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THE Car Show with Dane Donovan - 9/27/2025
THE Car Show with Dane Donovan - 9/27/2025
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About this episode
Dane Donovan tackles a range of automotive questions, focusing on issues like oil consumption in vehicles, particularly Hyundai and Kia models, which are notorious for burning oil. He discusses the importance of regular maintenance and checks, especially for older cars. Listeners share their experiences with engine problems and repairs, leading to discussions about the reliability of various brands, including recommendations for small SUVs. The episode is filled with practical advice for car owners and insights into the challenges of modern vehicle maintenance.
Topics:
oil consumption
engine problems
small suvs
hyundai issues
car maintenance
fuel injectors
vehicle reliability
car repairs
owner experiences
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Honda Element
"earlier, you know, he has a 04 Honda, Honda Element and has 256,000 miles. Now, for some people, like..."
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Toyota RAV4
"... you... A small SUV, I would do either the Toyota RAV4, the Honda CR-V, or the Mazda CX-5."
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Honda Crv
"A small SUV, I would do either the Toyota RAV4, the Honda CR-V, or the Mazda CX-5. Well, that's the three that I was looking towards."
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Mazda Cx5
"A small SUV, I would do either the Toyota RAV4, the Honda CR-V, or the Mazda CX-5. Well, that's the three that I was looking towards."
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RAV4 Hybrid Rav4
"The Toyota. Well, I think they might have a hybrid RAV4, but mostly what they..."
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Toyota Prius
"I think they do. That or the Prius, any model of the Prius. Those Priuses are, in my..."
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Audi 100
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Good afternoon and welcome to the car show on 55KRC.
I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto & Tire Center, taking your car questions, the number
to call 513-749-5500.
That number again, 513-749-5500.
And typical Dane Donovan fashion, I'm running a little late.
We had multiple football games this morning.
In fact, my middle son is playing right now.
So I tried to time it, I thought I had enough time, but not too bad, but 75, I don't care
if it's one o'clock in the morning, one o'clock in the afternoon, it doesn't matter.
If you're on 75 near, oh shoot, I'm going to forget, paddock, I'm telling you what,
it's always, you just can never, you never know.
It was, it was backed up at seven o'clock in the morning.
It was backed up when I was on my way out here.
So my boys had football games over on the west side of town.
And for those of you familiar with the, the west side, it was that visitation or visit.
And we had, we had my youngest had to be there at 7.45.
And you can imagine, yes, we were, he was only 10 minutes late.
I was in charge of getting him there.
We were only 10 minutes late.
So that's, I mean, you know, so, but they do it right out there.
They, they had get a egg sausage sandwiches.
So it was, it was good.
They won their first game and then like I said, my middle son is playing right now.
So Declan won and good luck to Nolan.
So all right, again, I'm taking your phone calls and number to call 513-749-5500.
The weather we're, we're experiencing today in this week.
I did on Tuesday celebrate my, my 41st birthday.
So I am 41 years old now.
So, so yeah, so that's a, and I'm falling apart.
So I have a, can't sleep, have heartburn, you know, got to watch what I eat.
It certainly feels like I'm an old man, certainly so.
But anyways, all right, again, I'm taking your phone calls, 513-749-5500.
Let's go to Paul.
Hey, Paul, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Oh, hello, Dane.
Happy belated birthday.
Well, thank you.
Until you hit 67.
I just, I tell you what, I mean, my body started shutting down at 40.
I don't know what, I don't know what I did wrong, but oh man, so, but anyway,
we talked last week about, about the noise the engine might, or engine might leak element
was making and I sent you a video, I didn't hear anything, so I figured I'd call back
see if you listened to it.
You know what?
As soon as you said that, that's why I said, ooh, I got your email, but I, no, I will
do that in the commercial break or I'll do that, I'll do in the commercial break.
You sent it to me.
I got it and I just, I'm, you know, squirrel, like I'm on to the next thing.
So yeah, but I, at this point, I may be, you know, as much as I got to take it apart to
get the pan off.
I mean, I pulled the, pulled the timing cover, you know, the valve cover and the timing
cover.
I don't see anything wrong with the cams and rockers or, or the guides or the
chains at this point.
Any of the, all the rubber guides there for the chain.
