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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking
if you don't stop driving out hot rod Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Ever, we's rocking all the lady.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Pretty easy down the road.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Go jesz keep check in.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center
and here to take your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The number to call five one three seven five hundred.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That number again, five one, three fifty five hundred. It's
a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. I mean, you cannot ask for
for a better weather day.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And uh with that said, uh, we're and uh we
have four baseball games today alone. My middle son Nolan,
uh had a game earlier unfortunately lost. Uh. They have
a game of two so hopefully uh they win that one.
And then my oldest son Aiden.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Has a game.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He has a he's a has a double header, one
at five and then the other ones I think at
eight underneath the lights. They're in a tournament. So my
weekends are shot, so we'll be on the baseball field.
But I am here right now to answer all of
your car questions. Again, that number to call five one
three seven. I do want to give a shout out
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to my barber, Gill's barber Shop right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
There in the heart of pleasant Ridge.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
They've pretty much been cutting my hair most of my
life and uh, if you look at me, I'm pretty
much bald and uh but you know I still have
some of it, so they you know.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But anyways, I.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Was I was driving by Head and the Lows and
my the guy that cuts my hair, Roger, does great
job and pretty hard to screw up my hair though,
when you know, you just use one all over, right,
But he's out kind of just uh taking care of
some some work around, you know, some yard work or
whatnot around the the barber shop.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I pulled in.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I said, hey, what time do you open up and
he goes, oh, not till nine, but he goes, come on.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
In, I'll take care of you.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And uh so he I'm like, I said, I can
come back, and he goes, no, absolutely for you. He guys,
well we'll get you taken care of. And man, that's
that's uh. When you've got uh, you know, you've got
somebody like that in the community, it goes it doesn't
matter what time we open up or you know, We're
We're always going to take care of you. And that's
that's the type of UH. That's type of business I
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always want to build for for Donovance as well. You know,
we open up at eighty every day, but you know
we get there a little early at seven thirty to
get things going and if somebody comes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
In early, we get them taken care of.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But I just wanted to give a shout out to
them and and and and saying thank you because I
I'll be in I'm going to be in Texas for Tuesday.
My barber is closed on Sunday and Monday, and I
leave Tuesday morning. I'll be in Texas Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Continental Tire, who know, I sell you know, all brands
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of tires, but Continental UH is taken sending me out
to uh Uvalde, Texas to go out there and try
out some of their products.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And I'm excited at the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, they don't I've never been able to do
anything like this, and they reached out to me and said, hey,
we'd like to offer you this trip and we'll fly
you out and you get to drive our you know,
drive some cars and with our tires on it and
you know, and get get a better idea of the
continental product.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And so I'm I'm excited to go out and do that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So I was gonna be able to get my haircut,
so but he got me in again Gills Barbershop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's right there.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
If you guys need a barber shop, Gill's Barbershop right
there in pleasant Ridge. Again. They've I'm forty years old.
They've been pretty much cutting my hair most of my life. Uh,
not every haircut, but I would say a vast majority
of my haircuts have come from them, and they do
a great job, and so I wanted to give a
shout out to them. I do want to let you
know too, if there's any distractions, if you hear anything
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in the background. I do have my youngest son, Declan.
He is in studio. He's on his phone playing playing
some type of game or something. And also in studio,
I have my father in law Paul, as well. And
I want to thank you guys for coming. And but
we're we're after we're done here, we're gonna head to
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baseball and we're gonna get this done. But uh, until then, again,
I'm answering your car question. The phone lines are wide open.
The number to call again five one three seven nine
fifty five hundred, one more time five one three, seven
fifty five hundred and so yeah, you know, any you
know this, this this show is now.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It doesn't have to be too technical.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're welcome to call and ask any question, whether it
pertains to maybe purchasing a new or used vehicle, whether
it's hey, Dane, what do you think as far as
maintenance goes or what you know, you know every year
making models different and uh or you know I just
mentioned I think last week, but two weeks ago, I
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was on the news. They were talking about the tariffs
and what those effects are having, what those effects are
having on my business, you know because.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A majority of the parts that we purchased come from.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
China and Europe, and you know, we when I was
on the news, I was I was mentioning to them,
you know, hey, we really haven't covered recovered from COVID.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I mean, we're still having a hard time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Getting parts for vehicles that are four or five years
old because of you know, they're on national back order.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You can't get them. So we're still recovering from that.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And again I mentioned on the news like, hey, look
as far as breaks and tires go, breaks and tires
doubled in, the doubled in price after COVID doubled, and
now you would think, okay, well now they're going to
go back down. No, they have not come back down.
You know that that typically isn't always the case. Our
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gas prices might go up and come back down, but
car prices, as far as breaks and tires go, and
a majority of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean when I got into I.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Was telling a customer earlier this week, when I got
into this business, a spark plug. Now again, it minds
you it needed to be changed every thirty thousand miles.
Now they're changed every one hundred and twenty thousand. Right,
But when I got into this business twenty five years ago,
spark plug was like maybe ninety nine cents. My cost
nowadays is like twenty nine to thirty dollars per spark plug.
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Now again, this always goes back to, you know, with
oil and whatnot, that you know these dealerships are telling you,
you know, change your oil once a year, or change
it every ten thousand miles. I've I've been I sit
here every Saturday and talk about this. That is not
what you want to do oil? Your cars have advanced?
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Have they advanced? Absolutely? Is it a good idea to
go ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Miles on old change?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean I had the opportunity to buy a new
vehicle myself last year, and the manufacturer says, I bought
a four truck another four truck and you open up
the owner's manual, which well, let mean there is no
owner's manual. You go on the screen and it tells
you what your your maintenance intervals are.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But they said seventy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Five hundred and severe cases every ten thousand miles on
oil changes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And I've never told anybody to do that. I would
never recommend that in any car, any year making model.
On vehicles I have changed. I have ten thousand miles
on my truck. Now I changed my oil at five thousand.
I changed it at ten thousand. I'm gonna change it
every five thousand miles. And again we've talked about this.
When there's confusion as to when it should be done.
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What do we typically do when there's confusion, You just go, well,
I'll do it when I want to do it. Right,
I'm here to tell you that it needs to be
done every five thousand I don't. I you know, we're
not going to listen to the salesman that sold you
the car. We're not gonna listen to your neighbor down
the street who was a mechanic twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We're not going to follow what the light is on
your car.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It says, oh, you know, you've got fifteen percent oil
life left. What you want to focus on is that
sticker that's up in that window, and it needs to
be every five thousand miles. It's the simplest and easiest
and best thing that you can do for your car.
And again, for those of you who listen to me
every Saturday, you know I hound on this every week
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because it needs to be known, because I every single
day I have a car at my shop that has
an old problem, an old consumption issue, and it's something
that I have to get out there, and I need
to let you know. And I'm here to tell you
follow your little sticker five thousand miles. I don't care
if it's a BMW, alexis a Hyundai, the or a
(09:00):
Fiat I don't care five thousand miles. You synthetic oil
five thousand miles those that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I understand that you might not be able to get
there to the oil chain shop at exactly five thousand.
You want to go a day or two over and
maybe a couple hundred miles. Okay, but you know, we
really don't want to go six, seven, eight, ten thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That there's it's over time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Now, if you do it one time, is it going
to do you know, a ton of damage to the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, not one time, but we want to stay on
top of it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Otherwise it's gonna you know, at one hundred thousand miles,
you're gonna have a lot of engine issues.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And the simple, the best and easiest analogy that I
could that I can put out there is if you
you know, typically your dentist is your dentist recommendation go
in and get your teeth looked at and clean to
whate that's every six thousand, right if or I'm sorry,
every six thousand, every six months.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
If you go sit ten years without going to see
your dentist.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You can imagine that you're gonna have a tremendous amount
of you know, teeth work, cavities, and crowns and whatever
root canals or whatever that's gonna need to be done.
So you don't wanna, you don't want to, you know,
go that far out. You want to make sure that
you're staying on top of this stuff. If you if
you've got a newer car, you go, Dan, I've got
a new car. It only has fifteen twenty thirty thousand
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miles on it. I don't need to come at least
get it in there once a year. Get it in
once a year, get a yearly check up, Just have
it inspected, make sure your breaks, your tires and everything
else are checked out, and and uh that you're ready,
especially because we're going into summer right, most of us
are gonna we're gonna get our cars ready to go.
We're gonna head off to Florida or wherever, going North Carolina, wherever,
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deciding to go for family. You don't want to wait
one or two days before and then you know, you
put a wrench in your your your summer vacation because
something's broke down. Right, now's the time to get it in.
