November 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Automotive Expert Craig Fitzgerald joined Bradley for some shop talk! Listeners made a pit stop and chatted with the NightSide “pit crew.” All their automotive questions were answered…and they drove away with some wheely good information!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on LBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks Hell, It's Night Side with Dan Ray. Bradley and
for Dan tonight, and guess Craig Fitzgerald, who is our
car guy, our car wise guy, talking about ten best
cars used cars about today in any automotive questions you
may have now Richard and Cambridge, he did supply us
with that question that required some mulling over and perhaps
(00:28):
you could re Craig, you could restate his issue.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, So so it sounded.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Like the the there's an issue with the hybrid battery
that is causing the car to shut off and is
you know it'll die overnight having some charging issues. So
you know, I mean, it sounds like he's been to
a bunch of dealerships and I hate to kind of
give that advice, like you probably need to find another one.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But you know that's that you know, that.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Vehicle is protected by a pretty sick nificant warranty. Plus
the federal government requires some I believe it's an eight
year warranty on the battery as well. Plus if there's
a TSB out there, like it seems weird that they
would not like investigate that further if you're having multiple
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issues with it. So I know it's a real hassle,
but you got to go back and you got to start,
you know, like start from square one with these people.
Talk to the service manager. If you're not getting satisfaction
from the service manager, to talk to the general manager.
Like they sold you that car with that warranty in it,
and they need to honor that for sure. And it
sounds like they've done the like kind of you know,
(01:42):
all we plug the you know, OBD two monitor in
it or whatever, and and it didn't it didn't turn
up any issues. But they got to do more investigation
than that. It's like it's something that you know, the
car needs to be there for a few days. It
sounds like, you know, in order to replicate that issue.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right, thanks now, Jade can when we go to
Jay producer Master control upraight to go to John and Methuen.
We have to do it this way. My screen here
has some sort of issue. John Methuen, say hi to
Craig and.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Me Hi, Craig, how you doing, h Bradley Eppy, thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Happy, thanks you, diving to you, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Thank you. I just have a couple of questions. Recently,
I bought a huge Chevy and Powell up with the
low profile tires. I think they're twenty inches. Yeah, yeah,
But anyway, my question on these tires is how would
he's in the winter. I've never had a cab with
this type of a tire before.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Twenty inch tires are I mean, that's a performance tire.
Uh there, you know, they are not going to give
you the traction in the winter that you used to.
What is a bigger tire kase traction. Well, so there's
a number of issues, right they made you know, they're
wider first of all, right, so you know, typically what
you want to do is go with a narrower right,
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and it tends to ride up in the snow and
all that kind of stuff. But you know, a twenty
inch tire in general is going to be more performance
oriented than like a traditional all season tire wood. But
the other issue you're going to have is the ride
quality is not going to be great in the winter,
you know, as potholes start to open up in the
streets and stuff. So what I tend to do is
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offer you know, the the reason that twenty inch tires
exist and larger wheels exist is because a lot of
performance cars got giant brake roaders on them, and you
can't put a smaller wheel over that giant brake roader.
I don't believe the Impala has giant brake roaders. So
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you may be able to go with a smaller wheel.
And I'd look into an eighteen, you know, find a
set of wheels on you know, Facebook, marketplace or somewhere
for that vehicle, and put us put a winter tire
on it. Uh, you know it's gonna be one thousand
percent better in the snow than then.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
When you say winket tires, are you talking about? All
four of them have winket tires.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yep. I'd put four winter tires on it. When you
say winter, do you mean slow tire? A winter rated tire? Right?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So they they're they're rated for you know, it's the
tread pattern plus the the the rubber compound that allows
those tires to grip better in the snow than So.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You have to have two sets of wheels and tires.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I do on all of Yeah, so you must have
a place where you you must have like sixteen so
wheels and tires.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I have three vehicles that I need to put winter
tires on every year, so I've got twelve tires hanging
around a micro Normal people can't, I know, I know,
I know most people can't.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But do you neighbors complain about the stacks of tires
and wheels?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, you know, like a lot of places like you know,
I don't know if Sullivan Tire does it or not,
but they'll store a set of winter table which wheels
for you. Which is nice, you know, and it's not
it's like a nominal charge. What's the difference between winter
tires and all season tires? All season tires are well
as you as you would suggest, you know, like they're
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pretty good in the in the in the wet, they're
pretty good in the dry, they're pretty good in the snow.
Winter rated tires are for thirty degrees or below, and
so they grip on ice better. They have a more
aggressive tread pattern so that they work on snow better.
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They're just in general, they're just a better tire for
the winter months.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, I'm a tire person and hanging there, John,
you might be interested in this. There is a service
available where you can have the tires done in your
own dragway.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And it's a very high quality service. I understand. Can
you can you explain it? Because that'd be cool because
when the person came, you could ask them all these questions.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What's the difference? We just kind of tire and that
kind of tire.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So a friend of mine owns owned a tire place
called Boston Mobile Tire. He has a big giant Ford
transit van, shows up in your driveway. He's got he's
got a wheel balancer, he's got a tire machine in there.
He'll whip your tires off, replace him right in your
driveway and you won't even know he's there. And he
can do an alignment, though he does he doesn't do alignment.
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So if you need to, if you need an we
don't need to always, but it's a good idea too.
So if you need an alignment, you need to go.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Somewhere else to do that. How do you know if
you need you?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Uh, you know you if it's pulling to the right,
pulling to the left, anything like that, you know, uneven tirewear,
any of those kind of things, you might indicate to
you that you needed an alignment.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But Johnathanthu and are we good.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeah, Well one more question on the if I were
to get the all the all weather tires now I
would have to get new rints too.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Right, well, that's what.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm saying with your with your car with twenties on it,
like then then you'd need to look for a set
of eighteen inch wheels.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And the reason for that, the reason I'm telling you
that is because when you go with an eighteen inch wheel,
the profile is the is the the edge of the
rubber that you see on the on the tire, right,
that's the low profile, and it's very It's like it's
like an inch and a half With an eighteen inch
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wheel that goes to like two and a half inches.
So as a result, you're going to get a better
ride out of it. In the winter, it's not going
to be so harsh and you're gonna hopefully save in
rim damage if you hit a pothole, you know, like
with a low profile tire, I have my soul has
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left my body when I've hit a you know, like
an expansion joint with something with like twenty one inch
wheels with a low profile tire, it's awful. It's not
like the in New England they're really not a good
I They're really not John.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Thank you much, Jay, Let's thank you, Thanks, say goodbye
to John. Okay, let me delve into a couple of
questions I might have. And the first one, actually I
was gonna say, will be about tires. But no, let's
not get everybody sick of tire questions. Okay, let's I
am other questions after this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm wb Z.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To join night Side, I hope you do any automotive questions.
Love to hear from you. Craig Fitzgerald is our guest,
and we are talking about ten bet we have to
go through the list of the ten best by the
way used cars to buy today according to consumer reports.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Sneak in one more tire question. In our previous color,
John was talking about his wheels and tires, and you
were telling me about my tires, saying, hey, those tires
you have, Bradley J just no good? Are not great
in the winter?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You need winter tires, not all season tires. And I
don't have a place where really want to buy another
home set of tires. What if I just here comes
the question. Everybody listen, it might apply to you. What
if I just ran winter tires all year and didn't
have to swap mountain the summer. What would the downside be?
Would they would the performance suffer? Would they be really loud?
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Is there any Is it a bad idea safety wise?
