Preventative Maintenance That Actually Saves Money (Not Dealer Checklist Fluff)
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Preventative Maintenance That Actually Saves Money (Not Dealer Checklist Fluff)
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Car
Nissan Rogue
The Nissan Rogue is a family-friendly SUV that is good for driving in the city and has enough space for groceries or luggage. It's known for being comfortable and safe.
Car
Jeep Wrangler
The Jeep Wrangler is a tough, off-road vehicle that many people use for adventures like camping or driving on rough terrain. It's known for being able to handle difficult roads and trails.
Term
brakes
Brakes are what help a car slow down or stop when you press the pedal. They are very important for safety and need to be checked regularly to make sure they work well.
Car
Lexus NX
The Lexus NX is a small luxury SUV that looks nice and has a comfortable interior. It comes with powerful engines that help it drive well.
Term
oil change
An oil change is when you replace the old oil in your car's engine with new oil. This helps keep the engine running well and can prevent damage over time.
Term
tire pressures
Tire pressure is how much air is in your car's tires. Keeping the right amount of air helps your car drive safely and saves fuel.
Term
drag racing
Drag racing is a fast race between two cars on a straight track to see which one can go the fastest. It's all about speed and quick starts.
Term
drive axle
The drive axle helps the car's wheels move by sending power from the engine. It's important for making the car go, especially when driving fast or racing.
Term
beater
A 'beater' is a cheap car that you don't mind getting damaged. It's usually not in great shape and is used for everyday driving.
Term
supercar
A 'supercar' is a really fast and expensive sports car. They're designed for performance and are not usually used for regular driving.
Car
Volkswagen Jetta
The Volkswagen Jetta is a small car that many people like because it's reliable and easy to drive. The 1992 version is known for being sturdy and practical.
Term
checking their own fluids
Checking fluids means looking at the different liquids in a car, like oil and coolant, to make sure they are at the right levels. This helps the car run well and prevents problems.
Term
preventative maintenance
Preventative maintenance is like taking care of your car before something goes wrong. It means doing regular checks and fixes to keep the car running well and avoid bigger problems later.
Term
coolant
Coolant is a special liquid that helps keep your car's engine from getting too hot. It moves around the engine and radiator to keep everything at the right temperature.
Term
brake fluid
Brake fluid is the liquid that helps your car's brakes work. When you press the brake pedal, this fluid moves through the system to make the car stop.
Term
fleet maintenance
Fleet maintenance is like taking care of a group of cars to keep them running well. It helps avoid big problems and saves money in the long run.
Term
power steering fluid
Power steering fluid helps your car's steering system work more easily. It makes it easier to turn the steering wheel, especially when parking or making tight turns.
Term
thermal breakdown
Thermal breakdown happens when fluids in your car get too hot and start to break down. This can make them less effective and can cause problems if you don't change them regularly.
Term
timing chain
A timing chain is a strong metal chain that helps keep the engine parts working together. It's more durable than a timing belt and usually doesn't need to be replaced as often.
Term
timing belt
The timing belt is a part of the engine that helps keep everything moving in sync. It makes sure that the engine's parts work together at the right times so that the car runs smoothly.
Term
valves
Valves are parts in the engine that open and close to let air and fuel in and exhaust out. They help the engine run smoothly.
Term
pistons
Pistons are parts inside the engine that move up and down to help create power. They are essential for the engine to work properly.
Term
interference engine
An interference engine is a type of engine where the parts can hit each other if the timing belt breaks. This can cause a lot of damage, while a non-interference engine won't have that problem if the belt fails.
Term
courtesy check
A courtesy check is a free inspection that mechanics do to look over your car while they're doing other work, like an oil change.
Term
inspection intervals
Inspection intervals are the times when you should have your car checked to make sure everything is working properly. It's like a health check for your vehicle to keep it safe and running well.
Part
solenoids
Solenoids are small devices that help control how the transmission works by managing the flow of fluid inside it. They play a key role in making sure the car shifts gears smoothly.
Term
transmission
The transmission is what helps your car move by sending power from the engine to the wheels. It can change gears automatically or manually, depending on the type of car you have.
