Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Ray.
Speaker 2: I'MBZ Kuston's video welcome back everybody, and making their first
Speaker 2: appearance of twenty twenty five here on Nightside.
Speaker 3: It's been a while, gentlemen, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. Hey, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: how are you?
Speaker 4: Hi? Dam doing great?
Speaker 3: Boy? The winter kind of flew here, you know, I
Speaker 3: guess the last time you graced our airways. And Scott,
Speaker 3: welcome to you, my friend as well.
Speaker 5: Big you.
Speaker 6: S good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I hope everyone is well and all of that.
Speaker 3: And we're gonna we're gonna talk cars. I'm kind of
Speaker 3: pinning tonight to May first. I mean, it was a
Speaker 3: beautiful day today. I think we're safe. We can put this.
Speaker 3: Can we take the snow tires off? Is that are
Speaker 3: the chains? I don't know if anybody use the chains
Speaker 3: of snow tires anymore, but probably some people do, right.
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't a while. Many years ago, on Mother's
Speaker 4: Day we did get whack. I don't know whether you
Speaker 4: remember that or not.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sir, we got several inches of snow on that day.
Speaker 3: Oh, I covered that storm nineteen seventy seven, Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: I remembered very well. I mean it was like eight
Speaker 3: to ten inches of snow. This was not like cover
Speaker 3: the grass. This was a real snowstorm. Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: Yes. Now, please don't tell me that you were the
Speaker 4: guy outside doing the live shot. Were you?
Speaker 3: No, I was at that point though I had not
Speaker 3: taken over. I took over from Shelby Scott when Shelby
Speaker 3: retired in March of nineteen ninety six and went to
Speaker 3: the mornings, and that's when I did all of those
Speaker 3: morning live shots, and I did a lot of live shots,
Speaker 3: snow live shots. It were kind of fun. I don't
Speaker 3: think so, because I think this by time the sun
Speaker 3: came up, the snow pretty much had stopped. It was
Speaker 3: beautiful and there were a lot of the trees that
Speaker 3: had already blossomed or bloomed or whatever the term is.
Speaker 3: And there were a lot of trees that that lost limbs.
Speaker 3: It was. It was a big It was a big snowstorm.
Speaker 3: So I know I was out in it. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I remember I was in Natick is where I was,
Speaker 3: And yeah, I hadn't spent much time in Natick at
Speaker 3: that point in my life. But I eventually would spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time in Natick, so it was one
Speaker 3: of my first first exposures to Natick. So so I
Speaker 3: think when you look at the weather forecast tonight, we're
Speaker 3: in the clear. I'm ready to make that announcement.
Speaker 4: I have to agree with you mother nts it can't
Speaker 4: be tricky. But I don't think she's gonna pull the
Speaker 4: same trick twice in the same century. Well, this is
Speaker 4: a different century. Maybe all that.
Speaker 3: We'll worry about that later.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I was slightly take on that. I think
Speaker 5: we're definitely clear of the snow. We're definitely out of that.
Speaker 5: We don't have to worry about that. If you haven't
Speaker 5: looked at the forecast to the upcoming five six days
Speaker 5: right into midwek next week, we are going to be
Speaker 5: seeing a locked lot of rain coming up. So we
Speaker 5: may think that it's safe that we don't have great
Speaker 5: tires on our vehicle, and you know we need the
Speaker 5: traction for snow, but remember those tires are wearing down
Speaker 5: and we don't have good treads that we can't push
Speaker 5: that water out of the treads in the side. We've
Speaker 5: lost our water sites. So it's just an important winter
Speaker 5: time we've got to have good tires coming up that
Speaker 5: and wiper blades, spring showers.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, absolutely, let's talk. Let's talk about everybody, I
Speaker 3: hope knows to what level their tires should be inflated.
Speaker 3: But with the return of warmer weather eventually does that
Speaker 3: affect the how much your tires are either inflated or deflated?
Speaker 3: And does it make it should you should you back
Speaker 3: off a little bit?
Speaker 5: Everybody in New England should know this. Everybody in New
Speaker 5: English should know this because we're all patriots fins and
Speaker 5: how can we ever, they'll never let us forget to
Speaker 5: flate gate Okay in the ideal guest law and how
Speaker 5: pressure changes with temperature. So now those tires that you
Speaker 5: had said at two at thirty two pounds of pressure
Speaker 5: when it was back around ten degrees, well now it's
Speaker 5: you know, fifty sixty degrees out there. That thirty two
Speaker 5: is now registering thirty six thirty eight when it's cold.
