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Share it. But most of all, thank you for listening and for choosing the Truth Podcast Network. She's real fine, my 409. She's real fine, my 409, my 409. Hey, this morning, of course Robbie is in Atlanta at a car show and we certainly miss him and hope he's having a great time. And I hope it is a little drier down there than it is in the Winston-Salem area this morning. It's a little damp, a little wet. Storms coming through. This morning, I'm excited.

I've got Darren DeWitt in with me, Color's Edge, and that may sound familiar to you from the past and we're going to kind of hit on that. But before we dive into that, I just want to read scripture from Ecclesiastics 3. There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die.

A time to plant and a time to uproot. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.

A time to search and a time to give up. A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace. When I read that, one of the things I always think about, you know, we live in a world that is continually, it's emotion, it's change and stuff, and that's sort of what God laid out.

And as we read that passage, and I read that passage, I kind of drift down to like in verse 15, where it says, whatever has already been, whatever is has already been and what will be has been before. It's pretty much, that's the way, you know, our life is. And one thing about seasons that we definitely can see as we're going into a new season as far as the weather goes, seasons are temporary. And they continue to change and no season lasts forever.

And if you feel like you're stuck in a season that's lasting forever, you need to get in God's Word and try to figure out how to get out of that because they continue to change. We're in our cars. That's what we're gonna talk about this morning, Darren.

Well, first of all, let's go ahead and introduce yourself. And Darren is a, tell you what, he's a great partner for Raised Body Shop and Wrecker Service and a lot of other collision centers in the southeast because I think y'all were footprint is expanding pretty rapidly as far as this business goes. Yeah, yeah, it's a pleasure to be here. And yeah, we've we've continued to grow.

It seems like each year we've been very blessed. And I think we're in kind of creeping up into Virginia now and down into South Carolina a little bit. So it's it's been a it's been a season of growth for us over the last probably two years. So but yeah, we service a bunch of collision centers all throughout North Carolina, southern Virginia, northern South Carolina. And we just try to be a support structure for our customer base. We also deal we've also kind of expanded in the industrial side of of stuff. So we deal with the manufacturers and people that make little widgets and different things like that. So that's kind of been another opportunity for us to grow the business and everything and be able to employ more people and all that fun stuff out there. Yeah, and when you're talking in the supply side of it, as far as the material goes and paint material and the body supply stuff, you know, that's one thing where when somebody goes in and gets a vehicle repaired, they don't realize the cost that goes into that because, well, when I first got in this business, it was a fraction of what it costs now. And then how the sudden over the years and stuff, it's just continued to increase.

And part of that problem is, and here you go, I'm going to get on a soapbox because this is an area that I struggle with in so many ways. And I blame it on manufacturers because what you run into in your your your counter people in your and PPG and any other paint manufacturer when these automotive in the automotive industry comes up with these colors that you know that are ridiculously high because of just the material that's put into it. I mean, you can, you can, I think it's a G no GM afford has a yellow that has a pearl in it. That's Yeah, they'll go ahead and okay, people go ahead and go ahead and just sit down when he tells you the numbers on this the cost of it, and can't even hardly get it you have to pre order. Yeah, and it's, it's, it's interesting, because I sit on a couple boards and stuff within PPG and, and the group that we're in, which is a call to platinum group, we're just single line district distributors of PPG products. And one of the good things about those things is you're able to kind of meet and kind of get information from some of the direct guys in PPG that deal directly with the OEMs. And some of those conversations revolve around color, obviously, and the colorists, I think it's what they call them are color stylists. You know, all these car companies want to set their car apart from the other guy. So Chevy wants to make their red better than say Ford's red and make it stand out a little bit more and they start coming up with more and more different colors. And on the OE level as a manufacturer, they are just focused on that a lot of times and not necessarily the repairability of that color. So if you get into an accident, you know, they don't take into account what it's going to cost or anything like that to actually duplicate that color. So that kind of falls on the paint companies such as, you know, Xalta, PPG, you know, BSF, all of them to kind of figure out with the platforms that we have, how can we mimic some of this stuff and some of it is you can't and you have to have those special toners and special pigments that come in and able to do that.

