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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Put some.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Shutting down there and.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Setting through the windows down near.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Sh Good afternoon, Welcome to the car show. I'm Dane Donovan,
taking all of your car questions. Then number here five
one five that Numbergain five one three seven fifty five.
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Un uh, sometimes forget the phone number because I give
out so many different numbers.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But uh yeah again it's a.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Not too uh it's cloudy, but uh, you know, we've
had some great weather and uh, you know it's it's
time to start thinking about uh you know that uh
winter weather, thinking about getting our cars rad for winter,
and so that is something that we need to talk
about today and love to take your car questions again.
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Then I want to call five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred. So yeah, so listen, we need
to start thinking about and prepping for the winter time
and getting our cars ready for winter, making sure that
we're getting the batteries tested, making sure that our fluids
are checked.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know. Again, I've talked about this a lot of
times on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you know, when I got into this business twenty
five years ago, man, it was a thing that every
around this time of year October November, primarily November I'd
have just this, you know, we'd have this massive influx
of people that wanted to come in. They wanted their
car looked at, they wanted it ready for winter. And
and you know all the fluids checked, the battery, the belts,
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the hoses. And although that most of that you don't
see too much of, there still are things that you
need take care of, especially the battery, getting older, alternator tested,
the starter, you know, just making sure that you're ready,
especially tires.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That is that, you know, we we get a massive
influx again that first snow that we always get. You know,
everybody can't get to work because they don't have any
tread on their tires. And it's I know that we
don't like to spend money on tires, but we have
to have them in order to get back and forth,
to get our kids to school, to get them to work. Uh,
they're it's important. And they yes, they are expensive. I
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mean since COVID they've they've doubled. The cost of tires
is doubled. But it's something that we have to have
and it's something that we should be thinking about, something
that we should be looking into. So think about that
as we get into the winter season.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You want to make sure that your car is ready
to go, so.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Taking your phone calls and don't want to call five one, three, seven,
four nine fifty five hundred. Let's go to the phones.
We've got Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the car show.
How can hell?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well, this may be an eyeball question. I've got an
engine that it was seized. I got it in trade
for a used one I sold, and I'm trying to
see if it's rebuildable. And the three of the pistons
so far are stuck in the cylinders. There was you know,
when I took it apart, there was water in a
couple of the cylinders. I cleaned up the board as
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much as I could above them, and been spraying some
you know, lubricant on them. I guess I'm wondering if
you got any other tips for what to do with
it to try and get the pistons to come out.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh man, so you said several of the cylinders had
water in them.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't like I said. I had a fairly
high marleage engine that was still running that I sold
the guy and he gave me his old one in trade,
and it was it wouldn't turn over. I've got the
crank and you know, I got the head off and
the crank out, and the crank berriers seemed to be
in reasonable shape as well as as well as the
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connecting rod bearings. So the only thing that's holding it
up is, you know, was the pistons. So I don't
know how long it sat like that. There was some
there was some rust on the on the you know,
the top end of the cylinders that I was able
to kind of lightly wire brush off, so the cylinder
boards there don't look so bad. But was the leary
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of just hammering away on the pistons to drive them
out right?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Was was the engine?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Just sitting outside with with the sparkles.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know, I'm not I'm not sure. I mean,
I had when I got it, I had it in
the garage and it's got plugs in it, so it
must have had a head gasket leak or something.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Uh oh, you know, I'll be honest with you, I've
never gotten that question before. I've never I mean, I
know that that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know that it happens, you know on these cars.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Some people that try to restore a car that's been
sitting out in the field for you know, thirty years, right.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean, the only thing I can think of is
you said, you've got the cylinder head off and you've
just got the pistons so one, so when you try
to turn that crank, just it just it's locked the crank.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I took the crank out of it. Crank, you know,
I had to take the lower block off. I get
to the connecting rod bolts. So all, you know, all
it is now is the upper block with with the pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
In it, and you got one out, but I got
one out.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
With relatively light tapping. But but it appears to be
taking more effort for the other three. So I just,
I guess, soak them. Let them soak a while longer
with you know. Yeah, well played on the underside. You know,
I've got the block outside down, so I can spray
stuff in there and and whether kind of soak through
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the rings.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah what I Well, you could do WD forty. Have
you ever have you ever used or tried p B blaster?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, yeah, I've got some PB blasters silicon, but I
don't have the I don't have the regular stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, no, I'd recommend try the p B blaster, which
is the penetrating oil. Try that. I'd soak those bad
boys for at least a you know, a couple of
days probably, I think. I think the only thing that
you can do is you're gonna just have to hammer
them out. I mean, you're gonna probably need to get it.
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What I would do if you can get them out,
I gotta or you know, I got a great machinist
that possible, right, right, right, right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I mean I've got a great machine. I don't have.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well, I have a great machinist that I could recommend
that could probably take care of you and and get
it fixed correctly. But I would soak them in petitive
and that PB blaster and let them sit for a
couple of days. And I think you're just gonna have
to use a bit of force and knock them out.
I don't I personally don't think you're gonna do a
ton of damage. But I think once you knock them out,
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you want to make sure that somebody you know takes
care of those cylinder walls and make sure that they're
at scored or whatnot.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Right, I have to I have to bore it over
if I want to.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Rebuild it, yeah, I And if you need somebody that
can do that, I've got a great machinist here uh
near me. It's uh, it's it's a Burton's Collision. They've
got a machine shop.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I was there. I was there. I got a car.
I got a cylinder head there right now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't know do you have do you have anybody
that does any type of machine work?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, there's a smite O up here and you know
the Westchester area. It's done some work for me before
and I've never had a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So okay, all right, No, I mean soak them and
then just knock them out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't think that you're gonna get I don't. I
think it'll be fine. I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think it'll be perfectly fine. But that's what I
would do. All right, all right, Paul, call me back
and let me know how it went. Okay, Yeah, all right,
take care, bye bye? All right, taking your car questions,
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Speaker 1 (09:25):
Taking your car questions. The number to call five one
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Speaker 2 (09:32):
Love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Guys, and please if you've got a question, whether or
not it pertains to obviously pertains to the vehicle. But
if it is, you know, even just getting advice about
buying a new vehicle or used vehicle. There's a lot
of questions out there that people have and I'd love
to hear from you. So if you've got a question,
please give me a call. So let's go back to
the phones. We've got Andrew. Hey, Andrew, welcome to the
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car show.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
How can I help Hey, thanks for taking the call.
I you've helped me in the past with like transmission
issues kind of thing stuff on the interior car. Now
I have an exterior question. Keep in mind, I'm not
a do it yourselfer, so I know a lot of
people who are would probably like why is this a
big issue? But for someone I tend to go to
the experts and get them to work on this stuff.
(10:16):
And in this case, it's a paint issue. Went through
one of the car washes they and it's a car,
it's not that old, it's only a few years old.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
I had a.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Basically have a almost a dime sized chip in the
paint that's come off. And I know in the past, yeah,
you can go to the dealer and get these little
do it yourself paint but it looks terrible whatever I've
tried to do it myself.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
I want to get it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I want to get it done, but I also don't
want to get a full paint job. And I think
out if I get to a paint plate, they're going
to try to sell me on a you know, a
thousand dollars you know, paint job, just just like if
I had a fender bender or something, and I don't
want to do that. Can you envision whether it be
like a detailer or somebody else, that's kind of an
in between where I could spend like maybe a hundred
bucks or something and have it done and have it
done nicely. That actually doesn't have to look perfect. It
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has to look good and be and be and not
and fail again within another year and start chipping or
appealing again.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh goodness, A great question.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh, not really an expert on paint, but man, I
think like you said, I mean, yeah, if you get
the touch up paint and you try to patch it up,
it's not it's not gonna look right. I honestly, I mean,
I'm not a body guy, but I think personally, you're
probably they're gonna need to sand that down and they're
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gonna have to try to blend it and and and
and paint the whole thing. I don't know. I mean,
you know, if it was a dent, you know, you
could there's dentless repair or whatnot. But as far as
like a paint chip, I mean, I've got one on
my truck now, my left my right rear fender. Somebody
hit me with a door or whatnot, and there's a
huge chip. And yeah, to my knowledge, the only thing
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that you can do is sayd that all down and
paint that whole thing and blend it. I don't know
that there's any other solution. You can either do the
touch up or I mean, are you trying to do
it yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, that's what I'm saying is I've done those things
in the past and other cars myself, and we talked
about it just doesn't look that good. And this is
a pretty good size one, so it's not like it's
real tiny one where you can kind of get away
with it. And it's like maybe it's just having someone
who does use the touchup kit but can do a
good job. That's why I didn't know whether detailers would
do stuff like that. I have no idea, so I
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was just curious if you knew of anybody would do something.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know if any detailers that would do it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sure that there are body guys out there that
could probably do something relatively inexpensive, but it's a man,
it's just not my forte. I just don't know much
about body and I don't know anybody personally, don't know
anybody that could, you know, try to do it in
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a cheaper fashion.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, well, any maybe one of your listeners if they hear,
and then if they know and chime in.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Sure, okay, are great? Yeah, absolutely, have a great day.
Bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Unfortunately, body work is even though it pertains to a vehicle, right,
it's just something that we don't really master and don't
have a ton of knowledge of. It's a completely separate
division when we're working on these vehicles. It's kind of
like if you go to your dentist, you know, you
don't ask him for knee advice, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's just one of those things that we just don't
specialize in.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's all so, And I don't know anybody that could
just try to patch that. Typically typically they I lost
my training thought. But anyways, typically they have to just
sand it all down, excuse me, and repaint. It's it's
just nothing that I don't think. And again, if somebody's
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listening and has advice for him.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
He greatly appreciates him.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All Right, let's go back to the phones. We've got John, Hey, John,
welcome the car show.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
John? You're there? Hey John? You there?
Speaker 10 (14:08):
That Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
I'm sure eighty eight octane pop up around the place,
and I'm curious if that safety use or or not
so okay in your opinion?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Sure, you know, as far as like I haven't, the
eighty eight octane would be fine. I haven't seen, to
be honest, you between the eighty eight that I don't know,
eighty nine to ninety three, I really haven't. I haven't
seen any issues, problems or concerns.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
About what you know, gas you use.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I mean a lot of times people go, oh, well
my car ask for premium and calls for premium.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well that's recommended.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I've never once and in twenty five years, I've
never once had a car that came into me that
had an issue running with you know, an injector issue
or a running issue or anything like that due to
cheap gas. Yeah, I mean the only time I've ever
seen if there was water in the gas, or somebody
put something in the you know, the tank, sugar or
something like that. But listen, if you use eighty eight,
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it's fine. I typically will recommend that you do maybe
once a month. You use premium. Uh, it's supposed to
burn better and you're supposed to get better fuel mileage
on it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But eighty eight would be fine.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I what kind of what you're making models your vehicle?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Oh, I've got an twenty twenty Honda Pilot sold twenty.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Twenty Honda Pilot. Yeah, you'd be fine. I have not.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Again, I've never seen a car come into my shop
that's like, oh, you know, you need new pistons because
you put cheap gas in it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So I think you'll be perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But again, I would recommend maybe once in a while
put you'll put the premium in. And I put premium
in my cars, all my cars, and everybody tells me
I'm crazy, but I just always have. But I mean,
I've never seen anything any problems with somebody putting in
cheaper gas.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Lower octane.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Okay, thanks, all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, you're very welcome. You take care all right, taking
your phone calls, and I'm gonna call five one.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Three seven fifty five hundred that number again, five one
three seven fifty five hundred. It was a great question
about gas, and like I just told John listen, I've
never really had an issue with people putting in cheap
gas causing car problems. What I do see a ton
of every single day now is cars coming in with
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no oil in them. And it's something that I've talked
about so many times on this show. And I'm rebuilding, well,
not me personally, my technician is rebuilding another He had
to replace pistons in two outis this week due to
oil consumption and burning oil and whatnot. And it's a
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huge problem that needs to be talked about. And I
know for those of you who listen every week, I
know sometimes it sounds like I'm, you know, talking about
it every week, but it's something that it's a conversation
that we need to have because I recently purchased a
new vehicle and it tells me that at ten thousand miles,
I need to change my oil and I'm sorry, I'm
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not gonna do that. Our cars do the cars run
better nowadays? Sure, do they run longer nowadays?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Sure? Has oil progressed to the point where your car
can go ten thousand miles on an oil change? No?
Not my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It is a constant, constant problem. And I'm telling you,
if you want to keep your car going, you want
to get two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand miles out
of your car, the best and cheapest and easiest thing
that you can do is change your oil regularly five
thousand miles. I don't care what kind of oil. I
don't care what the car says five thousand miles on
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the sticker.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, it is something.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's the most important thing that you can do to
get the longevity out of your vehicle. So, ironically, we've
got Donald Donald, Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I just want to know if you heard anything about
Kia's twenty fifteen Kia engines and replace the whole engine
because of using so much oil.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Uh you know That's why I was like, ironically, I'm
talking about this, and yeah, I see it pop up
that your cars.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Absolutely, Hyundai's and Kias have a known problem that they
these things burn oil.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Just like the Audis do a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
A lot of the manufacturers nowadays burn oil due to
you know that, you know, fuel efficiency and making sure
it's But there is a Hyundai and Kia. You would
have to verify this with your ven number. You'd have
to call the dealer. But there is a an extended
warranty on these engines. If they lock up, they're out
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of oil and they lock up. I mean just too yeah,
just two years ago. I mean I had one at
my show and when I called, I said, hey, when
can you guys take a look at this. He's like, well,
this would be number ninety nine in line. So there
was ninety eight cars in front of this car that
needed an engine. So it's a very very large known problem.
And that's kind of why you know, I led about
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it's a it's a huge problem, right, was something's.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Going wrong because take it to Kiya and they said
that needs a candiate convert and want to charge three
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I kid you, not really? Yeah, was the check engine
line on or anything?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Check engine? How you on?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
It burns about a quarter all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
A week a quarter oil a wheeler.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, so put your handle with exhaust pipe and you
can actually you know, you're handly sticky.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, ust be something about it was machine under size
from the factory or something.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well you well do that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well think about it too.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
All that oil that's coming out of that engine and
going through that exhaust is going to that catalytic converter.
So yeah, of course the converter is going to be
flagged that it's it's not doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
All right, that's their fault if they don't want.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
To fix it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, how many miles are on the vehicle, so less
than one hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Okay, So what I would recommend okay, and have you
made this.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Aware? I mean, this is the dealer now, yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Right, take it here.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
And that's what they said is because the catali converter
is called up and they wanted three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Now, now, what what I would recommend that you do
is you get it in there and say, hey, listen,
I want an oil consumption test done. So typically what
they you go in there and say, like, my vehicle
is burning oil, I want.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
An oil consumption test done.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So what they'll do is they'll top the oil off,
they'll cap they'll they'll cap the oil cap and the
dipstick and and they'll tell you to bring it back
in one thousand miles or whatever their recommendation is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if it is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Burning more oil than what they say is, you know, normal,
then typically that the what they'll do is they'll replace
the engine.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Now they're gonna fight you on it, but again I.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Would go in there, you call them, make an appointment
and say listen, I want an oil consumption test done.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Period. But the fact that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Them trying to sell you a converter is is not
gonna fix your problem. Your problem is you've got it
needs the engine needs to be rebuilt or replaced.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It must be a recall where they replace it for free.
I don't think they want to do it because they've
had so.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Many Yeah so typically so there isn't a recall.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
But I do know that, uh, if they if it
does come in and I'm not I'm not advising this,
but if it I do know that if it does
come in locked up, that's where the kind.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Of the extended warranty kicks in and.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You have coverage. Now I'm not advising you to do that.
I would get the oil consumption test done half proof
that you you were you're there saying hey, listen, this
thing is burning oil. I want this test done so
it protects you. So you've got a little bit of leverage.
