The Troubleshooter 10-17-25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank y'all.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Come running.

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Speaker 4 (00:16):
Shooter is gonna help.

Speaker 5 (00:18):
Come Man Dix is the Troubleshooter Show.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No Tom Martino.

Speaker 6 (00:24):
Hello, Hello, Hello, I.

Speaker 7 (00:26):
Am Tom Martino, your Troubleshooter going on fifty years.

Speaker 6 (00:33):
And we love it.

Speaker 7 (00:35):
The longest running radio show still on the air with
the same host, the longest running in America. Welcome, probably
in the in the world. I mean, America beats everybody, right. So,
today's Car Day, as it has been Car Day for
forty five years on a Friday. We have Jeff Fick
with me from camera transmission, and Jeff knows all about cars,

(00:55):
and if you're streaming, you'll see his ugly mug to
the right, Deputy dock Back at the studio. I think
Mark and Sews are off to and I think I
know they're off today, and he might be chiming in
from time to time.

Speaker 6 (01:08):
So welcome, Welcome to the show. And on Car Day,
it's apropos to talk about.

Speaker 7 (01:13):
Things that are car related. And I've done some research.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
And found.

Speaker 7 (01:23):
The biggest problems that come up with used cars that
are hidden by the sellers now let me explain something
to you. Sellers do not have to tell you when
something's wrong with the car. Did you know that, Jeff Thickett.
They sell it as his.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
To disclose anything, that's up to you.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
There's one thing they can't do, and that's make a
false disclosure. Well, they can do it, but if they
do it and you catch them, it can get you
out of the deal. But that don't depend on that, Okay,
don't depend on that. So basically, dealers don't have to
say anything because the law only says if they knew

(02:07):
about certain things they should mention them, like water damage
other things.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
They don't have to say anything.

Speaker 7 (02:13):
They could have a car in its last leg, but
they don't have to mention it. Speaking of which, Jeff,
have you ever had people out on the test dride
that drove by you and said can you check this out?

Speaker 6 (02:23):
And you couldn't believe it was for sale?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:25):
I mean did you?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
More often than not, it's the customer comes in. I
just bought this the other day.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
I got the problem.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
They do it afterwards anyway, what do you think? And
right here you can see on the list the number
one problem hidden are engine problems.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Engine problems.

Speaker 7 (02:42):
Now, is that an old wives tale that you can
silent an engine by putting stuff in the crank case
like well.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
It usually more for like transmission or differential that they
do something like that. For you, the thought of itself.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
Is there anything to mask ticking valve ticking, knocking or anything.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Like that, you know, I mean to some extent, I
mean you could you know, like if you had lift
knock or something inside an older car, you could put
a heavier weight oil in there that might pump them
back up or at least quiet it for a little
while once so the oil send out.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
So there is a way to a little silent. But
engines are the number one problem. Number two problem with
cars as is title washing a title and I still
I still don't understand how.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
They get away with it.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
If they have a car and it has a salvaged title, Jeff,
how would they go about.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I honestly don't know. I mean it they make a.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
Sale and then they don't record the salvage part of it.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
But that's one of the problems.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
Another one is past leans that have been ignored and
they come back to haunt people. High mileage odometer rollbacks
still occur Oh.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, Kevin was talking about this just a couple months
ago that he just had vehicles come in and they're
able to track it by the car facts that you know,
it had one hundred and twenty thousand miles on it
then and shows eighty five thousand miles on it.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
Now, let's talk to Emily, who has an issue with
a transmission from a.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Twenty fifteen Subaru cross Track.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Now, correct me.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
If I'm wrong here, Jeff Suberrews are pretty good, pretty
hardy animals.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's pretty hardy.

Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yeah, and their transmissions don't often go. I've known people
with two hundred thousand miles on their subar Us never
touched the transmission.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's pretty I mean. And that is a CVT. It's
inside that cross track and it must be well done. Yeah,
it's probably the most robust, in my opinion, transmission as
far as the CVTs are concerned.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Ed, what's going on with you?

Speaker 7 (04:45):
Emily? Explain your problem to us here, tell us what's
going on?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Can you hear me? Yes?

Speaker 6 (04:52):
I can?

Speaker 8 (04:53):
Oh my gosh, I guess I didn't really know I
was on the show.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, you know what, that's good for you.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
That's good for you because we can get all of
our people to help you if there's something that we
can help you with.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
So what's going on?

Speaker 8 (05:07):
Well, the the the car was grinding going into fourth
gear when I took it back to where I purchased it.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was a Toyota shop. So how long have you
owned it?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Six months?

Speaker 9 (05:22):
Okay, got it and six months ago?

Speaker 6 (05:25):
And you bought it as is?

Speaker 10 (05:27):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (05:29):
And did you get it checked you heard us talking?
Did you get it checked out before you bought it?

Speaker 10 (05:34):
I did?

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Oh, you did? Well before you bought it?

Speaker 10 (05:38):
Didn't?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, And they didn't.

Speaker 8 (05:40):
They didn't catch this.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
What what is it that happened? So you've had it
for six months? Then one day you're driving down the
street and something happened or tell us about it?

Speaker 8 (05:53):
Well, it just when I was driving it this very
next day after I purchased it, it was grinding going
into fourth gear. And so I took it back to
the original place I purchased it, and I asked them, Hey,
there's something the matter. They couldn't seem to duplicate the problem,
so instead they replaced the transmission. They put a refurbished transmission.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Really, how many miles were on this Subaru when.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
You bought it ninety four thousand.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
Really, ninety four thousand. That's not terrible, that's not terrible.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
And so they and they really put in that sounds
like a good dealer.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
They put in a used transmission, yep.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
A refurbished used transmission, and then it did the same
thing again, exactly the same thing again.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
So it would make a noise when it's going into gear.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
Yes, even when you're down shifting from fifth to fourth,
or if you're going from third up to fourth.

Speaker 10 (06:55):
It was always grinding.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
So the new well, then if the old one did
it and the new one's doing the same thing, let's
assume they really did put another transmission in.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
What would it be that's common?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's most likely synchronizers. So I mean, this was supposed
to match the speed of the inputsh aftter the to
the gear itself when you go in and by literally
pushing a bronze or a ceramic style ring against it
in order to match that speed up and create a
smooth transition.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Okay, so did what happened? It's still happening. Did the
dealer say, oops, we made a mistake, or will do
something else or what I mean? Right now, you're on
borrowed time. You don't have a warranty on this, do you?

Speaker 8 (07:40):
They did give me a certification. They gave me a
certification for ten thousand miles on this refurbished transmission.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh they did.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
What does the certification mean? Did they say they're going
to warranty it for ten thousand miles?

Speaker 10 (07:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:57):
Yeah, sorry, yes, warranty.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
You know, this sounds like right off the top, it
sounds like a pretty good deal. Are you taking a
car as is?

Speaker 6 (08:06):
And and the transmission is grinding?

Speaker 7 (08:08):
And they replaced it with a refurbished transmission, and uh
now it's grinding again.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
What do they say they're going to do now?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, they couldn't.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
They couldn't figure out how to do anything more because
the Toyota shop could not go into the subrew transmission.
So they put another transmission.

Speaker 11 (08:31):
Come on, I'm serious.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
You're on your third you're on your third transmission.

Speaker 8 (08:37):
Well, but it's the second of the of the.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Right, that's right.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
But but the first transmission the original. The second is
the replacement. And now another replacement. Okay, And what's happening now?

Speaker 8 (08:54):
Well, I didn't even drive it away. They put that
new transmission in and they said before I even picked
it up. They're like, oh my god, it's doing it again.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
So I just kind of left and I felt, well.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
Oh what, and they said, Okay, hold on, maybe we
should I'm serious about this, Maybe we should call the
dealer or the person working on your car and asked
them that they checked the synchronizers. Jeff, I mean, if
they put three transmissions in, come on, well, if.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's identifiably different transmissions, I mean, are they sending the
other one out and having it rebuilt or are they
bona fidely getting a different transmition.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
That is the grinding.

Speaker 10 (09:37):
It's pretty bad.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
I mean when the first time, on the very first
original transmission, it was it was a grind, but it
wasn't bad, and then the second.

Speaker 11 (09:47):
Time was bad.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Who's what's the name of the dealer? You can tell us.

Speaker 8 (09:53):
They're called Corwin Toyota in Boulder, Colorado.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
What kind of toy Toyota?

Speaker 12 (09:59):
What car?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Core cor Wi.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
N Corwin, Oh, Corwin Toyota.

Speaker 10 (10:06):
The name yeah, funny, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
We never get complaints about them. Hold on, Kachina.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
I would try to call up to Core and Toyota
the service department, ask her who she talked to, and
see if we can get a comment or two, because
these people sound like they're decent. Okay, And then we
got Maria who wants to talk about an issue with
a mechanic at Taco's transmission. That right there would give
me a little pause. But anyway, we have more coming

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Speaker 1 (11:43):
Somebody wants to know.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Will a heavier weight motor oil fix Chevy Silverado engine problems.
I've read we're putting zero W forty. That's just a
straight weight. When they say zero W forty, right.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's still a multi discuss it is still yes, okay,
So why do you have it's multi viscosity so that
depending on the temperature, it changes the poor rate.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
No, no, I get it.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
So so but ten W forty I've heard of different ws, but.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
They're thinning out oils a lot of vehicles. Most vehicles
are running some sort of zero weight these days.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
So zero weight means.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
What that particularly under cold condition excuse me, under hot
conditions and cold conditions, it will change the viscosity so
that it depending on the temperature, you maintain a poor
rate and a lubrication ability.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
It's basilit the molecule.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
It's basically a zer a weight oil. But it can
act like a forty weight okay when it needs right?
All right, So in any case, what are the engine
problems he's talking about in Silverados. I've not heard of
any particular ones.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
You know, most of the problems that we see that
we've run across anyway, as far as the silver Waters
concerns on the displacement on demand, where the cams what not,
they're feeling inside them. So customers are going through and
have amazing oil.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
That oil just quiet them a little. It's not going
to solve anything.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
It probably won't even quiet anything not.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
I mean, now, what are we doing with Emily? Did
you call over there to see if we can York
maybe have Deputy Dot call over there.

Speaker 13 (13:21):
No, I love to message Okay the general manager who
was not there today, and he will be there tomorrow,
so I will follow up on Monday.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Okay, so let's get her back. Yeah, Emily, here's the deal.
It sounds like they're a pretty good dealer and they're
working with you, but we need to help. Basically, what
you really should do is take it somewhere.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Else and have it analyzed.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
And we know some good people up in your neck
of the woods, hands on auto tech. Tom would be
good up there. But you need to get it analyzed.
Do as you you know, and they may not need
to keep replacing the transmission. Jeff said, it could be synchronizers.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Would clutches do that too.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, No, No, the clutch wouldn't do that as Okay,
So you know synchronized synchronizers, and generally when the synchronizers
go bad, it can also damage the slider, it can
damage the gear itself.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
So when they put in another transmission, they're not replacing.
Synchronizers are separate and apart the.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Part of the internal part of the transmission itself.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Then why would they have bad synchronizers each time?

Speaker 6 (14:30):
That doesn't make it.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Sense, doesn't make any sense. And I have not run
across repeated failure of the fourth gear synchronizers inside the
superroos of that era.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Okay, could it be something outside of the transmisions?

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I halfway wonder if they're having somebody else sublet they're
subletting it out to somebody else to rebuild the transmissions
opposed to get in different transmissions. And the problem is
just not getting fixed when they're in there, because even
if they replace the synchronizers, if the slider's bad and
or the gear is bad, then you were going to
have a repeated complaint anyway. That.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
Okay, let's talk to Maria.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
She has an issue.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Is this place really called Tacos Transmission?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Maria?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Hello him?

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Is this place really called Tacos Transmission.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
It's Tacos Transmissions and Motors, okay, And what's the problem.
I bought a motor from them, and I paid one thousand,
eight hundred dollars for the motor they gave me.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Did they install it?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
No, they didn't install it.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh, you just bought it?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay, Yes, he gave me a thirty day warranty. I
had another mechanic to put it on for me, the
mechanic that always worked on all of our cars. They went,
they installed it.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
When they would try to out, let me ask you something.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
Why did you go to Tacos to buy a used engine?

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Were they advertising it or did you know someone?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well?

Speaker 6 (16:01):
How did you find Tacos for this?

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Tacos is a place that we've got referred to before
we bought our transmissions or other vehicles there. Okay, my
husband's a mechanic. I got buy this stuff from there.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
Okay, that's fine. So how much this was a use
a used a transmission?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
You bought it was a used motor engine, a used motor.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
I mean, and what it wasn't rebuilt?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It was used, yes, supposedly, how many use well, how many.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Miles were on it?

Speaker 3 (16:38):
They told me that it was going to have one
hundred and sixty five miles on it.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
One hundred and sixty five miles or one hundred and
sixty five thousand, one.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Sixty five thousand. I'm sorry, I really don't know a.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
Lot about the Okay that you understand that that's incredibly
high mileage for an engine. Yes, okay, so keep going
with your story.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
So the first engine that they gave me, they said
it was that it never had any compression. So the
mechanic that was ceting it on for me, he said
that it was no good. I called Francisco, he's the owner,
and I told him, Hey, the motor you sold me
is not good. You gave me a thirty day warranty.

(17:25):
I'm going to take it off and take you the motor.
He's like, no, just bring me the whole car. We'll
take it out and we'll put you a new motor.
I did give you a thirty day warranty. I said, okay,
how much are you going to charge me? Because I
know they're not going to take out a motor and
put another motor in for free. He's like, okay, he goes,
I'll charge you one thousand dollars. Bring me the car.

(17:45):
I have another motor on here that have eighty seven
thousand miles about it. Okay, I said, okay, He's like,
this one is way better. They were not supposed to
even tell you that transmission or that motor that they
gave you. So bring me the vehicle back and I said, okay.
So I the car has been there for ten days now.
They called me on Monday to go pick up my vehicle.

