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Speaker 1: No Tom Martino, Hello Tom Martino here, welcome to this show.
Speaker 1: We are here to help you solve problems, answer questions,
Speaker 1: take complaints, make your life a little easier each and
Speaker 1: every day, solving problems to the tune of hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars a year. So welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: We're happy you can join us on a Friday, and
Speaker 1: it's a snowy Friday, so please be safe when you drive.
Speaker 1: And speaking of driving, you know it is car Day
Speaker 1: on Friday. We do a lot of car issues on Friday,
Speaker 1: but not just cars, so anything you want to call
Speaker 1: about you can uh. Just some programming notes. We were
Speaker 1: trying to stream Mark in, but I had some technical
Speaker 1: difficulties here and we have a lot of the ports
Speaker 1: used up. In other words, we couldn't get him in.
Speaker 1: And maybe he can call in on the station and
Speaker 1: be on the hotline something like that might work. But
Speaker 1: whatever he decides to do, and you guys decide to do,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. We also have Kevin Calkin here from
Speaker 1: Sheridan Autotech dot com and I see Deputy d as well.
Speaker 1: Welcome guys to the show. What's going on in your
Speaker 1: life and how can we help you? Let's see when
Speaker 1: it comes to cars. Okay, so here's what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about. When it comes to cars. Should we
Speaker 1: be switching to evs? I mean, really, how much time
Speaker 1: I go through this dilemma over and over and I'm
Speaker 1: at an age now where I used to joke how
Speaker 1: many cars do I have left? You know, if you
Speaker 1: looked at a car's average three years, how many cars
Speaker 1: you have left? Well, I'm three cars away from never
Speaker 1: needing a car. I mean, I hate to look at
Speaker 1: life like that, but you know what I'm saying, I'm
Speaker 1: not three cars. I don't know if I'm one car
Speaker 1: or three cars or half a car. But but in general,
Speaker 1: what I'd like to say is this cars. Would you
Speaker 1: is it time to switch to an EV now this
Speaker 1: time around if you're looking for a car or is
Speaker 1: it too soon? Is it too premature? Deputy d I
Speaker 1: see you there. What do you think is it time
Speaker 1: to switch to an electric car? Or do you think
Speaker 1: we're going to have another ten or fifteen years of
Speaker 1: viable motor. Okay, now Kevin's there as well. Just move
Speaker 1: that over a little, Kelly and just get it square.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a lot of space on over
Speaker 1: Dimitri's left shoulder we don't need. But in any case,
Speaker 1: thank you and we can. So what do you think, keV?
Speaker 1: Is it time to get an EV right now? And
Speaker 1: I'm going to transition?
Speaker 5: I definitely see, you know, the desire and the benefits. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I still think technology is still changing rapidly. So
Speaker 5: I'm still on the fence a little bit, still waiting.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so this time around you wouldn't do an EV.
Speaker 5: I'm very very tempted, but I'm still waiting because I
Speaker 5: think it's going to get a little even better.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the point. At what point do you
Speaker 1: do it? Like Mark used to say, you know, when
Speaker 1: I did my clear lens exchange, I'm not doing them yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing them until they're perfected. I said, well,
Speaker 1: when will they be perfected? Nothing's ever perfected? How many
Speaker 1: times have we had our smartphones perfected? Or anything we buy?
Speaker 1: I mean laptops? I mean, you know I have iPads.
Speaker 1: I can't even use anymore, exactly because they stop supporting them.
Speaker 1: I mean, so at what point do you call it good?
Speaker 1: At what point do you say, well, okay, we can
Speaker 1: get it done. I mean, even if it's not perfect.
Speaker 1: If it's not perfect, at least it's something right. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm having that dilemma now, not that I need a car.
Speaker 1: I only have twenty nine grand on my car. But
Speaker 1: I get tired of cars, and it's coming up on
Speaker 1: three years and I don't being tired of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess we do. I guess most
Speaker 1: people have to admit they don't buy cars when they
Speaker 1: wear out. They buy them when they get tired of them.
Speaker 1: Except Dmitri. He rises their wheels off them. He's not tired.
Speaker 1: If he's toyota at all, he's not tired of it.
Speaker 6: I love it more and more every single day and
Speaker 6: tomorrow it You don't miss technology?
Speaker 1: What about technology? Self driving, GPS, all of that.
Speaker 6: Well, I have zero interest in self driving. And as
Speaker 6: far as GPS, you know, my telephone has that mapping
Speaker 6: software that gives me turn by turn directions.
Speaker 1: More importantly, it knows about.
Speaker 6: Traffic jams and accidents and the enclosures that I wouldn't
Speaker 6: know until I actually encounter them.
Speaker 1: So I have it, But you don't want to be
Speaker 1: surrounded by I don't know. I like new things. I
Speaker 1: like new things. Okay, So I'm asking people today if
Speaker 1: they're ready for an EV and what EV?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 1: I was looking at a bunch of evs and I
Speaker 1: want to spill this gust right now because it's almost
Speaker 1: like a catharsis here. Do you know that? And I
Speaker 1: don't want to say and let's not talk about affordability
Speaker 1: and stuff right now because it's not anybody's business at
Speaker 1: this point. But I was looking at all kinds of
Speaker 1: price ranges. Let's just say I could wave my magic
Speaker 1: wand I'm not saying I will or I can, but
Speaker 1: I want to do a theoretical shopping experience. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at deputy docs car. A beautiful car, a Hyundai Ionic,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, ConA, it's a beautiful little car. Yep,
Speaker 1: what's that? Or what is the end?
Speaker 8: It's a ConA Yeah.
Speaker 1: ConA okay, yep, beautiful electric car is all in what
Speaker 1: he was yet over thirty grand He's a little over
Speaker 1: thirty grand.
Speaker 8: I he's just under yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Loves this car. Okay. Now then you look at the car.
Speaker 1: Mark's looking at a twenty twenty five plaid. By the way,
Speaker 1: the new model s looks a little like a Corvette
Speaker 1: to me, it's it's an outrageously nice car. That car'll
Speaker 1: top out at around one hundred grand and it's Tesla
Speaker 1: and it's got almost four hundred miles of range. Now
Speaker 1: everyone's getting into it. So I looked at and everyone's saying,
Speaker 1: do not do this, do not do this, do not
Speaker 1: do this. All it is is a big old fashioned
Speaker 1: clunker on top of a battery. And that's the new
Speaker 1: G five. Have you heard of it?
Speaker 8: I haven't seen that one, Kevin, No, I haven't seen
Speaker 8: that one yet.
Speaker 1: It's do you know what it is?
Speaker 8: Do I know what it is?
Speaker 1: An electric? It's an electric G wagon.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, it's I haven't seen the pictures. I mean
Speaker 8: the body style you know it had to have.
Speaker 1: It looks exactly like it. It's a G wagon. Cool,
Speaker 1: except it's electric. Now they made some minor changes, but
Speaker 1: they made the changes to all G wagons. In other words,
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing exclusive to the five eighty except it's electric.
Speaker 1: Now they have a motor on each wheel, four motors,
Speaker 1: one on each wheel. They say it is unstoppable. It
Speaker 1: only has a two hundred and thirty mile range or something.
Speaker 1: Think about that, and that's an ideal condition. It's two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty, two hundred and forty. That's really low.
Speaker 1: And then the only difference is where the big spare
Speaker 1: tire and a G wagon is. They have a big
Speaker 1: they have that that container still, but it's rounded not
Speaker 1: excuse me, it's more of a rounded rectangle, a rounded square,
Speaker 1: a square with rounded corners, and that's where you store
Speaker 1: your charging cable and stuff. So it's really a jump.
Speaker 1: And you know what, it weighs sixty six hundred pounds.
Speaker 8: Gosh, that's heavy.
Speaker 1: Sixty six So it's an electric g wagon and they
Speaker 1: have some town and I looked at him because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know, leasing right now is the way
Speaker 1: I want to go. I'm not gonna I'm not going
Speaker 1: to expend the capital I used to when I was younger,
Speaker 1: because there's no reason to. And I only drive ten
Speaker 1: to five a year. I could do a twelve thousand
Speaker 1: mile lease. I've been talking to Jeff Car Jeff R
Speaker 1: Cars about leasing and here's the deal. People would say,
Speaker 1: I'm nuts. Why not just get the Tesla They've perfected it?
Speaker 1: Or what about Arrivian or what about there's all kinds
Speaker 1: me what is what? See? That's the problem. Everybody's coming
Speaker 1: out with one. What do you do?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 1: I want to get opinions on EV's one of my
Speaker 1: topics today. Tom has a question? Go ahead, Tom, what
Speaker 1: did you want to talk about?
Speaker 10: Yeah, on the EV, I'm not going to ever buy
Speaker 10: a one. Probably I'm kind of waiting for the hydrogen
Speaker 10: fuel cell vehicle.
Speaker 9: To come in.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I imagine eventually it would happen, but
Speaker 1: my god, are you really going to wait for that?
Speaker 9: Well, we're an EV?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what then are you gonna be?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: And then are you going to be an early adopter
Speaker 1: for it?
Speaker 9: Maybe?
Speaker 10: Maybe it depends on what the price point is on that.
Speaker 10: I had a question for you about the Tesla power
Speaker 10: wall three battery holds, Yes, battery, you know, have battery
Speaker 10: for a house?
Speaker 9: What do you guys think about those?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 9: Worth it?
Speaker 1: I think they're wonderful. But here's the problem. Do you
Speaker 1: have a First of all, do you have room for it?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 10: And I've already got a solar system in place. I'm
Speaker 10: pricing them out right now, Okay, I'm wondering so that
Speaker 10: they're only they've only got like a ten year lifespan.
Speaker 10: So at the price that I'm getting, you know, even
Speaker 10: with the rebates that you get back, get splits about
Speaker 10: a thousand bucks a year to have the battery back up.
Speaker 10: And I'm just wondering if.
Speaker 9: It's worth it.
Speaker 1: Well, well, it is if it is, and it isn't.
Speaker 1: If it isn't, it depends on what you're backing up
Speaker 1: and how bad it is. That's really expensive. By the way,
Speaker 1: there are other options. Have you looked into other battery backups?
Speaker 1: In fact, Tom, what I'm gonna do for you, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a break right now. Hold on. We can
Speaker 1: call you back. You can hang on or you can
Speaker 1: listen either one. But if you have follow up questions,
Speaker 1: you may want to hang on. Let's call over at
Speaker 1: Let's call brook over at redrocksars dot com. Let's do
Speaker 1: that and figure out what we're doing there. Let's do that,
Speaker 1: and and she'll have all kinds of ideas for battery backups. Okay,
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Speaker 1: get Brooke from Redrocks RS, Red Rocks, Roof and Solar
Speaker 1: to talk about battery backups. Part of that is the uh,
Speaker 1: the power wall. But Tom, you told me something I
Speaker 1: never took into consideration, and a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: When you take things that age out, and a lot
Speaker 1: of things age out that we're not aware of. Some
Speaker 1: things age out and they make you publicly aware of them.
Speaker 1: The most famous things that age out are aircraft parts
Speaker 1: and components. So you can put a hard cost to
Speaker 1: owning something. For example, if an engine gets two thousand
Speaker 1: hours before a mandatory FAA mandatory overall, then you would
Speaker 1: have to have you would have to have a price
Speaker 1: on that. So you know, using stupid numbers, if it's
Speaker 1: a two thousand hour engine and it's two two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars overhaul, that would be one thousand dollars an hour, right,
Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand or excuse me one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: an hour or whatever, ten dollars, whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 1: Let me. I'm sorry, but it started out to be
Speaker 1: an intelligent discussion. So what you have to do is
Speaker 1: admortize it. And you're telling me, Tom that on a
Speaker 1: on a yeah, it's one dollar an hour, two thousand hour,
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars would be one dollar an hour. Okay,
Speaker 1: I digress. So on this solar wall, are you telling
Speaker 1: me for sure that it has a definite time span?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's got a ten year lifespan on it, now.
Speaker 11: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Now do they say do they say recommended or approximate lifespan?
Speaker 1: Or is that the you must replace at ten years?
Speaker 10: No, it doesn't say you must replace. It just says
Speaker 10: ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you know that's interesting. Ten years and they
Speaker 1: and it costs how much to install it'll cost?
Speaker 10: You know, by the time I get all the rebates
Speaker 10: and so forth, it'll be about ten grand for a
Speaker 10: a power wall three plus an extender pack. So that's
Speaker 10: two batteries basically that both are thirteen and a half.
Speaker 6: Why Tom, what's the what's ther reason for considering this wall?
Speaker 6: What's the problem or enhancement that you'd like to solve
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 1: It's battery back up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a battery back up. When the power goes out.
Speaker 10: You don't have to worry about a generator. You've got
Speaker 10: the batteries to run off of.
Speaker 6: How much does a generator cost.
Speaker 9: A lot less?
Speaker 8: And how often does your power go out?
Speaker 9: And you've got not very often?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. D that's a good point.
Speaker 1: A battery, Well, never thought of that.
Speaker 6: Really, A generator sounds like Tom told us that the
Speaker 6: generator will cost less, and a generator really has an
Speaker 6: indefinite lifespan, especially since his power doesn't go out very often.
Speaker 10: Well, the only thing that I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 10: is with a generator, you've got the pain in the
Speaker 10: butto happened to fill it up with fuel? You've got
Speaker 10: the noise?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you've wait a minute, man, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You you have you
Speaker 1: have to fill it up with fuel only when you
Speaker 1: use it, right, So is avoiding the well, hell, if
Speaker 1: you have a diesel generator. If you have a diesel
Speaker 1: generator or propane or whatever you have, you it would
Speaker 1: last you forever. I mean if you have a power
Speaker 1: outage of an hour or two hours or three hours
Speaker 1: that takes nothing of fuel, I would I would definitely
Speaker 1: go with a generator. Over one thousand dollars a year battery, No,
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a month. Oh a year.
Speaker 10: Okay, it's a thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 8: A year.
Speaker 7: I talked to you about eighty five.
Speaker 10: Bucks a month. So so yeah, that's that's kind of
Speaker 10: what I was thinking.
Speaker 9: I was going to buy one.
Speaker 10: And I thought, well, wait, if I buy a generator,
Speaker 10: and you know, even after I pay an electric to
Speaker 10: get it hooked up to where it can power my
Speaker 10: whole house, it's not going to be you know, ten grand.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but but there are there are benefits
Speaker 1: though there are other benefits. We may be overlooking to batteries.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask Brook from Red Rocks. So
Speaker 1: Brooke he is considering the Tesla power wall. He says
Speaker 1: it his net expense amortizes approximately to about one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. That's a lot of money because he
Speaker 1: has to replace those eventually, so it's about one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. And then I said, maybe Brooke has
Speaker 1: ideas for other battery backup systems that last longer, or
Speaker 1: what about the generator? I love the idea of a generator, Brooke.
