From blown temp tags to tailgating truckers and everything in between, this episode of Drive Radio dives into the growing madness on Colorado’s roads. John Rush and Ken Rackley talk about the worst driver habits (yes, we see you turning right from the left lane), pet peeves that get under every motorist’s skin, and why it feels like the DMV is handing out licenses in cereal boxes. Listeners call in with firsthand stories of radar traps, reckless buses, and the mystery of drivers who slow down after they tailgate. Plus, practical advice on oil changes, towing safety, and why
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, and it is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate it. Larry Unger, of course, answering phones for us. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Ken Rackley, Tune Tech Automotive, with us today. And thanks for being here because it’s a beautiful day out.
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It’s always great to be here. I appreciate you. It is nice. It is.
SPEAKER 17 :
For those of you that…
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Probably most of you by now have been outside, but if you haven’t… You need to go there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it is beautiful out. Yeah, it’s warming up quick. Absolutely. So I’m going to continue on with a question of the day that really Andy, my cohort on Fridays, started last night on our daily show, Rush to Reason, and we had a few phone calls on this. I’m assuming we’ll get some of these today because it does strike a nerve with a lot of people, and it is, what are your biggest, and some of you will have more than one, But what are your biggest driving pet peeves? And we haven’t done this for a while. And there are a lot. And especially those of you that spend a lot of time on the road, I’m one of those. And some of you listening are as well. And I just – I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be rude or anything along those lines. But it just seems to me – my wife was always laughing at me because I just talk to people as I’m driving. But they just seem to get – worse and worse and worse. We’re not generating better drivers as time goes by. We are generating worse drivers as time goes by. Am I right, Ken?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, by far. Yeah, exactly. With, I mean, you know, with… Transplants. Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’ll just say straight up, between immigration, transplants, things like that, folks that are coming in from other states, other countries, and they bring their driving habits here, I’ll just tell you straight up that there’s a lot of people out there that… that just don’t have the same driving capacity that I don’t even – I’m just being straight up honest, folks. I don’t know how some people get their license. I literally – I watch how some of these people drive.
SPEAKER 03 :
I just wonder, how did you pass a test? Do they even have one? Well, that’s the other thing. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
I didn’t think about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right-hand turn from the left-hand lane. I mean, that’s just at 60 miles an hour.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I can’t argue with you there, Ken. No.
SPEAKER 03 :
Or stopping in the right lane to get over to the left lane and with the turn signal on, expecting people to stop and let him over.
SPEAKER 17 :
I know.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I cannot disagree with you on that one. It’s like, did you pass one? You probably didn’t because you don’t have a license.
SPEAKER 03 :
I take a deep breath and I say, I’m going to get where I’m going. I’m not going to let them bug me. It took me a long time to get there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I’ve gotten to the point, and there’s a method to my madness here. Because, yes, there is a cost to this. And you guys know that I drive from the west side of town all the way out here southeast every single day. And in a lot of cases, I’m driving the I-70 corridor, which we now have an HOV lane in. And, yes, there’s a fee to drive in the HOV lane. But I will tell you straight up. Not necessarily even for the time factor, which, yes, my time is valuable, and I like to get where I’m going so I can do other things, even when the show’s done or whatever the case may be. But I will tell you straight up that unless there’s light traffic… I will automatically get in the HOV lane because I feel like my area of protection around me, I’ve got a larger cushion, I guess is what I’m trying to say, when I’m in the HOV lane from all of the knucklehead drivers than I do in all of the other lanes of traffic in I-70. And even though I’m paying to be in that lane, I could negate all of the savings that you may find from not being in that lane with just one mishap.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
So the way I look at it is I’m actually saving money potentially by being in the HOV lane than I am in the regular flow of traffic just because the amount of people that are in those other lanes that I look at at times, I just wonder how in the world you guys make it from A to B. Yeah, right, yeah. There’s times I just shake my head. And, I mean, folks, this means everything from, I mean, we’re talking about delivery truck drivers to semi-drivers to people in cars, buses, on down the line we go. I mean, this is shocking, by the way. On my way last night to pick up Richard. You guys all knew that he was on vacation this week, so I went out to the airport to pick him up. And I’m not joking. I don’t drive slow. I drive, you know, I want to get where I’m going. And I’m on the way to the airport last night, and I am literally darn near racing an RTD bus that is in a 35-mile-an-hour zone doing about 60 around a corner. And I’m thinking, where in the world is this guy going? Because normally they’re the ones blocking traffic, not trying to run you over. But last night I about got run over by one. Because I wasn’t doing 60 through the corner. And I’m thinking, where are you going? And that doesn’t normally happen that way. So my point is, it’s all across the board as far as the driving individuals that are out there. But that is the question of the day. What is your driving pet peeves? We’re kind of highlighting just where we’re at as a community. as a state and an area and so on and i’m just telling you folks it’s not going to get any better it’s going to continue to get worse and all i can say is be defensive in your driving be watching keep your head on a swivel be watching all around you at all times because otherwise you’re going to find yourself in a mishap john and cheyenne go ahead sir
SPEAKER 05 :
So I told Larry, I just drove my wife to the airport, so I got a few.
