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All right, Drive Radio, KLZ 560, thank you all for joining us today. We appreciate it very much. It is December the 7th, so if you’re listening to a replay show, you know what day it is. So it’s Pearl Harbor Day as well, and I talked about that during Fix It Radio. We’ve got a full house today, so if you guys have questions for us, by all means, give us a call. 303-477-5600. Going around the table, Josh Goff.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 22 :
Good to see you in Ridgeline. How are you?
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m good. How are you doing?
SPEAKER 22 :
Good. Always a joy to have you. And then going to my left, which you guys can’t see this on because we’re on radio, but Dietze from ProTech. Welcome.
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Thank you. How are you? Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 22 :
Always a joy to have you. Roy, welcome as well. Thank you, sir. Who else did you drag along with you? My daughter, Victoria. She’s going to observe and she’s going to start absorbing. We’re training her. We’re teaching. That’s right. We love having young people get into our industry and all of you listening. I think you can relate and understand that as well. A few things that I wanted to talk about today that we’ll get into that I had some questions on this week. Would I go ahead and talk about certain things? So, yes, some of you that asked those questions, I will get those answered. You can always text us as well, 307- 282.22. Question of the day. This might go with you guys here in studio today. What’s the best gift you ever received over the holidays? What’s the best gift you ever received over the holidays? That’s the question of the day. 303-477-5600. Now, I can probably today do this. If not, I’ll do it for sure next week. But maybe on top of that, for that hard-to-buy person in your life… What do you get them? And that one I may go ahead and carry from today to next week because we’re getting into Christmas and people need ideas on what to buy folks and so on. And one thing I had mentioned yesterday during Ready Radio was for guys like me, I’m sure you guys in the room are the same, the one thing you can always buy me that I will never, ever refuse is a good flashlight. In my opinion, can’t have enough of them. So if there’s ever an item somebody wants to get me, I’ll never refuse those. How about you, Josh?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, you always need a new flashlight, all the time.
SPEAKER 22 :
For what we do, you just, and now with them being LED and rechargeable and all of that, yeah, I’ll always take a flashlight. I’m a junkie for those, I guess.
SPEAKER 14 :
Like knives.
SPEAKER 22 :
Can you ever have enough knives? No. No, you can’t.
SPEAKER 14 :
Can’t have enough pocket knives. Knives, flashlights.
SPEAKER 22 :
Or flashlights. I don’t care. I can always use another one. So anyways, we’ll go around the room with some of that today as well. But no, let me know, really, question of the day. What’s the best gift you ever received over the holidays? Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Jerry, let’s start with you. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
A friend of mine has an old Prius that he was involved in a minor accident and just a little bit of body damage, but it was enough that his insurance company said it was totaled. And he wants to keep the vehicle, so he’s going to try to have the damage repaired and just keep driving it. But he’s confused about how to deal with the title. When he went to the state website, He said it wasn’t clear. He’s under the impression that he doesn’t necessarily have to have a salvage title on him. And I thought that once the vehicles totaled that that was a requirement, but I’m not sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
We have the expert here on that one. That’s Josh. So he’s going to buy it back from the insurance company.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
And so it will become a branded title. So it will say branded in some form as in salvage or rebuilt from salvage on the title. That’s what they’re going to do because he’s buying it back from them. And it’s been a total loss. So that’s the kind of title he’ll have. But if he’s going to keep the car and just drive it forever, it doesn’t matter.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And the only issue he might have, he may want to contact this insurance company because some insurance companies don’t want to insure salvaged title cars.
SPEAKER 22 :
Liability only maybe is all they’ll do. And some won’t even do that, but that’s, yeah, to Josh’s point.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s usually not that big of a deal. I mean, we’ve dealt with salvaged cars in the past, and it’s not as big of a deal as it can be made out to be.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, he’s already had a lot of confusion with his insurance company. He He never told them. Well, they explained to him that as far as they were concerned, it was totaled, and he had the option of keeping it. And he hadn’t decided, but they put the wheels in motion as if he had given the approval to go ahead and give them the vehicle, and he got all sorts of emails and phone calls.
SPEAKER 22 :
Really quick, Jerry, this goes back to what I was talking to, you know, Burke Payne in Fix-It Radio that first half hour, talking about the appraisal sides of things and insurance, you know— offers and so on and it may be worth a phone call to him on even the settlement that they’re offering him to determine is this in line with actual values today and since he’s a certified appraisal appraiser that may be another option before he actually signs on any dotted line i would at least make a phone call to burke and say hey what’s up how am i am i getting a good deal right and he’ll do that free of charge i could just call him on the phone and ask Okay. All right. Well worth a phone call to determine, you know, is this something where, hey, if I did an actual appraisal on the Prius, we might be able to get you a little bit more value and or what is the value of it being bought back and, and, and. So I think that one, especially Jerry’s worth calling Burke over.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sounds like good advice. I’ll pass that on to my friend.
