Speaker 1: It's nice time with Dan Ray. I'm waz Boston.
Speaker 2: All right. Thanks Dan Watkins, Welcome back everybody. We are
Speaker 2: once again very.
Speaker 3: Lucky to have with us tonight the WBZ car guys.
Speaker 3: We are about to leave the well, we've left the
Speaker 3: winter driving season. The summer driving season is upon us.
Speaker 3: So any questions you have about your car, you don't
Speaker 3: want to break down. You want to make sure that
Speaker 3: the tires are properly inflated. We've gone over some of that.
Speaker 3: If you missed it, feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 3: Ask whatever question you want. As I often have said
Speaker 3: to people, the only dumb question of the questions you
Speaker 3: don't have the courage to ask, because that's always the
Speaker 3: question that's going to cause your problem somewhere down the line.
Speaker 3: So with that said, we're going to get right back
Speaker 3: to the phone calls, and we're going to go to Chuck,
Speaker 3: who's down in Georgia. Hey Chuck, welcome, How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Good? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 4: And Larry and Scott.
Speaker 2: We're doing great.
Speaker 1: Hi Jack, good evening.
Speaker 4: I have good good, I'm doing well. I have a
Speaker 4: question for you about a particular vehicle. It's the newly
Speaker 4: styled Hyundai Santa Fe with a two and a half
Speaker 4: Leader four cylinder turbo.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead. Did we lose.
Speaker 4: I have a question on a particular vehicle.
Speaker 3: We hear yeah, we could hear you perfectly. Is but
Speaker 3: if if that's almost sounds like a replay, yes, what
Speaker 3: is your question?
Speaker 2: Go right ahead?
Speaker 4: Well, I want their opinion on it, whether it's a
Speaker 4: good motor, good car. What?
Speaker 3: Okay, run the vehicle bias one more time because it
Speaker 3: was a little bit of talk over. Please, and you
Speaker 3: want your opinion. This is when you're going to buy
Speaker 3: or one you currently own.
Speaker 4: Uh I didn't buy it yet, but I want to.
Speaker 4: It's the newly restyled Hyundai Santa Fe with a two
Speaker 4: and a half Leader turbo.
Speaker 1: All right, well my first question to you, Chuck, Chuck,
Speaker 1: My first question is how long do you want to
Speaker 1: keep this car.
Speaker 4: I'll keep it for a while. I'm getting older.
Speaker 1: Now tell me what that means. Does that mean seven years,
Speaker 1: ten years, fifteen years, a year and.
Speaker 4: A half, probably keep it. I'll probably keep it eight
Speaker 4: or ten years.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not the car for you. There have been
Speaker 1: numerous Hayndai engine failures at relatively low mileage. Kir and
Speaker 1: Hyundai are.
Speaker 5: Not the cars you want to own.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, you could certainly lease one and turn
Speaker 1: it back in after two years, three years, whatever the
Speaker 1: mileage gateway happens to be. But they historically have terrible
Speaker 1: tow engines.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Larry, they have a ten year warranty
Speaker 4: on the transmission and engine.
Speaker 1: That you you need to look at it. You need
Speaker 1: to look that warranty over very carefully, Chuck.
Speaker 3: I think you get I think you're getting some good
Speaker 3: advice here. But and and I very rarely hear Larry
Speaker 3: as definitive on a specific vehicle. He's he tends to
Speaker 3: when you hear him this definitively. Uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: more than a yellow caution flag.
Speaker 2: It's what we're saying. Go ahead, Larry, mean to interrupt, Go.
Speaker 1: Ahead, Chuck, Chuck. I I visited and I do consultation
Speaker 1: at a number of of professional shops. You would not
Speaker 1: believe the number of Kia and Hyundai engines I see
Speaker 1: replaced they Like I said, if you like the kind now,
Speaker 1: I think the car looks great. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: nicely restyled h vehicle. The front end almost looks like
Speaker 1: a newer Jeep. I think that it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: different looking, but it's fire as far as their power
Speaker 1: train goes. No, No, If you love the car, I
Speaker 1: would lease it for us, and maybe if you're really
Speaker 1: happy with it, you can buy it after the least expires.
Speaker 1: But no, sir, as far as my personal opinion goes,
Speaker 1: that's a definite no.
Speaker 4: Well I'll continue looking then, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Uh, Larry, let me ask a question Chuck hasn't asked,
Speaker 3: and that is, is there another vehicle close to that
Speaker 3: that you feel differently about that you might recommend to
Speaker 3: Chuck to take a look at.
Speaker 1: I would rather, for the sake of longevity, seem see
Speaker 1: him purchase a use Honda perhaps of the same class.
Speaker 1: I Use Honda would be a much better bed for the.
