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Speaker 4: Dix. It's the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Paige.
Speaker 5: Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show Man. Do we
Speaker 5: have a lot to talk about today? It's car Friday.
Speaker 5: And I got my uh my honorary car Morons in
Speaker 5: the expert Morons. Moron is a, by the way, a
Speaker 5: title of honor on this show. You can afford. Huh,
Speaker 5: It's an affection, yes, YouTube morons. And then we have
Speaker 5: Facebook flunkies. I don't I don't like Facebook. I never
Speaker 5: I don't spend time on there. I've gotten rid of
Speaker 5: all my pages except our professional page there. And then welcome,
Speaker 5: by the way, and we got Kevin Calkin, Sheridan Auto
Speaker 5: Tech Jeffic Camera Transmission Deputy Docks in the studio. I
Speaker 5: don't know where our other deputies are parts unknown. They're
Speaker 5: walking around ready to take cases to help people out.
Speaker 5: And then also I have great news today. Southwest Airlines
Speaker 5: is abandoning. They're abandoning their stupid unassigned seat cattle call boarding.
Speaker 5: They're going with assigned seats. Bravo, bravo. You can pay
Speaker 5: for better seats, you can pay for priority, you can
Speaker 5: pay Yes, thank god. I liked Southwest except for their stupid,
Speaker 5: stupid seating system. It was the craziest, most ridiculous thing
Speaker 5: in the world. Especially people would get one a boarding pass,
Speaker 5: one in a family of nine, and then save seats,
Speaker 5: so priority meant nothing. If you pay for priority, it
Speaker 5: meant nothing. People. That was the biggest fall, the saving
Speaker 5: of the seats. The other one was it was terrible.
Speaker 5: It was just terrible.
Speaker 6: I hated it every minute of.
Speaker 5: It, and I knew you'd be talking about that and
Speaker 5: I was gonna stop on. Thanks Mark, good to hear you.
Speaker 5: By the way, are you back in town.
Speaker 7: We are. I am at the Franktown mother Ship today.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering why didn't you come in and say hi
Speaker 5: to everybody.
Speaker 7: I thought you were at home or I might have.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, anyway, here's the deal. Anyway, what we're doing
Speaker 5: is we're gonna now have a signed seating and you
Speaker 5: can pay for priority and all of that. Now, that's
Speaker 5: just more logical that this cattle call thing they were.
Speaker 8: I don't know wellout the saving, I kind of liked it,
Speaker 8: But you're right, saving seats was stupid.
Speaker 5: No, you liked it.
Speaker 6: So if it wasn't for saving seats, you'd like to
Speaker 6: see just so you could.
Speaker 8: Just randomly go on and sit where you want. I
Speaker 8: mean to me, that made you know, an aisle seat,
Speaker 8: you just go back a little further grab an aisle
Speaker 8: seat you don't want to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I see what you're saying.
Speaker 8: It's just more casual. It's instead of you know, trying
Speaker 8: to get the exact seat.
Speaker 9: You know, that's assuming that there were aisle seats.
Speaker 5: There were always ile set.
Speaker 8: There's always ill seat. I mean, if you paid the
Speaker 8: priority what ten bucks to get you know, in the
Speaker 8: first group or something, you can kind of pick where
Speaker 8: you want.
Speaker 5: So I once saw a baseball team save seats, went
Speaker 5: with the coach, safe seats for everybody, and so I
Speaker 5: look at it. I would say saving seats probably didn't
Speaker 5: happen the majority of time. It didn't. You know, somebody
Speaker 5: saves a seat for their wife. I don't care about that.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I'm really happy now Southwest will be probably
Speaker 5: the perfect airline, or will they raise prices now because
Speaker 5: they always had the best prices and bags free. Are
Speaker 5: they going to change all that? And another thing about
Speaker 5: these carry ons, They got to be more strict about
Speaker 5: those now. I know Mark was pissed at one airline.
Speaker 5: I forget which one it was, but they measured his
Speaker 5: thing and said he owes money and it's the arbitrary.
Speaker 5: It's because it fit in there in the dimensions. But
Speaker 5: then when they put it up on end it didn't.
Speaker 5: And he said, well that's not what when you have dimensions,
Speaker 5: for God's sakes, it's not a square, it's a rectangle,
Speaker 5: you know. And they tried to tell them standing it
Speaker 5: on end it went over the rectangle.
Speaker 6: Well that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I mean, the whole idea is to have a dimension. Otherwise,
Speaker 5: why didn't they just put a square there exactly?
Speaker 8: Well what about people traveling with kids? You get the
Speaker 8: car seat, the strollers, the you know they cover about.
Speaker 5: The first of all, let's just say it like it is.
Speaker 5: You know, kids should not be allowed anywhere on the airlines.
Speaker 5: They should be forced to take trains or buses. Let's
Speaker 5: just say it like it is. Well, no kids, know,
Speaker 5: kids for traveling or maybe not baggage, but maybe you
Speaker 5: have a compartment underneath that's pressurized that you can put
Speaker 5: them to sleep for the for the duration of the Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: no seat belts, honey, there's a big bouncy house. I'm
Speaker 5: sure I'm going to get like somebody say, oh, how
Speaker 5: dare you? How dare you? Because there's no such thing
Speaker 5: as humor anymore. Yeah, they should put a place underneath
Speaker 5: the plane. It should be safe and pressurized. I don't
Speaker 5: want to see the kids gasping for air. But keep
Speaker 5: the little bastards down there, let them cry all day.
Speaker 5: I love kids. I'm just kidding, I really do. Let's
Speaker 5: talk to Lynn.
Speaker 6: Lynn and Daniel.
Speaker 10: Daniel, I'm sorry, my husband just stepped on my toe.
Speaker 11: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 10: Okay, can you hear me on speaker?
Speaker 5: I can hear both of you. I can hear both
Speaker 5: of you. Man, what's happening?
Speaker 12: Well, okay, so we does some renovation for the house.
Speaker 12: This year is going to be our big year to
Speaker 12: the a lot of money out of different carry White
Speaker 12: House to get this done and put it behind us. Well,
Speaker 12: we heard a contract company called Kona.
Speaker 5: Ko and a ko and a and what were you doing?
Speaker 4: What were you?
Speaker 5: Was this a new house to you?
Speaker 12: It's a new well we've been here ten years.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, so it's a remodel.
Speaker 12: It's we're replacing a deck in the back that was
Speaker 12: the goal.
Speaker 5: Okay, the houses around us.
Speaker 12: They've done this replacement because.
Speaker 5: And you hired ConA. Okay, you're replacing a deck. And
Speaker 5: you hired ConA, and this is Lynn and Daniel and
Speaker 5: when you hired Kona. What went wrong?
Speaker 12: Well, it's ultimately what went wrong was they disappeared?
Speaker 5: Oh crap, Oh how much did you pay them?
Speaker 10: Well, pay twenty thousand dollars because we gave him a pobbet.
Speaker 10: Then we gave him money to order the material.
Speaker 5: So you paid total they did they totally disappear? Or
Speaker 5: are they just ghosting you?
Speaker 12: Well, right now they're ghosting. And I went by their
Speaker 12: office the other day. There's no sign on the door.
Speaker 12: It's Derek. It's locked up. No trucks in the back
Speaker 12: by the loading docks. And I talked to a gentleman
Speaker 12: who works for the company next door, and he's had
Speaker 12: the day before there was an older couple doing the
Speaker 12: same thing.
Speaker 5: Oh no, how much hey, Daniel or Lynn? How much
Speaker 5: work did they do?
Speaker 10: Nothing?
Speaker 13: They did?
Speaker 12: They did the drawings, inspection. Everything looked good. We were
Speaker 12: waiting for the next stage.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then we got a regularly approval on the
Speaker 10: plan they came up with. They did was supposedly, you know,
Speaker 10: it was to prove an engineer.
Speaker 6: Did you get a permit?
Speaker 5: No, that was for them to pull Okay, so twenty
Speaker 5: grand and nothing nothing?
Speaker 14: Nothing?
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Okay, now that you know that's that's
Speaker 5: a crime. That that rises to the level of a
Speaker 5: crime when you consider the uh, let's see a Contractor's
Speaker 5: Trust Act. But did you how long ago? When was
Speaker 5: the last time you talked to KNA? When did you
Speaker 5: sign the contract?
Speaker 12: We have a DOCU signed document with them?
Speaker 5: When roughly April time frame in April? Got it in April? Okay?
Speaker 5: And who is the person behind KONA?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 12: We had numerous different points of content.
Speaker 5: Was there any owner that you did you ever deal
Speaker 5: with an owner or a principal?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: We dealt with first the estimator and then we dealt
Speaker 12: with They sent out two guys who were project managers.
Speaker 5: What research did you do on this company? I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: what research did you do? Well?
Speaker 12: Like everything else, we went online. We were at different reviews.
Speaker 12: I've got their Facebook page pulled up right now, and
Speaker 12: there's a number of glowing endorsements for them. We thought
Speaker 12: that this was going to be a reputable company. And
Speaker 12: from what we understand now talking to one of the
Speaker 12: former employees, he.
Speaker 5: Said, is it Kona Construction or Kona Contractors Contractors? Okay?
Speaker 10: And they are in LLC. And we signed the contract
Speaker 10: on May twenty first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: Oh, May twenty first, okay, May twenty first, and they're
Speaker 5: in LLC.
Speaker 10: That's why we started coming out. We started, I believe
Speaker 10: the first time they came out was in April. But
Speaker 10: we signed the contract on Side twenty one, twenty four.
Speaker 5: That's okay.
Speaker 6: Now do you know other people this happened to.
Speaker 10: Well only when Daniel we went out yesterday and saw
Speaker 10: that the trucks were gone, the life were out, the
Speaker 10: company was seemingly gone on the business now.
Speaker 5: They were out of Highland's ranch, right.
Speaker 12: They Centennial Their office that I went to is on.
Speaker 15: Sure.
Speaker 6: Oh really, it's on easter incanta An near the airport there.
Speaker 10: It's one four five five zero, East Eastern Avenue, Centennial.
Speaker 6: One four five five zero okay, yes.
Speaker 10: East eastern. So anyhow so the business next door pulled
Speaker 10: my husband another couple, older couple pop by the day
Speaker 10: before and said they were contractors after house worked on
Speaker 10: their duck and they disappeared and haven't come back and
Speaker 10: they got nothing. So the last time we heard from
Speaker 10: the company was an email on July eighth telling us,
Speaker 10: because what you put everything in a queue, saying that
Speaker 10: we're the next one they're going to meet about and
Speaker 10: give us to deck because we were pushing them, what's
Speaker 10: when's our startgate?
Speaker 5: So then we got to do something about this. I
Speaker 5: wonder how many people have been ripped off? Did you
Speaker 5: I don't know if it'll matter, but did you go
Speaker 5: to the U let's see, did you go to uh
Speaker 5: the district attorney at all?
Speaker 15: So far?
Speaker 10: The only the only thing I've done is like I
Speaker 10: call the friend of mine who works in insurance business.
Speaker 10: She immediately recommended you. Two people immediately recommended you. And
Speaker 10: I am going to try and stop payment on a
Speaker 10: little bit we put on my credit card because I
Speaker 10: know this.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure. How much did you put on the
Speaker 5: credit card?
Speaker 10: Only only a little bit like under three thousand okay?
Speaker 6: And the rest? How did you pay the check?
Speaker 10: And the jack being cashed and that was to allegedly
Speaker 10: order all the materials as all track.
Speaker 5: Okay, we got to research this, We got to give
Speaker 5: this to somebody to dig into this. We got to
Speaker 5: figure out where he is and all of that.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and so now let me say one more thing.
Speaker 10: So the person that we have spoken to, his name
Speaker 10: is Luke. Luke was the initial person who came out
Speaker 10: and did the estimate, and he called up a couple
Speaker 10: of days ago to see what was going on and
Speaker 10: proceeded to tell us that he left the company because
Speaker 10: they were no longer paying him. And he told us
Speaker 10: the person, the admin person that we were dealing with,
Speaker 10: quit a week ago yesterday, and yeah, basically, and he
Speaker 10: and then he also told that this KNA was a
Speaker 10: very reputable company for many years, but two years ago
Speaker 10: they sold it to new owners. So that's that was
Speaker 10: not a parent in the research that we did.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at their Facebook page too. I'd like to
Speaker 5: know who the clown is behind him. Hold on, man, well,
Speaker 5: here's what we have to do. We have to find
Speaker 5: they're listed on Facebook as Highland's Ranch. You got that too, bro,
Speaker 5: Hyland's Ranch. Okay, hold on, let's see who we're going
Speaker 5: to give this to and then we'll talk to Greg
Speaker 5: about Cox and Dave about transmissions. Hold on, Lynn and Daniel, Hi,
Speaker 5: Tom Martino, your troubleshooter. You know, we just have to
Speaker 5: put the word out right now, we really do. Lynn
Speaker 5: and Daniel got ripped off for twenty grand and to
Speaker 5: know if anyone else has been a victim of this
Speaker 5: company right now? I mean we we can't find anything
Speaker 5: on them, and we were just trying to figure out
Speaker 5: where the hell they win, who the owner is. We're
Speaker 5: gonna have to go to Secretary of State see if
Speaker 5: we can find anything at all. This is atrocious. That's
Speaker 5: a lot of money to lose people. That's a lot
Speaker 5: of money. And we're talking about a company called ConA Contractors. Hey,
Speaker 5: maybe we start ln at this employee. Do you have
Speaker 5: any of the numbers of the people you dealt with
Speaker 5: that even if they left the company, maybe they'll help
Speaker 5: us out.
Speaker 6: Let me bring up that. There you go, Lynn or Dan,
Speaker 6: you'll go ahead.
Speaker 16: We have Luke.
Speaker 10: I do not hit his last name.
Speaker 5: No, but I don't want his number on the air.
Speaker 5: I want to get it off the air. So who
Speaker 5: else do you have in addition to Luke.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 12: They use a software called base Camp, which is a
Speaker 12: project manage sauce ware. In base Camp, you can keep
Speaker 12: on individuals who work for the company.
Speaker 5: But can you still log into base camp and see
Speaker 5: your project?
Speaker 12: I can, and there's there's nothing going on it. And
Speaker 12: I've been teeming there. I'm trying to get no.
Speaker 5: But I mean, are is there contact information? I want
Speaker 5: to be able. Here's what I want to do. We
Speaker 5: need to either find other victims or other people who
Speaker 5: have numbers or contacts for these people, so we can
Speaker 5: find someone who can tell us what happened, and then
Speaker 5: we can start trying to trace it to.
Speaker 6: The owner to see if there's fraud there.
Speaker 5: Hold on, Deputy Doc, Let's see if you have that
Speaker 5: one project manager or estimator's name. Let's give it to
Speaker 5: Doc and just call them and see what the hell
Speaker 5: you can find out. One of the question, Tom, this
Speaker 5: is a terrible thing people. I hope you're hearing money down.
Speaker 5: No money down, No money down except for extreme rare circumstances,
Speaker 5: and in those cases there are to make payment in
Speaker 5: order to help you. What were you gonna say, Doc,
Speaker 5: has your mind done?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 9: Has the DA or detective contact to them after they
Speaker 9: reported this to the DA's office.
Speaker 5: I'm here, did you actually fill out a report with
Speaker 5: the district attorney?
Speaker 10: You're absolutely our first phone call.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's what they said. All right, hold on, we'll
Speaker 5: take it one step at a time. Then maybe Deputy
Speaker 5: doc will call to see if they ought any complaints
Speaker 5: about it. By the way, one thing I will tell
Speaker 5: you that we'll do absolutely no good is complaining to
Speaker 5: the Better Business Bureau. So I'm glad we were a
Speaker 5: first call because it's Better Business Bureau. Torontosaurus rex there,
Speaker 5: they're dinosaurs. They won't do anything. In fact, they'll probably
Speaker 5: have a great rating. Why don't we even look them on?
Speaker 5: Let's look them on. Look up their rating on the
Speaker 5: Better Business Bureau probably going to be a triple A.
Speaker 5: No dependability there. Let's talk to Greg now about Cox Communications.
Speaker 5: What's going on, Greg? What part of the country you're
Speaker 5: calling from.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna roar call.
Speaker 6: Do they have Cox and Aurora?
Speaker 11: No? I don't think they happen. Yeah, well I talked.
