership, hey, look,
can you drive the vehicle to this mechanic shop or
or vice versa. Have the mechanic shop pick it up
and look at it. And you want to get a
detailed inspection on what the status of the vehicle is. Right,
it's important, Right, you're spending a lot of money on
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this this vehicle, and you want to make sure that
you not buying somebody else's problems. And so often and
so many times I preached this at at at work
every day, right, and everybody's like, well, I didn't know,
I didn't know you guys did that. Well, I didn't
know there was a service like that. Yes, absolutely, absolutely,
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there's a service like that. Anytime you're buying a used vehicle,
I don't care. I don't care if it has twelve
thousand miles on it, get it inspected. I've told this
story before in the past. I had a young lady
buying a pre owned certified Lexus, was gonna spend about
sixty thousand dollars on this car low miles, and she
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brought to me anyways, and lo and behold, I got
into it. I looked at it, and the whole the
dealership wrecked the whole front end of this car. It
did like twelve They did like twelve thousand dollars damage
to the front end of this car. Now, this car
is supposed to be pre owned, certified and nothing's ever
happened to it, And that wasn't the case the dealership.
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Somebody at the dealership wrecked it. They fixed it. Of course,
it doesn't show up on Carfax. And then they try
to sell it to you. And you want to buy
a sixty thousand dollars car that's been absolutely just wrecked
in the whole front end ripped off of it. Right,
So you want to make sure that when you're purchasing
a used vehicle that you're getting it inspected by a mechanic,
any mechanic. You want a second pair, you want a
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second opinion, okay, just to make sure that you're not
buying somebody else's problems. The other side of this as well,
if you're purchasing a used vehicle, you get it inspected. Right.
Let's just say it's a thirty thousand dollars car. You
get it inspected, and let's just say it needs four tires,
all four brakes in a right front axle, right, and
it's gonna cost you it's gonna be three thousand dollars
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right to replace the four tires, the four brakes in
the axle. Okay, just an example. Now you have some leverage.
Now you can go back to the place that you're
purchasing it and say, hey, listen, I had it inspected
by a mechanic. I had this thing looked at, and
I'm gonna have to put about three thousand dollars of
work into this vehicle. Right. Gives you the upper hand,
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So then it gives you the negotiating token to sit
there and go, hey, can you take care of these
things for me? Or can you take it off the
price of the vehicle? Right? It gives you leverage and
a better upper hand, and then you know what's going
on with the vehicle, so that you know you're protected.
Because you go out there and spend thirty forty fifty
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sixty thousand dollars, you want to make sure that you
can get the most out of your investment and the
most life out of your vehicle, and so important imperative
that you make sure that you get these vehicles, these
use vehicles inspected. Now. The only one and I had
this conversation earlier this week, the only the one great
thing about Carvana is you can purchase that vehicle online
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and they give you seven days to get it inspected,
get it looked at, make sure you like it, and
if you don't, you can return it. Right. That's that's great,
that's great policy. There's only one view from them that
I've ever had to say, hey take it back, right,
So that's an option. But everybody thinks that their hands
are tied that if you're buying a used vehicle, that
I mean I had to get you know, a young
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lady like, they let you, they'll let you drive it
off the lot. I'm like, absolutely, they'll let you drive
it off the lot. Absolutely, they'll let you have it
inspected by a mechanic. And if they don't, then you
need to run because obviously the product that they're selling
you they don't trust, right, So why would you invest
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that type of money if they won't even let you
drive it off the lot or let somebody inspect it? Right, So,
most most dealerships and automotive or you know, used car
lots will allow you to test drive the car. Some
of them will let you keep it overnight, and most
of them should allow you to have it inspected. And
if they don't let you do those things, then you
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need to find another place or another vehicle.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You want to make sure that you protect your investment
and you protect your money, and that you don't that
you're not buying somebody else's problem. So just please get
the cars inspected. Now, this gentleman spend a lot of
money on this truck and it is an absolute russ bucket,
and uh, hopefully everything will turn out for him. Fine,
we'll see. I told him he's bringing it in. We're
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gonna have it inspected. But it's just so important and
so imperative that you get these things looked at when
you're buying a used vehicle. So all right, again the
phone number, the call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number, get five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. Let's go to Bill. Hey, Bill,
welcome to the car show. How can I help Bill?
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You're there? Hey? Hey, Bill? Sounds like he's listening. But Bill,
if you're there, all right, Hey, Bill, if you're listening,
I'm trying to get a hold of you. Uh, call
back please, So then I'm gonna call five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. H I just you know,
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I know I sometimes get on tyree, but I just man, sometimes,
you know, I want everybody to you know, car problems
should not be something that you have to deal with
on a daily basis, right, you shouldn't have these headaches
and these problems. You're so expensive to repair, And it's
just so important that you get a vehicle inspected and
(22:25):
get an opinion, get your mechanics opinion. I have a
great customer that I had a conversation with earlier this week.
She wants to sell her vehicle. It's a Volkswagen, and
she wants to get away from Volkswagen's And so we
had a thirty minute conversation about Dane, what should I
look for, what should I buy? What are your thoughts
on this? And and you know, and I love having
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those conversations because I love guiding people to make the
best decision. Right. I could tell you, you know, buy
a Honda Civic tomorrow, and you sit there and go,
this is the worst car of her ound. I mean,
that's everybody's you know, everybody has a different opinion. But
if I can give you the best advice that I can,
with the knowledge in the history of doing this for
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twenty five years, I will. I mean, that's that's what
I'm here for. So again, then I'm gonna call five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred. You're listening to the car show?
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Fifty five krz the talk station taking your car questions again.
The number to call five one three fifty five hundred.
Let's go back to the phones. We have Bill. Hey, Bill,
welcome to the car show.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
How can I help Well Dale? I got a I
got a question for you. I to you for friends.
I have a twenty ten Venza Toyta Venza four cylinder,
all wheel drive, and I'm about I'm about ninety nine
percent sure that the timing chain tensure is given up,
because when I hit the start button for maybe a second,
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I hear a grinding noise which then goes away, and
probably they won't hear it again if I start the
car periodically during the day, but if it sets for
half a day or all night, you know I'll hear
the same noise. So I've taken the car, well, actually
taken the car to one shop and talked to another.
It's like, before I even get started, they start talking, Wow,
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you're probably gonna need a timing chain, You're gonna need
a kiss, and and you know, it turns out to
be a whole lot of money. At one shop was
talking about you know, CAM sensors and taking the motor
out and sixty eight hundred dollars and I went, well,
that's probably more than the car's worth. And in another
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shop gave me a price. It was about thirty seven hundred.
I'm like, well, is that a common situation running with
the four cylinder? Tell Yota engines that that dentage. I
think it's a one ar fe something like that. Yeah,
I'm looking for a little guidance because it sounds like
a whole lot of money for for some timing chain work.