So if it does lock up or you do have issues,
go hey, listen, I've been here multiple times for this
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issue and now you know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It just gives you a little bit more leverage.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But it's a known problem and the only thing they
can do is rebuild or replace that engine, right and
with the CAT.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Guaranteed it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Okay, I have pass you go then?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
What he's going?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Uh no, So listen, And like I said earlier, this
is a these Kias and Hyundai's and I'm not knocking
hunting Kia, Kundas and Kias. I think they're a great car,
but they do have oil consumption issues. I would say
you're probably your biggest Audi, Hyundai, Kia, and probably subru
those are your largest consumer. And they're all they're all
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great cars, but they all burn oil. And it's something
that we have to have a conversation about and something
that people need to be aware of and be checking it.
And again, you can bring any of your vehicles to
any of our three locations and come bin and just say, hey,
can you check my oil and if it's low, we'll
top it off for you. I mean it's not worth
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I mean, you invest a lot of time and a
lot of money into your vehicle, and if you want
to get the life out of it and the most
out of it, it's something that you need to do.
It's imperative because these cars are just they're not built.
You know, thirty years ago, this wasn't an issue. Right,
thirty years ago, at one hundred thousand miles, you got
rid of your car.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now here we are.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thirty years later, Yeah, you can get two three hundred
thousand miles out of your car. But it's going to
use oil, like it's nobody's business. So it's something that
we always have to talk about. And I'm always going
to talk about it because I got to. You know,
I had a young college girl, you know, our new
store across the street from Xavier University.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
She lives, her parents live in California.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
She's here at college and she's like, I'm constantly having
to add oil.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's making this engine noise.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And you know, we had to put pistons in it
and timing chains and it's eighty five hundred dollars, and
you know, these parents are like, well, you know, what
are they going to do? Right, because they're you know,
halfway across the country and they need their daughter to
have transportation at school. And it wasn't anything that she
did wrong. But when she brought it to me, it
had a quart of oil in it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And the damage that was done to the car was
because it was being ran low on oil. Now we
fixed it and she's good to go. But again, had
it been checked or yeah, you know? And here's the thing.
The thing is is like a lot of people don't understand.
They don't know that they have this problem. Right, You
don't know it. You just get in the car and
it's like, oh, well again. I purchased a new vehicle
(25:04):
not too long ago and in the first recommendation of
repair is at ten thousand miles. I'm sorry, I'm not
going ten thousand miles on an old change. So sometimes
I you know, I'm not conspiracy theorist or whatnot, but
sometimes I do feel that we're misled as to how
often these cars need to be in and be checked
and make sure that you know they're up up the
(25:25):
par and making sure that we're keeping the oil the
oil topped off and the fluids checked and the brake's done.
And cause I'll be honest with you, the car repairs
are getting very, very expensive, and you got to make
sure that you protect your investment. I know it's not
necessary an investment per se because it's going down in value.
But if you spend you know, fifty sixty seventy thousand
(25:47):
dollars on a vehicle, I can assure you that everybody
wants to get the most out of it, and that's
just getting in and getting in and getting a checked regularly.
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Speaker 2 (27:03):
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes, sir? Ted? How are you?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
I'm good? How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'm all right. Stayed up too late watching that uh
that Mike Tyson fight.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
You watch a fight?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Okay, I did too. I didn't say it was much
of a fight myself.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, no, it wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm talking to my my boss here, Tony Bender, and
I was like, man, I stayed up for that, and
I was like, jeez, pizza, Yeah, you utilize my time better.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you know. I was getting tired too, and that,
you know, it kept buffer and I'll make a so
many I guess so many people was watching it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
We were we were just talking about that. Mine was
buffering all night. It was blurry, was cutting off, and
I'm like, geez, there's no way that many people are
watching it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But maybe there was. Maybe there was. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Yeah, yeah, but anyway, how can I help you. I've
got I've got a nineteen ninety eight. It's a Ford
Mostang GT. It's got the four point six leader in it.
It's pretty much stock I put. I wanted it louder,
(28:21):
so we took the We took all the Cadillac converters
off of it. It had four of them on there,
and I put the Corvette muffers on it and redone.
All the exhaust and everything. Well, it started smoking on
me when I take off, and I'm just wondering, you know,
(28:47):
do I need to. The car runs excellent, it's excellent
gas mileage. You know, if I stay out of it,
it'll get twenty five twenty six mile a gall But
I'm wondering. There's no engine noise or anything. The timing
change are not slapping or anything. I don't have any
(29:15):
lifted noise or valves or anything like that clanging. But
I'm just I've got one hundred and ninety nine thousand
miles on the car. I'm just wondering, do I need
a new motor. Should I rebuild that motor, Should I
get a junk yard motor, Should I get a crate motor?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Or what? So the smoke that you're getting, is it
kind of like a white Is it white smoke?
Speaker 9 (29:44):
No, I'd say it's kind of oil. It's kind of
a blush bluish.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, it's.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
A little bit of oil. Now, I just put I
just changed the oil in it, and this time I
went with full synthetic, and I don't know if that
helped it or any but I just checked. I just
checked oil and it's still full. But I haven't noticed
(30:18):
the smoke issue as much. Now, could that have something
to do with it?
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean typically sometimes a vehicle that's using a
little bit of a heavier weight of oil can reduce that.
But to go back to your question, as far as
new or used or you know, I would do one
or two things.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I mean, what are you looking for? Is the car?
Is the rest of the car? Is it in great shape?
And it I mean is a garage capped or is it.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I only drive it in the summertop? Okay, all right,
I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready to start the cover.
And I've got eleven thousand dollars. Okay, that's a convertible.
I put a new top on it. I had the
interior completely redone it needs the paint job is the
only thing it needs right now.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
All right.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
You know it's got your riginal pain paint starting to
flake off of it. But I keep it, you know,
in the winter time, I keep it covered up so
and I put a battery center on it to keep
the battery guard.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So I mean, I think two options. Don't put a
used one in it. Option number one to keep the
value of the vehicle. You know a lot of times
people when they go to resell something like this, not
saying you're gonna cellbate. Uh. Basically, to keep it authentic
as you possibly can, and to get the most value
(31:50):
out of it. Probably what's best is to have the
engine rebuilt by you know, a good machine shop, which
I have. One option Number two is, if you're gonna
do it kind of go bigger, go home. If you're
gonna put a crate engine in, I'd put a bigger
motor in it, you know, do a you know, a coyote,
(32:14):
or you know, do something kind of big, which would
increase the value of it too. But it all depends
on what you want and what your thoughts are for
the future.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
If you want to keep the car, you know, forever, I'm.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
Not, you know.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Yeah, I get I get on as every once in
a while, you know. But my plan is when I'm
seventy one years old. So my plan is I'm gonna
give it to my grandson, you know, when I pass
away and have the car and he's a mechanic, and
(32:52):
you know, I'm mad and he to have his own
plans is what he wants to do with the car.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, Well, well here's well think about well think about this,
then why don't you make it?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
If he's a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You and him making a project of yourselves, and you
two figure out work together on it, and I think
that'd be that'd be more memorable, sitting there, you and
him working on it, replacing that engine and replacing maybe
what he wants for instead of you doing something.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
He do a lot of stuff because I don't want
to do you know, turbino chargers and stuff like that.
You know, I'm just I'm really in the keepment originally,
you know pretty much.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I just haven't rebuilt then.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
But i mean, if you know, when I'm getting buried,
he can do whatever he wants to do with you know,
I'm just not into that.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
You know, I know you're a little bit.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You know, you're a little bit old.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You just you want to keep it. You want to
keep it stock and just keep it simple, right yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Yeah, Well yeah, he he and he's uh, he's got
a Volkswagen get it. You know, he's in the he's
into them kind of cars. And I said, do you
really do you really want this nothing? Because if you do,
you know, I'll just I'll just leave it to you.
(34:25):
He said, yeah, I want it. I said, well, okay,
I said, you'll you'll get it when I pass away then, so,
but I just didn't know. You know, I wanted to
keep the car. You know, somebody else told me to
put a great motor in. I said, well, yeah, I
can do that. But then you know that that takes
(34:48):
away from the originality of it because it won't be original.
You know, the numbers won't match up in correct.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And that's why I said, your I think your first option.
I think I think you know kind of I agree
with you. You want to keep it simple, you want
to keep it authentic, you want to keep it original
to the vehicle. Is I'd get it to A. I'd
get it to A have the engine just rebuilt. I mean, yes,
it's gonna have to come out, it's gonna have to
get rebuilt, but everything would be original to the car.
