And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. I'm your host, Eric Clemens, and I'm here with co-hosts Jamie Bridges and David Carr. And we are in the studio today. Finally, back. Yes, David, we were at the Gas Pro last week and remote.
Oh, that was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about gas stations and how far they've come and a lot of the things that the truckers do while we were there. And they treated us good, too, didn't they? I'll tell you the one thing that Aaron was super impressed with were the showers. I heard him talk about the showers at the truck stop one more time.
They were spotless. And they had accommodation doors where you just walk in and boom. You didn't go there this week to take shower. No, no, I did not. But I'm going to ask him if I can get accommodation so when I'm traveling, I can stop by there.
Yeah, that would be the ice cream. Yeah. Did you get some ice cream? Oh, I did get a milkshake. I should get what I did.
It was good, too. Oh, it was good. And that was at the Foster's Freeze. Foster's Freeze. Yeah.
First one in the South. Yeah, first one. From the East Coast. Yeah, they come from California. Really?
Yeah, the gentleman had a beautiful California shirt with a woody thing on and all that good stuff in there. And pretty sharp. And he was very nice. And we had a good time there. Yeah.
I'll have to stop out there and get an ice cream next time I go that way. Oh, you need to. Yeah, it's a facility. Yeah, I've been in there quite a few times. They do.
Because of what I do for work, I'm all over the place. And I can tell you where every clean bathroom is around here. And that is one of the cleaner ones. That is about as clean as it could get. They're spotless inside there.
Yeah, beautiful place. The food was good. The food was very good. They got breakfast and dinner and fried chicken and biscuits and coffee and. Uh whatever you are.
They were good place to go. Oh, and um We'll be giving away a basketball goal still for them during the show today. Detective is winner. We'll get that.
Okay.
So, yeah. And plus, we've got to get it. And we're saving that for Jamie and Charles to do a dunk contest. Yeah. Well, we'll find out who gets it and they will meet there and go.
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Cross-check the cross you would not believe the phone calls I've been getting and text messages from people who are saying that that helped them a lot. It really makes me feel good when they say that. One shop said he read it, he implemented it the next day, and it already saved him. There was two items that were kind of big and one item that was kind of medium that would have been a comeback. But he loved it.
Another person said, and I'm not exaggerating. I'll let him say it later. He said their production went up 40%. There you go. Yeah, immediately when they started doing it.
So it's a good deal, and it kind of makes me feel good if it helps people. And you poured a lot into it.
So it's exciting. I did. I poured a lot into it, and I think it turned out to be pretty good. And so that's the cross-check method. They can find it at the cross-check.com.
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So I got a text message. It's poor Charles. It's saying the hoop couldn't be more than six foot if you wanted to see Charles jump up and dunk.
So. We could get one of those little Tykes basketball goals. No, we could just lift it off and get like one of those little aerobic trampolines. Y'all could jump off of it like the low trotters. I could do it then.
I don't know. I'd probably just choose my ankle.
So you feel like you go whip them in basketball. No, I know. I can't jump. That'd just embarrass both of us. I think.
How about if we lay a TECTIP quiz on the table? Let's go. Yeah, let's go.
Somebody might win a basketball goal with this one and be known as a TECTI quiz forevermore. Let's see here. We will go over to the tech tip quiz, and that is Mary and Johnny had an eight-hour trip planned, and they're new to them, 22 Subaru. The company they bought it from washed the vehicle right before they left to go on this long trip that they were going on. And everything did great.
All night long, they were driving along. Boom, everything driving absolutely perfect. And about eight o'clock the next morning. The they started hearing a beeping sound. And then they couldn't get the radio to cut off.
And so they were stuck. They had to listen to that for the whole trip back. And it it drove them crazy.
So they took it back to where they bought it from. and the place said nothing was wrong with the car.
So, if somebody knows the answer, they can give us a call. The number 800-224-90900. And I'm going to mention one other thing before we go to the next subject. Before the show, we were having telephone issues, and our awesome producer and IT person, Mason Rogers. Uh put a band-aid on it to where it would work for us for right now.
And and it This is not a podcast. This is recorded live.
So we don't have a choice when the time comes, boom, we're on. We don't say, hey, let's do it 30 minutes from now. Boom, we have to be there. When we take breaks, we have to be there.
So it gets sometimes if something's not working right, it gets kind of exciting for a show.
Well, Mason puts a lot into it. You know, the night before he's checking everything, he's doing the cross-checks. He's going through it, making sure he's ready to go. And then when we got here this morning, it wasn't worried working. Mason was definitely calm and boom, boom, boom, got it done and took care of it.
So I thought that part was kind of awesome.
Okay.
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Well, so far, so good. It seemed to be doing good. That was awesome, though.
Okay, do want to mention. That Well, I want to cover an email first that I got. Johnny writes in pretty often to answer or to ask questions about his cars, and he's always great. He does a lot of stuff himself. But he wrote in, he said that Johnny writes in pretty often, but I thought it would be helpful to others if I go ahead and mention this.
He said he had an oil leak on his 98 Chrysler Sebring. I was reading all my notes to go along with it when I went with it. It was dripping oil while it was running and had kind of a steady drip.
Now, I already answered the question for him, but I thought it might be good if I went ahead and just mention it here.
So a lot of others might be able to do that. What we normally do if we have an oil leak and it is actually a drip on the ground, we take this CRC. brake clean yeah and we'll have the the vehicle up in the air if it's from the bottom or if it's from the top we'll have it to where we can see about where the area is coming from and then we'll take this brake clean and we'll just give it a burst you like that yeah there you go a burst there and and it cleans it immediately boom all everything's gone So and then the brake clean evaporates really fast.
So then if it is leaking in a spot, you can go to that spot and you can say, oh, there it is. Yeah, pinpoint it because it's clean. You can pinpoint it. Yeah. I have uh one major fleet company.
That will not buy anything but that, and I sell pallets of it to them.
So that that's good stuff. It it does exactly what you and you want it to do out of a brake cleaner.
Well, I probably shouldn't say this part, but this morning, I put on a shirt. I was wondering if you were going to mention this. I was very fascinated. I put on a shirt this morning, and I walked. Into the bathroom and the mirror and all.
And I was standing there. And when I put the shirt on, it was kind of dark in the closet area. And then I moved over to the bathroom area and it was nice and bright. Boom. Big old stain on my shirt.
I said, oh no, but I didn't have time to do anything about it. And I said, I'll just have to live with the same.
So I got here at the shop. And I've seen the break clean sitting there. They use it in the shop all the time. I mean, it's just a common thing. But I gave it a burst right there on that thing and I rubbed it around a little bit.
There's nothing there. It's gone. It's supposed to clean and then dry with no residue in it. I mean, there's nothing on your shirt. I don't see it.
