HR2 Encore Presentation of December 20, 2025 (1-3-26) by John Rush
SPEAKER 08 :
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. Watch this. 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. Whoa!
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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 04 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Mark Guernsey, accountable up in Broomfield. Josh Goff, Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline in Boulder as well. And Jeff in Western Montana, you’re first this hour. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, good morning again. Sounds like I’m talking to half of the evangelists, John and Mark.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. You are.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Joshua from the Old Testament. Yeah, I just took down the walls of Jericho. Yeah, there we go. Exactly. So we got it all.
SPEAKER 11 :
There you go. Well, Joshua was the actual Hebrew name of Jesus.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. You’re correct. Yeshua.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. So anyway, I was talking to Larry. I wanted to make sure this was going to be appropriate because I didn’t want to, you know, say something and go, no, we can’t do that. But Montana has a… If you have a vehicle that’s over 15 years old in Montana, you can register it permanently. You get permanent plates. It goes on, it’s a one and done, and you never have to pay anything again. And, you know, that’s something that I would be willing to help people out, particularly if they have collector vehicles, like earlier Collar was talking about, and not being able to, you know, have to pay registration fees every year on something you’re not driving. So I just… I’ll let you apply that as you see fit, but I gave Larry my number, and if anybody wants to do that, I’d be willing to help out a fellow listener.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, number one, that is so kind of you, Jeff, to offer that. So for those of you listening, if you find yourself in a predicament, please reach out and we’ll put you guys together. I’ve got Jeff’s number now, so I can facilitate that. And, Jeff, that’s extremely, extremely kind of you to – to do that. And I mean that sincerely, cause you know, that’ll take a little bit of work on your part. And again, those of you listening, make sure you compensate Jeff for his time to do whatever is needed and so on. But Jeff, you, you and them can figure that out at the time, but just the offer alone is huge. Jeff, it really is.
SPEAKER 11 :
I charge a dollar a minute. Well, that’s very kind of you. Well, thanks. It just, uh, You know, there’s folks with million dollar motor homes who are driving around Arizona with four on their license plate and four happens to be the county number for Missoula. Up here in Lake County, it’s 15. But yeah, we have four vehicles that we drive plus a side-by-side and three of the four vehicles have permanent registration. They’re over 15 years old and so does a side-by-side because it’s a recreational vehicle and so It’s one less thing I have to worry about and one less constraint on my pocketbook. So happy to help out anybody who needs it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice, nice. Jeff, again, appreciate it very much. That’s super kind of you.
SPEAKER 11 :
You bet. Merry Christmas, guys.
SPEAKER 04 :
Merry Christmas to you, too, Jeff. I appreciate that. Dave in Nebraska, you are next. Go ahead, Dave.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I was just going on a road trip. I can hear that. It sounds windy there. Yeah, a little bit windy. I just had a question. Usually when I go on a long road trip, because I know I’m going to be at highway speeds, I like to throw in some Tecron to just run it clean because I know it’s going to be running quickly and I don’t have to worry about it just sitting in the tank. But as I was driving, I was wondering, am I wasting the money doing that as opposed to maybe just once a month throwing in like half a tank or a tank of premium? Because the cost difference between adding that Tecron can run anywhere from $8 to $12 depending on where you buy it from and if it’s on sale.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
That’s a tough call.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me back up. What vehicle? Let’s start there.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, we’re actually wearing my girlfriend’s Subaru right now, but usually I’ll do it in my Genesis or when I have my truck running, I do it in my pickup truck. You know, I’d throw some check around, but I was just wondering, you know.
SPEAKER 04 :
My gut feeling, and this is me personally, if you like even just once a month did a tank a premium, I don’t think you’d need to do anything else. That’s what I would do. And less hassle.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, that’s what I was wondering, too, because, I mean, it’s like one of those things where, you know, the extra cost of that check around, I’m like, that’s not even the cost of adding. you know, a tank of premium, because a tank of premium right now would only run me like another 30, 40 cents a gallon.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I doubt that I would be spending that amount, and I’d probably be better off. All right, cool. And I was just wondering about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great question, by the way, because I think a lot of folks think, you know, look at that the same way. And, yeah, I would be one where, for a lot of you listening, yeah, just run a tank of premium, you know, periodically. You don’t have to do it, you know, every other tank or anything like that. But if you just, you know, once a month say, hey, I’m going to run a tank of premium, yes, you’d be fine.