(35:17):
And I think that's what's going to keep It's the
most value of that vehicle is by having it rebuilt.
Speaker 9 (35:26):
Okay, I gotta Yeah, that's that's pretty much what I
was thinking.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, I've got a great guy.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I mean, I just the car runs are good, you know,
I just start start doing stuff. Actually, I mean all
the only thing is he uses a little bit of all.
But but your.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Exactly if you know that and you're checking it, there's
nothing wrong with the just adding some oil. I mean,
you know, I try to I try to harp on
all my listeners about checking your oil because nobody knows.
A lot of people don't know that their car is
using oil, and then they run it out of oil
and then they do damage to the vehicle, destroy the car.
(36:17):
If you know about it and you're checking it regularly,
I don't have a single problem with you just topping
it off. I don't have a single problem with that.
I got I drive it the way it is.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
Yeah, my daughtery you know, you know, And I'm a
professional truck driver, say you now, I'm checking all the time.
I'm a truck and we get guys in there that
don't even know how to check the oil. They don't
even know what a dipstick is. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Sadly yes, sadly yes.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
One guy I said, well, I used to train drivers,
and one guy told me, well, I said, you got
to check your oil in your vehicle, you know, because
we're running all these miles on these trucks, you got
to check the oil. Regor Well, I don't know how
(37:19):
to do that. I said, well, how do you how
do you checked oil in your car? He says, I
don't until the old light comes on.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I know.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
When the old light comes on, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I know, I know, but.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
I mean that's the mentality of these people nowadays.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I know. And that's why you know.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yes, I'm in the business of fixed cars, but I'm
also in the business to try to help people get
the most life out of their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
And uh, you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Know, the simplest and easiest thing that you can do
is check the oil on these cars.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You got to check the oil.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Everybody always says, well, my car says it's not due,
and my dealership says, I don't need to change until
ten thousand or my manual. I was saying earlier in
the show, I bought a newer vehicle this year, and
it's ten thousand miles before it needs.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
An oil change. No, it ain't happen. Yeah, it's not
happening exactly. You know, in two thousands.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
I've had tell me. I've had him tell me the
same thing. Or you can go five, six, seven thousand
miles on oil change. I changed my old three thousand
miles that's what That's the way I was taught to
do it. That's the way I do it, and I'm
faithful about it. Three thousand. I don't like to go
(38:40):
with three thousand miles. I have gone, you know, four thousands,
but no more to Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
The oils, the oils that are out there today.
Speaker 9 (38:51):
A lot better than they were correct.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But they're not that good enough that they can go
ten thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I mean, unless you want to buy a car at
one hundred thousand miles because it's a out because you know,
but man, if you want to it's the it's it's
just one of those things that gets under my skin.
It's just so many people are misled and there's just
so much confusion behind when you should change it. Don't
worry about what the car says, don't worry about what
your dealer says, don't worry about what the manual says.
(39:18):
Look at that little sticker up in your window. Every
five thousand miles. I don't care what grade of oil
you have. Every five thousand miles. I do it on
all of my vehicles, all of them. And it's you know,
and you know, my wife just got My wife gets
two hundred thousand miles out of her cars typically, and
then we buy her a new one, right, yeah, And
(39:38):
all of the cars and I when I sell them,
they all still run for you know, I obviously don't
know exactly how long. But I sell all my vehicles.
I just sold one this week, Like I sell all
my vehicles, and people get many many years out of
them because I just do the simple basics, the in
the simple maintenance of just you know.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
So, yeah, I agree with you there. I used to
have a oh, I had a seventy three Murcury comment
that had as inline six in it. But that thing
was oil gother man, it would and it got its
too much old. I just I would just drive it.
(40:20):
But that was when you had everything was you had
to cast our head on it and everything. You know,
it would take a heat and when the things started rattling,
that's when I knew it needed.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
What. Yeah, hey, ted one miles on it.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
When I got rid of it, it's still running.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah. Well, hey, say, I'm sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I got to get take a break here, but I
really do appreciate the phone call. Uh taking your phone
calls coming up. We've got John and Ben, you're listening
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I'm Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions and
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we are running at a time, so I want to
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I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
John, Welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Hey, Dan, that's a quick question. You were talking about
gas and premium fuel, and my understanding was premium would
add the you know, more of the predetonation compound. So
if you have an engine with a high compression ratio
and you start putting in lower octane fuel, you're going
to get predetonation. Where if you put premium fuel into
(42:09):
a you know, a vehicle it doesn't have a higher
compression ratio engine, you're fine. So you know premium will
always work. Isn't a lower octane risking a higher compression
ratio engine because all you say, have a Dutch stealth
and that was you could not put anything other than
premium in that car, otherwise you could really screw the
engine up. So I was just wondering what your thoughts
(42:30):
were on that.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, I mean, you're right, and like I led to too.
It's like I put premium in all my cars.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
But I constantly have the argument that everybody always ever,
you know, I would probably say this, Yeah, there's no
proof to this, but I bet.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
You I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Ninety ninety five percent of my customer base or my
customers are people that I know put in the absolute
cheapest thing. And yeah, I think, do you you know, I.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Think I think ethering that that we have today. We've
got the computers that are monitoring the parameters coming out
of the engine, you know, so they can sense the
knock sensor ant from the knock sensor and unadjust the timing.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
To compensate with it.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
Yeah, so you know you've got that advantage. But still,
you know, the engine wasn't designed for the lower Rock
changel even though we had a run on it.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I understand, and you know I agree with you, you know,
but I'm just from my perspective on the on the
backside of it is.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Look, Mike, I've never seen.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Or ever ever been able to prove that somebody's car
that came into me was damaged due to the fact
that they've used cheaper gas.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I've just never seen any proof that.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Again, I use premium in all everything that I have,
and I would recommend it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Same as I would as a high synthetic.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I mean, can you if your car calls for a
five W twenty, is a full synthetic better than a
synthetic blend? I'm like, sure, I mean, full synthetic's gonna
be better for you. But if you put the synthetic blended.
Is it really going to do damage to the vehicle?
I can't prove that. I've never been able to prove that.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
But yeah, but yeah, how would you prove you how
would you prove the lower rootential caused engine damage anyway?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (44:16):
Be able to do it?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
No, And that's just kind of why I don't want always,
you know, I would always defer and recommend people go
with what the manufacturer recommends. Right, if your car calls
for premium, I would put premium in it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I mean I do.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
But again, if you deviate from that and you put
a lower octane, are you doing damage per se to
the engine?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
No? I can't prove that.
Speaker 11 (44:41):
Maybe probably not computer controlled engine. But if you go
back in time before the computer to manage it, then yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I mean I think with the sophistication of the computers
and whatnot and how they run today, I think you're
at an advantage if we go back fifty years ago.
I mean, you know, probably, yes, you know, so I
agree with you. I just want the customer or the
you know, the listeners to know that. Listen, if you
(45:12):
put lower octon and is it really going to damage
your car?
Speaker 11 (45:16):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Probably not, I can't.
Speaker 11 (45:19):
If it's a newer a newer model car. Yeah, you're
probably fine.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You're probably fine.
Speaker 11 (45:23):
But okay, well I know you got one more guy
didn't like you.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Thanks John, I appreciate it. Right, all right, let's go
to the Ben Ben real quick.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
I'm so sorry, man, I'm running out of time, but
I want to get to you.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (45:37):
Okay, thanks for having the show. You do a good
public service.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
I've got two thousand and seven chivalt Silverado fifteen hundred
four point three. It's about a style of work truck whatever. Anyway,
it's got a hundred and maybe trying on it.
Speaker 9 (45:58):
I check start a bliss.
Speaker 8 (46:00):
I changed.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Hey, hey, hey, Ben, can I put you on a
brief hold and I gotta go. I'm gonna put you
on a hold and then i'll answer. I'll answer your
question here in just a second. I really do appreciate
your holding. I gotta go. I really do appreciate everybody's questions. Please,
I'll be back next week to answer all of your
car questions. Everybody, have a great and safe week. You're
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Setting through the windows down near.