Speaker 4: Same money, something like a Pilot.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's a that's an excellent choice. You buy one
Speaker 1: a few years old and still has a very good
Speaker 1: warranty on it, You're going to have a lot less problems,
Speaker 1: and I believe that you're going to be able to
Speaker 1: get a much better resale value on it when you're
Speaker 1: ready to turn it in Versus this.
Speaker 4: I understand completely and thank you for your opinion. I
Speaker 4: really I'll really be looking elsewhere than probably at the Honda.
Speaker 3: But by the way, Scott, I think he's trying to
Speaker 3: jump in for a second glass.
Speaker 1: Just I am shocked. Dad and I, I mean, for
Speaker 1: anybody that wasn't nuts for more than you know, a
Speaker 1: few years, know that him and I are a huge
Speaker 1: proponent for Toyota, both big fans. Dad drives Tekoya. I
Speaker 1: do not own a Toyota, but I love them because
Speaker 1: I think they're a great vehicle. Why would we not
Speaker 1: look at a round for here?
Speaker 4: Another choice too?
Speaker 1: What's that If you can afford it, that's all. If
Speaker 1: Chuck can afford it, that's also a good way to
Speaker 1: go do. But the rab fours and anything in the
Speaker 1: Toyo lineup retained such a high resale price correct, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that goes the reason that Honda does, right,
Speaker 1: Honda drops a little bit more. I think that it
Speaker 1: may be a better choice. But if you can afford
Speaker 1: a RAB four, that's an awesome choice as well. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of there's want to talk about Honda
Speaker 1: attention on the outskirts right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I was thinking about thirty five to forty thousand,
Speaker 4: so I think they're in that range.
Speaker 1: I think New rap Force is just about thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Jack, I think you got some great advice.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: My friend Chuck's a good friend. That's why I kept
Speaker 3: him on as long as we did. Thanks, Juck, talked
Speaker 3: to you soon.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.
Speaker 2: I have a great nime. Gentlemen. You talk about a Toyota.
Speaker 3: I looked at a Toyota the other day, and I
Speaker 3: want I want the cold hard facts.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I went to a Toyota dealership. You know, I've got
Speaker 3: my old Vovo that maybe getting close to being retired.
Speaker 3: So I looked at a twenty twenty five Toyota Crown
Speaker 3: Signia s.
Speaker 2: I g N I A.
Speaker 3: It's called the Toyota Crown Signia Limited. What's your take.
Speaker 2: On that vehicle.
Speaker 1: I have not seen it yet, but I am looking
Speaker 1: at it as we speak. But you know, Dan, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, before I answer that, I want to
Speaker 1: say congratulations. I'm becoming a new grandpart just a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. I make that's awesome, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of that that Caroline Ruth Ray my granddaughter,
Speaker 3: our granddaughter. I want to drive her around in style,
Speaker 3: and I kind of like the looks of it. And
Speaker 3: it's a bit more than I want to pay, but
Speaker 3: you know, I have some flexibility.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a car that I looked at.
Speaker 3: It's it fits in terms of it's not substantially bigger.
Speaker 2: Than the the the the X seventy that I have now.
Speaker 3: But I know you guys love Toyotas, so that's why
Speaker 3: I follow your advice.
Speaker 2: That's why I've looked at a Toyota.
Speaker 1: I am looking at pictures of it now. It's a
Speaker 1: beautiful car, it really is. I would call it almost
Speaker 1: almost a crossover for the for the people that can recall,
Speaker 1: let's just call it a station wagon because that's what
Speaker 1: it looks like. Well, did you get a chance to
Speaker 1: road test it, Dan, Nope, Nope, heaven't.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to give a look. And the funny
Speaker 3: thing about it was I'm old school. So I said
Speaker 3: to the guy who I was dealing with, who's a
Speaker 3: really nice guy, I said, can you give me, you know,
Speaker 3: a brochure so I can take They don't make pro
Speaker 3: sue anymore, so you gotta kinda go in and find it.
Speaker 2: He he sent me the PDF and I looked at it.
Speaker 3: It's just funny. But these these cars go up and
Speaker 3: price it. They're going to save a couple of bucks
Speaker 3: on printing brochures, which I just don't understand.
Speaker 2: But that's I'm a little old school, as you guys know.
Speaker 6: Well, look, I literally had a maybe who said they
Speaker 6: didn't get a manual.
Speaker 1: Car, and they took went the old school school route.
Speaker 1: They printed out the manual two hundred and twenty five pages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not printed out because they wanted I did. I
Speaker 1: did want to say something before we either move on
Speaker 1: or go on to next. I actually misspoke before and
Speaker 1: I said something about Honda on the outskirts and I misspoke.
