Mr Mechanic 10-25-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure

(00:24):
just by how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and
every Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest
superhero known to man. Mister Mechanic check engin lights dope,
stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show on
eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic Show. Five, five, eight,
eleven ten is numbers to get in. Get in early
so we can get your get your calls answered. Yeah,
we're interactive call in show. So you have you have
a question, We'll give you some of the answers top
couple two three and try to get you on down
the roads. Top rated number one Saturday morning show on

(01:08):
KFAB for gosh, thirty years running, right right, Kyle? Yeah,
So I mean we just we're here to help you
out it. See if you get you that we were
just talking just a minute ago. Do I need a
no two centsor probably not? Probably not, Probably something else
causing it. There's a chance, slim one more than a chance.

(01:30):
I'm sure. Great day to get outside and you know,
do that car repair, do it. It's nice and cool,
you know, lay down, get yourself coat, take a nap,
watch a football game. Yeah, nothing's happening there, so you
might as well make your phone call if you're out there.
Got some open lines for you until until we starts
getting exciting. But nothing's going to happen for zero zero

(01:51):
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, you got an hour goh yeah, well yeah, at
least an hour. And we're not going to know anything
definitive until the fourth quarter. Is that's about right?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah? Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean everything can change, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at
the Broncos last weekend. They didn't do anything until halfway
through the fourth quarter. There was no signs of life
in that team. And then bow all.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
At once, yeah, all at once. Well, that's that's all
it takes. It takes a little bit of competence one
way or the other. That's like auto repair. Well, yeah,
you know, it's uh, yeah, you got a confidence and
kind of what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean most a lot of the jobs that
I get are not for the feint of heart. Yeah,
most of the time, and I don't know where they
come from, but I seemed to have a magnet. Well,
if you have a uh, then you get one thing
working and you're like, okay, yeah, you get some more
wind back in your sales, like all right, we might
be able to beat this thing. And next thing you know,

(02:45):
there's this giant conglomeration of something buried behind the dash
that you know, you're like, okay.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
We had a car a while back. We hadn't uh
we don't often see this, but it was a it
was a nosetart and it was kind of giving us troubles.
And you know, we go through our progressions that we
always do, air fuel, spark, you know, injector pulse timing, exhaust,
you know, compression, throw compression in there. Out of those

(03:14):
five or seven of those that'll fix just about any car. Yeah,
and this just would not start. And then we'd come
to find out that it had a this was a
buy here, pay here car. Oh, it had a breakout
on it yeah, it had one of those devices.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
By the day, my bill, my car weren't run today.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yep, didn't run today. Those are interesting, by the way,
Oh yeah, those will. We had one customer that car
wouldn't start. They drove it from Kansas City halfway here,
shut the car off, that was it at a gas station.
Then it wouldn't start, and then it finally dawned on them,
and so they made a payment over the phone and
then the car started backup. Wow, that's that's some technology there.

(03:55):
But anyway, we finally found this particular piece that was
wired in and got rid of it, of course, and uh,
car starts and runs and goes. You know, I don't
know if you're supposed to get rid of those or not.
We were charged with getting it running, and by gosh,
we got to running. Yeah I'm not I've been not
responsible for the other side of whatever happened there. So

(04:16):
that's just how that works. So hey, let's just jump
into some calls real quick. Bob's got a two thousand
and two thunderbird. Bob, there's not a lot of these around.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, I uh, I think I got something draining in
my battery.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm sure you do. In that car, Well, how often
do you run it?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, that could be part of the problem. But I
just went up, had it tested. The alinator tested good,
the battery was dead. Mm hmm, I buy a battery.
I drove it around that day about four days lighter,
I got to the garage and nothing.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, So for that car, four days isn't a big feat.
So we've got something draining it pretty quickly. Yeah, So
this could be something very easy to find, or it
can be something rather difficult to find. There's a lot
of different ways to approach it. I mean a lot.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Have you checked all the obvious stuff trunk, glove box,
vanity lights, vanity lights on the love box light?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, or any of these staying on?

