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Tom Martino, Hey Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. Today's such
a good day to go to a home show in Castle Rocket the Douglas County
Fairgrounds. Three hundred and thirty some odd booths are there. Starts at noon
today. It's a great show at one stop shop. Go on in,
look around, have some fun. Anything to do with your house from the
top to the bottom, inside and out. It's going to be a great
show Douglas County Fairgrounds today starting at noon. Welcome. Today is car Friday.
We have a good day today to talk about cars. And really I
wanted to talk about summarizing a car. We talk about winterizing a car.
What do what does the summer? What does heat bring to a car?
Of course today it's a little cool, as you know. We have this
now and then God teases us a little with summer and then bam and then
we get teased again. But it's okay, it's fun and listen. You
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Of course, my YouTube morons welcome there on, and we have our Facebook
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So let me get to waiting. A guy calls and says his mother's
house was stolen. Somebody filed a fake promisory note and quit claim deed or
something like that, and they got a notary and filed it with a county.
And it was in twenty sixteen. She found out about it and did
nothing. It's too late. She lost her house forever, she lost it.
He said, well, we tried, and now I'm getting involved.
I said, well, I'm sorry, but it doesn't matter. There are
statutes of limitation. Statutes of limitation mean just that now it goes from discovery
or from the original incident, and then it goes outwards. So, for
example, there are some statutes on fraud that go, let's say three years
from the incident and two years from discovery, whichever is sooner. So you
got to kind of chart it out. So if you discovered it right when
it happened, you have two years. If you discovered it a year after
it happens, you still have two years, right, because you have two
years or three years whichever is first. Now, if it happens if you
find out in the you know later on, you only have until that third
year. Now, I don't know what the statute was on stealing this house,
but I'm pretty sure no matter what, I don't know of any statutes
that go beyond any that go beyond six or seven at all, those are
called and then they are called absolute statutes, the limitation, which means it
doesn't matter if you discover it, doesn't matter when it happened, It doesn't
matter what happens it. The only time you can go back is if it's
within that. But ten years is usually ten to twelve years is an absolute
statute, meaning it doesn't matter what anyone did to you in the past.
I mean, I've had people with a securities account with investment accounts call me
and they've been lied to, cheated and ripped off. They're gone. They'll
never be able to go after that financial advisor ever, or the investment advisor
ever. So keep that in mind when it comes to problems. Try to
get as much help. It doesn't matter if you document that you tried and
couldn't get help. It just is called a statute of limitations for a reason.
I think it's pretty liberal when it comes to med mal tom medical malpractice,
it is. Yeah, I think it goes on for six maybe I'm
not sure. Don't think it's pretty liberal because if let's say somebody left an
instrument in your abdomen and you know, ten years later they find it.
I think you may be able. I don't really know. I actually I
don't know about I'm sure we can find out. The various statutes of limitations,
and the statutes of limitations are both set state and federal depending on what
we're dealing with, or sometimes both and and the states can actually make them
better than federal, so or better for the consumer. Now here's the deal
when it comes to wrongdoing. That doesn't mean you can't go after somebody in
other ways, but crime and civil matters, you know, you can go
on and make reviews, you can tell people about them. You can still
go after these people that way, but you're not going to have much help
anyway else anyway, any other way three three seven one three talk so again
a reason to call. Now on the topic of that woman who had her
house still and somebody said to me, Tom, if she had tidle lock,
it wouldn't have happened wrong wrong title lock would have done nothing. And
people you know, don't pay for title lock. I'm telling you that that
service is free by the county. If your address is on file with the
county as owner, you'll get notified anytime anyone tries to file anything on your
property there that's free. So what is title lock? It would have notified
her, It wouldn't have stopped it. Title lock does not lock anything.
It does not lock, it notifies you. Big fricking deal. Here's the
other thing. Listen to this one. She already knew about it, right,
so it doesn't matter. She did know about it, she just didn't
do anything about it. So don't give me that nonsense about title lock.
Oh do you know there are people steel houses every day? Well, yeah,
people do steal houses and title lock will not prevent it. It'll notify
you. You still have to fight it, still have to fight it,
and most counties are. You're doing this service free. And by the way,
that's why I don't think you hear them advertise that much anymore. So
you can go and find out what's recorded on your property, when it was
recorded, who recorded it. And it's truly something that people do try to
get away with with someone who's older. They try to get away with it
with people. Unfortunately, I'm going to tell you what they do. These
thieves. Do you know who they target? They target people who are older,
especially if they have rentals and as collectors, bad collectors and gutter service.
Oh that's a long story. But people who go after people to collect
debts old debts, knowing those debts are old. The same kind of people
go after titles that go after these old debts. They're the same kind of
people, and they target the same people every time. Older people and Hispanic
people. Why. I don't know, but if there is an Hispanic surname,
they don't know if they're Hispanic, but they the surname, you know,
Valdez, Garcia, Lopez. They hear these names and they ghost him
or go after him. I don't know, people, you know, I
didn't make up those rules. Maybe it's not politically correct to say it,
but that's what the hell happens. That's what the helles language barrier, Tom.
I think they assume that these people are not on top of it.
That's what they do. And older people, they assume they're not on top
of it. Okay. For example, collecting debts, it's called gutter service.
After six years, speaking of statutes supplementation, after six years, a
creditor can no longer take you to court or get a judgment. Okay,
what does that mean? They have no teeth. You may awe the money,
but if you go past the six years of when it was due,
not when the bill was made. Obviously, because if it's a ten year
loan, you go past six years, it's when it was due or the
last payment made. Six years. They have to come after you when it
was due or last payment. So here's what they do. These shysters,
these sobs, these creeps. They go to companies that have aging debt beyond
six years and they say to the company, you're never going to collect this.
You wrote it off. But and if you sell it, or if
you make money on it, now you've got to go amend the deduction you
already took. So why don't you just give it to us for a penny.
We'll buy it for a penny, and then if you sell it,
it's off your books and you'll never have to report a gain. Ever,
it's a deduction. We get it for a penny. What do you care
what we do with it. So they buy one hundred of them for a
dollar. The company who cares has to claim a dollar of income against that
deduction. Now they take this debt and they look for people who are pigeons
and they say things like you owe this money. And people say, but
Tom, isn't this too old to come after? And I said, yeah,
but they're still going to bug you. But worse, they're going to
trick you. And here's the trick. They say to you, listen,
we'll settle this whole thing. Let's keep it out of court. Well,
they hope you know that. They can't take you to court. They hope
you don't know that. But they say, how about just make one payment
and let's settle this. How about twenty five dollars. And you're thinking I
owe twenty five grand. They want twenty five dollars. That's a good deal.
Now why did they do that? Why did they any guesses? Guys,
why did they do it? Card restarts absolutely starts it over. You
make a payment. Guess what they have six years to come after you.
You just it's called no vasion. They've made a new agreement. Now you
think it's a complete settlement. But they never really say that once you pay,
no matter what you pay. So if it's over six years, they
cannot come Well, they can command to you, but they cannot do anything
ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, Hey, Tom, if
it's after six years, what happens on your credit report? Does it go
a way or does it say that forever it goes away? I think on
your credit report after seven I believe there's different there's different ones. Bankruptcy I
think is ten years. I think it might be seven. The reporting agencies
really can be kinder if they want it doesn't have to stay on, but
it depends on what they promise. I know there is some law to that,
but I don't know exactly what the laws are for certain things. But
in any case, the credit report can have things on it or not,
and that's a separate thing altogether. But in any case, what you need
to do is to and by the way, if it is on your credit
report, Tom and you want to tell them it's inaccurate, there's no way
for a credit report after six years or seven years to ever go back and
document a debt. They have to take it off. So maybe that's why
they take it off. Three oh three seven to one three Talk Today is
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Hey Tom Martino here three o three seven to one three talk MC.
One of my YouTube war ons that I signed up for Adams County website for
recording notification. It wasn't automatic. Let me clarify this about what the counties
do. If something is recorded in your name and your address is on file,
you get a copy of the recording. No, they don't notify you.
You get a copy of it eventually. And MC's right about that.
It doesn't they don't notify you, but you can sign up for free notification.
If you don't, you're still gonna get notified when something is recorded against
your home. Let's go to you know you'll be sent a copy. Now
that might be longer than you want to wait. So as MC posted on
my YouTube stream, you can sign up for notification with each county. Jeannie
or Janey? What's going on? Jane? Hi, Yes, I'm having
a problem with the halfway house in Bryan and Adams County. Okay. Are
you part of the halfway house or is this someone you know? No,
it's my son. What's going on? He's been out for a couple of
months because he's been doing so good. Well. Now he ended up going
a Sunday that just tends to go do a U A and uh the next
yesterday I took him back and they told him to come into a U A
and then they told him that his UA was hot, so he went.
So the son went back for U A and had to go back to the
halfway house. Yes, so he went to go do a U A again
and that's what they told him. He goes Mom, they just came and
told me that my UA is Oh, you don't do that, Nathan.
And so right now, They told him that he had to stay inside,
and Nathan told them that to go. Hey, you know that, but
what you guys are doing is wrong. You guys doing a mistake. Well,
are you sure it's wrong? I mean, and listen, I'm not
accusing your son of anything, But how do you know? How do I
know? Because my son doesn't smoke weed's been there for a year. Okay,
listen, Janey, did you guys do your own UA to just check
it out? What I'm saying is is it poss I'm gonna do that?
And he didn't. The guy that I was gonna do it, I was
going to go buy it. And he goes, no, he goes,
what do use doing it? He goes, We're not going to go for
that. Wait a minute, I'm not talking about No, I'm not talking
about for the halfway House. Here's what I'm talking about. True story.
I had a friend I don't want to get into details, yes, who
got in trouble at work for a hot ua. He swore to God he
never ever ever did anything what he had done. He was at a friend's
house and he ate some candy that was sitting on the table. It was
a gummy just one. He didn't. It wasn't enough to make him high,
but it was enough to get into his blood. I'm asking, why
wouldn't you do that just to see why big guy did. We wanted to
take a test and for him because he was at the halfway House. No,
I'm saying, on your own, why don't you do it? Don't
We were going to do that, but they didn't let me. No,
no, no, you see, no one can stop you. You can
do it for you. No, no, no one can stop Janey.
I'm not talking about an official one from them. You go to Walgreens,
you go somewhere and buy a UA test and have your son do it,
just for your own piece of mind. That's that's all I'm saying. And
then figure out. So anyway, what at the halfway House say when you
said to them, I know my son didn't do What did they say?
They just go, well, that's we don't know what he's doing out there.
