Car Pro Radio Show February 14 26 Hour 2

This is The CarPro Show, the home of straight talk and honest answers about everything automotive

with Jerry Reynolds The CarPro, a former two-term chairman of the Ford National Dealer Council,

a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, and sixth time winner of the Texas Auto Writers

Association Award for Best Radio Show in Texas.

Jerry's partner is Todd Chambliss, great voiceover guy, and sixth time winner of the

Darche Championship at the Golden Sperr Bar and Grill.

Here they are now, on The CarPro Show.

Well, happy Valentine's Day to you, happy Presidents' Day weekend.

Here we are talking cars on The CarPro Show in the RetailMyRide.com studios in Dallas,

Texas.

And we would love to talk to you.

I have one line open if you want to grab it at 800-926-7777.

You nice folks on hold.

We'll get to you here in just a second.

I want to talk to every single one of you, and we'll figure out what's best for you.

Todd Chambliss, as Mr. announcer said, is with us today, as usual.

Absolutely, and great weekend, of course, if you're looking to make a change in your

life with your automobile Presidents' Day weekend upon us, of course, until Monday you've

got those opportunities to do that.

And like you mentioned, I've been sort of a weird past 30 days weather involved in

the fact that it's always January, a little bit different, where you've got a different

pace, but you still have those dealers who are ready to make a deal.

So it's really the balls in your court, and it looks like you have a good advantage if

you want to trade a car in and have a good trade-in value for it.

That is held up.

You've got incentives out there, and in some cases, a truck month might be a part of your

purview, and if that is, then that's another advantage to you as well.

Yeah, if you want to afford a Ram truck, truck month is here, and that is always a great

time to get yourself a new set of wheels.

If you're in the market for a pickup truck, but they also throw extra incentives on SUVs

as well, because they consider those to be trucks.

I guess that's true, so truck month is truck month.

Yeah, I like it.

A couple of articles that were in yesterday's free newsletter that I wrote that were original.

Sometimes, I'll redo the news for you, because if I see something interesting online, I can't

just cut and paste that into the newsletter, that's wrong.

So I'll take two or three sources and put together an article and put it in there, but

two original articles that I wrote, one was my vice column, which was titled Bad Advice,

Good Intentions, and that was about listening to people when it comes to cars.

I see people on Facebook.

I need a new car.

What's the best new car that I could buy?

Yeah, and I guarantee you if they read the responses by the time they get to the end of it, they

will be so confused they have no idea what to buy.

Yeah, people will go and they'll have a bias against the car for sometimes crazy reasons,

and to go and take everybody's advice and just do a vague throwout of that particular

question, you're going to get all kinds of responses.

Yeah, you really are.

And then my closing message, which I've been working on really hard to put the closing messages,

make them unique and different and open up myself to just 100% honesty.

I mean, I've laid it on the line in three or four closing messages in a row,

kind of deep subjects, I don't mind telling you.

This week, I lightened it up some and I titled this one Little Things That Make a Car a Good One.

And it's really pretty thought-provoking.

I got a lot of response from that one and it was all positive.

So if you're not a newsletter subscriber, try it.

It can be overwhelming at first because there's so much information every single week with all

the recalls that we put in there every week and things going on in the industry.

This week, I had a couple of surprises that were late coming in.

Oh, yeah.

The new Highlanders going all electric.

A lot of you learned that from me for the first time.

You learned that start-stop systems are going away, thankfully.

You know, go through the whole thing first quickly and look and see what interests you.

And then from that point, you can go back and read what might help you in some way.

It's a lot of information.

I get that.

But we work extremely hard to bring that to you every single week.

And the first newsletter I put out was in 2008.

And now our subscriber's number somewhere, I think the last time I heard, 155,000 people

or some crazy number.

But we'd love to have you in the family.

And I promise you, you will learn something every week.

To the phones, Rick in Houston has been on hold the longest.

So, Rick, you're next.

What can I help you with, sir?

