Speaker 1: It's Night's Eyes, Dan Ray, I'm telling you Mazy Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone, if you're just joining us. My name
Speaker 2: is Dan Ray. This is Nightside and WBZ in Boston,
Speaker 2: and we had the lighted to have with us the
Speaker 2: WBZ car guys, veteran guest here on Nightside and on
Speaker 2: several of the VZ talk programs, Larry and Scott.
Speaker 3: Rubinstein, and we are gonna go right to the calls.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen. I think we had a clean first hour. I
Speaker 2: don't think we've left anything on the table. If we're
Speaker 2: ready to go, let's start hour number two.
Speaker 4: No, no, we got Okay, well, I've got I did
Speaker 4: leave something on the table. And I really want to
Speaker 4: humbly change my opinion. I believe the last call we
Speaker 4: have was Wayne, Yes, Wayne, and I think I yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I got a little confused with some numbers.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize there was one hundred and fifty K
Speaker 4: on this and I actually rethought my opinion and I'm
Speaker 4: changing it. And the reason why is if at that
Speaker 4: mileage it's Frida rad differential, Regardless of my opinion, the
Speaker 4: rad differentals means it was probably neglected and the fluid
Speaker 4: was probably never serviced in it, something that I'm always
Speaker 4: telling customers about at my current place that I work at.
Speaker 4: So if he neglected if then the red differential was
Speaker 4: neglected for all that time, it makes me rethink and
Speaker 4: ask myself what else was neglected in that one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty thousand miles. With that being said, I actually
Speaker 4: agree with Larry and think that it's best that he
Speaker 4: probably walks away from it and looks at a different model.
Speaker 3: All right, well, Wayne, Wayne, you've had a second thought.
Speaker 4: Here, so you can get two thumbs down from us
Speaker 4: and find something else.
Speaker 2: You got it, You got it, Wayne. Okay, let's now
Speaker 2: go to Jay and Plymouth. Jay, you called back. I
Speaker 2: promised i'd put you to the head of the line,
Speaker 2: and here you are. You're on, Jay, go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Do you hear me?
Speaker 2: I could hear you. Fine. I know you dropped off
Speaker 2: before and I'm trying to do this as an accommodation
Speaker 2: for you. Go right ahead. You're on with Larry Scott.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you, guys, because I was I was in
Speaker 5: my car and I'm on top play. You know, they
Speaker 5: didn't have any auto mechanics classes where I went to
Speaker 5: high school. And my problem I have is I have
Speaker 5: a twenty twenty three Chevy bolt and apparently there are
Speaker 5: rodents that really love eating the wires because they have
Speaker 5: one or soy being component and I have I got
Speaker 5: peppermint spray. But I wondered, what else can I do to, maybe,
Speaker 5: you know, get rid of this problem.
Speaker 6: What you do have an answer?
Speaker 2: What do you got mice?
Speaker 4: And I've got one too?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, dead, Yeah, I'm sure they're not rats, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it's mice.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking I think in mothballs, gentlemen.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, all right, Well, first of all, we have
Speaker 7: had customers that have that problem. There is a product
Speaker 7: though called mouse Blocker, which you put under the hood
Speaker 7: of your car, and it's attaches to your battery. The
Speaker 7: install that is maybe twenty minutes at best, and it
Speaker 7: has flashing lights and it makes noises and it keeps
Speaker 7: the rodents out of your engine bay. Now will they
Speaker 7: go into your car? I don't know. I hope not.
Speaker 7: They'll hopefully stay away from your car. But if you
Speaker 7: keep food in your car, like packages of peanut butter
Speaker 7: crackers and things like that, you're sending an open invitation
Speaker 7: for these critics to come in and get fed. As
Speaker 7: far as your engine harness goes. Honda makes a hot
Speaker 7: mustard tape and what people have been doing is buying
Speaker 7: rolls of this tape and taping over the wire harness
Speaker 7: with mustard tape, and that has resolved the issue. Because
Speaker 7: a fuel injection harness or a computer harness can cost
Speaker 7: thousands of dollars. However, be aware of this problem.
Speaker 6: Jay.
Speaker 7: If you get a computer harness that is eaten by
Speaker 7: rodents and you've got a bill that's going to exceed
Speaker 7: a thousand dollars, your insurance will cover it.
Speaker 6: Well really, oh is that really?
Speaker 7: Really? Yeah? And you have to let them know and
Speaker 7: they will cover it. Similar to a car accident or
Speaker 7: something of that nature. You are covered if the harness
Speaker 7: gets eaten. Scott, you said that you wanted to add
Speaker 7: to it.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, first of all, that was wonderful advice
Speaker 4: and exactly so. Firstly, in our shop, we've had I
Speaker 4: can think of at least four this past season that
Speaker 4: have done upwards five to ten thousand dollars worth of
Speaker 4: damage due to destroying wiring harnesses. And what's required to
Speaker 4: not just get the smell out, but the tear a
Speaker 4: car apart, dig through all your wiring harnesses and repair everything.
Speaker 4: The only other suggestion I had so calling your insurance
Speaker 4: company is a brilliant idea, and they I've had more
Speaker 4: insurance companies coming in and look at the vehicles. With
Speaker 4: that being said, another product I know of. It's different
Speaker 4: than most blocker. It's a product they sell I believe on.
