Live from the Car Care Studios, it's the CNC Auto Show with your personal on-air and online automotive service advisors, Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. So climb in, buckle up, and enjoy the ride on the CNC Auto Show. And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show.
We're back with you on the road. We have co-host Joe Deloach here with us. And I mentioned before that Joe's an awesome technician.
He manages CNC automotive stores in Aiken, South Carolina. And he's also been helping with the store in Columbia a great deal, along with others. Like Amanda spends a lot of time there, John Ryan. All of them spend a lot of time helping there.
And really a beautiful place there. So in short, Joe knows his stuff. And today he's at your disposal. He's here to help share some information on ways to make your car safer, to make it more dependable, to make it last longer for less money and less hassle. And if you want to take advantage of Joe's knowledge, all you have to do is dial 800-224-9090 or you can dial 706-863-5800. That's on any Saturday morning, 805 to 10 Eastern Time. You can listen right here or you can listen on iHeart. You can watch us live on Facebook.
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Ready to go to the color show. Let's do it. All right, here we go. We will start with Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help you with today? Hey, thanks for having me.
Thanks for calling. It's ironic that you would talk about transmissions earlier because I'm having a rash of bad luck with a few of my vehicles, but the transmission I have to replace. I waited too long. But where I am going with this is I had I was doing my brakes on my 2015 Chevy 2500 truck and I left the key on as we were turning the wheel back and forth so I could replace the calipers and get a little torque on there a little better. When I went to start the car, start the truck up, the it was dead. So I pulled the 2004 Crown Vic over.
And here's where we're going with the question. I jump started my wife got into Crown Vic and we jump started the truck up and as she was revving the motor up, she went a little crazy and she blew a spark plug in the coil right out of the manifold on top. And I would do it yourself or like I said, but my question now is, I think I can probably read thread that spark plug in that coil. And how hard is that to do? And is there a kit I can buy locally?
Or should I let the professionals do it? Well, it sounds like you're pretty handy. I'm gonna start with saying that if you're already doing your own brakes and that sort of thing, it is fairly common for those 4.6 liter Ford's to eject hit the eject button on spark plug. Unfortunately, I just it's random. Sometimes it'll only do one. We've had a customer who's had a truck that's done three or four.
It just no rhyme or reason to it. But they do sell a kit to repair those threads. You won't be able to just rethread it and put the spark plug back in a new spark plug and typically a coil because those get broken in the process too.
But you would have to put a thread insert in there. They make some pretty good kits to do them. And if you're pretty handy and read the good instructions, I feel like it's something you could probably take care of. Just make sure you follow those instructions to the team. Yeah.
Something just take your take your time on. I normally like that after it's done. Do you take any precautions or trying to make sure the metal, no metal gets down inside the engine? You do when you're tapping it, you can put a little grease on the tap to kind of hopefully it sticks to the tap. Oh great idea. And then also, you know, get you some compressed air and clean everything off before you start. Exactly. Blow it out real good. And then after you do it, try to blow some of it out. Absolutely.
Yeah. Just try to make sure no metal gets down inside that cylinder and plan to take your time. Don't try to do it fast.
But yeah, it's something you can do because you want it to be nice and straight and all of that. And really we've had that little tube, that little tube that goes down there, it looks like it's about six inches before you get to the spark plug. So it looks to me like it's going to be a challenge just to do all that. But I'm sure the tap or the die will be sufficient enough to get down that far.
They are. Well, they have a standard 3H drive where you put an extension in it to use it on a hand ratchet. So you can just put it on like a socket. It's fairly easy. Like Aaron said, just take your time.
Make sure you do it nice and straight, you know, and get it done well. And we've had good luck with them. O'Reilly Auto Parts does sell that kit. And you can just go up there and they'll know what you're talking about. Just go to O'Reilly Auto Parts. And of course, the people that have a lot of experience on stuff and just let them know the part that you need.
And they'll be able to let you know the one that you need for your vehicle. Sounds great. All right, guys. We have great luck from here on out. We're going we're going to wish that for you. Better days ahead. Yes, absolutely.
Thank you, Steve. OK, we will do what? Let's go to the next call. We got a lot of calls. We got some time. We got some other stuff. Let's go ahead and go. Let's go to Billy. Hey, Billy, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
What can we help with? You guys talking about time and belts this morning. I'm wondering if you have a time and belt. Can you change it to a time and chain? Not very easily. You probably would be ahead to buy another car.
