March 21, 2026 • 40 mins
Dane Donovan takes your car questions. He shares a story about a customer's car that had been sitting for a month, and how he helped her get back on the road. Dane also discusses the importance of regular oil changes and the benefits of using seafoam to prevent engine issues. He also talks about the difference between older and newer cars, including the use of AGM batteries and the challenges of working with complex computer systems.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But some.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jotting down there and the lid down.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. Dane Donovan
taking your car questions. The number to call five one four,
So I forgot the number. Uh sorry, I got I
got excited, but.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Uh, look any numbers and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But you know, Xavier's been playing basketball for the past
three weeks, and uh, I haven't been here, and unfortunately
they went down in a dismal loss. And then and
then my team, you see, uh they they had a
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horrible loss as well also, but uh, you know it's
the season, you know, March Madness. You know, that's that's
what uh, that's what happens when uh but I don't know.
I guess being in Cincinnati, you really don't. You don't
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really have high hopes for any of our teams, right,
I mean we did get we you know, I did
get to see the Bengals go to the Super Bowl,
and again we lost that have I you know, I
was born when the Reds won the World Series, but
you know I was I was very young, so I
don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But uh man, Cincinnati sports are.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Just are just uh oh, it's it's just hard to
to watch I try not to put uh too much
effort into it because then, you know, well back in
years ago when the Bengals were were winning, in the
year that we were going to the Super Bowl, you know,
my wife's like, I'm just going to leave the house
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because you know, I'm screaming at the TV and she's like,
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna leave. So so I
try not to invest too much effort into it in time,
because man, I just feel like they Cincinnati Sports are
always letting me down. So real quick, I want to
talk about again. I'm taking your car questions. Love to
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hear from you, but uh, you know, I got a
phone call for Actually I didn't get a phone call.
My wife was on Facebook and a customer, a great
customer of mine, call put on Facebook, Hey who puts
batteries in on Saturday? Because Donovan's is closed. So I
knew the customer. I reached out to the customer. I said, Hey,
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what's going on? She said, well, my daughter was going
to work in and uh the vehicle won't start. I said,
all right, well I'll you know, I said, I'm going
to go. I'll go get my jump pack. I'll run
down there and she's like, you don't have to do that,
it's a Saturday. I'm like, I don't care if if
that's what I got to do, I'm gonna take care
of my customers. And truly, it's it's about taking care
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of the customer and that's what I what we at
Donovan's really really strive on. And if it's after hours,
before hours, if it's on the weekend, whatever I got
to do to make sure that, you know, and again,
you know, their daughter had to get to work. She
ended up taking a different car, but she was like, hey, Dane,
you know my daughter's going back to Notre Dame tomorrow
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going back to school. Kind of need this car, right,
And we've all been in that situation, and you know,
I was like, hey, I'm gonna I'll hop in the
shower real quick.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I said, I'll be down there in fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And obviously she's They were very very appreciative, and come
to find out the car had been sitting for about
a month. Right, the car was the car's three years old,
four years old technically, and again the average life of
a batteries three to four years. Right, So she goes,
what should we do, I said, well, the battery. The
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voltage on the battery is a little low, I said,
but I don't think you need a battery. So what
happened was because of because again, these these newer cars,
they are computers on wheels, right, So you know, when
the components of these views and again everything in your car.
If you have a newer car, you know, I would
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say probably, you know, I mean anyway, I mean two
thousand and up. Really, but most of your car is
operated by modules in different computers. Right, So when these
modules and computers don't get the proper voltage, they don't
do what they're supposed to be doing because they're not
getting the right voltage.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So, long story short, I'm able to get it started,
get it going, and they're like, you know, what do
we doing. I'm like, well, the battery is fine. Just
They're like, well, what's been sitting for over a month.
And I'm like, well, the battery tests good.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She's like, should we prey, you know, prevent uh, you know,
should we replace the battery now? And I said, well,
I mean again, the average life of batteries three to
four years. But the problem with batteries is you know,
you will. I can test a battery today and in
two hours it'd be absolutely dead. Like it will not
give you any signals. Now, most batteries will. You'll get
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a slow crank or you'll get you will most of
the time get signs. But again, everybody, a lot of
times when we put batteries in vehicles, again, people will go, oh,
I just did I just put that battery in and
you go back and it's like, well, it's been three
or four years, and like, yeah, that they should last longer.
It's not like your remote batteries in your TV remote, right,
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It's it's a car battery is demand that you know.
It's it's in the elements, it's in the high heat,
it's in the really really cold. And again, all of
the components of your vehicle need that battery, right, so
that old age needs to be there right. So in
that process, because the other components of the vehicle weren't
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working right, uh, the car basically kind of flooded out.
And again I was able to get it started, but
you know, she goes, Dame, should I replace it? I'm like, I,
you know, as of right now, it looks it's fine.
It was just because it was sitting for for over
a month.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you know again going into the summer, you know,
extreme cold and extreme heat, will it puts a massive
strain on your batteries. Now again, a lot of these
newer cars have multiple batteries. Uh, you have an auxiliary
battery and you have a starting battery. I mean my, my,
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my truck has two batteries and two alternators. So a
lot of these because these cars again, everything in I
mean your door locks, your your your you know, your radio,
your your I mean everything has a module and everything
demands the proper battery volage. Now again, most of all
your new cars nowadays.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They have what's.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Called a AGM battery. Okay, so years and years ago
you had a you know, a acid filled battery, right,
but now everything is a dry cell battery, which leads
to yes, it's better and they are supposed to last longer.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But however, they are a lot more expensive.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I just put a battery in a Mini Cooper a
couple of days ago, and it was almost five hundred dollars.
Now a lot of people go, well, I could go
to you know, so and so car parks place and
get one for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, you know, on a BMW and a Mini.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You have to properly you have to put that battery in,
and then you have to go in with a computer,
and you can't do this at home. Go on with
a computer and tell that car that you put a
new battery in it. Otherwise the alternator won't properly charge
the battery. It'll either overcharge it or undercharge it, and
then you you run the risk of doing damage to
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your vehicle. Right, So it's not something that you can
really do anymore. On these newer cars, the batteries are
just they are very these cars are very sophisticated, and
it's it's just it's not the way it used to be. So,
you know, and again luckily in this particular case, we're
able to get her started, get it going, and she's
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gonna be able to drive back to Notre Dame. And
I said, if it doesn't start, They're like, would you
trust your daughter to go back back to school?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And I said, I'd tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If if it won't start, I said, I'll drive to
Notre Dame. I could use a walk around the campus
and take a look at the place. So I was
there once in my life. My dad took me to
a football game there, beautiful campus. But I said, I'll
go there myself if I have to. And they're like,
you're not going to drive four hours. I'm like, hey,
whatever I gotta do. So it's important. I always want
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to take care of my customers. So all right, coming up, Well,
he looks like you just dropped off. So you're listening
to the car show on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
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Speaker 1 (09:18):
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Speaker 5 (09:51):
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Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm getting rusty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm just getting old. You know, I was out late.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You know, my bedtime's usually eight o'clock, and uh, I
was out till like midnight. So I'm just I'm my
bearings are just all out of whax. So seven five
one three seven fifty five hundred, you know, trying to
keep zip codes and phone numbers together as I don't know, man,
I just have a mental block. I don't know what's
(10:29):
going on. So I think it was I think it
was Tony Bender. He distracted me and I got stuck
in traffic to get here as usual seventy one, you know,
can't get anywhere in the city without there being a
car accident. So all right again, I'm taking your phone
calls and I'm gonna call five one three, seven four
nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Let me see here we have Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome
to the car show. How can I help? Yeah, my
jim Key turning your radio down? Sorry, I'm getting feedback.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, and my wife has a twenty eleven
toyo the rel four.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Okay, just turned two hundred one thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yet what it just turned what two hundred one thousand?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, so toyo, it's still new. I can make it
go another four uself. But anyway, it won't start. It's
gonna brand new battery and it's kept plenty of gas
and fuel pressure. The guy next door is a technician.