SPEAKER 03 :
Just today, huh?
SPEAKER 05 :
Just today. So first thing is why is the highway patrol running radar north of Wellington again?
SPEAKER 17 :
Money. It’s a cash cow for them, John. I mean, honestly, that’s all it is. It’s a cash cow.
SPEAKER 05 :
And they had somebody pulled over, you know? I understand if you’re doing 95, but everybody’s doing between 80 and 85 in that stretch because there’s nothing there. And he’s pulling people over. So the other thing, you’re in the express lane, the cold express lane, although the one on the north side of 25, they haven’t turned the toll on yet, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, where at? I mean, it’s on from, if you’re going north on I-25 from, say, you know, the 270 area, it’s on all the way up to where it breaks off at about, what is it, 160th or so? Not quite that far?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, what I was going to say is from Buc-ee’s to Fort Collins.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, that one I don’t know about. Yeah, that one I’m not sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s not on yet. Okay. They still have the sign tollway. Gotcha. So everybody’s in it, right? Yeah. I’m doing seven over the limit, and I got a guy tailgating me. Yeah. And there’s Colorado Highway Patrol out there. Sure. So I slide over to get out of his way, and he slows down.
SPEAKER 17 :
Those are the ones that really bug me. It’s like you’re on my tail, but yet I slowed down. You know, I got out of the way, got over a lane, whatever the case may be. Go by. And now you’re not going by me. Why?
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, exactly. You’re running interference. The same thing is when you’re driving on a – people that – Want to go faster, but only if you go fast.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, because they want you to be the target.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 03 :
You’re in the lead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And who knows? They might pull you both over because you’re speeding, he’s speeding, and he’s tailgating. So, you know, who knows?
SPEAKER 05 :
I’ve actually had that happen to me, Scott, 40 years ago in upstate New York. He pulled five of us over at once. Wow. And I got out of it. I was in military uniform at the time. And he asked me where I was going, and I told him. And he goes, well, I’m going to let you go this time because you’re in uniform. That was the only reason I got out of the speed circuit. Everybody else got one. I was very happy. I was very thankful. But the other thing, the other pet peeve is truckers that don’t understand that if they’re going uphill in a headwind, you can’t pass.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Get out of the left lane. And they live in the left lane on I-80 between – Cheyenne and Laramie goes from 6,000 to 8,600 feet. And there’s always a headwind. Yep. All right. I would say like 90% of the time.
SPEAKER 17 :
You’re right. I see the same thing even in town here, John. It’s like, first of all, why are you guys in the, even in town, why are you in the left lane? You’re not as mobile. You shouldn’t be there. There’s four lanes. Get in one of the other three and stay out of the, just because there’s an HOV lane there doesn’t mean that you can get in the left lane because the HOV lane is not the left lane. It is the express lane.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Get out of the dang left lane.
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The passing lane.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, Didn’t Colorado back about seven or eight years ago pass that law that says you’re not supposed to ride the passing lane? Right. How about instead of having that trooper up north of Wellington, have him enforce the passing lane?
SPEAKER 17 :
Don’t get me started, John. We enforce and we do, in my opinion, all of the… Why not enforce still the amount of license plates I see running around… that are expired on a hard tag or the temp tags that are anywhere from two months to a year that are out. Why are we not enforcing that? I’m paying my way. You’re paying your way. Ken’s paying his way. They’re not paying their way. Why are they not? And I’ll tell you why they don’t get pulled over. There’s no revenue there. The only revenue that comes in is wherever that person lives in the county they live in when they go to register the vehicle, because here’s what happens. The guy goes down to the courthouse with his ticket. Let’s say, in other words, he lives in Jefferson County, but he got a ticket in Denver for having expired tags. The problem is he can get out of that ticket for the most part, maybe pay a teeny, teeny fine, not enough to really make it even worthwhile for the cop to stop him, because all they have to do is show the DA they’ve got it registered, and at the end of the day, that ticket goes away. That’s the problem with why there’s not more of those written.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, but I saw a thing on Fox News out of Denver, because I watch that for the weather in the morning, where Aurora started enforcing it, and they got a ton of cars impounded. They did. Impounded.
