Morning to you. Are we ready to drink coffee, talk about cars? Or, whatever that drink is you have. That's a monster drink. It's but it's it's coffee.
Oh, it's coffee.
Okay, so we are drinking coffee and talking about cars. There's some kind of coffee in there somewhere. Oh, we've got some great stuff to talk about. A lot of fun things happening in the automotive world, and we can talk about them and have a good time. Uh, David's on remote this week.
He's uh, I think he's seeing a client out in Mississippi, if I'm not mistaken. Ah, yeah, you never know, he might call in. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully, he doesn't get frozen. Yeah, well, he probably will.
Uh, well. Today, we'll be talking about a lot of things to do with cars. One of the things we'll talk a little bit about is cars that go 200,000 miles. Yeah. And.
I think there's a lot of them that do it because around the shop, just every day I walk around and see cars with 200, 250, 300, 350. And I'm proud of that because a lot of those cars that we've been taking care of for many, many years and they have a lot of miles on them. And you just hear about so many cars now having a lot more miles.
Now you're used to it. You're in the trucking world. Yeah. You're used to 300, 400 is a spring chicken, right? Oh, yeah, it does.
300, 400,000 miles, they're just getting broke in. You get up to closer to a million miles, then we're trying to in-frame them, do an engine rebuild. But sometimes they'll roll more than a million, million, too, before they need to be refreshed.
Well, you know what? It would be a lot of fun. What's that? People join in with us. They can call in.
They can talk about their cars. Like if they have a vehicle that's got a lot of miles on it, they can call in and we could ask them why or what they've done special to get a lot of miles out of the vehicle. And you know what might be fun? Yeah. We'll let them name the miles and we'll just jot down a little information when they call if they do want to mention that theirs has a lot of miles.
And we will give a little trophy for the winner. And a little prize package to go along with it. What is it? The CNC High Miler Club? Yeah, exactly.
Mason and Ana, our producers, they want to work with the 3D printer a little bit more. They've been building some great stuff with their 3D printer. And they would build a trophy, handmade or, well, printer-made. Handmade by a computer program.
So we hope everybody joins in. You can also watch the show at cchautoshow.com, and that comes from Kingdom Web Pros. They can take your business to the next level. Also, Facebook, you can go there. You can listen in on over 110 stations.
That's kind of awesome that we get to play on that many stations. And we love each and every one of them that are there.
So call in, join in, or also if you want to talk a little bit about the mileage that you have on your Card and let us know how you got that many. That's great. The number 800-224-9090. 800-224-9090.
Now, before we get started, I thought it might be good to discuss a little bit of things about the ice storm for our live listeners because a lot of people are listening live right now. Yeah. And they may be in the wake of an ice storm that's on the way. Yeah, just in case you hadn't heard about it. Yeah, just in case.
And we'll just cover this very, very briefly. Get some gas and groceries early. I think everybody already did that. Yeah, I filled up my truck the other day. The first place I stopped at didn't have any diesel fuel, and I was concerned.
I said, oh, no, it's going to be hard to get. But I went down the road and there was a place that had diesel.
So I got it filled full of diesel and get a little food to eat just in case you run in. to things. Make sure you got a way to stay warm, avoid driving if you can. That goes without saying. If you have ABS and you go over some ice and you have to put on brakes, just let the ABS do its job.
If you have ABS, and most cars do, and if your ABS light's not staying on, because if your light's on, it's not going to work. But if you have to put on brakes, you'll feel a little bumping sensation in your wheels. But just keep applying the pressure and it'll bring it to a stop faster than you would if you didn't have anti-lock brakes because you'd be sliding if you didn't have anti-lock brakes. Don't leave any internal combustion engine running. In an enclosed area.
That goes for cars and in a garage. Trying to warm up a garage, don't do that. That also goes for generators inside your house or generators inside your garage. Carbon monoxide can be a very, it can slip up on you without you knowing it. Boom, you fall asleep.
Yep.
So. That's the things that I would recommend doing for those. All right.
Now. You think we should move on to the tech tip quiz? Yeah, let's go. All right, let's move to that. Of course, the winner will receive that prize package.
You won't get a trophy for this one, but not yet, but we have one coming. But what is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? Two. I think that's a logical question. Yeah, it is.
It is a it's a good question. 'Cause there are a lot of things that need to be maintained and a lot of stuff that gets overlooked. Usually people think about oil and And then that's it. That's the extent of their maintenance. Change the oil and put gas in it and go.
But there's a lot more than that. Yeah, if you're going to hit the 200,000, which is common now. Here's what's tricky for me, though. The number is actually much, much, much less than I thought it would be. Oh, yeah?
Yeah, I was thinking because I see so many cars with so many miles, I would have thought this would have been a lot higher than this. But actually, less than 2% of the vehicles on the road reached 200,000 miles. I never would have thought that. Yeah, no, I w I would have thought it would have been higher too 'cause I have I have a couple at home that are Just just shy of 200,000 miles. 200 almost every car that I get.
I mean, I keep my cars a long time. And I normally don't buy a new car. I buy them used because they've already took the hit on depreciation. And then I buy them. I buy good cars that's got a maintenance on it.
And I always put a lot of miles on them. And I have great success with it. But actually, 2%, now that's due mostly to a lot of cars get totaled out. Yeah. That you got to figure out a number.
That's a pretty high number. But that's the stats that that many do actually get is there.
Now, what's the cars that are most likely to get? the 200,000 miles on them. I don't We'll start with number ten. Tell me as we go if you think any of these uh are kinda unusual or you think it's any different. Uh GMC UConn, Excel, three point six percent of those go.
Ah. Um That wouldn't surprise you. This one's definitely not surprising to me. The Toyota Tundra 3.7. We drove it last night.
I was leading the odometer because I was thinking about the show in the morning. 193,000 miles is what our tundra has on it. You're going to take a picture of the odometer when you hit 200 so you can post it on the CNC Auto Show? Of course. It might be a little while, though, because, you know, company, we drive, both drive company vehicles.
Well, you can do it early. Here's another one that really didn't surprise me that much. I would have thought it would have been a Prius, but Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Those hybrids do seem to go a lot of miles. Yeah, they're Toyota hybrids.