SPEAKER 19 :
And just a question out of curiosity, I heard this thing here recently, saw a couple videos that was coming up in my feed. What’s going on with GM 6.2 engines that are in the Escalades? They’re grenading themselves, they’re dropping their valves?
SPEAKER 04 :
No rods. They have a rod problem.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, is that what’s going on?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, rod-bearing problems. It’s not a rod problem. I should say they have a rod-bearing problem in about 4% of all of the 6-2s that were produced. There is a class action lawsuit right now. GM has done a recall. They’re doing the recall year by year, working their way all the way up to 2024. If you’ve been affected by that, you know, if you’re in a 2024 unit, by the way, you’re going to get serviced after the 2022s, the 2023s, and so on. That’s how they’re doing it, Dave. And, yeah, it’s a big problem for GM, which, by the way, isn’t just a GM problem. Saturday on the program. It really is becoming a widespread problem among a lot of manufacturers, and my feeling on that, Dave, is because of the CAFE ratings the last administration put in at 50.4 miles to the gallon. Every manufacturer is trying to do everything they could to squeeze more out, meaning they did different tolerances, thinner oil, and so on, and it’s coming back to bite them.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, okay. This day and age, especially with the billion-dollar research facilities that GM, Ford, Chrysler have, that we should be having any kind of engine problems or transmission problems. Like a lot of it that they’re having now just surprising to me. And I was like, well, there’s gotta be something else going on there that they would have that problem. But okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. And again, that’s my feeling. And I don’t know that what I just said is really disputed much. In fact, there’s a lot of other folks out there that agree with me, even folks that are probably way smarter than I am when it comes to engine building and design and so on. This whole zero slash 20, for example, on the GM 6.2s, it’s just not a heavy enough oil engine. uh dave and so what they’ve done on the recall is they go in they do some testing they’ve got a particular program they’re using to figure out if the engine has any kind of noise in it whatsoever if they do it doesn’t pass the recall they put another engine in it and off you go if it’s quiet then they move to 040. wow okay well so it’s another uh instance of
SPEAKER 19 :
government wishlisting outpacing the technology.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. Yes. And then on top of that, too, what the article last week talked about, for all of you listening out a minute or two here, I can explain this again. Keep in mind, Dave, that not only is it the cafe sides of things where they’re trying to get as much fuel economy as they can, the engines themselves… are just producing far more horsepower than they ever did. I mean, you take that 6.2, it produces 420 horsepower, where, no joke, 20 years ago, you were lucky to get 300 horsepower. So, I mean, when I was a kid, if you had a 400 horsepower anything, You had a really healthy vehicle to drive. You can buy one. Again, you can buy a truck with 420 now. It’s just unheard of back in the day, Dave. And then what they rev at now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct. I mean, we have that kind of mass going up and down. It has to change course. Correct. We never had a motorcar like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, Dave, I think you take all of those factors, and then you have the manufacturers having to get the cafe rating up as much as possible and running a thin oil to try to do that. I mean, keep in mind, for every little tenth of a mile to the gallon they can gain, that’s what they’re doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
And what I see is how much thinner the blocks are getting. You know, they’re trying to take every bit of metal out. Every pound counts.
SPEAKER 04 :
Weight costs fuel economy. It does.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, you know, again, government interference is missing with the free market. That’s right. You know, if you would just leave it to the marketplace, the consumer is going to decide what they want or what they don’t want.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 19 :
And if they want more fuel economy, if they want this, that, the other, they’ll get it. But I think it was what you were talking about with… On your last show with Polis and the rest of the government within Colorado, there’s a plan behind their madness. They’ve got a long-term plan of getting rid of anything that burns, any kind of fossil fuels, whether it’s a gas range in your house or your pickup truck you’re driving down the street. They want you to conform to their utopian view of the world. which doesn’t comport with reality as far as I’m concerned. But anyway, thanks again. I appreciate your time.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you bet, Dave. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Time for a break. We’ll come right back. Lines open 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Mark, and Josh with me today. Terry in Nevada, you are next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Merry Christmas to you all. Thank you as well. The most important thing. I have a 94 Ranger four-wheel drive, and I’ve had trouble with the leaking outer axle seal on the rear end. I’ve replaced it, and it’s still leaking. Is there a secret way or a special way to install those? I believe it drives in all the way to where it rests against the bearing, the outer race of the bearing.
SPEAKER 03 :
And what does the axle shaft look like? So is there any grooves in the axle shaft on that side? No.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is out at the wheel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So the splines that go into the pumpkin go in very loosely through. the seal and the bearing and into the bearing at the differential and then it’s just a smooth shaft.