SPEAKER 22 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
All righty. Well, thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you, Jerry.
SPEAKER 22 :
Great question, by the way. And I want to add something along those lines, too, on the salvage title end of things. Now, in this particular case, personally, I don’t have a problem with a branded salvage title. It’s a car you’ve owned. You know the history. You know what’s going to happen. You’re going to fix it and so on. Fine. Knock your socks off. I have no issues with that. I do have strong opinions, and I’ve had people text me and email me on this. I don’t like buying vehicles that have branded or salvaged titles. I know there’s a time and a place, but I just am not a fan because I don’t know what was done to the vehicle, what was the damage like, and how extensive was it. And now I’m going to buy that from somebody that fixed it that I have no idea how things were done, and I just don’t want to buy problems. Am I right, Josh, in that one? Exactly. You don’t know what wasn’t fixed. And the reason I bring this up is there are lots, car lots, used car lots in the Denver area that specialize in selling branded title cars. And they make it sound like, oh, this is a great way to save money. Well, maybe not. Maybe not. You never know. Yeah, thank you, Roy. You don’t know. And so I personally, I’m just not a fan of buying branded title cars. If it’s something you want to do on your own, like our last caller was doing with his neighbor, okay, that’s a different scenario. Fine, knock your socks off. But just remember also, if you decide to do that with your own vehicle and you go to sell that vehicle down the road, it’s harder to sell.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is.
SPEAKER 22 :
Anytime somebody sees that, it’s a harder vehicle to move. So it’s one of those, as Josh was saying, if you’re going to keep it and drive it forever, knock your socks off. But if you ever in the future at any point decide to sell said vehicle, that becomes harder to do. Yeah, it becomes really hard to do. All right, Rich in Arvada, you’re next. Go ahead.
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Yes, thanks for taking my call. Thank you. I’ve got a problem with the – Where it says on, I’ve got an F-150, 2011 SLT. And usually when the radio’s on and you turn it off, it will run for, the radio will go on for a while. But the notice has been coming up that the system’s shutting down to save the battery. And so in 2022, I had an alternator freeze up on me on the interstate in Iowa. had hauled to an independent garage there. They put on the alternator, and 16,000 miles later, supposedly, the alternator went out again because that sign went up. I took it to a garage. They said, well, they checked everything out, and it’s the alternator. And it’s unusual for an alternator to go out at 16,000 miles.
SPEAKER 14 :
So was it a new alternator installed or a remanufactured alternator?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it was back there when everything, parts were hard to get, and I called Ford, and they had, just out of curiosity, they had the exact same price for the alternator, so I don’t know… It wasn’t OME, I’m pretty sure on that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, if it was back when the parts were hard to get, then it’s not too unusual. We had a lot of bad parts getting sold during that time. So that’s, you know, if it was now, then it only made $16,000, then I’d worry about it.
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And then I had that put on and put a new super tying belt on it. And I just drove it for about a, Oh, maybe four or five hours. Turned the car off and the sign came up again to save the battery. The radio shut down to save the battery. So what would be causing that?
SPEAKER 14 :
I would have that battery tested is what I would do. Make sure that battery is in good shape, especially if you lost two alternators. That battery had to do a lot of extra work that it usually doesn’t have to. Oh, really?
SPEAKER 07 :
Is that right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and especially if – I don’t think yours has an AGM. It probably still has a lead-acid battery. But if it does have an AGM, if you run an AGM dead a few times, they never really come back from it.
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Why is that, by the way?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don’t know. There’s a lot of weird things. Because they do.
SPEAKER 22 :
You’re 100% correct on that. They suck at coming back.
SPEAKER 14 :
So what I’m assuming is you may have an AGM in that car, but I would just have that battery tested, make sure that battery is in good shape. Because the car is kind of checking the way the battery is operating, and it will let that, you know, before you open the door, it will let the radio play for, you know, 15 minutes on some cars. But if the battery is in poor condition, it knows the battery is in poor condition, and it will shut that off immediately.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Yeah, the battery’s a couple years old. It’s a Napa battery, and so maybe I should have them check that out again.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would still have it checked out, yeah, because that’s usually the culprit, especially this time of year since we’re kind of getting hot and cold and we’re getting real cold at night. A lot of AGMs, and even lead-acid batteries, but AGMs, you know, are failing pretty rapidly, and they’ll fail at weird times. I went walking the other night because of an AGM, so…
SPEAKER 07 :
On your own. On my own. I didn’t test. That was my fault. So Rich, it happens to us. Yeah. I bought one of those for my Avalon. And, shoot, within a year, that thing had gone out. So I went back to a lead-acid battery. And that’s what this one is here, you know, on the MS-150.
