January 11, 2026 • 43 mins
Dane Donovan discusses the importance of prolonging the life of your vehicle. He shares a personal story about his own experience with a Honda Odyssey in Florida, highlighting the need to stay on top of maintenance tasks like oil changes and tire rotations. Dane also talks about the rising cost of new cars and the need to make smart decisions to save money and protect your investment. He takes calls from listeners, offering advice on how to keep your car running smoothly and shares tips on how to identify potential issues before they become major problems.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
She's re'll find my form.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nice good afternoon, and welcome to the car show.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm Dane Donovan, taking your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The number to call five one, three fifty five. That
argon five one, almost forgot the number. I I've been
gone for two weeks. I was in Florida for vacation.
Uh we luckily had time last year in this year
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to go during that week, just shortly after Christmas, and
uh it was as you can imagine, uh pretty uh
pretty spectacular. If you live in the Cincinnati area, as
you know, it's raining, you haven't seen the sun in days,
so it was kind of a nice break. The summers
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down there are just too hot and we're I'm usually
too busy. Kids are usually involved in sports, so it
usually works out. The past two years, it's worked out
for us, so we were enjoying some sun. I actually
got sunburned. And you know, I do this every year,
and I don't you think I'd learned from my mistakes
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at forty one years old.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But I went down there one of the days.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We went to the beach and it was like sixty
five degrees right, so it wasn't hot, but my feet
have not seen the sun in quite some years. And
I did not put sun tandlos on the tops of
my feet, so it only took about two hours. And
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you want to talk about some pain not and I'm like, I,
I just can't even believe you, Just don't you know.
I put suntanlotion on, but not on the tops of
my feet, and they got burned pretty badly. So for
those of you listening, if you go to Florida, put
some suntandlotion on the tops of your feet.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I burned them pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So oh man, anyways, the number to call five one, three, seven,
five hundred. Listen, it is twenty twenty six, and we
need to talk about and I was thinking about this
over the break.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Listen, these cars are.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Getting more and more and more expensive and uh less reliable,
and they have become oh man, that they we need
them and we have to get them to you know,
the kids to school, to work or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We need them.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But man, they have just become in my opinion, sometimes
they've become a headache in the sense that these newer cars,
with all the technology in them, they they just continuously
have so many different issues. So I want to start
out with you know, twenty twenty six, as let's focus
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on what we can do in order to prolong the
life of our vehicles, and it can be very basic. So,
as I stated earlier, we went to Florida and uh,
my wife's family, her aunt and uncle, who are very generous.
They have a house down there. They allow us to
stay there, which we always do appreciate. And they have
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a vehicle down there. It's a it's an eight Honda Odyssey, right,
and they bought it from a family friend. And long
story short, I got down there, tire lights on, the
maintenance lights on, it's overdue for an oil change, needs
a tire rotation.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So I did the best that I could to take
care of all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was low on oil, which again, as I've stated
on this show many many times, most of your vehicles
are gonna burn oil. And uh so you know got
it after, you know, after the week that we drove it.
You know, made sure I had a full tank, make
sure I checked the oil. It was because it doesn't
get driven that much, it didn't necessarily need it time
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wise or mileage wise, but time wise it did. But
you know, it was it was too quarts low and
oil so I went and bought some oil, topped it off,
checked all the air pressure, cleaned it up, made sure
the maintenance light was reset because you know, most some
a lot of times we just don't think about resetting it.
And you know, it's so it's so simple, the things
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that we can do in order to prolong the life
of our tires, prolonged the life of our cars. I
had stated earlier in this well end of twenty twenty
five talked about even how do we prolong the life
of our wiper blades? Wiper blades anymore? Or are you know?
You used to be able to give them for three bucks, right,
and we didn't really value them. And a lot of
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times we don't even think about it until it rains
or it snows that we need them. But wiper blades nowadays,
sometimes I have to The only place I can get
wiper blades for a customer of mine is from the dealer.
And sometimes it's fifty sixty seventy dollars for two wiper blades, right,
And I understand that it's astronomical, but that's what the
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dealer charges. That's where that's the only place I can
get them. Some most cars are universal most cars, you
can go to your local parts place.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And get them, not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But some of these newer cars, and some of these
fancier cars, your Mercedes, your BMW, your Audi's land Rovers
or whatnot, you cannot get a standard way. You cannot
go into a parts you know, an AutoZone kys might
you cannot go in there and get these wiper blades.
You have to buy them from the dealer, and they're
sixty or seventy dollars. Right, So how do we what
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do we do in order to prolong the life of
the white blade? Right? And I talked about that, using
rain x on the windshield, cleaning them with an alcohol wipe, right,
making sure that we don't leave the wipers on when
it's freezing out and it's snowing, and you know, something
as simple as that, right, So, how can we prolong
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the life of our vehicles? And I've always stated and
I've always talked about and let's I'm going I want
to change how we do things around here in the
sense that I want to do more educational shows in
order to what can we do to uh I've in fact,
on my way here, young lady pulled out in front
of me and into the turn lane and U which
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and I had one car coming into the right she's
pulling into the turnlane, which is you can get ticketed
for it. Things like that, you know, how do we
how do we make sure that we we keep our
car as long as we possibly can?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Because they're expensive, and it's things smaller things that we
can do in order to make the car last longer. Now,
as I stated on the show before, I have a
newer vehicle, and uh, I don't let anybody eat or
drink in my in.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
My vehicle because I want to prolong I want to
keep the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And my son earlier we we he got a scooter
for Christmas and already popped the tire and I was
trying to fix it, and he wanted to stop at
the gas station and get a snack, and I said,
you can't eat that in my car, in my truck. So,
you know, just simple things like that. How do we
how how do we prevent and make the car last longer?
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And and and it's it's so important to make sure
that we try to keep these cars last as possibly
as long as we can. And and it's and there's
it doesn't have to be this massive, you know, overhaul
and thousands and thousands of dollars. It's the it's the
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smaller things. The things that we can do. You can
do at home, cleaning the whiper blades, making sure your
air pressure is checked in that the tires are inflated properly,
in the sense that you know when your tires are
not inflated properly, you wear them out quicker if you
don't rotate them enough. If if your vehicle's a front
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wheel drive, you know vehicle, it's it's gonna wear those
tires out a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If it's all wheel drive, great.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
If it's real whel drive like my truck, the back
tires are gonna wear out, So rotating them regularly. And
and and for those of you who are listening, you're like, well, Dan,
how often should I change my rotate my tires. It's
every other oil change. And as I've stated on this show,
every five thousand miles. I don't care what car you have.
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I don't care if you have a Corvette, a BMW
or Mercedes on to Civic of Hyundai. It doesn't matter.
All of these vehicles that are manufactured today come with
a synthetic oil change. I don't care what the salesman
told you that oil needs to be changed. I don't
care what the car tells. What I'm telling you to
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do is every five thousand miles you change that oil. Okay,
simplest to get the most longevity out of your vehicle
is by changing the oil every five thousand miles, and
then again every other oil change you just rotate the tires.
It also brings the car in. Your technician can inspect
the brakes, make sure your suspension parts are good, right,
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because if you've got a bad ball joined or tie rod,
it's gonna wear out your tires prematurely. So these are
things getting your mechanic. And again it goes back to
you know, you going to your doctor annually or going
to your dentists every six months, right, just going in
there and making sure that the vehicle is at top notch.