Speaker 1: Is there a benefit of having a battery over a generator.
Speaker 12: The fuel source? So if you're a generator and it's
Speaker 12: connected to gas or pro paint or whatnot, then you're
Speaker 12: still paying for the fuel source or as a battery source,
Speaker 12: which is the sun is already handled. So that's an
Speaker 12: expense that folks don't necessarily consider. And then Colorado right now,
Speaker 12: the state has a tax credit for batteries, so ten
Speaker 12: percent of the batteries is covered through that, and then
Speaker 12: the other thirty percent is covered through the normal federal
Speaker 12: tax credits that are still viable. What who's your utility
Speaker 12: company that you have?
Speaker 10: Excel They've got a forty five hundred, well a four
Speaker 10: thousand up front and then a five hundred dollars over
Speaker 10: five years. So it's forty five hundred bucks from Mexcel.
Speaker 10: But you know, even at things, you're still looking at
Speaker 10: ten grand.
Speaker 12: Uh, it's I'm so sorry. So it actually depends on
Speaker 12: where you're at with an XL so excels rebate. Are
Speaker 12: you retired, are you working?
Speaker 9: Working?
Speaker 12: So the only reason I ask is retire folks get
Speaker 12: six grand per battery, you get fifty seven hundred. So
Speaker 12: I'm not sure who told you four, But it's actually
Speaker 12: fifty seven hundred with the Tesla because it's depending on
Speaker 12: the continuous output of your battery, so each battery has
Speaker 12: a different value. So for Tesla's about fifty seven hundred
Speaker 12: plus those other tax credits. I think you should be
Speaker 12: out of pocket, and me one moment, let me let
Speaker 12: me look up the numbers real quick. And then are
Speaker 12: you looking at one one battery to do like a
Speaker 12: subpanel with just critical loads or are you looking to
Speaker 12: do like a whole home backup?
Speaker 10: I was looking at the powerwall three plus an extender pack.
Speaker 12: Okay, sure, And I guess my question is are you
Speaker 12: are you wanting just immediate loads or are you looking
Speaker 12: for everything so you would need you would need two
Speaker 12: batteries for that, So to do two Tesla batteries with
Speaker 12: the benefits that Excel does. Give me one second, let
Speaker 12: me just run these numbers real quick. Sure you're looking
Speaker 12: at being out of pocket about ten grand for the
Speaker 12: whole project versus a whole Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: What That's exactly what he figured. That's exactly what he figured.
Speaker 1: But if it has a ten year lifespan, we're down
Speaker 1: to one thousand dollars a year. So here's what I'm
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You can buy a lot of diesel for
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a year, Brooke, you can, but.
Speaker 12: A whole home generator to do the same thing is
Speaker 12: like thirty grand. If he's trying to back up his
Speaker 12: whole house.
Speaker 1: Oh and you don't get any rebate on that.
Speaker 12: You don't get any rebase on the generator.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's a good point.
Speaker 12: Critical loads. If he's trying to back up just critical
Speaker 12: loads into a smaller thing than a generator, you could
Speaker 12: probably buy one for five grand or something and go
Speaker 12: through it. So again, it just depends on what you're
Speaker 12: looking to have done.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's good information. Do you have Brook batteries
Speaker 1: that are cheaper than the Tesla ones that are just
Speaker 1: as good?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I mean it depends on what you're looking
Speaker 12: for with go off grid batteries or on grid the
Speaker 12: Tesla just has. Well, let's just.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this particular one. Do you have a
Speaker 1: generic substitute for Tesla to do exactly what he wants
Speaker 1: to do, that would be less than ten grand out
Speaker 1: of pocket.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so quick question for you. Are you looking for
Speaker 12: something that can give you a lot of power right
Speaker 12: away or are you looking for a little bit of
Speaker 12: power for a long time?
Speaker 10: Well, just to put into my whole house for you
Speaker 10: know the point four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like if the power he's talking about, if the
Speaker 1: power goes out or he has a cloudy day.
Speaker 12: Totally get that. So some folks run like welding machines
Speaker 12: or other stuff they want backed up. That's just why
Speaker 12: I was asking.
Speaker 11: So if they want a lot.
Speaker 12: Of power really quickly, solar ridge is better, and you're
Speaker 12: looking at about instead of ten grand out of pocket,
Speaker 12: probably four grand out of pocket, a significantly cheaper product,
Speaker 12: but it doesn't last as long. Your Tesla batteries are
Speaker 12: like a slower rule, so they're going to last longer,
Speaker 12: but they're going to power your house more evenly too.
Speaker 9: It was ten years ago.
Speaker 1: So is Tesla? Is Tesla the best? I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: you don't, sorry if.
Speaker 12: You don't need the power really quickly. Yes, Tesla is
Speaker 12: the best battery.
Speaker 1: Of the market.
Speaker 12: It's but the the ambridge, Like how fast you can
Speaker 12: get that power is a lot slower. So if you
Speaker 12: need a big kick right away, which some folks need,
Speaker 12: then Solar Rige is a better battery.
Speaker 10: The biggest kick I would need is my AC units
Speaker 10: starting up.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Tesla would be totally fine with that.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's not a problem with But would you okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So when we talk about battery backup, do you recommend them, Brooke.
Speaker 12: Do I recommend Tesla's Yeah, that's all we install for
Speaker 12: battery backup if they're on or off grid.
Speaker 11: It's very rare that we don't, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And do you ever have clients that go instead with generators?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean we have clients that do a combination
Speaker 12: of them. So I've got a client right now that
Speaker 12: we're doing batteries and a generator, so he can kind
Speaker 12: of have the best of both worlds depending on what's
Speaker 12: going on. I have clients that use a small generator
Speaker 12: to power the battery so they don't get an extra battery.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of ways that you can put a
Speaker 12: backup system together.
Speaker 1: And then one other question, how hard and fast is
Speaker 1: that ten year life span on the Tesla power Wall.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's just a warranty for it, so it's new.
Speaker 12: The Tesla Powerwall three just went on the market last year.
Speaker 12: My guess is the battery probably last fifteen to twenty
Speaker 12: years in my opinion, because usually it's a couple of
Speaker 12: years after warranty that it's still kicking.
Speaker 1: That's that's what Brooke, That's what I was thinking. Because
Speaker 1: of bat there is the batteries a battery, and the
Speaker 1: newer batteries are way better and unless you have constant
Speaker 1: drain and refill, I think it would last longer.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, it's it's a great option, especially if you're
Speaker 12: looking at spending thirty grand on a generator versus ten
Speaker 12: out of pocket. You know you have pa.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I got to take a break, and that's
Speaker 1: Brooke from red Rocks roof Andsolar redrocksars dot com three
Speaker 1: oh three seven zero four two four four nine, Tom,
Speaker 1: thank you for stirring that discussion. Is very, very thought provoking.
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Speaker 1: sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Artino, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Three O three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. All right, So our discussion today,
Speaker 1: uh has been a little bit of everything, well not everything,
Speaker 1: but we've been talking about solar systems, battery backups, generators.
Speaker 1: One guy says, look, I disagree with Brookes. The generators
Speaker 1: are great. You can get a small generator on your
Speaker 1: whole house. You don't even need an electrician. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I would be very careful about that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're handy, you may not need one. But if
Speaker 1: you're going into the grid, I think you need to permit.
Speaker 1: But we're also talking about EV's. I mean, are EV's
Speaker 1: truly going to take over? And when I mean, we
Speaker 1: have government mandates. And while you know Trump says drill, baby, drill,
Speaker 1: I love that. Since I have a lot of vacant
Speaker 1: royalty land, a lot of it, thousands of acres, I
Speaker 1: would love nothing more than for them to drill. I
Speaker 1: don't think we necessarily need to drill for cars. You know,
Speaker 1: there's way there's petroleum products. Oil is used for so
Speaker 1: many things that if you looked at a typical room
Speaker 1: or downtown and took away oil products, you would be shocked,
Speaker 1: I mean shocked at what would be missing. Three O
Speaker 1: three seven one three talk is our number. Now, So
Speaker 1: EV's Tesla's are they truly out ahead? One thing I
Speaker 1: want to say about Tesla's, and they may have changed
Speaker 1: now my son I got him a little Model three,
Speaker 1: and one thing I want to say about it, the quality,
Speaker 1: the finish and trim is not great. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've noticed that, Kevin, or if you have ever
Speaker 1: looked Deputy d Yeah. One, yeah, Mark loves his mondoleesque
Speaker 1: but if you look closely at that interior, it doesn't
Speaker 1: It doesn't compare to a Mercedes doesn't even come close
Speaker 1: to a Beamer or a Mercedes. Not even close. Now
Speaker 1: maybe the new ones do, but that disappointed me when
Speaker 1: I saw when I was looking at a plaid, when
Speaker 1: Mark was looking at his ass and I decided not
Speaker 1: to go with the plaid. But when I look closely
Speaker 1: at it, I was shocked. And I'm talking about knobs
Speaker 1: and levers and trim and stitching. I was shocked at
Speaker 1: the lack of detail. And some of these knobs they
Speaker 1: break and crack and they're brittle. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: think the quality of components in the older ones. When
Speaker 1: I say older, I'm talking about just a few years ago.
Speaker 1: It's not there. Did the interior change all? You know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about interiors, okay, it's hard to beat
Speaker 1: a Beamer or a Mercedes. Interior is hard. And when
Speaker 1: we say Mercedes, we're talking about a Lot and Beamer
Speaker 1: a lot because they both have a Maybach and Rolls
Speaker 1: Royce behind him. Those are beautiful, beautiful finish and trims
Speaker 1: or fit and trim. And when you're talking about another
Speaker 1: American mode, do you know who has the best American
Speaker 1: made trim cars in the world? In my opinion, who
Speaker 1: would you think I'm gonna say, keV, who do you think.
Speaker 5: I thought You're gonna go Cadillac or Lincoln or one
Speaker 5: of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, light, well that would be an obvious choice. The
Speaker 1: best trim in the world that I've seen is a Corvette.
Speaker 8: Yep. Yeah, They're definitely up there.
Speaker 1: You look at that fit that finished, that trim, that interior.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I mean now that and to be
Speaker 1: I don't mean to slight American workers, but it looks
Speaker 1: like it was. It's German manufacturing or look. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I bring Japanese.
Speaker 13: Hold on, hold on, Tom, I have to chime in here.
Speaker 13: I said Chevrolet and you said Corvette. Isn't that made
Speaker 13: by Chevrolet?
Speaker 1: Yeah? See, kid, it's almost like it's almost like a
Speaker 1: separate It really is almost it's almost like a separate company.
Speaker 13: Oh well about cars.
Speaker 1: Yes, you knew that Chevy made the Corvette, and that
Speaker 1: is amazing to me.
Speaker 13: I said that before you even said the Corvette. You
Speaker 13: got to give me some props.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Chevy in general is not good. When I
Speaker 1: said trim and you said Chevy, and I said Corvette,
Speaker 1: that's their world's apart. You have some crap Chevy trim
Speaker 1: and you have some really nice Chevy trim and let's
Speaker 1: talk general motors. You have good the same Cadillacs are nice,
Speaker 1: that they're nice. A lot of the Cadillac and the
Speaker 1: Corvette stylings they share engineers and stuff. But it's a
Speaker 1: really look, it's a really new world out there when
Speaker 1: it comes to cars, because now you're not only looking
Speaker 1: at making things beautiful but making them efficient. Light and again,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from people who are going to
Speaker 1: buy their next car and is going to be an
Speaker 1: EV or who will go down fighting and never get
Speaker 1: an EV. They figure, I'm at the point of my
Speaker 1: life right now. Like, for example, if you're forty, do
Speaker 1: you think you can go to the rest of your
Speaker 1: life with new cars if you want them? Like, however
Speaker 1: many new cars you get every three or four or
Speaker 1: five years. Can you go to the rest of your
Speaker 1: life at forty with today's marketplace and buy new cars
Speaker 1: and have gasoline cars until you die? What do you think, keV?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's going to be more generational than
Speaker 5: anything I think. You know, as you're I think as
Speaker 5: you're going through, I'm starting to go through. I just
Speaker 5: don't drive as much anymore, you know, so then if
Speaker 5: you take eight, go ahead, Yeah, it makes more sense
Speaker 5: at this time of my life than it would have
Speaker 5: twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Take eighty five years old, and then minus forty you're
Speaker 1: forty years old. So let's say you have forty five
Speaker 1: more years, and maybe you won't drive the last five.
Speaker 1: Who knows, I mean maybe you will. So let's say
Speaker 1: you're going to drive the whole forty five. And let's
Speaker 1: say you change cars every let's just say four years,
Speaker 1: so you have eleven cars. Do you think you can go,
Speaker 1: at forty years old, right now today, eleven more new
Speaker 1: cars and make them all gasoline. I don't mean eleven
Speaker 1: in the next two years.
Speaker 5: For the next whether it's EV or something that's going
Speaker 5: to replace EV.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can.
Speaker 8: I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can. I don't think I think
Speaker 1: there's going to be a time when an even when
Speaker 1: when a gasoline vehicle is going to be like wearing
Speaker 1: a genuine fur to the uh to the It's going
Speaker 1: to be looked at, not just not just out of
Speaker 1: vogue and out of style, but it's going to be shunned.
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Speaker 1: give me one of those questions that you've dug up
Speaker 1: from a listener.
Speaker 6: Okay, actually I dug these out from the deep, darksick
Speaker 6: recess of my own mind.
Speaker 1: Uh but uh, okay, go ahead, I have your well.
Speaker 1: Are you a listener? Are you a listener? Oh? Of
Speaker 1: course you are. I'm listening right now. Is just from
Speaker 1: a listener.
Speaker 6: So do you want to ask the expert or stump
Speaker 6: the mechanic?
Speaker 1: Which of those would you like? Stump the mechanic. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to Okay, So here it is, guys.
Speaker 6: So I recently disconnected the battery on my car to
Speaker 6: do some some service and keep getting zapped. I then
Speaker 6: reconnected the battery and drove away. Now, when I approached
Speaker 6: the very first stop sign and stopped, the engine almost died.
Speaker 6: And I was looking at the tachometer and it dropped
Speaker 6: well below its normal low idol of six hundred and
Speaker 6: to maybe a couple of hundred and almost died.
Speaker 8: Why it had to relearn the eye?
Speaker 5: Wow, Well, you take the voltage away, it loses all
Speaker 5: its programming, so it it actually learns your driving habits,
Speaker 5: and it can it can program to that.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. But now wait a minute, Wait a minute, Kevin,
Speaker 1: there's no way to preserve the settings when you discant
Speaker 1: the battery if.
Speaker 5: You take the battery off, but you keep voltage applied
Speaker 5: to the system. But he was trying to keep voltage
Speaker 5: out of the system. Now, Kevin is absolutely right.