And then of course, that just drives up the cost. I mean, I know I looked at one, we got, I think, a quarter pint in our water-based paint, that's a special pearl that goes into some of these formulas. I think a cost refinisher to a body shop or somewhere close to $1,000 is just for a quarter pint of that product to go into it. And if you're doing a side of a car and you're having to put that in there, you know, that's a lot of cost that goes into these repairs now on some of these newer cars and some of these interesting colors that are out there that a lot of people don't, you know, they don't know. And, you know, they just know they got a great, cool-looking color in their car and everything and don't understand, you know, the insurance companies are starting to catch up with that, you know, by raising their rates and everything like that.

So it's, you get this cost that just continues to increase year over year based on what these guys are coming up with. Yeah, and you get some of these paints, I mean, in these colors, you can't, you know, you get them and they come in to get an estimate and it's got a damage on a door. And when you write the estimate and they're getting the bill for it, it's painting the whole side of the vehicle.

I mean, Mazda has a couple colors that are four stages and you've got the whole process in between, you have to let it cure and sand and then come back and do another layer coat and the whole process ends up being where, you know, instead of one panel that you're painting, you're painting the whole vehicle basically down one side. And those costs just keep elevating and stuff and then you talk about just the cost of material. And I'm going to talk about this a little bit when we talk about some of the changes in automobiles. But one of the things that I tell people all the time when you sit there and you're looking to buy a new car or buy a car, those things you ought to factor in.

And I tell people that, you know, you need to make sure that used to be there was a day when you paid off your car, basically everybody would drop their collision insurance because they said, you know, I can go ahead if I get a little place on it, I can pay for that. Well, now there's no cheap repairs just because the cost of materials, parts and labor. These things are so intense as far as the cost goes, you have to really encourage people to have a nice car. They need to plan on keeping collision insurance on it as long as it's running. Yeah, the days of getting liability only is that's that's that's pretty much past. I think I always recommend trying to get full collision or or anything like that because it is it just it is just very expensive now to repair some of these newer cars. Pretty much anything I'd say probably from 2015 on when they start especially when they started adding a lot of safety features and electronics and and now you've got sensors and I mean it's just it's amazing what they put into these vehicles now. Yeah, I have I have just in the past couple weeks bought a headlight that was $6,000 for a single headlight on a car because it had radar in it and the DM stuff and navigation all of it building that headlight, you know, it's a cool feature feature when you're sitting there looking at it and it's being sold to you know, it just really sounds good until you're in Lowe's parking lot and somebody runs a cart into the headlight and breaks it and you have to go replace it.

It gets all full pricey. Yeah, we'll be back in just a moment. And also this is a calling show.

Give us a call at 866-348-7884. We'll be back in just a moment. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com Welcome back to the Christian car guy radio show. And again, this is a calling show if you can think of it, we're going to kind of talk about in just a moment about some of the features in vehicles, some of the good and some of the bad and some of the things we saw coming in some things we didn't see coming.

So if you've got one of those stories to tell us give us a call at 866-348-7884. But Darren, as we were wrapping up, we were just talking about just the expense of things and everything. And part of the thing is with technology and all of the, you know, the new look of the paint, you know, when cars first started rolling out a Henry Ford off the assembly line, you had a lot of choices in color and it was black or black.

Life was easier on the riparian as far as that goes. But then as you start, you know, time comes on and then people want to see something different because you know, nothing really frustrates me in the color. When you start looking at the colors on these vehicles, like GM will have a blue or red that'll have, I mean, different color codes.

