The Car Show with Dane Donovan - 8/23/2025

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Good afternoon and welcome to the car show on 55KRC.

I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto and Tire Center here every Saturday to answer

your car questions.

The number to call, 513-749-5500.

That number again, 513-749-5500.

And again, here every Saturday to answer your question, well, most Saturdays, of

course, Tony Bender would yell at me because he said, I'm part time, but I am

here every Saturday.

But yeah, my producer's yelling, he gets yelled at too.

So I get it.

So but I'm here as much as I possibly can.

I do have three boys and they are in sports and and we're having our, my

youngest son just turned eight and Declan, the one that was.

So anyway, he's celebrating his birthday.

This is the third birthday party that he's had for his eighth birthday.

We had a birthday party for him on his actual birthday.

And then we had a friend's birthday party.

Now we're having a family birthday party.

You know, so you can tell who's the who's the favorite in our family.

I am not in my family.

I'm but hey, you know, every family's got one, but I'm not.

So but Declan certainly is enjoying himself that we we have to bounce house.

I was actually replacing the net on our trampoline because there's just it just looks like.

Just I don't I would I'd say like it looks like Swiss cheese, but it already

had holes in the beginning with but neighbors tree fell on it.

So I was doing that.

My fingers are raw, trying to put the net back up or I'm sorry, replace it.

And we got a little bit of a get a bounce house.

And so I'm going to have some fun this afternoon.

But until then, I'm answering your car questions again.

The number to call 513-749-5500.

That number again, 513-749-5500.

I do want to talk about as well.

I was on let's see here.

I was on I was on with Brian Thomas about three weeks ago.

I was on with him and then Tiff Potter on Kiss 107 FM and then John John this

Wednesday promoting the Donovan's Cares vehicle that were given away.

And this is the first year that we've done it.

And I apologize.

I was not here last week.

I was in Cleveland.

And if anybody's ever been up to Cleveland, don't go.

But it was it was interesting.

But anyways, again, it's called Donovan's Cares.com.

Or you can go to DonovanTire.com.

So what we did is we're giving away a 2013 Subaru Outback and completely

Scott Free, where we've done all of the maintenance to it.

Tires, brakes, all of the services, all of the maintenance, everything.

And no pun intended.

This thing is turnkey ready.

OK, and we had some finalists.

So we anybody could have anybody could submit and put in for somebody

who's in need and may need a car, right?

We had some very great feedback from that.

And we were down to five finalists.

OK, so everybody could vote.

We're down to five finalists.

OK, we're giving away the vehicle on the August 29th.

OK, we'll reveal who wins the vehicle on August 29th.

But we're relying on the public to vote and figure out

and pick who they want to win this vehicle.

Again, we're down to five finalists.

OK, so you go to Donovan's Cares.com.

Find out the five finalists.

You can read their stories and and and you can submit.

It's one one per email, so one vote per email.

But again, you can go to Donovan's Cares.com or Donovan Tire.

Find find your five finalists and you pick who you want to receive the vehicle.

Again, we're we're going to reveal the finalist August 29th.

OK, so again, go to Donovan's Cares.com.

And we've we've really have got some tremendous feedback from this.

And hopefully we are able to do it more and more cars every single year.

And so we're really excited.

It's it's been a it's been a challenge right now with the with the project,

you know, just trying to get everything up and running and get it going.

And and, you know, we want to make sure this thing is again,

pristine turnkey ready to go.

So everybody can whoever receives it can, you know, get back and forth to work,

pick their kids up from school, you know, in in in somewhat have some normalcy

in their lives, right? If you read some of the stories, it's it's.

It's kind of it's devastating.

It's it's hard, you know, you think you're having a bad day

and you read some of these these one of the finalists, you know,

she was in a head on collision and her whole she was.

Several months pregnant and basically, you know,

has no transportation.

And so you should read the stories.

They're they're phenomenal.

And again, it's all there's, you know,

there's no cost.

We're giving the car away.

It doesn't cost anybody anything.