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Do we have any car chargers that were plugging in
to keep the phone charge that goes to uh and
that OLDI car. You're gonna plug it into a cigarette lighter. Yeah,
cigarette lighter and then that piece you plug your cord
into the piece and the piece plugged in a cigarette lighter. Right.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
No, I don't have any of that. Yeah's going okay, we.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
See that go back quite often.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Factory radio, Yeah, no remote start or any other aftermarket
add ons awesome. We're working on a perfect factory car, okay,
So what we've got to do, and on this car,
it's still old enough. We could probably use a vault
meter on this one. So what you do is you

(06:18):
take your negative cable lead off and if you've got
a vault meter, you just kind of bridge that in
between the two and then just set your negative lead
back on there, let it time out for forty five minutes,
and then pull it apart. You're going to get a
voltage reading. That's the difference in those two posts of
whatever your drain is. Now, if it's twelve volts, we

(06:40):
know we're looking for something staying on, like a light bulb,
a radio, a courtesy circuit, something along those lines. If
we're seeing five to eight vaults, that's more indicative to
me of a module kind of come something. So there's

(07:01):
not really a whole lot of modules on this car,
thank god. But we need to get down to either
voltage or amperage. You can do a voltage deal on
this where you know you get to your voltage, say
it's twelve volts, and then you go to your fuse
block and you sit there and you stare at your
vault meter. Well, you pull each individual fuse out and
put it back in and see if one of them

(07:22):
drops it, then you know your circuit that has the issue,
and you can go right to your problem.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Right.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's one way to do it. Or you can do
if you you're familiar with you know, using an amp meter,
you can use the amp portion of it and go
that way.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, and if all that confused, you take it to
your mechanic because he's been through it more than once.
If I had what kind of guess did you have
on this car? If you just threw one out there, Kyle,
what do you think is wrong?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Radio?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh, that's exactly what I was going to say. Radio.
So here you got really two radios?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh yeah, it's got radio's got to keep alive memory
and sometimes that's it'll short to your on time, key
on power, and it'll backfeed your ignition switch and create
a huge draw.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Go find your radio fuse and pull it.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
It.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
May it might be more than one. There might be
just you know, keep a eye memory one and then
another run radio fuse. See if that solves your problem,
or go through all that other stuff too. But back
in that era it didn't matter what forward you had,
they have problems with the radio.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh yeah, completely that in suit power seats. Bob has
said it a million times. Always check the power seat switches.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, cause and you gotta you gotta almost touch
the switch. Make it go up, make it go down,
and make sure it goes to center, and or forward
and backward, and make sure it goes to center. Uh
what switch is that power seats? Oh okay, so make
sure it goes back to center. A lot of times
I've seen this more than once. You press the switch back,

(08:55):
the key goes and excuse me, the seat goes back,
but you never and then you just let go this switch,
thinking okay, it's gonna return back to neutral, and it
never does and the battery is dead. So check all
the seats, both sides. That's that's another common one.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Give me something to look out anyway, Thank you, I
free sciated.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'll keep you busy today.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah, the football games will keep me busy today.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, we won't know what goes on to the to
the fourth quarter, so you're fine up until about a
couple hours. Yeah, there you go. Appreciate the call, Bob.
Thanks you bet all right. We're gonna take a quick break,
mister mechanics show, be right back.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Here's the story.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'll steak you dy.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
We always knew that he.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Had lots of games. They he was on the radio.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And and then there was this guyant name was.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
He looked a little weird, but he was born. Then
it's his tang you to come to buckets together, will,
thanks God.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
So then he joined him.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
All the nerdy.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Don't you answer calls it gerald that they know and
that's the way that then.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
They came what we love the Disturber Cadet show.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
The BOUTI bos the batis bos. That's the word.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Bodies boss.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
We helped that uh bob out with a t BIRG.
I agree. I agree with you one hundred percent, Kyle.
I think it's a radio issue. I think it's a
radio issue too, providing there's nothing other little goofy things
going on, you know with those vanity mirrors are common too.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, I mean nowadays it's hard to say because those
cars have never been this old before.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
No, no, and.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That thing, I mean it's twenty five years old.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, and that's back before those things timed out. Now
and a lot of vehicles you'll time out at like
fifteen minutes if you leave something on and times out
comes back. And I've done that in my truck more
than once, and it's like, oh.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Some of those are getting really hard. I looked at
a BMW probably a month ago, and you just hook
up to the negative lead and you sit there and
you watch the amp draw on this car, and it'll
go to two hundred and fifty million ams. You know, nothing,
and then all of a sudden, four ams for half

