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#1164 - Powertrain (Hour 1)

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April 28, 2022 9:00 pm

#1164 - Powertrain (Hour 1)

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April 28, 2022 9:00 pm

The hosts discuss various topics related to automotive technology, including alternative fuel sources, power sources, electric vehicles, and fuel efficiency. They also answer listener questions and provide advice on maintaining vehicles, such as transmission fluid changes and DIY cleanup techniques.

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And we welcome you to the CNC auto show. I'm Aaron Clements here with cohost Justin Courtney. Hello, Justin.

Hey, Aaron. It's good to be here with you and Mason today. We're gonna have a great show. We got some good stuff lined up for today.

I think you're exactly right. I look forward to it. We got some fun stuff going on. We got a little bit of leftover stuff from last last week. We didn't we didn't have a tech tip quiz winner.

So we're gonna try that. I look forward to it. We got all kind of good things. And it's kind of an exciting show mainly because we're talking about such fantastic new technology.

And I know these are really tough times for a lot of people because of the price of fuel and all the other things added in. But the the fun part is, is that's going to promote a lot of technology. There's gonna be a lot of things coming up thinking outside the box.

And a lot of innovations in the years to come having to do with how to get the most out of fuel and alternative fuel sources and just different power sources all together. Most of them we've heard things about, but many of them we may not have heard anything about. There may be things on the horizon that that are going to amaze us even more.

So it's going to be a lot of fun, a lot of fun to think. And this is our opportunity to talk about it a little bit. And to take our listeners questions.

Well, that's the number one thing. That's that's what we get out of the deal. We like to share the information. And comments on the alternative, new, you know, power sources we're going to be talking about.

Exactly. So we we get to we get to share information. But also what we get out of it is those people calling in and asking those questions because we love to answer automotive questions.

And that's, that's the fun part of it. We got a tech tip quiz leftover from last week, we didn't get an answer to. So we'll go ahead and mention that. Of course, the prize winner will receive the I answered the tech tip quiz coffee mug here. And it's here in center stage right here.

Yep, we have it right there. Joe drove her 2018 Toyota Prius at 75 miles an hour for almost two hours to get to her destination. She had something done to the Prius at her destination and drove the same route back going 75. But it took her over three hours to get back two hours to get there three hours to get back. Same traffic all of it about the same.

The route and the traffic was really no different. Why? And if you know the answer, give us call number 800-224-9090. Or you can call the local number 706-863-5800. You want to let's go to the phone calls. Let's do it. We've got somebody standing by right now. Yeah, we're gonna go over and jump right on the calls. And john, welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help you with? Good morning, sir.

I tried calling before but got cut off halfway through the answer. I have oh seven board f 150. And right now it's at about 210,000 miles. I bought it at about 135,000 miles. And it was supposedly everything service. But when I went to see about getting the transit service, I didn't know what to do with it. transmission fluid change. There was hesitancy, you know, on the part of the oil change place. And then I talked to mechanic and he said that wasn't a good thing to do unless you were positive.

And I'm wondering, is there any kind of non detergent fluid that you could use change the fluid, I was told that if you just drop the transmission pan and replace that fluid, you would be good not having problems. Yeah. Yeah. John, just my opinion on there. And there's a chance Justin may have something to either something different or something to add. And that's what's good about this is we don't try to say it's not a case of us having to say the same thing.

He may have a different opinion than I have. But my opinion is it's not the type fluid you use, but it's the way that the fluid is changed the process used. Yes. Now, if your transmission pan is not leaking, and if it's got a factory seal on it, it won't leak. And if everything's like it should, but let's say your transmission pan is not leaking, you're not having any troubles, other problems with the transmission.

Well, if you keep driving without servicing it, unless then I'm assuming that the transmission fluid looks kind of normal, not burnt, smelling or toasted, but maybe just a little discolored. But if you not having any trouble, it's pink. Good. Yeah.

Okay, good. Well, you if you don't service it, you will. It's a sure thing you will have trouble because it's not going to go forever because you have these fast moving parts inside of transmission. So you have to have some where that where has to create a certain amount of metal particles. And that has to sooner or later act like sandpaper and wipe out the transmission. So the trick is to get those particles out. The transmission filter, if that filter or more of a screen, if it is stopped up, then you got some major problems anyway. So if the pan's not leaking, I would not pull that pan off, I would do a total fluid exchange with a piece of equipment that was designed because people were having problems when they just pull the pan and put a filter on. Because doing that you're mixing five quarts of new fluid with about seven or eight quarts of old fluid.