And if they're not sitting beside each other, you can't hardly, you really can't tell the difference in them. But it's just that the same thing. And as a matter of fact, one of them may be a base coat clear coat. And, you know, the repairability is a lot cheaper than that same color, almost looks like the same color, maybe a pearl coat, it's a three stage. Boom, all of a sudden it just doubles in price as far as the repairability and the material cost. Yeah, it is crazy how they make these colors.

And like I said, you can have one that looks like a candy, but it's just a base coat clear coat. But until you actually get in and get the color documentation for it, you know, the collision industry, you know, the estimator or something like that, sometimes you can tell, you know, if they've been doing it for a long time, but otherwise, yeah, until they start processing the claim and everything like that, then those costs start becoming evident. And it kind of can catch, especially collision centers, it can catch them by surprise a lot on how much, because then they have to now negotiate with the insurance company and try to make sure that they're recouping at least their cost on it and able to repair it in a way that is satisfactory for the customer and make sure that the car is repaired to like new status. Yeah, when I, when I talk to anybody coming in or somebody calls, who has a question on the repair process, because I have people who have family members or students that are out of, out of the state and stuff in there in an accident and about getting repaired.

And one of the things they'll always say is kind of look and go in and see the facilities if you feel comfortable with it, but then also make sure question always asked what kind of you know, just you need to ask them what kind of supplies they use as far as paint goes, make sure it's one of the most of the major, of course, I'd always say PPG would be the one they need to do, but make sure it's a major manufacturer and paint because that makes a big difference because you can do everything correctly. And if that finish doesn't look good, it just ruins the whole repair process. Yeah. And we've, and, and, you know, we've seen it before where, you know, there's a lot of great companies that make good products and everything like that, but there are, you know, aftermarket stuff out there that we don't necessarily recommend just because of their longevity. A lot of times there's, there's reasons why things are cheaper than others. You do get, you know, you do get what you pay for a lot of times, especially in our industry, but you know, we've, we've gone on several claims where, you know, they've, they've refinished a car and the clear starting to peel off or, or, or chalk out or anything like that. And then when we go back and take a look, sometimes it's because they use someone else's product because the, the expense of repairing it and the, what they were getting reimbursed maybe wasn't there. So, you know, there's different reasons on some stuff. So, but you do want to make sure that, you know, where you're taking your car, they are using quality products and, you know, PBG, Exalta, BSF, all those big, big names, you know, they're in the OE market.

They're in the OE facilities. They know exactly what needs to happen. And they have a lot of research done on products to make sure that their products are, are actually durable, withstanding all the environmental damage from, you know, smog, chemicals, you know, anything that's out there in the environment that their, their product holds up, you know, like it should. Yeah, we're sitting there and I think, you know, part of the cost on stuff is something that, that people don't realize is also it's so important to have a partnership with a local distributor. Like, I mean, it's great to be able to have a partnership with Color's Edge because of not only am I getting the product and the product that is, that I can trust and knows and do a good job, but also when there needs to be training and being brought up to speed on different procedures and that type of, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I mean, some cars, no matter how much you try to match it up with a solvent paint, just because of what's put on OE at the manufacturer, it needs to be waters on things that are going to really match it.

Yeah. And, you know, and it's, and I feel for shops that aren't able to do that because it just, you know, puts them in a position of really having to work hard to get the product and do a good job. And they do a good job.

Ones who really care about what they're doing will do a good job. But we found that, you know what, the only way I can match water is with water. Yeah, the opacity, the way that they can generate stuff, a lot of times it's interesting, you know, when you're looking at a color and it's really clean, it's usually a water-based color. But, you know, the paint companies are investing a lot of energy in solvent still to make sure that it still is a good match.

But, yeah, there is areas, there are times that, you know, we've gotten actually calls from some of our solvent shops where, you know, we have to mix it up a little bit of water for them to help kind of dial in right in on that color match. Yeah. I've got a call from Jamal in Winston-Salem.

I think he has a paint question. Good morning. Good morning, guys. How y'all doing? Hey, good. How are you?

