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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking
if you don't stop driving out hot rod.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lincoln's rocking all the ready, pretty easy down the road.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Just keep checking.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
five Cares the talk station. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center. Find your nearest location at donovantire dot com.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I am here, I am in studio.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Uh. In fact, my producer Danny said, hey, are you
going to be here because there's a UC football game
this afternoon and unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
My my middle son is in the playoffs for football,
goes to All Saints and absolutely uh loves football and
it's his passion. So he's, uh, we're gonna do a
little bit of after this, we're gonna do a little
bit of tailgating and go to the game. And uh,
(01:06):
it gets pretty intense when your son's playing. Uh, you know,
I have I have a lot more You're a lot
more involved.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So last week I had to work the chains and
I actually had to leave a little early so I
could get here. But this week the game got pushed
back a little bit, so it's always it's always fun.
But I'll tell you what. Sometimes these parents get men do.
They get intense and it gets, uh get a little
out of hand every once in a while. But it's
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like at the end of the day, it's like, you know,
they're in the sixth grade. It's just it's just a
it's just a football games, just a football game. But
some people, men do they take it to the extreme.
So again I'm taking your phone calls. Uh it's not
a normally i'd say, you know, it's a gorgeous Saturday afternoon,
but it's not. It's kind of kind of gloomy, kind
(01:59):
of gray, kind of cold. You can tell fall is.
I know we're in fall, but uh, man as it
it started early, went from sixties and seventies and beautiful,
and we got we had about we had a good,
good run at it for about two or three weeks,
maybe a month, and now it's just gloomy and gray
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and yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
So but.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I am taking your phone calls again. The number call
five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That
number again, five one, three, seven nine fifty five hundred.
This week was kind of we've been all of the shops.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've been and I've.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Called a lot of my buddies, a lot of other
owners that have shops. And again, you know, a lot
of people might think that in the automotive industry there's
there's all this competition and it's like you don't want
to to talk to another repair shopper, you don't want
that other competition.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But really it's not like that. It really isn't. And
we have a lot of other shops that we work with.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I have a real good buddy of mine, Austin from
Foreign Exchange, west Chester, and there's.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
A car that I need help with.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We have we have pretty much done everything that we
at my end that we think that we could possibly do,
and he has great expertise as well. So you know,
sometimes we lean on other repair shops to to try
to help us with these cars, and uh, but uh,
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you know they uh, it's it's it's I think it's
important because you may have it's great to have all
the knowledge, but.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's not always the case.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And sometimes there's something that sometimes you know, you get
a repair shop that might have a little bit of
I don't know, tunnel vision where they're just focused on
one thing and and don't look at the big picture, right,
And so it's always important to work with others and
work with other people and at the end make sure
that we get your car fixed, you know. So Again,
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then I'm gonna call five one, three, seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Let's go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Hey, Dean Hawaii, I want your opinion on the new
hybrid cause my wife's in the market of purchasing either
a Toyota Rep four or the Honder CIV or something
that size and everything. She's looking at the hybrids and
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around buying
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a hybrid, okay to me. To me, it's more for
problems that could go wrong. And I do my own
we piers as much as I can do, as far
as oil change, rotate tires, braks, tune ups, change filters,
all that stuff, and I don't know, having a hard
(05:01):
time wrap of my head around us. Well, can you talk.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Me into astely? I can?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No, no, no, I can talk you into it. So
here here hear me out on this. So, yes, there
are more components, and yes there are there is an
opportunity for more things to break. However, if and I've
talked about this on my show, if I was going
to buy a hybrid.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It would only be a Toyota. Okay, I would not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I love Honda, don't get me wrong, but Toyota has
absolutely nailed how to make a hybrid. They they they
it's they're almost, in my opinion, bulletproof. Now you said
RAB four, which is fine. I typically will lead people
to the Prius, but that's a smaller four or SUV
(05:53):
or a smaller vehicle, smaller car that doesn't sit up
as high.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I'm telling you that the you know, the small ISSUEV.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So if if you were gonna do that, the RAT
four would be the one that I would recommend. I
would not buy any other hybrid.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
In my opinion, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And I like Connas, if she's gonna go Honda, get
the CRV, get the radio, just get the gas engine.
I don't have one hundred percent confidence in Honda's hybrid yet.
I haven't seen a ton of problems with them, but
I have where Toyota. I mean, those things are almost bulletproof.
I mean the cars, they they do a phenomenon Toyota
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figured it out, so I'm not That's what I'm yeah,
I mean, the only the only downside is it depends
on how long you want to keep it. But you know,
I have a pres at my shop right now. It
has two hundred thousand miles on it. Two I think
it's two o nine two hundred and nine thousand miles
on it.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Ladies, Never she goes, nothing's ever broke on it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I've just put tires, changed oil and still running good,
still has a hybrid battery in it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That's the only thing that I see.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The hybrid batteries will eventually at some point go bad.
They're four or five grand to replace. And then the inverters,
which is you know, I've seen those go bad, but
that was like earlier, the earlier Toyota priuses and whatnot.
You see the inverters go bad. But really, as far
as what's out there today, I don't As long as
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you go to Toyota, you'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Okay, She's got a twenty eighteen babble right now and
S sixty and it just hit fifty thousand miles. But
it's been an electronic nightmam. So she just wants to
get rid of it. Plus it's for me. We're in
our seventies. It's not that easy getting in and out
of it. So she's looking at you know, like I said,
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the REP four the CIV.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, I mean I get rid of that Volvo and
a heartbeat. I've never been a fan of Volvo. I
don't like Volvo. They're hard to work on. They're a nightmare.
Extremely Yeah, I just I've never been a fan of Volvo.
But I would tell you what I would lead, lean
on and have your wife by the Toyota.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
There's nothing wrong with the hybrids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm not a I personally don't like them, just because
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You get in them, you push the button and you
don't hear an engine running or whatnot. It's just not
for me. But heck, they get great gas mileage. And
like I said, Toyota does a phenomenal job with their hybrids,
So lean to that and get the Toyota. I would
not if you're gonna get a Honda, just get the
regular gas engine. But what I would tell you, though,
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and what I see a lot of and I'm not
picking on Honda, Hyundai and Kia are the worst when
it comes to this. But the Hondas over time, around
fifty thousand miles, they start burning oil and people don't
know it. People a lot of times associate that there's
there'll be an oil light that kicks on when the
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you know, when it's low on oil, and they just don't.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
They do not. So yeah, I would, I would stick
with the Toyota.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I myself have a twenty thirteen hond A pilot and
it's got ninety eight thousand and every week I check
the tiet pressure, I check the oil, check all the fluids,
and mine, for some reason, does not burn a drop
of oil.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The pilots usually don't. The V six is the it's
it's the four cylinders. Oh, it's the four cylinders that
burn oil. Yeah, but the pilots usually don't. Usually don't
put uh they put that same engine in the odysseys,
and there's some odysseys that'll do it. It's it's certain years,
but I love Hannas. My one of my first cars
(09:56):
was the Hones Civic. I still have it. It's it's
actually twenty five years old this year, so I can
put historical tags on it this year.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So yeah, A friend of mine just bought a Mazda
c X five fifty.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh c X fifty Okay, I think it five.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I'm five. That's yeah, very nice car, a little tight,
but I'm doing research and everything. I guess it's not
a good DIY type of vehicle for some reason.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean, I love Masas. I tell they Masa's.
For some reason, nobody thinks about them. They kind of
fly under the radar. They don't do a ton of advertising.
But I'll tell you what, I'd buy a Mazda and
a heartbeat. In fact, my cousin Kyle that works with me,
I mean he bought one for his wife. I'm telling
you they fly on. Nobody thinks about Masa. Everybody wants.
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Everybody thinks about Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota, but nobody thinks
about Maza. And I'm telling you they're cheap to work on.
