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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Geez, we'll find my form. Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center
taking your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That number again,
five to one, three seven fifty five hundred. In typical
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Dane Donovan fashion. I'm running a little late. We had
multiple football games this morning. In fact, my mental son
is playing right now, so I tried to time it. Uh,
I thought I had enough time, but uh, not too bad.
But seventy five, I don't care if it's one o'clock
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in the morning, one o'clock in the afternoon, it doesn't
matter if you're on seventy five, you know near Oh shoot,
I'm gonna forget Paddock. I'm telling you what.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's always you just can never just you never know.
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It was backed up at seven o'clock in the morning.
It was backed up when I was on my way
out here. So my boys had football games over on.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The west side of town.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And for those of you familiar with the West side,
it was that visitation were busy and we had we
had my youngest had to be there at seven forty five,
and you can imagine, yes we were. He was only
ten minutes late. I was in charge of getting him there.
We were only ten minutes late. So that's I mean that,
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you know. So, but they do it right out there.
They they had getta eggs, sausage sandwiches, so it was
it was good they on their first game. And then,
like I said, my middle son is playing right now.
So uh, declan one and good luck to Nolan. So
all right again, I'm taking your phone calls and number
call five one three seven fifty five hundred. Uh, beautiful
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weather we're experiencing today in this week.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I did on Tuesday celebrate my uh my forty first birthday,
so I am forty one years old now, so so yeah,
so that's uh, and I'm falling apart, so I have uh,
can't sleep, have heartburn, you know, got to watch what
I eat. It certainly feels like I'm an old man,
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certainly so. But anyways, all right again, I'm taking your
phone calls five one three seven fifty five hundred. Let's
go to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the car show.
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Well? Day, Happy blated birthday. Well, tank, you hit sixty,
wait till you hit sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I just I tell you what I mean. My body
started shutting down at forty. I don't know what. I
don't know what I did wrong, but uh oh man.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So but anyway, we talked. We talked last week about that.
The noise the engine or energine of my element was yeah,
I'm making and I sent your video. Didn't hear anything,
so I figured i'd call back see if you listen
to it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know what. As soon as you said that, that's
why I said, oh, I got your email. But I
know I will do that in the commercial breaker. I'll
do that, I'll do in the commercial break. You sent
it to me, I got it, and I just I'm,
you know, squirrel, like I'm on to the next thing.
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So yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
At this point, I maybe i'm, you know, as much
as I got to take it apart to get the
pain off. I mean, I pulled the pulled the timing cover.
Uh that'll cover and the timing cover. I don't see
anything wrong with the cans and rockers or or the
guide or the chains at this point, any.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Of the all the rubber guides there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
For the change.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
All the guys are there, and there's.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Did you send me pictures or just the noise?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Uh, the noise. I tried to attach a picture of
the chains and it kept messing up, so I gave
up on it. But at this point I'm pretty much
resolved to just go ahead and yank, yank the engine
and drop the one I have rebuilt in it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And did you say, did you send me that last Saturday?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, right after I'm in my email right now, all right,
I'll find it, stay tuned, stay, let h let me
listen to it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You did send it to me.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I did get it, and I had full intentions on
listening to it, but I just well, but you said, again,
you don't see anything wrong with the rockers or the
chains or anything like that. And the car runs all right,
Well yeah it.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Ran, you know, it ran on making no noise. But
like I said, the oil pressure dropped, Yeah, you know,
dangerously lowed idol that a full warmed up idle. It
was down to like four p s. I So I
guess that's And.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You said, did you say, did you say you did
drop the pan or you haven't because the engine's got
to come.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Out you gotta because you gotta either drop the cradle
or that's the engine to do.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So I'm just wondering if the type of Yeah, I'm
just wondering if there's any type of restriction inside that
the oil the you know, your your oil pump screen
or whatnot. So I've seen the breed get caught up
in there. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We had one. This is this is no lie.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I had one. I can't remember what we were doing
to it. We were doing something, but anyways, the pan
had to be off and there was an I and
I'm telling you to this day, I don't know how
it happened, but there was an oil filter, I'm sorry,
an oil change sticker that somehow had got sucked into
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the oil pump screen. And the thing was the thing
was running. We had to put a pint on it
for something. I can't remember. But I'm like to this day,
I you know, I'm like, man, how did that thing
get down there?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's that's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
If somebody I would think somebody had to do that intentionally.