Speaker 4: It's called Grandpa Gus comes with like six pouches. It's
Speaker 4: a very strong min mint smell. You can put them
Speaker 4: under the engine bay, you can put them in the vehicle.
Speaker 4: Funny quick, funny story. I had a customer in last
Speaker 4: week who was complaining that she has saw some mouse
Speaker 4: signed the mouse heard in the vehicle, and she wanted
Speaker 4: us to eradicate the mouse, but not kill it. And
Speaker 4: I kind of had to, and I I pleasant, I
Speaker 4: have a story I did once myself save a mouse
Speaker 4: from a glute trap, so I get the caring about animals.
Speaker 4: With that being said, you have to put a price
Speaker 4: on it. Is it worth not eradicating that mouse in
Speaker 4: a lethal way if need be ten thousand dollars, Because
Speaker 4: like I said, that's how much it can cost. Effects
Speaker 4: of these things get in there and new damage.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 2: By the way, James, I could just add I'd like
Speaker 2: the channel Mint Romney for a moment here.
Speaker 3: I don't think we should call them rodents. These are varmit.
Speaker 3: Just there we go.
Speaker 2: We talked about shooting varmits, so I'm gonna channel Mitt
Speaker 2: Romney and uh get rid of your varmits. I hope
Speaker 2: this has helped you.
Speaker 7: I know, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't have a gun, Dan, so I don't know about.
Speaker 2: To shoot them.
Speaker 6: There's a very timely question, Dan, this is.
Speaker 7: A very timely question. He's talking about a mouse entering
Speaker 7: your cow illegally, the damage they can carve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously the de mice do not have legal access
Speaker 2: to the.
Speaker 5: Vehicle, breaking and breaking it In breaking and entering, the
Speaker 5: death penalty would work.
Speaker 6: I think you have to.
Speaker 7: I think you have to deport the mice and build
Speaker 7: a wall to keep them out. There you go.
Speaker 5: He was born in America though, that's the problem.
Speaker 6: David boy Well, that's a little different story.
Speaker 2: Yes, due process right, Yes, okay, Day, that was a
Speaker 2: great call.
Speaker 3: Thanks for calling back.
Speaker 8: All right, Hi, thanks Danny, thank you.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to top that call. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna try We'll be back with more calls. If you'd
Speaker 2: like to join the only line that's open. Listen up six, one, seven, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. I don't want anyone uh breaking their knuckles,
Speaker 2: their fingers or their fingernails dialing the other number because
Speaker 2: those lines that line is full. I told you would
Speaker 2: have a good entertaining program tonight, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. Coming back on Nightside after the break,
Speaker 2: and by the way, the Patrios game is over there.
Speaker 3: Lost twenty four to three to the New York Jets.
Speaker 2: So Pats are.
Speaker 3: One and two in the Red Sox tonight only could
Speaker 3: muster one hit from the number nine hitter in the lineup.
Speaker 3: They lost it two to nothing. They were almost no
Speaker 3: hit tonight. Tough night for Boston teams.
Speaker 2: Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studio on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're in the Window World Nightside Studios with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 2: The WBZ car guys. I really want to say the
Speaker 2: w I want to say the Nightside car guys, but
Speaker 2: if they're the WBC, they're bigger than Nightside. Let's go
Speaker 2: right back to the phones. Folks have been very patient,
Speaker 2: Sheldon in Sharon, Sheldon, you're next on Nightside. Thank you
Speaker 2: for holding through the news. Go right ahead. You're own
Speaker 2: with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 9: Hello, gentlemen, I have an interesting problem.
Speaker 8: I think I might be able to.
Speaker 6: Stump.
Speaker 9: I had a check engine light, APO, so I went
Speaker 9: and I bought a hermostat.
Speaker 2: You're a little muffled, hey, Sheldon, do be a favor.
Speaker 2: Are you on a speaker phone a headsetters? You're just
Speaker 2: a little muffled?
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 9: Does it sound better? I have to hold my phone
Speaker 9: partner away.
Speaker 4: Well, he's bick to this phone. I just want to
Speaker 4: let people know a code P zero one twenty on
Speaker 4: all vehicles as an insufficient cooling temperature, usually seen when
Speaker 4: the engine doesn't warm up the full operating temperature, so
Speaker 4: the thermostat would depth. I can see where you're going
Speaker 4: with this. What do you got?
Speaker 8: Do you hear me?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? A little better. I don't know what type of
Speaker 2: phone you're on, but give it up. Give it your
Speaker 2: best shot, Sheldon, Go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Okay, So I had to check engine light. I bought
Speaker 8: the part. I saw that it takes a lot of
Speaker 8: It takes several hours to to replace it on a
Speaker 8: twenty twelve forward focus. It's underneath the car and a
Speaker 8: lot of things had to be moved. So I took
Speaker 8: it to my mechanic and before I got there the
Speaker 8: code went away. But the reason I was worried about
Speaker 8: this was that I would get a flapping sound when
Speaker 8: I would turn turn the car on, playing with the
Speaker 8: air conditioning stuff. The flapping sound go away. If I
Speaker 8: was on recycle, if if I one fresh air, flapping
Speaker 8: sound would come on. It was not by the fan speed,
Speaker 8: and it sounded like some sort of fluffer of was
Speaker 8: causing it. When I went back to the when it
Speaker 8: got some mechanic, the chickens and light had gone away,
Speaker 8: and my mechanic said that you should probably change it anyway,
Speaker 8: So we changed it and it made no difference on
Speaker 8: the flapping sound.