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And again, I'm not talking about putting thousands of dollars
and making sure that you're putting you're doing crazy you
know upgrades and you know putting hundreds and thousands of dollars. Now,
I will tell you that some your cars will need
that type of work. But if you stay on top
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of it, and you get the vehicle in regularly, simple
five thousand miles, changing the oil every other oil change,
getting the tires rotated, and just making sure that it's
inspected right, and making sure that the battery is at
top notch so you're not in a scramble mode when
it won't start.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I get you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Know, I have a tremendous customer base grade customers, and
some people do have my cell phone number and they'll
call me like, hey, I have this problem.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What should I do? And uh, you know, we all
get into it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I I mean, I've been in you know, there's been
times where my wife's car won't start right. But there's
things that we could do, and in starting twenty twenty six,
I think it's important that we talk about and have
the discussion about, hey, what can we do, you know,
and again not spending a ton of money, but just
getting getting the vehicle in regularly so that we can
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stay on top of the car repair so it does
become overwhelming, okay, and being able to save money. Things
are very expensive. Whether I don't know if you've gone
to the grocery store lately, but it's expensive. I remember
I remember when I when my wife and I got married,
going to Costco. You'd put four things in the in
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the grocery cart and it was one hundred bucks. Well,
you know, fast forward fifteen years later and now I
put four things in my and my grocery cart at
Kroger and it's a hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Right, So how can we save.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Money and prolong one of the one of the biggest
investments that we have. Now, I understand that it's a
depreciating asset. You're not necessarily going to get more money
for the vehicle. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Your home is going to be your your.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Your biggest cost, right, But your car is too, right.
Your car is vital tool. It is something that you
need to use every single day for most of us. Right,
So what are the things that we can do in
order to protect our investment in the sense that, hey,
how do we prolong simple things?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Right? And uh? And it's it's it's it's so easy. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's changing the oil regularly, it's rotating the tires, it's
making sure that our tires are properly inflated. It's making
sure that we prolong the life of the wiper blades
because again, wiper blades are just crazy busy. And then
you know for me, and this is you know, making
sure you know, we have all these cars that have
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all these great features, right your panoramic sun roof, and
you're operating back window, and you're you're operating ticket. But
you understand and know that every time that you use
that you're you're diminishing the life of that motor or
that switch or you know, that lock actuate or or whatnot.
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So you know, those are minor things. I tell my
kids all the time, like, don't push buttons. I I
know what you know. I know what it costs if
that window breaks or that panoramic sum roof breaks, or
that back tailgate on my wif's car won't open up.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I know what it costs.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So I'm like, hey, let's limit what we do in
pushing buttons, because yes, it's nice feature to have and
and some of us, right, Hey, Dan, I don't have
that option.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Just think about it, like, hey, every time I push
this button, I'm diminishing the life of that motor or
that switch or and again, ultimately it costs you money
to on the road. So just something to think about.
And I want to you know, there's just there's so
many minimal things, small things that you can do to
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prolong the life of your vehicle so you can keep
it going for one hundred two hundred three hundred thousand miles.
And We've talked about it on the show multiple times.
So I'm interested in hearing from you and taking your
car questions again. The number call five one, three, seven,
four nine, fifty five hundred. Phone lines are wide open,
but coming up, we have Bill. You're listening to the
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Taking your car questions and number to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five one hundred. That number
gen five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
As I stated earlier in the first segment, you know,
I would like to hear from you as well, like,
what are some of the things that you've done in
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the past that has prolonged the life of your vehicle? Again,
it could be something simple, but you know, there's so
many things that I do, but there there might be
things that I've never even thought about, right, So what
are some of the things that maybe you've done in
the past to prolonging the life for your vehicle? And again,
these these vehicles are far more sofie whisticated, but they
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still need oil and they still need to be taken care,
taken care of and maintained. You know, I think we
get into we've gotten into the you know my mother
in law, you know, during Christmas time, she's like, hey,
I just got a new fridge.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I said, I thought you just bought a new fridge.
She goes Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I bought it during COVID and the thing lasted five
years and it was more expensive to repair it than
it was just to replace it. And unfortunately, and I've
as I've said on this show before, that's kind of
the way they're making vehicles, right, But a fridge is
far less cheap, far cheaper than a car, right, I mean,
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your cars are you know, the US government just stated
I think it was like in November, you know, the
average car price in the United States is fifty thousand dollars.
That's the highest it's been ever, right, fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And then obviously, you know the interest rates aren't aren't
the lowest, right, So I've you know, I have a
I have a vehicle in my shop right in one
of my shops right now.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
They brought it to us.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Unfortunately, it's an Audi and it has a burnt valve
in it, and you basically, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's a probably it's probably.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Goodness twenty thirty dollars part, but you have to take
apart the entire engine in order to do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So it was it.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Was going to be around ten thousand dollars to repair
the vehicle, so that current customer, that customer says, you
know what, we don't want to fix it. We'll just
junk it right now. Long story short, they still owed
twenty thousand dollars on this vehicle. So they have a
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ten thousand dollars car repair that they're not going to
fix it. And then but they still owe twenty thousand
in order to get the car get rid of the vehicle,
they had to pay twenty thousand dollars pay the note
off in order to junk the vehicle. You know, I
don't ever want to see any of my customers or
anybody in general that listens go through that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That is that's heartbreaking to see that.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now, are there things that they could have done in
order to not get into that situation? Sure, and again
I'm here to tell you that there are things that
you can do and steps that you can take in
order to try to prolong the life of the vehicle.
And I just you know, it stinks to have somebody
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that has to go through that, you know, And so
there are things that you can do in order to
keep your car. And I've said this before so many
times on this show. If you have a vehicle an
older vehicle ten, ten years old, fifteen years old, twenty
years old. You know, you get your car in there
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and they're like, hey, it needs two thousand dollars worth
of work, and you're like, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll just get rid.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm telling you you need to keep it and you
need to fix it, because these newer cars are kind
of like that refrigerator that I referenced about. My mother
in law lasted five years and she had to go
and buy a new one. And that's how they're making cars.
So protect your investment in the sense that keep the
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vehicle that you have. There are so many things that
you can do at home that can prolong the life
of the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Right. So that's what, uh, that's what I want to
talk about today. So all right, let's go to the phones.
We have Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yeah, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Sure, as.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I talked to you before you left on vacation about
a two thousand and five Cilorado. I'm having trouble trying
to get started, and you gave me the the pointers
to get a ac doco ic.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
M oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I remember this, Yes,
I remember this conversation.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, sir, I'm picked one up and put it on
there and nothing, not no spark whatsoever. So I somebody says, well,
maybe it's the ground, so I added a different ground
strap and still nothing. This thing is really getting to me.
It's really getting the best of me.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Now, I did put a new coil on and it did,
you know, start last month and then it died. I
wondered if the coil is effective. I mean, I think
the only thing I got left to try, you know,
to try unless you have other ideas.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, uh, in correct me? What year was the vehicle?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Two thousand and five?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Okay, all right, so you're getting fuel, you're just not
getting spark, correct, and.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You correct, I can smell a fuel, yeah okay, And
I spray the starter fluid in there and nothing, so
it has to be a spark.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Right, spark issue? Yeah? Correct?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So you've you've done the ac delco. But you said
you put a new coil on it, and it did start.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I put a new coil and that I c m
from a you know, it was a reputable ko ko
I placed and you know, and it started for about
a week and then it just it just wouldn't start.
