In this episode of Drive Radio, hosts discuss the must-have features every car buyer should consider when shopping for a new vehicle. From heated seats and power passenger options to more sophisticated technology like adaptive cruise control and Bluetooth connectivity. Get ready as John Rush, alongside Steve Horvath, dive into friendly debates about what makes or breaks a car purchase. Listeners also share their thoughts, including personal stories of how certain features, such as power folding mirrors, enhance or limit their automotive experiences. The episode is filled with practical advice, humor, and revelations about how car accessories like heated
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All right, and it’s Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno’s Auto Service over at Bowles and Platt Canyon. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Larry Unger is, of course, answering phones for us today. Any questions at all when it comes to your vehicle, please give us a call, 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And let’s see. I’ve got to get my notes here so we can get to our question of the day. Give me one second here. I apologize. All right. Question of the day. We’ve had this one before, and it’s a recycled one, but it’s been a while. So I thought, you know what? It’s still a good question of the day for today. When you go to look for a new or used car, What features are a must-have? So in other words, you’re looking at a new car, used car, whatever the case, you’re getting ready to buy a car, and you look at it and you’re running through the list of things that it has and it doesn’t have X item, it’s a no-go for you. What is that no-go item? For example, I know some folks whereby if the steering wheel isn’t heated, it’s a no-go. And true story. Now, for me personally, I can’t stand having the bloody thing on. So even the cars I have with one, I hardly ever use it because I don’t like how hot they get. I don’t like the feeling. So I’m one of those that when it comes to seat heaters and steering wheel heaters, I could care less because I don’t ever use them. Now, my wife, though, when it comes to the seat heaters especially, and Steve’s over here agreeing with me, that’s a big deal. That’s a big deal. My wife’s one of those where that would probably, for her, be a no-go. Now, ventilated, not as big of a deal, but the heated seats, that is a deal-breaker if it doesn’t have that. So much so that even my old plow truck, my old old Ford Dodge… When I redid the interior in that, I had the ability to add seat heaters to that, and I did just for her so that when she’s out with me, if we’re plowing snow or whatever, she’s got a nice toasty seat. I never use my side, but I did both sides because that’s the way the kit comes. And that is something, by the way, most people don’t realize. You can add seat heaters to an existing vehicle if it doesn’t have it. So in some cases, if you’re thinking, well, I need an upgrade because I want seat heaters, you can add that to what you currently have. You know, you can sometimes do that yourself or you could get an upholstery shop to help you with that. But they’re not hard to do. And by the time I was done with my Dodge, you’d think it came from the factory that way. It looks all – I put the buttons in a spot where you would have thought that came that way from the factory, and they work fabulous and all of that. And, no, I don’t use them, but she does. So for her – so that’s an example with my wife where that’s a no-go for her. So that’s the question of the day, though. When you’re looking to buy a new or used car, what’s a feature that you will not go without? Now – some of the givens so take these out because these are givens every car today and has been now for the majority of even the cars that are on the road today out of the fleet we’ve had power steering power brakes power windows and air conditioning now for how long steve oh 40 years or more
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Yeah. You can’t buy it without it.
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I mean, even fleet trucks, guys. We’re at a point even on the fleet truck sides of things to where you can’t hardly buy a fleet truck without power windows now. Sure. I mean, they are just becoming the standard thing on every vehicle. So don’t – what I’m going after is that’s a standard. That’s not a – Yeah, those aren’t really half used. Yeah, because they’re coming standard. So give me the other things outside of that that for you are the standard features that you actually have to have. John and Centennial, you’re first today.
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Hey, good morning, guys.
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Good morning.
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Two things I want. My new car, my new Canadia doesn’t have, and I’m surprised. My other cars have, I want a power passenger seat.
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That’s a good one. Yeah.
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Yeah, because she likes to sit up high and stuff like that. You can have a power driver’s seat, but I want a power passenger seat.
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Yeah, that makes sense. No, you know what? I think my wife, John, would very much agree with you.
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Yeah, and the other thing is I like power folding in mirrors. That’s just me. In and out of the garage and having the mirrors folded in so you can get around because I have a smaller garage.
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You know what? It’s funny you say that. I hadn’t thought about that. That’s a good one, though.
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That’s very good. Anyway, that’s just my thoughts.
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No, in fact, I’m writing these down because that one’s a good one, and I can’t disagree with the mirror one, the mirror one especially. Now, the passenger seat, I’m never in, so for me, not a big deal. But I get it for the other half, John, and my wife, I think, would agree with you on that one. My wife, too, she likes the adjustable part. Yeah, she likes the adjustable part.
