April 5, 2026 • 44 mins
Dane Donovan shares valuable insights on car maintenance and ownership. He discusses the importance of regular oil changes, citing a personal experience where switching to synthetic oil affected his fuel economy. Dane also addresses a caller's question about whether to use synthetic or conventional oil in their Subaru engine, recommending sticking to what the manufacturer designed the car to use. Additionally, he offers advice on choosing a new car, highlighting the benefits of Honda and Toyota models.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bussome shutting down there in.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The pos down today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Car Show fifty five
KRC Talk station. I'm Dane Donovan taking all of your
car questions. The number to call five one three seven.
That number again five one three seven, fifty five hundred
again in studio and uh here every Saturday to take
your car questions again. Yes I am, I'm here, so
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I'd love to hear from you. It's great if you're
in the Cincinnati or Tri state area. It's a great
day to be a duck. And uh, I mean, it's
just been nothing but rain, rain, rain. I feel like
we're in Seattle or something. It's just been nothing them
but rain. So and uh uh you know, but you
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know the boys, Uh, all their sporting events got canceled, obviously,
all the baseball got canceled because of the rain, and
the fields are just a muddy mess. So I had
a little opportunity to kind of get some things done.
There was a golf net that my son's been wanting
me to build, uh for months now, and uh was
able to get that done. And uh yeah, so it
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was it was you know, sometimes I just love those
saturdays where you can kind of take a breath, right
uh after this week.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This week was busy. It was a busy week, and it's.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Just nice to sometimes go all right, And of course, uh,
you know our boys, you know, we live such a
fast paced life. The boys are like waking up, like
what are we doing today? It's like, well, not not
really much, and uh but we you know, my wife
and I we were able to get things done and
made breakfast and just things that we don't normally get
to do because it's always so busy, you know, and
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most of you can contest that you understand.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So, but again, I'm here to take your car questions.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I'm gona call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty
five hundred. I was talking to a co worker of
mine and friend coworker slash friend, and we were talking
about buying a new vehicle and he was kind of
giving me some opinions on what I like, what he
wants to buy, and I just told him we were talking,
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I'm like, you know what, I'm going to talk about
that tomorrow on the radio show because it's something that
you need to think about. But that is the fact
that if you're purchasing a new vehicle. You really need
to do your homework. You need to call your entwer
if you're buying a Hyundai or a Kia. Now listen,
I like the brand. I don't have anything bad to
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say about him, but as you may know, there's there
high theft. And he was telling me that, oh, you know,
my daughter has a Kia and he I pay more
for my daughter's insurance on her Kia than I do
for the other three vehicles I have combined. And he's like,
and there's a lot of people that there's a lot
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of insurance companies that don't don't cover the insurance.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So you need to think about that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
If you're purchasing a new vehicle, new or used vehicle,
I would recommend calling your insurance company and say, hey,
what is what is it gonna be in order to
cover the the insurance on this vehicle, because again, they're
they're very I mean, they can be stolen within within
less than a minute. And even if you have you
take the measures to properly make sure it doesn't get stolen,
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you're still gonna pay more.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And again he was like, hey, look, I'm paying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
More on just one vehicle than the my other three
combined and just because there has such a high rate
of theft. So it's just something that you should think
about if you're buying a newer used vehicle. Obviously we
know about the tariffs and everything like that. Everything's going up,
So if you're going out to buy a new vehicle
or used one, that's something that you should take it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
In fact, make sure you do your due diligence.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Call your insurance company and make sure that or find
out what it's going to cost to insurance. Now, insurance
here relatively is inexpensive compared to like Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I just had a customer not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They had moved from Florida to here, their daughters going
to school at Xavier University. They moved here and she
called to get an insurance on their vehicles, and you know,
I can't remember what the number exact numbers were, but
she's like, hey, you know it's going to be you know,
X amount of dollars. She goes, Okay, well what is
it for the year. And he's like, no, that's what
it is for the year. And she's like it was
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quadruple in Florida the cost full coverage on there because
there's such I guess bad drivers down in Florida. I
don't know, but you know, those are things that you
need to think about when you're buying a new vehicle.
Is hey, what's it gonna cost me to ensure this thing?
And again, the only one that I'm aware of is
the Hyundais and the Kias. That again, they they are
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stolen all day long. They can be stolen within less
than a minute, and you're gonna pay a lot more.
So you know, you might sit there and go, oh, well,
the the Hyundai or the Key is a little bit
cheaper than the Honda or the Toyota, but then if
you factor in the insurance, most likely you're gonna probably
pay more. And again I'm not I like Hundai and
Kia as a brand, don't have a ton of problems
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with them. They do burn oil, but I've talked about
that many many times on the show. Most of your
newer vehicles today are doing that. I was behind a
Hyunda the other day and I was just getting smoked
by by this vehicle because it was burning so much oil.
So it's something that I, again I talk about all
the time because it's something it's I know, for the
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for those of you who listen to me every Saturday,
you know I talk about it almost every time. And
it's not because it's not because it's the only thing
I can I want to talk about. It's just I
need to get the aware. I need to get it
out there. I need to get it out there. I
need the general public to know what these cars are doing,
because again I had a BMW towed into me this week.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And because of lack of oil.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
This vehicle that's the BMW is an BMW X three
and it because of lack of oil, it again ruins
the timing chains and it needs chains. And it was
it's almost ten thousand dollars to put timing chains on
a BMW X three and that was due to the
fact that it had been ran low on oil for
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many Now. Now this isn't just one time, right, This
isn't one time. This is over the lifetime, and there's
always so much confusion as to when it should be done.
And again, I want to I just want to hammer
this into your head. And I want you to tell
every all, your children, your wife, your friends, your coworkers, anybody,
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if you want to get the life out of your
vehicle and try to get it to one hundred two hundred,
three hundred thousand miles. There needs to be a sense
of awareness that you need to make sure that the
oil is being checked regularly because it cost you, the
consumer so much. And again, with everything going with the
terrace and everything going up, you know, everybody's kind of
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starting to and I've noticed it, but everybody's starting to
pinch those pennies, right. They're they're trying to They're watching
their money. And you know, nobody wants to go out
and spend fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Regardless, but.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You want to get the life out of it, you
need to make sure that you're checking it regularly. And again,
I feel that in the industry there's a lot of confusion,
and I'm so grateful to have this platform to be
able to sit here on Saturdays and tell you as
a guy on the what I call the front lines,
I'm there in the off every day dealing with these cars.
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I'm at work every day talking to the technicians working
on the cars, talking to the customers. Right and as
as a guy that's on the front line that has
you know, we have several stores, right, I see this
every day, and I see that there's mass confusion as
to when it needs to be changed and what we
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all what I always advocate, if you can, please focus
on the sticker, don't focus on what your neighbors said.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You should change your oil.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now again, let me step back, and you know, of
course some people might say, they go, well, of course, Dan,
you're gonna say change your oil regular because that brings
the customer in more and so on and so forth.
I get that, I understand that, but I'm telling you,
every single day I have to break bad news to somebody.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Hey, listen, you need you need timing change is ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Which could have been prevented if you just change your
oil for one hundred bucks, you know, every you know,
every three months, right, so and every time it's it's
amazing to me that when I come in, I and
and people won't even bring their car in for an
old change. They're bringing in for check breaks, right, And
we look up at that little sticker and he's an
old change, like, oh yeah, well, my car says it's
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I'm only I got twenty percent. Uh. You know the
person I you know, the dealership about it from says
I need to change it at ten. And I'm telling
you it's the simplest, most important thing that you can
do for your vehicle. And I try to hammer this
point in every week because every single day I'm dealing
with and you know, listen, it breaks my heart when
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I got to call somebody and say this gentleman was
pretty upset. You know, he had to get everything out
of his car and he's like, I'm gonna have it
just towed back to my house.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And I understand it's expensive.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's expensive not because of my cost, just because the
amount of labor and the cost it is to do
the job. And it's something that can be prevent for
you and everybody else out there that that that I
that's listening to me. It's the simplest, best thing that
you can do. Okay, So and here's here's what we
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want to focus on. I'm not I don't want to
focus on what the car tells you as far as
what your percentage is.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't want to focus on what the dealership told
you when you bought it, or the salesman told you
that you know what to change it at Okay, my
salesman told me to change it every ten thousand miles.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'm not doing that. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
He understood that, and he knew what I did, but
he's like, oh, you know Ford has changed ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You're good. No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I've had this discussion with my father in law because
he calls me all the time. He goes, hey, whence
should I change the oil? And again, it's every five
thousand miles period. I don't care what make, what model,
what year, anything like that. It's five thousand miles period.