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And and I'm wondering, how do you know I need
all this other stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, sure, yeah, great question. So, uh, typically I would
I would agree that if the tension is back, So
what happens is it's it's it's oil pressures what allows
that that tension to keep tension on the chain. And
then typically what results in is like if the cars
are ran low on oil or whatnot, that tension will
fail fail. But yeah, it's kind of like the chain.
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I would definitely do the chain because the chains will stretch,
they can stretch and can jump time. And then you've
got you have guides. They're plastic. If I could use
an analogy, it's like kind of like open heart surgery. Right,
you're gonna we're gonna have all those parts. You're gonna
have all those parts in your hand. You have to
take that chain and those parts off. And again, the
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chains can stretch, the guides can break. If you're gonna
do the tension, you don't need to take the engine out.
And what I would recommend is, if you're gonna do
the tension, you just buy a kit comes with the
new tensionor the new guides in a chain. That's all
you need to do. Now. The question is, and I
don't know off the top of my head, on a
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twenty ten Venza, there is a typically some of these
most of these vehicle vehicles will have what's called a
VVT gear, okay, which is operated by oil pressure as well.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Very old second, Okay, you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Want to find out if you have that, Probably you do.
Some some vehicles have two, some have one. Even though
yours is a four cylinder, it's still you know, dual cam, right,
so one is usually what it does is it's again
it's operated by oil pressure, and it it advances or
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retards the timing of the engine right, advances it or
slows it down. And that's also oil pressure. So I mean,
we'd have to find that out. I could find out.
I can't do it right now, but if if you
call me on Monday or Tuesday, I'll find out if
you have that. But if I were you, if the
tension is want, yeah, it's rattling because that tension is
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bleeding down at night. So what happens is overnight it
bleeds down and then when you started up, a chain's
rattling like crazy because it just hasn't built up enough
oil pressure. Once the oil pressure builds up, it's fine.
And yeah, if you go into a convenience store real quick,
shut it off, it won't do it again because it
hasn't bled down. Sure, but if you're gonna if you're
going to go to the lengths of replacing the tension
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I would do a timing chain kit. Spy the kit.
I don't know what they're doing. For sixty eight hundred dollars,
that seems a bit excessive to me.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean, all the other shops that I talked to
the you know again over the phone, it is like
it was thirty seven hundred dollars, which made me question
what the first guys.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Were up to.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But absolutely, I guess they're complicating factor here is that
it's it's all wheel drive. I don't I guess they all.
I don't know if all benses are all wheel drive
or not. But somehow, you know that that matters and
turns the amount of effort that it has to go
in it and it's got one hundred and seventy thousand
miles on it, so you know, I don't know what
the normal lifetime would be for one of those chains.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, in theory, they're supposed to last the life of
the vehicle, but what usually results in the tensioner's failing
is usually lack of oil, which caused them to fail.
So typically the cars burn oil. Have you ever have
you ever had an have you ever had the add
oil or had any type of incident where it was
low on oil at any point?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, I bought the car used and you know, after
I got it, it was maybe half a court load
or something like that top it off. But I started
watching it pretty carefully, and it's like, yeah, I'm using
some oil. And plus you can look at the end
of the tailpipe and go, yeah, I'm burning something here.
I don't see any oil leaks. So I'm guessing that
these low tension rings are contributing to a problem with
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the oil drainback along the lands of the piston.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And I don't know if there's a product out there
that might open those up and maybe reduce the oil.
But to your point, yeah, I mean, could the prior
owner have run it low on oil and aggravated that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I have no way to know, right, right, And that's
probably the case. I mean, it's a possibility. And I
talk about this, and I'm sure if you listen, I
talk about this all the time, the importance of making
sure you're checking your oil and changing your oil regularly,
because the result is what we're talking about right now,
where that tensionaire over time has been low on oil
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and it's failed and you know so, but again it's
worth I understand that it's expensive. I mean sixty eight
hundred dollars. I don't know what they're doing. Even the
thirty two seems pretty expensive. But if it be an
all wheel drive, call me on Monday or Tuesday at
my shop. All I need is your license plate or
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your VEN number. Let me kind of see because every again,
every year make model. They're all a little bit different.
Some just have a standard and a VVT gear. Some
have two VVT gears. So like I have an F
two thousand and seven F one fifty and sitting at
a drive through it it was actually McDonald's. I was
getting a diet coke and all of a sudden, I'm like,
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maybe my truck's running bad. Look down, check enginelights on them.
That's weird. And a one of those plastic tensioners failed
and was causing my car to so it has two
VVT gears, changed guides, tensioner. I did it all. Now,
you know, I wanted to keep the truck, so it's
it's important. If you're gonna do it, I would just
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do a kit and then we need to find out
if you've got a VVT gear, which again, if you
call me on Monday or Tuesday, Uh, call me at work,
called me at the the Norwood location, the auto form
call me there, sure, give me your license plate, your event,
and then I'll find out exactly if you have that.
If you don't, then just time and chain kit and
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that's it. But I still don't think it's I still
don't think it's three grand. So I'll give you I'll
give you a price on the two.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
You can understand why the guy at thirty seven hundred
dollars sounds like a you know, a great guy when
you're comparing it to sixty eight hundred dollars. Yeah, it's like,
holy smoke, there's a lot of money in play here.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, that that sixty eight hundred dollars. I don't know
what they're doing, but they're not. That's that seems really
really high to me.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
So I'll try to look more intelligent the next time
I might walk in there. So yeah, if I walk
in there.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, really, I don't know what they're doing, but I mean,
there's no way by replacing even if you replace both
gears and the chains and the tensioner and the gods,
there's no way it's sixty eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So well, I appreciate that. Well, listen, thanks for taking
my call. I certainly enjoy the show. And I'm guessing
there's probably nothing I can put in the mix into
the oil to sort of open up those plugged grain holes.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Along with piston.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Lands, there's a product that we recently started using and UH,
for the life of me, Uh, I forget the name
of it. We've been trying it, man, what is the
name of that product? I'll have to call me up
when you call me on Monday to shoot it. I
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have it. I have it on my shelf at work.
We've been using it. We've had some success with it.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
So okay, cool, give me a buzz, all right, we'll
do Thank you again, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Bye bye. That's again the importance of making sure you're
checking your oil and you're changing it regularly. These cars
with these rings and everything like that, they burn oil.
And I can't I know, I harp on this every week,
but I'm telling you it's gonna save you a tremendous
amount of money down the road if you're changing it.
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Regularly that gentleman. Again, he doesn't he's second owner. He
doesn't know what the old owner did. Old owner may
have changed the oil, you know, every ten thousand miles
like the dealership told him to, which is again as
a no, no, you know five thousand miles on any oil,
that's it, five thousand. I don't care what the car says.
I don't care what the dealer says. I don't care
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the salesman that you bought it from tells you, because
guess what, they're all in the business to what sell cars.