Now go well, why do you think though? No, seriously,
most likely the test is not inaccurate. Now they could have had his file
mixed up. Maybe, yeah, that's what we definitely Nathan told him,
But you guys probably got but he mixed up because Nathan's not going to do
that. I promise you. Nathan's been going through this for a year.
La listen. I'm not disputing it, Jane Janey, I'm not disputing it.
But really, if he has a hot you wave, so what is
the consequence? What does he have to do? Now? Now he stood
there, Now he has to wait until the other you wait goes through and
they okay, so they hold on. That's good. So they did a
second one. Yes he did. It was hot. Okay, Now here's
what I want to know. Here, here's what I want to When did
he do the second one? Yesterday? Oh? Good? When are you
going to get the results? I talked to my I talked to my other
side, and he goes, Mom, that you have a result by Monday,
Tuesday. They're telling naked till Friday. Now, but he's not sitting
in the halfway house, is he? Yes? They kept him there.
Oh, I'm trying to tell you he has You know, this is not
right and there's a lot of things that's going on that I can have my
daughter in law. You know, you sound like a wonderful mom. I
want you to do me a favor. Please, we will contact you.
Listen, there's nothing we can do if there's a second test. Right now,
let's wait for that test, Katschina, let's have her come back on.
I mean, really, there's nothing we can do at this point until
we get this other test and then let's figure it out. I'm going to
market pending and let's just wait, because really there's not much we can do
until this, until this second test, I promise Janey, we'll we'll talk
to you about it. Okay, three h three seven one three talk now,
Chris, what is your comment on Janey? What is your comment?
I was basically going to say that at the halfway house, once they take
your analysis, if it does come up hot, because there is a possibility
for false positives, they would automatically like normally remand him and then retest him
again. And that's what and that's exactly what's going on. Yeah, because
it happens, it happens. They're only like ninety seven ninety eight percent effective,
so still too out of every hundred, someone will get caught, but
it's not actually hot. Okay, Okay, the system in place and they
will treat him right well, I think so. I don't think they want
to keep them there for God's sake, So they're looking for excuses to keep
people out, don't you think the government? Yes, but the halfway House
gets paid by a number of bits being used. Oh oh oh, do
you have personal experience in this, Chris. My brother has had some issues
with the laws in the past, was it And did he ever come up
hot when he wasn't? No, he only gave up hot when he was
hot. When I was in the army. When I was in the Army,
we used to test people all the time, and if your analysis came
up positive, then it goes through a different, more extensive test for a
mobile mass spectrometer to actually take every chemical in the urine. So that's probably
what they'll do. It's not peina cup. It's actually goes under a mass
spectrometer at a lot the way. I just want to know something and maybe
you don't know, Chris, But now we're on this discussion. Do those
cleansing teas and drinks work not the way they advertise? Yeah, I just
in the morning. If you think about it, it's going to be most
concentrated in your blood. So if they tell you to drink a lot really
quick in the morning, you're going to just dilute it. But those things
are so sensitive you, I mean you would literally have to probably drink gallons
and gallons a day. Do you know how long you're say, how long
does pots stay or drugs? I don't know how long they stay in you're
urine. I know they stay in your blood probably longer, right right.
Once again, it depends on how quickly you're flushing stuff out of your system.
The Army standard was fifty nineograms per milli leader, So you could have
forty nine and you wouldn't be hot, but fifty would be hot. But
how long do you know how long it would take to shed all that naturally?
Well, it depends on how concentrated it was in your system. Like
if you're smoking pot every day, it's going to be much higher than person
who has it once. Yeah, so anywhere from seven to twenty eight days
they say, on average, oh marijuana, okay, thank you. Chris
is a world of information. Hey Tom, it seems to be like his
only punishment is he has to stay in the Astley house over the weekend all
right now until and like it comes back hot again. What's the big deal?
I mean, he's down. Yeah, I know, I know.
I think the big deal is the mom's afraid it's going to come back hot
again. And I think the really big deal is she's having some doubts.
That's what I think. But who knows or that he got caught? I
know, I know. You know how many PEOPLEPEC two morons are really mean
and because they don't believe anybody. And I'll bet you they were thinking,
come on now, mom, I'll guarantee you. I'll guarantee you most every
single every single moron on YouTube and maybe Facebook flunkies because the online people are
are are ruthless, no, no, no mercy. They're thinking, come
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five. Do you know that among young people, Google is taking a backseat
to TikTok for traffic and searching? So you know how you want to information?
I used to go to Google. I don't go to Google anymore for
information. I mean, Google's okay for searching, but it's not logical,
and I thought, how stupid that they don't build into Google just AI.
So you just asking a question, it comes back with search result like Bing
did. Now, Microsoft, in my opinion, is going to pull a
way ahead of Google because of the copilot and Bing. They got it built
right in. So I go to there and I'll ask questions and get answers
and also other websites. Right TikTok, I don't even understand how do you
go to TikTok for information? What they do is they're getting other other I
was gonna say morons, but I don't want to insult my YouTube guys and
gals. Ah, So what do we call them? TikTok They're below morons.
They're like, I swear to God. Now, I'm not saying I
don't love some of the pet stuff and the kids. I mean, I
mean, some of this stuff is really fun. I'm not talking. I'm
not about these frickin' ifasols. What do you call them? They're so well,
they're so stupid, it's beyond like when they try to tell you how
to do stuff, TikTok tards. I wonder if that's politically correct. TikTok
tards. Man, do I love it? I do it? TikTok tart.
That's a good topic. I mean a good name, TikTok tart until
I get a complaint, Until I get a complaint, TikTok tards, they
go on. I'll never forget during COVID the freaking advice they had. Do
you know that one woman came on and the dawn spray poam she was rubbing
all over her body and says it will kill all COVID so she won't get
COVID. And she did. She did this demonstration and she didn't have like
she had like you know, nothing like provocative, but she had like a
sports broad and work out shorts and then did all of her bodies. It's
telling young people. She was about probably eighteen, telling people how to avoid
COVID with dawn dishwashing liquid foam. Anyway, so TikTok truly is outnumbering Google
on searches. So people search for the for the other tards on there,
the other TikTok tards ttts. They they search for them for information on how
to do stuff. It's and it's way way way out pacing YouTube, YouTube
now and Facebook are for old folks, you know. I mean, In
fact, Peutie Pie, who was the one of the most prolific. He
was the number one subscribe and this I think he retired because of all of
this, because I don't think he could take the transition, and he would
be considered old anyway right now on TikTok, I think he might be in
his forties. And he made millions and millions and millions on tick Peutypie was
the number one of revenue for a long time. Well anyway, three oh
three seven to one three talk is our number? Three oh three seven one
three eight two five five oh And I asked the car guy, so still
the number one complaint in autos? Jesse, you haven't heard this, have
you? What is it? I have no idea. Okay, I took
my car in for service. It's been there for three months, or has
been there for two months, or has been there for ninety whatever, it's
too long. Now we have to stop blaming COVID. No, I swear
to God, we have to stop blaming COVID. Could this possibly be still
the trickle down from COVID from that Measley shut down? Come on? Why
it? Did people adjust to a new normal? Did suppliers say we're no
longer going to wear house what we used to we're just not going to do.
I think that's it. Absolutely, you know that in the aviation in
business, and again I like talking about ABE it's because I love it,
but I want to tell you what they do. They're worse than the car
business. You know what they do now? Production runs upon demand, So
that means if you need something and you put in an order, they don't
say it's back order. They say it's not even being made yet until they
get orders exactly. Then they do a production run. So I got to
go around begging people to put an order in or just breaking it for them.
So no, no, I'm just kidding. But you know what I
mean. It's like, did cars ever tell you that? Did you ever
hear wait for a production run? Yes? Absolutely, so they literally hold
everything for a production run. Yes, so even the manufacturers are not warehousing.
So what the hell do people do? I mean? I think one
of the key factors people in shopping for an item is not only the dependability
of the You want dependability, you want value on all that, right,
you love it? I did. Another one should be how are people getting
serviced? So if I had to go out and ask and we'll do that
coming back, I want to know where the car, the vehicle to make,
the model, whatever you have, whether it's the exact unit or the
category of a car. I would never ever have to wait for anything.
And it's plentiful and it's a good value, the best all around. Well,
let's call it convenient car convenience for not waiting for anything. Three oh
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Frank durand the real estate Man. He has been doing free market analyzes now
for a couple of years. And here's what it is. People can't believe
the level of service he gives. He'll tell you what your house will sell
for, why it will sell for that, what you're gonna clear, and
what you can buy and he takes all factors into consideration. Absolutely complimentary.
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sixteen twenty two. Hey Tom Martino here three three seven to one three talk
seven one three eight two five five. Let's talk to Oswaldo. Oswaldo,
what is happening, sir? What's going on? Thank you for taking my
call, Senor MARTINOZ. What's happening with your engine? I got a question
because, uh my, my, my trug is a twenty fifteen. It's
not a new truck. But I had how many miles on it? One
seventy a right now at this point? Okay? And how many on the
engine? It's the original engine. Everything should be okay, same mileage,
okay, So what's going on? Well, when the light engine light came
on about two months ago, I went to a Dodge dealer and I got
a quote. They told well, I wanted to get a I diagnosed what's
going on, and they told me your engine is bad. We will have
to replace it, but it has to be a rebuilt engine and they quoted
me thirteen thousand Bullpark number. All right, did they say they were going
to rebuild it or exchange it? They will put a new rebuild it,
rebuild the engine. Guys, what do you think? And yeah, is
that a diesel or what engine you have in that turn? It's a guess
aline. It's a fifteen hundred guests, So it's the hemmy or what motor
is the HEMI? Yes? Is that heavy on the price? It's a
little head. It's up there. It's easy around ten. Yeah, that's
that. I was thinking ten. You're always gonna pay a little more.
Well, that's my question. But I would be more concerned if you need
the engine, Like what did they say is wrong with the engine? I
know one hundred and seventy miles is a lot of miles, but those those
engines, I don't know. I mean they have cam problems. So they
can definitely have cam problems, but you can't have to do the engine if
they have camra Now, what would be involved in doing that? It's an
overhead cam, I'm assuming, so you can get to that without cracking open
the whole thing. Yeah, we take the valve covers off and get in
there and see what's going on with the cams, depending on what's wrong with
the cat. Although the first thing I would do is before I even start
shopping engines, I would just make sure you need it. I'm not always
uh, I'm not always confident that dealers get it right. Okay, That's
where I'm going because uh, I would like to get an independent making all
right, So where are you? Where are you located? Oswaldough, I'm
basically in Noora. Okay, Well, here's the deal. I think you
need to go over to share. You don't do engines on those, do
you? Jeff? Right now, we're so over a load of a drop
frame. We can't get it through. Kevin can do an analysis on that.
