November 23, 2025 • 44 mins
# Car Talk with Dane Donovan: Preparing Your Vehicle for Holiday Travel
Are you ready for holiday road trips? In this episode, Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto & Tire Center tackles crucial winter maintenance issues just in time for Thanksgiving travel. From ensuring your heating system works properly to understanding those persistent check engine lights, Dane shares practical advice that could save you from roadside emergencies. He also debunks common maintenance myths, addresses headlight problems, and reveals the truth about oil change intervals that manufacturers won't tell you.
The episode opens with Dane urging listeners to test their car's heating system now, before temperatures plummet. "Just turn the heat on and make sure it's working," he advises, noting that modern vehicles have complex climate control systems with multiple potential failure points. With winter approaching, this simple check could prevent a freezing emergency later.
## Timestamps and Key Takeaways:
**5:30** - Check Engine Light Reality: Dane confesses that every vehicle he owns currently has or has had a check engine light on, proving these warnings are common across all vehicle ages.
**12:45** - Water Pump Replacement: Caller Scott asks about a $1,500 water pump replacement recommendation for his Honda. Dane explains why this preventative maintenance isn't necessary unless there's an actual leak.
**28:20** - Headlight Socket Issues: Ray calls about his daughter's Buick headlight problems. Dane identifies GM socket failures as a common issue rather than the bulb itself.
**38:15** - Oil Filter Pre-filling Myth: Randy asks if oil filters should be filled before installation. Dane explains why this old practice isn't necessary with modern engines.
**45:30** - Oil Change Intervals: The most passionate segment where Dane recommends 5,000-mile oil changes regardless of manufacturer recommendations, explaining how this simple maintenance can help vehicles reach 300,000+ miles.
Whether you're planning a cross-country journey or just visiting family across town this holiday season, this episode provides essential maintenance tips to keep your vehicle running smoothly. Listen now to ensure your car is ready for whatever winter throws your way!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Crazy Machevy to the litty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's a little.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
five KRC Talk station. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
entire Center taking your car questions. The number to call
five one three seven fifty five hundred, the number getting
five one three seven nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I hope everybody's doing well. We we are.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know, I talked about it a couple of weeks
ago and I said that the deadly uh well not deadly,
but uh the you know, the the unwonted word, uh
s word snow.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And we got a little bit and uh.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It wasn't too bad, but uh even even I mean
yesterday I had a a vehicle right in front of
us lose control, and you know, you gotta make sure
you've got a good set of tires on your vehicle.
It's it's so important, and we're getting into that time
of season, but let's not talk about that at the moment.
We're let's talk about we're gonna be traveling. You know,
(01:17):
obviously in five days we're all gonna be sitting around
the table having some turkey and celebrating Thanksgiving. And we're
all gonna be traveling most of us will you know,
may not be traveling states, you know, states away. You
might just be traveling fifteen to twenty minutes to your
you know, relatives, house, parents' house, whatever. And uh, you know,
(01:40):
you want to make sure that that car is ready
to go for what's coming.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mother nature loves to, you know, throw us curveballs all
the time, especially in Cincinnati weather. And we want to
make sure we're going into the We've already had several
vehicles coming in with no heat. So and we I
talk about this in the spring, like, hey, make sure
your air conditioning's working now, so when it gets to
(02:06):
ninety you're not dying. And you're like, I need to
get in there right now, right, So think about it.
If you're in your car now, just turn the heat on.
Just make sure it's working. You know, with all these
newer cars out there today, there's so many components that
can fail. You know, you have a car that's you know,
twenty years old. There there wasn't much you know, you
(02:28):
basically had one door that turned it from hot to cold.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now nowadays it's dual climate and uh so there's a
lot of other components that can fail. So now's the
time again. I know it's not too cold outside, but
turn it on. Just make sure it works. Just throw
it on like hep. It works that way, you're not
in scramble mode when it's you know, cause you know,
(02:52):
in a week it could be in the in the teens,
right and then you're freezing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So something to think about.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The other thing I want to talk about too is.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know, I have a wide variety of vehicles, not
a ton, but I have a vehicle that I've had
since I was eighteen years old. I'm forty one. I've
when I bought it when I was eighteen. Check engine
lights on that. My wife's car is a twenty eighteen.
It comes on. It's not currently on, but it comes on.
And I bought a little car from a customer mind
(03:24):
just a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Toy around with it. It's a little accurate.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I'm driving it the other day yesterday and the
check engine light comes on that. And then I have
a twenty twenty four f two fifty And the other
day I go to hit the remote start it won't start.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I go out and I go to start it up
and check engine lights on on that this car has
seventeen thousand miles. I like every vehicle I own has
a check engine light on. I'm like, I cannot win.
So if you feel like, man, I just I can't
catch a break, listen, I'm in the same boat these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Whether it's a.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Year old or twenty years old, these lights will they
will haunt you. And it's something that you know, can
be frustrating. Some people can live with it. Some people can't.
I can't live with a check engineline on. Just I
can't do it. Some people can go, oh, that's fine.
Other people I've had come in and they put a
(04:23):
piece of black electrical tape on it. You know, but
you really shouldn't do that. You really need to have
it fixed. It's on for a reason, and I certainly
could be a performance issue as well. So it's something
that you want to think about. But if it's on,
don't be like, oh I got a lemon. It's I'm
telling you it just it. It never ends. So again,
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taking your phone calls, I never call five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. Let's go to the phones. We have
Scott Hey Scott, Welcome to the car show. How can
I help?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I've got a question for you about my twenty fifteen
Honda Cord lf M H. It's kind of a hundred
seven thousand miles on it currently. When I headed into
the dealership, the Honda dealership earlier this year, it had
just crossed over one hundred thousand miles and they were
recommending that I replaced the water pump, which involves I
(05:18):
guess here at tens or kit and a drive belt.
And is that something that you would recommend to a
customer to have that water pump replaced at you know,
one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Uh no, not no, not on that. So let me
ask you something. Do you know do you have a
four cylinder or.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is it a V six? It's a four it's a
four cylinder, Okay, most of them do.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean, there was years that Honda had V six's
that they've thrown in there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, I would not.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I would not recommend that simply because you know, in
the in the past, when you had a belt driven
timing belt driven engine, you would want that to you
would at one hundred and five thousand miles, a tining
belt needs to be replaced. The water pump's right there,
you do it. But if you have a chain engine
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that that water pump is external, so if it fails
at some point, you can do it when it fails.
It's kind of it if I could use the analogy
if you went into your doctor and he was like, hey, look,
you know I'm not I don't know how old you are,
but I'm just saying like, hey, you're sixty years old,
you probably should just go ahead and replace both.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Of your knees.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You'd be like, well, there's nothing wrong with them, So
I wouldn't do it. I don't feel if it's not leaking,
it might be a preventative maintenance item. But listen, it's
gonna give you warning signs. You'll see coolent leaking in
the driveway or you might. But no, ire, there are
some things that you want to do in advance or
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prevent fluids, a tune up, filters, you know, things like that.
But not I would never You're you're you're going down
a slippery slope. If if if, well, if it's the
water pump, if they recommend the water pump, then why
not do the alternator and why not do the power
steering pump, you know, so I no, it doesn't make
(07:12):
any sense to me. I would never we would never
recommend replacing a water pump unless it's leaking or the
bearing in it is making noise and you have issues
with it. But now it's it's one of those things.
I hate to say that, but if it ain't broke,
don't fix it. It's not leaking, it's not doing anything,
and it's it's again. You know, you want to make
(07:34):
sure the fluids are changed, brakes are done, tune up
things like that. But now, I would never recommend a
water pump, especially if it's internal. If if they're like, hey,
we're in there, we're gonna put a timing belt on it.
Do the water pump. Absolutely. But if if you've got
a chain engine and it's external.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it. I would not
recommend replacing it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Okay, So that's what I have. I have an external unit.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That's driven by a chain correct, yes, okay, okay, Well,
and I just learned something I didn't. I wouldn't aware
that there would be some warning signs like leakage, uh,
you know from underneath the car.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And I'm not having any of those things.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Happen at all.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it just seems like, you know, and this was
and they quoted me a price of almost fifteen hundred
dollars to replace this.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, I mean they might, they might have to, and
I have I'd have to know. It might be driven
by the you might have to remove the timing cover
to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But I've never seen them. They almost never fail.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Like now, if you if you called me and said, hey,
I have a you know three five ford explore those.