(11:41):
a second, then back to sleep, and then twenty seconds
down the road, four ams. Things just keep coming back on,
back off, back on, back off. And I came to
the conclusion it's the security system on the car, because
it's got all these aight os lights and everything on it. Yeah,
you get close to the car, that system's alerted. Yeah,
especially if you got the key in your pocket. Then

(12:02):
the fuel pump's coming on, then you've got a big draw.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
And then that's why we have cars with two batteries.
A lot of European cars will have two batteries, and
you also have two batteries for a start stop also
where you have a little tiny what I call motorcycle battery. Yeah,
lawnmar motorcycle battery for the start stop aspect of it.
And then you've got the big battery for starting a car,

(12:25):
and uh boy, you know, we've seen a lot of
those go bad in tandem too, and we generally want
to replace them. But when you go to replace a
battery it's four or five years old, and you replace
both of those batteries, get ready for a you know,
four to six hundred dollars repair. Sure, because either with
the AMG batteries or a GM batteries excuse me. And

(12:47):
then the start stop, they're they're not cheap, no, not
at all, not a good one anyway. You can buy
cheap stuff, but it ain't gonna last. Let's hold head
over to Sam. Sam's got an oh nine hondai sonatas Sam,
what's up today?

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, I'm just looking for general advice. I don't want
to take a lot of your time about tires specifically.
I'm just starting to study run flat tires and I
don't know if it'd be a good idea to put
it on a car that has a lot of sensors,
you know, tire pressure sensors, it's got electronic stability control.
So I thought, just for a couple of minutes off

(13:23):
the top of your head, thoughts about run flat tires.
I could give you some more information, but I probably
won't go that route. But I'm just curious about them.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, so are you are you thinking about them? Are
you thinking about them for the Sonata or are you
thinking about them for something else for the Sonata? Well,
the run flat tires are really we're designed for the
vehicles that don't have spares, so that when you get
a flat tire, you're able to drive it to the

(13:56):
local tire shop without it being on the rim and
still you know, be reasonably safe to get there.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, you're still probably going to wreck the tire, but.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
You're going to wreck the tire. I mean, it's it's
just when you punish the sidewall and the tire like
that driving fifty mile an hour because you really don't
know it other than light being on. Sometimes you're still
buying a three hundred and four hundred dollars tire, so.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
That you're going to sacrifice a lot of ride quality
with that tire as well.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, it's a very stiff tire. Yeah, you don't see
a lot of these are These are on vehicles that
are already stiff to begin with, so you don't really
notice the difference. If you put that on that, that
Hondai Sonata, it's going to write terrible. You are you are?
And I'm not even sure they make it for that.
They might, I won't say they won't. I don't think
I've ever run across the Hondai Sonata tire that we

(14:51):
put on there that was run flat at all. If
you've got a spare tire, it's cheaper to buy a
spare tire, easier, and the ride will be far better
if you just run to normal tires.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well, that was kind of what I was looking for,
is I wasn't serious about it, but I was curious
about a good year mixing.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
So thanks a lot.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
I liked your show. I listened a lot, So granks lot, guys.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
We appreciate you calling, appreciate you listening. All right, we're
gonna head over to uh. John's got an eighty three Jaguar, John,
what's up today?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Hey, good morning, gentlemen. A friend of mine's got an
eighty three jag shit in twenty five years with the
emergency break on, and I'm got eighty eight thousand miles
out of this thing and we can't get to move,
and I got it. I want to know if you
have suggest you how to break the brake pads loose

(15:43):
on the.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Cowpers hit him with a hammer. That's about all you
can do.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Can I soak him down to with some pants?

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Right? All? Or what?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Sure? It ain't gonna hurt anything. So you got your
you've already got the wheels off it. Trying to get
to move.

