HR3 DRIVE RADIO May 16, 2026 by John Rush
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SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, Hour 3, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us again. Dietze from ProTech Autoshield with me today, as well as Josh Goff from Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers as well. Larry Unger answering phones, and Charlie Grimes is our engineer, of course. Joe, you’re up. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 17 :
John, just curious. Did you get a chance to read that story I sent you about AI-driven machines that can rotate your tires?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and actually, the machine I think you sent me will not only rotate, but will install.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and have you talked about that on air?
SPEAKER 10 :
I have not yet. No, go ahead.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, my question is, what do you think, in terms of viability, what would the price point have to be for that to make sense for a shot?
SPEAKER 10 :
Josh would be a better answer, probably.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s going to be a hard one to figure. I mean, it’ll work for the big chains, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
If you’re doing a lot of tires.
SPEAKER 09 :
A lot of tires all day, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or a big fleet operation or something along those lines, but I don’t know. I mean, price point-wise, for that machine to be effective, because I saw the machine, and it’s pretty large. You’re going to take up an entire bay dedicated just to doing that, meaning that, again, you’ve got to be a high-volume tire-type shop to even make that happen. I would think, Joe, that you’d have to have that machine be, 100 grand-ish or so, anything more than that, I think you’d have a hard time justifying.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it’s hard. Once you get over that 100 grand mark, it’s really hard for the smaller shops to do it. But the chain shops, you know, you take everybody out of the equation pretty much. It’s just the sales guys up front and the robots would pretty much run those chain shops like that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and it’s kind of a low skill, you know, you don’t have to be a skilled engine mechanic to rotate tires.
SPEAKER 09 :
No.
SPEAKER 17 :
And, you know, you look at McDonald’s, they’ve got machines now that’ll make it. I mean, literally, you push a button, it’ll put four hamburgers on the grill. It’ll turn them and it’ll flip them. It’ll cook the hamburgers. And by the way, 20 years ago, when I was at one of the Fortune 50 company, we had 1,100 guys in the field. One of our stated strategic goals was to substitute capital for labor because we had a bunch of guys that were costing us literally, you know, with their benefits and their vehicles, literally costing us a dollar a minute. And we said, okay, what can we do at a dollar a minute, what sort of investments can we make in machinery and tools to substitute machinery and capital and fancy tools for labor? And that was 20 years ago I was doing that. And this just seems like a logical extension, take relatively low-skilled jobs, particularly in the industry that’s facing a labor shortage. If you’ve got a guy and he’s a skilled diesel mechanic, Does he really want to be rotating tires?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, no, no. The biggest issue that I could see with that machine, and this would be true with even some of the chains, is the real estate end of things in shops is really tight. I mean, yeah, you get into a big dealership, and they’ve got lots of real estate in open areas and so on where they could put a machine like that in pretty easily. Even a lot of the chains and tire stores and so on, the biggest issue that a lot of those guys have, Joe, is space, space needs.
SPEAKER 1 :
Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and I’m just thinking out loud, where I take my, the Kia dealer where I take my Telluride, they must have 14 bays, so I could see them.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, they’ve got room. They would have no problem. And larger, you know, I had a shop back in the day, and Josh knows this, I had room where I could have done a machine like that pretty easily. But you take some of the other, you know, a lot of independent shops where they are literally five, maybe six bays max, and a lot of your chain tire stores are no different. The space constraint is where I can see that one being the biggest issue.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but I think it’s going to work best for the chain stores because that’s all they do all day is just tires there. For us, it wouldn’t work because we’re usually pulling the tires to do something else than doing the rotation at that point after the brake job or trying to do tires with a brake job or something else. So I think the more skilled shops, they don’t have the real estate or really need it, but the chain shops. And the other thing is a lot of the tire manufacturers are putting RFID chips into the tires I think just because they know this is coming, where the robot can easily read that, know the size and exactly what tire it is without, you know, physically having to read the size of the tire.