SPEAKER 22 :
Some cases you don’t have a choice. If it’s a battery where it’s inside the compartment of the car, in those cases it’s non-optional.
SPEAKER 14 :
You have to run it when you have a choice. But if it was a lead-acid battery to begin with, just put a lead-acid back in it. The AGM is not going to give you anything. I agree with you on that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Okay, well, thanks a lot.
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All right, Rich, great phone call. Thank you for that very much. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Mike, hang tight. We’ll come right back to you. And again, text line is open, 307-282-22. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. And again, Josh Goff from Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers up in Boulder. So those of you that have really used car title type questions, things along those lines, we have our resident expert with us. So if you have a question along anything that way, buying, selling, what do you do, all of that, we can answer that very easily. And then, of course, ProTech Auto Shield. We’ve got the crew here from there, Roy and Dietze both. So if you guys have questions even on, hey, I’m heading into the winter months. I want to do different things to the vehicle. We’ll get into some of the window tint and everything. Paint protection film, we used to call it clear bra, but really the name has changed because you can use it for so many other things now than what it used to be. In fact, we have a couple of pieces in our studio because I got tired of the walls getting all marked up where chairs hit them. So I put some clear bra on that Roy got me that I put on a couple of places here in the studio to keep the corners from getting all dinged up. And it works. So lots of uses for it that we can talk about today. So Pro-Tech Auto Shield, though, and Wheat Ridge, those guys will take great care of you. as well. So, and all of our sponsors, Roy, Dietze, Josh, they’re all on our website, drive-radio.com. Just go there and check it out. Mike, you’re next, sir. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, John. Hey, Mike. Quick question. 06 Rev 4. My driver’s side taillight running light goes out when it’s cold.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
And it ran all summer and then it goes, you know, it I can’t confirm what’s doing this. Any ideas? Oh, it’s LED.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it’s probably either in the actual contacts, like the connector to it. The socket. On the socket. So I’ve had a few of them where there’s like a five-pin connector to the taillight, too, where the pins, when it’s warm, they’ll be tight, and when it gets cold, they separate. And sometimes if you can have the light on for a while, it’ll stay on for a while, but it’s usually in those pins or the actual socket out at the taillight itself. Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
But when I play with the wires, I’m not getting any.
SPEAKER 22 :
You won’t because it’s inside the connector itself. Yeah, it’s in the connector itself. Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER 08 :
I hate getting into there. Right. There’s no room for my hands to get in there.
SPEAKER 14 :
There’s not any room for your hands to get in there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, second thing, John. Do you think Morrison losing its police department has anything to do with Vandermeer pulling out?
SPEAKER 22 :
No, I think from what I read in the article, and I haven’t talked to anybody from the city, but they’ve had some police chief issues, as you know. They’ve gone through now, I believe, two in the last six months or so. And frankly, Mike, why they ran that thing as long as they did and maybe not having to help Bandamere with traffic and so on is part of it. But really, at the end of the day, I just don’t see as a city how that was cost effective in the first place. All they were doing was writing tickets for revenue, which is really not the way to do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
And most cities in the state have quit having police departments.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, I mean, Jeff Kosheriff has already said they can handle Morrison Forum just fine, not a huge issue. Mike, again, that’s another one where I don’t know why they did it for as long as they did. Dumb.
SPEAKER 08 :
The thing I saw on the news is, like, they only made $500,000 worth of tickets last year, and the police department was supposed to be 1.6 million.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. I mean, to me, the math itself says, why are we doing this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and Jeffco even said they’re not going to do any traffic control.
SPEAKER 22 :
Thank you for saying that, too, Mike, because really, at the end of the day, for all of you listening, this isn’t really even a lack of police to help the Morrison residents because the majority of the police in Morrison did nothing but run traffic on 470 and some of those other area roads, which have nothing to do with the city of Morrison or the town of Morrison itself, Mike. So at the end of the day, I don’t know why they existed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah, I always loved it. What are they doing over here on 285? Thank you. It has nothing to do with Morrison.
SPEAKER 22 :
They’re miles from the city. Thank you. Well, they could write tickets. They were generating revenue to handle their own existence is really the way to say that, Mike.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Sorry, that’s just a brass tacks of it. Bandimere created a lot of tax revenue for them, but I wouldn’t think that it would be that much to totally shut down
SPEAKER 22 :
I don’t think so either.
