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Car Doctor Show 9-30-24 Kim Beck guest, hurricane weather, paint and bodywork, Tesla
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! Well, I live Kentucky back in '49 and what's the neat rock working on a simply line. The first year they had me put my wheels on cattle ass. Everyday I'd watch them beauties roll. And welcome to the Car Doctor show. So this is Car Doctor Kevin Remkle along with Tom Klexton. Do you have any questions? Do you have any questions? Give us a call or send us texts. I think we're having a little trouble here. I think the engineer is having a heart attack or what? I think so. I think so. I think he's trying to get us on the air. Are we on the air yet? Okay. Oh, now. Let's start all over again. This is Car Doctor Show. This is Kevin Remkle along with Tom Klexton. Do you have any questions? Give us a call at 3430106. If the show is brought to you by U.J. Sheblaise, every mobile since 1939. Alabama piping supply and ed seafood. Fantastic. It was seafood shed at the top of the hill. Yep. You need to slide over there. I'll tell you what those bloody mirrors understand. Someone close to me are great. They're the home of the bushwhackers. I understand. And some best shrimp in town. Yep. It's hard to argue with it. It's hard to argue. Actually, I'll go over there now and I'll make a meal out of a bowl of gumbo and an order of fried green tomatoes. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with that. That's a meal right there. You know? I can make a meal out of a good bowl of gum. Yeah, two appetizers. You know? Yeah. That's all good. All right. Looks like we already got a couple of people calling in. All right. All right. Let's get to our first caller. Call you, was? Yes, sir. The number one fan. All right. The number one fan. The main man. No other friends. But me, I'm the number one fan. Oh, the one and only fan. The only one. Kevin, how you doing? I'm not talking to Tom, because Tom will be gone for my birthday. I'm not talking to him. I ain't got nothing to say to him. Nothing. I don't blame him. I don't blame him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cutting out. I'm okay. I'm okay. That's all right. You know what, Kevin? I don't even want to talk to him. You can tell him that what I was going to do was that since I was going to be here and I was forced to be out of town for a Marine Corps meeting in Montgomery. Right. I'm actually missing my nephew's wedding, you know, over the show. All right. So I'm in the dog house about that. Right. I was going to take him out to eat, but he's running his damn job. I don't think I will. Do we have somebody on the phone? It sounds like an old married couple. Your turn. Go ahead. You bitch. Well, I'll be bitch. Oh, well. So how are you doing tonight? I'm blessed, man. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I got you all these friends and I'm doing good. Well, good. Good. Good to hear it. But if you apologize, I would like to take you out to lunch here pretty soon to make up for this. I want you to get back and then I apologize. Oh, okay. You'll make sure I get back to town. There you go. I don't want to wait. I do not want to waste that apology. I know it. We only have a few of them left, don't we? But we're working to get back. All right. All right. Yeah. Right quick. What do you all think that weather is you want to do? I don't know. I hope it doesn't develop. It's just a non-story, but you never know. Yeah. We haven't had one hit here yet this summer, so it's probably about to do. Well, I was afraid that it's not our time, and I hope that it doesn't really develop into a severe storm. We could take a tropical storm or whatever. You had to do that driving, Tom. I know, man. I know. Yeah. It took a lot of wind blow that big old town car off there, but you don't run about 80, 85. Yeah. You weren't about your car. You weren't about them. I'm worried about them now. They go cars that might be blown across the highway. That's right. That's right. What year did the Chevrolet start making a car there? Uh-oh. The Corvette? Corvette. 1960. No, sir, 1964. What? No. Really? I think it was earlier than that. I don't want to have to do some research on that, but... Yeah, do some research. Let me know. Okay. We can always do that. Well, listen, Kevin, and Phillip, if the weather don't get back, you think maybe y'all can come up to the restaurant and let them crack on Saturday? I have to do the Auburn. I have to be here for the Auburn broadcast. I have to be here for the Auburn broadcast. The Christian Champion. This is Christian Champion. That's a Christian Champion. No doubt, man. Fact check. Yeah. The Chevrolet Corvary was first produced in 1960. Yeah. It was '60. It was '60. It was until they kept producing until '69. The first generation of the car was '60 to '64. The first generation was '64? '60 to '64. Okay. Yeah. Hot damn, we got 'tutty' one time. Wow. Put 'em back on the wall. The second generation was '65 to '69. I'm gonna get you next, next month. I got you, Jerry. I got you, Jerry. They made this car. I got you, Jerry. I'm gonna call first on next weekend time out. Oh, you're gonna take this car away from