John Rush and the Drive Radio crew hit the road for a jam-packed episode blending automotive wisdom, nostalgia, and listener calls that turn into heartfelt conversations about radio, craftsmanship, and trust. With Roy and Dietze from ProTech Auto Shield in-studio, the show dives deep into paint protection, ceramic coatings, and the art of keeping your ride pristine.
Listeners from across the country call in — from Montana to Steamboat Springs — praising the balance between great content and honest advertising, with nods to radio legends like Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh. They remind everyone that good radio is built on
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Hit it.
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What a lady of blessed acceleration. Don’t fail me now.
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Hey, how exactly does a positrack rear end on a Plymouth work?
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And it’s that time, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us, Charlie Grimes. Or sorry, not Charlie. Yeah, it is Charlie Grimes. I was going to say Charlie Unger, but no. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Larry Unger answering phones for us today. Roy and Dietze both from ProTech Auto Shield with me today. So today’s one of those days where you’ve got any questions at all when it comes to PPF, which is paint protection film. We used to call it clear bra, but now it does so many other things than just the front nose of the car that… We’ll get that window tint. You name it. There’s also PDR, paintless dent removal, all that. We’ll cover all those things today throughout the program. Any questions specifically along those lines, give us a call. We’ll get those answered. You can text us as well. 307-200-8222. The main line calling in to be on air live, 303-477-5600. And I made this announcement last week, but I’ll keep making it starting November. We will be adding a fourth hour on Saturday, so we’ll do Fix-It Radio first thing. We’ll do three hours of Drive Radio, and then we’re going to do another hour of Drive Radio called Drive Radio the Extra Mile. I think we’re planning on three to four in the afternoon here in this Denver market, so if you’re in another time zone, you’ll have to kind of… go back and figure that out. But we’ll also record those, put them up on the website as well. That particular hour will not be a call-in hour. I will be doing some stuff on the front side, getting a little bit more in-depth into some things that maybe we don’t have time to do. For example, I may spend some time with Roy and Dietze and just sit down more of a podcast-type format and just go through different things on, okay, when we talk about X, What does that really mean? And giving us a lot more time to cover some of the topics in a more in-depth way. I’ll have other interviews, in-depth car reviews, things along those lines. So we’ll be doing that extra hour starting in November. And the reason I mention that is if there’s something you’d like to see us cover in a more in-depth way, please send me an email. Don’t text that one, by the way. Send me an email. Easier for me to keep track of things via email than it is on the text line. Text line gets so built up that for me to go back at times and go find something is much harder than if you just email me. So if there’s a particular topic you want to see me cover, We’ll do that. I’m going to SEMA first week of November. So that following week, we’ll have some things to talk about along those lines. And that’s another one of those things where if there’s something at SEMA you would like us to actually take a peek at, there’ll be several of us inside of the group going to SEMA. So if there’s some things you’d like us to look at, by all means, let me know. And I’ll do that while I’m there. But before I go to Jeff, good morning, guys. How are we?
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Doing pretty.
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good everybody good good morning good to have you appreciate you taking time out of a beautiful saturday so let’s get to the phones we’ll come back and get rolling along here jeff in western montana go ahead how are you guys doing we’re good jeff good hope the weather’s good we’re at the end i think of a wonderful week the fall colors have been absolutely amazing nice temperate weather lots of sunshine which is kind of unusual for this time of year i think it’s all going to come to an end today so uh But just have enjoyed it immensely. I listened to you at the end of the last hour, and I felt compelled to call in because I think people don’t understand the nature of radio. And, you know, there have been some really great broadcasters, Edward R. Murrow, Paul Harvey. But I think up there, if not the greatest to go, is Rush Limbaugh.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Rush. Rush took time at least once. He probably did it more often, but this one time sticks in my mind. He said that he succeeded in radio because he was a DJ for years, and he understood how radio worked. And the purpose… These are his words, not mine. The purpose of radio is not to deliver content. The purpose of radio is to sell advertising.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, absolutely. Otherwise, you don’t stay on air.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s what… That’s right. Now, you have to have good content, otherwise people won’t listen, and your advertisers will go away.
SPEAKER 20 :
Of course. There’s a balance there, though, Jeff, as you know, and I appreciate you saying that, and I’ll let you finish up. But no, there’s a balance, and it’s one thing I think for me, and I even tell some of our advertisers this, that… I understand that very well because I’ve been the guy writing the check in the past for the advertising, expecting a return for that money that you’re putting in. And I think, Jeff, as a host, not saying other hosts don’t realize it because Rush Limbaugh sure did, but I’m not sure every host, Jeff, really understands what you and I are talking about right now. I do because I’ve been the guy writing the check before.
