Join us on this episode of Drive Radio as we delve into critical automotive topics, from recent recalls to the proper methods of warming up your vehicle in cold conditions. Discover the implications of big recalls from major manufacturers and understand why no car brand is entirely free from issues. Our host breaks down the steps to ensure your car benefits from adequate servicing amidst these automotive hurdles.
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All right, it is that time. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for listening today. I am on my own today. Normally we’ve got special guests that join us, but with the weather and some other things going on at the moment, I am here by myself. And Charlie’s here. Yeah, thank you, Charlie. Yes, Charlie and I both are here, I should say. Larry’s normally here as well, but Larry, because of the weather, didn’t make it down as well. And I’ve got a couple of other folks that were supposed to be here. Ken Rackley, Mark Guernsey, Toontech Automotive and Accountable were supposed to be here as well, but they had other things come up last minute, which is fine. I fully understand how that works. Normally, this particular weekend, I am at Barrett-Jackson. So I’m not normally here this day live anyways. I’m normally down there. But this year with everything that happened with inauguration and, you know, a new president and things following it and all of that, I just felt like this particular week was one of those that I needed to be around here for and not be gone. So that’s why I’m here. But because of Bear Jackson, my question of the day today is if you could buy anything today, at that auction and by the way i’ll throw in the mikamoto auctions as well so if you could go to an auction and buy anything what would that be 303-477-5600 of course we’ll take any car questions that you’ve got as well and even though i’m alone yes i can pretty much answer any question that comes in and we do that on a regular basis as well and as i always say even if it’s something that I don’t have an answer for on the technical side. Believe me, I still have plenty of people that I can text and ask and get questions answered from. But generally speaking, there’s not too many things that I can’t help you with anyways. So all you need to do is call us, and we’ll get you taken care of, 303-477-5600. So again, anything you need along those lines, please let me know. All right, a couple of things in the news. Fords especially. Big recall. 270,000 Broncos and Mavericks due to a power loss problem has to do with the battery. And it happens to be a battery that was made in China. Go figure. And Ford will be making that recall. Now, there are other potential recalls coming, and these are things to kind of keep your eye on. There is rumors out there right now that they may be forcing General Motors to do a recall on their 6.2 engine problems they’ve had. Again, rumor is all. I cannot put any substance behind that. These are things that just sort of make it through the grapevine. Will they be required to do a recall or not? I don’t know. The 6-2 can have issues where Rod Journal sees. The engine seizes, of course, leaves people stuck on the side of the road, and in the case of certain vehicles, can happen abruptly, hardly any warning. Not like there’s a huge loss of oil pressure, and then it knocks for a while, and you’re able to get off to the side of the road. I mean, it is almost instantaneous, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. And at the same time, we’ll do some weird things with the vehicle and not even be able to go into neutral like you should and so on. And it’s a real problem. And it’s a very dangerous situation for some, not all, but for some. And this is why NTHSA is getting involved, because if it becomes a safety issue, which in the case of your engine shutting down and not being able to get off to the side of the road quick enough and having stopped in the middle of traffic and so on, yeah, that’s a safety issue. Not just for you, but for everybody around you. So that may very well be something that comes down the pike. I don’t know exactly where that’s at. There’s rumors out there that if that happens, that is going to be a huge hit to General Motors. Now, fortunately for General Motors, in 2024, they were the number one seller of cars in America. So they’ve got that going for them. They made really good money as far as that goes, but they’ve got some issues. We also have talked about recently some of the transmission issues they’ve got going on as well. So those are some big hits. And like I’ve always said, every manufacturer has problems. No one is immune from them. And if you think that, well, I’m going to buy such and such because they don’t have problems, I’d like to know that brand. Because they all have issues. Toyota’s got its own engine issues right now that it’s dealing with and some other things as well. So they all have problems. Every Monday I get a list from the NHTSA of recalls that have come out, been announced, that at that point probably haven’t even made it to the public. I get an email on it. I signed up for that years ago. And I will tell you, as you run through the recalls, It literally affects everything from vehicle manufacturers to trailer manufacturers to RVs to motorcycles, you name it. If it’s anything that that particular agency has control over, power over, you’ll see recalls across the board. No manufacturer on any level is immune from