Join us in this riveting episode of Drive Radio as we dive deep into the world of automotive mysteries and challenges. Starting with a classic query about a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, our experts unravel the intricacies of car models and functionalities. The journey continues with real-life stories highlighting the importance of patience and precision—essential traits for any DIY enthusiast. Discover the unanticipated consequences of ignoring safety protocols through a vivid narrative involving a gas line incident that could have escalated into a disaster. Our guests bring firsthand experiences and practical insights that are sure to enlighten and entertain.
SPEAKER 22 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 17 :
It is a trick question.
SPEAKER 09 :
Watch this.
SPEAKER 17 :
A Chevy didn’t make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn’t come out till 62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 03 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado’s select auto care centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it’s time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, Hour 2, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us, by the way. We appreciate it very much. Alan Stack, Stack Optical with us today. Josh Goff from Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers with us as well. You can find both of them, by the way. Just go to our website, drive-radio.com. Got a text message, shout out Stack Optical. My sister was visiting and her contacts were stuck. Ran up to King Soopers, and they sold me something that didn’t work. Went to Stack in the morning, gave me something for free. It worked. Mom’s been a customer there for 50 years. When Mom and I walked in, they immediately knew her by name. So there you go, Alan. Thank you. Great testimonial, by the way. Thank you, by the way, for that text message. I appreciate that greatly. Alan does as well. Mark and Wiggins, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning. I have a vehicle question, but I also have a story. You guys were talking about locates and all that business. So after we had moved to Wiggins here, I joined the fire district. And our kids were real small at the time, so the development had not fully been built yet. So there was only a couple of houses. Now there’s like 300. But anyway… I had this kind of hunch. You know when you get that little something’s about to happen, like something really bad’s about to happen. And sure enough, the guy across the street had a trencher. And I didn’t see any flags. And I thought to myself, this dum-dum’s going to hit the gas line like an idiot. And within minutes or seconds, I told my kids, go downstairs. I don’t know what’s going on. Just go down for safety reasons. So, you know, they didn’t really understand because they were younger back then. This was probably four or five years ago, maybe six years ago. um and and sure enough within a minute i heard the kaboom oh no i had run his little trencher straight through the gas line which was uh like that plasticky stuff oh no uh almost burned down the two brand new homes which one of them was lived in so i had to go running across the street knock on the door get the neighbors out of the house and call 9-1-1 I couldn’t actually respond to the fire department because I had my kids. So I’m like, well, what do I do? Grab garden hoses, which was kind of a joke. But we actually prevented the two houses from catching on fire before the fire department got here just with a couple of hand hoses.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 11 :
The point is, is this guy, because of what he did, not calling 8-1-1, not only did he ruin his job, ruin his reputation, ruin two houses, he also burned the meter to the ground. The electric meters next to the road burned to the ground, melted. They had to get replaced. The gas line for four house lengths or three house lengths had to get pinched and re-bored. you know, down the street sideways because it had melted down into the ground. And what that bill was, I’m sure it was over $10,000, $20,000. Or more.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or more.
SPEAKER 11 :
For a phone call that would have been free.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah. No, no doubt. You’re probably off a zero. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
That was just deductible.
SPEAKER 07 :
Unreal.
SPEAKER 11 :
Unreal. Unreal. I mean, just the fact that, you know, someone would be near a utility. I mean, there’s obviously, you know, the electric side anyway. If you didn’t have two cents in your brain to think, well, maybe there’s a gas line in the area. Maybe we should call and do the 8-1-1 thing because I’m in a hurry because… whatever, the city’s inspectors coming out or I got to get this done or I got to get that done.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mark, you mentioned something just a moment ago, and this is true, I think, for a lot of people, those of you even listening that do some of your own repair work and even Alan and I talking during 9 o’clock about fixing your own glasses at times and so on. You know what the major killer of most people is, Mark? Lack of patience. Yeah, lack of patience. I mean, we’re going to find out in this helicopter crash that happened back east. I don’t know exactly what happened, but the rotor completely fell off of that. And then you’ve got to wonder, okay, why and who’s at fault and all of that. But I will venture to guess when it’s all said and done, you’ll drill that one back down into what I just said.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, there’s a Jesus nut. They call it a Jesus nut. Yeah, that’s a fact.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s the reason they call it that.