SPEAKER 08 :
But, you know, I can remember back in late 60s when there was nothing across Green Mountain.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, me too. Me too. I mean, I’m a native, so you know, Mike. Yeah, I mean, I can remember even going racing at Bandimere. 470 didn’t exist, and you had to go in the little back roads to get in. And in the big races like at Mahi Nationals, the traffic was backed up for hours upon hours. And, yeah, those are very fresh memories still.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I can remember when Vandermeer didn’t even have Saturday night racing because of their religious beliefs.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. Sunday. Sunday racing. It was Saturday only. Friday night and Saturday was no Sunday racing.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. They had to move everything to Saturday night because they couldn’t ride on Sunday for the big events.
SPEAKER 22 :
That’s right. Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And there again, I can remember hearing Top Fuel and everything down in Green Mountain when I lived there.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, which is a ways away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, again, for those that I talked a lot about this last year when they decided to finally sell and do what they did, and a lot of people were very mad and mad at developers and mad at this and mad at that. And my answer was, okay, time out. First of all, we’re all capitalists for the most part that listen to this program. capitalism in and of itself says they should have done exactly what they did, and nobody should be upset with them or anybody around them. It was because of that development and the things sneaking in and getting closer and closer and closer that allowed the property value to get to the point where they could cash out and do very well as a family, and we should be congratulating them, not mad.
SPEAKER 08 :
I still don’t think we’ll see Bandimere back.
SPEAKER 22 :
I am with you, Mike.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because they tried to go into Aurora many moons ago, and that got shut down.
SPEAKER 22 :
And I know there’s a lot of you that are out there. Please, you can text me and call if you want. And I’ve seen a lot of the rumors and some of the news that, yes, they’re going to go out near Hudson, and that’s the plan, and so on and so forth. But, Mike, I am like you. I’ll believe it when I see it.
SPEAKER 08 :
There’s too many tree huggers in, you know, People’s Republic of Boulder and et cetera.
SPEAKER 22 :
That’ll put a stop on that. I’m sorry. I said this before. I’ll say it again. When you look at what it takes to run that and how much stress that puts on a family and, and, and, and, and, and you can cash out and go do something else with that money even as a family and literally probably be set for numerous generations down the road, why would you, Mike? Yeah. Sorry. Why would you?
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s just, you know, Vandermeer’s been there since I’ve been in Colorado, and I moved here in 1960. Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, my dad started with them. That’s how long they’ve been around. Before the racetrack, even, it was just auto parts. My dad’s been around them. So, yeah, I mean, as far as families go, and it’s always sad to see those things change, and nobody likes it because nobody likes change and progression, but it’s the fact of life.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but it’s just like the airport. I just can’t stand these people that cry about the noise when they moved into the noise. It’s not like the noise moved into them.
SPEAKER 22 :
Agree. Can’t argue that. All right. Have a good one. No, great call. Appreciate it very much. John and Cheyenne, Paul, hang tight. I want to take one text question really quick before we go to break, then we’ll take you. This is for you, Josh. If your car is paid off, how does the insurance company, the buyback total like we were talking about a moment ago, have the power to affect your title if they never had possession of it? How does that work?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, they buy the car. You have to give them the car.
SPEAKER 22 :
Correct. So it’s not simply – there’s a transaction that’s taking place here. So when they total your car and you agree to buy it back from them, that’s the key word. You’re buying it back, meaning you’re giving them title in the first place. they’re then stamping it with the salvage title end of things, and you’re buying it back that way.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly. I mean, I’ve done that. It’s a transaction.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, it’s a transaction. It’s not simply that, you know, if you want to avoid all of that, then don’t turn the claim in, fix the car, keep it, keep it unbranded, and off you go. But you’re not going to get insurance money.