Speaker 1: That was Nissan who I was referring to, and I
Speaker 1: just had a little, uh uh, a little memoaps I
Speaker 1: think there for a moment, but I did want to
Speaker 1: comment that insignia. It reminds me so much of your
Speaker 1: ball though looking at the nose of it, it's a
Speaker 1: pick carpet you cross over to.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 3: So I'll probably call you at some point when I
Speaker 3: when I get closer I'm I'm kind of in the
Speaker 3: dating phase so far, you know, I've it's like I'm
Speaker 3: considering it. Okay, are going to take a break. I
Speaker 3: have more questions. I hope you do as well. We're
Speaker 3: coming right back on night Side right after these messages.
Speaker 3: My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside. You're listening to
Speaker 3: Larry and Scott Rubinstein, the WBC car guys. I can't
Speaker 3: tell you what assets they are to my program for
Speaker 3: my audience, and I am deeply indebted to both of them.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones.
Speaker 3: We go with Scott and Larry. Let me go next
Speaker 3: to Doug and Impswich Dog. Appreciate your patience. Next on Nightside,
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Doug.
Speaker 7: Hi. First, I want to thank Larry and Scott for
Speaker 7: all the years they took care of my car when
Speaker 7: I was living in Lexington up until five years ago,
Speaker 7: and thanked them and tell them how much I enjoyed
Speaker 7: seeing me honor veteran to Larry's father in World War
Speaker 7: Two who was the World War Two veteran, and looking
Speaker 7: at that in their case there, honor, thank you. I
Speaker 7: want to thank them for that Doug Bidwell here in ipswitch. Okay,
Speaker 7: My problem is I got a seventy twenty fourteen Volkswagen
Speaker 7: Jetta at seventy five thousand miles twenty fourteen VW Jetta.
Speaker 7: And my auto guy, who is at Topsfield Fairgrounds now
Speaker 7: for five years, he's been telling me the last five
Speaker 7: years engine oil pan, rusty six hundred and eighty dollars
Speaker 7: including oil change to fix a rusty engine oilpan for
Speaker 7: six hundred and eighty dollars to include oil change. And
Speaker 7: I don't know how serious this rusty oilpan is on
Speaker 7: my car, or how bad it is, or whether or
Speaker 7: not it's going to go out. And then there are
Speaker 7: two more problems which he lists. He says also slight
Speaker 7: oil leak at right front axle, slight oil leak at
Speaker 7: right front axle. And then he says oil seeping from
Speaker 7: intake in front of throttle body. So I got those
Speaker 7: three problems. The major one is the oil pan. And
Speaker 7: I want to ask Scott and Larry how serious is
Speaker 7: this oil pan leak when I don't ever see anything
Speaker 7: on the ground when I parked the car.
Speaker 3: Okay, gentlemen, let me get let me, let me get
Speaker 3: Larry in here first, go ahead, Larry.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, are you going through oil between
Speaker 1: oil changes? No? Okay, So now, Doug one more time,
Speaker 1: because I was writing things down. What's the year of
Speaker 1: it again? How many miles?
Speaker 7: Twenty fourteen f W chatter at seventy five thousand miles?
Speaker 1: Okay. Have you actually looked at the oil leak yourself
Speaker 1: as he called you out to the.
Speaker 7: Shop, Yes, a few years ago that I looked at it.
Speaker 7: It just looks like all of the paint that might
Speaker 7: have been on that bottom of that pan, that all
Speaker 7: the paint is like cracked off. And I didn't but
Speaker 7: I didn't see too much oil, but there's certainly evidence
Speaker 7: of rest on the bottom of that oil pan. It's
Speaker 7: a standard known problem with VW autom deals because there's
Speaker 7: no shield.
Speaker 1: Of course. Well, i'll tell you what, if you want
Speaker 1: seeing oil, if you wren't using oil between oil changes
Speaker 1: and it's not considered a fire hazard, yeah, then I
Speaker 1: don't think I would invest that kind of that kind
Speaker 1: of money. I mean, that's a lot of money for
Speaker 1: an oil pan. Now, if you were telling me that
Speaker 1: when you popped your car in the morning, when you're
Speaker 1: backed out, you saw spots of oil on the ground,
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, okay, so this is something you have
Speaker 1: to do. Your car needs flopper amount oil for lubrication
Speaker 1: in cooling the engine. Without oil, your engine are going
Speaker 1: to overheat. But you aren't seeing anything on the ground.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you he's telling you a bunch.
Speaker 5: Of different weeks.
Speaker 1: I would suggest you get a second opinion. I really do, Doug.
Speaker 1: I've known you for a number of years and I
Speaker 1: know you take good care of your cars. But I hate,
Speaker 1: like heck to see you waste money also, so I.
