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I know on the very last episode, I mentioned things that you should not get your car person,
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but today, we're flipping this around. We're getting the seven best gifts that any car person
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really, really wants. In fact, I want some of these things. And Tint, Merry Christmas.
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Hey, what's happening? How are you doing? Thank you so much for being here once
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again. Merry Christmas to you. This is part two of the two-part series on what to buy that
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cool car guy for Christmas this year, 2025. Now, in the last episode, I described things
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not, and I said not to get that cool car guy because they're going to hate that stuff.
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Trust me. I mean, I probably would, and you probably would too. But today, it's
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all about happy thoughts. Today, we're talking about things that you want to get that
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a car guy wants to get. So if you're going to give a car guy something, these are the
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things that they're probably going to appreciate. And these are the things they're going to
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enjoy and actually want to use and will use for sure. So I've got seven of these.
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I had seven on the last one. Lucky number seven. Here we go. Christmas time 2025. Here
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we go. Kicking it off with number one. Now, what guy who actually loves cleaning
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their car, loves detail in their car would not appreciate high quality microfiber towels.
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Now you can get these at Costco, big bag of them. They're really good quality stuff.
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And I've got a bag of them somewhere around here. I got to find it, but you had a bunch
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of them. You can probably buy them at other places too, but these are the really, really
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good ones. Essentially, they're like good for like not scratching the vehicle. I
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know if you get like thorns and rocks and pebbles and stuff in them, they're
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pretty much useless. I would not recommend using on your car at that point, but a brand
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new one that's clean and fresh and actually like has no imperfections. That is basically
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a real microfiber, not this generic like paper towels, but like real ones that are really
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good because you can use them for multiple things. You can use them to actually like
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wax down your vehicle, wax off the vehicle. If you wax on, wax off that kind of
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stuff, rub it down. I had my Z and I would buy a bunch of these microfiber towels
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and I was using them to like actually clean and like do the quick, you know, wax on the
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car because although I would wash, wash and wax the car regularly, there were times where
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I would buy the quick wax, which is like a spray wax. I think McGuire's has it and
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a bunch of companies have this kind of stuff, but basically you would spray it on,
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spray it off. And I've used towels like these microfiber towels to, you know,
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wax on, wax off, but you also use them for other things too. Like the inside,
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like armor on the inside of your car, detail on the rims, the wheels, tires. I mean,
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if they get really worn out or they get become like you drop them and they got thorns and dirt
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embedded in them, don't use them on your car, but you can probably use them to like wipe
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off your dipstick, you know, things like that. Or maybe like, I don't know,
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in anything it's like really want to clean, but don't care if it scratches really kind of stuff,
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things like that. So according to the actual chemical guys, the company that
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makes all these chemical products, they say that they're woolly mammoth microfiber towel dryer towel,
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the one that's used for drying can actually hold up to close to a gallon of water. So if you're
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actually using these things to dry off your car, which I've done too, they work fairly well.
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Of course, they've got other drying towels you can buy. Remember the ShamWow,
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those are big. I haven't had a bunch of those for a while. I was using the ShamWow to dry
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the car. And I think I got them in the fair. They were a big deal. The ShamWow, I remember those.
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And I mean, the commercials, their guy was like soaking up water out of everything.
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He spilled like water on the carpet and like soaked the water out and wringing it all out
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and things like that. So those things work fairly well too. So, but I think a really good high
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quality microfiber towel, or at least a pack of them or whatever, is a really good gift to get
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or gift to give your cool car person. They would probably appreciate that because they
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can use it for many different things, especially if they're really high quality stuff.
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Okay. Speaking of the car cleaning arena, moving on to number two, and we're talking
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about an actual foam cannon, maybe an attachment for like a water pressure gun. I have a water
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pressure machine here in the house and I tell you the truth, I never use it. I've used it a
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few times and it's a big pain in the butt really get out and like plug it in and get the hose attached
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and all those attachments and crap. And I guess if you have time and you're really, you know,
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cleaning your car, I did use it on the Z a lot. And I hook up the foam stuff. I had some foam
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soap that you could put in there and becomes like a big foam cannon. And I would like spray the
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foam all over the car, you know, it's kind of a cool effect because you got the foam to
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spraying all over the car and you're spraying all over the place. It looks great. It looks
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cool on social media. When you do that and you put on social media, it's a kind of a cool looking
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thing. And it's kind of cool because, you know, it's like soap everywhere. It has a clean, soapy
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feel going on with the thing. And I think that's a really cool gift to give a car person because
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they're probably washing the car themselves. They're probably detailing the car themselves.
