The Jeep Wrangler is a popular off-road SUV. Because it’s so common and has lots of parts available, it often shows up in “what should I fix?” questions.
The Nissan Rogue is a common daily-driving SUV. If the brakes aren’t right, it usually means the car needs attention like pads/rotors or a proper brake check.
A “mystery leak” means the car is losing fluid, but nobody knows what kind yet. The fix starts with figuring out where it’s coming from and what fluid it is.
They’re talking about cars that can go a very long distance—hundreds of thousands of kilometers—if you take care of them. It’s about planning for long-term ownership.
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$200 repair escalate into like a $5,000 ticket
Sometimes a small problem with a car gets worse if you ignore it. Then the repair costs a lot more because other parts get affected too.
Volkswagen Canada is where the speaker says they worked while learning how warranty claims are handled. It’s relevant because warranty rules can vary by process and region.
A recall is when the manufacturer admits there’s a problem that could be dangerous and tells owners to get it fixed. Dealers can usually do the repair under that official campaign.
After about 10 years, cars start needing more attention because parts wear out with age. It’s a good time to check things that may have been fine earlier but are now getting tired.
It means doing the regular scheduled services your car needs. If you keep up with that, the car usually lasts a lot longer and is less likely to break down.
Vehicle maintenance is just keeping up with the things that wear out over time. When you track it, you can make sure the mechanic checks the right items at the right time.
In a shop context, a “grocery list” is a simple way to communicate requested checks and services to the technician. The host’s point is that having a written list reduces missed items and makes the next visit more efficient.
They’re saying you should get your brakes looked at regularly. If you hear weird sounds, it’s a sign something might be wearing out and needs checking before it gets expensive.
“Chasing a noise” means trying to track down the exact sound that’s causing the issue. If there are several noises, fixing the wrong one won’t solve the real problem.
The caliper is the part that squeezes the brake pads onto the spinning brake disc. If you take it off, you can check that everything moves freely and that the pads are contacting the rotor correctly.
The speaker emphasizes that brake hardware lubrication is not permanent; it degrades and gets washed out by road grime and water. When lubrication is gone, components can stick, which accelerates wear and can contribute to brake noise.
The emergency brake is the backup brake used to keep the car from rolling when it’s parked. If it’s rusted out like they describe, it may not hold the car safely.
CVT means the car uses a transmission that can smoothly change “gears” without steps. It relies heavily on the right fluid being kept fresh, so neglecting service can cause expensive failures.
Mercedes (Mercedes-Benz) is a German luxury automaker. The speaker includes it in a list of European brands to indicate the technician’s experience with that category of vehicles.
Volvo is a Swedish automaker. Mentioning Volvo alongside other European brands reinforces the idea that the shop’s technician has experience with European maintenance and troubleshooting.
Audi is a major German automaker. The mention groups Audi with other European brands to emphasize that the technician has experience across multiple makes, which can matter for correct diagnostics and service procedures.
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Good morning folks! You're tuned in to Car Connection where the coffee's strong,
the stories are real, and the wrenches never stop turning. I'm your host, Dyle
Motormouth Jenkins, coming to you from the Car Connection workshop where the
smell of fresh oil, a little elbow grease, is all part of a balanced breakfast.
And around here we don't just talk cars, we actually live them. Whether it's a
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Well, good morning and welcome to Saturday. We've made it to the weekend. It's Q&A
here on the Saturday morning drive with MotorBouth. Yours truly. It's Q&A and
I want to say a big thank you to James and Ella and Susan. I picked their
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good morning and let's kick off the morning with the weather forecast. You
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like a day or two and it's everything back to normal. And then it's our
counterparts, the south of the border. It's their spring break next week. And
I'll tell you, it'll be crazy down in the Florida area. That's for sure. You might
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degrees between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. and the high will be 46 between 4 p.m. and
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warmer than the actual temperature. Did you hear that? It will feel warmer than
the actual temperature. Wow.
Great mother of jelly beans. That's all I got to say. And that is exciting. Any
precip? I knew you'd ask about that too, so I'm on it. Let's get to the precip.
Anything going on? Anything we need to know? Precipitation level is a zero. Well,
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and Larry, it's not a cookie cutter situation, it's a purr. It's a purr occurrence,
because that's what we used to call in the warranty department. I did a lot of warranty
when I left my own shop and worked for Volkswagen Canada and they sent me to a
dealership that was not doing very well. I learned how to code warranty and input
warranty. And there's things that are called, that are covered under warranty,
not a safety related item, but they call it as per occurrence. So in other words,
if you don't mention it at the dealer level, they're not able to prompt you that there's a problem.
