Mr Mechanic 9-27-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meat 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.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Just by how you're walking out.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engine lights don't 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 tens the numbers to get in.
This is an interactive call in show where you got
some questions, We'll get you some answers, get you back
on the road, direct you straight to what you gotta repair.
With me as always is Kyle. Good morning, Kyle. Yeah,
we made it. We made it. It's a nice weekend

(01:05):
to get out there, and you know it's going to
be getting better till it gets so cold. You got
to put your project in the garage. But now you
can just work out, you know, because there's always too
much stuff in the garage, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah? Yeah, my god, I don't know how I get
anything done.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh well, you just that's why. That's why the fall
is the way to do it, because you can work outside.
You don't have to worry about that. I found an
interesting article here that Ram is abandoning there full electric truck,
you know, completely electric, that's all it's going to do,
kind of like the Silverado kind of thing. But but

(01:42):
here's how they're going to do this, which is interesting.
They're now going to have a hybrid truck which is
going to be electric, but then it's going to have
a gasoline motor in it.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, isn't that kind of what their EV was because
there EV still had a three six in it.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well, but didn't say what kind of motor was going
to be in this. But it is going to it's
going to be a hybridized light dude to pick up
that uses an onboard gasoline generator, which is a gasoline
motor and a generator. I mean, that's just how that works.
One one starts, turns the other one, and that's going
to put electricity in your battery for an extended range. Sure, okay,

(02:25):
so I mean that's basically what we got here, don't it.
I mean we just having an electric hybrid. That's what
Toylet has been doing for what twenty five years? Yeah,
So and they Toyt just kind of has it, you know,
not that you're the only one. I'm just saying that
everybody's got it. It's just Toyt has been doing it
for twenty five years. No, those cars are great, So

(02:45):
all the bugs have pretty much been worked out of
that particular car. We'll just have to see how how
that works, you know. I mean it's it's kind of
where they're going to, you know. And to follow that
up too, this is an interesting I found also is
that the new world speed record was set over in

(03:06):
Germany by uh was it a Chinese company that has
all electric like an all electric sports car. Three hundred
and eight point four miles per hour. That's that's above the.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
The that's a highway speed record, right.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, that's on the whatever they that big.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I was going to say, Britney Force did that like
four times last weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, well she did three. Yeah, she did three thirty four.
Yeah in an eighth mile. Yeah, Sprice, she can.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Get that car going three miles.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
See.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sprice, she can see and their eyeballs aren't all over
the place when she gets out of that the place.
But yeah, that's that's faster than the the Bugatti Intron
Super Sport. So and we all know that if you've
been in an electric car and you got the super
duper version, man, they go, yeah, they go right now

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because there there's no loss of horse power to the
wheels because it's in the direct drive. Yeah, you don't
got to go out of the engine, through the transmission,
through the dry cheft, through the axles, and to the retires.
There's no weight time. No, there's no weight time.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
No.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I was surprised actually a couple months ago when I
was watching the Pike's Peak hill climb. Those cars are
basically unphazed up that mountain. Yeah, and they just flat
out go. I mean they're turning eight minutes going up that.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Mountain and they're running some of the best times too.
Oh yeah, which is in their own class, which they
need to be. You don't. We don't want that to
kind of take over. I mean you still want the
mechanical powered.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well, yeah, that's the whole draw to it. I mean,
if it was an ev race, there wouldn't be anybody
there to watch it. It's not exciting, nose.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's kind of tough for there's not a lot of
people in their backyard being able to It's got an
electrical engineering degree to be able to put that kind
of gether together. Oh yeah, that's for sure. Well it's
a little Yeah, you're going to have to get used
to it. When you see them go by it and
then they went by, you have no idea. No, the

(05:10):
tires are it's just a noise of the tires. And
sometimes I ran across some papers the other day that
was interesting. And this is going to be a flashback. Kyle.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
You are holding an old piece of paper.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I am holding an old piece of paper. This is
a this is my grandfather that bought a new DeSoto
in DeSoto was part of Plymouth. So on this piece
of paper, it tells you that it gives you the
ven number, which was only about.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Eleven characters eight.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think it's eight. Yep, there wasn't very many of
them nineteen fifty six. It's what this is on February
of nineteen fifty six.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
So that was a cool car.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It was a it was kind of like a DeSoto
was the top end of what a Plymouth was. Oh yeah,
top top end. This is yeah, it was like have
a HEMI it didn't say that. It didn't say that.
It's the car was two two hundred and ninety dollars.
The clock he got. He got a clock for twelve
dollars and eighty eight cents. He wanted power breaks, so