The best way to do that. And if you bring
it to any down of entire repair shop, any of
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our shops, you're gonna a little sticker in the upper
part of that windshield and it's either five months or
five thousand miles period. We don't want to focus on
what the car says, what your neighbor says, what the
salesman says. It's every five thousand miles, because again, majority
of these vehicles today are burning oil, and you don't
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know it. A lot of people think that it's you know,
you get this big puff of white smoke and and
you're gonna get a lot of people too go oh well,
I didn't see any type of warning signs. You're not
gonna get a warning sign. You're not. I've had cars
come in with less than a half quarter of oil
with no low oil light. They just that they don't
come on. They don't put them on in these cars anymore.
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And so again it kind of if you change it regularly,
you're gonna stay on top of it and not run
the car low on oil. And again, the way these
cars are designed one is for a fuel efficiency government
standards and whatnot. And in that process and the way
they're designed especially, they're gonna burn oil. Most majority, I
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would say ninety percent of cars that are out there
today burn oil. And you need to be aware of it,
and you need to check it if you can. If not,
you can bring it to any of our locations and
we'll check it for you, or you can go to
Google or YouTube and say, how do I check my oil?
It's the most important thing to do. And again, changing
it regularly is gonna get you the longevity. I if
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you want your car to last two hundred and fifty
thousand miles, the single cheapest best thing that you can
do is change the oil. And I and I know,
for some of you who listen to me, so they go,
oh my god, he's talking about changing oil again. But
I'm telling you it's I could save people hundreds of
thousands of dollars, not one individual, but I mean there's
so much time that the car comes in and it's
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just it's rampant, and it's just like, I've got to
get this out there. So for those of you who
listen to me, you gotta I hate to be, you know,
sound redundant, but it's like, man, it's so important. It's
so important that you do it. So taking your phone
calls and I'm gonna call five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
Taking your car question. Is the number to call five
one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That number
gain five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and uh
if you go to donovantire dot com you can find
your nearest location. Love to help you out and do
anything that we can that your car might need. But
here on Saturdays, it's all about you and what I
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can do to try to help you out and walk
you through whatever whatever it might pertain to on that vehicle,
whether it's maintenance, you're you're buying a new vehicle, or
you have a car question, or you know, whatever it
might pertain to that vehicle.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That's what I'm here for to try to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So again the number to call five one, three, seven
fifty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Let's go to the phones. We have Gary. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Thank you, Dean.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I have a question. I have a Subaru engine, an
E eighty one, got a few years on it, and
I wrestle with the fact of either using straight ten
W thirty oil in it, or putting a cord of
slick fifty with the ten W thirty oil, or using
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synthetic oil. Now, when this engine was built, as we
all know, there wasn't synthetic oils on the market like
there is now. It's very important that I maintained this engine.
What's your opinion? Should I use ten W thirty like
they did with the original engine? Because I burn I
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burn none ethanol gas. I burned straight gas.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, So what I would tell you what i'd recommend?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I don't know anything about the product Slicks fifty. I
don't know anything to I mean, I've heard it advertise
or whatnot, but I've never used the product, so I
can't vouch for it.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Or give you an opinion about it, just to be
honest with you.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Okay, I would done with that subject.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I would stick to ten thirty and what the engine
was designed with when it was designed. Now, hear me
out on this. I have a two thousand Honda Civic.
And the reason why I don't so I've always advocated, like, hey,
synthetic is a great product, and most most of your
vehicles nowadays are synthetic, and synthetics supposed to be better
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than long last last year.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But hear me out on this, And I know this
sounds silly, but I've had this car for twenty two years,
and I had it. I changed the oil religiously. I'm
I'm I'm a little over the top on it. I
changed every fifteen hundred miles. Okay, that's how over the
top I am on it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But at one hundred thousand miles, I decided, Hey, I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna switch from the ten W thirty
that the car came with, and I'm gonna switch to synthetic.
It's gonna last longer, right, And I noticed a massive
difference in my fuel economy, my fuel my fuel economy
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went way down. Miles per gallon went way down, and
I'm like, I just I was like, well, you know what,
maybe it's just because it's getting older's got one hundred
thousand miles on it. And at the time, and I'm
not paid by Vaveling, but I was using Vaveling oil
and they had an engine guarantee. They said, hey, listen,
if you can prove that you change your oil every
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you know, three thousand miles, We're going to guarantee your
engine to I can't remember what it was, it was
like three hundred.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I remember those commercials.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I'm like, all right, So I did that, and
I did that for quite some time, and then I
got to the point where I'm like, man, this is
so expensive, especially when you know I'm changing it every
fifteen hundred yes, and so I'm like, you know what,
and I just again, I just fuel economy went way down.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I'm like, that's just old.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And I'm telling you, I mean, my fuel economy went
cut down pretty tremendously, almost instant.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And again I was like, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And then I'm telling you, as soon as I went
back to the standard ten thirty of the car, just
regular conventional oil. My fuel economy came right back up.
I can't speak.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Good to know this is really good information today. I
mean not have my Subaru engine breakdown on me. I
have a gyroplane that I put it in. I can't
pull over to the side of the road if I
have an engine breakdown. No, no, I can't tell you
how many hours I have on that engine. But I
do have a twenty four, and what you're saying is
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exactly correct. I have a twenty four Kia with two
hundred and seventy nine thousand miles on it. Now, I've
heard a lot of criticism about kids over the years,
and we have two Hondas and watched one Dodge truck
and there's only two of us to drive. But that
Kia runs like a scalded dog. In fact, there was
an incident last year where my kid was stolen and
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they had it parked up the street and a guy
put a note in it and he said, you need
this car more than I do, and he left the
car and sheriff told me about it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'm teasing you, like, oh my god, I.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Do have a kid with that kind of mileish on it.
And as far as the Hyundai's and that go. They
sent us stickers to put on the window that the
car has been adjusted that it's harder to steal for
what it's worth. I have a twenty nineteen and the
twenty twenty four. Okay, now with Dodge Ram truck with
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the twenty twenty twenty fifteen, do you think I should
put synthetic oil in that or straight ten W thirty if.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's a you know what I have here. You know
it said that super engines in eighty one?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Correct, yes, sir, all right, so I think on the
fifteen you could switch to the synthetic. I think fifteen
you'll be fine. I mean I was putting synthetic in
my I have a uh, you know seven Ford f
one fifty, and you know I put synthetic in that.
But as far as like an eighty one, I would
stick to that's the way it was designed and manufactured.
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And but no, I think you put synthetic in it.
But again, I'm not always hung up on you know, semisynthetic,
synthetic or conventional. What I want to see is is
it being changed regularly. That's what I'm a big proponent to,
is just changing it regularly because it's so it's it's
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the lifeblood of your car.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
It's so important.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And every person that I know that's brought their car
to me that has two hundred, three hundred thousand miles
on the arm, you know, how do you? And I ask,
how do you get that many miles on a car? Well,
just change the world regularly, And you know, it's just
so important. And these newer cars nowadays, they have so many,
in my opinion, nonsense timing chains and guides and this
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and that. And if you just keep up on the oil,
you'll get three hundred thousand miles. But you know, it's
always about well, the dealer said this, and the technically
you know, the service advisor that I bought the car
from or salesman said this, and I read online this,
and it's just like, hey, I've got this platform. I'm
gonna speak loudly. Hey, look, just change it regularly. If
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you're using a conventional oil and I've always said this,
three thousand and with you conventional oil three thousand miles,
you'll be fine. But I just with the age of
the vehicle, I would recommend using just the conventional oil
what it was designed to do because again I made
the switch and I was like, why am I getting
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horrible fuel economy? And as soon as I went back
to conventional oil came right back.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So it's like, well, the.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Only thing to you but to excuse me, but to you,
oil is oil? Is there? I hate to put you
in this kind of a corner. What would be the
best ten W thirty that you would suggest? I mean
there's so many Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I mean there's so many brands.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
And I'm i I Quaker Valelating mobile.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, I think any of those products are gonna any
It's just you know, you want to make sure it,
you know, is what your car calls for as far
as you know, you want to make sure that it's
up to the test.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But you know, I'm not always.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hung up on the brands per se, because you know
a lot of people people say this to me all
the time. It kind of goes right through me. But
you know, it's like, well, oil's oil. It's like, no, no,
it's not. You know, you want to do a question,
you want to do a you want to right, you
want to have a quality brand that is that's that
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you know, has you know, stay in the test of
time and I think any of those brands you know
will be perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But I would say a.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Detergent with the detergent what they call the detergent in
the oil.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Uh huh. Yep.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well, you've been very helpful, and I can't command you
on pointing out the fact that oil is that important
because I'm pushing eighty. I got eighty years of age.