Yeah, all the guides are there and there's, did you send me pictures in that?
Or just the noise?
The noise, I tried to attach a picture of the chains and it kept messing up so I gave
up on it.
But at this point, I'm pretty much resolved to just go ahead and yank, yank the engine
and drop the one I have rebuilt in it.
Did you send me that last Saturday?
Yeah, yeah, right after the show.
I'm in my email right now.
All right, I'll find it, stay tuned, stay, let me listen to it.
You did send it to me.
I did get it and I had full intentions on listening to it, but I just, well, but
you said again, you don't see anything wrong with the rockers or the chains
or anything like that.
And the car runs all right.
Well, yeah, it ran, you know, it ran all making the noise.
But like I said, the oil pressure dropped.
Yeah.
You know, dangerously low at idle.
Got a full warmed up idle.
It was down to like four PSI, so I guess that's.
And you said, did you say, did you say you did drop the pan or you haven't
because the engine's got to come out?
No, I haven't because you got to drop the cradle or lift the engine to do so.
I'm just wondering if there's any type of,
yeah, I'm just wondering if there's any type of restriction inside that the oil,
the, you know, your, your oil pump screen or whatnot.
So I've seen debris get caught up in there.
I tell you what, we had one.
This is this is no lie.
I had one.
I can't remember what we were doing to it.
We were doing something.
But anyways, the pan had to be off.
And there was an, and I, I'm telling you to this day, I don't know
how it happened, but there was an oil filled or I'm sorry, an oil change sticker
that somehow had got sucked into the oil pump screen.
And the thing was, the thing was running.
We had to put a pan on it for something I can't remember.
But I'm like, I, to this day, I, you know, I'm like, man,
how did that thing get down there?
That's, that's, I don't know if somebody, I would think somebody had to do
that intentionally, I would think.
Yeah, sounds like it.
Cause there's no way you could, it couldn't just fall in through the top of the engine.
There's no way it's going to make it from the top of the engine to the bottom.
Somebody would have to put it into the pan.
So, but yeah, we found an oil change sticker inside.
And again, it had, I don't know how it was running and how it had
good oil pressure, but it, it, it ran.
So all right.
Well, I'll take a listen to it.
And you, you give me an update on it.
All right.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks Paul.
All right.
All right.
Take care.
Bye bye.
Tony Bender is in studio today.
He's probably listening to me.
Maybe, maybe not, but he will contest that if you need to get a hold of
Dane Donovan, the, I think the worst way would be email.
Now again, with Paul, Paul did send it to me.
I did open it and it's open on my computer at work.
I just never, I just never listened to it.
So I apologize Paul, but timing chains are one of those things that, and
that's why I harp all the time on this show.
No, no, no, Paul had, I think he, I think he said like 256,000 or
somewhere near that.
So that's a pretty good life on a, on a Honda engine, but you
know, that's why it's imperative.
Important.
You keep boiling these things because it can cost you a lot of
money down the road.
So all right.
Again, I'm taking your phone calls.
The number to call 513-749-5500.
That number again, 513-749-5500 phone lines are wide open.
So love to hear from you.
If you call, we'll get you right in.
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Taking your car questions, the number to call
513-749-5500.
That number again, 513-749-5500.
As I stated earlier, the phone lines are wide open.
So if you have a question, love to hear from you.
That's what I'm here.
That's what I'm here for every Saturday.
Well, most Saturdays.
I'm supposed to be here every Saturday,
but every once in a while, especially when UC's playing,
I will be absent so.
But, you know, I'm here.
Again, I'm from Donovan's Auto and Tire Center.
And you can find your nearest location at DonovanTire.com
and full service and everything but body work.
Get that a lot.
Apparently, a lot of people are banging into things.
So no body work.
So no paint or scratches or dents or anything like that.
But, you know, if you've got a lot of these newer cars
nowadays, you know, you have your plastic bumpers
where you'll bump into something and it looks like
the bumpers just kind of inverted a little bit.
A lot of times we can get those out.
We can get a heat gun and pop them out.
I do get a lot of questions.
A lot of people think that you have to knock a mirror off,
which that happens quite a bit that, you know,
it needs to go to a body shop and it does not.
We can we can handle that.
It's just any major dents or dings or collision.