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address on Colfax, Western Wadsworth. We got more coming up on the Troubleshooter
Show. So a Josie Jr. Stay on the line. We'll get to
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Like I said, cars or not. Josie's been waiting a while. Josie,
what's going on? Good Born in States? To take my car?
Yeah? I need a reference to I have a couple of rooms that doesn't
have an in the ceiling and outlet. I need a couple of fans put
up. We have great electricians. I mean it's easy to find. Now.
I want to tell you that you want to you wanna let's see if
it's a small job and you want electrician, I'll tell you who we have.
We have plumb Line. Plumb Line does plumbing, heating, cooling,
electric and drains. The great people plumb Line and that's three zho three five,
eight, six, ten eighty six. Okay. Then we have fix
It twenty four to seven. I love these people too, and everything is
quoted up front, so they give you pay and fix It twenty four to
seven is plumbing, heating, cooling, electric and drains, and fix it
is uh seven to zero, five two, six, thirty nine, thirty
nine. And then we have he just added an electrical department and he will
uh so he's really anxious to take on some new jobs. And he has
some great pricing. And that's Garrett over at eight eight eight heating dot com.
They have a deal going where for twenty eight bucks they'll come out and
check everything out for you and then credit you the twenty eight dollars on anything
you have done, and that's three oh three seven seven zero two seven seven
six okay, and that's eight eight eight heating dot Com. So you should
have no problem finding people for that small job. Oh okay on the eighty
eight heating I listened to you about forty years. Oh wow, thank you,
and I always refer you to different you know, my fods, thank
you and family. But anyway, I got them also to do my air
condition and my heating. So, oh you did you did eight eight eight
heating dot com? Thank you? Yeah, they're at three oh three seven
seven zero two seven seven six. We have really good people on the referral
list, we really do. And then that advertise on the show, thank
you. Josie So Jr has a transmission, JR. Is this one of
my YouTube more on JRS? Or is this another jar? Okay? What's
happening? Bro? So I got I got a real quick better politically Oh
okay, TikTok twitch, TikTok twits. That's way better than what Jeff Vick
came up with from Kimmeer transmission anyway, talk twits. Okay, I like
that A real quick comment about what you were saying, buying according to how
you service. This is the reason I stay away from solar. Oh,
you're right. It failed. When you get a solar guy on there,
they disappear. You know what, you know what, I'll have to I'll
have to own that. Over the years, we have had solar people who
had all the best intentions and didn't stick around. Now, the good news
is we only had one bad guy that took some money toward the end and
didn't do the sis. Only one. All the rest phase down their business,
okay, and the manufacturer warranties were still in effect even the bad guy.
The manufacturers were still in effect. But I am really thinking that probid
Energy dot Com and Redrocksars dot Com. I really believe that those two.
I'm not going to say they're here to stay forever, but they are really
really good and they're using stuff easily serviced by the manufacturers or others. But
right now they're good people, really good people. And Probid Energy dot com.
You know, I know Mark, and he works for a guy that's
been there for years and he wants to continue. And you can look them
Upprobid Energy dot com now on the Red rocks at redrocksars dot com. But
anyway, so I agree with you though I totally agree with you on that.
So what's going on? So? I got a twenty fourteen f one
fifty. I want to do a transmission service. I got an askt inmate
on it. Now the question is what should I do? Should I do
a drain and feel a flush and feel and one one part of the question
I have is on the twenty fourteen f one fifty in the estimate, nothing
was said about replacing a filter. Does that happen a filter? All good
questions so on transmissions go through it, when you do the filter, when
you do flushing, all of that. Most transmissions we can change a filter,
particularly on some of the front wheel drives are internal to the case.
You can't access them, so you know some of them are drain and fill.
Some of them if you flush, you know on that, particularly on
that one, you can drop the pan and change the filter, and I
recommend you do. They have a problem with the seal on those that actually
shrinks. So usually about seven out of ten of them we'll drop that pan
and a filter falls out with the pan, So you'll definitely want to change
at the same time, depending on which set up you've got, you have
to take darn your half the color apart to get the pan off, so
they can be costly. Now are you telling me, though, that there
are some that don't You can't remove the filter, Yeah, I mean notoriously,
Honda. I mean that's ever since. So what happens? Do they
eventually clog up? Or if you change your fluid every thirty thousand, you're
going to help yourself tremendously. But they cause problems down the road. So
would you suggest a drain and pill or to do a conventional service work?
Do a conventional service work? No, don't do a chemical flush. Never
do a chemical flush. So but no, I would do a conventional service
drop the pan, change the filter, and refill the fluid. All right,
I appreciate it, Okay, thank you? Three oh three seven one
three talk seven one three h Q five to five. So Andrew wants to
talk about gasoline. Andrew, what's going on? I was just curious if
if there is any difference between like the Costco or Kruger you compared to like
show or film. You know, that's a good question. And then among
the among the brands, themselves. Really. I love that question. What
the hell the different? I often wondered, if I get X amount of
octane what I need or grade? Does it matter about the brand? Truly?
Do you guys really over the years think brand names matter? And how
do brand names even differ? I think the only difference is the additive pack
is some of them put in exactly you know, the gas is gas.
It all comes from the same place. It's just what they add to it.
But they add substantially some detergent. Okay, you and your car will
tell the difference. If you go to Costco nine out of ten times.
The one time you go to Shell or something, it's gonna know the difference.
Sometimes it'll what do you like your car? I use Costco? Yeah,
okay, so you go for price as opposed to brand. Does anyone
actually search out a brand? I don't think. When I'm driving cross country
do you think I care? I just tell customers to stick with one.
So if you go to Costco or Shell, why is that a stick with
that? Because your car gets used to those additives. Come on, you
go to another gas, you get another odditive. It can throw a check.
In July, the cat code oxygen sensor code like, and I stay
away from the little bitty mom and pop shops so much for quality control.
Those are jobbers or whatever they call them, independence and they just buy from
different places at different times, right, sure, so what do they get?
Can they be getting brand names? Yes? Or not or not?
Yeah? But absolutely no, there's no consistency. Yes none. Well,
Andrew, Now, as far as your particular vehicle, have you noticed a
difference on how it runs. I won't really only use shill, but I
kind of it looks enticing to go to like Costco for for field that I've
heard some people say, well, you know, also like the Kroger that
they get tanged. I like what well, I like what Jesse said.
What you see is what you get or what you feel, and here is
what you get. So if your car does well on it, then then
it's fine. And that's the same with octane too. There are some cars
that can take lower octanes and get away with it and there's no issue whatsoever.
There are others that need higher octanes. So it's it's all in what
it feels like. That's one of the areas where you can make a decision
based on performance, not on cost, not on promise. But when it
comes to gasoline, I think Shell has done the best marketing job over the
years, don't you when you think of quality fuel. I'm not saying it's
true, but Shell has that marketing they did, didn't they have the Shell
answer man at one time? Was it the Shell guy that did that?
Or yeah? I think that was and then you had all kinds of marketing
Shell did. But as far as Exxon, what kind of They don't do
any marketing? I mean Chevron, I mean I never hear what, in
fact even think of a lot of brand names. Diamond, shamrock, is
that a brand kind of used to be? But if you travel, like
when I travel to other cities, Marathon Marathon a big one. They do
so much advertising out there. Hmm yeah, I guess you'd have to be
on the road to see some of this. I just texted my cousin who's
a chemical engineer and used to do that with gas. Okay, good,
good, turn on your mit next time you talk. But anyway, a
deputy doc saying, hey, he texted your brother cousin who's a chemical he's
a chemical engineer. Three h three seven one three talks seven one, three,
A two five five. Okay, So that Castle Rock show, the
home show is starting at noon at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. If any of
you go there, would you call me by sell and and let me know
how it's doing, okay, and let me know what you think. There's
like over three hundred now over three hundred and thirty booths and it would be
good. But it's a home show. It's not a van show. It's
not I live in a van down by the river, see shen And you
can't go to a home show and you don't have a home looking for a
window treatment. He's he wants window treatments for his van anyway, Douglas County
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O three seven one three eight two five five. Okay, Now let's talk
to Kenny. Kenny wants to talk about towing. This is a ninety nine
f three fifty men? Do they ever die? Like ninety nine? What's
it? What's the oldest pickup you've serviced? Now? I don't mean one
restored, I mean a normal pickup. What's the oldest one you ever?
We own a nineteen fifty six international pickup that we have for the shop that
we service, real, a real pickup. Yep. It's not a show
piece or restore nineteen fifty six beat up. We still throw stuff in the
back and we take it for the Christmas preade. How many miles did you
lose track? Yeah? I don't even know. Jack. It rolls over
its international. I've seen scouts that people will swear to God have almost a
million miles. Is that possible. Why what was about that? What engine
is in that damn thing? Huh? Straight six? But what is it?
Who made it? International? Harvester? Is that? Did they just
have a bulletproof engine? Commercial? Commercial? Yeah, they're old pickups in
the but they don't make those in anything new do they? They're too heavy
now they will E P A and everything else get it done, but they
don't die. No, and they make semis right, it's a big rigs
they I didn't know that, but that's I mean, I only knew of
Detroit Diesel and Cummings. I didn't know. But Volvo now, not now,
but Volvo makes an engine right who else? Who else? Caterpillar?
That's right? Cats and uh? And then does International still make it?
Harvester? For So what's the best over the road engine? You know?
You got to talk to the truckers about that. They all have very different
opinions on that. They do Peter built, I think, yeah, Hey
man, Kenny, I didn't. I'm sorry, Go ahead, Kenny,
I'm sorry. That's that's all right, that's all right, Okay. So
when it was when my truck was a little newer, when I pull up
a path, it wouldn't get hot. It would as RPMs come down,
you just downship. Now I start going up the path and the temperature gage
comes up without the RPMs going down, so I have to downship keep it
from getting warm. So it sounds like you're having a cooling flow problem or
clutter clutter, fan clutch. Fact, you might not be yelling or radiators.
Yeah, not not flowing good, but right right, okay, So
this is what I put on it, So that's kind of what I was
thinking. I put a new radiator on it from Mischi motor at eighteen hundred
dollars radiator. I put a new fan clutch, a new water pump,
all new holders, and a new thermostat. Somebody said there's two thermostats on
those seven point three. I was just going to ask if you did both
thermostats or just one. I just did one. I don't know where that
second one is at, so well, which one did you change? Yeah?
I did. I did the top one on the bottom host. See
when I pulled that hose up, there was nothing there. I put the
new hose on. There's no there's no thermostat there, and it is the
six feet manual transmission and yeah, I'd have to pull a diagram as well.
