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Speaker 6: Tom Martinez welcome, Welcome my friends to the only show
Speaker 6: of its kind. It's Friday, It's car day here, It's
Speaker 6: a troubleshooter show. Pretty much as always.
Speaker 2: Kevin Cokin shared an auto tech Kevin Welcome, Welcome my
Speaker 2: friend to the show. Jeff Van kimmera transmission. How are
Speaker 2: you guys doing.
Speaker 7: I'll survive him day by day. I mean we were
Speaker 7: talking earlier. It's been interesting since the beginning of the year,
Speaker 7: the workloads have really slowed down.
Speaker 2: What do you do You think it's got to do
Speaker 2: it to tariffs?
Speaker 6: Do you think it has to do with the overall
Speaker 6: economy or do you think it's more of automotive in
Speaker 6: general or everything?
Speaker 1: I think everything. I mean, it's it's it is definitely
Speaker 1: city wide. Everybody I talked to around town is slowing
Speaker 1: slowing down.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people in other aspects or
Speaker 2: other businesses are saying that. Home service companies have told
Speaker 2: me the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just and it could be weather too.
Speaker 1: You know, we do tend to slow down a little
Speaker 1: bit in the spring. We don't have the severe cold
Speaker 1: or hot or anything.
Speaker 2: You don't have people bitching about their air conditioner exactly.
Speaker 1: We'll get bombarded with that probably in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the people wait man, but the human nature
Speaker 2: is the weight.
Speaker 1: Just in case I don't need my air conditioning, I
Speaker 1: don't want to fix it.
Speaker 6: We had a HVAC company in Colorado Springs, great people,
Speaker 6: Smith Plumbing, Heating, cooling, and electric. They're great people. And
Speaker 6: he did a thing one time that was crazy. It
Speaker 6: was to get new customers and tie them to them.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's what every business wants to do. You
Speaker 6: spend that initial money to get the customer, you want
Speaker 6: to keep them forever. So he was giving for one hundred,
Speaker 6: you would get a thousand dollars gift certificate to use.
Speaker 6: So to give you an idea at the time, this
Speaker 6: few years ago, he sold water heaters for like two
Speaker 6: grand at the time, so you'd get a water heater
Speaker 6: for one thousand and fifty dollars. So, I mean, that's
Speaker 6: cheapest hell for a new water heater installed, or if
Speaker 6: you wanted a new commode installed, a new toilet like
Speaker 6: a regular toilet in a bathroom. Basically it would it
Speaker 6: cost you about fifty bucks, okay, but you had to
Speaker 6: wait like a month to use it. There was some
Speaker 6: kind of term like that. But it was about the
Speaker 6: best deal I ever heard of.
Speaker 2: You could only buy one, and you could apply it
Speaker 2: towards anything, a new air conditioner, water heater, whatever.
Speaker 6: The bottom line was. Though we advertised this form and
Speaker 6: he sold a couple of them. But people just don't
Speaker 6: think ahead. They're not thinking of their water heater going out.
Speaker 6: They're not thinking of replacing a toilet, so unless if
Speaker 6: they needed at that very second, no one even goes there.
Speaker 6: Although it was the best deal in the world world
Speaker 6: like a thousand bucks off of furnace, a thousand bucks
Speaker 6: off of.
Speaker 1: I won it even if I didn't need a water heater,
Speaker 1: just to update it or get a new one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good idea too. I was ten years old.
Speaker 1: It's gonna go, you know it is.
Speaker 2: Humans just don't think there, and I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm trying to think of certain things.
Speaker 6: I've never gone out and checked my roof and said, hey,
Speaker 6: I want to make sure my roof's okay. See if
Speaker 6: I need a new roof. Same with my furnace, I've
Speaker 6: never I mean I constantly maintain it. I change the
Speaker 6: air filter in mind usually once a month. I check
Speaker 6: on our steamer or humidifier, and.
Speaker 2: I do stuff like that. But I never I never think, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and buy something now to apply
Speaker 2: to the furnace later, because I might not need a furnace.
Speaker 1: Verteke, Well, that keeps coming on. It's out of mind.
Speaker 6: What's the biggest thing people? By the way, I'm sorry
Speaker 6: three oh three seven one, three eight, two five five.
Speaker 6: You've been ripped off. You've been taking advantage of. You
Speaker 6: got a bad landlord, you got a bad plumber, you
Speaker 6: got to bad everything. And we do have some updates
Speaker 6: coming a little later on the show that are extremely interesting.
Speaker 6: But here's the deal. Three oh three seven to one,
Speaker 6: three eight, two five five, three oh three Martino. We
Speaker 6: do have open lines for the first time this week, literally,
Speaker 6: three oh three Martino. It's a great time to get by,
Speaker 6: especially car day. What do people neglect guys on cars?
Speaker 6: I know, transmissions are easy to forget about, Jeff. If
Speaker 6: you buy a Hondai, I mean pretty much they tell
Speaker 6: you don't ever do anything to the transfer.
Speaker 7: And the manufacturers have been telling people for you know,
Speaker 7: a couple of decades now that these things are lifetime
Speaker 7: fluids and you don't have to service them. And you
Speaker 7: know that's the fact, the best way to make sure
Speaker 7: you're going to have a failure.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they don't care after one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about holiday care.
Speaker 7: But you know, I have a Honday. You know what,
Speaker 7: other manufacturers typical three years thirty six. So after thirty
Speaker 7: six thousand miles you're on your own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on your own.
Speaker 6: So if you get can you honestly say, if you do,
Speaker 6: how much is I don't know what's a normal vehicle here,
Speaker 6: We're going to go to this call in a second.
Speaker 6: A two thousand Toyota, a twenty ten Toyota four runner.
Speaker 2: Let's just say a transmission serve on that automatic transmission,
Speaker 2: there's three ninety five, so four.
Speaker 6: Hundred bucks, and what would you say that literally would
Speaker 6: extend the life of that transmission.
Speaker 2: It's almost did one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's almost impossible to say how much is going
Speaker 7: to extend it. What you're doing is maximizing the longevity
Speaker 7: of it. Okay, so the fluids will break down over
Speaker 7: time and use here and you're going to have to
Speaker 7: have particular that naturally builds up, so you want to
Speaker 7: change filters. So, but what you're doing is if you
Speaker 7: go in every three years of thirty six thousand miles,
Speaker 7: get this stuff changed out, it keeps those additives boost
Speaker 7: it up, so it increases your lubrication, the oxidation inhibitors,
Speaker 7: all the other the additives that are inside, they're alive,
Speaker 7: so that you're maximizing the life of that.
Speaker 2: Why don't they use and this might sound ignorant, but
Speaker 2: if a transmission service is typically called for, let's just
Speaker 2: take that again. In twenty ten, when that Forerunner was sold,
Speaker 2: what how long till the first transmission service is called for?
Speaker 7: And the owners owner's manual probably called for about seventy
Speaker 7: five to eighty thousand.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, why when's the first oil change?
Speaker 1: Well they're saying that too, that's as they're going ten
Speaker 1: and twelve thousand, now, well not.
Speaker 2: In twenty ten, yeah they are, okay, so ten thousand, yeah, ten.
Speaker 6: So but here's the question, why don't they use that
Speaker 6: same kind of fluid in the engine that they do
Speaker 6: in the transmission In other words, if one they're saying
Speaker 6: is good for seventy five thousand miles and the others
Speaker 6: only good for ten, my god, why aren't they doing
Speaker 6: something different on the oil.
Speaker 7: You've got a whole lot different going on in an
Speaker 7: engine compared to a transmission. If you're going to get
Speaker 7: some blow by, you're gonna get some gas that's going
Speaker 7: to build up inside the oil itself, it's going to
Speaker 7: deteriorate much much faster.
Speaker 1: I got you.
Speaker 2: It's just peried a different system, different kind of it's.
Speaker 1: Thein to createtation. You know, you start doing ten and
Speaker 1: twelve thousand mile oil changes in fifty sixty thousand miles,
Speaker 1: your engine is full of sludge.
Speaker 2: But we can all agree as far as just traditional
Speaker 2: oil compared to fully synthetic now it's night and day.
Speaker 2: As far as breaking down, oh yeah, I mean oil.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: One of the biggest things too, you know, especially for
Speaker 7: people who do their own oil change, is this, don't
Speaker 7: scrimp on that oil filter. Yes, the cheap oil filters
Speaker 7: are exactly that bare.
Speaker 6: Unless you're bro I would say, if you're doing them
Speaker 6: every three thousand miles like the old days, maybe it
Speaker 6: wasn't that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a different Micron system. Though you want to
Speaker 1: get everything out, you don't want to get some of
Speaker 1: them on your guys.
Speaker 6: Let's just talk cost real quick. Since she brought it
Speaker 6: up like a cheap NAPA filter their cheapest line compared
Speaker 6: to their best one. I mean, is it a five
Speaker 6: dollars difference in cost?
Speaker 2: Ten dollars five to six on our end, probably ten
Speaker 2: to twelve on the customer end. Okay, so I mean
Speaker 2: it's significant.
Speaker 1: It does add to it. But I mean I could
Speaker 1: buy filters for a buck.
Speaker 9: What do you do?
Speaker 2: Do you upsil on that?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 1: I won't do a synthetic old change with a cheap filter.
Speaker 2: You just simply won't do it. It's just not worth it. No, no, y,
Speaker 2: Why buy the best oil and the cheapest filter.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 10: What what is the difference between synthetic oil and non
Speaker 10: synthetic oil.
Speaker 2: Synthetic has nothing to do withocil fuels. It's literally synthetic.
Speaker 1: Is processed with petroleum.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I knew there was like a semisynthetic.
Speaker 1: The synthetic oil is actually petroleum product, isnt know? Do
Speaker 1: they call it synthetic because it's synthesized to make the
Speaker 1: standards that they have. Wow, it's a process they use it.
Speaker 1: It's not man made.
Speaker 2: No, it is patron It was man made. It has
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 10: That was my point. It has to be from petroleum
Speaker 10: somehow because it is patrol.
Speaker 11: Why.
Speaker 6: I mean we have things stacked like vegetable oil. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm just throwing that out there. I mean, vegetable oil
Speaker 6: is an oil. It could be vextibles that.
Speaker 5: I know that.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. Synthetic oil came from something. The
Speaker 2: name is stupid. I'm sorry, the name is stupid.
Speaker 6: I really I sold a crapload of that stuff too,
Speaker 6: and I never even realized it was still patrol. Is
Speaker 6: it like ninety percent petroleum based that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the additive package and the process
Speaker 1: they put it through to get it to do you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's just synthesis.
Speaker 6: Well, the attitude right before I exited in about two
Speaker 6: thy fourteen fifteen, my good years fourteen, oil was really
Speaker 6: getting complicated.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: It was getting to the point, depending on the car
Speaker 6: coming in, you had to have a different additive package
Speaker 6: or you could avoid the warranty on certain vehicles like bmwuser.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's all kinds of ratings on oils you have
Speaker 1: to catch off, and that's right.
Speaker 2: In some of the oils you might cover most of
Speaker 2: the ratings.
Speaker 1: Dexos is one rating for that Chevy mostly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a big one, and a lot of
Speaker 6: the oil you could buy back in thirteen or fourteen,
Speaker 6: the bulk stuff might have not been that SOOS approved, correct,
Speaker 6: I mean it got it was starting to get complicated.
Speaker 6: Hey JR. What's going on with this four runner?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Talking about the oil change.
Speaker 3: I changed the fluid every three thousand on that transmission
Speaker 3: of Colon what and I have two hundred and eight
Speaker 3: thousand miles on it now?
Speaker 6: Man, there are so many toyotas out there with like
Speaker 6: two hundred to five hundred thousand, it's remarkable.
Speaker 1: They're very durable in it.
Speaker 2: Okay, what can I expect out of durability? And when
Speaker 2: do it? And so basically you're saying, you change, you
Speaker 2: change your transmission fluid since you've had it every thirty
Speaker 2: thousand miles, which should you expect me thirty thousand? Yeah,
Speaker 2: every third drop the pan sometimes and there's no problem
Speaker 2: with the screen in there. It's running great at this time. Yeah, okay, just.
Speaker 7: Short of a catastrophic failure. I mean it's two hundred thousand.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously anything can happen, but it's not uncommon
Speaker 7: for us to see you know, three, sometimes even four
Speaker 7: hundred thousand miles on some of the toyotas. That being said,
Speaker 7: you know, if I have one crawl in the shop
Speaker 7: and you just got one hundred and thirty five thousand,
Speaker 7: you know that's not surprising either. The car counted for
Speaker 7: you don't like the four runners and the Comas and
Speaker 7: the tundrads. We see far less of those than we
Speaker 7: probably do most of the other brands.
Speaker 6: You know what's interesting, and I think driving habits have
Speaker 6: a lot to do with it. If you took that
Speaker 6: exact same truck thirty thousand zero two owners, one eyes hit,
Speaker 6: the other bysh they both do the service through you
Speaker 6: every thirty thousand miles, but one is heavy, heavy on
Speaker 6: the heavy on the hammer. One drives it tough off
Speaker 6: the start, breaks hard. That that's a huge part of
Speaker 6: it too.
Speaker 1: It's a huge part of it.
Speaker 7: You know, if you live in a mountain community you're
Speaker 7: doing a lot of hill driving, or if you're out
Speaker 7: on the farm, yeah, or bouncing around, bouncing around, or
Speaker 7: you give it to your sixteen year old kid.
Speaker 1: That's about the fastest wave.
Speaker 2: Blak Jr. Just keep taking care of it. Whatever the
Speaker 2: hell you're doing is doing great. I so that's heavy duty.
Speaker 2: I guess right, well, you can only you could get
Speaker 2: keyed in the city. You can get mugged, your car
Speaker 2: can get stolen.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, but you're obviously city driving though to
Speaker 1: his running.
Speaker 2: Away from gangs from Venezuela. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 7: The city drive there's a lot more shift busy because
Speaker 7: you're you know, you're constantly coming up to stop blights,
Speaker 7: and it's and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: So it's going to have to work.
Speaker 2: Get carpared the highway where it's in whatever you're cruising forever, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's sounds like a gray.
Speaker 9: Vehicle point for those transmissions.
Speaker 2: It's a Hasten, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: A a seven fifty f is what you've got inside.
Speaker 1: There must be.
Speaker 9: With them.
Speaker 7: We see more foul body complaints on them than anything else.
Speaker 7: It's on the way problems.
Speaker 1: Is it lack of service or driving It's just going
Speaker 1: to be a failure.
Speaker 13: I mean it's some point. Yeah, is at some point.
Speaker 13: Most of the time what we see on them is
Speaker 13: usually fouled bodies costs. Let's say his goes out tomorrow.
Speaker 13: What's a rebuild run now?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Low end on it's probably somewhere around the thirty one
Speaker 1: thirty not bad. No, in your top end. Probably you
Speaker 1: probably kissed six if you.
Speaker 2: That's a great deal.
Speaker 12: As I said about a new car.
Speaker 2: Oh, hell yeah, it's a great deal. Hey Jr. We
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Man. You can free that up. Kelly three
Speaker 2: oh three.
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Speaker 6: We have got RAN's got a question on oil changes.
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Speaker 6: do you guys think about these cameras downtown Denver. They're
Speaker 6: not renewing the contract, but yet they've been used to
Speaker 6: catch one hundred two hundred car thieves and all kinds
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Speaker 1: Isn't it just nonsense?
Speaker 7: And the only reason they want to pull them down
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Speaker 6: He's definitely he's almost tunnel vision But I like you
Speaker 6: because he's local. I like him even though he drives
Speaker 6: me insane. Susannah's say, God, you're yelling at Kyle again
Speaker 6: through the TV. I still think he's entertaining. I think
Speaker 6: his show's all right.
Speaker 1: How does he give a commentary as he's giving news?
Speaker 1: Every single thing he says, he has to add to it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's got to add to it. No, but his show, really,
Speaker 6: I look at it as commentary. I don't look at
Speaker 6: it as.
