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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lissome Bay shutting down there and set food the lid
us down, DearS, I was telling it shit. Good Saturday afternoon.
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You're listening to the car show on fifty five Krosie.
I'm Dane Donovan, your host, taking your car question as
the number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred and again. Hope everybody enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend.
It's always nice to have a three day weekend. Leading
into the summer. And speaking of summer, we need to
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start talking about and getting our cars ready for the summer.
I actually, earlier this week already started air conditioning. We
need to start thinking about getting our cars ready for
the summer. We're getting road trips. I had several cars
this week that people were taking road trips, and luckily
they were.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know, getting them ready before they leave.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A lot of people tend to wait till the last minute,
and we can't always get those cars in. So now,
if you're taking a road trip, most of us don't
plan a summer vacation days in advance.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We you know, we do it weeks or months in advance,
So now's the time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
If you're taking your vehicle out, you need to start
thinking about getting it ready. Most of you who are
listening right now are probably in your cars and although
it's not too hot right now, turn on the air conditioning.
Just make sure it's working. Were again, we already had
several vehicles this week that we are already doing air
conditioning work on. And yes it is expensive, and we've
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talked about that on the show. Air conditioning is one
of those components and that it's not just one unit.
You know, you have an AC compressor, you have an
AC condenser, you have an AC evaporator, and then you
have lines, right. So a lot of times people have
the misconception or the misunderstanding that if you have an
AC compressor replaced, that we've fixed the air conditioning. Yes,
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we have to an extent, but there are other components
that can fail, and sometimes people don't know that. So
a lot of times if we if we've replaced an
AC compressor, in the next summer, it's not working again,
they're like, hey, you fixed my air conditioning last week
last year, and now it's not working again, And come
to find out there's another component that's failed. So make
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sure that when you're getting that car ready for your
road trip again, turn right now, if you're in your vehicle,
turn it air condition on, whether it's hot or not.
I know it's not ninety degrees right now. We're gonna
you know, we're going to be there very soon. You
know how sinceinni weather is, you wait ten minutes and
it'll change. It might be you know, it rained most
of the week this week, but you need to turn
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it on. If it's ice cold, great, If not, we
need to start talking about getting that car ready for
that for that road trip on. Fortunately, I had two
young people and come into my shop on Thursday. They
were staying and they were in the at Mammoth Cave
and they just so happened to be crossing the river.
And as soon as they crossed that river, their transmission
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unfortunately went out. And I felt so bad for him
because they were on their way to They're like, oh,
we're on our way back to Columbus, and I said, oh,
I was in Columbus earlier this week, and I said,
I was at the Memorial Golf tournament. So and they
goes and they had mentioned to me, well, that's where
we're heading So I felt so bad for him because
they were stranded in Cincinnati. Now again he was like, well,
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how does this happen? And it's like, well, you know,
now the vehicle was a twenty sixteen four escape and
it had one hundred and eighty thousand miles on it.
These things can't happen. But unfortunately they were at my
shop for almost six hours waiting for a ride, so
you know, they're straining. They had nothing to do, so
I did the best I could to try to entertain them.
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Get them drinks, get them coffee, and get them phone
chargers because they were on their phones. But nobody wants
to be in that position where you're traveling and you're
straineded somewhere right. So again I had a young lady
that was getting her car worked on. She was heading
to New York and I think in late June, and
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she took the proper steps to get the car in
and get it looked at, so she's ready to go
for that trip. And come to find out, she came
in from a world change and just said, hey, make
sure it doesn't need any other maintenance. We'll come to
find out she needed all four breaks. Now had she
taken that road trip and not had those breaks inspected,
she probably wouldn't have made it because her brakes were
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so close. So again, we all we need to make
sure that we're planning for our road trips. Again, I
hope everybody has a safe summer. It's gonna get hot,
you know how it is. Last week I was in Texas.
It was ninety eight degrees. It was extremely hot, and
you know, you know in Cincinnati some days it gets
that hot and ill. A lot of times we want
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to take at Donovan's. We want to take care of
everybody's car. We really do as best that we can.
But what happens is that first real hotstrik that we
get the nineties, the early nineties, mid nineties, everybody wants
to schedule their appointment. Everybody wants to get their car
because they're like, we need our air conditioning fixed. It's
too hot. And I get that, and again, I want
to get to everybody's car, but unfortunately, when I have
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a massive influx of people that all want to get
their car in, we can't always get to it, and
then it becomes a crisis. And then you go, well,
I'll just go somewhere else and I don't want to
do that to my customers. I want to take care
of all my customers. So again, if you've got a
road trip coming up, we need to get these cars in.
We need to get them inspected. Again. Tires too, Tires
are important. Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Make
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sure your fluids are full, coolant, air conditioning, break fluid.
Making sure again we're up to data on oil changes.
I talk about this all the time on the show.
Making sure that these cars have the proper oil level
in them. That's so important and yet and it's the
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easiest thing that you can do for your car, especially
on a long road trip.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So you know, get them in, get them.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Inspected, to make sure that your car is ready for
that summer road trip. Okay, I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
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Speaker 2 (06:34):
Just makes sense.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
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Taking your car questions again the number to call five
one three seven nine fifty five. Again, we were talking
earlier about making sure we get our cars ready for
the summer. We talk about this, I talk about this
when we go we're going into the winter, We're gonna
talk about this. This the the extreme heat really takes
a toll on your vehicle, Okay, takes a toll on
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your starters, takes a toll on your back, on your alternators,
and on your batteries as well. And again, a lot
of times batteries don't always give you signs that they're
gonna fail. They can literally shut you can You could
be traveling, go to shut your car off at a
gas station.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're in the middle of wherever on your road trip.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And all of a sudden, you know, click click click,
car won't start. I was getting gased just last week,
gentlemen was getting gas and two and and they popped
the hood to see what's going on. Because I said,
what's going on, They're like, well, it's not doing anything.
The car won't start. And I assisted him. Now, unfortunately
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I did not have any jumper cables, but I was
able to express to them, Hey, look you have a
battery issue. You need a battery. You can be jumped.
I said, I don't have any jumper cables. They didn't
have any jumper cables. So, you know, that's that's the
other thing that you need to think about when you're
taking these long road trips. You know a lot of
times you can buy an emergency roadside kit and it's
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something that you should always keep in your vehicle, and
you know, jumper cables, gloves, oil, coolant, water, just the
essentials just in case. You know, pair of plier, is
a screwdriver, something, just in case if this does happen,
you're able to make sure that at least you have
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some essentials, right, maybe pack some food. I know we
went to like I said. We were in Columbus earlier
this week for the Memorial Golf tournament, and I was
able to take my wife and two older boys. And
you know, we had plenty of food because we can't
leave the house without food. I wasn't going to Chick
fil A, you know, it's just it's just too much.
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So but we had our snacks packed and we had
everything ready to go.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Just in case there was an issue or a problem.
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I know we get lacks of days ago where we
get so worried and so worried about prepping to make
sure that we can get to our destination with all
our food, our you know, our clothes, and you know,
maybe you know your ten or your hammock or whatever
you plan on doing this summer, But make sure you
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think about, Hey, if the car doesn't start, if the
battery dies, or the vehicle overheats, what's our plan of action?
What are we going to do in case this happens?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Making sure our phones are fully charged. I made the
mistake again. I was in Texas last week and my
wife even specifically said, hey, do you have your phone charger?
And I said, yes, I do, but I didn't. I
thought I packed it. I was almost certain I packed it.
And I got to my destination in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And my phone was almost dead.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now it was fully charged when I left, but I
was on it while we were in transit, and so
I just decided I was going to buy a phone
cord to charge my phone and lo and behold. In
that process, I unfortunately left my luggage in the airport
and had to go back through TSA in order to
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get my luggage right.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So I didn't plan properly.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So these are things as again we're hitting the road
Memorial Day again at the unofficial start of summer. We
want to make sure that any road trips we take
whether again like the couple that was in my shop earlier.
