Mr Mechanic 6-14-2025

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 coolon running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also written as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,

(00:22):
and that he can tell your tires all pressure just.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
And every Saturday morning they morphed together to form the
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lights don't stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
On eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a mister Mechanic show.
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We are Buchanan Service Centers fiftieth and Dodge eightieth and
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(01:07):
Hundred day. Kyle, Yeah, a little sticky out here. Yeah,
a little sticky. This is the uh. I don't know. Well,
I guess if you like working in the heat, this
is this perfect time for you for it rains. Maybe
not me, I mean, well yeah, yeah, maybe this is
the time you got and diagnose your car. Go get
the parts and then sit in the side until it
cools down and then go fix your car.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah under the cloak of darkness.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yes, yeah, turn the lights on. There's no get yourself
a fan, you know, one of those things. So, yeah,
it's gonna be a warm day. College World Series is
going on. You know, people are traveling in and out
of town.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know, you get stuck on the road, you know.
I guess the thing to do is make sure you
check that an or freeze. Make check that air conditioning.
You know, this time of year we're starting to get
everybody sees the cotton fly. So you know, if your
air conditioning is filling up at home, at your home
air conditioners, so is the radiator in your car. Yea,
and that gets to be And that fan is pretty strong,

(02:05):
stronger than the one you have at home. It'll suck
everything within a five feet area. As you're driving down
the road. It just loves to attach.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
There was one in a few weeks ago. I took
a part and I mean you could I had the
radiator out of it. You peeled it off like a quilt.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, I'm gonna say you did make yourself a coat
or a quilt or no.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I still got it around the shop. I'll come up with.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Something, something for the dog throwing the dog.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's my radiator fan jacket.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Everybody's got to have one of those. Yeah, And boy
have we seen that too?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Got birds nesting in it?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah? Yeah, you know, every once in a while some
birds just don't make it and they make a nose
dive right straight into the condenser is usually what's there first,
and along with some other sort of things in front,
the stuck everywhere. Yeah, and and those the radiators and
condensers and everything in front make it through the grill.
Are pretty fragile for the most part. They take a

(03:02):
lot of abuse and they still hold up pretty well.
But there's they're not strong enough.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You've got to be really careful because I mean, even
when we're doing repairs and we got the fans out
and everything, like I've dropped a wrench and cost a
coolant leak.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, and somehow it can go down the road and
hit get hit with rocks off a semi truck, no problem.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, it's just all about the deflection of everything else
in there and a bird doing fifty million hours doing
one hundred when you're coming at him. So yeah, you
just will.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I remember that job too, because it was not a
pleasant job. And I remember dropping the wrench and I
was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, damn cool got an interesting article, Kyle. This is
just one of those things that and this happened a
little while ago, but the Hurts rent a car location
in New York. Employees were there for a while and
they decided to go home early, six hours early. So
people that coming in on flights needed reservations and this,

(03:59):
that and the other, and they couldn't get them and
seeing what was going on, so they just found the
keys to the car that worked for them and took them.
I mean, you know how it is when well, I
guess as long as you brought them back. I mean,
and you're trying to but you know, you're trying to

(04:20):
get somewhere. I don't I don't imagine you go into
New York City and drop in and get a rental
car because you're just going to be there for the week.
That's what you do.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
But most depending on where the places, Yeah, you might
not want to hang out too long, no stuff and go.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah yeah, I've been in those rental car places. I
need my car now so I can leave.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, yeah, because you're standing there with a bunch of
other people with every belonging you think you need on
this trip in your hand.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
A little bit vulnerable, yeah, little, yeah, absolutely, so. Uh,
you know, I don't know how that turned out, but
I don't think. I'm assuming somebody got fired at me.
That's what I'm assuming. Oh, I mean, I guess you
got a free car. I mean, I'm sure they're going
to track that down. You know they can track those cars.
Oh yeah, so as long.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I mean, I get leaving early. Some days you're just
not in it. Well, this was not feeling it today.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
This was six hours early. Yeah, this wasn't fifteen minutes early.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
So they've only been there maybe two hours. I mean, gosh,
what's going on here? I mean, normally I'll give it
three or four and yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. You know. I noticed also that
this is an interesting thing. It's good to kind of
see how this turns out. But Amazon is Jeff Bezos
is partnering with another car maker and they're gonna make