Speaker 5: So now as you start to drive the car, they
Speaker 5: got to continue to inflate because the temperature's gone up
Speaker 5: on the tire, the pressure keeps raising and all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, those tires that were running thirty two or
Speaker 5: thirty six at full heat, are now running forty two
Speaker 5: forty four pounds, which is fine because yes, you'll get
Speaker 5: a little bit better fuel mileage because it's less rolling resistance. However,
Speaker 5: now you've started to make the tire almost an oval,
Speaker 5: you're not, and you can actually cause additional center wear
Speaker 5: and a tire versus a full path pattern across. So yes,
Speaker 5: it's just as important just to adjust them and the
Speaker 5: winter as it is to adjust them in the spring
Speaker 5: and summer.
Speaker 3: Okay, so what is the adjustment you got to You
Speaker 3: gotta take some airry.
Speaker 5: You don't want to go down. You're gonna want to
Speaker 5: go down. And the best things for people to do
Speaker 5: is before they get up on you know, on a
Speaker 5: Saturday morning, before you go anywhere, check that doorsticker and
Speaker 5: see what your pressures are recommended. And you'll notice it
Speaker 5: says cold whatever. Whenever you look at a car tire
Speaker 5: pressure that's indicated on the door or door frame, it'll
Speaker 5: tell you what that pressure is supposed to be. Cold.
Speaker 5: So you want to do that before you go on
Speaker 5: a you know, twenty thirty mile drive and get those
Speaker 5: tires heated. So if you set amend when the vehicle
Speaker 5: cools back down. Now they're going to be too low,
Speaker 5: So that's the best way to do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, And of course also you got to make sure
Speaker 3: that all of the fluids in the car. I mean,
Speaker 3: you winch your wipe or fluid. You probably used it
Speaker 3: a lot during the wintertime. You can top it off.
Speaker 3: You don't have to use the winter mix. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of things that can be done. And I
Speaker 3: know people have a lot of questions, so we're going
Speaker 3: to do gentlemen as just having started off with that,
Speaker 3: let's take a break. We have the benefit of the
Speaker 3: knowledge of Larry and Scott Rubinstein combined their time dealing
Speaker 3: with cars. I'm not even going to estimate it, but
Speaker 3: it's it's a lot and there's virtually no question. You'll
Speaker 3: be able to ask if you're thinking about buying a
Speaker 3: car or thinking about selling a car, any questions that
Speaker 3: you have. If you want to know about the value
Speaker 3: of a car, that's fine too. And if you've had problems,
Speaker 3: they have solutions very rarely. They never stopped. Let's put
Speaker 3: it like that, So whatever question you have about your
Speaker 3: car six one seven, four thirty nine, we will get
Speaker 3: it going. With Larry that Scott Rubinstein and your phone
Speaker 3: calls right after the break coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, gentlemen, let's start it off here for going to first,
Speaker 3: go to the cape. Larry is down in Dennisport. Larry,
Speaker 3: you are next. Are your first this hour actually with
Speaker 3: the WZ car guys, Larry and Scott Rubinstein. Go right ahead, Larry.
Speaker 7: Larry and Scott you might remember me. We did a
Speaker 7: little business when you had your shop on Route one.
Speaker 7: I used to own State Auto Spring down in Everett,
Speaker 7: and you bought a spring or two from me.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, an old colleague is joining us tonight. Correct, Go
Speaker 3: right ahead, guys.
Speaker 7: So this is an EV question. I'm still old school.
Speaker 7: I drive cause at ten years old. But back a while,
Speaker 7: a while, I don't remember how long ago. Dan had
Speaker 7: Ernie Bock Junior as a guest in one of his segments,
Speaker 7: and he said that evs are really not the cow
Speaker 7: of the future. He thinks that it's hydrogen. So I've
Speaker 7: been out of the business for so long, So what
Speaker 7: are your thoughts on Is that something that could positively
Speaker 7: be developed in the near future?
Speaker 5: This is something that Dad and I talk about all
Speaker 5: the time. And I happen to work for Foster Motors,
Speaker 5: which is the number proud to say that slants Dodge
Speaker 5: cheap dealership. In New England, we saw a ton of
Speaker 5: evs and I will tell you I hate the technology.
Speaker 5: I think that for the money that it costs you
Speaker 5: after it to purchase an EV, I don't think it's
Speaker 5: worth its value. I don't think the technology is to
Speaker 5: where it needs to be for the extra price they
Speaker 5: judge for it. Dad has been a proponent for hydrogen
Speaker 5: technology for years. I will went on that because I
Speaker 5: was never riding on the EV. I brean uh and
Speaker 5: I looked hydrogen as well. In Fyota, I know has
Speaker 5: done a lot of development with it. They've got some
Speaker 5: race vehicles out there. I think they do or have
Speaker 5: or in the mix of just getting the first ones
Speaker 5: out there. Huge it's great for the environment. The only
Speaker 5: byproduct of it is water, and I think I think
Speaker 5: catrogen is the future. I don't think it's what the
Speaker 5: government wants it to be. I don't think the government
Speaker 5: wants it to be the future, but I think it's
Speaker 5: what the consumer needs for the future.