(06:18):
it was twenty eight dollars and twelve cents. Got an
air cleaner for two dollars and fifty one cents. A
triad horn, I don't know what that is for seven
dollars and ninety eight cents. Power steering, so you could
opt in or out on the on the manual brakes
or or the power steering.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Funny thing, you should bring up power steering on a
DeSoto because a buddy of mine has some DeSotos. And
the power steering was an actual add on. It was
not part of the belt drive. And what they did
to add it on were actually taking the system apart.
And it's kind of interesting. The power steering pump you
take the back off of the generator and put your

(07:02):
power steering pump on there.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Really.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, the power steering pump has an adapter plate that
looks just like the back of a generator, and you
just bolted onto your generator, so you end up with
a generator. It's about a foot and a half long.
So I mean, if you've got to replace a valve
cover or better clear than clearly afternoon, but very cool
system to see.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, so the accessory group system, there was four in.
This doesn't say what it was, but that was one
hundred and ninety six dollars. That was the That was
the top end of what all this. He's just putting
some coin in, yeah, yeah, And then that was a
good car, a jiffy jet. I'm not sure what that was,
but that was seven dollars and sixty cents. And then

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rear speaker, so you get option rear speaker for fifteen dollars.
Do rear antennas because that was kind of cool back
in the day.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh yeah, California Antenna's.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
A bug screen for dollars fifty made this whole car
three thousand and ninety five dollars and thirty two cents,
and that was that was a big car. It was
a luxurious car. Oh yeah, kind of a step back
in time. And uh, you know that was probably that

(08:13):
was that was kind of pricey. You know, I didn't
you know, what I needed to do was go see
what today's dollars is for that, and we'll do that
before the end of the show, so we can go
back and see exactly what that was.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay, So the Jiffy Jet was actually a Chrysler Dodge
Plymouth add on and it's basically just your washer fluid pump. Oh,
the washer fluid had a bag and yeah, you had
to pump it up on the floor.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay, yeah, okay, a Jiffy jet.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, my Falcon has that. Really, I don't think it's
called Jiffy Jet. It's just the washer flow.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's what they had listed down here. This is a
Jiffy Jet.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I'll tell you what Chrysler patented windshield washer system.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah. It was a Desto two door Sportsman fire flight.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So yeah, he might head to hemy in that might have.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, I never did ever get I don't think I
ever seen I've seen pictures of it, but I don't
think I've ever seen it in person. I don't think
it was gone by then, but you know, just an
interesting step back and you don't get to see those
kind of invoices that are is.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Remember, we had one floating around the shop years and
years ago for a model T that they needed to
have the engine rebuilt on our new piston rings or something,
and it's just like five bucks or whatever. Yeah, the
guy got that letter from the dealership saying what they
had to do for all the pistons and rings and
everything and gaskets.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's like, yeah, just over five bucks. It's like really, yeah,
pretty much. All right, We're gonna take a quick break
here on the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight to
eleven tens the numbers to get in. We'll be back
in a minute, and welcome back to the Great Mechanic
Debate where Marnie Fenders is really tagging a meeting from

(09:56):
our incumbent, Mister Mechanic.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
You say you want to illuminate all car loan debt,
but how exactly do you plan to pay for it?

Speaker 7 (10:06):
What do you mean how am I going to pay
for it? Shouldn't you just be happy that you're not
going to have car loan debt anymore? I mean, come on,
but to answer your question, I'm going to raise taxes. Hey, hey, hey,
only on the wealthiest car owners. Okay, after all, it's
like I always say, if you drive a Lamborghini, you

(10:27):
can pay an extra fefee.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Oh okay, most of mechanic. You say the car industry
is the bust that's off for been. But how exactly
are you planning to stop car factories from opening in
other countries?

Speaker 8 (10:42):
How will I stop factories from opening in other countries? Easy,
I'll simply tell them that they can't do it anymore.
And if they do well, then I'll just come up
with a funny nicknamed it.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Commm what, That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard
calling people nick names?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Are you in third grade? What's wrong?

Speaker 6 (11:03):
Boring Barney?

Speaker 8 (11:05):
I just came up with that.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
I Am not boring.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
You're like a boring old shoe, Barny, very informative.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Okay, smell like a shoe too.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Let's keep this so you know what you don't know
how to change a time?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Take that back right now, old man.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
If you've never done an I've lost control.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
I only sniffed it once and we'll be right back
with more of the great mechanic debate after were we
from our sponsors.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Ted's got an engine story ted, what's up today?

