In this episode of Drive Radio, we delve into essential auto maintenance tips that every vehicle owner should know. Hosts and guests discuss the importance of synthetic oils in smaller engines, like lawnmowers and golf carts, emphasizing their role in improving performance and extending engine life. We also cover crucial recall information for popular models like the 2021 Trail Boss and explore why manufacturers’ guidelines on transmission oils can be misleading without regular checks. Listeners also gain insights into the world of auto part choices, comparing new to remanufactured parts and highlighting the pitfalls of prioritizing cost over quality.
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There’s no such thing as a stupid question. This is Drive Radio. All of your automotive questions are just one phone call away. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio is made possible by the member shops of Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. To find one near you, go to drive-radio.com. Now, Drive Radio on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, Hour 3, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Welcome back. Again, we’ve got Steve Horvath, Geno’s Auto Service down here in Centennial, and we also have Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with us today. Ivan, I’m assuming you’re back. Ivan, how are you?
SPEAKER 12 :
I am here. There we go. I’m not very high-tech, and I accidentally hit the mute button.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, that’s fine. Not a problem. Glad you’re here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anyway, all right, thank you. Just a couple questions. The first one I have is, I’ve heard you say on the show before that you put synthetic oil in everything.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that true? Do I remember that right? Yep. Okay. So that would include a Yamaha golf cart, a gas-powered Yamaha golf cart.
SPEAKER 03 :
My lawnmower, I still use synthetic oil in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay. So if I’m just using what they call for, the right weight and small engine oil.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Then I’m good to go. Honestly, this is a great question, by the way, Ivan, because I don’t think people really think through this well enough. Especially on some of the things that you’re mentioning now. They do not have the filtration and tolerances and so on inside of them like a regular car engine would have. In my opinion, those things especially should have synthetic oil in them. And why they don’t come factory fill is beyond me because most of those engine manufacturers are cheap.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So snowblowers and lawnmowers and all of the like, yes. They don’t have a cooling? No, they have nothing. I would put synthetic in those especially.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, yeah, because you’re right. It does not have a filter. It’s air-cooled, all that stuff, right? Absolutely. Okay, good. Good to know. The other question I had was, with the manufacturer’s recommendations for transmission – and rear-end and front-end oils, transmission oils, gear oils, whatever. Do you recommend following what they say? For example, I’ve got a 2021 Trail Boss, Silverado Trail Boss, and I think it says in there that you don’t have to do anything for the transmission ever, it seems like. And then with the Durango, I haven’t checked that one, but they both only have like 30,000 miles on them. They’re not driven a lot. But when do you recommend… transmission and rear end and front end oil swap outs filters whatever on the drango and the trail boss both i do them at 50k at 50 000 so i got a little bit of time a little bit 50 000 but i do the whole drive train at 50k if it were me okay all right all right yeah because i think that When I looked at the manual, the Silverado said like 100,000 miles before you do anything to the transmission.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I talked, you know, we had a caller in the first hour kind of talking about the recall that’s on those trucks and, you know, the potential for the valve body to actually have a problem, lock it into gear, which then locks the diff and so on. I mean, that’s what the whole recall is about. And I’m not saying that it can’t happen on some of the new models because I’ve had some listeners even text me and say, hey, I’ve had a problem on a brand-new truck. So I’m not saying it’s not limited to just trucks with miles on them because they’ve had some new truck issues as well. But I think once a vehicle starts getting miles on it like yours has, if, in fact, people would change the oil in the transmission to the transmission services like they should be, I don’t think some of that recall would be as big of a deal personally. I got you.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re saying the 2021 Trail Boss has a recall?
SPEAKER 03 :
That one, I think, falls into that. I’d have to look. Here’s what to do. For any of you that are in that realm on any vehicle, this is true with anything. It doesn’t have to be a Ford or a Chevy or whatever that have some of the transmission recalls that are out there. Go to the NTHSA’s website, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. Put your VIN number in, and it will tell you if there’s a recall or not.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
You don’t even have to call a dealer. It’ll tell you right there whether there is or isn’t. Okay. What was that website called again? National Traffic Highway Safety Administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 03 :
And THSA. THSA.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Gotcha. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’ll do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I just did the same thing on my truck. I hit the 50,000. Yep. And this time I went ahead and I made sure I used the factory oil. Right. Just because there’s a little problem, you know, with the oils, getting a good oil for that particular one with this. Yep. With this problem. And I think that’s the way to do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Okay. Good to know. All right. Thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 03 :
You bet. No, great questions, Ivan. Thank you, by the way, for that very much. Russ and Cheyenne, you’re next. Go ahead. Hey, good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 11 :
Tool idea. I discovered rivet nuts.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. Nut zerts, we called those back in the day. All of us had tools for that. What a great invention, aren’t they?