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Sometimes when it gets really cold, mine doesn’t quite come on, and I have to get going about 5, 10 miles an hour, and finally, oh, then they’ll open back up.
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Yeah.
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If they get really cold, even though I keep the car in a garage, sometimes maybe the hydraulics, not hydraulics, but the electric motors.
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Is your garage heated or no? What’s that? Is the garage heated or no?
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No, my garage is not heated.
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Gotcha.
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Yeah, so anyway. One last thing I wish they would fix over the years. I wish they’d come out with a decent windshield wiper blade. Anyway.
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You know what? I can’t argue that one, John. There’s a ton of them on the market, and still, at the end of the day, they all have their faults.
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Yeah, I change mine out probably once or twice a year.
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That’s good. Good for you. You’re better than most.
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All right.
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John, appreciate you very much. No, and yeah, the wiper thing with all the technology we have today, here’s the thing I’ve never understood. And for some of you, maybe, and I know there’s kits, but they’re crap. I’ve tried them. They don’t work. At least I’ve tried them years ago. Maybe I haven’t tried one recently, but… So windshield wiper blades should be heated, especially in colder states. That ought to be an option on a car. You should be able to get heated windshield wipers. Now, yes, the windshield itself can be heated. Land Rover’s done that for years. You can use your defroster to heat it up, but some windshields are actually heated, and it does help to a certain degree. A lot of the companies now will put the defroster-type grid where the wipers are to try to keep that area more thawed out. But why don’t you just heat the wiper itself, the blade? Not the blade, but everything surrounding the blade so that the blade doesn’t end up all crusted up with – with snow and ice.
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You have to slap it down.
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Yeah, so you’re always slapping that. Here in Colorado, we get one of those heavier snows where it’s cold and you start running down the road. The windshield, of course, drops, and now all the blades get iced up, and sometimes you’re trying to pull over in a parking lot or whatever, or the next stoplight, you’re slapping that blade, trying to get all the crud off. In today’s world, with all of the modern conveniences we have, they can’t fix that? No. Interesting. That one I’ve yet to figure out. We had a heated washer fluid once on one of our cars.
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That was popular for a while, and I don’t know why that one didn’t last. Actually, there was a recall on ours, and they disconnected it. So there was a fire thing. It was a GM thing, wasn’t it? Yeah, it was on our enclave. That’s what I thought. That was a GM thing. And that worked pretty good. Because it would be hot coming out. It would get all that off there.
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Then it went away. Yeah, it went away. Anyways, that question of the day, what are one of those items that you have to have? It’s a must-have. You look at a vehicle and it’s like, yeah, it doesn’t have that. I’m passing that up. I’m not buying that car. For me personally, this kind of comes down to more the car than the features. But features sell the cars. It does. It does. And so that’s where you really have to look hard at, you know, is this something I can get by with or is this something we can live without on that particular vehicle? Anyways, that’s the question of the day. Anything else you have for us, by the way, let us know. 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. This is myself, Steve Horvath. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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My wife uses it all the time in town and stuff. Really? She loves that thing. Really? She loves that thing. Okay. I don’t know. Okay, well. Each his own. I guess, I don’t know. I never really thought about using it in town. Yeah, quite a bit. You know, C470. Well, I guess you could.
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No, that makes sense. Okay, so adaptive cruise control. This is a big one. This one, in fact, this is a big one for me. In fact, I added this to my old plow truck. Bluetooth audio. So not only for listening to your device, your phone, whatever, but talking on the phone wirelessly, hands-free as well. Yeah, I’m with you on that one. That one is, for me, now, is it completely a deal killer for me? That one’s sort of like heated seats because there’s enough aftermarket products now whereby you could add Bluetooth in and… That one, again, for me, isn’t necessarily a deal killer as long as I can with the factory unit. I hate aftermarket radios, by the way. Sorry. I know some of you are going to cringe at me saying that, and I never have liked them, even as a kid. Didn’t like them even as a kid. I thought they were all garbage and cheesy, and I was never one of those kids that ran around and spent buku dollars on sound systems and all that. I’d rather go fast and have a sound system. That was me. I’d rather spend money on… You know, heads and a carburetor and headers and exhaust. And I was that kid. I was doing more of that. I could care less about the radio. You could put an AM radio in it and it didn’t matter to me one way or the other. I could have cared less about all that stuff. So I never spent big money on sound systems. Still haven’t. In fact, I guess maybe because of growing up in the industry. And then working on cars as long as I did, and Steve will probably understand and appreciate this, I hate the aftermarket electronics of almost anything. Alarms, car stereos. And the reason is maybe not even the quality of the stereo, although most of those aren’t super high quality. Most of it is the guys that installed it are hack artists. The installations were junk. They were garbage. In fact, if you had an electrical issue on a car, the first thing, at least for me as a technician, the first thing you did was, does it have an aftermarket alarm? Does it have an aftermarket radio? Steve’s over here agreeing with me.