And we're giving it away in the need of somebody who, you know,

you know, to give someone in need of a vehicle, you know,

and it's been great.

So very, very pleased with the turnout so far.

But again, Donovan's cares dot com.

You can go to the website and you can vote because we it's we can't

vote as far as Donovan tire goes, right?

We're not voting on it.

It's the public that can vote on on who wins the vehicle.

OK. And again, it's been a great turnout.

So I listen if you have time, go on the online

and you can vote for these people.

And and again, I this is the first year.

I only hope that it gets larger and larger every year.

That's our goal.

So again, the number to call 513-749-5500.

That number again, 513-749-5500.

Again, I'm taking your phone calls.

Love to hear from you.

Phone lines are wide open.

We do have Paul.

He's coming up shortly, but man, love to hear from you.

That's what I'm here for, to answer your car question.

So if you've got a call, please, you know, get you right in.

You won't wait very long.

So so, yeah, I hope everybody's enjoying their weekend.

So all right.

Coming up, we've got Paul.

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this is unusual, it's a little steamy,

but it's tolerable as far as as hot as it's been lately.

It's kind of nice to take a little,

if you're in the shade, it's perfect, right?

But my son, my youngest had a football game this morning

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But again, taking your phone calls,

the number to call, 513-749-5500.

Let's, as promised, let's go to the phones.

We have Paul.

Hey, Paul, welcome to the car show.

How can I help?

As it says, 2007 element,

about 262,000 miles.

Getting the P-Zero 133,

which is a, you know, the air fuel ratio is slow to respond.

Well, do I just go straight to a new O2 sensor,

or is there anything else I can do?

I think this thing's been neglected a little bit

for the past, I don't know, 60,000, 70,000 miles.

And then it was wrecked and I had to rebuild the front end,

but.

Gotcha.

No, I mean, for the most part, you know, 99% of the time,

it's just a bad O2 sensor, I'm sorry, air fuel ratio sensor,

or some may refer to it as an oxygen sensor or an O2 sensor,

but it's an air fuel ratio sensor.

Yeah, right, cool.

You know, you can maybe check, you know,

you can check the wiring, make sure all the wiring

is good at, you know, at the connecting,

you know, maybe unplug the,

so that sensor's right up top.

You can get to it, if you pop the hood, it's right there,

it screws right into the top of the catalytic converter,

it's right on top, you can get to it.

Well, okay, the cat's down under the car, so it's,

it's just the first, it's the first sensor

on the cat, right?

Yeah, but doesn't, isn't the cat up at the top on that?

Nope, nope, it's down underneath

where it's easy to steal.

Yeah, gotcha.

Okay.

But anyways, you wanted to check the wiring,

and then, you know, if...

I can clear it, and, you know, on another day of driving,

it'll eventually come back, so.

Right, yeah, it's probably just that, they're expensive,

but don't buy, I would recommend.

Don't buy aftermarket.

Don't buy aftermarket, not on that,

like if you're gonna buy like an aftermarket alternator,

or battery, or belt, okay, that's fine,

but on that O2 sensor, man,

they sell universal ones, they sell aftermarket ones,

and that's a specific part that you wanna make sure

that you buy one that's, you know,

a manufacturer to that car, you don't wanna buy,

you know, you can buy, NGK is okay.

NGK, right.

NGK, Denzo, or get one from Honda.

They're, again, they're, you know,

two, three, $400, they're expensive.

But, believe it or not, I have a 2000 Honda Civic,

2000, right, it's 25 years old.

My air fuel ratio sensor on that car,

I don't know why, it's, but they are,

they can be expensive, so, and I know that.

It looks like this, but.

Like the converters for the elements,

if you wanna get one from Honda,

it's like over $2,000.

Yeah, yeah, well, for a while, you know,

they were cutting them out on the pre-uses,

on the elements, and yeah, it's about $2,000 or $3,000.

Yeah, I lost one a couple of years ago.

