Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy
Speaker 1: Boston News video.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, thanks very much, Dan Watkins, as
Speaker 2: we head into our ten pm hour, and we are
Speaker 2: delighted to have with us as we here have a couple,
Speaker 2: well two or three times a year now the WBZ
Speaker 2: car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein, gentlemen, welcome back to Night's.
Speaker 2: I hope everybody's feeling better than I am.
Speaker 3: Well. I am feeling good today and good evening to you. Dan.
Speaker 3: I am hoping that the medicine you took is putting
Speaker 3: you back to the road of recovery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so too. I mean, I feel better
Speaker 2: than I did yesterday. And sixteen hours of sleep. That's
Speaker 2: that's the longest amount of sleep I've ever had in
Speaker 2: my life. So I'm happy about that. And this is
Speaker 2: wrapping the year with you guys, and then tomorrow night
Speaker 2: with the charity combine, it's gonna be great. So let's
Speaker 2: talk about cars. Rob was saying to me during the break.
Speaker 2: He said his car seems to know when to break down.
Speaker 2: He said, if he gets some money back in taxes
Speaker 2: from the government, the car works perfectly. But when he's
Speaker 2: a little short of cash, that's when the car breaks down.
Speaker 2: I tried to explain to him, the car really doesn't
Speaker 2: intellectually know that. Rob just probably feels that way. Are
Speaker 2: we correct on that? I know that's not an automotive
Speaker 2: a technical automotive question, but I suspect there were some people.
Speaker 4: Who have that feeling.
Speaker 3: Well, in my case, Dan, it was the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: When I was starting out younger, before I had a family,
Speaker 3: just starting to have a family. Whenever I got my
Speaker 3: income tax refund checked back, the transmission would go or
Speaker 3: the radiator would go, and thankfully I had the money there,
Speaker 3: but you know, that's money I would have rather have
Speaker 3: put into my savings accounts. So my problems were just
Speaker 3: the opposite.
Speaker 4: Well, Rob, that hopefully is going to make rub feel
Speaker 4: a little a little bit better. Were looking for We're
Speaker 4: gonna hit cold weather. People are going to pull.
Speaker 2: Out some morning this week and the car is going
Speaker 2: to tell them that the tire is the right rear
Speaker 2: tire or the left front tire is low.
Speaker 4: Why is that?
Speaker 3: Well, one of the reasons why the tire goes low
Speaker 3: is because when you heat up a tire, the air expands.
Speaker 3: When you cool the tire, then it can contracts. When
Speaker 3: it contracts, the pressure drops down, so your tire pressure sensor.
Speaker 3: If a person is complaining that the tire pressure sensor
Speaker 3: light is on in cold weather, it's because the air
Speaker 3: in the tire has contracted to the point that it's
Speaker 3: down below the threshold that the manufacturer of the car
Speaker 3: wants to see for tire pressure. So I am retired now,
Speaker 3: as you know. But when we had the shop, if
Speaker 3: a car called for thirty three during the winter, we
Speaker 3: would put in thirty five because we know this is
Speaker 3: i'm I'm gonna happen, and it really doesn't hurt to
Speaker 3: put those extra few pounds in.
Speaker 4: Good good to know.
Speaker 2: Let's get this clarified because people often asked me. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, one person today wrote and they
Speaker 2: wanted to know you guys, I know the shop is closed.
Speaker 2: Root one Auto, which for many many years was your headquarters.
Speaker 2: You sold that the root one Auto was still in
Speaker 2: business in the same location.
Speaker 3: Correct, it's in the same location. The family that bought
Speaker 3: it has done a terrific job of overhauling it from
Speaker 3: top to bottom, all new floors, all new equipment. You know,
Speaker 3: a new broom comes in, as the old saying goes,
Speaker 3: and they just went to town and that place is
Speaker 3: absolutely gorgeous now it is the taj Mahal.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you still are you still writing your pieces
Speaker 4: for the local newspaper up there as well?
Speaker 3: Newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur, as you,
Speaker 3: I'm sure, as certain as you have seen too, I
Speaker 3: am not. I do consult at Ruwanado frequently. In fact,
Speaker 3: I was there yesterday for a few few hours. And
Speaker 3: I work with them, and I have the distinct pleasure
Speaker 3: of having the All Data information system at my ready.
Speaker 3: They've been good to me for the past twenty years
Speaker 3: and giving me access to all the repair information that
Speaker 3: we've ever that we've ever needed. I just talked to
Speaker 3: the All Data people in San Francisco just last week
Speaker 3: and they're just really, really great. Anything you need to
Speaker 3: know about your car, it's there, I mean, and even
Speaker 3: the information system like this which you need on today's cars.
