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Car Doctor Show 6-24-24 diesels first, cooling racing tires, heat on the roads, windshields
It's the Car Doctor with Kevin Langwinkle and Tom Klexton on FM Talk 1065. Call Kevin and Tom now at 3430106 with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in. And welcome to the Car Doctor show. This is Car Doctor Kevin Randall on the time of the question. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us a text. 3430106 shows brought to you by U.J. Chevrolet serving mobile since 1939. Alabama piping supply and ed seafood chips. And a little sweet blue chip. Yes, I'm going to go over it for a take tomorrow, I think. There you go. That's always good. Always good. Yeah, I've got to get somebody over there. They're the best ride strength on the coast. Might have to go get me some of them shrimps. It's that season. It's that season. A lot of them shrimps. A lot of them fried green tomatoes too. Baby. A few little connect-a-doll strips. What are you talking about? Oh yeah. You know, and we're talking about time for seafood season and all that kind of stuff. Oh yeah. You know, I just realized today that we're only a couple days out from getting to July. July? Yeah. I figured out where this year went. I woke up this morning and I'm going like, "We're close to July. What the heck?" Yeah, you know. I hadn't got, I hadn't finished thinking about what happened in the past Christmas now. I got through that. That's right. You know, I had that nuclear stress test today though, baby. Oh yeah. That was a brand new ball game. Oh yeah. That's a unique feeling when they get you to feel like you're doing... You had one of those? Oh yeah. Yeah. Where you feel like you've just run a four-minute mile. That's what did you... Well, I asked the nurse. I said, "What's it supposed to do?" And I said, "Well, how come you're taking so many blood pressure counts?" He says, "Well, we've got to make sure that your heart comes back." And he gets the blood pressure count back up. So I said, "Well, you're telling me that you gave me that nuclear stuff?" And it slowed my heart down, put my heart down into a stress mode. And you want to see if my heart can recover and come back to a normal deal. That's the whole thing. I said, "Well, okay." I said, "I'm kicking in my morning and I ain't hurting." She said, "Well, you want 40 over 70?" I said, "Thank you very much." There you go. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that at all. That's good. That's good. But, you know, hey, we're all getting to the age. We got to... I went to that age. Yeah. But anyway, we're up... We'll stay on top of, for sure. We're blessed. We're blessed. But it looks like we do have a collar on land. Well, this collar, are you with us? Had no skill. Yep. Donut man in here. Donut man. That's not my one fan of the car doc. And we don't even have any stands for the number one fan. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I got the trophy to show it. All right. All right. Yep. I got the trophy show. It's made like a chicken dumpling. Oh, yeah. Well, the ones I had are yours. What good? I bet you enjoyed it. I enjoyed your dumplings. Did everybody have a good weekend? Hey, man. It was all good. Yeah. What did the engineer do inside it this weekend? What did he do? I don't know. He's shaking his head going, "Oh, he don't remember." It must have been good. Nothing exciting. It must have been good. Donut man. He ain't talking. Yeah. So I'm blessed. It must have been good. Yeah. That's right. It was. What year did they put the first diesel motor in the car and what car company was it? Mercedes Benz in '18. Oh, '09, he's something. Oh, what? No, I'm coming American car, sir. American car. American car. American car. American car. 1976. That was my bill? No, sir. It was a GM product 1980. What? Well, I'll have a problem with that. I didn't know for a fact they had diesels in the osmils before that. Yeah. They had them about '76 or '77. Yeah. We could actually convert a gas burner motor to a semblance of the same, but they made it into a diesel. Yeah. Yeah. What year was that? It was about '76 or '76 or '77, right there? Yeah. Now, it's the same motor that they did in the '80 model. That was about the time that they started branching out to other car lines as far as Chavalin and Pontiac and GMC with their diesels. Yeah, Mercedes, from what I remember, it was early into their big deal was diesels back. That was one of their first type vehicles they come out with and it was like '19, '18, but it would be '18, '90, something. Yeah, somewhere in there, somewhere in there. But I'd have to go do research again. Yeah, I'm going to do research again because I think it was one pride to that also and I forgot the name of the company. Yeah. Well, and the guy's name is diesels, where that came from. Yeah. And he invented the diesel engine, basically, or the fuel system for it. And it was early. I'm sorry, I missed that. There's a Cummins. What was it? Cummins? Cummins? No, they were early on, but I don't remember reading about that. I don't think they were in early cars. Yeah, I don't think they were early