SPEAKER 17 :
And in my chain, I guess, so if you’re talking like a big old tire shop, you know, particularly if they can donate, commit rather… you know, committed bait to just this machine. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And like the discount, which that’s all they do is tires, you know, they don’t do anything else. They don’t even do alignment. So they just swap tires all day long. So that’s perfect for them. That’s what this is. I think the market they’re going after and, you know, we have pretty much some of these new tire machines themselves can actually swap the tire off the rim without much interaction with the human now. So pretty soon, you know, the ones that just do tires only, you know, that, that’s a, that is a good thing. They don’t have to hire anybody, I guess. So,
SPEAKER 17 :
Have you seen this story? I shared it with John. I don’t know if you shared it with anybody else.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I read it this morning. It was on one of my news feeds.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. All right, yeah, just curious if you thought it was viable and if we might expect to see that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, to your point, Joe, I think anything that’s going to eliminate the need for labor, especially some of those menial and not – please, everybody listening, I’m not trying to begrudge tire changers and things like that. That’s not where I’m going with this, Joe, as you would know. But what I’m saying is some of those more menial tasks, yes, if we can figure out a way to – To, you know, minimize that labor by all means, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
But the problem for me is the tire changing and the oil change is where we all start, you know, in the industry. Right, it’s where you learn. So, you know, you’re automatically got to go up two steps before you start. I think that’s kind of hard.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Now, really quick, I’m going to change the subject because I wouldn’t know if you saw this, but I figured of all people, Joe, you might have. And this one, I was going to talk about today anyway, so this is a great segue. Okay. So, in California, the Cars for Kids jingle you will no longer hear because they have figured out that very little, if anything, actually goes to kids.
SPEAKER 17 :
I hadn’t seen that yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Very, very little in the proceeds that they get from those cars that are donated actually go to kids. In fact, at most, it’s – I’m trying to think here. I’m trying to read here. Very little, if anything, actually goes to kids. They testified that about 25% of Cars for Kids revenue comes from California. It doesn’t matter to California, though, because they’re basically saying, you’re not giving these kids what you claim you are, so you’re no longer allowed to do that here.
SPEAKER 17 :
And by the way, and 25%, John, is actually high. Some of these big national, and I don’t want to denigrate, but it seems to me like, I could be wrong, but like American Red Cross, it’s like 10 or 12 cents on the dollar. The Clinton Foundation, I know, was less than 10 cents on the dollar. And that was a huge one. They were raising money for Haiti and whatnot. It was less than 10 cents on the dollar.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the reason I said it with you being on here is because Cars for Kids is actually registered in Lakewood, New Jersey.
SPEAKER 17 :
Is it really? Yes. Okay. I’ll have to dig into that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Anyways, I thought that was interesting because, A, I hate the jingle. B, I knew without even doing much digging that likely very, very little, if anything, went to kids. But yet that was their jingle, and that’s how they got a lot of their cars donated. Or that’s how they get a lot of their – they’re still there. That’s how they get a lot of their cars donated.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it wouldn’t surprise me. And along the same line, just that my daughter’s involved in service dogs, but she sent me, you know, like in the ASPCA, their CEO makes like $600,000 a year, and they’ve got four vice presidents, or they’ve got a slew of people all make over $300,000 a year at the ASPCA, you know, for animals. So she’s saying if you want to donate money, you know, to Pet Rescue, Don’t do it to the ASPCA because, you know, very, very little of your money actually gets down to, you know, to helping, you know, to the dogs themselves.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Yep. There you go. All right. Do your diligence.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, guys.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Joe. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, guys. Take care.
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As always, Mark and Wiggins, Bob and Thornton, guys, hang tight. We’ll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, Dietze from ProTech Auto Shield with me today. Josh Goff from Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers. Mark and Wiggins, you are next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, I got a question and then answer for the question of the day is what’s your favorite road trip vehicle?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think my parents had a 1999 Chevy Suburban. I think it was a 2500 that they used to tow a ginormous boat around that looked like a yacht. But that thing was a really sweet ride. Unfortunately, they sold it to another family member before I could try to get it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Suburbans make great road trip cars. They do.