When those water pumps failed, the coolant leaks into the
engine ruined and then the coolant goes into oil, ruins
the engine immediately.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But no, I would not. I wouldn't recommend it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Okay, Okay, well, well thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I learned something today.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Absolutely not a problem. Thank you. Okay, all right, you
doo bye bye.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know that's again I hate to use the verbiage,
but you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I wouldn't recommend replacing water pump unless it was leaking
it so doesn't It doesn't make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean it can't happen.
But I've never seen one fail and ruin a Honda
engine or anything like that, so.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I have to look into that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But anyways, taking your phone calls and I recall five
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Taking your car questions.
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The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number gain five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center. You can find your nearest location in
the Try Cincinnati Tri state area by going to donovantire
dot com. And we just about do everything except for
(10:50):
no body work, no pain or or you know, bondo
or anything like that. Ummm, and no transmission work. So
I mean, we can service a transmission, but as far
as rebuilding transmission, we don't do that. And it's it's
surprisingly it's amazing to me how many times people people
know who I am and they're like, oh, do.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You guys do bodywork? And I get that question more
than anything else. And uh.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
In fact, a buddy mine said, hey, my daughter had
a car accident and he sent me a video and
I said, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay, and he said, yeah, everyone's fine.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
He goes it looks I said, it looks like it's
just cosmetic, and he's like, what do you think I
should do? I said, it's a plastic bumper. A lot
of these cars are all plastic. And I said, I
can just heat it up and.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Pop it out. He's like, you think you can pop
that out?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm like absolutely, so we uh got the torch out
and just you gotta be careful, but you know, heat
it up, get a little hot, and it just I didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Use a plunger.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
You can do that on doors, like door panels, or
maybe a hood or a trunk, but on plastic bumpers
typically the best thing to do is heat it up,
get a little warm, you know, kind of hot to
the touch, but not get too close to the paint,
and just push from the from behind and nothing just
pops right out and we're able to get to uh,
(12:14):
there's a little bit of paint scuffs and got some
rubbing compound, got them out and.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But yeah, don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
If you have a little plastic bumper, we could probably
do it. But anything that involves paint or bondo or
anything like that or you know, taking care of rust,
we do not do.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So all right, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
We have.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We have Ray, Hey, Ray, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hey? I got a question. It's an oddball and I'm
almost embarrassed to call you. I don't like the concept
the helicopter parent. But my wife turned around and went
to a local shop before my daughter went away to school,
and she had just had a head light out. I
bought a new headlight lamp. The car is an O
(13:03):
seven Buick La Cross, so he's got the three to
eight engine on it and a lot of the stuff.
It'll turn around. Tell you you got to spend a
whole lot of time and money ripping off the front
bumper and the cow and everything to get to it.
There's a YouTube trick where if you've got a rack,
you could snake your arms up there and angel lamp
(13:24):
real easy. And she mentioned it to the local guy
that I talked with, and she was literally just driving by.
He turned around, he snaked his arms up there to
got it done in less than ten minutes. So it's
easy access the seven. Now you get to the eight. No,
that's not an easy thing. What's the normal book time is?
(13:47):
She's just replacing a socket because it worked. It was fine,
But my wife didn't turn around and say anything about
smear and bulb grease on it, and I got a
feeling that it's just an oxidized socket for the headlamp.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, okay, so okay, so the ball so when she
left the ball worked or no.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, sir, okay, but now it's not correct. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So typically those bulls burn really really hot, and a
lot of times, like you said, the connector's probably burn up,
the pins are probably burn up, or there's corrosion or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's eighteen years. I don't know if the guy was
smart enough to wear gloves.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, he could have done that too. There's a believe
it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There's a lot of people like especially you know, typically
if you got a little marker bulb or something like that,
you can touch it, but a headlight bull because they
burned so hot, you cannot touch a oil. Yeah, the
oil on your skin will well, yeah, the oil on
your skin will. You cannot touch a head light bulb
when you're installing it. So he could have done that.
(14:53):
But I will tell you GM for some reason, and
I'm not picking on them, but GM, their sockets always
always burn up for some reason there. I think they
just use cheap parts or whatnot. But either one of
two things, either he touched the ball and it blew
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already or uh, you know, those contacts if they're making
if they're not making good contact. It'll it'll, it'll melt it,
it'll melt that. And he probably trying to get his
hand in there. He probably didn't even look at the socket.
But I'll be honest with you, if it probably if
it's gonna need a those.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Socket, the old lam might have actually yeah, the old
lamp might have actually been.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Good, right, correct, Yes, sir, yep, yeah, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Anyway most likely at seventeen years, it's not going to
be a wiring problem going back into the harness.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, it's gonna be a it's gonna be right there
at the socket, absolutely, and we replaced more GM headlight
sockets than any other manufacturer out there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Can you tell me what you show on another seven
book time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I don't have my I don't have my software in
front of me at the at the moment I could
find out, but I'm willing to bet it's probably well
over an hour. I guarantee you, Uh, they're gonna my
software is gonna probably tell me to take that bumper off.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And like you said, there is a uh you know,
uh uh cheat.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
If you get if you can replace the lamp from below,
you you'll be able to pull the socket. The biggest
thing is whether or not you can snap some wires,
you know, cut and sniff some wires and throw a
longer set of wires going to the new headlamp socket.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, I'll tell you I'm making a I'm making a
note right now to take a look at this and
write this down. I'll look at It's O seven buhicle
cross and which side is it is?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Drivers or passenger?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's a right side pass Okay, all right, I'm writing
it down. Let me because every year making models different.
And here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Too, the eight. The eight is very different than the seven. Yep,
right and correct is a trick where and probably when
you're reading the book book you know where you guys
are making money. It's going to be whatever generous motor says.
So you get dealer time versus wrench time. You know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yep, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But you're thinking it's probably an hour, hour and a half,
even if she goes through the expensive side of it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yes, that's what I'm that's yeah. Well but but let
me let me watch you guy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Do it in ten minutes. But it's if it's an
O eight, I know you have to go the other way.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, I will look it up, call me, call me
next Saturday. I'm not going anywhere. I'll be here next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I'll look it up.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Holiday weekend, you're gonna be, You're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I'm not going. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So you know I'm and you know I only live
ten minutes away from the studio.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So it's it's it's convenient.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's why i'm I know, that's why I'm right on time.
In fact, you know, my producers always like, are you
here yet?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Are you here yet? I'm like, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Uh So I've got it timed pretty well, because yeah,
I love.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
She couldn't get she couldn't get through last weekend. And
the other thing is she's got to get on the
road and her appointment it took two weeks. Where she's
at the closest ranch is every bit of about forty
five to fifty five minutes away.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Really, Yeah, she's pure mountains.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Where where where she live at? I mean not exactly
just the state.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's uh, it's uh uh is the closest city. It's
called wet in Carolina University. I mean it's Pier Mountain.
So when she comes home and she's like, well, I'll
be able to get home fine, I'm like, no, it's
dark and you're going through the smoky mountains. There's no
telephone service. At some point, I really do got to
(19:19):
play like a daddy. Yeah, fix the damn car. I
don't have any money. You got money, is your job?
Put the money in the account, shut out and fix it.
But I don't. But at the same time, she has
no other place to go, right, Yeah, if she doesn't
encourage them, now, that socket should be off the shelf
even down there. As far as finding a socket, what
(19:41):
I'm more worried about is that it went into the
main harness.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah right, I mean, anything's possible, but no, very unlikely.