So in fact, I know my father-in-law is not listening,
but he had a little fender bender and we had to I had to get
I got his car in and we're able to just all we had to do
is just pull the bumper off and get it repainted.
Not a not a big deal.
So but yeah.
So anything that pertains to your vehicle,
screwed or glued, you know, most most likely we can take
care of as long as the parts are available,
which again becomes a constant battle and it's almost the
newer the vehicle, the harder it is to get parts.
You would think it'd be the opposite, but it is not.
They these these vehicles nowadays.
Listen, I again, I had the luxury of being able to buy a
newer vehicle myself and knock on wood.
Everything's good, but I'm always leery and of where I
park and I fold my mirrors in because I'm always afraid
somebody's going to knock a mirror over because again,
these smaller parts that you just don't think about.
I mean, all these mirrors, they have they have heat.
They have floodlights.
They have turn signals.
They powerful they, you know, they have the sonar to make
sure that if somebody's in your blind spot that the
light lights up, you know, and then like on some of these
vehicles to like Honda, when you turn on your right turn
signal, there's a camera built into it and instead of
having, you know, light that comes on that lets you knew
that there's a car beside you in your blind spot camera
comes on and you can see it.
Well, that all of that's great.
But all of that has to be it's it's not it has to be
programmed to the vehicle, right?
So you can get a.
You know, I used one at a junkyard, you know, you
sit there and you go 800 or $900 for a mirror.
I'll just go to a junkyard.
Well, nowadays you can't do that because that that
mirror has to be programmed to the vehicle and the only
way to program it is you got to have Honda software.
So they make things extremely they extremely difficult to
the point where even I think a lot of your window
switches, right?
They're they're considered a module.
There's a computer in there.
So even if your driver's window switch, you know,
quits working, you have to remove the door panel.
You have to remove the switch and then the
switch won't work.
And a lot of people go, well, I got I got another I've got
bigger problems and it's no you have to go into the car,
go into the software and you have to program that window
switch to the vehicle and it's just not it's not like
the the olden days where you can just plug and play
everything on these vehicles nowadays has to be programmed.
So, you know, just always be mindful, you know,
rolling up your windows.
Make sure you don't leave your windows down where water
can get I had a years ago.
I had a gentleman who had a Bentley Bentley continental.
It was a convertible top and now again, he left the
convertible top down and water got in the window switch.
It also the gas door button was built into that switch
as well.
So he couldn't get he couldn't put gas in the car
unless he replaced the window switch.
Well, the windows switch alone was $800 and then you
have to remove the panel and with labor and anything like
that.
I want to say was around $1200 and it could have been
inverted just by making sure that the tops up and which
again, I talked about this couple of weeks ago.
If you if you can avoid I have a customer of mine
who's dealing with a convertible top issue with
her Audi and I've been around around with the
dealer and they're not being helpful and basically they
came to me and said, hey, Dane, we don't know what's
wrong that we just need to replace the whole convertible
top.
It's going to be $25,000.
I call my customer who was upset of course and because
I there's nobody else that there's nobody else that
I can get to work on it.
It's at the dealer and it's been there for three or
four months.
So she goes, Dane, I only paid $30,000 for the car.
You're telling me in order to get my in order to have
my convertible top to work.
I got to pay $25,000.
I'm like, that's what they're telling me, you know?
And you know, it's one of those things where it's
a it's a nice luxury.
But if you can live without it, try to try to do
so same with sunroofs or a panoramic sunroofs and
all the power, all the buttons and everything like that's
it's the more the buttons, the more the, you know,
it's just more for something to break.
And again, we get, we get, you know, we get accustomed
to those luxuries, right?
You've got heated seats or heated steering wheels
or cooled seats nowadays.
You know, yes, we get, we get used to those luxuries
and then when they break, they're like, oh, man,
I got to have them.
I can't live without them and then you get the
price of what it's going to cost to fix it.
And you're like, ah, nevermind.
I guess I can live without it.
But yeah, again, I had the luxury of being able to
buy a newer vehicle and my boys get in the car and
they want to push every button in the thing and
I'm like, stop touching buttons.
If you're in dad's vehicle, you can't don't touch
buttons.
And again, after the first football game that we
went to, my in-laws lived down the street.