We got start thinking about air conditioning as well. It's
starting to get a little steamy this week. You know,
yesterday was almost almost eighty I think it was eighty degrees,
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and we're starting to see air conditioning work coming in
and whatnot. Now's the time to do it because that
first one hundred or ninety degree day or a ninety
five degree day, and then everybody in the city's gonna
be like swarming on us wanting to get all this
air conditioning work right now. And then unfortunately we can't
always get to everybody because you know, we have this
huge influx. So now's the time. Turn on the air conditioning.
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It's a little it's warmer today, I mean it's not.
I mean it's seventy degrees here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Turn it on. Just see if it's cold enough.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If it seems cold enough and it's doing a great job, great,
But if you notice, like you know what, it doesn't
seem like it's cool and like it should call make
an appointment. Whether you bring it to Donovans or your mechanic,
it doesn't matter. But we need to be talking about
these things and getting the cars ready for our summer
vacations and ready for summer tires.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Again.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We're going to get into we're gonna be driving these things,
these cars all over the you know the country, and
we want to make sure tires, breaks, air conditioning, the
oils changed, making sure it's ready for our summer road trip.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So again I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Taking your phone calls and I'm gonna call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. Again the phone lines
are wide open. I promise I'll get you in as
quickly as I possibly can. But uh yeah, love to
hear from you, so please give me a call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1 (13:18):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number again, five one, three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. It's a gorgeous Saturday afternoon.
Even though it's gorgeous outside. You still have car problems
with car questions. Everybody does, so again, I'm here every
Saturday to take those questions, so.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Love to hear from you again.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The number call five on three seven four nine fifty
five hundred get to you pretty quickly. So, uh, we're
gonna go to the phones here we have. I believe
it's Simone and uh, hey, Simo, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
How can I help? Hey?
Speaker 7 (13:54):
I want to share a little interesting thing about the
oil change schedule. Yeah, in my honors Manual, I drive
a Hyndai, and my honored Manuel says, full synthetic every
five thousand. Now, I obviously pay for my oil changes,
and I go to Hyundai and they get one hundred
and twenty something and the little sticker gives me only
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three thousand, and I asked him about that one day
and he said, well, don't worry about that manual. I'm thinking, okay, now,
I take care of the lady.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She drives the No.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Nine forward and when she bought it, it came with
lifetime oil changes. Her manual says three thousand miles semisynthetic,
but the sticker says six thousand miles because they don't
want to give it away free as often. Now, how
is the general public supposed to swirl that out?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, you're asking a great question, and that's why I
know that people that listen to me probably like, oh
my gosh, Dane's talking about oil changes again. But I'm
telling you. The problem is is if you create mass
confusion to the general public as to when we should
change our oils, then then everybody's just confused, and then
they're like, well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's why I talk on the show. But listen, I
don't care if you have a Hyundai a BMW. I
don't care what type of vehicle you have. I would
use a full synthetic and I would change more every
five thousand miles. That's it, you know, I you know,
I understand. I mean again, I I'm sure you heard
me in the first segment. I have a new vehicle myself.
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My owner's tells me every seventy five hundred to ten
thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm not going to do that. That's w I get it.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
It's so you know, I just feel like if you
can't even trust the dealerships. You know, they give her
to and for free, and all of a sudden they
don't even follow the rules. They want to go every
six instead of three. And when it comes to one
that I'm paying for, instead of waiting to five, they
want to do it at three. Yeah, so because they
can get more money, tell me doing you know what
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I'm saying, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They won't.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And that's that's you know, And I'm not trying to
pick on the industry itself, but yes, if you create
confusion between the general public as to when it should
be done, then everybody just goes, well, I'll just I'll
just do it whenever I want, right, And that's why
I harp on it, talk about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But you know, to kind of go back to your
to what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Back in two thousand and eight when we had the
market crash, right, and we had the cash for clunkers,
and then these auto industries couldn't sell cars.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, they couldn't give cars away, right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's when the industry itself, when it came to oil,
that's when it changed because they were they were what
they were doing to sell cars would give you lifetime
oil changes. And I'm telling you, overnight we went from
three thousand, three thousand mile oil changes to ten thousand
mile oil changes because they were giving them out.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And they just they just they pushed them out.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And I for one noticed that, and I'm like, well that,
I'm sorry these cars. Are these cars more advanced? Sure
is oil a little bit more advanced? Sure is ten thousand?
How do we go from three thousand miles change intervals
to ten thousand and over a year span. I'm sorry,
the cars in the industry has not changed that much.
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And I'm not like this, I'm not this huge compar
conspiracy theorist or whatnot. I just I want to see
when you're spending forty to fifty sixty eighty thousand dollars
on a car, I want to see you get the
most life out of it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And you know, I feel like I have this platform.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I feel like the dealers it's just a little bit
of a setup because if you screw up your changes,
you got to buy a new crop restor correct.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Absolutely, yes, And that's kind of why I know. I know,
And I'm like I said, I'm not I'm not here
to be a conspiracy therapist, a conspiracy theorist and and
and say that the auto industry is misguiding.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Or leading people. But I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know, I feel that I have a responsibility. I
have this platform or I can talk about this, and
I think that's important. It's imperative to tell people, hey, look,
I'm not concerned about what the owner's manual says. I'm
not concerned about the salesman whos sold you the car.
What I'm here to tell you to do is like, look,
you want to get the most life out of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's imperative important that you just changed every five thousand.
That's it. It's all you need to do.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Keep preaching it because they do their best to get up.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean it'd be like.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, and you know, it'd be like it'd be like
you go into your doctrine and goes, go ahead, smoke
one pack of cigarettes every day, and you're going to
get a longer life, right, And you know we all
know that that's not the truth.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You don't want to go ten thousand miles a old time?
All right, Well, thank you, they don't do it. You're
very welcome, Bye bye again. I'm not here to judge
or suggest that that's what's happening, but I I think
I feel with my heart that you know, there's a
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misleading and a misunderstanding as to when we should be
changing our oil. And unfortunately, the way that these vehicles
are designed today, they burn oil. Now most people go, well, Dane,
I don't see any smoke coming out on my tailpipe,
or Dane, I'm not seeing anything on the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, they.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Pay attention. For those of you who are listening, pay attention.
And this is when you're gonna notice it. When you're
getting on the highway. Okay, pay attention when you're on
that entrance ramp to get on the highway. Pay attention
to the car that's in front of you. Okay, watch
the tailpipe. Now, obviously make sure that you're safe, and
you know you're not just you know, you gotta keep
your eye on the road, but watch the tailpipe and
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you'll see when somebody accelerates, you'll see a big puff
of black smoke, just a little puff, not a ton.
You're not gonna lose your side or you'll just see
this little black puff of smoke and it's gonna come
out of the tailpipe and you're gonna see when people
are accelerating getting on the highway, pay attention to that.
What that is that little black puff of smoke that's oil.
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Now you can imagine that if you get on the
highway every single day for five thousand miles, that little
puff is not a ton. And if you're driving the vehicle,
nine out of ten times you're not going to see it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Right, But if you're.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Behind somebody that's getting on the highway and little you
see that little black puff of smoke, that is oil. Okay,
So you can imagine that if your vehicle holds and
I've talked about this too, if you have a vehicle
that holds four quarts of oil, so you have a
little Hondai, a little four cylinder Hundai holds four quarts
of oil. Now, typically Hyundai says that it is within
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spec that that car should burn a quart of oil
every thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, Now, if.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Your car only holds four quarts of oil, and you
go ten thousand miles, and if you do the map
at a thousand miles, you're now now you only have
three courts. So if we go to ten thousand miles,
your car doesn't have any oil in it, you either
lock up the engine or the timing change get hot,
they stretch, they jump time, you're putting chains on it, and.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, and everybody's like, well, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know, I'm not seeing white smoke come out my
tailpipe or I'm not seeing anything on the ground. No,
because it's just when they just the way these vehicles
are designed, they just puff out a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Black smoke, which is oil.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They puff it out, boom, you go on and you
just and the car will and everybody goes, well, i've
got an oil light that's gonna tell me when it's
low on oil. I haven't seen an oil light on
a vehicle probably in ten years, I have not seen
a car. I will have cars come into my into
my shop, I'll pull half a quarter oil out of them.
A half a court. Not an oil light on the car.
