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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But some shouting down there. Downs.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It s good afternoon and welcome to the Car Show
fifty five KRC Talk station. I'm Dane Donovan taking all
of your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven. That number again, five one three seven, fifty
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five hundred. I was talking to a co worker of
mine and friend, co worker slash friend, and we were
talking about buying a new vehicle, and he was kind
of giving me some opinions on what what I like,
what what he wants to buy, and I just told
him we were talking, I'm like, you know what, I'm
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gonna talk about that tomorrow on the radio show because
it's something that you need to think about. But that
is the fact that if you're purchasing a new vehicle,
you really need to do your homework. You need to
call your insurance. If you're buying a Hyundai or a Kia,
now listen, I like the brand. I don't have anything
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bad to say about them, but as you may know,
there's they're high theft. And he was telling me that, oh,
you know, my daughter has a Kia, and he goes,
I pay more for my daughter's insurance on her Kia
than I do for the other three vehicles I have combined.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And he's like, and.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There's a lot of people that there's a lot of
insurance companies that don't don't cover the insurance, So you
need to think about that if you're purchasing a new vehicle,
new or used vehicle. I would recommend calling your insurance
company and say, hey, what is what is it going
to be in order to cover the the insurance on
this vehicle, because again, they're they're very I mean, they
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can be stolen within less than a minute, and even
if you have you take the measures to properly make
sure it doesn't get stolen, you're still gonna pay more.
And again he was like, hey, look, I'm paying more
on just one vehicle than the up my other three combined,
and just.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Because there has such a high rate of theft. So
it's just.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Something that you should think about if you're buying a
new or used vehicle. Obviously, we know about the tariffs
and everything like that and everything's going up, So if
you're going out to buy a new vehicle or used one,
that's something that you should take it in fact, make
sure you do your due diligence. Call your insurance company,
and make sure that or find out what it's gonna
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cost to insure it. Now, insurance here relatively is inexpensive
compared to like Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I just had a customer not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They'd moved from Florida to here, their daughters going to
school at Xavier University. They moved here and she called
to get an insurance on their vehicles, and you know,
the I can't remember what the number exact numbers were,
but she's like, hey, you know it's gonna be you know,
X amount of dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
She goes, okay, well what is it for the year.
And he's like, no, that's what it is for the year.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And she's like, it was quadruple in Florida the cost
full coverage on there because there's such I guess bad
drivers down in Florida. I don't know, but you know,
those are things that you need to think about when
you're buying a new vehicle. Is, hey, what's it gonna
cost me to ensure this thing? And again, the only
one that I'm aware of is the Hyundai's and the
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Kias that again, they are stolen all day long. They
can be stolen within less than a minute and you're
gonna pay a lot more. So you know, you might
sit there and go, oh, well, the Hyundai or the
Key is a little bit cheaper than the Honda or
the Toyota, but then if you factor in the insurance,
most likely you're gonna probably pay more. And again I'm
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not I like Hunda in Kia as a brand, don't
have a ton of problems with them. They do burn oil,
but I've talked about that many many times on the show.
Most of your newer vehicles today are doing that. I
was behind a hun Day the other day and I
was just getting smoked by by this vehicle because it
was burning so much oil. So it's something that I
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again I talk about all the time because it's something
it's I know, for the for those of you who
listen to me every Saturday, you know I talk about
it almost every time. And it's not because it's not
because it's the only thing I can I want to
talk about. It's just I need to get the aware,
I need to get it out there.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I need to get it out there.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I need the general public to know what these cars
are doing. Because again I had a BMW towed into
me this week, and because of lack of oil. This
vehicle that the BMW is an BMW X three and
uh it because of lack of oil. It again ruins
the timing chains and it needs chains. And it was
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it's almost ten thousand dollars to put timing chains on
a BMW X three and that was due to the
fact that it had been ran low on oil for
many Now, now that this isn't just one time, right,
this isn't one time. This is over the lifetime, and
there's always so much confusion as to when it should
be done.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And again, I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I just want to hammer this into your head and
I want you to tell every all your children, your wife,
your friends, your coworkers, anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
If you want to get the life out of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And try to get it to one hundred, two hundred,
three hundred thousand miles, there needs to be a sense
of awareness that you need to make sure that the
oil is being checked regularly because it cost you the
consumer so much. And again, with everything going with the
terrace and everything going up, you know, everybody's kind of
starting to and I've noticed it, but everybody's starting to
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pinch those pennies, right, they're they're trying to they're watching
their money and and you know, nobody wants to go
out and spend fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car regardless,
but you want to get the life out of it,
you need to make sure that you're checking it regularly.
And again, I feel that in the industry there's a
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lot of confusion, and I'm so grateful to have this
platform to be able to sit here on Saturdays and
tell you as a guy on the what I call
the front lines, I'm there in the office every day
dealing with these cars. I'm at work every day talking
to the technicians working on the cars, talking to the customers, right.
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And as as a guy that's on the front line
that has you know, we have several stores, right, I
see this every day, and I see that there's mass
confusion as to when it needs to be changed and
what we all what I always advocate, if you can,
please focus on the sticker, don't focus on what your
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neameh said. You should change your oil now again, let
me step back, and you know, of course some people
might say they go, well, of course, Dan, you're gonna
say change your oil regular because that brings the customer
in more and so on and so forth. I get that,
I understand that, but I'm telling you, every single day
I have to break bad news to somebody. Hey, listen,
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you need you need timing change is ten thousand dollars,
which could have been prevented if you just change your
oil for one hundred bucks, you know, every you know,
every three months, right, so and every time it's it's
amazing to me that when I come in I and
and and people won't even bring their car in for
an old change. They're bringing in for a check breaks, right,
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and we look up at that little sticker and he's
an old change, Like, oh yeah, well my car says
it's I'm only I got twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The person I you know, the dealership about it from
says I need to change it at ten. And I'm
telling you it's the simplest, most important thing that you
can do for your vehicle. And I try to hammer
this point in every week because every single day I'm
dealing with and you know, listen, it breaks my heart
when I got to call somebody and say this gentleman
was pretty upset. You know, he had to get everything
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out of his car. And he's like, I'm gonna have
it just towed back to my house. And I understand
it's expensive. It's expensive not because of my cost, just
because the amount of labor and the cost it is
to do the job. And it's something that can be
prevented for you and everybody else out there that that
that I that's listening to me. It's the simplest, best
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thing that you can do. Okay, So and here's here's
what we want to focus on. I'm not I don't
want to focus on what the car tells you as
far as what your percentage is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't want to focus on what the dealership told
you when you bought it, or the salesman told you
that you know what to change it at. Okay, my
salesman told me to change it every ten thousand miles.
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He understood that, and he knew what I did. But
he's like, oh, you know Ford has changed ten thousand
You're good. No, I'm not gonna do that. I've had
this discussion with my father in law because he calls
me all the time. He goes, hey, when should I
change the oil? And again, it's every five thousand miles period.
I don't care what make, what model, what year, anything
like that. It's five thousand miles period. The best way
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to do that. And if you bring it to any
down of entire repair shop, any of our shops, you're
gonna a little sticker in the upper part of that
windshield and it's either five months or five thousand miles period.
