Auto Correct | Rental Vehicles

You know who else loves our show?

Man, you're seeing what I'm seeing.

Don't tell me it's Craig.

No, it's not Craig.

Who else loves our show?

It's Pam Pibus from Fixit 101.

Well, we're glad to have her on today.

Pam said she listened to the podcast on MiniCoopers.

Well, I hope I didn't blow your bubble on your MiniCoopers.

Good morning, Pam.

Good morning.

I was working the day it was live,

so I listened to the podcast because I was so interested.

And I actually share your opinion of MiniCoopers.

OK.

Well, I didn't want to take in Saturday

if you loved your MiniCoopers that much.

I didn't want to take and make you feel bad.

What's that opinion, Pam?

Well, you know, I loved it for a while.

And then I started having these crazy problems

that the dealer couldn't figure out.

And I had two different mechanics look at it

and couldn't figure it out.

And finally found something online with an owner up

in Seattle, Washington.

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We are back.

And I got up this morning.

It was cool outside.

And it was cool.

And the sun was out.

That's right.

For your 4 AM walk or whatever.

It was a 4 30 AM walk.

That's crazy.

He's a mean man, boy.

But yeah, it was, I mean, this is an anomaly for us

where we see full sun and we get cool air.

We just hope that it lasts a little while.

Yeah, that would be nice if we could get it all the way

through Thanksgiving.

That would be great.

And then it just goes on into December.

Yeah, we'll take that.

And then everybody wants just a white Christmas.

So just on the 25th, then we get snow.

And then the rest, it's got to go.

We can handle it.

Right.

Listen, Coach, I want to know

what's been going on in your world.

You were talking about you didn't came back from New Orleans.

Well, I went down there to see the Saints.

But I really didn't go see the Saints.

I went to see the Giants for Jackson Dart.

OK.

You know, because he was at Ole Miss.

OK.

Hotty Toddy.

But they lost.

Oh, man.

That was OK.

We had a great time.

OK.

And we enjoyed the game and enjoyed the trip.

You didn't have on any Saints gear, did you?

You know, I was in black and gold.

Oh, OK.

You went in.

OK.

My wife was in blue for Jackson Dart.

And I was in black and gold.

I love it.

We had a good time.

It sounds like it.

Have y'all been by the fair yet?

No.

I haven't got there yet.

I go this weekend.

I'm going today for lunch.

Oh, that's the best thing.

This is to treat myself.

I love to eat.

I know.

This is to treat myself.

Yes.

And then it's a beautiful day.

Who would want to go?

It is a beautiful day.

So, yeah.

Fair today for me.

But what's today for the show?

We're talking rental vehicles.

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The phone number is 1-877-MPB-RING.

That's 1-877-672-7464.

All right.

Everybody probably knows what a rental vehicle is.

But of course.

Give us the definition.

I want to.

I really do.

A rental vehicle is a car, truck, van, or other automobile

that is hired out to a customer for a short period,

such as a day, week, or even month,

without the customer taking ownership of the vehicle.

That's for some.

You better watch that customer.

No, I'm playing.

The renter pays a fee for the temporary use of the vehicle

and is responsible for its condition and adherence

to the rental terms, which may include insurance, mileage

limits, and fuel policies.

Well, when you start talking about rental cars,

the reason I even thought about doing a show on rental cars

is because we had somebody come in the restaurant.

They had a rental car.

And it broke down right there in our parking lot.

Oh, while they were in the rental agreement?

While they were in the rental agreement, it broke down

and they just picked it up.

Oh, wow.

They just picked it up from the airport

and drove it out to Pocahontas.

And it broke down in the driveway.

It was over with.

And they were waiting on a tow truck to come get it.

So was there an end to this story?

Did they get reimbursed?

Did they get a new car?

They brought them a new car.

But yet they were delayed three or four hours getting

where they needed to go because the car broke down.

Well, that's a rental horror story for sure.

When you start talking about rental cars,

I used to rent cars.

