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 back to the CNC Auto Show. We are here to share information on ways to make your car, truck, or SUV safer, to make it more dependable, and to make it last longer for less money. I am Aaron Clements.
I'm John Ryan. And we are here to answer your automotive questions. And along with answering those questions, we have a tech tip quiz to share, and we have some tips on how to find a shop that's right for you. We have everything that you need, but you. We have everything that we need to make a great show, but you. You can fix that by dialing 706-863-5800, Saturday mornings 805 to 10 Eastern. You can also watch the show or past shows at ccautoshow.com, or you can go to Facebook. Now, let's go to a tech tip quiz.
We do have a tech tip quiz, and along with the fame and the glory and all the other things that come along with a tech tip quiz, the winner will receive a prize package, which does contain the I answer, the CNC Auto Show tech tip quiz, coffee mug, and other items in there. Here's the question. Here we go. Hold on. Be still. All right. The DeLorean was used in the Back to the Future movie.
What did Steven Spielberg originally plan to use as a time machine? If you know the answer, give us a call. And again, that number 706-863-5800.
And if you, uh, you know, to answer call. Now we have also been talking about how to find the shop that is right for you during the last hour. We gave some tips on finding the repair shop. We mentioned asking family and friends where they go, uh, checking the reviews, visiting the website, calling the shop and visiting the shop. And we also talked about getting some work done at the shop.
So we were up to that point of where we at. And let's say that you have found this repair shop that you are interested in going to. And with that, you have a, you're starting to build a relationship. I think one thing that's very important is to make sure that that shop has all of the contact information that they can give you. And if any way possible, have it to where they can get in touch with you, uh, if the time, if, if needed, uh, because many times the shop is on a schedule, they may have, uh, they may have, uh, four or five, six, seven, eight cars that need to go on a lift rack that day to be able to check. And if they put your car on that lift rack and find out it needed something that they didn't expect that it needed, I got a scenario for you. Somebody brings one in for like a break check, right? And you get it on the lift rack.
And like you said, you got it kind of in your schedule. Well, you find out it has wheel locks on it and you can't find the wheel lock anywhere. So you call and call no answer. Uh, like you said, it'd be great to be able to text or email or any form of communication to speed that up.
Yeah. And more and more shops are using text now, and that makes it a lot easier. Let's say that you're in a move, a meeting and, uh, the auto repair shop texts as you, Hey, do you know where your wheel lock key might be? Yeah, it's in my pocket.
Or, uh, or, or at home or they might, or you might have it, there's a secret compartment in the trunk that you may not know about. Have you looked in there and you may be able to find it and the shop continue to keep moving. Uh, the shop won't many, many shops.
I'm not going to say all, but most shops want to keep you as an informed, just like you want to be informed. Right. Uh, but there's a lot of cases to where they're just not able to do that because they'll call and you're busy. So then they're faced with a decision.
Hey, do you think we should go ahead and do this so that they can still have their car today or should we hold off on this? Yep. So that contact information is very important to make sure that everyone has that. And, and also if you have a backup phone number that a person can call and say, get in touch with this.
Now that does bring up one other item and I'm going to mention this before we go to the phones real quick. And that's that be sure that if, if they're asking for authorization to do something that you let the other person know, because sometimes that can be very tricky dealing with two people. Yeah. Because one person says, yes, that's absolutely fine. Let's get it done so I can get my car. And then once the other person knows about it, they may not have wanted it done. Yeah. So try to be on the same link when you're, when you're doing things.
And if you're not sure, check with the other person that's ready to go to the cost. Yeah. Let's go over to James. Fantastic. Hello, James. And welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help with? I thought I'd try your tech tip quiz. Oh, fantastic.
We do need an answer to our tech tip quiz. Let me read the question again, uh, one more time. Uh, let's see here. The, uh, let me see.
I need to get this right here. Before I do this, the question is that the DeLorean was used in the back to the future movie. What did Steven Spielberg originally plan to use as a time machine?
And James, we need to put you on stage. And what is the answer to the day's tech tip quiz? A reconfigured refrigerator. Oh, a refrigerator.