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That’s right. It can look like a chicken or egg, but you are not going to get on the air if you do not have advertisers. Correct. Now, once you’re on the air, your content will determine whether or not you keep advertisers.
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Correct.
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Yep.
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It’s sort of a vicious cycle in a way, Jeff, as you know, because, you know, you’re trying to keep everybody happy. You’re trying to keep the advertisers happy because they need a return on that investment. You’re having to put good content out so people continue to listen. And, you know, there’s all this sort of this balancing act, if you would. You know, the comment that I got earlier, for those of you maybe just joining in Drive Radio, I got a comment on Fix It Radio that said, you know, thanks for the hour-long commercial, which I didn’t look at that in any way, shape, or form, Jeff. I had two different guests that came on, one talking about resurfacing decks and fences and cabins and so on. And, yes, he’s got a company that sells stain, but that’s not the reason he was here. And then Dave Hart, who’s one of my great sponsors on the roofing end of things, and we’ve had, you know, We’ve had him on many times, even after big storms and so on. And the things that I have learned from Dave over the years, which I hope a lot of you feel the same way, to me, Jeff is invaluable. I’ve learned so much about the roofing end of things and have saved so much money by having a guy like Dave on that, I mean, it’s priceless in my opinion.
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Yes, and it was not a commercial. It was content. SAR trying to keep their businesses in their business. But they just didn’t get out and say, buy from us, buy from us, buy from us. They gave content reasons, things to do. There was value in what they were saying. And, oh, by the way, if you’re looking at doing things, we’re available for that. And Roy and Dietz are the same way. We’re going to go through the next, I don’t know how long we’re going to be with you, but whatever the time is. Okay, the three hours, they’re going to talk about what they do, why they do it, how they do it, what to watch out for, the scams, the little tricks of the trade, things that a lot of us don’t know, and that’s going to provide value. And so to say, oh, it’s just a commercial is really kind of ignorant. And I just wonder about how mentally, I’m not saying this is nasty, how mentally accurate that guy is because he doesn’t understand. that there’s more to it than just, well, they’re just selling their product. Well, yes, but no.
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Right. And thank you for – no, you just said that correctly, Jeff. I mean, yes, but no. I mean, yeah, ultimately I want every one of my – advertisers and sponsors to succeed. Otherwise, they’re not going to stay with us. And, you know, we continue to add advertisers, Jeff, which I think, you know, says something. We’ve got water pros that are going to be joining us here in this next month. And, you know, Paul’s the water guy, by the way, and has done some things even in radio on his own, but feels there’s enough value here to be a part of what We’ll do some interviews with him on a Saturday morning as well when it comes to water filtration and all the things that can be learned there, which I’ll be straight up honest, Jeff, that’s one of those areas that I’m probably the weakest in. I am by no means a water expert.
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I would like to end where I mentioned Paul Harvey, and a little bit of Paul Harvey trivia folks probably don’t know, is that he got his start here in western Montana. I didn’t know that. radio station down in Missoula. He sold advertising, oddly enough. And there was a couple of times where he had to go on the air or he cut commercials or stuff, and he wanted to be a broadcaster. And the radio station, KGVO, the guy who ran it at the time, owned it at the time, said, I’m sorry, but you don’t have a voice for radio.
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Paul Harvey, who has one of the most distinguishable voices ever.
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That’s right. Unbelievable. Just goes to show you that sometimes people can be really, really wrong.
SPEAKER 20 :
In that case, they definitely were. They definitely were. Oh, my. I did not know that, Jeff. That’s a great story. I’d never heard that before. Thank you for sharing that because I did not know that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we have a guy who runs a morning show here. His name’s Peter Christian, and I call in there pretty regularly during the week, and I often refer to him as Paul Harvey’s follow-on, and I always get a chuckle with that. That’s awesome.
SPEAKER 20 :
You know what? Again, the guy that said that about Paul Harvey was about as wrong as you could ever be. Yep. He probably ended up having. I mean, everybody’s got a distinguishable voice. I get that. But, you know, Paul Harvey was like the Casey Kasem of that side of things. You know, Casey Kasem having, you know, a distinguishable voice when it came to the, you know, top 40, top 100, all of the countdowns and so on. Paul Harvey was, you know, was that on the other side when it came to commentary news and things like that, Jeff, as you know.