And I know I haven't rented a car in a long time,

but I used to rent cars.

But they wanted so much, like you say, they wanted insurance.

And they wanted different things.

But because some insurance policies

will not cover you in a rental car.

And so you need to make sure you have the right insurance

because you will pay a good price for that insurance.

And one of the things is when you're renting a rental car,

you want to make sure you inspect that rental car completely.

Because what happens when they bring it back,

they can say, well, you got it in here,

you got a cracked windshield here,

you need to make sure you inspect it

and make sure you make notes and make notes

with the one that is renting the car.

Right.

Usually they do that walk around with you.

But you know, you're so excited, ready to go.

You ain't looked at everything.

That's right.

Get me out of this airport.

That's what's happening.

You've not looked at everything.

You see that, Nick, but you're like, okay,

we'll just keep going.

Yeah, it's probably fine.

That is not a good thing.

No, you need to make sure they mark it

on the paper that they have,

saying that it has a Nick in that spot.

Because if not, you will pay for it,

one way or the other.

You know, when you start talking about rental cars,

you know, there are some pros about a rental car

and there are some cons about a rental car.

Well, let's do the pros first.

If you think about a rental car,

first of all, they're up-to-date models.

They're gonna be two or three years old.

Every rental car out there is two, three years old.

Okay.

Okay, so you get a newer model car.

Even the one that broke down in Pocahontas.

It was a new car.

Oh, okay, just making sure.

So you get a rental car, they're up-to-date models,

and they have all the bells and whistles

according to which model you get.

Okay.

Okay, you can get some subcompact

all the way up to the luxury cars.

Okay, so, as a matter of fact,

rental cars change every few years.

They change their whole fleet of cars.

So you can get that maintenance records.

Okay, so, reputable rental car companies

are strict about maintenance.

They take care of their cars.

Once again, you understand what I said.

I said, reputable rental car companies.

Okay.

We'd not the unreputable ones.

No, you need to make sure it's Avis or Hertz

or Alamo, somebody that you know that is

out there advertising their rental cars on a daily basis.

Not rental wheel.

No, not rental wheel.

You want to make sure that you can get that rental car

and it's taken care of.

Okay, no haggle pricing.

A lot of times you go in there

and I love to get the ones that have unlimited mileage.

And that's really the ones you try to get

that has unlimited mileage.

Because I have got a rental car in flow with Mississippi

and drove it all the way to Oxford a couple times.

Yeah.

And instead of saying you got a 200 mile limit.

Or all of that, yeah, it's kind of a limit list.

And then you have to start paying per mile

if you do not get unlimited mileage.

And it may cost you a little bit more, but it's worth it.

So unlimited mileage on some cars and added protection.

You can get added protection on some cars.

Okay, when you're in the car.

But you know, renting a car and buying a rental car,

there's two different things, okay?

You can buy a rental car

from several different rental car companies.

Yeah, Enterprise, I know.

Enterprise, Hertz sells them.

Budget.

Budget sells them, okay.

Now the only drawback there is that

where are the rental cars going

and do you know if you're getting to a rental car?

Okay.

Because a lot of times dealerships buy rental cars.

Yeah, you tapped on this a week or so ago.

Yeah, dealerships buy rental cars.

They put them on their lot.

Auctions buy rental cars.

Okay, so all these cars are sold in different places.

And you need to know what you're getting.

Yeah, well, are they supposed to, you know,

put that up front for you?

No, they don't have to put it up front.

Okay.

They just, you know, they say that it's a used car.

Yeah.

And if we were to ask,

I wonder would they disclose that information?

Probably not.

What?

Probably not, you know,

because they don't tell you who brings the car in.

Yeah.

You know, say if you're buying a used car,

they don't tell you who has that car before you.

Yeah.

You know, they don't give you the opportunity

to call them on the phone and say,

oh, well, tell me about this car.

Why don't you trade it in?

Yeah.

You know.

If I was to say an unnamed business,

tell me percentage-wise how many cars on the lot

would be rentals and that would be vehicle mega.