And that did cause problems. But a total fluid exchange, you're getting all the old transmission fluid out, including what's in the side, the torque converter, and you let new fluid go in to take its place, you're not really flushing anything, it's more of a total fluid exchange, you're getting it out of all the moving parts, torque converter, cooler, everything, replacing it with new fluid. And unless you had a problem before, or you were going there, you were on the edge of having a problem, you're not it is not going to make anything worse.

So I would recommend a total fluid exchange from the things you're telling me. And in a course with any job, there's always a little risk there. But I don't think I've run into any problems that we've done.

But we are very selective. If somebody comes in and says my transmission is slipping, I want you to do it. It's too late. The wares already there. And that's not going to go back and fix it. Okay, Justin, you got anything reactive instead of proactive? Yeah, you got anything you want to add to that? No, not at all.

I come I agree with Aaron. If you're not having any trouble and your fluid is has a pinkish reddish color to it, it's not black. And it doesn't smell funny.

Then I think you'll probably be okay. But that that filter as such in the pan isn't really a filter. It's a screen a strainer. Yeah, if that what was it we'd we'd looked up in one it was what it had 150 miles on it. It was only 10% Yeah, Ford Motor Company did a study filter on your engine after 100,000 miles.

It's not even restricted. As a matter of fact, transmission fluid in reality, so there's no combustion or bypass or gas products in there. Hopefully, so to fluid itself, it's a 210,000 miles and peak and everything shifts. Well, yeah, I think I believe I believe I would just go with a total fluid exchange. Don't pull the pan just did a total fluid exchange.

And I feel good about it myself. Now I don't have any malpractice insurance or something. There's nothing I could do. We talked to you last week. I'd called in and got disconnected.

Yeah, we were having some we were having some crazy phones, some computer slash phone slash everything difficulties last week. So we're sorry about that. Not a problem.

Hey, jump. We appreciate you giving us call back. Thank you. Okay, number to call is 802 249090.

You give us call and ask that question. We're gonna be saying a few words about different type vehicles. And I'm gonna go ahead and squeeze this part in real quick. Last week, we discussed the pros and cons of electric vehicles. We talked about four cycle engines, two cycle engines, diesel engines, we won't cover those again.

But if someone does have a question or comment or, or, or just anything at all related to the EV cars or the diesel engines or four cycle, four cycle and put that in there because what this is, is a community discussion thrown all up against the wall. Yeah, we we we're gonna talk about all of it. And I think you're gonna find some it's gonna be some of it's gonna be some pretty exciting stuff. Okay, we will be making a quick pick stop. And as soon as we pull back on the road, we'll be ready to answer your automotive questions. We'll be ready for you to answer our tech tip quiz and talk about some some great, great some new technology. We'll be right back. Together, we're committed to getting through this. think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.

Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. And I'm Aaron Clemens here with co host Justin Courtney. And we're back. Yes, we are back and we're back on the road.

We told you it wouldn't take but a minute. And we just ran inside right back out and everything's pulling back on the interstate and we're cooking here. And we're talking about power sources and vehicles. So if you have a comment, or if you have a vehicle that has a power source, such as a hybrid, EV, tell us your thoughts. Yeah, give us a call. Tell us how you enjoyed it. We had the gentleman last week called and said he had a problem with his F 250.

While he was out west, I think Nevada. And if I'm not mistaken, while he was out there, he ended up placing an order for a Tesla, the commercial commercial truck, which is kind of huge. So there's gonna be a lot of new things on the horizon that's gonna be coming out. And I think it's time to talk about it. Let's, let's talk about the good parts. The pros, the cons. And that way, many people can make the decision on what's gonna work best for them. Yeah, there's no such thing as a perfect situation. Everything has two sides to it.

Yeah, it does. Hey, you know what I think we should do? What's that? I really think we should grab a caller. Okay.

What do you think? I would love to see if we could get somebody to get to the tech tip. Oh, that'd be good to read it over last week. All right, here we go. Let's go over to Andrew. And Andrew, welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help you with? Well, I was going to answer today's tech tip question. Oh, you know what we need to do first.