Company
Rainbow Motors and Garage
Rainbow Motors and Garage is a place where you can buy cars and get them serviced. They are known for being reliable and helping with many different types of vehicles.
Term
extended vehicle warranties
Extended vehicle warranties are like extra insurance for your car that covers repairs after the original warranty runs out. They help you avoid big bills if something goes wrong.
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had an insurance company with us for quite a brokerage for quite a few years. Oh,
yeah, here I got it. I got it. I got this. Insurance may seem like an expense till
you need it. It's a wise investment. You know, I had to say that for quite a few
years. And you know what? I had a really good broker. I've since moving things
over closer to town to another brokerage. And I love working with a brokerage and
not insurance corporate, corporate period. No, insurance corporate. You're not even
a donut hole, my friend. You're just a number, a Joe, a nothing. And getting
insurance like through through a bank or through grocery store, you're just asking
for problems. It's already a problem on its own. So I better back off right now
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podcast 101. Huge. So today we're talking about, I kind of messed up yesterday. So if you can't
remember what I told you yesterday, the topic was going to be perfect. Your spot on I was on my,
in my ledger where I keep topics, I have everything arranged ahead of time. And I was on the wrong
page. I was one week ahead. Sorry. My bad. Today, we're going to be talking about its episode 92
in season one, preventative maintenance that actually saves money, not dealer checklist stuff.
Yeah, glove box light, does it work? Can you stick your head in there for me?
Yeah, it's off. That really hurts. Can you open it? Check door handles? Are they working? Check
wipers? Are they in place? Check. Does the trunk open with the remote? Click check and you pay for
all that. I know it kind of sounds redundant, but you know, seriously, my neighbor gave me
his checklist. He goes, I'm not paying $800-$900 for an oil change. Yeah. And checking stuff. He
goes, I can walk around and check and make sure my door handles are on, my mirrors are good,
my wipers are in position and they clean the window or they don't. I don't need to pay somebody
to check that. Wipers in order, check 30 bucks. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but it's not. It's over
the top. Seriously. If, you know, if we still had our shop on the Hamilton Mountain Jenkins
Automotive and repairs, we did cars, trucks, light trucks and buses, heavy equipment, not heavy
equipment, not there. Couldn't do it there. We didn't have the parking. We checked all that.
If you chose off of our menu board, full service, full service oil change, you got all that checked
for you for one price, the cost of the oil change service. We did all that for you and adjusted tire
pressures and left you a little goody inside the car and the referral card and we washed your car.
So when you picked it up, it was nice and clean for you. That's what we did.
Yeah. I don't know if anybody else is doing that now, but that's what we did. That's how I was trained
in a shop. I worked in every vehicle, whether it came in for a flat repair or a headlight.
We washed it, gave it a quick wash in the wash bay and out it went. Now we're done. My boss would say,
you're not done until you do that and make sure you put referral card in there and always a
little goody bag, chocolates, mince or whatever. Then we started putting gifts. Yeah, because I had a
supplier for gifts and we put in the fall, everybody got a snow brush in the spring. Everyone got a
small purse size umbrella. Make sure we keep you dry. Yeah. So today we're talking about preventative
maintenance that actually saves money, not dealer checklist stuff. Don't get me started on that any
further. Otherwise we will be in super deep this morning. I think we'll start off talking about
the fluids and how important that is. It's a small service, but I call that a small service,
but it's huge. And that's where you really need to take into consideration. No, you're not bothering
a fully licensed automotive technician to do your services for you. Just keep that in mind.
Just keep that in mind that, you know what, you're not bothering me to say I need to bring it in for
a well-changed service because that is the opportunity for me to check your vehicle over for
you, which is important. You want to know what's going on. And that's part, all part of the video
we've just put together. It will be, it will be up on our YouTube channel February 27th.
I break down and show you fleet maintenance on our car connection maintenance schedule package,
which is good for all ages. Small humans, medium size humans, full size humans, seniors,
young kids, get them started. You know, you got, you got adult daughters and sons driving cars,
get them started on how to take care of it. And one of the things we're going to talk about in a
future program is those kids don't just hand them a car. That's the wrong thing to do folks,
whether you're a grandparent or a parent, don't go out there and buy them the bomb. You know,
the best car out there, they're going to beat the living tar out of it when they're with their
friends. Not saying all kids will do that, but you know what, from experience having a shop
on the Hamilton mountain, we had, you know, parents, they're both working, they buy their kid a car,
and that thing was busted every single month. There was something wrong with it every single
month. And I even had one kid try and blame it on me. And I'll tell you, I ate his lunch and took
his milk money right in front of his parents. Yeah, that went over really well, because then
they discovered that little sunny Jim, who says he's an angel. Yeah, an angel with a black halo.