Right.

Well, a lot of...

How many rental cars do you think is on vehicle mega's lot?

Yeah.

Just think about quite a few.

You're saying about 80%?

Yes.

Because, you know, where are they coming from?

You know, they don't have that many customers

here in Jackson, Mississippi.

Returning them?

No, you're right.

Yeah, you're right.

Everybody knows they don't have that many customers

here in Jackson, Mississippi.

You're right.

To bring a car in.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So when you think about rental cars, you know,

another thing is most rental cars

are gonna have low mileage on them, okay?

Now, some of them will have higher mileage on them.

Now, we think about rental cars.

We think about buying a rental car.

Is it a good option to buy a rental car?

Well, you gotta think about this here.

First of all, cars lose a lot.

They depreciate a lot in the first three years.

Okay.

I'm talking about they can go from $50,000

down to $25,000 in three or four years.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, so your car is not really worth

as much, it loses probably about a quarter

of the price when it comes off that parking lot.

We need to drive it away, yeah.

Right, so when you think about rental cars,

and I always look at this,

somebody gets in a rental car, they know it's not theirs.

A lot of people are being in it

and they have dogged that car out.

Yeah, because it's not theirs.

A lot of wear and tear.

It's not their car.

They ain't gotta worry about it.

Yeah.

So they're gonna put as many miles on it

and they're gonna do whatever they wanna do.

Yeah, to it, to it.

So when you start thinking about rental cars,

buying a rental car, you need to look into all of that.

I'm sure they have car faxes on all those VIN numbers.

You can just, any car has a car fax or a VIN number

that you can look up the car

to see what kind of shape it's been in.

Okay, okay.

Now I'm seeing one more pro of renting a car.

It's the business benefits.

For businesses, renting can be a way

to expense a vehicle and avoid managing a large fleet.

Well, that's true.

When I was in the trucking business,

we rented trucks all the time.

Okay, instead of purchasing.

Yeah, we would rent a truck,

say maybe one of our trucks was broke down,

we'd go rent another one.

Okay, and we may have it three or four days

or a week or a month.

Yeah.

Okay, well, that was a way

that you didn't have to go buy another vehicle,

but you had a vehicle at your disposal.

So you could deliver things

and they were responsible for the maintenance on it.

Yeah.

And you know, there's so many different rental vehicles.

We're probably in the vein of the ones

that we drive around for traveling A to B

or whatever like that.

But now that we're talking about businesses,

you can rent like, of course a U-Haul,

but then you can also rent a tow truck.

You can rent different things out there.

So there's different rental vehicles available.

Pick up trucks, it doesn't matter.

But when you think about renting

and when you think about buying,

you need to be cognant of what that vehicle has been through.

Okay.

And so let's talk about some drawbacks on buying and renting.

And when we come back from break,

we will definitely get into those.

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We're talking rental vehicles.

Is your car under recall?

I'll tell you how you can find out next.

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Before these recent recalls, let me give a shout out

because Coach just reminded me

to our folks down there cruising the coast right now.

That's great.

That's right.

I know y'all in those clean cars

listening to us on the radio.

You know, give us a call.

Give us a call, looking sharp.

Tell us what it looks like down there.

How's the weather?

1-877-MPB-RING.

That's 1-877-672-7464.

Hey, cruising craig.

I gotta always just say, hey.

Hey, at least throw my line so you can reel him in.

I know it.

Hey, cruising craig.

That's right.

So yeah, shout out to everybody down there

having a ball.

This is the one year that we are not down there.

We've been two years in a row,

but we'll get back down there again.

But I know y'all having a time cruising that strip.

Well, I'm just so happy that the weather changed.

You know, it was raining when I came through there

a couple of days ago,

and they said that the front had cleared out

and the weather is beautiful down there.

Good.

Y'all better be cruising that coast.

That's right.

I know it.

I wonder if the wooden car is down there.

Oh, I know it's there.

I would like to ride in that wooden car.