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Not always, but yes, sometimes they do. And if you want to add more to your,
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you know, gift other than just a foam cannon, you can buy an entire piece, a whole
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tire like kit from chemical guys, not a sponsor of the show yet. They probably should be, but
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they've got a full on like 16 piece arsenal builder wash kit, which includes the foam gun,
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a water mitt and various other cleaners, probably all their chemical guys cleaning
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stuff, probably tire wheels, you name it. They probably have it all in a package like that.
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Now, if it's a really good high quality cleaning car wash kit, I think most car,
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guys would probably appreciate that, especially if they wash it themselves,
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which if they're a true car guy, there is without a doubt, they wash it themselves.
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I know I did for the Z and there was a time when I got lazy and yeah, I started just running
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through the car wash. Yeah, I did that. But most car guys probably really appreciate
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really high quality cleaning stuff for their car and probably the better the better,
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I should say when it comes to car cleaning stuff. And there's lots of companies out there.
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There's lots of different brands of McGuire's. I actually love McGuire's myself. I'm a
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McGuire's kind of guy. I had all their soaps, all their car wash stuff. And I know there's,
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you know, except there's car guys, there's our chemical guys. There are a few other brands
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out there. I'm sure I can think of the top of my head, but any high quality cleaning
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stuff for your car is probably a safe bet for a true car guy. And if you know what kind of
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car wash stuff they use, like say you go over to their house, you see their garage,
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and you see they have a particular brand of car wash they use, then get them that.
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Don't get them those cheap, like really cheap $2 dollar store stuff that comes in a gallon,
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but it's like $2 of car wash stuff. It's mostly water anyways. Who knows what that
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stuff is. Gotta give them the really good stuff if you're gonna get them something
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and find out what they like to use on their car and probably get them more of that stuff.
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That'll probably just fine. Okay, now moving away from the car cleaning department and car
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cleaning care type stuff, moving more into the technical world of things. Moving on to number three,
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and we're talking about a cool little gadget that I wish I owned. I don't have one. I know
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most people have this kind of stuff. They have these tools with them everywhere they go.
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And that is a OBD2 diagnostic scanner. Now, this is the thing that you plug into your
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computer's diagnostic port and it reads the engine codes. So you got a check engine light that came
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on your car for, I don't know, maybe running that tune on your car. You're like, why is the
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check engine light on? Or maybe you did an aftermarket like air intake and it didn't,
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you know, it threw a code. Now you got a check engine light on. You want to try to figure
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what's going on? Having a scanner, you can plug it in and then you can like pinpoint
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exactly what the problem is because the computer in the car is gonna be like,
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hey, something's happening, but you know, check engine lights on. You're like, well,
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what does it mean? I wish that cars had those built in. That would be so awesome.
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Hey, car developers, if you could have like a check engine light that came on that automatically
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like on the dashboard somewhere, you can figure out like what the problem was,
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other than buying a one of these OBD2 like, you know, scanner tools, get the, you know,
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figure out what it is. If it could happen like within the car, that'd be super,
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super cool. But hey, let's get there. Right. So there are a few out there as a whole bunch
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to choose from. Like I don't own one personally, but I can see myself getting one of these
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hint, hint. If you want to give me something as a gift, I don't have one.
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So you're both welcome to give me one. That'd be great. Thank you so much,
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Mary, Christopher, you too. And it says here that the Innova, the 5610 is highly
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recommended model, probably because it can do a bunch of different things,
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a bunch of different features, probably work almost every single car.
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It can probably tell you exactly what's happening. Now, how accurate are these things?
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I do not know. I know that when you go to a place like AutoZone, maybe Pet Boys 2,
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maybe any of those like, you know, auto shop, you know, car places,
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most of those places will check your car out for free. I know I did that on my car,
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I did that on my truck, took it in there for free. They'll run the codes for you for free,
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they'll even print it out for you for free, giving you an idea of what's, you know,
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what's causing the actual issue. You can go to dealership too. The dealership usually charges
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for these kind of things, maybe a little more. It might be free. I don't know. I mean,
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I haven't gone to a dealership to do a scan on a car in forever and a day ago. And last time I
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checked it, I think a guy charged me like a hundred bucks or 50 bucks. He charged me
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something. I forget it was. But if you have to scan yourself, you could scan it yourself.
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And I don't know how accurate they are. I'm sure they're pretty accurate these
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days. I would think because when I had my Z had issues with my Z had a checkings like come on.
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And I took it to a place and they ran their scanner. And I took it to first, I took it
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to the auto zone and their scanner. Then I took it to a shop actually did the repairs.
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They ran their scanner and they basically said the same thing. They said that I was misfiring
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and that the spark plugs, something with a spark plug or whatever need be replaced.
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And the story added place to spark plugs. That's basically what it was.