I'm doing fine. Well, it's not just a question, it's a, I guess, overall parts and cost of vehicle question. So you guys are touching on it, so I figured I'd ask, with the cost of vehicles continuing to rise, would there be a market for just your adult vehicle? I'm talking like, you know, just your regular radio, roll-up windows, none of the fancy components and all that.

It happens to be very low in cost and price. Yep, I tell you what, stay on the line because we're going to answer that great question because that's going to touch base on what we're fixing to move into the next segment. So hang on, we'll be right back. And again, if you have a car question or just tell us about changes in the vehicles, give us a call, 866-348-7884, and we'll be back with Jamal. We'll be back in a moment with Christian Car Guy Radio. Welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio Show.

I'm Jerry Mathis, got Darren DeWitt with me, and we've got Jamal on the line, and we're going to go back. He had a question, and I think it leads right into what we're going to be talking about in this segment. What was that question again? All right, we'll just go over it real quick. The question was, considering the rising cost of parts, which causes the overall cost of vehicles to go up, and it keeps going up all the time, would there be a market for a vehicle or a car company to come in and have just your bare bones vehicle, roll-up doors, your regular radio, none of the fancy components, back-up camera and all that, would there be a market for a bare bones vehicle and therefore a low-cost vehicle? I was told that there would not be.

I beg the different, but I wanted to ask you guys. Well, I'm going to tell you, I'll get Darren's opinion on that, but I agree 100% with you, except for, I don't know if there is a market for that, because even when we look at the work trucks now, I mean, you can hardly go on a car lot and buy a truck with roll-up crank windows and stuff and just a standard radio, and then the reason is there's just not a demand for it. People are, like I said, I think we live in a culture that likes gadgets, and unfortunately, as I said, they don't realize the initial cost, and also because the manufacturers are going to have to feel there's a market for it, because doing that, they're changing that whole assembly process and manufacturing process. Yeah, and I mean, me personally, I think there would be a demand for it if it was able to do it, I guess. Because for example, stick shifts, they still make them, you just can't really find them anymore, because one, a lot of younger people never learned on them, so you got that demand, but it does drive down the cost of a vehicle, and I think a stick shift vehicle lasts a lot longer, but when you look at some of the gadgets and safety features and all that different stuff, a lot of that stuff is mandated by the government, so you can't get around that, unfortunately, but producing a car or anything like that, if I had Musk-type money or anything like that, it would be an interesting, I think it would be an interesting entrepreneurship, I guess, or endeavor to see if there's a demand for that, but there's just so many, unfortunately on the manufacturing side, there's just so many rules and laws and everything in place for a car company to actually do it existing, they're just not going to invest the time into doing that, because they can generate more revenue, obviously, and more money by the more stuff they plug into it, and something I was talking to Jerry before we came on air was some of the stuff, even I've got a Tundra hybrid, I love the truck, but the navigation system on it is, I just found out last week that it was a subscription-based model, so they wanted me to pay money to re-up another year just to have navigation on the thing, so I'm sitting there, well, I've got Apple Play and I've got my Waze app and stuff, so I'll just use that for right now, but it's just so a lot of those things, a lot of these manufacturers and stuff, they've got a fiduciary responsibility for their stockholders to generate revenue, and that's another way that they can generate revenue, so that's unfortunately the model that we're in, but to your question, I personally do think there would be a demand out there if there's an entrepreneur out there that wants to pioneer that and can get through some of that, I think they can be very successful with it in that tiered market. Yeah, great call, and I think it leads up to some of the things that you kind of touched on, just like the, I think it was in 1969, more vehicles were being sold, new vehicles without air conditioning than they were with air conditioning.

Can you imagine even going out and buying a vehicle now without air conditioning? I could not, no. Yeah, and you know, it's just that. All right, we'll go ahead. I appreciate the call, and thank you for listening, and give us a call back whenever you can.

