THE Car Show with Dane Donovan - 11/1/2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Put some.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Back city jumping down there in.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Sec through the windows down volunteers.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Here today, Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show.
I am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center, and uh,
I like to entry you that. You know, it's very somber,
you know, gets your relaxed. Get you ready, uh, because
we're ready to talk for the next hour. We're here

(00:38):
to talk about cars. And that's what I do. And again,
Donovan's Auto Entire Center here every Saturday from one to
two again to answer your car questions. So the number
to call five one three seven hundred. That number again,
five one three seven fifty five hundred. Excuse me.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hope everybody enjoyed their Halloween last night. Sorry I got
to allergies or something. I don't know what's going on.
Apologize for that. But yeah, I hope everybody enjoyed their Halloween.
I hope it was a nice, fun, safe evening. It
was nice that it fell on a Friday night, so

(01:21):
you know, you could get out there not feel rushed
or rushed to get home. And you know, and I
gotta take my watch off. My son is in a
group text and there's about ninety thousand text messages going
off right now, I'm highly distracted.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
So we did.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
All three of our boys went out and at first
my oldest was like, he's going out with some friends.
And then my middle son, who is ten, sorry leven, leven,
thank you, He's like, I don't think I'm going out.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'm like what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'm like, this is your holiday, dude, you I mean
this that's all you consume, sugar, I mean, this is
your day. And he's like, I just think I'll stay
home and hand out candy. I'm like, okay. Well, he
ended up having a change of heart, so we went
out with some friends.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I had a great time. Kids got a ton of candy. Now.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I woke up this morning and I said to my
youngest and I said, hey, I just want to let
you know. I woke up in the middle of the night.
I was really hungry. I ate all your candy. No
you didn't, Dad, He goes, you would be sick. I say,
all right, well the dog ate it all. Well, she
would have diary. I said, well, she's outside right now,
so you know she she ate it all.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
And he got up right out of bed. Boy, you
ever seen him? See you? Child?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Spring out of bed and quicker than Christmas morning. So
but and every way was extremely generous with the resy
cups this year.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I mean I don't know it was. It was very,
very germous.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
But my son goes, hey, uh, somebody, somebody was handing
out dog treats, which I thought was a bit unusual.
I know there's dog lovers out there, but to hand
a eight year old bag of dog treats seemed a
bit awkward to me. But maybe maybe that's something that's

(03:16):
a new trend. I don't know, I'm not familiar with it.
We didn't have a dog, there was no dogs. I mean,
we have a dog, but she wasn't with us. I
thought it was unusual to give kids and he wasn't
like just the only child. Like they are hand that's
what they are handing out, No candy dog treats. But
I guess your dog has to have treats too on Halloween.
So again, taking taking your phone calls a number call
five one, three, seven, nine fifty five hundred. Let's go

(03:40):
to the phones. We have Robin from Fairfield. Hey, welcome
with car show.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
How can I help Hi?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
I'm calling because I have a two thousand and nine
Cadillac DTS. It's got a north Star V eight engine
in it, and my car knowledge is very limited, so
I'll tell you. Okay, it sits in Florida eight months

(04:10):
out of the year. I've decided to take her down there,
and that's where she'll retire.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
And that's where I want to retire too.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Now I run into the problem of the battery dies
every year. I know that it's not good just to
leave her sitting there, but I don't really got a
good alternative right now. So I'm wondering if battery tender

(04:40):
versus trickle charger, and which battery tender, and should I
put an additive or something into the gas tank? And
also this battery tender, do I have to hook it
to the battery itself because it's under the back seat

(05:03):
or could I just raise the hood and put it
on the thing under the hood?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, well, great, I think the battery tender or the
trickle charger, either one will be perfectly fine. Okay, either
one will be fine. I don't think that there is
a you know, an, I don't think there's any pros
or columns to either either form. Okay, now, you I