Speaker 6: However, to take it one step further, what neglected maintenance
Speaker 6: does that reveal in my engine ground?
Speaker 1: Nope, maintenance, not repair.
Speaker 8: Throttle cleaning.
Speaker 6: You're absolutely right, throttle body cleaning is now why why?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Why Kevin, because it uses vacuum. It creates a mini
Speaker 5: vacuum leak to raise the IDOL and if you have
Speaker 5: too much harbin build up, it's plugging the ports it
Speaker 5: uses to create the vacuum leak, and the throttle won't
Speaker 5: close all the way.
Speaker 1: What would that have to do with the battery? What
Speaker 1: would that have to do with disconnecting nothing?
Speaker 8: This was the second question on to the first.
Speaker 6: Well, now, the reason that Kevin, I believe that the
Speaker 6: reason that disconnecting the battery, you've revealed that problem is
Speaker 6: as the throttle body got dirtier and dirtier over the years,
Speaker 6: the engine learned that and it may compensate for it.
Speaker 6: When I disconnected the battery, that learning went away, so
Speaker 6: it went back to factory defaults, and factory defaults are
Speaker 6: based on a clean, perfectly brand new throttle body. Yep,
Speaker 6: absolutely right, could not stump the excent. Very cool.
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Speaker 6: Okay, this isn't so I'm gonna mix it up.
Speaker 1: This isn't stump the mechanic.
Speaker 6: This is just general knowledge transfer from Kevin to the
Speaker 6: rest of us. Kevin, it is my opinion that one
Speaker 6: of the most neglected services, if not the most neglected service,
Speaker 6: is coolant change.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us if that's.
Speaker 6: Actually important to do and if so, why, well, well,
Speaker 6: first let me ask him this.
Speaker 1: Let me ask him this first, Kevin, is it one
Speaker 1: of the most neglected services.
Speaker 5: I think it's up there because of the manufacturers continually
Speaker 5: say you have lifetime anti freeze or lifetime oils and
Speaker 5: things like that.
Speaker 8: It's just not.
Speaker 5: True because it builds up acids and things inside the
Speaker 5: coolant as it breaks down. There's lubricants that break down.
Speaker 5: It's just the benefit far outweighs the you know, the
Speaker 5: cost to just get your flui. It's flushed, you know,
Speaker 5: every three to five years, depending on the vehicle, depending
Speaker 5: on miles. It's not that big a deal. But yeah,
Speaker 5: don't it has to be done. It is a challenge.
Speaker 6: And this what are some of the what are some
Speaker 6: of the things that could happen to your automobile if
Speaker 6: you just never ever change the coolant.
Speaker 5: Well, again, there's acids and the pH changes and stuff
Speaker 5: that happen, and then the lubricants that are in there
Speaker 5: to lubricate your water pump and seals and everything in
Speaker 5: the coolant, you can start having contaminations and corrosion and
Speaker 5: other properties that are in the interfreeze. That that's what
Speaker 5: its benefit is is anti corrosion and lubricants they break
Speaker 5: it down.
Speaker 6: And Kevin, you know, one of the Toyota mechanics I
Speaker 6: recently discussed this with, said that a lot of the
Speaker 6: head gasket failures in certain Toyota engines are due to
Speaker 6: neglected coolant maintenance because it becomes so corrosive it actually
Speaker 6: eats through the head gas you get through the gasket.
Speaker 6: And Kevin, what is a head gasket project cost them?
Speaker 6: A forerunner? Yeah, it's three three to five thousand, depending
Speaker 6: on you know, what it needs when you're in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, it's cheap insurance.
Speaker 8: It's not worth it.
Speaker 5: I don't know why people believe the lifetime and you know,
Speaker 5: extended one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, and the same with extended oil changes.
Speaker 1: Now granted we don't have to do three thousand miles
Speaker 1: anymore with the new oils and stuff, but you certainly
Speaker 1: should never go be ten.
Speaker 5: No, I absolutely not. That's that's the the Unless you're
Speaker 5: all highway, you can go up to ten. But if
Speaker 5: you're mixed, I think seventy five hundred.
Speaker 1: I do every ten thousand miles, I go in for service,
Speaker 1: and that's what the book says for my car, every
Speaker 1: ten thousand months. So I've actually only had it in
Speaker 1: for three services. You know, think about it. That's pretty
Speaker 1: damn cool. Every ten thousand miles. You don't think that's
Speaker 1: going too far.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 5: I think that's pushing the limit, because we're seeing a
Speaker 5: lot of vehicles in the seventy to eighty thousand miles
Speaker 5: with sludge, and it's built up from oils breaking down.
Speaker 8: That's the only thing that causes sludge.
Speaker 5: So again the benefit of extending it, but it just
Speaker 5: isn't there, not for the cost of an oil change
Speaker 5: or a cooling flush.
Speaker 6: And Tom, I mean, Kevin doesn't oil sludge. I think
Speaker 6: a lot of people don't understand that oil sludge. No,
Speaker 6: it sounds kind of icky. Actually leads to engine failure,
Speaker 6: like engine failure.
Speaker 8: Get it out of the engine.
Speaker 1: You know, Toyota had a big problem with that, didn't they,
Speaker 1: Kevin one time.
Speaker 5: Volkswagen was the one that was brutal. Yeah, they just
Speaker 5: they sludge up so heavy in there you'll never get
Speaker 5: it out. You can change your well once a week
Speaker 5: for a year, it's still in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: This happened to my friend's Kia just about a year
Speaker 6: and a half ago, and that was an infamous recall
Speaker 6: they did, and they swapped out her engine for free.
Speaker 6: But it was sludge.
Speaker 1: Why why let me ask you this then, why do
Speaker 1: Japanese cars or did Japanese cars have more of a
Speaker 1: problem with sludge than other cars? Why?
Speaker 5: I think it's just the service intervals, there's no you know,
Speaker 5: the heat and everything, it all accumulates. So everybody's trying
Speaker 5: to push the window on oil. Change it again. I
Speaker 5: don't understand the benefit. You know, save one hundred bucks
Speaker 5: and it costs you three grand. It's filly. That's the bottom.
Speaker 1: Mile three seven three or three seven one three tall.
Speaker 1: I have a text here and it says, if you
Speaker 1: have a small leak in your cooling system, is it
Speaker 1: acceptable to putting these stop leaks they sell? They claim
Speaker 1: they're permanent.
Speaker 8: No, no, just simple.
Speaker 1: You don't like that.
Speaker 5: No, they're they're indiscriminate. You know, it doesn't know a
Speaker 5: leak from a from a small capillary and a radiator
Speaker 5: or a or your heater core, so it up your system. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it doesn't know what it's plugging. Yeah, yeah, get the leak.
Speaker 1: I never trust any of those. I never Yeah, I
Speaker 1: never trust any of those that say they're permanent, like
Speaker 1: like even like a fix a flat, although I don't
Speaker 1: think fix a flat ever claims it's.
Speaker 5: Well and it's not detrimental to the tire. It's getting
Speaker 5: you to the next place to get it fixed.
Speaker 8: Spot.
Speaker 1: Since we're on cars and we've been talking, EV's we've
Speaker 1: been talking cars, we've been talking something mechanic. Here's something
Speaker 1: I want to put out there. In all of these years,
Speaker 1: they haven't improved on the tire. I mean, obviously they've
Speaker 1: they've improved on the compounds and the treads and all that,
Speaker 1: but it's still air and a cylinder, and I think
Speaker 1: it's stupid. First of all, why can't they be square?
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. No, But on a tire. Here's the
Speaker 1: main deal. Here's what I'm thinking. I saw, if you
Speaker 1: can picture what a honey cone looks like a honeycomb.
Speaker 1: While the little cells, I saw a profile of a
Speaker 1: tire one time that was thousands of these cells. It
Speaker 1: was all made of rubber and no air. In other words,
Speaker 1: that constant the cells made up the cushion instead of air. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously there's naturally occurring air in the cells between the cells,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't pressurized. And then it was all wrapped
Speaker 1: in a steel belted radio. Now, think about this, You
Speaker 1: would never have air, You would never leak ever, think
Speaker 1: about it. What do you guys think?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I think's an awesome Yeah. I mean you see a lot
Speaker 5: of that on bicycle tires too.
Speaker 1: But why don't they do any of that?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: I mean, it would still wear out because you have
Speaker 1: the outer you know, you have the tread that will
Speaker 1: wear out, but you don't have air ever to worry about. Ever.
Speaker 1: A nail would do nothing to that. Why don't people
Speaker 1: ever look at stuff?
Speaker 5: It's like a hybrid run flat basically is what it is.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure they're working on it. I think it's
Speaker 5: just not cost effect.
Speaker 1: What is a run flat? What's inside of a run flat?
Speaker 8: Just it's it's just thicker side walls and everything else
Speaker 8: to go with it. They're they're impossible to get them
Speaker 8: off the rims because there's no flex to them. It's
Speaker 8: just a lot thicker sidewill.
Speaker 2: But is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 8: That's all it is basically. Yeah, it's oversimplified, but yeah,
Speaker 8: it's just more of a solid tire.
Speaker 1: So that's okay.
Speaker 8: Technology. Well I'm gonna that's what's coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I want do you have a quick stunt?
Speaker 1: The lawyer question for me?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: The my most the one I was most interested in is, uh,
Speaker 6: would would John Fuller recommend that people who install dashcam
Speaker 6: cameras like I did deactivate the audio audio recording feature
Speaker 6: like I did. That was an interesting question because and
Speaker 6: the reason is that that audio might provide evidence that's
Speaker 6: contrary to my best interest in an accident such as
Speaker 6: you have.
Speaker 1: But so could video. So could video?
Speaker 6: Really forward looking video doesn't record me talking on the
Speaker 6: phone or looking for or looking for a particular address
Speaker 6: in a building, or eating soup or shaving or something
Speaker 6: you know, and and and and so it could be
Speaker 6: that the opposing side could make an argument that, hey, I,
Speaker 6: if I didn't cause the accident, I at least contributed
Speaker 6: to it because I wasn't able to react quickly enough
Speaker 6: because I was yammering on the phone.
Speaker 1: See that's yeah, that's a weird kind of question. That's
Speaker 1: not really a stump, but uh, what's your opinion kind
Speaker 1: of thing. I would say, if you're going to have video,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the audio. I mean, realy
Speaker 1: would you need it anyway?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just want to record who's that fault. I
Speaker 6: don't want to create even more questions about my reaction
Speaker 6: time if I was looking at an address or I've.
Speaker 1: Never Actually that's a good question, though, has video or
Speaker 1: has audio ever been used in a video dash cam
Speaker 1: in fact, I'd like to talk to anyone, one person.
Speaker 1: We've never had a case where someone's called and said,
Speaker 1: thank god I had a dash cam. Here's why, keV.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a dash can brought up for
Speaker 1: service of any kind?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: No, but you know we have cameras all over the shop,
Speaker 5: so it's you know, we're not in the cars though.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: of things. And I like it. And do you have
Speaker 1: any more? And by the way, I want you to
Speaker 1: call if you have a problem question to plan. I
Speaker 1: do have some texts I'll get to in a minute.
Speaker 1: They're just not all that compelling, but they're asking advice
Speaker 1: on cars. Guy said they are working on a tire
Speaker 1: that needs no air. Someone else said there is a
Speaker 1: version of that out already, but for some reason, airless
Speaker 1: tires have not become commercially viable, and I don't know why. Now.
Speaker 1: One thing a lot of the big trucks do in
Speaker 1: the RVs is they use molecules that are bigger than air,
Speaker 1: so they don't slow leak as much. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about nitrogen. Have you heard of that? keV?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, run especially a little cooler too, so you know
Speaker 5: the tire doesn't wear as long.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no nitrogen.
Speaker 1: So where do you buy nitrogen? Where do you buy nitrogen?
Speaker 8: Well, any discount tire has it?
Speaker 1: No? Really no, yeah, most tire places. Can you ask
Speaker 1: that your tires? Now, what happens if you have nitrogen
Speaker 1: in your tires and you got to refill or you
Speaker 1: got to top them off and you don't have nitrogen?
Speaker 1: Can you mix air any.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it's not going to hurt anything. But if
Speaker 5: you have a green cap on the valve stem, it's notitrogen.
Speaker 1: So what's the benefit of nitrogen?
Speaker 5: The molecules are molecules, and it runs a little cooler,
Speaker 5: it can dissipate heat better than the than the standard
Speaker 5: air composible.
Speaker 1: It's it expensive compared to well compared to air, air
Speaker 1: is really other than paying for the compressor when you
Speaker 1: stop it a.
Speaker 5: Cast, It's just an apparatus that pulls it out of
Speaker 5: the air. It's nothing, nothing fancy.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, so it's not like a gash. You
Speaker 1: have to go buy a bulk. You can actually you can. Wait,
Speaker 1: Could I get from a hangar? Could I get literally
Speaker 1: a little compressor that produces nitrogen?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You can't. Sure you can, yeah, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people with aircraft are going to nitrogen, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to put I'd like to put nitrogen in my helicopter tires.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha, but boom, I know some do have
Speaker 1: some do have tires. But anyway, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: the next question.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, okay, do you want the question or the
Speaker 6: stump the mechanic?
Speaker 1: Whatever you want either one.
Speaker 6: You stump the mechanic and Kevin, I apologize, this is
Speaker 6: going to be a weird one, but I think you'll
Speaker 6: figure it out pretty quickly. This actually happened to me
Speaker 6: when I was in high school. I had a pretty
Speaker 6: old car, like most high school students do, and I
Speaker 6: was getting intermittent battery connection failures. I could tell because
Speaker 6: the radio would go out, the lights would go out.
Speaker 6: So I, well, it's not what you think. You're gonna
Speaker 6: be stumped too, Tom, I want to hear your answer first. Actually,
Speaker 6: I removed the clamp from the battery post and it
Speaker 6: fell off. The clamp fell off the cable and when
Speaker 6: it fell off, a huge amount of blue and green
Speaker 6: crystals and powder just poured out of the installation.
Speaker 1: What what happened? Moisture and the air of v app
Speaker 1: they evaporated, leaving behind the or a corroded it too
Speaker 1: as well, plus the metals in the water. So what
Speaker 1: was the moistures getting moistures getting? Probably uh, it's the
Speaker 1: corrosion from the copper capper.
Speaker 8: Backup in the sheathing of the cave.
Speaker 1: Right, that's right, But how But my question is how
Speaker 1: would that happen? If it's properly shielded. It never happened.
Speaker 1: And the way I shield it, I even go one
Speaker 1: step further. Although I will say the newer cars now
Speaker 1: are like, gosh, dang it, you can't they're they're air tight.
Speaker 1: But I used to do some heat shrink or some
Speaker 1: this rap they make. Now have you seen that wrap
Speaker 1: that fuses on itself?
