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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking if
you don't stop driving out hot rod.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Lincoln Revere's rocking all the lady pretty easy down the
road at Gold Just.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Keep chat in.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC, the talk station. I'm Dame Donovan taking all
of your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven fifty five hundred. That number again, five one
three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And uh, yes I am in studio.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I told my producer Danny that I almost forgot how
to get here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I do apologize.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It has just been a very busy summer and uh,
my my oldest son, Aidan, had a couple of tournaments
that we're out of town and uh, and then last
week we are at a fundraiser, uh which Donovan supports.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're one of the presenting sponsors.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And UH for those of you who who may or
may not know, you know, my youngest was diagnosed with
cancer when he was two and a half. And there
was a golf tournament on the west side of town
and uh, they Declan was a recipient of it. And
I told her name's Julie caught out she runs it
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and great, great event and it raises money for those
who are going through cancer, and and.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Man, what a great event. So I promised that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So Declan was a recipient, and uh you know, helped
raise a lot of money for us help with medical
bills and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And I was.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Forever grateful, and I told Julie that I would give
back every year as long as I could. So that's
where I was last Saturday, and uh, man, it was
a great event. Our team came in second place. We
almost want it. And the winners though they did have
a hole in one, so it's really hard to beat.
(02:09):
You know that those are rare, so congratulations to them.
But anyways, I'm here, love to hear from you again.
The number to call five one, three, five hundred. We
are in the thick of it. As far as traveling
in heat, I'm sure of those those of you who
don't have air conditioning probably feeling the heat, no pun intended.
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And and again trips I have had. Unfortunately, I just
had a customer not too long ago. They were on
a trip from they went to Mammoth Cave I believe
lived in Columbus and they just they they were passing
through downtown Cincinnati car broke down. Unfortunately it was the transmission.
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They were stranded there for pretty much the entire day.
Their dad was coming to pick them up. But you know, now,
mind you, sometimes these things are Sometimes they happen and
there's nothing that you can do, but heck if you
can prevent it. Right, we're still in the middle of summer.
I know some schools are starting back in a couple
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of weeks. It sounds crazy, and again maybe some of
those some of the some of some of you guys
out there with children who are going back to school,
going back to college. If you're thinking about if they're
driving back, you need to start thinking about getting the
car in now, getting inspected, getting it ready to go
back to school. I hate to say it, but it's
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rapidly approaching us. Right for those of you who have
air conditioning issues, of course that you already knew that
months ago, and you're either suffering through it, which kudos
to you. I don't think I could do it. Some
people just go, you know what, I'll just deal with it.
I'll roll the windows down, which is perfectly fine, because
sometimes they just don't want to put the money into it,
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and uh, it's it can be so over overwhelming and
expensive and uh, but it's something that we have to,
you know, we have to. It's one of those things
that we either fix it or deal with it. So again,
taking your phone calls, and I'm recall five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred. I want to talk about
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something and for those of you out there, I want
you to know this because ever since the pandemic, we
have really not recovered from being able to get parts.
I mean, I'm telling you what I know that the
pandemic caused all kinds of issues. Uh, people not wanting
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to work and people not wanting to do anything pretty much.
But and it's not it's not the tariffs. Okay, it
does have effect on it. Again, I talked about it
not too long. I was on the news about it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It has.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It has an effect on the automotive industry. However, we
have never recovered after the pandemic, and it is harder
and harder to get parts. And these manufacturers and aftermarket
companies are not making parts as long as they used to.
And I have a twenty twenty Ford and I'm not
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picking on Ford. I love Fords, but I'm I was
kind of upset with them earlier this week. Twenty twenty Ford. Okay,
this thing has fifty thousand miles on it. Twenty twenty Ford.
The Ford flex of the Flea exhaust flex pipe rusted off.
This car's five years old.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You would see this maybe on a car that's fifteen
years old, ten years old, not five.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This car has five.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Years on it. Okay, fifty thousand miles, five years old.
Flex pipe breaks. It's part of the exhaust manifold, okay,
which the converter's built into.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Not too terribly expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The part was fairly inexpensive, which I it was around
I think six hundred and seventy five dollars, which I
know that's a lot of money, but I mean I've
seen Toyota converters cost two three thousand dollars easily, so
six hundred dollars is pretty reasonable for a catalytic converter. However,
you need to replace the manifold gasket, and then there's
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a clamp that was completely rusted as well.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We need to replace that clamp.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So we ordered everything and the dealership send it to us,
and but they called back and said Hey, listen, we
can't sell you this exhaust clamp. This is not you
would sit there and go, oh, Dan, we can just
go down the street. No, this is a it's a
clamp that was designed for this exact exhaust system. You
can't just go down to you know, a parts place
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and get this clamp. Okay, it was a special exhaust
clamp designed for this car, for this exhaust. That's how
you know. It used to be all universal. It's not anymore.
Every year make model car has a different you know,
break caliper or break hose or it's it's a headache.
It's a nonsense. But anyways, so here we are, we've
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got everything ordered, and they called me back, said, Dame,
we can't sell you the exhaust clamp. This is under
a there's a recall on this engine and this clamp
is part of that recall. So Ford won't want to
sell it to you. This is an eleven dollars exhaust clamp.
So now this young lady who brought her car to
me because the exhaust is loud and she needs to
get down to again Mammoth Cave, and I can't get
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a car back to her because of an eleven dollars
exhaust clamp because Ford won't sell it. They've got it
locked up in this recall. So basically they're kind of
hording them. So take care of the recalls on these vehicles.
And meanwhile, this poor girl doesn't have her car and
can't get her car back because I can't get it
eleven dollars exhaust clamp because Ford won't sell it to me.
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Now they would, they'd have to get it from a
different depot and I'd have to wait a couple of days,
and you know, but she was already leaving town, you know,
and I'm like, I cannot believe we that we're in this. So,
you know, it's it's unbelievable how difficult it is to
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get parts anymore. So when you're taking your vehicle to
a repair shop and they're like, hey, we can't get
the parts, we can't find the parts, believe them when
they say that, because I'm telling you, it gets every
single day it gets harder and harder to get parts.
And again, this is I mean again, could you probably
find it on eBay or you know, on online maybe,
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but I needed it that day. And every dealership in
the city is Greater Cincinnati area had one, but they're
not allowed to sell them, and so I was I
was frustrated over that because you know this, this young
lady can't go to on her trip because I can't
get her car done because of an eleven dollars exhaust
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clamp that Ford won't sell me.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'd have to wait a couple of days for it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So listen again, when when you take your vehicle in,
whether it's new or not, I mean, a twenty twenty
vehicle should not need an exhaust.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That to me is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But if you take it in there and hey, they're
telling you they can't get the parts, believe them. Please
believe them because it every single day it gets harder
and harder and harder to get parts.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's so difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So if you can get it fixed and get it
done now, just fix it because it gets again harder
and harder in these cars.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I've said it before on this show and I'll
say it again.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Look, they're building these cars like they are your washer
and your dryer and you're refrigerator. Right, we buy a
washer and dryer or even your furnace, I mean furnaces.
Used to laugh last twenty thirty years. Now you get
about you know, eight years out of them, and they're
they're toasts. And it costs more. You know, it's more
money to fix it than it is just to replace it.