SPEAKER 11 :
When it goes, you’re saying, oh, Jesus. Yeah, well, it could have been overweight, too. Well, true. You could have had too much weight in the aircraft, you know. They’ll figure it out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, they will. Anyways, what you just said a moment ago, though, just a reminder to me that all of us that are out there, some of you guys are at home, you’re do-it-yourselfers, could be everything from changing your own oil to doing whatever else, and you get impatient, and you don’t put that jack stand underneath the car like you should, or you do this or you do that, and before you know it, you’re cutting a corner, and You know, Mark, it never fails when we lack patience and we don’t do things correctly. That’s when it comes back to bite us.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep, yep. And while I was working with the town, I actually had the forethought to, you know, years ago I had a job working for a company called SafeSite that was rebuilding the old, I don’t know, 1970s public service maps. to digitize everything and back then all we were doing was getting a gps on like the transformers and the meter and then i would actually have to route every single wire to every single building from probably idaho springs to breckenridge man was that tedious wow but uh now they have imgis and kind of like the gentleman that was talking earlier about how they can sat to six inches. Wow, I did not know that.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s amazing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is amazing.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s a very, very expensive GPS. It’s not your cell phone. It’s not your Garmin. It’s a very, very specialized GPS.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’ll bet.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s a specialized piece of equipment that they use specifically for getting down to six inches. And they also use that for, like, aircraft, you know, flying for spring and that kind of thing for, you know, automatic landing systems and airplanes. Interesting. Some of those large airplanes, you know, airliners can automatically land.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Anyway, I do have a car question.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, go for it. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
So my 1986 Chevy C30 one-time pickup. Huh? It was pulling hard to the left and on brakes, so I thought, you know, let’s pull everything off, see what’s going on. And I thought, maybe the bearings are bad. Well, I pulled the calipers off and spun the rotors, and they freewheel. They spin like a top. And I thought, oh, that’s interesting. Well, in the process, I could not, in my manual or even on YouTube, find anything that talked about this specific caliper. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a full-floating caliper that the whole caliper kind of fits into the knuckle, into the part that you would normally have a bolt or a bracket that you bolt to. There is no bolts. it slides into the fitting, you know, the knuckle, and then you have, I guess it’s called like a jam lock that you’ve got to pound this thing in sideways.
SPEAKER 07 :
Very familiar with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, the question is, you know, because I think these things were sprored up. I’m going to replace both sides. Okay. I want to get parts from NAPA parts. My question is, is, Are you supposed to have any sort of grease lube between those two points since it’s not actually like slide pins? It’s just metal on metal or should it just be clean metal on metal and no grease at all?
SPEAKER 06 :
I usually clean them and put brake lube on it because it’s still acting like a pin.
SPEAKER 07 :
And brake lube’s got like a graphite component to it and so on, so in high temp and all that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, all those things. So, yeah, that’s what I always put on it so that, you know, it’s still sliding like a pin. It lets the caliper slide as the pads wear and do all that stuff. So I always put some brake lube on there.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s what I thought. I mean, I even went to the library this morning. I know John likes to poo-poo on libraries, but, man, there’s a lot of information there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, no, they got info.
SPEAKER 11 :
There’s a lot of info, but that was the one piece of info that was in none of the books that I could find was it didn’t say anything about greasing that particular area. So that was my question was should I or should not, and you answered the question itself. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
I always did. I mean, basically, it’s just like a spring clamp, I guess you could say. I’m doing this from memory on those old ones because it’s been a long time since I’ve worked on one of those. But it was kind of a spring clamp. Don’t they have like a set screw that holds everything together, too, that keeps the one piece from sliding, Mark?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, there’s a very, very small. It’s a shouldered set screw, right?
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and so that goes in perpendicular to the lock.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. But the bottom side just floats. But, yeah, I’m with Josh. I always lube both ends of those.
SPEAKER 11 :
Got it. Okay, yeah, and I think the calipers come with a new lock.
SPEAKER 07 :
They should.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because the old stuff is totally rusted.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, most of the kits that we used to get back then came with the caliper, the spring, the lock, and even the little Allen screw thing that went in with it.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s what it shows on the website.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, that sounds right. Again, I’m doing this from memory.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s been a while. Sounds good. The main thing you need to remember when you replace those calipers is flush that brake fluid. Go ahead and suck that reservoir out, put brand new brake fluid in, because that’s why that caliper probably went bad is because it’s an 86. You have all that rust that built up in that caliper. So if you have one dragging, that’s the first thing you want to do. What was that?
SPEAKER 11 :
The boot was ripped. I don’t know if it was a rock or something.