SPEAKER 08 :
I would go for that. But I do have a question on my UConn, my 2015 GMC UConn 6.2 liter. And I know you say to stay away from those, you know, people online and don’t listen to them, listen to you guys. But every now and then I, you know, subscribe to groups on Facebook and they start posting about, you know, doing the AFM delete or the plug-in stuff. And so I asked ChatGPT, If I should be doing BGEPR every single oil change like you’d recommended, and it said I should not be doing that, it didn’t recommend every single oil change. What’s your thought on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Every single oil change?
SPEAKER 08 :
Regardless.
SPEAKER 10 :
No offense. And keep my chats pulling off of a lot of things out on the Internet, even forums and things like that. So is it the know-all? And by the way, The way you train chat is you go back in and say, hey, guess what? John Rush from Drive Radio, which I do a lot of things on chat, so believe me, it’s going to know who I am, says, yes, we should be doing this every single oil change, and here’s the reason why. And that’s how you train AI.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, interesting. Okay, I hadn’t really thought of that. And the other thing was I made a bubble. When I first bought the vehicle years ago, I hate to say this over the air, but I was in such a panic. that I bought it without getting a pre-purchased vehicle inspection. And I noticed something going wrong with it. I called my normal guy in the transmission. They said, we don’t work on those things. So I thought, you know, you guys are always talking about legacy audio. I’ll take them down there. And they said, yeah, the transmission smoked, and we’re going to have to replace it. And there’s nothing you can do as far as, you know, the place you bought it from. So that ended up costing me, I think, around $15,000 for the transmission and all the tune-ups and leaks and things to get fixed. But that pre-purchase inspection would have saved me, which I had done on another vehicle.
SPEAKER 09 :
The one before.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, the one before, yeah. The deal just didn’t work out, and I just, I don’t know. I guess I put myself under pressure even when I’m not under pressure, and I wish I had somebody that, you know, could buy the vehicle for me and just bring it to me, you know, I know it’s not that easy when you’re dealing with lower-cost vehicles, but it’s stressful, even if you do have time to get it inspected. And then you’re wondering, hey, I don’t have a whole lot of money, and that $400 to get an inspection is a lot of money, but it’s a whole lot cheaper than $15,000.
SPEAKER 10 :
You’re correct. You are speaking our language.
SPEAKER 08 :
But anyway, yeah, I just wanted some peace of mind because I got this vehicle, and it’s running great. I think it needs some new shocks because I keep getting the little, you know, suspension service deal. I learned something about that, too, that I was driving down the interstate and I wanted to pass a semi because they just kept, you know, going into the fast lane and slow lane. So I thought, you know what, I’m just going to pass them. Well, I got up just a hair over 85. I know that’s over the speed limit. But it acted like it cut the engine off. And I was like, oh, no. And I was, like, losing power. And I was like, oh. Well, you’ve got to be kidding me. And so it came back down to, I want to say, 75, 80, and drove just fine. I’m like, what is going on? You know, and so I tried to pass again, and it was like there was no power. And I’m like, okay, something’s wrong with the car. And I went home, and I thought, you know, before I call John Rush, I’ll ask Chad GPT. And Chad GPT said, oh. That’s totally normal when you have a suspension issue. It’s trying to save your butt and protect you because the suspension cannot handle high speed. I thought that’s pretty cool.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, that is correct. Yeah, and it’s spot on. That’s the answer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Pretty good show. Love you guys. Thank you, Mark.
SPEAKER 10 :
As always, I appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day. Bob and Thornton, go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hi, John. How are you, Bob? I’m good. Can you explain what Joe was talking about with this automated rotation?
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s actually not even rotation. They’ll literally put the tire on and off the car. It will do both. It will mount, balance, everything right there. It’s a robot basically doing all of that.
SPEAKER 1 :
Really?
SPEAKER 10 :
yep and i say robot i mean it’s not like a robot that’s going around the car as a guy would it’s you pull the car on to a rack per se that all of this apparatus is attached to and then it knows exactly what to do with the vehicle uh automated wise and it’s doing it that way if you go look at axios there’s an article on axios and there’s some other articles out there as well to show the the pictures and so on of how it works bob it’s out on the internet
SPEAKER 13 :
do you have any idea if that’s available anywhere where i live not that i know of okay so let me tell you something uh in my history i lived here for 53 years i came from new york my father worked for dunlop tire for 43 years his entire career okay and uh i you know the The most important part of the car is the tires. It’s the only thing that touches the ground.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so can I mention a particular place that I go for tires?