me then? Yeah. Well, you know, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. I was mistaken. You got the Auburn thing, Phillip? Oh, yeah. You got to do the Auburn thing? Yeah, that's right. I got to run the broadcast. It's around 130. All right. We can't wait to make it, make it. Yeah, I think I got... I might have a few, or retired, put them under. I might have polished, gold, or polished sheet for Dolphin Island and polished sheet for Enterprise. Really? Yeah, they're two old friends of mine. Well, that's awesome. You mean you had a great one from Dolphin Island and we'll be waiting from Enterprise. Holy cow. Well, I'm probably going to buy my locker. Yeah? I didn't know you had real friends. Yeah, I got a bunch of real friends. Oh, Lord, okay. All right. Yeah, George Guggen from Dolphin Island and... George Guggen from... Goober. Goober. Good one. Oh, okay. How long did you say Goober? No. No, he ain't no Goober. All right, brother. Well, you have a blessing. I guess I'll be 39 again. No, sir. You got it wrong. Uh-oh. 27. 27 again. And now, how many is that two or three times? That's the fourth time. Oh, sir. No, you're not a hundred year old. Well, I'm buying in a wheelchair probably to fifth time. Might be seventh time. You don't know you could see the dev calculator. Uh-huh. Can't see it. All right, gentlemen. I'm waiting to hit the show. All right, brother. Take care. I appreciate you all. Yes, sir. Have a good one. Thank you all so much. All right, brother. Bye-bye, man. Bye. What an awesome gentleman. Oh, yeah. He's really... He's cool. He is. He is. But, uh... Anyway, it's, uh... This is "Card Doctor Show." So, uh, we'd like to try and fix some... fix some issues with some cards. You have a problem. Give us a call. 3430106. In the meantime, we'll just talk about whatever we feel like talking about. Well, you know, I think we have an issue that's occurring and it has to do with... We just talked about it a while ago, the hurricane. Mm-hmm. And the fact that we now have electric vehicles with lithium batteries in them. And it has shown up again in Florida as being a consistent problem and a very serious problem with these vehicles and also guys and gals, scooters that have lithium batteries and bicycles now, the electric bicycles that have lithium batteries, uh... You're going to have problems if you get any salt water near them or on them. 'Cause it is extremely corrosive salt water, uh... And we'll have Kim back on here at the wild. He can enlighten us a little bit more with some technology, but salt water will carry electricity. It'll conduct like this if you want. It'll conduct electricity is a big problem. Um, you know, if you... You put salt water on it and it starts, uh... It basically shorts the batteries out and I've seen them catch fire. Right. And, uh, it's a real problem. You know, you just... you don't ever want your car to go underwater. But, uh, you certainly don't want your electric car to go underwater. Well, it doesn't need... In your garage or... Yeah, it doesn't even need over a foot of water. Right. Uh, I was looking at an internet picture there while ago in, uh, Pinellas, Pinellas, Florida. Yeah. And it got... they had a... he had his, uh... Tesla or something parked in his garage. Mm-hmm. And, um, they had a camera in there and the water started coming in under the car door. Is it time for us to go and break? Yeah. All right, well, let's catch a break and we'll come back and I'll finish the story. But it's not good. Yeah. We're gonna take a break and let's hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. [music] It's the car doctor with Kevin Raywinkle and Tom Klexton on FMTalk1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. [music] And welcome back to the car doctor show. This is the car doctor Kevin Raywinkle. I'm a time class. And you have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text. 3430106. But, uh, looks like we got a caller on mine. Call of yours. Good afternoon, guys. Hey. Oh, my lord. We are trouble now. It's a jar head. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wanted to talk about this, this, this purge and this Chinese print. Wait a minute. That was my notes from talking to Bill yesterday. Bill who? Well, before, before I get into the meat of my question, I wanted, I just got to tell you, Tom, congratulations for getting bed of the year. Oh. I am so proud of you, man. And for everybody that don't know that, that thinks Tom just goes out there and does stuff just to get recognition. Let me tell you, I met Tom and Cal at a, at a job fair one time and just got to talk into him. He seemed like an interesting fellow. Next thing I know, Tom calls me up one day and says, Hey, let's go to Waffle House and get a biscuit. And we sit down and we talk and man, we hit it off. We've been friends ever since. And Tom, I am so proud of you, man. You just don't know. Well, I'm proud to be considered much less to, to receive the award. Veterans and veterans services and veterans events have kind of been my life for the last 30 years and me being a veteran, a Marine. I just see so many areas that I felt like I could help with. And maybe do something to make it better for a vet. And I just