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Aftermarket cruise control.
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The first two things you would look at, what’s been added on, electrically speaking to this car, because that’s going to be the first place I actually go and attack. There’s a draw on the battery or anything along those. Those are the first things that I am looking at, Most times, not always, but most times, that’s where the problem was. Or something related to that problem. They clipped a wire. Again, folks, it’s hard to explain this over the air. But I’m a… I’m a very particular person anyways. You guys all know that. And any time I worked on wiring on cars, anybody that knows me that was even around me back when I was doing those things could verify this. I’m a very particular guy, and when I wired anything in, I was very particular about even the type of wire I used, the type of connectors I used, what it looked like when it was done, the whole nine yards. I like things done nice and neat. I hate the old spaghetti mess is what we used to call it and still do in the automotive world. I don’t want spaghetti. I want to know where are things going, what circuits go with what. Even if I ever had to put an aftermarket radio in, okay, if you tie all the speakers in, you know, the left speakers, right speakers, front, back, I mean, all those are on separate. They get, you know, they get, you know, taped or wire tied independently. And anyways, I’m very… Very particular on that, and I can’t stand when things aren’t wired in that way and aren’t tucked up nicely. And nothing worse than looking under a dash and seeing a bunch of spaghetti hanging down. It just drives me crazy. And it’s gotten better because the factory – the factories – the manufacturers have gotten so much better at the quality of those things that you don’t really have to go buy the aftermarket stuff much anymore. But at one time, man, stereo shops and so on, they were doing big business because they were doing stereo heads and alarms and remote starts and all kinds of stuff that you could actually go buy and speakers and so on. And at the end of the day, they made a lot of money doing that. But sometimes it didn’t work out well for the owner of the car because they were all hacked up when it was done, Steve. Mm-hmm. And I’m not exaggerating to that. So again, the Bluetooth thing, that can be added. So that’s question of the day. What’s one of those items that you just have to have, one of the must-haves when buying a new or used vehicle? Text message came in. Have a question for the car show. That’s us. I just bought a Ram with the Cummins, and it came with a grille cover. when do i use that i had a pos duramax and i don’t think it had a grill cover uh this is a 24 ram and here’s the answer for the most part that grill cover and yeah a lot of the cummins will come with them in fact the duramax might have sometimes they’re buried away and and or the dealer may not have given it to you but a lot of the diesels will come with a grill cover truthfully you don’t need that grill cover ever Unless we’re below 10 below, and I’m not exaggerating. You really don’t need it. If you’re going up north and you’re going to go up into the Dakotas or you’re going up into the upper Midwest where it’s super cold in the winter, sure, go ahead and use your grill cover at that point in time. Here in Colorado, you know, we get maybe one or two weeks a year where we really get that below zero weather. And for the little bit that we get, would I even install a grill cover at that time? No, no, I wouldn’t. It’s not that big of a deal during that time. Now, if you’re out in a place where it’s even colder than it is in the metro area and the wind’s blowing and that wind chill is going to make things colder, you may want to go ahead and throw that winter cover on. We call it a winter cover. I used to sell those back in the day, by the way. That was a big deal. You’d sell the bug cover for the summer and the winter cover during the winter. Don’t use as much of that anymore because they do such a good job of controlling heat on their own. But they do come with that. So, again, for me personally, I don’t think you need to use that unless we’re in that below zero weather for an extended period of time. If it just got below zero for a day or two, would I go to the hassle of putting that thing on? No, I would not. Do you mind explaining what a grow cover is doing? It’s blocking airflow through the radiator, helping the engine stay warmer is all we’re doing. It’s like the old days when you stuck a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator to try to help things heat up. That’s all a grill cover is doing other than it’s got a control mechanism where you can zip it and unzip it and allow a little bit of air through and so on. So it’s a little more controllable than that piece of cardboard used to be. Okay. Remember those days?
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Oh, yeah. No.
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So are you listening? Probably used cardboard back in the day.
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And they’ve done such a good job with not having mechanical fans, too, so then they can control that without the thermostat then controlling it a lot more without having to control the airflow.