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Yep. And I’ll just end by saying good day.
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Yeah, I’ll leave it at that. Jeff, thank you, man. Appreciate it. We’ll take a break. Mike, hang tight. I want to give you plenty of time. We’ll come right back. Mike and Jeff, one line open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we’ll play a few of those types of songs, the intros, as we come and go from the show itself. And Charlie’s putting some of those together. Some of you, not all, some of you asked would we be playing some of those this week. So there you go. Yes, we will. Charlie will sprinkle a few of those in. And by the way, thank you. It makes a lot of fun on days like today. So thank you for that. I appreciate those suggestions very much. Mike, go ahead. You’re next.
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Hey, John, thank you. Charlie, way to go. Absolutely. I love that nostalgic Halloween stuff. Absolutely. Hey, I had a friend of mine call me about Mobile One in her car, which I’ve recommended when she does an oil change that she uses Mobile One. Right. It’s still under warranty. And so she took it to a Toyota dealer. She said they said, well, we have… Mobile One, you know, we use Mobile One, not in the can, but a Mobile One product in a barrel that’s made by Mobile One. And I said, boy, I don’t know about that. I said, I don’t agree with that. I would pay the extra money for the Mobile One in the can. I want your thoughts on that.
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Well, it always bothers me when somebody said it’s made by a Mobile One. Okay, well, wait a minute. So it doesn’t have an official Mobile One label on the barrel that they’re actually pulling it from? I mean, that’s one of those where I always… have to question, okay, wait a minute, I want to see the barrel because I want to know what actual name’s on it, and then I’m going to do some research to determine does the mobile, because to my knowledge, now, I could be wrong in this, I don’t know everything, you guys know, sometimes I’ve got to go out and research things, but when it comes to oil, I’m pretty up on things, Mike, and to my knowledge, I don’t know of any type of mechanism whereby Mobile One makes oil for someone else. I’ve never heard of that in my entire life.
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I that’s why I said, listen, just just pay the extra money. It’s well worth it. I don’t don’t even take a chance.
SPEAKER 20 :
I would agree with that because I haven’t I don’t know what product. In other words, I don’t know of a mobile one rebrand because that’s what that would be. And I’m not familiar with that.
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OK, well, that answers the question. And so I will keep you from the rest of the.
SPEAKER 20 :
the uh halloween spooks out there that had have automotive questions um so i did just look it up really quick mobile one has or so i just rebranded it to us so that that’s not what i’m asking here so even ai isn’t at isn’t isn’t answering my question and i guess i guess i need to ask i’m not sure exactly how to ask this mike you’re smarter than me so does mobile one How would I ask it? Rebrand isn’t, because rebrand now is thinking, did they do a rebrand? And yeah, they always do some different rebrands of their oil, but what would I call that? I don’t know what else to call that.
SPEAKER 08 :
I guess, do they make a bulk oil that you can buy in barrels?
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I know they make bulk oil, but it would say mobile. I mean, they make oil that the guys can deliver right out of their reel if they want to, Mike. So there is bulk Mobile One product all over, but not… I mean, it would still say Mobile One, and it’s going to be an actual Mobile One product. It’s not going to be… Well, it’s made by Mobile One. I’ve never heard anybody say that oil is made by Mobile One, but it doesn’t say. And I just looked it up. No, Mobile One does not make its oil for other companies’ private labels. So… If they’re saying it’s made by Mobile One, that’s a false statement because it’s either going to be Mobile One or not.
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Well, you know, that’s interesting. This is interesting because the service, I talked to the service manager, not the manager, service advisor. And he said, no, no, we use Mobil 1 oil. We get it in bulk. And I went… Okay.
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And that could be… That one I could believe, yeah. And it can come in 55-gallon drums. I mean, back when I had my shops, I used to buy it in 55-gallon drums. Or you could have it delivered into your bulk tanks and have it come out of the reels. I mean, it just depends on how you want to do it at that point. And it’s cheaper because when you’re not paying for the packaging, you’re paying less money for the oil. Now, I will say this, Mike. In most… Cases, maybe dealerships are still doing a lot of bulk oil. But at the end of the day, it’s getting harder and harder to do bulk oil because of all of the different needs every manufacturer requires now.
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Yeah, yeah, no, that’s a great point, John, because they all have very specific. They’re all getting very specific about what products you put in the car. And I told her, I said, because I can’t see the label, the API specs that I can look at with a can of Mobile One, I said, don’t even go there.
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And I can’t disagree with you on that one at all. Go ahead.