Speaker 2: A new show. Except for the weather, that's it.
Speaker 6: But I can honestly say, Kyle, if you're listening, I
Speaker 6: listened to you, and I've sent you feedback. He's never
Speaker 6: taken my feedback, like what are you a moron? He's
Speaker 6: yet to read that on there. But he does take
Speaker 6: some feedback that's critical. There's no doubt he does it
Speaker 6: to the end. Okay, Rand, what's going on?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 5: My question is I purchased about a week ago a
Speaker 5: two thousand and thirteen Camaro Supersport with forty five hundred
Speaker 5: miles on it?
Speaker 2: My god, where'd you get that?
Speaker 5: I'll find the mind bought it?
Speaker 2: It bought it? And what parked it and died or
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 5: He's hidden like is he never children? My?
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's a convertible too.
Speaker 6: That's got to be beautiful. How did you get it
Speaker 6: for a song and a dance or was it really
Speaker 6: expensive or what?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: I got it well below book price, nice wholesale.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what's your question?
Speaker 5: The question is I'm pretty sure it has all the
Speaker 5: original fluids from the factory in it, YI transmission fluid oil.
Speaker 11: And you know, even though it.
Speaker 5: Doesn't have that many miles on it, should I be
Speaker 5: concerned about the fluids?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 5: Just based on the age of the car.
Speaker 6: Well even just guys, and I want you both to
Speaker 6: jump in on that. I would think you've got to
Speaker 6: do everything simply because even the owners man, you will
Speaker 6: say like, and I'm going old school on you, but
Speaker 6: three months, three thousand miles.
Speaker 1: Sure, well you get humidity and things built up from
Speaker 1: parking it as well, so you start getting contamination and
Speaker 1: the fluids and everything. So yeah, you need to zero
Speaker 1: that out. We call it where you just go in
Speaker 1: and change it all and definitely don't park it like
Speaker 1: that again. You need to drive it. Definitely get some
Speaker 1: I drive it. Yeah. You need to zero those fluids,
Speaker 1: get them all changed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then inspect all your rubber components, your hoses,
Speaker 7: and your belts and one knock those things.
Speaker 1: Dry out and crack, especially in Colorado, especially in Colorado.
Speaker 7: So, I mean, the last thing you want is this
Speaker 7: beautiful forty five hundred mile car and you know, blow
Speaker 7: a radiator host.
Speaker 2: How about how about some of the internal stuff though,
Speaker 2: some of the internal seals and stuff. You really can't
Speaker 2: check those. You just got to wait for an oil.
Speaker 1: Wait for a failure. If the internal seals are gonna fail.
Speaker 2: How about a thicker weight oil at this point, none
Speaker 2: of that kind of stuff. Oh all right, man? Any
Speaker 2: other questions, Well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so transmission fluid oil, maybe the radiator of fluids?
Speaker 5: Anything else?
Speaker 1: Break fluid? Break fluid is a big one for absorbing fluids.
Speaker 1: Do the rere deaf as well?
Speaker 2: What do you think like a service? So on that vehicle,
Speaker 2: this twenty thirteen Camaro, if he did the oil change,
Speaker 2: if he did the transmission service, if he did the
Speaker 2: diff What else would you do? Cooling system? Probably definitely
Speaker 2: cooling system. How about brake flush or not needed?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Break flush? What do you think he's looking at? Ballpark?
Speaker 1: Guys? He's probably eight nine bucks.
Speaker 2: That's not bad for all the fluids. All right, all
Speaker 2: right man, anything.
Speaker 11: Else, No, that'll take care of Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Appreciated, brother. Three O three seven one three a two
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Speaker 6: the Camaro? Did we leave off with Ja.
Speaker 2: I thought we finished up.
Speaker 10: With Jay ready for a new one, We're done with
Speaker 10: the old.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, guess somebody has a comment on that Camaro
Speaker 1: we were talking about.
Speaker 2: It's a comment, yes, Oh, he's got a comment on it.
Speaker 2: What's your comment on that Camaro? Jay? The guy bought it.
Speaker 6: It's a twenty thirteen, it's only got forty five hundred
Speaker 6: miles on it. He wanted to know if he should
Speaker 6: replace all the fluids and the answer is absolutely yes.
Speaker 2: And by the way, who brought it up? Deputy bow Doc?
Speaker 2: Someone brought up tires.
Speaker 1: Tires. Somebody on YouTube mentioned it on their on.
Speaker 2: YouTube, so tires as well. If that guy still listen.
Speaker 2: But what's your comment, Jay?
Speaker 16: Yeah, boy, tires is a good one. On the first
Speaker 16: couple oil changes on that, I would go with the
Speaker 16: high mileage even though it's a super low miles car
Speaker 16: because the high mileage oil has added its It helps
Speaker 16: soften rubber. So those seals are shitting there for with
Speaker 16: no oil no, so it.
Speaker 2: Kind of puffs them back, but kind of regenerates.
Speaker 7: It's a conditioner. Yeah, it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Not a bad idea. Thanks Jay. Yep. Three oh three seven, one, three, eight, two,
Speaker 2: five five. We do have two lines open. You can
Speaker 2: clear that one up Kelly onlone three and then the
Speaker 2: next one's going to be Patrick. What's going on man?
Speaker 6: Nineteen ninety two Mercury Topaz. I got to google that
Speaker 6: because I have no clue what the hell that is.
Speaker 2: It's pretty much a four tempo, but the Mercury version,
Speaker 2: my god, and it's still on the road. Yeah.
Speaker 12: So I actually bought it from somebody and it has it.
Speaker 2: I bought it with Uh oh, dude, that is ugly.
Speaker 2: That is an ugly ass car. You bought an ugly
Speaker 2: ass car. But what question do you have?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 12: I bought it for my girlfriend, just for the winner, because.
Speaker 2: That's not going to get around. No, that's not going
Speaker 2: to get it?
Speaker 14: Is it?
Speaker 2: Front wheel drive?
Speaker 10: Guys?
Speaker 2: Wow? So if I brought that home to Susanne, I
Speaker 2: don't think i'd have a wife.
Speaker 12: I just got out of the army. I'm broke, still, okay,
Speaker 12: got it for fifteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Now it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's mint.
Speaker 12: It's like look brand new inside and everything.
Speaker 2: No, I feel bad. I'm beaten this in the original
Speaker 2: I'm beating this guy. How old are you man, I'm
Speaker 2: twenty three.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, that's a whole different thing. When Susanna and
Speaker 6: I were twenty three, We're driving around in a nineteen
Speaker 6: seventy nine Granada, So who the hell am I to talk?
Speaker 6: And thank you, by the way for your service, But
Speaker 6: what is your question on this?
Speaker 16: Man?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 12: So I'm pretty sure it's a myth that I've been
Speaker 12: told by a couple older people. So I'm about to
Speaker 12: do the transmission service. I'm about to change the filter
Speaker 12: and all that, the three speed transmission. They said, don't
Speaker 12: change all of the fluid, But I'm like, why not.
Speaker 12: They're like, oh, it'll with the old with it being
Speaker 12: in there for so long since nineteen ninety two and
Speaker 12: all that, it'll strip it down and all that. So
Speaker 12: just change the filter and whatever fluid you lose with it.
Speaker 2: Like why we get this question all the time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it is an old lives tale. I mean,
Speaker 7: if if you wanted to do a conventional service, like
Speaker 7: you're talking about, drop the pan, change the filter and
Speaker 7: you know you're you're doing just fine. But if you
Speaker 7: truly want to flush it then and the easiest way
Speaker 7: to do that is did your service first? Fill it up,
Speaker 7: then disconnect the return cooler line to the transmission, run
Speaker 7: it off into a bucket, have somebody fire it up,
Speaker 7: and then just keep the transmission full until you're satisfied
Speaker 7: with the color of the fluid coming.
Speaker 12: Out perfect, thank you?
Speaker 2: Or bring it to Jeff My only question. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 2: Jeff worked on.
Speaker 12: A nineteen ninety two Ford Ranger that I had change
Speaker 12: the question at once.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, do you remember that, Jeff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that dude, there was that ninety two Ranger we
Speaker 1: had in the chef that was the one, was the one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Hey, what did you what? What service
Speaker 2: were you? And Patrick.
Speaker 1: Army?
Speaker 2: How long did you do? Four years or what?
Speaker 1: Six?
Speaker 2: Six years? What was your what did you leave as?
Speaker 1: What rank E five started?
Speaker 2: You get a GI bill with that? I mean, how
Speaker 2: does that work?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So that's cool.
Speaker 12: I got approved for three years full college and everything.
Speaker 2: And what are you going to tell? Are you going
Speaker 2: to do it?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 12: I was thinking about pilot.
Speaker 2: School, but that's probably I'll tell you right now. Man.
Speaker 2: First of all, this is just my opinion. You know,
Speaker 2: college is like not like he used to be.
Speaker 6: You can make well way more money doing other things
Speaker 6: and we need pilots big time. Then what you could
Speaker 6: always do is save that benefit and your kids could
Speaker 6: use it. If your kids want to go to college,
Speaker 6: I know you can pretty much gift it to certain people.
Speaker 6: So don't be pressured into using that by any means.
Speaker 6: You know HVAC Automotive, Hey, what's what's like a top
Speaker 6: of their A top line tech make well over a
Speaker 6: hund and fifty if they're crushing it.
Speaker 1: If you got a solid a tech, that's I mean
Speaker 1: a real a tech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a real one that knows how to fix off.
Speaker 1: He can he can write his own tex he can.
Speaker 2: Write his own check man. So I mean yeah, the
Speaker 2: service home services.
Speaker 6: There's people out there that not only can install a furnace,
Speaker 6: but they know how to sell and they know how
Speaker 6: to repair, and they're just at the top of the game.
Speaker 6: Over two hundred thousand a year man with companies I
Speaker 6: literally know, and most of them will train you to
Speaker 6: get there at.
Speaker 2: Their own time. So I love it.
Speaker 12: I actually do h VAC currently, I work with for.
Speaker 2: My father, So oh well, very cool. You just don't
Speaker 2: like it or what it's hit or miss.
Speaker 12: It's got us good days and bad days, and I
Speaker 12: don't mind it, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell your dad. Tell your dad.
Speaker 6: Mark said, plumb Line and fix It have have text
Speaker 6: making over two hundred thousand a year, So tell your
Speaker 6: dad that.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 17: I'd like to mention that the United Airlines is as
Speaker 17: actually paying people to go to flight school and getting
Speaker 17: their first commercial license down.
Speaker 2: In Texas both. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 17: My brother in law is a pilot for United, and
Speaker 17: they're desperate for pilots and they're paying.
Speaker 2: They're paying to get their flight hours.
Speaker 6: So my neighbor that just moved in in Franktown, Patrick,
Speaker 6: he works for United as well. He's a younger guy.
Speaker 6: He's probably around Fight the guess. He's probably like thirty five,
Speaker 6: but great guy and absolutely loves his job with United.
Speaker 6: I've got another good friend that used to be a
Speaker 6: deputy here on the show. He flew around Pat Bolan's
Speaker 6: family up until Pat passed away and they sold the plane.
Speaker 6: He didn't fly around the Broncos. He flew around their
Speaker 6: personal jet. Like when they went to Hawaii, he'd fly
Speaker 6: out there, then he would fly off to wherever those
Speaker 6: guys would charter out the jet until the Bolans wanted
Speaker 6: to go back home.
Speaker 2: And then we have another current friend that works for United.
Speaker 6: All these pilots seem to make great money, and on
Speaker 6: top of that, they seem very happy with what they do.
Speaker 6: My neighbor told me he works basically I want to say,
Speaker 6: four on, three off, so I mean he always has
Speaker 6: three days strung together, good benefits.
Speaker 2: But anyhow, I like, I like where you're going with that.
Speaker 2: I want to say to you, Patrick, I hope you
Speaker 2: and your.
Speaker 6: Girlfriend have a great life, a successful life, and more importantly,
Speaker 6: a happy life. Thank you for the call. Three oh
Speaker 6: three seven one, three h two five five. I'm like,
Speaker 6: I feel very mellow today.
Speaker 1: Do I Is it just me?
Speaker 5: Or like?
Speaker 2: Really, guys am, I just mellow.
Speaker 10: You haven't gotten your early in the show?
Speaker 1: Mark will okay, but we good.
Speaker 2: Kevin, You're up next. Hold on.
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Speaker 6: If you my friends have been ripped off for taking
Speaker 6: advantage of we want to hear from you. It's card
Speaker 6: day here on the Troubleshooter Show.
Speaker 3: You know what we do.
Speaker 2: We dig in. We call businesses if we think they've
Speaker 2: done wrong. Actually we call businesses just to get their
Speaker 2: side of the story. What I have found over the years,
Speaker 2: the ones that come on are typically the ones that
Speaker 2: didn't do anything wrong, or they made a mistake and
Speaker 2: they simply want to fix it. I'm dealing with the
Speaker 2: guy right now driving me nuts. If he calls today,
Speaker 2: I already told Kelly put him right on the air.
Speaker 2: It's going to make for great radio. This guy texted
Speaker 2: me at ten forty five.
Speaker 6: He's got a problem with one of our referral list
Speaker 6: members and he's been texting me like in the middle
Speaker 6: of the night. It's like you would think I'd learn
Speaker 6: not to give out my cell phone because of the
Speaker 6: nuts out there.
Speaker 2: Then I talked to him yesterday after the show, literally
Speaker 2: two o'clock two fifteen, and the guy's.
Speaker 6: Hammered, absolutely hammered. Now I know why he's texting around midnight.
Speaker 6: And finally the referral list member text him today and says,
Speaker 6: look here, I'm going to read this verbatim. I want
Speaker 6: people to tell me what they think about this. So
Speaker 6: this guy was a little late on starting the job,
Speaker 6: but there's a lot more to it. In fact, there's
Speaker 6: so much more to it I'm not even going to
Speaker 6: get into it. But he was about a month late
Speaker 6: starting the job. And here's what he said. This guy
Speaker 6: wanted his money back altogether. So the referral list member says, this,
Speaker 6: tell me, honestly, guys, I want to get your analogy, Kevin.
Speaker 6: Let's pretend someone called in on sharedan auto tech and
Speaker 6: they're upset, yep and whatever. You have your side of
Speaker 6: the story, which is good. I heard that, and the
Speaker 6: callers guy his and I hear that, and it's good.
Speaker 6: You both have valid points. Now we need to get somewhere.
Speaker 6: So this guy says, he goes, mister so and so
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 2: We'll do the job.
Speaker 6: If you're not one hundred percent satisfied. In the end,
Speaker 6: we'll refund every dime. If we miss one scheduled date
Speaker 6: without proper notification, we'll quit and refund every dime. We
Speaker 6: will go live on the air and admit we're failures.
Speaker 6: If that happens, we just need to run the job. Basically,
Speaker 6: he wants to bring in his own plumber and his
Speaker 6: own I think electrician.
Speaker 2: I forget it's two different services like that. He wants
Speaker 2: his own guys.
Speaker 6: It's a full reconstruction of a house and he doesn't
Speaker 6: want to use somebody else because he's got to make
Speaker 6: sure there's no smoke.
Speaker 2: And it was a fire thing. The whole place caught
Speaker 2: on fire. It's a bad deal. It's a bad deal.
Speaker 2: I feel really bad for the guy. The caller, sure,
Speaker 2: but this guy steps up and literally says that you
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 1: Be able to control the job. That's your name going
Speaker 1: behind that.
Speaker 2: Well that's what that's what this person's telling me.
Speaker 6: And the caller keeps going, Well, they want to do
Speaker 6: this one test for like five thousand dollars, but I
Speaker 6: found this other guy that can do it for fifteen hundred. Well,
Speaker 6: I called the other guy because they're on a referral
Speaker 6: list too, and the other guy's like, first, we don't
Speaker 6: quote over the phone, so I have no idea why
Speaker 6: he thinks we would do anything like that, And even
Speaker 6: if so, that would be such a minimal starting point
Speaker 6: for that, But if we're walking into a full restoration area,
Speaker 6: it could be.