(05:44):
something that's called the Slate and the Slate's going to
be a twenty seven thousand dollars electric vehicle and it's
going to be totally customized.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Can I finance it through my Amazon account? You might
be able to, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Get a was that a firm?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
A firm?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Get a firm for six dollars a day. Yeah, until
until it's paid off.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
For why not?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
You can get your you can wrap it kind of
comes in probably just a standard color, but you can
wrap it in any kind of color you can add.
There's a pickup box, there's a you know, look, you
know what looks like Is I show you a picture?
It kind of looks like a Bronco, don't it.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
It does look a lot like a Bronco. And once
you put it like a Bronco, that would be like
a maintenance vehicle.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
At the zoo a kind of. And then if you
put a top on the back, it looks a lot
like a Bronco. And this one, this is a short,
little pickup.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
So it's kind of like a Lego kit. You just
make whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, you can. You can add electric windows, you cannot
add electric windows, you can. It's highly customized to just
about eever you want. They will build. Yeah, it's kind
of like a Lego deal. So if you want this
and that and the other, you just buy it and
put it on on your firm account. On your firm account. Absolutely,

(06:59):
why pay for it? You can? You can stretch it
over thirty five years, why not? And the di wire
can do this car.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So if you want to, I've heard that before and
I've seen the results.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, you know you are right, you are.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Well.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Di wire has to come with a little bit of
knowledge of what you're doing. Okay, So if you're hanging
a door, there's a di wire that's you need to
know a little bit about woodworking and screws and things
like that. If you Yeah, you can't just throw a
say I'm gonna go hang a door, because there's there's
a talent to that. Well, you can make it hang
a door, but you in order to hang a door

(07:37):
correctly and make a swing. Fine, yeah, you got to
have that. So you get that all right, You want
to take a quick call. Let's take a quick call.
Craig is got twenty seventeen for f one fifty. Craig,
what is up today?

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Air conditioner?

Speaker 5 (07:52):
What it would cost but a new compressor, and one
of these things.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Depends how bad off it went off top of my head, dum,
fifteen to seventeen, probably in that range. Do you know
if it quit electronically or if it just it went
bad internally? Not sure yet.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
The reason we ask is that if it's gone bad electrically,
you know everything was working, was everything working fine? Then
just one day it quits.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Fall this spring when I went to turn it on,
I got nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, well, we got a few go a few more steps.
Before we get down to the the air conditioning compressor.
You've got to have it evacuated, recharged, and check for leaks.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
We got to know if the compressor is coming on.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, we got to know if the compressor is coming on. Now,
if the compressor failed because of electrically and the coil
failed up front, and the rest of the system is beautiful,
then you can discharge it, hang a compressor, put it on.
You don't have to replace a whole bunch of other
parts in order to make this system back up and going.
You can skip a few steps. However, if this went

(09:08):
if this went bad internally and all the metal shavings
inside the compressor are all throughout the whole system, then
it costs a lot more because you need to replace
a lot more condenser.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Right, flush all the lines, Try to flush the evaporator
the best you can and see what comes out of it. Yes,
it's neck gets to be pricey.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
It can, yeah, exactly because you might have to replace
the compressor, receiver, dryer, orphice tube, all that other kind
of stuff. But again, if it's just an electrical failure,
you can't just buy a clutch anymore. Nope, So you
end up replacing the whole compressor. But if that's only
it is, you can save yourself a fair amount of money. Otherwise,
that number runs from fifteen to twenty five hundred pretty

(09:51):
easily if you have to. But you need to take
first step. First, be where you scare yourself. And maybe
you got a rock that hit a condenser like we
were talking about, you know, maybe got a bird that
flew in there and it's just got a hole in
the condenser, and replacing that is your only problem. We
see all sorts of different stuff. We had with a

(10:12):
Subaru the other day that wouldn't come on, and it
worked last summer and turned out to be a relay.
The relay kicks on and off and on and off
so many times that it just goes bad, and that
was the whole problem. No refrigerant, no nothing, So your
first so yeah, well, okay, if it's full of refrigerant,

(10:35):
then you need to determine why it's not coming on.
Is there is there power getting down to the compressor
but it's not coming on. If that's the case, you
might just have a coil problem and you just need
a whole compressor if there's no power getting there. And
then we got to back up the system and say, okay,
is our fuse good? Okay, that's good. Is our relay good?