Speaker 7: Think no, I really look, I really do know all
Speaker 7: these guys at Topsiel fair Grounds. They've done a good
Speaker 7: job for me. He's saying, slight oil leak at right
Speaker 7: front axle. Does that mean an oil leak at the
Speaker 7: transaxle that the boot has to be replaced? Is that
Speaker 7: a lot of money to deal with and a serious
Speaker 7: slight oil leak at right front axle?
Speaker 1: Okay, now the oil leak at the axle, is you
Speaker 1: talking about the inboard seal coming from the transaxle with
Speaker 1: the actual plugs into it?
Speaker 7: Hey, transaxl. He just wrote on this sheet here, on
Speaker 7: the recommendation sheet, slight oil leak at right front.
Speaker 3: Actually, Doug, Doug, I think we've gone over this a
Speaker 3: bunch of times, and I want to be respectful to
Speaker 3: the other callers. Scott, you got a quick comment for
Speaker 3: for Doug here before we wrap it up with him.
Speaker 1: I think I think we're going to go back to
Speaker 1: detail saying, you know, I always my customers out to
Speaker 1: the shop show him exactly what's going on with the vehicle.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a situation where for Larry and
Speaker 1: I the picture is going to be worth a thousand words.
Speaker 1: Next time you go in for your regular routine service,
Speaker 1: phone out there, grab some pictures of the areas that
Speaker 1: he's telling me that need to repain. Send them over
Speaker 1: to Larry left w Fords me. We'll take a look
Speaker 1: at them together and try to advise you the best
Speaker 1: way possible because we really need to see what's going
Speaker 1: on to determine how quickly in how severe this you know,
Speaker 1: how quick this needs to be done.
Speaker 3: And I hope Doug that you have Larry's email scan
Speaker 3: auto at aol dot com.
Speaker 2: Does that work for you?
Speaker 7: Yes, but maybe I should make an appointment to go
Speaker 7: down Larry's to get the second opinion. On these matters.
Speaker 3: Well, that's between you and Larry. You know, Larry, I
Speaker 3: would suggest, Doug, what you do tomorrow is send Larry
Speaker 3: an email at scan Auto s C A N Auto
Speaker 3: at aol dot com and try to set something up.
Speaker 3: I think this is pretty confusing to me and probably
Speaker 3: to my audience, So in fairness, that's the best I
Speaker 3: think we can do for you right now.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, thank you very much all of you for
Speaker 7: the having this show monthly.
Speaker 2: You're right, all right, thank you, Doug, appreciate do Let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here.
Speaker 3: Let me get Tom and Worcester in here before the
Speaker 3: news at the bottom of the hour. Talk I'm gret ahead,
Speaker 3: you next on nice side with Larry Scott Rubinstein, the
Speaker 3: WBC car guys.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I thinks d Hey the call before you laugh call.
Speaker 8: It kind of took my question away, but I do
Speaker 8: have still a question. My wife was trading in her
Speaker 8: Traverse twenty twenty traverse with one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 8: miles on it one and a new one. But the
Speaker 8: new traverse or like ten thousand more dollars than the
Speaker 8: last reverse I bought, plus it now has a two
Speaker 8: point zero two point five engine with the CBP transmission,
Speaker 8: and it seems like a lot of vehicle for for
Speaker 8: that engine. Am I Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: Or what that? You think that the the engine is
Speaker 1: underside and the size of the vehicle.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because I've loaded that thing right up, and you know, okay,
Speaker 8: that just seems.
Speaker 1: So we've gone from a three point six feet to
Speaker 1: be sick, what is it now? Like? Plus owner, it
Speaker 1: was a.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a three point eight six older. Now
Speaker 8: it's going to a two point I don't know if
Speaker 8: it's two point zero two point five. And they have
Speaker 8: it regular and they have it turbo either way on
Speaker 8: a reverse.
Speaker 1: So I can tell you that recently, uh Stilantis or
Speaker 1: Deep Dodge Ram, he dropped the classic five point seven
Speaker 1: liter Hemi engine which hoped to be making tea come back,
Speaker 1: and they replace him in the Rams. They went from
Speaker 1: a big eight cylinder to an inline six turbo. And
Speaker 1: the owner of the company that I worked for happened
Speaker 1: to drive one of these with these with this inline
Speaker 1: six turbo and it has got monster talk great horsepower.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily I'd like to know what the what
Speaker 1: the toe ratings are. And you said you loaded up,
Speaker 1: do you actually toe with the vehicle?
Speaker 8: No, tome just loaded up with kids. Well that's why
Speaker 8: she wants to traverse, because it's big. We started looking
Speaker 8: at the other models, you know, the Toyota, you know,
Speaker 8: unless you get into the bigger cars. Now you're talking
Speaker 8: sixty seventy grand Uh, we're trying to stay around at
Speaker 8: forty grand Mark and you know, we're looking at the
Speaker 8: the Kia, the Bitsubishi, and uh, actually the Hondi, which
Speaker 8: is just bad mouth. So now I'm kind of sad
Speaker 8: because we ended up getting the Palace Bade because of
Speaker 8: the sixth year older you know, eight speed transmission instead
Speaker 8: of the little go kart transmission.