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And unfortunately, that's how they're making these cars. And cars
aren't cheap. If you've looked at new car prices, sixty
seventy eighty thousand dollars, there's sometimes almost the average I mean,
you can get a smaller, you know, smaller vehicle for
less than that, but the average suv or or truck
which most of US Americans drive, you know, again, there's
they're sixty seventy eighty grand, right, and they just all
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the technology in these vehicles is just is breaking down
and that lasting and it's it's again it's harder and
harder to get to get these these parts.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If you take your car in and like, hey, we
can't get the part for a couple of weeks or
it's on back order, it happens.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Every single day now, every day. So if they can.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Get the part, don't hold off on it. Don't say,
oh well, maybe i'll do it next time. If they
can get the part, fix it, because it gets again,
every day gets harder. All right again, I'm taking your
phone calls and I'm gonna call five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. That number gain five one
three seven four nine fifty five one hundred coming up.
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Number to call five one three fifty five hundred. I'm
Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center located here in
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and maybe may or may not know, you know, we
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And for those of you who listen and maybe.
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Don't want to call have a question, you can always call,
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I don't want to call on the radio show, I'll
just call him on Monday. You're more than welcome to
do that and love to help you out by by
all means love to.
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Help you out.
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So that's what I'm here for every Saturday. So uh again,
then I'm gonna call five one three.
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Hundred. Let's go to Fred. Hey, Fred, welcome to the
car show. How can I help anything? Good? Afternon?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Sure? Absolutely? How can I do you?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's it's more it's more of a generic question. It's
I have a twenty seventeen Toyota Sienna with two with
one hundred and twenty five thousand miles on it. I'm
the first owner. I bought the thing brand new back
in twenty seventeen. It's been a wonderful vehicle. I keep
up with the all the maintenance. The only question I
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have about it because the local Toyota dealer keeps bucking
me about getting it done. This is the one fluid
I have not gotten flushed or done dealt with. And
again this questions more generic, like there's nothing in the
manual about flushing the transmission. So my question is like
when what is a good time a mileage to get
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it flushed? And when you do flush? It's like, I
don't know everything I read up on it seems like
you got to start changing it more often after the
first time it's never been changed. It's by the way,
this is a this twenty seventeen, Yanna, it's a it's
a two wheel drive. It's the se models.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
It's not all wheel drive.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
That that helps.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
But but yeah, wonderful vehicle. Just want to pick your brain, like, well,
transmission flashes, like, what's what's the rule of thumb?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, pretty no, it's it's it's a great question. So
you said how many miles run? And I apologize one
seventy or one seventeen.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, that's okay, one.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay, So it's a great question.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now again things have changed, but it used to be
toyotas were recommended every thirty thousand miles. Okay, now that
that has changed, because it has I can't remember that.
It's like World something or another transmission fluid. But anyways,
you are in a little bit of a a teetering
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point in the sense that you don't well, first and foremost,
I would not recommend flushing it, okay. Toyotas do not
have a filter. They have a screen in the transmission.
They don't have a filter.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So at one hundred and twenty five thousand miles, it's
never been changed. If you flushed it, you're flushing out.
You know, you're the transmission itself probably holds about you know,
between the torqu converter, the pan, the lines and everything
like that, you probably have about, you know, roughly you know,
ten to fourteen quarts of transmission fluid in that in
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that vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right, so you have.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Ten to fourteen courts of transmission fluid with one hundred
and twenty five thousand miles on it and you're going
to force it through that screen. Right, There's there's dirt,
there's debris, there's transmission clutch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, matter and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So you really don't want to flush it because you're
going to potentially cause an issue.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What I would recommend if you want to do it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So one hundred and twenty five thousand miles, you're not
having any transmission issues corrected.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Seems to be shifted f yep.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Find just wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Vehicle drives great.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I'm just just trying to keep up of maintenance and.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Make sure what I would do because sometimes with transmission fluid,
and I've talked about this before on the show.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We talk about viscosity, the thickness of the fluid. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So new transmission fluids a lot thicker, right than your
old fluid because it breaks down.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It gets thinner, right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So a lot of times if you introduce all that
new fluid to the transmission, sometimes it can shock the transmission.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It can't handle it because it's so thick, right, So it'd.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Be like it would be like you running and it
would be like you were you know, you're swimming in
a swimming pool and then you go ahead and you
change your fluid. Now you're trying to swim in a
pool of jello. Right, It's too hard, it's too difficult, right,
so we don't want to I wouldn't recommend that we
introduce and do changing all the fluid. If you wanted
to do it, I would do a transmission draining film,
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so you just drain out what's in the pan and
then you put in new fluid, which roughly is about
four courts of transmission fluid. So we're not changing all
of it. We're just changing some of it and introducing
some of that new fluid into what's existing. Okay, I
think that's the way to do it. I think that's
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a bit abrasive. I mean, if we changed all the fluid,
it'd be like, you know, another analogy. You know, you
get your knee replaced and then having to run a
marathon next you know, next week.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You know, it's too hard, right.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But maybe if you got some knee pain and you
treat it with a little bit of medicine and some
therapy or whatnot, and we slowly introduce you know, so
maybe change it now just to do a drain and fill,
and then in thirty thousand miles, do another drain and phil,
you know, that's the way I would approach it. I
don't want to be too you don't want to be
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too aggressive or abrasive, you know, too aggressive, and make
sure you don't do it and then take it on
a long road trip that you that's also a no note.
If if you're just going to drive it daily for
you know, you're fine and doing the draining fill, but
just make sure a lot of times people go, oh, well,
you know, I'll change my transmission fluid before I go
on a long trip. You really don't want to do
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that because it's really hard on it.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Okay, Okay, so a drain and fill with one hundred
and twenty five thousand miles. I'm assuming it's probably a
good idea to do this.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Then I would highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes, Toyotas primarily have you know, they have good transmissions.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean you really don't have a ton.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But yeah, it would be too aggressive if you try
to if you tried to do a flush, I would
not do that, not at a hundred. Now, if you
were like, hey, Dan, it has sixty thousand miles on it, Okay,
that's fine, but one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's never been changed. Let's kind of ease into.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It and not not just flush at all. Just do
a drain and fill so it has a and if
you're a do it yourself for it has it has
a drain plug. I mean you have to each year
making models a little bit different, but most of your
toyotas have a drain in a fill plug. Some cars
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are have sealed transmissions, and it's a nightmare to do
a transmission drain in fill. But yours should be pretty
much a drain in fill. So you just drop the
drop the plug, change out that fluid, top it off.
If you do it, I recommend the easiest thing to
do is you just get a funnel and you know,
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five gallon bucket or whatnot, and you try to catch it.
You catch it and you find out exactly how much
came out. That way, you can start there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Some cars are you know, three and a half courts,
some are five and a half course, you know, so okay,
all right, but I would certainly do the drain in fill.
That's how I would if I were in your shoes,
That's what I would do. My father in law has
he has a Siena and he has I mean like
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two hundred and twenty thousand miles on the scene and
I'm telling you what, it still runs like a top. Actually,
my wife's driving it right now because her car broke down.
So my wife's car broke down the fourth of July,
and uh I had.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
To had to have it towed. And oh wow, even
I have car, even I have car problems.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So that's funny.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Well awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I say thanks that, I appreciate you taking my call,
and I will probably do a training bill.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right, thank you, I appreciate Hey, make sure you
use I would highly just do the Toyota fluid.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There's there's there's you know.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm not, you know, knocking on anybody else, but I
would just at four courts, just by the the recommended
Toyota fluid, you know. Just Yes, some other manufacturers might
have a different detergent, might have a different mixture, and
so on and so forth. But with one hundred and
twenty five thousand miles, it's not going to be too expensive.
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I would just I do the Toyota transmission fluid, just
just to cover all your bases, to make sure you
don't create a problem. Right, Sometimes sometimes when you change
transmission fluid, sometimes you can create a problem opposed to
just you know, leaving on a loan.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
So yep, got it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I have a good day.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
We've got you too, all right, all right, bye bye. Yeah,
that's a great question, you know. That's the thing about
transmission fluid, you know, and it's so confusing, right, So
some vehicles you're supposed to change it every thirty thousand summer,
every sixty somemer, every hundred BMW I think BMW out Evolvo.
