Maintenance Lies

Maintenance lies on the Christian Car Guy show, Bob let me hear your best what you talk about Willis. Would you dumb by with me to change air in your tires. Bob you go try to get what you dumb by, with, so I is your timeout, you know, when you go to this Firestone or you go to Jiffy Lube or wherever you go to get your car serviced and all the sudden they come up with this very interesting list of clicking that they say your car needs actually and we have Bill Mixon in the studio with us through a warning of a guest appearance, but yet this very thing happen right yeah I took my car in to get the oil changed. I went to a convenient place instead of the place I really really really trust. And lo and behold when I come back to pick it up.

They had a long list of things they thought that I should do immediately and change in their new tired and one in Nevada (the humanity get stale or gets a lot of water in it on talk they had that there is I've heard, I have actually heard it so it even though you may have had this happen and so on. The Christian Car Guy show today were trying to get at the truth right I work for the Truth Network and truth is very important in the all sorts of levels. So I have compiled some maintenance statements for you. Our audience to guess that is this statement true or false. And because we been doing this promotion with red roof inns. We have one more VIP pot voucher which is good at over 500 red roof inns all over America.

You just go in and you handle this voucher evening after reservation Bob, I'll take it. All you have to do everybody that calls them with an answer to one of my posers today you get a shot at it. So get ready to call us at 866348788486634 truth. If you digitally gifted and since these are all true or false were guessing you you might might appear that you have a 50-50 chance your Bob with the Dell met with not so number one on the hit parade of my eight questions is you need to flush your brake fluid every spring. True or false. Number two need to change your oil every 3000 miles. True or false in either flesh or transmission fluid every 30,000 miles.

True or false, you need a tuneup every 50,000 miles dreaming of the car.

Remember, your comment 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH Diego number five, you need a front alignment front end alignment every three months or I'll go with a four wheel alignment you if you want to use that one every three months. He needed 866-34-TRUTH 87884. You need to winterize your coolant system.

Every fall. True or false, you need to rotate your tires every oil change. True or false because those are the eight questions you could win that voucher 866-34-TRUTH 87884. As we said it would appear yellow 50-50 check with the scary thing you know about all eyes is there's usually some truth in there. So this is not as easy as it may sound the organism find you call us at 866-348-7884 and since we have Bill Mixon here with us actually had a situation with our Jesus labor love this week just kinda broke my heart and I had a dear friend in another situation, it broke my heart right along the seams issues of wow this is kind of a real simple insurance question I would've thought that people can answer but clearly a lot of people don't understand it because I I'm sponsor is lost thousands of dollars this week because he did not have a simple type of insurance of doing ironing talk about coming up to the show.

Then our appraisal by the real black football. That's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure. Cry out for discernment, lift up her voice for standing for understanding owners manuals in prayer, there is a simple lesson. I think we can glean on basic discipleship and prayer as it relates to how you use the owner manual for your car and working on talk about that coming up in our last segment in our appraisal by the real black book. As always wanted tell you. You can find all the stuff@christiancarguy.com Jesus labor love car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis and we certainly had all sorts of crisis is this week that we were blessed to be able to deal with the course. There's a partial calendar that the website so if you want to know where there's a car show in your area who there's hundreds literacy on our website at Christian card I partial calendar and then of course are podcasts of all previous shows and Christian card I theater jailhouse just as part 14 would've had a last week. All those are free and easy enough to check out all right. We already have several colors lined up which I'm very excited about this argument.

Yes, wonderful topic. You can find out if you needed to change your brake fluid like they tilted we have Stephanie in our true false questions. Stephanie you're on the Christian card I sugar morning where you called from Stephanie, Greenbrier, North Carolina, wonderful, wonderful, close by.

So which question did you feel led to hammer down on them really bad about my car. The oil part.1.3 thousand mile I write yet definitely do that you heard from Bethany being well.

The interesting thing about all is there's a critical social being is a partial thing we we agree with you more than you gotta change oil absolutely. The intervals are different based on different cars and their different based on Titusville different types oil and different types of driving so like if you drive a taxi in your downtown all the time and you know wow you may need to change oil more than every 3000 miles but if I but once you been burned away in college, you know, so where I fall on that is your owners manual is this wonderful resource and it will give you what kind of oil. It recommends and also the intervals that it should be change that in some cars the case of General Motors cars actually have an indicator that tell you while trying to change oil and they are monitoring your oil system to see how it's doing so. Yeah most of the meat is preset of mileage to key catalog relates it's a pretty blanket of an old percentage that even after they send a couple of the robe exits junkyard reducing Stephanie and all our many male or reminder when getting really really nice.