So that's when I called you, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And then yeah, I understand yeh yes, sir uh and
correct me if I'm wrong. But we had discussed maybe
the crank sensor possibly, and you put that on and
that was but that was that was aftermarker correct.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
That was the same the same brand Kalin. Yeah, and
it looked a little on the old one looked a
little worn and a little black on the on the
on the edge. I don't know what that means. It's
just worn down or something. And so I really thought
that would do it. But you okay, I'm out of ideas.
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Here's driving me crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Well, I mean, what what part of it says you're
from You're you're from Cincy, but what part of time
you live.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
In Spring Grove Village. I'm real close to you. I'm
just right up, mit, joy I even doing and so forth.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, here's I mean, I mean, we we could be
dealing with a computer issue. I mean, there's there's a
lot of things that we could be uh covering.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Here's what I want to do for you. Why don't
can you get it?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you have the option of.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Getting it to me in the sense of I'll look
at it, let me see what I can do for it.
I mean, you know, the the problem is is it
looks like you've covered all your bases. In my opinion,
you've covered all your bases unless it's some type of
you know, I mean, it could be a back computer.
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I don't know if you've or not, or cover to
see if you're getting a signal from the computer or not.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
There was an engine light on and then as I
would drive or go up the hill, it would start flashing.
So I heard. I was kind of critical. And then
you know, like a three or four days five days
later and this one that stops. I didn't even have
a chance to get to get it checked. Okay, you know,
so I did pick up another coil, and actually a
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buddy of mine has one at a shop. He said
to ground it with a little clip wire and then
plug it in before I take the other one off.
That's the only thing LEFTI I'm going to try now,
got cold weather coming in, but I just might If
that don't work, I just might bring it up to
you again.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Here's here's here's here's why I'm going to offer you
here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I want you to. I want you to call me
at my the Ridge location.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Okay, just because I call.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Me, Just call me there.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Explain to my my guys, and I will tell them
as well, Explain to them that I.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Will look at it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And again I won't I won't charge you to look
at it in the sense that let's just at least
try to figure out what we're dealing with and what
we're up against. Right because you've this is the second time,
you're kind of ready to pull your hair out. Let
me just look at it and and you know, we'll
go from there. There's been there's been the you know,
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several customers. I had a gentleman that used to call
me that was having an issue, and he lived in Maysville, Kentucky,
and he drove up and I took care of them.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So my my goal is not to you know, get
you in there and make it a aha.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Hey, you know I've looked at your car now, I mean,
all this money, No, I'm here to help, so let
me Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean that's you know that,
in my opinion, is what sets us apart.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I understand that a lot of repair shops have a
bad rap, but that's not us. I mean, we're on
third generation. I want to help people out. That's why
I come in here every Saturday to try to help
people out. So you call me at the Ridge location there,
leave me a message with your number. I call you back,
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and then I will look at it and then we'll
try to well, we'll get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'll get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's not an you know, it's not an open check
book like, hey, hey, I'm going to spend ten days
and I'm gonna spend all your money.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
That's not what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, at it, Let's not you know, my guys will
look at it, have.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
An opinion on what where we need to go.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You and I can have that discussion and then we'll
try to fix it. You know, these cars are so
sophisticated nowadays. You know sometimes I'm sometimes even my guys
don't always get it right, and uh, you know we're
we're looking for for other help.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
But yeah, calling back to two thousand and five there
and sophisticated to drive you crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Absolutely, So you call me this week at Ridge, They're
probably going to say I'm not in because usually I'm
bouncing back and forth to both shops. But you leave
me a message, they'll put it on my desk. I
will call you. We'll set up the time to to
have that thing come in and then we'll get it
looked at, and then you and I will discuss how
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we how we move forward.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Okay, awesome, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I appreciate that absolutely, Yes, sir, thanks for the call.
How it happened New Year? So all right, taking your
phone calls in the call five one, three, seven, four nine,
fifty five hundred coming up.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We have Matt.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He has an idea on how to prolong your vehicle.
And again that's that's what twenty twenty six. How do
we save some money and prolong the life of our
vehicles and protect our investment. So that's what I want
to that's how I want to start twenty twenty six out.
So you're listening to the car showing fifty five krs the.
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It's Glenn Beck weekday mornings at nine oh six on
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Taking your car questions.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five on three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. As I stated at the beginning of the
show starting twenty twenty six, I want to help you
prolong and and and get more life out of your vehicle. Okay,
It's it's so difficult for me to watch, and this
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is the God's honest truth. It's so hard for me
to watch people spend so much money on these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I had one in on Friday.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Gentlemen, Uh, brought his car into us, probably about two
months ago or a month ago. He had just bought it.
It's a Volkswagen to Egg and just bought it for
his daughter. Now it was used, it wasn't brand new,
it was used. And he said, hey, look you know
the oil lights on. We changed the oil, made sure
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it didn't have any leaks. It did not have any leaks, okay. Now,
we asked him to then come back in about a
month month and a half for us to check it.
We did put dye in the oil just to see
if it if it did leak out, where was it
leaking out at? He brought it back on Friday, and
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he's actually a neighbor of mine. Good great guy, great family,
good customer. And it only had two quarts of oil
in it supposed to hold five and only had two in.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
A month and a half.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And I mean, it's just an absolutely no leaks, none whatsoever.
The car's burning it. And you know he was It's
a hard conversation to have to call somebody and say, hey,
look that car that you just bought for your daughter
last year is burning through oil like nobody's business.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's not leaking it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's burning it, you know, and you set your your
son or your daughter out into the world and they're
they're off to college or a way to college, or
maybe starting a new career or whatnot, and they're having
to deal with you know. It's it's something that we
don't talk about enough. Everybody always talks about buying a
new car, but we don't talk enough about how do
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we get life out of it and what do we
do in the sense of keeping it going. And I'm
here to tell you that these vehicles, most of the
vehicles that are I would probably this there's no this
is just my opinion, but I bet, I bet seventy
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five percent of vehicles that are on the road today,
newer vehicles two thousand, probably two thousand and fifteen and up,
twenty fifteen and up. So you know, a ten year
old car, right, seventy five percent of them probably use
burn oil. And everybody tells you to, oh, go farther,
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go farther. You don't have to change all that. Just
change it once a year, change it every ten thousand,
Wait for the car the light come on. It's I'm
not here to tell you to come get your oil
changed every month. But you you really need to think
about it, and that's how you keep your car out
on the road. So all right, let's go to the phones.
We've got Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to the car show.
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How can I help?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Yeah, I just wanted to tell you about our situation
with our cars. Our newest car is a two thousand
and four. Okay, our oldest one to ninety seven. We
got a couple couple in another and I do. I've
been able to do all the work on the cars.
My wife helps me out. She goes on the internet,
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looks on the youtubes and stuff like that, gets the
videos of the situation that I need to work on,
and then I'll go and look at it, show order
the parts, and then I'll put them on. And uh,
it's been working out. I've been retired for like four years.
