February 15, 2026 • 44 mins
In this episode of the Car Show, Dane Donovan tackles the importance of protecting your vehicle from the harsh winter elements. He shares a personal story about his own experience with rust on his 2007 Ford F-150, which highlights the dangers of neglecting to remove salt and brine from your vehicle's underbody. Dane emphasizes the need to prioritize underbody washing, especially during the winter months, to prevent rust from forming and prolong the life of your vehicle. He also discusses the importance of checking for recalls on used vehicles and offers advice on how to diagnose and fix issues with your car's power steering system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking
if you don't stop driving out hot rod Lincoln ever
were rocking.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On the lady.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Pretty easy down the road after just keep chucking.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Car show on fifty
five KRC, the talk station. I'm Dane Donovan, alive in
in studio. I do apologize. I had some, you know,
a couple of things going on at the beginning of
the year, so I've been a bit busy, but I
am here and here to take your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And i'mber to call five one three.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Want to wish everybody a happy Valentine's Day, right for
all of you out there. Uh, if you weren't aware,
hurry up, rush outside, or you know, rush to the
store and get your wife some flowers and carts.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I did this morning. And Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I also want to wish my oldest son, Aiden, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh he was. Uh he is fourteen today.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we are after here, we're gonna we're gonna go
to dinner and uh, you know, so again Aiden, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Uh he was.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Uh, he'll probably be embarrassed, but I'm just gonna tell
the story anyways.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But he was when he was born, he was born.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I think it's like my wife's gonna probably correct me,
but I want to say he's born at like twelve
oh one or twelve oh five, right, So he was
the first baby born in the hospital on February fourteenth.
So he got a little care we got a little
care package, and uh so, uh man, it seems like,
uh seems like just yesterday we brought him home.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And now he's fourteen, going.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
To going to Moler High School, and uh so I'm
gonna have a high schooler and and uh yeah, so Aiden,
happy birthday, and again happy Valentine's Day for all of
you out there as well. So again in studio, taking
your phone calls and number to call five one three
seven fifty five one hundred, that number gain five one
three seven fifty five hundred. You know, I tried to
(02:18):
uh man, I I on my way here. I left early.
In fact, I got here early. In fact, Danny, my producer,
had to look at all three clocks in his room
just to verify that I did show up early. And
I did, and I probably would have been a little
bit earlier, but I tried to go to the car wash,
(02:39):
and uh, man, I tell you what, if you own
a car wash right now, man, you are raking in
the money right now. You couldn't even get near a
car wash right now. And uh you know now that
all the snow's gone and we're kind of falling out.
Actually heard birds chirping this morning, and and I'm like,
all right, hopefully springs around the corner right get rid
(03:01):
of all this. But you know, again going back to
car washes, you know, it's important to get that salt
off of your vehicle, right I'm I'm a little aggressive
or kind of like a bit over the top with it.
In fact, now I have the ability to, but you know,
(03:22):
typically when it's snowing like it has not everybody has
this ability, but you know, if it's snowing like that,
I typically don't like to drive it in the salt,
in the in the snow and the brine, because it
does take years off the life of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And it's something that's so simple.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But you know, going to go get a car wash,
and it's not so much the paint that I'm concerned about,
it's the underbody right, So don't just do the cheap
little run it through real quick and just just to
make it look good. You want to do the underbody.
You want to try to keep that the underbody, the frame.
You want to get that salt in that, Brian. If
you have the ability to not drive it in it great.
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If you don't, I understand, and most people don't, it's
important that you try to keep it as clean as
possible and get that salt off.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
The salt and the brine.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Really, really, it's one of the number one I think
the number one reason why we condemned cars has blown
up engines because they don't have any oil in them,
which we've talked about on the show all the time.
And number two is probably rust. I currently have a
two thousand and seven Ford F one fifty which I've
talked about, and it's the frame literally rusted in half.
(04:32):
The bed and the and the cab are we're touching
each other because the frame rusted in half.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now it's inn O seven. You're like, dang, that shouldn't happen.
I agree, I mean it is. It is old.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean O seven's old. It only has one hundred
and forty thousand miles on it, right. But it's the
two reasons why we condemned cars rust and you know,
not putting oil in our cars or making sure that
we check the oil on our cars.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Because that's that's a huge, huge problem.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But so if you're out today, whether you know you're
here in the Tristate area or you're listening in you know,
Massachusetts or Florida or whatnot, go if you have the ability,
do your best to go get your car washed, get
an underbody washed, get the frame, get the salt, get
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all that salt off there, because it's it is very
detrimental to your vehicle and will absolutely shorten the life
of your vehicle. I mean it's again, I see it
all the time, and I'm a victim of it as myself.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm a victim of it as well.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, what I will tell you is, if you have
the ability, if you have a garage, I would highly,
highly recommend that you keep your vehicle in the garage.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It really it's it's so good for the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now, I don't necessarily recommend if it's covered in salt
and water and everything parking in the garage, but you
do want to make sure if you can keep it
if you've got two cars, or you have the ability
to have two cars and keep one nice and keep
it in the garage. It's important. You know a lot
of times too, people think that if they keep it
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outside but they don't drive it, that it'll be fine.
But the problem is, you know, obviously when it rains
and whatnot, that moisture comes up and then there's no
air that you're not getting the proper airflow right, so
it'll rust cars. I had a gentleman years ago, you know,
he had unfortunately his father passed away, and it was
like a ninety eight Cadillac, right, had like twenty five
(06:42):
thousand miles on it, right, But I'm like, hey, you
need to get rid of this thing. This thing is
a bucket. It's full of rust, and you get rid
of He's like, it only has twenty five thousand miles.
I'm like, I understand, but it's been sitting outside its
entire life for twenty years. It's been sitting outside. It's
not safe to drive the vehicle. So if you have
the ability to keep a car in the garage when
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it's snow and when it's raining, it really will save
you time and prolong the life for your vehicle. Now
again I'm excessive about it, but and not everybody has
that ability. But if you can, certainly during these times,
do what you can to limit your driving, make sure
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that you keep the salt in the brine and getting
everything off that and you know, again, it will, I
promise you, it will prolong the life for your vehicle.
And it's something that people really don't talk about, and
I have again. A couple of weeks ago, I talked
there's a friend of mine that was looking to buy
a new vehicle or i'm sorry, used vehicle, right, and
(07:50):
he is looking at buying a truck. And he drove
and I think it was like an hour and a
half to go look at this truck. And he sends
me I'm like, he goes everything outside looks great, you know,
inside looks great. I'm like, get down on the ground.
If you can't, which she had the ability to do,
take a picture of the frame. Let me see the frame.
(08:11):
And I'm like, now this car was only like three
or four years old, right, And I can tell I
knew instantly after he sent me that picture, I'm like,
don't buy that truck. That thing has way too much
trust for four years. It's just not consistent with what
we see here in Cincinnati and lo and behold it
was from Canada. And again that's important when you're purchasing
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a vehicle to know where it came from. If it
came down from Florida, Georgia, Atlanta, you know your Southern
states great. If it comes from New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Maine, Michigan,
do not buy it because you know they're exposed. Those
vehicles are exposed way more than we are here. Now. Yes,
(08:57):
we are considered in the rust belt, but we don't
experience as much of the rust on these vehicles that
the northern states do, right, because they see a lot more.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Makes sense, right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So make sure that you know, again, if you can
keep your car clean and out of the elements, you're
going to prolong the life of the vehicle. If you're
purchasing a used vehicle, do your best to make sure
and do your homework and find out where it came from.
The farther north, it came from the worse it's going
to be. So make sure that again when we're purchasing
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these vehicles. And again, as you know, if you go
out look at used vehicles.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They're not cheap.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, you know they're forty fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars.
You want to make sure you protect your investment. You
don't want to have a vehicle that's and again, I
see it every single day. You want to make sure
that when you're purchasing a used vehicle, you know where
it came from. And you want to make sure that
you have it inspected by a specialist, somebody who can
(09:59):
look at it and make sure that it's not a
rusted bucket and just a mess. I'd see it all
the time. And again, if you're here in the Tristate area,
do your best to make sure that you keep that
underbody clean and get.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That rust off it's all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm sorry, get that salt off so you don't have
a tremendous amount of rust. So all right, again, I'm
taking your phone calls and number call five one, three, seven,
nine fifty five hundred.