I agree.

In the in the other thing. My wife just slips out if they do not put her sticker in the window to tell her to remind her what mileage that needs to be put it but there's something to consider in all that and and I you know I'd much rather err on the side of getting it change more often than not often enough. Yes or however I would say that most cars is really you know if you check your owners manual to find most cars are definitely fine of 5000 miles and one time I went to Volkswagen training school. He gave is really important lesson I've never forgotten. They said that last. You can have a mechanic touch your car, the better off you are.

And they said that when they originally started making the Volkswagen beetle they put in the in the maintenance schedule to adjust the valves every 2500 miles and they were blown engines on the average of like 60% of Volkswagens in the country were blowing engines in the first 5000 miles. You know why because the mechanic for tightening the valves too much because they were adjusting obsolete just changed it every 5000 miles in their boarding claims were cut by in a 90% you know how they got and cut the other 10%. They didn't have them check Safeco for people again if if a mechanic is the you know I can't tell you how many times they've rinsed off oil filters oil plugs. You know I'm not saying that you know what I say I have that that was the so thing they did to. I'm not saying don't change oil when it needs to be done. I'm definitely same and go by your owners manual to get it done two losses and I was one of those things. So this is my RAM discussion Stephanie you're so pray for comment.

Thank you. I would get so much more Christian card I come up. Jenny is in Raleigh and we need you 866-34-TRUTH 7884 tables into the crowded to take dancing you blessed maintenance live.

They on the first card I show you need to change the air in your tires. What about Willis. That's what were talking about so I have compiled with the help of my two friends are Bob my trustee Christian junkyard going to mix in our trusty insurance guy.

We have compiled these eight questions to give you a chance at true or false, to see whether not you need to have this kind of maintenance are these lies are they truth. Are they tour they false you go, you need to flush your brake fluid every spring. True false need to change oil every 3000 miles per false, you need to flush or transmission fluid every 30,000 miles for small sign that little handle. Use this to push to you need a tune up every 50,000 miles. True false. You need a front end alignment every three months.

You need to winterize your coolant system. Every fall, you need to change your cabin air filter every spring need to rotate your tires every oil change and we watched a call us with your answers running away every IP certificate good to any red roof Inn in America would know blackout dates or anything you do is present when you stay which life and actually stated a red roof Inn.

When we took my daughter to college. This week is really really nice. We stayed there recently and we were very pleased 866-34-TRUTH 87884. What is what say you, 866-34-TRUTH 87884 we have Jenny is in Raleigh. Jenny around the Christian card I sugar morning good morning which question did you feel compelled to give us the answer to okay well like I'm cheating patently. I went to the cake I oil change and today kayak rank about making a call on I got 201,008 1998. If you care so that's what I need to channel nation fluid needs to be changed every 30,000 mile at right well once again, yes and no it it it certainly is the case in many many many cars and I need to guess what your did you say was a super earn. Now it is true. In 1998 and I get hard each nation with clay at three months ago, I would. I would guess you when it comes to the 1998 or nine is easy to prove which work off some cars and I would say you're probably right but your owners manual to and and therein lies the issue remember having a vehicle one died that head over hundred and 50,000 miles and the transmission. People said it did not cause more problems solved by put duty in flow and therein lies another issue which you know that's the neat thing about all these questions is there's also to answers to them that if you didn't change oil in your transmission when you were supposed to then putting new fresh transmission fluid in can mess the seals up and cause you to have a problem because you failed to do it on the interval time, but again getting back to the premise of I'm hoping that your people will look in their owners manual and there it will tell you exactly because now that is to keep that thing nowadays actually a lot of the import cars have long life transmission fluid and and from what I understand, some are saying they're good for life that is no longer service in the transmission considers a filtering of transmission that we had back in the day and we had transmission fluid so things are changing. This is not a one-size-fits-all issue, but I would gonna say you're right Jenny, because on the 98 is easy to put every 30,000 miles sounds like a winner to me in space away, especially with the inland. Is it a need transmission are used with well great no longer made the capital you have 100,000 mile warranty run and have like Erin sans E may remanufactured right and just man the assets of the great warranty and with it being a reman can. I can say that it's probably a good idea to follow their instructions on this.

If the you know the ones he put it in. That's who I would consult because they're the ones warranty warranting orienting the transmission easy for me to say that they're the ones doing it and standing behind it. So I would follow their specific instructions about fluid changes and not the guy that Wanda sell you a fluid change and I'd consult where you got it from. Just make sure that you don't violate their their warranty exactly what. Thank you Jenny God bless you.