And that is to put you right on stage and Andrew, uh, all eyes are on you, but if you don't mind, I might run that, uh, question out there one more time, just so everybody would be on the same page here. Jill drove her 2018 Toyota Prius at 70. Now this was a Prius at 75 miles per hour for almost two hours to get to her destination. She had something done to the Prius at her destination and drove the same route back going 75, but it took her over three hours to get back the route.

And the traffic was the same. Why? So, Andrew, everyone is looking at you to solve this mystery that we have here. And what is the answer? Her car broke down.

Ooh, wow. Um, you know, that's, um, that would be kind of slower down. That would slow it down. Uh, but what if she went nonstop without a breakdown? But the question, Andrew, it seems like if she'd have broke down almost anything that happens going to put her more than an hour difference. And even if she ran out of, uh, out of gas or out of charge, uh, yeah.

And we are talking this as a Prius now. Yeah. But are we talking about, does it include the, um, did it take her three hours with the car appointment included or without car appointment included? So maybe her appointment took one hour. So that's why it took her three hours to get back. Just travel time.

Yeah. Travel time only. She, uh, she got there, she had this done. And from the time, uh, she pulled in, you cut the clock off and that one was two hours. She got all the stuff done and then she left and start the clock.

And it was three hours. She was going 75 there, 75 back. And she went the same route. Yeah.

Same route. Yeah. Okay. Uh, hold on. Let me see here. Uh, I had something for you.

Um, okay. Andrew, you're on the clock, man. The pressure's on.

Can you do it? Oh, you know what I'm going to have to do? This is terrible, but Andrew, Andrew, it's not that bad. Okay. All right, Andrew. Hey, we appreciate you try.

I'll tell you what, if you're sitting there and you get out a slide rule and in your computer and figure out what the answer is, give us a call back if you would. Okay. All right. Fantastic. All right.

We, uh, that was good shot that, uh, Andrew tried there. All right. Uh, okay. The number to call is 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 or 800.

2 2 4 9 0 9 0. Hey, we forgot to mention that if someone wants to watch us on Facebook, they can on YouTube. It's on YouTube too. You can watch is right now.

I'm holding my finger up and then I'm putting it down on the table. You can watch it right now. Yeah.

You get to see the famous coffee bug. It's here in my hand. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Let's see which one of those is the next one in line.

It looks like it's going to be to me. Am I right about Mark? I think it's Mark. Hey, let's bring Mark on.

Hey, Mark, you are on and what can we help you with today? Hey, I think I know the answer. Okay.

Oh, you do. Let's put you on stage. Be still, Mark. Don't move, man.

Don't even move one of your frontal lobes. Okay. Mark, you are on stage. Everyone's looking at you to answer today's tech tip quiz. What is the answer?

Across time zones. Oh, that's a good one. Wow. You know, that would have been good.

That would have been been pretty good. That's a good one. But that's wow.

Yeah, that would explain why. Yeah, 75 miles an hour. Wow.

You threw that one in. Now, see what you did, Mark, was very much what we're trying to talk about on the alternative power sources that people have. See, the ideas are going to just start popping from people's heads out of necessity because they're having to they're having to pay so much for fuel to be able to do that. They're going to come up with all these ideas and you come out with something good out of the box on that one.

And Mark, I'm going to be open with you. I wish I'd have thought of that. Yeah, that's a good one. No, no, but it's not. It's not the answer.

It's not what we're looking for, but it is very tangible. I tell you what, Mark, if you call me at the shop, use this code word winner. Don't tell anybody else. You're the only one that will know the code word. Use the code word winner and you call me at the shop and I'm going to send you a hat or either you can come by and grab a hat. Does that sound good? It does.

Remember, it's winner and don't tell anyone. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. We'll be right back after this. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you in part by Clary Oates, the world's largest producer of automotive HVAC vehicles. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you in part by Clary Oates, the world's largest producer of automotive AGM batteries, which are built to power start, stop technology, backup cameras, entertainment systems, and all the other electrical demands of vehicles today.

Learn more at autobatteries.com. And we are back and we are ready to talk to more people because there's a lot of people on the lines. We got them lined up.

Yeah, we do. Got them all lined up and we are ready to answer some automotive questions. Before we do that, I'm going to mention something that's going on.