So this is how it works. I'm sharing a gold nugget here.
I'm in your corner. I want you to know that, that I'm in your corner. Having a solid gold
mechanic doesn't wait for your car to break. He helps you to stop it from breaking in the first
place. On a dealership level, if there is a problem, and I would consider it definitely a
pattern failure, but it hasn't flagged the NTSA, the National Traffic and Safety Act,
to, for them to call a campaign or a recall, then they're allowed to qualify it under as per
occurrence. So that means if a tech has your car in the dealership and sees that there's the
as per occurrence, if you haven't mentioned it at the service desk, they can't fix it under warranty.
You have to tell them. Got it? So here's what I would do. And I'm putting this out there because
I'm in your corner. I'm not for the manufacturer. You know, there's a lot of manufacturers out there
in my own personal opinion, watching the crap they're putting out and the price tag stuck to it.
You got to be crazy to put the money down. They need to build stuff far better. And I'm,
I'm picking on the domestics. They need to build better. I have domestics here that are decades
old and I look at it and I go, is that better technology or worse than today? Is that better
sheet metal or worse than today? There's your answer. You only you can answer that. So here's
what I would do. I just say, let's go for a walk outside just for a minute. Let's go out to your
car. That's what I would say and take them out to the car. And I wouldn't say anything to the dealer
owner or anybody. Just let's go out to your car and have a look. So when I'd go out to the car,
I would say, here's what I need you to do, ma'am or sir. Listen to me carefully. And I will never
admit I told you this. I need you to say that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. Okay. If you say that to me, then I can write it up and I can fix it for free. But if you
don't, I can't. No one can prompt you here. You have to come in and say, I've got blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, going on. Then it falls into the as per
occurrence. So that means you the customer have to tell me or I can't, I can't prompt you in any way,
shape or form. The guys in the shop, we can't make any reference to it on paper or write it down
and say here, tell me this, because if we get caught, it's bad news bears. So I just say,
let's go to the car for a minute. And then nobody knows nothing. And I just helped the customer
save some money. 44 years as a tech and still fully licensed and qualified and hands on,
I'm in your corner. Tell me where else you can get to a tech that has 44 years plus experience
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yeah, you're right. I suck. Let's fix it. Whatever you tell me I got to do, I'll do it.
And that's how you move forward. So let's jump into the questions this morning. We think those
who took the opportunity to send a bunch of them in there, I can't get to all of them, but I'll do
my best. I pulled out three this morning. James, Ella and Susan, some great questions. So let's jump
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Check box check done. That's how difficult it is. It's all written out for you. So we redone it.
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alongside and battle addiction in both Canada and the U.S. and that's cool. So let's let's jump
into James question. Great question James. Thanks for asking it. Hope you're listening
this morning. When is it best to have breaks checked? I am hearing some scratching sound.
Well without road testing it I can't nail down exactly what it is but if it's been at least six
months before you since you've had wheels off it's time for wheels off folks. No peekaboo
break inspections that's how things get missed and that's how break repairs advance in price.