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Sh Good afternoon, Welcome to the car show. I'm Dane Donovan,
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Un uh, sometimes forget the phone number because I give
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
But uh yeah again it's a.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Not too uh it's cloudy, but uh, you know, we've
had some great weather and uh, you know it's it's
time to start thinking about uh you know that uh
winter weather, thinking about getting our cars rad for winter,
and so that is something that we need to talk
about today and love to take your car questions again.
(01:08):
Then I want to call five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred. So yeah, so listen, we need
to start thinking about and prepping for the winter time
and getting our cars ready for winter, making sure that
we're getting the batteries tested, making sure that our fluids
are checked.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know. Again, I've talked about this a lot of
times on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And you know, when I got into this business twenty
five years ago, man, it was a thing that every
around this time of year October November, primarily November I'd
have just this, you know, we'd have this massive influx
of people that wanted to come in. They wanted their
car looked at, they wanted it ready for winter. And
and you know all the fluids checked, the battery, the belts,
(01:52):
the hoses. And although that most of that you don't
see too much of, there still are things that you
need take care of, especially the battery, getting older, alternator tested,
the starter, you know, just making sure that you're ready,
especially tires.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That is that, you know, we we get a massive
influx again that first snow that we always get. You know,
everybody can't get to work because they don't have any
tread on their tires. And it's I know that we
don't like to spend money on tires, but we have
to have them in order to get back and forth,
to get our kids to school, to get them to work. Uh,
they're it's important. And they yes, they are expensive. I
(02:35):
mean since COVID they've they've doubled. The cost of tires
is doubled. But it's something that we have to have
and it's something that we should be thinking about, something
that we should be looking into. So think about that
as we get into the winter season.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You want to make sure that your car is ready
to go, so.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Taking your phone calls and don't want to call five one, three, seven,
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We've got Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the car show.
How can hell?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well, this may be an eyeball question. I've got an
engine that it was seized. I got it in trade
for a used one I sold, and I'm trying to
see if it's rebuildable. And the three of the pistons
so far are stuck in the cylinders. There was you know,
when I took it apart, there was water in a
couple of the cylinders. I cleaned up the board as
(03:24):
much as I could above them, and been spraying some
you know, lubricant on them. I guess I'm wondering if
you got any other tips for what to do with
it to try and get the pistons to come out.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh man, so you said several of the cylinders had
water in them.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't like I said. I had a fairly
high marleage engine that was still running that I sold
the guy and he gave me his old one in trade,
and it was it wouldn't turn over. I've got the
crank and you know, I got the head off and
the crank out, and the crank berriers seemed to be
in reasonable shape as well as as well as the
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connecting rod bearings. So the only thing that's holding it
up is, you know, was the pistons. So I don't
know how long it sat like that. There was some
there was some rust on the on the you know,
the top end of the cylinders that I was able
to kind of lightly wire brush off, so the cylinder
boards there don't look so bad. But was the leary
(04:27):
of just hammering away on the pistons to drive them
out right?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Was was the engine?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Just sitting outside with with the sparkles.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know, I'm not I'm not sure. I mean,
I had when I got it, I had it in
the garage and it's got plugs in it, so it
must have had a head gasket leak or something.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Uh oh, you know, I'll be honest with you, I've
never gotten that question before. I've never I mean, I
know that that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know that it happens, you know on these cars.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Some people that try to restore a car that's been
sitting out in the field for you know, thirty years, right.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean, the only thing I can think of is
you said, you've got the cylinder head off and you've
just got the pistons so one, so when you try
to turn that crank, just it just it's locked the crank.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I took the crank out of it. Crank, you know,
I had to take the lower block off. I get
to the connecting rod bolts. So all, you know, all
it is now is the upper block with with the pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
In it, and you got one out, but I got
one out.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
With relatively light tapping. But but it appears to be
taking more effort for the other three. So I just,
I guess, soak them. Let them soak a while longer
with you know. Yeah, well played on the underside. You know,
I've got the block outside down, so I can spray
stuff in there and and whether kind of soak through
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the rings.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah what I Well, you could do WD forty. Have
you ever have you ever used or tried p B blaster?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, yeah, I've got some PB blasters silicon, but I
don't have the I don't have the regular stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, no, I'd recommend try the p B blaster, which
is the penetrating oil. Try that. I'd soak those bad
boys for at least a you know, a couple of
days probably, I think. I think the only thing that
you can do is you're gonna just have to hammer
them out. I mean, you're gonna probably need to get it.
(06:39):
What I would do if you can get them out,
I gotta or you know, I got a great machinist
that possible, right, right, right, right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I mean I've got a great machine. I don't have.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well, I have a great machinist that I could recommend
that could probably take care of you and and get
it fixed correctly. But I would soak them in petitive
and that PB blaster and let them sit for a
couple of days. And I think you're just gonna have
to use a bit of force and knock them out.
I don't I personally don't think you're gonna do a
ton of damage. But I think once you knock them out,
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you want to make sure that somebody you know takes
care of those cylinder walls and make sure that they're
at scored or whatnot.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Right, I have to I have to bore it over
if I want to.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Rebuild it, yeah, I And if you need somebody that
can do that, I've got a great machinist here uh
near me. It's uh, it's it's a Burton's Collision. They've
got a machine shop.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I was there. I was there. I got a car.
I got a cylinder head there right now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't know do you have do you have anybody
that does any type of machine work?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, there's a smite O up here and you know
the Westchester area. It's done some work for me before
and I've never had a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So okay, all right, No, I mean soak them and
then just knock them out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't think that you're gonna get I don't. I
think it'll be fine. I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think it'll be perfectly fine. But that's what I
would do. All right, all right, Paul, call me back
and let me know how it went. Okay, Yeah, all right,
take care, bye bye? All right, taking your car questions,
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Speaker 2 (09:32):
Love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Guys, and please if you've got a question, whether or
not it pertains to obviously pertains to the vehicle. But
if it is, you know, even just getting advice about
buying a new vehicle or used vehicle. There's a lot
of questions out there that people have and I'd love
to hear from you. So if you've got a question,
please give me a call. So let's go back to
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(09:54):
car show.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
How can I help Hey, thanks for taking the call.
I you've helped me in the past with like transmission
issues kind of thing stuff on the interior car. Now
I have an exterior question. Keep in mind, I'm not
a do it yourselfer, so I know a lot of
people who are would probably like why is this a
big issue? But for someone I tend to go to
the experts and get them to work on this stuff.
(10:16):
And in this case, it's a paint issue. Went through
one of the car washes they and it's a car,
it's not that old, it's only a few years old.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
I had a.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Basically have a almost a dime sized chip in the
paint that's come off. And I know in the past, yeah,
you can go to the dealer and get these little
do it yourself paint but it looks terrible whatever I've
tried to do it myself.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
I want to get it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I want to get it done, but I also don't
want to get a full paint job. And I think
out if I get to a paint plate, they're going
to try to sell me on a you know, a
thousand dollars you know, paint job, just just like if
I had a fender bender or something, and I don't
want to do that. Can you envision whether it be
like a detailer or somebody else, that's kind of an
in between where I could spend like maybe a hundred
bucks or something and have it done and have it
done nicely. That actually doesn't have to look perfect. It
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has to look good and be and be and not
and fail again within another year and start chipping or
appealing again.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh goodness, A great question.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh, not really an expert on paint, but man, I
think like you said, I mean, yeah, if you get
the touch up paint and you try to patch it up,
it's not it's not gonna look right. I honestly, I mean,
I'm not a body guy, but I think personally, you're
probably they're gonna need to sand that down and they're
(11:28):
gonna have to try to blend it and and and
and paint the whole thing. I don't know. I mean,
you know, if it was a dent, you know, you
could there's dentless repair or whatnot. But as far as
like a paint chip, I mean, I've got one on
my truck now, my left my right rear fender. Somebody
hit me with a door or whatnot, and there's a
huge chip. And yeah, to my knowledge, the only thing
(11:53):
that you can do is sayd that all down and
paint that whole thing and blend it. I don't know
that there's any other solution. You can either do the
touch up or I mean, are you trying to do
it yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, that's what I'm saying is I've done those things
in the past and other cars myself, and we talked
about it just doesn't look that good. And this is
a pretty good size one, so it's not like it's
real tiny one where you can kind of get away
with it. And it's like maybe it's just having someone
who does use the touchup kit but can do a
good job. That's why I didn't know whether detailers would
do stuff like that. I have no idea, so I
(12:27):
was just curious if you knew of anybody would do something.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know if any detailers that would do it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sure that there are body guys out there that
could probably do something relatively inexpensive, but it's a man,
it's just not my forte. I just don't know much
about body and I don't know anybody personally, don't know
anybody that could, you know, try to do it in
(12:55):
a cheaper fashion.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, well, any maybe one of your listeners if they hear,
and then if they know and chime in.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Sure, okay, are great? Yeah, absolutely, have a great day.
Bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Unfortunately, body work is even though it pertains to a vehicle, right,
it's just something that we don't really master and don't
have a ton of knowledge of. It's a completely separate
division when we're working on these vehicles. It's kind of
like if you go to your dentist, you know, you
don't ask him for knee advice, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's just one of those things that we just don't
specialize in.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's all so, And I don't know anybody that could
just try to patch that. Typically typically they I lost
my training thought. But anyways, typically they have to just
sand it all down, excuse me, and repaint. It's it's
just nothing that I don't think. And again, if somebody's
(13:52):
listening and has advice for him.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
He greatly appreciates him.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All Right, let's go back to the phones. We've got John, Hey, John,
welcome the car show.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
John? You're there? Hey John? You there?
Speaker 10 (14:08):
That Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
I'm sure eighty eight octane pop up around the place,
and I'm curious if that safety use or or not
so okay in your opinion?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Sure, you know, as far as like I haven't, the
eighty eight octane would be fine. I haven't seen, to
be honest, you between the eighty eight that I don't know,
eighty nine to ninety three, I really haven't. I haven't
seen any issues, problems or concerns.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
About what you know, gas you use.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I mean a lot of times people go, oh, well
my car ask for premium and calls for premium.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well that's recommended.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I've never once and in twenty five years, I've
never once had a car that came into me that
had an issue running with you know, an injector issue
or a running issue or anything like that due to
cheap gas. Yeah, I mean the only time I've ever
seen if there was water in the gas, or somebody
put something in the you know, the tank, sugar or
something like that. But listen, if you use eighty eight,
(15:08):
it's fine. I typically will recommend that you do maybe
once a month. You use premium. Uh, it's supposed to
burn better and you're supposed to get better fuel mileage
on it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But eighty eight would be fine.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I what kind of what you're making models your vehicle?
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Oh, I've got an twenty twenty Honda Pilot sold twenty.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Twenty Honda Pilot. Yeah, you'd be fine. I have not.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Again, I've never seen a car come into my shop
that's like, oh, you know, you need new pistons because
you put cheap gas in it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
So I think you'll be perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But again, I would recommend maybe once in a while
put you'll put the premium in. And I put premium
in my cars, all my cars, and everybody tells me
I'm crazy, but I just always have. But I mean,
I've never seen anything any problems with somebody putting in
cheaper gas.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Lower octane.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Okay, thanks, all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, you're very welcome. You take care all right, taking
your phone calls, and I'm gonna call five one.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Three seven fifty five hundred that number again, five one
three seven fifty five hundred. It was a great question
about gas, and like I just told John listen, I've
never really had an issue with people putting in cheap
gas causing car problems. What I do see a ton
of every single day now is cars coming in with
(16:36):
no oil in them. And it's something that I've talked
about so many times on this show. And I'm rebuilding, well,
not me personally, my technician is rebuilding another He had
to replace pistons in two outis this week due to
oil consumption and burning oil and whatnot. And it's a
(16:57):
huge problem that needs to be talked about. And I
know for those of you who listen every week, I
know sometimes it sounds like I'm, you know, talking about
it every week, but it's something that it's a conversation
that we need to have because I recently purchased a
new vehicle and it tells me that at ten thousand miles,
I need to change my oil and I'm sorry, I'm
(17:18):
not gonna do that. Our cars do the cars run
better nowadays? Sure, do they run longer nowadays?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Sure? Has oil progressed to the point where your car
can go ten thousand miles on an oil change? No?
Not my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It is a constant, constant problem. And I'm telling you,
if you want to keep your car going, you want
to get two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand miles out
of your car, the best and cheapest and easiest thing
that you can do is change your oil regularly five
thousand miles. I don't care what kind of oil. I
don't care what the car says five thousand miles on
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the sticker.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, it is something.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's the most important thing that you can do to
get the longevity out of your vehicle. So, ironically, we've
got Donald Donald, Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I just want to know if you heard anything about
Kia's twenty fifteen Kia engines and replace the whole engine
because of using so much oil.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Uh you know That's why I was like, ironically, I'm
talking about this, and yeah, I see it pop up
that your cars.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Absolutely, Hyundai's and Kias have a known problem that they
these things burn oil.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Just like the Audis do a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
A lot of the manufacturers nowadays burn oil due to
you know that, you know, fuel efficiency and making sure
it's But there is a Hyundai and Kia. You would
have to verify this with your ven number. You'd have
to call the dealer. But there is a an extended
warranty on these engines. If they lock up, they're out
(18:53):
of oil and they lock up. I mean just too yeah,
just two years ago. I mean I had one at
my show and when I called, I said, hey, when
can you guys take a look at this. He's like, well,
this would be number ninety nine in line. So there
was ninety eight cars in front of this car that
needed an engine. So it's a very very large known problem.
And that's kind of why you know, I led about
(19:16):
it's a it's a huge problem, right, was something's.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Going wrong because take it to Kiya and they said
that needs a candiate convert and want to charge three
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I kid you, not really? Yeah, was the check engine
line on or anything?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Check engine? How you on?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
It burns about a quarter all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
A week a quarter oil a wheeler.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, so put your handle with exhaust pipe and you
can actually you know, you're handly sticky.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, ust be something about it was machine under size
from the factory or something.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well you well do that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well think about it too.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
All that oil that's coming out of that engine and
going through that exhaust is going to that catalytic converter.
So yeah, of course the converter is going to be
flagged that it's it's not doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
All right, that's their fault if they don't want.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
To fix it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, how many miles are on the vehicle, so less
than one hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Okay, So what I would recommend okay, and have you
made this.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Aware? I mean, this is the dealer now, yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Right, take it here.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
And that's what they said is because the catali converter
is called up and they wanted three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Now, now, what what I would recommend that you do
is you get it in there and say, hey, listen,
I want an oil consumption test done. So typically what
they you go in there and say, like, my vehicle
is burning oil, I want.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
An oil consumption test done.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So what they'll do is they'll top the oil off,
they'll cap they'll they'll cap the oil cap and the
dipstick and and they'll tell you to bring it back
in one thousand miles or whatever their recommendation is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if it is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Burning more oil than what they say is, you know, normal,
then typically that the what they'll do is they'll replace
the engine.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Now they're gonna fight you on it, but again I.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Would go in there, you call them, make an appointment
and say listen, I want an oil consumption test done.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Period. But the fact that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Them trying to sell you a converter is is not
gonna fix your problem. Your problem is you've got it
needs the engine needs to be rebuilt or replaced.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It must be a recall where they replace it for free.
I don't think they want to do it because they've
had so.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Many Yeah so typically so there isn't a recall.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
But I do know that, uh, if they if it
does come in and I'm not I'm not advising this,
but if it I do know that if it does
come in locked up, that's where the kind.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Of the extended warranty kicks in and.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You have coverage. Now I'm not advising you to do that.
I would get the oil consumption test done half proof
that you you were you're there saying hey, listen, this
thing is burning oil. I want this test done so
it protects you. So you've got a little bit of leverage.
So if it does lock up or you do have issues,
go hey, listen, I've been here multiple times for this
(22:27):
issue and now you know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It just gives you a little bit more leverage.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
But it's a known problem and the only thing they
can do is rebuild or replace that engine, right and
with the CAT.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Guaranteed it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Okay, I have pass you go then?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
What he's going?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Uh no, So listen, And like I said earlier, this
is a these Kias and Hyundai's and I'm not knocking
hunting Kia, Kundas and Kias. I think they're a great car,
but they do have oil consumption issues. I would say
you're probably your biggest Audi, Hyundai, Kia, and probably subru
those are your largest consumer. And they're all they're all
(23:15):
great cars, but they all burn oil. And it's something
that we have to have a conversation about and something
that people need to be aware of and be checking it.