SPEAKER 11 :
They’re pretty cheap. You can buy a decent kit for them. Man, those things are indispensable.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
So that’s one thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
For everybody listening, what that is is it’s like a rivet gun, but instead of actually putting a rivet in with the pin and that’s all it does, these actually put a threaded nut, all different sizes, depending upon what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re trying to fasten and so on. It’s like a rivet with threads inside.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and only one, I guess one quick tip I’ve kind of discovered with them is sometimes it’s easier just to run a tap through them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good idea. Yeah, great idea. Chase them a little bit. Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
Every now and again, it kind of boogers them up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that way it keeps that from having any issues twisting and getting stuck or anything along those lines. That’s a great idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah. So I have a good problem and a bad problem, I guess. I bought WeatherTech mats, and I absolutely love them. But my Hydro Boost started leaking inside my truck, so I didn’t notice it was leaking until it started running over the rail on the side. So I’ve ruined my carpet on that side of the truck because of it. But I’m wondering with the Hydro Boost, are those rebuildable, or do I just need to buy a new one?
SPEAKER 03 :
I would not buy. There’s some guys out there that will rebuild Hydro Boost. I wouldn’t do that. I would buy a new one. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. And you wouldn’t do a reman. You would do a new.
SPEAKER 03 :
New only. Yep.
SPEAKER 1 :
New only.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Because, I mean, my truck’s 20 years old. I’ve never had issues. Between this and the steering box, I don’t know if they were correlated or what.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the same fluid runs through all three. Right. So power steering pumps running the hydro boost and the power steering pump both. Or power steering gear both, I should say. The pump, power steering pump is running the brakes and the steering.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I mean, I’ve always been good about flushing my power steering fluid. So I’ve never let it just go. It gets changed when I do my training.
SPEAKER 03 :
And sometimes, I mean, as the boosters age, especially if they’re not driven regularly, you might actually have more issues with the hydro boost than ones that are driven daily.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Well, I’ve noticed that I guess it leaks when I step on the brake. Yep. More than just normal. Very common.
SPEAKER 03 :
Very common.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, yeah. Okay, that’s what I just wanted to know if I should bother. With a reman or if I just should buy a brand new one?
SPEAKER 03 :
That is one of those items that, you know, and again, Hydroboost has been around for a long time. People may not know that, but they’ve literally been around since the 80s. It’s been a system that’s been used by GM, I think, first on that end of things. And it kind of, you know, came into some of the other manufacturers as well. And even some cars now use a form of a Hydroboost. So it’s become more and more popular as time has gone by. But even back then, I would not put anything. I mean, even in the 80s and 90s, I wouldn’t put anything on back then that was remanned, and I won’t today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Okay. Okay, same with the power steering pump because I figure I’m going to change the booster.
SPEAKER 03 :
Same thing. Even from the late 80s, that hasn’t changed. Even back then as a shop owner, I wouldn’t put a reman or a rebuilt power steering pump on. And sometimes you didn’t have a choice because there wasn’t anything else around at the time to actually get your customer up and running and never failed, Russ. Those were the ones that always came back and bit you. You ended up doing twice. Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
I couldn’t afford the brand-new steering box, so I bought a reman, and I absolutely regret it. Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, same thing. I mean, again, some of these things, that’s in a way frustrating because in all of this time, in four decades— we haven’t improved and maybe even gotten worse when it comes to the rebuilding of some of the components that you’re talking about. And in 40 years, you think we could have come up with a way to rebuild a steering gear properly, and yet, Russ, we haven’t. Isn’t that crazy? It’s amazing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I mean, I hate to, you know, because I spent basically half on a reman of what the new one cost, and I mean, I just absolutely hate it. I hate the feel of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they’re junk. I mean, I have no other way to explain it. They’re just junk.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I figure I’m not going to make my wife happy, but when I do it, I think I’m just doing the system, and I’ll get another 20 years out of it without any trouble.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, given the fact really all you’re going to end up doing is another gear, which you don’t like the one you have anyways, I would. And hoses. Do the hoses and everything at the same time. Do everything. Yeah, the whole system. I would, too. Do the lines and all.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I put new hoses on it when I did the box. Okay, cool. But, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You might as well, too, though, while you’re at it doing all of this, you might as well look at the master cylinder since you’re going to be doing all the rest of it. You’re more or less going to have it all. I think I would do it, too, Russ.