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Car questions and again the number to call five one
three seven nine fifty five hundred. Let's go to the
phones as promised. We have Jeffrey. Hey, Jeffrey, welcome to
the car show.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Oh? I have a twenty seventeen GMC Sierra uh huh
SLT and it's got the five point three leader and
I have a I have a miss now that it's
when I'm just cruising along kind of easy, you feel
a little bit, you get a little more pressure on
the pedal, you can fill it. But if I go
(11:45):
into you like a passing gear, it goes away. And
I don't have a check engine light. And I'm just
curious where where would you start looking for a problem
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, So if you're on kind of like a light acceleration,
shouldn't you feel it? But once you kind of powered
through it, it it goes away.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Correct, it goes away? Correct? How many miles are on
the vehicle.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It's got eighty two thousand, okay, and fuel injectors replaced
at fifty thousand, and I had the number seven coil
ignition coil replaced around the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, what about the spark plugs in the ignition wires?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Have those been replaced?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, so on them.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So you said, I hate to throw parts at it,
you know, absolutely absolutely?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You said all of the injectors were replaced.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Well, well, what happened was one injector was bad. They
found one bad, and so they the warranty covered the
left bank. But I told them, you know, once you
go in there, just replace them all.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay, all right, So I had.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All eight replaced, but only one was supposed to be bad.
Which happened to be the same cylinder number seven.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay, yeah, cylinder number seven on GMS is a there's
usually usually you know, those those engines burn oil and
then they the plugs usually get fouled by oil or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So here's what I want you to do.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Obviously, the injectors are were they aftermarket or were they factory?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
No, they were factory.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Okay, good, good, They put em back on there.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I believe that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And you said cylinder number seven coil was replaced.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yep, And you know I was curious. You know, maybe
the coil was always the problem to begin with, but
I didn't argue because it was maybe two three hundred
miles between the time they replaced the injectors and the
time the Nissing coil went out. But each one of
those issues did give me a check engine light.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay, yeah, you know, typically what i'd like to see.
Here's here's what I want you to typically what I
especially on that particular engine, they burn oil. Okay, even
if you're like Dan, I'm not using oil or whatnot.
So here's what I want you to do.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Good with the oil.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So here's what I want you to do so a
lot of times, like the porcelain on the spark plugs
can crack and you can crack in it and whatnot.
What you're describing to me is that you power through
it and it's fine. So I'm willing to believe that
it's probably a coil that's breaking another coil that's breaking down.
(14:39):
I do not believe it is an injector. I think
throwing parts at it. You're right here, here's the problem
with the misfire. Either spark plugs causing it, either the
ignition wires causing it, or the ignition coils causing it,
or the injector's causing it. You've already had the injectors replace, right, Uh,
spark plugs. What I would do to start with is
(15:02):
I would do all the spark plugs and the wires.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, you can get now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
What I would tell you is, and I talk about
this all the time, I would not get in my opinion,
is this something that you're gonna do or you're gonna
have somebody else do it.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I used to do that kind of thing, but I'll
probably try to get some.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, now I don't think so. I mean, you're gonna
pay a little bit more. But what I would recommend
is you want AC Delco. That's the factory plug. AC
Delco plugs and wires.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't want to see him put auto lights or
you know, anything like that, or you know or Champion
or anything like that. You want AC Delco spark plugs
and wires. Start there.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Now, now they again they could be fouled out by
oil consumption, which again it might not you might not
notice it using, but you know, over eighty thousand miles,
there might be some build up on that plug. So
let's let's go ahead and replace the plugs and the wires.
Do that first, because I mean, it really should be done.
It is a platinum plug, but you really, at one
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hundred thousand miles, it should be done. Anyways, it's a
little premature, but they do. They do breakdown, so we
want to do that. But we want to do AC
Delco plugs and wires and listen, you can get them.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
They're pretty inexpensive. We want to start there.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
If you continue to experience that same problem, then we're
going to have to narrow down to what coil is
causing the issue.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now you're not going to be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But anybody that has a reputable shot with a scan tool,
you can hook it up to a scan tool and
you can find out which cylinder is dropping out. You
can literally look at it on a scope and you
can see what cylinders dropping out. Now, the problem, the
problem with coils is you've got eight of them, just
like injectors, right, so you know, you put one in
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it and you go, Dane, it was great for six
months and now it's back again. And that's because a
lot of times they go down like dominoes. You start
replacing one and it's like boom, boom boom. So I'm
not necessarily I'm not necessarily saying that you need to
replace all eight, but understand that, hey, let's do plugs
and wires, and if it still continues, it's gonna probably
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need to go to a shop that has a scan
a proper scan tool to figure out exactly which cylinder
is dropping out, and then that's the call that we're
going to replace. But understand if if you continue to
experience it, or it's great and then six months later
it's happening again, then another one's you know, fail, So
you can.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Do all eight if you want.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean, cylinder number seven has already been replaced, but
you can do them all if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But it's just really expensive. But great engine. They're a
great engine. But let's do plugs and wires.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let's let's start there and again that's usually nine out
of ten times, that's what it is. But we could
be dealing with a coil issue. But that's what I
want to that's what I want to see you do first.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Okay, all right, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Take care every day. All right, going back to the phones,
we have Greg. Hey, Greg, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I was looking at a twenty twenty two Ford Bronco
Sport and I looked up the car effects and it's
had like four recalls on it. How do you know
that the recalls have actually been done that you're buying?
I use a used vehicle.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Can you turn your radio down for me, sir? I'm
getting a lot of feedback. Yeah, sorry, yeah, it's getting
a lot of feedback.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Better, I mean yeah, I was looking at twenty twenty
two Ford Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, no, I got it. I got it. I mean it.
It shows that it had for does it show that
those recalls were performed?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Well, just the carfact shows that you know this you
know recall, you know, like the GISIA date or whatever,
and it says fine, contact your nearest dealership or whatever.
So I was just wondering, how do you check to
make sure that they did, you know, fix the problems right?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So what you can do well, obviously, uh, I think
that the if you have the VIN number, you call
your nearest Ford dealer. You can call any Ford dealer,
but your nearest or whatever, give them the VIN number
and ask if those four recalls have been performed. That's
(19:45):
I mean, you know, unfortunately, like if the dealership says
they did them and they didn't, you know, that's that's
something that I don't think anybody's going to be able
to determine. But if you want to find out and
know if those recalls were performed, you call a dealer
and just say, hey, listen, I'm looking at purchasing purchasing
this vehicle and it has four recalls and I would
(20:07):
like to know if these recalls have been performed. Now,
what I can tell you is is even if you
purchase the vehicle, if it's a it's a twenty twenty two,
so right, so it's under the three year, thirty six
thousand mile warranty.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Correct, well, it's got more so it's a warranty. It's
out a warranty. It's fifty two.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, I'm sorry, I should have asked you that. I apologize. So,
I mean usually most dealerships will have the VIN number
like you know online as far as like if they're
selling a vehicle, A lot of dealerships will you know,
put the VEN number on there, but call. If you've
got a car, fact you'll have the VN. Call a
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dealership with that VEN and just ask if those if
it has any open recalls, and maybe what recalls have
been performed, because they they keep track of that. Ford
keeps track of that, so you should be able to
determine that. But just call a dealership and just say, hey, listen,
I'm looking to buy in this vehicle. I want to
know if there's any recalls that are any open recalls
(21:11):
currently and if there are any recalls that have been performed.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
And okay, now this one has the two point zero,
not the one point three, the little three cyliner. This
has the regular four cylinder. Do you think that's a
better motor than the little three cylinder for that particularly vehicle.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
To be honest with you, those two engines haven't been
out too long. I don't have a ton of history
with them because they're fairly new. They put those engines
in the in the Broncos, and I haven't seen any
of those Broncos in our shop yet. What I can
tell you is, yeah, I would. I would stick with
the four cylinder opposed to the three, the one point three.
