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Car Doctor Show 7-22-24 fuel saving, electric car charging costs, electric grid sources
It's the Car Doctor with Kevin Langwinkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. And welcome to the Car Doctor show. This is the Car Doctor Kevin Langwinkle, long with Tom Klexton. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text, 3430106. Show is brought to you by U.J. Chevrolet, serving mobile since 1939. Alabama Pfeiff and Spine is seafood shed. Fantastic seafood shed on top of the hill in Spanish Fort. Ooh, man, good food. Shout time incorporated. You know, I'm going to tip throw down to the food hall this week in a partake of the vitals there. They have got it going on across the street from the Battle House. You know, in the first night of some bike building on the bottom floor, you can't miss it. Do you hear me? I hear you. You hear me? I hear you. Well, we were trying to get my get the computer up and. All right. There we go. We're getting there. Let's get some text in here. But we do have a couple of crawlers. Now we got some car problems. Yeah, I know we got a couple of collars online waiting on us. And I just want to thank everybody for listening tonight and see if we can't take care of some of your car problems. Have any questions, please give us a call 3-4-3-0-1-0-6. But, Philip, who got a line? Call you others. Hey, hey, hey. What? He's not here today. Maybe moving line too. Yes, let's go to that one. Hello. Hey. There we go. Yeah, this is the Donut Man's brother. Oh, okay. And I got a question. Okay. I have read about some substandard gasoline. And a couple of them were Walmart and Sams. Yeah. And they were talking about, you know, if you get gas from them, you should add a detergent or additive. And I was just wondering, you know, if you know if this is kind of true. Because I did see a guy at Sams put some additive in his Dodge Ram 1500 truck. Right. I didn't get to ask him. So I just want to know, is that a good idea to add an additive when you get gasoline from Walmart, Murries, Sams? You know, the fuel from stations like that, it's still a quality fuel. Right. Okay. I'm not going to bad mountain. Yeah. But there are stations out there that have what you call a premium fuel. It's a top tier fuel. Yeah. I'm losing my name there. But the top tier fuel, which actually means that it has a additive package in it that, you know, helps clean, helps with octane, helps, you know, with multiple things. And it's just a better, better for your car fuel. But you know, if you're, you know, got a car that, you know, doesn't require the high test fuel than that, I wouldn't have a problem with running it. No. It's fine. Yeah. Okay. And as he says now, that being said, the fuel that you get at Walmart's. And is Murphy, I believe Murphy is the Walmart supplier. Right. And Murphy has their own service stations. And is it a, is it a good fuel? Is it a great a fuel? Yes. But it does not have the additional additives, as Kevin said. Mm hmm. But you know, if you go to drive that all the time, you know, if I put eight or ten gallons or tanks of gas in it, not gallons, but tanks of gas ever through three months. Yeah. I picked me up a can of sea farm and put in there. Right. You know, a little additive to help clean out my injectors and stuff like that. But it's okay. There's no problem. But now Costco has got a tier one fuel. Right. And it's going to be cheaper than what those guys are. Right. Okay. All right. All right. I appreciate it. All right. How'd the note up man do it? He's doing well. You know, he had his little issue, but he's getting better. All right. Is he able to talk to us tonight? Uh, yeah. You know, I think he's listening. So he'll give you guys. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. He said he would call. We were wondering about him. Make sure he was still doing okay. I talked to him during the middle of the week. Thank God. He called the old man here. Checked in. Yeah. You told me you did it. Thank you sir. Appreciate you. All right. Appreciate you guys. All right, buddy. All right, bud. Bye bye. But yeah, there's a lot of different levels of fuel. You know, there are some premium brands. Right. You know, not just, not just the premium octane. I'm talking about, you know, the premium packages where they, they actually have the extra cleaners. Right. Right. And all this kind of stuff in it. You know, Chevron has got that tectron in it. Yep. And then Shell has got a package in theirs too. And I've actually driven the, with the Shell oil and the tectron oil. And I did get, you know, a very minute better gas mileage out of it. Now did it have to do with being better in fuel or was affected. It had a cleaner package in it. And it was cleaning my injectors and top of my valves and pistons and all off. And maybe I was getting a better combustion burn in the cylinder. Right. I don't know. You know, you'd have to put that under control circumstance