Speaker 2: A lot higher.
Speaker 6: Then I find out his caller the last two contractors
Speaker 6: he used ready for this, the last two he's in
Speaker 6: lawsuits with.
Speaker 2: Now at what point, maybe.
Speaker 1: I think you're at that point you gotta bail this
Speaker 1: guy's nothing, but he'll never be satisfied.
Speaker 2: Well, and I can't. The guy our referral is member,
Speaker 2: what do you think of that? Techso? I mean that
Speaker 2: is that stepping up to the play.
Speaker 1: Let's more than stepping up.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely insane. I mean, like I said, there is
Speaker 2: two sides to this story.
Speaker 1: But this guy's a gift that keeps giving them.
Speaker 6: I'm to that point where I have just like wow,
Speaker 6: three O three seven one three eight two five five
Speaker 6: three O three Martino, Kevin, what's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 9: Guys?
Speaker 8: You were talking about synthetic oils. I've got a nineteen
Speaker 8: eighty four TJ seven jeep and it only I only
Speaker 8: run it a couple hundred miles a year nowadays. It's
Speaker 8: mostly in the garage for like the last twenty years.
Speaker 8: But I think I've just been using regular oil TENW
Speaker 8: whatever in it. When I get the oil changed, is
Speaker 8: it okay safe to go ahead and move to a
Speaker 8: synthetic blend to to keep the keep the jeep running?
Speaker 2: I got a follow up question before you answer that
Speaker 2: if something calls for particular ten thirty or whatever that
Speaker 2: jeep would call for and synthetic, of course wasn't around
Speaker 2: at the time, would you still want to use what's
Speaker 2: in the manual? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but there are upgrades you can and synthetic
Speaker 1: is an upgrade in my opinion. You know, I would
Speaker 1: go straight synthetic and not even think about it.
Speaker 2: Is there any benefit to it though.
Speaker 1: Just better lubricating qualities, especially for vehicles going to be parked.
Speaker 1: You want the lubrication and other things when you start
Speaker 1: it cold.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm asking this Kevin, And then Kevin the caller,
Speaker 2: let me ask you how often do you oil changes
Speaker 2: on it? Every three thousand.
Speaker 8: More like every two years, which is gonna be less
Speaker 8: than three thousand miles for sure, So I guess.
Speaker 6: What I'm saying is the cost difference. Let's say he
Speaker 6: does it himself. When you go to Walmart and buy oil.
Speaker 6: I mean, the full synthetic costs quite a bit more
Speaker 6: than the cheap stuff two.
Speaker 1: Bucks a court more. So you about ten dollars more
Speaker 1: if you're doing it yourself. Okay, so it's not negligible,
Speaker 1: but for me, I would put the best in there
Speaker 1: because it requires a lot more on a cold start
Speaker 1: a car sitting. Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think, Kevin? Any other questions?
Speaker 8: I know that's a perfect answer though.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 8: I like the fact that, especially in the cold start aspect,
Speaker 8: because it sits in drains obviously for months. And then
Speaker 8: I go ahead and still so if I've got the
Speaker 8: lub to still in there, because the synthetic sounds like
Speaker 8: the much better approach.
Speaker 2: So that's what I we'll move on to.
Speaker 6: Thanks awesome man, appreciate it all right. Three oh three seven, one,
Speaker 6: three eight two five five. Listen, we got some lines open.
Speaker 6: I'd love to hear from you talk about a card day.
Speaker 6: We've had every car question in the world. In fact,
Speaker 6: I don't think we took one question that was outside
Speaker 6: of car realm and keep them coming. These guys are
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Speaker 6: or anybody else you want to expose on the air
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Speaker 18: Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martinez My friends.
Speaker 2: To the only show of its kind anywhere that I've
Speaker 2: ever heard of ever.
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 6: We solve problems, answer questions, takes, We get directly involved
Speaker 6: in your life.
Speaker 2: Tommy boys started this.
Speaker 6: Listen to this over forty five years to ago I
Speaker 6: first teamed up with them. I guess occasionally I should
Speaker 6: say my name. Most people know it by now, but
Speaker 6: Mark Major I occasionally.
Speaker 2: Generally I never. I never say who I am. Do
Speaker 2: people either know me or not? And here's the reason.
Speaker 6: People go, why you guys have been in studio with me?
Speaker 6: I get called Actually I haven't been called Tom in
Speaker 6: a while, but for the last ten years I just
Speaker 6: get called Tom. So instead of correcting someone every five seconds,
Speaker 6: I just simply just whatever I answer to whoever whatever.
Speaker 2: But I met up with Tom.
Speaker 6: I first filled in with mister Martino at thirteenth in Lawrence, downtown, Denver,
Speaker 6: when a company named Jay cor actually owned six thirty
Speaker 6: k atch a w and I hey, Shannon, they owned
Speaker 6: eight fifty at the time too, correct.
Speaker 13: Yeah, because it was noble that just had ay. How oh,
Speaker 13: I didn't know that John Lynch's family. Okay, So here's
Speaker 13: basically how I met him. I had a computer store
Speaker 13: back then. I had computer stores, Mountain Peak Computers.
Speaker 6: I had a small internet company, and eventually I had
Speaker 6: three computer stores, one in Parker, one in Denver, one
Speaker 6: in Lyttleton. And they were kind of like radio shack sizes,
Speaker 6: and all we did was fixed computers, build computers. This
Speaker 6: is a mid nineties I started doing what we're doing
Speaker 6: right now. Car Friday was Computer Friday way back in
Speaker 6: the nineties on the Troubleshooter Show. So every Friday I
Speaker 6: was like, you guys, I would go in with Tom.
Speaker 6: I was sitting there. It's a great story. I was
Speaker 6: sitting there, Sister Laurie was answering the phones. Father John
Speaker 6: was sitting next to me. And it's a very small studio,
Speaker 6: nothing like this. There's basically this.
Speaker 2: Tom was on that side, me and five John round
Speaker 2: this side. Lurie was right back here. Very small studio,
Speaker 2: nothing like this.
Speaker 6: Tom looks at me. We've got about forty five minutes
Speaker 6: left in the show. I'd have already been in for
Speaker 6: Computer Fridays at least at least twenty times, so half
Speaker 6: a year whatever that is, so I'm used to what's
Speaker 6: going on. Plus I listened to him all the time.
Speaker 6: And I do want to say this. Back then, you
Speaker 6: couldn't advertise with Tom because he was on I think
Speaker 6: channel four seven whatever newscast would not allow him to advertise,
Speaker 6: so you would not hear him do commercials during the show.
Speaker 6: But I would comm in all the time with Mountain
Speaker 6: Peak Computers on Fridays, and we just had a great time.
Speaker 6: We really started getting to like each other a lot,
Speaker 6: and you know, the rest is history there. But first
Speaker 6: time I filled in, I'm sitting there Tom's air. He
Speaker 6: starts turning green. It was very evident something was not
Speaker 6: right with him. He turns around in projectile vomits into
Speaker 6: the trash can and it says, you're finishing the show.
Speaker 6: And that's the last I saw of them that day.
Speaker 6: So talk about baptism by fire. So I simply walked
Speaker 6: around to the other side. We had full lines and
Speaker 6: I just do what I do.
Speaker 1: Must be the answer.
Speaker 6: It must have been those damn an show bees on
Speaker 6: the piazza. Yes, it must have been, so that was
Speaker 6: the first time. I would guess that was nineteen ninety
Speaker 6: five or six. And then we did a lot of
Speaker 6: stuff together up through y two k It got to
Speaker 6: the point where Tom was actually syndicated right before nine
Speaker 6: to eleven. I'm kind of telling the story of the
Speaker 6: show because I never do it if you're new to
Speaker 6: the show. Here's how we survive forty five years. So
Speaker 6: somewhere in lou I promise I'll get to the engine,
Speaker 6: and I do want to say this. We do have
Speaker 6: a couple of lines open three zero three seven one
Speaker 6: three eight two five five, call right now. Any questions, complaints,
Speaker 6: advice you need three h three Martine with his car
Speaker 6: day soap. Around two thousand we were syndicated by I
Speaker 6: believe it was called Shannon. I'm gonna ask you to
Speaker 6: help me again. Is it west Word or west Wood?
Speaker 6: Do you rememb I think Westwood did our syndication.
Speaker 2: No, you don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure. So we were everywhere from California to
Speaker 6: New York City. In fact, I still have a map,
Speaker 6: or at least a picture of the map every city
Speaker 6: we were in.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. And then you go, well, what happened? Why?
Speaker 6: Why are you only on a handful of stations. Now,
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what happened. It's called nine to eleven,
Speaker 6: Rush Limbaugh. A lot of these people were born, and
Speaker 6: that's where it all came up. Everything went political one
Speaker 6: hundred percent right after nine to eleven, and we went
Speaker 6: back to basically local with a few other syndication channels.
Speaker 2: Then we separated ways. I'm not going to get into why.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say why, but man, am I itching.
Speaker 2: You guys can see I'm mitching. I'm mitching. I'm mitching,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to say why.
Speaker 6: For about ten years, and then ten years went by,
Speaker 6: So now we're around twenty fourteen. I happened to sell off.
Speaker 6: I told the computer stores way before that, but I
Speaker 6: bought Goodyear stores somewhere around I want to say two
Speaker 6: thousand and five or six. I had five Goodyear stores,
Speaker 6: and I sold my very last one right around twenty fourteen.
Speaker 6: I sold the building downtown Denver and the store it
Speaker 6: was in, and I sold the other ones, and I
Speaker 6: was done with the automotive industry. Guys, I know you're
Speaker 6: in it, and I know both of you live and
Speaker 6: breathe it and love it.
Speaker 2: I hated it.
Speaker 6: Technicians are prima donnas like I've never seen in my life.
Speaker 6: Customers can be insane. I'll just say it. They can
Speaker 6: be insane. And it was a very I just didn't
Speaker 6: like it. I didn't like smelling like tires, I didn't
Speaker 6: like smelling like oil.
Speaker 2: I just did not like the business.
Speaker 6: So I sold the last one, did very well on them,
Speaker 6: very well, and I didn't know what I was going
Speaker 6: to do. I started looking for franchises, you name it.
Speaker 2: I was looking at it. I could have owned five
Speaker 2: sports Clips by now, twenty sports Clips or dog topi Is.
Speaker 2: I looked at anything you could imagine. And then I
Speaker 2: get this call from someone I hadn't talked to in
Speaker 2: ten years, and it was Martino, and he said, hey,
Speaker 2: I've got some stuff going on. You're the guy man.
Speaker 2: I want you to come in and start filling in
Speaker 2: for me. I've been trying to use some of these
Speaker 2: attorneys and they suck. I mean, I'll just put it
Speaker 2: like it is.
Speaker 6: I mean, they know what they're doing, but they're just
Speaker 6: not bringing the bang they're bringing there. So I came
Speaker 6: back in and that was about twenty fifteen and here
Speaker 6: we are ten years later. So that's the story of
Speaker 6: the show. But Tom started at forty five years ago
Speaker 6: in Denver, Colorado. He did a fifteen minute segment with
Speaker 6: Who's the guy that got shot and killed by the
Speaker 6: Alan alan Berg? So alan Berg got shot and basically
Speaker 6: that shortly after that time started having his own show.
Speaker 6: But he would be on alan Berg's show.
Speaker 2: And that's it. Man.
Speaker 6: When it comes to long jevity, it's absolutely insane. I
Speaker 6: don't know of anybody else. In fact, Tom is the
Speaker 6: longest running show with the same host in the country.
Speaker 6: There's no one else longer, no one else.
Speaker 2: I may have screwed up, well you always screw up, Kelly.
Speaker 2: There's nothing shocking here.
Speaker 19: I know, I know, but I really did screw up.
Speaker 19: I did not order anchovies on the pizza. Thanks that
Speaker 19: is being delivered first of all, on.
Speaker 2: This diet drug. I'm on, when's the last time you
Speaker 2: guys see me pizza? It's in a while. But I
Speaker 2: just I can't even like fat though I would leave
Speaker 2: this room and you guys would be doing the show
Speaker 2: as there was an chovies. Hey lou, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Thank you for holding through the history of the Troubleshooter Show.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 11: Thank you taking my call mark?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lou.
Speaker 11: I've got a nineteen ninety one Ford Escort eighteen thousand
Speaker 11: original miles on it.
Speaker 2: How is that possible?
Speaker 11: Lou?
Speaker 2: Lou Lou? How is that possible? What is that you're
Speaker 2: making me do? Math? Twenty five plus nine thirty five years? Eight?
Speaker 2: How many thousands of miles?
Speaker 11: Eighteen thousand?
Speaker 2: So you're talking eight seven, eight hundred miles a year?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: He bought it with eighteen thousand market No, he bought
Speaker 6: it with probably one hundred and eighty thousand, thinking it
Speaker 6: was eighteen I would assume on it.
Speaker 2: How do you know that was original miles, Lou?
Speaker 9: Because I know the owners.
Speaker 11: They bought it original Wow, and they gifted it to
Speaker 11: me when both the driver licenses were suspended.
Speaker 2: On their part. That's amazing, Lou. And how is it running?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 2: Is it running?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 11: Garun's good?
Speaker 10: When it's moving.
Speaker 2: I have a problem when I come to a top
Speaker 2: sign or what's it do?
Speaker 16: And vibrates?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 9: But if I put it in neutral, it drops the vibration.
Speaker 6: So it's vibrating under load. Hold on, let me take
Speaker 6: this break. These guys are gonna think about that. Is
Speaker 6: there any chance that's carb rated? Guys, there no way
Speaker 6: that's fuel injection?
Speaker 3: Right? All right, hold tight, everybody, We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: a nineteen ninety one Ford Escort with eighteen thousand miles
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 6: He says it runs fine up until he comes to
Speaker 6: a stop. Then it starts shaking, vibrating. But if he
Speaker 6: puts it in neutral then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 6: shaking and vibrating stops. It is not a carbureted vehicle.
Speaker 6: I thought, guys, when did carbs go away?
Speaker 2: Is that like eighties? Yeah, mid eighties so just gone yep,
Speaker 2: and they never went back to him. Now, was there
Speaker 2: ever a.
Speaker 6: Time, and I know I'm going off, but I get curious,
Speaker 6: was there ever a time where you could go buy
Speaker 6: like a Ford Taurus or something and you would have
Speaker 6: the option of fuel injection or a carb.
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 2: Not, carbs are just there's no reason to have a carburetor.
Speaker 1: Now with the emissions. They couldn't couldn't meet the emission
Speaker 1: demands with carburetors. Ah, got it?
Speaker 6: So is EPA more so, what do you guys think
Speaker 6: on lose issue with this Prestine escort?
Speaker 1: It could be a dozen things, you know, from a
Speaker 1: broken motor mount.
Speaker 2: How about just a clogged up fuel injector.
Speaker 1: It could be an injector of plug, I mean almost anything.
Speaker 6: How do you troubleshoot something like that? Guys, where do
Speaker 6: you even start? Is there even like ODB two on
Speaker 6: that or anything.
Speaker 1: That's pre OBD that's that's manufacturer Ford. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you're just like, yeah, no, that's you really need to
Speaker 1: know what you're doing in the older ones because there
Speaker 1: is no help from the scanner.
Speaker 3: So it could be a spark plug, a spark plug, wire,
Speaker 3: could be a coil.
Speaker 6: It could be a fuel injector pressure. It could be
Speaker 6: crappy gas. It could be water in the gas tank.
Speaker 7: It could be some simple like you said, you know what,
Speaker 7: broken engine mound, So I mean, could be the engine's
Speaker 7: going to torque when you're sitting on a load like that,
Speaker 7: and if it's resting against the subframe or something, you're
Speaker 7: going to get a vibration out of there.
Speaker 2: So when you put something into neutral, well, and I'm
Speaker 2: talking something like a nineteen ninety one Ford Escort, when
Speaker 2: you put that into neutral, why does the what does
Speaker 2: that mean the load's taken off of it?
