Speaker 1: It's nice Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: So we got the w b Z car guys that
Speaker 2: be busy nightside car guys Larry and Scott Rubinstein, and
Speaker 2: delighted that they're here. As we approach the winter driving season.
Speaker 2: You saw that story about a little snow coming in
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. What do you think, boys, it's gonna be uh,
Speaker 2: gonna be a little interesting out there in a row
Speaker 2: Massachusetts and flurry.
Speaker 3: It's just a flurry.
Speaker 4: It's all gonna be one to throw me into it.
Speaker 4: And it's gonna be more down the south south of Boston.
Speaker 4: So I think that was gonna be just fine. And
Speaker 4: if you prepared the cop properly, you have nothing to
Speaker 4: worry about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, real quickly here, you know, put a little
Speaker 2: shovel in the back of your car in case you
Speaker 2: get stuck. I mean just the I mean blanket, uh
Speaker 2: scraper so you can scrape the window off rush or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 3: Oh rush, yeah, yep, you new.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: They will make sure you have.
Speaker 3: A phone charger with you. Yeah yet, so something real quick.
Speaker 3: That's going to be super important, especially with the change
Speaker 3: over and they say it's going to get brutally cold
Speaker 3: after whatever kind of we kind of precipitation we have
Speaker 3: fallen tomorrow. Uh, take some get some silicone spray and
Speaker 3: spray down the seals of the doors where that that
Speaker 3: rubber gasket that goes all around the door. Make sure
Speaker 3: you take a put them on a face cloth or
Speaker 3: paper towel and wipe those down. Is what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: You get moisture in there and then we get that
Speaker 3: freezing cold, those doors are gonna get really hard to open.
Speaker 3: So that'll help you people from having problems from opening
Speaker 3: their doors when that rain and whatever precipitation falls and freezes.
Speaker 2: Spray you can pick that up pretty much anywhere parts
Speaker 2: drug store, right.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know if drug stores have I know
Speaker 3: most part stores will have them.
Speaker 2: Buy way.
Speaker 4: You can go to Row's home depot, auto zone. I'm
Speaker 4: not any any one of those places they are going
Speaker 4: to have it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's that's good advice. Six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, I did get some answers for Gene during
Speaker 4: our news break.
Speaker 2: Oh let's hear them.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, okay on her transmission fluid it is sixty
Speaker 4: thousand miles six oh thousand just when they do a
Speaker 4: transmit Yeah, I mean that's just that's taking advantage on
Speaker 4: the break fluid. It's a little bit sketchy. I see
Speaker 4: many different readings that both Honda is saying that dealers
Speaker 4: are saying. Basically, the general consensus is thirty six thousand miles.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Now, break fluid real quick is hydroscopic, which means that
Speaker 4: it does attract water. Most good shops will have a
Speaker 4: tester to see how much water is in your break
Speaker 4: fluid system. If you have minimal water, and if the
Speaker 4: break fluid is a clear, translucent, pale yellow, you can
Speaker 4: certainly keep going till thirty six thousand miles. I think
Speaker 4: that they're wasting money by doing it early and just
Speaker 4: creating work. I would not when I had my shop
Speaker 4: do something that wasn't needed. So you know, if Gene
Speaker 4: wants to take a right up to the shop, go
Speaker 4: see Sergio up in my old shop, he can certainly
Speaker 4: look at the break fluid, check on the water content,
Speaker 4: and advise her whether she can go to the thirty
Speaker 4: six thousand or not. But most I'm sorry to say,
Speaker 4: go on.
Speaker 2: I'm saying she only has seventeen thousand, so they're pushing
Speaker 2: that on her a little bit. It seems to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems to me like the make work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what here's my problem.
Speaker 3: No, no, But with that being said that if you
Speaker 3: figure out the average driver is gonna go between ten
Speaker 3: and fifteen thousands of a year, so you should be
Speaker 3: on track. So it would normally make sense. So regardless
Speaker 3: of the mileage. And let's just talk about this real quick.
Speaker 3: You're talking about breakfood, just break flu. Really care how
Speaker 3: many miles you put in the car. You have to
Speaker 3: break get you more often, but it's that gonna necessarily
Speaker 3: tract more moisture. It's still been in there for four
Speaker 3: almost five years. Well that's why I said that a
Speaker 3: that a moisture check has to be done burst.
Speaker 6: So he could go either way.
Speaker 3: So I mean sometimes, yes, a lot of shops do
Speaker 3: try to oversell, but this could be valid.
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, let's get back to phones, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Gonna go to John and Drake. He's been holding the logs. John,
Speaker 2: your next on Nightsiger, right ahead.
Speaker 1: That's all right, Danny. These guys are great and I
Speaker 1: really enjoy this is my first call call in on
Speaker 1: this particular subject, and I really enjoy it. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I pick up some cars here and there, and
Speaker 1: I always find something that's reasonably priced. So I picked
Speaker 1: up an RX three hundred Lexus. Now the car has
Speaker 1: two hundred and ten thousand miles on reasonable I think
Speaker 1: because the fact that Lexuses do run pretty well. And
Speaker 1: I had to do some work on the muffler system.