SPEAKER 14 :
They won’t give you claim money. Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
There’s no claim then.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
But if you do a claim and do the whole process that Jerry’s neighbor was talking about doing the first caller today, that’s how that works and why the title comes back branded. Yeah, you’ll have to give them the title in order to get your claims checked. Otherwise, there’s no claim. Exactly. And by the way, that was a great question. It is a good question. I think a lot of people don’t understand how that works. So whoever this was that texted, thank you for that because that’s a great question. But there’s your answer. All right, we’ll be right back. John, Paul, guys, hang tight. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, they’re pushed to the frame rail.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yep, so it’s done. It’s a total. So my point is, we talked to Burke and Fix-It Radio for about a half an hour on how to handle those things and so on, and I’ve even told them that this is a great example of where you need a certified appraisal of the value of that vehicle because you’re going to fight with that other insurer to get all the dollars out of it you need when it’s all said and done. So that’s a perfect example of where somebody like Burke Payne or he himself needs to get involved and help you with that. And I’ve told them that, that I’ve got a guy that can help you with values and so on and maximizing the dollars out of the other insurance companies so you’re made whole again. Because if you just go at it yourself, even though he’s a car guy, he doesn’t hold the same weight that a certified appraiser does. Even Josh being a used car dealer, Adding that in, Josh is not a certified appraiser. Now, the insurance company may look at Josh a little more heavily than even somebody like myself, who’s just a radio host. But at the end of the day, that certified appraisal is really what the insurance company will look at and go off of because that’s how it works, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
It is.
SPEAKER 22 :
No different than getting your jewelry appraised or anything else along those lines. You could ask your best bud, what’s this diamond ring worth? He may tell you. But at the end of the day, a certified appraiser has to look at that and really tell you what the value is because they know market conditions and everything else. And it’s not that we don’t, but having that certified appraisal in that particular example is what you need to do. So John and Cheyenne, you’re next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, who was it that I think it was Josh that said something about the battery just startled me. I’m getting ready to head into town to get a new battery for my wife’s Ram. $1,500. Nope, that’s mine. 5.9 Hemi, you know, standard. I’m on Napa’s website, and there’s only two batteries that they’re offering that are not AGM. Which one do you go with? Do you go with the Napa Legend, or do you go with the AAA Premium?
SPEAKER 14 :
Are they still up there? I think they are.
SPEAKER 11 :
I would do the Legend.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’d do the Legend then. I would do the Legend.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. It’s the legend, and it’s a 24-month free replacement, that one?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m one, I’ve said this many times on air, and I know NAPA’s a great sponsor of ours. I’m not trying to take any money out of their pocket, but I’m not a guy that believes in buying 75-month, 84-month batteries. I don’t think you get any more battery when it’s all said and done. It’s really a lot of marketing and what they’re trying to get you to buy with warranty and so on. The actual battery itself, at the end of the day, John, I don’t feel is any better than a 48-month battery is, for example. Would you agree with that, Josh?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they don’t have anything better. They don’t have anything longer than 36 months.
SPEAKER 22 :
That’s fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
They only have two that are an AGM for that truck.
SPEAKER 22 :
You’d be fine with that. And I’m not an AGM fan, just as we’ve said that. Josh was saying that earlier, and I’m not either.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I’ve never had a vehicle that needed one, thank the Lord, because I’m looking at their website, and they are really expensive.
SPEAKER 22 :
You’re $250-ish or so for an AGM, roughly?
SPEAKER 11 :
The cheapest one is $259, and the most expensive is $379. Yep. Yep. And then the Legend is $199, so that’s a big difference. Huge. So you said gifts. Question of the day. I’m going to make a specific recommendation. Okay. The Nitecore NU-22 or 25 headlamp. This thing will give you so much light, and it’s used by a lot of ultralight backpackers because it weighs like four ounces or something. It’s a USB-C rechargeable. You can get it on Amazon for $40 or less, depending. Send me a link.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’ll put that up on the website, John.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Send me the link, and I’ll stick it up there for folks, all of you listening. We’ll just put a link on the website for you, make it easy.
SPEAKER 11 :
I can do that. Yeah, but that headlamp, if you don’t have one in your car, you need one in your car. Great idea.
SPEAKER 22 :
Even these guys’ techs and stuff around the shop, headlamps are fabulous. Every toolbox, every backpack, every car has a headlamp.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 22 :
Only way to go.
SPEAKER 11 :
The other thing, John, if you know somebody who likes to work around the house and everything, I would say the best thing to give most men that need something is a Harbor Freight gift card. Not a bad idea. If you’re not a professional mechanic or something, the tools they have there are just more than adequate for most people around the house. Whether you need a new drill or you need a new battery or you want a new blade for your table saw or something, you could save money by going there and would probably work just as well.
SPEAKER 22 :
For homeowners, absolutely. Can’t disagree with that at all, John.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Yep. All right, man. Send me the link.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’ll put it on the website for everybody.
SPEAKER 11 :
I will.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right. Appreciate you, John, very much. Thank you for that. Paul, you’re next. Go ahead, Paul.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Good morning. How are you, John? Good, Paul. Hey, Josh, I got this 2004 Toyota Sequoia. You’ve had some time under the hood on this one.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know the car.