SPEAKER 07 :
That makes sense.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I think because maybe a rock or something tore the boot, the moisture got up underneath it, and that’s how it seized up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 11 :
Awesome. Thanks for the info.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mark, you’re spot on. Appreciate you very much. We’ll come right back. Mike and Highlands Ranch, hang tight. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. This came in via our station app, by the way. Talking about worst vehicles or purchases you may have regretted. A day, woo! Leganza. Made it to 90K. The engine blew. Did all of the maintenance correctly, but it was just a bad-designed car. Everything started falling apart. The door handles, the interior lights. Donated the car to a local high school auto shop for a project. Not sure what even happened to it. After that, it might be in the junkyard. Yeah, I will just tell you straight up, Daewoo, not my favorite car. No. If it says Daewoo, it’s like, yeah, there’s a few things they make that aren’t bad.
SPEAKER 13 :
Is that Korean?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and they make some implement-type stuff as well, you know, tractors and things. Those aren’t half bad, but don’t buy one of their cars. Their cars aren’t. And Chevy did an arrangement with them for a while where there was even some Chevys that were a Daewoo. They were not great cars.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Daihatsus, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
And Daihatsus as well. That’s right, and they were not great cars. Neither one of those were very good cars. No, no. So just a side note. So thank you, by the way, for that. I appreciate that. Mike, go ahead, sir. Highlands Ranch.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, Mike. Thank you, John. I was on a call last week with the CFO at Genuine Auto Parts. I own a lot of their stock.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
And they own Napa.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, they do. Correct. Yeah, Napa’s actually the not-for-profit arm of Genuine Parts Company.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s correct. And they are coming out, their next shareholder letter will be talking about what’s going on with what’s going to go on in the future with their parts. And it might, I would, because of, you know, you’re a Napa guy, I would get on that shareholder letter mailing list. I would give, look up Genuine Auto Parts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, I can do that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Tell them who you are, and they will be happy to keep you, you know, up to speed. I don’t have any inside information because they’re a public company. They can’t do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER 12 :
One guy can’t have more information than everybody else.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
So just giving you a heads up for knowledge about where some of this may be headed, the CEO is going to be talking to shareholders about and sending out a letter about where they’re going.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I’m assuming, and I know, Mike, again, like you, I’m not all knowing. I’ve heard some inside things, you know, and you always hear a little bit of different scuttlebutt here and there. But I think what you’re going to see them do, this is my own opinion, they’re going to try to start pulling some things back into the states or at least Canada, Mexico, as much as they can and avoid some of the Chinese things that they have done in the past. And I think that’s going to be in their best interest to do so. And by the way, if they don’t do that, they’re stupid.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I can’t speak to that, but it wouldn’t surprise me. But we’ll see what comes out of this next letter. By the way, when you’re talking about reliable vehicles, you know the part that’s the worst on a car is the nut that’s holding the wheel.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, talk to you later.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Mike. Appreciate you very much. It could also be the nut behind the wheel. Maybe that’s the other side of that. Mike, go ahead, sir. Hey, John, how’s it going?
SPEAKER 14 :
Good, sir. Long time ago when I was married, we’d been married six months or so, and I got hit in her car, so we had to replace it. And so we went down and we bought an 85 Grand Am, and I swear a week later, She came up and said she’s pregnant. Well, we had the two-door. I would have got the four-door. Yeah, two-door grandam and little kids.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not a good combo.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or stepped up to something, you know, maybe a Bonnie or something like that. But that would be the worst car I ever bought because it was just so difficult to try and get the kids in and out of the car seats in the back seat. Two-door cars are not made for that. Yeah, you’ve got to have… You’ve got to have four doors if not a wagon or, excuse me, SUV.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that’s, you know, as you know, that’s where the SUVs came from was out of the old. In fact, the station wagons of old are kind of starting to make another comeback, Mike. You’re starting to see different manufacturers make a wagon-type car again. I guess maybe what we figured out is, you know, they weren’t so bad after all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, especially on the performance side. I know BMW’s doing it. Audi’s doing it. That’s right. Mercedes? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think you’re going to see more of those start coming back because they can still build a wagon cheaper than they can an SUV.
SPEAKER 1 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, yeah, especially if it’s not four-wheel drive. That’s right. Or all-wheel drive. That’s right. And the other thing might be lower to the ground so the kids can get in and out easier.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I’ll do a review on this next week, but driving a Kia Carnival this week minivan, which I will tell you people can knock minivans all they want, but the versatility of them and getting kids in and out and the sliding doors on the side and not have to bang those into the neighbor and all of that. Oh, man, I tell you what, Mike. Again, you can knock them all you want for their looks and so on, but Lee Iacocca back in the day, the guy was a genius. I’ll give him that.
