And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. I'm Ask Aaron here with cohost Jamie B. Jamie, what do you think about that?
My scramble for the headset, because I wasn't paying attention. You ready for a wonderful show? Yeah, I am. It is time. We're going to have a great time. And we're here to steer you in the right direction on ways to make your car safe, dependable, and enjoyable to drive.
And today's show will be a little bit different. We'll be discussing the recent Columbia County Workforce Competition and highlighting some awesome local Columbia County students who took part in the automotive field. And we'll also discuss automotive industry myths. And our first automotive industry myth is that the automotive industry is mostly men, because I can tell you that myth is proven to be a myth. Because in the automotive industry, we have service advisors.
As a matter of fact, the two top service advisors in our company, and this is of six stores, the two top were ladies on our service advisor list this time. And that's kind of awesome. And also to prove that that's a myth, we have Elizabeth Stupak here. Elizabeth, welcome to the show. It's awesome to be here. Well, we are sure glad you're here. And we are hearing some pretty nice things that you have done very recently. Oh my gosh.
She's impressive. Yeah, I wasn't able to be there. But Jamie, you were there at the Columbia County competition that they had. And Elizabeth, you were there at that competition, of course. I actually did not compete at that competition. You wasn't at that competition?
No, sir. I was at the state leadership skills conference. Okay. Now where was that one? And when was that one? That one was hosted in Atlanta two weeks ago.
Okay. Now I heard something about you competed at one time in Nashville. That was nationals.
So that was last summer. Okay. So you competed in Atlanta. Yes, sir.
And then from there you went to Nashville. Nationals in Atlanta. Okay.
Nationals in Atlanta. Okay. And what is this about?
Tell me a little bit about yourself on some of the things that you've done. So the competition is for refinishing. So it's all of the prepping and the painting for cars when you're in an accident or if you want a different color vehicle. So we compete at the state level and I do all of my training over at Rick's Paint and Body. So at the state level, we compete in Atlanta and it's normally about 12 to 15 competitors. And then we go to nationals a few months later if you win the state competition. So I won last year and progressed to the national level where I competed against 50 of the other best people from their states all in Atlanta. And I believe next year they're doing it in California.
I think it switches every five or so years. So I'll actually be back in Atlanta in June to compete in nationals again. That is so awesome. And Jamie just handed me a picture and I wish we would have had this to put it on the board for those that are.
I didn't realize, I didn't think about it. This is a picture of you and Elizabeth standing in front of Rick's Paint and Body. Uh, you have state champion and then you have skills USA state champion refinishing technology 2024. Yes, sir.
So those were the banners that I won and we hang those up in our school. Wow. Uh, well tell us just a little bit about what it's like to compete in one in the competition that you were in. Um, so it's really, it's really exciting, but it's also really nervous. It's a lot of, you know, spending a lot of time in the shop preparing and making sure that, you know, I know how to do all of this stuff and it's a little bit easier now that I've been through the competition a couple of times cause I know what to expect.
Oh wow. Well, I'm going to mention that as we're talking, if anyone has questions, well, of course you always questions about your car. If you have a question about your car, you call in and Jamie, Elizabeth or myself, we'll, we'll answer your question. We'll come up with something I'm going to tell you, but you can also ask Elizabeth questions about the automotive industry.
I mean, what it's like to be, uh, to attend some of those, uh, competitions that she's been in and what it's like to work in a, in a repair shop or working repair shop. So give us a call and I'm going to go ahead and take this minute and mention this part also. And that is it. We did not get an answer to our tech tip quiz last week.
We had a lot of people that tried really hard two years or two weeks running. Yeah. Yeah. We just can't go longer on that tech tip quiz. So what we're having to do, uh, this'll be one of the few tech tip quizzes that we're going to have to retire. And, uh, and, and we will be given the answer to that last week's tech tip quiz and the week before later on in the show. So we're going to, because, so we won't be, uh, we won't be taking answers to the tech tip quiz and this poor, uh, the lonely water bottle water bottle will, will not find a home right this time.
