Mr Mechanic 9-6-2025

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 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 ill pressure 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 engine 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.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
We got some open lines, so give us a call.
Let's fill those lines up this morning. We're an interactive
call in show. You've got some questions, we'll give you
some answers. Shoot you in the right direction, tell you
what we think We're okay with that. We are Buchan
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and guaranteed breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge stop and
see us. Get some pop, get some get some car
repair advice, get some get some gas, get it all.
Good morning, Kyle. How are you.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah. It's a great day to go out and fix
the car and driveway, isn't it. Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, this week has been awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
We went from sweltering hot to yeah, let's get outside.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah we got those projects we didn't want to do
when when it was one hundred degrees and all you
had to do was walk outside and start sweating. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've got more work done in my shop at home
this week than I have all summer. I'm not even
gonna during the hot weeks, like I'll get it an
hour out there day and after that I'm done.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah. It gets too hot out there, and especially when
you're in a lot of you know, we have shops
that are just kind of open in the air, and
you know a lot of my shops are all air conditioned, and.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know that I would like that because I
don't like the doors being shut. It's just too loud
and echoey. And you got to have a fresh air season.
Whether it's sweltering hot or not, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I'll take it. Leave the doors open. I'm fine with it. Yeah,
get through it. Yeah, and then you always got to
start the car up. And he start the car up.
Doesn't take too long before it stinks. Yeah, the exhaust smells.
Even if you got a hose on it.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Not all that you can't escape it.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
No, not all that stuff goes outside. Even got even
got a hose on it and sealed up as the
best you can, it'll don't oh go outside. So I'll
tell you what. So, Yeah, it'd be a good you know.
I ran across this article the other day, Kyle, and
I thought this was interesting. They've got a it's got
a new concept. They're going to put a two point

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seven five inch lift and then two and a half
inch lift, U thirty one inch b F good Rich
t KO tires, t O K two tire. I can't
say that. Okay, you know the sand tires, you know
the ones have been out there for everything. And it's
gonna be a grizzly peak overland package. And you're kind

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of wondering what card is because I didn't tell you
so far. Okay, that's gonna be on a Chrysler PACIFICA.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, on a PACIFICA, I wouldn't go with anything less
than thirty five, So.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't know why we're doing thirty one. I mean,
it just seems if you're gonna go, let's go big.
But they're gonna it's gonna be a Chrysler PACIFICA grizzly
peak all wheel drive with two and a half to
two seven five lift and thirty ones.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
So we're lifting a mini van.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yep, that's where I'm going out of the factory. Well,
maybe you know somebody off the factory. I don't suppose
this is done at the.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
So there's gotta be some demand for that. I mean,
p I mean, if you're going into the Chrysler dealer
and like, I like this van, but it's just too low.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Who do you know, Kyle? Do you know one person
I would say, I think I'm gonna go buy that.
I guess you don't know till you see it on
the lot, do.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
You Well, it seems like could be really top heavy.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, I'm sure that this is going to have one
of those uh you know, those roof racks on the back,
you know, so you can go off like I know.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
A guy that's gonna buy one. You know, it ain't me,
definitely ain't me. But I know a guy that's gonna
buy one.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, once you have those off road roof racks on
there that allow you to put the canoe and the
you know, get out of mud stuff on the top,
and all the whatever's.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Extra gas can water, canter, kerosene, spare tire, you know,
a tent. I'm not gonna have a shovel.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
So if you roll it over, what's the big deal,
It's just gonna be you just push it back over.
It's not gonna hurt it. Yeah, blow a couple windows out. Yeah,
airbags go off. That's the pont of having an off
road vehicle. That's what you got a knife force cut
the airbags out of there. When when they go off,
you know, let's head over to a car. Let's head
over to the calls Barbie. He's got a twenty ten

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PT Cruiser, Barb, what's up today?