Speaker 7: I don't get that, okay, So when now it's actually
Speaker 7: trying to force itself down the road. So the engine's
Speaker 7: naturally going to rock inside the cradle, it's going to
Speaker 7: go one direction forward, it's going to go the other
Speaker 7: direction in reverse. So if you have a broken engine mountain,
Speaker 7: it's leaning back and it's rubbed up against the firewall
Speaker 7: or the subframe or just about anything solid, then you
Speaker 7: can create vibrations.
Speaker 2: Okay, how bad does it get Lou?
Speaker 11: Not super bad, but it only does it Like I said,
Speaker 11: I'm underload in part or not part.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what does it do in parking? Should act
Speaker 1: just like neutral?
Speaker 2: It's fine, it's.
Speaker 6: Fine, So you just got to get it somewhere to
Speaker 6: check out. I mean, honestly, Kevin, how long does it
Speaker 6: take to check out something like that? It can't be
Speaker 6: brain surgery.
Speaker 1: I mean if it comes down on motor man, it's
Speaker 1: obvious like that. Fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's right, there is that something. How
Speaker 2: do you guys work to you? Guys eyeball something like
Speaker 2: that for free?
Speaker 6: And then if it's not something real basically like a
Speaker 6: motor mount, then you're like, hey, we got to spend
Speaker 6: a shark bocks.
Speaker 1: We always start out just complimentary inspection. Yep.
Speaker 2: Nice. Why don't you just bring it down to Sheridan.
Speaker 1: That's a good thought.
Speaker 2: Where do you live, Lou.
Speaker 1: Springs?
Speaker 6: Oh well that's an awful long drive. But Jesse's down there, man, honest, accurate.
Speaker 6: Those guys are great. They got two locations in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2: They'll eyeball it. Just like we're talking about for free man.
Speaker 6: As long as it's not something crazy, I bet they
Speaker 6: figure it out in a few minutes. It probably is
Speaker 6: like a motor mount or maybe what a spark plug
Speaker 6: wire do that? Guys are a bad spark plug?
Speaker 16: It can?
Speaker 1: It can, but you feel it under a cap.
Speaker 2: Who That's what I was going to say. Why would
Speaker 2: it be different underload or not?
Speaker 1: Yep, No, I think the consensus and it probably is
Speaker 1: a motormount either worn or broken.
Speaker 6: The fuel injector I could understand because as it's asking
Speaker 6: for more fuel, it might be spraying fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he can go.
Speaker 7: If it's going to be a while before he can
Speaker 7: get into Jesse, you can get a can of BG
Speaker 7: forty four k, run that with a full tank of
Speaker 7: fuel and see what doesn't clean up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, if it's a fuel injector and you dump some
Speaker 6: of that forty four K in there, Lou, how much
Speaker 6: is that stuff now?
Speaker 2: Thirty?
Speaker 1: Maybe under twenty four five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so it's basically sad price.
Speaker 3: You might try that.
Speaker 2: Don't go buy some of that like cheap STP gas
Speaker 2: additive for like ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Cents without a doubt. Stick with BG.
Speaker 6: Yeah, get the BG forty four K or product you
Speaker 6: got it, and then if that doesn't clear it up,
Speaker 6: get it down to Jesse or get it to Jesse first.
Speaker 6: Honest acc here at Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2: You can always find him.
Speaker 6: On a referral list at referral list dot com as well. Guys,
Speaker 6: how often do you see any vehicles in your shops,
Speaker 6: whether it's yours, camera, transmission or shared an auto tech
Speaker 6: that are made in the nineties.
Speaker 7: I mean a lot more than we'd like intellectuality, because
Speaker 7: the parts are gotten harder to find.
Speaker 2: Parts are possible to find the transmission world, What is
Speaker 2: the nightmare that you'll work on? I realize there's some
Speaker 2: cars you're not gonna.
Speaker 7: We've actually started turning away a lot of the classics
Speaker 7: and the antiques simply because of the.
Speaker 2: Lack of available parts. You just can't, can't and you
Speaker 2: can't sit them there forever.
Speaker 7: And when you do find them, they're so gushed on
Speaker 7: expensive it almost makes the job not worth it, unless
Speaker 7: it's something that's you know, somebody's project cars that they're
Speaker 7: restoring or something like that.
Speaker 2: They're putting the big bucks in.
Speaker 1: Exactly. It's like, at this point, now you really need
Speaker 1: to consider retiring this car.
Speaker 2: You know, I do remember the one thing that would
Speaker 2: drive me nuts in the automotive businesses. Occasionally I would
Speaker 2: take on a bigger project like an engine swap or
Speaker 2: a used engine, or even a rebuild, pull the old one,
Speaker 2: get a jasper in and I started calculating stuff.
Speaker 6: And unless you got that a tech that's done it
Speaker 6: one hundred times and you can get it in and
Speaker 6: out and you can source the part quick, that real
Speaker 6: estate inside the shop is all your money. Man, you
Speaker 6: tie a damn bay up. I mean, think of a
Speaker 6: hairdresser and she's got one bay and what are you
Speaker 6: going to do? You gonna do twenty haircuts or you're
Speaker 6: gonna do one haircut. I mean it really comes down
Speaker 6: to the same kind of analogy. So unless if you're charging,
Speaker 6: you know, a woman comes in and gets a perm
Speaker 6: and gets color and gets everything, and you're making two
Speaker 6: or three hundred bucks, maybe you'll do it. But still,
Speaker 6: if you can do twenty haircuts for fifty bucks a
Speaker 6: piece and make more money, I mean you got to decide.
Speaker 6: And there was a lot of times I was like
Speaker 6: I almost said sh I almost said it. I didn't
Speaker 6: as Shannon's looking at me like I caught myself. But honestly,
Speaker 6: there is so many times I'd be like, geez, I
Speaker 6: can't believe I did that. That car's been there a
Speaker 6: week and a half. I have lost so much revenue
Speaker 6: it's crazy. Hey, Jay, what's your comment on that escort?
Speaker 16: On those as they were getting to the computers and stuff,
Speaker 16: a lot of them had a torque converter solenoid. It
Speaker 16: would go bad, and as you came to stop the
Speaker 16: torque converter, you'd want to stay engaged. It would just
Speaker 16: make to think take like crazy, or it even kill
Speaker 16: the motor when it got bad enough. So it may
Speaker 16: just be as simple as that torque converter is not unlocking.
Speaker 16: It'd be very very common back then.
Speaker 2: What does that mean though, Does that mean he needs
Speaker 2: a new torque converter?
Speaker 1: Jests No, most likely, not particularly about kind of low
Speaker 1: with miles.
Speaker 14: What do you do?
Speaker 7: It'd usually just change out the soloid. It was more
Speaker 7: common to see that on the GM products, and it
Speaker 7: was the forge way way way more common. Yeah, we
Speaker 7: always knew when spring was hitting because that's one of
Speaker 7: you know, all the cavaliers would start coming in, shutting
Speaker 7: down the vehicles.
Speaker 3: Kay, what do you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's evident you're somewhat in the biz.
Speaker 5: Or was.
Speaker 16: I was during the very few good years of it.
Speaker 16: I actually was the head mechanic at Corvette Denver, Tom's
Speaker 16: favorite chop ever.
Speaker 2: Oh you mean Purifoy or coach. I don't know who
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 16: Corvette Denver. The owner of Corvette Denver took Tom to
Speaker 16: a Supreme Court twice.
Speaker 2: No kid, not kidding you.
Speaker 16: Yeah they were. They were kind of nuts.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'll have to ask. I don't recall
Speaker 2: that one. Oh yeah, I don't all that one at all.
Speaker 2: All right, man, Hey, I appreciated Jay. You got anything else?
Speaker 16: Yeah, this is just fun. I made a call one
Speaker 16: time on a car. Really Pierfoy was in the studio
Speaker 16: and said, no way, not a chance on her.
Speaker 1: I will make a.
Speaker 16: Public apologize and grovel if that's the problem.
Speaker 1: I fixed the car.
Speaker 16: The guy said nothing else was working. I fixed it
Speaker 16: and really called up the shop on air and apologize
Speaker 16: to me profusely. I was like, how impressive is that?
Speaker 2: That's crazy?
Speaker 1: I love really for that. I thought that was too cool.
Speaker 2: No, that's he's a he's he's a good guy. Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a straight up businessman. I still talk
Speaker 2: to him. In fact, I talked to him not even
Speaker 2: god Man. Within the last three months.
Speaker 6: We were going to hook up at his favorite pizza
Speaker 6: place until he told me it was down in his neck.
Speaker 2: Of the woods.
Speaker 6: He used to always say it would drive me crazy.
Speaker 6: I hope Earlie's listening right now. He would say, Oh,
Speaker 6: Fort Lopton's just right down road. I'm like, brother, I
Speaker 6: live in Franktown. It's not just down the road. I
Speaker 6: might as well drive to Wyoming.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, Fort Lupton is not right down
Speaker 2: the road. I appreciate that.
Speaker 11: Jay.
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Speaker 2: their business over that scum bucket. Patrick, what is your
Speaker 2: comment on that nineteen ninety one Ford escort.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just called about the Topaz actually, and I
Speaker 12: had the same problem when I first bought mine because
Speaker 12: mine was also original. Low ish, mild.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the.
Speaker 12: Harmonic balancer. It rots on the inside and it shook
Speaker 12: the car, and it also made a lot.
Speaker 2: Of noise only only when you were stopped correct and
Speaker 2: it went away. Guys, what is I hate to say this.
Speaker 2: What is a harmonic balancer?
Speaker 1: It bolts on the end of the crank, and that's
Speaker 1: what actually balances the engine, So.
Speaker 2: It kind of stays free and kind of moves with
Speaker 2: the car.
Speaker 1: Rubber insert in it, so it's it is flexible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it absorbs it basically it doesn't then the rubber
Speaker 1: rocks out just like a motor mountain.
Speaker 2: Wow. So I mean really, Patrick's making a lot of
Speaker 2: sense to you.
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: What do you think, Jeff? Entirely possible? Wow?
Speaker 6: Is that something you guys would instantly eyeball on, so
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Speaker 6: Here's everybody's favorite car. I wish I had one, a
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Speaker 2: I von, what is going on with you?
Speaker 4: Yes, hold on, I'm in the middle of something.
Speaker 12: Hold on two seconds.
Speaker 2: Sure, no problem. Dune dune, dum dune, dune, dune dune. Hey,
Speaker 2: what have you guys been up to lately? I mean,
Speaker 2: what do you guys doing after this?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yes, go ahead, Iva, right, So I have
Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's a crossover. It's a three twenty
Speaker 4: five I convertible, but it's it was imported, so it
Speaker 4: has European parts.
Speaker 2: Oh god, and why do you have this car?
Speaker 6: Before you even before you even go to your question,
Speaker 6: why and how did you end up with this car?
Speaker 4: So Tom Martino, who knows my dad, uh, a customer,
Speaker 4: came in and it was his mother's car that she
Speaker 4: had in the garage that he drove, and he offered
Speaker 4: to sell.
Speaker 11: It to my dad.
Speaker 2: Wow, and my mom saw it.
Speaker 4: And my mom saw it and she was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I like that car. So my dad, being the way
Speaker 4: that he is sometimes, he bought her the car.
Speaker 10: Huh.
Speaker 4: And so it's been in my family for a while.
Speaker 2: What was supposed to go to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's like I said, it's the crossovers.
Speaker 4: So it's between eighty No.
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm saying, when did you When did your
Speaker 2: family buy this car?
Speaker 4: You're asking me to keep track of time, which.
Speaker 18: I do not.
Speaker 2: Well, it's an eighty six. I mean, was it like
Speaker 2: five years old or was it like ten years old
Speaker 2: when you guys bought it?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well, let's just say it has ninety nine, four hundred
Speaker 4: and four miles on it.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, keep going.
Speaker 4: So it's yeah, So basically it was going to go
Speaker 4: to my sister. My dad was going to give it
Speaker 4: to my sister, and she it was too old. She
Speaker 4: wanted a brand new BMW.
Speaker 2: So I love how you talk ivon. Well, of course
Speaker 2: she would. I mean, who wouldn't want a brand new one?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 10: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did she? Okay, I got a better question. Did she
Speaker 2: get a brand new one?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, she got a she got a four Runner instead?
Speaker 2: Okay, keep going. So anyway, so I'm fascinated by you.
Speaker 4: So this car was supposed to go to her. It
Speaker 4: never went to her because she did something I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna say over the.
Speaker 6: Air that you're not give you that how do you
Speaker 6: what you can't drop that no one knows you're All's
Speaker 6: last name.
Speaker 2: I mean, give us at least an idea.
Speaker 4: She took the car because she was pissed, and she
Speaker 4: ran over a boulder in front of the house, a big,
Speaker 4: huge boulder.
Speaker 2: And kind of crashed it on purpose.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if it was on purpose or
Speaker 4: if it was just because she was up that I
Speaker 4: got it, but it might have been a bit of both.
Speaker 2: Wow, I had a lady run over my car one time,
Speaker 2: but keep going so okay, So then that was it.
Speaker 4: She's not getting the car. And then I did some
Speaker 4: work for my dad because I asked.
Speaker 2: I asked to buy him.
Speaker 4: I asked to buy the car from him before and
Speaker 4: he said no. And then but I did some work
Speaker 4: for my dad. So then he gave me the car
Speaker 4: in conjunction with some money to purchase the car because
Speaker 4: I like the car and my husband likes the car. Actually,
Speaker 4: he didn't want to sell it to me until my
Speaker 4: husband showed interest in it. So that's when he decided
Speaker 4: that he, Okay, you can buy the car if you
Speaker 4: do this work for me, then you pay me this
Speaker 4: amount of money. And then this will you know the
Speaker 4: car will be your compensation. So then I got the car.
Speaker 4: So I've had this car ever since, and it's pretty good.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's not much that it's original for the
Speaker 4: most part.
Speaker 6: Listen, I got to take this this break, but this
Speaker 6: is exhilarating. When we come back, I'm gonna we're gonna
Speaker 6: dive even deeper into this story.
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Speaker 2: Here's what we know. Here's what we know.
Speaker 11: We know.
Speaker 2: Ivan has a nineteen eighty six BMW convertible that she
Speaker 2: got from her dad.
Speaker 6: She partially traded some work that she did for her
Speaker 6: dad along with some cash, and her dad still didn't
Speaker 6: want to sell it yet. When her dad figured out
Speaker 6: her husband had some interest in the vehicle, then her
Speaker 6: dad parted with it. The vehicle is an interesting one
Speaker 6: because it actually was sourced in Europe?
Speaker 2: Right didn't she say that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? She did.
Speaker 2: So when they sell stuff.
Speaker 6: Now into the US, of course, it's got to meet
Speaker 6: our emission standards, I assume back in nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 6: So guys, what would the difference be in Ivan, I'll
Speaker 6: go right back to you, But in nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 6: is there really any difference between an American car or
Speaker 6: a German American car or a German German car?
Speaker 7: Definitely can be, yes, I I think it's either identical
Speaker 7: or a ton of difference. And we've gotten trucks in
Speaker 7: from Mexico that we cannot get parts for.
Speaker 2: You just can't get them. So, Ivan, what is your
Speaker 2: question on this vehicle?
Speaker 4: So there's a there's something that's leaking, Like I have
Speaker 4: a guy on my guard Mark, she's fixing it for me,
Speaker 4: and we pretty much got it running and ready to go.
Speaker 4: But then I started driving it and then it's like
Speaker 4: leaked a fluid. I think he said. It was like
Speaker 4: a blue sticky fluid.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what it what it was fluid?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 4: Cool it ye, yes, yes, And it leaked all underneath
Speaker 4: the driver's side.
Speaker 2: And so somehow let me ask you this, what side
Speaker 2: is the driver's side? I didn't even think of that?
Speaker 2: Or is that only the UK?
Speaker 4: It's it's our size, it's not it's not like Dubai
Speaker 4: or Okay Island.
Speaker 2: Good to know. Keep going. So, yeah, so how did
Speaker 2: you meet this guy?