I'm in the business to fix cars. And I'm telling you,
if you want to keep your car longer, and you
want to keep your car on the road, it's changing
all now. Most of you. Some people might go, well,
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of course you're going to say that, Dan, because you
know that's how you make money is by selling oil changes. Well,
I'm I'm here to help you as the listener. I'm
here to help you and get the most miles out
of your car. I have a hont A Civic that
I've had, and I've talked about this lots of times.
It's twenty five years old. Since I bought it, I
have changed the oil on that car every fifteen hundred miles.
Now that's pretty excessive. I understand that, but I know
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the importance of changing oil. It's so important. That car
is twenty five years old and it runs like a
top now that it's a Honda Civic, right, they they
they do last, But the importance of maintaining the vehicle
is so important. And now most vehicles, you know they
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I mean, I pulled out a gallon of coolant the
other day and it's like ten years every one hundred
and fifty thousand miles. I don't agree with that. I mean, yes,
we don't change cooland as long as we as often
as we used to, but I don't think you should
go one hundred and fifty thousand miles on coolant. I
just don't think it's important that you get it changed regularly.
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
You're listening to the Car Show. Fifty five KRC I
Am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto Entire Center. You can
find your nearest location at donovantire dot com. Let's go
back to the phones. We have Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So my wife was driving through a car wash yesterday
and we have an electronic transmit and uh, you know
some of the new cars have that, and when she
went to exit, it would not go into drive.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
And literally the.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Attendant I think wasn't paying attention. Everybody was hitting each other.
Oh gosh, yeah, so but it was just bumped and
everyone was in neutral so it was you. But have
you heard of that happening in car washes and and
any advice there?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, first and foremost. You know, that's the one thing
that I don't like about all these new vehicles is
everything is electronic. Right, so obviously water went somewhere where
it wasn't supposed to and you know the thing, it
just shut down. I have not seen that. Now, Luckily,
I mean your car. I mean it says a twenty
twenty four Volkswagen Atlas. Yeah, so I mean luck I mean,
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so did they have to tell it or how did No?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
No, no, she she did was turn it off and
back on and then when to drive.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Oh okay, all right, so she was able to get
it was able to so then she never had any
more problems. No, okay, I mean no, I haven't heard
of that. But it does not surprise me, I believe
it or not. Just last last weekend, I have a
newer truck and went through the car wash and then
all of a sudden on my way home, you know,
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all these sensors are going off that I'm too close
and I'm backing into people and I'm pulling too close,
and I'm like, what the heck is going on? Well,
you know, it was thirty you know, it was cold.
So I'm like, oh, there's probably you know, some ice
on one of the sensors. And come into work the
next day and it's going off like crazy. I can't
back up into anything, and so I pulled it in
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the building and let it basically fall out, and then
it was fine. So it's just these sensors are great,
but a little bit of moisture, a little bit of water,
we'll just make them, you know, act funk. You know,
it just water probably got somewhere or some type of
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sensor went off or but I mean, that's the.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's that's what I was wondering too. Was it one
of the front or rear motion sensors that thought it
was sensing something and then wouldn't go into gear for safety?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I don't know, Yeah, I mean that's that's I know,
that's that's a possibility. I mean, that's the thing is like,
but they put all these sensors on everything, and you know,
these cars are you know, I mean to it's silly
that to go through a car wash and then you
can't leave it because you know, it's the only downside to.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
The attendant said, there's a bunch of newer cars that
are doing that in that car in the car wash.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, it's it's just over over engineering everything, like you know,
you don't need all of that technology now. Again, some
will say, hey, look, it keeps people alive as far
as you know, car accidents and that lane departure and
things like that. But at the same point, when those
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systems fail, you can't drive your car and it costs
you thousands of dollars, and it's just like, right, you know,
at what cost to how much farther can we go here?
I mean, so she said, everybody was honking because everyone Oh,
I bet it was nerve wrecking.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Push stop before we're going bananas because it was packed
because of the AsSalt on cars. Yeah, I wish I'd
had a video.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I bet it was nerve wracking.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, okay, well I just didn't. No, thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Take care. Well, if you got an old car, just
keep it going unless your mechanics says it's not safe
or you can't get the parts to fix it. These
new cars are great, they have nice features, but if
you can't even go through a car wash without there
being some type of major breakdown or disaster. So all right,
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let's go back to the phones. We have David. Hey, David,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
I just bought a used twenty twenty four Chevy HD
Dura Match diesel. This is my first first diesel truck,
and I wanted to know your thoughts on OEM diesel
fuel filters versus aftermarket fuel filters.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Oh man, that's a great question. So I I think
I always stick to dealer. I always stick to the original.
But I'm a little, I'm a little by some a
little I'm a weirdo when it comes to that stuff.
As as far as filters go, you know, they're not
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terribly expensive. In fact, I have you know, my new
truck is a twenty five hundred diesel as well. And
I'm new to the diesel world. So you know, with diesels,
you've got the oil, the water separator or whatnot. You
got to change. You got to change those fuel filters
quite a bit every other every other oil change. Typically.
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I ordered them from Motorcraft. I ordered them from the dealer.
I think the quality is there as far as aftermarket goes.
It really depends on the manufacturer. But if I were you,
especially with it being a twenty four diesel, I would
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stick with the dealer. I would stick with the factory
the factory filter, but which is AC Delco. It doesn't
you don't have to necessarily buy it from a dealer.
I would buy an AC Delco filter for that vehicle.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Okay, yeah, I mean the main reason I'm asking is
because the company I work for, I had taken our
twenty six foot box truck in to have some work
done on it, and it's a diesel, and I was
asking the text advice on that, and he was telling
me to go with OEM because he's running the issues
where guys have had aftermarket ones and they have trouble
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getting them out and it ends up pasting them a
little bit more, you know, shop time or whatever to
get to get these aftermarket filters out. So you know,
he basically told me to never never go with an
aftermarket and always go with OEM. So I guess that
kind of coincides with your answer. And if honestly, I
haven't you know, compared pricing or anything yet, So yeah,
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you know, if the OEMs aren't too much more expensive
than the aftermarkets, and I.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Think it's a no brainer, right, you know, I would
agree with him. I would stick with OEM on that.
You know, if it was a fuel filter, I mean,
we've got some wiggle room, but you're you want to
make sure that the filters aren't going to be hateful.
I mean, unfortunately, I mean mine, Shoot, I can't remember
what I paid. I think mine was, like I want
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to say, it was like one hundred and twenty five
dollars is what I paid for it. It may have
even been a little bit more, but it was a kit.
It came with both filters and uh, but really longevity,
especially with it being a twenty four. You know, if
it was a two thousand and four, I'd be like,
you know, you'd probably do aftermarket be fine, But man,
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these cars are very and you know the last listener,
you know, wife goes through the car wash and she
can't get out, you know, just because a little these things.
These cars are very precise, they're very finicky and with it.