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yes, I have the PT Cruiser and I have an
icon that just started to light up a couple of
weeks ago, and it's the icon indicating the air bags problem.
Okay that I looked it up in the book. Anyway,
what I want to know is do I have to
get that fixed?

Speaker 6 (05:26):
It has?

Speaker 5 (05:27):
The car has eighty thousand did I tell you that
miles on it? And it's man, it's been super good,
no problems with anything ever, normal maintenance. I do you
know the oil changes for times a year. I just
I don't know new brakes on it, new tires. I
just want to know how imperative. I'd love to get

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that light off of your dash.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
So, I mean, do you have to get it fixed? No? No,
the light will remain on. I mean, you're air bags
are not going to deploy, most likely in the event
of a collection.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So if you're a safe driver, you're fine. Yeah, you
just got to worry about it. A townful of safe drivers,
you're great. But so, I mean, this can be anything
from a simple repair, maybe a broken wire or an
impact censor. It could be a module. It could be
a clock spring and a steering wheel. It could be

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as easy as something got stuck underneath the seat and
you pushed the seat back and it unplugged. Something unplugged
some Yeah, and uh boy, we've seen that more than
a few times.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I saw it this week on a Toyota did you.
It's like these things don't ever have it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I've dug out beer cans, I've dug out pop cans,
I've dug out high heeled shoes that have kicked off
the connectors. I've dug out all sorts of stuff underneath
the seat. That may not be your case, but we're
just saying it can be.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Simple, right, It could be simple. But otherwise, if I
took it into a mechanic shop too, I'm talking hundreds
of dollars, probably you probably.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Are to sit down and diagnosed. But here's probably what
I think about anyway, is maybe spend the time to
have it looked at and have it diagnosed, and then
decide from there whether it's a let's just say, three
hundred dollars repair, then that's all it's going to be
in the lights out, or if it's a fifteen hundred
dollars repair, and then right at least you're making an

(07:24):
informed decision based on fact versus just being scared about
the light and right, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, and it doesn't affect the ability of the car
to stop start Nope, Uh, Okay, this is just an
item that is kind of hanging out there, but it
is a safety thing, and I understand that I would
love the airbags to work, but okay, I just wanted
to hear it from you that my car wouldn't just

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stop running on me just because the damn icon was
let out.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
No, not for that, but it's it is a safety feature.
And it's probably not so much you that you've got
to worry about going to crash into things. I can
probably say that for sure. It's more about somebody else
hitting you. And uh, like you said, we live in
a town of people paying attention.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I got a truck that's proved, right, yeah, and.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's not like and I don't do much driving, uh
hardly at all, So I think I'm gonna just uh,
I'll push my luck for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Thank you so much for taking If anything, we offer
some black tape and you can just cover that light up.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yes, yeah, that's true. But you know what like every
five minutes a ding oh.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah yeah yeah, and we don't like that.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's where it becomes a pain.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Well great, okay, okay, guys, love your.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Show, Thank you appreciate the call. Yeah, there's not I
mean there's there's a lot of lights on the dash
that you don't really have to fix.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
You just a year, we get a couple more we do.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
You got to decide how much of the Christmas tree
you're going to light up for you decide to go
in and fix it. And here's a tough thing that
you might want to So when you go in and
you got one light on the dash, we're gonna look
at that, and we're gonna because there's no other lights
on the dash, so there's nothing more to really look at.
But if you come in and you got an air

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bag light on, and you got an ABS light on,
and then you've got a check engine light on, and
you've got light after light after light, some lights will
come on for other lights, so that one code breeds
another code breeds another code. But if you wait and
come in after five lights are on, there could be

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four or five different diagnostic charges involved in order to
figure out everything that you got going on, because a
lot of these things do not intermingle with other things.
So your ABS light is not going to come on
because your air bag light's on. So just be prepared
that the time spent to figure out each problem may
be a charge that's going on. Oh yeah, Unfortunately, because

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it's it's time. It's no different than going to the doctor.
You had a certain amount of time they've allotted for you.
One problem. Yeah, and when you add a bunch, it
just takes a while. All Right, We're gonna take a
quick break in the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight
to eleven, ten is the number to get in. We'll
be back in a minute.