to determine that. But, you know, hey, I just, like I told the gentleman there a while ago, I just got a full tank of Wal-Mart fuel but myself today. Where else are you going to get it for $2.89? Right. Right. You know, you know, and they're one of the big contributing factors or the biggest contributing factor to fuel economy is the amount of ethanol that's in the fuel. Right. You know, so if you've got, you know, a 10% mix versus a 15% mix, you're going to get better fuel mileage on that 10% mix. Not saying that a 15% mix is bad. Realize that you're going to get less fuel economy out of it. Right. You know. I don't see the team making that 15% ethanol cheaper though. Do you? Have you seen that? I haven't been buying it so I know. No. Well, my car won't run into it. So I haven't looked for it. Yeah. I mean, I've run it in some of my classic cars. Yeah. Just for simple fact that they have a little bit higher compression ratio and they like the ethanol. Okay. Right. Yeah. But, you know, it's most time it's all what your car wants. You know. If you have a car that is built for premium fuels, you need to run premium fuels in it. Sure. Yeah. Because one thing, you're going to reduce your performance. The miles per gallon, everything plus it's going to probably gum up in the motor, you know, in the intake triac and valves and that. Right. Because that motor is designed to have a premium fuel that's cleaning all that stuff out. Right. And just got a higher compression ratio and it's tuned for that higher octane fuel. So it's putting a little more, a little more timing in. You know, just this whole fuel strategy is built around expecting it to have the higher octane. Right. Okay. So we're not talking about 87 octane. No, it's, what is it, 90? 90, 91? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't ever use it. Yeah. I don't have it. Look at it. 87 is your typical regulated fuel that you get. But 89 is usually what your mid grade is. And 91 to 93, depending on the station, is where your premium fuels are. Okay. You know, if you have a, if you're running an older car or a classic car that, that was built with higher compression, you're going to need to run, you're going to need to run that higher premium fuel. Okay. Cause you know, you can, sure you can detune it, but you, you just choke the car down so bad that, you know, what's the point? Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah. The end of the guys go back now and run the unrelated fuel at them. Yeah. I mean, a lot of them do. Yeah. Excuse me. Unrelated fuel, but I, I really meant to say no, no, no lockdown. No, no ethanol fuel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them do. You'll get better mileage out of it, but you pay more for it. Oh, yeah. About $4, $3, $4. Yeah. But it's good for your lawnmowers and weed eaters and that, that kind of stuff. It's really good for anything that you're going to put fuel in and not drive it and burn it out in a, in a reasonable quick time. Because it will, the ethanol fuels will absorb water. Right. And you get water in the fuel. So it's our alcohol. Yep. Cause it's alcohol. And they will deteriorate the aluminum compilers in your system. Yep. It sounds like it's time for us to take a break and let you hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. Right. The radio. She needs a carburetor. Said a flood wire. She's riding me around all over the house. It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6 with your car maintenance And welcome back to the card doctor show. This is a card doctor Kevin Ray. We're following Tom Klexton. Have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text. 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6. Well, looks like we got a couple of people called in. Said let's, let's take our first one. Call are you with us. Yellow. Um, there we go. I wouldn't. Is this a guy's? Are you awake? Yeah, I was. Hey, we're talking about gas tonight. So, I got a couple of questions that had been brought up to me. And one of them we talked about before. I didn't know we had satellite reporters in the field. I didn't realize we had got that big. We all out there doing our job done. That's right. Satellite reporter is not taking in. But, uh, all right, I got four more questions for you. And I want you all's opinion on this. One of these we done talked about, and it's one of, it's gas myth. One of them is filling up in the morning. You get more gas because the gas is cooler and it's more denser. And this is coming from a guy that works in a petroleum factory. He says only one or two degrees difference can make a difference in your gas tank. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I can, I can believe that to a point. Um, whether you'll really notice it when it comes to how much fuel you mileage, you get out of your fuel. I don't know. You may. It's hard to say. Um, but, uh, but yeah, most of these stations now, as far as the time of day, you get it. Uh, most of these stations, the field storage tanks are underground. That's where I was going. And it, and it doesn't change temperature much. Yeah. Yeah. It was at 50, 50 something degrees in the ground like that. And those fiberglass containers are tanks that we have now. So the gas going in there is cold anyway. So by the time you get three or four gallons in it, I would think the complete capacity of the metal in the fuel tank is going to be cold chilled down to the point where you're going to get a maximum load anytime that you're doing that. Well, I think, Tom and Kevin, we, we pretty much debunked this one the last time. We talked about it, but, uh, good job there for your legend. Here's the next one. Okay. When you go into Phillip, do not put that gas handle in that third notch. Use the middle notch because there's a vapor line that goes back to the tank. And the faster you put it in there, the more vapor goes back to the tank and the less gas you get. What? Um, I mean, there is some validity to that theory, uh, but, you know, the vapors that come off that fuel, you're not going to lose a whole lot of fuel. You know, as far as what you're putting in. Um, but yes, those, those nozzles nowadays are made to where they capture the vapors as, as you're pushing liquid fuel in, it's got to push the air back out of that tank for it. Right. Except it. Right. And, um, and it will, um, it will just the vapor side. It will pull it out. You couldn't measure. You couldn't measure it at a tablespoon. Yeah. Well, you know, nowadays, every little tablespoon helps. Well, I sure does. Yeah. But what he was playing was go with the middle notch, don't go with the full, full blast. Just put it in the middle notch and it's not a bad idea in any way. Does it make you feel good? Do it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's not a bad idea because, you know, one of the things you do when you're, you've got to run full blast and you're pushing much vapor out and then a hurry, um, you do push some of that liquid, uh, back out of the tank into the vapor canister, um, and you can load that vapor canister with the fuel. You can't. Yeah. Now we have talked about that one before too, about doing that little click, click, click after you do it. You don't do that. Once you get it full. No, there you go. You don't do that. Leave it alone. When it clicks that first time, shut it off. Yeah. All right. Here's the, um, here's the third one. Uh, do not buy gas when they're filling up the tanks. Yeah. It's going to spur the sediment and water and anything else that's in the bottom of that, that big old tank. You may pluck some up into your car. Yeah. Yeah. Of course now there are filters on all these pumps. That's, that's over school. So that, uh, it does capture that, but that being said, um, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't tempt fate. You know, if you know it's, uh, they're dumping fuel on there and this got, it's going to stir some of that trash up in the bottom because I promise you every, every fuel tank in the ground has got trash in the bottom of it. Yeah. It has water in the bottom of it and trash in the bottom of it that they're, they're designed to do the, how many of them have you stuck with a, with a pole? Yeah. You know, I mean, there's so many inches at the bottom of the tank that's designed to, to let that sediment settle. Right. So, um, you know, that's just, just the way they're, they're, they're made. You know, um, so, you know, when people, uh, see them sticking that stick down in a, in a tank somewhere, they think they're actually, uh, checking the level of the fuel, which they may be checking the level, but they're also looking at the bottom of it to see how much water's in it. Right. Yeah. So I, I used to work at a gas station. We used to have to put the powder on the bottom of the, what, what would, what would turn color? Because when that water hit that powder, it would turn a color. Right. Right. All right. Question number four. Feel it. Feel it. Go ahead. Feel it. Feel it when you're half full because you're saving gas because the more air you have in your gas tank, the more gas evaporates due to just the gas evaporating. Um, I guess I could go along with that, uh, but if you're going to put the fuel in there and you're going to hit the interstate, you're going to burn it out and put more in shortly. It's, it's not going to affect it, you know, it's, it's your table spoon out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're talking drops a few. Yeah. All right. Well, you got to be, if that, if that fuel is coming out of there in a vapor, the start with it's got to be condensed to go break down into the liquid. It's just like make it moonshine. Same principle. Yeah. It gets your, gets your table spoon out. Well, even the, now I will say that I, it is a thing that I used to go to shell and their big storage tanks had floating roots on them to keep the, that evaporation down to a certain