SPEAKER 17 :
They took a little different approach, and I think what they ended up doing is upping their fines for how that works and the impound and so on. I don’t know how—I should actually, during the day show— get somebody on from there and actually ask, did this thing really accomplish what you wanted, or did it just become a much bigger headache for the city of Aurora?
SPEAKER 05 :
I don’t know, but they said that it’s…
SPEAKER 17 :
keeping people from not renew getting people to renew their plates i guess would be the way to say it well and i would say maybe if you live in aurora arapahoe county maybe it is um and adams county is part of aurora i believe um but i will tell you that i still see john i mean i can i drive a lot of a lot of windshield miles daily there’s still a ton out there yeah oh i saw it this morning and
SPEAKER 05 :
In Wyoming, my wife forgot to renew her tags, and I didn’t catch it because I usually just let her worry about her truck. And so she didn’t renew her plates, and when she went in to renew them, they said, if you want to renew your plates, you’ve got to renew them from the last time you renewed them. So you’ve got to pay the double.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you pay back and then pay, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, go all the way back and do it. So I reminded her, so now she put it in her – in her Google calendar when her, her plates are due every year, even though they send you a card in the mail.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. She put a reminder in there just in case. But, John, it’s getting crazier because we had one of our linemen on a trouble order got hit. A guy ran a red light and he didn’t have a driver’s license. He barely spoke English and the cop didn’t do anything about it. They don’t want to take, I don’t know if it’s, I guess it’s the time. They didn’t just want to have the guy, shouldn’t you be arrested if you get in an accident without a driver’s license?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think you should be, but you’re going to find very few in the law enforcement end of things that will agree with me.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, they don’t want to do it because they don’t want to do the paperwork just to have the DA say, well, we can’t prosecute him because we don’t know who he is. And he had a company vehicle, so of course that went on the company. At the end of the year, you know, that’s in the You know, in the whole budget, this is how much, you know, we had to pay to get this truck fixed. And, you know, I work for utilities, so your electric rates just went up. Or your gas rates. Because that’s all rolled into the, you know, cost of doing business. Like, you know, from your landscaping business, if somebody hits a truck, that’s going to, you know. The other thing, if I could jump back. If I could jump back real quick to what Cub Creek, what you were talking about, what Excels wants to do is called demand side management. And we had to go to that because you can’t build a new power plant. So where’s this power to feed all these extra electric things coming from? If you can’t do supply side by building another plant and have more on the grid, then you’ve got to do it on the demand side by changing the way we build. And that’s the only thing. I just wanted to say that because I was laughing when they were saying, well, they want to lower your rates during the peak time. Well, yeah, that’s because we don’t have any money.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, you got it.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, have a great day.
SPEAKER 17 :
You too, man. Appreciate you. Real quick before we go to break, somebody texted in, 2017 Chevy Tahoe 5.3 engine. There is a slight engine clatter on first startup, first part of the day. It lasts less than a second, then it immediately goes away. It doesn’t happen again through the rest of the day. Any ideas? Yeah, what I would do on that particular vehicle, and Ken can chime in, I would use the BG EPR on the next oil change. That’s the engine performance restoration. Let’s see if we can’t decarbonize some of the oil passages and so on that are inside the engine itself. We’re not talking about decarbonizing the combustion chamber. We’re talking about the oil end of things. Let’s see if we can get things cleaned up, and then let’s see what happens and whether or not that changes once you do that. That’s a pretty easy, inexpensive fix, if you would, or… You’re not hurting anything in doing it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let’s say it that way. All I can do is help. Exactly. You’re not going to harm anything. And decarbonize the combustion chamber, too. Exactly. It’s not going to hurt. No.
SPEAKER 17 :
So I would do that first before you do anything else.
SPEAKER 03 :
And make sure you’ve got a real good oil filter in there, too. That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Wally, hang tight. We’ll come right back. Don’t go anywhere, guys. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Right, and you can look on the bottle, and it’ll say usually what refinery it comes out of. Midland or whoever. Right, exactly. Like Napa, most of your weights are Ashland, which is Valvoline. Yeah, that’s another one. Ashland, that’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, again, Kirkland could be exactly the same. If you just look in it, it will tell you who it’s bottled by. Right, or you just do a little research on, oh, what is this? Yeah, I would have no problem with that at all. Wally, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Story regarding the gentleman that just made the comment about cop pulled over somebody without a driver’s license and didn’t do anything. Being down here in Tennessee, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but in Georgia this week, a 19-year-old girl ran a stoplight. She was brought here at four years old from Mexico with her family, so she was illegal. She was arrested, and come to find out two weeks earlier, her dad had a 19 mile an hour over the speed limit. Neither one of them had driver’s licenses, and they just deported the entire family after being here since 2009 or something like that. This girl was in college.
