This episode of Drive Radio covers a variety of topics that touch on the automotive industry’s immense shifts due to recent political changes, as well as why some cars sound different even in stock forms. We navigate the complexities of Colorado’s snowplow laws and discuss common driving annoyances, all while providing helpful tips and insights from our expert host.
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We’re 106 miles to Chicago. We’ve got a full tank of gas. It’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
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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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All right, welcome, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Happy Saturday, snowy Saturday. It is the 9th of November, so if you happen to listen to a replay of this program, you’ll know what day it is. Question of the day, because of the snow. Biggest pet peeve? When driving in the snow, and I saw several today, and I’ll give you some of my own, but what is your biggest pet peeve when driving in the snow? Ken Rackley was going to join me today from Toontech Automotive, and he lives in an area where it has been snowing hard and got hammered. and haven’t even gotten their roads or anything else plowed out, so he will be spending the day most likely working on that. So, Ken, if you’re listening, thanks. We appreciate all that you do. Toontech Automotive out here in Aurora, 225 and Colfax, just west. on Colfax off of 225, about a quarter of a mile or so down, just across from the Chevrolet dealership there. You can’t miss him. So if you’re in that area, you need anything done to your vehicle, Ken is your guy. Lines are open. We’re here to take calls. Anything that you’ve got for us today, we’ll answer. Yes, I’m by myself. I can still answer questions. And if there’s something that I cannot, I will do my very best to get back to you on an answer. But most things I can pretty well handle. As you guys know, So if you’ve got something you need taken care of, please give us a call. 303-477-5600. Text line 307-200-8222. 307-200-8222. Normally this time of the year, I’m in Las Vegas for the SEMA show. But with the election this week, and I felt like it was a larger election than normal, and just felt like it was one of those things where I needed to stay around for it, and glad I did. It was a big election, and for the car world, doesn’t matter where your politics lie, for the car world, it was a win. Now, I think it was a win in general, but for the car world especially, it was a win. And some of you are going to say, well, why is that? Well… If you look at where the car industry was headed under the last administration, the auto industry, and where it was headed under the last administration versus where it’s going to be headed now, huge difference. It’s a 180-degree difference in where things were headed versus where things will go now. Not only from, you know, cafe ratings and all of that, but just… In general, you’re going to see things change dramatically in that end of things. So I’ll get into some of that today and what I feel might happen. But I will tell you straight up, the push for the EV side, some of those mandates, I can assure you, will immediately start to change right off the bat. Mark, you’re next. Go ahead, sir.
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Hey, John. Quick question on mufflers. Yes. I hear these, you know, Mustangs, they’re pretty loud, and they have kind of a unique sound. And I was wondering, is that just a unique muffler, or what’s going on there?
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And you’re breaking up, but I think I got all of that. What’s the difference in some of the vehicles that we have out there with the mufflers, the sound, and so on? Some of it, Mark, is in fact the exhaust system and the muffler. Some of those could have been changed, although there’s some stock sounding systems that are pretty robust is probably the better way to say that and have a very nice sound or tone to them. Some of that is also engine design, and they do all sorts of different things with… you know, camshaft and overlap of the cam and different things along those lines. And it really does change the way the exhaust sounds. And that’s where some of that’s coming from. So some of that is engine design. Some of it is the exhaust system itself. Gotcha. Okay. I was just kind of curious. No, it’s a great question. And what’s interesting, Mark, and I’ve seen different videos on this across the country and so on, even with stock exhaust, there are some police departments in some areas of the country, not all. And this will be interesting to see if some of this changes under a Donald Trump administration or not. But there are folks getting tickets written for stock exhaust in certain areas.
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Wow. I might have broke up when I was saying this, but where I really noticed is on the modern Mustangs and Camaros.
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Yes. And, again, some of that is exactly what I just said, whether it be engine design, the exhaust system itself, combination of some of the Mustangs that have a flat-plane crank engine in them will sound much different than some of the other cars. The Camaros don’t have that, but the Mustangs do, and that’s where some of that sound on the Mustang is coming from. Gotcha.
