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Car Doctor Show 9-16-24 Tom and Kevin talk brake pad checks, electrical grid and elec cars, etc.
It's the Car Doctor with Kevin Langewinkle 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 Car Doctor Kevin Roam full on Tom Klexton. If you have any questions, give us a call or send us texts 3430106. Show is brought to you by U.J. Chevrolet several mobile since 1939. Alabama piping supply and Ed seafood shed. And I've been to seafood shed. You need to hold a line. I haven't had the wheels on my Cadillac. I wanted to go down the line without the wheels. Yep. We're going to actually ask our callers to our listeners to call in tonight. Right. Yeah. I bet the figures are not broke. Yeah. Yeah. We want to make sure you all remember the number and how to use the telephone. There you go. Give us a call or send us texts and ask your questions about what's going on with your car and see if we can't help you figure it out. Well, you've got to have access to the guru, the car doctor, Kevin Raywell calls himself with 1,300 different certifications. Oh, yeah, it's more than that. Probably more than that now. It's at this point, but I'll quick count. You know, it's never in the battle to try and keep up. Well, you know, and it is so much more complicated today than back in my day, you know, we didn't have all the cars. We didn't have all the electronics. You know, if it was a carburetic car, a distributed car, then it was a simple thing to, you know, fix it because you could just about tell what was wrong with it by the sound. Right. Or describe to me what it's doing and all, you know, I'll tell you what's wrong with it. Type deal, you know. Well, that's the thing, you know, once you learn how to work on our distributor, it was the same on all cars. Right. I don't care what fire fire was, fire, fire fuel fuel, you know, they were all basically the same, you know, the carburetors. They looked a little different and you had to go about them a little different sometimes, but they were all doing the same thing. Same price, you know, same fundamentals to, you know, it was, you know, air fuel mixture, you know, and that was, that was so, the size of the jets. The factory had all that figured out if it was a stock vehicle. You didn't have to change any of that. Now, if you go to messing with the hot rods, like we did, like we'd love to do, you know, yeah, it had to do with how we built the motor. Right. And the compressions, you know, and all that stuff and how fast you was going to run, how many RPMs it was going to turn. Right. And how much air you could pump in it. Yeah. Yeah. And that was, you know, with the Holley carburetor, you know, it was built to be modified that way. Sure. Sure. Like quadjet really wasn't. No, it wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. You had to, it took a little finesse to make those work well. But when you made them work right, they were good. Did, did you ever know the guy that had that bay transmission shop on the Causeway that had that factory hose? Yeah, the forward to the raced. Yeah. The factory was a factory car. Yeah. They actually, they, they pulled like 20 of those cars. Well, that's too many. Maybe it was 10. Bull 10 of those cars off the line each year, and they would send them to that fabricator in Canada. And he would make full fledged drag cars out of them. Yeah. And the cars would have the fancy seats on them, but they'd be up the only driver seats and stuff. But it'd be with the right upholstery, the right color and all that. Right. They have electric windows, you know, and have all the full bore for the carpet in the forward. I mean, it looks like stock cars. Oh, yeah. But then you get underneath the car and it had had the racing frame and chassis and all that stuff on it, you know. Right. But then they had to run a stock type motor back then. I could remember him bringing, looking for X something heads. Right. They said, if you see those come through here, I said, I don't care what they cost, buy them for me. Yeah, the 61 X said I think. Yeah. You know, I say, well, you know, cause we didn't, I didn't study that stuff. I'll try to make a living. Big John did, but I said, okay, what's the X head? He said, that means experimental. He said, it's legal to run and it's got more CC's. Right. I said, what? He said, yeah. So then that's, you know, they were taking the stock components and all back then and they were porting and polishing. And not, well, it wouldn't polish them, but they would port them up and then they would put Muradic acid in and let it sit in there for two or three, four days and block it off and let it, you know, break that metal back down and rough it all up like it was like it'd come from the fact into it. Yeah, I've heard a tale that that works pretty good. I understand it. I understand it worked pretty good. You know, and then, you know, in the race car, they had to be stock link suspensions and all that. And you know, and that stuff would get cut and shortened or whatever or lengthened. And then they would weld them back together and grind all that down. And they'd put salt on them and put them out in the rain and they would