We don't want to focus on what the car says,
what your neighbor says, what the salesman says. It's every
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five thousand miles, because again, majority of these vehicles today
are burning oil and you don't know it. A lot
of people think that it's you know, you get this
big puff of white smoke, and you're gonna get a
lot of people too go, oh well, I didn't see
any time warning signs. You're not gonna get a warning sign.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I've had cars come in with less than a half
quarter oil, with no low oil light.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
They just that they don't come on. They don't put
them on in these cars anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And so again it kind of if you change it regularly,
you're gonna stay on top of it and not run
the car low on oil and again, the way these
cars are designed, one is for a fuel efficiency government
standards and whatnot. And in that process and the way
they're designed especially, they're gonna burn oil. Most majority, I
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would say ninety percent of cars that are out there
today burn oil.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And you need to be aware of it. You need
to check it if you can. If not, you can
bring it to any of our locations and we'll check
it for you, or you can go to Google or
YouTube and say, how do I check my oil? It's
the most important thing to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And again, changing it regularly is gonna get you the longevity.
If you want your car to last two two hundred
and fifty thousand miles, the single cheapest best thing that
you can do is change all and I and I
I know for some of you who listen to me.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So they go, oh my god, he's talking about changing
oil again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
But I'm telling you it's I could save people hundreds
of thousands of dollars, not one individual, But I mean
there's so much time that the car comes in and
it's just it's rampant, and it's just like, I've got
to get this out there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So for those of you who listen to me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You gotta I hate to be you know, sound redundant,
but it's like, man, it's so important. It's so important
that you do it. So taking your phone calls and
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Taking your car collestion is the number to call five
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gain five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and uh,
if you go to donovantire dot com you can find
your nearest location. Love to help you out and do
anything that we can that your car might need. But
here on Saturdays, it's all about you and what I
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can do to try to help you out and walk
you through whatever whatever it might be to on that vehicle,
whether it's maintenance, you're buying a new vehicle, or you
have a car question, or you know, whatever it might
pertain to that vehicle. That's what I'm here for to
try to help you out. So again, then number to
call five one three seven fifty five.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Let's go to the phones. We have Gary. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Thank you, Dean.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I have a question. I have a Subaru engine an
e eighty one, got a few years on it, and
I I wrestle with the fact of either using straight
ten W thirty oil in it, or putting a cord
of slick fifty with the ten W thirty oil, or
using synthetic oil. Now, when this engine was built, as
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we all know, there wasn't synthetic oils on the market
like there is now. It's very important that I maintained
this engine. What's your opinion? Should I use ten W
thirty like they did with the original engine? Because I
burn I burn noneth atol gas. I burned straight gas.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Okay, So what I would tell you what i'd recommend?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't know anything about the product slicks fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know anything too.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I mean I've heard it advertise or whatnot, but I've
never used the product, so I can't vouch for it
or give you an opinion about it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Just to be honest with.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
You, Okay, I would none with that subject.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I would stick to ten thirty and what the engine
was designed with when it was designed.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now, hear me out on this.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I have a two thousand Honda Civic and the reason
why I don't so I've always advocated, like, hey, synthetic
is a great product, and most most of your vehicles
nowadays are synthetic, and synthetics supposed to be better long
last last year.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But hear me out on this, and I know this
sounds silly, but I've had this car for twenty two years,
and I had it. I changed the oil religiously. I'm
I'm I'm a little over the top on it. I
changed the oil every fifteen hundred miles. Okay, that's how
over the top I am on the Okay, But at
one hundred thousand miles, I.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Decided, Hey, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm gonna switch from the ten W thirty the car
came with, and I'm gonna switch to synthetic. It's gonna
last longer, right, And I noticed a massive difference in.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
My fuel economy.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
My fuel my fuel economy went way down, miles per
gallon went way down. And I'm like, I just I
was like, well, you know what, maybe it's just because
it's getting oders got one hundred thousand miles on it.
And at the time, and I'm not paid by Vaveling,
but I was using Vaveling oil and they had an
engine guarantee. They said, hey, listen, if you can prove
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that you change your oil every you know, three thousand miles,
we're going to guarantee your engine to I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It was like three hundred I remember those commercials.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, So I'm like, all right, So I did that,
and I did that for quite some time, and then
I got to the point where I'm like, man, this
is so expensive, especially when you know I'm changing it
every fifteen hundred.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So I'm like, you know what, and I just again,
I just fuel economy went way down.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm like, that's just old.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'm telling you, I mean, my fuel economy went
cut down pretty tremendously, almost instantly.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And again I was like, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then I'm telling you, as soon as I went
back to the standard ten thirty of the car, just
regular conventional oil, my fuel economy came right back up.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I can't speak good.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Yeah, this is really good information today. I mean, not
have my Superaru engine breakdown on me. I have a
gyro plane that I put it in. I can't pull
over to the side of the road if.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have an engine breakdown.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
No, no, I can't tell you how many hours I
have on that on that engine. But I do have
a twenty zero four and what you're saying is exactly correct.
I have a twenty four Kia with two hundred and
seventy nine thousand miles on it. Now, I've heard a
lot of criticism about Kias over the years, and we
have two Hondas and watched one Dodge truck and there's
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only two of us to drive. But that Kia runs
like a scalded dog. In fact, there was an incident
last year where my kid was stolen and they had
it parked up the street and a guy put a
note in it and he said, you need this car
more than I do, and he left the car and
sheriff told me about it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm teasing you, my godhea with it.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I do have a kid with that kind of mileash
on it. And as far as the Hondai's and that go,
they sent us stickers to put on the window that
the car has been adjusted, that it's harder to steal
for what it's worth. I have a twenty nineteen and
the twenty twenty four were okay. Now with Dodge Ram truck.
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With the twenty twenty fifteen, do you think I should
put synthetic oil in that or straight ken w thirty if.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's a you know what the the I have here?
You know it said that super engines an eighty one?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Correct, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, So I think on the fifteen you could
switch to the synthetic. I think fifteen you'll be fine.
I mean I was putting synthetic in my I have
a you know, seven Ford f one fifty, and you
know I put synthetic in that. But as far as
like an eighty one, I would stick to That's the
way it was designed and manufactured. And but no, I
think you put synthetic in it. But again I'm not
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always hung up on you know, semisynthetic, synthetic or conventional.
What I want to see is is it being changed regularly.
That's what I'm a big proponent to. It was just
changing it regularly because it's so it's the lifeblood of
your car.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's so important.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And every person that I know that's brought their car
to me that has two hundred three hundred thousand miles
on you know, how do you And I ask, how
do you get that many miles on a car?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, just change the world regularly, and you know, it's
just so important.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And these newer cars nowadays, they have so many, in
my opinion, nonsense timing chains and guides and this and that,
and if you just keep up on the oil, you'll
get three hundred thousand miles. But you know, it's always
about well the dealer said this, and the technique, you know,
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the service advisor that I bought the car from a
salesman said this, and I read online this, and it's
just like, hey, I've got this platform, I'm gonna I'm
gonna speak loudly.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Hey, look, just change it regularly.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
If you're using a conventional oil and I've always said
this three thousand and with you conventional oil three thousand miles,
you'll be fine. But I just with the age of
the vehicle, I would recommend using just the conventional oil
what it was designed to do. Because again I made
the switch and I was like, why am I getting
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horrible fuel economy? And as soon as I went back
to conventional oil, it came right back. So it's like, well, the.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Only thing to you but to excuse me, but to you,
oil is oil?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
I hate to put you in this kind of a corner.
What would be the best ten W thirty that you
would suggest come on man.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean there's so many yeah, I mean there's so
many brands.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
And I'm i Quaker valleating mobile.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, I think any of those products are gonna any
It's just you know, you want to make sure it,
you know, is what your car calls for as far
as you know, you want to make sure that it's
up to the test. But you know, I'm not always
hung up on the brands per se, because you know
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a lot of people people say this to me all
the time, and it kind of goes right through me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But you know, it's like, oh, well, oil's oil. It's like, no, no,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You know, you want to do a question.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You want to do a you want to right, you
want to have a quality brand that is that's that
you know, has you know, stay in the test of time.