(10:57):
And then you got all the way back up to
the switch.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
Yeah, I had the relays checked out, and he said
he couldn't get it to kick on when he put
different relays in it.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
So okay, So then what we would do is we
would power that compressor on. We would take a power
probe or something, we would power that compressor on so
that we know the entire system works, and we can
see it getting cold. And then if we know that
it's getting cold and you're you're full of refrigerant, then
now we just ruled out half of what's going on,

(11:28):
and now we're going to work on anything electrical going
inside the car. So you just need to spend some
time to have a diagnose, to figure out specifically where
it is and what's going on. Well, all right, I
know you don't want to, but it's getting hot. You're
you're gonna want too soon.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
I know it's hot. Yeah, Well I want to work
overtime at work either, right.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Right, Well, start off with getting it figured out and
then and then from there, I see a lot of
people and scare themselves on what prices that go to
the worst case scenario immediately, And it's not always that case.
Sometimes it's it's a lot less than that. So I
appreciate the call. Craig. Alright, thanks, you bet five, five,
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Speaker 2 (13:38):
Ron's got a twenty ten expedition ron. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (13:42):
Well, I'm having air conditioning problems, and if it's all
got to do apparently with the vamped pipes underneath the dashboard.
Apparently someone tried to fix it in the past and
vent those pipes, and now the flapper of valves are
stuck on heat. I try to turn my airn on

(14:09):
in the summertime, it blows really hot air. So my
question is is it absolutely necessary that the hot water
circulate through the radiator inside the car if it's inside

(14:29):
the car, in order to keep everything healthy? Or can
I could I put valves underneath the hood to shut
off the heat hot water coming in going out, and
then putting a cross pipe so that it circulates back
into the radiator without going into the car. My air

(14:54):
conditioning will work. Air conditioning works. Figs blows heat.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay, So what's happening from what I'm gathering? And correct
me if I'm wrong. So the hot cold door isn't
moving to the evaporator side.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
Uh, yeah, it just blows how there.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Because somebody was in there at some point, you think.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
Yeah, so that's what that's what the and I think
my mechanic knows exactly what's going on. And apparently he's
seen this before.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
So if somebody was in there and moved something and
now a door can't open, I mean, that's He.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
Says, what happened is the pipe got bent, and in
order to fix that, I'm going to have to tear
out everything. And he says he's tried to buy a
They don't make that that system anymore, so I'm going
to have to do read something from a junk yard.

(15:58):
And he says, you never know what those things work.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Okay, So ultimately all we're trying to do I mean
because I mean technically, yes, I mean, you can take
your heater hoses off bypass it, no trouble. Plenty of
cars have a heater control valve. It's a lot of work,
and I mean it's kind of a hassle on your
end too, to get out and shut the water off,
remember to turn it.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
Yeah, I mean shut it up in the spring and
turn it back on in the fall. And it beats
the heck out of having hot water on a ninety
degree day.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
And that's all fine and everything, but at the end
of the day, You're still not going to get air
conditioning because that door isn't moved in the right area.
I mean, you'll just get ambient temperature or whatever it
is outside.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Did you say that. You said the air conditioning works, Okay,
if it goes through that heater core.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
No, I don't know about the heater core. But it's
got you know, it's it's got back seats, and the
air conditioning works great in the back seats.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Okay, So we're back to let's just get this door open.
I mean, can we take the motor off of this door?
I mean, what's what's in a way. I'm trying to
piece it together as to what we can do. Because
if you can just pop the actuator off, take a screwdriver,
flip the door over the cold I mean, we're.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Essentially you've essentially done the same thing. A flat bladed
screwdriver or a pair of plyers. Sometimes there's a nub
sticking out of there, pull the blend door motor off,
and then whatever you got, flat blade or a pair
of pliers, take that door when everything is off, and
you can flop it over, and then you have air conditioning.
And in the wintertime you can flop it back and