Speaker 3: A homeowner, for very short money and do it yourself
Speaker 3: guy can buy just a subscript option for his particular
Speaker 3: car and have all the same information that I have.
Speaker 4: Interesting, So that's a subscription. And what is the webs
Speaker 4: is their website. I assume.
Speaker 3: All that a L L D A T A.
Speaker 4: Dot com.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: About that, okay, and you can you can put in
Speaker 2: what type of car you have, what year, and you
Speaker 2: can get all the information you need about your particular.
Speaker 3: Vehicle, every everything that the manufacturer has put out about
Speaker 3: the way to repay your vehicle, the part numbers, how
Speaker 3: long it takes, the method to do the job, the
Speaker 3: tools you're gonna need, I mean, everything is right there
Speaker 3: so that the di Y guy, if he wants to
Speaker 3: invest in the tools and in the scanners and things
Speaker 3: like that, he can fix anything on the car that
Speaker 3: he needs to. The information volume is mind boggling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a di Y guy, but I know
Speaker 2: that Scott is very much a DIY guy. What are
Speaker 2: you doing these days, Scott? Because people know that when
Speaker 2: when Route one Auto was purchased you you're working up
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, correct?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 5: I am. I am currently a service advisor over at
Speaker 5: FoST Motors up in Extra New Hampshire. We are the
Speaker 5: the actual biggest largest still at this crisis jeep Dodge
Speaker 5: dealer in all of New England. Proud to say that
Speaker 5: with some more units than anyone else. So with the
Speaker 5: more units, that means we have a ton of service customers.
Speaker 5: So now I've gone from being a jack of all
Speaker 5: manufacturers so per se, to strictly working with Jeeps and Dodges, Rams,
Speaker 5: chrys All Chrysis products. Now all right, and there's plenty
Speaker 5: of month ed effects.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to take a quick break here.
Speaker 2: It's sixteen and we're gonna go to phone lines. Folks
Speaker 2: are waiting six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: one line at six one, seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I don't want to make people wait, so we're gonna
Speaker 2: get to phone calls forthwith. Right after this quick break
Speaker 2: on Nightside. It's a Thursday night. It's gonna get cold
Speaker 2: this weekend. Whatever questions you have for Scott and Larry,
Speaker 2: they're here to take the questions and give you their answers.
Speaker 2: Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 4: Go right to the calls.
Speaker 2: Let's start off with whoever's been waiting the longest, and
Speaker 2: that would be Ken in Florida. Ken, you are on
Speaker 2: with the WBZ car guys Scott and Larry.
Speaker 6: Right, damn, this is great. I've meant to call talk
Speaker 6: to these guys for years. Dan, real quick. I hope
Speaker 6: you're feeling better. Get some good rests uh. When I
Speaker 6: come back up there in June, I would love to
Speaker 6: have lunch and or a cold one with you when
Speaker 6: I come back up.
Speaker 4: Can be arranged.
Speaker 6: That could be a ranged We'll reach me our guys.
Speaker 6: I'm in Selfless, Florida. I moved from Paul, Massachusetts five
Speaker 6: years ago. In twenty eleven, I bought an Audi Quatro wagon,
Speaker 6: you know, all wheel drive, a four with the turbo.
Speaker 6: It was used with twenty four thousand miles and now
Speaker 6: has one hundred and seventeen thousand. I try to take
Speaker 6: care of it. I've had some work on the sensors
Speaker 6: or whatnot. It's run rough lately. It's been running rough
Speaker 6: and when I get gassed after I filled up with premium,
Speaker 6: it has difficulties starting up. They have to acceperate. I'm
Speaker 6: a will to user, so I use hand control, so
Speaker 6: I accelerate and it does startup. I brought it to
Speaker 6: a Firestone dealership and they said that they don't have
Speaker 6: all the codes, but they said that number one, it
Speaker 6: needs something's not opening. I don't know, I'm sort of
Speaker 6: laugh I have to look.
Speaker 3: At the receipt.
Speaker 6: And also I need motor mouths, which are about seventeen
Speaker 6: hundred dollars. I'm not crazy about that, but I want
Speaker 6: to keep it running. It's only one hundred and seventy
Speaker 6: thousand miles and I don't Two quick questions. One, what
Speaker 6: you're opinion on gas added is in?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 6: What about the motor mouths? And how can I keep
Speaker 6: this running at only hundred seventeen thousand miles for a
Speaker 6: few more years until I have the cash? Oh oh, sorry,
Speaker 6: One last question. One of these endurance I was thinking
Speaker 6: about purchasing one of those plans where you get the endurance,
Speaker 6: you know, the insurance coverage.