It's going to have to stay here soon. And so nobody will be able to find out what makes it change colors on this one. Uh, that two people have won those so far, so they might be coming in. So I'm going to go ahead and give the question.
But again, we're going to be given the answer ourself later on in the show. Revon's a nice little sports car. He let his friend use the car. His friend let the battery go dead, but still put over 3000 miles on the car with a dead battery.
How did his friend put over 3000 miles on the car with a dead battery? And if you know the answer, give us a call 800 to well, you're not going to be able to get the answer to today's tech tip quiz. We will be given that later on in the show.
And that will be one of the very few retired tech tip quizzes. Uh, Elizabeth, you see proof that we have the bottle though, right? This is the TTQ WB. We do some weird stuff here a little bit. We really do. Um, Elizabeth, now you have to do with the automotive body repair industry and the painting side of it. So I don't do as much of the body repair, but I do a lot of the painting and then I also work like in a shop. So I do a lot of the mechanic work too. Oh, you do some of the mechanical work.
All right. Now, you know, I've heard that in, in most of the body shops, the, uh, the painter is a very important person. Yes, sir. Yeah. So you get a lot of respect from, from people having to do, because the paint is what the person sees. Yes. And that's what's some of the most important parts of it.
Oh yeah. Well, the panels make or break the whole car as far as selling or buying point. Now, do you enjoy the part on, uh, let's say the vehicle comes in, they've done all the body repair and it's done and it's all ready for the other. Do you enjoy that when the, after this car comes in and it's a, and you finished it and you're able to look at it and say, wow, I did that.
Is that a good feeling? Um, it's awesome. And then I, especially when we have like the nicer cars come in and we have other painters in our shop. So I don't, I'm not like a head painter. I'll just paint like the small little things. I do a lot more of the prep work, but it's crazy to see that like when a car comes in, it could look like it's totaled, but then it comes out looking brand new.
Yeah, it is kind of amazing. So you look like they'll bring a front bumper cover in and put it on the table and you'll get it all prepped out. And when you're done, you'll make it look, and there's so many things being done in those areas down to be able to match up the paint and just a tremendous stuff.
What is, uh, what is your favorite part? The mechanical work, the painting or the body repair? Um, I definitely prefer like the mechanical work, but then when it comes to competing, I'd rather compete in the paint and body. Yeah.
Now what's some of the things that they do at the, um, as far as the paint and body, I mean, what's, what's some of the contests that they have? Oh, I mentioned to you earlier that if we start to go over in time, you start speeding on the window. So we'll answer that as soon as we, uh, or I'll ask you to answer that as soon as we come back with more of the CNC auto show. The CNC auto show is brought to you in part by Optima batteries. Optima batteries are up to 15 times more vibration resistant than traditional flooded batteries. Optima batteries, the ultimate power source.
Learn more at Optima batteries.com with you with the CNC auto show here with cohost Jamie B. We're also here with Elizabeth Stubeck and we are talking about the, uh, things to do with automotive repair, automotive, uh, refinishing, uh, collision repair work. And, and the reason that's tying in with the show so closely is because Elizabeth recently attended some competitions that had to do with all of these items. And she is, um, she evidently you work part time in, as you're going to school, you work at Rick's main body or work at a body shop. So I'm actually a part of the county's work-based learning program. So I actually go and I work during the school day and I get class credit for it. But the way I had taken my classes last year, I was dual enrolled. So I did a bunch of college classes. So the only, I go to work for about five hours a day and then I go to the school for my automotive class and then I'm done with school for the day.
Wow. That sounds like a great day. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to finish asking that one question that I had, and then I think Jamie's got several questions, but I was, uh, which one do you enjoy the most? Do you enjoy the, uh, collision repair, the painting or the mechanical side the most? I definitely enjoy the mechanical side the most.
Okay. What makes you enjoy that the most? Just tracking down problems.
Yes, sir. That, and then the people that I work with are all students that are my age. So it's really easy for all of us to get along and while we're fixing our cars, we can still like joke off and have fun. And it's not like a, Oh, we're just working on cars all day long, but it's a big friend group. That's being able to solve problems.