Speaker 7: Okay, So if that flapping sides you're hearing when you're
Speaker 7: working with the h back controls is a blend or actuate.
Speaker 7: Now what that means is that when you go from
Speaker 7: let's say, from recycle to fresh air, there's a little
Speaker 7: door that opens and closes to either let fresh air
Speaker 7: come in to your HVAC system.
Speaker 6: Or that's what it sounds.
Speaker 7: We are to recycle the ear that's inside of the car. Now,
Speaker 7: there are several actuators or blendors in their car. There
Speaker 7: is another one that controls the temperature, how much heater
Speaker 7: core access or how much air conditioning access. It's very
Speaker 7: easy to tell which one has gone. It's just a
Speaker 7: very small motor, about the size of the half of
Speaker 7: a roll of quarters. And the problem is it's got
Speaker 7: metal shafts in very cheap plastic gears, and the gears
Speaker 7: strip out. The biggest problem with those. Those motives themselves
Speaker 7: are actually very low in cost, but in some cars,
Speaker 7: gaining access to them is horrible. In some cases you
Speaker 7: have to entirely remove the instrument panel from the debt,
Speaker 7: from the gloff compartment all the way to the speedometer.
Speaker 7: In some of them you can just take out the
Speaker 7: glove box assembly and get to them.
Speaker 8: I have a partial solution. If I turn it on
Speaker 8: with the fan on, I don't get the problem.
Speaker 7: M Well, it's going to come back and bite you. Eventually,
Speaker 7: you know that the problem is here. What's the year
Speaker 7: of the car?
Speaker 6: Seldom twenty twelve.
Speaker 8: I've got two hundred and nineteen thousand miles on it.
Speaker 7: Okay. So practically speaking, how how much longer do you
Speaker 7: want to keep the car?
Speaker 6: I'll keep it till the falls apart, until.
Speaker 7: It falls apart, okay. So, knowing that you have a
Speaker 7: blend or issue, why don't you get an estimate and
Speaker 7: see if it's worth it? Because if this fails in
Speaker 7: the middle of the winter and you can't get heat,
Speaker 7: you're going to be sorry you did not heed this advice.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to help you out.
Speaker 2: I hope that helps.
Speaker 6: It's just a question, I hope.
Speaker 8: So we get the flapping sound or not? Well that Michael, right,
Speaker 8: get lapping.
Speaker 7: That flapping sound means that your HVAC unit is not
Speaker 7: working the way that you're asking it to the fact
Speaker 7: that you could do it with your with your fan
Speaker 7: motor on, that's only going to work for so long.
Speaker 7: And that's why I asked you, how long do you
Speaker 7: plan to keep this? So why did you at least
Speaker 7: get a price estimate of what it's going to cost
Speaker 7: to change that and then you can make the intelligent
Speaker 7: decision as to which way you want to go. Sheldon?
Speaker 2: All right, Sheldon, I think you got some good advice
Speaker 2: and I got full line, so I got to keep rolling.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys.
Speaker 6: Nice all right, take care of Sheldon.
Speaker 2: You have a good night. And some of these are
Speaker 2: it's like people whatever, We'll see what people think. Let's
Speaker 2: go next to Angelo in Newton. Hey, Angela, welcome back
Speaker 2: to night. So on your own with the WBC craw guys.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Angelo, I'm doing Dan.
Speaker 10: Thank you for taking my call that I got a question.
Speaker 10: I have a nineteen ninety six athlete fifty four, a pickup,
Speaker 10: and it got forty eight thousand miles on it, and
Speaker 10: all of a sudden it stops. I can crank the
Speaker 10: engine and the billy wants to start and wants to stop.
Speaker 10: Sometimes it starts idling ruck. If somebody told me that
Speaker 10: could be the gas, is that true, and they said
Speaker 10: I should throw a fueling jet the cleaner in it.
Speaker 4: It certainly couldn't hurt, but I'm doubtful that's the problem.
Speaker 4: So when you start to let me ask you a question,
Speaker 4: what is a ninety six five oh five eight? It's
Speaker 4: four to sixty's got the big six point eight liter?
Speaker 4: It should be yes, I think it was a six
Speaker 4: six eight, Okay, No, seven to five. Excuse me, that
Speaker 4: was a seven point five. I you remember those? Yep,
Speaker 4: it was a seven to five. So you start the
Speaker 4: vehicle and it wants to stall right out on you.
Speaker 10: No, it stopped. I can crank the engine, but it
Speaker 10: takes a while, but to start, it won't start right away.
Speaker 4: Okay. And what does it take for it to start?
Speaker 4: Is it just always an extended crank and then once it,
Speaker 4: once it does finally started, it runs fine.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but then after a while sometimes it starts iving.
Speaker 7: Grow up.