You know, they were traveling from the Mammoth Cave to Columbus,
not too far, but they didn't have any they didn't
have a they didn't have any plans, so they were
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stuck at my shop for six hours. So it's something
that we need to think about when we prepped. When
we're talking about traveling, we need to make sure that
the car is ready to go. Now, make sure you
give yourself enough time to get it in and get
it inspected. And again, in the case of the young
lady that brought her car and that was going to
Texas or I'm sorry, New York, she brought her car
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in and she had four weeks before she needed to
leave town. And again she needed all four breaks. So
we're able to get her home, get her car fixed,
and now she knows that, you know, her car is
taken care of, so when she gets to New York,
she's not gonna have any issues at least with her car.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So again, those.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Number, those those those are the important things when we're traveling,
So always keep that in mind. Get yourself a little
emergency A lot of stores combine. I mean, I'm sure
you can go on Amazon or your local store and
you can find a roadside emergency kit. Make sure that
when you're traveling, you got a flash sight, you've got
jumper cables, because you just never know when car problems
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will happen. And I expressed to this young couple when
they were traveling, I said, look, you just you never
know what's gonna happen, so you always just be prepared.
So that's the thing that we need to think about
going into this summer season. Right, it's the unofficial start
to summer, and we want to make sure that our
cars are ready for any road trip. Or again, maybe
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you're maybe you're not traveling, and it's just making sure
that you get you can get yourself back and forth
to work. Right. Sometimes we get stranded on the highway
because not because our cars broke down, but but somebody
else had a car accident, and you know, making sure
that the car has enough gas in it. I know
my wife likes to run on fumes. She for some
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reason just refuses to put gas in her car. That's
why I will never buy her and electric car because
her phone is always on ten percent or less. So
I don't want to give her a car that she
has to charge because I'm gonna have to pick her up.
So but so let's go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Hey, good afternoon. Yeah, I spoke to you a couple
of weeks ago about my wife's twenty eighteen vall ball
with the Stott stop issue. Oh yeah, yeah, and you
told me to give you a call back this maybe
you did some research.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, correct me. If I'm wrong. You did the auxiliary
battery and the main battery. You did both batteries correct.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Correct, And I just did a voltage check the concept
for two days, and the main battery had twelve point
five two volts, the auxiliary had twelve point ninety five volts.
And then when I started up, the main battery jumps
to fifteen point one seven volts and the auxiliary jumped
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to fifteen point two two votes while it was running
still having the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, I did do some research. I did do some
looking and digging, and I I did not find anything
that was alarming or glaring or anything that I could
pinpoint put my finger on. I'm wondering if at I think,
I'm sure you were trying to avoid this. You haven't
taken it anywhere, correct, No, I have not my opinion
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and thought process. I mean, like I said, I didn't
see anything glaring, Nothing popped out in front of me.
I'm wondering if it's just a software glitch or a
software update or issue. A lot of times there might
just be a software update to try to get that
to work. Have you tried the other thing that we
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can try to do is disconnect the main battery and
put both battery cable ends, disconnecting them, holding them together
for about a minute. What this does is it's kind
of like a hard reset. Right, if your cell phone's
acting up, you turn it off, right. If you know,
if your computer's acting up, you turn off to a restart.
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So by taking both battery cable ends off on the
main battery, holding them together a lot of times that
will Basically it's a hard restart for the car. You
can try that. If the start stop features still is
not work working, it's probably a software issue that is
only unfortunately, gonna have to go back.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
To the dealer.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Okay, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Try it. Let me know.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Thank you and congratulations on your reward. O.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Have a great week too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Take care, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I don't know. I don't know what it is, but
I get a ton of callers from Boston, Ton at
least one or two a week, and I've been to Boston.
Wants beautiful city to love it. Told my wife I
was gonna take her up there one time. One of
these days. We're lucky if we can even go out
to go out to dinner. So we've got just sports
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on top of sports on top of sports, and I'm
leaving here, going to two more games, and we actually
are going to try to do a movie tonight, but
we'll see how that works out. So all right again,
I'm taking your phone calls and number call five one
three seven That number again, five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred. You're listening to the car show
on fifty five KRC, the station at Donovan's Auto entire Center.
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call five one three seven nine fifty five hundred. That
number again, five one three seven nine fifty five hundred. Again.
Phone lines are wide open, promised to get you in here.
I wanted to talk about Eddie who just called from Boston.
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You know, he's got this the software issue, and more
and more every day we see things like this with
these new cars and the software issues, and it is
challenging in our industry because for a shop like us,
it's so expensive to have everybody's software. Mercedes, you got
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to have different software, BMW, Jaguar, Land River, I mean,
they're all different softwares and it's really really difficult to
have all of them right. So you got to make
sure that you know, you're taking it to a reputable
shop and you know, making sure that they have the
equipment and the tools to do that. Now, there are
some times where we might not right, and the best
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thing to do is and is just say hey, listen,
you know I don't have the software or I might
not have the proper tool to do this.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Mainly it's just software.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean, anything that pertains to you know, the breaks,
the tires of the engine and everything like that's fine.
But you know, we get a lot of phone calls
about people wanting us to you know, hey, do you
program keys. I need a new key, you need a
new ignition key. And that is like that's like Fort Knox.
I mean really, the dealerships have that market wandered pretty well.
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And I mean I remember heck, when I first started driving,
you would have two sets of keys or two keys.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You'd have one for the ignition, one for the door.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know. Now nowadays you don't even have to take
your key out of your pocket, which my wife never
ever loses her car keys anymore because she never takes
them out of her purse. So it's kind of there
is a good feature, but it's it's it's funny. A
lot of people come in that are dropping their car
off and they're wanting to uh, I'm like, all right,
can I have your key?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And they're like, oh yeah, and they're just like just digging.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Digging through that purse to try to find that key
because they just don't take it out. But you know,
the software and that's why sometimes you want to make
sure that you're taking it your your vehicle to you know,
a reputable shop that can do these updates. And like
I said, most vehicles, we can all your your hond As,
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your Toyotas, your Ford's, your GMS, we can do BMW.
But you know, sometimes the land Rover Range Rover Mercedes.
Uh sometimes those they they don't release that software and
it's uh, you know, it's hard to it's hard to
do that. So you know, you just want to make
sure that you're getting it to a to another great shop.
So all right, we've got John. Hey, John, welcome to
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the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yes, I just wanted to. I called last week about
my Cobalt and you told me to get a c
Delco cam sensor.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, THEID yep.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I replaced replaced the one and kept kept one
old old one and replaced the one that's harder to
get to, which is in the back, and uh clear
to clear the codes and then started up and no
check in and light came back. So that worked really
ac Delcos yep. Because I had you used a uh
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different company that read codes for you, and you bought
it from there and they didn't work.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, well I'm glad. So so you put the two
ac Delco sensors in it and light didn't come back.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
On and it's been good ever since.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Great.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Great, that's awesome. Thanks for the follow up. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, yeah, I know, next time if it's anything electronic wise.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, it's you know, and I've said I've said it
a million times on the show, but look, if you're
doing the work yourself, just spend the extra money and
buy the factory part. I know it's more, but really,
when it comes to something like this, right, it was
able to fix your problem, right, A lot of people
will be racking their brains like, oh, maybe I need
a computer. Maybe it's the wiring. No, it was just
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the aftermarket sensors just you know, weren't working, you know,
and I'm not you know, we put aftermarket parts on cars.
It's it's but it depends on what you're doing, right,
If you want to put after market brakes or an
alternator starter, I'm okay with that, right, But when you
get into the electronics of the vehicle, especially timing parts,
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you really want to stick to the original you know,
the OEM manufacturer, just because they're really really finicky and
you've got to put the factory part in otherwise, you know.