No. OK, well, why are you doing the time and the time and belt? Should you also check out your serpentine belt?
Make sure it's not worn down to also. Oh, absolutely. Matter of fact, if it's not fairly new, I would go and do it at the same time. Oh, and that gives us a chance to mention this, too, because most people just had a time and belt.
Find this out. The service advisor or technician normally, along with just a time and belt, they normally recommend doing a water pump. And the reason they do that is your timing belt is normally the interval is usually between 90 and 110, 120,000 miles. So if you replace if you don't do the water pump, then it wouldn't be uncommon to hit 130, 140,000 miles.
Boom. Water pump goes out. So you've got to take timing belt back off. Whereas if you would have just done the water pump, any. Matter of fact, they come in a kit, timing belt, water pump, pulleys. A lot of the camshaft seals, too, a lot of times. Yeah, camshaft seals. Any of that stuff that might need to be replaced in the next 100,000 miles, you want to go ahead and do it. Yeah, it's really free labor because you're pretty much already paying the labor to do the timing belt. You know, most of it's just incurring additional parts costs to do the job 100 percent perfect.
Yeah. Now, I will say that it's not uncommon for us if we see that it's the first time the timing belt's been replaced and we don't have any reason to think it's leaking. A lot of times we won't do the cam and crank seals because they do normally last another 100,000 miles. But if there's any leakage, I do it.
But the water pump won't. It's probably going to go out well before it's due for the next timing belt. Right. Well, just as something's lubricating the timing chain, is there something lubricating that timing belt also?
No. And here, a lot of people think a timing belt is only on smaller cars like a Honda or something like that. But actually, timing belts are used on some very high-end vehicles. Name one, Lexus? Yeah, some of the Lexus do. A little bit older Toyota Tundras used them. Yeah, the Lexus.
So it's some very high-end cars. And one of the reasons they do it is because, of course, it's less expensive to build. But also, the biggest thing is it's lighter. You've got less components.
Less rotating mass. Yeah. And actually, if it's maintained properly, it lasts many, many, many years. You don't have any problem with it. That's the only thing with timing belts.
If someone forgets one, that's when it can be catastrophic. You can turn a beautiful engine that's running very smooth into a boat anchor within seconds. Fast.
Yeah, really fast. What year did they actually go to timing belts instead of timing chains approximately? Because I know they still use chains. Well, they still use chains. They still use belts. Some of the early cars had belts.
I mean, really. Yeah. Cars way back, as far back as I remember, had belts. And actually, if anything, they've started using more chains now than belts. Yeah, there was a time period. On small engines. Yeah, absolutely. But it used to be that a belt would only be used on a small engine. Now you see them on large engines.
But that's a great question, Billy. Thank you. Right.
Well, that 5.3 liter V6 that I got at the timing belt broke on, it keeps my 16-foot battle from going up the stream. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Todd. Thank you, Billy.
Appreciate the call. We'll be right back after this. Let's head back down to the car care studio with Airman Clements and John Ryan Mooney. As we navigate the COVID-19 crisis, O'Reilly Auto Parts is dedicated to serving you. We've been deemed an essential business, so our doors will stay open.
We encourage you to buy online, then pick up curbside. Together, we're committed to getting through this. Right. We are back. That was a pretty quick pit stop.
I feel better. Yep. I'm Aaron Clements here with Joe Deloach, and we are here to answer your automotive questions. We also are discussing common car questions that you may have or we've been asked over the years because Joe's been in this business a long time.
Managed stores, worked in automotive instructor at automotive technology schools. So with all that, we get asked a lot of questions, so we kind of put a list together of different ones that we've been asked over the years, and we're laying them out there. If you want to ask a question about your car, just dial 800-224-9090.
You can also watch us live on Facebook or listen on iHeart. Ready to go, Carlos? Let's do it.
All right. We're going to do it, Joe. And we will go to Bobby.
Bobby, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Good morning. Yes, sir.
What can we help you with today? Quick, simple, easy question. Probably a hard task. 97 Dodge Dakota oil pan gasket. Do I have to pull the motor up or can I sneak it in without jacking the motor up? A two-wheel drive? V6 two-wheel, yeah. Two-wheel drive. Got a frame cross-member underneath it.
I'm trying to remember the last one of those I might have done. It's a V6. It's got a cross-frame cross-member underneath the pan about an inch away from it. Just from memory, I don't think that that one comes out with – if I'm not mistaken, there's two routes you can go. One, to try to jack the engine up enough to give you room to do that.