(05:31):
would recommend that you do. And I do know that
it is under the seat. I would recommend that you
do connect it at the battery simply because you're gonna
get your most accurate results, you know, because it's going
directly to the back, because you know there are there
are a.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Jumping post underneath the hood.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And but I don't think that you're gonna get a
great result from that, So I again, I think trickle
charger tender.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I think either ones fine.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yes, I would think your best the best idea would
be to attach it to the battery underneath the back seat,
which I know can be a bit of a nuisance. Luckily,
the battery, I mean, this back seat pops out pretty easily.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
But as far.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
As you said, it's down there eight months out of
the year not being used, yeah, okay. And then is
it in a garage or is it sitting outside or
under a car port, or.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's just sitting under a car port?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
As far as an additive, I think if the car
sits down there for eight months, I personally think you'd
be all right. I don't think you have to, Okay,
I do think that it would be beneficial. I don't
think it can hurt, right, I don't think it's gonna hurt.
But I think the more important thing is is making

(06:55):
sure that when you get when you do get down there,
I mean, how long are you in Florida.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm assuming that the the other four months are you
down there?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right, Okay, so I would I think the most important
thing to do is, yes, battery tender charge or battery
tender or trickle charger additive. I don't think it can.
It's not gonna hurt, certainly not gonna hurt. But I
don't think you're doing any damage to the vehicle. But
what I'd want you to do though, and it might

(07:25):
be a little excessive, but I think when you're down there,
I think that in that four months, I think you
but you know, whether as soon as you get down
there you change your oil or as soon as you
leave you change, well one or the other. But I
would at least like to see you change the oil
once a year in that thing. I think that's pretty
that's pretty vital too. And you know, making sure your

(07:45):
air pressures up the snuff. And it's a good thing
that's under the car port because that Florida sun can
really wreakavoc on you know, the body and the car
and the paint on your car.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, the first I'd tried covering it up, but then
I was really wanting someone to drive it. So this
time I did get somebody over there to drive it
every couple three weeks, but she only took it around
the little park that we're in. You can't go over
twenty miles an hour, so I don't think that did anything.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well now, but I think I think it does because
what happens is is the gaskets, you know, your oil
pant gasket, your valve cover gasket, your your seals or
whatnot from citing, they they harden, right, So even if
it ran, or if she idled it, you know, once

(08:42):
a week or once a month or every other week,
I still think that's that's beneficial opposed to it just
sitting the entire eight months. So even though it doesn't
go over twenty miles an hour, it still would be,
in my opinion, beneficial because again those those those seals
will harden. Now, you know, down in Florida it really

(09:02):
doesn't get that cold. You'll see a lot more of
that when it's in the temperatures up here. Uh, but
you still want to make sure that all those parts
are moving right. If so, it's it's it's I think
it's it's still important. Even if it only goes below
twenty miles an hour. I still think I would do
it if it was my vehicle.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, so what part of Florida are you in.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's Boyton Beach, which is pretty it's south of West
Palm Beach. Okay, pretty far down so it stays warm. Yeah, okay, yeah,
that's what I was looking for.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right after yeeah, I understand.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, right after Christmas, my wife and children and I
were we were heading down down towards a little south
of Sarasota to get out of that, you know, get
through the holidays and get through that those cold days
and get down there and so we enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
The boys love it so.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
But yeah, I think that's beneficial to uh, all everything
that you brought up is just making and then making sure,
you know, again while you're down there and you are
driving it, get it serviced and just say, hey, look,
can you check all my fluids, my air pressure and
get the oil changed because that's very vital as well.
But everything else, everything that you asked, are great questions

(10:17):
and things that you know, it's the worst thing you
can do for your car, whether it's like a fairly
family airlom, it's like, oh, this was my dad's. I
want to keep it forever, keep it in at least
getting out of the elements of the weather, getting out
of the sun or whatnot.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Great.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
And the worst thing that you can do for your
car is just let it sit and do nothing. That
that's the that's you're just that's a recipe for disaster.
So even if your neighbor or whatever, it even just
goes out there and starts it for an hour, that's
better than it just sitting Norman for that those eight months.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
So okay, okay, well that's good to know. And do
you have a particular kind of battery tender that you
think will be I heard three amp. I don't know
anything about it.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
No, No, I do not have a particular one.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I think what I would recommend is make sure that
you're not buying.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Buying it. I don't have a brand.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Per se or but what I would recommend is just
make sure you buy yourself a good one, not a
cheap one.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Do yourself to because they're not. They're not terribly expensive.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know, yeah, I've seen them. I think mid range
is like fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
But yeah, I wouldn't go on you know, Amazon and
find a ten dollars one.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I don't think it's going to do you any good.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
I would just make sure you focus on the reviews
and making sure that it has a good, good review,
and you buy a quality doesn't have to be the
top of the line, but buy something that is.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
A quality product.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, thank you very very much. Really helped me out.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Not a problem you called me any time. Uh huh,
take care, bye bye. That's where I plan on being
at some point. I tell my kids all the time.
I'm like, as soon as you guys turn eighteen, I'm
kicking you out of the house and Mom and I
are gonna be down in Florida. That somebody said. I
said that the other day. The lady, I guess took
me seriously. She's like, you realize at eighteen, they're not