really, you know, that's kind of in my goal. I just, I try to help as many events as I can because in so many occasions they're not able to help themselves or they have lost their mission. And as we as veterans, we have to have a mission. Otherwise, we just, we just keep a form. Yep, we've got to stand side by side, brother. Right. Well, we've got to have each other six. And I've been trying to keep the six up for the guys that I saw that needed it. And I'm just extremely proud to be put in the same category with all of those warriors and heroes of mine that have been recipients of that award for the last 10, 15 years, you know? Well, let me tell you something, Tom. You deserve it and you deserve it well and I am proud to call myself your friend. Well, thank you so much. I am too. And I always will be. All right. All right. All right. Well, let's get serious now. I'm blowing that up. Market's talking about that storm blowing up. So he needs gold and gold in there. Get that head, that head shaved up real good. Get him some carnubo wax and wax that thing down for this weekend so he can be aerodynamic if we have a storm. Yeah. You don't want anything to happen that they would divert the wind. Yeah. Well, I don't think we've got to worry about it because he gets that thing shined up. He'll be good to go. Yeah. Yeah. But I do have a question for my adoring fans. I'm waiting. Go ahead. Go ahead. Don't worry. Don't you. Next. We talked about this car a while back. It was losing normal and took it to a fairly reputable mechanic. And he told her that she needed to get a new oil cap. That's where oil will go. You ever heard of that? Well, if it ain't got an oil cap on it, yeah, that'd be a problem. Well, it had an oil cap on it, but I don't think I've ever heard of that one. No. I mean, it's, you know, anything's possible. Yeah. If it was missing the seal or whatever under it or anything like that, then, yeah, that's a very good possibility. Would not think that would be the first place I would look for a leak, you know. But I never say never anymore. Oh, yeah. What kind of vehicle is it? I cannot remember right now. It was something like a Toyota Highlander or something like that. Did they have some problems with some valve stem seals or something? I don't remember on that one. Matter of fact, Kevin, you've had one of these vehicles. Because we had talked about it before. It's not a Toyota there. Maybe a Hyundai. Oh, they never had no Hyundai. But anyway, it's all right. Let me ask this question then. Get to the car doctor over here that you're really incorporated. Are most of the car motors now, are they vacuum sealed? No, and I was going to bring that up, is that most of these motors nowadays actually run a positive crankcase pressure. Okay. So, if it's not sealed up very well, it's going to push all out. So, if there was a seal broke on a oil cap and/or maybe it was the oil capped on the oil filter causing, you know, I've seen that too. That's a pressurizing place for the oil. Kevin, if the seal broke on the oil cap, wouldn't it be pushing oil out onto the block? Well, it's going to push it out onto the valve cover and then run down the motor. Is that dry? As far as I know, yeah. Did they put it in the yard? There's nothing under the vehicle, you know, like it's leaking oil or nothing like that. It's not blowing smoke, or, you know, like it got said. Well, now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. At this day in time with synthetic oil, we're not going to see cars smoke that much. No smoke. Right. Yeah, you're not going to see the smoke. It seems the car is burned in excess of a amount of oil that don't ever smoke if they're running synthetic oil. So, you know, if it's not leaking, it's got to be burned in it. Right. It's got to be, you know, it's... It's got to have a seal somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. And to be an intake, pretty much all of our motors now run a sealed oil cap. But even if it was pulling air in or pushing air out, you know, you would get an external leak, which you say you're not. You know, so that's not going to be... That wouldn't be what I would think would be the problem. Now, I have seen the valve covers have the PVC system built into the valve cover, and that's sort of on most cars now. You know, there's... There's a whole system built on most motors that helps capture that and return it to the oil pan. You know, if the oil doesn't get changed properly, that can get stopped up. They have a crankcase vent valve that is a diaphragm type valve that... You know, will work, but if the valve blows out, it will actually create a leak problem and/or consumption problem. The BMWs were real bad about it. In some of our small motors, we'd have some issues with a few of them. It'll just start leaking and have issues there. Well, now, is this all usage? Would you call it excessive? I mean, how much are we talking about? I wouldn't call it excessive. Just every time you turn around, you've got to put a cord oil in it. Well, that doesn't... Have you put in a cord oil in there for a thousand miles? Are there 3,000 miles? I'd probably say every month. Well, that could be over a thousand miles there. Right. She wears