Speaker 1: It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's video.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everybody. I'm delighted to be joined
Speaker 2: once again as we have been now for many, many years,
Speaker 2: two of my favorite guests, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. They
Speaker 2: are car experts. There's no car that you can mention
Speaker 2: that they do not have an opinion on. So Larry,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Dan, I'm fine, getting better every day, loving
Speaker 3: life man Frian, loving life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Scott, I know that you're still involved in
Speaker 2: car racing. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4: I well, you know, it's been a slow year for
Speaker 4: me this year. I haven't unfortunately, haven't made it to
Speaker 4: the track this year. I did run a race in
Speaker 4: the fall last year, but hopefully plus season's over we'll
Speaker 4: get one more in.
Speaker 2: So between the two of you, how many years, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure you I'm sure it's significant. How many years
Speaker 2: have each of you been involved with audibobiles?
Speaker 3: Wow? Myself from helping my father when he was working
Speaker 3: on cars, I'd say I've been in about sixty five
Speaker 3: years and Scott started when he was about five years old.
Speaker 2: So the first go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 4: Now I say, I think the very first thing I
Speaker 4: did was help Dad to rebuild a carburetor of my
Speaker 4: mom's sixty I don't think it was the sixty nine
Speaker 4: Fury Dad, it was at the Cutlass.
Speaker 3: I think it was years the sixty nine Fury three with
Speaker 3: the three eighteen with a two barrel carter carburetor.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, and that was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Five. And then it's uh, other than well, even when
Speaker 4: I was in the military, I did it was. I
Speaker 4: was a lightwelled diesel mechanic in the in the military, Harry. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of been my whole life.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about probably combined over one hundred years
Speaker 2: of experienced automobiles. Okay, and it's been a while since
Speaker 2: you've been here. But let's before we get to phone
Speaker 2: calls and all of that, let's just talk about a
Speaker 2: little couple of tips as to what people should be
Speaker 2: doing in advance of the driving season. One of the
Speaker 2: things that I did last year as a present to
Speaker 2: all the members of my family, I got those I
Speaker 2: don't know what you call them. You can blow up
Speaker 2: your tires with these machines. They're not all that expensive,
Speaker 2: but they're really great to have when you when you're
Speaker 2: out on the road at night or even during the
Speaker 2: day and you notice that one of your tires is
Speaker 2: low as opposed to running it on the rim, you
Speaker 2: can kind of you know, obviously if you have a blowout,
Speaker 2: it's not going to help you. But this, this, this,
Speaker 2: this you want? But what are these? They're like you know,
Speaker 2: they're like power guns that they're basically blow up you
Speaker 2: tis what's the term of art for those?
Speaker 3: Well, actually Scott bought some for me and several of
Speaker 3: his family members for Christmas of last year. And it's
Speaker 3: just a small air compressor and some of them run
Speaker 3: off a lithium battery and there's some you have to
Speaker 3: plug into your power source at the car itself and
Speaker 3: the handy to have. Today's world, truth be told, flat
Speaker 3: tires are not that much of a thing today as
Speaker 3: they were twenty years ago, thirty years ago. The tires
Speaker 3: are so good now. Don't get me wrong, it's still
Speaker 3: great to have it. It's like having a spare tire
Speaker 3: on your car. Now, I'll go twenty years having a
Speaker 3: car and never use my spare But it's like insurance
Speaker 3: that has to be there, and you hope you never
Speaker 3: need it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did the same thing. I decided that you
Speaker 2: run out of ideas at the holidays. And I just
Speaker 2: thought that last year, and they were about sixty five
Speaker 2: bucks or something. But it's just a peace of mind
Speaker 2: that you get. What else would you be telling people
Speaker 2: to do. Maybe maybe that's not the greatest idea, But
Speaker 2: what do you have to do to make sure that
Speaker 2: as we move through the fall and into the winter
Speaker 2: driving season? What are we looking at no matter what,
Speaker 2: whether you got a new car or a car that's
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years old, what do.
Speaker 3: You got to do well before we get into the dietems?
Speaker 3: And I started to make a little list because I
Speaker 3: kind of knew you were going to ask me this.
Speaker 3: You were talking about gifts you can give people for
Speaker 3: their car. And recently I was at a store called
Speaker 3: Harbor Freight. They're all over the state, Okay, and they
Speaker 3: have this lantern like device that's about the size of
Speaker 3: a can of beer and you just pull it open
Speaker 3: and it shines a bright light and it is a
Speaker 3: landing off sorts, So when you have a breakdown, you
Speaker 3: can put this on the road to alert other drivers.
