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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Not Mercury, the Chevy to the litty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So good afternoon and welcome to the car show. I
am Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions. The
number called five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
That number again five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. But again I'm here every Saturday. Again Dane
(00:32):
Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. And uh, I'm here
every Saturday to answer all your car questions, any question
you may have that pertains your vehicle, and I might
not have, uh, you know sometimes, I mean we don't
do any type of transmission work, but you know there's
always somebody that can refer you to.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And you know, again, I love what I do.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I enjoy what I do, and I've I've told you
guys this time and time again, but you're it's it's
it's a constantly evolving it's always changing and I'm always learning,
which I which I enjoy. I think it's one of
the best parts about the job is no day is
the same. Right. Yes, it might be the same car issues,
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but every car, every customer, every situation is in noise
and whatnot is different. Right, There's no it's it's just
not a very I don't know, it's it's hard to explain,
but it is what makes the job, part of the
job enjoyable. Yes, I enjoy cars, Yes I like cars.
I'm not a car collector or anything like that, but
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I really really do enjoy trying to help people out
and get their car fixed and get them back out
on the road. That's that's all we're here for at
Donovan's Auto entire Center is to help you out and
get your car back out on the road so you
can get you you know, get yourself to work, get
your kids to sports, which that's what we're doing all
day today, which is typically every Saturday and Sunday for us.
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As you know, I've got three boys, they're all in sports.
My son had a basketball game this morning, and then
my oldest son has a basketball game at six.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So but again, that's why you need the car.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's why you need you know, you needed to perform
at its top and make sure that it can get
you from point A to point B. And again, as
you may know, these cars are not getting any cheaper
to purchase. They're very expensive, so you want to make
sure that you protect your investment and make sure that
you're getting your car serviced regularly. Now again, I know
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this is I know we get busy, and believe me,
I mean I'm busy myself and spend a lot of time.
I mean, you know, I do everything I can to
you know, get to my you know, get to my
vehicles or whatnot. But sometimes I'll get my wife's car
and you know it's overdue for an oal change, and
you know, we got to get that done right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's important.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
These things are important, especially going into the winner right.
And I can tell you from this week alone, we
were absolutely at all of our locations were absolutely slammed
with cars that were broken down and a lot of
heating issues, a lot of battery issues, a lot of
not starting issues because as you know, this week it
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was extremely cold and and I've been kind of leading
up to this like this is the time that we
need to start thinking about getting this car.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And now I know it's Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I know it's thinking about the holidays and what you
need to do to get the get through the holidays,
but you need to also make sure that you can
get from point A to point B, get to work,
and make sure that you know you're not, you know,
dealing with an issue where your car won't start, and
now you're you know, scrambling to try to get to work,
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get to get to sports or whatnot. And it's it's
just it's it's very important. Now again, we don't we
can't always predict when the car is going to break down.
I get that. I mean, I can test your back
today and it'd be dead as a door nail tomorrow.
That can't happen. But nine out of ten times there
will be signs. We can test your battery, and we
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test it for free. We don't charge you anything. Come by,
we'll test your battery, and if you need a battery,
we'll put a battery in it for you. And this
is the time of year to do it, I'm telling you.
And if I had multiple cars this week, multiple cars
with heating issues or over heating issues, and again because
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the cold breaks these things down, so it would be
important to schedule your appointment now, try to get it in,
Try to get it looked at so you're ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Belts, hoses, filters, air pressure.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean I probably had at my new location, probably
had twenty twenty cars that came in and said, hey,
my load tire light's on.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, why is the low tire light on?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Because for every ten degrees that the temperature drops out
size ambient air temperature drops, you lose one pound of air. Okay,
So let's just go back if you changed. Let's just say,
you know, in June or July or maybe even September October,
if you had your oil change right, and they checked
your air pressure and it was at thirty five where
it needed to be, well, guess what when it was
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felt like zero this week, guess what? Your air pressure
dropped tremendously and your tire light came on. Now, that
doesn't necessarily mean that the tires flat, but it means
that the tires one or multiple tires are low and
that's because of the temperature outside and that's what drops it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So and again, if your low tire light's on, we
got to think about this too. When your low tire
light is on, that is an indication again low tire.
But the rolling resistance increases, which means you use more gas.
Nobody wants to spend more money on gas, and you
prematurely wear out your tires.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Right, So something as simple as just making.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Sure that you take care of your air pressure will
prolong the life of your tires and increase your gas mileage.
And and you know, everybody all the time when they
come in and I'm like, hey, your tirelight's on there, Yeah,
I don't worry about it. Now. I understand that you
don't have to replace these tire pressure sensors that are
in this that are in your vehicle, but you still
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need to make sure that your air pressure is checked regularly.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's something that is so simple and everybody can do
it now.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I you can take your you can bring your car
to any dot of entire location in the try in
Cincinnati area. Any come in, just say hey, you can check
my air pressure if you don't want to get out
of the the you know, the brutal cold, and pay
a dollar fifty for some air pressure.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I see people all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I drive past gas stations and I see people putting
air in their tires. And two things. One, it's it's
one thing when we get this cold snap. If your
tire light comes on, that's one thing. But if you're
having to put air in a tire, you know, every
couple of weeks or once a month, you have a
slow leak in that tire, and it's something that you
should address otherwise it's going to create bigger problems. You
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run that tire low, you end up potentially ruining the tire,
which will cost you hundreds of dollars. So you want
to make sure that you know your air pressure is
checked and that you're ready for winter, ready for what
winner may bring us again, you know, for the past
for many years now, I mean we've had some mild winners, right,
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but we still get these cold snaps and then all
of a sudden, we're in panic mode, and then we're
we're scramble mode, and and and that's what happened this week.
I was, you know, very overwhelmed yesterday because there was
a lot of people, I mean all week. I mean,
my car's broken, my car's broken, it's overheating. I don't
have any heat I don't, you know. And so I
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want to get to everybody, I really do. I want
to help everybody and get all their car fixed, get
everybody's car fixed. But we have to be a little
bit proactive, and we have to make sure that we're
getting the cars and inspected. I know, it's a hassle
you know I I, you know, I don't like going
to the daentists. It's a hassle, right I, you know,
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but it's something that you just you gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You got to make time for it, schedule it so
that you prevent any type of scrambling. And you're broken
down and now you don't have a car, and then
I'm you know, have just bombarded with the vehicles and
then you know, I'm trying my best to get to
everybody's car, but you know, I I but then you
get into scramble mode. And so it's it's just you
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gotta make sure that we're getting these cars in, getting
them inspected. It's not winter yet, it's coming up, but
we got a really really good dose of it this week.
You know again, batteries, wipe or blades, you need to
make sure that you have the proper wipe. You know
that when it gets there's salty outside, you get that
glare on the windshield.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's important.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You need to make sure that your washer fluids filled
correctly in full, your air pressures checked.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it's something simple.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, we don't you know, we charge to do
kind of fool like a whole checkover. It's eighty nine bucks, right,
check the whole car over. And if there's something that
needs to be done. You know, we don't charge you
for the checkout, right, we just you want to make
sure that your car is ready for whatever Mother nature
in winter brings us. Right, it's important. And then you
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know the other thing is again I talked earlier about Christmas.
We got Christmas coming up, right, and sometimes some of you,
especially me, you don't know what to get everybody for Christmas? Right,
So if you have a son or a daughter of
this maybe home from school, right, it might not be
the best Christmas present ever, But you know, or if
there's a family member that maybe is struggling and needs
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some car repair something like that, instead of giving them
a you know, a tie or a gift car, think about, hey,
get a gift car to Doninan's. Or hey, I'll tell
you what, man, I you know, does your car need
any repair? Right? Maybe you need some wiper blades, or
maybe you need an oild change. Here, let me take
care of this oil change for you for Christmas. You
know something's it's a little different again. Cars aren't really
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you know, not everybody wants to spend spend money on
Christmas for the cars. But again, think about when you're
your you know, your your students are your children, not
your students, well they're students, but your children are home,
and maybe get it in. Now's the time going into Christmas.