Speaker 4: That's vitally okay. Does it seem like it's misfiring and
Speaker 4: like it's down a cylinder? No, I'm more inclined to
Speaker 4: think you have a fuel pressure problem. If you if
Speaker 4: you get up on top of that big motor, you'll
Speaker 4: see you got a couple of fuel rails up there,
Speaker 4: and it'll be a little port. It looks like almost
Speaker 4: like a valve stem. It's a fuel pressure tap. Is
Speaker 4: this something you working on yourself or having a having
Speaker 4: a having a mechanic look at for you.
Speaker 10: I don't have to have a mechanic look at it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So so they should be I mean, this is
Speaker 4: pretty old technology for where we're at nowadays. Unfortunately with
Speaker 4: the with the older technology, it doesn't give us a
Speaker 4: lot of the info we get nowadays with all the
Speaker 4: computers in there. With that being said, the very first
Speaker 4: thing I would start to do is stop by checking
Speaker 4: the fuel pressure on it during cranking. You could those
Speaker 4: were known for having leaking fuel pressure regulators, so I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if there's a vacuum line that lives
Speaker 4: on top of the fuel pressure regulator that you may
Speaker 4: want to suggest if they check out, if they remove
Speaker 4: the top of the vacuum line and find that it's
Speaker 4: all gas written because if the regulator is faulty, you're
Speaker 4: not going to get proper fuel pressure up to the rail.
Speaker 4: So but I would that would I would absolutely start.
Speaker 4: I you know, you can certainly try a can of
Speaker 4: injection cleaner, but I'm hard pressed to think that there's
Speaker 4: any mechanic in a bottle, not that I've ever seen,
Speaker 4: but but definitely cannot hurt your cost. Start with the
Speaker 4: fuel pressure check and that'll get you going in the
Speaker 4: right directions.
Speaker 10: By somebody says it could be even buying cheap gas too.
Speaker 7: Is that right? Yet? Cheap cheap gas doesn't help.
Speaker 4: I mean because you could have a you couldn't get
Speaker 4: that usually turned out the new ball and me the
Speaker 4: combustion cham aside. You end up with a vowve the
Speaker 4: deposits and the thing is that nature. If there's water
Speaker 4: in the gas, that's a different story. But at the
Speaker 4: same time that they do the fuel pressure test, they
Speaker 4: can take a fuel sample and you can test it
Speaker 4: for water.
Speaker 10: Okay, because I need to put regular.
Speaker 2: Hope that helps. I got other folks behind us here,
Speaker 2: angel I think you got a good answers.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, guys, thank you.
Speaker 2: Angelo. I hate here. I just I want to give
Speaker 2: everybody a chance. Gonna go next to Michael in Attamborough. Mike,
Speaker 2: you were next on night side with the car guys to.
Speaker 11: The car guys the professor. I bought another odd ball
Speaker 11: car to go along with my original lawn, the insight,
Speaker 11: which is a quite desired him and I did get keybones,
Speaker 11: but I still had it repaired.
Speaker 6: By the way you take a left trun out of
Speaker 6: anywhere and someone hits it, your fallt unbelievable. Unbelievable, even
Speaker 6: though you look. I bought and none of the little jokes.
Speaker 6: Mercury Milan twenty ten hybrid.
Speaker 1: I love the car.
Speaker 6: I love it and comfortable, first first time I bought
Speaker 6: anything other than a GM with the tufting of.
Speaker 7: I'm getting.
Speaker 6: I'm getting from the front end. On occasion, I'm told
Speaker 6: maybe a swave, that maybe a ball joint.
Speaker 7: What do we got?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 7: What are you getting again from the frontis I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: A crunching.
Speaker 7: He's trying to make a noise, my phoney, gun badok So,
Speaker 7: if you get a crunching noise up and down, in
Speaker 7: most cases, that is a ball joint most cases. Now,
Speaker 7: if you have it on a drive on lift, the
Speaker 7: type of lift that you drive onto and then they
Speaker 7: put the car up so your wheels have all the
Speaker 7: pressure on them. If somebody bounces the car up and down,
Speaker 7: and you have a stethoscope and the different components, you'll
Speaker 7: be able to isolate exactly where that noise is because
Speaker 7: a similar noise could also be coming from a tirod
Speaker 7: end ball in soccer assembly or a ball joint ball
Speaker 7: in soccer's assembly. There are a couple items okay, okay,
Speaker 7: that year, but I'm sitting there right now twenty ten.
Speaker 7: Do some of them still have the grease thing? I
Speaker 7: think some of them still have the grease from the
Speaker 7: fact time. Usually if they have been replaced, Yes, they
Speaker 7: should have a zert fitting on them.
Speaker 6: Okay, So that thing can that think can break when
Speaker 6: I'm driving right?
Speaker 7: It certainly can't. Yeah, I mean, this is not something
Speaker 7: that you want to mess with, you know, try to
Speaker 7: in the next couple of weeks. Go to a shop
Speaker 7: that has a has a drive on left. And what
Speaker 7: we used to do in my shop is have one
Speaker 7: tech up top bouncing the car up and down, and
Speaker 7: the other tech with a stethoscope clime isolated. Uh. Now,
Speaker 7: Scott had a great tool, but not many people have it.
Speaker 7: And it's a series of microphones that you attach to
Speaker 7: the different components and you can see on a gauge
Speaker 7: which one of the microphones is picking up the loudest noise,
Speaker 7: and that tells you exactly where the.