Speaker 9 (11:39):
Well, I just want to point out that I had
a rat rod in nineteen twenty nine sedan and it
was shopped and channeled, and I put a three thirty
one heavy that came out of a nineteen six DeSoto
station wagon. And now that the engine ended up in
a buddy of mine's car at nineteen thirty one bodi

(12:03):
A and it's got a six seventy one blower and
runs like a chike like it like a rat.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I know it rat.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
It ain't those amazing engines. And I'm assuming this De
Soto probably had a HEMI in it, you know, just
like that. You know, it didn't say that, but it
probably did, which was they were amazing engines, and uh,
you know how well they made him back then versus
all the engine recalls on various models and products we
have today, we went backwards. I think we went way

(12:35):
backwards compared to what they were doing then.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, three throws heavy.

Speaker 9 (12:40):
It was a heavy, heavy blower. Oh, it was to
get some excess speed.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
Out of it.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
I set it to hot heads heavy and saint Louis,
and they went through it and were putting a blower
on it, and it was it would scream.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah. Yeah, those were great engines. They tried to even
duplicate them in the newer Hemis, but they're called hemies.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
But it's not the same.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
No, No, they just used too.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
If you don't got to spend a day and a
half after your bill adjusting the valves, it's not a hemmy.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. Yeah, well I appreciate the call, Ted, I appreciate
going back in time a little bit.

Speaker 9 (13:26):
Yep, good, plenty of thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Thanks for the call. All right, we're gonna head over
to John. John's got a two thousand Dodge Dakota. John.
What's up today?

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Hey you guys, thanks for taking my call. Last night,
I was heading out to see my fiance and I
pick up says check your gauges. Huh and my amp
you gauge was pinned over on eighteen all the way up.
So I turn around head back for home. Uh, you know,
happy to do numerous stops. Everything seems to be okay.

(13:58):
I did have the AC when I when this happened,
But whether that means anything or not, I don't know.
But I turned the AC back on because I was hot,
and just continued home and he got back to regular
right in the middle and just charging right, you know,
in the middle. And then a little while later I
stopped and took off again and it pegged it. So
I got home. I checked. Yeah, I didn't do anything

(14:20):
but just go get my own meter and check out
the voltage. And I was getting thirteen to five originally,
and it only went up to about thirteen to six.
So I'm thinking I got it all the meter. It's
got a problem because the battery is only a two
year old, five year old NAPA legend, so one thing

(14:42):
wanted to check with you guys.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Well, so when the gauge was pegged, you had your
ant meter on the battery and it said thirteen to five.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Right, No, I do not know that it was. It
was pegged in there. I just I came home. You know,
can't beat a car that breaks down your right way.
I came home and shut it off and then restarted
to make sure it start because I felt, well, I'm
probably going to get it started because the battery still
has enough juice, and went in it, got my own

(15:12):
mear and came out, turned it back on, let it run,
and just put it at the battery. I didn't disconnect
it from the battery or anything, just seeing what it
was going to the battery. It was stillteen to five
and only went like thirteen.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Right, Kyle would like to know whether it's actually doing
eighteen bolts when it says it's eighteen volts in the dash,
is really where he's going and decide whether you actually
have an all nator problem out there or you got
a dash problem.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Because what's happening here is the amverriage gauge works the
same as any other gauge, your fuel gauge, your oil
pressure gauge, they all work the same. So you unplug it,
it goes high, you ground it, it goes low, something
like that. So if you have a bare wire somewhere
that might be touching a ground, it's gonna haywire that gauge.

(16:06):
So I think we need to see what's happening at
the battery when this happens before.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
We just be sure. We want to be sure before
you go hang an all nater on there. And he
got the same problem.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Because they aren't cheap anymore.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
No, that was my next question. We have fads electric here.
He's been around for decades, and I was gonna take
it out, just really didn't have him check it before
we do anything more.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, it's an electrical item, so it's no different than
the toaster working one time and the toaster not working
the next time. And that is exactly it. In a
in a nutshell, it's sometimes it does. I will encourage you, though,
to pull the positive battery cable off and of that
battery and see how much black arcing corrosion is in there,