For a CNC auto show hat. Why did they not use the refrigerator? I don't know why they didn't use it, but it probably had, I would guess they have a tough time coming up with a way to move it effectively. But, uh, I think DeLorean probably stepped in or somebody found that car and thought it would be better because it was stainless steel. Now it did turn out to be a great move. I will say that, but there's another reason why they did not use the refrigerator and that they were looking for something different than the refrigerator in that movie.
I guess it'd be, maybe it wouldn't be any fun watching a refrigerator fly. Who knows? Okay. Well, I'm going to go ahead and give that part and James, you're messing out on the hat.
Now my guess is you've got a hat, but I do have a hat. Here we go. The reason that they did not use the refrigerator was they were concerned that kids would get on a refrigerator and get locked in because they would be playing time machine. Now, years back, that used to be an issue. Uh, but evidently about the time the movie was playing, there was an issue with, with kids getting in refrigerators and getting locked in the refrigerator.
Now, of course you pushed the door and the mat and magnetics holding the door closed. So it's not an issue now. That's how they ended up solving the problem. But at that time, that was an issue.
So they did not want kids getting locked in refrigerators. And so now, uh, they ended up using the DeLorean, which actually turned out to be a good idea. And the rest is complete history. And James actually saw one of those cars, if not the car over in Atlanta, one time when we were there and there was a darn thing parked on a going by in a real slow trailer. I said, so somebody made one or it was it, I don't know, but it looks strange to see the thing close. What would James, you, you got me on that one that I'm gonna go ahead and tell my quick story. Um, there's an area that is probably five miles from the shop or less. It was a field and out in that field with grass growing all around it.
There was a DeLorean sitting there. I think I called you about it. No, you asked, you said you wanted one. I told you where it was. Oh, you're the one who told me where it was. Okay. Well, I did. I did go by there and I looked at it and there wasn't an owner of this.
There was no way to tell who the owner was. Right. So I found a house that was for sale about, uh, not far from it. And I asked him if they knew anything about the DeLorean. They said yes. And so I called, uh, uh, the person that they gave and this person lived in Atlanta and, uh, he wanted it.
Now this thing was just sitting in a field and he wanted a fortune for that car. That's probably why it's still there. No, I don't think it's there. Wow.
I might call them again. The one I saw actually had the jet rocket simulations on it. But the thing about that DeLorean was you didn't have to worry about rust.
No, no, that you got a point there. That would solve the problem. And that's what you need to find for that. Crown Vic is a stainless steel doors. Yeah.
DeLorean replacement doors. All right. Okay. Thank you very much for the call James. And it's, uh, we will go to a word from our sponsors.
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Uh, it's, uh, uh, the Saturday mornings in the, uh, the shows are just so enjoyable. Uh, it's, uh, just a lot of fun and we love, uh, talk answering automotive questions. And speaking of automotive questions, where are we going now? We're going over to John. Fantastic. Hello, John, and welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help you with? Well, good morning. I'm not going to say anything about 2020, but I hope you and yours have a great 2021. Same to you, John. Absolutely.
It's going to be a great year, no doubt in my mind. And I've got just a general question. Um, I like NASCAR and my question is about tires. They have tires on those cars that they can run maybe 75, a hundred miles. I get tires on my car that I can run 60,000.
What is the difference? Oh, well, definitely the compound. Um, so they want those tires obviously to be very, uh, sticky, I guess, for lack of better ways to say that. And then of course the heat buildup that's in those tires, uh, of course, obviously going roughly 200 miles an hour around some of those turns, of course, puts a lot of wear and tear on those tires. Um, so really just kind of in their design, of course, they could probably make them, uh, last a bit longer, but probably not be able to hold the track as well. And you actually have the, the design of the vehicle is actually pushing that vehicle down on the road. So it's able to go around these corners so much faster. And that creates wear. And like John Ryan mentioned, it's just a much softer rubber, uh, that they have. Okay.
Well, thank you very much. Hey, John, great question. I do from time to time, we do have a, uh, have customers that come in and some vehicles are from the factory aligned in a way to where they are actually lined up to go around a track. And that makes it to where if they're not on a track, they have terrible tire wear on a regular road. So there are cases where some people may come in and say, I want you to vary from what the factory recommends on this alignment into a way to where I would get better tire wear on the road.