So well, good, I'm glad you called. I appreciate the
follow up. And yeah, electrical parts, especially when it comes
to timing stuff or also mass airflow sensors, that is
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the biggest racket out there. Uh, mass mass airflow sensors
will fail all the time, and oxygen sensors, and people
put after market ones in and then they have the
same code and they're like, well that obviously wasn't the
problem and just the aftermarket ones just aren't good quality.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So yeah, yeah, and one thing that made me do
is go ahead and get me a code reader for
myself and that and that and ma and I bought
one at it and you actually do live data with
it too, so that yeah, I figure that that'll be
more of a beneficial and I can do it like
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seller and someone else will read.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It well absolutely, and then and then you can see too,
you know, if you've got a misfire or whatnot. I
will read active missfires, do you know. I believe that
it will okay, because a lot of yeah, you'll get
a check.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Actually you can actually record it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Too, okay, Oh wow, okay, man, they're getting they're getting
sophisticated nowadays.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, what's uh, you know via one thousand I think
it was that I got.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay, Yeah, I mean when you when you get one
that can record live data, that's really helpful because a
lot of times if you've got a vehicle that's you know,
V six or V eight and it's missfiring, right, And
sometimes these cars will just flag a PO three hundred,
which is a random cylinder misfire, and you're like, well,
which one's missfiring.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's not flagging that particular cylinder.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So if you can watch the live the live stream
and watch the dad and you and you can watch
which cylinder is misfiring or how many times it's misfired,
allows you to pinpoint exactly which cylinder is your problem,
so you're not having to do you know, a major
major tune up, you know, replacing all the spark plugs
and all the coils, which can cost a lot of money.
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So yeah, yeah, I think it'd be worth the investment.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I do appreciate your Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know, hey, I appreciate the follow up and uh yeah,
so well, thank you so much. Good luck to you.
If you need anything else, you give me a call.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Uh that's always good news to hear. Uh. You know
sometimes I sometimes I guess right now, that's the thing
we've talked. I've talked about this on the show. Look,
if you're doing the work yourself. And I'm never will
I ever talk anybody out of doing the work themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You're saving yourself a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's and that's what the show's about is I'm here
to help you out in any way, shape or form
that I can. And the gentleman called last week said, hey,
I've got these codes. I put in the sensors and
I still have the same codes. And I told John,
I said, look, put in an ac Delco sensor. Put
in the factory part. Are they more sure? But in
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this case, you never, especially with timing parts. You really
don't want to do aftermarket. You want to just do factory.
And the sensors aren't much. The sensors, I think they're
around like seventy six bucks. Apieces too of them. There's
an intake and exhaust. There's seventy six bucks. Can you
buy some on eBay for I'm sorry, Amazon, for twenty bucks. Yeah,
but you know this gentleman had to do the job
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twice because he bought a cheaper part. So you want
to be careful, especially in aftermarket. And again we use
aftermarket parts. I'm not knocking them, but you need to
be You need to make sure that you do your homework,
and especially if you're doing it yourself, spend the money
on the on the good part. If you're doing after
if you're again, if you're doing a starter, alternator, breaks,
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wiper blades.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You know, something like that you can do after market.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That'd be fine, you know, but when you get into
the electronics modules and sensors mass airflow sensor, oxygen sensor,
you know what's the what John was talking was VVT sylenoids,
things like that. You really want to stick the original
equipment manufacturer. Okay, and uh, you know, if it's a
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it's a it's If it's a GM product, it's a
c Delco, it's a Ford product, it's Motorcraft. If it's
a Honda, it's it's Denzo. And uh, if it's Toyota,
it's Denzo. So you know, you want to make sure
that you know, use a good quality part and save
yourself from having to do the job twice. So all right,
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again the number call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. That number again, five one three seven nine
fifty five hundred. Uh, I wanted to I had a gentleman.
I wanted to bring this up and I didn't argue
with him, but I tried to steer him in the
right direction. The gentleman brought his vehicle in for a
ninety five thousand mile service, which it really isn't much.
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It was just an oil change, and kind of checked
the car, over looked the car over and he goes, hey,
when did I have my oil change last? And I said,
what you Look, I go back in his history and
this oil was changed at ninety thousand, and he's ninety five,
so he's due.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And he goes, I want to bring it in.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
For a ninety five thousand miles service, but I don't
want to change the oil. And I said, is there
any particular reason why? He goes, well, i've been my
car says to change in every ten thousand, and I said, well,
that's I mean, that's what they that's what the dealer record,
that's what the vehicle recommends, but really you should be
changing every five thousand, and he goes, you know, so
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we we kind of went round around as to why
he wanted it done in ten and you know, all,
if that's what he wants, that's that's perfectly fine. But
I tried a little bit kind of course him into
like you really should be changing every five thousand miles,
especially if I mean he's bringing it in every five
thousand miles. I mean he was on top of his maintenance.
I checked his maintenance schedule. I mean everything he was
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doing was was right on time for maintenance. But he
only changes oil every ten thousand miles. And I tried to.
I tried, like heck to try to get him to
get his oil change, but he didn't want to do it.
So but again, we want to focus on the sticker
that's in your window. It's every five thousand miles. The
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oil should be changed every day. I have a car
in my shop that it's in there because it has
an oil problem either timing chain issues. John just called
about that very live timing celenoids those go bad because
of lack of oil pressure and time and time. Again,
it's a conversation that we need to have. And I
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know I talk about it a lot, but it's it's
just it's just something that we need to I need to.
I just feel like I need to pound it in
everybody's head that it's five thousand miles that we need
to be changing this oil. Okay, I recently again had
the opportunity to buy a new vehicle myself. And guess
what the truck tells me. I need to change oil
every seventy five hundred and ten thousand miles. You know
(28:05):
what I did at five thousand miles? I changed oil
that on that vehicle. Okay, and can the vehicles? And
I watched a great, great there's a there's a gentleman
that I follow on Instagram, and uh and I was
watching it before I came, before I came to the studio,
and he was talking about, you know, he had a
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Nissan sixty thousand miles, had one oil change in sixty
thousand miles. They pulled the valve covers off of the thing.
And there's just mud. It's just tar, it's just mud.
And uh man, it's the simplest and best thing that
you can do for your vehicle. And yet I do
believe that there's a lot of misleading and I think confusion, right,
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And so when there's confusion, everybody says, well, I'll just
I don't know, I'll just do every ten thousand or
I'll just do with the no. I'm telling you, five
thousand miles is when you spake you these cars aren't
getting any cheaper these things are, you know, fifty six
sixty seventy. I mean its one hundred thousand dollars for
a vehicle. And the single best thing and cheapest thing
that you can do to keep it on the road
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is to change the oil. And I just want everybody
to know that. I'm telling you, every five thousand miles
is when it needs to be done. I mean, my
father in law was talking to him last week when
I left the show. He had another basketball game and
he goes, hey, we were listening to your show, and
he goes, my mother in law was actually saying, hey, listen,
we just bought a new car and we're at like
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twenty five hundred miles, so we change it now. And
I said, no, change it at five thousand. Just stick
to five and you'll be fine. But far too often,
you know, he actually bought a Toyota and when he
took it in there, they gave him free oil change,
like three free oil changes. He took it in there
at five thousand miles and they're like, oh no, no, you
don't need an old change yet. So they wouldn't honor
the free oil change at five thousand, Like, no, you
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need to bring it back in ten thousand, which in
my opinion is wrong. If the customer, if you give
him three free oil changes and he wants to change
at five thousand, I that you should do it at
five thousand. So make sure, please. I just can't harp
it enough. Please every ten thousand, every five thousand miles,
it needs to be changed. I don't care what the
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book says, I don't care what the car salesman that
sold you the vehicle said. Look at that little sticker
in your window every five thousand miles and you will
get I guarantee you two hundred thousand miles out of
your vehicle. And so often that's not what we're seeing.
I mean, I've got a vehicle. I have a Mini
Cooper at my shop right now, eighty six thousand miles on.