Speaker 3: It's so well seen versus a flashing red light in
Speaker 3: the back of your car. Sometimes people are just so
Speaker 3: used to seeing it. But this bright white light and
Speaker 3: we picked them up at that store. Then there are
Speaker 3: five dollars each and you would not believe the amount
Speaker 3: of light these things goes. So if you want to
Speaker 3: get a stocking stuff or a gift, any form of a
Speaker 3: battery operated light being flashing or a nice bright white light,
Speaker 3: that's a great gift idea. But you talked about you
Speaker 3: asked me about what we do for winter ready, and
Speaker 3: the five things that I was thinking about today is
Speaker 3: you really check your tie tread and check your tire pressure.
Speaker 3: Your tire tread is like your parachute. If you could
Speaker 3: have the best breaks in the world, but if you
Speaker 3: don't have gripping tread on your tires, forget about it.
Speaker 3: You're just gonna gonna slide. And if they're down that low,
Speaker 3: you could consider using a snow tire the it front
Speaker 3: or rear wheel drive. Some people put forced snow tires
Speaker 3: on their car are a really good all season tire.
Speaker 3: Next thing I would do is change the oil and
Speaker 3: anti freeze if it's even close to being do And
Speaker 3: the reason why I say that if you're close to
Speaker 3: being do you go into your regular service station hopefully
Speaker 3: they are a Triple A approved or one of the
Speaker 3: Naparado Kakia centers. Some station or service repair facility has
Speaker 3: credentials and while they're doing the oil change in the
Speaker 3: anti freeze, check our replace. FYI, there's no such thing
Speaker 3: as permanent anti freeze. I don't care what the book says.
Speaker 3: You ask them to inspect your battery, your belts, and
Speaker 3: your hoses, and you ask them further, could you check
Speaker 3: all of my lenses my light and wipe of blades
Speaker 3: are imperative and inclement weather, poor wipe of blades can
Speaker 3: get you injured or injure somebody else. They don't cost
Speaker 3: a lot, and it's like when they're bad, it's like
Speaker 3: running around with fogged up eyeglasses on. You're going to
Speaker 3: hit something.
Speaker 2: Sure, all great suggest bets, and.
Speaker 3: That is my feelings on it. Scott, did you want
Speaker 3: to add to that?
Speaker 4: What more can I add to that? You've got such
Speaker 4: a complete list. I'll tell you, still, Pops, after all
Speaker 4: these years, you're still sober paid and always do exactly
Speaker 4: the right things that we need to be carried with us.
Speaker 4: The only thing I maybe want to add to it,
Speaker 4: especially you know, with the cold season coming up.
Speaker 3: And I do it regularly.
Speaker 4: Always you keep a blanket in the car. You never
Speaker 4: know when you know, possibly a bad storm and god
Speaker 4: forbid you do end up with a flat tire equal
Speaker 4: becomes undrivable and you're stuck on the side of the road.
Speaker 4: You know, you never know when you're gonna need it
Speaker 4: when again needs to stay warm. So that's always another
Speaker 4: great stock and stuff. But you can throw in the
Speaker 4: vehicle in something that'd be great to carry with you
Speaker 4: on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: All great, All great.
Speaker 4: You know, when I get to start a one ball
Speaker 4: quick one, don't forget to take your snowbrushes and long
Speaker 4: snow rakes out of your sheds in garages and put
Speaker 4: them me and you put them back in your cars,
Speaker 4: because the snow will be here before you know it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and even if it never shows, uh, if
Speaker 2: it never snows, I should say, which would be great
Speaker 2: for all of us. It's good. It's good to be prepared. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: all right, gentlemen, gonna take a little break. My guest
Speaker 2: Larry Scott Rubinstein, the WBZ car guys. Any question you
Speaker 2: have perhaps about a car you're looking to buy, uh,
Speaker 2: maybe a car that you're looking to sell.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Feel free join the conversation. If you've had a problem
Speaker 2: with your car. Larry Scott are always willing to talk
Speaker 2: with you. I'd like to get as many of you
Speaker 2: in as possible. Let's light them up six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I look at tonight's program as one that really gives
Speaker 2: you an opportunity to get some free automotive advice and
Speaker 2: from two experts who have been doing this for a
Speaker 2: long time, long long time, but many years with WBZ
Speaker 2: as well. That's why they're called the WBZ Car Guys.
Speaker 2: Be right back on Nightside. Feel free, don't be shy.
Speaker 2: Coming back right.