SPEAKER 04 :
at the wheel end yeah that’s got the c-clip style diff in it if i’m not mistaken uh yes it’s very yeah and what what you have to watch for on those specifically is is there any wear on the axle itself meaning you know that’s where some of the slop can come because the axle itself is the race if you would that’s what the roller bearings ride on and is there a groove in the axle itself because there shouldn’t be no okay
SPEAKER 09 :
So if it has worn, then you just replace the axle.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they make a repair kit for that. There’s a kit that actually moves where it rides. The bearing is actually stepped. With a built-in seal. With a built-in seal, exactly. Yeah, and it’s actually stepped, so it changes where it rides.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you go buy one, you have to ask for the repair bearing kit for that particular axle housing. That’s what they call it. Okay. Okay. If that’s what, and I’m guessing that’s probably what’s happening.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s very common. Especially if you replace the seal once and it’s leaking again, that’s about 99% of the time. Very common. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Well, thank you. Okay. That’s appreciated very much, and enjoy your show. Quick question. Yes. Did Dorsey retire from Arvada Western?
SPEAKER 04 :
He didn’t retire, and I don’t think there’s any reason I can’t say this. Dorsey’s having some health issues as he gets towards the latter years of his life, if you would, a lot like what my dad had. You hear me talk about my dad a lot who passed recently. So Dorsey is going through some of the same things that dad went through. And so if you want to reach out and say hi or pray for him or whatever you can do, Terry, they would very much appreciate that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. Well, I certainly enjoyed him on your show. and that’s where I take my vehicles when I can’t do it myself.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great man. I’ve learned so much from him over the years. He’s a great guy, Terry, absolutely. Wonderful.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you, and hang in there, and enjoy your weekend.
SPEAKER 04 :
We will, Terry. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And, folks, on that differential really quick, just to throw some history in. That was a GM origination, by the way, from the old 10-bolt days that they started. All the way back, I want to say 1967 or 8 was the first 10-bolts. Is that right? Camaros and some of the cars had that differential, and then it moved into pickups and so on, and they have used that differential, or they did use that differential for a long, long time. C-clip differential. Other companies started realizing that, you know, all in all, it’s a pretty strong unit when it’s all said and done. It’s got good longevity. It’s inexpensive to manufacture. We can save some money by utilizing that particular differential. And a lot of other companies followed suit, i.e. Ford. And there are others that did the same thing. It’s called the C-Clip differential. uh, style differential. And a lot of folks, you know, a lot of manufacturers use that differential for a lot of years. So that what, what I just said is, is just coming from experience because I mean, back when I was doing all the stuff we were doing on, on trucks and everything in our shops, oh man, I mean, I would, I’m not exaggerating. You did one of those a week.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
I used to keep a repair bearing on the shelf because we would do that many of them back in the day. Cause it was very, very common to have those do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and all the crown vicks and all that. All of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very, very common. So, yeah, any time you have a C-clip differential, for those of you that are working on stuff yourself and even some of you guys that are in shops, some of you technicians, some of you young guys that maybe not have seen this before, any time you’ve got to pull the center pin. push the axle in, then pull the C-clip out, and then pull the axle out, you need to be looking for the things we just talked to Terry about, because the axle surface itself is the race of the bearing. And they hardened the axle, although if you think about it, they can only harden it so much, and it wasn’t near as hard as what a regular race would be. And so in turn, over time, it would groove the axle, it would run through that hardening of the axle itself, and it would start to grind down into the into the axle and to put a big old groove and i’ve seen some of them where it’s like hell in the world is this thing even running but but it was and then if you’re too bad i mean if you got too big of a groove you got to go buy an axle then to put an axle in it but typically you can put a repair bearing in it and off you go yeah that was a great way to save some money instead of buying a whole new
SPEAKER 03 :
And before those existed, you had to buy an axle. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because repair bearings didn’t come along until later. No. Somebody finally had an idea of, oh, I think we can fix this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And they did.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was a genius idea because all it does is offset it just a little bit. That’s all it does.
SPEAKER 03 :
The part it hasn’t been running on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Moves it about a half an inch.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s all. I mean, it’s not moving it much. Half an inch to an inch, maybe three quarters of an inch, maybe. I’d have to measure it, but I don’t know, somewhere in that neighborhood. And all it did was move it out farther. So it brought it closer to the end of the hub. It’s where the bearing surface would then ride, which actually made it a little stronger. The repair bearings are actually stronger than the original factory bearings are, and the seal and everything is all built in.