Or is it just that they'll kind of wear down faster?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So so winter tires are generally a softer compound, so
they will wear faster. But we're running winter tires on
my Sun's car, and I haven't swapped the summer tires
on it because they that's a Those are twenty inch
wheels and low profile tire, and the ride quality is
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terrible with those on it. So we're going to sell
those and keep the wheels that we've got with the
winter tires on them and get another set of.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It always devolves into tires with me, it does.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So how much faster the tires wear that winter tires wear, I.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Don't know, you know, it's I would say, you know,
if you've got five years out of a set of tires, uh,
you know, all seasons, you'd get four.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would say it's twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Let's get into Let's get the list out, the top
ten list of us.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Got it? You have it right, I have it right here.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So the first one we already talked about, which was
the Mazda six, which was the in the sedan under
ten thousand dollars category, which I mean, I really like
the Mazda six and I and I think in general,
I'm pretty satisfied with most of the list.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Here.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Hold on, let me just see where. Okay, under fifteen
grand is the twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen Toyota Corolla.
Absolutely fine plane vanilla automobile. Like it is the non
non player character of automobiles. Right, it's non entity, but
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it's a good, reliable car, will never.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Do you wrong. Right, It's transportation.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Is it's not your identity unless your identity is such
that your.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That's my problem is that my identity gets tied up
in my identity. Yeah, and I need Craig's in a
band and all and rock and roll kind of give
me a statement vehicle, right, what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You drive the thing? Now?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I have a sixty six Jeep CJ five and I'm
actually on the hunt for a pickup truck. I'm i'd
be interested in a a mid eighties uh, full size
train wheel drive, six cylinder pickup truck.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, old man truck. I would know why now that.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know, I have enough use for a pickup, Like
you know, I bought a snowblower a couple of weeks
ago and I need to figure out how to get
that home.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So it would be nice to have a pickup. How
do you get that snowblower up into the truck. It's
very heavy? Ramps? Ramps, Yeah, I have ramps. You think
I would know that being from New Hampshire.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And so I have a trailer.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I have a trailer which is really handy, but you
know I would like a pickup.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So so SUV under fifteen grand is your car? X
five x five twenty seventeen to twenty five? Which year
is an eighteen or twenty? No, no it's new, it's
twenty three, it's twenty three. Yeah, you're right four thousand miles.
You're right in the ballpark with that, which you made
a good choice according to consumer reports.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You know I sweated, You're validated, like everybody sweats it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, am I making a mistake? You don't sweat it because.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You so you can kind of not make a mistake
car indoctrinated the rest of us sweat it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You shouldn't. You're just looking for a car that's going
to make you happy, that's all. That's a lot. Yeah,
but you know, like how much do you do? You see?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean I shouldn't ask you because you sweat about everything,
like you know, tires and dryers and all kinds of stuff,
the right one you know.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You're obsessed with. Alright, Well take something there, mister Fitzgerald boots.
You know you gotta get the right boot.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Don't you have anything that you are fanatic about, like clothing, guitars?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well yeah, you know, but but I I do.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I tend to like the deal I got in a
lot of a lot of Like I got a really
good deal on a guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I really like that guitar, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, So all right, hybrid under twenty grand Toyota Camry
Hybrid again, you can't go wrong with that. And I
will say that the hybrid system and the camera prius, uh,
the all of the Ford products, they're all the same.
They're they're they're a tried and true hybrid system that's
been around for twenty five years now super reliable, good
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small suv under twenty twenty grand. It was nice to
see the Kia Sportage in there. Interesting, that was a
good choice.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We're the vehicle.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Love this, love the Sportage. I think the Sportage is
really nice. Hybrid suv under twenty thousand dollars. I want
to take a guess on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, Mas C x seventy.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Nope, it is the Rev four hybrid, so same hybrid
system as the camera.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Uh, you can see why that would be a choice. There.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Here's the three row suv under twenty grand. Let's just
Mas THEX nine four and we've only talked about two.
So this is this is the twenty sixteen to twenty
twenty three Mas tox c X nine.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
They really like that. That's the second generation C X nine,
a third generation nine wildly good.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Sized, but not not as big as like a navigator. No,
it's it's it's you know, kind of like explorer size,
which is not small.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But they're a really nice vehicle. I like this one
a lot. Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Here is where the list starts to fall apart from me.
Luxury suv under twenty thousand dollars, which frankly they're you know,
like you know, there's kind of no such thing. But
they chose the Lexus NX. It's the only lexus I
don't like. It's it's really not a great vehicle. It's small,
it's noisy, it's everything that you do don't want from
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a Lexus.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What I love about you, Yeah, you will give actionable,
serious an opinion.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And this is just be all. This is a p
this is this is a personal opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I did not like the NX. I didn't I didn't
find it appealing to drive it all. And here's the
second thing that I have a problem with on this
list is the pickup truck under twenty thousand dollars. They
recommend the Toyota Tacoma, which is like, of course, they
recommend it Tacoma two thousand and five to twenty fifteen,
which is two generations ago. Now I looked at car
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gurus sitting out in the parking lot waiting for me,
wait for you. There is not within fifty miles of
here a two thousand and five to twenty fifteen and
Tacoma for sale for less than twenty five thousand dollars
on cargirls. So they're off by five Grand and if like,
there's no reason not to buy a Nissan Frontier, you'll
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save eight to ten thousand dollars. Buying a Frontier. Frontier
is a great vehicle. They'll run forever, just like the
Tacoma does. They're very similarly matched. I wouldn't hesitate to
buy one of those, and you'll save a ton of money.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Let's go to Brian Jay and producer Jay. Can we
get into Brian and Peabody? Hi, Brian, let's do a
quick question from you.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Yeah, you know, I hope you guys should give me
a hand or help with something. It's not really a
mechanic problem, but I have my wife did something to
her car. She put on some seamed valve stem caps
on her car that were made out of aluminum, okay,
and I can't get these things off. I can't twist
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them off. Anytime I put me torque to it, it
goes to twist the valve right out of it because
the valve is rubber.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
YEP.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I know it's not really a mechanic problem, and I'm
going to spend quite a bit of money, you know,
bringing it to a mechanic debt.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Like what do I do?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So I would buy a canopy B blaster from your
local autopart store that is a penetrating lubricant and you
can spray that on there. But here's what here's what
the issue you're having is. It's it's a dissimilar metal
reaction because the stem, the threads on the stem are
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either steel or brass or whatever they are, and the
caps are aluminum, and those things are fighting against each
other and they fuse themselves together, so you may not
be able to get those off.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
And then what I mean at that point, like, what's
what bring it to a tire shop. I'm gonna have
to do all new valve stems.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right yep? Correct, So so they'll.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Just val entire pressure sensors also, so.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No, they should be able to save the sensors. As
long as they're not throwing codes or anything, you should
be fine with those. And they'll just replace the valve.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Stems, which are cheap.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, they're the the The unfortunate part is you
got to peel the tires off and put them back
on again, rebalancing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So you're gonna have to rebalance.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So I mean, it's gonna it's gonna cost you a
hundred and fifty bucks by the time you get done
with it, learned.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
All for five dollars, my wife?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Do they look good? Do they look good? Anyways? Are
they like a sports team or something?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You know, sar Wars, Star Wars fantastic so much.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You got it, Thank you very much. That was a
great question. Do not buy those.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Things, and in further, don't buy a other Just don't
mess around the.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Old, the old, tried and true plastic valve cap anything.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yep, you don't really even need the valve cap. Let's
just keep dirt out right, right, correct, don't val correct yep.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So so that's what's happening there. And those things probably
fused together for life. But you can shoot a little
p B blaster at it.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And see if you can get them to loosen up.