Thank you. We were just talking about some of that stuff, like, say, 1969, half the vehicles didn't have air conditioning, and today, I can remember starting in this industry, it was not unusual to check to see if it had air conditioning. When you was ordering, it was hitting front end. Now, if you come across one that doesn't have air conditioning, because there is a few out there that people buy them, and it costs more to buy a vehicle without air than it does with air. Yeah.

Because of, they have to retool everything. Yep. And today, I think it's 99% of all vehicles have air conditioning. I mean, that's the number on that. Pyro windows, now, that's another thing we just talked, he just talked about cranking windows and stuff.

It was in 1980 that pyro windows became prominent in US auto market. Wow. I mean, you didn't even, you know, you don't even think about that. And then seat belts, that's another thing. I grew up where, I can't remember ever buckling a seat belt growing up.

I can remember, you know, there's five, my mom and dad had five kids, wasn't minivans back then, so you was in a sedan, and obviously, you count the seats, there's not enough seats for everybody, so somebody was sitting on somebody's lap, or if you really wanted to stretch out, you laid in the back of the package tray behind the back seat in a vehicle going down the highway at 70 miles an hour. I mean, it's just, it's all changed and stuff in so many ways. So my question is, over the years, since you've been driving, Darren, since you got behind the wheel for the first time as a 16-year-old young man, and to today, what are some of the changes? What's something that's really surprised you in a good way and really surprised you in a bad way?

Let's see here. Well, like I said, kind of touched on it before, you know, when I first started, my first car was a 78 Datsun, and it was a stick shift, straight six motor. I loved that car, and I loved the simplicity of it as far as it was easy to work on, you can get your hands into the engine compartment. Yeah, it was just a nice car.

I just enjoyed it. It had, I think it had air conditioning, which, you know, I did like that. I did put a sound system in it, but yeah, it was, I personally still like the stick shift, personally, but, you know, just because something, and some of the newer cars have the automatic stick shift, so that's actually pretty cool, too. I've been messing around with that with my Tundra just recently, actually, so it is a kind of amazing how the technology has changed, and that's where I would probably say in today's world, I do like all, I ain't gonna lie, I like all the gadgets and widgets on the new vehicles.

I like the fact that, you know, it's, I like the satellite radio, you can always have a station everywhere, but I also love going to the AM stations and the FM stations and all that different stuff, and I love- Truth network, remember, just always- Oh, it's always all truth, so. Yeah, it's just the different things, you know, that they've got on it, the automatic headlights now where it automatically goes to the bright lights and down lights, I don't know, I don't have to, it's just, it's amazing how the driving experience has just kind of, it just has just become like automatic. It's hard to explain, but there's, which kind of explains some of the crazy driving out there now, I guess, because you don't think about the different things that you had to think about before, but yeah, the lane assist has helped a lot, yeah, on some of the driving, but yeah, there's just, it's just so different. I mean, a vehicle now to a vehicle when I first started is just, it's just so different.

The thing I don't like about it, I guess, is the same reason why I like it, because if something does not go right or something starts messing up, I can't fix it anymore. Before I could fix it, you know, my older cars, anything, I think 19, mid-80s on earlier, no problem. I could work on that car, diagnose what was wrong with it, why it was doing what it was doing.

Today's car, no, I can't figure it out, one, and if I could figure it out, I can't get my hands on the engine compartment or anything to try to work on anything. So I'd have to say, you know, so that's, you know, the workability on vehicles nowadays is really kind of more a little bit of kind of a pet peeve. Yeah, even a simple, simple thing is changing your headlight. I mean, there's a lot of cars out there that, you know, your headlight burns out and you can't even get accessibility to getting the bulb changed unless you take the headlight out itself. And then to take the headlight out itself, you've got to remove the bumper. And so a guy can't do it out in, I mean, one Saturday out in the park, I mean, out in his driveway, do that anymore.

