And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. I'm with co-hosts Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark, and we are here. At the downtown studio. Here we are. Yeah, this is an actual automotive repair shop with a studio built in.
It is.
So we're here to have some fun. This is your personal man cave up here, right? It is.
Personal man cave. And we come up here and we enjoy doing the show. This room gets used about once or twice a week. And it's for the CNC auto show. And what we will be talking about today has to do with tires.
Tires. Yeah, that's where the rubber meets the road. Sure. Definitely did this week. It did something this week.
I had some opinions on it. Yeah, this is where it all happens. That's where the rubber meets the road. You can have the most fantastic brakes that you could ever imagine. You can have the most fantastic steering system that you could imagine.
But if you don't have good tires, none of it's going to work very well. Nope. It's amazing that a set of tires with a contact patch the size of your hand is all that connects your car to the road. Yeah, absolutely.
So there are many ways that you can watch, listen, or join the show. And there's, you can, one of the ways, of course, you can go to ccautoshow.com. That's right. And Jamie. I just thought about it, the iPad.
I left the iPad. I got to go get it in this. All right.
Well, you ordinarily can go to the little chat bubble. It'll be up in a minute. Yeah, it'll be up in a minute. Go to the chat bubble and put in a question there, and she'll answer it. There's also a lot of good things there.
You can also find out where the shows play. There's over 100 of them across the country. Yeah, there's an interactive map, and it's really neat. Interactive. Interactive.
It's going to come out officially. You can tell we're going to have a good time today. There's no doubt about it. Jamie got mesmerized by the cup. That's what it was.
Because you got one, right? I got one. Don't you got one? I got one. Okay, Jamie, you have to do it.
It's filtering. He didn't earn it. He didn't earn it. It doesn't mean that it's mindless. If it's in my possession, it's nine-tenths, right?
You know where it is. That reminds me. We didn't get an answer to the TED Tip quiz last week. No, we didn't. Yeah, we did not.
We got. We had a wrong answer. Do we think you're wrong? Jamie? Could this be your day?
Is this your time? Probably not. You can also watch the show on Facebook live. And of course, no doubt, you can listen to the station and you can also give us a call because we love questions. We do.
I love questions. And the number, 800-224-9090. You give us a call and just all you have to do is give your name and just sit tight and we'll be right there with you.
Okay. Are we ready to bring up the Tech Tip Quiz? Let's do it. This is a leftover Tech Tip Quiz, so I had to pull it out of the refrigerator, undo the Ziploc bag, and pull it out. All right, here it is.
It still smelled good. All right.
Jonathan bought a truck that came from the factory without paint. And I guess some cars do that. Shortly after purchasing the truck, he decided that he wanted it to be red. He bought all the equipment and painted the truck in less than a week for under $500. It turned out good.
How was he able to paint it so that fast? Because now, of course, even at Kendrick Paint and Body with all the equipment that they have, I mean, by the time you do all the sanding and prepping, the masking, prepping, and all that, it normally takes a lot longer than that. Oh, absolutely. But actually, this was a brand new car, and he did it in less than a week for under $500. That's a great price.
Yeah, very good price. And it turned out good. Yeah. And that's amazing. Yeah, yeah, it is.
So, if someone knows the answer to today's Tech Tip quiz, you give us a call. And again, that number 800-224-9090. And let's immediately start talking about tires. All right.
Now, I had mentioned that I had planned to bring a tire up here.
So, during the next break, I'm going to run downstairs. I know we got a bunch of new tires laying down there ready to go on. Run for the tire, run for the iPad. Yeah, and we will, yeah, everybody will run in different directions and get all the items. But I think one of the first things that it would probably be good to talk about would have to do with some of the tire markings.
Because a lot of times people wonder. What do those numbers mean that's on the side of that tire? And they're very important, each one of them. And of course, when you're looking for the right. Tire for your car, they're very important.
But also, when you're looking to make sure this car is going to perform and do what you need it to do, it's important.
So, we'll tell you how to check your tires. We'll tell you how to what a lot of those numbers and letters and all that other stuff means. And we'll start with an example of a tire. Let's say we have a P21565R17 tire.
Okay, so Uh I think it would be good to start with the very basic part, the P. Passenger. Yeah, you're exactly right. We should have done the buzzer for this. Yeah, I would kill it.
I'm ready. Yeah. Can we have some buzzers? Not for you. Not for you.
No, because you press the button before the question is even read. What? Like, you got to let him finish, and then you can press the button. If you can't play the game. It's fine.
But it's about reaction time.
Well, what's another marketing that might be on there? What's an L T? Be light truck. Yeah. Light truck.
Okay. And it's because it has more sidewall tools. I don't know that I've ever seen an L T at the collision shop. Yeah, it could handle a load a little bit better.
Okay, we'll talk about some of the other letters and numbers. I'll tell you what, let's go straight on to one of the next ones, which is... It confuses a lot of people. And that number is the aspect ratio.
Okay. If the tire is 215, 65R, 15. The aspect ratio is the 65 number. And it's pretty simple when you think about it. The 65 is just a percentage of the tire's height.
to its width.
So if you have a 65 in this example, if you have an aspirate ratio of 65, it means that the tire's height is 65%. of the width.
So if it's Say if it's a 50, it's very close to the ground. If it's a 75, it's a taller tire or off the ground a lot more. And you see some tires running around that are terrible to look like they might be a 10 because they are right on the rim. Oh, that's what takes out your rim. Yeah, those little rubber van tires.
There's no air cushion. Yeah, food riding, right? Yeah, no, there you just move right into these blop, blop, blop, blop. I do see vehicles, and I know you've seen them before, a vehicle come in and need a repair, and one of the things that is damaged is the rim, and it might have only hit a pothole or something, and the whole rim's meant because the tire is too thin. Yeah, there's no cushion.
Yeah, exactly. And some of those rims are very, very expensive. Oh, absolutely. OEM rims are terrible. Yeah.
I mean, even trying to find a, you know, they'll have us try and find reconditioned rims and stuff like that or remanufactured that have been done. But the, you know, the coatings on these rims now, the way they're painted, like it's almost impossible to find somebody that's matched that exactly.
So the OEM rims, you know, could be. $700, $800 or more. Yeah. Or more. Yeah, easily more.
Let's go to the calls. Let's go over to Let's go to Joshua. Joshua, we got about a minute, but if we don't finish with your question, we will come right back to it. you after we pause. And what could we help with?
Awesome. Good morning, guys. It's such a pleasure speaking with you guys. I have a 2014 Audi. AHL Turbo Diesel, and I got about 155,000 miles on it.
And I would like to get about another 155,000 miles out of it if possible.
So I'm just trying to figure out what's the best maintenance that I can do on this car. Oh, I'll take that. This is Charles. Yeah, man. Mm.