P B blaster. That's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You use the phrase throwing codes, and you know what,
that sounds like a band name to me. There if
you can have throwing muses, which is a band your
own code throwing codes, that's an automotive band. So the
question you had was was a autumn.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, that's right. And opening for Ernie and the Automatics
is throwing codes. Okay, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
To Robert and Watertown and have some more fun talking
about cars on WBZ.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
After this, it's Night Side with Boston's news radio Bradley.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Jake for dan Tune Night with Craig Fitzgerald, and we're
talking about cars and cars stuff. Gone through a list
of the ten best used cars to buy now. But
we have some more questions from me and we're looking
for questions from you. We just had an interesting question
regarding tie caps, right and uh, if this is a
follow up thought that okay ahead on how to remove
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stuck on yeahs, a gentleman, a gentleman's wife put themed
tire caps on illuminum.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Can't get them off yep.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So you know, if you if you're thinking you need
to replace those anyways, what I might do is try
to if you had a dremal tool with a cutoff wheel,
I would try to cut those things in half, Like
cut the cap in half so that it opened up
enough that you might be able to pry it off
of there vertically down the side, right down the side
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of it. You know, give it a shot, see if
that works. That might save you one hundred and fifty bucks.
You know, drummal tools are pretty handy little tool and
and uh, you know, as long as you're careful with it,
you're not going to run into any issues there.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So give that a shot.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And not the second guess anybody's choices when it comes
to customizing their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But I wonder if anyone ever noticed that they were
Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Ohit you pull right up to the gas that you
know the valet? Hey right here, am I see you
got those Star Wars valves?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Everybody really notice that is so small.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You lose lose?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Operation really was?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now? Uh six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
is our number and we have Robert, uh Jay, can
we do Robert and Watertown?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thanks? Hi Robert.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hey guys, Hey Robert, guys.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You sound down to the dumps. We're gonna cheer you.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm kind of down on the dump street because
I eat too much and I'm having a few and
I've been waiting and I've been listening. So it's just
that I wanted to ask you guys that I know
you mentioned Mazda and I was talking to a friend
of mine and you know, for years he was he
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was a cos Fields and he always said, don't buy
Mysta and then when you mentioned my say, I got
a call because you know, I have a sister who
had an altar uh uh. She bought it bring you
and after two or three years she had a like
transmission problem and she always had you know, done the
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service at the dealership. So she ended up you know,
getting her from uh me son, which they were trying
to deny.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
But it's just that I don't know, why would mad
that be one of the lists. I don't know, because
I always thought, you know, to make it great, they.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Make a great car, so so I think I think,
you know, people have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Really long memories with with like automotive stuff for some reason.
And Mazda years ago, like years ago, had vehicles, had
a lot of vehicles with rotary engines, and they were
They're great little engines. They churn out a ton of
power for the size that they are, but they were
problematic and nobody knew how to work on them. So
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as a result, everybody thought, well, you know, Myzda. You know,
they got a lot of problems with those rotary engines.
That must apply to all Mazda.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I think that's where that when you're eighteen you still
think that when sticks with.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You, and and like, Mazda makes a perfectly reliable, nice automobile.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
There were more Mazas on the top top ten lists
than any other car.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
There are four of them, yep, yeah, and and you
know so so you know, they've had their problems like
everybody else has over the years. But there's there's no
reason not to buy a Mazda. There are reasons not
to buy a Mitsubishi right from from certain years, but Amazda.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy uh Nissan as as you
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found out with that Ultima. That was because those had
a continuously variable transmission and it was junk. It was early,
it was an early CVT. It was the worst transmission
they ever put in a vehicle. So so that was
the issue there. Mechanically, those you know, engine wise, those
cars will run forever, but those transmission transmissions were terrible.
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Maz does all use a conventional you know, six speed
seven speed automatic transmission. They're you know, four cylinder turbos,
and they also use an inline six now with the
larger c X nine, which is a beautiful engine. I
wouldn't hesitate to buy a manstera thanks, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Well, I thank you for saying that, because, like you said,
I think I'm still thinking in the oldies. I guess
they have they can't. It's just fuck audy. Back in
the eighties, nobody wants them. But like you said, so.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
They've kind of gone, they've kind of come back around
to you might not want to buy it out he
at this point, you know, so like you know, there
there there, I would I wouldn't hesitate to buy a
Manstera at this point. I think they're a great guy.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Thanks a good night, Robert. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, all right, I guess we'll go right to
Sean in the Salem.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hi, Sean, you're in.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
W How you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
All right?
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I'll just take it short and sweet. I'm a thirty
four year Nissan massive technician, so props everybody who drives
a Nissan. But as far as the valve stem tire
cap guy, sure, I'm gonna tell you a little secret
right now. It's a little bit of patience. I heard
you talk about the dremal trying to save this guy
from buying tire sensors for six hundred bucks if you
(25:27):
get in there with a dremo. But you gotta almost
do it like a like a side sandy. You got
to literally sand off a little bit of that tire cap,
barely expose the threads on the valve stem. You got
to saw through the tire stem cap because trust me,
I can't tell you how many times I've saved people's
tire sensors buried gingerly and gently file it down. And
(25:49):
then you can put a little bit of penetrating oil
because the spraying peb on there.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, we'll do it.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
They're going to do it when they're welded the dissimilar metals.
I was in the cow with my wife and I
said dissimilar just before you did with giggles. Yeah, I
know exactly. But if you if you're patient, you've got
to stand that Star Wars Darth Vader valve stem calf away,
get down until you expose the threads on there. And
if you're very ginger and you work it back and forth,
(26:16):
you can even buy one of those little old school
tire valve s them tools that you can reclean the
threads on there. Yep, if you relieve those threads, you know,
just like an eighth of an inch three sixteenths of
an inch to see the threads.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
And then a pair of flyers and very gingerly work
it back and forth. You'll get them off.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So so what you're saying, some plastic caps on, you're done.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You expose the thread a little bit, shoot it with
a little penetrating yep, got it.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
It's enough to see the threads. Like I said, if
you if you saw through, and even so, if you
relieve a little bit too much, as long as you
don't get into where the valve core is, yes, you'll
be fine. And I can't tell you how many times
I've saved people todays. I personally would do it with
a die grinder. I get right in there, do it
in thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yep, you know, got it.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Average hom Wanner guy. If you get like you got
to get something, even if it's a handfile, you got
to be patient. But if you judge buying tire sensors
and programming and breaking down the fire a little bit
of elbow grease and that's the worst thing I see.
When a customer comes in with those, I'll throw on
plastic caps and tell them why I put them on.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
I'm just trying to save this guy, because it ain't
going to be if he's got tire sensors, He's going
to be buying stems of sensors.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So yeah, that's right. If you need to buy the
sensors easy unless.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
You aftermarket, you know, you go to like a tire shop,
you might get after market, you know, quick sensors or
something for you know, sixty eighty bucks apiece versus factory
paying a buck fifty censor.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Ye.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I'll tell you Nissans extended a lot of transmission war
into these. I'll tell you I've rebuilt a lot and
I've replaced a lot, and there's been a lot of
extensions on those transmissions. And Nissan's been standing it behind him,
and it's been my bread and butter for a lot
of years.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And hey, let me ask you something. How are you
doing as a tech? You you're you're happy with your career.
You're because I.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Adially I started with Nissan in nineteen ninety one. I
am now platinum level Master Technicians. I've been in Master
tech since ninety four. And I love it. I mean
not too my horn.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I'm good at it.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
You know, everybody in my family drives, and all my
friends drive one. And you know what, I got buddies
that are Ford guys that hate Nissan. I hate Ford
because I'm an eat guy. I got buddy to ROUDI
guys you hate Nissan, they love out Like if you
know what you know everything you know the devil you
know has been the devil you don't.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
But there's there's a there's a you know, you probably
know this. Jim Farley from Ford has been talking about this.
You know, they're six thousand techs short and for dealerships
and I'm sure that's every wide.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Bruggle is real, you know, Struggle is real on that.