First one he mentioned this. I really thought you were going to be in your bathroom and you like had where your toothpaste is, your deodorant, your cologne, and then you were going to have some brake cleaner over there with you. And I was like, holy smokes. Put some brake clean there.
Okay, it's time to take a quick break. We will be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Oh. The Sinsee Auto Show is brought to you in part by BG Products. Be good to your car with a BG Coolant System Service.
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Having a great time and we are talking about all types of things. We've got a Tech Tip quiz laying on the table and waiting if someone has an answer to our Tech Tip quiz, they may win a basketball goal from Gas Pro and Foster Freeze.
Okay, uh here's what's going on. Purelators launched an oil filter called the Purelator 20,000 that supposedly lasts 20,000 miles. It's a product exclusive at Walmart. What do you think?
Well, it just sounds like one of those made-up things, right? Like you're doing. Yeah, 20,000 miles. The Pure or Later 2000. Let me tell you what this is going to do.
Pure or later 20,000, I think is what it calls. Yeah, 20K. But Okay, so I was I looked it looked it up on the internet. And to get the twenty thousand miles, you are supposed to use a certified twenty thousand mile oil. That 20,000 mile oil oil change just kind of makes my skin crawl when it comes to passenger vehicles.
I'm sure Pure Leader has tested it thoroughly. I don't think I would do that, though. I mean, about 8,000 to 10,000 miles is about my ceiling. I've seen too many things like this through the years. They'll come and.
Uh it'll be a product that will you get 10,000 miles, 15,000 miles between oil changes or Uh it Five years between coolant changes, and then the next thing you know, engines start having problems, and boom, you. They go off the market. You don't hear them again for a long time and then boom, they come back. I would be very careful before trying anything even close to this because engines are expensive now. You're talking about.
A huge amount of money, and what if it don't work? Right, exactly. And then, how do you measure it? How do you go back to well, it's the oil filter? Is there are they gonna step up and say, Okay, well, you went 20,000 miles and you didn't change it.
Well, just because of that, you know, now your engine's out, we're gonna pay for it.
So, it's you know, they got a genie in a bottle, they're looking at people right now. I mean, to me, that you're looking at people that are pinched for money, right? Like Everything's high. Everything costs a lot. And so if I can come up with a gimmick.
To say, well, you can save this amount of money on oil changes. You can drive 20,000 miles and you don't have to change your oil. You don't have to change your filter. How much money did I just save you? I'll sell you this.
You know, how much is a pure later? $2,000? It was from looking at the Walmart website, they range from like eight eight to ten bucks.
So for ten bucks, for ten dollars, I'm going to save you not having to get old change that could potentially cost you $100 every, let's say, three months, you know, and you got to do that. four times a year, so that's four hundred bucks. You spend eight bucks with me. And you're going to save $400, uh, and that's just for the year. And not everybody's putting 20,000 miles on their car in a year.
So, uh, I don't know. I'd just be scared of it. Are you going to remember? Are you going to remember five years from now that hey, it's time for an oil change? Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it's time. I would be very skeptical. The vehicle. I think there's more to look at. Like when you go in to get your oil change, right?
It's not just an oil change. Just to get an overall inspection on your car. Man, that sounds good. You know, are my tires okay? Are my belts wearing?
Or is there different mechanical components on my car that are under that stress that need to be inspected? And that technician needs to let me know, hey. I need to know what's wrong with my car. I, you know. And you nailed it right there.
I mean, 100%. It's much more than just an oil change when you do that. You're looking things over. You're finding out what's new, what is worn and needs to be replaced. What can you do to make.
The system lasts longer. If you do this and say, well, I don't have to touch my car for 20,000 miles, there will be issues, big issues. And oil changes are a very competitive area to where everyone tries their very best to give Great prices. If you look around, you can get some great prices on oil change. Our oil change, really, when you look at it, We change the oil, the oil filter.
We do a complete 28-point inspection, and we give pictures if we see things wrong that needs to be done. Uh and all of that is included in the oil change. And a full synthetic oil on most cars is, I think we're running a special now $59.95 at this location, $15 off the other location. But in other words, it's like that in most shops. That's not just ours.
A lot of shops do that same thing.
Well, so that's every 5,000 miles you're getting a multi-point inspection. If you only did twenty thousand miles, you're only getting that inspection what, every Well, it depends on how much you drive. Once every two years, I think maybe for most people with standard driving. And even if it does go in, you forg and you forget about your coolant, you forget about your transmission fluid, those are expensive items, too. When your coolant goes too long, you start having radiator issues, water pump issues, gaskets going out, heater cores going out.
All of this stuff i is built around that coolant being clean and not having metal particles in it. You know, we had this discussion in our, we have a group chat for our sales team at work, and there's twenty more than twenty of us in this group chat. And we had this whole conversation about the the fi uh ten year rated coolant. Yeah And I don't think that I would trust the 10-year coolant either. I mean, that's just Dexcool found that out.
They had to replace a lot of gaskets and a lot of major and some engines because they would hydrolock once the gaskets start going out, all due to the Dexcool going too long. They found out under ideal circumstance, perfect circumstance, no oxygen getting into the cooling system. It would last that long. But every coolant system is going to have a certain amount of leaks in that length of time, or seepage and let, or people are going to take radiator caps off. It's going to have air and contamination in air to mouth.
Well, it's the same thing with this oil and filters at 20,000 miles. Everything has to be perfect and stay perfect for this to work.
So we're not pro pure later. We can say that. We're not pro-Purelator. I think I'd love to hear, like, if people are out there and they really do like this, or they're against it. Like, I'd love to hear people call us and talk about it.
Like, it's not just our opinion. I always like to hear other people what they got to say. Maybe if it's a brand new vehicle, maybe, but your 10-year-old hookies, no. I mean, my wife's got a brand new Honda. I'm not putting the Purelator 2000 on it and then it voids my Honda warranty.
That's not going to happen. All right. It's time for a real quick break. When we return, we'll have the Director of Marketing Services at Standard Motor Products, Avan Schaefer. He'll be with us, and that'll be an interesting conversation.
We'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Uh In just two years, it's projected that one out of every three vehicles on the road will require an AGM battery. Why? It's the tremendous electrical load we put on today's vehicles. With creature comforts like entertainment and GPS systems, heated seats, and backup cameras, vehicle batteries are working harder than ever.
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And we have a special guest on the line with us. That's Aaron Schaefer. He's the Director of Marketing Services at Standard Motor Products. And let me bring them on here. Hey everyone, welcome.
Good morning and welcome to the CNC Auto Show. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks a lot for having me.
And I was digging the intro music, GTO. That's good stuff, man. Yeah. That's a lot better than Janice Joplin. No, no, no.
We love it when you sing Jamie. Jamie has an issue with our Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz song from Janice Joplin? It is so bad. It's a little rough around the edges. The whole thing is rough.