You know that, I know that truck wasn't cheap, right,
so you want to I would I would stick with OEM,
I really would. And again, you don't have to walk
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into a dealer and buy it. You go online, just
buy an ac Delco filter for it. AC Delco. That's
the that's the original equipment manufacturer. AC Delco. You'll be fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
And you had you had said that you you change
your you change your you.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
There, I'm here, i gotta go back. Sorry.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yep, yeah, you said that you were you said that
you changed yours about every other oil change, according to
according to my book, it turns back between every fifteen thousand,
twenty thousand miles to mine.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, so I'm changing my oil every five thousand miles
and mine st every fifteen thousand miles. But I'm gonna
do it every other that's just my I'm gonna do
a little bit earlier, So that's just my I want
to do it earlier. Can't hurt anything. So all right, everybody,
thank you so much. I really do appreciate everybody. Have
a great weekend. We'll see you next week. You're listening
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to the Car Show on fifty five k r c
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The Chevy to the limit. So good afternoon and welcome
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everybody is enjoying this wonderful weather we're having, right, It's
like and uh so uh like I said last week,
we were in Florida right after Christmas and it was
seventy and sunny, and then we came back to the
snowmageddon and uh, man is it has it been bitterly cold?
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And uh? I mean it down to the point where
it's just like, man, it hurts to walk outside. But
you know what we have to keep chucking on. We
have to keep our cars rocking and rolling and ready
to go and make sure that it's ready for this weather.
And you know I let up to this back in
November and December, right, it is something that we have
to make sure that our cars are ready and prepared
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for whatever Mother Nature brings us. Right now. I know
that in years in the past, right, we've we've had
some pretty mild, pretty mild winters, and we haven't it's
not been too bad. But I'll tell you what, man,
we are busy, busy, uh, because there's a lot of
things that break when it gets this cold. A lot
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of door lock actuators, batteries, starters, alternators, wiper blades, door handles.
I mean, you name it. When it gets this cold,
you know, you know, a lot of things break. And
we have been very blessed, but very busy at Donovan Tyre.
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We have one in blue Ash one plus Ridge in
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of train tracks sets us apart from Norwood to Evanston. So,
but it's at the corner of Data and Montgomery, right
there by Xavier University. So if you know where Zavier is,
we are close by. So again I'm taking your phone
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I hope everybody's having a great twenty twenty five. It's
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been a very cold and bitter twenty twenty five. But
for the most part, uh, for the Donovans and the
Donovan family. You know, we're all doing well. So but
I do want to talk about and uh again, it
looks like the phones are lighting up. I really do appreciate.
I'm gonna get to all of our callers today. Uh So,
if you're you want me to get to you, please
(03:02):
call now, simply because a lot of times at the
kind of towards the end of the show, I'm short somebody.
I have to cut somebody off and have them come back.
Call back the next day. I'm sorry the next week.
But if you've got a question, please call Love to
talk to you, Love to try to help you with
your car problems, car questions or whatever. But what I
(03:24):
want to talk about, and I've talked about this before
on the show. And a great customer came in yesterday.
She bought a brand new Ford Bronco. Right, and she
came in and she goes, dang, I just bought this car,
said man, looks great. And she goes hands me this
pamphlet and says, hey, they want me to buy this
warranty for the car, and what are your thoughts? So
(03:46):
I looked at it, and I'm like, Okay, this is
an aftermarket warranty. Okay, most of you who listen regularly,
I am completely against these things, and I felt that
I needed to talk about it again and iterate to people. Okay,
I recently had the opportunity to buy a new vehicle myself,
first one and I'm forty years old, first one I've
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ever purchased forty years of my life. First new car
I ever purchased a It's a four. And again, very
blessed and grateful that I got that opportunity. And when
I was purchasing purchasing it, I asked if there was
any type of extended factory warranty. Now, this is important.
(04:31):
Extended factory warranty. Listen to me here. It's very important
if you're purchasing a new vehicle and you do want
to have added protection because these cars, again you say,
I mean most of your cars are you know, if
you buy an suv or a truck or whatnot. I mean,
these things are starting fifty sixty, seventy eighty thousand, you know,
I mean some of them are one hundred thousand. Right,
you want to make sure that you protect when I
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say investment, I understand it's a depreciating asset, but you
want to protect it, right. You want to make sure
that if all these vehicles now nowadays have all these electronics,
they've got all this technology, and that's great and a
lot of it saves lives, but it comes at a
cost of a cost that if it fails or breaks,
it's going to cost you a lot of money. Right.
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So if you're in the market to buy a new vehicle, okay,
a new vehicle, ask your salesperson if there is an
extended factory warranty. Okay, I asked my salesman. I said, hey,
do you have an extended factor warranty? And guess what
they do? So when I purchased my Ford, it was
a you know, the standard across the board for all
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makes and models is, except for Hyundai and Kia, three
years thirty six thousand miles. Okay, three years thirty six
thousand miles. Now that's great, but you know, we tend
to keep our cars longer, and this stuff gets more
and more expensive as you know, as it goes on.
So I purchased my extended factory warranty to a seven year,
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one hundred thousand mile warranty. Now, yes, did it cost
me an additional amount of money? Yes, okay, but it
is an extended factory warranty. Okay again let me. I
want to beat this in your head. Factory warranty. Okay.
This young lady came in. She goes, dang, they want
me to buy this warranty and it's thirty five hundred
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dollars and what are your thoughts? And I looked at it,
and I said, you don't want that. Okay, that's an
aftermarket warranty. And she's like, well, you know it's going
to cover this this it's it's cover I'm covered at uh.
I think it was ten years, one hundred and fifty
thousand miles and and you know it. You know, it's
thirty five hundred bucks. And I said listen, and she
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agreed with me, and she was she was like, hey,
I'm here to listen to what you have to say.
And you know, these after market warranties are garbage. Okay,
they are a waste of your money. Please. You know
they want to sell it to you. And yes, you know,
it seems like it's it's just just this great thing
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and you're gonna be covered. Okay, I can tell you
first handedly that what I see that they, what these
warranty companies do to people is in my opinion of crime. Okay,
First of all, they do not cover any type of diagnostic.
They do not cover shop supply fees, They do not
cover any type of uh you know, diet. Well I
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said diagnostic, but they do not cover diagnostic. They don't
cover yeah, you know, they'll only cover certain amounts, so
dependent upon the warranty company. Right. So, uh, if you
go to a shop that there their labor rates one
hundred and twenty five dollars an hour, well your your
aftermark warrants company goes, oh, we'll only pay seventy five, right,
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and so you end up, really, you end up paying
for these repairs. Anyways. You might get a little bit
off of it, but you don't, won't They don't, you know,
they want to present this as like this is just
this great thing and you're gonna be covered. You're not.
And I've seen it time and time again that you know,
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these people buy these these aftermarket warranties and they really
don't cover anything, and I used to say that it
was kind of like catastrophic, right. It was like, oh,
you know, if your engine fails, right, but I have
a great customer, great customer, Honda Pilot purchases it, pays
I think five thousand dollars for this after market warranty
and purchases it and lo and behold it's a Honda
(08:32):
great product. Engine fails. Okay. Now if you open up
his little pamphlet that's covered. Engine is covered, it says that, right.