I get so many people go, hey, my daughter's in
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town this week and I need to get the car in. Well,
at this point, you know, I can't get it in right.
So then you're scrambled to go somewhere else, somewhere that's
probably not reliable or trustworthy or you don't know, and
then you're sould things that you don't need. Okay, we
talk about it all the time that we're the honest choice,
and that's a god, you know, that's the truth. We
do everything that we can, and we prioritize right, so
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sometimes you can had I had a nice young lady
that brought her car less. It's a BMW and older
BMW's can be very expensive to upkeep. And at first
she was bombarded with uh, you know, a seventh it
was almost seven one thousand dollars right, and initially she
was upset, but she came in and said, hey, can
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you explain everything to me, and you know, so I
explained everything to her, walked her through everything, and once
she once she was understand, you know, because she didn't.
She's like, I, Dane, I don't know cars. I don't
know them. All I know is that you're saying that
I need seven thousan dollars of work.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
To fix all of your concerns at seven thousand dollars?
Do we need to fix all your concerns? Now, here's priority.
We break it down. Here's priority, here's her safety concerns,
here's probably what's next on your list. And here's some
type of preventative maintenance that maybe needs to be done
at a later date. Right. And so sometimes sometimes people
look at the overall cost opposed to hey, let's break
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this down. What do I have to do? What do
I need to do? And so on and so forth.
She loves the car, she just bought it. So I
talked to her and she was, you know, I said,
I appreciate you coming in and talking to us, because
I know it's a lot, but we don't need to
do all this. And once we walked her through everything,
she was and she goes, all right, Dan, go ahead
and do half the work now and I'll come back
and do the other half later. And she was she
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was happy.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So if you bring your car in and they give
you your mechanic, or you come to Donovan's or any
other mechanic, ask can I get a breakdown? What's a priority?
What do I need to do first?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Maybe? What can I kick down the road and maybe
do at a later date?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then what is some type of is any of
this preventative maintenance that I can do maybe next year?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Those are the questions you should ask, and those are
the questions that I like to get. Those are what
I try to tell my customers so we can break
it down. So it's not an overall what do I
need to do? It's you know, how much is it?
You got to ask those questions. So all right, taking
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Speaker 2 (13:36):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number a gin five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. It's brutally cold, it
has been all week, and there's things that you can
do and should do to make.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sure that your car is ready for winter.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So if you've I've got some tips I'd like to
talk about earlier or later.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm sorry and uh some but phone lines.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Are wide open. Uh So if you've got a question,
I'll get to you fairly quickly. So, but as of
now we're going to go to David. Hey, David, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
How you doing Dan?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
How are you good? Got a simple tip for the winner?
Keep your car in the garage. What a concept, right, yes,
close your mind. How many people that live on my
street keep the car out on the street when they
have a garage that they don't use.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, it's it's it's it's a great believe it or
not to My wife texts me on Monday and says,
I need the garage cleaned out so I can start
parking in the garage for winter. And I said, yes, dear,
I will get that done. So we had some we
had uh, we've just got a you know, they're just
the kids bikes and balls and and you know whatever
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I mean. But so, yeah, my project was I'm not
gonna be able to do it today, but I think
my project tomorrow is I got to clean the garage
out because my wife does not like coming out to
a cold car. She and believe it or not, yes,
it helps a lot, Yes it does, and especially with
you know, and you know the thing, so many times,
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you know, we get water, snow, ice or whatnot. People
go to roll the windows down, the break window regulators.
They leave their wipers on when they park the car.
Then when they go to turn the car and the
wiper comes on, it breaks the wiper linkage, breaks the
wiper motor. And you know, I have an older F
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one fifty and the way it's designed, every time it
gets colder, it rains and it freezes. When I open
up the door, the door seal rips off the truck
and I got to put it back on.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And so but I let my wife park in the garage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I just park. I have to just park outside. I
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
But well, I feel your pain.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But no, I mean you're great. I mean it's it's
a great point. And if you can if you have
a garage, I mean even in the I don't care.
It doesn't even have to be in the winder if
it's in the summer too. Man, you get so much
more life out of a vehicle by keeping it in
a garage, I'm telling you, or at least a car port.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, it will blow your mind how many people don't
put their car in the garage when they actually have
a garage.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Mm hmm. I know, well we turn it into a
storage unit, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So, And that's not why I called Dan.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, Well, what can I help you with?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I just got a simple question about oil changes. M
I got a twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I love this question, by the way.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, okay, I got a twenty and twelve Volkswagen Pasade. Okay, okay.
Now I get these little flyers in the mail all
the time from over back and Wyoming. They're all out
in my wheelhouse. I live out in Glendale, and I
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come over and let you do it, but you're out
of my wheelhouse distance wise.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
So I got a question a full European. One of
the flyers I had was for a full European synthetic
oil was eighty nine dollars. Full synthetic was like sixty
nine dollars, and then just regular oil change. Right around
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a corner, he's all offering a full synthetic oil change
with free seasonal checkup for thirty two ninety nine, which
I thought is very good. Now here's the thing. What
is the difference between full European synthetic and just full
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synthetic and why is there such a gap in the price.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So great question. So yeah, to be honest with you,
as long as it's the same grade of oil, right,
So as long as so the euro is just.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, is that what the car calls for?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I think it does, but I can't remember, but I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So the the euro is supposed to be you know,
it's supposed to be like originally like basically you know,
designed for your car for Euro vehicles, right, And the
euro oil is more just because it's they charge us more.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It you just say it the whole synthetic versus the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's no difference, a.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Whole lot of different No, there's no I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, there's no, there's no difference. All it is is
just they charge us more. And maybe have listen. I
mean I I do. I do have some euro oils
because some euro oils it depends on the gray. You know,
a zero W forty or a zero W thirty is
considered euro and it's more.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But yeah, I'd be honest with that.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I get where you're I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's it's It's just like buying the eighty seven octane
or a ninety three octane. I mean, are you gonna
notice anything different as a cargon perform any different? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Not really? You know some you know, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't think you need to pay the most important
part And the reason why I said that when I
said I love this question. The more important thing that
the best thing that you can I don't care as
long as you put the right weight in, but as
long as you change the dagon oil on a regular basis,
your car will last three hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Miles, all right, But I'm pretty good at that, but
I'm not perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, you just just know, I mean, the volts wagons
and audi's. Over time, the rings will start, you know,
letting go, and the thing will start start burning oil.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
That's the more important thing. And that's what I harp
on all the time. I have a car.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Again.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
When I started this twenty five years ago, in this business,
no car burned oil. It is almost unheard of, you know,
lake oil, but not burn every And it went from
maybe you know, every other month, once a month, maybe
once a week. Every single day. I have a vehicle,
and just in my shop where I'm at, not even
all our shops, but every single day I had an
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accurate TSX yesterday, guys said, and he and he told
me the truth. He goes, I said, hey, it needs
a timing chain, chain stretched, and it's typically a lack
of you know, oil, because what happens in the chain
get hot, they stretch and you need to replace the chain.
So it's three thousand dollars replace the chain on this thing.
