The Under The Hood Show dives into various automotive questions from listeners, covering topics like aftermarket parts, troubleshooting issues with specific vehicles, and the nuances of car repairs. Notable discussions include a listener's experience with a 2003 AMG and the challenges of diagnosing a 2001 Dodge Ram that stalls in reverse when cold. The hosts also touch on the impact of recent automotive industry shifts, including Ford's adjustments in response to EV market challenges. The episode is filled with humor, technical insights, and community engagement.
What coils are good for my 03 Mercedes AMG? How do I change my 2006 Caravan blower motor? My 2020 Mustang GT runs bad with aftermarket speed parts Why does my 01 Ram stall only when put into reverse? The Kia Theft Settlement Are the EVS gone.
"That's a lot of aftermarket parts. For whatever reason there, whatever you're doing, Eric, you're."
Aftermarket parts are pieces you can buy from other companies to replace or improve the original parts that came with your car. They’re usually cheaper and can make your car run better or look cooler.
Aftermarket parts are components manufactured by companies other than the original vehicle manufacturer. They can replace or upgrade stock parts, often offering improved performance, durability, or cost savings.
"So instead of a focus, it's the 232 AMG 2003. And I was going to do the just do like coil packs and intake."
Coil packs are the parts that spark the fuel in your car’s engine. If they’re bad, the engine can misfire or run poorly.
Coil packs are the electrical components that generate high voltage to ignite fuel in an engine’s cylinders. They replace older coil packs or individual ignition coils.
"So instead of a focus, it's the 232 AMG 2003. And I was going to do the just do like coil packs and intake."
The intake is the part of your car that brings air into the engine. A good intake lets the engine breathe better, which can help it run smoother.
The intake system draws air into the engine, often through an intake manifold and filter. A well-designed intake can improve airflow and engine performance.
"There was a couple different ones. They have one that's enclosed in the heater case."
The heater case is a metal box inside your car that keeps the heating parts safe and lets warm air go into the seats. Think of it like a small room for the heater’s motor and resistor.
The heater case is the enclosure that houses the vehicle’s heating system components, including the blower motor and its resistor. It protects these parts from heat and debris while allowing airflow into the cabin.
"But if you can get to the bolts, the most likely failure on that thing is going to be the heater motor and the resistor."
The blower motor is the part that pushes air into your car’s vents. It uses electricity from the battery to move warm or cool air around.
The blower motor is an electric motor that pushes air through the heating and ventilation system. It draws power from the battery and is critical for cabin temperature control.
"The motor gets old and dirty and starts dragging, pulling a lot of amps, and that burns up that resistor."
The resistor is a small component that controls how much electricity the blower motor uses. If it gets too hot, it can fail and stop your heater from working.
In the heating system, a resistor limits current to the blower motor when it’s not running. Overheating can cause the resistor to burn out, leading to a loss of heating power.
"Our partner over at dormant products has the blower resistor kit for those when the wires melt."
Dormant Products makes replacement parts for car heaters, like the resistor and motor kits that help fix heating problems.
Dormant Products is an aftermarket parts manufacturer that supplies replacement kits for automotive heating components, including blower resistor sets.
"Right. We had to we had to cut a hole in the passenger side fender well and then put a cover back on to get it out of any Pontiac firebird in 1972. Yes. 71 and up or Camaro."
The Firebird is a classic American muscle car that people often work on for its powerful engine and cool look.
The Pontiac Firebird is a muscle car produced by General Motors from 1967 to 2005, known for its performance and distinctive styling.
"it's running rich, obviously. Check your temp sensor."
If your car’s fuel mixture is too heavy, it means there’s more gasoline than air in the engine. That can waste gas and hurt performance.
When an engine receives more fuel than the air it needs for combustion, it is said to be running rich. This can cause poor fuel economy and potential engine damage if left unchecked.
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"I'm lost. The only thing I can think of is maybe the crank shaft sensor. They damage it maybe."
The crankshaft sensor tells the car’s computer where the engine’s main shaft is and how fast it’s turning, so the car can run smoothly.