And again, you can bring any of your vehicles to
any of our three locations and come bin and just say, hey,
can you check my oil and if it's low, we'll
top it off for you. I mean it's not worth
(23:37):
I mean, you invest a lot of time and a
lot of money into your vehicle, and if you want
to get the life out of it and the most
out of it, it's something that you need to do.
It's imperative because these cars are just they're not built.
You know, thirty years ago, this wasn't an issue. Right,
thirty years ago, at one hundred thousand miles, you got
rid of your car.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now here we are.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thirty years later, Yeah, you can get two three hundred
thousand miles out of your car. But it's going to
use oil, like it's nobody's business. So it's something that
we always have to talk about. And I'm always going
to talk about it because I got to. You know,
I had a young college girl, you know, our new
store across the street from Xavier University.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
She lives, her parents live in California.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
She's here at college and she's like, I'm constantly having
to add oil.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
It's making this engine noise.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And you know, we had to put pistons in it
and timing chains and it's eighty five hundred dollars, and
you know, these parents are like, well, you know, what
are they going to do? Right, because they're you know,
halfway across the country and they need their daughter to
have transportation at school. And it wasn't anything that she
did wrong. But when she brought it to me, it
had a quart of oil in it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And the damage that was done to the car was
because it was being ran low on oil. Now we
fixed it and she's good to go. But again, had
it been checked or yeah, you know? And here's the thing.
The thing is is like a lot of people don't understand.
They don't know that they have this problem. Right, You
don't know it. You just get in the car and
it's like, oh, well again. I purchased a new vehicle
(25:04):
not too long ago and in the first recommendation of
repair is at ten thousand miles. I'm sorry, I'm not
going ten thousand miles on an old change. So sometimes
I you know, I'm not conspiracy theorist or whatnot, but
sometimes I do feel that we're misled as to how
often these cars need to be in and be checked
and make sure that you know they're up up the
(25:25):
par and making sure that we're keeping the oil the
oil topped off and the fluids checked and the brake's done.
And cause I'll be honest with you, the car repairs
are getting very, very expensive, and you got to make
sure that you protect your investment. I know it's not
necessary an investment per se because it's going down in value.
But if you spend you know, fifty sixty seventy thousand
(25:47):
dollars on a vehicle, I can assure you that everybody
wants to get the most out of it, and that's
just getting in and getting in and getting a checked regularly.
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Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes, sir? Ted? How are you?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
I'm good? How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'm all right. Stayed up too late watching that uh
that Mike Tyson fight.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
You watch a fight?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Okay, I did too. I didn't say it was much
of a fight myself.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, no, it wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm talking to my my boss here, Tony Bender, and
I was like, man, I stayed up for that, and
I was like, jeez, pizza, Yeah, you utilize my time better.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you know. I was getting tired too, and that,
you know, it kept buffer and I'll make a so
many I guess so many people was watching it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
We were we were just talking about that. Mine was
buffering all night. It was blurry, was cutting off, and
I'm like, geez, there's no way that many people are
watching it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But maybe there was. Maybe there was. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Yeah, yeah, but anyway, how can I help you. I've
got I've got a nineteen ninety eight. It's a Ford
Mostang GT. It's got the four point six leader in it.
It's pretty much stock I put. I wanted it louder,
(28:21):
so we took the We took all the Cadillac converters
off of it. It had four of them on there,
and I put the Corvette muffers on it and redone.
All the exhaust and everything. Well, it started smoking on
me when I take off, and I'm just wondering, you know,
(28:47):
do I need to. The car runs excellent, it's excellent
gas mileage. You know, if I stay out of it,
it'll get twenty five twenty six mile a gall But
I'm wondering. There's no engine noise or anything. The timing
change are not slapping or anything. I don't have any
(29:15):
lifted noise or valves or anything like that clanging. But
I'm just I've got one hundred and ninety nine thousand
miles on the car. I'm just wondering, do I need
a new motor. Should I rebuild that motor, Should I
get a junk yard motor, Should I get a crate motor?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Or what? So the smoke that you're getting, is it
kind of like a white Is it white smoke?
Speaker 9 (29:44):
No, I'd say it's kind of oil. It's kind of
a blush bluish.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, it's.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
A little bit of oil. Now, I just put I
just changed the oil in it, and this time I
went with full synthetic, and I don't know if that
helped it or any but I just checked. I just
checked oil and it's still full. But I haven't noticed
(30:18):
the smoke issue as much. Now, could that have something
to do with it?
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean typically sometimes a vehicle that's using a
little bit of a heavier weight of oil can reduce that.
But to go back to your question, as far as
new or used or you know, I would do one
or two things.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I mean, what are you looking for? Is the car?
Is the rest of the car? Is it in great shape?
And it I mean is a garage capped or is it.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I only drive it in the summertop? Okay, all right,
I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready to start the cover.
And I've got eleven thousand dollars. Okay, that's a convertible.
I put a new top on it. I had the
interior completely redone it needs the paint job is the
only thing it needs right now.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
All right.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
You know it's got your riginal pain paint starting to
flake off of it. But I keep it, you know,
in the winter time, I keep it covered up so
and I put a battery center on it to keep
the battery guard.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So I mean, I think two options. Don't put a
used one in it. Option number one to keep the
value of the vehicle. You know a lot of times
people when they go to resell something like this, not
saying you're gonna cellbate. Uh. Basically, to keep it authentic
as you possibly can, and to get the most value
(31:50):
out of it. Probably what's best is to have the
engine rebuilt by you know, a good machine shop, which
I have. One option Number two is, if you're gonna
do it kind of go bigger, go home. If you're
gonna put a crate engine in, I'd put a bigger
motor in it, you know, do a you know, a coyote,
(32:14):
or you know, do something kind of big, which would
increase the value of it too. But it all depends
on what you want and what your thoughts are for
the future.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
If you want to keep the car, you know, forever, I'm.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
Not, you know.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Yeah, I get I get on as every once in
a while, you know. But my plan is when I'm
seventy one years old. So my plan is I'm gonna
give it to my grandson, you know, when I pass
away and have the car and he's a mechanic, and
(32:52):
you know, I'm mad and he to have his own
plans is what he wants to do with the car.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, Well, well here's well think about well think about this,
then why don't you make it?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
If he's a mechanic.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You and him making a project of yourselves, and you
two figure out work together on it, and I think
that'd be that'd be more memorable, sitting there, you and
him working on it, replacing that engine and replacing maybe
what he wants for instead of you doing something.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
He do a lot of stuff because I don't want
to do you know, turbino chargers and stuff like that.
You know, I'm just I'm really in the keepment originally,
you know pretty much.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I just haven't rebuilt then.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
But i mean, if you know, when I'm getting buried,
he can do whatever he wants to do with you know,
I'm just not into that.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
You know, I know you're a little bit.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You know, you're a little bit old.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You just you want to keep it. You want to
keep it stock and just keep it simple, right yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Yeah, Well yeah, he he and he's uh, he's got
a Volkswagen get it. You know, he's in the he's
into them kind of cars. And I said, do you
really do you really want this nothing? Because if you do,
you know, I'll just I'll just leave it to you.
(34:25):
He said, yeah, I want it. I said, well, okay,
I said, you'll you'll get it when I pass away then, so,
but I just didn't know. You know, I wanted to
keep the car. You know, somebody else told me to
put a great motor in. I said, well, yeah, I
can do that. But then you know that that takes
(34:48):
away from the originality of it because it won't be original.
You know, the numbers won't match up in correct.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And that's why I said, your I think your first option.
I think I think you know kind of I agree
with you. You want to keep it simple, you want
to keep it authentic, you want to keep it original
to the vehicle. Is I'd get it to A. I'd
get it to A have the engine just rebuilt. I mean, yes,
it's gonna have to come out, it's gonna have to
get rebuilt, but everything would be original to the car.
(35:17):
And I think that's what's going to keep It's the
most value of that vehicle is by having it rebuilt.