SPEAKER 03 :
And a little trick I do is I usually take a little emery cloth and run over that rough area on it so when you slide the new one in, you’re not…
SPEAKER 04 :
taking it out absolutely absolutely so again those of you that do any kind of work on your own on the rear axle if it’s a c-clip type differential uh that’s how those worked and i can’t tell you over the years how many of those i did i mean i even used to cheat so i probably should admit this i on a c-clip differential i never took the wheels off yeah that’s it I never did. The wheel stayed on the hub because I cheated. I pulled it all off in one chunk because you could. And if I didn’t have to take five or six, in the case of a truck on a GM, it was six lug nuts. If I didn’t have to take six lug nuts off, then it made the job even that much faster. So, yeah. So, giving you some of my cheats back in the day. But that’s what you do because you don’t need to pull the wheel to actually do what I just said. So, anyways. All right, let’s do this. We’ll take a break. Got another hour and a half of the show left. We’ve got a review coming up right now, a new car review we just did, about six minutes or so. So we’ll be back right after that. Stay tuned. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. And we are back. And it’s myself, Richard Rush. And this time of the week, we do our car reviews for here and Drive Radio, both because we replay these on Drive Radio. Richard, what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Dad, so actually currently driving a 2026 Mazda CX-70, and this is the Turbo S Premium Plus Edition. You can get this vehicle, Dad, from I think kind of the high 30s, low 40s, all the way to the high 50s, which is what we’re driving. We’re kind of driving the top of the line. This is not the plug-in hybrid version, which they do have one of those. This is just your traditional turbocharged. It’s got 340 horsepower. 369 pound feet of torque however dad this has a feature on it called the m hybrid boost and what that is is it basically pairs the gasoline engine with a 48 volt electric assist really and i know what you know where i’m going to go with this which is it kind of helps with acceleration it helps smooth the start stop um you know features of the vehicle those sorts of things it’s not I wouldn’t even call it a hybrid vehicle by any means because it’s really not using that engine or that motor, I should say, for anything much more than just kind of helping with acceleration and things like that. One thing I will notice, I did not know that that was on this vehicle to start. And so driving it, there is a little bit of getting used to when you’re accelerating. And because that system does help you take off faster, however, because it’s not a large hybrid system or a full plug-in hybrid system, it helps you a little bit, but it does take a little bit for that turbo to ramp up. And so in my case, getting onto a highway or turning on from a stop sign, turning into traffic, it does take a little bit of getting used to nothing. That’s crazy. Nothing that, you know, it’s not like a massive amount of your safety issues or anything of that nature, but it is something that it did take a little bit of getting used to for me outside of that. What’s new on 2026. Cause they actually introduced this model dad for 2025. And it is identical to the Mazda CX 90 and, with the exception of this is a two-row SUV. So as a result, you don’t have the third row, not necessarily a big deal, which means you have a lot of cargo room, right, behind the second row seating. I can fit two booster seats in the car. For those with kids, it’s really spacious. As we’ve talked about with Mazda’s dad pretty frequently, it’s got a lot of nice soft-touch materials on the inside. The buttons and the feels makes this feel like a luxury SUV with not quite the same price tag as other luxury SUVs. It now has standard gloss black emblems. It’s got a lot of standard features like heated and ventilated front seats. and leather on base trims it’s got a different towing mode there’s some different plug-in hybrid models or additions that that you can kind of go get a little bit more information about ultimately dad though i really enjoy driving this car do i think that it could fit a family i do and depending on what you’re looking for um it’s a little bit again it’s on the larger side of what i would say is two row suvs um and what i mean by that folks is this segment is kind of like a I don’t want to call them compact SUVs, but midsize SUVs, right, Dad? That’s probably the right way of saying this. It’s definitely in competition there, but with it not having a third row, again, it makes up for by having the cargo room. Fuel economy, 23 and 28, Dad, for an average of 25 miles per gallon. And, again, I would say head out and check this vehicle out because you may be surprised that you’ve probably seen these things driving down the road and you don’t know kind of what they are, what they look like. And, Dad, you and I have talked about this. Mazda has really improved over the years with a lot of their features, their standard features, and even their performance.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Mazda’s got a vehicle across their lineup whereby, and we know an individual, Dan, who used to be here with us, drives for Uber and Lyft up in the now Minneapolis area, and he loves his Mazda. I mean, he puts a hundred… hundreds of thousands of miles on these things richard they are flawless he believes solely in them and they work well and their price point is where i was going to start at if you look at this vehicle even starting at the 42 000 mark yes they can get up into the mid 50s but reality is mazda does a really great job of delivering a lot of creature comforts performance and so on at a really nice price and i mean that sincerely richard they really do a good job of that
SPEAKER 07 :
No, they do, and you’re 100% correct, Dad, and that’s something that can’t be missed, and I think that, I’ll be honest, Dad, a lot of folks, when you pull up in this car, they’re like, what is that? Again, it’s a Mazda, and I think when you see the inside, if you didn’t see the emblem on it, Dad, you probably wouldn’t have any idea. Like I said, there’s lots of soft touch luxury type materials on this vehicle. And on all, not even only this vehicle, dad, right across their lineup, where I think people would really be pleasantly surprised to know that. And like you say, for the price point, what this vehicle is competing against, Again, where you can have a really good price range of kind of where you can go, I would encourage folks to check this out. I think they would be, I know we keep saying it, pleasantly surprised at what they find.