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. It’s time, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I mean, you’re there. You’re doing everything else. Why not? Well, that’s what Dad said. Any job worth doing is worth doing well. Your labor is already there. You’re buying a cylinder is really all you’re doing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Well, I mean, the deal is, like I said, I’ve had the truck 20 years now. I’ve really not had to put any money into it other than basic repair, you know, maintenance. It will cost me less than a truck payment. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, when a new diesel or, you know, even the high-end gas, you know, three-quarter tons and one tons are 80K starting.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I’d love a new diesel. I’d absolutely love a new Duramax, but I just… Yeah, 90K now. Crazy expensive.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Well, I just wanted to know which way to go.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go. I appreciate your help. Great questions, by the way. Thank you, Russ. Somebody texted and asked, okay, since we’re talking air filters earlier in the show, not to mess with them, when should you? Great question, by the way. So we’ll answer that as soon as we come back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. John and Cheyenne, hang tight really quick. Somebody asked a question. If you’re not supposed to mess with the air filter and the air box and all of that, then when should you? I am of the belief and try to teach the shops even that I coach and consult with to make that a service, not just an inspection, but an actual service based on time and or mileage, mainly mileage, because time is really not affecting an air filter. And this is where it comes back to knowing your customer. So where do they drive? Are they on a dirt road? Do they live out in the country? Are they in the city mostly? Are they a construction worker? Are they around the construction sites more and there’s more dust blowing in and so on? And so I would know, A, your customer, and then base that upon how often should we be inspecting the air box on this particular vehicle. Now, if you’re a home do-it-yourselfer and you’re doing your own vehicle maintenance and so on, Honestly, $30,000, you really don’t have to mess with the majority of air filter and cars that are on the market today. If you’re starting fresh, you really don’t need to mess with that thing for at least $30,000. And I’m not exaggerating at all, and there’s probably some people that might debate me on that. Go for it. Prove me wrong. I don’t think you will, because the reality is, even though it may look dirty… It’s flowing more air than you really think it is at that point. And is it really degrading from the performance of the vehicle? Probably not. So I would do it more based upon mileage of the vehicle. I’d look at it at 30K, and here’s the deal. If you’re going to look at it and it’s 30K, just put a new one in. My advice on air filters is more along those lines than it is opening the box every time you change. air filter and I don’t on my own vehicles I don’t in our fleet shop we don’t you guys have heard the stories on that and as to why because I am still one that feels the more you open it the worse you are you’re better off just leaving it alone changing it when it’s needed and then moving on but that was a great text question a moment ago because you know when do you that’s my advice now if you’re I have a vehicle, and you’re in a really clean environment and do mostly highway driving, for example. You’re hardly in the city at all. You don’t have the same contaminants. It’s a larger air filter box, and you know what I mean by looking at it. You know what? You might be able to go to 50K. And that would be one where if you opened it at 30, everything looks nice and clean. Vacuum it all out, by the way, before you put things back together. Maybe tap on the filter some to get some of the loose stuff back out of it, which it shouldn’t have a whole lot anyways if that’s the case. Put it back in. Run it another 20K. Check it and replace it at 50K and call it good. And some of the larger air boxes, you guys know what I mean by that. In some cases, and really based upon the volume that the engine is using airwise as to how they fit the air box to the vehicle. So a smaller four-cylinder car, of course, is going to have a smaller air box. Keep in mind, it’s not moving as much air, but it is a smaller air filter. So that’s one that you’re probably going to be in that 30K mark when it’s all set. And I know for everybody listening, I am probably saying things that most… shops and others out there would never say but for me i’ve learned a lot of this from having machinery and equipment that runs in very dirty elements all of the time and through the years i’ve just learned this and have reduced and have never had an engine failure due to you know dirt and contaminants that way which means how i’m doing it must be working or we would have other issues and we don’t so there’s my answer on all of that john and cheyenne you’re next
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John. So you just changed totally what I was going to ask you because where I live is, as my cousin calls it, an unimproved goat path up to the house.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go. A little dusty.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, a lot. Southeast Wyoming, it’s all dust. There you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and your wind, of course, is another factor, John, for you. You have more debris and things that are blowing around. And, yeah, you would be less time than some of what I mentioned a moment ago, although even in your case, you could probably go 20K pretty easily.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, but here’s the other thing. I have found in the past that at certain times of the year, and I don’t know how they get in there, but mice get in there and start building a nest in the bottom of the box.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that’s why I have a spare for mine and my wife’s truck in the garage now, and I will open it up when I do change the oil just to make sure there’s not like a rat’s nest or something in there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now for you, and if you’ve had issues of this and everybody else listening, if it were me, I would take some chicken wire, tight type wire, and I would adapt that to the intake portion of that air cleaner, and then they would not be doing that any longer.