Speaker 1: After this now back to Dan Ray live from the
Speaker 1: Window World nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, Larryan, Scott Rubinstein, the WBZ car Guys. I like
Speaker 2: to call them the Knightside Car Guys. But they've been
Speaker 2: on WBZ now for between Jordan Rich and myself, how
Speaker 2: many other programs have you done here in BZ? Have
Speaker 2: you been a guest on Morgan Show? I assume as well,
Speaker 2: I mean you've you've made the rounds here right.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've been Morgan too. You know interesting fact today's
Speaker 3: smartphones they tell you everything that you did, even if
Speaker 3: you don't know that you did it. We were on
Speaker 3: the show exactly six years ago in studio exactly six
Speaker 3: years ago today.
Speaker 2: That would have been twenty eighteen. That would have been, right,
Speaker 2: that would have been Is that the last time you
Speaker 2: were in studio?
Speaker 3: That's I would expect, uh, thinking when we got COVID,
Speaker 3: I would expect we were probably in another time that.
Speaker 2: I because we generally get you in a couple of
Speaker 2: times a year, at least maybe sometimes three times a year. Well,
Speaker 2: let's get it started. We get these phone lines starting
Speaker 2: and go. So we're going to go. First off to
Speaker 2: Doris and Linfield. Doris, thanks for getting us going tonight.
Speaker 2: You're first up. You're with Larry and Scott Rubinstein the
Speaker 2: WBC car guys. What's your question abound your comments?
Speaker 6: My question is hi, can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Ken?
Speaker 7: Thank you? Thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm looking to buy a new car and I'm trying
Speaker 6: to compare the Mercedes GLC to the Porsche Makon.
Speaker 2: You're going high end doors.
Speaker 6: Well, I have to be honest. I have the Mercedes GLC.
Speaker 6: It's a twenty sixteen, and I wanted your opinion on,
Speaker 6: you know, whether I should switch over to the Porsche.
Speaker 6: What holds its value better?
Speaker 3: What what model? Porsta? The Macon, Oh, the Macon.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean you've been in the Mercedes for eight
Speaker 4: years now. I mean Mercedes is kind of you know,
Speaker 4: they're in their own glass and you know, as Standard
Speaker 4: pointed out that they're high in both high end vehicles.
Speaker 4: Have what havn't you liked about the Mercedes?
Speaker 6: Well, I like the Mercedes. I just at this point,
Speaker 6: you know, wanted to make a change. We always wanted, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, my husband always wanted a Porsche. So I
Speaker 6: just thought, you know, maybe I would switch at this time.
Speaker 6: And right now I have a seven thousand dollars repair
Speaker 6: bill that I'm looking at, you know, for the front struts,
Speaker 6: the wheelbearings, and I have to make a decision here.
Speaker 6: Am I going to invest the money into the you know,
Speaker 6: my Mercedes, or.
Speaker 4: Am I going to go with the Porsche?
Speaker 3: So right, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, take can is beautiful, it is a sharp looking car.
Speaker 2: I want to know how miles she has in the car.
Speaker 2: How many miles do you have a car?
Speaker 6: I have one hundred and fifty two thousand.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's going to be a factor in terms of
Speaker 2: whether you're going to plow seven thousand dollars into it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, gentlemen, exactly yep.
Speaker 4: I personally say, if you can afford to make the move,
Speaker 4: you know, by all means, certainly do it. The difference
Speaker 4: between Porsche and you know, Mercedes not a ton. I
Speaker 4: think Mercedes Gota has a little bit more of the
Speaker 4: luxury and creature comforts, uh, and Porsche's have more of
Speaker 4: a style to them. I don't think you can go
Speaker 4: wrong with either one of you test driven both the
Speaker 4: new models.
Speaker 6: I'm actually in a loner for the Mercedes right now,
Speaker 6: and I'm going for the Porsche tomorrow.
Speaker 7: So, but you happen to be honest.
Speaker 6: What do you make of the Whitebot?
Speaker 4: What do you think of the GLCs off? The new
Speaker 4: GLC so far?
Speaker 7: I like it? Yeah, I like it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I think really, I don't think you can
Speaker 4: go wrong with either one. Both high end cars, very
Speaker 4: nice cars. Like I said, my opinion, I think you'll
Speaker 4: get more style from the Porsche, but I don't think
Speaker 4: you can beat the comfort level that you getting the Mercedes.
Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to come down to reference.
Speaker 2: I got a question, kay, give me, just don't don't
Speaker 2: embarrass my guest here. But these are not thirty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars cars. What sort of a price range? Are these
Speaker 2: two cars? Pretty close in terms of price? Don't anyone
Speaker 2: speak first? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Oh, you know you're waiting for the customer.
Speaker 2: No, what are we talking about?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: How much of price differential is that between these two cars?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: What I what I found is is not much of
Speaker 6: a price difference. Okay, the portion might be, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe five thousand more. But my question is which one
Speaker 6: will hold its value you know when I go to
Speaker 6: trade in or sell it.