cars. They were mostly in trucks. They were truck motors. Yeah, they branched into some smaller trucks now. Yeah, but they were mostly over the road and equipment. Oh, yes. Well, in the '60s, '50s and '60s, when I was in the trucking industry, we had international harvesters. We called them trans stars, I believe, then. And we had Cummins diesel engines in them. Yep, little corn binders. But hey, we run those things over a million to a million miles. Yeah, they were tough. They were tough. Yeah, we would usually pull up. We had our own assembly shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I was at. And an engine was still in good shape at 650,000 or something on it. We would pull it and put in a refurbished one. And then we would take that through our shop before it destroyed everything. And I was able to re-refine the crankshaft and the rods and all, and even most of the time, the pistons. But we'd catch them before something broke or metal fatigue, and we'd put all the pieces back together just with the freshen up package and put it on a pallet and get ready to go into the next truck that needed one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Always oil pumps, all the bearings, you know, and reworked the diesel pump, either replaced the injectors or reworked the injectors. And it was a total rebuild. Oh, yeah, they were good for another half a million or more. Wow. Yeah. But they don't build them like that. No, no, but, you know, what's running the fleet up? I'm like, we had, I think we had like 500 or something of them. And we were running from Boston to New Orleans with truck exhaust and mobile assets. Yeah, Boston. Yeah. Wow. And we had, Charlotte was our home base, but, you know, that's one of the places I got involved in the maintenance and repairs is by being involved with that. And then our owner liked to race boats. And we had a deal with, oh, I was trying to think, the forward old age crap up on me and grabbed me, but forward dealer, a big forward, travel travel? No, in Charlotte that built the race car. And most of the race car. Home and Moody. Home and Moody. Yeah. Yeah. Home and Moody. And we used to go over there all the time. And we'd see them building all of those motors. That's where I first time I met Red Farmer. You met Red Farmer? Oh, yeah. Oh, well, we've seen them a lot of times since then. But Red was there. He had on overalls. And I called him Claude, Claude Knocker shoes, like a farmer wears, and a denim shirt with a, with a straw hat. He had, I asked the guy on the counter, I said, "Who is that Red Knocker over there?" He said, "Man, that's a famous race car driver." I says, "Ah, not to me." He said, "No, man, that's Red Farmer from Birmingham. Huey town." But anyway, we raced our, my boss raced forward motors in some of the race boats. So we got involved in racing. And, you know, and over the years after I got out of Marine Corps, developed that desire to become involved in the maintenance and racing in general. Wow. Well, you know what, Tom, I'm so glad I met you, man. Because you, you know, you, you up on things. I'm just an old country boy trying to make a living, bud. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Well, listen, guys, I enjoyed it. I'm enjoying the show. And I don't know what you say. Oh, raw? Oh, raw. Oh, raw. Talk to you all later. I'm enjoying the show, sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you there, number one, man, fan. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Yeah, it sounds like it's time for us to take a break and let you hear from our sponsors. When we get back, we'll be talking about some cars and trucks here in the south. [Music] 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. [Music] And welcome back to the card office show. This is the card, Dr. Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton. If you have any questions, give us a call or send us text 3430106. But, well, it looks like we got a caller online. Call are you, Liz? Well, you know I'm always here. Always running second, for some reason. I don't know, well, that's all about, so. Yeah, well, we can't get him off the damn phone. Yes. Well, Jerry, what are you up to? Well, you know, we always talk about NASCAR and we were up at New Hampshire this week and giving that. You're going to have to give me a little info on this because the rain started and they had to postpone the race a little bit. And when they come back out, they started running on wet tires. Yeah. And I have never seen anybody run through water trying to cool their tires off. Have you ever seen that? You know, there have been times in the past where I've even run here at Mobile International and and back in the day when the track had just gotten paved. It was really hard on tires. And when I say hard, it would just get them extremely hot because of the grip they had. So if you got a caution, you would run up up off the top of the track right or off the bottom of the track. To get your tires cooled off in that moist grass if it was wet or even heavy do or whatever, you get them off that asphalt for just a little bit and help cool them back down. You