Speaker 11: I talked to them for about an hour. Yeah, and
Speaker 11: what happened was my mom is living in lafay at
Speaker 11: Louisiana in a care home. Yeah, and so she had
Speaker 11: a cable with Cox Communications.
Speaker 5: Okay, uh huh.
Speaker 11: So she had a lady that was was handling her
Speaker 11: bills with power of attorney down there, and that lady
Speaker 11: told me that when my mother passed away that the
Speaker 11: power of attorney ended.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 11: So she mailed me up a box of my mom's possessions.
Speaker 11: And then that box is a letter from Cox Communications.
Speaker 11: And I opened it up thinking it was maybely a
Speaker 11: because I knew that was their cable company. I thought
Speaker 11: maybe it was a bill for fifty dollars or something.
Speaker 11: I mean, I'd just get a money order and mail
Speaker 11: it to them. But it actually was a check for
Speaker 11: two hundred and eighty five dollars and forty five cents,
Speaker 11: which I guess the only thing I could figure because
Speaker 11: it doesn't say what it's for in the check. The
Speaker 11: only I can figure as it was for the equipment
Speaker 11: that she needed to, you know, hook up her TV.
Speaker 6: When your when your mom passed? When did your mom pass.
Speaker 17: Away on Easter of this year?
Speaker 11: Easter night?
Speaker 5: And was there probate was there any kind of an estate?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 11: Not really, she was My mom had a small pension
Speaker 11: from King Supers and Social Security, and I think her
Speaker 11: total amount of money a year she was making was
Speaker 11: like maybe fourteen thousand a year.
Speaker 6: Was there any kind of bank account?
Speaker 11: No, because, well because because her friend Jeanine had power
Speaker 11: of attorney, and you know I would I was mailing
Speaker 11: my mom two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: Well, here's what I want to know. Did Janine walk
Speaker 6: with some cash.
Speaker 15: Apart?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: They they they helped pay for my mom's funeral and
Speaker 11: I paid for the rest of it.
Speaker 6: Okay, So there was what you're saying is there was
Speaker 6: no money.
Speaker 5: No, not okay, So.
Speaker 6: You're wondering what to do with this check.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So I called Cox and talked to him for
Speaker 11: about an hour and got and talked to three people,
Speaker 11: and they were nice people. But the third lady I
Speaker 11: talked to you, you know, I told her that I
Speaker 11: was Angelina's son, and she said, oh, we don't transfer
Speaker 11: names on checks.
Speaker 6: No, they're not going to do that. No, of course not.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's a it's look at here's.
Speaker 5: What happens most of the time. Let me just give
Speaker 5: you the reality. If you received to check a month
Speaker 5: after your mom died and everything's closed out. A lot
Speaker 5: of people would just sign her name and deposit it.
Speaker 5: That's what they would do, and it would most likely clear.
Speaker 5: Now other than that, Other than that, it's not going
Speaker 5: to be worth the time or trouble for two hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty five bucks. Okay, Now, if you can sign
Speaker 5: it and it gets deposited more power, that's fine. But
Speaker 5: I will tell you this, no one's going to prosecute
Speaker 5: you from You're not stealing anything.
Speaker 11: Would I sign my name or her name?
Speaker 5: I look at I'm I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 5: what to do. I'm going to tell you what people do.
Speaker 5: They would sign their mom's name.
Speaker 6: They wouldn't because Probates closed everything.
Speaker 5: There's no there's nothing to do. The money is rightfully hers.
Speaker 5: A lot of people would just deposit it in their
Speaker 5: account with their mom's signature. No one is going to
Speaker 5: check that signature at your bank. No one's going to care.
Speaker 5: You're gonna deposit it. They're gonna put a hold on
Speaker 5: it for a few days, then Cox is going to
Speaker 5: cash it. Do you think Cox is going to look
Speaker 5: and say, wait a minute, that doesn't look like Mabel's signature.
Speaker 6: I think her son did it. And then we're coming
Speaker 6: after her son.
Speaker 7: Why.
Speaker 5: Wow, we don't know, but her son is trying to
Speaker 5: steal money. Why is the money? Does the money belong
Speaker 5: to Mabel? Well, yeah, it's her refund. Well then what
Speaker 5: the hell do you care? I mean, come on, right now,
Speaker 5: right now, there is no crime for major stuff. You
Speaker 5: think they're gonna come after you for this? I think
Speaker 5: you're overthinking it, man, Let's just be honest. You're overthinking. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you got to check deposit the damn thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I was thinking that if it would
Speaker 11: have been a fifty dollars bill for her cable, you know,
Speaker 11: a month of cable, I would have mailed them the
Speaker 11: money ordered with my name on it and would have
Speaker 11: gladly checked cash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't even have to pay that debt. People don't have debt,
Speaker 5: their estates do. But there was nothing to distribute, you said, so, really,
Speaker 5: you know you had to contribute to the estate to
Speaker 5: get her buried, let alone, let alone paying her bills.
Speaker 5: You don't have to. It just sounds like you're a
Speaker 5: nice guy, and you know that would have been nice
Speaker 5: for you to pay that cable bill. But it's not
Speaker 5: your bill. Now, had you gotten cash from your mom,
Speaker 5: it would not be inappropriate to pull out money from
Speaker 5: that cash to pay her last bills. I mean, there
Speaker 5: was a whole process that was supposed to be done
Speaker 5: when she died that obviously wasn't done. You know, like
Speaker 5: you're supposed to put out a notice to creditors and
Speaker 5: all of that crap.
Speaker 6: But listen, with an older woman like that, nobody cares.
Speaker 5: You don't have to inherit debt, but you can, you know,
Speaker 5: miscellaneous thing she has, you can just take it and
Speaker 5: dispose of it the best way possible. Dave, what's going
Speaker 5: on with you? Hello?
Speaker 1: Dave?
Speaker 18: Hey, Donald's going today?
Speaker 5: Good Man? What's going on?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 18: I got a Mozo X five twenty sixteen. A couple
Speaker 18: of weeks ago. You guys are talking about transmission fluss
Speaker 18: and change.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were talking about whether you should change, whether
Speaker 5: you should flush. And then there's another question I flagged
Speaker 5: that I got earlier this week. I want to bring
Speaker 5: up a guy had a sealed transmission. He wants to
Speaker 5: know what to do. So let's take your question first.
Speaker 5: What is your question?
Speaker 18: Well, I don't have any transmission issues. The car's running fine,
Speaker 18: and I'm just wondering if to prolong the transmission, if
Speaker 18: it's change the fluid or flush the fluid or just
Speaker 18: let it go.
Speaker 14: Do you definitely want to change the fluid. It's just
Speaker 14: like changing your engine oil. You're not having any problems
Speaker 14: with it, so why would you change your engine oil.
Speaker 14: I mean that fluid is going to break down over
Speaker 14: time and use, and you're going to get particular in
Speaker 14: there you want to clean out. So it's the most
Speaker 14: cost effective means you can use of keeping that transmission
Speaker 14: on the road as long as possible.
Speaker 6: But is there a difference between a change and a flush?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 14: Definitely is.
Speaker 5: We ask it all the time. What's the difference and
Speaker 5: what should you do?
Speaker 14: The places that use flushing machines, you know, they usually
Speaker 14: interrupt a one of the coodler lines. They basically give
Speaker 14: a dialysis change all the change, all the fluid out?
Speaker 14: Is it?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 5: Is it good?
Speaker 14: The biggest problem with it is unless they're dropping the
Speaker 14: pan and changing the filter, it is not truly getting
Speaker 14: all that debris out of there. Everything's got to go
Speaker 14: through that filter before it gets to that machine, So
Speaker 14: you get nice clean looking fluid and you're not getting
Speaker 14: rid of the debris. So if you couple it with
Speaker 14: a transmission service, then yes, it's definitely good. And it
Speaker 14: depends which way they flush it too, one hundred percent. Yeah,
Speaker 14: you can flush it through the pan and take all
Speaker 14: the debris and put it right through your transmission. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so what should he so a conventional service where you
Speaker 14: drop the pan and change the filter. If you're doing
Speaker 14: that every three years of thirty six thousand miles, there
Speaker 14: should never be in need for a flush.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 5: Does that say anything? Bro?
Speaker 18: I think, well, I've heard that what you do a
Speaker 18: flush that you also came run into problems where there
Speaker 18: wasn't a problem to begin with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is that true? By the way, is that true?
Speaker 14: Fifties and sixties people will go in, you know what,
Speaker 14: eighty thousand miles or so to finally get the transmission service,
Speaker 14: and well you were at the end of the life
Speaker 14: of the transmission, so they just blamed it on it.
Speaker 14: It's really a livestale. You're not going to cause more damage. Now,
Speaker 14: if I was to drop a pan and I see
Speaker 14: that there's a lot of debris inside your pan, I'm
Speaker 14: probably going to refuse to service it. Because when those
Speaker 14: problems appear you're likely going to blame them on me.
Speaker 18: Okay, So I would be looking at a flush is
Speaker 18: the better way to go, then a service?
Speaker 5: A service, there's no need.
Speaker 14: So you want to go to a reputable transmission shop
Speaker 14: and get a service done?
Speaker 18: Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and keep it service. Now when we come back,
Speaker 5: we'll take, of course your calls whatever you have. Three
Speaker 5: oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight
Speaker 5: two five five. We'll also talk about so called sealed
Speaker 5: transmissions or lifetime transmissions. Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to
Speaker 5: the show. Is Marky Marcon. Yeah, okay, Marky, Mark listen.
Speaker 5: Did you know I love talking to him about this stuff.
Speaker 5: Did you know that Kamala Harris was never the borders
Speaker 5: are Well technically that's correct, but she was in charge
Speaker 5: of the border, you know she is.
Speaker 7: She was not just voted, but rated more liberal than
Speaker 7: Bernie Sanders if you can believe.
Speaker 5: That she was. She was one of the biggest proponents
Speaker 5: of defunding police. Yeah, she was the.
Speaker 9: Big right, Mark, the most liberal senator in the in the.
Speaker 7: Senate, Yeah, the most which was right next to Bernie there.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's really remarkable. Well, no, it's not. I
Speaker 7: mean that they're a bunch of lefties. I mean they
Speaker 7: want to see a globalist society.
Speaker 8: Well she's proud of it too.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I want to talk to Lynn and Daniel. They
Speaker 5: hired Kona contractors. They spent twenty grand and got nothing.
Speaker 5: They disappeared and we looked into this a little. They dissolved.
Speaker 5: Was it yesterday or today?
Speaker 14: It was yesterday officially yesterday.
Speaker 5: Now, when you dissolve in LLC, you have to you
Speaker 5: cannot have outstanding bills or issues. You can't. Okay, so well,
Speaker 5: they don't stop you from dissolving, but it's improper and
Speaker 5: that means you no longer have the protection of an LLC.
Speaker 5: Now that's really important Lynn and Daniel, and I'm going
Speaker 5: to tell you why because the fact that they dissolved
Speaker 5: it and did not disclose the money they owed or
Speaker 5: bond or anything like that that can extend personal liability
Speaker 5: to the owner. And we have two names listened here.
Speaker 5: We have a registered agent listed as Jason Sakri. Have
Speaker 5: you ever heard that name? Lynn? I'm sorry, have you
Speaker 5: ever heard that name?
Speaker 12: I did, just came across it on their website.
Speaker 5: But did you ever meet anyone named Lynn? I named Jason, Okay,
Speaker 5: what about Ryan Treadwell.
Speaker 12: No, I don't know Ryan travel all.
Speaker 3: We don't have another name.
Speaker 5: He's listed as the owner on the BBB site, and
Speaker 5: by the way, as predicted, the Better Business Bureau has
Speaker 5: them as an A plus accredited business. But that shouldn't
Speaker 5: surprise you. There are people in prison for fraud that
Speaker 5: have A plus ratings. So here's the deal. I think
Speaker 5: that we need to find this owner somewhere, and I'm
Speaker 5: not sure who we get to do that. We need
Speaker 5: to trace this guy. You know, people, it's amazing how
Speaker 5: little information they get about companies before they hand over
Speaker 5: all this money. We can do more research online and stuff,
Speaker 5: but unless we hear from someone who has some information
Speaker 5: on this Jason Sachar Now, Jason Sacgary could be nobody.
Speaker 5: He could just be a registered agent, an attorney, or somebody.
Speaker 5: Ryan Treadwell is listed as the owner. We don't know
Speaker 5: if he's the one that sold it. You said it
Speaker 5: was sold recently.
Speaker 6: It would be really helpful.
Speaker 5: Did you locate a number for anyone that used to
Speaker 5: work with the company that we can call? Okay, good?
Speaker 5: Did you give that to Deputy doc yet not yet?
Speaker 10: Nobody asked us.
Speaker 5: All right, Doc is gonna call you. Hold on and
Speaker 5: we'll get that number of that salesperson. Maybe we can
Speaker 5: get that salesperson on during the show. Uh kachina. If
Speaker 5: Doc can get the number, and let's see what he
Speaker 5: has to say about it. Three oh three seven one
Speaker 5: three A two five. Hey, I'm Tom Martino, your troubleshooter.
Speaker 5: Today's car day. By the way, if you do have
Speaker 5: any car questions, I have a ton of them. I
Speaker 5: save up. It's just amazing to me how many I
Speaker 5: get off car questions, probably one of the most common
Speaker 5: questions I get. Also, you can reach us at three
Speaker 5: oh three Martino twenty four seven three oh three six
Speaker 5: two seven eight four sixty six. So we're going to
Speaker 5: try to get a hold of one of these employees
Speaker 5: that work for ConA Contractors. We're also going to talk
Speaker 5: to people who've been victimized. If there are any, please
Speaker 5: give us a call. ConA Contractors. That's k O n A.
Speaker 5: They're in Centennial, also listed as Highland's Ranch. They do
Speaker 5: decks and backyards and what do they say, patios and
Speaker 5: stuff like that, and anyway on Facebook, we can't seem
Speaker 5: to find any information about the owner but as I said,
Speaker 5: when we put the word out, we usually.
Speaker 6: Do find information.
Speaker 5: That's what this show's about. That's why they were told
Speaker 5: to call us, because we usually do find information. All right.
Speaker 5: So one of the things I was discussing also the
Speaker 5: fact that Southwest Airlines is abandoning their open seating and
Speaker 5: boarding sections. They're going to go with assigned seating. And
Speaker 5: they said it was based on a survey saying that
Speaker 5: most travelers want assigned seats. And for my texts, I
Speaker 5: can see it. People are saying. Now there might be others,
Speaker 5: but and I haven't surveyed my YouTube morons, but basically
Speaker 5: in in my texting, people are saying, I that's the
Speaker 5: one thing I did not like about Southwest. I always
Speaker 5: felt like, you know, if I was we never knew
Speaker 5: if we were going to get a seat together, we
Speaker 5: with traveling families. It's terrible, and most people are saying
Speaker 5: they want it, they absolutely want it, So assigned seating.
Speaker 6: Now, they didn't give a date on when that's going
Speaker 6: to happen.
Speaker 7: But twenty twenty five, oh is that what they said?
Speaker 5: Okay, the end of this year, all right, thank you.
Speaker 5: What about sealed transmissions? Guys? Are they really sealed to
Speaker 5: begin with. When they say sealed, are they sealed or.
Speaker 8: They say sealed because there's no pain to drop to
Speaker 8: get to the filter. The filter's internal.
Speaker 14: Necessarily no, so they've it's sealed because they've they've removed
Speaker 14: access for you, the owner to be able to actually
Speaker 14: do things like check and add fluid. So you have
Speaker 14: to get underneath it, and there'll be someplace where normally
Speaker 14: would have been a fill tube, or there'll be an
Speaker 14: actual you know, multi put it in from the side exactly.
Speaker 5: But you can service the so called yes, now you should.
Speaker 14: He is accurate in the sense that someone is there
Speaker 14: are some transmissions you cannot access the filter hand has
Speaker 14: been notorious about that for generations.
Speaker 5: So what do you do?
Speaker 14: You just leave it fluid in it. Sometimes they have also,
Speaker 14: you know, like a toilet paper like looking filter that
Speaker 14: goes in line with the cooler, but the main filter
Speaker 14: itself is not accessible until you've got it apart.