Yeah, yeah, well, luckily that knock on wood,

luckily that's have, that's subsided,

and we're not really having that issue anymore,

cause the precious metals that are inside

those converters, those levels, those costs,

those prices have gone down,

so they're not getting as much money,

so they're not stealing them as much, so.

But yeah, get a Denso, NGK, or get one from Honda.

All right.

All right, but yeah, most likely,

like I said, 99% of the time it's a sensor,

it's not, it's not anything, I mean,

it could be, you know, a computer glitch

or a computer problem or whatnot,

but I would start with that sensor first.

All right.

All right, thank you very much.

Yep, thank you.

You take care, bye-bye.

That's the thing, with these cars,

you know, again, for those of you out there

that are, you're do-it-yourselfers,

you wanna go out there, you wanna do it,

you know, you may even enjoy doing it, right?

It's a Saturday, it's beautiful out,

you wanna work on your own car, great.

I've always said on the show,

look, if you're working on your own car,

you're already saving yourself a tremendous amount of money,

okay, because it's expensive.

So if you're ever, if you're doing it yourself,

do yourself a favor and buy a good quality part, okay?

You wanna research it as far as the manufacturer

and who is the original equipment manufacturer

of those parts, right?

If it's a Honda, you know,

just get the parts from the dealer, right?

Now, your car might be old enough that you can't do that

and your only option is aftermarket,

but again, don't buy the cheapest part

that you can find,

because you're already saving yourself

a tremendous amount of money by a good quality part.

I'm telling you, that means it's a world of difference.

It really is, so.

All right, again, the number to call 513-749-5500,

we have, looks like Diane.

Hey, welcome to the show, how can I help?

Oh my gosh, thank you so much

for taking my call, I appreciate it.

Not a problem.

2000, 2000 is 25 years old,

so it's an antique all of a sudden.

And so it's a Mustang convertible.

And the problem is the hydraulic

on the convertible part of it is dying fast

and it can go down by itself,

but at the point where it's not going up by itself,

so I need help bringing it up,

because you can't do it by yourself, it's impossible.

You have to get someone to help you,

which I'm pretty good at doing.

People like to help me, I can get help to do it,

but I'm tired of it, I want it to work again.

So I was looking, so I got some stuff

to fix the hydraulic part of it,

thinking that I could just, you know,

put something into the little thing

that's a hydraulic thing and make it work again.

But I can't even find where the hydraulic thing is,

and I go to the YouTube stuff and it's not there,

it's not where they say it is.

And it's in the trunk-like

behind this back seat and everything,

there's nothing there that would be,

that even remotely looks like

a hydraulic pump type of thing.

Do you know where it is?

Goodness, unfortunately, no, I do not know where it is.

I would have to, unfortunately,

I'd have to see the car, because you're right.

Sometimes they put them underneath the back seat,

sometimes they put them behind the back seat,

sometimes they put them on the right rear fender,

sometimes they put them around the left rear fender.

Man, I don't...

But wouldn't they need one for either side

or one does the whole thing?

Usually one does all of it.

There isn't one on each side, not that I'm aware of.

But again, the problem is,

we don't work on convertible tops

because you get into a convertible top

and that's a whole nother monster.

It's a whole nother, I'm dealing with one right now.

That...

No, there's not easy.

Yeah, no.

I was looking at it,

even replacing the convertible top,

you can get the replacement for it, everything.

But if you get the wrong replacement,

like if it's a glass,

if it's real glass on the convertible

or if it's that plastic crap that's on it,

it makes a difference, it's not all universal.

Yeah, oh, I know.

Oh, I know.

That's, I know.

I don't...

And it's not cheap.

I'm like, it's not exorbitant.

I mean, like 500 bucks for the whole convertible top.

That's not awful.

But it's still, you get the wrong one

that's about, you know,

a return that you'd rather not deal with.

Mm-hmm.

So, yeah.

So I appreciate your help.

Yeah, so...

I gotta bring it somewhere.

Yeah, so here's what I'd recommend.

Who I'd recommend in the sense,

are you in the Cincinnati area?