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I was going to say something. I mean, the quality of the oil that the dealerships provide is the same? Depends.
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It’s the same as the one you buy at the… No, great question. I’m glad you just said that, Roy, because not always. Again, it depends on who they’re getting their oil from. Toyota, I’m going to say this over and over again, Toyota doesn’t make its own oil. No company, GM, they don’t make their own oil.
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They’re all buying it from somebody else. And I used to go and do my oil changes at the dealership, but they never asked me, hey, do you need a high mileage or whatever?
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No, because they’re typically going to have one product in the reel, and, Mike, that’s really what we’re talking about is that product might be good or it might not. I don’t know.
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This is a great subject because it’s a matter of how you listen to the statement being made. Right. And that is, you know, do you use Mobile One? We use a Mobile One product. in all of our oil changes. Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a second. Right. That’s not what I asked.
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Correct.
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And I find it interesting when you listen to any ad anymore, You have to be very careful when they say, you know, I’m trying to think of an example. But one or two words can change the originality of what you’re getting.
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And they’re not lying. It’s just not quite as above board as we’d like it to be.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you very, very much, John. That’s exactly right.
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And for all of you listening, believe me, marketing teams, Mike, you know this very well, marketing teams will spend countless hours trying to figure out how can we say this, be accurate, not be in trouble, and get this meaning across when it’s all said and done. And believe me, these guys make a boatload of money trying to figure out how to say that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely correct. It’s absolutely correct. I tell some of the young people that I met, or I said, no, you didn’t hear the ad right. You weren’t listening properly.
SPEAKER 20 :
That’s right. That’s exactly right. Great point.
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Let’s write it down and say, you know, that’s not exactly what they said.
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That’s right.
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That one word changed the whole thing.
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You’re right.
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100%.
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Absolutely. Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, we all hear that all the time. So, anyway.
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No, good stuff. Great point, Mike. And very important, especially on oil changes, to ask specifically, what am I getting? Thank you. Yep. Well said, Mike. Appreciate you very much, as always. Always great call. Jeff in Steamboat Springs, how are you, sir?
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Sure. Hey, John and Roy and Dita, how are you guys? We are good. Pretty good. Yeah, good. Good. I know. I owe you a visit, Roy, and I’ve got a couple of door dings I want you to get out of my pickup.
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They can do it.
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Yeah, I know. And what I called about today, I didn’t have a whole lot, but I did listen to the end of pretty much all of Fix It Radio today, and I agree with Jeff from Western Montana. I mean, whoever this guy or person that texted in, what are you listening to the radio for anyway if you think that’s all you’re going to get is advertising? Because basically, like he said, that’s what makes radio. And if you don’t have advertising, you don’t have radio.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, what you have – and, Jeff, I want to add something to all of that comment because – To me, that’s a very offensive comment because I do my very best to try to deliver really great content to all of you. I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t fun. And if we didn’t have good content, I didn’t have great advertisers and so on. And we do. And I do my best to try to balance all of that out, keeping all of what we just said in mind. And for those of you listening, if you really want to go listen to something that doesn’t have any kind of ad in it. Go find a podcast because, Jeff, that’s what those guys do. But here’s the problem with podcasts. If they don’t eventually find some funding, they don’t last either because you can’t do it for free.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Right. And I got to tell you, you know, anybody that if they knew you as much, and I mean, we don’t know each other all that well. We talk a lot.
SPEAKER 20 :
We talk a lot, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you have helped me in our business and in the TV commercial business. And again, you know, offering up your business up in Louisville for this spot. And, you know, unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll work for this one. But sometime we’re going to use your, you know, whatever works.