SPEAKER 09 :
I will try that.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s fresh air intake. The fresh air intake, yes. Don’t put it on the outside. The hole that the air is coming into the air box itself, I would wire mesh the front of that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and that’s the two rams that we’ve had the issue on. But they got my wife on Wednesday, John. Middle of the day, hotel parking lot, they got her catalytic converter in Plano, Texas.
SPEAKER 21 :
Great. So…
SPEAKER 09 :
I called that shop you recommended, Paul, is his name? Yep. And he told me he doesn’t do that, and I found a muffler shop, an exhaust shop in the area. Okay. And come to find out that’s a catalytic converter that was on that Sportage. I don’t know because it was bought in Cheyenne, but I wonder if it was built for California because he said it was – a California-compliant cat. Could be. To put a new cat on and a new O2 sensor was $800. I thought that was a reasonable price.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that’s not bad at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because he said the cat was $500.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that’s not a bad deal at all. You’d be hard-pressed to get that done for that here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, in Colorado, yeah. I think in Wyoming I’d probably get it about the same, maybe a little more. But the big thing was they – Broad daylight, Plano, Texas, hotel parking lot. She parked on the side of the hotel right by her room. She comes out. She starts it up to go have dinner with her brother, and she said it sounded like it was going to die.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, like a tank. It was so loud.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Shameless.
SPEAKER 09 :
And had the check engine light, of course, because they cut the wire on the O2 sensor. That was the other thing. So I thought 800 was really reasonable.
SPEAKER 03 :
With an O2 and everything, yeah, that’s not bad at all. That’s very reasonable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. The other thing I wanted to remind everybody by telling that story is they’re still out there stealing cats.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, they are.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, yeah, because the guy I called, he goes, I thought they were done with this nonsense. The price of metals went down around here.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, even though it has, it’s still easy money. I mean, no offense, even if they’re only getting 50 bucks out of it, it’s easy money.
SPEAKER 09 :
And the higher clearance vehicles are easy because they don’t have to jack up or anything and just lay underneath.
SPEAKER 03 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
So last thing, my 80 Chevy, the front seat had given up the ghost. I took it in. He had to redo all the springs, replace the foam, and then reupholster it, the whole thing. The guy in Cheyenne, he’s not done yet. He’s going to charge me $1,000. Is that reasonable?
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think so. I thought so, but I just was asking. Is it a bench seat and a pickup?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. What is the seat that you’re working on? Is it a bench seat?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it’s an 80 Chevy three-quarter ton bench seat. You know, regular cab. And I pulled it out myself. And, you know, old school, four bolts. You don’t have to worry about popping an airbag.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s perfect. You definitely couldn’t replace that seat for less than $1,000. You could not.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and I went online to a couple of the CarDash parts to look, and… For something in good shape, they were wanting at least $1,000 and would have had to pay shipping. So I thought that was a reasonable price. Guys, if I don’t talk to you, John, have a Merry Christmas. You too.
