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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 chucking.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
five cars the talk station. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center. Find your nearest location at donovantire dot com.
I am here, I am in studio.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
In fact, my producer Danny said, hey, are you going
to be here because there's a UC football game this
afternoon and unfortunately couldn't make it. 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,
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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, 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. Right, So last
week I had to work the chains and actually had
to leave a little early so I could get here.
(01:21):
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 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
(01:43):
football game. It's just a football game. But some people, man,
do they take it to the extreme. So, uh 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 of gray,
kind of cold. You can tell fall is. I know
(02:05):
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 and yeah. So
but I am taking your phone calls again. The number
(02:27):
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.
I've been and I've 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
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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. But really it's not
like that. It really isn't. And we have a lot
of other shops that we work with. I have a
real good buddy mine Austin from Foreign Exchange, west Chester,
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and there's a car that I need help with. 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 it's not always the case. 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
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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 then I'm
gon call five one, three, seven fifty five hundred. Let's
go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (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 Rev four or the Honda 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
wee piers as much as I can do, as far
as oil change, rotate, tires, breaks, tune ups, change filters,
all that stuff, and I don't know, not having a
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hard time wrap of my head around it. Well, can
you talk me into absolutely?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I can 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, it would only be a Toyota. Okay,
(05:30):
I would not. 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
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four to or SUV or a smaller vehicle, smaller car
that doesn't sit up as high.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm telling you that I 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. In my opinion, I wouldn't.
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.
(06:26):
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
figured it out, so.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'm not That's what I'm yeah, I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Only the only downside is it depends on how long
you want to keep it. But you know, I have
a Prius at my shop right now. It has two
hundred thousand miles on it. Two I think it's two
nine two hundred nine thousand miles on it. Ladies. Never
she goes, nothing's ever broke on it. I've just put tires,
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changed oil and still running good, still has a hybrid
battery in it. That's the only thing that I see.
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.
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You see the inverters go bad. But really, as far
as what's out there today, I don't As long as
you go to Toyota, you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Okay, She's got a twenty eighteen ballble right now and
S sixty and it just hit fifty thousand miles. But
it's been an electronic nightma. 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. There's nothing
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wrong with the hybrids. I'm not a I personally don't
like them just because I just don't. I don't know.
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.
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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,
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
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know it. People a lot of times associate that there's
there'll be an oil light that kicks on when the
you know, when it's low on oil, and they just don't.
They do not. So yeah, I would, I would stick
with the Toyota.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I myself have a twenty thirteen Hound, 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 1 (09:31):
That's great. 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
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my first cars was the Hanes 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 4 (10:02):
So yeah, A friend of mine just bought a Mazda
c X five fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh c X fifty, Okay, I think it's five.
Speaker 4 (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 in
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.
But hardly ever do I have problems with the males
day ever.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh, I'll have to take a look at those then.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
But they don't. I don't think they make a hybrid.
Speaker 4 (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 gotta be comfortablef 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.
But if it was me between the CRV, the the
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Raft four and the mass the CX five, I buy
the c X five every day of the week.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Oh good to know. All right, thank you so much, dame.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hey, you're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You
have a great day, you too.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Enjoy the weekend, all.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right, 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.
Loved it. And but I don't think I can move
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out of Cincinnati. This is this is born and raised.
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. It says, once you
turn eighteen, kicking you out your mom and I are
going down to Florida once it gets cold like this.
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Now it's not cold right now, but I'm moving down
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.
Fifty five hundred phone lines are wide open. Coming up.
We have Paul. You're listening to the car show on
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Speaker 2 (13:37):
Monday morning at five on fifty five KRC, the talkstation.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Welcome back and taking your car questions. The number call
the number two call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. Dott 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
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dot com. And yeah, kind of a kind 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
(14:31):
be napping or something. So if anybody's around Tony Bender,
tell him I'm trying to get a hold of him.
He might be napping. 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
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to stop at before I get there. It's just too
far for me. I'm spoiled with only having to drive
three and a half miles to work every day. But yeah, man,
Danny's twenty five minutes from that's just too much driving
for me. So all right, taking your phone calls and
I'm gonall five one three, five hundred. Let's go to Paul. Hey,
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Paul walk in the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (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 pump and balance schaft assembly apart,
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and there's 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 you know where particles likely
wear particles in that journal from the 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 it, correct
me if I'm wrong. But you had like three hundred
something thousand on it, didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You are close to us 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 5 (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 5 (16:39):
It's got the pistons and pistons and rings and rod
bearings are only only about sixty thousand miles on those.