Now, I'm not saying the rest of them. You know what? The new Priuses actually don't look bad, but we have a Highlander, too. It's not a hybrid, but she's at 197 or 1980. Yeah, you're getting close there.
All right, here's another one. Don't really surprise me, Toyota Avalon. 3.9. How many Toyotas are on this list? Probably a bunch.
Yeah. Chevalier Tahoe. Yep.
Well, you know, you do see a lot of Tahos now. You do run into it.
Some of them end up with an engine between them because they've run into an engine. But if you. If you do a really good job of keeping the oil changed on them, that issue does not happen. Then we have the Toyota 4Runner 4.1. Which is not unusual.
No. Chevrolet Suburban 5.1, Toyota Sequoia, 11.2. And number one did not surprise me at all: Toyota Land Cruiser. Yeah. And that's 16.3.
And we will pull over for now, but we'll come back and then we'll go to the phones. See you shortly. Yeah. Yeah. And yes, we do welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show.
I am Eric Clemis here with Jamie Bridges. Yes. And we are ready to go. We have a tech tip quiz laying out on the table. If you know the answer to our tech tip quiz, you give us a call.
If you have a question about your car, your truck, your SUV, give us a call. It's 800-224-9090. And we will be glad to answer your question. And one of the next things that we would talk about that want to mention. Is you ever riding by one of the dealerships?
And you see cars and cars and cars. Yeah. And you wonder, how in the world do they sell? That many cars, is that many of them going to be sold?
Well, that's a good question because, especially here, as many car lots as we have in town, yeah.
Well, I did some research. What do they do? If the cars don't sell? Oh, that's a good question. I never thought about it.
Yeah, well, when first things they do, as it turns out, Cut the price.
Well, yeah, that's usually your first option for anything. Yeah, they say, well, this one will sell a little bit less. Because these dealers, when they have them on the lot, it's costed them money, a certain amount of money for every day that it sits there. Oh, yeah, it's taking up valuable space. And not to mention the insurance that has to be paid on.
Yeah, there's that too.
So you pay an insurance, you're paying a floor plan, you pay this money for this vehicle just to sit there.
So they need to do, they can't let it sit there forever. They got to think of something.
So first thing they do, they cut the price. Another thing that many dealers do is they'll put the vehicle in their loaner car fleet. Oh, that makes sense. Because they have to be very careful. You can only cut the price of a new car so much because that hurts the brand itself.
Exactly.
So they put it in a launch car fleet and after it runs for a few months there, or even a few weeks, then they're able to sell the vehicle as a used as a as a um as a as a loaner car and uh and they don't have to sell it as a new car.
So that's another option. One thing that happens many times is you may have one type of vehicle, let's say a specialty type vehicle, convertible. You have a convertible that is sitting in a lot in North Dakota. And it might not sell very well. But they may trade that convertible with somebody in Florida.
And somebody in Florida may have a vehicle that may sell very well there.
So these dealers kind of trade these vehicles back and forth to try to sell them. This is not something they like to do, but they do do th but there's dealer option uh auctions to where they can sell just the new vehicles that are there. Yeah, let's say that let's it and only dealers, franchise dealers, they may have one just for Fords, one just for Chevrolets. But there there'll be a franchise dealer auction so that the that they can go there and sell back and forth these brand new vehicles. And uh another uh resort that they can go to is sell them to other countries.
That one doesn't seem very profitable though, because then you have the freight charges and everything else.
Well, some of those other countries have tons of money and they would love an American vehicle.
So they would pay good money. That's a good point. I guess American vehicles would be a novelty in other countries. But high probability, I think a lot of these other countries do have tariffs.
So when that vehicle comes there, they have to pay even more money because of the tariffs, even more than the car. I guess if you were going for the the look at me factor, look at what I got, you know, and you guys ain't got it, like that would be a that would be a good one. Yeah. Because I mean, we we kind of do the same thing if if we're at a car show and somebody shows up with some kind of foreign vehicle that's Really uncommon here, everybody flocks to it.
So, yeah, it would work the same way. And that is absolutely true. I mean, at the car shows, that's what people go to: it doesn't necessarily have to be the shiniest vehicle, it can just be something you don't see there. I've seen a huge number of people gathered around a pinto. A car show, probably it was last year, I believe.
But there was a pinto sitting there, and everybody was around the pito. Yeah, well, you don't see them anymore. Yeah, you don't see them anymore. And you know what the last resort is. Yeah, that's.
We'll just throw in the trash, throw the whole thing away. Yeah, can you imagine seeing a brand new vehicle in a crusher and the things just folding up on it and bending all the metal into a little metal ball? What a waste. What a waste. Yeah.
And so they crush them. And the reason they crush them is because if you sell that new vehicle at a very, very low price, that hurts the brand. It'll undercut it. Yeah. So they would rather go ahead and just dispose of the vehicle, get it gone, and let it go.
So. Those are the things that happen as far as those.
Now. What are some of the slowest-selling vehicles that we have? We talked a little bit about the vehicles that hit 200,000 miles.
So we'll talk about those when we get back. I'm going to lay the tech tip quiz back on the table and mention that. What is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? And somebody could win a could win a prize package for that. But also, if someone calls and mentions how many miles they have on their vehicle and how they got there, They may win a trophy with the highest mileage trophy.
And that will have the number of miles on their trophy.
Well, if nobody calls in for that, do I get the trophy with my thousand? You could definitely get that.
So, definitely take a chance on winning the highest miles. You can also answer the Tech Tip quiz. And when we return, we're going to talk about the 10 slowest-selling vehicles. The ones that stay on the lot the longest. We're going to talk about that more.
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And we're trying to thr throw the producers for a loop by switching it up at the last second. But we were talking about the highest and the lowest mileage or not lowest mileage, slowest selling. Yeah, slowest selling. But w you have a person who wrote in about a number of miles that's on one of their vehicles. Is that right?
No, this this is okay.
So the official record for a single semi single semi truck. Like documented highest mileage vehicle is more than $3 million. And it was set by a man named William Coe Jr. in 2009.
So, how many miles? 3 million. 3 million miles. These are documented miles. But this also goes on to say that some of them have regularly surpassed 4, 5, or even 6 million miles.