SPEAKER 14 :
And at one time I had suggested a minivan to the wife for the kids. And nope, I’m not going to drive. Got shot out, huh? So she ended up getting a Jeep Cherokee.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and depending upon the year, that may have been a better choice. Although, as much as you want to knock some of those old minivans, some of those old Chryslers, if you bought the right year and maintained it well, they’d stink and run forever.
SPEAKER 14 :
And me, I’d just as soon go with the ones that had the all-wheel drive just for the simple fact of dealing with the snow here. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
and uh being safer for the wife and kids one of the better vans in my opinion and i’m going to get i’m going to get you know hate mail for this one but if you if you bought one and maintained it they weren’t the best looking but they in my opinion had the best drive train of them all those were the old gmc chevy vans they had you know the astros the astros and stuff you mean they were not fun to work on but if you got one and maintained it they stinking would run forever
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, as long as, I mean, the only problem, the real problem with that was the 4.3. Right. The way it liked to consume fuel.
SPEAKER 07 :
It did. It did. They were not, yeah, they were not good on economy. But I tell you what, as far as the functionality of that, I had one of those way back in the day as a shuttle vehicle. I mean, we ran that thing to death. Oh, yeah. And it owed me nothing when I got rid of it.
SPEAKER 14 :
I was watching online the other day, and Oppenhauser has this. Took their six-cylinder manifold for a Ford, sent it to Wilson Machining. Okay. And they put in bosses for injection. Oh. And Wilson does the real high-dollar racing manifolds for drag racing. I just thought that was interesting. Like, who’s still running a 300 six-cylinder?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, depending upon the racing category you’re in and so on, some are. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, if you want something with a lot of torque and just run forever, it’s a six-cylinder. That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go to the airport. Yep, you’re right. Thank you, sir. No, Mike, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Go to the airport. Why? Most of the tugs and the belt loaders all run by 306s. All sixes.
SPEAKER 06 :
I did not know that. Because it’s reliable, high torque, and so they all run. That is the motor out there.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, as far as six cylinders go, people can talk about the old slant six Chryslers all they want. That 300 is tough to beat. It is. That thing will run and run and run and run forever. Really, it will. No joke. So… So anyways, a question, a least reliable car you’ve ever owned or a car you regretted buying as well. And that was one where I was telling you guys, you know, before we went to break, which we’ll go to break here in a minute. We’ve got a review coming up coming up on the I talked about it last week, the Yukon that I drove last week, which, by the way, solid car can see why they still own those. One more, though, that I’m going to mention before we go to break Dodge Dakota pickup. Couldn’t keep a front end in it. No, you could not. The pump rack and all the joints, change one part, something else would show up. Yeah, they were not great cars. I will tell you that straight up. You were spot on. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, we did a review, or I’m going to do a review. I drove a 2025 Yukon. It’s a four-wheel drive version, AT4 Ultimate. So some of you are thinking, okay, what’s the AT4? That’s more of their quote-unquote rugged slash off-road version. It’s been in a lot of the pickup trucks for quite some time. There’s been some AT4s even on. The Yukon end of things, although I believe, Richard, 2025 is the first year for the AT4 Ultimate, meaning they’re combining kind of that AT4 with the Ultimate trim package together. Retail price of this is $100,285. Yes, that’s a lot. Actually, sorry, with destination $102,000. 280. That is sticker price on this particular vehicle. The AT4 in this particular case gives you the electronic limited slip rear differential, which gives you more traction in those particular scenarios where you’d want it. You get all of the air ride adaptive suspension, of course, extra skid plates, things along those lines. You get the red tow hooks. So if you see the red hooks running around, you know that’s the AT4 version on the GMC end of things. This, by the way, is a refresh for 2025 as far as how the grille and front end look, and how the interior, the dash, it’s got a huge center stack screen now, which I’ll just say straight up, GMC, beautiful. Yes, there’s other vehicles out there with a huge center stack, although, Richard, I will tell you, the clarity, the functionality, how everything works, where the button layouts are, and so on. It is a wonderful setup, 6.2 liter engine, which I believe, don’t quote me, I think it’s the same as my truck, because I’ve got a 6.2 in the truck. I think… I think it’s 420 horse, is that correct? I think that sounds right, yep. I think it’s 420. Runs extremely well. I mean, even at our altitude, no turbocharger, no nothing. It works very well, and surprisingly enough, and I know because I own one in my truck, and it’s exactly the same engine. If you drive this vehicle correctly… you can get 19 to 20 miles to the gallon even with the 6.2. Now, if you get your foot in it quite a bit and you’re a little bit heavy on that end of things, it’ll drop all the way down to the 15, 16 miles to the gallon range. But if you drive this thing correctly, and they even state highway miles at 18, I can always exceed the highway mile end of things on my truck or this vehicle, and I did driving this. But I’ll tell you, Richard, they’ve done a very nice job. I can see why. They continue to sell these things, even though the sticker price is what it is. They sell these things year after year after year after year because versatility wise. And for those of you that are like me, where you’ve got a I’ve got a crew cab short box truck versus the Yukon. This isn’t the Suburban because the Suburban is more my length of vehicle when you take a crew cab truck. The Yukon is shorter. Think more of a short box truck with maybe just an extra cab, and it’s even probably a little shorter than that. I will tell you, after driving the truck, which I do on a daily basis versus driving the Yukon, Yukon is more comfortable to drive. It’s got less noise interior-wise. It’s more nimble because it’s shorter, easier to park, easier to make a U-turn, all of those different things, Richard, I will tell you that. Personally, minus the price, and that one is, yeah, it is a hard pill to swallow, but that’s the going rate for that particular type of vehicle. Is this a vehicle I would own? Absolutely 100%.