(12:16):
gonna be able to move out of the house. I'm like,
I'm just teasing. But I always tell them. They're like, well,
where are we gonna go? I'm like, I don't know.
But once you turn eighteen, you're out and Mom and
I are down to Florida. So anyways, all right again,
now taking your phone calls and I'm gonna call A
five one three seven nine fifty five hundred. That number
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(13:10):
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Speaker 1 (13:37):
I hope everybody's enjoined.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
What little weather we have, good weather we have, the
sun's out, no clouds, a little, not too bad. I
Fall is my favorite time. My favorite season of the year.
My favorite time of the year is the holidays. Now
for most people there, you know, I find and I
was telling my wife this this morning, We're watching the news,

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and I you know, I told my employees.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I said, hey, everybody enjoy their Halloween.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
November one officially starts the season, and we can start
listening to Christmas music. And man, you want to talk
about some some scrooges. I mean, I got all of
them right now. I don't like Christmas music. We don't
like the holidays. I'm like, man, I mean, come on,
they're like, no, Christmas music should be played on Christmas Day,

(14:25):
that is it. And I'm like, no, you got to
get amped up and ready for the season. And now
it's once you pass Halloween, it's Christmas, it's the holidays.
You can start listening to Christmas music. I already started
watching Home alone, Okay, which I got into an argument
with one of my employees because he says, it's.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Not a Christmas music movie. Was it?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Absolutely, it's Christmas. No, it just takes place during Christmas,
but it's not a Christmas movie. I'm like, son, you
are out of your mind. So but anyways, you know
we're going to get into colder temps. You need to
start thinking about getting the battery tested, getting the car
ready for win, checking your air pressure. We already had
a ton of customers coming in with the tighlights on,

(15:06):
and now it's the time to start thinking about that
because you know, in Cincinnati, if you don't like the weather,
wait ten minutes and it will change. We could be
in next week, we could be getting flurries. You just
never know, you know it. And uh well I didn't
say yeah, I said flurries. I did not say the
the the dreaded yeah, the dreaded s word.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
So we're not there yet. But what I noticed earlier
this week too.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Is we had a gentleman he goes hey, he brought
his car and he goes hey, look, I was coming
past your shop.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
For those of you who were living.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
The pleasant Ridge area, you know the train tracks right,
by our ridge location. Uh, that's ramp and most cars
will go airborne if you hit it fast enough. So
this gentleman said, he I lost my breaking. I didn't
have any breaking, and I didn't have it till I
got down to down the street about a block and
then I had perfectly My brakes were fine. I was

(15:58):
good to go U but I brought it back because
something's wrong with my breaks. I'm like, well, breaks don't
normally go out and then come back, So I'm like,
he probably was skidding because it was raining. Most of
our traffic this week was just unbearable because it's like
we haven't seen rain in months, and now all of
a sudden, nobody knows how to drive and rain. So

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the gentlemen had perfectly good tires, perfectly good breaks. Well
I shouldn't say perfectly good breaks. He did need breaks,
but that was not the result of why he was skidding.
He was skidding because he was going too fast down
the hill and locked up the brakes. And so you know,
these are things that you need to start thinking about
getting the car ready for the winter. So all right,

(16:41):
as promise, let's go back to the phones. We have
Joe Hey Joe, Welcome to the car show. How can
I help?

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yes, I have a two thousand dollars a Koda pick
up sort of to real real action. I mean, ray
An went out in it. It's so uh just rust
it out, pretty bad on the frame and everything. I

(17:10):
want it's worth putting any money into that? Uh?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, Joe? How long has the car been sitting? How
long has the truck been sitting?

