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You jump in, buckle up, and hold on. I'm your host Aaron Clements and we are here to answer automotive questions, share tips, talk about cars, and have some fun. And this is one of the most important shows that we will have all year.
This is huge, very huge. During the show, along with answering automotive questions and sharing automotive tips, we will also answer questions and share tips on how to stay safe during a disaster, such as a hurricane or other disasters that people may run into. And I will answer the questions about the cars. To answer and share tips related to disasters, we have Jim Griffith here with us from the American Red Cross. Jim, welcome to the show. Thank you Aaron. I'm really happy to be here. Well, we appreciate you being here. Short notice that I mentioned this, but I was so thankful for you to say yes because I think it's such an important subject. A lot of times being prepared before something happens is very important and having the information that you need on how to get prepared, things you can do before, during, and after an event can be very helpful.
So we hope that this will help somebody in some way feel like it will. You are also very welcome to join the show and you can do that by dialing 800-224-9090. You can watch us on Facebook and you can also dial 706-8635-800 or watch us at ccautoshow.com. A lot of different ways you can check in with us. And Jim, I'm not sure if you knew how this works, but normally on the CNC Auto Show, we normally start out and we crank up with a tech tip quiz. Okay.
And here's the problem. We had a tech tip quiz leftover from last week. No one answered our tech tip quiz. And then during this week, we had some Russian hackers that tried to hack into our computer and it seems that what they wanted was the answer to the tech tip quiz, but they didn't get it.
It was really good. They did. They were not able to get it. And so then all of you out there, you have a shot at getting it now because it didn't become knowledge or public knowledge when they tried to do that.
It was stopped before they got there. Okay. That way, if you're the winner, you will receive an, I answered the tech tip quiz prize package and that includes the official tech tip quiz coffee mug. And Jim, that coffee mug is sitting for those that are watching us on Facebook. You see the coffee mug sitting there and on one end of it, it's got the official winner on there.
So all your friends will know that you are an official winner as you're sitting there with that smug look on your face, drinking coffee. All right. Here's the question. Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She buried five people's cell phones in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it.
How did she do that? And if you know the answer to that tech tip quiz, you give us a call and again, 800-224-9090 and we will jump straight into the useful information. One of the most important things that we could talk about and first question, Jim, what is the most frequent natural disaster in the United States? The most frequent natural disaster is flooding.
It can happen anywhere. Um, and the, there was, you know, the it's devastating when a flood happens, destroys homes, takes lives. Um, the most common disaster of any type is actually house fires. So yeah, across the U S we have roughly 70,000 house fires a year. So that's the number one disaster in the U S and Jim, I think a lot of people think of the red cross when they see the natural disaster that's on television with, uh, with hundreds and thousands of people affected by a storm. But they don't see the many things that American red cross does and those house fires and other events that happen on just a much more common event than even those others. So there's a lot of things that's being done, uh, other than just those flood reliefs and ice storms and the different things that you also deal with.
Oh, absolutely. Across the country every day, hundreds of red cross volunteers are going out, responding to house fires. And you know, if you're a homeowner and you've just lost your home in a fire, it's every bit as devastating as if you had lived on the coast and lost your home to a hurricane.
Um, you, you know, you still, you know, potentially lost everything. The red cross volunteers are always out there helping people. Um, another thing we do is try to help people prepare for disasters before they happen.
Yes. And that's part of what this show is about. We want to help people to be prepared for something if it does come up. And of course, also on the things that you can, some things that there's no way to do it, but on the things that can be prevented, we want to mention tips on how to prevent different things from happening.
Uh, for instance, there's things on my end, and I'm gonna call this my end when we're talking about cars, there's a, there's things that you can do to keep your, your car safe during events like this. So we talk about a lot of that, but we do have some callers. You think we should go to phone calls? Sure. Let's go for it. Here we go. Let's go over to. Hey, Bob, welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help you with today? Hey, good morning, Aaron.