So, Josh, the first thing at 150,000 miles is you want to get that engine de-coaked. You want to take it to an Audi dealer. You want to have the intake manifold pulled out. And they're going to do essentially what they do as an induction cleaning on a gas motor, but for a diesel. That's gonna be number one.
Gotcha, gotcha. Yep. Number two is you're going to go through, you're going to get your glow plugs done. And then they're going to clean. Yep, I already switched those out.
You already did your glow plugs.
So, the basic, the biggest thing for you right now is getting that. that carbon buildup or the coke buildup. Out of your intake manifolds. Yep. That's going to make that car last another 100,000 miles.
Now, it's not a cheap process, but you will get your money back in the long run. And then continue to. Joshua being a 2000 Joshua, I'm going to get you to hold. We're going to have to pull over for a stop sign, and we're going to pull back on the road shortly, and this is really interesting.
So I'm going to put you on hold with me right back. I got a star on my car and one on my chest. A gun on my hip and the right to arrest. I'm the guy who's a boss on this highway.
So watch out what you're doing when you're driving my way. If you break the law, you'll hear from me. I know. I'm working for the state. I'm the Highway Patrol.
And we do welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show. I'm riding with co-hosts, Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark, and we're talking with Joshua. We're going to bring Joshua right on back on the show because Charles was. Giving him some information there. That's Charles' wheelhouse.
Yeah. Euro cars. He was loving that. Especially an Audi. Terrible cars, man.
Love them. Yeah. Okay, Josh, welcome back to the show. Yeah. Hey, Josh.
All right, so we left off with getting good. We left off with getting the intake and induction side clean on that diesel engine. One more question for you. Yep, intake, induction. Yep.
Has your TDI had the 2.0 update? I'm not exactly sure what that is.
Okay, so. You know, back a little while ago, Volkswagen had some problems with the missions. I think it did have some kind of update. They did something to it. I bought it used a year ago.
It was a car from New York. It was a one-owner. And they did do something to it. I guess it was brought in and it was updated at some point because I did see it in my paperwork somewhere.
Okay. Okay, so with that being done. When you take it in to have the induction side Yeah. Make sure that they're checking like the turbo and everything like that because that update changes how that engine boosts. And when in a lot of different aspects of obviously fuel delivery.
So just have them go through and see if they can put. An eye on the turbo, make sure the turbo is okay, and then your downpipe.
So if it's been updated, He should be good to go. Um And of course, keeping things like this goes without saying, keeping the oil change on a regular basis and the coolant system. Brake flush. Oh, this gives me a chance to mention BG brake flush. We love BG products, and a BG product brake system flush would be a great thing.
Actually, upgraded brake fluid, and it will make the braking system last a lot longer, also. Yeah, very important. Yep, I got all the fluids replaced when I first got it. And the weird thing is, so it's got a blue desk, I guess, container next to the diesel fill-up. And I was told that I guess whenever I'm low on blue desk, like the car would tell me, but I've had it for a year and I've never put blue desk in it, and it's never asked for it.
Yeah, that's kind of unusual. Usually in that length of time, it would go down.
Now, of course, it also gave me a chance to mention the peak blue diff diesel exhaust fluid. And that's what I use in my truck. But it seems like it would go down in that length of time. But, of course, it should. Two tanks of fuel.
It should be. I put 30,000 miles on it since last year.
Okay, that car's. I'm a real estate agent, so I do a lot of driving. That car's been modified. Because the car should have derated by now.
So basically, if you run it empty, the car will shut itself down into a limp mode if it doesn't have death fluid. Yeah, it's not doing that.
Somebody deleted it. Yeah, some that. That would lead me to believe that somebody's modified that and you're. Probably going to get a lot more life out of that thing than you think you are. But still, I would make sure to get it in.
Get that induction side apart. Get all that coke buildup out of there from the diesel fuel because our diesel fuel is not clean. And and then that will And that'd be a good time to ask the technician, hey, do what else do you okay without having to do that? Oh, I mean, if they figure out that it's been deleted, the dealership can't touch it anymore. It's old enough.
Is it? But and there's a lot of there's there's there's good independence in town. Yeah, there's some really good independence in town. That deal with these European cars, so you don't necessarily have to pay dealer prices. No, that is true.
No, I'm definitely not. I'm definitely not going to the stealership. Yeah. I would, you know CNC, they can always help you. They got all kinds of qualified technicians here.
Um and then there's some there's some brand specific uh Independence as well in town? Yeah. Um but That's where I would start, get that done. And you should have a lot of happy motoring out of that little TDI. Absolutely.
Yeah, because I guess the main two things that I'm worried about is, I guess, the DPS filter itself and the timing chain, right?
So your timing chain wasn't done at 120K? I don't have the service records for the vehicle. Then 100% get that timing chain out of there immediately. Immediately. He's taking it.
Yeah. Germans do not have a sense of humor when it comes to maintenance. If they say 120K, they mean 120K.
So I would 100% get that timing chain. Yeah, when it comes to vehicle maintenance, 100% get that timing chain out of there. And that's a perfect time. They're going to have the induction side off anyway to get in there. to just kind of have the rest of it gone through.
Gotcha.
So, like, am I going to have to bring an arm and a leg, or did y'all take blood? That's a question for you. What forms are people? I would tell you this: a quality independent shop, you're probably going to be okay with half a leg. Dealership's going to need both legs and some blood.
Yeah, no, no, I'm definitely not going to the dealership. At least not the one here in Augusta. The one in Columbia is much, much friendlier. All right.
All right.
Joshua, we appreciate it, and good luck with that vehicle. I know you're going to enjoy it for many years to come. Thank you. That's the plan. At least, that's what the lawyer says.
Beautiful. All right.
We are talking about tires. We were. And we will continue to talk about tires. And I did go downstairs and have a tire. Jamie, where's the iPad?
It's dead. I can't believe it. I got all the way down. I was late going down there because we were talking, and I got all the way down there, back up in less than a minute. You look pretty good for a big guy.
Yeah, I did pretty good. But sitting, my right hand is actually resting on a pilot sport, Michelin Tire, 245, 35, ZR20. Tire. And that is jam up.
Okay, we talked about the aspect ratio just a little bit. We'll go every, what's the R mean? Rim size. Puta got ah button on that one, but I don't know. Yeah, you've got a radio.
Oh, radial, yeah. Yeah, right, right. You've got a let me see. You gotta do all these things. The batteries are laying right there.
Okay, but I need my owner. Let's see. Let's where's it? Yeah. Oh, look, we gotta go to break.
Oh, there we go. You gotta go. Answer the question wrong, we got it right. Right. It's the way the layers run inside the tire.
It means radial, pretty much. Oh. And we'll talk about more about these tires as soon as we return with more of the CNC Auto Show. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you by Behrman and their hestimonials where drivers share their story using Behrman products with HEST or high-energy solvent technology to restore lost power and peak performance. Do you have a hestimonial to share?