I'm almost ninety nine percent sure. Again, we replaced more
GM sockets than the other manufacturer out there, so I.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Think it's just the socket.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
He probably just and again they burn those things, burn hot,
and it'll burn up the socket.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So it probably just seems a socket.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So there's there's one other feature. The car came out
of Pittsburgh. There might be a little bit of snow
and salt.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And Pittsburgh just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, Yeah, And it's seventeen years old. Yeah, anyway, I
just wanted to make sure that my ideas weren't garbage,
and I was correct. We'll see what happens. But she's
got to get that bag on thing done because she's
out of real estate on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, I mean, look, everybody, everybody always like, oh, maybe it's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
A fuse, maybe it's listen. I mean, I'll be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Nine out of ten times we have a head light out,
it's it's it's just a socket issue or ball shoe,
you believe it or not. This is no lie. And
we see this all the time. People come in and
they're like, hey, something's wrong in my car. Both my
headlights went out at the same time, and of the
(21:08):
time it's like, no, you had one out, you didn't
realize it. And then once the other one went out,
and it's like, no, they went out at the same time,
and you put two balls in it, and it's like, oh,
it just needs Like yeah, you've been you've you've been
driving around with one ball bike you didn't realize it,
and then when the other one went out, then you're like, oh,
they went out at the same time. It's like no,
(21:29):
because they was like, oh, it's just a fuse. No,
they're on most of the time. They'll run them on
separate you know, separate fuses, and they'll run them separately,
and everyone's like, oh, no, no, they ran out. They
went bad at the same time. I'm like, balls, don't
go out at the same time. It's possible, but it's
funny as everybody. Everybody always says that, and it's like,
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we put.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Balls in it. Where she is at there are no
street lights. Once she leaves the Walmart parking lot or
the camp this parking lot, it becomes very evident. I've
only got one eyeball. It's not worth to figure out
even by her. Yeah, yeah, it's damn bark.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I got a wait, I'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I'll let you know what you learn anotherwise, catch up
with your other guys. Makes it all right? Kay away?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Thanks right, take care, bye bye? All right.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
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there's no questions too too silly, or too complex. I
promise you I will do the best I can to
try to help you out. And uh so, yeah, but
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as promised, let's get let's go back to the phones
we have Randy, Hey, Randy, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
The question I have today? It's more Uh, your well,
all all of them your opinion. But now I'll tell
you what I'll tell you what I do, and then
you and I tell you the reason why I do it,
and then I do my own oil changes. Has been
doing them since December twenty twenty two. I've got a
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one point eight liter UH eight Honda Civic and I
one two point four leader O nine Honda A Corps.
Been tremendous vehicles as far as reliability, and the accord
gets good gas mileage, the Civic gets better gas mileage,
and but the but ever since, I've been doing my
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own old changes. At the very first time, I tried
to fill the uh the oil fielder up and and
every time I get under the under the car, I
don't have a steady hand. I can't you know, I
can't keep the I can't keep the spilling on the
ground out of the hall fielder. And you know, I've
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heard I've heard people, uh some people say, oh, you
need to fill the oil field and some people say
and then I've even heard some YouTube videos they say, no,
you don't need to feel the old fielder because there
is there could be impurities that's in the manufacturing process
that wouldn't be caught. Uh. And and you know, and
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you know because and then the ones that say feel
the old fielder, whether they say, well that that second
or two that it's that it's dry, could be detrimental
over time. And but I don't feel the old fielder
because I don't have a steady hand. And then I
understand also other manufacturers you can't even you couldn't do it,
no ways, because I know some manufacturers the the old
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fielders put sideways on the on the motor, and some
of them is upside down on the motor. And and
so the the so the question is what does it
even matter? Is it even an issue? Two uh to
to feel uh the the oil filter? And and do
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you do that on your personal vehicles as well?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
All right, So first and foremost, no, we do I
we do not do that. I've never done that on
any of my vehicles, you know, just just never have.
And now I will tell you when I got into
the industry twenty six years ago, we had the you know,
the seven point three liter diesels, and those filters would
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literally hold a court of oil. You and again they
spun on from the bottom and we would on the diesels,
we would do that the old seven threes, we would
do that. But other than that, no, correct, I mean
most of those these things are canister filters. They're upside
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down or their sideways. I do not and have never seen,
you know, a failure of an engine or any type
of catastrophic issues down the road because the oil filter
wasn't full before you feel hold it up.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Most of your especially your hannas. I mean you look
at that filter. That filter's pretty tiny. I mean, you
know as soon as as soon as you start that
thing up, it's it's doing its job.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But no, I you know, it's it's funny that you
bring that up.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Simply because years and years ago, twenty years ago. Yeah,
we would do that on the diesels because again they
would hold a court of oil, and but it diesels
a little bit of a different engine, right. But no,
we've never done that. I've never recommended doing that. I've
never seen any type of catastrophic issues or problems down
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the road because that wasn't done. I we have changed
thousands and thousands of cars oil and there's never been
an issue where by not doing that, we don't we
don't do it on any of the cars, even the
new diesel. I have a new diesel, and I don't
do it on my new diesel, So I just.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I think it's unnecessary. I don't think now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
What I would tell you though, too, is it can't
hurt if you want to do it. I don't think
it's going to hurt anything. But I mean these you know,
maybe years and years and years ago, you know, on
a tractor or something like that, it may it was necessary,
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but these cars nowadays, no, it's it's not necessary. I
don't see any upside or downside to doing it either way.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, my car is like I say, one dred and
eighty six thousand on the Accord and two ninety eight
on the Civic. And like I say that I hadn't
had I hadn't had any major problems. I had to
get a thermostat replaced on the Civic because it wouldn't
it would not, it wouldn't the heat hand would only
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go up to a core. And I noticed whenever I
got the thermos that were placed it actually is now
now it's going up to halfway where it's supposed to be.
Actually got just maybe two or three more better extra
miles a gallon, it seemed like because now it's going
is now it's the motors at the at the optimal
optimal temperature.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
But but nonetheless, those cars have been phenomenal and that's
that's why I get those cars. And nothing wrong. Maybe
want to get other cars. They want to get Jaguars
and things like that that that, uh, you know, they
don't have a I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I don't think it has a good track record. Uh.
As far as the history of reliability, that's fine. But
I value reliability because it because it ultimately it costs me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I love to drive anything. Driving a car or you know,
versus haunting a car two different two different ball games.
And uh, but nonetheless, but they've they've been phenomenal vehicles
as far as reliability, not not no, no, major things
has happened. And I do, but I do between five
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and six thousand miles as well, that's all. That's all
the old that's the only that's that's as long as
the old stage in my car. I don't I don't
go any I don't do this. Seventy five hundreds to
ten thousand. That ain't stayed in my that that old
not stayed in my car. I don't care what the
manufacturer say.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Now, yeah, I mean the the I mean, it's a
great question. And to be honest with you and I
talk about this all the time. Almost some people probably go,
oh my god, here he goes he's talking about again.
But the biggest the question or the thing that we
need to be talking about is making sure that you're
changing it regularly. Like you said, five six thousand miles
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that would be yeah, absolutely, that's when you need to
do it. And making sure that you're just checking it,
checking the level. Yeah, I have more cars with more
problems because one I mean I had a car just
yesterday it was running bad, had no oil in it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
They didn't change oil since twenty twenty three, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And it's like the question that everything that you know,
everybody's always confused is to one to do it and
I and I feel like I've got this platform, like, hey,
change it every five thousand miles oil. Has it gotten better?
Have the cars been engineered better? Yes, But every single
day I have a car that comes in that has
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a running issue, a check in light, or a problem
with the vehicle, and it's because it doesn't have any
oil in it, and nobody does it, and it's the
simplest and cheapest thing that you can do.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I again, I.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Talked about it earlier in the show that I have
a twenty twenty four f two fifty diesel manufacturer says,
change it every ten thousand miles. I'm like, over my
dead body, I'm not I'm doing I'm not doing that now. Yes,
I have it a little bit of a different you know. Yes,
I can change it myself, but I'm not going ten
thousand miles on an oil change.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Can cars do it? Yeah? But I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I want to get two hundred and ninety eight thousand
miles like you have out of my vehicle. So I'm
gonna make sure that I'm going to check the level
and I'm gonna make sure that.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I change it regularly.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That's the best thing that It's the life blood of
your vehicle, and it's the number one reason why vehicles
come into my shop and all my shops because the cars.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Don't have any oil in them.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
And you know, it's always like, oh well, the dealer
said this, Oh well, the car says this, Oh well,
the Sticker says this, there's too much confusion out there.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's what I'm like, Hey, five thousand miles is where
you should aim for.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Because again, if you tell somebody change your ole every
three thousand, what are they gonna do? They're gona probably
go six. You tell somebody every five thousand miles, they're
going to go ten. You tell somebody every ten thousand
miles or once a year, they're gonna do every other year.