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They don't have oil lights, they don't they I have
not seen an oil light in a car in probably
ten years, so God's honest, true, and they just they
don't come on. Everyone's like, well, if I'm low on oil,
then my oil I will come on.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No it will not.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I haven't seen one doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean,
you got a car that's twenty years old, you'll see
an oil light. You got a car that's ten years old,
you're not gonna see an oil light, and you're gonna
run your car out of engine oil and it's gonna
be locked up or blown up, and then you're gonna
need an engine.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So to protect yourself, I'm telling you it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You know, if you at least just check your oil
and I and I've told I've told everybody on this show.
If you're every time you've got to, if you've got
a newer car, what I would tell you do find
out how to check your own oil. You can always
come by any my locations and I'll show you how
to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Won't charge you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
If it's even lower, I'll probably I'll most likely probably
top it off for you. I'll show you how to
do it. You want to do it on level ground.
You want to do it when it's cold, after it's
been sitting overnight, and you want to make sure that
that is full. Now, I've always told people that, hey,
we have to get gas. Okay, Obviously, if you've got
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an electric car, you don't have oil, so you don't
have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you have an.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oil, if you've got gasoline engine or a diesel engine,
check your oil when you're getting gas. Right, most of us,
what do we do? We put up, we go to
the pump, we start filling.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Up our gas tank. And what do we do?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Most likely maybe some of us might clean the windshield
or whatnot, or I would say vast majority probably just
get on their phones. But that's an opportunity for you
to pop your hood. And you've got the towels there
to for your windshield. Right, pop your hood, pull your
dipstick out, wipe it off, put it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Back in and check it if it's low.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You can either come to any Donovan's location or you
can walk into that gas station you're at, grab a
qurd of oil. You want to make sure you put
the right oil grate in all all makes and models
have an oil cap that's going to tell you what
the grade of oil you need, whether it's ten W
thirty five, W twenty zero W twenty, it'll tell you
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what great it is. And if you've got any questions,
call me. Hey, Dane, I gotta put a while on
my car. This is my year making model.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What do I do? I'll be more happy to help you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
But it's it's the lifeblood of your vehicle, and if
you know you're out there, the single best thing that
you can do is to protect your vehicle is making
sure that you change your oil regularly.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
As far as the other maintenance goes.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Your tires, your brakes, your tune ups, those are things
that you're gonna have to do.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
However, you want to keep the car on the road,
you want to make sure.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You're changing oil regularly. And I you know, I'm sorry
for those of you who listen to me. You're like,
oh gosh, Dane's talking about it again. But I'm telling
you this is what you have to do. If your
doctor came to you and said, hey, look, you want
to live to one hundred, make sure you drink a
glass of water and walk for you know, an hour
a day and you'll live to your home.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You'd probably do it. I'm that guy.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm telling you you want to get two hundred three
hundred thousand miles out of your car, change your oll
every five thousand miles if no, if answer butts, and
you'll get that type of mileage out of your vehicle.
It's that simple, you know, And so it's important. And
again I have this platform, and I you know, I
know it's redundant, and you're like, you know, he's talking
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about it again.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But for those of those that are tuning in.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And not hearing this information, that's what I'm here for
is to help you out. But regardless if you whatever
car car question you may have, that's what I'm here for.
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
Taking your car questions and number to call five one three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dan Donovan from
Donovan's Auto entire Center, here every Saturday from one to
two to take your car questions. Again, I've talked about this,
you know, I love what I do, and I love
it so much that I'm here every Saturday. And again
I mentioned earlier in studio. I have my youngest son, Declan.
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My two older boys are in baseball tournaments this weekend,
and then I have my father in law, Paul with me.
So they're tagging along today. And are you do you
want to say Hi? All right, we're we're Declan's gonna
say Hi Hi. So after this we've got to load
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up in the car and head to baseball games. My
my oldest son has a double header tonight underneath the lights,
so that's most likely during this summer, that's where you're
gonna find me. So unfortunately, I like for it to
be on a golf of course, but uh, you know, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's usually on a baseball field, which I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I I really do enjoy watching it, and everybody goes, hey,
you know, enjoy it while it lasts, because at some
point you're gonna blink and you know it'll be over, right.
So I do enjoy it and brings back the days
when I used to play ball, and uh, of course
my boys, And I'm sure I did it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I know I did it with my father.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Uh you know, you sit there and after the game's over,
you got you know, you need to get back in
your stance.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You need to do this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And you know it's always like, Dad, stop talking to me.
Don't you know I know more than you, right, And
I know I did it with my dad. I just
get frustrated and be like, just don't talk to me
about it, you know. So I try to keep my
mouth shut as best I can, But I'm like Hey,
you know if you would have just done this or
done that.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But you know I'll miss it one of these days
for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right again, I'm taking your phone calls and number
to call five one three five hundred. We have Bill,
Brian and Patty. So Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
How can I help?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Thank you for having me. I got a couple of questions.
I got a question about checking automatic transmission fluid.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I have.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
A Honda twenty thirteen Civic and I have a two
thousand and five Toyota Corolla, and I recently changed the
fluid just the dropping till nothing too to evasive. But uh,
I've seen some stories that you can check when it's
the fluid's cold and the engine is not running, or
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does the engine need to be running? What's your ideal
on checking that fluid.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So all of your manufacturers today, all of them but one,
all of your manufacturers, you should check it at a
normal operating temperature. So right, so you drive it to
the grocery store or backer when that temperature gauge is
at where it needs to be at. So you want
to check your transmission fluid at a operating temperature while
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the vehicle's running. Okay, Yeah, so while it's at operating temperature,
you want to check that fluid while it's running. Hondas
are the opposite. Hondas, You want to check them while
the vehicle. You can check them when they're warm or cold,
but you need to check hondas.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
When they're not running.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, that that was my confusion. I heard the Toyota
check it while it's running and operating everything you said,
and then the Honda for some reason, I guess I
misheard it or misinterpretated that it doesn't need to be running,
and that was I was really confused. But it's it's
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two different car manufacturers, so they got different ways of
doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeahs, do you mind turning the radio down for just
a bit, I'm getting okay. Yeah, all of your ear
making models, you want to check them while they're running,
when they're warm. On Honda's I would still recommend checking
it when the car is warm, but the car should
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not be running when you're checking the transmission food on
a Honda.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah, so make sure the hondas operate and temperature. Go
down the street, make sure it's it's all warm and
then turn it all off and then check it after.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That, check it while it's not running. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yep, yeah, oh wow. And I got one more question
about the two thousand and five Toyter Corolla. Every time
I turned the steering wheel, I hear like a break sound.
I know it's not the brakes, but that's what I
kind of discovered, like a squeaking sound of a breaks,
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like a real sound. And I noticed this because I'm
actually doing the brakes now and that that was done.
But I kind of had had the car on the jackstands.
Everything was safe and I was able to, you know,
turn the wheel with the tires off the ground, and
I heard that same sound, and I said, man, I
thought it was the brakes, which I was doing the
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break work anyway, they need to be changed. I thought
it was that. But what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well, so you had did you have just the front
wheels off or the back wheels as well?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
No, the just the front tires was off the ground
on jack stands, so I can get to the brakes.
And I was going to change your paths anyways, and
as of doing it, just just by turning the wheel
with the engine off, everything just to turn to get
to the other side. On one side the other I
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heard that same sound. I said, Man, it wasn't the breaks.
There's another sound like it sounded like a hard squeaking sound.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I mean you said the vehicle wasn't running correct.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Uh Man, that did you only hear it that one time?
Or does it seem to be a repeating noise like
I'm repeating, so you hear it even when the tires
are Even when the tires are on and it's off
the jack stands, you still hear the noise.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, that's what I thought. It was weird when I
back out at the back out of my driveway and
I stopped, and I didn't realize when I back out
and stop, I got to turn it in a different direction.
The noise is making that sound as I was turning
the wheel, and I thought it was the brakes at first,
you know, because I know that the brakes needed to
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be changed and I can understand it. I thought the
brakes was noisy. But I discovered this sound without just
by accident, by turning turning the wheel with the engine
off and it was on jack stands.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Well, I mean what I would probably tell you is
obviously the vehicle was running, could be potentially power stiring,
but the vehicle wasn't running, so power steerings eliminated. The
brakes are only going to squeal if the car's being
driven and you're applying the brake, So brakes were eliminated.
You could be dealing with a strut top like the
top of the strut that's maybe causing that noise, or
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a bad tie rod or ball joint that's dry and
that's what's making that creaking or squeaking noise. So it
could be a ti rod or a ball joint that's dry.