It's been I've we haven't had to take the cars
to any shop in four years because I've been able
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to do it. You know, I do. Like I just
did the struts on the back of one of my cars,
and uh, I got that done. I've done breaks, disc breaks,
I've done uh uh drum breaks. Uh. I had a
line a brake line blow. So I thought well, I'll
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take that to the guy down the road there, and
I called him up and I told him more of this,
and he didn't want to do it. I know it
was because he had so much other work and you
know that can be kind of tricky. So I went
and went out and got some lines and got my
toop bender, and uh, I did it. And it's and
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ever since and they haven't had any break issues. So
you can do it. You know, it can be done.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
People can do it.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
And I've been working in the industrial maintenance, so I've
had that background that really helps out a lot. But yeah,
and it's good. I was going to ask you something
about the oil changes.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Now.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
We got we got four cars and it's just me
and my wife, so we rotate them around. We'll use
this car a little bit, we'll use that cart a
little bit, you know, rotate around. So we have one
that we drive more than others. That one will get
like three thousand miles a year, so that one I
change the oil once a year. I'll change that oil. Now,
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the other cars only get about a thousand miles, and
I was doing them once a year, but then I thought, well,
maybe I'll push it off to every year and a
half thousands that they'll go maybe twelve hundred miles in
a year and a half, and then I change the oil.
Is that Do you think that's okay?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, no, I now that that would be fine as
long as you're maintaining year and a half would be fine. Uh,
you know, I wouldn't go more than that. I typically,
even if you don't drive a vehicle, I would like.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
To see it changed once a year. But year and
a half is.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Not gonna be like detrimental, and you're like you're gonna
have to you know, you know, you'll be fine, It'll
be fine. So uh, like I said, if you're not
hitting that three thousand a mile mark uh in a year,
i'd like to see it changed once a year.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
But that's okay. You know. My more or less is
it's just it's the people that.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Are daily driving it, that are driving you know, two, three, four,
five thousand miles in uh, you know, in five months
or three months and not changing it or not checking it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So but no, that would be fine.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So let me ask you your vehicles you're O four
uh in your ninety seve what types of vehicles are
they okay.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
The O four is a Hyundai Sonata okay, And the
ninety seven is a Grand Marquee.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Man, that was Those Grand Marquees were probably, in my opinion,
probably one of the best, the best vehicles that was
ever built. Those things you could I've never ever seen
anybody kill one of those things. That that engine was
the best, in my opinion, this is my opinion, but
best engine Ford ever built.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
That ninety seven. It'll you can you hit the gas
and that thing goes yeah, it's it's good. I mean, well,
that's actually the best car because it's been in the
garage more than the rest of them. That's actually the
best looking car. There's not a spot rust on the
outside of that coin.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I mean, that's I'd like to go back in those days.
I wish I would have. I wish I could go
back in history and drab up every one of those things,
because man, those things the ride is so comfortable there
they Oh man, they just last forever and so well. Well, listen,
I appreciate the phone call, and you have continued to listen,
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and you have a Grade twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Yeah you too, Thank you, Matte.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Uh huh. Take care bye bye.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I wish I could go back in history and try
to snatch up some of those cars. Now I do have.
You know, I have an older truck. It's a two
thousand and seven, which is that's a sore subject. But
I you know, I have my second vehicle. I'm forty
one years old. I still have. I still own the
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second vehicle I ever purchased in my life. So the
first one I had was a ninety one camera. Wish
I would have had it, but again I was I
was eighteen years old, and I sold it because I
needed the money to buy the new car, which I
still currently owned today. It's two thousand Honda Civic. Uh,
sitting in my garage right now. My wife would love
for me to get it out of the garage.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Uh, it'd sell it. But you know that's when they
really built things to last.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
And that thing, I guarantee you when I leave here,
I can go in the garage and fire that thing up.
It'll start up. It starts up every single time. And
uh so you know, just like Matt stated, his oldest,
his newest cars are No. Four, the oldest ones in
ninety seven, those Grand Marquis and those the Crown Vix
and the Marquees man they were uh or Lincoln town Car.
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It was all pretty much the same build. But man,
those things lasted forever. I mean that typically that was
your your your cab car, if you ever got into
a cab, it would be your your town car, your
Marquis great vehicle. So that's that's how you like, he stated,
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break lines blue. A lot of repair shops will not
do break lines. It's kind of tedious, long work. We
do it, but we do not. We when we do
it at Donovan's, we replace them all right. You have
four break lines. If one blue, the rest of them
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are ready to blow right. So we're not going to
do just one and send you out on the road.
It's a safety concern. So unfortunately, if you bring your
car to Donovans with a blown brake line, we're going
to replace all of them. And I understand that people
might not have that type of money. Say hey, Dane,
I can't do that. I understand that, perfectly understand that,
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but I can't put our name behind something. I can't
put one break line on the car knowing that the
other three are just as brittle and brail and brittle
is the rest of them and send your your wife,
or you or your child down the road because the
other ones can blow. I just had a vehicle not
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too long ago and I got to take a break.
But I just had one the other day not too
long ago. We put one on it and just pulling
it out of the garage, it blew another line, just
pulling it out, not driving it, just pulling it out
because the technician needed the bay to do some other
work on other cars. Just pulling it out, he blew
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another one. Right, I can't you know, that's a safety concern.
You need breaks, right, So what I would tell you
and what i'd recommend if you do have break line issues,
you replace them all. We're always going to reckon all.
Recommend them all. If you can't do that, I understand that.
But I can't put my name behind it and send you,
you or your loved ones out on the road with
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a potential break line issue. It's too much of a
safety concern. So just think about that. If you do
have a blown break line issue, I recommend, and I
would tell you whether you bring it to me or
any other shop, you.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Need to replace them all.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
It's important and you want to make sure that you
protect the safety of your you, your loved ones, and
others as well.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So it's important.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
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See I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and
uh again. If you're in the Try State Cincinnati Tri State,
Ohio area, right, you can look us up at donovantire
dot com find your nearest location, and we always promise
to do our very very best and make sure that
we take care of you.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And again, you know the honest choice.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
You know, we always always try to give you the
best guidance you know that we can. Right, But everybody's
situation is different. Some people financially might have the opportunity
to just go buy a new car. Some people don't
have that opportunity. Some people can fix a new car,
some people have to fix an old car. Right, so
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we we always always try to accommodate the best that
we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
But just know that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Sometimes again, as I stated at the last segment, we
always have to do what's right and safest for you,
your family, and the customer. Right, right, we can't send
you out the door and trying to you know, put
compression fittings on a break line. That's a no, no,
I'm not you can do it, but we're not gonna
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do it. We're gonna do what's right. We're gonna do
what's best for the customer, for you and your family. Right.
So again, just because your car does need a break
line or whatnot, it does not mean that you need
to get rid of it. It just means that you're
gonna have to invest some money into it. I understand
that it might not be ideal at that moment, but
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look at the alternative. Go out and buy a fifty
thousand dollars car or spend two thousand and put brake
lines on.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Your old car. I put the brake lines and fix
the whole car. I really would I have.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Like I said, I still own my vehicle that I
bought when I was eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We're gonna focus on in twenty twenty six how we
can prolong the life of our vehicle and save money.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Okay, and uh, I'm going to try to do that
every single week. So I listen.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I really do appreciate all the phone calls. Everybody have
a great weekend. I will be back next Saturday to
answer all of your phone calls. Thank you so much
for listening. I hope everybody has a great day. You're
listening to the Car Show on fifty five krc D
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She's re'll find my form.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nice good afternoon, and welcome to the car show.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm Dane Donovan, taking your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The number to call five one, three fifty five. That
argon five one, almost forgot the number. I I've been
gone for two weeks. I was in Florida for vacation.