So you know, people are gonna you know, that's what
we do as society.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It's like, oh, that's what they said to do, So
I'll just keep and then these cars, these newer cars,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Does your vehicle burn? Any type of do either one
of your hotness Burt oil.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
The uh any talking about checking? Oh, I do at
least three to four weeks. Every three to four least
three to four weeks at least I go out there.
I checked, Oh I look at the treas or at
least to look at the fluid, smell the transmission foods
leave us a seef it smells burn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I checked air fielder, Uh, make sure that's not clogged up,
you know, and but the civic, so it takes it
takes three point nine almost four courts. Okay, so the
civic I noticed between all changes I have to put in.
So that's so, so you know, I get the five
court jokes, so that last court that I don't put
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in there when I do the original wall change, typically
that court has to be you know between that. It
doesn't get out of the safe on but I noticed
it goes. It does go down a little bit between
the between the top of the safe in the bottom
of it. It's a little by little creeks down or slowly.
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And so so I do have to replace maybe a
court over over an oil change. And like I say,
I do five to six thousand, I don't. I don't
think that would be looked at is excessive now, especially
at two hundred ninety eight thousand, that's tremendous. I think
at ninety eight there's some cars today that'll do that.
In new cars today.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Oh yeah, I mean I have idea.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I mean I've seen outis. I've seen Audis go through
a quart of oil in five hundred miles. I mean
they're they're outis are dem Outis are just absolutely worse.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
They are for me. I'd like to drive woman, not
for me.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, yeah, they burn oil like it's their jobs.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
But yeah, great question.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
And I got these cars one hundred and until sixty
two and a half thousand miles of the Cord August
nineteen and then March with twenty three the Civic two
hundred and fifty five thousand, and uh you know, seventy
five hundred and three thousands when I played for both
them ten thousand, five hundred dollars altogether. And that's why
tremendous vehicle.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And that's where you get three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
You got it, I know, I know you said. I
think you said, you have a Civic. What year is
your saving?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Two thousands?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Mine to two thousand. It has like one hundred and
forty six thousand miles on it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I only live three and a half miles from work.
I don't do a ton of driving. But now I
bought it when I was I'm forty one years old.
I bought it when I was eighteen, my senior year
of high school. And that thing is still running strong.
And I have changed the oil on that car Now
this is excessive, but I'm I'm kind of a you know,
ain't or attentive weirdo. I changed the oil on that
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car every fifteen hundred miles. I have done that since
I purchased it. Now that's excessive, but again I have
the you know, I can do that. You don't need
to do that, but I've just always done that on
that vehicle. And the last time I had to put
a valvecover gask on, I'm telling you could eat a
you could eat your dinner off of that that that engine.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
There's no sludge.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
It looked like the day it came off of the Hey,
it's it's just it's just something that's so simple and important,
you know what I mean. And it's like if you
could go to your doctor and hey, doc, I want
to lift to.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Him one hundred and fifty years old, what do I
need to do?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And he's just like, you know, make sure that you
drink a you know, check and make sure you're hydrated,
you know, for every day, or you know. Just it's
something so simple and yet there's just so much mass
confusion out There's people just go, well, I don't know
what to do, so I'll just do it when I
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decide I want to do it, and then they blow
up their car. You know, they spend ninety thousand dollars
on a car. Five years later it's it's a paper weight,
and they're like, well, I'll just go and buy a
new one. And and not everybody can afford to do that,
you know what I mean. And that's why it's like
it's so important just to make sure you maintain and
check it. It doesn't have to be this big. You know,
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we all have to go for most most of us,
we all have to go to the gas station and
get gas. Right for the majority of it. If you
got a lunch car, you don't have to worry about it, right,
But if you've got a gasoline engine, you're putting gas
in it anyways, you got to wait about you know, two, three,
four minutes, right, just pop the look and check it
instead of getting back in the car and getting on
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your phone checking social media, get out there, pop the hood,
check it and just make sure it's full. I mean,
that's the if you want to get three hundred thousand
miles out of your engine, like you have, making sure
you maintain the oil level and change it regularly. That's
all you gotta do. And again, five thousand miles, that's
all you gotta do. Change it every five thousand. I
don't care what the mechanics said, not the mechanic. I
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don't care what your neighbor said. I don't care what
the salesman said. I don't care what the a lot,
the oil light says. It's the no five thousand miles.
You get a little sticker when you get in a
wal change. Focus on the sticker every five thousand miles.
That's it, and you'll get three hundred thousand miles out
of your car all day long.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
So and my and my goals will sleep. If I
can't get it the four or five hundred, that'd be
interesting if I could do I could do that.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All right, Well, Randy, thank you so much. You have
a great day, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
All right, happy thanks you.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
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Speaker 1 (39:04):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center here every
Saturday from one to two, and I want to go
because we're running out of time here.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I want to get back to the phones we have. Jack. Hey, Jack,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (39:21):
Hi, Dane, I just had a suggestion for the Buick
guy with the headlight issue. Yeah, but then, but then
I want to make a quick oil change comment that
you're not going to like, okay, but on that buick
sometimes if you just like slap the headlight from the outside, Yeah,
if it is a bulb going out, it'll come back.
On for a night or two.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, but if yeah, if the film it's broken or whatnot. Yeah,
if you smack it, yeah, you're right, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Go back on.
Speaker 8 (39:48):
So that could be something for him to check. And
I drive over four thousand miles a month. I delivered
for tractor supply at home depot, and I got to
a lot of farms. I got that furwel drive and
I changed my oil every fifteen thousand miles. I know
you're not gonna like hearing that I used to. Yeah,
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I used synthetic blend. I've always used toyotas for my
jobs for the last twenty five years. I'm on my
Highlander now. I got two hundred and sixty thousand on it,
and it does consume about a half a court every
five thousand, but I just top it off. Yeah, and
I change it every three months if I change if
I did five thousand, I changed my oil every month. Yeah,
(40:31):
And there was a there was a period of time
when I used to do that with regular oil and
it would be a little dirty. But on the synthetic
I was like, wait around, I'm changing clean oil. This
is nuts. So I just gradually until I came to
the fifteen thousand mile conclusion. And that's how I've done
this vehicle, and I've got al much turner ky on it.
She still runs like new.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
But everybody's different.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
That's just my own experience.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Well yeah, no, and you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
And you know, the thing is the two things that
you made too good points, and that's that's my that's
the that's the biggest thing that I want to get
out there is nobody checks their oil. And like you said, hey, Dane,
my car does. Yeah, my car does use oil, but
I top it off. That's the that's what we need
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to talk about. And that's again why part of the
reason why I like to stick to five thousand.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Because majority of people do not check the oil.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
So if your car is using a cord of oil,
if your car only has four quarts of oil in
it and it's using a cord every thousand miles and
you go five thousand.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Miles, and you're gonna kill it.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
A lot of manufacturers are like, well that's within tolerances. Well,
it'll be every time these cars come into me either
they don't have any oil on it.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
So that's that's you know.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
I you know, again, are the cars more sophisticated to day.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Can they go longer? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Are the oils better that that are vail out there today?
And can they last longer?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
However the problem is there's too much confusion as to
when to do it and how long you should go.
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Again, use genuine filter not goingterrupt.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
You make sure you use.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
A genuine filter for your vehicle.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (42:18):
Yeah, because my wife one time stopped at one of
the I'm not going to say it into the place,
but they put the wrong filter in.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yep, that's a problem.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
And then when I did her oil change the next time,
I'm like, well, it was a completely I'm surprised to
car even Ryan, right, I really am, Dane. I don't
know how to explain to you.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
They look like they put some kind of.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Tractor filter in there or something. There was no way
the oil could circulate.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
I love your show.
Speaker 8 (42:47):
I used to listen to your dad all the time.
You're a good man.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
All right, Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Up for a little time.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
It might be the life.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Bulb, all right, thank you? All right?
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Real quick, Mike, welcome to the croser Mike. I'm so
sorry I'm running out of time, but I'd like to
get to your question.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
That's okay, sir.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Yes, sir, okay. I have a twenty fourteen sword f
one at the bought a brand new in twenty fourteen,
and ever since i've had When I turned the heat on,
I get fumes inside their car and I've head to
them up for shop pops up with a loose underneath.
They found no trouble.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Can you help me real quick?