You know, if you get on YouTube or something look at it,
you know, replacing thermostats, they'll show you the location. Yeah. See,
And I looked on YouTube and every time it's just the top one shows
up. I was, I was, I was just like, But they
did say if that that other one went bad, it would make the e
GPS go start getting warmer. Do you think, No, you definitely got
to find it. It's just it's you know, you do done everything else.
Yeah. So do you guys work on those old things? Oh yeah
yeah yeah. Seven has been around forever so always. Yeah. Well,
Kenny, check out one of our people to me, what's that? Yeah?
Oh and Tom on that unemployment thing with that US Bank card. Yeah,
the one where they're putting holds on him. You mean, well,
I had an integrity hole too, but she had. She said she got
ripped off that that card comes empty and you have to file each week to
fill that card. So she got ten ninety nine. Somebody use that money.
Oh yeah, that's what we're thinking. But thank you, Kenny,
I appreciate it. Man. Good luck on your truck. Three oh three
East seven one three eight two five five, So Ray wants to talk.
By the way, we'll take calls. Uh, take calls right up till
two o'clock today. Ray, what's happening with the sighting issue? Man,
I'm looking up. I'm trying to look up your problem. Yeah, this
was a metal sighting of the home and they warranty it for life and the
homeowner has gotten elderly. And now listen, are you you are? Did
you call in before this is marked as some kind of follow up or not?
Yeah, that's right. I did talk with Smarty and he was able
to talk to the manufacturer on this. And this was back. When did
you call originally? Ray? Oh? Probably, I want to say August
of okay, twenty three, maybe September, I can't remember. And where
was it for a friend or for yourself? For a friend of mine that
I've been helping. It's anotherly lady. And you know that she just wasn't
getting anywhere by trying to get them to do their warranty work. In the
meantime, her house was looking worse and worse because the paint was just falling
off this metal siding. Okay, And Marty was very instrumental in getting that
going and I just want to say they contractor showed up this week and you
know, Sam Blast's deciding and completely repainted it. Wow, man, that
is so cool after all that time, we finally got action, all right,
because it had been two years before we even called you to get some
help. So really appreciate what you got. Your team is doing well man,
and thank you very much. We'll tell Smarty Pants that he's in Florida
and okay, well, thank you. It's good to hear that these seeds
that we plannt keep bearing fruit for people and things do happen, and of
course we want to hear if they don't as well. We're not batting five
hundred, well we're not. We're probably bat five and not a thousand though,
you know. Uh. And that's the point is that we we hear
follow ups. We love it. We can mark that we can add that
to our total three oh three seven one three eight two five to five ideal
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Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martine here
three O three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five.
Hey Craig, what's going on with your roofing company? What's happen? In
man? What's going on him? Hey? What's happening? Well, my
folks, they've got this rooffing company that come and they offered to fix the
roof for them, and so is a knock on the door? Yeah,
yeah, bad news. That's a bad start. Then what yeah? And
then they get signed a contract with them, but they don't have a copy
of the contract. God, And they did order all the roofing materials and
send them to them. Well, is this for storm damage or is this
a voluntary replacement? It's a storm damage. Okay. And when did they
sign the contract. It's been back in August, I believe. And have
they done the work yet, No, they've just got the materials there.
Okay, so they do have materials. How much did your parents pay up
front? As far as they know, they haven't paid anything up front.
They paid for the materials the materials came. They did pay for the materials
right right now. Those materials sat out all winter. No, they just
got there in uh like February. Okay, good news. This is all
a good sign. So now what's happening? So now we can't get a
hold of them to come. They said they'd be here in April, or
actually said they'd be in March, and they haven't showed up, and so
we've been trying to get a hold of them. Okay. So how much
did they pay for materials? Twenty six thousand? Who did they pay?
They paid that company, the Evolved Construction. Did Evolve pay the supplier?
I presume they did, because they Evolved came and they wanted fifty two thousand
dollars from them, and my mom said, no, we're not going to
pay you that much money. We'll pay you what the price is for the
materials we have on here. Smart people, and they've and the guy says,
well, you've got to pay me this much money, and she says,
no, I don't. I'm gonna pay you for is the materials right
there? Smart people? Smart people? Yeah, from the from the what
do you call shipping label? And so do you know who the manufacturer?
Would you know the supplier that supplied those to you guys. I'd have to
see if she has the copy of the receipt. I don't think she did.
I think she might have given to them. Okay, so now you
want us to call I mean, look, I don't think these people would
deliver materials if they weren't planning on doing the roof. I don't like the
way they're doing business, But hey, do you have any reason to believe
they won't do the roof? I havn't. I had no idea because I
can't get hold of anybody. I've been trying to comb for weeks and they
keep telling me somebody will call me back, and nobody will call me back.
We're gonna get him a call right now. Okay, Deputy Doc is
going to call them, so hold on, let's uh, let let's just
see what's going on. Okay, three oh three seven one three talk seven
one three eight two five five. At least they are smart enough not to
get nabbed on, you know, paying for stuff and not getting it at
all. That's what I love. Now. One of the texts here say
Tom, I only use top tier fuels. By the way, you can
text the show five seven seven three nine. Put Tom somewhere in that subject
or upfront, it'll come to me. Only use top tier fuels. Easy
to verify which brands are certified top tier car one's great. Another one says
they won't trust cheap gas. Well, my god, I never knew anyone
who actually shops for brands nowadays, with the way prices are, I don't
know why anyone would shop a brand anyway. Whatever, A top tier fuel,
what does he mean? It's easy to find out which one is top
tier. That's the additive package they put in that fuel. It's it's costco's
top tier. Do they literally call it they call it top tier? Is
that is that like an advertising slogan or an official No, it's it's an
official reality. And so who so somebody designates top here a sticker on the
pumps to say top tier fuel. Probably a trade organization. It's not the
government, is it. No, No, no, it's not government,
but it's it's I think it's a branding, you know, more like,
like I said, an additive package. It's in it for detergents and everything
else. And it's actually called top Tier. Okay, so we're making a
call to that roof for to find out what's going on there. Meanwhile,
let's talk about h there was something. Oh yeah, So as far as
the let me just get to this. There's something that came up that I
saw today and I thought, you know, this is really important, and
that is E cigarettes. They've done a study causes as much or more cancer
as regular cigarettes. Now, people always thought it must be the smoke and
the tarn and nic contained the vape. By the way, In fact,
it's also tied to heart trouble. They say you increase your heart risk for
heart attack and you know, or a cardiac event by nineteen percent. Now,
just so you know, this was done with a study just recently by
the National Institute of Health, with one hundred seventy five thousand, six hundred
people, and it was done over a period of fifty two months, fifty
two months or whatever, how many years, so twelve to twelve so yeah,
four and a half years. And they had a marked increase in heart
disease, heart failure, heart attack solely on the fact that they had vape,
that they're vaping. Thirty four percent of vapors more likely to have a
heart attack, twenty five percent coronary heart artery disease, fifty five percent suffer
from depression and anxiety. Now think about that. What is that all about.
That's a high number, that's right. Yeah, and this is so
this but this is not a This is not a Schlock study. So they're
saying that the problem with the e cigarettes to deliver the flavorings of nicotines,
they have these chemicals that have to be made into an aerosol or into a
steam or into a vapor not a steam really, and while it doesn't contain
smoke and tar, it contains worse stuff because the stuff that they have to
put into to atomize it or to vaporize it is way more dangerous. So
I thought you'd like to know that a lot of people think vaping is safer.
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Align three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martine here,
Deputy Doc, turn on your mic. Deputy Doc called the roofer Evolve
Roofing or Evolved Construction. They delivered. They signed a contract in August,
delivered materials in February, and now the guy can't get a hold of them
to figure out when they're going to start. They paid only for the materials
that have been delivered, and so that's good. The materials were delivered in
February. What's going on? Doc? Anyway? I spoke to someone that
Evolved and they took that all the information. Of course, they couldn't help.
They said it's the wrong person, but that they will have somebody reach
out to them, reach out to them as asap. So I told Craig
to call me if they don't get back this afternoon, all by Monday,
and we'll really get on their case. But for the time being, since
they did talk to me, we will give them the benefit the doubt and
see if they do call back before we trash them. Yeah. By the
way, we only trash people are totally unresponsive and people who just won't do
the right thing. Well, we always give people a chance, yea,
if they make promises that they don't keep exactly, let people know about it.
By the way, mortgage rates up again, so they're above seven percent.
That is unbelievable, right, So what's really strange. The Fed didn't
do that, right, they did, did they? They didn't mark them
up. They just wouldn't mark up. Yea, that the market did.
And here's what's going on. Inflation is still out there. So this is
one of the rare cases. In fact, there's three things happening. You
have high interests, which should curb inflation, it's not. And it should
also take the wind out of the sales of the stock market, which it
is not a little bit this week, well a little bit, but not
what it should be doing. People should be flocking to debt securities with high
interest like this or the safety of bonds, but they're not. They're still
in the stock market. There's not a massive sell off, not right yet.
There's some but the correction people were thinking is not coming. So you
have all of these weird, weird economic indicators that people don't know what to
do about, high interest, high inflation, and a volatile stock market mostly
going up, and there's low unemployment factor into that time. I'm not an
economist, no, no, but but there are you know, and obviously
to look at signs you don't have to be one, but a low unemployment
is weird. Low unemployment happens both in recovery and in it's going both ways.
So it depends on what the trends are. If it's trending up,
then three or four percent is not good. If it's trending down three or
four percent, you know, it depends if it just really depends. It's
good if it's if you start coming down and get to that. But here's
the thing. The real unemployment right four percent is considered fully employed about four
percent or better. What is it right now? I don't I didn't even
look today. I think it's in between three and four percent, which is
so it doesn't do much better than that. But the economy doesn't seem to
reflect that as far as okay, the inflation and all the other stuff.
But here's what's weird. Usually with inflation, you have people buying like crazy,
right, That's why we have inflation. Businesses have said to me that
business is slowing slightly, just slightly, and I don't know how accurate that
is of I'm getting an accurate appraisal of that. But you guys aren't slowing
because everyone needs cars, right. I don't think you guys are a good
indicator, are you. Well? No, but Mark's one very good and
April is just putts and it's nothing great right now. So what I'm asking
is it is slowing? Yeah, okay? And do you notice that,
Jeff on rebuilds and stuff, Oh definitely, I'm on. Our phones were
quiet down a little bit. You know, we've got enough backdon So.
I don't know what's going on, but in the polls, people are swinging
back to Biden. I mean, he was down by as much as ten
points at one time, and now they're dead even so, what the hell
I mean? I can't make high er hair of it. But it's really
it's really interesting. This is going to be one hell of a year,
one hell of a year. Jack. What's going on? Jack? Oh?