know, water is actually the best thing. The only problem you get is then you got water that you've slung up under the car and everything else and it's liable to get back on the tires when you're actually trying to get up to speed. But you don't want all that water under there when you're trying to go fast. But you know, under cautions and that, yeah, absolutely. Well, the grip on those tires and the compound of those tires was so good on that damp track that they were building excessive heat into the rubber and they knew that they were going to bluster. So the tire would get hot so hot that it would build that heat down in the inner sections of that where those tires are put together in those ribs and then it would form that air bubble and it caused that tire to bluster. So that's what they were trying to do to kill them off, keep them from doing that. Now these guys were doing something like I said, I ain't never seen them do this before. They were actually running on the end field. Oh hell yeah. Hey, well, you take the water to that. Yeah, what water is? What the heck? Where do I live, man? And when they had the wet weather tires on the car, if you notice they were running around and looking for the damp spots on the racetrack run in. Yeah, the dark spot. They were looking for the dark spots. Not the gray spot. And because as soon as they get on that gray spot, those tires get overheated and they lose all traction. Well, there was the tires under normal conditions without them. Heat are running in the cool on them off. Looks like they were only good for about 10 or 12 laps. Right. Exactly. That's about it, about 10 laps. They ran, what, 40 laps or 50 laps and I think they put on what five sets of tires. Yeah. Yep. Yep. They make the interesting, you know, but they, well, you know, I'm not on that page. They had already run 220 something laps. They were a two thirds of the way in the race. It was a rain out. Whoever, it was over 50% of the race is complete. Whoever was in the lead when it started raining, give them the flag and let's go home. Yeah. Yeah. They don't need to tear it up a bunch of equipment. I don't disagree. Yeah. I never want to see a bunch of equipment. No. No need for all that. Can you imagine how much money those teams had to spend? They didn't give them them damn tires. They had to buy them. And you know, those tires are full $5,000 a set. Right. They could have spent 30 to 50 grand there just on tires and 50 laps. Yeah. They're, they're, they're not cheap. But, um, oh, you know, guys, I'm, uh, I'm thinking to go lay down and get my butt in the bed because hey, guess what? I'm on vacation till next Monday. Oh, Lord. Where are you fishing at? I am not going to fish a lot of yard work to do. When would you get to come on over to my house? I'll be glad to pay you. Well, that's not everybody else's, but I'm, I'm going to play somebody to do it because this whole country can't do it. Yeah. Yeah. But y'all have a great night and I'm going to enjoy listening to the rest of the show and, uh, simplify it. Look, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm always good to hear from you. But, uh, and I'm sure we'll hear from you next week. So, but, uh, anyway, we, we got, uh, talking about the heat. Um, I know we're in the middle of vacation time for a lot of people, uh, going to be out on the roads traveling. I know they're out there traveling because, uh, you know, went to Houston here, uh, what two weeks ago. Right. And, uh, the roads were packed even though I was, and I was doing it in the middle of the night, you know, not so much. You know, when I left home at two o'clock in the morning to go, but, you know, by, by six o'clock the roads were full. They were full. They were, they were, they were packed and then on the way home on a Sunday afternoon that, you know, well, no, we got home probably about three o'clock. So, um, you know, it was seven hours out there. It's seven hours. Yeah. It's seven hour ride. Uh, so anyway, I've made it so far. It's, it's seven hours anyway. Yeah. Well, I, I run into the same thing. We went to Muscle Shoals. Oh, uh, this past week or this weekend for a Marine Corps, uh, convention. We had up there and, uh, we, we decided to go up 65 rather than 43 and, uh, Muscle Shoals, 43 runs right through Muscle Shoals. But, uh, we did okay. Then we got to through Montgomery and got into Birmingham. Two hour delay backups. Finally, we used, uh, ways that program that's on there. Right. And they came on and give us a route to go around and go through Hoover. So actually, but it was, it was heavy, but everybody, it was moving. Right. So, uh, we were able to move food, get around that and get around the wreck and, uh, and he got on up on the highway, but then, uh, then we were talking, uh, Sunday morning about coming back and somebody said, well, they just left, uh, early this morning and they are still tied up in traffic in Birmingham. They've had a big wreck. So I said, look out, 43 year, I come. I got on four to three, six hours and a half. Yeah. You know, we, you know, we stopped in Thomasville got me some, uh, you know, fishing chips and, uh, along John Silver's, you know, got me a Dr. Peppa. Yep. Yeah. Dr. Peppa. And, uh, and we came over to the house, but then if it's on that seat on interstate, you're gonna be blocked. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And the problem is, is once you get caught in it, you're stuck there. Right. You know, it's the place you turn around. Nowhere to get off. You got it. Uh, anyway, looks like we got a, uh, caller, caller, was it? Yeah, man. I, I got the audience in time. I'm going to Huntsville, uh, uh, uh, uh, five in the morning. I'm leaving my gummy about, uh, probably about two. Yep. Going right into that Birmingham traffic, about three, which takes about that. Ooh. Well, and that may not be too terrible if you were talking about three in the morning. Yeah. Uh, no, uh, three, three in the afternoon. Oh, yeah. That's a good luck with that one. Good luck. So make sure you take some, make sure you take some water, get your roll of toilet paper and some snacks and make sure your, your guys take his full, you know, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. But I'll tell you what, when you start going through those cities like that now, you better have a full tank of fuel. Yeah. Yeah. Take that Santa thing up there, man. There you go. Hey, that's a good ride. Yeah. That's a good little ride. Yeah. And I'd last time we went, man, uh, right there, right there about that, uh, space center, about six o'clock that evening at a rig. We had the detune round, man. We used to traffic about about an hour and a half. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, it just did time, uh, with the amount of traffic that we have out there that you're going to be, uh, are you going to have the potential to be involved in some kind of tie up? So you better make dang sure your cars and, uh, put a gas in it and make sure your cars in good shape because you don't want to be on side road in the middle of all that. All right, Dan, I'll see y'all. All right. Good luck. Be careful. Be safe. All right. Then it's time for us to take another break and let's hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. It's the car doctor with Kevin Ray Winkle and Tom Klexton on FM talk one oh six five call Kevin and Tom now at three four three zero one oh six with your car maintenance and repair questions. The doctor is in and welcome back to the car doctor show. This is card. I'm going to go along with Tom Klexton. You have any questions? Give us a call or send us a check three four three you want one oh zero one zero six but uh you know we were talking uh got into some of the traveling stuff you know which brings up the um the need for you to get your car checked out. I'm sure people are going off on uh trips this summer um get your car looked at before you hit the road. Got two. Got two yeah you got two um you know and if at all possible travel traveling in the evenings early mornings uh it's way easier on your car you know it's already you know we have heat indexes of 110 115 coming up right you know so but now you know that being said they say well you know we what's the big deal we put up with all that but if you take a thermometer like we got those things now you can shoot for your temperature shoot that asphalt out there should take concrete with that and see what the temperature of that is that you're exposing your tires and your car too. Right. You're going to find the temperature up during the day like that on those roads it's going to be 140 150 degrees. I said 140 to 150 degrees. You can't run maypop tires on that. Right. You better have some good rubber on the ground. Yeah we were we were actually at the racetrack Saturday and and uh just for the heck however we checked the the temperature of the pits that were out in the sun but you know it wasn't even the the good asphalt that's out on the racetrack but we were checking it right there near where the car was and it was 140 degrees right there. Oh my god yes um so you know that being said you know that track is actually hotter than that. It is and because the asphalt is darker. Yeah and it's this tough on this stuff on your tires. The darker the asphalt the hotter it's going to be. Yep. And if you got like concrete the kind of a lightish color concrete you might slide by with 130. Yeah. And I apologize for this voice that's um since the COVID stuff I got some drainage. Yep. And it gets on my vocal cord so I'm sorry about that. Yeah yeah we'll get to it but uh you know it's uh it's important to uh you know make sure you're checking your tires, checking your tire pressures um you know and believe it or not a low tire actually generates more heat so it can be a problem there. You can close your side walls and blow out because that's flexing that flexing those side walls with that excessive heat. Right poof. Yep. They'll give up on you in a hurry and that you know it's uh it can get dangerous when you blow out a tire especially if it's on a steering tire in the front if you have one blow out and it you jerk the wheel because it's startles you which is very common. Right. It happens uh you know you just common they can send you and send you for a ride where you