The inside, too, not just the edges. Erin, we really appreciate you being here with us. Want to mention again, Aaron's the marketing services, director of marketing services at Standard Motor Products. And I was hoping he would let us know a little bit about the Standard Motor Products. And so we will jump right in there.
Eric, for the listeners out there who may already know, but some may not know, what falls under the designation of vehicle control and engine management? Yeah, yeah, that's That's a good question.
So, for folks that have been around a while, they probably knew us as standard ignition. Right, as we were, you know, we did point condensers and then plug wires, caps, rotors that evolved. And we started doing more engine management components like moderate ignition coils, fuel injectors, GDI, MFI. And then as we evolved and vehicles evolved, we found that we're pretty good at making sensors too.
So we moved into ABS sensors, TPMS sensors, so where, you know, maybe. Fifteen years ago, we were primarily engine management. Our portfolio has expanded, and that's why we have this larger umbrella term vehicle control that encompasses everything that we're able to manufacture. Yeah, Aaron, you're bringing back memories there. I was there with the points and condensers.
I've changed a ton of those over the years and all the things. And I've watched standard products evolve over the years also, because, of course, now all just a huge number of sensors. And, of course, standard products has built a beautiful reputation of supplying great quality.
Well, you know, when he starts talking about TPMS sensors and those things, when you start talking about sensors, that starts getting into my wheelhouse. But I like to think with calibrations. And so are you guys looking at like park sensors and any of the radars or any of that stuff or blind spot sensors? We are actually. We're actually manufacturing our own park assist sensors at our facility in Poland.
Okay.
That's become a growing category for us. And we see, you know, a few folks are just replacing them one or two at a time. It's not entirely going through the collision business. People get, you know, their car gets hit in a parking lot and it gets damaged, the connector gets damaged, and folks are replacing one. And, you know, we're even doing cruise control distance sensors, blind spot monitoring sensors.
You know, we're into the whole ADOS thing.
Okay.
That's awesome. Wow, I'm glad you asked that question. I didn't know that. Yeah, well they they do uh four seasons too, which is uh climate control. Your A C compressors and condensers and things of that nature.
So they are uh they cover a lot of things. Wow. Everybody, in today's environment where Amazon packages are being delivered pretty much hourly, it it's never been more important to know what's in your box as it relates to auto parts. What uh explain that. Yeah, I think you know, one important thing that we like to stress, you know, we're not going to ever tell anybody where they should buy their parts from, but personally, there's a lot of value in buying locally, you know, from a part store that you know and have a relationship with.
And can recommend the right related parts. And if there's a problem, they can handle it. And I will, with the online resellers, some of them are, there's some really good products that are available on there, but there's also an awful lot of stuff that hasn't really been vetted or tested. There's a lot of parts that are on there that frankly are problematic. And if folks are using some of these, I don't just call them no-name or generic fuel injectors.
Sometimes the spray patterns are so off, they're not calibrated correctly, that they can end up causing real damage to the engine or the emission system if they're, you know, the spray patterns are too wide. You get fuel that's just dripping down the cylinder wall, washes away the oil, or you can dump just too much fuel through one cylinder. The O2 sensor does, you know, there's only one, most vehicles, there's one O2 sensor on each bank.
So it's really hard for the engine to adjust. If just one injector is dumping way too much fuel, right? It's gonna end up leaning down. That whole leading out of the whole cylinder bank, and you can cause big damage when these injectors aren't calibrated correctly. And Erin, what we see in the automotive shops, we have six locations.
And what we notice many times is somebody put their own part on, and it'll say. They'll say they put a new part on, and so they spend days and days and days trying to find out what else is wrong.
Something else must be wrong.
Well, they tried to save money on the part that they put on, and that part that they put on a week ago that they've been working on ever since, it is the problem because it it it didn't perform like it should perform. No, I I was cracking up because you said what's in your box, the the whole thing. And all I can think about in my mind when you start describing that is Tommy Boy. And I give you crap in a box, right? The whole scene with the guy.
So this whole point is just like you said, there are guys out there that will sell you crap in a box. Yeah, definitely. 100%. But, you know, you're pleading for your company here that you're selling something good that you guys have tested. And I absolutely agree.
There's stuff out there that is just absolute crap that people buy. But, you know, you guys are doing the right thing.
Well, I mean, their warranty that they carry on this stuff is great. Yeah. And that's why automotive, professional automotive shops like to use standard products. Oh, yeah. I promise you, I don't care if you give a technician, pay them to do it over again, pay him or her to do it over again.
That really don't matter. They just don't want to do it a second time. They want to do a good quality job the first time. And to do that, you have to use quality parts. Yep.
Blue Streak by Standard is known for their improvement over OE design. Can you give a few examples of that? And where does the process start? And how do you choose which parts to go after? Yeah, no, that's a good question.
Identifying particular components on vehicles that have really high OE failure rates. And we're dialed in, so we're able to get failure rates pretty quickly.
So when we see something that's abnormal, we'll take a look at that. Our engineers will examine it. And when there's an opportunity, we'll make design improvements. You know, on newer vehicles, pretty much every part, it's hyper-critical to keep it functioning exactly the same way because every part is part of another bigger system where everything needs to integrate correctly. But there's often some little things that we can do to make sure our part.
Fixes that OE weak point or that failure point and lasts longer.
So we do it a lot on VBT solenoids. We see some of the OE ones are. Using, you know, for the internal shaft, it'll be just a thin piece of aluminum and it can just become slightly distorted over time.
So we're using stainless steel in these applications.
So ours are lasting longer. There's a couple of ignition coils where we're able to increase the amount of internal bobbin sections that it functions the exact same way, but by spreading out the energy over more bobbins, it just lets the coil operate cooler. Right. And by not overheating the coil, we're able to extend the life of this. We've done this on a couple of Ford coils, the Ford VA coils.
And then there's a couple of Nissan coils for the 2.5 and the 3.5. Same kind of thing where we saw just premature failure rate on these.
So we added some bobbin sections.
So it depends on the part, but certainly there's some opportunities to improve upon the OE in certain instances. And that's what professional technicians like. And of course, if you're doing it yourself, you want to do the same. You want a good quality part. Aaron, where can our listeners go to get more information about standard motor products?
Yeah, you know, there's really two places, right?
So standardbrand.com, that's our website where you can find information on across all the categories. The other place is our YouTube channel. If you just go to YouTube and search standard brand, You'll see we've got about 725 videos there, technical videos, installation videos there's some testing videos, information on our facilities.
So a lot of good information on YouTube, and more and more folks just like to consume content that way. And and Erin, I'm going to ask you one question before we go. How long has standard motor products been around? 105, almost 106 years now. Is that a late since?
Yeah, it's a long time. Yeah, yeah, so we started in 1919. Oh wow. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, we've evolved as vehicles have evolved, and that's what we're continuing to do.
You sure have, and we appreciate it. Appreciate your company bringing such a fine product to the market. Oh, yeah. For everyone. That's awesome.