I've got tens of hundreds of thousand miles under my belt.
I've always changed. I've always taken care of the cars,
even in my tractors, in the lawnmower, in my aircraft.
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It's spark plugs and oil and very little, very little,
seldom with a problem. I thank you for your time, Dean,
have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You take care all right, Thank you, bye bye. That
was great. That was that was great. It's so important.
So it's so important, so easy to do. So all right,
then imber to call five one three that number again.
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you again.
You get on, you call, We'll get you right on.
So the number call five one three seven four nine
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fifty five hundred. That number gain five one three, seven
four nine fifty five hundred, coming up. We have Charlie.
You're listening to the Car Show on fifty five KRS
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
I have been a customer of Donovan's for ten years.
It's not always easy to find a mechanic that you
can trust, that isn't going to take advantage of you.
They treated me respectfully, not talk down to me. There
are mechanics right down the road, but I chose to
keep coming back here because they treated me as family,
so much so that four years ago I started working here.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Hi Dale Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center, the honest
choice for car repair in Cincinnati since nineteen fifty eight.
Find the one nearest you at donovantire dot com. The
best way to wake up in the morning, A hot
cup of coffee and Brian Thomas Monday morning at five
on fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You're listening to the Car show fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. Again, you've
here all the time, but I'm third generation been My
grandfather started the business in nineteen fifty eight and continue
to go strong and.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And again I've said this multiple times for those of
you who listen all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I truly, truly enjoy what I.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Do, and so much so that I'm here every Saturday
so I can try to help you out with your
car questions. Doesn't always necessarily have to be that you
bring it to Donovans, because I get a lot of
I get a lot of callers from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I mean, really, you can call from anywhere in.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The world, but I get a lot, a lot from Boston, Florida,
New York, California. And my job, my object here is
to talk to you and help you out in any
type of your car needs. I've been doing this for
twenty five years, and it's all I've ever wanted to do,
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pretty much since I could put a runch in my hand.
There's a I have a picture at home. I gotta
find that thing. I don't know where it's at, but
picture of me when I was I must have been
six or seven years old and had a towel on
the ground and I'm underneath a car and acting like
I'm working on it, you know, because that's that's all
I know. I mean, and uh again, I enjoy it
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enough so that I'm here every Saturday to answer your
car question.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
So I really do. Uh. I appreciate all.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
The callers and uh, you know you guys calling up
so uh, real quick, I'm gonna get to Charlie here
in just a second, real quick. If you're in the
Tri state area, that's you know, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio with
all the Wayne Waine, with all the rain we're getting.
If you have a water leak in your vehicle, which
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is I mean, I see it a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, got a great guy.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's called the you can call me anytime, but it's
called the water doctor. Okay, this is what he does.
He specializes and fixes these cars. Now, nine out of
ten times, if you have a sunroof and you have
water getting into your vehicle, most likely it's the sunroof
trains either they're detached or they're clogged, especially if you
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park underneath the tree where there's leaves to breed or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And if you take it to your dealer, or if
you take it to any repair shop in this this
local area, they're gonna call him Jerry at the water
Doctor and does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Great guy, upstanding guy.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And again, if you have a water leak in your vehicle.
And I want to bring this up because of all
the rain that we've had, and it's not good to
get water in your car because most of these newer vehicles,
all of the modules, all the electronics, everything that runs
that vehicle. These manufacturers put the modules and everything in
the in the floor, so that water just ruins them.
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And it'll cost you one hundreds and thousands of dollars
to fix these things. So it's something that if you
notice water penetrating or getting your vehicle, call the water
doctor and you know, you can bring it to one
of our locations. He'll come and he'll fix it and
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had a great cost. So something to think about. I
was just thinking about that when at the break when
it was like, while I'm staring outside and it's just
pouring down rain. So all right, again the number to
call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred.
Let's go back to the phones we have Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
thank you for your patience. I really do appreciate it.
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Well, I called you about new cars, but before I
get into that, uh, I've got a two thousand and
five across our town country and I borrowed that in
April of two thousand and four. They put them out
real early that year, but everything was fine. I got
over one hundred thousand miles on it, and the dealership
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I went. I took a Cadillac dealership because they were
the car with it with an all change, but they
switched to all synthetic oil. All of a sudden, everything
started leaking on it, all the gaskets and everything, and
they said, oh, no, it couldn't happen. But at the
same time I put I changed the synthetical on my
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Crasslin lawnmower. All the gaskets started leaking on it too,
So I don't think that was a I was told
later that you ought anything after I think two thousand
and six or something was okay to use synthetical. Well
that's true or not, but I was told it couldn't
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have happened, but I told it, was told you shouldn't
use it on an older vehicle. The synthetical.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I really think that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You should stick to what the manufacturer at the time,
at that year when it was manufactured, that you'd stick to,
you know, what that car was manufacturing and designed to do,
because again, I have my little civic that I have.
You know, it's twenty five years old, and I still
put conventional oil in it.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I don't and I don't have any problems with it.
I mean, knock on wood and I do too.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
I usually I went back to the conventional oil, and
I couldn't find a dealership around here that are any
or a car place that didn't use the blended. So
I used the blended role now and then I was
fifteen hundred miles. I have to add a cord till
I get up to five thousand, and then I get
it changed. But what I called about was I'm gonna
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I got a My car's resting out. I got about
one hundred and seventies and on it, so I'm going
to get another car, and I'm just gonna. I thought
about a hon that they're more expensive than the Christler,
but somebody told me they didn't think they were making
as well now the engines and all, so I don't know.
I swear I was trying to find out.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Okay, now it's a great question. I love this question
because you know, I see, I see.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A lot, and I had this I was talking to
a young lady earlier this week I was taking her home,
was dropping her off, taking her home, and we were
talking about it.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But let me ask you something is are you looking
for a car? SUV?
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Van? What van?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You want a van? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
I maybe seven, but I still all of the old
haul stuff when I needed gotcha.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So are you? Are you looking to buy used or new? Well?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
They used are so expensive, I figure I'm going to
have one more car, so I was thinking about a
new one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, all right, Well, I mean typically your interest rates
are going to be cheaper on a newer one anyways, Right,
So you buy a car with you know, thirty thousand
miles on it, and you're gonna pay more on your
interest rate if you find if for those of you
out there financing it, I will always I always lean
towards Hanna. Now that's just my preference. I've had, Like
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I told you, my little Civic that I have, I've
had for twenty five years. I've always liked the Hunter brand.
But yes, you're right, they are more expensive. Reason being
is because there's they're a lot more reliable and they
last longer. Now I don't have a problem with the
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Chrysler minivan.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The only thing that I can tell you that I
noticed is there is a it's a it is an
absolute poor design by Chrysler, and we do a ton
of them. But there is what's called the oil filter,
what they call the oil filter housing, the oil cooler,
oil filter sit right on top, right in the valley
of the engine, and these it's not a matter of if,
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it's a matter of when these housings leak. And it's
a it's a it's about a twelve hundred dollars cost, right.
Not not hateful, not like hey don't buy their car
because of it, but that's we We we see a
lot of those. And Chrysler Man does not build. They're
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not making their parts as long as they used to.