And he told me, he goes, Man, it's been going
through a lot of oil. And I'm like, yeah, that's
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that's why the chain is stretched. And I said, I
want to let you know, and I want to reiterate
to you. We're gonna put a chain on this and
fix this car and get your check engine line out,
but I want.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You to know it's gonna still continue to burn oil.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So unless you keep your eye on the oil level,
this is gonna happen again. So prevent to prevent, you
spend another three thousand dollars. Make sure you're checking the
oil regularly. And I get it. He's like, man, it's
it's hard to do that every single day. And I'm like,
I get it. I get it. So that's why I
talk about all the time. I mean, I try to
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kick this dead horse all every single Saturday. But I'm
telling you it is this single biggest problem with vehicles today.
Anything that's probably twenty ten and newer. Your car's burning oil.
You need to know about it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You need to be.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Changing it regularly, I you know. And what angers me
and frustrates me about the industry is that they keep
telling people to go farther and farther and farther on
their oil changes. And the problem is the cars burn
more and more and more oil. And then these cars
come into me and I have they don't have any.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Oil in them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So just you know, you don't need to do the
year old.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Just as long as it's five to be thirty synthetic,
you're fine changing it five thousand miles. You'll be good
to go. Just make sure you're checking it in between intervals.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Hey, Dan, one other thing. Yeah, if it wasn't for
your grandma Betty, yeah, I wouldn't be here. Oh, how
so because she introduced my mom to my father.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Really, yes, that's a history there.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You family came on board.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, that's great. I appreciate that she was. She
was a great lady.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yes, it was. She was my mom's best friend, going
back to when she was a kid on two Lane Avenue.
They lived across the street from another and I think
it was unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's correct, Yep, to Lane, unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
And I knew your father. I'm old enough to remember
sitting on refrigerators and your grandfather's shop on mon Free Road.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, you know that's a great story, man, I appreciate that.
The other thing is I had I had a customer
in last week and uh huh. You know she's been
bringing her car to the new the Auto fourn so
I bought auto forin And anyways, her father comes in
and says, hey, I knew your grandfather and your grandma.
He goes, in fact, I bought a refrigerator from your
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grandfather fifty five years ago and it's still in my
garage and it's still working.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And I'm like, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I said, if if you can take a picture that
had sent it to me. I was like that that
would be awesome. So, because yeah, well my grandfather started,
I mean he was changing tires outside all year round
in the snow, the heat, whatever, and then he sold
appliances in the front. So it was.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Nineteen fifty eight yep when he opened that shop yep
on Montgomery Road.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Correct, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, buildings still there.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's it's now a restaurant, but uh, it was, it was,
it was.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
So all right, you need to take another call, man, all.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right, well, take care. I appreciate the appreciate the phone
call in the story. So oh man, you just never
know when you're gonna run into somebody like that. So
that that was awesome. So all right again, taking your
phone calls and number to call five one three seven
fifty five hundred coming up. We've got tom phone lines
were wide open, so I'd love to hear from you guys.
If you've got a question, give me a call. The
number again, number to call five one three seven four
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Station Welcome back, taking your car questions and number to
call five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
That number gain five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. Phone lines are wide open. So if you
have a car question or uh maybe you want to
I got a text message from a customer mind and
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was like, Hey, can you think you think you can
have this this car fixed? I'm gonna give you to
my wife for Christmas? And uh so, you know that's
good idea too. You know you want to buy the
you know, your husband or wife or one of the kids, uh,
a car for Christmas? You want to get it inspected.
If you're buying a used car. And I've always told
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everybody on this show, if you're ever ever buying a
used car, please get it inspected.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm not saying you know wherever it's at.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Even if you find one in Florida, find a reputable
shop in Florida and just say hey, listen, and dealerships
will let you do it. Okay. I don't care if
it's at a used car lot or a dealership. You
tell them, hey, listen, I want my mechanic or a
mechanic to look at it and tell them, even if
it's out of town, get it inspected. Okay. You want
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to make sure that you're I mean, you're gonna spend
a lot of money, right. We don't buy houses without
getting them inspected. Why would you buy a car not
in not getting in space, especially the fact that cars
now costs as much as houses, right, I mean, so
it's something that you should think about as well. So
all right, getting the overcall five one, three, seven, nine
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fifty five. Let's go to the phones. We've got Tom. Hey,
Tom walking to the car show.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I've had a tip for everybody. I've been using this product.
It's called sill Glide, made by Ags company. You put
it in your window tracks and on your weather stripping
and make them go up and down so much easier
on the glass windows, and your doors don't stick and
freeze shut and it's harmless on paint.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I was talking earlier in the show, like I had
you know, those are a couple you know, making sure
like if if we're not as great at turning the
wipers off when we park the car, you know, pull
the wiper blades off the windshield, right, it's gonna say
hopefully if you left them on, great they You know
you don't ruin a strip out a wiper motor or
transmission or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, uh, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That product H three M makes a silicone paste that
you could run inside the channels to help glide.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Because what happens is, you know, we get that snow, we.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Get that ice, and when we go to get our
morning coffee or breakfast or what now, we roll that
window down and pop because the windows frozen to the
wind the track and you do you know, four or
five hundred dollars worth of damage because that window was frozen.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So right, roll it down, put a little bit of
PAM three M.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Silicon paste or what was the other product you you
were talking about. What was it called?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
It's made by AGS company, still.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Glide seal Glide Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Advanced auto and okay, from place to get it on
Amazon thirteen dollars an eight ounce tube.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, No, that's a that's a great that's a great idea.
And I was gonna talk about is just you know,
these are things that we can do to maybe prevent
major breakdowns or you know, breaking window regulators or you know,
so all right, well I.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Appreciate the tip.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Thank you, have a great day. You know. That's the
thing is like there are things that we can do
to prevent breakdowns.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And again there's simple things.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Right if you're at home right now, if you're listening
to the show, roll all your windows down, you know,
get a paper towel, why not put a little bit
of PAM on it, or you can go out and
grab that silicon paste. I we use the three M
silicon paste just holds up a little bit better and
it sticks around a lot longer, right, and it allows
that window to glide smoother up and down that channel,
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so you prevent rolling a window down in the winter
and then breaking a window regulator. I mean, some of
these window regulators can be you know, five six seven,
eight hundred dollars. Right, A can silicone paste will cost you,
you know, five ten thirteen bucks, right, hit the windows
right before we go into the these really really cold times,
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and you know, you potentially save yourself from doing you know,
you know, just think right, say it's this week, it
was felt like zero. It was like I think, was
it Friday or Thursday? Sixteen degrees outside, but felt like zero.
Can you imagine if you rolled your window down and
get a cup of coffee and that window, that regulator broke,
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and that window fell down in that channel. Now you're
driving your car around with that stuck down, and right
now you're in panic mode. But if you go out
and get yourself a can of silicone spray or some
three M spray or like I said, even some pam
running inside that channel, just to make sure that you
prevent a window regulator from breaking, save yourself a ton
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of money and a ton of headache.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, and even on the trunk seal, you know you've
got a trunk seal too. You know a lot of
us have power power tailgates right on our SUVs. We'll
think about it. If that thing's frozen into that seal,
that's gonna make that motor work harder. And believe me,
those tailgate motors can be expensive. I know on a
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lot of the foresront on the raft Wars, they're electronic
lift gates. They break, it's like twenty two hundred dollars
to replace them.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, it is expensive and there's no alternative.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
If you can't say, oh well, can we just put
the old stuff back at No, you can't. I mean
that's what you have to stick back in there, or
you just don't have them at all, which is not convenient.