Speaker 6: Now, can you add a cooler a cool not a
Speaker 6: coup filter.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you could add one in line one hundred percent
Speaker 14: doing them from since the sixties, but typically you know,
Speaker 14: when you add those on, it's usually after overhaul where
Speaker 14: you've had so much contaminant that you want to clean
Speaker 14: that stuff out that didn't get maybe cleaned out during
Speaker 14: a flush. You have the customer return in about two
Speaker 14: weeks and take it off because they bypass.
Speaker 5: Okay, So in any case, the bottom line is you
Speaker 5: don't believe in lifetime fluids.
Speaker 14: No. No, When you're transmission crashes, you just found out
Speaker 14: the lifetime of that fluid exactly.
Speaker 5: It's the lifetime of the transmission which is limited by.
Speaker 14: Not changing the fluid.
Speaker 5: It's ridiculous. They're doing it just so they can have
Speaker 5: that slogan. Well, you know, lifetime.
Speaker 14: People don't inherently don't want to spend money on preventedive maintenance.
Speaker 14: I mean, you'd rather go out and buy you a
Speaker 14: new PS five or a Sony flat screen TV.
Speaker 5: I think that's one of the allures of the EVS.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying there's no maintenance, but there's hardly any maintenance.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, they're unbelievable. They are unbelievable. Those motors
Speaker 5: are sealed. You you don't service those motors.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, you're starting to see it inside the
Speaker 14: engine world too, where there's no dipsticks. It's all registered
Speaker 14: off the computer.
Speaker 5: That's crazy. Well that's crazy, but then again, all of
Speaker 5: this is changing. We got more coming up its card.
Speaker 5: You can talk about cars, you can talk about anything
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Speaker 5: No Tom Martine, Hi Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: We are solving problems, answering questions and taking complaints and
Speaker 5: making your life just a little easier. And we have
Speaker 5: a car day today. We have our car experts. Kevin
Speaker 5: Callkin shared an auto tech Jeff Vick kimmera transmission, Major
Speaker 5: Mark Major Marky Mark on his remote, and we are
Speaker 5: they're back from the road, by the way, a long
Speaker 5: road trip in an RV fun fun fun. I used
Speaker 5: to love that stuff, man, And anyway, except for the
Speaker 5: roads that can be a pain in the ass, right
Speaker 5: and Mark said that the Colorado roads are marketably Mark remarkably.
Speaker 7: I seventy is I seventy from Grand Junction to Denver. Man,
Speaker 7: there's potholes you can put a basketball in. But when
Speaker 7: you're towing something, the problem is your load shifts. So
Speaker 7: we drove over every you know, we drove everywhere Man Montana, Wyoming, California, Oregon, Nevada.
Speaker 7: The only place I had to tie our load, which
Speaker 7: was our car down multiple times was I seventy every
Speaker 7: single time on.
Speaker 5: I seven Road. I seventy in general or in Colorado, No,
Speaker 5: just in Colorado. In fact, it's crazy.
Speaker 7: Soon as you come in from Utah, it's like instant
Speaker 7: you go from a decent road to completely like something
Speaker 7: that was napalm in Vietnam. It's nuts.
Speaker 5: Now, that is kind of like, think about this, that's
Speaker 5: kind of like crazy. Are we gonna blame what the
Speaker 5: list for that? Or what I thought we had?
Speaker 7: I thought, didn't they sign some huge build it? You know,
Speaker 7: we're paying extra for groceries and everything else.
Speaker 1: They will.
Speaker 7: But in exchange, we were supposed to get new road highway.
Speaker 5: That's not a state highway. I seventy, right, that's an interstate.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how that works because I thought it
Speaker 5: was being an interstate that the federal government. Is there
Speaker 5: a Federal Highway Department or how do they or do
Speaker 5: they give funds to the state for it. However, I
Speaker 5: got to figure out how that works. I'm not really
Speaker 5: up on exactly how that works. Sean has a question
Speaker 5: about a diesel truck and then coming up Doc wants
Speaker 5: to talk about this. He talked to one of the
Speaker 5: ex employees of this Kona contractors. Will figure out what
Speaker 5: the lowdown on that is. Sean, your diesel truck, what
Speaker 5: do you got? What do you need?
Speaker 19: So I'm in the market for a new diesel pickup
Speaker 19: looking at the Ford's one ton.
Speaker 20: The prices were out of site.
Speaker 19: Recently, and I guess I've noticed them coming down a
Speaker 19: little bit. I was mostly curious from the professionals or
Speaker 19: whatnot about the new diesel pickups, maybe their predictions on
Speaker 19: where prices are going. I've read a couple of articles
Speaker 19: that they're coming down at the end of the year.
Speaker 19: Just curious from the experts.
Speaker 5: I'd also like to know what Ford model were you
Speaker 5: looking at? Did you say the three fifty? Is that
Speaker 5: the only diesel?
Speaker 14: The one three fifty?
Speaker 5: Oh it's a one ton, that's a one ton, that's right, okay,
Speaker 5: three quarter okay, So anyway, what do you guys think
Speaker 5: our price is coming down? Have you heard anything and
Speaker 5: what do you think about the Ford, and what do
Speaker 5: you think about the one he's looking at the F
Speaker 5: three fifty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I like the Ford setup, but price wise, who knows.
Speaker 8: I mean, the prices have been high for so long.
Speaker 8: It's hard to tell. They can only them down, you know.
Speaker 6: Because are they topping at it around one hundred grand when.
Speaker 8: You you load them up real close?
Speaker 6: Colley?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 5: Okay? What about the Ford as opposed to Chevy or
Speaker 5: Dodge or does tunder make a diesel?
Speaker 6: No, Toyota doesn't, right.
Speaker 14: But I mean it's just, you know, speaking from the
Speaker 14: transmission world, you know, with the the Alison behind the Duramax,
Speaker 14: we see them on a much more rare basis than
Speaker 14: we do the Chevy or the Dodge.
Speaker 5: So the Duramax, you said, with Chevy Duramax, with the
Speaker 5: Allison with Alison transmission, you like? You like that combo well, with.
Speaker 14: The exception of the fact that doesn't help my pocketbook, yes, okay.
Speaker 5: Whereas what what's the Chevy combination?
Speaker 14: It's the Durmax diesel with the Alison Chevy.
Speaker 6: The Chevy that's the one you see less of it.
Speaker 14: I see a fewer of those than I do or.
Speaker 5: Ford combo with the Ford? Is that a diesel?
Speaker 14: No, I think they're made by and I'm not sure
Speaker 14: who's making them right now.
Speaker 5: Actually yeah so, but who's the tranning on that.
Speaker 14: There's a couple of different combinations you can get in there.
Speaker 14: You know, the six R one forty we don't see
Speaker 14: near as much as we do some of the other
Speaker 14: units today.
Speaker 5: What about Dodges, what do they have?
Speaker 14: They'll have either the AS sixty nine or they have
Speaker 14: the sixty eight RFE. We definitely see more of the
Speaker 14: sixty eight RFE.
Speaker 5: But in general, do you see more Dodges or more Fords?
Speaker 14: Fords?
Speaker 5: So Fords would be probably from your perspective, the most maintenance.
Speaker 14: As far as the transmission itself is concerned. And I'm
Speaker 14: only talking about the transmission, then yes, If I was
Speaker 14: going to pick between those three, Chevy then Dodge than Ford.
Speaker 5: Chevy then Dodge than Ford. What would you do as
Speaker 5: far as the engine? keV if you have the Dermax
Speaker 5: we never see really.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we were very very rarely even for leaks and
Speaker 8: just basic maintenance. So it's a much better place, guys.
Speaker 9: Is it paid to look for a one or two
Speaker 9: year old model and save a lot of money. The
Speaker 9: trucks they last a long time, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in this market, we're all saying the way they
Speaker 5: would from what you guys are saying, the Chevy makes
Speaker 5: the better diesel. Sean, are you listening?
Speaker 19: I am, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these guys are talking about maintenance. Man, that's the
Speaker 5: most telling to me, that's the most telling thing. ANDLS
Speaker 5: Dermax diesels are pretty good looking trucks too. Now as
Speaker 5: far as pricing goes, the reason they're talking about pricing
Speaker 5: coming down a bit is possibly due to a slack
Speaker 5: and demand because of the environmental pressures and the electric introductions.
Speaker 5: Do they have any decent electric trucks right now? Evs
Speaker 5: who's making a decent that could even stand up to
Speaker 5: a Dermax?
Speaker 14: Could stand up to a Dermax?
Speaker 8: Nobody?
Speaker 6: What is good about the dirt?
Speaker 7: You'd have no towing power?
Speaker 6: Is that the torque is that does not have towing power?
Speaker 14: No, you're gonna have towing power because you've got torque
Speaker 14: right off the bat.
Speaker 5: No, but it's only going to last like ten minutes
Speaker 5: by the way.
Speaker 8: Capacity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good point. Mark you're saying that our
Speaker 5: guy from a garage if you change for Actually, I
Speaker 5: keep screwing it up.
Speaker 7: But he bought a brand new Ford lightning truck. He
Speaker 7: couldn't even tow for thirty miles his equipment truck.
Speaker 14: Yeah, an article done on that right after they so.
Speaker 5: The towing capacity or the endurance goes way down.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 8: If you just drive around empty, you're fine. If you
Speaker 8: tow a heavy trailer, you're done.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not kidding. He got thirty miles towing like
Speaker 7: a little U haul.
Speaker 5: You know what's going to happen as we make a
Speaker 5: transition if we do, I think you're going to see
Speaker 5: electric assist trailers. Think about that. I mean, really you
Speaker 5: could do that. You hook it up and you would
Speaker 5: have a motor assist maybe trailer to help, or or
Speaker 5: they have batteries on them unto themselves, or would that
Speaker 5: be stupid?
Speaker 14: I mean, I'm just thinking about a trailer pushing that truck,
Speaker 14: especially on.
Speaker 5: A not pushing, but an assist like an e bike.
Speaker 5: If you have like where you you can have some
Speaker 5: assist from let's say a self contained trailer that doesn't freewheel,
Speaker 5: but it has a motor and it has a battery pack.
Speaker 5: I mean and it's a it's an EV trailer. I mean,
Speaker 5: we're going to have to do something because with the
Speaker 5: way the country's going. And I'm not saying it's a
Speaker 5: good idea or a bad idea, but man, they're pushing
Speaker 5: EV's like it's the coming of Christ EV's. I mean,
Speaker 5: are they really going to not now? Of course, Trump
Speaker 5: says day one, droll, dro drill, and you know, but
Speaker 5: but where do we go? Are we eventually going to
Speaker 5: be all electric?
Speaker 13: Are we?
Speaker 14: This is going to be a flash in the pan?
Speaker 5: I mean there's way still electric will be a flash
Speaker 5: in the pan like the Internet.
Speaker 14: They will, they'll definitely have their place on the road.
Speaker 14: But you know, I think hydrogen is going to be
Speaker 14: the next place that everything's going.
Speaker 5: Uh so you think there will be alternatives, but it
Speaker 5: won't be electric necessarily.
Speaker 14: Correct?
Speaker 5: What do you think? What do you think? Mark?
Speaker 7: I think electric is going to be around for a
Speaker 7: long time and it's gonna get better and better. We're
Speaker 7: gonna see better batteries. But it doesn't matter when he says, drill, drill, drill.
Speaker 7: You have to because we need the power plants. Man,
Speaker 7: to have all the electricity, you've got to drill. You
Speaker 7: gotta have big semi trucks.
Speaker 5: You gotta have You're thinking too logically. But if you
Speaker 5: look at the environmental impact of all of this, I mean.
Speaker 7: Didn't didn't Pete but it what is it?
Speaker 5: Booted jes or whatever?
Speaker 7: Didn't it wasn't he showing off an electric car and
Speaker 7: drove it from like Washington to Pennsylvania somewhere, and he
Speaker 7: couldn't find any charging stations.
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, what do you think about nuclear I think.
Speaker 14: That's a nuclear car, No, George Jutson.
Speaker 9: Except for the power plants burning fossil fuel.
Speaker 5: No, No, I mean nuclear, you know, for absolutely, positively
Speaker 5: sure nuclear power. Those power plants are the answer. I
Speaker 5: know people say it's not, but I mean, you're talking
Speaker 5: about waste so small compared to the environmental impact of
Speaker 5: fossil fuels. The waste from nuclear power is practically non existent.
Speaker 5: Now it's dangerous waste and you have to get rid
Speaker 5: of it somehow. But it's well, what about that theory
Speaker 5: one time they were going to send them on rockets
Speaker 5: to space towards the sun? Was that?
Speaker 9: I think I brought that up at some point.
Speaker 5: You said that that they never proposed that that was
Speaker 5: never proposed. Anyway, I'm starting to sound like Trump now
Speaker 5: as far as my expertise. I'm just kidding. Uh So, Tom,
Speaker 5: what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Tom?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 12: Tom, Tom, it's good.
Speaker 20: It's good to talk to you again. I just wanted
Speaker 20: to give you a little little bit of an update.
Speaker 20: You and Mark and the rest of the team had
Speaker 20: been helping me out with my situation with mari Trans
Speaker 20: Express when they didn't pay me from services work back
Speaker 20: in early last year.
Speaker 6: Was that are you a Are you a trucker?
Speaker 15: Tom?
Speaker 20: You know I was delivering mail with amer Trans.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, sorry, I'm looking for this of Marriagans.
Speaker 5: Okay, keep going. What happened?
Speaker 6: You're you're a contractor for the post Office?
Speaker 5: Right that?
Speaker 17: That is correct?
Speaker 20: With the advice that you had given me and and
Speaker 20: all that stuff. I finally received a check from the
Speaker 20: United States Department of Labor for the hours that I
Speaker 20: was missing.
Speaker 5: Very good from that's really good to hear. So you
Speaker 5: got paid.
Speaker 7: I went to the labor board.
Speaker 6: Did you go to the labor board?
Speaker 5: Finally too.
Speaker 20: I had first gone through Colorado Department of Labor Hours
Speaker 20: and Wages, and then when it other people from Americrans
Speaker 20: were not paid. It was the United States Department of
Speaker 20: Labor actually took the lead on it, and it took
Speaker 20: a while. It drove my patience up the wall, but
Speaker 20: finally I got paid.
Speaker 5: That's really cool, Thank you very much. Hey, let's give
Speaker 5: him a dinger. Yes, Hi, Tom Martinez here, Welcome to
Speaker 5: the show three oh three seven on three Talk seven
Speaker 5: one three eight five five. So Doug has a question
Speaker 5: on emissions. Hello Doug, I'm Tom. You're on with the
Speaker 5: experts and major Mark Major. What's going on?
Speaker 15: I have a neighbor that doesn't speak any English, and
Speaker 15: she's got an emission situation with a FOURD escape older
Speaker 15: four escape and she needs to get that result.
Speaker 5: Now, what kind of an emissions issue is she having?
Speaker 5: It doesn't pass a light or what visible smoke? What's
Speaker 5: the what's the problem?
Speaker 15: No, doesn't pass. She needs she's trying to get registered,
Speaker 15: trying to get it.
Speaker 5: And do you know what year is it?
Speaker 15: At? At least five years old? I don't have an
Speaker 15: exact here.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, do you know why it's not passing? Was
Speaker 5: she given a sheet?
Speaker 15: I do not.
Speaker 6: Don't they tell you why?
Speaker 14: Yeah, you'll get get numbers on there for what she
Speaker 14: failed on. She should take that sheet into you know,
Speaker 14: a good mechanic and have them look it over and
Speaker 14: they can make suggestions on this.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you guys on emissions because this
Speaker 5: is a mystery to me if something doesn't pass and
Speaker 5: are they always fixable things? Is what I'm asking.
Speaker 14: Oh, yeah, with enough money, you can fix anything.
Speaker 5: No, that's I mean, but what would be the most
Speaker 5: common problems for not passing that are not major? The
Speaker 5: most common gas caps? What else?
Speaker 14: Dirty engine oil?
Speaker 8: Yeah, dirty air filter.
Speaker 5: Be the most common major problem an ASCAP league guys. No,
Speaker 5: I know that they just said that, but the most
Speaker 5: Now we're talking about the most common major problem. What
Speaker 5: would that be?
Speaker 8: Well, if you get too much smoke and different things,
Speaker 8: either a cat or an engine.