pretty close to work and she don't run that much. Yeah. Yeah, I think a cord every 2,000 is considered... That's regular, but usually, isn't it? Yeah, it's normal. Yeah, they consider that normal. It's not normal to us because we were engine builders and especially in that field for all of our years, you know, according to the manufacturers and some of their engineering diagnostics, that's normal, but we wouldn't consider it normal for our cars. Well, and if you think about it, you know, honestly, a motor has to burn a little bit of oil for it to lubricate everything the way it needs to. You know, for it to get up on the rings and to keep them lubricated, the valve guides have to stay lubricated. You know, there's just an awful lot of stuff going on that needs lubrication on it. And the only way it's going to happen is it gets in there and it can't return back to the pan, so it's going to have to be burned through the motor. So you're going to lose a little bit there, but most of the time it's not noticeable. We mostly notice it nowadays because we extend our oil life out to 5,000 to 7,000 miles instead of every 3,000 miles. Right. Right. Alright. Alright, here's the music. Let me hold on because we've got one more question I want to ask y'all when y'all come back from the break. Alright. Well, 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 Raywaykel 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. Welcome back to the car doctor show. This is the car doctor getting ready. Cool, all the time. Klexton, do you have any questions? Let's give us a call or sentence. Text 3430106. We still have Jarhead online. Jarhead, you with me? Yeah, I'm still here. This is not really a question. It's more of a statement and I don't know. I don't know who let the dogs out, but I know who put them back in the pen Saturday night. Yeah. We like to cut our butch whipped. They were coming back, baby. That young man from Fairland, 17-year-old should have been a senior this year in high school. I know. He is unbelievable. Yep. Yep. Yep, he is. Well, the defensive back is what saved the day and one that that game for us and he's a youngster too. Yeah. Well, that one, well, he had two little spectacular plays in the game. One where he mounts the ball back and forth between the fans and the other one that won, actually won the game for us was when he caught that pass on the sideline and did a little pirouette and made the two Georgia defensive backs come together and pirouette it again and rented there was actually two pieces of cloth. I ain't going to say jockfrap, but laying on the ground there after he juked both of them. And I am so proud around with him and I'm glad that he is playing for the Crimson Tide. Amen. Roll Tide. All right, guys. I'm going to listen to it. I think y'all got another color in coming in, so I'm going to keep on listening. And then you all have a great night. Thank you, buddy. God bless you, brother. Appreciate the accolades there while we go. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Georgia. And let's see. We're going to our next caller, Colley Wuss. Hey, hey, hey. Hello. Hello. Is it my turn? It's your turn now. All right. I'm just, hey, I'm enjoying listening. You know what I'm glad somebody is. So that's all good. Hey. You're talking about electricity. You know, that's just what that ball game was. It was just electrical as all it was. Well, yeah. It was very, very, um, uh, uh, that is probably one of the worst nerve shaking games that I've seen in a while. Yeah. Well, we'll get to the halftime and I'm going like, this ain't going to last. Yeah. I know this ain't going to last. Georgia is a better team than what I'm seeing. Right. And then when they come out at the half, we saw it, you know. But they still, we still made the plays when, uh, when they needed to to win it, they, uh, say they might be gone, but he's got a dang good replacement. Yeah. Yep. Yep. That's right. Well, I'm going to go back to the first guru, Kim Beck. Where have you been, brother? Well, where have I not been? Uh, where I've been recently is in California. All right. They don't have flooding in California, but, uh, they just have fires. They just have fires. Yeah. Well, where were you at out there? Were you still with Tesla? Yes. Uh huh. Yeah, with Fremont, California. Uh, I'd go out periodically, uh, uh, I train people and then, uh, they, uh, the, the, the overturn rate, you know, them quitting or moving on or whatever, or getting a different job. I had to retrain. So, uh, uh, this last time on that, you're, I had to, uh, retrain a crew to paint. Elon Musk is his personal car. Really? Yeah. He drives his own vehicle? Yeah, he does. Well, believe it or not, he does. Well, what do you, what do you think about it? You know, you've been in forward plants and you've been in, uh, I guess, uh, Volkswagen plants, but you've been in the several different, uh, manufacturers plants here over the last, uh, 15, 20 years, uh, since you retired from the, from the school and, uh, I car. Um, how much improvement have you seen in, in the Tesla? From, uh, from the time of, you know, they got started and you, you started messing with them. Oh, there, there's no comparison. You