(21:58):
I really like Ford product, So as long as you're
buying a Ford, I don't you know, they're they're not
all great. But we haven't had any problems with the Broncos, so,
but I would stick with the four cylinder if I
was going to buy one.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Thank you. I have a great day. Uh huh bye bye.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
All right, taking your phone calls and i'mber to call
five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred coming up.
We have Opie, Joe and Danny. You're listening to car
show on fifty five care see the talk station. Way
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entire Center right here, in Cincinnati. A lot has changed
since then, but our commitment to honest auto repair hasn't.
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Monday morning at five on fifty five KRC, the talkstation.
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Taking your Car questions.
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The number to call five one three fifty five hundred.
Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center Here every Saturday,
well most saturdays. I have been absent a couple of saturdays.
I do apologize. You know, my boss here is in
studio to make sure that I was here on time
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and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And I am,
and he's shaking his head.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
But you know, sometimes life gets in in the way,
you know, kids and everything else, you know, so I
sometimes it just doesn't. But I am here. I am
taking your car questions. See, Danny understands, my producer understands.
You know my you know my my problems, well, at
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least the problems are I can't get here, not all,
not the ones that are in my head. But but anyways,
might I yeah, might I digress?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right?
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So taking your car questions again, then Neumber call five one, three,
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Let's go back to the phones.
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As promise, we have Opie, Opie, welcome to the car Show.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
How can I help that?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Happy Valentine's Day to you?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
You too?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Did you get did you go.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
To and I'm watching I'm watching all these guys walking
out with flowers and candy and we'll do wrapping and stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, did you go and get your wife flowers in
car and chocolates?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Or no, I'm gonna girl, I'm gonna girl some hamburgers
share a little bit, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, you know it's funny you say that real quick.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know, as I stated earlier in the show, I
went to Kroger this morning to get my wife flowers
in a cart.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And there was I was laughing. I was laughing.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There was a guy, a gentleman, in front of me.
He was probably. He appeared to.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Be in his.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Maybe sixties, and he had a eighteen pack of Bichelobaltra
and a balloon that said I love you like man.
That that that is that's a Valentine's Day gift right there.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Man, well I've been I've been married thirty two years.
So we don't celebrate these Hallmark holidays.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
We don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, my wife and I, I mean we after the
birth of our son, we you know, we've always kind
of focused today on his birthday, and but we always
tried to do something a little you know. She got
me a nice golf jacket and got our flowers in
the car.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But uh so it's important. So but yeah, how can
I help you?
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Uh ninety three rangers at four World Rive has got
the four to zero in it. I just bought this
thing back in December, and when I bought it, I
put a new battery in. It's a five ninety battery
and I I had a problem with it. When it
gets blow twenty five degrees, won't start, It'll crank. I
mean it'll spin like there's no tomorrow, but it won't fire.
(26:12):
I've dragged my battery charger out, put the two hundred
hand boost, hook it up. You can't get your finger
off of the key fast enough, and it starts right up.
Once it gets warmed up, and then you shut it off,
it's fine. And you know, as long as you don't
sit for more than about six or eight hours, you know,
gets really cold again. But if it's above twenty five degrees,
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starts right up, well, I took I thought the battery
was problem, so I took the battery back. It's no
Riley's battery. And so I took the battery back and
they gave me another battery and I put it. Its
same problem. If it's above twenty five degrees, starts right
up blood twenty five degrees, it'll just sit and spin
all day long.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So it's it's so you're it's cranking.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
It's cranking, is aking fast? I mean it's not. I mean,
you know, you know, usually you get you know what
it's told you that r right right now. This thing
sends over like there's no tomorrow. I looked at putting
them like a seven fifty eight battery in it, but
it won't fit.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, Well, I mean, if it's I checked, I checked,
the fuel pressure because my uncle told me.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Might have a weak fuel pumped.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's what I feel pressure.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Fuel pressure is good.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay, what about any type of ignition parts coils?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I haven't checked any of that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, But like I said, I'm really worried.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
At twenty five degrees it'll start up. But if it's
below twenty five degrees, it won't start right. You know,
I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I've
ever heard anything like that. That I mean, I believe you,
but uh.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Yeah, because I've filled with it. One day, the first day,
the first real bad coach that we had. It was
on a Saturday. I went after stuck to say up
and it just crank and crank and crank. It wouldn't start,
and I start, I got mad at it. Well, I
grabbed battery charger. I hooked the charger up to it
and I let it. I put it on on the
on the the uh uh forty amp charge and let
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it sit for a few minutes on hooks the charger.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Good.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Set it was charged up and unhooked the chargers and
all did just crank and crank and crank, And I'm like, well,
all right, we'll crank it up, put two hundred amps
to it, and I hit the key. I couldn't get
my finger off the key fast.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Nothing and it lit right up.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
And that really sucks. When you're at four o'clock in
the morning. You gotta go to work. I gotta drag
the battery charger over there and hook it up to
get the damn thing to start to go work.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
My goodness.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Uh, then I had the battery, I hadn't advanced. They
got one him high the advanced got with him high
tech laptop and iPad looking things. They hooked it up
and they checked the alternator, the alternator in the battery.
You know, it's putting out third teen five, thirteen eight
battery had battery had thirteen thirteen some bolts in it,
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and you know, and I checked it. I checked the battery,
I checked the I checked the battery bowlt just when
it was cold. It's still thirteen five. When it was cold,
it still just didn't have enough. It didn't have enough
guts to get it started.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, have you tried? Well, Okay, I don't think it's
a battery issue. I can tell you that much. I
don't think you're dealing with the battery issue because it's cranking.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So if your fuel pressure is good. Two things you
can try.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
One, try to just cycle the key, just just two
or three times. Just cycle it, leave it, you know,
turn the key on. Cycle it, don't start it. Turn
the key on, cycle it for you know, five seconds,
and then shut it off. Do it three times. I've
tried that, okay, and that doesn't fix it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Have you tried to just spray a little bit of
ether in there, just just to eliminate that. I I
know that fuel pressure is good, but just to see
if you hit it with you know, all you gotta
do is take the air box off and just hit
it with a little bit of ether.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Just to see if I was gonna I was going
to try that, but it was it was it was
so cold the other in the morning. And then the
way the air, the way the air storcles made on
this thing, it's a giant pain in.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The all right, Okay, Well, so.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I couldn't do that. And the other thing is I
didn't want to pray starting through the mass airflow center.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
No, yeah, don't do that now. We don't want we
don't want that. Well, unfortunately, I mean with with the cold.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I mean it again, it could be I mean it
could be in a computer issue where that the temperature,
you know, the computer itself is not working because of
the cold. I mean, we could be dealing with the
coil issue, man. I mean that that's one of those
things where you need to get it to a shop
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below twenty five degree or you know, when it's below
twenty five degrees and try to have them look to
make sure that you have spark, you have fuel.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
You know, that's the other thing. Do you know if
you have spark or not?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
I mean, once I get it started, as soon as
I hook my soon as I hook jump box up
to my battery charger and put it on, boost starts
right up. And once it starts up, you shut it
off and then then it starts right back up. It's
just that initial it's that initial cold that it don't
want to start, like it's it'll sit all day at work,
you know, Well, I'll I go out at break time
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and you know, it'll sit for four hours or something.