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Speaker 2 (11:00):
Down the put the shears down. But whatever it is
down that you're doing.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
So, Yeah, it's nice out. We know you're working.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, we know you're working. You're mowing the lawn, listening
to the radio. You want to get that to figure
out what that problem is. Yeah, give us a call,
you know, maybe that last caller, maybe that's something we
could lift that PT cruiser.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
But it's been done, is it. Yeah, there's one on
marketplace right now. It's on a like a S ten
chassis and it's got the V six four wheel drive,
like thirty seven inch tires. It's it's the honey of
a car.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Really. I thought I had an original idea. I guess
I was wrong there. Oh well, anyway, this one's coming out.
It looks to me like maybe out of the factory,
I don't know, didn't be able to stick a HEMI
in it, flip it sideways. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
But uh, you know, I'm curious to see how they
worked this drive line, you know, because with the subframe
of that platform, I mean, you don't really got enough
room for a lift. Your axles are going to be
You're going to have to have like a chain drive
and just like lower it to I mean, what are
they doing as far as suspension.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well, I don't think it's I think it's off road
is kind of probably one of the it's a that's
a relative thing. Off road is something you do when
you get off to change a tire, not really off
the road, off off the paved road, off of a
really well manicured gravel road. Maybe that's kind of where
you're going.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
It's not I want to winch on the thing. Well,
I want to drive it up the face Abount Rushmore.
You know that's what I think when I think off road.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, yeah, that's what that's what you and I think.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I'm a hanging off a cliff.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
We're talking about getting off the highway and hitting the
gravel road. That's what this is for. And then you
maybe drive out in the middle of nowhere with all
the mosquitoes, and then you set up your tent in
the middle where all the wildlife's at that can eat you.
And that's that's off road. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
C W.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
McCall tape stuck in the radio.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah yeah, Well if they had that anymore. Here's an
interesting article around across two. There's thirty seven thousand drivers
that have figured out and this is an Arkansas that
labor not an insurance company. And the article was was
said state farm. This is kind of interesting that the

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when the cars got totaled, they used the algorithm that
they used was not correct. So it shorted a tremendous
amount of people, thirty seven thousand of them of total
loss calculations in their.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Their insurance claims didn't pay out.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
As much as it should have. And the reason that
didn't do it, State Farm says is that they fo
the algorithm factored in that they were going to haggle
down pricing at the dealership. That that doesn't seem like
that should be.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
But that doesn't seem like that's not the two groups
that we get together because is what they're gonna do
when they get that check from you.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, they're gonna go out there and you're gonna haggle
that down a grand. And uh so that that should
be factored in there.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's not fair they're paying, they're playing bad pool.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, well, there's been lawsuits against it, and I'm sure
there'll be other things kind of going on. I just
you know, and as and that brought up another and
first of all, it's you just got to it's just
not right to be able to do that. And there's
so many car dealers out there now that have the
no haggle pricing, which I kind of like you walk

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up and you say this is what that car is.
It costs X amount of dollars, and we're not really
going to haggle about it. We're not trying to get
the most out of this and we're not trying to
get the least out of it. We're trying doing a
a fair pricing. And I kind of like that, I
really do. I like the fair pricing. So there's a
lot of other dealerships in town that put they've got high,

(15:05):
medium and low list. So there's a lot of dealerships
that will throw it all at high list. Oh and
if you if you just walk in and say I
want that cart high high list, Well you just gave
them another thousand to two thousand dollars and they expect yeah,
and you expect them to kind of they expect you
to negotiate them down. And there are other dealers out
there that say, we're not going to do that. We're