He says, it's got a bad prom.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
What is a prom?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, twenty eleven RAD four is not going to have
a They don't have proms.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Proms are in them.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So your cars back in like the eighties, you know,
the seventies eighties when they started going to computers, there
was what's called a prom inside the computer, inside the
computer itself, and you could swap those out and put
dozen A twenty eleven four is not gonna have a problem.
It's gonna have a module. It does not have a
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I mean, it could potentially have a bad module, but
you can't. It doesn't have a problem. Okay, that's kind
of that's that's that's ultimate. In fact, I lord, I
haven't seen one in years, So now I don't will
it start on ether? No?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Well start, It's kept fuel for sure, stell gas. The
battery is good. I checked the battery and the load test.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Okay, but I'll figure out what's wrong with it. It's
not getting spark.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was gonna say, do you have sparks? So obviously
you need you need fuel, you need spark. You're saying
it does. You're not getting sparked.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No, it's got a bad module on it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It could they They toyotas have had issues with the modules,
but it's not a problem. Problems were inside the modules,
and those were in older cars. You can't replace them.
They don't cars these cars nowadays don't have proms, they
have modules. So it could be potentially, I mean you
would need to see if you have a signal coming
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out of the that module.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But uh, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Could just be you know, I mean, unfortunately, there there
would be something that I would need to diagnose. I mean,
if you don't have spark, then we need to figure
out exactly if it's a you know, distribute issue ignition.
I mean, it could be a bad crankshaft positioning sensor
that's not sending the signal. I mean, there's there's a
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lot of things that could could result in that. But
if it sounds like you've identified it as far as
like you know, you don't have sparks, so.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
It's gonna be water today. So I'm gonna check my
garage and I'm gonna i'll find.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That call me back. I want to know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All right, all right, thank you man. That feedback was
killing me. Um, all right, let's go back to the funds.
We've got Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey? I'm doing pretty good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm good. I'm out of sorts today. I don't know
what's going on with me. I've been all right.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Well, anyway, I've got a twenty twenty three Chevy Camara
LT one with the six point two liters V eight
and ten speed automatic. And I got a couple questions.
First question is I'm the third owner. It's got thirty
three thousand miles fluster transmission or not?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Thirty three thousand miles.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Thirty three thousand miles fluster transmission or not? The dealer
said to wait till forty five thousand. I'm not sure
about that, um.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Now, And what you said? It's a twenty three.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yeah, twenty twenty three Chevy Camaro LT one ten speed automatic.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Umm, no, I no, I don't. I don't. I mean
you can.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I mean, there's nothing wrong with being preventive doing it early.
It's not let me let me put it this way.
It's not going to hurt uh, you know, but I'm.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Just want to blow the transmission up. That's what I
was getting after. Is the dealer full of it?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Or should?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Or where do I stand with?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Do they recommend a flush or like a draining field?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Can?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I mean, I think it's a flush. I'm not one
hundred percent sure, Dame.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
I think I think they said do a flush at
forty five, but basically they said don't touch the transmission
till forty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I flushed the Chevy Cruz.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I had at forty thousand, so I was like, hmm,
that just sounds high on the mileage. I was still
want to blow my transmission up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I mean I'm not opposed to it. I mean, you know,
I like I said earlier, I stated earlier in the show.
You know we you know, I have a newer truck,
and then you know they told me, hey, change oil
every fifteen thousand miles. I'm like, I'm not doing that.
I'm going to do it at five thousand. I mean,
you know, I have the ability to do it at
five thousand, but you know I don't. I mean, does
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it you know I don't necessarily like flushes per se.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I would need to do a little bit of research
whether or not it has a filter. Like I'd be
more inclined to doing a you know, a filter change
and just doing a refill opposed to a flush. A
lot of times when you do a flush, it's a
little evasive. Your you're forcing that fluid through through that filter.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now again, like like Hondas and Toyotas, they don't have filters,
they have screens, And that's why you don't really typically
want to flush a Honda or Toyota. You want to
do a draining film. What I would recommend is find
out if it has a filter that can be replaced,
and I would change the filter and do a transmission service.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I would do that before I did a flush, because again,
if you're not going to change if it has as
a filter and you're forcing all that, you know, with
it being a twenty three, I'm not all these these
uh transmissions.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I mean, is it a is it a is it
a CBT? Transmission, do you know?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Probably? I mean, I wouldn't want to be quoted on that.
Off the top of my head, I would imagine it's.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
All these Yeah, all these cars have CBTs and them
in so they don't have filters.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, I don't think. I I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Just ten years ago we were recommending transmission services every
thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So I think I don't think. I really don't think
it'd be a problem. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have a
problem with it at all.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Okay, Well, I'm not laid either on the service.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Right, correct? Yeah, what was your other question?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
My other question is, uh, what would it take to
run the car on e eighty five? Because I've heard
of eighty five kits and what you're shot able to
put the kid on?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
No, we really, I mean, we wouldn't do anything like that.
But I mean, well, why do you want to go
to e eighty five?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Well, not to get political, but with the gas prices
high and the thing only runs on the power exclusively,
that's kind of why I'd like to run it on
eighty five.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's just.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I mean, I really think it's just temper I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I wouldn't do it. I just I don't think so.
I mean, you start temperament things like that, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't recommend that, and I don't even know who
would do it, but I can tell you we won't
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It just I try to stick to the factory.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Stuff, the stuff that we can get from the dealer
or you know, locally sourced.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I just don't get into modifying or doing anything like that.
I mean, personally, I wouldn't do it, don't. I don't
know that you're going to necessarily, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I just don't like tampering with factory stuff. That's just me.
That's just my personal preference, right.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Some people, some people go out by a brand new
one hundred thousand dollars truck and then do a you know,
four inch lift and tires and wheels and lights and
all that, and it's like, man, that's just not me.
I don't like tampering with factory stuff because I see,
you know, three four, five years down the road, what
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headaches it causes.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And I just.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
The guy goes by lethal garage and he claims that
the kit that he has is GM sensors and stuff
that only GM makes. So I was wondering if he
knew anything kind of about going this direction, or if
it's something that you just wouldn't do, or I wouldn't
do this.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I don't
see the benefit to it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And again, in three weeks, the gas prices maybe back
down to where they were, they may be more, but
I I just I wouldn't do it in my personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I just don't like tampering with factory stuff because you know,
you get in there somebody who might install it as
a for the lack of a better word, a hack,
and he's hacking into wires and then you run down
the road and you've got module issues and headaches. And
you know, for me, I want simplicity in life. I
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you know, life is already challenging enough with the factory stuff,
and then when you go tampering with that factory stuff,
it just.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Just brings on more headaches.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I mean, I understand the gas prices are expensive because
my truck's a diesel and diesel's shot up too, but
it's not gonna I'm not going to change how the
truck runs just because of the you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't like people, and it's just I don't like
people tinkering with my stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That just that's but that's me. That's just my preference,
you know, So I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, I definitely appreciate your take on that.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I was just wondering, you know, what it caused damage
to the vehicle or what might happen, because I mean,
you really can't put regular in it because it'll create
spark knock.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
This is six point two weeks of V eight. You
can't do that, right, And uh, I think according.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
To the owner's manual, you have to only use Shell
gas because only Shell has the clean certified gas or
whatever the heck well, not like something about the gas
has got to be like cleaned a certain way or
whatever because it's a direct injection engine and all that jazz.