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When she is lonely, yeah, the longing gets too much. And we knew welcome. You're back to the CNC Auto Show. Half past four and I'm shifting gears. That's right.
Driving something, you know. I used to love that the older cars, the way the shifters used to sound many years ago. And you still, of course, have them if you got a like a 69 Chevelle or something like that. That clicking sound that the shifter used to make. I used to love that.
Good old top loader. I just remember learning to drive a stick and just hearing that grinding sound as you're trying to figure out how to find that gear. I believe that's because you were doing it wrong. Absolutely. Was doing it wrong in the beginning.
I might get a 69 model car of some kind, like a Chevelle or a Mustang or something, just so I can have that shifter noise back again. It's a good old Muncie top loader. Yeah, something really good. Yeah. Okay.
We're back with the CNC Auto Show here with Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, and David Clark. We're talking about tires and all kinds of other things during the show. Having a fantastic time. And we, what was the last thing we talked about? We talked about the radio for radial.
Radio. We'll move into another pretty quick one, pretty simple. And that is the diameter. And that's usually like a 15, 16, 17. You're starting to see them.
22. 32. 22. Yeah. 32.
No. I mean, they make them, but don't do this William thing. This gives me an opportunity. It's an aesthetic choice and an artistic expression. No, I won't have that.
I'm sorry. It's an aesthetic choice, my buddy. But because of so many 20s and 20s, too, some of our other locations has had it already, but we got one at the downtown location now. We got it, what, about a month or so ago? But this is the newest design in tire changing equipment.
And this machine's amazing. I mean, you put the tire on there. Hands off. And you just take your hands off. And it will move it over.
It will remove the old tire. You just set the other one on and it takes it from there and puts it back on. That's pretty neat. Oh, it is very neat. No lifting, hardly at all.
And it just sets it right back on the ground. And of course, to go with that, we bought the newer, updated Road Force Balancer.
So do you? Equipment has been amazing. Of course, we updated the alignment machine less than a year ago.
So it's got the latest in the alignment equipment. But you have to have all that equipment now because you can't. Take a 22-inch tire and stick it on a regular tire changing machine. No, it won't fit. It's too big.
And rims are, whoa, you scratch one too much.
So these will not scratch the rim. I mean, it never. Touches the rim itself. That sounds like some pampered technicians. Could you imagine them down there with a brake spoon trying to heave hoe a semi-truck tire off a rim?
That would be cool. I wonder if they. Ooh, you would change the trucking industry with the machine. Yeah, oh my gosh. It takes a good little while to change the device.
You're still there with the pry bars trying to get slip engine tires in the truck industry. Yeah, like in the 40s. Spoons, bars, hammers. Put a little heat to it, put a little flame in it, boom. Yeah, there goes your eyebrows.
I got a beard because of that.
Now, on the rim sides, I did get a good tip from our show contributor, James Pate. He mentioned that with the 15 or the rim diameter is one of the few readings on a vehicle that did not go into kilometers or millimeters or metric systems. It stayed in inches. And so it's still in inches.
So if you see a 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 on your tire, that is in inches. Yep. And of course the larger is, the bigger the rim. And you can't vary with that. I mean, if you have a 16-inch rim, you have to get a 16-inch tire.
Yeah, well, it's the way the tire is constructed, that steel bead, the rim that sits on the rim, you can't stretch it. It's a steel ring.
So you can't vary that rim size for a tire. It's there.
Okay, load index. Very important number. Load index and the speed speed rating or both. For instance, after a tire size of 215, 65R, 15, you may see a 94V. And of course, the 94 is the load index.
And the load index tells you how much weight the tire can support properly. That's a very important number to line up. If you're getting tires and you're getting quotes on tires, you want to add that number as you're getting the size. Like if you say, I need a 245, 35, ZR. 20.
The Z, the ZR would be the speed rating. 95Y. And so, you want to make sure that you get the load rating and speed rating of the tire when you're getting it and match those up.
Well, it didn't used to matter so much for passenger cars. Really, you'd only consider that for pickup trucks, but now with EV You know, they're so much heavier, you have to be careful with your tires if you have an electric car or truck. I mean, speed speed ratings I even more important, I think. I mean, to to pay attention to. I don't know, take this guy with an Audi.
You buy an A6, that car is capable of 155 miles an hour.
Now, whether you do that or not, that sounds bad to say. But by the same token, they've designed the car. The suspension, everything is designed around the tires. And they're designed to have that kind of tire on it. Even the safety systems on the car.
So, like, when we're looking at it for the ADAS stuff, like, there's a lot of things that we have to go in there in the very beginning. And it says, you know, check the tire pressure, check the tire, the tires that are on the car to make sure, you know, obviously rod heights and different things haven't been modified so that that stuff lines up like it's supposed to when we're doing the calibrations.
Well, and that's, you know, that's a really good point. This is why, like, especially on modern cars now. It's not really feasible to just do one or two tires anymore. No. No.
Because you're talking about a difference of six tenths in tread depth. Yeah. That's ride height difference. Right. That can throw off cameras, blind spot monitoring, cruise control, adaptation, I guess now.
All of it. I had a big, well, I wouldn't call it an argument, but a big discussion with an insurance company one time because we had a vehicle in here that had a rim that was torn up. The customer had hit something, tore up the rim, and of course, messed up the tire on one side. And the tires were about over halfway worn out. And I caught it, it was all-wheel drive.
I can't remember what car it was. But I told the insurance company that they would need all four tires because you can't put just one new tire and have three that are worn out because it'll tear up the viscous depthener inside the transfer case. And that's what accepts the extra load as you're rounding corners, one side turning faster than the other side. And it. if it changes and one wheel's spinning faster, Than the other wheels, then it will eat up that viscous stantoner.
And I had to do a lot of research, but I did find the paperwork and I brought it back and showed it. It said they do recommend replacing all tires, they have to be even on an all-wheel drive vehicle. And then, when you do that, you know, most, like you said, they were halfway worn out.
So, then your insurance company is going to then push a betterment on those tires.
So, they won't pay you for 100% of what's owed on the tires. You're going to have to pay for 50% of the cost. The customer is still better off doing that as opposed to having to buy a transmission, a major transmission out there. But, like my wife's Subaru, when you go to tires in the owner mirror, it's like the. Very next thing in there after the title page.
Replace all four. All four tires must be replaced simultaneously. We got some BMWs that have directional tires, right? And so, I mean, replacing one just doesn't. I mean, you can't do it.
You can't swap them right. We're going to talk a little bit about that in a little bit when we talk about rotating tires. Yeah. Let's lock, let's see here. Let's lock this person in.
Thanks. Uh Kim. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Oh, we're gonna have to get a break, Aaron.