Speaker 1: There was a hole in the muffler. I fixed that
Speaker 1: up and we're quite frankly. Right after that, I found
Speaker 1: out that there three cataltic converters in this particular vehicle.
Speaker 1: Now one of them up closer to the front end
Speaker 1: to the radiator, has now failed. So now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about replacing it. I've gotten some prices on that, and
Speaker 1: the gentleman who I did get the price on for
Speaker 1: it said that if you do replace that, you might
Speaker 1: run into other falls with the other two. So now
Speaker 1: I'm a little reluctant on how much do I actually
Speaker 1: spend to get this vehicle not to be as loud
Speaker 1: as one of these hip hops that drive around the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: So so I'm let's let's just take a step back.
Speaker 3: So the reason why you're saying the catalytic converts failing
Speaker 3: is you probably have a code four thirty something like
Speaker 3: that zero four thirty.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really loud. I believe it as a
Speaker 1: hole in it.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we actually have a physical hole.
Speaker 1: Right, you can hear it if I started it now
Speaker 1: and drove around it.
Speaker 3: Well bad, okay. Well the reason, well, that's that's rare
Speaker 3: because usually you don't get a lot of leaks off
Speaker 3: of catalytic converters unless for some reasons that you know,
Speaker 3: that particular area rusted quicker than that's not normal. Are
Speaker 3: you sure it's about the flex pipe? That's a tap
Speaker 3: to that pipe.
Speaker 1: I just did that. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 1: flex pipe. It's fine you say that flex pipe is
Speaker 1: taken off. We ended up setting up a piece where
Speaker 1: he made his own type of thing and he put
Speaker 1: that back together. So the flex pipe was the first issue.
Speaker 1: Then I went into a half moon. I called it
Speaker 1: that another little hole in the pipe. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: mickey mouse. I don't know why I did that, but
Speaker 1: in any event, then all of a sudden, I take
Speaker 1: off out of the shop. Two days later, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, nobody like yes, lay twenty eight hundred, make
Speaker 1: it down again.
Speaker 2: What was that sound again? And familiar?
Speaker 1: That's the oldest kill from the book. But I have
Speaker 1: to tell you that I'm reluctant to spend the money,
Speaker 1: but I want to because the fact that this vehicle
Speaker 1: was maintained. If you saw the receipts that I have
Speaker 1: on this car, it's it's amazing what the gentleman did.
Speaker 3: Have you gotten a price on one first?
Speaker 1: Yet he talked about sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3: Which is which is about right now. I'm assuming sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3: That sounds like it's probably an app that might be
Speaker 3: an aftermar Is that after market?
Speaker 1: No, No, I believe it's the genuine part. And the
Speaker 1: part is close to five hundred dollars just for the cataletic.
Speaker 3: That's actually cheap for some converters, because I've seen them
Speaker 3: converts themselves go over two grand, right exactly, I know
Speaker 3: you're getting oh installed for sixteen hundred. I think it's
Speaker 3: a bargain. And I think if you love the car,
Speaker 3: which it sounds like you do, and it's treated you well,
Speaker 3: then you invest the money.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. You know, I'm just reluctant to say like that.
Speaker 1: He told me. Look, I mean, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: the work for you, John, But guess what, you know,
Speaker 1: we might run into some other problems with some O
Speaker 1: two stances up the other one.
Speaker 3: We gotta be careful, you might, but right now you
Speaker 3: don't have that problem. So you deal with what you
Speaker 3: have in front of you, and the other one will
Speaker 3: let you know when it's time for them to go.
Speaker 3: And you know what you say, it been Nichols between
Speaker 3: now and then, and be ready when the next one
Speaker 3: does fail.
Speaker 7: Right I do?
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that. Yeah, And like I said, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the first Lexus I've jumped into. The last
Speaker 1: one was an Avalon that I had, of course, before that,
Speaker 1: I picked thee up on a short ride was the Volvo.
Speaker 4: So I got out of that one quick.
Speaker 3: You understand that Alexis is just the nice version of
Speaker 3: a Toyota. So you're just getting eighty super product with
Speaker 3: with fancy bells and whistles.
Speaker 1: I assumed. Yeah, exactly, like I said, maybe I can
Speaker 1: run it for another eighty to one hundred maybe if
Speaker 1: I maintain it and take my time with non maintenance.
Speaker 3: So let me let me ask you guys the way
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be able to.
Speaker 2: No one asked Scott and Larry, how do you guys
Speaker 2: feel about Lexus? Is generally compared to let's say, Vovos. Currently, Oh, head.
Speaker 4: Over hills, Yeah, all day long over over the course
Speaker 4: of Tell me how much it cost you to maintain
Speaker 4: your Volvo compared to how much that elects costure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Larry, look at Yeah. When I got the Vobo right,
Speaker 1: the statu stated, skipping and nailing the flywheel brought it
Speaker 1: into a guy replaced the flywheel the transmissions top.
Speaker 4: It doesn't just.
Speaker 1: Drop, it goes to like the left, and it's all
Speaker 1: like tough to get out. And when he put that
Speaker 1: flywheel back and everything was misaligned, it screwed the whole
Speaker 1: thing up on me. I just loved the Volvo, but
Speaker 1: it just it wasn't right. The gentleman wasn't right putting
Speaker 1: it back together.