I just go out to sit in my truck, listen
to the radio, and I'll start it up just because
it's cold. That starts right up.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So all right, so right, so, I mean obviously you
need air, you need fuel, you need sparks.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So here's what I want.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Can you access one of the spark plot the one
of the ignition wires. So what So here's what I
want you to take one of those, pop one of
them bad boys off when it won't start and get it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Pull it off enough.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Now you're gonna need somebody to help caesters. Okay, So
if it's below twenty five degrees, let's find out if
we've got spark. You know, try try that, because it
sounds like you've kind of covered all your bases. I
don't think it's a battery issue. It doesn't appear to
be a fuel issue. Let's make sure we have spark
now again. You know, again, we're dealing with potentially a
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coil issue or a computer issue where the computer's just
so cold. It's just you know, it has to be
at a I mean, that's something that can be as
simple as again, just a coil issue or a or
a crank sensor and it's just because of that temperature
it's just not working, or a computer issue. So it's
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one of those things where I'm sorry, there's a lot
of bases to cover there. But the problem is is
right now, I mean, it's not gonna be below twenty
five probably for the next week or two, so it's
gonna be kind of difficult.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yeah, exactly, bumble warming, bring it on.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, yes, this is the coldest winter I've seen in
a while. So but uh well, I'll tell you what,
keep keep keep investigating. I find out if you've got
sparking and called me back.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
All right, all right, yeah, hopefully hopefully we won't have
another another one in eleven blow zero days.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, we'll get into that Kroger and get your wife
some flowers in a car.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
She'll thank you, get Hamburger. I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Handler light in a balloon. All right, all right, thank
you sir, having great day. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh man, that was I could not stop laughing about
that this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
So all right, taking your phone calls and I'm gonna
call five one, three seven for nine fifty five hundred
coming up. We have Joe and Danny. You're listening to
the car show on fifty five KRC, the talk station.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
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that needs body repair if so called. Frank's Heavy Truck
Collisionary Repair located just self I seventy five nun of
Route sixty three.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
Taking your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. We are rapidly
running out of time. I do apologize. I'm gonna get
to these callers who are patiently wait, and I really
do appreciate it. Let's go back to the phones we have. Joe, Hey, Joe,
welcome to the car show. Thank you so much for
your patience. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I have a I do like fleetwork for my company.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I do the maintenance, not so.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I have a twenty eleven four fifty at four I'm sorry,
E four fifty box van and I had not long
ago I'd noticed that the power steering reservoir power series
making noise, and then the reservoir was empty, and I
had filled it back up and the quieted it back
down and everything. And I don't drive it all the time.
(35:24):
A lot of the workers drive it, so I really
don't hear about anything wrong until it fails. But so
yesterday or the other day, it was making that noise
but constantly. You know, the noise it would make if
I was turning the wheel, but it was the constant noise.
So I just thought, well, maybe i'll just feel it
fluid again, and I go in there in the reservoir
was full, so I kind of listened, and I kind
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of got into weeds with it, and I was started
thinking maybe the alternator was an alternator bearing. But there
was no problem with any voltage dropping or anything surging
or anything like that. And I do hear a little
bit of difference in the noise when I do turn
the wheel, and I'm kind of wondering if it's just
not as bad as it would sound if it was low,
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because it has a lot of fluid in air that
could possibly make it not sound as bad as if
it were like a bad pump that was empty.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, so I don't know what kind of what you
was thinking that would be all right?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
So the noise changes when you turn the steering wheel correct.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I don't hear it as obvious as if it was
like low fluid, but it does seem to coincide with
turning the wheel, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And then when you take while the while the vehicle's running,
when you take the cap off, does the fluid seem
to have any type of aerration and any type of
bubbles in it?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I haven't seen any I had. I haven't really looked
for that. I know when I took the cap off
the check it looked pretty solid. It didn't look you know,
bubbly or cloudy or anything.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So a lot of times, especially because you had indicated
that it ran low at one point, there could be
air trapped in the system. There could be air still
trapped in it, which could cause the pump to make
that wine type noise. So one, check for aerration, make
sure there are any bubbles in it. Two, what I
(37:15):
what I want you to do is if you can
a lot of times the is the reservoir attached to
the pump or is it.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Uh, separate.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Does it have a you know, two lines, an inlet
and an outlet or is it right above the pump?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
It is, I believe. So the reservoir is kind of
like towards the front of the right there on the
front near the radiator.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Okay, so it's not attached to a pump. No, it's
not like part of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So a lot of what can happen to you, So
one make sure there is a there is an aer ration. Again,
you could have some air build up inside the lines
which could be causing it. The other thing that you
can do too is now you wouldn't need to get it.
I mean it basically what I call, you know, some
type of evacuation tool like a sucker to remove the fluid.
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A lot of times debris will build up inside the
screen at the bottom of the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, so even though the.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Fluid is full, it's deprived and the pump of the
proper fluid it needs because the screen is just not
filtering it fast enough. So you can try that because
again you know the fact that it ran low that
it could again the air could be trapped, so you know,
remove the fluid that's in there.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You don't. It doesn't have to be running. Remove the fluid.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
If you can get some type of device that can
remove the fluid, if you can take the reservoir off,
clean it out, do the best you can to clean
it all out.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Make sure that screen at the bottom of it is
cleaned out.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Now if it still continues it a lot of the
times too, you have to use some type of vacuum
system where it you know, it's basically forcing the fluid
out and and you know, because there's probably it sounds
like there's probably some potential aerration. Now again, it could
be at tentioner or something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I would physically need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know, you're you're more than welcome to swing it
by one day and I'll come out there and listen
to it. But we could use a stethoscope, but take
five minutes of your time. But the fact that it
was low and you added it and you're still kind
of experiencing and the noise changes when you turn the
steering world leads me to believe that it is still
in the power steering. And again it just could be
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air trapped in the system itself. So make sure the
screen's cleaned. You can do that yourself, and if it
still does it, then you probably will need to take
it to a repair. So, I mean, you can buy
a vacuum system for the power string where it. You know,
Fords are kind of notorious for that. Guitaruses were the
worst trying to get air out of that system. So
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I think it's just air trapped in the system and
you just got to get it out. You just gotta
you know, the other thing you can do well, I
wouldn't work on this particular situation, but try that first.
Make sure the reservoir's cleaned up, and then if it's
still you know, fill it back up. And then if
it's still doing it, we need to get the air
out at least, you know, try to. And like I said, I,
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if you've got time, you're more than welcome to swing by.
I can take a listen for you. But it sounds
like it's just air just stuck in the system. You
just got to get it out, that's all, okay, Absolutely, yeah,
it's not a pump. It's not a pump issue. It's
I promise you all right. It's almost I almost never
replaced pumps because of that that particular situation.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
So thanks for holding on. I appreciate you ever.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Great weekend, Take care bye bye. All right, real quick,
we've got Danny. Hey, Danny, welcome to the car show.
I uh, I've got about about a minute and a half.
I do apologize, but I like to.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Get to you. I'll make it quick. Thank you first,
go for taking my call. Absolutely, I've got a I've got.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
A twenty seventeen Chevrolet Colorado. I recently bought four brand
new rims, put four brand new tires on it. It
had like seventy something thousand miles. When I did that,
I noticed when I drive it between like thirty eight
and maybe forty three forty four miles prior, I get
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a shimmy and a steering wheel.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
After it gets past that. If it gets up to
like forty five forty.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Six, it goes away.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
I've had the tires balance two different times, thinking that
they weren't balanced right.
Speaker 7 (41:27):
But it still doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, all right, so here, so let me ask you something.
It's only it doesn't do it when you break. It's
only between thirty five and forty under acceleration that you
notice the vibration.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Yeah, if I'm on I seventy five or whatever, and
driving when I get up to that thirty thirty eight
mile prior, you can feel it start. It'll go up
until about forty four forty five miles prior, and then
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Okay, here's what I want you to do. You said
wheels and tires. Correct, Yes, sir, Okay, the wheels. You
want to make sure that they came with a a
cone for the center of the wheel, right, So a
lot of times aftermarket wheels will just be there. They're universal, right,
So you put them on there, and even though you
bolt them up properly, they're still not centered properly.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
So you could be dealing with that.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
So you want to make sure that it has what's
called a hub hub hub hub ring. You want to
make sure those wheels that they put on has a
hub ring. Okay, because again, even though you bold them
up in theory, you're like, hey, if I bolt them up,
it should it should center that wheel. Well, that's not
always the case. So make sure that the wheels that
you purchased align with the hub. If they don't, make
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sure that it most of them don't, but you want
to make sure that they have a hub ring.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Now, the other thing is is the wheel.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
The tires themselves could be out around and you know,
and and causing your issue.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
So what I would recommend when you had them balanced.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Going forward, what I want to see you do is
you want to have them road force balanced. You want
to find somebody who has a road force balancer and
what basically what it does is it applies road force
because it could just be a tire issue.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
So again, the wheels, make sure they have hub rings.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
If they do, get them road force balanced, and then
I want to get those get those two things done
and checked, and then you call me back.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
All right. I'm sorry to cut you short. Thank you sir.