Yeah, just up in Fairfield.

Okay, so who I use is down by my shop.

I've used them for, you know,

the 30 years I've been doing this,

but Fisher Griffin.

It's down on Martin Luther.

Martin Luther King.

It's downtown.

Okay.

That's who I use.

They do all of my convertible stuff.

I would call them.

They'd be more than happy to take a look at it for you.

That's where I would take it.

If it was my car, Fisher Griffin,

call them up.

They're on Martin Luther King near downtown,

but they've been in business for long,

I think as long as Donovan Tire's been in business.

So call them.

If I tell them you'll set me,

they'll be nice to me.

Absolutely.

Donovan's Dane and Donovan Tire sent me

and he said that you'll take care of me.

So I promise you they will.

All right, okay.

Thank you for your time, sir.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Have a good Saturday.

All right, thank you.

Bye-bye.

You know, that's the thing about convertible tops.

You know, you think, like I said,

I've been dealing with one right now.

In fact, I got a kind of a,

not so nice email this morning,

but we don't do them.

At Donovan Tire, we do not do convertible tops.

We do not work on them.

They are a whole another monster.

Okay.

So I know it sounds like,

oh, well, it's part of the card game.

Why doesn't Donovan's work on a convertible top?

Convertible tops are something that is a unique,

is unique and you don't,

you really have to have the proper tools

and the right set of skills to work on it, right?

So the best way that the best analogy that I could use

is if you had a heart problem, okay?

Let's just say, again, you got a heart problem, right?

You wouldn't go to your general physician,

just say, hey, can you take,

can you go ahead and open me up,

do open heart surgery and fix my heart, right?

You really, really need to have somebody

that's a specialist when it comes to this stuff, right?

So we're working on one, well, we're not working on it.

Vehicle came into our shop.

Unfortunately, convertible tops

usually have to fold into the trunk.

This customer had luggage in the trunk,

forgot about it, tried to put the top down,

broke something, okay?

Again, we don't do it.

So, but out of the kindness of our hearts,

I took it to the dealer to,

I'm not gonna mention any names or whatnot,

took it to the dealer, have them look at it.

They've had it for six weeks and can't fix it.

And now this is a pretty newer car.

I mean, it's only a couple of years old, okay?

So, Fisher Griffin in that particular Mustang was a 2000,

right?

Fisher Griffin can take care of that.

With the newer stuff, there's so many sensors and,

so, and again, the car's only a couple of years old.

So I sent it to the dealer

and they are struggling to figure out why it won't work.

So I have it at a top notch dealer here in Cincinnati

and they've had it for six weeks and they can't fix it.

So, I mean, I don't like convertibles, I never have,

I never will.

If you want the top down by a Jeep or a Bronco, right?

By a Ford Bronco or a Jeep, if you want the top off,

do not buy a convertible if you can.

There's too many mechanisms, too many moving parts,

too many things to break.

And when they break, it's extremely expensive.

So, again, in the email, I received,

hey, listen, it's just gonna need a whole new top

and it's $25,000.

It's not covered, it's not under a warranty,

it's out of warranty, it's $25,000

if they want their convertible top to work.

So, it's expensive.

So you think about that when you're buying one.

And if you have an older vehicle that it's mechanical,

I use it as least as,

the least amount of time as you can.

It's like, I have a newer vehicle, newer truck,

and my boys get it, I'm like, don't touch any buttons.

Don't touch anything.

The more you move it, the more it's gonna break.

But so anyways, if you can avoid buying a convertible,

please do, because they are a nightmare to fix.

And most shops won't fix them,

you have to find a specialist.

All right, again, the number to call

513-749-5500, that number again,

513-749-5500, phone lines are wide open.

But coming up, we have Chuck,

you're listening to the car show on 55KRC,

the talk station.

Way back in 1958, my grandfather opened

Donovan's Auto Entire Center right here in Cincinnati.

A lot has changed since then,

but our commitment to honest auto repair hasn't.

We believe in making sure your vehicle

gets everything it needs and nothing it doesn't.