Speaker 6 (17:21):
I mean sitting that drive it almost every day?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Oh okay, okay, all right, all right, you drive it
every day.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
But you said it's pretty rusty.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, well you know the frame rushed out, well so
the body. But if the frame is.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Real bad, yeah, yeah, I mean you can.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I mean it doesn't I mean, from what you're describing
to me, probably doesn't sound like you want to put it.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
You don't want to invest a ton of money in it.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
But I mean, if the radio's gone out, are you
wanting to maybe replace the radio.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
To in? Yeah? Are you wanting to replace radio?

Speaker 6 (18:09):
It's not really worth it?

Speaker 1 (18:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
No, yeah, yeah, no, I'm no, I don't think it
would be worth your time to put that To replace that,
that would be pretty pretty expensive. And uh, I'd like
to see you maybe use that money for a down
payment on something else or but you know, I yeah,
I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I wouldn't recommend it.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Okay, Yo had Dave Donaman by three generations, ain't it, Yes.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Sir, I am third generation.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, my grandfather started it, and my oldest uncle and
my dad took it over, and then my cousin uh
and I purchased it from our dads and currently running
that as well. So yeah, and you know you've heard
me talk about it on this on the radio station.
You know, we enjoy what we do, love what we do.
In fact, that's why we're here on Saturdays too answer

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your car questions. So all right, let's go back to
the phones. We have Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to the
car show. How can I help I?

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Dan?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Actually, it's a wonderful life for Christmas. Okay, I have
an order. Although it's pristine r X seven and I
did the worst thing that you can do based on
what you said to that lady at the top of
the show. It's been sitting in the garage for probably

(19:38):
three years, and I want to get it out, but
now you scared the hell out of me.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well all right, so it's been in the garage for
three years. Has have you ran it or anything in
those three years?

Speaker 7 (19:52):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Because I thought I shouldn't. Of course, that was a
real wise decision. I thought that I shouldn't because it
wouldn't be good for it. And I guess I was
one hundred eighty degrees out of uh, the proper way
to do it?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
How many what year is it?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Uh, it's a ninety one, but it's uh.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's a rotary engine. I'm sorry, is that rotary engine?

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (20:18):
It is, okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
There's just a certain way, certain way that you those things.
I mean, it's a great and it's a it's a
it's a unique engine design. But sometimes there's a certain
way you got to get those started.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
What I would record.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
So we used to have a gentleman that had one
for years, and every year we'd have to he'd let
it sit in the winter and then we'd have to
pull the spark plugs out, run transmission.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Fluid into the into into the.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Spark plug tubes, and it would it would smoke like crazy,
and we'd we but we'd put new plugs in it
and we'd finally get it turned over, get it running,
and it was it was quite the quite the feet
every year we had to do this. Luckily he sold it.
But what I would recommend for you is, yes, don't
start it, especially with the fuel that's in it. I

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get it towed first, find somebody who is is familiar
with that engine. Okay, I don't know off the top
of my head. I mean, we could work on it,
but you know, there there's got to be I don't
know of an expert that necessarily could take care of.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
That for you. Not off the top of my head.
I'm sure they're out there.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
But you know, my recommendation would be get it towed,
you know, push it out of there, get it towed,
get all the fluids changed, uh you know, the oil,
the tran or the you know, the brake fluid, the coolant,
the the fuel. Get your The problem is too is
you're gonna have to take that. You're gonna have to
get that that old gas out of there too, which

(21:54):
can be I think MASA usually has they have a
cutout like underneath the back seat where you can access it.
But uh, but uh, I mean it's better late than ever.
I mean, the the longer it sits. Now, what I
will tell you too, and I hate to say, but
when the car sits like that, those those gaskets, man,
they harden up.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
So it won't be right away.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
But typically you you start within probably if you if
you start driving it, you know, on a once a
week or something like that, you'll start to notice. Maybe
in about six months you'll start noticing leaks and whatnot
because those gaskets no longer doing their job.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
And so it can be a labor.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Of love, you know, it's something that you want to
if you're gonna do it, go all in.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
But it can be it can be costly. It can
be costly. I don't think by no means.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I think like, hey, you know what time you're you're
you know, you're s o l and you just need
to get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'm not saying that at all.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Just again, it's gonna be one of those things where
it can be costly and it would be beneficial, I think,
to change the fluids and get it to somebody who
is familiar enough with that particular engine and that. But
I mean, how's the rest of the car, I mean,
body wise, Russ Wiseman, does it all look good?