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Okay.
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That makes sense. Thanks. Great question, Mark. I appreciate that. And yes, it is, in the case of the Mustangs with the flat-plane crank, it is engine design. The Z06 Corvettes, that’s a flat-plane crank also, and it will sound way different than some of the other vehicles, even in its own class, you know. Take a Corvette, a regular CO8 will not sound the same as a Z06 with a flat plane crank. One line open, 303-477-5600. Dennis, you’re next.
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Hi, John. Hey, Dennis. I’d like to talk about your question of the day. Sure. So that one is very easy for me. It’s CDOT plow drivers.
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And what do they do?
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So I’ll give you a little story. One day I’m headed up to Legacy in Boulder along Highway 93, and the roads are pretty much dry, but I’m unfortunate enough to get behind a pair of CDOT plows that are cleaning things up, especially the shoulder. And do you think for a split second… that either one of them would let me around them since they’re going 35 miles an hour.
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And I, by the way, I can’t disagree with you on any of that. I’ve experienced some of those same things, and there are times where you can look in the rearview mirror and see the amount of vehicles that are behind you. And especially in the cleanup phase, Dennis, to where it’s not a momentum thing or anything along those lines. It’s simply, you know, you could pull over, let a bunch of vehicles go by and pull back out, and they don’t.
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And that was my point exactly, because I looked in the rearview mirror, and there’s at least a half a mile of cars behind these two clowns, and they would not pull over and let us by to save their ass.
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Which, Dennis, that’s frustrating to me as well. It’s like, okay, time out, guys. I mean, first of all, you’re on the clock. You’re paid by the hour. There’s nothing that’s incentivizing you to get this done sooner than later because you’re getting the same pay from us as taxpayers regardless. And I’m not trying to beat these guys up, but it’s like, do they not have any common sense?
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Well, and to your point right there, From what I know, I think these guys are on 12-hour rotation during a storm.
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They are.
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And before the storm starts, they’re on the clock, driving around in their plows, pushing air and sunshine.
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Correct.
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Wasting taxpayer-provided fuel.
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Correct. Correct.
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I don’t get it.
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Correct. And some of that on the front side, I mean, given that’s my industry and I do some of that, on the front side, I can understand some of that, although in today’s world with the forecasting and things that we have and the services that I know CDOT even has that we as taxpayers, again, Dennis, are paying for, they can pinpoint it pretty closely. And the reality is to just have them out You know, to your point, pushing air is almost an unnecessary anymore. I mean, the reality is they can pinpoint things pretty close. I get it. Sometimes forecasts, you know, are missed and it doesn’t happen that way. But in general, they’re pretty accurate anymore as far as, you know, when to actually send drivers out and do things. they they have the ability to be much more in control of that sometimes i wonder if for example as we get to the end of the year and maybe their budget is still remaining do they do some of that to you know use up certain department budget and i don’t know because i’m not privy of that sure i mean i’ve plowed snow as a part-time job and you know we were on call we didn’t get called out until we had something to do right and those guys could be the same way correct correct and they’ve already done the pre-app of of product and so on on the front side dennis so anymore they’ve already done their pre-treatments and and all of that and this storm wouldn’t have applied because of how wet it is but in general they’re already taking all that you know taking all of that on the front side into consideration and to your point on the cleanup side of it yeah they could handle the cleanup and the traffic flow and so on much better in my opinion i i I just kind of get the feeling at times, Dennis, that they just don’t care.
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No, they don’t, because I’m very sure that their trucks have plenty of lights on them, and they could do that at night.
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They could. They could. Absolutely. Yep. No, I’m not denying that. You’re 100% correct.
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All right, John, have a good day.
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No, appreciate it very much. I cannot argue with Dennis on that. A couple lines open, 303-477-5600. Stephanie, we’ll get you taken care of before we go to break. Go ahead.
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Hi. I was just calling to give a shout-out to a couple of people. Sure. One was Lisa with ProTech that I know is a sponsor of yours.