Because as a family owned business

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From 1958 to today, Donovan's Auto Entire Center

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But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it.

It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories.

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55KRC, the talk station.

Taking your car questions, the number to call 513-749-5500.

513-749-5500.

And I am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto Entire Center.

Again, I talked about it earlier in the show.

But this year, we are giving away a 2013 Subaru.

And again, I've been on several stations here

and I at I heart and promoting it.

And again, if you want to learn more about it,

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And we're going to announce the winner on August 29th.

So my lovely wife was out

getting everything ready for for the birthday party

that we're having this afternoon.

And she just texted me and said, oh, my license is expired.

They won't let me buy beer at the grocery store.

So I got I've got things to do after I leave here.

So all the all the things we do for our kids.

So all right, let's go back to the phones.

We have Chuck. Hey, Chuck, welcome to the car show.

How can I help?

Well, thank you for taking my call today.

I am looking for some help or just a suggestion or a guess.

We went to a grandson soccer game this morning

and we were fortunate just to get back to the service station with our car.

This 2006 Cadillac CTS.

It it starts missing.

It's like if you just have your foot level on the pedal,

like you lifted it off real quickly, the car jerks, it'll jerk.

Um, this all started maybe a month ago.

The check engine light came on.

We took it to a service station and they said, oh, it's saying catalytic converter.

But they said, oh, it's very seldom that they turned it off.

Instead of it comes back, we'll we'll check some things out.

Anyway, it started missing.

So we took it in and they they they replaced a canister purge solenoid

or a vapor canister, something that.

Anyway, we drove it a couple of days and it started missing again real bad.

So we took it out and they replaced a mass air flow sensor.

OK. And that ran pretty good for two or three days.

And then we were in a fifth, third ATM and it quit and it would not start.

So we had to have a towed back out and they said that sensor was bad.

So they replaced it again.

Lord, OK. Anyway, we went to Blue Ash yesterday and came back.

No, no, no, I'm sorry.

It started missing again.

So we took it out.

They had it Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and said they can't recreate it.

So keep driving it.

So yesterday we went to Blue Ash and came back to 75.

Going up that hill from Coney Island, it was crazy the way

their car was jerking and jerking and jerking.

And my wife was driving anyway.

We got home and he kept doing it.

So this morning we went to the soccer game and we had my son

pick us up at the service station again.

So it's up there.

They said bring it back next week, but it's up there now.

They said they're having trouble figuring it out and they can't.

They couldn't duplicate it.

So any suggestion with that could be.

Well, let me ask you something.

Because you you're telling me, hey, it's misfire and it's jerking.

It's bucking. It's jerking.

And it's and but they've replaced a purge

solenoid, which wouldn't cause that.

And then they've replaced the mass air flow sensor, which wouldn't cause that.

So did they indicate to you what if they had any if what the check

engine light was on for what the codes were?

They said when it was on like a month ago that it was the

the catalytic converter, it was what it was saying.

Right. See now they keep asking me when I called yesterday,

they said any check engine lights.

I said no. OK.

I mean, I, you know, I'm confused as to I mean, yeah, converter won't cause that.

The bucking and the jerking or the misfire that you're expressing to me is

yeah, mass air flow sensor really isn't going to do that.

Certainly a purge solenoid is not going to do that either.

How many miles are on it?

180. OK. And do you have

any history as to maybe one that when a tune up was done?

Spark plugs replaced.

I do not on that when we bought the car probably a year ago.

OK. OK.

So here's so a lot of times if you have a spark plug that is wore out,

that'll cause it.

If you have if the porcelain on the spark plug is cracked,

that can cause it or the ignition coil, which the coil is what sends the spark

to the spark plug. OK. Gotcha.

A coil can cause that.

Now a coil can cause that and it never flag a check engine like never.

OK. Right.

So typically you put it on a scan on a on a computer.

You wouldn't be able to do this.

We would have to do that or a shop would be able to put it on a scanner,

drive it and watch the the fire the firing order and watch.