Hey, guys, I've got a 2021 F-150 Lariat with a 502A package, about 70,000 miles on it.

Want to know when should I trade it or should I trade it or sell it?

Should I get a new or used?

One of the things I have also is I have a big old

crack in my windshield.

Not a big, but I've had it repaired.

It's what they call it, a cat's eye.

All right.

And so should I get that windshield replaced before I trade it in or?

Okay, good questions.

What would you hope to gain if you traded your truck?

I want to get something with lower mileage.

So it's a company tractor signing it over to me next month.

The last payment is made.

They sign it over to me and I can do what I want with it.

Very good.

Yeah, I would go ahead and do something during truck month.

If I were you, that's when the incentives are the best.

And you're also going to take advantage of the used car market that's out there right now,

which is very high, particularly on trucks and SUVs.

So, you know, what engine do you have in that 21?

V6.

Okay.

3.5?

Yeah.

Okay.

Great engine.

I'd get another one of those if I were you.

That's my favorite.

But yeah, well, look, here's what we know.

We know that the more you drive the truck, the less the value is going to be because of mileage.

And you're really at a good spot right now with the peak.

You're in a position to where you need to either trade it now or try to go to 150,000 miles and

just drive it till the wheels fall off of it.

And you sound like a guy that doesn't want to do that.

And I don't blame you.

I wouldn't be that guy either.

I get, you know, it's just natural to get tired of a car.

So, if I were you, I'd trade it now while the value's up, while the rebates are up,

while the selection is good.

I'd get something similar.

They've changed some since 2021, but it's all been very positive changes.

And there are some real deals out there right now on 2025s.

So, I've got some really, really good Ford dealers.

I know them all personally at my website.

If you'll click near the top where it says find a car pro certified dealer near you,

pick Ford, put your zip code in.

The closest one to you will pull right up with my contact.

So, we'll get you fixed up.

If the last car you bought made your blood pressure reading higher than your SATs,

let's fix that.

Call Jerry Reynolds, the car pro on the chaise.com car pro listener line at 1-800-926-7777.

Every single week, the newsletter has some great stories about what's going on in the

automotive world, and it's called Quick Shifts.

They're quite funny most times, just about every single time.

I don't know which one my favorite is, whether it's the Florida couple driving in a burning car

while drunk.

I don't know if it's the...

I don't recommend that.

No, it's a horrible idea.

I don't know if Chevrolet getting upset about being called Chevy is one of my favorites.

That was a bad idea too.

Or the man that was trying to get away in a bike, and of course the officer, I guess they were

on foot, and then he said, there's a guy that had a pickup and he's chasing a bike with a pickup.

Well, that didn't last that long.

No, that's not a good idea either.

But the one that I thought was kind of the best of my favorite has to be the Ferrari

thieves that go into a Ram dealership to liberate a Ferrari from that dealership, only to find

that they didn't know exactly the power of that vehicle and they rammed it right into a wall.

You know, thieves are just stupid.

They're already going to a life of crime, so they're already off on a bad run right there,

and to go and do that, and not know exactly how to get away with the vehicle was just poor

planning really.

Well, and then there's the story.

I told this earlier on the Dallas show, but

guy gets out of the penitentiary.

He ends up at a truck stop.

This is the same day that he got out of the penitentiary.

He got out, like, released or did he escape?

No, he was released.

Okay.

So he's done.

All he's got to do is live a good life.

Yep, you're all young.

You paid your time.

Goes to the truck stop, makes friends with a truck driver.

Truck driver agrees to give him a ride.

Okay.

When they get in his 18 wheeler, the guy attacks the truck driver, throws him out of the truck,

and steals his truck.

Oh, my gosh.

The truck had 10 brand new Corvettes on it.

Be easy to spot, even from the year.

A million dollars worth of Corvettes.

Oof.

And this guy got out of the penitentiary that day, steals it.

First thing he did, he got caught.

Some people never learn.

Not smart.