And I think any of those brands you you know,
will be perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But I would stay.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
A detergent with the detergent what they call the detergent
in the oil.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Uh huh yep. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Well you've been very helpful, and I can't commend you
on pointing out the fact that oil is that important
because I'm pushing eighty I got eighty years of age.
I've got tens of hundreds of thousand miles under my bill.
I've always changed. I've always taken care of the cars,
even in my tractors, in the lawnmower, in my aircraft. Uh,
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it's spark plugs and oil and very little, very little,
seldom with a problem. I thank you for your time, Dean,
have a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You take care all right, Thank you, Bye bye. That
was great. That was that was great. It's so important.
So it's so important, so easy to do, so all right.
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Speaker 1 (23:22):
You're listening to the car show fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. Again, you've
here all the time, but I'm third generation been. My
grandfather started the business in nineteen fifty eight and continue
to go strong and.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Continue to grow.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And again I've said this multiple times for those of
you who listen all the time, I truly truly enjoy
what I do, and so much so that I'm here
every Saturday so I can try to help you out
with your car questions.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Doesn't always necessarily have to be that you bring it.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
To Donovans, because I get a lot I get a
lot of callers from all over the country. I mean, really,
you can call from anywhere in the world, but I
get a lot, a lot from Boston, Florida, New York, California.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And my job, my object.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Here is to talk to you and help you out
in any type of your car needs. I've been doing
this for twenty five years and it's all I've ever
wanted to do, pretty much since I could put a
wrench in my hand.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
There's a I have a picture at home. I gotta
find that thing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know where it's at, but picture of me
when I was I must have been six or seven
years old, and I had a towel on the ground
and I'm underneath a car and acting like I'm working
on it, you know, because that's that's all I know.
I mean, And uh again, I enjoy it enough so
that I'm here every Saturday to answer your car question.
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So I really do. I appreciate all the callers and uh,
you know you guys call up so uh real quick,
I'm gonna get to Charlie here in just a second,
real quick. If you're in the Tri state area, that's
you know, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
With all the wing Wain with all the rain we're getting.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
If you have a water leak in your vehicle, which
is I mean, I see it a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay, got a great guy. It's called you can call
me anytime, but it's called the water doctor.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Okay, this is what he does. He specializes and fixes
these cars. Now nine out of ten times, if you
have a sunroof and you have water getting into your vehicle,
most likely it's the sunroof trains, either they're detached or
they're clogged, especially if you park underneath the tree where
there's leaves to breed or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It happens all the time. And if you if you.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Take it to your dealer, or if you take it
to any repair shop in this this local area, they're
gonna call him Jerry at the water Doctor and does
a phenomenal job. Great guy, upstanding guy. And again, if
you have a water leak in your vehicle, and I
wanted to bring this up because of all the rain
that we've had, and it's not good to get water
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in your car. Because most of these newer vehicles, all
of the modules, all the electronics, everything that runs that vehicle.
These manufacturers put the modules and everything in the in
the floor so that water just ruins them and it'll
cost you hundreds and thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
To fix these things.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So it's something that if you notice water penetrating or
getting your vehicle, call the water doctor and you know
you can bring it to one of our locations, will
come and he'll fix it and at a great cost.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So something to think about.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I was just thinking about that when at the break
when it was like, Wow, I'm staring outside and it's
just pouring down rain. So all right, again the number
to call five one, three, seven, nine fifty five hundred.
Let's go back to the phone with Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
thank you for your patience. I really do appreciate it.
How can I help?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, I called you about new cars, But before I
get into that, I've got a two thousand and five
Chrysler Town and Country and i'd boltady done in April
of two thousand and four. They put them out real
early that year, but everything was fine. I got over
one hundred thousand miles on it, and the dealership I went.
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I took it to a Cadillac dealership because they were
the car with it with an all change, but they
switched to all synthetic hole. All of a sudden, everything
started leaking on it, all the gaskets and everything, and
they said, oh, no, it couldn't happen. But at the
same time I put I changed the synthetic hole on
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my I crashed the lawn more all the gas had
started leaking on it too, So I don't think that
was a I was told later that you aught of anything. Actors,
I think two thousand and six or something was okay
to use synthetical. Well that's true or not. But I
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was told it couldn't have happened. But I told it,
was told you shouldn't use it. That an older vehicle,
the synthetical.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I really think that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You should stick to what the manufacturer at the time,
at that year when it was manufactured, that you'd stick to,
you know, what that car was manufacturing and designed to do.
Because again I have my little Civic that I have,
you know, it's twenty five years older, and I still
put conventional oil in it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I don't and I don't have any problems with it.
I mean, knock on wood and I do too.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I usually I went back to the convention role and
I couldn't find a dealership around here that are any
car place that didn't use the blended. So I used
the blended role now and then they we fifteen hundred miles.
I have to add a court till I get up
to five thousand, and then I get it changed. But
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what I called about was I'm gonna I got a
My car's resting out. I've got about one hundred and
seventy thousand on it, so I'm going to get another car,
and I'm just gonna I thought about a hon They're
more expensive than the Christler, but somebody told me they
didn't think that we were making as well now the
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engines and all, so I don't know. I was what
I was trying to find out.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, now it's a great question.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I love this question because you know, I've I see
a lot and I had this.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I was talking to a young lady earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I was taking her home, was dropping her off, taking
her home, and we were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But let me ask you something. Are you looking for car? SUV?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Van?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What van?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You want? A van? Okay, go ahead, I.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Maybe seven, but I still all of the older haul
stuff when I needed gotcha.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So are you are you looking to buy used or new.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Well, the used are so expensive, I figure I'm gonna
have one more car, so I was thinking about a
new one.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, all right, Well, I mean typically your interest rates
are going to be cheaper on a newer one anyways, Right,
So you buy a car with you know, thirty thousand
miles on it, and you're gonna pay more on your
interest rate if you find if for those of you
out there financing it, I will always I always lean
towards Hanna. Now that's just my preference. I've had, like
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I told you, my little Civic that I have, I've
had for twenty five years. I've always liked the Hunter brand.
But yes, you're right, they are more expensive. Reason being
is because there's they're a lot more reliable.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And they last longer.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Now I don't have a problem with the Chrysler minivan.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The only thing that I can tell you that I
noticed is there is a it's a it is an
absolute poor design by Chrysler, and we do a ton
of them. But there is what's called the oil filter,
what they call the oil.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Filter housing the oil cooler.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oil filter sit right on top right in the valley
of the engine and these it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when these housings leak, and it's
a it's about a twelve hundred dollars cost, right, Not
not hateful, not like hey don't buy their car because
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But that's.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
We We see a lot of those and Chrysler Man
does not build. They're not making their parts as long
as they used to. I mean, I've got a two
thousand and eighteen Jeep which is owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I know it's not a christ it's you know, it's
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep that needed a
throttle body and not available. Chrysler doesn't make it anymore.
So you're you're you're you're you know.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The only reason I was, yeah, I was thinking about
going to Honda. My daughter bought one of them. It's
similar to this Crastler it's the Odyssey.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
But she said it's really hard to get the seats
out and one of the crashlers they just tole down.
Since you've got a flat yeah, you know, I can
put a sheet of fly with it in the back
of my this van.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
What about have you looked at the Toyot Sienna.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
No, so, I wasn't familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
That you know, Well, my my first choice of if
I'm buying a van, my first choice is Honda Odyssey.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
My mother in law has one, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're great cars. That that would be my first. Number
two would be the Toyota Siena. My father in law.