And the thing is is years ago you had greasible
ball joints and tirods. When these cars nowadays, they're not
made with greasible suspension parts anymore. So sometimes it can
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be hard to try to pinpoint it. What we use
typically is what's called a stethoscope, right, and to try
to pinpoint where that noise is coming from. Now, if
you can pinpoint if it's an outer tie rod or
a ball joint, if you can find it, what you
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could do now you want to make sure that those
that that suspension parts not bad, that there's there's no
movement in it. But an option that you have if
you do, if you're able to find that bad tie
rode or ball joint, you know that there's a little
rubber boo. If you put a little pinhole in it
and put some w D forty or grease or whatnot,
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you could quiet it down. Now I'm not suggesting, I'm
not suggesting that you you want to make sure the
suspension part is still good and tight.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Sometimes they just get dry and they'll squeak.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And if that's the case, then you know, you can
probably spray a little bit of w D forty into
that boot or some grease and that will quiet it down.
But don't just eliminate and just not take care of it.
I mean, once a ball joint or tyrot starts squeaking,
that's usually an indication that it's starting to go bad.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I was concerned by the safety issues, so that that's
you know, I can't pinpoint the sound, you know, And
I that was that was my knowledge. When I had
the car front tires off basically and I'm turning because
I'm doing the break, so I turned the wheels to
one side to the other their type of thing, and
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and I heard that sound I said, man, that's the
exact sound that I hear. I drive the car basically
Monday through Friday with Friday at the highway car and
everything works great. I just hear you know, I wasn't really.
I'm not a suspension person either.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
So suspension noises are very hard to pinpoint.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
So yeah, yeah, I can understand that. But it's safety issue.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I doubt it's probably if it's just squeaking, it's probably
not a safety concern at this time.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
But you want to make sure that wear down.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's gonna wear down. If it's squeaking, it's gonna wear down. Yeah,
So I would recommend at some point you get it
inspected by somebody that who can check the suspension parts.
Make sure because if a ball join your TI rod
breaks your wheels coming off, and you're gonna do substantial
damage to your vehicle. Axel's gonna be Yeah, Axel's gonna
get ripped out, it's gonna damage the fender, and you
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know you're gonna do thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Dar's driver and that's what it's riding on, so right, right,
and it's a major part. Yeah, that's uh. I'm not
too familiar with it. Uh, is there any for this vehicles?
Like you can for the suspension you can use like
a grease gun. Is there any grease points for a
two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Now's there's no grease points.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
That's why I said, Like you get a little pick
tool and you put a little tiny pinhole and you
get a little w D forty with the hose on it,
and you just you spray that that boot and fill
it up, and.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
That's the grease point basically, Carol.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, all right, okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
All right, thank you a great day, you too, Bye bye.
All right, coming up, we have uh, we have Brian
and Patty. You're listening to the car show on fifty
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Four nine fifty five hundred here every Saturday. UH Dane
Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. UH.
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If you're in the Tri.
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State area Cincinnati, Tri State area right Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio,
you can go to donovantire dot com and find your
nearest location. We would love to take care of you.
And if if you're not, if you're listening to the
show and you just want some great car advice, that's
what I'm here for. I love to help you out.
So hear every Saturday from one to two. So I
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really do appreciate my callers. I appreciate all of my
employees and all my my customers as well. So all right,
let's go back to the phones. We have Patty. Hey, Patty,
welcome to the Car show.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Hey, Dane? Quick question here, we listened to your show.
You've been preaching five thousand mile oil change wherever you
finally convinced me. I have a twenty twenty one Super
U Forster. I'm taking it in Monday for my forty
eight thousand mile checkup. So after this, I'm going to
switch to five thousand miles. I always bring my maintenance
book with me, have the dealer sign it. I shouldn't
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get pushed back if I'm lighting off one thousand miles
every future visit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Right, No, well no, well no, you shouldn't get pushed back.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
You may get pushed back. Are they offering you the
oil changes for free or are they charging?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
No, I'm paying form.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Okay, okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You should not get pushed back, And if you do,
then just say, well I won't have done it five thousand.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You know, so were you before? Were you doing it
every six thousand?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yeah, but you've been preaching and I'm like, okay, you've
convinced me.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, well here here's the deal too. And the main
the biggest reason why I talk about changing the oivery
five thousand is because these newer cars burn oil, and
Subaru is a brand. Super is a great car. I'm
not picking on Subaru subrus, Hondai's Hondas toyos. They all
burn oil, right, but subrews tend to overtime burn oil.
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And so what I would tell you to do is
five thousand and what I would recommend you do is
when you take it in for that oil change, tell them, hey,
do you mind before you change my oil, can you
check my oil level? Ask them to do that, because
ninety nine point nine percent of any customer that comes
to me that has a blown up engine or needs
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timing change or anything like that, they look at me,
they go, dam, I didn't even know I was burn
and oil right. So, and this is not just for you,
this is for anybody that's listening. When you get your
oil changed at the deal or at Donovan's or wherever
you go, ask them, hey, can you check my oil
level first before you change my oil. That's gonna give
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you an indication whether or not your vehicle's burn and oil.
And again, nine out of ten times your car probably is.
And it's not any fault of your own. It's not
that you've done anything wrong. These newer cars just do it.
I mean, that's how they're designed. I'm not saying it's right,
but that's how they're designed. So just say, hey, listen,
I'm gonna have my oil change at five thousand, but
do you mind checking my oil level and give me
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feedback as to it whether or not it was low.
And if they go, hey it wasn't low, great, they go,
oh yeah, it was a half court low or a
court load.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Then you know you're burn a little bit of oil.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And then if you stick to that five thousand mile interval,
you'll be fine. But most people don't realize that their
vehicles burn and oil and then they come to me
and then.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's blown up or it needs thousands of dollars worth
of work.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So when you go into that dealership and you get
that oil change, just tell them check my oil level
before you change it, and if that's how you're going
to get the longevity out of your vehicle. So I
changed the oil, and this is the God's hon It's true.
I change my oil on my vehicle every five thousand miles.
Let's stick to that. It's the simplest and easiest thing.
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It's going to get the most life out of your vehicle.
But again, to you and all the other listeners, ask
your mechanic or the person who's changing oil, just say, hey,
check the oil level before you change it, so you
have an idea whether or not your vehicle is starting
to use or burnt oil.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Okay, okay, very good, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Pattie, take care of have a great weekend. So all right,
let's go back to the phones real quick.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
We have Susie. Susie, I've got about two minutes. How
can I help you?
Speaker 8 (42:40):
Hiding absolutely, Hey, thank you. I was calling about my
sister's cards to twenty thirteen fourd escape. She had the
old change the valveleen on a Friday. Then the very
next day it had had it had issues. She had
to stop driving it, have it towed to the mechanics,
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and he said that they overfilled it by two courts,
and so she took the bill back to them and
they refuse to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Yeah, well that's did they did they get her any
type of indication why they wouldn't pay for it.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
I think they told her, well, you know, he showed
her that, you know how they show you the dipstick
that here you go. And yeah, that's all I got
from her anyway.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 8 (43:36):
Courts.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, that's that's yeah. You know, and I harp on
my guys on that stuff too. I mean, you know,
we you know, sometimes these computers will you'll look up
a year making model on the vehicle and it will
say six courts, and the guys will put four in it.
Or some cars will say it needs four courts and
they'll put six in it. And then they don't check
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the dipstick. And it's like you need to say, well,
that's what the computer said. Why have I don't care
what the computer said. You gotta read the dipstick. That's
what it's there for. So unfortunately, as a business owner,
a small business owner, I would have taken care of it,
because if we've made a mistake, we need to make
sure that we take care of it and make it right.
But I'm sorry you have to go through them. Sorry
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to hear that, but they should have. They should have
done the right thing in taking care of you. So
I appreciate you. I gotta get on out of here,
but thank you. You have a great weekend. So hey,
I hope everybody has a great weekend. I appreciate all
the phone callers and everybody's calling in today. I'll be
back next Saturday. Next Saturday, to answer all of your
car questions. I'm day nine of them from Donovan's Auto
(44:37):
and Tire Center and be back next Saturday. My son
Declan wants to say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Say goodbye bye everybody. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Every great weekend your Listen to our show on fifty
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center
and here to take your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The number to call five one three seven five hundred.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That number again, five one, three fifty five hundred. It's
a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. I mean, you cannot ask for
for a better weather day.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And uh with that said, uh, we're and uh we
have four baseball games today alone. My middle son Nolan,
uh had a game earlier unfortunately lost. Uh. They have
a game of two so hopefully uh they win that one.