Yeah. And that has been a, um, that we've done many like that, uh, and it makes it to where they're able to get a much better tire wear even on a very high performance tire. Uh, but also there's cases where someone may have a vehicle with a high performance tire with one brand on it from the factory, but you're able to change over to another brand and it may still have the same speed rating, but much better. You're able to get much better mileage from the tire than the original tire that was on.
But like you said, too, a lot of vehicles are set up to where they obviously have an alignment angle to where it can really hold the turns. And of course, obviously be a performance vehicle. So there's some of those tires that, you know, if they're a high performance tire, you simply just don't get many miles out of them in their design. You know, a Corvette, for instance, you might get 30,000 miles if you're really, really good on those tires, might get 30,000 miles, uh, say a Porsche, I don't know, Carrera, something like that. I mean, you might get like 12 to 15,000 miles out of them. So it just depends on the vehicle. We had a Supra with dual turbos one time, struggled to get 20,000 out of that. We finally got them some tires that would get a good 20,000.
Yeah, it was a struggle to do that. John Rhyme, we're still talking about the vehicles, finding a shop that's right for you. And of course, we want to make a tip here having to do with communication with the shop and whether you're waiting or leaving your car for the service or repair, let them know when you need that car back because someone might say that they need it back when they get off work. So the shop says, oh, when they get off work. Well, that person may get off work at two o'clock in the afternoon and the shop may be thinking that they did after work would mean five, six o'clock. Right.
So you want to give a time. And for instance, if you say, well, I really need the car by 3 p.m., I need the car by 2 p.m. and agree on that time and have the, uh, give all the contact information. That way, for some reason, the shop's not able to have the vehicle when you had planned. Right. Then they would be able to give you a call and say, hey, we ran into this or that and may not have it ready.
So that's another finding a shop and keeping a good relationship with your shop. Yeah. Okay. Where are we going? Let's go to Ron. Hello, Ron. And welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
What can we help you with? Oh, God, just a simple question. I know you would know it. Why in all of creation would they choose the Mustang to go electric rather than one of their smaller cars? You know, actually, that that is a good question, because, of course, no doubt one of the reasons on Mustang is to be a it's a very iconic car history and great history, great body style. And that no doubt, if you mix that with electric, those that are looking for an electric vehicle would be more prone to buy that. And actually they're turning they're doing more and more things with the electric cars. And my guess is eventually a lot of that would be very much like the retro.
Fit was and which you have so many retro cars now, the Dodge Charger, the Demon, the Mustang, just the list goes on of retro cars have been very, very nice. Now, I think more and more often you're going to be finding many of those vehicles are going to be turned into electric cars. They are solving one of the larger issues with the electric cars, and that had to do with the range.
And it's getting it's getting better and better every year, whereas there was a time where the range was more in the in the range of of seventy five miles for some one hundred for some. And then it would take hours and hours to recharge. Now you're running into some vehicles having two, three, four hundred miles before you have to recharge. And then you also have the have the situation where they're charging much faster than they did. Of course, Tesla has been a ringleader for that. And there's just been a I expect in the years to come that to become more and more popular as they're making charging stations more available infrastructure. It's hard to imagine they can make a battery that can go four hundred miles without recharging. The other aspect would be the infrastructure.
They just didn't wide range infrastructure throughout the nation to support it. I can understand what I'm saying. Ron, Ron, this is great questions. If it's OK, we'll put you on hold for a second, because I love the subject. Fantastic. We're going we'll be right back after these messages.
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Check store website for hours and shipping information. And remember, don't just seal it, K Seal it. And if you do have a question about your car, truck or SUV, you give us a call and that number is 706-863-5800. And we'll be here to answer your automotive questions. And we have Ron on the line. Ron had a very interesting question concerning the Mustang electric vehicles. Ron, you back with us?
I'm back here with you, Aaron. You know, it's great that I mean, I just I just can't wrap my head around why they chose the Mustang other than, say, the Focus where all the people like myself who stay in a certain area. It'd be great for me to go to Augusta, to Rens or even to Atlanta and back. But something that wouldn't be so big and bulky. You know, that little Ford Focus is just such an ideal transporter. It's well made. I think they could do a little bit better with the suspension system and the alignment on the tires and all.