Uh so, my mother in law has the Odyssey. My
father in law has a Sienna. I mean he almost
has two hundred thousand miles on that thing. And I'm
telling you he's never and I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Gonna knock on wood because I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't want to wish anything bad on them. Never
had any problems with the Siena. Never, And if i'm
my third choice would be the the Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Now, again, the Honda and the Toyota.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are you're gonna pay more for even if even if
they have one hundred thousand miles, you know, but they
typically make their parts longer, last longer, and less headache.
But you know, we really don't have a ton of
problems with the Chrysler. We really don't. Just that oil
filter housing which was support designed by them, but for.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
The most part. They just don't make their parts as
long as Honda and Toyota.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, the Sienna is that of Toyota, Yes, sir, yep,
Toyo Siena. Okay, that's why I was trying to thank
the hot made that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, I'm sorry I should have said that. Yeah, Toyota Sienna,
you really ought to look into that.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Okay, it's gonna be my life one So thanks for
getting of the life long time.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Make it count we'll tell you, okay, Okay, well, thank you, sure,
thank you absolutely. I appreciate the phone. Call you every
great weekend. Good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Hey, well, if you're listening, when you buy that van,
I want to hear. I want to you know, I
want to get a full report on on how you
like it. So all right, the number to call five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred coming up. We have uh,
we have John and Allen. You're listening to the car
show on fifty five KR see the talk station.
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Speaker 2 (35:14):
You'll listen to the Car Show on fifty five KRC,
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And again, if you're in the tri state area of Kentucky, Indiana,
or Ohio, you can go to donovantire dot com and
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happy to take care of you in all of your
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
But now I'm taking care of your car needs as
far as what you have and what you have may
have a question about, so love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And again I'm here every Saturday to answer your car questions.
The number to call five one three seven.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right, let's go back to the phones. We have John, Hey, John,
Welcome to the Car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
I guess a question I try to figure out on
my car. So I've had a couple of times in
the last I guess month, just two times I guess
when my after I drive it for a half hour
forty minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
If I stop at.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
A store, run into the store, come back out, try
to start it. I have nothing, wait about a half
hour or forty minutes, come back and start starts up
with no problem. First I thought, I thought maybe with
my alternators, double check that alternators fine, charging, batteries getting
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charged fine, and everything. So I guess I'm just trying
to figure out what could be causing that issue.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Sure, so real quick?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
So I want to when run into the store and
come back out, turn the key. Do you have power?
Radio lights? Dash light up? Is that all happen?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Yes, I see my time on all of that on
the radio and everything.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
It's all there.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
But as soon as I try to turn, I don't.
There's nothing. It doesn't either try to crank or anything.
It's like there's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Gotcha? Okay. So typically so what you're most likely dealing
with is that starter. A lot of times if the
car does not crank nine out of ten times, it's
the starter itself.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay, And probably what's happening, And this happens all the
time with crank sensors, but we're not dealing with that.
We're because crank sensor will still allow the car to crank,
but it won't fire the car. But anyways, a lot
of the times the car when you stop and shut
it off, it's called kind of like a hot soak.
That starter just kind of bakes a little bit and
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then it won't fire. It just won't do its job.
The celinoid's probably shot and you need a starter. So
if the battery test good, the alternatory test good, and
you go and so what happens is that starter then
cools down the engine and everything cools down and then
it starts firing again. So most likely you need a
new starter. How many miles are on the vehicle.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
On this engine? There's uh about fifty five thousand on it?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, Rich, Okay, So you say on this.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
I had to replace that gen previously because of the
timing chain issue that happened though with.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It got it? Okay, Yeah, that's pretty common.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
So most likely we're dealing with the starter now that
the problem is you need to get it. If you
get it to your mechanic in order to really really
identify if it's the starter or not, we got to
get it to act up, right, Your technician's got to
get it to act up. So they're going to have
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to drive it, get it hot, and you know there
it could be a relay issue, could be you know,
start a re or whatnot, but most likely it's gonna
be your starter that needs to be replaced. But again,
any mechanic or whoever looks at it, you need to
let them know. Hey, listen, when it acts up, it's
after I've been driving it for thirty minutes and then park,
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run to a gas station, come back out. Give them
that information, because what's gonna happen is they're gonna drive
around the block and go, let's start it right up.
You know, we can't find anything wrong with it. Give
them that information that you gave me. Hey, look, after
I'm driving it for thirty minutes, run into a gas
station and come back out. It won't start and it's
a no crank. And if they have that information, that's
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gonna give them you know a better reason, it's gonna
allow them to diagnose it quicker. You know, far too
often people feel like, oh, if I give them too information,
it's gonna cost me too much.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's gonna cost me more money. But it's the absolute opposite.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You give them your technician every bit of information that
you possibly can, and it's gonna take them less time
to try to diagnose it and get it back to you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
But I think you need to start her.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay, all right, thank you very much for holding I
appreciate it, and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All right, let's go. We're running out of time. Let's
go to Alan.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Hey, Alan, I'm roote kind of pinched on time, but
I'd love to help you.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (40:17):
Okay, I'll give you my quick version. I've got a
twenty ten Highlander. I just had front struts put on
to diagnose a problem of front end vibration. And how
it acts is when I go to work in the morning,
I have front end vibration driving sixty sixty five miles
an hour for like ten fifteen minutes, and it may
not completely go away, but it goes away largely on
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my way home from work after seven hours, it's always smooth.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Okay, what it vibrates Is it vibrating when you're applying
the brakes, when you have your feet on the gas what.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
I'm traveling, Yes, whether I take my hand off the
steering roll or not, I still feel it in my body.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Okay, so you're driving it, you got your foot on
the gas and it's vibrating. Correct. Okay, if you let
off the gases, it continue to vibrate. Yes, okay, and front.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
And the front struts help, but didn't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Okay, what I would? What about?
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Did you have the tires looked at and balanced?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
They have? They are balanced. There are seven year old tires.
They've got about forty five thousand, about thirty five to
forty thousand miles on them. There's still plenty of tread life,
but they're seven years old. Yeah, and that's what the
mechanics suggested to try next, is new tires.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
So typically yeah, so a lot. There's a couple of
things that cause a vibration.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
If you've got a vibration under acceleration, which you don't have,
but I'm just under acceleration. If you have a vibration,
it's usually a drive train, axle or something like that.
That's not what you have because if you let all
the gas, it's still there.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
If you have a vibration when applying the breaks at
higher speeds, that's usually break pulsation. You got a break issue.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
But if it's got new brakes on it, okay.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
So if it's doing it all the time, there's only
two things that could be either one of the either
one of the tires is either bad, has a broken
belt or out of or needs to be balanced.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
So it's either a tire issue or you've got to
break pad or I'm sorry, break caliper hose. That's kind
of hanging up and causing it.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But if it in the morning, it does it, But
in the afternoon it doesn't. You know, typically it's a
little bit warmer in the afternoon. I would think from
what you're telling me, it sounds like it's a tire.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're dealing with a tire issue.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You need to get those tires checked and maybe rebalanced,
and if you can find a mechanic that has what's
called a road force balancer, use that. Okay, thank you
very much. I have a great day, man. I love
answering these questions. It's just always sorry. I'm just so sorry.
I'm out of time, but I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all your questions. Everybody, have a great weekend.