that. They all have them. And, again, that’s because people, men, women, still make cars. As much as it’s roboticized and so on, there’s still a lot of human input that goes into making cars. And mistakes happen. It could be a quality control issue. It could be a vendor, like in the case of Ford. That’s a vendor issue, whoever is supplying the battery. They’re the ones really at fault in this particular situation. In General Motors’ situation on the engines, I don’t know who’s at fault there. I’d have to do some research and figure out what exactly is going on in that particular assembly line with their engine. And is it a… Part failure? Is it a rod bearing issue? Is it a sizing issue? Is it an assembly issue? With Toyota, by the way, theirs were the fact that there was a lot of metal filings left over from the machining process of the engine that didn’t get cleaned out well enough, and that worked its way into the engine and caused failure. Again, on the GM62 end of things, I don’t know the answer, folks. I wish I did, but I don’t know what the situation is there, and I’m sure we’ll learn more as we go along. But again, lines are open, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. Text line 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. Somebody asked on the text line, by the way, because I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. It might have even been some last week. about properly warming up your engine. So what I’m going to do is, because I’ve got a few text messages coming in, I’m going to take an early break. I’ll come back and talk about properly warming up your engine. It’s not as big of a deal as some are making it to be. I’m not sure why some people in our industry, my industry, felt like they needed to go out and say things in the first place. I don’t have an answer for that other than maybe publicity, and it just gets their name out there over the controversy that surrounds it. But I can talk about how to properly warm up the engine. I’ve got a couple of car reviews I want to do this particular hour. to catch us up i know we do those on mondays as well and i’ve got one we’ll play today from monday but i’ve got a couple of other ones i need to catch up on as well we’ll do that also throughout the day and then anything else you want to talk about any car problem you might have any questions you might have frequency of oil changes you name it we can do it all 303-477-5600 i’ll be right back talk about engine warm-up in a moment this is drive radio klz 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Don’t forget, by the way, our website, drive-radio.com. All of our partners, sponsors are all listed there. If there’s anything you need, even outside of automotive repair, we have multiple, multiple companies and people that we deal with from, you know, attorneys, estate planning, if you have an accident, to you name it. mortgage broker talking to john from shine about that you know last hour so we have got lots of partners that want to a make sure that this show keeps going on and helping all of you be they enjoy when you use them of course because that’s what they’re there for they’re in business to make money and do business as well but they’re also there to help each and every one of you and I appreciate all of them. So whatever you need, insurance, all of that, on down the line, just use our website, drive-radio.com, and find all those partners there. Okay, I got a few minutes here, and I want to try to maybe squeeze a car review in this next segment as well. But let’s talk about how to warm up your car. Now, there’s been a lot of controversy online about how to warm up your car, and a lot of this came out of a gentleman in Utah, Dave’s Auto Center, Dave the owner. He, for some odd reason, felt the need to show people how to properly start and not warm up your car, or in this case, a diesel truck. And caused all sorts of hoopla on the internet. And I guess it’s come back. Somebody texted me a little bit ago and said it’s back. Dave, for whatever reason, I’m not sure why… Went out into the truck, hit the start button, and basically said, okay, we’re good to go. Put it in drive and go. And he gave all sorts of explanations as to why. And frankly, I will just tell you straight up, wrong explanations. He’s dead wrong in a lot of the things that he explained. Even in regards to how an engine, that particular case, how a diesel engine is oiled and so on. And I’m just going to tell you, he was wrong. And some of you might say, well, how do you know that? Guys, I’ve been in this industry longer than him, by the way. And yes, I do know a thing or two about how things work and engines and the internal components and so on. And what I will tell you is that, number one, how long should you warm up your engine depends upon what’s the temperature outside. How long has it been sitting in that temperature? So first things first. If we have weather like we had last weekend or you happen to find yourself up in the mountains or in a colder area, and some of you listening to me might even be in that cold area right now, if it’s below zero, then my feeling is, and I think you’re getting a lot of other folks in the industry agree with me because I’ve read a lot of the comments and things on the thing that Dave posted, and this is true for diesel and gas, but there’s a little bit of difference even there. But in general, across the board, it’s pretty safe to say That if it’s below zero, first things first, and