Speaker 6: Noise that's coming from. It's not visible, but ty Rod,
Speaker 6: I mean of the pot the breaking.
Speaker 7: Right there, there is a ball and socket and case
Speaker 7: in that in the metal there's a ball and socket.
Speaker 7: When they start to rot out, that's when they make
Speaker 7: that crunching noise.
Speaker 2: Okay, by gentlemen, we're at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: I hate to break this up, but Michael, give us
Speaker 2: that crunching noise one more time before you leave. Good job,
Speaker 2: good job, Thank you, Michael. It's always an entertaining phone call.
Speaker 2: I hope that helps. Thanks Mike, appreciate it. Scott Larry
Speaker 2: will stay with us through the news.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 2: The only lines that are open right now is the
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty line, And
Speaker 2: if you call right now, we'll get you in before midnight.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you that whatever question you have about cars,
Speaker 2: your automotive questions, as you can tell, Scott and Larry
Speaker 2: are pretty well versed in this stuff. I gotta tell
Speaker 2: you they don't get stumped. And I know some of
Speaker 2: you are asking questions and you're you're looking for an answer,
Speaker 2: but you got to take the answer that they're gonna
Speaker 2: give you. Okay, they're giving you their best advice, and
Speaker 2: if you keep coming with the same question, they're not
Speaker 2: gonna change the advice. They're gonna tell you what they
Speaker 2: truly believe. These gentlemen are the consummate professionals. I can't
Speaker 2: tell you how much I admired the knowledge base. If
Speaker 2: you want to jump on six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. I loved the crunching noise from Michael.
Speaker 2: That was probably so far well one of the best
Speaker 2: qunching noises I've ever heard. We'll be back on night
Speaker 2: Side after.
Speaker 1: This Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, gentlemen, we have full lines. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to everybody in here tonight, that's for sure. Anybody who's
Speaker 2: on the line, you stay right there. We'll hopefully get
Speaker 2: to even a couple more people. But let's go right now, Nodland,
Speaker 2: we have full lines. Gonna go next to Jane and Shrewsbury. Jane,
Speaker 2: you're on with the BZ car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, Jane, Hi, everybody, I'll get right to it.
Speaker 13: I have kind of a multi part question, Dan, Okay, sure,
Speaker 13: I have a twenty year old Sienna xcelly good trim
Speaker 13: line that supposedly has no major problems with the undercarriage
Speaker 13: because I had the brakes done recently. So I'm just
Speaker 13: curious about your opinion as to whether or not it
Speaker 13: makes sense to it only has eighty thousand miles, makes
Speaker 13: sense to keep driving a twenty year old car? Or
Speaker 13: did they truly start to have things that break and
Speaker 13: it's better to get rid of it now while it's
Speaker 13: basically still in pretty good condition.
Speaker 7: Because it is a Sienna. Drive it till it don't
Speaker 7: drive no more. That's a great vehicle. Okay, and back
Speaker 7: they were making great vehicles then too, and they still
Speaker 7: are now. I mean they do it. They have had
Speaker 7: a couple of cars that I would not say is
Speaker 7: good to buy. But you've got yourself a great vehicle
Speaker 7: unless you have money to burn, drive it till it
Speaker 7: don't drive no more.
Speaker 13: Okay, I do.
Speaker 4: Better, mindsel.
Speaker 13: I have a one noise that I won't make. That's
Speaker 13: just a humming noise. It started to sort of hum accelerate,
Speaker 13: and I had two mechanics listen when it first started,
Speaker 13: and they said they didn't hear anything. But now it
Speaker 13: happens more often. It doesn't seem to affect the handling,
Speaker 13: but it kind of hums. Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 10: You know?
Speaker 7: I got the call. It was a little bit broke,
Speaker 7: broken up, Scott. Did you hear her question in full?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was another concern with humming. So we had we
Speaker 4: had a question, if you listen to the show earlier
Speaker 4: tonight where somebody had mentioned a humming noise. Uh, does
Speaker 4: say it only happens when you're accelerating it? Did it
Speaker 4: happen a certain speed?
Speaker 13: No, it's accelerating sort of generally, I'd say not constant.
Speaker 4: Not constant, Okay, so when you get up to like
Speaker 4: above a certain speed, it doesn't stay air.
Speaker 13: Or it's just a little bit intermittent. I think it's
Speaker 13: not the whole time you're accelerating noises.
Speaker 4: There's only hard to diagnose over the phone. There was
Speaker 4: a constant, I'd lean towards the wheel bearing, but I
Speaker 4: really would now that you're the noise is more happening
Speaker 4: more often. I would take it back to your mechanics,
Speaker 4: who sounds like they've done a good job taking this,
Speaker 4: taking good care of this vehicle for you, and let
Speaker 4: them listen to it and try to get your point in.
Speaker 7: The right direction.
Speaker 4: Could be anywhere from a wheel bearing as we talked about,
Speaker 4: to tires to it. Tires really wouldn't be intermittent. Bearing
Speaker 4: wouldn't be so intermittent. I'm more inclined to think possible
Speaker 4: transmission from description. But again, I really think there's something
Speaker 4: that needs to be heard in person.