I would think, because there's no way you could. It
couldn't just fall in through the top of the engine.
There's no way it's gonna make it from the top
of the engine to the bottom. Somebody would have to.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Put it into the pan.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So but yeah, we found an oil change sticker inside
and again it had I.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Don't know how it was running and how it had
good oil pressure, but it ran.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So all right, Well I'll take a listen to it
and you give me an update on it. All right,
all right, thanks Paul, all right, all right, take care,
bye bye. Tony Bender is in studio today. He's probably
listening to me. Maybe maybe not, but he will contest
to If you need to get a hold of Dane Donovan,
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the I think the worst way would be email. Now
again with Paul. Paul did send it to me. I
did open it, and it's opened on my computer at work.
I just never I just never listened to it. So
I apologize, Paul. But timing chains are one of those
things that and and that's why I harp all the
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time on this show. Now, No, no, Paul had I
think he I think he said like two hundred and
fifty six thousand or somewhere near that.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So that's a pretty good life on a on a
Honda engine.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
But you know, that's why it's imperative important you keep
oiling these things because it can cost you a lot
of money down the road. So all right again, I'm
taking your phone calls. A number call five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. That number game five one,
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. Phone lines are
wide open, so love to hear from you. If you call,
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phone lines are wide open.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
So if you have a question, love to hear from you.
That's what I'm here.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's what I'm here for every Saturday, well most Saturdays.
I'm supposed to be here every Saturday, but every once
in a while, especially uh when you see's playing, I
will be absent. So but you know it's I'm here again.
I'm from Donovan's Auto entire Center and uh you can
find your nearest location at donovantire dot com. And uh
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full service and uh, every everything but bodywork. I get
that a lot. Apparently a lot of people are banging
into banging into things, so no body works, so no
paint or scratches or dense or anything like that. But uh,
you know, if you've got a lot of these newer
cars nowadays, you know you have your plastic bumpers where
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you'll bump into something and it looks like the bumper's
just kind of inverted a little bit. A lot of
times we can get those out, we can get a
heat gun and pop them out.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I do get a lot of questions. A lot of
people think that you have to knock a mirror off,
which that happens quite a bit, that you know it
needs to go to a body shop, and it does not.
We can we can handle that. It's just any major
dens or dings or collision. So uh. In fact, I
know my father in law's not listening, but he had
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a little thunder bender and we had to I had
to get I got his car in and we're able
to just All we had to do is just pull
the bumper off and get it repainted. Not a not
a big deal. So but uh yeah, So anything that
pertains to your vehicle, uh, screwed or glued, you know,
most most likely we can take care of as long
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as the parts are available, which again becomes a constant battle.
And it's almost the newer the vehicle, the harder it
is to get parts. You would think it'd be the opposite,
but it is not. They these these vehicles nowadays. Listen again,
I had the luxury of being able to buy a
newer vehicle myself and knock on wood, everything's good. But
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I'm always leary and of where I park and I
fold my mirrors in because I'm always afraid somebody's gonna
knock a mirror over. Because again, these smaller parts that
you just don't think about. I mean, all these mirrors
they have, they have heat, they have floodlights, they have
turn signals, they powerful, they you know, they have the
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sonar to make sure that if somebody's in your blind
spot that the light lights up, you know. And then
like on some of these vehicles too, like Honda, when
you turn on your right turn signal, there's a camera
built into it and instead of having you know, light
that comes on that lets you know that there's a
car beside you in your blind spot, camera comes on
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and you can see it. Well that all of that's great,
but all of that has to be it's not. It
has to be programmed to the vehicle. Right, so you
can get a you know, a used one at a
junk yard. You know, you sit there and go eight
hundred or nine hundred dollars for a mere I'll just
go to a junk yard. Well, nowadays you can't do
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that because that mirror has to be programmed to the vehicle,
and the only way to program it is you got
to have Honda software. So they make things extremely they
extremely difficult, to the point where even I think a
lot of your window switches right there, they're considered a module.