So I call the warranty company and they say, well, yeah,
the engine's covered, but we're gonna send our technician out
to look at the vehicle, all right. So now we're
waiting three or four days before they send their technician
out basically to verify that what I, you know, said
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it needed. That's what their technician said. So now they
don't give you any type of loaner car or anything
like that. So now you're waiting three or four days.
Now what they tell me is okay, yep, engines locked up,
but we need you to tear that engine apart and
find out exactly what caused the failure inside the engine. Okay.
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Oh and by the way, we're not going to cover
you to tear that engine down and find out exactly
what's going to cause the engine. You know, we're not
gonna cover that. The customer needs to pay for that.
So now the customer's on the hook for about you know,
two three thousand dollars for me to take that engine out,
tear it apart, and find exactly what part in that
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engine failed. Okay, Now, I explained to the warranting com
I said, well, what if I tear it all apart,
I can't find exactly what part failed, Like, well, then
we won't cover anything. And to me, that was completely dishonest.
And I'm like, so, I'm like, you want the customer
to pay three thousand dollars for me to tear that
engine out, tear it apart, find what failed, and if
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I can't find anything that failed, in the customer not
only has to paid three thousand, but then he has
to pay another ten thousand for an engine. Yes, and
that that was the last straw for me that led
me to was like just never again am I gonna
ever recommend an aftermarket warranty company Because this gentleman in
the literature says that the engine was covered and what
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they did to this gentleman. Again, to me, was was criminal.
So I wanted to again reiterate, if you're buying a
new car, please ask if they have an extended factory warranty.
If not, do not buy any type of aftermarket warranty. Okay,
it's a waste of your money. Take that. If it's
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thirty five this young lady that was at the shop yesterday,
it's thirty five hundred, do take that money. Put in
stock market, right, You're gonna earn hopefully five to eight
percent on it. And if something does happen in one
hundred thousand miles, that money's grown and you're gonna you know,
So please don't buy an after market warranty. If anybody
out there listen, has have I seen in the past
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that somebody does have one and it's covered some of
their costs? Yes, okay, you see them on the commer,
on the on the TV all the time. I'm bombarded
with him. I see him all the time, you know,
on social media, on TV or whatnot. And you know,
my blood pressure starts to raise because from my perspective,
what I've seen, what they do to people is criminal,
(11:30):
and I just I just don't recommend them. So if
you're again, if you're buying one, please don't buy an
after market warrnty. Just take the money and put it
in the stock market and or invested in something, and
you know you're better off. Okay, So all right? Uh,
the number to call five on three that number gain
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Taking your car questions. The number to call five one
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one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. Yes, I
am in studio, but again I did it again, and uh,
I left my headphones not at home, but I left
them in my other vehicle. I just I put him
in there on Saturday, right, and then I you know,
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out of sight, out of mine. And then I was telling,
you know, damn my producer. You know, I had it
in my head. I was like, twelve thirty is I'm
gonna start my truck, I'm gonna take a shower, I'm
gonna be early today. And then I'm grabbing all my
stuff together and I'm like, where are my headphones. Oh,
They're in my other vehicle, which is at work. So
once again I did it again. So uh, but I
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am here taking your phone calls and we'll call five
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nine fifty five hundred. Now to add to that beginning segment,
which again was a couple of weeks ago. But I
and I don't want to get on the you know,
talking about that after market warranties because you guys heard it.
But I do want to talk about when you're buying
(13:53):
a used vehicle, okay, and making sure that you get
it inspected by a AIC, A mechanic, your mechanic, any mechanic.
I had a young gentleman this uh Thursday, came in
and he said, hey, I can smell I can smell
exhaust that smells wanting burning. Can you take a look
at it? And I popped the hood and this thing
(14:17):
was just underneath the hood was just an absolute rusted mess.
Rusted outside of the truck looked great, but underneath the
hood things that don't typically rust here in Ohio or
in Cincinnati. The valve cover gasket bolts were just they
were gone. I mean they were just completely rusted to
just a ball. You couldn't even get a socket on them, right.
(14:37):
And so I'm like, oh, man, I I knew this
car instantly was from up North. And he's like, well,
I bought it. I said, where'd you buy this thing?
And he said, oh, I bought it from some mom
and pop shop. And I'm like, in Harrison, Ohio. I said,
oh okay, and he goes, why what's wrong? I said, man,
this thing is really really rusty. And he goes, yeah,
(14:58):
and I knew it, but I wasn't gonna I wasn't
gonna say it, but uh, really rusty. I'm like, man,
this thing is a rusted mess. And I'm like, where'd
you get this thing? And he's like, you know, again,
from a place in Harrison. He goes, well, spend some
time in Pennsylvania, but most of its life it was
up in Canada. Oh And I'm like, well that that
makes a whole lot of sense. So unfortunately, yes, we
(15:22):
do live in Ohio. We do live what's considered the
rust belt. Okay, but I'm telling you cars that are
up from like like Cleveland, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada. You
do not want to buy any of these vehicles. Okay.
They are a rusted, rusted, pitted mess and it makes
(15:45):
a tremendous amount, you know, because you know, the gentleman
was kind of like, oh, man, well I'm in big trouble.
I'm like, no, I mean not necessarily. But the problem
is is all of the work that we're gonna do
this car is gonna be it's gonna cost you double
really and labor because you can't get anything off. You
can't get any sockets on the on the bolts. And again,
(16:08):
you know, talking about the aftermarket warranty companies. If you're
buying a used vehicle, and I've said this so many
times on this show, if you're buying a used vehicle,
you need to get it inspected, Okay, either again by
us at Donovan's or your mechanic or if it's out
of town. Right, if you're say you're buying a car
in Florida, right, that should be that should be fine, right,
(16:32):
but don't you know you find a reputable shop in
that area and just say, hey, listen, you tell the dealership, hey, look,
can you drive the vehicle to this mechanic shop or
or vice versa. Have the mechanic shop pick it up
and look at it. And you want to get a
detailed inspection on what the status of the vehicle is. Right,
it's important, Right, you're spending a lot of money on
(16:55):
this this vehicle, and you want to make sure that
you not buying somebody else's problems. And so often and
so many times I preached this at at at work
every day, right, and everybody's like, well, I didn't know,
I didn't know you guys did that. Well, I didn't
know there was a service like that. Yes, absolutely, absolutely,
(17:17):
there's a service like that. Anytime you're buying a used vehicle,
I don't care. I don't care if it has twelve
thousand miles on it, get it inspected. I've told this
story before in the past. I had a young lady
buying a pre owned certified Lexus, was gonna spend about
sixty thousand dollars on this car low miles, and she
(17:38):
brought to me anyways, and lo and behold, I got
into it. I looked at it, and the whole the
dealership wrecked the whole front end of this car. It
did like twelve They did like twelve thousand dollars damage
to the front end of this car. Now, this car
is supposed to be pre owned, certified and nothing's ever
happened to it, And that wasn't the case the dealership.