This is kind of a call to say thank you and goodbye. I'm a long time customer of CNC, mainly with John Ryan for many years. He's taken care of my vehicles and provided excellent advice. And then I'm a six time winner of this.
Fantastic. But that was before we had, I had to consider the Aaron factor in the new quizzes. No, but no, I really appreciate it. And we moved to, to tell some, and I'm still watching you on Facebook. So I'm able to keep up with you there, but I miss, miss having the time in a dealer that would give me the same trust and confidence and ethics. I learned a lot from you guys, both John Ryan and you not only listen to the radio program, but having John Ryan be my advisor.
So I've done some looking around and I found using find a shop and nap. And I think I found a guy that, that, uh, may be close to what you guys are doing as far as being able to trust him with the same business ethics. So again, I just wanted to say thank you for the service you've given me and not only taking care of the cars, but on the radio show. Well, Bob, I want to mention to you, we're also just a phone call away. If you ever, uh, either on the radio show or just calling, uh, calling and asking a question about something, because there's, um, there's so many times where you, you might just want to run something past somebody to, to get an idea. Uh, of different options that may be available. But the main thing that I did, I loved you saying is that you're listening to the show on Facebook because there's so many times someone may ask me if there are other ways to listen to the show.
Well, it does play in a lot of other places. Uh, but if you want to listen to it live and you can still call in, uh, from other places, if you're listening live on Facebook, just call the show. Now the tech tips might not line up, but you can call the show and ask the question. And I appreciate that very much. And thank you for the very kind words, Bob, and I'll make sure I pass that along to John Ryan also. Okay. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Okay. The number to call is 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800. And we will be, uh, asking a quick question, uh, before we do the next one.
Okay. Uh, how can a person find the best evacuation route? Oh, pay attention to local media. I mean, um, that's where you're going to have the best source of information. Your state government, your state emergency management agency is going to publish those routes. Um, and another good tool to use is, uh, an app like the red cross emergency app.
Oh, wow. Yep. You can download it for free and it will, it gives you a wealth of information about, um, many different types of disasters. Um, but everyone should have the red cross emergency app on their phone.
That way, if something does come up, they'll have the information that they need available very quickly. Absolutely. Okay. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. And we are back with you on the CNC auto show. You give us call 800 2 2 4 9 0 9 0.
That's any Saturday morning, 805 to 10 Eastern time. You can also watch and listen on Facebook option to call 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 or watch live at CC auto show.com. We are here with Jim Griffith. He is answering questions having to do with natural disasters. So if you get a question about cars, you give me a call. If you have a question about, uh, preparing for a natural disaster or, uh, or being prepared, if one does occur rather, and, uh, and things that you can do during or after, uh, you give us a call and Jim will be able to help with that a huge amount that also, uh, let's, uh, let's go to the call. If we will go over to Adele and Adele, I want to welcome you to the CNC auto show. Thank you. Glad to be here.
We appreciate that call. And what can we help you with today? I have, I'm very confused. I have my second Saturn, which is a 2005 with a little over three. Um, I have it serviced about every 3000 miles and, um, it has a little over 80,000 miles on it. And recently the light came on the dash and the noise came on and it said cool it. Now, was this a yellow light or was this a red light? A yellow light and it says coolant, but I took it to the, um, uh, express lube and they put a half, about a half a cup of, uh, coolant in it and I thought it would be fine. I kept driving it and about, uh, 15 more miles it, the light, the light came on and it said coolant again.
And I'm very confused if there's gotta be something wrong with it, uh, to make that noise. Or is there anything wrong with a car that old? Now, is there a, it, Oh, those were great cars, by the way.
I was, uh, it's, I think it would have been a great idea for him to continue. And I'm 90 and I'll tell you what, I hope, I hope I don't outlive that Saturn. Oh, I, I love hearing stories like that because I, when I see people still driving in their nineties, I love, I love to see it because I hope to be the same way. Uh, they will have to pry the steering wheel out of my hand. You just need an old Saturn.