(18:08):
The owner, Francisco, is out of town. So I spoke
to the supervisor.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Okay, but so far, so far, I want to make
sure I get it straight. So the first engine they
sold you, your mechanic says no go. Taco says, you
got a warranty. We'll take care of it. You just
have to pay us one thousand dollars for installation. And
now it sits at Tacos. Okay, how did they ever
install the second engine?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
They installed the second engine on Monday.

Speaker 14 (18:37):
I went to.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Tacos to pick up my vehicle. At that time, the
supervisor was like, okay, give me the thousand dollars. I
said no. I said, can I turn on my vehicle,
take it for a test? R you take it in
with me. I want to make sure my vehicle is running.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
No, I need the money first, And I said no,
I'm not going to give.

Speaker 15 (18:55):
You the money.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
This is like this is like a Mexican standoff they
call it and how apropos at tacos. So you're at
tacos and they want you to pay before you get
to even see if it works.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, So I told him no, and I told him
I will call Francisco. I said, I've never paid for
anything before I try it out. So then the supervisors like,
you can try. You can turn on the vehicle, but
I can't take you up. I can't let you take
it off the lot without the money. So I said, okay,
I turned on the vehicle. As soon as I turn
on the vehicle, the motor it makes a big old

(19:30):
bang and it sounded like I have a truck, a
tractor trailer in my vehicle. So I told him what's
going on?

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Wait?

Speaker 7 (19:39):
Wait, wait, wait when you said it made a big bang,
did it continue knocking?

Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, it just it was like poof and then it stopped.
But then my vehicle sounded like those big dump trucks,
the seaman trucks that drive on the side of the
road with you.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
Like like like a diesel knock, like a diesel knock
like dot.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
No, it just sounded like the like if I like,
I'm just loud.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Oh I get it, okay, So so that now what?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
So then I asked the supervisor what's going on? Like
my vehicle never sounded like this, and he said, oh,
I have to cut the catile act pervert.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
What she had.

Speaker 7 (20:24):
They had to, so they took out your Did they
take out your catalytic converter?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Did they take out your cat?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
According to him, no, he just had to cut it
because they were plugged. And I told him that's nonsense,
because I just took my vehicle to get an emission test.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
Oh no, they they they gutted your your cat so
it passes the visual inspection. That's what they did because
I think they suspected the cat was bad all along,
and they charged you for more than that.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
So where does this stand right now?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right now? It's downs where Paco is out of town.
He's supposed to be here today. I told him I
needed my vehicle on that on that Monday when I
went and I.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
Told him so, now when you went to pick it up,
when you went to pick it up, you decided you
were you were not going to take it, and they
were going to go back to work on it.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Paco said that they cannot give me my vehicle like that.
The supervisor took the keys. My daughter has everything on
the cord. He grabbed the keys from me and started
yelling at me and told me that he was doing
me a favor, that I shouldn't be complaining because they
did me a favor. And I told him, you are
not doing me a favor. I'm paying for my vehicle
to get fixed. I did not give you any consent

(21:48):
to touch my friend.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
So what do you want us to do right now?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Maria?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
What do you want us to do right now?

Speaker 7 (21:53):
Because it sounds like they're going to fix it, or they.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
Say they are.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
He's telling me that it's going to take about three
to four weeks for them to even fix my vehicle,
which I don't know why. And they will not even
let me go see my vehicle. They don't let me
even go do anything. I passed by yesterday.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Do you have an invoice?

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Do you have an invoice that shows they're installing an
engine and they're charging you one thousand.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Dollars for it?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't have an invoice. He doesn't give invoices. If
I have the veell where I paid, What do.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
You mean he doesn't give invoices? For God's sakes, Maria,
you have power. Well, I don't even know why you
went to this place. So if you're not going to
like what I have to say, but I would get
my vehicle out of there. You're not going to get
your view. I would have it taken somewhere else. I
would find out what's wrong with it, and then I

(22:45):
would go ahead and sue them in a small claims
court or we try to get collection or tell them
to fix the specific problem.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
How much did you pay for this engine?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Eight hundred dollars? I have eighteen hundred said, that's the
only receipt that I wouldn't need because he warranted everything.
I have everything, every coming.

Speaker 14 (23:04):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (23:11):
There's no look. Police aren't gonna do anything. Police aren't
gonna do anything. This is just a numbskull problem where
you and he did everything wrong and you let him.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
How do you go there? And the guy says, we
don't use invoices.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
What the hell does that mean? He doesn't put anything
in writing.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Do they insist on being paid in cash or do
they take credit cards and checks?

Speaker 1 (23:35):
How do you pay them cash only?

Speaker 7 (23:38):
That's why my daughter, Oh, well, that's the same as
paying cash. You know what, Maria, there's no good news here.
I mean you got to go get your car. You've
been ripped off, okay, and we have to see how
bad you've been ripped off. I would get it somewhere
that I know and trust. What part of town is
Taco's in.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Aurora? And Pulia?

Speaker 5 (24:02):
All right, well Tacos or pop I think Papa it
would make more sense.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Paco's with a Peter?

Speaker 6 (24:08):
He with Is it with a ps and Peter?

Speaker 11 (24:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
She said, yes, Pacos. Oh kay, hold on, we got
more coming up.

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Speaker 6 (25:01):
Hi, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
Three ZHO three seven one three talk seven one three
eight two five five.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
All right, now we are going.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
To have Deputy Bo call over to Pacos and find
out what the hell is going on. She has no invoices,
no contracts, no nothing, nothing at all, nothing at all. People,
you don't go to people like that, you.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Know, you make demands.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
When she says, well he doesn't do invoices, well then
you don't do him. I mean we have to start
taking control.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
I mean we take a car.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
In all right.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
I'm not going to pay you money up front, and
I'm not going to accept a paperless transaction.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
You know, it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
Joe, tell me about your twenty eighteen jeep Wrangler.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
What's going on? Joe?

Speaker 16 (25:56):
All right, So.

Speaker 10 (25:58):
Jeep Wrangler. So we were coming back in the mountain
July fifth, sixth down the mountain and lights went on
and so, and the car wouldn't go fast to you know,
the Jeeps. I guess they have an amatic.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
What was it in a limp what they call a
limp mode? Could that be possible?

Speaker 10 (26:14):
In other words, better night? Yeah, limp mode. So we
pulled over and we had to call the car towed
to the Jeep dealership in Silverthorn. They took it, They
did the diagnostics, and they said that the radiator had
a leak in it and some mother's pieces. So we
paid the eleven hundred dollars. Had vehicle fix.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
I don't know the radiator or Jeff, would a radiator
overheat or something?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
Would it put it into a limp mode?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I would think I have the start of the overheat
low coolants.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
Shouldn't do most cars have that? Now the limp mode
where they.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Won't let you.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
They'll want too much gage.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
All right, So your twenty eighteen cheap Wrangler went into
limp mode.

Speaker 10 (26:53):
You took it to where to the silver Thorn Jute
dealership will always go to the jupe dealerships, you know. Therefore,
you know it's going to be done, and you have.

Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's actually not that.

Speaker 7 (27:04):
That's probably farthest from the truth is taking it to
a dealer.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
But we do.

Speaker 10 (27:10):
That's what we do. So we all right, got it
spent eleven and you remember they have all the diagnostics
and stuff, and they said the vehicle was fixed. Driving
down the mountain, they did not connect the radiator to
the transmission, so all the transmission fluid came out and
the lights and everything went crazy. So my wife, who
was driving him back down from my son, pulled over.

(27:32):
We had a toe to a second juke dealership, and
that second deep dealership said, yeah, absolutely, the problem is
no transmission fluid and it is the jeep's fault of
the first juke dealership's fault. First dealership did pay for
the cost of the toe and the fix of the vehicle,
and then so that's you know, so we're now, you know,

(27:53):
within five hundred miles. So then my son.

Speaker 7 (27:55):
Two weeks ago, So wait a minute, when when how
much damage was done?

Speaker 6 (27:59):
Well, what damage was done as a result.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Smoked that transmission? What's that? Smoked that transmission?

Speaker 6 (28:05):
So did they replace your whole transmission?

Speaker 10 (28:08):
This is why I'm calling you right now. It's the
tit for Tad back and forth between yeah, the third
jeep dealership they want eleven thousand to fix it, and
the first dealership's going, you know, right now they're trying
to figure out what they're going to do. Small claim
court only pay seventy five hundred. So my question is,
before I start call them something, because I'm going to
give them two or three more days, what's my cause?

(28:31):
What's my case?

Speaker 6 (28:32):
All right, let's talk about it. Let's let's analyze this.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
So they admit that they caused the damage, is that right?

Speaker 10 (28:41):
My opinion is since they paid for that second dealership
to fix the damage, and that second dealership said, the
problem is they did not connect that radiator to the
transmission right and by default, yes they did.

Speaker 17 (28:54):
Okay, have that six and there it falls.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Okay, I know I get your reasoning. But if you
would take them to let's say, not small planes, but
a county court, and you wanted to get all of
your costs, would they deny it and say, look, we
did everything right, he over run, he did something wrong.
I mean, would they fight it or would you think
they'd admit it? I'm asking you just a gut feeling.

(29:18):
What is your gut feeling.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
I'm asking you guys that because my opinion, and I
put you on speaker, is that what they're going to
do is delay this and delay it and delay it.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
I mean, we got an effection vehicles.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's not a big gilt, right, So how much?

Speaker 7 (29:36):
How much is your total damage? How much is how
many miles were on this? First of all? Okay, so
you're ode a transmission with seventy five thousand miles, that's
what you're owed. That's that's what you're owed. So I
don't know how they get around it. I mean, how

(29:58):
much is the repair going to be to rebuild that transmission?

Speaker 10 (30:02):
Eleven thousand dollars out the door that was because they
said the taxes and everything eleven thousand from that the
other ship.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Jeff, does that sound like a brand new transmission? But
it sounds like yeah, if they're not going for a.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I have to tell you, Joe, this is what we
call betterment, and it's a very weird concept. But if
you were eating an apple and you were half done
with the apple and I knocked it out of your hand,
I would owe you a half an apple, not the
whole apple. Now, if there were only whole apples available,
on the market, and I couldn't buy a half an apple.

(30:38):
I would buy a whole apple, but you would have
to chip in for the other half that I did
not destroy.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
So really and truly they are.

Speaker 7 (30:48):
They don't owe you eleven thousand dollars for a new transmission.
They owe you a portion of that. You said small
claims won't cover it. Small claims will easily cover it.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
You're not gonna all right, Sam's only seventy.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Five hundred, So well, I understand, but you said you
said you said the repairs were eleven.

Speaker 10 (31:07):
Grand right, that is correct?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
Yeah, well, seventy five hundred will easily cover the damages
they owe you.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
They don't owe you the entire transmission. They only owe
you the part they rob from you.

Speaker 10 (31:26):
Even if they hadn't done the plug part, nothing would
have broken. Then they didn't owe anything.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's right, rank it.

Speaker 10 (31:32):
I have nothing. I mean, I'm just asking.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
Joe, you're asking you. I'm telling you. I'm telling you this.
I'm telling you this. If you have a transmission, and listen,
I'm not kidding. I've done these hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of times. If you have a transmission with seventy
five thousand miles on it, and somebody destroys that transmission
with seventy five thousand miles on it, they owe you

(31:57):
a transmission equal to a trans mission.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
With seventy five thousand miles.

Speaker 7 (32:02):
If you go to a shop and they put in
a new transmission for eleven thousand dollars, that person who
damaged your transmission does not.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Owe the full one thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
They owe a portion of it that is called betterment.
And I'm telling you it is absolutely, positively rock solid.
They will they will never be held responsible. Now your theory, well,
I would have never had to replace it to begin with.
Why should I have to pay? That's the age old question.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
But that's how courts, that's how they that's how they
do losses. That if you get something better than you
had before, then you pay for the extra part. They
pay for the part they destroyed.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
So I'm thinking, Jeff, that transmission was seventy five thousand
miles on it.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Would you say it was half life?

Speaker 17 (32:55):
About?

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, between forty to fifty percent.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
Let's say it was half life.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
So it's going to be eleven grand to get him
in transmission.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
They owe him should be roughly fifty, so.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
In small claims court you could easily sue for the
fifty five hundred plus some inconvenience money for a replacement
vehicle while they're fixing it. But you're not going to
get the full eleven thousand dollars you call for our opinion.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
There's our opinion.

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Speaker 1 (34:03):
Rick, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Rick?

Speaker 9 (34:07):
Thank you?

Speaker 17 (34:08):
Thank you? Tom.

Speaker 9 (34:09):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Good man? What's happening?

Speaker 14 (34:13):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (34:13):
I've got a question.

Speaker 15 (34:14):
I'm sitting here at my kitchen table looking at all
these bond issues for again, Yes, you know, bond to
a through e.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, they keep.

Speaker 15 (34:24):
They keep saying, without reason, your taxes right right.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
You know what, there's a whole committee. There's a whole committee,
a bipartisan committee that has to come up with wording
for these, uh, all of these bond issues and all
of these election ballot issues because they have to make
it as palatable as possible, but not mislead people. They

(34:50):
always say, without raising new taxes. But I want to
go over that with you because it means something very specific.
It doesn't mean what you think it means. I'm gonna
ask you to hold on. We'd love to talk about
it coming up. Uh, stay tuned to the Troubleshooter Show
and you'll see how you're tricked on your ballot. Go

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Speaker 2 (35:45):
Ripped you.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
So you don't have come.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Run in just as fast as we can.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Shooter's gonna help come.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi Tom
Martino here, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
I'm at the ranch at the satellite studio MI Casa.
I guy with me, Deputy d if you're looking at
the stream, and I also Jeff Fick from Kimera transmission
back at the ranch.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
The main studio cam's not up there.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
We got Deputy Doc and Deputy Bo holding down the
fort and we're going to have some fun today. Mark
and Sues are taking some time off today. So Rick
ended the hour with a question on election bonds. And
it's really funny because there are arguments on how to
word election measures. People for a measure will make it

(36:48):
really sound great, and people who are against it want
it to sound more realistic, and they have fights over
how it appears on the ballot. I've noticed recently when
it comes to bond issues, there's always this wording that
says there's always this wording that says without raising taxes.