Speaker 1: Mark?
Speaker 2: He's my neighbor, got it.
Speaker 4: He's a license he's.
Speaker 2: Licensed thure, Yes for sure, excellent.
Speaker 4: And and so he he is going to get it
Speaker 4: running for me because I'm going to let my nephew
Speaker 4: use it for his graduation because he he ready did
Speaker 4: prom but he's going to graduate. He's graduating on the eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Or did he go to the problem? Yeah he did. Cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very looks tree shore. But anyway, so yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'm trying. I'm trying to get it running so
Speaker 4: that he can drive it.
Speaker 6: So but the only problem right now that we know
Speaker 6: of is there's it's leaking some coolant under the driver's side,
Speaker 6: which happens to be the same driver's side is the
Speaker 6: car I drive?
Speaker 2: And what do you guys think there? So it could
Speaker 2: be the radiator, it could be the hose, it could
Speaker 2: be it could be.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, yes, yes, it could.
Speaker 2: Be any anything. So where does where does Mark whose
Speaker 2: license think it's coming from?
Speaker 4: He doesn't know. He has to take a look at it.
Speaker 6: Oh, he's got to get up under there, right. So
Speaker 6: are you asking us to what's or what's your question?
Speaker 4: My question is what do you think it is?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well me personally? Huh. Okay, I'll tell you what I
Speaker 2: think it is, but you're not going to agree with me.
Speaker 2: You're ready? Okay?
Speaker 4: Hold on, let me write it down because it's thank you.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of things on my plate and
Speaker 4: if I don't write it down and.
Speaker 2: Then we'll ask these guys. But I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you my personal opinion.
Speaker 1: Are you inviting any chance related to killer.
Speaker 2: Because her dad knew Tom and stuff? Possibly?
Speaker 1: You ready?
Speaker 4: Hold on? I just want to get boots for sure,
Speaker 4: my actual You.
Speaker 2: Can hit record on your phone and I can dictate it.
Speaker 4: No, I don't like to do that such, I'm ready,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: Ready, So there's it's possible there's a loose nut, Okay,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be located right behind got that wheel?
Speaker 4: The wheel?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a loose nut behind the wheel, got it?
Speaker 2: What do you guys think, Kevin?
Speaker 1: It could be a number of hoses, It could be
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but it.
Speaker 2: Sounds like cooling for sure.
Speaker 1: The blue the smurf fluid. Yeah, what we call it?
Speaker 1: The bright blue?
Speaker 10: Jeff?
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I mean you could have hoses, you can
Speaker 7: have loose nuts. You don't make a radiator radiator?
Speaker 2: But if it's what where what was the last one
Speaker 2: you said, Jeff?
Speaker 1: Radiator?
Speaker 2: Oh, a cracked radiator. Why do you say radiator?
Speaker 1: Because that's the way I say it?
Speaker 2: Battery?
Speaker 1: Battery is correct, all right, you' all been saying it wrong.
Speaker 2: No where where exactly do you see the fluid?
Speaker 6: Like if you're parked, in all seriousness, if you're parked,
Speaker 6: is it like right in the front of the car
Speaker 6: on the driver's side or in the middle?
Speaker 2: Whereabouts?
Speaker 11: Is it?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 4: It does not leak on the ground at all. It
Speaker 4: leaks in the actual driver's side in the car.
Speaker 2: The heater core yep, yeah, heater core?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And unless that guy how hard, guys, truly? I mean,
Speaker 6: is that easy on a nineteen eighty six BMW or
Speaker 6: no easy heater course, so it's up under the dash.
Speaker 6: So but wait, why would that be every heater cores?
Speaker 6: I can remember every selling now I've never done, but
Speaker 6: I priced them.
Speaker 7: Out running down the ducks you know, that are coming
Speaker 7: off of the heater corps cease.
Speaker 6: Usually it's on the passenger or in the center correct
Speaker 6: or in this center that tell them it's probably the
Speaker 6: heater core and tell me luck, yeah, and then that exactly.
Speaker 2: Then good luck finding a heater cores.
Speaker 7: You might want to come up with alternative transportationship graduation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's your questions.
Speaker 4: My question, here's my question. Yes, My question is is
Speaker 4: I've been accused of several times, and I've seen these
Speaker 4: guys put together these cars that have like five hundred
Speaker 4: thousand miles on and they don't necessarily use the actual
Speaker 4: parts from the American cars because they have a lot
Speaker 4: of Russian cars that are that are there. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: so what they do is they actually put these different
Speaker 4: parts together and make.
Speaker 2: They fabricate something to make it work.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So is that well possibility.
Speaker 6: It's definitely a possible. It's definitely a possibility. But it's
Speaker 6: like there's always an economic side to possibilities.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it worth doing? I mean really, that's
Speaker 2: the question you're going to come down to.
Speaker 4: It's worth doing for me because the car is not
Speaker 4: for sale, and I've had several people ask me to
Speaker 4: buy it and it's not for sale.
Speaker 6: Got it, Well, I get it, Hey, Ivan, Yes, it
Speaker 6: is possible. Whoever works on it, they could possibly modify
Speaker 6: another heater. Course that's what it is to fit into
Speaker 6: that car. It is definitely possible. Just how much that
Speaker 6: would cost is really hard to say.
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Speaker 6: I knew of you simply because the guy you used
Speaker 6: to work for and bought the business from, I knew
Speaker 6: him like the fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and in all actuality, I didn't buy the business
Speaker 7: from him. No, So after his demise as he shot himself.
Speaker 7: So is that bad to say?
Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, I'm yeah, I know that. I'm like,
Speaker 6: I just thought about that. I usually speak what I'm thinking.
Speaker 6: And when you brought him up.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 2: He committed suicide. He did, but he had a lot
Speaker 2: of problems.
Speaker 1: He had demons.
Speaker 6: I went to lunch with him one time, and I'm
Speaker 6: telling you, we were at a what's that place over
Speaker 6: in Landmark where they have those Papa does, and he
Speaker 6: wanted to meet over there.
Speaker 2: We got into a.
Speaker 6: Little tiff over something, and we go over there and
Speaker 6: he's kind of apologizing, but he's drunk as hell.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 6: I was like, and he was going, he was getting
Speaker 6: ready to go back to his shop. And then I
Speaker 6: didn't hear much from that guy forever. The next thing,
Speaker 6: I know, he's dead.
Speaker 7: Well, in all actuality, if he started getting drunk, then
Speaker 7: quite frankly, he continued to get drunk, and.
Speaker 1: He didn't chill back up at the shop. He would
Speaker 1: go on binges where he would just flat out disappeared.
Speaker 2: He was a binger.
Speaker 7: I got it anyhow, so but you didn't buy it. No,
Speaker 7: I didn't buy it because he had some entanglements with
Speaker 7: the irs. So we had to have all the maskshets. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we had all the assets removed. And you know I
Speaker 7: got the deal with the landlord for the name.
Speaker 1: Uh well, no, it wasn't even the name because it
Speaker 1: wasn't the same name. It was B and M back then.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, it was bing M.
Speaker 7: So we negotiated a new lease. I bought all new
Speaker 7: equipment and hung a new shingle and just kept going.
Speaker 2: You know, that whole thing made me think of something.
Speaker 6: Guys, by the way, we got two lines open three
Speaker 6: three seven one three A two five five Lizen, Dick,
Speaker 6: I'll get to you, but I do want to tell
Speaker 6: a quick story, and I don't care if you like
Speaker 6: my stories or not.
Speaker 2: This one's fascinating, so responds. This one's got a police
Speaker 2: officer that shot himself in it. How's that? And that's
Speaker 2: what made me think of it? Was a B and
Speaker 2: M guy. So the guy's name I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to I'll use this first name, Scott.
Speaker 6: We lived in Parker, Susanna and I and we had
Speaker 6: this little uh well, okay, back in the day, all
Speaker 6: the phones in your house were nine hundred megahertz, okay,
Speaker 6: the cordless ones. So we had this little scanner that
Speaker 6: we bought from radio Shack that literally could pick up
Speaker 6: nine hundred megahertz, so you could tune in on it
Speaker 6: and literally hear people around the neighborhood talking. Now, there
Speaker 6: was no way to know who was who because this
Speaker 6: thing would reach pretty far, but you could just hit
Speaker 6: it in that frequency range and you could eavesdrop on
Speaker 6: conversations everywhere.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 6: In fact, it was probably the most entertainment I've ever
Speaker 6: had in my life. I mean literally, it was better
Speaker 6: than watching any TV shows.
Speaker 2: So it was crazy. We're sitting there listening one night,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, there's a guy on there
Speaker 2: selling suppressors and these kits to make certain guns fully automatic.
Speaker 6: And I'm going, oh my god, is this for real?
Speaker 6: I mean, this is absolutely insane. So I start recording it,
Speaker 6: literally record it. Then at the end I figure out
Speaker 6: who it is and he lives about four houses down
Speaker 6: and he is a Parker police officer.
Speaker 2: At this point, I'm thinking this is insane. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a bad cop. This is a bad cop.
Speaker 6: So I call up a buddy of mine. His name
Speaker 6: was Ward. Until this day, he's still in the FBI.
Speaker 6: He's in the FBI, and I said, Ward, I'm going
Speaker 6: to send you something because this guy's fore house is down,
Speaker 6: and I'm actually going to call up to captain down
Speaker 6: in Parker and have him come out to my house
Speaker 6: and listen to this. But I'm sending you a copy
Speaker 6: of this tape. So I basically made a copy of it,
Speaker 6: and I literally got it to Ward and I said,
Speaker 6: you know, I don't need you.
Speaker 2: Guys to do anything because I'm getting his captain involved.
Speaker 6: And basically I leave a message with someone at the
Speaker 6: Parker Police station and I told him I've got something
Speaker 6: from one of your officers that's absolutely unbelievable. I need
Speaker 6: whoever the head dog is to come to my address.
Speaker 6: So head dog, I forget the guy's name at the time.
Speaker 6: This is in the nineties, comes to our house. I
Speaker 6: hit play on the tape. It was actually a tape,
Speaker 6: and he listens to it. Evident he knows exactly who
Speaker 6: it is as well, and he was just astonished. He
Speaker 6: couldn't believe it, and he left and he apologized on
Speaker 6: behalf of everybody and everything else. So about maybe two
Speaker 6: weeks go by. Back then I owned the computer stores.
Speaker 6: It was probably six am, seven am in the morning.
Speaker 6: Ambulance is flying by our house. He still lived with
Speaker 6: his parents.
Speaker 2: By the way, don't ask me why. Actually, I think
Speaker 2: he got divorced, had to move back in with his parents.
Speaker 2: Something like that. Booh, blew his head off, blue his
Speaker 2: head off, because he got fired and basically everybody was
Speaker 2: after him. I mean, he literally was selling suppressors, which
Speaker 2: her silencers, and he was selling whatever kits that would
Speaker 2: take like an AR or an AK whatever these guns
Speaker 2: are and make them fully automatic by the receiver, not
Speaker 2: like a bump stock, like a real kid. And it
Speaker 2: was incredible. But anyhow, that's what you made me think
Speaker 2: of with your b and m't guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad I gave you some fond memories, you know.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. I haven't thought about that
Speaker 2: guy in so long. It was not a good guy.
Speaker 2: He was not a good guy. So you know, I'm
Speaker 2: one of these guys I'm like, it is what it is? Hey, Liz,
Speaker 2: what's going on with you?
Speaker 11: Hello?
Speaker 2: Hey Liz, how are you? I'm doing great? How are
Speaker 2: you doing.
Speaker 15: Well?
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess here's the situation. My mother in law
Speaker 4: ninety two is now living with us.
Speaker 2: Hey, God, hey, God listen Liz. Seriously, God bless you guys.
Speaker 10: That is that.
Speaker 2: Seriously, that's awesome. That's a ton of work. It's just
Speaker 2: a lot of work. God bless you. Keep going well,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: So the situation is her grandson lived with her his wife,
Speaker 4: and they depleted her bank account. She did press charges
Speaker 4: they stole from her. They manipulated her into buying a
Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars vehicle.
Speaker 9: She took out the loan.
Speaker 4: It's in her name. They owe thirty thousand on it.
Speaker 4: She owes thirty thousand on it. They have possession of
Speaker 4: the vehicle. She has the loan.
Speaker 2: Who owns who is it titled?
Speaker 10: Inn?
Speaker 4: It's with TD Auto?
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no no no no, it
Speaker 2: will be.
Speaker 4: Ahead her name, her name.
Speaker 2: How long ago did they buy it?
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty one?
Speaker 9: It was brand new?
Speaker 2: If it's so right now? The title is in her name?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 4: If she pays it off, she'll get the title.
Speaker 6: Yes, and the registration is whom her your mother or
Speaker 6: your mother in law. Yes, I want to just make
Speaker 6: sure we're talking. I would get a tow truck drive.
Speaker 6: I know one JJ that would go pick that up.
Speaker 6: As long as she can show the registration and show
Speaker 6: the title, he would go grab her car.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we do need to Okay, it is in
Speaker 4: another state.
Speaker 6: Well then it gets a little that, it gets a
Speaker 6: little more dicey. But if she owns the vehicle, she
Speaker 6: has every right to go get it. I mean, have
Speaker 6: you guys simply asked for the vehicle back? And who's
Speaker 6: making the payments on it?
Speaker 4: Well she always thought they were, but really they were
Speaker 4: taking the money from her account.
Speaker 3: And oh my god, who are these dirt bags?
Speaker 2: Her grandkids?
Speaker 3: Who is this again?
Speaker 4: It's her grandson. He's got a history.
Speaker 2: What don't you let me hold on a second. Here's
Speaker 2: what I'd really like to do. Look, we're going to
Speaker 2: figure out how to get that car back to her,
Speaker 2: but if you would give Kelly the grandson's phone number,
Speaker 2: I'd like to get his ass on the show real
Speaker 2: quick and talk to him.
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Speaker 6: All right, we're going to go back to list in
Speaker 6: a second. I'm hoping to figure out if we can
Speaker 6: get Tag Granson on. We're going to try to get
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Speaker 6: back to Liz. So, Liz, we tried Kelly. You reached
Speaker 6: out and we could not get Yes. Did she give it?
Speaker 2: Liz? Did you give Kelly a number for the grandkid?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 4: True, one to him and one to his wife.
Speaker 2: And no one's answering or what's happened to Kelly?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 19: None of their voicemails are set up to do any
Speaker 19: messages in a dirt bag answer.
Speaker 6: If everything Liz is saying, what a dirtbag kid stealing
Speaker 6: from his grandmother?
Speaker 2: Those kind of people should go to hell.
Speaker 6: I'll just put it straight like that, how do you
Speaker 6: steal from a ninety two year old woman that's your
Speaker 6: grandmother or anybody? Literally anybody? But like that's that threshold.
Speaker 6: In fact, that's actually a crime, like a big time crime.
Speaker 6: But let's just concentrate on the car.
Speaker 2: What state is it in? It's in Texas, man, I
Speaker 2: don't know Jack in Texas.
Speaker 6: Nothing any ideas, guys, but the title, So anybody out there,
Speaker 6: help us out here the title, and I wonder if
Speaker 6: we could call one of our tow truck drivers because
Speaker 6: the title in registration is in the grandmother's name.
Speaker 2: Do you know the location of the car exactly? Where
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 4: Not exactly I have several addresses that, Well, you've got to.
Speaker 2: Do some skip tracing, but you're not going to hire
Speaker 2: a tow truck driver to go skip trace. You'd go broke.
Speaker 2: You got to locate the vehicle. And then I was
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 6: Say, we'll figure out a tow truck driver, It'll do
Speaker 6: a REPO because I know some repo and I know
Speaker 6: some tow truck drivers who probably know people in different
Speaker 6: areas in the country.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if you don't know where the car is,
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you expect to do.
Speaker 10: Why can't you just go down with our husband and
Speaker 10: have one of them drive the car back to Colorado.
Speaker 2: Well, it's Texas, first of all, and they don't know
Speaker 2: where the car is, she's saying, but they're going to
Speaker 2: drive around Texas.