So that's why I'm sticking the shelfy gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, all right, Well, good luck to you, all right,
all right, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, you take.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Care, bye bye, all right again, taking your taking your
phone calls on them, well call five one, three, seven
four nine fifty five hundred coming up.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
We have who we have?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
We have uh Todd and John and let's say Deanna.
So you're listening to the car showing fifty five cars
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Speaker 2 (23:09):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Then number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three seven
four nine fifty five hundred. Yes, Xavier again. Basketball has
been going on for three weeks and I lost my bearings.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I rushed in here.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I was stuck on seventy one in a car accident
and what not me there was another car accident, and
in fact, Tony Benner called me, but I was on
the phone when he called me, and he's like, hey,
there's a traffic accident on seventy one, and just so
you know, I don't need to take seventy one. But
I was dropping my son off, so I lost my bearings.
So I do apologize. So all right, let's go back
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to the phones. We have Deanna, Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
How are you car?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Here we go? I have a twenty fifteen Tucson and
I know a while back I was listening to you
were talking about adding the seafoam because they burn oil.
I had put some in.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
I put half a can in because I didn't know
what to put in, and it helped. It was I
was adding oil maybe every two weeks, a quarter of oil,
maybe less, and now it's about a month and a half.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it has helped. I didn't know how often if
this is like something I need to keep doing or
wait till it gets bad again, or no.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I so typically what I recommend is are you I'm
assuming the seafoam that you're doing is is you know
you put it? You added it to the gas tank.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Correct, well, the last time I put it in the oil.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because they do have they have a couple of different products.
But yeah, what happens is those rings get all plugged
up with you know, carbon and the oil soot, and
then the rings don't they allow the oil to get
past the ring. So no, I would I would added
every oil change.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Okay, the whole care or half the care.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I to be honest with you, I would read the
the bottle of the product itself.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Uh, I'm not quite sure on exactly how much. Uh,
I'm so sorry. I think read Yeah, it usually it
depends on the amount of oil that is in car
if it's you know, it's sometimes some of these products,
like you know, Lucas oils has a has an additive
to where it's like, hey, if you put four quarts in,
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use a quarter of the bottle. If you have six quarts,
but half the bottle. You know, So I would read
the but I would do it every oil change. I'm
I'm I'm happy to hear though you added it and
it and you saw it, you saw a change it
may oh okay, good okay.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's got a hurt one thousand miles on it, so.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, waiting for it to blow up. Yeah, I would
do it every want. Now let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
How often are you How often are you typically changing
your oil mileage one?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I don't know if I should answer that that.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well, before I put the sea foam in it, I
very rarely got the change. I would constantly. Yeah, so
why waste the money? So now maybe a month and
a half I put some in. I'm I'm probably it
six thousand miles right now on my oil change. Well
that do they make one specifically for oil or is
(26:41):
it just all a gas added if? Are they all
the same?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
They know they make one for oil and then they
make one for gas. I mean you can put sea
foam in your lawnmower. I mean it's it's it's a
good product. It's a great product.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I use it on my two cycle and usually two
cycle oil goes bad very quickly in the summer, and
I'll get a tank like a two gallon jass can't
last like two years with seabone and it just doesn't
go bad.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Great yeah, yeah, great product.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you know that you know, and that's I I'm
obviously you know you heard me talking about seaphone, But
you know that's that's the conversation that you know, I
like to have with people because we've gotten away from
I mean, I understand that cars can last a lot
longer and they need less maintenance. But the number one
reason why people come into my shop nowadays is because
(27:33):
their cars are broke down. Because the cars don't have
any oil on them. So it sounds like you're ahead
of the curve.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
You're checking it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's the most important part as long you know, as
long as you're I mean, you do want to change
the filter because that filter will collapse and then not
do what it's supposed to do and get those particles out.
So you still want to do it. But five or
six thousand miles is where I want you to be at.
You know, I even if it's I know, I understand
that you're adding it and you're like, well, it's kind
of of the you know, kind of redundant, why would
(28:01):
I change it? But it still is good to get
that because I mean that oil is going to burn off.
You know, the the products that are in that oil
are gonna break down and burn off and and and
you know, so it is still critical that you get.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It changed, even if it is burning it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But again a lot of times cars come into me
and the filters is it's literally they have a they're
literally collapsed because they're just they're not doing their job.
So you still want to change that filter. It's still
good to get it done. But yeah, any any listener
that's listening right now, I don't care what kind of
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car you I don't care if you have a BMW
or Mercedes, or a Hyundai or a Kia. Five six
thousand miles is when you should be changing your oil period.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I don't care what the car tells you to do.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I don't care what the guy that sold it too
you tells you do, or your neighbor down the street, Bob,
who was a mechanic for twenty years. I'm telling you
the all of these cars burn oil and they need
to be changed regularly. And it's the number one reason
why cars come into my shop.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Most people say like, well, you know, yeah, drives up business.
But I hate making that phone call to all the
customer going hey, listen. You know, I have a Chevy
Tracks in my shop right now, no oil in it.
And you know this, this young lady's three thousand dollars
to fix this the car now again. Yeah, sure it's
but I you know, I hate making that phone call
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to people because that's a lot of money, you know,
And and I have this luckily, I've been blessed with
this platform to talk about it and just tell people, hey, look,
change your oil. It's so important. It's the cheapest, easiest
thing that you can do to get the longevity your car.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because as you.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Know, the average price of a vehicle today is fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Right, so bad.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Protect your investment, change your oil, or at least check
it regularly and making sure that it's it. You know,
it's full. You know, that's that's important. So you know, Dan,
you're on it. You're putting the sea foam in it.
It's a great product. And again what happens is that
if you look actually out of piston, you know, the
rings itself has holes in it, and then they get
built up with carbon and soot, and then that's what
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allows the doesn't allow the rings to do their job.
So that seafoam's supposed to break that down. So you're
on it. Just keep your eye on it, make sure
it's full. That's the most important thing. But changing in
every five six thousand miles is so important. So you're
doing a great job. Keep up the good work, and
thank you for the call. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, I get on.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
This tangent, But how I'm telling you it is so important.
These cars are so expensive, and you know, I mean
even I mean even my wife's car. I mean hearst
burns a little bit of oil. Not not as bad
as the Hyundai's in the Kias, but that you got
to check it.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's just important.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That's how you're going to get the most life out
of your cars, changing or regularly. And listen, no matter
if you take it to the dealer, if you bring
it to Donovans, you take it to the dealer, or
you take it to your local shop, they are all
gonna put a little sticker up in that window, okay.
And that sticker is your most vital, most important part
(31:16):
of changing your oil. Focus on that so often. I
get people all the time like, well, my car says
I still have ten percent life left, you know, that
goes right through me because you know, yeah, it has
ten percent, but guess what, the car doesn't have any
oil in it. You know a lot of times people
think that that's how much oil is left in the car.