And it still wasn't it wasn't using any oil. So
I may may try and just do the crank bearings
while I got the well gut out of the park
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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 5 (17:09):
I told you there's no metal shavings ring, just this
fine gray.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Did I tell you? Did I tell you? I think
I did. 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.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Like, yeah, I remember you talking about that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I'll never forget that. 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. It had to have. I just don't see
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it going down from the from the top because the
channels to the bottom are they're they're just too small.
But crazy what what I've found over the years.
Speaker 5 (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 1 (18:24):
Going to be no, no, no no, And there's already.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Kind of break in I should do other than just
burying the speed and.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Taking it, you know, no, not necessarily. 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.
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Make sure you have a drain plug that has a
magnet on it. A lot of the 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
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I mean most of your transmission pans 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, and it keeps that debris.
But I would just drive it, you know, drive it
to drive it slow, don't beat on it, and change
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the oil at three thousand. So you know, when I
when I bought my new, my newer truck that I
have now, I actually contacted a buddy of mine that
worked has worked worked on Forde 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
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helps break it in. He goes, Just change it at
five thousand miles, you'll be fine. So in your in
your particular case, I mean if 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 5 (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. I'm telling you. 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
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to my oil chain shop. The customer came in, and
the last three times of that 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 dipstick. So and again, everybody has this pre notion
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that it's like, hey, my car will let me know
when I'm low on oil. They do not do that.
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 into lights on it's running rough,
and uh, you know, we catch what oil comes out.
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And I mean there'll be cars that come to me
that have a half a court or less of oil
in them. A half a court. That car might hold
four or five six courts. It'll have a half a
quarter of oil in it. No oil. 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
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had a vehicle in my shop that had a low
oil light on or an oil light period. They don't
come on.
Speaker 4 (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. As long as it full. As long as
it's full, I'd be happy. But so many times these
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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 require it, and the oil has become
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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.
I mean, pretty soon we're just gonna be put water
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on our engines. Don't do that. 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.
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If you could just take your time while you're getting gas,
most of you, even if 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,
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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 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
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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 due for an oil change. Well, don't do
the oil change right now. My car says it has
thirty percent life left in it. That's fine. That does
not tell you that's not the level. That is just
the life. Your car literally could have a half a
quarter of oil in it, and your your you're if
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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 invest the time and invest the money
in just making sure that you check it and change
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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. Just
check your oil. I do it all my vehicles. It's
so simple. It takes less than a minute, and it
will prolong the life of your vehicle tenfold if you
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just make sure it's full of oil. So something to
think about. So again, taking your phone calls and number
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Speaker 1 (26:54):
If you're listening to the car show on fifty five
KRCD Talks station on Dame Day Onnovan here every Saturday
from one to two to answer all of your car questions.
You can always call me at 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
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name is Mike. I think it's Mike. I have his
business card on my phone or on my all my
desk at work. But ambient air. He had a check
angelight on for an ambient air temperature sensor and he
goes dealer, can't even find it. I said, I'm up
for the challenge. Bring it to me, and uh, sure enough,
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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. It was an early model. The dealer says,
it's in the past side mirror, which we popped off
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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 of the radiator, which we had the wires.
We found the wires, but it was plugged into just
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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 think that's where we need to be
at and I think we I'll have to replace him. However,
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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, He's like, well, Dane, why why was it out?
Why when I bought the truck did I have it
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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. And
I explained to him. 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,
(29:28):
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 a twenty eighteen Ford F one fifty.
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I'm not lying, Mike slid. I showed them. 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.
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It's asinine. 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
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many different options on these things. So in this particular
situation 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.
And now we're back in the same boat. So it's
just crazy some of the things that how they make
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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 counts
me all the time about not answer my phone, and
then I call him and Danny called him, and neither
(31:16):
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. 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's 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.
(32:15):
Most of them seem to be.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Related to the all wheel drive steering uh you know
uh anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The stability light.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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 gonna you know, the breaks, the master
cylinder's 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
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on again for a while. You know, I have no
idea where to begin to look for where the cause of.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
The might be.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, so is it the is it the spill? Is
it the stability light? The traxtic control and the ABS
light coming on. Yes, okay, it's kind of got a
car with the little swivels and abs and check engine
light pop on when that happens or no.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I don't recall. Okay, but there's so many lights.