So but think about it. Throw a little bit of
silicone spray on there, just prevent that resistance and allowing
it to hopefully stick around and last longer. These are
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the things we got to think about talk about some
all right again. The phone call the phone number to
call five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five one
hundred coming up. We've got ray. You're listening the car
show on fifty five KRC, the talk station at Donovan's
Auto entire Center. We've been Cincinnati's honest choice for auto
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At donovantire dot com. Donovan's Auto entire Center your honest
choice for auto repair. This is fifty five KRC and
iHeartRadio station at welcome Back taking your car questions. The
number to call five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. That number ten five one three seven four
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nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
entire Center and celebrating sixty seven years in business and
doing well and looking to always improve and expand and
ultimately at the end of the day, here to help
you out with your car problems. That's again, I enjoy
what I do and I'm here every Saturday. So if
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you've got to guide you with your car needs, whether
you're here, I mean I had to call her earlier
today that was calling from Texas, right, and you know
my job is to try to help you fix your
car and get you back out on the road and
just give you that guidance, right, Because I feel that
a lot of times we are misconstrued by the industry
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as to how often we should be doing things. Primarily
which I talk about all the time. You hear me
talk about it is oil changes. Something so simple. You
want to get the most life out of your car.
You want to have your car for three hundred thousand miles,
change your oil every five thousand miles period, no other discussion.
There's nobody else that can tell me that, you know,
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they got three hundred thousand miles changing their oil every
you know, once a year. It's ridiculous. All let's go
back to the phones. We've got Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I took my car in. It's a twoenty nineteen jeep Cherokee.
That oil change. I always change the oil five thousand
or less, but I was told that I need to
think about replacing the oil filter housing, color cooler housing
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with temperature sensor, oil pressure sensor, and intake manifold gaskets
and I'm not a car person. I'm just wondering. That's
something I've never heard of before. And my car runs great.
I don't have any real problems with it. I keep
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it in the garage. So I'm just wondering, can you
give me some help with that? Is absolutely something common.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
That is that is very very very very common. We have.
We do a tremendous amount of those. We did one
earlier this week. So let me ask you something, Ray,
Do you have it? Do you have any Did they
mention that you had an oil leak?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, So typically what they'll do is it's a very
very common problem.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
They leak oil.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Okay. So if they didn't mentioned you're gonna it's it's
not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Okay, yes,
you're gonna need to do it. Okay, we do a
lot of them. Now, if they didn't mention to you
that you had an oil leak, and they maybe the
service advisor just didn't tell you why you needed it,
but most likely it's led to it's because they leak oil.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's a poor design.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And yes, the oil filter housing with the cooler, the
temperature sensor and the oil pressure sensor. They're all built
into this housing and you have to remove the intake
to do it, so you compromise the gasket, so you
have to get an intake gasket and then that housing.
So yes, it's a very common problem we do, especially
this time of year, because again with cold those gaskets failed,
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they contract and they make a big oil leak that
they probably want to know. They probably failed to mention that
to you. That's why they want to replace it. But
if you're not, I would call maybe call back and say, hey,
why do you want to replace this?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Is it because I'm leaking oil?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Twenty nineteen seems a bit premature, but yeah, most likely. Again, regardless,
you're gonna need to do it because it's a very
common problem.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
What about the cost. I got a price, they gave
me a price over fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, that's a little steep. Was that at the dealer? Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no, no,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
No, that's a private grudge.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, Yeah, if you told me, if you told me
or asked what it would be, I would probably say
around twelve hundred bucks. It's a It seems a little steep,
but again, it depends on what part they're using.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Hopefully they're using a part from.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
The dealership, because do not buy an aftermarket one. Do
not buy an after break one. Buy one from the deal.
You know, from mo part the deal. You don't have
to take it to the dealer, but you want to
make sure whoever does the work that you tell them
that you want an original equipment part, meaning that it
comes from the dealer. Because they're aftermarket ones out there
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and they're garbage. You're just gonna have to buy one
from the dealer. But fifteen's not fifteen's not ridiculous, but
probably around twelve hundred bucks is the average price.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
But it's the.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Little steep but it might be because they're degrees in
the engine and and everything else. So it's hard to say,
but it's not. It's not ridiculous, it's not completely out
of it's not. I know, it's I know, fifteen hundred
dollars is expensive, but i they're not on the wool
of your eyes and they're not taking advantage of you.
I mean, that's that's a fair price. But you know,
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so you're gonna need to do it. But you call
them back whoever looked at it, and you tell why
do I need that? And if they said because it's
leaking oil, which ninety nine percent of the time it's
because it's leaking oil, then yeah, you're gonna have to
do it.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Okay, all right, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
That was good, good explanation.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You're very very welcome. You call me anytime you need anything.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Okay, I will thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You take care. So all right, we're running out of
time here, but I have here, uh, my boss at home,
my wife Julie. How can I help you? Dear? Hi?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh jo oh, this is declan. What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Here's a joke for you, a joke. All right, Well,
let me hear it. What to day?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
That a sports car?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Buddy? What did the tornado say to the sports car? Hmmm?
I don't know what. What did he say? Watch a gulf? Then? Great? Job?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That's great. Do you look that up yourself?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
No, h.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Well, I like it.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
That was good. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
We'll be home. Huh, buddy, Thank you all right, buddy,
love you, love you all right? Bye bye. Ah. He's
he's he's my he's my joker. I'll tell you what
he can. That's declan. He can he can light any
any any room that he's in, any uh situation he's in.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
That boy can light up the room.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
He's he's something special. So I appreciate the phone call.
So but listen, we want to make sure I'll be
back next Saturday to answer all your car questions. Okay,
first and foremost, I do appreciate everybody calling today and
the great tips, the great you know, you know, the
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great story about you know, the gentlemant call from Glendale
about my grandparents. And you know, no, he's looking up,
you know, looking down on us and making sure that
Donovan Tyre continues to succeed. And we really really do
appreciate especially this is the time, this is the time
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of the year that you know, you know, we love
one another and appreciate everybody, and from the bottom of
our hearts and the down of entire family and team,
we really do appreciate our employees, all of them and
what they do for us. We appreciate all of our
customer base because again, without you, the customer base, we're
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not Donovan Tire. We appreciate everybody that instills their trust
faith in us and know that when they drop their
car off that they are being taken care of. And again,
if it's not for the customers, you know, Donovan Tyre
doesn't exist. So we really do appreciate everybody, and thank
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you to all the listeners as well. I'm here every
Saturday to answer your car questions so I can help
you out. And I'm not here to I'm not here
to you know, get your business and have you come in.
I'm here to try to help you out. And again
with iHeart, you can call from anywhere in the country,
anywhere in the world really, and the show was about
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trying to help you out navigate your car questions and
your car problems and getting your car back out on
the road right, because we all have we all live
busy lives, and you want to take something off your plate, right,
and making sure that your car's maintained and getting the
proper information. Like the gentleman just called and said, hey,
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you know my repair shop said I need this. What
are your thoughts. Yeah, it's a very common problem and
most likely yes he needs it. And it's leaking oil, right,
And that's why I come back every Saturday. And this
is why I'm here because I want to help you
out and get your car fixed. Whether you bring it
to me or not, I don't care. I'm here to
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help you out and give you the best advice that
I can so you can get your back your your
car back out on the road so you can get
to work, or take care of your family, or get
your kids to sporting events or you know, or just
if you're going on a trip and you want to
make sure that you're ready to go, or make sure
it's ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I really do appreciate everybody calling, all of our employees
and all of our customers. Guys are great. I can't
thank you guys enough. And again that's why we do this.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So I'll be back next Saturday answer all of your
car questions.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Make sure that you're getting at Christmas shopping and getting
I know my wife's getting it done. And I'll be
back again next Saturday to answer all your car questions.
I'm Dane Donna from Donovan's Auto entire Center, and you're
listening to Car Show on fifty five k r c
D talk station.