I said this a couple of weeks ago, get in the vehicle. Make sure wipers and everything are off, by the way, because you may not have been the last person driving the car. Let’s make sure that nothing is going to come on when we turn the key. Hit the start button either way. So make sure that everything is off. wiper-wise especially, and if it’s a diesel, you’re going to want to go ahead and hit the start button and let it do its thing. Some cases it’s going to warm up glow plugs. In other cases, if it’s a Cummins, it’s going to warm up the plate that’s underneath the intake, warm up that air coming in because diesels require a little bit of help to get started. They don’t have spark plugs, so we’ve got to warm up the combustion chamber or the air coming in at least to help get that combustion started, get the fire started, you could say. So on that particular situation, let things warm up. And if it’s really cold, and some of you that have these vehicles know exactly what I’m going to say next, if it’s really cold, do that twice. cycle that, in the case of a Cummins, cycle that plate twice. If it’s a case of something with glow plugs, cycle it twice. Let’s get things warmed up as much as we can. And then hit the start button. And typically, with most modern diesels, and by the way, if it’s that cold outside, there’s something else Dave didn’t mention, which he should have. If it’s below zero, and in fact, I would tell you on a diesel, if it starts getting below 10, 15 degrees, plug it in. They’ve all got block heaters. Plug it in. This is something we don’t talk a lot about on this program. I’m not one that thinks you should run the block heater all night long. No need to. Put it on a timer. You can put it on any more. There’s some of these timers that you can even run off of an app on your phone, or you can just run a regular old mechanical timer. But really, you only need to run that block heater for about four hours. So if you know that you’re going to be firing that thing up tomorrow morning at 6, then start your engine block heater at 2 a.m. You don’t need to plug it in when you get home at 6 o’clock at night and run it for a full 12 hours. Not necessary. Now, if you’re 20, 25 below, and you want to run it all night long, be my guest. Have at it. Just remember you’re paying for the electricity that it costs to run the block heater. In some cases, it’s minimal, but just remember you’re paying for that. In most cases… especially even the weather we had here last week, you could easily run that block heater for four or five hours max and be just fine. So that’s one thing Dave never mentioned either, and he actually was in a truck that I know from looking at it had a block heater. So that was never mentioned. Because here’s the thing on the diesel. You have a block heater, and you want to fire it up, and let it run for just a minute or two, and then drive off, be my guest. Because the engine temperature is already warm, and you’re good to go. If it’s not, though, let’s use this diesel example. If it’s not, and everything’s stone cold, and you didn’t have a block heater, or didn’t have access to a plug, or whatever the case was, and you go through the process I mentioned a few minutes ago, and you get it fired up, things are running now, I am not one to tell you to just put it in drive and go, like Dave said. Wrong answer. Things in that engine still need to be warmed up some. And I’m one to say that typically when it’s that cold outside and you’ve gotten it running, grab your ice scraper, your snow brush, shut the door while it’s running. Clean all of your things off. Hood, some cases maybe the roof. Might want to get the top of the bed if you’ve got a bed cover on it. The bumpers, because snow will even accumulate there. If there’s frost and things you need to scrape off, ice and so on, get all of that taken care of. And really quick, I should have mentioned, before you hop out of the cab, turn everything up onto high as far as the heater and that goes. Heater, defroster, get all that going. Won’t be warm quite yet. unless you had it plugged in. But if it wasn’t plugged in, it’s going to take a little bit to get warm. But go ahead and turn everything on. Not going to hurt anything. Again, then once all that’s done, get out, get everything scraped off, wiped off, brushed off, whatever. And one thing, too, that drives me crazy, and I saw some of this this morning on my way down, wipe everything off. where you can see the license plate, the tail lights, headlights, bumpers. As I mentioned a moment ago, if you’re a truck and it’s got a tonneau cover, wipe that off. Get everything off best you can because you don’t want all that snow blowing off onto the person behind you. Common courtesy. Nothing worse than being behind somebody that didn’t do any of that, that got lazy. Literally, they’re lazy. Didn’t want to do it. And especially when you get everything in front of the windshield off. And I’m a big one on, while you’re doing all of this, make sure that under the wipers you’ve cleaned very well as well. So in that cowl area, get all that snow out of there because you’re going to automatically push snow while you’re driving if it is snowing outside. You’re going to push things back down into that cowl area anyway. So clean all that off to begin with. Get all that out of there. Common sense. Clean off everything as best you can. And remember, everything’s running at this point. And if you’re cleaning the vehicle off properly, everything