And then my oldest son Aiden.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Has a game.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He has a he's a has a double header, one
at five and then the other ones I think at
eight underneath the lights. They're in a tournament. So my
weekends are shot, so we'll be on the baseball field.
But I am here right now to answer all of
your car questions. Again, that number to call five one
three seven. I do want to give a shout out
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to my barber, Gill's barber Shop right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
There in the heart of pleasant Ridge.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
They've pretty much been cutting my hair most of my
life and uh, if you look at me, I'm pretty
much bald and uh but you know I still have
some of it, so they you know.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But anyways, I.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Was I was driving by Head and the Lows and
my the guy that cuts my hair, Roger, does great
job and pretty hard to screw up my hair though,
when you know, you just use one all over, right,
But he's out kind of just uh taking care of
some some work around, you know, some yard work or
whatnot around the the barber shop.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I pulled in.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I said, hey, what time do you open up and
he goes, oh, not till nine, but he goes, come on.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
In, I'll take care of you.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And uh so he I'm like, I said, I can
come back, and he goes, no, absolutely for you. He guys,
well we'll get you taken care of. And man, that's
that's uh. When you've got uh, you know, you've got
somebody like that in the community, it goes it doesn't
matter what time we open up or you know, We're
We're always going to take care of you. And that's
that's the type of UH. That's type of business I
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always want to build for for Donovance as well. You know,
we open up at eighty every day, but you know
we get there a little early at seven thirty to
get things going and if somebody comes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
In early, we get them taken care of.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
But I just wanted to give a shout out to
them and and and and saying thank you because I
I'll be in I'm going to be in Texas for Tuesday.
My barber is closed on Sunday and Monday, and I
leave Tuesday morning. I'll be in Texas Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Continental Tire, who know, I sell you know, all brands
(03:01):
of tires, but Continental UH is taken sending me out
to uh Uvalde, Texas to go out there and try
out some of their products.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And I'm excited at the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, they don't I've never been able to do
anything like this, and they reached out to me and said, hey,
we'd like to offer you this trip and we'll fly
you out and you get to drive our you know,
drive some cars and with our tires on it and
you know, and get get a better idea of the
continental product.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And so I'm I'm excited to go out and do that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So I was gonna be able to get my haircut,
so but he got me in again Gills Barbershop.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's right there.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
If you guys need a barber shop, Gill's Barbershop right
there in pleasant Ridge. Again. They've I'm forty years old.
They've been pretty much cutting my hair most of my life. Uh,
not every haircut, but I would say a vast majority
of my haircuts have come from them, and they do
a great job, and so I wanted to give a
shout out to them. I do want to let you
know too, if there's any distractions, if you hear anything
(04:03):
in the background. I do have my youngest son, Declan.
He is in studio. He's on his phone playing playing
some type of game or something. And also in studio,
I have my father in law Paul, as well. And
I want to thank you guys for coming. And but
we're we're after we're done here, we're gonna head to
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baseball and we're gonna get this done. But uh, until then, again,
I'm answering your car question. The phone lines are wide open.
The number to call again five one three seven nine
fifty five hundred, one more time five one three, seven
fifty five hundred and so yeah, you know, any you
know this, this this show is now.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It doesn't have to be too technical.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You're welcome to call and ask any question, whether it
pertains to maybe purchasing a new or used vehicle, whether
it's hey, Dane, what do you think as far as
maintenance goes or what you know, you know every year
making models different and uh or you know I just
mentioned I think last week, but two weeks ago, I
(05:08):
was on the news. They were talking about the tariffs
and what those effects are having, what those effects are
having on my business, you know because.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A majority of the parts that we purchased come from.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
China and Europe, and you know, we when I was
on the news, I was I was mentioning to them,
you know, hey, we really haven't covered recovered from COVID.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I mean, we're still having a hard time.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Getting parts for vehicles that are four or five years
old because of you know, they're on national back order.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You can't get them. So we're still recovering from that.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And again I mentioned on the news like, hey, look
as far as breaks and tires go, breaks and tires
doubled in, the doubled in price after COVID doubled, and
now you would think, okay, well now they're going to
go back down. No, they have not come back down.
You know that that typically isn't always the case. Our
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gas prices might go up and come back down, but
car prices, as far as breaks and tires go, and
a majority of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean when I got into I.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Was telling a customer earlier this week, when I got
into this business, a spark plug. Now again, it minds
you it needed to be changed every thirty thousand miles.
Now they're changed every one hundred and twenty thousand. Right,
But when I got into this business twenty five years ago,
spark plug was like maybe ninety nine cents. My cost
nowadays is like twenty nine to thirty dollars per spark plug.
(06:36):
Now again, this always goes back to, you know, with
oil and whatnot, that you know these dealerships are telling you,
you know, change your oil once a year, or change
it every ten thousand miles. I've I've been I sit
here every Saturday and talk about this. That is not
what you want to do oil? Your cars have advanced?
(06:58):
Have they advanced? Absolutely? Is it a good idea to
go ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Miles on old change?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean I had the opportunity to buy a new
vehicle myself last year, and the manufacturer says, I bought
a four truck another four truck and you open up
the owner's manual, which well, let mean there is no
owner's manual. You go on the screen and it tells
you what your your maintenance intervals are.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But they said seventy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Five hundred and severe cases every ten thousand miles on
oil changes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And I've never told anybody to do that. I would
never recommend that in any car, any year making model.
On vehicles I have changed. I have ten thousand miles
on my truck. Now I changed my oil at five thousand.
I changed it at ten thousand. I'm gonna change it
every five thousand miles. And again we've talked about this.
When there's confusion as to when it should be done.
(07:55):
What do we typically do when there's confusion, You just go, well,
I'll do it when I want to do it. Right,
I'm here to tell you that it needs to be
done every five thousand I don't. I you know, we're
not going to listen to the salesman that sold you
the car. We're not gonna listen to your neighbor down
the street who was a mechanic twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We're not going to follow what the light is on
your car.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It says, oh, you know, you've got fifteen percent oil
life left. What you want to focus on is that
sticker that's up in that window, and it needs to
be every five thousand miles. It's the simplest and easiest
and best thing that you can do for your car.
And again, for those of you who listen to me
every Saturday, you know I hound on this every week
(08:36):
because it needs to be known, because I every single
day I have a car at my shop that has
an old problem, an old consumption issue, and it's something
that I have to get out there, and I need
to let you know. And I'm here to tell you
follow your little sticker five thousand miles. I don't care
if it's a BMW, alexis a Hyundai, the or a
(09:00):
Fiat I don't care five thousand miles. You synthetic oil
five thousand miles those that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I understand that you might not be able to get
there to the oil chain shop at exactly five thousand.
You want to go a day or two over and
maybe a couple hundred miles. Okay, but you know, we
really don't want to go six, seven, eight, ten thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That there's it's over time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Now, if you do it one time, is it going
to do you know, a ton of damage to the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, not one time, but we want to stay on
top of it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Otherwise it's gonna you know, at one hundred thousand miles,
you're gonna have a lot of engine issues.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And the simple, the best and easiest analogy that I
could that I can put out there is if you
you know, typically your dentist is your dentist recommendation go
in and get your teeth looked at and clean to
whate that's every six thousand, right if or I'm sorry,
every six thousand, every six months.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
If you go sit ten years without going to see
your dentist.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You can imagine that you're gonna have a tremendous amount
of you know, teeth work, cavities, and crowns and whatever
root canals or whatever that's gonna need to be done.
So you don't wanna, you don't want to, you know,
go that far out. You want to make sure that
you're staying on top of this stuff. If you if
you've got a newer car, you go, Dan, I've got
a new car. It only has fifteen twenty thirty thousand
(10:24):
miles on it. I don't need to come at least
get it in there once a year. Get it in
once a year, get a yearly check up, Just have
it inspected, make sure your breaks, your tires and everything
else are checked out, and and uh that you're ready,
especially because we're going into summer right, most of us
are gonna we're gonna get our cars ready to go.
We're gonna head off to Florida or wherever, going North Carolina, wherever,
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deciding to go for family. You don't want to wait
one or two days before and then you know, you
put a wrench in your your your summer vacation because
something's broke down. Right, now's the time to get it in.