Speaker 7: Okay, so what do you think about the possibility that
Speaker 7: it could be in an inboard CD joint? Possibly, but
Speaker 7: I mean you.
Speaker 4: Tend to hear You tend to hear those knock more
Speaker 4: than anything.
Speaker 7: Not the outdoard but the one on the inboard.
Speaker 4: Anything as possible. But again I'm gonna pick to what
Speaker 4: I say. I really think this needs to be driven
Speaker 4: and listen to on the road to try to get
Speaker 4: a sense of the direction.
Speaker 7: Of where we need to go using a tool like
Speaker 7: the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we all done here, Jane.
Speaker 13: I wanted to ask a more general question that I
Speaker 13: think the audience would be interested in, and that is,
Speaker 13: I haven't even older Sienna that I want to replace,
Speaker 13: and nowadays you find a lot more of them with
Speaker 13: all wheel drive, and usually run flat tires. Run flat
Speaker 13: tires decrease your gas mileage, and I think they're probably
Speaker 13: more expensive to replace. So I'm just curious about your
Speaker 13: feelings about all wheel drive, the cost of that, the
Speaker 13: run flats.
Speaker 4: Both right on both counts. Yeah, they get all wheel
Speaker 4: drives in general, do get four miles? You're now driving
Speaker 4: four wheels compared to a two wheel vehicle, Whether it
Speaker 4: be front or red. Driving four wheels is always going
Speaker 4: to cost more fuel correct run flat tires, yes, significantly,
Speaker 4: you know, more expensive than a traditional you know, inflated tire.
Speaker 4: So yeah, very correct on both points. With that being said,
Speaker 4: it comes to the trade off. Can you can you
Speaker 4: beat the reliability in various weather conditions driving an all
Speaker 4: wheel drive vehicle? And that we have to you're paying
Speaker 4: for safety and you're paying for the peace of mind
Speaker 4: that you know you'll be able to get through most
Speaker 4: types of weather.
Speaker 13: Right right, that makes sense. I don't do a lot
Speaker 13: of heavy snow driving. But my final thing is what
Speaker 13: do you recommend for lubricating the window gasket? I had
Speaker 13: a window go off track from sticking because of the
Speaker 13: building up.
Speaker 4: If you, yep, if you just go to a one
Speaker 4: of your local parks stores and just tell me you
Speaker 4: want a silicone spray and you just want to you know,
Speaker 4: put the window down in get you know, try to
Speaker 4: get up as tight in that channel as possible, and
Speaker 4: then make sure you wipe it off clean and then
Speaker 4: when you close it, run the window up and down
Speaker 4: a few times to make sure it doesn't kind of
Speaker 4: smudge on the window. Because you'll need a good. You
Speaker 4: know windocks or whatever. They get that off, right.
Speaker 13: I think a lot of people save a lot of money.
Speaker 4: All right, great things.
Speaker 2: I gotta get out of Thanks chains. Always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: Right now. Let me go next to Bill and door Chester. Bill,
Speaker 2: you're a the VC car guys going ahead? Built Hi guys,
Speaker 2: how a U we're doing? Question?
Speaker 4: I have two thousand and eight four focus.
Speaker 7: Every time I back up in the morning, the driveway
Speaker 7: hit my bike steel.
Speaker 12: All ray, I think it's cover the front.
Speaker 7: Well, there's moisture on the car.
Speaker 6: In the morning, I go, I go back up to
Speaker 6: the s wheel where I release.
Speaker 7: The emergency brake. I put the emergency brake.
Speaker 13: On every night.
Speaker 7: Where I go in the morning, they still terribly backing up?
Speaker 7: How you go on to the squirrel? Does do you
Speaker 7: hear the squaling noise if you don't use your emergency
Speaker 7: break like like I always need the submersion break when
Speaker 7: I shot the car. But does it squeal? If you
Speaker 7: would you please experiment one time not use your E
Speaker 7: break and see if you still have have the squeal?
Speaker 5: Okay, how are you trying that?
Speaker 7: Okay? That will tell us whether it actually is the
Speaker 7: front or it's the rare. If it was moisture, it
Speaker 7: would be more of a grindy sound, it wouldn't be
Speaker 7: a squealing sounding.
Speaker 14: Sound.
Speaker 7: Can be caused by glaze pads. It can be caused
Speaker 7: by sticking rotors. There's a there's a couple of things.
Speaker 7: But let's try it without the e break one time
Speaker 7: and let's see if the squal is gone, and that
Speaker 7: way you'll know whether you have a table that's sticking.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, great, thanks Bill, good questions, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let me get in here before we got to go
Speaker 2: to break and we are going to go ahead.
Speaker 7: Hold on, Tony before you get this collar end.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: You've been a little.
Speaker 7: Bit confused as to what to call us, and I've
Speaker 7: talked to Scott, I've talked to Sandra, and we'd be
Speaker 7: honored if you just call us Dan Ray's night side
Speaker 7: car guys. That would be fine.
Speaker 2: All right, agreat that's a promotion, the night side car guys,
Speaker 2: the w busy nightside car guys. That'd be great. Thank you, guys. Best,
Speaker 2: let me go to Tony Tony in Ohio. Tony, go right ahead,
Speaker 2: you next on nightside.