Everybody have a great Valentine's Day. I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I will be back next Saturday to answer all of
your car questions.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Thank you so much again, everybody.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Happy Valentine's Day, Aiden, Happy birthday, brother, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Have a great day. You're listening to the Car Show
on fifty five KRC, the talk station
Speaker 5 (44:01):
And STO
My pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking
if you don't stop driving out hot rod Lincoln ever
were rocking.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On the lady.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Pretty easy down the road after just keep chucking.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Car show on fifty
five KRC, the talk station. I'm Dane Donovan, alive in
in studio. I do apologize. I had some, you know,
a couple of things going on at the beginning of
the year, so I've been a bit busy, but I
am here and here to take your car questions.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And i'mber to call five one three.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Want to wish everybody a happy Valentine's Day, right for
all of you out there. Uh, if you weren't aware,
hurry up, rush outside, or you know, rush to the
store and get your wife some flowers and carts.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I did this morning. And Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I also want to wish my oldest son, Aiden, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh he was. Uh he is fourteen today.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we are after here, we're gonna we're gonna go
to dinner and uh, you know, so again Aiden, happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Uh he was.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Uh, he'll probably be embarrassed, but I'm just gonna tell
the story anyways.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But he was when he was born, he was born.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I think it's like my wife's gonna probably correct me,
but I want to say he's born at like twelve
oh one or twelve oh five, right, So he was
the first baby born in the hospital on February fourteenth.
So he got a little care we got a little
care package, and uh so, uh man, it seems like,
uh seems like just yesterday we brought him home.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And now he's fourteen, going.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
To going to Moler High School, and uh so I'm
gonna have a high schooler and and uh yeah, so Aiden,
happy birthday, and again happy Valentine's Day for all of
you out there as well. So again in studio, taking
your phone calls and number to call five one three
seven fifty five one hundred, that number gain five one
three seven fifty five hundred. You know, I tried to
(02:18):
uh man, I I on my way here. I left early.
In fact, I got here early. In fact, Danny, my producer,
had to look at all three clocks in his room
just to verify that I did show up early. And
I did, and I probably would have been a little
bit earlier, but I tried to go to the car wash,
(02:39):
and uh, man, I tell you what, if you own
a car wash right now, man, you are raking in
the money right now. You couldn't even get near a
car wash right now. And uh you know now that
all the snow's gone and we're kind of falling out.
Actually heard birds chirping this morning, and and I'm like,
all right, hopefully springs around the corner right get rid
(03:01):
of all this. But you know, again going back to
car washes, you know, it's important to get that salt
off of your vehicle, right I'm I'm a little aggressive
or kind of like a bit over the top with it.
In fact, now I have the ability to, but you know,
(03:22):
typically when it's snowing like it has not everybody has
this ability, but you know, if it's snowing like that,
I typically don't like to drive it in the salt,
in the in the snow and the brine, because it
does take years off the life of your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And it's something that's so simple.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But you know, going to go get a car wash,
and it's not so much the paint that I'm concerned about,
it's the underbody right, So don't just do the cheap
little run it through real quick and just just to
make it look good. You want to do the underbody.
You want to try to keep that the underbody, the frame.
You want to get that salt in that, Brian. If
you have the ability to not drive it in it great.
(03:58):
If you don't, I understand, and most people don't, it's
important that you try to keep it as clean as
possible and get that salt off.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
The salt and the brine.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Really, really, it's one of the number one I think
the number one reason why we condemned cars has blown
up engines because they don't have any oil in them,
which we've talked about on the show all the time.
And number two is probably rust. I currently have a
two thousand and seven Ford F one fifty which I've
talked about, and it's the frame literally rusted in half.
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The bed and the and the cab are we're touching
each other because the frame rusted in half.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Now it's inn O seven. You're like, dang, that shouldn't happen.
I agree, I mean it is. It is old.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean O seven's old. It only has one hundred
and forty thousand miles on it, right. But it's the
two reasons why we condemned cars rust and you know,
not putting oil in our cars or making sure that
we check the oil on our cars.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Because that's that's a huge, huge problem.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
But so if you're out today, whether you know you're
here in the Tristate area or you're listening in you know,
Massachusetts or Florida or whatnot, go if you have the ability,
do your best to go get your car washed, get
an underbody washed, get the frame, get the salt, get
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all that salt off there, because it's it is very
detrimental to your vehicle and will absolutely shorten the life
of your vehicle. I mean it's again, I see it
all the time, and I'm a victim of it as myself.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm a victim of it as well.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, what I will tell you is, if you have
the ability, if you have a garage, I would highly,
highly recommend that you keep your vehicle in the garage.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It really it's it's so good for the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now, I don't necessarily recommend if it's covered in salt
and water and everything parking in the garage, but you
do want to make sure if you can keep it
if you've got two cars, or you have the ability
to have two cars and keep one nice and keep
it in the garage. It's important. You know a lot
of times too, people think that if they keep it
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outside but they don't drive it, that it'll be fine.
But the problem is, you know, obviously when it rains
and whatnot, that moisture comes up and then there's no
air that you're not getting the proper airflow right, so
it'll rust cars. I had a gentleman years ago, you know,
he had unfortunately his father passed away, and it was
like a ninety eight Cadillac, right, had like twenty five
(06:42):
thousand miles on it, right, But I'm like, hey, you
need to get rid of this thing. This thing is
a bucket. It's full of rust, and you get rid
of He's like, it only has twenty five thousand miles.
I'm like, I understand, but it's been sitting outside its
entire life for twenty years. It's been sitting outside. It's
not safe to drive the vehicle. So if you have
the ability to keep a car in the garage when
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it's snow and when it's raining, it really will save
you time and prolong the life for your vehicle. Now
again I'm excessive about it, but and not everybody has
that ability. But if you can, certainly during these times,
do what you can to limit your driving, make sure
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that you keep the salt in the brine and getting
everything off that and you know, again, it will, I
promise you, it will prolong the life for your vehicle.
And it's something that people really don't talk about, and
I have again. A couple of weeks ago, I talked
there's a friend of mine that was looking to buy
a new vehicle or i'm sorry, used vehicle, right, and
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he is looking at buying a truck. And he drove
and I think it was like an hour and a
half to go look at this truck. And he sends
me I'm like, he goes everything outside looks great, you know,
inside looks great. I'm like, get down on the ground.
If you can't, which she had the ability to do,
take a picture of the frame. Let me see the frame.
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And I'm like, now this car was only like three
or four years old, right, And I can tell I
knew instantly after he sent me that picture, I'm like,
don't buy that truck. That thing has way too much
trust for four years. It's just not consistent with what
we see here in Cincinnati and lo and behold it
was from Canada. And again that's important when you're purchasing
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a vehicle to know where it came from. If it
came down from Florida, Georgia, Atlanta, you know your Southern
states great. If it comes from New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Maine, Michigan,
do not buy it because you know they're exposed. Those
vehicles are exposed way more than we are here. Now. Yes,
(08:57):
we are considered in the rust belt, but we don't
experience as much of the rust on these vehicles that
the northern states do, right, because they see a lot more.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Makes sense, right.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So make sure that you know, again, if you can
keep your car clean and out of the elements, you're
going to prolong the life of the vehicle. If you're
purchasing a used vehicle, do your best to make sure
and do your homework and find out where it came from.
The farther north, it came from the worse it's going
to be. So make sure that again when we're purchasing
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these vehicles. And again, as you know, if you go
out look at used vehicles.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They're not cheap.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean, you know they're forty fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars.