SPEAKER 20 :
We don’t care.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah, I know. But that’s the thing. You do more for us. state of Colorado and the country than people give you credit for.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, thank you, Jeff. That means a lot. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that’s… You know… Somebody needs to wake up someplace.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, thank you. And, by the way, you and I’ll give – I had numerous – I didn’t realize it was going to be that big of a deal, but I had one complaint, and I’ve had a dozen or more text messages that have come in in support of what we’re doing. And then, of course, Jeff, you and – and Jeff from Montana and so on, and multiple people actually chiming in just like you, that they learn something every single time we put a show out. And that means a lot, thank you. I mean, all of you that have texted and have called, I mean that sincerely. We wouldn’t do what we do here if it wasn’t for that. And yet, Jeff, I do feel an obligation, and it is an obligation. I’ve got people that are paying for, literally, they’re offsetting. The way this all works, just maybe some of you don’t know this, especially on the weekends. So for all of you that hear weekend programming, this is pretty much true across the country. Most every single weekend show, unless it’s a syndicated show being replayed, somebody has bought that time. They wrote a check to the radio station, so much money per hour. That’s how it works. I write a check for every single week that we do here. It’s a sizable check, by the way. It’s not small. Most people would probably be flabbergasted at how much money it actually takes to put these programs on on a weekend basis. And I write that check back to KLZ. Well, Jeff, I’m not independently wealthy. I have to have income coming in to make that check actually work at the end of the day. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be doing this. And so at the end of the day, yes, I have to have advertisers to offset that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Of course. And, you know, the service you provide, it goes beyond the radio work. I mean, it’s just incredible, the service that you provide. Well, thank you. And the people that you have on and all your sponsors and all your, you know, Steve from Geno’s and all your guys from Boulder and Fort Collins. And just, you know, of course, you’ve got the companies, which makes a big difference. And it makes the people confident that we can trust and use those people.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and I appreciate what you said a moment ago, too, because my wife can attest to this. There’s a lot of emailing, texting, helping, all sorts of things that I do off radio hours. And there’s times my wife will be like, you know, it’s 8 o’clock at night. Right. Who’s asking what? And I’ll explain. And she’s like, you know, I get that. But, you know, at some point, you know, you can just wait till the next day. And I’m like, well, you know, for me, no, I want to go ahead and help. And sometimes people have a predicament and they need an answer right away. They can’t wait till the next day. And I do my best to help them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, there’s no doubt about that. And the other thing is, you know, when I met you and your wife at the Leprino car show a couple of years ago and I met Dave, the roof guy then. I think I talked to him to see if he’d come up here to do it, and I’m not sure he was set up to do it, but I’m going to give him another call.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think he would now. I think he can handle that now, Jeff, absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
I mean, he takes care of my place up in Breckenridge, so I know he’ll go to Steamboat, so just call him.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, okay, because I know there’s probably travel or a trip fee or something, but at that time he wasn’t set up to do it. He can do it now.
SPEAKER 20 :
He’ll take care of you.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Well, listen, hey, you hang in there. I will, Jeff. I know you’re not going to let any. I appreciate that. Good to you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Thank you, man. I appreciate it very much. Jerry and Greeley, hang tight. We’ll come right back to you. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, the Addams Family. Their house is a museum, when people come to see them, they really are a scream, the Addams Family.
SPEAKER 20 :
That was a good show back in the day. I used to watch it all the time. Black and white. For those of you that are really young, yeah, that’s how we watched shows back in the day. They were black and white. All right, Jerry from Greeley. Go ahead, Jerry.
SPEAKER 09 :
John, last Saturday I called to ask about TPMS sensors, OEM versus aftermarket. Correct. So I decided to get some OEM units. When I called the dealer, they wanted $105 each, which seemed high to me. I was looking around online, and I found, well, they say they’re a dealer in Missouri who also sells parts online, Ford parts, and they wanted $51 each. And I emailed them, and they seemed legit. But I asked them, I said, can you tell me how long these things have been sitting on the shelf? Because I don’t want a unit where the batteries are dead, just aged out on the shelf. And the response was that they had been made in March of 24.
SPEAKER 20 :
So they’re a year old already, a year plus old, 18 months old.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. You know, the price difference was great enough that I went ahead and ordered them, but as I understand it, seven to ten years might be kind of an average life span.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, and I think, you know, depending upon whether it’s sitting, whether it’s being driven, they will go dormant if they’re sitting. So, you know, if it’s a vehicle that’s parked more than it’s driven, they will last a little longer. If it’s driven on a routine basis, in some cases, Jerry, I’ve seen them only last five years.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hmm. I know nothing about electronics, but you’re saying that That if it’s just stationary, then it’s not going to be as big of a battery?
SPEAKER 20 :
No, they will go dormant. But even things that sit dormant, flashlights, things like that, even that are rechargeable, if they sit long enough, they will still lose enough charge over time where they’ll be dead. So the TPMSs are the same way. But I have had vehicles, and not exaggerating, that I have – you’ve gotten rid of that have been 10 years old and, you know, sold them at that point in time and TPMSs were still good and working, but keep in mind the vehicle probably didn’t have, you know, 3000 miles on it. So it wasn’t driven a whole lot.