I appreciate you calling in cataract and I hope every weekend to thank you and we didn't have a lot of allies that is a miles and I love the documents rights we have questions that have yet to be questioned like do you really need to flush your brake fluid every spring.

You might get copper water and there you go 866-34-TRUTH 87884. You can win a VIP's certificate if you're the lucky drawer winning at the end of the show how to tune up every 50,000 miles.

Somebody want to take that one on do you need a tune up.

How often do you need a tuneup what you think 866-348-7884. There's a lot of questions your bill. My wife tunes me a regular I needed a car to get the service she got to keep me straight. Well opposites go back to the very first question here while we wait on more people who want to jump in because we got 20 questions that they can answer and end the question is which is actually very very hot topic these days and it used to be a no-brainer that I know very few people and in mechanical circles that I worked in the domestic cars. It would ever consider changing your brake fluid, but that is no longer the case will what confused me was he told me there was water in the area. The EAD just at happens and then I went to research it and he assured me that because some little sticky had was purple there was absolutely no doubt we needed to rebuild the car from the bottom up but I everything I read said that this test didn't do a day dumb thing finding that with you got water in them or not. Again we noted in Bill's case he has achieved and so that she has owners manual in the future.

You can search that on the train on that you can TrackBack you will find anything about changing right foot, but we will have more discussion on brake fluid may be evident. But we have these answers. True or false, 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH so much for coming up as maintenance lies on the Christian who what you talk about Willis with you domain you need to change air in the tires they're looking for what you talk about Willis. We are asking these maintenance questions today are they true or false when they tell you, wow, looks like you need to know flush your brake fluid.

It looks like you need to totally flush your coolant system and and those kind of things are they true or they false inquiring minds want to know what is the truth. We have Chris is in Iowa.

Chris's want to take on these questions.

Again, if you answer why if you call in, all you have to do is call in and will register you for the VIP trip and give way is not a trip. It's an overnight stay in any one overnight stay at any red roof in America and Chris and I will you're on Christian Car Guy, Schoharie good morning near my tired. Better safe than sorry. Chris feel better that arrive now use now they are between the tires to just put in brand-new. So which which of our many questions would you like to take on their Chris well.

All right. You need a tuneup every 50,000 miles. True false. Well, I would think that the audit manual but outside of that mode. But I'm buying art edited by their partner out. I don't own a car that you put every 50 mile being bullied. That's good. It sounds like you're a Christian card.

I listener you probably know a lot more than I did but nonetheless that's a great point. In fact, the word tuneup is kinda obsolete from my point of view and because of so many of the parts he that used to require the team that are are no longer in their there's no point to drive for us old-school people up tuneup meant points condenser spark plugs, air filter, know that was possibly wires, dry, and sometimes a fuel filter back in the day will talk about in the 60s or the early 70s when no ignition systems were like that. But nowadays I energy some spark plugs will go hundred and 50,000 miles right so Chris, how when you think of a tuneup what you think of the thing I don't really think of eight because you're doing individual thing.

Coil pack the everything depends what yeah you know I have blood go hundred thousand mile, then I'm driving a vehicle right now with hundred 68,009 at I never done a coil pack on which I know it probably made it my work vehicle.

Kind of like a way to go than I think that it did I get and put it in because I don't think of overall anymore and I could you're saying and which part of the gold that you will need exactly in my is actually a bit of frustration is when I get Jesus labor love these are car repair request for single moms Windows and families in crisis and it's not unusual at all for them to just be. I need a tuneup you know the problem with my car is I need a tuneup and an and they've been. I guess brainwashed for lack of a better word in this concept it. The car needs a tuneup every so often and you know is your check engine light on his is there something you know that's actually wrong with it, which is really really helpful I think for all people to bring in their cars and for maintenance is tell them what the cars actually doing that's causing you to be concerned is missing. Is it vibrating is it shaking is it using a bunch of gas know what is it that is actually causing the concerned actress and the check engine light back to be a married of think in a more practical my vehicle at right now that I'm driving a comedown every now and then.

It might guilt the unit that will rapidly needed to never anything major and frankly I'm going to have a vehicle another year to not work change, I just checked my odometer may trickle up Barbara before I ran out the other again at the altar to think they can figure your and I would be out of the need to have a check in all but there again, that is not very mean at the big deal so the truth isn't so easy to get to you. I appreciate you calling and and and and answer their questions today. God bless you. Well Chris was pretty unknowledgeable there. I can tell Jesse he would not follow for a the Trixie of the trade and I don't you know I don't mean the know some people have now decided that it tuneup means something else and I don't take away your terminology, I mean if you if you decide that it is that in you can communicate that. But if you look into automotive single owners manual I've ever looked at since the 60s.