Yeah, the DIY-ability of a lot of stuff is the disappointing part. Yeah. Be back in just a moment again with the call-in show at 866-348-7884. If you ever plan to go to West You're listening to The Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com Gonna save all my money If I can leave Yeah, they held me at a roll bar And I'll be ready to go Can't get out of my mind Can't let them know That I'm the group that's staying around Little buddy gonna shut you down Welcome back to the Christian Car Guy Radio Show. I'm Jerry Mathis, The Body Shop Guy. Christian Body Shop Guy from Raised Body Shop and Record Service.

And I've got Darren DeWitt with me from Colors Edge. And one of the things that I want to hit on before we kind of get off and time gets away from us. Because this is an area that we don't really think about. And I think it's a great opportunity. We talk about what you can't do and can do with your vehicles. And what you have to get somebody else to do. And those number of things you can do is getting very limited. But there's a lot of things that you can do.

And I think it's a great opportunity if you've got a son or a daughter. I know that there was little things that I would take time on a Saturday or something. When Taylor was growing up. Especially when she got her first car. Have her come and we'd wash it. And just go around and touch up and just check the air pressure and the tires. Just kind of something we did together. It's a great opportunity to be able to do that.

And some of the stuff that y'all have availability to get. To help with somebody. To take a weekend to kind of clean on their car. Touch up. Do some polish it. Wax it. Clean the headlights.

That's another thing. If you can keep an eye on headlights. Especially for young drivers. Because these lights are no longer glass. It's plastic. And plastic and heat cause delamination on the lights. And they start breaking down and you can't see out of them.

The other thing I will add to this is. Please teach your children how to change a tire. You'd be amazed at how many people don't know how to change a tire.

How a jack works or anything like that. And if it's something you don't know. Educate yourself on it because that is a lifesaver in general. And it's a good life skill more or less to know when you're traveling.

Especially long distances and stuff. Cause sometimes it takes AAA a long time to get there. Or a lot of people don't have those types of services.

And knowing how to change out your tire quick a second. I was amazed at how many people didn't know how to do that anymore. And I think it's just something you just don't think about anymore.

In today's world. But that is something on a weekend or something like that. To kind of show new drivers or anything like that. That you have in the house.

Some of those types of things I think. Yeah I mean our tow in part. Our wrecker service part. It's amazing how many times we go out and change a tire for somebody.

And where's your spare tire at. Where's you know. They have no clue. I mean they have no clue. But that's it.

Not even just changing it. But also where's it located at and stuff. And can you get to it. Because we go out and it'll be.

I need to. Got a flat tire. Spares somewhere. I don't know where it's at. And my guys will get out there and they're saying.

Well I'm going to be here a while because they've got. The trunk is so full of stuff I can't get to it and stuff. And they had no clue that that's where the spare tire was at. As you're talking about training our kids on stuff like that. I can remember you talked about straight drives. I had decided when Taylor. My daughter got her license. I wanted her to know how to drive a straight drive. Well I gave up that.

That one. I mean I don't think she would ever learn how to drive a straight drive. But she would always tell me. Because I always said. You know it's good to be able to know how to drive a straight drive. If you're ever in a situation that's the only vehicle around. That you can.

May have to get. That can get you out of a situation. Oh yeah. And she says I don't know anybody that has a straight drive. So I won't be around anybody that.

That's going to be the only vehicle. So. Made a lot of sense there.

So I couldn't really argue with her. But what's interesting. And one of my guilty pleasures is watching Amazing Race. And it is interesting when you do go to other countries. Because I've noticed this too when I've done a couple travels. Is some countries. That's what they have. Is a.

For a rental car or anything like that. Is a straight drive. And you see these people try to. Try to drive and navigate in it. And they're grinding gears.

And trying to learn on the fly. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's a little bit comical to watch. But. But you just got to feel for people too. It's like.

Oh man yeah. It's. Well it is young kids. I mean. Because I have a. I have a couple employees.

That work for me. In the. In the.

In the automotive industry. We can't drive a straight drive. Yeah. And I'm thinking. You don't know how to drive a straight drive. And.