that I just mentioned, you’re probably going to spend four or five minutes wiping everything off. And if you do it correctly and it’s got snow and everything on it, it’s going to take you four or five minutes to get everything taken care of. Unless you’re super, super fast. But I’ve kind of timed myself in the past. And typically, if you’re kind of going at it like you should be and you’re getting everything all wiped off, you’re going to be three to five minutes getting everything cleaned off. By that time, climb back in. put the snow brush away you know get your boots knocked off with water whatever at that point the engine’s warmed up for you know four or five minutes at that point if you want to go ahead and put it in drive and go be my guest as you’re doing that though we’re not going to gun the engine we’re not going to have high revolutions we’re going to go kind of slow again adding some RPMs to the engine, things will start to warm up a little bit. But remember, on a diesel engine, you can already hear them in the warm-up mode with the tone of exhaust that’s coming out. As you’re walking around cleaning off the car, you’ll hear the difference in exhaust from what it normally is, and even the engine RPM will come up some on its own. That’s part of the designed warm-up process built into the system. This is why I will totally, totally disagree with Dave from Dave’s Auto Center on how to warm a truck up because… If the factory didn’t want you doing that, why did they design it with that warm-up mode in it? Dave’s biggest reason, I think, by the way, for telling people to not warm, in this case, their diesel engines up is because he’s a proponent of not letting your diesel engine idle because it can be a problem for the DPF system, the emission system on the truck. And by the way, in that case, he’s correct. But he went one step too far. What he should have said is, hey, those of you guys that are out doing deliveries or you might find yourself on a construction site and it’s cold outside and just letting the thing sit there and idle, just remember, as it’s idling, you’re potentially contaminating the emission system by doing so. And he’s correct when he says that. Now, for some, that’s never an issue. You may drive enough, and you’re towing enough, and you’re using it the way it’s supposed to be, that you’re cleaning all of that out once you start driving it again, and you know your truck very well, and you know what you need to be doing, so you do what you need to do. Now, when it comes to a regular gas engine, I’m still one that says, do exactly the same thing. Go out, get the vehicle started, go out, get everything cleaned off, wiped off, handled. Once all that’s done, typically things have warmed up enough to where you’re ready to go, and done, off you go. no reason to have to sit there and warm things up any longer. Now, I’m also one where if you want to let things get a little bit warmer and you have the ability to do this and you’re not going to get in trouble for puffing and so on and you want to walk in and grab your coffee and your bag and so on and come back out after it’s been warmed up another five minutes or so, hey, knock your socks off. Be my guest. Not hurting anything in doing so. Not going to bother a thing. And, again, one of the things that we went over a few weeks ago that, again, Dave doesn’t explain very well is there’s other things that you need to get moving in the system of the vehicle itself that have nothing to do with the engine. Everything from power steering to the transmission and so on. So there’s other things there that need to have movement and warm-up before you get out and start driving down the road. So that’s my take on how to warm up a vehicle properly. I’ve been saying this now for a number of years, and I will tell you that even as a fleet operator that we have multiple, multiple vehicles, and everything that I just said we do, and we have no issues whatsoever in doing what we do. So totally against what Dave says along those lines. Jerry and Greeley, go ahead.
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Talking about warming up the vehicle, I stumbled across a video on YouTube that they claim it was made in Siberia, where allegedly they said it gets down to 95 below zero Fahrenheit sometimes in the winter. And they claim that some of the residents literally leave their vehicles idling for six or seven months because it’s such a major ordeal to to thaw them out if they let them, you know, like all the fluids freeze up and, you know, they have to build a tent around the vehicle and hit it with portable space heaters to thaw it out if they let it freeze. And again, I don’t know if that’s the truth or not, but that’s what somebody put out there. Wow. And, um, I also stumbled across kind of an interesting website. I believe this guy is a Russian shop owner who has to have a translation, you know, for this country for videos. But the website is, or the channel is Garage54. And he does a bunch of bizarre experiments. Some of them are just so outlandish, it’s, I don’t know, crazy. But some of them are really interesting, like… drop the oil pan off of an engine and clean it up and then vacuum form a transparent plastic replacement, put it on so you can see.
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I’ve seen some folks do that, by the way. You can’t run the engine for a very long time, but, yeah, I’ve seen folks do that where you can see what’s going on. It’s interesting.