I don't know about being locked in, but I'll I'll sit with you for a minute. All right.
Well, what we're gonna do is uh let's see here. What you got? Oh, you got an answer to the tech tip quiz? Yeah, I got something to say about tires, so you can do whatever you want.
Well, I'm going to put you, well, we won't put you on stage yet. We'll wait until after we talk about the tires, then we'll put you on stage. And sit tight, we'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Having your vehicle professionally maintained is key to optimal performance and vehicle longevity. With over 50,000 shops worldwide, a BG shop is always around the corner.
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He said it. To raise the stock call by running shine out. Ooh, the demolition to be and the victory. Is it Let's go over to James. And Here we go.
James, welcome back to the CNC Artist Show. Glad to be sitting with you again.
Well, we're glad that you're here. We appreciate it. All right, so we can talk. Yeah. Absolutely.
Markings, tire rotation, I got an opinion on that. And another possible wrong answer to your tech tip quiz. Oh, okay. Here we go. We're ready.
Whichever you want, however, All right, two things, tires. Rotation. One thing I've always sought to avoid was directional tires cleaning They always had to spin a certain way no matter what side of the car they were on. And that always went aw against my rotation theory of cross going backwards and straight going forwards. by doing rotation that way, my experience is you get a much more even tire wear because of the turning aspect when the tires are on the front.
If they get a chance to be ultimately on the other front, Side. Through the tire rotation process as you cross the rear, they won't have that. accelerated feathering on the outer edges.
So that's An opinion. Number two, we were the real important are those treadwear and traction ratings. And People think, oh yeah, I want to get a really high treadwear tire. Trouble is with that, as I understand it, is you get a harder tire, so you don't get quite the same ride. Conversely, Um If you've got one of these great Temperature rating tires are good traction tires.
What I've heard is that. but they tend to be a softer rubber. While they handle in a terrific way, they don't last as long.
So I'm going to push back from the table and see what you all think about those two things. I think that comes down to application. Yeah. Absolutely. 100%.
For example, my GLI, I had really sticky tires on that car. I got 10,000 miles out of 'em. But they were quiet and the car handled great. But it was also a tire that was designed to be on that car.
So Hey. I would agree it's application base. But by the same token You gotta watch. buying a harder compound, trying to get you know, a little more value out of it, I guess. 'Cause I mean, not only is it going to ride rougher, it's going to be louder.
Uh they tend to cup.
So, if you have more, if you have any kind of suspension issues, you're going to start getting pumping in the tire faster. Mm-hmm. Um I think it's really important what you're doing with the vehicle, right? Is it your everyday driver? Yeah, that's it your sports car that you're going to drive.
And that's why I said it's application-based. You know, if I'm driving on the weekends in the summer and you want to play with the car, I want a stop tire. I think you could get everything you're looking for, though. You just need someone that knows knowledgeable about tires when you're looking for tires to do the research. And it's so easy now.
I mean, you got, like, when we bring up tires, we can look at three different warehouses and look at all the specs on just many, many tires. You can go down a rabbit hole for sure on tires. And of course, now I don't mind telling you, I love Michelin tires. That's all I got. They are a little bit more money, but I love them.
That's what I put on my truck recently when we got the truck. And I believe in good tires because, of course, when they start getting worn down, that's when you increase the chances of an accident. Matter of fact, I asked David this during the break, but I asked him again: do you see a lot of vehicles that have been in accidents that the tires are worn down pretty good? Yeah, just a little bit. Absolutely.
Because it's amazing. I mean, we used to do a lot of alignments for different collision shops. And in doing that, that's what they would notice: that the tires were worn down. Most of them have front end damage, and the tires were worn down because it increases the stopping distance that the vehicle has. But when you're getting tires, I think you can get the best of both worlds if you just do some, oh, most cases, if you do some good shopping and do some good checking, you could get a tire that lasts a long time.
Because, like you said, you get a 380 treadwear, you're going to probably get about 10,000, 15,000 miles out of it. But if you're driving 100 miles an hour and you want that really sports car feel on the tires, it would be a good thing. If you're not, then. Then you may want them to, like me, I want mine to last 50,000 miles or 60.
Okay. So that's the shopping can be very important. All right, James. Are we ready to go on stage? I'm right here.
Oh, okay. Good. I thought we bored him to death for a minute. No, no. Were you uh were you gonna mention any any other stuff on tires?
Just we also mentioned a moment ago car rotation, whether you use an X pattern or not. As a Oh, that's that's once again, that's all down to application: all-wheel drive, four-wheel drive, two-wheel drive, one-hour drive. All-wheel drive. And just a real quick note, James, and I'll let you go ahead and mention this. Tell the listeners why it's a good idea to keep the tires rotated.
Well, particularly on a front-wheel drive car, those I think have the greatest. All right.
imbalance in the duty of the tires. Because so much of the braking is in the front. compared to the back. Just look at the size of your rotors, calipers and pads. The difference between the front and the back.
All the steering, of course, is in the front, unless you're driving one of those old fire trucks, hooking ladder trucks, making turns around downtown city streets.
So and there's obviously Typically, unless you've got a very unusual car, Most of the weight is up there. If you don't rotate your tires on a car like that, You'll basically never buy rear tires unless they dry rot off the car because there's just nothing going to happen to them.
So they got to be thrown into the fire up in the front. And have their term up there equal to the other pair of tires. Otherwise it's just because you do get torn everywhere. As you're going around a curve, you're actually pushing on that. Let's say if you're going around a left-hand turn, you're pushing on that right front tire and you're wearing down the edges of that tire.
And same way on the other side.
So moving them to the back, it kind of levels them out just a little bit. You betcha.
Okay. So, tire rotation. What would you do, yours, James? I recommend somewhere. Between 7,000 and 10,000 miles.
Most people go every other oil chain. That's what I do every other oil chain. Every other front to back. What do you do? I trust CNC.
No, pinnacle cards are. Every other oil change. And that's what I do on my oil vehicle.
Now, of course, I'm going a little longer than I like to go on tire rotation because I change my oil every 5,000 miles and I'm dead on the money. If you see a truck on I-20 over on the side road with somebody changing oil, that's because I didn't time it right and I hit 5,000 miles. No, just kidding. That's dedication. They can keep going all over.
Yeah, but somewhere every other oil change is a good idea.
Somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 miles or and every other oil change.
Okay. James, so the tire rotation is set. And we're ready.
So are you ready to give us the answer to today's check tip quiz? I give you an answer. Oh, an answer.
Well, we're going to put you up on stage. And let me see, we've got about a minute and a half, so we're going to go ahead and move forward and put you on stage. Oh, that's not correct. That's not correct. And Blue got confused.
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All right, here we go. We're going to give the question of this very.
Well laid out. Tech Tip quiz. Jonathan bought a truck that came from the factory without paint. Shortly after purchase of the truck, he decided that he wanted it to be red. He bought all the equipment and painted the truck in less than a week for under $500, and it turned out good.