And if a coil is misfiring, it'll drop off and it'll show that on a

on on on the screen on a diagram, right? Gotcha.

It almost looks like a heartbeat, right?

You're like, OK, one's firing, two's firing, three's firing, four's.

You know, so and then if one of them drops out and doesn't and doesn't fire,

then it'll drop down and it'll be like at zero, right?

So you'll see like this huge swing like all the way down and then back up.

So I would check, again, converters not going to cause that.

Mass airflow sensor could cause a running issue, but not like a misfire type

bucking, jerking, kind of, you know, running bad.

That's not it'll it'll bog down, right?

So you might like hit the gas and just goes and you don't it won't move.

But it won't cause what you're experiencing.

And again, the purge valve of

the solenoid won't cause a running issue as well.

So I think you have now, again, on a misfire,

a couple of things real quick, you know, sometimes you could sit there.

What I would recommend is, hey, let's get on Carfax or you can even call me on.

You can call me any day this week.

I can't do it from here, but you call me any day this week.

You give me your license plate.

I can run a Carfax report and I can tell you if it's been tuned up or not.

Very easily. Yeah.

You just give me just give me your license plate number.

I don't need it now.

I'm saying call me at at work and you can just tell them when

just say, hey, I spoke to Dan on the radio on the radio.

He told me to call all I need is your license plate.

I can run a Carfax report on it and find out if it's been tuned up.

If not, that's where we need to go.

So what I recommend to whether it's at that shop or any other shop,

make sure whether being a Cadillac, make sure you buy AC Delco spark

plugs, AC Delco coil.

So you might be one of those things where you're going to have to replace

because if there's if there's no codes in there, there's the, you know,

the mechanic, whether you bring it to me or anybody else,

they're not going to have anything to go off of, right?

I mean, I can see it on us if they have the proper tools,

they can run it, drive it and if it acts up,

they'll be able to see which cylinder is misfiring and acting up.

But you you replace the spark plugs, all the spark plugs and all the coils.

Now, that's very expensive.

You don't necessarily have to do that, but you cover all your bases, right?

But it's going to be very expensive to go that route.

So you want it on a scan tool and you want them to run, you know,

you want them to run it, figure out exactly what's cause and which ones cause that.

Now, let's just say you replace the spark plugs and you do replace the coils

and it's still acting up.

Well, an injector could be could be bad and cause that as well.

Now, injectors are extremely expensive to install and put in

99% of the time, it's never an injector.

It's always a spark plug or coil issue and at 180,000 miles,

you probably have one or multiple ignition coils that are failing

because their job is to send the spark to the spark plug.

But over time, if the plugs are wore out,

that ignition coils having to work harder and harder and harder because,

you know, it's having to produce more spark for that spark plug

because it's wore out, right?

So if I were you, I replace all the spark plugs, all the coils again,

expensive, but I would get AC Delco parts

because coils are, you know, you can get them on.

You can go to Amazon and find a whole pack of them for 100 bucks.

And you're going to be like, oh, you know, but if you buy an AC Delco one,

you're going to probably pay 125, 150 bucks a piece.

And you got eight of them or I don't know if it's a six cylinder.

It's a six. OK, so, you know, so that's that's what I would do.

And that's where I would start for sure.

But like I said, if you call me on Monday, give me your license plate.

And I can run a car fax report.

We can find out if it's been done, if it's not, that's where we need to start.

Wow. So that the coils and the plugs that would be that would give you

the intermittent type of deal where it's absolutely fine. Absolutely. Yep.

Absolutely. So so so that's really, really so typically

when you have a spark plug issue, it's going to be there.

It's it's going to be what we call a dead miss.

It's going to be there pretty much all the time.

Where on a coil, it'll be intermittent, right?

You'll drive it for, you know, you drive it from here to Florida,

not had a problem with it.

And then all of a sudden you started up tomorrow morning

and you're going to the grocery store, man, that's bucking, it's jerking, it's running.

And that's what they that's what they do.