SPEAKER 10 :
Sure, I don’t care.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, discount tire.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, we were talking about them earlier, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
I have been using not only discount tire, but the exact location of them forever. And so I’m aware of tires and their importance and stuff like that. They’ll fix a puncture. They’ll check your pressure. They’ll rotate and balance all of what I call free of charge. But they have these handheld devices. Now, somewhere in my toolkit in my garage, I got one of those old-fashioned tread depth things, you know, stuff like that. But they have a handheld device. They will put that across the tread, and they can tell you what the tread wear is cross-sectionally. Say, well, you need an alignment, you need this, you need that, your tires and stuff like that. I’m going to tell you something. In 53 years, and I have had a lot of cars, I would imagine… Oh, God, near 70 cars in 53 years. Me, my wife, my kids, you know, stuff like that. I have never, ever bought a set of tires from anywhere but Discount Tire because they service that, and they tell you what your condition is, and… you know, it’s about time for a new set of tires. But I don’t know about a rack that, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s a good, and I’m going to let you go. We’ve got a break coming up, Bob. But, yeah, it’s worth looking at. You can go look that up. In fact, just look, robot tire changer, tire rotation. If you look that up, you can find the pictures there. Eric, hang tight. We’re going to come right back. Got a car review that we’ve got to squeeze in right now. We’ll be back right after that. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. And it’s that time of the week where we do car reviews. Myself and Richard, and I actually, because Richard was out of town, I actually drove this car. 2026 Mazda CX-90, their PHEV Premium Plus vehicle. And I’ve got some things I like about this vehicle, and I’ll just be straight up honest. I’ve got some things about this vehicle that… I do not like. So I guess let’s do this. Let’s start with the things I didn’t like initially. And part of this was probably because I just came out of a really nice other hybrid. So comparable type vehicle to this that I just drove the week prior. I’m not going to name names. I don’t want to throw Mazda under the bus here. Now, the plus sides are let me get the negatives. Some of the negatives are, I’ll just be honest, I’m sorry Mazda, I have to say this, the looks of this car, I think it’s either going to be somebody loves or hates, and I hate it. I do not like the looks of this car. There’s no lines to it. It’s just this blob, if you ask me, running down the road, and it just doesn’t have good-looking lines. I’m sorry, and I’m a car guy, have been my whole life. I like cars with lines, and this car kind of reminds me of the Infiniti QX80 that also has no lines. I don’t like cars… that don’t have lines. So that’s one of my negatives. The second negative is this is a PHEV, meaning you plug in this vehicle, it gives you a short amount of range on battery only, then it switches into kind of the hybrid version and saves you on fuel economy, you know, saves on fuel economy and all that, I guess what I’m trying to say, Richard. Now, here’s the thing about that part of it I don’t like. And by the way, it’s rated at 56 miles to the gallon when you plug in and use that part of the battery. But here’s the thing I do not like. In Mazda, you’re going to listen to this, and please, for the love of God, change this. I don’t know why you and there’s only a couple other manufacturers that do this. When I plug in, all great. Plugs in, no problem. Lights up, green lights on, things are charging, everything’s fabulous. Now, when I go to unplug it, it’s not like the other cars I own that are EVs that I can just walk up and unplug, Richard. I have to go in, get the keys out of the car because I’m parked in the garage, the keys are in the car. I have to go get the keys. I have to lock the car, unlock the car so I can get the dang plug out of the port that I’m charging the car with. It is the dumbest thing ever.