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There's a computer in there. So even if your driver's
window switch, you know, quits working, you have to remove
the door panel. You have to remove the switch, and
then the switch won't work. And a lot of people go, well,
I got another I've got bigger problems.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And it's no.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You have to go into the car, go into the software,
and you have to program that window switch to the vehicle.
And it's just not like the the olden days where
you can just plug and play. Everything on these vehicles
nowadays has to be programmed. So you know, just always
be mindful, you know, rolling up your windows, make sure
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you don't leave your windows down where water can get
I had a years ago, I had a gentleman who
had a Bentley.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Bentley Continental.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was a convertible top and now again he left
the convertible top down and water got in the window switch.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It Also the gas door.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Button was built into that switch as well, so he
couldn't get he couldn't put gas in the car unless
he replaced the window switch. Well, the window switch alone
was eight hundred dollars and then you have to remove
the panel, and with labor and anything like that, I
want to say it was around twelve hundred dollars. And
it could have been inverted just by making sure that
the top's up and which again I talked about this
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a couple of weeks ago. If you, if you can avoid,
I have a customer of mine who's dealing with a
convertible top issue with her Audi and I've been round
and around with the dealer and uh, they're not being helpful.
And basically they came to me and said, hey, Dane,
we don't know what's wrong with that. We just need
to replace the whole convertible top. It's gonna be twenty
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five thousand dollars. I call my customer, who was upset,
of course, and because I don't there's nobody else that
There's nobody else that I can get to work on it.
It's at the dealer and it's been there for three
or four months. So she goes, Dane, I only paid
thirty thousand dollars for the car. You're telling me in
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order to get my in order to have my convertible
top to work. I got to pay twenty five thousand.
I'm like, that's what they're telling me, you know, And
you know, it's it's one of those things where it's
a nice luxury, but you know, if you can live
without it it try to try to do so. Same
with sun roofs or a panoramic some roofs and all
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the power, all the buttons and everything like that. That's just
it's the more the buttons, the more the you know,
it's just more for something to break. And again, we get,
we get, you know, we get accustomed to those luxuries,
right you've got heated seats or heated steering wheels or
cool seats nowadays. You know, yes, we get. We get
used to those luxuries, and then when they break, they're like,
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oh man, I got to have them. I can't live
without them. And then you get the price of what
it's going to cost to the cost to fix it,
and you're like, never mind, I guess I can live
without it. But yeah, again, I had the luxury of
being able to buy a newer vehicle and my boys
get in the car and they want to push every
button in the thing, and I'm like, stop, touching buttons.
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If you're in Dad's vehicle, you can't. Don't touch buttons.
And it's again after the first football game that we
went to. My in laws lived down the street. We
went to their house and he has a he has
a recliner that does about everything for you. It. You know,
it'll sit you up, lean your back, put your feet up,
it's heated, it has a massager. And my middle son
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got in it and it has a controller on it.
And I'm telling you what I was about ready. Uh,
it was like up down, up down, reclined forward back. Oh.
I'm like, stop touching the buttons. Just sit in the chair.
Oh man. So again I'm taking your phone calls and
number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred
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again to go back to Paul who called earlier with
the chain issue. Uh, you know, again, I hate to
always harp on it, but it's something that it is
just painfully, painfully obvious when it comes to these vehicles
and these newer vehicles, is just making sure that you're
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at least checking the oil level. You know, I harp
on it all the time about changing it but I'm
to the point where I'm just begging people just to
make sure, just make sure that it's full. We see
a lot of ongoing issues. I had a gentleman earlier
this week. He says, Hey, my my sister in law,
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she needs an oil change, but her check engine light's on.