Uh we luckily had time last year in this year
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to go during that week, just shortly after Christmas, and
uh it was as you can imagine, uh pretty uh
pretty spectacular. If you live in the Cincinnati area, as
you know, it's raining, you haven't seen the sun in days,
so it was kind of a nice break. The summers
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down there are just too hot and we're I'm usually
too busy. Kids are usually involved in sports, so it
usually works out. The past two years, it's worked out
for us, so we were enjoying some sun. I actually
got sunburned. And you know, I do this every year,
and I don't you think I'd learned from my mistakes
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at forty one years old.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But I went down there one of the days.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We went to the beach and it was like sixty
five degrees right, so it wasn't hot, but my feet
have not seen the sun in quite some years. And
I did not put sun tandlos on the tops of
my feet, so it only took about two hours. And
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you want to talk about some pain not and I'm like, I,
I just can't even believe you, Just don't you know.
I put suntanlotion on, but not on the tops of
my feet, and they got burned pretty badly. So for
those of you listening, if you go to Florida, put
some suntandlotion on the tops of your feet.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I burned them pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So oh man, anyways, the number to call five one, three, seven,
five hundred. Listen, it is twenty twenty six, and we
need to talk about and I was thinking about this
over the break.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Listen, these cars are.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Getting more and more and more expensive and uh less reliable,
and they have become oh man, that they we need
them and we have to get them to you know,
the kids to school, to work or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
We need them.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But man, they have just become in my opinion, sometimes
they've become a headache in the sense that these newer cars,
with all the technology in them, they they just continuously
have so many different issues. So I want to start
out with you know, twenty twenty six, as let's focus
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on what we can do in order to prolong the
life of our vehicles, and it can be very basic. So,
as I stated earlier, we went to Florida and uh,
my wife's family, her aunt and uncle, who are very generous.
They have a house down there. They allow us to
stay there, which we always do appreciate. And they have
(03:38):
a vehicle down there. It's a it's an eight Honda Odyssey, right,
and they bought it from a family friend. And long
story short, I got down there, tire lights on, the
maintenance lights on, it's overdue for an oil change, needs
a tire rotation.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So I did the best that I could to take
care of all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was low on oil, which again, as I've stated
on this show many many times, most of your vehicles
are gonna burn oil. And uh so you know got
it after, you know, after the week that we drove it.
You know, made sure I had a full tank, make
sure I checked the oil. It was because it doesn't
get driven that much, it didn't necessarily need it time
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wise or mileage wise, but time wise it did. But
you know, it was it was too quarts low and
oil so I went and bought some oil, topped it off,
checked all the air pressure, cleaned it up, made sure
the maintenance light was reset because you know, most some
a lot of times we just don't think about resetting it.
And you know, it's so it's so simple, the things
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that we can do in order to prolong the life
of our tires, prolonged the life of our cars. I
had stated earlier in this well end of twenty twenty
five talked about even how do we prolong the life
of our wiper blades? Wiper blades anymore? Or are you know?
You used to be able to give them for three bucks, right,
and we didn't really value them. And a lot of
(05:07):
times we don't even think about it until it rains
or it snows that we need them. But wiper blades nowadays,
sometimes I have to The only place I can get
wiper blades for a customer of mine is from the dealer.
And sometimes it's fifty sixty seventy dollars for two wiper blades, right,
And I understand that it's astronomical, but that's what the
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dealer charges. That's where that's the only place I can
get them. Some most cars are universal most cars, you
can go to your local parts place.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And get them, not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
But some of these newer cars, and some of these
fancier cars, your Mercedes, your BMW, your Audi's land Rovers
or whatnot, you cannot get a standard way. You cannot
go into a parts you know, an AutoZone kys might
you cannot go in there and get these wiper blades.
You have to buy them from the dealer, and they're
sixty or seventy dollars. Right, So how do we what
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do we do in order to prolong the life of
the white blade? Right? And I talked about that, using
rain x on the windshield, cleaning them with an alcohol wipe, right,
making sure that we don't leave the wipers on when
it's freezing out and it's snowing, and you know, something
as simple as that, right, So, how can we prolong
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the life of our vehicles? And I've always stated and
I've always talked about and let's I'm going I want
to change how we do things around here in the
sense that I want to do more educational shows in
order to what can we do to uh I've in fact,
on my way here, young lady pulled out in front
of me and into the turn lane and U which
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and I had one car coming into the right she's
pulling into the turnlane, which is you can get ticketed
for it. Things like that, you know, how do we
how do we make sure that we we keep our
car as long as we possibly can?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Because they're expensive, and it's things smaller things that we
can do in order to make the car last longer. Now,
as I stated on the show before, I have a
newer vehicle, and uh, I don't let anybody eat or
drink in my in.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
My vehicle because I want to prolong I want to
keep the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And my son earlier we we he got a scooter
for Christmas and already popped the tire and I was
trying to fix it, and he wanted to stop at
the gas station and get a snack, and I said,
you can't eat that in my car, in my truck. So,
you know, just simple things like that. How do we
how how do we prevent and make the car last longer?
(07:44):
And and and it's it's so important to make sure
that we try to keep these cars last as possibly
as long as we can. And and it's and there's
it doesn't have to be this massive, you know, overhaul
and thousands and thousands of dollars. It's the it's the
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smaller things. The things that we can do. You can
do at home, cleaning the whiper blades, making sure your
air pressure is checked in that the tires are inflated properly,
in the sense that you know when your tires are
not inflated properly, you wear them out quicker if you
don't rotate them enough. If if your vehicle's a front
(08:26):
wheel drive, you know vehicle, it's it's gonna wear those
tires out a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If it's all wheel drive, great.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
If it's real whel drive like my truck, the back
tires are gonna wear out, So rotating them regularly. And
and and for those of you who are listening, you're like, well, Dan,
how often should I change my rotate my tires. It's
every other oil change. And as I've stated on this show,
every five thousand miles. I don't care what car you have.
(08:55):
I don't care if you have a Corvette, a BMW
or Mercedes on to Civic of Hyundai. It doesn't matter.
All of these vehicles that are manufactured today come with
a synthetic oil change. I don't care what the salesman
told you that oil needs to be changed. I don't
care what the car tells. What I'm telling you to
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do is every five thousand miles you change that oil. Okay,
simplest to get the most longevity out of your vehicle
is by changing the oil every five thousand miles, and
then again every other oil change you just rotate the tires.
It also brings the car in. Your technician can inspect
the brakes, make sure your suspension parts are good, right,
(09:39):
because if you've got a bad ball joined or tie rod,
it's gonna wear out your tires prematurely. So these are
things getting your mechanic. And again it goes back to
you know, you going to your doctor annually or going
to your dentists every six months, right, just going in
there and making sure that the vehicle is at top notch.