Speaker 3: So how do I'm totally I've lost here. So one
Speaker 3: of you can explain to me how do how do
Speaker 3: you run a car on hydrogen? I mean help me
Speaker 3: out here. If you pull up to some pump and
Speaker 3: you pump hydrogen in your guests tank.
Speaker 5: Correct, correct, just like just like you would develop a gasoline.
Speaker 4: Come on, but but hydrogen is actually out on the
Speaker 4: West Coast. They have developed a hydrogen highway where there
Speaker 4: are hydrogen filled stations. And the beauty of it is
Speaker 4: is that what comes out of your tailpipe is water.
Speaker 4: Only get that these and this is where Ernie back
Speaker 4: and I agree one hundred the evs are only a
Speaker 4: stepping stone. That's all they are to get us to
Speaker 4: the hydrogen. And if they can make it safe, which
Speaker 4: is where the problem is, this is where the future
Speaker 4: is going to be.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm trying to understand this hydrogen I think
Speaker 3: of as a gas, right.
Speaker 5: It is, but it's not a.
Speaker 4: Bottle.
Speaker 3: But it's it's it's not a is it not? It's
Speaker 3: not in liquid form? Is it? Is it liquid hydrogen? Oh?
Speaker 4: It's a gas.
Speaker 3: Okay. So so you pull up to a station, which
Speaker 3: is you know, when we pump gas, it's liquid so
Speaker 3: you're just pumping hydrogen air into your into your tank?
Speaker 3: Is that the deal?
Speaker 5: No, no different than when you go to mean filling station.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, okay, fair enough? Uh? And then how
Speaker 3: long do you get with hydrogen? Let's let's put aside
Speaker 3: the danger for a second. How long I know that
Speaker 3: when I fill my car with gas, I can probably
Speaker 3: you know, drive I don't know three hundred four hundred miles.
Speaker 3: I don't do that. I but once I get down
Speaker 3: to a third of a tank, I'm looking for a
Speaker 3: gas station. But how long? How much mileage do you
Speaker 3: get from hydrogen on a car?
Speaker 5: It's the same tank like a fuel tank. I'm sorry
Speaker 5: to go ahead.
Speaker 4: It's it's so futuristic that they really don't have a
Speaker 4: number yet then, and it's very simply it depends on
Speaker 4: the side of the tank that's in the vehicle that
Speaker 4: you are driving. If they have a tank that's let's say,
Speaker 4: six foot long, like the battery assemblies are now one cars,
Speaker 4: they can put a whole lot more hydrogen into that car.
Speaker 4: If you have a smaller car, like a three wheel
Speaker 4: cop for instance, you know, something silly and stupid like
Speaker 4: like that, then of course it's gonna be a much
Speaker 4: much smaller car. It is much safer for the atmosphere
Speaker 4: than what comes out of the tailpipes. Now, what we've
Speaker 4: done with that tailpipe emissions is great. The cafe has
Speaker 4: gone higher and higher. As a matter of fact, at
Speaker 4: the UH at theh AT briefing yesterday where Trump met
Speaker 4: with his cabinet members, they had discussed that the cafe
Speaker 4: is going to be brought down, the cafe stance for
Speaker 4: ser fire the average fuel economy, and that's going to
Speaker 4: reduce the price of the cars a little bit more.
Speaker 4: And Lord knows we need that because the technology does
Speaker 4: not have to be as strict, and the engines can
Speaker 4: be relaxed a little bit because they are allowed to
Speaker 4: burn some emissions. And you're going to have emissions whenever
Speaker 4: you have a gasoline engine or any kind of an
Speaker 4: engine that uses fossil fuel. Okay, so we understand gasline
Speaker 4: brought down a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, we understand gasoline. Gasoline has been around for a
Speaker 3: long time. We know that hybrid vehicles are out there,
Speaker 3: We know that evs are out there, and we know
Speaker 3: the pluses and the minuses. How far are we away
Speaker 3: from actually buying a car that is hydrogen fueled, and
Speaker 3: is you know, on the road not just in the
Speaker 3: testing case?
Speaker 5: Five years?
Speaker 3: Five years? Okay, fair enough, Larry, Larry, Dennisport. Did you
Speaker 3: have a follow up question on anything.
Speaker 7: No, that was my last question of how far away
Speaker 7: you thinking?
Speaker 4: This is?