SPEAKER 1 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Well, and then also when I was looking online, I found units that my thought was they just had to be counterfeit because they were like 20 bucks.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep. They probably are.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, um, I mean, that’s just astounding to me that somebody, well, first of all, that they can get away with it, but that they can make a profit. doing that. I’ve heard you talk about BG products, people getting counterfeit BG products.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. In fact, a lot of what you see on eBay or Amazon will most likely be counterfeit when it comes to BG because BG is not allowed to sell that way. Now, there can be an occasion where somebody bought a parts store out or did something along those lines, and they have had some inventory there that they’re reselling, although typically BG will take that product back. So rarely does what I just said happen. I’m not saying it can’t ever happen, but it’s not an everyday thing. It’s more of a rarity than it is a commonality, Jerry. So BG is very strict on not selling on the Internet. So if you find product on the Internet, most likely it’s counterfeit.
SPEAKER 09 :
But if somebody were to buy a counterfeit BG product that it would come in a can that really looks like authentic.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, yeah. And there’s so much. And for those of you listening, great topic, by the way, Jerry, something that I probably don’t cover enough of. There are so many counterfeit things out there, and they get so close to being what the original thing was. I mean, it may just vary a teeny bit. It could be just a small font change or just a little bit of color being off. And to the average person that doesn’t know what that product really looks like, they would never know the difference and that’s how these guys get by with with selling that interestingly enough just as a side note i watched a video last night before i went to bed on the chinese jet that they’re trying to get into commercial use that they literally took an Airbus, and this Airbus $100 million airplane went missing. Nobody knew where it went. They finally found it 10 years later, and what had happened is it went into China, and they disassembled the entire plane, and literally Jerry copied every single thing in the plane to where it’s a dupe of an Airbus, and I’m not exaggerating. I can’t remember the designation of this particular airplane. They’re trying to now sell this thing worldwide. Of course, they’re getting blackballed because they basically copied an Airbus literally bolt for bolt. So the copy end of things coming out of that country especially, and there’s other countries as well, but especially that country is extremely high. Wow, astounding. It really is. I mean, when you start looking at the counterfeit pieces that are coming out of there, and it’s huge. I mean, I don’t know, Jerry, how many billions upon billions of dollars are done that way, but in the auto parts world, it’s huge.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I did find a YouTube video of a gentleman who had gotten fooled and bought some… some copy TPMS sensors, and it was like you were saying, there was just some minor packaging differences.
SPEAKER 20 :
To the average person, you really, and folks, this is true on everything from, in your case, Jerry, TPMS sensors to oil filters, air filters, fuel filters, any other type of parts, brake components. I can go down the list. There is a ton of counterfeit products out there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
You really have to do, and here’s a good rule of thumb. If it sounds too good to be true and it’s really cheap, that’s a pretty good indicator it’s a counterfeit product. Right. That’s, I mean, for all of you listening, that’s a pretty good rule to follow. If it really looks imitation and it looks really cheap, it probably is. Now, I will say this. I’m not a fan of buying counterfeit products because at the end of the day, we’re helping feed the machine that makes us hard on everybody else. On the same token, you know what? If you’ve got a vehicle, you’re trying to sell it, you need a rearview mirror for it, and you go out and you find something that looks like it would work, and it may not be exact, but you can get it on the vehicle and get the thing sold and down the road. You know what, Jerry? At that point in time, to each his own, I guess. I mean, they’re going to get bought and sold. But I think when it’s you and your vehicle and you’re trying to keep your quality up as much as you can, yeah, buy the good stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. Sure.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you very much, Jerry.
SPEAKER 20 :
Big it is. So Eric, hang tight. Roy Dietze from Pro-Tech Auto Shield with me. I’ve got a few questions for them today as well. Some of you out there listening might as well when it comes to paint protection film. It could be, you know, paintless dent removal, window tint, you name it. Give us a call. Ceramic coating, that’s another big deal, which just as a side note, I had somebody email me the other day and say, is that stuff you talk about with Pro-Tech really that good? I’m like, yeah. It is. And it’s so good in so many areas. I’ll talk about that as soon as we come back. But there’s so many benefits to it, I can’t stress enough that, yes, in fact, it does work. So we’ll be right back. Again, Roy Dietze with us from ProTech AutoShield. This is Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 15 :
I took my troubles down to Madam Ruth. You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth. She’s got a path on 34th and Vine. Selling little bottles of love potion number nine.
SPEAKER 20 :
All right, there we go. Some more good music that Charlie’s sprinkling in today. By the way, because of some of you guys requesting that, so thank you. Eric, go ahead, sir. How are you this morning?