I'm talking about.
Okay. Really good. Yeah. How is he able to paint it that fast and that cheap? James, all eyes are on you to answer today's TECTEP quiz.
And what's the answer? There's something going on with the word it. He wanted it to be red. It for under $500, he painted it red. It came out great.
So, somehow on this truck with no paint on it, He painted the word it on there. It didn't matter what color it was, because red is. R-E-A-D.
So he wanted it red. Wanted it to be red, not necessarily the color, but something Red, or he wanted the name of it to be red, something like that.
So there's, it goes off. Like roots in the yard, any different direction after that, but I don't think we're talking about painting the whole vehicle the color red. Jeff, I just paint it. I I can't do oh we're gonna need to pull over for just a second oh as a matter of fact James, I'm going to, as soon as we get back. Are you going to leave him dangling like that?
All right, let's go ahead and do it. Tell me the hard truth now. Aw. We appreciate it. And we'll be back with a second CNC auto show after this.
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We will go to The next caller. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show, and what can we help you with? Um so And welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help you with? I think we got put on hold for that.
Yeah, we did.
Okay. Well, we're gonna put that one. On hold for later, and we're going to go ahead and read our tech tip quiz. We did not get an answer to the tech tip quiz during the last hour, so we're going to go ahead and lay it back on the table. And this thing's starting to get a little bit of a stellar side.
So we're going to need a we need an answer to this one pretty bad.
Okay, Jonathan bought a truck that came from the factory without paint. Shortly after purchasing the truck, he decided he wanted it to be red. He bought all the equipment and painted the truck in less than a week for under $500, and it turned out really good. How was he able to paint that fast and that cheap? And if you know the answer, give us a call.
Now we'll go to the cause and we will go to Christopher's. Christopher, welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help with? Good morning. How are y'all? Good.
Perfect. Good, but So I have a 1998 Toyota Tacoma with a 2.4 liter five speed manual. Um Yeah, yes, sir. Thank you. Um I have I took the transmission out of it yesterday and replaced the Pilot bearing.
the soil route bearings. And the whole reason I did that is there was a bearing noise. that was coming from the transmission when you let off of cl off of the clutch. Um, when you push in the clutch, The bearing noise goes away. And it's still doing that.
Do you have any idea what that might be? There's other bearings in the transmission. Yeah. The input shot bearing is common. It's going to have an issue.
Yeah. How long has that clutch been in there? To me, when I took it out, it appeared to be the OEM clutch. Uh but it but it only ha it only has ninety five thousand miles on it. That's still really good out of a clutch.
That's just a lot of heat transferred, a lot of age, and I would imagine that's probably transferred to a bearing. I I I wouldn't say I wouldn't have started where you started. But I would imagine you're probably getting to the end, you know, input shaft bearing at this point. You said the truck has 95,000 miles on it. That's correct.
Yeah, I believe what I would recommend doing.
Now, normally, by the time you need that input bearing, the transmission ends up having 200,000, 250,000 miles on it. In those cases, a lot of times I recommend just finding a remanufactured transmission. But if you were to take the transmission out, find a transmission shop that still does. There's not that many transmission shops that actually rebuild transmissions anymore, but there will be one. I know of one or two.
I won't mention. I'll just let you kind of check around to find out somebody that can do a manual transmission and tell them all you want is the input shaft bearing put in there.
Now, they may say, well, we'd like to look inside and see if everything else is good. And if they do, that'll be fine. But weigh that out between what it would cost to put a front input shaft bearing in and what it will cost to get a remanufactured transmission. Uh high probability that you could probably get the bearing done less. With that lower miles, I think you'll be fine to do that.
Now, of course, you still have to worry when that bearing, when that input shaft bearing was wearing, it was probably grinding up some metal. That metal probably went in other places inside the transmission.
So, with that being said, it probably wouldn't be a good idea. I mean, a bad idea for him to inspect it while it's out, make sure everything else looks good.
Well, that's a good question. When you pulled the transmission out, did you drain the gear fluid out of the transmission?
Okay. No, I did not. No, sir. I would start there. Go ahead and get some transmission fluid, pull the drain out of it.
The drain's going to have a little magnet on it. That's going to tell you right away if you've got material going through your transmission or not. Throw some new gear oil in it. Maybe it'll quiet it down. Yeah, maybe.
Once it starts grinding, it's a little too late. But it's worth the try. I mean, it's easy to do. I'm trying to be positive. You know what I mean?
I didn't want to bring Chris down on a Saturday. Unless it's low.
Now, if it's low in fluid, now that's a possibility.
So check the fluid level. And you could try changing the fluid, but usually once they're grinding, it's time.
So you have an input. And I know the sound that you're talking about. If you're in neutral, you'll hear the grinding noise. You'll push the clutch in, and it'll go. And go away, and then you're allowed to clutch up and go, yeah.
Right. It's very, I wouldn't even call it a grinding noise. It's very, very subtle. Yeah. You were standing by my truck.
Yeah, if you were standing by my truck and I didn't point it out to you, you probably wouldn't even recognize it. But as soon as I push that clutch pedal in, it goes away. Yeah. And the only reason that I, that I know it's there is because I drive it every day. That's right.
Um, But even the buddy that I had helped me yesterday pulled the transmission out of it, he didn't. He didn't even know what I was talking about. But once I pointed it out to him, he was like, okay, yeah, I hear it now. Um Well, if it's not that pronounced you might be a you might be ahead of it a little bit, Chris, and and and starting with a fluid change might be Yeah, I mean if it the fluid's that old, you know, if that clutches everything, yeah. Right.
And if so, let me make sure I understand what y'all are saying.
So, try changing the fluid. And if and if the noise doesn't go away, then y'all believe it might be the input shaft there. That's where I'm going. If it does go away, I'd go buy a lottery ticket right after because you did the fluid's not low. I mean, if fluid's low, you do stand a chance of that.
But if it's already making the noise, but I mean, it's maybe I'm looking at it from a more positive perspective here. Like, if as a car guy, if I'm walking by, And I can't distinct You know, make the distinction for the noise. then it may be really, really faint. Yeah, versus I walk by the truck with it. Or hear the truck drive by, and I'm like, oh, yeah, that burning bad.
Change the fluid and then call us back, and we'll find out if Charles is right or if I'm right. I'm just talking about being right. I'm trying to be positive, man.
Sounds great. Positivity. Y'all have a good weekend. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Okay, the number of the call is 800-224-9090. Let's go ahead and tie this next one up on the line so we don't lose somebody. We only have about a minute and a half. We might have time to get this person. on stage 'cause it might be Talking about the TECTIP quiz.
Welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with? I think I have an answer for your tech tip. Oh, wait a minute. We're going to put you on stage and we're going to try to glide through this really quick here. My boy, Blue.