I mean If you really loved your truck and you just keep putting engines in it, you know, it. Thirty to sixty thousand dollars an engine, then I maybe you could get six million miles, but but eventually everything else wears out uh or gets worn. I mean, you got seats and interiors and uh just uh transmissions and rear axles and bearings and you you get that kind of mileage. Most of the time, the only thing that's going to be original may be the literal frame and maybe the cab. Yeah.
Three million miles is a lot of miles. It is. But this one, apparently, is. He had to have had it in framed at some point, but that's impressive. We ran this highest mile contest some years back, and we're going to be running that again in the coming months.
But the last time we run this, a gentleman rode in and said he had 785,000 miles. It was on a, like it was a Chevrolet van. Yeah. And we it happened to be in this area. We got a lot of them from all around the country that had 300, 400, and all that.
But the one here, he drove it a small distance and got here and showed it to me. Really? 785,000 miles. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's really neat.
Yep.
So we'll see who wins this time. Yeah. Okay. Let's talk about the cars that stay on the lot the longest. Vehicles, we talked a little bit about what happens, what they do to try to get them off the lot as soon as they can.
Things to do with cutting the price and possibly even selling them to other countries. And auctions and all sorts of things. But what are some of the vehicles that sit on the lots the longest?
So I thought we'd start with number 10, which will be. The one that sits on the lot a long time and it's in the top 10 ranking. And that would be a Land Rover Discovery. It sits on the lot 200, on average, 216 days on dealer lots. Yeah, I mean, those things are kind of purpose-built.
I mean, they're they're cool, but really for the price of an S U V Well they're ha they're you're gonna spend all you're price is an issue with those. And also you they're known that you have a high maintenance cost. Not that they're a bad vehicle, but you do have high maintenance costs and the cars are more expensive than your average vehicle.
So that relates to sitting on the lot longer. Yeah, yeah. Kia, EV6, 217 days. And it's an EV. That one's kind of surprising.
Well, it's an electric vehicle. Electric vehicles, once they quit the subsidies, boom, they drop like a rock. All right.
We got a Porsche Taycan, 229 days, and it's also an electric vehicle. Is that supposed to be like the E V version of the Cayenne? It is, yes. It is. Ram 2500, 233 days.
It's a I that one surprised me a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Did it specify whether that one was the gas or the diesel version or just overall in general? Overall in general, I guess it didn't say. We have the Nissan Murano.
That one surprised me also. I was thinking those sold pretty good. I mean, I have one. And the C V T transmission, would I buy another one? Yeah.
I mean it Yeah. That's just one of those things. Yeah. All right, we have the Jaguar F-Pace, 239 days. What that even looks like.
That's weird. I never even thought about it. That's a gas-powered vehicle. Also, that surprised me. You're going to notice a lot of these that's on this list are EV cars.
The price has just dropped on EVs. That's a like a little crossover SGV looking thing. No. They're not a bad-looking vehicle. No, it's really not.
More expensive and higher maintenance costs. Audio Q4 e-tron. That's an electric vehicle. 271 days. Volkswagen ID.4, 297 days.
And that's an electric vehicle. Yeah, there's a trend here, it looks like. Audi A6, 409 days. And the here's the one that sits home the lot the longest. Wait for it.
It's an Audi S6. 482 days on dealers' lots. People are looking at long-term maintenance of these things. Yeah, a lot of it.
Now, one of the things you find on here has to do with there's a lot of electric vehicles on this list. They drop, for whatever reason, they started dropping in value a huge amount.
Now, here's one of the reasons I mentioned this: some of these vehicles. I talked a little bit about how they want to get these vehicles off the lot and why it's costing them money every single day they're sitting there.
Okay, so these that are sitting on the lot a long time, you can use that as leverage to get a good price on these vehicles. I mean, 480 days-that's that's a long time. What is that? That's almost a year and a half. Yeah, it is.
That's a long time. And they're paying money on that. I think you get so many days that you don't start the clock ticking, but after that, you start paying money. You ready to go to the call? Yeah, let's go.
Okay, here we go. Let's go over to, let's see here. We got Eric. And Grove Town. Hello, Eric.
Welcome to the show. Good morning. How are you today? Doing great. What can we help with today?
I don't want to take a chance at the tactics, quizzes. Oh, my goodness. You know, we're going to need to put you on stage first. You know that, don't you? Yeah.
Be still. Don't move. Ba ha. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Okay. And the question was, what is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? All eyes are on you, Eric. What is the answer to the Tech Tip quiz?
Well, there's probably multiple items. The um Cooling system in automobile gets overlooked a lot, and there's also the brake. Uh, system and uh those amounts. Yeah, you only get one. You you can't you can't go through all of them now.
That wouldn't be right. He's got a list. And he's not wrong now.
So so if you had to pick one of the most overlooked, what would be your answer? Most critical. Probably the m Probably the motor mounts, transmission mounts. Oh, my goodness. Oh, Eric, I am sure.
You've got to answer, though, because nobody thinks about those. Yeah. Until the motor falls out the bottom. That is true. Until the motors leave on the ground when you do appreciate you giving us a call.
Yeah, they sure would be. And that prize, they were ready to give that to you. But if another one comes to you, you give us a call. All right.
Thanks, sir. Ed, thank you very much for calling the show.
Okay, the number of the call, 800-224-9090. If you have a question about your car, truck, or SUV, or if you've got a lot of miles on your car and you want to tell us how you did it, or if you got an answer to the TECTIP quiz, you give us a call. Again, 800-224-9090.
Okay, we had a great discussion having to do with the cars that are on the lot, and we talked a lot about why. Let's say that you go to a car lot and you see a car you really like and you're thinking about getting a new car. You want to use that information in two ways. One Is there a chance that that car I'm looking at might depreciate in value a lot faster than you want it to? Yeah.
Because that's something you want to put into the equation when you're looking at vehicles. What is my depreciation going to be? And that's whether you're getting a new vehicle or a used vehicle. Because if you're getting a low knowledge new uh used vehicle, It also has a lot of depreciation left, and you want it where it would sell well.
Now, if that doesn't bother you, let's say you're getting a vehicle and you just like it no matter what, and you want to get it, you don't care if it loses 40, 50 percent of its value in two or three years, then go ahead and get it. But you need to know that before you do, but also. That information, you want to use that as bargaining power when you're buying that vehicle. You want to say, hey, they've had this on a lot a pretty long time. They probably want to sell it pretty bad.
