WKXL - New Hampshire Talk Radio
Cail & Company LIVE with Dan Weed
Dan Weed of Weed Family Automotive in Concord joined us in studio Wednesday to give us Fourth of July traveling advice and bring us up to date on automotive ransomware attacks that have been playing havoc in that industry in recent days. We also previewed WKXL's new "Vanity Insanity" contest with a weekly winner of a Conventional oil change and auto check up at Weed Family Automotive.
- Duration:
- 44m
- Broadcast on:
- 26 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
Good morning, it is Kale and Company Live here on WKXL, nh.radio.com and as gravelly as I was yesterday, I think it's probably even more so today but with Dan Weed of my side and Andrew Gibson our executive producer, we can make it, we can make it folks. Through this next hour here on WKXL, nh.radio.com as I mentioned, Dan Weed of Weed Family Automotive is in the house. Good morning, Dan. Good morning, Ken. I'm so glad you're here today. Well glad to be here. To help me get through this voice ordeal that I've been going through the last couple of days. Hopefully it'll be better by tomorrow. But at any rate, Dan is here from Weed Family Automotive at 124 stores street in Concord, one of our great sponsors and you can get in touch with them right now. Making appointment at 603-225-7988 and 4th of July, Dan, right around the corner. So you might want to pay extra attention to that vehicle. Yeah, a couple of days off so to speak coming up next week and a lot of people out there traveling right now. So now is the time to get that car checked out and of course we're heading into the last few days of the month and the beginning of next month. So inspection time is upon us for a lot of people. So let's try and get that taken care of it. But yeah, trip checks, you know, let's talk about trip checks for a minute. This is something that I hate to see anybody broken down beside the road for really any reason. You can talk about it for an hour. Okay. But you know, this is one of the things, you know, we talk about state inspections but get in your vehicle checked out before you go on vacation and you know, help us help you and you know that you're going on vacation weeks or months in advance. Let's plan a little ahead, schedule this a few weeks before you have to go hopefully or even just a week before be great and get the car checked out, make sure that, you know, air conditioning in particular right right now after last week is working well, make sure the cabin filter is cleaned out, the car is up to date on its service and everything. Tires and whatnot, you know, tires is something we don't often think about in the summertime. We talked more in the wintertime around here because of winter weather and traction but certainly in the summer, it's just as critical and especially with some of the rainstorms that we've been having, you know, hydroplaning is truly an issue. There are more accidents caused around the country by what type of weather? Rain, rain, right? You told me that several years ago. I said, is it the glare of the sun? Is it snow? Is it ice? And you told me rain? Rain is it? Yeah. You know, number one cause of weather related accidents. And so, you know, your tires are our state inspection limit and industry limit is two to three 30 seconds, which really isn't a lot of tread there. And especially when it comes to hydroplaning and whatnot, just isn't enough, you know, I would say conservatively you should be replacing tires right around three to four 30 seconds at the most. So that is one of the things that we look at during even just our basic services is look at your tread depth on your tires and start to recommend tires, you know, right around that four 30 seconds range to keep everybody safe. You know, the the state inspection limit is two 30 seconds. But really, that leaves you the thickness of the head of a penny. Wow. For tread depth. Yeah. Yeah. So so I don't know if you saw the NASCAR Cup race on Sunday where they use the wet tires as they call them. Sure. For one of the first times ever, I think the second time ever in a points race and they seem to work out and they didn't get quite the speeds of the regular slick tires they use, but they seem to work. Okay. Yeah. And IndyCar and Formula One have had rain tires for decades. You know, it's something that NASCAR has never adopted. So this is something new for them to try out and to be able to run a race in the rain is really unheard of in NASCAR at this point. And I don't know if it's actually raining at the time. The trunk, the track was a little damp on the damn side and the speed was a couple of miles an hour less than it would have been with the regular slick tires that they use, but the the rain tires, the wet tires that they use seem to work out. And I've seen things, I saw things the other day, I was just watching on TV. Things you never see at New Hampshire Motor Speedway like five wide and I had all that kind of stuff. I don't know that had nothing to do with the tires. I don't think but I think it's that they've changed the rules so much in NASCAR that you know, trying to make it more and more competitive and you know, push the envelope a little bit more than