Or pull the engine out and do it, which by the time you fight all the other stuff, you may come out ahead to pull the engine out on that one. Now, I may be wrong, but I think that one sits very, very close to the cross-member, if I'm not mistaken. Is that right? It looks like it's too close for comfort to actually really sneak that gasket on there correctly.
It looks like that would be the problem. That's what I figured. Appreciate your answer and your show. I wish I would have had a better one for you. Y'all have a good day. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, the number to call is 706-86-35-800, or 800-224-9090. And let's go over to the next caller.
Welcome to the CNC Auto Show, and what can we help you with? This is Tom Palmer. How are you? I am doing very well. How are you doing today? Good. I've got a question.
Let's hear it. I've got an 08 Tahoe 5.36 engine. I've got high oil pressure just started on my gauge, and I was looking through my manual here. It's a VLOM oil pressure sensor and oil filter. It removes the cover, it says, of electrical, and it disconnects that sensor. The oil pressure usually runs normally at 2,000 RPMs, about 45 pounds.
Yes, sir? I turned the ignition switch on, and it runs 45 pounds without the engine running, and then cranked the engine out. It did it. We have seen a pretty bad run of those oil pressure sensors on those going bad. There's just a little diaphragm in there.
Sometimes they'll bust, sometimes they just, you know, sometimes the engine may be leaking through the connector. You don't realize that either, and it's kind of just shortened out the electrical connector as well. On top of the oil filter there, and the engine lower filter. Well, that one's not there. This one is all the way on the back of the engine, between the intake manifold and the firewall.
And if you actually read the service procedure on there, it says to remove the intake manifold, but I'm going to tell you from experience, if you get a double-jointed wrist and a couple of swivels, you can get it out without pulling the intake manifold, but it's back there for sure. Yeah, yeah. I've got a good friend of mine in Atlanta that's got vintage like y'all got. It's a Lucas Oil. I believe in that.
Coats and journals and everything. About 80% of all internal combustion engines. But whereas when you first crank it up, I wish automotive people would put a device to pre-lube that engine before you turn it over.
And then we caterpillar, we did it. Yeah, but with that sending unit, I believe what we would normally do, if we suspect either high or low oil pressure, is we would do a manual oil pressure test. That one's a little bit more difficult to do a manual oil pressure test, because like Joe mentioned, it's very difficult to get to.
But I will put it this way, high oil pressure would be very, very unusual. A bad sending unit would be very likely. A gauge every now and then you do run into a bad gauge. But you could spend a lot of money on diagnostics, or you can just say, well, I'm gonna try a sending unit. And that's probably what I would do is instead of you spending 100 or more on the diagnose in the car, I would just put it in a sending unit in there.
That's what I was thinking. And another little trivial thing about those, there's a little screen under that sending unit that is actually the filter for the cylinder deactivation on that, that VLO. But I would recommend changing that little filter as well too.
They're only a couple of dollars. Usually they don't have any debris on them, but every now and then you'll see one that has a couple of pieces of metal or something like that. And while you're in there, it's definitely a good maintenance item to do with it.
The high oil pressure on the push rods, it turns it into mechanical. Hey Tom, I'm gonna put you on hold just for a second. Yeah. We'll be right back after this. It's time for more good stuff with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. I told you we'd be right back and thank you for waiting. I'm here with automotive expert, Joe Deloach. We are back on the road ready to answer your automotive questions and discuss common car questions.
Number 800-224-9090 or 706-8635-800 is the number that you can call to ask your automotive questions and to learn more about your car. It's a proven fact that people that listen to this show have better success with their vehicle maintenance. I believe it.
It's a big study done. That's right. Okay. Watch us live on Facebook, listen on iHeart or send your question in to aaronsccautoshow.com. We were talking with Tom. Hey Tom, we were talking about your sending unit that you had. I usually bring my car over to Wrightsburg.
Y'all done quite a bit of stuff over the years for me. And Monday and Tuesday, do the throttle body and replace that little deal there and change the oil. Yeah. You're going to find that sending unit is not going to be a, you're going to want them to give you an estimate on that because that's not like an average sending unit.
It's very inexpensive, but you replace that sending unit. It's more involved. So definitely just like I recommend everyone do when they take their car somewhere, you want to go in and say, Hey, I want to, this is what I need.