(31:39):
The car could have zero, It could have a half
a cord in it, and it might say, hey, ten
percent life left, but there's no And and everybody, you know,
when I got into this business twenty years ago, you
would have an oil light and that oil light would
kick on. I have not probably in I bet I
haven't seen an oil oil light on in a car
(32:01):
in ten fifteen years. These cars, don't they oil lights
do not come on. Everybody has this pre notion like,
oh the oil light will come on if it's low.
That it does not. I never see it ever, you know.
And I get these cars day in and day out,
almost on a daily basis, running bad. Like I said,
(32:21):
I just have a young Lady Chevy Tracks and you know,
there's no oil in the car and it causes major,
major engine malfunctions and damage. So it's important. So all right,
coming up, we have we have Todd, John and Brian.
You're listening to the car show and fifty five K
see the talk station.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
What I specifically like about Donovan's is I feel like
they're very honest about their service, honest about the needs
of our vehicles. I want somebody I could trust and
we could talk and have a long term relationship with.
They prioritize what's needed now versus what's needed later. I
don't see any reason why we would go anywhere else.
Speaker 12 (32:57):
Hi Dale Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center choice for
car repair and Cincinnati since nineteen fifty eight. Every time
you bring your vehicle to Donovan's, you know you're getting
everything your car needs and nothing it doesn't find the
one nearest to you at Donovantyre dot com.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
The number call five one three seven, fifty five, one hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Are running out of time, so I want to get
to all these customers. Are these these callers?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I apologize going to John, Hey John, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
How can I help?
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Hey, Dane, I didn't I don't have a quick question.
I'm just going to give you some information. The gentleman
had called about the prom and you didn't know what
prom was. Problem stands for programma will read only memory.
It's where the program is stored that the ECU processor executes. Today,
with flash memory, you used the what JA twenty five
thirty four to update flash memory, which doesn't have to
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be removed. But in the old ECUs, like in the
mid to late nineties, they were a special chip, right,
that one called the m COW and you would snap
that into the ECU.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Correct, you would take you would literally take it apart,
and you'd snap it out and put a new PROM in.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Correct.
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Right, But that's what PROM stands for programma will read
only memory. Another thing, Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I was just going to say, I mean, but uh,
you know, but but all these cars, I mean, I
mean they're they're you know, to my knowledge, back in
the in like you said, in the eighties and the nineties,
you know, if there was an issue with it, you
would take that module out or that computer out, and
you would take it apart and put a you'd snap
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a you know, a new PROM in there.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Correct.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Yeah, But usually an ECU, the the memories don't fail, Okay,
they'll they'll uh, it's other components. It's the components that
do the heavy list to lift and drive the soul
anoids and relay some things like that. The memories very
rarely fail. When when you do an update on a
new vehicle, you know over the internet where you use
J twenty five thirty four to download undo the EACU,
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that's normally because they want to change something which will
make the vehicle run better or get better mileage. It's
not because or in some cases it's because somebody in
the software development group screwed up, but not usually not usually,
I don't want to take up time and get for
the other guy. The other thing I was going to
mention is the a GM batteries AGM batteries that stands
(35:29):
for absorbent glass MATT and they separate. The electrolyte is
actually in a fiberglass like a sponge, so they're they're
sealed and you can you can mount them on their
sides and because of the way they're constructed, that's why
they're more expensive. But the characteristics are better.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So correct yeah, yeah, but you know, correct, and then
you know you're not you know, you're not putting you know.
I remember like when I got into this might you know,
we would you know, pop those caps off and you'd
put that you know, distilled water and you get the
lead acid in it. But but nowadays, yeah, you can
put them on their side and yeah, and that's the thing.
(36:15):
Like these batteries nowadays are everybody's like, why are they
so expensive? I'm like, because they're all all you know,
I mean, and some some of them have multiple batteries,
Like I said.
Speaker 13 (36:24):
You know, so, yeah, but batteries are there's still there's
still lead acid. It's just that the electrolyte is in
like a sponge, so and they're sealed. You can still
get sealed flooded cell batteries, you know, where you don't
have to add water. But you're right, I mean what
would happen on the original flooded cell batteries as the
water would evaporate and you have to add more water. Okay,
(36:47):
before I let you go, one quick other question. How
do you feel about sealed transmissions having the transmissions flood changed?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You know, great question.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You know Audi and you know Audi is one of
them that has you know, they can they consider it
a seal transmission and it's lifetime fluid. To be honest
with you, I've never seen it at an AUDI transmission ever.
Go bad, I mean, but that doesn't just because I
haven't seen it doesn't mean it can't happen.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (37:26):
Well, I've got I've got a Genesis with a seal transmission,
and it's got over one hundred thousand miles on it
and it runs great, it shifts great and all of that.
But it's like, you know, I'd like to have the
fluid change just to be on the safe side.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
But I just was gonna, well, well, you know, to
be honest with you, a lot of the times when
we have done that because going on seal transmission again,
it does have a drain plug, but you can you
can reef.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know, you have to have a scan tool.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
It's got to be a certain temperature, and it has
multi has two drain plugs and YadA yah yahd yah.
A lot of times, you know, I don't know. Sometimes
I think we create problems by doing it.
Speaker 13 (38:02):
So I understand that, you.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Know, and we have. I mean, there there are times
where there was no transmission problem at all and we've
changed the fluid and then we created a problem.
Speaker 13 (38:14):
So yeah, okay, well I have I.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Have mixed feelings about it, you know, you know, I
come from a background where we sold a lot of
service and that that's that's when I got into this business.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's what we did.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We you know, you service these things every ten fifteen,
you know, but they're making these cars nowadays. Like you know,
your washer and dryer and you refrigerator at home, right,
it lasts for about five years and you throw it
away and get a new one.
Speaker 13 (38:43):
And right, well, I've got fifteens and I'm keeping them
as long as possible. Yeah, So no, anyway, I'll let
you catch.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Your Thank you, John, I appreciate it. Have a great day,
all right. Going back to Todd, Hey Todd, welcome to
the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Hey, Dane House or.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Dad, I's doing great. He's uh, he is down in
Florida living his best life.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
You know. He leaves now a little bit after Christmas
and goes down to Florida, plays golf and then once
it once the weather here breaks, he comes back. So
but he's uh, health wise and everything else. He's doing great.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
So good, dear. I've listened to him for years. But
number one is, I'll get to the point. I had
a friend and he's a pretty smart guy. Mechanically kept
going through batteries get to the point. I looked it
all up. I'm in the HVAC and the construction business
multi faceted, so I kept I went down there and
(39:39):
took my multimeter and it's strength pulling amperage. Uh when
it's when nothing is on, no hood light or anything.
So I said okay and looked it up. His radio
head storage in there, and he goes, I don't want
to lose my radio stations. I said, okay, it's training it.
I said, I have an r V and I said,
(40:00):
you need to have a disconnect. He went through three batteries.
He finally got a disconnect hack one of the previous callers.
You have to pop the head and disconnected so it's
not pulling amperage.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, I'm so sorry. I gotta cut you. I apologize, Todd.
I gotta cut you off. I gotta be out in
twenty seconds. So hey, listen, I appreciate everybody calling. I'll
be back next Saturday. No more's ave your basketball. So
I'll be back next Saturday to answer all your questions.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Thank you so much, everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Have a great week, and again I will be back
next Saturday to answer your questions. Todd, I do apologize.