don't really want to be. Right. Yeah. So uh yeah well Kevin we uh I'm trying to get this throat flare up. Oh mm-hmm. I was noticing when we were running on interstate and when you start pasting some of those cars you were within a foot to 18 inches over those of those vehicles and a lot of times even those trucks and 18 wheels with those big tires and all that stuff. Yep. If you're running alongside of them and one of your damn tires blow out so you you better you know you better be right with the lord before you get started. Yeah. So you're not going to have time to ask him to forgive you for right stupid stuff that we've done over all these years. You know and I've been going down to interstate and I'd be right right next to one of the big trucks and not really paying attention then all of a sudden I look over and right at my window there's one of those big tires that says oh I know. And they're spinning you know and you know thinking about it and their pressure they have and as much as they blow out right they're like I'd never see it coming. No. So. If it if you happen to blow right there. Right. It's coming through your window. Yep. So I mean I'll go and get around. Right. Yeah. I'm not going to stand there and run side-by-side with him. Yeah. I'm on a scoop. You know get on around him. Well and that being said you know I want to be either out ahead of him or behind him I don't want to be beside him because he can't see me. No. He don't know I'm there. He cannot see you. And I sit there and ride by some of that like that. You know he may have known that you got there but he'll glance around and won't see you and he'll think that you either went on or slowed down. Right. And he won't know that you're. I know that. Well back because I've driven. Yep. You know I uh during during my time with truck lines. Yeah. I had to you know do a lot of driving because I was also a driver trainer. Mm-hmm. So I had to you know go with my drivers they're winning with I was hiring them and and make sure that I accepted the way they drive. Right. And the way they handled equipment. Yep. I tell you it's but you know it it means a lot to make sure you're checking your Cleveland system and the tires and of course your brakes and fluids and all this kind of stuff in your car before you get out on road. You know I always clean my windshield and wipe the wipers down and replace them in or if. Right. If they need it you know. You know so so I have the ability to get my windshield clean clear if I get into heavy rain all of a sudden you know I can still see where I'm going. Right. I can get slowed down because it never fails. You'll be running along cruise set and you'll get a downpour and there'll be somebody going 25 mile an hour in the fast lane. Right. Yeah with your flashers on but you don't see them flashers till you get there. Yeah. So you got to get slowed down you know way early and you know so you need the wiper you need to windshield clear and the wipers not bad. Well it is legal to be out each. I've got to like you. I need to see and I don't need to film on my windshield. So even though my wiper blades might be on you know a couple of two or three months old I like to take some either some rubbing alcohol on some paper towels and rub my windshield down and then I rub the blades and get that phone call for the blades. But if I don't have that some white vinegar works fine. Yeah. I used that Friday morning before I left and wipe my windshield down and then I'll also rub my the paper towels on the on the blades themselves and make sure I got that residue and I'll offer there. And sure enough when I got in some rural rainups road it worked fine. You didn't have any problems. But the other thing you don't do is don't add any kind of soap or any other kind of liquids in your windshield washer. It causes a bubbles it causes the foam and when you go to spray it it won't spray out. Right. It bubbles it bubbles out to the end of where the little ends of where the water all actually. Yeah. Yeah. How you really need to put in there is is a washer solvent. Right. It's especially designed for that. Windex doesn't need work. No. And you know you put that in there and it will do a good job. Right. It'll help cut any road grime and that off the windshield. I think it's got a little bit of ethanol in it. And it does it has you know it's basically a like a rubbing alcohol base. Right. It's got a little alcohol in it to cut the film. To cut the film and you know it helps clean the clean the windshield and and it doesn't leave anything on the windshield. Right. It doesn't hurt the glass. Yeah. It doesn't hurt the wipers. But it's uh you know it's always good to be prepared. I see people all the time just jump in them and go you know and it's uh you know not the smartest way to do it. No. You know. Well you know it's just like we're talking about tonight though you get the other thing you've got to consider is especially if you've got some little ones in your car or you have an older person that uh you know uh we don't have control like a lot of the younger people do now. Yeah. And uh of our bodily functions and also you have to be