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you very much, John, Great call, great call.
Speaker 2: You know, guys, I had a friend of mine yesterday
Speaker 2: who was driving a car. It's an older car, and
Speaker 2: he had lost power, steering fluid in the car. But
Speaker 2: he continued to die in the car, and he told
Speaker 2: me that the steering wheel came off in his hands.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard heard that before?
Speaker 4: No one thing has nothing to do with the other, really,
Speaker 4: unless I mean he just had a series of problems
Speaker 4: if he lost his power steering, if he lost his fluid.
Speaker 4: All right, so that is a pump or a hose
Speaker 4: that has gone, but that that steering wheel is held
Speaker 4: in place onto the steering calumn by a pretty hefty nut.
Speaker 4: One thing has nothing to do with the other. Are
Speaker 4: you sure a steering wheel came off?
Speaker 2: Or are you no? I'm not no, no, no. I
Speaker 2: I had seen him that morning and he said he
Speaker 2: bought this car. He paid not a lot of money
Speaker 2: for twelve hundred dollars, and he was complaining that that
Speaker 2: the power fluid had leaked and he had a trouble.
Speaker 2: He troubled just steering it. But he called me late
Speaker 2: in the day said the steering wheel was in his hand,
Speaker 2: separated from Yeah, I mean, what do you do? Thank
Speaker 2: god he wasn't on one twenty eight. Let's do this
Speaker 2: job real quickly. We got to take a breaks. We'll
Speaker 2: we get some lines here six one seven thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven nine thirty dial will get you in. We'll
Speaker 2: I get you on. Coming right back on nightside with
Speaker 2: w BZ car guys Scott and Larry.
Speaker 4: Now back to Dan Ray mine from the window World
Speaker 4: night Side Studios on WBZ.
Speaker 2: The news radio. Back to the back to the calls
Speaker 2: we go. Let's go up to Ipswich north of Boston
Speaker 2: and talk with Dean in Ipswich. Dan, you were next
Speaker 2: on Nightside with the WBZ car guys.
Speaker 8: Go right ahead, Dan, Hi, great show. I wanted to
Speaker 8: just mention I had have thirty five thousand.
Speaker 4: I went in with my.
Speaker 8: Toyota Corolla and they recommended the break fluid, which I
Speaker 8: was a little suspicious of. But it sounds that that's
Speaker 8: probably about right right the twenty twenty Corola.
Speaker 3: Correct how many?
Speaker 6: How many miles are.
Speaker 8: At that time? It was thirty five thousand on it? Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 8: it sounds like they got it right.
Speaker 6: It was a little suspicious that made a push it
Speaker 6: on me too early.
Speaker 2: But so I say, what what is? What's a break
Speaker 2: flu We're going to cost you twenty bucks?
Speaker 4: No system flushing a couple hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough?
Speaker 3: Said I got the background noise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get to fear it's going on here, Rob,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 3: I don't know it's gone.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: With that being said, a true break system service, break
Speaker 3: fluid system service should start at the master cylinder. It
Speaker 3: should flush the lines, it should flush the fluid in
Speaker 3: the CalPERS. That's not just removing a little bit of fluid.
Speaker 3: It's in the master to be done properly. It's a
Speaker 3: good you know, probably about an hour's service in fresh
Speaker 3: and fresh fluid.
Speaker 8: I have to look and by receipt, but it sounds
Speaker 8: like that happened. And in terms of the overall breaks,
Speaker 8: I've got forty five thousand on the car. Now, when
Speaker 8: should I be looking at what it's replacing or upgrading?
Speaker 3: Well, when you're did your service facility look at them
Speaker 3: and tell you what the pad life was?
Speaker 8: He probably he probably did.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I will tell you that once you get
Speaker 3: into like a fight, just you want to remember these numbers.
Speaker 3: When you get to around five milimeter, that's when you're
Speaker 3: into the yellow of the warning zone, we tell you uh.
Speaker 3: And then when you get down in the two three area,
Speaker 3: that's when you're pretty down closing. You know, depending on
Speaker 3: your driving style, you'll probably get five thousand or less
Speaker 3: miles to go at that point. Okay, it's hard to tell,
Speaker 3: you know, you really can't tell somebody how quickly breaks
Speaker 3: are going to wear just off mileage. And the reason
Speaker 3: why is because every driver is a bit different. Somebody
Speaker 3: that does a lot more highway driving is not going
Speaker 3: to use as much breaks, and their breaks may last
Speaker 3: eighty to one hundred thousand plus. Somebody does a lot
Speaker 3: of stop and go traffic, they may go through breaks
Speaker 3: in twenty five thousand and thirty thousand, you know. And
Speaker 3: then in the way your driving style itself, if you're
Speaker 3: a hard breaker, if you slow down, you know, it
Speaker 3: really varies. But you sound like a service facility has
Speaker 3: got you in the right way, and they should be
Speaker 3: able to tell you what your path thickness is.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 8: One other question is it I'm seventy four, I'm looking
Speaker 8: I haven't retired yet. I've been working remote, but I'm
Speaker 8: looking towards buying one more car. Is it going to
Speaker 8: be practical in the next couple of years to buy
Speaker 8: a gas powered vehicle or should I be thinking of
Speaker 8: the other stuff?