Speaker 7: Five years?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 7: That sounds good. Appreciate the call. Nice to talk to
Speaker 7: you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're that close.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: Thanks Larry and Dennis plot Scott, your your phone's breaking
Speaker 3: us up on us a little bit. I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: Rob all right, No, no, I'm gonna I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're not in a moving vehicle, I'm sure, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have Rob try to try to get you closer,
Speaker 3: maybe to a window or something. I just want to
Speaker 3: make sure that everything is fine. So we're going to
Speaker 3: take a very quick break here we're talking with the
Speaker 3: WBZ car guys. I just learned a lot about hydrogen. Hi,
Speaker 3: it sounded to me so futuristic. I did recently. Actually
Speaker 3: it was last last year I drove I Rode, I
Speaker 3: should say, in one of those auto automatic cars in
Speaker 3: San Francisco, which was a very weird feeling sitting in
Speaker 3: the backseat, knowing that there was no one driving the car.
Speaker 3: It was being you're driven remotely. But I got used
Speaker 3: to it, and you know, you just watched it was
Speaker 3: like there was a ghost turning turning the wheel of
Speaker 3: the car. So there's a lot of changes coming. And uh,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 4: Have either of you.
Speaker 3: Have either of you experienced that one of one of
Speaker 3: those cars, especially on the West.
Speaker 5: Coast right right?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: I you know what I I would be holding on
Speaker 4: to the door handle for my dear life is I'd
Speaker 4: like to at least have somebody up front, because you know,
Speaker 4: AI does malfunction and I don't want to be a
Speaker 4: part of the malfunction. So not having a driver upfront,
Speaker 4: to me, that's pretty damn scary.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you it wasn't to me because
Speaker 3: we were on city streets. You weren't going in any
Speaker 3: high rate of speed, and the vehicle seemed to be
Speaker 3: pretty well under control.
Speaker 9: You know, it's it's by the way, you know, hey,
Speaker 9: but yeah, but what if the vehicle goes out of
Speaker 9: control and all of a sudden, you're going from twenty
Speaker 9: miles an.
Speaker 4: Hour on the side street. Something malfunctions and now you're
Speaker 4: going seventy on the side street.
Speaker 3: That would be a problem.
Speaker 4: Why I would like to see a human being up front.
Speaker 3: I will tell you this, you know, I'm I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys watch Jimmy Kimmel at night, he's
Speaker 3: on you know a network TV. I think ABC. He
Speaker 3: did a joke on I guess an aunt of his
Speaker 3: who came to visit him. And if you just google
Speaker 3: Jimmy Kimmel, you know, automatic car he puts his aunt.
Speaker 3: She comes out, and there's what she thinks is a
Speaker 3: driver puts her in the back seat and then says
Speaker 3: to the aunt, gie, I have to, you know, go
Speaker 3: in and use the restroom. I'll be right out. And
Speaker 3: I forget what the ances name was, like on Chicky
Speaker 3: or something, and she sort of fit the name fit
Speaker 3: because she was very bossy, and she said, yeah, but
Speaker 3: hurry up, you know that sort of thing. So the
Speaker 3: guy you walked away and the car automatically took off.
Speaker 3: She's in the backseat of the car. She has no
Speaker 3: idea what's going on, and they had a car following
Speaker 3: her with some of her children, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: saying hello, welcome to the car, and who are you recognize?
Speaker 3: Their voices. It was it's hysterical. It is hysterical. It's
Speaker 3: like on Chicky with Jimmy Kimmel. You guys, I know
Speaker 3: we have good senses of humor. You'd appreciate it. It
Speaker 3: runs about six minutes, but it's one of those moments
Speaker 3: where you laugh so hard you cry.
Speaker 4: It was it was I'm gonna have to grip my
Speaker 4: teeth and check out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and you'll never get into an one looks again. Larry.
Speaker 3: We'll take a quick break back with Larry and Scott.
Speaker 3: Got a couple of open lines if you want to
Speaker 3: get in get in early six one, seven, two thirty, six,
Speaker 3: one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Back on night Side,
Speaker 3: right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3: Back to the phones, we go for the WBZ car guys.
Speaker 3: Larry and Scott Rubinstein are here. We're gonna pick the
Speaker 3: pace up a little bit. Let's go to Jane and
Speaker 3: Evergni're next on night Side with Scott and Larry Rubinstein.
Speaker 3: Goright ahead. What's your car questions?
Speaker 4: Gee?
Speaker 8: Hi, Hi Dan, thank you, Hi guys. So I have
Speaker 8: a Honda record twenty twenty, and they did have a
Speaker 8: recall that said, you know, if you're ac the stat's
Speaker 8: not working great, you can have it checked. And they
Speaker 8: they had a problem with sometimes losing the gas or whatever.
Speaker 8: I don't know. So last summer I noticed I didn't
Speaker 8: feel like my curacy was quite as cold as it
Speaker 8: should have been. I mean, it worked, but I didn't
Speaker 8: feel it was really enough. But and I know we
Speaker 8: had an extremely hot summer, so I want to know
Speaker 8: what is the test that will be done to check it.
Speaker 8: I hate anyone touching my car unnecessarily, especially because we'll
Speaker 8: do before.