Speaker 5: All right, very very good question. So well, we'll try
Speaker 5: to address them one at a time. There, good question
Speaker 5: for you. When you say that you have a problem,
Speaker 5: it's only after you slow it up with a full
Speaker 5: tank of fuel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I'm usually running late going to work and
Speaker 6: I run it on it's almost on empty. And one
Speaker 6: time I had called Triple A would start in the
Speaker 6: Triple A said, you've got to give us some gas.
Speaker 6: But I've never had to do that. I just turned
Speaker 6: the key and it would start right up. So now
Speaker 6: it now it reluctantly start when I get gas.
Speaker 5: Okay, if you fill it, you a half a tank,
Speaker 5: do you still have the same problem.
Speaker 6: Yes, but you used to fill it. But yes, even
Speaker 6: I have to take and I buy Premium ninety.
Speaker 5: Three, super super weird problem. The only thing I can
Speaker 5: think of is that possibly when the fuel is going
Speaker 5: in that possibly it's running up the vtlines and almost
Speaker 5: almost flooding. The flooding the engine is almost what it
Speaker 5: seems like it's doing. No kinds of check ingel for
Speaker 5: an EBAP system related code.
Speaker 6: Huh, Now I have to check engine light on for
Speaker 6: something else. But my Firestone dealer said I need to
Speaker 6: go to Audi, which I don't want to do. So
Speaker 6: after that, I don't blame you.
Speaker 5: I don't blame you.
Speaker 6: On start after that though. So anyway, that's one problem.
Speaker 6: And then the other was.
Speaker 3: The motor mounts.
Speaker 5: So what was your question about the motormounts. If they're
Speaker 5: if they're broken, the phone, I mean, they's got to
Speaker 5: be done.
Speaker 6: It's running a little rough, you know, not shaking, not stalling.
Speaker 6: But I do go off a bridge to work down
Speaker 6: here in Florida, and I get nervous that I'm going
Speaker 6: to like suddenly break down on a bridge the check
Speaker 6: engine like they don't have the code for that, and
Speaker 6: then until I worry about that, and then it uh yeah,
Speaker 6: I just want to want to keep it running.
Speaker 5: I want to baby it.
Speaker 6: Because it's only got a one hundred and seventy thousand
Speaker 6: miles on it, right.
Speaker 5: So I mean then you if you if it's a
Speaker 5: vehicle you want to hold on to, then you owe
Speaker 5: it to your vehicle to a get that check engine
Speaker 5: like checked out.
Speaker 3: That is important.
Speaker 5: It's giving you a warning sign. So if the Firestone
Speaker 5: dealership can't handle it, then you either take it back
Speaker 5: to an Audi dealer or you need to find someone
Speaker 5: that's a European specialist. As you take BMW's and things
Speaker 5: like that, nature should be able to take a look
Speaker 5: at that for you.
Speaker 6: I don't know. And funny just to keep it running
Speaker 6: longer could run for another one hundred thousand miles, I
Speaker 6: would think at.
Speaker 3: Least it should.
Speaker 5: But you owe to the vehicle to you know, find
Speaker 5: out what's going on, because you could be making a
Speaker 5: minor situation turn into a major situation, so I would
Speaker 5: address that check engine light sort of.
Speaker 3: Then later, all right, what do you have?
Speaker 4: You get some good information, please act on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, the gap additors, all right, I'm sorry. One more.
Speaker 4: Going on a long time here? What what is? What's
Speaker 4: your last point?
Speaker 6: Is Japan additive? Like an additive like an STP or something.
Speaker 5: I think that the additives that are in fuel nowadays
Speaker 5: should be plenty for what you what you need, what
Speaker 5: you have?
Speaker 4: Good, right to go, Thanks, Keed, got to get more, folks.
Speaker 4: Thank you much. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Ken.
Speaker 4: Next up, let's go too. Bob in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: I think, Bob, you were the person who wrote me
Speaker 2: an email today, if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 7: Dan, No, I left him a voicemail yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4: Okay, and I communicated back with you.
Speaker 7: Right, yes, yes, I want to say thank you very
Speaker 7: very much for calling me. You've telephoned my home around
Speaker 7: ten forty this morning.
Speaker 4: No problem, no problem, That's what I try to do.
Speaker 7: People look at you, and I want to wish you
Speaker 7: a merry Christmas, and I hope you're feeling better.
Speaker 4: Not great. Okay, go ahead, you're on the air. Good time.
Speaker 7: Larry and Scott. Hi Scott, I have a two thousand
Speaker 7: and five Hyundai Accent, and I owned this car for
Speaker 7: a little over nine years since, since September of twenty fifteen.
Speaker 7: And the biggest problem I had with this car, guys,
Speaker 7: is it was the starter. I don't know what it
Speaker 7: was about the two thousand five Hyundai Accents. This is
Speaker 7: a two door hatchback. When I bought this car in
Speaker 7: September of fifteen, it had a pretty low mileage on
Speaker 7: it at the time. It has about around ninety thousand
Speaker 7: miles right now. And like I said, I've probably been
Speaker 7: in the nine years that I've had this car, this
Speaker 7: car has had about four or five starters in it.