Henry and Houston, you're up next on The Car Pro Show.

Hello, Henry.

Good morning, or afternoon, Jerry and Todd.

Good to have you, pal.

I have a 2016 Dodge Ram 1500 5.7 liter Hemi engine with 182,000 miles on it.

The only engine work that's ever been performed on it was, I actually helped in replacement

of the water pump.

The oil's been changed on it every 8,000 to 10,000, no more than ever, 10,000 miles.

Same oil throughout.

I just had a check engine light on.

Yeah.

And as soon as they, shortly after they checked engine light, checked it, I came back out,

started my truck, the light's gone.

Yep, that's typical.

And I've driven it, I've driven it several miles now.

That the check engine light, all that said, was in cylinder 5 mis-fired.

Okay.

This truck has never had a tune up.

Well, and it-

Never had a tune up.

You probably need one.

Well, I was going to say, I think it's time for a major tune up, which I've been quoted,

you know, somewhere in a $1,200 range.

But my deal is, should I take it to a dealer?

Because it's all factory parts on it now.

And if I take it to an outside mechanic,

I don't know what I'm going to get unless I verbally ask them to tell them.

Yeah, and you should, Henry.

You should specify you want OEM parts.

And they're used to that.

A lot of people do that.

I don't see any reason to use a dealership for a tune up.

Not with the miles you've got on your truck.

It's 10 years old, 182,000 miles.

You don't need to-

And it's in great shape.

Yeah, you don't need to pay the labor rates that dealers get for that.

Find a good independent shop.

Now, at 182,000 miles, you need a tune up anyway, but you need to understand

that may not be why the check engine light came on.

The next time it comes on, you need to get it diagnosed.

They can plug a machine into your truck and tell immediately by codes what's wrong.

Now, you can do that at any auto parts store free.

Auto zone will go out and plug in your truck and give you the code for free

anytime that happens.

But I would get the tune up done at that mileage anyway, but just know that that may not cure

your engine light.

And you know what?

It may never come on again.

That wouldn't be unusual either.

Sometimes they just come and go and there's no rhyme or reason for it.

I hope I helped you.

Hi, Jimmy.

I bought a 2025 Hyundai Tucson and I'm not quite satisfied with it.

I'm just wondering if there's any way maybe I can trade it in and still not be,

you know, not end up upside down.

I probably will be.

Well, it all depends on how you went into the deal.

What was the circumstances?

Did you put money down?

Did you have a trade in?

Uh, this was back right after we had that bad hellstorm in 2025.

And this, this thing was a loner and it had 5000 miles on it.

Okay.

And I thought I got a pretty good deal on it, but I, I couldn't get my financing exactly where

I wanted it because of one little hell dent, you know, it had in it.

And so, and it was considered used at that point, of course.

Sure.

So I ended up, you know, 5% because of the hell, I guess, even though I have excellent credit.

But what I'm not satisfied is there's no AC vent in the back.

We wanted to kind of use this thing for traveling.

Yeah.

And, uh, and there's no AC in the back and my son's like six foot two, you know, anyway.

So we want him to be comfortable back there.

Sure.

Donnie, let me answer your question because we're, we're going to run out of time here in

about 30, about a minute.

The only thing you can do is go to one of my dealers and try to figure out what's,

you know, if you can trade it or not, you probably can.

You've got great credit.

And, and how many miles are on it?

It has 10 now.

Okay.

So it's, it's a valuable piece of merchandise.

It's a good seller.

It'll have good resale.

Do you know what you want next?

Well, I was thinking about the Buick Envision.

Okay.

Then go over to classic Buick GM.

No, go.

Yeah.

Go to classic in Klebern and talk to them.

They're going to be closest to you.

There's also one in Arlington if that's more convenient, but tell them you're one of my

listeners and tell them you want to trade that Tucson and just look at the numbers,

see if they make sense.

Almost everybody thinks they know about cars, but the CarPro Jerry Reynolds actually does know.