Let me see if I can work, see if they'll work with the price a little bit. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's. We we bought the we bought the Tundra used and it had uh close to 175,000 miles on it when we bought it. And we we walked around it and looked at everything and that that was one of the things That we brought up was the mileage. It was great condition.
It had a couple little flaws, but nothing major. But the mileage that was on it was our. With our leverage for the thing. But Toyotas hold their value well, so. Yep, we ended up bringing it home, and that you can only get great information like that right here.
I also checked the date on the tires, and they were eight years old.
So, I made sure they knew that, too.
So, all right, we'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends. And I keep waiting to get on the road again. On the road again. And we are back with you with the CNC Auto Show.
I'm here with Jamie Bridges, and we are answering questions, talking about cars, drinking coffee, having a great time. And we are ready to go to the phones. And we will go over to. Ken And Ken, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with?
Well, two things. I'll talk about the aging old car I've got. You can enter me in your contest and the tech tip quiz. Yes, fantastic. I love it.
Okay, tell us a little bit about your car and how many miles is on the vehicle.
Well, I got an old 1985 Mustang, and it's got over 300,000 miles on it. When I bought it, it had about maybe 24,000 miles, so I put most of the miles on it. You sure did. 275 miles. Yeah.
That's a lot of miles.
Okay, I got a question for you, Aaron, about the Mustang. Yes. I'm ready. How many oil changes do you think I've done in that car? over the years.
Over 35 years. Where's the calculator at? Hold on one second. I'm going to take a guess here.
Okay, so $275,000. And you Probably every four thou I'm gonna guess if on average Right, this is when you change the oil every three thousand miles or uh three, four months. Or three or four months. There's there's the the catch to the question. 'Cause he Ken is smart and he doesn't let it sit in there forever and absorb moisture.
Oh.
Okay, tell us how many. You want me to give you the answer? Yes. What is it? Do I get a Tech Tip quiz prize?
I had over 60 oil changes, and I did them all myself. Yeah. I had 68 right here, is what I had right now.
So you feel like the secret to you being able to get that many miles on the vehicle is just doing good, regular oil changes. And no doubt, especially since you're doing it yourself, you probably caught things like when it was due for a coolant system, fluid exchange, or different fluids. It sounds like you took care of that too. Just about all the fluids have been changed. The only fluid I never changed was the differential and the transmission.
It's got a manual transmission. Yeah. Still, I recommend those every 100,000 miles. You wouldn't have had to do it. You wouldn't do it, but three times in that thing.
But that is fantastic. You know, Ken, I'm almost positive that you are not only into running, but you're probably going to be the winner of this deal. I mean, I'll tell you what, we're at the time frame now where I'm going to declare you the winner of today's highest mileage deal, and you will get that trophy.
Now, you said roughly 300,000 miles.
Now, do you have what would be the exact number as close as you can think? It's a little bit over 300 the last time I checked, but I haven't checked that recently. I'm going to put 301,284 and that will go on your trophy that our our producer, Mason Rogers, he got him a a newer 3D printer than he had, and this thing's pretty awesome. And he said he's going to build you a trophy with the miles that you have on that vehicle. That'll be an interesting gift.
Well, I'm going to put you over and transfer you over to him. I'll get the tech tip quiz before I get over. Oh, yeah, but you know, you don't move because I got to put you on stage first. All right.
Ken, take off the sunglasses and answer our question. The question was. What is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? All eyes are on you. I would say it's aging rubber hoses and vacuum lines because you can't tell by looking at them that they're going bad.
Oh, that's a good answer. That's a good answer, but that's just.
Well, it's not up to me. I don't have it. Let's turn it over to the judges and see what they say. Oh.
You had Mm-hmm. Come on now, don't do that to him. All right, Ken, you did great on the mileage deal, not to mention awesome getting that many miles, but you didn't win the Tech Tip Quiz Prize. I am so sorry. Oh.
All right, that's okay. But I am going to turn you over to Mason so he can get the information on building your beautiful trophy. All right, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Hey, Kim, we appreciate you calling.
Thank you. Ken is now in the producer's hands getting the information. Let's go to the next call. That was a good answer, though, with the host. It was good.
Yes, I agree. And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Yes, this is Eric again. Yes, Eric, fantastic.
Oh, you going to answer it again? You know, not many people can handle two cars. He's not going to get it. He's going to get it this time. He's not going to get it.
He didn't get a cigar, though, did he? All right, here we go. All right, we're going to start with the question: What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000? Then you're on stage. Mm-hmm.
Now, all eyes are on you. What is the answer to our tech tip quiz, Eric? How about the car cooling system? Oh my goodness, that would be things like hoses, pelts, and all that stuff. Again, it's not up to me.
I just don't have anything to do with it. Oh, no, don't do that. Uh Eric. Man, that was a close call, but you just didn't quite get there. Keep trying though Uh All right, thanks.
Call back again now if you get it, because we do appreciate you calling. Thank you. He's going to have us on speed now before too long. Yeah, he is.
Okay, let's go to the next. Let's go to the next caller here. We will go over to Rich! Or Rick. Rich, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
What can we help with? Hey, good morning to you. Good morning, Eric. This is Rich. Down the starters.
I was about to take a stab at the detective. Man, that is awesome. And how are you doing today? I'm doing fine, sir. All right, here we go.
Be still. You're on stage. The question was: What is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? Rich, all eyes are on you. What is the answer?
Well, my vote was going to be with suspension, so I'm going to say shocks and struts. Oh my goodness. Shocks and struts. That's a good answer, too. We just did those on the Highlander not too long ago.
Yeah. Less than a month ago. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good answer.
But that wouldn't be the most critical, Richard. But again, I don't have anything to do with that part of it. Rich, I am so sorry, man. I even tried to slip that judge a few dollars there before they did it, but. You know how it is.
I do that on a regular basis.
Well, you are welcome to call back again if something else comes to you. Thanks, guys. Have a great day. Thank you, you too. Bye-bye.
Always good to hear from Brent. There's so many good answers there. Yeah, great answers.
Okay, let's go to the next caller. We will go over to. Zac. Zach, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. We got less than a minute to go.
All right.