All their transmission fluids are lifetime. They don't recommend replacing
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them at all. So you should always go back to
your owner's manual and find out when the recommendation is,
because again, every year, make them all And I'm telling
you what, I could have a twenty and twelve Jetta
and it's recommended every sixty and then two thousand and
thirteen Jeda and it's never it's not recommended at all.
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I mean, they're they're the I mean it's it buckles
down to years. And uh, that's the one thing about
this business is you think you know it all and
then somebody walks in the door. Somebody calls right, and
you're like, man, I've never seen that, never heard that.
I mean, like I just said earlier in the show,
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my wife's car h July third, we're going to see
some fireworks at my inlaws house, and she was having
some intermittent battery issues, like the battery would just be
absolutely dead.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And then I jump it.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It'd be fine, it'd be dead, wouldn't start, it would
have twelve and a hal the vehicle would be dead
as a door nail. Car won't start, but the battery
has twelve and a half volts. And I'm like, so,
I'm I'm thinking that there's some you know, something else
going on. And h on July third, we're literally driving
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over to their house and right in the middle of
the street, the car to shut off. And I'm not
talking stalled, absolutely shut off, no power to anything, you know,
the door locks, the radio, the dash. I mean, it
is dead as a doornail at in the middle of
driving it. Now some people go, well, Dan, your alternator
went out. Now it's not the alternator, because I tested
the alternator. We waited, We waited all of about five minutes.
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It fired right up and started, you know, perfectly fine
for a couple of days. And uh, I mean knock
on Wood. I was like, well, we the battery's been
dead before. Maybe there's an underlying you know, drawl or
so I put a battery in it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Knock on Wood.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I haven't had any issues, but I have never ever
seen a battery cause a car to just completely shut
off in the middle of the street. I mean it
just I mean it went into park quit. You couldn't
put you couldn't I couldn't put it in neutral. I
couldn't do anything. So and I mean the cars it's
only seven years old, one hundred thousand miles, seven years old.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And the thing, so it happens. Everybody has car problems.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
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Taking your car questions again.
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Then number to call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. Love to hear from you again here every
Saturday to answer all of your car questions. And so
Eddie's been waiting patiently. I really do appreciate it, Eddie.
Welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Good afternoon, and thank you for taking my car.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, thank you so much for your patience. I really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Not a problem.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
How granddaughter.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
My granddaughter has a twenty eleven Honda Pilot with one
hundred and forty four thousand miles. She was complaining that
her brakes weren't that great, so I took up for
a test drive, and she was right. The pedal was
machie and soft and was going to the floor. I
pulled all four wheels, checked the pads. The pads are
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Bailly new, maybe twenty five hundred to three thousand miles
on all of them. The caliber slides are free.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
So I bled the system. Yeah, it didn't help at all.
So long story short, I ended up going to the
Honda dealer and I bought a new mass of cylinder. Okay,
I bench bled it, I installed it, led the system again.
Her pedal is firm. The break's a good bush. If
I keep constant pressure on the brake pedal, it slowly
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goes down.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
So I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
And someone had said, oh, you should change the rubber
lines going to the caliphers.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
So right now I get the car up on jack stands.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
And the wheels are removed. I looked at all the rubbers.
They don't look distorted. They're not cracked. I mean, yeah,
they're from twenty eleven, but they don't look bad. I've
seen a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So so again you said it stops on a dime.
It does great, But as you're sitting out of light,
the pedal slowly depresses.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Okay, so most likely.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's a vacu that's going to be a break vacuum issue.
That's going to be a vacuum issue. Okay, where either
the break it's not of lines. Does the vehicle let
me ask you something real quick, let me backtrack just
a minute.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Does the vehicle have ABS unfortunately?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, all right, okay, So.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
What I'm much and I don't have a scan it
to activate the ABS pump as I'm bleeding, I'm doing
it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay, yeah, sometimes yeah, so a couple of things. So
if the pedal is slowly going to the floor, you
have a great pedal, but then as soon as your
whole night goes down, that's a vacuum issue.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So either so the the couple of things.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
One, the master cylinder itself could have maybe leaked break
fluid into the booster maybe couset uh was there ever
an issue where she was adding brake fluid or anything like.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
That or you were no, no, not at all, okay,
just if the UH pads went down?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, all right, okay, So but again we're dealing with
a vacuum issue. It's not anything with the brake lines
or anything like that, or the abs itself.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's either a booster issue or the the the.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Vacuum line that's running from the booster to the engine. Okay, okay,
what I would recommend to start out because boot it's
it's pretty labor intensive to put a booster in it.
What I would recommend is replacing that vacuum line going
from the engine.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Which is typically in the intake to the booster.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Now it is so most of these vehicles will have
a check valve, a little valveeah Okay, So a lot
of times these valves will will stick or they'll stick
open right, so you have good pressure and then holding
it and it goes down. So before you go replacing
a booster, because you're gonna have to pull that master
cylinder off and you got to get underneath the dash there.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's pretty time consuming.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Again, the booster may be bad, but before we do that,
the vacuum line is going to be in a expensive
if it has the check valve in it, let's and
again most of them do.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Let's go ahead and get one.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You're gonna have to get it from honey you're not
gonna be able to buy it at you know, any
local parts place.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
It's got to come from. It's molded.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So let's let's go ahead and replace that that vacuum hose.
It goes from the engine to the booster, and let's
try that. If you're still experiencing the same issue, then unfortunately,
we're just you're gonna have to put a booster on it.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Okay, So you don't think it's the ABS pump.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, no, no, no, you if it was the a
BS pump, you'd have a low pedal all the time
you'd have it.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It'd be going all the way to the floor all
the time.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, if you've got a good pedal, if it if
you've got a good pedal immediately and the car stops,
then it's it's not a it's not an air issue
where they're you know, or the A B S pump,
it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But if it's slowly kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Goes down to the floor, then we've got a booster
or a vacuum issue. So but what you can do,
and I know, like you said, you didn't have a
scan tool, you could you know, I don't think again,
I don't personally think it's an ABS issue.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But what you can do, and for.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Those listeners out there, you want to do this safely,
but go into find a graveled lot. Okay, you go
into a gravel lot, maybe go ten fifteen miles or
do it safely, but you know, ten fifteen miles an
hour and you slam on those brakes and it's gonna
activate that a BS And what it's gonna do is
it's gonna push that air through because that that that
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actually is the you know, it's gonna activate the ABS
and it's gonna get that possible air that's trapped in
the ABS module.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's gonna it's gonna pump that out.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, now you may have to bleed the brakes again,
but you know, do that, you know, do that four
or five times where you activate the ABS and again
the easiest thing to do is just do it in
a graveled lot and get that trapped air out and
then you know, you can try to bleed it, you
know a couple you know once or twice again. But
that's one way you could do it without a scan
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tool is just activate the a BS and a safe
manner on the gravel a lot and that will that
would get any trapped air that's in that module. If
it's if the pumping module is working correctly, it'll activate
that module and that pump and get that air out.
But again, I don't think your con your actual issue.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Is not abs. It's it's a vacuum issue.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But do the do the vacuum line first again, buy
it from Manda. Do that first, because that's easy. You
could knock that out in five minutes. And if it
doesn't fix it, then unfortunately it's gonna need a booster.
And again a lot of times what happens is the
master cylinders themselves. It may not be a bunch, but
sometimes the seal inside there can leak break fluid into
the booster and that that that brake fluid ruins the
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you know, it ruins the booster.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So you may not it may not be.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Completely you know, you know, like, oh, there it is,
but it could over time have leaked flew it into
it and you know, yeah, and ruined it. So it's
it's you know, with it with it being eleven, it's common.