But just just for the size itself would be great. And again, you know, the whole thing, too, would hinge on the infrastructure. Do they have enough charging stations? But like you said, they've got so many advancements now with fast charges.
I'm sure at some point they will come up with the shrink wrap that can go over your vehicle with the embedded solar panels in the shrink wrap to where your car, if you leave it out in the sun, is going to charge itself. Yes. Now I will, in answering part of your question there, Ron, I'll mention that you really piqued the interest of our producer. Our producer is a, how old is Mason? 25, I think.
25, round in there. And of course, he'd come in and you got him interested. Now, if you were to talk, if you would have come in and said that they come out with a new little small smart car that was electric and just average amount of power, average car. Just say a Ford Focus. A Ford Focus.
That wouldn't have piqued his interest. But what he come in and said was the reason that he got interested in electric vehicles was because of the Tesla. And it wasn't because it was a car, it was because it was a fast car. The performance. It had a lot of performance to it. So that's what they're wanting to do with the Mustang is they want to grab the interest of these newer generation that's coming up that's going to be the one driving a lot of these.
When you called, I did a little quick research. And what's amazing is that car has the Mustang, 300 horsepower, extended range of 300 miles, standard range of 230 miles. And then, of course, they have one called the Mach-E 360. And I don't know what model costs this amount, but it did say starting at $43,000, which is a lot of money. But as far as for a Mustang and for a vehicle, it's a lot of technology.
Not unusual at all. But they wanted to grab the interest of people. And as far as the size, of course, now they have, what is it? Amazon has a partnership with this, but they will be electric semi-trucks. So there's a lot on the horizon as far as electric vehicles. Well, we could hope for the future.
This past future we had for the last 12 months has been pretty pathetic. But I wish you and JR and your families a prosperous and happy new year. And God, I can't tell you how much I appreciate y'all's show. Take care and have a great day, guys. Ron, we really appreciate it. And all of that, you said, go both ways. Thank you. Yes, for sure.
All right. And I will say that it is going to be amazing to see some of the things that will be coming up in the future. But I realize that there's been a lot of heavy challenges during this year, and that is absolutely true. But because of these challenges, there has been a huge amount of technology come forth that we may not have gotten.
Of course, you kind of hate saying something like, look at the bright side, because so many people went through so many terrible struggles. That's true. But the fact is, we have now to where Zoom meetings are common.
I mean, you can meet with hundreds of people at the same time or several people at the same time and actually have a good face-to-face meeting, which is going to improve productivity of the country. And I realize that's been around for many years. But it has been perfected a huge amount because of what we're going through right here. And there's a lot of other parts of technology the same way. Just like a long time ago when the gas shortage hit, that was a terrible thing. But vehicles were made better because of that.
Accidents were terrible to happen, but vehicles were made safer because of a lot of automotive accidents. Right. Okay, where are we going? Let's go to Richard.
Fantastic. And hello, Richard. And welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Good afternoon or good morning, gentlemen. And we appreciate the call.
What can we help with? Well, I got a little situation. I got a 2013 Benzo. And I've looked in the manual. I've talked to some people at some of these, like your tires, bus, different places. I haven't called any transmission people yet. But nobody can find out the scheduled maintenance on this transmission for this call. I know it's usually like 100,000 miles, but, I mean, it's very strange.
And a number of people said it's very strange. You cannot find this anywhere where it's written down and says, yeah, you need to change this at this particular mileage. Yeah, Richard, you're right. Some manufacturers kind of leave that out in the manuals. And mainly, or at least I believe, it's because it's more based on the fluid condition.
You're right. Typically, most manufacturers recommend somewhere 100,000 miles for several different fluid exchanges, of course, tune up, those kind of things. But even that, we're seeing less and less of the actual maintenance log stating when that's supposed to be done.
So the answer to your question is, on Toyotas, we like to just simply look at the fluid, see what it looks like. How many miles are on yours? I've got 105. I want to do something. Yeah, because you definitely do. Of course, there's that old saying where people say, oh, if it's got 100,000 miles, it's never been done. You don't want to do it.