SPEAKER 17 :
I did see that. Yeah, I did see that.
SPEAKER 07 :
She’d never really known, but ICE arrested them, and The entire family is gone.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I did see that one, Wally, and that’s one where it’s sort of like, I mean, I’m sympathetic on one hand, but on the other hand, there’s rules, there’s laws, there’s reasons we do certain things. We can’t just be willy-nilly about it and let people come in that aren’t going through the other channels. And the other thing I would look at on that would be, you’ve been here how long and you’re now not a citizen? Why? You could have been at this point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that was part of the article that we read was that he had just never did it, but they were both driving without a driver’s license. So, you know, it makes you wonder how did they, you know, I don’t know, even get cars, insurance. Well, they probably didn’t have insurance. It makes you wonder, have they bought a house? Great question. And I understand what you’re saying, because I’m sympathetic, too. On one hand, they’ve had a whole life here for…
SPEAKER 17 :
15 years but Wally in 15 years you could be a citizen I’ve known people I’ve got good friends that have actually gone through that entire process I’m going to go meet with one of them right after I’m done on air today I will meet with this individual that did go through all of those channels did become a citizen did spend the money that it took to make all of that happen is a very productive individual in our society by the way and went through all of those channels so I’m not going to I don’t want to hear the excuse you know I just didn’t have time. You know, I haven’t been here long enough. Whatever the case may be, 15 years, you had enough time.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I know this is a topic for normally during the week for you, but it was just.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it affects driving, so it does kind of correlate into what we’re talking about today because I am one where, listen, I do it correctly. I have to get a license. I have to have everything insured and registered properly. I don’t go for people that don’t have licenses. I don’t go for people that don’t get their cars licensed and registered on time. I get it. Some things can slip through the cracks like John was talking. I’m not talking about those. I’m talking about the temp tag that’s two years out. I mean, those are the ones, Wally, that just drive me crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 17 :
So yeah, it does apply to what we’re talking about because it correlates to driving.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you have a blessed weekend.
SPEAKER 17 :
You too, man. Appreciate you, Wally, very much. All right, let’s do this. We’ve got calls coming in. Let’s take a quick break. I did look, too. Kirkland Oil is made by Warren. Warren Distribution, which they make a lot of private label-type lubricants for a lot of other folk that are out there. And, yes, even if you buy Kirkland, and it has the DEXO symbol, for example, on it, that will still meet GM specs and so on. And Warren, by the way, is a very large oil company. So, yeah, I would not have any problem buying the Kirkland brand at all. All right, we’ll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560 website, by the way, drive-radio.com. Ken Rackley with me today from Toontech Automotive. He’s out here in Aurora, not far from the station here. So if you’re anywhere in this Aurora area and you need work done to your vehicle, Ken is here to help you, and we send folks to him on a pretty routine basis. So if you’re out in this area and you need something at all, look up Toontech off of our website, drive-radio.com, and Ken is there to help you out. Dennis and Lakewood, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hello. John, we bought a new Tacoma V6 in late 21. It’s a 22 model, and, of course, it’s a GDI engine. Now, I don’t drive it much. I just looked at my records, and here it’s been six months, and I’ve driven it 904 miles. Okay. I guess it’s time for an oil change?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, not yet. You’re okay. It’s only been six months. You’re 1,000 miles. You’re going to find yourself doing it annually for the 1,800 to whatever, 2,500 miles a year you drive, Dennis. You’d be fine changing it once a year. In fact, what I would do is kind of put a calendar reminder of the time of the year that you bought the truck, knowing that’s about the time of the year it needs to have the oil changed, and do it once a year and be done with it.
SPEAKER 03 :
First day of winter, time for an oil change. That’s right. That’s how I would do it. Exactly. Or Thanksgiving, yeah. Whatever you want to do. Exactly. Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you just saved me a lot of money and agony in oil changes.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you do not need to do double a year or anything along those lines.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the time frame doesn’t really affect that.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, you are somebody that’s unique. Yeah, and two, I would go with the— I do nothing, but I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, you know, go with the BG oil change with the MOA and the PR and stuff like that. Yep, you’ll be fine. And the MOA just helps extend that. That’s right.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is that true even if most of my driving is very short distances?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Yeah, the MOA is going to help, you know, even there.