A lot of times they'll run they'll run worse to when it's

cold or if it's raining because of the moisture, but very, very indicative, very.

It sounds to me like you've got a coil issue.

And again, if there's no codes in the computer,

then it's never going to flag one.

So that's why I'm like, hey, just cover your bases,

do the tune up, replace all the coils, buy good, good quality coil.

You cover all your bases.

And that's the other thing real quick, real quick on that converter code.

Did he give you a code as far as like a PO 420 or anything like that?

Did I don't remember that?

I actually went out and he said, I took it off and if it comes back,

bring it back and it was probably an efficiency code,

meaning that the converter is not the converter acts as a furnace

and any unburned fuel in the exhaust, it burns off inside there.

So it's probably just not doing that.

But I will tell you if a converter is plugged up.

Now, you'll never get a code for this.

But if a converter is plugged up where it's, you know, complete,

the car can't breathe, right?

The exhaust can't come back up in the cylinder and cause a misfire.

But it doesn't.

I mean, it's going to again, it's going to be like a dead miss.

It's it's it's not going to be one of those things

where it's going to be hit or miss.

It's going to do it all the time.

So I think you just need you probably have one or multiple coils

that are acting up.

So, dude, that's some good suggestions and guesses there for me.

So thank you. Thank you. You're very welcome.

All right. Well, you have a great weekend.

Enjoy. Enjoy the weather.

Uh-huh. Bye-bye.

That's the thing that these cars can be they can be tricky.

He certainly can.

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The number to call 513-749-55.

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I apologize for the hesitation there.

I was yawning, getting old.

I have to take naps in the middle of the day.

So let's go back to the phones.

We have Missy.

Hey, Missy, welcome to the car show.

How can I help?

Hi, thanks for taking my call.

I have a 2016 Honda CR-V all-wheel drive.

It has about 64,000 miles on it.

And I keep up with the maintenance on it at a reliable place.

And I've had to replace the battery three separate times.

One time was 12-16 of 22, then 9-11 of 24,

then just recently, August 18th of 25.

Of course, I take it to reliable places, but not

the dealership.

And I'm curious.

They have both said this most recent time I took it

just to get another opinion.

And they're all coming up with,

they can't find what's wrong.

All the draw tests were done to the specifications

of Honda.

They were fine.

So I'm having to take it to Honda.

Can you tell me what can I expect and the cost?

And what happens if they tell me, though they

can't find anything?

Well, that's a great point.

So I'm going to ask you a couple of questions.

On the vehicle itself, is it a daily driver?

Are you driving it daily?

Does it sit for long periods of time?

It doesn't necessarily have to be driven every day.

But I mean, is it driven at least a couple of times a week?

Yes.

OK.

Yes, it is.

All right.

So maybe 50 miles a week.

OK.

50 to 100.

100's max.

OK.

And then does the car sit outside or is it sitting

in a garage?

In a garage.

OK.

And then is there anything that is plugged into the cigarette

lighter, a cell phone charger or anything like that?

Never.

OK.

All right.

Good.

And then as far as the three batteries that you had replaced,

you don't have to give any names or like that.

But is the battery, do you know what kind of battery,

like the brand of the battery?

Delco.

OK.

That's weird.

OK.

AC Delco.

OK.

That's a good battery.

OK.

And then as far as those three batteries that have been

replaced, did they replace those under warranty or are you charged

for those all three of those batteries?

No.

They've been replaced under warranty.

OK.

Good.

So, you know, and most recently when you go out,

of course it just clicks and then it's completely dead.

So I know how to jump it myself.

Good for you.

But so I just, you know, I'm sort of at a loss.

I don't want to take it to the dealership,

but I don't know what they're going to say.

What can I expect?

Yeah.

So, you know, what happens if they tell me,

we don't see anything wrong?

Well, they're going to probably tell you that.

I'm just not to pick on them.

OK.

But here's what happens.

So a lot of the times you can have what's called a intermittent

electrical draw, right?

So there might be a short and a wire.

There might be short and a ball.