I mean, I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep which is
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I know it's not a Chryst it's you know, it's
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
But I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep that needed a
throttle body and not available.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Chrysler doesn't make it anymore. So you're you're, you're, you're
you know. The only reason I.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Was, yeah, I was thinking about going to Honda. My
daughter bought one of them. It's similar to this crassler
it's the Odyssey. Uh but she said it's really hard
to get the seats out. And one of the crashloerds
they just toole down, says, you've got a flat. Yeah,
you know, I can put a sheet of fly with
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it in the back of my this van.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What about Have you looked at the Toyot Sienna.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
No, I wasn't familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's you know, well, my my first choice if I'm
buying a van, my first choice is Honda Odyssey.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
My mother in law has one. She loves it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
They're great cars. That that would be my first. Number
two would be the toy To Sienna. My father in law.
Uh so, my mother in law has the Odyssey. My
father in law has a Sienna. I mean he almost
has two hundred thousand miles on that thing. And I'm
telling you he's never And I'm gonna knock on wood
because I don't want to. I don't want to wish
anything bat him. Never had any problems with the Sienna.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Never.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And if I'm my third choice would be the the
now Again, the Honda and the Toyota are you're gonna
pay more for even if even if they have one
hundred thousand miles, you know, but they typically make their
parts longer, last longer, and less headache. But you know,
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we really don't have a ton of problems with the Chrysler.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
We really don't.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Just that oil filter housing which was the poor designed
by them, but for the most part, they just don't
make their parts as long as Honda and Toyota.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Yeah, the Sienna, is that a Toyota, Yes, sir, yep,
Toyota Siena. Okay, that's why I was trying to thank
the Hana made that.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, I'm sorry I should have said that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, Toyota Sienna, you really ought to look into that.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Okay, it's gonna be my life one so the life
long time, make it count.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay, Okay, Well, thank you, sure, thank you absolutely. I
appreciate the phone call you every great weekend. Good luck
to you.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Hey, well, if you're listening, when you buy that van,
I want to hear, I want to, you know, want
I want to get a full report on how you
like it. So all right, the number to call five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty five hundred coming up. We have uh we
have John and Allen. You're listening to the Car show
on fifty five krs the Talk station.
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Speaker 1 (36:47):
Show on fifty five krs DE Talk station on Dan
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in the tri state area of Kentucky, Indiana or Ohio,
you can go to donovantire dot com and find your
nearest location and we would be more than happy to
take care of you in all of your car needs.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
But now I'm taking care of.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Your car needs as far as what you have and
what you have may have a question about.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
And again I'm here every Saturday to answer your car
questions and number to call five one, three seven.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
All right, let's go back to the phones we have.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
John. Hey, John, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (37:27):
No, I got to I guess a question I'm trying
to figure out on my car. So I've had a
couple of times in the last I guess month, just
two times. I guess when my after I drive it
for say a half hour forty minutes, if I stop
at a store, run into the store, come back out,
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try to start it. I have nothing, wait a pout
a half hour or forty minutes, come back and start
starts up with no problem. First I thought of I
thought maybe with my alternators, double check that alternators fine, charging,
batteries getting charged fine, and everything. So I guess I'm
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just trying to figure out what could be causing that issue.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Sure, so real quick, So I want to when you
run into the store and come back out, turn the key,
do you have power?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Radio lights? Dash light up? Is that all happen?
Speaker 9 (38:30):
Yes? I see my time on all of that on
the radio and everything. It's all there, but as soon
as I try to turn, I don't. There's nothing. It
doesn't even try to crank or anything. It's like, there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
There, gotcha? Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
So typically, so what you're most likely dealing with is
that starter. A lot of times, if the car does
not crank, nine out of ten times, it's the start itself. Okay,
And probably what's happening. And this happens all the time
with crank sensors, but we're not dealing with that. We're
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because crank sensor will still allow the car to crank,
but it won't fire the car.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
But anyways, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
The times the car when you stop and shut it off,
it's called kind of like a hot soak. That starter
just kind of bakes a little bit and then it
won't fire. It just won't do its job. The selamoid's
probably shot and you need a starter. So if the
battery test good, the alternatory test good, and you go.
And so what happens is that starter then cools down
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the engine and everything cools down and then it starts
firing again. So most likely you need a new starter.
How many miles are on the vehicle.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
On this engine, there's uh about fifty five thousand on.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
It, okay, rig Okay, so you say on this I had.
Speaker 9 (39:55):
To replace that e GM previously because of a timing
chrain issue that happened though with.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
It got it okay, Yeah, that's pretty common.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So most likely we're dealing with the starter now that
the problem is.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
You need to get it. If you get it to
your mechanic in.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Order to really really identify if it's the start or not.
We got to get it to act up, right. Your
technician has got to get it to act up, so
they're gonna have to drive it, get it hot, and
you know there it could be a relay issue, could be.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
You know, start a relay or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
But most likely it's going to be your starter that
needs to be replaced. But again, any mechanic or whoever
looks at it, you need to let them know. Hey, listen,
when it acts up, it's after I've been driving it
for thirty minutes and then park, run to a gas station,
come back out. Give them that information because what's gonna
happen is they're going to drive around the block and go,
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let's start it right up, you know, we can't find
anything wrong with it. Give them that information that you
gave me. Hey, look after I'm driving it for thirty minutes,
run into a gas station and come back out. It
won't start and it's a no crank. And if they
have that information, that's going to give them, you know,
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a better reason. It's going to allow them to diagnose
it quicker. You know, far too often people feel like, oh,
if I give them too information, it's going to cost
me too much. It's gonna cost me more money. But
it's the absolute opposite. You give them your technician every
bit of information that you possibly can, and it's going
to take them less time to try to diagnose it
and get it back to you. So but I think
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you need to start her. Okay, all right, thank you
very much for holding I appreciate it, and have a
great weekend.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
All right, let's go. We're running out of time. Let's
go to Alan.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Hey, Alan, I'm really kind of tenched on time, but
I'd love to help you.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Okay, I'll give you my quick version. I've got a
twenty ten Highlander. I just had front struts put on
to diagnose a problem of front end vibration and how
it acts is when I go to work in the morning,
I have front and vibration driving sixty sixty five miles
an hour for like ten fifteen minutes, and it may
not completely go away, but it goes away largely on
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my way home from work after seven hours. It's always smooth.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Okay when it vibrates.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Is it vibrating when you're applying the brakes when you
have your foot on the gas.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
What I'm traveling. Yes, So whether I take my hand
off the steering room or not, I still feel it
in my body.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
So you're driving it, you get your foot on the
gas and it's vibrating.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Okay, if you let off the gas, does it continue
to vibrate?
Speaker 7 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And front and the front struts helped, but didn't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Okay, what I would? What about did you have the
tires looked at and balanced?
Speaker 6 (42:59):
They have? They are balanced. There are seven year old tires.
They've got about forty five thousand, thirty about thirty five
to forty thousand miles on them. There's still plenty of
tread life, but they're seven years old. Yeah, and that's
what the mechanics suggested to try next is new tires.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So typically yeah, So there's a couple of things that
cause a vibration. If you've got a vibration under acceleration,
which you don't have, but I'm just under acceleration. If
you have a vibration, it's usually a drivetrain axle or
something like that. That's not what you have because if
you let off the gas, it's still there.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Okay. If you have a vibration when applying the brakes.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
At higher speeds, that's usually break pulsation, you've got a
break issue.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
But if it's got new brakes on it, okay.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
So if it's doing it all the time, there's only
two things that could be.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Either one of the either one of the tires is
either bad, has a broken belt or out of or
needs to be balanced.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So it's either a.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Tire issue or you've got to break or I'm sorry,
break caliper hose. That's kind of hanging up and causing it.
But if it in the morning, it does it, But
in the afternoon it doesn't. You know, typically it's a
little bit warmer in the afternoon. I would think from
what you're telling me, it sounds like it's a tire.
We're dealing with a tire issue. You need to get
those tires checked and maybe rebalanced. And if you can
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find a mechanic that has what's called a road force balancer,
use that.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Okay, thank you very much. Huh.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I have a great day, man. I love answering these questions.
It's just always uh sorry, I'm just so sorry. I'm
out of time, but I'll be back next Saturday answer
all your questions.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Everybody, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Listen to Dane Domond you listen to Carshon on fifty
five Case, the talk station
Bussome shutting down there in.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The pos down today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Car Show fifty five
KRC Talk station. I'm Dane Donovan taking all of your
car questions. The number to call five one three seven.