Speaker 3: No, I think that, and I think you're gas powered. Still,
Speaker 3: the technology has gotten much better. They're becoming more economical.
Speaker 3: Larry and I have talked talking about it before. I
Speaker 3: happen to work for a dealership where we deal with
Speaker 3: a lot of hybrid I'm not sold on them. I
Speaker 3: do not think that long term they out of the future.
Speaker 3: I know the current the new administration that's going to
Speaker 3: be coming in is not pushing the mandates that were set.
Speaker 3: So if it's going to be a last vehicle, I
Speaker 3: think you should find what you loved and what you
Speaker 3: enjoy driving in. I don't care if it's gas powered
Speaker 3: or hybrid powered, and just go off of that.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty solid advice there By the way, Dan,
Speaker 2: because this is going to be a change in atmospheric
Speaker 2: change in Washington come January twentieth, and a lot of
Speaker 2: the the push that the Biden administration was pushing for
Speaker 2: evs and electric charging stations, I don't know that they're
Speaker 2: gonna that's going to contain. I don't think it's going
Speaker 2: to continue on the under Donald Trump's administration.
Speaker 3: I believe it was already announced that it was not
Speaker 3: going to continue. Yeah, I believe that was that was
Speaker 3: part of his you know, one of the platforms he
Speaker 3: ran on.
Speaker 4: So I oh, yeah, no, I look at that.
Speaker 3: It's seventy four. I think what you want, drive with
Speaker 3: want and and you know, enjoy enjoy it.
Speaker 8: Okay, Dan, can I make one suggestion?
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm in.
Speaker 8: I've had a call for two weeks. I've tried those
Speaker 8: Haley Haleyes lozenges actually give you some relief if you
Speaker 8: I don't know if you're I don't know how you're
Speaker 8: feeling now.
Speaker 2: But well, you know what, I actually have a no.
Speaker 2: I got halls losages, which are probably that's yeah, you
Speaker 2: have yeah, No, mine is mine is more. It's almost
Speaker 2: like what you used to call in the military. You
Speaker 2: are I upper respiratory infection. That's what I think I got.
Speaker 8: Okay, anyways, thanks to the gentlemen.
Speaker 4: What a great show.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I hope you went very much. Good night. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of nice people who listen to this program.
Speaker 2: I mean really, and if we can help people out here,
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to Larry and Scott for the amount
Speaker 2: of time that they give to our audience for three
Speaker 2: or four times at least throughout the year. And this
Speaker 2: is an opportunity. I'll tell you. We have. We have
Speaker 2: two fills here, fill in Plymouth and fill in Boston.
Speaker 2: And I got some open line. So if you fill
Speaker 2: the lines up right now, I guarantee you you will
Speaker 2: get on before midnight, guarantee that with whatever questions you
Speaker 2: might have, sort of kind of laid back tonight. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I push people, but tonight I thought, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't have the energy to push people. And I want
Speaker 2: to give Larry Scott a chance to answer the questions.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
Speaker 2: there and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty
Speaker 2: two lines there, and we'll be back. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to short change either one of these fills. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with them and maybe with you as well as
Speaker 2: we head towards the midnight hour. We're talking cars, automotive questions.
Speaker 2: They are probably one of the most expensive things most
Speaker 2: of us by other than a house, in our lives,
Speaker 2: and they the moment you tried them off the lot,
Speaker 2: you know they're going to depreciate. So you got to
Speaker 2: be careful, very careful about what you what you think
Speaker 2: about buying and uh and these guys can give you
Speaker 2: the They will give you the honest answers. We'll be
Speaker 2: back on Nightside right after the news.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 8: I'm Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan. Let's get back to the calls. My
Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray. This is night Side. We are
Speaker 2: here until midnight Monday to Friday, from eight until midnight.
Speaker 2: Get my thanks to Morgan White last night who gave
Speaker 2: me a night allowed me to take a night off.
Speaker 2: I was a hurt and puppy last night, not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent tonight. But I have two great guests for you.
Speaker 2: I get my friends Larry and Scott Rubinstein. They are
Speaker 2: the WBZ car guys. If you have any question, any
Speaker 2: automotive question now at the time to dial in. The
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Speaker 2: ten thirty line. Let's go to We have two films.
Speaker 2: Gonna start off with phill in Boston. Phill in Boston,
Speaker 2: next with Larry and Scott.
Speaker 7: Right ahead, Phil, Oh, this guy, I need some help, buddy.
Speaker 7: First of all, I had a the generator of all that. Well,
Speaker 7: they unplugged the battery from the cable so that I
Speaker 7: didn't know at the time, but that when you put
Speaker 7: it back together again, you have the engine has to
Speaker 7: regroup the memory in the computer. It has to go
Speaker 7: through a cycle. Unfortunately for me, it hasn't completed the cycle.
Speaker 7: Everyone I went to says, oh, you get to drive
Speaker 7: it's sixty eighty miles. I want to go down to
Speaker 7: I put on a thousand miles, two thousand miles on
Speaker 7: it already, and it's still the same. I don't know
Speaker 7: what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4: I So, what's what's the year making model of your car?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry? I PAUSEIZ twenty fourteen hundred Civic. I guess
Speaker 7: it's the cheaper, the cheaper one, the lower ridge for
Speaker 7: some one or whatever.