I said, when that, when that car and that kid is out of your eyesight, he's a different person
behind the wheel. And then it came down to proving it. And then with the young chap sitting there,
standing there, and he's busted, right, I showed facts, just facts. And I said, here's the deal.
This is how this breaks. And this is the third one. He's racing the car. He's drag racing his
buddies spin in the wheels, hit the black top, the wheel locks and grips, bam, breaks the drive
axle. So the company that rebuilt drive axles for us out in the Burlington area, my friend David
out there is retired now great fella. He says this kids drag racing this car, you got to somehow
you got to you got to nip this in the bud because says I can't keep rebuilding these things under
warranty because he says I clearly know how this is done. I go, you and me both. This is number three
and pops is looking at me like with the big glowing steak eye. Are you ripping me off?
So that's when David said I'm going to fix it again. And you're going to charge the young gentleman
half the money, half the money, he's going to pay for this axle shaft for at half price.
So he says you got to call him in with his parents with the car. And I'm going to send this broken
one back to you so you have something to show them. And I'll send you another one that's rebuilt.
And that's how we knocked that out of the park. So I'm just saying that because it's important that
you know and understand, get the kids going on maintenance, get them to have skin in the game.
Because when they don't, they treat that vehicle when you're not around like a bad bad donkey.
And then they go, Oh, here, mom, it's broken again. It needs some work. They need to pay for some of
the service. If you do not put the kids in a role where a they have skin in the game, that means
they're working on the side, they got money in that car. Because when they don't, trust me,
your little angels have black wings when they're out on the road with their buddies in the car.
It becomes a toy. And they treat it like a bad, bad donkey. And then it's their car when it's
working well. And it's your car, mom and daddies, the keys around the counter. I don't know what's
wrong with it. It's making a noise. There will always be something. So just a suggestion.
A, don't buy them the super car. You buy them a beater, because they're going to finish it off.
Yeah, this can be a whole topic and we'll do it. But I've just, I've kind of gone off on a tangent
because this is an area I've seen it over and over and over and over and the cycle just continues
like a vortex. The car comes in, it's broken again. And it's got more dents and dings and
bruises than the Titanic has holes. What are they doing with the car? Just stuff falls out of it?
You know, like, you know, what they call the atmospheric dump site, you know, we're all,
where's all the rocket ship parts and stuff go? Well, they just cycle around until they can't.
Yeah, and they hit my car. I don't know what it was, but it just fell out of the sky.
That's how that big dent got there. Yeah, I had a neighbor's kid.
That's another story. We'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Another kid,
a daughter. Yeah, the angel with the black wings tried to throw me under the bus.
Yeah, the whole front of the car came off. I sold them this car. Fantastic car. I think
they still have it in the barn somewhere. 92 VW Jetta four door sunroof 1.6 digifont,
you'll never burn the thing out. But the daughter, holy smokes. I get the call. Yeah,
my landlord at the time, because I had just moved into town. That was 2005. Can you come over and
have a look at the car? The front end fell off. What? What do you mean the front end fell off?
Front end fell off. I'll be right there. I go trucking across the yard because their house
was right behind the house I was renting. And I get there. And so the daughter standing there,
the car is there and the whole front bumper grill and everything is just hanging there.
I mean, it's just hanging there. I'm going to tell you the story. So yeah, don't leave you
in suspense. So anyways, I look at the daughter and I go, what really happened here? Well, what do
you mean? I go, no, no, what really happened here? Because this doesn't happen by itself. It can't.
It can't. It's fastened in. All the fasteners are broken.
This bumper is hanging for a reason. So I'm looking and I'm looking, I'm looking for clues.