SPEAKER 17 :
But, yeah, you’re not even close to your – And the short distances, in the old days especially, Dennis, we would say, yeah, you’re probably a candidate to have it changed now, although the new vehicles and the fast warm-up times that a new vehicle has, that vehicle of yours literally within – minutes will be not at full operating temperature but they come up a lot faster than what they used to by the time you’re done running whatever your little short trips are errands etc you’re going to be fully warmed up and you don’t really have any issues there it’s not like it used to be right boy could i ask another question absolutely uh uh i i want to be able to inspect the brakes and uh
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t want to fool with the jack that came with it. I’ve got a floor jack that rolls, but it’s not going to be a comfortable fit under the rear axle. this is a body on frame. Can I use my floor jack just to jack up from a frame point? Just jack up the pumpkin underneath the axle.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I would just get under the center part of the… Make sure the front wheels are blocked if you do that because the wheels coming up now won’t be… So as long as you’re on a flat surface and doing it. But really, Dennis, honestly, on that truck, I’m assuming it’s got some sort of a slotted mag wheel, something along those lines. And is it four-wheel drive? Four-wheel drive. It’ll have discs on the back. With disc brakes, get a flashlight out. If the wheel isn’t quite positioned right, just move a little bit one way or the other based upon where that wheel position is and look at your flashlight, and you don’t need to jack it up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and about how many miles are on it right now? 900.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, 900 for the oil change, and I’m coming up on 9,000 for the year. Oh, 9,000 total.
SPEAKER 03 :
Gotcha. You probably don’t even need to look at those breaks until probably 30,000. At least. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or longer. Yeah. Okay. Now, that pumpkin has a… A drain plug right on the bottom of it. Yep. And that, I’m afraid of damaging if I jack there. You won’t.
SPEAKER 17 :
Those are meant for even, you know, guys on those go off-roading, and so on. The way that drain plug is made and built, trust me, a little floor jack, and a lot of them will even have the rubber pad on the floor jack.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was going to say, if you have a rubber pad, you wouldn’t have any issues.
SPEAKER 17 :
You would have no issues, Dennis, none. Okay. All right. Geez, thanks so much. And even if it didn’t, honestly, for just what you’d be doing jacking that up, I mean, you would have to literally position, and I don’t even know if it would even damage it then, even if you had the tong of the jack right on the plug, you might have a problem. But as long as you even, if you didn’t have the rubber pad and you just positioned your jack face to where your prongs were away from that plug, you still wouldn’t have any issues, Dennis. Common sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, yeah, and with 10,000 miles on that thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you’ve got a long way to go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, you’re going to look at those brakes and it’s like, wow, those are like brand new. I hope so. Yeah, and I mean, and with the short driving you’re doing, they’re wearing very little.
SPEAKER 17 :
You, again, to Ken’s point, Dennis, I mean, I would still look during oil changes and things like that just to kind of take a peek at it, but I normally would just do that with a flashlight. Or do you rotate your own tires or does somebody else do that for you? Yeah, I’d take a two discount where I’ve got the guarantee. If you’re doing that, I mean, they should be looking at them as you rotate tires, but I don’t know if they are.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they will, in a lot of cases, you know, once they get them off, just go out there or just ask them if you can go out there and look.
SPEAKER 06 :
Take a peek?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ve wondered about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. They used to. I don’t know if they do that anymore. I don’t know either. Yeah, I’m not sure. But, yeah, I know they’ve let me go out there before. But it’s been a while.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Thanks so much, guys. You’re very welcome, Dennis. And, yeah, for a lot of you that are listening that have newer vehicles, maybe you’re not driving a ton. In some cases, you might only be putting a couple thousand miles a year on the vehicle, like this particular case. Some of you that have extra vehicles where maybe you’ve just got your, quote, unquote, snow vehicle and you’ve got another vehicle you’re doing all of your running around with. Some of us have those sorts of scenarios. I know Ken does. I do.
SPEAKER 01 :
Others may.
SPEAKER 17 :
You may find yourself having one vehicle that you just don’t drive a ton. If that’s the case, then everything we just said to Dennis would apply to you as well. That’s something that don’t get hung up on time yeah it’s more of the mileage especially and this really applies too and i didn’t ask dennis because in his case i don’t think it matters much one way or the other but especially for those of you where you’re parking inside sure you are literally you would have no problem doing a once a year for some of you that even have uh you know more of the you know let’s say you bought a new camaro okay i’m just gonna throw that out there you bought a new camaro And maybe you drive it 1,000 miles a year. I will tell you that if it’s stored in a climate-controlled deal, you honestly don’t even need to change every year. You could literally, if you drive 1,000 miles a year, you could literally go to an every-other-year oil change. And if you don’t believe me, pull the stick and sniff it. And you’ll know exactly what I mean by that because the reality is that oil is fine.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, or send that oil out for, you know, have them do an evaluation on it.