Call back next week. I'll get you taken care of.
Be safe out there, take care of each other.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
You're listening to Car Show on fifty five k r
see D talk station
But some.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jotting down there and the lid down.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the car show. Dane Donovan
taking your car questions. The number to call five one four,
So I forgot the number. Uh sorry, I got I
got excited, but.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Uh, look any numbers and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But you know, Xavier's been playing basketball for the past
three weeks, and uh, I haven't been here, and unfortunately
they went down in a dismal loss. And then and
then my team, you see, uh they they had a
(00:58):
horrible loss as well also, but uh, you know it's
the season, you know, March Madness. You know, that's that's
what uh, that's what happens when uh but I don't know.
I guess being in Cincinnati, you really don't. You don't
(01:20):
really have high hopes for any of our teams, right,
I mean we did get we you know, I did
get to see the Bengals go to the Super Bowl,
and again we lost that have I you know, I
was born when the Reds won the World Series, but
you know I was I was very young, so I
don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But uh man, Cincinnati sports are.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Just are just uh oh, it's it's just hard to
to watch I try not to put uh too much
effort into it because then, you know, well back in
years ago when the Bengals were were winning, in the
year that we were going to the Super Bowl, you know,
my wife's like, I'm just going to leave the house
(02:01):
because you know, I'm screaming at the TV and she's like,
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna leave. So so I
try not to invest too much effort into it in time,
because man, I just feel like they Cincinnati Sports are
always letting me down. So real quick, I want to
talk about again. I'm taking your car questions. Love to
(02:22):
hear from you, but uh, you know, I got a
phone call for Actually I didn't get a phone call.
My wife was on Facebook and a customer, a great
customer of mine, call put on Facebook, Hey who puts
batteries in on Saturday? Because Donovan's is closed. So I
knew the customer. I reached out to the customer. I said, Hey,
(02:43):
what's going on? She said, well, my daughter was going
to work in and uh the vehicle won't start. I said,
all right, well I'll you know, I said, I'm going
to go. I'll go get my jump pack. I'll run
down there and she's like, you don't have to do that,
it's a Saturday. I'm like, I don't care if if
that's what I got to do, I'm gonna take care
of my customers. And truly, it's it's about taking care
(03:05):
of the customer and that's what I what we at
Donovan's really really strive on. And if it's after hours,
before hours, if it's on the weekend, whatever I got
to do to make sure that, you know, and again,
you know, their daughter had to get to work. She
ended up taking a different car, but she was like, hey, Dane,
you know my daughter's going back to Notre Dame tomorrow
(03:27):
going back to school. Kind of need this car, right,
And we've all been in that situation, and you know,
I was like, hey, I'm gonna I'll hop in the
shower real quick.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I said, I'll be down there in fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And obviously she's They were very very appreciative, and come
to find out the car had been sitting for about
a month. Right, the car was the car's three years old,
four years old technically, and again the average life of
a batteries three to four years. Right, So she goes,
what should we do, I said, well, the battery. The
(04:02):
voltage on the battery is a little low, I said,
but I don't think you need a battery. So what
happened was because of because again, these these newer cars,
they are computers on wheels, right, So you know, when
the components of these views and again everything in your car.
If you have a newer car, you know, I would
(04:24):
say probably, you know, I mean anyway, I mean two
thousand and up. Really, but most of your car is
operated by modules in different computers. Right, So when these
modules and computers don't get the proper voltage, they don't
do what they're supposed to be doing because they're not
getting the right voltage.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So, long story short, I'm able to get it started,
get it going, and they're like, you know, what do
we doing. I'm like, well, the battery is fine. Just
They're like, well, what's been sitting for over a month.
And I'm like, well, the battery tests good.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She's like, should we prey, you know, prevent uh, you know,
should we replace the battery now? And I said, well,
I mean again, the average life of batteries three to
four years. But the problem with batteries is you know,
you will. I can test a battery today and in
two hours it'd be absolutely dead. Like it will not
give you any signals. Now, most batteries will. You'll get
(05:22):
a slow crank or you'll get you will most of
the time get signs. But again, everybody, a lot of
times when we put batteries in vehicles, again, people will go, oh,
I just did I just put that battery in and
you go back and it's like, well, it's been three
or four years, and like, yeah, that they should last longer.
It's not like your remote batteries in your TV remote, right,
(05:44):
It's it's a car battery is demand that you know.
It's it's in the elements, it's in the high heat,
it's in the really really cold. And again, all of
the components of your vehicle need that battery, right, so
that old age needs to be there right. So in
that process, because the other components of the vehicle weren't
(06:07):
working right, uh, the car basically kind of flooded out.
And again I was able to get it started, but
you know, she goes, Dame, should I replace it? I'm like, I,
you know, as of right now, it looks it's fine.
It was just because it was sitting for for over
a month.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you know again going into the summer, you know,
extreme cold and extreme heat, will it puts a massive
strain on your batteries. Now again, a lot of these
newer cars have multiple batteries. Uh, you have an auxiliary
battery and you have a starting battery. I mean my, my,
(06:47):
my truck has two batteries and two alternators. So a
lot of these because these cars again, everything in I
mean your door locks, your your your you know, your radio,
your your I mean everything has a module and everything
demands the proper battery volage. Now again, most of all
your new cars nowadays.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
They have what's.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Called a AGM battery. Okay, so years and years ago
you had a you know, a acid filled battery, right,
but now everything is a dry cell battery, which leads
to yes, it's better and they are supposed to last longer.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But however, they are a lot more expensive.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I just put a battery in a Mini Cooper a
couple of days ago, and it was almost five hundred dollars.
Now a lot of people go, well, I could go
to you know, so and so car parks place and
get one for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, you know, on a BMW and a Mini.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You have to properly you have to put that battery in,
and then you have to go in with a computer,
and you can't do this at home. Go on with
a computer and tell that car that you put a
new battery in it. Otherwise the alternator won't properly charge
the battery. It'll either overcharge it or undercharge it, and
then you you run the risk of doing damage to
(08:12):
your vehicle. Right, So it's not something that you can
really do anymore. On these newer cars, the batteries are
just they are very these cars are very sophisticated, and
it's it's just it's not the way it used to be. So,
you know, and again luckily in this particular case, we're
able to get her started, get it going, and she's
(08:34):
gonna be able to drive back to Notre Dame. And
I said, if it doesn't start, They're like, would you
trust your daughter to go back back to school?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And I said, I'd tell you what.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If if it won't start, I said, I'll drive to
Notre Dame. I could use a walk around the campus
and take a look at the place. So I was
there once in my life. My dad took me to
a football game there, beautiful campus. But I said, I'll
go there myself if I have to. And they're like,
you're not going to drive four hours. I'm like, hey,
whatever I gotta do. So it's important. I always want
(09:04):
to take care of my customers. So all right, coming up, Well,
he looks like you just dropped off. So you're listening
to the car show on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
This is fifty five KARC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Your car isn't just a machine, it's your daily partner.
And with new cars becoming more expensive than ever, smart
maintenance for your current vehicle just makes sense. Hi, I'm
Dane Donovan, third generation owner at Donovan's Auto entire Center.