What can we help with? Well, hopefully I can. Hopefully, I can answer this tip-tip quiz. Oh, okay.
Well, let me put you on stage real quick. What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once the car hits 200,000? What is the answer?
Well, I'm gonna go with the sensors, like the ox oxygen sensors. Oh my goodness, I was hoping to end it on a great note. But yeah, so close. Hey, we appreciate you giving it a great shot. Appreciate you calling.
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We got callers. I want to give a really quick reminder that to those listening live, we have an ice storm coming. Make sure you've got plenty of gas in your vehicle. Don't drive unless you have to. If you have to slam old brakes, remember most cars have anti-lock brakes.
Make sure you have these. But if you do, just let the brakes do their job. You'll feel them pulsate a little bit if you're on ice or something, but they will bring your car to a stop better that way. And be safe out there. Don't let any internal combustion engines run in an enclosed place.
Carbon monoxide is a serious issue.
So. Other than that, we are ready to move to the next. step here and that would be to go to the cause. Let's go over to Joy. And Joy, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
And what can we help you with?
Hey, Aaron, I was going to answer the Tech Tip quiz. Oh, my goodness. You know, we hadn't even announced that for this hour yet, but we will. Oh, goodness, did I miss that the person got it right the last time? No.
No, you're right on time. I mean, you still have the opportunity to win this Tech Tip Quiz Prize, and it's huge. I mean, huge.
So we will read the question. What is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once the car hits 200,000 miles? We're going to put you on stage. And Joy, we are waiting for you. What is the answer?
Well, I would think if People got to two hundred thousand miles, they paid attention to the expensives. obvious things.
So it'd be the expensive Garmits, Bushings. You know, just kind of in general type pieces. Wow. Yeah, kind of in general items.
Okay, well, let's see what they say. All I do is present it to them and see what's going on. Oh, no. Oh, oh, oh, oh, joy. Joy, man, I am sorry.
Yeah, it hurts to do that.
Well, yeah, it does. But it was a good shot. Yeah, it was. Yeah. And Joy, you're welcome to call back.
If something else comes to you, just give us a call. Love your show. Y'all have a great day. Thanks, Joe. Thank you.
Oh, that hurts for somebody not to win. I want them to. As a matter of fact, I tell the judges, let them win, let them win. They say, no, we got to play by the book. Let's go to the next call.
All right.
Yeah, let's go over to James and James, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Hey, good morning. Good morning. Yes.
Alright, my uh Answer is going to go with seatbelts. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up. Beep, beep, beep, beep. All right, here we go.
We have to. We got a procedure here. We have a major procedure. First, we'll get into question. What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once the car hits 200,000?
We're going to put you on stage. Hmm. See, Blue, the trumpet player, is a union person and we will get in bad trouble if he don't gets to play before you answer. All right, now, Jones, what's the answer to today's Tech Tech quiz? I'm gonna go with seat belt.
See, oh, that could be critical. I can understand the logic. That you got going on there. It makes sense to me, but what do they say? Oh, no, no, no, no.
James, that was a good shot, though. It was. Really was. You know, that's something I didn't even think about. Yeah.
And that's a reminder: tell everybody: hey, buckle your seatbelts. All the time, but especially in an ice storm.
So Jim Stike here. All right.
Thank you guys. Love your show. Thank you. Well, we appreciate you calling. Always try to give an encouraging word when somebody don't quite make the yeah, that one was clever.
I didn't even think about it because they do get old too.
Alright, here we go. Let's go to the next caller. Uh let's see here. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with? It's Zach again and I want to try my shot again at the Tech Tech quiz.
Oh, oh, that is fantastic. We are ready. What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits two hundred thousand? You are on stage. Everybody's looking at you.
What's the answer? I'm taking a wild guess 'cause everybody's coming out with all these good answers. I'm going to say the brake lines. That is pretty important. I mean, that's a critical thing.
I'm not positive you'd call that a maintenance item because you don't replace them real often here.
Now, there's some up north, yeah, pretty regular. And what we're trying to do is try to ease the blow for you. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. But that one's a good shot.
That's my shot for the day. No, call in again anytime. We appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you.
Okay, the number to call 800-224-9090. Let's go to the next caller. And we will go over to Ken. Ken, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Right.
I got to call you again about the tech tip quiz. I missed the critical clue that you gave. All right.
So I give another shot.
Alright. We got to read the question again, got to follow procedure. What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once the car hits 200K? Uh You're on stage and we are ready for the answer. What about the brake fluid?
uh breakfast that's pretty critical it is yeah and it is a that is a maintenance item uh many years ago it wasn't but now brake fluid is recommended to be changed a lot of cars every i'd say 30 to 50 000 miles is a is a good time yeah well it it absorbs moisture and it'll it'll wear out the things on the inside and plus it doesn't function properly. It does. Yeah. And moisture, of course, causes corrosion. What we're trying to do is be as nice as we can and let you down as nice as we can.
But let's see what they say. That's not it, is it? Oh, no. The judges, they all held up a card and said, I'm sorry. They're rough today.
Yeah. Good try, though. All right, that was a good try. You're right. It was.
Thank you. Okay, the number to call, 800-224-9090. Let's go to the next caller. We will go to. The next caller.
Welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Okay, something didn't go right with that one. Uh oh.
Okay. All right.
Moving on. Yeah, the phones are doing some silly stuff here.
Okay, if you get the answer to the CNC Auto Show Tech Tip quiz. Give us a call and we got a bunch of them coming in now.
So we will go to this next one right here. And we welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Yeah. Yes.
Welcome to the show. Ten ten ten. No, that one didn't work either. Let's go to the next one. And we welcome you to the show.
What can we help with? What can we help with? Hey there. Hey, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help you with?
Boy, I got through fast. I'm surprised. How are y'all doing today? We are doing great. Welcome to the show.
Well, good. Good. I I appreciate that. I'm just gonna take a stab. I've been listening for the last twenty minutes or so.
Okay, I'm gonna put you on stage where you can't go anywhere because we're gonna lock you in and and then we will we will pull over and come back and hear your answer.
Okay, uh let's see here. Hmm. officially locked in.
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Yeah. And we got some other callers. We do. We lock this caller in, don't we? Yeah, the tech tail quiz is beating everybody up today.