Speaker 8: Yet?
Speaker 1: So for my aircraft stuff. I take that. I think
Speaker 1: it's called teflon. I'm not no, I don't think it
Speaker 1: is tephlon, though maybe it is. But it's this black
Speaker 1: stuff that looks like tape. It's the same on both sides.
Speaker 1: It's not really sticky, well it is kind of sticky,
Speaker 1: but it's tacky, that's what's itself. And then what you
Speaker 1: do is you wrap it and I wrap it right
Speaker 1: around the wires, right up to the terminals, right up
Speaker 1: to where that even where that where it's crimped. And
Speaker 1: then and then you tut and you you squeeze your
Speaker 1: hands like you know what I mean, and it fuses.
Speaker 1: It literally becomes like one substance without any heat. So
Speaker 1: it's not even like a heat shrink. It just fuses
Speaker 1: on itself. You've seen that, right, Kevin.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, Now we use stuff like that electrical. We have
Speaker 8: a liquid duct tape or liquid electric tape they call it.
Speaker 8: So you can really.
Speaker 1: Steal, right, Tomtree, are we right or wrong on this?
Speaker 1: Are we right or wrong?
Speaker 6: You guys are absolutely correct. So what happened was the
Speaker 6: battery acid. I had an old crimy battery like many
Speaker 6: people do, and the battery acid was seeping out of
Speaker 6: the battery, and it was crawling up the cable through
Speaker 6: capillary action, and it was getting sucked and sucked in
Speaker 6: inside that insulation. And I actually had to cut away,
Speaker 6: I'm not kidding you, like six or seven inches of
Speaker 6: my big, you know, primary battery cable until I got
Speaker 6: to actual copper to repair this problem.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And then you wrapped it properly after that, right,
Speaker 1: or he shrunk it or something. No, that was before
Speaker 1: I knew.
Speaker 6: I was sixteen, This was before I knew about heat
Speaker 6: shrink wrapping. And I just bought a new battery.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing, how much speaking of knowing, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, I was playing that YouTube video about how
Speaker 1: different people look at car problems. One sits behind the
Speaker 1: wheel and says, oh, that's my watrum, call my caliber,
Speaker 1: or that's my this, or that's my that, and they
Speaker 1: they say, I'll have to fix that. They get out,
Speaker 1: open up the hood right. Next person says, oh, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I got to call my mechanic. What the
Speaker 1: hell is that noise? You know? So that's all right,
Speaker 1: So they call him mccank. Next one says, these are
Speaker 1: progressively younger generations. Then the next one says, goes to AI,
Speaker 1: what does it mean when blah blah blah blah. The
Speaker 1: next one says, oh, my god, I need a new car.
Speaker 1: So you know this is falling apart around.
Speaker 13: I have I have a question for all of you. Yes,
Speaker 13: I'm assuming nobody has triple A.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, in other words, in other words, why not just
Speaker 1: call triple A? You're right? Well, you know that's a
Speaker 1: good point, Kelly. Well, and you call triple A, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I you know, instead of calling triple A. I prefer
Speaker 6: to use my Y chromosome. You're what my y chromosomes?
Speaker 13: I have a double X over here. And yes, I
Speaker 13: did ask Kevin why breaks need fluid this morning? I
Speaker 13: will admit that apparently they you who knew?
Speaker 1: Wait if breaks have?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 13: I asked Kevin if needed fluid? Because my kid's car.
Speaker 1: Well not a Model T. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: well forgot okay, or a carriage with horses.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 13: I don't there's so much fluid in cars. I mean,
Speaker 13: I get confused. You know that's an atom question. You
Speaker 13: know I can make two flas. But anyway, and.
Speaker 1: What are the three hold on? I got something. I
Speaker 1: got a casual but a little trivia here. What are
Speaker 1: the three main purposes of fluid in a vehicle? What
Speaker 1: are they? Number one would be what lubrication?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 13: Gas?
Speaker 1: Number two?
Speaker 13: Gas to make it go?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's okay, you're you're technically correct there. I guess
Speaker 1: we yeah, you're right. Okay, So fuel lubrication. And then
Speaker 1: I guess we could say coolant, cooling. So what's the
Speaker 1: other ones?
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 1: What are the other purposes? What are the other purposes
Speaker 1: of fluids? One would be hydraulic or pressure creating fluid,
Speaker 1: air conditioning. That's a that's not yeah, but but hydraulic
Speaker 1: fluids would create pressure for radio. I don't know of
Speaker 1: any radios, and then steering this hydraulic though.
Speaker 13: Text just the radio. Okay, the radio doesn't work.
Speaker 8: The radio needs fluid.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Wait a minute, Kelly, Kelly, I want
Speaker 1: you to hold on, put your hand on your heart
Speaker 1: and tell me you honestly were wondering that.
Speaker 13: No, I was saying, if the car doesn't go, I
Speaker 13: can't have the radio. Thank god, there's a caller.
Speaker 1: But wait, what the hell does that have? So she
Speaker 1: wanted to know if the if the radio needed fluid.
Speaker 1: You know what, here's the deal, fluid. Here's a phenomenon.
Speaker 1: There's a phenomenon called the turkey death that I hope
Speaker 1: never she never experiences. But I'm coming to think that
Speaker 1: if she asked that question, maybe she could. And that's
Speaker 1: where it's raining and they look up at the rain
Speaker 1: and they don't close their mouths or cover their noses
Speaker 1: and they drown. No, no, you've heard of that right
Speaker 1: here when you looked outside and saw the snows.
Speaker 13: No, okay, we're having a w k RP moment right
Speaker 13: now where less what was his name, less less nessmans
Speaker 13: Lesson did the turkey thing and he dropped all the
Speaker 13: turkeys out when well, he.
Speaker 1: Said, as God is my witness, yes, I thought turkeys
Speaker 1: could fly. We got more coming right up on the
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Speaker 1: oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Tom
Speaker 1: Martine here, you're Trumbleshooter three oh three seven one three
Speaker 1: talk seven one three A two five five. We've been
Speaker 1: having kind of fun with some trivia. I have a question.
Speaker 1: I have something and here's the question. Okay, and then
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the answer, or no, you
Speaker 1: give me the answer, Dimitria, This one is for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is the what is the correct ignition timing? On
Speaker 1: a nineteen fifty five bel Air Chevrolet with a three
Speaker 1: twenty seven cubic inch four barrel carberet Kelly's good? Now,
Speaker 1: what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2: keV?
Speaker 1: Kevin? What are you laughing at? No, he didn't hear
Speaker 1: the question. He just walked back in. Can you please
Speaker 1: repeat it for Kevin's who was laughing? That was me? Okay?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: And Okay, here's the question, keV. Here's the question. What
Speaker 1: is the correct ignition timing? On a ninth team fifty
Speaker 1: five bel Air Chevrolet with a three to twenty seven
Speaker 1: cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor.
Speaker 13: That's a BS question.
Speaker 1: Hey, how'd you wait a minute? You recognize that? Kelly?
Speaker 6: Yeah, thick, everybody recognize Kelly's a.
Speaker 1: Secret cargol Wait everyone recognized that? Oh yeah?
Speaker 6: And the correct answer is four degrees before top dead Center.
Speaker 1: No, the answer is Chevy didn't make it three twenty
Speaker 1: seven and fifty five twenty seven doesn't come out until
Speaker 1: sixty two, and it wasn't offered in the Belaire with
Speaker 1: the four barrel carburetor till sixty four. However, the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty four the correct ignition timing would be four degrees
Speaker 1: before top dead center. So there go yourself.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that was a fun nywait to reflect. I remember
Speaker 1: what movie was that? What movie was it?
Speaker 13: My cousin Vinny?
Speaker 1: But what the right Kelly? Did you here? I need
Speaker 1: to know this though. Did you recognize it? Or did
Speaker 1: Dragon tell you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 13: No, I recognized it for sure.
Speaker 1: I love that man, I love that movie.
Speaker 13: Will here, I'm in, But I will tell you. Okay,
Speaker 13: I knew I had such a crush on her. What
Speaker 13: were you what you were talking about? But I had
Speaker 13: no idea about cars before I actually watched that movie
Speaker 13: and I actually and then that gave you.
Speaker 2: The the.
Speaker 1: Now here's the guy. So here's a guy who says,
Speaker 1: I used nitrogen in all of my cars. Nothing better.
Speaker 1: I paid one time fee of five dollars a tire
Speaker 1: and I get refills for life. Did you know that
Speaker 1: at Big O refills for life and you pay five bucks? Wow?
Speaker 1: Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. Next question, Dmitri, go.
Speaker 6: Ahead, okay, Kevin? Why should we change spark plugs? And
Speaker 6: what would happen if we don't?
Speaker 5: Well, they're the change intervals are much much longer with
Speaker 5: the newer engines because without the carburetors and the dumping
Speaker 5: of fuel and everything, they lasts a long time. But
Speaker 5: the outside, I mean it'll start misfiring. I've seen it
Speaker 5: go as far as blowing up a computer because the
Speaker 5: coil driver in the computer gets overloaded because the gap
Speaker 5: of the plug gets too big from use. So, I mean,
Speaker 5: from one end it's performance another end, you can cause
Speaker 5: damage from running plugs too long.
Speaker 6: I didn't realize you can actually cause damage, electrical damage.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's pretty scary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, seventeen hundred dollars computer driver inside the computer
Speaker 5: got wiped out because of the plug. The gap was
Speaker 5: too big.
Speaker 6: Now, Kevin, that's got to be another one of the
Speaker 6: most neglected maintenance side It was on color again.
Speaker 5: It's nothing service intervals. Everybody thinks everything's maintenance free. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, the plugs aren't too bad. I mean, you
Speaker 5: can go seventy five eighty thousand miles on a set
Speaker 5: of plugs, you know, without any problem.
Speaker 6: But they have these plugs, iridium tipped plugs, and they
Speaker 6: advertise the service life of over one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 5: Now I should not take that at face value. I
Speaker 5: don't want to take anything to failure. So yeah, they're
Speaker 5: talking one hundred thousand miles, you'll start experiencing failure. Oh
Speaker 5: not just deterioration.
Speaker 1: Okay, more, we got more coming up. But I have
Speaker 1: a question, and or not a question, but a theory
Speaker 1: and a philosophy. Is something I've always done. Before I
Speaker 1: could afford new cars, and I would buy a used car.
Speaker 1: And then later on when I started buying used aircraft,
Speaker 1: I never cared about previous records. Well I cared about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't want anything abused. I always got it checked
Speaker 1: out but then I did, And Kevin and I have
Speaker 1: discussed this before. I call it zero timing the car
Speaker 1: or the engine or the aircraft.
Speaker 6: Baselining also yes, yeah, and Dmitri, you se like the
Speaker 6: type of person that would do that. Yeah, when I So,
Speaker 6: when I got my beloved for runner, I spent about
Speaker 6: three weeks and a ton of money, uh, baselining it completely, baselining.
Speaker 1: It every anything it needed. And if there was a hesitation,
Speaker 1: for example, like on a timing belt that needs to
Speaker 1: be changed, not changed, that don't have to be but
Speaker 1: if something has to be changed, you change it and
Speaker 1: you know it's done, and and and you do all
Speaker 1: of the fluids, all of the belts, and all of
Speaker 1: the hoses. Is that what you're talking about? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't do the hoses because they're in wonderful condition.
Speaker 6: But I changed seven fluids, the spark plugs, the brake pads,
Speaker 6: and the associated springs and shims. And the biggest thing
Speaker 6: I did, I replaced literally the entire suspension with a
Speaker 6: brand new one. And I also swapped out both of
Speaker 6: the outer tyrod ends all with OEM toilet well need Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Kevin, do you do you think used car
Speaker 1: dealers ever do that.
Speaker 8: Before they saw the car? Oh no, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 8: not even close. Most of them.
Speaker 5: You know they'll go through and hit the safety stuff.
Speaker 5: The good lots will. But as far as zero maintenance, no, no,
Speaker 5: it's only as required.
Speaker 1: Well, I have a question coming back, and it is
Speaker 1: with no owner's manual, I mean theoretically no owner's manuel.
Speaker 1: I know you can find one. What service would every
Speaker 1: car need? What would be apropos for all cars when
Speaker 1: you just get a car? If you have no service
Speaker 1: manual or no owner's manual, what can you rest assured
Speaker 1: that you would have to do? And on what periodical
Speaker 1: basis would you do it? Jay's got a question on
Speaker 1: Corvette sixty six breaks. We'll do that coming back to
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Martino. Go with a sure thing Denver's best
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Hey Tom Martino here three O three seven
Speaker 1: one three talks on one three each twenty five to five. Jay,
Speaker 1: what is your question on a sixty six corvette?
Speaker 14: Okay, so if you remember this one from about thirty
Speaker 14: years ago, you don't get to answer. Sixty three corvette. Actually,
Speaker 14: guy drives it to work. When he gets to work,
Speaker 14: the breaks loock solid. He gets his little wrench out
Speaker 14: and bleeds off the pressure. He dries it home just
Speaker 14: about time he gets homes, breakslocks solid, he gets out
Speaker 14: as takes pressure off over again.
Speaker 9: For days.
Speaker 14: And days days, no one can figure it out what's
Speaker 14: going on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what do you think, keV?
Speaker 8: I've seen proportioning valves do that.
Speaker 1: I know what it is?
Speaker 2: Val What is it?
Speaker 1: I know what it is? What is it?
Speaker 6: So brake lines corrode from the inside out. So these
Speaker 6: brake lines are sold and corroded. They're now acting like
Speaker 6: check valves. They allow the hydraulic fluid to come into
Speaker 6: the pistons, but they don't allow it to come back out.
Speaker 6: That's what I think is going on? How old are
Speaker 6: the flex lines on this corvette?
Speaker 14: Well, actually all placed. This corvette went to a dealer
Speaker 14: probably fifteen times, maybe more than that. Tick God, I
Speaker 14: knew everything. Problem never solved until I do know the answer,
Speaker 14: so I can tell you, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 14: That's a good one. It come on, Yeah, you got
Speaker 14: what you said.
Speaker 8: Everything got replaced masters slaves, I mean everything.
Speaker 9: That's right?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, so what did it turn out to be?
Speaker 9: Tom?
Speaker 14: If you remember this? It turned out to be the
Speaker 14: half shafts had a vibration in it. Yeah, this was
Speaker 14: on your show quite a bit.
Speaker 11: Yeah, saft okay in it?
Speaker 9: And I said, this.
Speaker 14: Vibration is making the little plungers that move move. The
Speaker 14: brakes actually expanded contract just enough to create a time,
Speaker 14: a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 9: This builds up and up and up and up and
Speaker 9: up and up. Eventually it locks it solid. And I was.