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It won't run needs chains because there was no oil
in it and it stretched the chain jump time. And
so the gentleman was like, you know what, I'm not
gonna fix it. I mean, eighty six thousand miles. We
shouldn't be junking our cars at eighty six thousand miles.
And it all led to the fact that he wasn't
changing the oil or it was ran low on oil
multiple times which led to the demise of the chain
and him not fixing the car. So now he's got
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to go out and buy another, you know, fifty sixty
thousand dollars vehicle. So it's important and I can't stress
it enough. So you're listening to the Car Show on
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
You're listening to the Car Show on fifty five KRC.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and here
every Saturday to take your car question. So, uh, we're
going to run out of time, so we've got two
calls show. I want to get to the phones. Let's
go to Donnie A honey, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Hi, sir? I have an O seven Honda Odyssey approaching
two hundred and sixty nine thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Wow, good for you.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
When oh, she's a wonderful car man, she's been strong.
When it starts cold, I get a groaning noise out
of the engine bay that buries as I turned the
turn based steering wheel. Yes, I'm in my seventies on
fixed income, and I don't want to just throw parts
at it. So I wanted to if you could help
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me diagnose definitively that it's the power steering pump.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now, so here's here's what I want you to do.
I don't want you to replace the pump yet. There's
an inlet and an outlet O ring okay, so you've
got placer you replaced them.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Both, and a power steering hose already.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Okay, so you did the pressure hose and you did
both O rings and it's still growning. Yes, okay, is
it bubbling like when you started up? If you take
the cap off the reservoir is the the power steering.
Is the fluid bubbling up at all?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I haven't noticed that, so okay.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I know the fluid level it is fine.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, fluid levels fine.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And so typically when those O rings go bad, the
fluid itself will bubble up. But if you've replaced them
and the fluid itself is not bubbling up, and you've
replaced the pressure line in both.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
O rings, then uh, the only thing left is the pump.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's it. Okay. I've never seen a rack cause a
whining noise. I've seen a power steering rack, opinion cause
a stiffness in turning the wheel. But you're not experiencing that, correct,
You're just getting a grown When the car is warmed up,
does that groan come down a little bit or does
it stay the same it goes away? Okay? Yeah, so
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and here and so the pump's just probably so the
you know, when that fluid is cold, the viscosity, the
thickness of it is, it's a lot thicker, right, and
then once the car warmed up it's nice and hot,
that fluid gets thinner, so it's less for the pump
to have to pump that fluid. So it sounds like
you've covered all your bases. The only thing is it's
gonna need a pump.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Was one green friend of mine told me that there's
a filter at the bottom of the reservoir, and I
was winning with the second viscosity. If that could hinder
the flow of the fluid when it's cold.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Umm, you know, I'm sure it has a screen in it,
but I've never seen one cause a parasteerings, I've never
seen one. I've never replaced a reservoir on a Honda ever. Now,
just because I haven't seen it or I've never done it,
doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean you could probably
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take there if you wanted to. You can probably take
the reservoir out and clean that screen. You could try
that before you replace the pump. Okay, I mean has
the pump ever been replaced?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Uh? Well not since I've owned it. I'm the second owner.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, all right, I mean it's worth a shot.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, if you take to take the reservoir off
is going to take you know, fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
You know it's gonna make a mask.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
But you know, take the reservoir. You know, if you
could try to suck out as much of that fluid
as you could, take that reservoir out and try to
clean that screen at the bottom, you could try that.
It's worth a shot. And if it's if it doesn't change,
it's it's got to be the pump.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Okay, thanks so much, sir.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, take care, bye bye, All right, let's go
back to the phones. We've got Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh? Thank you, Dane.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I got a twenty eighteen Optima and every fill up
I have to put uh not a half a quarter in,
but a quarter of.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
A coort of oil.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Is I didn't know if they had a recall.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
On a loose consumption.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
If you got fifty thousand miles all that was one
hundred thousand wards.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, so I understand you got to throw a rod
or a main barry before they'll place that boat.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Wow, yeah, pretty much. I mean, so here's what I
want you to do. I want you to schedule it
with your local Kia dealer. And what I want you
to do when you schedule it, you say, hey, listen,
I would like to I'd like to schedule appointment for
an oil consumption test. Right. So what they'll do is
they'll go in, they'll change the oil, they cap off
the dipstick in the you know, the oil cap itself,
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and they'll do an oil consumption test, will tell you
to bring it back in one thousand miles, they'll reassess
it and whatnot. But it is I have been led
to believe that basically Hyundai and Kia, which pretty much
the same man in fact, there's same. Basically, they're not
doing anything until the thing locks up. And over the
summer I had one. I had a customer that had
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one locked up and he was number ninety eight in
line to get an engine replaced. Number ninety eight. I mean,
it's taken months and months to put an engine in
that car. I mean, but they're they're honoring it, they're
replacing them. But what I would say is get it
on the books, Go to the dealer. Get that way,
it's in your history that yes, you know you have
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an oil consumption issue. Get it on the books that yes,
you brought it into the dealer and basically it gives
you a little bit more leverage. So if you're you know,
I would, I would, you know, I would do it
several times, you know, over a course of a year
or two.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yeah, I have them tested each time or change your work.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yes, I need an oil consumption test done, and that
way it's on there. So if you ever do get
out of warranty and it locks up and they're like, hey,
you're out a warranty. Sorry, I can't do anything for you,
and say, hey, listen, I was here multiple times, yeah,
telling you, showing you that this thing is burning oil.
But I think I think it's I think it's up
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to one hundred and fifty thousand miles that they're covering
these engines, so oh really, I'm almost certain it's one
hundred and fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I love the car, I mean I love it.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Yeah, good on gas.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I mean that handles graded.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, it's a huge problem.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Actually I got two of them.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I got a two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah, I mean, oil consumption is a huge problem. That
kind of goes back to what I was talking about
getting the oil change regularly, because he's you know, if
you if your car. If your car is burning a
quart of oil every three thousand miles and you go
ten and these cars are only holding four courts by
the time you get in for an oil change. If
you even bring it in at ten and that twelve
or fifteen thousand miles, the cars don't have any oil
on them, and then a chain stretch and it causes
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massive It's a huge domino effect. So you know, I'm
not I'm not. I'm not paid by any oil companies.
I'm not, I'm not. You know, I'm just telling you
every single car that comes, just about every single car's
got an oil problem. It's because he sings are burning oil.
So yeah, get it, get it to the dealer and
do an oil consumption test. Okay, great, Great, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Listen to your show, all right, man, have.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
A great weekend. Appreciate the phone call. The moral of
the story. I'm gonna talk about it next Saturday and
the following Saturday and the following Saturday. Please, if you're
out there, you're listening to me. If you're driving a
vehicle five thousand miles on an oil change, that's it. Period.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
If anybody would love to call me and prove me wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Please feel free. You can't do it today, call me
next Saturday. But I'm telling you it's it's a huge problem,
and I want you to be aware that is important
and imperative that the oil gets changed every five thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Do that your car will last you three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So also again, if you know I am, we are
hiring technicians. If you know anybody, please send them my way.
You can go to Dane at Donovantire dot com or
call me at Donovan You go Donavtire dot com. I'm
at Donovan's Auto Forurn and give me a call. And
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love to hear from anybody that's looking for a technical
or technician looking for a job.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
So really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
So I will be back next Saturday to answer all
of your questions. And everybody tomorrow enjoy the Super Bowl.
We already know who's gonna win. But anyways, I'm not
even gonna get on that topic. But hey, everybody, have
a great and safe weekend. I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all of your car questions. I'm Dane Donovan
from Donovan's Auto Entire Center. You're listening to the car
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show on fifty five KRC, the talk station
Lissome Bay shutting down there and set food the lid
us down, DearS, I was telling it shit. Good Saturday afternoon.
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You're listening to the car show on fifty five Krosie.