A crankshaft sensor monitors the position and speed of the engine’s crankshaft, providing critical data to the engine control unit for timing and fuel delivery.
"they should be but I'm like I thought I had it what I did the map sensor and you know I've done so many things on it"
The MAP sensor tells the car’s computer how much air is going into the engine so it can add the right amount of fuel. Think of it as a pressure gauge for the engine’s breathing.
A MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) sensor measures the pressure inside the intake manifold to help the engine control unit determine air mass flow and adjust fuel delivery.
"Is it a 5.9 360 or a 5.238? It's a 5.9 360. It's what's in it."
This number tells how much fuel the injector can push out. A 5.9 360 injector is a big, fast one used in cars that need more power.
Fuel injectors are rated by flow rate; a "5.9 360" injector can deliver 5.9 gallons per hour at 360 PSI, indicating a high‑flow unit suitable for performance engines.
"you need to do that so you can see what it's losing when it dies with that crank sensor mounts in the bell housing"
These are small parts that keep a sensor, which tells the computer how fast the engine is turning, in the right spot on the engine.
Crank sensor mounts are brackets that hold the crankshaft position sensor in place on the engine block. They ensure the sensor stays aligned with the crankshaft for accurate speed readings.
"crank sensor mounts in the bell housing in the back right in the front of the transmission"
Think of it as a metal cup that holds the engine and transmission together, and also keeps some parts in place.
The bell housing is the metal shell that sits between the engine and the transmission, housing components like the clutch or torque converter. It also provides a mounting point for various sensors and accessories.
"there's this adjustment period now that they've taken the subsidies away"
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We are here to answer your calls from a new chair that's throwing me a little bit. It's a little bit lower and it's a little bit different in the torque taken to turn. It's not new. It is for me. I know. Normally. Where's the other one? He switched it out last week when I wasn't here. And you didn't catch it. No, I caught it. I thought I'm trying something new. I'm trying to expand my horizons, but it doesn't. It's matching. It's shorter. It's matching. And that's important to me.
Yeah, for sure aesthetically, it's pleased. Yeah, great. Just like you. Thank you. Thank you so much. 866-594-4150. I'm Chris Carter here to answer your calls. We've got them coming in. So let's start with that. Let's go to Utah and talk to Eric. Eric, you're on the end of the hood show. What can we do for you? Chris, you guys are great. Hold on one second, Eric.
Something's wrong. I think we've got to give a minute. Wait. Tell us how great we are. I just heard you guys are great. And I'm not being suspicious. That is a lot of aftermarket parts. For whatever reason there, whatever you're doing, Eric, you're. And I don't think it's your signal. It was your microphone that kind of caused the thing there. So let's try that again. What can we do now? Let's try again. Go ahead, Eric. Okay. Is that be better? That's perfect. Okay. I'll say and you might try some aftermarket parts.
I was wondering where he was going with the aftermarket parts because that was about all we heard. Yeah. Yeah. Chris is one big aftermarket part. How big? Larger than an altnator? Fair enough. Go ahead, Eric. Let's actually try some. It's going to go off the rails here any minute anyways. Yeah. Christmas is coming. Yeah.
And Russ is wearing an OMG, OMG Santa hat from Elf, you know. So we're Santa shirt. We're ready to go. All right. Let's let's get this. Seriously, let's cut the laughter. Focus, Eric focus. Go ahead. Focus. Focus.
So instead of a focus, it's the 232 AMG 2003. And I was going to do the just do like coil packs and intake. I'm sorry.
Ignition kind of just swap out the two and upgrade. And I was wondering if you guys could do any insight on this brand. It's called ppq.
I don't know if you guys tried it yet. There's aftermarket. It's supposed to be better than OEM. And then just slightly more expensive than like your derailles.
Right. Could you say it one more time? I didn't know that I heard you again. The brand. Yeah. It's the brand is called ppq. So like tango pop up.
Pop a tango Quebec PTQ. Yeah. Yeah. Fine. Yeah. Those will be all right. Okay. Okay. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. I know that you make sure it's worth the money. Yeah.
