The Wrong Phone for the Job

Welcome to the Abant's podcast. I'm Dan. I'm Nick. It's iPhone week. It is. Wow. It's, I mean, I feel like that's a national holiday. It really is. It's like, thank you for giving us $1,200 last year. How about 13 now or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. I am a consumer whore. I will never pay $2,000 for a phone, but to have a phone with two terabytes, kind of a lot of video, a lot of video. Yeah, we're going to talk more about that because it is automotive related in a weird way. We're going to, and this is a discussion from Facebook. I got a lot of questions about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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the chance now for us to have somebody with the contacts someone else?

didn't know about, and I will be citing Washington Law RCW 46.20.2892. A very good

friend of mine who I work with, we were talking about getting together for some

stuff, we work together in the insurance industry, and he goes, yeah, he's one of

the nicest kindest people ever meet, just so we're clear. Not a career

criminal. And I go, yeah, let's meet up, and he goes, oh yeah, I can't do that

for a couple of days, my license is suspended. And I went, excuse me? And

this gentleman, I love him, but if he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have

luck kind of thing. Yep. So according to that RCA law, which was RCW law, which

went into effect January 1st 2023, which I did not know, if you have more than

three separate occasion moving violations in a 12 month period, or four in

a 24 month period, Washington State suspends your license for 60 days. Yeah.

And they send you a letter. Tim did not get the letter. He also wasn't

aware of this. And just so we're clear, this is not tickets in Washington. Tim's

last ticket, he was driving back from a funeral in Minnesota and got pulled

over. And that ticket transferred over and Washington State said, oh, that's

three. And sent him a letter saying your license suspended. He did not get

it. And then trust me, Tim is the kind of guy that dots the eyes and

crosses the T's. So he was pulling out of a gas station and a police

officer kind of pulled him over and said, I pulled you over because

your license is suspended. You shouldn't be driving. And he went, excuse me,

which is it's not a miss. It's not a felony. It's a misdemeanor, but it's

still it's still arrest arrestable offense. He did not arrest him. Tim

knows the funds. But if this happens to you, and I am going off of the

information that I have found on this, you in order to get your license

back after the 60 days, you have to obtain SR 22 insurance for I think

up to 36 months, you have to take an approved safety driving class like

an aggressive driving class. And then you can reapply for your license. And

then during that period, again, after you get your license, if you get pulled

over again, and you get another one more ticket, they can give you another

suspension. So this is something we we are luck in Washington. I thought I'd

say lucky, but not like a lot of states that have points like where you

know like, okay, I'm this many points. If I get another point on my

license, I'm a we didn't we've never really had those consequences in

Washington. Obviously, they do it to people, you know, most of the

people that I know that had their suspended suspended license driver's

license. There's one thing great about Washington, we don't enforce any

laws here. Yeah, unless you have money, unless you have money. Yeah. So

most people I know that have had that will not know but have heard of and

have done something, you know, where they're in court and the judge has

said your license is suspended. And so basically, you know, this is

something to kind of watch out for I know a lot of people, I

haven't had three tickets in

Yeah, I haven't taken a ticket and probably at least joking with him. I

was like, you know, they can only give you the ticket if you stop.

But he's had a lot of smaller infractions. And like, you know,

like a lot of people he's constantly late. And so he rushes

places and he gets he got pulled over. So something to think

about. Obviously, I'm saying it to all of our Washington

listeners, but everybody else, including our all of our new

Scottsdale listeners, reach out or reach out but figure out

what the laws are in your state so that you something like

this can't happen to you like it's snuck up on him, you

know, had that gentleman not pulled him over. He might he says

he goes, I could have been out there. He didn't drive a lot. He

goes, I could have been out there driving for 60 days and not

known it and been illegal. So yeah, yeah, that's a so it through

events. We have a partnership with Jack motto, I believe

still. I don't know if it's still partnership. But Jack

motto is like, yeah, he's an advanced member big time car

into it. It's known that if you do something stupid in a

car in a car, you call Jack. Yeah. Yeah, no matter what

it is, you call Jack. Yeah, he's a great guy. He's a

car enthusiast and stuff happens and, you know, read

between the lines, I know he likes to go into everything, but

your car enthusiasts mistakes are made accidents happen and you

get a ticket, like we're not saying you shouldn't be

responsible or you shouldn't be accountable. But you know,

accidents happen and the impact that has on your driving

record, your insurance, so not worth it. Fight that ticket

tooth and nail, fight those traffic camp tickets to those

are really easy to beat, especially in Washington. So

this should be banned anyway. But yeah, make sure you're

fighting those traffic tickets. Don't let them slide. Don't

take the deferral. Get the lawyer, pay the money up front. It's

so worth it. Yeah,

somebody's better spent with a lawyer way better. And again, as

as people that give out advice on the internet, you know,

because that's a justified thing. We're not condoning doing

anything illegal. But no, things happen. Yeah, accidents

happen. The probably good example if you've listed this

podcast long enough is when is when the people at Park

Playscape Dan and I cobras and that's right, I got pulled

over on my birthday, right? So in case anyone is wondering,

the scariest car I've ever driven was a back draft racing

427 Cobra. I've never been in a vehicle that wanted to kill

me more than that. That says a lot too, with your

experience in Corvettes, especially your Corvette.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, nothing. Awesome car, awesome

experience. Love our friends at Park Plays. Love the

backtrack racing, back draft racing Cobra. So cool. The

cool factor through the roof. But holy crap, talk about

the car that wanted to kill me. Somebody asked me, would

you have driven that car? And I said, yeah, if I bought one

of those, the only thing I'd have to modify is have to put

some humps underneath the steering wheel, so my legs

fit under the dash, right? Yeah, because the carbon, the

carbon fiber was cutting me. That's such a 1% interest

phrase. The carbon fiber was cutting my legs. It's

funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So back to the iPhone 17. Yeah,

what's that got to do with cars? What's that got to

do with cars? This started from a conversation I was

having with somebody on Facebook about recording in

cars and cameras. And a lot of people have chosen for

track days and stuff like that, your camera in your phone

is fantastic. It really is a great device. And if you

take off the case, so I'm going to talk about a couple

tips today about recording in your car, not just with

your phone, because but I have done all these

extensively. I've tried so many different things to

record from the car. There's dash cams, of course,

which everybody should have in this state. They always

look so grainy, even the best ones look grainy. Yeah.