I'm Dane Donovan, your host, taking your car question as
the number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred and again. Hope everybody enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend.
It's always nice to have a three day weekend. Leading
into the summer. And speaking of summer, we need to
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start talking about and getting our cars ready for the summer.
I actually, earlier this week already started air conditioning. We
need to start thinking about getting our cars ready for
the summer. We're getting road trips. I had several cars
this week that people were taking road trips, and luckily
they were.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know, getting them ready before they leave.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A lot of people tend to wait till the last minute,
and we can't always get those cars in. So now,
if you're taking a road trip, most of us don't
plan a summer vacation days in advance.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We you know, we do it weeks or months in advance,
So now's the time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
If you're taking your vehicle out, you need to start
thinking about getting it ready. Most of you who are
listening right now are probably in your cars and although
it's not too hot right now, turn on the air conditioning.
Just make sure it's working. Were again, we already had
several vehicles this week that we are already doing air
conditioning work on. And yes it is expensive, and we've
(01:43):
talked about that on the show. Air conditioning is one
of those components and that it's not just one unit.
You know, you have an AC compressor, you have an
AC condenser, you have an AC evaporator, and then you
have lines, right. So a lot of times people have
the misconception or the misunderstanding that if you have an
AC compressor replaced, that we've fixed the air conditioning. Yes,
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we have to an extent, but there are other components
that can fail, and sometimes people don't know that. So
a lot of times if we if we've replaced an
AC compressor, in the next summer, it's not working again,
they're like, hey, you fixed my air conditioning last week
last year, and now it's not working again, And come
to find out there's another component that's failed. So make
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sure that when you're getting that car ready for your
road trip again, turn right now, if you're in your vehicle,
turn it air condition on, whether it's hot or not.
I know it's not ninety degrees right now. We're gonna
you know, we're going to be there very soon. You
know how sinceinni weather is, you wait ten minutes and
it'll change. It might be you know, it rained most
of the week this week, but you need to turn
(02:52):
it on. If it's ice cold, great, If not, we
need to start talking about getting that car ready for
that for that road trip on. Fortunately, I had two
young people and come into my shop on Thursday. They
were staying and they were in the at Mammoth Cave
and they just so happened to be crossing the river.
And as soon as they crossed that river, their transmission
(03:13):
unfortunately went out. And I felt so bad for him
because they were on their way to They're like, oh,
we're on our way back to Columbus, and I said, oh,
I was in Columbus earlier this week, and I said,
I was at the Memorial Golf tournament. So and they
goes and they had mentioned to me, well, that's where
we're heading So I felt so bad for him because
they were stranded in Cincinnati. Now again he was like, well,
(03:36):
how does this happen? And it's like, well, you know,
now the vehicle was a twenty sixteen four escape and
it had one hundred and eighty thousand miles on it.
These things can't happen. But unfortunately they were at my
shop for almost six hours waiting for a ride, so
you know, they're straining. They had nothing to do, so
I did the best I could to try to entertain them.
(03:57):
Get them drinks, get them coffee, and get them phone
chargers because they were on their phones. But nobody wants
to be in that position where you're traveling and you're
straineded somewhere right. So again I had a young lady
that was getting her car worked on. She was heading
to New York and I think in late June, and
(04:18):
she took the proper steps to get the car in
and get it looked at, so she's ready to go
for that trip. And come to find out, she came
in from a world change and just said, hey, make
sure it doesn't need any other maintenance. We'll come to
find out she needed all four breaks. Now had she
taken that road trip and not had those breaks inspected,
she probably wouldn't have made it because her brakes were
(04:38):
so close. So again, we all we need to make
sure that we're planning for our road trips. Again, I
hope everybody has a safe summer. It's gonna get hot,
you know how it is. Last week I was in Texas.
It was ninety eight degrees. It was extremely hot, and
you know, you know in Cincinnati some days it gets
that hot and ill. A lot of times we want
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to take at Donovan's. We want to take care of
everybody's car. We really do as best that we can.
But what happens is that first real hotstrik that we
get the nineties, the early nineties, mid nineties, everybody wants
to schedule their appointment. Everybody wants to get their car
because they're like, we need our air conditioning fixed. It's
too hot. And I get that, and again, I want
to get to everybody's car, but unfortunately, when I have
(05:23):
a massive influx of people that all want to get
their car in, we can't always get to it, and
then it becomes a crisis. And then you go, well,
I'll just go somewhere else and I don't want to
do that to my customers. I want to take care
of all my customers. So again, if you've got a
road trip coming up, we need to get these cars in.
We need to get them inspected. Again. Tires too, Tires
are important. Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Make
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sure your fluids are full, coolant, air conditioning, break fluid.
Making sure again we're up to data on oil changes.
I talk about this all the time on the show.
Making sure that these cars have the proper oil level
in them. That's so important and yet and it's the
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easiest thing that you can do for your car, especially
on a long road trip.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So you know, get them in, get them.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Inspected, to make sure that your car is ready for
that summer road trip. Okay, I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
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(07:00):
Taking your car questions again the number to call five
one three seven nine fifty five. Again, we were talking
earlier about making sure we get our cars ready for
the summer. We talk about this, I talk about this
when we go we're going into the winter, We're gonna
talk about this. This the the extreme heat really takes
a toll on your vehicle, Okay, takes a toll on
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your starters, takes a toll on your back, on your alternators,
and on your batteries as well. And again, a lot
of times batteries don't always give you signs that they're
gonna fail. They can literally shut you can You could
be traveling, go to shut your car off at a
gas station.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You're in the middle of wherever on your road trip.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And all of a sudden, you know, click click click,
car won't start. I was getting gased just last week,
gentlemen was getting gas and two and and they popped
the hood to see what's going on. Because I said,
what's going on, They're like, well, it's not doing anything.
The car won't start. And I assisted him. Now, unfortunately
(08:02):
I did not have any jumper cables, but I was
able to express to them, Hey, look you have a
battery issue. You need a battery. You can be jumped.
I said, I don't have any jumper cables. They didn't
have any jumper cables. So, you know, that's that's the
other thing that you need to think about when you're
taking these long road trips. You know a lot of
times you can buy an emergency roadside kit and it's
(08:23):
something that you should always keep in your vehicle, and
you know, jumper cables, gloves, oil, coolant, water, just the
essentials just in case. You know, pair of plier, is
a screwdriver, something, just in case if this does happen,
you're able to make sure that at least you have
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some essentials, right, maybe pack some food. I know we
went to like I said. We were in Columbus earlier
this week for the Memorial Golf tournament, and I was
able to take my wife and two older boys. And
you know, we had plenty of food because we can't
leave the house without food. I wasn't going to Chick
fil A, you know, it's just it's just too much.
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So but we had our snacks packed and we had
everything ready to go.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Just in case there was an issue or a problem.
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I know we get lacks of days ago where we
get so worried and so worried about prepping to make
sure that we can get to our destination with all
our food, our you know, our clothes, and you know,
maybe you know your ten or your hammock or whatever
you plan on doing this summer, But make sure you
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think about, Hey, if the car doesn't start, if the
battery dies, or the vehicle overheats, what's our plan of action?
What are we going to do in case this happens?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Making sure our phones are fully charged. I made the
mistake again. I was in Texas last week and my
wife even specifically said, hey, do you have your phone charger?
And I said, yes, I do, but I didn't. I
thought I packed it. I was almost certain I packed it.
And I got to my destination in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And my phone was almost dead.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now it was fully charged when I left, but I
was on it while we were in transit, and so
I just decided I was going to buy a phone
cord to charge my phone and lo and behold. In
that process, I unfortunately left my luggage in the airport
and had to go back through TSA in order to
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get my luggage right.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So I didn't plan properly.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So these are things as again we're hitting the road
Memorial Day again at the unofficial start of summer. We
want to make sure that any road trips we take
whether again like the couple that was in my shop earlier.