No, you'd be give me fine on that. And when you pull those coil packs out, make sure you don't have any oil down in those cylinder in the tubes. The spark plug tubes for the coil packs because they're famous for that. If they do have traces, you have to put some valve cover gaskets on it because they'll kill the spark plugs in the coils.
What is that? Is that what a spark plug tube is called a spark plug tube? Yes, it is. It runs from the cylinder head where the spark plug goes in.
Up through the valve cover where the coil packs mounted and a lot of cars have this problem. The oil seeps down. Your Prius had it. The oil would seep down. Follow the plug out and kill the coil. And then it would start missing.
Well, it arrogant. You've done some research on this. Does that AMG have any different coil? I doubt it. But I'm curious. Then the standard model Mercedes in that year.
No, actually, the person who had it before, they went to the delicious product price. Everything stock AMG.
Yeah, I just didn't know if that had a different application guide for the AMG. I mean, I would think no on a coil pack, but sometimes they surprise you.
They're special. Chris, you know the song, right? The AMG kit keeps us closer to the ground. We're getting good grip from the 50 series tires that BTQ coils.
No, it's the fires. You know, I don't think the BTQ coils was in that. No, but that was. I had to mix a lot and ask you what it thinks about me.
It's me. Trucker Joe was just rolling right now. Right now, Russ, you looked at Chris like he should know that.
Sometimes, but he pretty, but did you notice he did not look at me to see if I should know that.
He even was to his energy. Eric, Eric knows that he's got an AMG, right?
That's right. There you go. And you're close to the east. You're close to the west coast. If you were, if you were rolling around Seattle, you'd definitely know that.
Does that help you out there Eric?
It does. I appreciate you guys. You guys have changed my work day. I will be out there. All right.
Cool. Awesome. Thank you very much.
866-594-4150. Let's go and talk to Carl. Carl, you're on the end of the hood show. What can we do for you?
Yeah, I see. I was wondering if I got an old six grand caravan. I was looking at the heater motor. What it all takes to fix up is the blower don't work on it.
Well, really? Yeah, the difficult part is whether or not that one comes out. If it's got bolts on it, you can see you're in luck because they make them.
There was a couple different ones. They have one that's enclosed in the heater case. You have to take the whole heater case out to get the blower out.
I don't know why they did it that way, but they did. But if you can get to the bolts, the most likely failure on that thing is going to be the heater motor and the resistor.
The motor gets old and dirty and starts dragging, pulling a lot of amps, and that burns up that resistor. So you replace them as a pair.
Sometimes you can even get the kit. You get them both together. Our partner over at dormant products has the blower resistor kit for those when the wires melt.
So if you look, follow the wires from the blower coming out, where they go into their resistor, which is just a couple inches away, if they're melted, you've got to replace this resistor kit, which comes with the resistor.
And a little pig tail with about a photo wires on it, crimp connectors, everything you need to do this complete kit.
They're heavier than the factory to prevent that from happening again. Because if there's any burns on those connectors, they'll be so higher resistance. They'll they'll do it again shortly and you'll think you got a bad product.
I know that we were very, very frustrated and let down in our dismantling world.
What was the first vehicle rust that you remember that they kind of went to a component assembly and the blower motor to replace it. You had to cut it out.
They had like a template. You had to cut and there was no bolts.
Oh, if you want to go, well, if you want to go way back, the oddies were always a pain in the butt.
Right. We had to we had to cut a hole in the passenger side fender well and then put a cover back on to get it out of any Pontiac firebird in 1972.
Yes. 71 and up or Camaro. But then after that, they made this box on the Cadillac, the all the North Star powered Cadillacs,
whether it was an El Dorado or a Seville or Deville. And you had to rock the engine forward, brace it with some tie straps.
Then you had to cut with a razor blade, the case open and unbolt it, take it out, put it back in.