we're used to seeing. Now Christopher Bell who won the race said that he enjoyed it because he loves to have you know some you know, something to take his mind off the you know, the race to a certain extent and has a little bit of a distraction and has something else to think about than just the race itself. But it was interesting to see them and and the rules that NASCAR they seem to be making up the rules on the fly as far as using the tires or not using the tires the the rain tires. But but it all worked out and they I think it was the latest race that they've ever had at the track. I was thinking that what you know, darkness would be a factor at some point, right? That nearly was. They just managed to sneak it in. So one of my daughters had to work the race for her job. Yeah. And they she didn't get out of there till eight thirty quarter or nine. Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised they let it go as long as it did. But they finished the race. They did it. In fact, it went overtime. It went NASCAR overtime on on Sunday. So at any rate now though it was interesting and a little history made at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This this they normally don't use those rain tires. But do you think that could be you know, something that would be more in use as we proceed as far as NASCAR is concerned? Well, it's it's tough to say, you know, the other race series have provisions for, you know, people in the stands undercover so to speak. NASCAR really doesn't have that. So he presents a safety issue for the fans. But as far as continuing on with the race schedule and getting the race done, certainly I think that would be interesting to watch a race in the rain. Yeah. And see what happens. I mean, they've got the tires for it at this point. Sure. And the technology for it is just how does it affect the, I guess not even the outcome of the race, but people watching the race in person and on TV and what kind of what does it take to do that for the entire staff, whether it's a camera crew, the spotters up in the stands, stuff like that. So there's a lot of details to work out, but I think it'd be fun. I thought it was a little more compelling than a than a normal race waiting for NASCAR's decision. Can they change the rain tires and mandatory stop to change the rain tires? Everybody had a pit and you know, it was I thought it made it a little bit more compelling. Sure. Yeah. So yeah, I didn't get an opportunity to watch it. I had a bunch of other stuff going on, but it would have, in my opinion, it would be neat to see a night race at Loudon. I would love to see a night race. And we were really close to it with no lights. Yeah. Yeah, we were close, but unfortunately still no lights allowed. And I think one of these years it's going to go in a backfire in terms of, you know, they may not get a race as a result of it. Well, I think that's probably we're knocking on that door already. I mean, we've already lost one race because of it. You know, the owner of the track had pulled one race to give it to another track for better scheduling and whatnot. Yeah. You know, we've lost one and there's nothing to say we might lose both. I don't know. I think it's inevitable if they don't get lights over the next five years or so, because I think there'll be a trend toward more night racing, or at least later in the day. Yeah. And that race was moved up. I mean, it was supposed to start at 2 30. They started at about a half hour early, but I mean late in the afternoon. But we'll see. Hopefully, they'll be able to retain the race for many years to come. But I do think the addition of lights would be beneficial. I do too. Dan, we just hear from Weed Family Automotive 124 Storage Street in Concord. And we mentioned 4th of July coming up. What else is happening in the automotive world? Well, the automotive world to some degree has been rocked to their foundation this past week. There's been a global cyber attack on dealer management systems. So a company called CDK Global provides services to a lot of the dealerships. There's 30,000 car dealerships in the country. I'm sorry, 15,000 car dealerships and another 15,000 truck dealerships combined 30,000 dealerships that were affected by the cyber attack last week. And it is still going on now. Wow. And it has been made known to us that the company called CDK Global, so they offer software for all the dealerships for sales, service, parts, financing, bookkeeping, everything. Wow. So it's a one entire program for the to operate the entire dealership network. We were made aware of it last week when we called the parts from one of our local stores, and they couldn't even look up parts at that point in time. So, wow, boy. So it's been a week now. A lot of these dealerships are still being affected by this cyber attack, and it's a ransomware. So there's all kinds of information in there, right? Yeah, you know, there's all people's identities in there, vehicle information, addresses, phone numbers, data bar, social security numbers, you know, financial information that's in there. So there's a lot to it. Yeah, I guess so. I wasn't aware of the magnitude of the issue, but at any rate, that has to be, you know, scary