So I'll show you there's you want the Sony Starvis 2

sensor. And that sensor in particular is a CCTV

camera sensor. And it's it works better than most. And

the reason a lot of companies go with that is it's

really good for long term recording always on the

sensor itself and the technology behind it

doesn't overheat constantly. So I mean, GoPro's are

great and all that, but they actually don't make

very good dash cams at all. And our friends over at

Vortex radar, who are also friends with advanced, he's

he's in advance, Ariel's his name. So shout out Vortex radar

is local and they are the authority on dash cams and

radar detectors. Period, the guy does more testing than

anybody else on the entire planet, I swear. And we I

always recommend the VFO ones. They're not as cheap as

they used to be that is for sure. But for even the

most basic one they have, which is the A119 is

still out there, still records better than most of

the other ones. It's a good little camera. You can get

built in ones to your car. But what you're looking for is

that sensor, the Starvis two sensor is the one you want,

it does better than average night recording. It's

really durable. And I'm gonna talk about why that's

important. And it's pretty compact doesn't generate a

lot of heat. But the the micro SD card on those is

super important. So no matter what you think about,

Oh, I have a generic, you know, stand this card

laying around nose, you need an endurance card because

flash memory has a light has a shelf life. And if

it's not made for constant recording and constant

looping and constant rewriting, they have a lifecycle

that is short. So if you think about like an SSD

drive, you're constantly writing to it, but it's very

tiny bits, very tiny amounts, recording video takes

up huge amounts of space, even an even an x265

encoding and compression, it's still big. And

it's blocking out these huge chunks of video over

and over and over again, it's a lot of wear on

the flash memory. So you want a specific memory

card for that. There are dashed. Luckily, the market

has market knows this. There are dash cam and

endurance video cards for webcams, security

cameras and dash cams. Belfos video card is

actually really good, the branded one. It's not

cheap. But it's not something you want to skip on

because when you need that crash data, or you

need that video data, you want it to be not

not corrupt and usable. And the resolution

doesn't matter as much as people think. So

everybody knows my brother being a former

Washington State Patrol officer and an accident

investigator. If you have any video at all, it

pretty much shows what happened. It could be

like old, you know, 1998 coffee maker web

cam cam. Yeah, exactly. And it's like that thing

hit that thing. Like that's it. Like that's

all they really need. And so the front and

rear ones are great. So but yeah, it's cheap

insurance. Everybody should have one. I

like said, I recommend the BFO ones. If

you look at this stuff from Linus tech

dips actually out of Canada, did a really

good comparison comparing like ultra high

end dash cams and the cheap BFO was still

better than 90% of the black view and

think where it was like all those other

ones like they're really not any

difference because all using the same

sensor. So I have a question and it might

begin into the ocean that you're going

to get into in a minute. But we had this

issue with the monkeys and this is why

I wouldn't use my phone to record in my

car. Is that something you're going to

get into? Yep. Okay, then I'll let you

just get to it. Here's why you don't want

to use your phone in your car as a

camera. Okay. It does not have a

vibration damping technology in the

device. And if you soft mount your phone

or should I say excuse me if you rigid

mount your phone like most phone mounts

in a car are with the camera on it

will burn out. The image stabilization

goes bad and it blows out the camera

because the image stabilization has to

work in overdrive for all those

micro little bumps that your car

produces. You don't really notice them

but your camera does and it constantly

has to compensate for them. So with you

acting as the gimbal holding your phone

you're taking a lot of that shock out

of the phone. But when it's rigid

mounted to your dash, it's constantly

having to adjust for all that vibration

and it will burn it out and it has

happened to me and they haven't gotten

better about it because that's not

how phone cameras are designed to be

used. Yeah, I was going to say I

don't blame them. Yeah. And so

companies that have thought about

this quad lock for one does a

really good job of having a vibration

dampening mount and when you put it on

your bike or your car or whatever it

feels super soft. Like it almost

feels like it's wrong because it's

like it's like moving around so much.

But what it's doing is saving your

phone from from dying and it does

work. So if you have the right

mount you can use this. But if you

don't it will burn out your phone

maybe you'll get lucky on the road

cars and things like that it's not

as bad. But if you driven over 90

a couple of times you know you're

going to wish you were in Baja mode

for that road anyway. Even though

it's an interstate. Did you burn out

one on the first monkey?

Yep. Because that's where we ended

up with the quad locks I thought.

I had the quad lock rigid mount.

Oh, that's right. You didn't have

the the then. Yeah. And I didn't

think I was like oh this issue is

probably overblown. I'm not. Oh

no. It was not. I totally fried

the phone. Yeah. At least the

camera and luckily I you know

thanks Apple care. They fixed it.

No problem. No questions asked.

But yeah, still it's a good

thing to know. And your phone

does work as a dash cam. There are

dash cam apps for your phone.

But just keep that in mind.

It doesn't have to be quad lock.

But you want a vibration dampening

mount even on your windshield in

your car. And this issue is not

overblown. It does happen very

quickly. And depending on how rough

you're driving or what road you're

driving on. And don't think

because you're on asphalt that's

going to be smooth. In fact the

more like if you're doing really

high speed stuff all those those

small vibrations that are coming

through your nice stiff sport

suspension or destroying your phone

camera. Also having a phone on

your dash. Can the heat

affect it? Yeah. So what happens

in a case because you were talking

about the heat sink with. Yeah.