Catch your breaks before they're worn out before there's a problem. You know what that
saves you guys and gals hundreds if not thousands of dollars in boosting the price to fix your
breaks because you took them too far. You know what I'm saying if I hear a noise like that a
scratching noise or a grinding noise or something that doesn't sound normal coming out of a wheel
or outside of the car I'm not ignoring that even on my own vehicle I'm getting on that because that
can escalate into again $200 fix as high as a $5,000 fix you pick the number because it escalates
very very quickly so catching it in the infant stage pays off so just having a peekaboo through
the wheels tells me nothing absolutely nothing if a person can tell you they can see the condition
of the brakes through the wheel here's my here's my answer to that you should hang up your coveralls
and your work clothes and go work for NASA because they need your expertise yeah and I'm not being
facetious that's fact if we're going to check brakes we got to check brakes properly so wheels off
we got a scratching noise we road test it with the customer here's the key when we're dealing with
noises I take your car for a ride I hear more than one noise guarantee you I'll probably hear
minimum three noises then I'm saying which one am I chasing today you're not there with me
I don't know I could go after one noise and fix it and then you pick it up you take it home you
call me and you go I thought you fixed my noise well I fixed a noise because I could hear three
noises so I fixed one that my guest could be the one you're you're actually in tune with
so I will not fix any vehicle with any noise till you the customer can go for a road test with me
and point out the noise I want you to point out the noise hear that that's it right there you hear
that noise right there that's it right there so now I hear what you hear now I can chase it
that's how diagnostic works anytime we're chasing a noise I need your ears behind the wheel
to tell me when that noise shows up turning corners slowing down I'm watching your driving
and you know preparing to bail out if I have to and um just kidding maybe not I can tell you a
story about that I might if I remember I'll hang on to it yeah my pops was working for me at the
shop for a while the Hamilton Mellon okay anyways so if there's if you're calling in
I got this noise I'm first and foremost make yourself available when you drop it off we're
going to need to go for a road test so I can nail that noise down with you in the car driving
so I watch your driving and when the person says you hear that noise that's the noise right there
that's the noise I'm cognizant of what the vehicle was doing and what how you were driving at that
point in time when you say that's the noise you hear that can you hear that that's it right there
so I make a point of remembering what was the car doing how fast were we going where
in a turn left or right or going straight we're going over bumps when that noise showed up so
that gives me my ammo to go back out on the road and do a drive by myself and make it reoccur that
sound reoccur then back to the shop right away and get it up on the lift so brakes you hear any
noise in the brakes whatsoever it's wheels off calipers off pads out I'm taking it all apart
to make sure everything is working the way it should be because here's the deal
six months of driving in the dust in the dirt in the wet in the dirt in the grit in the salt in
the sand all that crud gets jammed into your brakes so six months goes by your brakes have been
subject to a lot of nasty road conditions now we should get in there take them all apart because
if you don't here's the thing the outside brake pad can be in great shape almost mint condition
to put it back in the box that it came in on from the parts guy but the inside inboard pad is just
about gone why is that because something's not moving properly something is seizing up the brake
pad can't get away from the rotor and I'll tell you right now some great videos to watch on brakes
I'll tell you skip you and I last summer it was like brake nationals all summer we had brake jobs
coming in that were an absolute freaking disaster and you've got to watch those videos folks there's
probably a dozen of them up on our youtube channel from last summer it was brake job after brake job
after brake job after brake job some of them were similar but most of them were different from one
another the noises the wear the tear the guts the glory and the battle and they're all up there on
our youtube channel best way for me to teach you what I just explained watch the videos on brakes
one after another and you'll see what I mean I prefer to see wheels off every four months that's
three visits once a year into the braking system because they take so much beating it's unbelievable
you got to think the brakes are not really protected they're wide open to everything so whatever
is happening outside you're inside nice and warm and toasty or you got the air conditioning on
all the road crud just gets pounded into the wheels constantly you go through puddles they're all
gritty it's not like a fresh sea breeze rinse no or a spring rinse no it's a let's fill the brakes
completely up with gritty grouchy gross looking water and crud with a k crud gets in there so
watch those videos put a comment in you're going to learn things about your vehicles brakes that
you probably have never known that's why when I say ideally wheels off three times a year
in a pinch at the maximum absolute maximum six months so I always say do it this way spring
then fall spring then fall and keep that pattern rotate that pattern again that's on our car
connection fleet maintenance system it's all written out for you so that it's right there in front of
you don't even have to think again just take the pen that comes with it the dry erase pen and the
clip to hold it so you don't have to go looking for it and you go done check
when you get to the end of the month you erase it off and start the next month
that's what you do it's that simple we'll have the pictures of what comes in the kit all that