(37:13):
Blah blah blah blah blah. And I want you to
give me an example of one, because I want to
tell you the truth of this matter.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Tell me which one you're looking at, Rick.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Oh, actually I'm looking at them all.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
To ABC and dum.

Speaker 7 (37:27):
Okay, re read the beginning. Read the first few sentences
of one of them. Just read it to us.

Speaker 15 (37:33):
Okay, without imposing any new cat scale, the City and
County of Denver get be increased four one hundred and
forty one million, four hundred and twenty thousand, with a
maximum repayment cost of nine hundred and six million.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right, all right, now what does that?

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Now?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Now this is weird.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
What they mean is that particular bond issue will not
raise taxes. It says, without raising taxes. Shall we increase
our limit or something? Or shall we do this? Or
shall we do that? I don't know if they think
we're morons, but of course that particular issue will not

(38:19):
raise taxes. But if you vote in all of those
bond issues, and we're looking at spending into the hundreds
of millions, we know.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
That the money only comes from one place, from taxes.

Speaker 7 (38:32):
And while that and while that particular bond issue itself
will not raise the tax, it will necessitate the need
to increase tax. And so next time around you're going
to see either increases in mill levies or you're going
to hear something like, shall we raise tax to keep

(38:55):
in effect the wonderful programs we've passed. You know, they
do but one step at a time. And and they're
liars there, They're downright liars, because every single bond issue
will eventually take tax dollars, every single one of them.
It doesn't fall out of the sky. A bond is
really a loan that must be repaid to those who

(39:19):
buy the bonds, or the bonds, or the city buys
the bonds. You know, everything has to be paid back. Okay,
everything has to be paid back. So what was your
did you have a specific question?

Speaker 15 (39:34):
Well, no, it's basically you just hit it on the nail.
I mean this, I mean they're saying without raising catches.
But it's the consumers. It's those people who live here
in Denver who ultimately are going to have to pay
this one absolutely for another.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Have you added up all the bonds and what they
come to? Have you added them up?

Speaker 14 (39:53):
No?

Speaker 15 (39:53):
I haven't done that, I'll do it after this call.
Well over millions of dollars obviously, Rick, did you get.

Speaker 18 (40:04):
In the mail a booklet explaining all the amendments and
questions on the ballot?

Speaker 17 (40:11):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (40:11):
I did, Doctor, Okay, Well, that basically.

Speaker 18 (40:13):
Gives you the pros and cons of each of each
ballot measure.

Speaker 15 (40:19):
Frank and I totally understand that.

Speaker 10 (40:21):
Doc.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
My my continent was or I wanted what com.

Speaker 17 (40:25):
A take on this was.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
It's like they're liars.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
Actually yeah, yeah, they're they're they're absolute liars because eventually
it will need more taxes. Where's the money going to
come from? Now?

Speaker 7 (40:40):
I love what I love also the way they name it,
like the Vibrant Denver Bond nine hundred and fifty million
dollars million dollars, nine hundred and fifty that's almost one
billion dollars. And they say that it's going to be
a direct investment in the infrastructure. You know why they

(41:03):
you know why they need the money? Just say it
like it is. They need the money because they diverted
other spending to support undocumented illegal aliens.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
I don't care what you say, you know, don't.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
Call them what you want undocumented or visitors. What were
they calling them for a while, visitors or something like that.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
A lot, just a lot of mind.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
They need that money because mayor. The mayor is an idiot,
he's a moron. He doesn't know what he's doing, he
doesn't know how to budget. Denver City Council plays five
separate bond questions on the ballot as part of this
so called Vibrant package, five of them, and each one says,
without raising taxes.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Does that push you off?

Speaker 15 (41:55):
Yeah, because it's dishonest.

Speaker 17 (41:58):
I mean it's not forthright.

Speaker 15 (42:00):
The money, like you said, the money has to come
from somewhere at some point.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
What is the wording?

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Does it say, without raising taxes or imposing new tax
Give me the exact wording.

Speaker 15 (42:12):
Now, without imposing any new pack They all start with
those four words, five words, without imposing any new tax.
Uh bond two.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
A, two B, two C and two D and two E.

Speaker 15 (42:31):
They all start with without imposing any new tax.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
Okay, I'm asking, I'm asking artificial intelligence.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
I'm asking them. I'm here's what I'm asking.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
The bond issues all start out this way without imposing.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Any new tax.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
But don't all bonds have to be repaid and will
eventually end up with higher taxes. Let's see what it says.
I want to know if this skews one way or another.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
That's what I just asked. I love posing questions like this.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
Okay, So that's a smart and important question, Tom, especially
understanding why does it say without imposing any new tax?

Speaker 6 (43:12):
What the language means legally?

Speaker 7 (43:14):
This phrase is technically accurate because no new tax means
the property tax rate won't increase immediately by this bond.
Denver already collects property taxes to pay for previously imposed bonds.

(43:38):
When old bonds are paid off, the new bonds will
start being paid.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Will this eventually lead to higher taxes?

Speaker 7 (43:46):
Yes, even AI tells you yes, borrowing hundreds of millions
of dollars must be paid back, and if there's not
enough future tax revenue, taxes much must be increased, or
the city is on the brink of bankruptcy. So you know,

(44:09):
the Colorado the Yeah, I'm so happy you're talking about this.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
I am so tired.

Speaker 7 (44:16):
I wish could you imagine what would happen if people
were just honest? My god, I mean, I don't even know.
I don't think politics could survive on either side. Paul,
what is your comment on these bond issues? We should
just call it, you know, health insurance and everything for
illegal aliens.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's what we should say.

Speaker 7 (44:35):
Because the money is being we need the money, you know,
call it what you want.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
The money was.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
There for some of these projects that they're now raising
the money for. But people forget the previous bond issues
and where that money went.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
They borrow from it.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
They borrow from Peter to pay Paul as this as
the saying goes, and speaking of Paul, Paul, what do
you have to say?

Speaker 6 (44:55):
Go ahead?

Speaker 9 (44:57):
Yeah, you talked about all the bonder shoes and I
already had that done. It comes out to eight hundred
and ninety point seven million dollars, but worse than that
on each bond issue. It tells you what the repayment

(45:17):
cost will be, in other words, what the debt service
will be.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Denver is getting in.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
Denver's getting into this period where it's going to be
so far in debt, our grandchildren will inherit it.

Speaker 9 (45:32):
If you add the debt service for these four bond is.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Shoes, yeah, what do they come to service?

Speaker 9 (45:38):
Is one point eight billion with a b dollars.

Speaker 7 (45:42):
That's most double the bond, almost double, but hold on
without imposing any new taxes. Now, how the hell do
you create nine nine hundred million in bonds with a
future debt payout of.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
Nine of one point nine?

Speaker 7 (46:03):
How do you do that without ever having to increase
tax The idea of paying off old bonds and using
that same money to pay off the old ones is
ludicrous because the new ones start start accruing interest immediately
for investors who bought buy the bonds, and then the
old ones are still being paid off and their accruing

(46:25):
interest as you're paying them.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
It's like these kids with credit cards. They just kick the.

Speaker 7 (46:31):
Can down the road and they keep charging and they
keep trying to make minimum payments, hoping that'll be enough.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
But at some.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
Point Denver is going to come crashing down. It's not
a vibrant bond. How dare they call it a vibrant bond.
It's an active desperation bond.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Because we spent most of our money being a sanctuary city.
Like it or not, that's what's happening now. Am I
a heartless son of a bit who says we shouldn't
pay and help people? No, I'm not saying that, but
it has to be done the right way for goodness sakes.
If you don't have money for your own children to

(47:11):
do certain things, you do without right well, the city
has to learn to do without this idea of making
what do they actually call it, Paul, what do they
call some vibrance eve, some vibrant bond?

Speaker 6 (47:24):
God almighty?

Speaker 7 (47:25):
I mean, you know, this mayor, This mayor has been
the worst mayor I have ever seen. And I've been
here for fifty years, it's almost fifty years.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
He's the worst mayor I've ever seen. I mean this guy.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Because he lies to you with a straight face.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
But I don't think he's lying.

Speaker 7 (47:42):
I think that he literally lives in fantasyland. He lives
in this part of his head that's a fantasy about
how dare they say, without imposing any new tax, nine
hundred million will be borrowed and you.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Know what the death service and it is almost twice.

Speaker 7 (48:01):
It's going to be one point eight billion dollars to
pay back one point eight billion dollars. But no, we
won't have to raise any tax. Thank God for tabor
Man that really tied their hands. Now, I do believe
there are projects that need to be done here's the
problem though, with the government. They raise money for one thing,

(48:24):
but then they borrow from that fund for something.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Else, just like we've been doing.

Speaker 7 (48:28):
We've been borrowing money from all over in order to
support our stance as a sanctuary city, to support the
benefits of illegal aliens.

Speaker 6 (48:40):
That's what we're doing. I like it or not, that's
what we're doing. And then what.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Happens is we run up short on.

Speaker 7 (48:47):
Our infrastructure, and we run up short on hiring people.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
We have to fire people.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
So Mayor Mike Johnston, the biggest moron that ever walked
the face of the planet. When it comes to Mars,
this moron tells us we're gonna make Denver vibrant again.
Now what you're gonna do is cover your ass with
more loans because you are spending with your heart and
not with your brain. Yeah, his heart's in the right place.

(49:16):
Everybody should want to help people, but if you don't
have the money you can help them. You have to
say no, Paul, quickly.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
What is your comment? Go ahead, and then I have
to take a break. What's your comment?

Speaker 9 (49:29):
Just real quick again, without reasons. Taxes. If you remember,
that was the first line of the Gallagher there was
the repeal of the Gallagher Amendment.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, and we all.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
And we all tried to we all believed it didn't
we I'm telling you they lie straight to your face.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
We have more coming up.

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dot Com. All right, So I want to go to
the phones, and then I have something else on this
bond issue that is totally misleading.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
First, Mike, he.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Has a question on a distributor of fifty seven Chevy.
My goodness, Fish, is this a couple of weeks ago?
Is this? Uh? He did he? Did he call on this?
What's going on? Sir?

Speaker 9 (51:17):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (51:18):
Tom, one of your frequent callers in Highland's Ranch had
a repair shop in twenty oh two and he replaced
the entire distributor for me, all the way down in
the block, including the shaft. And I'm hoping if he's
listening maybe he could chime in. But there is a

(51:41):
one inch square metal plate in the front of the
distributor cap that slides up and down, and there is
a hexhead screw inside that you put the wrench on
and turn it. And I'm wondering if that.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
What is the purpose of that, Jess. This should just
be the retainer.

Speaker 12 (51:58):
To hold it down to adjust the breaker point. And Uh,
I have to keep manipulating the gas pedal to keep
the engine from from dying.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (52:13):
I can I congratulate.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Is that necessarily it holds it in place, and so
when you loose it up, you can adjust the distributor itself.
So it's literally a retainer plate that goes into an
et cetera. Cam. Okay, so but it's you know, he
should just get to somebody who still has a dwell
meter and uh, you know, actually get that thing set.
You're not going to do it by hand. Do you

(52:35):
have a dwell meter? I do not, I used to.
Do you know if Kevin Culkin says a dwell meter.

Speaker 7 (52:40):
He might Kevin Calkin has shared an autotech might be
able to help you.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
But how do we know it's a distributor?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
The keeping the he's trying to adjust this timing a
distributor is what he's doing by twisting it around, so
he's not getting the timing so that it's working well
with the feel mixture.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
So did this, Mike, it's been working for a while,
then what what happened?

Speaker 12 (53:05):
I've been working on the car for two weeks. I
just took the distributor cap off and cleaned though.

Speaker 7 (53:11):
I see it, I get it, I get it. Now
you can't get it back to where it was.

Speaker 12 (53:16):
No, it's it's still it's still as good as it was.
It's the same as it was. But I can I
can get enough rpm of high enough to put the
car on the street, but I have to keep manipulating
the gas pell gradually for maybe five minutes to get
up that high. And if I don't to manipulate the

(53:40):
gas pell end and cuts out.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Yeah, it sounds like you need a complete tune up.
You need to get it into somebody like Kevin. Who's
going to do.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
Ter? You haven't heard that in a while, so so, Mike, really,
were you hoping you could do it yourself where you're
looking for someone who can do it?

Speaker 12 (53:59):
Yeah? I may just need to just turn that heck's
head screw inside that little metal plate that slides up
and down and give it.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
But do you know what you're doing?

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Say again, Mike, do you know which way you're going
to turn that hex's head screw?

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Do you know exactly what you're doing?

Speaker 12 (54:20):
I want to be sure I don't turn it the
wrong way, because the answer to that question.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Would be no.

Speaker 7 (54:27):
Okay, Mike, I think you'd be miles ahead and dollars ahead,
you know, really to take it to somebody to have
it done. It can't be that much. Just get that
damn thing tuned up. What engine is in that fifty
seven Chevy? What do you got A three fifty that's
a nice engine. It's easily worked on. I would just

(54:51):
id iire you. I would take it to Sheridan Auto Tech.

Speaker 12 (54:54):
Okay, Kevin, I still need a mobile mechanic, preferably and
with Denver that could come by and just check the
distributor out.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
Now what you can't drive it? Is that the problem?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Right now?

Speaker 12 (55:08):
You can't It's not safe to drive the way.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
I don't know of any mobile mechanics anymore.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
We used to have some. I don't know of any.
I really don't like.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Not only maybe someone can call in with a recommendation, but.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
It's a mobile mechanic that has to be able to
work on distributors that they're in fact half century more
than half century old distributors.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
You're never going to find that person.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Well, let's see, let's see.

Speaker 7 (55:34):
Why don't you keep listening, Mike, and if somebody knows,
even our YouTube.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Morons on the on the stream here.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
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So I was diving more into the bonds for Denver.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
So here's what they say.

Speaker 7 (56:03):
They're technically not imposing new tax but extending the time
you will pay current taxes. So some bonds are set
to expire, let's say in five or ten years or
even twenty years. Now instead of expiring, they will expire,
those bonds will be paid back, but new bonds will

(56:23):
take their place.

Speaker 6 (56:25):
So while they're not going to.