They had a kit to put it back in. So you just have to look on on that particular one. I know some of those caravans,
you had to pull the heater box out to do a blower motor. And so it how many wrenches 0 to 10 9 and a half,
if it's the kind that you have to pull the whole case out, but less than one, if it's the bolt that just bolted only,
probably going to be the bolted only that can't be right. I mean, nine and a half or less than one.
I think he's ready. Well, the less than one is taking three bolts out, take the motor out. He's right on it to three or four minutes.
But if it's the other way, you got to discharge the AC drain, take the whole dash out, pull the case out.
Yeah, that's a biggy. Karl, good luck. Make sure the motor's bad before you embark.
866-594-4150. That's the number to reach us here at the end of the hood show. Let's talk to Jeff.
Here on the end of the hood show, Jeff, what can we do for you?
Yeah, I got a 2020 Mustang GT and I'm having problems with P0192 and P0195.
They're writing that ignoring. Yeah, what have you done to it so far?
All right, so far, well, here's the deal. I bought the car on an auto option and I got it, so I don't know
anything about it. So when it showed up, it's got a lot of aftermarket parts put on it, but I'm assuming
through what I found in the car, I found a test tube for E85. I'm assuming somebody had done a E85
conversion on it, but anyway, so what I did is I've changed the DI pump. I put a new Ford
manufactured DI pump, put a high pressure fuel pressure sensor on it, and now I'm down to back
probing the sensor wire for the high pressure sensor to see if the voltage is a reference voltage
and everything is correct. All right, so here's the thing, if they've worked on this car
and run E85 and that means they've tuned it and no matter what you do, if they've tuned this thing
to run on E85, why did they tune it? We've got to think, did they tune it just to make it
capable of running on E85 or did they tune it that way because they've changed the cam,
the pistons, the compression and now it won't run on pump gas. We don't know that.
Okay, what are you running pump gas in it, regular gas? I actually put E85 in it just to try it,
but what I'm finding is I put my scanner on live data and I set it for to see what the fuel
pressure, high pressure, the DI pump does and what the low pressure pump does and what the high
pressure side is doing is a voltage at idle keeps climbing and it goes up to 2000 psi at idle,
which the reference voltage is supposed to be what like three and a half or 400 psi.
And it just gradually the DI pump just climbs up all the way to 2000 and I'm assuming is that
you know, that high pressure on that on that side is that leaking and causing a rich condition.
It could be, it could just be wrong. It may not be reading that. That may be programmed out of it.
So somebody is custom tuned that they can tune that out and it's default setting would be just
to kind of fluctuate around and sometimes it'll climb to the max and stay there. But
when you run E85, you've got so much alcohol in there, it's going to run leaner.
And the higher, more alcohol content, the leaner it's going to go. So if you take a, let's say,
a brand new car, it took it off the lot. You plug your scanner into it and you have two tanks
right next to it with a valve and that little valve's only, you know, two inches long going to the
rail and you switch it to regular fuel, your fuel terms at zero, it's running perfect. You switch it
over to E85 and now it's going to be super lean because it's got more alcohol. You switch it back,
it's going to be normal again. On the other hand, if you got a car that's tuned only to run E85
on E85, it's going to look normal on regular gas. It's going to be super rich. So if that thing,
if you know that it doesn't detonate and ping and make all sorts of weird noises,
when you're running like a 91 octane fuel in there, you might try just reprogramming it back to stock
and see what happens. Yeah, so you're thinking it might be just a tune. It might be the tune that's
supposed to get it into a shop. Yeah, they may have pulled some of the things out of it.
The other things are the mass airflow sensor. If they put it, it sounds like if they put stuff
on it, they probably put a cold air intake on it. If they've done that and changed that, yeah,
airflow sensor removed it, that's going to cause weird things with the fuel terms as well.
What's your intention with the car? Is it to buy it and resell it as a fun car for somebody?
Is it for yourself and you wouldn't mind the performance? If it had been modified, what was the
plan when you bought it? No, well, when I bought it, it fits for my son. I mean, it's a project
car we had and I guess we're going to try to get it running the way it is. He loves to drive it
the way it is. If we did run it on premium for a little while and then that check engine light came
on and then ran great, but then all of a sudden we got a check engine light and then it wouldn't
cold start. And when you'd go out, you do like remote start, it wouldn't fire up, it just crank.