will be up on our website I'm hoping that this week is the week that that gets taken care of
because I want to get it out there it's spring it's time for spring maintenance so great question
James get it in it's all wheels off pull all the brakes apart every piece pins bushings
it brake pads I want to see everything and make sure that nothing is binding because all that
washing there's no lubrication left there and that's nine times out of ten that's where the
failure starts the lubrication that was put there when the brakes were done is not lifetime warranty
folks doesn't last till the end of the next brake job when that lubrication is gone your brakes are
wearing out prematurely that's money out of your pocket not in your pocket what it costs to service
the brakes front and rear is far less than what it's going to cost you to do a brake job far less
how is it that I can get 169,000 kilometers out of one set of brakes
I got good stuff yeah I'm not telling you where I got it yeah just kidding I'm using what you're
using that's it whatever I put on your car that's what I put on my car I don't go looking for cheap
and nasty because you know what it's just not worth it you save you know it's called
short-term gain for long-term pain that's what I call it because you're gonna do the job twice
to my once that's right you're gonna do your brake jobs twice to my once how do I pull it off
I check my brakes every four months and when I'm checking them I take them apart
I clean I lube I put them back together and forget about it for four more months but like I said
maximum maximum time limit six months spring fall spring fall early spring right now is the
perfect time and then no later than the end of October next question Ella another supreme
question this morning on the motor mouth morning drive thanks for joining us thanks for stopping
by and be a part of the program come and join us Monday through Saturday 8 a.m for your morning
drive Ella says my vehicle is 10 years old well happy birthday should I replace it that's a great
question well because I don't have a crystal ball I can't see it so where do I go from here how do
I answer this one first and foremost if it's 10 years old no big deal it's just warming up that's
it it's just getting out of the gate if the engine transmission and all the drive lines in top
drawer condition and it's not rusted out keep going what do we do what do we do at this point so
I'm assuming and you know what that means don't go there it's a family show I'm assuming it's in
decent shape I'm assuming if she put her for sale sign on it I'd probably buy it take it back to the
shop and we would recondition it and get it back out on the road into a family hands that would say
yeah we'll take that that fits our budget that'll keep us going for quite some time they'll be more
and happy to take it off your hands trust me more than happy so what do we do how do we how do we
break this down well because I don't have a crystal ball somebody has to look at it somebody that you
trust that can do a complete evaluation and see how it's doing let's do a physical I think there's
a song about that but I am not going to sing it for you no how would just be way too weird on a
Saturday morning or other okay let's get physical with your car and get all the wheels off get it
up on the hoist check the front end fluids belts hoses lights components everything we want to give
it a once over and then some north southeast west top bottom and sideways and evaluation
an honest open evaluation and that's where you need right here a solid gold mechanic
that doesn't wait for your car to break he helps you stop it from breaking in the first place
that's the guy I want to do my vehicle evaluation for me you got to trust them that they're giving
you the honest truth they're not trying to condemn your car so they can buy it out from underneath
you and then they're going to fix it up and give it to their own household you don't know how many
times I've seen that happen and it happens every single day because L is saying my vehicle is 10
years old that's how she's saying it that's how I read it she's almost on that decision point for
you to say yeah it's really you know you really should consider getting out of it and getting
into something newer I think I swallowed a bug my question I'm I'm Ella why why do I need to get
rid of it sounds like Kermit yeah why don't tell me show me don't tell me show me why
it's show and tell time babies I did that all the time in our shop I didn't want anyone any woman
because 85 percent of our business were women they always get voted off the island to take the vehicle
into the shop and then when they give the go ahead to get it fixed I get a call from the the dude
that couldn't be bothered bringing the car in and be the man of the house so you let the woman
little woman do it the little lady and then she's got to get beaten by you but when you look at the
invoice and go you spend how much what that's what comes next so I would help the ladies
I'd show them what's going on and now it's great because we can shoot a video and fire it right
over to you and nobody's wasting any time we can keep going you know you're seeing what I'm seeing
you call it what do you want me to do so we would show the ladies exactly what's going on what we're
replacing and then I would put all the parts in a heavy plastic bag in a little toaster in their
trunk with a note to the dude yeah so that mama isn't getting a barrage of freaking a gatlin gun
questions and then she's calling crying my husband ring me out for spending that money on the car
we just spent all our money for exactly so we would prevent that by doing show and tell so when
that person comes out and says to Ella yeah it is really it's 10 years old you know a mile which is
getting up there and whatnot you know it's going to start breaking down you're going to be putting
money into it all the time this thing that thing the other thing you don't really want to go through
that do you you know you should probably start looking for another car right now but you know