That's why at Donovan's we give you everything you need
and nothing you don't, honest expert service to keep your
car running longer. Donovan's Auto entire Center Cincinnati's honest choice
(09:38):
for auto repair since nineteen fifty eight, three locations in
Blue Ash, pleasant Ridge. In our new location near Xavier,
Donovan's Auto form find yours at donovantire dot com.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
All the news and the views of Brian Thomas, Monday
morning at five on fifty five JARC the talkstation.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm getting rusty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm just getting old. You know, I was out late.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You know, my bedtime's usually eight o'clock, and uh, I
was out till like midnight. So I'm just I'm my
bearings are just all out of whax. So seven five
one three seven fifty five hundred, you know, trying to
keep zip codes and phone numbers together as I don't know, man,
I just have a mental block. I don't know what's
(10:29):
going on. So I think it was I think it
was Tony Bender. He distracted me and I got stuck
in traffic to get here as usual seventy one, you know,
can't get anywhere in the city without there being a
car accident. So all right again, I'm taking your phone
calls and I'm gonna call five one three, seven four
nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Let me see here we have Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome
to the car show. How can I help? Yeah, my
jim Key turning your radio down? Sorry, I'm getting feedback.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, and my wife has a twenty eleven
toyo the rel four.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Okay, just turned two hundred one thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yet what it just turned what two hundred one thousand?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, so toyo, it's still new. I can make it
go another four uself. But anyway, it won't start. It's
gonna brand new battery and it's kept plenty of gas
and fuel pressure. The guy next door is a technician.
He says, it's got a bad prom.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
What is a prom?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, twenty eleven RAD four is not going to have
a They don't have proms.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Proms are in them.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So your cars back in like the eighties, you know,
the seventies eighties when they started going to computers, there
was what's called a prom inside the computer, inside the
computer itself, and you could swap those out and put
dozen A twenty eleven four is not gonna have a problem.
It's gonna have a module. It does not have a
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I mean, it could potentially have a bad module, but
you can't. It doesn't have a problem. Okay, that's kind
of that's that's that's ultimate. In fact, I lord, I
haven't seen one in years, So now I don't will
it start on ether? No?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Well start, It's kept fuel for sure, stell gas. The
battery is good. I checked the battery and the load test.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Okay, but I'll figure out what's wrong with it. It's
not getting spark.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was gonna say, do you have sparks? So obviously
you need you need fuel, you need spark. You're saying
it does. You're not getting sparked.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No, it's got a bad module on it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It could they They toyotas have had issues with the modules,
but it's not a problem. Problems were inside the modules,
and those were in older cars. You can't replace them.
They don't cars these cars nowadays don't have proms, they
have modules. So it could be potentially, I mean you
would need to see if you have a signal coming
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out of the that module.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But uh, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Could just be you know, I mean, unfortunately, there there
would be something that I would need to diagnose. I mean,
if you don't have spark, then we need to figure
out exactly if it's a you know, distribute issue ignition.
I mean, it could be a bad crankshaft positioning sensor
that's not sending the signal. I mean, there's there's a
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lot of things that could could result in that. But
if it sounds like you've identified it as far as
like you know, you don't have sparks, so.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
It's gonna be water today. So I'm gonna check my
garage and I'm gonna i'll find.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That call me back. I want to know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All right, all right, thank you man. That feedback was
killing me. Um, all right, let's go back to the funds.
We've got Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey? I'm doing pretty good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'm good. I'm out of sorts today. I don't know
what's going on with me. I've been all right.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Well, anyway, I've got a twenty twenty three Chevy Camara
LT one with the six point two liters V eight
and ten speed automatic. And I got a couple questions.
First question is I'm the third owner. It's got thirty
three thousand miles fluster transmission or not?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Thirty three thousand miles.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Thirty three thousand miles fluster transmission or not? The dealer
said to wait till forty five thousand. I'm not sure
about that, um.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Now, And what you said? It's a twenty three.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yeah, twenty twenty three Chevy Camaro LT one ten speed automatic.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Umm, no, I no, I don't. I don't. I mean
you can.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I mean, there's nothing wrong with being preventive doing it early.
It's not let me let me put it this way.
It's not going to hurt uh, you know, but I'm.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Just want to blow the transmission up. That's what I
was getting after. Is the dealer full of it?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Or should?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Or where do I stand with?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Do they recommend a flush or like a draining field?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Can?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I mean, I think it's a flush. I'm not one
hundred percent sure, Dame.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
I think I think they said do a flush at
forty five, but basically they said don't touch the transmission
till forty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I flushed the Chevy Cruz.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
I had at forty thousand, so I was like, hmm,
that just sounds high on the mileage. I was still
want to blow my transmission up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I mean I'm not opposed to it. I mean, you know,
I like I said earlier, I stated earlier in the show.
You know we you know, I have a newer truck,
and then you know they told me, hey, change oil
every fifteen thousand miles. I'm like, I'm not doing that.
I'm going to do it at five thousand. I mean,
you know, I have the ability to do it at
five thousand, but you know I don't. I mean, does
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it you know I don't necessarily like flushes per se.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I would need to do a little bit of research
whether or not it has a filter. Like I'd be
more inclined to doing a you know, a filter change
and just doing a refill opposed to a flush. A
lot of times when you do a flush, it's a
little evasive. Your you're forcing that fluid through through that filter.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now again, like like Hondas and Toyotas, they don't have filters,
they have screens, And that's why you don't really typically
want to flush a Honda or Toyota. You want to
do a draining film. What I would recommend is find
out if it has a filter that can be replaced,
and I would change the filter and do a transmission service.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I would.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I would do that before I did a flush, because again,
if you're not going to change if it has as
a filter and you're forcing all that, you know, with
it being a twenty three, I'm not all these these
uh transmissions.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I mean, is it a is it a is it
a CBT? Transmission, do you know?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Probably? I mean, I wouldn't want to be quoted on that.
Off the top of my head, I would imagine it's.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
All these Yeah, all these cars have CBTs and them
in so they don't have filters.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, I don't think. I I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Just ten years ago we were recommending transmission services every
thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So I think I don't think. I really don't think
it'd be a problem. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have a
problem with it at all.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Okay, Well, I'm not laid either on the service.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Right, correct? Yeah, what was your other question?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
My other question is, uh, what would it take to
run the car on e eighty five? Because I've heard
of eighty five kits and what you're shot able to
put the kid on?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
No, we really, I mean, we wouldn't do anything like that.
But I mean, well, why do you want to go
to e eighty five?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Well, not to get political, but with the gas prices
high and the thing only runs on the power exclusively,
that's kind of why I'd like to run it on
eighty five.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's just.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I mean, I really think it's just temper I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I wouldn't do it. I just I don't think so.
I mean, you start temperament things like that, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't recommend that, and I don't even know who
would do it, but I can tell you we won't
do it.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It just I try to stick to the factory.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Stuff, the stuff that we can get from the dealer
or you know, locally sourced.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I just don't get into modifying or doing anything like that.
I mean, personally, I wouldn't do it, don't. I don't
know that you're going to necessarily, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I just don't like tampering with factory stuff. That's just me.
That's just my personal preference, right.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Some people, some people go out by a brand new
one hundred thousand dollars truck and then do a you know,
four inch lift and tires and wheels and lights and
all that, and it's like, man, that's just not me.