And welcome back to the CarPro show with Jerry Reynolds, the CarPro and me,

Ty Chambliss in this week's newsletter in the new section.

I see cars gave its list of the most reliable used cars for the money.

It's a five and 10 year old used cars with the longest remaining lifespan at the lowest cost.

So the best options for buyers who are looking for the best value.

So the, I'll give away the number one, the Honda Fit has an average of one to five year old use

price of just above $18,000 lifespan of nearly 11 years.

So you do the math on that and your annual cost is just under $1,700 a year.

So looking for some now, the Honda Fit probably not full of all kinds of toys and gadgets and tech.

That's pretty basic car.

Yeah.

So you get a heater and four wheels and maybe a steering wheel, right?

And some people that's exactly what they want.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

No, absolutely not.

I need a little bit more of my car, but you know, that's because I'm not 18 and just starting out.

And it could be that could be that you're on a budget.

You want to just cut back and you don't want to spend a lot of money on a car.

And that's a good fit for you.

A Honda Fit.

That was the number one clicked on item in yesterday's newsletter.

And we had four car reviews for you this week.

Boy, you guys were busy this week.

I did too.

And Amy did too.

Man, that's crazy.

Yeah.

I had that GMC Sierra EV electric truck.

Yeah.

Well, that thing was nice.

But wow, was it pricing?

That was the big one, right?

Oh, yeah.

84 off road.

Oh, yeah.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

The Audi too, right?

Yeah.

I had the Audi too.

That was fun.

Yeah, bad.

That was super fast.

But if you're not a subscriber, you're missing out.

Just try it.

If you don't like it, all you got to do is the next time

you get one, click unsubscribe and you're gone.

Yeah.

I'm betting you probably won't do that though.

No.

We get very, very, very few people who cancel.

And, you know, the best part about it, it's free.

Yeah.

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They don't sell your email address to anybody.

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Yeah, it's great.

It's clean, full information.

And you were talking about going to the newsletter,

you know, as a regular thing.

And there are parts of it you will look forward to.

It could be Jerry's closing message.

It could be the news.

It could be the test drives.

You have something that interests you, I bet,

if you go and you give it a shot.

Well, you should, everybody should look at the recall section

just to make sure.

Because some of the recalls do not drive recalls.

I mean, park your car.

Oh my gosh.

And if you're driving one of those, you need to know.

And you'll find out first from us.

Exactly.

Candy in San Francisco, California.

Welcome.

Hi, Candy.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Thank you so much.

Happy Valentine's Day to you.

Thank you.

What can I help you with?

Yes, I've been looking for due to life circumstances.

I'm going to be on my own as a woman.

I really need a reliable car.

And I'm looking at possibly a Volkswagen Atlas.

I like higher sitting cars.

Yeah.

I'm going to trade in.

First off, looking at some of the rental car companies

who buy up cars.

And I'm looking through Enterprise.

And wondering if that's a good option.

I do have a list of things that I want to ask.

But looking right now, it's the Atlas,

Volkswagen Atlas.

Yeah.

The S-E, at least the S-E or the S-E-L model.

I'd love to have a sunroof.

So, yeah.

And I'm wondering how you feel about that.

I was looking at the Buick on Clay.

And the Nissan Armada, because they sit high.

Yep.

And heard all sorts of negative things.

So, now back here, looking at 2023, 2024 VW Atlas.

I like the Atlas.

It has been, it's got a good history.

I've helped a lot of people get into them.

That and the Atlas, what do they call it?

Cross sport.

It's the two-row, virtually the same vehicle.

But it's only got two rows of seating instead of three.

Do you need three?

I do.

I have grandchildren.

We have grandchildren.

Also, I live in it.

I'm going to move to a hotter climate.

So, that's something to be considered.

Because I do want to ask about color.

But for sure, I would love six seats.

Okay.

Awesome.

You know, I haven't, I got nothing but praise for the Atlas.

I wouldn't have always said that.