SPEAKER 03 :
Everybody, Merry Christmas. Appreciate you, John. Merry Christmas to you too as well. Okay, I think I can squeeze this in before we get to the bottom of the hour, and that is somebody texted me and was asking on an older vehicle. So everybody with a newer type vehicle, this doesn’t apply, nor would you need to do this. But some of you that are driving… older vehicles. In this particular case, it’s a 90s style Chevy truck, and those doors are very heavy. So the question is, the doors are starting to sag. They’re hard to get shut. He’s got to slam them to actually get shut. What’s the fix? And he said there was somebody on one of the social media channels talking about how to use a particular device to adjust it and so on. And I’ll tell you the simplest, easiest way to do it. And I told him I would do this on air. And again, this is for him. Not for everybody else, although this can work on other types of things. But the easiest way to adjust those, first of all, make sure the hinges are in good shape. Because if the hinges are all worn out, you may actually have to put hinges on it, depending upon how worn the actual pins and stuff are. But if they’re not too bad, what you do is get yourself a floor jack and a couple of 2x4s. And you open the door just enough to where the jack and the 2x4s will go to the bottom edge, back edge of the door itself. And you want to use a fairly long 2×4 because we don’t want to bend the door by doing this. But you get to the underside of the door in between the actual outside skin of the door and the jam itself. There’s a nice little lip there. Put the 2x4s right underneath there. And what you want to do is jack the door up. And you’ll kind of know just through trial and error, have I moved the door at all? And sometimes you actually have to jump on the truck a little bit and pull the body some to get that door to kind of come up a little bit. But if you’ll do that, you’ll get the door to adjust up some. We’re kind of tweaking the hinges by doing this a little bit. The door will naturally come up. It should hit the striker where it’s supposed to. It won’t drag anymore and should close nicely by doing that. So that’s my trick. You don’t need to go spend any money. Go buy anything. If you’ve got any kind of a jacking system, bottle jack, floor jack, and some 2x4s, you can do exactly what I just said and don’t go do anything. And I don’t know what they’re saying online because I’ve not watched the video, and that’s how I’ve always done that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, basically you’re saying these hinges have sagged and bent a little bit down, and you’re going to re-bend them back up. And if that doesn’t work, you can always replace the hinges.
SPEAKER 03 :
You can put hinges on it. But if you’re just trying to move it a little bit to keep it from dragging on the striker, it’s a really quick way of doing a door adjustment. And it works on especially those older type vehicles. And so if you’re listening to that and you sent me that text message, please let me know you heard it. And it’s a really simple way to do what you’re saying. And I guess I should start my own. channel and show some of this because i don’t know what’s out there what people are showing but this is much simpler than i would think any other way of oh for doing it because i don’t know whether a device you would even use besides what i just explained so all right it just can be hard so and the door adjustments can be as well but this is a really easy quick way of doing things along those lines so all right guys we’ll be right back other questions 303-477-5600 we’ll be right back drive radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath, of course, from Geno’s Auto Service. And Conrad, what’s going on, sir?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, guys. Good show, as always. Getting ready to head over to see Rob on the engine build for the Torino.
SPEAKER 03 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s what I called about. I’m taking a buddy up to South Dakota after the first year to get a pickup that he’s going to buy. And we’re going to go on my F-150. Now, it’s got close to 300,000 miles on it, but I keep it serviced. I know how you do things. Yeah, and I use that Ford full synthetic 520 in it. Anyway, I was wondering, I’ve been taking it over to Olds Garage to have them check it all out and get it serviced on Tuesdays. Anything else you can tell us? Do you think I could make that trip all right without anything worrying about breaking down?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, yeah. It’s never really given me any trouble, just some little minor things. It’s been a really good vehicle.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, Conrad, the way I know you, the way you take care of things and so on, have a good once-over done on it, and as long as there’s nothing that crops up as a red flag, go.
SPEAKER 14 :
But you’ve had that truck for a while, so you know it. I mean, if you feel any funny noises or vibrations, get it taken care of before you go. Otherwise, you’re going to be fine.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no, I haven’t had anything like that, for sure. And like I said, I never let it go over 5,000 on an oil change. Usually I try to do around 2,000 to 3,000.
SPEAKER 03 :
Like I say, I know you, so you won’t have any issues. What year is the F-150? It’s a 2010.
SPEAKER 10 :
We’ve got the 5.4 Triton engine.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. If you have any issues, you’ll be great. Yep. Have fun. All right, guys. Don’t worry and have fun.
SPEAKER 17 :
Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 03 :
You too, Conrad. Merry Christmas to you too. No, I know Conrad. I know he takes care of things and all of that. So, yeah, go have fun. Get it checked and then go and have fun. James, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, John. My wife wanted to buy a car from Carvana, and I don’t know if it’s appropriate to ask you what you think of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Very appropriate to ask me. I’m not a Carvana fan. I mean, be careful. I don’t want to slander anybody. But Carvana has been known, especially in Colorado, and they have been reprimanded from the state on this end of things. They are very well known for not delivering the paperwork like they should and also selling branded cars as non-branded. And that is one of the problems I have with Carvana specifically, James.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and when you say branded, what do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Salvage title. They’ll wash the title somewhere else. The car actually is a salvage title car, but they wash the title and still bring the thing into Colorado and sell it as a non-branded, non-salvage titled car.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And what does it mean when they say it’s a certified? That doesn’t mean much of anything, does it?