You know, they were traveling from the Mammoth Cave to Columbus,
not too far, but they didn't have any they didn't
have a they didn't have any plans, so they were
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stuck at my shop for six hours. So it's something
that we need to think about when we prepped. When
we're talking about traveling, we need to make sure that
the car is ready to go. Now, make sure you
give yourself enough time to get it in and get
it inspected. And again, in the case of the young
lady that brought her car and that was going to
Texas or I'm sorry, New York, she brought her car
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in and she had four weeks before she needed to
leave town. And again she needed all four breaks. So
we're able to get her home, get her car fixed,
and now she knows that, you know, her car is
taken care of, so when she gets to New York,
she's not gonna have any issues at least with her car.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So again, those.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Number, those those those are the important things when we're traveling,
So always keep that in mind. Get yourself a little
emergency A lot of stores combine. I mean, I'm sure
you can go on Amazon or your local store and
you can find a roadside emergency kit. Make sure that
when you're traveling, you got a flash sight, you've got
jumper cables, because you just never know when car problems
(11:54):
will happen. And I expressed to this young couple when
they were traveling, I said, look, you just you never
know what's gonna happen, so you always just be prepared.
So that's the thing that we need to think about
going into this summer season. Right, it's the unofficial start
to summer, and we want to make sure that our
cars are ready for any road trip. Or again, maybe
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you're maybe you're not traveling, and it's just making sure
that you get you can get yourself back and forth
to work. Right. Sometimes we get stranded on the highway
because not because our cars broke down, but but somebody
else had a car accident, and you know, making sure
that the car has enough gas in it. I know
my wife likes to run on fumes. She for some
(12:37):
reason just refuses to put gas in her car. That's
why I will never buy her and electric car because
her phone is always on ten percent or less. So
I don't want to give her a car that she
has to charge because I'm gonna have to pick her up.
So but so let's go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Hey, good afternoon. Yeah, I spoke to you a couple
of weeks ago about my wife's twenty eighteen vall ball
with the Stott stop issue. Oh yeah, yeah, and you
told me to give you a call back this maybe
you did some research.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, correct me. If I'm wrong. You did the auxiliary
battery and the main battery. You did both batteries correct.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Correct, And I just did a voltage check the concept
for two days, and the main battery had twelve point
five two volts, the auxiliary had twelve point ninety five volts.
And then when I started up, the main battery jumps
to fifteen point one seven volts and the auxiliary jumped
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to fifteen point two two votes while it was running
still having the issue.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, I did do some research. I did do some
looking and digging, and I I did not find anything
that was alarming or glaring or anything that I could
pinpoint put my finger on. I'm wondering if at I think,
I'm sure you were trying to avoid this. You haven't
taken it anywhere, correct, No, I have not my opinion
(14:04):
and thought process. I mean, like I said, I didn't
see anything glaring, Nothing popped out in front of me.
I'm wondering if it's just a software glitch or a
software update or issue. A lot of times there might
just be a software update to try to get that
to work. Have you tried the other thing that we
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can try to do is disconnect the main battery and
put both battery cable ends, disconnecting them, holding them together
for about a minute. What this does is it's kind
of like a hard reset. Right, if your cell phone's
acting up, you turn it off, right. If you know,
if your computer's acting up, you turn off to a restart.
(14:46):
So by taking both battery cable ends off on the
main battery, holding them together a lot of times that
will Basically it's a hard restart for the car. You
can try that. If the start stop features still is
not work working, it's probably a software issue that is
only unfortunately, gonna have to go back.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
To the dealer.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Okay, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Try it. Let me know.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Thank you and congratulations on your reward. O.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Have a great week too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Take care, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I don't know. I don't know what it is, but
I get a ton of callers from Boston, Ton at
least one or two a week, and I've been to Boston.
Wants beautiful city to love it. Told my wife I
was gonna take her up there one time. One of
these days. We're lucky if we can even go out
to go out to dinner. So we've got just sports
(15:41):
on top of sports on top of sports, and I'm
leaving here, going to two more games, and we actually
are going to try to do a movie tonight, but
we'll see how that works out. So all right again,
I'm taking your phone calls and number call five one
three seven That number again, five one three seven four
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Phone lines are wide open, promised to get you in here.
I wanted to talk about Eddie who just called from Boston.
(16:44):
You know, he's got this the software issue, and more
and more every day we see things like this with
these new cars and the software issues, and it is
challenging in our industry because for a shop like us,
it's so expensive to have everybody's software. Mercedes, you got
(17:07):
to have different software, BMW, Jaguar, Land River, I mean,
they're all different softwares and it's really really difficult to
have all of them right. So you got to make
sure that you know, you're taking it to a reputable
shop and you know, making sure that they have the
equipment and the tools to do that. Now, there are
some times where we might not right, and the best
(17:31):
thing to do is and is just say hey, listen,
you know I don't have the software or I might
not have the proper tool to do this.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Mainly it's just software.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean, anything that pertains to you know, the breaks,
the tires of the engine and everything like that's fine.
But you know, we get a lot of phone calls
about people wanting us to you know, hey, do you
program keys. I need a new key, you need a
new ignition key. And that is like that's like Fort Knox.
I mean really, the dealerships have that market wandered pretty well.
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And I mean I remember heck, when I first started driving,
you would have two sets of keys or two keys.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You'd have one for the ignition, one for the door.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know. Now nowadays you don't even have to take
your key out of your pocket, which my wife never
ever loses her car keys anymore because she never takes
them out of her purse. So it's kind of there
is a good feature, but it's it's it's funny. A
lot of people come in that are dropping their car
off and they're wanting to uh, I'm like, all right,
can I have your key?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And they're like, oh yeah, and they're just like just digging.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Digging through that purse to try to find that key
because they just don't take it out. But you know,
the software and that's why sometimes you want to make
sure that you're taking it your your vehicle to you know,
a reputable shop that can do these updates. And like
I said, most vehicles, we can all your your hond As,
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your Toyotas, your Ford's, your GMS, we can do BMW.
But you know, sometimes the land Rover Range Rover Mercedes.
Uh sometimes those they they don't release that software and
it's uh, you know, it's hard to it's hard to
do that. So you know, you just want to make
sure that you're getting it to a to another great shop.
So all right, we've got John. Hey, John, welcome to
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the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yes, I just wanted to. I called last week about
my Cobalt and you told me to get a c
Delco cam sensor.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, THEID yep.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I replaced replaced the one and kept kept one
old old one and replaced the one that's harder to
get to, which is in the back, and uh clear
to clear the codes and then started up and no
check in and light came back. So that worked really
ac Delcos yep. Because I had you used a uh
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different company that read codes for you, and you bought
it from there and they didn't work.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, well I'm glad. So so you put the two
ac Delco sensors in it and light didn't come back.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
On and it's been good ever since.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Great.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Great, that's awesome. Thanks for the follow up. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, yeah, I know, next time if it's anything electronic wise.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, it's you know, and I've said I've said it
a million times on the show, but look, if you're
doing the work yourself, just spend the extra money and
buy the factory part. I know it's more, but really,
when it comes to something like this, right, it was
able to fix your problem, right, A lot of people
will be racking their brains like, oh, maybe I need
a computer. Maybe it's the wiring. No, it was just
(20:40):
the aftermarket sensors just you know, weren't working, you know,
and I'm not you know, we put aftermarket parts on cars.
It's it's but it depends on what you're doing, right,
If you want to put after market brakes or an
alternator starter, I'm okay with that, right, But when you
get into the electronics of the vehicle, especially timing parts,
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you really want to stick to the original you know,
the OEM manufacturer, just because they're really really finicky and
you've got to put the factory part in otherwise, you know.