rust up and, but you know, that was good days. Yeah. That sounds like a bunch of ground trackers were trying to try to drag race at that point. I believe it was. I believe it was a round tracker that told me that. Yeah. I've seen that happen. Yeah. I've seen that happen. Yeah. You know, and spray that polish that paint on there and then take this, put your sand in it, you know, pull a little sand in it, make it look rough, you know. I don't know why people would do stuff like that. You know, I don't know why they do that. You know, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's all about going fast, man. Going fast. You know, who got the biggest trophy? Yeah. Yeah. Now we're talking about training classes. I've got one. We'll see on the 23rd. Now I've still got a few days too. So it's all good. I don't have to worry about that one tomorrow. What? You got a training class? Yeah. They send text messages to remind you. Well, that's what I was wondering, you know, back in the day, I knew I know you all used to go to New Orleans for a three days or a week or a week during the week. You know, it'll be Monday through Friday. Or you'd go to Atlanta or you'd be Birmingham or Jacksonville or somewhere. He's going to school. You can go anywhere pretty much. I mean, you know, like, like here at one time, we could do them here at Bishop State. But you know, they dropped that program many years ago. But you know, they have one in Pensacola. They've got them in New Orleans. Still now. Still now. Birmingham actually has part of the, they do some classes up there. Plus they also do the ASAP program, which is, you know, the young kids getting in and what the hell they should. I don't make me try to figure out what the, what the initials are. But it's, uh, it's all about, um, you know, taking a young, young kid or somebody that hasn't done this before. And it kind of combines regular schoolwork with automotive. Okay. And it's, it's like a junior college type thing. That's cool. Yeah. And it's, it's a really good program for, for kids that want to get into it. And, uh, really don't, don't know a whole lot about it. So. Well, you know, but Kevin, um, back in the day, uh, mechanics were, uh, people that struggled to make a living. But we don't have mechanics anymore. We have technicians. And, uh, and we see those guys, I mean, 75 to $100,000 is, uh, you know, it's right now even is the wages that are out there. Those guys are making that kind of money. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know, you can make a very comfortable living, you know, um, working on cars. I've, I've done what I consider fairly well. Well, you feel you made a damn good living. All these. So you, you know, and it's, uh, yeah, it's always going to be dirty. It's always going to be hot. That's what they got soap and water for. But, you know, yeah, okay with that. Yeah. And a ball of me, and I used to love, I could stay clean all day long running the shop and selling parts and having business. And at 530, you know, slip on some, some other clothes, apparel, Levi's and, you know, and, and work shoes and a different shirt go out and work on a race car and wall around on the floor and get dirty. And it looked like I had, you know, been plowed in a field with my hands. Right. You know, until like 10, 11 o'clock at night. But, but that was, that was my release. Right. From all the problems that had incurred that day. Right. Because I was doing something that I love to do. So it wasn't a job. Right. Right. Well, you know, and, and, you know, working on cars is what I love to do. I've always always have. But if the only thing I did was turn rinses during the day, I would have been over a years ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nah. It would, it would have had ruined, ruined the passion I had for working on cars. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it sounds like it's time for us to take a break and let you hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. It's The Car Doctor with Kevin Raywinkle and Tom Clexton 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. And welcome back to the car doctor show. This is Car Doctor Kevin Renko along with Tom Clexton. Any questions? Give us a call or send us a text and speaking of colors. It looks like we got one online right now. Call you with us. Good afternoon, guys. Hey, let's go to your head. My favorite job. Yeah. I hope you guys are doing all right. That little call if I had last week and get a little bit better and end up taking my butt to the Dagum emergency room. What? And it wasn't because of the football game because we actually kicked some booty end up with a bad case bronch out of man. So I feel a little bit better. Let me tell you what I stopped at. It's a cure for that. Go ahead. You don't you know at midnight you don't run up and down the street naked and get exposed to the elements. Then if you stop doing that. I haven't. I haven't done that lately. Oh, oh, okay. You don't you you don't get and got that drunk, huh? We have to be happy that drunk, but I guess what the hell? Yeah, give me not this weekend because we got to buy this weekend next weekend when we beat Georgia. But