Like I said, I you know, I went to a
technical college, took it in high school, you know as
certified Advanced Level. You know, all my factory training, I've
only worked with two dealerships in my what's thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Of working cars.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
That's great, but it's all and what you know, you
get and get out what you put in, you know,
and hopefully you know what we need as younger guys
who want to do the the work that nobody else
wants to do. Like guys like me gets stuck with
you know, I'm EV certified Electric Diesel supercar gtr like.
I've got every single bit of training there is to have, like,
(29:32):
but not a lot of people want to do it.
And doing that type of stuff doesn't pay like it
does do and break jobs and airfilters all day. I
want to do everything I can do in every certification
you can get, you know. And that's you know, as
I'm fifty for one, I've been doing it since I
was seventeen, so right, and you can make it young
and people people don't realize blue collar guys that make
(29:56):
a good living absolutely, you know. And it's all what
you get out of it, whether you're tradesmen. I've got
friends that are plumbers, electricians, carpenters like you put in
the words you're good at what you do. People know it,
you know. And I heard you guys talking about the Frontier,
you know, like over the I would never knock Toyota,
but I wouldn't buy one. Okay, So we had some
CBT transmission issues. Why don't you look at how many
(30:18):
engine recalls Toyota's ad Look at look at all.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Of the frame like.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Those trucks gone, you know.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
They're a budget of my buddies I worked at, you know,
I'm in southern New Hampshire and I worked at Toyota
Nissan dealing. I'll tell you a lot of my buddies
bought their houses on frame recalls. Yeah that was the
guys who were doing them. Loved them. You know, they
paid sixty hours to change the frame. They could do
in twelve. You know, they were great jobs. And like
I said, I wouldnt knock Toyota. I drove Toyotas for
(30:47):
a long time, but I've been doing Nissan. He said,
you can buy a Frontier probably ten grand less than
at Tacoma.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
We got a break now, Yeah, good talking.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Listen to you guys. Like I said, you had me
smiling on the way. But if I can save that
guy with a tire sense with some box, I had to.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Call in absolutely happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And that's it for this. We're going to break and again.
One more section segment with Craig here on WBZ.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
One more segment with Craig Fitzgerald. I'm Bradley J for Dan,
and I want to actually kind of combine autumn auto
motive things with politics. Sure, question one in that department,
how have tariffs affected the industry.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So the challenge for the automotive industry is that when
they design a product, it's for something that's going to
happen five years from them. They make decisions you know,
that are five to ten years down the road. Shifting
gears on tariffs, on where you can pick up, where
you can you know, build products, and especially the ev
(32:01):
Tex UH credit making that go away. Those the two
things really through the automotive industry into some turmoil. And
you know, you've seen this now starting to see some wayoffs.
You're seeing you know, the in general, you know, number
of sales this year is kind of declining. Those things
(32:22):
are related to the cost you're gonna pay, right So
there's all kinds of issues there and they're not the
automotive industry isn't getting any help really from from the
government at the at the moment.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So like.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
When we built we built a lot of cars in Canada.
We had entire automotive industries that we built in Canada
and we built them, uh you know, in the thirties.
In a lot of cases, those are that's over and
we're not building cars there anymore. And that has become
a real issue. It's been come an issue for the
(33:02):
number of vehicles that are available here. So there's a
there's a cascading number of issues that are happening because
of you know, decisions that are happening at the government level.
So it's not just about tariffs.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
That's just one aspect that's uncertainty because I'm if I'm
an an't out of executive, I have to make decisions
now that right down the road, and I might not
have the parts or they might not be the demand
for the evs that I decided to build because the
the text right incentives go well, you know, it's like
Howard Lutnx out there telling people that like, oh, we're
(33:38):
building factories already, like there's gonna be factories everywhere, there's
gonna be manufacturing jobs everywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That is, he knows that's not true, right, you can't
build a factory.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
How he's the Secretary of UH Temptation, not Transportation, Building
Treasury not Treasury Okay, I can't remember anyway, So he's
you know, every Sunday he's out talking about how all
these news factories are being built. They're either legacy you know,
decisions that you know, like the Hyundai battery plant that
(34:11):
you know, decision happened years ago, or they're not gonna happen.
They're not gonna You cannot build a factory quickly enough
to you know, feed an industry. Uh, it's gonna be
five ten years down the road before these things get built.
So the idea that work, you know, this is going
to be a quick process. It's just not gonna happen
(34:33):
that way.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That makes the Secretary of Commerce correct commerce, thank you? Okay,
how about e v's is there a new leader in
the EV field? Uh? Emerging?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
I talk about Hyundai a lot to me. Hyundai has
the widest range of EV products that people actually want
to buy, so they'll they have you know, uh, the
EV nine, which is a full size three row suv
almost the size of a tahoe. And that thing is
(35:06):
tremendous Uh to drive, It's a it's a pleasure to
drive it. I really love it. And then all the
way down to the Hondai Ionic, which is relatively small
compact car fun to drive. They have a performance version
of that thing. That is the wildest vehicle that I
drove last year. It accelerates like the track cock did.
(35:28):
I was just gonna say you know, I'm gonna bring
up the g it the Jeep track cock.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's good, folks, it' said basically a Jeep Grand Cherokee
with the engine the motor of a the Hellcat seven
and seven horse power engine.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This thing is just as fast it's and the the
acceleration is just as brutal. Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
And it's in a relatively small you know, Hyundai. Uh
you know, four passengers, sporty little car.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
You went out to said and checked out another vehicle,
give us the review. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
That was the the new Subaru Outback, which a lot
of people, I myself included, looked at it when it
debuted at the New York Auto Show and thought, man,
this thing looks big. And I don't know if it's
the same as, you know, the kind of vehicle that
people loved in the outback before. But I went out
(36:23):
and drove it, and it's actually no bigger. It's kind
of an option, like an optical illusion, all because of
the angle.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's the angles.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It's the way that like the the the the tailgate
is less sloped than it was before, and as a result,
you get two cubic feet more cargo.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Volume in it.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The roof is a tiny bit higher, so you get
better headroom in it. Love the way it drove, And
the biggest improvement is the the infotainment screen. All of
the things that I hated about the old one, you know,
all of like HVAC functions being in the touch screen,
they've all moved back out again into physical buttons, which
(37:01):
I think is a is a major plus for that vehicle.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Right now, another type of motor vehicle, as you folks now,
I have a beef with motor scooters. And how I
see a tendency I see this a motus scooter upert
is to ignore the traffic laws. Will cars will be
sitting in a red light, motorscooter just bloop somehow knows
that there will be no enforcement.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
So there's that knock on them.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And the other day I realized, when I smell the
stinking one, I bet they don't are not missions checked.
I better check with Craig find out if that's the case.
And if not, why not, why wouldn't they be Well?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So, I mean, I think if you look at the
percentage of vehicles on the road in Massachusetts, they probably
represent about one percent of the vehicles on the road.
And they're also fifty cc, so small displacement. And the
the places where you go to get a mission tested
on your you know, regular carr they have to invest
(38:06):
one hundred thousand dollars for that emissions machine. No motorcycle
shop is going to invest one hundred thousand dollars in
an emissions machine that there is only a limited number
of people that are going to come through and get
emissions tested on.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So as you know, the number of those vehicles has exploded. Yeah,
I mean it's starting to look like a lot more
like Asian countries and the number of vehicles, right, don't
we have to start?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I bet you us. I mean, so you know you're you're.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
In a in an area where they're going to be
the most popular, right, So in the city, they're going
to be the most popular. In the suburbs where I am,
you hardly see them all right, perfect, perfect timing.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I cannot express fully how much I appreciate you coming in,
hanging out. And next up on w BZ we have
the King of Thanks. I can't wait to hear who
might that be?