Speaker 5: I mean, so you could have a so a bad
Speaker 5: engine could just be a bad engine, blow by, too
Speaker 5: much blow by and all that. So therefore you would
Speaker 5: have to get a rebuilt engine. That would be worst
Speaker 5: case scenario. Yes, but are you allowed to spend it?
Speaker 5: I thought there used to be able to spend a
Speaker 5: certain amount and then get it in there SEC.
Speaker 14: It's like twelve hundred dollars or something like that and
Speaker 14: then yeah, you have to set up a meeting with
Speaker 14: one of the guys.
Speaker 5: But you can get a waiver.
Speaker 14: You can get a waiver. It'll be good for two years,
Speaker 14: and then likely they will give recommendations or demands before
Speaker 14: you'll be able to pass again because you won't get
Speaker 14: a second one.
Speaker 5: You won't. No, but you can get one waiver, but
Speaker 5: you have to spend at least twelve hundred trying to
Speaker 5: knock it out.
Speaker 8: But not for missing equipment. If your cat's missing, you
Speaker 8: have to replace it.
Speaker 5: We're talking about a waiver. Let's say somebody can't afford
Speaker 5: to get the engine rebuild. Sure, so they pay twelve
Speaker 5: hundred to get Are they still required to do the
Speaker 5: twelve hundred to attempt to make it better?
Speaker 14: It depends on what your readings came out, as I mean,
Speaker 14: if they're too far off, then you're not getting that waiver.
Speaker 14: So and get into what he was said about. No,
Speaker 14: if they're too far off, they'll they'll kick it off
Speaker 14: the road.
Speaker 5: Really they will. So, Yeah, if it's something, you don't
Speaker 5: get a waiver.
Speaker 14: If it's too serious, you won't get that waiver.
Speaker 8: It's not automatic, okay, So and then he mentioned.
Speaker 5: What is it like a one guy decides that to go.
Speaker 8: To the State Tech Center and they review everything.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they look at the car like we have to
Speaker 14: set up a meeting with an individual for a particular
Speaker 14: time and they look the car.
Speaker 5: How many cars does that actually happen to you? Though?
Speaker 14: I know one guy that recently just had to go
Speaker 14: through this, and you know, he mentioned the cats a
Speaker 14: minute ago. And we've talked about this in the past,
Speaker 14: whether or not they'll kick you off the road for
Speaker 14: non complainant to take.
Speaker 6: That car and sell it in another state or another
Speaker 6: emissions area.
Speaker 14: Oh yea percent. But it was noted that he did
Speaker 14: not have Colorado compliant cats on his Do people care? Yep?
Speaker 14: They told him at the emissions So where did you
Speaker 14: find out?
Speaker 5: Now, Mark? Mark and I were talking about this one.
Speaker 14: Time was after he did not pass and he had
Speaker 14: to set up a meeting for the waiver. So when
Speaker 14: he inspected it, he found that they were not Colorado
Speaker 14: compliant cats, and that whether he passed again next when
Speaker 14: he came up in the two years, whether he could
Speaker 14: pass or not, they had to be compliant normally.
Speaker 6: Normally, if you replaced a cat from another state cheaper.
Speaker 5: They don't even look okay, it's only only if you
Speaker 5: fail they look ye, okay, Doug. Do you have any
Speaker 5: other questions?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm still I need a Spanish speaking mechanic that
Speaker 15: you can recommend. Okay, her English is pretty bad.
Speaker 5: Do they pro Auto Care have Spanish speaking mechanic?
Speaker 14: I guarantee they do. What part of tones are you?
Speaker 5: Where are you?
Speaker 15: I'm familiar with Prood?
Speaker 5: How about the guy we were doing? Yeah, you're really close, bro,
Speaker 5: You're really close to pro Ato Care. No, no, hold on,
Speaker 5: who's the guy you were doing spots our case? Whatever?
Speaker 5: Those guys are all?
Speaker 6: Wait, I haven't noticed his commercials in a while. Whatever
Speaker 6: happened to him.
Speaker 7: They're not on the referral list anymore.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Asked the sales guy hire them? But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: They were good guys.
Speaker 5: I thought I thought Liz had him RKC.
Speaker 7: But we Oh, maybe she did, but we could never
Speaker 7: get him in because he couldn't speak English.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, RKC. They're good people, by the way, RKC Automotive.
Speaker 5: But there's no website.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: They're really very hard to advertise for.
Speaker 15: Do you know what part of town there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they're yes, I do. They're on Evans. Hold on,
Speaker 5: I have them in my my commercials I was doing
Speaker 5: for them. They now I realize they stopped advertising. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's twenty one to twenty west Evans. I'll give you
Speaker 5: the number. It's just west of tayhone. People.
Speaker 6: People that did go to him, that I heard from,
Speaker 6: they loved him.
Speaker 5: Here's here's the number. Seven to zero yep, seven four
Speaker 5: nine thirty nine six. The only criticisms I got. He
Speaker 5: doesn't have a lot of technology and stuff. It's an
Speaker 5: old school shop. Okay, but I mean I'm not saying that.
Speaker 7: And he's got no website, he's got no Facebook page.
Speaker 7: He's got he's impossible to find.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah, wouldn't emissions indicate some degree of Well, no.
Speaker 5: He'll know how to fix it. He'll know how to
Speaker 5: fix it. I mean he does a lot of that.
Speaker 5: By the way, just so you know he does a
Speaker 5: lot of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I've been a customer at Prouto and you say they
Speaker 15: do have Spanish speakers.
Speaker 7: They did when I al the owner speaks Spanish. But
Speaker 7: Alhure tired, isn't he? His son took over? Yeah, and
Speaker 7: I believe. I mean they grew up in that how
Speaker 7: same with his daughter.
Speaker 5: I bet that I just call over there and find
Speaker 5: out and if not, If not, then RKC for sure.
Speaker 14: And it's really it's really common for people to come
Speaker 14: in with language barriers. I mean, Google Translate is a
Speaker 14: great thing.
Speaker 5: No, I use Google Translate all the time for my
Speaker 5: Venezuelan friends. That's what I use in my service.
Speaker 8: Writer's bi lingual too.
Speaker 5: We have to be yeah, and it is amazing the
Speaker 5: uh Google Translate, it is amazing. Now. I don't know
Speaker 5: if they've come up with this yet, but since Google
Speaker 5: can listen and regurgitate, why don't they make a headset
Speaker 5: or do they? I mean, why wouldn't they that you
Speaker 5: can listen. It's then it's like on Star Trek, you know,
Speaker 5: with the tri quoder. I'm we're getting a universal translator,
Speaker 5: but you should be able with it because Google Translate.
Speaker 6: The only problem. You've got to hit the mic, then
Speaker 6: they talk, then you.
Speaker 5: Turn off the mic and hit translate, and then you've
Speaker 5: got to hit the speaker and then it speaks to you.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure you could just put all that technology
Speaker 5: in a headset that's listening to people and then and
Speaker 5: then a second or two it's it's it's it may
Speaker 5: be a little lag, but it's interpreting as you go. Well,
Speaker 5: they have that at the un No, they don't. They
Speaker 5: have live interpreters. Yeah, I'm saying, yeah, but I can't
Speaker 5: carry around a person with me.
Speaker 9: No, but I'm saying AI should be able to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but but I'm telling you that's the one barrier.
Speaker 7: It's uh, it's called time Kettle, Tom, and they make
Speaker 7: a bunch of products they do exactly.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 6: They do have that mark where you can put.
Speaker 5: It on your head and listen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just google time Kettle.
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, we got more coming right up. Hi, Tom
Speaker 5: Martino your troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk
Speaker 5: seven one three eight two five five Chuck, what's going
Speaker 5: on with you?
Speaker 1: Chuck?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 17: So, my you know, I have I have a parent
Speaker 17: who's kind of susceptible the scams and stuff, and they're
Speaker 17: asking me about this Elon Musk Pro Power Saver that's
Speaker 17: supposed like stabilizes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and musk, And it's not a musk device. They
Speaker 5: they are advertising it that way, and it's not his
Speaker 5: Is it a scam?
Speaker 14: The device that's what? Yeah, I got some for Christmas
Speaker 14: when I was talking about him, and I plugged them in,
Speaker 14: and I think my bill changed by about five cents.
Speaker 14: That might have just been somebody didn't turn on a
Speaker 14: light that day.
Speaker 17: Yeah, the electricity.
Speaker 15: That is that a thing?
Speaker 5: The pro power saver by the way, he I thought
Speaker 5: he disavowed it. They use his name all over the place,
Speaker 5: and I don't understand why why do they use his name?
Speaker 5: But they claim by just plugging this damn thing in,
Speaker 5: it's going to save electricity. It can't. It's impossible to
Speaker 5: work that. The technology is not even possible. Supposedly what
Speaker 5: they say is it somehow controls your power?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: But why does Musk? I wonder why Musk?
Speaker 7: They probably just bought They probably just bought his keyword
Speaker 7: the names from Google.
Speaker 5: Well even on Amazon, No, go to.
Speaker 7: It, you won't see his name attached on it. Amazon.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's in the search. It says pro boer Saver
Speaker 5: by Elon Musk in the search. It fills it in
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 17: But does it do anything?
Speaker 5: But not on the product? You're right, Mark, it's not
Speaker 5: on the product. What's that sir?
Speaker 17: It makes claims like surge protection, dirty electricity is prevented
Speaker 17: from coming what is that?
Speaker 5: But it doesn't even. What's amazing is it doesn't even
Speaker 5: go on to your main panel.
Speaker 14: Just plug them in.
Speaker 6: Can't work.
Speaker 5: It just can't.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've always wondered why can products do this?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 5: I think listen, I've said it before.
Speaker 7: It might as well be a for breeze or an
Speaker 7: air freshener, right, And it's it's like the Rocky Mountain radar.
Speaker 5: That one the guy used to say he jams radar.
Speaker 7: Hey that works.
Speaker 5: So yeah.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing. And I've said this before, I'll
Speaker 5: say it again. The only one that would be pros
Speaker 5: acuted for selling these is Donald Trump. I mean other
Speaker 5: than that, it's other than that, it's a free crime.
Speaker 5: I mean really it's it's it's a crime. And I
Speaker 5: just can't see Amazon. The reason Amazon is selling them
Speaker 5: or allows them is because it's a one satisfaction guarantee.
Speaker 7: Well it's just a third party thing. It's a big deal,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 5: And what's amazing is you don't even plug stuff into it.
Speaker 5: You just plug it in and it passively conditions your power.
Speaker 5: It is impossible. It is amazing how many there are.
Speaker 9: And then most that'll happen. We'll get a they'll get
Speaker 9: a seasoned desist order and that'll be the end of it.
Speaker 7: Oh no, like that Canadian carburetor that gets nine thousand
Speaker 7: miles a gallon.
Speaker 5: Okay, I can't believe how many people have made positive
Speaker 5: reviews on this.
Speaker 7: You can't trust reviews.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 17: What is dirty electricity?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, dirty electricity there there means the modulation. Okay,
Speaker 5: there's two good. There's a lot of spikes and valleys,
Speaker 5: so it means it's not delivering within a certain wavelength.
Speaker 5: It's so they call it dirty, does it It can?
Speaker 5: It can? By the way, dirty electricity or spikes and
Speaker 5: valleys can hurt electric motors and can hurt electrical things.
Speaker 5: Most electronic panels have our most electronic circuitry has a
Speaker 5: suppression built in so it's not going to hurt them,
Speaker 5: and they and they convert them to d C. Once
Speaker 5: something is converted to d C, dirty power is not
Speaker 5: even an issue anymore. And a lot of circuitry has
Speaker 5: they have inverters, so they're they're really they're not running
Speaker 5: on AC power. They're running on DC although it's plugged
Speaker 5: into a wall. But as far as motors and stuff, yeah,
Speaker 5: you can be affected by by power from the power grid.
Speaker 5: You can be, but it's not that but most of
Speaker 5: them can sustain enough that they go for a very
Speaker 5: long time. Now, there are ways that I am all
Speaker 5: for conditioning your power, but you're not going to do
Speaker 5: it with these twenty dollars units that you plug in
Speaker 5: your wall. It's just it is impossible if you plug
Speaker 5: it in your wall that a dishwasher's motor is going
Speaker 5: to be conditioned. It's not going to happen. But they
Speaker 5: do make surge protection and conditioners that master or certified
Speaker 5: electricians put on your panel. There's nothing wrong with those,
Speaker 5: nothing at all wrong with those. They don't save you money,
Speaker 5: but they do extend the life of electrical things they do, whether.
Speaker 17: That life not at the panel, ys, it's not at
Speaker 17: the panel.
Speaker 5: What's that, it's on the panel, that's right. The real
Speaker 5: ones are on the panel, and they cost about fourteen
Speaker 5: hundred on up.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, there's a company called na that makes them
Speaker 7: for like hospitals.
Speaker 5: So and we're not even talking about continuous power like batteries.
Speaker 5: What we're talking about is just conditioning and and surge protection.
Speaker 5: If you want continuous power, will a battery? Uh, then
Speaker 5: you then you're talking about it's really a UPS for
Speaker 5: a house. And they do make them, but man are
Speaker 5: they expensive.
Speaker 17: So well, this thing is bogus.
Speaker 5: This thing totally bogus, totally bogus, totally one hundred bogus.
Speaker 5: I don't understand why the government allows it to go
Speaker 5: on the Federal Trade Commission should be again unless unless Trump.
Speaker 6: Owned it, It's not going to be prosecuted. And I
Speaker 6: mean that I'm not kidding.
Speaker 5: I mean these targets or if I started it, I'll
Speaker 5: guarantee you I'd be I'd be arrested for it for
Speaker 5: some reason. I mean, there are just people that can
Speaker 5: get away with stuff because maybe they figure I don't
Speaker 5: know nobody, guys.
Speaker 4: I had a quick car question.
Speaker 7: Come in when you get a sec all right, we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Take a break, and then I'm going to have also
Speaker 5: Deputy Doc tell us about the employee he talked to
Speaker 5: from that company, ConA Contractors eight eight eight Heating dot Com.
Speaker 5: You call them if you need any help with your
Speaker 5: air conditioner or your furnace, or plumbing or electric they're
Speaker 5: great people, honest people. Three ozho three seven seven zero
Speaker 5: two seven seven six free second opinions eight eight eight
Speaker 5: heating dot coms. Let's let's talk about things near and
Speaker 5: dear to your heart and pocketbook. And Deputy Doc did
Speaker 5: contact those people, by the way, and we're going to
Speaker 5: have an update on that. Mark.
Speaker 6: What car questions did you have? Did you say you
Speaker 6: had one?
Speaker 7: Yeah, hold on, he just emailed it to him. He
Speaker 7: two thousand and seventeen. I think it was a Toyota,
Speaker 7: but let me find it twenty seventeen, Toyota Tacoma.
Speaker 14: I have two.
Speaker 7: I have a two thousand seventeen to Comba V six.
Speaker 7: It only has seven thousand miles, but it's seven years old.
Speaker 7: Do I need to change the anti freeze and the
Speaker 7: transmission fluid still?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 8: Absolutely, yeah, they break down over time and everything else.
Speaker 8: So just exposure, yes, not miles. They get a cidic.
Speaker 8: You know, the pH gets off, they starts. It's kind
Speaker 8: of like the you know, the anodes in in a
Speaker 8: water heater. You know, it starts changing the chemistry in there.
Speaker 5: So just sitting does that?
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, so I would definitely change it.
Speaker 5: And on that note, you shouldn't let things just sit.
Speaker 8: That's the worst thing for him. Even if you start
Speaker 8: a car up once a week, drive it a mile
Speaker 8: and park it, let it warm up to temperature, let
Speaker 8: it cool down, it's best for it.
Speaker 5: I guess the only thing that doesn't apply to now
Speaker 5: are EV's right. I mean, I mean, think true, think
Speaker 5: about how much different that is the EVS. I'm wondering
Speaker 5: why they didn't make an emphasis on electric cars years ago.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no the battery power for one, and
Speaker 5: then it's right, the battery technology, that's right. But well,
Speaker 5: hold on though, did the battery technology come as a
Speaker 5: result of the desire or did the desire was I mean,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm getting at is this new move
Speaker 5: to ed battery backups have been around forever, so they've
Speaker 5: been working on battery technology for you know, for hospitals
Speaker 5: and home computers and everything forever. Now, like Jeff mentioned,
Speaker 5: possibly hydrogen and other sources, are there any real viable
Speaker 5: alternate sources other than.