I really don't believe in that. Maybe if it had 200, 250 and it's never been done, that could be the case. But really, there again, it goes back to what the fluid currently looks like. If you pull your, well, that one doesn't have a dipstick, but if you, well, actually it might. If you look at the fluid on that vehicle and it's still got red tint to it, it doesn't smell burnt or anything like that, no metal particles, now's the time to do it because you don't want to wait until 150 and then check it. And of course, now it's starting to look burnt, smells burnt. And then you may have that issue where you could create a problem by flushing it. But really, I think now's a good time for you. You're not having any trying to correct any issues or anything like that with it, right?
No, I'm not having any issues with it. But once you start having issues, that's a little too late. Exactly. So yeah, I think right now would be a great time to do that. Consider that low mileage, honestly. So yeah, I think a transmission fluid exchange would be a great time to do it. Another thing that the manufacturers go through, of course, you may not see anything in the owner's manual for that vehicle, but it's so dependent on how hot the fluid gets, the tight driving that is done on the vehicle, and also the demographics that the vehicle's at. You may have one car that's a little closer to the, has a lot hotter weather or drives in the mountains where the transmission fluid would get hotter, and you may have another vehicle in another area until it might not make as much difference with that. Yeah, because what's strange is that it does stay in the manual and change the plugs at 120,000 miles.
I thought that was a little strange, too. Yeah, those are actually iridium plugs, so they are the longer life plug. But most times in the manuals, it just simply says inspect fluids. Because of the fact, like Aaron was mentioning, that there's so many different variables that are calculated into that manual, it's hard to say, you know, flush it every 50,000 and somebody only drives it a mile an hour. But in short, without question, fluid wears out.
I mean, that is a sure thing. If you drive a vehicle and some fluids may wear out faster than others. Well, you just have to think of all the manufacturers with lifelong fluids and those systems generally fail within the first five years.
They end up with a lot of lawsuits. Okay, wow. It's time to take a real quick break.
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What can we help with? Oh, I was just going to just run something past you guys. I don't know if you keep track of like, you know, the electric car demand and that kind of thing. But I was talking to some very informed kind of scientists and you could find these articles yourself. And they were saying, well, simply isn't enough electricity, like if everybody bought an electric car, there's not enough electricity production to actually recharge these batteries that everybody has in their car and everything.
I thought, well, that's a really good point. Like if everybody in Japan suddenly bought electric cars, there's not electricity. You know, the grid is not, you know, utilities make electricity from fossil fuel.
That's the crazy thing about it. People think that you can, oh, just make endless electricity with solar or with wind. You don't pick one of these renewable, you know, corn, which would devastate all the forest if you grew that much corn and things you're going to burn to create electricity. I mean, it would be a total environmental disaster to try to grow enough plants so people could burn them every day to make electricity. You know, a cow is much more efficient than a cornfield, you know, and making its own energy. But anyway, so they're saying that, you know, the whole infrastructure, the whole idea that we're going to all drive an electric car and there's going to be, oh, just an unlimited amount of electricity available to recharge your car.
And that simply, it can't happen that way. There's nothing renewable like that. The most efficient production of electricity that there actually is on the entire planet is nuclear. And people can do that very cleanly and efficiently. You know, if you want to make electricity, you've got to have a thing to make it from. And that's where a lot of people don't understand.
They think you just plug it in, hey, it's there. But no, it has to be made from an fossil fuel source or it's going to be made from nuclear. You are absolutely awesome being so informed on that.
And all of those items that you're mentioning, I have studied a fair amount. I wish a lot more people would do exactly what you're doing, get more informed on the benefits and the drawbacks to electric cars. There is some of the benefits that they say happens, though. Let's say you have fossil fuel is used to make the batteries and to generate the electricity to make the batteries. But what they're saying is that it's a lot easier to filter and control what's coming out of one smokestack as opposed to coming out of millions of cars.
And that is true to a degree. But they have come such a long way on making cars so energy efficient and clean burning that they've come a long difference. Now, as far as a long way on doing that, but also with the electric cars, the goal is to eventually get better and better with the electric cars as time goes on. And they have batteries that are more efficient than ever before.