point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, you're talking about million gallons of fuel probably. Yeah. If I had to, had to guess, you know, so the evaporation from that can be a significant amount of fuel. Yeah. Uh, where most of these cars nowadays have about a 15 gallon tank in them, um, and they're, they're sealed pretty well, um, very rarely, you know, when there's, your car is sitting not running, uh, your fuel, fill in that is sealed, uh, the vapor canisters field, uh, is sealed. Um, so there's no air escaping that tank. You're actually pulling the vapors out of the canister and I'm burning them as much as you can, mixing them with the raw fuel and getting the explosion out of it. Right. Right. It, uh. Well, go ahead. Well, we've probably said what, oh, uh, uh, maybe a cup, um, it's a saving, I don't think it's a cup. No. It's more of a thimble. It's a, you know, I mean, logically, yes, all the above questions that you ask. But, uh, is it a big thing? Uh, uh, Johnny had not really, all right, well, one, one other thing that I want to, uh, tell everybody, and, and I heard this. You're retiring? I'm pretty reliable. No, not yet. I, I ain't that old. I got what, about 10, 15 years old. Hold on. Hold on. You're 15. I don't know. How long are you 15 years? All right. Well, they didn't. I still wouldn't be 65, but I, if you go to a gas station that has. A single hose for all three grades of gas, the first third gallon of what you buy was what the last person was getting. So if you want, uh, 100% pure gas and it's on that same hose, that first third, first, first third gallon, if that guy before you got 85 octaves, that first third gallon is 85 octane because it's all going through the same hose. Okay. Yeah. So what's your question? Well, if you're getting up, if you're going to get your gas for your lawnmower and you're getting 100% gas, yeah, and you're only got a one gallon tank, that first third gallon is probably going to be 85 ethanol. Oh, oh, yeah. Well, I don't see that now in the pumps that I see in our stations where they sell the gasoline with no ethanol in it as normally on a separate pump. Yeah, it's usually a separate pump, but, but if you're getting 85 or 87 or 89, okay. Yeah. All three of those go into the same hose, you know, but hey, looks like we're coming up on the brake side, like you've been studying there, you know, where'd you get your PhD? Same place. You got your DD214? Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. All right, guys, y'all have a great night and we'll keep on listening. Yeah. We feel, we'll appreciate that there, I feel agent. Yep. All right. We'll see y'all later and y'all have a great night. Simple pie. Hoorah. Thank you, Gerry Ed. We're going to take a break and let everybody hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. It's the car doctor with Kevin Raywinkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065 call Kevin and Tom now at 3 4 3 0 1 0 6 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. Welcome back to the Cardox show, this is Cardox Kevin Raywinkle on Tom Klexton, you have any questions, give us a call or send us a text 3 4 3 0 1 0 6, but we do have a caller on my own. Call are you with us? I really believe you do got to call us. Oh, hey! This is a good donut man. He is still kicking. What? He is still kicking. The doctor told me what was wrong with me. Uh oh. They said, "Joy Ed, don't give people enough chicken and dumplings." That's exactly what it is. Exactly what it is. Exactly what it is. Exactly. I'm doing good all as well. Good. I had 95 percent blockage. Ooh. I got upset at the morning. I was sitting on the end of the bed, I said, "Wait a minute, something right. Something right. Something, something, something wrong." Yeah. I reached over there and dial 9-1-1, the tipping spring hill medical and found out I had 95 percent blockage. Just one? One. Just one. Okay. That's all right. Yeah. Well, you got to tune up now. You're good to go. Yeah. I wish I wouldn't know that. I would have got Joe Ed to cut off one. There's a water hose and put it in my chair. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brank some of them used to steal clips. It had been cheaper. I promised you that. Oh, don't even say nothing about the cheaper. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm doing good. What a blessing. You're good. A blessing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a blessing. Thank you. You got to listen to your body, man. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Especially when you get past 21. Ooh. Yeah. I went through there slailing. Yep. Yeah. Four times. 