That said, you need a tuneup at a certain mileage interval because that is part of what normal maintenance is anymore and it's good kinda adopted technology and and in the verbiage of today. If you have a today's car but if you own a 69 Camaro oh yeah you that they need to tuneup as it still has points condenser's and and all those things come with exactly there's a so many things that I used to have preconceived ideas from from those days and listen to my dad and and this car needs the is the neo-now in the us later and as a convenience that if I taking that new plugs and wires in my vehicle I was driving at that time that it was going be like a new and I was going to have more power and it was going to be just is going to change dramatically and it changed nothing except my their level, the level of my wallet and it's just the things of change that and there's so many different different things in the sum of our preconceived ideas no longer apply.

And speaking of preconceived ideas. I did want to while you're calling it 866-34-TRUTH you. I know you want to win that overnight stay. It's it's awesome red roof Inn 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH I want to get into this insurance since I had Bill here with me today and that is, broke my heart on accomplishing what it means to it and break my heart. It was it was a Jesus labor love situation on an and I had this application come in and this situation was that somebody had totally confident word abused her car vandalized her car. Taken a hammer sums the windshield broken all afternoon, then offenders always different things and and she could even pass the inspection to be able to go to work because she your windshield was broken and that was actually you know really grateful to those who were donating to Jesus labor love because without that this lady would be going to work because Safelite or whoever it was, it came out this week and did her in a week was done through the donations Jesus labor love, but my first question to her was I know you don't have collision insurance because it was an older car, but do you have comprehensive and and she really did not understand at all what I was talking about and Bill it it just kinda broke my heart because I know that: comprehensive and I understand somebody not Karen collision on an older car but comprehensive is another story right will we've gotten into this world where awful lot of people make a one 800 call and they say on pay. In this amount per month and the whole discussion is on how to get under whatever amount you been paying without a discussion in all the different options that are available. Comprehensive I can be five dollars a month that can be $50 a month.

It's generally for the average car about 10% with the collision insurance would be in there some cars that get stolen a lot. So those are considerably more, but it's one of those things that we always make sure that we tell people this is what it cost in these well in an adult example for me is old red which you know Bill was and is my my 1995 Dodge Dakota. I'm obviously not a cure collision insurance on it at this point. However, I do carry comprehensive and it's paid off on new tree branches a little deliver subject. The EE covers fire, theft, vandalism, a tree falling on it, tornado, hail, glass breakage, running into an animal, and even flood, which is a big win in a lot of areas.

Floods covered under comprehensive coverage and then in some states that's expanded so in some states is that all inclusive. It's gotta be one of those things, and in some states, it's all all except but in some states even acid rains covered some paint problems are covered noted case where a gas can turned over and then you have a gas can turn over in your car you got a much bigger problem than you think to comprehensive can expand from those things that I listed to all lot of other items to and is not an app for old red my conference with her. I'm not mistaken for 20 bucks a month.

I bet it's probably listening and I know it's not a lot in and then I had a dear relative that had stayed over at her friends were that you know they were looking at buying a trailer, and they parked the car over there that night along with their son, who also had a car and they couldn't sleep in the middle nights of God literally save them because of the dam broke overnight and then taken the sons carpet left his car there, he lost his car because he didn't have comprehensive insurance had he had conference of insurance. 15 $20 month. Whatever it was, he would still have a call that he had his life, which is obviously medical but I just want to bring that out today will bit as we talked about some of these maintenance lies got plenty of time to call him 866-34-TRUTH though sometimes got a hard to discern what is the truth and what is a lie when people come up save your car needs this and this and this and this and so we've thrown some of these out here and when I meant to finish in heaven is you need to flush or break fluid every spring. True false. But before we do that we have Diane is in Belmont, North Carolina Diane you're on the Christian car – of the morning. Which one did you want to try morning I wonderful well yeah I had one of those who have the old chain in that great great Medicaid ever 3000 mile so I was quaking in the trade that is true. That's a good thing to do and and I would say how many how many miles do you draw I mean you drive a lot during the week to drive a thousand miles to just drive once or twice how much to drive 1 mile from my work so I don't I don't drive a whole lot before that is awesome.