We got start thinking about air conditioning as well. It's
starting to get a little steamy this week. You know,
yesterday was almost almost eighty I think it was eighty degrees,
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and we're starting to see air conditioning work coming in
and whatnot. Now's the time to do it because that
first one hundred or ninety degree day or a ninety
five degree day, and then everybody in the city's gonna
be like swarming on us wanting to get all this
air conditioning work right now. And then unfortunately we can't
always get to everybody because you know, we have this
huge influx. So now's the time. Turn on the air conditioning.
(11:31):
It's a little it's warmer today, I mean it's not.
I mean it's seventy degrees here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Turn it on. Just see if it's cold enough.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If it seems cold enough and it's doing a great job, great,
But if you notice, like you know what, it doesn't
seem like it's cool and like it should call make
an appointment. Whether you bring it to Donovans or your mechanic,
it doesn't matter. But we need to be talking about
these things and getting the cars ready for our summer
vacations and ready for summer tires.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Again.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We're going to get into we're gonna be driving these things,
these cars all over the you know the country, and
we want to make sure tires, breaks, air conditioning, the
oils changed, making sure it's ready for our summer road trip.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So again I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Taking your phone calls and I'm gonna call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. Again the phone lines
are wide open. I promise I'll get you in as
quickly as I possibly can. But uh yeah, love to
hear from you, so please give me a call five one, three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. You're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (13:10):
Fifty five KRC is the talk station taking your car questions.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number again, five one, three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. It's a gorgeous Saturday afternoon.
Even though it's gorgeous outside. You still have car problems
with car questions. Everybody does, so again, I'm here every
Saturday to take those questions, so.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Love to hear from you again.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
The number call five on three seven four nine fifty
five hundred get to you pretty quickly. So, uh, we're
gonna go to the phones here we have. I believe
it's Simone and uh, hey, Simo, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
How can I help? Hey?
Speaker 7 (13:54):
I want to share a little interesting thing about the
oil change schedule. Yeah, in my honors Manual, I drive
a Hyndai, and my honored Manuel says, full synthetic every
five thousand. Now, I obviously pay for my oil changes,
and I go to Hyundai and they get one hundred
and twenty something and the little sticker gives me only
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three thousand, and I asked him about that one day
and he said, well, don't worry about that manual. I'm thinking, okay, now,
I take care of the lady.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
She drives the No.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Nine forward and when she bought it, it came with
lifetime oil changes. Her manual says three thousand miles semisynthetic,
but the sticker says six thousand miles because they don't
want to give it away free as often. Now, how
is the general public supposed to swirl that out?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, you're asking a great question, and that's why I
know that people that listen to me probably like, oh
my gosh, Dane's talking about oil changes again. But I'm
telling you. The problem is is if you create mass
confusion to the general public as to when we should
change our oils, then then everybody's just confused, and then
they're like, well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's why I talk on the show. But listen, I
don't care if you have a Hyundai a BMW. I
don't care what type of vehicle you have. I would
use a full synthetic and I would change more every
five thousand miles. That's it, you know, I you know,
I understand. I mean again, I I'm sure you heard
me in the first segment. I have a new vehicle myself.
(15:26):
My owner's tells me every seventy five hundred to ten
thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm not going to do that. That's w I get it.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
It's so you know, I just feel like if you
can't even trust the dealerships. You know, they give her
to and for free, and all of a sudden they
don't even follow the rules. They want to go every
six instead of three. And when it comes to one
that I'm paying for, instead of waiting to five, they
want to do it at three. Yeah, so because they
can get more money, tell me doing you know what
(15:54):
I'm saying, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They won't.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And that's that's you know, And I'm not trying to
pick on the industry itself, but yes, if you create
confusion between the general public as to when it should
be done, then everybody just goes, well, I'll just I'll
just do it whenever I want, right, And that's why
I harp on it, talk about it all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But you know, to kind of go back to your
to what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Back in two thousand and eight when we had the
market crash, right, and we had the cash for clunkers,
and then these auto industries couldn't sell cars.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, they couldn't give cars away, right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's when the industry itself, when it came to oil,
that's when it changed because they were they were what
they were doing to sell cars would give you lifetime
oil changes. And I'm telling you, overnight we went from
three thousand, three thousand mile oil changes to ten thousand
mile oil changes because they were giving them out.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And they just they just they pushed them out.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And I for one noticed that, and I'm like, well that,
I'm sorry these cars. Are these cars more advanced? Sure
is oil a little bit more advanced? Sure is ten thousand?
How do we go from three thousand miles change intervals
to ten thousand and over a year span. I'm sorry,
the cars in the industry has not changed that much.
(17:10):
And I'm not like this, I'm not this huge compar
conspiracy theorist or whatnot. I just I want to see
when you're spending forty to fifty sixty eighty thousand dollars
on a car, I want to see you get the
most life out of it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And you know, I feel like I have this platform.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
I feel like the dealers it's just a little bit
of a setup because if you screw up your changes,
you got to buy a new crop restor correct.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Absolutely, yes, And that's kind of why I know. I know,
And I'm like I said, I'm not I'm not here
to be a conspiracy therapist, a conspiracy theorist and and
and say that the auto industry is misguiding.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Or leading people. But I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know, I feel that I have a responsibility. I
have this platform or I can talk about this, and
I think that's important. It's imperative to tell people, hey, look,
I'm not concerned about what the owner's manual says. I'm
not concerned about the salesman whos sold you the car.
What I'm here to tell you to do is like, look,
you want to get the most life out of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's imperative important that you just changed every five thousand.
That's it. It's all you need to do.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Keep preaching it because they do their best to get up.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I mean it'd be like.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, and you know, it'd be like it'd be like
you go into your doctrine and goes, go ahead, smoke
one pack of cigarettes every day, and you're going to
get a longer life, right, And you know we all
know that that's not the truth.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You don't want to go ten thousand miles a old time?
All right, Well, thank you, they don't do it. You're
very welcome, Bye bye again. I'm not here to judge
or suggest that that's what's happening, but I I think
I feel with my heart that you know, there's a
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misleading and a misunderstanding as to when we should be
changing our oil. And unfortunately, the way that these vehicles
are designed today, they burn oil. Now most people go, well, Dane,
I don't see any smoke coming out on my tailpipe,
or Dane, I'm not seeing anything on the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, they.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Pay attention. For those of you who are listening, pay attention.
And this is when you're gonna notice it. When you're
getting on the highway. Okay, pay attention when you're on
that entrance ramp to get on the highway. Pay attention
to the car that's in front of you. Okay, watch
the tailpipe. Now, obviously make sure that you're safe, and
you know you're not just you know, you gotta keep
your eye on the road, but watch the tailpipe and
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you'll see when somebody accelerates, you'll see a big puff
of black smoke, just a little puff, not a ton.
You're not gonna lose your side or you'll just see
this little black puff of smoke and it's gonna come
out of the tailpipe and you're gonna see when people
are accelerating getting on the highway, pay attention to that.
What that is that little black puff of smoke that's oil.
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Now you can imagine that if you get on the
highway every single day for five thousand miles, that little
puff is not a ton. And if you're driving the vehicle,
nine out of ten times you're not going to see it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Right, But if you're.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Behind somebody that's getting on the highway and little you
see that little black puff of smoke, that is oil. Okay,
So you can imagine that if your vehicle holds and
I've talked about this too, if you have a vehicle
that holds four quarts of oil, so you have a
little Hondai, a little four cylinder Hundai holds four quarts
of oil. Now, typically Hyundai says that it is within
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spec that that car should burn a quart of oil
every thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, Now, if.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Your car only holds four quarts of oil, and you
go ten thousand miles, and if you do the map
at a thousand miles, you're now now you only have
three courts. So if we go to ten thousand miles,
your car doesn't have any oil in it, you either
lock up the engine or the timing change get hot,
they stretch, they jump time, you're putting chains on it, and.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, and everybody's like, well, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know, I'm not seeing white smoke come out my
tailpipe or I'm not seeing anything on the ground. No,
because it's just when they just the way these vehicles
are designed, they just puff out a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Black smoke, which is oil.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They puff it out, boom, you go on and you
just and the car will and everybody goes, well, i've
got an oil light that's gonna tell me when it's
low on oil. I haven't seen an oil light on
a vehicle probably in ten years, I have not seen
a car. I will have cars come into my into
my shop, I'll pull half a quarter oil out of them.
A half a court. Not an oil light on the car.