Speaker 3: No, are you kidding?
Speaker 7: I've had to replace the starter about four times, maybe five.
Speaker 7: I've actually, to tell you the truth, I've literally lost count.
Speaker 3: All right, So Bob, let me ask you this. When
Speaker 3: the starters go bad, are they grinding when you go
Speaker 3: to starter or are they just clunking?
Speaker 7: No, they're a tremendous hesitation I was having.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: I did replace the starter earlier this year by an
Speaker 7: auto mechanic. He put in a new starter around January
Speaker 7: or February when we had a very cold snap. And
Speaker 7: the starter is actually performing better now, much better. But
Speaker 7: when I was having all these problems guys. Yeah, like
Speaker 7: I said a moment ago, when I would turn the
Speaker 7: key big time hesitation, it would it would grind, it
Speaker 7: would go, and then it would and then it would
Speaker 7: turn over.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So there was a problem with these
Speaker 3: and if your technician had done a voltage drop test,
Speaker 3: he probably would have seen it. Where the starters we
Speaker 3: were mounting up, there was paint on there, so the
Speaker 3: starter was not making a good ground. Oh well, what
Speaker 3: so the trick on that, and it really isn't a
Speaker 3: trick is when you pull the starter out, you clean
Speaker 3: the mounting surface of all of the paint that's still
Speaker 3: on there, so when the starter bolts in, it has
Speaker 3: a good ground. So the circle wasn't complete and that
Speaker 3: in turn was causing this starter to burn out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what was that one.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think I think my auto mechanic earlier this year,
Speaker 7: in January February, I think he did. I think he
Speaker 7: performed what you just.
Speaker 3: Said, bolt a drop jest.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he did the ground or whatever whatever that
Speaker 7: was right, And the primary reason I called in to
Speaker 7: I is I wanted to get information about the location
Speaker 7: of your shop, but I understand you sold it.
Speaker 3: I did, but I need I need to tell you
Speaker 3: the guys that I have it now. They do a
Speaker 3: good job. As I said that the opening of the show.
Speaker 3: I was there for a few hours yesterday doing some consulting,
Speaker 3: taking a look around. Two of my two of my
Speaker 3: guys that I employed for over twenty years are still
Speaker 3: there working now. So they came as part of the pack.
Speaker 3: When Scott and I sold our shop, they stayed with it.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty much the same group of people, except
Speaker 3: the management, if you will, has changed, and they've got
Speaker 3: great equipment. And you know, if there was a problem
Speaker 3: that I couldn't handle, I wouldn't hesitate to go go there.
Speaker 3: There are two eighteen Newbery Street in PbD. They kept
Speaker 3: the same phone number nine seven eight five three two
Speaker 3: for zero zero one. The main person there is named Rob.
Speaker 3: You want to talk to him or Chris and let
Speaker 3: him know that we've talked here on the show, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure that they'll take great care of you.
Speaker 7: Rob, Chris. And is there somebody named Steve there too?
Speaker 3: Steve Steve, he's been with me for oh gosh, probably
Speaker 3: close to thirty years, twenty five years, Tony, Tony is there, Tony,
Speaker 3: it's been with me for thirty years.
Speaker 7: So yes, And who is Linda? Is Linda the reception
Speaker 7: at start?
Speaker 3: That is correct?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Oh crow, Bob, so you know how to find him? Okay,
Speaker 4: you got the right place.
Speaker 7: I think, I'm I'm I'm pointed in the right direction.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dan, Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to
Speaker 7: you and to all your listeners. Thanks Rob, appreciate it,
Speaker 7: Thanks to you, Thank you, Larry, thank you, thank you, Scott,
Speaker 7: Bye bye, welcome.
Speaker 2: Here comes the news. We get back more with the
Speaker 2: BZ car guys, Scott and Larry. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the only line that is opened to six one seven,
Speaker 2: getto on board. We'll get you through, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Coming back on night side.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Speaker 1: Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go for the WBZ car guys,
Speaker 2: the WZ nice that car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 4: Let me go to June in Providence, Rhode Island. Hi, June,
Speaker 4: how are you welcome back?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 9: Thank you. I have a question. I don't have a
Speaker 9: problem with my vehicle. Currently, I drive a twenty eighteen
Speaker 9: fort Explorer Limited and it has about one hundred and
Speaker 9: eight thousand miles. But I'm seriously thinking of giving that
Speaker 9: to a family member and buying myself a new vehicle.