for almost everybody who owns a car, right? Yeah, exactly, right. See these. Dan Wheat is here from Wheat Family Automotive, 124 stores street in Concord, and operators are standing by right now. So make it appointment at 603-225-7988, the end of the month is on the way in just a few days. And not only can you get your inspection for the month of June, but all the way or we're not to September, right? Or on October maybe, right? And get that inspection in advance, especially if you're on the fence about keeping your current vehicle. All right, we'll take a break. Cale & Company continues right here, WKXL NH-TALKRadio.com. We are presented by Northeast Delta Dental, and we'll be right back. Welcome back, Cale & Company Live here on WKXL NH-TALKRadio.com. We are presented by Northeast Delta Dental. Dan Wheat is in the house. If I can't make a through, then it's the next hour, Dan. Well, but we're talking cars here on this Wednesday morning, and it's great to have you with us. Yeah, we have something very exciting to announce. I want you to stand by for that, but Dan, anything else that we should know about? What's going on in the automotive world? Well, getting back to the cyber attack with all the dealerships, it was part of their dealer management system. It has now become known that a group called Black Suit, a cyber crime gang, as they're called, is being taken credit, if you will, for this dealer hack and on the dealer management system to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, as when they're holding ransom. There was a first attack reported last Thursday. Things appeared like they were going to come back and be fixed within a day or two, and then they hit a second time. So they really crippled the dealership network out there. And as of this morning, there's still a lot of functionality that is not happening within those dealer management systems. So the dealers have literally had to go back to pen and paper in a lot of cases to be able to sell cars, to sell service and parts and what not, and/or come up with an alternative way to do it, which has really slowed everything down, and I can't imagine the millions of dollars is costing the dealerships in sales service and parts at that point. I mean, this is really debilitating. Now, does it impact you at all? Well, it has, so we called again last week to get parts, and the dealership couldn't even look up parts. So we had to go to an alternative dealership that hadn't been using that particular system. So, you know, we're sourcing parts from places that we don't normally source parts from. Wow, that is, you know, just an amazing development that no one would ever think of. I mean, nothing like this scale has ever happened, has it? Not that I'm aware of within the automotive industry that has had really a country-wide effect on, you know, basic things right down to, you know, us being able to provide parts and service, you know. So, you know, obviously there's federal agencies involved at this point, but it appears that the CDK is going to have to pay this ransom in order to get their system back up and running. Wow. I did not realize the enormity of the whole thing. I did see a new survey that's out that says more than 95% of Americans want to own their own vehicle data. Sure. So what does that mean, exactly? So that much like your cell phone, your vehicle collects data for different functions and functionality or the software subscriptions that you've applied for, whether it's SiriusXM, cell phone in your car, things like that, they use that data and that they gather in the background to be able to market to you, to be able to track your buying habits and things like that and all sorts of other stuff. So this has been an ongoing discussion for a number of years of who actually, you know, if you own the vehicle, who owns the data in the vehicle and it would be my belief that I own the data in the vehicle and it shouldn't be shared, you know, it's kind of like going to a website and accepting all their cookies, you know, and that's where you've got to look at it and your cell phone is really no difference. You pay for that software subscription or you're online on, you know, whatever it is and they say, you know, this so-and-so wants to know your location. Well, they're, you know, tracking your location to be able to market to you to, again, look at your buying habits, travel habits, spending habits and whatnot and use it for financial gain. And your car is really no different, you know, based on travel habits where you stop for gas, you know, if you buy gas at a certain gas station every day or you go to multiple different ones and so they look at everything like that. Yeah. Wow. It's all out there, right? It is. Yeah. Truly a marketing purposes and whatever else. But so I also read that the off-lease vehicle pool is starting to dry up. Yeah. The least thing, it works for a very small segment of people. We actually tried it in our household much to my wife's dismay. She quickly realized how much she was driving every year and at certain times I had to put her into a different car because she was going to go over the mileage and to keep that mileage down. And so for people who don't travel a lot are