Speaker 7 (39:08):
W b Z
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on LBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks Hell, It's Night Side with Dan Ray. Bradley and
for Dan tonight, and guess Craig Fitzgerald, who is our
car guy, our car wise guy, talking about ten best
cars used cars about today in any automotive questions you
may have now Richard and Cambridge, he did supply us
with that question that required some mulling over and perhaps
(00:28):
you could re Craig, you could restate his issue.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, So so it sounded.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Like the the there's an issue with the hybrid battery
that is causing the car to shut off and is
you know it'll die overnight having some charging issues. So
you know, I mean, it sounds like he's been to
a bunch of dealerships and I hate to kind of
give that advice, like you probably need to find another one.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But you know that's that you know, that.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Vehicle is protected by a pretty sick nificant warranty. Plus
the federal government requires some I believe it's an eight
year warranty on the battery as well. Plus if there's
a TSB out there, like it seems weird that they
would not like investigate that further if you're having multiple
(01:20):
issues with it. So I know it's a real hassle,
but you got to go back and you got to start,
you know, like start from square one with these people.
Talk to the service manager. If you're not getting satisfaction
from the service manager, to talk to the general manager.
Like they sold you that car with that warranty in it,
and they need to honor that for sure. And it
sounds like they've done the like kind of you know,
(01:42):
all we plug the you know, OBD two monitor in
it or whatever, and and it didn't it didn't turn
up any issues. But they got to do more investigation
than that. It's like it's something that you know, the
car needs to be there for a few days. It
sounds like, you know, in order to replicate that issue.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right, thanks now, Jade can when we go to
Jay producer Master control upraight to go to John and Methuen.
We have to do it this way. My screen here
has some sort of issue. John Methuen, say hi to
Craig and.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Me Hi, Craig, how you doing, h Bradley Eppy, thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Happy, thanks you, diving to you, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Thank you. I just have a couple of questions. Recently,
I bought a huge Chevy and Powell up with the
low profile tires. I think they're twenty inches. Yeah, yeah,
But anyway, my question on these tires is how would
he's in the winter. I've never had a cab with
this type of a tire before.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Twenty inch tires are I mean, that's a performance tire.
Uh there, you know, they are not going to give
you the traction in the winter that you used to.
What is a bigger tire kase traction. Well, so there's
a number of issues, right they made you know, they're
wider first of all, right, so you know, typically what
you want to do is go with a narrower right,
(03:02):
and it tends to ride up in the snow and
all that kind of stuff. But you know, a twenty
inch tire in general is going to be more performance
oriented than like a traditional all season tire wood. But
the other issue you're going to have is the ride
quality is not going to be great in the winter,
you know, as potholes start to open up in the
streets and stuff. So what I tend to do is
(03:24):
offer you know, the the reason that twenty inch tires
exist and larger wheels exist is because a lot of
performance cars got giant brake roaders on them, and you
can't put a smaller wheel over that giant brake roader.
I don't believe the Impala has giant brake roaders. So
(03:46):
you may be able to go with a smaller wheel.
And I'd look into an eighteen, you know, find a
set of wheels on you know, Facebook, marketplace or somewhere
for that vehicle, and put us put a winter tire
on it. Uh, you know it's gonna be one thousand
percent better in the snow than then.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
When you say winket tires, are you talking about? All
four of them have winket tires.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yep. I'd put four winter tires on it. When you
say winter, do you mean slow tire? A winter rated tire? Right?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So they they're they're rated for you know, it's the
tread pattern plus the the the rubber compound that allows
those tires to grip better in the snow than So.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You have to have two sets of wheels and tires.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I do on all of Yeah, so you must have
a place where you you must have like sixteen so
wheels and tires.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I have three vehicles that I need to put winter
tires on every year, so I've got twelve tires hanging
around a micro Normal people can't, I know, I know,
I know most people can't.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But do you neighbors complain about the stacks of tires
and wheels?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, you know, like a lot of places like you know,
I don't know if Sullivan Tire does it or not,
but they'll store a set of winter table which wheels
for you. Which is nice, you know, and it's not
it's like a nominal charge. What's the difference between winter
tires and all season tires? All season tires are well
as you as you would suggest, you know, like they're
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pretty good in the in the in the wet, they're
pretty good in the dry, they're pretty good in the snow.
Winter rated tires are for thirty degrees or below, and
so they grip on ice better. They have a more
aggressive tread pattern so that they work on snow better.
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They're just in general, they're just a better tire for
the winter months.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, I'm a tire person and hanging there, John,
you might be interested in this. There is a service
available where you can have the tires done in your
own dragway.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And it's a very high quality service. I understand. Can
you can you explain it? Because that'd be cool because
when the person came, you could ask them all these questions.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What's the difference? We just kind of tire and that
kind of tire.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So a friend of mine owns owned a tire place
called Boston Mobile Tire. He has a big giant Ford
transit van, shows up in your driveway. He's got he's
got a wheel balancer, he's got a tire machine in there.
He'll whip your tires off, replace him right in your
driveway and you won't even know he's there. And he
can do an alignment, though he does he doesn't do alignment.
(06:21):
So if you need to, if you need an we
don't need to always, but it's a good idea too.
So if you need an alignment, you need to go.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Somewhere else to do that. How do you know if
you need you?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Uh, you know you if it's pulling to the right,
pulling to the left, anything like that, you know, uneven tirewear,
any of those kind of things, you might indicate to
you that you needed an alignment.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But Johnathanthu and are we good.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeah, Well one more question on the if I were
to get the all the all weather tires now I
would have to get new rints too.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Right, well, that's what.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm saying with your with your car with twenties on it,
like then then you'd need to look for a set
of eighteen inch wheels.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And the reason for that, the reason I'm telling you
that is because when you go with an eighteen inch wheel,
the profile is the is the the edge of the
rubber that you see on the on the tire, right,
that's the low profile, and it's very It's like it's
like an inch and a half With an eighteen inch
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wheel that goes to like two and a half inches.
So as a result, you're going to get a better
ride out of it. In the winter, it's not going
to be so harsh and you're gonna hopefully save in
rim damage if you hit a pothole, you know, like
with a low profile tire, I have my soul has
(07:46):
left my body when I've hit a you know, like
an expansion joint with something with like twenty one inch
wheels with a low profile tire, it's awful. It's not
like the in New England they're really not a good
I They're really not John.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Thank you much, Jay, Let's thank you, Thanks, say goodbye
to John. Okay, let me delve into a couple of
questions I might have. And the first one, actually I
was gonna say, will be about tires. But no, let's
not get everybody sick of tire questions. Okay, let's I
am other questions after this.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm wb Z.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To join night Side, I hope you do any automotive questions.
Love to hear from you. Craig Fitzgerald is our guest,
and we are talking about ten bet we have to
go through the list of the ten best by the
way used cars to buy today according to consumer reports.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Sneak in one more tire question. In our previous color,
John was talking about his wheels and tires, and you
were telling me about my tires, saying, hey, those tires
you have, Bradley J just no good? Are not great
in the winter?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You need winter tires, not all season tires. And I
don't have a place where really want to buy another
home set of tires. What if I just here comes
the question. Everybody listen, it might apply to you. What
if I just ran winter tires all year and didn't
have to swap mountain the summer. What would the downside be?
Would they would the performance suffer? Would they be really loud?
(09:24):
Is there any Is it a bad idea safety wise?