(21:52):
They don't have oil lights, they don't they I have
not seen an oil light in a car in probably
ten years, so God's honest, true, and they just they
don't come on. Everyone's like, well, if I'm low on oil,
then my oil I will come on.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No it will not.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I haven't seen one doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean,
you got a car that's twenty years old, you'll see
an oil light. You got a car that's ten years old,
you're not gonna see an oil light, and you're gonna
run your car out of engine oil and it's gonna
be locked up or blown up, and then you're gonna
need an engine.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So to protect yourself, I'm telling you it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You know, if you at least just check your oil
and I and I've told I've told everybody on this show.
If you're every time you've got to, if you've got
a newer car, what I would tell you do find
out how to check your own oil. You can always
come by any my locations and I'll show you how
to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Won't charge you.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
If it's even lower, I'll probably I'll most likely probably
top it off for you. I'll show you how to
do it. You want to do it on level ground.
You want to do it when it's cold, after it's
been sitting overnight, and you want to make sure that
that is full. Now, I've always told people that, hey,
we have to get gas. Okay, Obviously, if you've got
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an electric car, you don't have oil, so you don't
have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you have an.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oil, if you've got gasoline engine or a diesel engine,
check your oil when you're getting gas. Right, most of us,
what do we do? We put up, we go to
the pump, we start filling.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Up our gas tank. And what do we do?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Most likely maybe some of us might clean the windshield
or whatnot, or I would say vast majority probably just
get on their phones. But that's an opportunity for you
to pop your hood. And you've got the towels there
to for your windshield. Right, pop your hood, pull your
dipstick out, wipe it off, put it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Back in and check it if it's low.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You can either come to any Donovan's location or you
can walk into that gas station you're at, grab a
qurd of oil. You want to make sure you put
the right oil grate in all all makes and models
have an oil cap that's going to tell you what
the grade of oil you need, whether it's ten W
thirty five, W twenty zero W twenty, it'll tell you
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what great it is. And if you've got any questions,
call me. Hey, Dane, I gotta put a while on
my car. This is my year making model.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
What do I do? I'll be more happy to help you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
But it's it's the lifeblood of your vehicle, and if
you know you're out there, the single best thing that
you can do is to protect your vehicle is making
sure that you change your oil regularly.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
As far as the other maintenance goes.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Your tires, your brakes, your tune ups, those are things
that you're gonna have to do.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
However, you want to keep the car on the road,
you want to make sure.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You're changing oil regularly. And I you know, I'm sorry
for those of you who listen to me. You're like,
oh gosh, Dane's talking about it again. But I'm telling
you this is what you have to do. If your
doctor came to you and said, hey, look, you want
to live to one hundred, make sure you drink a
glass of water and walk for you know, an hour
a day and you'll live to your home.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You'd probably do it. I'm that guy.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm telling you you want to get two hundred three
hundred thousand miles out of your car, change your oll
every five thousand miles if no, if answer butts, and
you'll get that type of mileage out of your vehicle.
It's that simple, you know, And so it's important. And
again I have this platform, and I you know, I
know it's redundant, and you're like, you know, he's talking
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about it again.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But for those of those that are tuning in.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And not hearing this information, that's what I'm here for
is to help you out. But regardless if you whatever
car car question you may have, that's what I'm here for.
The number to call five one, three, seven, four nine,
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Speaker 2 (25:42):
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Speaker 6 (26:18):
Some may not want to hear what you have to say,
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Speaker 2 (26:22):
Fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Taking your car questions and number to call five one three,
seven four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dan Donovan from
Donovan's Auto entire Center, here every Saturday from one to
two to take your car questions. Again, I've talked about this,
you know, I love what I do, and I love
it so much that I'm here every Saturday. And again
I mentioned earlier in studio. I have my youngest son, Declan.
(26:50):
My two older boys are in baseball tournaments this weekend,
and then I have my father in law, Paul with me.
So they're tagging along today. And are you do you
want to say Hi? All right, we're we're Declan's gonna
say Hi Hi. So after this we've got to load
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up in the car and head to baseball games. My
my oldest son has a double header tonight underneath the lights,
so that's most likely during this summer, that's where you're
gonna find me. So unfortunately, I like for it to
be on a golf of course, but uh, you know, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's usually on a baseball field, which I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I I really do enjoy watching it, and everybody goes, hey,
you know, enjoy it while it lasts, because at some
point you're gonna blink and you know it'll be over, right.
So I do enjoy it and brings back the days
when I used to play ball, and uh, of course
my boys, And I'm sure I did it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I know I did it with my father.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Uh you know, you sit there and after the game's over,
you got you know, you need to get back in
your stance.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You need to do this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And you know it's always like, Dad, stop talking to me.
Don't you know I know more than you, right, And
I know I did it with my dad. I just
get frustrated and be like, just don't talk to me
about it, you know. So I try to keep my
mouth shut as best I can, But I'm like Hey,
you know if you would have just done this or
done that.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But you know I'll miss it one of these days
for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right again, I'm taking your phone calls and number
to call five one three five hundred. We have Bill,
Brian and Patty. So Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
How can I help?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Thank you for having me. I got a couple of questions.
I got a question about checking automatic transmission fluid.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I have.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
A Honda twenty thirteen Civic and I have a two
thousand and five Toyota Corolla, and I recently changed the
fluid just the dropping till nothing too to evasive. But uh,
I've seen some stories that you can check when it's
the fluid's cold and the engine is not running, or
(29:05):
does the engine need to be running? What's your ideal
on checking that fluid.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So all of your manufacturers today, all of them but one,
all of your manufacturers, you should check it at a
normal operating temperature. So right, so you drive it to
the grocery store or backer when that temperature gauge is
at where it needs to be at. So you want
to check your transmission fluid at a operating temperature while
(29:36):
the vehicle's running. Okay, Yeah, so while it's at operating temperature,
you want to check that fluid while it's running. Hondas
are the opposite. Hondas, You want to check them while
the vehicle. You can check them when they're warm or cold,
but you need to check hondas.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
When they're not running.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, that that was my confusion. I heard the Toyota
check it while it's running and operating everything you said,
and then the Honda for some reason, I guess I
misheard it or misinterpretated that it doesn't need to be running,
and that was I was really confused. But it's it's
(30:23):
two different car manufacturers, so they got different ways of
doing it.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeahs, do you mind turning the radio down for just
a bit, I'm getting okay. Yeah, all of your ear
making models, you want to check them while they're running,
when they're warm. On Honda's I would still recommend checking
it when the car is warm, but the car should
(30:47):
not be running when you're checking the transmission food on
a Honda.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah, so make sure the hondas operate and temperature. Go
down the street, make sure it's it's all warm and
then turn it all off and then check it after.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That, check it while it's not running. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yep, yeah, oh wow. And I got one more question
about the two thousand and five Toyter Corolla. Every time
I turned the steering wheel, I hear like a break sound.
I know it's not the brakes, but that's what I
kind of discovered, like a squeaking sound of a breaks,
(31:24):
like a real sound. And I noticed this because I'm
actually doing the brakes now and that that was done.
But I kind of had had the car on the jackstands.
Everything was safe and I was able to, you know,
turn the wheel with the tires off the ground, and
I heard that same sound, and I said, man, I
thought it was the brakes, which I was doing the
(31:47):
break work anyway, they need to be changed. I thought
it was that. But what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well, so you had did you have just the front
wheels off or the back wheels as well?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
No, the just the front tires was off the ground
on jack stands, so I can get to the brakes.
And I was going to change your paths anyways, and
as of doing it, just just by turning the wheel
with the engine off, everything just to turn to get
to the other side. On one side the other I
(32:23):
heard that same sound. I said, Man, it wasn't the breaks.
There's another sound like it sounded like a hard squeaking sound.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I mean you said the vehicle wasn't running correct.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Uh Man, that did you only hear it that one time?
Or does it seem to be a repeating noise like
I'm repeating, so you hear it even when the tires
are Even when the tires are on and it's off
the jack stands, you still hear the noise.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah, that's what I thought. It was weird when I
back out at the back out of my driveway and
I stopped, and I didn't realize when I back out
and stop, I got to turn it in a different direction.
The noise is making that sound as I was turning
the wheel, and I thought it was the brakes at first,
you know, because I know that the brakes needed to
(33:20):
be changed and I can understand it. I thought the
brakes was noisy. But I discovered this sound without just
by accident, by turning turning the wheel with the engine
off and it was on jack stands.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Well, I mean what I would probably tell you is
obviously the vehicle was running, could be potentially power stiring,
but the vehicle wasn't running, so power steerings eliminated. The
brakes are only going to squeal if the car's being
driven and you're applying the brake, So brakes were eliminated.