(17:59):
Somebody at the dealership wrecked it. They fixed it. Of course,
it doesn't show up on Carfax. And then they try
to sell it to you. And you want to buy
a sixty thousand dollars car that's been absolutely just wrecked
in the whole front end ripped off of it. Right,
So you want to make sure that when you're purchasing
a used vehicle that you're getting it inspected by a mechanic,
any mechanic. You want a second pair, you want a
(18:22):
second opinion, okay, just to make sure that you're not
buying somebody else's problems. The other side of this as well,
if you're purchasing a used vehicle, you get it inspected. Right.
Let's just say it's a thirty thousand dollars car. You
get it inspected, and let's just say it needs four tires,
all four brakes in a right front axle, right, and
it's gonna cost you it's gonna be three thousand dollars
(18:43):
right to replace the four tires, the four brakes in
the axle. Okay, just an example. Now you have some leverage.
Now you can go back to the place that you're
purchasing it and say, hey, listen, I had it inspected
by a mechanic. I had this thing looked at, and
I'm gonna have to put about three thousand dollars of
work into this vehicle. Right. Gives you the upper hand,
(19:04):
So then it gives you the negotiating token to sit
there and go, hey, can you take care of these
things for me? Or can you take it off the
price of the vehicle? Right? It gives you leverage and
a better upper hand, and then you know what's going
on with the vehicle, so that you know you're protected.
Because you go out there and spend thirty forty fifty
(19:25):
sixty thousand dollars, you want to make sure that you
can get the most out of your investment and the
most life out of your vehicle, and so important imperative
that you make sure that you get these vehicles, these
use vehicles inspected. Now. The only one and I had
this conversation earlier this week, the only the one great
thing about Carvana is you can purchase that vehicle online
(19:50):
and they give you seven days to get it inspected,
get it looked at, make sure you like it, and
if you don't, you can return it. Right. That's that's great,
that's great policy. There's only one view from them that
I've ever had to say, hey take it back, right,
So that's an option. But everybody thinks that their hands
are tied that if you're buying a used vehicle, that
I mean I had to get you know, a young
(20:10):
lady like, they let you, they'll let you drive it
off the lot. I'm like, absolutely, they'll let you drive
it off the lot. Absolutely, they'll let you have it
inspected by a mechanic. And if they don't, then you
need to run because obviously the product that they're selling
you they don't trust, right, So why would you invest
(20:31):
that type of money if they won't even let you
drive it off the lot or let somebody inspect it? Right, So,
most most dealerships and automotive or you know, used car
lots will allow you to test drive the car. Some
of them will let you keep it overnight, and most
of them should allow you to have it inspected. And
if they don't let you do those things, then you
(20:54):
need to find another place or another vehicle.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You want to make sure that you protect your investment
and you protect your money, and that you don't that
you're not buying somebody else's problem. So just please get
the cars inspected. Now, this gentleman spend a lot of
money on this truck and it is an absolute russ bucket,
and uh, hopefully everything will turn out for him. Fine,
we'll see. I told him he's bringing it in. We're
(21:18):
gonna have it inspected. But it's just so important and
so imperative that you get these things looked at when
you're buying a used vehicle. So all right, again the
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welcome to the car show. How can I help Bill?
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You're there? Hey? Hey, Bill? Sounds like he's listening. But Bill,
if you're there, all right, Hey, Bill, if you're listening,
I'm trying to get a hold of you. Uh, call
back please, So then I'm gonna call five one three
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I know I sometimes get on tyree, but I just man, sometimes,
you know, I want everybody to you know, car problems
should not be something that you have to deal with
on a daily basis, right, you shouldn't have these headaches
and these problems. You're so expensive to repair, And it's
just so important that you get a vehicle inspected and
(22:25):
get an opinion, get your mechanics opinion. I have a
great customer that I had a conversation with earlier this week.
She wants to sell her vehicle. It's a Volkswagen, and
she wants to get away from Volkswagen's And so we
had a thirty minute conversation about Dane, what should I
look for, what should I buy? What are your thoughts
on this? And and you know, and I love having
(22:48):
those conversations because I love guiding people to make the
best decision. Right. I could tell you, you know, buy
a Honda Civic tomorrow, and you sit there and go,
this is the worst car of her ound. I mean,
that's everybody's you know, everybody has a different opinion. But
if I can give you the best advice that I can,
with the knowledge in the history of doing this for
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twenty five years, I will. I mean, that's that's what
I'm here for. So again, then I'm gonna call five one, three, seven,
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Let's go back to the phones. We have Bill. Hey, Bill,
welcome to the car show.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
How can I help Well Dale? I got a I
got a question for you. I to you for friends.
I have a twenty ten Venza Toyta Venza four cylinder,
all wheel drive, and I'm about I'm about ninety nine
percent sure that the timing chain tensure is given up,
because when I hit the start button for maybe a second,
(24:37):
I hear a grinding noise which then goes away, and
probably they won't hear it again if I start the
car periodically during the day, but if it sets for
half a day or all night, you know I'll hear
the same noise. So I've taken the car, well, actually
taken the car to one shop and talked to another.
It's like, before I even get started, they start talking, Wow,
(25:00):
you're probably gonna need a timing chain, You're gonna need
a kiss, and and you know, it turns out to
be a whole lot of money. At one shop was
talking about you know, CAM sensors and taking the motor
out and sixty eight hundred dollars and I went, well,
that's probably more than the car's worth. And in another
(25:20):
shop gave me a price. It was about thirty seven hundred.
I'm like, well, is that a common situation running with
the four cylinder? Tell Yota engines that that dentage. I
think it's a one ar fe something like that. Yeah,
I'm looking for a little guidance because it sounds like
a whole lot of money for for some timing chain work.
(25:44):
And and I'm wondering, how do you know I need
all this other stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Sure, sure, yeah, great question. So, uh, typically I would
I would agree that if the tension is back, So
what happens is it's it's it's oil pressures what allows
that that tension to keep tension on the chain. And
then typically what results in is like if the cars
are ran low on oil or whatnot, that tension will
fail fail. But yeah, it's kind of like the chain.
(26:15):
I would definitely do the chain because the chains will stretch,
they can stretch and can jump time. And then you've
got you have guides. They're plastic. If I could use
an analogy, it's like kind of like open heart surgery. Right,
you're gonna we're gonna have all those parts. You're gonna
have all those parts in your hand. You have to
take that chain and those parts off. And again, the
(26:40):
chains can stretch, the guides can break. If you're gonna
do the tension, you don't need to take the engine out.
And what I would recommend is, if you're gonna do
the tension, you just buy a kit comes with the
new tensionor the new guides in a chain. That's all
you need to do. Now. The question is, and I
don't know off the top of my head, on a
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twenty ten Venza, there is a typically some of these
most of these vehicle vehicles will have what's called a
VVT gear, okay, which is operated by oil pressure as well.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Very old second, Okay, you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Want to find out if you have that, Probably you do.