Speaker 5 (43:29):
I'll hang up and let you go.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Yeah, okay, that'd be great, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
All right, So what I would tell you to do,
you can call me back next Saturday. I'd like to
go a little bit more in depth. If you're smelling
fumes like that, I don't believe it's exhausts. A lot
nine out of ten times, if somebody brings a car
to me and says, hey, it's I can smell exhaustions,
it's not. It's an oil leak. You're leaking oil. It's
probably it's a fourteen f one fifty. It's probably an
(43:53):
eco boost. So either the turbos are leaking, or one
of the lines are leaking, or the valve cover gasket's leaking.
That's why smell the fumes when the heaters on. So
all right, everybody, have a great Thanksgiving. I'll be back
next Saturday to answer all of your car questions. But again, uh,
I think it just it's just it's leaking oil. But
thank you so much. Everybody, have a great weekend, Happy Thanksgiving.
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That's a little.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show on fifty
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
I hope everybody's doing well. We we are.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know, I talked about it a couple of weeks
ago and I said that the deadly uh well not deadly,
but uh the you know, the the unwonted word, uh
s word snow.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And we got a little bit and uh.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It wasn't too bad, but uh even even I mean
yesterday I had a a vehicle right in front of
us lose control, and you know, you gotta make sure
you've got a good set of tires on your vehicle.
It's it's so important, and we're getting into that time
of season, but let's not talk about that at the moment.
We're let's talk about we're gonna be traveling. You know,
(01:17):
obviously in five days we're all gonna be sitting around
the table having some turkey and celebrating Thanksgiving. And we're
all gonna be traveling most of us will you know,
may not be traveling states, you know, states away. You
might just be traveling fifteen to twenty minutes to your
you know, relatives, house, parents' house, whatever. And uh, you know,
(01:40):
you want to make sure that that car is ready
to go for what's coming.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mother nature loves to, you know, throw us curveballs all
the time, especially in Cincinnati weather. And we want to
make sure we're going into the We've already had several
vehicles coming in with no heat. So and we I
talk about this in the spring, like, hey, make sure
your air conditioning's working now, so when it gets to
(02:06):
ninety you're not dying. And you're like, I need to
get in there right now, right, So think about it.
If you're in your car now, just turn the heat on.
Just make sure it's working. You know, with all these
newer cars out there today, there's so many components that
can fail. You know, you have a car that's you know,
twenty years old. There there wasn't much you know, you
(02:28):
basically had one door that turned it from hot to cold.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now nowadays it's dual climate and uh so there's a
lot of other components that can fail. So now's the
time again. I know it's not too cold outside, but
turn it on. Just make sure it works. Just throw
it on like hep. It works that way, you're not
in scramble mode when it's you know, cause you know,
(02:52):
in a week it could be in the in the teens,
right and then you're freezing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So something to think about.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The other thing I want to talk about too is.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know, I have a wide variety of vehicles, not
a ton, but I have a vehicle that I've had
since I was eighteen years old. I'm forty one. I've
when I bought it when I was eighteen. Check engine
lights on that. My wife's car is a twenty eighteen.
It comes on. It's not currently on, but it comes on.
And I bought a little car from a customer mind
(03:24):
just a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Toy around with it. It's a little accurate.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I'm driving it the other day yesterday and the
check engine light comes on that. And then I have
a twenty twenty four f two fifty And the other
day I go to hit the remote start it won't start.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I go out and I go to start it up
and check engine lights on on that this car has
seventeen thousand miles. I like every vehicle I own has
a check engine light on. I'm like, I cannot win.
So if you feel like, man, I just I can't
catch a break, listen, I'm in the same boat these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Whether it's a.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Year old or twenty years old, these lights will they
will haunt you. And it's something that you know, can
be frustrating. Some people can live with it. Some people can't.
I can't live with a check engineline on. Just I
can't do it. Some people can go, oh, that's fine.
Other people I've had come in and they put a
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piece of black electrical tape on it. You know, but
you really shouldn't do that. You really need to have
it fixed. It's on for a reason, and I certainly
could be a performance issue as well. So it's something
that you want to think about. But if it's on,
don't be like, oh I got a lemon. It's I'm
telling you it just it. It never ends. So again,
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taking your phone calls, I never call five one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred. Let's go to the phones. We have
Scott Hey Scott, Welcome to the car show. How can
I help?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I've got a question for you about my twenty fifteen
Honda Cord lf M H. It's kind of a hundred
seven thousand miles on it currently. When I headed into
the dealership, the Honda dealership earlier this year, it had
just crossed over one hundred thousand miles and they were
recommending that I replaced the water pump, which involves I
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guess here at tens or kit and a drive belt.
And is that something that you would recommend to a
customer to have that water pump replaced at you know,
one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Uh no, not no, not on that. So let me
ask you something. Do you know do you have a
four cylinder or.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Is it a V six? It's a four it's a
four cylinder, Okay, most of them do.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean, there was years that Honda had V six's
that they've thrown in there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, I would not.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I would not recommend that simply because you know, in
the in the past, when you had a belt driven
timing belt driven engine, you would want that to you
would at one hundred and five thousand miles, a tining
belt needs to be replaced. The water pump's right there,
you do it. But if you have a chain engine
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that that water pump is external, so if it fails
at some point, you can do it when it fails.
It's kind of it if I could use the analogy
if you went into your doctor and he was like, hey, look,
you know I'm not I don't know how old you are,
but I'm just saying like, hey, you're sixty years old,
you probably should just go ahead and replace both.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Of your knees.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You'd be like, well, there's nothing wrong with them, So
I wouldn't do it. I don't feel if it's not leaking,
it might be a preventative maintenance item. But listen, it's
gonna give you warning signs. You'll see coolent leaking in
the driveway or you might. But no, ire, there are
some things that you want to do in advance or
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prevent fluids, a tune up, filters, you know, things like that.
But not I would never You're you're you're going down
a slippery slope. If if if, well, if it's the
water pump, if they recommend the water pump, then why
not do the alternator and why not do the power
steering pump, you know, so I no, it doesn't make
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any sense to me. I would never we would never
recommend replacing a water pump unless it's leaking or the
bearing in it is making noise and you have issues
with it. But now it's it's one of those things.
I hate to say that, but if it ain't broke,
don't fix it. It's not leaking, it's not doing anything,
and it's it's again. You know, you want to make
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sure the fluids are changed, brakes are done, tune up
things like that. But now, I would never recommend a
water pump, especially if it's internal. If if they're like, hey,
we're in there, we're gonna put a timing belt on it.
Do the water pump. Absolutely. But if if you've got
a chain engine and it's external.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it. I would not
recommend replacing it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Okay, So that's what I have. I have an external unit.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That's driven by a chain correct, yes, okay, okay, Well,
and I just learned something I didn't. I wouldn't aware
that there would be some warning signs like leakage, uh,
you know from underneath the car.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And I'm not having any of those things.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Happen at all.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it just seems like, you know, and this was
and they quoted me a price of almost fifteen hundred
dollars to replace this.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, I mean they might, they might have to, and
I have I'd have to know. It might be driven
by the you might have to remove the timing cover
to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But I've never seen them. They almost never fail.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Like now, if you if you called me and said, hey,
I have a you know three five ford explore those.
When those water pumps failed, the coolant leaks into the
engine ruined and then the coolant goes into oil, ruins
the engine immediately.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But no, I would not. I wouldn't recommend it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Okay, Okay, well, well thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I learned something today.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Absolutely not a problem. Thank you. Okay, all right, you
doo bye bye.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know that's again I hate to use the verbiage,
but you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I wouldn't recommend replacing water pump unless it was leaking
it so doesn't It doesn't make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean it can't happen.
But I've never seen one fail and ruin a Honda
engine or anything like that, so.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I have to look into that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But anyways, taking your phone calls and I recall five
one three seven nine fifty five hundred. That number gain
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Coming up. We have Ray and Randy. You're listening to
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Taking your car questions.