you know what that wouldn't be a deep. Yeah. But uh, you know, you've been failing them covers. But you know, y'all were talking about the electric cars last week and then I had one question and I didn't get to ask you guys. Oh, God. How are we going to provide all the use for all these electric cars? Uh, you know, that's a good question. I really at the volume they have right now, it's not a problem, you know, but if it gets to the point where everybody or half of the half of the people have electric cars, it's going to be a problem for the power grid. We won't we won't have 24/7 electricity. Yeah. Well, I mean, you look at the people out in California right now, they can't keep the lights on now. Right, right, right. Well, you know, they they they worried about too much other stuff, you know, to worry about power and, you know, cars and actually working and all that. You know, but uh, it's uh, it's going to be a problem. But you know, it's like anything else once they see the need, they'll they'll upgrade to the grid, you know, to get more power to the areas that need it. But there's going to be growing pains. I don't care which way we go with any of it. They're going to have to put it out there and see which part of the system fails. Yeah. And then then try and fix it. Well, you know, I saw a very unique idea the other day, uh, in regards to that. And that was all of these parking lots that we've got, you know, all these big buildings, the commercial buildings and all we have, the federal government buildings and all. Everyone of them ought to have solar panels on top of them if that's the way we're going. Rather than killing 100 acres of good, good land, it could be productive. Let's let's just put solar panels over all of these places that we're not going to utilize, but we're going to we can use the ground floor. And you know, we've got enough steel. We've got enough aluminum. So far, um, if we can, you know, we could we could build the racks and all to put all that stuff on. Right. I mean, why wouldn't it be an awesome place? Look at these buildings. It's these big commercial buildings. It's, um, what are they? Oh, they just built one in Foley. 60,000 square feet. Yeah. Oh, and it's going to be a recycle building. Well, why didn't they put some solar panels on it and then develop some electricity off of it and sell it? I mean, it's the way to derive some rather their home building, you know, yeah, power they own building and then it's a recycling center. They could power their own equipment and still sell electricity back. Yeah. I mean, why I don't understand why they're not utilizing somebody. Why don't they, why don't UPS trucks have solar panels on them and let them be electric? Why don't the post office trucks have solar panels on them? That's what we need to be used it for. Right. Well, you got people like, um, Alabama Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power that says, oh, that's going to, well, if you put solar panels on your house, we're going to have to charge you a fee. Well, because you're getting the cutting in our profits. Right. Right. Yeah. Well, that's when we break up that damn monopoly, you know, and then do what we need to do to, uh, to survive. But, but all right, you wanted a question before I get to my question, I wanted to see if you guys had watched the walk in, what can Glenn race and seen the wreck between Brad Kay and William Byron and Joey Logano this weekend. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. I was having, I was having my car show. Yeah. It's, uh, when you run up on a car and jump up there and try to put your front tire through his window and get right behind that window net, that was scary looking wreck. Yeah. Who did that? I didn't see it. It was, uh, William Byron got into, uh, Joey Logano's, uh, my guys. Yeah. Um, they hit the wall and, and the 24 car climbed it and, uh, it destroyed the quarter panel right up. It stopped right when it got to the wind driver's window. What? But it took out the rear quarter window and quarter panel. Holy cow. Yeah. They were hung there for just a little while sitting up there on the wall and I'm just, man, I don't know what Brad said about, you know, I got a, I got a, I got a good year sitting right here behind my ear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, you got to consider, you'd have to go through that high dollar, you know, for what's that? $10, $15,000 seat now. Uh, this got all kind of aluminum bracing and all in it. Then you've got that, uh, three or four, $5,000, uh, supersonic helmet. Yep. So, uh, it's, you know, even, even getting that nine the old days when I had my race car, you could have got hurt. When Kevin was racing, you would have got hurt. We didn't have all of that. Not, not on a local racing. But these guys are like space pilots, man. Now they are, you know, they're, they're in a cubicle inside of that car. So what, what, what, Kevin, what would that be? That would be what the, the B or the C pillar that it, that it hit. And, uh, I mean, it just right behind the driver. Yeah. The one behind the driver is, is the, uh, B pillar. And, um, it, it back, actually hit the back, back of the B pillar. And, uh, and luckily the structure, you know, one of the strongest parts of the structure of the car is the halo. I mean, the, um, not the halo, but the, the main hoop that goes across, you know, goes up and goes over, you know, most people call it a roll bar. Uh, that is very hard. Yeah. That's very hard to penetrate. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You're not, you're not. Well, all the racing goes off of that, off of that car. Yeah. That, that particular bar, most of the structure of that car is tied to it. Sure. Yeah. And, uh, that's the, that's the major component in that, in that roll cage, in that cubicle that they built around that driver. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That's a, it's a pod, boy, let's you could say, like it, like an airplane pod. Mm hmm. Yeah. They actually have, y'all, y'all, y'all wanted a question tonight. So here's a question. And Tom, this comes from Virginia. Oh, by the way, we're not answering any questions tonight. Well, we're just talking. I kind of, I thought that maybe Marcus must be off with his little girlfriend tonight because I didn't beat him in here tonight. Well, you know what? I know kind of what he's not even getting that head polish tonight. I call the doughnut band to see if he was thick or something and all I got was his your dime. Go ahead. So I said, well, I was wondering if he was okay. So I don't know where he's okay or not. Well, you know, he got that slick head. She might be wagging it up. You know, we're watching out. I don't get out of school. Don't talk out of school here. But anyway, all right. All right. Passing your side of the airbag, idiot, like intermittent comes on, comes on, it goes off. What could that be? Well, what kind of car? If that 2012 Ford F-150. Okay. Well, what turns those lights on is a variation of the resistance of the deployment loop. Okay. Deployment loop is everything that comes from the airbag module, which is the sensing diagnostic module that's mounted to the full ward of the car. It has two wires going to, if it's just a single stage bag, you have your basically positive negative goes out to that airbag. Well, the the sensing diagnostic module actually monitors that that wire and that circuit at all times. And if it sees a variation in the the resistance value, it will turn that light on to tell you, hey, we that bag may not deploy. Right. If you get an accident, so go get it checked. And you know, it's what it's basically telling you. So would it be? Would that be in the seat itself or? No, that's the, you know, the passenger side is in the dashboard. You know, now they have some of these cars have 10 airbags in them. Right. Right. But they do have some in the in the seat. They have them in the seat belts, they have them in the bottom of the dashboard. So anyway, Jaria, we're going to have to take break and get out of here, but then let our sponsors talk for just a little bit. All right, guys. Well, I'll catch y'all next week. Thank you, buddy. Put the, put the head to the pillar. Right. Have a blast. I hope you feel better. It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle 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 back to the car doctor show. This is the car doctor Kevin Ray Winkle on Tom Klexton. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us texts. And y'all let me down. We only have one caller. So we need some people calling in tonight and asking questions. But, you know, it's, we were talking about the airbag thing and got to talking about accidents and the fact that, you know, they're going to be out on the streets hot and heavy this week and weekend. So everybody be careful and pay attention what you're doing. Not even just for don't get a ticket. It's just you don't need to hurt people. Well, you know, we've had so many deaths, I believe I saw a while ago on TV where the chief acting chief said that they had 77 red light accidents this so far this year. And I don't know how many deaths that that word. But, you know, we've had two within the year the last three or four weeks or so. And several of them had to do with police cars. Yeah. And there was some deaths involved with that. We lost our motorcycle buddy there, you know, over there by the do drop in it for that deal. And now we've just had this lady that was killed here the other night. There was had been a queen beauty queen or a queen of Mardi Gras. Yeah. And, you know, and people are getting a little lax with that. I know it's this afternoon. I had I was making a trip around two or three different areas. And I had three or four cars in front of me to run red lights just today. And I'm going like, Oh, I hope you don't get hit. You know, but then I had, you know, the wife and I like to have a wreck this afternoon but three thirty four o'clock. Over on Hillcrest, some idiot cut through two lanes of traffic park that was parked. And I'm in the turn left left turn lane and that sucker come all the way through the two damn lanes of traffic and come right out in front of me. He looked, he blew his horn, ain't nothing, man. And I don't throw all my groceries out of the back seat onto the full board. And, you know, it jarred the wife, you