Intermother's standing there and looking at me and I'm looking at the daughter and I'm going,
yeah, there's a lot more to this story. This isn't my workmanship. This is somebody else's
workmanship that is standing right here with us right now. Because all the fasteners that hold
this front, this whole front nosepiece on are all broken. I go, oh, look, there's a big clump of hair
here. Did you hit an animal? Now she starts balling. I mean, she's not just balling. She is
balling. And I go, I think it's time for me to go now. Is that the time? So her mother goes,
thank you, Niall. Sorry to bother you. We'll continue this conversation between us.
So later that day, I got the phone call. Yeah, somebody hit an animal and killed it.
There you go. But the front end fell off. So I'm saying that moms and dads, grandparents,
you want to give your young daughter or son a car, you need to make sure they have skin in the
game. And that means checking their own fluids. That's where I was going with this. Get them on,
checking their own fluids and taking care of the car. But if the only time you get to see or drive
the cars when they go, it's making a funny noise. I don't know what happened. We were just driving,
you know, along the parkway. And all of a sudden, it's just making this, it's, I'm scared of the car.
So here's, here's the keys. Yeah, what do you think they were doing? Trust me, when they're on
their own, it's not too bad. But when they put their buddies in the car, your son or daughter
turns into an animal behind the steering wheel. And they know they don't have to pay for it if they
break it. Or ding dent. And I'll tell you, the vehicles look like they've been survived a Beirut
car bomb just barely by the time they're done with it. Every ding scratch and dent front to back,
side to side, the vehicles get beat up. So don't put a lot of money into that.
And make sure that they're learning how to take care of it. And first of all, by having skin in
the game, they got money into the car and teach them you break it, then you pay for it. And I'll
give you, I'll share the little lecture that my pops shared with me. And for me, for some reason,
I'm the middle child. Just so you know, yeah, that's why I left home at 16, never been back.
We all get along, but not not at that point in time. No, no, I was not allowed to touch the family
car after my brother thought it was NASCAR and quarter mile drags, two cars erect to. Yeah,
so it was like, you're, you know, when you get your license, you're not going to be able to touch
the family car. Don't even think about it. It's not yours. You will never be able to use it. So
if you can't buy a car, you'll be taken the bus. If you miss the bus, you're going to be walking.
You'll know why you have feet and two legs. And the list went on and on and on. And when you get
a car, if you can't afford to put gas and oil in it, you won't drive it. If you can't insure it on
your own policy, you won't be driving it. If you break it, you'll be fixing it or you won't be
driving it. So the list went on and on and on and I did have a car of my own and I did take care of
it and I bought it with my own money and I fixed it and got my insurance and then I left home.
I'm just saying and that's why I say preventative maintenance starts with your kids.
Don't just hand them a car. You want to teach them how to take care of it
and yourself at the same time. You know, checking the coolant. Do you know how to do that? Do you
know how to top it up if you have to? Break fluid. When should that be changed? Well coolant,
I'm going to tell you right now if you want to watch excellent couple of videos,
they're in probably, I think they're in the first dozen or so that we did on our YouTube channel.
I'm testing and showing you all those things. Where the fluids are, what they are, how we
check them, how we test them. There is no lifetime coolant out there. That's another talking head
sales technique that a lot of you have bought into. It ain't lifetime and I show you that on the video.
Yeah, you'll be quite shocked actually how that science experiment worked out and we caught it
on video. Break fluid should be flushed every 24 months. What that does is prevents, in fact,
after the program today, I got to make up a break line. We're almost wrapped up with our 97 Jeep
TJ Wrangler Rescue. We're down to the nitty gritty now and we're moving on to some other projects.
There are other things that need to be done that I'm not going to bother most of you with unless
you want to see me welding in a torque box on the floor of the Jeep on the driver's side and we've
got to remove the lower plate that holds the transmission and the transfer case all in place
because it's just caked with mud and gravel and stuff and I need to use the hoist to do that.
So I'm going to do that in the spring and power wash it outside first and then drop the pan.
That's my game plan. There's other things that I can do to just finish it off in the meantime.
So we're wrapping that project up. So break fluid every 24 months, it gets contaminated with
moisture and it turns color. It should look like apple juice. Yeah, not motor oil. And when it
starts to look dark, that means it's contaminated. Those contaminants get into all the breaking
components and that's how it ends up costing you a whole lot more money. Thus and so fleet
maintenance, we're always ahead of that. So that like I said, write that down February 27th.