But to save yourself some headache, replace that, you know,
because if you know, if you did the booster first
you'd be racking your.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Brain like what what you know?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
What do I If it's that little vacuum line, You're
gonna be ah, so do the vacuum line, still doing it?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Do the booster.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And again in the meantime, if you want to activate
that a BS and just rule it out because it's
not that's not going to cost.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You any money.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Yeah, I can't hurt us, can't hurt. So thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You have
a great weekend, Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I enjoy you show immensely.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, thank you so Uh he called from Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And I'll tell you what. I don't get out that much.
I haven't been to a.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Ton of cities, but I did have an opportunity to
go to Boston, Massachusetts, and man, we stayed downtown and
I've talked about this before. Man, what a gorgeous city.
I really liked it. And uh, I just liked it
being in the city, being on the water. It was
really neat. I really liked it. So good spot if
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you ever have, if you ever have the time, swing
by there because I liked it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But again, I don't get out much so.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You know, there's probably a million different places in this
in this country that is better than Boston's, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But I went there and loved it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
So all right again taking phone calls and i'd call
five one three seven nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Coming up, we have Opie. You're listening to the car
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Speaker 2 (34:15):
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
You renumber to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five one hundred. I'm Dan Donovan taking all of
your car questions. Every Saturday from one to two. And
that's what I'm here for, love to hear from you.
So we are running at times, so I want to
get back to the phones we have. Opie, Hey, OPI
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Hell?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I got I got an oil change story for you.
I know how you'd like the harpun change and oil
I work with. Guy worked with bought a brand new
used certified Subaru and with a a factory extended warranty
and part of the duels, he got three old change
this for three years. He took it in with forty
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eight hundred miles on it and told him to change
the oil. They said no, we changed oil every ten
thousand miles. We backed up when he first got it,
first day he had it, we walked out to leave
it after work. He started up and it blowed a
big puffe's blue smoke, black smoke out of tailpight and
the cars only got like had like twenty eight hundred
(35:24):
or twenty eight thousand miles on it or something yep.
And I told him check your oil and things smoking
like freight train, and he didn't check it. And he
went in and had told him to change oil because
he'd always changed before. It was every five thousand, fifty
two hundred miles. The motor locked up.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Fifty two thousand, no fit.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
He drove the car fifty two hundred miles. Oh wow,
fifty two hundred miles. They would not change the oil
at forty eight hundred miles because it said it wasn't
due until ten thousand miles I know. And then motor
locked up. So now so had to put an engine
in it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, I know, I you know, it's okay.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I know you are people check your oil.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I My driver that does all of my driving for me,
picks up it takes customers back and forth and picks
up parts and stuff like that. And he's got en
F one fifty and the other day he goes, man,
I just got my truck. My check engine lights on
and it's an F one fifty. It's a five liter
and and I said, all right, well, let's I read
the code. And it was a CAMP it was a
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cam crank correlation code or whatever timing chain issue. And
I'm like, check your oil. And he was like, well
it was at the bottom of the stick. I'm like, well,
let and he didn't know right, So I'm like, let's
check your oil. So go in there. This car, he
not due for an oald chain. He changes it every
three thousand He's not due for an oil change yet.
And I check it. I'm like, it's not on the stick.
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But I'm like, you can see it a little bit.
But I said, it's not on the stick. So I
added two courts, not on the stick. I added three quarts,
not on the stick. I added four courts, not on
five courts of oil. And he wasn't even due for
an oil change. And I'm like, buddy, I'm like, you
gotta check your oil. Unfortunately, all these cars nowadays, they're
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burning it.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I mean, I've got a you know, my wife's car
burns oil.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I've got I've got an O two S ten with
a four to three in it, and I change them
all every three thousand miles. And it's down maybe at
half a court when I change it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh yeah, I know. These new cars are.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And the thing is is they just keep these manufacturers
just keeping pushing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
They keep pushing these dates out farther and farther and farther.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
And I mean these cars are one hundred thousand miles
and they're absolutely they're junk, you know.
Speaker 10 (37:42):
So, Oh, mine's got mine's got Mine's got one hundred
and eighty seven thousand miles on it, and like I said,
it uses a little less than a half a court
every three thousand miles, which I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
About that, No, sir, nope. Well I appreciate your story.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Check your oil.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Check your oil.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
Check your oil.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Don't cost you nothing, Thanks buddy, Take care. All right,
let's go back to the phones. We have Dean. Hey, Dean,
welcome to the car show. How can I help fine.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Dane, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, Hey, I've got
a two thousand and five Jeep Wrangler and at one
hundred and twenty three thousand miles, I took the advice
of a friend to change my oil to synthetic, and
since that time, I've developed oil leaks in the engine.
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Have you ever heard anything about like that?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No, no, I probably I'm almost certain I know we're
when if in correlation to where the cars parked, where
are you seeing the oil?
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm probably right between the engine and transmission.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, all right, So I personally don't think that it
had anything to do with you switch into the synthetic
the okay, is the oil filter are you changing the
oil oil or somebody?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yes, I am every drink of the house.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And is the oil filter right in the center of
the engine.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
It's actually it's a.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
It's a canister filter like right on the top of
the engine.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Yeah, it's on the on one side of it, towards
the back of the engine.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So there is a what's called the oil filter housing.
So there's an oil cooler and the oil filter housing there.
They're bolted, they're underneath the intake. They one hundred day
of a one failure rate one okay, wow, So I
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just I just unfortunately it has nothing to do with
the synthetic oil. It is just coincidental that oil filter
housing is leaking, okay. And what happens is that oil
puddles up in the valley of the engine and then
it then it then runs off the back of the
engine and down the transmission and the bell housing, and
it's gonna it's gonna, it's gonna right there where like
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you said, with the engine and transmission meet. So the
oil filter housing again, which comes with the cooler, that
is leaking again. Failure rate, They all do it. There's
nothing you can do to prevent it. Very very common problem.
What I would recommend that you do. I mean, you're
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probably gonna need to take it to a mechanic because
the intake's got to come off and everything like that.
It's pretty labor intensing. Do not buy an aftermarket one.
I've I'm a victim of it myself. We've we've tried
in the past to try to save customers money and
put an aftermarket one in it, and some of them,
some of them. Sometimes the cars don't even leave the shop.
(40:43):
So buy one from the dealer. It comes with all
all the sensors and everything that you need. But get
one from the dealer. Whoever does it, either you take
it to the dealer or your friend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Get one from the dealer. It's not much more.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
But save yourself the headache because again it's very labor intensive,
you know, like two or three hours, you know, but
that can be labor intensive.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
But buy one from the dealer. But that oil filter housing.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Is leaking, so okay, not not not doesn't have anything
to do with the synthetic fluid.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Okay, I appreciate that I'd heard I'd heard, you know,
stories rumors that maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
But yeah, absolutely, I guarantee it.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
So okay, all right, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
All right, you're welcome, take care, Bye bye. What a
great show. Thank you for all of those who called.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I will be back next Saturday to answer all of
your car questions.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Everybody have a safe weekend, enjoy the rest of their summer.
I know it's hot. It's been rainy here in Cincinnati.
It feels like we're in Seattle. But again, everybody appreciate
the phone calls. Everybody have a great weekend. We'll be
back next week to answer all of your car questions.
You're to listen to the Car Show on fifty five KRC,
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you don't stop driving out hot rod.
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road at Gold Just.