We went to their house and he has a, he has
a recliner that does about everything for you.
It, you know, it'll sit you up, lean you back,
put your feet up, it's heated.
It has a massager and my middle son got in it and
it has a controller on it.
And I'm telling you what, I was about ready.
It was like up, down, up, down, recline, forward,
back, oh, I'm like, stop touching the buttons.
Just sit in the chair.
Oh man.
So again, I'm taking your phone calls.
The number to call 513-749-5500.
Again, to go back to Paul who called earlier with the chain
issue, you know, again, I hate to always harp on it,
but it's something that is just painfully, painfully
obvious when it comes to these vehicles and these
newer vehicles is just making sure that you're,
you're at least checking the oil level.
I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
I harp on it all the time about changing it,
but I'm to the point where I'm just begging people just
to make sure, just make sure that it's full.
We, we see a lot of ongoing issues.
I had a gentleman earlier this week.
He says, hey, my, my sister-in-law, she needs an oil
change, but her check engine lights on.
The car's running bad.
Lo and behold, she was, you know, way overdue and
there was no oil in the car, which led to chain
issues, which led to the running issues, which
led to the check engine light and it's all something
that can be averted if, if we're just at least
checking it or changing it regularly.
Now, at all of our Donovan tire locations, we'd
be more than happy if, if you think your car
is using oil or you don't know how to check it,
we'll always be happy to help you and show you
how to check it.
If you're a do-it-yourself or you're like,
you know what, I like to learn how to check
my own oil because it's, it's very important
nowadays.
We see it a lot.
But if you're like, nah, I don't want to get my
hands dirty or I don't, I don't know anything
about cars, you can always bring it to one of
our locations.
Well, one of our mechanics will come out.
Gladly to take a look at it.
And, you know, if you need a quarter or what
not, we can top you off, you know.
It's, it's, but it's, it's something that's
very important on these vehicles today.
We spend so much money.
As you know, these vehicles are not getting
cheaper, you know, you spend your hard-earned
money and you need these cars to get to work
to get your kids to school or sporting events.
And you want to make sure that, you know, you
protect your investment.
I know it's a depreciating asset, but you
want to make sure that you protect it and
you make sure that you get the most life
out of it.
You know, again, Paul, when he called
earlier, you know, he has a 04 Honda,
Honda Element and has 256,000 miles.
Now, for some people, like Tony Bender,
they can rack that up in a couple of years
because he lives way, way down in Kentucky.
There's a, you have to stop at a, I had to
stop at rest area just to get to his house,
but he can rack up miles real quick.
Now for the, you know, somebody who is,
you know, 256,000 miles, like for me,
I only live three and a half miles away
from work.
So it's going to take me a long time
to get to that.
But again,
whether you're driving it, you know,
100 miles a day or
three miles a day, you want to make sure that
you're taking care of it, making sure that
you're maintaining it regularly.
And again, the, the cheapest and easiest
thing to do is what you're, you're, you
already have to go to the gas station
for most of us.
For those of you who have a Tesla or
all electric car, this isn't, you know,
you, this isn't an issue for you,
but for 99% of us, 95% of us probably,
you need to, you have to go to the gas
station and get gas in your car.
So that, that would be a perfect time
while you're waiting instead of getting back
in your car, getting on your phone,
checking to see what, you know,
somebody's status is,
pop that hood and check your fluid.
You can do it if you need to add oil.
I, I'd recommend, you know, just,
you know, you can always go into the
gas station and grab it,
but you can also,
you know, just buy a case of it
and always have it in your trunk.
That way, you know,
if you need to top it off, you can.
It's very important
and that those are the two things you need to do.
Lifeblood of getting 200,
300,000 miles out of your car.
Make sure you put gas in it.
Make sure you change the oil regularly
or at least make sure it's full of oil
and these cars can handle it.
They can get to 300,000 miles easily
if you do those two things.
So,
all right, again,
taking your phone calls and number to call
513-749-5500.
Phone lines are wide open.
Love to hear from you.
Give me a call.
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I mentioned Kentucky
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I got three phone calls,
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two from Kentucky.
Yeah, you know,
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If you want to talk to me,
you can just go to the iHeart app
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You can call me from...