(17:38):
you've got heat.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
You're assuming that I know what you're talking about. Okay, Well,
what i'd like to do is are you guys willing
and able to do something like that?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Sure, we're able to take a look at it. And
we've done this many times for customers that say, this
car is what this car is, it's a stick hauling
junker that goes to the salvage yard. I do not
want to put a thousand bucks in What can you
do to get me by in more to make it
work in the wintertime? And back and forth. Normally we're
going to fix it correctly and right. But you know,
if somebody says, hey, this is what I'm willing.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
To do, there's certain instances.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, and and uh we'll do what we can.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
And uh so, so are you guys located in Omaha?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Okay, and it's mister mechanic.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
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Speaker 4 (18:33):
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Speaker 7 (18:43):
And gentlemen, you.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Much, you bet not a problem. Appreciate the call. All right,
We're going to hell over with Joel. We've got time
for a second. Here, we'll go Joel got a twenty
three Silverado, Joel, what's up?

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Yeah, I've got a twenty three Silver out of Duramax
and we got thirty thousand miles. And about two weeks ago,
I was driving and it just wouldn't start shifting and
it went into limp mode and engine light came on everything.
Took it in to the dealer.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
They hooked it up and said, the valve body on
the transmission is bad. I got to put a new valve.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Body's exactly what I was going to say.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
Doing a little researching online. Like most the most dangerous
things to do, right, it also says, yeah, they fix it,
but then there's a computer issue and it's going to
happen again and again. I'm just trying to figure out.

Speaker 10 (19:38):
If that.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Is the case, what I should do. I should be
concerned about it tearing up the transmission if it continues
to happen.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, as far as I'm aware of, as far as
the research that I have done a little bit is
they have valve body problems, and they got an updated
valve body to it. They are on back order and
there are a lot of time it's hard to get
at this particular point. But once they repair the valive
body and do updates to it, I haven't heard of
too many other people having problems right after that. I mean,

(20:10):
there's always a possibility of a lot of different things,
but most of the time it's just a valid body
problem and and kind of recalibrating and updating the system.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
Does that happening because of you know, I all a
lot of stuff, and I put a lot of truck
and probably transmission is that is that what drove that condition?

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Probably need speed or ten speed?

Speaker 7 (20:35):
That's ten speed, ten speed?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Got six two in it? No dorma excuse me? Well, okay,
same thing? Yeah, sorry, sorry, m No, No, this is
I think this is more of a design problem that
they've been having across or fifteen hundred Chevrolet sixty twos
or five threes are having some of this going on too.
So no, I don't think there's anything you're doing. It's

(20:57):
just a this is a parts reliability quality problem. And
I think they've got it switched around fixed and they've
done an updated deal to it. So now if it's fixed,
I wouldn't I would drive it as normal.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Okay, well, I appreciate it, gentlemen, you bet.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna take quick break five, five, eight,
eleven tens numbers to get in open lines for you.
Be back in a minut I'm gonna head over to
gym here in just a minute, but I want to
follow up on the last caller a little bit. So
he was going to do a bunch of shut the
put inline shut offs in there in the whole nine yards,
and then he was going to route everything back to

(21:35):
the radiator and do all that kind of stuff which
is not really necessary. Just take both hoses off and
loop them. Just get yourself a bypass t and angle
and put it in there. Now, some of them have
plastic tips on the end, so you may have to
cut them and put shut offs in it. And I've
seen this many times on the conversion vans. Oh yeah,

(21:56):
there would be a shutdown so that the rear heat
wouldn't work because they just had heat back there but nowhere.
And that was pretty common back in the mid nineties
to do that. So it's pretty simple, you know. And
if you put them where it's you know, available to you,
it's not that big a deal. Some of those are
pretty easy to get to and and like we were
talking about.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
On that particular expedition, they are not Yeah, cab forward design.
You got to reach your arm way back there get
at them.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
And yeah, so it might be easier for him just
to to get him up close, you know, and shut
him off that way. And and that's and that's fine.
It's all about what's easy when you're trying to over
over overcome and adapt and do what you gotta do.
And you know, there's just it's just sometimes the cars,
it is what it is, and to spend too much

(22:44):
money on it, you might as well just throw it away.
But you hate to throw certain things away if you're
only going to use it for something. So but yeah,
and and you go inside. A lot of times we
have been successful and pulling those off and just flopping
them one way or the other. And then some times
the heat and this happens. You've seen this. We've had
to replace the whole heater box before. And I think