Speaker 4: Okay, So which which portions of the readiness are not
Speaker 4: being set to you?
Speaker 7: That's a good question. I wish I knew. I try
Speaker 7: to go back to that. They gave me a print
Speaker 7: on I don't know, sir, I don't know, but this
Speaker 7: I need one pint. He's seventeen nineteen pass over there,
Speaker 7: I need one more to pass. HA been all over
Speaker 7: the state from the solfice problem?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Did you know that there are certain parameters that you
Speaker 4: must do when you're trying to reset your readiness, such
Speaker 4: as having the proper amount of fuel in the gas tank?
Speaker 7: No, I try to give it a full.
Speaker 4: Now, I see sometimes that is not right. So here's
Speaker 4: what I want you to do. Email me the year
Speaker 4: make model and possibly even the vehicle ID number, the
Speaker 4: seventeen digit vehicle ID number. I will look up with
Speaker 4: the reset procedure for you. I will email you the
Speaker 4: reset procedure with all the parameters that must be met.
Speaker 7: Jeez, all right, I'm not good at the computer. It
Speaker 7: go ahead, give me.
Speaker 4: And if it doesn't set doing it the way they
Speaker 4: had all that and tells you to do it, then
Speaker 4: you could call the Registry of Motor Vehicles and they
Speaker 4: might give you a excuse. Is a certain name for it, Scott,
Speaker 4: What was the name that they call it when they
Speaker 4: give you a.
Speaker 3: Pass sixty day? Well in New Hampshire re issued sixty
Speaker 3: day temporaries. Want to back I just want to backtrack
Speaker 3: for a second. They said they disconnected the battery. Had
Speaker 3: he already gone for a state inspection test before?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, lost, so.
Speaker 3: Before your battery was disconnected? Had you already gone for
Speaker 3: a state inspection and failed?
Speaker 7: Look, that's a good question. I have failed. And then
Speaker 7: I was the one gentleman. I shouldn't say this. I'm
Speaker 7: sure was legitimate. I put he brought it in there
Speaker 7: and he said, I told him what I did. He said,
Speaker 7: I'll drive it. I said, really, so he drove it.
Speaker 7: I came back, I get the stick. I don't know
Speaker 7: what he did.
Speaker 3: You know, well, this is what Larry was this is
Speaker 3: what Larry was referring to. Is that knowing how to
Speaker 3: drive it for the proper drive cycle? Answer, you had
Speaker 3: not failed before and this is the initial test. If
Speaker 3: this was your initial test and you weren't getting a retest,
Speaker 3: then you are allowed to have one incomplete in the
Speaker 3: state of Massachusetts. I believe one incomplete readiness test if
Speaker 3: you've already failed. If you've already failed, and this is
Speaker 3: the it's the symptom, it's the it's the readiness parameter
Speaker 3: for the symptom that failed. Let's say it was an
Speaker 3: EVAP system failure before and the EVAPP is the one
Speaker 3: that hasn't passed the readiness cycle, then it's not going
Speaker 3: to pass now, Okay. So I think that the information
Speaker 3: that Larry's asking you for being what did it? What
Speaker 3: are the readiness that shows incomplete, and he will be
Speaker 3: able to provide you with the drive cycles that are
Speaker 3: needed to get you to pass through.
Speaker 7: I want to two different places today, and they didn't
Speaker 7: have They couldn't do it because I said, we can't
Speaker 7: do it. We've got to get we got to give
Speaker 7: you a new a special sticker. I luckily, I I'm
Speaker 7: just wondering, Phil, Phil.
Speaker 2: I think that Larry said to you, uh, if you
Speaker 2: would just email him that information. And if you're not
Speaker 2: good at emailing, find someone who is Larry. What what
Speaker 2: is the email you want Hit to send it?
Speaker 4: Sure, the same one as always. Scan auto at aol
Speaker 4: dot com. Try to include the seventeen digit then, and
Speaker 4: I will send you the proper drive cycle so that
Speaker 4: your car does pass all of the parameter that's needed
Speaker 4: to get a mass state inspection sticker.
Speaker 7: Legal gause, you give me the one more time? I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, take your time now, Phil, just write this down. Okay,
Speaker 2: scan sc A an auto A U t O at
Speaker 2: aol dot com. You got it, No, I got s
Speaker 2: C t Oh do me a favorite Rob. You've got
Speaker 2: it right, skin auto at AOL dot com. Okay, give
Speaker 2: it to Phil. Take his time, make sure that he
Speaker 2: gets Let's move on. Oh man, okay, let's go next
Speaker 2: to another film. This fills in Plymouth. Hi Phil, how
Speaker 2: are you? Hey?
Speaker 7: Dan?
Speaker 4: How are Isn't I sure?
Speaker 2: Pretty good? Go right ahead?
Speaker 4: Excellent? Excellent, Hey guys, Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Speaker 4: You happy to talk to you folks again. Uh Dan,
Speaker 4: this is still originally from Weymouth. I worked in the
Speaker 4: speaker company. I went to you know, Wanda posshows games
Speaker 4: with you and everything years ago. Uh. I'm glad that
Speaker 4: here he's still doing well and everything. But gentlemen, I
Speaker 4: just have a real, real simple question. What do you
Speaker 4: guys think of the new Ford Broncles that a round,
Speaker 4: Not the not the sports or anything, but the actual
Speaker 4: Broncos themselves as well Broncos drivers.