Some some vehicles have two, some have one. Even though
yours is a four cylinder, it's still you know, dual cam, right,
so one is usually what it does is it's again
it's operated by oil pressure, and it it advances or
(27:44):
retards the timing of the engine right, advances it or
slows it down. And that's also oil pressure. So I mean,
we'd have to find that out. I could find out.
I can't do it right now, but if if you
call me on Monday or Tuesday, I'll find out if
you have that. But if I were you, if the
tension is want, yeah, it's rattling because that tension is
(28:06):
bleeding down at night. So what happens is overnight it
bleeds down and then when you started up, a chain's
rattling like crazy because it just hasn't built up enough
oil pressure. Once the oil pressure builds up, it's fine.
And yeah, if you go into a convenience store real quick,
shut it off, it won't do it again because it
hasn't bled down. Sure, but if you're gonna if you're
going to go to the lengths of replacing the tension
(28:28):
I would do a timing chain kit. Spy the kit.
I don't know what they're doing. For sixty eight hundred dollars,
that seems a bit excessive to me.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean, all the other shops that I talked to
the you know again over the phone, it is like
it was thirty seven hundred dollars, which made me question
what the first guys.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Were up to.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But absolutely, I guess they're complicating factor here is that
it's it's all wheel drive. I don't I guess they all.
I don't know if all benses are all wheel drive
or not. But somehow, you know that that matters and
turns the amount of effort that it has to go
in it and it's got one hundred and seventy thousand
miles on it, so you know, I don't know what
the normal lifetime would be for one of those chains.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, in theory, they're supposed to last the life of
the vehicle, but what usually results in the tensioner's failing
is usually lack of oil, which caused them to fail.
So typically the cars burn oil. Have you ever have
you ever had an have you ever had the add
oil or had any type of incident where it was
low on oil at any point?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, I bought the car used and you know, after
I got it, it was maybe half a court load
or something like that top it off. But I started
watching it pretty carefully, and it's like, yeah, I'm using
some oil. And plus you can look at the end
of the tailpipe and go, yeah, I'm burning something here.
I don't see any oil leaks. So I'm guessing that
these low tension rings are contributing to a problem with
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the oil drainback along the lands of the piston.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And I don't know if there's a product out there
that might open those up and maybe reduce the oil.
But to your point, yeah, I mean, could the prior
owner have run it low on oil and aggravated that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I have no way to know, right, right, And that's
probably the case. I mean, it's a possibility. And I
talk about this, and I'm sure if you listen, I
talk about this all the time, the importance of making
sure you're checking your oil and changing your oil regularly,
because the result is what we're talking about right now,
where that tensionaire over time has been low on oil
(30:31):
and it's failed and you know so, but again it's
worth I understand that it's expensive. I mean sixty eight
hundred dollars. I don't know what they're doing. Even the
thirty two seems pretty expensive. But if it be an
all wheel drive, call me on Monday or Tuesday at
my shop. All I need is your license plate or
(30:52):
your VEN number. Let me kind of see because every again,
every year make model. They're all a little bit different.
Some just have a standard and a VVT gear. Some
have two VVT gears. So like I have an F
two thousand and seven F one fifty and sitting at
a drive through it it was actually McDonald's. I was
getting a diet coke and all of a sudden, I'm like,
(31:14):
maybe my truck's running bad. Look down, check enginelights on them.
That's weird. And a one of those plastic tensioners failed
and was causing my car to so it has two
VVT gears, changed guides, tensioner. I did it all. Now,
you know, I wanted to keep the truck, so it's
it's important. If you're gonna do it, I would just
(31:35):
do a kit and then we need to find out
if you've got a VVT gear, which again, if you
call me on Monday or Tuesday, Uh, call me at work,
called me at the the Norwood location, the auto form
call me there, sure, give me your license plate, your event,
and then I'll find out exactly if you have that.
If you don't, then just time and chain kit and
(31:55):
that's it. But I still don't think it's I still
don't think it's three grand. So I'll give you I'll
give you a price on the two.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
You can understand why the guy at thirty seven hundred
dollars sounds like a you know, a great guy when
you're comparing it to sixty eight hundred dollars. Yeah, it's like,
holy smoke, there's a lot of money in play here.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, that that sixty eight hundred dollars. I don't know
what they're doing, but they're not. That's that seems really
really high to me.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
So I'll try to look more intelligent the next time
I might walk in there. So yeah, if I walk
in there.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, really, I don't know what they're doing, but I mean,
there's no way by replacing even if you replace both
gears and the chains and the tensioner and the gods,
there's no way it's sixty eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So well, I appreciate that. Well, listen, thanks for taking
my call. I certainly enjoy the show. And I'm guessing
there's probably nothing I can put in the mix into
the oil to sort of open up those plugged grain holes.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Along with piston.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Lands, there's a product that we recently started using and UH,
for the life of me, Uh, I forget the name
of it. We've been trying it, man, what is the
name of that product? I'll have to call me up
when you call me on Monday to shoot it. I
(33:23):
have it. I have it on my shelf at work.
We've been using it. We've had some success with it.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
So okay, cool, give me a buzz, all right, we'll
do Thank you again, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Bye bye. That's again the importance of making sure you're
checking your oil and you're changing it regularly. These cars
with these rings and everything like that, they burn oil.
And I can't I know, I harp on this every week,
but I'm telling you it's gonna save you a tremendous
amount of money down the road if you're changing it.
(33:57):
Regularly that gentleman. Again, he doesn't he's second owner. He
doesn't know what the old owner did. Old owner may
have changed the oil, you know, every ten thousand miles
like the dealership told him to, which is again as
a no, no, you know five thousand miles on any oil,
that's it, five thousand. I don't care what the car says.
I don't care what the dealer says. I don't care
(34:19):
the salesman that you bought it from tells you, because
guess what, they're all in the business to what sell cars.
I'm in the business to fix cars. And I'm telling you,
if you want to keep your car longer, and you
want to keep your car on the road, it's changing
all now. Most of you. Some people might go, well,
(34:39):
of course you're going to say that, Dan, because you
know that's how you make money is by selling oil changes. Well,
I'm I'm here to help you as the listener. I'm
here to help you and get the most miles out
of your car. I have a hont A Civic that
I've had, and I've talked about this lots of times.
It's twenty five years old. Since I bought it, I
have changed the oil on that car every fifteen hundred miles.
Now that's pretty excessive. I understand that, but I know
(35:05):
the importance of changing oil. It's so important. That car
is twenty five years old and it runs like a
top now that it's a Honda Civic, right, they they
they do last, But the importance of maintaining the vehicle
is so important. And now most vehicles, you know they
(35:27):
I mean, I pulled out a gallon of coolant the
other day and it's like ten years every one hundred
and fifty thousand miles. I don't agree with that. I mean, yes,
we don't change cooland as long as we as often
as we used to, but I don't think you should
go one hundred and fifty thousand miles on coolant. I
just don't think it's important that you get it changed regularly.