You know, then when it did fire, it blew a lot of black smoke. So then it was like, okay,
it's running rich, obviously. Check your temp sensor. Did you look to see if the coolant temp
sensor, did you look to see if that's reading what the actual temperature is if it sits overnight?
Yep, actually on the scanner, it says everything looks great. All the pressures for your maps are
your mass airflow, everything looks great on that. That's just that the thing is that high
pressure side that fuel just keeps climbing and I was like, is that that you think might be a
cause of a tune? It could be in the programming. You know, in our, Jeff, I don't know if you're in
our market or somewhere else, but you know, you have somebody like Joey had excessive auto sports
or one of those guys that you could probably bring it to them too and let them just go back through
the tune again too and see, you know, if that work is done done and just try to match everything
and get it back on track and it might be an extra fun car for your son if you want that.
Yep, well, that's that's my next thing and I was just seeing that because a lot of places I
looked up said that that, you know, that it could be the wiring going to that high pressure sensor
and so I was like, thinking, okay, I need to back probe it and read the reference voltage
and make sure the ground is good, everything in there. Can you see signs that they have
toward the thing apart and the wiring harnesses look anything other than stock as far as the
wiring harnesses go? The wiring harness all look good, but they did put, you know, it's got a high
rise Ford performance intake manifold and that's all been done. So I mean, it's hard to get back to
that sensor because of that high rise manifold, but as far as that, it adds some few plugs that aren't
plugged in back there that I'm assuming when they convert it, but that high pressure one looked nothing
looked bad. Well, it sounds like with that kind of a modification, it was more than just for
looks and it was definitely probably, you know, if somebody knows what they're doing, they're not
going to put that intake on there unless they've done other modifications to start messing with
things to that extent. So I, unless you have an intake to get it back to stock and all that stuff,
you might just look at getting it tuned to match what's going under the car. Jeff, thanks very
much for the call. Good luck. That is something one thing I learned from having a car that was heavily
modified was of all of the aftermarket companies that were on that car, I had to contact
three of them to ask questions. And two of them wanted nothing to do with answering any questions
about the project that might. We just sell parts. Yeah, and I was surprised at that how dismissive
they were and just were not interested. And I wasn't saying I had a problem with it. I was wondering
where would I find this and they just blew me off in a very, just a thought kind of just thinking
of the car world as that call that Jeff had was just on. He said he bought that at an auction
and it's got a bunch of different stuff on it. There is a distinct possibility that somebody
was a bolt on bandit and they had a bunch of stuff that they put on that car, not understanding
probably completely how it all needs to work together, how the tune needs to work. And they
could never get it right. And a dealer ended up with it and said, you know what, we're just going
to move this car along. We're just going to move this car along. Otherwise, you know, you can also
get Mustangs and cars like that out of season where people are just taking them to sale because
the market's not as good. But kind of makes me wonder when he gets it and it sounds like the problem
started pretty quickly thereafter that somebody might have just ended up with that car and it was
somebody's unplanned accumulated project that never quite worked. And doesn't matter what type
of auction he got it from or there aren't different types anymore for the consumer.
I got a hunch just talking to him for some reason that it was probably a wholesale auto auction.
I don't know why I thought that based on the call. But if it was at a wholesale auto auction,
that'll happen. And it can happen at a private sale auction too. But there's sometimes people
are like, you know what? This thing just hasn't worked right. I'm going to get rid of it. And
I guess I'd be I'd be concerned of what combinations have been put together. And if it was that
way from the time he picked it up and turned the key, I just wonder if someone else just said,
we're going to go a different route and to bring it into someone who a tuner and say, hey,
I don't know exactly what's going on here. Can you go through it? They may not like that if they
don't know everything that's been done to it. But for a few more dollars, they can do some
investigation. They can do cylinder volume tests. They can do different things to find out what
they're actually working with. And there certainly are wherever you're listening, there are different
levels of tuning shops that would some would be interested in doing that. Some would would never
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So I took it to the guy that put the transmission in and he'd retire to see give me another place
that puts another Jasper transmission in it. They put it in. Got it to stall out. The next day
I got it back. It did the same thing. So I went back down to them. They'd get through their hands
in here. I'm like well I ain't got me no good. I've been two years now and the thing runs great
all summer. You get below 40 it'll stall out reverse. I have changed everything from map center
to throttle center. Oh can you sense who's the coil, the wire, the fibric cap, the rotor,
the transmission cooler has been replaced to check. I mean there's so much been replaced.