Speaker 3: That I would agree. I would agree. We both owned
Speaker 3: the real for Broncos back in the nineties and I
Speaker 3: personally not a huge fan. But I mean, they get
Speaker 3: a they get make an attempt at bringing it back,
Speaker 3: but for me, it doesn't work for me.
Speaker 4: So per Sae Larry, I feel exactly the same way.
Speaker 4: And some of the numbers that they're charging on them,
Speaker 4: they are ridiculous. It's to me, there is nothing special
Speaker 4: about about them. I think you could spend a lot
Speaker 4: less money and get a lot more car with a
Speaker 4: different manufacturer. I really I've seen them, I've driven them.
Speaker 5: No, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would you take like a four runner over it all. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what I need.
Speaker 3: Did you happen to call last show? Uh?
Speaker 4: No, not last show? I called uh.
Speaker 7: Years ago.
Speaker 3: I could have one that that somebody asked us this
Speaker 3: question before, very similar to it. I just I mean,
Speaker 3: if you've listened to us before, I mean, you know
Speaker 3: how high we are on Toyota's and it listen, Toyota
Speaker 3: doesn't pay us any money to talk good about their product.
Speaker 3: It's because we The reason why like we drive Toyota's
Speaker 3: is because we know what fails and what doesn't fail.
Speaker 3: And they are just the most reliable vehicle out there.
Speaker 3: And their warranty and the way they stand behind their product,
Speaker 3: it's the best around. So if I'm gonna choose, unless
Speaker 3: you want listen, I always say drive with your loves.
Speaker 3: But quality wise, Toyota is a better product.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Ye also telling us that the Toyoda is the same
Speaker 2: manufacturer as Lexus.
Speaker 3: I assume you remember being yeah, back in the day
Speaker 3: when you had Ford and then Ford had Lincoln. You
Speaker 3: know they had Mercury and Lincoln. So when they were
Speaker 3: just upgrade, there was all the same It's all the
Speaker 3: same frame, it's the same powertrain. They're just gussied up,
Speaker 3: and the Lincoln was just a you know, a nicer version,
Speaker 3: nicer bells and whistles of a of a Ford. You know,
Speaker 3: a Ford Explorer and a Lincoln uh Aviator are one
Speaker 3: in the same vehicle, and in the now Man are
Speaker 3: one in the same vehicle.
Speaker 2: So give me this. Here's my question. My question.
Speaker 9: If you're going to go out and buy a new
Speaker 9: Lexus or a new Toyota equivalent vehicles, and I don't
Speaker 9: know which one is which, but whatever, either the best Lexus,
Speaker 9: best Toyota, whatever, how much of a differential is there
Speaker 9: in prices at this point between ten thousand doults.
Speaker 3: I would say you're probably in the right ballpark, ten
Speaker 3: ten to twenty. Yeah, you know, it's it's like I said,
Speaker 3: it's the fancy version.
Speaker 4: It is. It is.
Speaker 3: But you know what, people, people that know that shop
Speaker 3: at a Lexus dealer, they're expecting a certain quality and
Speaker 3: a certain it's all that, you know, that the nice leather,
Speaker 3: the upgraded leather, the upgraded stitching. You know, it's all
Speaker 3: those little things that make it stand out from a Toyota.
Speaker 3: Some people may say the Toyota is a plane Jane vehicle.
Speaker 3: So they go out and find the Lexus equivalent, and
Speaker 3: it's just that nicer version.
Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna have nicer wheels and tires on it,
Speaker 4: it's gonna have nicer struts and shots. But it's gonna
Speaker 4: be the same power plant. Dan, It's gonna be the
Speaker 4: same power plant that's gonna give you a rim a
Speaker 4: thousand miles with a minimum of maintenance.
Speaker 2: Let you say one hundred or two hundred.
Speaker 4: Five hundred. I said this, Kuy, these cars that you're
Speaker 4: talking about, I'm gonna go five hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 3: Imagine thanking me out back in the day.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they couldn't get into it there with the last.
Speaker 3: Fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 6: Wow, my father has my father's a Lexus.
Speaker 4: Uh the ls or yes, four thirty it's the sedan
Speaker 4: So two thousand and one has three hundred and thirty
Speaker 4: thousand miles on it still runs, no troble. Usually your seats,
Speaker 4: your seats will wear out long before the engine does.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This awhere inte valuable information for my listeners tonight, guys,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. Phil in Plymouth. We got to
Speaker 2: let you go because we're coming up with a break.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for calling in. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking with Judy and Bellingham and then
Speaker 2: Gaale in Beverly and get room for you. We'll get
Speaker 2: a couple more in as well. Six one seven, two,
Speaker 2: five four to ten thirty six one seven nine. That
Speaker 2: is great information because look, I know that there are
Speaker 2: these cars that people buy, like the Lamborghinis and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, which is just crazy money. But when you
Speaker 2: talk about buying a car that you're going to make
Speaker 2: an investment in, what they just told me is valuable information.