They never have problems. Mas is a great brand, and
I I just I don't think anybody gives him enough credit.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But hardly ever do I have problems with the males
day ever.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Oh, I'll have to take a look at those then, But.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
They don't I don't think they make a hybrid.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
But uh no they don't, which is good exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, I like, like I said, I'm not into the hybrid.
It's just not my forte just not what I like.
You know, everybody's got to be comfortable. If you're gonna
spend forty fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car, better
be something you like, right. But it's just But again,
if it's gonna be a hybrid, Toyota is the way
to go.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
But if it was me between.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The CRV, the the Raft four and the mass the
c X five, I buy the CX five every day
of the week.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh good to know. So all right, thank you so much, dame.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hey, you're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You
have a great.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Day, you too. Enjoy the weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Take care, bye bye. He was as you could tell,
he was from Boston, Massachusetts. And I get a lot
of phone calls from Boston. And you, guys, I love you, guys, man,
you you you always always call me. And I had
an opportunity to go to Boston, Massachusetts and gorgeous city.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Loved it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And but I don't think I can move out of Cincinnati.
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Born and raised.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I've pretty much lived most of my life in about
a ten ten fifteen mile radius. And but you know,
I told my boys. I was telling the customer the
other day, told all my boys. I says, once you
turn eighteen, kicking you out your mom and I are
going down to Florida once it gets cold like this.
Now it's not cold right now, but I'm moving down
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to Florida in the in the in the heat. So
but anyway, so all right again taking the phone calls,
and I'm gonna call five one, three, seven, four nine.
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Speaker 4 (13:45):
Welcome back and taking your car questions.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The number call the number two call five one three
seven nine fifty five hundred. Dot number gain five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan
from Donovan's Auto entire Center here in the Cincinnati, Indiana,
Kentucky tri state area. You can find your nearest location
at donovantire dot com. And yeah, kind of a kind
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of a gloomy day and uh, but uh here again
to answer all your car questions. I was trying to Uh,
I'm trying to track down Tony Bender. I don't know
where he's at, you know, I can't get a hold
of him. Danny can't get a hold of him. So
he must be napping or something. So if anybody's around
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Tony Bender, tell him I'm trying to get a hold
of him.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
He might be napping.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, exactly, he's you know, but I would go to
his house. But you know, it takes me like an
hour to get there, way too far for me to drive.
In fact, there's a rest area on the way to
his house that I have to stop at before I
get there.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It's just too far for me.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm spoiled with only having to drive three and a
half miles to work.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Every day. But yeah, man, Danny's twenty five minutes from
that's just too much driving for me.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So all right, taking your phone calls and I'm gonna
call five one, three, five hundred.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Let's go to Paul. Hey, Paul walk in the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Well, we talked a couple of times about this element, uh,
you know that pulled an engine that started making a racket.
And I pulled the pan off that engine today and
there's like a fine gray sludge in it, and then
pulled the oil pumping balance shaft assembly apart, and there's
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at least one journal in there and bearing that's that's
not in very good shape. I'm just wondering if if
that sludge is is you know where particles likely wear
particles in that journal bearing going back? Yeah, and would
that would that be enough to have the oil pressure tank.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely, okay, yeah, absolutely absolutely, so, I mean, correct me
if I'm wrong. But you had like three hundred something
thousand on it, didn't you, or close to us.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Two hundred and two hundred and sixty something.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, it happens, Yeah, but I mean, yeah, absolutely absolutely,
that would cause it all right, well, well get it,
get it, get it, get it rebuilt.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
So that yeah, well that'll be my next project.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Get it to the machine shop and get it to
new new new pistons, new rings, new main bearings.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
It's got the pistons and pistons and rings and rod
bearings were only only about sixty thousand miles on those,
and it still wasn't it wasn't using any oil. So
I me, I may try and just do the crank
bearrings while I got the well, got out of the
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part and yeah, chicks the oil pump and put a
pick together.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, put a new oil pump on it, new strainer,
and make sure that there's no debris in there.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I told you there's no metal shading ring, just this
fine gray.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Did I tell you? I think I did.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We had we were putting an oil paint on a
on a truck I think it was. It was a truck.
I can't remember. Anyways, Long story short, in the oil
pickup tube, there was an oil change sticker, like.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah, I remember you talking about that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And like the car didn't have any oil pressure issues
or anything, and we were just putting an oil paint
on it. And I'm like, there's no in my opinion,
there's no way somebody dropped it down through the like
it had to have gone through, Like somebody put that
oil change sticker through the drain plug hole.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It had to have.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I just don't see it going down from the from
the top because the channels to the bottom are they're
they're just too small.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But crazy what what I've found over the years.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But for the for the rebuilt engine I put in,
I should I have gone with the conventional oil for
break in I wound up using because I always do
use synthetic oil.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Going to be issue. No, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And there's already kind of break in. I should do
other than just burying the speed and taking.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It, you know, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean I probably would just kind of drive it
like Miss Daisy, just I wouldn't be hammering on it.
I you know, maybe five thousand miles, get about five
on it, or maybe three thousand. Change the oil because
there is going to be probably a little bit of
debris in there. Make sure you have a drain plug
that has a magnet on it. A lot of the
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older used to always have a magnet on it, so
all those medical particles would stick to that magnet and
not get back into the engine. And so you could
probably find one online and get a drain plug again
with a little magnet on it that that will keep
those all your I mean most of your transmission pans
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or drain plug gaskets or drained plugs are going to
have a magnet on it too, because you're going to
have those gears and the clutches and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
And it keeps that debris.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But I would just drive it, you know, drive it
to drive it slow, don't beat on it, and change
the oil at three thousand.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So you know, when I when I bought my new,
my newer.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Truck that I have now, I actually contacted a buddy
of mine that worked has worked worked on Forge for
thirty five years. I said, hey, look just bought a
brand new truck. It had zero miles on it when
I bought it. Is there a break in period? He goes, No, Actually,
the newer cars have an additive in the oil that
helps break it in. He goes, Just change it at
five thousand miles, you'll be fine. So in your in
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your particular case, I mean I if I were you,
I'd probably do it at about three. Drive it, drive
it easy, don't hammer on it, and maybe at three
thousand miles, change the oil, change the filter, and I
think it'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, it'll put me on on schedule at about two
hundred and seventy thousand for every I typically change it
every five.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that's where you need to be at every five.
All right, all right, thank you sir, have a great day.
All right, bye bye. You know again, I talk about
that all the time, and it's you know, some of
you who listen to me, you're probably well here he goes,
he's on his rant again. But I'm telling you it
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is so important that you change your oil regularly. Please
do not listen to your neighbor who's a mechanic for
thirty years and says, oh no, you're good to change
it lunch a year. Don't listen to the guy who
sold you the car. Don't listen to the salesman. Don't
listen to you know what the car says, Oh I
have you know I still have thirty percent life left
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in the oil.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I have cars every single day that come in they
have no oil. In fact, this morning I had there
was a miscommunication between a customer and one of my
service advisors. She thought her car she couldn't find her
keys to her car. They were locked in it. Long
story short. I went over to my oil chain shop.
Customer came in and the last three times of that
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customer had been there, there was a note in the
ticket that, hey, the car was low on oil when
it arrived, because we want to check the oil to
see if it's low on arrival. She did have an
active oil leak, and we did check it and there
was no oil on the dipstack. So and again, everybody
has this pre notion that it's like.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Hey, my car will let me know when I'm low
on oil. They do not do that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
They're supposed to, and they should, but I literally have
cars I will a lot of times. You know, we
have a car come in, check engine, lights on, it's
running rough and uh, you know, we catch what oil
comes out. And I mean there will be cars that
come to me that have a half a court or
less of oil in them. A half a court. That
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car might hold four or five six courts. It'll have
a half a quarter of oil in it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No oil light.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I can't tell you the last time. Again, I've been
doing this twenty six years. I cannot tell you the
last time I had a vehicle in my shop that
had a low oil light on or an oil light period.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
They don't come on.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but at the same time,
I believe that they're designed to do that. So you
blow them up and then you have to go out
buy a new one. And that's why it's so important
and so vital that you change your oil or check
it regularly.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
As long as it full. As long as it's full,
I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But so many times these cars come in and have
so many problems, and it was it's gonna cost. I
understand that oil changes are expensive. You know, the twenty
nine to ninety five oil change is gone. All right,
it's in our rear view mirror. You're not gonna see
them anymore because of the synthetic oil, and most cars
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require it, and the oil has become thinner and thinner
and thinner. Heck, Toyota now has a zero W eight oil.