That would do it, wouldn't it? I feel the same way about my car. And it's just, it's beautiful when it, when it rains real hard, I put it out of the garage into the rain and it washes it for me.
I only have to have it professionally washed about twice a year. You are amazing. Now, you're wonderful. Now, one of the things I was thinking about, you mentioned the light was yellow. That's a good sign because yellow lights mean caution and there's something to look at. Now, if that would have been a red coolant light or a red light with a thermometer on it, then that would be a much larger issue because that would mean that the vehicle has a temperature problem, uh, running hot that would need to be addressed very quickly.
The yellow light means that it's sensing that the coolant level is getting lower than it should, causing it to come on. Now, what I would recommend doing since they've added a cup or two, it was a little bit low, then I would recommend having the vehicle pressure test. And what they do is someone to take the radiator cap off and put about 12 PSI of pressure on the system. It varies a little bit from car to car, but usually about 12 PSI.
Pardon me, would you go slower? Oh, I will! Do a pressure test? Uh-huh, a cooling system pressure test. Mm-hmm.
Okay, I'm writing this down. And what that will do, it would be very similar to if you were looking for a leak in a tire and you put pressure in it and you would look for bubbles or look for leakage and if the pressure went down, you would know it was leaking. Well, this is the same thing on the cooling system.
They'll pump it up to about 12 PSI and then they'll see if they see any leaks anywhere and see if it'll hold pressure. Now, let's say that you had a radiator hose leaking a little bit. They would see the pressure go down and they would see some leakage and they'd say, well, you need a radiator hose or you need a water pump or you have a small radiator leak.
There's a lot of things that can do it. So that's the next step and then if there are no leaks showing up, like if they say there's no leaks anywhere and the fluid wasn't low again, it's staying where it was, then that means that the sensor inside the coolant jug may be bad. Sensors in the cooling jug? The coolant jug and what it's doing is that sensor that's cutting the light on is not telling the truth to the car.
It's saying that there's a problem when there's not really a problem. Now, no doubt pressure test it first, but then if the fluid level's good and that light's on, then 95% chance it's going to be a bad sensor. Okay, well whom do I take it to to get it checked out? Would Express Lube, I mean a place like Express Lube be the people to do the pressure? Well, I will tell you that there is a lot of wonderful shops. Now, our shop is CNC Automotive here in the Augusta area, but those listings that are out of the area, I would recommend going online and going to different organizations. I don't even have a computer, but I would take it to CNC, I live in Evans, CNC Motor, Automotive. The main part of the show is about everyone being able to find a shop and doing a shop. We love to do stuff like that, but remember that there's a lot of other good shops out there, including dealerships, including other things, but we would very much love to.
I just don't want to go to a dealership, because I'm looking into lots of money there and I just can't handle it. I would get it done in the next few days. In the next few days? I'm talking about within a week or so.
I wouldn't be in a major rush since I've already checked the level, but when you can, in the next week or so, it would be good to go ahead and get it done. Well, I don't drive very often and I very seldom go over 20 or 30 miles anyway when I do, but I really appreciate your call. I listen to your show every Saturday and I finally have a problem. I say, you know, they may be able to solve that.
Absolutely, and we would be very happy to. Thank you, dear. Thank you. Good to talk with you.
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Learn more at Motorrad.com. And I am Aaron Clements here with American Red Cross team member Jim Griffith. We are ready for automotive questions. The number is 800-224-9090, or you can watch and listen on Facebook Live.
You can also call at 706-863-5800 or watch at ccautoshow.com. Okay, Jim, we need to cover some of the items that we've been talking about because I think they're very important. These are things that a lot of people should keep in mind before, during, or after a storm. But one of the first things that I thought might be good to answer is what are some of the top three things a person can do to be prepared for an event? Thank you.