real careful and if you got any doubts get in to get into those uh rest areas. And then you know get out and walk around a little bit or walk to the restroom anyway. Once you face off or you know wipe your eyes and all clear. Get a little bit of rejuvenation there and get a couple of coffee or something. But I can remember back in the day man. I could go 14, 16, 18 hours, 20 hours you have to. Right. You know and but no big thing. Yep. Couple of cups of coffee and uh you know maybe a pack of chewing gum and that's good. Mm-hmm. Yep. But you can't do that anymore. No. And you know if if if you're running down and you're having visibility issues and you know get off of the road don't don't just stop on the side of the road and the emergency lane because that's a good way to get run over. You know get get to the next exit get to a rest rest area or to to an exit to get off of the highway where cars that are trying to go. Cars and trucks. She's sending them on hour. Right. Or not trying to come on by it. Right. You know because if they hit you from behind it's it's going to do some damage. And I feel like it I am of a counterdriver because when I'm running 70 and 75 I have to move over and let all of these cars is running the I guess what they consider their speed limit is not what mine is. Right. And I'm already tapped there. The legal one out. Yeah. But they found another one somewhere up there around 85 and 90. Right. Right. They will run over you. Oh yeah. Yep. And mad because you in their lane. This is my road. Get out of my road boy. Right. So I tell him he's number one when he goes by. Yep. But anyway just be please be careful. Be prepared when you hit the road. Be careful when you're there. Just keep an eye out for people that or like say I was I was got caught in a rainstorm and I come up on somebody that I swear was going about 20 mile an hour in the fast lane. I know. Right. And it's like no if you got to do that and get get out of the fast lane at least getting the right hand lane. Well I understand you can't see very well but you know I had a better vision and you know I was able to see him soon enough but if I'm trying to run 40 or 45 you know you'll be on the edge and you catch him pretty quick. Well he ain't supposed to be there going that slow. Right. Yeah. Right. So get over in the right hand lane. Anyway we're going to take a break and let's hear from our sponsors and we'll be back. Mr. Smith had a nose mobile baby blue wire wheels took her home and David sheets had a tie. He said she leaked when it would rain sounding like aeroplane but I knew she was a june in the sky. 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 car doctor Kevin Ray Winkle on Tom Klexton. Any questions give us a call or send us text 3430106. And like I say we're shows brought to you by you Jay Chevrolet been in mobile since 1939 taking care of the people here. You know I'm very proud and proud of being associated with them. Yeah they've been around a long time for a reason. Yes. You know it's uh oh they're the last family owned big dealership. No I think we still have you know they've been around a while you still have Bullard. They've been around a little while. Bullard. They're family owned they've been around too. Not as long. You Jay's the longest family owned franchise or dealer. You know but there's uh let's see who else we got. We got the Palmer's but they're more recent. They're 30 years. Yeah they're about 30 years there. Which I say recent that's 30 still 30 years you know. I mean you Jay's coming up on I think 90 years. So it's uh you know that's that's a little different deal but well they're 85 now. 85 now. So it's uh you know it's nice to see a family on a preparation. Sure. You know it's still very family involved and I can see the younger generations coming up now that are going to be taken over you know somewhere in the future. So it's nice to deal with the family family business and you know they're locally owned and operated and well you know it's one of the last who Ross man. Yeah that's what uh that's the kind of business and families that built this country. Yep. And now we're kind of going off in a different direction with all the corporate conglomerates. The big boys sucking everything up you know with the Walmart's and what have you. And then just putting all the little people out of business but it's really neat to see that they've been able to sustain their dealership and be great at it and do an awesome job have awesome personnel and uh and be able to stand on their own and do a good job and make family living you know. Yeah well I mean they're and they're able to do it because of the support of the community right you know going to their their facility buying buying products getting their car worked on or or buying cars supporting that dealer what's because that is because the dealer's been supporting them right because the dealers supported them. They take care of the people that come in there. You got people's bought cars there four or five times. Oh at least. And then the grand now the grandkids are buying. Yep. Yep. You know it's uh not uncommon to have someone that's been