The video comes out on our YouTube channel where I break down our fleet maintenance car connection
maintenance schedule, how it works, why it works, and how it's going to save you a ton of money.
And your sons and daughters that have vehicles should have one and you should help them work
through it so that they learn how to take care of an automobile from the very beginning so they're
not stuck in the never never plan paying interest and principle on automobiles because that is just
crazy. Absolutely crazy. I mean, if you got pockets full of cash, just let me know where you're
walking so I can, you know, bring my rake in my can, my garbage can so I can rake some up and
put it in there because I don't have deep pockets either. I'm not quite a tight one but almost.
Yeah, I'm not a minimalist, but I'm actually kind of leaning that way now. It's time to, you know,
unload a pile of stuff and yeah, you know what I'm saying, downsize. So coolant. Coolant should be
flushed, gushed, and flushed every 24 months. Forget this all lifetime coolant because it's
just a farce and it was back in 1992 when it came out the first time. It sells because that's what
you want to hear. Maintenance free. Yeah, that's what you want to hear. That's what the talking heads
are spewing out there. That's the noise. That's the noise, not the signal. I'm giving you the signal
on how you can make a vehicle go 600,000 k miles, miles. So coolant every 24 months,
brake fluid, gush and flush, the whole system every 24 months. Power steering fluid every 24 months.
All these fluids get heated and cooled, heated and cooled, heated and cooled, heated and cooled
every single day. The reason they aggregate, decompose, and break down is from heat.
It's called thermal breakdown folks. That's what we learned right in trade school in college.
I went to Mohawk College just for all of you out there wondering and you know what? Great
school, excellent MVM, motor vehicle mechanic school to get into because you know what? There's no
fluff. You either know your trade or you don't. You either pass the exam or you don't. You're either
in it to win it or you get cease training. You go have to go all the way back to the beginning
of your trade. Yeah, great school, disciplined. So power steering fluid, it runs so hot folks.
You can make donuts in there with the power steering fluid. And again, it gets dark, it gets
dirty, it gets filled up with carbon and metallic bits from the mechanics. All the mechanicals,
they grind each other. That's the best way for me to say it. They grind each other even though
there's fluids protecting them and that those metal particles floating around in the fluids
need to come out of there. That's where more damage happens. Timing components. Again, we're
seeing a lot of engines going back to timing chains. Thank God for that because the timing belt
thing really sucked with a K and a T. Yeah, costing people a lot of money. The reason they did that
was to cost you more money. That's right. That's why I have vehicles that have timing belts and
I'll tell you what, I hate the job. I really do. It's not one of my faves because you got to take
half the freaking engine apart. You might as well pull it all out and put it on the bench to do it.
And you got to do that service in the car and it costs you the consumer hours, hours and hours of
labor. So if your vehicle is equipped with a timing belt or you don't know, you need to find out.
And again, that's part of our car connection fleet maintenance package is on that list is timing
belt. Does your vehicle have one? When is the manufacturer recommendation for replacement?
Because if it's an engine where when the timing belt breaks, the pistons tap dance with the valves.
And if you don't know what that means, you can watch videos on that. I have all that up on our
YouTube channel so you can see what valves look like, what pistons with holes look like,
because of neglecting a cooling system. All that is up there for you folks on our YouTube channel,
teaching you, showing you the components, what it is, where it is, how it works, how it breaks,
and how you can avoid all those expensive repairs by simply knowing stuff, knowing some of the basic
fundamentals of owning an operating and automobile. Moving on. So timing belt, if your vehicle is
equipped with one, you need to know that. Number two, you need to know what's the recommendation
for replacing it and then subtract. You ready? Whatever the manufacturer calls for, subtract
10,000 kilometers and that's when you change it. Because the last thing you want to do is say,
well, I'm going to get every, I'm going to get every ounce of wear and tear out of that timing
belt I possibly can before I have to spend that money. Well, if the belt breaks and it's an
interference engine, that means the engine is done, easily put. If it's a non-interference engine,
happy day. That means the belt breaks, the engine doesn't smash itself to pieces. But if it's not,
if it's an interference engine, when that timing belt breaks, your engine's done.