Speaker 4 (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 tracks, control of the stability in the abs
because there's something wrong with the engine. So we're gonna
turn those systems off in order to make sure that
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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. Now that is
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nine out of ten times that is usually an indication
that there is a bad wheel bearing or wheel speed sensor.
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. But in order for
those to work, they need to know what the wheel
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speed is. So if a sensor is dropping out and
they can do that, they can work and then not
work and then work in the network they can do that.
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
(34:53):
wrong with the engine. However, if the check engine light
is not coming on at all and it's just those
three lights, we need to figure out is we need
to you're unfortunately you're not gonna be able to do it.
It needs to be hooked up to a scanner. Most
likely needs to be scanned, find out if there's a
code for a wheel speed sensor not sending signal. Sometimes
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they don't. 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 (35:35):
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 sensors 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 the
(36:10):
wires going to it could be bad and we could
go on and you know, it could be a module.
But let's let's just keep it simple. Focus on what
speed you notice it the most at and whether or
not the check it in light's coming on. That'll be
able to give us a better determination. But again, a
scan tool will identify in one hundred percent find out
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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 still
have normal braking, but you won't have the stability, the
abs or the traction control, but you'll still have normal braking.
(36:54):
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 buy just the
wheel speed sensor. I would recommend that you don't buy
an aftermarket one. Try to buy one from the dealer.
They are expensive, probably two three hundred bucks, and you're
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looking at it, it's like, oh my gosh, this'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
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 5 (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 love
that truck. It has just been an outstanding worker for me,
is it? Yeah, it's a tooth house in the tundra
four by four. Uh, the rear differential, the plate will
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say that facing the back, not where the drive line's
going in. There's no way to remove that cover. It's
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 billy we'll call
(38:32):
it hillbilly engineering, where I've taken a ceiler and and
sort of open up the hole a little bit, put
in a sheet metal screw and you know, short screw
and you know, you know, and schizomb. 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
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looks like 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 here,
but here's what you need to do. Yes, you're gonna
have to get it to a machine shop or you
can get it to me. Whatever. 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
(39:20):
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 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.
(39:42):
You cut out that old that old one, you grind
it down to a new you know, flat surface you
put it on. Yeah, but the part itself is probably
you know, I can't, I can't remember. Don't hold me
to this, but fifty bucks, yeah, less than a hundred bucks.
It's it's like green because it's just as a green
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primer on it. You just got to get find somebody
that can cut it out, new surface. 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
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thing is just going to be too expensive. So that
that's how we do it.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
So we're good. That was good to know that that
can be done. You know I mentioned dormant truck.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, they're all different.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Outstanding power plant. So all right, listen, thanks for your
having everyone. I really appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
And not a problem. Thank you for the call. You
have a great day. So all right, uh taking your
phone calls in order to call five one, three, seven
four nine, fifty five hundred coming up. We have Fred.
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So run out of time, So let's get to Let's
go back to the phones we've got. We have Fred. Hey, Fred,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 8 (41:57):
First time lilstir, first time color?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Hey, Well, I appreciate the phone call. How can I
help you?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Okay, we see this body twenty twenty three Equinox thirty
thousand miles going to be my perst oil change. So
I bought mobile one. I got good price on it
and I always use it factory OEM oil filter. I'll
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 it is your thoult 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. 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 uh, you know Mobile one or
Valvelin 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
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it that is there. That's the biggest key. 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.
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 an auto montive detailer for many years,
so I learning around christ Or products for many years too.
This is 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 great car
(44:09):
so far.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah. 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.
They're very very common. Now, They're not going to do
it at thirty thousand, You're gonna see it at seventy five,
(44:32):
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.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Again, I'm not really hemmed up on the actual brand.
As 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
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the mobile one. Just make sure you're checking it regular
It sounds like you if you're changing your own oil
factory filter. 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, Frek, I appreciate it. All right, take care,
bye bye, great question. These are the questions though, and
(45:27):
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. So this is something that when you
sit down at dinner tonight you need. You need to
talk about checking your oil and changing it regularly. Most
important thing. So I'll be back next Saturday to answer you.
Are you all of your car questions? I'm Dane Donovan
(45:49):
from Donovan's Otto entire Center. You're listening to the Car
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lincoln's rocking all the ready, pretty easy down the road.