Speaker 7 (15:58):
Well, the right up against.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
The third member, Yeah, they're right on the differential right
there in the center. So yeah, you've got to just
kind of start by seeing can we get the cable
off of this thing? Can you unbolt any kind of
linkage to relieve tension from the cable?

Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, we cook the cables gonna lose. The path is
stuck to the road.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Okay, then yeah, just spray it with whatever you got
and hit it with a hammer.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, you're gonna replace them anyway, if you're gonna, if
you're gonna go through it, so let yeah, spray it
with some good stuff. Let it seep down in there,
because the semi metallic portion of the pad has just
rusted right to it, rusted right to it. The other
way the old school away is a chain and a
hook on the front, and just start pulling it until
such time as a break loose.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
Yeah, they had a heck of the clients trying not
to load that thing.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Off the flatbed.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
But well, I wanted to ask you, gentlemen, was gosh,
I lost my I lost my train of thought. Oh, anyway,
I won't take then, I just pound on them until
I break them loose and go them there.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, you know, pound on them with a with a
you know, I don't know, not too hard, but you know,
brass hammer. If you don't have one of those, maybe
a block of wood on top of a big hammer.

Speaker 7 (17:22):
And uh yeah, I got I got a brass hammer.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, I bet you you're penetrating fluids. Soak them down.
I mean, like I said, you're gonna probably get in
there and replace the pads anyway, So.

Speaker 7 (17:31):
Oh, I know why I want to ask, real quickly,
how do you turn them rovers? Can you just take
them to like orisingham turn the real sin?

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah you can probably.

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Probably about thirteen fourteen inches in diameter.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, you got to get them off of there. That's
kind of a chore because you're pulling both axles unbolted
off of your hub and then you know, yeah, anybody
can turn them. I mean they're essentially I mean, they
aren't crazy different from a car rotor. No, on a
regular car.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
You might check to see, uh how much they cost new,
because if.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
They're they're twenty five bucks, you just get new ones.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, okay man, Yeah, yeah, you're.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's probably what i'd recommend anyway, because russ just starts
growing like crazy, and you just when you start cutting
the rust off there, you start warping the rotor. Not
because you want to, it's just it's just what happens.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
Okay, I'll tell him and both them there.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Thanks guys, you bet appreciate the call. Good luck on
that Jaguar boy.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Stuck brakes are no fun.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah yeah, well that's why they made a hammer, Yeah,
I remember. And stuck rotors are pain too. I mean,
I boy, we've had to get out some With all
the salt they put down on the road around here,
we've had to get sledgehammers because we keep sledgehammer. We
keep a you know, a five pound You think we
used to have a ten pound in there. Oh yeah.

(19:02):
Sometimes you really just got a swing on that rotor
and you bust them completely apart. I don't mean you
knock them off most of the time, but you just
literally shatter the rotor coming off. Gosh.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I remember trying to get an old truck moved out
of a field and all four drums were locked all
four of them were locked up. It was two days
getting this thing. And you know, you just take a
grinder and grind the pins off the road or pull
the bearings out and just start beating on it until
something finally gives and hopefully the hub is savable enough

(19:33):
to put a tire back on it.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right, Right, it's a nightmare, right, that's part of parking
them in. Well, that's what the farmers do. He's parking
and I mean I might need parts. Yeah, I agree,
I'm going to fix that later. Yeah, goes by. Nah,
if you're never, I'm gonna fix that later. Never. That's
what you always hear. All right, we're gonna take a
quick break. All right, let's take a quick break on

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the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight to eleven, ten
is numbers to get in. We've got a couple of
open lines for you. We'll be back in a minute.
Robert's got a fifteen Cadillac. Kind of Cadillac.

Speaker 8 (20:06):
Robert, Yeah, so great show, guys. I appreciate everything you do.
You bet so fifteen Cadillac, guess r X LSUV. It's
the wives and we've taken great care of it. It's
got about ninety thousand miles on it, which I think
would be average. I think I'm just curious. So two questions.