Definitely been an eye-opening for me to just see this stuff, and obviously to see how far you guys have come on the AS stuff. And even the collision stuff, looking at your collision repair stuff that you have in here, it's awesome. Aaron, we appreciate it very much. And thank you for being on the CNC Auto Show. Awesome, thanks.
Have a great Saturday, gay. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Okay, we'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Rapid roar that stock carboy He the bills driver in the lamp He said that they learned to raise the stock car by running shine out of Alabama. And welcome back to the CNC Auto Show. I'm David Clark, and I'm here with the host. Aaron Clements and my co-host, Jamie.
Yeah. Bridges. Especially, we're all hosts. We're hosting together. I'm just along for the ride.
I'm sitting in the back seat.
So we're driving this thing together. Ben, I think, you know, that last guy we had on there with standard automotive equipment, you know, that was just great. I think it was eye-opening for me to see all the stuff that's available in collision. I never would have thought that. No.
Just because it's not somebody that we normally hear about in collision.
So I think that was a great. Yeah. Obviously eye-opener. Uh and And one of my favorite takeaways from that is something that we're seeing more and more of. Let's say the the factory puts a part on a vehicle and it w don't work just quite i as intended for long periods of time.
It might do good and then it gets a little wear on it, wears out earlier than it should. A company like Standard Motor Products can take that failed part, examine it, find out what went wrong, and actually make the next part better than what the OE was.
So you won't run into the same problem again. I'm a huge fan of aftermarket components for that reason, just because they'll take the failed OEM and deconstruct it.
So when you start talking about aftermarket requisition, yeah, it's a little bit different on your side. Yeah, so when they start talking about aftermarket products, we hear a lot about it with whether it's sheet metal or headlights or different things like that. And those all come with fit issues for us majority of the time. Like it's just not going to fit the same. But I've had some aftermarket, I've had technicians say that some of the older Chevy box style front ends, that aftermarket fenders fit better than the OE fenders.
So it happens, but I think you just got to know. I'm kind of on the fence. I'm not always an aftermarket guy. As far as sensors and chassis components, Components, 100%. I have been burned more than once with aftermarket actual body components, fenders and hoods and whatnot.
The holes are in the wrong place, or everything's malaligned, or.
Well now the headlights, the The importance of the headlights and illumination on the headlights and how it works with the calibration systems, the ADAS systems on the car, and how that's starting to send signals. That's going to be a more. Yeah. Part of what we do.
So, you know, that aftermarket headlight may not give out the same illumination that the OE headlight does to that specification to make sure that car is functioning like it should with the ADAS stuff.
So, um, you know, when we talk about aftermarket and OE, I think there's obviously there's There's different playgrounds for everybody, right? And I think you have to look at what's the right place for everybody to be in that.
So. Yeah, well, that's when you know you got to make sure when you're making things, you're not spreading yourself too thin. Because if you have too many avenues out there, you're going to not spend enough time on one thing and the other one falls apart. I will tell you, in the mechanical side, the aftermarket is very important.
Now, we love OE. I don't have, matter of fact, there's times where an OE part might be the same price as an aftermarket part. I have seen that. Yeah, and in some cases, you may still decide you would rather have the aftermarket because they've made some difference on it that's made it better or easier to install. Dormant products do that a lot, but most professional technicians, especially with the.
Would the uh Facebook and all of the other ways to communicate with each other through internet. They'll tell you real quick what worked good and what did not work well.
So I think it's important to make your decision real carefully on which parts you use because new does not mean new. New means new. It don't mean good. Yeah, I think it's for the consumer. The consumer needs to, when you go into a repair shop, those need to be part, those questions need to be part of the conversation.
Yeah. Right. Like you should have complete transparency from the shop on what they're putting on your car and that you're acknowledging it, right? Because as the vehicle owner, you have the right to say, hey, this is what I want put on my car. That's a good reason for having, even if you work on your vehicle yourself, a good reason for having a parts, local parts place that you can actually go to and talk to.
Because if you I've done this before, buying a part and say, hey, have you had very many comebacks on that part? And they'll pull you over to Aaron, I wouldn't get that one. Or they might pull up, no, we've been selling these for two years and not any problems at all. They've been doing great.
So having that relationship there is really good. Hey, you ready to lay the tech tip quiz? I don't take it let's do it one more time. We're going to do it. We're going to get an answer to this thing.
Mary and Johnny had an eight-hour trip planned in their new 20, new to them, 2022 Subaru, the company had bought. that they bought it from. washed it for them right before the trip. They took it in, they got it all cleaned up. They went on this trip and they were traveling at night all night long.
The vehicle did perfect, no problems, no sounds, no anything, just did really good. But at eight o'clock the next morning, they started hearing a beeping noise, and also the radio wouldn't cut off. Oh. Yeah, they could hear the radio running even though the car was off. And so the it was they thought it was a news channel.
So they um they took it in. They took it back. They made that trip with that. It run 'em crazy coming back. They took it in.
Place said nothing was wrong with the car.
So would it turn out being wrong?
Well, I think it's kind of like our lady with the Saturn ion last week that called us that was going to the derby. Yeah. Yeah, she was a hoot. That was pretty neat.
So, if somebody gets a chance, give us a call. The number's 800-224-9090. You'll win a basketball goal.
Now, the thing on the basketball goal, you're going to need to drive up to Yas Pro in Thompson and get it.
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Somebody might want to drive across country to get that basketball goal. Let's go to the call. real quick and let's see here. And Welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help with? Yes, this is John.
How are you doing this morning? I am doing very well. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I think I got an answer for your tip.
Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, we're going to put you on stage. Let's see here. Uh It's been so long since we've been in the studio today I don't even know where the buttons are.
Yeah, we've been doing that remotely and they handle that there. John You know the question, what is the answer to today's tech tip quiz?
Well I didn't get a chance to listen last week, but I'm going to give it a try anyway. I think that the repairman, or whatever they took it to. Left his cellphone in there and he was hearing the uh cellphone beep and radio play. Oh well that's a good answer. But the cell phone, if he if he had left a cell phone in there Then he would hear it ring And maybe if it was on beep, he would hear it beep.
Well, the fire beeps. But if he didn't answer it, how could he hear anything else? The air tags. I've heard that. Oh, yeah, the air tags beeping.
Those things would drive you crazy. But what else could he have left in there, John? Come on, John. We got 40 seconds, 30 seconds. That would run all the time.
That would make.
sounds all the time. I'm not technically able to watch or something like that. Come on now.
Well, you get close. What have they been? Have you seen some advertising for an item that. might say something like Uh like a radio that plays nationwide. Yeah, there you're listening to us on stop.
Yeah. A rapid radio. All right, we're going to tell you real quick because we're out of time. The person who cleaned the car left a rapid radio under the seat. Rapid radios work nationwide and the batteries last for days.