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Just keep chucking.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. I'm fifty
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I am here, I am in studio.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
In fact, my producer Danny said, hey, are you going
to be here because there's a UC football game this
afternoon and unfortunately couldn't make it. 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,
(01:00):
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, 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. Right, So last
week I had to work the chains and actually had
to leave a little early so I could get here.
(01:21):
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 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
(01:43):
football game. It's just a football game. But some people, man,
do they take it to the extreme. So, uh 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 of gray,
kind of cold. You can tell fall is. I know
(02:05):
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 and yeah. So
but I am taking your phone calls again. The number
(02:27):
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.
I've been and I've 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
(02:51):
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. But really it's not
like that. It really isn't. And we have a lot
of other shops that we work with. I have a
real good buddy mine Austin from Foreign Exchange, west Chester,
(03:14):
and there's a car that I need help with. 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 it's not always the case. 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
(04:00):
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 then I'm
gon call five one, three, seven fifty five hundred. Let's
go to the phones. We have Eddie. Hey, Eddie, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (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 Rev four or the Honda 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
wee piers as much as I can do, as far
as oil change, rotate, tires, breaks, tune ups, change filters,
all that stuff, and I don't know, not having a
(05:00):
hard time wrap of my head around it. Well, can
you talk me into absolutely?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I can 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, it would only be a Toyota. Okay,
(05:30):
I would not. 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
(05:51):
four to or SUV or a smaller vehicle, smaller car
that doesn't sit up as high.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm telling you that I 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. In my opinion, I wouldn't.
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.
(06:26):
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
figured it out, so.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'm not That's what I'm yeah, I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Only the only downside is it depends on how long
you want to keep it. But you know, I have
a Prius at my shop right now. It has two
hundred thousand miles on it. Two I think it's two
nine two hundred nine thousand miles on it. Ladies. Never
she goes, nothing's ever broke on it. I've just put tires,
(07:01):
changed oil and still running good, still has a hybrid
battery in it. That's the only thing that I see.
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.
(07:23):
You see the inverters go bad. But really, as far
as what's out there today, I don't As long as
you go to Toyota, you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Okay, She's got a twenty eighteen ballble right now and
S sixty and it just hit fifty thousand miles. But
it's been an electronic nightma. 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. There's nothing
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wrong with the hybrids. I'm not a I personally don't
like them just because I just don't. I don't know.
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.
(08:41):
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,
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
(09:03):
know it. People a lot of times associate that there's
there'll be an oil light that kicks on when the
you know, when it's low on oil, and they just don't.
They do not. So yeah, I would, I would stick
with the Toyota.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I myself have a twenty thirteen Hound, 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 1 (09:31):
That's great. 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
(09:55):
my first cars was the Hanes 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 4 (10:02):
So yeah, A friend of mine just bought a Mazda
c X five fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh c X fifty, Okay, I think it's five.
Speaker 4 (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 in
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.
(10:48):
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.
But hardly ever do I have problems with the males
day ever.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh, I'll have to take a look at those then.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
But they don't. I don't think they make a hybrid.
Speaker 4 (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 gotta be comfortablef 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.
But if it was me between the CRV, the the
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Raft four and the mass the CX five, I buy
the c X five every day of the week.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Oh good to know. All right, thank you so much, dame.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hey, you're very welcome. Thank you for the call. You
have a great day, you too.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Enjoy the weekend, all.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right, 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.
Loved it. And but I don't think I can move
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out of Cincinnati. This is this is born and raised.
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. It says, once you
turn eighteen, kicking you out your mom and I are
going down to Florida once it gets cold like this.
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Now it's not cold right now, but I'm moving down
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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Monday morning at five on fifty five KRC, the talkstation.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Welcome back and taking your car questions. The number call
the number two call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. Dott 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
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dot com. And yeah, kind of a kind 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
(14:31):
be napping or something. So if anybody's around Tony Bender,
tell him I'm trying to get a hold of him.
He might be napping. 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
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to stop at before I get there. It's just too
far for me. I'm spoiled with only having to drive
three and a half miles to work every day. But yeah, man,
Danny's twenty five minutes from that's just too much driving
for me. So all right, taking your phone calls and
I'm gonall five one three, five hundred. Let's go to Paul. Hey,
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Paul walk in the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 5 (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 pump and balance schaft assembly apart,
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and there's 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 you know where particles likely
wear particles in that journal from the 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 it, correct
me if I'm wrong. But you had like three hundred
something thousand on it, didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You are close to us 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 5 (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 5 (16:39):
It's got the pistons and pistons and rings and rod
bearings are only only about sixty thousand miles on those.