Speaker 8: I think the battery technology, like I said, because electric
Speaker 8: has been around for a long long time in construction,
Speaker 8: you know, in mining and stuff underground, they have major equipment.
Speaker 14: It's electric by.
Speaker 6: The way also coming up in this show.
Speaker 5: I have a note here. I did some research on
Speaker 5: sun block for different reasons, because there there was some
Speaker 5: controversy about sun block, people who use it too much
Speaker 5: not getting enough vitamin D, and I started researching the
Speaker 5: vitamin D part of it. And that's not what this
Speaker 5: is about. But I did find out some shocking stuff
Speaker 5: about sunblock, and I wonder why. This is another area.
Speaker 5: I wonder why they're on the market. This is another
Speaker 5: area where sunblock is allowed to have literally dangerous stuff
Speaker 5: in it, I mean just allowed. The FDA is a
Speaker 5: funny animal. It really heavily regulates certain things and other
Speaker 5: things that let slide sunblock. The what the FDA and
Speaker 5: what our twisted American view is is if you stop sunlight,
Speaker 5: or you know, you stop the skin cancer, it far
Speaker 5: out weighs those benefits far outweigh the negative of the
Speaker 5: other ingredients. Now again that's what you had with everything
Speaker 5: the FDA proves. I mean, if you really look at
Speaker 5: the at.
Speaker 6: The benefit versus the disadvantages.
Speaker 5: That's why there was a big controversy with COVID, you know,
Speaker 5: like did the vaccine outweigh did the benefits outweigh the risks.
Speaker 5: But when it comes to sun block, there are now
Speaker 5: people saying you shouldn't even use it. It's some of
Speaker 5: it's so trash and a lot of the blocks don't
Speaker 5: even have block in it. That not the stuff that
Speaker 5: really blocks, but one ingredient that you should avoid at
Speaker 5: all costs. And by the way, all major health or
Speaker 5: dermatologists believe this. You should avoid vitamin A in sunblock.
Speaker 5: Why would you think, I wondered why? So I started researching.
Speaker 5: Why would you avoid vitamin A? Vitamin A?
Speaker 6: Certain forms of vitamin A.
Speaker 5: I certain Shay.
Speaker 6: There's something called retlin pulmonate palmitate.
Speaker 5: Okay, you heard of that. Okay. This actually, when exposed
Speaker 5: to sunlight, breaks down by UV radiation and it turns
Speaker 5: into or it produces free radicals that actually damage DNA
Speaker 5: and promote skin cancer. This is in a sun block
Speaker 5: that is supposed to avoid. But the benefit of vitamin A.
Speaker 5: People heard vitamin A is good for your skin, Vitamin
Speaker 5: E is good for your skin. So they put it
Speaker 5: in a sunblock without any research or anything, and now
Speaker 5: leading help it's you'll still find vitamin A in your sunblock.
Speaker 5: My message to you today, avoid vitamin A in a
Speaker 5: sunblock at all costs. Avoid it. Now, one other thing
Speaker 5: you should avoid. They're actually putting insect repellance in sunblock.
Speaker 5: Now that's okay. If you want an insect repellent you're
Speaker 5: out at the campfire. But if you're on the beach,
Speaker 5: you may not need it. If you're just if you're
Speaker 5: just putting something on your kids nose, you certainly don't
Speaker 5: need insect repellent. So insect repellent comes in all forms. Also,
Speaker 5: vitamin A avoid in your sunblock. Now there's something else
Speaker 5: to avoid. Will go over oxy ben zone? Oxy benzone
Speaker 5: that coming up and more?
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Speaker 4: Dix is the Troubleshooter Show.
Speaker 5: No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Three oh three seven one three talks seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two five five. What's on your mind today? How
Speaker 5: can we help you? We are taking calls on any
Speaker 5: and all items. Of course, today is car Day. We're
Speaker 5: talking a little bit about cars. And then Deputy Doc,
Speaker 5: we have a follow up from you, So I want
Speaker 5: to just lay this out. First, Lynn and Daniel called
Speaker 5: and said, I'm replacing I was replacing a deck and
Speaker 5: hired ConA Construction or ConA Contractors out of Centennial. They're
Speaker 5: also listed as being out of Highlands Ranch. I paid
Speaker 5: them twenty grand up front, got absolutely nothing, nothing, and
Speaker 5: they're ghosting me. And then they disappeared. And then we
Speaker 5: found out that they dissolved yesterday at the Secretary of State.
Speaker 5: Jason Sacre is listed as the registered agent. Ryan Treadwell
Speaker 5: is listed as the owner. They have an A plus
Speaker 5: rating and accredited by the Better Business Bureau even though
Speaker 5: they ripped off tons of people and are out of business.
Speaker 5: And of course that shitdn't surprise you about the dinosaur BBB. Oh,
Speaker 5: let's talk about this one guy that worked for them.
Speaker 5: I kind of told these people they are out of luck.
Speaker 5: What did you find out from this verse?
Speaker 9: I spoke to Luke who used to work for them
Speaker 9: and quit. He's owed a bunch of money. He said that.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 9: First of all, Brian Treadwell sold the company to Jason
Speaker 9: Lackery in March of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: Okay, so that's why it's Sachar right.
Speaker 9: Zachary, correct, okay, And Jason said he knows of a
Speaker 9: bunch of customers that are in the same situation as
Speaker 9: Daniel was.
Speaker 6: So he says that basically Treadwell is a good guy.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, he didn't say anything about Treadell, just
Speaker 9: said he sold the company. Okay, that's all he said.
Speaker 9: So he said he knows of one person that was
Speaker 9: defrauded out of forty seven thousand dollars. So he's going
Speaker 9: to compile a list. Oh good, the customers that was
Speaker 9: screwed by, and then then we need back to me
Speaker 9: and then we'll try and follow up. So he's very
Speaker 9: he's very helpful because I told him we may be
Speaker 9: able to get his salary money back.
Speaker 5: Also, yeah, well, we're going to go to the authorities
Speaker 5: on this. I see we can nail this guy now.
Speaker 6: Again, so he said Treadwell sold.
Speaker 5: So was he kind of indicating that's when the problem
Speaker 5: started or why did you ask him?
Speaker 9: I was, I was more concerned with getting a list
Speaker 9: of customers, which he's going to do.
Speaker 5: And when did he say he sold the company?
Speaker 9: In March of twenty twenty three?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, that seems to me when the problem started
Speaker 5: last year, so maybe that's what changed. Who knows, or
Speaker 5: maybe Treadwell did it on purpose.
Speaker 9: We'll dig further this the more I told Tokay.
Speaker 5: Sold the company to Sacher. Okay, I'm making notes here
Speaker 5: and then we'll see what we can find out. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: have you been victimized by ConA contractors? Let us know?
Speaker 5: Three oh three seven one three talks seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two five five. I wonder if Jason Sachri is
Speaker 5: on Facebook. We ought to try that too, Bill, what's
Speaker 5: going on with you?
Speaker 6: Bill?
Speaker 5: Welcome?
Speaker 15: Hi.
Speaker 21: My wife has a small business and a web page
Speaker 21: for her small business, and a couple of days ago
Speaker 21: she received an email from supposedly from the Americans with
Speaker 21: Disability Acts saying their way web page wasn't compliant. Somebody
Speaker 21: had complained.
Speaker 13: That's right, they said.
Speaker 5: They said it wasn't compliant to UH for for Americans
Speaker 5: with Disabilities, right, they said it.
Speaker 21: The customer expressed this as sex and with the lack
Speaker 21: of entertainment value, and then they would be aware of
Speaker 21: it's not just accessibility, it's it's also functionality and engaging.
Speaker 21: So so what they said the letter they sent at
Speaker 21: the bottom of it highlighted in large bold letters and
Speaker 21: highlighted in yellow. It says that if this turns into
Speaker 21: a lawsuits, you could little suit to be anywhere from
Speaker 21: you could lose anywhere from twenty five two hundred thousand
Speaker 21: dollars and typically for smaller businesses it's ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: What do they want?
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's what I was looking.
Speaker 5: For, and they want to settle that right now.
Speaker 7: They want you to reply. They want you to reply.
Speaker 7: That's all they want right now.
Speaker 15: That's there you go.
Speaker 21: They say you have a timeline of twenty four Why
Speaker 21: do they want you to reply?
Speaker 5: Mark?
Speaker 7: Because then they know someone say on that email actually
Speaker 7: getting it. Then they're going to try to shake you
Speaker 7: down for X amount of money.
Speaker 5: Don't reply many of these? How many of these compliance?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 5: What are they calling the let me ask you, what
Speaker 5: are they calling the lawsuit? What law did they cite?
Speaker 21: Uh, it's just as Ada website lawsuit settlement? And then
Speaker 21: and then they don't they don't directly say and then
Speaker 21: and then. The one thing I noticed is that the grammar,
Speaker 21: the language that they use at the end is very poor.
Speaker 21: They make some very obvious ra medical errors.
Speaker 5: Yes, man, we had a client one time who got
Speaker 5: so afraid she paid and she was converting her website
Speaker 5: to be compliant. It was moronic and the cost was
Speaker 5: outrageous that you have to get it to.
Speaker 21: Get it to get into compliance. Right, So it was
Speaker 21: just it was shakedown or from the lawsuit that they
Speaker 21: were just moronic, just handing over money.
Speaker 5: Like that, right, Okay, so I would say this does somebody.
Speaker 5: Has anyone actually been sued for having a non compliant
Speaker 5: website because most of them are non compliant. First of all,
Speaker 5: what is compliant? What is compliant? Most of the browsers
Speaker 5: are the ones that make them compliant, not the website itself.
Speaker 5: It's just a new way to shake people down, you know. Now,
Speaker 5: the ones that go after websites. I've seen websites going
Speaker 5: after for images and for background images and stuff, and
Speaker 5: that's all legit. I mean it is if you can't
Speaker 5: show that you paid for licensing for those images you get.
Speaker 5: Getty Images is famous for that, for asking for money
Speaker 5: or demanding you take it down. That's why when I
Speaker 5: download an image and I pay for the rights, I
Speaker 5: record it, I have the license and everything, but I
Speaker 5: wouldn't worry about it. It's happening to a lot of
Speaker 5: people the shakedown. But I'm wondering, are there any actual
Speaker 5: lawsuits where this is where people have been sued successfully
Speaker 5: and had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars because
Speaker 5: someone could could not.
Speaker 6: Access their access their website.
Speaker 5: I doubt it. I mean, wouldn't WordPress have some kind
Speaker 5: of warning when you build a website or wouldn't web
Speaker 5: developers be all over this? But every once in a
Speaker 5: while this letter surface is where people get hit up,
Speaker 5: and it's been It must be very successful because a
Speaker 5: lot of people are paying, and they're afraid and think
Speaker 5: about it. If they want something of five hundred dollars,
Speaker 5: a lot of people say, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 5: going to pay this to be done with it. But
Speaker 5: you see, what you're really doing is just getting rid
Speaker 5: of that one nuisance, that one person. That doesn't mean
Speaker 5: someone else can't shake you down.
Speaker 7: And I'd argue they're not getting rid of them once
Speaker 7: you pay them the five hundred.
Speaker 5: You got the word sucker on your face, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: And again, ADI compliancy for websites, I've never heard that.
Speaker 5: You know, I've heard of browsers trying to make things
Speaker 5: ADA compliant with reading and translations and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: but I've never heard of anyone being sued. If I'm
Speaker 5: going to look it up during the break, but I've
Speaker 5: never heard of it. We got more coming up. I'm troubleshooter,
Speaker 5: Tom Martino. Hi, Tom Martino. You're troubleshooter three oh three
Speaker 5: seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 5: So you're not gonna believe what I found on non
Speaker 5: compliant websites. Listen. I have found many articles that says
Speaker 5: that the compliancy ADA compliance. There were in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: three more than four thousand lawsuits filed, success a forty
Speaker 5: two percent increase over twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: there continues to be thousands of lawsuits filed against owners
Speaker 5: of inaccessible websites, and many of them have collected damages
Speaker 5: for it. People are indeed being sued for having websites
Speaker 5: that are not compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act. The
Speaker 5: US courts apply ADA accessibility requirements to websites and businesses
Speaker 5: considered to be commercial operations, and they must ensure that their.
Speaker 6: Websites are fully accessible.
Speaker 5: Now, no shared an autotech You're looking at yours right
Speaker 5: now thinking, so is Kevin. I'm telling you I'm reading this.
Speaker 5: Websites should conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG
Speaker 5: at level AA to be compliant. When these lawsuits are filed,
Speaker 5: they are often settled with businesses paying hundreds of thousands
Speaker 5: of dollars for non compliance. Mark, I know, Tom, I mean,
Speaker 5: there's several articles here on people who have gotten popped
Speaker 5: for hundreds of thousands of dollars for not having compliant websites.
Speaker 5: The websites have to be able to talk to people,
Speaker 5: the websites have to be able to have be enlarged,
Speaker 5: the website, there's all.
Speaker 6: If you look at the compliance what they have to do,
Speaker 6: it's incredible.
Speaker 5: Now, I mean, you know, I know, a lot of
Speaker 5: it might be considered a shake down and maybe these
Speaker 5: maybe these law firms won't go through with it, but
Speaker 5: they certainly have. In fact, there's an entire there are
Speaker 5: so many articles on this, I can't believe it, and
Speaker 5: about how some businesses have gone out of business as
Speaker 5: a result of it because they they went broke.
Speaker 7: And I doubt, I doubt all that propaganda you're reading
Speaker 7: is coming from those same companies that are fishing for
Speaker 7: people to get back to.
Speaker 5: Mark one's coming from Americas with Disabilities Act an Advocate website.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, I I doubt I doubt that
Speaker 5: these I doubt that these websites, by the way, can
Speaker 5: all be manufactured. I can't.
Speaker 6: I mean, maybe some of them are. Maybe some of
Speaker 6: them are.
Speaker 5: There is a list. One is one is called accessible
Speaker 5: dot com. That's one accessible dot com. Another one is
Speaker 5: let me see hold on. One is something dot gov
Speaker 5: here Ada. I'm looking. While I'm reading, I'm trying to
Speaker 5: do this web web compliancepro dot com. One is from WordPress,
Speaker 5: and one is called news dot mobar dot org. I mean,
Speaker 5: is your contention Mark that there have not been lawsuits filed?
Speaker 7: That is not my contention. My contention is if someone
Speaker 7: uses at what I'll refer to as a phishing scheme
Speaker 7: and do not reply to it, and ninety nine point
Speaker 7: nine percent of the time you'll never hear anything again.
Speaker 5: But but if there were forty six hundred lawsuits filed
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, I mean, that's a lot of lawsuits,
Speaker 5: actual lawsuits that were filed. Are you saying they were
Speaker 5: suckers that that replied and if you ignore it, they
Speaker 5: go away?
Speaker 7: Give me one case so we can look one up. Look, okay,
Speaker 7: but it's hard to do. Well, let's go, let's go
Speaker 7: down the rabbit hole. Let's look up an actual case.
Speaker 6: I would love to, in fact I will, but I
Speaker 6: can't do it while I'm talking.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just impossible to do that. But I
Speaker 5: told the guy it was all a scam, and I'm
Speaker 5: not look at I'm not saying you should respond to
Speaker 5: these emails. And we have had several clients get these emails.
Speaker 5: And we've had several people that they got the health
Speaker 5: scared out of them because they're being told that their
Speaker 5: websites have to be compliant. But when I look, for example,
Speaker 5: at Amazon, I don't see anything here on the Amazon
Speaker 5: dot Com website that's compliant. I don't see anything that's compliant.
Speaker 5: So what do they mean by that? I'm wondering if
Speaker 5: we should get someone from ADA on to talk about it,
Speaker 5: because this is definitely I mean, in fact, I don't
Speaker 5: know what a compliant website even looks like.
Speaker 6: That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna do some more searching on this. But
Speaker 5: apparently the the they call it the Web Content accessibility guidelines,
Speaker 5: and that's what I want to find. And again a
Speaker 5: lot of them come from this one. I'd like to
Speaker 5: know who owns this one website. It's called accessible dot com.
Speaker 5: We ought to find out who owns.
Speaker 7: Probably the same exact attorneys that send those letters out.
Speaker 5: Well, let's find out.