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Correct. And if you heard me, great. I’m going to text you back either way. So thank you for that text message, by the way. I appreciate that. And this is an out-of-state area code, so they may not be listening and they may not have actually – heard that and a lot of you listening to me are are agreeing with me on all of the remote start aftermarket radio nonsense now here’s here’s a couple more that came in must have two keys yeah thank you in fact that’s a that’s a great tip for those of you that are buying a used car or a new car doesn’t matter get both keys the new car is going to come with two keys period now by the way this is something else to think about in your deal when you’re making the deal on the new car If you’re somebody that loses keys or you have someone in your family that does, you know what? As a part of your deal in buying that car, ask for a third. It’s much easier to get all of that done before the car is delivered to you than it is afterwards. They’ve got everything there. The fob, they can cut the key, they can get everything done for you right there at the dealership far cheaper and easier at that time than you’ll ever do in the aftermarket, unless you buy an aftermarket fob and all of that. But if you really want it done correctly and you’re somebody that struggles with having, you know, finding keys, because some people do, you know, keys that gets legs or whatever the case may be, if that’s you and you want that third key, Go ahead and make that deal at the time you’re buying the car. Hey, you know what? I’m going to buy this car, but I want three keys, not two. Sales guy at that point has to go figure out how he’s going to make all that or how she’s going to make all that happen. And if that’s something you want as a part of the deal, make it a part of the deal.
SPEAKER 06 :
But in today’s technology, put an air tag on it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and then you don’t lose it. Yeah. And by the way, they make key chain holders and things along those lines that even have the fob. I have them on my luggage. Oh. So I put air tags on my luggage doing it the exact same way that Steve’s talking about. And literally, you could clip that onto your key ring, and now you’re not losing your keys either. So, yeah, they’re the slickest thing ever, by the way. Mm-hmm. And knock on wood, ever since tracking my luggage, I haven’t lost any. Mm-hmm. It’s amazing how that works. Yeah, and that’s a whole other conversation, by the way, on the AirTag and what all you can put an AirTag on. List is endless, by the way. Anything that you want to keep track of, you can AirTag.
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Mm-hmm.
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it’s that simple so if you don’t know what that is go look it up they make air tags for both apple and android depending upon what device you’re on they work exactly the same way but tagging things and keeping track of them that way you absolutely can so yeah thank you so the other one is blind spot indicators sirius xm that’s a good one too automatic exterior lighting And then, of course, the power seats we’ve talked about already. And the rear camera. Now, I will say on most new cars now, the cameras are pretty standard. In fact, I think it’s law now. Yeah, I believe that’s law. I can’t remember what year that actually went in, but it’s law. But used cars, no. If that’s a big thing for you on a used car, you may want to check to see if it’s got the camera.
SPEAKER 06 :
How many lives were saved by the rear camera?
SPEAKER 15 :
Back up. Probably a lot because people generally, kids especially, get run over from folks backing out of the driveway, which, again, if you use my model and you back in to the garage, that doesn’t happen, but that’s hard to get a lot of people to do. So Bob and Centennial, you’re next.
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Okay, thanks for taking my call. I have a question about car stereo. Something happened. I can’t get AM on my stereo. The button you press, it’s only… stays on FM and won’t go to AM. So I recently had a problem with my, I let the lights on for two hours while I was in a meeting and drained the battery, and it was dead. I had to have it be jump-started. And then I got home, I charged the battery overnight. But now it won’t display the AM. Do you happen to know anything about that or a place I could go to?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think there could be a fuse on the back of that radio, depending on the car, because there are some cars where there’s actually a fuse that’s in the back. You pull the radio out, and it could have blown for just that part of it. That doesn’t seem to make sense to me. And it’s an aftermarket radio or a factory radio?
SPEAKER 04 :
Aftermarket.
SPEAKER 15 :
JVC. Steve could be right. Yeah, that one’s different than what you’ll even find on the OEM radio. So, yeah, Steve could be right on the money on that one. Something there.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s kind of where I would start, at least, you know, checking the basics always anyway.
SPEAKER 04 :
Any auto stereo place you can recommend, I could just take it in and have them check it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Steve, that’s your department. I don’t know anymore. I don’t keep track of that side of it anymore.
SPEAKER 06 :
We work a little bit with car toys on West Bowles, but it’s a little hit and miss, to be honest with you. They’re nice enough, but I’m not sure they’re experienced enough. And it depends on who they have hired at the moment. That’s a good point.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, well, I guess I could try them or call them or see if they could help.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m sure they’ll try to help you. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, well, thanks to any other callers. If I have any inexperience, I want to call on.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, if any of you know any more on the aftermarket radio thing and have an idea, by all means, yeah, let us know, Bob, and we’ll see if anybody calls in with something. Okay, thanks a lot. Thanks, Bob. Appreciate it very much. And I’ve had three text messages agreeing with me on the aftermarket radio end of things and so on. And I’m sorry. I’m not trying to pick on them, but they’re just junk. They are not the same quality as what you’re getting out of the OEM. I don’t care what they tell you. They’re just not. In fact, pick one up versus the other. And the weight alone will be sizably different from one to the other, and I’m not exaggerating. All right, we’ll be right back. Bruno, hang tight. We’ve got a couple lines open, 303-477-5600.