if you're interested I'll take it off your hands for you oh did I say that part out loud I didn't
mean to say that take that back Ella yeah so that's why you need a solid gold mechanic that's in your
corner that's going to look it over and go hey she's doing good it ain't so bad whatsoever
oh and I was like oh really really yeah there's nothing wrong with that car we just got to do
this this and this you're as good as gold you'll be down the road seeing another 100k or whatever
see you at the next service that's the person you want checking the car out so if you don't have
that person then the story I just made up for you is actually real if I had a dime for every time I
heard that conversation in 32 years on air and off air I kid you not and that's how we ended up with
the 2008 Nissan road was Saundra sent it all the way down from water down Ontario to south
shores of Fort Erie and I was away at my brother-in-law's cottage getting a little white space and just
chillaxing and I said yeah ship it down put the keys you know in the mailbox my pops will pick
him up he's checking on things while I'm away and then we'll have a look at it and see see what the
shop says versus what is actually required and it did need it did need a lot of repairs a lot of
work it was a lot of labor to bring that thing back to life if it had sat more than the 11 months
it already sat if it had sat another two three four months it would have been game over seriously
even though it looked good from the bottom up you know from the side and the inside it looked good
but there was a lot of problems to overcome so I got in there and you can watch those videos
you can see exactly what I saw and there were items on their checklist from the shop that
didn't need the work but there were other areas they missed all together my goodness how could
you miss the entire emergency brake system is all rotted off I mean it was nothing salvageable
it was gone the backing plates everything gone rotted off how could you miss that
there's like fifteen sixteen hundred dollars worth of man man labor's plus parts right there just on
that fixing emergency brake period let alone everything else that was going up so yeah these
this is a thing she sent it down did the right thing and I made the list and told her what was
going on I said you decide what you want to do with it and she said could you use it I said
yeah we could use it but I really gotta think about whether or not I put that much effort in
or not then I you know thinking about it and seeing you know the skin is good um the engine's good
transmission's working well it doesn't have the greatest transmission in there the CVT if you have
a Nissan you would better do some homework on that CVT I just picked up the oil that transmission
better see new blood every 50k got that there that's a stern talking to but I didn't spit in
your eye notice that yeah so 50k transmission service you have a Nissan with a CVT transmission
you better love it honey you better sleep beside it at night time nobody touches it that needs an
oil change service every 50k period dot ca.org.net did I miss one if I did you put it in there
yeah you're gonna need a love on that CVT because that usually puts them in the junkyard
yeah it's like 16 thousand dollars of transmission you better be kissing it nice CVT you're pretty
I like your hair that's a little too much obsessing okay let's back out of that one
yeah so 50k and you get the oil from Nissan nowhere else but he says oh no we have aftermarket
stuff no don't do it I got five quarts on my bench right now for that rogue was 158 bucks
you go 158 bucks
158 bucks but listen to me the transmission is like 16 thousand dollars dudes dude and do that
what's worth more keeping that CVT going or smoke the tranny and go can't say tranny
it's transmission smoke the transmission game over that's it game over so
all those things need to be checked for Ella how's the transmission fluid doing when was the last
service on any automatic transmission out there I don't care if it has the best dinosaur juice in
that thing we can suck out of the earth's crust transmission service every deuce two years I
don't care who says what when the lips are moving they're lying just remember that when their lips
are moving they're lying you want to kiss that transmission and tuck it into bed every night
and read it a story you got to show it love get that fluid if there's a filter or a screen that's
removable and cleanable you do it because when that transmission goes down your car is going to be in
a row down at Kenny you pull it in St. Catharines or wherever the nearest one is looking real nice
but the transmission is blown clean out of it isn't worth it so 158 dollars for the transmission
oil right from the dealer that's the manufacturers brand and flavor so what it was born with is
going back in there was a little bird that said to me Dennis now change the oil on a transmission
and only use the factory oil there you go that is a nice tech tip from another tech
tech Dennis yeah maybe you'll get a chance to meet him sometime he's cool he loves working on
European cars yeah so if you're a beamer guy Audi Volkswagen Volvo Mercedes all that stuff
he's your man so anyways Ella great question but here's where you really got to have that person
you can count on that's not going to try and buy that out from under your bum and steal it from you
mm-hmm we need a total evaluation fluids filters everything and so you can see exactly what it
needs and to verify is it worth putting more money into it in most cases unless it's rotted out and
it's running like poo poo it's a go unless I find something serious everything else is going to be
the same items on the next car you buy anyway that's going to have to be done so that's the mindset
folks you get rid of a known vehicle to get into an unknown vehicle guess what happens you get a
ton of maintenance that needs to be done because the person before could give a damn and they
didn't do anything someone somewhere somehow along the way is going to pay the piper for all those
years of driving clocking up the mileage and doing very little maintenance whatsoever so would