doing business with. I had a buddy come out there the other day and there's three generations and he bought well he and his family and they bought three vehicles and they were three different generations involved in it. Mm-hmm. You know and that was I said where are you going something on UJ? He said I'm gonna get the best deal there. He said I always have. Yeah. And I said I'm gonna go to that point. I said they're good people. Yep. And then you come back. I thought he was just going to trade his truck in. Mm-hmm. And they're like I know he's now I don't know about this one and I bought this card. Then I bought this grand young in a car. I'm going who's right. Yeah. Yep. But you know three generations it was bought right there. Yep. You know and that's it's not unusual to hear people that you know come in there and get in their cars uh worked on and or buying cars that you know bought from the Urquets back in the 60s. Right. Yeah. Downtown. Well you know still out there on on uh they were on that one. 45. Yeah. 65 out there. Yeah. And uh well they were downtown before went they were downtown somewhere. Uh I don't remember what you checked for. I don't know exactly. I don't know where it was on St. Louis or uh wait for my time. Oh. Well it wasn't before my time though. Yeah. Yeah. Um might have been on even on um St. Joseph St. Yeah. Yeah. I know the van motors were down forward was down there. I actually bought a Ford truck from them back in the day. Long time ago. 17. Ooh. Two. 73. Yep. But then uh and then you know then they moved. Come on out and you know everybody got out on the belt line then. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Well you know interstate come through everybody had to get out there where they could send. Right. Right. Well I saw that in my trip to muscle shows this weekend. Yeah. The little towns that were a viable you know towns before and then interstate moved you know five miles away from them. And now you know everything flows up. All the stores closed up. Not not hardly anything there you know. And it's just like it just sucked a life right out of the tail. Right. Right. Well you know the the businesses are gonna have to follow where the traffic is. Sure. Yeah. Uh you know sure you can keep some businesses going but um a traffic fed business like a car dealership and and and that kind of thing. They got to be where they got to be where the traffic is. Right. They got to have a storefront to the public. Yeah. I mean because most of the time you know when you have a a new customer come in. Now your your old customers have been dealing with you forever. Yeah they're gonna go. They're gonna find you. Yeah. Yeah they'll find you. But uh the new ones they're gonna go to yep from new customers. They're gonna go to where the most convenient place is. And that's where they're gonna buy. Yeah. Um yeah. But which is all good. Yeah. But we're swirring. We're still good where we're at. Yeah. On airport. Uh it's a very highly traffic area. Yes. Yes. And uh you know I like being out there. Hey it's closer to my house. Not closer. There you go. It would be way closer than than if it was out on the interstate again. Right. So and then we don't we'd like to close with the fact that don't forget guys and gals. Check those vehicles before you get on the road. Don't get halfway up the road and have a blow out or have a problem with something then you know. I'm belt breaking or whatever that you could have caught just by raising the hood and looking and see it frayed. Right. And uh and not changing the walls. Not getting it properly lubricated. Then check that those out. And you know you got tied up in traffic and you just want to run the air condition. Put you couldn't run the air condition because you was low on gas and you got to sit there for an hour and a half. And then the temperatures that you got up to 120 and 130 in your car come on. Yeah. Take care of your dang vehicles. Got it. Check them out. Then cover yourself because uh you know we don't we're talking about interstates. You don't get no help out there. That's right. That's right. And you know also one of the key things you want to do is also is to do a walk walk around get somebody to sit in the car and uh oh you know check your lights. Yeah. You know and I run across it on our trip to Houston. I know for a fact everything was working on a lift but when we got back I didn't think anything about it. You know got back and I was actually during the day. The next uh night or later that night we went to get uh we went somewhere in separate cars and I was the head of my wife and uh left headlights out. Oh look at that. Matter of fact it's still out. I've got to fix it. Yeah but uh yeah well you're not driving it anyway. Yeah it doesn't get driven a lot so but uh you know look for your headlights and look for your tail lights and all that kind of stuff but I want to thank everybody for their listening to the car doctor show tonight and uh we'll be back next week. And to all of our first responders and our veterans we appreciate all of you. We know the country wouldn't be a country without you guys. God bless you. Hoorah.