And so yeah. Good. I want to bring

this up too. So if you if you do

decide to go this route and just

want to do like a lot of track

guys do this. You want to take the

phone case off. It's got to

dissipate as much heat as

possible. I'm curious how that

new iPhone 17 vapor chamber is

going to help. OK. That just

really I was watching that over

and over today. I have no idea

what it is. But it just sounds

cool. Yeah. Completely distilled

water in the phone and probably

like a couple of drops

literally. But it's a really

heats up and becomes a vapor and

then disperses the energy

the heat. Yeah. Through the new

aluminum unibody which is another

cool concept. Car guys get what a

unibody is. And so just so we're

clear people. Dan doesn't usually

get excited about iPhones. No. I

still think I still think they're

a lot of crap in their own way.

No. No. They are. But I'm just

you know. I know I let the

Android people come. Yeah. No.

I still love my Android.

Yeah. But I have my iPhone

because it's easier to transfer

photos. Yep. I message is the

only reason I still have one.

Yeah. But it's yeah.

It'll be cool to see how that

plays out. And there's a lot of

like I said there's a lot of good

dash cam apps and track apps for

your phone. And they can do double

duty. And so that's about

finding the right mount. Yes.

OK. It's really important to find

the right amount. And obviously

when you're stopping your phone

is going to heat up the most on

your dash when you're stopped.

But like if you're doing a lawn

drive through the desert or

something like that and you just

you know straight roads and the

sun's beaten through your window

you can overheat a phone.

I've done it when I'm not

recording on my phone.

Right. So yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And especially like

said especially with a case

though. Yeah. These are the worst

thing ever for phones as far as

heat. They're meant to protect

the outside but not vent the

hot air out. Yeah. Yeah. And

there's art cases. Have you seen

those. So that's just a bumper

that attaches the top and the

bottom and covers the camera

bump and the bottom of the

phone. So if you do a lot of

it like if this is the thing

you want to do a lot if you're

a track junkie or you like to

record from your phone in your

car. Look at one of those.

They're not the most protective

case but they're kind of I say

it. They're

boy. I'm totally out of loss for

words. They're better than

nothing. I would have said

nothing and they're kind of I

like the ingenuity behind them.

I like the idea behind it.

It's got some likes.

Yeah. Come on. Yeah.

So the next time I talk about

is the GoPro thing. So like I

said just before I started

this as a dash cam they're

terrible but they have a lot

of functions dash cams don't

and are they the guys anymore

I feel with DJI and everybody

coming out like GoPro used to

be the GoPro's been in trouble

for a long time. They've been

like on the verge of death for

a long time because well people

just don't buy a lot of GoPro's

anymore. So we're clear I own

like four go brights in here.

Yeah. Yeah. But what they're

really good at is time lapse

if you're doing road trips

they're good for external

mounting. And if you want to

do like if you're off road

guy track guy they can take a

beating GoPro's DJI is

whatever you're using they

can take a beating on the

outside of the car and give you

some really good telemetry.

They have built in GPS

telemetry depending on the

model you go for they can

support an external microphone

and what I did on my waterproof

to and waterproof what I did

on my Gen 2 Raptor and

is I this. Yeah. So I mounted

it on the bumper and then I

used a USB C cord wired to

the battery using a dash

cam USB C cord and then a

waterproof door that's

sealed with the USB C cord

in it. So as soon as I fired

at my truck I had constant

power and then it recorded

full time. But I used I think

it's van true. You have to

check the powering but the

GoPro's and DJI the Osmo's

they don't take a lot of

power. They're very little

power in fact.

I don't know they suck through

the batteries at least the

old ones did. Well you know

they still do but they don't

take about those batteries

just aren't very big plain

and simple. So hugging it up

to dash cam power keeps them

going. Now they again same

thing you need a skeletal

frame because they will

overheat. Were you able to

connect to the GoPro when you

were in the cab of the truck

that was that was enough

distance. Yep. Or not enough

distance I guess. Yeah they

were close enough. That's

what I'm looking for. Yeah

close enough. Yeah. So that's

a great way to do it for your

track guys. And there's

vibration reasons as it gets.

Yeah. Their image

stabilization has been on

point for a while but it's

fantastic. Some of their other

stuff has been you know

DJI has really come out of

no I mean I bought their

drones for years but I mean

they've really come out with

the handy cams and the

Yeah. I've got a lot of DJI

stuff. I've got microphones

the whole nine good stuff

and the ability to hook up

an external microphone can

make your track videos and

your your car recording

videos really next level. Can

hear yourself screen. Yeah. You

can mount that microphone

where you try different

places but you can mount

out of the hood if you want

to hear your turbos and your

playoffs you can put it

toward the back of the car

and hear your exhaust if you

like and you know obviously

perfectly sync with the video

but yeah you can get you

can really level step up that

game of recording and

producing better footage by

playing with the external

mic. I wish one thing I

haven't found yet that works

really well is a good

external wireless mic that

works and they have them

they can do it but you're

asking a lot from the

little lapel mics from

DJI. Yeah I've got it.

Yeah. Yeah those those do

work but you kind of stay

within the ecosystem and don't

be wrong like a Bluetooth

mic is a Bluetooth mic

they as far as connectivity

goes but I have found

unfortunately unfortunately

that the manufacturer

mics DJI camera DJI mic

they sure seem to work a

whole lot better even so

you they're using Bluetooth.

So keep that in mind if

you dive into an ecosystem

you're going to have to

and you. Mix things around

you may get some mixed

results you shouldn't but

you will you will you will

yeah this is no different

than tools or

things like that.

Speaking of which I'll

get to that in a minute.

Yeah.

But yeah that the

action cameras are great for

what they're designed for

dash cams like specifically

terrible for off-road and

track because they have G

sensors and you can disable

them but it's constantly

looping the footage and

they're OK in a pinch

don't be wrong but they're

not performance cameras

like the built in Corvette

one that works pretty good.

I was trying to think of the

ones and I'll have to

look it up the ones that

were in the ranger Raptors

for the oh yeah those

oh I know what you're talking

about the bullet cameras.

It was decent.

Yeah.

I mean the footage was decent

I mean they had good

telemetry and all that built

into it so I was impressed.

I mean I bought the SD card

down to the camera but it

worked.