Speaker 1: You know. So this is gonna tell you a little something.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty, that three point six literer produced
Speaker 1: three hundred and ten horse power, and then out of
Speaker 1: that B six this a new twenty twenty five turbo
Speaker 1: four cylinder is three hundred and twenty eight horse power,
Speaker 1: smaller engine, pron fuel economy, more horsepower.
Speaker 8: But then I looked at the fuel economy and it's
Speaker 8: not any better, especially like the Key. It was like
Speaker 8: ridiculous with a smaller engine.
Speaker 1: One on the traverse.
Speaker 8: The true traverse, same thing. It wasn't that much much
Speaker 8: better with a smaller engine, the same What was they won?
Speaker 1: What is your what is your your current you're twenty
Speaker 1: twenty What does that get for fuel?
Speaker 8: Bullich, I'm getting about twenty twenty one, right, and.
Speaker 1: This one that's twenty five four so on the turbot
Speaker 1: was rated for twenty seven on the highway. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: seven miles to the gallon, more six miles to the
Speaker 1: gallon more than what you're getting now, which is that's
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. Yeah. So I mean, if you I'm
Speaker 1: not personally a big chevy guy, if you like the
Speaker 1: ride of Traverse and you're used to it, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: shy away from it just because it's the four cylinder.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Plus it's more expensive now, like ten thousand dollar
Speaker 8: more from the twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: You're going to find that in every manufacture you go to,
Speaker 1: all kids, they have gone up acrosst the you know,
Speaker 1: every every manufacturer has. That is just the way the
Speaker 1: world prices in the past four to four to six years.
Speaker 1: It's it's craziness. How you know, they've they've gone up fast,
Speaker 1: so and I don't see them coming down anytime soon.
Speaker 8: All Right, I've worried about with the size of the
Speaker 8: monar carrying that in that that that vehicle. Basically I
Speaker 8: would not.
Speaker 1: I would not. This is not this is not what
Speaker 1: would just shine me away from it.
Speaker 3: All right, Tom, I'm into my newscast. I gotta let
Speaker 3: you run. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciated,
Speaker 3: hope that helps.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Good Back with more with my special guest, the w
Speaker 3: BZ car guys Larran's Rubinstein. Lots of phone calls coming in.
Speaker 3: I still have a couple of questions that I'm going
Speaker 3: to sneak in as well. We'll be back on Nightside
Speaker 3: right after this.
Speaker 2: If you start.
Speaker 3: Calling it like quarter of eleven, a quarter or twelve,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna make it on the air. So if
Speaker 3: there's only one line open right now, fill it and
Speaker 3: you'll probably make it. Six one, seven, nine three. Back
Speaker 3: on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Way Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go.
Speaker 3: Let's keep rolling, going to go to Andrew in Springfield, Massachusetts. Andrew,
Speaker 3: You're next on Nightside with Scott and Larry Rubinstein, Gorighthead Andrew.
Speaker 9: Good Eve, good evening, everybody, good evening news to use.
Speaker 9: I have a ninety two Mansta Miata that has about
Speaker 9: one hundred to eight thousand miles on it, and uh,
Speaker 9: it has that lift or tick down that's common with
Speaker 9: all cars anyway. And I'm wondering if you guys heard
Speaker 9: of the new Valveelene restore and protect oil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have wait, wait, wait, wait wait, protective restract.
Speaker 1: I know they've had a high mileage oil for a while.
Speaker 1: I don't think i've seen the restore one yet.
Speaker 9: All right, Yeah, because that's supposed to really after like
Speaker 9: four four oil cycles of removing the oil and putting
Speaker 9: it back in that it would basically clear up any
Speaker 9: of the deposits and anything like that that happens. Okay,
Speaker 9: so this may still apply, though, Is that the only
Speaker 9: offer a five that's closest to the Miata, which is
Speaker 9: a ten W thirty. They offer a five W thirty.
Speaker 9: And do you think that that's okay to try to
Speaker 9: put in?
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, that's a small engine. Wouldn't worry
Speaker 1: about about you about I probably wouldn't run it, so
Speaker 1: had I don't know how hard you run this car.
Speaker 9: I don't I don't know, but it's yeah, they can.
Speaker 9: It's in such great condition that I want to keep
Speaker 9: it running for as long as possible, so, you know,
Speaker 9: they they typically call them the you know, I drive
Speaker 9: my Miata as a beater, so they beat the crap
Speaker 9: out of the car.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: I treat this thing like a god, you know. So
Speaker 9: I don't drive it a lot, and it's stored in
Speaker 9: a garage. I drive it, you know, a couple of
Speaker 9: times a week, a couple of miles, you know, sometimes
Speaker 9: on long trips.