(10:03):
And again, I'm not talking about putting thousands of dollars
and making sure that you're putting you're doing crazy you
know upgrades and you know putting hundreds and thousands of dollars. Now,
I will tell you that some your cars will need
that type of work. But if you stay on top
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of it, and you get the vehicle in regularly, simple
five thousand miles, changing the oil every other oil change,
getting the tires rotated, and just making sure that it's
inspected right, and making sure that the battery is at
top notch so you're not in a scramble mode when
it won't start.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I get you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Know, I have a tremendous customer base grade customers, and
some people do have my cell phone number and they'll
call me like, hey, I have this problem.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
What should I do? And uh, you know, we all
get into it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I I mean, I've been in you know, there's been
times where my wife's car won't start right. But there's
things that we could do, and in starting twenty twenty six,
I think it's important that we talk about and have
the discussion about, hey, what can we do, you know,
and again not spending a ton of money, but just
getting getting the vehicle in regularly so that we can
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stay on top of the car repair so it does
become overwhelming, okay, and being able to save money. Things
are very expensive. Whether I don't know if you've gone
to the grocery store lately, but it's expensive. I remember
I remember when I when my wife and I got married,
going to Costco. You'd put four things in the in
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the grocery cart and it was one hundred bucks. Well,
you know, fast forward fifteen years later and now I
put four things in my and my grocery cart at
Kroger and it's a hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Right, So how can we save.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Money and prolong one of the one of the biggest
investments that we have. Now, I understand that it's a
depreciating asset. You're not necessarily going to get more money
for the vehicle. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Your home is going to be your your.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Your biggest cost, right, But your car is too, right.
Your car is vital tool. It is something that you
need to use every single day for most of us. Right,
So what are the things that we can do in
order to protect our investment in the sense that, hey,
how do we prolong simple things?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Right? And uh? And it's it's it's it's so easy. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's changing the oil regularly, it's rotating the tires, it's
making sure that our tires are properly inflated. It's making
sure that we prolong the life of the wiper blades
because again, wiper blades are just crazy busy. And then
you know for me, and this is you know, making
sure you know, we have all these cars that have
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all these great features, right your panoramic sun roof, and
you're operating back window, and you're you're operating ticket. But
you understand and know that every time that you use
that you're you're diminishing the life of that motor or
that switch or you know, that lock actuate or or whatnot.
(13:20):
So you know, those are minor things. I tell my
kids all the time, like, don't push buttons. I I
know what you know. I know what it costs if
that window breaks or that panoramic sum roof breaks, or
that back tailgate on my wif's car won't open up.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I know what it costs.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So I'm like, hey, let's limit what we do in
pushing buttons, because yes, it's nice feature to have and
and some of us, right, Hey, Dan, I don't have
that option.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Just think about it, like, hey, every time I push
this button, I'm diminishing the life of that motor or
that switch or and again, ultimately it costs you money
to on the road. So just something to think about.
And I want to you know, there's just there's so
many minimal things, small things that you can do to
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prolong the life of your vehicle so you can keep
it going for one hundred two hundred three hundred thousand miles.
And We've talked about it on the show multiple times.
So I'm interested in hearing from you and taking your
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Taking your car questions and number to call five one
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gen five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
As I stated earlier in the first segment, you know,
I would like to hear from you as well, like,
what are some of the things that you've done in
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the past that has prolonged the life of your vehicle? Again,
it could be something simple, but you know, there's so
many things that I do, but there there might be
things that I've never even thought about, right, So what
are some of the things that maybe you've done in
the past to prolonging the life for your vehicle? And again,
these these vehicles are far more sofie whisticated, but they
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still need oil and they still need to be taken care,
taken care of and maintained. You know, I think we
get into we've gotten into the you know my mother
in law, you know, during Christmas time, she's like, hey,
I just got a new fridge.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I said, I thought you just bought a new fridge.
She goes Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I bought it during COVID and the thing lasted five
years and it was more expensive to repair it than
it was just to replace it. And unfortunately, and I've
as I've said on this show before, that's kind of
the way they're making vehicles, right, But a fridge is
far less cheap, far cheaper than a car, right, I mean,
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your cars are you know, the US government just stated
I think it was like in November, you know, the
average car price in the United States is fifty thousand dollars.
That's the highest it's been ever, right, fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And then obviously, you know the interest rates aren't aren't
the lowest, right, So I've you know, I have a
I have a vehicle in my shop right in one
of my shops right now.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
They brought it to us.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Unfortunately, it's an Audi and it has a burnt valve
in it, and you basically, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's a probably it's probably.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Goodness twenty thirty dollars part, but you have to take
apart the entire engine in order to do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So it was it.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Was going to be around ten thousand dollars to repair
the vehicle, so that current customer, that customer says, you
know what, we don't want to fix it. We'll just
junk it right now. Long story short, they still owed
twenty thousand dollars on this vehicle. So they have a
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ten thousand dollars car repair that they're not going to
fix it. And then but they still owe twenty thousand
in order to get the car get rid of the vehicle,
they had to pay twenty thousand dollars pay the note
off in order to junk the vehicle. You know, I
don't ever want to see any of my customers or
anybody in general that listens go through that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That is that's heartbreaking to see that.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now, are there things that they could have done in
order to not get into that situation? Sure, and again
I'm here to tell you that there are things that
you can do and steps that you can take in
order to try to prolong the life of the vehicle.
And I just you know, it stinks to have somebody
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that has to go through that, you know, And so
there are things that you can do in order to
keep your car. And I've said this before so many
times on this show. If you have a vehicle an
older vehicle ten, ten years old, fifteen years old, twenty
years old. You know, you get your car in there
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and they're like, hey, it needs two thousand dollars worth
of work, and you're like, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll just get rid.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm telling you you need to keep it and you
need to fix it, because these newer cars are kind
of like that refrigerator that I referenced about. My mother
in law lasted five years and she had to go
and buy a new one. And that's how they're making cars.
So protect your investment in the sense that keep the
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vehicle that you have. There are so many things that
you can do at home that can prolong the life
of the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Right. So that's what, uh, that's what I want to
talk about today. So all right, let's go to the phones.
We have Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Yeah, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Sure, as.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I talked to you before you left on vacation about
a two thousand and five Cilorado. I'm having trouble trying
to get started, and you gave me the the pointers
to get a ac doco ic.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
M oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I remember this, Yes,
I remember this conversation.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, sir, I'm picked one up and put it on
there and nothing, not no spark whatsoever. So I somebody says, well,
maybe it's the ground, so I added a different ground
strap and still nothing. This thing is really getting to me.
It's really getting the best of me.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Now, I did put a new coil on and it did,
you know, start last month and then it died. I
wondered if the coil is effective. I mean, I think
the only thing I got left to try, you know,
to try unless you have other ideas.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, uh, in correct me? What year was the vehicle?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Two thousand and five?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Two thousand and five?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Okay, all right, so you're getting fuel, you're just not
getting spark, correct, and.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You correct, I can smell a fuel, yeah okay, And
I spray the starter fluid in there and nothing, so
it has to be a spark.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Right, spark issue? Yeah? Correct?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So you've you've done the ac delco. But you said
you put a new coil on it, and it did start.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
I put a new coil and that I c m
from a you know, it was a reputable ko ko
I placed and you know, and it started for about
a week and then it just it just wouldn't start.
So that's when I called you, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And then yeah, I understand yeh yes, sir uh and
correct me if I'm wrong. But we had discussed maybe
the crank sensor possibly, and you put that on and
that was but that was that was aftermarker correct.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
That was the same the same brand Kalin. Yeah, and
it looked a little on the old one looked a
little worn and a little black on the on the
on the edge. I don't know what that means. It's
just worn down or something. And so I really thought
that would do it. But you okay, I'm out of ideas.