know, they, uh, you know, I, I, I trained with a little Toyota Prius when they very first came out and in some of the other electric vehicles and, and the Tesla is just so much above and beyond what those little vehicles were. It's just, you know, it's just not even no comparison to them. Uh, and I'm, and I'm not a Tesla, you know, uh, salesman or anything like that, but just dealt with them for almost two years and, you know, driving them in, in their, their, their fail safes that they have on them. Well, you know, I accept you as a professional in your field, a guru extraordinaire because you talked, uh, I car for what, 25 years, 30 years? Uh, you have about 28 years. That's what I thought. So what I'm saying is you talked, uh, 80 or 90% of the paint and body shop, uh, technicians, uh, that are in the, in the Southeast. And I guess from Tennessee down, uh, including Florida, uh, yeah, I could, I consider you a, a hell of a good professional. So I, I, I respect your opinion. Well, thank you. Hey, I've had some good students too. One of them named Tom Plaxon. Oh, oh. Plax or two of mine. Uh, well, I, you know, I, I was in a few of those classes. I can remember, we were talking about electric cars a while ago, and I can remember one of the first classes that I was in and had to do with electric cars. And you were talking about this car that had been involved in Iraq. And we had some women adjusters there that, that day in that class. And, um, you were talking about the car was sitting over in the corner. So the guys decided that he would go over there and walk around the car and write an adjustment on it, you know, and see what all had to be done to it. And he was walking around the car and the car cranked up. Yeah. And he stopped and he looked at the car and he walked around the car and the car ran for a while and it shut off, you know. And he said, and there was women says, I am not writing no claim on no damn electric cars. If I'm going to tell my boss, if he, if he wants me to go right, it will claim on one of those electric cars I am not going, especially when you said, don't be messing around those cars after they've been wrecked and it's sprinkling rain. Yeah. That's right. I will never forget that those guys, they, they were bad, but they weren't that bad. Yeah. You don't care to the pressure washer, you know, it's a car wash, you know, and, and get really more do a good job to spray up in the vents and underneath the window wells and, and everywhere in, in, in the cavity of the car because, you know, there's vents in there, you know, that are, you know, exhaust V is per se, you know, that, that, that leads right directly to that battery. Well, you know, Kevin and I were talking about that earlier today. And the fact that I, I just read an article somewhere where they, it must be some of the newer models and they, they're worried about the cars going through water as well. And it said that they had a, an air pocket button or something that you could push when you saw you were going to have to go in some six, eight, eight inches of water and to keep the water from getting on your batteries. But it was a temporary mode and I don't know what car that is, but I'm going to investigate it some more. Well, yeah, go ahead. No, no, no, I was just kind of chuckling a little bit about that. You know, I could just, you know, well, I don't, but see, I'm, I'm where I even came back up with that. The thought was, and, and Kevin and I were talking that the car doctor here said, well, there's vents to those batteries to release the fumes and all that are going to accumulate in that battery area, in that battery box. So he said they're, they're going to get water in them if they get to, you know, a certain depth of water. Absolutely. I mean, they're just, you know, they're designed to vent the, the caustic fumes, you know, out of, out of the vehicle from the, from the, from the, if you ever charged a battery, you know, and smell the fumes that come in off of it. Well, we don't get that with the lithium batteries, though, do we? Well, not really, but you still want to have some, you know, it's still, any more you got electrical current, you're going to have some ions. If you want me to get into the islands and have, no, no, no, that's over my head. I, you know, you know, to explain the flow of electricity, you're going to have some, off, you know, spring of pasta, you know, debris and stuff, you know, and, and that's what you got to be careful of whenever, you know, talking about salt water and the, the vehicles, you know, catch on fire because the solid is actually an electrolyte, you know, that creates, you know, ions in the, the water and it creates like a couple of wire running from the positive to the negative ground and it's going to sort it out and create a fire. Right. I just saw a Facebook page there or it might have been you too, I don't know, but it was, I was researching electric cars and water, salt water and it showed in Pinellas, Florida, a car, electric car sitting in a car in a garage and the water started coming in and it got up to about the floorboard height of the car and all of a sudden sparks come flying out from under it and the next thing you know, the car is on fire in the, in the carport or in the, in the garage inside of the house. So not only gets like Kevin says, not only is your house flooding, but your damn car is going to burn it down. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Well, what can I say? Yeah. That's modern technology, you know, you, you, you, you, as much technology as you get, you're still going to have to rely on fundamentals, you know, on the fundamentals of water and electricity. Yeah. Well, and you know, a lot in the water is what really does it. Right. Well, you know, it's another one of those things where you almost have to put it together, do the best you can and test it, then just put it out there in the public and see what really happens with it, you know, because I don't care what you do. You can build, build something, test it every way you can possibly think, think to test it. But until you put it in Billy Bubba's hands out there in the wood somewhere and see what he does with it, then, then you can find out where your weak points are. Yeah. Well, he got through running through the woods with turkey hunting. Right. Right. You know, these are all engineers, you know, they can't think of everything. I know they're smart people, but they don't think of the little things, you know. Right. I didn't think about him doing that, you know, but, you know, you're exactly right. By the way, how you been doing, Kevin? I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in. Yeah. I went through my little spell there about a year ago and I've been back at it. So, yeah. Well, good to hear from you. Yep. Yep. Always good to hear from you. But if you want to hang on a little bit, we're going to take a break and let our sponsors get their word in and we'll be back. All right. ♪ Turn the corner back again ♪ ♪ I said that old song sure does fit me ♪ ♪ 'Cause darling, I'm a truck driving man ♪ It's The Card 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. ♪ He's found it down ♪ ♪ I'm going to help him truck him ♪ ♪ Are we going to do what they say can't be done? ♪ So, this is the Card Doctor, I've got my own full-on Tom Klexton. If you have any questions, give us a call or send us a text, 3430106. But we still have Mr. Kim back online with us. Kim, you doing all right? I'm doing great. Good. Hey, I got a little bit of upcoming news for you. Okay. I don't know if you know it or not, but Ford Motor Company is building a brand new from scratch out in the cotton fields and corn fields of Memphis, Tennessee. It'll be opening very, very soon and it's going to be half of an electric battery plant and a half electric truck plant. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if y'all heard about that one or not. I hadn't heard about that one. So are they actually producing, are they going to produce their own batteries? Yes. Now, is it there, is it there's some kind of battery plant being built up there around Huntsville? Well, yeah, but it's not necessarily Ford's. Well, what, that was, it's more of a, it's more of a foreign car, a car battery. Well, I thought it was Toyota and, and Honda or somebody. It is. That's why, that's why I'm, that's why I'm calling a foreign car. Okay. All right. I know they're made to America now, but yeah, you know, for the Toyota's and other things, but I don't know. I'm old school. I still think of Chevrolet and Ford as American and Toyota. Yeah. They're American cars. Right. Yeah. Right. Even though, even though they're all one of the same now, they're all one of the same places. Yeah. But, so anyway, I didn't know if you knew that or not. No, I didn't know they were, they were building one there, but that's all good. I thought that plant was in Mexico. It is, but they're, they're playing on expanding and, and bringing it back into the United States. Okay. You never know what the president's gonna do if he, he cuts down the borders and we can't get the carton across the, the, the Mexican line anymore, then we'd have to rely on the United States heart. Right. Okay. So they just forward, just went ahead and started building. Well, you know, Ford came back to America before when Trump was in. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess they went back to Mexico when, uh, oh, Biden went in. Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I can tell you the story about that. Oh, uh, the, uh, uh, Ohio plant was all set to get a line of vehicles and, uh, when Trump was in and they were all excited and as soon as Biden got in, uh, it was immediately poured and sent to Mexico. Holy cow. So all the people there in Ohio lost a job that had already signed up for it. Damn it, boy. So are they still, are they still in Mexico? Yes. That, that plant. Mm hmm. Okay. Oh, well, you know, Kevin and I were talking about paint and I know you're a guru with that. Are we seeing it in you, you paint systems and new way of painting vehicles or have they kind of settled in on a base coat, clear coat? No, they've settled in on a base coat, clear coat. They've just gotten fancy with it. You know, Teslas has got five colors, you know, on their vehicles, uh, Ford's going crazy. They've got five different new, uh, tin, tinny clears and then they've got, you