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Keep chat in.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC, the talk station. I'm Dame Donovan taking all
of your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven fifty five hundred. That number again, five one
three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And uh, yes I am in studio.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I told my producer Danny that I almost forgot how
to get here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I do apologize.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It has just been a very busy summer and uh,
my my oldest son, Aidan, had a couple of tournaments
that we're out of town and uh, and then last
week we are at a fundraiser, uh which Donovan supports.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're one of the presenting sponsors.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And UH for those of you who who may or
may not know, you know, my youngest was diagnosed with
cancer when he was two and a half. And there
was a golf tournament on the west side of town
and uh, they Declan was a recipient of it. And
I told her name's Julie caught out she runs it
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and great, great event and it raises money for those
who are going through cancer, and and.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Man, what a great event. So I promised that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So Declan was a recipient, and uh you know, helped
raise a lot of money for us help with medical
bills and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And I was.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Forever grateful, and I told Julie that I would give
back every year as long as I could. So that's
where I was last Saturday, and uh, man, it was
a great event. Our team came in second place. We
almost want it. And the winners though they did have
a hole in one, so it's really hard to beat.
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You know that those are rare, so congratulations to them.
But anyways, I'm here, love to hear from you again.
The number to call five one, three, five hundred. We
are in the thick of it. As far as traveling
in heat, I'm sure of those those of you who
don't have air conditioning probably feeling the heat, no pun intended.
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And and again trips I have had. Unfortunately, I just
had a customer not too long ago. They were on
a trip from they went to Mammoth Cave I believe
lived in Columbus and they just they they were passing
through downtown Cincinnati car broke down. Unfortunately it was the transmission.
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They were stranded there for pretty much the entire day.
Their dad was coming to pick them up. But you know, now,
mind you, sometimes these things are Sometimes they happen and
there's nothing that you can do, but heck if you
can prevent it. Right, we're still in the middle of summer.
I know some schools are starting back in a couple
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of weeks. It sounds crazy, and again maybe some of
those some of the some of some of you guys
out there with children who are going back to school,
going back to college. If you're thinking about if they're
driving back, you need to start thinking about getting the
car in now, getting inspected, getting it ready to go
back to school. I hate to say it, but it's
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rapidly approaching us. Right for those of you who have
air conditioning issues, of course that you already knew that
months ago, and you're either suffering through it, which kudos
to you. I don't think I could do it. Some
people just go, you know what, I'll just deal with it.
I'll roll the windows down, which is perfectly fine, because
sometimes they just don't want to put the money into it,
(03:56):
and uh, it's it can be so over overwhelming and
expensive and uh, but it's something that we have to,
you know, we have to. It's one of those things
that we either fix it or deal with it. So again,
taking your phone calls, and I'm recall five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred. I want to talk about
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something and for those of you out there, I want
you to know this because ever since the pandemic, we
have really not recovered from being able to get parts.
I mean, I'm telling you what I know that the
pandemic caused all kinds of issues. Uh, people not wanting
(04:39):
to work and people not wanting to do anything pretty much.
But and it's not it's not the tariffs. Okay, it
does have effect on it. Again, I talked about it
not too long. I was on the news about it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It has.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It has an effect on the automotive industry. However, we
have never recovered after the pandemic, and it is harder
and harder to get parts. And these manufacturers and aftermarket
companies are not making parts as long as they used to.
And I have a twenty twenty Ford and I'm not
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picking on Ford. I love Fords, but I'm I was
kind of upset with them earlier this week. Twenty twenty Ford. Okay,
this thing has fifty thousand miles on it. Twenty twenty Ford.
The Ford flex of the Flea exhaust flex pipe rusted off.
This car's five years old.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You would see this maybe on a car that's fifteen
years old, ten years old, not five.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This car has five.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Years on it. Okay, fifty thousand miles, five years old.
Flex pipe breaks. It's part of the exhaust manifold, okay,
which the converter's built into.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Not too terribly expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The part was fairly inexpensive, which I it was around
I think six hundred and seventy five dollars, which I
know that's a lot of money, but I mean I've
seen Toyota converters cost two three thousand dollars easily, so
six hundred dollars is pretty reasonable for a catalytic converter. However,
you need to replace the manifold gasket, and then there's
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a clamp that was completely rusted as well.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We need to replace that clamp.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So we ordered everything and the dealership send it to us,
and but they called back and said Hey, listen, we
can't sell you this exhaust clamp. This is not you
would sit there and go, oh, Dan, we can just
go down the street. No, this is a it's a
clamp that was designed for this exact exhaust system. You
can't just go down to you know, a parts place
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and get this clamp. Okay, it was a special exhaust
clamp designed for this car, for this exhaust. That's how
you know. It used to be all universal. It's not anymore.
Every year make model car has a different you know,
break caliper or break hose or it's it's a headache.
It's a nonsense. But anyways, so here we are, we've
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got everything ordered, and they called me back, said, Dame,
we can't sell you the exhaust clamp. This is under
a there's a recall on this engine and this clamp
is part of that recall. So Ford won't want to
sell it to you. This is an eleven dollars exhaust clamp.
So now this young lady who brought her car to
me because the exhaust is loud and she needs to
get down to again Mammoth Cave, and I can't get
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a car back to her because of an eleven dollars
exhaust clamp because Ford won't sell it. They've got it
locked up in this recall. So basically they're kind of
hording them. So take care of the recalls on these vehicles.
And meanwhile, this poor girl doesn't have her car and
can't get her car back because I can't get it
eleven dollars exhaust clamp because Ford won't sell it to me.
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Now they would, they'd have to get it from a
different depot and I'd have to wait a couple of days,
and you know, but she was already leaving town, you know,
and I'm like, I cannot believe we that we're in this. So,
you know, it's it's unbelievable how difficult it is to
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get parts anymore. So when you're taking your vehicle to
a repair shop and they're like, hey, we can't get
the parts, we can't find the parts, believe them when
they say that, because I'm telling you, it gets every
single day it gets harder and harder to get parts.
And again, this is I mean again, could you probably
find it on eBay or you know, on online maybe,
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but I needed it that day. And every dealership in
the city is Greater Cincinnati area had one, but they're
not allowed to sell them, and so I was I
was frustrated over that because you know this, this young
lady can't go to on her trip because I can't
get her car done because of an eleven dollars exhaust
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clamp that Ford won't sell me.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'd have to wait a couple of days for it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So listen again, when when you take your vehicle in,
whether it's new or not, I mean, a twenty twenty
vehicle should not need an exhaust.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That to me is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But if you take it in there and hey, they're
telling you they can't get the parts, believe them. Please
believe them because it every single day it gets harder
and harder and harder to get parts.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's so difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So if you can get it fixed and get it
done now, just fix it because it gets again harder
and harder in these cars.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I've said it before on this show and I'll
say it again.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Look, they're building these cars like they are your washer
and your dryer and you're refrigerator. Right, we buy a
washer and dryer or even your furnace, I mean furnaces.
Used to laugh last twenty thirty years. Now you get
about you know, eight years out of them, and they're
they're toasts. And it costs more. You know, it's more
money to fix it than it is just to replace it.