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Or if I could came out of the show room
for how.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Many miles are on it? Forty thousand? Did you buy
it brand new?

Speaker 7 (23:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:19):
It had actually not brand new, but it had five
thousand miles.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
On it, practically brand new.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Okay, So what what prompted you to not drive it
for those three years? Was it just one of those
things where life got got ahead of you and you
just were like, hey.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'll get to it later.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
That's exactly, you know, I started a business and the
business consume me. Yeah, I got it and I put
it in the garage until well, I'll get it later,
and later it got to be much later and much later.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, well good.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, if it has forty thousand miles, it's definitely
worth taking care of. So I actually just purchased a
two thousand. I think it's a I don't know. I
think it's an Owner two. I can't remember one oh
two Toyota m R two Spider, which it's a you know,
it's a mid engine. Uh you didn't see you don't
see a ton of them. But it only has six

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original owner guy had sixty two thousand miles on it.
I'm like, that's a cool little car. Convertible manual and
so but yeah, I think I think it's worth investing
the time and money and getting it up and running
again because at some point it's gonna be worse. I
don't know what type of value is it. Have you
ever looked up to see if there's any what type

(24:32):
of value it has?

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'll tell you they go from twenty up to.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Fifty wowyah see.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
So yeah, then I definitely recommend find somebody who is
going to take care of you, making sure that you
get that thing back up and running.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
And and then.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
If, if, and when you do it, just you know,
it doesn't have to be every day, you know, just
pop in there on the weekends or going to the
grocery or something like that, just getting out there stretching
her legs and and you know, yes, you want to
keep the miles low, but it would be beneficial just
to drive it, you know, once or twice a week,
or you know, again going to church.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Can I which said it? You know I can change
will and stuff, uh you know, radiator food and what
can I do that?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Sure? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
If you yeah, if you want to take on the task,
absolutely you could. I think the only thing that you
wouldn't be able to do would just be the brake fluid,
changing the break fluid, because typically you want to we
have a machine that forces you know, it sucks out
the break fluid as it's forcing new break fluid.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
And again, break fluid.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Absorbs moisture, right, so you'll get uh, you know, kind
of a fading pedal over time.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
So it would.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Be beneficial to to to flush out the old break
fluid to break. You'll notice tremendously that the response, the
brake pedal response will increase, which is which is a
good thing.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
So but you may know, is that.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Something I can bring to you? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah. We hook it up to a machine.
We open up all four bleeder screws and you know
and like I said, one the four uh, the machine
as it sucking break fluid out, it's forcing break fluid
in and replaces it all with new fluid. And yeah,
it's We do it a lot, and I do it

(26:22):
on my own vehicles and it's very beneficial. So keeps
it keeps you know, all the break hoses. It prolongs
the life of the hoses as well, because that moisture
in there, you really want to you really want to
get that out. So but yeah, it's something that I
could do for you and not a problem.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
And so if I know you had mentioned getting a
toad up there, if I just change the oil, can
I drive it up?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Absolutely? Okay, Yeah, you may want to.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
You may want to find an additive and try to
put some fresh gas in it if you can. I
mean if it's a full tank, but I mean if
it's a half tank, quarter tank or something like that,
if you could put some type of added and introduce
some new fuel to it, I think that would be
beneficial if you're going to try to drive it up.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Yeah, And I mean I gotta figure I gotta believe
that somehow I can get under there and drain the
tank and refill.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
It m or not.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, So I think again, most of your imports of
your Hondas, your toytos, your massa is underneath the back seat.
When you remove the back seat, there's a little cut out.
There's a plate usually four screws. Take those four screws out,
and that allows you access to the tank where you
could access it and remove the gas yourself. You wouldn't
have to drop the tank or get underneath it because

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those are accessible from the top.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Gotcha all right, because i'd like to, you know, bring
it up to you and say, you know, if it's
possible to do something to it, do it.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, I'm sorry what you said.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
You know, I'd like to bring it up to you. Yeah,
so that you know, if it's possible to do something
to it. I haven't thought of or something that you
do and I can't do. Uh, you know, I would
just say, you know.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, sure, bring it up to me. I'll be more
happy to take a look at it for you.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
That's good. Hey, one one more, just an absolutely quick question.
A pickup truck, aren't you supposed to have when you
get new tires? Get get all four instead of you
know mine? He has like four different ones. That's not good,
is it?