Speaker 2: Great question, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I think that the Port is going to hold its
Speaker 3: value more because it is rarer than the Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 3: But you also have to how many miles did you
Speaker 3: want to keep this new car that you're going to get.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to go to one fifty two.
Speaker 6: You're doing a lot of driving right now, but probably
Speaker 6: in a couple of years that driving is going to behalf.
Speaker 3: You need to realize risk dollars, and while you were talking,
Speaker 3: I was just checking it so I can be accurate
Speaker 3: in what I say. The cost of maintaining a Porsche
Speaker 3: is significantly higher than a Mercedes, and you.
Speaker 7: Have to be prepared with that.
Speaker 6: I wanted to know anything.
Speaker 3: That moves, anything that has a computer that has moving
Speaker 3: posts in it, it's going to wear out, it's going
Speaker 3: to break. If you're upset about seven thousand dollars to
Speaker 3: repair a beautiful Mercedes, you're going to be very upset
Speaker 3: when you find out what the Porsche costs to repair.
Speaker 3: It's really a quaranty vehicle.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at the warranties that might carry me through
Speaker 6: the life of you know, the Porsche. But right now
Speaker 6: I don't know if I want to put the seven
Speaker 6: thousand dollars into a car that has one hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty two thousand.
Speaker 3: Have you seen what? Have you asked what the Mercedes
Speaker 3: dealer will give you in plade on it?
Speaker 7: We're going to get there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, Doors, I want to do this to you, ye,
Speaker 2: go ahead, go ahead ahead.
Speaker 3: I want to look at what the trade value is
Speaker 3: over at the Porch dealership, which I think there's one
Speaker 3: on one fourteen and at the Mercedes dealer, which is
Speaker 3: one right out Linfield where you are, and you can
Speaker 3: wave them out. But just understand what I'm saying. Listen,
Speaker 3: clearly it's going to cost you a lot more to
Speaker 3: maintain the porch. Read that warranty over very carefully. They're
Speaker 3: raidy by lawyers. I have been through it before. I
Speaker 3: know what you're going through, and I hate to.
Speaker 2: Do this to you. Doris. You're a great call. You're
Speaker 2: a great call. Best of luck. I don't think you
Speaker 2: I don't think you'll make a mistake either way. But
Speaker 2: you're you gotta lot. You're You're probably going to be
Speaker 2: a highest end caller tonight. I don't think anyone's gonna
Speaker 2: top you unless they're going to ask for the price
Speaker 2: of an airplane.
Speaker 3: Thanks Doris.
Speaker 2: All right, good night. We'll take a quick break here.
Speaker 2: Uh no, we started. Hi, guys, this is good.
Speaker 3: We have down from here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can look at it like that six months now.
Speaker 2: The only one else who has is in more shape
Speaker 2: in that regardless the Patriots at this point. By the way,
Speaker 2: six seven five, four ten thirty, six seven, nine, ten
Speaker 2: thirty I lean his next I got John and Bill.
Speaker 2: I got a little bit of room for everybody. If
Speaker 2: you want to dial either or both of those numbers
Speaker 2: will get you in back on Night's Side after the
Speaker 2: News at the bottom of the hour, Here.
Speaker 1: On Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, bull lines, let's keep rolling here, gentlemen, as
Speaker 2: we turn the corner here on the first hour, I
Speaker 2: hope that Larry and Scott will be able to stay
Speaker 2: with us for a couple of hours. Sole we go
Speaker 2: to Eileen. Eileen is not going to be dealing with
Speaker 2: a Porsche or Mercedes. I don't think Hi, Eileen, how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm fine. I have a Toyota Prius, but I
Speaker 8: and I have a question about that. But the thing
Speaker 8: that I'm calling about is I saw on TV the
Speaker 8: other day something about electric cars because there's so much
Speaker 8: heavier than normal cars that when they crash into a
Speaker 8: guard rail, the guardrail can't take the weight or the
Speaker 8: impact and the the car turns over on its roof.
Speaker 8: And I that's worrisome to me. So then I looked
Speaker 8: up the Toyota Prius and it's pretty heavy. Also, it's
Speaker 8: heavier than most cars. So I'm I'm a little I'm
Speaker 8: just a little worried about.
Speaker 2: Let's see what they have to say, Eileen. So you
Speaker 2: have a Toyota Prius. Gentlemen, I would hope that Eileen
Speaker 2: would never be in any sort of an accident. Accident obviously,
Speaker 2: but she's concerned about if she did happen to hit
Speaker 2: a guardrail, how much of a greater danger is that
Speaker 2: compared to a regular car.