The cars running bad. Lo and behold, she was, you know,
way overdue and there was no oil in the car,
which led to chain issues, which led to the running issues,
which led to the check engine light. And it's it's
all something that can be averted if if we're just
at least checking it or changing it regularly now at
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all of our down entire locations, we'd be more than happy.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
If if you think your car's us an oil or
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
How to check it, we'll always be happy to help
you and show you how to check it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
If you're a do it yourself or you're like, you
know what, I'd like to.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Learn how to check my own oil, because it's it's
very important nowadays we see it a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
But if you're like, no, I don't want to get
my hands earlier.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't I don't know anything about cars, you can
always bring it to one of our locations, one of
our mechanics will come out gladly to take a look
at it, and you know, if you need a quarter
or whatnot, we can top you off. You know, it's
it's but it's it's something that's very important on these
vehicles today. We spend so much money. As you know,
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these vehicles are not getting cheaper. You know, you spend
your harder money and you need these cars to get
to work, to get your kids to school or sporting events.
And you want to make sure that, you know, you
protect your investment. I know it's a depreciating asset, but
you want to make sure that you protect it and
you make sure that you get the most life out
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of it. You know. Again, Paul when he called earlier,
you know he has a four Honda Honda Element and
has two hundred and fifty six thousand miles. Now for
some people like Tony Benner, they can rack that up
in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Because he lives way way down in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You have to stop at a I had to stop
at rest area just to get to his house. But
he can rack about miles real quick. Now for the
you know somebody who is you know, two hundred and
fifty six thousand miles. Like for me, I only live
three and a half miles away from work, so it's
going to take me a long time to get to that.
But again, whether you're driving it, you know, one hundred
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miles a day or three miles a day, you want
to make sure that you're taking care of it, making
sure that you're maintaining it regularly. And again, the cheapest
and easiest thing to do is why you're you're you
already have to go to the gas station. For most
of us, for those of you who have a Tesla
or all electric car, this isn't you know, you, this
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isn't an issue for you, But for ninety nine percent
of us, ninety five percent of us, probably you have
to go to the gas station and get gas in
your car, so that that would be a perfect time
while you're waiting, instead of getting back in your car,
getting on your phone, checking to see what you know,
somebody's status is, pop that hood and check your fluid.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If you need to add oil, I'd recommend you know,
just you know, you can always go into the gas
station and grab it. But you can also you know,
just buy a case of it and always have it
in your trunk. That way, you know if you need
to top it off, you can. It's very important and
that those are the two things you need to do,
the lifeblood of getting two hundred and three hundred thousand
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miles out of your car. Make sure you put gas
in it, make sure you change it will regularly, or
at least make sure it's full of oil. And these
cars can handle it. They can get to three hundred
thousand miles easily if you do those two things.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
So all right again, Taking your phone calls and number
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Taking your car questions.
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The number to call five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. I mentioned Kentucky, and now all of
a sudden, I've got I've got three phone calls. I
got three phone calls, one from Sincy, two from Kentucky. Yeah.
You know, if you're in the Tri State Era, you
could be anywhere in the United States. You can be
anywhere in the world. If you want to talk to me,
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my heart app and you can listen anywhere you want
you call me from. Everybody has car problems. I have
car problems. My wife certainly has car problems. In fact,
she's got I was driving her car the I think Thursday,
and she goes, I got a light out. I said, oh, yeah,
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you got a reverse light out. I got to fix that.
I knew about that. I just haven't trying to get
her car probly her car out of her hands is difficult,
so you know. But anyways, all right, let's go back
to the phones we have Shirley, Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Thank you? Well, I've got a problem. I'm I've got
a twenty seventeen kiss page and I really love it.
I've always had to put oil in it since it's
been new, and I was told that that was normal.