Not Mercury, the Chevy to the litty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So good afternoon and welcome to the car show. I
am Dane Donovan taking all of your car questions. The
number called five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred.
That number again five one three seven four nine fifty
five hundred. But again I'm here every Saturday. Again Dane
(00:32):
Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center. And uh, I'm here
every Saturday to answer all your car questions, any question
you may have that pertains your vehicle, and I might
not have, uh, you know sometimes, I mean we don't
do any type of transmission work, but you know there's
always somebody that can refer you to.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And you know, again, I love what I do.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I enjoy what I do, and I've I've told you
guys this time and time again, but you're it's it's
it's a constantly evolving it's always changing and I'm always learning,
which I which I enjoy. I think it's one of
the best parts about the job is no day is
the same. Right. Yes, it might be the same car issues,
(01:15):
but every car, every customer, every situation is in noise
and whatnot is different. Right, There's no it's it's just
not a very I don't know, it's it's hard to explain,
but it is what makes the job, part of the
job enjoyable. Yes, I enjoy cars, Yes I like cars.
I'm not a car collector or anything like that, but
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I really really do enjoy trying to help people out
and get their car fixed and get them back out
on the road. That's that's all we're here for at
Donovan's Auto entire Center is to help you out and
get your car back out on the road so you
can get you you know, get yourself to work, get
your kids to sports, which that's what we're doing all
day today, which is typically every Saturday and Sunday for us.
(01:59):
As you know, I've got three boys, they're all in sports.
My son had a basketball game this morning, and then
my oldest son has a basketball game at six.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So but again, that's why you need the car.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's why you need you know, you needed to perform
at its top and make sure that it can get
you from point A to point B. And again, as
you may know, these cars are not getting any cheaper
to purchase. They're very expensive, so you want to make
sure that you protect your investment and make sure that
you're getting your car serviced regularly. Now again, I know
(02:37):
this is I know we get busy, and believe me,
I mean I'm busy myself and spend a lot of time.
I mean, you know, I do everything I can to
you know, get to my you know, get to my
vehicles or whatnot. But sometimes I'll get my wife's car
and you know it's overdue for an oal change, and
you know, we got to get that done right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's important.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
These things are important, especially going into the winner right.
And I can tell you from this week alone, we
were absolutely at all of our locations were absolutely slammed
with cars that were broken down and a lot of
heating issues, a lot of battery issues, a lot of
not starting issues because as you know, this week it
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was extremely cold and and I've been kind of leading
up to this like this is the time that we
need to start thinking about getting this car.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And now I know it's Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I know it's thinking about the holidays and what you
need to do to get the get through the holidays,
but you need to also make sure that you can
get from point A to point B, get to work,
and make sure that you know you're not, you know,
dealing with an issue where your car won't start, and
now you're you know, scrambling to try to get to work,
(03:49):
get to get to sports or whatnot. And it's it's
just it's it's very important. Now again, we don't we
can't always predict when the car is going to break down.
I get that. I mean, I can test your back
today and it'd be dead as a door nail tomorrow.
That can't happen. But nine out of ten times there
will be signs. We can test your battery, and we
(04:09):
test it for free. We don't charge you anything. Come by,
we'll test your battery, and if you need a battery,
we'll put a battery in it for you. And this
is the time of year to do it, I'm telling you.
And if I had multiple cars this week, multiple cars
with heating issues or over heating issues, and again because
(04:31):
the cold breaks these things down, so it would be
important to schedule your appointment now, try to get it in,
Try to get it looked at so you're ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Belts, hoses, filters, air pressure.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean I probably had at my new location, probably
had twenty twenty cars that came in and said, hey,
my load tire light's on.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, why is the low tire light on?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Because for every ten degrees that the temperature drops out
size ambient air temperature drops, you lose one pound of air. Okay,
So let's just go back if you changed. Let's just say,
you know, in June or July or maybe even September October,
if you had your oil change right, and they checked
your air pressure and it was at thirty five where
it needed to be, well, guess what when it was
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felt like zero this week, guess what? Your air pressure
dropped tremendously and your tire light came on. Now, that
doesn't necessarily mean that the tires flat, but it means
that the tires one or multiple tires are low and
that's because of the temperature outside and that's what drops it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So and again, if your low tire light's on, we
got to think about this too. When your low tire
light is on, that is an indication again low tire.
But the rolling resistance increases, which means you use more gas.
Nobody wants to spend more money on gas, and you
prematurely wear out your tires.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Right, So something as simple as just making.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Sure that you take care of your air pressure will
prolong the life of your tires and increase your gas mileage.
And and you know, everybody all the time when they
come in and I'm like, hey, your tirelight's on there, Yeah,
I don't worry about it. Now. I understand that you
don't have to replace these tire pressure sensors that are
in this that are in your vehicle, but you still
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need to make sure that your air pressure is checked regularly.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's something that is so simple and everybody can do
it now.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I you can take your you can bring your car
to any dot of entire location in the try in
Cincinnati area. Any come in, just say hey, you can check
my air pressure if you don't want to get out
of the the you know, the brutal cold, and pay
a dollar fifty for some air pressure.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I see people all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I drive past gas stations and I see people putting
air in their tires. And two things. One, it's it's
one thing when we get this cold snap. If your
tire light comes on, that's one thing. But if you're
having to put air in a tire, you know, every
couple of weeks or once a month, you have a
slow leak in that tire, and it's something that you
should address otherwise it's going to create bigger problems. You
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run that tire low, you end up potentially ruining the tire,
which will cost you hundreds of dollars. So you want
to make sure that you know your air pressure is
checked and that you're ready for winter, ready for what
winner may bring us again, you know, for the past
for many years now, I mean we've had some mild winners, right,
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but we still get these cold snaps and then all
of a sudden, we're in panic mode, and then we're
we're scramble mode, and and and that's what happened this week.
I was, you know, very overwhelmed yesterday because there was
a lot of people, I mean all week. I mean,
my car's broken, my car's broken, it's overheating. I don't
have any heat I don't, you know. And so I
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want to get to everybody, I really do. I want
to help everybody and get all their car fixed, get
everybody's car fixed. But we have to be a little
bit proactive, and we have to make sure that we're
getting the cars and inspected. I know, it's a hassle
you know I I, you know, I don't like going
to the daentists. It's a hassle, right I, you know,
(08:04):
but it's something that you just you gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You got to make time for it, schedule it so
that you prevent any type of scrambling. And you're broken
down and now you don't have a car, and then
I'm you know, have just bombarded with the vehicles and
then you know, I'm trying my best to get to
everybody's car, but you know, I I but then you
get into scramble mode. And so it's it's just you
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gotta make sure that we're getting these cars in, getting
them inspected. It's not winter yet, it's coming up, but
we got a really really good dose of it this week.
You know again, batteries, wipe or blades, you need to
make sure that you have the proper wipe. You know
that when it gets there's salty outside, you get that
glare on the windshield.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's important.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You need to make sure that your washer fluids filled
correctly in full, your air pressures checked.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it's something simple.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, we don't you know, we charge to do
kind of fool like a whole checkover. It's eighty nine bucks, right,
check the whole car over. And if there's something that
needs to be done. You know, we don't charge you
for the checkout, right, we just you want to make
sure that your car is ready for whatever Mother nature
in winter brings us. Right, it's important. And then you
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know the other thing is again I talked earlier about Christmas.