Okay, Blue. Yeah, Blue's pretty good. My boy, Blue.
All right.
Okay, here is a question. We got one minute to go here. Jonathan bought a truck that came from the factory without paint. Shortly after purchasing the truck, he decided that he wanted it to be red. He bought all the equipment, painted the truck in less than a week for under $500.
It turned out really good. How was he able to do that? All eyes are on you. What are they? He bought a diecast car, which is like a model car.
See, that's what I would have guessed. Could it be possible? That would be my guess. Let's see what the judges say. Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. What are they saying? Take this! Yeah. Oh wow.
Yeah. Actually the truck came from Hobby Town and it was a cyber truck but he wanted it to be red. He went back to Hobby Town, bought all the painting equipment and actually it was under $100 by all the painting equipment. He painted the truck in a few days and actually that took less than a day. And you are now a winner.
Let me see here. Do you know, Aaron? Yes. Before you go ahead, I got something to tell you. Hey, let me put your hold just for a second and.
We're going to take a break. Mason's going to write down your information. We'll bring you right back. We'll be back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Little GTO You're looking looking fine.
Three deuces and a four speed and a 389. Listen to her talking up now. Listen to her white. Come on and drown. And we do welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show.
I'll be here with Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark. And we're talking about tires. We're talking. Two A fresh new Tech Tip Quiz winner. And we'll bring him back on the line.
And welcome back to the CNC Auto Show, Ken. And you answered our Tech Tip Quiz. You're officially known as a Tech Tip Quiz winner. I've got an additional comment to make when you get a chance if you've got a moment. Absolutely.
And we're sitting here looking at this Tech Tip Quiz coffee mug that you'll be receiving that says official Tech Tip Quiz winner.
Okay, David. You have one, don't you? Welcome to the team there, Ken. David has. Congratulations.
I do have one. I also have one. And Ken has one now. Yeah. Yeah, Ken.
Jamie, Jamie, do you have one? You know what? I have this nice styrofoam cup over here. All right, that's you, kid. Kids, we are ready.
You know, Aaron, you can actually paint your car for under $500. Just get a bunch of spray paint cans. Do you realize that? I've done that before. Oh, you know.
A Craylon. A Craylon paint job. Kralon. Kralon. Kralon.
Okay, good, good. It is possible you could do that. Please don't do that. Yeah. Oh, God, please don't.
Please don't do it. It looks good from a distance, just so it gets you close. A long distance. Yeah. About a mile.
All right.
Ken, yes, you can. And we appreciate you answering our Tech Tip quiz today. Thanks for the Tech Tip quiz. Oh, we thank you, and congratulations. Congratulations, Ken.
They have already he's already given us information. Right. We will go to our next caller. And we will go to rich. Rich, welcome.
to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with? Good morning, Aaron. My question is about tread depth on cars. Same question but as it pertains to two separate vehicles. How much tread depth difference would it make on a front-wheel drive car like my Corolla?
Where, if I was driving it with two different tires, two different tread depths, would it start causing damage to the drivetrain?
Now, if it's just a front-wheel drive vehicle, it's less of an issue. You would have very little issue. You could probably have several, 30 seconds difference and still be absolutely fine. But when you get into an all-wheel drive, it's a totally different animal because you have a dampener inside the transmission that's accepting the load of when one wheel's spinning faster than the other, which it accepts it. But if it's having to accept that all the time, then it eventually wears that down pretty quick.
So I would say a front-wheel drive. It's several 30 seconds, even four, 30 seconds. I feel like you would be fine. I've never really thought about that that much.
So I don't know if I'd go for probably a couple of 30 seconds difference. Probably wouldn't be too much. Two or three, maybe four. Yeah. 30 seconds, and you would be fine with that.
Okay, what about my rear wheel drive to coma? Yeah, rear-wheel drive Tacoma, pretty much about the same thing. You can have some differences in there, and it won't have the same effect on it like an all-wheel drive vehicle.
So, yes. And I know you, Richard, you keep almost new tires on all your vehicles anyway. And I'm going to tell you something that I've been reading about. Richard's my friend that we talk about all the time, having to do with alternative fuels. And one of the things that I'll mention is I've been doing a lot of reading on e-fuels now.
And that's a very interesting subject, also. We've talked about hydrogen a lot. And of course, I've been. reading and watching a lot of items having to do with e-fuels.
So very, very interesting stuff. Yeah, there's a lot of alternatives out there. I'm for all of the above, but you and I know the market will determine which one gets it. Yes, they will. And Richard will appreciate it.
And thank you for sharing so much information with me so often. You're welcome. See you later. Oh, thank you.
Okay, number to call 800-224-9090. All you got to do is give us a call and we will answer your question and more.
So we'll go to the next caller. Blunch. We do have a bunch of calls. Yeah, we do. It's my favorite.
Welcome to the CNC Auto Show, and what can we help you with? No. Hello, Joker Joe. Going twice? Hey, George.
Hey, it's George. It's George. All right, George, we got you. Welcome to the show. Good morning, guys.
I got a question about transmission maintenance, and I got a tiny backstory. If you got time, I've got time. Uh the ZMC 1500 uh uh 10 years ago. that began uh strange slip and noise in in the transmission. And I I didn't know what it was and ignored it to Around 165,000 miles, it left me side to road, and the solution was to.
Put a new transmission in it. And now I got a later model, same truck. I'm at 105,000 miles, and I'm beginning to see a. Feel a little bump in low training gears. If I get in slow speeds around Atlanta and stop and go traffic sometimes, it'll bump changing those gears.
On at highway speeds, it's smooth going down the road. And I was I did do a I'm at one hundred and five thousand miles, at sixty five thousand miles, I did a drain and refill. did it at one of your shops and um And so now I've got another 40,000 miles, and I'm beginning. I was not feeling the bump then at 60,000, but I'm feeling it now. And I had a couple of passengers make comments about it.
And so Um Should we flush the transmission? Is that a solution? That's what I recommend. I'm kind of surprised that one of our locations did just a drain and fill. It would be very rare because we strongly believe in the total fluid issue.
That was under my direction. Oh, okay. That was under my direction. I talked with Barry about it. I trust Barry a lot.
He and. And we decided to do a drain and feel.
Okay. Well, I can tell you my feelings on that. On a drain and feel. It's a little bit like washing dishes with dirty water. What you're doing, you're taking the pan off, and the pan holds five quarts.
And then you're putting a new filter in, you're putting the pan back on, and you're pouring five quarts of fluid back in. But the transmission holds 12 quarts.
So what you're doing is you're taking that transmission that's been hot flying around in there for 65,000, anywhere from 65 to 100,000, whatever amount you had on it. And you know, with all those moving parts, you've got to have some wear. And if you got some wear, you've got to have some metal. And if you got metal, then it's got to be floating around. Where when you take the five quarts out and put it back in, you still got little pieces of contaminants all inside.