SPEAKER 12 :
That spark plug.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, so to start it up, I have a A fuel leak coming off up by the intake manifold. There’s a fuel rail, and then there’s a fuel regulator. A metal pipe comes out, connects to a rubber hose. The rubber hose goes down by the lower upper control arm. So that fuel hose, fuel supply, has an inner core that’s hard plastic in it. It looks like it’s been heat shrunk onto the metal tip of the hose, and I don’t know how to fix it. It’s squirting out right where the connection is, and I don’t know if I can just hose clamp another fuel rubber hose on that, or I don’t know how to. I don’t have any way to heat shrink it. I don’t know. Are you familiar…
SPEAKER 14 :
Am I kind of creating a picture that… Yeah, usually either we have to replace that as an assembly, or I have a kit that we can press new hose on. But it has to have a special tool so we can actually push the vinyl hose onto it and clamp it. So you usually can’t push the vinyl by hand, unfortunately. I’ve never had much luck with pushing the vinyl by hand because it usually splits as I’m putting it on.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it’s growing. Yeah, it’s about a half, three-quarters of an inch that you’d have to push on there. So when you talk about an assembly, does that come with the fuel regulator, and then you have the high-pressure and the low-pressure lines coming off of that?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, usually I don’t have to replace these on the Toyotas that often. It’s usually GMs and Fords that we have to deal with.
SPEAKER 12 :
Do you think, well… I don’t know if I can… You can text… I don’t know if I could get the… Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
If you want to text some pictures over to 303-442-4141, I can take a look at it and see.
SPEAKER 12 :
442-4141.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. It’s Ridgeline’s number. We can get text there, so that would be the easiest.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Yeah, if I… Yeah, I thought maybe I could get a hose clamp on there with some rubber hose enough to drive it over, but maybe not. I don’t know, but I’ll send you a couple pictures.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’ll stop the major leak, but it’s still going to seep. Every time I’ve tried to play that game, it just kind of seeps all the time, and that’s right by the exhaust manifold, and we don’t want hot gas hitting that exhaust manifold. It’s just never been an effective repair. It’s always been like a stopgap just to catch it down the road until we can fix it right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, well, I’ll send you some pictures and then. Do you think that’s a part that you can still get from Toyota or Napa? I think so.
SPEAKER 14 :
Toyota now has like a, what do they call it? Toyota, I don’t remember what they call it. Their vintage line or something? Their vintage line. Yeah, they actually have a vintage line. Because one of my employees, Christian, has an old Supra. Yeah. And we’re able to get old Supra parts and Land Cruiser parts too. Well, they know there’s a market there. Yeah, good to know. So they were able to keep these going. And the Sequoias and all those, there’s still a lot of those on the road because they ran forever.
SPEAKER 12 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 14 :
So I may be able to source it from vintage on that one. Good to know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. All right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Good to know. Good to hear. Paul, good. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you, John. You’re very welcome. Thank you.
SPEAKER 22 :
Have a great rest of your day. We appreciate it very much. All right, let’s get one more in before the break. Donato, am I saying that right? Donato? Donato, you’re up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, sir. Hey, John. I had a quick question. I have a GMC pickup truck, a 22, and I haven’t got a notice, per se, in the mail yet. about the recall on the transmission differential yeah it’s actually transmission valve body recalls what it is is it is it transmission okay yeah Somebody just, you know, the news feed that I get from Google and stuff, they’re saying that the rear will lock up.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, yeah, what’s happening is there’s a problem with the valve body that will lock up the transmission, which then, of course, locks the driveline and the rear diff and so on. And that’s what that recall is about, Donato.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do I need to get actually in the mail like a notice?
SPEAKER 22 :
You will. When it’s time to be fixed, they will send you the recall, you know, to call the dealer and so on. You could do that now, although I will tell you I doubt, highly doubt, there’s parts around to even fix that particular transmission. I’m going to talk about the Allison 10 speeds here at some point as well. Now, really quick, Donato, how many miles are on it?
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m under 40,000, about 39.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, what I would do, this is my suggestion. This isn’t what GM will tell you, but it’s what I’m going to tell you. Because, number one, I think some of these issues they’ve had with that transmission is higher miles and people not doing services on the transmission, which causes premature wear, making that valve stick, making things lock up, and so on. So my feeling is if you own one of these, until you can get it recalled, I would service the transmission now. make sure you do the bg system where you do the conditioner and everything in it and then drive it until you get the recall fixed but personally donato you do that you if you service that transmission regularly you probably would never have a problem and i know i’m kind of going out on a limb saying that because i’m not gm and there is a recall and so on i would still do the recall at some point but if you do what i’m telling you highly doubtful you’ll have any major issues
SPEAKER 10 :
So every how often do you suggest? You’re there now.