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Yep, yep.
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And I had called her asking if she knew anybody to do some auto upholstery.
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Okay.
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And she gave me the name of Auto Weave. Oh, yeah.
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Good guys.
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And I had a great experience. They did two repair jobs on different vehicles, and I just wanted to shout out to both of them.
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Well, I’m going to see the folks at ProTech a little later today. I will pass that along. And Auto Weave I have used personally as well, and they’re good guys.
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Yeah, great.
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Thank you very much. Thank you, Stephanie, very much. I appreciate that. All right, we’ll take a break. Again, lines are open. Question of the day, what’s your biggest pet peeve when you’re driving in the snow like we’ve had here over the past several days? 303-477-5600. We’ll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Somebody asked a moment ago if I would explain a flat-plane crankshaft. And, yes, I will do that. I’ll take Jerry here next, and then I will explain the difference between a flat-plane crankshaft and what we would call a standard offset crankshaft in a moment. Jerry, go ahead.
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I’m not clear about – well, I’ve heard that there’s a Colorado law about passing snowplows.
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uh if there’s a couple of them i guess i just don’t understand whatever whatever the law is well and i’m not sure i do either other than i think safety wise for everybody uh in you know everybody is concerned i’m reading the law right now it’s illegal to pass a snow plow that is operated in tandem with other snow plows and has its yellow lights flashing now I happened to be going down I-25 yesterday where there were three. One of them was in the far left shoulder. One was in the left lane and one was in the middle lane. And in that particular section of the highway, still giving you three other lanes because you had two other lanes, you know, plus there was like a merge lane on the other side at that point in the highway. So there was literally three other lanes. I and I don’t know if this was legal or not. But other cars, not that it makes it right, but I went to the far right lane because these guys were doing like 30 miles an hour and pushing slush. It really wasn’t that bad out as far as slickness or anything like that is concerned. And you could drive much faster than 35 miles an hour. And I get it. That’s about top speed. on a snowplow. So I went to the far right lane. There was no slush coming that direction. Cars were already merging in from on ramps and so on. So I went to the far right lane and passed. Now, did I do something illegal? Jerry, I can’t answer that. I have no idea.
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Well, and I’ve been in similar situations like on I-25 up north here where there were three lanes and two plows and there was no reason not to pass on the third open lane. But Well, I guess I’ll have to do some web research maybe.
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Yeah, because they’re not very specific. I mean, does passing mean I can’t go around them on the left? In this case where there’s three more open lanes on the right and all you’re doing is then just blocking up a bunch of traffic if you don’t go around. And in this case, they’re not really even pushing much in the way of snow. I mean, I think it’s very gray personally, Jerry.
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And I guess I just don’t understand. So what would be the difference, let’s say, if there’s two lanes in a direction and the plows in one lane, why not pass them on the free lane? You know, what would be the difference if you’ve got, like you were describing exactly, multiple lanes and you’ve still got a clear way around them?
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I don’t think their law is very clear, to be honest with you. I mean, they make it sound like no matter what, you cannot pass them. But now all you’re doing is backing up traffic for miles and miles and miles, especially when you’re going down the freeway. And I mean, I can understand if it’s snowing sideways and people shouldn’t be driving more than 35 or 40 anyways, and the snow plows are going that fast and passing them would be some sort of a hazard. I can fully understand why you wouldn’t pass at that point, Jerry. But with what I was encountering yesterday, I see no reason why not to go around them.
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Right.
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Doesn’t make sense. Especially when you’ve got on ramps where they’re coming down off of an on ramp. I mean, I was kind of around that Speer Boulevard area where there’s all sorts of on ramps coming into the lane of traffic and cars are coming in. And of course, they’re getting ahead of the snow plows. And I’m thinking, OK, why is that OK? But yet you just can’t pass them. That makes no sense.
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I agree. Okay, well, thank you, John.