(35:48):
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I'm Gonnall five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five
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You're listening to the Car Show. Fifty five KRC I
Am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto Entire Center. You can
find your nearest location at donovantire dot com. Let's go
back to the phones. We have Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So my wife was driving through a car wash yesterday
and we have an electronic transmit and uh, you know
some of the new cars have that, and when she
went to exit, it would not go into drive.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
And literally the.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Attendant I think wasn't paying attention. Everybody was hitting each other.
Oh gosh, yeah, so but it was just bumped and
everyone was in neutral so it was you. But have
you heard of that happening in car washes and and
any advice there?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, first and foremost. You know, that's the one thing
that I don't like about all these new vehicles is
everything is electronic. Right, so obviously water went somewhere where
it wasn't supposed to and you know the thing, it
just shut down. I have not seen that. Now, Luckily,
I mean your car. I mean it says a twenty
twenty four Volkswagen Atlas. Yeah, so I mean luck I mean,
(37:52):
so did they have to tell it or how did No?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
No, no, she she did was turn it off and
back on and then when to drive.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Oh okay, all right, so she was able to get
it was able to so then she never had any
more problems. No, okay, I mean no, I haven't heard
of that. But it does not surprise me, I believe
it or not. Just last last weekend, I have a
newer truck and went through the car wash and then
all of a sudden on my way home, you know,
(38:23):
all these sensors are going off that I'm too close
and I'm backing into people and I'm pulling too close,
and I'm like, what the heck is going on? Well,
you know, it was thirty you know, it was cold.
So I'm like, oh, there's probably you know, some ice
on one of the sensors. And come into work the
next day and it's going off like crazy. I can't
back up into anything, and so I pulled it in
(38:44):
the building and let it basically fall out, and then
it was fine. So it's just these sensors are great,
but a little bit of moisture, a little bit of water,
we'll just make them, you know, act funk. You know,
it just water probably got somewhere or some type of
(39:04):
sensor went off or but I mean, that's the.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's that's what I was wondering too. Was it one
of the front or rear motion sensors that thought it
was sensing something and then wouldn't go into gear for safety?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I don't know, Yeah, I mean that's that's I know,
that's that's a possibility. I mean, that's the thing is like,
but they put all these sensors on everything, and you know,
these cars are you know, I mean to it's silly
that to go through a car wash and then you
can't leave it because you know, it's the only downside to.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
The attendant said, there's a bunch of newer cars that
are doing that in that car in the car wash.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, it's it's just over over engineering everything, like you know,
you don't need all of that technology now. Again, some
will say, hey, look, it keeps people alive as far
as you know, car accidents and that lane departure and
things like that. But at the same point, when those
(40:14):
systems fail, you can't drive your car and it costs
you thousands of dollars, and it's just like, right, you know,
at what cost to how much farther can we go here?
I mean, so she said, everybody was honking because everyone Oh,
I bet it was nerve wrecking.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Push stop before we're going bananas because it was packed
because of the AsSalt on cars. Yeah, I wish I'd
had a video.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I bet it was nerve wracking.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, okay, well I just didn't. No, thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Take care. Well, if you got an old car, just
keep it going unless your mechanics says it's not safe
or you can't get the parts to fix it. These
new cars are great, they have nice features, but if
you can't even go through a car wash without there
being some type of major breakdown or disaster. So all right,
(41:13):
let's go back to the phones. We have David. Hey, David,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
I just bought a used twenty twenty four Chevy HD
Dura Match diesel. This is my first first diesel truck,
and I wanted to know your thoughts on OEM diesel
fuel filters versus aftermarket fuel filters.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Oh man, that's a great question. So I I think
I always stick to dealer. I always stick to the original.
But I'm a little, I'm a little by some a
little I'm a weirdo when it comes to that stuff.
As as far as filters go, you know, they're not
(42:02):
terribly expensive. In fact, I have you know, my new
truck is a twenty five hundred diesel as well. And
I'm new to the diesel world. So you know, with diesels,
you've got the oil, the water separator or whatnot. You
got to change. You got to change those fuel filters
quite a bit every other every other oil change. Typically.
(42:23):
I ordered them from Motorcraft. I ordered them from the dealer.
I think the quality is there as far as aftermarket goes.
It really depends on the manufacturer. But if I were you,
especially with it being a twenty four diesel, I would
(42:44):
stick with the dealer. I would stick with the factory
the factory filter, but which is AC Delco. It doesn't
you don't have to necessarily buy it from a dealer.
I would buy an AC Delco filter for that vehicle.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Okay, yeah, I mean the main reason I'm asking is
because the company I work for, I had taken our
twenty six foot box truck in to have some work
done on it, and it's a diesel, and I was
asking the text advice on that, and he was telling
me to go with OEM because he's running the issues
where guys have had aftermarket ones and they have trouble
(43:24):
getting them out and it ends up pasting them a
little bit more, you know, shop time or whatever to
get to get these aftermarket filters out. So you know,
he basically told me to never never go with an
aftermarket and always go with OEM. So I guess that
kind of coincides with your answer. And if honestly, I
haven't you know, compared pricing or anything yet, So yeah,
(43:48):
you know, if the OEMs aren't too much more expensive
than the aftermarkets, and I.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Think it's a no brainer, right, you know, I would
agree with him. I would stick with OEM on that.
You know, if it was a fuel filter, I mean,
we've got some wiggle room, but you're you want to
make sure that the filters aren't going to be hateful.
I mean, unfortunately, I mean mine, Shoot, I can't remember
what I paid. I think mine was, like I want
(44:16):
to say, it was like one hundred and twenty five
dollars is what I paid for it. It may have
even been a little bit more, but it was a kit.
It came with both filters and uh, but really longevity,
especially with it being a twenty four. You know, if
it was a two thousand and four, I'd be like,
you know, you'd probably do aftermarket be fine, But man,
(44:37):
these cars are very and you know the last listener,
you know, wife goes through the car wash and she
can't get out, you know, just because a little these things.
These cars are very precise, they're very finicky and with it.
You know that, I know that truck wasn't cheap, right,
so you want to I would I would stick with OEM,
I really would. And again, you don't have to walk
(44:58):
into a dealer and buy it. You go online, just
buy an ac Delco filter for it. AC Delco. That's
the that's the original equipment manufacturer. AC Delco. You'll be fine, okay.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
And you had you had said that you you change
your you change your you.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
There, I'm here, i gotta go back. Sorry.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yep, yeah, you said that you were you said that
you changed yours about every other oil change, according to
according to my book, it turns back between every fifteen thousand,
twenty thousand miles to mine.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, so I'm changing my oil every five thousand miles
and mine st every fifteen thousand miles. But I'm gonna
do it every other that's just my I'm gonna do
a little bit earlier, So that's just my I want
to do it earlier. Can't hurt anything. So all right, everybody,
thank you so much. I really do appreciate everybody. Have
a great weekend. We'll see you next week. You're listening
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