Everybody has car problems.
I have car problems.
My wife certainly has car problems.
In fact,
she's got...
I was driving her car the...
I think Thursday,
she goes,
I got a light out.
I said,
oh, yeah,
you get a reverse light out.
I got to fix that.
I knew about that.
I just haven't...
Trying to get her car,
pry her car out of her hands
is difficult.
So, you know.
But anyways,
all right,
let's go back to the phones.
We have Shirley.
Welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Thank you.
Well, I've got a problem.
I've got a 2017 Kia Sportage.
I really love it.
I've always had to put oil in it
since it's been new.
And I was told that that was normal.
But anyway,
here are the last several months.
Twice it started just out of the blue
running real rough
and took it to our little favorite
mechanic down the road from us.
And he said that there was a spark plug
that was full of oil.
And he said,
we cleaned the spark plug
and put it back in,
cleaned things up.
He charged me $280 both times.
And this last time,
he called me after he fixed it up
and he said,
well, you really need to get a new car
or you need a new engine.
And I'm in...
I work full-time,
but I am up in my 70s
and I can't really afford a new car.
And I'm wondering if that is true
and what your advice is.
Great question.
So yes, Kia and Hyundai's
and I'm not picking on them,
but they seem to be the worst.
Kia's, Hyundai's and Subaru's.
Now, again, I'm not picking on these models.
They are notorious for burning oil.
And that's why I kind of led
with the beginning of this.
It just...
They can't keep oil in them.
That's their job.
No, it's not normal.
I'll start there.
No, it is not normal.
Okay.
The way that these engines are designed,
the rings get all gummed up
and the basically what happens is the oil...
A lot of people go, hey,
I'm having to add oil to my car,
but there's nothing leaking.
It's like, well, because it...
You know, your pistons have
what's called piston rings
and that oil is forced past those rings
then burns inside the combustion chamber
where your spark plug is
and then that spark plug gets all fouled out
because it's just covered in oil over time
and then it goes out the tailpipe.
So first and foremost, no, it's not normal.
Hyundai and Kia have a class action lawsuit
and a lot of the times when these things come in blown up,
Hyundai and Kia are replacing the engines.
Now, the other...
The downside to that is
if you called Kia right now and said,
hey, my car is burning oil, they'd say, okay.
And I know that you guys are replacing engines.
Well, they're not just going to replace it.
The only time they replace it is if it's blown up.
Okay.
How many miles are on your Kia?
I've got 144.
And I'll tell you, we've been laid on one oil change, one.
And of course, we bought the extra endurance,
I'll take to say it, but it is.
A warranty.
And I was told by the mechanic,
if you were laid on one oil change,
that they wouldn't do anything with it, that endurance wouldn't.
So...
I don't know if that's...
I don't know that that's true.
I've not heard that.
That might be their policy.
I've never heard that.
But unfortunately, yes, with that amount of miles,
Hyundai's not going to do anything at this point.
But the only thing that you can do, yes,
you have to make sure that you are keeping oil in it regularly
and making sure that it's full.
But yeah, you would have to replace or rebuild that engine
in order to reverse what's going on with your vehicle.
Okay.
And again, I talk about this all the time on the show
because a lot of times 99.9% of all people
that are driving these Hyundai's, these Kia's and these Subaru's
don't realize that their cars are burning oil.
And everybody always assumes that,
oh, well, an oil light will come on if the car's low on oil.
These oil lights don't come on.
I can't tell you the last time I saw a car
come into my shop with an oil light on.
You just...
It doesn't happen.
So it's just being...
The fact that it's just awareness,
being...
Understand that, yes, it is using oil
and making sure that you just check it regularly.
Again, get a case of oil, put it in the trunk
when you're filling up the car.
Top it off.
That's really the only thing you can do
unless you rebuild it with the age and the mileage
that would be extremely expensive.
And there's unfortunately...
Some people have...
There's a company out there called Seafoam.
A lot of people say you can put Seafoam in there
and that'll correct it.
There's another chemical company called Bearmans.
They claim that if you put it in the car, it'll fix it.
I haven't come across anything that reverses it.
Maybe makes it a little bit better,
but nothing truly reverses it unless you rebuild the engine.