Because Volkswagen went through a period of time when they just

really weren't paying attention to quality.

And they were trying to build too many cars.

That's changed over the past five years or so.

Now they're building some really good stuff.

Their fit and finish is much better than it used to be.

And they're typically priced well.

I will warn you about enterprise.

And I know they're tempting because typically if you're shopping online,

you see their prices and their prices are better than you'll typically find.

But the downside is they keep their cars longer normally than most rental car companies do.

So, when you buy one of their cars, you're buying a car that people have rented.

And to be honest, they're not very careful with them.

So, if they were in an accident, enterprise does their own repairs.

So, if you pull up a history report on one of those and it's been in Iraq, it's not going to show.

That's the risk.

Now, that doesn't mean it's a bad car.

It doesn't mean that it's not a good buy.

But what I would tell you is I would want a third party,

somebody that is really good at looking at cars and analyzing them to see if

they've been in Iraq, see if there's anything wrong with them.

I would want to pay to get that done before you pull the trigger, before that final,

that final, you know, you're going to finance it or you're going to pay cash or whatever you're

going to do before you sign on the dotted line.

I'd have a third party take a look at it.

Some dealerships will do that.

You can Google it online for used car inspections.

There's a company out there called Lemon Busters, lemonbusters.com.

They do a decent job of looking at cars.

They'll go to the dealership and look at it and give you an evaluation of it.

I think that's a good idea if you decide to go with enterprise.

Beautiful.

That's great advice.

Thank you.

Wondering about color for resale, and I don't have to keep this car as a forever car.

My car is sailing.

I have hit-cracked motor mount and cracked transmission mount, and the catalytic converter

has gone out, so I've not put another penny into this car the way you're unsafe driving it.

With that being said, I may not need to keep it too long, the car, but I wanted to have great

resale. Is black a bad color, by the way?

I may be moving to a hotter climate with 95 to 100 degree heat.

Is it better to get a white car?

They have a nice gunmetal gray in the atlas, or is black a bad color?

Because they do have one in black.

Black is not a good color for resale value.

Some people absolutely will not buy a black car.

I like black.

I've owned a lot of black cars.

Nothing prettier when they're clean, but keeping them clean is a real issue.

Lighter colors are easier to keep and will keep the car cooler, especially when you're

talking about a good size SUV.

So if you find white or silver or gold, I'd go with that.

Thanks for the call, candy.

Your trade could be worth a lot or not.

Find out which by calling Jerry Reynolds the car pro at thechase.com car pro listener line at 1-800-926-7777.

Every single week, it's a brand new newsletter that Jerry and staff work on tirelessly all week long.

Lots of work, lots of changes because when the new stuff comes in, like breaking news that we

had this week with a couple of stories, they jump into the whole thing and they get to work and

they get that to you.

So you have the most outdated information.

So it was a big week, of course, with that in the newsletter.

I'm sure you have some stuff you've already got kind of ready to go for next week, right?

Yeah, because the start stop going away was so late, we're getting that information.

I've got more detail on that.

I ponder the question, why did the Ford CEO, Jim Farley,

take a position on the board of directors of McDonald's?

That is kind of weird why he would do that.

Does he just have too much time on his hands?

You think running a company like Ford and all the stuff going on, especially with

all they've had to write off the billions of dollars, they would be putting his nose to

the grindstone and trying to make all that work to make the company and the folks over him happy,

but it's got time to go to a board meeting for McDonald's?

Well, this guy makes millions of dollars a year and I checked online and looked to see,

because it's public information, what a board seat on the board of McDonald's pays.

Okay, I'm curious, how much would that be?

Between two and three hundred thousand dollars a year.

This guy's had years, he's made twenty million dollars.

That seems kind of like pocket change to a guy like that.

To me, it'd be fine with it.

Yeah, it does.

And next week, I bring back my true stories from a former car dealer.

There'll be one in there every single week.

I put my heart and soul into these.

They are stories that happened to me when I was in the car business

and we'll have one a week for the next 40 weeks.