When I got into this business, it was fifteen forty
or ten thirty. That was about it. Now there's five
twenty zero, twenty zero sixteen. Now we're down to zero eight.
I mean it is like water.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I mean, pretty soon we're just gonna be put water
on our engines. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It would never advise you to do that. But it's
that thin, it's almost that thin. So and these cars
are burning it, and they do not tell you. They
do not tell you when the car is low. They
don't tell you when they're empty. You'll have running issues
or check engine lights. If you could just take your
time while you're getting gas, most of you, even if
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you have a hybrid, you still got to put gas
in it. Okay, unless you have a Tesla, which would
be the only electric car that I would recommend you buy.
But unless you're when you're at the gas station, instead
of getting on your phone, just check your oil. I
promise you you'll get to three hundred thousand miles out
of your vehicle, if you just make sure it's full
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and change it regularly, that's what we need to do.
That's the conversation that we need to be having and
talking about. And I try to harp on it as
much as I possibly can, but it's just I you know,
we tell people all the time, Hey, look, you know
we call a customer, Hey, you need this, this, this, this,
and and by the way, you're a d do for an
oil chain, Well, don't do the oil change right now.
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My car says it has thirty percent life left in it.
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That does not tell you that's not the level. That
is just the life.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Your car literally could have a half a quarter of
oil in it, and your your you're if you've got
a Honda and it says you have thirty percent life left,
guess what You're gonna keep driving it and all you're
doing is damaging your car. It's and it's gonna cost
you a fortune. Cars are expensive. Doesn't look like they're
gonna come down anytime soon or ever. So why not
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invest the time and invest the money in just making
sure that you check it and change it regularly, make it,
you know, a weekly habit on Saturday mornings or Saturdays
from one to two when you listen to me, get
out there, pop your hood.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Just check your oil. I do it all my vehicles.
It's so simple.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It takes less than a minute, and it will prolong
the life of your vehicle tenfold if you just make
sure it's full of oil.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
So something to think about again.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Taking your phone calls and number to call five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred phone lines wide open, coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
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Speaker 1 (26:55):
On fifty five KRCD talk station on Dame Day Onnovan
Here every Saturday from one to two to answer all
of your car questions.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
You can always call me at.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I shouldn't say any of them, but majority of
them you can always usually get a hold of me.
There was a gentleman actually called last Saturday and they
could not find his name is Mike.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I think it's Mike. I have his business card on
my phone or on my on my desk at work.
But ambient air.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He had a check angelight on for an ambient air
temperature sensor and he goes dealer, can't even find it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I said, I'm up for the challenge.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Bring it to me, and uh, sure enough, he brought
it to me and guess what we could We found
it remnants of it. But a lot of the Fords
would put him it was. It's really weird. It's like
right in the middle of the year it changed models.
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It was an early model. The dealer says, it's in
the past side mirror, which we popped off the cap.
There was a connector in there, but there was no sensor,
which again he had explained to me. And then there
but then if you pulled up a wiring diagram, it
said that it was underneath the hood, right in front
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of the radiator, which we had the wires. We found
the wires, but it was plugged into just a dummy plug.
And I ordered both sensors and neither one of them
are going to work. So I personally think he's got
an aftermarket mirror in the car. In the truck. I
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think that's where we need to be at, and I
think were I'll have to replace him. However, in order
to get this gentleman's check engine light out, I have
to put a mirror in it, a new one seven hundred.
Used ones are like nine hundred. I don't know why
I used ones more than a new one. And uh,
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He's like, well, Dane, why why was it out? Why
when I bought the truck did I have it for
six months? And now it's come on And I'm like,
I'm not quite sure, but we're not able to locate.
We found two connectors for potential ambient air temperature sensors,
but neither one of them are going to work.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I explained him.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's like, well, I'll just get a used one, and
I said, well, you better be careful with that because
there's probably many many options. Well, sure enough, I looked,
and I'm telling you it's a It was a twenty
eighteen O four production date four of eighteen, and there
was probably thirty, if not forty, different mirror options for
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a twenty eighteen Ford F one fifty.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm not lying, Mike Solid, I showed him.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I'm like, you can't just throw a slap of mirror
on this card you got or this truck. You've got
to put the right mirror on, otherwise we're going to
be in the same boat that we're already in. And
it's just mind boggling to me that a vehicle that
they produce is going to have thirty or forty different
mirror options.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
It's asinine.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It just doesn't make any sense to have that many
options for a side view mirror. But they've got the
lane departure, they've got the blind spot, they're heated, they
have cameras, they're power they're power folding, the floodlight and
then you act. You know, It's just there's so many
different options on these things. So in this particular situation
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for this gentleman, I'm like, hey, don't just go buy
a used one, because if the connector's not right, that
ambient air temperature sensor is not going to work.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
And now we're back in the same boat.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So it's just crazy some of the things that how
they make these cars, manufactured these cars nowadays, it's just crazy.
On a side note, too, Tony Bender finally did get
back to me on the radio or on my phone.
I just want to make sure he's okay, because he
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counts me all the time about not answer my phone,
and then I call him and Danny called him, and
neither one of them he answered. So but we found him.
We located him. He said his phone was on the
charger in the kitchen. That's why he didn't respond to us.
But he's uh, seems to be doing well. All right,
let's go to the phones.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
We have Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
How can help well Dale? You can help me, I'm
pretty sure you. I want to say start off by
saying thanks for giving me some guidance on the timing.
Jane Tensioner issues the exorbitant costs that I was looking
at for repair and that I don't may remember that
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call from several weeks ago. I've got two Toyota related questions,
once for the events and the other one is probably
a real quick and a quick one on my Toyota
Tundra two thousand Tundra uh on the Venza as uh.
Periodically I'll get an interesting variety of warning lights coming on.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Most of them seem to be related to.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The all wheel drive steering Uh you know yeh uh. Anyway, Yeah,
the stability light. I won't see the lights on, you know,
it's maybe for a day or two, and then shazam.
You know, I've got this display in front of make
it holy smoke, you know, I'm finna you know, the breaks,
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the master cylinders leaking or something like that, and I'll
shut the car off, get back in at a few
minutes later that array of lights has gone out, may
not come on again for a while. You know, I
have no idea where to begin.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
To look for where the cause of.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
The might be.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, so is it the is it the spill?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Is it the stability light, the tractic control and the
ABS light coming on.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yes, okay, it's kind of got a.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Car with the little swivels and abs and check engine
light pop on when that happens or no, I don't recall.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, but there's so many lights.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yeah, maybe it's not.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
So yeah, so a lot some manufacturers, and I think
toyotas I'm almost certain Toyota is one of them. If
the check engine light comes on, the car goes, oh
wait a minute, check engine lights on. Well, let's turn
off the traction control of the stability in the ABS
because there's something wrong with the engine.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
So we're going to turn those systems off in order.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
To make sure that you don't damage them because there's
an engine. There's a problem with the engine. So double
check the next time it happens. Find out if the
check engine light is on included with those three lights. Now,
if the check engine light is not on, then yes,
we do have something going on with traction control stability.