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that is something you and I talked about. And it’s not just Mazda, by the way. So this is obvious. We’re bringing it up here. But yeah, that is like the second set of the redundancy. Right. And it doesn’t make sense because it’s kind of too much redundancy. I don’t know, too much stuff, right? Like if the car’s locked, you get it, right? And they do it to add for safety and then also so someone in theory doesn’t come unplug it, right, and plug it into another car, I guess. But I don’t know. I just wish there was a setting to disable it that like this is home charging, right? Like when I’m at this address, you don’t need to do this because it’s a pain. I’ll agree with you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. Okay, so that’s my negative. Other than that, nice car. Drives well. I wish it was a little quieter on the interior. It’s priced similarly to other cars in its range, I guess you could say, or in its area. This one does have, of course, all the bells and whistles, adaptive cruise control, blah, blah, blah. I mean, it’s got it all. 323 horsepower. By the time it’s all said and done as far as the engine runs well, no issues there. I mean, it’s a Mazda. It drives well. The infotainment system, I’ll just say this. Again, Mazda, you’re still a little bit quirky on the infotainment. There’s easier, better ways to do infotainment, and you’d have to use it to understand what I mean by this, folks. It’s just, and Richard knows what I mean, it’s just got its own little quirks to it that I don’t particularly care for. Outside of all of that, as far as how the car drives and rides and handles and all of that, third row seats, plenty of room inside of the interior itself. It’s luxurious. I did like all of that sides of it. No issues at all, Richard, along any of those lines whatsoever. And again, I like Mazdas in general as far as their reliability and all of that. I guess just where I’m coming from when it comes to PHEVs in general, And I’m sorry, Mazda, for saying this. I don’t see the value, Richard. I just don’t see the value in a short run, you know, 20-mile or so, which is about all you get out of this car on the electric only. I just don’t see the plus of that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I guess what I would say, Dad, is if you’re looking to buy this car as an electric, you know, alternative.
SPEAKER 15 :
It’s not.
SPEAKER 07 :
You’re correct. I don’t know if the value is there. However, if you’re looking to buy this car for maybe that little bit of grocery getting, right, that maybe, you know, 15 miles or so down the road – But then, obviously, once it runs out, it does switch to a more hybrid type of a setup. And in that case, I do think this car does have some value that way. However, like you say, there is a little bit of a price premium for that plug-in electric.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you don’t have the tax breaks anymore that you once had, so you’re not really gaining that like you was.
SPEAKER 07 :
You are correct, and that’s, I think, the key to factoring. However, outside of that goes that I do like the hybrid system from Mazda. It’s not super clunky, not that many of them are anymore, right? They’re relatively simple to use, and they— So I like that. As far as the interior goes, you said it best. These cars, most of them that we get, Dad, kind of have all the bells and whistles on them. Mazda’s second to none in that way. For the value, for the money, it’s really hard to beat all of the interior features that you get that are standard on these vehicles, which is a really nice feature. And like you said, this is a CX-90. This is the bigger. This has got a third row in it. Am I correct? Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so that’s a really nice feature of this vehicle. It does.
SPEAKER 10 :
But I will say this. This is like a lot of the other three-row counterparts in that segment. When the third row is up, don’t plan on getting much behind that back seat. You’re going to either have suitcases on people’s laps or you’re going to need a car top carrier or something along those lines. You’re not putting much in the way of cargo when all of the seats roll. are up. And that’s not a knock against Monster, Richard. Most of them are that way. So there’s only a few exceptions to that, like Suburbans and so on, where you actually gain a lot of extra space in the back, or you have extra space in the back when the seat’s up. In this case, you don’t have much.
SPEAKER 07 :
You’re absolutely correct. And that’s, I think, well, again, just as something to notice. It’s not a knock on it. It’s just something that’s a Besides, it is nice to be able to put more people in it, Dad, right? But the flexibility, which I like about this vehicle, is that you can put half of that third row down, still put another person in the back, give you that extra seating, but you still have some cargo room to go along with it. But I’m with you, Dad. I will say I personally do like the looks of this. You kind of talked about it at the start, that you kind of like cars with a little bit more shape and figurement.