We talk a lot of times during the breaks and we get to know each other here at CNC Auto Show and our producer, Mason Rogers, who's walking in here now because he pushes the buttons and then kind of walks around and adjust cameras and does different things. But he's got something planned for tomorrow. Mason plans to jump out of an airplane and he's done all the research. He's probably over researching at this point. Yeah, he likes to research stuff and he can tell you all the stats on all that stuff. But I think he's really kind of excited about it.

He's not really... That's one word you could use, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But he's ready and I know he's going to do well.

So if you hear a loud noise sometime tomorrow afternoon, if you're just having your daily work routine and somebody goes, you hear something in the distance going, ah! You'll know it. Mason just jumped.

But I know he's going to have a good time. Hey, you ready to go to the cost? Let's do it. We got some folks waiting. Oh, let's find out.

Oh, we got to be real careful here because there's like 10 seconds between some of them. Let's go to this right here. Let's go to John. Hey, John, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.

Hey. Yes, sir. I just want to try to answer your tech twist. Oh, you know, we're going to need to do two things.

First, we're going to read that question again to make sure everybody's on the same page. Jill drove her 2018 Toyota Prius at 75 miles per hour for almost two hours to get to her destination. She had something done to the Prius at her destination and drove the same route back going 75, but it took her over three hours to get back. The route and the traffic were the same and why. And next step is this.

You're on the stage and what is the answer to today's Tech Tip Quiz, John? I can address that we were doing some kind of maintenance to have this connected battery pack set and the technician who's doing it forgot to reconnect the battery packs. So the car was trying to come all the way back just on engine power alone? Oh, so well, the speed was the same. I'm not going to say the speed was the same. The speed was, she was going 75 there, 75 back. But no, she wasn't running off a different battery.

I mean, off the battery or anything like that. Yeah, all that was good. Her battery was staying charged.

It had about, it was up, the little gauge was showing about halfway on the battery charge. The Prius was operating and functioning properly. Oh, and John, I'm going to mention this.

I'll mention others. We had a Prius here for our shuttle vehicle. We had that thing here for, I guess we kept that car three, four, five years. Beautiful car. Cement front ran into it. Yeah, it wasn't much after that, but it was a good little vehicle that we used there.

But yeah, I used to drive it home a lot of nights, but this one was running normally off of the battery and the engine. No difference in that department. Well, I don't know that. Well, oh, you know what that means? You know what it means?

Oh, John. Hey, we do appreciate you giving it a good shot though. Thank you. All right, y'all take care. Okay.

Number to call 800-224-9090. Justin, do you think we should go to the next one? Let's do it. Somebody's got to get this.

Yeah, somebody's got to. Let's go over to Andrew. Andrew, welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with today? Okay.

Well, I'm ready to, I think I have a couple more answers to the tech tip question. Oh, Andrew, did you call a little while ago? Yeah.

That's awesome, man. Did you sit down with your slide rule and your computer and you put together a new answer? Yeah, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

I went and asked a couple of questions and I think it could either be. Hold on. Hold on. She got pulled.

Don't move a cerebral cortex. Okay. Well, she probably got pulled over and that would take a lot of time or she became the most unlucky girl and hit every red light. Oh, wow. Yeah, the traffic and the lights was the same.

It was the same and she went nonstop. And Andrew, I mentioned to you, we had a hybrid car, a little Prius, and we kept that car a lot of years and it had a lot of benefits. And one of the big benefits was you very, very rarely going to get a ticket in that car.

Chances of that are slim. Yeah. It was not the fastest car in the world.

Now, as opposed to my little car now that I drive, I got a little Z3 now. Or maybe she could have gotten pulled over instead for a DUI. Oh, she was liquored up. She went nonstop. Yeah.

She was all liquored up driving the Prius. Thanks for taking another shot at it, Andrew. Hey, Andrew, hold on.

Hey, try again. Keep coming. Okay. Thank you, Andrew. Okay.

The number to call 800-224-9090. We got time to go to Jim. Hello, Jim, and welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Hey, Jim. Aaron. Yes, sir. And Mason.

Oh, good morning there. We got everybody. We have our cleanup expert, DIY cleanup expert, Jim, who has been on the show before.

And we need to do that again with this beautiful spring weather coming up. A lot of people are going to be doing their cars. Yep. This is the time. I'm going to ask you in advance, would you be willing to do that and come on and share some of your knowledge that you have on making these cars look so good?