SPEAKER 03 :
It doesn’t mean diddly-squat. And this is true, by the way, with anybody. And here’s my feeling on—great question. This is universal to anybody out there buying used cars— Certified means by whom? Now, I get it. Toyota has their, you know, it’s going through this many inspections and so on. But, James, really, at the end of the day, it comes down to who’s in the used car department at that time, because that’s typically not their regular service department doing the certifications. It’s their used car department. repair side that’s doing this because they’re certifying non, in the case of Toyota, non-Toyotas, you know, now they’re certifying Toyotas as well, but they’re doing this quote-unquote, you know, certified inspection. Now, when it comes to like Toyota, for example, to be certified, it even has to have a certain amount of, you know, under a certain amount of miles and so many owners and so on and so forth. So that’s a little bit different. But as far as the actual checking of the vehicle, it really comes down to who did it. How thorough were they? And every technician could be a little different in the things that they’re actually looking at and so on. When it comes to Carvana, I have no idea what their specifications on that are. No clue.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And you don’t know what you’re getting, really, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
I have no idea. And again, I really want to be careful that I’m not trying to slander or say anything bad about Carvana. But what I’m telling you are known problems that they have had across the country in multiple states, not just Colorado. and they have been known, James, to go as long as 90-plus days getting all of your final paperwork to you to even get the vehicle titled properly. To me, that’s a problem. Why they haven’t been fined by multiple states over the years, James, is frankly because they’re so large, no one will do it. That’s the only reason. If any other car dealer in Colorado, if Ridgeline Auto Brokers did what Carvana is doing, their license would have been pulled. Right, right. It’s not fair.
SPEAKER 08 :
And what about the other thing like Carfax? Carfax will tell you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Another great question, by the way, James, for all of you that are listening, please pay attention to this. Looking at used cars. Carfax is a indicator of what’s been done on the car. And now the part of Carfax that’s always going to be pretty true is who bought it, when did they buy it, And where was it registered and when? That’s pretty accurate on Carfax because all of the states report that end of things. Beyond that, it comes down to did the shop, you know, did the car go to a shop that actually reports those things? Because not all do. And or if an owner even does think, you know, like, for example, James, on the truck I’m driving right now, I’ve done two oil changes myself. That will not be on a Carfax. It’s not going to show up as having changed. I could manually go in and build a… a report in Carfax if I wanted to, but you know, who’s got time to dink with all of that? So the reality is, even though mine’s been done twice, if you were to look at Carfax, it’s not going to show that. So Carfax is a indicator, but it is not the Bible as far as what’s been done on a car. That’s why every used car that gets purchased or is about to be purchased has to have a used car thorough inspection done on it, no matter who the dealer is and what they’re saying about the car.
SPEAKER 08 :
In other words, I should take it to my mechanic?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, before you do anything.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’m saying this, James, and I tell this to everybody all the time. It has to be a pre-purchase inspection, not a post-purchase inspection. Because in the state of Colorado, once you’ve bought it, you own it, and you want to know the problems on the car prior to the purchase.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so anything your mechanic writes down, like they want you to stay there if you’re bringing a car in for inspection so they can point stuff out to you.
SPEAKER 03 :
It depends. I mean, when I was doing this back in the day when I owned my shops, a lot of times even the used car dealer themselves would drop the car off. You would pay me through… You know, our system of payment, usually a credit card over the phone at that point. I would only give you as the potential buyer that report, the used car place or the new car place, even that maybe had a used car department would come and pick the vehicle up and take it back to themselves. But I would give you the report, not them.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. The other question I have is I’m looking up at the Ridgeline Motors, and everything they sell is pretty dependable and checked out, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 03 :
They put a warranty on each car. Because they have their own repair shop, yes, they’re thoroughly looking at the vehicle and in some cases doing repairs on the vehicle because it needs it before they actually feel comfortable about selling the vehicle. And then on top of that, you know, they can do the financing, and if you want to do an extended warranty or anything like that, they can handle all of that as well. But, yeah, their cars automatically come with a 30-day warranty.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And I have one more question, too.
SPEAKER 03 :
These are great questions, so keep them coming, James. These are all good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Well, yeah, part of it was if… you got something from them, they would be looking at it that way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and I’m glad you asked that because Josh and I, who’s the owner there, we’ve talked about this many times, and he has said this openly on air. If you don’t trust them being the persons that have inspected and certified, quote-unquote, the vehicle, and you want to take it to your own mechanic, he doesn’t care. Be their guest. And I was going to say that to say this, James. If any of you listening are looking to buy a used car from anyone and they will not allow you to have it inspected, walk away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Walk away as soon as you can.