I'm lost. The only thing I can think of is maybe the crank shaft sensor. They damage it maybe.
I'm kind of lost for words. Alan just to make sure we are on the same page with the problem.
The engine is stalling out and dying when you go in reverse when you're below 40 miles
and it'll be below 40 degrees. No yes below 40 degrees. Yes other than that you won't it'll just
bear it'll dig itself a hole in reverse. It's when it gets just a close freezing and I'm like
I mean I've replaced so many parts. I'm done replacing parts. Maybe I need to take
someone who haven't hooked it to scope and see if the computer it's going to see how the computer
can cause it though. Well you're going to need to do that so they can do some testing on it.
But have you ever put a coil on this thing? Yes we did that right off. We figured out just about
coil. You know when I got another coil just in case sometimes the new parts aren't you know what
they should be but I'm like I thought I had it what I did the map sensor and you know I've
done so many things on it and it only does it like I said you know when you get down 40 degrees
and below is when it does it. Is it a 5.9 360 or a 5.238? It's a 5.9 360. It's what's in it. Yeah
Magnum. Yeah and when you once it gets to operating temperature the engine go all you want you'll
dig another hole. It just won't go in reverse without stalling out to the engine hits operating
temperature. And you don't you don't remember having this problem when the never transmission
was original transmission. No now the first transmission I went two years with the other
standard I just you know I don't drive it that much you know I don't put all any mileage on the
year because I use it for the show here at the car show it's you know all the time and I just
don't I kind of lost words so I thought well maybe you guys have an idea I you know I don't know
how many parts are left to replace on it. Well in all reality there is very few things
involving the replacement of the transmission in that vehicle that could cause that kind of a
symptom and as far as the transmission replacement now having said yeah having said that there's
always things that can happen for sure if there's a wire that got pinched and at a certain torque
it's moving something against something but I don't know of anything in that system for that
magnum that would stop that engine from running. The crank sensors are really probably
nice. Yeah I mean it'll even if you rev up the engine and get the RPM it'll still just
all right out when you put it reverse it just isn't going to go nowhere in reverse until it
gets stopped in temperature that's why the bad coil you know coil mounts on the front maybe it's
coil just I've done so many things I'm like now I'm pointing left I guess I haven't put a scope
on it see what you know what the computer is being told I guess. Yeah you need to do that so you
can see what it's losing when it dies with that crank sensor mounts in the bell housing in the
back right in the front of the transmission and if the wires run up the off the the back and over
if they're rubbing on something when that engine moves a little bit one direction that could cause
some I could cause some issues you might even just move the wiring on it a little bit just move the
harness a little bit move it around and tie it up with a zip tie a little bit and see if that
changes anything yeah I think the same just be a cheap way to check and see the motor moves
like to the left when you put it in reverse and to the right when you put it in the drive so if
you're putting a reverse and it moves just a quarter inch and the wire bends just enough to
break the connection that may not break when it's warm but when it's cool it's already halfway
filled that crank sensor you can put in yourself in about 15 minutes and it's about 45 bucks
thought about that standard make some I did look that up yeah get one from standard I mean
they're they're part of ours and we use those in our shop and they'll find them at any auto
part store put it in see what I mean it's old enough now I mean it's 25-6 years old it's time
for one anyways yeah 25 yeah yeah it wouldn't yeah you're off you know I got a lot off because
that's about one thing left I haven't replaced you know mice eat those I think I think the top of
that bell housing in the back of the engines like a little ramp form the they climb up the exhaust
they go across the top that engine but we see a lot of mice that will chew the the insulation off
those wires on them I mean like why is this thing dying and we go back there and look with a flashlight
to mirror and we're like there's a hole chewed in the wire and it's rubbed on the bell housing
so we replace them because of that quite often Alan thanks very much for the call good luck I did