(10:06):
And unfortunately, that's how they're making these cars. And cars
aren't cheap. If you've looked at new car prices, sixty
seventy eighty thousand dollars, there's sometimes almost the average I mean,
you can get a smaller, you know, smaller vehicle for
less than that, but the average suv or or truck
which most of US Americans drive, you know, again, there's
they're sixty seventy eighty grand, right, and they just all
(10:32):
the technology in these vehicles is just is breaking down
and that lasting and it's it's again it's harder and
harder to get to get these these parts.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So just think about that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If you take your car in and like, hey, we
can't get the part for a couple of weeks or
it's on back order, it happens.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Every single day now, every day. So if they can.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Get the part, don't hold off on it. Don't say,
oh well, maybe i'll do it next time. If they
can get the part, fix it, because it gets again,
every day gets harder. All right again, I'm taking your
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Hundred. Let's go to Fred. Hey, Fred, welcome to the
car show. How can I help anything? Good? Afternon?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Sure? Absolutely? How can I do you?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's it's more it's more of a generic question. It's
I have a twenty seventeen Toyota Sienna with two with
one hundred and twenty five thousand miles on it. I'm
the first owner. I bought the thing brand new back
in twenty seventeen. It's been a wonderful vehicle. I keep
up with the all the maintenance. The only question I
(13:23):
have about it because the local Toyota dealer keeps bucking
me about getting it done. This is the one fluid
I have not gotten flushed or done dealt with. And
again this questions more generic, like there's nothing in the
manual about flushing the transmission. So my question is like
when what is a good time a mileage to get
(13:44):
it flushed? And when you do flush? It's like, I
don't know everything I read up on it seems like
you got to start changing it more often after the
first time it's never been changed. It's by the way,
this is a this twenty seventeen, Yanna, it's a it's
a two wheel drive. It's the se models.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
It's not all wheel drive.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
That that helps.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
But but yeah, wonderful vehicle. Just want to pick your brain, like, well,
transmission flashes, like, what's what's the rule of thumb?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, pretty no, it's it's it's a great question. So
you said how many miles run? And I apologize one
seventy or one seventeen.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, that's okay, one.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay, So it's a great question.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now again things have changed, but it used to be
toyotas were recommended every thirty thousand miles. Okay, now that
that has changed, because it has I can't remember that.
It's like World something or another transmission fluid. But anyways,
you are in a little bit of a a teetering
(14:50):
point in the sense that you don't well, first and foremost,
I would not recommend flushing it, okay. Toyotas do not
have a filter. They have a screen in the transmission.
They don't have a filter.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So at one hundred and twenty five thousand miles, it's
never been changed. If you flushed it, you're flushing out.
You know, you're the transmission itself probably holds about you know,
between the torqu converter, the pan, the lines and everything
like that, you probably have about, you know, roughly you know,
ten to fourteen quarts of transmission fluid in that in
(15:29):
that vehicle.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right, so you have.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Ten to fourteen courts of transmission fluid with one hundred
and twenty five thousand miles on it and you're going
to force it through that screen. Right, There's there's dirt,
there's debris, there's transmission clutch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, matter and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So you really don't want to flush it because you're
going to potentially cause an issue.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What I would recommend if you want to do it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So one hundred and twenty five thousand miles, you're not
having any transmission issues corrected.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Seems to be shifted f yep.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Find just wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Vehicle drives great.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I'm just just trying to keep up of maintenance and.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Make sure what I would do because sometimes with transmission fluid,
and I've talked about this before on the show.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We talk about viscosity, the thickness of the fluid. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So new transmission fluids a lot thicker, right than your
old fluid because it breaks down.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It gets thinner, right.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So a lot of times if you introduce all that
new fluid to the transmission, sometimes it can shock the transmission.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It can't handle it because it's so thick, right, So it'd.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Be like it would be like you running and it
would be like you were you know, you're swimming in
a swimming pool and then you go ahead and you
change your fluid. Now you're trying to swim in a
pool of jello. Right, It's too hard, it's too difficult, right,
so we don't want to I wouldn't recommend that we
introduce and do changing all the fluid. If you wanted
to do it, I would do a transmission draining film,
(16:58):
so you just drain out what's in the pan and
then you put in new fluid, which roughly is about
four courts of transmission fluid. So we're not changing all
of it. We're just changing some of it and introducing
some of that new fluid into what's existing. Okay, I
think that's the way to do it. I think that's
(17:18):
a bit abrasive. I mean, if we changed all the fluid,
it'd be like, you know, another analogy. You know, you
get your knee replaced and then having to run a
marathon next you know, next week.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You know, it's too hard, right.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But maybe if you got some knee pain and you
treat it with a little bit of medicine and some
therapy or whatnot, and we slowly introduce you know, so
maybe change it now just to do a drain and fill,
and then in thirty thousand miles, do another drain and phil,
you know, that's the way I would approach it. I
don't want to be too you don't want to be
(17:51):
too aggressive or abrasive, you know, too aggressive, and make
sure you don't do it and then take it on
a long road trip that you that's also a no note.
If if you're just going to drive it daily for
you know, you're fine and doing the draining fill, but
just make sure a lot of times people go, oh, well,
you know, I'll change my transmission fluid before I go
on a long trip. You really don't want to do
(18:13):
that because it's really hard on it.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Okay, Okay, so a drain and fill with one hundred
and twenty five thousand miles. I'm assuming it's probably a
good idea to do this.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Then I would highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes, Toyotas primarily have you know, they have good transmissions.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean you really don't have a ton.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But yeah, it would be too aggressive if you try
to if you tried to do a flush, I would
not do that, not at a hundred. Now, if you
were like, hey, Dan, it has sixty thousand miles on it, Okay,
that's fine, but one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's never been changed. Let's kind of ease into.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It and not not just flush at all. Just do
a drain and fill so it has a and if
you're a do it yourself for it has it has
a drain plug. I mean you have to each year
making models a little bit different, but most of your
toyotas have a drain in a fill plug. Some cars
(19:10):
are have sealed transmissions, and it's a nightmare to do
a transmission drain in fill. But yours should be pretty
much a drain in fill. So you just drop the
drop the plug, change out that fluid, top it off.
If you do it, I recommend the easiest thing to
do is you just get a funnel and you know,
(19:31):
five gallon bucket or whatnot, and you try to catch it.
You catch it and you find out exactly how much
came out. That way, you can start there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Some cars are you know, three and a half courts,
some are five and a half course, you know, so okay,
all right, but I would certainly do the drain in fill.
That's how I would if I were in your shoes,
That's what I would do. My father in law has
he has a Siena and he has I mean like
(20:01):
two hundred and twenty thousand miles on the scene and
I'm telling you what, it still runs like a top. Actually,
my wife's driving it right now because her car broke down.
So my wife's car broke down the fourth of July,
and uh I had.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
To had to have it towed. And oh wow, even
I have car, even I have car problems.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So that's funny.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Well awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I say thanks that, I appreciate you taking my call,
and I will probably do a training bill.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right, thank you, I appreciate Hey, make sure you
use I would highly just do the Toyota fluid.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
There's there's there's you know.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm not, you know, knocking on anybody else, but I
would just at four courts, just by the the recommended
Toyota fluid, you know. Just Yes, some other manufacturers might
have a different detergent, might have a different mixture, and
so on and so forth. But with one hundred and
twenty five thousand miles, it's not going to be too expensive.
(20:58):
I would just I do the Toyota transmission fluid, just
just to cover all your bases, to make sure you
don't create a problem. Right, Sometimes sometimes when you change
transmission fluid, sometimes you can create a problem opposed to
just you know, leaving on a loan.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
So yep, got it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I have a good day.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
We've got you too, all right, all right, bye bye. Yeah,
that's a great question, you know. That's the thing about
transmission fluid, you know, and it's so confusing, right, So
some vehicles you're supposed to change it every thirty thousand summer,
every sixty somemer, every hundred BMW I think BMW out Evolvo.
All their transmission fluids are lifetime. They don't recommend replacing
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them at all. So you should always go back to
your owner's manual and find out when the recommendation is,
because again, every year, make them all And I'm telling
you what, I could have a twenty and twelve Jetta
and it's recommended every sixty and then two thousand and
thirteen Jeda and it's never it's not recommended at all.