You want to make sure you protect your investment. You
don't want to have a vehicle that's and again, I
see it every single day. You want to make sure
that when you're purchasing a used vehicle, you know where
it came from. And you want to make sure that
you have it inspected by a specialist, somebody who can
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look at it and make sure that it's not a
rusted bucket and just a mess. I'd see it all
the time. And again, if you're here in the Tristate area,
do your best to make sure that you keep that
underbody clean and get.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That rust off it's all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm sorry, get that salt off so you don't have
a tremendous amount of rust. So all right, again, I'm
taking your phone calls and number call five one, three, seven,
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Car questions and again the number to call five one
three seven nine fifty five hundred. Let's go to the
phones as promised. We have Jeffrey. Hey, Jeffrey, welcome to
the car show.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Oh? I have a twenty seventeen GMC Sierra uh huh
SLT and it's got the five point three leader and
I have a I have a miss now that it's
when I'm just cruising along kind of easy, you feel
a little bit, you get a little more pressure on
the pedal, you can fill it. But if I go
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into you like a passing gear, it goes away. And
I don't have a check engine light. And I'm just
curious where where would you start looking for a problem
like that.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, So if you're on kind of like a light acceleration,
shouldn't you feel it? But once you kind of powered
through it, it it goes away.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Correct, it goes away? Correct? How many miles are on
the vehicle.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
It's got eighty two thousand, okay, and fuel injectors replaced
at fifty thousand, and I had the number seven coil
ignition coil replaced around the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, what about the spark plugs in the ignition wires?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Have those been replaced?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, so on them.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So you said, I hate to throw parts at it,
you know, absolutely absolutely?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You said all of the injectors were replaced.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Well, well, what happened was one injector was bad. They
found one bad, and so they the warranty covered the
left bank. But I told them, you know, once you
go in there, just replace them all.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay, all right, So I had.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All eight replaced, but only one was supposed to be bad.
Which happened to be the same cylinder number seven.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay, yeah, cylinder number seven on GMS is a there's
usually usually you know, those those engines burn oil and
then they the plugs usually get fouled by oil or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So here's what I want you to do.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Obviously, the injectors are were they aftermarket or were they factory?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
No, they were factory.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Okay, good, good, They put em back on there.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I believe that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And you said cylinder number seven coil was replaced.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yep, And you know I was curious. You know, maybe
the coil was always the problem to begin with, but
I didn't argue because it was maybe two three hundred
miles between the time they replaced the injectors and the
time the Nissing coil went out. But each one of
those issues did give me a check engine light.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay, yeah, you know, typically what i'd like to see.
Here's here's what I want you to typically what I
especially on that particular engine, they burn oil. Okay, even
if you're like Dan, I'm not using oil or whatnot.
So here's what I want you to do.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Good with the oil.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So here's what I want you to do so a
lot of times, like the porcelain on the spark plugs
can crack and you can crack in it and whatnot.
What you're describing to me is that you power through
it and it's fine. So I'm willing to believe that
it's probably a coil that's breaking another coil that's breaking down.
(14:39):
I do not believe it is an injector. I think
throwing parts at it. You're right here, here's the problem
with the misfire. Either spark plugs causing it, either the
ignition wires causing it, or the ignition coils causing it,
or the injector's causing it. You've already had the injectors replace, right, Uh,
spark plugs. What I would do to start with is
(15:02):
I would do all the spark plugs and the wires.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, you can get now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
What I would tell you is, and I talk about
this all the time, I would not get in my opinion,
is this something that you're gonna do or you're gonna
have somebody else do it.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I used to do that kind of thing, but I'll
probably try to get some.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, now I don't think so. I mean, you're gonna
pay a little bit more. But what I would recommend
is you want AC Delco. That's the factory plug. AC
Delco plugs and wires.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't want to see him put auto lights or
you know, anything like that, or you know or Champion
or anything like that. You want AC Delco spark plugs
and wires. Start there.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Now, now they again they could be fouled out by
oil consumption, which again it might not you might not
notice it using, but you know, over eighty thousand miles,
there might be some build up on that plug. So
let's let's go ahead and replace the plugs and the wires.
Do that first, because I mean, it really should be done.
It is a platinum plug, but you really, at one
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hundred thousand miles, it should be done. Anyways, it's a
little premature, but they do. They do breakdown, so we
want to do that. But we want to do AC
Delco plugs and wires and listen, you can get them.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
They're pretty inexpensive. We want to start there.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
If you continue to experience that same problem, then we're
going to have to narrow down to what coil is
causing the issue.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now you're not going to be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But anybody that has a reputable shot with a scan tool,
you can hook it up to a scan tool and
you can find out which cylinder is dropping out. You
can literally look at it on a scope and you
can see what cylinders dropping out. Now, the problem, the
problem with coils is you've got eight of them, just
like injectors, right, so you know, you put one in
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it and you go, Dane, it was great for six
months and now it's back again. And that's because a
lot of times they go down like dominoes. You start
replacing one and it's like boom, boom boom. So I'm
not necessarily I'm not necessarily saying that you need to
replace all eight, but understand that, hey, let's do plugs
and wires, and if it still continues, it's gonna probably
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need to go to a shop that has a scan
a proper scan tool to figure out exactly which cylinder
is dropping out, and then that's the call that we're
going to replace. But understand if if you continue to
experience it, or it's great and then six months later
it's happening again, then another one's you know, fail, So
you can.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Do all eight if you want.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean, cylinder number seven has already been replaced, but
you can do them all if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But it's just really expensive. But great engine. They're a
great engine. But let's do plugs and wires.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let's let's start there and again that's usually nine out
of ten times, that's what it is. But we could
be dealing with a coil issue. But that's what I
want to that's what I want to see you do first.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Okay, all right, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Take care every day. All right, going back to the phones,
we have Greg. Hey, Greg, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How can I help?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I was looking at a twenty twenty two Ford Bronco
Sport and I looked up the car effects and it's
had like four recalls on it. How do you know
that the recalls have actually been done that you're buying?
I use a used vehicle.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Can you turn your radio down for me, sir? I'm
getting a lot of feedback. Yeah, sorry, yeah, it's getting
a lot of feedback.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Better, I mean yeah, I was looking at twenty twenty
two Ford Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, no, I got it. I got it. I mean it.
It shows that it had for does it show that
those recalls were performed?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Well, just the carfact shows that you know this you
know recall, you know, like the GISIA date or whatever,
and it says fine, contact your nearest dealership or whatever.
So I was just wondering, how do you check to
make sure that they did, you know, fix the problems right?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So what you can do well, obviously, uh, I think
that the if you have the VIN number, you call
your nearest Ford dealer. You can call any Ford dealer,
but your nearest or whatever, give them the VIN number
and ask if those four recalls have been performed. That's
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I mean, you know, unfortunately, like if the dealership says
they did them and they didn't, you know, that's that's
something that I don't think anybody's going to be able
to determine. But if you want to find out and
know if those recalls were performed, you call a dealer
and just say, hey, listen, I'm looking at purchasing purchasing
this vehicle and it has four recalls and I would
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like to know if these recalls have been performed. Now,
what I can tell you is is even if you
purchase the vehicle, if it's a it's a twenty twenty two,
so right, so it's under the three year, thirty six
thousand mile warranty.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Correct, well, it's got more so it's a warranty. It's
out a warranty. It's fifty two.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, I'm sorry, I should have asked you that. I apologize. So,
I mean usually most dealerships will have the VIN number
like you know online as far as like if they're
selling a vehicle, A lot of dealerships will you know,
put the VEN number on there, but call. If you've
got a car, fact you'll have the VN. Call a
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dealership with that VEN and just ask if those if
it has any open recalls, and maybe what recalls have
been performed, because they they keep track of that. Ford
keeps track of that, so you should be able to
determine that. But just call a dealership and just say, hey, listen,
I'm looking to buy in this vehicle. I want to
know if there's any recalls that are any open recalls
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currently and if there are any recalls that have been performed.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
And okay, now this one has the two point zero,
not the one point three, the little three cyliner. This
has the regular four cylinder. Do you think that's a
better motor than the little three cylinder for that particularly vehicle.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
To be honest with you, those two engines haven't been
out too long. I don't have a ton of history
with them because they're fairly new. They put those engines
in the in the Broncos, and I haven't seen any
of those Broncos in our shop yet. What I can
tell you is, yeah, I would. I would stick with
the four cylinder opposed to the three, the one point three.