SPEAKER 03 :
That tells you that they’re not comfortable in how they’re presenting the car to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, is that the same true if you go to a dealership? Yep. I don’t care who it is. I don’t care who it is. You should be able to drive it and take it to your mechanic. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
When I say I don’t care who it is, I don’t care if it’s your brother-in-law. Have it inspected. Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I’m glad I got a hold of you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because hopefully, James, through this process, we’ll save you a lot of potential headache. Yep. Well, I appreciate it, and I’m going to pass that along to my wife. There you go, James. Great questions, by the way. Thank you so much for calling in because a lot of folks this time of year will be looking at doing different things along those lines, you know, trading, trading up, trading down, even depending upon financial situations or what you’re looking to do. Maybe there’s a new driver coming on board early next year, which, as a side note before we go to break, if you have a new driver coming on board, teenager, I mean, and I think in Colorado now they can start driving at 15. I think they have to have driver’s ed and some other things, but I think they can start at 15 now, not the 15 in six months or so, but I think they can even start now with mom and dad at 15. I’m a big proponent, and I’ve raised many a kid, And I’m a big proponent on putting your child in the car they’re going to be driving once they’re driving. Teach them how to drive in the car that they’re going to be driving. Now, some would say, no, they need to learn how to drive everything. Well, and I’m not against that, and I’m not against them driving other cars as well, but I really want that teenager that’s going to be 16 driving on their own by themselves. And statistics show you… That the majority of accidents that happen in the United States of America are between that 16 and 18 years of age. Because they’re new drivers. They don’t have the experience all the rest of you that are listening have. So I’m a big one on if you’ve got a new driver and you’re going to place them in a car, maybe you’re going to pass your car down. Okay, great. So be it. If that’s the way it’s going to work, teach them in that. Pass it down when it’s time. Fine. But if you’re going to put them in a car of their own… Get that car as soon as they start driving with you, and that becomes their car they’re going to drive down the road when they turn 16. That’s the way I look at it, and both of you guys are agreeing. So that’s how I would do it. So, guys, we’ll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, last segment, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Again, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with me, and, of course, Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service as well. Vic and Thornton, you are next, sir. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi, John. I’ve been trying to winterize my rototiller, and I’m afraid I waited too long, and I got kind of a varnish-y smell. into gasoline. So wondering what you could recommend for that?
SPEAKER 03 :
If you’re starting, this is for all of you listening. If any vehicle you have or even any piece of equipment starts to get that varnish smell, you need to get that fuel out of it as quickly as you can. There’s no treatment you’re going to put in it to get rid of the varnish. The gas is starting to go bad is where I’m going. That’s where the varnish smell is coming from. And the only way to get rid of that, Vic, is to get all of it out or as much of it out as you can and put fresh fuel back in it. Since it’s a vehicle that evidently must sit quite a bit, put some BG Supercharge in it to keep the fuel from going bad. And I’ve literally had fuel last up to two years long with the BG Supercharge in it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did you say B?
SPEAKER 03 :
BG, which is one of our sponsors. BG, it’s a product called Supercharge.
SPEAKER 07 :
And where will they get that?
SPEAKER 03 :
NAPA.
SPEAKER 07 :
Napa.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, in retail.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. I suppose the directions are on it as to how much… Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, if you’ve got, you know… For example, Vic, I went and got a five-gallon can filled up the other day because I had some equipment at home I needed to run through the winter and so on, and that… Five gallons will sit all the way through the winter and probably early summer. You know, I went ahead and looked at the bottle and added as much of the BG supercharge as I felt that five gallons needed just to have it treated through the winter. And whether I use it up or not isn’t going to hurt anything anyways. A BG supercharge is just a nice cleaner as well, but it will stabilize the fuel and make it last.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so once I get the fresh fuel in, don’t try to start it.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I mean, once you get fresh fuel in it, you can start it and run. In fact, that’d be a good way to get some things cleaned out and so on. And the supercharge in that fuel will even help with some of what we’re talking about. So, no, once you get the fuel down and you get fresh fuel in it, start it and drive it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. So that’s better than the… Oh, it’s kind of red stuff. I can’t think of the name of it. It’s a fuel saver.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, a stable. I like the BG product better than the stable because it’s got some other properties that do some fuel system cleaning that the stable does not have.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, I’ll get that stinking gas up.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go, and it is stinking. Now, also, Vic, for you and everybody else listening, a lot of people want to know, what do I do with that bad gas? Where do I take it? Anybody, anybody, shop or otherwise, that has a waste oil heater to heat their shop can take that old fuel and burn it in their waste oil heater, and they’ll just take it off your hands for free.