Speaker 10: That if they have to find out for the tok
Speaker 10: tuck driver once they know the address.
Speaker 2: Do you guys have themselves? You probably don't have a key.
Speaker 2: Do you no, you got nothing on it?
Speaker 1: What kind of car?
Speaker 11: Is this?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 4: It's a twenty one grand jeep Cherokee.
Speaker 2: It's probably what eighty grand?
Speaker 1: Well, we'll start out with is it still registered in Colorado?
Speaker 4: It's registered in Texas?
Speaker 2: How do you know it's yeah?
Speaker 21: How?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Because she lived with them in Texas.
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha, I get you. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Slept the car stolen. No, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: I'm macar for you.
Speaker 10: If she has a registration, would the locksmith open the
Speaker 10: doorf for them?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, yeah, Now you can get the dealer to
Speaker 1: make a key. Just cast a little bit more effit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually, actually you just made me think of something.
Speaker 6: You guys, Hey, Kelly, get on our locksmith guy. I
Speaker 6: want to ask him something. If he takes the vin
Speaker 6: can he create a fob for it? Then you guys
Speaker 6: have a key and you're halfway there. Now you just
Speaker 6: got to locate it and walk up to it and
Speaker 6: drive it back. Like Doc said, if you can find it,
Speaker 6: hold on. I want to see if that's even a
Speaker 6: possibility on a twenty one Cherokee.
Speaker 2: I would think so.
Speaker 6: It needs to be programmed. Mark That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I wonder if city Lock can do that. And we
Speaker 6: had him on yesterday for another thing, and we're right
Speaker 6: at the end of the show, so I'd like to
Speaker 6: get him back on.
Speaker 2: So Kelly gets city Lock on for me. She's doing that.
Speaker 6: Now, let's take the break. We're actually going to do
Speaker 6: it on time. We'll come back and let's try to
Speaker 6: help this lady. And if you're listening on the podcast, Hey, Liz,
Speaker 6: what part of Texas.
Speaker 2: Are we talking about?
Speaker 4: El Paso?
Speaker 2: L Passokay?
Speaker 6: Why couldn't anything go easy like Austin or Dallas Fort
Speaker 6: Worth where I literally know people, But now now we're
Speaker 6: talking El Paso, New York City.
Speaker 2: Isn't that? That wasn't that?
Speaker 10: Like, yeah, it was a commercial for hot sauce?
Speaker 13: Yeah, what was that sauce called Old Paso?
Speaker 2: That was literally the name of it.
Speaker 6: And they'd say it's not made in New Jersey, New
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Speaker 6: I really want to help Liz, and I'll recap real quick.
Speaker 6: But basically, they took in her ninety two year old.
Speaker 6: It's not her mother, is it. It's my mother in law.
Speaker 2: So, Liz, you took in your mother in law ninety
Speaker 2: two years old. She did live in Texas with her grandson?
Speaker 2: And who else did she live in Texas with the grandson?
Speaker 2: And whom.
Speaker 10: His girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Liz was it was the grandson? Was it like the
Speaker 2: boyfriend she lived with?
Speaker 3: Who was it?
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm not. I'll put her on
Speaker 2: hold till you can pick up, But in the meantime,
Speaker 2: I want to get to Jeff with City Lock.
Speaker 6: Hey, jeff Man, let me ask you something nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 6: Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Speaker 2: Or twenty one twenty one? You got me, Jeff?
Speaker 9: Okay, this is Jeff from the city lock twenty one.
Speaker 9: And what's the question on that?
Speaker 2: Here's the question.
Speaker 6: So it is in a ninety two year old's name,
Speaker 6: it's titled to the ninety two year old, and it's
Speaker 6: registered to the ninety two year old in Texas. The
Speaker 6: grandson kind of tricked his grandmother into buying it.
Speaker 2: She's on the loan. The ninety two year old's on
Speaker 2: the loan, and on top of being on the loan,
Speaker 2: she's also the registered owner. She now lives with somebody
Speaker 2: else in Colorado and they're trying to get to car backs.
Speaker 2: So there's a couple things. One I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know. They answered all these questions. But the main
Speaker 2: reason I brought you on. If she's got the registration
Speaker 2: and she can prove that and prove the title, can
Speaker 2: you create a key fob or a key that will
Speaker 2: work for it because they don't have a key for
Speaker 2: it well with the vehicle located in Texas.
Speaker 9: No, if I produce a new remote for it, it's
Speaker 9: probably a push button start. But in any case, it
Speaker 9: that's to be programmed to the vehicle.
Speaker 6: Well, I always that's what I was calling for, because
Speaker 6: I know I've lost a key before on a night
Speaker 6: or on a twenty twenty three Genesis GV eighty and
Speaker 6: I gave the VIN number to the dealer and they
Speaker 6: gave me a key fob never touched.
Speaker 10: The car.
Speaker 9: A push button start car.
Speaker 2: No, mine wasn't push button start.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, the Genesis is made by HUNGI right. Yes,
Speaker 9: a lot of them didn't have an immobilizer. That's why
Speaker 9: they're all getting stolen. So that may have been one
Speaker 9: that had an older system even though it's that new.
Speaker 9: They've scrambled to get the mobilizers into them in the
Speaker 9: last year or two.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I'm not gonna I'm not going to be.
Speaker 9: A rare exception.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So you're saying off the venue can't do it. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's no way to reproduce the key.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: All all I'd be able to do is make a
Speaker 9: mechanical key that opens the door. It would not stop
Speaker 9: the cut until it's programmed. You'd have to have a
Speaker 9: locksmith in the area where the vehicle is handle it.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 6: So, really, they're only the only thing they're gonna do
Speaker 6: is just have a repote someone. They can get it
Speaker 6: on a tow truck and get it to a dealership
Speaker 6: to get it rekeyt or get it to a locksmith
Speaker 6: or something along those terms.
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, I could find a locksmith in that area
Speaker 9: that's background checked and everything for you.
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this, Jeff.
Speaker 6: Generally speaking, if you come to a car, what do
Speaker 6: people have to prove in order for you to create
Speaker 6: a key?
Speaker 2: Do they got to show you a registration?
Speaker 9: Hell? I draw blood and make sure I do everything.
Speaker 2: Like literally, you have to, don't you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, all I need is something to go self once
Speaker 9: and I'm mud.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then you're mud. That's kind of funny you say that.
Speaker 6: I guess that makes perfect sense. Well, that was really
Speaker 6: the question for you while I got you on. I mean,
Speaker 6: you're on your referral list. How much would that key
Speaker 6: cost or to get into the car and then to
Speaker 6: get it programmed if you had the car there?
Speaker 9: Okay, if the vehicle were say, towed to my shop, Yes,
Speaker 9: what I would charge, But that doesn't mean what anyone
Speaker 9: else would charge, including reprogramming. And there are some challenges
Speaker 9: because it's a newer vehicle. The security stuff that us
Speaker 9: to be bypassed to program it, I would be charging
Speaker 9: five hundred dollars to produce two new key fobs and
Speaker 9: delete all the old ones out.
Speaker 2: Oh so the old ones wouldn't even work anymore? That's interesting.
Speaker 2: Is it possible just to add one out of curiosity?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 2: So you could if they had.
Speaker 6: One and just wanted one more, you could do that.
Speaker 6: Are you reprogramming both of them out of curiosity? In
Speaker 6: other words, when you add a key to that vehicle,
Speaker 6: do you have to basically kill the programming in the
Speaker 6: old one? And I'm just purely curious on it.
Speaker 9: Well, generally with most equipment you do, okay, And with
Speaker 9: dealership equipment you do.
Speaker 6: Almost like a garage door opener when you reprogram a
Speaker 6: bunch of remotes.
Speaker 9: No, that's different, or maybe not.
Speaker 2: At least asking a question mark? Go ahead?
Speaker 10: Oh, I just got you. What kind of background checks
Speaker 10: the locksman's have to go through? So if you call
Speaker 10: somebody up, let's say you just look on Google and
Speaker 10: you just pick somebody at random, are they Does everybody
Speaker 10: have to go through a pre significant background check to
Speaker 10: get a license? No?
Speaker 9: Google requires absolutely nothing except your advertising clears without No.
Speaker 10: No, no, No, not Google. I'm what about the state
Speaker 10: of Colorado.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but everything on Google has often do with to
Speaker 9: stay at Colorado. Apple and Google are going to get
Speaker 9: you scammers that are running a call center out.
Speaker 2: Of Florida, So don't use them as a locks It
Speaker 2: went to something. Yeah, he's saying it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 2: just doesn't matter because when people google locksmiths, these people
Speaker 2: don't care what the regulations are in Colorado because they're
Speaker 2: not even here. They just basically send someone out, right, Jeff.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and the people that are sending out I'm not
Speaker 9: background checked. They do not have a business license. They're
Speaker 9: generally from Europe or the Middle East, and they couldn't
Speaker 9: be crooks.
Speaker 3: Let's just put it like it is.
Speaker 2: They could be crooks.
Speaker 9: Oh they are.
Speaker 6: They generally are crushed dam But if you want to
Speaker 6: do it, I think what Doc is asking, if you
Speaker 6: want to do it the right way and become a locksmith,
Speaker 6: do you.
Speaker 2: Have to like register with the state. Nope, Nope, that's nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked by that.
Speaker 9: There are no protections.
Speaker 6: There's no protections except for you want to deal with
Speaker 6: someone that's honest like you guys. I mean, you've been
Speaker 6: on a referral list forever. We never had a problem.
Speaker 2: Well, caff, I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Is there any specials you want to give out real quick,
Speaker 6: I'm going to give your number out.
Speaker 2: What I was hoping that you.
Speaker 6: Would say, we could give you the then we would
Speaker 6: get a key fob that would operate the vehicle. Then
Speaker 6: we were going to find a tow truck driver or
Speaker 6: somebody there to get the car to a safe spot.
Speaker 6: Then they can figure out. But it's simply not going
Speaker 6: to work that way. So, but do you have anything
Speaker 6: you want to talk about with City lock right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Well City Locke is in Boulder. We have a physical location.
Speaker 9: People can bring their vehicles to us, or if it's
Speaker 9: stuck somewhere, depending on the year, make a model. We
Speaker 9: may go to it to do the job. But I
Speaker 9: just want to say one more thing. If someone needs
Speaker 9: to find a legitimate bocksmith and they're not in the
Speaker 9: local area, it doesn't matter where they are, if they
Speaker 9: go to the website find a locksmith dot com. It's
Speaker 9: a free service of our national association. Everyone in there's
Speaker 9: background checks financially checked to make sure they're not you know,
Speaker 9: a risk of going back.
Speaker 6: It's I want to say something I love that find
Speaker 6: a locksmith dot com. But I want to say something
Speaker 6: that's remarkable. There's one in Castle Rock called like I
Speaker 6: think it starts with an A. You probably know I'm
Speaker 6: a cure or something. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 6: Acosta Acosta And they have a physical location. And I
Speaker 6: met the guy and I had a key made for
Speaker 6: my RV before we.
Speaker 2: Went on a long trip, so i'd have kind of
Speaker 2: a backup key because our dog locked us out one time.
Speaker 2: It was a nightmare.
Speaker 6: But anyhow, I went to him a second time because
Speaker 6: I wanted a key made for the iHeart Building. And
Speaker 6: interestingly enough, the key I brought them, I didn't realize
Speaker 6: what is referred to as a master key. So the
Speaker 6: key that I have for our office in iHeart literally
Speaker 6: opens every single.
Speaker 2: Door in iHeart because it's a master key.
Speaker 6: You know what that guy told me. He told me
Speaker 6: he would not duplicate that key, and I found that good.
Speaker 6: I mean, I basically ended up getting another key through
Speaker 6: the proper channels.
Speaker 2: But think about that. That locksmith could have easily duplicated
Speaker 2: that key, but he would not do it. Man, And
Speaker 2: to me, that's the way it should be done, right, Jeff.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, if the key could be even identified as
Speaker 9: being special. There are restricted keys that are patent controlled.
Speaker 9: It's a way of having an audit trail of keys
Speaker 9: and a keyhole that can't go and make a copy
Speaker 9: at all because the key blanks are controlled.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what.
Speaker 9: Now when I set up, I.
Speaker 6: See what you're saying, because you can't you can't even
Speaker 6: fabricate that blank, correct, Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was the case.
Speaker 9: Such products. The keys are controlled. We serial number every
Speaker 9: one of them, so soon rings one in, I look
Speaker 9: up the cereal number. I know who loans it. I
Speaker 9: pulled the Singer card, I know who's off.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if you were unethical or an unethical locksmith. When
Speaker 2: when you're saying that I'm infatuated by this, that that
Speaker 2: that key is controlled, or the blank is controlled, what
Speaker 2: would stop somebody else from making that blank?
Speaker 9: Well, it's patent controlled. The manufacturer would send a nice
Speaker 9: big group of lawyers outside, so you can't.
Speaker 2: I mean, in other words, though you couldn't counterfeit one
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 9: The one I sell primarily would be hard to even try.
Speaker 9: The three D print, Okay, it has, it has some
Speaker 9: features that make it very difficult.
Speaker 3: So it truly is.
Speaker 2: About the most unreproducible key out there.
Speaker 9: There's a few different ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool, Well if you got any specials because
Speaker 2: I got a run brother.
Speaker 9: Sure, anyone who mentions that they heard this on the show,
Speaker 9: even if they hear it three months from now, I
Speaker 9: want to repeat. I'll take fifty dollars off the programming
Speaker 9: on any program key of any program to remote. I
Speaker 9: love it, any making model, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 2: All right, listen, that is Jeff city Lock.
Speaker 9: Where am I?
Speaker 2: Where am I Boulder?
Speaker 9: We're in Bolder?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're in Bolder.
Speaker 9: We're at two eight nine eight thirtieth Street, thirtieth and
Speaker 9: Valmont in Boulder.
Speaker 2: What's your website?
Speaker 9: The website is CITYLOCKUSA dot com.
Speaker 2: Now, why wouldn't you just wait? I'm giving you, I'm
Speaker 2: giving you airtime. That's crazy, And why wouldn't you just
Speaker 2: say citylock USA dot com. See how easy that is.
Speaker 9: NF phone number is three oh three four four four
Speaker 9: four four zero seven three.
Speaker 2: Three four four four four four oh seven.
Speaker 6: But CITYLOCKUSA dot com, Jeff, I appreciate you, man, have
Speaker 6: a good weekend. Fifty bucks off pretty much anything citylock
Speaker 6: on a referral list, A referral list dot com.
Speaker 2: Now hold on, Liz, I got some ideas.
Speaker 6: I got to take this break. I'm running up against it.
Speaker 6: I was truly hoping Jeff would give me the answer
Speaker 6: I wanted. That's not going to happen. We got to
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Speaker 2: But you got to figure out where it is. That's
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Speaker 4: Super thank you.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome, Liz. And I'm so sorry that that
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I really don't think so. You know,
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Speaker 2: Her grandson has taken her for a ride for years
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Speaker 6: You got any car questions?
Speaker 2: It could be about car purchasing, car leasing, car issues
Speaker 2: such as noises, vibrations, got We've gotten it all over
Speaker 2: the years, guys and in studio with me as mostly
Speaker 2: always on Fridays, Kevin Colkin shared an Auto Tech welcome Kevin,
Speaker 2: Thanks Mark, Jeff Vic You guys were both talking the
Speaker 2: first hour with me, and it's been a little slow
Speaker 2: and when does it generally pick up as soon as
Speaker 2: the weather gets hot? You got the AC systems.
Speaker 7: Extreme Yeah, definitely extreme temperature. So when it's good and cold,
Speaker 7: or when it's good and hot, I mean typically summers
Speaker 7: are you know, our busy, busy season, because that's when
Speaker 7: most of them are going to go down. But these
Speaker 7: mild temperatures were just you're hovering in the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 7: Stuff just holds yourself together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, doesn't it. What's worse though, the really
Speaker 2: hot or they're really cold on most cars hot? Why
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 7: The temperature? Temperature kills everything? No two ways about it.