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The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number gain five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's
Auto entire Center. You can find your nearest location in
the Try Cincinnati Tri state area by going to donovantire
dot com. And we just about do everything except for
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no body work, no pain or or you know, bondo
or anything like that. Ummm, and no transmission work. So
I mean, we can service a transmission, but as far
as rebuilding transmission, we don't do that. And it's it's
surprisingly it's amazing to me how many times people people
know who I am and they're like, oh, do.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You guys do bodywork? And I get that question more
than anything else. And uh.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
In fact, a buddy mine said, hey, my daughter had
a car accident and he sent me a video and
I said, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay, and he said, yeah, everyone's fine.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
He goes it looks I said, it looks like it's
just cosmetic, and he's like, what do you think I
should do? I said, it's a plastic bumper. A lot
of these cars are all plastic. And I said, I
can just heat it up and.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Pop it out. He's like, you think you can pop
that out?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm like absolutely, so we uh got the torch out
and just you gotta be careful, but you know, heat
it up, get a little hot, and it just I didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Use a plunger.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
You can do that on doors, like door panels, or
maybe a hood or a trunk, but on plastic bumpers
typically the best thing to do is heat it up,
get a little warm, you know, kind of hot to
the touch, but not get too close to the paint,
and just push from the from behind and nothing just
pops right out and we're able to get to uh,
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there's a little bit of paint scuffs and got some
rubbing compound, got them out and.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But yeah, don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
If you have a little plastic bumper, we could probably
do it. But anything that involves paint or bondo or
anything like that or you know, taking care of rust,
we do not do.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So all right, let's go to the phones.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
We have.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We have Ray, Hey, Ray, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Hey? I got a question. It's an oddball and I'm
almost embarrassed to call you. I don't like the concept
the helicopter parent. But my wife turned around and went
to a local shop before my daughter went away to school,
and she had just had a head light out. I
bought a new headlight lamp. The car is an O
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seven Buick La Cross, so he's got the three to
eight engine on it and a lot of the stuff.
It'll turn around. Tell you you got to spend a
whole lot of time and money ripping off the front
bumper and the cow and everything to get to it.
There's a YouTube trick where if you've got a rack,
you could snake your arms up there and angel lamp
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real easy. And she mentioned it to the local guy
that I talked with, and she was literally just driving by.
He turned around, he snaked his arms up there to
got it done in less than ten minutes. So it's
easy access the seven. Now you get to the eight. No,
that's not an easy thing. What's the normal book time is?
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She's just replacing a socket because it worked. It was fine,
But my wife didn't turn around and say anything about
smear and bulb grease on it, and I got a
feeling that it's just an oxidized socket for the headlamp.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, okay, so okay, so the ball so when she
left the ball worked or no.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, sir, okay, but now it's not correct. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So typically those bulls burn really really hot, and a
lot of times, like you said, the connector's probably burn up,
the pins are probably burn up, or there's corrosion or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's eighteen years. I don't know if the guy was
smart enough to wear gloves.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, he could have done that too. There's a believe
it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There's a lot of people like especially you know, typically
if you got a little marker bulb or something like that,
you can touch it, but a headlight bull because they
burned so hot, you cannot touch a oil. Yeah, the
oil on your skin will well, yeah, the oil on
your skin will. You cannot touch a head light bulb
when you're installing it. So he could have done that.
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But I will tell you GM for some reason, and
I'm not picking on them, but GM, their sockets always
always burn up for some reason there. I think they
just use cheap parts or whatnot. But either one of
two things, either he touched the ball and it blew
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already or uh, you know, those contacts if they're making
if they're not making good contact. It'll it'll, it'll melt it,
it'll melt that. And he probably trying to get his
hand in there. He probably didn't even look at the socket.
But I'll be honest with you, if it probably if
it's gonna need a those.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Socket, the old lam might have actually yeah, the old
lamp might have actually been.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Good, right, correct, Yes, sir, yep, yeah, I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Anyway most likely at seventeen years, it's not going to
be a wiring problem going back into the harness.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, it's gonna be a it's gonna be right there
at the socket, absolutely, and we replaced more GM headlight
sockets than any other manufacturer out there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Can you tell me what you show on another seven
book time.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I don't have my I don't have my software in
front of me at the at the moment I could
find out, but I'm willing to bet it's probably well
over an hour. I guarantee you, Uh, they're gonna my
software is gonna probably tell me to take that bumper off.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And like you said, there is a uh you know,
uh uh cheat.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
If you get if you can replace the lamp from below,
you you'll be able to pull the socket. The biggest
thing is whether or not you can snap some wires,
you know, cut and sniff some wires and throw a
longer set of wires going to the new headlamp socket.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, I'll tell you I'm making a I'm making a
note right now to take a look at this and
write this down. I'll look at It's O seven buhicle
cross and which side is it is?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Drivers or passenger?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's a right side pass Okay, all right, I'm writing
it down. Let me because every year making models different.
And here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Too, the eight. The eight is very different than the seven. Yep,
right and correct is a trick where and probably when
you're reading the book book you know where you guys
are making money. It's going to be whatever generous motor says.
So you get dealer time versus wrench time. You know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yep, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But you're thinking it's probably an hour, hour and a half,
even if she goes through the expensive side of it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yes, that's what I'm that's yeah. Well but but let
me let me watch you guy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Do it in ten minutes. But it's if it's an
O eight, I know you have to go the other way.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, I will look it up, call me, call me
next Saturday. I'm not going anywhere. I'll be here next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I'll look it up.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Holiday weekend, you're gonna be, You're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I'm not going. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So you know I'm and you know I only live
ten minutes away from the studio.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So it's it's it's convenient.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's why i'm I know, that's why I'm right on time.
In fact, you know, my producers always like, are you
here yet?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Are you here yet? I'm like, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Uh So I've got it timed pretty well, because yeah,
I love.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
She couldn't get she couldn't get through last weekend. And
the other thing is she's got to get on the
road and her appointment it took two weeks. Where she's
at the closest ranch is every bit of about forty
five to fifty five minutes away.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Really, Yeah, she's pure mountains.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Where where where she live at? I mean not exactly
just the state.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's uh, it's uh uh is the closest city. It's
called wet in Carolina University. I mean it's Pier Mountain.
So when she comes home and she's like, well, I'll
be able to get home fine, I'm like, no, it's
dark and you're going through the smoky mountains. There's no
telephone service. At some point, I really do got to
(19:19):
play like a daddy. Yeah, fix the damn car. I
don't have any money. You got money, is your job?
Put the money in the account, shut out and fix it.
But I don't. But at the same time, she has
no other place to go, right, Yeah, if she doesn't
encourage them, now, that socket should be off the shelf
even down there. As far as finding a socket, what
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I'm more worried about is that it went into the
main harness.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah right, I mean, anything's possible, but no, very unlikely.
I'm almost ninety nine percent sure. Again, we replaced more
GM sockets than the other manufacturer out there, so I.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Think it's just the socket.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
He probably just and again they burn those things, burn hot,
and it'll burn up the socket.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So it probably just seems a socket.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So there's there's one other feature. The car came out
of Pittsburgh. There might be a little bit of snow
and salt.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And Pittsburgh just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, Yeah, And it's seventeen years old. Yeah, anyway, I
just wanted to make sure that my ideas weren't garbage,
and I was correct. We'll see what happens. But she's
got to get that bag on thing done because she's
out of real estate on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, I mean, look, everybody, everybody always like, oh, maybe it's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
A fuse, maybe it's listen. I mean, I'll be honest
with you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Nine out of ten times we have a head light out,
it's it's it's just a socket issue or ball shoe,
you believe it or not. This is no lie. And
we see this all the time. People come in and
they're like, hey, something's wrong in my car. Both my
headlights went out at the same time, and of the
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time it's like, no, you had one out, you didn't
realize it. And then once the other one went out,
and it's like, no, they went out at the same time,
and you put two balls in it, and it's like, oh,
it just needs Like yeah, you've been you've you've been
driving around with one ball bike you didn't realize it,
and then when the other one went out, then you're like, oh,
they went out at the same time. It's like no,
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because they was like, oh, it's just a fuse. No,
they're on most of the time. They'll run them on
separate you know, separate fuses, and they'll run them separately,
and everyone's like, oh, no, no, they ran out. They
went bad at the same time. I'm like, balls, don't
go out at the same time. It's possible, but it's
funny as everybody. Everybody always says that, and it's like,
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we put.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Balls in it. Where she is at there are no
street lights. Once she leaves the Walmart parking lot or
the camp this parking lot, it becomes very evident. I've
only got one eyeball. It's not worth to figure out
even by her. Yeah, yeah, it's damn bark.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I got a wait, I'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I'll let you know what you learn anotherwise, catch up
with your other guys. Makes it all right? Kay away?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Thanks right, take care, bye bye? All right.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Taking your phone calls and never to call five one, three, seven, four,
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Excuse me, coming up, we have Randy. You're listening to
the car show on fifty five KRC, the talk station
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Taking your car questions. The number to call five one, three, seven,
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So I'd love to take your car questions. I promise
there's no questions too too silly, or too complex. I
promise you I will do the best I can to
try to help you out. And uh so, yeah, but
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as promised, let's get let's go back to the phones
we have Randy, Hey, Randy, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
How can I help.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
The question I have today? It's more Uh, your well,
all all of them your opinion. But now I'll tell
you what I'll tell you what I do, and then
you and I tell you the reason why I do it,
and then I do my own oil changes. Has been
doing them since December twenty twenty two. I've got a
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one point eight liter UH eight Honda Civic and I
one two point four leader O nine Honda A Corps.