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, good morning, guys. So, follow-up to last week, and I haven’t had a chance. I’ve been dealing with some family emergencies.
SPEAKER 20 :
Hey, nobody knows that better than me. Fully understand.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, my wife just got put into long-term care. Oh, I’m sorry, Eric. That’s too bad. So, this came out of the blue. She was rehabbing for a back injury. I’m sorry. And her rehabbing, unfortunately, she started regressing. And the insurance that was covering it came back and said, we’re not paying any more. So, yeah. Wow. And, of course, now with the government shutdown, trying to get her on Medicaid and SSDI and all that good stuff, and fortunately the nursing home that she’s at, they’re like, we got you covered. We will help you with everything. So, anyhow. Wow. I’m sorry to hear that. That’s not good.
SPEAKER 20 :
I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. In fact, you and I had a discussion back in April about some other stuff, and this really kind of has been the last nail in the coffin. I’m sorry. So, but anyhow, so I was trying to find this passenger side wiper for my wife’s, for her little Buick. And the one that I got from Amazon, it’s supposed to be the correct one. The mounting piece was the wrong one. Right. And even the alternates that came with it weren’t right. And I went to O’Reilly’s, went to AutoZone, or Advance, and the guy’s like, and AutoZone, the guy’s like, yeah, this, something’s not right here. This doesn’t make sense. And I went to three different dealers. and either they didn’t have it in stock or the factory one was wrong. And I went over to Napa, and I spent about an hour there, and the kid at the counter, I showed him what I had, and he went and looked it up, and he goes, I’m showing, including our house brand, six different wipers that could potentially work. And I go, potentially. And he goes, potentially. And they went and pulled all six of them for the pasture side, brought them up, Four of the six have the exact same mounting head that I currently had and obviously weren’t going to work. And he says that makes zero sense. Well, then what we found out is Bosch has their Icon, and then they have their Evolution brand. Well, apparently the Evolution brand now carries the adapter that the Icon used to carry, which makes no sense. Because they went and brought the Evolution brand up, and it comes with five adapters. instead of two or three. And he says, let’s look at this. So we started messing around with it and we went out and tried it and it fit. And he started laughing. He says, you know, he says, I told him, I said, number one, I said, I’m grateful that you guys had the correct one. And I ended up buying three spares from him. Okay, good. So that we have them for the future if we need them.
SPEAKER 20 :
Good, good, good.
SPEAKER 05 :
But he says, that is, and I said, I was saying about how weird it is. And then he was telling me, he says, it doesn’t surprise me anymore. He says, because, you know, there’s other vehicles. He says that, you know, there’s some older vehicles. He says, I’ve got an old C10 Chevy. He says that it shows one wiper, but that’s the wiper it shows. He says it’s wrong. He says, I have to get a different one. He says, because they just don’t match up. He says it’s, you know, he says it’s weird. And I actually, I emailed Bosch Pictures the other day, and the response I got back was there was a redesign, and, yes, they were, they should update their system. to show a change to it, because I told them, I said, the adapter doesn’t even fit. I said, I couldn’t even take and pull the adapter off the other one, the old one, and put it on the new one, because it wouldn’t work. Right. And they said, yeah, because they’re completely different. Right, right, right. It’s completely different. So, yeah, that was just the weirdest thing.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, I’m glad you found what you needed and bought extras. Good for you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. So, cause we’re, like I said, if we don’t know how long she’s going to, if she, this is going to be a permanent deal that she’s going to be in rehab or if this is going to be a three to six month type thing. Cause as some of these changes, we may have to sell our house and consider like a senior living, like, like a, like a 55 plus type community or something. And so I don’t know what’s going to happen here. If I’m going to end up selling both vehicles and getting something different or like,
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, you added value to the Buick by doing that, so you’re in good shape, so you’ll be fine there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, unfortunately, you know, for whatever reason, this car has not held its values super well. And the thing that’s funny is both TransWest and AutoNation, the guy was talking, we were looking at it, it’s amazing the number of items. I mean, Buick discontinued the car in 17, and they are rapidly phasing out stuff. Yep. Yep. It’s really surprising because I know the AC compressor has been superseded now six times. Wow. Wow. Because the car is a 13. We bought it in 14. It only had 100 and some miles on it, and the compressor went out immediately. And when they replaced the compressor, they even told me, they said, well, they ordered in a compressor. It was the wrong one. They had to order in a different one, and they said, yeah, it’s been superseded. Well, then here last August, a year ago, it went out. And the shop that did the work, the guy told me then, he goes, I said, why is this compressor so expensive? It was $1,000 for the compressor. And I says, what’s the deal? And he says, this compressor has been superseded. Now, this is the sixth one on it, he says, and each time it has gone up in price. Wow. Wow. Well… You know? Yeah. And I said, does it cross to other vehicles so we know for in the future? And he goes, yes and no. He says, the 2.4 that’s in here, he says, is Ecotech. He says, is a common across, you know, the whole GM lineup. Right. He says, but each GM vehicle that has it, he says, several of them used a different compressor depending on the vehicle. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. So, yeah. Anyhow. So, yeah, like I said, Napa was able to help me. I was greatly appreciative that the guy took the time. That’s awesome. I appreciate a good mystery. Yeah. When I showed him everything, he looked at me, and one of the other guys that was standing there overheard us, and he looked at it, too, and he goes, okay, that’s weird. And I go, thank you. And then when they brought what they had in back up, We were all kind of stumped by that, too.