All inside the rest. And I got all excited here, and I'm blowing past the brake.
So I'm going to put you on hold just a second so that Mason don't come in here and pop me one.
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Bridges, David Clark. And we are talking with George and George, welcome. But I suppose. To the CNC Auto Show. And I think I mentioned, I probably went a little overboard or mentioned how biased I am toward doing a transmission total fluid exchange as compared to a.
We got an emergency call from Barry. Yeah. He was nervous. Yeah, Barry's upset.
So, George, I would recommend a total fluid exchange on the car. And I think it's much cleaner. One last question. One last question, and I not knowing any better, I would probably And original fluid, but Ironic, I just listened to your commercial on BG transmission fluid. How does that differ from the original equipment transmission fluid in the General Motors VA?
BG is a wonderful product. One of my favorite automotive products out there. They have brake fluid and they have power steering fluid, they have transmission fluid, and it meets or it seeds the manufacturer's specs on there. There's a lot of products that I do like to use factory products on. I don't mind telling you, there's certain items that I use OE, but also there's certain items out there that are actually built better than OE.
Dorman makes a lot of products that are actually beefed up in areas. And also, there's a lot of other product. There's some brake products that's even better than an OE product. Same way with fluid. You have certain fluids that are much healthier.
Now, that's to say on most vehicles, there are certain vehicles out there that I would use. The VW is one of them. Mercedes, one of them. Certain vehicles, I would recommend using a factory-type fluid. But in like that vehicle, BG fluid is, I mean, just wonderful fluid, exceeds a lot of the manufacturers.
Several years ago, when they were having some transmission issues, they supposedly upgraded the fluid. And I know I've specifically bought it At one point in time, and this fluid that you use and sell meets those specifications for the newest, latest. Yeah. Transmission fluids in is acceptable. Is there any warranty to your services there?
Yeah, actually, our regular In fluid exchange is two years, 24,000 miles. But BG has a really wild warranty that you can go in. If you do it below a certain amount of miles, you can actually do it at certain intervals and move all the way up to like a life, almost like a lifetime warranty on the transmission, which they'll pay for repairs if you have the problem.
Now, we hadn't had to deal with that much, very much at all because we service transmission, and most of them. Lasts for so long until people expect when you get a certain number of miles that you're gonna eventually a transmission is gonna act up. Yeah, but just a two-year 24,000 miles. But I don't adhere to that. But a transmission fluid exchange, there's really not a whole lot to warranty on there because it's a little bit, it's a little bit like an oil change.
I mean, you're taking the old fluid out. The biggest difference between the drain and fill and a total fluid exchange is doing a drain and fill, you're taking five quarts out and putting five quarts back in. Drain and fill, you're letting 12 quarts, all the fluid in the transmission, including converter, transmission pan, valve body, everything, it is pushed out toward the cooler in its natural pressure. You're not flushing anything. That's the reason I call it a fluid exchange.
Under its natural pressure, it's pushing it out. It's going under a little piston. The new fluid is on top of. That piston, so for every ounce of old fluid that goes out, an ounce of new fluid goes back in, and you're refilling everything with fresh new fluid without the contaminants. And if you put it between your fingers, I get excited about this sometimes.
You put old fluid between your fingers and you rub it together and it builds up heat really quick. You put that new fluid, it feels cool and slick, and just it's got to do better. Got to.
Well, I mean, you brought up the perfect analogy earlier, right? Like, you don't wash your dishes in dirty soap. Yeah. AGF is is detergents. It's mostly detergent.
So that's something to keep in mind about that fluid.
Okay. It's. Got to get it out of there. You do. And George, I beat that dead horse bad.
But I love talking about transmission fluid. Uh-huh.
Okay. Okay. Thank you for your time this morning. Great call. Thank you.
And I'll tell Barry you said hello. Yes, please. Thank you. Okay, the number of call, 800-224-9090. Where are we going, David?
We got Horatio. Oh, Horatio. We talked about aspect ratio. Yeah. We kind of got confused there.
Horatio, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Hi, this is my second time calling this to the show and uh I have a question. I'm concerned about something. Mm-hmm.
Alright, so Okay, so I saw some of the sh Short videos online. About Those GMC trolls that Died out around like four thousand, five thousand miles. I didn't see like. The whole video whole videos And um What is your concern? I mean, I mean, I mean, what is your assumption that it might break down and like in the middle of the road or something.
Now, I hadn't seen the video that you're talking about, but I will tell you that it is very rare for a vehicle to break down in the middle of the road anymore. I mean, the sensors are made so much better than they were years ago. There's so many backup systems on the vehicle that makes it to where if one sensor goes out, another one takes over. But you do have vehicles that break down from time to time, usually something to do with a fuel pump or if something hadn't been serviced right, then of course you can run into different issues. But I'm not sure what video that you might be talking about and what.
And what would make a GMC truck break down in four or five thousand miles? Because every one I ever get has got two hundred on it by the time I'm done with it.
So uh but no, I'm not I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about as far as one breaking down.
Well, I have to watch a whole video again after this. Um, another thing is that I saw a YouTube short. It's yeah, it talks about like VM charged with a Transmission. I don't know the transmission name. Uh-huh.
It's not. In Allison transmission. But if b breaks down around like one hundred thirty thousand miles or something like that. like don't buy DMC trucks. That's like under like 2023 or something like that.
I don't know. That's my concern. Yeah. I hadn't seen that with the Chevys. It was the Ford had the transmission problem with the bearing.
Yeah. But I don't recall Chevy. I mean, older, like the 4L80s, 4L60s. Yeah, but that's a while ago. That's 20 years ago.
Practically all of them have to do with the way they're serviced and maintained. I mean, you could take a brand new truck out, mud bogging, and do a lot of things with it, not change the fluid, and the transmission fluid get really hot. Heat is what ruins trucks. Transmission fluid and bad transmission fluid ruins the transmission.
So, how you keep the vehicle serviced, there are some design flaws, like in anything, but the number one key to making a transmission last a long time is keeping it serviced. I recommend somewhere in the 50,000 mile range.
Now, if you pull a trailer or something like that on hot days, and then I'd recommend more like 30,000 miles. But somewhere in the 50,000-mile range, it's not like an oil change where you got to say it's got to be done right now, but Somewhere in that range, I would recommend having it done. And if you do that, I would buy an older GMC truck in a heartbeat if I liked it.
So yeah, that's, I believe I'd watch the videos a little closer and come back to us a little bit. Don't always trust us on those videos, Horatio. On that same video about that transmission, there are some people in the comments saying that. You should have you should change the transmission for the future. All right.
Yeah. And I think that's all.