SPEAKER 04 :
And really quick, I’ve got to add this really quick because Mazda will love this because they listen to these reviews as well. He’s got a little bit of an older Mazda, has to be older or he wouldn’t have this many miles on it. He’s at about 460,000 miles. So when I say these things will run the distance, Richard, I mean they will run the distance. So about 460,000 miles. 460,000 miles right now. Keep in mind that when he texted me this, hang on, I got to double check this. When he texted me that, that was back in July. So he’s probably pushing the 480 to 490 mark on that particular car. So you know what? You can’t argue that when it works extremely well.
SPEAKER 07 :
I was going to say he’s pretty close to probably eclipsing the half a million mark, which is exceptional for a vehicle these days. I know you can speak to that with a lot of the other, obviously your other jobs and such that you do. And so again, folks, So keep this in mind, whether you’re going out for a new car this year, Dad, or, again, in the future, we highly encourage you to listen to these reviews, again, not for now, but also for the future. Again, 2026 Mazda CX-70 at your local Mazda dealer. Check it out. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Drive radio, KLZ 560. Robert, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hi, how are you doing today? Good, Robert. So I’ve got a 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid with the 1.6. Okay. So I’m trying to decide if you’re supposed to warm it up during the winter. I mean, that’s what I’ve always done in normal cars. I’ve never had a hybrid before. I’ve been trying to look through owner’s manuals almost crazy. I’m looking for anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m one of those that still believes that you need to warm a car up for just a little bit. I mean, not 15, 20 minutes, but I’m one if it’s really cold. When I mean cold, we get 15 degrees or below. Anything above that, not a huge issue. Get in it, fire it up, and drive. Yeah, I think you ought to let the car warm up for two or three minutes before you start off in it. That’s my thought. You don’t need to do much more than that, Robert, but I think just let the fluids flow and kind of get things going. And I know there’s a lot of folks out there that differ with me on this, and I’ve had this debate on this program many, many times, even with the experts at AAA and so on, which I use experts loosely when I talk about AAA. But at the end of the day, Robert, I am one that thinks you need to let it warm up for two or three minutes.
SPEAKER 10 :
So being a hybrid, does it run off the electric to begin with?
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s a good question.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because some of the hybrids, so if you turn the heat all the way on and all that, sometimes they’ll start the ice, the internal combustion engine, and let it run. Some of them, they won’t even turn it on. They’re like, I don’t need to turn the ice on.
SPEAKER 04 :
I can get everything else warmed up without it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. So that’s the biggest question. On the newer ones, I’ve had some that they will not start up and then some that will start up and run. So that’s the hardest part is to keep it running.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I need to basically listen to it to see if I can hear the engine start up after then?