And it still wasn't it wasn't using any oil. So
I may may try and just do the crank bearings
while I got the well gut out of the park
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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 5 (17:09):
I told you there's no metal shavings ring, just this
fine gray.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Did I tell you? Did I tell you? I think
I did. 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.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Like, yeah, I remember you talking about that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I'll never forget that. 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. It had to have. I just don't see
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it going down from the from the top because the
channels to the bottom are they're they're just too small.
But crazy what what I've found over the years.
Speaker 5 (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 1 (18:24):
Going to be no, no, no no, And there's already.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Kind of break in I should do other than just
burying the speed and.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Taking it, you know, no, not necessarily. 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.
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Make sure you have a drain plug that has a
magnet on it. A lot of the 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
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I mean most of your transmission pans 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, and it keeps that debris.
But I would just drive it, you know, drive it
to drive it slow, don't beat on it, and change
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the oil at three thousand. So you know, when I
when I bought my new, my newer truck that I
have now, I actually contacted a buddy of mine that
worked has worked worked on Forde 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
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helps break it in. He goes, Just change it at
five thousand miles, you'll be fine. So in your in
your particular case, I mean if 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 5 (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. I'm telling you. 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
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to my oil chain shop. The customer came in, and
the last three times of that 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 dipstick. So and again, everybody has this pre notion
(21:56):
that it's like, hey, my car will let me know
when I'm low on oil. They do not do that.
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 into lights on it's running rough,
and uh, you know, we catch what oil comes out.
(22:16):
And I mean there'll be cars that come to me
that have a half a court or less of oil
in them. A half a court. That car might hold
four or five six courts. It'll have a half a
quarter of oil in it. No oil. 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
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had a vehicle in my shop that had a low
oil light on or an oil light period. They don't
come on.
Speaker 4 (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. As long as it full. As long as
it's full, I'd be happy. But so many times these
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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 require it, and the oil has become
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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.
I mean, pretty soon we're just gonna be put water
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on our engines. Don't do that. 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.
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If you could just take your time while you're getting gas,
most of you, even if 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,
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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 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
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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 due for an oil change. Well, don't do
the oil change right now. My car says it has
thirty percent life left in it. That's fine. That does
not tell you that's not the level. That is just
the life. Your car literally could have a half a
quarter of oil in it, and your your you're if
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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 invest the time and invest the money
in just making sure that you check it and change
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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. Just
check your oil. I do it all my vehicles. It's
so simple. It takes less than a minute, and it
will prolong the life of your vehicle tenfold if you
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just make sure it's full of oil. So something to
think about. So again, taking your phone calls and number
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Speaker 1 (26:54):
If you're listening to the car show on fifty five
KRCD Talks station on Dame Day Onnovan here every Saturday
from one to two to answer all of your car questions.
You can always call me at 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
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name is Mike. I think it's Mike. I have his
business card on my phone or on my all my
desk at work. But ambient air. He had a check
angelight on for an ambient air temperature sensor and he
goes dealer, can't even find it. I said, I'm up
for the challenge. Bring it to me, and uh, sure enough,
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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. It was an early model. The dealer says,
it's in the past side mirror, which we popped off
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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 of the radiator, which we had the wires.
We found the wires, but it was plugged into just
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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 think that's where we need to be
at and I think we I'll have to replace him. However,
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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, He's like, well, Dane, why why was it out?
Why when I bought the truck did I have it
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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. And
I explained to him. 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,
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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 a twenty eighteen Ford F one fifty.
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I'm not lying, Mike slid. I showed them. 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.
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It's asinine. 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
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many different options on these things. So in this particular
situation 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.
And now we're back in the same boat. So it's
just crazy some of the things that how they make
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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 counts
me all the time about not answer my phone, and
then I call him and Danny called him, and neither
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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. 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's 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.
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Most of them seem to be.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Related to the all wheel drive steering uh you know
uh anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The stability light.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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 gonna you know, the breaks, the master
cylinder's 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
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on again for a while. You know, I have no
idea where to begin to look for where the cause of.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
The might be.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, so is it the is it the spill? Is
it the stability light? The traxtic control and the ABS
light coming on. Yes, okay, it's kind of got a
car with the little swivels and abs and check engine
light pop on when that happens or no.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I don't recall. Okay, but there's so many lights.