SPEAKER 10 :
i like the look i just kind of think it looks a little bit sleek and you kind of know the vehicle um when you kind of when you approach it so it really is sort of a i guess a viewer’s choice at that point in time yep i fully agree again folks this is a great car i have no complaints as far as the rest of it goes the one complaint i gave you and looks is looks everybody has a different opinion on what looks good and that’s all in the eye of the beholder as far as how the rest of this car works operates functions and so on yeah Is it a car I recommend? Sure. If you like a PHEV, that’s something you’ve been shopping for, you want three rows, this Mazda CX-90 might be just your ticket. Go check that out, by the way, at your local Mazda dealer. When you do, tell them that John and Richard Rush, both from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio, sent you.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Charlie just had to put that in there for my behalf. Thank you, Charlie. I hate that jingle with a passion. Eric, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, John. Yeah, I hate it too. I first heard it because they used to run it on Sirius all the time before anybody in the Denver area was doing it. And then when all of a sudden I started hearing it out here, I was like, oh, my God, I can’t get away from this.
SPEAKER 10 :
I know. I hate it.
SPEAKER 16 :
But so, hey, anyhow, and you might cover this on your regular show. So under the big, beautiful bill, it changed how a lot of deductions work. In some ways, it improved it, and in some ways, it made it harder. So if you’re a non-itemizer, you can donate up to $1,000 in cash donations without itemizing it. But if you’re an itemizer, your donations must now exceed… a 0.5% floor of AGI in order to be deductible.
SPEAKER 10 :
I see.
SPEAKER 16 :
Now, for some people, that’s not a whole lot because, I mean, once you figure it out, your AGI is going to be pretty low. But if you’re like a high net worth individual, that could be a pretty high threshold.
SPEAKER 10 :
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, that’s a good topic. I’ll do that. I can cover that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, because I just found – well, see – So my father passed away back in January, and he had two electric wheelchairs and an electric scooter.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I just donated them to two different charities, and then he had all of his other stuff, and we went through and threw some stuff away and just donated two big, huge boxes of clothes, and I wrote down everything. And I went to use It’s Deductible here the other day for… TurboTax to, like, start my listing for next year.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And it says no longer available. I was like, say what? And then I learned why. And TurboTax and Intuit has no plans to bring it back at the moment, but there’s, like, other programs you can seek out. So, yeah, it’s a change to it. Okay. Yeah, because in my case, I mean, these two wheelchairs and scooter, I mean, it’s, like, over $10,000.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I’ll bet.
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m not… Yeah, I’m not going to be able to claim it all in one year. I’ll have to spread it out over two years. But, yeah, because I was scared to death that I wasn’t going to be able to deduct it at first.
SPEAKER 10 :
Sure, makes sense.
SPEAKER 16 :
Until I started doing some research. But, yeah, it’s one of those things that’s buried in there that I guess that, yeah, had I not done a little searching for this, probably wouldn’t have found out that, yeah, hey, there’s changes to it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Very interesting. No, I appreciate that. Thank you, Eric. I’ll pass that along. Absolutely. Thanks, man. Have a good one. I appreciate it. Tim in Longmont. Go ahead, Tim.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. I had a tenant that moved out on me and left a bunch of equipment and cans of gas and things. Okay. And there’s probably about 10 gallons that I think is straight gas, but he had a lot of two-stroke stuff inside. And I’ve looked at it. It just smells like regular gas. There’s no color to it. Is there any way I can determine that that’d be okay to mix that in some of my vehicles? I need to determine if it’s straight gas. What’s it smell like? It smells just like gasoline.
SPEAKER 10 :
When gasoline starts to varnish, which is what it does, you can tell. You can smell when it starts to go bad. As long as it’s not varnished, you could mix it in, I would think.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so even if it was like a 40 to 1 mix, if I mixed that, maybe five gallons of it?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and again, if it’s mixed, so do you have any two-stroke equipment or anything you use at all?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I do, but I can’t tell if this is mixed with two-stroke oil or not.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is it colored?
SPEAKER 14 :
Is it blue? No, no, no. I put it in a clear cup, and it looks just like a hammer. Then there’s no mix in it then. Okay. Because all the mix will turn it blue. Oh, okay. Well, that answers my question then.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it’ll have a bluish tint or maybe kind of a grayish tint, but all two-stroke oil has a tint to it where you know it’s been treated that way, and it’s real easy to tell. And it will still smell like gasoline, of course, but it’ll have that tint to it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, well, that answers my question.