Speaker 3: So then I did tune in to today's pregame show
Speaker 3: and I saw that Eileen actually, as mentioned in the comments,
Speaker 3: that she was going to check on it. So it
Speaker 3: gave me a good opportunity to do some research, and
Speaker 3: I could paid three similar size cars. The Preus, depending
Speaker 3: upon the year of the A Prius weighs anywhere from
Speaker 3: twenty five hundred to thirty six hundred pounds, depends on
Speaker 3: the year. The Honda Civic is about six hundred pounds lighter,
Speaker 3: and the Corolla is only a few hundred pounds lighter
Speaker 3: what you saw on TV. I am not buying it.
Speaker 3: I think that I don't know what the reason they
Speaker 3: would say something like that is. I mean, if you
Speaker 3: hit the god reel with any car, SUV, motorcycle, if
Speaker 3: you hit it at the correct angle, the vehicle's going
Speaker 3: to flip and roll. What was the premise of the
Speaker 3: whole commercial, if you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 2: Was it a commercial or a news story?
Speaker 6: I leen, I think it was a news story.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what is the premise that that electric vehicle
Speaker 2: cars were more susceptible to flipping over?
Speaker 8: Yeah, their weight, because they're heavier and the guardrails aren't
Speaker 8: strong enough to bounce them back on the road.
Speaker 3: Za Koya weighs about a ton more than yours than
Speaker 3: your car. And I have seen many pictures and I
Speaker 3: have investigated a few accidents with the guardrails held up
Speaker 3: just fine after being impacted by fifteen hundred pickup trucks,
Speaker 3: twenty five hundred pickup trucks, smaller cars, bigger cars. It
Speaker 3: really depends upon the angle. Now, the center of gravity
Speaker 3: is going to be different because of the battery on
Speaker 3: the bottom. Now, if they want to talk about that,
Speaker 3: that's something different, okay, whether it be a top heavy
Speaker 3: car or a bottom heavy car. But as far as
Speaker 3: the weight of the vehicle goes, it's not really that
Speaker 3: much of a bloated car that it is significant in
Speaker 3: the turning.
Speaker 2: Over, Eileen, I think you're over worried. You know, drive
Speaker 2: obviously don't speed. I'm sure Scott wants to say something
Speaker 2: here as well.
Speaker 3: Scott, No, I mean I wouldn't necessarily.
Speaker 4: I feel like the phrase is kind of be an
Speaker 4: unfairly targeted here. I think because all evs are a
Speaker 4: heavier vehicle in general, the god rails are not made
Speaker 4: to handle the weight of those vehicles and what weighs
Speaker 4: so much on those of the batteries. Uh, they they
Speaker 4: are super heavy, and between that and all the drive
Speaker 4: train components of the regenda breaking system, they are heavy vehicles.
Speaker 4: So I think it's more of maybe we need to
Speaker 4: rethink the guardrail system that we have versus you know
Speaker 4: that the vehicle is an unsafe vehicle.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't want you to get the misconception that the
Speaker 4: Prius is a more dangerous vehicle because of its weight.
Speaker 3: All right, I personally I'm not a big EV.
Speaker 4: Guy myself, but I don't I wouldn't want you in
Speaker 4: nessitely think it's just the priest problem. All ev b's
Speaker 4: weigh a lot, all right.
Speaker 7: I hope that.
Speaker 2: I know you love the ps the Prius, and hopefully
Speaker 2: that settles your mind a little bit.
Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks, you're very welcome.
Speaker 2: Next up to New Hampshire. John in New Hampshire, John,
Speaker 2: You're next on night Side with the WBZ car guys
Speaker 2: Larry Scott Rubinstein right ahead.
Speaker 7: John, Hello, Hello, Dan and Larry. It's Scart. Hey. I
Speaker 7: got a No. Seven Honda Cord I've got for years. Okay,
Speaker 7: I thought it's only a couple of years old. But
Speaker 7: it's good one hundred and thirty five thousand or beautiful car.
Speaker 3: Quiet.
Speaker 7: It's always been quiet. It's the last six months or
Speaker 7: so I hear a rhythmic come when I'm doing about
Speaker 7: five or forty miles an hour. That's when you really
Speaker 7: hear it. You can tell, you can, you know you
Speaker 7: can hear. It's always been a very quiet clutter. But
Speaker 7: I just want to get your idea, which is thanks
Speaker 7: wrong with it?
Speaker 2: What type of noise I miss? John? What type of
Speaker 2: noise is a hum? A hum? Okay, you know.
Speaker 7: You can, you can tell exactly. I've never heard it
Speaker 7: for years when I was driving, it's always been a
Speaker 7: very quiet, sar. But the first thing I think about
Speaker 7: is a wheel bearing is something you're tires, but I
Speaker 7: just want to get their reading.