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going to put it at a fair medium list, and
if we get knocked down a little bit, we get
knocked down a little bit, and if not, then we've
made a fair profit for what we have in the vehicle.
So it's hard to know which one those are. I
kind of knew which ones. They are just by base
looking at it, and if you do your research, which

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you'll all should do before just popping in and say
I like that car for that look for that color.
If you're about that, that's great. But if you don't
do your due diligence, you're going to get taken. You're
just going to get taken because shop around. That's just
the first guy on the block. Yeah, shop around, go
to a couple guys, and cars will sell based on

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the quality. So when you go to Kelly Blue Book,
for example, and you say this car is worth ten
thousand dollars, and you go look around and you can't
find anything that's not less than you know, twelve to
thirteen thousand dollars, well, it's because you picked out a
car more than likely that has quality built into it
and will last a long time. And a lot of

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people are looking at so it's supply and demand. You
go out and you pick up a certain car out
there that and I don't want to pick on anybody specific,
although I could, I'm not going to. And you see
that that price is the Kelly blue Book says ten
thousand dollars, and everybody has them out there for eight.

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You know, red flag should be going up. But why
is that eight thousand bucks? Is it? Is it a
recycled is it a car? Have they bought it off
the ouction and they're refixing it? Is it that bad
a car that they can't even get rid of it?
And so they're discounting the price from ten thousand dollars
down to eight just so they can get it off
the wall.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
We hear a lot of that on TV. But they
make it sound really exciting.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh they do, yeah, yeah, they.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Make it sound Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, come on down. We're
slashing prices. Right, We were talking and when an ad
starts like that, that's normally where they're going exactly.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You know, as car guys, we have a hard time.
We were discussing about this the other day, and we
have a hard time buying a car off a car
Vana's similar website.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Oh yeah, it's a sight unseen deal.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
There's a green car that's got that I like the
shape of it, and it just shows up and you
drive it. And because these cars if you got low
mileage and things like that, okay, but you have no
idea what that car's about. You can't feel it, you
can't touch it, you can't drive it. How's the blind spot?
Can you find the where the turn signals? How do
you turn this thing on?

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I got I got in a car, truck driver dropping
it off. Here you go, yeah, yeah, that's your experience.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I got in a car the other day and I'm
looking for the start button. Can't find this thing. And
we've talked about this before. They put the start button
kind of on the dash. But it's the same color
as everything else. So once you drive the car for
a while, you understand where it's at. But when you
get in there and I'm looking around, looking around, there
it is. I finally see it. It's the same color

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as the trim, and it's like, okay, that's what starts
a car. But it's not obvious like the key. Everybody
knows where the keys at.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
So and I guess that's the good thing about us,
because I mean we get to drive, you know, thirty
cars a week easily. I mean I'm in an average week.
I mean thirty cars, thirty different cars is not out
of the realm of possibility. A lot of times it's
more than that, and we get to see everything. But
we got to know how everything works in fifty different

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makes and models.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah. Yeah, so it comes the time spent to figure
out what it.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Is, it gets it gets exciting.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, it's kind of fun. I enjoy it. We both
enjoy it. All Right, We're gonna take a quick break
on the Mister Mechanics Show five to five eighty eleven
tens of numbers to get in. We'll be back in
just a minute. Jim's been waiting around, Jim, what's up today?

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (19:15):
I heard a rumor of that there on the newer
vehicles they can eliminate AM radio, that you won't have
that ability to tune into AM radio. Is there any
truth to that?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yes, there is, Yeah, there is, but mostly at this
point what I've seen and they've kind of put an
uproar about it to kind of stop it. They don't
like it. The manufacturers don't like it in the all
EV vehicles because of the static that you get out
of it, and that messes with their electronics and that

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really kind of makes them mad.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
This is what the electronics somehow.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's so when you tune it is for years,
remember the Corvettes they had that cover on the distributor. Yeah,
block out radio noise.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, it's kind of on semi same frequency.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know all the particulars to it, but yeah,
you have noise suppressors on the old points and condenser
that would try to keep a lot of that static
coming out of your AM radio. Back in the seventies,
same kind of thing, just you know, but it just
they figure out nobody listened to that anyway, and if
we get rid of that. I think it was an