Well here's here's some concerns and if you look in the owners manual, which is what I really recommend you do above anything Robbie says because is, like the Bible is in authority over you know us, because God made us and so he has a right to make the instruction manual and so Chevy has went to and Chevy will give you very specific instructions, but if I'm not mistaken that what they considered to be high maintenance cars. They do recommend you change oil at 3000 miles and when you don't get your car really hot like when you drive to work, and you get there in a mile. Your car never really heats up and when that happens, the spent fuel all gets buildup in the oil because it doesn't get hot enough to burn the fuel and carbon out of the oil and so was actually driving those few miles is really hard on the car. Don't change the oil pretty frequently and so in your case the 3000 miles sounds like red, known for her on the old oil yes on the tires. I that when you know again I'm is there a lot of potholes or stuff like that when you're where you drive on the right want to clap away now that Carolina about 35 meaning that is really good for you, get my car needed at you car thanking you for that one.

Whenever you make that trip, but again we want to err on the side of safe and so you want to look at how you drive specifically and what I would do is talk to the person it's actually rotating the tires and say do you think these need to be rotated because when you look at tires you can kinda see. Wow these on the front are need to be on the back of him and in those kind of thing so I don't hold to the Rick rotate the tires every 3000 miles but certainly tires do need to be rotated but it starts to begin to look at the wearer and and go from there. I agree with that in.

I had a situation one time where I had a relatively good set of tires on and I had a stuck something somehow at the junkyard. Something got stuck in the tyrant and I had had that plugged the tire, but a plug tire is acceptable and in my opinion on the back but you don't want to plug tire in the front so I was in a could never rotate that set of tires again and is something I faced no more than once because occasionally a piece of metal will get in your tire at the junkyard.

If this something that happens you know that the it just prevented me from being able to rotate but I don't think there's anything wrong with you. You can't over rotated him or anything, but if you're getting charged for you my kid that you might could get by with the with less than that right seat so you have it. The issue of what you're getting charged, but again every time somebody touches your car. You know they can not tighten the wheel back properly, they can that there's a lot of chances for errors in human error when you're doing something that doesn't necessarily be done so I'd be careful is all I'm saying there. Diane got bless you, thank you for calling in today quaking all go quick shot car ride don't change him.

I made that mistake I determined I myself. It put too much air in the back tires and it started writing rough and I thought it was the stress and I went ahead and had them had change and just wasted money in it.

If you ride and did you tell me how change anything as it somebody because you yeah don't fix it but you can push down on the fender real hard and see if it starts to wobble there's a way to check sharks pretty easy, and it probably be a good idea to have some recheck him, but I was not obligated car greeting night and it not mostly any probably not a 97 total Tahoe.

But again, check your listening so they go there you go. Thank you Diane God bless you have been very helpful but I'm glad I'm so glad God blessed right well just for weight when what you're getting ready to do that drawing for Ali Sosa called and I do have to take that. Do you need a break fluid change every spring and the answer there again is you check your owners manual because if you be driving a smart car, a smart car in the owners manual tells you to change or break fluid every 20,000 miles if you drive 20,000 miles your new drivers marker you need to change the respect it's kind of scary that if you're driving a Chrysler poly like Billy doesn't mention it anywhere and and so you can kinda rely on that in the course I've never change brake fluid in the car my life if you Bob Nasser, not LRI personality and a little but I told her that a lot of the imports have a letter had a lot of copper and water Jaguar. You know, but I do want to get to listen to the drawing room quick Jasper so we can see who one analyst before and so he's got it shaking all right there you go there and he's actually working hard to make the Jasper who one the winner is Jenny Metzger, JR graduations you got a VIP certificate coming your way looking for that but very important on this owners manual question that when you go to find out G, I want to find out if I'm use the right coolant or antifreeze in now days, cars don't all use the same coolant by no means and this is one of the places is critical.

You go to your owners manual what what coolant do I use what brake fluid will use very different you know which oil should I use what transmission fluid should I use their all different.

But when you are not interchangeable enough when you go to your owners manual you're looking for something very specific. You have a question when you may know that the great commission is go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and some of you may know that, but you know that disciple means enthusiastic learner and learners need to have a question right that in order to learn something, you have to admit you don't know if you don't know that you have a question, and in one of the things that I really enjoy about being a disciple is as I begin to read the word I'm looking for the question, what is it that I don't understand where do I need to check the owners manual see that the application is that you've got this question yeah you can go talk to somebody who is knowledgeable about the Bible this like you go talk to that knowledgeable mechanic, but if the if the owners then this is different. You know there's your authority that's what I can rely on. There's the truth I don't have to wonder where the truth and the lie is if I've got the Scripture right it's backing up where work so well. How fun was the show. Thank you guys for being here microphone for Ali and great to be here today do want to say happy birthday to my son Rob.

This meant a lot to be here today on his birthday, and I know that's hard now will go celebrate today. He was born will mourn the day he died. And remember slowdown. Jesus walked everywhere he went, got it all done in 33 years