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SPEAKER 15 :
Really sad text message came in that one of my brother’s friends had his little six-year-old girl ran over this summer. Somebody backing out of the garage. Guys. Again, and somebody said, well, I must be a volunteer fire department guy because I back in. No, that’s from growing up in the dealership world, truthfully, because in a dealership, You know, when you’re going to sell cars and so on, no one wants to look at the back end of a car to buy it. They’re always looking at the front end. So all cars on a dealership lot are backed in the spaces because when people are looking at cars, they want to see the front end of the car, not the back end of the car. I thought of some Rockford files. Remember Rockford files?
SPEAKER 06 :
He always backed in.
SPEAKER 15 :
Since I was a kid learning to drive when I was literally 11, 12 years of age, I learned how to back in cars at a very early age, and I’ve really never stopped since. Something else I wanted to talk about, too, and I did this this past week. Well, let me talk to Bruno first, but I don’t want to delay this. I can talk about that any time. Bruno, let me get you in first. Go ahead, Bruno. You’re next.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you so much. I listen to you guys religiously every Saturday. Thank you, sir. You guys are the greatest. I mean it. Here I’m looking at a 1992 fire truck with a 7.3 diesel in it. It’s an F-350 with 122,000 miles on it. The only thing wrong with it is the pulley tensioner makes noise, but it goes away at 1,500 RPMs. And also, it’s a Montana title. It’s clear and free. However, the guy who is selling it, his name is not on it. It’s just a corporation from an auction. He bought it four years ago.
SPEAKER 15 :
So they’re jumping title. That’s what they call that. We’re jumping title, meaning the original seller went ahead and signed off on everything. He owned it. He never ran the title through, and he’s reselling it, and he’s just going to hand you the title. Is that what you’re telling me? Yes, sir. Technically, that’s illegal, although no one will ever know the difference, and you can still run that title through and be okay. But, yeah, that’s called jumping title, and that’s illegal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I see. On his part.
SPEAKER 15 :
You won’t have any trouble, Bruno, but technically what he’s doing is illegal. He’s not supposed to do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I see. Okay. I priced out the pulley tensioner. Unfortunately, I only got shopping around the parts stores. Even Napa only offers them in plastic version. That’s how it looks Chinese to me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, there’s a lot of plastic tensioners, even from the factory. That’s not a huge issue.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s not a huge issue. How much would you pay for that truck, 90, 92? Can I even have a car tax on that, on a 92?
SPEAKER 15 :
So it’s a 92, and you say fire truck. Does it have a different box on the back? Is it still a regular pickup truck?
SPEAKER 05 :
What is it? It’s got a Phoenix utility body on the back.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it’s got even the bullhorn still working.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the lights and everything.
SPEAKER 15 :
And how many miles again? 122,000. 122,000. Is it really good shape, clean, all of that interior good? Is it a single cab, crew cab? What is it, Bruno?
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s a crew cab, you know, still built by the brother of Henry Kissinger, not by Ford yet. It’s a custom build before they became Ford built, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
What year was it again, Bruno? 1992. It’s a 92, so it’s an older one. Those are actually going up in value because of the vintage year that it is. What would I pay? Given it’s a fire truck, it’s probably not adding any value. You’re still better off with that having an actual pickup box on it, although if it’s really clean and good and all of that’s in great shape, drivetrain and so on, truck’s worth a minimum of $10,000. Wow. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. So you think I should be able to get Wyoming title on that thing?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, if you take that Montana, you know, I’m guessing Wyoming’s like Colorado. You probably need a VIN verification and some of those things to make sure things are solid that way. But as long as you do all of that, yeah, you should have no issues. Given it came out of a corporation name that’s going to you, you shouldn’t have any issues. Now, did the last owner put anything else on the title, fill in the customer name or anything like that, or is all of that still blank?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s still blank.
SPEAKER 15 :
Then you’re fine. You’ll be okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, great. Thank you so much. You’re very welcome, Brew.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope, nope, good question, by the way. Thank you for that. Jerry in Arvada, you’re next.