(22:03):
I mean, they're they're the I mean it's it buckles
down to years. And uh, that's the one thing about
this business is you think you know it all and
then somebody walks in the door. Somebody calls right, and
you're like, man, I've never seen that, never heard that.
I mean, like I just said earlier in the show,
(22:23):
my wife's car h July third, we're going to see
some fireworks at my inlaws house, and she was having
some intermittent battery issues, like the battery would just be
absolutely dead.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
And then I jump it.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It'd be fine, it'd be dead, wouldn't start, it would
have twelve and a hal the vehicle would be dead
as a door nail. Car won't start, but the battery
has twelve and a half volts. And I'm like, so,
I'm I'm thinking that there's some you know, something else
going on. And h on July third, we're literally driving
(22:57):
over to their house and right in the middle of
the street, the car to shut off. And I'm not
talking stalled, absolutely shut off, no power to anything, you know,
the door locks, the radio, the dash. I mean, it
is dead as a doornail at in the middle of
driving it. Now some people go, well, Dan, your alternator
went out. Now it's not the alternator, because I tested
the alternator. We waited, We waited all of about five minutes.
(23:21):
It fired right up and started, you know, perfectly fine
for a couple of days. And uh, I mean knock
on Wood. I was like, well, we the battery's been
dead before. Maybe there's an underlying you know, drawl or
so I put a battery in it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Knock on Wood.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I haven't had any issues, but I have never ever
seen a battery cause a car to just completely shut
off in the middle of the street. I mean it
just I mean it went into park quit. You couldn't
put you couldn't I couldn't put it in neutral. I
couldn't do anything. So and I mean the cars it's
only seven years old, one hundred thousand miles, seven years old.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And the thing, so it happens. Everybody has car problems.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
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Taking your car questions again.
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Then number to call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. Love to hear from you again here every
Saturday to answer all of your car questions. And so
Eddie's been waiting patiently. I really do appreciate it, Eddie.
Welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Good afternoon, and thank you for taking my car.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, thank you so much for your patience. I really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Not a problem.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
How granddaughter.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
My granddaughter has a twenty eleven Honda Pilot with one
hundred and forty four thousand miles. She was complaining that
her brakes weren't that great, so I took up for
a test drive, and she was right. The pedal was
machie and soft and was going to the floor. I
pulled all four wheels, checked the pads. The pads are
(25:42):
Bailly new, maybe twenty five hundred to three thousand miles
on all of them. The caliber slides are free.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
So I bled the system. Yeah, it didn't help at all.
So long story short, I ended up going to the
Honda dealer and I bought a new mass of cylinder. Okay,
I bench bled it, I installed it, led the system again.
Her pedal is firm. The break's a good bush. If
I keep constant pressure on the brake pedal, it slowly
(26:16):
goes down.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
So I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
And someone had said, oh, you should change the rubber
lines going to the caliphers.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
So right now I get the car up on jack stands.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
And the wheels are removed. I looked at all the rubbers.
They don't look distorted. They're not cracked. I mean, yeah,
they're from twenty eleven, but they don't look bad. I've
seen a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So so again you said it stops on a dime.
It does great, But as you're sitting out of light,
the pedal slowly depresses.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Okay, so most likely.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's a vacu that's going to be a break vacuum issue.
That's going to be a vacuum issue. Okay, where either
the break it's not of lines. Does the vehicle let
me ask you something real quick, let me backtrack just
a minute.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Does the vehicle have ABS unfortunately?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, all right, okay, So.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
What I'm much and I don't have a scan it
to activate the ABS pump as I'm bleeding, I'm doing
it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Okay, yeah, sometimes yeah, so a couple of things. So
if the pedal is slowly going to the floor, you
have a great pedal, but then as soon as your
whole night goes down, that's a vacuum issue.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So either so the the couple of things.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
One, the master cylinder itself could have maybe leaked break
fluid into the booster maybe couset uh was there ever
an issue where she was adding brake fluid or anything like.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
That or you were no, no, not at all, okay,
just if the UH pads went down?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, all right, okay, So but again we're dealing with
a vacuum issue. It's not anything with the brake lines
or anything like that, or the abs itself.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's either a booster issue or the the the.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Vacuum line that's running from the booster to the engine. Okay, okay,
what I would recommend to start out because boot it's
it's pretty labor intensive to put a booster in it.
What I would recommend is replacing that vacuum line going
from the engine.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Which is typically in the intake to the booster.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Now it is so most of these vehicles will have
a check valve, a little valveeah Okay, So a lot
of times these valves will will stick or they'll stick
open right, so you have good pressure and then holding
it and it goes down. So before you go replacing
a booster, because you're gonna have to pull that master
cylinder off and you got to get underneath the dash there.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's pretty time consuming.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Again, the booster may be bad, but before we do that,
the vacuum line is going to be in a expensive
if it has the check valve in it, let's and
again most of them do.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Let's go ahead and get one.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You're gonna have to get it from honey you're not
gonna be able to buy it at you know, any
local parts place.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
It's got to come from. It's molded.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So let's let's go ahead and replace that that vacuum hose.
It goes from the engine to the booster, and let's
try that. If you're still experiencing the same issue, then unfortunately,
we're just you're gonna have to put a booster on it.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Okay, So you don't think it's the ABS pump.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, no, no, no, you if it was the a
BS pump, you'd have a low pedal all the time
you'd have it.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It'd be going all the way to the floor all
the time.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, if you've got a good pedal, if it if
you've got a good pedal immediately and the car stops,
then it's it's not a it's not an air issue
where they're you know, or the A B S pump,
it's it's not.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But if it's slowly kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Goes down to the floor, then we've got a booster
or a vacuum issue. So but what you can do,
and I know, like you said, you didn't have a
scan tool, you could you know, I don't think again,
I don't personally think it's an ABS issue.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
But what you can do, and for.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Those listeners out there, you want to do this safely,
but go into find a graveled lot. Okay, you go
into a gravel lot, maybe go ten fifteen miles or
do it safely, but you know, ten fifteen miles an
hour and you slam on those brakes and it's gonna
activate that a BS And what it's gonna do is
it's gonna push that air through because that that that
(30:38):
actually is the you know, it's gonna activate the ABS
and it's gonna get that possible air that's trapped in
the ABS module.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's gonna it's gonna pump that out.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, now you may have to bleed the brakes again,
but you know, do that, you know, do that four
or five times where you activate the ABS and again
the easiest thing to do is just do it in
a graveled lot and get that trapped air out and
then you know, you can try to bleed it, you
know a couple you know once or twice again. But
that's one way you could do it without a scan
(31:07):
tool is just activate the a BS and a safe
manner on the gravel a lot and that will that
would get any trapped air that's in that module. If
it's if the pumping module is working correctly, it'll activate
that module and that pump and get that air out.
But again, I don't think your con your actual issue.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Is not abs. It's it's a vacuum issue.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But do the do the vacuum line first again, buy
it from Manda. Do that first, because that's easy. You
could knock that out in five minutes. And if it
doesn't fix it, then unfortunately it's gonna need a booster.
And again a lot of times what happens is the
master cylinders themselves. It may not be a bunch, but
sometimes the seal inside there can leak break fluid into
the booster and that that that brake fluid ruins the
(31:55):
you know, it ruins the booster.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So you may not it may not be.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Completely you know, you know, like, oh, there it is,
but it could over time have leaked flew it into
it and you know, yeah, and ruined it. So it's
it's you know, with it with it being eleven, it's common.