know, their regular standard colors and then they've got their ceramic clears or like the, uh, Lincoln's and the navigators, you know, so like that, so Ford and, uh, uh, uh, Chevrolet is trying to compete with each other until you get the fence is kind of paint, but it's all does the same thing. Well, what that does though is that passes on, it's on down to the field, uh, out here into the, to the independent shops or the shops out here that's going to have to do the repairs on it. But they in turn have problems trying to match that paint. Oh, absolutely, I've been, I've been, uh, begging and asking that they put a warning label on the cars that say, hey, you buy this particular car with this particular color on it, you know, uh, if you ever scratch it or, or get a ding that you want to get fixed on it, you know, you're going to have matching problems, you know, it's not like you can just go ahead and, you know, just make sure this gobbled up and make it right. Well, there is the sophistication of the computer that you can put on the paint and read the color code in it is, is that been, uh, has that progressed forward any more than what it was 10 years ago? Yeah, absolutely, you know, now then, you know, uh, uh, kept out some, you know, in, in the, in the paint industry is, is, you know, and now then they don't put out color chips anymore. They send, uh, the camera, a spectral photometer, uh, camera out to reading stuff, rather than go by a color chip. So you don't even use that, like, like the computer deal that's used to set on top of the, or set on the paint and then hit it two or three times and then get a color code out of it. That's, that's, that's what they're going to now. That's the same thing they're doing now, except they just refined it. Right. They refined it to where, you know, the, you know, it's just like a, you know, a camera has got a better zoom lens in it, you know, and a better, you know, mega pixels and everything goes along with the same little camera, uh, that they use that. So is, is the secret to the paint job still the clear and the type of clear is, you know? Well, we don't have time to go into it deep enough to tell you what the true secret of it is. But the secret of it is the depth of the paint, uh, to the, to the, to the base of it that you code this on it, but yes, uh, in reality, uh, you got to have two meals of clear on top of it to protect all of it. Okay. That'll be done. So I won't come off. Well, we'll get back. So maybe you can, uh, give us a little insight on that. It's, uh, uh, how much time we got there, Mr. Man, two, two minutes. Okay. Two minutes. Yeah. I know it's been a, it's been a blessing to get back in contact with you now. And I knew you have your fingers in several pies, but, uh, it's neat to get our, uh, this the new current information out to our people and to actually have somebody that works in the plants agree with us about the, uh, the salt water factor that, uh, our cars and scooters and bicycles and stuff are being confronted with. Right. And they've just had a bad group of them down in Florida where those, these vehicles, uh, even two or three days after they've been exposed to it or blowing up and catching on fire. That's when it happened. Huh? Uh, that, you just hit on a very important thing. That's when it happened is it's winter over the water, the salt and everything that deposits on the battery and it solidifies and it becomes a solid unit. That's when the current flows the most. Oh, my Lord. Okay. That's a few days. It takes a few days for that to happen. Mm hmm. Yep. All right. So that in what salt water does, there are aluminum on our cars, our tires and our rims and stuff will be a good subject one day. So, uh, get back with us in a couple of weeks. I'll probably call you tomorrow if you'll enter your dank phone. Well, you get some of these spam calls anymore, you know, well, I know, look for my numbers though. You get a two, five dump, two, five, one, you know who it is. Yep. You got that right. Well, bless you brother. Appreciate your being on Willis. Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. Kim's always good to hear from you. Oh, what a good. Hi. Yes. All right, buddy. Hey, I'm not a guru. I'm just a messenger. I hear you brother, I hear you, all right, but look, you're so damn smart. I got to tell you till you face you up with your, you know, probably the sharpest dude I've seen have been around in cars like that besides when it gets under the hood, I'm going to go to Kevin. There you go. Yeah. I think I'm going to fix and throw that at you. All right. I'm going to say you hit by one of a week. Y'all have a good one. Take care. All right, buddy. All right, buddy. I think we're, how much time we got left? We're out. That's it, huh? I want to thank everybody for listening to the Card Doctor show. This has been the Card Doctor show with Kevin and Tom, and we'll be back next week. If you get, you know, Lord, let's just be here. We'll be here and try to bring you some more information about some of these electric cars. God bless all of you. We appreciate our first responders and certainly our vets, and do a big ol' hoot-dye. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)