You can use my car as an example. I'd do it even if I didn't know anything because it's fun to be there. Yeah. Well, that is fantastic. Okay. What can we help with? Well, you can take your pick of the following four things. Okay.

I'm ready. Number one, tech tip quiz. Number two, a tire question. Three, new technology, upcoming forecast by a GM executive. And finally, a being in the right place sighting for something that was pretty interesting over the weekend, sort of related to new technology. Good deal.

Wow, that's really neat. Let's start with the tire. Let's do the tire first. Oh, and then after about a minute, we may need to pull over for just a second, but I'm going to put you back on hold so we can answer each one of those and discuss each one of them.

Okay. We're ready for the tire. I have a car that rotated the tires on, and in this case, I kept the front ones on because they still had more meat than the ones in the back of a car I bought not long ago. And I noticed when I moved across them left to right in the front, I developed a very slight pulling to the right.

And I've heard of that before, and it's been discussed maybe even here. But I'm wondering, what is it about the geometry of a tire, the development of life of a tire, that can actually cause it to make the car pull? What happens there? Well, we call it a radial pull, and it has to do with the way the tires built, the way the belts lay on top of each other. And it doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with the tire as such, but sometimes after they run one way for a long time, it used to be, remember it used to be you didn't ever want to turn it? So at one time, they used to say rotate the tires in an X, but then they were running into that issue when you would rotate them into an X, that would cause it to develop a radial pull.

So they started mentioning just move the tires front to back. Hmm. Well, the rest of the team is working their way out. Okay, we'll stand by. Mason is having an absolute fit in there, so we're going to put you on hold. We'll be right back after these messages. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you in part by Dorman Products and their latest OE fix. Heater hose assemblies featuring an aluminum Y connector for greater durability.

Learn more at DormanProducts.com. And welcome back to the CNC Auto Show. We're back on the road talking about vehicle power sources and lots of other things. We're also talking to Jim. And Jim, welcome back to the show. And we were talking about your tire issue, but before we do, Jim, I don't think you've actually met, been introduced to Justin yet, have you? Have not. Just seen him on your video feed and heard him here.

Sounds good. Justin, this is Jim. Jim, this is Justin.

I wanted to introduce you too. Okay, now we were talking about your tire issue that you had. Yeah, we were running a little long, Jim. Sorry about that. Mason's over there on the other side of the window snatching his hair out. Yeah.

Because we were running long, so sorry we cut you off like that, but we were talking about your tire. Yeah, Mason is a little antsy anyway because he's going to be jumping out of that airplane tomorrow. We'll have to see how that goes next week. He'll give us a full report. Listen, I think running that show, he's got nerves of steel. He's ready to jump off the Empire State Building probably by now. Well, I don't know. He looked a little jittery in there to me, Jim. I don't think he's quite... He did cover the tire, and I got a couple more things so we can let some other people get on it.

Yeah, I'm ready. Okay, the tire, you rotated the tires, developed a radial pull. And if it's not real bad, you may consider just moving it from one side to the other side. And sometimes that can even completely take it out.

A lot of times, yeah. But look, keep an eye on that tire because sometimes when they develop a radial pull, they can have some unusual wear patterns on there. And I've even seen a belt separate before, so just keep an eye on the tire.

And on the tires like you already do, and I feel like you'll still be fine. Good. Okay, I got a wrong answer for the tech tip coming up. New technology and something I spotted on the road yesterday that was sort of interesting.

How do you want it? Let's go ahead and... New technology, how's that? New technology. I've got an article here from Bob Lutz. It's actually from a few years ago, but it talks about what you're addressing today. His article was from the November edition of the Automotive News given to me by a page out of a copy from one of my auto GM executive friends here. Now we know who... Jim, real quick, we know who Bob Lutz is, but for our listeners, why don't you say who that is? Well, Bob Lutz was an executive with GM. I think he might have even been the president of the CEO for years. He's now, I believe, retired.

And the article of years ago, written by him, called Kiss the Good Times Goodbye. And his prediction was that gasoline-powered vehicles were going to be private property use, track-type items only, and will all be in electric pods at some point. They joined with other pods on interstates and essentially take the driving experience to a new low level, as I would interpret it. And turn it into a riding experience. I think the title was good.