Speaker 9: And I had This is my third Ford Explorer. I
Speaker 9: really like them. They're not too high to get in
Speaker 9: and out of, and when I fold down all the seats,
Speaker 9: I have quite a bit of, you know, capacity to
Speaker 9: lug stuff around and transport things. So I'm looking at
Speaker 9: a new one, might a V six, but the new ones,
Speaker 9: if you want a V six, you have to have
Speaker 9: the second row captain's chairs, not a bench seat, okay,
Speaker 9: And so the other alternative is to have a four
Speaker 9: cylinder engine. But I looked up the horsepower and it's
Speaker 9: even more horsepower than my V six. But somebody told
Speaker 9: that's because the engines are more sophisticated and the technology
Speaker 9: is better, and I wanted to kind of get your
Speaker 9: input on that. And the other vehicle I was thinking
Speaker 9: about was the Toyota Grean high window.
Speaker 5: Ooh, tough choices. I mean, you've had Explorers for a
Speaker 5: while and there's once obviously treated you very good and
Speaker 5: not good enough that you want to give it to
Speaker 5: a family member. So and Explorers certainly have come a
Speaker 5: long way, but you're putting it against such a high name.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you've listened to our show before, you
Speaker 5: know how much Larry, how high Larry and I think
Speaker 5: of Toyota vehicles in general. Have you taken out either
Speaker 5: vehicle or a road test yet?
Speaker 9: Well, I was, as Dan knows, I was out in
Speaker 9: LA for November, so I went to the LA Auto Show.
Speaker 9: So I looked at the vehicles there, and I had
Speaker 9: a rental that was a Ford Explorer, right, So the
Speaker 9: only question with the Toyota was it seems a little
Speaker 9: higher to get in and out of. I'm not very tall,
Speaker 9: and I find that like, I'm not too crazy about
Speaker 9: that aspect, but everything else seems pretty good about it.
Speaker 9: And I also thought about buying the Highbred version because
Speaker 9: I drive quite a bit and it's not so much
Speaker 9: that I'm looking not to spend our guess, but like,
Speaker 9: I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Be a polluter.
Speaker 5: Are you Are you a local commuter? Do you drive
Speaker 5: short distances to work every day?
Speaker 3: Said?
Speaker 9: I'm retired. I just drive a lot. I go wherever
Speaker 9: I want, you ever I want.
Speaker 3: It's a majority.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we could talk a lot about the
Speaker 2: different cars. I think you've got to kind of make
Speaker 2: a decision yourself. I don't know if these guys can
Speaker 2: make a decision for you.
Speaker 9: Well, I just wanted to know about that that four
Speaker 9: cylinder engine in the Ford Exploit, is it going to
Speaker 9: be as responsive as my v sticks that I have
Speaker 9: in the twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: Four cylinder technology has come such a far away. And
Speaker 5: then I think, if you want to personally, if I
Speaker 5: had to choose, I would rather see you go with
Speaker 5: the four cylinder Ford over necessarily picking just for a hybrid.
Speaker 5: You've already given the Explorer. You like the Explorer, You're
Speaker 5: comfortable in the Explorer. I'm not a guy that's sold
Speaker 5: on hybrids. As somebody that gets to work with them
Speaker 5: every day. I don't think that they're necessarily a future
Speaker 5: A long term Yeah, but you've got to go with
Speaker 5: what's comfortable. Like you said, you're retired, now, that's maybe
Speaker 5: one of your last vehicles. You want a vehicles say
Speaker 5: you love driving every day, So that's the fun part
Speaker 5: about buying a new vehicle. Well, test them both and
Speaker 5: see which one feels better to you.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, thanks Jude, look that help the little bit.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thanks, great night.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. You're going to go
Speaker 2: next to Marty and Florida Marty, You next to Nights.
Speaker 10: I right ahead, buzzre excellent shoe guys. Listen, I really
Speaker 10: don't have a problem, but I wanted your opinion first
Speaker 10: of all. Coincidentally, I bought an Explorer in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 10: an XLT brand new in South Florida.
Speaker 3: I got rid of it with.
Speaker 10: Two hundred and twenty five thousand miles thanks to cash
Speaker 10: for Clnkers. It was the worst vehicle I ever had.
Speaker 10: Everything went wrong and it started to rot and leak whatever.
Speaker 10: So I got rid of it. Then I bought cash
Speaker 10: for Clonkers. I bought it an on nine Dodge Nitro
Speaker 10: with two thousand miles. It was a demonstrative model. I
Speaker 10: have two hundred and twenty six thousand miles on it now. Well,
Speaker 10: I should say that last year the dealer said it
Speaker 10: was the leakage of anti freeze into.
Speaker 3: Its bark plug.