SPEAKER 17 :
John, I went to Napa and bought a bottle of BG Supercharger 2.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
And it said to peel the label to see how you mix it, and it peeled the label come apart, so I didn’t even know how many ounces per gallon. Do you know that off the top of your head?
SPEAKER 15 :
Steve, let’s see if we can look that up really quick.
SPEAKER 17 :
Six-ounce bottle, so…
SPEAKER 15 :
Typically, the six-ounce bottle is about a 20-gallon application, so we’ll have to do a little bit of math on this to see exactly how that comes out. 20 gallons, huh? That’s about what I’ve used. I mean, I usually treat about 20 gallons with one bottle is what I do.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I guess that’s close enough.
SPEAKER 15 :
I’m looking to see if there’s anything on their website that would tell us what the actual ratings are. So you’ve got the six-ounce bottle. Let me see if it will say here. I’m sorry for this. I’m trying to read and talk at the same time. I’m texting my BG rep.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m curious if he’ll answer me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, so six ounces. I’ve got it right here. Six ounces treats 15 gallons, so do the math accordingly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Six ounces treats 15 gallons.
SPEAKER 15 :
Six ounces, 15 gallons.
SPEAKER 17 :
15 gallons, so that’s about three-quarters of an ounce per gallon.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right.
SPEAKER 15 :
And by the way, you’d be safe with even an ounce a gallon, and you wouldn’t have any issues, Jerry. If you went a little over, not going to bother anything.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, probably have to use a shot glass to measure, so it’s going to be nice.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go. There you go. One for me, one for the car.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s right. One for me, one for the car.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you, sir. You’re very welcome, Jerry. Appreciate it. Great question, by the way. So I wanted to mention this because this is something I did this past week and thought I’d go ahead and throw it out there because it was a very simple, easy install with the new laws that we now have in Colorado when it comes to proper storage of a firearm. It would behoove some of you that do that to put some sort of a lockable safe in your car or truck. Now, most of the pickup trucks that are out there, there are aftermarket safe companies. Some of the factories, GM, for example, you can even buy as an option a console safe. But you can pretty much buy a console safe for most trucks now. And I’ve got a GM unit, as you guys all know. And I bought one of the aftermarket safes. And I bought the one with the thumb, you know, the fingerprint opener because it’s faster than it is trying to use a key or anything along those lines. And not that much more money. It’s like $20 more to do the fingerprint opening versus a regular standard combo lock. and i will tell you um kudos to the company that built this if you want to know which company it was you can call in or ask and i’ll give you that information but kudos to the company that did this fit and finish was great programming it was probably the hardest i’m not joking it took me longer to program my fingerprints in than it did to install it it fits perfectly It literally goes in the very bottom half of the console, meaning that, you know, you still want to have access to your door and stuff, but you’ve still got room up above where, let’s say you wanted to put a couple of, you know, pair of gloves or something along those lines, you know, only takes you a second to remove the gloves and put those out of the way. And now you’ve got access to the safe. And super easy to install. You’re now going to be within the letter of the law in Colorado if you’ve got a firearm and you need to store it. So, you know, some of us carry. I do. And there’s places, though, where you can’t carry in federal buildings and schools and things like that. So you’re going to want to take that firearm out and put it someplace. And by law now in Colorado, it’s supposed to be locked. in a secure place inside of your car. So to be to the letter of the law and frankly, just to make sure nobody gets in and steals anything anyways, it’s probably not a bad idea, probably something you should have regardless. These console safes work perfect. And I will tell you again, easy to install. piece of cake the brand that i bought fit like a glove i’m not joking they’ve got this thing dialed into where it fits in that console perfectly had to make zero adjustments to put it in it slipped right in bolted in goes to the floor they give you longer bolts because you’re taking two bolts out of the console adding two new bolts in and it literally fit like a glove and for some of you you’re thinking well you know i don’t carry a gun but it’d be nice just to have that extra you know maybe you carry a little bit of cash with you maybe you’re somebody that goes to the bank for your business or whatever the case may be. You may want to go ahead and have something like that just to put those things in because you know even if somebody gets into the car, they’re not getting into the safe. So any kind of valuables, things along those lines. Some of you guys are in businesses where you’re carrying some different valuables and things like that around with you. You may want one of them for that and This is the first time I’ve ever bought one, used one. But I’m here to tell you, I was impressed with how well it worked. I’m not joking you. And my wife will tell you this. It literally took me longer to program it. which I did on the kitchen counter, took me longer to program it than it did to install it. Literally, the installation was under five minutes. It took me 10 minutes to program it. So all in all, it took me 15 minutes to put the thing in, and off you go. So just a fair note on that. Works extremely well. And the other thing, too, that I want to mention that Steve and I were looking at during the last break is for some of you where you might have a car you’re looking at, Back to some of our must haves. There is a lot of companies, eBay and other places, whereby they take a factory head unit that doesn’t have Bluetooth and they add it. So, you know, I did this on my old 2004 Ram truck. I think I told you guys earlier. So that’s what I’m talking about. You can actually take a factory head unit. and have Bluetooth added, buy it that way, put it in, and everything is factory at that point. So just a side note, if that’s something you’re interested in doing, we can give you information on that as well. All right, we’ll be right back. Myself, Steve Horvath, Geno’s Auto Service, Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 15 :
And we are back, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Jerry, good morning.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good morning. What you were just mentioning about the lockable console vault, I can’t remember the name of the bill, but the law about an unattended vehicle, leaving your gun in a parked vehicle. So when I researched that, What I found was that if you have one of the vaults like you were discussing, or even just a lockable glove box or a center console, that’s fine for a handgun, but for a long gun, of course, that won’t work. And if you lock your long gun in a hard case carrier, a hard-sided case, then okay, that meets the standards. But I think maybe a lot of people may not realize that if you leave a long gun in a soft case, like a padded soft case, that not only does that have to be locked, but then you also have to lock the action of the gun.