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, yeah, and we own several others just because of all the things that we do. And if you’ve got a large family, Dad, we grew up in similarly sized vehicles, right? And they serve a purpose. They are great for what they do. You’re driving an enclosed truck in a lot of cases. And, yeah, like you said, the AT4, definitely much more off-road oriented, but they’re kind of trying to blend the off-road with the luxury with that AT4 Ultimate. But, like you said, sort of second to none, folks. And, yes, there’s other cars in this segment. But if you go out and do a little bit of research, even on the resale side, which you and I have done, there’s a reason that there’s a very long waiting list for the EM product that is out today. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, in closing, this one also came with a lot of extra options to get up to that 100K, like night vision and illuminated door sill plates, and it even says GMC when you open the door, it shines down from the mirror. Again, really, really cool features that do set this apart from other vehicles out there like it, and I will tell you, if you’re in the market for that type of a full-size SUV, One thing I’ll also say really quick in closing, these things hold their value extremely well. So it’s one of the few vehicles out there that actually does well on the secondary market. Go check one out at your local GMC dealer. You may or may not find one on the lot. They can always order you one if need be. Tell them that John and Richard Rush, both from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason, sent you. And with that, Richard, I’ll let you go.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Question of the day, worst car you’ve ever owned or one you never should have bought. Another on the text line, we bought a used Honda Pilot. It was the biggest POS that we’ve ever had. However, we bought a brand new one one time and finally got rid of it after about 260,000 miles. So, you know, that other one, it could have, and we talk about this a lot. It’s not the car, it’s who owned it. Right. And that’s on used cars. I cannot stress that enough. And, Josh, you can talk about that more than I can. But it’s really more of not the car itself. Once they’re used out of warranty and all of that, this comes down more to who owned the car prior, not the car itself.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the beginning of its life. Right. Did it have anything done? You can have a car with 75,000 miles on it that’s had nothing done. which I’d rather have like a Toyota camera that has 130 on it that’s had every bit of maintenance on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. Correct. All day long. Yep, and I would advise. I’ve had people that have emailed or texted, hey, I’ve got a choice of these two cars. Here’s the differences. Here’s the mileage, so on and so forth. And I’m like, do you have maintenance records on either? Well, then they’ll send me the Carfax or whatever they’ve got on it. And granted, it’s not the Bible, but it’s somewhat accurate. And just something else as a side note, since I’m talking about Carfax, For those of you that are listening, and the majority of the shops in our network will report back to Carfax, okay? That’s just something that our guys are automatically doing. What I’m going to throw out there, though, and I’m a big believer in this, if you’re dealing with a shop right now that does not report back to Carfax, find another shop.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m just going to be straight up honest because that means they’re not up to date on software. They’re not doing what’s best for you as a customer. They’re not helping you even on the resale value of that car down the road. So if you’re going to a shop right now that is not reporting to them, go find a new shop. Even though I don’t like Carfax. It is a tool that is used in the used car world to determine what’s been done. And even history-wise on your car, even you then, most people don’t know this, you can log in on your own Carfax account, on your own car, and determine all the things that have been done. And by the way, are they accurate? Is the shop recording it correctly and so on? And by the way, did all of a sudden your VIN number get used by mistake somewhere else and now you’ve got something that populated in? It’s way off in mileage and so on. Those are things you should be watching for on your own car on the Carfax end. My point is I’ve had people that will report those things to me, and I’ll go with the one that’s got more maintenance even if it’s got more mileage.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the thing you need to watch with on Carfax is sometimes you take it to a quick lube or something like that, and they don’t put the mileage in right. So if it’s all 150 and the next service was done at 130, that’s a mileage discrepancy on Carfax, and that’s a red flag on it. So make sure where you’re going is getting the mileage put into their system correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s right. You’ve got to have your own account and check your own car, folks. I cannot stress that enough. That’s really important, I think. We have never talked about that before, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Carfax isn’t very good at reading your ticket. Even though mine is, I mean, it’s easy to understand what we did to it, but it doesn’t always translate over 100% as to what you did to it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. The point being, have your own account, check your own car, make sure that, and by the way, even if you do your own services, you can add in your own oil changes and things that you’re doing yourself so that your Carfax is more accurate. Again, building value into the car you already own because people are going to look at that down the road when it comes to buy that car versus somebody else’s. So as much as I don’t like Carfax, it’s one of those that you almost don’t have a choice but to use it. Am I right in saying it that way?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. You do. I mean, I don’t like them, but it is what it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s an industry standard. It’s become that, as Josh has said, that industry standard that even though a lot of us even in the industry don’t like it, it is what it is. You don’t have a choice.