Speaker 10: They gave me an engine for free because I had
Speaker 10: that the powertrain warranty since then I've been riding and
Speaker 10: writing and writing and writing. I wanted to find out
Speaker 10: two things from you, what do you think of the
Speaker 10: Dodge and I trow, and maybe some feedback from people
Speaker 10: out there, because if this vehicle ever went, I would
Speaker 10: be inclined. They don't make it anymore, but I'd be
Speaker 10: inclined to buy another used line because it's the best
Speaker 10: vehicle I ever had on the highway when I go
Speaker 10: to North Carolina, it gets twenty twenty one twenty two
Speaker 10: miles to the gallon, doesn't use any oil, and it's
Speaker 10: just a great vehicle. If I just wanted some feedback
Speaker 10: from pros like you.
Speaker 5: Question for was it then I've got a two liter in.
Speaker 10: It, it's four it's a six cylinder engine.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's got the sixth on so it has probably
Speaker 5: the three point five I think so, yeah, it's either
Speaker 5: are three or three five. Back then, first of all,
Speaker 5: it's super impressive to hear that, you know, in being
Speaker 5: somebody that works for Stillantis nowadays, it's great to see that.
Speaker 5: Back then, you've got a product that you know has
Speaker 5: gone fifteen years, two hundred plus thousand miles. I think
Speaker 5: it's even better. We get to deal with some of
Speaker 5: the lifetime warranty stuff. I think it's great that they
Speaker 5: were able to warrantye that engine for you. So your
Speaker 5: question was would you buy another one?
Speaker 3: In other words?
Speaker 10: In other words, is somebody I saw some recently some
Speaker 10: use Oh I should mention I do have a serious problem.
Speaker 3: My horn act up. Once in a while. My horn
Speaker 3: goes dead.
Speaker 6: Okay, well ninety spring, it's racing.
Speaker 10: It'll do ninety like nothing.
Speaker 3: So is it something? What do you feel about them?
Speaker 5: I feel that you know, I was never a personally
Speaker 5: a huge fan of a nitdro back in the day.
Speaker 5: It's not just not my style of vehicle. But I
Speaker 5: think obviously for fifteen years, you know, you see what
Speaker 5: you've gotten and it's definitely proven itself. So I think
Speaker 5: I think you're more of an expert on the vehicle
Speaker 5: than I am, because you've lived it for fifteen years,
Speaker 5: two hundred thousand miles more wise, Yeah, so why wouldn't
Speaker 5: So are you looking at the point where you are
Speaker 5: going to replace this vehicle.
Speaker 3: Or no, I'm going to keep it as long as
Speaker 3: it runs.
Speaker 10: But I'm saying that if I saw somebody selling one,
Speaker 10: I don't know why anybody want to sell it, you know,
Speaker 10: or used one. But I was just wondering if you
Speaker 10: have any heard of any people havny problems with it?
Speaker 10: Is mine and anomaly or is that the way they
Speaker 10: will are?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I just I think that back then there was a
Speaker 5: good vehicle, and obviously you've done your maintenance and take it.
Speaker 5: A lot of vehicles get a bad reputation because people
Speaker 5: don't do maintenance. But if people take care of their stuff,
Speaker 5: they will. There are plenty of good vehicles out there
Speaker 5: to get a bad reputation because they were not maintained properly.
Speaker 5: So keep doing that.
Speaker 4: I think we've I think we've gone through a lot
Speaker 4: of conversation here on this. I gotta keep rolling.
Speaker 10: Marty, thanks so much, good shows always.
Speaker 4: Thank you much.
Speaker 3: Thanks Chris good.
Speaker 4: Let me take a very quick break.
Speaker 2: I got Jeene and Linda and Ed and ed, a
Speaker 2: couple of edds, two EDGs in Marshfield. We got we
Speaker 2: got the market cornered with EDGs and Marshfield and we'll
Speaker 2: be back on nights. O have the only one open,
Speaker 2: the only line open right now six one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty back on nights out of the w
Speaker 2: BZ car guys.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nights Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Oh, keep rolling here on night side. Let me see
Speaker 2: who is up next. We're gonna go to uh Linda
Speaker 2: in Weymouth, Linda tight on time you go right ahead?
Speaker 11: Hi?
Speaker 8: First off, your telephone number was nine eight three to
Speaker 8: two one.
Speaker 3: Rightio is the other person that you want to ask
Speaker 3: for the Sergio is one of the owner and he's
Speaker 3: in the shop ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 8: Is that the right number?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Nine seven eighty five three two for zero zero one?
Speaker 8: Okay. I have a Ford Focused twenty thirteen. It says
Speaker 8: eighty six thousand miles, but I had the transmission replace.
Speaker 8: They also changed the mileage when changed the transmission. My
Speaker 8: check on just check engine light had been on and
Speaker 8: that's what they said.
Speaker 3: Was okay, so you've got a thirteen Focus and what
Speaker 3: miles did the transmission have to be changed?