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I’m as confused as you are, because I don’t really understand the law and what they’re trying to accomplish. I mean, I think it still should come down to common sense and what’s dangerous or not.
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Yeah. All righty. Well, thank you, John.
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I appreciate it. You bet, Jerry. And here’s the reality, though, folks. Unfortunately, we end up with laws because no one has common sense. So… My pet peeve, which I’ll explain, which I encountered today, is you can have the opposite. Today, coming down from Golden, it was just really kind of rainy and not anything on the roads at all until I got to about I-70 and Peoria, roughly. Kind of started to get some snow on the roadway at that point. Once I got to I-225, there was some snow slush on the road. First pet peeve is people that don’t get their car wiped off. It’s like, okay, come on. Quit being lazy and brush the snow off your car. A porthole doesn’t count. Front and rear, portholes, that doesn’t count. You can’t see out of the mirrors. You have no idea what’s going on. Snow is flying off of your car, which is now getting on other people’s cars and could potentially be hazardous depending upon when the snow flies off. Quit being a lazy bone and wipe your car off. It’s not that complicated. And as I’ve said even this previous week in another program, if you’re that inept, stay home. Don’t go out. But then on top of it, you get the car that hasn’t uncovered itself that then decides to drive in the left lane 15 to 20 miles an hour under the going rate of speed. I get it. You can’t drive the full speed limit on a day like today when it was the conditions that I was in this morning. But, you know, instead of driving 35, you could easily drive 50 or 60 speed limit 65. So, yes, you need to be under the speed limit. But you’re in the left lane now covered up. With your car, because you can’t see where you’re going and why you’re in the left lane, I have no idea. And then I’m going to add one more factor to it. You turn your hazards on. So now you’re covered up with snow. You’re in the left lane doing 15 to 20 miles an hour under what the going rate of speed is, and you turn your hazards on. You guys all know my feelings on that. And I’m not trying to stereotype, but I can tell you for sure they’re not from around here. Because we don’t run hazards anywhere. unless there’s a hazard in the United States of America. I’ve been to foreign countries, and I know what they do there. And just south of us, if there’s a pothole, they’ll turn the hazards on. If they’re road-milling the road, they’ll turn their hazards on. If it rains, they’ll turn their hazards on. So my point is these are people that have not been raised here, that frankly probably have never seen or driven in snow. They’re not able to wipe the car completely off and evidently don’t know the rules of the left lane. And then on top of that, they drive way under the speed limit and turn their hazards on. Somehow we have to try to fix this, folks. And I don’t know what the answers are. Our driving tests evidently must not cover any of what I just mentioned because – or we’re not even requiring them to have a driver’s license. I’m not sure exactly where we stand with that. Maybe they’re coming in with a – international driver’s license if one of those even exist i don’t know some of you that know that better than i should probably explain because i’m not sure how that works if you’ve got a mexico driver’s license for example can you just use that here in america i don’t know i mean if you go to mexico i can use my american license but i think we all know that our quality of driving and tests and so on is probably better than a lot of other countries although there’s times i wonder Because I look at the way some people drive and wonder, how did you get a license? Who gave you that? Because whoever did should be fired from their job because they don’t know what they’re doing. And I’m being very kind when I say this. So back to Jerry’s question on when can you pass a snowplow or not. According to Colorado law, never. But I don’t know if that means there’s three more lanes to the right of the snow plows because they’re only taking up two driving lanes and they’re on the shoulder, plowing the shoulder. Can you not pass them at all? I don’t know. Because in the situation I was in yesterday, the on-ramp is passing them as they’re coming on and into traffic. I mean, are they supposed to not be coming on the on-ramp and stay behind? The law is vague. So I think that would probably come down to officer judgment. on that particular situation. Speaking of officers, I’ve got another story today I want to cover. I will explain the difference between a flat plane crank and what we would call a standard crank in a moment. We do have lines open, 303-477-5600. And maybe you’re somebody that understands the snowplow law better than I. And if you’ve got an answer for us, please let us know. Maybe you’re You can come on anonymously. Maybe you’re somebody on the inside that knows the answer to this. If you want to come on anonymously and explain that to us, we’ll be happy to take that call because I don’t know the legality of that, folks. I wish I did. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Yeah, John, I used to be a professional truck driver many, many years ago. And my question is about using flashers. Now, when I would come down Eisenhower Tunnel going about 25 miles an hour, I would have my flashers on. I like that.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely, because you’re at that point a hazard. You need to let people know that you are. You’re in the far right lane. And, yeah, that’s exactly how they should be used.