Speaker 3 (28:30):
No? No, you want you want to make sure that
they're all the same.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Okay, Okay, I wanted the truck to somebody and it
came back a mess. I won't be doing that yet.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
All right, Well, thank you, take care, bye bye. Sorry
I was running out of time. I apologize them.

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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Sorry I was yawning.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I should not be yawning, but I got up a
little early, went and got my wife and I some
coffee and watched some TV. And then for some reason
I was like, oh, I'm kind of tired. I think
I'll take another nap. I don't know what's going on
with me. I turned forty, and I'm telling you, I
just started falling apart. It was nice though, because Danny
was just asking. I said, I'll have to you. We

(30:00):
got to go to a birthday party. Do you ever
stop on the weekends too, I'm like never. A weekend
is just as busy as a weekday for us. You know,
my wife had to drop off, I had to pick
my son had to sleep over, so I had to
go pick him up from there. We had to drop
off football uniforms and helmets and and you know, all
the all the everything for football. My two youngest ones

(30:23):
were playing football.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Drop that off. Now they're at.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
A football party for the kind of season ending football year.
And uh, I had to my wife forgot our cell phone,
so I rushed up there, dropped it off to make
it here barely on time. And uh and as soon
as I'm done here, we got to high tail it
over to the west side because we've got a birthday,

(30:45):
my niece's birthday party. So it just you know, even
if it just for it just you know, you're like, oh,
last weekend my son lost.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm like, oh my gosh, it's gonna be great. What
are we gonna do. We're gonna have the weekends, we're
gonna have all this time, and here, uh, we don't
have it.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Something always, something always fills the gap. So uh, you know,
what are you gonna do? All right, let's go back
to the phones we have. Floyd, Hey, Floyd, welcome to
the course show.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
How can I help?

Speaker 7 (31:17):
I just got a two thousand and ten Dodge of Coda.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (31:21):
I got no lights on it except for the tire
pressure senser. I guess the system. The system on Thatt
is a little bit older, doesn't have the uh the
specifications like which tires low or anything. It just tells
you senses anything. So I have no way of I'm
trying to figure out which in the world what tire
it is that could be low or if it's if

(31:43):
it's the module itself. Uh, I just don't know what
direction that they put it. I'm I've deflated the tires,
reinflated them, you know, to the manufactured spects, which I
can't I can't remember what that was now and I'm
not taking them low build them back up.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
So all right the ideas, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Sure, let me ask you something.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
When you start the vehicle, does that tire light ever
flash or does it just come on and stays on
solid and flashes. Okay, so great, So if it's flashing. Now,
for those of you who are listening, this is a
great question. We've been and we deal with it every
day on the across the board. Every vehicle out there

(32:23):
that has or is equipped with this system. If you
start your vehicle up, you started up, the tirelight is
on and it's it comes on and it's solid, that
is an indication that one or multiple tires are low. Now,
if you start your vehicle, whether it's a Toyota or
in this case of Dodge, you start your vehicle and
that tire light is flashing, that is indication that either

(32:45):
one or multiple tire pressure sensors are not reporting back
to the module, which again would indicate that the batteries
are dead in one one or multiple sensors. Now, there's
no way for you to determine exactly which one is bad.

(33:07):
You would have to bring it to one of my
locations or a location that has a computer.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
And what we can do is we can go.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
In and we can scan them and find out exactly
which one is not reporting back. Now, again, you know
every single one of your your tire valve is basically
it acts as an antenna and that's what sends a
signal back to the module. Modules almost never go bad.
It's usually just a battery indication. So a lot of

(33:34):
the times you bring it to us, we'll scan them all.
We'll figure out which one or which ones are not
are dead and not reporting back. Now, there's no way
to replace the batteries on these sensors. You have to
replace the whole sensor right and at the tune of
about one hundred and twenty five bucks one hundred hundred
and twenty five bucks per wheel. The other thing that

(33:57):
I would really want to emphasize to you is, well
is if one is dead. So say you come to
me and I go, hey, look, hey, you know left
front sensor is not working. We put one in it,
and then two months later you're going, hey, damn, the
tirelight's flashing again. What's going on? Oh well, hey, Floyd,
well now the right front's dead, you know, because they're
all came out at the same time. So I wouldn't
recommend replacing all four of them. But what I recommend

(34:20):
is and just know that, look, if only one of
them is testing bad, and you have it done, you
have the potential of those other three dying at any point. Now, again,
we have this the computer that can tell us, hey, look, Floyd,
the right front has like twenty percent battery life left.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
It looks like that one's going out next. But if
it's flashing, you need one or multiple sensors.