Yeah.

Yeah the nice thing about the

action cameras to like is

that telemetry the G forces

the speed the RPMs like you

can dial that stuff in and

you can use OBD two

connectors to get that data

from your car right into the

camera.

That's the technology exists

and it's pretty easy.

So you can which

will come to you.

Yeah.

Like yeah pretty cool stuff.

Corvette has a built in one

that I use.

I mean it wasn't very good

resolution and it was a pretty

early attempt at doing the

performance data camera which

comes in the zero seven

package by default

at least in the C seven in

the C eight I think it's

built in standard.

Is it but is there multiple

cameras just the front

camera.

OK.

Yeah.

McLaren that had the

camera packages where there

was one in the dash or

one behind you.

OK.

I was trying to I was trying

to remember.

Yeah.

British electronics.

Yeah I yeah I'm not

going to I was trying to figure

out the name of that camera

but I can't figure it out.

So yeah.

Yeah.

But and then like I said

but don't let that stop you

just your phone a good

mount and a microphone will

get you a long ways to

get started and

that's where you want to

start out with that's a

great place to go.

So you can you can hear the

butt puckering.

Yes.

Yeah.

And it can incriminate you.

So keep that in mind as well.

I also and I'm I'm sure this

is I'm not listening to words.

I'm looking for a legal site.

I always tell people when they

do it when they're going to go

to a class like performers

or something like that.

Record audio in the car

because then you can go back

and listen to the instructions

because a lot of times when

you're in the car and

you're driving even though

there's somebody going left

left you don't hear it.

So yeah yeah go back and

listen to the instructions.

Another thing to keep in

mind if you have an

external camera like the

like I did on the truck

replaceable lenses matter.

You don't have S tech for your

camera.

You can get S tech and have

them put a little one on there

and it'll work pretty well

but you will notice on the

lens.

And so replaceable lenses

like a lot of the newer GoPros

have is a really really nice

option.

I think that's underrated

and you can repair old

cameras if you don't want to

buy a new one you can buy

lenses.

A lot of the aftermarket is

caught up with that stuff

but just keep that in mind.

We don't have S tech for

your camera.

I know how well that would

go if I replace the lens I

put it all back together and

then see the fingerprint

inside.

Right.

Exactly.

That's not for me.

Luckily they just clip on now

for a lot of the new ones.

All of the little fisheye ones

and stuff like that there.

Yeah.

You just replace the standard

lens when you take a nice big

rock to it and you will

off road.

Still fall so close.

Yeah.

Don't lose one of the BDR.

Never got.

I never found it.

It would be pretty good

footage.

Yeah.

When you look at everybody

else's GoPro when we know

where it is.

I just said I want to get

it going up but it's not

the graveyard.

What is that.

What was that called.

It wasn't the beehive.

Beehive washout.

No it was it was.

Oh the the jungle.

The jungle.

It's in the jungle somewhere.

Yeah.

Which is above the land.

Yeah.

Deep deep silt.

Yeah.

So yeah.

The good old days.

I wouldn't be surprised if it

was still alive out there

somewhere but we may never

find it.

Oh it's still there.

I mean it was it was in a

good vented case and it was

on a nice suction cut mount.

I mean I drove over it

several times so I know you

can.

So it's not you know.

Yeah the next thing we're

talking about is mounting

3M double-sided tape works great

but it and the extreme heat

it can come off.

So I prefer a stick on mount

for a car like if you can find

a strategic place to put it

but they have mounts for

basically everything but those

just keep that in mind if you've

had one on there for a while

and you've got one of those

3M double-sided tape mounts

they will wear out.

Where yeah.

It's not the water.

It's the heat.

Yeah.

And I also suggest having

some type of you know

s-tech on your car to

protect the paint in case

you do leave that on there

or if it gets stuck.

Yes.

And be careful taking it off

because you can mess up your

paint protection too just

because that ironically a little

heat gun will help take it off.

Yes.

Exactly.

The other one is the suction

cup mounts and so for the high

speed stuff.

Don't get me started.

Do not put those on headlights.

Yeah.

They can't come off.

They have the for cars you

as much as you probably don't

need more than a single one

for regular street stuff the

track guys you want the three

buck the three suction cup

mount you want the heavy duty

one I've seen them come off

I've seen them fly off at

speed.

They're they become nice

little weapons.

Great film.

Yeah.

So get the three suction cup

mount one.

The they're not cheap but

they're worth it.

If this is something you really

want to get into if it's your

first time out you can usually

just use a single once you

want to go in that fast.

But it's you're still pressing

your luck.

No somebody actually told me I

forgot who it was.

And if if you know who I'm

who I'm talking about and if

you said this to me and I

don't remember your name I

apologize but somebody for

Vance because again I had to

go pro on the headlight of the

monkey and they said probably

the heat of riding and then

the heat of the headlight a

little bit caused the suction

cup to loosen and fall off.

Yeah.

So that's why I said that's

why I say don't put on your

headlights.

Yeah.

So yeah and make sure you

clean that suction cup and

the surface really well before

you put it on overrated.

Yeah.

Overrated.

Yeah.

I think that's pretty much

all I wanted to cover on

cameras but I was just

but seeing the new iPhone

come out I wonder my people

that you can still screw the

camera doesn't make a very good

dash cam.

You know not that we're a tech

show but I think I've seen

more excitement coming out of

the new iPhones than I've

I'm usually seen like I to be

honest I was I was I was

thinking somebody's they were

going to come out with like a

foldable phone which I thought

would be would have been cool

because everybody's doing it now

but we'll have to see.

Yeah.

I mean I don't like the

design is still mixed for me.

It's the big camera bumps

are always ridiculous on all

phones but you know

whatever.

I want that eight times zoom.

Is it really eight times

optical?

You're asking me.

So it's it's it's not a real

zoom.

I was not clear.

Yeah.

So I was not clear from the

announcement if it was truly

an eight times optical zoom if

it was just a really filled in

digital zoom which Apple

is the king of buzzword.

You know crap that doesn't

mean anything.