Speaker 14: I was told that wasn't even possible. It was there
Speaker 14: Domat saying anybody ever heard in their lives. And finally
Speaker 14: the owner was so frustrated he said, all right, do
Speaker 14: you think it'll fix it?
Speaker 9: Go or nobody else can fix it? So I did,
Speaker 9: can it work.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow again, that's they are easy. Oh no, that's not.
Speaker 1: You're not Jr. You're Jay right. I always get you confused.
Speaker 1: Jay is one of our car experts that calls in Kevin. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we got more coming up on the Troubleshooter Show. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk movies about cars. Go with a sure thing
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Speaker 2: Come running just as fast as you can.
Speaker 3: Shooter's gonna help coming.
Speaker 4: Man Dix, he is the Troubleshooter Show. No tell Martine, Hello,
Speaker 4: let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's solve your problems, answer your questions, take your plans.
Speaker 1: You know I've been doing this in Denver, forty five
Speaker 1: years and longer of you if you take into my
Speaker 1: total careers fifty years, and I should have some kind
Speaker 1: of party, really I should. So any ideas, let's have
Speaker 1: a party trio?
Speaker 9: Yeah? No, just so?
Speaker 1: How about a what do you call it? A hallmark
Speaker 1: partner or a milestone party? I'm oh, what is it
Speaker 1: called a milestone anyway? Something like that? Do you ever
Speaker 1: notice though, in Denver, whenever IM media person, no matter
Speaker 1: how long they could be on the air for six minutes,
Speaker 1: and when they retire they're a legend. I often wonder
Speaker 1: about what it takes to be a legend, what does
Speaker 1: it take? Because I don't think we've had any broadcasting legends.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, Bob Palmer would have been one. I would
Speaker 1: have called him a broadcast ed sardella. Usual to retire
Speaker 1: from radio, typically they fire your ass first, well, typically
Speaker 1: they take you out feet first. But as far as
Speaker 1: retiring from radio, you're right, people get fired and TV.
Speaker 1: More people retire from TV than radio. TV, though you know,
Speaker 1: TV has gotten pretty stable, and that's because and I
Speaker 1: don't think I tried to think about this. Is it
Speaker 1: because I'm getting older and it's all relatively different to
Speaker 1: me or is it really happening? So you tell me dragon,
Speaker 1: because you're not old, you're not an old guy, and
Speaker 1: you can tell me Kachina. Here's what I'm thinking. Do
Speaker 1: the kids on TV reporting look way younger than they
Speaker 1: used to? And I know we were all young at
Speaker 1: one time. I'm not trying to say oh in my day,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to point my bony finger. I'm
Speaker 1: just asking do they seem don't they seem they seem
Speaker 1: truly like kids and like like like I would think
Speaker 1: it's high school journal I call it high school journalism.
Speaker 1: But they're not doing a bad job.
Speaker 2: In fact, some.
Speaker 1: Of them do a great job. In fact, I love them.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not even talking about quality. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about their age. They look so damn young. Now
Speaker 1: I do I want to say something else, and I
Speaker 1: don't know this is DEI or this is just we
Speaker 1: ran out of pretty people. But I think that they're
Speaker 1: more inclusive when it comes to looks. And I mean
Speaker 1: that in a good way, by the way, And it's
Speaker 1: no smart ass remark. I'm not trying to push an agenda,
Speaker 1: and I'm not calling anyone ugly, but I think we
Speaker 1: have a way bigger variety now of body shapes and
Speaker 1: sizes and and and and how tall sure people are
Speaker 1: and their facial features. You don't have to necessarily be
Speaker 1: all that attractive. And I'm saying that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying people are downright ugly. No one is
Speaker 1: actually ugly when you get to know them, right, if
Speaker 1: they're good people. But I'm talking about that that I
Speaker 1: think it's improved. I really do. I think TV has
Speaker 1: improved in that regard.
Speaker 13: I don't know about that. I have to do a
Speaker 13: big time out on that because I just got back
Speaker 13: last week from being a week in LA where I
Speaker 13: had to endure every local media station because they always
Speaker 13: broadcast this the Storm of the century, because every time
Speaker 13: we get rain in Los Angeles, it is the storm
Speaker 13: of the century, and there.
Speaker 1: Are well we do that here too. Come on, oh, everyone,
Speaker 1: wether we're obsessed with weather. Nothing wrong with being obsessed
Speaker 1: with weather, by the way.
Speaker 13: Close to the to the storm of the century. Like
Speaker 13: all the graphics that are plasted on the chirons and everything,
Speaker 13: I mean, it's they're plastered everywhere, and you kind of
Speaker 13: have the talent though, hold on, I'm not talking about
Speaker 13: that's the production that they are all. I saw no
Speaker 13: white people on anything.
Speaker 1: Well, what does that mean, Kelly.
Speaker 13: And I'm not saying that that's a bad thing. I'm
Speaker 13: just saying that was noticeable that the anchors everyone, they're
Speaker 13: all diversity. And that's fine, that's fine, that's of course
Speaker 13: it is, you know.
Speaker 1: That's here's the more important here's the more important question, Kelly,
Speaker 1: before you get my show canceled, let me let me
Speaker 1: interject here. I think that there was a time when
Speaker 1: TV news was all white people, and then there was
Speaker 1: a time when when everyone had to look a certain way,
Speaker 1: and I went through all of that, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you necessarily Here's I think people should be selected
Speaker 1: on merit. But I do think this, and this is
Speaker 1: going to sound a little deish, it might sound progressive,
Speaker 1: but I'm just going to say this. If you're talking
Speaker 1: about something like TV and entertainment and all of that,
Speaker 1: should it be merit based. Of course it should. But
Speaker 1: where there are tie breakers and you have a staff
Speaker 1: that leans heavily one way or another, I do believe
Speaker 1: it would be a good idea for these occupations. Only
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like in the public eye And don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, I'm not saying we should push any
Speaker 1: agenda or any person, or any ideology or anything. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to what people are looking at, I
Speaker 1: want my little kids. I want my little minority kids,
Speaker 1: and my little white kids, and my little Indian kids,
Speaker 1: my little whatever kids to see maybe parts of themselves.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a good thing. I don't mean
Speaker 1: that we have to force and I don't think we
Speaker 1: have to force it, and it certainly doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be lopsided one way or the other. But I think
Speaker 1: that's that's a cool thing. I can see themselves. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. And I know as far as what
Speaker 1: that stupid fire chief said or that you know, they
Speaker 1: when somebody comes to save you, you want to you
Speaker 1: want like you, And I said what I want just
Speaker 1: the opposite. I want some seven foot burly guy that
Speaker 1: or a woman that can pick me up over their
Speaker 1: shoulder and save me. You like, give a damn it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care what they look like. And
Speaker 1: when I when I have a surgeon, I have never
Speaker 1: once looked at a surgeon and thought, hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: where where's the dwarf or where's the uh Italian or
Speaker 1: where's the Puerto Rican? And the reason I mentioned Dwarfs,
Speaker 1: by the way, I just want to because that one
Speaker 1: news conference just made me laugh like crazy bell when
Speaker 1: Trump was till.
Speaker 13: I'm not trying to say anything. I'm not trying to
Speaker 13: get your show canceled. I don't think I said anything
Speaker 13: that's not noticeable. But you know, I grew up of
Speaker 13: two of the with two of the best broadcasters known
Speaker 13: to radio and television, and that is Vince Well, thank
Speaker 13: you very.
Speaker 1: Much, Kelly. You didn't have to You really didn't have
Speaker 1: to say that.
Speaker 13: Three Sorry, Okay, Vince Gully, chick Hern and Cal Martine.
Speaker 1: No, he's Vince Kellys, Scully's good.
Speaker 13: Good chick Hern the best. So I basically grew up
Speaker 13: with them. They were my entire childhood, so I knew
Speaker 13: nothing but them.
Speaker 1: But I love, you know, I used to love watching
Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite. Wasn't that cool or Chet Hun and all
Speaker 1: these old bands, but they were they were like they
Speaker 1: were one sided back then on how people looked and
Speaker 1: who they were, old white men. And but I really
Speaker 1: I love David Cronkite, I mean he was so cool
Speaker 1: and Walter, you know, but nowadays, if I want to
Speaker 1: be honest, we have great talent on the air right now.
Speaker 2: We do, we we have.
Speaker 1: I think I think that I think we have good
Speaker 1: talent on the air right now. I think we we
Speaker 1: are blessed in broadcasting. You have a lot of good talent.
Speaker 1: Now we have a lot of sucky talent too, obviously,
Speaker 1: but we have I think, mainly good people. When I
Speaker 1: look at all networks, even when I don't agree with them,
Speaker 1: I kind of like, there, you know what I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: something like like you may think I'm crazy. I'm only
Speaker 1: talking about entertainment value and P factor and Q factor
Speaker 1: and delivery and style. Okay, there are some people you
Speaker 1: find obnoxious I think because of what they're saying. But
Speaker 1: when you look beyond that, I think you find some
Speaker 1: really cool deliveries and stuff like that. And if you
Speaker 1: examine that, like I happen to think, even though I
Speaker 1: can't stand her, I think Rachel Maddow is a great broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I know, I do. I think. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: agree with the words you says, and I know people
Speaker 1: find her obnoxious, but it's very entertaining. She's very engaging,
Speaker 1: and where Jake Trapper is a Snoresville Snoresville right, and
Speaker 1: wolf Blitzer used to be a dynamic He just needs
Speaker 1: no one to hang it up. My god, I saw
Speaker 1: him the other day and I thought, who they get
Speaker 1: from the home? So do you does anyone come to
Speaker 1: mind with you? People on on some really good broadcasters? Seriously,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like newspeople in general. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about broadcasting. Well, almost everything's broadcast nowadays. Even the print
Speaker 1: people get on broadcasts. But I think that we have
Speaker 1: such a plethora of talent it's really hard to stand
Speaker 1: out nowadays, don't you guys think, especially when you throw
Speaker 1: into the mix, not just broadcast personalities but actual actually
Speaker 1: like TikTok and YouTube and Instagram. I mean, there is
Speaker 1: so much competition. It's very difficult to stand out, very difficult.
Speaker 1: If you have any calls. Would today's car day? We're
Speaker 1: talking cars, but we'll talk about anything you want. And
Speaker 1: I did an interesting thing. I did some research on
Speaker 1: movies that have car makes or models actually in the title.
Speaker 1: Not movies about cars. There's a ton of those, But
Speaker 1: what about movies whose titles have a car in it?
Speaker 1: Like exactly, that's the first one. Everyone first.
Speaker 8: That's a cool car.
Speaker 1: How about Mustang Country.
Speaker 2: Get here?
Speaker 1: That one is seventy six? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ford v.
Speaker 13: Ferrari.
Speaker 1: I love that movie. That's a cool movie.
Speaker 8: Was that a true story was based on a on
Speaker 8: a factual astoria?
Speaker 6: Now how bellis realized that's another question.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that actually took place. And that was the
Speaker 1: Ford that finally beat Ferrari. Which one was it? By
Speaker 1: the way, was it the Ford became the Ford GT? Okay, see,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. And then Corvette Summer. I don't
Speaker 1: remember that movie. I've heard of it. I've never heard
Speaker 1: of this one either, The Yellow Rolls Royce Nothing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Yellow Rolls Royce. How about charger for twenty six?
Speaker 1: Remember the four to twenty six Hemi engine? Oh it's
Speaker 1: the Dodge charger, a Dodge charger. Anyway, we got more
Speaker 1: coming up on the Troubleshooter Show three oh three seven, one,
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Speaker 1: nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Tom Martine, your
Speaker 1: troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talks seven one
Speaker 1: three two five five. You know, speaking of talent, we
Speaker 1: were talking about broadcasting talent, and then we got off
Speaker 1: on a conversation. It could have been off the air
Speaker 1: about you know, singers and other people who've tried to
Speaker 1: carry on for their parents and couldn't hold the couldn't
Speaker 1: hold the spotlight, or couldn't hold their their's there as shoes,
Speaker 1: actually some of them. But what about people who are
Speaker 1: famous right now for no apparent reason? And I know
Speaker 1: the first name that came to your mind? And if
Speaker 1: it didn't start with a K, then you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about?
Speaker 8: Which K you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Which K? I'm talking about the main K, not the mom,
Speaker 1: not the but Kim yep.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 1: Actually Chris Kardashian is a brilliant businesswoman. She capitalized on
Speaker 1: a bunch of nothing now and the husband was a
Speaker 1: great attorney. The original on the second husband, of course,
Speaker 1: is Caitlin Bruce Jenner. So here's the deal. The deal
Speaker 1: is this? I mean, how do you get famous for
Speaker 1: nothing for having sex and your mom leaking the tape?
Speaker 1: Isn't that what happened? Although she doesn't admission leaked it?
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian, what is her talent? You know? Remember named
Speaker 1: that tune? We should have a show called Name that
Speaker 1: Talent where you have famous people come on and you
Speaker 1: try to name their talent. Sometimes there is no talent.
Speaker 1: Then you have people that have so much talent they
Speaker 1: don't even know what direction to go. They're so talented.
Speaker 1: And then you have people have talent that's really unrecognized.
Speaker 1: But I think everyone loves people with talent. Think where
Speaker 1: we get sick and tired of people with talent, or
Speaker 1: when they take the talent and they're fame and then
Speaker 1: they try to push an agenda like because I can sing,
Speaker 1: I can now tell you who to vote for, or
Speaker 1: I can tell you how to think or the way
Speaker 1: you should be thinking. And there are some really bad
Speaker 1: people that Jennifer Jennifer Enison is the worst. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, she's a moderate actress, not even close
Speaker 1: to being good, but she is always preaching always. You
Speaker 1: get tired of it, don't you do? You get tired
Speaker 1: of it. I get tired of it.
Speaker 9: So let's go back to.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know, and I mean I'm not
Speaker 1: saying they can't have an opinion. Of course they can.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. You know, de Niro was obsessed.
Speaker 1: He was absolute. I love Robert de Niro's acting, anyone
Speaker 1: who says he's not the greatest actor that ever lived,
Speaker 1: but he was ups tesked with Trump. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was too a you want to talk about derangerent syndrome.
Speaker 1: This guy was obsessed with him and and god, he
Speaker 1: just looked so angry. Did you ever see the tapes
Speaker 1: in the crap that he did about Trump? I mean
Speaker 1: on YouTube it was it was ranged a little unbalanced. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Furious Mustang was a movie we named the Other
Speaker 1: Karri Yep, that's right, and then Tucker was a car
Speaker 1: at the time. Lamborghini was the name of a movie.
Speaker 1: And then we had the Rolls Royce Baby, and then
Speaker 1: the Cadillac Man my mother's read Mercedes and Pontiac Moon. Wow,
Speaker 1: these arekad No, I've never heard some of the Christine
Speaker 1: Camaro crash dots in two eighty z X Lincoln Lawyer.