Yeah, absolutely. The Red Cross has this really great program that we like to go out and present. It's called Be Red Cross Ready. And basically we teach the three things, get a kit, make a plan and be informed. So the kit, we kind of recommend two different kits, one for your home. So if you have to shelter in place, you'd want at minimum three days worth of food and water.
But best case scenario, you have a couple of weeks. If there's a large disaster, it may take a little while for rescue workers to get to you. But your kit should have things like non-perishable food, water, flashlights, batteries, some type of portable radio. First aid kit's important.
There's lots of other things that can go in there and you can customize that based on your own needs. If you have pets, so you have any special medical needs, medications, for example. Your go kit, you probably want to have some copies of important papers too. Make a plan, you know, know what disasters can happen in your area and then how you're going to respond to those. Whether it be a, you know, if your response is going to be to shelter in place or are you going to evacuate the area? And if you're going to evacuate, have a couple of different evacuation routes in mind and then whatever your plan includes, go out and practice.
If you're planning for a home fire, for example, and you've set up escape routes from your house, windows, doors. A couple times a year, you know, like maybe when you change the batteries in your smoke alarm, practice your escape plan from your house. Go out, make sure all your doors and windows will actually open. And then be informed. Know how you're going to get information for the area you live in. We recommend, you know, find a good local radio station and TV station that you can get news that's appropriate to you to your area. And we mentioned earlier the Red Cross app, the Red Cross emergency app.
That's a really good one because you'll get notifications if something happens. So those are those are the three things. And I just went over it very briefly.
But we have a really thorough presentation that we like to give whenever we have the chance. Yeah. You can almost picture someone who's not prepared and everyone jumping out of the house and saying, hey, we have a bad storm coming. Let's evacuate.
And everybody's in the car saying, where are we going? Right. Right.
You don't want something like that to happen. You want to you want to be prepared and know exactly where you plan to go and know where the higher ground is a plan to know. Now, of course, on my end, we're talking about cars. And here's a thought. I mean, a car can be one of the most valuable things can be very valuable to you after a storm of some kind, because you have to if you've got a method to go places to pick up stuff and and travel. So you definitely want to make sure that there's plenty of gas in your vehicle before something comes up. But also, if you've got a second vehicle, it may be it may be you may find a place on higher ground to be able to park it. I've seen a video one time. There was a storm and a guy did some great planning.
He had found out exactly how high that they thought that the water would be rising. And he put his second car on Jackson's and raised it up just enough to where it only covered the bottom of the tires or only hit the bottom of the tires. So having that, but I'm not sure if this is a good thing to mention or not, but I've always thought that if you were able to get into a parking garage and it was your second car, because you wouldn't want to be in. Well, I'd be careful in the parking garage being in the car. But if you were looking for places to park a car, you may be able to park it in a parking garage and get it up higher than than the storm would be. And that would give you something that you would be able to drive or a second car when you got back or when you returned.
Oh, yeah. Or if you were going to a shelter, you would want to try to protect that car so you'll have something to use in the aftermath of the event or storm or ice storm or whatever that you may be running into. So all of those are great tips. Well, and if I can piggyback off that, too, if your home is at risk of being flooded, you might want to take anything that's valuable, move it up to the second floor and middle.
It will have a better chance of surviving the flood. Oh, that is that is a great tip. Also, all of your important documents, photos, things that you don't want to lose, move everything to the second floor.
And that brings us into something we talked about during the break and a little earlier. And that's it documenting a lot of those items around your house. Take pictures of all of this well before that. Absolutely.
Your to go item. And that includes the car. You would want to if you if your vehicle was in a certain condition, you would want to be able to prove, hey, this was my vehicle before this happened.