Beating them up. And we welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show. And I think we've already put you on stage. Is that correct? Yes, sir.
Okay, I'm gonna read the question. What's the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once the car hits 200,000? And what's your first name again? It's Ron. Ron.
Okay, Ron. All eyes are on you. I just feel good about this one, Ron. What is the answer to today's tech tip quest? With 200,000 miles, I would think the thing you'd want to maintain, one of the most critical, would be.
Your road service insurance. Road service is bad. No, because he knows that your questions are usually trick questions. Yeah, that's true. And that is a good answer.
Yeah, and Ron, I'm going to mention something. I'm kind of adding this to it.
Some of those extended warranties are starting to be pretty good to work with. They're improving. They're getting better. And that was something I was going to mention later in the show. But, of course, telling people to do their research and all that on them.
But let's see what the judges have to say about your answer. Oh no! Oh my goodness. Man, man, I am so sorry. But that was a good try.
I'll slide off the stage.
Well, you are very welcome. You're very welcome to call back. And thank you. All right.
All right.
Oh, wow.
Okay. Let's go to the next caller. We will go over to. Well, we have a bunch of calls today. Yeah, we did.
Okay. Let's see here. Is this Mike? Yeah. Yes, I like to do the tech tip.
Great. Mike, our our AI answering deal called you Bike, but we'll call you Bike. Bike in August.
Okay. We are going to first put you on stage. Mm. What is the most critical maintenance item that often gets overlooked once a car hits 200,000 miles? Mike, what is today's answer?
Well, with something with that many miles on it. It's uh you gotta be thinking about time and timing. I think it's your time and chain or time and belt. Could it be?
Well, let's see what the judges have to say about that one. Oh.
Need. Oh my. Yeah, the crowd is going wild. I mean, they are going completely wild. You are absolutely right.
Here's what happens: people remember their first time and belt, and they might change it at 70,000, 80,000, 90,000 miles, but they forget about the second one. Yeah. And then most engines now are interference engines.
So if a timing belt breaks, it turns that beautiful running engine without notice into a big boat anchor. Exactly.
And it's gone. And that's it. And so it's good to, if your car does have a timing belt, remember when it's coming due. A time and chain, there's no really mileage interval for them. But they'll normally put some noises.
You'll hear some rattly noises or different noises on there.
So, Mike, I'm going to put you in the room over there to talk to our producers, Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez, and they're going to get some. Information because they might build you a trophy with our new 3D printer. Thank you for answering today's Tech Tech quiz.
Okay, you got good timing, and you're off the chain. Yes. Okay. All right, he has been transferred to the Netherlands, but we will go, let me see. Oh, we might drop have our the rest of our calls.
A lot of them had to do with that, or some had to do with cars.
Okay. The next item that we wanted to cover. And I got another thing, but. I was going to talk about that extended warranties, the things that he mentioned a little bit. I've mentioned to people to.
Be very careful with it sending warranties because they were a lot of them were just terrible to deal with. Yeah. Now, some of them are still terrible to deal with, but there's a lot of them that are really doing well. I mean, you'll call, you'll say this is what the problem is, and they'll repair it.
Now, they're always looking for different ways to repair it that may cost less money. Yeah. But it's now it's many times a good conversation. Oh, good.
So I think warranty companies have come a long way, but you got to be careful to get a good one. You want to research the company. If you're thinking about buying it at Cinder Worthy, it's usually a lot of money. on some of these that send their warranties, and you want that money to go toward taking out the anxiety in case something terrible happens to your car.
So do the research. Make sure it's been a good company. There's a high probability If they send you a letter in the mail saying your warranty is running out, or they call you on the phone and say, Did you know your warranty, your factory warranty is about to expire and you need to buy this? I would be very cautious. Yeah.
If they're calling you, high probability that it may not necessarily be. Yeah, they're just grasping, hoping.
So be real careful with the company you get. Talk to friends who may have an extended warranty that may have vehicles like yours, and make that decision and understand that policy. Here's what a lot of people do: they buy that policy thinking they don't have to pay for any other car repairs. That's all they, and they build it in their budget, saying, hey, this is. This is what I'm going to spend for this warranty, and I don't have to spend anything else.
And it does not work like that. Yeah. Not at all. To start with, your maintenance items on most of these policies are not covered, such as worn-out breaks, worn-out belts, worn-out hoses, oil changes, transmission fluid exchanges. All of those things are not covered.
Yeah, just typical wearable items. Yeah, so you have to be ready for that. And many times, if you have an extended warranty and you go into the shop, even if it is a covered item, many times they may not pay the complete labor rate. They may not pay for certain fluids. They may not pay for certain things.
And certain items may not be covered.
So you want to read that contract and know what to expect. I'm not against it sending purchases out, but I am against them just selling it and saying you'll never have to pay for car repairs because you may not necessarily.
Well, if you listen to many of them very closely, it says you'll never pay for car repairs on covered items. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. The verbiage matters a little bit.
Okay, we will be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Yeah. I nobody gonna take my car, I'm gonna race into the ground. I nobody gonna beat my car, it's gonna bring us beat and sound. Oh, it's a killing machine that's got an everything.
And we're back with more of the CNC Auto Show. I'm Jamie, you're with Aaron. And we finally got an answer to the tech kick quiz. Yes, we did. I thought that one was going to go a little quicker.
That one lingered for a little while. Yeah. Same here. I thought that somebody would answer that one a lot faster because that is a critical theme. And that is such a heartbreaking experience to someone have their car towed in.
Yeah. It'd be their main transportation. And the car have 180, 190,000 miles, but still a good car. It still would have been good for a lot of miles, and you have to tell them that the timing belt is broken because many times that pretty much totals a car out if it if it bends the valves on the second time, because even a used engine. Would be very expensive for something like that.
Yeah, and most stuff now. I mean, the the time, the labor hours that are involved to to pull the engine apart and replace a piston head and you know, a handful of valves is just not worth it. You're pretty much replacing the whole engine and replacing the engine on one of those on a car that's got 200,000 miles. You you're pretty much hesitant on doing that. Because you're spending the same amount of money that you could go ahead and make a good down payment on another vehicle.
But if it wouldn't have broke, then you might have got another two, three, four years out of the vehicle.