Speaker 4: But there are two tests that they're going to take.
Speaker 4: Number one, they're going to put a set of gauges
Speaker 4: onto the access ports under the hood, and they're going
Speaker 4: to look at the two readings high side and low side,
Speaker 4: and they're going to take into consideration the temperature of
Speaker 4: that day, and they're going to make sure that those
Speaker 4: pressures are proper and in the range that they have
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 8: Okay too, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4: And Test two is they're going to put a thermometer
Speaker 4: into the center outlet port of your dashboard where the
Speaker 4: cold air comes out of, and they're going to one again,
Speaker 4: take into consideration the temperature of the day, and they're
Speaker 4: going to see whether your car reaches the proper temperature
Speaker 4: from the outlet that is prescribed to in the book. Basically,
Speaker 4: they're looking for twenty at minimally twenty degrees cooler than
Speaker 4: the ambient temperature. If your car passes those tests, then
Speaker 4: there's no further work that needs to be done.
Speaker 8: I did, but I have a question. When they check
Speaker 8: the temperature on that gauge access put under the hood,
Speaker 8: can some of my gas come out? Can I lose gas?
Speaker 4: You know, when you take off the gauge contact point,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get a and it's an insignificant amount. I
Speaker 4: mean your car probably holds ten to fourteen ounces a gas. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and what comes out as miniscule nothing you even have
Speaker 4: to worry about it. I mean, it's it's just because
Speaker 4: there is a little bit of gas left in that hose,
Speaker 4: because they have a hose that runs up up to
Speaker 4: the gauge, and what comes out, it's just looking for this.
Speaker 4: That's it. So no damage could possibly take place. Now
Speaker 4: if they leave the hose half on and half off, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're going to lose a lot of gas.
Speaker 8: Because okay, because when I had my new central air
Speaker 8: conditioning at my home tuned up and the guy came
Speaker 8: out and checked the gas and he lost quite a
Speaker 8: bit of guess when I was standing there was checking
Speaker 8: and I'm not even having that checked again. I'll tell
Speaker 8: you the truth, all right, hopefully.
Speaker 3: Hopefully that's helpful. Appreciate your call, Jean, Glad and hope
Speaker 3: you have a nice, cool driving summer. Let's go next
Speaker 3: to Scott and Dadhim Scott, you're next to Nightside. Go
Speaker 3: right ahead with Larry Scott Rubinstein.
Speaker 10: Good evening, gentlemen. Hey, it's just a quick follow up.
Speaker 10: I talked to you guys over the winter. I had
Speaker 10: a twenty sixteen Mercedes C three hundred and was getting
Speaker 10: a gas smell when it was parked in the garage.
Speaker 10: There isn't a recall, but it is. It is an
Speaker 10: extended warranty because the flex part of the flex hoo
Speaker 10: is going from the frame to the high pressure side.
Speaker 10: They replaced it for free. So just want to let
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 5: Actual, Yeah, yes, pair perfect. That is very full him,
Speaker 5: something I will definitely pass on to my fellow Mercedes owners.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for following up. On that, and
Speaker 5: that's great that Mercedes stepped up and took care of that.
Speaker 3: How did you remember that, qull Scott, Scott, how'd you
Speaker 3: remember that call?
Speaker 5: I remember more than you realize that.
Speaker 10: Here is about three more that they extended the warranties
Speaker 10: on one hundred and fifty thousand miles, so it's worth
Speaker 10: taking it down having to take a look. Thanks, guys,
Speaker 10: have a good night.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I think we lost him there. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I would further recommend that Scott calls the NHTSA the
Speaker 4: phone number. I don't have it in front of me now,
Speaker 4: but it's on the INDs ofnet and it has to
Speaker 4: let them know about this because what he describes could
Speaker 4: be a fire hazard and if there is several Mercedes
Speaker 4: having the same problems, then the NHTSA looks into it
Speaker 4: and it could develop into a recall which could save
Speaker 4: some somebody's life. That's a very serious problem.
Speaker 3: WHOA, well, yeah, I do want to put.
Speaker 5: I do want to point out that ball less and
Speaker 5: that may be experiencing this problem. You are extended win
Speaker 5: TEA time is running close to uh I get extended
Speaker 5: to ten year, one hundred and twenty thousand, which ever expressed,
Speaker 5: and that is from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen's seat
Speaker 5: three hundreds, so you only have one or two years left.
Speaker 5: So you get the knocking on to that. So if
Speaker 5: you got this problem, get in a draft drover dealership.
Speaker 3: All right, Scott, you're busts busting up on us again. Here,
Speaker 3: stay stay stable, We're gonna take that. Let's get it
Speaker 3: at the call. John is in Boston. Hey, John, you're
Speaker 3: next on night side. Welcome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, right, good eting guys. You know, I just
Speaker 4: wanted to mention with all this new technology coming along,
Speaker 4: some of the best ideas are the ideas of yesterday.