SPEAKER 09 :
But back then, around the year 2000, I would say, when I went to California, they would give you a ticket if you used your flashers coming down their mountain path.
SPEAKER 20 :
Interesting. I did not know that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, yeah, if somebody else wants to chime in on that, like I said— So what was their reasoning? I don’t know. I mean, even in truck driving school, they warned us of that before we even started driving. And I don’t know what it is today. It’s been many years. But if somebody else wants to chime in on California’s flasher rule, that would be interesting for me.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, I’d like to know. I do know that, you know, with some of the individuals I was speaking of earlier, John, they will use a hazard for it. You name it, they can use it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I mean, when I’m going 25 miles an hour and these cars are going down the mountain, 65 to 70, Well, I think that flasher is safe. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes. That’s a great question. If any of you listening know, please let us know. That’s a great question. Thank you. Thanks, John. Appreciate it very much. Mike, you’re next. Go ahead. Hey, John. How’s it going? Good.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, in Tennessee, all the trucks are supposed to keep left.
SPEAKER 20 :
Normal concept, isn’t it? That’s a great concept. Yeah, don’t get me started. Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Anyway, these private snow plows, they’re running around on the street without their plow down with their flashers on.
SPEAKER 20 :
Which is illegal. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. They’re not supposed to. And I talked about this a little bit yesterday in Ready Radio, Mike. And for those of you that are private plow drivers that are listening to me, some do, some don’t. Please, if you want to run it on a parking lot, more power to you. Personally, I think that’s dumb. I wouldn’t. And I’ll explain in a moment as to why. But once you get out of that parking lot, yeah, please turn those off. I had two or three of those yesterday and one today, Mike, that I saw doing that. And I don’t know whether they just forget or whether they don’t know the law or whatever. I talked yesterday about lazy tow truck drivers where they’re supposed to be running. a taillight system from the tow truck which they have they’re on the tow truck they run it to the back you know you stick the magnet onto the trunk and now you have lights on the back of the car but what tow truck drivers do is they get lazy they flip on the beacon they don’t do what i just said and then they drive down the road and that’s not legal either they’re not supposed to do that yeah and then when they half the time they leave their big uh
SPEAKER 08 :
white light on the bed. On? On. Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
You’re driving down the road and that thing’s shining right in your eyes. Yep. Mike, again, these guys evidently either A, don’t have enough training, B, are not being trained and just don’t understand the law, or C, they’re just completely ignorant and don’t care and they’re lazy. I don’t know which.
SPEAKER 08 :
Speaking of training, I think every time somebody comes in, for instance, Colorado, Wyoming, whatever, When they get a state license, they need to go through snow school.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think they should, too. We don’t do that, as you know, and a lot of the transplants moving in, it’s why we have such a difficulty getting around on snowy days is because most of the people don’t know how to drive.
SPEAKER 08 :
When my kids were getting their driver’s license way back when, 15 years ago, geez, I took them into an empty parking lot. Yep. and started kicking the ass in there. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep, that’s exactly what you do.
SPEAKER 08 :
We had a city cop drive by, and he watched. He saw we weren’t doing cookies intentionally, and he drove on by.
SPEAKER 20 :
Because he’s looking at what you’re doing as, hey, thank you, you’re learning.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and you can’t do anything if you don’t learn it.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, that’s exactly right. You don’t know what the car’s going to do.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that’s how you have to learn. That’s right. When you counter-steer into a slide… that unless you’ve done it before, that just seems so absolutely ridiculous.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, and it’s not natural, but if you’ve done it enough, then it becomes very natural. Yeah, it does. It’s second nature.