Speaker 7 (56:27):
Raise taxes today, they're going to extend the time you
are paying. It's like going from a ten year loan
on your house to a fifty year loan on your.

Speaker 5 (56:37):
House after you already paid off the ten years exactly right.

Speaker 7 (56:41):
So now they say no new taxes, but they are
absolutely new taxes. They're just hoping you're going to forget
about it in ten years when you're not supposed to
be paying on bonds anymore, and you have to pay
for another forty years, and then what happens during that
time you're paying off these new bonds. Let's say, the
old bonds paid off, and now your payment of your

(57:03):
repayment period has been extended because of these bonds. What
happens when you need more bonds, It's going to have
to be stacked on there. So what they're doing is
that I've used this expression a lot lately, kicking the
can down the road. They're simply extending the time Denver
is in debt.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
Would you call that no new tax? Of course it's
a new tax.

Speaker 7 (57:23):
It wasn't there before because we knew at the end
of a certain time period Denver would be out of debt.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
But instead of letting.

Speaker 7 (57:30):
Denver be out of debt, it's extending more debt for
more money, to the tune of one point eight billion dollars.

Speaker 6 (57:38):
See, they're just, I don't know how else to put it.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
They're liars.

Speaker 6 (57:43):
They're liars.

Speaker 18 (57:44):
Does taber prevent them from raising the rates on the
current tax.

Speaker 7 (57:51):
Yes, but they're not doing that. They found a way
around it.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
All they're doing is extending the current debt and they're
calling it. They're saying it's not new.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
But could you imagine if if you owed me a
thousand bucks and you're going to be done paying me
at the end of the year, and I said, now,
guess what, you don't owe me any more money, Doc,
but you have to keep paying me for another five years.
How ludicrous is that to say, I'm not raising what
you owe me. You can, but at the end of

(58:22):
that thousand dollars you keep going for another five years.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
Gary's got a comment.

Speaker 17 (58:27):
Go ahead, Gary, I'm on the opposition for the Denver bonds,
and you're exactly right. Here's a way of thinking about it.
Let's say you have a credit card and your maximum
limit on that credit card is five thousand dollars, and
what and let's say you're you you've paid down the

(58:51):
debt to twenty five hundred, but then re upping the
debt back to five thousand, and that's what this deception
that's going on. There's you know Channel eight reviews the
bond issues that presents both both the pros and the cons.
Then there are three points why we should oppose these
vibrant Denver One is that they're they included in there

(59:16):
a five percent administrative costs, which is fifty million dollars.
Think about how much money that is for administration fifty
million I know, I know. Secondly, Secondly, the interest will
double the costs from nine hundred and fifty right, almost
one billion, two trillion. And when they say no taxes,

(59:41):
will will no new taxes, there's no increase in the rate.
But they're they're basically re upping the old debts.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
That's exactly right, that's the right. They're extending the time
you owe. But that's like Gary, like I said, if
you owed me a thousand bucks and you're going to
be paid up at the end of the year, and
I say, oh.

Speaker 6 (59:58):
Gary, I'm not in posing any more tax on.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
You, but you got to keep paying me for another
five years. I mean, it's ridiculous. We got to take
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Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I'm Tom Martino here off the air.

Speaker 7 (01:00:57):
We're talking about smoking meats and smoking pizzas and smoking olives,
and we're talking about smokers.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
People are addicted to them.

Speaker 7 (01:01:06):
I mean, whenever I talk to someone who has a smoker,
they sound like an addict.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
If my dog slows down, he's going in.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
Ye, Gary, what's going on with you? Gary? Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 14 (01:01:20):
Hello Tom, Hey, it's a funny I paulow the gun
Right home Improvement that we've had them work with us
back in twenty fourteen days at one heck of a job.
But that's not why I called. I called because I
have been investing in cryptocurrency through Coinbase, which is a

(01:01:43):
top platform, right, Yeah, And of course you're story your
money in a wallet. Well, I've decided I wanted to
withdraw all the money from the wall, send her back
to Coinbase, and collect the money that I've gained. The
wallet sent me a note that I had profited seven
hundred thousand dollars, which is about right from my figures.

Speaker 7 (01:02:08):
And Gary, you have seven hundred thousand in crypto. Yes,
how much did you invest to get the seven fifty total?

Speaker 14 (01:02:19):
Well, I started out with a swall amount, but I
increased it until I have basically cut two hundred ninety thousand.

Speaker 7 (01:02:27):
So you have you put out of your pocket to
ninety and you have now a total value of about
seven hundred.

Speaker 14 (01:02:35):
No, actually the total value was close to a million.

Speaker 7 (01:02:40):
Okay, but that's from a that's from a two hundred
and ninety thousand dollars hard investment.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
That's correct, okay, So what's going on with it?

Speaker 14 (01:02:51):
Well, my question is when I asked for the money
to be poward to the coinbase to come back to
my they be wired back to my bank. They popped
up for the message and said, you will thirty percent
of that seven hundred thousand dollars gain. You need to

(01:03:11):
afford two hundred and twelve thousand dollars to us.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
Which is that tax withholding.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
No, they want more.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
They're pretending like it's for taxes, so they want him
to prepay the taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
This is a scam. So the scammer is pretending that
to be. Is this coinbase telling you that someone else
else it's not.

Speaker 14 (01:03:32):
Coin based, it's on chain, which is the wallet I
had it in, and that's when I said I want
to transfer the money to coinbase. That's when this message
popped up after several minutes that said your profit is
seven hundred and seven one thousand, and I don't disagree
with that based on the record of trade that I

(01:03:58):
made over to.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Your profit and they want you to pay them based
on your profit, Yeah, they.

Speaker 14 (01:04:05):
Want which would be about two hundred and twelve thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:04:09):
What do they say that is for that? That two
hundred grand? What do they say is for?

Speaker 14 (01:04:15):
Well, I said it for the income backs that I'm
going to have.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
Now, why do you think that's a scam.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
I'm not saying it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
I'm asking you, why do you think that's a scam?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Well, Tom, that's pretty simple.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
Let's say that was hold on, I'm asking Jery, I'm
asking are you invested in crypto?

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Oh god, no, oh you just heard our caller. No, No,
I know no.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
So the reason this is clearly a scam is Tom,
Let's say you have some stocks in your marilynch account
that you want to sell it a profit and you
have a million dollar profit, They're not going to make
you pony up three hundred thousand dollars for income tax
on that profit. They're just going to do what's called
a withhold. If you're subject to withholding tax, they will

(01:04:56):
just simply withhold three hundred thousand dollar dollars of your
profit and send you the rest and then I can.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Deal with it.

Speaker 14 (01:05:04):
And that's where, yeah, that's they would.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
With what would they normally do if it was legit.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
If it's legit, you don't have to pre pay income
tax merimnage in my example.

Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
Okay, so the government doesn't require these places to withhold money.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Unless you yourself are subject to withholding tax. So if
the government suspects that you've been under reporting your income,
they'll slap it withholding order on your on your bank
account or your broken.

Speaker 7 (01:05:32):
Are they saying they won't cast you out without you
paying this?

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 14 (01:05:37):
In essence, that's correct. They said that you have a
seven day deadline, which since I did this last Sunday,
I guess the deadlines tomorrow. And uh uh that I
said when I heard that I thought such strange because
from everything I've ever heard, if you went at it, yeah,

(01:05:59):
when Vegas or someplace like that, before they give you
the cash wingings, they withhold the money forty irs from
your winnings. They don't make you say, Okay, you won
two hundred thousand dollars or whatever the case may be.
Now you ow us another two hundred thousand for withholding
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:06:19):
And that's where I think the red flag is is
that I'm not sure. Now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
Well, they're not saying Gary, they're not telling you you
have to pay an extra thirty percent.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
They're saying they want to take it out of your profit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
No, No, just the opposite. I want just the opposite if.

Speaker 14 (01:06:38):
They afford another two hundred twelve thousand plus dollars to
pay the taxes. And that's where I draw a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
So wa.

Speaker 7 (01:06:46):
So they want you to prepay taxes to them and
then they'll distribute your seven hundred thous.

Speaker 14 (01:06:53):
That's what that's what they're saying. I guess in.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
Essence, I understad it completely, Tom. It's it's a complete scam.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
I'm afraid, Well, do you mean it's a scam that
they're going to keep the money and not pay the till.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
He's a scam from the start.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
So they they they got two hundred and ninety thousand
dollars of Gary's money already, and they've been sending him
and they've been sending him ginned up statements pretending like
he's making all this money you think he has. He's
not going to get a penny really, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
Now, come on, crypto Coinbase is pretty legit.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
Yeah, but this isn't Coinbase that's sending him these demands.
He's dealing with some.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Kind of a I'm yeah, the so called wallet is
somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
Yeah, So whatever company that he's dealing with is a scam.
They pocketed his money. They've been pretending that he's been
making money in the market, waiting for just such a
day when Gary wants to liquidate his holding.

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
Do you think that if he sends the taxes, won't
just hold on, hold on a second.

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
Do you think if he sends the taxes to this wallet, they.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Will not forward any money to him at all? That's right,
They're going to keep that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
They're keeping his two hundred ninety thousand that's he already
so called invested. Now they're trying to get another two
hundred ninety thousand out of him, and then he'll never see.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
A penny, So then why do Okay, here's what I
want to know with crypto investing. I've always said this,
when I put money in a bank, I can go
and see how much I have, and I can draw
it out the next day. I can draw it out
that day, I can wire, I can ah. I've often
contended when people say why aren't you in crypto? One

(01:08:36):
of my main reasons is not that I don't believe
in crypto itself. It's just that we've had time and
time again people call who say I've had two or
three hundred thousand in crypto and now my wallet is empty.
What do you do in a case like that? There's
no one to call, there's no authority.

Speaker 14 (01:08:55):
But I'm now next year when it comes down to
file taxes, and I able to claim to the two
hundred ninety thousand dollars as a deduction on my taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Yeah, well, well do you mean the money you already invested?

Speaker 14 (01:09:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Yeah, that's a loss. So you lost that money to
a crime?

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
Do you wait, how do you know they're a crime?
How do you know they stole his money. I mean,
how do you do you not all crypto wallets or thieves.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
No, but if they were legitimate, they would liquidate his
holdings and withhold his income tax from his profit exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
What they trying to do, hold it in his account
for taxes market.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
And then there would file there.

Speaker 6 (01:09:41):
But now him to pay it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Yeah, I get it. I get what you're saying. He's
not a single legitimate investment that makes do this.

Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
It's the danger of crypto is that people don't know
what they're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
Absolutely, Gary, Are you a wealthy man? Is this two
hundred ninety thousand going to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Affect your.

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Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Right, I want to clarify something.

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
You know, Crypto in and of itself is a commodity.
It is, it's a currency, But most people I contend
don't know how to deal with it. They don't know
how to buy it, they don't know how to sell it,
and they don't know how to keep it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
That's the main problem.

Speaker 7 (01:10:56):
What we have done at Wave eight Wealth Management, we
have ETFs that are crypto based. ETFs are exchange traded funds,
highly regulated by authorities, and they have fund managers who
then go out and deal in crypto for the ETF,
for the exchange traded funds, and then they make money

(01:11:19):
through the fund itself.

Speaker 6 (01:11:21):
But for an.

Speaker 7 (01:11:22):
Individual to go out right now and invest, how.

Speaker 6 (01:11:25):
Would you know, call me and let me know. How
would you know you have the right wallet and that
they're not a.

Speaker 7 (01:11:31):
Bunch of crooks and that your money actually went to
purchase crypto? How would you as an individual know? Not
non hyperbole, but how would you actually know? I'm Tom Martinez.

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The Troubleshooter Show Now Tom Martino.

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I'm Tom Martino, here to help you solve problems, answer questions,
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Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
Major Mark Major off.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
Today we got in the house Deputy Doc, Deputy bo
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Speaker 7 (01:13:09):
I have Jeff Vick from Kimera Transmission with me along
with Deputy d I want to talk about this the
bond issues some people clearly in favor of the bond, say,
what are we going to do if we never borrow
money from the taxpayers? How are we supposed to improve

(01:13:30):
our infrastructure? How are we supposed to run a city?
You're not being fair to Mayor Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:13:39):
Johnston.

Speaker 7 (01:13:40):
Mark, Here's the thing, first and foremost when it comes
to taxes. I am all for us as a nation,
supporting our country with good infrastructure and social program truly
in need. Now what bothers me is when the funds

(01:14:04):
are not used as intended or as they were promised.
We're told we want to make Denver vibrant again. We're
going to vote in nine hundred and fifty million dollars
and we're not going to raise any new taxes. I'm
going to give you a scenario how much of a

(01:14:26):
liar they are.

Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
I'm going to give you an analogy.

Speaker 7 (01:14:29):
You have a car, and you've been paying on that
car for three years. Your car payments are going to
end at the end of the year, and.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
That car will be fully yours.

Speaker 7 (01:14:45):
But then the lender or the government comes to you
and says, you know, Tom, you're going to have to
pay another three years of car payments. But the price
of the car is not increasing. You just have to
pay another three years. But without increasing the cost of

(01:15:08):
the car, will you approve that your car is not
gonna be going up in price. You're just gonna be
paying longer. That's what Denver is actually saying to us,
Mike Mayor, Mike, God Almighty, if this guy has ever reelected,

(01:15:29):
it'll be a miracle. What a moron he He and
his cronies are actually saying, without new taxes, we're gonna
raise nine hundred and fifty billion dollars million dollars, nine
hundred and fifty million dollars, but there won't be any
new taxes.

Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
However, that ten year period.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
You thought we were paying stuff off is going to
be extended to thirty or forty years. We will never
be out of debt. But we're not raised raising taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Of course they are.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
The day after the previous bonds are paid for and
we start paying on these new bonds, that's a new
tax because it wasn't there before and it's there now.

Speaker 6 (01:16:15):
That's a new tax, you moron.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
I just can't believe that government gets away with lying.
And that's exactly what's happening. Three all three seven one
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Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Is this disgusting you?