Sunday Sunday Sunday.

Yeah.

That's what was that to

all that buzzword video.

Oh yeah.

Turbo and cabulator.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

Remember that.

Yeah.

If you haven't looked that up

the turbo and cabulator is a

fantastic video and it's not

the guy who hosts that I don't

know who it is.

He sounds like and looks like

Phil Hartman but it's not.

Yeah.

You bought some new tools.

Oh geez.

Yeah.

So yeah there's two new air

compressors here.

I got rid of I'm I love

quiet tools.

I love a quiet space.

It's peaceful for me.

Yeah but I thought the other

ones you bought were quiet.

No God no.

My old my old compressor I

had a porter cable.

The little red compressor.

It's 12 years old.

I found the receipt.

Oh wow.

Still going strong.

You would have the receipt.

Yeah.

Because it's in my email.

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh okay.

All my receipts go to my

email and always have as soon

as that was an option I was

like put my receipt in my

email and so they just

they're just in there.

Yeah.

12 years old still works

and going strong but it was

just so loud.

Yeah.

And so even though this one

is obnoxiously heavy I

got this new Husky quiet.

It's a little six gallon

150 psi but man is it

quiet.

Like it started.

So what happened is it started

with this damn vacuum.

I got the new DeWalt whisper

quiet vacuum and it's amazing.

Such a slippery slope.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

I was like man I actually

don't mind using the vacuum

like I can talk to people

while I'm vacuuming like I

can just I use it more

because it doesn't drive me

insane to have it so loud.

So I got that and then I

got I have another shot back

for sale of two shot backs

for sale and then I have

and so I got this new

compressor because I was just

tired of the noise and then

there's this big 25 gallon

craftsman that's in the back

and it's a great compressor.

It works flawless.

Brian's going to take that one

for me.

Speaking of loud and obnoxious

Brian.

OK yeah.

So Brian's going to take that

one from me and then I got

a smaller one because I don't

actually you know I've got

so much electrical tools.

I don't use a lot of air tools

in the shop almost never

actually.

But I wanted air in the shop

so I got this little 10

gallon Husky quiet one.

And yeah the same thing

like turn it on.

I can actually talk while

I'm using it doesn't nice

and it slips under that

stairs way out of the

way. It is amazing.

Like young me wouldn't have

cared how I remember the

craftsman when I had that was

just loud and it spit out

rusty water every time you

used it even from new

because it sucked.

But I mean it was loud as

crap. But I mean the older

you get.

Yep. And I got the remote

drain valve right there.

Nice. So I can remotely.

So I don't have to get all

the way under it.

I can just you just tie that

into the tank and then you

have a nice hose out there

so you can just of course

if you use a lot of air

tools in your shop you can

get automatic vents so

you don't get that rust

build up in the tank.

Yeah. And you can have an

event everybody's going to get

one in one in the morning

just dumps all the air out.

You didn't run lines in the

wall for air.

I did not. OK.

Yeah. I just the more I had

everything to do it.

Yeah. And I just don't use

air tools enough for to

justify it.

I mean with with the

electrical tools from

Dalton Milwaukee like your

Uggadugga that wouldn't get

that we had to use on my

rear shocks to put those

guards on like and it was

we didn't know if it was

going to work like there's so

much power in that that

1200 foot. Yeah.

And it took every 1200 foot

pound. Yeah. Yeah.

I got more tools than that

though. I know I just

got more tools this week.

Yeah. Well was there a sale.

Yeah. OK. That was it was

the Milwaukee battery sale.

Oh how did I miss that.

So I got. I don't need

batteries. I can't store

half the ones I have.

So I got M 12 stuff.

So I replaced my M 12 impact

my little tiny one because

it was my again my M 12 impact

is the first M 12 tool I bought

and I think it's as

at least 10 years old. Yeah.

Works great. I take good care

of my stuff. But no

adjustment on speed or

excuse me no adjustment on

torque and it was

it's pretty big even for an

M 12 tool. So I got the new

fuel M 12 quarter inch

impact which is super tiny.

And yes I have two to walk

quarter inch impacts.

So obviously this one

one's fuel one's not.

Right. I realized how much I

like fuel. Yes.

Exactly. So I got that.

Look at the ads and I'm telling

people this because when I went

into by the smaller I think it

was not the quarter inch but

the quarter is quarter

the snow. Yeah. Quarter the

small one. Yeah. When I bought

that it was on sale and I

realized why it was on sale

because it was not the fuel.

It still works great. But yeah.

And I got the short quarter

inch fuel ratchet because I

had I had one but it was

non-fuel and then I got the

fuel insider ratchet.

The extended reach one which

awesome. That's love that

ratchet on the list.

And so I got I was like well.

So and now I have five

five amp hour batteries for

two two point five amp batteries

and four two amp hour batteries.

OK. Which you keep them in

separate cupboards from the

DeWalt one so they don't fight.

Yes. OK. Yeah. The M 12 ones

have their own little drawer.

All the DeWalt ones are on

display on the back.

He's not wrong. Yeah.

Yeah. I have like I have

10 different impacts

versus you know drills.

I've gotten to the point where

it's it takes me longer to

figure out which tool I'm going

to use. I'm like well that one

will work and that one will

work. But I haven't used this

one in a while and I feel bad.

What I found is that the tools

I go for most are my M for

are the M 12 quarter inch.

I use those more than anything

else because they're lighter

and they're quick like they

just the overall small size

matters a lot.

And when I'm packing for

road trips or whatever I always

have tools with me.

But now with four or five

mAh batteries and you know five

actually I don't know it's all

about lightweight trying to I'm

trying to compact things down

and a lesson I learned as much

as I love my tough system boxes

and the Milwaukee pack out boxes

in a car actually prefer not

have them. I like bags because

I can collapse them down and

they make a better use of space.

And so I've done that.

And so what I've got is a

basically a go bag of tools

and it's got like my my

wrenches are in a roll versus

in a container because I can

roll that down really really

tight and I have gear wrench 120

120 XP gear drive wrenches

and then I have

socket set of course.