It's not an if, it's when. I'll tell you that guaranteed. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on
the pistons and valves are going to smash each other if you have an interference engine that
has a timing belt. So you need to know whether your vehicle is equipped with that. And it's a
phone call or Google. Does my vehicle year make model have a timing belt engine size?
Oil changes. We've talked about this before. That's the small service, but it's a huge maintenance.
Get your mechanic to do the service for you so they can check the vehicle over and do a courtesy
check. And yeah, they're not billing you for everything. Door handles, check keyholes, check
glove box light, check sun visors, operation, check door handles, interior check. No, no,
you don't pay for that. It's all part of the service looking the vehicle over
while we're doing an oil change. And I used to call that my eye spy service.
As I spy, look the vehicle over. You want a trained eye doing your oil changes. So the spot
things before they get to the e-gads, man, that's how much it's going to cost.
Yeah. I think I need some medication. Some therapy. Do not extend your oil changes. Again,
white noise, the talking heads, selling you, extending your oil change services. Do not do that.
It's not their engine. It's yours. It's not their car. It's yours. It's not their money that's going
to fix it. It's yours. That's what you have to tell yourself. It's my car, my engine, my service.
When I call it, I call it. They want to extend, they want to change service on their own personal
car. Knock yourself out. That's what I say. You go right ahead. As for me in my house, no.
I change my oil on every vehicle except for, I should say, except for our European cars that go
to the car shows in the summer. They run a special oil so we can, we can get more mileage out of it,
but we still don't push it. My everyday driver's 3500k oil change. You go, wow. Yeah, I throw out
better motor oil than most of you have in your car this morning. But you know what? I know the
cost of engines. Yeah, it scares the you know what out of me. It's a lot of money. And if you all of a
sudden have to come up with that money, do you got it? $5,000,000, $6,000,000, $13,000,000, $16,000,000.
Yeah, I'm doing a study right now on EVs. We're going to do a series on that. You're going to be
shocked and it's not going to be shocked to kind of all you guys and gals that run an EV. Hey,
if that's what you want to drive, hey, knock yourself out. That's what I say. Knock yourself out,
drive what you like. But you do need to understand everything that's really going on behind the EVs.
Yeah, they are, it's not a planet friendly thing. And I'm done a lot of, a lot of research and it's
not from the talking heads, folks. I don't go to those people. This is real research. And what I've
uncovered is absolutely disgusting and scary and does not help the planet one iota whatsoever,
period. So anyways, that's another program. I'm going to do a series on that because people keep
asking me, you know, motor mouth, what do you think? What are your thoughts on EVs? Well, first of all,
you got to do your homework. And I did about an hour's worth of research yesterday. And I'll tell
you what, I found some information and digging that just it disgusts me. It absolutely disgusts me
that you can the talking heads are saying this but here's what's really going on behind the scenes
and they know it. They all know it. That's the part that disgusts me. They're over here saying,
yeah, they're the best thing since sliced bread, it's going to be mandated that you have to get
one blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And over here, they know all this is
going on. All of them. So we'll talk about that another time. Not dissing anybody whatsoever.
You want to buy an EV, you want to drive an EV, that's your thing, that's your stick.
God bless you, period. That's what you want. That's okay, drive what you like.
Not dissing you whatsoever. So don't send me any hate mail because I only have one feeling left
and I don't know what that is. Yeah, I don't pay attention to that stuff. I say no to drama,
inspection intervals, I'm going to leave it with that because that is so, so critical.
If you're not able to do what I just talked about yourself, and a lot of you can,
you will make it to 300,000, 400,000, 600,000 kilometers or miles, whichever one you prefer.
You can get there by doing the simple things. Coolant, brake fluid, power steering fluid,
transmission fluid, how many of you right now in the vehicle that you have, if it's an automatic,
has done a transmission service? If not, why? That's my question to you. Put it in the comments.
I'd love to hear your comments. Who told you you don't need to do that? The white noise,
because it's not true. I don't care who they are, it's not true. They're very expensive
and the oil degrades from heat, from thermal breakdown. I don't care if it's the goldest
royal synthetic transmission oil we've ever seen on the face of the planet. It's drilled down and
sucked out of the earth's crust at so many feet under the ground and it's synthetic. I don't care.