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Now that is nine out of ten times that is
usually an indication that there is.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
A bad wheel bearing or wheel speed sensor.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So the car needs to know exactly what the wheel
speed is in order for the traction control, the stability
abs those all need to work.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
But in order for those to work, they need to
know what the wheel speed is.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So if a sensor is dropping out and they can
do that, they can work and then not work, and
then work and then not work.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
They can do that.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So if the check engine light is coming on and
then all those lights are coming on and they're all
on that at the same time, then we need to
focus on why the check engine light's popping on, because
it's just shutting those systems down because it's sees something
wrong with the engine. However, if the check engine light
is not coming on at all and it's just those
three lights, what we need to figure out is we
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need to you're unfortunately, you're not gonna be able.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
To do it. It needs to be hooked up to
a scanner.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Most likely needs to be scanned, find out if there's
a code for a wheel speed sensor not sending signal.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Sometimes they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And then what we do is then we'll drive the
vehicle while the wheels while we're while we're driving it,
we've got it plugged in and we're looking at the
wheel speeds and if one of them is dropping off
a lot of times they drop off. Do you notice
it at higher speeds or lower speeds that the light
will kick on you.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Or well, yeah, I haven't really made any differentiation there,
but I do know certainly at lower speed, so you
know it, we'll call it intown driving is when you
know I see it, probably you know, four or five
times a week, not more.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, so probably if you're noticing it more at like
city driving and at lower speeds, usually that means that
the wheel speed sensor is dropping or losing signal, and
they'll typically do that at like ten miles or less.
They'll just drop off and they quit sending signal. It's
usually just an indication that those are going on. Now
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the wires going to it could be bad and we
could go on and you know, it could be a module.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Butt's let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Focus on what speed you notice it the most at
and whether or not the check it in light's coming on.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
That'll be able to give us a better determination.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
But again, a scan tool will identify in one hundred
percent find out exactly what the result and the cause
of that issue is. There's nothing wrong with all those systems.
It's just like it's not seeing a signal. So it's like, hey,
we're not seeing a signal, so we don't know what
the wheel speed is. So we're gonna shut everything off,
turn the lights on, scaria, and then you know, you'll
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still have normal braking, but you won't have the stability,
the abs or the traction control. But you'll still have
normal braking. So but find that out and then you
get back to me. But most likely you just have
wheel speed tension. It's dropping out. What I will tell
you too, most manufacturers will some manufacturers will. You can
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buy just the wheel speed sensor. I would recommend that
you don't buy an aftermarket one.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Try to buy one from the dealer.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They are expensive, probably two three hundred bucks, and you're
looking at it, it's like, oh my gosh, it's is
just a piece of plastic and wiring. Now, some manufacturers
the only way you can service the wheel speed sensor
is by replacing the wheel bearing, which is far more expensive.
So if you get it to a shop and they're like, hey,
you need a wheel speed sensor, but you need a
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wheel bearing, and it's going to be you know, eight
nine hundred dollars that's that that that that can't happen.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, they're not jerking me around.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
It's it's it's an honest yeah situation.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
So yeah, Well real quick then on the on the tundra,
it's a two thousand. I gotta tell you, I.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Love that truck.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It has just been an outstanding.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
Worker for me.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
What is it? Yeah, it's a two house in the tundra,
four by four. Uh, the rear differential, the plate will
say that facing the back, not where the drive line's
going in. There's no way to remove that cover. It's
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welding on there and unfortunately some brust is built up there.
Now I've got a couple of pinhole leaks in the cover,
which you know, I've done a little bit we'll call
it hillbilly engineering, where I've taken a seiler and and
sort of open up the hole a little bit, put
in a sheet metal screw and you know, short screw
(38:40):
and you know, you know, chizemb We're done. But periodically
it will begin to leak again, either because there's a
new hole or it's leaking around the open. Is there
any reasonable way to replace that cover, because it looks
like for me it would have to be ground off
in a new one.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Well, yeah, so the old thing so the only thing,
and I'm kind of up against the time time.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Here, but here's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yes, you're gonna have to get it to a machine shop,
or you can get it to me.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
What we do is we cut him out, grind down.
You cut him out as best as you can. You
grind down what you can. There's a company out there,
it's called Dormant Products d O r m An Dormant Products.
They sell a kit. You buy that kit. I have
a guy that comes in, he welds a new one on.
We paint it out the door. Now, yes, there's a
(39:32):
cost involved there, but it's way expense way cheaper to
do that then replace the whole differential. But yeah, unfortunately
you got to get it to some type of metal
shop or a fabricator. You cut out that old that
old one, you grind it down to a new, you know,
flat surface, you put it on.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah, but the part itself is probably.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know, I can't I can't remember. Don't hold me
to this, but fifty buck yeah, less than a hundred bucks.
It's it's like green because it's just as a green
primer on it. You just got to get find somebody
that can cut it.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Out new surface.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
You got to get a welder to weld that on,
put some slap some pain on it. That's really the
only way that you can do it. Now, again, there's
costs involve you. You know, probably four or five hundred
bucks total invested. But I mean to replace a real
differential on that thing is just going to be too expensive.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
So that that's how we do it.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
So we're good.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
That was good to know that that can be done.
You know I mentioned dormant truck.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Yeah, they're all different.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yeah, outstanding power plant. So all right, listen, thanks for everyone.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
I really appreciate you being here and.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Not a problem. Thank you for the call. You have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
So all right, uh taking your phone calls in order
to call five one, three, seven four nine, fifty five
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the phones we've got.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
We have Fred, Hey, Fred, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (41:57):
First time list, first time color?
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Well, I appreciate the phone call. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Okay, re see this body twenty twenty three Equinox thirty
thousand miles going to be my first oil change. So
I bought mobile one. I gotta good price on it
and I always use it. Factory OEM oil filter won't
use nothing else for sure. I have a friend that's
a long time engine builder and he's really gotten strong
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on Rotella motor oil. While is your thought from Rotella
because I know the majority of their weights are straight weights?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, I I mean if if if you had a diesel,
I would tell you Rotella, but with the Equinox, I
like Mobile one. I'd rather see you put the Mobile
one in there than the Rotella. Again, Rotella is great,
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but usually we use the Rotella when we're put in
diesels with your particular car.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Mobile one.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Great.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I mean I like Shell, don't get me wrong, And
Shelle makes Rotella, but you know Mobile one or Vaveling,
we use Reledye. You know, it's kind of your own preference.
The more important thing than anything you know, is just
making sure you're changing it regularly and checking it.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
That is there. That's the biggest key.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I'll be honest with you again, I've been in I've
been doing this for twenty six years. I've never told
a customer, Hey, the reason your car's broke down is
because you put the you put Rotel oil in it
and not Mobile one.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
You know, the cab.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
I've been in car business myself for since seventy seven,
working in the auto parks business for many years, and
then I was a lot of mone of detailer for
many years. I learning around christ Or products for many
years too. This was actually my first Chevrolet I bought
for a long time, and I've heard pros and cons
about their transmissions and other problems, but it's been a
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great car so far.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
The only thing, you know, my wife has a GMC.
She drives a GMCU Coon, which was a Chevy. But
the only thing that I'll tell you, and what I
see a lot of in the Equinoxes, is they burn oil.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
They're very very common.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Now, They're not going to do it at thirty thousand,
You're gonna see it at seventy five, eighty one hundred thousand.
They do that, and most manufacturers do so as long
as you're checking it and making sure it's full. You know, again,
I'm not really hemmed up on the actual brand. As
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long as you're putting in what the car is required,
whether who makes it or not, and making sure that
it's full. That's the best thing that you can do
for the car. But I do like Mobile one as
a product. But you know, I think i'd go with
the mobile one. Just make sure you're checking it regularly.
It sounds like you if you're.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Changing your own oil factory filter.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
I recommend I do that on my own vehicle, and
I think you can't go wrong as long as it's
as long as it's full. So all right, thank you
so much, Freck.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
All right, take care, bye bye, great question.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
These are the questions though, and I love to answer
because it's so important, something that we need to talk about.