SPEAKER 15 :
Ah, good to know.
SPEAKER 09 :
I believe their idea there was that it would be so easy to cut open a soft case that then they want the gun to be disabled.
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I just wanted to throw that out there.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know what? I’m glad you said that. And there are, just for some of you listening, for some of you that have trucks, there are back seat safes made where, you know, lockable trunks, I guess you could say, not necessarily a safe, Jerry, but lockable under seat storage where in a lot of the pickup trucks the seats fold up. You can then take all that underneath area, and they do make steel, quote, unquote, seats. whereby if you did have a long gun or something like that, Jerry, you could slip that in there, and I’m guessing that would meet the requirements, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah, you’re right. Especially when you’re going hunting and that kind of thing. You want it locked away.
SPEAKER 15 :
Furthermore, Jerry, personally speaking, I mean, law or not, probably not a bad idea with all of the bad actors we have out running around. The last thing you want to do is lose, you know, one of your prized possessions, which in a lot of cases is your firearm. I mean, the last thing you want to do is lose that or have somebody steal it. So putting it inside something lockable in the car, probably not a bad idea anyways.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, my motto is make it hard for the thieves. Exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly. And you really don’t want anybody to, you’d hate for somebody to use that, because if they’re stealing it, they’re not going to be using it for good purposes. I mean, you don’t want to see something bad happen with that gun.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I somewhat disagreed with it when they rolled that out, because to me it kind of falls in the category of blame the victim.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, I agree. I agree with you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Practically speaking, you’re right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and I’m one of those where I don’t necessarily need a law to have people do that. It’s more of a reminder now that I guess we should. And again, at the end of the day, I don’t want to lose the item. And these safes too, just as I was mentioning a minute ago, Jerry, there’s a lot of people out there that do other things besides even carry guns around in their car. There’s guys that go and make deposits for their businesses. Maybe they have a lot of cash on a particular day. All sorts of things along those lines. Honestly, to have something lockable that just keeps those honest people honest, not a bad idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sure, sure. Even if it just slows down a few. Exactly.
SPEAKER 15 :
I’m telling you what, this safe that I put in my truck, they would slow down. They’d be working at this thing for longer than they’d want to to get into it, Jerry. I can tell you that just from the way it’s built. They’re not getting into it, not anytime soon.
SPEAKER 1 :
All right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that sounds good.
SPEAKER 15 :
They’re going to be spending a lot more than four or five minutes trying to get into it. And as you know, that’s too long for somebody to be rummaging around in the car. So there is no way they’re getting in and out of that thing any faster.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, sounds like a good setup.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, I guess if they had a cut-off wheel and some things along those lines and they knew it was in there and they really wanted in badly enough, but even then, I mean, they’re still going to spend a little bit of time working through everything to get through it. And as you know, Jerry, they’re going to the next easy target. They’re not going to spend time doing that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right. I just wanted to throw that out there.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, great reminder. I appreciate you saying that, by the way. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. You’re very welcome. Dan and Lakewood, you’re next.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was just wondering what you think about the Duramax 10-speed trannies.
SPEAKER 15 :
As far as?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, are they having a lot of trouble with them? I’ve heard of a lot of people having trouble with those.
SPEAKER 15 :
It depends. Out of the entire fleet that we have, where I’ve probably got 10 of those trucks, I’ve had one issue.