Yeah? And I have with your sure as who were I was for
comment? Who signing a content? Hey? Jack? Hold on, he's
eighties. Jack. We want to help you. Please hold on, all
right, just hang on. I'm Tom Martino. We'll come right back to
you Jack. More on that coming up. Three oh three seven one three
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cash, merchandise, exchanges, refunds and services. Do people are people braver
on social media? Behind a keyboard? There's no doubt that animinity makes people
much of it. I believe that people have become so belligerent. If you
look on social media, no matter what it is, the newer ones like
next door, or you look on maybe not Snapchat, but you look on
Instagram, you look on Twitter, you look on any kind of social media,
just name it Facebook. As I said, where there's a forum,
here's what happens. Here's what happens with every forum. Either it starts out
nasty or it starts out nice and goes nasty. There is not one post,
not one, and I mean not one that does not turn nasty,
not one, And I wonder do people like that? Have you ever seen
a post where somebody will just say, oh, what a beautiful sunset,
and then you'll have someone say enjoy it, Well you can. Climate chain's
coming, you know, I mean, it'll destroy all our sunsets thanks to
those GD whatevers. No, no, I'm serious, or maybe I'm exaggerating
just a little, but no matter what is posted, someone will find something
negative about it, and then the entire thread goes negative and personal attacks like
can you imagine? Before social media, people probably still thought the same they
did, Everyone thought the same, but they never verbalize it. So you
didn't know what people were thinking, and you mistakenly liked a lot of people
because you didn't know what was in their minds, and so you still don't
know when you see them because most of them are cowards. Most everyone online
is a coward. Most everyone. I mean absolutely everyone, because they can
say anything they want, any time they want without giving their real name,
or they give their first name and an initial, like with nextdoor. But
what I'm saying is is that they're all cowards because they take potshots instead of
putting themselves out there like this is my name, this is what I believe,
and better yet, who cares what you believe? Right? But if
you're having a discussion online about nothing to do with anything, it all comes
down to being nasty. Sometimes it's nasty for the sake of being nasty or
the sake of politics. Politics is a really big one. Religion is another
big one. But if you want to I've come up with a formula here.
If you want to just have a blame for everything, it's going to
be one of these things, Trump, or it's going to be Biden,
or it's going to be climate change, or it's listen COVID. Well,
yeah, COVID is another one, but climate change, Trump and Biden.
But there was one other one, like on what you can blame everything on?
Just it will be you know, it'll be one of those things.
And it's amazing to me how we have all gotten so nasty. It just
is now. On this show, we try to help people. We get
nasty against people who rip people off. But I don't know if you noticed
this or not. Seriously, we don't treat people differently on based on their
beliefs and their politics. I don't care what their politics are. When someone
calls me for the roof problem, or somebody calls me about getting ripped off
with an investment, or getting ripped off here and getting ripped off there,
I don't We have never asked what party affiliation are, what do you believe?
Are you conservative? Are you liberal? We don't try to make people.
I hope you realize that when we do observe certain political things that seem
ridiculous, we observe it. I don't care what you are. You deserve
the same help as anyone. I think that's one place we can all agree.
I really do believe that. I don't think there's one person listening to
this show on a daily basis that believes the information I'm giving out shouldn't be
given out. No one wants to be ripped off by paying money up front
and never seeing the person again. No one who's gonna say, oh,
yeah, I'm in favor of that, Tom, I totally disagree with you.
No one who's gonna say, yeah, I believe we should offer something
and never get it, or I believe we should be overcharged, or I
believe that you know, no one ever can be against what we do.
Ever can you? You might not like the way I do it, but
I don't give a damn. We get results. I mean you don't.
You know you don't do it for forty five years on the air and not
get results. You just don't do it. You can't. You can't BS
that long, Nothing ever will last that long from BS. So anyway,
what I invite you to do is call us if you have a problem,
question or complaint. We've been talking about cars today as well, and again
the number one car problem. If you didn't hear at the beginning of the
show, the number one car problem right now, delay in repairs. Whether
it's bodywork, whether it's transmission work, whether it's entry work. I don't
maybe maybe not oil changes, but I swear to you the delay in service.
It's gotten to be where you can't get anything done in less than two
or three weeks. It's I don't know why. Now here's what I wonder,
I wonder why. And I did this with a body shop. I
said to them, you know what, I'm not driving here and now let
my car sit for two months. Tell me what parts I need, at
least the obvious ones, and I'll pay for them right now. Order them,
Order them right now. I don't want the car sitting there while you
wait for parts. And that's what they do, order them. And I
don't know, guys, are you starting to like if somebody needs somebody with
a transmission, Jeff, or somebody needs something with an engine, Kevin or
something else, or or Jesse, somebody needs something by the way, we
have honest, accurate auto from Colorado Springs transmission. We have a Chimera transmission
from Denver and shared in auto Tech. So have you ever said, come
back when I get the parts. Have you ever done that? Absolutely?
Absolutely all right, because you don't want to have the car sitting there right
now. If you've got to remove something that's different, remove and replace.
Well even then though, if you can have the replacement engine or a tranny
there before you remove it, well, building a house we have to strip
it down and well, building that's different. When you rebuild, that's totally
different, right, But don't you want to make sure you have the parts
to rebuild? Oh? Yea, that's what I'm talking about. We have
gotten to the point where we start making phone calls and make sure some of
the more soucial items we know that we're gonna need, yeah, are available.
But this body shop, actually it was foreign to them. What you
want me to what I said, order the parts? No, we even
have one or two loaner cars. Emergency situation, you can't meet without your
car. We work it out, We find a way. But but man,
this new thing about you know, staying in a shop for three months?
What are you kidding me? Frank? What's going on with you?
Frank? Good up here, sir. I've got to get a twenty ten
Ford Taurus with forty two thousand miles on it. The car runs great,
I love it. I've got a problem with the defog or on it.
Air conditioning works fine, heater works, fine, blows through all the events.
It just will not clear the dfog. When you see not clear it.
It's coming out of the defroster. So I get warm air coming out.
No, there's no fog coming out of it. It's just that when
the fog builds up on the inside, windows, front sides, it just
will not clear it. So your defroster or your defrost mode will not take
any of those off. And you're sure that the warm air comes out and
all the events are You're you're feeling the air coming out. It's just not
doing it. It's not doing the job, that's right. So is this
all the time or only when it's major? Well, it seems like it's
all the time. And now I live up in Summit County and I keep
the car garaged, and I'm just wondering if it's temperature differential of coming out
of a reasonably warm well, does it happen the entire time? Does it
ever clear up? It will get a small spot right at the vent.
Yeah, I know, I know what it is. That's just the airflow,
chess you whatever? Are you going to say? Yeah? I was
just wondering if airflow number one is are we sure the vent's closing and letting
it go up the defrost tube? And then of course too, if it's
it's not coming out enough maybe yeah, I can feel it coming out of
the vents though, Yeah, but is it coming out strong? Have you
changed the cabin filter in this one. I don't know if the twenty ten
Ford has it, but that can cause it. It doesn't. I've changed
it twice. And do you hit the AC when you turn on the defrost
or do you hit the AC button to pull moisture. I've even tried that.
I've tried doing AC on the defoss mode as well to see if that
would do it. And any of those different indicators on the control panel I've
tried, and it just it's it's frustrating. It's anything I've tried. Now
I kind of agree with you. Maybe that maybe even though I'm getting air
out of the vents, maybe there's a gate valve that's not fully allowing all
of the volume of air to come through. Perhaps. Yeah, I'm pretty
sure that model is vacuum operated, if mine serves me right. And sometimes
those vacuum hoses can have a small leak, so it is changing but not
pulling it all the way closed. Just just an idea. I'm not sure
that's what it is. Just throwing that out. Do you smell anything,
so call me sound well, smell anything sweet? Like you pinhole leak in
a heater core, something that's introducing more so is it possible that the airflow
is just insufficient? Yes? So how would he know if this blower motor
is operating at peak efficiency? How would you know? I would just put
a piece of paper there. Is it flapping really really hard? Or is
this barely moving? Yeah, it sounds to me when he said there's just
this little circle that you're not getting airflow, because if it's doing it in
that one circle, it'll do it all over. There's nothing magic about that
circle. And heater core pinhole can be there, but usually that's going to
leave a litle Jay, you have a comment. I'm going to bring up
Jay as well. Jay, go ahead, what is your comment? You're
on with Frank and Oss? Go ahead? Yeah, that actually is a
really classic symptom of a heater core gone bad. It'll blow hard enough and
hot enough and warm little spot that it'll kind of clear it, but as
it gets a little bit cooler outside that spot, it'll condense right to the
window. It's super classic. He needs a heat your core undoubtedly? Absolutely
undoubtedly. And is that because it's it's leaking? You think, yeah,
they're they're just a little tiny radiator. Now would your would your regular heat
reflect a bad heater core. It eventually actually might get bad enough where you
run in your heat and it'll start building up in the cabin and it'll start
condensing. But you're really going to notice it when you try to defrost,
because it won't. It simply will not do it. I got plenty of
good heat though. No, but he was saying there, it won't change
whether heats or not. I mean, it'll just whether or not it drives
the air. It won't drive the air. The air is going to come
out. So that's what that's what a defrost is doing, drying as well
as because it uses the air conditions, not just heat. So so okay,
thanks man, I appreciate. So when you turn on a defroster,
does it automatically pull from the air conditioner? Yes, a lot of cars
it does, and then you get the dehumidifier effect from the air conditioning.
I often wondered why I switched on my AC. Nowadays it automatically does it
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wondering what effect that's having on real estate now, Frank Duran says. I
checked with him and he said they're still selling and they're even getting multiple offers,
and that to me is amazing. Now seven percent, you don't understand
seven percent compared to where they used to be. It's aced out a ton
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two five five. Guys, the gap, the quality gap between foreign and
domestic. Somebody texted wants to know what are you seeing truly on the service
end as far as the quality gap it used to be. You know,
for a while Americans took a hit. Don't buy this, don't buy that,
you know, buy your buy your stuff, buy your foreign stuff,
more dependable, lasts longer, blah blah blah. They're still lagging American cars.
They really wait, really well, you know, Jesse, we were
just talking about one a chronic problem in a Jeep that Jeep just won't fix,
you know, Camschefs and the Jeeps are terrible in the three sixteep almost
every single one on the road, it's gonna need camshafts at eighty thousand miles.
I think the other thing that we see is for a long time they
weren't doing maintenances on American vehicles like they were on your forearms. Right every
thirty you do your transmission fluid. American car would say, why do your
transmission fluid. It's important that you change those fluids too. So we've got
to get everybody to understand that maintenance is so important on vehicles. You want
to maintain them, you've got to do maintenance on them. Let's take a
pickup truck, okay, a Chevy pickup truck, a Ford pickup truck.