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Yeah, and the same thing with the rocker cover.
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Mm-hmm.
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Anyway, he was doing one of those, you know, when it was, I think it was 30-some below.
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And I’m sure Jerry and I haven’t seen the video, but I am guessing not much is flowing at that. Again, it gets that cold, even full synthetic, things are not flowing as well as they would be even at zero.
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Exactly. He had one of these little super cold weather experiments where, And he couldn’t get the engine to start. You know, it’d crank, but it wouldn’t fire. So he finally pulled the distributor, you know, his old point system. And the gear on the shaft that drives the distributor and the oil pump had sheared because the oil couldn’t let the pump turn.
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Yep. I mean, that is cold. Jerry, that’s cold weather that we here in Colorado have never seen and hopefully we never do see. And, yeah, people don’t realize, and this, again, is the problem I had with that particular video I was mentioning that came out of Utah. When it gets that cold and, you know, we’re below zero especially, there are things throughout the vehicle that need to have some warmth to it, quote, unquote, before you go do anything. That’s my opinion.
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Yep, me too. I’m a big fan of letting her warm up. Thanks.
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Appreciate you, Jerry. Thanks for that. I’ll check that out, by the way.
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Thank you, John.
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Thank you very much, Jerry. Eric, hang tight. We’ll come back and take your call. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Hey, John. So, regarding the whole cold start thing, I mean, with my pickup, down to about 10 degrees, I don’t bother plugging in. I’m, you know, just a 4-liter gas. Right. But I do have a block heater, but… Down to about 10 degrees, I hit my remote start. Last thing I do before I put, as I’m putting my shoes and my jacket on to walk out the door, I hit my remote start. That gives it a solid two minutes of warm-up before I cannot get in the truck. You know, if there’s snow, I brush it off, you know, whatnot, and I’m good to go. But I’ll tell you, this last week I’ve been using my block heater because it’s been so cold, and with having this ScanGage 3 on here that’s plugged in, the other morning I come out, put the key in, I unplugged it, and unlike you, I do leave mine plugged in all night. I get home from work at 4 and leave at 3 in the morning, so it’s plugged in for a solid 10 hours. Gotcha. I come out, put the key in, started up, as soon as the gauge came up, coolant temp was 80 degrees, and oil temp, which was a nice thing to see, was 50 degrees. Nice. So that means all the juices are flowing, and they’re nice and warm. Correct. My trans temps had a little bit to them, but I still gave it probably about two minutes of warm-up just to make sure everything else was warmed up. Like you said, power steering fluid, want to get it flowing. Yep. And One of the things on the diesel side, when we fire up the semis, and my boss and I argue about this sometimes, is modern diesel, especially the big side on the heavy-duty side, you know, you get 12, 13, 14, 15-liter engines. They have heated intakes. And, I mean, there’s some companies that plug them in. We don’t. My boss and I fight about this all the time. Well, it costs too much to plug them in. Okay, whatever. So, you know, we come in in the morning, turn the key on. You still have to go through the wait-to-start sequence when it’s that cold. And Monday morning, I hit the key, and I’m driving the truck I’m driving right now because my modern diesel, with all its great emissions components, had a catastrophic SCR failure. Yeah, that was an amusing drive from Montrose to Denver at 80,000 pounds when my SCR decided to catastrophically fail. Wow. Anyhow, so this older truck that I’m driving, I turned the key on, wait to start. I started it, and it just sat there for about two or three minutes and chugged like an old locomotive because it just did not want to warm up. And then once it, you know, finally the idle started to a normal idle, and it has digital gauges on it where I can see what the gauges were. And Monday morning I came in, and transtem had zero reading. Oil temp, even once I first started, had zero reading. Outside temp, I think, was like minus 15, and coolant temp was like 20 degrees when I started it. And it was probably a solid five to six minutes before the oil temp. got above 30 degrees. Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
Derek, you are proving the point of what I said a few weeks ago and just got done saying in the last segment where I really differ with some of these guys that are out there talking about engine warm-ups because you’re proving the point. They’re dead wrong in what they’re saying.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, I had almost a full 20 minutes of idle time before… I was ready to take off and leave, you know, and that had all the temps that I could see up to, you know, reasonable.