(21:58):
I really like Ford product, So as long as you're
buying a Ford, I don't you know, they're they're not
all great. But we haven't had any problems with the Broncos, so,
but I would stick with the four cylinder if I
was going to buy one.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Thank you. I have a great day. Uh huh bye bye.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
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I do apologize. You know, my boss here is in
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and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And I am,
and he's shaking his head.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
But you know, sometimes life gets in in the way,
you know, kids and everything else, you know, so I
sometimes it just doesn't. But I am here. I am
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You know my you know my my problems, well, at
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least the problems are I can't get here, not all,
not the ones that are in my head. But but anyways,
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Let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
As promise, we have Opie, Opie, welcome to the car Show.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
How can I help that?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Happy Valentine's Day to you?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
You too?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Did you get did you go.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
To and I'm watching I'm watching all these guys walking
out with flowers and candy and we'll do wrapping and stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, did you go and get your wife flowers in
car and chocolates?
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Or no, I'm gonna girl, I'm gonna girl some hamburgers
share a little bit, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, you know it's funny you say that real quick.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You know, as I stated earlier in the show, I
went to Kroger this morning to get my wife flowers
in a cart.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And there was I was laughing. I was laughing.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There was a guy, a gentleman, in front of me.
He was probably. He appeared to.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Be in his.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Maybe sixties, and he had a eighteen pack of Bichelobaltra
and a balloon that said I love you like man.
That that that is that's a Valentine's Day gift right there.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Man, well I've been I've been married thirty two years.
So we don't celebrate these Hallmark holidays.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
We don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, my wife and I, I mean we after the
birth of our son, we you know, we've always kind
of focused today on his birthday, and but we always
tried to do something a little you know. She got
me a nice golf jacket and got our flowers in
the car.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But uh so it's important. So but yeah, how can
I help you?
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Uh ninety three rangers at four World Rive has got
the four to zero in it. I just bought this
thing back in December, and when I bought it, I
put a new battery in. It's a five ninety battery
and I I had a problem with it. When it
gets blow twenty five degrees, won't start, It'll crank. I
mean it'll spin like there's no tomorrow, but it won't fire.
(26:12):
I've dragged my battery charger out, put the two hundred
hand boost, hook it up. You can't get your finger
off of the key fast enough, and it starts right up.
Once it gets warmed up, and then you shut it off,
it's fine. And you know, as long as you don't
sit for more than about six or eight hours, you know,
gets really cold again. But if it's above twenty five degrees,
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starts right up, well, I took I thought the battery
was problem, so I took the battery back. It's no
Riley's battery. And so I took the battery back and
they gave me another battery and I put it. Its
same problem. If it's above twenty five degrees, starts right
up blood twenty five degrees, it'll just sit and spin
all day long.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So it's it's so you're it's cranking.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
It's cranking, is aking fast? I mean it's not. I mean,
you know, you know, usually you get you know what
it's told you that r right right now. This thing
sends over like there's no tomorrow. I looked at putting
them like a seven fifty eight battery in it, but
it won't fit.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, Well, I mean, if it's I checked, I checked,
the fuel pressure because my uncle told me.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Might have a weak fuel pumped.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's what I feel pressure.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Fuel pressure is good.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Okay, what about any type of ignition parts coils?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I haven't checked any of that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, But like I said, I'm really worried.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
At twenty five degrees it'll start up. But if it's
below twenty five degrees, it won't start right. You know,
I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I've
ever heard anything like that. That I mean, I believe you,
but uh.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Yeah, because I've filled with it. One day, the first day,
the first real bad coach that we had. It was
on a Saturday. I went after stuck to say up
and it just crank and crank and crank. It wouldn't start,
and I start, I got mad at it. Well, I
grabbed battery charger. I hooked the charger up to it
and I let it. I put it on on the
on the the uh uh forty amp charge and let
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it sit for a few minutes on hooks the charger.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Good.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Set it was charged up and unhooked the chargers and
all did just crank and crank and crank, And I'm like, well,
all right, we'll crank it up, put two hundred amps
to it, and I hit the key. I couldn't get
my finger off the key fast.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Nothing and it lit right up.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
And that really sucks. When you're at four o'clock in
the morning. You gotta go to work. I gotta drag
the battery charger over there and hook it up to
get the damn thing to start to go work.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
My goodness.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Uh, then I had the battery, I hadn't advanced. They
got one him high the advanced got with him high
tech laptop and iPad looking things. They hooked it up
and they checked the alternator, the alternator in the battery.
You know, it's putting out third teen five, thirteen eight
battery had battery had thirteen thirteen some bolts in it,
(29:08):
and you know, and I checked it. I checked the battery,
I checked the I checked the battery bowlt just when
it was cold. It's still thirteen five. When it was cold,
it still just didn't have enough. It didn't have enough
guts to get it started.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, have you tried? Well, Okay, I don't think it's
a battery issue. I can tell you that much. I
don't think you're dealing with the battery issue because it's cranking.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
So if your fuel pressure is good. Two things you
can try.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
One, try to just cycle the key, just just two
or three times. Just cycle it, leave it, you know,
turn the key on. Cycle it, don't start it. Turn
the key on, cycle it for you know, five seconds,
and then shut it off. Do it three times. I've
tried that, okay, and that doesn't fix it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Have you tried to just spray a little bit of
ether in there, just just to eliminate that. I I
know that fuel pressure is good, but just to see
if you hit it with you know, all you gotta
do is take the air box off and just hit
it with a little bit of ether.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Just to see if I was gonna I was going
to try that, but it was it was it was
so cold the other in the morning. And then the
way the air, the way the air storcles made on
this thing, it's a giant pain in.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The all right, Okay, Well, so.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I couldn't do that. And the other thing is I
didn't want to pray starting through the mass airflow center.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
No, yeah, don't do that now. We don't want we
don't want that. Well, unfortunately, I mean with with the cold.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I mean it again, it could be I mean it
could be in a computer issue where that the temperature,
you know, the computer itself is not working because of
the cold. I mean, we could be dealing with the
coil issue, man. I mean that that's one of those
things where you need to get it to a shop
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below twenty five degree or you know, when it's below
twenty five degrees and try to have them look to
make sure that you have spark, you have fuel.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
You know, that's the other thing. Do you know if
you have spark or not?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
I mean, once I get it started, as soon as
I hook my soon as I hook jump box up
to my battery charger and put it on, boost starts
right up. And once it starts up, you shut it
off and then then it starts right back up. It's
just that initial it's that initial cold that it don't
want to start, like it's it'll sit all day at work,
you know, Well, I'll I go out at break time
(31:37):
and you know, it'll sit for four hours or something.
I just go out to sit in my truck, listen
to the radio, and I'll start it up just because
it's cold. That starts right up.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So all right, so right, so, I mean obviously you
need air, you need fuel, you need sparks.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So here's what I want.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Can you access one of the spark plot the one
of the ignition wires. So what So here's what I
want you to take one of those, pop one of
them bad boys off when it won't start and get it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Pull it off enough.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Now you're gonna need somebody to help caesters. Okay, So
if it's below twenty five degrees, let's find out if
we've got spark. You know, try try that, because it
sounds like you've kind of covered all your bases. I
don't think it's a battery issue. It doesn't appear to
be a fuel issue. Let's make sure we have spark
now again. You know, again, we're dealing with potentially a
(32:32):
coil issue or a computer issue where the computer's just
so cold. It's just you know, it has to be
at a I mean, that's something that can be as
simple as again, just a coil issue or a or
a crank sensor and it's just because of that temperature
it's just not working, or a computer issue. So it's
(32:54):
one of those things where I'm sorry, there's a lot
of bases to cover there. But the problem is is
right now, I mean, it's not gonna be below twenty
five probably for the next week or two, so it's
gonna be kind of difficult.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Yeah, exactly, bumble warming, bring it on.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, yes, this is the coldest winter I've seen in
a while. So but uh well, I'll tell you what,
keep keep keep investigating. I find out if you've got
sparking and called me back.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
All right, all right, yeah, hopefully hopefully we won't have
another another one in eleven blow zero days.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, we'll get into that Kroger and get your wife
some flowers in a car.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
She'll thank you, get Hamburger. I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Handler light in a balloon. All right, all right, thank
you sir, having great day. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh man, that was I could not stop laughing about
that this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
So all right, taking your phone calls and I'm gonna
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Speaker 3 (34:06):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
Taking your car questions. The number to call five one
three seven four nine fifty five hundred. We are rapidly
running out of time. I do apologize. I'm gonna get
to these callers who are patiently wait, and I really
do appreciate it. Let's go back to the phones we have. Joe, Hey, Joe,
welcome to the car show. Thank you so much for
your patience. How can I help?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I have a I do like fleetwork for my company.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I do the maintenance, not so.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I have a twenty eleven four fifty at four I'm sorry,
E four fifty box van and I had not long
ago I'd noticed that the power steering reservoir power series
making noise, and then the reservoir was empty, and I
had filled it back up and the quieted it back
down and everything. And I don't drive it all the time.