Speaker 6 (01:16:35):
It's disgusting me, Deputy d Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:16:40):
Do you believe that we're not raising taxes when we
when we raise another nine hundred and fifty million dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
No, of course not.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
But Tom, the one the one place where I, you know,
have to respectfully disagree with you is Johnson and his ILK.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
They know exactly what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
They know exactly what they're doing, but they also know
that the average voter on whose vote they depend to
get elected and re elected either doesn't understand this because
there's we disagree. Well, you said that Johnson is a moron,
and I said, no, No, he's so cynical. You know,
he's he's just a you know, cynical scumback.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
He knows when I said his heart's in the right place.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
What do you think about that comment?

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
I mean, of course, it's listen to what you just
described him and his ILK doing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
What heart and what right place? Well?

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
No, I think what they know. Here's what they did.
They overspent on illegal immigration.

Speaker 7 (01:17:37):
They did. It all comes down to that they overspent
taking care of people, and and he was the one
that was going to be in the street defying ice
because he he wants people to come to Denver of all,
he doesn't care about their criminal status or anything. He
wants them in Denver. He wants them getting free services.

(01:17:58):
We have people who have been living here their entire
lives that can't get the services.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
They have gone through war, They have gone through war
for the United States.

Speaker 7 (01:18:06):
We can't get services for them, and we've laid off
hundreds of them. But if you are an illegal undocumented immigrant,
come to Denver, not only are we taking care of you,
but we're going to refill the coffers with another nine
hundred and fifty million dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
He says, it's for infrastructure.

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
What prevents government from taking a pile of money earmarked
for infrastructure and using it somewhere else.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
It doesn't take anything.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
You see, you don't have to raise money for illegal
immigrants or for benefits to illegal immigrants. You don't have
to raise money by calling it, shall we fund illegal immigration?

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
Everyone would voted down.

Speaker 7 (01:18:58):
Instead, they say our infrastructure, or our schools, or our whatever.
And then what happens is they divert the money. Once
the government collects money and the inter the the inner
exchange of funds are not tracked as if they're taxes,

(01:19:21):
so they can borrow, just like the federal government borrows
from Social Security. That money was never meant to run
some of the programs that it's running now. The current
administration is trying to clean that up. They're trying, they're
trying to, but we're in such a mess right now
that without Social Security administration funds, the federal government couldn't

(01:19:45):
couldn't function the.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Way it does, and it would have to raise taxes.

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
The truth of the matter is it's not the amount
of taxes we're paying, it's how they're misused.

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
Our taxes are misused if you.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
Had truly govern that spent money the way they should
and spent money like a business, and that's what those
was trying to do, get rid of waste. And what
happened the progressives raised Holy hell, you know, we were
funding things I couldn't even believe, and that there were
kids with school lunches that couldn't get funded.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 7 (01:20:22):
I think there's not one American, not one who doesn't
who won't willingly pay tax if only the taxes were
used for what they say, or you.

Speaker 5 (01:20:36):
Know, for the ultimate benefit of the people who are
paying the taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
I mean, that just hasn't been the case.

Speaker 7 (01:20:40):
I even want I even want to help. I love
social security, I love medicare. I think there are social
programs that are very very good, and there are social
programs that are very very bad. And then there are
the invisible social programs. What do I mean by that?
You show up at an emergency room with no help,
health care, whatsoever, You get treated?

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
Who pays for that? Eventually everything is on the shoulders
of those who produce.

Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
It just comes down to that you produce and those
who don't produce get the same benefits.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
Okay, the means, you know, when you have the means.

Speaker 7 (01:21:20):
Of production and you produce and other people don't produce,
there's a problem. There's also a problem when people who
produce don't get paid enough, Like if you have people
taking advantage of workers.

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
I'm not for that either. There is a balance in everything, Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:21:41):
There's some truth to people on the lower end of
the economic scale not being able to make it because
things are too expensive.

Speaker 6 (01:21:49):
There's some truth to that.

Speaker 7 (01:21:51):
And there's some truth to the fact that there are
some billionaires probably cheating the system.

Speaker 6 (01:21:56):
There's some truth.

Speaker 7 (01:21:58):
There's some truth to the fact that there are many
billionaires creating opportunities for others. There's truth that hard working,
everyday people are not getting the benefit of their taxes.
There is truth in everything we hear. What we have become, though,
is we've become a country of platitudes. We say something

(01:22:21):
and then we put it all into that category. You know,
like Trump wants to be a king. You know that's
their rally. Okay, they don't look at the individual day
that he spends in what he does.

Speaker 6 (01:22:37):
It's just one saying Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:22:40):
Wants to be a king, or billionaires cheat us or
tax the billionaires, or when it comes to illegal immigration,
get rid of illegal immigration. Easier said than done. I mean,
we are a country of platitudes. We are a country
of saying make America great again. I'm not disputing that

(01:23:04):
these have some validity, these sayings, but we don't think
it through.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
If you had a thousand people in a room, I've
said this.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
Before, whether they're progressive or conservative, if you really sat
down and talked to them and you ask them questions,
they would be more in agreement than you think. For example,
I'm gonna I would ask a question like.

Speaker 7 (01:23:27):
This, do you believe that people should just be allowed
to walk through our borders and get social services and
medicine and everything they need illegally? I'll bet you most
people would say no, but we need to make a

(01:23:48):
path for them to get them legally. But they wouldn't
be in favor of illegal I don't think people would
ever say, ever, admit, yeah, let people come in no
matter what, illegally and take advantage of our entire social complex.
I don't think people would knowingly say that. I don't
think they would. I think that they would have more reason,

(01:24:11):
but we paint them all with one picture. Do you
think truly there is anyone who says illegal, total illegal,
undocumented immigration is okay?

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Do you think, yeah, there are tons of people like that.

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
Do you reliably attacks on these ICE task forces that
are reinforced by National Guard and other federal agencies that
they're rounding up not just plain.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Illegal, the criminal and criminal.

Speaker 7 (01:24:38):
Do you think on an individual basis people would say
leave them alone?

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
Yeah, Well, they are.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
Tom thousands, if not tens of thousands of these so
called demonstrators, aren't. They're attacking the ICE operation right, And
by the way, it's not like.

Speaker 7 (01:24:52):
Do you think, though, doc, do you really think they
want unfettered open borders or they just don't want.

Speaker 19 (01:24:58):
They want borders?

Speaker 18 (01:25:01):
Not very many, but there are fringe elements on the
far far left that don't want borders.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
Tom there is even a thing called the Open Border Society.
The Sorrows funds to the tune of God knows how
many billions of dollars they have it in their name.

Speaker 7 (01:25:19):
What do you think Sorow's goal is really, and don't
just say a platitude he wants to ruin the country.

Speaker 6 (01:25:25):
What do you think is true goal is?

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Well, it's hard to say without it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:29):
By the way, those listening Sorrows is a billionaire that
made billions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:25:34):
And what he does is.

Speaker 7 (01:25:35):
He funds district attorney offices, political offices or their campaigns.
He funds to get people in that agree with him.
But what do you think is n goal is? I
don't think he wants to destroy America. I think he
wants to change it all right, else.

Speaker 19 (01:25:50):
Like let me just finish.

Speaker 18 (01:25:51):
He wants people like Mandami in office, people who are
quote social democratic, socialist right.

Speaker 19 (01:25:58):
That's what Sorrows wants.

Speaker 7 (01:26:00):
No, I get it, but in his mind it's improving
the country.

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
Like Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:26:06):
I don't think Bernie Sanders says, let's do this to
destroy the country. I think they believe they're improving the country.
I'm not saying they are, but I don't think their
goal is to destroy the country.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
I think that in their minds it would be better.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
I think Bernie, I gotta take a break.

Speaker 7 (01:26:24):
I gotta take a break. I think they're patriotic.

Speaker 6 (01:26:26):
They're all patriotic in their perception of what America should be.
I don't think any one.

Speaker 7 (01:26:33):
Of them just wants to see it cease to exist
as a country.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
We got more coming up.

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Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
I've been commenting on the.

Speaker 7 (01:27:23):
UH the elections and the ballot initiatives for no new taxes,
but they're going to borrow a total of nine hundred
and fifty million from taxpayers, but there will be no
increased taxes at all.

Speaker 6 (01:27:40):
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
In my entire life, and I can't believe people would
believe it. They're extending the debt, They're extending the time
we are in debt.

Speaker 6 (01:27:52):
That's like saying to you, you.

Speaker 7 (01:27:54):
Know that car you thought was going to be paid
off in December, Well you got to pay another five
years on that car.

Speaker 6 (01:27:59):
But we're not increasing the price of the car. That's
what they're telling us. That is what they're telling us. Sean,
what is your comment on our current moron mayor.

Speaker 17 (01:28:14):
I think he's an out and out crook. I mean,
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:28:17):
Think I don't think he's a crook. I don't think
he's a crook.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
I think he's No, I just think.

Speaker 17 (01:28:22):
He's buy I'm buying these hotels, and he's buying the
Tabor Center with tax money and and he's.

Speaker 15 (01:28:31):
Selling it to people for a dollar and stuff.

Speaker 17 (01:28:33):
What's that? Well, how can he how can he buy
stuff with tax money and then sell it for a
dollar for dollars?

Speaker 7 (01:28:44):
Yeah, he's trying to achieve his social agenda.

Speaker 6 (01:28:47):
I'll give you that. A lot of people.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
You know, look at all government is crooked. All government's
cooking packy. It's uh, it's too bad, Sean that probably.
What do you think do you think Denver voters d
Jeff Fike? Do you think Denver voters are going to
vote this in?

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Do you guys think?

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
Yeah, they have been. I mean, look at a give
me a year and year out they vote these people
in or somebody just like them. So, you know, Denver
really the Denver voters really deserve, you know, the government
that they keep voting for, and here it is.

Speaker 7 (01:29:26):
And they're probably going to get eventually a communist mayor.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
Oh yeah, we're going to get one of these days.

Speaker 6 (01:29:32):
No, we'll get them. Well, we'll for sure get it.

Speaker 7 (01:29:34):
We almost have one now because what they want to
do is redistribute wealth. That's what they want to do,
redistribute wealth. Three all three seven, one three two five five.
I want to get back.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
To the season here, the season Halloween.

Speaker 7 (01:29:55):
Now, you would think people would use common sense with
Halloween costumes, but there are some social faux pas. Believe
it or not, there is a Halloween costume. It's the
number one social faux pas. I can't even believe I'm

(01:30:18):
saying it, but I'm reading it. It's based on a
survey and there's a picture of it.

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
A Holocaust victim.

Speaker 7 (01:30:25):
No, I swear to you, believe it or not, there
are costumes either do it yourself or store bought items
that are being put together to be a Holocaust victim
or prisoner of war.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Good cud, Tom.

Speaker 5 (01:30:48):
Can we switch topics to like one of the sexy
slutty outfits for women, like you know, the sludy Librarian.

Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
Number two no longer available anywhere, And even on some
of the face paint they sell, they say not to
be listen to this as if they can control it.
So they have colors that you buy face painting colors.

Speaker 7 (01:31:13):
They come in black, white, red, blue, yellow, all these
colors on the black one.

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
It says.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Ready not to be used for blackface. Why are you laughing?
I don't know, Tom. That was an involuntary raa not
to be used.

Speaker 7 (01:31:33):
For blackface, as if anybody nowadays would do that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
Do you truly believe.

Speaker 7 (01:31:40):
There's anyone anywhere that would wear blackface? After all the
stuff that has been through blackface? And you know, I mean,
your girlfriend lost her job because she made a comment
about blackface. And the comment she made I thought was
totally misunderstood. But what's her name again? You're you love her?

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
Isn't pretty wish flood?

Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
Megan?

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Megan Kelly, Yeah, Megan Kelly.

Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
That's how she lost her job.

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
What she said was, you know, they were having a
discussion about blackface, and what she said was, you know, well,
you know when I was growing up her back before
so and so, there was nothing wrong with it, meaning
she said something like that, meaning that I know what
she meant that no one.

Speaker 6 (01:32:29):
Thought anything about it. I don't think she was actually
saying it was okay, but it was considered okay.

Speaker 7 (01:32:36):
You got to look that up because truly they totally
misunderstood what she was saying. Okay, another another no, no
more like men used to dress up like women, no more, no,
no more.

Speaker 6 (01:32:51):
Or women dressing up like men.

Speaker 7 (01:32:54):
It is not I'm talking about unless you're trans anyway.
But but trans phobe costumes are out.

Speaker 11 (01:33:02):
You are?

Speaker 6 (01:33:03):
You are?

Speaker 7 (01:33:03):
No, it's no longer considered cool if you're a straight
white male to dress up like a woman, or if
you're a straight white female to dress up like a male.

Speaker 19 (01:33:14):
So what happens if you do? What's the consequence?

Speaker 6 (01:33:17):
Well, it depends on what crowd you're in. Obviously they're
just talking.

Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
They're just talking about the cultural norms.

Speaker 6 (01:33:26):
And what people are on the lookout for. Do you
see what number four is? You?

Speaker 7 (01:33:32):
You should not dress up like anything to mimic the
COVID nineteen virus. Why not because there were virus costumes
out there?

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
Yeah, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 6 (01:33:44):
How is this die you?

Speaker 7 (01:33:50):
You're not supposed to You're not supposed to dress like
a COVID nineteen virus particle.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
But can you dress like some other kind of a germ?

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
And then just explain to people what germ you are
or where is you know name tag?

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
Not?

Speaker 6 (01:34:05):
Well? You could you to a party? Has cancer?

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:34:10):
Think about how crazy costumes can get.

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
I'm just telling you what what I'm going to read
some more of these. These come right out of Good Housekeeping.
By the way, this is Good Housekeeping magazine.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
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Speaker 7 (01:34:21):
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Speaker 6 (01:35:36):
Sorrows.

Speaker 7 (01:35:37):
Wants to destroy America, says this Texter. He wants world
socialism and America must be destroyed to do that. When
I said I don't think people want to destroy the country,
I didn't mean the system. There are plenty of people
that want to destroy our system and our government, but

(01:35:59):
I think that the kind solf. What I mean is this,
I don't think they want it taken over by another country.
I think they want to see America just different. And
again I'm not saying that's a good thing. I'm just
saying that if you talk to them, they think America
is going in the wrong direction and they want to
see more socialism. And by the way, we are moving
in that direction. I mean, we do have a strong

(01:36:21):
president right now, and we do have a strong leaning
the other direction, but that's just temporary.