really, you know, I'd say 10,000 miles or less a year, which really isn't much, you know, a lease would work out. I recently talked to a lady who's got a car that's now five or six years old and she's barely got 40,000 miles on it. So that would be a good candidate for, you know, a lease option. Right. But that pool is shrinking and shrinking and, you know, for the everyday person, it might not work out. But the flip side is our jobs are changing dramatically, you know, the people working from home now that don't have to travel to the office anymore. Yeah. I would think the flip side would be, we'd start to see that number increase, but as you know, the article portrays that the off-least pool coming in is shrinking or the other way to look at it is, you know, those are leases that were turned in people, you know, renewed or wanted to get another car to, you know, continue on that lease program. And again, people working from home, so they would be buying out that lease at the end of it rather than continuing to lease another vehicle. I see. So that's why the off-least pool is drying up. Yeah, a couple of different reasons for it. Yeah, exactly. So do you feel as many people are leasing vehicles these days as they once did? No, we don't see it nearly as much, you know, the people that we see doing, if you will, leases or even fleet management programs are, you know, big companies, you know, that don't want to get into tying up, you know, cash, if you will, into maintaining an older vehicle and what not. So we see a lot of the fleets, you know, have these leases and fleet management programs in place. Yeah. That's where we see most of them come from. So individuals are not leasing as much as they once did? Not like we once did. No. No. But I don't think it's, you know, me personally, I look at leases, you know, it's not a good financial gain for you unless you're going to buy it out at the end and you have to look at that buyout very carefully. Because when you sign that lease paperwork, they give you a buyout cost and, you know, for the end of the lease. And if the vehicle is going to retain its value and be worth more than the buyout, terrific. If not, then you turn it back and start all over again. So you really have no accrued value at the end of a lease, you know, like you would a trade in a few. So if you bought your car out right, paid on it for four years, paid it off. And at six years down the road, it's paid off. And now you have something to turn in on a trade and have basically some equity put into that deal. You know, I don't see a lease being like that. It's a perpetual payment plan. That's what it amounts to basically. Yeah. Yeah. So at any rate, that's, that's interesting. And I didn't realize that that off lease pool was shrinking like it is. Dan Wheat is here from Wheat Family Automotive at 124 store street in Concord. And anything else, Dan, that you would like to share with us? You know, the big thing again was the CDK hack. And like anything else, our market and our world is continually changing and things get harder and harder to fix as we go. And what always seems simple is a lot more difficult than we realize and it takes hours. So, you know, some of what we do, you know, breaks tires, steering suspension is pretty routine, but you get starting in, get into the diagnostic and electrical and using scan tools, oscilloscopes to be testing different components. It makes it really tough to do this day in and day out. And especially now the, they passed the right to repair rack, but some of the dealers have found a loophole to that. And so we're finding more and more information, not being shared to be able to fix cars. You know, we had a call for a service on a Porsche not long ago. And so we wanted to look up the service procedure on a transmission flush. There's nothing anywhere on four different shop management systems to tell you what you need to do to service that transmission. Wow, that is really something. It is. You know, and these shop management systems that we have, we pay monthly subscription fees for to get this information and they can't provide it. So, so why would that be? Well, the dealerships have decided, it's not the dealership, it's the manufacturer, have decided that, you know, they want to be able to drive the cars back to their dealership network for service and repairs. And so they're withholding the information from the independent repair industry to be able to make that happen. Okay. Well, there you have it from Dan Weed at 124 store street weed family automotive. And you can check them out online at weedfamilyautomotive.com or on Facebook at weedfamilyautomotive as well. We always get around to electric vehicles at some point or another during our shows. And we will do that, but I understand we have to take a quick break right here. And we will do that right here. Caitlyn company live WK XL, nhchalkradio.com. And we are presented by Northeast Delta Dental and we'll be right back. [Music] Caitlyn company live here on WK XL, nhchalkradio.com. I know I sound very strange this morning. There are other mornings I've sounded strange too, but in a different way perhaps. But bear with me and Dan Weed thankfully is here today from weed family automotive. 