(20:21):
attempt to get rid of it, and a lot of
people didn't like it, And so yeah, is it technically
out there. I don't know where we stand as of
today on that, but I think most modern vehicles we
get into have AMFM. Oh even the some of the
new ones we get into twenty four or fives and
things of that nature. I can't believe with all the

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technology that we have out there with self driving cars,
that we can't figure out how to get an AM
station and suppress some of the static that comes along
with I just I mean, we can land rockets upside
down and set them back on the ground. Why can't
we get rid of a noise AM noise? I just
don't think I don't think they want to put that
much into it, be quite honest with you.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
So another question with the AD and AI, is that
going to be a future where you can plug in
your smartphone to your car and do engine analyzing through
your smartphones? Is that going to be a possibility.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I would probably say that's coming down the line. And
you know, in some respects the scanners that we have
are getting cheaper to the point where the mass public
has it. And the big difference between what I think
we do and what the mass public has is that
you have to have the knowledge of what you're looking at.

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So when you get a PID list, is is Kyle
will tell you that's a list of a whole bunch
of different numbers that are going from top to bottom
alphabetical order. But if you don't know that that reading
is six twenty five but really should be one hundred
and twenty five, I've it makes nothing. It makes no
sense to you. So it's a matter of time pushed

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into a I.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Mean, it's a very niche market as far as I
mean as far as what you're looking for diagnostic wise,
I mean, they make things that you can plug into
your car and have an app on your smartphone that'll
just give you codes.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
And for the most part, I mean your average person,
your average Joe walking on the street can google a
code and maybe get you know, fifteen hundred different opinions
on YouTube. But it's got to be I don't know
that it would be helpful in any kind of way.
I think it would draw more confusion and you know,

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people freaking out about the simple, small things because they
just don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, in many years down the loan road, maybe AI
will maybe they'll switch their car repair stuff over to
that so it's easier to repair. But usually when you
have a code that comes up, you know, for example,
you know PO four twenty or something like that, there
can be five different things that can cause that to
come on. Just because it's a catalytic converter, there could

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be other things that cause that to come on. So yeah,
you know, we might develop into that. I don't know,
We'll have to wait and see just how receptive people
are and then they actually once you figure it out,
then you actually got to be willing to go do it. Yeah,
a lot of people aren't willing to go do it.
It's kind of like the plumber. I know it's clogged up,
but I don't really want to do it.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, we'll hire this.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
Another situation, I'm in a neighborhood where it's almost impossible
to get out during the winter. We don't get the
road maintenance we need. Is there a way you could
connect a snowblower to snow ski to the back of
your vehicle, great power to get out of out of
the area like that? Is there something like that?

Speaker 8 (23:54):
You could.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Use that as axiliary power to move a vehicle out
of a ditch like that.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
You know, Jim, where there's a will, there's a way.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah. Yeah, you just haven't put enough thought to it
and bought a welder yet. That's all I hear.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Look up a company called Matt Tracks.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Yeah like that.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh, they got it.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
They'll get you out of anything.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
They can add. It's uh, they can add those in
the winter time. You can take them on. If you
can take them on, you can put your normal tires
on and you put these wheeled.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Tracks on and it looks like a bulldozer yep, and
the regular hubs. I've been by their facility many times.
They got them on smart cars, They've got them on jeeps,
they've got them on everything.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, you'll easily be able to get the grocery store.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Oh yeah, you can get anywhere.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
I want something that you could just connect during the
winter and then just what you could do that with that.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's the same as changing a tire.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's just area. I mean it's impossible to get.
I had a guy who had pushed me out of here.
We had a four wheel drive vehicle and he had
a time and that damage to bumper.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, so that'll happen. I appreciate the call, gym. We've
got to move on some other lines. All right, we've
got Bob. Bob's got a seventeen f one fifty Bob.
What's up today?