You gonna go down, maybe?

I don't know.

I might.

Okay.

It don't take us but a hop skip and a jump to get down there.

Down to the coast I may go.

Yeah, y'all get on down there.

It goes through what?

Saturday?

Yeah.

Saturday at 10 o'clock, they'll know exactly,

or know at 12 o'clock how many cars they had ratch.

There was over right at 10,000 right now.

Okay, okay.

So we've kept up with that.

Good stuff.

All right.

I hope y'all are having fun in recall news.

First, Toyota is recalling approximately

394,000 examples of its Sequoia SUV and Tundra pickup truck

over an issue with a multimedia system display.

This includes model year 22 to 25 Tundras

and 23 to 25 Sequoias.

The software in the 14 inch multimedia system display

may cause the screen to turn half green,

fully green, or fully black.

You just let that thing do what it wants to do.

Just wanna do what it wants to do.

Electronics do whatever they want to do.

Right, right.

But this may limit the driver's visibility

when in reverse and increase the risk of a collision.

As a fixed dealers are updating the multimedia system

software and effective vehicles for free,

Toyota will notify owners by late November.

Up next, Nissan is recalling its leaf electric vehicle

over an issue with the lithium ion battery

that could cause a fire

and more than 19,000 vehicles are affected.

This includes 21 to 22 leaf hatchbacks.

Due to excess lithium deposits in the battery cells,

the lithium ion battery in these vehicles

may overheat during DC fast charging,

increasing the risk of a fire.

Now, as a fixed dealers are updating

the battery software for free,

but owners are advised not to fast charge

until the remedy is complete.

Cause you know what?

You gonna have a whole fire out there.

So it looks like to me is that

they got too much power in the battery

and it's getting hot.

They were trying to get better range.

They make that leaf move fast.

That leaf gonna blow around real fast.

Have you seen when they do that to the power wheels,

the kids power wheels, they juice them up.

I've seen that before.

Yes.

I've seen that.

Abram's gonna do that soon.

Hey, double bound.

I know.

He gonna be juicing up a power rail.

Okay.

Toyota is recalling approximately 55,000 examples

of it seeing a minivan for an issue

with the second row seats.

Toyota's on a roll today.

Effective vehicles include model year 25 CNS.

The second row seats in these vehicles

are mounted on seat rails

that may not have been welded properly.

And could you lose structural integrity

in the event of a crash increasing the risk of injury

to resolve dealers are replacing

the second row seat rails with rails

that have proper welding for free.

Well, just make sure you're buckled in

in case you get thrown out.

Yeah.

Make sure you're in the seat.

Like a full eject.

That's right.

You know what you need?

You need a mama's arm back there to hold you back.

That's right.

Hold you back.

Make sure you don't go forward.

Yeah.

You need a mama's arm to hold you back.

That's right.

All right.

And finally in recall news, Hyundai Santa Fe SUV

is at the center of the automaker's latest recall

which involves the starter motor

more than 135,300 vehicles are effective.

It's 24 to 25 Santa Fe's.

The B plus terminal cover on the starter motor

and I know you know what that is.

That is the battery wire.

Tell me.

Coming off the starter, that's the battery wire.

Talk to me now, talk to me now.

The positive battery.

The B positive battery, thanks coach.

That on the cover on the starter motor assembly

in these vehicles may not have been installed properly

which could cause an electrical short during a crash

increasing the risk of an electrical fire.

That's right.

So that's what that does.

Okay.

So as a fixed dealers are inspecting

and reinstalling the starter motor terminal cover for free.

Well, what they're saying if the battery

that's the positive side of the battery

if it comes in contact with the frame or something

that is grounded, it will short and it could start a fire.

Okay.

There's a lot of fires today.

Yes.

I just don't drive those vehicles.

Do not and do not plug that thing in.

All right.

You can find out if your car has a past recall

by going to the national highway traffic

safety administration website

nhtsa.gov forward slash recalls

and inputting your VIN number right there

or find the safer car app.