SPEAKER 10 :
So there’s no two-stroke in it at that point?
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, sounds good. Okay. Yeah, I think it’s only maybe five or six months old. Oh, you’ll be fine. Yeah, you’re fine then. You won’t have any issues. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, thank you. All right, Tim. Good stuff. No, good question, by the way. All right, we’ll come right back. One more segment of Drive Radio. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Last segment, myself, Josh Goff, Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers in Boulder and Dietze from ProTech Auto Shield with us as well. Larry Enger answering phones and Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Jeff, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, good afternoon, John. Afternoon. I meant to call in earlier about this. Your little segment on synthetic oils intrigued me because I had been under the impression that it was Synthetic used to be distilled from crude, but the process now is building it up out of natural gas. But then I found out that it’s both.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right. That’s correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
That crude oil is distilled down to a base oil, and natural gas is built up through a base oil. But then the same process occurs. They take the base oil, whether it’s from crude or natural gas, And they modify that and turn that into synthetic oils and then put in the ad pack. So I just want to say I appreciate the opportunity to learn a little bit about chemistry. I love chemistry, as I said before. This is really interesting.
SPEAKER 10 :
And as you know, there’s different groups of synthetic for, I believe it’s three, four, and five. Don’t quote me on that. I’m doing this from memory, Jeff. I’d have to look it up. I think it’s three, four, and five, five being, of course, the top line. And I think, and to your point, yes, they are made, and this is the misconception everybody thinks, and this is where a lot of the forums and stuff I was reading even yesterday were, well, you don’t need crude oil for synthetic oil. Well, time out, Sparky. Not necessarily. It depends on how they’re making it and what they’re using. But the majority, in today’s world, the majority of synthetic is coming out of crude.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. And I believe that may change as processes change.
SPEAKER 10 :
True.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it’s just interesting that neither one is wrong. It’s just that they… Folks have found different ways to do the same thing. It’s kind of like diesel engines and gasoline engines. There’s different ways to propel you down the road. And even when it’s wrong, they’re just different. But they get you to the same destination. Interesting stuff.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. I agree. I’m fascinated by all that as well. I’ve actually been through an oil refinery, not a gasoline refinery, but an oil refinery where, in this case, they took – this was a place in Wichita, Universal, where they take and recycle oil, and they get it all the way back down to a very fine base stock when it’s all said and done. And most people don’t realize this, but before they put additives in oil, it’s clear. It looks like water. You wouldn’t know it from water. You wouldn’t think that coming out of oil like it is. But by the time they get it all cracked and refined and so on, Jeff, it’s as clear as water. And then they put the ad packs and everything back in. That’s what gives it its color. But I’ve actually been through and watched how all that gets done, and it’s fascinating.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ll bet. And one thing I was reading, too, is one of the things I didn’t know. It’s amazing how much I don’t know. Me, too. I think that’s part of getting older, and you realize what you don’t know. But in the process, I thought that synthesizing from natural gas was a very clean and deliberate process that would just result in nothing but a base oil. It turns out that it is pure, but it also results in byproducts like paraffin and petrolatum and, you know, Vaseline-type stuff. And whether you go from crude oil or natural gas, you end up with a lot of the same things. And the whole purpose of bringing it down is for purity, to get rid of sulfurs and different things. But it’s just an interesting process. And I think the most interesting thing for me is folks don’t think about this stuff. They just dump oil in their vehicles, and they assume that it’s just going to be there. They don’t understand that. The technology and the engineering and the science and the efforts and the brain power, you know, I forget who it was. Some science fiction writer said that, no, it was H.L. Mencken. That’s right. There’s an answer to everything, simple, neat, and wrong. You know, it’s not simple. Nothing in this life is simple. It’s, you know… And we’ve talked about it before, vehicles. If you compare a vehicle from 100 years ago to a vehicle today.
SPEAKER 10 :
No comparison.