Speaker 14: Yes, I've got a twenty twenty Kia soul and I
Speaker 14: got a break light issue. Uh, the lights work, but
Speaker 14: I have to depress too far before they engage the lights.
Speaker 14: And I replaced the switch at the pedal from a dealer.
Speaker 14: It's a dealer part, but it's the same. It doesn't
Speaker 14: I've got the same problem. Uh is there a second
Speaker 14: switch because this has no moving parts. It's it's I
Speaker 14: don't know if it's a sensor.
Speaker 7: Is it the dashboard brake warning light that that you're seeing.
Speaker 14: No, it's the brake lights, the brake lights at the back.
Speaker 14: You know you put your brake on the light your
Speaker 14: brake lights. There's nothing on the.
Speaker 7: Dash okay, so you aren't getting want of light on
Speaker 7: the dash. And they have replaced the brake light switch,
Speaker 7: the one that's over by the pedal.
Speaker 14: Yes, is there, and it makes it sound like when
Speaker 14: you put your brake on, you know, to engage the shifter.
Speaker 14: And I'm wondering if there's a switch connected to that.
Speaker 4: So the well, the problem again you have the brake
Speaker 4: lights won't shift.
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, the brakes work, but I have to depress
Speaker 14: too far before they the light engage before.
Speaker 4: Like the okay, all right, sorry, so yes that that
Speaker 4: can be done with all with adjustment.
Speaker 14: Well, there's there's no moving parts on it.
Speaker 4: How can you have a break switch with no moving parts?
Speaker 14: Well, that's that's what I'm thinking, and that's what we get.
Speaker 4: Something's gonna be moving.
Speaker 7: The bracket that holds this switch is an adjustable bracket.
Speaker 7: In fact, when you put in the switch, there is
Speaker 7: an adjusting process to it where you pull it all
Speaker 7: the way out. It's it's just not plug and play.
Speaker 7: You have to adjust the switch when you install it.
Speaker 14: Okay, okay, I'll I don't want to tie you up.
Speaker 14: You guys got a lot of calls. I'll just I'll
Speaker 14: try it. I wasn't thinking about that. I'll try that adjustment.
Speaker 2: Thank you to appreciate the break you become a regular caller.
Speaker 2: Love love to hear from folks in Ohio. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. I have a great night. Okay, think all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take one quick break here and Phil, Ron,
Speaker 2: Katie and there. We are going to do our darness
Speaker 2: to get all four of you in here. So you've
Speaker 2: got to be quick and direct and as well, Scott
Speaker 2: and Larry and I will as well, and we'll get
Speaker 2: out of the way. Get this last commercial break in.
Speaker 2: This has been a great night for the BC Car Guys,
Speaker 2: end for the night Side audience. We'll be back on
Speaker 2: Nightside with the night Side WBC Car Guys right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to try to do the impossible.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to get four calls in in
Speaker 2: about seven minutes. Let's go fill in Boston, Phill Next
Speaker 2: up on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Speaker 15: Okay, quick one twenty fourteen Honda Civic. I don't know
Speaker 15: what side the engine eight thousand dollars. I hadn't the
Speaker 15: beast a new side to put in and Dad disconnected
Speaker 15: the bat or whatever that tells me. That's supposedly once
Speaker 15: that happens, if I get a stick, it's got to
Speaker 15: go to the system again. Gotta program, you know, if
Speaker 15: you're driving like a hundred mine and the bottom liners
Speaker 15: it's the bottom line is. But now I get the car.
Speaker 15: I turned the key and there's nothing there. There's no
Speaker 15: noise at all. I beeped the horn and I just
Speaker 15: by luck, I'm starting it up. I bought a portable charge.
Speaker 15: I carry him in the car. Hoping that will work.
Speaker 15: I was told it might be the starter, the connection,
Speaker 15: the starter, valve. What the bottom line is. I'm I
Speaker 15: don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: Man, I gotta be quick here, Phil, what's your question?
Speaker 15: The question is a good question, ignition. Should I if
Speaker 15: it's not cars not starting properly? Should I look at
Speaker 15: the the starter that the I mean the h but
Speaker 15: the endine the start Of'm nervous. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know I gotta you gotta give me
Speaker 3: a question.
Speaker 2: I got three people waiting behind you. Feel.
Speaker 3: What's your question?
Speaker 15: What did the steering? The fuel? I got a feel, Papa,
Speaker 15: feel jet. I don't know what I I gotta get it.
Speaker 15: The cow will start.
Speaker 4: Relax, my friend, relaxed, so queer quick. Okay, if the
Speaker 4: vehicle is not even cranking, and you're saying you don't
Speaker 4: even have the engine, spin right, no, spin nothing, don't
Speaker 4: forget about fuel and anything else. Gotta we got to
Speaker 4: focus on the starter. Three main things you need on
Speaker 4: the starter. You need to have a good ground at
Speaker 4: the starter itself. You need to have a good mean
Speaker 4: twelve vot positive source at the starter, and you need
Speaker 4: a trigger. And the trigger wire comes from the vehicle
Speaker 4: being in park. Those three things. Starter on a vehicle
Speaker 4: is the most is the simplest thing to diagnose. Okay,
Speaker 4: A simple test light is really all you need to
Speaker 4: test that system.