Let's take some foreign pickup trucks. What really do you have that the Toyota
is the big one? What else? What other really to Toyota Tundra?
Okay? So those two how those Ford trucks do the Nissan and the Tundra
and the Toyota put to shame? With the longevity and the durability and the
engine, does it put to shane the American I wouldn't say, you put
them to shame? And they have their size and downsides. I mean the
fact that the Big three, uh you know, sell more here in the
States dictates we're going to see them in the shop a lot more often than
we're going to see the Tundra of the Titan. Uh. You know,
they all have their websites and downsize. You know, look at the Tundra
compared to the Chevy. You're gonna get better fuel economy. The Tundra is
a good heavy truck. Definitely four wheels. Well but uh, you know
they're so on all all. So are you saying they're not that much better
than the American drug Not? In my opinion, no, So I think
the trucks are closer. Yeah, okay, what about the gaps in SUVs?
Is that where the gaps are SUV's and cars? For sure? For
sure? Okay and okay, we talked about this. What are the what
are the most convenient cars to own ever? Where you don't have to wait
for parts, easy to service, relatively not low cause, but you know
it's not going to knock your head off. Remember I said vehicles that you
would put in that category all around vehicles, anything come to mind where you're
not waiting for you know that's the same list. I mean almost every time
we do. You know, Toyota's tops, tops, all of them really
absolutely, So with a Toyota, you'll have more convenience, more parts availability,
less wait times. Yep, as long as you don't need a transmission,
because I tell you what's Toyota probably the worst that we have to deal
with right now, transmiss transmission, part everything. Transmission is if you know
what they're dealing with and what I'm dealing with, two different worlds. Yep,
that's true, okay, But as far as regular service, the Toyota
and the support, the parts availability way better. What's the worst? Christ
hard for parts, hard for parts, back, quarter back, under back
order, discontinued, They'll discontinue with ten years almost everything. And then when
you get a problem, it's not just one, it's the whole line of
them. Like any car that's got that part in that engine, they're all
going to go bad. Heater core, well, all their trucks have heater
core problems, right, it's just all the all right, and then the
vehicles where the same recurring problems have been going on so long you scratch your
head as to why manufacturers these are weird categories. But as to why manufacturers
never corrected it or take as long as they did, What do you think
subrew is never going to correct their head gasket? That's just that's just subers
have a head gasket problem, always will and they just what is wrong with
it? Do they do they warp the heads or do they do the gaskets
just blow their heads? Don't really warp them much. Basket, it's the
casket sitting in the oyal sideways the whole time. You know, it's nobody's
figured it out or they would have fixed it. So so what does that
mean when you have a subrew? You're going to have to replace the head
gasket. Correct service is what we call. Well that's okay, that's not
terrible if it goes that long. But is the engine otherwise pretty bulletproof?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, as long as you don't let the head gas
get be a problem. Yeah, because they do eat some oil. Super
says that every thousand miles you can go through a court of oil, no
problem, that's normal. But they only hold four and a half. And
when it comes to Japanese cars, are the engines made by each of them?
Toyota makes their own yes, Nissan makes their own okay, Everyone makes
their own okay? Is okay? And then what about then rebuilding replacements for
those readily available in America? You don't have to go to the factory.
And the only time we've ever had a problem with getting the rebuilt locally is
a BMW we had to get from Germany. But outside of that, yeah,
most of the doesn't matter whether it's a Toyota or Ford. They rebuild
them here in the state. And so what would be the most expensive cars
to maintain in gen We'll talk about that coming up three oh three, seven
to one three talk seven one three eight, two five five. A lot
of these questions have been texted to me. If you want to text five
seven seven three nine, put Tom in the promo or not in the promo.
Put Tom in the in the text somewhere and we'll get to you on
that. Okay. Uh, somebody has this one here? A g alexis
GX four sixty one hundred and seventy thousand miles runs like brand new. All
you ever have to do is change fluids now and then. So what do
you think about that? He said, I'll never buy American again? The
GS four sixty. That's the Lexus that those are really rock solid art pretty
tough you and it is a larger RECUV And the Lexus is Toyota, right
yep so, and then Acura would be part of Honda. Honda. Are
the accurates just as good? No, I would not say so. I
would say that Toyota Lexus definitely has Honda acrobeat all right, more coming up,
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nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter.
Mark's got a comment on cars. We've been talking about maintenance and repairs and
convenience and orders and parts availability. Go ahead, sir, well the other
your comments here just saying I'm gonna make quickcoments on four cars. I own
two tows. In two thousand and three, I put nineteen grand into to
say, why would you do that? Well, I bought it new,
and I bought a whole new factory GM drive for not remanufactured new because I
like the car. Huh, I'm an eighteen. I like it. It's
got barn doors, sentri if I bought a brand new, it's my hunting
truck. So I look at it this way. These new vehicles are getting
too complicated, too complex. My rear here went on a dapross. I
went to the jiang Kaarden's got the parts for seven bucks. Boom fixed done.
You know there's something to be said about that. In fact, I've
often thought, when will a manufacturer ever meet the need for those who want
basic and simple, like not all models but one, and I really mean
basic and simple. But I don't think it's going to happen. Toyota's in
the middle of bringing out a truck that's very basic and simple, really drive
crank windows, entry level price of thirty thousand dollars. Now that's incredible.
That'll kill the marketplace. I mean it is what they say it is when
they released it, Mark, what else did you say? How many times
I got? I got an eighteen to, which is okay. But that's
the end of the line for me. It's the last of the solid axle.
I don't like to do suspension. Of my best all around via cle
I ever owned was a Avalanche. I absolutely positively loved the Avalanche. I
can't why, why when you have a winning vehicle do you stop making it?
Why do they do that? Can someone tell me why they stopped making
the Avalanche? Change? It was a lack of sales. You can't keep
them. Not the ridge line is the same way, and Honda changed the
ridge line and now it's nothing like it used to be. Not the truck,
the Avalanche. How was it service wise? I mean, same truck.
It was a gentleman's pickup. The engine was rock solid, the interior
was nice. Oh man, I just was so pissed off when they stop
making them. I always got one. I've had one for several years.
I loved it. I just loved it. You don't even see that many
on the road, I know it. Yeah, I mean why, I
mean, honest to God, I don't know why. And that those are
the kinds of things that just pissed me off. It's the same question we
ask all the time back in two thousand. You make a car that's still
running today, and now you can't make a car that'll run, you know,
five years, like okay. So we talked about the most convenient all
around cars for value parts availabily blah blah blah, Nissan and Toyota. Right,
Toyota has them up beat, probably, and we also Hondas not bad,
but Toyota number one. Toyota, Now let's talk. We talked about
what's the most inconvenient? Parts are a pain in the ass, Wait times
are a pain in the ass? Expensive, what BMW euro You can just
slap that ping badge on that Audi. You're dagon BMW all of them.
Many guys do not. You guys do not like European cars. When we
say German, the Germans should stick to making beer and losing wark. I
was always thought German engineering was the They're great as long as you're leasing them,
and you keep them for three years and you get another one as a
driver, you'll love it. Great vehicles as soon as they hit fifty No
longevity, no, not without a very expensive expense. Yeah, I tell
my BMW owners come in sixty thousand, plan on five grand a year.
You're going to put five grand a year into this car, So everyone's going
to do that. Yeah, yeah, my factory warrant about like that though.
Yep. I don't touch Mercedes because of it, because of the tools,
the parts, the problems. Yes, we stay clear. So so
this idea that they're they're rock solid is bs. They're they're good new cars
the two thousand miles, then get rid of it. Your problems are coming.
Yes, Why do they have such good residual values for leases? Stigma
status status symbol? Yeah? Now did I take mark or is this a
new one? He's still on Mark? Did you have thatcond Oh? Go
ahead? Do you have any other comments? Go ahead of Mark? Yeah,
quickly. Okay, So now we're gonna move on to my wife's car.
Oh, I'm sorry, go good, go ahead? All right?
All right. So she's got a ball Doll twenty eleven XT seventy station wagon
portal drive. We bought that car brand new. We don't care what it
costs to face. She does not want an suv. There's very few station
wagons in a poor little drive anymore. The Mercedes is one hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars. She likes the car and it fits her, and she
doesn't want an suv, so they like two cookie cuver, which I agree.
Yep, Supers and Babbles are cult cars. That's what we call them.
Supers and Babbles and super Okay, So what about is Volvo considered Europeano?
Right? It is? Do you like do you like Volvos guys or
is it the same as you put it in the same class as the others
at fifty or sixty get rid of them. The big difference is the Volvo
owner's going to spin to fix it. Your BMW owner doesn't want to.
They're going to move on to the next model, the next model. The
Volvo owner loves that, just like the Superwo owner. That's why we call
it cult cars. BMW's are weird because they give the illusion of such quality,
but it's an illusion. You're saying, great marketing God. The same
as Cadillac. You know, on the GM side, you own a Cadillac,
you better get rid of it at sixty it'll crush you. Yeah,
they're all high end cars. But he owns a Chevy Tahoe. Right,
that's just like a Cadillac Escalady, just not paying the Cadillac price. But
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Remax Alliance three three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino,
you're a troubleshooter three three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five
to five. Paul, you have a question on an IRA. What's going
on? Paul? Hey Tom, I'm not sure what advice you can offer
up that I haven't already tried to address. I'm calling for my father in
law who's eighty seven, and I've been starting to help him with some of
his financial and legal items. He has found some documents that he had an
IRA trust plan, and the only document I have is with the the opening
package of it, and that was in nineteen eighty four and it was from
Empire Saving which the main office was in Denver, and he opened up the
account in North Glenn or something like that. But in any case, that
particular savings bank was purchased by Commercial Federal and then later became a commercial Federal
bank, and then in two thousand and five it was bought out by Bank
of the West, which is now BML out of Montreal. So I wanted
to find out whether he ever liquidated it or you know, cashed in,
or whether it's just migrated from bank to bank in some form. Well,
okay, it has no specific memory of it, all right, let me
tell you what would happen if he had an IRA. It would be one
thing we do have that I am encouraged with. And since I got in
the financial business on the side with it's a long story, I've learned about
the strict regulations and controls there are on people's mind. You know. It's
a good thing. By the way, So with any kind any kind of
an abandoned account, they're not allowed to keep it, they're not allowed to
transfer it, they're not allowed to do anything send it to the state.