Speaker 7: I mean, how would you find out? Like they're gonna
Speaker 7: have a registered owner on it? Why would they do that?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. I'm gonna I mean, we haven't
Speaker 5: even looked. We can go to who is and find out? Right, No,
Speaker 5: why did you do it?
Speaker 7: Most likely they don't want you to know.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna try it anyway. Like I said, I
Speaker 5: can't do it while I'm talking three oh three seven
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Speaker 5: On another topic, I talked about some of the stuff
Speaker 5: in sunblocks. Another one actually is really concerning called oxy
Speaker 5: oxy benzone, and what that does is it blocks certain
Speaker 5: hormone or endocrine It's endocrine disruption, causing an interference in hormones.
Speaker 5: And that's put in a lot of sunscreen. So to
Speaker 5: avoid to find sunscreen that's healthier, you got to avoid oxybenzone,
Speaker 5: Vitamin A and insect repellent, especially if you're putting these
Speaker 5: on kids. Now, some of the stuff you want in
Speaker 5: a sun block would be zinc oxide. That's the magic.
Speaker 5: That's the stuff that some of the cheaper ones don't
Speaker 5: even have. You want zinc oxide, you want a cream form,
Speaker 5: sprays do not work. You want something that's water resistant,
Speaker 5: and then something called avo ben zone. Do you know
Speaker 5: what that is? Doc avobenzone, And then there's some other stuff.
Speaker 5: But it's really amazing to me how many people by
Speaker 5: just sunscreen and how why it's allowed. It is absolutely
Speaker 5: allowed to be to be sold. The website. I'm reading
Speaker 5: this on one of the websites I used was ewg
Speaker 5: dot org slash sunscreen ewg dot org slash sunscreen if
Speaker 5: you're interested in that. Three O three seven to one
Speaker 5: three talk seven one three eight two five five yep.
Speaker 9: Is is sunscreen considered a drug? Or is it like
Speaker 9: vitamins and supplements which don't have DEA approval?
Speaker 5: Or I don't think it's considered a drug, is it?
Speaker 5: I mean like, is it like an aspurn?
Speaker 14: Do you mean?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 9: My point is if if the DEA doesn't regulate it,
Speaker 9: then that's why the DA allows.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the DEA doesn't, but certainly the FDA does.
Speaker 5: The FDA looks at everything on the shelves that we
Speaker 5: that make health claims. If you call yourself a sunblock,
Speaker 5: they look at supplements, they look at everything. Now, they
Speaker 5: do have a classification called generally recognized as safe, meaning
Speaker 5: that in general the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and they're
Speaker 5: generally recognized as safe. But you know, what is safe
Speaker 5: to some people may not be safe to others. And anyway,
Speaker 5: so as far as as far as sunscreen, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: And then there's another class of products you should be
Speaker 5: aware of. Do you know there are products again they're
Speaker 5: generally approved as safe or recognized as safe. Gross it's
Speaker 5: called and ALO products. Do you know that ninety percent
Speaker 5: of products called alo in the name do not contain
Speaker 5: alo at all. They do not contain the alo plant
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 9: I mean you may spell it a L L O
Speaker 9: and if they leave off the E.
Speaker 5: No, No, technically no, they're they're a L O E OK.
Speaker 5: And they're considered it said, it's one of the biggest ripoffs.
Speaker 5: But again the FDA does nothing about it because it's
Speaker 5: called ALO. They're not saying we have alo. It's called ALO,
Speaker 5: and that's truly what what the standard is because it's safe,
Speaker 5: it's not dangerous, but it contains no ALO. So if
Speaker 5: you're looking for something that contains ALO and you buy
Speaker 5: something called ALO, you can't, I swear to God you can't.
Speaker 5: You don't know if it contains ALO. No I was Oh, hi,
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Speaker 5: to tell you and give that number out again. You
Speaker 5: can text my Google number which is three oh three seven.
Speaker 5: Exuse me, no it is it's seven four seven nine
Speaker 5: nine nine eighty. So if you want to text that,
Speaker 5: you can and I will absolutely talk about it on
Speaker 5: the air. You can also text our regular numbers, which
Speaker 5: is five seven, seven three nine. Now on one of
Speaker 5: the texts I've gotten, somebody wants to know, Okay, they
Speaker 5: want to know if what is this one? Shannon? Did
Speaker 5: you send me one to you?
Speaker 6: Do you really mean that or not?
Speaker 5: You don't mean that, You're just a creep. He's sending
Speaker 5: me one. Okay, Now, as far is it, read it?
Speaker 5: Read it? Oh, Shann has said, should I replace my
Speaker 5: car air filters after all of this smoke?
Speaker 6: Actually that's not a bad question.
Speaker 5: By the way. They're called cabin filters, by the way,
Speaker 5: not your air filters.
Speaker 8: He's talking about changing the air in his air filter.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I get it. But as far as cabin filters,
Speaker 5: cabin filters, by the way, when should cabin filters be changed?
Speaker 8: Just a regular interval, every other oil change, you know,
Speaker 8: every every year, every season?
Speaker 4: I mean whatever?
Speaker 6: Do old cars have cabin filters? I never used to
Speaker 6: hear about him? So when did they start up?
Speaker 5: When did they?
Speaker 8: They've been around for oh at least ten to fifteen
Speaker 8: years now, but not all cars still don't have them.
Speaker 7: If you live on a dirt road and have one,
Speaker 7: you should do it a lot.
Speaker 14: If you regularly keep your dogs or your cats in
Speaker 14: the car whenever you go for rides. Left, pet dandren hair.
Speaker 5: Now, what are those roundabouts called roundabouts? Road?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Roundabouts when you're driving?
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some guy, just some guy texted me and said he
Speaker 5: hates roundabouts because people don't know how to properly use them.
Speaker 5: Do I?
Speaker 7: I grew up on roundabouts New Jersey. We didn't have lights. Man,
Speaker 7: everything was a roundabout.
Speaker 5: Now a roundabout properly proper use, he asked me. If
Speaker 5: I knew what proper use, let me take a stab
Speaker 5: at it the way I understand it. When you're in
Speaker 5: the roundabout, you have the right of way, and you
Speaker 5: can enter the roundabout as long as noone's blocking you.
Speaker 5: So if someone enters on the other side, you can
Speaker 5: enter on this side. If someone enters to the left
Speaker 5: of you, you can enter to the right as long
Speaker 5: as you don't block them. So the one in the
Speaker 5: round about has the right of way, Is that right?
Speaker 8: That's why?
Speaker 5: And you have to come to a stop only if
Speaker 5: there's not an opening to merge into it. Correct Otherwise
Speaker 5: you don't come to a stop mark. Is that your understanding?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty I'm not even really following what you're saying.
Speaker 7: I mean, when you get to one, it's pretty logical
Speaker 7: at to operate in one.
Speaker 5: You know, No, it's not mark because a lot of
Speaker 5: people say when they're going around the turn, someone pulls
Speaker 5: the right out in front of them and they're not supposed.
Speaker 7: To Well, you're supposed to yield until you can pull
Speaker 7: in there.
Speaker 5: That's that's what that's that's right. But but people don't
Speaker 5: understand that that the people in the roundabout have the
Speaker 5: right of way.
Speaker 7: Well, I guess what I'm saying is logically, how would
Speaker 7: you think anything else? Like the people if people in
Speaker 7: the roundabout stopped, it would just be cars in a circle.
Speaker 6: Well obviously, but guess what.
Speaker 5: People don't necessarily think logically, And there are not necessarily
Speaker 5: yield signs on all roundabouts. There are some roundabouts without
Speaker 5: any sign, it's whatsoever. And they all merge like a
Speaker 5: yield like on a not on a ninety, but on
Speaker 5: a forty five degree angle. They all merge in a
Speaker 5: logical way. You would think that everyone should drive into
Speaker 5: the roundabout when it's their turn, but if someone's in
Speaker 5: it coming up on it, you would be I've had
Speaker 5: several times I've been driving in a roundabout and I'm
Speaker 5: right up to the point where that other car is,
Speaker 5: and they they just come driving straight through as if
Speaker 5: there's no impedance and come right in front of cars
Speaker 5: in the roundabout, just just like it. There's not just
Speaker 5: like it's a straightaway. They don't even consider looking to
Speaker 5: their left or their right. They don't even consider it.
Speaker 5: They just drive right into it.
Speaker 7: I like them the lab better. I find them way better.
Speaker 5: Well, then trust to be way more, way more efficient.
Speaker 5: Now another thing, go ahead.
Speaker 14: What were you say do?
Speaker 9: I'm just gonna say, yielding in a roundabout is like
Speaker 9: stopping at a stop sign. It's a rule of the road.
Speaker 9: And when you take your drivers sess you should know that.
Speaker 9: Of course you should know that I'm not arguing that right,
Speaker 9: and if you don't, you're the one that's that fault
Speaker 9: of this an accident.
Speaker 7: Most people don't even know when you're supposed to merge,
Speaker 7: like they'll try to merge early. Most people don't know.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter what speed you're going in the far
Speaker 7: left lane. If the car to the right of you
Speaker 7: is going faster. You shouldn't be in the lane.
Speaker 5: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 6: It's not a speed limit thing. It's a courtesy thing.
Speaker 6: Or it's a flow thing.
Speaker 5: Now, as far as merging, you're not supposed to You're
Speaker 5: not supposed to cross that solid line when you're in
Speaker 5: that merge lane. You're supposed to go all the way
Speaker 5: up to the head of that lane and or the
Speaker 5: end of it or whatever, speed to where you that's right,
Speaker 5: to where you have a break, and then people in
Speaker 5: the regular flow of traffic should let you in. It's
Speaker 5: called a zipper and they should let you in in
Speaker 5: that zipper formation, but they don't. Some of them purposely
Speaker 5: speed up to keep you from merging. It sucks, But
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is. It's like a psychological thing.
Speaker 5: For God's says, like people try to keep people out
Speaker 5: of roundabout. Now, here's another thing that bugs me, and
Speaker 5: I don't know why people. I don't know. If you
Speaker 5: can picture this, okay, a regular stop sign meaning we
Speaker 5: let's just say we have a rap hole road, okay,
Speaker 5: And then if you're on like a side street that
Speaker 5: goes onto a rap hale road, you got the one
Speaker 5: to the south of a rapo road the one to
Speaker 5: the north right.
Speaker 6: So they're both perpendicular the same street.
Speaker 5: Let's say Street A, and your Street A is perpendicular too,
Speaker 5: and runs right through a rapa hale road. And there's
Speaker 5: a stop sign. So the people coming from north to
Speaker 5: south stop, people coming from south to north stop.
Speaker 6: They just stop and wait for traffic on a rapo
Speaker 6: road then proceed.
Speaker 5: Okay, So where it's not divided, let's just say there's
Speaker 5: a street where it's not divided. It's not who gets
Speaker 5: to the stop sign first that has the right of way.
Speaker 5: It's not the same as a four way stop. It's
Speaker 5: not the same as a three way stop. It's and
Speaker 5: and there's no such thing as I know I called
Speaker 5: two way stop. But what a four way stop is
Speaker 5: is whoever gets there first. And this is something that
Speaker 5: morons in Colorado just can't get straight, because I swear
Speaker 5: to God, everyone thinks they get there first. But you
Speaker 5: look around, and the one who gets there first has
Speaker 5: right away. If you both get there at the same time,
Speaker 5: who's at the right away, the one to the right right.
Speaker 5: No one knows that. So, so okay, on a regular
Speaker 5: stop sign, though, where you're both stopped facing each other
Speaker 5: and there's traffic in the middle, Okay, it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: who got there first.
Speaker 6: The people going straight have.
Speaker 5: The right away. Period. They have the right away. If
Speaker 5: you want to turn left, even if you got to
Speaker 5: that stop sign first, you don't get to turn left
Speaker 5: in front of that car going straight when there's a
Speaker 5: break in traffic. But you would be shocked at how
Speaker 5: many people think that a regular stop sign is treated
Speaker 5: like a four way stop. So so imagine how silly
Speaker 5: that is. They pull up to the stuff and they're there,
Speaker 5: and then you pull up after them. So they were
Speaker 5: clearly there first. They're turning left, you're going straight. When
Speaker 5: there's a break in traffic, they believe they should go first.
Speaker 5: That is not the rule of the law at a
Speaker 5: stop sign, a regular stop sign, it's the person going
Speaker 5: straight has the right of way. The person turning must
Speaker 5: yield well.
Speaker 14: And the other thing is too, is when you're taking
Speaker 14: a turn onto a multi lane road, you have the
Speaker 14: right of way to the most inner lane to your turn,
Speaker 14: even if you have an arrow if you have an
Speaker 14: opposing side it has a stop light.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 14: They come to a complete stop stop when you go
Speaker 14: to turn right onto that road, you have the right
Speaker 14: of way to the inner lane.
Speaker 5: To your right.
Speaker 14: They can't, so they come across outside lane.
Speaker 5: And they do. And that's another thing. When you do
Speaker 5: turn right from a turn, you would think that, for
Speaker 5: God's sakes, people would know this. When you're turning right
Speaker 5: onto a street, you're supposed to turn into the rightmost lane.
Speaker 5: You're not supposed to turn into the center lane. Do
Speaker 5: you know how many people turn into the center or
Speaker 5: far left lean.
Speaker 9: That's crazy, just common sense.
Speaker 5: Tom Oh yeah, duh?
Speaker 6: Really, Oh I should know that.
Speaker 9: Then no, come out these people.
Speaker 5: But why is it? Why?
Speaker 6: I mean, do we need like primers on how to drive?
Speaker 6: For God's sakes.
Speaker 5: It's just amazing to me. Anyway, Mike, you have a
Speaker 5: comment about roundabouts, Go ahead.
Speaker 11: Mike, Yeah, an American.
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Speaker 5: your troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk seven
Speaker 5: one three eight two five five. So where do you
Speaker 5: think most online ripoffs happen? Where do you think we're like?
Speaker 8: What country or stay?
Speaker 5: No, what vehicle for online ripoffs? It's romance of shopping,
Speaker 5: of social media. It's it's shopping, by the way, And
Speaker 5: I would have thought shopping was the safer one. We
Speaker 5: believe it or not, there are more there's more fraud
Speaker 5: on online shopping sites than anywhere.
Speaker 14: How you got your piano?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Online.
Speaker 9: Other one that's really I see a lot is elderly
Speaker 9: people having something come up on the computer that there's
Speaker 9: a bug.
Speaker 5: Or right, and sharing and yeah, to share their screens
Speaker 5: with me.
Speaker 9: The other day, do not let anybody into your computer, Josh,
Speaker 9: what's going on with you?
Speaker 4: Josh?
Speaker 11: Hey, tell a couple of things I wanted to comment on.
Speaker 13: First.
Speaker 22: One of the things that pissed that makes me mad
Speaker 22: with traffic circles or roundabouts is when people don't know
Speaker 22: and they stop to let you in while they're in
Speaker 22: the middle of the circle.
Speaker 6: No, that's true too, you're right through, You're right you're
Speaker 6: right being too courteous.
Speaker 22: And then oh yeah, yeah, And then I have had
Speaker 22: a friend who has gone the ticket making a right
Speaker 22: turn and going out to the far left lane before
Speaker 22: for improper lane change.
Speaker 6: Good, and they should because it's really dangerous.
Speaker 5: Now, technically you're supposed to make it the right into
Speaker 5: the far right lane, and then if you want to
Speaker 5: go to the left to merge, then you turn on
Speaker 5: your blinker and you change one lane at a time.
Speaker 5: But you'd be shocked at how many people come out
Speaker 5: of that turn and swing wide out to the farmost
Speaker 5: left lane. I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, I mean really,
Speaker 5: I guess look at this might seem petty, but you
Speaker 5: would think people would learn how to freaking drive Now, Now,
Speaker 5: am I the only one? Let me just ask them, Josh,
Speaker 5: Then you can ask you a question on car insurance?
Speaker 5: Am I the only one that notices this? People are
Speaker 5: driving more and more without headlights? Have you noticed people
Speaker 5: driving without headlights ever?
Speaker 9: Never?
Speaker 14: Lately?
Speaker 3: At night?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes, Like like all of a sudden you see a
Speaker 6: car and they have no light on whatsoever.