Speaker 1: Did any mention Lincoln Lawyer that it was just going
Speaker 1: to do it? The Lincoln Lawyer absolutely. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: those were movies that had the cars in them. Did
Speaker 1: you know there was one called the Bugatti Boys?
Speaker 8: Nope?
Speaker 1: And how many Bugottis do they sell a year? I
Speaker 1: mean that car. That car just befuddles the hell out
Speaker 1: of me. How they get so much money for that car? Oh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of weird, but it was about it
Speaker 1: was not named after a jeep, but it was jeepers creepers.
Speaker 1: Now there are movies about cars, and they are way
Speaker 1: that way out numbers the actual titles. But like Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious series, how many were were they make? Sixteen
Speaker 1: of those movies? Gone in sixty seconds? The worst movie
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. There's actually two of
Speaker 1: them with Nick Cage.
Speaker 8: Yep, it was.
Speaker 1: I thought it was terrible, and then one called built
Speaker 1: Steve McQueen. So still a bad movie. Vanishing Point? Anybody
Speaker 1: anybody remember Vanishing Point? About the Italian Job? Tell me
Speaker 1: tell me the uh the cars that were used in
Speaker 1: the Italian Job? First, the sixty four thousand dollars question.
Speaker 6: Well, those were a whole bunch of original Mini Coopers.
Speaker 1: Right, you're right man, you know a lot. Dimitri, what
Speaker 1: the henybody?
Speaker 8: You remember? Chitty TD Bang Bang?
Speaker 1: How about Herbie the Love Bud? Yes, yeah, Lamon's Lamon's
Speaker 1: How about Days of Thunder a Grand Prix, yep, Lamon's Drive,
Speaker 1: Baby Driver or Baby yeah, baby Driver?
Speaker 8: Best Proof, the Firebirds and Smoking in the.
Speaker 1: Bandit yeahan then they Transporter. I love Jason stathum Man.
Speaker 1: He's a cool actor.
Speaker 8: I like that.
Speaker 1: He's very understated and he doesn't get the acclaim like
Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger and the other guys get or von dom did.
Speaker 1: But does anyone know who I mean Jason stay them?
Speaker 1: Did you know who he is? Cool guy?
Speaker 13: Google's very cool. Well, my husband has a brush on him.
Speaker 1: Very well, he is so cool, he really is. I
Speaker 1: love his movies, A need for Speed. And then of
Speaker 1: course all the Mad Max movies. They were kind of
Speaker 1: car related, right, and then Cannonballs Run, Oh man, they
Speaker 1: were like they were big time Cannonball Run. Smokey and
Speaker 1: the Bandit did you know there were three of those?
Speaker 1: And then the Wraith. It was a supernatural revenge movie
Speaker 1: and a guy had a dodge, and then Redline and
Speaker 1: then Torque. I don't remember that that was mostly about
Speaker 1: motorcycles though. Then you had cars from Disney. You had cars, cars,
Speaker 1: two cars, three, Herbie the love Bug, of course, Herbie
Speaker 1: rise again, Herbie goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie goes Bananas,
Speaker 1: Herbie fully loaded. Then you had speed Racer, two lane,
Speaker 1: Black Tom God, there's so many cars are such a
Speaker 1: big deal for us. Then the actual what's the one that,
Speaker 1: Oh Christine, isn't that a thriller? Who wrote that one
Speaker 1: that's isn't that a Stephen King? Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, but by the way, hold on, I have to
Speaker 13: do another time out. Yeah, you're going to you're going
Speaker 13: to disparage gone in sixty seconds, but you're gonna laud
Speaker 13: Days of Thunder.
Speaker 1: No, no, I hate Days of Thunder?
Speaker 13: Okay, good, just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1: In fact, there are not many Tom Cruise movie. Well
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. I like the Top One series,
Speaker 1: but most of Tom Cruise movies are just monuments to himself.
Speaker 1: You know, He's how can I make myself look cool?
Speaker 1: And I mean the acting is not there. And I
Speaker 1: mean Tom does have talent though, man, I mean not
Speaker 1: that he cares what I think. But there was this
Speaker 1: one movie he played this guy, this bald guy, this
Speaker 1: fat bald guy, Tropic Thunder. Yes, yes, yes, you're right man.
Speaker 1: You know that told me that this guy's got talent.
Speaker 1: I mean he truly went out of himself on that one.
Speaker 1: Because there are a lot of actors who act like
Speaker 1: themselves and you know, and I have a feeling d
Speaker 1: Niro's one of them. I mean d Niro's brilliant. He's
Speaker 1: freaking brilliant. But really, if you look at all his characters,
Speaker 1: aren't they all kind of the same expressions, this same
Speaker 1: smirk on his face, A smart ass. No matter what
Speaker 1: he plays, it's it's a smart ass. I like him,
Speaker 1: but you're right, it's a smart ass and he plays
Speaker 1: it very well. And I think one of the most
Speaker 1: understated talented people in show business, honest to god, one
Speaker 1: of the understated is a Jimmy Fallon. He he truly
Speaker 1: he can act, he can sing, he can dance. He's
Speaker 1: just an old and Jimmy Fallon. He grew up twelve
Speaker 1: miles away from me in a small town, went to
Speaker 1: high school with my first wife, and he was that
Speaker 1: He was from this little town in upstate New York
Speaker 1: called Sogrates, and he put that place on the map
Speaker 1: because he was such a good guy. He'd come back
Speaker 1: and and and he never got too big for his
Speaker 1: hometown and would really gratiate himself around town. And he's
Speaker 1: just a down to earth person. Deputy Bow Right after this,
Speaker 1: he's gonna tell us about yesterday. Now, I know we
Speaker 1: talked about it actually leading up to it, but what
Speaker 1: actually happened and it worked, it just astounds me. Right
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Speaker 1: Tom Martino here three three seven one three talk seven
Speaker 1: one three eight two five five. Deputy Bow is an upsy,
Speaker 1: so I want to Basically, a woman called in her
Speaker 1: eighties and said, they say I need a new furnace.
Speaker 1: That's really what it boils down to, and the furnace
Speaker 1: would have cost her nine grand or more. Deputy Boux investigated,
Speaker 1: and what did you find, Bow?
Speaker 11: Yes, Arlene, she had no heed. She called approximately five
Speaker 11: companies out there and he basically, we're just trying to
Speaker 11: sell her new equipment. Most of them skated that the
Speaker 11: furnace is inhoperable, of course, but no parts were available.
Speaker 11: He just couldn't get parts for it, and her hands
Speaker 11: on a fit income. She's got her daughter and I
Speaker 11: think some grandkids living there. They just couldn't afford the
Speaker 11: nine thousand dollars for a new furnace. And it was
Speaker 11: a it's trained equipment to eighty percent efficient. It's about
Speaker 11: fifteen years old. I went over there and looked at
Speaker 11: it and was able to determine basically what the issue was,
Speaker 11: and it was the motor in the computer assists for
Speaker 11: the available speed drive. I couldn't play one locally, but
Speaker 11: I called the manufacture train and I told them the
Speaker 11: story about ear Lean and how she didn't have heat
Speaker 11: in her house it's October, and uh, you know, they
Speaker 11: felt sorry for and they they went ahead and contacted
Speaker 11: a distributors back east to New Jersey and found the
Speaker 11: engine with the computer board and they now hold on, bo.
Speaker 1: Bo, you bo, You've been in the business years and years,
Speaker 1: and what I want to isn't it unusual to have
Speaker 1: parts available for old furnaces like that?
Speaker 11: Yes, they're available, but this was this was a union.
Speaker 1: But is it unusual? Is it unusual that they're available
Speaker 1: or are they readily available?
Speaker 11: They're normally readily available if you look for them.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I want to know this, Why are so
Speaker 1: many companies? And I guess the answer is profit. Why
Speaker 1: are so many companies hell bent on replacing? If someone
Speaker 1: is older and can't afford it, and they can do
Speaker 1: a replacement of a board, why don't they?
Speaker 11: Well they're going to try to quote somebody nine thousand
Speaker 11: dollars versus maybe two thousand dollars from repair. There's a
Speaker 11: hell of a lot more money in new installation than
Speaker 11: there is a repair. And then you got to track
Speaker 11: down the park.
Speaker 9: Now, the puts on older furnaces are a little.
Speaker 11: More tricky to find. You just got to do a
Speaker 11: little investigating on it. But no, they were just trying
Speaker 11: to sell her a new piece of equipment. But parts
Speaker 11: are I think parts. I've got a boiler in my
Speaker 11: house is installed in nineteen sixty three, and I could
Speaker 11: still get parts for it. You know, these new technically tecticians,
Speaker 11: they just don't want to They just want to go
Speaker 11: in and sell.
Speaker 1: Now, was this a boiler or furnace?
Speaker 11: It's an eighty percent train X the eighty eighty percent
Speaker 11: two stage furnace. Okay, okay, efficiency, So back to the
Speaker 11: story train donated the motor. I mean the wholesale costs
Speaker 11: on the motor was thirteen that was like below my cost.
Speaker 11: So they ordered it about a week and a half
Speaker 11: ago and the shipper lost the.
Speaker 9: Motor, so.
Speaker 11: I had to tell ARLINGE we had to wait another
Speaker 11: week or so. So the train supply actually next day
Speaker 11: air the motor the other day before it now went
Speaker 11: into the shop.
Speaker 1: Yes, you you had you found the train did this
Speaker 1: gratus as far as installation, is that right?
Speaker 11: Well, what happened. The train manufacturer supplied the motor, and
Speaker 11: then Nate suggested that one of their train d HVAC
Speaker 11: contractors installed the motor because the motor had to be programmed.
Speaker 11: It's like these new cars that had to be programmed
Speaker 11: to the furnace. So they did the programming, and then
Speaker 11: they contracted with J and J Hvac company, one of
Speaker 11: their best good dealers. He came out after the show.
Speaker 11: I delivered the motor. Jerry from J Andjhvac met me
Speaker 11: out there and they did the motor installation and she
Speaker 11: had keeped by five thirty yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: So it was a how much how much was the part?
Speaker 11: By the way, Well, a contractor would have probably charged
Speaker 11: her at least twenty two hundred dollars for this motor.
Speaker 1: Okay, not an installation would have been included in that.
Speaker 11: No installation, I would say, be about three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Dollar. Wait wait wait, okay for the whole job. Three grand,
Speaker 1: But that's still a lot cheaper. That's still a lot
Speaker 1: cheaper than nine or ten. Yes, how much did it
Speaker 1: end up costing her? Do you want to do?
Speaker 11: You really want to know what it cost her?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, zero, nothing, it was all it didn't cost her,
Speaker 7: that is I mean, she's so nice Social.
Speaker 11: Security, so I donated my time, I just did the diagnosis,
Speaker 11: Train donated the murder in the three hundred dollars next
Speaker 11: day air Bill and Jane j HVAC donated their labor.
Speaker 11: So it didn't cost her.
Speaker 4: She just had to wait.
Speaker 11: But she's got a furnace that's going to last a
Speaker 11: long time, and it didn't cost her family anything. And
Speaker 11: she wants to call in to the show on Monday
Speaker 11: and thank you guys personally.
Speaker 1: Well that would be good that bo thank you. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know there was much hope here when you
Speaker 1: took the case on, but The reason I know we
Speaker 1: talked about it before, the reason I wanted you on
Speaker 1: now is because it actually it actually happened. I mean
Speaker 1: it has been installed and it's working.
Speaker 11: Yes, I got a pitch.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's running.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Okay, see you Monday.
Speaker 1: No, I really do appreciate it. We got more coming
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Speaker 1: Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three O three seven one
Speaker 1: three talk three oh three seven one three A two
Speaker 1: five five. So let's just finish up this hour with
Speaker 1: some uh and by the way, you can call it
Speaker 1: anytime with problems, questions, replays that don't have to be caring.
Speaker 1: But let's finish up with some questions either stump us
Speaker 1: about legal concepts or the mechanic Go ahead, either one
Speaker 1: pick whatever you want.
Speaker 6: Okay, Tom, thank you. I have a question for Kevin
Speaker 6: from sharedon Auto Tech.
Speaker 1: Kevin.
Speaker 6: A few years ago, Colorado made kind of a controversial
Speaker 6: change by switching to a slightly different de icing agent.
Speaker 6: It used to be magnesium chloride and now it's magnesium
Speaker 6: chlorid and something else. And the reason it was controversial,
Speaker 6: and my view still is it is much more corrosive
Speaker 6: than magnesium chloride by itself is so I'm wondering. Not
Speaker 6: that it's been a few years, and by the way,
Speaker 6: it's not as corrosive as actual salt that they use
Speaker 6: in the Midwest, so it's not a total disaster for us.
Speaker 6: But now that it's been a few years, have you
Speaker 6: observed a higher incidence of higher rate of either it's
Speaker 6: just surface rust or rust through or anything else that
Speaker 6: you see under the vehicles?
Speaker 1: Is it something for us to worry about?
Speaker 5: I have not, No, But they don't use a lot
Speaker 5: of the chemicals here in the mountains, so I think maybe,
Speaker 5: you know, mountain based communities may be seeing more of it.
Speaker 5: I know, offices and different things. It's ruining carpeting and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. I know, but cars, no, I haven't
Speaker 5: really seen much.
Speaker 6: So, you know, one of the one of the ways
Speaker 6: to combat corrosion underneath is a very successful product that's
Speaker 6: very popular in the Rust belt. It's called fluid film.
Speaker 6: Are you familiar with that stuff? I can't find anybody
Speaker 6: here who applies rust inhibitors.
Speaker 1: What is that? What is that?
Speaker 6: It's you know, it's like a clear liquid that they
Speaker 6: spray on all over the undercarriage of the vehicle, and
Speaker 6: it's it's about an annual treatment. But it apparently I
Speaker 6: mean it from what I've seen of it and the
Speaker 6: reviews I've read and watched on the YouTube, it's it's
Speaker 6: pretty effective at keeping cars from rusting away in places
Speaker 6: like New York, Chicago, Nebraska.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the Midwest is the cars we see a lot
Speaker 8: are just rotting in pieces there. It's terrible here.
Speaker 1: You don't think I need to worry about the.
Speaker 8: Car wash, you know, keep it clean.
Speaker 6: Yep, Okay, thank you, Okay, I can hear the music.
Speaker 6: I'll save the rest of my questions for ly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanna. I want to tell people that we
Speaker 1: have another hour to go on the Troubleshooter Show, and
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about as far as
Speaker 1: cars go, some of the newer models coming out. We're
Speaker 1: talking evs. I have a lot of texts I have
Speaker 1: to get to, so stick around three oh three seven
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Speaker 1: No Tom Martino, Hello Tom Martino. Here, let's talk about
Speaker 1: your problems, questions, complaints, and uh try to get some
Speaker 1: headway here. I got a lot of texts that have
Speaker 1: piled up on card day. Today, we'll go to Ken
Speaker 1: first on the phone at three oh three, seven to
Speaker 1: one three talk or three oh three Martino, you can
Speaker 1: call that twenty four to seven three oh three six
Speaker 1: two seven eight four six six. First we go to
Speaker 1: Ken Ken, what's going on?