And can you get me an estimate before you do it? That way, you know, we would love to. Um, Tom, I'm going to ask you something, uh, what your thoughts are on this, our producer. And I've mentioned this before what he does. Yeah. He gets, what do you call those? Joe, a happy box. That's what I joked and called it. I don't know.
There's a, a subscription box. In other words, he pays so much money and they send him surprise gifts. Now I've mentioned this one before, but I'm holding it in my hand is his emergency valve stem. So if he's riding down the road and his valve stem blows out, he's got one. Now I think he's supposed to keep it in his pocket at all times in case he's driving a different car. Now, my question to you, Tom, how often do you have a valve stem blowout? I've never had one.
You know, I hadn't either. Now here's the other question. The other item that he received, uh, was a zero gravity pin. So that if he's in, if he's in space, it still writes, even though there's zero gravity, uh, Tom, how often do you think you would need that pin?
I don't believe I need one, but it has to work off some kind of pressure if it's zero gravity. What I was wondering also is if you were pushed off the top of a huge building and you wanted to write a note on the way down. It would work for that. That's a great idea. Mason, is that why you got that box?
So we're going to learn more about the items that come in as, in as happy box as we go. And, uh, and Tom, what you're talking about, as far as the, uh, the items on having your car checked out, we're very happy to do that. And we really appreciate the call too. I've always used you guys.
You gotta be knowing. If I had an emergency valve stem, I would give it to you. Have a good one. Thank you. And you do the same and the number to call. I'll see you next week.
Oh, beautiful. I'll be over next week. That'll work. See you. Bye. Bye-bye. Okay. The number to call is 706-863-5800.
Or you can call 800-224-9090. We do some kind of weird things here. We, uh, we pretty much just say whatever's on our mind. Uh, as we go, Aaron's about to tell you what it's all in his mind.
Apparently pretty much. I'm going to throw a really quick tech tip quiz out there. And remember, this is one of the very few times, matter of fact, the only time I remember that I'm doing a tech tip quiz off the cuff. I jotted down a quick note of one.
Uh, okay. The fire chief's car, he had a, uh, a crown Vic, uh, fire chief's car. He, there was a, a call and he went to the call. There was a burning building and he seen what was going on. The time he pulled, oh, and in this car that he had, let me mention this part. He had a running hot problem at slow speeds. And he had had it for, for months and months trying to, everybody had been looking at it, trying to find out what's wrong.
Nobody knew what was wrong. So he went, uh, he pulled into this burning building and, and he pulled up close because he seen where somebody was trying to throw a dog out of the second floor. So he ran, ran up there to the front of the car. He looked up there, he caught the dog and he found out what was wrong with his car.
He knew what was wrong with his crown Vic. So if you know the answer to today's tech tip quiz, you give us a call and I will write it down formally next time. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a tech tip quiz from the cuff. Yeah, that is. It don't happen often. Yeah.
Very, very rare that that comes up. Okay. We're going to go ahead and cover some of our other questions. We talked about this a little bit before spark plugs. How does somebody know when it's time to change their spark plugs? Well, the most manufacturers give a maintenance interval for that as well. Um, and of course, if you have a problem, if they had a misfire or something like that, sometimes you may have to address things before that timeframe.
But typically on a good running vehicle, um, most stuff uses a platinum or an iridium spark plug these days. And most of them have an interval of 92, similar to that time, but really, you know, 90 to 105 or, you know, sometimes 120,000 miles. You know, one way they can get a, and I'll mention this part first. This is always amazed me.
And I've mentioned this before. Um, a person goes to the store and they buy a watch and, and, and just, well, I got a Fitbit. I wear a Fitbit watch and you pull the little paper out, you read all the directions on all the stuff that I do.
I mean, it'll read heart rate and all that and been through it. Uh, but the book is probably, it's not a real thick book, but it's probably pretty good. But I spent the time to do that.
Matter of fact, I spent a good hour to know everything that this thing to do, because I like it. All right. So what's somebody do when they go out and buy $80,000 vehicle? Well, one of the things I would say is always to have a trusted shop.
Yeah. And you know, that's one of the things that we try to do is, you know, advise people of upcoming issues and what you're do. And, you know, we don't want to surprise them at a hundred thousand miles and say, you need a time and belt and spark plugs. We want to tell them at 90 that you need it in 10,000 miles.
But that's, what's crazy. You buy a $200 watch and you sit there and read all the directions. You buy $80,000 vehicle.