Speaker 8: I don't know what it was about a year and
Speaker 8: a half ago and I'm presidently, go ahead.
Speaker 3: How many miles do you have on the car now?
Speaker 8: Eighty six thousand. I'm looking at replacing it with a
Speaker 8: honder CRV twenty sixteen, and what how do I trade
Speaker 8: it in or what value should I get for it?
Speaker 8: If it's got that check light on still again? It
Speaker 8: said it's going to cost forty four thousand something to
Speaker 8: replace it, the engine light, their transmission.
Speaker 3: So what I don't quite understand exactly what it is
Speaker 3: that you would like to know? What is the force?
Speaker 8: What do I trade in? How do I trade in
Speaker 8: the car when it really doesn't have a life after
Speaker 8: I trade it in? Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah, so you go, who's the now? You said
Speaker 3: you were buying a twenty sixteen Honda.
Speaker 8: Yes, CRV with one hundred and one two?
Speaker 3: And are you buying this from? Are you buying this
Speaker 3: from a dealer or a private party?
Speaker 8: A dealer? I've been there twice before, and they're going
Speaker 8: to get me a discount for being repeat persons.
Speaker 3: Okay? And how much are they going to give you
Speaker 3: in trade? Have you asked? No?
Speaker 8: I haven't. I haven't gotten that bar yet.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get I can't look it over, Linda,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now. I don't know as much
Speaker 2: as these guys. You're not going to get much on
Speaker 2: a car like that.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 8: I was thinking salvage value.
Speaker 3: Okay, if if if the car didn't have a check
Speaker 3: engine light on, it would be worth anywhere from two
Speaker 3: thousand dollars to four thousand dollars. Okay, if you can
Speaker 3: use the tax right off. There's many charities that you
Speaker 3: can give it to, because you really can't sell a
Speaker 3: car to a private party with the check engine light
Speaker 3: on without expecting repercussions.
Speaker 8: Okay, and Miguala would know how to how do you
Speaker 8: go about doing it? For caster kids? A side saying
Speaker 8: the call and okay. The other thing is I found
Speaker 8: a but June, you have a handle that goes into
Speaker 8: the car once the door is open to help get
Speaker 8: up into the seat. I got it at a I
Speaker 8: don't know, a discount place and I'm holding on to it.
Speaker 8: I was going to give it to someone, but I'm
Speaker 8: holding on to it. I don't think I'll be needing
Speaker 8: it because it's not that much higher.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's good, Linda. Thank you for the challenging
Speaker 2: questions for my men. Challenging questions, Linda, thank you so much,
Speaker 2: talking again, good night, Edin Marshall. I had no clue there, guys,
Speaker 2: I really didn't edit Marshfield ed your next on Knights,
Speaker 2: I go ahead, ed In Marshfield. There's two heads here
Speaker 2: in Marshfield. So the ed In Marshfield whose number ends
Speaker 2: with well, it's the same guy. Because you've got two
Speaker 2: lines died up, let's drive the other one. Rob Eden Marshfield.
Speaker 2: Next on Knights, I go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Oh yeah, this is there right, yes, good, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can we get any fine, but we're slowing the showdown,
Speaker 4: so go.
Speaker 12: Ahead, okay, okay, yeah, quick question. I have a Lexus,
Speaker 12: uh two thousand and seven, Alexis. I asked two point fifty.
Speaker 3: I bought it with one.
Speaker 12: Hundred and twenty five thousand. Unfortunately, I kind of let
Speaker 12: the transmission fluid go. I have two hundred and five
Speaker 12: on it now, and I don't know if what your
Speaker 12: advice is to do the do the fluid change or
Speaker 12: just let it go and see how long I get
Speaker 12: out of it out of the vehicle.
Speaker 5: No way would I ever think to do anything with
Speaker 5: that transmission fluid at this point. Are you having a
Speaker 5: problem with transmission now? No, not at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So my my problem is is that I have a
Speaker 5: funny feeling that as soon as you try to flush
Speaker 5: that fluid or do anything like that. I mean, you
Speaker 5: know what, if you're going to do anything, maybe so fluid, right,
Speaker 5: you can do a fluid replacement where you simply just
Speaker 5: drop the pan out of the you know, drop the
Speaker 5: fluid out of the pan. And I'm not sure if
Speaker 5: that one has a drain colling on it, and maybe
Speaker 5: a refill with some fresh fluid. But to use a
Speaker 5: machine where you're actually flushing out the valve body and
Speaker 5: the lines and the cooler have a funny feeling you're
Speaker 5: looking for problems.
Speaker 12: Okay, And one more quick question is I've been using
Speaker 12: Mobile one oil on it, and I know some people
Speaker 12: say the synthetic of the time can cause the main
Speaker 12: sale to leach. What's your what's your advice on that?