(22:22):
Here's driving me crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Well, I mean, what what part of it says you're
from You're you're from Cincy, but what part of time
you live.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
In Spring Grove Village. I'm real close to you. I'm
just right up, mit, joy I even doing and so forth.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, here's I mean, I mean, we we could be
dealing with a computer issue. I mean, there's there's a
lot of things that we could be uh covering.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Here's what I want to do for you. Why don't
can you get it?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you have the option of.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Getting it to me in the sense of I'll look
at it, let me see what I can do for it.
I mean, you know, the the problem is is it
looks like you've covered all your bases. In my opinion,
you've covered all your bases unless it's some type of
you know, I mean, it could be a back computer.
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I don't know if you've or not, or cover to
see if you're getting a signal from the computer or not.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
There was an engine light on and then as I
would drive or go up the hill, it would start flashing.
So I heard. I was kind of critical. And then
you know, like a three or four days five days
later and this one that stops. I didn't even have
a chance to get to get it checked. Okay, you know,
so I did pick up another coil, and actually a
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buddy of mine has one at a shop. He said
to ground it with a little clip wire and then
plug it in before I take the other one off.
That's the only thing LEFTI I'm going to try now,
got cold weather coming in, but I just might If
that don't work, I just might bring it up to
you again.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Here's here's here's here's why I'm going to offer you
here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I want you to. I want you to call me
at my the Ridge location.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Okay, just because I call.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Me, Just call me there.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Explain to my my guys, and I will tell them
as well, Explain to them that I.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Will look at it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And again I won't I won't charge you to look
at it in the sense that let's just at least
try to figure out what we're dealing with and what
we're up against. Right because you've this is the second time,
you're kind of ready to pull your hair out. Let
me just look at it and and you know, we'll
go from there. There's been there's been the you know,
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several customers. I had a gentleman that used to call
me that was having an issue, and he lived in Maysville, Kentucky,
and he drove up and I took care of them.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So my my goal is not to you know, get
you in there and make it a aha.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Hey, you know I've looked at your car now, I mean,
all this money, No, I'm here to help, so let
me Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean that's you know that,
in my opinion, is what sets us apart.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I understand that a lot of repair shops have a
bad rap, but that's not us. I mean, we're on
third generation. I want to help people out. That's why
I come in here every Saturday to try to help
people out. So you call me at the Ridge location there,
leave me a message with your number. I call you back,
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and then I will look at it and then we'll
try to well, we'll get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'll get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's not an you know, it's not an open check
book like, hey, hey, I'm going to spend ten days
and I'm gonna spend all your money.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
That's not what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, at it, Let's not you know, my guys will
look at it, have.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
An opinion on what where we need to go.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You and I can have that discussion and then we'll
try to fix it. You know, these cars are so
sophisticated nowadays. You know sometimes I'm sometimes even my guys
don't always get it right, and uh, you know we're
we're looking for for other help.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
But yeah, calling back to two thousand and five there
and sophisticated to drive you crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Absolutely, So you call me this week at Ridge, They're
probably going to say I'm not in because usually I'm
bouncing back and forth to both shops. But you leave
me a message, they'll put it on my desk. I
will call you. We'll set up the time to to
have that thing come in and then we'll get it
looked at, and then you and I will discuss how
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we how we move forward.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Okay, awesome, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I appreciate that absolutely, Yes, sir, thanks for the call.
How it happened New Year? So all right, taking your
phone calls in the call five one, three, seven, four nine,
fifty five hundred coming up.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We have Matt.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
He has an idea on how to prolong your vehicle.
And again that's that's what twenty twenty six. How do
we save some money and prolong the life of our
vehicles and protect our investment. So that's what I want
to that's how I want to start twenty twenty six out.
So you're listening to the car showing fifty five krs the.
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Speaker 1 (28:13):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
The number to call five one three seven fifty five hundred.
That number again, five on three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. As I stated at the beginning of the
show starting twenty twenty six, I want to help you
prolong and and and get more life out of your vehicle. Okay,
It's it's so difficult for me to watch, and this
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is the God's honest truth. It's so hard for me
to watch people spend so much money on these vehicles.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I had one in on Friday.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Gentlemen, Uh, brought his car into us, probably about two
months ago or a month ago. He had just bought it.
It's a Volkswagen to Egg and just bought it for
his daughter. Now it was used, it wasn't brand new,
it was used. And he said, hey, look you know
the oil lights on. We changed the oil, made sure
(29:06):
it didn't have any leaks. It did not have any leaks, okay. Now,
we asked him to then come back in about a
month month and a half for us to check it.
We did put dye in the oil just to see
if it if it did leak out, where was it
leaking out at? He brought it back on Friday, and
(29:26):
he's actually a neighbor of mine. Good great guy, great family,
good customer. And it only had two quarts of oil
in it supposed to hold five and only had two in.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
A month and a half.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And I mean, it's just an absolutely no leaks, none whatsoever.
The car's burning it. And you know he was It's
a hard conversation to have to call somebody and say, hey,
look that car that you just bought for your daughter
last year is burning through oil like nobody's business.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's not leaking it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's burning it, you know, and you set your your
son or your daughter out into the world and they're
they're off to college or a way to college, or
maybe starting a new career or whatnot, and they're having
to deal with you know. It's it's something that we
don't talk about enough. Everybody always talks about buying a
new car, but we don't talk enough about how do
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we get life out of it and what do we
do in the sense of keeping it going. And I'm
here to tell you that these vehicles, most of the
vehicles that are I would probably this there's no this
is just my opinion, but I bet, I bet seventy
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five percent of vehicles that are on the road today,
newer vehicles two thousand, probably two thousand and fifteen and up,
twenty fifteen and up. So you know, a ten year
old car, right, seventy five percent of them probably use
burn oil. And everybody tells you to, oh, go farther,
(31:10):
go farther. You don't have to change all that. Just
change it once a year, change it every ten thousand,
Wait for the car the light come on. It's I'm
not here to tell you to come get your oil
changed every month. But you you really need to think
about it, and that's how you keep your car out
on the road. So all right, let's go to the phones.
We've got Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to the car show.
(31:33):
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Yeah, I just wanted to tell you about our situation
with our cars. Our newest car is a two thousand
and four. Okay, our oldest one to ninety seven. We
got a couple couple in another and I do. I've
been able to do all the work on the cars.
My wife helps me out. She goes on the internet,
(31:55):
looks on the youtubes and stuff like that, gets the
videos of the situation that I need to work on,
and then I'll go and look at it, show order
the parts, and then I'll put them on. And uh,
it's been working out. I've been retired for like four years.
It's been I've we haven't had to take the cars
to any shop in four years because I've been able
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to do it. You know, I do. Like I just
did the struts on the back of one of my cars,
and uh, I got that done. I've done breaks, disc breaks,
I've done uh uh drum breaks. Uh. I had a
line a brake line blow. So I thought well, I'll
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take that to the guy down the road there, and
I called him up and I told him more of this,
and he didn't want to do it. I know it
was because he had so much other work and you
know that can be kind of tricky. So I went
and went out and got some lines and got my
toop bender, and uh, I did it. And it's and
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ever since and they haven't had any break issues. So
you can do it. You know, it can be done.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
People can do it.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
And I've been working in the industrial maintenance, so I've
had that background that really helps out a lot. But yeah,
and it's good. I was going to ask you something
about the oil changes.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Now.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
We got we got four cars and it's just me
and my wife, so we rotate them around. We'll use
this car a little bit, we'll use that cart a
little bit, you know, rotate around. So we have one
that we drive more than others. That one will get
like three thousand miles a year, so that one I
change the oil once a year. I'll change that oil. Now,
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the other cars only get about a thousand miles, and
I was doing them once a year, but then I thought, well,
maybe I'll push it off to every year and a
half thousands that they'll go maybe twelve hundred miles in
a year and a half, and then I change the oil.