SPEAKER 03 :
And those are 10-speeds?
SPEAKER 15 :
10-speeds.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. What year are those trucks?
SPEAKER 15 :
Those started in 2020.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really? Oh, okay. Well, I was just wondering about that. That’s all.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, would I not buy one because of the issues? No, because, Dan, they all – you know, you can talk about Ford. You can talk about Ram. You know, they’ve all got issues. So there’s no perfect unit made right now. You know, all of them have different idiosyncrasies and things that you can run into. You know, would it keep me from buying one? No, I do own them. And, again, out of the 10 or so that we own – it might even be over 10 now – Out of the 10 or so that we own, I’ve had one issue, and I believe that truck is supposed to – I think we’ve already got it back. It took a little while to get that truck fixed. As you know, it’s a valve body issue they’ve had with those. That’s the biggest thing that the GM side has had. And, you know, is it on every single truck? Sort of like the 6.2 recall where the engine failures are happening on the 6.2. You know, the percentage of failure on that is about 5%, Dan.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
So would it keep me from buying one? No, it would not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, buddy, thanks.
SPEAKER 15 :
You betcha, Dan. Good call, by the way. I appreciate that. And some of you, I know, you’ve got some of your own experiences. I’ve had some of you, you know, text me and let me know that, you know, you wouldn’t buy another Duramax because of that. And I had issues with RAM for the longest time because, not because of the truck, but because of the way the factory was handling some of the warranty sides of it. Now, I do think this, this is just a side note on RAM. I think that was a leadership issue that, believe me, right now they are doing their best to fix. I don’t think that’s as big of an issue right now as it was, say, a couple of years ago. But they had really – once Marcioni passed away, that thing went into a spiral, downhill spiral. And, frankly, they were not handling the customer like they should. And there’s articles about this. You can go read. There’s an article here of late in Apple News talking about the demise of – of Stellantis is really what it’s talking about and what happened inside of their leadership, the culture. It was all about making money. They were doing everything they possibly could to reduce costs, including laying off people, stopping some of the R&D on certain things, the warranty sides of things that I’m mentioning. They did whatever they could to boost profits to make the stock look good, but the end was coming. and it did and it’s there now and they lost billions once everything finally washed out there’s new leadership now the major stockholders that are involved in that wanted changes of course because they could see where things were headed they’ve got good leadership in place right now I do believe that they’ll get back on the right track and they’ll get some things handled correctly moving forward. But yeah, I’ll be the first to tell you that we didn’t buy some RAM products for quite some time, but GM instead, because frankly, and it wasn’t even the dealer’s fault, but the factory would not honor some of the warranty issues they were having in regards to the exhaust systems on the emissions, some of the fuel system issues, the injector pump issues, and so on. And some of you that own some of those know exactly what I’m talking about. And, yeah, that was a problem on the leadership end of things. Is it 100% fixed? No. Hard to say. Time will tell. But I will tell you from all the things that I’ve read and learned that they are doing their very best to change that culture around when it comes to leadership end of things because they had a culture of let’s only make money. at the cost of the rest of the business, and it did cost them dearly in the rest of the business. Their whole switch away from the V8, which, of course, now is back, as you guys all know, and lots of things that they did along those lines really killed the brands, plural, not just a single brand, but really killed the brands. Jeep, for example, they got to the point where they were raising prices, not adding any features or benefits to the vehicle, and they were just raising prices, raising prices, raising prices, to the point where People had, you know, there’s competition. You can go buy a Ford Bronco. You can go buy something else that is equivalent, if you would. And they did. And their sales dropped. And now they’re figuring out how do we make some of these adjustments. And it got to the point where Jeep Wranglers got so expensive nobody wanted to buy one anymore. That was a culture problem at Stellantis because all they were worried about was making money and not taking care of the customer at the end of the day. And that’s what happens at times with some companies. Stellantis being one of them, they got fat and happy and they made a lot of money during COVID. And a lot of the companies did because of the supply chain issues and what they could do with pricing and so on. But they didn’t fulfill the other end of it, which was the customer service side. And in turn, that came back to bite them in a big way. And when it was all said and done, yeah, it cost them billions and billions of dollars. And they’re in the process now of rebuilding a lot of that, trying to get some of that customer loyalty back, if you would. People like me that for the longest time bought Ram trucks today. do what we needed in our fleet and so on. And we stopped for a while because of that. So we’ve got a couple that we’re getting ready to buy. We’ll see what it’s like. We’re going to give it another run and see what it’s like with some of these changes they’re making, and we’ll report back on how that works. But, all right, that’s it for Hour 1. We’ve got Hour 2 coming up. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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