Been tremendous vehicles as far as reliability, and the accord
gets good gas mileage, the Civic gets better gas mileage,
and but the but ever since, I've been doing my
(24:28):
own old changes. At the very first time, I tried
to fill the uh the oil fielder up and and
every time I get under the under the car, I
don't have a steady hand. I can't you know, I
can't keep the I can't keep the spilling on the
ground out of the hall fielder. And you know, I've
(24:49):
heard I've heard people, uh some people say, oh, you
need to fill the oil field and some people say
and then I've even heard some YouTube videos they say, no,
you don't need to feel the old fielder because there
is there could be impurities that's in the manufacturing process
that wouldn't be caught. Uh. And and you know, and
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you know because and then the ones that say feel
the old fielder, whether they say, well that that second
or two that it's that it's dry, could be detrimental
over time. And but I don't feel the old fielder
because I don't have a steady hand. And then I
understand also other manufacturers you can't even you couldn't do it,
no ways, because I know some manufacturers the the old
(25:34):
fielders put sideways on the on the motor, and some
of them is upside down on the motor. And and
so the the so the question is what does it
even matter? Is it even an issue? Two uh to
to feel uh the the oil filter? And and do
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you do that on your personal vehicles as well?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
All right, So first and foremost, no, we do I
we do not do that. I've never done that on
any of my vehicles, you know, just just never have.
And now I will tell you when I got into
the industry twenty six years ago, we had the you know,
the seven point three liter diesels, and those filters would
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literally hold a court of oil. You and again they
spun on from the bottom and we would on the diesels,
we would do that the old seven threes, we would
do that. But other than that, no, correct, I mean
most of those these things are canister filters. They're upside
(26:45):
down or their sideways. I do not and have never seen,
you know, a failure of an engine or any type
of catastrophic issues down the road because the oil filter
wasn't full before you feel hold it up.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Most of your especially your hannas. I mean you look
at that filter. That filter's pretty tiny. I mean, you
know as soon as as soon as you start that
thing up, it's it's doing its job.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But no, I you know, it's it's funny that you
bring that up.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Simply because years and years ago, twenty years ago. Yeah,
we would do that on the diesels because again they
would hold a court of oil, and but it diesels
a little bit of a different engine, right. But no,
we've never done that. I've never recommended doing that. I've
never seen any type of catastrophic issues or problems down
(27:40):
the road because that wasn't done. I we have changed
thousands and thousands of cars oil and there's never been
an issue where by not doing that, we don't we
don't do it on any of the cars, even the
new diesel. I have a new diesel, and I don't
do it on my new diesel, So I just.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I think it's unnecessary. I don't think now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
What I would tell you though, too, is it can't
hurt if you want to do it. I don't think
it's going to hurt anything. But I mean these you know,
maybe years and years and years ago, you know, on
a tractor or something like that, it may it was necessary,
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but these cars nowadays, no, it's it's not necessary. I
don't see any upside or downside to doing it either way.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, my car is like I say, one dred and
eighty six thousand on the Accord and two ninety eight
on the Civic. And like I say that I hadn't
had I hadn't had any major problems. I had to
get a thermostat replaced on the Civic because it wouldn't
it would not, it wouldn't the heat hand would only
(28:59):
go up to a core. And I noticed whenever I
got the thermos that were placed it actually is now
now it's going up to halfway where it's supposed to be.
Actually got just maybe two or three more better extra
miles a gallon, it seemed like because now it's going
is now it's the motors at the at the optimal
optimal temperature.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
But but nonetheless, those cars have been phenomenal and that's
that's why I get those cars. And nothing wrong. Maybe
want to get other cars. They want to get Jaguars
and things like that that that, uh, you know, they
don't have a I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I don't think it has a good track record. Uh.
As far as the history of reliability, that's fine. But
I value reliability because it because it ultimately it costs me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I love to drive anything. Driving a car or you know,
versus haunting a car two different two different ball games.
And uh, but nonetheless, but they've they've been phenomenal vehicles
as far as reliability, not not no, no, major things
has happened. And I do, but I do between five
(30:05):
and six thousand miles as well, that's all. That's all
the old that's the only that's that's as long as
the old stage in my car. I don't I don't
go any I don't do this. Seventy five hundreds to
ten thousand. That ain't stayed in my that that old
not stayed in my car. I don't care what the
manufacturer say.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Now, yeah, I mean the the I mean, it's a
great question. And to be honest with you and I
talk about this all the time. Almost some people probably go,
oh my god, here he goes he's talking about again.
But the biggest the question or the thing that we
need to be talking about is making sure that you're
changing it regularly. Like you said, five six thousand miles
(30:46):
that would be yeah, absolutely, that's when you need to
do it. And making sure that you're just checking it,
checking the level. Yeah, I have more cars with more
problems because one I mean I had a car just
yesterday it was running bad, had no oil in it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
They didn't change oil since twenty twenty three, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And it's like the question that everything that you know,
everybody's always confused is to one to do it and
I and I feel like I've got this platform, like, hey,
change it every five thousand miles oil. Has it gotten better?
Have the cars been engineered better? Yes, But every single
day I have a car that comes in that has
(31:26):
a running issue, a check in light, or a problem
with the vehicle, and it's because it doesn't have any
oil in it, and nobody does it, and it's the
simplest and cheapest thing that you can do.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I again, I.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Talked about it earlier in the show that I have
a twenty twenty four f two fifty diesel manufacturer says,
change it every ten thousand miles. I'm like, over my
dead body, I'm not I'm doing I'm not doing that now. Yes,
I have it a little bit of a different you know. Yes,
I can change it myself, but I'm not going ten
thousand miles on an oil change.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Can cars do it? Yeah? But I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I want to get two hundred and ninety eight thousand
miles like you have out of my vehicle. So I'm
gonna make sure that I'm going to check the level
and I'm gonna make sure that.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I change it regularly.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
That's the best thing that It's the life blood of
your vehicle, and it's the number one reason why vehicles
come into my shop and all my shops because the cars.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Don't have any oil in them.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
And you know, it's always like, oh well, the dealer
said this, Oh well, the car says this, Oh well,
the Sticker says this, there's too much confusion out there.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's what I'm like, Hey, five thousand miles is where
you should aim for.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Because again, if you tell somebody change your ole every
three thousand, what are they gonna do? They're gona probably
go six. You tell somebody every five thousand miles, they're
going to go ten. You tell somebody every ten thousand
miles or once a year, they're gonna do every other year.
So you know, people are gonna you know, that's what
we do as society.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It's like, oh, that's what they said to do, So
I'll just keep and then these cars, these newer cars,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Does your vehicle burn? Any type of do either one
of your hotness Burt oil.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
The uh any talking about checking? Oh, I do at
least three to four weeks. Every three to four least
three to four weeks at least I go out there.
I checked, Oh I look at the treas or at
least to look at the fluid, smell the transmission foods
leave us a seef it smells burn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I checked air fielder, Uh, make sure that's not clogged up,
you know, and but the civic, so it takes it
takes three point nine almost four courts. Okay, so the
civic I noticed between all changes I have to put in.
So that's so, so you know, I get the five
court jokes, so that last court that I don't put
(33:43):
in there when I do the original wall change, typically
that court has to be you know between that. It
doesn't get out of the safe on but I noticed
it goes. It does go down a little bit between
the between the top of the safe in the bottom
of it. It's a little by little creeks down or slowly.
(34:08):
And so so I do have to replace maybe a
court over over an oil change. And like I say,
I do five to six thousand, I don't. I don't
think that would be looked at is excessive now, especially
at two hundred ninety eight thousand, that's tremendous. I think
at ninety eight there's some cars today that'll do that.