Speaker 7: You know, when it comes to cold, well, you can
Speaker 7: manage the cold a little bit. We can build heat,
Speaker 7: but trying to get rid of that heat during the
Speaker 7: summer is troublesome.
Speaker 6: What things should people be thinking about getting done before
Speaker 6: this heat does kick in? I mean, what are some
Speaker 6: of the routine maintenance like a cooling system flush? Should
Speaker 6: that be done now? Or like should that be done
Speaker 6: once a year? Should that be done every three years?
Speaker 7: Every yeah, depending on the usage and everything, but every
Speaker 7: two three years, you know, usually around thirty forty thousand miles.
Speaker 2: And does that glycos or is it glycos? What is
Speaker 2: that called? No glycos?
Speaker 5: Is a.
Speaker 2: Nightcall? Does that breakdown pretty quick?
Speaker 1: It becomes it does become a citic, So you can
Speaker 1: start deteriorating gaskets and seals.
Speaker 2: Yes, what's the difference in colors in that stuff?
Speaker 13: Because I know there's a packages, okay, but you have
Speaker 13: a certain color, should stick with that typically?
Speaker 1: Yes, you know Toada has a pink and Honda has blue,
Speaker 1: and there's a yellow for Chrystler. Yeah, they're all additive packages.
Speaker 10: I have a question about so on electric cars. I know,
Speaker 10: when when I turn on the air conditioner, it uses
Speaker 10: power from the battery. Will that if you use your
Speaker 10: air conditioner a lot, will it eventually decrease the longevity
Speaker 10: of the battery or does the battery recharge to the
Speaker 10: point where having used an air conditioner does it isn't
Speaker 10: an issue?
Speaker 7: Well, I think anytime you're draining something to it's depleted
Speaker 7: levels and then charging it back up, I mean you're
Speaker 7: going through what's lifespan You're You're the same thing with
Speaker 7: your cell phone. You know, the more you use it,
Speaker 7: I mean, the less likely that battery is going to
Speaker 7: last for ten twenty years. It's gonna my kids. I
Speaker 7: guarantee his cell phone is gonna wear out before mind does.
Speaker 2: What what do you guys drive? And you got a Chevy?
Speaker 1: I've got three quarter ton Chevy and it is.
Speaker 2: At all you ever bought. It's amazing to me. With cars,
Speaker 2: people get lower able to a brand, big time loyal.
Speaker 2: I got a friend Mike and Sal he buys a
Speaker 2: chev Yeah.
Speaker 7: And I've had Fords, and I mean the last opportunity
Speaker 7: I had to get a truck, I got my son
Speaker 7: of Dodge.
Speaker 2: So so you're not very loyal.
Speaker 7: No, No, I mean, don't get me wrong. I do
Speaker 7: prefer driving the Chevy. Why is it just the creature
Speaker 7: comforts in most cases what people prefer, or the actual
Speaker 7: ride itself, the way they work?
Speaker 2: And Doc? How about you? You always buy I've had
Speaker 2: about fifteen different models. I thought you, I was going
Speaker 2: to say superhus. I know you just bought the electric Conde,
Speaker 2: but I thought you just drove super.
Speaker 10: I've had Sobs, I've had Toyotas, I had Fords, We've
Speaker 10: had everything. I've had an Audi.
Speaker 2: I buyed pretty much well Tesla now, but I mean
Speaker 2: Hondis we still buy.
Speaker 10: A while ago you had what I had, a Sonata
Speaker 10: snatch you like that. I also had an Infinity so
Speaker 10: multiple different brands.
Speaker 2: Multiple Kevin Ford pretty much forever.
Speaker 1: Well, my brother works for Fords. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I got started.
Speaker 14: There.
Speaker 2: You get a discount on it, yeah, yeah, yeah, not
Speaker 2: a time. I shot by warranty. I absolutely love the
Speaker 2: best warranties, and Hondi's got that bumper to bumper sixty
Speaker 2: thousand miles?
Speaker 1: Would you buy that car without the warranty?
Speaker 6: A boy, that's a hell of a good question. Probably not,
Speaker 6: not if a different car had a better warrant time.
Speaker 1: I'm just do you like the Hundai enough to buy
Speaker 1: it without the warranty?
Speaker 2: I like the Genesis probably enough to buy with that.
Speaker 2: Do I like the Santa Fe enough? I actually probably
Speaker 2: do the other ones I did not like my Sonata.
Speaker 2: I don't like their little ones, like the what's ther
Speaker 2: tiny one? Accent?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Those are like I didn't like those, nor did I
Speaker 2: have good luck with them.
Speaker 1: And I don't like level vehicle. They're meant for the
Speaker 1: for early purchaser and back.
Speaker 2: Then, I mean when I bought one new for we've
Speaker 2: got one for miles. I mean it was like I
Speaker 2: want to say, it was.
Speaker 6: Like eleven or twelve, twelve to fourteen. What's the next
Speaker 6: step up over that? Con Yeah, the A Launcher is
Speaker 6: not a bad car for the price.
Speaker 2: But now I mean now they're like twenty five thirty
Speaker 2: thousand bucks, which is incredible to me.
Speaker 6: I mean that it's really blown me away. Pre Covid
Speaker 6: what the prices are. I mean, if you think about it,
Speaker 6: pre Covid, you could buy an A launch for brand new,
Speaker 6: you know, mid not not the base base, but not
Speaker 6: you know, not leather or anything for under fifteen thousand.
Speaker 6: Now they're twenty five thousand, and that's just crazy. But
Speaker 6: that's the same you guys say about parts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's right back into the engine, bayer or
Speaker 7: underneath that chassis. I mean, we're seeing that same pain
Speaker 7: as far as the cost in the parts themselves.
Speaker 6: Are you guys truly seeing anything with tariffs yet? In
Speaker 6: other words, if a part costs you, I mean, I
Speaker 6: don't know, a throttle body if it cost five hundred
Speaker 6: dollars six months ago right now, is it's still five
Speaker 6: hundred bucks?
Speaker 2: Like it hasn't impacted you yet.
Speaker 7: There have been some parts that we've seen some particular
Speaker 7: dealers or manufacturers where they've raised some prices in preparation
Speaker 7: for the ter Yeah, it hasn't been completely across the board.
Speaker 7: A certain parts you know that may be coming in
Speaker 7: from Canada or maybe coming in from Mexico, and so
Speaker 7: they've they've just similar to petroleum, they've raised the prices
Speaker 7: now so they can bulk up for when that gess.
Speaker 2: They're getting ready to go to.
Speaker 6: Most of the parts you guys deal with come from
Speaker 6: those two places, Canada and Mexico. Or like, if you
Speaker 6: order a part for a BMW, isn't most of the
Speaker 6: aftermarket made in Canada or Mexico or here?
Speaker 2: A good portion of it.
Speaker 7: A lot, It depends on what it is you're getting.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, one of the parts I'm talking
Speaker 7: about was a soul my body for a Ford here.
Speaker 7: Literally just a month ago, I was able to buy
Speaker 7: it for one hundred and eighty dollars. Priced it out
Speaker 7: the other day and it's five hundred and sixty bucks.
Speaker 6: So in OEM, an OEM part is actually from the factory, right,
Speaker 6: it's your original equipment manufacturer. So if you guys, if
Speaker 6: you're rebuilding a transmission or you're putting an alternator in,
Speaker 6: Is there any reason if you can get in after
Speaker 6: market to do it?
Speaker 7: It depends on the part that you're looking to get. Yeah,
Speaker 7: there's some parts I won't tack, Like.
Speaker 2: What give me an idea of one where you rather use.
Speaker 1: A lot of the electronics. You know, you can get
Speaker 1: a reman ECM like.
Speaker 2: Great as an alternator.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the warranty that we're getting in
Speaker 1: the manufacturer. I mean there's there's certain aftermark manufacturers I
Speaker 1: would definitely use. You know, uh, Delco has a Delphi.
Speaker 6: Does manufacturers like use Delphi. So in other words, the
Speaker 6: OEM and the aftermarket could be literally coming out of
Speaker 6: the same place.
Speaker 7: Of you were talking about what we were talking about
Speaker 7: some fluids earlier. You know that you know it's all
Speaker 7: made at one plant, but they'll bottle it for individual companies.
Speaker 7: So yeah, the oil attitude. Yeah, so you get the
Speaker 7: same thing. Inside the auto industry, there's only so many
Speaker 7: places that actually make batteries for vehicles, you know, Johnson Controls.
Speaker 1: Being one of them.
Speaker 7: They will go through a number of different lines where
Speaker 7: they're selling to say Walmart, or they're selling to Interstate
Speaker 7: or actually think Interesstate makes their own, but you go
Speaker 7: through several different names, like way the same plant exactly they.
Speaker 2: Make a tone.
Speaker 6: Is Factory Motor Parts still around? Oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: and those guys sell a lot of OEM.
Speaker 2: Right, and the gasoline guys, well, hold on, doc, where
Speaker 2: do they source from? Do they get direct from the manufacturer?
Speaker 1: You know they would have to because Worldpack does the
Speaker 1: same thing. Where you can get Oie parts, he can
Speaker 1: get mo Park.
Speaker 2: I thought world Pack was gone. I thought Carquest went
Speaker 2: by by. Still there is Carqueste. Car Quest was absorbed
Speaker 2: by his mass hol parts. All right, go ahead, doc.
Speaker 10: What about gasoline? Is there any difference in the gasoline
Speaker 10: between you know, budget places.
Speaker 2: Like Texaco versus Quick Trip or whatever. It's the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's how they order it, or it's how the flagship
Speaker 2: orders it.
Speaker 1: Right, Because there's only a certain number of pipelines coming
Speaker 1: into Denver.
Speaker 2: Well, so they all get yet one refinery I think
Speaker 2: in the entire state.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they all get it at the same place.
Speaker 1: It's just the additive pack they put in with it,
Speaker 1: all right.
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Speaker 6: three Martino, bo you said you had a question I
Speaker 6: think for Jeff Thick. Who did you say, sir?
Speaker 1: Ck I got?
Speaker 17: A YouTuber wrote in with a question about manual transmissions?
Speaker 2: Do you even see them anymore?
Speaker 1: Just to have one in the shop this week?
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 17: But so she wants to know, how long do manual
Speaker 17: transmissions last as compared to automatic transmissions, and do you
Speaker 17: have to change the manual transmission oil frequently?
Speaker 2: All matter?
Speaker 7: Definitely will typically last longer than an automatic. I mean
Speaker 7: you're all gear to gear drive the things that we're
Speaker 7: out inside them typically or you know synchronizers in particular,
Speaker 7: which is what allows gives you the ability to shift
Speaker 7: in between the gears without grinding. Uh, you know they're
Speaker 7: actually made as a way apart depending on the driver.
Speaker 7: You know, you can damage them faster I work. You know,
Speaker 7: they could last a lifetime of the car. And then
Speaker 7: obviously the contaminants inside the the oil will affect bearings
Speaker 7: over time so that you'll get bearing failures. So yeah,
Speaker 7: you should definitely be changing the fluid inside your standard.
Speaker 2: Does it matter how hard someone is on the clutch
Speaker 2: when it comes to the transmission itself, that's just.
Speaker 7: The clutch one hundred percent. You can definitely damage to
Speaker 7: transmission if you're tough on the clutch. You know, we've
Speaker 7: seen it several several times some of these cars. You know,
Speaker 7: we had a kid in with one of these fast
Speaker 7: forced forward focuses and he blew out second gear three times.
Speaker 7: A matter of a couple of months because he was
Speaker 7: driving abusively.
Speaker 2: Wow, I know what a Ford Focus.
Speaker 1: They've got some pretty sporty versions of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh they do, yes, like modified or you're like
Speaker 2: right from four, right from four?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. How do you work on a warranty
Speaker 2: with something like that? Say you don't, we don't.
Speaker 7: There's actually when we're done with it, you know, if
Speaker 7: we've done a build, there is a disclaimer on there
Speaker 7: that says, you know, not only do you have to
Speaker 7: monitor fluids and keep it full, but it also disclaims
Speaker 7: against you know, misuse, abuse, operator error. You know, I
Speaker 7: cannot call you every day and tell you to check
Speaker 7: your fluid or have you looked underneath the car to
Speaker 7: make sure there's not a weak you know, So if
Speaker 7: you bring it back to me burned up after you
Speaker 7: let it leak for six months, you know, hey, we
Speaker 7: would have taken care of a leak.
Speaker 1: That's not a problem.
Speaker 6: I had a good friend that just bought a I
Speaker 6: think it was a twenty three top of the line.
Speaker 6: I mean it's got the Corvette engine, the whole bit
Speaker 6: in it. And he waited to get a stick shift.
Speaker 6: And I always found that crazy, And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 6: I think back in the day, if you had a
Speaker 6: stick shift, you probably would be faster in a race, right,
Speaker 6: But nowadays, wouldn't you say the computer shift's way better
Speaker 6: than a human Yeah? So, I mean, there's no doubt
Speaker 6: about it unless if that's really what is the benefit
Speaker 6: of a stick shift besides yeah, espalgia?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 17: Well, that brings up my other question about the manual transmission.
Speaker 17: I've always heard in a manual transmission we'll get three
Speaker 17: to ten miles better gas mileage as compared to an
Speaker 17: automatic transmission.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that depends on the driver too. It
Speaker 1: depends entirely on the driver. Yes, so is that kind
Speaker 1: of a missing omalsomal?
Speaker 2: Have you guys ever done this any of it? Can
Speaker 2: you drive a standard?
Speaker 10: It took me a few years to figure it out,
Speaker 10: but yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 6: Have you guys ever got to the point in a
Speaker 6: certain car where with the exception of getting into first gear,
Speaker 6: you can shift through.
Speaker 2: The gears without hitting the clutch you just use? Isn't
Speaker 2: that cool?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 2: And it's smooth, It's really smooth. That's got to be
Speaker 2: Is that good for the car? There's no problem there.
Speaker 7: As you know what you're doing, you're not hitting them,
Speaker 7: You're fine. Yeah, the warning curve is probably where you're
Speaker 7: going to start tearning stuff up.
Speaker 2: And how long? If you're really good at a clutch
Speaker 2: and you have a new vehicle like my buddy does,
Speaker 2: can that clutch last two hundred thousand miles? A clutchback
Speaker 2: can last a long Really, you guys have ever worked
Speaker 2: on one.
Speaker 7: I had a Ford truck that I got almost three
Speaker 7: hundred thousand miles out of one.
Speaker 2: Three hundred thousand miles on one clutch.
Speaker 1: I didn't smoke them.
Speaker 2: I was teaching Suzanne how to drive her first car,
Speaker 2: which was a little Honda Civic and it was a Standard,
Speaker 2: and I was a complete moron. I got in front
Speaker 2: of the car. She's in the car, and I'm like
Speaker 2: shifted in gear and I was trying to show her
Speaker 2: how to go into reverse. Why I'm standing in front
Speaker 2: of the car, I have no idea, But of course
Speaker 2: it goes into first and she hits it and I
Speaker 2: end up on the hood of the car. I will
Speaker 2: never do that again. I will never do that again.
Speaker 2: Did you guys teach your kids how to drive a stick,
Speaker 2: get on shift? You did?
Speaker 10: And I told him absolutely. I taught him how to
Speaker 10: change tire and how to shift and how to drive
Speaker 10: a stick.
Speaker 6: I don't think my kids have ever drove a I
Speaker 6: don't think they've ever driven a car that's a standard.
Speaker 6: But both of them can drive motorcycles all day long,
Speaker 6: which of course you shift, so I would.
Speaker 2: Assume it's the third pedal. Though they kiss them, it
Speaker 2: is the third pedals. In fact, some people use both feet,
Speaker 2: which is kind of which is kind of bizarre.
Speaker 1: Also, it's extra security when you have a stick, you know,
Speaker 1: some millennial security system.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they can't.
Speaker 1: They can't steal it because they can't drive it.
Speaker 2: You know who wasn't it? It might have been Hondai.