Yeah, that's a great idea. Oh, we still hadn't talked that much about the insurance side of it either. Tell you what, why don't we grab this call and then we'll talk about that part of it very shortly also. OK, welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
And Mike, what can I help you with? Yeah, thank you very much for taking my call. I have a Toyota Corolla 2013 and a couple weeks ago, my my brake lights stopped working. But when I press my brake pedal, the third brake light, the one in the rear window, that one that one comes on. Yeah. And so I thought, OK, let me check the fuse. And I checked the fuse and it seemed intact. And then I I looked at the switch, a little cylindrical thing that has a little plunger that comes out and attaches to your brake pedal.
Yeah. And that seems to be coming out and going back in just fine, too. Do you have any other suggestions of what would cause two of my three brake lights to go out? Yeah, they make one of those add on things on that vehicle. And it's like you see on the school buses, when you put on brakes, the two big things pop out from the sides.
And I'm cutting up, Mike. No, I could tell you that on that brake light switch, you actually you would think that the brake light switch, if it went out, it would make all the brake lights go out. But on that particular one, that it has a separate wiring part inside there for that reason. If part of the switch goes out, you still got the other part of the switch. So it still could be your brake light switch in and the two or the middle light or the third light could still work. And the other ones could be out. You could either if it's not a very expensive part, you could put another one on there or you could have it tested if you wanted to take it somewhere.
They could. It's a pretty simple test. They would just take a test like if it's got power on one side and not the other, then push the brake and see if it's got power on both sides. If it don't, then it's a bad switch. OK, so likely that it's just the switch. Exactly.
That is the most likely thing. Well, that was super simple. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you.
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And that number is 800-224-9090. Jim Griffith of the American Red Cross is here with us. He'll be answering those type questions.
And that's on Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern Time. We have a tech tip quiz laying on the table. Evidently, it turned out to be a little bit of a tough tech tip quiz because no one's been able to answer yet.
So we're hoping that you might be able to answer today's tech tip quiz. And that is Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She borrowed five people's cell phone in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it.
How did she do it? If you know the answer to that, give us a call. And we are covering some of the things that people can do to be prepared during a natural disaster such as a hurricane storm or something like that. Now, we talked about a lot of things that people should do if they were to evacuate the storm and be prepared to evacuate. But what happens if someone did have to shelter in place? Well, yeah, if if the emergency management officials advise you to evacuate, then by all means, if you can, please do it. But if you if you can't, if you have to evacuate or if you have to shelter in place during the storm, go to an interior room far away from any doors or windows on the lowest level and wait out the storm there. Now, the exception to that would be if there's flooding, you may have to go to a, you know, a second floor. Yeah, for sure.
But for the for the most part, yeah. An interior room away from doors and windows because the wind can blow, can break the glass, can blow the doors open, can blow all kinds of hazards into your home. Yeah. One of the things that from what I understand a lot of people do is they want to see what's happening on the storm. So they'll look out the window and see the storm.
And that's not a good thing to do. It's not a good idea because all it takes is that one heavy gust and boom, you're there. So all of those are great tips that they can have. Now, the other some of the other items is what would happen if someone was in a vehicle and during a storm?
And and of course, I thought of a lot of things that may be good ideas. Now, here's here's one of the things that happens is many times someone's trying to evacuate or either they waited a little longer than they should to evacuate. So they plan to drive their vehicle and they're riding along and they see what looks like a little bit of a puddle of water there. And they can pull in and find out that the road is washed away right there are gone and boom, they're down in rushing water. This there one article that I read talked about that if you don't see if you don't see the lines on the road, then it's it's too deep or something's wrong. So don't continue. If you feel unsafe, you're better to turn around, especially if there's no other cars going through there. You're on a road.
Nobody else is there. So you can't see how judge how deep the water is. Don't take that chance. Go ahead and turn around, do whatever you have to do, but don't go through that. Yeah.
Best practice. Turn around, don't drown. Oh, that's great. Turn around, don't drown. And I love that. Yes, sir. And, you know, just a few inches of fast moving water can can actually move an average size automobile right off the road and into deeper water, too.