So we're hoping that doesn't happen anytime soon. And then also what I saw interesting yesterday was when I was up in the Blue Ridge Parkway getting ready to come back here, I saw all these Ford Explorer SUVs coming down with blacked out rims and so forth with badges on the side of them. I said, man, somebody's going to be test driving a whole bunch of new police interceptors.

But they all were different colors and I got up close enough to watch them go by. And apparently, this was a Ford promotion for people who bought those new, again, new technology, Ford Explorer STs. It's called the ST SUV Experience. Two places in the country. One's Asheville, down the road from where I was.

And other places out west. And these people, apparently within the first year of buying one of these new high-performance Explorers, you get to go to this form. They provide a car and you do this road route and apparently some evasive or exciting driving maneuvers and so forth. And I looked real quick. It's apparently a 3.0-liter EcoBoost engine with 400 horsepower and 115 foot-pounds of torque. But that sounds like a good time. It does?

I bet that was a beautiful sight. Yeah, normally you didn't hear those two words together, high-performance Explorer, but I don't have anything against Explorers, but that's not usually in the same sentence. I think it says it's the first thing from their Ford Performance team in that class of a vehicle. Probably got some parts to it that are found on some of the Police Interceptor products.

Probably. And it's probably to compete with that Jeep Trackhawk. Have you seen that thing?

Have not. It's like 800 horsepower or something. It's a Jeep Cherokee.

It's $100,000 or something, but you can buy it. Well, there must have been 20 of these in a row rolling right past me there, and they all were pretty sharp looking. So those folks were having a good weekend.

I bet they were. Beautiful. Okay, how about a wrong answer to the tech tip?

How about a right one? Hold on. We're going to read it real quick. Jill drove her 2018 Toyota Prius at 75 miles per hour for almost two hours to get to her destination. She had something done to the Prius at her destination and rode the same route back going 75, but it took her over three hours to get back.

The route and traffic was the same. You are on stage. Clock is ticking. And Jim, what is the answer to today's tech tip quiz? Okay, I got the errand factor slide rule. Oh, the slide rule. We have to, usually in these tech tips, you have to disregard things as red herrings, and you have to modify or expand the definition of certain things to maybe come up with another wrong answer.

But anyway, I'm going to disregard whatever it is she had done to her Prius as irrelevant. I am going to modify the way people often refer to time as the amount of minutes that lapse, but rather I'm going to use it based on a clock. And because it wouldn't be a time zone thing, because that would make a, I believe, I'm thinking of it right, a two-hour difference in a ride on the clock. But if she was over there, if she arrived to her destination in standard time and drove back during the period of time when standard goes to daylight savings, her clock would spring forward one hour, making it appear that it took her one hour exactly longer to return than it did for her to get there. That is definitely outside the box. That is outside the box. The only problem is you could even shoot, you could even count it with a stopwatch.

It's actual time driven. Yeah, sure was. Jim. So there you go.

I said long answer. Well, don't make me do this, Jim, because it pains him to do it. If I have to do this, would you still be on the show to talk about DIY cleanup stuff?

Karen, I would. And I have heard what you're going to do before. This is terrible. Oh, man.

I hated to do that, Jim. Listen, love this show. You guys are great together and it's a great service out here. Enjoy it. Thank you.

Always try to make it. Thanks very much. Jim, you're great to call. Thank you. Okay.

The number to call 863-800-224-9090. Let's go straight over to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Hey, how are you doing?

We are doing very well. And what can we help you with today? Well, I got a question for you that doesn't require a make or model or a year and probably never had before. Uh-huh.

Well, we're ready. At the end of January, at the end of January, I got rear-ended and I couldn't get it into a body shop until the end of March. And now they've repaired everything except the exhaust. And that's on back order, which they're telling me that might be June or July. And I don't want to wait that long for my car to get back to me. Uh-huh.

So what I was thinking is, could I take it? I seem to remember 30, 35 years ago taking a pick-up truck to a muffler shop and them building me an exhaust system. Can that be done or do I need to wait for the factory parts? Well, you would never be able to build a factory-type exhaust system on the car. Now, a lot of places do build exhaust systems, but that's mostly for modified vehicles. And they are different.

Yeah, all different. What type of vehicle is this again? This is GMC Acadia. Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Put a factory on it. Hey, Paul, time clock's on. Can you hold through this next break? We would like to talk to you about that. Yeah, we would. Put your hole, we'll be right back.

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