SPEAKER 22 :
Every 40K, I would do that transmission. You’re there right now. 35 to 40, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I lost you there for a moment. What product do you suggest?
SPEAKER 22 :
You do the BG service, which they put a conditioner in on the front side. They condition it on the back side as well. It just makes things work a little better, I feel, when it’s all said and done. And that’s a complete fluid transfer. So we’re not dropping the pan and just doing a drain and fill. That’s a complete fluid system transfer.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Is there someone you recommend in the Colorado Springs area?
SPEAKER 22 :
Send me a text message. Yes, I have somebody, but since they’re not a sponsor, I won’t say it on air. Okay. Okay. So send me a text, and I’ll tell you where to go. All right.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, Donato.
SPEAKER 22 :
Thank you very much. I appreciate it very much. All right, Mark, hang tight on oil interval question. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 22 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, Josh Goff from Legacy Auto up in Boulder, as well as Ridgeline Auto Brokers with us. Roy Dietze, both, and Roy’s daughter’s here as well from ProTech Auto Shield over in the Wheat Ridge area. So those of you especially that are, whether you’re buying a new car or a new used car, you want to protect it, you want it to last as long as possible. And I will tell you straight up that by doing some of that protection, and Josh can attest this, when you go to sell that vehicle down the road because you’ve protected it and it doesn’t have a bunch of nicks and dings and scratches and so on, what’s the average value, Josh, higher when you do that?
SPEAKER 14 :
Probably 10, 15, maybe. In other words, you’re getting it all back.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yep, you are. And having a nice car along the line.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 22 :
So, yeah, for those of you listening, it’s well worth doing because Josh is attesting to the value of the car stays higher throughout by doing those things. People buy on the way the car looks. Amazing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
It’s only one of those things we’ve talked about on the show for like 25 years, but yeah, it hasn’t changed in 25 years.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s proof. They still buy based on looks. They base them. Not necessarily mechanical.
SPEAKER 15 :
What’s that? Here’s a question for Josh. So if you get a car that’s completely wrapped, like you got a color change and it’s fully wrapped, do you remove the wrap before you sell it?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, we usually do.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Just to see what’s under there, too, you know? Make sure it’s all good. Right, to make sure it’s all good because sometimes you find it gets wrapped to hide things. Yes. Damage and such. Right, scratches, damage. Makes sense. Okay. I hadn’t thought of that. That’s okay. Good point.
SPEAKER 15 :
So you always remove the wrap.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and the wraps, they don’t last that long, at least the ones we’ve had come in. It’s like two, three years, it seems like, and that wrap’s not doing too well. Okay, we can talk about that. And that’s about the time they trade them in, is after the wrap’s about that old, because they probably wrapped it when it was new, and they’re done with it and want a new toy.
SPEAKER 22 :
Mark in Denver, you’re next. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. How are you? Good morning, Mark. Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 09 :
I had a question. Merry Christmas to you. I had a question, please. I might… 2018 towel, I got 38,000 miles on it now. I did an oil change a while back, and I put 600 miles on that oil change. I changed it over to 4,000 miles with synthetic. I looked at the oil percentage left, and it’s at 76% with like 400 or 500 miles on it. So that’s 25% of that oil life gone in 500, 600 miles. I don’t understand that. And it was reset at 100%.
SPEAKER 22 :
Because it’s an algorithm. They’re just basing that on time is what they’re doing, Mark. So they’re going to clock you down typically to where they want to see you change that oil at least once a year. So they’re going to clock that down accordingly.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it’s a time segment.
SPEAKER 22 :
It’s a lot. It’s more than that. It’s a lot of things.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it’s time, how you drive, how it gets up to op temp, if it doesn’t get up to op temp.
SPEAKER 22 :
How aggressive you are in driving. What speed are you going? What gear are you in mostly? On and on and on.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, if you’re flooring it and jamming on the brakes, it’s going to go quick. If you’re a slow driver and it always gets up to op temp and all these things. Highway driver, et cetera. Highway driver, you give it a lot more life. Right. Okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
There’s a misconception, Mark. People think there’s some sort of sensor in the oil that’s telling the computer that, hey, I need change. No, no. It’s a computer algorithm, and that’s why as time has gone by, they’ve gotten better and better and better because computer programming, of course, as you know, Mark, continues to improve. But it’s all based upon what a programmer is inputting as to these are the things that we’re reading, and based on that, we’re going to do this percentage of oil life.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it’s a shelf life situation of time then too.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, like me, they’re wanting you to change that at least annually once a year.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I do that religiously anyway, but I just was wondering why it’s dropping at that rate.