SPEAKER 06 :
What’s the resemblance? Okay, yeah, there’s an engine, transmission, four wheels.
SPEAKER 10 :
Differentials and so on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but at that point, all the engineering that has occurred.
SPEAKER 10 :
From 1926 or 7 to today, it is night and day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 10 :
Night and day.
SPEAKER 06 :
So people, I just live, and I’ve said it again before, I just live every day in gratitude. You and me both. That I can go into a shower, turn a lever, and hot water comes out.
SPEAKER 10 :
You got it.
SPEAKER 06 :
With no effort on my part.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank God.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s amazing.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank God.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Jeff, as always, man. I appreciate it. And I do the same thing. I am very thankful for all of that. Mike, you’re probably going to be our last caller. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, synthetics, yeah, the last caller, the last guy you answered, the chemistry involved is fascinating.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, but most people don’t even recognize the history. Germans, the Germany was making synthetic fuel and oils for its war machine back in the late 30s.
SPEAKER 03 :
True.
SPEAKER 11 :
And they were doing it out of coal.
SPEAKER 10 :
True. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, one of the things that hindered them more than anything in which we had superiority in was they didn’t have the fuel and or the oil that we had, Mike. That’s one of the things that really, really enabled us to basically defeat them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wasn’t it the whole North African thing?
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s right. And that’s one of the reasons that Hitler wanted the Baku oil fields.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
over in Iran, but my point about all this is is it’s carbon chemistry, carbon atoms and how you deal with them in the chemistry lab.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. That’s right. Yeah, and Mike, by the way, I appreciate you saying that because I think there’s a lot of misconception. I mean, I saw it reading some of the things I was reading yesterday that, you know, some of these people think, well, we don’t need crude oil for synthetic oil anyway, so why does it matter? It’s like, well, time out here. Time out. That is not true.
SPEAKER 09 :
Not how this works. That’s not true. Make it out of olive oil?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that’s not how this works.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s not. It’s not how it works. By the way, we’re also carbon-based life forms.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, we are. Yes, we are.
SPEAKER 11 :
Anyway, good show today.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks, Mike. I appreciate it. It’s been a lot of fun, so thank you very much. All right, real quick, back to you, Dietze. For folks that are trying to do, whether it’s window tinting, I should have mentioned this more today than we have, but paintless dent removal where we may see some hail, might even see some of that this weekend. Depends on how things go here early in the week. Paintless dent removal is a process whereby you don’t have to paint the car to get the dent out.
SPEAKER 25 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it works. Yes. Now, I will say this. That’s a skill.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not everybody can do it.
SPEAKER 25 :
No, not at all. I tried it.
SPEAKER 10 :
I failed completely. It is very much. You know what? The guys and gals both that do that and make that work, to me, it’s like the conversation we just had a moment ago about synthetic oil. It is fascinating to watch, and it really is an artisan that’s able to take and do paintless dent removal and not see things when it’s all said and done because it literally is art form.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah. I was talking to Mike about it. Cause you know how I got a Jeep and it has a little den. I tried to take it out myself and I completely failed at it. So I had my, you know, show me, I was like, yeah, do his thing. And I was like, Oh, but so how he’s like, Oh, there’s a lot of that goes into it. He’s like, you know, you have to like hit it like this. You have to like,
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, you’re moving the metal. Basically, you’re changing the metal around from from a dent that was put in there that you’re now putting back to straight. And that metal has stretched, of course, when there is a dent. And now you’re trying to get all that shrunk back down and get it back to its original form.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah. And he’s like, you know, you hit it too hard from the back. Now you have the dent from the inside.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. Exactly right. So. All right. Give him your phone number.
SPEAKER 25 :
It is 720-832-8481.
SPEAKER 10 :
And Josh, while you’re at it, give them yours as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
303-396-0555.
SPEAKER 10 :
And if any of you forget that, go to drive-radio.com. You can find all of our partners there. It makes it really easy. Larry, thanks for answering phones today as always. I appreciate it greatly. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. We will not be here next week, so have a great Memorial Day weekend. We’ll be back the week after. Guys, have a good weekend. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 21 :
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