(23:05):
that's what his mechanic was talking about, was that the
fact that.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
If the door might have been broken, Yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Door might have been broken. You've got things are warped
in there because it's just plastic moving against plastic that's
up against plastic. So at a period of time when
that things get super hot, they just warp inside. Sure,
so very common. We've replaced a lot of heater boxes
and fords. Kind of nice when you have to replace
them because it's all there, everything is there. It turns

(23:33):
out to be a great repair when you're done because
you don't have to worry about anything not working. So
all right, Well, hell over to Jim. Jim's got a
hydraulic question. Jim, what's up today?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, I've got a big tub of highdroged fluid, five
gallons of it. I use for a tractor I had
that has a front end lotor that has a leak
in the when the boom arms. It's a small leak,
so I top it off periodically. But I want to
also got a leak on my truck. Can I use
that same hydraulic fluid for the brake system of the

(24:05):
vehicle that goes with that tractor?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (24:10):
No, no, no, no no no no no, not unless you
want to replace your entire brake system. Yeah, give some mechanics,
some a bunch of money.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
No, no, So what's the difference between the two hydraulic fluids.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, hydraulic fluid is a very broad term. It just
means that you're using the fluid for power assists more
or less, and that's kind of what you're doing the
chemical anytime that you have to get basically without you
have to get all the oils out of the brake system.
I mean, the brake fluid is just void of any

(24:46):
kind of oil itself. It's a different kind of oil.
But if you put regular kind of oil in there,
or hydraulic oil, or gear oil, or just anything else
other than what brake fluid is supposed.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
To be, you will losehydra you will.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Lose hydraulic, and you will expand every rubber part that
that touches.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Every rubber part. I'm glad I called. I was about
to put some here.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
No no, no, no no. And we see this how
I don't know, not nearly as much as we used to.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
But I've found washer fluid and brake systems.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we have seen it all. So
I've seen washer fluid and engines before. It's just they
don't mark everything as good as they can. And it
just say this, this ought to work. But no, absolutely not.
You got DOT three, dot four for later model vehicles
and imports, and DOP five which is silicone for high performance. No,

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only use what that cap says, nothing more.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
They see, Okay, I bought this hydraulic fluid. It's not
doesn't say it's specifically for this tractor, but it's it's
just as hydraulic fluid. It has a bunch of numbers
of letters, so I don't know if it's the stuff
I should be using for my tractor or not.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
You know a lot of those can't have certain detergents
and oils in them to help lubricate the seals and
keep everything. I would probably see. I do a little
bit of research, but not all hydraulic fluid is the same.
You know, a lot of things are, but not everything
is the same. You don't want to cause yourself any

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more cost on anything just because it's laying around.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
It's an old tractor. John Deere funding loaded tractors built
in nineteen seventy three, and they've recorded a manual. There's
some specific hydrog fluid that's used for but they don't
stock it. I can't find it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I think with the age of that particular deal. I
think you could probably just use normal probably hydraulic fluid,
and you'll probably be just fine. You have been, and
you have been and hasn't been a problem. If the
league hasn't got any worse, I don't think I would
worry about it.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
I'm trying to find parts to repair the arm on it,
but once again, there's nothing out there. Yeah, so I'm
afraid it's just gonna end up not being fixable. I
just as I keep putting food in, it doesn't leak
that bad. It's just you have to keep topping it off.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
No, it's a John Dee or somebody's got parts.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Somebody's got parts Yepractor.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Swap meets and everywhere like that. You'll be able to
find it.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I got another question. I tuned in late and you
mentioned the car, a car that's coming out that you
can kind of custom make for parts of electric vehicle.
What was the company was that It's it's.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's starting to come out. It's called Slate. Yeah, it's
kind of between Amazon and uh another another person that
was building this, another company that was building it, and
they're just going to try to build a low budget uh,
kind of snap together kind of car for for electric
and to see how it goes and if it gets

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down to that price and totally customizable, it might be
worth it.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, but they haven't got any on the market.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yet, not yet come out, coming out.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
It's called Slate and that's the company that makes them
slate Yep.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Correct, that's what it's called.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
And that's American made or for made or where.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, everything's global so pretty much anymore, you know so Uh,
I think I think majority of it's probably going to
be American maid. Yes, but you can never get a
hundred anymore.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Well, Toyota at one time was going to come up
with a very high efficiency or an easy to repair
a vehicle that didn't have all the bells and whistles.
Did they ever come up with something like that?