And while the company was closed, there was no sound. When the company opened at 8 a.m., it started talking on the radio and beeping. And you are the winner, John. And stay on the line. We'll be right with back.
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We did get a win or two detective quiz during the last hour. John Gafko won a basketball goal. And he is a multi-time winner of the CNC Auto Show Tech Tip Quiz Deal? And he was excited about that because he wants to be able to donate it to somebody that's going to be able to use that. And it'll be a YMCA.
will uh will be getting that basketball goal. Thought that was kind of neat. Uh we uh will have another tech tip quiz shortly, but I wanted to get into something that I I feel like's pretty important. And this is uh actually A lot in David Clark's wheelhouse here. We'll be talking about insurance and doing how to get the flight pressure.
And there's some reasons why, but there might be some reasons why maybe it shouldn't be climbing. Like it is. What's your feelings on that? You know, I I don't know that there's any justification that can be presented to me that really makes the case to why insurance premiums continue to go up.
Well, no, not not at the the rate that they have increased. I mean, a little bit year over year, I can see, but the It's just the the ov overall percentage. It's a vicious cycle to me that it gets pushed onto the shops and it gets pushed on well, you know, these parts are costing this much and and this costs this much. I get all that. Yeah.
Like everybody sees that. Yeah. But when you record... Quarter after quarter, billion-dollar profits. Yeah, no.
At what point does it stop? And some might start holding these insurance companies accountable. That's where it becomes the issue for me. I mean, there's and and you got legislators that are out there right now that are forming legislation. Against shops.
So, as let's just say you're not a shop, let's just say you're a property owner and you own property. There's a state in Oklahoma that is now legislation is being passed to tell you what you can charge and for how long you can charge something to an insurance company. If you have a car on your lot, but that's my property. How do you get to dictate to me what I'm going to charge you? Like, I paid the taxes on that, I paid for that property.
That the government didn't do that.
So why is the government getting into it? And then You know, you got a you got a con you got somebody on the house saying that The reasoning behind entrance rates are going up is because of these excessive storage fees.
Well, okay.
Well, if there needs to be a conversation, no different than the tort reform bill that we talked about here with Austin and. There's no stipulation in any of these bills that say that the insurance companies are going to bring their rates down if these things go through.
So we're helping them with nothing that's not reciprocated. Penalize the business owner and you falsely say you're protecting the consumer. To really benefit the insurance company. Yeah. So that's what it is.
It's not only the ghost that gets my blood going in the mornings, but talking about insurance companies and how these things are. I get it. Like. Again. Are there more expensive parts?
Absolutely. Are EVs driving up some of those costs? Absolutely. I agree with that. But there's also got to be a cap point.
When does somebody step in for the consumer and go against the insurance company and cap off what they can charge everybody? If they can do that to business owners. Yeah. Where's the defendant for the business owner against the insurance company? And that's not only in auto, but that's in health.
I mean, look at healthcare. How much that costs somebody? It's terrible. I mean, you go to the hospital, you get admitted, and they're charging you $60 for a single Tylenol. I mean, why?
Look at homeowners, right? I mean, and all these things you have to carry. Right. And it's all it is, is really legalized gambling. Yeah.
Because your insurance, you're paying. Just in the event something happens, right? Like, I'm going to pull that slot machine and maybe, maybe I get hit today, maybe I don't. What if you go, what if you go your entire life and you never have an accident, but you pay insurance in, but you've had. increase in premiums year after year after year.
Is that fair? No. I mean, it's just makes sense. And then, if something does happen, they'll fight you tooth and nail and try and cheat out on it. It's just, I mean, all the thousands and thousands of dollars that we pay towards this, and there's just no different than talking to the gentleman from Frosty Freeze last week.
What was his name again? Uh uh don't say it wrong. Is it deep? Do what? Is it deep?
Deep, that's it. That's it. You know, I loved having conversations with Deep talking about California because, you know, just like the calibration world, and everybody's trying to come up with a standard price that everything needs to be charged, just a certain standard, and whether you're in Georgia, or you're in California, you're going to charge the same exact thing. Which, so I asked Deep, I said, So are you telling me on a frosty freeze that you're charging the same prices here in Georgia that you would charge in California for that chicken sandwich? He said, Absolutely not.
He said, Minimum wage is $20 an hour there. He said, I can't charge you, I can't charge them the same thing that I do here in Georgia.
So, you know, you got several different companies out there. And I heard the other day, you know, we had Aztec on the show and we had a great conversation. I felt like that was good. It was, we got to debate with them a little bit. I think Mike Reynolds did a fantastic job being here.
But there's another company called Opus that's out there, and they have made a massive deal that is bigger than the Aztec deal, and nobody's saying anything about it. And their CEO, Kind of fed back some information to me that I hurt his feelings about what I'd said on the show. I'm sorry. You know, I almost want to do the cry button on there. Like, you know, if you're on the Crimea River.
But I would love to. There you go. Do it. Yeah, I'm sorry, Brian. But, Brian Harmon, if you would love to come on the CNC Auto Show, I would love to have a debate with you on what you've agreed to with your company.
Uh for consumers. And tell me how this is good for consumers and not based on what's good for insurance companies. And I would love to have Mike here because I think Mike, you know, he's got some passion in that same field on what it looks like.
So. Yeah, Mike Reynolds is awesome with the with the ADA systems, and he's teaching a class for SASA next weekend for technicians. And that's one thing I want to listen to or mention to a lot of the listeners out there. I know a lot of this they think may not necessarily concern them because they're listening to some of these issues that are going on. But part of the things that we're talking about here is why the prices are why you pay high insurance premiums and why you pay for high repairs has to do with the things that we're paying here.
I see a little bit of both sides. I do know that it costs more to repair a car. You got headlights that are brighter than ever and they actually transition with the road. EVs that are more to repair aluminum and other metals that they're using to do. But also, people need to know ways or why that it's high, but they also need to know ways that they can reduce their premiums.
And of course, what I mentioned to everybody, don't just get an increase and just say, well, that's the way it is. Start shopping. Get some more. Price it out. Review the coverage that you have.
Are you paying full coverage on an insurance? That they are only going to give you a small amount if your car gets totaled out. Look at that stuff and don't overpay for what you're getting for insurance. And of course Try not to have a wreck. Drive safely and don't get speeding tickets.
I think the one thing for consumers is to know you control. Your dollars and where they go. Like you have the biggest voice with where you spend your dollars. And when we constantly spend 75% of the market is in five large major insurance companies, those five companies control the market and they dictate what rates are going to be. When consumers start to figure out how to go outside of that and look for different options that are going to be competitive, and sometimes you need to look like South Carolina Farm Bureau here in town here in South Carolina, Georgia Farm Bureau, those are small companies.
And they offer fantastic service. You don't have to have State Farm. You don't have to have Geico. You don't have to have All State or Progressive or USA. Shop around.