(20:29):
The first question is just in general, we want to
get maybe some more lap out of the car. What
do you think we should be doing to keep it
in good shape?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Kickley?

Speaker 8 (20:40):
What do you think the light is on it? And
then the other question I have is kind of pointed here.
We've rotated the tires pretty good, but the last couple
of times the guys have told me that the inside
of the rear tires have been wearing a lot. And
I'm just curious what you guys?

Speaker 7 (20:59):
What you.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well? To answer your first question, I guess you've got
to ninety thousand miles? Whatever services you really haven't done?
If you haven't done anything, probably should do you know,
service the coolant, Kyle service transmission gearbox, YEP things are
those kind of brake fluid get that flushed. Yep, break
fluid gets a lot of moisture in it naturally, so

(21:23):
that'd be something else that that we would probably do.
Some of the just recommended things that were spartlugs, spark plugs. Yeah,
those are typically one hundred thousand miles. Okay, So.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
With your rear tires wearing on the inside, they have
your tire guys aligned this car.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yep, he's not there, he's actually he dropped off. Yeah,
he dropped off. So yeah, so on the rear tires,
a couple of things. Yeah, you probably need to see
if it needs to be aligned for sure. But there's
a lot of cars out there that you don't really
notice it. I noticed it because I see it going
down the road. They have it a ton of negative
camber and on supposed to be a negative camber.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Well, negative camber is natural, it is it's the only
natural way camber can go.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, that's what gives you the good reaction time or
you know, performance of a car is to negative camera
the rear tires. And sometimes you'll see a little bit,
sometimes you see it a lot. Oh yeah, you know,
you look at a Tesla, those are negative camera quite
a bit. And that's why they wear the inside edge
of the rear tires. That's why you rotate them and

(22:34):
keep them rotators bits you can, it's all you can do.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, but on the Cadillac, I mean, I don't know
if that thing was made for speed in the corners.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, No, but it's tall. It's an suv. You know
it can be. It can be a little top heavy.
So putting some of that, it puts some negative activity
in the back end of it makes it just handle
a little bit better. Sure, So, no, there's not much
you can do with that. You know.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
The other thing you can do, if they're not terribly bad,
you could probably flip the tires around, depending if they're
directional or not.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
They're directional. You can't necessarily do that. You don't want
to do that. Otherwise you're probably into new tires and
then just rotate them, maybe quicker and earlier than everybody
else does. So if you're on the eight thousand mile
for example, eight to ten thousand miles, and maybe change
them every five or maybe rotat them every oil change.
So that's going to be a synthetic oil change, So

(23:32):
maybe rotat them every five or six. Sure, maybe a
little overkill. But depending on the tire you're putting on there.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
But yeah, you start out with just getting your alignment check,
make sure everything's good. Spring rate is still good, your
springs aren't sagging down, you know, causing negative camber things
like that, and then if all that checks out, then
that's where we're at.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's where you're at. You're not going to change it.
Everybody else haveing the same problem. Service those things. Try
to think of anything else that you can serve us.
A lot of times, no transmission, there's no power steering anymore.
That's all electronic.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean, if you really feel up to it,
I mean you can change the rubber parts, hoses, heater hoses,
cooling hoses, things like that.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
You probably change the electrons in the a little bit.
Switch those out. Yeah, get some proton electrons. Yeah, yeah,
get the electron exchange machine through the power steering, because those.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Are rearrange of molecular structure.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, exactly, there we go. All right, we're gonna have Carl, Carl, Carol.
I'm sorry ninety three Nissan Carol, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Good morning? I have a twelve n soun Juke and
I had a single car accident and I broke the
axle for an axle and they're clearing back together. But
now I've got a leak on my engine. The gas
is fleaking. I'm not sure how to ties into things.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Which gaskets leaking?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Do you know.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
It's the engine gasket or something. It's over towards the
passenger side front end.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
There, maybe a timing cover. So yeah, so maybe the
accident was involved with this, Maybe it was not. Maybe
it just when you had the accident, it was.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
That big of a jerk to where something could have happened.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Right right is just jarred it that much that it
might be over on the right hand side. What comes
into play or my mind, is that if you had
a new axle replaced, there might be the axle seal
that's possibly leaking there. If it's the engine, that would
probably say timing cover or valve.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Cover, Nissan could be a steel oil pan could be
built up. I mean it's hard to say.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah. Sometimes when you get an accident and just it
just jars something really hard, something else, like you said,
can start in that was caused by that, but not
directly hit. But you just you never know. So the
first place to do is have somebody totally clean this off,
you know, decrease it and let it sit there and
run and see where exactly it comes back at. And