124 store street in Concord for all of your automotive needs. You can make an appointment right now and get things checked out for the 4th of July and beyond at 603-225-7988. And then I did see a survey where automakers are starting to rethink where they're getting their parts due to the sloppy chain issues that are going on right now. Yeah, we're still struggling with supply chain issues, but I think the bigger thing is a global picture and looking at what's going on. In the European sector and whatnot, particularly with China and trade issues with China. And I'm hoping that the manufacturers start to bring parts manufacturing back to this country. I've got to say I've been thoroughly disappointed seeing some of your old school brand names with parts made in China. And we have seen a drastic decline in part quality issues the last particularly since COVID. And it doesn't really matter whether we're buying, if you will, factory parts, aftermarket parts and things like that. The overall quality that we've seen in the manufacturing industry has suffered a dramatic decline. So I would love to see the major manufacturers. And we talk about that in our country like it's four General Motors, Chrysler and whatnot, but there also we have Toyota, BMW, Honda, with all plants here in the States, here in Hyundai. So it would really be neat to see them bring parts manufacturing back into this country or even under their own roofs at that point because that means more jobs. So if you're providing and building your own parts, it means more jobs as well. So it would be great to see that brought back, I'm going to say rained back in with the amount that we outsource is just mind boggling you wouldn't even give two thoughts to to see all the stuff that's made in other countries that we are not doing ourselves. And I would hate to think that if we went into a global conflict that we wouldn't be able to stand on our own two feet with our current manufacturing situation. Is there any chance that the manufacturers from all the different brands that you just mentioned could collaborate on that? Is there any chance of that? I think so, yeah. You look at a lot of the individual components and vehicles and they're made by certain companies. And so whether it's Ford, GM, Chrysler, they all rely on different suppliers, different manufacturers to build and design certain parts for them. So yes, it is possible that they could collaborate together and join forces to be able to make their own in-house parts and maybe a little more unified. Yeah, I mean, I think it would be beneficial to all the automakers. Yeah, yeah. Another survey again, one more survey, one more survey shows that many US EV buyers, electric vehicle buyers, won't purchase another. Well, I can understand that. And not with a jaded perspective, but in all reality, I think that given the range anxiety, we'll call it, that is out there with an EV, you know, most of the EVs are purchased to do local driving. And most families that buy an EV have a regular internal combustion engine vehicle to do long trips, long distance driving and vacations with. Yeah. And just the infrastructure still isn't there. I mean, if that was there, there'd be a whole different story because you've said time and time again that you like the technology of EVs, but it's just those issues of the infrastructure and how to get it charged when you're on the road. Exactly. And how far can you go? Right. And when you get to that charging station, is it going to be up and running at full capacity? Yeah. You know, you pull up to a gas pump and if it's not working, you pull around to the next two or three. All right. You pull up to a charging station and when one's down, typically they're all down. You're out of luck. You're out of luck. Yeah. Yeah. And wow. And you know, so I can certainly see from a, what do I want to say, a reality standpoint, why you'd have one EV for every day running around town driving and a regular internal combustion gas powered vehicle for everything else. Right. That certainly makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, it does. But apparently, Tesla shareholders are happy with the job that Mr. Musk is doing because they've given him the approval for a $56 billion pay package. Wow. So it's pretty sweet. Nice work if you can get it, right? Right. Well, I'd be happy with just one of that 56. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be very nice. You know, we could even split that, right? We could be one of 56 of his best friends and share it with us. So we have reached that time for our cartoon of the week, spells C-A-R-T-U-N-E. That's right. And Dan always picks one out prior to every program that we do. And what have you selected today? Something, again, automobile repulated for the cartoon of the week. This has been released on several occasions by different musicians. The original one was a single by Wilson Pickett. And from the album, The Wicked Pickett, released in 1965, I believe, had been re-done a couple of times. But the version that I had picked of Mustang Sally was from Eric Clapton. All right. So here we go. Eric Clapton and Mustang Sally on WKXL. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] WKXL and a little Eric Clapton there and Mustang Sally. Now, do you prefer that version? Well, Wilson Pickett. I like them both the same, but I am an Eric Clapton fan. So kind of, you know, there you go. That's the reason I went with that. All right, our cartoon of the week and coming up, if I make it through the next segment, we will talk about something very special coming up here at WKXL and htockradio.com in collaboration with the weed family automotive. So we'll take a break and be right back. Kale and company continues here with Dan Weed from Weed Family Automotive on WKXL and htockradio.com presented by Northeast Delta Dental. [MUSIC] We welcome you back from WKXL and htockradio.com. Kale and company live here on a Wednesday. That was a little over a week away from the 4th of July, so get your car in tip-top shape and you can do so at Weed Family Automotive at 124 store street in Concord. Dan Weed is here and Dan, I mentioned prior to the break, we have something very special coming up starting next Monday, July 1st, the 1st of July. We are going to start something called Vanity Insanity. I'm on WKXL and I think Dan that you would agree with me that I don't know what the numbers are, but here in the state of New Hampshire, we seem to have a high percentage of vanity plates. Yes, we do. I believe I saw a statistic not too long ago that New Hampshire is the number one state for vanity plates per capita in the U.S. Right, and we're a relatively small state, but per capita we have more than any other state in the country. I think for larger states like Illinois is up there, I saw a statistic that indicated that, but for a state with the population of New Hampshire, we have quite a few, and many of them, Dan, as you know, are very creative. Yes, mine might be one of them. You have a creative last name. At any rate, we are going to be out there spotting. The WKXL spotting license plate team will be out there starting over the weekend, and if we spot a creative vanity plate, which I'm sure we will spot many. Because you can go down any street of New Hampshire almost any day and see a creative vanity license plate. So once a week, and starting on Monday, we will announce our vanity and sanity plate of the week. There you go, great. And the prize, if you contact us and we will give you the contact information starting on Monday as to how you can reach us and claim your prize. And the prize will be Dan Wied. I know the prize will not be Dan Wied. Well, my wife says I'm not much of a prize, so I don't believe that. But the Wied Family Automotor is going to sponsor the vanity and sanity each week. And we will provide, as a prize, a conventional, what we call conventional oil change is a synthetic blend oil change, oil and filter, with a courtesy inspection as part of that service. We'll go through and check your lights, wipers, hoses, filters, belts, measure up your tires and take a visual look at the brakes and give you an idea what's going on as part of the service package. So you can't beat that folks, and they do a thorough job at Wied Family Automotor. So if you have a vanity plate, I mean, we're going to be spotting in the Manchester-Conquered area and encompasses quite a lot of space here in New Hampshire. If you're in Manchester, conquered, bow, hooks at Pembroke, there's a good chance that we may spot your vanity license plate and you could win the conventional oil change and a thorough check of your vehicle from Wied Family Automotor. So I think that's a great prize and Dan, thank you very much for being a part of it. You're welcome. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. I look forward to the results. It will be, and we're looking forward to our historic first vanity plate coming up on Monday of next week. What a way to bring in the month of July. Welcome to July with vanity and sanity. So tell your friends and neighbors if they have vanity plates that their plate could be called right here on WKXL and when that great conventional oil change at Wied Family Automotor and a thorough check up as well. It's a great prize. We look forward to it and really enjoy working with WKXL on this. And so how often should people change the oil, Dan? It really depends on the car. With a conventional oil, we still go anywhere from three to, say, 4,000 miles. Synthetic oil changes, you can go six to 7,000 miles. And that's where we're comfortable. I see there's manufacturers out there that says you can go 10,000 miles between oil changes. I would highly recommend not doing that. Not to do that. What could happen? Well, I mean, we've gotten into such a routine that we don't even check our oil very often anymore. Not like we're used to anyway. I mean, we used to be once a week. You pull in for gas and you get the oil checked. Right. Now we're lucky if we check it. Yeah, yeah. Wiper blades change. Fluids topped off when you get your weekly gas stop. You know, really, we've come to the point now where we go three, 4,000 miles and don't even check the oil. Going 10,000 miles or more without checking the oil and/or replacing the filter in between. You run the risk of damaging that engine. Yeah, no question. So be aware of that. And how has, you