So if it's abandoned, and this would have been classified way back as abandon
like back in before ninety, so it would the only place it would be
if he had it, the only place. Well, let's put it this
way. There could be three things. One he could have taken it and
doesn't remember, or somebody could have defrauded him, maybe a caretaker or someone.
I'm not suspecting that, but they found out about it, let's say,
and took it. Or the most logical thing it would be with the
State Treasury, which is the Colorado Payback or they're officially called they're a jeep
funds. Have you ever heard that expression? Yes, I even checked on
the database online that if it's not there, Paul, they would not retain
it. They would not do it, Okay, because I contacted Empire,
they have no record of it, of course, not their IRA division or
obviously their banks. And I also checked on the abandit you know, abandoned
accounts, and he's got maybe twenty dollars sitting there from some other lost accounts,
but not this IRL. Now, the IRA, how much did he
open it with a couple of thousand and at this point it would have been
over fifty six thousand dollars it would have been probably sixty grant or so.
And he just has no specific memory. He's not saying that, No,
I understand it didn't. But the only place that would be absence of fraud.
And even here's the bad news. Even if there was fraud, they
got away with it. Even if you knew who did it, they got
away. There's nothing you can do about it. That's why, folks,
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And I wanted to talk about a few things first and foremost. When
it comes to hacking, it used to be people would get a virus on
their computer, or people would have, you know, some kind of problem
with their computer they were harmed. And then we had serious stuff like identity
theft, where they'd go in and not only mess with your computer, but
somehow extract information in order to get your logins. And then we had even
worse malware. They go into big hospitals and towns and corporations and lock your
files down tight with a worm that gets into your system, and then you
have to pay to encrypt it to unencrypted. Now they do once you pay
the ransom. I often wonder why do these guys do that when you pay
the ransom. They could just take the money and run, but they want
a good name in the hacking business because they want people to pay the ransom.
And if it ever got around that you didn't you didn't do what you
said after the ransom, then people wouldn't be paying it. So people pay
the ransom, and the FBI has been trying to crack down on these.
Well, now municipal systems that run on computers are now being the target.
Water systems, sewer systems, nuclear systems, they say, although it hasn't
happened yet. And a water tower in Texas it overflowed in January, spilling
tens of thousands of gallons of water into the street. Guess what. They
did a deep search with a cyber security company and found that these water systems
were attacked by Russia. That Russia has a hack army. They literally have
an army now that they're building to do cyber warfare. You know, I
said this a while ago, and I think everybody believes it. Everybody said
I wasn't the only one, okay, and that is that cyber warfare will
be our next warfare. You can do as much harm or more going to
someone's infrastructure. So Russia has dedicated themselves to getting an army together of nerds.
Think about that, as does China even more than Russia. You know,
do we have one? Of course we do. I don't know about
that, do we. I mean it's part of you of the A M
forces. I'm sure there's a security branch. I wonder, I truly wonder
if we have a hack force or an anti hack force, or if we
have cyber security people. You know, the Space Force. People laughed about
Space Force is going to be a big deal. But do we have a
cyber security force? Do I guarantee that we do? Tom Do you think
how could we not in the twenty first century. But but what's really strange
is what's going to happen to this country or to this world with this with
this warfare. Now you're not gonna have bloodshed, Well, you could have
a lot of lives endangered. But they're saying so much as these Russian hackers.
Now maybe Chinese, but I'm reading about the Russian ones. They're learning
how to hack into traffic control systems, subway control systems, trains, switchers.
I mean, everything is on computer. Everything is on computer. Airplanes,
you know airliners. Think about the control systems. What could be done?
Do you know like the interpretations we do with GPS receivers, they're all
computerized. I mean not the GPS itself receives a signal, but the triangulation
and mapping software that all could be hacked to where you think you're following a
GPS but it's off. How about just knocking out satellit. It's the same
deal. That's right. So to me, it's a frightening idea. It's
truly frightening that that everywhere we look, we're going to have a battlefront.
But I can't. And that's why a lot of people were suspicious. And
I don't know where did the banning go of TikTok. Is that still happening
or did they decide to sell whatever happened with that. We were Congress was
all about banning, and they were within a few days of banning TikTok.
It was tied to the Ukraine and Israel AID. And now they've split all
that apart. So there's going to be Israel AID alone from Ukraine Aid then
separate from the TikTok ban and TikTok is still available. Tom well, of
course it is. They didn't do it yet, he said. They separated
him up and now instead of having one big bill, there are three of
them and now they're going so that'll still come up for debate and stuff.
Then, right, it's still under consideration, and people are convinced that through
the TikTok it's one of the ways that they will have entry into our cyber
system. Chinese. Do you believe that? I mean, Mark is very
skeptical of TikTok. I'm not on TikTok so I'm safe. I mean it's
making us a dumber. I mean, if you've ever been on it,
well, do you think it's going to be like mutually sure destruction was in
the Cold War, where both Russia and the US knew that if either started
a war. I'm just hoping. I'm just hoping everything is backed up to
a point where who cares? Right, if you knock out our system,
you have another one. I mean, why wouldn't you have one hundred backups
a day? Why couldn't you? I mean there's no cost of reproductions technically,
just storage. But there must be a way to back up to a
point where you simply restore. You know, you know, war is one
thing, right, and anti hacking, But if they hack a system like
these hospitals and stuff, if they hacked the system, why can't they go
and get the new one up and running? Why? I never wondered.
I never understood. I mean, and if somebody is smarter than me listening,
if you have a complete system running your hospital and all the records are
encrypted, everything's encrypted. What about the backups did they getting? I think
what? Probably these backups have the worm in it too. I don't know,
I don't know the reason, but you would think that with our brains
that we have today, we would come up with a way to back up
native files or something to where you wouldn't have to pay ten million dollars to
somebody. It's amazing. I know in my practice we backed up our patient
files every day onto a floppy disk. Well, I know that it was
so easy to do that. You would think hospitals would have some mechanism to
download it onto a USB. You know, when malware takes over and encrypts
stuff, it encrypts it now, but it is that worm hidden in there.
So when they back up it, it's into their backups as well.
Yeah, but like I have a backup. So when my system went down
one day, we just went back to the last time it was working,
which would have been Friday, right, And then they went back there and
opened it up to Friday, and we started there. We lost Saturday and
Sunday, right, But at least you go right back where you were and
start rolling. Yeah, I have to believe it's not as simple as just
backing up and not paying a not paying malware. There must be a reason
they pay these exorbitant malware ransoms. So anti it, anti malware, or
let's put it this way, cybersecurity, it is going to be of utmost
Now, I don't just mean on the military end, but for people to
protect their companies. I imagine that's a pretty damn big business right now.
That you hire these people to make you malware proof, hack proof. You
know they simulate a all the time and find weaknesses. It's amazing to me
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what's going on? Hey Tom? Hey, you got a question for
Jeff? Why am I not hearing you? Oh? There you go go
ahead, go yead I hear you. Can you hear me? Yes,
sir, I can hear you? All right. So I got a question
for Jeff. My wife is after going to the auto show here a few
weeks ago, my wife has found a new car that she's interested in,
and I am curious. Are the new CBT transmissions through Knee Song better than
what they were previously, because she really what does she like? What is
she like? Well, she really fell in love with the new Ultima all
wheel drive and we test drove it. What's the model you really like it?
Oh? It's called who makes it? Okay, Nissan Ultima? Okay,
got it. Yeah. Then Nissan really kind of stuck all their eggs
in that basket in a passenger car market. Almost every car they make as
a CVT, I would say they're better, Yes, would I say that
we've reached to the point of reliability that's going to take time to tell.
Okay, well, tell me what does she like about it? Now?
It's not an suv. It looks like a car to me, right,
Yeah, it's yeah, it's a regular Sedanza. It's freaking beautiful. Golly,
yeah, she looks like a fancy beamer. Yeah, I mean she
just we sat in at the auto show and it's it's got tons of interior
space. I mean, I'm six foot, my wife's five to two.
She put the seat where it was good for her and I sat behind her
and I was like, okay, home, James, because that's about the
leg rooms that I had, and so we were you know, really liked
it and we've testro of it, and she's you know, she's kind of
contemplating in the next few wee. Well, Jeff's go see, like how
just how bad are those transmissions? Come on? Well, you know,
coming up into the two thousand and twenty twenty one or excuse me not two
thousand to twenty twenty twenty twenty one, you know, we have some improvements.
We're not seeing as many of them, but I mean we're gonna see
more and more over time, that's for sure. Prior to that they had
an extremely high rate of failure. Yeah, but not now, right,
I mean, time's gonna tell what do you think is going to a car
mileage on them? We'll find out what do you not like about them in
general? The regular failures of them. I mean, they but they're a
cone, right, and it's a constant philosophy. Yeah, you've got two
separate pulleys that will expand and constrict, so similar to like a ten speed
bicycle where you're changing the size of the spread. But since they're actually moving
back and forth, mitchure that you don't have that actual transition. It just
moves up and down the height in the shallow of the cone. Yeah,
the belt does exactly. So what i'd like to know the same situation or
just keep up on the maintenance on the ring. Well, maintenance with anything.
Maintenance with anything is going to be crucial, you know if you've Jesse
alluded to it earlier, where you know, the American manufacturer likes to try
to tell everybody you don't never need to service your transmission, go eight nine,
ten thousand miles on an oil change. These are just marketing gimmicks in
order to sell the car. Yeah, you know, if you actually want
to keep the car going, change those flues. It's the cheapest thing you'll
put in there. So what about this? I've got Eric, Eric,
what about this? What do you care? How are you going to keep
it for ten years? What do you I'm not asking like, oh yeah,
yeah, okay, yeah, that's what I wanted to know. So
you're a long term owner. You're a long term owner? Yeah, I
mean, sir as, I've got a twenty fifteen niece on pickup with it
just hit one hundred and ninety thousand miles and the body and the interior is
still in next to the condition as long as the mechanicals hold up. You
know, it may be my last vehicle because I have you know, I
know the history of it, and I just keep up on a lot of
maintenance. Have you ever thought about an electric vehicle? No? Not really.
You know what. The more I talk to these guys, the more
I'm being sold on them, because there is no life limit like there is
on and John. I'll tell you what, Tom, When when Uncle Joe
gives me twenty thousand dollars to rewire my house so I can have an EV
then we'll talk, because it's going to cost me twenty thousand dollars to rewire
my house. No ev what because when my house was built, they put
my uh my box on the wrong side of the house instead of being on
the garage side on the house. Okay, well then that stiff wired.
I see what you're saying. But you can you have a dryer plug the
same side of the house as the box. Okay, then move your garage.