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. If not, then you’re going to just hop in it. I mean, to me, let the interior warm up some with the battery and stuff that they’ve got going on to where you’ve got a little bit more creature comfort, Robert. And if it’s got seed heaters and so on, let it do its thing and then head out.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, thank you very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
For me, Robert, it’s more of a comfort, not so much what I’m doing for the car.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s for me, not it. Get those seat heels on. I just want to make it last forever.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I’m blaming you. And I think, again, if you take care of it well, you’ll be okay there anyways.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re very welcome, Robert. Appreciate it. We don’t get enough super, super cold weather in Colorado, truthfully, to really have what we just said be an issue. You know, we get that one or two weeks of super cold. You’ll get a heavy cold snap. But other than that, you know, we don’t have much to worry about here in Colorado. Mike and Morrison, go ahead. In this front range area, I mean. Mike, go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi. I’ve got a Buick 2004 Buick LeSabre with a 3800 engine in it. And it started acting up the other day, and it obviously has got a coolant leak, and it’s got into the block. And I pulled the plugs and turned it over, and it was spitting out coolant. So I don’t know if it’s a head gasket or a… intake gasket but my main question is once that gets contaminated with antifreeze how is it practical to get that cleaned out and if it’s like a manifold gasket just replace the gasket
SPEAKER 03 :
And being a 3800, you’re probably in luck because those intake manifold gaskets went out all the time on those. Usually not the head gaskets. They were pretty stout motors. And usually you could just do an oil change, you know, get the rest of the coolant out of the block, you know, have a new intake manifold gasket put on there and pressure test it after that. You know, that’s the only way. It’s hard to be able to tell the condition of the cylinder head gasket sometimes when the manifold gasket’s leaking. And usually that motor just keeps running after that. That’s…
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I did do a compression check on the three front cylinders, and it seems like it’s got good compression. Of course, it’s full of fluid. So the antifreeze, you think it will work its way out with an oil change?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you’re going to have to drain the oil on that, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, okay, all right. Second question, I just by chance have a… Same engine out of a 95.
SPEAKER 04 :
One real quick thing, too, Mike, to mention. This is for a lot of other folks that are listening as well because this is a factor when you go to do the recycling of the oil because if it’s got a bunch of water in it, they won’t take it. It’s a little difficult, but try to use two pans. You’re going to have water coming out first because you’ll have the coolant on the bottom because the oil is floating on top. Try to put the coolant in a separate pan first. and dispose of it because if they find there’s water in the oil, a lot of the recyclers won’t take that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
So try to take the water out of the oil first.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, okay, good.
SPEAKER 04 :
If there’s that much in it, which from the sounds of it, there probably is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s pretty contaminated.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sorry, I just wanted to throw that in there just so you can get rid of the oil that way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Got it. That other engine I’ve got is out of a 95 Buick. Are those blocks the same?
SPEAKER 03 :
Probably not.
SPEAKER 04 :
95 to 04, probably not.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re not interchangeable.
SPEAKER 03 :
I wouldn’t think so. Usually you can have a run maybe within the same years, but they made a lot of changes to that motor. Brackets, all sorts of stuff. Everything, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and that older one has got a… Supercharger on it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, no. It’s definitely not the same. It’s not, no.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that was a good engine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, my friend.
SPEAKER 08 :
I appreciate the information.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re very welcome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
You betcha, Mike. No, appreciate it. Yeah, and for a lot of you listening on the oil thing, I don’t know if it’s something we’ve really ever… mentioned or gotten into but you know a lot of folks that take recycled oil the shops that josh and and uh you know mark that are both sitting here if it’s got oil contamination in it it makes it really difficult for them to take that oil and recycle it you know it’s hard for you guys to even run that in your oil burners and so on uh heaters i should say it’s just really difficult so any of you that are in that where you’re doing some stuff at home and you know there’s water uh you know coolant contamination in the oil get the uh get that separated out as much as you can because otherwise it’s hard to get rid of so because they will test for that.
SPEAKER 05 :
We keep an extra barrel around. We’ll dump it in there, let it sit for about a week, and then try to separate the water from the bottom.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 05 :
It will separate. It just takes a minute.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Guys, we’ll come back. Don’t go anywhere. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560 and text messages. Question of the day, by the way, answers to text messages. There’s been several, how should I say, debacles industry-wide, manufacturers and so on. Top automotive failures is our question of the day. And somebody mentioned the H1, the civilian version of the H1. Yeah. I don’t know. They actually didn’t sell all that bad, and today they’re worth far more money than you paid for them back then. I mean, substantially more money than you paid for them back then. If you can even find a good clean one today, they’re bringing, in some cases, $100,000 or more.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and for how much they cost new, they sold awfully well back then.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so I don’t know that I would consider the – and maybe I’m not following you on the H1 end of things. Maybe I’m not looking at that text message right. But, yeah, I don’t think the H1 was all that big of a deal. It was a niche. There’s no doubt about it. Okay, the next one is – Cadillac failure models often centered on the infamous Cimarron, rebadged Chevy Cavalier, and their North Star engines with the head gasket problems. Yeah. The North Star ran well, and when they worked – and you weren’t working on them, they were actually a beast. They were. They actually did pretty well on the Cadillac end of things. The key there was getting them to the point where they were reliable and they continued to run. Correct? Correct. Because they were hard to work on. That was the other issue that they had.