I love being around automotive repair people. It's just something that's so much fun. Yeah.
There's such good people and we have a good time and accomplish something. Jamie, your next question. Oh my gosh. So you've, you've competed for the last three years. Yes, ma'am.
The, uh, Oh my gosh. So you're going to go to, you're going to go to college, so you're still undecided whether you're going to come back into automotive or not. Listen, I think no matter what I do, I'll be back in the automotive field. I'm just not sure which side of the field I'll be on. Yeah. Well that's a good thing. I mean, you know, you can flip through in the future and you can still do it on the side if you set it up the right way.
You know, that's another myth that we can, we can discuss right there. A lot of times people think that the only part of the automotive industry is working on cars, but there is a huge amount of, uh, of different things that people can do in the automotive industry. I mean, like I mentioned, the service advisors, that is a, that's a great side of the industry. Uh, parts managers, uh, uh, just marketing that you have, uh, marketing is a big deal. I, I ended up helping with a lot of that side, uh, on it.
Uh, you have, uh, uh, shop foreman, uh, shop technicians, just the list is just very long of different fields that people can have in the, in the automotive industry. Yeah. And then we all, everybody has to work together to achieve the same goal, which is a repaired vehicle. So I mean, every, every one is necessary, you know, from your, your delivery, delivery staff all the way through your management into the shop. Yeah. You have to work together as a team and you have to, and that, and that going back and forth and that, that mentality, that is the best, best thing throughout the day.
Yeah. Elizabeth, can you, can you share a moment and learning about cars that changed how you think or work? In other words, a little bit of a life-changing event and automotive field. Oh, so normally I'm really quick when people text me and they're like, Hey, can you come help me with this problem? So actually I had a friend message me the other day. She's like, Hey, I have this Jeep and I need the spark plugs changed on it. And I was like, Oh, that's not difficult. Changing spark plugs is so easy. Like I'll be done in less than an hour. And I get there and I hadn't asked her what type of Jeep it was, how old it was. And I had to get, I had to take off the whole air intake and manifold to get the three of the spark plugs. And I was like, man, I really shouldn't have said yes to this.
I have somewhere to be in a few hours. And we actually, when we got it finished, it was, it was really aggravating because we thought it was gonna be super quick and super easy. And I was like, man, I should have asked a few more questions before I agreed to do this.
That was definitely a learning experience right there. But you still did it. You took the intake.
What was that? The intake offer just to air intake. We had to take off the intake and the manifold. Wow. It was a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. Wow. That's impressive. But you got it done. You helped, you helped a friend.
You showed up and just lesson learned this next time research. Well, do you, do you ever go to something like that? And somebody said, Oh, she's probably not going to be able to get that done. And then all of a sudden, boom, you jump in there and get it done. And they're kind of amazed.
Yeah. So we've definitely had some of that like in our class. So we have other teachers in the school will bring us in their vehicles and then they'll see who's working on it. They're like, yeah, we're not so sure if we want y'all working on our vehicles anymore. But then once we get it done, they're like, Oh, thank you so much. You know, that is, that is my, my all time favorite thing is to see the look on somebody's face after I've accomplished something that they told me that I could just shock and awe and, you know, and then they, they took tail and kind of slink off.
Maybe that's just the petty side of me, but that is like, that is the best thing to see the shot. One of the, um, one of the things that I had planned to ask you though, as far as, as far as tools, do you have, have you accumulated some tools to do some of this? Yes, sir. So actually last year, well, the first year when I did skills, I placed second and I was given a primer gun and then like a bunch of bags and just small little tools and stuff that helped a lot with like the prep side. And then last year when I placed first, they gave me this really awesome customized paint gun that I use it for everything. I love it. It's like a red and black checkered print paint gun. And I think it's awesome.
But then they gave me like a da. So it's really cool cause when you go and you compete at these competitions, it's a lot of you get back from what you put in. So a lot of the tools that they give, it's just really awesome. What's some of the skills, personal skills that you get when you're working on cars that you feel like you need?