We don't talk about it enough. I know I do
what I want everybody else to know about this.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Something that when you sit down at dinner tonight you
need to You need to talk about checking your oil
and changing it regularly.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
Most important thing.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
So I'll be back next Saturday to answer you. Are
you all of your car questions? I'm Dane Donovan from
Donovan's Otto entire Center. You're listening to the Car Show
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Just keep checking.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
I am here, I am in studio.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Uh. In fact, my producer Danny said, hey, are you
going to be here because there's a UC football game
this afternoon and unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
My my middle son is in the playoffs for football,
goes to All Saints and absolutely uh loves football and
it's his passion. So he's, uh, we're gonna do a
little bit of after this, we're gonna do a little
bit of tailgating and go to the game. And uh,
(01:06):
it gets pretty intense when your son's playing. Uh, you know,
I have I have a lot more You're a lot
more involved.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So last week I had to work the chains and
I actually had to leave a little early so I
could get here. But this week the game got pushed
back a little bit, so it's always it's always fun.
But I'll tell you what. Sometimes these parents get men do.
They get intense and it gets, uh get a little
out of hand every once in a while. But it's
(01:37):
like at the end of the day, it's like, you know,
they're in the sixth grade. It's just it's just a
it's just a football games, just a football game. But
some people, men do they take it to the extreme.
So again I'm taking your phone calls. Uh it's not
a normally i'd say, you know, it's a gorgeous Saturday afternoon,
but it's not. It's kind of kind of gloomy, kind
(01:59):
of gray, kind of cold. You can tell fall is.
I know we're in fall, but uh, man as it
it started early, went from sixties and seventies and beautiful,
and we got we had about we had a good,
good run at it for about two or three weeks,
maybe a month, and now it's just gloomy and gray
(02:20):
and yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
So but.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I am taking your phone calls again. The number call
five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That
number again, five one, three, seven nine fifty five hundred.
This week was kind of we've been all of the shops.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've been and I've.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Called a lot of my buddies, a lot of other
owners that have shops. And again, you know, a lot
of people might think that in the automotive industry there's
there's all this competition and it's like you don't want
to to talk to another repair shopper, you don't want
that other competition.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But really it's not like that. It really isn't. And
we have a lot of other shops that we work with.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I have a real good buddy of mine, Austin from
Foreign Exchange, west Chester, and there's.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
A car that I need help with.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We have we have pretty much done everything that we
at my end that we think that we could possibly do,
and he has great expertise as well. So you know,
sometimes we lean on other repair shops to to try
to help us with these cars, and uh, but uh,
(03:37):
you know they uh, it's it's it's I think it's
important because you may have it's great to have all
the knowledge, but.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's not always the case.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And sometimes there's something that sometimes you know, you get
a repair shop that might have a little bit of
I don't know, tunnel vision where they're just focused on
one thing and and don't look at the big picture, right,
And so it's always important to work with others and
work with other people and at the end make sure
that we get your car fixed, you know. So Again,
(04:09):
then I'm gonna call five one, three, seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Let's go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Hey, Dean Hawaii, I want your opinion on the new
hybrid cause my wife's in the market of purchasing either
a Toyota Rep four or the Honder CIV or something
that size and everything. She's looking at the hybrids and
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around buying
(04:40):
a hybrid, okay to me. To me, it's more for
problems that could go wrong. And I do my own
we piers as much as I can do, as far
as oil change, rotate tires, braks, tune ups, change filters,
all that stuff, and I don't know, having a hard
(05:01):
time wrap of my head around us. Well, can you talk.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Me into astely? I can?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No, no, no, I can talk you into it. So
here here hear me out on this. So, yes, there
are more components, and yes there are there is an
opportunity for more things to break. However, if and I've
talked about this on my show, if I was going
to buy a hybrid.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It would only be a Toyota. Okay, I would not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I love Honda, don't get me wrong, but Toyota has
absolutely nailed how to make a hybrid. They they they
it's they're almost, in my opinion, bulletproof. Now you said
RAB four, which is fine. I typically will lead people
to the Prius, but that's a smaller four or SUV
(05:53):
or a smaller vehicle, smaller car that doesn't sit up
as high.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I'm telling you that the you know, the small ISSUEV.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So if if you were gonna do that, the RAT
four would be the one that I would recommend. I
would not buy any other hybrid.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
In my opinion, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And I like Connas, if she's gonna go Honda, get
the CRV, get the radio, just get the gas engine.
I don't have one hundred percent confidence in Honda's hybrid yet.
I haven't seen a ton of problems with them, but
I have where Toyota. I mean, those things are almost bulletproof.
I mean the cars, they they do a phenomenon Toyota
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figured it out, so I'm not That's what I'm yeah,
I mean, the only the only downside is it depends
on how long you want to keep it. But you know,
I have a pres at my shop right now. It
has two hundred thousand miles on it. Two I think
it's two o nine two hundred and nine thousand miles
on it.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Ladies, Never she goes, nothing's ever broke on it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I've just put tires, changed oil and still running good,
still has a hybrid battery in it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That's the only thing that I see.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The hybrid batteries will eventually at some point go bad.
They're four or five grand to replace. And then the inverters,
which is you know, I've seen those go bad, but
that was like earlier, the earlier Toyota priuses and whatnot.
You see the inverters go bad. But really, as far
as what's out there today, I don't As long as
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you go to Toyota, you'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Okay, She's got a twenty eighteen babble right now and
S sixty and it just hit fifty thousand miles. But
it's been an electronic nightmam. So she just wants to
get rid of it. Plus it's for me. We're in
our seventies. It's not that easy getting in and out
of it. So she's looking at you know, like I said,
(07:56):
the REP four the CIV.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, I mean I get rid of that Volvo and
a heartbeat. I've never been a fan of Volvo. I
don't like Volvo. They're hard to work on. They're a nightmare.
Extremely Yeah, I just I've never been a fan of Volvo.
But I would tell you what I would lead, lean
on and have your wife by the Toyota.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
There's nothing wrong with the hybrids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm not a I personally don't like them, just because
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You get in them, you push the button and you
don't hear an engine running or whatnot. It's just not
for me. But heck, they get great gas mileage. And
like I said, Toyota does a phenomenal job with their hybrids,
So lean to that and get the Toyota. I would
not if you're gonna get a Honda, just get the
regular gas engine. But what I would tell you, though,
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and what I see a lot of and I'm not
picking on Honda, Hyundai and Kia are the worst when
it comes to this. But the Hondas over time, around
fifty thousand miles, they start burning oil and people don't
know it. People a lot of times associate that there's
there'll be an oil light that kicks on when the
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you know, when it's low on oil, and they just don't.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
They do not. So yeah, I would, I would stick
with the Toyota.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
I myself have a twenty thirteen hond A pilot and
it's got ninety eight thousand and every week I check
the tiet pressure, I check the oil, check all the fluids,
and mine, for some reason, does not burn a drop
of oil.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The pilots usually don't. The V six is the it's
it's the four cylinders. Oh, it's the four cylinders that
burn oil. Yeah, but the pilots usually don't. Usually don't
put uh they put that same engine in the odysseys,
and there's some odysseys that'll do it. It's it's certain years,
but I love Hannas. My one of my first cars
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was the Hones Civic. I still have it. It's it's
actually twenty five years old this year, so I can
put historical tags on it this year.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So yeah, A friend of mine just bought a Mazda
c X five fifty.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh c X fifty Okay, I think it five.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I'm five. That's yeah, very nice car, a little tight,
but I'm doing research and everything. I guess it's not
a good DIY type of vehicle for some reason.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean, I love Masas. I tell they Masa's.
For some reason, nobody thinks about them. They kind of
fly under the radar. They don't do a ton of advertising.
But I'll tell you what, I'd buy a Mazda and
a heartbeat. In fact, my cousin Kyle that works with me,
I mean he bought one for his wife. I'm telling
you they fly on. Nobody thinks about Masa. Everybody wants.
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Everybody thinks about Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota, but nobody thinks
about Maza. And I'm telling you they're cheap to work on.