Speaker 7 (34:42):
Well, I'm wondering.

Speaker 9 (34:43):
If you know here soon I'm probably going to get
some new tires on it, and I talked about maybe
just having them all replace.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
When when I do that, I would recommend that time,
I would recommend.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
Then, I mean, I guess I can get by with
it for now. Yeah, So along that note too, I
really do, like I've gotten so used to having with
my other vehicles, just that benefit of seeing it. I
did buy. They weren't very expensive, but they were just
a type of look like the valve stem caps, and
they either a hook up to your phone. I know
there's mixed reviews on them. Have you had any experience

(35:16):
with those? Is I've figured just for a short term,
you know?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, No, I don't.

Speaker 9 (35:21):
Know if anybody's had any experience being any other or not.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
No, I have not seen those. I'd have to look
into that I do. Uh, No, I have not seen them.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I don't know. Uh. The only thing that.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
I would emphasize to all of those who are listening
is if you do have one of these vehicles that
has a tire pressure monitoring system on it, and you
have an aluminum valve stem aluminum these don't go to
your local parts place and buy aluminum caps. These things
will seize onto these stems and you can't get them off.
I have to break them off, and then you end

(35:53):
up needing all four sensors.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Because people like to, you know, they'll get.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Ones online, you know, and say, you know Ford, and
they want to screw them on to these aluminum caps,
and then you can't get them off. So I recommend
not doing that. But the system that you're talking about,
I am not familiar with. I've not seen that. I'll
look into that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I've never seen.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
I was just really curious. I think I was looking
for for censors for another vehicle of arts, and I
saw those, and I never wound up in stolen on
them because it looked like they might be more trouble
than the word works. Like a lot of people had
just mixed reviews on it, but it was cheap enough.
It was you know, we were going out of town.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
I thought, well, you.

Speaker 9 (36:30):
Know, just and then it was gonna be my wife
is gonna be by herself. I was gonna be able
to go with it. So and then I'm wound not
being able to go.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
So I didn't bother.

Speaker 9 (36:39):
I just checked the air air every time we you know,
we got casts stuff like that. Okay, all right, yeah,
well I appreciate the help. I'm go ahead and do that.
And I guess I'll just muddle through. And it sounds
sounds like what you're saying. I say the same thing.
I mean, it's twenty ten. They probably haven't been replaced,
and it's just it's just that time from the be replaced.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
And save yourself to lave to because if you're getting
four tires, you save the self, you know, you save
yourself labor, so you're not paying all that extra costs.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Just say, hey, look what.

Speaker 9 (37:04):
They got to break them down and rebound them and
everything and rebounce them.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, yep, okay, I appreciate to help. Let's take care.
Huh bye bye uh. That's a great question.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
And I was actually going to talk about that in
the beginning of the show, I did mention the air
pressure because we you know, would again for every ten
degrees that the ambient air temperature that your temperature outside drops,
you lose one pound of air.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
In fact, two weeks ago, my tire light came on.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Now my tires were just you know, they were just
a little low, all of them were, because again, you know,
the last time I had my oil changed it was
you know, eighty ninety degrees. Well, now it's getting down
into the thirties, mid thirties, forties. Well you're gonna lose
some air pressure. So it's gonna kick those tirelights on.
And so I pulled it in, checked my air pressure,
topped it off, got the light out, and boom, there

(37:51):
you go.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
So it's very common this time of year. So great question.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
So again, if your tire light, if your car is
or has this type of system, if the light is
on solid, you've got to you've got an air pressure issue,
and a lot of times you can't. Some vehicles you
check the air pressure, tighten it up, and boom you
drive down the street.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
It goes out. Some systems you need a computer to
re scan them. Some systems you have to push a
button and every single car is different. But again, if
the tire light is ever flashing across any maker model
as in indication that one or multiple sensors is not
reporting back, meaning that the battery in the sensor is
dead again, you can't replace it. You just have to

(38:31):
replace the whole sensor.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
So all right again, number to call five one, three, seven,
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We have Mike and David.