Speaker 1: So what I'm seeing, and I'm looking it up right now,
Speaker 1: it does look like they do offer that in the
Speaker 1: in W thirty weight, a ten W thirty weight, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is that's what you were asking, right, You're looking
Speaker 1: at ten W thirty.
Speaker 9: Well I looked it up today and the only thing
Speaker 9: that the closest thing they offer a five W thirty
Speaker 9: for the restore and protect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking up to restore and protect right now,
Speaker 1: and it shows that they have a ten W thirty.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm looking at a poor listing. The point,
Speaker 1: I don't think you'd have that much of a problem
Speaker 1: going from a ten if you were going to My
Speaker 1: only fair is you we're coming into the warmer weather.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go a lighter oil, I would rather
Speaker 1: see you do it during the winter time when it's
Speaker 1: a little colder, because, of course, now how to weather
Speaker 1: the oil is going to stend out a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd worry about it too much. I
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't work it overly hard. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that as somebody that owns an older BMW myself, I
Speaker 1: have a lifted tick huge problem uh in my in
Speaker 1: line six engine. And they make liquimally makes a product
Speaker 1: that is made for liftertick and it actually does a
Speaker 1: great job on it. So that might be another product
Speaker 1: that you may want to look at as well.
Speaker 9: Is that like an additive to the oil that you
Speaker 9: just put like it is?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 1: Yes, yep, it isn't at yep. So it is called
Speaker 1: it's the left high pro clip active. It's my my LIQUIMALI.
Speaker 1: If you want to write down this part number sure
Speaker 1: is two zero zero zero four.
Speaker 2: All right, gentlemen, on that point, I gotta keep rolling here.
Speaker 9: Fifteen dollar apart sounds good. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Andrew. Let's keep rolling. Welcome, got to keep going.
Speaker 3: We got lots of calls John and Exitter. Not sure
Speaker 3: it's Exitor, New Hampshire. I assume Joan, go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Yes, thanks for taking my call. Guys, thanks, thank you
Speaker 5: very much. I have a twenty fifteen Wrangler, one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty thousand miles on it. I'm having some problems
Speaker 5: with it. It just started within the last six weeks
Speaker 5: doing that major tick thing. I've had two oil changes
Speaker 5: on it, you know, and without it being exactly diagnosed,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm assuming it's that whole lifter rocker thing,
Speaker 5: maybe cam on and on. So I asked my mechanic
Speaker 5: if he could do that, and he said he doesn't
Speaker 5: do that, not worth it, let it go, and I
Speaker 5: still owe money on it. And my question is is
Speaker 5: this just I don't mind ticks. Is this just a
Speaker 5: tick that's going to just go for years, or is
Speaker 5: this a tick where any day now it's going to
Speaker 5: blow up? And then the final question is, so I
Speaker 5: thought I would park it. And because I can't afford
Speaker 5: to fix it if it's all that lift or stuff,
Speaker 5: people saying, don't even fix it. Buy a new motor
Speaker 5: for fourteen grand. So I was offered twenty sixteen Rubicon
Speaker 5: the finance with no money down, but that also has
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty thousand miles, and I think it's
Speaker 5: the same motor. So I'm like, am I buying two
Speaker 5: bad motors? How long did jeeps last? Now? My last
Speaker 5: this is my shirt Wrangler. My last Wrangler went three
Speaker 5: hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 8: So yeah, but you.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was the Inline six or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your old like your old Wrangler had probably one
Speaker 1: of the best engines that Cheap ever put out, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Inline six three hundred. You could not kill them.
Speaker 1: They were just they were I've seen them run out
Speaker 1: of oil and keep going and you just refill the
Speaker 1: oil and they're just quiet again, and they run forever.
Speaker 1: They're They're an awesome engine. I'm going to assume that
Speaker 1: your current Wrangler is a three point six leader in
Speaker 1: v SEX correct exactly. Yes, Okay, so there is at
Speaker 1: least one in my shop every day, at least one
Speaker 1: for liftertick with that exact engine. The majority of time
Speaker 1: we find either rockers or lifters that have failed. The
Speaker 1: biggest problem we've had on those is that a lot
Speaker 1: of times on the rocker that the bearing on the
Speaker 1: rollers will fail and they can dig into a camshaft.