SPEAKER 08 :
All righty. Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, Mike, I appreciate that. And real quick, before we go to Bob, the reason why if I am a private plow company owner and so on, and no, I don’t run beacons on our trucks, and the reason I don’t is because we found – that you will actually attract more people to you. by running a beacon than when you don’t and the last thing you want when you’re plowing privately or i think in general is people driving into you driving at you uh you don’t want that you want the opposite of that you want people to stay completely away from you and all and what i have found is all the beacons do in especially in private parking lots is just attract people to you so you plow you you private plow guys out there that are running beacons frankly i think you’re dumb and are doing it incorrectly. So you can argue with me on that one if you’d like, but done this for, you know, 30-plus years, and I can tell you that you’re not helping yourself by running those. Bob and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
180-degree cranks, IndyCar history. Back in the 50s, maybe even late 40s, I’m not certain, there was one engine out there that was called the Novi, the Novi Special. Ran a 180 crank on it. It definitely could be heard above the Offenhausers. It was a hell of a lot faster normally. Some of them were actually front drive. Oh, you know what?
SPEAKER 20 :
I wasn’t watching then, but I remember that, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep, and I think one of the last ones they put together, Bobby Unser drove, and I think it was four-wheel drive.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think you’re correct on that as well, Bob. I believe you’re right, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the only problem with it was they put out so much power with those 180 cranks in there that they usually did not live.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, thank you for kind of reiterating that a moment ago. I think we’ve had enough other technology now to where you can run it in a regular production engine because they are and they’ve made them more robust. But, yeah, that’s the reason why for years and years and years we didn’t run them, Bob. They’re just not reliable. That is true. On the longevity side of things. And I’m not into physics and all of that, so, Bob, I can’t explain why they’re not the same longevity-wise. I wish I could. If some of you listening could explain that to me, I’d love to hear it because I don’t know the answer to that, Bob.
SPEAKER 11 :
I do not either. I always thought that perhaps it was because it was hitting opposite sides of the crank. was such great force that it might have been knocking it out, but I don’t know. And you could be right. He didn’t even get it straight. He’s the last one, I believe, that actually ran the Novi.
SPEAKER 20 :
You are correct. He purchased the rights to the Novi engine before the 1961 racing season, it says. Yep, yep. So you’re correct. And, again, if somebody listening can explain to me why the longevity isn’t as good, I guess if I sat there long enough and studied it, Bob, you might be able to— to figure that out. And I think you’re probably correct in what you’re saying is just the way that the cylinders fire and where the crankshafts positioned, there’s more stress on things than there would be in a 90 degree crank. That’s the only thing I can think of.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s what I sort of thought. I, you know, I’m not a engineer. Thank heaven. Me neither. Me neither.
SPEAKER 20 :
I understand some of those things and you’re correct though. The reason they’re so much more powerful is because of that fact.
SPEAKER 11 :
They did run, and they did sound different.
SPEAKER 20 :
I mean, you think about the flat-plane crankshafts, whether it be in the Mustang or the Z06 Corvette, and the horsepower that a naturally aspirated one of those is putting out, it is substantially higher than their 90-degree counterparts with less cubic inches. Yep. So, yeah, good stuff. Bob, thank you, by the way. I appreciate that very much. All right, two lines open. Eva, hang tight. We’ll come back and take your call first. 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 20 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Couple lines open, 303-477-5600. Eva, you’re back. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, hi, John. Please, on the end of what that guy said about teaching kids to drive, I want to tell a story that… It was just horrible. You have to teach kids in a parking lot or out on country roads where no one’s around. I pulled up to my bank, and it was just after an ambulance had left, and I spoke with a kid who was in shock. He was driving a big pickup truck with his dad. He plowed into the side of the bank, but that’s not so bad. He ran over a guy and clipped him at his waist.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it was just such a shocking thing. Can you imagine that kid having to live with having done that to someone?