Speaker 4 (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 tracks, control of the stability in the abs
because there's something wrong with the engine. So we're gonna
turn those systems off in order to make sure that
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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. Now that is
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nine out of ten times that is usually an indication
that there is a bad wheel bearing or wheel speed sensor.
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. But in order for
those to work, they need to know what the wheel
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speed is. So if a sensor is dropping out and
they can do that, they can work and then not
work and then work in the network they can do that.
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
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wrong with the engine. However, if the check engine light
is not coming on at all and it's just those
three lights, we need to figure out is we need
to you're unfortunately you're not gonna be able to do it.
It needs to be hooked up to a scanner. Most
likely needs to be scanned, find out if there's a
code for a wheel speed sensor not sending signal. Sometimes
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they don't. 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 (35:35):
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 sensors 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 the
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wires going to it could be bad and we could
go on and you know, it could be a module.
But let's let's just keep it simple. Focus on what
speed you notice it the most at and whether or
not the check it in light's coming on. That'll be
able to give us a better determination. But again, a
scan tool will identify in one hundred percent find out
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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 still
have normal braking, but you won't have the stability, the
abs or the traction control, but you'll still have normal braking.
(36:54):
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 buy just the
wheel speed sensor. I would recommend that you don't buy
an aftermarket one. Try to buy one from the dealer.
They are expensive, probably two three hundred bucks, and you're
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looking at it, it's like, oh my gosh, this'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
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 5 (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 love
that truck. It has just been an outstanding worker for me,
is it? Yeah, it's a tooth house in the tundra
four by four. Uh, the rear differential, the plate will
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say that facing the back, not where the drive line's
going in. There's no way to remove that cover. It's
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 billy we'll call
(38:32):
it hillbilly engineering, where I've taken a ceiler and and
sort of open up the hole a little bit, put
in a sheet metal screw and you know, short screw
and you know, you know, and schizomb. 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
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looks like 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 here,
but here's what you need to do. Yes, you're gonna
have to get it to a machine shop or you
can get it to me. Whatever. 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
(39:20):
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 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.
(39:42):
You cut out that old that old one, you grind
it down to a new you know, flat surface you
put it on. Yeah, but the part itself is probably
you know, I can't, I can't remember. Don't hold me
to this, but fifty bucks, yeah, less than a hundred bucks.
It's it's like green because it's just as a green
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primer on it. You just got to get find somebody
that can cut it out, new surface. 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
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thing is just going to be too expensive. So that
that's how we do it.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
So we're good. That was good to know that that
can be done. You know I mentioned dormant truck.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, they're all different.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Outstanding power plant. So all right, listen, thanks for your
having everyone. I really appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
And not a problem. Thank you for the call. You
have a great day. So all right, uh taking your
phone calls in order to call five one, three, seven
four nine, fifty five hundred coming up. We have Fred.
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So run out of time, So let's get to Let's
go back to the phones we've got. We have Fred. Hey, Fred,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 8 (41:57):
First time lilstir, first time color?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Hey, Well, I appreciate the phone call. How can I
help you?
Speaker 8 (42:04):
Okay, we see this body twenty twenty three Equinox thirty
thousand miles going to be my perst oil change. So
I bought mobile one. I got good price on it
and I always use it factory OEM oil filter. I'll
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 it is your thoult 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. 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 uh, you know Mobile one or
Valvelin 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
(43:28):
it that is there. That's the biggest key. 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.
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 an auto montive detailer for many years,
so I learning around christ Or products for many years too.
This is 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 great car
(44:09):
so far.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah. 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.
They're very very common. Now, They're not going to do
it at thirty thousand, You're gonna see it at seventy five,
(44:32):
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.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Again, I'm not really hemmed up on the actual brand.
As 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
(45:05):
the mobile one. Just make sure you're checking it regular
It sounds like you if you're changing your own oil
factory filter. 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, Frek, I appreciate it. All right, take care,
bye bye, great question. These are the questions though, and
(45:27):
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. So this is something that when you
sit down at dinner tonight you need. You need to
talk about checking your oil and changing it regularly. Most
important thing. So I'll be back next Saturday to answer you.
Are you all of your car questions? I'm Dane Donovan
(45:49):
from Donovan's Otto entire Center. You're listening to the Car
Show on fifty five krc D talk station
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