Speaker 9 (25:14):
Yeah, so I just have a quick question. So, you know,
you get the oil change, it puts the sticker on
and and it says, you know, come back and so
many miles or whatever it is. So my sticker says
I need an oil change, but my car says, I
don't which one do I believe?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I go by mileage.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I go by mileage. So so what your car does
is takes a an algorithm of how many miles you've driven,
how many hours you've idled it. Temperature, I mean, have you.
It takes all that into consideration. So maybe you're idling
this car a bunch in the in the wintertime because

(25:56):
it's you know, sitting around and you want to warm
up the car. So that's tough on a car, tough
on oil, all that kind of stuff. So it can
sometimes they don't jive, and the majority of the time
they don't jive. They just don't. So I would probably
go on mileage.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
This is all I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
It says that I should have changed it.

Speaker 9 (26:19):
I don't know, a few weeks ago, and I've got
oil life.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, So you're going by mileage or the date on
the sticker.

Speaker 10 (26:31):
I'm going by mileage, the date on the sticker, Okay,
don't worry about the date on the sticker, just I
always just kind of stick to the mileage unless it's
been five years.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I mean, we throw the dates on the stickers for
a lot of people because they just don't get any
more than five thousand miles a year. And then we
do have a lot of customers that are stuck in
the three months three thousand mile oil change groove, and
if we try to tell them that, hey, just go
with the miles. They get all upset. They want that

(27:02):
oil changed every three months because that's what they know,
that's what they want, and it just anything else good fine,
which is fine. It just it just sends them into
a rattle. So we just do what they ask. But
when this question is asked of us, and it's asked
a lot in a lot of times, we always usually
tell everybody just to go buy the mile to what

(27:23):
it is, and if it's three thousand miles, that and
if it's six thousand miles, we just say, go, you know,
buy that. We hardly ever go to the manufacturer that
says seventy five hundred or ten thousand. We just never do.
But if yours is one that goes six thousand miles
between oil changes, we always say check it every three.
Stop in, we'll check it every three because this oil

(27:45):
is getting so thin now that it consumes more through
an engine than it ever used to. Your car is
probably not one, it's a seventeen. You still got kind
of semisynthic synthetic oil in there. So now to answer
your question, just go with the miles and make sure
it's full.

Speaker 9 (28:03):
Okay, okay, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
You bet, I appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna
head over to John. John's got a twenty ten lexus. John,
what's up?

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I love your show. I'm getting ready to dive into
a project on my daughter's LS four sixty. It has
the dreaded air suspension, and when we purchased it, we
knew this and we thought about going with aftermarket. So
I've picked up coilovers built for the car, but made
in Canada, and as I looked closer, they have a

(28:35):
little disclaimer on it. You know that it's for racing
and off road use. My assumption is that the us
DOT has a very complicated and expensive process to get
certified and that that should not be a concern. But
I'm interested in your opinion.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I would agree with all of that there is. They've
got it in order for for example, I'll kind of
relate this to energy drinks. In order to get that
on the market, you got to say it's a dietary supplement.
That that's their workaround saying, you know, I don't know
what's in this thing. It's up to you to figure
it out. But we're gonna sell it because everybody loves it,

(29:18):
and if it had to go through FDA approval, it
would never get there. And that's kind of along the
same line as what you have there. There's got to
be some sort of disclaimer because there will be somebody suit.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Not factory, so it's it's somebody's aftermarket add on. Part
is how they look at it.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, and the disclaimer comes up because somebody's going to
sue somebody somewhere about something that had nothing to do
with something, and that's kind of what that comes about.
It really does.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, we do a lot of these conversions, all the Lincolns,
the Expeditions, the Trailblazers, all those cars, and yeah they
make who you using.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
A scale ail suspension out of Canada. They're a fully
rebuildable shock.