Yeah, just I have like a basic

go bag of tools and I've been

really glad I've had that

because I can just leave it in

the bag. I don't have to use

those tools all the time.

I have tools for the shop

and so I just grab this bag

and if I do in a house

project grab the bag on the

house grab it going on the

road grab the bag get on the

road. Super easy.

I've been redoing my

I have a Milwaukee bag that

I usually use that.

But I was very tempted because

Ford has a tool roll.

It's very overpriced.

Yeah, it covers everything I

need in the truck though.

That's why and it would bolt

to the back of the but my

biggest worry is that I would

bolt it into the truck leave

it there and then somebody

would break into my because

with the bag I take the bag

out. It reminds me to take

the bag out like don't get

robbed. Oh yeah.

Don't leave your bag.

Don't leave your LaBoubou.

Those I know those those two

rules in automotive.

So yeah.

So I have another tool set that's

stuck in customs.

It's not here yet.

Stuck in customs.

Yeah. So I literally it's in

customs because I ordered a very

custom tool set from Europe

from Proto tools.

Proto is nice stuff.

It's not. Yeah.

But I found this on like an

insanely good deal and it

is a 100 percent metric tool

set. I'm going to know when

you're sick. When you look at

me you go I paid full price

for something right.

Sean and I are going to be

like we don't have to check

him into something.

Yeah.

So and it comes with that and

it goes from the wrenches go

from eight to twenty one.

Most tool sets that are go

from like you buy you know big

tool sets in a blow molded

case they usually go from 10

to 19.

The sockets are quarter inch

and three eighths no half inch

don't ever need them for a

mode for a mobile set like

there may be times like if

I'm doing suspension I will

bring that stuff with me for

off-road.

But most time I do it was in

a super compact case and

it's got.

See here hex wrenches

torques quarter inch and three

eighths ratchets quarter inch

and three eighths sockets and

then the full wrench gambit all

the way across.

And it was the only set I could

find that had specifically

that and it's specifically

marketed as a metric

mobile tool set for a car.

OK.

Everything else is like a

mechanic set or whatever this

is like the go set and they

knew what they were doing.

And how good of a deal did

you get 150 bucks.

Compared to what would it be

if I was placing it together.

Like I could piece that together

cheaper but I can't get it all

into one case.

That's what I'm just OK.

That's the problem.

Interesting.

Like I have all those tools

why is it stuck in customs.

Because I don't know from Europe.

Oh OK.

The deal was OK.

Yeah.

It's normally two seventeen plus

shipping and the shipping is

where they kill you.

It's like 60 bucks.

So this was 150 on sale with

free shipping and then

immediate market Amazon

immediately marked it back up

to 190 plus not free shipping.

But this thing's been in my

like Amazon watch list for

like three years.

I'm up to see what that looks

like. Yeah.

It's pretty cool.

But like.

It's all about that minimalization

go tool set.

And there's it's like how do I

downsize as much as possible.

And I do that because of cars

like the right.

Do you have different tool

sets for different cars like

the tool bag you have that goes

in the Raptor and the Bronco

was different than the one

you carry in the Audi.

The Bronco one's the big one.

Yeah.

Because like yeah the R8

obviously I'm not going to do

much to have some breaks down.

It's just going to be beyond

not semi-technical know-how

but like beyond my comfort.

You knew what broke like if

you if you saw a line that came

off and you knew you could fix

it you could you know yeah it's

just such an expensive car

to work on.

I will leave it in the capable

hands of an Audi tech who

specializes in that.

But the Bronco in the other

hand and especially because

it's going to be more prone

to damage off road.

I'm going to have bigger

tools.

Well the Audi is more prone

to damage off road.

Absolutely.

True statement.

OK.

Yeah but like the Bronco you

know rock crawling things like

that.

It's I'm going to carry it.

I'm going to carry a big impact

because a perfect example.

So I had a rattle in the back

of the Bronco.

We had a rattle on the Bronco

after Moab.

And after Moab after Moab

we're talking about the one on

the white trail that you were

chasing on the Starlink.

No yeah.

That was my mount.

OK.

Yeah but I couldn't figure it

out and I finally got a

little pressure off the back

of the Bronco and shook it

enough to was like OK I can

reproduce this without driving

it which makes it a lot easier.

So got to hear got into the

truck.

You don't have to strap nor to

the bottom of the truck.

Right.

Exactly.

I have to strap a GoPro under

the truck and leave the

suspension.

Why that works.

That works.

It does work.

Yeah.

And so shaking back forth

found the pitman arm nut

was loose.

Now Ford is smart enough.

Thank God that that basically

can't back all the way off.

Or if it did it'd be a

real locking pin.

There's a locking pin for

the bolt itself that holds

it in place.

So basically even if you lost

the nut you can't lose the

pitman arm.

It won't detach.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Really cool design actually

simple but very effective.

But that nut was loosened.

That was like oh finally

simple fix.

But 156 foot pounds.

Twenty one millimeter nut.

You're not going to find those

things in a regular tool set on

the pinch.

I could put it on an impact.

Any of my impacts are going

to go to 120 foot pounds even

my quarter inch.

So but having that you know

but a 21 millimeter in a

quarter inch is not very

common.

But I have a ultra compact

three eighths impact.

That's super high torque.

I have the highest torque three

eighths impact on the market

because I don't want to carry my

massive half inch and I can

whack that thing with a five

amp hour battery and a three

eighths impact.

It'll probably get most stuff

off.

All the agadugas.

Yeah.

And so as soon as I figured

that out grab the torque

wrench five minute fix problem

solved suspension in the rear

is a way tighter runs way

better now it drives way

better now.

Weird.

Yeah.

Because the pitman arm

is now set.

So yeah.

That's cool.

But yeah I have specific stuff

specifically for the off road

stuff.

I have a ultra compact one for

the monkey on the CRF

and I still have it.

I had the the axle wrenches

and stuff and they were in

aluminum.