Wow, okay.

More stories, more adventures, these are not rehashes, these are brand new things, right?

No, well, they've been online for a while.

Okay, so you're going to go and revisit those?

Yeah.

Okay, that's awesome.

Well, we got so many new subscribers.

A lot of people haven't seen them and even if you've read them, you've forgotten them.

Right, exactly.

Because the way I hadn't had them in the newsletter in years.

And they're a good rate, Tim.

Oh, they're funny.

Irma in Houston, welcome, Irma, what can I help you with?

Hi, Jerry.

I'm shopping in the used car market and I have two in mine.

I looked, I'm looking at a Lexus NX 250 Premium 2023 with 24,000 miles.

And the other one is a Mercedes GLA 250 2025 with 16,000 miles.

I do not know which way to go, which, you know, which car would be a good car, reliable good car.

How long do you think you're going to have it?

A good maybe.

Well, right now I have a Tahoe that I've had for eight years, but I'm looking to downside.

So maybe around the same time.

Okay, go with the Lexus.

I love Mercedes, I own a Mercedes.

But in my particular case, I don't keep a car more than 20, 25,000 miles.

When that Mercedes starts to age, the maintenance on it is going to be very, very expensive.

That's not true of the Lexus.

Plus the NX is typically good, well past 200,000 miles without any major problems.

Now, any car, no matter what kind, you're going to have things go wrong.

You're going to have air conditioning compressors.

You're going to power windows, motors go out.

That's going to happen with anything.

But engine transmission, the things that cost you thousands of dollars,

you will not have a problem with that Lexus.

You could with the Mercedes.

And so for those reasons, I think it's a total no-burner to go with the Lexus NX.

It's a really, really good SUV.

I would do that if I were you.

Thanks for the call.

The car pro Jerry Reynolds knows things you just can't know.

So call it on thechase.com car pro listener line.

1-800-926-7777

It's time again for another great happy listener story.

Folks who take Jerry's advice and use his method of buying a car.

And boy, it turned out so well.

Ashley is the person who we received a story from.

She had a 2024 Toyota Corolla Cross XLE.

Started having issues with at least 4,000 miles in.

She did not buy it from one of your dealers.

Interesting to note that.

And she fought with them for two years and just finally was just at wit's end.

Well, our dad, an avid car pro show listener emailed you Jerry,

and you recommended Jerry Patterson over at Freeman Toyota in the Dallas,

Fort Worth area.

She moved in closer around Parker County, finally took a car there,

spoke with him.

They said they want to make that experience different than what she's already gone through.

So they went through and they got her a 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross,

had it delivered to her house, and she is thrilled.

Nice.

Not only will she be listening to the show now from now on,

but also recommending freedom to anybody, free man rather,

to anybody that she speaks to about this.

So she says, thank you for making folks feel like they can now go to a car dealership

with peace of mind knowing that there are dealerships out there that really want to help you

keep up the good work and she'll be tuning in every Saturday.

Well, that is great, great, great news.

Welcome to the family, Ashley.

And also want to welcome to the family Jean Messer Hyundai and Lubbock.

Brandon Chimino is the general manager there, and he's new with the show.

And we've got McCombs Hyundai Northwest for our San Antonio listeners.

You'll talk to Fabian there.

Nice.

He is the general manager there.

So great news.

New dealers coming on board that are totally sold on what I tell people on the air

about the experience that they're going to have.

If you've wanted to talk to me, I've got a line open at 800-926-7777.

We got another hour to go.

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Ford F150

502A package

cat's eye

windshield replacement

incentives

used car market

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rebates

2025s

Ford Escape

Chevrolet Corvette

Ram 1500

Dodge Ram

water pump

check engine light

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OEM parts

diagnosed

auto parts store

Hyundai Tucson

Buick Envision

Honda Fit

Gmc Sierra

Volkswagen Atlas

Nissan Armada

Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

Volkswagen

Lemon Busters

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