So, you know, I get frustrated
when I hear these dealers say,
oh, that's normal.
Yeah.
That is what they're being told,
but in my opinion,
I mean, if you go back just 10 years ago,
cars didn't burn oil as bad as they do today.
And, you know, I hate to say it.
You know, a conspiracy theorist to an extent,
but it's like these manufacturers are designed...
You know, their object is to sell vehicles.
They're designing it that way.
Correct.
Planned obsolescence, you know, and...
Is it worth putting money into?
Is there anybody that would fix it,
that would rebuild it for less than a new engine?
Is there anything that can be done?
Or am I?
I'm looking at buying a new car
because I can't keep putting $280 into it
every time I turn around
and I can't afford what he quoted to me on the new engine.
Yeah, I mean, even a rebuild would still be just as expensive
as a replacement.
And you don't want to put it...
You don't want to put a use...
A lot of times people go,
Well, what about use?
Well, you don't want to do use
because you're going to basically spend all that money
and that thing's going to be doing the same thing.
So, it's, you know, in my opinion...
Yeah, if you don't want to spend that type,
yeah, it's getting a new car.
I know that nobody wants a car note and have to...
But I would stay away from the Hyundai's...
All the Hyundai's, all the Kia's, all the Subaru's for sure.
I would try...
And again, I'm not picking on them,
but they are the worst.
You know, you're...
Certain things about them that are good and...
But that's a bad thing.
Okay, so my next question,
and I don't know if you can tell me or not,
but if I buy another SUV,
small one for the rest of my days,
which way would you go?
I would either pick...
A new car, it's a brand.
Yeah, I would either pick if you...
A small SUV, I would do either the Toyota RAV4,
the Honda CR-V, or the Mazda CX-5.
Well, that's the three that I was looking towards.
I tell you what, the Honda and the Toyota,
you're gonna sit there and you go,
man, I can get so much more Mazda than I can for a Honda
or Toyota.
I get that.
The Mazdas, for some reason, nobody thinks about them.
I don't ever have never, ever have problems with Mazdas.
I think that you could probably get a brand new Mazda
for what you could have used Toyota or Honda.
Again, I love Honda.
Honda's my brand, but Mazda, they're low maintenance,
they're great cars, they're reliable,
and like I said, you could probably buy a new one
for what you could buy a used Honda or Toyota,
but those would be CX-5, Mazda CX-5,
Honda CR-V, or Toyota RAV4.
Those would be the three that I would focus on.
And the hybrid?
Hybrid would be fine.
However, if you're gonna do a hybrid,
only buy a hybrid in the Toyota.
Okay.
I'm not happy.
Toyota has absolutely narrowed down and perfected the hybrid.
Honda and Mazda, I'm not there yet,
but Toyota, if you're gonna buy a hybrid, buy the Toyota.
And which one is it?
The Toyota.
Well, I think they might have a hybrid RAV4,
but mostly what they...
I think they do.
I think they do.
I think they do.
That or the Prius, any model of the Prius.
Those Priuses are, in my opinion, in today's standards,
probably one of the most reliable vehicles on the road today.
I almost never have problems with the Prius.
But like I said, if you're gonna go hybrid, Toyota, period.
Okay.
I sure appreciate this.
You're welcome.
I sure do.
We were in a dilemma, so this has helped me a lot.
You're very welcome.
Thank you for the phone call.
Hi, thank you.
All right, you're very welcome.
You too.
Bye-bye.
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Taking your car questions,
then number to call.
513-749-5500, although we are running out of time.
So I want to be polite
and try to get to these last two callers.
If I don't, I do apologize.
Please call me back next Saturday.
But I'd like to get to him.
So let's go to the phones.
We have Scott.
Hey, Scott, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
How you doing, Dane?
I have a 2011 Chevy Silverado.
And I was having problems with a hard start.
And I changed my fuel pump.
And I'm getting fuel.
So I figured it was the fuel injectors.
It's got the spider fuel injectors in it.
And mine don't have a return line.
And I put, I ordered one and got it.
And it had one with the return line.
Well, the truck would run, but it was spitting gas out.
So I took it out and ordered another one from Rock Auto.
It had a plug in where the return line is.
And the vehicle will not start.