Speaker 4: Like Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel which has a bad
Speaker 4: name diesel gate. But you could run a diesel engine
Speaker 4: on Veneta oil I here and people doing it on YouTube.
Speaker 4: You go to your local restaurant, it's gonna have your
Speaker 4: grief or market basket. You know. You could buy new
Speaker 4: fish water, but it will run it's eight percent clean
Speaker 4: from the environment. And John, that's basically forgotten well John,
Speaker 4: that that oil and grease you get from the restaurant
Speaker 4: has to be processed. You just can't point. I know
Speaker 4: that your car, but no, I what what you're saying.
Speaker 4: I agree with you one hundred times over. But I
Speaker 4: don't want to let people think that they can just
Speaker 4: take the French fry oil and throw it inside their gas.
Speaker 4: You're gonna clean and exactly let it.
Speaker 3: Let him finish his explanation, you guys, you're talking over him. John.
Speaker 3: It's that sounds like a lot of extra work to me.
Speaker 3: Is it worth the different?
Speaker 4: But it's eight percent cleaning from the environment. And before
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty five, a diesel from MERCEDI the diesel from
Speaker 4: both working work this fine, and you can look on YouTube.
Speaker 4: But Rudolph Diesel, his idea is the run of diesel
Speaker 4: on regular oil, which you can. And if I was
Speaker 4: the president, I'd be helping the farmer out grow vegetables
Speaker 4: and processing vegetables that I was overseas for the oil
Speaker 4: in the Middle East of wherever it is. And there's
Speaker 4: also a forgotten one nuclear power plants and all that.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard it lately, but talk about in the
Speaker 4: center of the earth, the temperatures ten thousand degrees. I
Speaker 4: heard the Chinese might be doing that to try to
Speaker 4: tap into that. You measure the power that we could
Speaker 4: generate from ten thousand degrees the heat in.
Speaker 7: The center of the earth.
Speaker 4: But that that doesn't get the attention that soul of
Speaker 4: panels and winds an electric car. An electric car basically
Speaker 4: is a fashion statement. I called the Tesla yuppie mobile.
Speaker 4: Oh hit otobiles, Now we have yuppiemobiles.
Speaker 3: You are as John, You're a man of great knowledge
Speaker 3: and strong convictions, and we thank you.
Speaker 4: Let's go back by yourself an old el for about
Speaker 4: five to ten thousand dollars and you can run it
Speaker 4: on French frike grease.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do I'm going to do that in
Speaker 3: the morning. John. Actually, now that you well, I think.
Speaker 4: If you get a damn people will be calling you
Speaker 4: up looking to give the oil to you. Coming. I
Speaker 4: had would probably diesel, and you did that. I'm sure
Speaker 4: to be calling you.
Speaker 3: Have I have room down cellar. I've got a couple
Speaker 3: of extra barrels down cellar. I'll have I'll have as
Speaker 3: much oil.
Speaker 4: Look on youtub about it if you don't want you
Speaker 4: want to see more about it.
Speaker 3: No, I'm doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm sure It's not like a restaurant. What are you
Speaker 4: cooking French fries in the car.
Speaker 3: I love that spun. Oh yeah, I love that restaurant coutely. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's none fattening. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 3: eat the fries. So I'm with you one thousand percent
Speaker 3: of this one, John, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Sorry up an old diesel and running on French fry
Speaker 4: grease before nineteen eighty five. Because I have no computer
Speaker 4: fuel's trying to get that done.
Speaker 3: I put that on my list of things to do John.
Speaker 3: That and I got to.
Speaker 4: The dentist last week. So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: John, good suggestions.
Speaker 4: Okay, I just what to say?
Speaker 5: Who hold on the only thing I'm going to say,
Speaker 5: He's right, He really is.
Speaker 4: He is correct.
Speaker 5: It can be done, even on some of these new ones.
Speaker 4: You can create fuels.
Speaker 3: So okay, So here's here's my question, Scott, Scott, here's
Speaker 3: my question. When I get that McDonald's oil or whatever
Speaker 3: it is, and I have a story down cellar and
Speaker 3: my house smells like and my wife throws me out,
Speaker 3: will you take me in up there in New Hampshire?
Speaker 3: I mean, because I'm going to be sleeping on.
Speaker 5: As long as you don't mind sharing a couch with
Speaker 5: Roxy the Rottweiler. I'm sure she would love to cotton
Speaker 5: her up with you.
Speaker 4: Oh man, your mother welcome.
Speaker 3: That's that's another incentive. My whole life could change here
Speaker 3: just as a result of that call. This is wonderful.
Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, we'll take a quick break if you
Speaker 3: want to call about cars. Six months seven two, five,
Speaker 3: four ten, thirty six months seven nine. That is the
Speaker 3: last call we're going to take about McDonald's French fry
Speaker 3: oil or whatever it is, or French fry Greece. Maybe
Speaker 3: back at Nightside right after this quick break with the
Speaker 3: WBZ car guy Scott and Larry rubinste back right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 3: We're talking with Larry and Scott Rubinstein, the WBZ car guys.
Speaker 3: The winter driving season has ended. They will last with
Speaker 3: us in mid December of last year, and we're trying
Speaker 3: to make sure that all of you, me included, gets
Speaker 3: on the road and make sure that the car is
Speaker 3: ready for the longer drives of the summer. Many of
Speaker 3: us in the wintertime don't drive great distances, but we've
Speaker 3: got to make sure that our car is ready to go.
Speaker 3: If we're going to take a trip to the mountains
Speaker 3: or a trip out to the Berkshire's or wherever. So
Speaker 3: any calls, any questions you'd like, feel free six one, seven,
Speaker 3: two A nine ten thirty and I got Andrew in
Speaker 3: Rockland checking in Andrew. You next with Scott and Larry
Speaker 3: on Nightside. Go right ahead, Andrew. What's your question?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 6: I have two vehicles. I had four Transit twenty seventeen
Speaker 6: for Transits, twenty five hundred van and it's got about
Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty thousand miles on it. I have
Speaker 6: a ram Laramie fifteen hundred and twenty seventeen and that's
Speaker 6: also has high mileage. I need a lot and pinion
Speaker 6: in the ram it's gonna cost me like three grand
Speaker 6: to do. And I needs front end work in the
Speaker 6: van that's gonna cost me about twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: Question is is a Timon traded men. I own the
Speaker 6: van and I owe a little bit of money on
Speaker 6: the truck.
Speaker 4: How many miles do you saying with that?
Speaker 6: Tell you on the truck the van has one hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty thousand and the ram Laramie has maybe like
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty thousand on it.
Speaker 5: What are the power trains in each?
Speaker 6: Woh, I don't know.
Speaker 5: The seventeen Rammers have the eighth C on the hemy
Speaker 5: a little bit. I'm sorry you broke up, sir.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know what the powertrain is in either
Speaker 6: one of them.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the Ram van of pro Master, No, the
Speaker 5: van is not a pro Master.
Speaker 4: What year did you say the van wasn't? Get said?
Speaker 5: The Ram truck with the seventeen.
Speaker 6: Twenty seventeen four Transit twenty five hundred, and then a
Speaker 6: twenty seventeen Ram Laramie fifteen hundred.
Speaker 5: Okay, So as far as they're both decent vehicles, I
Speaker 5: don't know if if you priced out the replacement on
Speaker 5: a seventeen Ram well to replace your Ram with the
Speaker 5: new model.
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably about forty grand, fifty grand somewhere. Then I
Speaker 6: go with the used Laramie of.
Speaker 5: The Jode coach will used, okay, because I can tell
Speaker 5: you the price on a new layer of me for
Speaker 5: fifteen hundred, you're probably talking, you know, upwards of sixty probably, yeah,
Speaker 5: and then you get into a twenty five hundred you're
Speaker 5: talking right, So they're very expensive to me. The Ram
Speaker 5: is a definite No, I would not trade it in
Speaker 5: at one hundred and twenty thousand. I mean it's bought
Speaker 5: and paid for. It's not like listen, if you can
Speaker 5: afford to buy a new truck, then by all means,
Speaker 5: go ahead and do it. But I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 5: at it's the end of its life cycle at that point.
Speaker 5: I personally drive a RAM. I drive a twenty fifteen
Speaker 5: RAM twenty five hundred that is over two hundred thousand
Speaker 5: miles right now, and that that's from somebody that works
Speaker 5: in the dealership because I know what the cost is
Speaker 5: for replacement versus I know what the truck is, So.
Speaker 4: That one's a definite. No.
Speaker 5: The trendsit that one's at how many miles again, one
Speaker 5: seventy six, one sixty yeah, one. I might be looking
Speaker 5: the upgrade.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We just with transit again, and would you look at
Speaker 5: something as a competitor.
Speaker 6: I will probably go with the RAM. What's it called
Speaker 6: the tallow one pro Master prole Master, but yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the pro Masters are very nice. They've got an
Speaker 5: approven engine that's been going for a long time. I
Speaker 5: see plenty of them come in my shop that are
Speaker 5: used by multiple companies that we sell them to, pushing
Speaker 5: over two hundred k on a They're great vihic, right,
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Hey y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the one that need Scott. Scott. We
Speaker 3: are losing you here, So let me let Larry jump in. Larry,
Speaker 3: do you do you have something to add on this call? Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, First of all, I would think that you want
Speaker 4: to professionally had take the deep the transit whereas it
Speaker 4: is a ford, and have it looked at professionally number
Speaker 4: one from stem to stern. See what else is coming
Speaker 4: down the pike as it is? Does it drive? It
Speaker 4: doesn't break? It doesn't. And now you said that you
Speaker 4: had a steering problem, so let's put.