SPEAKER 06 :
And when you buy a used car from pretty much anybody who’s doing business right, you sign that Carfax right then because this is the only info we know on that car. There could be something that wasn’t populated.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we want to be like, okay, we know this has happened. Today is the date you sign it so that if something, you know, the insurance company finally decided to put something on. Yeah. It’s like it wasn’t there when we did it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great point. Another text came in, least favorite car, 62 Galaxy. Three on the tree, which, by the way, most young kids don’t even know what three on the tree means. No synchro into first. Had to come to a complete stop. Yeah, because a lot of those old transmissions, they had a straight-cut gear going into first and reverse, and they made a cheaper transmission that way, and they didn’t have to synchronize it. That’s why all of those older transmissions, literally you had to be almost at a dead stop to get it into gear because there wasn’t any synchronization there. It was just a straight-cut gear. The fork went on that gear, and you rammed it in, and if you didn’t do it correctly, you’d wipe out the cluster gear doing so. You would. I can’t tell you how many of those transmissions back in the day I repaired from what I just said because people didn’t know how to do that correctly, and you literally had to be almost at a dead stop to get it into first gear. Yeah, very, very well-known back then, but a lot of people still didn’t do it correctly. Okay. Oh, somebody asked me, too, are you happy that GM got rid of all the buttons? I’m not sure I’m following you on that. Is that on the Yukon? The Yukon still has a lot of buttons on it. So even though it’s got the big center stack screen in the middle that I was talking about in that review we did on Monday, it still has a lot of the same buttons. Not all the buttons. There’s some things you have to do, like the seat heaters and stuff. Those are in the screen itself. But as far as operating the heater and the radio and some of the other things, they’re done still with mechanical buttons. It’s kind of a hybrid where it’s got some mechanical and some digital. And what the manufacturers are finding out, by the way, on all of that is even young kids, they still like buttons. So a lot of manufacturers that went all digital are now starting to come back to, Volkswagen being one of them, are starting to come back to buttons because even the young crowd said, I don’t want to go to the screen to mess with things. I just want a button to do whatever. So that’s becoming more popular. So you’re going to see more new cars with buttons, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
And with buttons, you don’t have to look. With the screens, they always change the position of everything, and you actually physically have to take your eyes off the road to see what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Somebody also said, too, when we were talking about wagons earlier, that the other thing about the wagons that work better for them is… that they will get better fuel economy because there are dynamics lower the ground and so yes and I think you’re gonna see some manufacturers kinda go that way and that’s also interesting a lot of the younger generation for the longest time people wouldn’t buy wagons like they won’t buy minivans now because it’s a wagon it’s the family truckster I don’t wanna own that well Some of that stereotype is starting to go away with new generations. Sort of like Buick, by the way. For the longest time, you couldn’t get a young kid to buy a Buick, even though I grew up with that brand. You couldn’t get a young kid to buy a Buick, period, because it was a Buick. It was your dad’s car. Well, that perception has changed. My wife and I were someplace the other day. I don’t know, there were some folks talking and so on, and somebody was talking about getting a new car, and they had just bought a new Buick, what’s their SUV? Enclave. Enclave. They had just bought a new Enclave. And I’m like, yeah, that’s a great car. And the guy’s like, you bought a Buick? An old guy. And this is a younger gal. She’s probably in her late 20s. She’s like, yeah, it’s a great car. I love it. And I’m thinking, oh, how ironic. When I was a kid, you wouldn’t be caught dead hardly driving a Buick, and now this 28-year-old is talking about what a great car it is, how things change as time goes by over the years. All right, we’ll take a break. We’ll come back. Myself, Alan Stack, Stack Optical with us again. Don’t forget, any questions on eye care, eyewear, anything like that, Alan’s here for you. And then, of course, Josh Goff from Ridgeline Auto Brokers and Legacy Automotive with us as well. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. Mike and Centennial, go for it, sir. Hello, Mike. This is Oh, it’s Rob. Well, Mike, or Rob, I’m sorry. I had Mike on the screen, but Rob, we’ll use the right name. Thank you. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 10 :
It comes in handy. You’re right about the small wagon. I said the guy with the 96 Saturn SW2.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you’re right about this minivan. I said the guy with the 84 Vanagon.