Speaker 14: And I think a lot of that has to do
Speaker 14: with most vehicles. Now, you turn on your turn the
Speaker 14: vehicle on the headlights automatically. Come on, now, you can
Speaker 14: defeat them. You can turn them off. Then they don't
Speaker 14: turn them back to the car wash. They've done something else.
Speaker 5: So, Josh, you wanted to talk about car insurance. We're
Speaker 5: running out of time, but what is your question? We'll
Speaker 5: get to it.
Speaker 22: I have the renters and a car insurance policy. There
Speaker 22: are coupled and now I am on the d to
Speaker 22: the house and no longer a renter.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I think you texted me on that. I remember,
Speaker 5: did you? Yeah, okay, we're going to answer you. Hold on,
Speaker 5: we're coming up. Oh yeah, it is one. You have time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ripped up? Bad news? You need advice?
Speaker 23: Who you don't have the.
Speaker 3: Come running just as stasis.
Speaker 1: We can.
Speaker 2: Shooter's gonna help coming.
Speaker 4: This is the Troubleshooter Show.
Speaker 5: Now Tom Martino, Hey, Tom Martino here, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two five five. I have Jeremy on from Compass
Speaker 5: because we have a question and uh doesn't seem to
Speaker 5: be real complicated. This is Josh.
Speaker 6: Now, Josh, you have a combo policy?
Speaker 14: Is that right?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 16: That's right.
Speaker 5: So he has Jeremy a policy for his renters insurance
Speaker 5: along with his car insurance. Okay, okay, then he became
Speaker 5: a owner of the house. Or are you part owner
Speaker 5: or what happened with the house? Josh?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm a part owner.
Speaker 5: So did you actually you actually are on the deed? Right?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 22: Well, yeah, I haven't double checked. We did a couple
Speaker 22: of weeks ago. I haven't double checked the county website
Speaker 22: to see if it's no.
Speaker 5: No, I understand, but but you actually how did you
Speaker 5: buy your part of that was was did you buy
Speaker 5: it from the person that owned it or did you
Speaker 5: buy another house? How did it work?
Speaker 24: Now?
Speaker 22: I bought it from my mother in law, so she's
Speaker 22: on the deed and.
Speaker 13: I'm on the deed.
Speaker 5: But you were renting from your mother in law?
Speaker 17: Correct?
Speaker 18: Because it's a duplex.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 5: You're renting from your mother in law and it and
Speaker 5: I uh. And then you bought from your mother in law.
Speaker 5: And when you say she's on the deed, is that
Speaker 5: because it's a duplex. Do you own all of your half?
Speaker 13: It's between the deed.
Speaker 22: I mean, as far as we understand, all three of
Speaker 22: us are on the deed, my wife, me and my
Speaker 22: mother in law. And yeah, but are all three of
Speaker 22: you on the deed bail agreement?
Speaker 6: Are all three of you on the deed for the duplex?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 5: So all three of you own two units?
Speaker 22: Yes, yes, because the way it's set up with the
Speaker 22: county is it's a single address, but it does have
Speaker 22: two separate nailing addresses.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's fine, it's it's one. But you have one loan, correct, okay?
Speaker 5: Or one okay? So one loan, one deed, two units,
Speaker 5: and there's three of you on it. And are you
Speaker 5: and your wife on as one party and her as another?
Speaker 5: Or are they three separate people?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 18: I believe we're on together as one unit.
Speaker 5: So is half and half?
Speaker 6: You and your wife own half and your mom owns half. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's the way. Let's hope it does. But not all
Speaker 6: of them read that way.
Speaker 5: But in any case, at least you add her enough
Speaker 5: for insurance purposes, So Jeremy, so he changes the renter's insurance, right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, correct, he would need a homeowner's policy once he's
Speaker 13: the owner.
Speaker 5: We all three of them need one homeowner's policy or
Speaker 5: they don't each get one. Right, it's not like a condo.
Speaker 13: Correct. Well, And that's really kind of how it's needed.
Speaker 13: So if it's a if it's a duplex, but they
Speaker 13: all three own both units, they would have one policy
Speaker 13: with all three.
Speaker 15: Of them on.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, that's what I want to know. Then is
Speaker 5: there a policy on there already?
Speaker 13: Josh, Yes, my mother in law has a policy.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, well, then you're covered by that policy or
Speaker 5: no one's covered. In other words, she better alter that
Speaker 5: policy to include all of you.
Speaker 13: Correct, Yeah, they need to be added. At a minimum,
Speaker 13: they would need to be added as named insurance on
Speaker 13: that current homeowner's policy.
Speaker 5: So Josh, okay, good to know. Yeah, and now she
Speaker 5: may want you to chip in for it. That's fine whatever,
Speaker 5: because you're part owner now right right, yep. But now
Speaker 5: your renters insurance then drops off of your combo insurance.
Speaker 22: Okay, Now his which is fine because the Renters was
Speaker 22: only added because with the discount, it essentially came to
Speaker 22: no cost.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you drop your renters. His car insurance shouldn't
Speaker 5: go up, then, right, Jeremy, Well, it will go up.
Speaker 13: I think he's saying it will go up the same
Speaker 13: amount he was paying for the renters policy. So if
Speaker 13: the renters policy is fifteen bucks. His autom might go
Speaker 13: up fifteen bucks a month, but he's not paying that
Speaker 13: renters anymore, so he kind of comes out even.
Speaker 5: Okay, I see, but technically when you have a bundled rate,
Speaker 5: it's cheaper, technically correct. Okay, Josh, So make sure you
Speaker 5: and your wife are named on that new pole or
Speaker 5: that policy that your mother in law has. And yeah,
Speaker 5: thanks for con appreciate that. Thank you, Jeremy. That's home
Speaker 5: of the insurance checkup three O three nine nine six
Speaker 5: nine thou And let's talk about let's see, oh Stephen
Speaker 5: with HVAC. Go ahead, Stephen, what's going on with you?
Speaker 5: Oh hey, what's happening? Oh?
Speaker 13: Yes, I.
Speaker 11: Leave my.
Speaker 16: Purnas. An air conditioner went out late yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 5: Now did they just go out like a ball? But
Speaker 5: I mean all of a sudden it doesn't work or
Speaker 5: is it not blowing?
Speaker 16: Just quit was working? There was a power surge. I
Speaker 16: mean there was a power went off over here this
Speaker 16: area and Aurora late Tuesday evening and it didn't come
Speaker 16: back on until eleven by had shut the conditioner off.
Speaker 16: That can't it worked today? And you yesterday until I
Speaker 16: don't know five o'clock or so.
Speaker 5: How old is your system? How old is your system?
Speaker 16: About twenty four years now?
Speaker 5: Okay. I was going to say it could be something
Speaker 5: really simple, and it still could be something simple, but
Speaker 5: it's probably time to change it out anyway. If it's
Speaker 5: a twenty four year old system, Wow, you got a
Speaker 5: lot of good use out of that, didn't you.
Speaker 16: Oh the other one lasted longer than that. The next
Speaker 16: from seventy six?
Speaker 5: Well hold on, wow, so this is the ac en
Speaker 5: furnace you think went out?
Speaker 16: Both I tried resetting it and I tried to get
Speaker 16: the furnace to come on.
Speaker 5: What size house do you have?
Speaker 16: I guess about fourteen hundred feet. It's a brick house,
Speaker 16: and uh oh it's yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 6: Have you gotten any bids yet?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 16: No, no, no, no, I don't know. I may not
Speaker 16: before colleague twenty four to seven.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to, well, here's what you want to do.
Speaker 5: This is what I recommend. I recommend you get more
Speaker 5: than one bid. And I don't care who you're calling now.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying these people aren't honest and good, but
Speaker 5: I want you to be secure in what you do.
Speaker 6: So you want to make sure that you're not that
Speaker 6: you're getting what you need.
Speaker 24: Now.
Speaker 5: You may not need an ultra efficient unit. It depends,
Speaker 5: you know. Sometimes that's a waste of money, depending on
Speaker 5: your how how your house is insulated, How old is
Speaker 5: your house?
Speaker 16: I was built in fifty nine, but got plenty of
Speaker 16: new insulation in the walls. It has a basement too.
Speaker 5: Is it very well insulated?
Speaker 16: The people came and insulated it again.
Speaker 6: Okay, so who are you thinking that you might want
Speaker 6: to get some bids?
Speaker 5: I can. I can give you some suggestions. I mean
Speaker 5: from the referral list. I'm getting some bids if you
Speaker 5: want to do that.
Speaker 16: Well, before colleague twenty four seven, I was going to
Speaker 16: for you because I only got one hundred and forty
Speaker 16: eight dollars in my account. I don't get paid till
Speaker 16: next Thursday.
Speaker 5: Wait, hold on, azi, hold on one hundred and forty
Speaker 5: eight dollars. But obviously you know what a furnace costs, right.
Speaker 16: About five five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: But no, no, I wish it did I wish it
Speaker 5: costs five grand? Honest to god. Now I'm going to
Speaker 5: tell you I'm going.
Speaker 7: To Master Services has him under five grand. But it's
Speaker 7: gotta be a small house.
Speaker 6: It's fourteen hundred square feet.
Speaker 3: Mark.
Speaker 7: That would that would that would be it.
Speaker 4: I was going to give that.
Speaker 5: I was going to give them as one of the
Speaker 5: recommendations to get a bid, because you don't need the
Speaker 5: greatest of the greatest.
Speaker 6: Unless you need the greatest of the greatest. It all
Speaker 6: depends on in your house.
Speaker 5: I mean, what I'm saying is you get something that's
Speaker 5: going to work and something you can afford. Now, were
Speaker 5: you going to finance this? Is that what you were
Speaker 5: going to do.
Speaker 16: I don't know whether we have to replace the furnace.
Speaker 16: But my son girlfriend, he sold her house and she
Speaker 16: got a lot of money, and she already bought a dishwasher, And.
Speaker 5: Is she going to help you pay for the furnace?
Speaker 16: Maybe well, maybe you pay for repairs.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, you're right, You're right. I keep saying,
Speaker 5: pay for the furnace. You may be able to get
Speaker 5: it fixed. You might be able to get it fixed.
Speaker 5: But I'm just going to warn you of something. On
Speaker 5: a twenty four year old furnace air conditioning unit, it
Speaker 5: may not be worth fixing.
Speaker 16: It's service before.
Speaker 5: Okay, what did it quit before? And you got it running.
Speaker 5: Huh did it quit before you got it running?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 16: It just quit yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Pill.
Speaker 6: What I'm saying is have you had it serviced before?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, it's cleaned. It in a new capacitator on
Speaker 16: the motor.
Speaker 5: And how long ago is that.
Speaker 16: For a year or two ago?
Speaker 1: Did they?
Speaker 6: And who did it for you?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 16: I think it was either plumb Line or twenty Horse
Speaker 16: Service twenty four to seven.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, fix it twenty four to seven. Here's the deal.
Speaker 5: They're good, honest people. But I'm here's what I'm afraid of. Listen,
Speaker 5: these companies, all of them, they want to replace things
Speaker 5: that they can if they're old. Okay, not if they can,
Speaker 5: but if they are old. I fear that no matter
Speaker 5: who you get out there with a twenty four year system,
Speaker 5: they're going to try to replace it. But you may
Speaker 5: want to ask them straight up front. Can they try
Speaker 5: to tell you what you need first? And I would
Speaker 5: get more more than one opinion? Let me give you
Speaker 5: some suggestions, Okay, I would. You can call fix It.
Speaker 5: They're good people and ask them for their opinion. Tell
Speaker 5: them you want to try to keep this running. You
Speaker 5: don't want to replace it if it's possible, and get
Speaker 5: a bid, and then if the BID's then then they
Speaker 5: might give you a bid also to replace it. But
Speaker 5: what I'm telling you is I'm going to tell you
Speaker 5: how to approach it. You tell them first. Your preference
Speaker 5: is to try to keep this thing running if you can,
Speaker 5: and if not, you need to know what it will
Speaker 5: cost to the most reasonable cost for replacement.
Speaker 6: The most reasonable cost for replacement for this house.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Their number is seven to zero five two six thirty
Speaker 5: nine thirty nine. I want you to call Master Services.
Speaker 5: These guys have specials for small homes, and you might
Speaker 5: if you do have to replace, you might want to
Speaker 5: go with them. Again, They're all good companies, but you
Speaker 5: have to do shopping no matter who you deal with
Speaker 5: in the universe, there's nothing wrong with getting comparisons. Their
Speaker 5: number at Master Services is seven to zero four three
Speaker 5: four thirty four oh six. Hey hey, let me say
Speaker 5: something too about them, real quick man. So I've got
Speaker 5: two units.
Speaker 7: Tom one is downstairs and Apple Air actually did that
Speaker 7: one four years ago. My other AC unit for the
Speaker 7: upstairs is in the attic, so I got a bid
Speaker 7: on that one from multiple companies on our referral list,
Speaker 7: and the cheapest one came in at over twenty five
Speaker 7: thousand dollars. I had Master Services come out about a
Speaker 7: month ago and they figured out it was the uh, oh,
Speaker 7: what do you what's the main part in the AC
Speaker 7: the condenser, the condenser, and they ordered the condenser presser
Speaker 7: two either. Yeah, it wasn't that, It was just the condenser.
Speaker 7: It looks like a radiator basically, So they pulled that out.
Speaker 7: They saw where the free on was leaking out, they
Speaker 7: ordered a new one. They put it in. It's a
Speaker 7: twenty two year old furnace and it works like brand
Speaker 7: new right now. And it was less than two grand.
Speaker 7: Where replacing it was. I had quotes from twenty five
Speaker 7: to forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: God, wow, did you get that number? Served for Master Services?
Speaker 6: Seven two zero something four three four three four zero.
Speaker 16: Six seven two zero three four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hold on, it's seven to zero four three four
Speaker 5: three four zero six, God almighty.
Speaker 6: Just hold on, hold on. Do me a favor, hey,
Speaker 6: would you give him the number? Please? Kitchina, help me
Speaker 6: out here, help me out here?
Speaker 5: Off the air? Please?
Speaker 6: Is she over there?
Speaker 5: Or am I talking to the air right now? She's
Speaker 5: not even that I'll get it to her or shammon. Okay,
Speaker 5: just just hold on. And I wanted to call plumbline
Speaker 5: fix it. Then just just do some shopping. Okay. You
Speaker 5: know this idea of having one and done is not
Speaker 5: going to work in today's world. It's just not gonna work.
Speaker 5: There's too many variables. Hold on, sir, and we'll get
Speaker 5: you some numbers. Three oh three seven one three eight
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Speaker 5: Hi Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter at three oh three
Speaker 5: seven one three talk three oh three seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two five five Gene, what's going on? Gene?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, what's happening?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 23: I have a problem with my car with a rough ride,
Speaker 23: and I had a tire that needed to be replaced
Speaker 23: and it couldn't be repaired, and so the shop put
Speaker 23: on new tires, and prior to that, the car ran
Speaker 23: smooth as glass. It only has thirty six thousand miles
Speaker 23: on and I've proven it to Portland and back and
Speaker 23: construction roads. So they said they claimed it. They claimed
Speaker 23: there was nothing wrong with the tires. But I eventually
Speaker 23: got my money back, and then I went to another time.
Speaker 5: Hold on, hold on, Jean, Jean, Jean. Wait wait, wait,
Speaker 5: So you had four tires put on it. You didn't
Speaker 5: like the way it drove, so they took them off
Speaker 5: and put the old ones back on.
Speaker 1: Or what? No?
Speaker 23: I went to another tire store. It was just two
Speaker 23: tires's front wheel drive.
Speaker 5: Oh, I need to report. So the two tires that
Speaker 5: you replaced that you still have?
Speaker 23: No, they threw them away.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, I guess I'm confused.
Speaker 23: The old tire, well, the old tires. One of them
Speaker 23: had a.
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about your old tires. You said you
Speaker 6: got new tires, right.
Speaker 23: I went to an other shop and got tires, and
Speaker 23: then I took the other ones back to the first shop.
Speaker 5: Well, oh, did they have you a refund on them? Yes? Good, okay,
Speaker 5: so now you have So.
Speaker 23: Now I'm at a different tire shop. They put tires
Speaker 23: on got it. I had the same problem.
Speaker 6: Huh, but it never happened before this.
Speaker 5: No, and all you replaced were two front tires correct,
Speaker 5: And what do you think the problem is?
Speaker 23: Well, let me tell you the rest of the story.