(16:54):
because they were very, very common for that and the
negative doesn't do it, but the but the positive does.
And if it can't get electricity through that cable into
the battery, it's going to do exactly what it's doing
right now.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
You get all kinds of weird issues.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Especially on a crash on a Chrysler product, especially three
point ninety.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
I've never I just got the car here half a
year ago, or the truck, and it's in very very
good shape. It's clean, it's just beautiful, and I've never
taken that off. I just saw the sticker on there's
battery two twenty four, so I figured it's a NAPA legend.
So I'm getting ready to go out and check all
that out.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well they can.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
You got to take off that cover on the top,
get it all off, all the all.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
The Chrysler products, car, pickup truck, SUV. I don't care.
They have black arching. That happens on the positive battery cable.
And it was a good, clean, solid connection. Even if
it looks great on the outside, Pull it off, take
a look inside, scrape it down.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I'll get cleaned and started up and retest. Drive it.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sure, yep, it can look you know whether it looks
bet or not. Agreed, that's not it. Nope, agreed. It's
easy to do and you'll know for sure.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Do you have time for one more quick question? It's
my fiance's car. I should have been talking about it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Sure will help her out too.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
In the twenty and eighteen Buick on car with seventy
thousand miles, she lived in the country, so she does
have to deal with dirt roads. She religiously gets everything
change and everything. She had a point the other day
here at the local place, and a chick had developed

(18:33):
in the engine and she'd had an appointment to get
her oil changed. So they said, is there anything else
we should look at? And she goes, well, there's a
tick in the engine. If you could check that out,
make a long story short, they wouldn't change her oil,
gave her an estimate to three hundred and seventy five

(18:53):
dollars to look into it, and said that has nothing
to do with the repair.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, so.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
This is.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Turboat charged eco tech.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
So here's what happens with those eco techs that creates
a tick and why it hasn't been recalled or addressed
by the dealership, I.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Do not know.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
But here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna take the
valve cover off of that engine over on the passenger
side where all the timing components are. You're going to
see it's called a shoe. I call it a timing
chain guide. The manufacturer calls it a shoe. But it's
right there in between your two camshafts. There's two E

(19:37):
eight inverted torques fasteners that hold this down. And I'm
willing to bet your lunch tomorrow that they are loose.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's causing a rattle, causing the ticks, causing the chain
is loose at the top. Yeah, it's flopping around.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, yeah, I see those regularly.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Right after they gave her this nice information, I I
went and saw the car and checked oil, you know,
and had her turn it on. And the evap purge
sillanoid was making a huge racket too.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
And that's that's normal.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
That's normal.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, it's gonna cycle on and off really quick.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yep, that's normal.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
But yeah, but I replaced that too. But that it
also sounds like a whirl in there, like the turbo
charger down there, you had any of that, It's just
there's a definite tick in there. I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well told me, yeah, I would agree with you. And
I will also tell you that these cars had more
problems than you can chick stick at.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah right, Kyle, Yeah, you're gonna put a turbo on
it eventually, sooner or later, you're gonna it's just the
fly in that car, hate to tell you, but get
your valve cover off of there, tup those bolts on
that guide and that'll probably take care of your you know,
as far as your worring noise, maybe check for exhaust

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leaks because the worring noise should be inside.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yep. Appreciate it, John. We got we got a hard break.
We got to run too, we'll be back in a minute.
Subaru Legacy has reached the end of production line. Did
you know that?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I didn't think we'd ever see the end of it.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
After thirty six years, the Subaru Family sedan is finally
being laid to rest in a and the last example
just left the factory in Lafayette, Indiana. Interesting And you
would have thought, as I did, that this had gone
to a Subaru Legacy museum.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Okay, it didn't.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
They sold it. It's who got the last one? I
don't know that's a special one. John Doe, Yeah, I
suppose Jane Doe. I don't know. They just got uh,
they just sold it. If you heard Kyle Man, I went, well,
it may lock yet, but could have went anywhere. Yeah,
I could be here in town. How are we going

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to know if it's the last one? Do they production
datum like this is the eight millionth one? I mean,
I don't know. I suppose it ends in nine nine
nine nine. I suppose don't it.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Now?

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well anyway, I mean the across suber Hu's line they
had obviously the I have I have this question all
the time, is is why did they get rid of
that car?