You could be dealing with a strut top like the
top of the strut that's maybe causing that noise, or
(33:59):
a bad tie rod or ball joint that's dry and
that's what's making that creaking or squeaking noise. So it
could be a ti rod or a ball joint that's dry.
And the thing is is years ago you had greasible
ball joints and tirods. When these cars nowadays, they're not
made with greasible suspension parts anymore. So sometimes it can
(34:24):
be hard to try to pinpoint it. What we use
typically is what's called a stethoscope, right, and to try
to pinpoint where that noise is coming from. Now, if
you can pinpoint if it's an outer tie rod or
a ball joint, if you can find it, what you
(34:44):
could do now you want to make sure that those
that that suspension parts not bad, that there's there's no
movement in it. But an option that you have if
you do, if you're able to find that bad tie
rode or ball joint, you know that there's a little
rubber boo. If you put a little pinhole in it
and put some w D forty or grease or whatnot,
(35:05):
you could quiet it down. Now I'm not suggesting, I'm
not suggesting that you you want to make sure the
suspension part is still good and tight.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Sometimes they just get dry and they'll squeak.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And if that's the case, then you know, you can
probably spray a little bit of w D forty into
that boot or some grease and that will quiet it down.
But don't just eliminate and just not take care of it.
I mean, once a ball joint or tyrot starts squeaking,
that's usually an indication that it's starting to go bad.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I was concerned by the safety issues, so that that's
you know, I can't pinpoint the sound, you know, And
I that was that was my knowledge. When I had
the car front tires off basically and I'm turning because
I'm doing the break, so I turned the wheels to
one side to the other their type of thing, and
(36:01):
and I heard that sound I said, man, that's the
exact sound that I hear. I drive the car basically
Monday through Friday with Friday at the highway car and
everything works great. I just hear you know, I wasn't really.
I'm not a suspension person either.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
So suspension noises are very hard to pinpoint.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
So yeah, yeah, I can understand that. But it's safety issue.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I doubt it's probably if it's just squeaking, it's probably
not a safety concern at this time.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
But you want to make sure that wear down.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's gonna wear down. If it's squeaking, it's gonna wear down. Yeah,
So I would recommend at some point you get it
inspected by somebody that who can check the suspension parts.
Make sure because if a ball join your TI rod
breaks your wheels coming off, and you're gonna do substantial
damage to your vehicle. Axel's gonna be Yeah, Axel's gonna
get ripped out, it's gonna damage the fender, and you
(36:58):
know you're gonna do thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Dar's driver and that's what it's riding on, so right, right,
and it's a major part. Yeah, that's uh. I'm not
too familiar with it. Uh, is there any for this vehicles?
Like you can for the suspension you can use like
a grease gun. Is there any grease points for a
two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Now's there's no grease points.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
That's why I said, Like you get a little pick
tool and you put a little tiny pinhole and you
get a little w D forty with the hose on it,
and you just you spray that that boot and fill
it up, and.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
That's the grease point basically, Carol.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, all right, okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
All right, thank you a great day, you too, Bye bye.
All right, coming up, we have uh, we have Brian
and Patty. You're listening to the car show on fifty
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Speaker 1 (38:32):
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And if if you're not, if you're listening to the
show and you just want some great car advice, that's
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So hear every Saturday from one to two. So I
(38:53):
really do appreciate my callers. I appreciate all of my
employees and all my my customers as well. So all right,
let's go back to the phones. We have Patty. Hey, Patty,
welcome to the Car show.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Hey, Dane? Quick question here, we listened to your show.
You've been preaching five thousand mile oil change wherever you
finally convinced me. I have a twenty twenty one Super
U Forster. I'm taking it in Monday for my forty
eight thousand mile checkup. So after this, I'm going to
switch to five thousand miles. I always bring my maintenance
book with me, have the dealer sign it. I shouldn't
(39:27):
get pushed back if I'm lighting off one thousand miles
every future visit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Right, No, well no, well no, you shouldn't get pushed back.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
You may get pushed back. Are they offering you the
oil changes for free or are they charging?
Speaker 5 (39:43):
No, I'm paying form.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Okay, okay, so you know.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You should not get pushed back, And if you do,
then just say, well I won't have done it five thousand.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You know, so were you before? Were you doing it
every six thousand?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yeah, but you've been preaching and I'm like, okay, you've
convinced me.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, well here here's the deal too. And the main
the biggest reason why I talk about changing the oivery
five thousand is because these newer cars burn oil, and
Subaru is a brand. Super is a great car. I'm
not picking on Subaru subrus, Hondai's Hondas toyos. They all
burn oil, right, but subrews tend to overtime burn oil.
(40:26):
And so what I would tell you to do is
five thousand and what I would recommend you do is
when you take it in for that oil change, tell them, hey,
do you mind before you change my oil, can you
check my oil level? Ask them to do that, because
ninety nine point nine percent of any customer that comes
to me that has a blown up engine or needs
(40:47):
timing change or anything like that, they look at me,
they go, dam, I didn't even know I was burn
and oil right. So, and this is not just for you,
this is for anybody that's listening. When you get your
oil changed at the deal or at Donovan's or wherever
you go, ask them, hey, can you check my oil
level first before you change my oil. That's gonna give
(41:09):
you an indication whether or not your vehicle's burn and oil.
And again, nine out of ten times your car probably is.
And it's not any fault of your own. It's not
that you've done anything wrong. These newer cars just do it.
I mean, that's how they're designed. I'm not saying it's right,
but that's how they're designed. So just say, hey, listen,
I'm gonna have my oil change at five thousand, but
do you mind checking my oil level and give me
(41:31):
feedback as to it whether or not it was low.
And if they go, hey it wasn't low, great, they go,
oh yeah, it was a half court low or a
court load.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Then you know you're burn a little bit of oil.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
And then if you stick to that five thousand mile interval,
you'll be fine. But most people don't realize that their
vehicles burn and oil and then they come to me
and then.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's blown up or it needs thousands of dollars worth
of work.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So when you go into that dealership and you get
that oil change, just tell them check my oil level
before you change it, and if that's how you're going
to get the longevity out of your vehicle. So I
changed the oil, and this is the God's hon It's true.
I change my oil on my vehicle every five thousand miles.
Let's stick to that. It's the simplest and easiest thing.
(42:13):
It's going to get the most life out of your vehicle.
But again, to you and all the other listeners, ask
your mechanic or the person who's changing oil, just say, hey,
check the oil level before you change it, so you
have an idea whether or not your vehicle is starting
to use or burnt oil.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Okay, okay, very good, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Pattie, take care of have a great weekend. So all right,
let's go back to the phones real quick.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
We have Susie. Susie, I've got about two minutes. How
can I help you?
Speaker 8 (42:40):
Hiding absolutely, Hey, thank you. I was calling about my
sister's cards to twenty thirteen fourd escape. She had the
old change the valveleen on a Friday. Then the very
next day it had had it had issues. She had
to stop driving it, have it towed to the mechanics,
(43:00):
and he said that they overfilled it by two courts,
and so she took the bill back to them and
they refuse to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Yeah, well that's did they did they get her any
type of indication why they wouldn't pay for it.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
I think they told her, well, you know, he showed
her that, you know how they show you the dipstick
that here you go. And yeah, that's all I got
from her anyway.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 8 (43:36):
Courts.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah, that's that's yeah. You know, and I harp on
my guys on that stuff too. I mean, you know,
we you know, sometimes these computers will you'll look up
a year making model on the vehicle and it will
say six courts, and the guys will put four in it.
Or some cars will say it needs four courts and
they'll put six in it. And then they don't check
(43:56):
the dipstick. And it's like you need to say, well,
that's what the computer said. Why have I don't care
what the computer said. You gotta read the dipstick. That's
what it's there for. So unfortunately, as a business owner,
a small business owner, I would have taken care of it,
because if we've made a mistake, we need to make
sure that we take care of it and make it right.
But I'm sorry you have to go through them. Sorry
(44:16):
to hear that, but they should have. They should have
done the right thing in taking care of you. So
I appreciate you. I gotta get on out of here,
but thank you. You have a great weekend. So hey,
I hope everybody has a great weekend. I appreciate all
the phone callers and everybody's calling in today. I'll be
back next Saturday. Next Saturday, to answer all of your
car questions. I'm day nine of them from Donovan's Auto
(44:37):
and Tire Center and be back next Saturday. My son
Declan wants to say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Say goodbye bye everybody. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Every great weekend your Listen to our show on fifty
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