That number again five one three seven, fifty five hundred
again in studio and uh here every Saturday to take
your car questions again. Yes I am, I'm here, so
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I'd love to hear from you. It's great if you're
in the Cincinnati or Tri state area. It's a great
day to be a duck. And uh, I mean, it's
just been nothing but rain, rain, rain. I feel like
we're in Seattle or something. It's just been nothing them
but rain. So and uh uh you know, but you
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know the boys, Uh, all their sporting events got canceled, obviously,
all the baseball got canceled because of the rain, and
the fields are just a muddy mess. So I had
a little opportunity to kind of get some things done.
There was a golf net that my son's been wanting
me to build, uh for months now, and uh was
able to get that done. And uh yeah, so it
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was it was you know, sometimes I just love those
saturdays where you can kind of take a breath, right
uh after this week.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This week was busy. It was a busy week, and it's.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Just nice to sometimes go all right, And of course, uh,
you know our boys, you know, we live such a
fast paced life. The boys are like waking up, like
what are we doing today? It's like, well, not not
really much, and uh but we you know, my wife
and I we were able to get things done and
made breakfast and just things that we don't normally get
to do because it's always so busy, you know, and
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most of you can contest that you understand.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So, but again, I'm here to take your car questions.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I'm gona call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty
five hundred. I was talking to a co worker of
mine and friend coworker slash friend, and we were talking
about buying a new vehicle and he was kind of
giving me some opinions on what I like, what he
wants to buy, and I just told him we were talking,
(02:28):
I'm like, you know what, I'm going to talk about
that tomorrow on the radio show because it's something that
you need to think about. But that is the fact
that if you're purchasing a new vehicle. You really need
to do your homework. You need to call your entwer
if you're buying a Hyundai or a Kia. Now listen,
I like the brand. I don't have anything bad to
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say about him, but as you may know, there's there
high theft. And he was telling me that, oh, you know,
my daughter has a Kia and he I pay more
for my daughter's insurance on her Kia than I do
for the other three vehicles I have combined. And he's like,
and there's a lot of people that there's a lot
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of insurance companies that don't don't cover the insurance.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So you need to think about that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
If you're purchasing a new vehicle, new or used vehicle,
I would recommend calling your insurance company and say, hey,
what is what is it gonna be in order to
cover the the insurance on this vehicle, because again, they're
they're very I mean, they can be stolen within within
less than a minute. And even if you have you
take the measures to properly make sure it doesn't get stolen,
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you're still gonna pay more.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And again he was like, hey, look, I'm paying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
More on just one vehicle than the my other three
combined and just because there has such a high rate
of theft. So it's just something that you should think
about if you're buying a newer used vehicle. Obviously we
know about the tariffs and everything like that. Everything's going up,
So if you're going out to buy a new vehicle
or used one, that's something that you should take it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
In fact, make sure you do your due diligence.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Call your insurance company and make sure that or find
out what it's going to cost to insurance. Now, insurance
here relatively is inexpensive compared to like Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I just had a customer not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They had moved from Florida to here, their daughters going
to school at Xavier University. They moved here and she
called to get an insurance on their vehicles, and you know,
I can't remember what the number exact numbers were, but
she's like, hey, you know it's going to be you know,
X amount of dollars. She goes, Okay, well what is
it for the year. And he's like, no, that's what
it is for the year. And she's like it was
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quadruple in Florida the cost full coverage on there because
there's such I guess bad drivers down in Florida. I
don't know, but you know, those are things that you
need to think about when you're buying a new vehicle.
Is hey, what's it gonna cost me to ensure this thing?
And again, the only one that I'm aware of is
the Hyundais and the Kias. That again, they they are
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stolen all day long. They can be stolen within less
than a minute, and you're gonna pay a lot more.
So you know, you might sit there and go, oh, well,
the the Hyundai or the Key is a little bit
cheaper than the Honda or the Toyota, but then if
you factor in the insurance, most likely you're gonna probably
pay more. And again I'm not I like Hundai and
Kia as a brand, don't have a ton of problems
(05:29):
with them. They do burn oil, but I've talked about
that many many times on the show. Most of your
newer vehicles today are doing that. I was behind a
Hyunda the other day and I was just getting smoked
by by this vehicle because it was burning so much oil.
So it's something that I, again I talk about all
the time because it's something it's I know, for the
(05:52):
for those of you who listen to me every Saturday,
you know I talk about it almost every time. And
it's not because it's not because it's the only thing
I can I want to talk about. It's just I
need to get the aware. I need to get it
out there. I need to get it out there. I
need the general public to know what these cars are doing,
because again I had a BMW towed into me this week.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And because of lack of oil.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
This vehicle that's the BMW is an BMW X three
and it because of lack of oil, it again ruins
the timing chains and it needs chains. And it was
it's almost ten thousand dollars to put timing chains on
a BMW X three and that was due to the
fact that it had been ran low on oil for
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many Now. Now this isn't just one time, right, This
isn't one time. This is over the lifetime, and there's
always so much confusion as to when it should be done.
And again, I want to I just want to hammer
this into your head. And I want you to tell
every all, your children, your wife, your friends, your coworkers, anybody,
(07:02):
if you want to get the life out of your
vehicle and try to get it to one hundred two hundred,
three hundred thousand miles. There needs to be a sense
of awareness that you need to make sure that the
oil is being checked regularly because it cost you, the
consumer so much. And again, with everything going with the
terrace and everything going up, you know, everybody's kind of
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starting to and I've noticed it, but everybody's starting to
pinch those pennies, right. They're they're trying to They're watching
their money. And you know, nobody wants to go out
and spend fifty sixty thousand dollars on a car.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Regardless, but.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You want to get the life out of it, you
need to make sure that you're checking it regularly. And again,
I feel that in the industry there's a lot of confusion,
and I'm so grateful to have this platform to be
able to sit here on Saturdays and tell you as
a guy on the what I call the front lines,
I'm there in the off every day dealing with these cars.
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I'm at work every day talking to the technicians working
on the cars, talking to the customers. Right and as
as a guy that's on the front line that has
you know, we have several stores, right, I see this
every day, and I see that there's mass confusion as
to when it needs to be changed and what we
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all what I always advocate, if you can, please focus
on the sticker, don't focus on what your neighbors said.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You should change your oil.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now again, let me step back, and you know, of
course some people might say, they go, well, of course, Dan,
you're gonna say change your oil regular because that brings
the customer in more and so on and so forth.
I get that, I understand that, but I'm telling you,
every single day I have to break bad news to somebody.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Hey, listen, you need you need timing change is ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Which could have been prevented if you just change your
oil for one hundred bucks, you know, every you know,
every three months, right, so and every time it's it's
amazing to me that when I come in, I and
and people won't even bring their car in for an
old change. They're bringing in for check breaks, right, And
we look up at that little sticker and he's an
old change, like, oh yeah, well, my car says it's
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I'm only I got twenty percent. Uh. You know the
person I you know, the dealership about it from says
I need to change it at ten. And I'm telling
you it's the simplest, most important thing that you can
do for your vehicle. And I try to hammer this
point in every week because every single day I'm dealing
with and you know, listen, it breaks my heart when
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I got to call somebody and say this gentleman was
pretty upset. You know, he had to get everything out
of his car and he's like, I'm gonna have it
just towed back to my house.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And I understand it's expensive.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's expensive not because of my cost, just because the
amount of labor and the cost it is to do
the job. And it's something that can be prevent for
you and everybody else out there that that that I
that's listening to me. It's the simplest, best thing that
you can do. Okay, So and here's here's what we
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want to focus on. I'm not I don't want to
focus on what the car tells you as far as
what your percentage is.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't want to focus on what the dealership told
you when you bought it, or the salesman told you
that you know what to change it at Okay, my
salesman told me to change it every ten thousand miles.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'm not doing that. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
He understood that, and he knew what I did, but
he's like, oh, you know Ford has changed ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You're good. No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I've had this discussion with my father in law because
he calls me all the time. He goes, hey, whence
should I change the oil? And again, it's every five
thousand miles period. I don't care what make, what model,
what year, anything like that. It's five thousand miles period.