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Well?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
What that was a cool car. I liked it. Why
did they get rid of that? It's only run. One
reason you get rid of it. It doesn't sell. Yeah,
it was cool to start with, whatever cool was. And
then they started off selling them half a million copies
and then it started going from four hundred to three hundred.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
To two for years. I mean, the legacy outback was
like a wagon type thing. And I mean then now
station wagons are just totally phased out.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
The only there's certain cars they keep around on low
low production, Like, let's just they too. It has got
a Supra that doesn't.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
You're not selling ten of those days.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, no, and and and but that brings everybody to
the coolness factor brings them to the dealership. And and
same with the Camaro, same with Mustang, you know, things
of that. They're I'm sure they're making their own. But
it's it's not like selling an suv. No, it's not
like going for like.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
The b r Z or whatever and you're starting in
the showroom looking at it and they're like, you're more
of a legacy guy. I can see it. Let's look
at this wagon.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, it's not like it's not like selling an Explorer
where you're gonna sell you know, a million and a
half of those things. That's that's where your bread and
butter is. And that's just part of part of what
it is.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Super is lying. I mean, they've changed quite a bit.
I mean they're they've always been progressive, but it seems
like they're really kicking it into high gear here lately.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, you know, and I and I are they adding
a lot of turbos to things, because that's really their
downfall Because I did look a Subaru and I liked
the car. Everything about the car except for the power,
was just anemic and it was just terrible. And really
all they needed to do was instead of going to
the six cylinder, which is not around anymore.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Because I mean, they have the technology the VRZ is
to say motor that's in the legacy, they just have
a turbo on it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, let's let's add a turbo to this thing, and
everybody and their brother is going to love it. Oh
and it just it was the difference between kind of
going gingerly through an intersection and flying through the intersection.
So it's good. Yeah, I got to go find something different.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Just yep, this car is going to be a blur
on the traffic camera.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's that's what you I mean. Sometimes that's just what
you want. JD Power twenty twenty five vehicle dependability study
is out. They could guess who's the top Kyle, Top two,
Top two.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
You're gonna vision import manufact because.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You're gonna get one of them and you're not going
to get the second one.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
The second one has got to be a curveball then,
so I'm gonna say Toyota is probably pretty good.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, Lexus, same thing, Yeah, same thing. Okay, number two
you're gonna have to gas.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh, it's probably gonna be something I would never suspect
or pick or own. So I'm gonna go with Audi. Okay, No,
it's a Buick.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, now these these are rated on so just so
you know the parameters, it's uh problems per one hundred vehicles,
so that that maybe skew it so a little bit.
If you don't sell more than one hundred vehicles, you're
gonna be high on the list. But Lexus does, so
we know. Yeah yeah, so Lexus. Uh, and I'm gonna

(25:45):
go down the list just a little bit and stop
at the ones that are Buick. Yeah, yeah, and b
exchanging their deal. But okay, I don't know what the
deal Lexus. I agree with Buick, Okay, Mazda, Tota, Cadillac, Okay,
you know, Chevy, GMC, Porscha's in there.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
And in Porsche does BMW Mini Cooper?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Kiya Honda? Agree with average? What's the average? So I'm
gonna start with Lexus. This is one hundred and forty
to start with on their on their sheet, and the
average is two hundred and one. Yes, but you know
it goes by per one hundred vehicles. So if you
don't sell that many cars overall, you're you're gonna rank higher,

(26:39):
would't you think unless it's a real turnball. Well, super Us, uh,
you know down the list, probably midpack at two twelve.
Just reading the merced and.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
I mean the newer super Us, they aren't having the issues.
I mean they don't really fall into the care category
of the namesake that super Hu's gotten over the last
twenty years. I mean yeah, well, you know, and there's
certain parking lots you can pull into and be like,
there's a super Ue that's been here, and.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
This may be people that are complaining too, so that
might be skewed a little bit. Yeah, let's go to
the bottom through the bottom two, Kyle, bottom three.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I was gonna say BMW, but nope, somebody gave them
close credit close Mini Cooper, somebody gave them. Then let's
say Land Rover and Jaguar, the other two guys that
are sold at the Mini Cooper BMW dealer.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
They are down at the bottom, but the bottom one
is Volkswagen, and up from that is Chrysler. Chrysler beat Volkswagen.
And then here's something you own is a jeep. Okay, well,
you know what jeep stands for, right, there's various ones.
Which one you're gonna throws empty every pocket? Okay? All right?
And then Audi so that those is a bo them