Speaker 9 (35:26):
Okay, I gotta Yeah, that's that's pretty much what I
was thinking.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, I've got a great guy.
Speaker 9 (35:34):
I mean, I just the car runs are good, you know,
I just start start doing stuff. Actually, I mean all
the only thing is he uses a little bit of all.
But but your.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Exactly if you know that and you're checking it, there's
nothing wrong with the just adding some oil. I mean,
you know, I try to I try to harp on
all my listeners about checking your oil because nobody knows.
A lot of people don't know that their car is
using oil, and then they run it out of oil
and then they do damage to the vehicle, destroy the car.
(36:17):
If you know about it and you're checking it regularly,
I don't have a single problem with you just topping
it off. I don't have a single problem with that.
I got I drive it the way it is.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
Yeah, my daughtery you know, you know, And I'm a
professional truck driver, say you now, I'm checking all the time.
I'm a truck and we get guys in there that
don't even know how to check the oil. They don't
even know what a dipstick is. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Sadly yes, sadly yes.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
One guy I said, well, I used to train drivers,
and one guy told me, well, I said, you got
to check your oil in your vehicle, you know, because
we're running all these miles on these trucks, you got
to check the oil. Regor Well, I don't know how
(37:19):
to do that. I said, well, how do you how
do you checked oil in your car? He says, I
don't until the old light comes on.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I know.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
When the old light comes on, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I know, I know, but.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
I mean that's the mentality of these people nowadays.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I know. And that's why you know.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yes, I'm in the business of fixed cars, but I'm
also in the business to try to help people get
the most life out of their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
And uh, you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Know, the simplest and easiest thing that you can do
is check the oil on these cars.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You got to check the oil.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Everybody always says, well, my car says it's not due,
and my dealership says, I don't need to change until
ten thousand or my manual. I was saying earlier in
the show, I bought a newer vehicle this year, and
it's ten thousand miles before it needs.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
An oil change. No, it ain't happen. Yeah, it's not
happening exactly. You know, in two thousands.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
I've had tell me. I've had him tell me the
same thing. Or you can go five, six, seven thousand
miles on oil change. I changed my old three thousand
miles that's what That's the way I was taught to
do it. That's the way I do it, and I'm
faithful about it. Three thousand. I don't like to go
(38:40):
with three thousand miles. I have gone, you know, four thousands,
but no more to Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
The oils, the oils that are out there today.
Speaker 9 (38:51):
A lot better than they were correct.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But they're not that good enough that they can go
ten thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I mean, unless you want to buy a car at
one hundred thousand miles because it's a out because you know,
but man, if you want to it's the it's it's
just one of those things that gets under my skin.
It's just so many people are misled and there's just
so much confusion behind when you should change it. Don't
worry about what the car says, don't worry about what
your dealer says, don't worry about what the manual says.
(39:18):
Look at that little sticker up in your window. Every
five thousand miles. I don't care what grade of oil
you have. Every five thousand miles. I do it on
all of my vehicles, all of them. And it's you know,
and you know, my wife just got My wife gets
two hundred thousand miles out of her cars typically, and
then we buy her a new one, right, yeah, And
(39:38):
all of the cars and I when I sell them,
they all still run for you know, I obviously don't
know exactly how long. But I sell all my vehicles.
I just sold one this week, Like I sell all
my vehicles, and people get many many years out of
them because I just do the simple basics, the in
the simple maintenance of just you know.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
So, yeah, I agree with you there. I used to
have a oh, I had a seventy three Murcury comment
that had as inline six in it. But that thing
was oil gother man, it would and it got its
too much old. I just I would just drive it.
(40:20):
But that was when you had everything was you had
to cast our head on it and everything. You know,
it would take a heat and when the things started rattling,
that's when I knew it needed.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
What. Yeah, hey, ted one miles on it.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
When I got rid of it, it's still running.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah. Well, hey, say, I'm sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I got to get take a break here, but I
really do appreciate the phone call. Uh taking your phone
calls coming up. We've got John and Ben, you're listening
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Speaker 2 (41:30):
Thank you for listening to the carshaw.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions and
numbered to call five one three sevent four ninety Fred. However,
we are running at a time, so I want to
get to the John and Ben beIN patiently wait and
I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
John, Welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Hey, Dan, that's a quick question. You were talking about
gas and premium fuel, and my understanding was premium would
add the you know, more of the predetonation compound. So
if you have an engine with a high compression ratio
and you start putting in lower octane fuel, you're going
to get predetonation. Where if you put premium fuel into
(42:09):
a you know, a vehicle it doesn't have a higher
compression ratio engine, you're fine. So you know premium will
always work. Isn't a lower octane risking a higher compression
ratio engine because all you say, have a Dutch stealth
and that was you could not put anything other than
premium in that car, otherwise you could really screw the
engine up. So I was just wondering what your thoughts
(42:30):
were on that.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, I mean, you're right, and like I led to too.
It's like I put premium in all my cars.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
But I constantly have the argument that everybody always ever,
you know, I would probably say this, Yeah, there's no
proof to this, but I bet.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
You I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Ninety ninety five percent of my customer base or my
customers are people that I know put in the absolute
cheapest thing. And yeah, I think, do you you know, I.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Think I think ethering that that we have today. We've
got the computers that are monitoring the parameters coming out
of the engine, you know, so they can sense the
knock sensor ant from the knock sensor and unadjust the timing.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
To compensate with it.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
Yeah, so you know you've got that advantage. But still,
you know, the engine wasn't designed for the lower Rock
changel even though we had a run on it.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I understand, and you know I agree with you, you know,
but I'm just from my perspective on the on the
backside of it is.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Look, Mike, I've never seen.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Or ever ever been able to prove that somebody's car
that came into me was damaged due to the fact
that they've used cheaper gas.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
I've just never seen any proof that.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Again, I use premium in all everything that I have,
and I would recommend it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Same as I would as a high synthetic.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
I mean, can you if your car calls for a
five W twenty, is a full synthetic better than a
synthetic blend? I'm like, sure, I mean, full synthetic's gonna
be better for you. But if you put the synthetic blended.
Is it really going to do damage to the vehicle?
I can't prove that. I've never been able to prove that.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
But yeah, but yeah, how would you prove you how
would you prove the lower rootential caused engine damage anyway?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (44:16):
Be able to do it?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
No, And that's just kind of why I don't want always,
you know, I would always defer and recommend people go
with what the manufacturer recommends. Right, if your car calls
for premium, I would put premium in it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I mean I do.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
But again, if you deviate from that and you put
a lower octane, are you doing damage per se to
the engine?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
No? I can't prove that.
Speaker 11 (44:41):
Maybe probably not computer controlled engine. But if you go
back in time before the computer to manage it, then yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I mean I think with the sophistication of the computers
and whatnot and how they run today, I think you're
at an advantage if we go back fifty years ago.
I mean, you know, probably, yes, you know, so I
agree with you. I just want the customer or the
you know, the listeners to know that. Listen, if you
(45:12):
put lower octon and is it really going to damage
your car?
Speaker 11 (45:16):
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Probably not, I can't.
Speaker 11 (45:19):
If it's a newer a newer model car. Yeah, you're
probably fine.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You're probably fine.
Speaker 11 (45:23):
But okay, well I know you got one more guy
didn't like you.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Thanks John, I appreciate it. Right, all right, let's go
to the Ben Ben real quick.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
I'm so sorry, man, I'm running out of time, but
I want to get to you.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (45:37):
Okay, thanks for having the show. You do a good
public service.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
I've got two thousand and seven chivalt Silverado fifteen hundred
four point three. It's about a style of work truck whatever. Anyway,
it's got a hundred and maybe trying on it.
Speaker 9 (45:58):
I check start a bliss.
Speaker 8 (46:00):
I changed.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Hey, hey, hey, Ben, can I put you on a
brief hold and I gotta go. I'm gonna put you
on a hold and then i'll answer. I'll answer your
question here in just a second. I really do appreciate
your holding. I gotta go. I really do appreciate everybody's questions. Please,
I'll be back next week to answer all of your
car questions. Everybody, have a great and safe week. You're
listening to the car show on fifty five k r
(46:22):
c D talk station,
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