Speaker 4: Well, I actually was leaning towards the same thing. So
Speaker 4: I'm going to guess you say it starts at thirty five,
Speaker 4: it continues as you can increase in speed. I'm assuming.
Speaker 7: Yeah, basically goes up. But I mean at thirty five
Speaker 7: it's a very quite okay, you know you find get
Speaker 7: that because you're going first.
Speaker 4: Do you find that if you turn the wheels slightly
Speaker 4: to the left or the right, that it changes the
Speaker 4: hum changes at all?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: I could, I think I recall that that I forgot
Speaker 7: about that. I could give that a shot. And what
Speaker 7: if it does, what does that mean that wheel bearing?
Speaker 4: Well, no, even if it doesn't change, it could still
Speaker 4: be a bad bearing, but it could most likely to
Speaker 4: be a rare wheel bearing that could be noisy. But
Speaker 4: if you notice that if you turn the wheel slightly
Speaker 4: to the left, you're now putting more of a load
Speaker 4: on the right side. If the noise increases, those things
Speaker 4: the same, and turning to the left it would be
Speaker 4: the right side and vice versa.
Speaker 3: Okay, but coming from the back from the from the
Speaker 3: back towards you.
Speaker 4: Have wheel bearings out back to so there's a very
Speaker 4: good chance that it could be coming.
Speaker 3: From a real whale bearing.
Speaker 4: It should be able to be somewhat easily diagnosed. Put
Speaker 4: it up on a lift, have the technician spin off.
Speaker 4: Unless it than something you got to tackle yourself. You
Speaker 4: want to spin in each individual wheel and you should
Speaker 4: be able to feel difference if you grab one of
Speaker 4: the suspension components while the wheel is spinning, you'll feel
Speaker 4: like a slight vibration. You'll feel rougher on one side
Speaker 4: versus the other.
Speaker 2: All right, I hope that helps John get checked out
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. By the way, why
Speaker 7: don't you guys call that lady back with the porst
Speaker 7: problem told her by a Toyota canbry.
Speaker 2: I think that might be an exercise of futility and
Speaker 2: we don't have a number anyway. Thanks John, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I know, I know, I know, I'm
Speaker 2: getting you back. Problem. All right, let's get one more
Speaker 2: in here before the break. Going to go to Bill
Speaker 2: in Easton, the town of Easton, Massachusetts. Built next on
Speaker 2: nice side with Larry and Scott Rubenstein. Grutead Bill.
Speaker 5: Okay, I feel I have a duty as a consumer
Speaker 5: to alert all of your calls how to stretch that dollars,
Speaker 5: because let's face it, the car is not an investment.
Speaker 5: It's a negative cash flow, and.
Speaker 2: I think it's a necessity. It might not be an investment,
Speaker 2: but for most people it's a necessity, particularly if they
Speaker 2: can't take MBTA to work. Go ahead, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead, Okay, so wipe the blades are five dollars their
Speaker 5: ocean state job lot, I don't work twenty of these companies.
Speaker 5: Tires are cheapest at PEP Voice you get a demand
Speaker 5: of Chinese ones, and the insurance is cheapest through Geico
Speaker 5: by far.
Speaker 3: Really, Oh yes, oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is good gentlemen.
Speaker 4: With with that being said, With that being said, and
Speaker 4: I know I told Dad I really want him to
Speaker 4: take this call, but I just want to remind you
Speaker 4: get what you pay for if you buy Chinese time
Speaker 4: let me finish, please, If you buy cheap Chinese tires,
Speaker 4: they're going to last like cheap Chinese tires. If you
Speaker 4: buy five dollars wiper blades, they're going to last and
Speaker 4: give you the protection of five dollars wiper blades. As
Speaker 4: far as the insurance goes, I have heard very good
Speaker 4: things about Geico that the pricing is good. That's just
Speaker 4: my opinion. As far as that, Larry, you can't out
Speaker 4: of comment on that.
Speaker 3: You echoed what I was going to say. When I
Speaker 3: hear cheap tires, I get the chills because your tires
Speaker 3: are your lifeline between stopping and going. As I previously
Speaker 3: stated at the beginning of tonight's show, you can have
Speaker 3: the best breaks in the world, but if your tires
Speaker 3: don't griper, if your tires have weak side walls, you're
Speaker 3: gonna hurt yourself or somebody else. When I buy tires.
Speaker 3: That's one thing I will not cheap out on is tires.