And here's an example. A lot of times people think a technician, well, they don't really need to know how to work with a computer, but a large portion of what technicians do now have to do with computer systems. So typing skills, things like that. Do you feel like things like that are important? Yes, sir. I think that you have, you have to know so much to be able to work on cars, even though it seems like it's something that should be so simple. Yeah. Well, even, even body repair now with the radar systems and the avoidance, everything that's on these things, it's not just slap a bumper on it and go. There's all this calibration for all these different components and sensors now. Yeah. They have to, they have to be recalibrated.
They have to be initialized and all of these things that you can, if you put the part on there and it don't work, then you've kind of, you have a major issue on there. It looks different. It has been so nice that you're going to be coming back during our second hour. So stay put because we're going to be talking to Collier. Then we'd be talking to Jacob and, uh, and then after that, we're going to ask you to come back because I want to ask you, I heard you had a little something to do with wrestling. Yes, sir.
I'm the team captain of my school's wrestling team. Wow. Well, we'll talk about that a little bit more during the second hour.
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See the Duralast difference today exclusively at AutoZone. I told you we'd be right back. Thank you for waiting. I'm here with JB Brown and we're back on the road and we are here with Collier McGowan and Collier also did some, uh, competition at the, from Harlem high school. And, uh, you know, a friend of mine, Tim Lewis and, uh, Tim called and said, uh, said, Aaron, uh, you were looking for people to be on the show and, uh, and discuss the, uh, competition and things that are involved in, um, in automotive, uh, repair competitions. And he said, you really need to talk to Collier said he is a great, and also another gentleman, Jacob, who will be coming on the show a little bit later also, uh, what was the whole event about?
How did it work? So there's three sections. Um, the first section was beginner.
There's an intermediate section and advanced section, which the advanced section is what me and Jacob did. Uh, basically we had a truck come in and, uh, we have a list of customer complaints. There are six customer complaints. Uh, they range from like, uh, the left tail light blinker, not working or rough running, uh, or no power to anything at all. And we basically just went step by step, figuring each one out, testing, uh, stuff in the multimeter test lights, um, using the scan tool, scanning through everything, seeing what codes come up, just kind of going through everything, figuring out what's happening and why it's happening. And then throughout, I think we had an hour and a half. We, uh, figured out all six problems and then, oh, wow. That is great.
I love that. And that's kind of real world right there. I mean, that, that is what it's like every day for an automotive technician.
A person brings their vehicle in and gives a list of items. And the technician needs to try to find out what's wrong with that vehicle as quickly as possible. And it, uh, we normally don't get all six problems in an hour and a half.
I'll promise you that's a world record for diag time right there. That is a, that is great. Uh, taking care of a problem cause, I mean, what it amounts to in the automotive industry, that's what we say speed sells. Uh, people want their cars back quickly. I tell people that repairing a car these days is a lot like what the fast food industry went through years ago.
I mean, now it's where the person pulls in and when they pull around to that window, they want the car done. They're ready to go. And, and you want to be able to do that for that person because they need their car. They have kids to pick up.
They have groceries to go by. They have to, they have to get to work. They have to get home from work. So the car in, especially, uh, people that might have one car and sometimes you've got one family with one or two cars. It's trying to make it get everybody place and the kids over the, this soccer game and this being done and they need their cars. And not to mention some vehicles are used for work and it's how they actually make their living. That's the, when something goes wrong with my truck, it's, it's costing me money because of the downtime, I'm not making any money. So I need, I need my truck back and seeing what you're doing is just so very refreshing to see that a lot of emphasis is put on, Hey, we need to find out what's wrong with this vehicle.
We need to find out what's wrong quick and we need to get it done. Now, what do you do once you, um, are you in the same room with all of the others that are competing? Yeah. So we had this, uh, it was like a big, not pavilion, but it was an open area and uh, there was only three schools that competed, Harlem, Evans and Grove town. And the cars or the trucks were lined up as like Harlem and Grove town than Evans. And they each had tables in front of them for each school. Once the timer started, each school went to their truck and they started going through stuff. Um, there's a little box on the table and there's like a judge there and there's all kinds of different parts in there that are wrong with the truck. And once we identify that part is wrong, we've got to come up to the judge and ask for that part.