But anyway, here in the last several months, twice it
started out of the blue, running real rough, and took
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it to our little favorite mechanic down the road from us,
and he said that there was a spark plug that
was full of oil. He said, we cleaned the spark
plug and put it back in clean things up. He
charged me two hundred and eighty dollars both times, and
this last time he called me after you fixed it
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up and he said, well, you really need to get
a new car, or you need a new engine. And
I'm in I work full time, but I am up
in my seventies and I can't really afford a new car.
And I'm wondering if that is true, and what your
advice is?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, great, great questions so yes, Kia and Hyundai's and
I'm not picking on them, but they seem to be
the worst. Kia's, Hundais and Subaru is Now again, I'm
not picking on these models. They are notorious for burning oil,
and that's why I kind of led with the beginning
and of this. It just they they can't keep oil
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on them. They that's their job. No, it's not normal,
I will, I'll start there. No, it is not normal. Okay,
the way that these engines are designed, the rings get
all gummed up and and.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
The basically what happens is the oil.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
A lot of people go, hey, I'm having to add
oiled on my car, but there's nothing leaking. It's like, well,
because you know, your pistons have what's called piston rings,
and that oil is forced past those rings, then burns
inside the combustion chamber where your spark plug is, and
then that spark plug gets all fouled out because it's
just covered in oil over time, and then it goes
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out to tailpipe. So first and foremost, no, it's not normal.
Hyundai and Kia have a class action lawsuit and a
lot of the times when these things come in blown
up Hyundai and Kia are replacing the engines now.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
The other The downside to that is if you called
Key right.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Now said hey, my car's burning oil, they'd say, okay,
and I know that there's you guys are replacing engines. Well,
they're not just going to replace it. The only time
they replace it is if it's blown up. Okay, how
many miles are on your Kia?
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I've got one hundred and forty four And I'll tell
you We've been laid on one oil change one and
we thought, of course we bought the extra in endurance.
Take say it, but it is the warranty. And I
was told by the mechanic if you were laid on
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one oil change that they wouldn't do anything with it,
that Endurance wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
So I don't know if that's I don't know if
that's true.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I've not heard that that might be their policy. I've
never heard that. But unfortunately, yes, with that amount of miles,
Honday is not going to do anything at this point.
But the only thing that you can do, yes, you
have to make sure that you are keeping oil in
it regularly and making sure that it's full. But yeah,
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you would have to replace or rebuild that engine in
order to reverse what's going on with your vehicle. And again,
I talk about this all the time on the show
because a lot of times, ninety nine point nine percent
of all people that are driving these Hyundais, of these
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keys and these super Brews don't realize that their cars
are burnt oil. And everybody always assumes that, oh, well,
an oil light will come on if the car's low
on aill. These oil lights don't come on. I I
can't tell you the last time I saw a car
come into my shop with an oil light on.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You just it doesn't happen. So it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Being the fact that it's just awareness, being understand that yes,
it is using oil, and making sure that you just
check it regularly. Again, you know, get a case of ole,
put it in the trunk when you're filling up the car,
top it off. That's really the only thing you can
do unless you rebuild it with with the age and
the mileage. That would be extremely expensive. And there's unfortunately,
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you know, some people have there's a company out there
called Seafoam. A lot of people say you can put
seafoam in there and that'll correct it. There's another chemical
company called Barman's. They claim that if you put it
in the car, it'll fix it. I haven't come across
anything that reverses it. Maybe makes it a little bit better,
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but nothing truly reverses.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It unless you rebuild the engine.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So, you know, I get frustrated when I hear every
these dealers say, oh, that's normal, that is what they're
being told. But in my opinion, I mean, if you
go back just ten years ago, cars didn't burn.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Oil as bad as they do today.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
And you know, I hate to say it, you know, uh,
a conspiracy theories to an extent, but it's like, you know,
these cars, these manufacturers are designed, you know, their their
their object is to sell vehicles, and they.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Correct plan obsolescence, you know, And uh, there.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Is it worth putting money into? Is there anybody that
would fix it, that would rebuild it for less than
a new engine? Is there anything that can be done?