SPEAKER 03 :
They were real hard to work on. Because they were crammed in there. Even the water pump was crammed. hard to work on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you needed special tools and a whole lot of time to trade those out.
SPEAKER 03 :
The head bolts would pull out of the block. We always had to do time certs in the block. Yep. It was a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, at any rate. The funny thing about it, those are still some vehicles that if you can find them, they’re actually bringing decent money if you can find one that’s clean.
SPEAKER 03 :
And when that motor came out, that was a technological leap. It really was. It was.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, it was huge. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
And one of the first to use all aluminum.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Almost every engine uses now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very good point, Mark. Miller, you are next. Go ahead. Are you there, Miller? Noah? Oh, sorry, it’s Noah. Noah, okay, sorry. I had Miller on, but I’ll change it. Go ahead, Noah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, I was wondering about the Kia Stinger, whether it’s a good car to buy or not. On the used market, they go from anywhere from 19k to 20k, or, well, 25k and up. New, they’re like 60k.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it’s a pretty good car. You’re just going to see who owned it before you. Yeah, thank you, Josh. They were a nice performance car. They were fun. Performance sedan. I’ve seen the wrong guys who own the car before you, and you’re going to pay for it. So if you can find the right one at the right price… It’s being cared for.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s being cared for. Which there are some. I’ve got a listener that routinely listens that owns one that loves it. So, Noah, to Josh’s point, you find the right car. Yeah, I am not opposed to them at all. It’s not… It’s not a V8-sounding type car, so it’s not that. But performance-wise, yes, they work extremely well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I had a Ford Focus ST prior, and I don’t know, I just.
SPEAKER 03 :
kind of looking at maybe getting a nice car it would be a nice step up from the focus a little bit bigger you know but still kind of that same performance level i think a little bit better performance you know on it you know so if you have kids that’s a great car because you can still put the family in it and and still have something fun to drive Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
As far as a performance sedan goes, yeah, they work. Yeah, it’s great. They work great. And they’re still making them, right, new, Noah, I believe? Or did they stop?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think they just stopped.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, they just stopped.
SPEAKER 06 :
Just recently.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s not one I’ve followed up on and checked. I’ve driven one, by the way. I’ve done a test drive of one of those back in the day and enjoyed driving that car. So I think, though, let’s see, what was the last year for it? Well, hang on. I’m on Kia’s website. Give me a second here. Was it 2023 the last year for them? 2023 it looks like, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, 2023, no, it was the last year. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. But nothing wrong with them at all. No. In fact, to Josh’s point, though, you’re going to need to really Carfax it, which doesn’t show you everything, but it gives you at least some indication as to where things were registered, what part of the country they come out of. You can kind of even look at the mileage that’s been tallied up between registrations and so on to kind of see, you know, did somebody drive it a lot? Did somebody drive it a little? How many times did it go through people’s hands and so on? And did it go through an auction? All those sorts of things.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s what’s great about Carfax is you can see if it was maintained and not in for repairs all the time too. So you want a lot of Carfax notes on there, but you want to see oil changes or maintenance. You don’t want to see a new turbo or new cams or stuff like that. So that’s why I like to see what’s on Carfax. And again, not everything makes it on Carfax.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no. If you do your own oil changes, Noah, or even some shops, some register back with Carfax, some don’t, depending upon the software system, the point-of-sale system that they’re using. So for everybody on the Carfax end of things, we’ve talked about this before. It’s not the Bible. I mean, it’s a good indicator. It’s kind of cliff notes on the car, but it’s not every single thing in some cases. Some cases it is, but in a lot of cases, it’s not every single thing that’s been done to the car.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Yeah. And that one you’re not going to have a choice. Yeah, although Kia does have a 100,000-mile warranty on them, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. The biggest thing on that one, again, checking. Great questions, by the way. This applies to everybody listening when it comes to used cars, and Josh knows this. That’s, again, where the Carfax comes into play because you’ve got to look at making sure that there’s been no other, for example, if it’s had a major accident. Mm-hmm. and there’s been a payoff from the insurance company, sometimes Kia will void the rest of that warranty, for example. And that’s true with a lot of the manufacturers. So that’s where, on all these, you’ve really got to look at who’s owned it before and what’s happened to the car.
SPEAKER 03 :
And to maintain the warranty, you’ve had to do the maintenance on it.