Speaker 23: So then he sent me to Breaks Plus. He said
Speaker 23: there must be something wrong with your car, and I said,
Speaker 23: well it was fine before. It only has thirty So
Speaker 23: Breaks Plus they did everything. It was a place that
Speaker 23: he recommended because he said they were very good and
Speaker 23: very honest. They could not find anything wrong with the car.
Speaker 23: So I went back to the tire store. He sold
Speaker 23: me a different set of tires, better Michelin tires. I
Speaker 23: had to pay seventy dollars extra.
Speaker 10: Did not help.
Speaker 23: So the next thing I did is I took it
Speaker 23: to the dealership and they had it for a couple
Speaker 23: of days last week and they said, well, all four
Speaker 23: tires are overinflated and all four tires are terribly balanced.
Speaker 23: So we took somewhere out and we balanced them. You're fine.
Speaker 23: Well I got the car back. It was not improved,
Speaker 23: and I had my boyfriend drive it and he agreed
Speaker 23: that there was no improvement. It still was a rough
Speaker 23: ride way rougher than his pickup truck.
Speaker 5: But hold on a sec, Jeanie. There's nothing these people
Speaker 5: could have done that wouldn't have been discovered. If the
Speaker 5: people that did your other two tires, okay, and the
Speaker 5: original shop did two tires, you brought them back, you
Speaker 5: didn't want him. Then you had two tires, you didn't
Speaker 5: like those. Then you got two more tires and they
Speaker 5: didn't help. Now you got the dealer to go through it,
Speaker 5: as well as brakes. Plus, there's nothing this first shop
Speaker 5: could have done. If you're trying to blame them for.
Speaker 23: This, no, I'm not trying to blame anybody. I'm just
Speaker 23: trying to figure out what's okay, God.
Speaker 5: Helps going on, and no one can find out why
Speaker 5: your car drives differently right now?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Car is it?
Speaker 23: And I went back it's the twenty seventeen and they
Speaker 23: checked it again and had it for two days and
Speaker 23: they still can't When you say it.
Speaker 5: Drives rough, give me an idea. Do they sit with you?
Speaker 6: Do you show them when you drive it what you
Speaker 6: don't like?
Speaker 23: Yes? He did chest drive it with me and he
Speaker 23: realized he agreed with me that it was rough.
Speaker 5: What is it that is rough? Give me an idea.
Speaker 23: My boyfriend, the way he describes it, it drives as
Speaker 23: if the tires are extremely overinflated, but they're not.
Speaker 14: You're feeling everything on the road.
Speaker 23: So what happens?
Speaker 17: Did you go here?
Speaker 23: The road isn't a hundred perceive even a smooth asphalt,
Speaker 23: Every tiny little crack huh. In a normal car you
Speaker 23: would feel it.
Speaker 6: But what kind of tires did you have the first time?
Speaker 6: That the not the new ones, but the old.
Speaker 23: Ones that you love, goodyear tires that came with a car.
Speaker 6: And gosh and nothing and everything changed after that?
Speaker 3: Yes, what the hell?
Speaker 5: L guys?
Speaker 23: What would try for two months and I haven't been
Speaker 23: able to get it solved?
Speaker 8: I would try struts?
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's my first inclination to struts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: They lifted the vehicle up and they've had a certain
Speaker 14: amount of travel the entire life of this car. Right,
Speaker 14: so now that the wheel has fully extended, the truck
Speaker 14: can't collapse properly. They'll actually hang up. It's more common.
Speaker 5: It's not they did something wrong, it's just that the
Speaker 5: struts were old enough that when they fully extended, they
Speaker 5: never closed up properly.
Speaker 14: We we hear that complaint more with Cheves than it's
Speaker 14: just about anything else, but definitely as much.
Speaker 5: Which struts cost on that car, and it's just the
Speaker 5: front struts where she had the tire replace.
Speaker 14: Well, she probably had all fours up, so she's probably
Speaker 14: gonna do all.
Speaker 5: Oh oh oh oh, because she lifted the car, it
Speaker 5: dropped the wheels and all four struts may have to
Speaker 5: be replaced.
Speaker 8: Get anywhere between you know, eight to fifteen hundred. Oh gosh,
Speaker 8: depends on quality.
Speaker 5: How can is there a way you can test those
Speaker 5: struts for her? I mean, is there a way the
Speaker 5: struts can be tested? You can't well, I mean.
Speaker 23: They dealership said they checked the struts and there was
Speaker 23: nothing wrong with them. But maybe that maybe you understand there's.
Speaker 5: A difference between there's a difference between checking the struts
Speaker 5: something and them not fully collapsing. Right, it's not something
Speaker 5: you can actually check.
Speaker 8: He doesn't have a bounce. That's what they call checking
Speaker 8: the struts. They bounce, see if it recovers and so forth.
Speaker 8: But it's just not absorbing the road like it was before.
Speaker 23: Ah mann't about changing the tires, made the struts.
Speaker 10: So they did.
Speaker 5: Here's here's what they said when you bring that up
Speaker 5: on a lift, and that car has been thirty six
Speaker 5: thousand miles never been on a lift. Once it went
Speaker 5: up on a lift, they're they're they're speculating that possibly
Speaker 5: that lowered the struts to a so they're they're wide
Speaker 5: open more than they've ever been. And then when they
Speaker 5: put the car back down on the on four wheels,
Speaker 5: they maybe did not collapse uniformly, They did not perfectly
Speaker 5: realign themselves like they were because they hadn't like worn
Speaker 5: into a zone, so to speak. And then they're not
Speaker 5: finding their equilibrium like they used to. It's it's it's weird. Now.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 5: What I would hate to see is you put four
Speaker 5: freaking struts on there and you drive away in the
Speaker 5: same things happening. That would be a nightmare.
Speaker 14: We've had customers come back with that complaint. And we've
Speaker 14: got a field that we'll go to and we'll drive
Speaker 14: it through there at a moderate speed and hit some
Speaker 14: good hard bumps and a lot of times they'll recollapse. Really,
Speaker 14: so you can get them to get them to recollapse.
Speaker 14: Yes that's not all the time.
Speaker 23: But no, exactly, if it only has thirty six.
Speaker 6: Miles on it, thirty six thousand miles.
Speaker 23: It seems like they shouldn't have worn out that fast.
Speaker 5: Well that's another good point. Did they wear out or
Speaker 5: what I mean? There is thirty six thousand miles.
Speaker 14: More extended and so there's a lip in there from
Speaker 14: where they have been running. So you've got to collapse
Speaker 14: it past that lip.
Speaker 5: Okay really, So, I mean these guys are pretty experienced.
Speaker 5: You've seen this before where struts do not recollapse like
Speaker 5: they were.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and just the miles are one thing, but the
Speaker 8: weight of the car has been sitting on it for
Speaker 8: seven years, you know, so the struts do we're out
Speaker 8: and then five six, seven thousand, seven years it's about average.
Speaker 5: Okay, So it's not just miles. It's time. It's time,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 5: I hate to tell you this, but and they're not
Speaker 5: trying to sell them to you, but you may want to.
Speaker 5: You may want to, you know, replace your struts.
Speaker 23: And so do you have a recommendation of where I
Speaker 23: should go to have it done?
Speaker 5: Well, these guys do it.
Speaker 4: But where are you?
Speaker 23: I live in Highlin's Ranch?
Speaker 5: Okay. You you know, any good shop can do them,
Speaker 5: but you want to find someone that knows what the
Speaker 5: hell they're doing too.
Speaker 23: I want to go someplace where I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 23: sure that they can do a good job.
Speaker 5: Well, you got then if you want to drive to
Speaker 5: one of our show. But we got a lot of
Speaker 5: good shops on the referral list, and we got two
Speaker 5: sitting right here. So if you go to referral list
Speaker 5: dot com, you look for those shops and you say, look,
Speaker 5: and I'm coming here because I found you on referral list,
Speaker 5: and I think I need struts because once they were extended,
Speaker 5: they never seemed to be right after that.
Speaker 23: Well, I went to I'm not very tech savvy, I'm
Speaker 23: not very hyped. I went to the referral list dot
Speaker 23: com and I couldn't figure out how to work it.
Speaker 23: I couldn't figure out how to.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me let me give you some suggestions. Okay,
Speaker 5: we have shardan auto Tech Kevin sitting right here, and
Speaker 5: these guys before they even do it, he might take
Speaker 5: it for a ride and see what he thinks. They're
Speaker 5: not just going to automatically do it shared in auto Tech.
Speaker 5: He is on Colefax, west of Sheridan. But let me
Speaker 5: give you his number and you ask for Kevin okay,
Speaker 5: and you just say, this is Kevin right here. He's
Speaker 5: been on the show answering the question with you. Okay,
Speaker 5: three oh three four five five seventy two forty two.
Speaker 23: Three oh three, four five five seven two.
Speaker 5: Kevin he is.
Speaker 6: He's the owner shared an auto tech.
Speaker 5: Okay. And then over here we have Jeff sitting here,
Speaker 5: Jeff Vic and he's a Kimra transmission. He does a
Speaker 5: lot of drive train stuff like that. And Jeff, I
Speaker 5: mean you do those right?
Speaker 14: Yeah, we usually do.
Speaker 5: Is this something you prefer not to Okay, never mind,
Speaker 5: never mind, then we won't do it. That's good. So
Speaker 5: Kevin Kevin for that. And then let me see you
Speaker 5: else is down in your area. I'm trying to figure it. Mark,
Speaker 5: do you have you hunh? That's about it down down
Speaker 5: south there, yep. Okay, used to be pro auto. Oh
Speaker 5: what do you mean down in that? They're not on anymore. No, Okay,
Speaker 5: there's still a good shop, but for some reason things
Speaker 5: have gone a little south. Okay. Uh, the big guy retired. Okay.
Speaker 5: So I'm saying, I'm thinking that you want to just
Speaker 5: call Kevin. You know, it's worth to drive because what
Speaker 5: he'll do, he'll get in it. He'll check it first
Speaker 5: and then maybe maybe it is not that, maybe he
Speaker 5: can see something because okay, and then you know, we'll
Speaker 5: see what happens. And if he does have to do
Speaker 5: those he's not going to try to he's not going
Speaker 5: to try to do more than he has to do,
Speaker 5: and he's going to try to get you a good
Speaker 5: deal on him. Okay, okay, and let us know what happens.
Speaker 5: Thank you for calling.
Speaker 6: We got I got to take this break, right bro
Speaker 6: am I overtime?
Speaker 5: I am over time. I want to talk to Joe
Speaker 5: Keano first. Joe, Hey, listen, man, you your connection was
Speaker 5: pretty bad. Are you back?
Speaker 24: I know, and I'm really sorry about that.
Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Joe.
Speaker 5: When you were talking about time and money, can you
Speaker 5: ever continue that? You were talking about there are two
Speaker 5: ways to really make money if you have time and
Speaker 5: you have money, right.
Speaker 24: That is right, and this is exactly what we see
Speaker 24: on a daily basis. People actually invest their money in
Speaker 24: something volatile like the stock market, and they make money
Speaker 24: when the market goes up. But when the market goes down,
Speaker 24: they lose not only money, but they lose what time.
Speaker 24: And you see, time is a crucial element for people
Speaker 24: to make their accounts grow. So if you have an
Speaker 24: investment that goes up and down, up and down, up
Speaker 24: and down, you're losing not only money, but you're losing time.
Speaker 17: Now or retirement account.
Speaker 5: Will protect your money.
Speaker 24: You will not lose any time because it doesn't go down.
Speaker 24: So in other words, you can only make your money grow.
Speaker 24: And if the markets ever go down, you stay level.
Speaker 16: You don't lose the time.
Speaker 17: That's the biggest.
Speaker 24: Difference between an investment at risk and the stock market,
Speaker 24: let's say. And the guaranteed that pension account annuity that
Speaker 24: people can use to roll over there for one case,
Speaker 24: their pensions, their iras and forget about losing time.
Speaker 5: That's right, Joe. And you're not just talking about out
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Speaker 5: Let's talk. Okay, now when it comes some people are saying,
Speaker 5: could a simple alignment be off on that car?
Speaker 6: That woman said driving wasn't the same? She replaced the tires.
Speaker 5: Never mentioned alignment. I don't know, guys. Can alignment calls
Speaker 5: it to run a little rough?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 5: Is that something you might check? Then when she takes
Speaker 5: the thing, we would check the first thing is alignment,
Speaker 5: then balance?
Speaker 6: Would you'd you assume they did the balance five times.
Speaker 8: Somebody's looked at tires and balanced them. I think somebody
Speaker 8: would have got it right.
Speaker 14: Okay.
Speaker 5: Now study reveals what do you think the people consider
Speaker 5: the most high status cars. I don't mean like rolls, right, no, No,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about like general that they see it the
Speaker 5: most they see on the road.
Speaker 14: Rovers they see, Okay, Mercedes.
Speaker 5: According to a survey, and this is uh okay, this
Speaker 5: is BMW, Mercedes, Benz and Portia they feel are the
Speaker 5: most common high status cars people see. And guess what
Speaker 5: the dream cars are. When people were asked for their
Speaker 5: dream cars, I just can't believe this. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 5: can't believe it.
Speaker 9: I would say Ferrari now again.
Speaker 5: You would think that, right, But it says here for
Speaker 5: Toyota and Tesla are the top makes of Americans dream cars.
Speaker 5: You know, I would think Lambeau and all that. But
Speaker 5: I guess they're talking about I think they're talking about
Speaker 5: everyday cars and not exotics. I think because the no
Speaker 5: exotics show up in these More than a quarter people
Speaker 5: drive cautiously went around nicer cars. Did you know that
Speaker 5: when you do? I don't even look at I mean
Speaker 5: I look at cars, But do you judge how you
Speaker 5: drive by what you're around? I think when I'm pulling
Speaker 5: into a parking space, and maybe if there was a
Speaker 5: really really nice car, I might. I don't know. Who knows.
Speaker 6: Almost a third judge.
Speaker 5: People by the status of their car. A third of
Speaker 5: the people thirty three. Well, I think even more than that. Actually,
Speaker 5: I don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 8: It makes sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: But who cares?
Speaker 5: One thing I don't believe, and I refuse to believe,
Speaker 5: is that women care who they date based on a car.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: I mean, remembery in guys, that is a chick magnet.
Speaker 6: I don't think ever.
Speaker 5: Do you really think there's a woman who would think
Speaker 5: if there's two guys and they're relatively the same, that
Speaker 5: one would the fancier car would get the date. I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 7: Maybe how about if one had a really crappy car.
Speaker 5: Okay, I guess that.
Speaker 9: Women love the duct tape on my Zubaru exactly.
Speaker 4: That could work.
Speaker 5: Forty percent of electric vehicles aren't considered high status. No oh, no,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. According to forty one percent of people, forty
Speaker 5: of the survey, they didn't consider EV's typically high status. Well,
Speaker 5: that's because most of them aren't. Right, Oh, I got
Speaker 5: to take a break. Sorry, we got more coming right up. Hi,
Speaker 5: Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter at three oh three, seven
Speaker 5: on three Talks seven on three, eight two five five. Hey, guys,
Speaker 5: you know, as we're wrapping up the show, let's talk.
Speaker 5: Are we seeing long service times? What's the hardest things
Speaker 5: to get when people have to get things done so
Speaker 5: they can plan ahead when they're looking at car service,
Speaker 5: what are the most difficult things to get?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 14: Right now for us, we're actually having a ton of problems.
Speaker 14: We were talking about it before the show with Chrysler products,
Speaker 14: So Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep just regular maintenance stuff. Some
Speaker 14: of it's regular maintenance stuff. But there's they're out of production.
Speaker 14: We've got every time I turn around, I'm calling it's
Speaker 14: on national back order. There's no projected release date, national back.
Speaker 5: Order, no projector still good.
Speaker 14: They're a lot better than Chrysler is right now.
Speaker 5: But for normal stuff, breaks and shoes and maintenance and
Speaker 5: spelts and hoses, all of the normal spaceic stuff. But
Speaker 5: if you need replacement parts, Chrysler's behind the red yes,
Speaker 5: and it can be squirrellly no matter what you need
Speaker 5: because they don't produce an inventory like they used to folks.
Speaker 6: That's just a sad fact.
Speaker 5: That's just a sad fact. Don't forget shared a Autotech
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