SPEAKER 11 :
And really quick, not to argue with your boss, but he feels like that amount of fuel in 20 minutes is a savings over what you could have plugged in and done instead.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, I know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sorry, but I mean, to me, that math doesn’t really add up.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. I know. We’ve thought about it before. I mean, there’s 20 trucks that would have to be idling, and they cost it out. It’s like $15 overnight. Something like that. Years ago, it was $8. Now it’s almost $15 per truck overnight plug-in for anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending on the truck. And then if we’re talking on the weekends, the truck would be plugged in for three straight days.
SPEAKER 11 :
Again, you could put timers on those, too, and not even do that, but whatever.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and you know what’s funny is we’re looking at the brand-new, I don’t know if you’ve seen this stuff, the brand-new Volvo VML trucks.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’ve looked at them a little bit, Eric. Not a lot, but a little bit, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, Optimus Prime came to life. That’s such a unique design. I’m crossing my fingers for one. But it, from the factory, depending on the package you order, it has a remote start on it. Yeah, on the keychain. And there is a possibility, Mac has done this for several years. Volvo has this, and I’m trying to convince them to do it if we order these. where i can program my start my start time on the truck so say i’m coming in at 4 a.m awesome i can program it so at 3 45 that truck kicks on nice and he says his argument was well what if there’s a problem you know you know this or that and like the salesman said those things are set up to where yeah he said if if if it goes to start
SPEAKER 11 :
he says the truck just won’t start right it’ll know if the computer senses this absolutely start right yeah to me that’s a no-brainer yeah that’s yeah so i mean we’re really quick again not to tell your boss how to do things but if it were me and i had that many trucks that needed plugged in i would have an electrician come out for very little charge by the way and i would time that entire circuit to where you plug them all in and at x time they you know all start heating up and off you go and that whole circuit runs that way that’s what i do
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but, I mean, there’s another part to that, too, is every one of our trucks is parked in a different part of the yard, depending on what we’re hooked to for the next morning. Yeah, because, I mean, we’ve got a fairly decent-sized yard, but there might be three trucks that are parked bobtail on the ready line, and there’s probably another 15, 16 trucks that are spread out in various parts of the yard, depending on when somebody got home the night before or what they’re pre-hooked to for the next morning. Got it. So, I mean, yeah, it’s a discussion that’s been had, and I get both sides of it. I wish we could plug it in because we’d be going faster in the morning. Right. But I’ve got a coworker that will come in, fire the truck up, go park his car, come back, get in the truck, and take off. If he’s lucky, that truck gets six minutes of warm up. Wow. Not much. And they told him the other day, they said he did that Tuesday morning, and he was crying that he got a check engine light and a whole bunch of other stuff on his way to the customer, and he was crying about it. And he said, I don’t understand what’s going on. And they started looking at codes that had come up on the computer. Since we get these things. He has what’s called a pack car solutions deal for Kenworth, and it shows he gets emails of what’s wrong with the truck. And all these codes, he’s like, I’ve never seen these codes before. And he actually had to call Kenworth and say, what are these codes? And they’re like, they were asking him some questions, and he’s asking my coworker these questions. And so later on in the day, he says, those codes are related to the fact that you came in, started the truck, and left before anything was warmed up. He says, and the truck didn’t know what to do. Yep, proven our point. Yeah, a point was sent out to everybody that minimum 15 minutes. When it’s below 20 degrees, minimum 15-minute warm-up, period. They’ve said that for years, and it just needs to stay that way. Because even these modern trucks, they’re so temperamental sometimes. I mean, the older trucks, it’s obvious. But even the modern trucks, they’re just so temperamental in the cold. And then my wife, the other morning, comes out. Tuesday morning, it’s so brutally cold. Comes out, hops in her car, takes off. I had no problem. My car was nice and warm. Yeah, your car sits in the garage. I don’t want to hear about that. I just looked. I was just like, I said, you know, I’m going to move your car outside and let you deal with it. But no. No.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s good. Good one. Anyhow. Eric, I appreciate you. Good one. That’s a nice follow. Thank you. That’s a nice follow to what I was talking about in the last segment, proving our point. We’ll be back, guys. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio. Lines are open 303-477-5600. Text line 307-200-8222. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Lines open 303-477-5600. I’ve got time, so I’m going to slip in a car review. This one’s a little different because of the vehicle that it is. And back story, you all know that I own an earlier Ram 1500 TRX. And by the way, great vehicle. Power is phenomenal, and it’s really a one-of-a-kind truck. I know of no other way to explain that particular vehicle than that. So, as most know, that particular truck is no longer available. They’ve replaced it. with the RHO, is what they call it. The Ram 1500 RHO. And I was able to drive that truck for a week. Nice comparison, by the way, to what I already own. Price on this is less than what the TRXs used to be. This truck comes in at about $85,000, which a lot of you are saying, yeah, that’s a lot of money for a half-ton truck. Yes, it is. But it’s not a normal half-ton truck. So the RHO, for all intents and purposes, is… A TRX detuned. And I know Ram is probably going to disagree with me on that, but it is. It’s not the same engine because they’ve gone to the Huracan 6 3-liter twin-turbo engine that produces about 540 horsepower versus the 700-plus that came out of the Hellcat engine in the TRX. You know, the Hemi Hellcat. What I was surprised at… I felt like fuel economy would be a lot better with the three liter inline six than what my TRX is. My TRX is 12 to 14 miles to the gallon, depending upon where you’re driving and so on. This one I averaged around town, and I didn’t drive it super hard. Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn’t, but all in all, just kind of a regular driving experience. Averaged 14 miles to the gallon. So again, I really felt like the TRX would be a lot worse in fuel economy than the RHO, and frankly, there’s not a ton of difference. Again, RHO, nice vehicle. As far as the interior, creature comforts, very nice. In fact, I said all along that it took Ford and GM a while to even catch up to where Ram was with their interiors. Now they all have, and they’re all fairly equal comforts. Ram, of course, is very well known for their center stack and the big screen and all of that and everything. It works very well. And I love the interior of the Ram. It’s a very comfortable truck. All that stuff is great. This one actually happened to have the additional package of massaging front seats, of course, heated, ventilated, all that kind of stuff. I mean, this one had the entire 10 grand RHO level one equipment group that was on it, which makes the truck extremely, extremely nice. And it even had the off-road running boards and stuff on it, which, by the way, As a side note, probably one of my bigger complaints. While they look really good and they’re very functional, when it came to the snow and the gunk and the junk that I happened to drive that vehicle this past weekend through the below zero weather and so on, they also catch everything. That’s my complaint with those particular running boards is because of the way they’re mounted and their flat surface and how far they stick out and so on. They catch literally all of the road debris, and you’re stepping on and off of that as you get in and out of the truck. So that was the one complaint I have. Other than that, no complaints on the truck. It’s not a TRX. I’m sorry, Ram. I know that’s the replacement for the TRX, but it’s not. If you want a TRX, you’re going to have to go find a used one and buy a TRX because the RHO is not a TRX. It doesn’t have the same power. It doesn’t have the same low-end grunt. It doesn’t have the same sound. It’s just not the same. Now, they did do dual exhaust and some things like that to make the RHO look very similar to the TRX, and this one had all of the badging and everything on. And it’s a cool-looking truck. I mean, they do a really good job on how the truck looks and the Baja style and so on. Now, my biggest complaint, even with my own truck, my TRX, and the RHO is very, very similar, is the driving quality of it. And this is something where you have to get behind the wheel and drive it to know exactly what I mean by this. But the driving quality, I’ll just be frank, is not as good as my Chevy ZR2 have done. And what I mean by that is because of the way they’ve designed the truck and the suspension, and it’s more of a quote-unquote Baja look and feel, it’s very squishy. So going around corners and bumps and things like that, it’s very squishy and can be even a little squirrely at times. Now, as long as you know all of that and you’re compensating for it, okay, it’s not a problem. You can still drive the truck safely and all that. That’s not an issue. But it doesn’t feel like a lot of other trucks. And it’s been a while since I drove a Raptor, so I can’t tell you an exact comparison because I haven’t driven a Raptor now for several years. But I think the TRX or the RHO is a little squishier than what that truck is. All in all, though, still a great truck. Drives very well. If you really like the look and feel of that and you can’t find a TRX for the price that you want or you just want to go to the most modern and new stuff that they’ve got, this is a 2025 model year. And if you like the fact that it’s got the Huracan 6 with the turbo instead of the old Hemi engine, the Hellcat Hemi with a supercharger, if you want to go this direction, then, of course, go out and look at it. The RHO Crew Cab 4×4, again, very, very nice truck. I’ve got nothing really bad to say about it. And what I talked about with the