SPEAKER 07 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
What’s old is new is new again. By the way, really quick, before you move on, Rob, I’ve got to say this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Before you move on, I’ve got to say this before I forget. First one I’ve seen, and it was really cool in person as I got to actually drive next to it. I actually drove next to, yesterday, one of the new EV VW vans, and I will tell you, it’s cool.
SPEAKER 10 :
They’re fun to drive. I actually talked to the guy who bought one and has it sitting down in Arizona waiting for him, and he says it’s absolutely a joy to drive.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. You reminded me of that when you said van again.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I’m fond of the thing. uh… speaking of that uh… i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i And it was a well-laid-out car. It had two front bucket seats, a three-person bench where there were kids at least, and a rumble seat under the back panel so you could actually sit in the back and look out the back window like you could on a larger American station wagon. But the transmission was just terrible. Apparently it had plastic parts in it. And I guess they thought that the little engine couldn’t put that much torque into it, but that’s what killed the car. Everything else was in pretty good shape. You just had to keep fixing and fixing that transmission, and that was the end of the car. They finally handed it over to our brother-in-law. Ex-brother-in-law, and he never was able to get it running again either. Shame, though. It was a nice car. Weird little dilemma for a weird old van. Michael, houses lay like this. The driveway has a northern exposure. It’s looking out to the north.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they get horrible glare when they’re trying to park that van again in the garage. I cannot actually see a thing except just the driveway and the big open mouth of the carport. The carport extends out about 40 feet away from the garage. And once you’re under the carport, you can see what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
But you’ve got to get it maneuvered just right. And I had a spotter the other day on his parking back at the end, and that helps a lot. I’m thinking if I could get a line on the driveway and just put that driver’s side front tire on that and keep it on that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’d be able to slide it all the way into the garage.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
So how would you guys go about making such a mark on that thing? I mean, I think it’s going to be a two-person job. I basically think I’d need somebody to mark me. Marks like chalk on it. Do we paint something?
SPEAKER 07 :
You can do that yourself. They make line paint at Home Depot. You can get colors in it too, Rob, if you want yellow, white, black, whatever you want to do. They make line paint just for what you’re talking about. And they actually make and it’s not that expensive. You probably could pick one up on Amazon relatively inexpensively. They make a little four wheel. It won’t turn because it’s meant to do a straight line. You put the can in that little holder device and you can trigger the paint and run the line. And I would just lay a chalk line or a piece of masking tape or or even maybe double side each side of it. Now, you can also cheat and. and not use that machine I just said and actually use 2-inch wide masking tape and make sure you mark it out with chalk, and then you put the tape up against the chalk so you’re even all the way down, and then just spray in between the masking tape. You can do that also.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was thinking about renting one of those little cart things. I was thinking they’d have it at Home Depot.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, you can actually buy them. I bet they’re not more than $20 on Amazon. Probably.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is great advice. This is why I talk to you guys.
SPEAKER 07 :
But on the same token, you can buy a roll of tape and do the same thing I’m talking about for hardly anything. It’s just a matter of, you know, getting it light, you know, getting two chalk lines laid out that are, you know, measure them out, make sure it’s all nice and even. But you could lay the paint out, you know, lay the paint inside those tape lines. It would be just fine.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that’s the font, too. And tape’s relatively cheap, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, really cheap. Because in this case, you’re not buying any fancy tape. Just buy the tan stuff.
SPEAKER 06 :
But you might want to get the cart.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they can make the lines go on one end of the block to the other with those little carts, so they’re pretty spectacular. Okay, that’s great advice.