SPEAKER 07 :
Cool. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay? Just something to know.
SPEAKER 07 :
I knew you’d have the answer.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go, Vic. Appreciate you very much. Have a great… Yeah, for a lot of you that are listening, and most people don’t know this, but if you’ve got a waste oil heater, and a lot of us do. I have a waste oil heater in my fleet shop, even, that we heat it with. And a lot of shops, automotive shops, will have a waste oil heater, fleet shops as well, because they get a lot of oil that comes in. Yep. And rather than trying to pay to dispose of all of that, they’ll use it for heat. They burn it, use it for heat. It works extremely well. These heaters are very, very efficient. You won’t even notice anything coming up out of the stack at all because they’re literally burning everything up and it works extremely, extremely well. Keep in mind, back east, there’s a ton of people heating homes. off of oil. It’s not much different in that regard. And a waste oil heater, again, that bad fuel that won’t burn in your vehicle mixed in with enough other oil and things will burn just fine, and it’ll run right through that waste oil heater no problem, and it works extremely well, and it’s a good way to not have to pay somebody to dispose of your old varnished So for some of you that may end up with some of that, that’s a really great way to get rid of some of that. And then also, too, Napa and a lot of places will also take your old oil, your recycled oil. But I will tell you that a lot of facilities that used waste oil to heat their facility with, they will love you to no end if you drop your oil off with them. because you’re helping them heat their building. And in a lot of cases, they need as much of that oil as they can get throughout the winter months especially. So like right now where they’ve already been running the furnace through October, November, and now December, they will take that waste oil, no problem, no questions asked, as long as there’s nothing that is – How should I say this, guys? Hazardous, I guess you could say, in that oil. I mean, you can’t have old carb cleaner, which has now become really tough to get rid of. Some of you guys even have those five-gallon cans of the old chemical carburetor cleaner. Yeah, that stuff’s really hard to dispose of. Outside of that, a waste oil furnace will burn automatic transmission fluid, power steering fluid, cooking grease out of your frying pan. I mean, I can go down the list. I mean, literally, if it’s any kind of an oil along those lines or bad gas, it will burn it up. No problem. You guys get some diesel fuel even that might have a little bit of… of, you know, buildup inside of it or it starts getting some algae buildup, it’ll burn that as well. So anything that you’re trying to dispose of that’s an oil-type product, anybody with a waste oil heater will take. Now, for some of you that have your own home shops, I mean, Barnes maybe is a better way to say that. These are also things that as long as you’ve got the ability to fuel that waste oil heater, you’ve got enough waste oil around and so on, and you feel you can feed that. I guess the best way to say that for those of you that have built barns and things like that, and you’re trying to figure out a good cost effective way to heat them. I just gave you the answer. They work extremely, extremely well. And again, a lot of shops, I don’t know if you two guys have them, but you do. Okay, so Pat has one. So yeah, they work extremely well. There’s a little maintenance on them that we on our end have to perform on typically either an annual or semi-annual basis. But if you’ve never been around one, most of the time you don’t know a shop has one because you can’t smell it. You don’t know it’s there. You don’t know it exists. It works just like any other furnace would. They have a thermostat on them just like a normal furnace would have. And They work, Pat’s over here shaking his head. They work extremely, not in his head I should say, they work extremely well, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
They do, and they’re actually quieter than the forced air furnaces that we use too.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you don’t feel so bad about turning the heat up when you have one of those. That’s right. Because you know that what you’re really the only thing it’s costing you is the electricity to run the fan and the pump. Other than that, again, most of the waste oil in shops is coming in, you know, free gratis from what you’re actually draining out and so on. And it works extremely well. So just a side note for those of you that are trying to dispose of some old fluids and so on. All right. Hope you guys had a great day today. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger in there answering phones. Appreciate him as well. Pat, thank you very much. Give folks your phone number on how to get a hold of you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You bet. Alltech Automotive at 970-224-9718. And Steve Forbath from Geno’s, you as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you want the phone number too?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, please. 794-6700.
SPEAKER 03 :
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