Look and see what's going on. And they know the key words that you need to tell them. I mean, you have anti-lock brakes. Let's say you do have a car. You had the full coverage and it's a nicer vehicle.
And you want to let them know, hey, I have ABS, anti-lock brakes, I have camera systems, I have collision avoidance, I have this, I have that. Let them know all the keywords so you can get the maximum amount of discounts that you can get on that policy as you're shopping around. Hey, we need to check a quick trade. We'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show. The Cince Auto Show is brought to you in part by Motorad, leading the way in advanced thermal engine management and evaporative emission solutions.
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And we had a very passionate conversation about insurance. Oh, Jamie, you sound way too serious. We should have to do it. Oh, my God. Yes, we do.
I have to work on that. And people can hear that if they go to the ccaautoshow.com and watch the recording. They can hear the conversations that we have during the breaks. Yeah. Ready to go to the calls?
Let's go. All right, here we go. Hold on. And we welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with?
Yeah, good morning, fellas. Really enjoying the show here. You know, here a while back I had won one of your tech tip quizzes. And I received my swag here a few days ago. If I could just give Mason a suggestion, he could put the gold bars in a different crate.
Don't put it all in one big crate. You're really like, Mason is such a serious person. He just heard his name on the radio. He is in there panicking. I thought that he was putting the gold bars in a different crate, a different box or something.
That is above and beyond for tech tip quiz winners. Yeah, it is. Oh, yeah. Look, guys, here recently, I've been shopping around for insurance, both homeowners and automobile. And let me tell you, There's enough to really make you get liquored up, so to speak.
It's ridiculous, and they get. They're like a lawyer. They tell you just enough to confuse you. And it The last one that I spoke with said that I asked him why were the rates going up so high? He said that.
Uh because of Hurricane Helene and other catastrophes going on. That the insurance company has to recoup their losses. And I'm thinking, I've been I've been paying insurance all my life. And I've never had a claim. Knock on wood, I've never had a claim.
And that's the They're not getting a loss from me. They they give you your money. They give you your money back, Ron. Yeah, my interest goes up berserkly. And I think a large part of it's got to do with these very expensive cars that's on the road today.
If the insurance commissioner, somebody needs to hold his feet to the fire. Because it's getting to a runaway stage, like a nuclear explosion. It's starting to blow up.
Well, it's costing the average person just to live today. you got to come up with at least five thousand dollars a month just to live. That's not going to McDonald's and having a good time with a happy meal. This is just to put a roof over your head. keep your car running and your insurances paid.
It's it's getting ridiculous.
Well, Ron, I don't but I don't know if it's because of how much the cars cost. I I think, you know, what's what's the av what's the annual income for the CEO of Geico making uh a year?
Well, I mean, then that's part of it. Who needs to make? I mean, he got compensated last year. $15.6 million. That's a significant thing.
What kind of job do you do that pays you $15.6 million? I think that's where consumers need to wake up. It doesn't have to do with the car. It has to do with these big executives that are making. Ridiculous money.
Like at what point if you make $15.6 million, what do you buy? What the hell do you want to get you want? I mean, I don't know that's the same thing. That's a scene. That's $30 million in two years.
That's Yeah. I mean, there are people that there are probably cities out there in small America that don't make $30 million in annual income for an entire city. No. So there's a problem with that. There is a huge problem, and there is not enough legislation that is holding these big, huge corporations to any kind of standard.
They want to beat down the guys here that are trying to help the consumers, but these guys in these ivory towers are just walking away with millions and millions of dollars.
Well, of course, they want to protect their millions and millions and their shareholders and this and that. But I mean. There's it's got there's got to be a limit somewhere. I mean, it's just I don't even know. That's it.
And that's where I think the insur the insurance commissioner, uh y the state that you live in You know, that's where your risk pool should originate from. I don't need to be in the risk pool of California wildfires in Southern California. Where looking over the debris field, there was just hundreds and hundreds of brand new automobiles. that these wealthier people just abandon And they turn around and file insurance on it. And just to leave you with a less than a happy note.
I've understood that Progressive Insurance Company is owned by George Soros.
So it kind of makes me think a lot of these insurance companies are held in power. Because of politics. And politics drives this. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
It's a means of money production. There you go. And and what what's what's required of you to get on the road with your car? What do you gotta have?
Okay.
You gotta have insurance, don't you? David, it goes back to the whole old theory, cause the problem and sell you the solution. Yeah, that's what it is. Look, Look, guys, I'm enjoying your show. Y'all have a great weekend.
Make it safe. All right. Ron, thank you. You too.
Okay, the number to call 800-224-9090. If you have a question about your car, your truck, your SUV, you give us a call. And we have. Discuss the insurance part. Last quick.
We've got enough people fired up right now. Yeah, we did. Absolutely. And that's good. I think people need to be that way.
Last quick thing: review your coverage. Ask for your discounts. And try your it. Let them know if you don't drive very much. Say, hey, I'm only driving this amount.
Uh bundle the policies if possible. And compare rates with others. I think in the next half hour, we need to talk about subscriptions because I feel like everything has a subscription to it anymore. And I think we dive into what do cars have with subscriptions? Yeah, that's ridiculous, too.
That's another money grab. If you buy something and it's on there, it should be yours because you bought the car. The name of this show, the money grab. Oh, yeah, that's what it is. It's a money grab.
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Yes, we are. 30 minutes of what we have just really, you know, we've been talking about with insurance and everything. It's a sore subject around here. And I mean, we've got a Macintosh sitting here on the desk. I mean, I'm inspired right now by the Macintosh.
Oh, yeah, boy. I love looking at old things like that. It's just how far we've come and just a super amount of time. And we're fixing to talk about how far we've come.
So we went from the Macintosh and getting aligned, but now let's talk about subscriptions. And I think there's a subscription to everything anymore. There are apps being made to manage your subscriptions. You got stuff that's overlapping each other, right?
Well, I mean, it's like with the online, the streaming for the videos and movies and TV shows. And, you know, that was supposed to push back cable and save us so much money. And now they're 15, 20 bucks a piece a month. Oh, absolutely. Nuts.
And you have to watch what you're buying, right? Like, and what's crazy to me is you have to get all these different things because each app has the one show that you want to watch, but you have to subscribe. To it for several months.
Well, up to now, though, cars have kind of been left out of that. I mean, you could purchase a car, you go up and you'd say, I want this option, I want that option, I want this option, you would pay for it. And then, as long as you own that car, you would have that option.
Now, things are changing. We knew it was coming, but it's clearly.
So, now you have these. Here's an example. Uh on a on certain BMWs. Uh they offer a dash cam function. But it's $19 a month.
Now, on that particular one, you can pay $430 and get it for life. But if you have it the way it functions and you want it on a regular basis, $19 a month. Just go buy one. How much is the dash cam? You can get a decent one for $20.