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Speaker 3 (39:20):
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(39:40):
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Speaker 1 (39:59):
So let's go back to the phones we have. Mike. Hey, Mike,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?

Speaker 7 (40:06):
Yeah, thanks for taking a call there. I have a
Toyota and the other day I went out at night
and turning everything off in the lights. When I came back,
the headlights work, but your regular uh do the dome
lights from the outside of the car doesn't work, and
the dashboard lights don't come on. Now I'm trying to

(40:28):
figure out what few would cause that to go back.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
So the headlights so you have normal headlights and do
your brights work.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
That.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, the brights work. The normal headlights work. But if
you go to do one click back. And if you're
just sitting still with the engine running and you have
your marker lights working, I'm trying to say, none of
those came on. And the inside dashboard is what tells
you how fast you going.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
At your Yeah, your interior dash lights aren't working as well.

Speaker 7 (41:05):
Yeah, none of that works. But my break light, break
lights work, emergency lights work, radio works, dome light inside
the cab works, everything else seems to work. Signal lights work,
all of that works, but those two don't.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
And did they seamlessly go out at the same time.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Yeah, it just went out out of it went out,
just like out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Okay, all right, So I mean i'm first and foremost.
Now we could be dealing with a wiring issue or
a cluster issue or something like that. But before we
go digging in trying to create all kinds of habit,
have you checked your interior fuse interior light fuse.

Speaker 7 (41:47):
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out which one is the
correct one. And it doesn't say specifically, uh, dome lights
or tail lights on it That's that's what I was
calling it about. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't say exactly
which one to switch.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Well, typically, I mean, does it have I would assume
it has both both fuse boxes, the one under the
hood and then one underneath the dash. Yes, okay, So
I mean the one that's underneath the dash or on
the inside of the cab.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
That's where I would check first.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
There should be Is there a diagram on the back
of the cover that shows interior, exterior or any type
of diagram, Yes.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Okay, it is.

Speaker 7 (42:31):
It shouldn't stay like tail lights or something.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
No, I mean I would know because you are your
are the tail lights not working either?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
There to break okay, okay, but they don't kick on
as well?

Speaker 7 (42:48):
Okay, okay, well the break lights are working, to touch them,
but if you're just sitting still.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Okay, okay, all right, I mean.

Speaker 7 (42:59):
The mark work.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, I mean yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
The fact that they both went out at the same time,
is it to me is an indication that we've probably
got a fuse issue.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
But no, I would focus on they're typically are They're
usually opposite.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
They usually have you know, usually have your exterior lights
and then you usually have an interior light and the
fact that they're both not working at the same time,
you're you're gonna the only thing that you could do
is get get yourself a pair of get yourself a
little flashlight and a pair of needlenosed fliers and find

(43:37):
the interior exterior lights and just pull them. And then
here here's the deal too. I mean, there's been times
where my guys have pulled their out because they're like, hey,
the fuses are fine, I can't figure out why. Well,
sometimes they'll break or their pop and it'll be so
minute you can't see it with the naked eye. So
I'm I want you to even if if you don't,

(43:58):
if it doesn't even look like it's bad, I'd replace
it anyways, because again, I had a guy one of
my texts years ago got burned. We replaced everything under
the sun in this car and it was just a
bad fuse, but you could not see it with the
naked eye. It didn't popping over. So replace them anyways,
try that and then give me a call back.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
So thank you so much. Thanks, all right, everybody, have
a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I'll be back next Saturday to answer all of your
car questions. Please do not eat too much candy, you
end up with a belly ache.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
But it was funny.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
One of the moms we were with last night, she
was grabbing as her kid is coming back with handfuls
of candy. She's digging through it already before we even
got home. So it's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
So everybody enjoyed their weekend.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Remember, you know, now it's the season, doesn't start listening
to some Christmas music.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
But I'll be back next Saturday. Answer all your car questions.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. You're a
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