We got Christmas coming up, right, and sometimes some of you,
especially me, you don't know what to get everybody for Christmas? Right,
So if you have a son or a daughter of
this maybe home from school, right, it might not be
the best Christmas present ever, But you know, or if
there's a family member that maybe is struggling and needs
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some car repair something like that, instead of giving them
a you know, a tie or a gift car, think about, hey,
get a gift car to Doninan's. Or hey, I'll tell
you what, man, I you know, does your car need
any repair? Right? Maybe you need some wiper blades, or
maybe you need an oild change. Here, let me take
care of this oil change for you for Christmas. You
know something's it's a little different again. Cars aren't really
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you know, not everybody wants to spend spend money on
Christmas for the cars. But again, think about when you're
your you know, your your students are your children, not
your students, well they're students, but your children are home,
and maybe get it in. Now's the time going into Christmas.
I get so many people go, hey, my daughter's in
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town this week and I need to get the car in. Well,
at this point, you know, I can't get it in right.
So then you're scrambled to go somewhere else, somewhere that's
probably not reliable or trustworthy or you don't know, and
then you're sould things that you don't need. Okay, we
talk about it all the time that we're the honest choice,
and that's a god, you know, that's the truth. We
do everything that we can, and we prioritize right, so
(10:45):
sometimes you can had I had a nice young lady
that brought her car less. It's a BMW and older
BMW's can be very expensive to upkeep. And at first
she was bombarded with uh, you know, a seventh it
was almost seven one thousand dollars right, and initially she
was upset, but she came in and said, hey, can
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you explain everything to me, and you know, so I
explained everything to her, walked her through everything, and once
she once she was understand, you know, because she didn't.
She's like, I, Dane, I don't know cars. I don't
know them. All I know is that you're saying that
I need seven thousan dollars of work.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
To fix all of your concerns at seven thousand dollars?
Do we need to fix all your concerns? Now, here's priority.
We break it down. Here's priority, here's her safety concerns,
here's probably what's next on your list. And here's some
type of preventative maintenance that maybe needs to be done
at a later date. Right. And so sometimes sometimes people
look at the overall cost opposed to hey, let's break
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this down. What do I have to do? What do
I need to do? And so on and so forth.
She loves the car, she just bought it. So I
talked to her and she was, you know, I said,
I appreciate you coming in and talking to us, because
I know it's a lot, but we don't need to
do all this. And once we walked her through everything,
she was and she goes, all right, Dan, go ahead
and do half the work now and I'll come back
and do the other half later. And she was she
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was happy.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So if you bring your car in and they give
you your mechanic, or you come to Donovan's or any
other mechanic, ask can I get a breakdown? What's a priority?
What do I need to do first?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Maybe? What can I kick down the road and maybe
do at a later date?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And then what is some type of is any of
this preventative maintenance that I can do maybe next year?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Those are the questions you should ask, and those are
the questions that I like to get. Those are what
I try to tell my customers so we can break
it down. So it's not an overall what do I
need to do? It's you know, how much is it?
You got to ask those questions. So all right, taking
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Speaker 2 (13:36):
The number to call five one three seven four nine
fifty five hundred. That number a gin five one three
seven four nine fifty five hundred. It's brutally cold, it
has been all week, and there's things that you can
do and should do to make.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sure that your car is ready for winter.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So if you've I've got some tips I'd like to
talk about earlier or later.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm sorry and uh some but phone lines.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Are wide open. Uh So if you've got a question,
I'll get to you fairly quickly. So, but as of
now we're going to go to David. Hey, David, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
How you doing Dan?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
How are you good? Got a simple tip for the winner?
Keep your car in the garage. What a concept, right, yes,
close your mind. How many people that live on my
street keep the car out on the street when they
have a garage that they don't use.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, it's it's it's it's a great believe it or
not to My wife texts me on Monday and says,
I need the garage cleaned out so I can start
parking in the garage for winter. And I said, yes, dear,
I will get that done. So we had some we
had uh, we've just got a you know, they're just
the kids bikes and balls and and you know whatever
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I mean. But so, yeah, my project was I'm not
gonna be able to do it today, but I think
my project tomorrow is I got to clean the garage
out because my wife does not like coming out to
a cold car. She and believe it or not, yes,
it helps a lot, Yes it does, and especially with
you know, and you know the thing, so many times,
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you know, we get water, snow, ice or whatnot. People
go to roll the windows down, the break window regulators.
They leave their wipers on when they park the car.
Then when they go to turn the car and the
wiper comes on, it breaks the wiper linkage, breaks the
wiper motor. And you know, I have an older F
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one fifty and the way it's designed, every time it
gets colder, it rains and it freezes. When I open
up the door, the door seal rips off the truck
and I got to put it back on.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And so but I let my wife park in the garage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I just park. I have to just park outside. I
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
But well, I feel your pain.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
But no, I mean you're great. I mean it's it's
a great point. And if you can if you have
a garage, I mean even in the I don't care.
It doesn't even have to be in the winder if
it's in the summer too. Man, you get so much
more life out of a vehicle by keeping it in
a garage, I'm telling you, or at least a car port.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, it will blow your mind how many people don't
put their car in the garage when they actually have
a garage.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Mm hmm. I know, well we turn it into a
storage unit, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So, And that's not why I called Dan.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All right, Well, what can I help you with?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I just got a simple question about oil changes. M
I got a twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I love this question, by the way.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, okay, I got a twenty and twelve Volkswagen Pasade. Okay, okay.
Now I get these little flyers in the mail all
the time from over back and Wyoming. They're all out
in my wheelhouse. I live out in Glendale, and I
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come over and let you do it, but you're out
of my wheelhouse distance wise.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
So I got a question a full European. One of
the flyers I had was for a full European synthetic
oil was eighty nine dollars. Full synthetic was like sixty
nine dollars, and then just regular oil change. Right around
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a corner, he's all offering a full synthetic oil change
with free seasonal checkup for thirty two ninety nine, which
I thought is very good. Now here's the thing. What
is the difference between full European synthetic and just full
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synthetic and why is there such a gap in the price.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So great question. So yeah, to be honest with you,
as long as it's the same grade of oil, right,
So as long as so the euro is just.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, is that what the car calls for?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I think it does, but I can't remember, but I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So the the euro is supposed to be you know,
it's supposed to be like originally like basically you know,
designed for your car for Euro vehicles, right, And the
euro oil is more just because it's they charge us more.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It you just say it the whole synthetic versus the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's no difference, a.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Whole lot of different No, there's no I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, there's no, there's no difference. All it is is
just they charge us more. And maybe have listen. I
mean I I do. I do have some euro oils
because some euro oils it depends on the gray. You know,
a zero W forty or a zero W thirty is
considered euro and it's more.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But yeah, I'd be honest with that.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I get where you're I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It's it's It's just like buying the eighty seven octane
or a ninety three octane. I mean, are you gonna
notice anything different as a cargon perform any different? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Not really? You know some you know, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't think you need to pay the most important
part And the reason why I said that when I
said I love this question. The more important thing that
the best thing that you can I don't care as
long as you put the right weight in, but as
long as you change the dagon oil on a regular basis,
your car will last three hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Miles, all right, But I'm pretty good at that, but
I'm not perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, you just just know, I mean, the volts wagons
and audi's. Over time, the rings will start, you know,
letting go, and the thing will start start burning oil.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
That's the more important thing. And that's what I harp
on all the time. I have a car.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Again.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
When I started this twenty five years ago, in this business,
no car burned oil. It is almost unheard of, you know,
lake oil, but not burn every And it went from
maybe you know, every other month, once a month, maybe
once a week. Every single day. I have a vehicle,
and just in my shop where I'm at, not even
all our shops, but every single day I had an
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accurate TSX yesterday, guys said, and he and he told
me the truth. He goes, I said, hey, it needs
a timing chain, chain stretched, and it's typically a lack
of you know, oil, because what happens in the chain
get hot, they stretch and you need to replace the chain.