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I think there were. I think all of them are
working on it. I think that's the price point that
they can't get to. That's the yeah, I think to
it is. But I appreciate the call, Jim. We've got
to got to answer some other ones. All Right, we're
gonna head over to uh we want to take all right,
We're gonna take a quick break and come right back
twenty one Silverado. Okuy, what's up?

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Well, whenever I take my truck down the road, down
the highway, especially at about forty miles an hour and
seventy miles an hour, it starts a vibration or like
a rumble that will kind of fade in and fade
out as I pass through those speeds. And I recently
got some new tires back and fall their continental terrain

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contacts supposed to be a really good tire. Anyway, I
took it back to the tire place where they warrantyed them,
and they did a rebalance, and that actually came out worse,
and I think it's because they increased the air pressure.
So I reduced the air pressure and it's kind of
a little bit left now, but it's still there, and

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it seems to be progressing, like I'm noticing it more
and more as.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
I drive it more.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
So Okay, okay, so let's back up a little bit.
Did you have this problem at all before the tires?

Speaker 7 (29:51):
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Okay, they are pretty good tires, and so did they
warranty all four of them or just rebalance the them?

Speaker 5 (30:01):
Well, they were under warranty when I bought them obviously,
but then they balanced them just for free because it's
part of their service.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Okay, So they didn't replace them. They didn't give you
another brand new set, They just balanced the original set.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Okay, right, I was just trying to solve the problem,
so I had them rebalanced just to make sure that
no problem.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
So that just allows me to say that we're probably
still in the tires. If they put on a brand
new set and the problem got worse, I'm thinking that
there's something else in the mechanical system that's an issue.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
But you didn't have the issue before the tires. Now
we got the issue with these tires exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
So now is you have a vibration right about forty
are you just as you're driving down the road.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, it's say you. When I get on the highway
and I'm transitioning through, you know, lower speeds, higher speeds.
Right around forty, it fades in and it turns to
vibration or a rumble, and then it fades out, you know,
lasts for maybe about three to five seconds.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Do you feel tires will usually give you a vibration
in the rear or in the steering wheel, depending on
whether it's in the front or the rear. Have you
tried rotating him and see if things have gone away?

Speaker 4 (31:16):
No? I have not.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, so if you're transitioning in there the other I mean,
there's a possibility that because it's coming right in at
forty mile an hour, is your transmission possibly doing that.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
It happens, It happens again right around seventy miles per
hour again, and it kind of fades in at about seventy.
And I think it could be like, you know, the
harmonic you know, convergence of all this stuff going on,
you know, the rotation of the tire or whatever causes
it to bounce a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, so when you're going down now that I know
that it does it at seventy when you go down
the road, what vibrates? Are the seats vibrating? Is the
popping the cup holders vibrating? Or is the steering wheel vibrating?

Speaker 5 (32:06):
It's basically it feels like the whole vehicle.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
It's just kind of.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Okay, So it's in the rear, it's in the rear tire.
It's in the rear. So I think, so I've done
this for a while. It's in the rear, So what
I would do is go row too tires to the
front and see if it goes to the front. See
if it goes now that that vibration goes to the front,
and see if you have a steering wheel vibration. If not,

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the next thing I would do is say and either A,
go find Go find one of your buddies. It's got
another truck just like this and swap all the tires
back and forth and see if your problem goes away.
Or b go back and get their different set of tires.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of work. I'm hoping
that you know that the guys who provided the tires
can replace them. But I got to convince them that
that's the problem. So and that's gonna be hard to do.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
I've been down this road. I've been down this road
more than a few times. And luckily I have enough
friends that I can say, bring your truck over here,
we're going to put tires on. Because people get mad
at me and they say it's in the tires, and
you're right. They don't think their tires are ever bad,
that there's never a problem, they never ever go bad,
and ninety percent of the time they're correct. But it's

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all about the it's all about the customer service. On
the other side,