So that's the main thing we want to do is let people know that if your car has a timing belt, definitely have it checked to find out what needs to be done. If your vehicle has a timing chain, then make sure even regardless of the miles, even if it's low miles, medium miles, or high miles, if you have any ticking noises in there or any rattling noises, find out what they are and have it addressed.
Now, Hot Shot Secret has this new. Formula. It's tick fix. And yeah, and we've used it, and there's been a lot of cars that come in that had some lubrication problems, especially having to do with lifters. And of course, lifters, when you usually have a ticking lifter, that means you're going to have camware.
So if you catch it early, you put some of that hot shot secret tick fix in there. And boom, it's it I've heard it make the problems go away. And of course, it adds better makes the lubrication a lot better and it uh and it prevents problems.
So if you have any noises in the engine, even if you don't have a timing belt, you wanna you wanna address it early.
Well, the other thing with timing belts is because they're belts, they're rubber. There are A more specific type of composition. They have fiberglass, Kevlar, but also with the rubber.
So if you have any kind of oil leak. Around your timing cover and it gets in there and gets on that belt, it'll compromise the composition of the rubber. It'll start to break it down and that will lessen the life of the belt too.
So if you have any oil oil leaks up there or spilled any oil or anything anything that gets in there to contaminate that belt, You need to clean it, solve the problem, and then go ahead and change the belt too. Yeah. And you know, that's something else. That's a great point for you to mention that part about it being rubber. is on a timing belt.
There's a time interval and a mileage interval. If you've got 80 or 90,000 miles, On most cars, that varies. It's in the owner's manual of when they recommend it.
Some cars are 80, some 90, some 100. I've seen them 110. But make sure you change it before that mileage interval. But there's also a time interval, and that's usually somewhere around eight years, nine years. But look, look at your owner's manual, or if you need to go to the online and find or talk to your service advisor at your shop that you trust, find out when it's recommended to do time-wise or mileage-wise.
Ready to go to the cost? Yeah. Okay, here we go. We will go to the next caller and. We welcome you to the CNC Auto Show.
What can we help with? My name is Rob, and I have a twenty twenty-two. Ford Maverick XLT all-wheel drive. I love the little truck. But my transmission seems to over rev before it shifts.
Mm-hmm. And it really only does it when it's cold.
Okay. All right, with that model, they have run into some transmission issues with those.
Now, a lot of the problems that they've had, they've been able to address by reprogramming the transmission.
So have you checked to find out if there's been any updates or bulletins on that vehicle having to do with that concern? I have and I've brought it to the dealer. For them to check it out, and they told me that they were unable to replicate the problem. Oh, because the vehicle is warm by the time you get there, and if it's doing it when it's Oh, it's cool. Yeah, I guess unless you left it over.
I did. I brought it there and left it overnight and I think that it may still be it was maybe it was because it was still under warranty. I don't know. Mm-hmm. Okay because I was concerned about it, I bought the And the dealer did the inspection on it and didn't see any issues with the transmission.
Okay. Now, does it do it with you every morning? That uh that you drive it? Not every morning. Almost, but not not regularly.
Okay. Alright, and have you uh what happens if you let this vehicle Uh warm up. In other words, if you were to let it instead of just taking and and driving the vehicle, taking off driving it and seeing what it does cold, if you were to let the vehicle just sit there and idle for, let's say, 15, 20 minutes, get the temperature up just a little bit, does it still do it? Yeah. Okay.
And how many miles is on this vehicle? Uh seventy one thousand. Seventy one thousand okay has to be a matter of time. At about fifty thousand I have the transmission Louis. Lost and replaced.
Okay. All right.
Sounds good. How long is your extended warranty good for? 100,000.
Okay, and you got 71 on it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's another three years after the original warranty.
Okay. I would keep notes of everything that's happening, when it's doing it, how often it does it. Definitely keep all your paperwork when you take it to the dealership or wherever you take it because you can still take it to independence, especially since you now have that extended warranty. I'm assuming the extended warranty will be good with the other places. Just continue to document everything.
And I'm sure that they would have checked your fluid as far as just making sure that the level is what it should be. Because that one, you don't just check with a stick. You've got a procedure that you have to follow, hooking a piece of equipment up to it, getting it up to a certain temperature, and then checking the fluid level that way.
So make sure that the fluid level is good. Document everything and continue to drive it. And as it gets worse and you feel like, yes, it will definitely do it if they if I take it in, then take it in and have it. and let them find out what it is from there. Probably going to end up in the long run, you're going to end up with a need in a remanufactured transmission.
But with you having that extended warranty, that should be covered.
Okay. Okay? Thank you so much. And we thank you. Great call and enjoy that truck.
Hey, son. All right.
Okay, the number called 800-224-9090. If you've got a question about your car, your truck, your SUV, give us a call. Jamie, guess what the average collision repair Is in the in the U.S. As far as all the cars, you got cars that have accidents, it's in the 20, 30,000 mile dollar range, 30 or 000, $30,000. You have some that's much, much less than that.
What do you think the average cost of a collision repair is? Oh, it's got to be high. Thousands of dollars, couple thousand, three thousand, maybe? Yeah, well, actually, five thousand dollars. Most claims now run around five thousand.
Now, that's on average because, like I said, there's a huge number of jobs that you get or Accidents that happen that are huge amounts of money, yeah. Uh, but you run into some two, three, four hundred dollars, but on average, about five thousand dollars. Uh, it seems that uh, those smaller ones, uh, like a scratch or something like that, you may get into a couple of hundred dollars, but bumpers now that you would think that would be very inexpensive or two, three thousand dollars now because many of them have sensors and yeah, the radar and all of that, and then the calibration that you're going to need afterwards. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, so that's the average.
Okay, we'll mention the mechanical side, and we will go to the cause as soon as we return with more of the CNC Auto Show. Yeah. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you by KSIL HD. Designed for larger engines, KCL HD can help you avoid costly repair bills and downtime. It's a simple, permanent solution to cooling system leaks.
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There were plenty of stingrays and XK. And we're back with more of the CNC Auto Show. I'm Jamie here with Aaron. And we were mulling over that maverick a little bit more over there. Yeah, you had some great ideas on that, Jimmy.
What was that you were saying during the break that you would recommend doing? Pick a different dealership and go get a second opinion. Yeah, it don't hurt. No, it it doesn't hurt. And it's not bad mouthing, you know, one dealership over another, you know.