SPEAKER 17 :
You’re not going to have much wear and tear on it.
SPEAKER 03 :
The biggest issue with putting it off that long is your tire pressures, your other inspection, your fluid inspections and things like that. Absolutely can. I mean, an annual inspection is right. Oil and fuel.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, if you’re sitting that long, your oil is going to be probably one of your least, you know, lesser. worries it’s more of you’ve had fuel in there for two years the air pressure’s down i mean it’s more of those things as anything in other words if you’re not driving it at all yeah make sure you’re at least going through some of those things and yeah knock on wood i have one i haven’t driven in two years which i know sounds really odd to some people but i had a really With all my folks’ stuff we did last summer and my mom and her passing and just all the things that we had to go through last summer as a family, yeah, I didn’t drive. There were some things I just didn’t drive. Didn’t have the ability to do so. The nice thing about modern cars, I’ll just tell you straight up, even on the fuel side, With nothing being vented, everything being sealed, and I told somebody this last year on air, the plus side is fuel in those particular vehicles where you’re not having any air in the system at all will definitely stay stable longer than what the older vehicles that were vented, your lawnmower, things like that. There’s no recapture of that fuel and the vapors and so on. Yeah, those fuel can go bad faster. The modern vehicles, I’ll just tell you straight up, modern vehicles, Can you let that fuel sit in there for six, eight months, even without a stabilizer? Yeah, no problem. It’ll stay good that long without any issues at all. Are you helping yourself by throwing some supercharge from BG in it, putting a little stabilizer in it, not hurting a thing? But that fuel will stay stable. You won’t have any issues, believe it or not. I don’t let it go much longer than two years. Probably ought to get it down and run a tank through.
SPEAKER 03 :
The biggest problem is the stuff sitting on the injectors. That’s right. That’s where the supercharge and things like that would help. That helps. But, I mean, yeah, you just want to avoid that. I mean, you want to start it and run it. If you can run it, do so. Yeah, and keep the battery charged and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and that’s another one where, for those of you listening, where even in this case, Dennis, I would still keep a battery tender, do something. You’ll find the batteries lasting way longer if you keep them up doing that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. And in a climate-controlled environment, too, they last a lot longer, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Abs, yeah. If you’ve got a heated garage, something along those lines, absolutely they will. All right, we’ll come right back, guys. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Driving pet peeves is our question of the day. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, and we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening to us today. Driving pet peeves is our question of the day. The other thing, too, that Ken and I, I was waiting for him to actually be here to do this. Not that we don’t have others that can, but Ken is big on towing and has some things that he tows and so on. So it’s something that’s right up his alley. And I thought with Memorial Day being just, let’s see, what is it now? Two weekends. Yeah, away. So it’s not next weekend, but it’s the weekend after. So for some of you that maybe you’re getting ready to get that, you know, toe rig out or the rig you’re going to tow out or your toe rig as well. We’ll talk about some of that as we go through the program today. And for some of you that maybe have even family members or folks you work with where maybe they bought a new toy, a new trailer, a new whatever, I’ll just tell you straight up, and this is nothing against some of the – because there are some good ones out there, so I’m not trying to make this as a blanket statement, but the majority of people selling trailers – care nothing about the fact that you’ve never done you’ve never towed one before you bought it it’s yours you’re responsible they may help you back up hook up show you exactly how safety change should go on and make sure that the lights and everything work before you leave but once you’re gone they don’t care right and i’m not trying to be you know i’m not trying to throw those guys under the bus but right they don’t just expect you to know what you’re doing Yeah, they expect you to have a certain amount of knowledge as to how to tow a trailer and so on. I mean, there are enough YouTube videos of folks that do everything from taking a camper trailer through a drive-through, you know, taking off the canopy to fifth wheels that are huge and tall going through the canopy at the service station and knocking it. I mean, folks, these are all out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 17 :
You can go look up some of what I just said, where we’re going to go with this throughout today is just some of the basic things on towing, what you need to do, how you need to handle certain things. And hopefully you can pass some of those things on to others, because how should I say this, Ken? It’s not for the faint of heart, and you do need to have some basic understanding of what you’re doing and what you’re towing because, unfortunately, some of the biggest accidents, I believe, happen when folks either don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t have the right vehicle for the trailer, they don’t have the right combo, something gets out of control, they’re towing a trailer that should have brakes, trailer brakes, or it has trailer brakes, but the vehicle isn’t equipped properly, With with such and or they don’t know how to set things correctly. I mean, on and on we go. My feeling is some of the largest problems and accidents that are out there happen from just flat out not having enough education on what you’re doing in the first place. And that’s where the accidents happen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And they are avoidable.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Exactly. I mean, just your mechanical aspect changes so much on your vehicle when you hook up. You know, whether it be a 1,000-pound trailer or a – Or a 10,000-pound trailer. Right, exactly, yeah. And your brakes need to be set up right. If they have brakes, you know, not every trailer has brakes. Some of the smaller ones won’t have.