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Listen to Dane Domond you listen to karshon fifty five Cars,
the talk station
But some shouting down there. Downs.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It s good afternoon and welcome to the Car Show
fifty five KRC Talk station. I'm Dane Donovan taking all
of your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven. That number again, five one three seven, fifty
(00:36):
five hundred. I was talking to a co worker of
mine and friend, co worker slash friend, and we were
talking about buying a new vehicle, and he was kind
of giving me some opinions on what what I like,
what what he wants to buy, and I just told
him we were talking, I'm like, you know what, I'm
(00:57):
gonna talk about that tomorrow on the radio show because
it's something that you need to think about. But that
is the fact that if you're purchasing a new vehicle,
you really need to do your homework. You need to
call your insurance. If you're buying a Hyundai or a Kia,
now listen, I like the brand. I don't have anything
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bad to say about them, but as you may know,
there's they're high theft. And he was telling me that, oh,
you know, my daughter has a Kia, and he goes,
I pay more for my daughter's insurance on her Kia
than I do for the other three vehicles I have combined.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And he's like, and.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
There's a lot of people that there's a lot of
insurance companies that don't don't cover the insurance, So you
need to think about that if you're purchasing a new vehicle,
new or used vehicle. I would recommend calling your insurance
company and say, hey, what is what is it going
to be in order to cover the the insurance on
this vehicle, because again, they're they're very I mean, they
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can be stolen within less than a minute, and even
if you have you take the measures to properly make
sure it doesn't get stolen, you're still gonna pay more.
And again he was like, hey, look, I'm paying more
on just one vehicle than the up my other three combined,
and just.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Because there has such a high rate of theft. So
it's just.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Something that you should think about if you're buying a
new or used vehicle. Obviously, we know about the tariffs
and everything like that and everything's going up, So if
you're going out to buy a new vehicle or used one,
that's something that you should take it in fact, make
sure you do your due diligence. Call your insurance company,
and make sure that or find out what it's gonna
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cost to insure it. Now, insurance here relatively is inexpensive
compared to like Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I just had a customer not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They'd moved from Florida to here, their daughters going to
school at Xavier University. They moved here and she called
to get an insurance on their vehicles, and you know,
the I can't remember what the number exact numbers were,
but she's like, hey, you know it's gonna be you know,
X amount of dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
She goes, okay, well what is it for the year.
And he's like, no, that's what it is for the year.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And she's like, it was quadruple in Florida the cost
full coverage on there because there's such I guess bad
drivers down in Florida. I don't know, but you know,
those are things that you need to think about when
you're buying a new vehicle. Is, hey, what's it gonna
cost me to ensure this thing? And again, the only
one that I'm aware of is the Hyundai's and the
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Kias that again, they are stolen all day long. They
can be stolen within less than a minute and you're
gonna pay a lot more. So you know, you might
sit there and go, oh, well, the Hyundai or the
Key is a little bit cheaper than the Honda or
the Toyota, but then if you factor in the insurance,
most likely you're gonna probably pay more. And again I'm
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not I like Hunda in Kia as a brand, don't
have a ton of problems with them. They do burn oil,
but I've talked about that many many times on the show.
Most of your newer vehicles today are doing that. I
was behind a hun Day the other day and I
was just getting smoked by by this vehicle because it
was burning so much oil. So it's something that I
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again I talk about all the time because it's something
it's I know, for the for those of you who
listen to me every Saturday, you know I talk about
it almost every time. And it's not because it's not
because it's the only thing I can I want to
talk about. It's just I need to get the aware,
I need to get it out there.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I need to get it out there.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I need the general public to know what these cars
are doing. Because again I had a BMW towed into
me this week, and because of lack of oil. This
vehicle that the BMW is an BMW X three and
uh it because of lack of oil. It again ruins
the timing chains and it needs chains. And it was
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it's almost ten thousand dollars to put timing chains on
a BMW X three and that was due to the
fact that it had been ran low on oil for
many Now, now that this isn't just one time, right,
this isn't one time. This is over the lifetime, and
there's always so much confusion as to when it should
be done.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And again, I want to.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I just want to hammer this into your head and
I want you to tell every all your children, your wife,
your friends, your coworkers, anybody.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
If you want to get the life out of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And try to get it to one hundred, two hundred,
three hundred thousand miles, there needs to be a sense
of awareness that you need to make sure that the
oil is being checked regularly because it cost you the
consumer so much. And again, with everything going with the
terrace and everything going up, you know, everybody's kind of
starting to and I've noticed it, but everybody's starting to
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pinch those pennies, right, they're they're trying to they're watching
their money and and you know, nobody wants to go
out and spend fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car regardless,
but you want to get the life out of it,
you need to make sure that you're checking it regularly.
And again, I feel that in the industry there's a
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lot of confusion, and I'm so grateful to have this
platform to be able to sit here on Saturdays and
tell you as a guy on the what I call
the front lines, I'm there in the office every day
dealing with these cars. I'm at work every day talking
to the technicians working on the cars, talking to the customers, right.
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And as as a guy that's on the front line
that has you know, we have several stores, right, I
see this every day, and I see that there's mass
confusion as to when it needs to be changed and
what we all what I always advocate, if you can,
please focus on the sticker, don't focus on what your
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neameh said. You should change your oil now again, let
me step back, and you know, of course some people
might say they go, well, of course, Dan, you're gonna
say change your oil regular because that brings the customer
in more and so on and so forth. I get that,
I understand that, but I'm telling you, every single day
I have to break bad news to somebody. Hey, listen,
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you need you need timing change is ten thousand dollars,
which could have been prevented if you just change your
oil for one hundred bucks, you know, every you know,
every three months, right, so and every time it's it's
amazing to me that when I come in I and
and and people won't even bring their car in for
an old change. They're bringing in for a check breaks, right,
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and we look up at that little sticker and he's
an old change, Like, oh yeah, well my car says
it's I'm only I got twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The person I you know, the dealership about it from
says I need to change it at ten. And I'm
telling you it's the simplest, most important thing that you
can do for your vehicle. And I try to hammer
this point in every week because every single day I'm
dealing with and you know, listen, it breaks my heart
when I got to call somebody and say this gentleman
was pretty upset. You know, he had to get everything
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out of his car. And he's like, I'm gonna have
it just towed back to my house. And I understand
it's expensive. It's expensive not because of my cost, just
because the amount of labor and the cost it is
to do the job. And it's something that can be
prevented for you and everybody else out there that that
that I that's listening to me. It's the simplest, best
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thing that you can do. Okay, So and here's here's
what we want to focus on. I'm not I don't
want to focus on what the car tells you as
far as what your percentage is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't want to focus on what the dealership told
you when you bought it, or the salesman told you
that you know what to change it at. Okay, my
salesman told me to change it every ten thousand miles.
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He understood that, and he knew what I did. But
he's like, oh, you know Ford has changed ten thousand
You're good. No, I'm not gonna do that. I've had
this discussion with my father in law because he calls
me all the time. He goes, hey, when should I
change the oil? And again, it's every five thousand miles period.
I don't care what make, what model, what year, anything
like that. It's five thousand miles period. The best way
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to do that. And if you bring it to any
down of entire repair shop, any of our shops, you're
gonna a little sticker in the upper part of that
windshield and it's either five months or five thousand miles period.
We don't want to focus on what the car says,
what your neighbor says, what the salesman says. It's every
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five thousand miles, because again, majority of these vehicles today
are burning oil and you don't know it. A lot
of people think that it's you know, you get this
big puff of white smoke, and you're gonna get a
lot of people too go, oh well, I didn't see
any time warning signs. You're not gonna get a warning sign.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I've had cars come in with less than a half
quarter oil, with no low oil light.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
They just that they don't come on. They don't put
them on in these cars anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And so again it kind of if you change it regularly,
you're gonna stay on top of it and not run
the car low on oil and again, the way these
cars are designed, one is for a fuel efficiency government
standards and whatnot. And in that process and the way
they're designed especially, they're gonna burn oil. Most majority, I
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would say ninety percent of cars that are out there
today burn oil.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And you need to be aware of it. You need
to check it if you can. If not, you can
bring it to any of our locations and we'll check
it for you, or you can go to Google or
YouTube and say, how do I check my oil? It's
the most important thing to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And again, changing it regularly is gonna get you the longevity.