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So had I had a tool, maybe I would known, but I didn't really pay much for the scan. So
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there's that, but it's a cool, you know, fun tool to have. And I can see, you know,
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any car guy wanting a scanner who doesn't already have one. That'd be a cool gift to give.
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Okay. Moving on to number four of the coolest gifts that any car guy would love to have.
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If you're going to give them something cool, I got this gift actually last year myself.
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And that is a high definition dash cam. Now the reason why I wanted the dash cam in the first
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place. I mean, I never, I kind of thought about it, but I saw this video. It was in New York City,
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I think a year ago where this whole scam happened where like insurance scam where this car
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would like cut off a car in the freeway or hit him or do something. And then like,
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as both cars pull over the car in front of the car that was recording,
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put the car in reverse, slammed into the car and like crashed into the car and pulled forward.
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And these people kind of got out of the car and looked like they were like all injured and trying
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to like, Oh, you hit me, you reared into me, you hit me, all those stuff, whatever. And then
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the whole thing was caught on camera because they had a dash cam recording every single thing.
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And so because of that thing, I was like, man, I got to get myself on those cameras.
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And also, I think it's kind of cool because there's a lot of crazy things
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happen in the freeway, crazy stuff that happens. And I think it helps with insurance. In fact,
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I should call my insurance company and tell them to have that because I have not done that
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speaking of which. And in theory, it should give you a lower insurance rate if you have
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one of those cameras because it gives you like the actual video evidence that if someone's
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trying to scam you or there's an accident of any kind, video evidence really comes in handy
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when you're trying to like solve a case. There's no disputing video evidence really.
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You can't say that wasn't me. You can't say I didn't put the car in reverse and slammed into them
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and they hit me. You can't say that if it's on video, it actually happened. You see it on video.
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So what I have is in Chuchin 4k, it plugs into the cigarette lighter, pass out powers it,
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and it runs a wire to the back. There's a back camera and a front cam, a front main camera.
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And it runs on a memory card. It's basically, I got the biggest memory card I could find to put in
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the thing. And it constantly goes on a loop. So in theory, far as I know, because I haven't
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gone and checked the footage in a while, but the way I understand it works is that it constantly
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records in like 10 minute increments and then it resets itself. If it records like so many
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of these 10 minute blocks to the memory cards full, it like resets and it goes back again,
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which should happen. And maybe about two or three days worth, probably I think of the memory card
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because shooting everything in 4k and it's a good size memory card, but still 4k, you know,
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running all the time does eat up a lot of memory. And I think it only works when I'm
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driving too. So it's not like recording. I don't think it's recording right now.
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It might be if the power to it, I don't know how that works, but definitely records.
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When I turn the truck on, it turns on the camera goes on, then it goes out to like a
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like a blank screen because it doesn't have the screen to display the whole time.
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And you can see the red light flashing on the thing when you, you know, when it's using. So
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this probably comes in handy for, you know, vandalism or anything like that. Of course,
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theft, things like that. So and also my truck does have, I believe,
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because I can check it on the app. It does tell me locations on the vehicle. So
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if the vehicle were to be stolen, I could probably track it on the app where it is.
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Another side note on this, if you have Apple, Apple products, you can get an Apple air tag
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and mount it somewhere in the vehicle, like under the vehicle somewhere. In case the vehicle ever
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gets stolen or something like that, or valet size to do like a Ferris Bueller's day off
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joyride kind of deal, you probably contract the vehicle and see what was that and things like
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that. So these kinds of devices are really designed for you, you to protect you and make sure that
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if your vehicle does get stolen or something does happen that you've got evidence to hopefully,
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you know, get some get some justice on, on what happened. So, and also too, if you really want
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to use it, which haven't done yet, but if you want to grab the video since it's 4k on the
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dash and grab that video and maybe make like a YouTube video or something like that,
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of you going somewhere with that cool video, you could do that too. I should probably do that,
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that'd be kind of fun. Anyways, moving on to number five. Now, this is kind of the same realm because
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it's all about electricity, it's all about things for your car and I'm talking about a portable jump
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starter. Now, these things are pretty cool because they're really compact. I don't know how
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they even work, but they're so small and somehow they like start your car and they
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got a battery in there, of course, and somehow they they're enough to really start your vehicle.
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And especially if you don't have like jumper cables or have another vehicle around near you to jump
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your car with. Now, you know, some of these probably can like be used to charge other devices off of
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it, like USB ports, things like that. So, a portable jump starter would probably be a cool
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thing to have in the back of your car, your trunk space somewhere that's pretty big, you
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know. And this way, when your car and your vehicle finally does die, you plug the thing in and in
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theory, they should jump and then jump your car. I never own one of these things. Hey,
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speaking of gifts you want to give me, this is another one on there. Get me one of those
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portable jump starters. I would really appreciate it. It'd be super cool to have because my car,
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I'm sorry, my truck did, you know, the battery did die recently and I was driving to work
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one day and it threw all kinds of codes on me. I don't know what's going on. I was like
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throwing weird codes on the dash, like the whole dash, like a little bit of Christmas tree.