Speaker 1: Is the engine going to suddenly blow up? No? Is
Speaker 1: it something that's going to cost you more money if
Speaker 1: you don't deal with it sooner than later. The answer
Speaker 1: is yes, And I haven't even told you the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: The camshafts for the three point six liter engine are
Speaker 1: currently not available from Chrysler. From Jeep been we've had
Speaker 1: them on backlorder right now. I think it's in the
Speaker 1: range of about six months. The only way you can
Speaker 1: get new camshafts is to buy a crate engine. It
Speaker 1: is a huge problem. I have multiple cars there waiting
Speaker 1: for these cams shafts the aftermarket. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're available. I'm going to assume there are companies out there,
Speaker 1: such as Crane maybe comp that are making these camshafts,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you as far as oe they're
Speaker 1: not available right now. I hope that guy give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of guidance in the right direction. When
Speaker 1: I buy one with the same engine with one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand miles on it, No, you're literally locking
Speaker 1: from the pan to the fire. It's like there's no
Speaker 1: trade off there.
Speaker 8: If you really want an upgrade, if you want to go, if.
Speaker 1: You really want an upgrade, and I say start fresh
Speaker 1: and go with yourself a nice three ninety two lubric
Speaker 1: on and you'll never look back.
Speaker 2: John, let those at all.
Speaker 5: Thank you, danciate you guys all right, Larry, thank you,
Speaker 5: damn very welcome. Have great night, Have a great night, guy.
Speaker 2: Good night.
Speaker 3: We'll take a quick break here, gonna wrap it up
Speaker 3: with John and rather with John. Know with Larry and Scott,
Speaker 3: they are the WBC car guys, and they have they
Speaker 3: have so much information and it really drills down for you.
Speaker 3: I hope all of you have gotten the information you need.
Speaker 3: We'll give Larry's email, which is again scan Auto S
Speaker 3: C A N A U t O at aol dot com.
Speaker 3: You can reach out to him tomorrow and he's he
Speaker 3: likes to get back in touch with his listeners. We'll
Speaker 3: be back on night Side right after this quick break.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 3: Hey, we try to get at least one more call
Speaker 3: in before our evening concludes. Let me go to John
Speaker 3: in New York. John, welcome, you're on Nightside, and say
Speaker 3: hello to Scott Larry the WBZ car guys, go right ahead, John.
Speaker 10: Yes, Hello, gentlemen, I got a quick question about I
Speaker 10: have a Buick lacrow at twenty sixteen. I hit a
Speaker 10: deer with the thing about month and a half ago,
Speaker 10: and I need front and body parts. Do you know
Speaker 10: where I can get them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: It's use parts, Yeah, use right.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a good source for used auto parts,
Speaker 1: I'm gad you go to this website. It's called car
Speaker 1: dash part dot com. Best place for used.
Speaker 10: Autiay, okay, good? And uh Dan, I just want to
Speaker 10: mention to you. I'm I'm presently driving a Toyota Camry
Speaker 10: Are twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: It's a hybrid YEP.
Speaker 10: And when I bought the car, I was in the
Speaker 10: showroom when I saw that Crown Automobile. That is a
Speaker 10: beautiful car.
Speaker 2: It's a beauty Well, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Now, I hope I just want to make sure that
Speaker 3: Scott realizes this fella's in New York. I assume you're
Speaker 3: a New York resident. You're not just driving in New York, right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 10: I live in scot Harry, New York. It's about forty
Speaker 10: five miles west of all that he.
Speaker 2: The Capitol gotcha.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, we know where Albany is and forty five
Speaker 3: miles west of Albany.
Speaker 2: The website that you gave him, Scott, will that.
Speaker 3: Be be work for him?
Speaker 2: Or is that a Massachusetts website.
Speaker 1: No, it's at the nationwide website. It's coast to coast.
Speaker 1: He can put into the search area and there are
Speaker 1: plenty of salvage yards in his area. As far as
Speaker 1: knowing the area he's from, it took about two words
Speaker 1: for me to know what area he was exactly from.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, so John, thank you for your input. Thank
Speaker 3: you for calling in tonight. Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll call you back in the future to talk
Speaker 10: about some other things and how much I enjoy your show.
Speaker 2: Well, John, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 3: We love people in UH in New York, and Scott
Speaker 3: and Larry can come by every every few months. You
Speaker 3: caught him tonight on there sort of our summer driving
Speaker 3: show on May May or their summer Driving show on
Speaker 3: May first.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you got through.
Speaker 1: Yeah I am.
Speaker 10: I am too, And this is my driving home from
Speaker 10: work entertainment at night listening to you on the application.
Speaker 10: They have an iHeartRadio going through the fall with the
Speaker 10: bluetooth to the car.
Speaker 3: Well, you sound great, and we really do appreciate your loyalty.
Speaker 3: Uh and uh call in, call in, morof I always
Speaker 3: like to get callers from around the country, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, we'll.
Speaker 10: Talk again, Okay, good night now all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Very much, gentlemen. I have one other question.