Speaker 3: When we had our business for close to forty years,
Speaker 3: I would not sell cheap tires. If you want cheap tires,
Speaker 3: I would tell the person you can go pep boys,
Speaker 3: you can go here or there. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: be responsible or be a party to somebody getting injured
Speaker 3: because they cheaped out on what is one of the
Speaker 3: most important features tires, spearing breaks on your vehicle. I
Speaker 3: don't care how dust that ja cargo's you need to,
Speaker 3: I'll be able to stop and control your car, and
Speaker 3: I feel very strongly about that.
Speaker 5: That's fine. You have an opinion. But thank God for
Speaker 5: this caller myself, because I have no axe to grind.
Speaker 5: I got over three hundred thousand miles out of my
Speaker 5: last car, putting eighty seven octane and never synthetic oil.
Speaker 5: So we'll kind of car John, Oh, Bill, Bill was
Speaker 5: a hard o for Civic SI, great cord.
Speaker 4: They don't need synthetic model. Yeah, as long as your
Speaker 4: regular maintenance, they certainly don't require synthetic oil, and and
Speaker 4: and good viewer.
Speaker 3: That's that.
Speaker 4: That's awesome to hear that. We love vehicles that last
Speaker 4: long time.
Speaker 2: All right, Bill, Api.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I switched to Toyota this time from Honda because
Speaker 5: they've got a Knickel run. Yeah, there's one brand new
Speaker 5: car on the twenty grand now Mitsubishi Mirage made in Thailand.
Speaker 5: Three so on this four log nuts. Okay, Bill, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I got a break because I got some commercial spots
Speaker 2: coming in. Thank you very much. Appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 2: All Right, you have a great one. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: We got we're coming back. We got Jay and uh,
Speaker 2: Alicia and Wayne and Sheldon and I only got room
Speaker 2: at six one, seven, ten thirty. That's the one line
Speaker 2: that's open. I don't want you to waste time dialing
Speaker 2: or wrong up six thirty back with the w busy
Speaker 2: car boys, the car dies, I should say, Larry and
Speaker 2: Scott Rubinstein, they're the best. Coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We were going to
Speaker 2: go next to Oh my goodness, the call we were
Speaker 2: going to take has just dropped off a second ago.
Speaker 2: That's too bad, so we will go directly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before you bring that next call up. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: the reasons are pretty correct. Information out there there there
Speaker 3: is not one car that's under twenty thousand dollars brand new.
Speaker 3: There's actually five cars, okay. The first one is a
Speaker 3: nis Don Versa, which is sixteen thousand, three hundred and ninety.
Speaker 3: The mister Bishi Mirage is sixteen thousand, the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four hund Venue is nineteen nine, the brand new Kia
Speaker 3: Forte is nineteen nine, and the Kia Soul is twenty thousand,
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety. So we do have a choice.
Speaker 3: The least expensive car you can buy brand new out
Speaker 3: of the dealership is a Nissan Versa for sixteen thousand,
Speaker 3: three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 2: How about that, boy, that's good information. You guys are
Speaker 2: the best. We lost Jay and Plymouth, Jay and Plymouth.
Speaker 2: If you call back, I'll get you to the head
Speaker 2: of the line. In the meantime, I'm going to go
Speaker 2: to Alisha in Westwood. Hi, Alisha, how are you tonight?
Speaker 1: I'm good?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: We're doing great. You're on with Larry and Scott Rubinstein,
Speaker 2: the WBC car guys. Go right ahead. What's your question
Speaker 2: of comment?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: My question is I drive a Mercedes the three hundred
Speaker 5: and I need to replace one tire. But is it
Speaker 5: better retire?
Speaker 4: Is it better to replace both tires or just.
Speaker 2: The one tires in the rear?
Speaker 3: Replace them in pairs. You'll get better traction and better
Speaker 3: handling Alicia, Okay, and less unless.
Speaker 4: Yeah, unless it's an all wheel drive. And then if
Speaker 4: it's an all wheel drive, is all.
Speaker 3: Wheel to keep them with? Then with that being said,
Speaker 3: you need.
Speaker 4: To keep them with intent to twenty You need to
Speaker 4: keep them with inten to twenty percent of them. Every
Speaker 4: manufacturer is a little different, but you need to keep
Speaker 4: them relatively close to the front ties as well. How
Speaker 4: many miles do you have on the other three tires.
Speaker 3: That are on the vehicle?
Speaker 4: Thirty two thousands? You have thirty two thousand miles. I'm
Speaker 4: actually going to recommend, and I would almost bank that
Speaker 4: any dealership in most tire places will back.
Speaker 3: Up what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'll be gonna recommend you to replace all four as
Speaker 4: a match set, because when you don't have matching tires
Speaker 4: on an all wheel drive vehicle, you can actually do
Speaker 4: serious damage to the drive train components. Okay, Okay, So.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're planning on going to a
Speaker 4: dealers yet or repair facility, a tire shop, but don't
Speaker 4: be surprised if they end up suggesting that you end
Speaker 4: up replacing all four and most likely I would probably
Speaker 4: back them up simply because it's an all wheel drive vehicle.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Here, You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Good good, good question and great answers. Next up. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to get to Wayne and Brought and Wayne
Speaker 2: next on Nightsiger.