The best way to do that. And if you bring
it to any down of entire repair shop, any of
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our shops, you're gonna a little sticker in the upper
part of that windshield and it's either five months or
five thousand miles period. We don't want to focus on
what the car says, what your neighbor says, what the
salesman says. It's every five thousand miles, because again, majority
of these vehicles today are burning oil, and you don't
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know it. A lot of people think that it's you know,
you get this big puff of white smoke and and
you're gonna get a lot of people too go oh well,
I didn't see any type of warning signs. You're not
gonna get a warning sign. You're not. I've had cars
come in with less than a half quarter of oil
with no low oil light. They just that they don't
come on. They don't put them on in these cars anymore.
(11:45):
And so again it kind of if you change it regularly,
you're gonna stay on top of it and not run
the car low on oil. And again, the way these
cars are designed one is for a fuel efficiency government
standards and whatnot. And in that process and the way
they're designed especially, they're gonna burn oil. Most majority, I
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would say ninety percent of cars that are out there
today burn oil. And you need to be aware of it,
and you need to check it if you can. If not,
you can bring it to any of our locations and
we'll check it for you, or you can go to
Google or YouTube and say, how do I check my oil?
It's the most important thing to do. And again, changing
it regularly is gonna get you the longevity. I if
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you want your car to last two hundred and fifty
thousand miles, the single cheapest best thing that you can
do is change the oil. And I and I know,
for some of you who listen to me, so they go,
oh my god, he's talking about changing oil again. But
I'm telling you it's I could save people hundreds of
thousands of dollars, not one individual, but I mean there's
so much time that the car comes in and it's
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just it's rampant, and it's just like, I've got to
get this out there. So for those of you who
listen to me, you gotta I hate to be, you know,
sound redundant, but it's like, man, it's so important. It's
so important that you do it. So taking your phone
calls and I'm gonna call five one three seven four
nine fifty five hundred. That number again, five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred coming up.
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
Taking your car question. Is the number to call five
one three seven four nine fifty five hundred. That number
gain five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center and uh
if you go to donovantire dot com you can find
your nearest location. Love to help you out and do
anything that we can that your car might need. But
here on Saturdays, it's all about you and what I
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can do to try to help you out and walk
you through whatever whatever it might pertain to on that vehicle,
whether it's maintenance, you're you're buying a new vehicle, or
you have a car question, or you know, whatever it
might pertain to that vehicle.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That's what I'm here for to try to help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So again the number to call five one, three, seven
fifty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Let's go to the phones. We have Gary. Hey, Gary,
welcome to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Thank you, Dean.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I have a question. I have a Subaru engine, an
E eighty one, got a few years on it, and
I wrestle with the fact of either using straight ten
W thirty oil in it, or putting a cord of
slick fifty with the ten W thirty oil, or using
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synthetic oil. Now, when this engine was built, as we
all know, there wasn't synthetic oils on the market like
there is now. It's very important that I maintained this engine.
What's your opinion? Should I use ten W thirty like
they did with the original engine? Because I burn I
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burn none ethanol gas. I burned straight gas.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, So what I would tell you what i'd recommend?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I don't know anything about the product Slicks fifty. I
don't know anything to I mean, I've heard it advertise
or whatnot, but I've never used the product, so I
can't vouch for it.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Or give you an opinion about it, just to be
honest with you.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Okay, I would done with that subject.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I would stick to ten thirty and what the engine
was designed with when it was designed. Now, hear me
out on this. I have a two thousand Honda Civic.
And the reason why I don't so I've always advocated, like, hey,
synthetic is a great product, and most most of your
vehicles nowadays are synthetic, and synthetics supposed to be better
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than long last last year.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But hear me out on this, And I know this
sounds silly, but I've had this car for twenty two years,
and I had it. I changed the oil religiously. I'm
I'm I'm a little over the top on it. I
changed every fifteen hundred miles. Okay, that's how over the
top I am on it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But at one hundred thousand miles, I decided, Hey, I'm
gonna go. I'm gonna switch from the ten W thirty
that the car came with, and I'm gonna switch to synthetic.
It's gonna last longer, right, And I noticed a massive
difference in my fuel economy, my fuel my fuel economy
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went way down. Miles per gallon went way down, and
I'm like, I just I was like, well, you know what,
maybe it's just because it's getting older's got one hundred
thousand miles on it. And at the time, and I'm
not paid by Vaveling, but I was using Vaveling oil
and they had an engine guarantee. They said, hey, listen,
if you can prove that you change your oil every
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you know, three thousand miles, We're going to guarantee your
engine to I can't remember what it was, it was
like three hundred.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I remember those commercials.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I'm like, all right, So I did that, and
I did that for quite some time, and then I
got to the point where I'm like, man, this is
so expensive, especially when you know I'm changing it every
fifteen hundred yes, and so I'm like, you know what,
and I just again, I just fuel economy went way down.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I'm like, that's just old.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And I'm telling you, I mean, my fuel economy went
cut down pretty tremendously, almost instant.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And again I was like, oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And then I'm telling you, as soon as I went
back to the standard ten thirty of the car, just
regular conventional oil. My fuel economy came right back up.
I can't speak.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Good to know this is really good information today. I
mean not have my Subaru engine breakdown on me. I
have a gyroplane that I put it in. I can't
pull over to the side of the road if I
have an engine breakdown. No, no, I can't tell you
how many hours I have on that engine. But I
do have a twenty four, and what you're saying is
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exactly correct. I have a twenty four Kia with two
hundred and seventy nine thousand miles on it. Now, I've
heard a lot of criticism about kids over the years,
and we have two Hondas and watched one Dodge truck
and there's only two of us to drive. But that
Kia runs like a scalded dog. In fact, there was
an incident last year where my kid was stolen and
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they had it parked up the street and a guy
put a note in it and he said, you need
this car more than I do, and he left the
car and sheriff told me about it.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'm teasing you, like, oh my god, I.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Do have a kid with that kind of mileish on it.
And as far as the Hyundai's and that go. They
sent us stickers to put on the window that the
car has been adjusted that it's harder to steal for
what it's worth. I have a twenty nineteen and the
twenty twenty four. Okay, now with Dodge Ram truck with
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the twenty twenty twenty fifteen, do you think I should
put synthetic oil in that or straight ten W thirty if.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's a you know what I have here. You know
it said that super engines in eighty one?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Correct, yes, sir, all right, so I think on the
fifteen you could switch to the synthetic. I think fifteen
you'll be fine. I mean I was putting synthetic in
my I have a uh, you know seven Ford f
one fifty, and you know I put synthetic in that.
But as far as like an eighty one, I would
stick to that's the way it was designed and manufactured.
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And but no, I think you put synthetic in it.
But again, I'm not always hung up on you know, semisynthetic,
synthetic or conventional. What I want to see is is
it being changed regularly. That's what I'm a big proponent to,
is just changing it regularly because it's so it's it's
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the lifeblood of your car.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
It's so important.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And every person that I know that's brought their car
to me that has two hundred, three hundred thousand miles
on the arm, you know, how do you? And I ask,
how do you get that many miles on a car? Well,
just change the world regularly, And you know, it's just
so important. And these newer cars nowadays, they have so many,
in my opinion, nonsense timing chains and guides and this
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and that. And if you just keep up on the oil,
you'll get three hundred thousand miles. But you know, it's
always about well, the dealer said this, and the technically
you know, the service advisor that I bought the car
from or salesman said this, and I read online this,
and it's just like, hey, I've got this platform. I'm
gonna speak loudly. Hey, look, just change it regularly. If
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you're using a conventional oil and I've always said this,
three thousand and with you conventional oil three thousand miles,
you'll be fine. But I just with the age of
the vehicle, I would recommend using just the conventional oil
what it was designed to do because again I made
the switch and I was like, why am I getting
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horrible fuel economy? And as soon as I went back
to conventional oil came right back.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So it's like, well, the.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Only thing to you but to excuse me, but to you,
oil is oil? Is there? I hate to put you
in this kind of a corner. What would be the
best ten W thirty that you would suggest? I mean
there's so many Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I mean there's so many brands.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
And I'm i I Quaker Valelating mobile.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, I think any of those products are gonna any
It's just you know, you want to make sure it,
you know, is what your car calls for as far
as you know, you want to make sure that it's
up to the test.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But you know, I'm not always.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Hung up on the brands per se, because you know
a lot of people people say this to me all
the time. It kind of goes right through me. But
you know, it's like, well, oil's oil. It's like, no, no,
it's not. You know, you want to do a question,
you want to do a you want to right, you
want to have a quality brand that is that's that
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you know, has you know, stay in the test of
time and I think any of those brands you know
will be perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But I would say a.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Detergent with the detergent what they call the detergent in
the oil.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Uh huh. Yep.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well, you've been very helpful, and I can't command you
on pointing out the fact that oil is that important
because I'm pushing eighty. I got eighty years of age.