Speaker 3: A friend of mine, a young woman who travels a lot,
Speaker 3: bought a Lexus, a brand new Lexus. Last I guess
Speaker 3: would be, I guess you should say last spring hasn't
Speaker 3: driven it much, travels a lot, and left it in
Speaker 3: a parking garage in Boston.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: The parking garage has a I would say it's like
Speaker 3: six and a half feet high. It's one of those
Speaker 3: garages that you drive around and to get to get
Speaker 3: up to. How tough is it to get The battery
Speaker 3: has died, which I don't understand why the battery dies.
Speaker 3: I guess it wasn't turned over frequently enough. So it's
Speaker 3: a hybrid. So my question is how do you tow
Speaker 3: a car like that out of a garage that is
Speaker 3: only about the ceiling seems to me about maybe six
Speaker 3: and a half little less than seven feet high. Are
Speaker 3: there tow trucks that actually can get into those garages
Speaker 3: actually hook a car and get out without destroying the car.
Speaker 1: Well, you would use a tow bow, a towbow, a
Speaker 1: lot of a smaller vehicle or smaller suv just to
Speaker 1: get it out of there. Then once it's out of there,
Speaker 1: then you can put it onto your flatbed. But getting
Speaker 1: it out, that's the only way you're going to do it.
Speaker 1: And I run into the same problem, and I know
Speaker 1: Scott has too. Some of these garages are so short,
Speaker 1: and they do that so they can add more floors
Speaker 1: for more parking, for more income.
Speaker 5: Of course it's easy to why, like a.
Speaker 1: Flat toau is the only way they're going to get
Speaker 1: that thing out unless they bring a valley with them
Speaker 1: and they can stop the vehicle on that that's the
Speaker 1: only way they're getting out.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, I mean it's interesting.
Speaker 3: Even when I'm driven into that garage, it's you driving
Speaker 3: and you're saying, does you know not the car that
Speaker 3: I drive as you knows of Volvo and it's probably
Speaker 3: about I don't know, you know, five five feet high
Speaker 3: or whatever. Yeah, it's not a high profile car. It's
Speaker 3: a it's a moreful wagon. But you're driving and say, oh,
Speaker 3: the first few times you win. Some of these garages,
Speaker 3: some of the garages in Boston are just difficult to navigate.
Speaker 3: There's there's a garage near the Park Plaza hotel that
Speaker 3: they bring you down and you look at the number
Speaker 3: that there's there's no room for I mean, you have
Speaker 3: two inches on each side. Of course, I guess this
Speaker 3: garage that one is an old garage and they probably
Speaker 3: had much smaller cars back when that garage was built.
Speaker 3: But it's amazing that on these new grashes there's not
Speaker 3: there's not much clearance.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean when you saw the thing about the
Speaker 1: cars have gotten smaller as time has gone on, you know,
Speaker 1: and their major intent, as we said, is to squeeze
Speaker 1: as many paying cars in the air as possible. Imagine
Speaker 1: if you had imagine, if you had let's say something
Speaker 1: like a two full sized Buick with a pull up antenna,
Speaker 1: you will destroying your car in a garage like that.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's they go, what the what the
Speaker 1: majority of the cars is? I mean, you've got your
Speaker 1: keys that are small, you got your handas, your hondas,
Speaker 1: your volkswagons. These are all smaller cars. Yeah, they are
Speaker 1: made for full sized cars because a lot of people
Speaker 1: aren't driving them due to the cost of fuel.
Speaker 2: No question, no question, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: As always, thank you so much for your for your
Speaker 3: time tonight and the questions was an interesting group of questions.
Speaker 3: You guys always amazed me with the amount of knowledge
Speaker 3: that you have. Thank you as always for being with us.
Speaker 3: And we'll have to do one more maybe Midsummer and
Speaker 3: give people another shot to ask your questions. As always,
Speaker 3: and again, Larry, if I can give your email for
Speaker 3: any questions that are still hanging in people's minds. Scan
Speaker 3: auto s c A and like the word scan auto
Speaker 3: au t O all one word I think is a
Speaker 3: lowercase at aol dot com. Larry and Scott, thank you
Speaker 3: both so much. With you all right, guys, well be
Speaker 3: safe and have a great driving season. So that wraps
Speaker 3: us up for tonight. I will tell you that tomorrow
Speaker 3: night at ten o'clock we're going to talk to a
Speaker 3: guest I had him on a few weeks ago in
Speaker 3: the eight o'clock hour, Martin Gitten, I believe is the
Speaker 3: name fifty greatest sports athletes in Boston, and we're going
Speaker 3: to spend a little bit more time and you can
Speaker 3: nominate your favorite sports athletes in Boston. Rob Brooks, thank
Speaker 3: you very much. Marita did a great job today and
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