In new cars today.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Oh yeah, I mean I have idea.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I mean I've seen outis. I've seen Audis go through
a quart of oil in five hundred miles. I mean
they're they're outis are dem Outis are just absolutely worse.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
They are for me. I'd like to drive woman, not
for me.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, yeah, they burn oil like it's their jobs.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
But yeah, great question.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
And I got these cars one hundred and until sixty
two and a half thousand miles of the Cord August
nineteen and then March with twenty three the Civic two
hundred and fifty five thousand, and uh you know, seventy
five hundred and three thousands when I played for both
them ten thousand, five hundred dollars altogether. And that's why
tremendous vehicle.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And that's where you get three hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
You got it, I know, I know you said. I
think you said, you have a Civic. What year is
your saving?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Two thousands?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Mine to two thousand. It has like one hundred and
forty six thousand miles on it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I only live three and a half miles from work.
I don't do a ton of driving. But now I
bought it when I was I'm forty one years old.
I bought it when I was eighteen, my senior year
of high school. And that thing is still running strong.
And I have changed the oil on that car Now
this is excessive, but I'm I'm kind of a you know,
ain't or attentive weirdo. I changed the oil on that
(35:48):
car every fifteen hundred miles. I have done that since
I purchased it. Now that's excessive, but again I have
the you know, I can do that. You don't need
to do that, but I've just always done that on
that vehicle. And the last time I had to put
a valvecover gask on, I'm telling you could eat a
you could eat your dinner off of that that that engine.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
There's no sludge.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
It looked like the day it came off of the Hey,
it's it's just it's just something that's so simple and important,
you know what I mean. And it's like if you
could go to your doctor and hey, doc, I want
to lift to.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Him one hundred and fifty years old, what do I
need to do?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
And he's just like, you know, make sure that you
drink a you know, check and make sure you're hydrated,
you know, for every day, or you know. Just it's
something so simple and yet there's just so much mass
confusion out There's people just go, well, I don't know
what to do, so I'll just do it when I
(36:42):
decide I want to do it, and then they blow
up their car. You know, they spend ninety thousand dollars
on a car. Five years later it's it's a paper weight,
and they're like, well, I'll just go and buy a
new one. And and not everybody can afford to do that,
you know what I mean. And that's why it's like
it's so important just to make sure you maintain and
check it. It doesn't have to be this big. You know,
(37:03):
we all have to go for most most of us,
we all have to go to the gas station and
get gas. Right for the majority of it. If you
got a lunch car, you don't have to worry about it, right,
But if you've got a gasoline engine, you're putting gas
in it anyways, you got to wait about you know, two, three,
four minutes, right, just pop the look and check it
instead of getting back in the car and getting on
(37:25):
your phone checking social media, get out there, pop the hood,
check it and just make sure it's full. I mean,
that's the if you want to get three hundred thousand
miles out of your engine, like you have, making sure
you maintain the oil level and change it regularly. That's
all you gotta do. And again, five thousand miles, that's
all you gotta do. Change it every five thousand. I
don't care what the mechanics said, not the mechanic. I
(37:48):
don't care what your neighbor said. I don't care what
the salesman said. I don't care what the a lot,
the oil light says. It's the no five thousand miles.
You get a little sticker when you get in a
wal change. Focus on the sticker every five thousand miles.
That's it, and you'll get three hundred thousand miles out
of your car all day long.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
So and my and my goals will sleep. If I
can't get it the four or five hundred, that'd be
interesting if I could do I could do that.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All right, Well, Randy, thank you so much. You have
a great day, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
All right, happy thanks you.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
All right, take care, bye bye, all right, taking your
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Speaker 1 (39:04):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center here every
Saturday from one to two, and I want to go
because we're running out of time here.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I want to get back to the phones we have. Jack. Hey, Jack,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Ah?
Speaker 8 (39:21):
Hi, Dane, I just had a suggestion for the Buick
guy with the headlight issue. Yeah, but then, but then
I want to make a quick oil change comment that
you're not going to like, okay, but on that buick
sometimes if you just like slap the headlight from the outside, Yeah,
if it is a bulb going out, it'll come back.
On for a night or two.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, but if yeah, if the film it's broken or whatnot. Yeah,
if you smack it, yeah, you're right, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Go back on.
Speaker 8 (39:48):
So that could be something for him to check. And
I drive over four thousand miles a month. I delivered
for tractor supply at home depot, and I got to
a lot of farms. I got that furwel drive and
I changed my oil every fifteen thousand miles. I know
you're not gonna like hearing that I used to. Yeah,
(40:09):
I used synthetic blend. I've always used toyotas for my
jobs for the last twenty five years. I'm on my
Highlander now. I got two hundred and sixty thousand on it,
and it does consume about a half a court every
five thousand, but I just top it off. Yeah, and
I change it every three months if I change if
I did five thousand, I changed my oil every month. Yeah,
(40:31):
And there was a there was a period of time
when I used to do that with regular oil and
it would be a little dirty. But on the synthetic
I was like, wait around, I'm changing clean oil. This
is nuts. So I just gradually until I came to
the fifteen thousand mile conclusion. And that's how I've done
this vehicle, and I've got al much turner ky on it.
She still runs like new.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
But everybody's different.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
That's just my own experience.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Well yeah, no, and you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
And you know, the thing is the two things that
you made too good points, and that's that's my that's
the that's the biggest thing that I want to get
out there is nobody checks their oil. And like you said, hey, Dane,
my car does. Yeah, my car does use oil, but
I top it off. That's the that's what we need
(41:17):
to talk about. And that's again why part of the
reason why I like to stick to five thousand.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Because majority of people do not check the oil.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
So if your car is using a cord of oil,
if your car only has four quarts of oil in
it and it's using a cord every thousand miles and
you go five thousand.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Miles, and you're gonna kill it.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
A lot of manufacturers are like, well that's within tolerances. Well,
it'll be every time these cars come into me either
they don't have any oil on it.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
So that's that's you know.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
I you know, again, are the cars more sophisticated to day.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Can they go longer? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Are the oils better that that are vail out there today?
And can they last longer?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
However the problem is there's too much confusion as to
when to do it and how long you should go.
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Again, use genuine filter not goingterrupt.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
You make sure you use.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
A genuine filter for your vehicle.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (42:18):
Yeah, because my wife one time stopped at one of
the I'm not going to say it into the place,
but they put the wrong filter in.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yep, that's a problem.
Speaker 8 (42:27):
And then when I did her oil change the next time,
I'm like, well, it was a completely I'm surprised to
car even Ryan, right, I really am, Dane. I don't
know how to explain to you.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
They look like they put some kind of.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Tractor filter in there or something. There was no way
the oil could circulate.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
I love your show.
Speaker 8 (42:47):
I used to listen to your dad all the time.
You're a good man.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
All right, Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Up for a little time.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
It might be the life.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Bulb, all right, thank you? All right?
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Real quick, Mike, welcome to the croser Mike. I'm so
sorry I'm running out of time, but I'd like to
get to your question.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
That's okay, sir.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Yes, sir, okay. I have a twenty fourteen sword f
one at the bought a brand new in twenty fourteen,
and ever since i've had When I turned the heat on,
I get fumes inside their car and I've head to
them up for shop pops up with a loose underneath.
They found no trouble.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Can you help me real quick?
Speaker 5 (43:29):
I'll hang up and let you go.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Yeah, okay, that'd be great, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
All right, So what I would tell you to do,
you can call me back next Saturday. I'd like to
go a little bit more in depth. If you're smelling
fumes like that, I don't believe it's exhausts. A lot
nine out of ten times, if somebody brings a car
to me and says, hey, it's I can smell exhaustions,
it's not. It's an oil leak. You're leaking oil. It's
probably it's a fourteen f one fifty. It's probably an
(43:53):
eco boost. So either the turbos are leaking, or one
of the lines are leaking, or the valve cover gasket's leaking.
That's why smell the fumes when the heaters on. So
all right, everybody, have a great Thanksgiving. I'll be back
next Saturday to answer all of your car questions. But again, uh,
I think it just it's just it's leaking oil. But
thank you so much. Everybody, have a great weekend, Happy Thanksgiving.
(44:13):
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