They never have problems. Mas is a great brand, and
I I just I don't think anybody gives him enough credit.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But hardly ever do I have problems with the males
day ever.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Oh, I'll have to take a look at those then, But.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
They don't I don't think they make a hybrid.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
But uh no they don't, which is good exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, I like, like I said, I'm not into the hybrid.
It's just not my forte just not what I like.
You know, everybody's got to be comfortable. If you're gonna
spend forty fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car, better
be something you like, right. But it's just But again,
if it's gonna be a hybrid, Toyota is the way
to go.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
But if it was me between.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The CRV, the the Raft four and the mass the
c X five, I buy the CX five every day
of the week.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh good to know. So all right, thank you so much, dame.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hey, you're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You
have a great.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Day, you too. Enjoy the weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Take care, bye bye. He was as you could tell,
he was from Boston, Massachusetts. And I get a lot
of phone calls from Boston. And you, guys, I love you, guys, man,
you you you always always call me. And I had
an opportunity to go to Boston, Massachusetts and gorgeous city.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Loved it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And but I don't think I can move out of Cincinnati.
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Born and raised.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I've pretty much lived most of my life in about
a ten ten fifteen mile radius. And but you know,
I told my boys. I was telling the customer the
other day, told all my boys. I says, once you
turn eighteen, kicking you out your mom and I are
going down to Florida once it gets cold like this.
Now it's not cold right now, but I'm moving down
(12:41):
to Florida in the in the in the heat. So
but anyway, so all right again taking the phone calls,
and I'm gonna call five one, three, seven, four nine.
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The number call the number two call five one three
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from Donovan's Auto entire Center here in the Cincinnati, Indiana,
Kentucky tri state area. You can find your nearest location
at donovantire dot com. And yeah, kind of a kind
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of a gloomy day and uh, but uh here again
to answer all your car questions. I was trying to Uh,
I'm trying to track down Tony Bender. I don't know
where he's at, you know, I can't get a hold
of him. Danny can't get a hold of him. So
he must be napping or something. So if anybody's around
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Tony Bender, tell him I'm trying to get a hold
of him.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
He might be napping.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, exactly, he's you know, but I would go to
his house. But you know, it takes me like an
hour to get there, way too far for me to drive.
In fact, there's a rest area on the way to
his house that I have to stop at before I
get there.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It's just too far for me.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm spoiled with only having to drive three and a
half miles to work.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Every day. But yeah, man, Danny's twenty five minutes from
that's just too much driving for me.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So all right, taking your phone calls and I'm gonna
call five one, three, five hundred.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Let's go to Paul. Hey, Paul walk in the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Well, we talked a couple of times about this element, uh,
you know that pulled an engine that started making a racket.
And I pulled the pan off that engine today and
there's like a fine gray sludge in it, and then
pulled the oil pumping balance shaft assembly apart, and there's
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at least one journal in there and bearing that's that's
not in very good shape. I'm just wondering if if
that sludge is is you know where particles likely wear
particles in that journal bearing going back? Yeah, and would
that would that be enough to have the oil pressure tank.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely, okay, yeah, absolutely absolutely, so, I mean, correct me
if I'm wrong. But you had like three hundred something
thousand on it, didn't you, or close to us.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Two hundred and two hundred and sixty something.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, it happens, Yeah, but I mean, yeah, absolutely absolutely,
that would cause it all right, well, well get it,
get it, get it, get it rebuilt.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
So that yeah, well that'll be my next project.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Get it to the machine shop and get it to
new new new pistons, new rings, new main bearings.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
It's got the pistons and pistons and rings and rod
bearings were only only about sixty thousand miles on those,
and it still wasn't it wasn't using any oil. So
I me, I may try and just do the crank
bearrings while I got the well, got out of the
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part and yeah, chicks the oil pump and put a
pick together.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, put a new oil pump on it, new strainer,
and make sure that there's no debris in there.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I told you there's no metal shading ring, just this
fine gray.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Did I tell you? I think I did.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We had we were putting an oil paint on a
on a truck I think it was. It was a truck.
I can't remember. Anyways, Long story short, in the oil
pickup tube, there was an oil change sticker, like.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yeah, I remember you talking about that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And like the car didn't have any oil pressure issues
or anything, and we were just putting an oil paint
on it. And I'm like, there's no in my opinion,
there's no way somebody dropped it down through the like
it had to have gone through, Like somebody put that
oil change sticker through the drain plug hole.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It had to have.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I just don't see it going down from the from
the top because the channels to the bottom are they're
they're just too small.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But crazy what what I've found over the years.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But for the for the rebuilt engine I put in,
I should I have gone with the conventional oil for
break in I wound up using because I always do
use synthetic oil.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Going to be issue. No, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And there's already kind of break in. I should do
other than just burying the speed and taking.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
It, you know, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean I probably would just kind of drive it
like Miss Daisy, just I wouldn't be hammering on it.
I you know, maybe five thousand miles, get about five
on it, or maybe three thousand. Change the oil because
there is going to be probably a little bit of
debris in there. Make sure you have a drain plug
that has a magnet on it. A lot of the
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older used to always have a magnet on it, so
all those medical particles would stick to that magnet and
not get back into the engine. And so you could
probably find one online and get a drain plug again
with a little magnet on it that that will keep
those all your I mean most of your transmission pans
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or drain plug gaskets or drained plugs are going to
have a magnet on it too, because you're going to
have those gears and the clutches and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
And it keeps that debris.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But I would just drive it, you know, drive it
to drive it slow, don't beat on it, and change
the oil at three thousand.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So you know, when I when I bought my new,
my newer.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Truck that I have now, I actually contacted a buddy
of mine that worked has worked worked on Forge for
thirty five years. I said, hey, look just bought a
brand new truck. It had zero miles on it when
I bought it. Is there a break in period? He goes, No, Actually,
the newer cars have an additive in the oil that
helps break it in. He goes, Just change it at
five thousand miles, you'll be fine. So in your in
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your particular case, I mean I if I were you,
I'd probably do it at about three. Drive it, drive
it easy, don't hammer on it, and maybe at three
thousand miles, change the oil, change the filter, and I
think it'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, it'll put me on on schedule at about two
hundred and seventy thousand for every I typically change it
every five.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that's where you need to be at every five.
All right, all right, thank you sir, have a great day.
All right, bye bye. You know again, I talk about
that all the time, and it's you know, some of
you who listen to me, you're probably well here he goes,
he's on his rant again. But I'm telling you it
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is so important that you change your oil regularly. Please
do not listen to your neighbor who's a mechanic for
thirty years and says, oh no, you're good to change
it lunch a year. Don't listen to the guy who
sold you the car. Don't listen to the salesman. Don't
listen to you know what the car says, Oh I
have you know I still have thirty percent life left
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in the oil.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I have cars every single day that come in they
have no oil. In fact, this morning I had there
was a miscommunication between a customer and one of my
service advisors. She thought her car she couldn't find her
keys to her car. They were locked in it. Long
story short. I went over to my oil chain shop.
Customer came in and the last three times of that
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customer had been there, there was a note in the
ticket that, hey, the car was low on oil when
it arrived, because we want to check the oil to
see if it's low on arrival. She did have an
active oil leak, and we did check it and there
was no oil on the dipstack. So and again, everybody
has this pre notion that it's like.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Hey, my car will let me know when I'm low
on oil. They do not do that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
They're supposed to, and they should, but I literally have
cars I will a lot of times. You know, we
have a car come in, check engine, lights on, it's
running rough and uh, you know, we catch what oil
comes out. And I mean there will be cars that
come to me that have a half a court or
less of oil in them. A half a court. That
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car might hold four or five six courts. It'll have
a half a quarter of oil in it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
No oil light.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I can't tell you the last time. Again, I've been
doing this twenty six years. I cannot tell you the
last time I had a vehicle in my shop that
had a low oil light on or an oil light period.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
They don't come on.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but at the same time,
I believe that they're designed to do that. So you
blow them up and then you have to go out
buy a new one. And that's why it's so important
and so vital that you change your oil or check
it regularly.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
As long as it full. As long as it's full,
I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But so many times these cars come in and have
so many problems, and it was it's gonna cost. I
understand that oil changes are expensive. You know, the twenty
nine to ninety five oil change is gone. All right,
it's in our rear view mirror. You're not gonna see
them anymore because of the synthetic oil, and most cars
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require it, and the oil has become thinner and thinner
and thinner. Heck, Toyota now has a zero W eight oil.