SPEAKER 06 :
What I found with those is they’re going to wear off about once a year, so I would probably buy the cart because you’re going to have to repaint it at least once a year. That’s a good point, Josh. Because we do it at the shops and the hangers to guide stuff in all the time, and they make it about a year.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m used to buying weird things for weird purposes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I’m looking really quick. I went to Amazon just really quick to look to see what the cheapest ones are. Man, some of these are really fancy. Some of these you can lay all the paint in the cart. They’re $100, and it’s everything from $40 to $100.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it’s an investment because the body work is $5,000.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that’s true, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good point. Now, it’s funny that I’d come up with such a specific figure for that, isn’t it? Yeah, because you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know firsthand.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. They said they could hear the screen three blocks over. It was pretty spectacular. The windows all over the driveway.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really quick, though, Rob, you bring up a great point because there’s a lot of folks out there that probably have similar dilemmas. And for all of you listening, painting some lines on either the driveway or even if you want to paint some lines for a basketball court for your kids, just do the dimensions. And what I just gave you gives you the ability to do all of that, including painting some lines in the garage if you had to, Rob. So for a lot of you listening where you’re thinking, man, I wish I had a better way to guide myself around, you’ve got the answer, Rob.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. I actually bought a rear-view camera for the thing, and the first time I couldn’t see it because the lights on the rear-view camera were blinding me through the back glass, so I opened the hatch and the hatch got smashed.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Then the second time, I just couldn’t see what I was doing, so I figured I was about right. No, I was not. I was not about right. Not one bit. And that was the $5,000 bill. There you go.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, this would be a cheaper way to do that for sure.
SPEAKER 10 :
And one final remark. You were right about I’m not going to knock the 306. I don’t know it, but I sure love the 225 Slant 6 being the guy with the 70 Dart. And the last new ones installed in any vehicles were at the airport, too. They were used to tow aircraft.
SPEAKER 15 :
They are.
SPEAKER 10 :
They are. After the late 70s is when they finally put the Slant 6s in the aircraft stuff. But I’m not knocking the 300. I don’t know anything about it. I’m sure it’s a good engine.
SPEAKER 07 :
They were heavier. That’s the one thing about those versus the Slant 6s. They were a lot heavier because it was a truck engine more than a car engine.
SPEAKER 10 :
The Slant 6 started out as a Mercedes racing engine. How silly is that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Silly. I didn’t know that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Gentlemen, have a lovely day. It was always good talking to you.
SPEAKER 07 :
You too, Rob. Appreciate you very much. Really quick, for a lot of you listening, just kind of dovetail into what Rob was saying. I get this a lot from people. It’s like, okay, I need to know where to stop when I’m pulling in my garage. Well, there’s things that work for that, not only just tennis balls hanging from the ceiling, which I hate, by the way, because you’re always running into them when you’re out doing something in the garage and the car is not there. They make little floor mats that you can pull onto that have a little stopper in it. On the same token, if you’ve got a car with cameras, you can paint some lines on the garage floor. They make laser beams. Thank you, Alan. All sorts of stuff today, guys, that really make things a lot easier that, frankly, we didn’t have even a couple of decades ago. In the last couple of decades, there’s been a lot of things that have come out. Now, all that being said, including even the little laser pointer thing that Alan was just talking about, going back to what to purchase now versus later. Some of the items that we’re talking about come from a country that you’re going to see some increases in prices on. So if you’re going to do any of those things, I would highly recommend you, again, do them now, not down the road, because there’s going to be a shift in a lot of that stuff, and who knows exactly what the cost is going to be when it’s all said and done. And, again, I get it. Buying a laser pointer for your car on where you pull in is not a need. Well, maybe for some it is.
SPEAKER 20 :
It is. I only got that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
But it’s not like buying groceries. I understand that. And this is where, for a lot of us, you’ve got to start choosing what’s more important and what do I need to buy. But if there’s these sorts of things where, like Alan just said a moment ago, it may very well be a need. Well, then figure out how to do that and get it done now versus later because those are the types of things that I can tell you right now are most likely not going to come down in price. They’re most likely going to go up because if you start onshoring some of that or even shifting vendors around other parts of the country, there’s going to be a change in how that’s done, and it will not be what it is today. Or they’re going to pay the increase of whatever it is, 125%, and off you go. which, let’s face it, for some things isn’t going to be that big of a deal because you’re not paying a lot of money for it anyways. But there will be increases, and my point is if you want to save some money, do it now versus later. All right, we’ll be back in another full hour coming your way. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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