They've extended the range and plus the capacity to charge. What I have read, you are absolutely right that the vehicles, it would be almost impossible if everybody had an electric car to have the electricity to be able to charge them. There has been a lot of talk about if they did get to that point, some areas would have it to where a vehicle could be charged during certain times at night at a lower price than other times.
And that way, but either way you go, that's going to put a huge drain on the grid to do that. It's a huge demand. I was reading something like, you know, such and such an area had all electric cars. It would increase the demand like 33 percent.
That's huge. You know, and they're talking about, you know, areas with the X amount of population, everything. The demand for electricity would just absolutely be gigantic. And then, you know, talking about cleanliness and the available power and how they can, you know, filter things in your car now so that you don't have very much emission and all that kind of thing. Many years ago, I went to England and, you know, they were talking about, look how clear our skies are.
Their skies were absolutely beautifully clear. You know, you always hear about, you know, the fog in England. Well, they can get a fog because basically they're a giant island and it can come off off the ocean. But what they used to have a problem with was coal burning.
It was very crowded in London, especially. So there's everybody is burning coal back then. And anyway, so they had a lot of problem between, you know, humidity from the sea and then they had a lot of coal burning.
But what happened eventually with England is that they went nuclear and they weren't burning coal. So when I went there, which was probably 2002, something like that, it was a very clear sky, beautifully clear. Never even fogged up while we were there. And the sky was blue, totally blue. And they said it's because they went nuclear. And of course, by 2002, the emissions controls on cars were very good.
So you didn't even detect pollution, you know, at all of any kind, even in a congested city. So, you know, it's all a matter of, you know, better scrubbing. You know, if you do have to burn coal, they have scrubber stacks.
They have all, you know, technology I'm not even aware of that, you know, that cures the problem. And then, of course, you know, you'll be burning fuel from the ground. And I'll mention real quick what I foresee in the next 10 years is there's going to be more and more electric cars. But I think it's going to be a combination of the driving habits that a person might have. Let's say if someone lives in the city, very seldom travels outside the city, they may decide to have an electric car because it's very efficient for them.
Let's say a person travels to 100 mile, 200, 300 mile trips on a regular basis and they would rather drive than fly. They may get either a gas engine or a hybrid. And I believe each one of those are going to be more efficient than they've ever been in the past. And then, of course, as time goes on, there's going to be more and more solar energy technology that's gone. Like one gentleman mentioned earlier, the paint itself can be a solar energy.
And then, of course, you have hydrogen that one day may become an emerging, if the infrastructure was to emerge for that, that could be an option too. So, Joe, you are just so well informed. I love that.
Well, I don't know a whole lot about a lot of things. You're amazing. You really have. And you've been a great benefit to the show to bring all of those things to light. We appreciate that very much. Well, thank you. You've got a great show.
I really enjoy it. Thank you. And thank you for being a part of it. Thank you. Bye. Okay. The number to call is 706-863-5800.
That was a wonderful call. Oh, my goodness. We've got time to, let's bring one on board and let's just get the question. We can try. Calvin, welcome to the show. We've got about a minute or so to get the question. We may need to put you on hold. But what we got?
Okay. 2007 F-150, six cylinder. I'm getting a lean two code on bank two.
It was one and two that it grew an injection clean, but it came back on again. Oh, Calvin, those are pretty bad about lean conditions. There's two things that normally fix.
I can't say I've really seen anything else that didn't. So the PCV valve can crack and there's a hose that goes to the back of the intake manifold. I've seen that set on one side. Like you said, of course, it sounds like it had two lean conditions at one time, I should say. But the other thing is the actual intake manifold. That's a plastic manifold that bolts to an aluminum lower. Those o-rings right there are notorious for drawing in unmetered air, especially in cold ambient temperatures. Technician would, of course, smoke check it with a smoke machine to see, obviously, you know, if it did have a vacuum leak. Chances are it does.
Of course, they'd repair that leak, reset the fuel trims and take care of it. All right. And I told Calvin that we may have to put them on hold. We can't because we're in the show unless he went on hold for a very long time. Time clock is on. We need to pull over for now, but we will be back on the road in no time. I'm Eric Clements here with co-host John Ryan Mooney and show producer Mason Rogers. We would all like to say thank you to all of you for riding with the CNC Auto Show.