1991, I had a master heart attack. Oh, you did? Yeah. Yeah. That cracked my chest open in 1991. They met double by past. Ooh. A good time I didn't need them by past. I don't think I needed one spoon full of a drain out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I needed one spoon full of drain out. Yeah. That's pretty good. Do a little rotarooter job on you. Yeah. But I'm doing good. Yeah. I'm good to hear. Kevin, how you doing, man? With your stuff. Oh, you know, I'm hanging in there. Yeah. Not 100% yet. But uh... I'm not eating. I'm nowhere near. Hey, you both think you guys are blessed to be here and I'm blessed not to thank God not to have a problem so far. Mm-hmm. I know it's something since I had it. Yeah. I see things moving a little bit better now. Mm-hmm. I wonder what that means. I'm going to have to call that girl up and see what's up. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. That's what your problem is. That's why you're having them heart problems. Yeah. Well, flow. What's your engineer? How you doing, man? All right. Engineer, how you doing? Oh, I'm doing fine. All right. All right. I want to tell you how... I'm perfect. I'm going to call you out tonight. Yeah, you did. Yep. Yeah. From Chicago, Illinois. What? Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He does listen. Huh? He does listen to us way off up there. Very well. Yeah. Well, good. Good. Every, every, every, every Monday night. That is awesome. That's awesome. Good. He's going to hear us. Good job. Chuck in the driver with you. Yeah. I got him hooked on it. Yeah. There you go. Thank you. Thank you for your prayers, bro. Amen, brother. Yep. Hey, you know, we take a lot of you there. Donut, man. You take care of yourself. Stay in touch. Yes, sir. I will. Y'all take care. All right, brother. Bye-bye. Thank you, Marcus. It's always good to hear from him. I need Marcus to stay around. I got to have somebody free over me. That's right. I'll get ready to go. That's right. Looks like we got another caller. Call you with us. Did we lose him? It sounded like it. Hey, hey, hey. We'll call back if you want to talk to us. Yeah, but it's just something about electric cars. Okay. I saw a deal or an, I don't know, internet, I think, where it said it had an electric car, a hybrid car, and a hybrid plug-in. Okay. What the hell's the difference between a hybrid and a hybrid plug-in? Well, the hybrid plug-in, it actually, you charge it just like you do an electric car. So it does have a gas motor in it or, you know, a fuel-burning combustion engine in it, whether it be diesel gas, whatever, but it also has an electric motor and a battery pack. And the plug-in hybrid, you can actually plug it in, charge that battery and run strictly on that battery for a short time. It's not going to take you very far. But it will run on it. The regular hybrid is something that actually charges itself as you're driving. So it will give you a very small amount of boost to your fuel economy because it's charging that battery when you're de-selling or breaking or something. And then it reuses, you know, it's a regenerative type thing where it uses that energy to drive the vehicle until it's, you know, time to charge it again, which it does all on its own. Well, so well, are you saying that the regular hybrid car, you don't have to charge that battery with a charging cable or facility? Most hybrid cars are a plug-in hybrid. Yeah. But there are some out there that are a hybrid that you don't charge the battery. Oh, okay. So is this one of the self-charging deals that we talked about on deceleration. It turns into a battery charger rather than a drive motor. Yeah. Yeah, basically the motor turns into a generator. Well, you know, if you didn't burn the extra fuel when you're driving, if you had one of those and if you charged that battery the whole time that you were driving, then you would never need to charge it because it would stay charged. Yeah. Yeah. They just hadn't figured that one out yet. Probably like an air compressor or something on there that it causes extra amps on the motor. Right. So it turns into a fuel. Right. Right. So yes, you can have it generate power and put it back into a battery and you're able to use that energy to drive on that and save fuel, but it also it's not a huge savings as compared to, you know, where some of the true plug-in hybrids. But you're always going to have a little bit of charge in that battery. Yeah. And they have, they basically only let you use a small portion of the charges in those batteries anyway, because the way you ruin the battery is running it all the way down and bringing it back up, then that large swing of energy in it is what kills them. If you only use 15, 20% of the reserve in the battery and then let it recharge back up, that battery will last much longer. Yeah. Okay. So it behooves us not to totally ruin our stuff, batteries did. Well, even on our cell phones. Yeah, but see, the thing is, is the car won't let you. Okay. Yeah. It is protecting itself. Yeah. So. Okay. You know, it's just doing this job. And even even the hybrid bit, you know, the true electric vehicle is not the hybrid, but the electric vehicles, they only let you use about 80% of the charge in the batteries. And they're, they're making a charge and back up. Did you see where they put those