Speaker 9: Right ahead, Good evening, gentlemen. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 9: I'm sure we're all.
Speaker 7: Grateful for it.
Speaker 9: So oh and by the way, Geico used to be
Speaker 9: good and now I'm with Progressive. You have to call
Speaker 9: them all, make sure they're Apple for Apple policies, but
Speaker 9: call everyone because you never know who's going to be cheaper.
Speaker 9: And then here's my question.
Speaker 3: So I've got to deposit on a.
Speaker 9: Ten year old FOURD Escape with a one point five
Speaker 9: Eco boost and it's one of these Oh my god,
Speaker 9: no one's ever sat in the back seat like your
Speaker 9: grandmother had it, and it just looks mint mint. There's
Speaker 9: probably like ninety five thousand miles on it. And so
Speaker 9: they replaced the tires. Okay, great, and then we heard
Speaker 9: the noise from the back. So now we have to
Speaker 9: replace the red differential.
Speaker 3: Should that be a red.
Speaker 9: Flag for me? Isn't there like if they get it
Speaker 9: back from the garage, it's got a new rear differential
Speaker 9: from the junkyard? Is it likely?
Speaker 5: Do?
Speaker 9: I just want to stare.
Speaker 7: Clear from this?
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean if this guy has a has a
Speaker 3: red dip going, how many thousand miles on it?
Speaker 9: Ninety five ish?
Speaker 3: Okay, and it's one of twenty fourteen Yeah, yeah, how
Speaker 3: much money are they asking you?
Speaker 9: At nine nine grand?
Speaker 3: It's cheap. That's that's what. No, that's what the going
Speaker 3: price price is what escape?
Speaker 9: And again it's got the one point five.
Speaker 3: But here's my segue.
Speaker 9: I'm looking at the two point zero, which has like
Speaker 9: fifty more horsepower, and I guess is a more reliable engine?
Speaker 3: Should I just go in that direction instead? Did you
Speaker 3: do a cor fax on it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And the cop ask about clean?
Speaker 9: Yeah, but you never see major components.
Speaker 3: You only see, you know, just the dealer make a dip.
Speaker 9: Dealer recommended things like that.
Speaker 3: So just so you know, I'm looking at a fourteen
Speaker 3: Ford Escape se right now with one hundred and five
Speaker 3: thousand miles for eighty nine hundred and ninety five dollars.
Speaker 2: It's pretty close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you aren't getting you wan't getting a deal.
Speaker 3: If the weird dift is gone at one hundred and fifty,
Speaker 3: I would say that's a weak point in the car
Speaker 3: or the car has been abused because what what what?
Speaker 3: What Ford?
Speaker 4: Isn't that a week point in?
Speaker 3: Well, this play nine fift is really probably one of
Speaker 3: the best difts out there, unless you.
Speaker 4: Right, but that's a nine that that's a nine instead
Speaker 4: of fort nine inches of zone animal, how many there
Speaker 4: have been multiple SUVs and the Ford lineups that I
Speaker 4: can big up that have had d differential noise, bad
Speaker 4: bearings in them. I mean, it can't happen in any
Speaker 4: any making model here, but I do.
Speaker 3: It really wouldn't be.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen. I got thirty seconds before we got to break
Speaker 2: go ahead. It wouldn't for me.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't scam me. You know, Larry's opinion is what
Speaker 4: but my I would not scam me. Larry want to
Speaker 4: menshre it off.
Speaker 3: If they're going to put in a Junkyard unit, I'd
Speaker 3: be a little bit nervous about it because, as you know,
Speaker 3: a Junkyard unit they only have a thirty day warranty
Speaker 3: unless the installer extends the warranty. But I do want
Speaker 3: to emphasize nine thousand dollars is not a bargain. That's
Speaker 3: the average asking price.
Speaker 2: All right, Wayne, you got it, and we'll run out
Speaker 2: of time. But thank you for your call. I hope
Speaker 2: that helps you kind of got to split decision from
Speaker 2: the BSY car guys in this. Okay, Okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: thanks Wayne. All Right, here comes the news. The only
Speaker 2: lines that are open right now. We have two lines
Speaker 2: at six, one, seven, nine three one, ten thirty. The
Speaker 2: others are tied up six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. We'll get you in and Jay and Plymouth.
Speaker 2: You were waiting a long time. You call back, I'll
Speaker 2: give you a priority