I don't like tampering with factory stuff because I see,
you know, three four, five years down the road, what
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headaches it causes.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And I just.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
The guy goes by lethal garage and he claims that
the kit that he has is GM sensors and stuff
that only GM makes. So I was wondering if he
knew anything kind of about going this direction, or if
it's something that you just wouldn't do, or I wouldn't
do this.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I don't
see the benefit to it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And again, in three weeks, the gas prices maybe back
down to where they were, they may be more, but
I I just I wouldn't do it in my personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I just don't like tampering with factory stuff because you know,
you get in there somebody who might install it as
a for the lack of a better word, a hack,
and he's hacking into wires and then you run down
the road and you've got module issues and headaches. And
you know, for me, I want simplicity in life. I
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you know, life is already challenging enough with the factory stuff,
and then when you go tampering with that factory stuff,
it just.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Just brings on more headaches.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I mean, I understand the gas prices are expensive because
my truck's a diesel and diesel's shot up too, but
it's not gonna I'm not going to change how the
truck runs just because of the you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't like people, and it's just I don't like
people tinkering with my stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That just that's but that's me. That's just my preference,
you know, So I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, I definitely appreciate your take on that.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I was just wondering, you know, what it caused damage
to the vehicle or what might happen, because I mean,
you really can't put regular in it because it'll create
spark knock.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
This is six point two weeks of V eight. You
can't do that, right, And uh, I think according.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
To the owner's manual, you have to only use Shell
gas because only Shell has the clean certified gas or
whatever the heck well, not like something about the gas
has got to be like cleaned a certain way or
whatever because it's a direct injection engine and all that jazz.
So that's why I'm sticking the shelfy gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, all right, Well, good luck to you, all right,
all right, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, you take.
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Care, bye bye, all right again, taking your taking your
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Speaker 1 (22:19):
We have uh Todd and John and let's say Deanna.
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Taking your car questions.
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I was stuck on seventy one in a car accident
and what not me there was another car accident, and
in fact, Tony Benner called me, but I was on
the phone when he called me, and he's like, hey,
there's a traffic accident on seventy one, and just so
you know, I don't need to take seventy one. But
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So I do apologize. So all right, let's go back
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to the phones. We have Deanna, Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
How are you car?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Here we go? I have a twenty fifteen Tucson and
I know a while back I was listening to you
were talking about adding the seafoam because they burn oil.
I had put some in.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
I put half a can in because I didn't know
what to put in, and it helped. It was I
was adding oil maybe every two weeks, a quarter of oil,
maybe less, and now it's about a month and a half.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it has helped. I didn't know how often if
this is like something I need to keep doing or
wait till it gets bad again, or no.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I so typically what I recommend is are you I'm
assuming the seafoam that you're doing is is you know
you put it? You added it to the gas tank.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Correct, well, the last time I put it in the oil.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because they do have they have a couple of different products.
But yeah, what happens is those rings get all plugged
up with you know, carbon and the oil soot, and
then the rings don't they allow the oil to get
past the ring. So no, I would I would added
every oil change.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Okay, the whole care or half the care.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I to be honest with you, I would read the
the bottle of the product itself.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Uh, I'm not quite sure on exactly how much. Uh,
I'm so sorry. I think read Yeah, it usually it
depends on the amount of oil that is in car
if it's you know, it's sometimes some of these products,
like you know, Lucas oils has a has an additive
to where it's like, hey, if you put four quarts in,
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use a quarter of the bottle. If you have six quarts,
but half the bottle. You know, So I would read
the but I would do it every oil change. I'm
I'm I'm happy to hear though you added it and
it and you saw it, you saw a change it
may oh okay, good okay.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's got a hurt one thousand miles on it, so.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, waiting for it to blow up. Yeah, I would
do it every want. Now let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
How often are you How often are you typically changing
your oil mileage one?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
I don't know if I should answer that that.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well, before I put the sea foam in it, I
very rarely got the change. I would constantly. Yeah, so
why waste the money? So now maybe a month and
a half I put some in. I'm I'm probably it
six thousand miles right now on my oil change. Well
that do they make one specifically for oil or is
(26:41):
it just all a gas added if? Are they all
the same?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
They know they make one for oil and then they
make one for gas. I mean you can put sea
foam in your lawnmower. I mean it's it's it's a
good product. It's a great product.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I use it on my two cycle and usually two
cycle oil goes bad very quickly in the summer, and
I'll get a tank like a two gallon jass can't
last like two years with seabone and it just doesn't
go bad.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Great yeah, yeah, great product.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
But you know that you know, and that's I I'm
obviously you know you heard me talking about seaphone, But
you know that's that's the conversation that you know, I
like to have with people because we've gotten away from
I mean, I understand that cars can last a lot
longer and they need less maintenance. But the number one
reason why people come into my shop nowadays is because
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their cars are broke down. Because the cars don't have
any oil on them. So it sounds like you're ahead
of the curve.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
You're checking it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's the most important part as long you know, as
long as you're I mean, you do want to change
the filter because that filter will collapse and then not
do what it's supposed to do and get those particles out.
So you still want to do it. But five or
six thousand miles is where I want you to be at.
You know, I even if it's I know, I understand
that you're adding it and you're like, well, it's kind
of of the you know, kind of redundant, why would
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I change it? But it still is good to get
that because I mean that oil is going to burn off.
You know, the the products that are in that oil
are gonna break down and burn off and and and
you know, so it is still critical that you get.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It changed, even if it is burning it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But again a lot of times cars come into me
and the filters is it's literally they have a they're
literally collapsed because they're just they're not doing their job.
So you still want to change that filter. It's still
good to get it done. But yeah, any any listener
that's listening right now, I don't care what kind of
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car you I don't care if you have a BMW
or Mercedes, or a Hyundai or a Kia. Five six
thousand miles is when you should be changing your oil period.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I don't care what the car tells you to do.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I don't care what the guy that sold it too
you tells you do, or your neighbor down the street, Bob,
who was a mechanic for twenty years. I'm telling you
the all of these cars burn oil and they need
to be changed regularly. And it's the number one reason
why cars come into my shop.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Most people say like, well, you know, yeah, drives up business.
But I hate making that phone call to all the
customer going hey, listen. You know, I have a Chevy
Tracks in my shop right now, no oil in it.
And you know this, this young lady's three thousand dollars
to fix this the car now again. Yeah, sure it's
but I you know, I hate making that phone call
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to people because that's a lot of money, you know,
And and I have this luckily, I've been blessed with
this platform to talk about it and just tell people, hey, look,
change your oil. It's so important. It's the cheapest, easiest
thing that you can do to get the longevity your car.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because as you.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Know, the average price of a vehicle today is fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Right, so bad.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Protect your investment, change your oil, or at least check
it regularly and making sure that it's it. You know,
it's full. You know, that's that's important. So you know, Dan,
you're on it. You're putting the sea foam in it.
It's a great product. And again what happens is that
if you look actually out of piston, you know, the
rings itself has holes in it, and then they get
built up with carbon and soot, and then that's what
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allows the doesn't allow the rings to do their job.
So that seafoam's supposed to break that down. So you're
on it. Just keep your eye on it, make sure
it's full. That's the most important thing. But changing in
every five six thousand miles is so important. So you're
doing a great job. Keep up the good work, and
thank you for the call. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, I get on.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
This tangent, But how I'm telling you it is so important.
These cars are so expensive, and you know, I mean
even I mean even my wife's car. I mean hearst
burns a little bit of oil. Not not as bad
as the Hyundai's in the Kias, but that you got
to check it.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's just important.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
That's how you're going to get the most life out
of your cars, changing or regularly. And listen, no matter
if you take it to the dealer, if you bring
it to Donovans, you take it to the dealer, or
you take it to your local shop, they are all
gonna put a little sticker up in that window, okay.