Well, Horatio, we appreciate it. And we appreciate your second call. And we want you to do that same thing many, many more times. Thank you. Alrighty.
Alrighty.
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Hey, welcome back to the CNC Auto Show. I'm here with Charles Davis, JB Bridges, David Clark, and we are answering automotive questions and we're talking about tires a little bit, just all kinds of fun stuff. Where are we going, David? Yeah. Let's do it.
Hello, Kathy, and welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Oh no, this is this is Bobby. Bobby, have you ever considered changing your name? He doesn't sound like a cat did, though.
Not recently. All right, Bobby, what can we help you with today? All right, so I got a 2016 uh Toyota Carolla. Um About a couple of months ago when I I would make turns and it would it would make a grind like a just a uh just a grinding noise and um the traction light came on at the same time the engine light came on. But then it went off and the noise stops, but then it it comes back on and but it They're really only uh makes noise when it's cold out.
Uh But I didn't I looked up because you know it's got the traction button you can push on to turn on and off but it said something in the manual with the engine light comes on with it. Um, I didn't know if it was a if it was a serious problem or not.
Well, it sounds like there's going to be a high probability you're going to have a speed sensor issue and possibly a wheel bearing.
Now, I don't know the. I don't know the noise. If the noise that you heard was just like a brr and then quit, and then after that sounded okay, that would be that the anti-lock brake system activated for that short period of time. But if you're hearing like a roaring noise as you're going down the road and then you move the wheel a little bit and it goes away, move it again and it comes back, then you may have a wheel there. It's pretty much constant too.
You start the car up, and when you go to. When I go to get out the driveway um and turn out, it it's that's when it starts and it it probably does it for the first thirty minutes. Um but it's it started to do it having a little shake. Um So I parked it and I just recently went and bought a backup car. Yeah.
Yeah, I would do anytime your car is making a little noise, I'd just go buy another one. I'll do that. Throw the whole thing away. My wife got a wreck in the neighborhood in our center and they totaled it out.
Okay. That's a painful experience. This is getting pretty serious.
Now, what it sounds like is you do have a wheel bearing that's bad, and those go hand in hand because that speed sensor is reading from a little ring that's right at the bearing. And if the bearing's able to move back and forth just a little bit, then it can throw, make the speed sensor show a bad reading. I would have a technician put it on the lift rack, run the wheels and use a stethoscope to touch each wheel. Probably going to hear a bad bearing on that side and just have a bearing. And a speed sensor on some bearings, the speed sensor and bearing are built together, but I think that one they're separate.
So you'll buy a speed sensor and a bearing and. That should take care of your problem. But do have that diagnostic test run first because you don't want to replace a part unless you're sure it's bad. Right, right. I was just wondering if it was, you know, still safe to drive or should I just keep apart?
That distance. Yeah. Taking it to have it checked out and repaired is absolutely fine to drive it. All right.
Thank you, sir. Appreciate the call. Thank you. Number to call: 800-224-9090. David, where are we heading?
Let's go to Gary. Gary, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Good morning. Yes, sir.
I was just wondering if the tech tip quiz was still on the table about the guy painting his vehicle for $500. It is off the table.
Somebody did win, but we're going to accept your answer. What would you have picked? What would you have said?
Well I would say, as far as the paint he used, you can go to one of these farm equipment places and stuff. And they have uh They have, like, I have seen it. I mean, I don't know. Oh, wait a minute. That does have different types.
Too late. No. Gary, please do not go ahead and get farm equipment and paint your car. Yeah, I'll go ahead and tell you what the answer was: that the gentleman bought the car that he painted, the brand new car that he had painted, come from Hobby Town. It was a model car.
Yeah, yeah, model car. Model cyber truck. Yeah, model cyber truck. And he painted it red, and it was under a uh but actually it's under a hundred bucks. But Oh, okay.
Let's just you run a quote close second. How's that? Yeah. Nobody thought about form paint. Yeah, that was a little original.
Good try though. Hey, we appreciate the call very much. All right.
Thanks for taking. Thank you. Number to call 800-224-9090. Where are we heading? Let's talk to our good buddy Ron.
Oh, yes. Hello, Ron. Welcome to the show. Hey guys, I hope you're all staying warm. Yes, sir.
Is there a place in Augusta or in the surrounding area you know of That has a car wash that can spray the underside of your car. Or truck. You know, I thought about that not too long ago because, of course, going down the road, you pick up a little salt shit. But who does that? Ray Rays.
Ray Rays. There's doing under. Does Ray Ray says the bottom? I know that theirs has a different setup because, of course, you're not rolling through the car wash. It goes on a whole lot of stuff.
It's a conveyor belt. But I didn't know it sprayed it under the bottom.
So that's a good tip. Yeah, to get the salt off. Charles said Ray Rays does it. They rocked it on Riverwatch. And listeners that are out of town, of course, it's a good idea to get that salt out from underneath your vehicle after a period of time.
Absolutely. We don't like seeing that in a body shop. That's my problem. Out here, they salted the roads down pretty heavily. uh I I just wa I you know, I I knew it would even get up into the uh bra just brakes and such as that and uh you know, rusting out cables and those kind of things.
Uh but Yeah, just to be able to flush it out and make sure that that salt is removed.
Now tell me guys, I had heard on I can and I can't tell you what channel I was listening to and I couldn't under I didn't hear what company it was, but they said an automotive supply house was going out of business. And they said the reason why was that people just aren't re repairing their vehicles anymore because it's they've gotten so complicated. Y'all heard anything about a major auto parts store closing? No, but just to give you a breakdown on how most automotive parts stores work, most parts houses have two sides. They have their retail side, which a walk-in customer will call.
And keep this in mind: if you call one of these stores and you get the price on something, they're not going to give you the most expensive part there because they want you to come in.
So they'll have, usually have two or three different parts, a very dirt cheap part, which you don't want, and a medium and then a more expensive. That's on their retail side. Then you had the professional side, which is usually a totally different person answering the phone, a totally different counter, because they know that the professional side is going to go. Um really, uh I think that everybody's repairing their car as much or more than ever before. And I have heard some internal things to where some sales are being gone to major national like World Pac.
I think that they made some changes there. But no, I'm not sure what you're talking about in this area, a particular parts house closing.
Well, that's good. That's good news. With all the bad news that's circulating, you'd like to hear some decent news. Look, you guys have a great, safe weekend. Enjoying your show.
Thank you very much.
And bad news is we're out of time. Yeah. Yeah. It is.
It's the cause. I love the cause. Oh, yeah. Our entire show turned into a transmission show. Did anybody touch that?
Yeah. So we'll shut this hour down, and I'm Aaron Clements here with co-host J.B. Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark. And we want to say thank you to all you that rode with us today. And a big thank you over there to Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez.
We appreciate all that you two doing there. And we'll see everyone next week with a shiny new CNC Auto Show.