(26:16):
then from there you can make an informed decision as
to what you got to do, and if you need to,
if it's something you know, the mechanic you're having to
look at, just tell them, tell them everything that you
know it's been in an accident so that they can
kind of take a little different look at it and say, Okay, well,
now this didn't happen at all. This was just something

(26:39):
that did and if if it was involved, then you
can get your insurance company back involved. So you think
you appreciate the call, Carol, you know, and that's like
you said things.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Just yeah, generally, if I know what's been in an accident,
I'm not really going to look at a seal. I'm
gonna look at.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
A crack right right, and that's.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Airline crack and something that got you know, maybe jarred
or maybe did get hit but you just didn't notice it.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
And there's a lot of things that are just waiting
to break, and then a big jar, big accident something
like that can just send that over the edge. A
gasket that was just holding on, and especially.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
If an axle got broke. I mean, that tells me
that there was a hard enough impact to where you
could have taken all the stress out of the motor mountain,
shoved the motor against the frame and now everything looks okay. Greed,
and we've got a crack in our timing cover.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Agreed. It's strange things happen, and you know they insurance
companies kind of expect that a little bit because you
can only see what you can see until you pull
it apart. Yeah, and then when you pull it apart,
you see a whole bunch more. And sometimes that stuff
doesn't come out right away. But I will say you're
better to get on it now, depending on how long

(27:53):
it was that the accident happened. Longer you wait, the
more the odds go down that they'll do it for you.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
There's cars that I've just last week, I mean, we
took a bumper off a car to replace a headlight,
and I could tell that you know, they've hit some
stuff with it. You know, it didn't look like huge,
huge smash, you know, rex, but you know there were
signs of that this thing might have bumped something.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Right then you take the.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Bumper cover off, and I mean, it looks like you
just dumped out a five gallon bucket of Legos. There's
just stuff everywhere.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
There's just stuff everywhere, you know. I still tell the story.
Once in a while we checked out a used car
and this car looked great. It was I can't remember
what it was. It was some sort of sporty thing
and it looked great. So but they wanted to bring
it in check it all out. And we're looking underneath
there and we were looking up the front bumper. It's like,
what is that? I said, no, we got to look
a little closer. And the closer we looked the it

(28:49):
had been in an accident. And instead of straightening it out,
it was much easier for whoever put it back together
to jam a two by four in there and then
get some deck screws and put all the plastic together.
And as soon as I seen that, I lowered it
down and pulled it out, and I said, go find
me another car. YEA, take this back where you found it.

(29:10):
Say it with cry long. It was just that's the
first two by four I've seen fixed. And I'm sure
there's some body guys out there that have seen much
worse than that, but it's the first two by four.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Oh, they get so creative. You know how many cars
we've seen spray foam in.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
I've seen a fair amount of that too.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
You go to lift it up on the rack and
you're like, well, the rockers are still here. It's good,
you know, because they put the spray foam in there,
bondo it and paint it, and you go to lift
it up, but you start hearing all this popping and
everything else going on, and the rocker panels still on
the floor and the cars in the air.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's like cool, yeah, yeah, that's why you gotta check
That's why we always tell you check it out.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
And the then we got to put the you know,
the spray foam and bondo back in there. What you
got to use double sided tape at this rate, you know, it.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Just a little you know, you spend one hundred bucks,
one hundred and fifty bucks whatever it is, can save
you a tremendous amount of headaches, and you don't get
You don't get the headaches till after you purchase, and
you can't take it back.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, you get a bad one. It's no fun.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Eating none, all right, five, five, eight, eleven, tens and
numbers that get in. We'll be back in a minute.
I've got an open spot for you, and uh, let's
see if we can get that car fixed. You know,
you know, I know it's with credit kind of coming
down on certain houses, and it might be also coming
down in your car kind of depending on where you're
at and when you purchase the car, just where it is.