Or is it just that they'll kind of wear down faster?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So so winter tires are generally a softer compound, so
they will wear faster. But we're running winter tires on
my Sun's car, and I haven't swapped the summer tires
on it because they that's a Those are twenty inch
wheels and low profile tire, and the ride quality is
(09:52):
terrible with those on it. So we're going to sell
those and keep the wheels that we've got with the
winter tires on them and get another set of.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It always devolves into tires with me, it does.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So how much faster the tires wear that winter tires wear, I.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Don't know, you know, it's I would say, you know,
if you've got five years out of a set of tires, uh,
you know, all seasons, you'd get four.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would say it's twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Let's get into Let's get the list out, the top
ten list of us.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Got it? You have it right, I have it right here.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So the first one we already talked about, which was
the Mazda six, which was the in the sedan under
ten thousand dollars category, which I mean, I really like
the Mazda six and I and I think in general,
I'm pretty satisfied with most of the list.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Here.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Hold on, let me just see where. Okay, under fifteen
grand is the twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen Toyota Corolla.
Absolutely fine plane vanilla automobile. Like it is the non
non player character of automobiles. Right, it's non entity, but
(11:04):
it's a good, reliable car, will never.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Do you wrong. Right, It's transportation.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Is it's not your identity unless your identity is such
that your.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That's my problem is that my identity gets tied up
in my identity. Yeah, and I need Craig's in a
band and all and rock and roll kind of give
me a statement vehicle, right, what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You drive the thing? Now?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I have a sixty six Jeep CJ five and I'm
actually on the hunt for a pickup truck. I'm i'd
be interested in a a mid eighties uh, full size
train wheel drive, six cylinder pickup truck.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, old man truck. I would know why now that.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You know, I have enough use for a pickup, Like
you know, I bought a snowblower a couple of weeks
ago and I need to figure out how to get
that home.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So it would be nice to have a pickup. How
do you get that snowblower up into the truck. It's
very heavy? Ramps? Ramps, Yeah, I have ramps. You think
I would know that being from New Hampshire.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And so I have a trailer.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I have a trailer which is really handy, but you
know I would like a pickup.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So so SUV under fifteen grand is your car? X
five x five twenty seventeen to twenty five? Which year
is an eighteen or twenty? No, no it's new, it's
twenty three, it's twenty three. Yeah, you're right four thousand miles.
You're right in the ballpark with that, which you made
a good choice according to consumer reports.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You know I sweated, You're validated, like everybody sweats it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, am I making a mistake? You don't sweat it because.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You so you can kind of not make a mistake
car indoctrinated the rest of us sweat it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You shouldn't. You're just looking for a car that's going
to make you happy, that's all. That's a lot. Yeah,
but you know, like how much do you do? You see?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean I shouldn't ask you because you sweat about everything,
like you know, tires and dryers and all kinds of stuff,
the right one you know.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You're obsessed with. Alright, Well take something there, mister Fitzgerald boots.
You know you gotta get the right boot.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Don't you have anything that you are fanatic about, like clothing, guitars?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well yeah, you know, but but I I do.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I tend to like the deal I got in a
lot of a lot of Like I got a really
good deal on a guitar.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I really like that guitar, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, So all right, hybrid under twenty grand Toyota Camry
Hybrid again, you can't go wrong with that. And I
will say that the hybrid system and the camera prius, uh,
the all of the Ford products, they're all the same.
They're they're they're a tried and true hybrid system that's
been around for twenty five years now super reliable, good
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small suv under twenty twenty grand. It was nice to
see the Kia Sportage in there. Interesting, that was a
good choice.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
We're the vehicle.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Love this, love the Sportage. I think the Sportage is
really nice. Hybrid suv under twenty thousand dollars. I want
to take a guess on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, Mas C x seventy.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Nope, it is the Rev four hybrid, so same hybrid
system as the camera.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Uh, you can see why that would be a choice. There.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Here's the three row suv under twenty grand. Let's just
Mas THEX nine four and we've only talked about two.
So this is this is the twenty sixteen to twenty
twenty three Mas tox c X nine.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
They really like that. That's the second generation C X nine,
a third generation nine wildly good.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Sized, but not not as big as like a navigator. No,
it's it's it's you know, kind of like explorer size,
which is not small.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But they're a really nice vehicle. I like this one
a lot. Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Here is where the list starts to fall apart from me.
Luxury suv under twenty thousand dollars, which frankly they're you know,
like you know, there's kind of no such thing. But
they chose the Lexus NX. It's the only lexus I
don't like. It's it's really not a great vehicle. It's small,
it's noisy, it's everything that you do don't want from
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a Lexus.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What I love about you, Yeah, you will give actionable,
serious an opinion.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And this is just be all. This is a p
this is this is a personal opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I did not like the NX. I didn't I didn't
find it appealing to drive it all. And here's the
second thing that I have a problem with on this
list is the pickup truck under twenty thousand dollars. They
recommend the Toyota Tacoma, which is like, of course, they
recommend it Tacoma two thousand and five to twenty fifteen,
which is two generations ago. Now I looked at car
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gurus sitting out in the parking lot waiting for me,
wait for you. There is not within fifty miles of
here a two thousand and five to twenty fifteen and
Tacoma for sale for less than twenty five thousand dollars
on cargirls. So they're off by five Grand and if like,
there's no reason not to buy a Nissan Frontier, you'll
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save eight to ten thousand dollars. Buying a Frontier. Frontier
is a great vehicle. They'll run forever, just like the
Tacoma does. They're very similarly matched. I wouldn't hesitate to
buy one of those, and you'll save a ton of money.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Let's go to Brian Jay and producer Jay. Can we
get into Brian and Peabody? Hi, Brian, let's do a
quick question from you.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Yeah, you know, I hope you guys should give me
a hand or help with something. It's not really a
mechanic problem, but I have my wife did something to
her car. She put on some seamed valve stem caps
on her car that were made out of aluminum, okay,
and I can't get these things off. I can't twist
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them off. Anytime I put me torque to it, it
goes to twist the valve right out of it because
the valve is rubber.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
YEP.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I know it's not really a mechanic problem, and I'm
going to spend quite a bit of money, you know,
bringing it to a mechanic debt.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Like what do I do?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So I would buy a canopy B blaster from your
local autopart store that is a penetrating lubricant and you
can spray that on there. But here's what here's what
the issue you're having is. It's it's a dissimilar metal
reaction because the stem, the threads on the stem are
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either steel or brass or whatever they are, and the
caps are aluminum, and those things are fighting against each
other and they fuse themselves together, so you may not
be able to get those off.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
And then what I mean at that point, like, what's
what bring it to a tire shop. I'm gonna have
to do all new valve stems.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right yep? Correct, So so they'll.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Just val entire pressure sensors also, so.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No, they should be able to save the sensors. As
long as they're not throwing codes or anything, you should
be fine with those. And they'll just replace the valve.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Stems, which are cheap.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, they're the the The unfortunate part is you
got to peel the tires off and put them back
on again, rebalancing.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So you're gonna have to rebalance.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So I mean, it's gonna it's gonna cost you a
hundred and fifty bucks by the time you get done
with it, learned.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
All for five dollars, my wife?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Do they look good? Do they look good? Anyways? Are
they like a sports team or something?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You know, sar Wars, Star Wars fantastic so much.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
You got it, Thank you very much. That was a
great question. Do not buy those.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Things, and in further, don't buy a other Just don't
mess around the.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Old, the old, tried and true plastic valve cap anything.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yep, you don't really even need the valve cap. Let's
just keep dirt out right, right, correct, don't val correct yep.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So so that's what's happening there. And those things probably
fused together for life. But you can shoot a little
p B blaster at it.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And see if you can get them to loosen up.