Speaker 11 (30:06):
The quality looks really good.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
The gentleman was pretty helpful. I got to talk to
people when I ordered it about fitment and stuff like that,
which is nice. But I was the other option that's
out there is Strep Masters and they get mixed reviews
as far as the you know, longevity that they might last.
And so I kind of shopped and got this. So

(30:31):
I did look at like the Strep Masters videos, and
what they show is just disconnecting the air and leaving
the ride height sensors in place. And I'm just wanting
to make sure that I do anything I can to
avoid having some sort of warning light when I'm done.
But I think as long as I get the ride

(30:51):
height correct with the shocks, they're adjustable ride height and
adjustable dampening and unhooked the air, but leave everything that
I can tapped other than hooking the air back to
this strut because it won't have an airport, then I
think that's what I need to do to try and
avoid any lights. Are there any other tips that you
would have on that?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, every vehicle is different. Yeah, and every one of
these conversions we go through we have to do something totally.
I know the old Lincoln town cars, they wanted you
to cut the wire for the light coming out of
the module. Yeah, that's probably not going to be so
easy on Alexis, but I'm sure. I mean, it's great
that you know you've talked to this company and there's

(31:31):
people that you can talk to. They've probably got a
text support line. If they're building this product for this vehicle,
they've installed it and tested it.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, and then they've got the bugs worked out. And
that's kind of why we've always gone with the strut Masters,
because they've made it easy, simple, and they've done all
the R and D on on the backside, on the
front side, so we don't have to do it on
the backside.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
And this is probably just another version of that. So
now I wouldn't see you'd have a problem.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, you'll be just fine.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, all right, Yeah, that's good luck with that. It's
because that's gonna expensive project otherwise. Yeah, yeah, all right,
We're gonna take quick break, mister mechanics. Show'll be back
in a minute. John has a twelve Super Ruth John,
what's up today?

Speaker 11 (32:17):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yeah, I have a twenty twelve Super out back and
it only has about forty one thousand miles. But I've
been sick and haven't really driven it since for about
six weeks. It's been started a couple of times, and
one time, maybe three four weeks ago, I just backed

(32:37):
it out a few feet and put it back in
the in the parking stall. Am I okay to drive
the car?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
I would think you are?

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I mean, yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I don't think six weeks.
I mean that's not too terribly long for a vehicle.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
No, not, that's terribly long for a vehicle. As far
as just sitting there, as long as the battery, you know,
you started up to the battery's still good sitting around,
so that's okay.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
You know, that's going to be fine for it's good
a long time.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, I could. I don't see an issue
at all. Once you get back to maybe driving it
on a full time basis, then maybe just you know,
pop the hood or or you know, just check all
the fluids and check the tires and things like that,
you know, stuff that can and.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
You're gonna hear some weird noises. I'm sure the breaks
have some rust on them, but it'll knock that off. Yeah,
one or two stops and you'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah. And once you start driving, if you start hearing
anything that's out of the ordinary concerning then I would
go have it looked at. But no, it's I think
you'd be fine.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
Okay, Thank thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
You bet appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna head
over to Paul. Paul's got a ninety nine Saturn. Paul
will kind of saturn.

Speaker 11 (33:50):
The station wagon actually Okay, okay, here's the deal. I
got the wipers. You've probably seen this before. You can
turn the wipers on and they work pretty good. They'll
go high and low and delay works usually, but when
you turn it off, it just keeps running. And if
you can turn the car off, which is a real

(34:12):
drag when you're on the highway, then the wipers will park.
Is that problem inside the car or outside the car?

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Generally it's the wiper motor. Yeah, it's the wiper motor.
They have the circuit board in there that has capacitors,
relays and everything in there, and once you energize them,
they just keep the alternating effect going right.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So there's a circuit board in there that allows for
the intermittence, and that intermittent usually is always, usually always
in the motor itself, because that's where the action is happening,
the wiping fast, slow, and intermittent.