Speaker 19 (01:36:28):
And I mean this, well, remember what broxhaid.

Speaker 18 (01:36:31):
He wanted to transform America, and this is just.

Speaker 7 (01:36:35):
A fundamentally fundamentally transform transform.

Speaker 19 (01:36:39):
This is just a continuation of that.

Speaker 7 (01:36:43):
I remember what he said, he said no country should
be above another, that we should all be on equal
footing and all of that, and a lot of people.

Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
Agree on that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Right now, if you you know a lot of people
agree with that. Do you want me to tell my
card day story?

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
Okay, you got a card day story. Let me hear it. Interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
Wait, this is gonna knock your socks off. Okay, So
last night I stopped by AutoZone to pick up a
new light bulb for a turn signal that went out.
So I picked I'm paying for my packet of two
light bulbs ten bucks, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
The old g bulbs, those little round ones.

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
Yeah, yeah, so you know the ones like the old
style light bulbs. None of this led boloney for me.
I'm an old school kind of a guy. So the
guy rings me up for your new car, it's for
my old car. Yeah, so he rings me up. By
the way, it's ten bucks for a pair of light bulbs.
Highway robbery, he says. So I'm about to pay for it,
he says, Hey, do you want to add a packet

(01:37:41):
of light bulb grease for just another two bucks?

Speaker 6 (01:37:44):
Light bulb grease, Jeff, have.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
You ever heard of light bulb grease? To the lithium
grease for the socket.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
So Eleutozone calls it light bulb grease and it comes
in a little single use packet, which to me feels like,
what is that not? What is that grease called? It's
like the electrolytic grease or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Right, lithium does get the lithium greece.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
Yeah, yeah, So for two bucks they were trying to
sell me a packet of light bulb grease. Jeff, is
there any application for light bulb grease in the automotive world?

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
Exactly? Keep the croasion down, and now you owe me
pizza for life by that, As you said, this would
knock my socks off. And I'm just saying it was.

Speaker 5 (01:38:27):
A very Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:38:32):
He might have been one where you're going to put
the light bulbs and.

Speaker 6 (01:38:39):
My goodness, that's a good.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
One to go for an office.

Speaker 7 (01:38:45):
Doc in your profession. Did you use lithium grease.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
A few light bulbs?

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Well, needless to say, I'm going in on greased. So
h that's my project for the weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:38:57):
Texture says my two thousand and six cheap Wranglers throws
a code P zero seven four zero whatever. Anyway, when
I disconnect the battery, the code goes away but comes
back after about six weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
Yeah, he's he's turned off the light. That's a torque code.
Uh so it's still foored in the memory. So if
I got in there with a scanner, I would be
able to go to the historical memory. I would still
find it.

Speaker 7 (01:39:26):
In fact, Kevin says when he does pre buy inspections
on used cars, we'll find the permanent codes. He racees
when they remove codes that it triggers him to look
for a products.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
It takes a certain number of key cycles before those
will actually erase on their own.

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
And so if you're buying a used car and all
of a sudden there's a bunch of resets or there's
a bunch of erasings, he says, that's a that's a
red flag.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
Red flag. So either either somebody's trying to hide it
or it's been recently fixed and they've erased the codes.

Speaker 6 (01:39:56):
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Speaker 20 (01:40:00):
I have a small follow up on this Paco transmission
with Marie that called this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:40:05):
Okay, yeah, I'd like to recap that because it sounded
it sounded pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
Let's see, what was o.

Speaker 16 (01:40:12):
Maria twenty bought Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:40:14):
She bought a used engine one hundred and sixty five
thousand on it from Paco's transmission.

Speaker 6 (01:40:20):
She said it was eighteen.

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Hundred bucks and she took it to her mechanic. Her
mechanic wouldn't install it. He said it was bad. So
Paco offered to install it for a thousand bucks to
cover the installation labor.

Speaker 6 (01:40:34):
And then when she went to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:35):
Pick it up, Paco said it needs more work.

Speaker 20 (01:40:40):
Well, I don't think. Well, it does need a lot
of things. But Maria went over there. I don't know
if she said this on the air, but Paco was
out of town, but apparently it was. The car was
on the lift and the mechanics drilled holes in the
Cadillac converter and apparently this twenty twelve on Clave three

(01:41:00):
catalectic converters, and I think they did that in.

Speaker 16 (01:41:04):
Order to make the engine run properly.

Speaker 20 (01:41:07):
So she wants to get the car out of there
because there's no way on the freaking planet that car
will ever pass the missions. She just wants to get
the car out of there, but she wanted she went
there to at least get the car to drive it
around the block. They will not let her take possession
of the car till I pay her the thousand dollars.
But Tom, I don't know what to do for this lady.

(01:41:29):
I think she's entitled. I think they're holding her car hostage.

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
Yeah wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 7 (01:41:33):
Though she did agree to pay a thousand dollars to
have the engine installed.

Speaker 20 (01:41:37):
She did, But I don't think she agreed to have
the catialect converters ruined.

Speaker 6 (01:41:42):
No, but that's a separate issue.

Speaker 7 (01:41:44):
I think she should pay for the engine installation. I'm
not saying this is the best of all the best
scenario you can have, but she agreed for the engine installation,
she should pay for it and then go after them
for whatever else they did wrong. I mean, why did
they Did you ask them why they drilled holes in
the catalytic converter.

Speaker 20 (01:42:02):
I called over there three times, there's brokes spoke broken English,
and is this said, we're working on it.

Speaker 6 (01:42:10):
But what Okay, Jeff.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
The reason they drill holes in it is because it
was plugged up, and so they're trying to release the
pressure of the back pressure. So with that back pressure,
that engine is not going to want to run with
a arm, so they're trying to release.

Speaker 6 (01:42:22):
If it was plugged up. She probably needed one anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
She probably needed one anyway, depending on what the original
failure of the original engine was, that may have caused
the cats to fail. Or she could have had bad
cats that ran it long enough that she caused the
engine to fail.

Speaker 7 (01:42:35):
Could have been run of the oche, could have been fine,
who knows, it could have been just the cat.

Speaker 6 (01:42:40):
Now here's the thing though, Here, here's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Bo.

Speaker 7 (01:42:44):
You know, she agreed to have the If the engine
is installed and the car is running, most likely she
needed a cat anyway, so she should get it out
of there, pay them, get it out of there, and
take it somewhere to have the cat replaced.

Speaker 20 (01:42:58):
Okay, but three catalyt can you're probably looking at twenty
five dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
Who says that, Well, you don't have to replace all
three at once, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Probably you'll probably end up replacing them all yet why
because they've all been affected. So I mean they went
to the one was the worst trying to release the
back pressure. But if that one's backed up that much
the other time.

Speaker 7 (01:43:17):
But Bo, you make it sound like it's Paco's problem
that she has bad catalytic converters.

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Why is it their problem.

Speaker 16 (01:43:27):
I just think it's strict.

Speaker 20 (01:43:29):
Well I just thought I never heard of someone damaging
a catal ad converter to get an engine to run
it in my Okay, okay, I get it.

Speaker 7 (01:43:36):
I get If you're damaging a catalytic converter that's plugged up,
you're not damaging much anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:43:43):
She would have needed one anyway. I really believe you know,
the fact is she went in.

Speaker 7 (01:43:50):
There needing an engine. She got the engine. It's installed.
Maybe we don't like the way they did it, but
they probably.

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
Tried to get it running without charge. Here for a
new catalytic converter.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
And once she's got a possession of it, she can
take it to another mechanic and find out if it
was done improperly or if they cause damage. Right, she
can go and get recourse for that. But without the car,
it doesn't mean any I doubt.

Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
They would drill a hole in a perfectly good.

Speaker 16 (01:44:13):
Cat Now that's true.

Speaker 20 (01:44:15):
Well, I'm going to call her back, tell her to
pay the thousand dollars, get the car out, and take
it somewhere else.

Speaker 16 (01:44:21):
The deal with the Catalan take.

Speaker 7 (01:44:22):
It over to take it over to Kevin Caulkin and
see what it needs. If it needs all three cats,
she's gonna have to replace them anyway. I mean, if
you think about it now or I don't know, look.

Speaker 20 (01:44:38):
It, I get it. But I think they should at
least let her know a catlet converter. What's the cat
they're like one thousand dollars apiece.

Speaker 6 (01:44:45):
Let her know what we let her know what? BO,
tell me what you mean.

Speaker 20 (01:44:50):
I think Paco's Transmissions should have called her and said, hey,
in order to get your engine right, we're going to
have to ru in.

Speaker 16 (01:45:00):
Your catalytic converters. I think you didn't ruin BO.

Speaker 6 (01:45:03):
You keep saying they ruined.

Speaker 16 (01:45:05):
Them when you drill a hole in it. I think
you do. Don't you try not?

Speaker 7 (01:45:08):
When they're plugged up, you're not ruining it. You're opening
it up because it was bad to begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
BO.

Speaker 7 (01:45:14):
You're assuming that her cats were in perfect condition and
that they ruined.

Speaker 16 (01:45:18):
Them, right, Okay, I mean who said they were.

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
I mean, we can have that analyzed.

Speaker 7 (01:45:24):
But but there's no reason for them to drill a
hole in a perfectly good catalytic converter. If they drilled
a hole and got the car to run, it's because
the cat was bad. Before they drilled it, So you're
blaming them for ruining an already bad cat. I don't
get the lodging unless unless Kevin says, wait a minute,

(01:45:47):
there was nothing wrong with this cat.

Speaker 6 (01:45:48):
I have no idea why they drilled it. I mean,
can you even tell by looking at it?

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
I mean, you're gonna have to put on a five
gas analyzer. But now that they've drilled into it, it
is destroyed. You're not going to get proper flowing out
of what you do, right.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
But the reason it's destroyed is because it was bad
to begin with.

Speaker 1 (01:46:03):
There would be no reason to draw a hole anyway.
I gotta take a break. We got more.

Speaker 6 (01:46:08):
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Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Now, Tom Martine, Hey, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (01:47:13):
We are here solving your problems, as your questions, taking
your complaints. Let's go to the phones, see what's on
your mind. Jay's got a comment on catalytic converters. Go ahead, Jay,
what is your comment on catalytic converters.

Speaker 9 (01:47:27):
First of all, these guys who knows what was originally
wrong with the car could have been anything but right.
They are absolute idiots there. They might be the dumbest mechanics.

Speaker 21 (01:47:36):
In the world.

Speaker 9 (01:47:37):
First of all, it's a felony. If I'm mistaken to
do temper do a catalytic converter, you can be changed
fifteen thousand dollars for every holder drilling, and they can
lose their license to do business in Colorado's auto shop
immediately the second they try to modify one. We're not
very right, yeah really, and he just costs her probably

(01:48:03):
if there's three of them, a minimum of three thousand.
I mean, at an extreme bottom and possibly nine or
ten thousand L converters is very, very very expensive in
Colorado where I'm at California, carb compliant crap. So yeah, and.

Speaker 7 (01:48:22):
Mark often has this discussion with people when they talk
about it.

Speaker 6 (01:48:25):
He says, what's to.

Speaker 7 (01:48:26):
Prevent him from driving to Wyoming and getting a cat
replaced and something?

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
Yeah, she kicks him to court. They owe her the
carb compliant on that car supposed to have what she
does that for that that's her own ding business. But
they just ruined probably pretty perfectly good converters because they're
obviously a hacked omatic shop that knows nothing. So god,

(01:48:53):
how do you know?

Speaker 7 (01:48:54):
How do you know the cat wasn't bad and that's
why they drilled it?

Speaker 9 (01:48:58):
How do we know it was bad? How do we
know it was We don't.

Speaker 1 (01:49:01):
We don't, Yeah, we don't.

Speaker 9 (01:49:03):
They ruined everything. Yeah, yeah, could have been anything. Who
knows what was on originally, But we do know one thing.
She has three destroyed cats for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:49:15):
Now, well she has one destroyed cat.

Speaker 9 (01:49:18):
I think that car has.

Speaker 7 (01:49:19):
Three, Yes, I know, but they only they only drilled
one of them. Do you have to replace them all
at the same time?

Speaker 9 (01:49:26):
Well, it's if two are good and ones bad. No,
you don't. But okay, if they if they drilled one out, they.

Speaker 6 (01:49:36):
That's what they did. That's what they did.

Speaker 17 (01:49:38):
They because that's a sellony.

Speaker 7 (01:49:41):
They that maybe she should report him, Maybe she should
report him.

Speaker 6 (01:49:46):
All right, thank you, Jay David.

Speaker 7 (01:49:48):
What is going on with your twenty twenty two nd
ache Hyundai Kona?

Speaker 21 (01:49:54):
Actually it's my son's car.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
Yes, we've got insurance.

Speaker 21 (01:49:58):
Pay for a new engine to be put into it.
The problem is.

Speaker 7 (01:50:02):
Is why is I'm just curious why insurance is paying for.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
The new car.

Speaker 21 (01:50:08):
You went over a curb and it didn't do anybody
damage to the car, but it damaged the oil pan
and parts of the engine.

Speaker 9 (01:50:15):
So that's replaced.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Wow wow.

Speaker 21 (01:50:18):
But the problem is is they won't pay the going
per hour rate of what a normal shop is going
to charge. And obviously I don't want a major job
like that going to a shop that I can't trust.

Speaker 6 (01:50:30):
I thought they just pay the bill.

Speaker 7 (01:50:32):
Did they actually break it down to what the hourly
rate is?

Speaker 21 (01:50:37):
Yeah, they do.

Speaker 6 (01:50:39):
So give me a give me an idea of what
they give me, an idea of what you're finding and
pricing for the whole job, and what they're willing to pay.
What's the price difference?

Speaker 21 (01:50:50):
We haven't gotten a price on the whole job. They're
just saying they only pay two hundred dollars per hour
for the install of the engine.