SPEAKER 20 :
That’s awesome. I’m glad to hear that. That’s good, Eric. Appreciate that very much.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that’s why I hadn’t gotten back to you.
SPEAKER 20 :
I feel bad for your wife. I’m sorry to hear that, sir.
SPEAKER 05 :
So anyhow, that’s where we’re at. Thank you anyway. You bet, Eric.
SPEAKER 20 :
Hang in there. And on that, let me know how things go. And yeah, that’s never good to hear. So anyways, all right. Dietze Roy from ProTech Auto Shield. We’ve got a couple minutes here before we actually go to break. And ceramic coating, I talked about that a moment ago, and I’ll give you guys all an example. So most of my vehicles, not all, have been done by them. We slowly progress, and part of my problem is I buy and sell and dink around with cars. So I’ve got, of course, my Silverado has all been done, and it’s black, and it’s been ceramic coated and so on. And I tell you what, it makes things so much easier to take care of. I’ve got a new… Ram, some of you know I got a new Mega Cab Ram with a new diesel engine. I’ll talk about that in the future as I get more miles on it and drive it and so on. But it’s white. And I will tell you right now that the black ceramic-coated vehicle is easier to take care of than the white non-ceramic-coated vehicle. And usually white is the easiest to care for. Black is the hardest. But that just shows you what the ceramic coating does. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
It makes everything easier, the washing, the care, even the drying of the vehicle once you wash it. I mean, it’s night and day.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and then we PPF the whole front.
SPEAKER 20 :
The front, the nose.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so it’s easier to wash.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think I’m going to have the tailgate done now for some of you listening. You can PPF pretty much everything on the vehicle now. So pick your poison, and you can PPF it. So we’ll talk more about that as we go through the show. Let me see if I can squeeze this in. If not, Sandra, I’ll carry you over the top of the hour. But, Sandra, let’s get started. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, John, I have this carjacking incident I need to share with you and your awesome listening audience. Sure. I have a friend. She was going from Loveland south on I-25 toward Denver. Okay. And she’s driving along. This truck, all of a sudden, a lot of stuff fell out of this truck in front of her. They stopped in the middle of I-25. She gets out to see what’s going on. She gets back in her car and was wanting to get off of the road because it’s dangerous. Right. Well, as she got back in her car, in the meantime, another truck drove behind her, and somebody in that truck got out, pushed her out of the car on the other side, on the passenger side, pushed her out on I-25, and they stole her car.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.
SPEAKER 14 :
No. No. No.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, my word.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. I’ve been meaning to call you for a couple of months. I go, I know it’s Fix-It Radio, but it’s something everybody needs to know.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, no, then this driver, no, this is the perfect time to do that. I was not aware of that. Oh, my word.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
So they literally came up behind her, pushed her out, stole her car, and she’s on the highway.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, my word.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct. On I-25, yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
Did she get the car back? What’s the rest of the story?
SPEAKER 14 :
Never got the car back. They took off. They left the stuff in the road. The guy that his stuff dumped in front of her car, he left. The other guy just left in her Subaru. It’s all gone. Okay, so here’s another dumb question.
SPEAKER 20 :
I’ve only got like 20 seconds until top of the hour. Do you think the stuff falling off in the middle of the road was part of a setup for all of this?
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. Good to know. That’s a learning lesson. I’ll talk more about that this next hour. Sandra, thank you for that. I had never heard of that. That’s a new one on me.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
So, thank you. No, thank you, Sandra. Nope, thank you very much. I’ll talk about that next hour. Guys, we’ll come back. A couple more hours coming your way. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 13 :
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