Yeah. So that's a hazard you really have to watch out for. And I will mention now this is on the car standpoint, a air in engine on a car is an air pump. It's sucking air in and it's blowing air back out. What happens if that air gets sucked into the engine?
It hydra locks. That means the engine just locks down the rods bend because the water will not compress. You can take a vehicle that's running great. It can be a 50, 60, 80, 90 thousand dollar vehicle, or it can be a very important two or three thousand dollar vehicle or even an eight hundred dollar vehicle. But when it goes in that water and it sucks that air into the intake, which is usually located just below the hood line, then that engine will hydrolock. That engine will be a very expensive boat anchor after that.
So I recommend two things on that part. Make sure your insurance would cover your car if it was in a flood or a storm or something like that happened. And if you do have to drive, go slow enough and make sure that the water does not get up to that level on the car. They very seldom put an intake down low on a car, but usually it's up there near the hood and near that area. And if you try to drive too fast, that water will rush up there and get sucked into the engine and lock it down.
And then you'll be stuck pretty much because it won't go once it sucks water in the intake. And you mentioned insurance. On the homeowner side of it, your homeowner's policy may not necessarily include flooding. And that's a little bit out of my wheelhouse, but I would recommend that people look into the National Flood Insurance Program, NFIP, if I may not have gotten that right. But National Flood Insurance Program, especially if you live in a low-lying area that could be flood-prone, it's just something to be prepared for that. And make sure your car's covered. Sometimes you can make sure you have flood insurance, and it can be very little more to have flood insurance on your car. And it may, matter of fact, many times it can just be a matter of saying, hey, I want to have this coverage on the vehicle.
But check out not only your home, but your car. Okay, you ready to go to the cost? Yes, sir. Okay, here we go.
Let's see which one is first. We're going to go over here. To Ken, and Ken, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with? I'll try your tech tip quiz.
Oh, Ken, you have called the right place. I'm going to mention a question real quick. Susan was on her first week in the 10th grade. She borrowed five people's cell phone in less than 30 minutes without them knowing it. How did she do it? Well, on a lot of these phones, particularly the Android phone, you can put the phone in what's called a guest mode. And whatever you do on the phone, the original owner would have no idea what you've done.
Is it possible she put it in some type of a guest mode? Wow, Ken, you sound pretty tech savvy there. And that's a good shot, but unfortunately, oh wow, our judges, they sadly did that because they thought that was such a good answer. Good shot there, Ken. Okay, we tried. Hey, we appreciate the call. Thank you.
Number to call, 706-8635-800 or 800-224-9090. And let's go over to Jim. Jim, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Good morning, Aaron and James. I want to do two things, if I may.
Let's try to at least chip away a little bit at that tech tip quiz. And if we could, I've got a question for James. Oh, absolutely.
That would be great. Well, you know, of course, we missed putting Ken on stage and we had a deal, a union issue because the person who plays the trumpet, he gets upset if we don't use it. So we're going to need to put you on stage.
Okay, Jim, you are on stage. And what is the answer to today's tech tip quiz? This is a collaborative effort. I was talking to my brother-in-law about it over the intervening week. And we sort of think that maybe we've got a teacher that's in the teacher's first week in the 10th grade and somehow borrow them because they were being collected, let's say, at the beginning of class so that they wouldn't be a distraction.
And somehow while they were collected, either through a mobile hotspot or something, actually utilize the phone somehow. So again, I'm meandering here a little bit, but my brother-in-law is a very scholarly dude. So I thought I'd share what he and I had talked about. Are we chipping away at all? Jim, there might be parts of it that can fit in. Now, where does your brother live? And I hope he's listening because I have to tell him that it was a good shot and that you two working on this together is kind of huge to me. I think that's a great thing. But Jim, that is not the answer. Hey, can you hold on just for a second and let us take a quick break? OK, hold up.