Speaker 6 (01:51:00):
And what's the going what's the going rate? Jeff, It's
not two hundred dollars an hour? What's the going rate?

Speaker 1 (01:51:05):
You know, all these insurance companies and warranty companies have
decided that they were going to set the going rate
in any particular area. So it is literally something they've
made up. I mean I've had had to argue with
them before. Generally they say, Okay, we're only going to
pay one hundred and twenty dollars an hour. Well, the
customer's going to be doing for what's the going rate?

(01:51:25):
I'm saying it depends on the type of work you're
getting done. I'm one hundred and seventy five dollars an hour.

Speaker 6 (01:51:31):
Okay, they're offering him two hundred And.

Speaker 7 (01:51:35):
Tell me, David, what what price are you getting for
installation labor?

Speaker 21 (01:51:40):
Well, we called the Shirton Auto and he said to
twenty per hour.

Speaker 7 (01:51:45):
As shared an auto tech. Yeah, okay, and what that's
what I'm trying to ask? What would the price difference.

Speaker 21 (01:51:54):
Be I'm not quite sure. I'll tell you the truth,
because you're engeing around trying to fight.

Speaker 6 (01:52:02):
Your coverage may limit it.

Speaker 7 (01:52:05):
May you may have wording in your replacement coverage that
it limits certain charges that they pay.

Speaker 6 (01:52:12):
I'm not sure. But who's your carrier?

Speaker 21 (01:52:15):
I believe it's progressive, progressive.

Speaker 7 (01:52:18):
And your engine is out. They have to replace your
whole engine under a plane.

Speaker 21 (01:52:24):
Yet it's all in one piece.

Speaker 1 (01:52:27):
Well I meant it was. You know your engine's gone,
you need a new engine. What kind of an engine
are they putting in?

Speaker 6 (01:52:33):
Are they putting in a used engine?

Speaker 21 (01:52:36):
You know, I'm not quite sure. He only had forty
thousand miles on it and they're putting a lifetime warty
on it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:42):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:52:43):
When they're actually getting a new one, they say it three.

Speaker 7 (01:52:46):
But before I start, before I start arguing, what I
would do is I'd figure out what is the difference.
I mean, if it's only one hundred bucks, If it's
only a few hundred bucks, is it worth going to
war over it?

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
If you're getting a new engine.

Speaker 7 (01:53:00):
I mean, I'm just saying, I don't know what If
Kevin says it's two twenty, that doesn't mean it's two twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:53:08):
It means that's what Kevin's charging.

Speaker 7 (01:53:10):
Maybe negotiate with him or or try another shop.

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
I mean, what.

Speaker 7 (01:53:15):
I'm saying is is two hundred sounds like a generous.

Speaker 6 (01:53:19):
Hourly rate to me.

Speaker 1 (01:53:22):
And have you only checked with one shop on an
hourly rate?

Speaker 21 (01:53:26):
Now we've checked with a couple. The problem is is
the other ones that are cheaper. I don't know anything.

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
About him, right, gotcha?

Speaker 21 (01:53:34):
You know something that major? I don't want to trust
just anybody.

Speaker 7 (01:53:40):
And okay, and you told Kevin this was an insurance claim.

Speaker 21 (01:53:45):
No, I don't think so. I think he just called
around and asked what their hourly shop hours are?

Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Who called around and asked?

Speaker 21 (01:53:53):
My son?

Speaker 17 (01:53:54):
It is his car?

Speaker 7 (01:53:55):
Oh okay? How many hours are we talking talking about?

Speaker 6 (01:54:00):
Do you know?

Speaker 21 (01:54:01):
They were talking about fifteen or so?

Speaker 7 (01:54:05):
Fifteen hours or so? Who's that? Is that what Kevin
said it would take?

Speaker 21 (01:54:10):
Now that's what the insurance to say. And they're and
and they assign the amount of hours, and it's probably
more than that.

Speaker 7 (01:54:17):
So we're talking about a total of three hundred dollars work.

Speaker 21 (01:54:23):
Possibly, So.

Speaker 7 (01:54:25):
I don't know how much you want to fight for
there for an extra three hundred dollars on your claim.

Speaker 6 (01:54:29):
I mean I don't. I'm not. I'm not telling you
it's not worth well.

Speaker 1 (01:54:33):
Yeah I am. I am saying that it may not.

Speaker 7 (01:54:35):
Be worth it. That's just my gut. It might not
be worth it. But but I would call back Kevin
and say, Kevin, they're quoting two hundred an hour, you're
quoting two twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
Can we meet somewhere in the middle. I mean, Kevin,
I would just say I would say no on that.
I mean, my rate is my rate. I have to
pay my guys. There's a reason why you you have
a labor rate the way you do. Okay, So that
extra twenty dollars an hour that is going to pay
his man, that's going to pay his lights all his overhead, doesnay,
And he came up with that number.

Speaker 6 (01:55:10):
Okay, So that's his overhead.

Speaker 7 (01:55:11):
So then you ask him, how did you I'd ask him.

Speaker 1 (01:55:15):
How many hours?

Speaker 7 (01:55:17):
And you say, the insurance is figuring fifteen Yep, what
does that sound like for an engine installation?

Speaker 1 (01:55:23):
That's not reasonable? Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I mean I
don't have my labor guides in front of me, so
I can't verify it. But I mean part of Kevin's
job is to try to argue with them. You know,
if it's actually worth nineteen hours, then you know, try
to get that nineteen hours. But ultimately the customer's responsible
for whatever the insurance is not going to cover. Right.

Speaker 7 (01:55:42):
And by the way, David, do you have a deductible
on top of that?

Speaker 21 (01:55:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:55:50):
How much is the deductible?

Speaker 21 (01:55:52):
Thousand dollars? Do have to do worshiping like that?

Speaker 1 (01:55:54):
So if you're thirteen hundred bucks in for a complete
engine slop, you're not in a bad place. No, not
at all.

Speaker 7 (01:56:00):
Yeah, I mean you just have to there's nothing we
I mean, look at it's a matter of contract.

Speaker 6 (01:56:07):
You you might want to ask.

Speaker 7 (01:56:08):
Them, by contract, is there something that limits the the
hourly rate?

Speaker 6 (01:56:14):
Just say, can you show me?

Speaker 7 (01:56:17):
If you're talking to an adjuster or to your agent,
just ask them, can you show me, by contract, by
policy where that is.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
That's what I would do.

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Speaker 11 (01:58:08):
I need to ask two questions to your expert.

Speaker 15 (01:58:11):
Yes, the first one is the and I've been on
the internet try to find some information.

Speaker 11 (01:58:17):
I just want your expert to help me just be
more and more accurate. It's the Honda, the radiator, the
coin system. I want to purge the air out of it.
How many if any how many if our per toles
or purge boats are on the block or on the
top of the service dat But what.

Speaker 17 (01:58:35):
Do I have to do?

Speaker 6 (01:58:35):
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Speaker 1 (01:58:37):
I would actually have to look that up online. I
don't have the computer in front of me, so, but
I would have to go through, uh and look that
up on one of my by that he's trying to
purge air out of the system, so up on the block. Yeah, yeah,
when there's other ways of getting it out too. Uh.
You know, we have we have tools so we don't
have to scool around with that stuff. But I assume

(01:58:59):
you recently had the system open for one reason or another.

Speaker 11 (01:59:02):
Yes, correct, Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (01:59:05):
I mean you know, fire it up and let it run.
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Hopefully you've actually purged it at that point.

Speaker 11 (01:59:24):
Okay, And I have a question number two, and again
I've been on the internet and it's not clear one
way or another.

Speaker 21 (01:59:31):
I need to buy a battery.

Speaker 11 (01:59:33):
And would it be yes or no? To buy an
a GM battery for that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:38):
Old aunty you'd be fine, there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 6 (01:59:41):
And what is it talk about an a GM battery?

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
What are they? You're talking about the solid batteries right
without the yeah, right, yells right? What do you want
to know about it?

Speaker 6 (01:59:50):
I mean, are they there? Are they non serviceable?

Speaker 1 (01:59:53):
Non maintenance? Matter exactly pretty much? And then you know
you have fewer failures in me as a result. And
they're also more resistant to not.

Speaker 6 (02:00:00):
Only are they direct replacement for water letters?

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
Yes? Yeah, all right?

Speaker 7 (02:00:05):
Jay, you have another comment on catalytic converters' I'm not
sure the average listener will make sense of it.

Speaker 6 (02:00:13):
But go ahead. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
Jay?

Speaker 9 (02:00:16):
Actually they will, Tom, Okay, So they cut a big,
giant hole in her catalytic converter, big.

Speaker 1 (02:00:22):
Enough, Yes, they did. An engine she jumps in it.

Speaker 9 (02:00:25):
She's stuck in traffic on a hot day, sitting there
with the windows up or a conditioner running, and suffocates
because they just cut a giant hole in her exhaust
stem right under the cabin.

Speaker 6 (02:00:38):
I'm not sure what you're saying. They drilled moxide, but
they drilled into the catalytic converter.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
Right, You still get your carbon monoxide coming through that exhaust, right,
So it's escaping from that cat right instead of running
out the tail end of the car.

Speaker 6 (02:00:51):
I got it. Yeah, you're right. That could be a
dangerous situation.

Speaker 1 (02:00:56):
And and and I just don't know what she's going
to do.

Speaker 7 (02:01:01):
We got to get the car out of there first.
That's her number one priority. Get the car out of there,
and then figure out what is screwed up?

Speaker 6 (02:01:09):
Ted? What's going on with your f one fifty high?

Speaker 1 (02:01:12):
Ted?

Speaker 17 (02:01:14):
Hey, Tom, First of all, oh man, listen to you
are probably in the forty year range, So you're great.

Speaker 1 (02:01:19):
Thank you. Lank you think I appreciate that time. Thank you.

Speaker 17 (02:01:24):
So you got Kevin in today. Here's here's a long
story short. I had to replace my battery on my
F one fifty because it was going bad. But I
noticed before Mike. I replaced the battery and I had
it tested by somebody who knows somebody who's made that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
Yeah, I need a new battery.

Speaker 17 (02:01:40):
So but my spinometer is a time like when I
was dead in the water, it would say twenty and
then I'd start driving in my neighborhood and go up.
Now my spinometer, I'm looking at it right now.

Speaker 1 (02:01:52):
The car's running.

Speaker 17 (02:01:54):
My spentometer says thirty five.

Speaker 1 (02:01:56):
Miles an hour.

Speaker 17 (02:01:56):
As soon as I drive down the neighborhood, I'm doing
like sixty five miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Oh wow, there is that a digital?

Speaker 7 (02:02:04):
Is that a digital speedometer on a twenty twelve f
one point fifty.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
Yes, it should be. Well, I mean it'll show is analog,
but it's still electronic. Okay, what cause it's probably a
problem with the head itself because you're not experiencing any
driveability complaints with it, and there's altered shifting or anything
like that.

Speaker 17 (02:02:27):
Oh, Kevin, No, driving is fine. There's no check engine
light on the ages.

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
Besides that seem to.

Speaker 7 (02:02:35):
Be fine, and so they are PAM, there's not it's
not You're not really obviously going that fast, so it
simply needs to be calibrated.

Speaker 1 (02:02:43):
Right ever replaced. So I mean, the likelihood is there's
a fault inside that head and it's probably gonna have
to be right.

Speaker 7 (02:02:48):
When you say the head, do you mean the readout
on the instrument panel? The instrument panel and do they
come as one cluster.

Speaker 1 (02:02:55):
In most cases? Yeah, I should on that one.

Speaker 6 (02:02:57):
There used to be a place that specialize in those
spanometer that's right. Are they still around?

Speaker 1 (02:03:02):
Yeah, they're still around, or like Tom or Kevin right now?

Speaker 17 (02:03:07):
My RPM all that. Everything seems fine except for the
speed thing. So do you think I just need a
whole like electrical check or another word? Here's my question.
Could I go down to somebody like.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
He just told you who to go to.

Speaker 6 (02:03:26):
He isn't going to be able to tell you, oh,
you're talking about that.

Speaker 7 (02:03:29):
You know, it's not going to cost much for Deluxe
to give that a rundown. They're right down on Calamath Street.
They're they're good people. I took my car to them
years ago. I didn't know they're still around. They they
can look at that speedometer probably in a minute and
tell you what's wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:03:44):
I mean, if nothing else. I mean, I could hook
up to it with the scanner watching it on the
on the scanner, I can tell you if the head
says you're doing sixty five, but my scanner shows that,
the computer shows you're doing thirty five. It's all on
the head saying this phenometer. Here's form a cluster.

Speaker 6 (02:04:03):
The cluster that's right in your truck. That's the head.

Speaker 7 (02:04:07):
Okay, the panel, the panel, it's a it's a cluster
that comes out of that panel from behind usually, but
in any case you want, here's the number. Here's the
number for Deluxe. Three oh three, sixty two nine, sixty
nine fifty.

Speaker 17 (02:04:24):
Eight, sixty nine, sixty nine fifty eight.

Speaker 7 (02:04:27):
Okay, yeah, sixty two nine sixty nine to fifty eight.

Speaker 6 (02:04:30):
Thanks man, Yeah, Deluxe.

Speaker 10 (02:04:32):
Man.

Speaker 6 (02:04:32):
They have been around for years.

Speaker 12 (02:04:35):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:04:35):
Cindy, Hi, what's going on with you, Cindy, what's happening?

Speaker 9 (02:04:40):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (02:04:40):
Well, I have a twenty twenty two Honda CRV.

Speaker 11 (02:04:44):
At the hybrid that.

Speaker 22 (02:04:46):
Sometimes and when my purse is in the car and
the key is in my purse.

Speaker 14 (02:04:51):
It just locks. The door's lock.

Speaker 7 (02:04:53):
Wait a minute, wait, wait the doors lock not when
you're outside of the car, right, Does it happen when
you're outside the car.

Speaker 22 (02:05:02):
Yes, I'm out of the car.

Speaker 19 (02:05:04):
The door I shut.

Speaker 8 (02:05:05):
You know, sometimes you have to forget something and your car.

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
Is running, so you shut the door and.