And that sticker is your most vital, most important part
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of changing your oil. Focus on that so often. I
get people all the time like, well, my car says
I still have ten percent life left, you know, that
goes right through me because you know, yeah, it has
ten percent, but guess what, the car doesn't have any
oil in it. You know a lot of times people
think that that's how much oil is left in the car.
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The car could have zero, It could have a half
a cord in it, and it might say, hey, ten
percent life left, but there's no And and everybody, you know,
when I got into this business twenty years ago, you
would have an oil light and that oil light would
kick on. I have not probably in I bet I
haven't seen an oil oil light on in a car
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in ten fifteen years. These cars, don't they oil lights
do not come on. Everybody has this pre notion like,
oh the oil light will come on if it's low.
That it does not. I never see it ever, you know.
And I get these cars day in and day out,
almost on a daily basis, running bad. Like I said,
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I just have a young Lady Chevy Tracks and you know,
there's no oil in the car and it causes major,
major engine malfunctions and damage. So it's important. So all right,
coming up, we have we have Todd, John and Brian.
You're listening to the car show and fifty five K
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they're very honest about their service, honest about the needs
of our vehicles. I want somebody I could trust and
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They prioritize what's needed now versus what's needed later. I
don't see any reason why we would go anywhere else.
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Taking your car questions.
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The number call five one three seven, fifty five, one hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Are running out of time, so I want to get
to all these customers. Are these these callers?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I apologize going to John, Hey John, welcome to the
car show.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
How can I help?
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Hey, Dane, I didn't I don't have a quick question.
I'm just going to give you some information. The gentleman
had called about the prom and you didn't know what
prom was. Problem stands for programma will read only memory.
It's where the program is stored that the ECU processor executes. Today,
with flash memory, you used the what JA twenty five
thirty four to update flash memory, which doesn't have to
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be removed. But in the old ECUs, like in the
mid to late nineties, they were a special chip, right,
that one called the m COW and you would snap
that into the ECU.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Correct, you would take you would literally take it apart,
and you'd snap it out and put a new PROM in.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Correct.
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Right, But that's what PROM stands for programma will read
only memory. Another thing, Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I was just going to say, I mean, but uh,
you know, but but all these cars, I mean, I
mean they're they're you know, to my knowledge, back in
the in like you said, in the eighties and the nineties,
you know, if there was an issue with it, you
would take that module out or that computer out, and
you would take it apart and put a you'd snap
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a you know, a new PROM in there.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Correct.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Yeah, But usually an ECU, the the memories don't fail, Okay,
they'll they'll uh, it's other components. It's the components that
do the heavy list to lift and drive the soul
anoids and relay some things like that. The memories very
rarely fail. When when you do an update on a
new vehicle, you know over the internet where you use
J twenty five thirty four to download undo the EACU,
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that's normally because they want to change something which will
make the vehicle run better or get better mileage. It's
not because or in some cases it's because somebody in
the software development group screwed up, but not usually not usually,
I don't want to take up time and get for
the other guy. The other thing I was going to
mention is the a GM batteries AGM batteries that stands
(35:29):
for absorbent glass MATT and they separate. The electrolyte is
actually in a fiberglass like a sponge, so they're they're
sealed and you can you can mount them on their
sides and because of the way they're constructed, that's why
they're more expensive. But the characteristics are better.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So correct yeah, yeah, but you know, correct, and then
you know you're not you know, you're not putting you know.
I remember like when I got into this might you know,
we would you know, pop those caps off and you'd
put that you know, distilled water and you get the
lead acid in it. But but nowadays, yeah, you can
put them on their side and yeah, and that's the thing.
(36:15):
Like these batteries nowadays are everybody's like, why are they
so expensive? I'm like, because they're all all you know,
I mean, and some some of them have multiple batteries,
Like I said.
Speaker 13 (36:24):
You know, so, yeah, but batteries are there's still there's
still lead acid. It's just that the electrolyte is in
like a sponge, so and they're sealed. You can still
get sealed flooded cell batteries, you know, where you don't
have to add water. But you're right, I mean what
would happen on the original flooded cell batteries as the
water would evaporate and you have to add more water. Okay,
(36:47):
before I let you go, one quick other question. How
do you feel about sealed transmissions having the transmissions flood changed?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You know, great question.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You know Audi and you know Audi is one of
them that has you know, they can they consider it
a seal transmission and it's lifetime fluid. To be honest
with you, I've never seen it at an AUDI transmission ever.
Go bad, I mean, but that doesn't just because I
haven't seen it doesn't mean it can't happen.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (37:26):
Well, I've got I've got a Genesis with a seal transmission,
and it's got over one hundred thousand miles on it
and it runs great, it shifts great and all of that.
But it's like, you know, I'd like to have the
fluid change just to be on the safe side.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
But I just was gonna, well, well, you know, to
be honest with you, a lot of the times when
we have done that because going on seal transmission again,
it does have a drain plug, but you can you
can reef.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know, you have to have a scan tool.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
It's got to be a certain temperature, and it has
multi has two drain plugs and YadA yah yahd yah.
A lot of times, you know, I don't know. Sometimes
I think we create problems by doing it.
Speaker 13 (38:02):
So I understand that, you.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Know, and we have. I mean, there there are times
where there was no transmission problem at all and we've
changed the fluid and then we created a problem.
Speaker 13 (38:14):
So yeah, okay, well I have I.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Have mixed feelings about it, you know, you know, I
come from a background where we sold a lot of
service and that that's that's when I got into this business.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's what we did.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
We you know, you service these things every ten fifteen,
you know, but they're making these cars nowadays. Like you know,
your washer and dryer and you refrigerator at home, right,
it lasts for about five years and you throw it
away and get a new one.
Speaker 13 (38:43):
And right, well, I've got fifteens and I'm keeping them
as long as possible. Yeah, So no, anyway, I'll let
you catch.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Your Thank you, John, I appreciate it. Have a great day,
all right. Going back to Todd, Hey Todd, welcome to
the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Hey, Dane House or.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Dad, I's doing great. He's uh, he is down in
Florida living his best life.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
You know. He leaves now a little bit after Christmas
and goes down to Florida, plays golf and then once
it once the weather here breaks, he comes back. So
but he's uh, health wise and everything else. He's doing great.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
So good, dear. I've listened to him for years. But
number one is, I'll get to the point. I had
a friend and he's a pretty smart guy. Mechanically kept
going through batteries get to the point. I looked it
all up. I'm in the HVAC and the construction business
multi faceted, so I kept I went down there and
(39:39):
took my multimeter and it's strength pulling amperage. Uh when
it's when nothing is on, no hood light or anything.
So I said okay and looked it up. His radio
head storage in there, and he goes, I don't want
to lose my radio stations. I said, okay, it's training it.
I said, I have an r V and I said,
(40:00):
you need to have a disconnect. He went through three batteries.
He finally got a disconnect hack one of the previous callers.
You have to pop the head and disconnected so it's
not pulling amperage.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, I'm so sorry. I gotta cut you. I apologize, Todd.
I gotta cut you off. I gotta be out in
twenty seconds. So hey, listen, I appreciate everybody calling. I'll
be back next Saturday. No more's ave your basketball. So
I'll be back next Saturday to answer all your questions.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Thank you so much, everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Have a great week, and again I will be back
next Saturday to answer your questions. Todd, I do apologize.
Call back next week. I'll get you taken care of.
Be safe out there, take care of each other.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
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