But to save yourself some headache, replace that, you know,
because if you know, if you did the booster first
you'd be racking your.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Brain like what what you know?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
What do I If it's that little vacuum line, You're
gonna be ah, so do the vacuum line, still doing it?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Do the booster.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And again in the meantime, if you want to activate
that a BS and just rule it out because it's
not that's not going to cost.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You any money.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Yeah, I can't hurt us, can't hurt. So thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You have
a great weekend, Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I enjoy you show immensely.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, thank you so Uh he called from Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And I'll tell you what. I don't get out that much.
I haven't been to a.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Ton of cities, but I did have an opportunity to
go to Boston, Massachusetts, and man, we stayed downtown and
I've talked about this before. Man, what a gorgeous city.
I really liked it. And uh, I just liked it
being in the city, being on the water. It was
really neat. I really liked it. So good spot if
(33:14):
you ever have, if you ever have the time, swing
by there because I liked it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
But again, I don't get out much so.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You know, there's probably a million different places in this
in this country that is better than Boston's, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But I went there and loved it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
So all right again taking phone calls and i'd call
five one three seven nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Coming up, we have Opie. You're listening to the car
show on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Way back in nineteen fifty eight, my grandfather opened Donovan's
Auto and Tire Center right here in Cincinnati. A lot
has changed since then, but our commitment to honest auto
repair hasn't. We believe in making sure your vehicle gets
everything it needs and nothing it doesn't. Because as a
family owned business with our name on the wall, integrity matters.
From nineteen fifty eight to today, Donovan's Auto Entire Center
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is still Cincinnati's honest choice for auto repair, and we're
proud to keep this city moving. Three area locations. Find
yours at donovantire dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station taking your
car questions.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You renumber to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five one hundred. I'm Dan Donovan taking all of
your car questions. Every Saturday from one to two. And
that's what I'm here for, love to hear from you.
So we are running at times, so I want to
get back to the phones we have. Opie, Hey, OPI
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Hell?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I got I got an oil change story for you.
I know how you'd like the harpun change and oil
I work with. Guy worked with bought a brand new
used certified Subaru and with a a factory extended warranty
and part of the duels, he got three old change
this for three years. He took it in with forty
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eight hundred miles on it and told him to change
the oil. They said no, we changed oil every ten
thousand miles. We backed up when he first got it,
first day he had it, we walked out to leave
it after work. He started up and it blowed a
big puffe's blue smoke, black smoke out of tailpight and
the cars only got like had like twenty eight hundred
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or twenty eight thousand miles on it or something yep.
And I told him check your oil and things smoking
like freight train, and he didn't check it. And he
went in and had told him to change oil because
he'd always changed before. It was every five thousand, fifty
two hundred miles. The motor locked up.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Fifty two thousand, no fit.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
He drove the car fifty two hundred miles. Oh wow,
fifty two hundred miles. They would not change the oil
at forty eight hundred miles because it said it wasn't
due until ten thousand miles I know. And then motor
locked up. So now so had to put an engine
in it.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, I know, I you know, it's okay.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I know you are people check your oil.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I My driver that does all of my driving for me,
picks up it takes customers back and forth and picks
up parts and stuff like that. And he's got en
F one fifty and the other day he goes, man,
I just got my truck. My check engine lights on
and it's an F one fifty. It's a five liter
and and I said, all right, well, let's I read
the code. And it was a CAMP it was a
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cam crank correlation code or whatever timing chain issue. And
I'm like, check your oil. And he was like, well
it was at the bottom of the stick. I'm like, well,
let and he didn't know right, So I'm like, let's
check your oil. So go in there. This car, he
not due for an oald chain. He changes it every
three thousand He's not due for an oil change yet.
And I check it. I'm like, it's not on the stick.
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But I'm like, you can see it a little bit.
But I said, it's not on the stick. So I
added two courts, not on the stick. I added three quarts,
not on the stick. I added four courts, not on
five courts of oil. And he wasn't even due for
an oil change. And I'm like, buddy, I'm like, you
gotta check your oil. Unfortunately, all these cars nowadays, they're
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burning it.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I mean, I've got a you know, my wife's car
burns oil.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (37:17):
I've got I've got an O two S ten with
a four to three in it, and I change them
all every three thousand miles. And it's down maybe at
half a court when I change it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh yeah, I know. These new cars are.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And the thing is is they just keep these manufacturers
just keeping pushing.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
They keep pushing these dates out farther and farther and farther.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
And I mean these cars are one hundred thousand miles
and they're absolutely they're junk, you know.
Speaker 10 (37:42):
So, Oh, mine's got mine's got Mine's got one hundred
and eighty seven thousand miles on it, and like I said,
it uses a little less than a half a court
every three thousand miles, which I can't complain.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
About that, No, sir, nope. Well I appreciate your story.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Check your oil.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Check your oil.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
Check your oil.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Don't cost you nothing, Thanks buddy, Take care. All right,
let's go back to the phones. We have Dean. Hey, Dean,
welcome to the car show. How can I help fine.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Dane, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, Hey, I've got
a two thousand and five Jeep Wrangler and at one
hundred and twenty three thousand miles, I took the advice
of a friend to change my oil to synthetic, and
since that time, I've developed oil leaks in the engine.
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Have you ever heard anything about like that?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No, no, I probably I'm almost certain I know we're
when if in correlation to where the cars parked, where
are you seeing the oil?
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I'm probably right between the engine and transmission.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, all right, So I personally don't think that it
had anything to do with you switch into the synthetic
the okay, is the oil filter are you changing the
oil oil or somebody?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yes, I am every drink of the house.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And is the oil filter right in the center of
the engine.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
It's actually it's a.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
It's a canister filter like right on the top of
the engine.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Yeah, it's on the on one side of it, towards
the back of the engine.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So there is a what's called the oil filter housing.
So there's an oil cooler and the oil filter housing there.
They're bolted, they're underneath the intake. They one hundred day
of a one failure rate one okay, wow, So I
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just I just unfortunately it has nothing to do with
the synthetic oil. It is just coincidental that oil filter
housing is leaking, okay. And what happens is that oil
puddles up in the valley of the engine and then
it then it then runs off the back of the
engine and down the transmission and the bell housing, and
it's gonna it's gonna, it's gonna right there where like
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you said, with the engine and transmission meet. So the
oil filter housing again, which comes with the cooler, that
is leaking again. Failure rate, They all do it. There's
nothing you can do to prevent it. Very very common problem.
What I would recommend that you do. I mean, you're
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probably gonna need to take it to a mechanic because
the intake's got to come off and everything like that.
It's pretty labor intensing. Do not buy an aftermarket one.
I've I'm a victim of it myself. We've we've tried
in the past to try to save customers money and
put an aftermarket one in it, and some of them,
some of them. Sometimes the cars don't even leave the shop.
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So buy one from the dealer. It comes with all
all the sensors and everything that you need. But get
one from the dealer. Whoever does it, either you take
it to the dealer or your friend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Get one from the dealer. It's not much more.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
But save yourself the headache because again it's very labor intensive,
you know, like two or three hours, you know, but
that can be labor intensive.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
But buy one from the dealer. But that oil filter housing.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Is leaking, so okay, not not not doesn't have anything
to do with the synthetic fluid.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Okay, I appreciate that I'd heard I'd heard, you know,
stories rumors that maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
But yeah, absolutely, I guarantee it.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
So okay, all right, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
All right, you're welcome, take care, Bye bye. What a
great show. Thank you for all of those who called.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I will be back next Saturday to answer all of
your car questions.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Everybody have a safe weekend, enjoy the rest of their summer.
I know it's hot. It's been rainy here in Cincinnati.
It feels like we're in Seattle. But again, everybody appreciate
the phone calls. Everybody have a great weekend. We'll be
back next week to answer all of your car questions.
You're to listen to the Car Show on fifty five KRC,
the talk stations US and the
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