P B blaster. That's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You use the phrase throwing codes, and you know what,
that sounds like a band name to me. There if
you can have throwing muses, which is a band your
own code throwing codes, that's an automotive band. So the
question you had was was a autumn.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, that's right. And opening for Ernie and the Automatics
is throwing codes. Okay, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
To Robert and Watertown and have some more fun talking
about cars on WBZ.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
After this, it's Night Side with Boston's news radio Bradley.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Jake for dan Tune Night with Craig Fitzgerald, and we're
talking about cars and cars stuff. Gone through a list
of the ten best used cars to buy now. But
we have some more questions from me and we're looking
for questions from you. We just had an interesting question
regarding tie caps, right and uh, if this is a
follow up thought that okay ahead on how to remove
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stuck on yeahs, a gentleman, a gentleman's wife put themed
tire caps on illuminum.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Can't get them off yep.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So you know, if you if you're thinking you need
to replace those anyways, what I might do is try
to if you had a dremal tool with a cutoff wheel,
I would try to cut those things in half, Like
cut the cap in half so that it opened up
enough that you might be able to pry it off
of there vertically down the side, right down the side
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of it. You know, give it a shot, see if
that works. That might save you one hundred and fifty bucks.
You know, drummal tools are pretty handy little tool and
and uh, you know, as long as you're careful with it,
you're not going to run into any issues there.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So give that a shot.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And not the second guess anybody's choices when it comes
to customizing their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But I wonder if anyone ever noticed that they were
Star Wars.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Ohit you pull right up to the gas that you
know the valet? Hey right here, am I see you
got those Star Wars valves?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Everybody really notice that is so small.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You lose lose?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Operation really was?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now? Uh six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
is our number and we have Robert, uh Jay, can
we do Robert and Watertown?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thanks? Hi Robert.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Hey guys, Hey Robert, guys.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You sound down to the dumps. We're gonna cheer you.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm kind of down on the dump street because
I eat too much and I'm having a few and
I've been waiting and I've been listening. So it's just
that I wanted to ask you guys that I know
you mentioned Mazda and I was talking to a friend
of mine and you know, for years he was he
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was a cos Fields and he always said, don't buy
Mysta and then when you mentioned my say, I got
a call because you know, I have a sister who
had an altar uh uh. She bought it bring you
and after two or three years she had a like
transmission problem and she always had you know, done the
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service at the dealership. So she ended up you know,
getting her from uh me son, which they were trying
to deny.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
But it's just that I don't know, why would mad
that be one of the lists. I don't know, because
I always thought, you know, to make it great, they.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Make a great car, so so I think I think,
you know, people have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Really long memories with with like automotive stuff for some reason.
And Mazda years ago, like years ago, had vehicles, had
a lot of vehicles with rotary engines, and they were
They're great little engines. They churn out a ton of
power for the size that they are, but they were
problematic and nobody knew how to work on them. So
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as a result, everybody thought, well, you know, Myzda. You know,
they got a lot of problems with those rotary engines.
That must apply to all Mazda.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I think that's where that when you're eighteen you still
think that when sticks with.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You, and and like, Mazda makes a perfectly reliable, nice automobile.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
There were more Mazas on the top top ten lists
than any other car.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
There are four of them, yep, yeah, and and you
know so so you know, they've had their problems like
everybody else has over the years. But there's there's no
reason not to buy a Mazda. There are reasons not
to buy a Mitsubishi right from from certain years, but Amazda.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy uh Nissan as as you
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found out with that Ultima. That was because those had
a continuously variable transmission and it was junk. It was early,
it was an early CVT. It was the worst transmission
they ever put in a vehicle. So so that was
the issue there. Mechanically, those you know, engine wise, those
cars will run forever, but those transmission transmissions were terrible.
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Maz does all use a conventional you know, six speed
seven speed automatic transmission. They're you know, four cylinder turbos,
and they also use an inline six now with the
larger c X nine, which is a beautiful engine. I
wouldn't hesitate to buy a manstera thanks, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Well, I thank you for saying that, because, like you said,
I think I'm still thinking in the oldies. I guess
they have they can't. It's just fuck audy. Back in
the eighties, nobody wants them. But like you said, so.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
They've kind of gone, they've kind of come back around
to you might not want to buy it out he
at this point, you know, so like you know, there
there there, I would I wouldn't hesitate to buy a
Manstera at this point. I think they're a great guy.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Thanks a good night, Robert. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, all right, I guess we'll go right to
Sean in the Salem.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hi, Sean, you're in.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
W How you doing?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
All right?
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I'll just take it short and sweet. I'm a thirty
four year Nissan massive technician, so props everybody who drives
a Nissan. But as far as the valve stem tire
cap guy, sure, I'm gonna tell you a little secret
right now. It's a little bit of patience. I heard
you talk about the dremal trying to save this guy
from buying tire sensors for six hundred bucks if you
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get in there with a dremo. But you gotta almost
do it like a like a side sandy. You got
to literally sand off a little bit of that tire cap,
barely expose the threads on the valve stem. You got
to saw through the tire stem cap because trust me,
I can't tell you how many times I've saved people's
tire sensors buried gingerly and gently file it down. And
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then you can put a little bit of penetrating oil
because the spraying peb on there.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, we'll do it.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
They're going to do it when they're welded the dissimilar metals.
I was in the cow with my wife and I
said dissimilar just before you did with giggles. Yeah, I
know exactly. But if you if you're patient, you've got
to stand that Star Wars Darth Vader valve stem calf away,
get down until you expose the threads on there. And
if you're very ginger and you work it back and forth,
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you can even buy one of those little old school
tire valve s them tools that you can reclean the
threads on there. Yep, if you relieve those threads, you know,
just like an eighth of an inch three sixteenths of
an inch to see the threads.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (26:28):
And then a pair of flyers and very gingerly work
it back and forth. You'll get them off.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So so what you're saying, some plastic caps on, you're done.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You expose the thread a little bit, shoot it with
a little penetrating yep, got it.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
It's enough to see the threads. Like I said, if
you if you saw through, and even so, if you
relieve a little bit too much, as long as you
don't get into where the valve core is, yes, you'll
be fine. And I can't tell you how many times
I've saved people todays. I personally would do it with
a die grinder. I get right in there, do it
in thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yep, you know, got it.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Average hom Wanner guy. If you get like you got
to get something, even if it's a handfile, you got
to be patient. But if you judge buying tire sensors
and programming and breaking down the fire a little bit
of elbow grease and that's the worst thing I see.
When a customer comes in with those, I'll throw on
plastic caps and tell them why I put them on.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
I'm just trying to save this guy, because it ain't
going to be if he's got tire sensors, He's going
to be buying stems of sensors.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So yeah, that's right. If you need to buy the
sensors easy unless.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
You aftermarket, you know, you go to like a tire shop,
you might get after market, you know, quick sensors or
something for you know, sixty eighty bucks apiece versus factory
paying a buck fifty censor.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Ye.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I'll tell you Nissans extended a lot of transmission war
into these. I'll tell you I've rebuilt a lot and
I've replaced a lot, and there's been a lot of
extensions on those transmissions. And Nissan's been standing it behind him,
and it's been my bread and butter for a lot
of years.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And hey, let me ask you something. How are you
doing as a tech? You you're you're happy with your career.
You're because I.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Adially I started with Nissan in nineteen ninety one. I
am now platinum level Master Technicians. I've been in Master
tech since ninety four. And I love it. I mean
not too my horn.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I'm good at it.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
You know, everybody in my family drives, and all my
friends drive one. And you know what, I got buddies
that are Ford guys that hate Nissan. I hate Ford
because I'm an eat guy. I got buddy to ROUDI
guys you hate Nissan, they love out Like if you
know what you know everything you know the devil you
know has been the devil you don't.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
But there's there's a there's a you know, you probably
know this. Jim Farley from Ford has been talking about this.
You know, they're six thousand techs short and for dealerships
and I'm sure that's every wide.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Bruggle is real, you know, Struggle is real on that.