If we've identified it wrong, obviously there won't be a part, but if we've identified it right, there will be a part of you. Do you kind of smile when you walk up and say, I need like a relay or something. I need this and they have it. Yes, yes, very much. So, and, and the reason that I wanted you and Jacob and Elizabeth to be here on the show, uh, is not for just the given, uh, local recognition and, and in, in some cases, national recognition, but the things like this happen all across the country and people are listening to this that are in, in different areas, but you can just about bet that there's, uh, there's a place in near you that is, um, or near some wherever you're listening from that has competitions like this because the automotive industry has changed a huge amount over the years. Now I did it many years ago.
I competed a little bit, nothing, nothing like what you guys are doing now. Uh, but it's, it's grown so much and so much more important than it used to be. And not to mention, we're working on things now that if you don't diagnose them correctly and use the right equipment when you're diagnosing the vehicle, one, you won't find out what's wrong or you might make a misdiagnosis or you might, uh, see that puff of smoke. And what I tell people when you see the puff of smoke, that's the magic. You let the magic out of the box, you let all the magic out of the box.
Cause that box won't work anymore. And, uh, and so it used to be that if a technician come to a place in and they're just starting to work and they, uh, at the most, they may not be able to repair a car. And at the most you might, um, you may have to help a lot. Now, a technician who don't have any experience can cost thousands of dollars, uh, if they don't know the proper procedure on checking out the electronic parts.
Yeah. That's usually, you know, you bring in green technicians and you kind of have somebody have them shadow someone for a while. And just to make sure that they didn't oversell themselves when they filled out that job application and, uh, you know, start building my Milton wiring. So, well, tell us a little bit about how you got involved in, in automotive repair. So it kind of started out, I just, I've always liked doing stuff on my hands and, uh, I mean, I started fiddling with stuff while I was in middle school and freshmen sophomore year, but junior year, uh, or after sophomore year, I stopped playing baseball and I got more involved with the CTE classes such as agriculture and, uh, automotive. So that junior year I got into Mr. Lewis's block class, which is the actual live work class. And, uh, I started learning a lot there, get my hands on stuff, just figuring, figuring stuff out and realize that I really, really enjoy doing this.
So a lot of times after school, I'll go do jobs for people or I do a lot of jobs at the house and from uncle and all kinds of places. And it just, it just something I've found out that I really love. Wow.
And I think that part's true. If you're doing something you love, you don't work a day in your life. Yeah. And that, and that, and I still enjoy the automotive industry. As long as I've been in it, uh, many, many years, I still enjoy what I do. Uh, you do run into some frustrations at times because you, uh, you, you, Hey, this is supposed to work was why won't it work? Yeah.
Or one of those that just every so often acts up, they can be, uh, they can be a little tough. What got, um, what was one of the first things that got you interested in the automotive field? Well, we had this little, uh, little red go-kart at the house and, uh, I just, I've loved, always loved messing with it. And I ended up painting the whole thing and doing all kinds of stuff. And ever since that, I've just, I've just loved doing anything related to some sort of motorized vehicle, whether it's a four wheeler, go-kart truck, something like that.
And that just that little go-kart is really what got me really into this whole field. You don't still have the go-kart. Do you? I don't. You need to save stuff like that.
If you take a picture of the go-kart. Yes. Was it, was it that you outgrew?
Cause you're pretty tall. Yes. It is. It was not very big. It was pretty small, but you do have pictures. You need to keep that picture. Not long ago, I decided to get a lot of the things that, uh, that I had digitized and, uh, movies. And it was some movies. I can't, can't believe some of the things that I ended up with, but I had, uh, I found pictures of, of a dune buggy that I had at one time, a two 80 Z I had at one time. I hadn't found pictures of my MG midget yet. I'm still looking for those.
I really want that. Um, just in, in countless other cars that I've had. So, uh, you'll cherish those pictures one day and you'll look at that go-kart and say, wow, this is what got me started. Yeah.