And I was wondering if there's any,
if you would have any ideas what,
if anybody rebuilds them because they don't have a factory,
factory replacement.
Uh-huh.
What, what it says here, this is a,
it's a 2011 Chevy Silverado.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
4.3.
Yeah.
And you, you only replaced one injector or all of them?
All of them.
All of them.
Okay.
It's a spider fuel injector system.
And you have to replace the whole set.
Right.
So, and then after you've done that, so you,
it was starting, but you just had a hard start, correct?
Yes, sir.
A hard start on, on, okay.
And then after replacing those,
and you said there's a, like it's capped off.
The, the, the return line is capped off.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
And is it cranking?
Yes, sir.
All right.
It's cranking.
It's just not, and do, I mean, do you know for sure?
No, I'm not firing.
When, when the problem's gone, sorry, go ahead.
I was going to say, are you, are you, do you know for sure
that you're getting, you're getting fuel?
Yes.
I put a gauge on it and I'm getting fuel to the front.
I had 60 pounds of fuel.
Okay.
On my gauge.
Um, I don't, uh, I don't know anybody off the top of my head
that could rebuild them.
Okay.
I'm willing to bet, go ahead.
No, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
No, I, I'm willing to bet that, that, that part that you put.
So let me ask you something.
You would, you bought a part.
It had the return line, but it was leaking.
So you, you buy one from Rock Auto.
You put that on and now it won't start.
Yes, sir.
And you, you're getting good fuel pressure.
You're getting fuel to that part and it won't start.
Does it?
Yes.
Okay.
Will it start on ether starting fluid?
Uh, yes.
Um, if I spray a little spray with the old fuel injector,
that's what I just, that's how I determined that was the fuel injectors was dirty.
It would start on ether.
Now with the new injector, with the plug in it, I spray ether in there,
it won't start.
But now on my original one, it would.
It would.
Yes, sir.
Oh, you've got, you've got, uh, um, man, I, that's something that I would
probably have to, I'm, I'd have to, you'd have to get so many to look at.
Off the top of my head, sir, I, I don't, I don't know off the top of my head.
I, that's something, that's something that, uh, we'd have to spend a little bit of time
on.
I don't know why it would, why it would do that.
I mean, I'm willing to bet that there's something wrong with that part that you
got, but you know, I understand that you don't have that many options.
And I understand.
Right.
Right.
With it being 11, it's, it's hard to get, you know, factory parts because
they're, they're not going to make me.
They're going to be obsolete and you got to go with what's available.
And I get that, um, unfortunately, no, I, I don't have anything, uh, off
the top of my head that, uh, I'd like to know though.
I mean, if you could, uh, I think you're going to have to get it to a
mechanic.
Yeah.
Um, I know Scott up at community car care.
I live in Allen's, Andrew.
Okay.
And, and I'm going to call him, I guess, and maybe see if he'd be
willing to look at it for me.
I'm known him forever, but I'm, I'm not a mechanic, but I do all my
service work myself if I can.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Well, I tell you what, it's, it, it, it, these newer cars, man, it
gets harder and harder and harder to do anything.
I mean, sometimes on these, some of these newer cars, you pop
the hood and you can't even find out where to put oil in it.
Um, yes, sir, they do everything they possibly can to
deter you from touching that thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I figure with the 2011 that I wouldn't have that much of an
issue, but apparently, uh, it's considered old, but yeah,
I know, I know for taking the call and very welcome.
I will let you know.
Yeah.
I want to call me back with a report.
Yep.
So, all right.
Uh, I apologize.
Everett, I am going to be, I, if you could call me back.
I apologize.
I'm running out of, I'm up against the clock here.
I got to get going.
I do apologize.
So please call me back or you can call me at, um, one of
my shops.
I will be this week.
I will be at the ridge road location.
So you're welcome to call me there.
Um, for those of you who did call, I really do appreciate
it.
Uh, everybody enjoy their weekend.
It, we do have some great weather.
I'm going to head back to, to more football practice,
more football games, and, uh, we'll be back next Saturday
to answer all of your car questions.
And let's just hope, let's hope that the, the reds get
a win tonight and, uh, the bangles.
I don't, I'm not too sure after last weekend.
That was hard to watch.
Um, I'll be back next Saturday to answer all your
questions.
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