I rather have a vehicle that's known to me or one that is not known there's going to be stuff that
you're going to have to catch up period that's just the way it is so no one gets out of life
alive no one gets away from buying a pre-owned car and not spending any money on it not maintenance
free folks when the lips are moving they're lying last question and then I got to get out of here
Susan great question and again if you want to jump in on this and and hit me with a barrage of
questions there's only one way you can do it right now and that is to email me your question
yeah you can change your name to gordy beamer if you want or georgina georgia doesn't matter to me
ask the question get the answer I'm not going to sugarcoat any question you ask me that's just who
I am I'm going to give it to you right between the eyes this is what you need to do if you do it
the do does the did is done all right Susan's question it's paying on too
there is a noise when I start my car and it seems to go away after some period of time
is it okay to drive I could give you the super duper extra long answer with bacon bits and double
cheese and cheese sticks on the side but I won't time is short tell you an hour goes fast
and it has for 32 years an hour of time together goes extremely fast what would I do in this case
for Susan I would say number one any service lights on in the dash anything warning you
something or someone is going on in your vehicle no okay all right next question
how long has the noise been there that is real this is a really important question that I need
an answer to how long has that noise been going on I think that's a song isn't it
could be kind of feel like I know that line so how long has that noise been going on
and Ella has it kind of changed and morphed the sound that it's making
so what I'm waiting for is it's been going on for well a few weeks
can I get additional time check on that Niall three please can you give me like a more
you know kind of kind of maybe months two three four months okay a few weeks
well okay so a few weeks for Ella is four months not making fun of her but this is good information
that you might not think as the tech is asking you questions because the more questions I ask
the more information I get the faster I can diagnose it and with accuracy and fix it that
saves you thousands of dollars every year so you're going to hold back a little piece of information
that I I need to hear that's going to be in my head the that moment the crowning moment
that's what I'm looking for so she just gave me a huge one the noise has been there for four months
okay Ella for $150,000
you ready for it wait for brothers and sisters here's the question
has it gotten any worse yes or no
yes it has progressed okay all right we're getting somewhere now so and my third question for an
additional bonus of 5k in hard cash does the sound ever go away anytime overnight first start
a couple hours sitting start it you know you're in in the mall doing some retail therapy
you come out start the car and is it there yes or no yes do okay so now I can go after this and
diagnose it the first thing I'm going to do is answer that question for Ella is it okay to drive
no reason being a we don't know how much serious how we'll be all right rewind
we don't know if it's going to get more serious so remember $200 repair can shift towards a $5,000
repair if you let it go so it's already been let go for four months and the noise has changed so that
means something is getting ready to let you know well I was letting you know now it's over
kufufnik now you're into big money and it's car down so we don't want that to happen to Ella
and I don't want to scare her no fear tactics but I'm going to say needs to get into the shop
right now before whatever it is it's changed sound it's been there for four months steady
it's there all the time when you're driving it we need to know what that thing is before whatever
it is let's go and cost you more money than it's going to cost right now so to prevent a roadside
assistance to get it here and costing yourself more money I'm going to say Ella we you need to
leave the car here yeah leave it here I hear the sound let us get on that let's find out what it is
where it is and how it works and how we're going to fix it and what the cost is going to be behind
that before the problem gets too deep too expensive and upsetting emotionally emotional damage
we don't want that to happen so great questions James Ella Susan you knocked it out of the park
here on the motormouth morning drive thank you for taking the time to send those questions in
and thank you to all those who were playing along with the Fun Friday Fun Friday I asked everybody
a question I can't wait to see what their answer is yeah they got a piece of homework and it's fun
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About this episode
A Saturday Q&A tackles three big maintenance worries: brake noise, cold-start/startup noises, and whether a 10-year-old car should be replaced. The host argues for “wheels off” brake inspections (ideally every spring/fall, max six months), emphasizing road tests, caliper/pad checks, and lubrication issues that can turn a small fix into a costly job. For 10-year vehicles, he recommends a full hoist-and-fluid evaluation before giving up. For a startup noise that’s changed over months, he urges getting it into the shop promptly.
It's Q&A Saturday-and we've got three solid questions from the Motormouth community.
James is hearing brake noise-how long can you wait before it becomes expensive? Ella's driving a 10-year -old car - should she replace it or keep it? Susan's dealing with a startup noise that disappears - safe to drive or a warning sign?
We break it all down:
1) when to inspect your breaks (and why noise means act now)
2) Why a well-maintained 10-year-old car can go the distance
3) How to handle startup noises before they turn into major repairs
No crystal ball, no magic wand-just real-world advice to help you avoid turning a small fix into a $5,000 problem.
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