So it's three thousand dollars replace the chain on this thing.
And he told me, he goes, Man, it's been going
through a lot of oil. And I'm like, yeah, that's
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that's why the chain is stretched. And I said, I
want to let you know, and I want to reiterate
to you. We're gonna put a chain on this and
fix this car and get your check engine line out,
but I want.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You to know it's gonna still continue to burn oil.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So unless you keep your eye on the oil level,
this is gonna happen again. So prevent to prevent, you
spend another three thousand dollars. Make sure you're checking the
oil regularly. And I get it. He's like, man, it's
it's hard to do that every single day. And I'm like,
I get it. I get it. So that's why I
talk about all the time. I mean, I try to
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kick this dead horse all every single Saturday. But I'm
telling you it is this single biggest problem with vehicles today.
Anything that's probably twenty ten and newer. Your car's burning oil.
You need to know about it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You need to be.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Changing it regularly, I you know. And what angers me
and frustrates me about the industry is that they keep
telling people to go farther and farther and farther on
their oil changes. And the problem is the cars burn
more and more and more oil. And then these cars
come into me and I have they don't have any.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Oil in them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So just you know, you don't need to do the
year old.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Just as long as it's five to be thirty synthetic,
you're fine changing it five thousand miles. You'll be good
to go. Just make sure you're checking it in between intervals.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Hey, Dan, one other thing. Yeah, if it wasn't for
your grandma Betty, yeah, I wouldn't be here. Oh, how
so because she introduced my mom to my father.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Really, yes, that's a history there.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You family came on board.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, that's great. I appreciate that she was. She
was a great lady.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yes, it was. She was my mom's best friend, going
back to when she was a kid on two Lane Avenue.
They lived across the street from another and I think
it was unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's correct, Yep, to Lane, unpleasant Ridge.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
And I knew your father. I'm old enough to remember
sitting on refrigerators and your grandfather's shop on mon Free Road.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, you know that's a great story, man, I appreciate that.
The other thing is I had I had a customer
in last week and uh huh. You know she's been
bringing her car to the new the Auto fourn so
I bought auto forin And anyways, her father comes in
and says, hey, I knew your grandfather and your grandma.
He goes, in fact, I bought a refrigerator from your
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grandfather fifty five years ago and it's still in my
garage and it's still working.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And I'm like, man, that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I said, if if you can take a picture that
had sent it to me. I was like that that
would be awesome. So, because yeah, well my grandfather started,
I mean he was changing tires outside all year round
in the snow, the heat, whatever, and then he sold
appliances in the front. So it was.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Nineteen fifty eight yep when he opened that shop yep
on Montgomery Road.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Correct, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, buildings still there.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's it's now a restaurant, but uh, it was, it was,
it was.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
So all right, you need to take another call, man, all.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right, well, take care. I appreciate the appreciate the phone
call in the story. So oh man, you just never
know when you're gonna run into somebody like that. So
that that was awesome. So all right again, taking your
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That number gain five one three seven four nine fifty
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have a car question or uh maybe you want to
I got a text message from a customer mind and
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was like, Hey, can you think you think you can
have this this car fixed? I'm gonna give you to
my wife for Christmas? And uh so, you know that's
good idea too. You know you want to buy the
you know, your husband or wife or one of the kids, uh,
a car for Christmas? You want to get it inspected.
If you're buying a used car. And I've always told
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everybody on this show, if you're ever ever buying a
used car, please get it inspected.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm not saying you know wherever it's at.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Even if you find one in Florida, find a reputable
shop in Florida and just say hey, listen, and dealerships
will let you do it. Okay. I don't care if
it's at a used car lot or a dealership. You
tell them, hey, listen, I want my mechanic or a
mechanic to look at it and tell them, even if
it's out of town, get it inspected. Okay. You want
(26:56):
to make sure that you're I mean, you're gonna spend
a lot of money, right. We don't buy houses without
getting them inspected. Why would you buy a car not
in not getting in space, especially the fact that cars
now costs as much as houses, right, I mean, so
it's something that you should think about as well. So
all right, getting the overcall five one, three, seven, nine
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fifty five. Let's go to the phones. We've got Tom. Hey,
Tom walking to the car show.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I've had a tip for everybody. I've been using this product.
It's called sill Glide, made by Ags company. You put
it in your window tracks and on your weather stripping
and make them go up and down so much easier
on the glass windows, and your doors don't stick and
freeze shut and it's harmless on paint.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I was talking earlier in the show, like I had
you know, those are a couple you know, making sure
like if if we're not as great at turning the
wipers off when we park the car, you know, pull
the wiper blades off the windshield, right, it's gonna say
hopefully if you left them on, great they You know
you don't ruin a strip out a wiper motor or
transmission or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, uh, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That product H three M makes a silicone paste that
you could run inside the channels to help glide.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Because what happens is, you know, we get that snow, we.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Get that ice, and when we go to get our
morning coffee or breakfast or what now, we roll that
window down and pop because the windows frozen to the
wind the track and you do you know, four or
five hundred dollars worth of damage because that window was frozen.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So right, roll it down, put a little bit of
PAM three M.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Silicon paste or what was the other product you you
were talking about. What was it called?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
It's made by AGS company, still.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Glide seal Glide Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Advanced auto and okay, from place to get it on
Amazon thirteen dollars an eight ounce tube.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, No, that's a that's a great that's a great idea.
And I was gonna talk about is just you know,
these are things that we can do to maybe prevent
major breakdowns or you know, breaking window regulators or you know,
so all right, well I.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Appreciate the tip.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Thank you, have a great day. You know. That's the
thing is like there are things that we can do
to prevent breakdowns.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And again there's simple things.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Right if you're at home right now, if you're listening
to the show, roll all your windows down, you know,
get a paper towel, why not put a little bit
of PAM on it, or you can go out and
grab that silicon paste. I we use the three M
silicon paste just holds up a little bit better and
it sticks around a lot longer, right, and it allows
that window to glide smoother up and down that channel,
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so you prevent rolling a window down in the winter
and then breaking a window regulator. I mean, some of
these window regulators can be you know, five six seven,
eight hundred dollars. Right, A can silicone paste will cost you,
you know, five ten thirteen bucks, right, hit the windows
right before we go into the these really really cold times,
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and you know, you potentially save yourself from doing you know,
you know, just think right, say it's this week, it
was felt like zero. It was like I think, was
it Friday or Thursday? Sixteen degrees outside, but felt like zero.
Can you imagine if you rolled your window down and
get a cup of coffee and that window, that regulator broke,
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and that window fell down in that channel. Now you're
driving your car around with that stuck down, and right
now you're in panic mode. But if you go out
and get yourself a can of silicone spray or some
three M spray or like I said, even some pam
running inside that channel, just to make sure that you
prevent a window regulator from breaking, save yourself a ton
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of money and a ton of headache.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So, and even on the trunk seal, you know you've
got a trunk seal too. You know a lot of
us have power power tailgates right on our SUVs. We'll
think about it. If that thing's frozen into that seal,
that's gonna make that motor work harder. And believe me,
those tailgate motors can be expensive. I know on a
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lot of the foresront on the raft Wars, they're electronic
lift gates. They break, it's like twenty two hundred dollars
to replace them.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, it is expensive and there's no alternative.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
If you can't say, oh well, can we just put
the old stuff back at No, you can't. I mean
that's what you have to stick back in there, or
you just don't have them at all, which is not convenient.