If you want your car to last two two hundred
and fifty thousand miles, the single cheapest best thing that
you can do is change all and I and I
I know for some of you who listen to me.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So they go, oh my god, he's talking about changing
oil again.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
But I'm telling you it's I could save people hundreds
of thousands of dollars, not one individual, But I mean
there's so much time that the car comes in and
it's just it's rampant, and it's just like, I've got
to get this out there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So for those of you who listen to me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You gotta I hate to be you know, sound redundant,
but it's like, man, it's so important. It's so important
that you do it. So taking your phone calls and
I'm gonna call five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. That number again, five one, three, seven four
nine fifty five hundred coming up. We have Gary and Charlie.
You're listening to the Car Show on fifty five KRS
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Speaker 2 (12:34):
Taking your car collestion is the number to call five
one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That number
gain five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and uh,
if you go to donovantire dot com you can find
your nearest location. Love to help you out and do
anything that we can that your car might need. But
here on Saturdays, it's all about you and what I
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can do to try to help you out and walk
you through whatever whatever it might be to on that vehicle,
whether it's maintenance, you're buying a new vehicle, or you
have a car question, or you know, whatever it might
pertain to that vehicle. That's what I'm here for to
try to help you out. So again, then number to
call five one three seven fifty five.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Let's go to the phones. We have Gary. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Thank you, Dean.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I have a question. I have a Subaru engine an
e eighty one, got a few years on it, and
I I wrestle with the fact of either using straight
ten W thirty oil in it, or putting a cord
of slick fifty with the ten W thirty oil, or
using synthetic oil. Now, when this engine was built, as
(13:44):
we all know, there wasn't synthetic oils on the market
like there is now. It's very important that I maintained
this engine. What's your opinion? Should I use ten W
thirty like they did with the original engine? Because I
burn I burn noneth atol gas. I burned straight gas.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Okay, So what I would tell you what i'd recommend?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't know anything about the product slicks fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I don't know anything too.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I mean I've heard it advertise or whatnot, but I've
never used the product, so I can't vouch for it
or give you an opinion about it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Just to be honest with.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
You, Okay, I would none with that subject.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I would stick to ten thirty and what the engine
was designed with when it was designed.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now, hear me out on this.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I have a two thousand Honda Civic and the reason
why I don't so I've always advocated, like, hey, synthetic
is a great product, and most most of your vehicles
nowadays are synthetic, and synthetics supposed to be better long
last last year.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But hear me out on this, and I know this
sounds silly, but I've had this car for twenty two years,
and I had it. I changed the oil religiously. I'm
I'm I'm a little over the top on it. I
changed the oil every fifteen hundred miles. Okay, that's how
over the top I am on the Okay, But at
one hundred thousand miles, I.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Decided, Hey, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm gonna switch from the ten W thirty the car
came with, and I'm gonna switch to synthetic. It's gonna
last longer, right, And I noticed a massive difference in.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
My fuel economy.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
My fuel my fuel economy went way down, miles per
gallon went way down. And I'm like, I just I
was like, well, you know what, maybe it's just because
it's getting oders got one hundred thousand miles on it.
And at the time, and I'm not paid by Vaveling,
but I was using Vaveling oil and they had an
engine guarantee. They said, hey, listen, if you can prove
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that you change your oil every you know, three thousand miles,
we're going to guarantee your engine to I can't remember
what it was.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It was like three hundred I remember those commercials.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, So I'm like, all right, So I did that,
and I did that for quite some time, and then
I got to the point where I'm like, man, this
is so expensive, especially when you know I'm changing it
every fifteen hundred.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So I'm like, you know what, and I just again,
I just fuel economy went way down.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm like, that's just old.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'm telling you, I mean, my fuel economy went
cut down pretty tremendously, almost instantly.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And again I was like, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then I'm telling you, as soon as I went
back to the standard ten thirty of the car, just
regular conventional oil, my fuel economy came right back up.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I can't speak good.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Yeah, this is really good information today. I mean, not
have my Superaru engine breakdown on me. I have a
gyro plane that I put it in. I can't pull
over to the side of the road if.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have an engine breakdown.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
No, no, I can't tell you how many hours I
have on that on that engine. But I do have
a twenty zero four and what you're saying is exactly correct.
I have a twenty four Kia with two hundred and
seventy nine thousand miles on it. Now, I've heard a
lot of criticism about Kias over the years, and we
have two Hondas and watched one Dodge truck and there's
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only two of us to drive. But that Kia runs
like a scalded dog. In fact, there was an incident
last year where my kid was stolen and they had
it parked up the street and a guy put a
note in it and he said, you need this car
more than I do, and he left the car and
sheriff told me about it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm teasing you, my godhea with it.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I do have a kid with that kind of mileash
on it. And as far as the Hondai's and that go,
they sent us stickers to put on the window that
the car has been adjusted, that it's harder to steal
for what it's worth. I have a twenty nineteen and
the twenty twenty four were okay. Now with Dodge Ram truck.
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With the twenty twenty fifteen, do you think I should
put synthetic oil in that or straight ken w thirty if.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's a you know what the the I have here?
You know it said that super engines an eighty one?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Correct, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, So I think on the fifteen you could
switch to the synthetic. I think fifteen you'll be fine.
I mean I was putting synthetic in my I have
a you know, seven Ford f one fifty, and you
know I put synthetic in that. But as far as
like an eighty one, I would stick to That's the
way it was designed and manufactured. And but no, I
think you put synthetic in it. But again I'm not
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always hung up on you know, semisynthetic, synthetic or conventional.
What I want to see is is it being changed regularly.
That's what I'm a big proponent to. It was just
changing it regularly because it's so it's the lifeblood of
your car.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's so important.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And every person that I know that's brought their car
to me that has two hundred three hundred thousand miles
on you know, how do you And I ask, how
do you get that many miles on a car?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well, just change the world regularly, and you know, it's
just so important.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And these newer cars nowadays, they have so many, in
my opinion, nonsense timing chains and guides and this and that,
and if you just keep up on the oil, you'll
get three hundred thousand miles. But you know, it's always
about well the dealer said this, and the technique, you know,
(19:40):
the service advisor that I bought the car from a
salesman said this, and I read online this, and it's
just like, hey, I've got this platform, I'm gonna I'm
gonna speak loudly.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Hey, look, just change it regularly.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
If you're using a conventional oil and I've always said
this three thousand and with you conventional oil three thousand miles,
you'll be fine. But I just with the age of
the vehicle, I would recommend using just the conventional oil
what it was designed to do. Because again I made
the switch and I was like, why am I getting
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horrible fuel economy? And as soon as I went back
to conventional oil, it came right back. So it's like, well, the.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Only thing to you but to excuse me, but to you,
oil is oil?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
I hate to put you in this kind of a corner.
What would be the best ten W thirty that you
would suggest come on man.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean there's so many yeah, I mean there's so
many brands.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
And I'm i Quaker valleating mobile.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, I think any of those products are gonna any
It's just you know, you want to make sure it,
you know, is what your car calls for as far
as you know, you want to make sure that it's
up to the test. But you know, I'm not always
hung up on the brands per se, because you know
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a lot of people people say this to me all
the time, and it kind of goes right through me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But you know, it's like, oh, well, oil's oil. It's like, no, no,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You know, you want to do a question.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You want to do a you want to right, you
want to have a quality brand that is that's that
you know, has you know, stay in the test of time.