When I got into this business, it was fifteen forty
or ten thirty. That was about it. Now there's five
twenty zero, twenty zero sixteen. Now we're down to zero eight.
I mean it is like water.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I mean, pretty soon we're just gonna be put water
on our engines. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It would never advise you to do that. But it's
that thin, it's almost that thin. So and these cars
are burning it, and they do not tell you. They
do not tell you when the car is low. They
don't tell you when they're empty. You'll have running issues
or check engine lights. If you could just take your
time while you're getting gas, most of you, even if
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you have a hybrid, you still got to put gas
in it. Okay, unless you have a Tesla, which would
be the only electric car that I would recommend you buy.
But unless you're when you're at the gas station, instead
of getting on your phone, just check your oil. I
promise you you'll get to three hundred thousand miles out
of your vehicle, if you just make sure it's full
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and change it regularly, that's what we need to do.
That's the conversation that we need to be having and
talking about. And I try to harp on it as
much as I possibly can, but it's just I you know,
we tell people all the time, Hey, look, you know
we call a customer, Hey, you need this, this, this, this,
and and by the way, you're a d do for an
oil chain, Well, don't do the oil change right now.
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My car says it has thirty percent life left in it.
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
That does not tell you that's not the level. That
is just the life.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Your car literally could have a half a quarter of
oil in it, and your your you're if you've got
a Honda and it says you have thirty percent life left,
guess what You're gonna keep driving it and all you're
doing is damaging your car. It's and it's gonna cost
you a fortune. Cars are expensive. Doesn't look like they're
gonna come down anytime soon or ever. So why not
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invest the time and invest the money in just making
sure that you check it and change it regularly, make it,
you know, a weekly habit on Saturday mornings or Saturdays
from one to two when you listen to me, get
out there, pop your hood.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Just check your oil. I do it all my vehicles.
It's so simple.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It takes less than a minute, and it will prolong
the life of your vehicle tenfold if you just make
sure it's full of oil.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
So something to think about again.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
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You're listening to the car show.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
On fifty five KRCD talk station on Dame Day Onnovan
Here every Saturday from one to two to answer all
of your car questions.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
You can always call me at.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I shouldn't say any of them, but majority of
them you can always usually get a hold of me.
There was a gentleman actually called last Saturday and they
could not find his name is Mike.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I think it's Mike. I have his business card on
my phone or on my on my desk at work.
But ambient air.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He had a check angelight on for an ambient air
temperature sensor and he goes dealer, can't even find it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I said, I'm up for the challenge.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Bring it to me, and uh, sure enough, he brought
it to me and guess what we could We found
it remnants of it. But a lot of the Fords
would put him it was. It's really weird. It's like
right in the middle of the year it changed models.
(27:56):
It was an early model. The dealer says, it's in
the past side mirror, which we popped off the cap.
There was a connector in there, but there was no sensor,
which again he had explained to me. And then there
but then if you pulled up a wiring diagram, it
said that it was underneath the hood, right in front
(28:18):
of the radiator, which we had the wires. We found
the wires, but it was plugged into just a dummy plug.
And I ordered both sensors and neither one of them
are going to work. So I personally think he's got
an aftermarket mirror in the car. In the truck. I
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think that's where we need to be at, and I
think were I'll have to replace him. However, in order
to get this gentleman's check engine light out, I have
to put a mirror in it, a new one seven hundred.
Used ones are like nine hundred. I don't know why
I used ones more than a new one. And uh,
(29:02):
He's like, well, Dane, why why was it out? Why
when I bought the truck did I have it for
six months? And now it's come on And I'm like,
I'm not quite sure, but we're not able to locate.
We found two connectors for potential ambient air temperature sensors,
but neither one of them are going to work.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I explained him.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's like, well, I'll just get a used one, and
I said, well, you better be careful with that because
there's probably many many options. Well, sure enough, I looked,
and I'm telling you it's a It was a twenty
eighteen O four production date four of eighteen, and there
was probably thirty, if not forty, different mirror options for
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a twenty eighteen Ford F one fifty.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I'm not lying, Mike Solid, I showed him.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I'm like, you can't just throw a slap of mirror
on this card you got or this truck. You've got
to put the right mirror on, otherwise we're going to
be in the same boat that we're already in. And
it's just mind boggling to me that a vehicle that
they produce is going to have thirty or forty different
mirror options.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
It's asinine.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It just doesn't make any sense to have that many
options for a side view mirror. But they've got the
lane departure, they've got the blind spot, they're heated, they
have cameras, they're power they're power folding, the floodlight and
then you act. You know, It's just there's so many
different options on these things. So in this particular situation
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for this gentleman, I'm like, hey, don't just go buy
a used one, because if the connector's not right, that
ambient air temperature sensor is not going to work.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
And now we're back in the same boat.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
So it's just crazy some of the things that how
they make these cars, manufactured these cars nowadays, it's just crazy.
On a side note, too, Tony Bender finally did get
back to me on the radio or on my phone.
I just want to make sure he's okay, because he
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counts me all the time about not answer my phone,
and then I call him and Danny called him, and
neither one of them he answered. So but we found him.
We located him. He said his phone was on the
charger in the kitchen. That's why he didn't respond to us.
But he's uh, seems to be doing well. All right,
let's go to the phones.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
We have Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
How can help well Dale? You can help me, I'm
pretty sure you. I want to say start off by
saying thanks for giving me some guidance on the timing.
Jane Tensioner issues the exorbitant costs that I was looking
at for repair and that I don't may remember that
(31:53):
call from several weeks ago. I've got two Toyota related questions,
once for the events and the other one is probably
a real quick and a quick one on my Toyota
Tundra two thousand Tundra uh on the Venza as uh.
Periodically I'll get an interesting variety of warning lights coming on.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Most of them seem to be related to.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The all wheel drive steering Uh you know yeh uh. Anyway, Yeah,
the stability light. I won't see the lights on, you know,
it's maybe for a day or two, and then shazam.
You know, I've got this display in front of make
it holy smoke, you know, I'm finna you know, the breaks,
(32:40):
the master cylinders leaking or something like that, and I'll
shut the car off, get back in at a few
minutes later that array of lights has gone out, may
not come on again for a while. You know, I
have no idea where to begin.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
To look for where the cause of.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
The might be.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, so is it the is it the spill?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Is it the stability light, the tractic control and the
ABS light coming on.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yes, okay, it's kind of got a.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Car with the little swivels and abs and check engine
light pop on when that happens or no, I don't recall.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, but there's so many lights.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yeah, maybe it's not.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
So yeah, so a lot some manufacturers, and I think
toyotas I'm almost certain Toyota is one of them. If
the check engine light comes on, the car goes, oh
wait a minute, check engine lights on. Well, let's turn
off the traction control of the stability in the ABS
because there's something wrong with the engine.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
So we're going to turn those systems off in order.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
To make sure that you don't damage them because there's
an engine. There's a problem with the engine. So double
check the next time it happens. Find out if the
check engine light is on included with those three lights. Now,
if the check engine light is not on, then yes,
we do have something going on with traction control stability.