electric car chargers at Starbucks in California? And it costs the country something like a bill, a billion. I'm having trouble getting that B out, a billion dollars. I'm going like, what? Yeah. You know, a billion dollars? I assume that's a hundred million, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. They're, you know, I assume that they're talking about the infrastructure and they, they talk the, the state or country into, you know, funding the install, installation of the stations and or the, the charging station. Yeah. All of that. But that being said, the power that you're actually putting in your car, you have to pay for that. Yeah. Right. It, you use credit card and say, okay, charge. Yeah. Yeah. And you have to pay for that, that almost said fuel. But you have to pay for that, that amount of... Well, it's just like you would if you was buying fuel. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, that being said, now, what is generating that electricity that's coming through that grid that is being put in that electric car? Yeah. Do we by chance have some natural gas running those theme engines to develop that power? The majority of the power that's made on the electric grid is, it comes from fossil fuels. And natural gas and all, there are windmills and these windmill farms out. They don't pay for themselves. Yeah. They wear out before they pay for themselves. Yep. Yep. And those, it's pretty spectacular when one burns up to, because you got that thing up there. You can't really get to it. No, you can't get water. It's up there, bro. Yeah. We're talking about... Can't get a follow-up there either. These are like 100 foot long each, so it's 200 foot span. Yeah. And they'll get the burn and they're still steadily spinning. Well, that's all fiberglass, because it's not steel because they try to save the weight on that tower and those blades are all fiberglass so that they don't have the weight on them. That's all a burning item. Yeah. That's all man-made. It burns. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the blades, they'll actually run down and burn. Yeah. You'll see the blades, they'll be a blaze all the way to the tip. Yeah. So, you know, there's uses for all that, okay? And they can supplement. And if they're in an area that they really have a lot of wind, yeah, then they can generate enough power to make it work well, but these ones that are not really generating that much, they probably don't even pay for themselves. Right. It sounds like it's time for us to take a break and we'll let you hear from our sponsors and be proud. I think he's tired. Yeah. It's the car doctor with Kevin Raywinkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3 4 3 0 1 0 6 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. Are we going to do what they say can't be done? And welcome back to the car doctor show. So, this is Dr. Kevin Raywinkle along with Tom Klexton. The questions give us a call or send us a text 3 4 3 0 1 0 6. But while we were off the air, we had a young lady call in that had a question about the shifts Illinois's inner car and wanted an estimate kind of on what it should cost to do that, that sort of job. On that front wheel drive car, you know, you don't have a pan to drop, to access the solenoids. You have a front cover that you can remove to get to the transmission control module, the valve body, the solenoid pack, all that. It's a little difficult to get to, so it's a little labor intensive. And if it's just a solenoid, you know, one solenoid or two, the solenoids themselves are usually 150 or so dollars apiece and you're going to be probably four hours worth of labor at about $200 an hour. You can do the math on that, but it's not a real cheap thing, but it's cheaper than buying a transmission for sure. We don't have a lot of problems with that. There are some. That tells me that car is at least 12 or 13 years old. We don't have a lot of problems with that, but we can have problems with them. Is that a job that needs to go to a transmission shop? It would be best. I would prefer seeing it go to a transmission shop because most, when I found over the years, is most technicians, they know a lot about the majority of your car, but the transmission is black magic to them. Right. They just don't understand it. Well, you know, the majority of the transmission guys, they specialize in transmissions only, and so they're the gurus with that and they know what shortcuts can be taken. It might behoove her. I don't know the guy's phone number out of hand without calling it, but transmission, we got it wrote down. Transmission with dishes? I used to have it written down. It's just clean down there. I've got it. I'll look it up and get to it. The transmission magician is who we're talking about. It does a great job. You never had any issues with them. No, he didn't take care of his customers, so I would be comfortable sending somebody to him. Oh, yeah. I don't recommend people very often. I don't