So but think about it. Throw a little bit of
silicone spray on there, just prevent that resistance and allowing
it to hopefully stick around and last longer. These are
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the things we got to think about talk about some
all right again. The phone call the phone number to
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nine fifty five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
entire Center and celebrating sixty seven years in business and
doing well and looking to always improve and expand and
ultimately at the end of the day, here to help
you out with your car problems. That's again, I enjoy
what I do and I'm here every Saturday. So if
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you've got to guide you with your car needs, whether
you're here, I mean I had to call her earlier
today that was calling from Texas, right, and you know
my job is to try to help you fix your
car and get you back out on the road and
just give you that guidance, right, Because I feel that
a lot of times we are misconstrued by the industry
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as to how often we should be doing things. Primarily
which I talk about all the time. You hear me
talk about it is oil changes. Something so simple. You
want to get the most life out of your car.
You want to have your car for three hundred thousand miles,
change your oil every five thousand miles period, no other discussion.
There's nobody else that can tell me that, you know,
(33:55):
they got three hundred thousand miles changing their oil every
you know, once a year. It's ridiculous. All let's go
back to the phones. We've got Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome
to the car show. How can I help?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I took my car in. It's a twoenty nineteen jeep Cherokee.
That oil change. I always change the oil five thousand
or less, but I was told that I need to
think about replacing the oil filter housing, color cooler housing
(34:30):
with temperature sensor, oil pressure sensor, and intake manifold gaskets
and I'm not a car person. I'm just wondering. That's
something I've never heard of before. And my car runs great.
I don't have any real problems with it. I keep
(34:50):
it in the garage. So I'm just wondering, can you
give me some help with that? Is absolutely something common.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
That is that is very very very very common. We have.
We do a tremendous amount of those. We did one
earlier this week. So let me ask you something, Ray,
Do you have it? Do you have any Did they
mention that you had an oil leak?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, So typically what they'll do is it's a very
very common problem.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
They leak oil.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Okay. So if they didn't mentioned you're gonna it's it's
not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Okay, yes,
you're gonna need to do it. Okay, we do a
lot of them. Now, if they didn't mention to you
that you had an oil leak, and they maybe the
service advisor just didn't tell you why you needed it,
but most likely it's led to it's because they leak oil.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's a poor design.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And yes, the oil filter housing with the cooler, the
temperature sensor and the oil pressure sensor. They're all built
into this housing and you have to remove the intake
to do it, so you compromise the gasket, so you
have to get an intake gasket and then that housing.
So yes, it's a very common problem we do, especially
this time of year, because again with cold those gaskets failed,
(36:13):
they contract and they make a big oil leak that
they probably want to know. They probably failed to mention that
to you. That's why they want to replace it. But
if you're not, I would call maybe call back and say, hey,
why do you want to replace this?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Is it because I'm leaking oil?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Twenty nineteen seems a bit premature, but yeah, most likely. Again, regardless,
you're gonna need to do it because it's a very
common problem.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
What about the cost. I got a price, they gave
me a price over fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, that's a little steep. Was that at the dealer? Yeah? Yeah, no, no, no, no,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
No, that's a private grudge.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, Yeah, if you told me, if you told me
or asked what it would be, I would probably say
around twelve hundred bucks. It's a It seems a little steep,
but again, it depends on what part they're using.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Hopefully they're using a part from.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
The dealership, because do not buy an aftermarket one. Do
not buy an after break one. Buy one from the deal.
You know, from mo part the deal. You don't have
to take it to the dealer, but you want to
make sure whoever does the work that you tell them
that you want an original equipment part, meaning that it
comes from the dealer. Because they're aftermarket ones out there
(37:31):
and they're garbage. You're just gonna have to buy one
from the dealer. But fifteen's not fifteen's not ridiculous, but
probably around twelve hundred bucks is the average price.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
But it's the.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Little steep but it might be because they're degrees in
the engine and and everything else. So it's hard to say,
but it's not. It's not ridiculous, it's not completely out
of it's not. I know, it's I know, fifteen hundred
dollars is expensive, but i they're not on the wool
of your eyes and they're not taking advantage of you.
I mean, that's that's a fair price. But you know,
(38:06):
so you're gonna need to do it. But you call
them back whoever looked at it, and you tell why
do I need that? And if they said because it's
leaking oil, which ninety nine percent of the time it's
because it's leaking oil, then yeah, you're gonna have to
do it.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Okay, all right, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
That was good, good explanation.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You're very very welcome. You call me anytime you need anything.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Okay, I will thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You take care. So all right, we're running out of
time here, but I have here, uh, my boss at home,
my wife Julie. How can I help you? Dear? Hi?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh jo oh, this is declan. What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Here's a joke for you, a joke. All right, Well,
let me hear it. What to day?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
That a sports car?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Buddy? What did the tornado say to the sports car? Hmmm?
I don't know what. What did he say? Watch a gulf? Then? Great? Job?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That's great. Do you look that up yourself?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
No, h.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Well, I like it.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
That was good. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
We'll be home. Huh, buddy, Thank you all right, buddy,
love you, love you all right? Bye bye. Ah. He's
he's he's my he's my joker. I'll tell you what
he can. That's declan. He can he can light any
any any room that he's in, any uh situation he's in.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
That boy can light up the room.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
He's he's something special. So I appreciate the phone call.
So but listen, we want to make sure I'll be
back next Saturday to answer all your car questions. Okay,
first and foremost, I do appreciate everybody calling today and
the great tips, the great you know, you know, the
(40:15):
great story about you know, the gentlemant call from Glendale
about my grandparents. And you know, no, he's looking up,
you know, looking down on us and making sure that
Donovan Tyre continues to succeed. And we really really do
appreciate especially this is the time, this is the time
(40:36):
of the year that you know, you know, we love
one another and appreciate everybody, and from the bottom of
our hearts and the down of entire family and team,
we really do appreciate our employees, all of them and
what they do for us. We appreciate all of our
customer base because again, without you, the customer base, we're
(41:01):
not Donovan Tire. We appreciate everybody that instills their trust
faith in us and know that when they drop their
car off that they are being taken care of. And again,
if it's not for the customers, you know, Donovan Tyre
doesn't exist. So we really do appreciate everybody, and thank
(41:22):
you to all the listeners as well. I'm here every
Saturday to answer your car questions so I can help
you out. And I'm not here to I'm not here
to you know, get your business and have you come in.
I'm here to try to help you out. And again
with iHeart, you can call from anywhere in the country,
anywhere in the world really, and the show was about
(41:44):
trying to help you out navigate your car questions and
your car problems and getting your car back out on
the road right, because we all have we all live
busy lives, and you want to take something off your plate, right,
and making sure that your car's maintained and getting the
proper information. Like the gentleman just called and said, hey,
(42:05):
you know my repair shop said I need this. What
are your thoughts. Yeah, it's a very common problem and
most likely yes he needs it. And it's leaking oil, right,
And that's why I come back every Saturday. And this
is why I'm here because I want to help you
out and get your car fixed. Whether you bring it
to me or not, I don't care. I'm here to
(42:26):
help you out and give you the best advice that
I can so you can get your back your your
car back out on the road so you can get
to work, or take care of your family, or get
your kids to sporting events or you know, or just
if you're going on a trip and you want to
make sure that you're ready to go, or make sure
it's ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I really do appreciate everybody calling, all of our employees
and all of our customers. Guys are great. I can't
thank you guys enough. And again that's why we do this.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So I'll be back next Saturday answer all of your
car questions.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Make sure that you're getting at Christmas shopping and getting
I know my wife's getting it done. And I'll be
back again next Saturday to answer all your car questions.
I'm Dane Donna from Donovan's Auto entire Center, and you're
listening to Car Show on fifty five k r c
D talk station.
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