I don't know what to tell you. Okay, thanks, Eric,
Steve, what's happening? Yes, yeah, this is Tom, Yeah,
yeah, this is a Tom Martinez. Joe. We're talking about consumer problems,
and I see you have something with a refrigerator. Oh, yes,
I expect I wasn't expecting to be on the air. So what's happening.
Well, I had a little power glitch here about five weeks ago with my
refrigerator, and since then it has not been able to be When you say,
can you describe what you mean by a power glitch? Uh, it
was just a power surge or a spike. When we had that heavy snow
of what five weeks ago, we lost power for you know, seconds,
and then after that the refrigerator never worked right. Correct, it's a it
will only get as cold as about forty eight degrees. What kind does it
get it? What kind does it be? A ge monogram? I can't
think of anything with a power thing that would have done that. Now,
a surge maybe it was it a blink or was it a surge? Well,
I guess it was a blink and it just it just flashed on and
came back on moments later. And did you okay, did it really?
I'm going to start with the most obvious. When the power goes off,
did you reset your your temperatures? Because that's a computer and there you got
to reset it. I mean, what I mean is did the temperatures go
back to default? Nope, they were still showing what thirty four degrees or
something like that. Whatever you want to show, you show in the refrigerator,
and then you have the freezing in the freezer and those are both set
still right correct. However, the refrigerator part will only get as cold as
forty eight degrees. Yeah, there's something. It sounds like your compressor more
than any but but it could be really simple though, like do you know
if there's any internal fu There are internal fuses, but they're not resetable by
you. Have you ever called Have you called anyone to come look at it?
Yes? I called ge Monogram, uh directly because my Yeah, good
luck with that. What did they They're they're terrible. What did they tell
you? Well, they were actually very accommodating the Sorry. Yeah, they
said to contact Sears Home Services. Okay, so where did it all end
up? Did you get someone to look at it? Yeah, they came
out a couple of weeks ago. They looked at it and they said it
needs a compressor and an evaporator. How old is the refrigerator. It's a
little over ten years and so the compressor. The field units are still covered
by the warranty. Oh wait, so you can get this done under warranty.
Yes. So I contacted the ge Monogram and they sent me the compressor
and evaporator and everything was going smooth. That's amazing to wait, that's amazing
to me. Go ahead then what? Oh? Okay? Uh? So
then we had I try to schedule again for Sears Home Services to come out.
And do they cover the installation as well, Steve? Or just the
part? No? Just the part? All right? Labor's labor was five
big dollars? Uh did you pay that five hundred? Yeah? I did?
Yees to what to Sears? Yes, the Sears Home Services? Yes,
correct, My god, you should have never ever ever done that.
So is it working? Is it working? Uh? No, Well they
have not been back out to install they ever. Wait wait wait wait,
you said you paid for it. You paid in advance for installation? Correct?
Yeah, well hold on, what are you talking about? You?
Who'd you pay in advance for installation? Sears Home Services? They said it
was one hundred and nineteen dollars for the diagnosis. Yeah, but hold on
here here's what I want to know, Steve. You got the part sitting
at your house right? Correct? Can you get your money back if you
cancel installation? Of course you can. There's no reason they should keep your
money. Get your money back. That's the issue. I can't get a
hold of Sears Home Services. Where did you put Did you put it on
a credit card? I did? Yes? All right, do me a
favor. Can test the charge you paid for something you did not get,
which is installation. Can test the charge. Get rid of city. You
do not want these clowns coming from Seers to install it? Never? Okay,
never. Now I'm going to give you the name of someone to install
you ready, Oh, you write this down. And this is an independent
guy from Russia. He is the best service tech you'll ever get, and
he works directly with homeowners. He even comes out on Sundays. I'm telling
you he's not on the referral list. He should be. I asked Mark
to get him on, but maybe Mark hasn't gotten around to it. His
name is Roma. Okay, here's his number seven to zero nine eight zero
four six zero nine. Now here's what I want you to do. I
want you to tell him you went to this guy's house one time on a
Sunday, and you did such great work that he told me I should call
you. I need this part installed. Blah blah blah. What you might
want to what you might find out from Roma, because he's so honest,
is you probably didn't need the compressor. Because I'm just going to say a
little note here. You got it free. It doesn't matter. Put it
in. Put it in. You got it free. It's going to extend,
it's going to double the life of that refrigerator. But you didn't need
it. You didn't need it. You needed the starter. You did not
need the entire compressor for one blink of power. Okay, but you call
that guy. Did I give you that number? I'm sorry my age,
Yes I did. Okay, so you take it and you call that guy
and you will be thanking me for it. But get your money back even
if you can't get a hold of them. Stop payment. There's no reason
you should pay for installation you do not want and you did not get.
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zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here three O three seven one three
talk three O three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the
show. We are here to help you any way we can to solve problems,
as questions, to take complaints. We're winding up an hour, but
you can still get a call in. And by the way, we were
talking about cars and convenience and all of that. Somebody wants to know about
that Nissan car. He asked about the Uh there's an Ultima that's alt Ultima
and they're really handsome cars. Now, as far as Toyota, do they
have a version of this that would not a version but a competitor. What
would a competitor be in that class camer or you know one of those.
Now, how do they compare to Hyundaidai? They're very comparable. Has done
a lot over the year when they first came out, they were a big
lighter, you know, when you run out of gas, throw it away.
So but you know, over the years they've done a lot to improve
that company, and they're actually a really quality car anymore, you agree,
Yeah, they're the warranties on is looking at warranties unbeatable. Cona's a nice
vehicle, a nice vehicle. Uh. They have all different sizes and shapes
of cars. Now, is Kia comparable? Are they now? I heard
their brothers. Did they get back together? Are they separate? I mean
they're they're identical companies for warranties and all of that, but very very similar.
So quality wise, very similar as well, right, I believe.
So I would say Honday is probably a little bit step above them. I
mean, they do share a lot of technology. But if I was to
put them side by side, a Kira a Hyundai, I would definitely take
the Hyundai really okay, And then we'll say, and there's one more text
about some men are not looking for quality. They're looking like, you know,
I think status is what they have in mind. I mean some people
like That's why of course the range Rover. Somehow people got to know that
as some kind of status and they are good looking. Nobody can deny that.
So as far as the there was one other question they had about the
performance cars. Are there any that Are there any that's that have a reputation
they shouldn't for dependability, like when you're when you're going to look, are
there any that are overrated? I guess is what we're talking about. Well,
I I just have to keep going back to the European and while they're
new, they're great, but once you hit that sixty k mark, they
start going downhill and those they're expensive, very expensive. Yeah, all right,
three oh three seven one three talk and then what about the So it's
not just the cost that we're talking about of the repairs and all of that,
but we're also talking about basically the uh, the longevity itself. I
mean the fact that they even break down like that, not breakdown but leek,
Well, you're not gonna have catastrophics failures. They're small, but they're
theirs, but they're oh nicol, but two and three thousand at a time.
Lupey, what's going on with you? Loupei? I'm calling Tom to
ask about my twenty seven tu son. You're twenty twenty seventeen. Yeah,
okay, your Yndai Tucson. What about it? Yeah, it started knocking?
Really Now have you had regular Have you had all the regular service done
and oil changes? Uh? Yes, I have had? Have you changed
gasoline at all? Oh? Why would knocking? That's not a good How
many miles are on it? It has ninety nine? Thou? I would
check with Hyundai there's still they have all kinds of different recalls for their motors.
What I know, I did because I read about it and I get
what year? Now? What causes knocking to begin with? What could it
be? Is it a deep knocker? Is that a tick? When you
say knocking? Can you really hear it? Knocking? Cock? Clock,
clock, clock, cluck, dock, cluck cluck inside it's it's yes.
Can you feel it or you just hear it? I hear it. Yeah,
it's unfortunately a common failure. Said, it's probably the rod bearing,
that's what the reason. Now that's a major engine. Yes, the motors
done? Yeah, oh my god, I mean why no warranty on that
one or no recall? Well it's a ten year warranty right on a two
thousand. Yeah, but they did have they'd extended some past the ten years,
but hers wouldn't be ten years at twenty seventeen, so you're still you
know, you're still under warranty for that. Because I'm a second owner,
I'm not Okay, wait a minute, so you didn't. Yeah, they
change it for the if it's a certified there's some rule on extending that warranty.
That's why I always refer to the dealer because they keep changing it.
Anyway, what is your question for us slope? What is your question?
Well, it was I've taken it to two mechanics and they did they say
your engines toast. Well one of them did, and the other one said,
well, if we fix it, you'll probably have the same problem again
because it's that engine. Now, that doesn't make sense because they would rebuild
it. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Why don't you take it
over to keb Where are you located? I'm in Broomfield. Yeah, I
see. You can come down south a little go on I seventy. Just
go on Cold Fat west of Wadsworth. We'll check first see what's available.
We're having a little bit availability to our with Hondai motors. Why don't you
do me a favorite Lupe and give them a call. Call with the vin
number we can make three four, five, five, seventy two forty two.
Okay, Dennis, what did you need to talk about? Dennis?
Yeah, Tom there, Yes, sir, so I got a question.
I'm thinking of buying a Toyota and is it worth buying that Toyota Hybrid versus
the regular Toyota. All right, we'll come right back and answer that.
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three O three seven one three talk. Let's go right back to Dennis.
Okay, Dennis, So what was your question, sir? You wanted to
know about, uh Toyota a regular Rev four versus the Toilota Hybrid. Yeah?
Which one would be the better buy? Because I'm looking to buy maybe
this year or next year. I want to buy brand new, and is
the Highbred worth the extra money? Guys? Guy, here's what I think.
Okay, but it's only my opinion, Dennis, I don't want two
systems. If I'm gonna get electric, I'll get electric. Otherwise I'm going
to stick with the gas because it's very dependent. Well what do you guys
think? Yeah, same thing. You know, you're buying a lot more
maintenance car for how long? Yeah? Yeah, that's Kevin. I've talked
to Kevin about it too. So so what I mean, I just do
my basic driving around Denver. I don't go out of state or much like
I would get I would get the regular one and not pay the extra.
That's just me though. Well, particularly if you're doing a lot of city
driving because you're not going to get a lot of benefit out of that electric
side. Yeah. So anyway, Matt, Matt, Matt, what you
have a question on the car shield? Yeah? What what do you recommend?
What? My My warranty just ran out on my Chevy Silverado, So
what should I buy? Are they? Are they rip off? All right?
Listen, That's the only time, the only time I would consider a
warranty is when your factory one ran out, and I would go right back
to Chevy or General Motors for it. That's what I would do as an
actual extended warranty car shield. I personally don't like these warranties that are independent,
but guys Coach shield is probably the worst one out there. Are the
the worst one out there. Matt. They're saying I would go to the
factory. Now that you actually can use it, now's the time to buy
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