You never even open the book. You put gas in it. Yeah. He put gas in it. So all of those little cubby holes that's in there and all of those little neat tricks that it does all the time. You don't even know it.
No. You have no idea. And then once you've had the car five years, you find out, wow, I didn't know it would do that. So every now and then people need to get their books out. But the reason I said all that is one of the best times that tell when the spark plugs need to be replaced is the owner's manual. Service advisor can tell you, and that's great. But glance at that owner's manual schedule and every now and then and say, wow, this car needs a time and belt at 90.
It's going to need spark plugs at 100. And it don't hurt to go ahead and set it up in your phone. If you know you're driving 15,000 miles a year, go ahead and set it up in your phone for, what is that, six years or whatever it is. Just say, well, this is a reminder that I got a time and belt. And check it then.
Now check it in between them, but that's just a backup reminder. Ready to go to the cause? Let's do it.
All right. Here we go. Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to the CNC. Oh, Ken, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And the producer, Mason, is going to kill me because I answered the phone and we only have a minute.
Oh, I got an answer for your off the cuff tech tip question. Oh, my goodness. I tell you what, we're going to let that be a big teaser for what's to come for the next segment. So let's go ahead and put them on stage, Mason. OK, Ken, you're on stage and you will tell us how he was able to diagnose this problem that nobody could find for all this time by just pulling up and catching a dog.
So I look forward to your answer and we'll be right back after these messages. Aaron Clements here. When you have rusty nuts and bolts to bust, you use PB Blaster, but sometimes you end up spraying more than you need. Well, not anymore with Blaster's new ProStraw with control flow technology. It's the better way to spray with a new flip up clear plastic straw and a cool volume adjuster to control the flow from a wide spray down to just a drop. It's more precision and less mess, and no one else has it. Look for the new Blaster ProStraw and Kenza PB Blaster and Multimax synthetic lubricant.
Always use Blaster products and work it like a pro. Welcome back to more of the CNC Auto Show with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. I'm sitting here with co-host Joe Deloach, and we're answering automotive questions. We also discuss in common car questions, and we want you to join us. Just dial 800-224-9090. You can also listen right right here or you can listen on iHeart.
You can also watch us live on Facebook. We are talking to Ken and we're going to go back to Ken. Ken, welcome back to the CNC Auto Show.
And from what I understand, you may have an answer to our tech tip quiz. Yes. Ken, did we put you on stage a minute ago? We did.
I think you did. You know, I had a deal to where our Blue, the guy that does the trumpet, he does not like that when he does not get to play right before then. So we're going to put you back on stage. Okay, Blue, you can go over there and sit down now. He takes a break.
He's just sitting there ready any time somebody comes up on stage. Okay, and of course the question was Fire Chief's car had a running hot problem for about a year. He'd been trying to find out what in the world is wrong with it. He pulled up to a burning building, brought it at it, and jumped out, caught a dog from the second floor. And I don't know how big the dog was. And either way, he caught it. I hope it wasn't like a major big dog or something because it would have been kind of hard. But anyway, he also diagnosed the car when he caught the dog.
Ken, all eyes are on you. What is the answer to today's Tech Tip quiz? That was a very unusual problem.
You don't find many like that. But his radiator fan was on backwards because he noted smoke was being pushed out of the radiator then from being pulled through it. Ken, I just got one question on that. How did you know it? I remember hearing about that a long time ago somewhere.
I forgot where though. Well, it might have been me. I thought of an old Tech Tip that I used about five years ago. And I said I thought that was pretty good. I didn't think... I don't know if... It was a good one. That worked out good. But you are absolutely right.
And that used to happen more often than it happens now. Because... Oh, wow. I forgot to do that.
Thank you very much. You getting out of here without that applause would be like dropping your very last M&M that you had in the bag. Man. Has that ever happened to you, Ken? You drop your last M&M?
I suppose so. But that used to happen more often because the fans used to come with just two wires and you used to have to cut the connector off. And sometimes those wires were either the wrong color or people would just connect them the wrong way. And when they were diagnosed in the car, it was sitting still and all they'd know was the fan would come on. They'd say, yeah, the cooling fan's working. They didn't realize it was working the wrong way. And what would happen is if you start going down the road and you're moving, say, 10 miles an hour, and actually the fan's pushing 10 miles an hour, you're kind of neutralizing everything so you don't have any flow across the radiator or the condenser.