driving side of it a moment ago is just something that you get used to driving it. But you kind of need to know that going into it because it’s not driving like a regular 1500. you know ram wood or even some of the other half-ton trucks in that series you know that they compete with even it’s it’s a different truck different feel because it’s meant to do more things of course the rho has all of the different modes depending upon what you want to do whether you’re in you know that baja mode and so on and so forth it is it is full-time four-wheel drive but some of the modes disconnect the front and put more power to the back. So if you want to go out and do donuts in the sand and things like that, you can. There’s just things you’ve got to turn on and off accordingly if that’s what you want to happen to do with a truck. So all in all, though, great truck. I’ve got no complaints with it whatsoever. Again, I own a TRX, so I can tell you enough about that particular truck and the pros and cons of, again, the RHO replacement for less money. Keep in mind, though, less horsepower because the engine is not the same. And as long as you’re okay with all of that, go out and test drive one today. I don’t know how many of these are actually in stock. I haven’t looked around at some of the dealers to see because it’s such a special model. I haven’t looked to see what the stock is like around town, but I’m sure you can find one. You can test drive one. See if that’s a particular vehicle that you would like. And as I always say, make sure if you go to your Ram dealer and drive one of these trucks, or by the way, any of the other, you know, 1500 series trucks as well, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio sent you as well. All right. So that’s that review. And again, those of you that are listening, if you want more information on that, I can give you a little more information. You know, as always, we get them for a week. There’s only so much you can do in a week. And in this particular case, no, didn’t go do a ton of off-roading and didn’t run the Baja or do anything along those lines, of course, which, you know, you’re not going to do in a week’s time anyways. But all in all, great vehicle. And I am thankful that we get the opportunity to get behind some of these. On that same note. I get questions on this all the time. Hey, I’m looking at such and such a vehicle, or I’m looking at this or that, or it’s a used vehicle even. Keep in mind, folks, we have got reviews that go back multiple years. So even vehicles that you’re looking at buying used today, we more than likely drove several years ago. So if there’s a review or something you’d like to know about a particular car, you can always go online and try to find it off of the website or text me and ask me, and I can give you my opinion on that particular vehicle. And by the way, a lot of you do that. You’ll ask me different questions. The other thing that I should mention here as we close out this hour, there are a ton of people out there now on social media advertising their services to help you buy a car. And they will charge you, by the way, to help you buy said car. I help a lot of people buy cars and give you suggestions on what you should do and what you should ask when you go to the dealer and what dealer to even go to and how to get a pre-purchase inspection done if it’s a used car. And of course, we have Ridgeline Auto Brokers in our back pocket that can help with a lot of these things as well. But at the end of the day, I don’t charge you anything. And yes, there are a lot of online, they’re on social media, they’re all over the place, and you can hire them to help negotiate a deal on a car for you. And in some cases, maybe they’re saving you enough money to where it’s worthwhile for their services. But I’m telling you that if you text me or email me, I can pretty much walk you through everything you need to do to do that yourself. and not spend a lot of money on a quote-unquote buying service that, frankly, in some states might not even be legal. That’s a whole other conversation that maybe I’ll get into at some point, but there’s a lot of these folks that are out on the Internet that will advertise they’ll help you buy a car that are essentially acting like a buyer’s broker that in a lot of cases is not legal to do. But yet they’re still doing it because it’s what they do. And they’ve gotten their own little niche. And some of them have become very well known. Some of them, by the way, take a lot of flack from a lot of the dealer groups and so on because of how they do things. And anyways, at the end of the day, yes, we can help you buy a new or used car. I can walk you through the steps that it takes. I can tell you what to do when you walk in, how you need to act, what you need to say, some of the key words and so on. And it’s not as hard as a lot of these folks out there make it sound. Buying cars isn’t that difficult if you know some of the key things you need to be doing while buying cars. said new or used car so again if you ever need any help along those lines either go to the website send me an email we can we can you know correlate back and forth communicate back and forth that way or you can send me a text and we can do it that way as well the text line of course 307-200-8222 all right another hour coming your way don’t go anywhere this is drive radio klz 560.
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