know, she just getting over but during broke elbow at all. And any other time, and my younger days, I think I would have chased him down and whipped his arse. You know what I mean, arse. But I'm going like, you know, I've got this 30 year old brain and this 97 year old body. And I can't do that anymore. Yeah. Because you don't, people don't fight fair anymore. You know, back in the day, we just, you know, we punch each other out and over now, they got all these damn rinky dink import, the pea shooters. And you don't know how many of them they got. But, you know, you know, you hear the sheriff talking about it says, well, it's pitiful that you stop three crumbles, three crumbles that's got all these cases and all of them and no felonies. And they all got guns in their cars and ain't nothing I can do about it. Because it's an open, open law, you know, open the gun law. I'm going like, damn, that don't sound right. But now, you know, he is trying to get a law passed, but that kind of got off the subject. But that's how all the simple stuff and running red lights and all we get occurred. I'll get, and it's just, it's, you got to be careful out there now. Even though you might have the light, if you're going through an intersection, you better look both ways and make sure it's something any day about to run over you. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm, you know, I worked right there on airport, just before cylinders. And one of the worst places, I see it almost every day when I, when I'm test driving people that the traffic is backed up half mile. Right. And someone wants to get out of a parking lot. Yeah. And they're wanting to go all the way across into the lane. They can't see the cars coming. No, no. And it never fails. Somebody is going to pull out in front of someone that's coming up in the turn lane or whatever, and just get way late. Yeah. Unbelievable. It happens almost every day. I mean, I don't trust nobody else. No, not anymore. When it, when it comes to someone waving me through, no, y'all go ahead, I'll, I'll find my own way. I'll wait, no way. Yeah. Yeah. But we do have a caller, a caller. You with us? Yes, sir. Hey, what we do for you? Well, I got a 2007, uh, toy over at the coma. And when I hit the brakes, uh, it's got a squeaky sound. And I kind of figured that maybe the brake pads are worn. But when I'm going down the road, when I turn a corner or something, it'll, it'll kind of squeal too. Would that, would that be the same thing? Well, more than likely you've got a, you've got brake pads that are wore out. A lot of times what happens when you're, when you go to turn, everything flexes just a little bit. And that where indicator on the pad will rub on the, on the brake rotor. And it'll, it'll give you that, that squeezing sound, you know, coming from the pads. Um, and the other, you know, brakes tend to get a little, little noisier as they get worn. Uh, so, you know, it's, it's probably all just related to, to worn brake pads. So can you, can you just look at the, uh, at the rotor and, uh, and tell if it's got any wear marks on it as to which one it really might be? Well, you can look, um, you know, you always want to look at your brake, brake rotors in that first and, and could you easily see them through the wheel. Um, and just see if it's got a smooth surface across it. Uh, you know, it doesn't have to be mirror smooth. If everything's seated together, it works great. But, um, if, if you're getting a bunch of lines wearing, wearing, wearing into it, into the rotor and door just looks like raw grind marks in it. Um, you know, you know, the pads wore out to the point where it's got to be. Did he, did he say that was a pick up truck or a car? I didn't catch it. So, uh, Toyota? It's a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. Yeah. Yeah. Would he is a truck? Yeah. Truck. I wonder if he've had it in the woods or, uh, you know, been trail riding or anything and maybe run through some mud holes and got some sand and a little rockers up in it. Oh, it's pretty much a pavement powder. It just goes back forth work. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we see what Tom's talking about all the time, you know, people that'll take them off road or whatever. And I'm not even talking about, go bury them in the mud type off road. Uh, but they'll, they'll get a rock in between the, the, uh, dust shield and the rotor and, or get up there where the pads are. And it'll, it'll cause, uh, pretty obnoxious noise and, and wear marks on the rotors. Uh, so, yeah, you just gotta, gotta kind of, um, you know, check it out and see what's going on and, uh, clean it out and go again. All right. Well, I, I really appreciate it guys. And, uh, yeah, y'all, uh, y'all didn't keep that dude. Uh, Jory, he's, he's pretty, he's putting all the buffalo. Y'all need to keep them calling in on here. Now, we had to worry about him because he's about that crazy. All right. Well, gentlemen, y'all have a good night now. All right. All right. All right. All right. I'll, I'll, I'll about to him. Yeah. All right. So we got any other callers, please call in. But, uh, I don't know if he thought he fooled anybody or not. I thought it was