(30:36):
You know. I get a free credit report every year.
I don't know if everybody knows that or not, but
you can get a there's a lot of places you
got charged for it, but you can get a free
recredit port credit report, So look for that. You know,
maybe if you were in a maybe you can refinance
that that loan. Eighty percent of all car loans are
done to the dealership and they're in COVID times, so

(31:00):
maybe much now, But in COVID times they wouldn't even
sell you a car unless you use their financing. Sure
they would just tell you, no, I ain't selling that
to you. You don't use our financing, you don't get it.
So maybe you're getting a higher rate than what you need,
but you want to check your credit first, make sure
you know if you've got to If you don't got
that great a credit, maybe you want to stay where

(31:20):
you're at. You know, if you do, maybe you're maybe
it's gotten better, maybe you want to redo that. And
there's quite a few different places that will will do that.
So just one of those things to think of. And
when you're going to buy a car, you know, just
don't go to don't go to the dealership, just straight
out of the way and let them do everything there.

(31:41):
You know, just do your due diligence, see what you're
what you're capable of getting, what's your credit loan might be.
As far as the interest rate goes, then you can
you have already had that minded set in your in
your head, maybe that's X, and then they want to
charge you at four point it's over that, and you go, no,
I think I'll just get my own. You know, know

(32:04):
your current car value too. Kelly Bluebuck is another way
to get online and look up your current car values
so you kind of know where trade in value is
and then kind of know what, say your trade in
values five thousand, they only want to give you one thousand.
Well there must be a reason. Yeah, so you got
to be due diligence. That's just there's all that little stuff.

(32:31):
Not not that they're trying to take you, but there's
a lot of there's a lot of things that go
on and buy in a car.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
You're trying to get a deal and they're trying to
get a deal too.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I mean they're not trying to run you over the coals,
but they're not trying to give you a million dollars either.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
No. No, it's a business. They deserve to make profit.
Oh you know, and they're just trying to do right
by them. But it's the same token. It's you don't
need to pay five thousand dollars more if you went
down the street and it only had to a thousand
dollars for it.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, don't go into the car lot and pay stick
or price. Yeah, think of it more like a garage sale,
is how I do it. Yeah, you're not paying stick
or price.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
There, no, no, And they expect to get beat down
a little bit or here and there. But as long
as you've got clear, concise answers that you know you're
getting answers to your questions. And if you don't feel right,
it's probably not right. Yeah, I've got up and walked
out of a couple of deals over the years. Oh sure,

(33:30):
just they figured once here in the chair, you're not
gonna leave your You want a car, that's all I mean,
that's the last thing. I needs another car. But sometimes
you go in and help other people. I've been there
to help people out just because they don't know anything
about it, and I know more than the average person.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
So once in a while I get some dealership experience,
namely whenever my wife needs a new car, oh when
I need a new car, or it's just a tow
truck backing in the driveway.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Where you were able to uh rescue the lost souls
that are heading to the salvage yard. And you don't
care what to drive. Nope, loans is suspendable.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yep, Yeah, that's a turn the key, get in it,
drive my mile to work mile home.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
That's yeah. Well yeah, and that's all you need. You
just need a good A and B. And you know,
a nice beater car is we used to call them winter cars,
but it's also a beater car. You bet you can
park those next to anybody. Go downtown, you go to
the event, you don't have to park clear out in
the boonies. You can park right up close.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh you bet in the grass if you need. Yeah,
or maybe right next to the guy that took up
two spots as close as you can, Yeah the roof,
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Climb out the sun roof and uh. Then then you
get to then he understands why you don't take up
two spots like that when you or five slots from
the end of the parking lot, of the first part
of the parking lot. But you know, door dinging. I
don't care. Yeah, as long as the windows are in

(35:09):
it when I get back.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, we're good.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
It's really all I really care. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
And if it's a back window, I'll tape that up
for a while.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, it's cold out. I'm not fixing it right away.