Speaker 3: Right, fair enough? Pheel. I hope that helps. It's a
Speaker 3: complicated problem.
Speaker 7: You do.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Phil Ron, You're.
Speaker 2: Next on nights. I gotta be quick.
Speaker 12: Wrong, go ahead, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 7: Dan.
Speaker 12: That's been in two thousand, Cameron Toyota one hundred and
Speaker 12: ninety two thousand miles on it and it's in the
Speaker 12: past year. It's cost me thirteen hundred for one repair
Speaker 12: for rodents. The second I had full joint, failed ball
Speaker 12: joint and other things underneath the car across me forty
Speaker 12: six one hundred. And then just yesterday it's that the
Speaker 12: check engine light is on. They suggested the teleconvernment is
Speaker 12: going at the cost of about three thousand. So the
Speaker 12: cours go ahead.
Speaker 3: What's the question? I think, I know where you're going here.
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Well what do I do? It's time to unloaded?
Speaker 6: I think, yes, yes, how many?
Speaker 7: How many thousand miles on it? Okay, not a little
Speaker 7: bit only it's a little bit early. But by what
Speaker 7: you have just said it's time to trade it in
Speaker 7: because it's just going to keep costing board. Now your
Speaker 7: repairs exceed the value of the car. You've got all
Speaker 7: the signs. If there were me, I say bye bye.
Speaker 2: All right, Rod, you got it. That's a three to
Speaker 2: nothing vote to get rid of the car.
Speaker 12: Thanks Roan, thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it got too Claire and Florida get clear,
Speaker 2: and then we got Katie Claire go right ahead.
Speaker 16: Hi, good evening, Thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 16: have like twenty nineteen Nissan Rogue Sport, and I've moved
Speaker 16: it from Connecticut, from Massachusetts to Connecticut to now Florida temporarily.
Speaker 16: My question is is whether I should there should be
Speaker 16: a change in maintenance since I moved to Florida compared
Speaker 16: to Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Florida, thank you so much easier. It's a Florida is
Speaker 4: going to be much Yeah, Florida's going to be much
Speaker 4: easier on this vehicle than New England could have a treated.
Speaker 4: So I say, there's like the Larry was starting to
Speaker 4: go with it. Keep doing the good maintenance you've been doing,
Speaker 4: You're going to find it. It goes to a lot
Speaker 4: less dollars to keep this thing going down in Florida.
Speaker 3: Good question, good quickly answer. Thanks Claire, last falling of
Speaker 3: the night.
Speaker 2: Katie in New York, Kitty, we got about a minute.
Speaker 17: Go ahead, Hi, guys. I has a two thousand and
Speaker 17: one Lexus four point thirty. It has two hundred and
Speaker 17: sixty six thousand miles on it. We bought it for
Speaker 17: sixty thousand dollars new back in two thousand and one.
Speaker 17: I just had to put ignition coils and spark plugs.
Speaker 18: I love the car. Do I keep it?
Speaker 17: Or is it just getting too old? Miles two hundred
Speaker 17: and sixty six thousand.
Speaker 7: That car should give you roughly four hundred thousand miles,
Speaker 7: so you're just a little bit over halfway done with it.
Speaker 7: That's the great engine. These things will run forever with
Speaker 7: a minimum amount of maintenance.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it would day all right, three four
Speaker 4: thousand dollars until you get a three four thousand dollars
Speaker 4: spence coming your way. I agree with Larry, Yeah, keep
Speaker 4: it going.
Speaker 18: Oh that's great. Thanks a lot, guys.
Speaker 2: Katie.
Speaker 3: Where are you calling from New York?
Speaker 18: Well, I'm just I'm I'm north of Albany by about
Speaker 18: a nice little town called half Moon. I've lived many years,
Speaker 18: my whole life in New England, and then circumstances.
Speaker 4: I haven't.
Speaker 2: Quick question. Is this your first time calling?
Speaker 18: No, I've called you once before.
Speaker 3: A long time about call more often.
Speaker 2: Okay, I loved your call. Thanks very much, gentlemen. I
Speaker 2: can't tell you how much I thank you. The w
Speaker 2: BUS Night side Car guys Larry and Scott Rubinstein. Thank
Speaker 2: you guys. You're amazing, amazing guests, and you also are
Speaker 2: so generous with your time to my audience. I just
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I miss seeing you studio, but it's so easy.
Speaker 2: No one has to drive home when we're doing the
Speaker 2: show remotely, so we'll catch it again once, maybe a
Speaker 2: little after Thanksgiving when the snow is going to start
Speaker 2: to swirl, because we want to remind people to drive
Speaker 2: safely in the winter time. Larry, Scott, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Say hi to everybody for us up there.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you Dan, Thank you Dan, good night, good
Speaker 7: night everyone.
Speaker 2: WBZ night side car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. They
Speaker 2: are the best. Thanks guys, keV a great night and
Speaker 2: I can't thank them enough. So I'm done for the night,
Speaker 2: Rob Brooks. We're a good traffic police officers. Tonight with
Speaker 2: all the calls, a lot of calls tonight, we actually
Speaker 2: ended up I think about seventeen calls, which is a
Speaker 2: good number of calls because some of them are complicated.
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