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And they was throwing things like, you know, rear camera not working, transmission fault not
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working, side detection thing not working. Like all these things thing wasn't working or whatever.
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What is going on with this thing? And I did notice that I could not put the vehicle
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into other drive modes. It was locked in whatever drive mode it was locked into,
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and it could not change nothing. Warning lights over the dash, the hell's going on with this
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thing. Turns out it was just a battery. It was just a dead battery. And once I changed the battery,
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it fixed everything, but that was it. But I didn't know, you know, I just like,
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if I had checked the battery, if I had a battery checker or an OBG, I don't know if the OBD2 scanner
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can check battery voltage. It might, not too sure, but I don't have one of those either.
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So these are two gifts you want to give me, the OBD2 scanner and the portable, you know,
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charger that jumps the portable jumper. Yeah, that'd be kind of cool. Give me one of those.
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That'd be kind of awesome. I really appreciate that. Okay. Moving on to number six. And now,
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number six, I was gifted this a few years ago in his amazing gift, again, any car guy,
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any car enthusiast would absolutely love this gift. And if you ever go to Vegas,
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there are two places I know of in town that offer this kind of deal. And I'm talking about
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the driving experience or racing school sessions where you get to drive an actual race car or
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sports car or luxury car. Usually you're like, you know, Porsche's Corvettes, you know,
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Ferrari's, Lamborghini's, things like that around an official racetrack with a actual
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trainer with you. He's teach you every single thing. In fact, on my YouTube channel right now,
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I put the video of me taking the Nissan GTR around the track. The entire video
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is on my YouTube channel, which you can find that right through coolcarswithchrist.com.
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There's a link to my YouTube right on there. On there. You can see the entire thing I did
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in his entirety right there, but these are super cool gifts to give any car person
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a driving experience. They would absolutely love it. And what car guy would not like to drive
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their Lamborghini, their GTR, their Ferrari, their Corvette. They always wanted to drive
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whatever it is on a racetrack where you can go as fast as you can go without crashing the car,
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of course, but it's not like something on the streets where you're limited by the
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rules of the road. It's on an actual racetrack where you can drift the car,
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slide the car, spin the car around if you get too crazy. Yeah, I see that happen.
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So that is a really amazing gift to get any car guy. And that is a driving experience.
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And the seventh and final cool car gift to get any cool car person in your life,
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this Christmas. It's another gift I got myself, actually. Some of these gifts I probably
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did get myself and I think about. But if you have any custom artwork for your car or
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custom collectibles that are designed specifically for the car they have, I've got lots of
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Z stuff. In fact, I had this really, really cool poster of all the Z's including my Z on this poster.
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It was like a anniversary poster or something like that. But I had it framed and I had it in
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my master bedroom for like forever. It was so cool. It was such a good like memorabilia and I
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had it custom made. And I gave it away with the car. When I sold the car to the guy about
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my car, I said, Hey, I have this really cool like poster. It's all framed really nice.
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It has this car, all the Z's on the poster. Would you like it? I mean, I'm giving you with the car.
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Oh yeah, totally. They took it put in the back with them, that kind of stuff. But I still have
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like little, you know, Z toy cars. I've got lots of matchbox Z cars and things like that.
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So I think any kind of like collectibles like miniature little vehicles of the vehicle you
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drive, especially if they're like so close in detail to the vehicle you actually have,
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the model you have. I was at Costco not that long ago and Costco since it's Christmas.
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They've got all their Christmas gifts out, all their Christmas stuff.
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And now this whole section of these really well done die cast cars. And they've got a
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lot of cool cars on there and almost bought the 350Z one they have for sale there.
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They're only about 20 bucks for these die cast cars, which is a really good deal.
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They're really high quality made. They're metal and they have all the details and
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everything. And they look really well done. And if you can find one that is exactly like the car
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you have, how cool is that? That would be amazing. And there you have it, the best seven top gifts
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to give any car person in your life this Christmas. And I wish you a happy Merry Christmas.
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Safe holidays. Drive safe. Be sober when you're behind the wheel. Obviously.
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Don't drink and drive. Obviously. Don't get crazy. If you want to speed,
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save that for the racetrack and just get home safe and make sure that you have a wonderful,
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wonderful happy holidays with you and your family and I'll see you on the very next episode.