SPEAKER 20 :
No, I can’t, no. Eva, that would be something that I, no, I can’t imagine how that would affect your life, damage your life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yes. And the wife came after a while, and she was pissed at the husband for doing that.
SPEAKER 20 :
Mm-hmm. I mean, yeah, that’s one of those things where, as we were talking about that earlier, yeah, you need to be in a very large, wide-open parking lot, clear out on one of the outer ends of things. Do not be near a building or anything along those lines. And on top of that, Eva, to your point, make sure no one else is there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my God, yes. And this poor guy, I heard the story that he had gone in with his elderly mom and had to go back out to his car to get some proof. She was trying to help him out with something, and he went out to his vehicle and was just coming back in. And it was like, how could that be at the same time, you know, that the kid doesn’t know how to stop the vehicle in a big truck? The dad couldn’t lean over and do anything, you know, to help.
SPEAKER 20 :
Right. How awful.
SPEAKER 03 :
It ruined two families.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Awful, Eva. That’s a terrible story. Awful.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I wanted to pass that on just to let people know what the consequences are.
SPEAKER 20 :
Make sure whatever you do, you’re doing that very safely and there’s no one around. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Absolutely. Eva, thank you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Great reminder. No, thank you. Appreciate that very much. Have a great rest of your day. Speaking of, there was a story I wanted to bring up today, and some of you probably saw this. It affected my drive home. The other night, the Golden officer, the Golden police officer that was killed on Highway 58, he was helping with another accident. It was the snowy night. I believe that was Wednesday night. And there had been another accident or something along those lines, and they were assisting with that particular accident. And a drunk driver somehow came upon that accident. And this is the problem. Back to my flashing light story a moment ago. It’s well known that drunk people will drive to the lights. It’s what they do. I can’t explain why. I don’t understand that part of it. I’m not a psychologist, so I don’t know why, but they drive to the lights. And I’m going to get into something in a moment that might ruffle a few feathers, but I’m going to say it anyways. As you guys know me, I don’t mince too many words. But anyways, a drunk driver actually ran into two officers who, trapping them under his vehicle, and one of those officers who was a young man, I call him a young man because I’m old, in his early 30s, again, worked for the Golden Police Department, lost his life. Tragic. Tragic. Shouldn’t happen. Now, and I’m not faulting anybody because that’s a tragedy and shouldn’t have happened, but I often wonder with our emergencies, police agencies, and so on, in these situations, In a lot, though, there are times where I see people that will either be in an accident or somebody will even pull off to have, you know, an officer, you know, pull them over, write a ticket and so on. And I often wonder, especially on highways, why are you pulled off there? And why hasn’t the officer, for his own safety, her own safety, told that person to move on down to the next exit or something along those lines? I’ve yet to figure out why they do what they do. In some cases, the officer will even stick his nose of the car. I know it’s for his safety, but the nose of the car way out into the lane, thereby almost blocking the lane and really creating a hazard. And those of you that are officers, maybe that’s protocol, but I think it’s a stupid protocol. Tell the person to go to the next exit. Or the next pullout or whatever. I mean, get them out of there. Why do you stand there for 15 or 20 minutes writing a ticket endangering your life and others? I don’t understand that part of it. Now, when it comes to the snowstorms and accidents and snowstorms, my own opinion is, and if I were a police officer, this, in my opinion, should be standard procedure. As long as no one’s injured, and I don’t know in this particular case whether anybody was or wasn’t, but from the sounds of it, prior to the drunk showing up, there wasn’t. I don’t know why you don’t just call a snowplow and push that thing off out of the way and stay in your vehicle. The last place I want to be in a snowstorm, period, is on the side of the road. I don’t understand why our safety protocols in regards to police officers, tow truck drivers, and so on, why are we even dinking around with those cars on the side of the road? Get a snowplow and push them off to the side. It’s already wrecked. Who cares? And I don’t – is it a liability thing to where