Speaker 15: I just had a couple of comments about the eating thing,
Speaker 15: you know, I think, yeah, these companies, they they shouldn't
Speaker 15: make things as obsolete as quick as they do. And
Speaker 15: that price now motor that had to have been like
Speaker 15: full retail.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was.
Speaker 15: Nice that the company came up with one and ship
Speaker 15: that that really was cool. But it's like, you know,
Speaker 15: you go to Granger and it's you know, not necessarily
Speaker 15: a proprietary motor. You get a third horse power motor
Speaker 15: for whatever, one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 7: But it was nice.
Speaker 15: In these contractors, that was cool.
Speaker 1: So if you will, you know what it was. But
Speaker 1: but hold on, are you telling me, though, that you
Speaker 1: can take a blower motor from a generic lower motor
Speaker 1: and substitute it. Don't you have to have the bolt
Speaker 1: patterns and all that.
Speaker 15: Oh, you're right about that, but they shouldn't be so proprietary.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're right, and they shouldn't be that expensive.
Speaker 1: In other words, what you're saying is, if you can
Speaker 1: buy an electric motor for one hundred and fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: why is it twenty two hundred? Gentlemen?
Speaker 6: I think that the issue that the detail we're for
Speaker 6: getting in this conversation is this particular motor that Bo
Speaker 6: got for the elderly lady has sixteen wires.
Speaker 1: Well on an eighty percent wait wait wait, why that's
Speaker 1: what I don't understand and eighty percent efficient old fashioned system?
Speaker 1: What the hell are sixteen wires.
Speaker 6: Well, there's more to it than just the motor. It
Speaker 6: sounds like an actual assembly. That's it does have some
Speaker 6: computer component that needs to be programmed to the furnace. Okay,
Speaker 6: it's got There's a lot more to it than just
Speaker 6: the regular just the plane motor.
Speaker 15: Well, you know, I had a boiler at my house
Speaker 15: a few years ago. I went down to a company
Speaker 15: in Denver Is called Johnston or something.
Speaker 9: I bought a piler.
Speaker 15: The only thing was like three grand, and I put
Speaker 15: it in and it's holding up.
Speaker 1: Fine, and well, Kennis Hard A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: have the skills to do that or to troubleshoot. Oh agree,
Speaker 1: Everything really comes everything really comes down to time. I
Speaker 1: one time had a I traced U. I had an
Speaker 1: issue with an item, and to replace the item would
Speaker 1: have been eight grand. To replace the circuit board that
Speaker 1: I traced it to would have been two thousand. I
Speaker 1: looked at the circuit board and I found on on
Speaker 1: board relay. Now, no one works on circuit boards, no
Speaker 1: one does. But I found this on board. I traced
Speaker 1: the signal it stopped at that on board relay. I
Speaker 1: then looked at the onboard relay literally under a magnification
Speaker 1: and saw it was Johnson Controls. They have an office
Speaker 1: right here, and it wasn't Centennial. I asked them that
Speaker 1: they had those. They said, yeah, you know, what's your
Speaker 1: account number? And how many do you want? Because they
Speaker 1: they're they're they're a giant manufacturer or whatever they are.
Speaker 1: And I said, I want one. It's a tiny, tiny
Speaker 1: little and he so, sir, we don't sell retail. He says, listen,
Speaker 1: why don't you just come down and talk to me.
Speaker 1: So I went down there and he handed me one,
Speaker 1: a little like a little tiny chippies it here. That
Speaker 1: saved me two grand I put that sucker in. I
Speaker 1: sawder that in there. But no one does that anymore.
Speaker 1: No one has the time to do it. You gotta
Speaker 1: go take the component, then take the circuit board, then
Speaker 1: trace the signal of the circuit board. And it all
Speaker 1: comes down to nobody is skilled enough, nor will they
Speaker 1: take the time to do it. And the labor I mean,
Speaker 1: everything is R and R right now. You remove and replace.
Speaker 1: That's what you do.
Speaker 15: But you know, here's my thing, like my old boiler.
Speaker 15: Before I replaced it, I could get some parts for
Speaker 15: it pretty easy. Put them in myself pretty cheap. My
Speaker 15: argument is just everything and I've done R and D,
Speaker 15: I've done circuitry development and tracking and repair, but something
Speaker 15: have to be so complicated.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 15: I ran into the same dilemma the other day. Of course,
Speaker 15: it wasn't my idea to get this ford, but then
Speaker 15: when you own it, it's it's like a bad marriage.
Speaker 15: And the window, the windows weren't going down, and there's
Speaker 15: a little heater actuator. And I looked all over town
Speaker 15: and all these guys wanted eight hundred bucks to do it.
Speaker 15: I found some guys. I went through a whole winter
Speaker 15: without a heater, but they took care of that vent
Speaker 15: thing for and the window for four hundred, So yeah,
Speaker 15: it can be time.
Speaker 9: I was otherwise occupied.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and no one like there. There are no repair
Speaker 1: people anymore, and they're all dying off.
Speaker 15: And you know the difference is, I've got this other
Speaker 15: old pick up. You know, it's just a hand crank
Speaker 15: and it's like a twelve dollars cable. If the heaters
Speaker 15: messed up and a lot of car guys would go,
Speaker 15: you know, that's a bygone here. And I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 15: you know, it's consumers. You know, did a little bit,
Speaker 15: more like, I'm not paying that for the car because
Speaker 15: it's going to need so much work. Let it sit
Speaker 15: up a lot. I'll get old best to go. So
Speaker 15: consumers unfortunately tend to go, especially more women.
Speaker 9: Oh it looks nice.
Speaker 15: You know, my friends will like it. Okay, it's eight
Speaker 15: hundred a month, plus another one hundred and fifty for
Speaker 15: taxes and repairs and insurance.
Speaker 1: By the way, over the years, just so you know,
Speaker 1: over the years, more men have been ripped off with
Speaker 1: used cars than women, for me, for.
Speaker 15: Us, probably, yeah, I mean I believe.
Speaker 1: Because I've been ripped off, they pulled the trigger way faster.
Speaker 1: Women are way more skeptic. I think they ripped off women,
Speaker 1: and my women ripped off.
Speaker 8: I asked more questions though.
Speaker 9: Well you know back now now, Kevin, go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do I want to do?
Speaker 15: Is uh this guy Jay and Jay or whatever. I'll
Speaker 15: sit him a hundred bucks for doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: By that lady. It's nice. I mean, I'm not well,
Speaker 1: I don't have it, but I'm sure Bow will get
Speaker 1: it to you and Kachina get his number. Three h
Speaker 1: three seven one three talk what a nice guy? Three
Speaker 1: oh three seven, one three and two five five. I
Speaker 1: think it would be better spending if you sent it
Speaker 1: to her, the old lady. So I have some text
Speaker 1: here relating to everything we've been talking about today. Let
Speaker 1: me just go to him. Okay, one here, you help
Speaker 1: me when I was in Naiwat and uh Okay. The
Speaker 1: problem with electric cars nowadays is that they can't make
Speaker 1: it without subsidies, so they're not really viable. And I
Speaker 1: don't know that's true or not, but that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: The next one here is this, how do you stop
Speaker 1: vapor lock?
Speaker 2: Or?
Speaker 1: First of all, no, here's what they ask. What's the
Speaker 1: main cause of vapor lock?
Speaker 8: Just the pump can't pump vapor. It has to be liquid,
Speaker 8: so it locks up.
Speaker 1: Well, how does it get to be that way?
Speaker 2: Heat?
Speaker 8: Is the main the only thing that causes this? Heat?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And is it heat just heat? Or is it the
Speaker 1: routing of the fuel lines.
Speaker 5: Well, the routing of the fuel lines by a heat
Speaker 5: source and the quality of fuel combined you get a
Speaker 5: vapor that can But.
Speaker 1: What I want to know is this, though, if you
Speaker 1: do have a vapor locked problem then and it's routed,
Speaker 1: why not re route the line.
Speaker 8: That's part of the repair. Yeah, also to cover the lock.
Speaker 2: Did they not know that?
Speaker 1: Did they not know that when they built the car?
Speaker 1: Or they just take a chance.
Speaker 5: I think it's a fuel quality issue as well, so
Speaker 5: more alcohol and the fuel causes the vapor lock to
Speaker 5: be more of a problem. But no, it's it's definitely
Speaker 5: some manufacturers just don't know better.
Speaker 1: Someone wants to know. Would be pouring ice cold water
Speaker 1: over a line? Make it okay? Clear it? Sure, the
Speaker 1: vapor until it warms up again. Yeah, okay, so we
Speaker 1: get your pa rough spot. Sure, but then you have
Speaker 1: to know where to pour it too. You have to
Speaker 1: know where it's vaporing exactly. Now I mentioned the movie
Speaker 1: Ford versus Ferrari. Somebody wants me to know that there's
Speaker 1: an actual It was Carol Shelby who race that car.
Speaker 1: And there's a a I didn't know this. There's a
Speaker 1: Shelby American Museum. Do you know where it is? I
Speaker 1: think it's the Bolder b Older, Oh it isn't. It's
Speaker 1: only open on Saturdays. Can you believe that? But you
Speaker 1: can actually see the Cobra and GT. Forty. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I did not realize that. And why would a museum
Speaker 1: only be open on Saturday, I guess because they can. Okay,
Speaker 1: my emission light would come on, I would tighten the
Speaker 1: gas cat. About twenty miles later it come on again.
Speaker 1: I install the new OEM gas cap, but the light
Speaker 1: keeps coming on and off.
Speaker 8: Why something other than the gas cap?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but what would it be? But why did
Speaker 1: the gas cap seem to help?
Speaker 5: I don't know there than yeah, I don't know. The
Speaker 5: dinner didn't but it if it's related to an evap.
Speaker 1: Can that vent line being clogged? Can that vent line
Speaker 1: being clogged in the fuel system cause that flogged or
Speaker 1: a hole in the line or a selenoid stape? By
Speaker 1: the way, those who want to know what that vent
Speaker 1: line is, it's in the filler neck of the car
Speaker 1: and events to the down underneath outside.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, nothing vents outside anymore, that's the thing. It's
Speaker 5: a sealed system. Where does e vent events back to
Speaker 5: the fuel tank, So it'll go through the charcoal canister
Speaker 5: and back to the tank.
Speaker 1: And the number one way it gets clogged is people overfuel.
Speaker 8: Or over that's a big problem.
Speaker 1: Fill their car, yes, so you overfill your car and
Speaker 1: what happens is that eventually gets debris in it and
Speaker 1: it clogs, and that can cause an engine light.
Speaker 5: It can cause contamination in that charcoal canister. That causes
Speaker 5: all kinds of problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Three oh three seven one three talk
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Speaker 1: Let's talk to Sean. Sean, what's going on with you?
Speaker 9: I've got a two thousand and three Chevy savorados So
Speaker 9: and it has a tick on startup. It sounds like
Speaker 9: a lifter, but as soon as it warms up, the
Speaker 9: tick goes completely away, and it's only at idle. I've
Speaker 9: never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 1: Now, wait, it's only at idle, You mean when it ticks,
Speaker 1: when when.
Speaker 9: You first started it's idling seven hundred and fifty rpm,
Speaker 9: you'll hear it tick tick tick tick tick. You bring
Speaker 9: it up to a thy twelve hundred goes away smooth,
Speaker 9: runs up to three four thousand RPMs, come back down
Speaker 9: to an idol smooth.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's only when you first started on an idol.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's like the first five minutes, six minutes
Speaker 9: at idle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what if you started it up pick up to Okay, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead to ask you a question. Okay.
Speaker 9: So there's an O ring on the pickup too, for
Speaker 9: the oil pump. I've heard that O ring can be
Speaker 9: collapsed or break or deform, and so I er rates
Speaker 9: the oil through the oil pump, causing the lifter to
Speaker 9: basically bleed out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it wouldn't be that, Kevin, It wouldn't come
Speaker 5: back that quickly if that was, if that was leaking,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have that wouldn't steal itself up. Uh, you know,
Speaker 5: you could just have a weak lifter slightly out of adjustment,
Speaker 5: you know, possibly worn a little bit warm push rod
Speaker 5: or anything, like that.
Speaker 8: Have you have you looked at it? What's it?
Speaker 1: How do you adjust lifters?
Speaker 9: I'm kind of thinking that myself. That's non adjustable.
Speaker 8: Those are non adjustable.
Speaker 5: But the push rod itself could be a little worn out,
Speaker 5: so it's got a little bit of slop in it.
Speaker 5: So you need to expect the rocker arms, push rods,
Speaker 5: all that because it could be taking up that slack.
Speaker 1: How many miles? How many miles on it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 9: One hundred and seventy?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, Oh okay, it could be a push rod now.
Speaker 5: Will like a lifter though, if you've got a slight
Speaker 5: exhaust leak as it warms up, it'll see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: What about you can not suffer start? It's right back, Kevin?
Speaker 6: What about a failing fuel injector? Don't they sometimes make
Speaker 6: a tick tick tick tick sound like a lifter somewhat.
Speaker 8: But that's a throttle body injection on his You have
Speaker 8: separate injectors. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I have a very obvious question. What if you start Sean,
Speaker 1: What if you started it up and just took off
Speaker 1: right away? Would you hear it? Now?
Speaker 9: Because you don't be idling, It's only at idle once
Speaker 9: it gets above a thousand kicks.
Speaker 1: It's only at idle at first. It's only at idle
Speaker 1: when it's cool, that's it.
Speaker 9: Or or on first startup that's set fifteen minutes drive
Speaker 9: to the store coming back. But I've set the teen
Speaker 9: inspired up that's there.
Speaker 1: That is so odd. I think it's just a sticky one.
Speaker 1: It's it's sticky.
Speaker 8: What I would do is throw it.
Speaker 11: Couldn't it be G?
Speaker 1: Couldn't it be g a BG cleaner? Fix that?
Speaker 8: I was just going there. I'd throw a can of
Speaker 8: m Away in there, let it run for for a
Speaker 8: week or so to see if it doesn't help.
Speaker 1: I'll bet you that clears it up, because it's not
Speaker 1: bad enough to be consistent.
Speaker 9: Yep, No, I remember I've seen a lifter fell.
Speaker 1: It fails.
Speaker 9: It takes no matter what, continuously right.
Speaker 1: That's right. And sticky ones only do it. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: only do it when they're sticking. So I think what
Speaker 1: Kevin said, what is that called BG? What is it
Speaker 1: called Kevin Motor Oil Additive? And the the initials on
Speaker 1: the bottle m A.