(35:24):
A lot of the workers drive it, so I really
don't hear about anything wrong until it fails. But so
yesterday or the other day, it was making that noise
but constantly. You know, the noise it would make if
I was turning the wheel, but it was the constant noise.
So I just thought, well, maybe i'll just feel it
fluid again, and I go in there in the reservoir
was full, so I kind of listened, and I kind
(35:49):
of got into weeds with it, and I was started
thinking maybe the alternator was an alternator bearing. But there
was no problem with any voltage dropping or anything surging
or anything like that. And I do hear a little
bit of difference in the noise when I do turn
the wheel, and I'm kind of wondering if it's just
not as bad as it would sound if it was low,
(36:11):
because it has a lot of fluid in air that
could possibly make it not sound as bad as if
it were like a bad pump that was empty.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, so I don't know what kind of what you
was thinking that would be all right?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
So the noise changes when you turn the steering wheel correct.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I don't hear it as obvious as if it was
like low fluid, but it does seem to coincide with
turning the wheel, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
And then when you take while the while the vehicle's running,
when you take the cap off, does the fluid seem
to have any type of aerration and any type of
bubbles in it?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I haven't seen any I had. I haven't really looked
for that. I know when I took the cap off
the check it looked pretty solid. It didn't look you know,
bubbly or cloudy or anything.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So a lot of times, especially because you had indicated
that it ran low at one point, there could be
air trapped in the system. There could be air still
trapped in it, which could cause the pump to make
that wine type noise. So one, check for aerration, make
sure there are any bubbles in it. Two, what I
(37:15):
what I want you to do is if you can
a lot of times the is the reservoir attached to
the pump or is it.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Uh, separate.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Does it have a you know, two lines, an inlet
and an outlet or is it right above the pump?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
It is, I believe. So the reservoir is kind of
like towards the front of the right there on the
front near the radiator.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Okay, so it's not attached to a pump. No, it's
not like part of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So a lot of what can happen to you, So
one make sure there is a there is an aer ration. Again,
you could have some air build up inside the lines
which could be causing it. The other thing that you
can do too is now you wouldn't need to get it.
I mean it basically what I call, you know, some
type of evacuation tool like a sucker to remove the fluid.
(38:09):
A lot of times debris will build up inside the
screen at the bottom of the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, so even though the.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Fluid is full, it's deprived and the pump of the
proper fluid it needs because the screen is just not
filtering it fast enough. So you can try that because
again you know the fact that it ran low that
it could again the air could be trapped, so you know,
remove the fluid that's in there.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You don't. It doesn't have to be running. Remove the fluid.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
If you can get some type of device that can
remove the fluid, if you can take the reservoir off,
clean it out, do the best you can to clean
it all out.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Make sure that screen at the bottom of it is
cleaned out.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Now if it still continues it a lot of the
times too, you have to use some type of vacuum
system where it you know, it's basically forcing the fluid
out and and you know, because there's probably it sounds
like there's probably some potential aerration. Now again, it could
be at tentioner or something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I would physically need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know, you're you're more than welcome to swing it
by one day and I'll come out there and listen
to it. But we could use a stethoscope, but take
five minutes of your time. But the fact that it
was low and you added it and you're still kind
of experiencing and the noise changes when you turn the
steering world leads me to believe that it is still
in the power steering. And again it just could be
(39:32):
air trapped in the system itself. So make sure the
screen's cleaned. You can do that yourself, and if it
still does it, then you probably will need to take
it to a repair. So, I mean, you can buy
a vacuum system for the power string where it. You know,
Fords are kind of notorious for that. Guitaruses were the
worst trying to get air out of that system. So
(39:53):
I think it's just air trapped in the system and
you just got to get it out. You just gotta
you know, the other thing you can do well, I
wouldn't work on this particular situation, but try that first.
Make sure the reservoir's cleaned up, and then if it's
still you know, fill it back up. And then if
it's still doing it, we need to get the air
out at least, you know, try to. And like I said, I,
(40:15):
if you've got time, you're more than welcome to swing by.
I can take a listen for you. But it sounds
like it's just air just stuck in the system. You
just got to get it out, that's all, okay, Absolutely, yeah,
it's not a pump. It's not a pump issue. It's
I promise you all right. It's almost I almost never
replaced pumps because of that that particular situation.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
So thanks for holding on. I appreciate you ever.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Great weekend, Take care bye bye. All right, real quick,
we've got Danny. Hey, Danny, welcome to the car show.
I uh, I've got about about a minute and a half.
I do apologize, but I like to.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Get to you. I'll make it quick. Thank you first,
go for taking my call. Absolutely, I've got a I've got.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
A twenty seventeen Chevrolet Colorado. I recently bought four brand
new rims, put four brand new tires on it. It
had like seventy something thousand miles. When I did that,
I noticed when I drive it between like thirty eight
and maybe forty three forty four miles prior, I get
(41:16):
a shimmy and a steering wheel.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
After it gets past that. If it gets up to
like forty five forty.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Six, it goes away.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
I've had the tires balance two different times, thinking that
they weren't balanced right.
Speaker 7 (41:27):
But it still doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, all right, so here, so let me ask you something.
It's only it doesn't do it when you break. It's
only between thirty five and forty under acceleration that you
notice the vibration.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Yeah, if I'm on I seventy five or whatever, and
driving when I get up to that thirty thirty eight
mile prior, you can feel it start. It'll go up
until about forty four forty five miles prior, and then
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Okay, here's what I want you to do. You said
wheels and tires. Correct, Yes, sir, Okay, the wheels. You
want to make sure that they came with a a
cone for the center of the wheel, right, So a
lot of times aftermarket wheels will just be there. They're universal, right,
So you put them on there, and even though you
bolt them up properly, they're still not centered properly.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
So you could be dealing with that.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
So you want to make sure that it has what's
called a hub hub hub hub ring. You want to
make sure those wheels that they put on has a
hub ring. Okay, because again, even though you bold them
up in theory, you're like, hey, if I bolt them up,
it should it should center that wheel. Well, that's not
always the case. So make sure that the wheels that
you purchased align with the hub. If they don't, make
(42:39):
sure that it most of them don't, but you want
to make sure that they have a hub ring.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Now, the other thing is is the wheel.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
The tires themselves could be out around and you know,
and and causing your issue.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
So what I would recommend when you had them balanced.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Going forward, what I want to see you do is
you want to have them road force balanced. You want
to find somebody who has a road force balancer and
what basically what it does is it applies road force
because it could just be a tire issue.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
So again, the wheels, make sure they have hub rings.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
If they do, get them road force balanced, and then
I want to get those get those two things done
and checked, and then you call me back.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
All right. I'm sorry to cut you short. Thank you sir.
Everybody have a great Valentine's Day. I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
I will be back next Saturday to answer all of
your car questions.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Thank you so much again, everybody.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Happy Valentine's Day, Aiden, Happy birthday, brother, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Have a great day. You're listening to the Car Show
on fifty five KRC, the talk station
Speaker 5 (44:01):
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