Alabama Tim. But hey, you know what? Hey, it's all right. It's all good. It's nice to have friends and, uh, and to have real buddies that, uh, don't mind carrying on a bunch of trash, which, you know, hey, you can't go through life with your butt up on your shoulders all the time. You know, it's life and enjoy and carry on and have a good time. Yeah, I must be Alabama Tim Jr. There. Call you on there. Good evening. Yeah. Good evening. Dr. Kevin. Hey, we were just talking about you. What do you believe that we talked about you a while ago, one of where you were at? I have been listening. Believe me, I enjoy your show. The greatest show on earth. Are you, I'm scared before we, before you get started with your super question. Are you still with that, uh, with the organization that you were with before? Yes. Yes. Good will. Okay. Are y'all y'all doing okay over there, man? Yeah, we're doing great. Uh, lots of donation and we appreciate the community supporting us so we can provide services to them, you know. Do you still have those schools over there that, uh, for those people? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The one that you saw. Yes. Yeah. We do job training for them. Yeah. You're doing job training and all that. I just think that is a unbelievable awesome endeavor to, to train those people to do that. I think y'all were making, um, um, some kind of air filters or oil filters or fuel filters or something at that time. You still do that? Yes, for the 18 realers. Yeah. Oh, okay. Right. Do you still do the, the, uh, uh, I guess it would be the computers and stuff like that. Uh, yes. We do that too. You know, uh, we send it to, uh, ransom, uh, ministry. Okay. They, they, they provide, uh, you know, jobs and, you know, what do they, what, when they get all these components out of these computers and, and stuff like that, uh, are they, are they, uh, rare minerals in there? I mean, just, uh, that they can, uh, uh, break that stuff down and get a little, little specks of gold out of them or what have you or your, I don't know what all they put in them now. Right. Right. They, on those, uh, you know, uh, the computer boards, sometimes they have some, you know, um, uh, you know, expensive metals. So, uh, we don't do that, but I have seen it done, you know. But you get a, you, you get them available to send to the proper parties to do that. Right. What a blessing. What a blessing you guys are doing for those people, man. Yeah. Appreciate that. Yeah. People like you who support us, Mr. Clex, and we appreciate you and, and Dr. Kevin that's with his, you know, uh, knowledge of, uh, automotive, you know, he's number one person in the state of Alabama. There you go. There you go. That's what I tell everybody. Yeah. But you know, it was, it was, hey, now you, you're saying that, but at one time, it was only three people, three General Motors technicians in the United States. I had, and he was one of them and had the certifications that they had. Can you believe that? Oh, yeah. Definitely. You know, I have, I've had the experiences with Dr. Kevin that he humbled me, you know. Yeah. All right. Well, you're going to have to, you're going to have to hold on a second there and we'll get to your question in a minute when we get a fine word for our sponsors. We'll do it. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. All right. We're going to take a break and let you hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Clexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. And welcome back to the car doctor show. This is a car doctor getting around with a long time question. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us text 3430106. But I believe we do still have rapid ray online with us. Ray, you with us? Yes, sir. Dr. Kevin, I have a question about the 2.7 turbo that you're having a colorado and some of your silverado. Yes, sir. They have the mid range one and a high output one, but I read someplace that you can get the mid range one and tune it, but you know, computer tuning and make it be as powerful as the hot high output. And once your opinion, should you get that from the factory already that way or, you know, pay the extra and get it that way or get the mid range one and later on bring it to, you know, to the shop and let somebody tune it. Yeah, you know, preferably I would do it by it that way, you know, everything is warranted. It doesn't matter what what fails on it, you know, as long as it's not from abuse, it's going to be covered under warranty. There's not going to be any questions. The problem is is, you know, I know you can get this program and and upgrade on the on the lower lower powered ones, three general motors, but you can also go to tuners and and all that and get them tuned and get that power and more. But as soon as they do that, you've lost all of the warranty on that vehicle. Oh, okay. Yeah. All the powertrain, all the all that motor transmission we're in, everything to do with that. Oh Lord, no longer do that. You don't need to do that too. It's expensive to take that chance. Can't take that chance. That was what the other components could cost you. Right. Right. So it's always better to go ahead