Like I said, I you know, I went to a
technical college, took it in high school, you know as
certified Advanced Level. You know, all my factory training, I've
only worked with two dealerships in my what's thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Of working cars.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
That's great, but it's all and what you know, you
get and get out what you put in, you know,
and hopefully you know what we need as younger guys
who want to do the the work that nobody else
wants to do. Like guys like me gets stuck with
you know, I'm EV certified Electric Diesel supercar gtr like.
I've got every single bit of training there is to have, like,
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but not a lot of people want to do it.
And doing that type of stuff doesn't pay like it
does do and break jobs and airfilters all day. I
want to do everything I can do in every certification
you can get, you know. And that's you know, as
I'm fifty for one, I've been doing it since I
was seventeen, so right, and you can make it young
and people people don't realize blue collar guys that make
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a good living absolutely, you know. And it's all what
you get out of it, whether you're tradesmen. I've got
friends that are plumbers, electricians, carpenters like you put in
the words you're good at what you do. People know it,
you know. And I heard you guys talking about the Frontier,
you know, like over the I would never knock Toyota,
but I wouldn't buy one. Okay, So we had some
CBT transmission issues. Why don't you look at how many
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engine recalls Toyota's ad Look at look at all.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Of the frame like.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Those trucks gone, you know.
Speaker 10 (30:25):
They're a budget of my buddies I worked at, you know,
I'm in southern New Hampshire and I worked at Toyota
Nissan dealing. I'll tell you a lot of my buddies
bought their houses on frame recalls. Yeah that was the
guys who were doing them. Loved them. You know, they
paid sixty hours to change the frame. They could do
in twelve. You know, they were great jobs. And like
I said, I wouldnt knock Toyota. I drove Toyotas for
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a long time, but I've been doing Nissan. He said,
you can buy a Frontier probably ten grand less than
at Tacoma.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
We got a break now, Yeah, good talking.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Listen to you guys. Like I said, you had me
smiling on the way. But if I can save that
guy with a tire sense with some box, I had to.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Call in absolutely happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And that's it for this. We're going to break and again.
One more section segment with Craig here on WBZ.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
One more segment with Craig Fitzgerald. I'm Bradley J for Dan,
and I want to actually kind of combine autumn auto
motive things with politics. Sure, question one in that department,
how have tariffs affected the industry.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So the challenge for the automotive industry is that when
they design a product, it's for something that's going to
happen five years from them. They make decisions you know,
that are five to ten years down the road. Shifting
gears on tariffs, on where you can pick up, where
you can you know, build products, and especially the ev
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Tex UH credit making that go away. Those the two
things really through the automotive industry into some turmoil. And
you know, you've seen this now starting to see some wayoffs.
You're seeing you know, the in general, you know, number
of sales this year is kind of declining. Those things
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are related to the cost you're gonna pay, right So
there's all kinds of issues there and they're not the
automotive industry isn't getting any help really from from the
government at the at the moment.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So like.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
When we built we built a lot of cars in Canada.
We had entire automotive industries that we built in Canada
and we built them, uh you know, in the thirties.
In a lot of cases, those are that's over and
we're not building cars there anymore. And that has become
a real issue. It's been come an issue for the
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number of vehicles that are available here. So there's a
there's a cascading number of issues that are happening because
of you know, decisions that are happening at the government level.
So it's not just about tariffs.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
That's just one aspect that's uncertainty because I'm if I'm
an an't out of executive, I have to make decisions
now that right down the road, and I might not
have the parts or they might not be the demand
for the evs that I decided to build because the
the text right incentives go well, you know, it's like
Howard Lutnx out there telling people that like, oh, we're
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building factories already, like there's gonna be factories everywhere, there's
gonna be manufacturing jobs everywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That is, he knows that's not true, right, you can't
build a factory.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
How he's the Secretary of UH Temptation, not Transportation, Building
Treasury not Treasury Okay, I can't remember anyway, So he's
you know, every Sunday he's out talking about how all
these news factories are being built. They're either legacy you know,
decisions that you know, like the Hyundai battery plant that
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you know, decision happened years ago, or they're not gonna happen.
They're not gonna You cannot build a factory quickly enough
to you know, feed an industry. Uh, it's gonna be
five ten years down the road before these things get built.
So the idea that work, you know, this is going
to be a quick process. It's just not gonna happen
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that way.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That makes the Secretary of Commerce correct commerce, thank you? Okay,
how about e v's is there a new leader in
the EV field? Uh? Emerging?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
I talk about Hyundai a lot to me. Hyundai has
the widest range of EV products that people actually want
to buy, so they'll they have you know, uh, the
EV nine, which is a full size three row suv
almost the size of a tahoe. And that thing is
(35:06):
tremendous Uh to drive, It's a it's a pleasure to
drive it. I really love it. And then all the
way down to the Hondai Ionic, which is relatively small
compact car fun to drive. They have a performance version
of that thing. That is the wildest vehicle that I
drove last year. It accelerates like the track cock did.
(35:28):
I was just gonna say you know, I'm gonna bring
up the g it the Jeep track cock.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
It's good, folks, it' said basically a Jeep Grand Cherokee
with the engine the motor of a the Hellcat seven
and seven horse power engine.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This thing is just as fast it's and the the
acceleration is just as brutal. Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
And it's in a relatively small you know, Hyundai. Uh
you know, four passengers, sporty little car.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
You went out to said and checked out another vehicle,
give us the review. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
That was the the new Subaru Outback, which a lot
of people, I myself included, looked at it when it
debuted at the New York Auto Show and thought, man,
this thing looks big. And I don't know if it's
the same as, you know, the kind of vehicle that
people loved in the outback before. But I went out
(36:23):
and drove it, and it's actually no bigger. It's kind
of an option, like an optical illusion, all because of
the angle.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's the angles.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It's the way that like the the the the tailgate
is less sloped than it was before, and as a result,
you get two cubic feet more cargo.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Volume in it.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The roof is a tiny bit higher, so you get
better headroom in it. Love the way it drove, And
the biggest improvement is the the infotainment screen. All of
the things that I hated about the old one, you know,
all of like HVAC functions being in the touch screen,
they've all moved back out again into physical buttons, which
(37:01):
I think is a is a major plus for that vehicle.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Right now, another type of motor vehicle, as you folks now,
I have a beef with motor scooters. And how I
see a tendency I see this a motus scooter upert
is to ignore the traffic laws. Will cars will be
sitting in a red light, motorscooter just bloop somehow knows
that there will be no enforcement.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
So there's that knock on them.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And the other day I realized, when I smell the
stinking one, I bet they don't are not missions checked.
I better check with Craig find out if that's the case.
And if not, why not, why wouldn't they be Well?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So, I mean, I think if you look at the
percentage of vehicles on the road in Massachusetts, they probably
represent about one percent of the vehicles on the road.
And they're also fifty cc, so small displacement. And the
the places where you go to get a mission tested
on your you know, regular carr they have to invest
(38:06):
one hundred thousand dollars for that emissions machine. No motorcycle
shop is going to invest one hundred thousand dollars in
an emissions machine that there is only a limited number
of people that are going to come through and get
emissions tested on.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So as you know, the number of those vehicles has exploded. Yeah,
I mean it's starting to look like a lot more
like Asian countries and the number of vehicles, right, don't
we have to start?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I bet you us. I mean, so you know you're you're.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
In a in an area where they're going to be
the most popular, right, So in the city, they're going
to be the most popular. In the suburbs where I am,
you hardly see them all right, perfect, perfect timing.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I cannot express fully how much I appreciate you coming in,
hanging out. And next up on w BZ we have
the King of Thanks. I can't wait to hear who
might that be?
Speaker 7 (39:08):
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