We're talking rental vehicles.

We're also taking repair questions.

Email us at auto at mpbonline.org

or call us like Andrew did in Edwards, Mississippi.

The phone number is 1-877-MPB ring.

That's 1-877-672-7464.

Andrew, good morning.

You are on with coach Charlie.

Well, I also have your question

about a radiator.

We restore an old car.

What's the best material for radiator

as far as heat, you know, to give it a heat aluminum

or I think they make them out of brass

and copper, I don't know.

Yeah, you're not going to really find a brass one anymore.

That's what they used to make them out of most of the time.

And you could rattle them out

and you could clean them and all.

And you're not going to find any more like that

unless you go to a junkyard

and find one in that particular vehicle.

What year is that vehicle?

It's our 72 Nova.

Yeah, you could probably go to a somewhere

that sells older model cars

and you could probably find one of those radiators.

Now that was the best radiator

because you had either the side,

I don't know if it was a upflow or a side flow

but the tanks were made out of brass as well.

Now the tanks are made out of plastic

and they come loose and you're not going to have it good.

It's going to overheat pretty quick.

Okay, and so they do make it out of aluminum.

What do you think about aluminum?

Well, see most of them are aluminum now

but they have plastic tanks on them.

That means the top and the bottom are plastic

and they're just like riveted on or crushed on

where they're pinched

where they'll hold on to the radiator itself.

But if you can get a double roll,

a lot of times in these cars are single rows

but you can get a double roll aluminum one,

it'll work fine.

Okay, okay, I love y'all too.

Thank you so much for calling.

Oh, thank you, Andrew, thank you so much.

You know who else loves our show?

Man, you're seeing what I'm seeing.

Don't tell me it's Craig.

No, it's not Craig.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Who else loves our show?

It's Pam Pibus from Fixit 101.

Well, we're glad to have her on today.

Pam said she listened to the podcast

on MiniCoopers.

Well, I hope I didn't blow your bubble on your MiniCoopers.

Good morning, Pam.

Good morning.

I had to, I was working the day it was live

so I listened to the podcast

because I was so interested

and I actually share your opinion of MiniCoopers.

Okay, well, I didn't want to take in Saturday

if you loved your MiniCoopers that much.

I didn't want to take and make you feel bad.

What's that opinion, Pam?

Well, you know, I loved it for a while

and then I started having these crazy problems

that the dealer couldn't figure out

and I had two different mechanics look at it

and couldn't figure it out

and finally found something online

with an owner up in Seattle, Washington.

Okay.

And what happens, what happens is

when driving the car in a rain,

if I turn on the windshield wipers,

the car will, driving above 45 miles an hour,

the car will pull to the right in the rain.

That's why it's not good.

Yes, the front right tire slows intermittently

and pulls me to the right

and I thought I was gonna die when it was happening

and it took me over a year and quite a bit of money

and then some online work of my own to figure out

that it is that braking system,

where they drive the brakes, what's that called?

Well, they drive the brakes?

Like DRY drive?

Dry, yes, where they drive the brakes.

It's a BMW thing that they've had

a lot of problems with as well

but it intermittently will dry your brakes for you

so that you brake better in the rain.

And what was happening when my windshield wiper came on

is that it was only doing it on the right tire,

not both tires, and that's why it was pulling me off

to the right.

So it had to go somewhere?

So it had a short in the system

and the power was going where it didn't supposed to go.

Well, you know, I never could get anybody

to tell me what it was but my solution is,

believe it or not, this is crazy.

Don't drive in the rain.

My solution is a, well, at which.

Don't turn on your windshield wipers.

Well, actually, that's actually the solution.

Instead of using the windshield wiper control,

I have to use the manual.

So my solution is a bungee cord.

Yeah.

I have a small bungee cord.

So you can pull it back and forth.

The manual, it just holds the manual down.

That's the only way I can drive in the rain.

Wow.

But this great drying thing is a real thing from BMW.

Did you call the manufacturer on that car on that problem?

I called the manufacturer.