SPEAKER 04 :
If there’s huge gaps of oil changes and so on, and you can’t prove they’ve been done, you may or may not have a 100,000-mile warranty.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. That’s good to know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they can get really picky. You get a car that’s been through three or four hands. And by the way, a 2021, 2022 car could have, depending upon where it’s gone, especially that type of car, because a lot of times this is what happens on those cars. I got a minute here to do this. So a lot of times on that car. What will happen is you get a guy that’s got a family, and he shows up at the dealership wanting to buy the family truckster but sees that car. Somehow convinces the wife, we’re going to buy that car. And they start stuffing car seats and all this stuff into it and realize after about three months that, yeah, this isn’t working. So then that car gets sold, traded back in or whatever, and then, no offense, another knucklehead can do the same thing. And pretty soon you’ve rotated through three or four different owners on that car, and it’s only a couple of years old. And what I just said happens on that type of car.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, yeah. I’m looking at one in Utah that’s 19K, but it says that it’s only had one owner, according to the dealership that’s selling it. And it only has 63,000 miles on it. Hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s got potential.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
But the location is definitely a huge factor. We’ve seen a lot of newer cars come out of the East Coast and Midwest that are just corroded, rusted through, and you’ve got to be careful it didn’t come from one of those states where they just get a lot of salt.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I don’t know where it was bought. I haven’t ran the Carfax on it, but it’s certainly a potential. I haven’t found any other… Kia, though, with that few miles for that cheap, either. So…
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and for me personally on that, and this is just me, everybody else out there listening could look at this differently, but for me personally on that type of car, I wouldn’t buy one with 60,000 miles. That to me is too high miles on that car. Now, that’s me. Some others might be thinking, no, I’m okay with that. Personally, given that’s a performance type car, I want to buy that car with 30,000 or less. I want to buy a 2022, 2023 with 30,000 or less, Noah. And Josh over here is nodding and agreeing with me. I agree with you on that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, well, that’s really helpful for me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And again, as always, like we even told Becky earlier, you find something, you want a second opinion on it or whatever, please send it to me, let me know, and I’ll help you out. I’d be happy to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Well, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re welcome, Noah. You bet. Have a good one. Yeah, and folks, that’s a different example of a car than what we would, you know, a regular sedan, 60,000 miles, knock your socks off. I don’t care, but not that car because it’s just a different car. And if you don’t know what a stinger is, go look it up. They’re super fast. It’s a super fun car to drive. Again, I’ve driven one before. Now, with that being said, that’s the problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that’s true of any performance vehicle. Yeah. How has it been driven? How has it been taken care of? Because it changes everything.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are exactly right, Mark. So, again, in what we were just talking about a moment ago when it comes to Carfax and all of that, no, it’s not the Bible because a lot of things can slip through the cracks when it comes to Carfax. For example, if you’ve got a relationship with – With a good body shop, and you get a little fender bender, and you don’t want to run it through insurance, and you want to go ahead and get that fixed, that may or may not make it to Carfax. In some cases, it probably won’t make it to Carfax, yet the car’s still been in a minor accident and been repaired. Again, as long as it’s all fixed okay, I’m not opposed to that, but that’s not going to make it to Carfax. What I’m giving you is an example of that’s a situation where you’re not going to see that on a Carfax report, yet the car’s still been fixed. Meaning… Last but not least, and I should have said this to Noah, pre-purchase inspection.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not post-purchase. Pre-purchase inspection. And if the car is out of state, that’s where it becomes more difficult because now you’ve got to figure out who in that area can give me a good, solid pre-purchase because, no, I don’t want the dealer that’s selling it doing the pre-purchase. I want an independent person, third-party person, coming into play that’s going to inspect the car for me to make sure that everything that I’m buying is as it’s supposed to be.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that means you’re going to spend some time on the phone because you need to call all the top shops, and you’ll know once you find that shop because they’ll explain what they do on the pre-purchase inspection and let you, you know, you’ll have a good feeling. And you’ll call other ones, and they’ll just give you a price.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. So for those of you listening, if you get any questions along those lines ever, and I get some of you that do this, you’ll send me even a link to a car, and sometimes within five seconds I can fire back, yeah, no, run. Sometimes I’ll say, okay, yeah, let’s take a little bit closer look at this car. So always willing to help you on that. Another full hour coming your way. Myself, Mark Gerns, the Accountable Automotive up in Broomfield, and, of course, Josh from Legacy up in Boulder and Ridgeline Auto Brokers. We’ll all three be back in a moment. Don’t go anywhere. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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