Right. So they're going to sell you this thing for $430 because it's already in your car, right? Or I think the biggest thing that people these subscriptions is they try and make it so small That you really think about it, right? And then I mean. Imagine if the people with all these subscriptions put that money into your 401k.
Yeah. If you just put in a if you had a subscription fee to your 401k. I mean, it's 19 bucks. If you did 19 bucks a month.
Well, even if you did it for the last 20 years or so before you retired, I mean, that's a significant amount of money.
Well, here's another one: Cadillac's hand-free driving system will run you $25 a month or $250 per year. Oh, look at that. You get two months free. On top of that, you had to pay extra money when you purchased the car to have these features. Yes.
And then you have to pay access. Then you have to pay access. It's there. I mean, anyway. I mean, and Ford's Blue Cruise driving system is $49.99 monthly.
Not $50. It's $49.99 monthly or $4.95 annually. You can pay it all at one time.
Well, I like Tesla's.
So I don't know if you look it up. Tesla, they're self-driving, so they're autonomous driving mode that you can you know, purchase and you have to buy us a subscription. But as it's in in the process, if Tesla logs into your camera and sees you not paying attention, like you're sleeping in the car while it's driving you, or you're playing with your phone, they can deactivate it. They can suspend you from using it, but you still have to pay for it. You know, is is that a good thing?
Yes. Is it still pretty an overreach? Yes, still. I mean, why do I need a car manufacturer looking in on me while I'm driving my car? That's, you know, it's like the company vehicles with the inward-facing cameras that they just know.
Now what? Yeah, because I hadn't did all the research on. But a big thing going on now is the rear cameras that are on many vehicles that are used for rearview mirrors or used for backup. Yeah. You can actually see those on your phone.
So your car could be parked. And if you want to see what's going on behind your vehicle while you're. Sitting in the restaurant, you can do that. Or if your car is parked in the garage and you want to see. What your neighbors are doing across the street, you can be sitting there looking at your phone and and tell what's going on.
So we have cameras on everything now. Yeah. Right. And so at what point does it get to where somebody's able to access every camera? Everything and give your monitors 100% of the time.
Uh-huh. What was that movie where they went in and they hacked into the E Vs? It was like some kind of end of the world movie, but they had the E Vs just driving themselves and blocking up roadways so nobody could move around. I don't remember. You sure that wasn't a dream?
No, it might have been. Was that a reality that happened to California just not here now? It was ba I think it was based out of New York or New Jersey because I think the skyline was across the across the river. But anyway, I mean. You know what, this is going to come down to is you remember when the fire sticks came out, the Amazon Fire Stick TV?
Oh, and you can unlock them. And you can unlock them and tailbreak them. There you go. This is what's coming for all these cars.
Somebody is going to get in here and figure out how to unlock all of this cars.
Now, of course, that is an issue right now. There is a lot of talk. It is dangerous. Hacking into the computer and being able to actually drive the vehicle, cut the vehicle off. I mean, of course, big deal.
A person driving at night, they're on a certain part of the road. Boom, push a button, cut the car off. Yeah. Rob them. But I mean, if they have the software to go in and turn all this stuff on for you, how do you know that they're not leaving themselves a back door into your vehicle?
Because there's So, every manufacturer has its own software for you to access the car vehicle data, whether it's the SRS system, it's the actual vehicle engine control system. And there are people out there that make and sell bootleg software. And it's the same thing when I talk to customers, and they're like, oh man, you're a. You know, yearly subscription for your software is so much.
Well, I can go to Jim Bob, whatever, and buy it for a third that price. Yeah, you can, but How do you know what you're actually going to get? Oh, I mean, it's the same thing with scanning and calibrating cars now. I mean, you got in the GMs and in the. Mopar vehicles, I mean, there's secure gateways that you have to get through in order to access all the modules on the car.
And in some situations, I mean, we have to have different documentation signed off on which showing the ownership of the car and have them sign All of these documents to send in so that we can actually do that stuff. Because you are getting so deep into the car, you could, just as you say, you could implant something and you could have absolute control over somebody's car, even when they're driving it. That's scary. It is it's terrifying. But th I mean, but this People trying to save money, especially th with the way everything's going up right now.
I don't think these subscriptions are a good idea for consumers. to try and bypass. Or to even charge in the first place because charging it in the first place, the whole thing is wrong. I feel like the subscriptions, like the what did what did we talk about? The Pro Elator?
Period. You're a later. 2,000. 20,000. 20,000.
Like, I feel like it's a gimmick. To me, I feel like these are gimmicks. I mean, just like we talked about with the guy from Snake Oil. Yeah. What's in the box?
Yeah. It's crap in a box, right? Like everybody's just being sold. There's crap in a box. And.
Unfortunately, right now, consumers are buying it. Yeah. And if people would stop paying for these subscriptions for this stuff, this stuff would become free. You know, McKay. Right.
Well, if you drive a lot, it might be worth paying that much. But if you're an average driver, paying fifty a month to to have it uh to have some kind of super cruise. I'm not sure about now Mercedes, you can pay $60 a month or $600 yearly. Uh, to go from zero to 60 one second faster than you would otherwise, so so now we're going to start to program the car to go faster and run more aggressive by the manufacturer 60 bucks a month for 60 a month, yeah. But of course, it's a Mercedes, I mean, it's only 60 bucks, just add it into the payload, right?
Not a big deal at all, but no, a lot of these things uh are you have to be very careful with if you buy everything. I guess if you're going. Purchase something, be sure that you're going to use it because many times things can. Have you ever had something just get stuck on your auto draft, auto-pay, and you forget about it? And sod music.
That's what these subscriptions are. Yeah. They are, they are. They are driven to just get in there and you forget about them and you just keep paying for them. And you don't even use them.
It's like, how many people sign up to go to the gym in January and go twice and go twice and they pay for a whole year and never go. That'll be our final note. Get your card out or your card statement out and look it over and find out if there's things you're paying for that you don't use anymore. And there are sales created out there now that will actually scrub that for you to figure out. Oh, wow.
That's just nuts. You're giving somebody else access to everything that you paid for. Yes, degree. Hey, it's time to shut her down for this week. Thank you, co-host Jamie Bridges, David Clark.
We still got 50 seconds. It's time to shut down this segment. We got something else to do. Aaron's leaving us, but me and Jamie got it. We're going to shut down this segment for a few seconds.
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We have talked a lot about having to do with the subscriptions on cars, insurance on vehicles, how you can save insurance, why it's higher than it should be. Having a great time. And we are ready to go to the calls. And we will go over to, I'm not sure the name, but we'll.
So you need to ask the caller if we could scrub this song from our song on American Idol. Jamie, will you go to it? Yeah, that's about what it would sound like. But. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what what can we help you with?
Hello, am I on? Yeah. You are on and ready. Oh. Okay, great, great, great, great, great.