It's a transmission. It's got bands, it's got servos, it's got solenoids, it's got more wiring in
that transmission than what powers the space shuttle. No. So when was the last time you did
a automatic transmission service? That means that we take the pan down. If it has a pan,
we go in there, we clean it out, we're looking for particles and pieces, anything that indicates
there's a problem coming so we can let you know. We don't do a gush and flush. I'm not a fan of the
intravenous style transmission service. No, I want a real transmission service
where if it has a filter or a screen that's serviceable, we get it out of there, we clean it,
we service it, we inspect the transmission and then refill it with the appropriate fluid. So how
many of you have done a transmission service since you owned the car? There's my question to you.
Let me know in the comments. I think we better cut it off there because it's almost an hour already,
believe it or not. That's why they call me motormouth. You know that, right? Well, we'll see
you tomorrow morning, Saturday morning. Thank you to Rainbow Motors and Garage up in Scarborough,
Reed and Ramiz, Shinoda taking care of our car connection listeners up in the Scarborough area.
Rainbow Motors and Garage sales and service you can always trust. You can buy a vehicle there,
some of them qualify for extended vehicle warranties after aftermarket warranties that are
pretty decent actually and they service all years, makes and models of automobiles including
light commercial vehicles as well. Thank you to City Auto Sales as well. Sales and leasing,
low mileage vehicles at quality prices, fair prices, Greater Toronto Areas Premier pre-owned
auto story, buy with confidence, be treated with nothing less than honesty and integrity and for
both locations, if they don't have the vehicle you're looking for, these people are fantastic with
the resources where they can find what you're looking for and they know how to pick them.
They're not going to sell you any junk. That's the reason they're a part of car connection. That's why
I don't have a whole ton of dealers and stuff piled on to me is because you know what? The best
dealership has not even been built yet. That's what I always say. It's not been built yet.
Number three, yes, Crystal Ridge Dream Center. They're busy today serving out the door. I just
got news yesterday. They used to do about 150 meals out the door on Tuesdays and Fridays.
They're well over 250 closer to 260 and that used to cost them around $400 and it jumped to $600.
It's over $800 to feed out the door all age groups. Men, women, children, small humans,
big humans. Tuesdays and Fridays they feed out the door and they're serving men, women, children,
meals, love and hope. Single moms, they have programs for single moms and no one asks you for
a dime. So if you can do something to help them volunteer or donate each month, $25 or more,
you get a tax receipt. They're a non-profit, faith-based organization just like total freedom,
addiction campuses. They're a non-profit, faith-based organization. Take no money
from anywhere else. They have to raise the funds to make sure that people can get there. So till
tomorrow morning, make it an amazing Friday folks. Have another cup of joe. Take a little bit longer
lunch. Just tell a motormouth said I could. Squeeze a little more out of your coffee break,
but be respectful to your boss and appreciate your job and we'll see you right here Saturday
morning for a whole hour of motormouth's morning drive. Peace, patience and kindness.
Happy healthy motoring and we'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.
About this episode
Nile Motormouth Jenkins dives into the importance of practical preventative maintenance that genuinely saves money, steering clear of dealer checklists. He shares anecdotes about working on various vehicles, including a Jeep Wrangler and a Nissan Rogue, while emphasizing the connection between car repairs and restoring confidence for drivers. The episode also teases upcoming segments like 'Fun Friday' and invites listeners to engage with topics like insurance and minivans, blending humor with valuable automotive insights.
Original notes
Preventative maintenance can save you thousands - if you focus on the right things. Motormouth breaks down real - world maintenance that actually saves money, not dealer checklist fluff designed to sell services.
From fluids and inspections to wear items and real fleet strategies, we explain what matters if you want your vehicle to last 300,000, 400.000, or even 600,000 km. If this vehicle has to last and you can't afford one, listen up.
More episodes and .... links are available at Car Connection Business Network.com (ccbusnet.com) you'll find everything on our homepage if you'd like to follow the build/repair work we do & connect with our program sponsors click their logo to connect ,Thank You !
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