(28:00):
for Okay, So just a little bit of food for thought.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, when the Jeeps have problems, they do. I mean,
depending on what line of jeep you get determines what
problems you get.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
I've come to find that out from having you know,
the Cherokees and having the Wranglers and the Gladiators. You're
gonna have problems. You just getna pick which batch of
problems you get.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
So, just to be fair, Kyle, that's that's a car
your wife wanted, it wasn't you. So you just had
to grin and Barrett and say, Okay, I'm.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Just along for the ride. At this point, I can
just run to the end of my chain.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
And bark okay. And there's a lot of people out
there like that. So well, maybe you need the linked
in your chain just a little.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Bit so you can get to Well, we don't tried, failed, tried, failed,
stay in the yard.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
And bark, Well, that's true, that's true. Sometimes that happens.
I'll tell you what. All right, we're gonna take a
quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show. Come back and
answer a callway back in a minute. Steve's got an
eighty six Corvette. Steve, what's going on today?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
We got a question.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Uh, when it comes to overheating starters, is.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
That really a thing?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh? Yeah, I've done it a million times.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, we've seen him and you overheat him to the
point that just melts all the everything on the inside
of it and just makes it go bad for sure.
What what kind of Oh, so you're talking in this
corvette that is down in the area where it's tough
to get to and it's uh, doesn't have a heat
shield on it anymore, and you're cooking it kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Very true.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
I'm not sure, but everybody seems to think that when
I drive it for a while and I shut it off,
I won't start back off. But I let him say
it for a couple of moments, get it far back up,
and I'm thinking then, you know, I'm looking through some
of these.

Speaker 11 (29:53):
Corvette magazine and they get think it's.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
For your you know, blanket for the starter.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, they sure do. And that'd be the easiest thing
to try. And we've done it on other cars that
have had headers that run really close to a starter,
and yeah, they just heat soak and get hot and
everything expands. But you can find stuff that's pretty thin
and that you can, you know, slip it down in
there and wrap it around maybe once or twice and

(30:24):
and and uh secure it with a couple of zip ties.
That would be the first thing that I would try
to see if that solves your problem. But yeah, it's
absolutely a.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Thing basically, just a kevlar blanket, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
And you'd be surprised at just how much deflection of
heat off of that really makes a change in difference.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
Yeah, So bottom line, if I even got a new
starter to do the same thing, because it's so big
and such a small space that it took it.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yep, got you got nowhere the heat to go, you know,
like on the even the newer vehicles. Now, let's just
go Silverado because we've done a few starters on those
here lately. It's got a heat shield that comes right
off of that. It's a little small heat shield, but
it's imperative to put it back on, especially that because
it just makes everything expand you know what does when

(31:15):
everything gets hot, It just expands, and then electrical connections
aren't nearly as good. As soon as it contracts back
to normal, it's fire and off. Yep, go find one
of those out of speedway motors or Corvette uh uh
book or whatever, and it'll help. That's why they got them,
all right, you bet, I appreciate the call. We're gonna

(31:36):
havever Tom. Tom's got a super hu comment, super what's
up today?

Speaker 10 (31:41):
Super Tom guy's been driving subers but the last ten years,
and I have a little insight about the uh the
last rites for the subrew legacy.

Speaker 12 (31:52):
Yeah, it's a matter of numbers, matter of numbers and competition.
Everybody has pretty much dropped the four door or family sedan,
meaning the only competition really left is the camera and
the accord and subrew is never going to put a
dent in that. The same reason for drop the Fusion
and Maza dropped the six to six and the six. Secondly,

(32:16):
it's about h it's about assembly. As you noted correctly,
those are the Legacy is built in Indiana, which builds
most of the cars, with the exception the Forster, for example,
though for now is still being built strictly in Japan.
But by culling the Legacy, they are going to be
moving Forester production back in the Indiana so they can

(32:38):
get up and give it to the tariff considerations. Plus
they're also going to be dropping the Ascent. The twenty
twenty six or big the Asseid suv is going to
be dropped twenty twenty six as the last model year,
which theoretically, you know, some people remember they might build
a reinvent a small pick up called the Baja. But

(32:59):
it's the same time they're also going to be during
to redesign on the outback. There will be much more
suv like as opposed to the station wagon style that
you're correctly noted as well. But basically they've ceded the
market to the Forider family sedan because nobody's going to
unseek cameras in the cords. But at the same time
they're freed up that assembly line in Indiana to build

(33:20):
forsters and get around the turff.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah. Yeah, well there's always something behind it in it
and and numbers and sales have a lot to do
with it. And and interestingly enough, I never thought about tariffs,
but yeah, they're If they're made in Japan, that certainly
is a big deal in losing money coming that way.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (33:37):
Yeah, Foresters for an hour builds strictly in Japan, and
that's going to be switched.

Speaker 10 (33:41):
So there you are.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Well, that's good coming back to America. That's what we want.
Appreciate the coming down