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Speaker 1: to Tony in Long Is Accord. Tony, Welcome to the car.

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Speaker 1: Doctor sir, what's going on? Hi? Ron Pleasure speaking true

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Speaker 1: sounds like I'm old. I guess I'm getting old that

425
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: they don't want to get their driver's license. Young kids

426
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: today don't want to get their driver's license. And and

427
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: that's sad because to me, that was a rite of passage.

428
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: That was that was the moment of coming of age.

429
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't video games, it wasn't much of

430
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 1: anything else. It was I got my license, I could

431
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: afford a car. And you know, everybody'll say cars are

432
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: so expensive today. You know what, horse hockey, all right,

433
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: everything's relative to a large degree. There's there's there's yeah,

434
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: there's Listen, there's always a way to find a car.

435
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: You work a couple of jobs, you make it work.

436
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: But my point becomes, uh, my, my point becomes that

437
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to lose the ability to have

438
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: fun and what cars represent. Cars above all else, represent freedom,

439
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: and they represent the ability to go where you want,

440
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: when you want. And that's what's going to be lost

441
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: on this next generation. So yep, David, I gotta go.

442
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: I gotta pull over and take a pause. But as always, sir,

443
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to talk to you, and you keep on,

444
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: you keep on calling, and we thank you for your support.

445
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: All right, you take good care nine zero zero or

446
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: on any of the car Doctor. We are back right

447
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back ran the name of the car doctor.

448
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: Let's get over to Andrew when Plattsburgh, New York O

449
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: sixth Grand Caravan Andrew, Welcome to the car Doctor, sir,

450
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: how can I help Hey, thank you very much for

451
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: taking my call. Um about three months ago, uh, the

452
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: passenger side, uh straw assembly on my my van broke

453
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: and ever since then, um, I've had a noise in

454
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: the front of my van. It's like a clunking or

455
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: a funking noise every time I come to a complete stop,

456
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: and then every time that I take off. And we

457
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: changed the the straw assemblies on both sides of the car.

458
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: We've changed the ball joint and the lower control arm

459
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: assembly on the driver's side of the car, and the

460
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: sway bar by links on the driver's side of the car,

461
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: and it's it's still making that noise. Every time I

462
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: come to a complete stop, it makes like a funk

463
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: or clunk and uh and and sometimes it happens when

464
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: I turned. That's why we were thinking maybe ball joints

465
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: or sway bar links, but that hasn't fixed it either.

466
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: And uh. We we just keep fixing one thing after another.

467
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: And we have the lower control him in ball joint

468
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: for the passenger side coming and both CV joints coming,

469
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try to fix those next. Okay, hold on,

470
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: hold up a second here, Andrew so up. Until whatever

471
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: it was two months ago, the fron end was quiet.

472
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this my van is it runs like the top.

473
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: I bought it with only about seventy thousand miles on it. Um.

474
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 1: I take good care of it. I change anything that breaks,

475
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: and and I changed the oil early every time. And

476
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: what what what happened? What happened the strut broke or

477
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: the strut was leaking? What made you change the strut?

478
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: The spring on it snapped and h it was it

479
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: was like resting on my tire. Actually had to call

480
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine who had a flatbad become and

481
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: taken got it. And then what did you do? You

482
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: put in loaded strut assemblies. You put in the whole

483
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: strut and spring assembly together, Yes, sir, the path kit

484
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: that that comes with out assembly first because it broke.

485
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: But and we did the passage. We did the driver

486
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: side first because it broke. But and and that's when

487
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: we noticed the sound. So we changed the whole assembly

488
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: on the on the passenger side too. And then like

489
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: I said, we did the ball joint. Well but wait

490
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: a minute, wait wait wait wait wait. So so the noise,

491
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: the noise the driver's side spring broke. You change the

492
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: driver's side strutt and spring as an assembly. You drove

493
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: it changed nothing else, and that's when you noticed the noise.

494
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: That's when the noise started happening. Okay, what makes you

495
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: think that it's not a bad new strut. I don't know.

496
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: I guess I just assumed that it, uh you know,

497
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: would come to you know, from the factory in in

498
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: good working order. Um, we've looked at it since and

499
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: there's no breaks or anything like that that leads us

500
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: to believe that it's that making the noise. Andrew, do

501
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: you know what news stands for? Uh? No, Well, I

502
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: I guess new men new means never ever worked, all right,

503
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: So you know, never assume. I can't tell you why

504
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: here on family radio, but you know, assume as a

505
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: bad word, and new is a bad word. However, one

506
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: of the things I want you to look at is

507
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: the Now, this is a No. Six. So the top

508
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: of the strut is under the cowl area. Correct. You

509
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: can't get to it readily without pulling the front tray out.

510
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: Uh No. The assembly connects to the top of like

511
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: three bolts, right, But do you have access to those

512
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: three bolts? Can you get a clear shot at those

513
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: three bolts? Okay? You know the center nut that's that's

514
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: holding the strut in. Do you have a cordless impact

515
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: or an impact gun? I don't don't, but my mechanic does. Okay,

516
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: ask him to kiss that nut. Just just put the

517
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: gun on it and give it a little Make sure

518
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: you're going in the right direction. We want to tighten.

519
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: Just a touch, just a touch. I see this a lot.