Go ahead. Oh my gosh. I was, you were talking about the pictures and I'm, I'm remembering all the pictures that my grandmother took when, you know, growing up in the machine shop where I'm a little grease covered kid out there taking stuff apart. That is, that is kind of, that's, was an amazing story because one of our first locations, as it turns out, was right next to where you were working at a machine shop when you were very small.
Yeah. One of my, my favorite things is my grandmother was telling me one day she, uh, she couldn't find me and, uh, she, she come around the corner and she, she saw where I was and she, I was back there taking spark plugs out of the boxes, just shaking them out onto the floor. And they're hard to figure out which one to put back where, Hey, we'll be right back. When we return, we will be given an answer to last week and the week before tech tip quiz. We'll be right back. The CNC auto show is brought to you in part by Dorman products, restore smooth performance and prevent engine damage with another OE fix from Dorman variable valve timing, solenoids, and camshaft phasers.
Learn more at Dorman products.com. On the road again, just can't wait to get on the road again. Life I love is making music with my friends. I can't wait to get on the road again. And we do welcome you back to the CNC auto show. I'm here with Jamie bridges. She's co-hosting and we, uh, we have call your McGowan here with us. And he is from the Columbia County career technical and agricultural education workforce showcase.
He competed in, in an event there and that, and I think that's pretty neat and call your, we, uh, we have a question for you. On the line. So I'm going to be bringing a caller on board and you'd be ready to answer the question about a Nissan. All righty.
And welcome to the CNC auto show and call your is on board to answer your question. Good morning. Good morning. This is Nick.
Nice to meet you, Nick. I have a 2001 Nissan exterior. I got a brand new battery. The battery keeps dying.
I've pretty thing. I can't figure it out, but I used to have a Toyota Corolla and I used to have to put a sleeping bag on the engine every night and the car would start every day. Oh, I just can't figure out why. I don't think anything's on, but sometimes I don't drive it for two or three days. And then I go out and the battery's dead.
Yeah. I mean, it, uh, it could be just as simple as that. I mean, sometimes you get new batteries and they just, there's just something wrong with them from the factory most of the time. Not, but I mean, I guess it could always be, you have some sort of draw coming out of your system or just when your car is running, there's not doing what it's supposed to. And it's the only charge in just a little bit.
That way, when it sits for a little bit, it doesn't have enough juice in it to stay charged while the car is sitting. And especially with it being cold, it doesn't help at all. Well, as long as I drive it, it seems to be all right. But I almost have to do it every single day or like I said, when it gets cold, it just isn't right.
Yeah. I'm thinking of getting rid of the car if it keeps doing that. Cause you know, I don't drive it every day.
I'm retired and I just don't take it every day. And when you do drive it, how far do you drive it at one time? Um, um, sometimes I'll just go maybe 10 miles. Sometimes I'll go, most of the time it's only 10 miles or so. I don't go too far with it.
Maybe 15 or 20 at the most. But the next day it starts to braid up and I'm going to mention a couple of ideas that you might be able to, uh, do to find that it, it sounds like you do have a draw in the system. Like you mentioned there, Collier, um, something's pulling it off. Uh, there's two secrets to that that I do. And these are things that, um, that it's, uh, it's you, you just pick up information over time. One is I like to slip up on a car and find that problem. The way you slip up on it is you wait till you park it and then you wait till nighttime. And then you walk out to the car and you look around for anything that might be in the own position. And I've seen a sun visor lights be stuck on. I've seen a trunk light on before.
Matter of fact, that was one of my harder problems that I found one time. A car, uh, it was a car that if you part with the car leaning left only, it had to be leaning to the left. It would come on and as little mercury switch in the trunk was turned wrong. And that was years ago, but that was a weird problem because the person couldn't talk. He could, he could only, uh, uh, he was trying to relay to me what it, what it was doing, but anyway, uh, slip up on it and see if you see anything in the own position, look at everything real closely when you park the car to make sure that the brake lights are not sticking in the own position.
Actually that did happen. I had to have a new brake light switch put in, but that was with the old battery. And for some reason, the back windshield wiper would come on when I don't think the switch was on. So I actually pulled the fuse a few days ago.