Speaker 2: And I hope that those of you who are out
Speaker 2: there looking at cars consider that information because that will
Speaker 2: save you a lot of money. And these guys know
Speaker 2: their cars. We'll be back on Nightside with my friend
Speaker 2: Scott and Larry the WBZ Knights that car guys right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 3: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 3: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get everybody in here, starting off with Judy
Speaker 2: in Bellingham. Judy, you're on with the WBZ car guys.
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Hi there.
Speaker 10: Timing is everything. I just found this out today. I
Speaker 10: have a twenty eighteen Lincoln MKX. I've had it five
Speaker 10: four years. I bought it used. One of my relatives
Speaker 10: was in the back seats that it smelled most moldy.
Speaker 10: So I mentioned to the shop.
Speaker 4: Boy I brought it to do some other work.
Speaker 10: Turns out, evidently there's a problem with the drain lines
Speaker 10: from the sun roofs.
Speaker 4: Yes found he found.
Speaker 10: The catch in it, and evidently it's a common problem
Speaker 10: with this this car, and people have been I mean,
Speaker 10: do I have any recourse or because the whole back
Speaker 10: is going to be professionally clean the inside eighteen right yep,
Speaker 10: I bought it four years ago.
Speaker 1: Used.
Speaker 6: Good luck, but your warrant doment, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Did you buy it new from a deep You buy
Speaker 3: it used from a dealership, from from from a.
Speaker 10: Lake, from the Imperial, Imperial and the little Town Amendment?
Speaker 3: Rightio, you purchased an extended warranty. Know then I'd say
Speaker 3: you have no recourse. I mean, it's it stinks, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately sun roof drains get clogged all the time. It's apparently,
Speaker 3: like you said, it's been going on for a while. Uh,
Speaker 3: and please don't take it. I'm up caught not pointing
Speaker 3: blame but if manufacturers warranteed their car forever, they would
Speaker 3: all be out of business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just wouldn't aware of anybody any action.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think there. I don't
Speaker 3: think there was a class action lawsuit against it, not
Speaker 3: that I'm here of. Larry might be able to tell
Speaker 3: you more, since he has access to some of that information.
Speaker 3: It certainly would never go as a recall because it's
Speaker 3: not a safety item. Okay, let me ask you another question.
Speaker 3: Have you been going back to that dealership since you
Speaker 3: purchased the vehicle for regular maintenance?
Speaker 4: Yes, for oil changes and all that.
Speaker 3: Yep, for for the four years that you've owned it.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you've got a good established rapport with
Speaker 3: the service department there, then I would certainly ask them
Speaker 3: if there's anything that they would be willing to do
Speaker 3: to help you out. Lincoln may step in now again,
Speaker 3: since I get to see the other side now that
Speaker 3: I work at a dealership, I know what we're asked
Speaker 3: to do, and I will tell you that the manufacturers
Speaker 3: have been cracking down on what they allow us to
Speaker 3: give for what we call goodwill assistance to customers. They've
Speaker 3: actually cut it off in some aspects. And now they
Speaker 3: now they make the customer pay, you know, part of
Speaker 3: the repair. But it doesn't hurt to ask. And like
Speaker 3: I said, the fact that you've been going back there
Speaker 3: for regular maintenance, you've already got a good rapport with them.
Speaker 2: Great, great advice. You four other people. I want to
Speaker 2: try to sneak in here, so I'm thank you.
Speaker 10: Thank you to answer my question. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Have a good holiday, everybody, Merry Christmas Day. And I
Speaker 4: have one very good important thing as far as Judy goes,
Speaker 4: if she has comprehensive coverage on her car, her insurance
Speaker 4: will most likely cover it.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good information to hope she's listening. Let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling here. I'm going to go to John and Maryland.
Speaker 2: We got to pick the pace up now, John, because
Speaker 2: I got four callers and you're you're the first.
Speaker 5: Go right ahead, John, gentlemen, real quick, good evening, Thank you,
Speaker 5: Happy holidays. Nineteen ninety four Bronco overall one good.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: It drives like a tank, never got stuck except for
Speaker 5: one time. And the only downside is on many of
Speaker 5: those vehicles the rear tailgate on the bottom it rusts
Speaker 5: out and as I found out.
Speaker 3: Yep, they all do. They all rush out. What was
Speaker 3: your question about this question?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but otherwise it was a great vehicle. I wish
Speaker 5: you have a good, safe holiday. I'll let you guys
Speaker 5: go get everybody else in. Thank you, all right, Thanks John,
Speaker 5: having holiday, John.
Speaker 2: Good. Let's keep rolling. We're gonna try. We got Gail
Speaker 2: in Beverly Gale next on nights. I go right ahead, Hi,
Speaker 2: Hi Gail, We're run out of time.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Oh are you?
Speaker 11: I just wanted to put in Potriyota. You can't beat
Speaker 11: the Toyotas. They are the best cars. I have a
Speaker 11: two twenty one grab four elie X and I just
Speaker 11: love my car. I mean, just shay go forever.
Speaker 4: That's right, That's right. It's going to keep it going
Speaker 4: for many, many years.
Speaker 2: But that's great. We mentioned Toyotas before. It's great to
Speaker 2: hear a little bit of testimony from from you and that.