Speaker 6: That staring staring staring problem is problem is in the rim.
Speaker 6: That's a what's it called spindle, Roden spindle, something like that,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, rotten pinion in the ram and that's gonna
Speaker 6: cost like three brand to fix.
Speaker 4: Okay, that is a rocket onion that you're talking about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, racket, And I'm a plumber, not
Speaker 6: a mechanic.
Speaker 4: Okay, three three thousand dollars is very high. Where did
Speaker 4: that price come from?
Speaker 6: Andrew that came from a mechanic, a local mechanic in
Speaker 6: my town, for the roden spindle.
Speaker 4: On the ram, I mean the rotten spindle. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: are saying rack, rack and pinion, right, rack and pinion,
Speaker 4: you're right?
Speaker 6: Yep, my bad.
Speaker 4: Okay. I would suggest you get a few estimates on
Speaker 4: that because that sounds very very high. Uh.
Speaker 6: If he's buyers, if they were like two box.
Speaker 4: My man, we're talking about then I'm saying, probably talking
Speaker 4: about the power range of LABA.
Speaker 3: Guys, you're talking over each other a little bit.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Larry, Okay, if you're talking two thousand dollars,
Speaker 4: I don't think you're talking about just a rack, opinion.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you're talking about several other items as well.
Speaker 4: Very typical hubbarrys can go on those as well, and
Speaker 4: that's a very labor intensive job. But just a rack
Speaker 4: and pinion by itself is not that much money.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, that would that's what I for that.
Speaker 4: If if if you want to send me a copy
Speaker 4: of the estimate, I'll be happy to look at it.
Speaker 4: You can send it to my email address, which is
Speaker 4: scan Auto at aol dot com, and I'll be happy
Speaker 4: to look at it because it sounds like there's something
Speaker 4: missing from the story.
Speaker 6: Right all right, good, good thing.
Speaker 4: I call. Thanks? May have said.
Speaker 3: You may have saved yourself some money or you may
Speaker 3: have saved yourself a problem either way.
Speaker 6: Right right, glad? I called? Thank you?
Speaker 3: All right? Uh, did you want to add something to
Speaker 3: Scott before he left? Did you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 11: I I think I think dad's in the in the ballpark.
Speaker 11: I think he's probably should be closer to the two
Speaker 11: thousand and two to twenty five hundred dollars range for
Speaker 11: that rack job. But I think, like Larry said, I
Speaker 11: have to take a look at the estimate and make sure.
Speaker 11: You know, we don't want to make we want to
Speaker 11: make sure that he's getting exactly what he thinks he's
Speaker 11: getting for that price.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, thanks, thank you very much, Andrew. Hope
Speaker 3: we save you some money, and that that email for
Speaker 3: Larry is skiing s C A N AUTO A U
Speaker 3: t O at aol dot com. And Larry is very,
Speaker 3: very excellent and wonderful in terms of getting back to
Speaker 3: our listeners. I'm amazed that that he takes the time
Speaker 3: and care that he does. So you sent your something
Speaker 3: he'll get he'll get back to you, okay, maybe save
Speaker 3: you some money.
Speaker 6: Appreciate a good night, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Andrew, welcome, okay. I don't want to short change
Speaker 3: anyone here. As we head towards the eleven o'clock News,
Speaker 3: my guest as always the WBZ car guys Larry and
Speaker 3: Scott Rubinstein. Scott, I don't know if you're moving around
Speaker 3: or if your phone's got an issue there, But when
Speaker 3: you start to drop out, I'm gonna just rely on
Speaker 3: bringing Larry back in as well, all right, So no problem.
Speaker 3: I do the same thing. By the way, I'm one
Speaker 3: of those guys who loves to walk and talk, and
Speaker 3: so I know the instinct. But it sometimes get by
Speaker 3: a window and it's and get yourself comfortable and everything
Speaker 3: will work perfectly. Will take a break. I got Chuck
Speaker 3: and Georgia coming up. I got Doug an Ipswich, and
Speaker 3: I have room for you at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of questions that I'm going to
Speaker 3: jump in when there's a break in the phones. But
Speaker 3: keep the phones ringing. We'll we'll be back right after
Speaker 3: the eleven o'clock News. With two guys who know more
Speaker 3: about automotive issues than anyone I know. I'm so grateful
Speaker 3: to both of them that they will take their time
Speaker 3: on a Thursday night UH and uh and help the
Speaker 3: nightside listeners across the country. Chuck and Georgia Doug an
Speaker 3: Ipswich will wait. Here comes the news