I've got tens of hundreds of thousand miles under my belt.
I've always changed. I've always taken care of the cars,
even in my tractors, in the lawnmower, in my aircraft.
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It's spark plugs and oil and very little, very little,
seldom with a problem. I thank you for your time, Dean,
have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You take care all right, Thank you, bye bye. That
was great. That was that was great. It's so important.
So it's so important, so easy to do. So all right,
then imber to call five one three that number again.
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you again.
You get on, you call, We'll get you right on.
So the number call five one three seven four nine
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fifty five hundred. That number gain five one three, seven
four nine fifty five hundred, coming up. We have Charlie.
You're listening to the Car Show on fifty five KRS
the talk station.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I have been a customer of Donovan's for ten years.
It's not always easy to find a mechanic that you
can trust, that isn't going to take advantage of you.
They treated me respectfully, not talk down to me. There
are mechanics right down the road, but I chose to
keep coming back here because they treated me as family,
so much so that four years ago I started working here.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Hi Dale Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center, the honest
choice for car repair in Cincinnati since nineteen fifty eight.
Find the one nearest you at donovantire dot com. The
best way to wake up in the morning, A hot
cup of coffee and Brian Thomas Monday morning at five
on fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You're listening to the Car show fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. Again, you've
here all the time, but I'm third generation been My
grandfather started the business in nineteen fifty eight and continue
to go strong and.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And again I've said this multiple times for those of
you who listen all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I truly, truly enjoy what I.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Do, and so much so that I'm here every Saturday
so I can try to help you out with your
car questions. Doesn't always necessarily have to be that you
bring it to Donovans, because I get a lot of
I get a lot of callers from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I mean, really, you can call from anywhere in.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The world, but I get a lot, a lot from Boston, Florida,
New York, California. And my job, my object here is
to talk to you and help you out in any
type of your car needs. I've been doing this for
twenty five years, and it's all I've ever wanted to do,
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pretty much since I could put a runch in my hand.
There's a I have a picture at home. I gotta
find that thing. I don't know where it's at, but
picture of me when I was I must have been
six or seven years old and had a towel on
the ground and I'm underneath a car and acting like
I'm working on it, you know, because that's that's all
I know. I mean, and uh again, I enjoy it
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enough so that I'm here every Saturday to answer your
car question.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
So I really do. Uh. I appreciate all.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
The callers and uh, you know you guys calling up
so uh, real quick, I'm gonna get to Charlie here
in just a second, real quick. If you're in the
Tri state area, that's you know, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio with
all the Wayne Waine, with all the rain we're getting.
If you have a water leak in your vehicle, which
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is I mean, I see it a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Okay, got a great guy.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's called the you can call me anytime, but it's
called the water doctor. Okay, this is what he does.
He specializes and fixes these cars. Now, nine out of
ten times, if you have a sunroof and you have
water getting into your vehicle, most likely it's the sunroof
trains either they're detached or they're clogged, especially if you
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park underneath the tree where there's leaves to breed or whatnot.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And if you take it to your dealer, or if
you take it to any repair shop in this this
local area, they're gonna call him Jerry at the water
Doctor and does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Great guy, upstanding guy.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And again, if you have a water leak in your vehicle.
And I want to bring this up because of all
the rain that we've had, and it's not good to
get water in your car because most of these newer vehicles,
all of the modules, all the electronics, everything that runs
that vehicle. These manufacturers put the modules and everything in
the in the floor, so that water just ruins them.
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And it'll cost you one hundreds and thousands of dollars
to fix these things. So it's something that if you
notice water penetrating or getting your vehicle, call the water
doctor and you know, you can bring it to one
of our locations. He'll come and he'll fix it and
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had a great cost. So something to think about. I
was just thinking about that when at the break when
it was like, while I'm staring outside and it's just
pouring down rain. So all right, again the number to
call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred.
Let's go back to the phones we have Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
thank you for your patience. I really do appreciate it.
How can I help?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Well, I called you about new cars, but before I
get into that, uh, I've got a two thousand and
five across our town country and I borrowed that in
April of two thousand and four. They put them out
real early that year, but everything was fine. I got
over one hundred thousand miles on it, and the dealership
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I went. I took a Cadillac dealership because they were
the car with it with an all change, but they
switched to all synthetic oil. All of a sudden, everything
started leaking on it, all the gaskets and everything, and
they said, oh, no, it couldn't happen. But at the
same time I put I changed the synthetical on my
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Crasslin lawnmower. All the gaskets started leaking on it too,
So I don't think that was a I was told
later that you ought anything after I think two thousand
and six or something was okay to use synthetical. Well
that's true or not, but I was told it couldn't
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have happened, but I told it, was told you shouldn't
use it on an older vehicle. The synthetical.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I really think that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You should stick to what the manufacturer at the time,
at that year when it was manufactured, that you'd stick to,
you know, what that car was manufacturing and designed to do,
because again, I have my little civic that I have.
You know, it's twenty five years old, and I still
put conventional oil in it.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I don't and I don't have any problems with it.
I mean, knock on wood and I do too.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
I usually I went back to the conventional oil, and
I couldn't find a dealership around here that are any
or a car place that didn't use the blended. So
I used the blended role now and then I was
fifteen hundred miles. I have to add a cord till
I get up to five thousand, and then I get
it changed. But what I called about was I'm gonna
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I got a My car's resting out. I got about
one hundred and seventies and on it, so I'm going
to get another car, and I'm just gonna. I thought
about a hon that they're more expensive than the Christler,
but somebody told me they didn't think they were making
as well now the engines and all, so I don't know.
I swear I was trying to find out.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Okay, now it's a great question. I love this question
because you know, I see, I see.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
A lot, and I had this I was talking to
a young lady earlier this week I was taking her home,
was dropping her off, taking her home, and we were
talking about it.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But let me ask you something is are you looking
for a car? SUV?
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Van? What van?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You want a van? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
I maybe seven, but I still all of the old
haul stuff when I needed gotcha.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So are you? Are you looking to buy used or new? Well?
Speaker 8 (31:54):
They used are so expensive, I figure I'm going to
have one more car, so I was thinking about a
new one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, all right, Well, I mean typically your interest rates
are going to be cheaper on a newer one anyways, Right,
So you buy a car with you know, thirty thousand
miles on it, and you're gonna pay more on your
interest rate if you find if for those of you
out there financing it, I will always I always lean
towards Hanna. Now that's just my preference. I've had, Like
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I told you, my little Civic that I have, I've
had for twenty five years. I've always liked the Hunter brand.
But yes, you're right, they are more expensive. Reason being
is because there's they're a lot more reliable and they
last longer. Now I don't have a problem with the
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Chrysler minivan.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The only thing that I can tell you that I
noticed is there is a it's a it is an
absolute poor design by Chrysler, and we do a ton
of them. But there is what's called the oil filter,
what they call the oil filter housing, the oil cooler,
oil filter sit right on top, right in the valley
of the engine, and these it's not a matter of if,
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it's a matter of when these housings leak. And it's
a it's a it's about a twelve hundred dollars cost, right.
Not not hateful, not like hey don't buy their car
because of it, but that's we We we see a
lot of those. And Chrysler Man does not build. They're
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not making their parts as long as they used to.