And now obviously yeah

aluminum wrench you can't

exactly torque on but enough

to hold the tight just

tight enough to get you

back and then get you to a

proper torque wrench.

But when I'm carrying

stuff good and tight.

Yeah.

It's good and tight.

It's all you need.

And then I I have blue

lock tight in every single

way toolkits.

On another tool update as

you know at the advanced

podcast we are huge fans of

the Starlink Mini.

Yeah.

Rome just launched today

a new bracket that takes

the Starlink Mini and mounts

it inside their boxes.

And it goes to the factory

holes because a lot of people

were doing this.

You know a lot of they were

just putting them in the boxes

because they're plastic

and then they're protected.

Nobody knows it's in there

but they now actually have

brackets.

They are not cheap but I

will tell you this.

I say this to the people of

the world that know how to

do these things.

If you looked at them you'd

go oh yeah I could totally

make that.

Yeah but they're out there.

Yeah really printing for the

win. Yeah.

Yeah what else.

All the good stuff.

Yeah.

So S tech for the win again

all that ash we had.

We've talked about this on the

show before and we were

talking about this a long time

ago.

OK but you and I had a

conversation about that.

Yeah.

And it was my impression

that with ashes on the car

and then you try to spray

it down.

If you don't have high

pressure I understand that

but if you it turns into

lie which is bad.

Yes you need high pressure

you'd have you'd need a

ton of ash but just.

Yeah you need a high pressure

or pressure washer.

Also ash is nice but it's

glass.

It's carbon.

Yeah.

It will cut the crap out of

your paint.

Yeah you do not want to just

like drive through your car

wash.

Kate did not understand like

I walked outside and I was

like we were both going and

washing the cars right now

like we're getting we're

getting power washed

everything right now.

So yeah.

Yeah you just need to you

need a power washer.

That's it.

Do not run them through the

drive through even if you

have the beauty of S

tech on your car it's

just really hard on it.

It'll luckily it will self

heal to the point where

those micro cuts won't

well you don't want to go.

You can go through it maybe a

touch list because that's

less yeah but don't go through

the don't you shouldn't be

going through anyway brushed

car wash but especially

when there's ash in the air

like we have had because the

fire that's in our mission

statement on this podcast

don't go through the brushing

yes exactly yeah go way back

to that Metropolitan detail

episode with John Clevin

and you do not go through the

brush car wash yeah I don't

care what you have on your

car yeah do not do that.

But yeah if you have that

ash in the air power wash is

what you need you don't need

a high power one you just

need an annual power washer

will do and just get that

ash off your car by spraying

it off because that is just

like little cuts on

everything it's I also did go

in and pull out my air filter

and and zack him out the box

and I oh yeah I took out my

did it it was time again I'm

changing cabin filters more

on that truck than I've

ever changed anything but

yeah you're using it that's

good no that's my point but

I'm using it in places that

like I said it was when we

came back from Moab it was

so red it was so so red so

yeah so a Borsair brush is

been my best friend so if you

if you don't abort it literally

is Borsair Borsair brushes the

trick to clean toilet paper good

for you good for you yeah I

have a bidet it's 2025 oh you

are the heated seat oh you

blue bastard that's right save

the toilet paper yeah no Borsair

brushes fantastic getting those

little nooks and crannies inside

and outside of your car you

want to use a different one

for each yeah just clean it

really well but yeah a couple

of there's it's right there I

know so right there because

I just trying to get all that

Moab dirt out of the Broncos

never gonna happen no just

trying to get it like so let

me go through the process here

switching topics a little bit so

to get all that dust out on that

ash from the interior compressed

air first which is what started

me down this right here this

coming full circle knowing you

long enough to know exactly how

we got here I was using the old

air compressors like this thing

so freaking loud and I have to

have it on the the six gallon

had to be on the whole time

I'm constantly going through that

air and saying else not much

bigger but it's quite a bit

bigger yeah so it's going through

that air blow all the dust out

first all the windows and doors

open blow all the dust out blow

all the ash out then go through

with the interior cleaner thanks

our friends at griots with the

Boris airbrush get in all the

vents all the nooks and cracks

the seats everything stuff works

this Boris airbrush Bristol brushes

are fantastic and then the

microfiber with the interior

cleaner and that will give you

a really clean in interior

yes I mean I love you dearly

but our friendship has cost me

tens of thousands of dollars

because now I'm like I haven't

had an air compressor in

a long time and now I'm like

I had one no well no I

have the little Milwaukee one

that I do that but that's not

I haven't been blowing out my

interior like that but I

realize that I've been lacking

in the well you live so far away

I know it's a huge convenience

to drive over but I will help

you actually speaking of that

I need to borrow your reciprocating

saw because I inherited a bed this

weekend and it came with really

long bolts that make the bed

sit off the wall and cut the

bolts down and I got rid of my

Ryobi reciprocating saw because

I wasn't using it and then I

bought this bed why I didn't buy

this bed is given to me so

literally within a month but yeah

happy to happy to land

yeah I figured you'd be the guy

that would know where I could

find a good reciprocating

saw so I also have a bolt cut

off tool it might work

might work it's it's just it's

a three inch cut off tool for

rebar but I found that I use it

for bolts up here is what I got

it for dishes on a bed that sits

on carpet in the upstairs

bedroom of I know they're

so good yeah I probably don't

want to light stuff on fire.

Yeah I'm a tool with a car by

bit would also work. I've used

your cut off wheel because we

cut off the bracket for my

my trailer. Yeah, I think

works awesome. It did. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh man. I love

the job. I know. Yeah, I'll

tell you.

I we posted the photo of the

new sign in the last in last

episode looks great, especially

next to the Audi. Yeah, I love

my get enjoy the drive sign.

We're going to get into this

a little bit more but we're on

the hunt for a new car. I

told you that. Yeah, did you

know how he doesn't make the

A four anymore? No, it is

gone. The A five is the new

the new A four. No, yeah,

not that you could tell the

difference anymore anyway. No,

but I was like we were

we've been looking around and I

will go a little bit more into

my search when we figure more

about what we're going to do.