Or am I I'm looking at buying a new car
because I can't. I can't keep putting two hundred and
eighty dollars into it every time I turn around, and
I can't afford to what he quoted to.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Me on a new engine so yeah, I mean even
even a rebuild would still be just as expensive as
is a replacement. And you don't want to put it.
You don't want to put a use. A lot of
times people go, what about use, Well, you don't want
to do used because you're gonna you're gonna basically spend
all that money and that thing's going to be doing
the same thing. So it uh, you know, in my opinion, yeah,
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if you don't want to spend that type, yeah, it's
it's it's getting a new car. I know that nobody
wants a car note and I have to, but I
would stay away from the Hyundai's, all the Hyundai's, all.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
The keys, all the supers, for sure. I would try.
And again I'm not picking on them, but they are
the worst you know.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
About them that are good and uh and but that
that's a bad thing. Okay. So my next question, and I.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Don't know if you can tell me or not, And
if I buy buy another SUV small one for the
rest of my days, which way would you go?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I would either pick yeah, I would I would either
pick if you small small s u V, I would
do either the Toyota Rap four, the Honda cr V,
or the Mazda.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
C x five.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Well, that's the three that I was.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I tell you what, the Honda and the Toyota. You're
gonna sit there and go, man, I can get so
much more Mazda than I can for a Honda or
or you know, or a Toyota. I get that the Mazdas,
for some reason, nobody thinks about them. They fly. I
don't ever, have, never, ever have problems with Mazdas. I
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think that you could probably get a brand new Mazda
for what you could used Toyota or Honda. Again, I
love Honda, Honda's my brand. But you know, Mazda. They're
they're low maintenance, they're great cars, they're reliable, and like
I said, you could probably buy a new one for
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what you could buy a used Honda Toyota. But those
would be c x five Mazda c x five, Honda
CRV or Toyota Raft for those would be the three
that I would focus on. And the hybrid hybrid would
be fine. However, if you're gonna do a hybrid, only
buy a hybrid in a toy in the Toyota. I'm
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not I don't, I'm not happy, you know. I Toyota
has absolutely narrowed down and perfected the hybrid Honda and Mazda.
I'm not I'm not there yet, but Toyota. If you're
gonna buy a hybrid by the Toyota.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
And which one is that?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Which one is it the Toyota, Well I.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I yeah, I don't. I think they might have a
hybrid rap four. But mostly what they Toyota, they do.
I think they do.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I think they do that.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Or the Prius, any model of the pres Those Priuses are,
in my opinion, in today's standards, probably one of the
most reliable vehicles on the road today. I almost never
have problems with the Prius. But like I said, if
you're gonna go hybrid, Toyota period.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Okay, I sure appreciate.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You're welcome.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
We were in a dilemma, so this has helped me
a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You're very welcome. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Thanks you all right, You're very welcome, you too, Bye bye,
all right again taking your phone calls. Coming up, we
have coming up. We have Scott and Everett. You're listening
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Speaker 2 (33:01):
Although we are running out of time, so I want
to be uh polite and get to try to get
to these last two callers. And if I don't, I
do apologize, please call me back next Saturday. But I'd
like to get to him. So let's go to the phones.
We have Scott, Hey, Scott, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (33:18):
How you doing, Dane?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Uh? Do?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I have a two eleven Chevy Silverado and I was
having problems with a hard start and I changed my
fuel pump and uh, I'm getting fuel, So I figured
it was the fuel when Jacktors that's got the spider
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fuel Injacktors in it, and mine don't have a return line.
Mh and uh I put I ordered one and got
it and the ham one with a return line when
the trunk went run, but it was spitting game us out.