Speaker 2: Or can?
Speaker 8: I should Yep, I tried it.
Speaker 1: It works.
Speaker 9: How about put a little b ATF in there.
Speaker 8: It's the same cave concept, but I I don't. I
Speaker 8: like the MOA better. It's a little better lubricit and
Speaker 8: everything else.
Speaker 1: God, everyone, you know what, I've never talked not one,
Speaker 1: not one time have I talked to it or a
Speaker 1: mechanic that did not love BEG products. I've never talked
Speaker 1: to one ever. Yeah, thanks for calling. We got more
Speaker 1: coming up. Well, let me let me actually go to
Speaker 1: some of these sex like like heat and fuel pressure
Speaker 1: causes vapor lock. Okay, sorry that because and that's what
Speaker 1: we talked about, uh, lack of fuel pressure, I would say, right,
Speaker 1: just wondering what happened to the guy that was ripped
Speaker 1: off a Mercedes deal by a Mercedes dealer in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 1: You had him on with an attorney, Reina, and she
Speaker 1: was supposed to help. By the way, that I think
Speaker 1: she still has that case. She should take it. So Actually,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling, because we've asked about it time
Speaker 1: and time again, I have a feeling they signed an NDA,
Speaker 1: a non disclosure agreement because I think she handled it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just thinking that because what I'm hearing
Speaker 1: is nothing from him, and she was not really willing
Speaker 1: to talk about it, right, Kelly, we asked about it
Speaker 1: a long time ago, did anyway?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: Okay, And here's another one. Do you have a follow
Speaker 1: up on the family. Susan was trying to help get
Speaker 1: birth certificates. What happened was the parents never got birth
Speaker 1: certificates on their kids. They went through their whole life
Speaker 1: to skate in the system, and then finally it was
Speaker 1: catching up to him. I don't actually know. I got
Speaker 1: to ask Susan about that. I really don't know, Tom.
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about it.
Speaker 6: Susan and I discussed it about three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Oh really okay? Yeah, and nothing.
Speaker 6: I mean she even said that there are two attorneys
Speaker 6: that were helping with this matter. But apparently those three
Speaker 6: texts I think they're in Texas, those three people still
Speaker 6: haven't been able to get any birth thy coudness.
Speaker 1: Okay, Tom, I reached out to discount Bath on your
Speaker 1: referral list, and they want to have thirty They want
Speaker 1: thirty percent up to upfront. I know you always preach
Speaker 1: no money upfront, but is there an exception for referralest members.
Speaker 1: Now this is a touchy subject. No, there's not an
Speaker 1: exception for referraless numbers. People. Now, I don't require that
Speaker 1: they do that as part of the referral list. I
Speaker 1: don't say to be on the referral list, she can't
Speaker 1: take money up front, but I do outline how money
Speaker 1: should be taken upfront if you're on the referral which
Speaker 1: means you can do it in s grow, you can
Speaker 1: do it with a credit card, which is contestable, or
Speaker 1: you can do it in some other form like when
Speaker 1: materials are delivered or work begins, including planning. But really
Speaker 1: and truly, no matter what, I don't care who you are.
Speaker 1: If you put money down, you're at risk. It's not
Speaker 1: because the company's bad. It's because you're at risk. Anything
Speaker 1: can happen to anyone, So it's always better not to
Speaker 1: put money down. That doesn't mean every time you put
Speaker 1: money down you'll be ripped off. But I know this
Speaker 1: for absolutely positively sure that it's almost impossible to get
Speaker 1: ripped off if you don't put money down. Now, when
Speaker 1: I say almost impossible, what do I mean? Well, you
Speaker 1: could get ripped off in this way. They start work,
Speaker 1: they tear your house up, they're incompetent and stupid. They
Speaker 1: didn't take any money, but they leave. Well, you kind
Speaker 1: of got ripped off, right. So again, I don't think
Speaker 1: you have a problem with discount Bath. I don't think
Speaker 1: you have a problem with anyone on the refer list.
Speaker 1: But you could. I mean, you know, so you have
Speaker 1: to play it by ear. You can say, well, well, Chris,
Speaker 1: thirty percent sounds hefty. Can I pay for materials when
Speaker 1: they're delivered? Can I pay for plans? Can I play
Speaker 1: for work beginning? Can I pay in stages to me?
Speaker 1: You know, you negotiate again, It's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: a decision you make. Now, are they a cut above
Speaker 1: regular businesses? Yes? Is it guaranteed? Nothing is? I mean
Speaker 1: they could be hit by a bus. So if you
Speaker 1: do make money down, like for custom orders, for example,
Speaker 1: Chris may say, well, we custom order stuff if they
Speaker 1: if they custom order, you can make You can put
Speaker 1: money down with the factory and just make sure the
Speaker 1: job is in your name, because plenty of times when
Speaker 1: people put money down. The big problem comes when stuff
Speaker 1: is ordered like windows or doors or counters or whatever
Speaker 1: they're ordered for the house, and something does happen to
Speaker 1: the company or to the person. You go to the
Speaker 1: factory and they say, we don't know this is yours.
Speaker 1: We don't know you paid for this, so you have
Speaker 1: your address tagged with it and your name, and if
Speaker 1: you want to pay for advance, of course you can
Speaker 1: pay for windows that are being custom made for yourself.
Speaker 1: Of course you can, but you know that they're yours.
Speaker 1: So if something happens with the company, those windows will
Speaker 1: be delivered to you if you pay the balance.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 1: So those are the kinds of things I say, protect yourself,
Speaker 1: no matter who you are. Jay says he has a
Speaker 1: comment on that fuel deal. Do you mean the ticking
Speaker 1: sound or do you mean vapor lock? Go ahead, Jay, The.
Speaker 14: Ticking sound normally is something that's under pressure that needs
Speaker 14: hydraulic pressure, fleets off a little bit like a list
Speaker 14: might lead off a little or the cam they have
Speaker 14: a little hydraulics pull pushes it when you speed up.
Speaker 14: It adjusted for cam timing. So if you can kind
Speaker 14: of isolate where it's, it's it's probably one of those
Speaker 14: two and it'll never get better. It's pretty a lot worse.
Speaker 14: But when you're an idol, you have very low oil
Speaker 14: pressure compared to when you're really cranking it up, so
Speaker 14: just kind of pumps it back up, shut it off.
Speaker 14: Its pressure leads back off any good mechanic shop. I'm
Speaker 14: sure Kevin can trying to figure that one out.
Speaker 1: Two, how do you replace that? Is it the lifter
Speaker 1: you're replacing?
Speaker 14: Yeah, you put a set of lifters in Never do
Speaker 14: one lifter, but yeah, generally you just put a set
Speaker 14: of lifters in it.
Speaker 8: Exactly.
Speaker 9: You can put new lifters on an old cam, not
Speaker 9: vice versa.
Speaker 2: Oh fine, all.
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Speaker 1: three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hello Tom Martina here,
Speaker 1: three oh three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. Okay, So, uh, we've been talking
Speaker 1: about various things, and I was going through my texts
Speaker 1: let me get to this last one here. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: all through them. Okay, So now we've been also doing
Speaker 1: stuff in the mechanic. If you want to play that game,
Speaker 1: you can call and try to stump us and I'll
Speaker 1: even have a prize for you.
Speaker 8: With EVS, you know how important marks, you know, get
Speaker 8: home button is and everything. How important is that to you?
Speaker 8: Self driving?
Speaker 1: Now, what do you mean about that? Oh, the self drive?
Speaker 8: Self driving?
Speaker 1: It's not important. It's more of a cool thing for me.
Speaker 5: So now I think once that improves, I think EV
Speaker 5: has become more viable because you can open up a
Speaker 5: whole okaynder market of people. You know, say you're you know,
Speaker 5: you go to a restaurant, have a few drinks. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe your driving skills are diminishing, or you know, you
Speaker 5: still have independence, but you don't have to drive the car.
Speaker 1: What as far as self driving, I mean when he
Speaker 1: says it's the best self driving ever, what is I've
Speaker 1: not experienced it? I mean, does it literally take you
Speaker 1: from point to point and stop in between? See, I
Speaker 1: don't I've never experienced that.
Speaker 8: That's what he He says. He can push the go
Speaker 8: home button from the parking lot here, and the car
Speaker 8: does it just turns and goes away. It needs to
Speaker 8: go stops at lights, stops for traffic, changes lanes, to
Speaker 8: maintain speed, all kinds of stuff, and.
Speaker 1: It doesn't require See, my Beamer doesn't have any the
Speaker 1: thing near like that, but it does have My Beamer
Speaker 1: does have self driving, but you know, not anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I can't take my hands off though. Does Tesla
Speaker 1: allow you to take your hands off?
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's hands off or it has
Speaker 5: to see you. There is some limitation, yes, yeah, it's
Speaker 5: not you can't sit in the back seat and have
Speaker 5: a you know, drive you.
Speaker 1: But he raves about it like like, man, I don't
Speaker 1: even have to touch it, you know. He talks about
Speaker 1: it being okay. Somebody wants to know if with newer cars,
Speaker 1: do you have to worry about uh, deep snow as
Speaker 1: far as if snow got up under the engine, what
Speaker 1: it could do to you or any electronics.
Speaker 5: When you go through a director TV or a regular car,
Speaker 5: regular car, not so much. I mean a regular car,
Speaker 5: the snow melt, it'll get out of there. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: not going to hurt anything. I mean if it's completely
Speaker 5: submerged and you know, like in an avalanche or something. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you got an issue, but yeah, just a little bit
Speaker 5: of snow. No, it's not gonna hurt anything.
Speaker 1: Now somebody else wanted to know about or not wanted
Speaker 1: to want to express. Tom you asked, is a time
Speaker 1: for an EV? Not this time around, hardly ever. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be at least thirty years before
Speaker 1: EV's take a foothold. Do you think it'll be that long?
Speaker 1: Thirty years?
Speaker 8: I think stuff changes so rapidly. I think thirty years
Speaker 8: maybe a little too far out there.
Speaker 1: Things do change.
Speaker 8: The rest ten years. I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 8: big shift.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you this. Every major car manufacturer
Speaker 1: now has an electric offering, every one of them, every
Speaker 1: one of them. So but at some point they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go all in. Like I talked about the
Speaker 1: g Wagon. Okay, that's a very expensive, exaggeration, exaggerated vehicle.
Speaker 1: They're stupid expensive for no reason. And when I owned mine,
Speaker 1: I've had two of them. I've owned them before. They
Speaker 1: were before they were like a thing. They weren't a thing.
Speaker 1: It started to be a thing after my second one,
Speaker 1: when I was into it already. Then it became a thing,
Speaker 1: and you could not even order one or buy one
Speaker 1: for MSRP. When I was buying them, you you discounted,
Speaker 1: are just like a regular car. You're going to negotiate.
Speaker 1: Not only did they go to MSRP, but they literally
Speaker 1: went Do you know, Kevin, at one time it was
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars over MSRP.
Speaker 8: I remember you saying that to get a regularly just.
Speaker 1: Exited and they were selling. Can you imagine the idiot
Speaker 1: who paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than
Speaker 1: the invoice? Do you imagine how upside down they were in.
Speaker 8: That car constantly You never me never recover from that.
Speaker 1: Never and now now, just now, when I was inquiring,
Speaker 1: they said, if you order or buysock, doesn't matter. You
Speaker 1: will pay fifty thousand dollars over on a fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars over on an MG and twenty five thousand over on.
Speaker 8: A regular and keep it. Yeah, okay, I mean I will.
Speaker 1: Never I said, I will never ever ever, even if
Speaker 1: I least, I will never ever ever pay over over
Speaker 1: manufactured MSRP.
Speaker 2: Never.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't even like paying MSRP. But how
Speaker 1: much they make on an MSRP. I don't know on
Speaker 1: that one. I know on some you know, you have
Speaker 1: a certain amount you make and then you make on
Speaker 1: top of that, you make a dealer holdback at the
Speaker 1: end of the year for some manufacturers, So I I
Speaker 1: wonder how much they make on a what do you think.
Speaker 8: It's got to be based on, you know, similar dealerships.
Speaker 8: I don't imagine. It's a whole different platform. But yeah,
Speaker 8: but that's that's crazy, that kind of a markup. Still, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Know, not not just creat it's it's undoable. But yet
Speaker 1: there are people every day willing to do it. That's
Speaker 1: why they do it.
Speaker 8: Why they do it? Yep, because they can.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, yeah, yeah, So I'm asking right now.
Speaker 1: I just put it in there how much profit is
Speaker 1: built in on an MSRP. And of course they'll never
Speaker 1: answer this. They'll never hold on a twenty twenty. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the ms RP on A twenty twenty five. What
Speaker 1: do you think it is? It's with it without the
Speaker 1: bump one the dealer. The dealer buys it. The dealer
Speaker 1: buys it for one hundred and forty thousand dollars from
Speaker 1: the manufacturer. They the MSRP is one forty eight, two fifty,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna make eight thousand, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks on that car if they sold it for that.
Speaker 1: They will never sell it for that. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: the the MSRP might be one forty eight, you will
Speaker 1: never even see that car a twenty twenty five for
Speaker 1: less than one seventy five.
Speaker 8: Yeah, looking online, one seventy five five one ninety.
Speaker 1: That's right, yep. So so that that's how much water
Speaker 1: there is in those things, and that's ridiculous. The only
Speaker 1: one they're selling an MSRP, in fact, they'll go behind
Speaker 1: seventy five hundred is the electric one. And I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that's because it's a real gamble to take
Speaker 1: a conventional car like that and do nothing about it.
Speaker 1: You don't make it lighter, you don't make it different,
Speaker 1: you don't make it more aerodynamic. You simply slap batteries
Speaker 1: under it and motors on the wheels, and you call it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you would think that would give
Speaker 1: you room in the front. Absolutely not. There is no
Speaker 1: There is no fronk on that thing. There's the same
Speaker 1: old storage that I don't know what they're doing with
Speaker 1: all that space where the engine would be. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're doing with it, but it's completely shrouded,
Speaker 1: covered up, and you can't get to it. So you
Speaker 1: open the hood, you see nothing but plastic. There's nothing
Speaker 1: a service, but you can't see it. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: they're making If they sold it an invoice, they'd bink
Speaker 1: like eighty two hundred bucks now, I mean, so I
Speaker 1: asked them, if somebody orders it, what's the harm of
Speaker 1: doing it at invoice? What's the harm? You're gonna make
Speaker 1: eighty two hundred dollars without ever floor planning it. Not
Speaker 1: a dime into it. You know what their reasoning was,
Speaker 1: We only get a certain number of allotments, so we
Speaker 1: have to make bank on every single one of them
Speaker 1: because we we just have to go with a sure thing.
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