Speaker 2: That one guy was bringing it up where they could
Speaker 2: steal the Hondis with like a screwdriver, and they were
Speaker 2: like saying, the best thing out there is those things
Speaker 2: you attached to the steering wheel, the clubs, the clubs,
Speaker 2: because literally, you can't steal a car with one of
Speaker 2: those on there.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 7: It just takes more effort, probably a lot more. It's
Speaker 7: it's more of a de turrent than anything else, like.
Speaker 2: Having a dog, versus your neighbor doesn't.
Speaker 7: Two side by side vehicles, if you see one has
Speaker 7: a club on it and the other one doesn't, which
Speaker 7: one do you think you're more likely to steal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one without the club, of course. Yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 2: Do you guys in general like what you do most
Speaker 2: of the time?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I think any job you have things
Speaker 1: you just really hate.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean you're you know, you're in your sixties.
Speaker 6: You ended up with automotives your entire life. I mean
Speaker 6: you must like it to a degree. Do you ever
Speaker 6: think back on Kevin and go, I wish I want
Speaker 6: this direction? Or you just love automotive?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I like what I do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, you know, there's freedom to it. There's
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's more outside than it is,
Speaker 1: like an office building, and you know it is your hip.
Speaker 2: Ho whole day at shared and you're up front and
Speaker 2: your guys you're doing all the repaassion force. So but
Speaker 2: you will you go rent still?
Speaker 1: No, I don't rents, but I just supervised kind of
Speaker 1: you know, what are you doing and why are you
Speaker 1: doing that? That kind of thing.
Speaker 2: How about writing up tickets?
Speaker 6: You plan service manager a lot yeah, if he lets me.
Speaker 6: And then Jeff, you literally do I see. I mean
Speaker 6: you've got great text there. You've had the same text
Speaker 6: forever I met him. But I mean you pretty much
Speaker 6: do all the estimates, don't you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what I'm I've got a guy right
Speaker 7: now that you know, I'm trying to teach him a
Speaker 7: little bit more on the computer so that times like
Speaker 7: or ai I'm here or you know, I'm on vacation whatnot.
Speaker 7: It's a little bit cumbersome right now. So getting him
Speaker 7: familiar with the software, getting him familiar with creating tickets
Speaker 7: and pricing and everything else, and.
Speaker 2: You guys, rebuild right there on site, build right.
Speaker 1: There on site. Correct.
Speaker 10: I've assumed the questions you asked, Jeff, what or you
Speaker 10: will bring up the fact that there's a car with
Speaker 10: a club and one with that one?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 10: Okay, So here's another question for you. You go to
Speaker 10: the airport, there's two airplanes. One goes to TSA, one doesn't.
Speaker 10: Which one you're gonna choose?
Speaker 1: I think TSA is a joke.
Speaker 10: I don't care you you would really go without the TSA.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't even understand the question. One is screened and
Speaker 2: one is not screened. Oh you mean you either go
Speaker 2: through the security or not or not. Well, I'd pick
Speaker 2: to go through security.
Speaker 10: I would too. Yeah, I mean as much as we
Speaker 10: an odd question though, Well no, But because he was
Speaker 10: just saying which he would choose. So the point is
Speaker 10: we all complain a bit about the the TSA, but
Speaker 10: if we had our choice, I know which line I
Speaker 10: would go.
Speaker 2: But how does that go back to the club.
Speaker 10: Well, because he's saying a choice is went to two choices,
Speaker 10: So I'm just giving him.
Speaker 2: Do you know what the club is?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's the thing you put in assume with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, say you can't turn it?
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Speaker 2: We have an interesting behind the scenes today. If you
Speaker 2: miss the YouTube, you got to go back and look
Speaker 2: at it. Someone got me sweetye Pies their name. They
Speaker 2: got me raging behind the scenes. They didn't like the.
Speaker 6: Story about the bad cop in Parker I talked about
Speaker 6: who took his own life after selling assault weapons and
Speaker 6: kits to make guns fully automatic and silencers to every
Speaker 6: bad guy he could find in Sweetie Pie didn't like it.
Speaker 3: You know what, Sweety Pie, go to hell?
Speaker 2: How's that for you?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can rant and rave all I want. It is,
Speaker 2: it's the way it is. I don't like people that
Speaker 2: do that. I don't like people selling machine guns to
Speaker 2: bad people on one side of the day and then
Speaker 2: on the second half of the day.
Speaker 8: What do they do?
Speaker 2: They're a cop? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: You want that kind of person walking around when you
Speaker 2: got kids four homes down like I did. It's his
Speaker 2: own problem. He had his own demons. Sweetie Pie or sweaty.
Speaker 2: I digress now now to get really fired up. Steve's on.
Speaker 2: He's got a problem with American Restoration. Steve, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what else to tell you, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ahead and let you talk.
Speaker 15: Well, I'd like to talk to you off the air
Speaker 15: if at all possible.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, I'll make it one more shot. But my god,
Speaker 6: every message you leave here or there is it eleven
Speaker 6: forty five at night, and Steve, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 6: I will talk to you after the show. Steve, you
Speaker 6: texted me in eleven forty five last.
Speaker 15: Night, that's when I got off work.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, why don't you wait till the morning when
Speaker 6: I'm up. I'm wondering if my kids weren't an accident
Speaker 6: or something. Look, man, I'm just frustrated that every piece
Speaker 6: of communication we get from you is past eleven forty five,
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna take it to one more step. But yes,
Speaker 6: I will talk to you and continue to try to
Speaker 6: help you. But in all Honestyve, man, what Rock said,
Speaker 6: what Rock said in that last text, and that we're
Speaker 6: talking about American Restoration. That last offer he made I
Speaker 6: do not think is a bad offer. In a million years, Steve,
Speaker 6: and for people out there because they have no context
Speaker 6: to what the hell we're talking about. Steve hired American Restoration,
Speaker 6: and there's a lot to the story. It all started
Speaker 6: a year and a half ago. There's other contractors involved
Speaker 6: at Steve's suing, and then it came back to American
Speaker 6: Restoration a year and a half. He basically gave them
Speaker 6: fifteen thousand or sixteen thousand dollars down and he's not
Speaker 6: happy with what the pricing is and the timeframe. Apparently
Speaker 6: Rock didn't start exactly when he was supposed to and
Speaker 6: put the guy off. Steve has his side of the story.
Speaker 6: But Rock came back today and I'm going to read
Speaker 6: everybody out there that's listening what Rock had to say.
Speaker 6: And I read this to you guys this morning, going
Speaker 6: do you think this is a fair offer?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 3: Let me go ahead, prefer me.
Speaker 2: Ask the question, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 15: Why in the world because he's still continuing.
Speaker 11: He knows he has a upset.
Speaker 3: Customer because he put people.
Speaker 6: If you ask Rock dat and I have Kelly trying
Speaker 6: to get Rock on, and hopefully Kelly gets him on.
Speaker 2: But of course we're right at the end of the show.
Speaker 2: But no, I'll tell you why, because he said he
Speaker 2: has people he set aside for your job. He said
Speaker 2: he has already done stuff on your job. He said
Speaker 2: he has already talked to the building department and the
Speaker 2: permitting stuff on the job. I know you're gonna say
Speaker 2: none of that's true, Steve. I know you're gonna say
Speaker 2: none of that's true.
Speaker 4: Who has to build out there?
Speaker 2: I'm putting them on hold. Look, man, here, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do, just to be fair and honestly,
Speaker 2: I think it's good radio. Steve. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: forty five seconds and I'm gonna shut up. Say whatever
Speaker 2: you want. Then I'm going to read everybody what Rock
Speaker 2: had to say. But go ahead, please.
Speaker 15: Well, first of all, the deal with Plumbline, I didn't
Speaker 15: take a bit over the phone. I met with one
Speaker 15: of their texts with Plumbline number one, number two. Rock
Speaker 15: got the money on February twentieth. He said he had
Speaker 15: people standing by. He's gonna bring a dumpster, fortify and
Speaker 15: all that.
Speaker 9: He goes with me for over two months and then
Speaker 9: it comes back.
Speaker 15: He wants four thousand dollars on top of fifteen grands
Speaker 15: to do a gas line pressure test, which has already
Speaker 15: been done signed off on by the building department. And
Speaker 15: then he wants an une five grand a smoke test.
Speaker 15: And I talked to Clumbline about that's a test. He's
Speaker 15: not going you'll need a smoke test, We need a
Speaker 15: pressure test. And that's when he caughted to those prices
Speaker 15: for fifteen hundred for both tests. So I don't know
Speaker 15: what Rock is doing.
Speaker 2: All right, that's forty five. Now I'm going to put
Speaker 2: you on holden. I'm going to put context in everything
Speaker 2: that I've heard on Rockside One. We're talking about a house.
Speaker 2: It got destroyed, so they're building it back from scratch.
Speaker 2: It had to do with a fire or an electrical
Speaker 2: fire or something. The house is burned down that there's
Speaker 2: nothing basically left of it. Other contractors are involved.
Speaker 6: In order for Rock to come in, he needs to
Speaker 6: do certain tests, and one of them to rebuild it
Speaker 6: and be responsible in rebuilding your entire house.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about going in and putting in a floor,
Speaker 2: but to rebuild your entire house. He nor most people
Speaker 2: that I know are not going to do it and
Speaker 2: take responsibility for it. If they don't do a pressure
Speaker 2: test or a smoke test, or an electrical test or
Speaker 2: a plumbing test.
Speaker 3: Or whatever they need to do.
Speaker 2: They're going to rebuild it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: Listen, that's where Rock's coming from. And I've tried to
Speaker 6: tell you that one hundred times. I understand you're frustrated.
Speaker 6: But what I don't get, Steve, is after Rock texted this,
Speaker 6: why you wouldn't go this way? You're ready, everybody. I
Speaker 6: want you to know what Rock said, and I'm going
Speaker 6: to hold him to it, like you can't believe. Mister,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say his last name will do
Speaker 6: the job. If you're not one hundred percent satisfied in
Speaker 6: the end, we will refund every dime. If we miss
Speaker 6: one scheduled date without proper notification, we will quit and
Speaker 6: refund every dime. We will even go live on the
Speaker 6: air if that happens and admit we're failures. We just
Speaker 6: have to run the job with our people. He does
Speaker 6: not want now that was the text. Now it's me again, Steve.
Speaker 6: He doesn't want you to use people outside of people
Speaker 6: he trusts. He is the general contractor to rebuild it.
Speaker 6: Because you can have a test done for five hundred
Speaker 6: dollars or ten thousand dollars cheaper somewhere else. That doesn't
Speaker 6: That has nothing to do with Rock. You signed an
Speaker 6: agreement with Rock to rebuild your house. He's got to
Speaker 6: take sole responsibility.
Speaker 2: If something goes wrong and the electrical wasn't done in
Speaker 2: the house burns down, that's on Rock. If you don't
Speaker 2: want him to pull permits, or if you don't want
Speaker 2: him to use his electricians that he trusts and knows that,
Speaker 2: that's not fair of you. Why did you even enter
Speaker 2: into it with them? Steve? Why did you choose Rock
Speaker 2: to begin with?
Speaker 15: This man promised me he was going to take care
Speaker 15: of everything, no big deal. I trusted him, and he
Speaker 15: turned around and ghosted me. And he's been he's it's
Speaker 15: been awful.
Speaker 10: I mean, he's just Steve.
Speaker 2: Steve. After I just read what I did, let me
Speaker 2: ask you something. If you don't think, if you don't think,
Speaker 2: I to put him on hold again. If you don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna show up, my god, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: everything done for free, and he's going to refund anything
Speaker 2: you spent with him. Think about that. If he doesn't
Speaker 2: show up on time, That's what he said. If he
Speaker 2: gives you a date and doesn't tell you he's not
Speaker 2: going to show because there's some emergency or something, and
Speaker 2: just ghost you. You'll get a full refund. And then
Speaker 2: my favorite part about that text, and I think you're
Speaker 2: really glancing over it. I really think you are My
Speaker 2: favorite part the very first sentence will do the job
Speaker 2: if you're not one hundred percent satisfied in the end,
Speaker 2: meaning after your house is rebuilt.
Speaker 6: It's like a four hundred thousand dollars project, will refund
Speaker 6: every dime. Guys, I'm sorry you've heard from him. You
Speaker 6: haven't heard from Rock. I was trying to get him on,
Speaker 6: but he's not on what I'm Kevin. As a businessman,
Speaker 6: Jeff is a businessman. There's a couple things here. One
Speaker 6: I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2: If I was Rock Steve, I would refund your fifteen
Speaker 2: thousand in run like hell.
Speaker 6: You have two lawsuits against the last two people you hired.
Speaker 6: If I was Rock and I told Rock this, I
Speaker 6: would refund your money and get the hell out of town,
Speaker 6: simple as that, and I'd probably thank God for it.
Speaker 6: But that's not on the table. I have no idea
Speaker 6: why Rock doesn't want to go down there. But after
Speaker 6: hearing that first sentence again, what do you guys think, honestly,
Speaker 6: do you think Rock's just a horrible guy here? You
Speaker 6: think Steve's a little off?
Speaker 2: I mean, tell me, I want to.
Speaker 1: Hear it, not knowing either one of them, just knowing
Speaker 1: the conflict, and he's not happy with Rock. Why would
Speaker 1: Rock want to keep eating it?
Speaker 2: For the life of me, I have no idea. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't and I haven't done a commercial for Rock for
Speaker 2: three or four months, never had any problems with Rock
Speaker 2: for I don't know five years.
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying either one of them is the problem.
Speaker 1: They're not right for each other.
Speaker 2: They are definitely not right for each That's where I.
Speaker 1: Would you know, it's not worth any amount of money
Speaker 1: to do something wrong and then piss everybody.
Speaker 2: Jeff, what do you think now?
Speaker 1: I'm run along those stand the lines. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: all had problem customers.
Speaker 2: We've all had problem customers, and we've all dealt with
Speaker 2: problem contracts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you to your confident in the job.
Speaker 2: You know you can do the job.
Speaker 1: That parts not a problem.
Speaker 6: He's almost Rocks almost taking it too personally. At some point, Hey,
Speaker 6: I want to know from you, Dragon, what do you think.
Speaker 21: I think that that deal from Rock is absolutely insane.
Speaker 21: No matter what Rock's gonna do, Steve's gonna be pissed
Speaker 21: and Rock's gonna lose his ass. There's no ways as
Speaker 21: a business owner, Rocks should be doing this.
Speaker 2: I think that first paragraph is insane to put up.
Speaker 2: I am very glad you pointed that out.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to talk to Rock afterwards, because to say,
Speaker 6: if you're not one hundred percent satisfied in the end,
Speaker 6: will refund every dime.
Speaker 2: But Steve, he's asking to lose. He is half a
Speaker 2: million dollars.
Speaker 1: Steve's telling him before they start that he doesn't even
Speaker 1: want him.
Speaker 11: To do it.
Speaker 2: Steve, I would get that in writing. Listen, man, I
Speaker 2: would get that in writing.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to hit up Rock one more time
Speaker 6: and I'm going to tell him exactly what I just
Speaker 6: said on air. I think he's crazy for not refunding you.
Speaker 15: You know, when I told him about the Plumbline deal
Speaker 15: and all that, He's like going.
Speaker 2: I'm just Steve, you know what. I don't want to
Speaker 2: go down memory lane with you anymore. I just told
Speaker 2: you I talked if I got to hear about what
Speaker 2: you don't like about him anymore? What good is that?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get to an end to this man.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get to an end. I know you're pissed.
Speaker 2: I know you're pissed that he's breathing right now. How's that?
Speaker 2: I know you're pissed.
Speaker 3: Period, end of story.
Speaker 2: But you're not listening either, Steve, You're not if you
Speaker 2: can get that in writing besides the text and him
Speaker 2: to sign off that if you're not one percent garn
Speaker 2: paid at the end, he'll give you a full refund.
Speaker 2: You're crazy. You're crazy, and he's crazy to sign something
Speaker 2: like that.
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