There might be a short in the radio.

OK.

Meaning that at any point.

So you might have that thing parked in the garage, right?

In the middle of the night, the radio comes on and then drains

the battery, right?

And then you jump it, take it to the dealer.

Radio is working fine.

They do their tests and they're like, hey,

we can't find anything.

Not to say that it's not there, but you could be dealing with

what's called an intermittent electrical draw.

Something possibly in the car could be drawing the battery down

that you're not aware of it, right?

Again, you know, I had a vehicle.

I had an F-150 not too long ago.

The battery would just die overnight.

So I literally parked it underneath one of my security cameras

at work and right like two o'clock in the morning,

the dash, the radio, everything came on and then the car

died, right?

It would just come on because there was an intermittent

electrical short.

So they can run every test in the book and not find anything

wrong.

So probably, I will tell you, if you'd get it there,

even if you take it to the dealer, they're going to probably

tell you the same thing.

They can't find anything wrong.

Not to say that there isn't something going on,

but they're probably not going to be able to find anything.

It's one of those things where I hate to say it,

but it's kind of like a needle in the haystack.

It has to be acting up for them to try to actively find

what's causing that battery to die.

Now, do you have, to your knowledge, do you have Bluetooth

capability where you can take hands-free, like you can take

a phone call through the radio or through the vehicle,

the car itself?

Yeah, but I don't use it.

OK.

So and I try and turn off my radio and my air.

I've been doing this a little more when I get out of the car

for the night.

OK.

So here's why I asked about the Bluetooth.

So Honda and Acura, right?

They're the same company.

They're Acura's just, you know, more expensive Honda, right?

But they're Bluetooth, what's called the Bluetooth module.

There's a computer, a module that runs that system.

OK.

And very, very commonly that Bluetooth module will fail

internally and cause a battery draw or an electrical draw.

Now, usually when those fail, they have a constant draw and

most repair shops would be able to find that immediately.

But that's something that maybe have them look at and just

say, hey, look, here's the problem.

Here's what here's what I'm dealing with.

And you also maybe just check the Bluetooth module again.

It's for your hands free phone.

Have them check that again.

Or what we typically do.

So it's so expensive to replace it.

And like you said, you alluded to like, hey, I don't use it.

So what we do at at Donovan's, we just unplug it.

It's all you got to do.

You get you find the module, you unplug it.

Boom, you're done.

You just don't have hands free rate of phone, but it stops

your draw.

Right.

Yeah.

So.

Okay.

But have them check that that's a very, very common problem

on Hondas.

But again, if please, you know, I know it's frustrating, but

you know, don't lose faith in the dealer or wherever you're

taking it.

It can be one of those things.

I mean, we found a short one time underneath the carpet

underneath the seat, right?

And it's like, how does that even happen?

But it happens, you know, but if you've put three batteries

in it in that short amount of time, something may

intermittently be drawing that battering and, you know, kind

of the other thing that you can do too, if you're like, Dane,

took it to the dealer, you know, I'm so frustrated.

I don't want to have to be stranded or have to jump my

car constantly.

You can buy and you can go on Amazon or anywhere else.

You can buy what's called a trickle charger.

I have that already.

A trickle charger.

Or just a, so you're like plugging it into the wall.

Like when you pull it in the garage, you're plugging it

into the wall.

Yeah.

Well, but I, I use it as a backup for my tractor when

I have to start my tractor.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

Well, if you know, are you saying that then now I am

going to be driving my car a little bit more, but are

you saying that I should do the trickle charger every

night?

Yeah.

I mean, have it charged to the wall every night now?

No.

Well, it's just, it's just an option.

You don't have to.

I'm just saying it's an option for you.

If you've, you've got nowhere with the dealer and

any other repair shop, your, an option is you could

plug in a trickle charger and just make sure it,

it maintains that battery so you don't get stranded

again.

So I'm so sorry.

I've got to get going.

Missy, good luck.

Call me back.

See you next weekend.

You're listening to the car show on 55 KRC D talk

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