I mean, I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep which is
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I know it's not a Chryst it's you know, it's
owned by Chrysler.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
But I've got a twenty eighteen Jeep that needed a
throttle body and not available.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Chrysler doesn't make it anymore. So you're you're, you're, you're
you know. The only reason I.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Was, yeah, I was thinking about going to Honda. My
daughter bought one of them. It's similar to this crassler
it's the Odyssey. Uh but she said it's really hard
to get the seats out. And one of the crashloerds
they just toole down, says, you've got a flat. Yeah,
you know, I can put a sheet of fly with
(34:13):
it in the back of my this van.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
What about Have you looked at the Toyot Sienna.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
No, I wasn't familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's you know, well, my my first choice if I'm
buying a van, my first choice is Honda Odyssey.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
My mother in law has one. She loves it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
They're great cars. That that would be my first. Number
two would be the toy To Sienna. My father in law.
Uh so, my mother in law has the Odyssey. My
father in law has a Sienna. I mean he almost
has two hundred thousand miles on that thing. And I'm
telling you he's never And I'm gonna knock on wood
because I don't want to. I don't want to wish
anything bat him. Never had any problems with the Sienna.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Never.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And if I'm my third choice would be the the
now Again, the Honda and the Toyota are you're gonna
pay more for even if even if they have one
hundred thousand miles, you know, but they typically make their
parts longer, last longer, and less headache. But you know,
(35:17):
we really don't have a ton of problems with the Chrysler.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
We really don't.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Just that oil filter housing which was the poor designed
by them, but for the most part, they just don't
make their parts as long as Honda and Toyota.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
Yeah, the Sienna, is that a Toyota, Yes, sir, yep,
Toyota Siena. Okay, that's why I was trying to thank
the Hana made that.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, I'm sorry I should have said that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, Toyota Sienna, you really ought to look into that.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Okay, it's gonna be my life one so the life
long time, make it count.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay, Okay, Well, thank you, sure, thank you absolutely. I
appreciate the phone call you every great weekend. Good luck
to you.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Hey, well, if you're listening, when you buy that van,
I want to hear, I want to, you know, want
I want to get a full report on how you
like it. So all right, the number to call five one, three, seven, four,
nine fifty five hundred coming up. We have uh we
have John and Allen. You're listening to the Car show
on fifty five krs the Talk station.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
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You're listening to the car.
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Show on fifty five krs DE Talk station on Dan
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Speaker 3 (37:09):
But now I'm taking care of.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Your car needs as far as what you have and
what you have may have a question about.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
And again I'm here every Saturday to answer your car
questions and number to call five one, three seven.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
All right, let's go back to the phones we have.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
John. Hey, John, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
How can I help?
Speaker 9 (37:27):
No, I got to I guess a question I'm trying
to figure out on my car. So I've had a
couple of times in the last I guess month, just
two times. I guess when my after I drive it
for say a half hour forty minutes, if I stop
at a store, run into the store, come back out,
(37:49):
try to start it. I have nothing, wait a pout
a half hour or forty minutes, come back and start
starts up with no problem. First I thought of I
thought maybe with my alternators, double check that alternators fine, charging,
batteries getting charged fine, and everything. So I guess I'm
(38:10):
just trying to figure out what could be causing that issue.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Sure, so real quick, So I want to when you
run into the store and come back out, turn the key,
do you have power?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Radio lights? Dash light up? Is that all happen?
Speaker 9 (38:30):
Yes? I see my time on all of that on
the radio and everything. It's all there, but as soon
as I try to turn, I don't. There's nothing. It
doesn't even try to crank or anything. It's like, there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
There, gotcha? Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
So typically, so what you're most likely dealing with is
that starter. A lot of times, if the car does
not crank, nine out of ten times, it's the start itself. Okay,
And probably what's happening. And this happens all the time
with crank sensors, but we're not dealing with that. We're
(39:07):
because crank sensor will still allow the car to crank,
but it won't fire the car.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
But anyways, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
The times the car when you stop and shut it off,
it's called kind of like a hot soak. That starter
just kind of bakes a little bit and then it
won't fire. It just won't do its job. The selamoid's
probably shot and you need a starter. So if the
battery test good, the alternatory test good, and you go.
And so what happens is that starter then cools down
(39:34):
the engine and everything cools down and then it starts
firing again. So most likely you need a new starter.
How many miles are on the vehicle.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
On this engine, there's uh about fifty five thousand on.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
It, okay, rig Okay, so you say on this I had.
Speaker 9 (39:55):
To replace that e GM previously because of a timing
chrain issue that happened though with.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
It got it okay, Yeah, that's pretty common.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So most likely we're dealing with the starter now that
the problem is.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
You need to get it. If you get it to
your mechanic in.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Order to really really identify if it's the start or not.
We got to get it to act up, right. Your
technician has got to get it to act up, so
they're gonna have to drive it, get it hot, and
you know there it could be a relay issue, could be.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
You know, start a relay or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
But most likely it's going to be your starter that
needs to be replaced. But again, any mechanic or whoever
looks at it, you need to let them know. Hey, listen,
when it acts up, it's after I've been driving it
for thirty minutes and then park, run to a gas station,
come back out. Give them that information because what's gonna
happen is they're going to drive around the block and go,
(40:53):
let's start it right up, you know, we can't find
anything wrong with it. Give them that information that you
gave me. Hey, look after I'm driving it for thirty minutes,
run into a gas station and come back out. It
won't start and it's a no crank. And if they
have that information, that's going to give them, you know,
(41:14):
a better reason. It's going to allow them to diagnose
it quicker. You know, far too often people feel like, oh,
if I give them too information, it's going to cost
me too much. It's gonna cost me more money. But
it's the absolute opposite. You give them your technician every
bit of information that you possibly can, and it's going
to take them less time to try to diagnose it
and get it back to you. So but I think
(41:35):
you need to start her. Okay, all right, thank you
very much for holding I appreciate it, and have a
great weekend.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
All right, let's go. We're running out of time. Let's
go to Alan.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Hey, Alan, I'm really kind of tenched on time, but
I'd love to help you.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (41:50):
Okay, I'll give you my quick version. I've got a
twenty ten Highlander. I just had front struts put on
to diagnose a problem of front end vibration and how
it acts is when I go to work in the morning,
I have front and vibration driving sixty sixty five miles
an hour for like ten fifteen minutes, and it may
not completely go away, but it goes away largely on
(42:13):
my way home from work after seven hours. It's always smooth.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Okay when it vibrates.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Is it vibrating when you're applying the brakes when you
have your foot on the gas.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
What I'm traveling. Yes, So whether I take my hand
off the steering room or not, I still feel it
in my body.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
So you're driving it, you get your foot on the
gas and it's vibrating.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Okay, if you let off the gas, does it continue
to vibrate?
Speaker 7 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And front and the front struts helped, but didn't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Okay, what I would? What about did you have the
tires looked at and balanced?
Speaker 6 (42:59):
They have? They are balanced. There are seven year old tires.
They've got about forty five thousand, thirty about thirty five
to forty thousand miles on them. There's still plenty of
tread life, but they're seven years old. Yeah, and that's
what the mechanics suggested to try next is new tires.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
So typically yeah, So there's a couple of things that
cause a vibration. If you've got a vibration under acceleration,
which you don't have, but I'm just under acceleration. If
you have a vibration, it's usually a drivetrain axle or
something like that. That's not what you have because if
you let off the gas, it's still there.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Okay. If you have a vibration when applying the brakes.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
At higher speeds, that's usually break pulsation, you've got a
break issue.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
But if it's got new brakes on it, okay.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
So if it's doing it all the time, there's only
two things that could be.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Either one of the either one of the tires is
either bad, has a broken belt or out of or
needs to be balanced.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So it's either a.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Tire issue or you've got to break or I'm sorry,
break caliper hose. That's kind of hanging up and causing it.
But if it in the morning, it does it, But
in the afternoon it doesn't. You know, typically it's a
little bit warmer in the afternoon. I would think from
what you're telling me, it sounds like it's a tire.
We're dealing with a tire issue. You need to get
those tires checked and maybe rebalanced. And if you can
(44:19):
find a mechanic that has what's called a road force balancer,
use that.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Okay, thank you very much. Huh.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I have a great day, man. I love answering these questions.
It's just always uh sorry, I'm just so sorry. I'm
out of time, but I'll be back next Saturday answer
all your questions.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Everybody, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Listen to Dane Domond you listen to Carshon on fifty
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