But I was like we were looking

at Audi's and my dad goes,

what about an A four? And I

went and looked and then I

searched like, why can't I

find an A four? And they're

like, how does it make it

anymore? And I'm like, oh,

interesting. So it was a I

will give you the warning

everybody else. It's a great

car. We love the A five,

the S five, especially ours

five. However, the A five

and a seven are two of the

fastest appreciating cars on

the market. They're both in

the top 10. So keep that in

mind when you look at those.

I don't it's sedans in

general, if you just had a

hard time. It's unfortunate

because I like driving a sedan

but yeah. Yeah, I mean,

that's a short list CT CT five

V not going blackwing a S five

probably slant back like like

she had a Q five S Q five.

I know it's an SUV, but

they're fantastic. We have.

So this is the business car

as you always know, but we have

the outback. Yeah. See, it's

funny because my mom's in that

same camp as you. She's thinking

Cayenne. Yeah, I'd be a great

one. I would still say the

S base. The Cayenne base is 88.

That's what I'm saying. I

would go with the S Q seven

over the Cayenne. They don't

need anything that big.

Well, it's the Cayenne S Q

seven, the same size, the

same car. No, but I need

something that I can curve

the I mean, as the

executive vice president of

the corporation since I was

six, I need something I can

carve the canyons with and

I don't feel good. And I'm

lucky. Yeah. Well, I we have

a budget and it's it's

quickly. We had a budget and

we quickly move the budget.

You know, it's a moving

target, but cars are

expensive now. That's five is

a great option. And my dad

is worried. He's as a 76

year old man. He goes, I

don't know if I want to

own a Cadillac. It might

make me look old. I can't

I can't we want all wheel

drive. So I wouldn't go

blackwing. I mean, don't

get me wrong. I would love to

take a Corvette for a four

door Corvette off the lot.

But yeah, that's also $100,000.

So yeah, interesting. Yeah,

cool. Funny. I got a few

messages, by the way, but our

last episode before somebody

said I should get the S 2000,

which may which surprised me,

but I understood. I just

don't think it's gonna. I

think it's gonna hold me over.

I swear. There's why I was

going with that. Like, yes,

you can do it. Yes, it'd

be great. Yes, you would

have fun. It's not. Yeah.

No, I'm I keep leaning back

toward the Corvette for the

bang for the buck. I've also

looked at that. Somebody also

said get a GT four. I don't

think it has enough power for

me. And I'm not saying it

doesn't have enough power. If

only we knew me. Oh, if only

we knew some people that

could change that. Yeah, I

know. I'm sure Clevin's got

like half the parts sitting

in his garage. Yeah, no

kidding. Yeah. So if only we

had a private number of

somebody that, you know,

tubes up Porsches down in

California. Yeah, I have for

here too, actually. No, I

know. I'm just saying like

down that line. I mean, well,

hell, if you're going down

that line, then just I would

just go back to a turbo

market and just go, you know,

GT four RS. So much money.

Okay, then if we're going

to be there and go GT three

RS. I mean, you like your

turbo, but there's a reason

you got rid of it. It

wasn't. Yeah, it's not as

exciting. And I don't think

it's is exciting enough to

be the only person that's

ever said that about a Porsche

turbo. It's super. Yeah, I

know. I mean, I know why

you say it. But yeah, it's

something that doesn't have

enough power. It's nothing

like that. No, tons of power.

Yeah. Speaking of, yeah, I'm

not real happy with the new

Turbo S. By the way, hybrid.

So heavy. Yeah, there's a

lot of weight there. We

talked about that when

they launched it. Remember?

Yeah. Yeah, it's super

heavy. You know, it's

Porsche, it drives great and

all that. But I'm just

like, man, I missed

3,000 pound cars. It's

I think everything's 4,000

now. You just need to get

an e-ray. You know, I keep

looking at that. And I think

Brian was right, though. I

think I would just get a

zero six. I don't need the

all well drive. Okay, just

so we're clear. Brian is a

friend. He's a close friend.

We love him. But at the end

of the day, Brian is a car

salesman. And it's his job

to make you buy the car

you know, you're going to

want. Yeah. Okay, I think

it's going back to the zero

six, especially with the

way they are dropping in

resale value. Yeah, but I

mean, isn't isn't the family

dream to already have a zero?

Oh, no, you she wants to zero

one X, zero one X. I guess

that mine, those are two

different. Probably get one

to honestly are one. Okay,

and I was like, you don't

want to have a zero one and

a zero one X. But zero six

would be. Yeah. And by the

time she got the zero one

X, which would probably be

a year from now, I would

have I would be on the way

out of the zero six. No, I

mean, be real. I think

you should just back a zero

six and Dan's back and

then put it in the garage

next to the Audi and then

we'll just call it the

white garage because we all

know that those cars will

look really good. They would

look really good together.

So the thing is, is you know,

185 new is what I

spec'd out my CO 16. Yeah,

but I guarantee you there

are people out there that

have zero sixes and taken

delivery and have already

traded them in for their

zero ones and zero one

X. I can get about 15,000

back from the GM program. So

there is rebates on those

and but the you know,

they are dropping like

rocks and resale. Yeah,

which is not a bad thing

for me because I have no

problem buying new or buying

used. It doesn't lose the

warranty, right? That's not

that stupid thing. No,

not anymore. Okay. Yeah,

the demand is gone. So

they're just making sure

that's all like you can't

sell it. The warranty

doesn't go with it crap

or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

And I'm not like I don't

care enough about the new

interior to mind

whatever. It's nice. Nice.

But I'm going to drive

any better. No, same car.

Different buttons. Who

cares? Different buttons.

Yeah, something people could

say that about the iPhone.

Different buttons drives the

same. Yeah. No, camera

upgrade a little faster.

Good enough for me. I'll buy

one. We'll see what happens.

Yeah. All right. All right.

Well, let's wrap this one

up. As always for the

advanced podcast. I'm Nick

and I'm Dan and don't just

get there. Enjoy the drive.

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