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So I took it out and ordered another one from
rock Out and it had a plug and where the
return line is, and the vehicle will not start. And
I was wondering that there's anything any if you would
have any ideas, what if any money rebuilds them because
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they don't have a factory factory replacement.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Uh huh what what it says here? This is a
it's a twenty eleven Chevy Silverado.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Yes, sir, four point three?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, and you you only replaced one injector.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Or all of them, all of them, all of them, okay,
it's a spider fuel injector system. Then you have to
replace and replace the whole set.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Right, so and then after you've done that, so you
it was starting, but you just had a hard start, correct, yes, sir,
a hard start on on okay. And then after replacing
those and you said, there's a it's capped off. The
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return line is capped off, yes, sir, okay. And is
it cranking? Yes, sir, all right, it's cranking. It's just
not And I mean, do you know for sure?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Iron when when the problems ahead, I.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Was gonna say, are you are you? Do you know
for sure that you're getting you're getting fuel?
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Yes, I put a gauge on it, and I'm getting
fueled to the front. I had sixty pounds of fuel
okay on my gauge.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
I don't I don't know anybody off the top of
my head that could rebuild them. Okay, I'm willing to
bet that. Go ahead, now, I'm sorry, go ahead, No,
I'm willing to bet that that that that part that
you put So let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
You would.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
You bought a part it had the return line, but
it was leak in. So you you buy one from
Rock Auto. You put that on and now it won't start, yes, sir,
And you're getting good fuel pressure. You're getting fuel to
that part and it won't start, does it yet?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Okay? Will it start on ether starting fluid?
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (36:31):
I spray a little spray with the old fuel injector
that's what I just that's how I determined that was
the fuel injunctors was uhdrney it would start on ether
Now with the new injector, with the plug in it,
I spray either in there and it won't start. But
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now on my original one it would.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It would, Yes, sir, you've got you've got, man, that's
something that I would probably have to I'm gonna I'd
have to.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
You'd have to get somebody to look at.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Off the top of my head, sir, I I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I don't know, off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That's something that's something that uh, we'd have to spend
a little bit of time on. I I don't know
why it would, why it would do that. I mean,
I'm willing to bet that there's something wrong with that
part that you got. But you know, I understand that
you don't have that many options, and I understand with
it being eleven, it's it's hard to get, you know,
factory parts because they're they're not gonna make me, they're
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gonna be obsolete, and you got to go with what's available.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
And I get that.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Unfortunately, No, I don't have anything, uh, off the top
of my head that I'd like to know though, I mean,
if you could, Uh, I think you're gonna have to
get it to a mechanic.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Yeah, I know. Shot up at Community Car Care and saying, drekay,
and I'm gonna call him, I guess, and maybe see
if he'd be willing and look at it for me.
I'm the owning forever, but I'm I'm not a mechanic,
but I do all my service work myself if I can.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Right, right right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
It's these newer cars, man, it gets harder and harder
and harder to do anything. I mean sometimes on these
some of these newer cars, you pop the hood and
you can't even find out where to put oil in it. Yes, sir,
they do everything they possibly can to deter you from
touching that thing.
Speaker 7 (38:38):
Yeah. Yeah, I figured with the two thousand and eleven
that I wouldn't have that much of an issue, but apparently, uh,
it's considered on But yeah, taking the call, and.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I'm very welcome.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
I will let you know.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
So all right, h I apologize, Everett.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm gonna be I if you could call me back,
I apologize. I'm running at it. I'm up against the
clock here. I gotta get going. I do apologize, so
please call me back, or you can call me at
one of my shops I will be this week. I
will be at the Ridge Road location, so you're welcome
to call me there. For those of you who did call,
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I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Everybody enjoy their weekend. We do have some great weather.
I'm gonna head back to to more football or more
football games, and we'll be back next Saturday to answer
all of your car questions. And let's just hope. Let's
hope that the Reds get a win tonight and the
Bengals don't. I'm not too sure after last weekend, that
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was hard to watch. Now I'll be back next Saturday
to answer all your questions. I'm Dane Donovan Donovan Donald
on Tire Center. You're listening to the car show on
fifty five krc D talkstations.
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