And I think any of those brands you you know,
will be perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But I would stay.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
A detergent with the detergent what they call the detergent
in the oil.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Uh huh yep. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Well you've been very helpful, and I can't commend you
on pointing out the fact that oil is that important
because I'm pushing eighty I got eighty years of age.
I've got tens of hundreds of thousand miles under my bill.
I've always changed. I've always taken care of the cars,
even in my tractors, in the lawnmower, in my aircraft. Uh,
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it's spark plugs and oil and very little, very little,
seldom with a problem. I thank you for your time, Dean,
have a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You take care all right, Thank you, Bye bye. That
was great. That was that was great. It's so important.
So it's so important, so easy to do, so all right.
The number to call five one three seven four fifty
five hundred. That number again. Phone lines are wide open.
Love to hear from you again. You get on, you call,
We'll get you right on. So the number to call
five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That
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number again, five one, three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Coming up. We have Charlie.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
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The best way to wake up in the morning, A
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five on fifty five KRC, the talk station.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You're listening to the car show fifty five KRC.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. Again, you've
here all the time, but I'm third generation been. My
grandfather started the business in nineteen fifty eight and continue
to go strong and.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Continue to grow.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And again I've said this multiple times for those of
you who listen all the time, I truly truly enjoy
what I do, and so much so that I'm here
every Saturday so I can try to help you out
with your car questions.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Doesn't always necessarily have to be that you bring it.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
To Donovans, because I get a lot I get a
lot of callers from all over the country. I mean, really,
you can call from anywhere in the world, but I
get a lot, a lot from Boston, Florida, New York, California.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And my job, my object.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Here is to talk to you and help you out
in any type of your car needs. I've been doing
this for twenty five years and it's all I've ever
wanted to do, pretty much since I could put a
wrench in my hand.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
There's a I have a picture at home. I gotta
find that thing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I don't know where it's at, but picture of me
when I was I must have been six or seven
years old, and I had a towel on the ground
and I'm underneath a car and acting like I'm working
on it, you know, because that's that's all I know.
I mean, And uh again, I enjoy it enough so
that I'm here every Saturday to answer your car question.
(24:54):
So I really do. I appreciate all the callers and uh,
you know you guys call up so uh real quick,
I'm gonna get to Charlie here in just a second,
real quick. If you're in the Tri state area, that's
you know, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
With all the wing Wain with all the rain we're getting.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
If you have a water leak in your vehicle, which
is I mean, I see it a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay, got a great guy. It's called you can call
me anytime, but it's called the water doctor.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Okay, this is what he does. He specializes and fixes
these cars. Now nine out of ten times, if you
have a sunroof and you have water getting into your vehicle,
most likely it's the sunroof trains, either they're detached or
they're clogged, especially if you park underneath the tree where
there's leaves to breed or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It happens all the time. And if you if you.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Take it to your dealer, or if you take it
to any repair shop in this this local area, they're
gonna call him Jerry at the water Doctor and does
a phenomenal job. Great guy, upstanding guy. And again, if
you have a water leak in your vehicle, and I
wanted to bring this up because of all the rain
that we've had, and it's not good to get water
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in your car. Because most of these newer vehicles, all
of the modules, all the electronics, everything that runs that vehicle.
These manufacturers put the modules and everything in the in
the floor so that water just ruins them and it'll
cost you hundreds and thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
To fix these things.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So it's something that if you notice water penetrating or
getting your vehicle, call the water doctor and you know
you can bring it to one of our locations, will
come and he'll fix it and at a great cost.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So something to think about.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I was just thinking about that when at the break
when it was like, Wow, I'm staring outside and it's
just pouring down rain. So all right, again the number
to call five one, three, seven, nine fifty five hundred.
Let's go back to the phone with Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
thank you for your patience. I really do appreciate it.
How can I help?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Well, I called you about new cars, But before I
get into that, I've got a two thousand and five
Chrysler Town and Country and i'd boltady done in April
of two thousand and four. They put them out real
early that year, but everything was fine. I got over
one hundred thousand miles on it, and the dealership I went.
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I took it to a Cadillac dealership because they were
the car with it with an all change, but they
switched to all synthetic hole. All of a sudden, everything
started leaking on it, all the gaskets and everything, and
they said, oh, no, it couldn't happen. But at the
same time I put I changed the synthetic hole on
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my I crashed the lawn more all the gas had
started leaking on it too, So I don't think that
was a I was told later that you aught of anything. Actors,
I think two thousand and six or something was okay
to use synthetical. Well that's true or not. But I
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was told it couldn't have happened. But I told it,
was told you shouldn't use it. That an older vehicle,
the synthetical.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I really think that.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You should stick to what the manufacturer at the time,
at that year when it was manufactured, that you'd stick to,
you know, what that car was manufacturing and designed to do.
Because again I have my little Civic that I have,
you know, it's twenty five years older, and I still
put conventional oil in it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I don't and I don't have any problems with it.
I mean, knock on wood and I do too.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I usually I went back to the convention role and
I couldn't find a dealership around here that are any
car place that didn't use the blended. So I used
the blended role now and then they we fifteen hundred miles.
I have to add a court till I get up
to five thousand, and then I get it changed. But
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what I called about was I'm gonna I got a
My car's resting out. I've got about one hundred and
seventy thousand on it, so I'm going to get another car,
and I'm just gonna I thought about a hon They're
more expensive than the Christler, but somebody told me they
didn't think that we were making as well now the
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engines and all, so I don't know. I was what
I was trying to find out.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, now it's a great question.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I love this question because you know, I've I see
a lot and I had this.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I was talking to a young lady earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I was taking her home, was dropping her off, taking
her home, and we were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But let me ask you something. Are you looking for car? SUV?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Van?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What van?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You want? A van? Okay, go ahead, I.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Maybe seven, but I still all of the older haul
stuff when I needed gotcha.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So are you are you looking to buy used or new.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Well, the used are so expensive, I figure I'm gonna
have one more car, so I was thinking about a
new one.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, all right, Well, I mean typically your interest rates
are going to be cheaper on a newer one anyways, Right,
So you buy a car with you know, thirty thousand
miles on it, and you're gonna pay more on your
interest rate if you find if for those of you
out there financing it, I will always I always lean
towards Hanna. Now that's just my preference. I've had, like
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I told you, my little Civic that I have, I've
had for twenty five years. I've always liked the Hunter brand.
But yes, you're right, they are more expensive. Reason being
is because there's they're a lot more reliable.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And they last longer.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Now I don't have a problem with the Chrysler minivan.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The only thing that I can tell you that I
noticed is there is a it's a it is an
absolute poor design by Chrysler, and we do a ton
of them. But there is what's called the oil filter,
what they call the oil.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Filter housing the oil cooler.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oil filter sit right on top right in the valley
of the engine and these it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when these housings leak, and it's
a it's about a twelve hundred dollars cost, right, Not
not hateful, not like hey don't buy their car because
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But that's.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
We We see a lot of those and Chrysler Man
does not build. They're not making their parts as long
as they used to. I mean, I've got a two
thousand and eighteen Jeep which is owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I know it's not a christ it's you know, it's
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep that needed a
throttle body and not available. Chrysler doesn't make it anymore.
So you're you're you're you're you know.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The only reason I was, yeah, I was thinking about
going to Honda. My daughter bought one of them. It's
similar to this Crastler it's the Odyssey.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
But she said it's really hard to get the seats
out and one of the crashlers they just tole down.