So well, good, I'm glad you called. I appreciate the
follow up. And yeah, electrical parts, especially when it comes
to timing stuff or also mass airflow sensors, that is
(21:24):
the biggest racket out there. Uh, mass mass airflow sensors
will fail all the time, and oxygen sensors, and people
put after market ones in and then they have the
same code and they're like, well that obviously wasn't the
problem and just the aftermarket ones just aren't good quality.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So yeah, yeah, and one thing that made me do
is go ahead and get me a code reader for
myself and that and that and ma and I bought
one at it and you actually do live data with
it too, so that yeah, I figure that that'll be
more of a beneficial and I can do it like
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seller and someone else will read.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It well absolutely, and then and then you can see too,
you know, if you've got a misfire or whatnot. I
will read active missfires, do you know. I believe that
it will okay, because a lot of yeah, you'll get
a check.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Actually you can actually record it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Too, okay, Oh wow, okay, man, they're getting they're getting
sophisticated nowadays.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, what's uh, you know via one thousand I think
it was that I got.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Okay, Yeah, I mean when you when you get one
that can record live data, that's really helpful because a
lot of times if you've got a vehicle that's you know,
V six or V eight and it's missfiring, right, And
sometimes these cars will just flag a PO three hundred,
which is a random cylinder misfire, and you're like, well,
which one's missfiring.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's not flagging that particular cylinder.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So if you can watch the live the live stream
and watch the dad and you and you can watch
which cylinder is misfiring or how many times it's misfired,
allows you to pinpoint exactly which cylinder is your problem,
so you're not having to do you know, a major
major tune up, you know, replacing all the spark plugs
and all the coils, which can cost a lot of money.
(23:07):
So yeah, yeah, I think it'd be worth the investment.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
YEP.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I do appreciate your Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know, hey, I appreciate the follow up and uh yeah,
so well, thank you so much. Good luck to you.
If you need anything else, you give me a call.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Uh that's always good news to hear. Uh. You know
sometimes I sometimes I guess right now, that's the thing
we've talked. I've talked about this on the show. Look,
if you're doing the work yourself. And I'm never will
I ever talk anybody out of doing the work themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You're saving yourself a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's and that's what the show's about is I'm here
to help you out in any way, shape or form
that I can. And the gentleman called last week said, hey,
I've got these codes. I put in the sensors and
I still have the same codes. And I told John,
I said, look, put in an ac Delco sensor. Put
in the factory part. Are they more sure? But in
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this case, you never, especially with timing parts. You really
don't want to do aftermarket. You want to just do factory.
And the sensors aren't much. The sensors, I think they're
around like seventy six bucks. Apieces too of them. There's
an intake and exhaust. There's seventy six bucks. Can you
buy some on eBay for I'm sorry, Amazon, for twenty bucks. Yeah,
but you know this gentleman had to do the job
(24:31):
twice because he bought a cheaper part. So you want
to be careful, especially in aftermarket. And again we use
aftermarket parts. I'm not knocking them, but you need to
be You need to make sure that you do your homework,
and especially if you're doing it yourself, spend the money
on the on the good part. If you're doing after
if you're again, if you're doing a starter, alternator, breaks,
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wiper blades.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You know, something like that you can do after market.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That'd be fine, you know, but when you get into
the electronics modules and sensors mass airflow sensor, oxygen sensor,
you know what's the what John was talking was VVT sylenoids,
things like that. You really want to stick the original
equipment manufacturer. Okay, and uh, you know, if it's a
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it's a it's If it's a GM product, it's a
c Delco, it's a Ford product, it's Motorcraft. If it's
a Honda, it's it's Denzo. And uh, if it's Toyota,
it's Denzo. So you know, you want to make sure
that you know, use a good quality part and save
yourself from having to do the job twice. So all right,
(25:37):
again the number call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. That number again, five one three seven nine
fifty five hundred. Uh, I wanted to I had a gentleman.
I wanted to bring this up and I didn't argue
with him, but I tried to steer him in the
right direction. The gentleman brought his vehicle in for a
ninety five thousand mile service, which it really isn't much.
(26:00):
It was just an oil change, and kind of checked
the car, over looked the car over and he goes, hey,
when did I have my oil change last? And I said,
what you Look, I go back in his history and
this oil was changed at ninety thousand, and he's ninety five,
so he's due.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And he goes, I want to bring it in.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
For a ninety five thousand miles service, but I don't
want to change the oil. And I said, is there
any particular reason why? He goes, well, i've been my
car says to change in every ten thousand, and I said, well,
that's I mean, that's what they that's what the dealer record,
that's what the vehicle recommends, but really you should be
changing every five thousand, and he goes, you know, so
(26:39):
we we kind of went round around as to why
he wanted it done in ten and you know, all,
if that's what he wants, that's that's perfectly fine. But
I tried a little bit kind of course him into
like you really should be changing every five thousand miles,
especially if I mean he's bringing it in every five
thousand miles. I mean he was on top of his maintenance.
I checked his maintenance schedule. I mean everything he was
(27:00):
doing was was right on time for maintenance. But he
only changes oil every ten thousand miles. And I tried to.
I tried, like heck to try to get him to
get his oil change, but he didn't want to do it.
So but again, we want to focus on the sticker
that's in your window. It's every five thousand miles. The
(27:22):
oil should be changed every day. I have a car
in my shop that it's in there because it has
an oil problem either timing chain issues. John just called
about that very live timing celenoids those go bad because
of lack of oil pressure and time and time. Again,
it's a conversation that we need to have. And I
(27:43):
know I talk about it a lot, but it's it's
just it's just something that we need to I need to.
I just feel like I need to pound it in
everybody's head that it's five thousand miles that we need
to be changing this oil. Okay, I recently again had
the opportunity to buy a new vehicle myself. And guess
what the truck tells me. I need to change oil
every seventy five hundred and ten thousand miles. You know
(28:05):
what I did at five thousand miles? I changed oil
that on that vehicle. Okay, and can the vehicles? And
I watched a great, great there's a there's a gentleman
that I follow on Instagram, and uh and I was
watching it before I came, before I came to the studio,
and he was talking about, you know, he had a
(28:25):
Nissan sixty thousand miles, had one oil change in sixty
thousand miles. They pulled the valve covers off of the thing.
And there's just mud. It's just tar, it's just mud.
And uh man, it's the simplest and best thing that
you can do for your vehicle. And yet I do
believe that there's a lot of misleading and I think confusion, right,
(28:46):
And so when there's confusion, everybody says, well, I'll just
I don't know, I'll just do every ten thousand or
I'll just do with the no. I'm telling you, five
thousand miles is when you spake you these cars aren't
getting any cheaper these things are, you know, fifty six
sixty seventy. I mean its one hundred thousand dollars for
a vehicle. And the single best thing and cheapest thing
that you can do to keep it on the road
(29:07):
is to change the oil. And I just want everybody
to know that. I'm telling you, every five thousand miles
is when it needs to be done. I mean, my
father in law was talking to him last week when
I left the show. He had another basketball game and
he goes, hey, we were listening to your show, and
he goes, my mother in law was actually saying, hey, listen,
we just bought a new car and we're at like
(29:30):
twenty five hundred miles, so we change it now. And
I said, no, change it at five thousand. Just stick
to five and you'll be fine. But far too often,
you know, he actually bought a Toyota and when he
took it in there, they gave him free oil change,
like three free oil changes. He took it in there
at five thousand miles and they're like, oh no, no, you
don't need an old change yet. So they wouldn't honor
the free oil change at five thousand, Like, no, you
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need to bring it back in ten thousand, which in
my opinion is wrong. If the customer, if you give
him three free oil changes and he wants to change
at five thousand, I that you should do it at
five thousand. So make sure, please. I just can't harp
it enough. Please every ten thousand, every five thousand miles,
it needs to be changed. I don't care what the
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book says, I don't care what the car salesman that
sold you the vehicle said. Look at that little sticker
in your window every five thousand miles and you will
get I guarantee you two hundred thousand miles out of
your vehicle. And so often that's not what we're seeing.
I mean, I've got a vehicle. I have a Mini
Cooper at my shop right now, eighty six thousand miles on.