Listen, I've got a 1999 Jaguar XA8. And uh I just got a just the car came back from a mechanic, and I've got an air leak in the bags. The other suspensions? Uh uh yeah uh air suspensions and uh They quoted me ten grand to get the car fixed. Mm-hmm.
And I don't plan to put 10 grand into a 1999. I love the car. Yeah. But I was like, I'm. I'm calling to see what kind of options I have.
Well, I got some awesome options. For you on this one. It's not a car. I'm telling you, I'm not taking it. This reminds me of a good friend, and this really happened.
Absolutely true. A good friend of mine had a Jaguar about the same. your model. And this was what was it, probably five years ago. He come to me.
He said, Aaron, I got one of my leaking down in the back. One of my air shocks is busted. We diagnosed it and there was only one busted and all the air was leaking out and it was going down on the ground. His name was Ken. I said, Ken, I would recommend that instead of you just replacing this one bag and making the system function again.
Instead, Let's get a passive strut suspension kit and put on this vehicle. And you can and with this, it's made by Dorman. No, I'm sorry, Strutmastered. Other companies make it, but that's one of them. And Dorman might even make these too.
They're both great companies. But you put this on, and it's a passive strut to where you're taking the airbag system off. Yep. And they've done all the research on making a decision on exactly how much tension should be on this unit that you're putting back in there. You're pretty much.
replacing it and make it turning it into a normal suspension system.
So in doing that, you still spend a fair amount of money, not near that much, I would say about a third of that. or less and In doing that, you're bypassing all of the air shock area and all the other things that go along with it.
Now, my friend didn't do that, my friend said, Aaron. I bought a Jaguar and I want this thing to run like or ride like a Jaguar.
So he said, just put the one on there. I did it. A year later, the right rear went bad. A year later, the right front went bad. A year later, the he had that joker.
He said, Aaron, if I would have listened to you, I would have saved a ton of money.
So I guess what I'm saying is they do make a passive strut system for that vehicle. And uh that's what I would recommend doing. That that's what I would do to you. I mean That just uh could buy a conversion kit and and just scrub the scrub the bags, the compressor, all the airlines, all of that stuff. Yeah, how would it affect the drive of the car?
I mean, will it affect that much or what? I normally always tell a customer that you may notice a difference in the ride. And plus, if you put a whole bunch of luggage in your trunk, it won't raise back up like it used to, or if you luggage and people in the back. But out of all the ones that we've put on, and that's been a lot, I have never had a complaint. No one's ever come back and said, Aaron.
This vehicle is um Don't ride very good, or it don't ride like I want it to. Everybody's always been very happy with it. I think what he's scared of. He doesn't want the Carolina Rider. Yeah, you don't want to sweat in the back.
He doesn't want the squat truck. Uh-huh. So it it's called a Dorman product. I'm pretty sure Dorman makes these products also. But you could put down passive strut system.
And it's companies that make a huge amount of products. Uh, to replace different ones like Land Rovers, Jaguars, Cadillacs on the rear. Uh, most of them started out with the Lincoln Town cars where they would uh droop down. They had the rear, uh, rear air strut system, and they would break. And of course, they'd sit down overnight, and then you'd crank them up, they'd pump back up.
Uh and what would happen is somebody would replace just the shocks and then A few weeks later, either a potentiometer would go out, or either the computer would go out, or the air compressor would go out.
So, by the time you did all that, kind of like dominoes, you would spend a fortune. Whereas you could put these passive struts on there and boom, problem solved. You don't have to worry about it anymore. Yeah, I mean, Monroe makes this a suspension conversion kit, is what they call it. And Monroe makes it, Rancho makes it.
I mean, all of your major suspension manufacturers are going to have some kind of a conversion kit. And that's what you need to do. And they're good and they work. They work well. We've done a bunch of them.
Okay, kiss. C can I ask you one more question? Yeah, yeah, this car's got almost 130,000 miles on it. I love the car, actually. I mean, it's a beautiful car.
I mean, can I can't tell you how many compliments I get about the car. But my question to you is: what kind of things would I be looking at as far as? Uh, repairs on this car if I regularly maintain it, I put synthetic oil in it, change it, you know, religiously.
So, what would I be looking at? uh as I move down the road and, you know, as far I make I like to think I I can run 200,000 miles on the car, but I don't know. I mean, what's your thoughts? You're going to run into. Things to do with the coolant system, and that includes they put a lot of plastic components on that car.
I don't know why a lot of cars use plastic parts in the cooling system, and those over time, the swelling and contracting at different temperatures causes it to crack over time.
So, you'll run into things like coolant thermostat housings, which is a most cars that's small, but on that car, it's a fair amount involved. Matter of fact, they're getting hard to get. Radiators, it's got a lot of little bitty hoses running everywhere. You'll have those. Uh The engines were pretty tough.
We we don't really replace that many engines on them. Uh you might run into some fuel injection issues. I'd recommend having an induction service done when it's needed, uh maintenance tune-up done when it comes due, transmission uh fluid exchange, uh the rear differential uh fluids changed on it. Uh And then other than that, just your normal brakes and Yeah, wearable items, yeah. Just normal maintenance, I would recommend taking the vehicle in to someone who uses a priority checklist.
We do that. Do a good inspection on the vehicle and give it priority. Say, hey, this is a P1. It needs to be done today. This is a P2.
You can do that six months from now, year from now. P3, it's more cosmetic, not going to affect anything, but you may want it done just so it would be better. Do that on the car, and then you don't have to do it all at one time. You can just knock it out as you get ready. I said, beautiful.
Thank you so much. You've given me a lot to. Considered more than a ten thousand dollar uh Refurb on the Yeah. Yeah, I would not do that. Yeah.
Alright. Thank you for the call. Have a good day. Thank you so much. Yes, sir.
Have a good weekend.
Okay, the number to call 800.
Well, how are you going? You took us off there a few minutes ago, but I think we're actually coming to the final. Yeah, we are. We are coming down. David, any last words?
Any last words? Just be smart with your dollars. I mean, I think we went through a lot today. If I could just educate consumers, be smart with your dollars. And I think you're really awesome about that.
Jamie. Uh the the same thing. I mean, it's Yeah. Everything's getting tight. Just pay attention to where your money's going.
Shop your insurance. Make sure that you're getting what you need and you're not paying for something you don't need. And check those subscriptions to make sure you're not paying something there you don't need. Yeah. Yeah.
Have the maintenance stumps on your vehicle. If your AC is not cold, I recommend having it service because that if you don't. That could cause other AC problems later on down the line. Do not. Go 20,000 miles without getting your own changed.
Yeah, unless it's got a proven track record so far, it's not there.
Okay, we're out of time. We want to shut her down this week, and we want to say thank you to co-host Jamie Bruises, David Clark. We want to say thank you to our producers in there, Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez. And we'll see you again next week with a fresh new CNC on the show. Uh