know, synthetic oil now, how has that changed? I mean, can any car use synthetic oil? How does it work? Most, most all of our oil changes these days are synthetic oil change, even straight from the manufacturer. But we've gone from having one viscosity or one weight oil to five or six now. And it's really amazing to see what they're putting in some of these cars for oil. We're down to a zero W 16 oil in some of the cars. So we've gone from, you know, back in the old days, a 5, 30 or 10, 30 oil change. We never see a 10, 30 anymore unless it's an antique. And five 30s become an even less and less. But the more common oil that we see used is a zero W 20, we get a zero 16. And now some of the manufacturers are doing a zero W eight oil. So what does that mean? It's the thickness. The thickness or the viscosity or they call the weight of the oil. The higher the numbers, the thicker the oil. So we do an 80 W 90 gear oil, which is very thick oil, almost like pouring out maple syrup, if you will. Really? Yeah. And we get to a 20, 50, 15, 40, then the 5, 30 and 10, 30 is what we've used for decades. Yeah. And then it gets down to the zero 16, zero eight. And it's literally like pouring water out. It's that thin of an oil. Wow. I mean, generally speaking years ago, it used to be like 10 W 40, right? Exactly. 10 30, 10 40. For almost any vehicle. And I'm dating myself when I say that. Well, I'm dating myself even more. But at any rate, so vanity and sanity kicks off Monday of next week. Great. And sometime during the eight to nine hour next Monday, we will announce our first vanity and sanity plate. All right. And hopefully we'll have a winner in the first week and get that great conventional oil change from weed family automotive and a thorough checkup of your vehicle as well. It all is included. So if you want to upgrade the oil, then it'll be a little extra charge. But generally speaking, it'll all be taken care of. That's right. Get your fixed rate out. All right. So Dan, any more advice for people as they head now toward the 4th of July weekend, which you know, let's see now it's on a Thursday of next week. So the cars will be starting to invade New Hampshire, probably like Monday, right? I think they're already here. Yeah. They're already here. It's right. They've been here so many things going on in the state. We've been lucky the last few weeks between New England dragway and the drag race is there. And we had LeConia bike week and now we've got NASCAR. So basically three weekends and right in a row of great sporting events. And not to mention those sand sculptures at Hampton Beach. A lot of people go over the Seacoast to check out every year, but lots of happenings in New Hampshire and I was told the reason they moved the race to June this year was because of the Olympics because NBC had the rights to that particular race. But during July, NBC will be involved in Olympic coverage. So they had to shift networks around a little bit. So I was wondering about that because it's always been a July race. And I think it will continue to be after, you know, next year, but this year they had to move it to June because of, you know, TV rights, certain networks. I had to be quite honest with you, you've not heard much about the Olympics and forgotten that this was the year for it. It's coming up. It's coming up. Dan, I thought you'd be excited about it. Maybe not. Who knows? I'll joke that bottom myself. Now I guess it must be Olympic excitement, Olympic fever, I've got to go on Olympic size fever. Olympic size fever. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So we've talked about this before, Dan, but what should people, just in case anything goes wrong, what should they have in their vehicles to help them out along the way? Well, my first is phone numbers to call, you know, if you happen to be out of cell service and have to wait, go use somebody's landline or somebody else's phone that works. Have some phone numbers handy of a towing service that you can rely on, your repair shop, you know, even AAA's phone number or something like that. So that's my first and foremost, a flashlight is definitely helpful. And make sure if you're going to do it yourself that you have, know where your jack is, know where your tools are to change a spare tire, know where the spare tire is, if your car has one and there's a big yep. Yeah. Some people probably don't know if they have one or not, right? Not only that, but a lot of cars don't have one these days. Oh, right. And they may, some people may be surprised to find out that they don't, right? Exactly. Right. Probably so. Well, Dan, we'd thank you for bearing with me this morning and hopefully by the next time I see, I'll actually be able to speak. But thanks so much and thanks for all you do and thanks for being a part of vanity and sanity. I appreciate being here. Thank you. Thank you very much for listening and bearing with me this morning here on WKXL. Hopefully my voice will be better for tomorrow. I'm glad I'm not debating tomorrow night, and that'll do it for this edition of KLEAN COMPETAN. And remember, folks, to always look on the bright side of life. Have a great Wednesday, everyone. [MUSIC] (upbeat music) (gentle music)