Oh, listen, I called the manufacturer.

I reported it to the National Transportation Board.

She went overseas to where they first made it

and talked to them.

Yeah, I almost showed up.

I almost flew to England to get my peace in my mind.

And I couldn't get any help.

No help at all.

What did the manufacturer tell you?

You called the manufacturer their customer relations?

Yeah, their customer relations.

And they told me to send them something

and never heard back from them.

Well, I'd stay on top of that, you know.

And, you know, if they can't fix it, you know,

even though it's a little older car,

it could be a lemon law on that particular car.

That would be so nice.

You might want to check that out and see if that, you know,

because they have the lemon laws in Mississippi.

Yeah.

Well, I bought the car at the dealer in Tennessee.

Right.

It don't really matter where you buy it.

The manufacturers or manufacturer dealers,

if they sell the car, they should be able to fix the car.

But they could replace it.

And they could replace the car.

And they could get another little Mini Cooper PAM.

We could get a new one.

I don't know if I'd get another one.

Yeah.

Well, it's a 2017.

It's only got 52,000 on it.

Yeah.

Because I only drive it for work.

I have another vehicle that is my personal car.

They're so cute.

You do not want to let them go.

It's, they're so adorable.

But they're so expensive.

I know.

But if mine hadn't stayed on the back of that tow truck,

I'd be like, here's what a head more moral is on it.

Yes.

Well, and you know, I can't sell it.

I'm not going to sell this to somebody.

You know, it's paid for.

And I can't in good conscience, you know, sell it to anybody.

Coach, let's take it on as a project.

Let's let's take this on as a project.

As a driver.

There's a short in that system that's making that happen.

Oh, where power is going through the, maybe going

through the computer where it doesn't post to go.

Yeah.

PAM.

They ran all kinds of codes and all this kind of stuff.

So anyway, just wanted to give you an update

and agree with your assessment.

Yeah.

Thank you for calling.

So if you see Pam out there on a rainy day,

make sure you give her some room to drive, baby.

Give me some space.

Give her some.

Like they like to say, give her 50 feet.

Give her 50 feet.

Maybe you can get somebody to get on.

Maybe you get somebody on top of the car

and just be able to operate you when your wife is for you.

There you go.

Listen, you know, anyway, and I'd drive it off

in the reservoir, but you'd be able to see it.

Little yellow things, that little yellow thing.

Pam, thank you so much for calling us.

All right, have a good one.

All right, baby, you too.

Listen, Peyton and Jackson, you're up next after the break.

Mike and Tupelo, I see you out there.

Sandra and Waynesboro, I see you also.

Right when we come back from the break,

we're going to hit them up like.

We got to let them know.

Like, Gangam style.

That's right.

The number.

Like a song.

Hit them up like Gangam style.

I never knew what he was talking about.

The things that come off the top of my life.

That's right.

2012 called you in.

Right, I know.

I'm so old.

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Our email address where you can send questions is auto at MPBOnline.org.

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We've got a stack up, Coach.

Let's hit the phones.

Peyton and Jackson, his Jeep is overheating.

Peyton, you're on with Coach Charlie.

Hey, thank you all for taking my call.

I drive a 2007 Jeep Wrangler and I'm having this issue where only when I'm idling, so only

like when I'm stopped at a stoplight or something, my engine will overheat.

It's not like, you know, the light's not going off, but I see the gauge, like the

temperature makes it to, you know, about three quarters up.

And I changed the thermostat about a year and a half ago, about five years ago.

I changed the radiator.

And so I'm trying to figure out what would be causing it to only overheat while, while

stopped.

Okay.

I'm going to tell you, I always say keep it simple stupid when I look at a vehicle.

Not you, Peyton.

Not you.

Yeah, not you.

The first thing I want you to do is check the coolant because a lot of times the coolant

is slow and you don't really know the coolant is slow.

Okay.

Because you look at the container that the coolant goes in and you have some in there,

but it may not be in the radiator itself.