Speaker 5: I'm one that in back in seven, I think it
Speaker 5: was still a petroleum base, maybe a blend recommended back then.
Speaker 3: But if you've been using it, how long, I gonny,
Speaker 3: how love many miles?
Speaker 5: You've been using Mobi one four.
Speaker 12: Eighty thousand since eighty thousand five?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in eighty thousand, I mean it's done. You well,
Speaker 5: I don't see any reason to change from it at
Speaker 5: this point, and and I don't there's no way that
Speaker 5: a motor oil causes the seal to leak. Understand this,
Speaker 5: Synthetic motor oils are much slicker in the property values
Speaker 5: compared to a petroleum base that they're thinner, they're lighter,
Speaker 5: they almost create a bonding agent to the walls into
Speaker 5: metal surfaces. Okay, if a feal leak, it's because the
Speaker 5: seal has failed over time, So oil doesn't cause a leak.
Speaker 5: It could be more susceptible to leaks because of how
Speaker 5: slick synthetic oil is and the way it bun baunch
Speaker 5: the metal. But I don't see at this point. The
Speaker 5: only thing I would say, if anything, are using the
Speaker 5: regular mobile one of the high mileage mobile one, the
Speaker 5: high mileage high mileage, I would yeah, that's what I.
Speaker 5: If I were in the opposition to somebody that had
Speaker 5: used Mobile one for a good amount of time, I
Speaker 5: would go, you know, like you said, you're already in
Speaker 5: the high mileage. I would stay with that until it
Speaker 5: proves you wrong.
Speaker 3: Just a just a little interest. God, is that toyo
Speaker 3: wants straight five W thirty in it? They do not want? Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: but because.
Speaker 5: He's already to write eighty thousand, you don't change over
Speaker 5: now right, No, no, I agree, I said, just a
Speaker 5: point of interests that from day one, that's all that
Speaker 5: they wanted day one, right, But yeah, you don't I
Speaker 5: think you know this is like, yeah, you don't want
Speaker 5: to see just like you ask me about the transmission fluid.
Speaker 5: You've got eighty thousand miles plus of doing something a
Speaker 5: certain way. I would not stop messing with something that's
Speaker 5: been working, or you're apt to cause more problems.
Speaker 2: All right, and I think you get your answers. I
Speaker 2: think we lost in which sometimes happens. Okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: I appreciate all right, what do we get left here?
Speaker 4: Rob? How much time? Two minutes? Let me see if
Speaker 4: we get Gene and evertton here real quick. You just
Speaker 4: have to wake through the news Gina and.
Speaker 11: Ever Okay, thank you, Hi Dan, I'm very sorry they
Speaker 11: are sick. Rest and get more sleep. You always heal
Speaker 11: when you're sleeping, Okay, when you're resting. So just okay,
Speaker 11: that's it, all right, guys. Quick question okay, two things.
Speaker 11: My car has seventeen five hundred miles on it, it's
Speaker 11: a twenty twenty one hundred record. When is a break
Speaker 11: fluid required? When is a transmission fluid required when you
Speaker 11: know to replace them, and when there's an alignment required,
Speaker 11: is it required yet?
Speaker 3: Alignments should be done about once the year, especially with
Speaker 3: these Massachusetts roads. Okay, I would yeah, yeah, because our
Speaker 3: roads are not very good. One alignment cost you less
Speaker 3: than a single tire, and if you want to tires
Speaker 3: to last, then you want to align them so that
Speaker 3: they're running properly. And that's also going to give you
Speaker 3: better few mileage if your tires aren't fighting you.
Speaker 11: As far as what about the break.
Speaker 3: I know you don't have a lot of break fluid.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't change that break fluid at thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 11: Not at the seventeen five that I have right now.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think that you're spending money you don't
Speaker 3: need to stand.
Speaker 11: Okay, I don't know why they're saying they recommend it.
Speaker 11: But in transmission fluid, Okay.
Speaker 3: If they're saying it. If they're recommending it, you want
Speaker 3: to look in your owner's manual, Okay, trim as far
Speaker 3: as your trans fluid goes, I would. I would go
Speaker 3: sixty thousand on that. During the break, I'm gonna dig
Speaker 3: into my into my all data, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: find all that information, and when Dan comes back from
Speaker 3: the break, I'll be very accurate and what I'm telling you.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 11: It's a twenty twenty hands record and it's a turbo engine.
Speaker 11: That's all I know.
Speaker 2: All right, you keep listening, Gene. Okay, we're gonna wrap
Speaker 2: it up here. Thank you very much. We are done
Speaker 2: for this hour. We have a bunch of lines mostly
Speaker 2: six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty. You can call now.
Speaker 4: We'll get you real quickly on as right after eleven
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