SPEAKER 22 :
Because I’ve noticed the same thing, Mark. I’ve got similar vehicles where they don’t get 1,000 miles a year on them. I’m not exaggerating. Yeah, same thing will happen. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, well, that explains that.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m not going to worry about it. No, the way I know you and how you handle things, and I’m one where I will look at that periodically just to kind of see what it says, but I pretty much ignore it and do my own thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, synthetic every four, and that’s not pushing it at all.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, in my case, on my truck I drive daily, my ZR2 with the 6.2, I’ll be changing that when it says 50%, but that’s just because I’m doing it at 4K. Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Well, thank you very much for that answer. I appreciate it. Have a good day. You too, Mark.
SPEAKER 22 :
Appreciate you very much. And Mark’s a longtime caller. I’ve met him at some of our events that we’ve had in the past, and I know him very well, so I can say that. But, yeah, there is a misconception for a lot of you that have those oil monitors, which by now, Josh, since the fleet’s about 14 years of age, granted, that’s an average, so there’s cars that are older and, of course, newer. But if you’re driving a car 14 years or newer, there’s an oil life monitor.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, pretty much everything.
SPEAKER 22 :
There’s hardly any that – I can’t think of any that wouldn’t have one at that point.
SPEAKER 14 :
It seems like the 2010s it all came on somewhere in there.
SPEAKER 22 :
And some were earlier than that even that they were starting to develop and so on. And, again, folks, for those of you listening, they have improved. The algorithms continue to get better to where they’re taking, again, more – more inputs. I will tell you that some of those early monitors were more off of mileage and time as they were, you know, really anything else. They really didn’t factor in a lot of how you drove and, you know, the fuel trims and different things along those lines. But now they are. I mean, it knows the fuel trim. It knows is it running rich most of the time? Is it more lean majority of the time? Are you in, you know, if it’s a Eight-speed transmission, are you running around in eighth or are you running around in fifth and sixth? It knows these things, and it is determining even pedal position on the accelerator pedal. Where are you at most of the time? How fast do you get into the pedal, et cetera? It’s reading all of those things, and as Josh said a moment ago, even the operating temperature. Do you come up to temperature every time you drive it? Are you somebody going to the grocery store and back that’s a mile away? You’re actually going to see your oil life be less than somebody driving to work every day, miles on yeah and it knows your altitude and it knows your outside temperature too that’s true too yeah i forgot about that even the temps it doesn’t which it’ll it’ll factor all of that in now i say all that to say this is that the bible no Do we still, as a show and as shops, recommend that you follow a regimen for you and how you drive and where you drive and what you do and the type of car you’re driving and some of the known history that those particular vehicles and engines may have, direct injection engines especially? We’re going to tell you 4,000 to 5,000 miles pretty much regardless of what you’re doing and how you’re driving. If you’re a little bit more aggressive, we might even bump that up ever so slightly. And, again, you’re liable to be changing oil literally, Josh, when the monitor is at 40%, 50%.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, all the time.
SPEAKER 22 :
It’s going to be very common to do that.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is.
SPEAKER 22 :
So do not run off the oil life monitor is my point. I mean, it’s a nice guide. If all of a sudden you’re normally that 4,000-mile person that changes at 4,000 miles, all of a sudden the oil life monitor is at zero and it was reset the last time around, well, you you may want to look at that and say, you know, why is that? Chances of that happening are pretty slim, although there are some vehicles where you may actually see that happening. Also, one of the things I’ve gotten a few text messages on of late, there are some engines that have some oil consumption issues. Subaru, and I can go down the line. And the rule of thumb, and it’s been this way, by the way, in the auto industry since I was a kid, and I’m not exaggerating, the majority of OEMs, if not all, will not mess with oil consumption until you get below 800 to 1,000 miles quart used. And some people look at me and think, you’re crazy. No, I’m telling you, from the inside out on the OEM side, unless you’re using more than a quart in 1,000 miles roughly, and some are 800 miles, they will not think about doing anything to address that oil consumption in that engine because they call that normal.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s Subaru, Honda.
SPEAKER 22 :
I grew up in the GM world, and it was that way for the GM side forever and still is. It is to this day. So for those of you that are listening, if you think that I’m using a cord every 2,000 miles and they ought to go ahead and fix my engine or replace it, it ain’t going to happen.
SPEAKER 14 :
They won’t touch that.
SPEAKER 22 :
It is not going to happen. So advice would be on some of these vehicles where we know we use oil, check them because most don’t. Mm-hmm. So food for thought. We’ll come back and talk more about that two more hours. Lines are open. Give us a call, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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