You have a variety of technicians in each shop. Everybody is different. Maybe tech somewhere else has seen this problem before or has a different. Method to get it to replicate the issue.
So, yeah, I mean, I would not, you know, if this dealer can't find it, try another one. The only drawback is only going to have a month or so to do it because right now we're in the cold weather. It won't be long. It's going to be too warm to do it.
So if that don't work, continue to do what we talked about, document everything. And he's got the extended warranty.
So, and in some of those cases, if you just got that gut feeling something might come up, that's when a sended warranty might be helpful on there. But a lot of documentation, the extended warranty people like. Like paperwork and documentation. Ready to go to the calls? Yeah, let's go.
Okay, let's go over to.
Someone, it didn't tell us who. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? Good morning. Yes.
I've got a 2020 Ranger. And I'm having a little transmission problem, also. It seems, I've only got 60,000 miles on it, it seems like it surges. when I'm it's a ten speed, so when I'm just running forty, forty five miles an hour and I'm trying to And I just let off the gas and it seems like it just can't Get back to the uh gear down like it's supposed to and it just surges a little bit. Uh Is it something to do with linkage or That that That's the ten speed transmission in that thing, isn't it?
Right. They uh Ah, those train those ten speeds had a a wider range of of weird things that they would do. There was a lot of software issues with those.
Now, just like on the other caller, I mentioned, have you checked to find out if there's any service bulletins on that vehicle? And of course, you have to use your VIN, your vehicle identification number to do that. Right. Uh-huh. I've seen some linkage problems with them.
I have not gone that far with it. Yeah. I would definitely recommend checking for service bulletins because a lot of we're used to, and many people are used to just repairing cars with tools. They're used to saying, well, I need to get this. Tool and remove the pan, or do this, or do that.
Now, there's a huge, huge number of problems that are solved by just reprogramming the computer. I'll give you an example. Let's say many years ago, you had a car with a coburetor, and after the vehicle got some miles on it, the technician would go under and loosen the screws on the air-fuel mixture, or change the timing a little bit, or do this.
Now, all of that is done electronically, and the same way with the shifting of the transmission. Let's say that they determined that at a certain time, at a certain speed, this transmission was not changing into the correct gear.
Well, they reprogrammed a computer to make it to where it will under this particular load, under this particular temperature, that we're going to reprogram it to make it do differently than it did before. And they're solving many, many problems like that now, a huge number.
So, definitely check for service bulletins. What's the website? Tell me the website to go to to do that. NTSB or something like that? Yeah, we'll see.
We'll find out.
Well, that 10R80 transmission looks like it has some actual mechanical problems as well. There should be TSBs out most likely for the valve body and the trans and that CDF bushing, the shift drum bushing.
So, I had in my last work truck, I had the shift drum bushing was bad and it and it would blow past Oh my gosh, second or third gear and then it would sh uh blow past seventh or eighth gear. Uh under load. What size they came up with a new bushing that To What did they tell me? Oh my gosh. They'd ha they'd had the No, they didn't want to rebuild the trans.
They wanted to rebuild it because they didn't want to put in a reman because there was a chance that the reman would also have the failed. Or the bad uh run of uh bushings in it.
Okay. Yeah, I was pretty close. That website is nhtsa.gov. Have your VIN number available. And put your VIN number in, and it will give a list of the bulletins that pertain to your vehicle.
or TSBs. And with that... I believe you're going to find one that has to do with the transmission. Uh on that.
Now, does this have to go do I have to go back to a dealership, a Ford dealership? No, you can go online. You can go online and use that website, nhtsa.gov, put in your van, enter your van. You can also put in your year mate model, but I recommend putting a VIN number in because you get a better, more accurate reading on there. And it'll give you things like um different items.
Now there's another site that's good to use that I have used from time to time or told people to use. We all of this stuff that I'm telling you about, we have our professional software or our company software the our computer already knows a person's Ven if we're working on the car and it's got all this.
So we just push one button and it comes up. But these are sites you can go to manually and get it. There's another one called CarComplaints.com.
Well, for us now, as far as the TSBs, you should be able to call the dealership, say, hey, this is my VIN. Can you run my VIN and see if there are any recalls, campaigns, TSBs that are active right now? And they should be able to tell you yes or no. Yeah. For warranty work, for the repairs to be done and for them to not cost you out of pocket for parts, labour, etcetera.
You will have to have a certified repair facility fix it, and usually that is a dealership. If that, if an individual, like an independent repair location, a TSB. A TSB is. A TSB is a tech service bulletin, so that's more like a company-wide note that, hey, this is a known problem. This is what we recommend to fix this problem.
Yeah, short version, the recall is free. The TSB costs you money. Yeah, that's really what it is. But a certified. I would let you know what's wrong.
So I would go to both of those sites. I like to look at myself because many times that person may overlook something. You might even do both, call the dealership and look it up online yourself. But I think you're going to find some information about that.
Now, it might be good information, like saying they could do a roof program, or it might be bad information saying, Hey, some of them just say replace transmission on certain things. But I would look it up. And 50,000 miles is about when I recommend doing a fluid exchange. I mean, yeah, a transmission fluid exchange on those also. All right, so that that first uh Uh N H NHTA.gov.
Was that it? Uh yes, that uh that is right. NHTSA dot gov. Uh-huh. Okay, great.
Okay, I thank you very much for that.
Well, we thank you. I hope you have a fantastic day. Yeah, okay, thank you. And we thank you. Okay, I would say that the numbers calls 800-224-9090.
But the only thing, we only have about a minute left. I know. We're getting close. That went by quick. It did.
We had a great time. I think we discussed some good stuff. Hopefully, we did some good, gave people some information. Also, we want to congratulate who was that? The gentleman on the Mustang.
They have his name, 85 Mustang, 300,000. 301,000, 284,000 miles. I want to say also thank you to Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez, our show producers and 3D printer operator. And Jamie, I enjoyed it very much. Yes, sir.
Like always. And we hope that David Clark's having a great trip wherever he himself in Mississippi. And want to tell everyone to please be safe, ice storm out there. Be careful if you do have to drive. If you don't, just enjoy your day at home and relax a little bit.
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