and buy it that way, if you can. You know, it's I'm not going to say that there's, you know, anything. If you do it exactly the way, you know, general motors does it. It's it's fine. You know, but people that tune them, they can't stand it. Yeah. They know there's more power there and they're going to go get it. So, you know, that's that's a big problem. Yeah. And if you have a choice, do you go by by the 5.3 or you get the 2.7, you know, they've been out for a while a little bit now. So I don't know if you develop anything. Do it. Colorado's are beautiful trucks. Yeah. Yeah. The Colorado's are really nice. That's about the size of the earlier model pickup that we're accustomed to. Well, you know, it's about the same size as my 68. Sure. Right. You know, it's smaller than than our 1500s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they've grown the 1500, you know, so much that it's. Yeah. There's a pickup truck on steroids. Yeah. I mean, the 1500 that I had, that was a 90 model. It's it's much smaller than the 1500s they have today. Oh, yes. Are they harder to get into the day to do the duage? Well, you got to climb up. I know it. Yeah. That's what they got. Well, you know, we had the problems when we get them near bodies that don't react, right? Yeah. But you know, the Colorado's are very comfortable. They have a nice ride, plenty of power. You know, heck, that 2.7, it makes 300 horsepower. Well, yeah. Well, they're turbo. I mean, it lives it up. It makes it, you know, an awesome machine. Now, and let me ask you this, and it's for his benefit. If you compare the mileage of the 5.3 to the 2.7, rapid. The rate that it shows the difference in the mileage of those two vehicles. Yeah, they're showing, you know, but you know, how the turbo is, you step on it, and then all that goes out the door. Well, that's true. Right. That's like a full barrel, like a full barrel carburetor. Yeah. They're showing a better mileage on 2.7. Am I hearing that the rapid rate's going to get a new ride? If I get it, I get it from UJ Chevrolet. I imagine. Yeah. There you go. And we do have a nice inventory right now, too, so it'd be a good time to do it. But, you know, there's the 2.7 for everyday driving around everything it does great, and it actually pulls well. It does everything it needs to do. I wouldn't want to buy the 5.3. Right. If I was going to pull a trailer or something like that, no, I'd want to get, I'd want the 5.3. Yeah. But, you know, that 2.7's got a pretty good. Well, you know, it'll pull a light boat or something like that, but maybe a little light trailer, but... But it will impress you if you get in it and stand in it. Oh, I bet it will go. Yeah. Yeah. Because, literally, it makes, I think it's 310 or... Well, the upstrokes back in '67, '68 didn't make that guy out. Right. Didn't have that kind of horsepower. Exactly. Well, it was at 225-250 or something like that. If you're lucky. Yeah. Yeah. So, back in the mid-70s, they backed them up to about a hundred or something more. Right. Right. Yeah. So, it's pretty impressive of what it can do. And honestly, they've been very solid vehicles or motors because, you know, like I said, it's been out a while. It's been around for a while. It's been about the 19 model. And we have yet to replace a motor. And we've not been in the bottom end of one. And we had some cam last adjusters that have failed, you know. That was very small components compared to what you... Yeah. Of the motors, though. Well, and most of that's because people didn't change oil and it didn't take any of that kind of stuff. Oh, it's self-inflicted wounds there. Right. Right. But it's, I mean, we're talking, yeah, many trucks on the road with many miles. And they've been pretty trouble-free, you know. And they usually pair them up with an 8 or 10-speed transmission. So, they're geared right to where they take off well and do well on the highway, even pull well. So... 10-speed transmission. Yeah. Yeah. So, just more stuff. I can't even fathom that. Yep. Well, thank you all so much. It's the greatest show, you know. And I appreciate for your advice, Dr. Kevin. And Mr. Klexton, you're an icon in our community. Don't swell his hair, though. It's an honor to know you, you know. Thank you sir. You're such a blessing to the community and what y'all do it out there. It's just most of the public have no idea what a good thing y'all are doing to, you know, for this community and for our recipients here that do need your help. Yes, sir. And then, thank you so much for your kind words. Thank you, sir. You have a blessing. Take care. Thank you. Bye-bye. Always good to hear from Rapid Ray. What? Awesome gentleman. He's really an awesome gentleman. It's time. It's time for us to leave for the night. I want to thank everybody for listening to the car doctor show. And God willing, we'll be back next week. Amen. Unless it's to the Scuttlebutt radio show is the night. We're going to have the mayor, excuse me, the judge on, with the veteran's court. It'll be a good show. We'll find out what's going on about the veteran's court. So, and for all of our pets out there, ooh. ♪ Drive and drive and drive and drive and drive and drive and drive and drive ♪