The next thing I'd have you do, is it electric fan or is it a manual fan?

How do I know the difference?

Okay.

Electric fan is that a matter of fact, a lot of times you go out there and look at, does

the, does the, does it have a belt around the fan?

Have you looked at that before?

No.

It's like, it's like in a plastic housing.

So that's, that's electric fan.

Okay.

As you're driving the vehicle, air is going through the vehicle and cooling the radiator.

If the electric fan is not working, I would check the fuses and check the electric

fan relay.

Okay.

And those may be your problem for the electric fan.

And a matter of fact, another way you can check it is cut the air conditioner on.

Usually the fan comes on automatically when you cut the air conditioner on and you can

tell if it's working correctly.

Okay.

Yeah.

When I am, when the AC is on, I mean, I can hear the fan running, but the air does get

warmer while like, while I'm sitting at a stoplight.

Yeah.

But that's because the vehicle is heating up, the engine's heating up.

And as the fan made that there's a, some of these vehicles, a switch will make you air

conditioner go off when the vehicle starts to warm up, gets hot.

So what I would do, check the electric fan, check the coolant.

That'd be the first thing.

That's the easiest thing.

Check the coolant to make sure you got plenty of coolant in it.

And then go from there and check the fans.

Okay.

We'll do.

Thank y'all so much.

You're so welcome.

All right.

Thank you, Peyton.

Let's stay on the phone lines.

Let's head to Tupelo.

We've got Mike there.

I'm the washer wiper system in a Toyota Avalon.

Mike, you're on with coach.

Good morning guys.

How you doing?

I'm an 08, 08 Avalon in the windshield washer quit working.

The fuse is good, I checked it and there's plenty of fluid and then, you know, everything

below the tank, everything is below the tank.

I can't see anything to check or wiggle.

Right.

Okay.

The pump is on the, the pump is on in the tank and you like to remove that fender well, the

little plastic cover to see it, okay, on some vehicles and this one here, you may just pull

it up.

But a lot of times what happens is that they get corroded at the pump and when it gets

corroded at the pump, nothing goes through.

That would be the easiest way to check it.

See if he pulled the hose loose from up there by the window or by the windshield.

Pull the hose loose and see if anything comes out because maybe those nozzles at the very

top are stopped up, but most likely it's going to be corrosion in the pump.

If not, you'll have to just change the pump and it's on the bottom of that plastic

jug.

Okay.

Probably have to get it up on the rack where you can see it and work on it.

Maybe not.

Maybe you can just take the whole tank out from the top and it has a couple boats

in it.

You should be able to take it out from the top.

If not, you will just remove that fender well and there will be a boat down there

holding it on and just pull it up and you'll be able to see the hose and the pump

itself.

Okay.

All right.

I'll give you a try.

Yes, sir.

All right.

Keep up good work.

Yes, sir.

Thank you for calling.

All right.

Thank you, Mike.

Let's head to Wayne's Borough.

We've got Sandra there with a Nissan Titan 2018 push to start issue.

Sandra, you're on with Coach Charlie.

Yes.

Hi.

Thank you so much.

Just briefly, I have a 2018 Nissan Titan with the push start.

You're supposed to put your foot on the brake and then push to start.

Then it started not wanting to crank.

Then we were on vacation and this thing just died, but anyway, it wouldn't start.

We checked the battery connections, found that they were a little quoted, so we fixed

that.

We made it home on vacation, but every now and then, it still does that.

I just wondered if this particular vehicle has had a problem with its start.

Well, I don't know if it's had a recall on that particular vehicle, but like I

say, you cleaned the battery post and then it started working again.

A lot of times, and I'll give you an example, I had one the other day that would not

crank up and unless I left the jumper cables on it and when I left the jumper cables

on and I'm talking about not connected to another vehicle, just the jumper cable

on that one side of the positive side and I come to find out, I took the battery

terminal loose and there was a corrosion right in the middle of the battery

terminal right.

There was a little washer there and I took that washer, cleaned it and no

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