Speaker 2: Thanks Gail.
Speaker 11: Well, I've also I've also I had a Prius that
Speaker 11: is so good on gas, and I also had his Parolla.
Speaker 11: You can't be Toyota. So have a nice Christmas, all
Speaker 11: of you, all right, Thank.
Speaker 8: You, thank you for calling.
Speaker 11: Thank you Christmas.
Speaker 2: Larry. It's gotten celebrated Honkas, so we're going to wish
Speaker 2: them happy Honiker as well. Thanks Gail.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks, Oh, yes, absolutely, no problem.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling. He got marked out of the cape. Mark,
Speaker 2: you're going to wrap the hour first, go right ahead.
Speaker 2: You're on what Scott and Larry get you in under
Speaker 2: the wire?
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Mark, great, Hi guys, A quick question for you.
Speaker 6: Twenty fifteen honder record eighty five thousand miles on. It
Speaker 6: been running very well. The problem the question I have
Speaker 6: is a dale Ship is telling me I should change
Speaker 6: my timing belt after seven years.
Speaker 4: Absolutely agreed, Absolutely, it is great insurance. If that timing
Speaker 4: bell breaks, you're going to have catastrophic damage done to
Speaker 4: your end. And timing belt is just maintenance and if
Speaker 4: you don't do it like any other main and you're
Speaker 4: going to have a catastrophic failure.
Speaker 6: Good enough, Thank you guys to theater part.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I believe the water pumps driven
Speaker 3: by that on that vehicle.
Speaker 6: Sure I heard that? Yeah, I did hear that. Great.
Speaker 6: We'll have a great holiday and thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mark, Thank you you too, gentlemen. We we had
Speaker 2: a very successful night tonight. I think everybody got the
Speaker 2: time that they needed and we handled. I guess was
Speaker 2: about fifteen callers in the in the two hours that
Speaker 2: we had. And so I just want to thank both
Speaker 2: of you for making yourself available. I know you both
Speaker 2: are still very active. Larry, if people want to get
Speaker 2: in touch with you, uh, it is skin auto at
Speaker 2: AOL dot com, s C A N A U t
Speaker 2: O at a o L dot com. And I really
Speaker 2: hope you guys have great, great Honica celebrations. List You
Speaker 2: are coincidence with Christmas, so we can celebrate together. We
Speaker 2: celebrate in my family. I have a daughter in law
Speaker 2: who is Jewish, so we celebrate Christmas and Honkah and.
Speaker 8: We do too.
Speaker 4: We do we also celebrate both both there we just
Speaker 4: have a wonderful time. This is a great time of
Speaker 4: the year.
Speaker 2: Dan Oh, there's no, no, no question about it. And
Speaker 2: I just again, you guys have become such great friends
Speaker 2: of mine over the years and the time that that
Speaker 2: you volunteer and that you take to talk to my listeners.
Speaker 2: I can't I just can't thank you enough. I really can't.
Speaker 2: So as always pleasure be well, say how to all
Speaker 2: your families, wim me give everybody a hug, and we
Speaker 2: will we'll talk sometime early in the early in the
Speaker 2: new year. Tough to think.
Speaker 4: Before we go, I just wanted to wish my wife
Speaker 4: a upcoming happy birthday.
Speaker 8: In only four.
Speaker 4: Minutes, she will be thirty nine years old all over again.
Speaker 2: Well, I was I was waiting to cue you there
Speaker 2: because I know we had talked about that earlier today.
Speaker 2: And Sandra, happy birthday, not only from your your husband,
Speaker 2: but from all of us as well. And she has
Speaker 2: Sandra has a great husband. She's got a great some
Speaker 2: great kids as well, one of them will Scott. So
Speaker 2: happy birthday, Sandra, Well well deserved. Thanks guys, we'll talk.
Speaker 4: Soon, Okay, take care of me and I we'll talk
Speaker 4: to you soon.
Speaker 2: Bye bye, all right, thanks, thanks bye, Good night, Larry,
Speaker 2: Good night, Scott. Okay, we're done for the night back
Speaker 2: tomorrow night with the Night Side Charity Combine between ten
Speaker 2: and twelve. I think it's two of the most important
Speaker 2: hours of the year because we profile about twenty charities,
Speaker 2: all great charities, big, little, different different topics, different interests.
Speaker 2: Give you an opportunity to be exposed to some really
Speaker 2: nice people, whatever their whatever their passion is. I will
Speaker 2: be on Facebook for a postgame right after the show.
Speaker 2: I'll be there in a couple of minutes, and I
Speaker 2: will see tomorrow afternoon at four thirty on pregame. All
Speaker 2: End as always, all dogs, all cats, all pets go
Speaker 2: to heaven. That's why Pelle Charlie Rays, who passed fourteen
Speaker 2: years ago in February, That's where all your pets are
Speaker 2: who passed. They loved you and you love them. I
Speaker 2: do believe you'll see them again. Hopes to gain tomorrow
Speaker 2: night on Nights Side. Everyone will have a great night
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, and then we will move into the holiday season.
Speaker 2: Have a great Friday everyone, and be careful driving, particularly
Speaker 2: if it's snowing.