people are – the cities and state is worried about getting sued? I mean, at that point, the little bit of – property damage that may occur versus the loss of life why does it matter we just created a fund in colorado was voted on this past week it’ll create millions of dollars it’ll go to officers like this which it should i’m not saying that it shouldn’t but wouldn’t damaging a bumper or something along those lines be a lot less costly than someone’s life And again, I wasn’t there. I don’t know the exact circumstances. And maybe I’m speaking out of turn, although I’ve seen some of these accident scenes and I’ve driven by some of them afterwards. And I often wonder, why don’t you just take a snowplow or get some service vehicles with big push bumpers on the front and just move those things out of the way? Why are they in the road in the first place? And in this particular case, we lost a great golden officer because I read a lot about this particular individual, and we lost a life that we shouldn’t have. So that’s my little rant for today. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, going back, we had an exchange of e-mails this morning, and I found this book in my car, and it says owner’s manual on it about oil change. And let me tell you what my struggle is. So first, before I found the book, I went online and said, you know, oil change frequency, Kia Telluride. And there’s like 16 different Kia dealers are all saying 7,500 miles. Then I go to my owner’s manual and it says 5,000 miles. Then I go to the Kia.com. This is a factory website. And you know what the factory website on Kia.com says the oil change frequency should be? Probably 10.
SPEAKER 1 :
10,000.
SPEAKER 20 :
And they’re doing that because of cost of ownership, and that’s what they use as a comparison to other vehicles in its class to give you an overall cost, thereby making it seem like you’re saving money. But the real answer is 5K, which is what I told you and what the owner’s manual says.
SPEAKER 05 :
But every single Kia dealer… And I found like 12 of them just, you know, for pay. Every single Kia dealer is saying $7,500. And they’re all wrong. And they’re all wrong. But even in Kia, so how does Kia get away with saying they put $5,000 in their owner’s manual and they didn’t put $10,000 on the website?
SPEAKER 20 :
You know, great question. Great. To me, that’s false advertisement. I would say so because of— I mean, that’s something that—and you know me, I’m not a big lawsuit guy and so on, but that’s false advertisement. They’re misleading their potential customers buying a Kia by saying that. It’s wrong.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, right, because what they’re publishing—and I’m on—this is not a deal. This is Kia.com. You know, ask him.
SPEAKER 20 :
And what they’re going to come back and probably say, Joe, is, well, that’s for, you know, you, Joe, you’re in extreme operating conditions. And what we’re putting on the website is for ideal conditions. But they know that no one drives in ideal conditions. So why put it there in the first place? Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I’m wondering, John, if, you know, if you ever did have a warranty problem with your engine, and let’s say you were going with the 7,500-mile interval and you had proof that you did 7,500, right? And you had an engine problem, piston failure, whatever, that they could say, well, let me see your proof you did your oil change. You say, right here, 7,500 miles. And they say, well, no, no, the manual says 5,000. I wonder if they try to deny you warranty.
SPEAKER 20 :
You know, that’s a good question. I doubt they would, but I’m also one where, no offense, Joe, I don’t want that problem in the first place. So I want to avoid that at all costs anyways. Even if they cover it, I don’t want to do it. No, I agree with you, but I’m just— But you’re right. I mean, you probably, given the fact they say 10 on the website, with a good attorney, you’d probably be okay. But who wants to go there?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you’re right. But anyway, so for your listeners out there, John, the question is, because I had been going to one service station, and he was telling me, you know, 7,500, and then I went to another guy, and he said 8,000, and then I went to a third guy. And he said $6,000. And then, you know, you and I conversed. And then I finally pulled the book out about half an hour ago. And the book says $5,000. And then I go to the website and it says $10,000.
SPEAKER 20 :
Unreal. Unreal. Joe, I’m going to let you go. I’ve got top of the hour break. I’ll talk more about that when I come back. That’s a great discussion. Joe, thank you for that, by the way. All right. We’ll be right back. Lines are open. Question of the day. Your biggest pet peeve when driving in the snow? 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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