SPEAKER 17 :
Some of your pop-up campers and stuff may not have, but –
SPEAKER 03 :
But, you know, you put 4,000 pounds behind a 2,000-pound vehicle or, you know, something similar, another 4,000-pound vehicle, you’ve got a lot of weight pushing you. And if you don’t have the brakes set up right or if it doesn’t have brakes, you shouldn’t be towing it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And a lot of this comes down to, and I’m a big believer in having the right tow rig for the right trailer. And this is where it gets a little bit dicey. I’ve had all sorts of questions over the years, emails and text messages both that have come in on, you know, this is the trailer I’ve got. This is my tow rig. Am I okay? And sometimes I’ll come back and say, no, I wouldn’t use that setup. I wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing with that particular setup. I would be moving up to a larger truck or downsizing the trailer or something along those lines. And let me explain. I’m coming home from the show. I think it was either that or my wife and I were coming back for something. It was last weekend. And she wasn’t with me, so I’m pretty sure it was me coming back from the show. And I’m literally driving next to An F-150, sure it was an EcoBoost. I didn’t look to see, but more than likely because they’ve got plenty of power, and this is where the problem lies. So it’s an F-150 EcoBoost with a gooseneck slant load three-horse trailer. Yes, it’s an aluminum trailer, but it’s still got three horses behind an F-150. Yes, the gooseneck helps and makes things a little bit more stable, but in my opinion, and I don’t think I’m wrong here, I’ll get Ken’s opinion, too much trailer for the truck.
SPEAKER 03 :
Definitely.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sorry, but too much trailer for the truck.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, that trailer is still going to be 4,000 pounds. You’ve got three horses in there. They’re 1,000 pounds each, roughly.
SPEAKER 17 :
So you’ve got 7,000 pounds. Even though the truck will be rated for the 10,000 pounds, it’s still too much trailer for the truck. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Don’t care what anybody says. I mean, yeah, if you’re putting a gooseneck, you— I just don’t think a gooseneck should be in a half-ton truck, period. That’s my opinion. Exactly what I was just going to say. Yeah, I mean, just, yeah, a gooseneck should not be in a half-ton.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. And here’s where some of the problem lies, too, folks. Some of you would say, well, it’s got plenty of power. The truck’s rated to tow up to 10,000 pounds. And I know all of that. And I get that. And that’s what Ford has done and what they’ve marketed to. But keep in mind, especially on an F-150, you’re a six-ply tire.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Not a 10 ply tire. Passenger tire.
SPEAKER 17 :
So your passenger car tire on a truck because that’s what they do to make them ride better and so on. So unless that person is upgraded and gone to a 10 ply tire. And yes, you can do some of those things. But I can tell you from looking at that truck, that didn’t happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m just looking at the whole setup. And on top of that, I’m watching how they drive. Now, bear with me here. Some of you that maybe think, hey, I’m going to get a horse. I’ve got property. I’m going to get a horse. And I’m going to go get a trailer. Okay, that’s fine, by the way. Knock your socks off. And Ken knows where I’m going with this. There is something about hauling a live animal… that is way different than hauling a camper trailer or any other kind of, even a car trailer. And let me explain. The way you take off and the way you slow down having live animals behind you is far different than you hauling anything else on the planet. Because those animals have to stay upright and they’re riding with you. So you think about standing in the back of that trailer while you’re jackrabbit starting or coming to a sudden stop because they’re doing all of that in the trailer behind you. Right. And I’m afraid to say I have seen far too many people that haul horses especially because it’s different than you guys that are hauling cows and so on because you know what you’re doing. Sorry, if you’ve got cows, you know what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s a whole other ballgame.