Speaker 10 (02:05:08):
You run in the house. Do you get it? And
you come back out and it has locked?

Speaker 3 (02:05:12):
And let it happened when I'm at home, so I'm very.

Speaker 22 (02:05:16):
Careful now to take my purse out with me if
I shut that.

Speaker 6 (02:05:20):
Normally they don't Normally they don't lock with the well
they do lock though, when you're sitting there and you
lock it, right.

Speaker 1 (02:05:26):
Yeah, particularly usually when you put it in the gear.

Speaker 7 (02:05:29):
Yeah, but yeah, exactly, that's right. So if you're sitting
there idly, it won't lock you out.

Speaker 22 (02:05:36):
Well, it's been sitting.

Speaker 9 (02:05:39):
There running.

Speaker 6 (02:05:42):
And we got her radio is on it.

Speaker 22 (02:05:45):
Okay, let's say this. Okay, this happened at home. I'm
I turned it off, I'm as room and the car
I started the car, I mean the car IgE.

Speaker 3 (02:05:52):
Like, oh shoot, I forgot right, and in my purse there,
I shut the door. I run in the house.

Speaker 10 (02:05:57):
It locks.

Speaker 1 (02:05:59):
Wow, that's that. Yeah, I really don't think it should. No,
but you know, a wise piece of advice, and this
is something every mechanic in the world knows. If the
keys are in the car and you're not. A window
was down.

Speaker 6 (02:06:11):
Yeah, but she wants to fix.

Speaker 1 (02:06:13):
I understand she wants to fix, but just make better friends.

Speaker 7 (02:06:17):
I think Kevin can work on that. I shared an
auto tech. He could take a quick look at it.
Are we No, No, I'm serious, he this is These
are some of the things they handle on electrical issues.

Speaker 1 (02:06:27):
That could be a simple programming issue.

Speaker 7 (02:06:29):
It's a logic program It used to be weight in
the seat, and I'm like, like airbags, it used the
airbag sensor not to turn off the car when you
were when you when the When that was present and
there was weight in the seat, it would not lock.

Speaker 6 (02:06:46):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 7 (02:06:47):
Maybe but it just suddenly started happening or you just
discovered it is.

Speaker 22 (02:06:53):
No, it happened fairly early on and I was at
home and I thought, oh great, I've got a fob in,
so I got the other keypof it wouldn't unlock it.

Speaker 10 (02:07:03):
I had to actually take that key thing out.

Speaker 1 (02:07:05):
What the door to get in.

Speaker 6 (02:07:07):
Yeah, that that is weird. That is definitely weird.

Speaker 7 (02:07:12):
Hey, uh, Kachina, See if you can get Kevin on
real quick, if he's around, if to ask him that question,
maybe he'll have an answer. Three oh three seven to
one three talk seven one three A two five five. Dimitri,
you wanted to make a comment on Jeff.

Speaker 5 (02:07:28):
Tom not a comment, an update, oh from a few
days ago.

Speaker 6 (02:07:33):
So you know, we on Jeff Jolliffe, which.

Speaker 5 (02:07:36):
Was Yeah, the owner of Recap of the Jeff.

Speaker 7 (02:07:39):
Jolliffe is one of the most crooked men we have
ever met in.

Speaker 1 (02:07:42):
The auto industry.

Speaker 7 (02:07:44):
He has been responsible for fixing things and then when
they bring him back for warranty, the cars were stolen
at least three or four times. And and he's also
taken money up front and done nothing in return. He's
a liar, he's a cheater, he's a good for nothing
piece of crap.

Speaker 1 (02:08:01):
There good.

Speaker 5 (02:08:03):
Well, so you know, we've been getting quite a few
phone calls even recently, because he's still not out of business.
He's operating kind of in the Johnstown, Windsor area. I
believe he now lives in Windsor actually, And so last week,
this is during your day off when Mark and I
were working at the studio, we did a little bit
of background checking on Jeff Jolliffe and we noticed that

(02:08:25):
a few months ago he actually got arrested up there
in Well County on a warrant out of Pueblo, And
so I followed that case. Oh, I'll follow that case,
and I'll tell you what I found out right after this.

Speaker 6 (02:08:39):
All right, let's do it right after this.

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Martino here, Welcome to the show. Cindy her car locking.
We don't have We weren't able to get Kevin, but

(02:09:29):
we're going to consult him, or you can call him directly.
Shared an auto tech. He'd probably answer you on the
phone if he can. He's not available right now.

Speaker 1 (02:09:40):
Three oh three, four, five, five.

Speaker 6 (02:09:42):
Seventy two, forty two. Okay, I got a text here saying.

Speaker 7 (02:09:51):
Tom staying in elected office in many American cities means
excusing bad behavior.

Speaker 1 (02:10:00):
That does make sense.

Speaker 7 (02:10:01):
Mean okay, Jefferson wrote, you get the government you elect.
The people of Denver are getting what they deserve. And
somebody else said, if you are looking to repair your
car and you don't have the tools, you can rent them.

Speaker 6 (02:10:16):
I don't know. Nowadays, isn't it almost.

Speaker 1 (02:10:20):
Impossible to work on your own car? I mean on
the newer cars. I mean, I guess that depends on
the individual.

Speaker 6 (02:10:25):
I mean, you've got to have a lot of computer knowledge.

Speaker 1 (02:10:28):
If you can't talk to the car you're working, mind, Yeah,
you literally have to have a code reader, right or possibly.
You know, you need to be able to look at data.
You need to be able to see what a component
is doing. Just because the transmission's acting up does not
mean it's the transmission all right.

Speaker 6 (02:10:45):
We were talking about areas that people get cheated in
car deals. The seven most common issues. One is engine problems.

Speaker 7 (02:10:56):
Use car dealerships try to hide problems with the engine
rather than fix them. They might even put fresh oil
in and thicker oil and try to make the car
more silent.

Speaker 6 (02:11:10):
One of the worst things is not having a clear title.
They have to undo the deal.

Speaker 7 (02:11:16):
But I'm telling you, you invest money in the car
and then find out you can't get title. High mileage
A lot of buyers won't purchase a vehicle that has
high mileage. They may think that they will have poor performance.
Some use car dealers try to hide this information by
omitting the exact mileage on the advertisements. Some even try

(02:11:39):
to turn back odometers, and believe it or not, the
digital odometers can be turned.

Speaker 1 (02:11:46):
Back most certainly all.

Speaker 6 (02:11:48):
Right, car history used.

Speaker 7 (02:11:51):
Car dealers are not obligated to tell you every detail
about a vehicle's history. We know that.

Speaker 6 (02:11:57):
In fact, they don't have to tell you about any problems.
So you can get a car fax.

Speaker 7 (02:12:03):
Car Faxes are pretty are pretty accurate, but there are
some things not reported to car facts.

Speaker 6 (02:12:10):
Carfax isn't magic.

Speaker 7 (02:12:12):
It can only it can only get what's reported to
them or things they pick up on their own.

Speaker 6 (02:12:18):
But usually like Jeff, when you do a repair or something, carfax,
but you can I can.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
I can choose to, yes, do you choose to?

Speaker 3 (02:12:29):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
Okay, my customer did not ask for their information to
be put online, and I'm not going to give it
to him.

Speaker 6 (02:12:34):
But do some mechanics report? Why what is the incentive
for them? You know?

Speaker 1 (02:12:38):
The way Carfax approaches you on it? Okay, So they
don't mean a b right, No, there's there's no charge
for us to report or anything like that. The way
the way Carfax likes to approach it to myself or
any other shop is that Dmitri has his seven Lincoln
inside or town car excuse me, inside my shop and
I repair it and he says, you know, yeah, then

(02:12:58):
he turns round he wants to sell. The customer can
actually look up on the car facts and say, oh,
well that was done here at this time by this.

Speaker 6 (02:13:05):
So they're trying to tell you it's a good thing
for your customers.

Speaker 1 (02:13:08):
Try to tell you, yes, that that's going to generate.

Speaker 6 (02:13:10):
Isn't it a good thing for customers? Except if it
had major work done that might people might be hesitant
to be.

Speaker 1 (02:13:17):
Just to know if you knew that the truck that
you were looking at with two one hundred and twenty
thousand miles on. It just had a transmission put in
that's five thousand miles ago. Well, actually, if.

Speaker 6 (02:13:27):
Someone asked you to report it, would you I could
sure like putting it, like you just said, in an
old truck.

Speaker 1 (02:13:34):
If you're putting in a new transmission, wouldn't you be
nice to show that truck or you keep your receipt
and you show that you your perspective buyer.

Speaker 7 (02:13:42):
See, I don't see any problem with having a place
report to carfax.

Speaker 6 (02:13:47):
I don't care if they report to carfacs. What bothers
me is when they do this, you have some minor
body work done and then it's reported that it's a
collision or major body work, and and it's it's almost
impossible to get those corrected. Did you know that?

Speaker 7 (02:14:03):
Oh yeah, I mean we had a case where some
guy it was listed as major collision and it wasn't.
It was some front end work the guy had done
from running into a curb or something, and it said
it was a major collision. To get that changed is
almost impossible.

Speaker 1 (02:14:20):
It's about back to God.

Speaker 6 (02:14:22):
So anyway, defects, there are many defects in a vehicle
that do not have to be disclosed. Do not assume
that a dealer or someone selling a car has to
disclose defects to you. A thorough inspection is what you
need before you buy it. In turn, interior damage.

Speaker 7 (02:14:43):
The dealer may sit in the vehicle and take your
attention away from certain areas. Make sure you get in
a vehicle by yourself. Examine all parts of the vehicle.
That seems pretty obvious to me. I mean, you know,
come on, you're going to have some guys say here,
don't look over there, look over here.

Speaker 6 (02:15:03):
That seems a little asinin to me. The other one
the vehicle's value. Many car dealerships try to sell cars
for over the blue book or over what they should
be sold for. Make sure you know what the value is.
And many of them say, well, this car.

Speaker 7 (02:15:21):
Is different, and they try to give you a reason
to make to pay more for that particular.

Speaker 6 (02:15:27):
That particular car. They give you some cockamamie idea. Now,
if it does have a new engine, if it does
have a new transmission, if it has new components, then
of course it would be more worth more than average retail.
But if you really want to know the vehicles, what
what a vehicle is worth?

Speaker 1 (02:15:44):
What I like doing.

Speaker 6 (02:15:45):
I like using leases.

Speaker 7 (02:15:48):
If you go online and search for lease return residual values,
that is the best indication of a car anywhere, because
banks are putting their money where their mouth is. Banks
are saying, in three years, this car is going to
be worth this much money, or in four years it's
going to be worth this much money. The list changes,

(02:16:08):
obviously with the brands of cars and the and the
year it's put out. But I look up this all
the time and it is so accurate because think about it,
these banks are saying, we're going to pay this for
this car, so you know you're not overpaying. If you
stay within that residual or lower, you are making a

(02:16:30):
great deal. And these lists are all over the place
on the internet. It's the residual value list that most
leasing companies use, like General Electric or GECAP well I
just said GE, GM, Toyota, whatever whoever the lessores are.
They keep strict records on what the residual values are.

(02:16:54):
And these are excellent to have, excellent when you're going
out used car shopping.

Speaker 1 (02:16:59):
We have more coming right up on the Troubleshooter Show.

Speaker 7 (02:17:02):
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Speaker 1 (02:17:56):
So he never saw the car?

Speaker 7 (02:18:00):
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Speaker 6 (02:18:06):
Okay, so someone let me find that? Okay someone?

Speaker 1 (02:18:10):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (02:18:11):
When when jeffic does transmission work, does he refill it
with the manufacturer's banded fluid?

Speaker 6 (02:18:16):
Doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (02:18:18):
In some cases we do. In other cases we actually
improve it. We're changed to a different brand.

Speaker 3 (02:18:22):
So I e.

Speaker 1 (02:18:23):
The eight speeds. You know, we change to a mobile
one brand that works better inside that unit.

Speaker 7 (02:18:30):
On a Nissan CVT, Would he use an NS three
or a generic equivalent?

Speaker 1 (02:18:37):
We use a A on that one.

Speaker 3 (02:18:39):
It is.

Speaker 1 (02:18:40):
We have a CVT fluid that's good for multi brand
and we use that.

Speaker 6 (02:18:44):
Okay, why does it? Why is it good for CBT fluid?

Speaker 1 (02:18:47):
CVT fluids are specific because not only you have the
clutches in there, but you have that belt on those
two pulleys, so you have to have a specific lubrication
in order to keep that thing healthy. All right, And.

Speaker 6 (02:19:00):
This guy said that you were almost right on burping
the system the radiator. He says he likes to park
on a steep driveway or a hill and have the
front of the vehicle higher than the back, and then
you run it and then it'll bubble up because of
the Do you really need to be on a slant?

Speaker 1 (02:19:22):
I mean, if it makes him feel better, I guess.
I mean, I don't know. I've done on flat ground forever,
So I mean I prefer mountains and de prefers the beach.

Speaker 7 (02:19:29):
So okay, And so he wants this other guy wants
to know what is the best CVT transmission.

Speaker 1 (02:19:38):
What is the big deal with CVT, Well, a lot
of them are just going on.

Speaker 6 (02:19:42):
Are they all going to CVT?

Speaker 1 (02:19:44):
A lot of them are going to CVTY.

Speaker 6 (02:19:47):
What's the difference between a CVT and a conventional.

Speaker 1 (02:19:50):
You have no actual gear changes. So you have two
opposing pulleys and a belt. And so if you imagine
those pulleys looking similar to a yo yo, yes, okay,
but you can you can expand or contract that yo
yo to make the center of it bigger or smaller. Okay.
So then as you're going down the.

Speaker 7 (02:20:07):
Road, does the odio compresses, the belt goes higher on
the wheel.

Speaker 1 (02:20:11):
Exactly, and that mimics gear changes. No, it will change
a gear ratio. Gratos. Now, when they first started coming out,
people didn't like the feeling of them because they didn't
feel the actual gear changes. So a lot of manufacturers
actually even programmed misfires, want to create the sensation of
a gear change.

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Speaker 6 (02:20:46):
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