And so the engine runs hot. And, Ken, it was kind of amazing that you were able to grab that one. Yeah, I picked up on that one real quick. And listen to them, Ken. That's all for you, man. Hey, we appreciate the call. Hey, stay on line. They'll get some information and you'll get one of those very famous coffee mugs.
We thank you. Okay, the number to call is 706-863-5800. If you have a question about your car, truck, or SUV, give us a call and we will be able to answer that question. Joe, we were talking about different things the gentleman was mentioning. Spark plugs, one blowing out many, many times if you're planning to change your spark plugs. And that's one of the things that keeps that from happening because you're actually changing them and then you're making sure that the new ones are tight when you put them back in.
But sometimes they can be difficult to get out of there. So because of that, I recommend PB Blaster. When you start to change those spark plugs, you can spray down in the hole real good. And PB Blaster, what's that term that they use where it crawls up the threads? Permeates? No, there's a different word for that. No, there's a word for it to where I'll find out.
Well, give me the can. I'll read it. Yeah, I don't know if it's wrote on there or not. But anyway, when you put the PB Blaster on there, it will actually penetrate into the threads and it'll make it to where when you break it loose, you won't take a chance on tearing up your threads as you remove that. So, you got it?
No, I don't have it yet. Okay, I will find out what term they use. But I will tell you that it's kind of amazing. You can take a rusty bolt. I've actually seen this on videos. You take a rusty bolt from the A&D carpet.
You take a rusty bolt and you can spray a little bit of the PB Blaster on there and it'll actually climb up the threads. Yeah, it's kind of amazing to watch it. I like that.
Okay, so that's a great thing now. If you have a question about your car truck or SUV, you give us a call, number 800-224-9090. And we are talking about different problems that people have. And one of the things that I have seen, one question that I get from time to time is somebody says their car sounds a little different when they're spinning it over. It don't have that same fast sound that it had. And one person asked me that recently and they said, well, Aaron, it's doing that and my battery is only four years old.
So, what do you think I should do about it? You know, if you got four years out of a battery and you didn't spin it over at all, you did very, very good, I would say. Yeah, we don't usually see batteries that live that long, honestly, anymore. Every now and then I see them, but one thing I always tell people, we don't even load test them when they're over four years old. Because what we're worried about is that may push it over the edge and a person comes in and says, check my battery.
And then they can't crank their car to drive it home. If one's four years old, I recommend just going ahead and replacing it. I forgot what movie that was in. Oh, Money Pit.
Money Pit, the guy was talking about their plumbing. And he said he looked at it years back, he said, you think it gets better with age? And that battery is going to be the same way. I mean, you're four years old, it's not going to be better when it hits five years old.
It is not. So, yeah, four years old, go ahead and get you a battery and you very well could save circumstances of being stranded. And you could also save other parts like the alternator tends to last longer with a good battery. And also you'll save from having to jump the car off, which causes voltage spikes, just all the way around. If you have a battery that's getting some age on it, I'd recommend replacing. The battery is like a shock absorber for the whole electrical system.
So if you go ahead and have that battery replaced, it just makes everything last a lot longer. Okay, another item, wiper blades. A person says my wiper blades look good and they seem to be cleaned in reasonably well, but they're making kind of like a scrubbing noise.
What do you think? You know, a clean windshield is one of the things that helps with wiper blade life. You know, getting a good clean surface on your windshield. Any dirt or anything like that that's on there can make it do that.
Also, you can just take the wiper blades down and just simply take a cloth with a little damp cloth and wipe the actual blade surface down. Because any debris is just going to cause it to squeak or come around the windshield. It can, but also sometimes the rubber just gets hard.
It does. I look at it like a squeegee. Sometimes you've got a squeegee that's pushing the water reasonably well, but it's scrubbing when it goes.
And the rubber's done lost its softness. And wiper blades can do the same thing. The big thing to remember when it gets like that, it can scratch the windshield also.
So if you've got windshields, make it that. Now, we've got a full house on callers, but we've got a problem. We're on E. Yeah, I looked over there. You've got a gas gauge that's just scrubbing the bottom there right on E. So we do need to pull over for right now.
And even though we filled up at $3.50 a gallon, we're still on E. So we'll fill up the tank and be ready for next week. And I want to say thank you, Joe, for joining the show. Enjoyed you being here. A lot of fun. Enjoyed it. Yeah, great help answering a lot of really good questions. And I want to thank everyone that called into the CNC Auto Show. And we will be back on the road in no time. So be ready. Talk to you soon.