Is that Do you think that's okay?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, no, I now that that would be fine as
long as you're maintaining year and a half would be fine. Uh,
you know, I wouldn't go more than that. I typically,
even if you don't drive a vehicle, I would like.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
To see it changed once a year. But year and
a half is.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Not gonna be like detrimental, and you're like you're gonna
have to you know, you know, you'll be fine, It'll
be fine. So uh, like I said, if you're not
hitting that three thousand a mile mark uh in a year,
i'd like to see it changed once a year.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
But that's okay. You know. My more or less is
it's just it's the people that.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Are daily driving it, that are driving you know, two, three, four,
five thousand miles in uh, you know, in five months
or three months and not changing it or not checking it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So but no, that would be fine.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
So let me ask you your vehicles you're O four
uh in your ninety seve what types of vehicles are
they okay.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
The O four is a Hyundai Sonata okay, And the
ninety seven is a Grand Marquee.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Man, that was Those Grand Marquees were probably, in my opinion,
probably one of the best, the best vehicles that was
ever built. Those things you could I've never ever seen
anybody kill one of those things. That that engine was
the best, in my opinion, this is my opinion, but
best engine Ford ever built.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
That ninety seven. It'll you can you hit the gas
and that thing goes yeah, it's it's good. I mean, well,
that's actually the best car because it's been in the
garage more than the rest of them. That's actually the
best looking car. There's not a spot rust on the
outside of that coin.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I mean, that's I'd like to go back in those days.
I wish I would have. I wish I could go
back in history and drab up every one of those things,
because man, those things the ride is so comfortable there
they Oh man, they just last forever and so well. Well, listen,
I appreciate the phone call, and you have continued to listen,
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and you have a Grade twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Yeah you too, Thank you, Matte.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Uh huh. Take care bye bye.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I wish I could go back in history and try
to snatch up some of those cars. Now I do have.
You know, I have an older truck. It's a two
thousand and seven, which is that's a sore subject. But
I you know, I have my second vehicle. I'm forty
one years old. I still have. I still own the
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second vehicle I ever purchased in my life. So the
first one I had was a ninety one camera. Wish
I would have had it, but again I was I
was eighteen years old, and I sold it because I
needed the money to buy the new car, which I
still currently owned today. It's two thousand Honda Civic. Uh,
sitting in my garage right now. My wife would love
for me to get it out of the garage.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Uh, it'd sell it. But you know that's when they
really built things to last.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
And that thing, I guarantee you when I leave here,
I can go in the garage and fire that thing up.
It'll start up. It starts up every single time. And
uh so you know, just like Matt stated, his oldest,
his newest cars are No. Four, the oldest ones in
ninety seven, those Grand Marquis and those the Crown Vix
and the Marquees man they were uh or Lincoln town Car.
(37:36):
It was all pretty much the same build. But man,
those things lasted forever. I mean that typically that was
your your your cab car, if you ever got into
a cab, it would be your your town car, your
Marquis great vehicle. So that's that's how you like, he stated,
(37:59):
break lines blue. A lot of repair shops will not
do break lines. It's kind of tedious, long work. We
do it, but we do not. We when we do
it at Donovan's, we replace them all right. You have
four break lines. If one blue, the rest of them
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are ready to blow right. So we're not going to
do just one and send you out on the road.
It's a safety concern. So unfortunately, if you bring your
car to Donovans with a blown brake line, we're going
to replace all of them. And I understand that people
might not have that type of money. Say hey, Dane,
I can't do that. I understand that, perfectly understand that,
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but I can't put our name behind something. I can't
put one break line on the car knowing that the
other three are just as brittle and brail and brittle
is the rest of them and send your your wife,
or you or your child down the road because the
other ones can blow. I just had a vehicle not
(39:03):
too long ago and I got to take a break.
But I just had one the other day not too
long ago. We put one on it and just pulling
it out of the garage, it blew another line, just
pulling it out, not driving it, just pulling it out
because the technician needed the bay to do some other
work on other cars. Just pulling it out, he blew
(39:24):
another one. Right, I can't you know, that's a safety concern.
You need breaks, right, So what I would tell you
and what i'd recommend if you do have break line issues,
you replace them all. We're always going to reckon all.
Recommend them all. If you can't do that, I understand that.
But I can't put my name behind it and send you,
you or your loved ones out on the road with
(39:45):
a potential break line issue. It's too much of a
safety concern. So just think about that. If you do
have a blown break line issue, I recommend, and I
would tell you whether you bring it to me or
any other shop, you.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Need to replace them all.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
It's important and you want to make sure that you
protect the safety of your you, your loved ones, and
others as well.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So it's important.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
So all right, taking your phone calls and recall five
one three, seven four nine, fifty five one hundred.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You're listening to the car show on fifty five KRS
the talk station.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Do you have a truck, camper, r V or trailer
that needs body repair? If so called Frank's Heavy Truck
Collision Repair located just All five seventy five or Route
sixty three.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It's convenient to both Cincinnati and Date.
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Franks knows the most important things are quality work and
customer satisfaction. Frank's Heavy Truck Collision Repair prides themselves in
doing the job right and get into your vehicle back
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Speaker 3 (40:44):
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Speaker 1 (40:51):
You're listening to the car show on fifty five KR.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
See I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and
uh again. If you're in the Try State Cincinnati Tri State,
Ohio area, right, you can look us up at donovantire
dot com find your nearest location, and we always promise
to do our very very best and make sure that
we take care of you.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And again, you know the honest choice.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
You know, we always always try to give you the
best guidance you know that we can. Right, But everybody's
situation is different. Some people financially might have the opportunity
to just go buy a new car. Some people don't
have that opportunity. Some people can fix a new car,
some people have to fix an old car. Right, so
(41:41):
we we always always try to accommodate the best that
we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
But just know that.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Sometimes again, as I stated at the last segment, we
always have to do what's right and safest for you,
your family, and the customer. Right, right, we can't send
you out the door and trying to you know, put
compression fittings on a break line. That's a no, no,
I'm not you can do it, but we're not gonna
(42:11):
do it. We're gonna do what's right. We're gonna do
what's best for the customer, for you and your family. Right.
So again, just because your car does need a break
line or whatnot, it does not mean that you need
to get rid of it. It just means that you're
gonna have to invest some money into it. I understand
that it might not be ideal at that moment, but
(42:34):
look at the alternative. Go out and buy a fifty
thousand dollars car or spend two thousand and put brake
lines on.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Your old car. I put the brake lines and fix
the whole car. I really would I have.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Like I said, I still own my vehicle that I
bought when I was eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We're gonna focus on in twenty twenty six how we
can prolong the life of our vehicle and save money.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Okay, and uh, I'm going to try to do that
every single week. So I listen.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I really do appreciate all the phone calls. Everybody have
a great weekend. I will be back next Saturday to
answer all of your phone calls. Thank you so much
for listening. I hope everybody has a great day. You're
listening to the Car Show on fifty five krc D
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