know what I'm getting trouble doing that. Right. Because it's not physically putting our eyes, hands, or diagnostic equipment on it and here, on air, just about anything we're doing is a guesstimation and are 40 years or 50 years experience each about, well, I've seen that. I've seen it more than once or whatever, so you kind of get a good idea about it, but still, that's not concrete. Yeah. He can probably drive it and do a quick inspection on it that would tell him whether or not it's a solenoid type problem or if it's an internal clutch or seal problem in the transmission. Because there's two different approaches there, you can either fix the solenoids or you may have to go into the transmission and do an overhaul where you're actually putting new clutches, new seals, all that stuff in it. I would trust what he says. Yeah. I would. I would be extremely surprised if they were trying to take advantage of equal. I just don't see that out of him. You know, transmissions are, I deal with them every day and they're tricky on the diagnosis part of it. It's a, like I say, most technicians that work on your car, they don't have a clue what's happening inside of them. The gentleman, you got a pin and you might want to write this number down. I'll give you a second to get you a pin located. But it's two, five, one, six, six, six, zero, seven, three, zero, six, six, six, zero, seven, thirty, and ask for Glenn and tell him that we told, I told you to call. And he'll then just tell him that they told me to call and talk with Glenn. Yep. But I'm, and I'm sure he'll take care of you. So, you know, you're going to get the truth, whatever it may be. Yep. Yep. And I'm, you know, honestly, I'm driving an equinox right now that has a, what I feel is a solenoid that is not, not, uh, activating like it should. Okay. Every so often, it will, like, flare when it goes to shift, but when it does, it shifts to the firm, but it just, I get that little RPM flare like it's took, taken too long to, to make that transition. Most of the time it's, it's a good hard firm shift. So I don't really believe that it's got any clutch problems or anything like that. But, uh, I believe it's going to, going to need a solenoid, uh, assembly. Okay. And I just haven't, it's, it's my demo. So, you know, naturally, I stuff I'm not going to, you know, you're driving it, but go to, you know, there's a potential problem there. You need to find it. Yeah. So you fix it. Yep. So, yeah. And it'll be fixed for you. Put a good, put a good route in it. Let him, let him figure it out and have the diagnostic equipment and the diagnostic knowledge of 50 years. You know, and it's, it's, uh, it's one thing to go on with a test drive and, and, uh, see what the car is doing and you try and diagnose it from there. It's a whole different thing to drive it every day. Sure. And see what it does because it doesn't, it doesn't do it all the time. It's just every so often. And, uh, yeah. So I, I have a pretty good idea of what it's, what it's doing now. So, uh, just for the simple fact that I've been driving it every day. Right. Yeah. You kind of got an idea about what's going on. Yep. We certainly want to thank all of our first responders and especially all of our veterans out there. And we don't want to forget about our POWs and M.I.A.'s that we still have missing, uh, in the unknowns and, uh, and all of the guys that was killed useless in Afghanistan. We're still praying for them and, uh, and, and hope, uh, and that, that guy never gets a chance to, to make such a stupid move again and get a bunch of people killed. Um, just, just forgetting to do bigger hurry and trying to do it because somebody else, um, had done it, you know? Right. All right. Let's get rid of all the damn personalities and get this thing over with. Right. Let's get our country fixed and get back on the right, right leg. But, uh, God bless all you guys and gals and for all those veterans and first responders, a big hoover, uh, and remember, hero is not a four letter word. You got that covered. Yep. All right. Thank you. Everyone home. Listen. I'm going all up on my guns and ammunition. Yeah. Yep. And, uh, we hope to hear from y'all next week. Bless you. We'll see you as tonight on the Scuttlebutt Dead work. Well, some veterans, four veterans. Two old Marines with a little bit to say. And they're stones to say it. God bless you all. Kill it. Engineer. Now? No? No? You can't kill it? Come on. Come on. Come on. We're trying to cut it off early. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. There he goes. There he goes. All right. He wouldn't break that thing down. Well, I live in Kentucky back in '49 and went to Detroit working on assembly line. The first year they had me put my wheels on Cadillac. Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by and sometimes I'd hang my head in pride. 'Cause I always wanted to be one that was long and black. One day I devised myself a plan that should be the envy of most any man.