SPEAKER 17 :
But these folks that will haul around other live animals, and I’ve seen everything from llamas to horses to whatever, those are typically what I call the hobbyists. Mm-hmm. And in some cases, yes, I can tell a real rodeo guy hauling horses versus the hobbyist because it’s way different one to the other. Just by what they’re driving. Yeah, thank you. Even the rig. I can never look at the rig. The other thing that always bothers me is when I see the two-horse trailer behind a Grand Cherokee. Even though the Grand Cherokees rated enough to haul that two-horse trailer, I would not haul a two-horse trailer with two horses in it behind a Grand Cherokee. Just not going to do it, folks. Those are the combos I’m talking about that I don’t think should ever be on the road and shouldn’t exist. And the other thing that I will watch is how these people drive. how they take corners, how they go around even a stoplight and take a corner. Again, you’ve got live animals behind you, and I’ve watched the horses trying to catch their balance as Knucklehead is taking the corner twice as fast as he or she should have. Mm-hmm. So, again, lots of training that I feel needs to go into hauling trailers of any kind, by the way. And I’m still amazed at times that, you know, because there’s no licensing, no testing that has to go into anything. And I’m not saying there should be. I’m not an over… You guys know me. I don’t like extra laws and all that kind of stuff. But I do think at some point, common sense, and I know we have a lack of, but common sense has to come into play and say, wait a minute, I’m going to be hauling X with X. Do I really know what I’m doing? Have I done this before?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, yeah. And I mean, there’s…
SPEAKER 17 :
And the live animal thing, as I said a moment ago, you know firsthand.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Am I right in everything I just said? Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you don’t – I mean, yeah, imagine putting your dog in the back seat and just watch them how much they move, you know, if you’re taking off from a start. You know, take a 1,000-pound dog. And then – And put it in a trailer. Yeah, and then slam on the brakes because the light turned yellow, you know, and watch that dog come flying up into the dashboard. And I get it.
SPEAKER 17 :
On a slant load trailer, the horses are kind of put in with dividers and so on.
SPEAKER 03 :
I understand all that, folks.
SPEAKER 17 :
I get that.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is a better way to haul them.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is, but they’re still having to stand up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, right. So they have to shift their weight from all the way on their left side to all the way around their right side. But when it happens quick, I mean, yeah, you’ve got to be really careful. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And the folks that I see, again, I watch this particular individual. It was a guy. I watched this guy at this F-150 literally last Saturday, and I was going to remember that to talk about today because I knew Ken was going to be here. And I watch him take off at exactly the same speed I am. And I’m thinking, okay, I’m empty. You’re not. You should not be taking off as fast as I am. You should be the last one away from the stoplight, not the first one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, just injuries and stuff like that to the animal and things along those lines. Not only that. I mean, it happens anyway. Not enough truck in the first place. Well, right.
SPEAKER 17 :
But here’s my point with that. These trucks today, even the half-tons, and Ken can attest to this, they now have more than enough power. Most of them 400 horse plus, which back when I first started towing things in the late 70s, early 80s, we were lucky to have 200 horsepower.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I’m not exaggerating. That’s pushing it. That was pushing it. We were lucky to get into the twos. Exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
And your ability now with 400 plus horsepower and a lot better gearing and transmissions than we ever had back then.
SPEAKER 03 :
Better braking, better everything.
SPEAKER 17 :
The truck itself, yes, it will handle that much weight power-wise. Yeah. But it’s still a half-ton truck as far as the frame is concerned. It’s a half-ton truck as far as the suspension is concerned. It’s a half-ton truck as far as the braking is concerned. And on and on we go. Transmission, et cetera. And the reality is, no, I am not one that feels that that is enough truck for that particular scenario and what’s behind it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, exactly. I mean, like you say, with the tires, I mean, yeah, and you can put airbags on them. You can do all kinds of stuff to make them better for that, but it’s just, you know, you’re better off buying the bigger, heavier truck. I think you need a three-quarter ton at that point. I’m sorry, you just need a three-quarter ton truck. I think, you know, a three-quarter ton for any dual-axle trailer, I mean, and I guess not necessarily. I mean, it just depends on the weight you’re hauling.
SPEAKER 17 :
Agreed. And I have a lot of traders, and I do a lot of this stuff, and I have a lot of experience along these lines, and we’ll come back again. I’m going to filter that through the rest of the program. Lines are open, though. We’ve got two more hours coming your way, 303-477-5600. Question of the day is, what are your driving pet peeves? Myself, Ken Rackley. We’ll be right back here after the top of the hour here. Don’t go anywhere. This is Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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