Since you've got a flat yeah, you know, I can
put a sheet of fly with it in the back
of my this van.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
What about have you looked at the Toyot Sienna.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
No, so, I wasn't familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
That you know, Well, my my first choice of if
I'm buying a van, my first choice is Honda Odyssey.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
My mother in law has one, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're great cars. That that would be my first. Number
two would be the Toyota Siena. My father in law.
Uh so, my mother in law has the Odyssey. My
father in law has a Sienna. I mean he almost
has two hundred thousand miles on that thing. And I'm
telling you he's never and I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Gonna knock on wood because I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't want to wish anything bad on them. Never
had any problems with the Siena. Never, And if i'm
my third choice would be the the Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Now, again, the Honda and the Toyota.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are you're gonna pay more for even if even if
they have one hundred thousand miles, you know, but they
typically make their parts longer, last longer, and less headache.
But you know, we really don't have a ton of
problems with the Chrysler. We really don't. Just that oil
filter housing which was support designed by them, but for.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
The most part. They just don't make their parts as
long as Honda and Toyota.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, the Sienna is that of Toyota, Yes, sir, yep,
Toyo Siena. Okay, that's why I was trying to thank
the hot made that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, I'm sorry I should have said that. Yeah, Toyota Sienna,
you really ought to look into that.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Okay, it's gonna be my life one So thanks for
getting of the life long time.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Make it count we'll tell you, okay, Okay, well, thank you, sure,
thank you absolutely. I appreciate the phone. Call you every
great weekend. Good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Hey, well, if you're listening, when you buy that van,
I want to hear. I want to you know, I
want to get a full report on on how you
like it. So all right, the number to call five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred coming up. We have uh,
we have John and Allen. You're listening to the car
show on fifty five KR see the talk station.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
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Speaker 2 (35:14):
You'll listen to the Car Show on fifty five KRC,
the talk station on Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center.
And again, if you're in the tri state area of Kentucky, Indiana,
or Ohio, you can go to donovantire dot com and
find your nearest location and we would be more than
(35:34):
happy to take care of you in all of your
car needs.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But now I'm taking care of your car needs as
far as what you have and what you have may
have a question about, so love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And again I'm here every Saturday to answer your car questions.
The number to call five one three seven.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right, let's go back to the phones. We have John, Hey, John,
Welcome to the Car Show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
I guess a question I try to figure out on
my car. So I've had a couple of times in
the last I guess month, just two times I guess
when my after I drive it for a half hour
forty minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
If I stop at.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
A store, run into the store, come back out, try
to start it. I have nothing, wait about a half
hour or forty minutes, come back and start starts up
with no problem. First I thought, I thought maybe with
my alternators, double check that alternators fine, charging, batteries getting
(36:35):
charged fine, and everything. So I guess I'm just trying
to figure out what could be causing that issue.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Sure, so real quick?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
So I want to when run into the store and
come back out, turn the key. Do you have power?
Radio lights? Dash light up? Is that all happen?
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Yes, I see my time on all of that on
the radio and everything.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
It's all there.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
But as soon as I try to turn, I don't.
There's nothing. It doesn't either try to crank or anything.
It's like there's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Gotcha? Okay. So typically so what you're most likely dealing
with is that starter. A lot of times if the
car does not crank nine out of ten times, it's
the starter itself.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay, And probably what's happening, And this happens all the
time with crank sensors, but we're not dealing with that.
We're because crank sensor will still allow the car to crank,
but it won't fire the car. But anyways, a lot
of the times the car when you stop and shut
it off, it's called kind of like a hot soak.
That starter just kind of bakes a little bit and
(37:48):
then it won't fire. It just won't do its job.
The celinoid's probably shot and you need a starter. So
if the battery test good, the alternatory test good, and
you go and so what happens is that starter then
cools down the engine and everything cools down and then
it starts firing again. So most likely you need a
new starter. How many miles are on the vehicle.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
On this engine? There's uh about fifty five thousand on it?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, Rich, Okay, So you say on this.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
I had to replace that gen previously because of the
timing chain issue that happened though with.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It got it? Okay, Yeah, that's pretty common.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
So most likely we're dealing with the starter now that
the problem is you need to get it. If you
get it to your mechanic in order to really really
identify if it's the starter or not, we got to
get it to act up, right, Your technician's got to
get it to act up. So they're going to have
(38:52):
to drive it, get it hot, and you know there
it could be a relay issue, could be you know,
start a re or whatnot, but most likely it's gonna
be your starter that needs to be replaced. But again,
any mechanic or whoever looks at it, you need to
let them know. Hey, listen, when it acts up, it's
after I've been driving it for thirty minutes and then park,
(39:15):
run to a gas station, come back out. Give them
that information, because what's gonna happen is they're gonna drive
around the block and go, let's start it right up.
You know, we can't find anything wrong with it. Give
them that information that you gave me. Hey, look, after
I'm driving it for thirty minutes, run into a gas
station and come back out. It won't start and it's
a no crank. And if they have that information, that's
(39:39):
gonna give them you know a better reason, it's gonna
allow them to diagnose it quicker. You know, far too
often people feel like, oh, if I give them too information,
it's gonna cost me too much.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's gonna cost me more money. But it's the absolute opposite.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You give them your technician every bit of information that
you possibly can, and it's gonna take them less time
to try to diagnose it and get it back to you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
But I think you need to start her.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay, all right, thank you very much for holding I
appreciate it, and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All right, let's go. We're running out of time. Let's
go to Alan.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Hey, Alan, I'm roote kind of pinched on time, but
I'd love to help you.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (40:17):
Okay, I'll give you my quick version. I've got a
twenty ten Highlander. I just had front struts put on
to diagnose a problem of front end vibration. And how
it acts is when I go to work in the morning,
I have front end vibration driving sixty sixty five miles
an hour for like ten fifteen minutes, and it may
not completely go away, but it goes away largely on
(40:40):
my way home from work after seven hours, it's always smooth.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Okay, what it vibrates Is it vibrating when you're applying
the brakes, when you have your feet on the gas what.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
I'm traveling, Yes, whether I take my hand off the
steering roll or not, I still feel it in my body.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Okay, so you're driving it, you got your foot on
the gas and it's vibrating. Correct. Okay, if you let
off the gases, it continue to vibrate. Yes, okay, and front.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
And the front struts help, but didn't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Okay, what I would? What about?
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Did you have the tires looked at and balanced?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
They have? They are balanced. There are seven year old tires.
They've got about forty five thousand, about thirty five to
forty thousand miles on them. There's still plenty of tread life,
but they're seven years old. Yeah, and that's what the
mechanics suggested to try next, is new tires.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
So typically yeah, so a lot. There's a couple of
things that cause a vibration.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
If you've got a vibration under acceleration, which you don't have,
but I'm just under acceleration. If you have a vibration,
it's usually a drive train, axle or something like that.
That's not what you have because if you let all
the gas, it's still there.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
If you have a vibration when applying the breaks at
higher speeds, that's usually break pulsation. You got a break issue.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
But if it's got new brakes on it, okay.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
So if it's doing it all the time, there's only
two things that could be either one of the either
one of the tires is either bad, has a broken
belt or out of or needs to be balanced.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
So it's either a tire issue or you've got to
break pad or I'm sorry, break caliper hose. That's kind
of hanging up and causing it.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But if it in the morning, it does it, But
in the afternoon it doesn't. You know, typically it's a
little bit warmer in the afternoon. I would think from
what you're telling me, it sounds like it's a tire.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're dealing with a tire issue.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You need to get those tires checked and maybe rebalanced,
and if you can find a mechanic that has what's
called a road force balancer, use that. Okay, thank you
very much. I have a great day, man. I love
answering these questions. It's just always sorry. I'm just so sorry.
I'm out of time, but I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all your questions. Everybody, have a great weekend.
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