So it wouldn't come on anymore. Well, then the car was, I would do those things that I mentioned. And then one other thing I'm going to mention, uh, in, in doing these things I'm mentioning to you, you'll more than likely find it if it's doing it all the time. But the next thing is those little thermal guns are pretty cheap. Now you can buy those, uh, that little, uh, temp guns that you can just see the picture of something.
And, uh, we have one here and you can park the car. And I did this myself on our little Jurassic park Explorer. The battery was going dead on it. So I took my little, uh, temp gun and I walked over to the car and sure enough, the relay that was causing the problem was, was red, everything else around it. You couldn't even see. And I said, wow, that's it.
Because if you lose and, uh, if you have a draw, it's going to produce heat. Yeah. And so that was a relay on the engine, in the engine compartment. I mean, there there's relays all over the vehicle. So it just depends on which relay, which relay it is.
If one of them is red in the picture, you know that, Hey, that's the circuit that's causing the problem. But also last thing I'm gonna mention, um, aftermarket items, you can run into it. If you've got any kind of cell phone type hookup or an aftermarket radio, aftermarket radios are terrible about doing that. Um, look in that direction, shine it at things like the radios and, and that should show up.
I did put a new radio in it, but it was a new radio. I disconnect that bad boy and see if your problem goes away. Well, to tell you the truth, I don't even run it because of that. So I try to keep it off all the time. I'm almost afraid to even use it.
It pulls, it pulls voltage, even if it's in the off position, the one on my Jurassic park truck was, it was, it turned out to be the radio and aftermarket radio. Now I took the face off of it where it had a removable face and the problem went away. So try to say, give us a call back and let us know how it does. Okay. Thank you very much. Very awesome. Hey, thank you. Yep.
You're welcome. All right. Call your, we had our first phone call.
Yeah. We answered, that was teamwork. We all got together.
We, we solved this problem. Now, um, call your, the, um, what are your plans? I mean, you, you'll be getting out of high school when, uh, May, I think it's May 20 something. I can't remember what day exactly, but, and you'll be doing something to do with the electrical is after high school. Um, yesterday I went and took a test at the electrical union to get into that program. And coming up in March 14th or something, I have an interview, uh, to get accepted through that company. And I'll be starting as an electrician coming up this summer. We'll call you. We're going to give the answer to the tech tip quiz.
You ready? All right. Now here, what's the question. Reeve owns a nice little sports car. He let his friend use the car and his friend let the battery go dead, but still put over 3000 miles on the car, even with a dead battery.
How did his friend put over 3000 miles on the battery on the car with a dead battery? Uh, I'm going to give Jamie one more opportunity to win. You know, you had some really good answers to this that people have called in with and everything that I could think of. Somebody has already said that that answer and you've shot them down every time. So I don't have any more good answers left. So I'm all out.
The only thing I can think of is somehow alternator still putting out power to everything else except the battery. Uh, so we got this water bottle that will not find a home today. And so here is the answer to the, this will be a retired tech tip quiz that nobody got the answer to.
And here it is. Reeve's first name was Elon. That's Elon Reeve Musk. Elon had a red roadster that he loaned to star man to drive in space. Starman left on February 6, 2018, and the battery went dead, but he still went over 3000 miles since it went dead. It's actually gone over 234 million miles.
It's actually closer to Mars right now. And you must've, um, if somebody answered that, they would have had to have stayed at a Holiday Inn. That's the only way. Okay. Hey, we're out of time.
And that's a, I'm going to get shot for that tech tip quiz. I don't know how I feel about that one. We need to pull over Collier. We enjoyed you being here very much.
And, uh, Jamie, we want to say, uh, thank you to Mason in there, Mason Rogers and Jacob Johnson. They're the one that bangs under the window when we go over and, uh, we had a great time and we'll be back with more of the CNC auto show. The CNC auto show is brought to you by new Hampshire oil undercoating. NHOU is now offering mobile undercoating franchise opportunities throughout the country. Learn more about this great opportunity at NHOU.com slash franchise.