(30:32):
It won't run needs chains because there was no oil
in it and it stretched the chain jump time. And
so the gentleman was like, you know what, I'm not
gonna fix it. I mean, eighty six thousand miles. We
shouldn't be junking our cars at eighty six thousand miles.
And it all led to the fact that he wasn't
changing the oil or it was ran low on oil
multiple times which led to the demise of the chain
and him not fixing the car. So now he's got
(30:53):
to go out and buy another, you know, fifty sixty
thousand dollars vehicle. So it's important and I can't stress
it enough. So you're listening to the Car Show on
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
You're listening to the Car Show on fifty five KRC.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and here
every Saturday to take your car question. So, uh, we're
going to run out of time, so we've got two
calls show. I want to get to the phones. Let's
go to Donnie A honey, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Hi, sir? I have an O seven Honda Odyssey approaching
two hundred and sixty nine thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Wow, good for you.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
When oh, she's a wonderful car man, she's been strong.
When it starts cold, I get a groaning noise out
of the engine bay that buries as I turned the
turn based steering wheel. Yes, I'm in my seventies on
fixed income, and I don't want to just throw parts
at it. So I wanted to if you could help
(32:29):
me diagnose definitively that it's the power steering pump.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Now, so here's here's what I want you to do.
I don't want you to replace the pump yet. There's
an inlet and an outlet O ring okay, so you've
got placer you replaced them.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Both, and a power steering hose already.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Okay, so you did the pressure hose and you did
both O rings and it's still growning. Yes, okay, is
it bubbling like when you started up? If you take
the cap off the reservoir is the the power steering.
Is the fluid bubbling up at all?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I haven't noticed that, so okay.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I know the fluid level it is fine.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, fluid levels fine.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And so typically when those O rings go bad, the
fluid itself will bubble up. But if you've replaced them
and the fluid itself is not bubbling up, and you've
replaced the pressure line in both.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
O rings, then uh, the only thing left is the pump.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's it. Okay. I've never seen a rack cause a
whining noise. I've seen a power steering rack, opinion cause
a stiffness in turning the wheel. But you're not experiencing that, correct,
You're just getting a grown When the car is warmed up,
does that groan come down a little bit or does
it stay the same it goes away? Okay? Yeah, so
(33:49):
and here and so the pump's just probably so the
you know, when that fluid is cold, the viscosity, the
thickness of it is, it's a lot thicker, right, and
then once the car warmed up it's nice and hot,
that fluid gets thinner, so it's less for the pump
to have to pump that fluid. So it sounds like
you've covered all your bases. The only thing is it's
gonna need a pump.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Was one green friend of mine told me that there's
a filter at the bottom of the reservoir, and I
was winning with the second viscosity. If that could hinder
the flow of the fluid when it's cold.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Umm, you know, I'm sure it has a screen in it,
but I've never seen one cause a parasteerings, I've never
seen one. I've never replaced a reservoir on a Honda ever. Now,
just because I haven't seen it or I've never done it,
doesn't mean it can't happen. I mean you could probably
(34:45):
take there if you wanted to. You can probably take
the reservoir out and clean that screen. You could try
that before you replace the pump. Okay, I mean has
the pump ever been replaced?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Uh? Well not since I've owned it. I'm the second owner.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Okay, all right, I mean it's worth a shot.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, if you take to take the reservoir off
is going to take you know, fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
You know it's gonna make a mask.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
But you know, take the reservoir. You know, if you
could try to suck out as much of that fluid
as you could, take that reservoir out and try to
clean that screen at the bottom, you could try that.
It's worth a shot. And if it's if it doesn't change,
it's it's got to be the pump.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Okay, thanks so much, sir.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
All right, take care, bye bye, All right, let's go
back to the phones. We've got Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh? Thank you, Dane.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I got a twenty eighteen Optima and every fill up
I have to put uh not a half a quarter in,
but a quarter of.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
A coort of oil.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Is I didn't know if they had a recall.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
On a loose consumption.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
If you got fifty thousand miles all that was one
hundred thousand wards.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yes, so I understand you got to throw a rod
or a main barry before they'll place that boat.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Wow, yeah, pretty much. I mean, so here's what I
want you to do. I want you to schedule it
with your local Kia dealer. And what I want you
to do when you schedule it, you say, hey, listen,
I would like to I'd like to schedule appointment for
an oil consumption test. Right. So what they'll do is
they'll go in, they'll change the oil, they cap off
the dipstick in the you know, the oil cap itself,
(36:24):
and they'll do an oil consumption test, will tell you
to bring it back in one thousand miles, they'll reassess
it and whatnot. But it is I have been led
to believe that basically Hyundai and Kia, which pretty much
the same man in fact, there's same. Basically, they're not
doing anything until the thing locks up. And over the
summer I had one. I had a customer that had
(36:45):
one locked up and he was number ninety eight in
line to get an engine replaced. Number ninety eight. I mean,
it's taken months and months to put an engine in
that car. I mean, but they're they're honoring it, they're
replacing them. But what I would say is get it
on the books, Go to the dealer. Get that way,
it's in your history that yes, you know you have
(37:08):
an oil consumption issue. Get it on the books that yes,
you brought it into the dealer and basically it gives
you a little bit more leverage. So if you're you know,
I would, I would, you know, I would do it
several times, you know, over a course of a year
or two.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yeah, I have them tested each time or change your work.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yes, I need an oil consumption test done, and that
way it's on there. So if you ever do get
out of warranty and it locks up and they're like, hey,
you're out a warranty. Sorry, I can't do anything for you,
and say, hey, listen, I was here multiple times, yeah,
telling you, showing you that this thing is burning oil.
But I think I think it's I think it's up
(37:49):
to one hundred and fifty thousand miles that they're covering
these engines, so oh really, I'm almost certain it's one
hundred and fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I love the car, I mean I love it.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Yeah, good on gas.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I mean that handles graded.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, it's a huge problem.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Actually I got two of them.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I got a two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah, I mean, oil consumption is a huge problem. That
kind of goes back to what I was talking about
getting the oil change regularly, because he's you know, if
you if your car. If your car is burning a
quart of oil every three thousand miles and you go
ten and these cars are only holding four courts by
the time you get in for an oil change. If
you even bring it in at ten and that twelve
or fifteen thousand miles, the cars don't have any oil
on them, and then a chain stretch and it causes
(38:33):
massive It's a huge domino effect. So you know, I'm
not I'm not. I'm not paid by any oil companies.
I'm not, I'm not. You know, I'm just telling you
every single car that comes, just about every single car's
got an oil problem. It's because he sings are burning oil.
So yeah, get it, get it to the dealer and
do an oil consumption test. Okay, great, Great, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Listen to your show, all right, man, have.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
A great weekend. Appreciate the phone call. The moral of
the story. I'm gonna talk about it next Saturday and
the following Saturday and the following Saturday. Please, if you're
out there, you're listening to me. If you're driving a
vehicle five thousand miles on an oil change, that's it. Period.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
If anybody would love to call me and prove me wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Please feel free. You can't do it today, call me
next Saturday. But I'm telling you it's it's a huge problem,
and I want you to be aware that is important
and imperative that the oil gets changed every five thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Do that your car will last you three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So also again, if you know I am, we are
hiring technicians. If you know anybody, please send them my way.
You can go to Dane at Donovantire dot com or
call me at Donovan You go Donavtire dot com. I'm
at Donovan's Auto Forurn and give me a call. And
(39:55):
love to hear from anybody that's looking for a technical
or technician looking for a job.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
So really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
So I will be back next Saturday to answer all
of your questions. And everybody tomorrow enjoy the Super Bowl.
We already know who's gonna win. But anyways, I'm not
even gonna get on that topic. But hey, everybody, have
a great and safe weekend. I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all of your car questions. I'm Dane Donovan
from Donovan's Auto Entire Center. You're listening to the car
(40:21):
show on fifty five KRC, the talk station
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