And. Of course I don't want to learn how. For me. So it's. If you don't know how to drive a straight drive. Get somebody else to move it around. But there's a ton that just don't.

Don't know how to drive a straight drive. Yep. And we sit there. And this kind of goes into. The. You know. You know. We're talking about what. Is something. The changes and stuff. I've seen a lot of changes.

And one of them is. It's about what's good and what's the bad. Probably the good. Is the fact that some of the safety stuff. Yeah. You know. Except for when you start talking about. Repair costs and stuff because of now.

I mean it's probably the average. Vehicle today. That's that's on the road. A newer car from.

2020 up. Probably has the average is probably. Airbags. I mean because you got side curtains. You got airbags in the seat. And you got your regular steering wheel. And passenger component. Airbags.

And even that. I'm waiting for the foam to come out. Where it just. Yeah. Just. Just in the movie. Yeah.

It's probably around the corner. So. Yeah.

I like the safety part. But also then. You know.

It doesn't do much good to have all of that. If you're not taking time to buckle up and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I mean.

I still know people who say. I'm not going to put a seat belt on. And they'll.

I've been in cars where people will not put the seat belt on. But he'll take. And wrap it around and tuck it under their.

Their leg. Yeah. Why not just. Go ahead and.

Snap it in. Yeah. And I was one of my friends. I won't name who. But. Will not wear a seat belt. For the life of them. In their car. Driving with them.

There. Bells going off that they needed. And it'll just keep going off. Going off.

Because. A lot of the cars nowadays. They're going off. They're going off. And it will ring. And a buzzer will ring until you actually buck your.

But. You go off on something like. Do you not hear that noise? Ah, you just kind of.

Tune it out after a while. I'm like. Oh my goodness. Yeah. You need.

You need a buckle up. Yeah. Then so then. What I don't like.

Some of the technology. I mean, I understand. I understand what you're saying. And how you know what? I like that. And it's a nice one. Has all of this stuff. But I'm looking at it on the. The call stand of it. Because the customers. afford or have dropped insurance and even some of the older vehicles that have these mirrors that have the lane detection in it and the headlights and some of the trucks and automobiles have distance sensors in the tail lights and stuff and all of that stuff just adds cost as far as repairability and the final cost for somebody so that's what I don't like you know and some of the new materials that's coming out on vehicles and stuff I mean you know there's there's all this talk about you know the magnesium's coming back in through the Ford company again and all this stuff just adds cost aluminum you know it's a whole different repair process and I think it's going to as more and more of these vehicles and more and more of repair process and insurance companies get the data on that if you've got a vehicle that's an aluminum vehicle look to be paying probably 10 to 20 percent more on your premium because of the cost of repairing them is that much higher and then all of a sudden when we're dealing with all of that and Darren knows from the supply end just just getting I know because I've worked with Darren and and the store and stuff even getting paint supplies sometimes there was shortages I mean it's that's a when people say that a lot of people don't really believe it to be true yeah because you think oh it's just an excuse why you you're scheduling my car two months out or why it takes so long you had it in and it took a while to get it there's been times where paint pigment was unavailable yeah certain yeah coming out especially coming out of COVID it was it was really bad when everything started getting ramped up we did the best we could to kind of mitigate that for our customer base but it is it's you know this it's still an ongoing issue we get back orders all the time on a lot of stuff you know because of that yeah and and now with the strike going on I mean all of a sudden we've had a part supply issue for three years now and now with this coming on it just adds to it I was on the phone putting in an order and the guy put me on hold and said up Jerry never mind they're locking the doors at 12 o'clock on the on our parts distributor and warehouses so you won't be able to get any parts again this has been a call-in show well there's no use calling now but thank you for being here and thank you for listening christian car guy radio and I want to close with one thing on I was reading ecclesiastics it says God is done from the beginning to the end know that the better people are happy he wants people to be happy and to live that each one should be this is the truth network