520
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: I doesn't. It doesn't matter. We can, we can mention brands.

521
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: I can tell you stories about all different kinds of

522
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: after market struts um when we have to use them.

523
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: I've seen more than a few where you just kiss

524
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: that nut, just give it a little tap, all right.

525
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: For that matter, look at the number of threads on

526
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: the driver's side struts center not and the passenger side

527
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: threads center not. Count the count the number of threads.

528
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: All of a sudden you realize the driver's side is

529
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: two threads, the passenger side is three and a half.

530
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: You go, uh. You know there's no rule that says

531
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: everything got assembled and tightened correctly. All right, So before

532
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: before we start changing a pile aparts, let's go back

533
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: to where we were. Let's try and be logical. If

534
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: you do, you hear the noise driver's side or the

535
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: noises nondescript as far as location. To me, it feels

536
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: like it's coming right from under me on the driver's side.

537
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: But when someone sits in the passenger side, they think

538
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: it's coming from that side. Okay, well, then you need

539
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: to sit in the passenger side while somebody's driving and

540
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: see if you have the same experience. You have to

541
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: become the consistent factor. If you feel a driver's side,

542
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: somebody needs to drive the car and you sit in

543
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: the passenger side, don't count on that other person's perception.

544
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: Your perception is the most important because you know what

545
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: it feels like. Here, go sit over there, all right.

546
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many arguments Danny and I

547
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 1: get what we used to get into until I realized

548
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: what it was. Ron and the noises in the back,

549
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: Danny the noises in the front, and then we'd switch

550
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: places and there'd be Danny, the noises in the back,

551
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: run the noises in the front. You know it's it's

552
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: it's perceptions reality, all right. The other thing, the last

553
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: thing I want you to think about and look at.

554
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: Could you have a loose steering rack? Is the rack

555
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: loose on its bushings or mounts? Could the rack be rolling?

556
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: All right? But I want you to go back to

557
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: if it if it was at that moment when it happened,

558
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: where the you know the noise started right after that

559
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: left front strut. I want you to think about that

560
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: left front strut. Could that be a problem? All right?

561
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: Do that? Call me back if you need more. I

562
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: gotta go him up against the clock. And by the way, Andrews,

563
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: stay on the line. Get let's give Tom your information.

564
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna be sending out that P B. Blaster goody

565
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: bag courtesy the folks at p B. Blaster hat, T

566
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: shirt and a few other odds and ends in the bag,

567
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: and we hope you enjoy it and have yourself a

568
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: good summer. So you stay put for that. I'm running

569
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: any of the car doctor. We are back right after

570
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: this car doctor, we're back. Let's go to Carol in

571
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Carol, welcome aboard. How can I help um?

572
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: I'm the original owner of Audi A four. I'm sorry,

573
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: can you hear me? Yes, ma'am, I'm the original owner

574
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: of the Audi A four. I have a hundred and

575
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: sixty miles on the car. When did it start? It's

576
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: so is burned oil from the get go. Um, every

577
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: five thousand miles I'm in and they usually fill it

578
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: with new oil. And I'm on my way. Well, something

579
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: changed back in UH February, I had to have a camp.

580
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: They sealed the cam carrier and replaced upper timing. That

581
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: was because the oil light came on and I had

582
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: just been in there. Now I'm in there again and

583
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: they tell me that I need new pistons and rings.

584
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm at the point where I'd like to buy a

585
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: twenty nine. But I was doing some research and found

586
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: that there was a class action suit on a two

587
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: outie regarding this oil issue. So do they still have

588
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: that oil issue even with the newer models. I can't

589
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: comment on a nineteen. I can tell you I just

590
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: spoke to someone last week with an eighteen. It's having

591
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: an issue, and you know, they went. They told me

592
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: that they got to about thirty four thousand miles on

593
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: the car, and all of a sudden, it started going

594
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: through a court every five hundred miles. So you know

595
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: in my in my eyes that you know, if they

596
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: can't resolve it after all this time, it sounds like

597
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: it's a car to stay away from. I give you

598
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. I don't know that I would.

599
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would. You know, want to

600
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: continue to drive and go back to a car you've

601
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: got a hundred sixty thousand miles out of it. But

602
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: if you if you've been adding a quart of oil

603
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: every couple of five hundred thousand miles, Uh, you know,

604
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: it becomes Yeah, you're right. It seems like they should

605
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: be able to fix it, and it comes time for

606
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: a change. The other issue that I have heard with

607
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: regards that it's beyond pistons and rings, that there's also

608
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: conversation out there on the eighteen anyway, is that there's

609
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: talk about problems with the turbo charger and the turbos

610
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: are causing oil consumption too. So, um, you know, the

611
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: issues sort of comes Carol, de enjoy the car. If

612
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: you enjoy the car, and you're going to have AUDI

613
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: service it, and they've been taking care of you up

614
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: to this point. Yeah, the question is where what's the

615
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: cost factor? All right? And there's other cars out there

616
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: to pick from. There are other choices something that will

617
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: give you a comparable ride. So I think you've got

618
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: to do your homework. Um, I think you've got to

619
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: be cautious because yes, to my knowledge, they still have

620
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: some forms of an issue. Um uh in my mind

621
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: across the board, good luck to you. I'm not anating

622
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: in the car. Doctor reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

623
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: they're priceless. Let's see that