(34:10):
Now that is nine out of ten times that is
usually an indication that there is.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
A bad wheel bearing or wheel speed sensor.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So the car needs to know exactly what the wheel
speed is in order for the traction control, the stability
abs those all need to work.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
But in order for those to work, they need to
know what the wheel speed is.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So if a sensor is dropping out and they can
do that, they can work and then not work, and
then work and then not work.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
They can do that.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
So if the check engine light is coming on and
then all those lights are coming on and they're all
on that at the same time, then we need to
focus on why the check engine light's popping on, because
it's just shutting those systems down because it's sees something
wrong with the engine. However, if the check engine light
is not coming on at all and it's just those
three lights, what we need to figure out is we
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need to you're unfortunately, you're not gonna be able.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
To do it. It needs to be hooked up to
a scanner.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Most likely needs to be scanned, find out if there's
a code for a wheel speed sensor not sending signal.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Sometimes they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And then what we do is then we'll drive the
vehicle while the wheels while we're while we're driving it,
we've got it plugged in and we're looking at the
wheel speeds and if one of them is dropping off
a lot of times they drop off. Do you notice
it at higher speeds or lower speeds that the light
will kick on you.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Or well, yeah, I haven't really made any differentiation there,
but I do know certainly at lower speed, so you
know it, we'll call it intown driving is when you
know I see it, probably you know, four or five
times a week, not more.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, so probably if you're noticing it more at like
city driving and at lower speeds, usually that means that
the wheel speed sensor is dropping or losing signal, and
they'll typically do that at like ten miles or less.
They'll just drop off and they quit sending signal. It's
usually just an indication that those are going on. Now
(36:10):
the wires going to it could be bad and we
could go on and you know, it could be a module.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Butt's let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Focus on what speed you notice it the most at
and whether or not the check it in light's coming on.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
That'll be able to give us a better determination.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
But again, a scan tool will identify in one hundred
percent find out exactly what the result and the cause
of that issue is. There's nothing wrong with all those systems.
It's just like it's not seeing a signal. So it's like, hey,
we're not seeing a signal, so we don't know what
the wheel speed is. So we're gonna shut everything off,
turn the lights on, scaria, and then you know, you'll
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still have normal braking, but you won't have the stability,
the abs or the traction control. But you'll still have
normal braking. So but find that out and then you
get back to me. But most likely you just have
wheel speed tension. It's dropping out. What I will tell
you too, most manufacturers will some manufacturers will. You can
(37:07):
buy just the wheel speed sensor. I would recommend that
you don't buy an aftermarket one.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Try to buy one from the dealer.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They are expensive, probably two three hundred bucks, and you're
looking at it, it's like, oh my gosh, it's is
just a piece of plastic and wiring. Now, some manufacturers
the only way you can service the wheel speed sensor
is by replacing the wheel bearing, which is far more expensive.
So if you get it to a shop and they're like, hey,
you need a wheel speed sensor, but you need a
(37:34):
wheel bearing, and it's going to be you know, eight
nine hundred dollars that's that that that that can't happen.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, they're not jerking me around.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
It's it's it's an honest yeah situation.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
So yeah, Well real quick then on the on the tundra,
it's a two thousand. I gotta tell you, I.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Love that truck.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It has just been an outstanding.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
Worker for me.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
What is it? Yeah, it's a two house in the tundra,
four by four. Uh, the rear differential, the plate will
say that facing the back, not where the drive line's
going in. There's no way to remove that cover. It's
(38:19):
welding on there and unfortunately some brust is built up there.
Now I've got a couple of pinhole leaks in the cover,
which you know, I've done a little bit we'll call
it hillbilly engineering, where I've taken a seiler and and
sort of open up the hole a little bit, put
in a sheet metal screw and you know, short screw
(38:40):
and you know, you know, chizemb We're done. But periodically
it will begin to leak again, either because there's a
new hole or it's leaking around the open. Is there
any reasonable way to replace that cover, because it looks
like for me it would have to be ground off
in a new one.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Well, yeah, so the old thing so the only thing,
and I'm kind of up against the time time.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Here, but here's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yes, you're gonna have to get it to a machine shop,
or you can get it to me.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
What we do is we cut him out, grind down.
You cut him out as best as you can. You
grind down what you can. There's a company out there,
it's called Dormant Products d O r m An Dormant Products.
They sell a kit. You buy that kit. I have
a guy that comes in, he welds a new one on.
We paint it out the door. Now, yes, there's a
(39:32):
cost involved there, but it's way expense way cheaper to
do that then replace the whole differential. But yeah, unfortunately
you got to get it to some type of metal
shop or a fabricator. You cut out that old that
old one, you grind it down to a new, you know,
flat surface, you put it on.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah, but the part itself is probably.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know, I can't I can't remember. Don't hold me
to this, but fifty buck yeah, less than a hundred bucks.
It's it's like green because it's just as a green
primer on it. You just got to get find somebody
that can cut it.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Out new surface.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
You got to get a welder to weld that on,
put some slap some pain on it. That's really the
only way that you can do it. Now, again, there's
costs involve you. You know, probably four or five hundred
bucks total invested. But I mean to replace a real
differential on that thing is just going to be too expensive.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
So that that's how we do it.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
So we're good.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
That was good to know that that can be done.
You know I mentioned dormant truck.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Yeah, they're all different.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yeah, outstanding power plant. So all right, listen, thanks for everyone.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
I really appreciate you being here and.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Not a problem. Thank you for the call. You have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
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Speaker 8 (41:57):
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Speaker 5 (42:00):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Well, I appreciate the phone call. How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Okay, re see this body twenty twenty three Equinox thirty
thousand miles going to be my first oil change. So
I bought mobile one. I gotta good price on it
and I always use it. Factory OEM oil filter won't
use nothing else for sure. I have a friend that's
a long time engine builder and he's really gotten strong
(42:29):
on Rotella motor oil. While is your thought from Rotella
because I know the majority of their weights are straight weights?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, I I mean if if if you had a diesel,
I would tell you Rotella, but with the Equinox, I
like Mobile one. I'd rather see you put the Mobile
one in there than the Rotella. Again, Rotella is great,
(42:57):
but usually we use the Rotella when we're put in
diesels with your particular car.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Mobile one.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Great.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I mean I like Shell, don't get me wrong, And
Shelle makes Rotella, but you know Mobile one or Vaveling,
we use Reledye. You know, it's kind of your own preference.
The more important thing than anything you know, is just
making sure you're changing it regularly and checking it.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
That is there. That's the biggest key.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I'll be honest with you again, I've been in I've
been doing this for twenty six years. I've never told
a customer, Hey, the reason your car's broke down is
because you put the you put Rotel oil in it
and not Mobile one.
Speaker 4 (43:44):
You know, the cab.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
I've been in car business myself for since seventy seven,
working in the auto parks business for many years, and
then I was a lot of mone of detailer for
many years. I learning around christ Or products for many
years too. This was actually my first Chevrolet I bought
for a long time, and I've heard pros and cons
about their transmissions and other problems, but it's been a
(44:09):
great car so far.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
The only thing, you know, my wife has a GMC.
She drives a GMCU Coon, which was a Chevy. But
the only thing that I'll tell you, and what I
see a lot of in the Equinoxes, is they burn oil.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
They're very very common.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Now, They're not going to do it at thirty thousand,
You're gonna see it at seventy five, eighty one hundred thousand.
They do that, and most manufacturers do so as long
as you're checking it and making sure it's full. You know, again,
I'm not really hemmed up on the actual brand. As
(44:48):
long as you're putting in what the car is required,
whether who makes it or not, and making sure that
it's full. That's the best thing that you can do
for the car. But I do like Mobile one as
a product. But you know, I think i'd go with
the mobile one. Just make sure you're checking it regularly.
It sounds like you if you're.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Changing your own oil factory filter.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
I recommend I do that on my own vehicle, and
I think you can't go wrong as long as it's
as long as it's full. So all right, thank you
so much, Freck.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
All right, take care, bye bye, great question.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
These are the questions though, and I love to answer
because it's so important, something that we need to talk about.
We don't talk about it enough. I know I do
what I want everybody else to know about this.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Something that when you sit down at dinner tonight you
need to You need to talk about checking your oil
and changing it regularly.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
Most important thing.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
So I'll be back next Saturday to answer you. Are
you all of your car questions? I'm Dane Donovan from
Donovan's Otto entire Center. You're listening to the Car Show
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