you see my hand Cree I I had my hand near the the swear button not because I thought he was gonna
necessarily swear but I thought he he seemed to agitated enough probably frustrated enough that he
was like close I mean I could feel the tension you know what I mean I yeah I was gonna ask him more
about the car show at the funeral home there were there were things in that call I was curious about
for sure but I just I didn't I lost track of that because I was still thinking about what he could
be done you know there are some electronics inside that transmission but not at the level where
she's replaced it twice yeah it's still doing it yeah it just doesn't make any sense should I see if
he's still there the part that caught me was that he said you know like we would know about the truck
and the car show at the funeral home he kind of said it like we've talked about it before
so I was like huh I built a car for a car for a show car for a funeral home and they still use it
yeah it's a 57 hers that was cool she's still there she's just checking Alan are you still there
yeah I'm still here okay Shannon has some questions yeah we we probably can't solve the exact
problem you have like I think we gave you some good advice and I think if you you probably
gonna have to scope it but did you say that they'd put multiple transmissions in it or just one
transmission yeah that's the second one in two years and then they just replaced it and you know
they sent me my core charge my money back but they did not fix it and they just the mechanic was
not kind of happy to see me again when I brought it back the next day I don't yeah you know I'm
sorry guys but well because jester has got a good work you overall overall but it did the exact
same it did the exact same thing after training was replaced yes yes yeah exactly okay we're
going to stop talking about that we want to know about you mentioned the car show at the funeral
and the we don't know about this where is this okay well it's in damn we all know I
get the peanut home and we do it every year about 11th or 12th uh car show and we donate all the
proceeds to the oh for the canine warrior project for the dogs you know for veterans and every year
it gets bigger and bigger but we've had so many different things I love it it's fine I don't
put my truck in it this year anyway but I thought uh I tried to get it fixed
before I put it in there well Danville Illinois is the home of where one of our sponsors
originated from road ready wheels the Smith family do you know those folks they have the salvage
yard in town also yes yes now I know your town about yeah yeah cool I've been out there and uh
what cool I was in the in your town and I spent a couple days there and I worked with the family
on we were doing a mentor type thing with uh auto recycling and so I spent some time there with
the whole family then they they had a great family I don't know if you know them or not the day they're
nice people yeah I do yeah we're talking about do yeah yeah no I guess and we've just had a long
relationship with them on other businesses that they've spawned out of that family and so when you
said Danville Illinois then I even got more interested because I've been there every year we look
we look forward to that car show every year because it gets bigger and bigger I just love it
that's cool so what do you have a car you bring to the car show uh this year I'm going to put
that old Dodge in there because it'll be 25 years old and you do you drive this every day or
is this a classic I actually was driving to work every day and then I live out in the country and
it wasn't behaving so my wife had me go buy a new Colorado four-wheel drive because we're out in
the country because I can't depend on the Dodge do I see why it's not you know why it's let me
down and reverse how do you like that new Colorado so far it's I like it but it kind of reminds me
of driving the cell phone you know what I mean it's so many electronics well you switched from
that you're your your Dodge that you had did not have it had a digital radio yeah and now the
problem yeah you know and did you have a digital temp controller do you have a slide or a mechanical
temp controller in your Dodge that was mechanical in that Dodge okay so yeah you definitely stepped up
to a cell phone compared to what you had oh yeah I mean I still love the power that that 5.9
puts out you know but I like this little turbo whatever they got miss uh Colorado they're a
very popular truck right now the Colorado's and canyons they're selling a bunch of them so
well hey I just want to learn a little more about that car show and uh it sounds like if you're
in that area I know we've got affiliates in that area support that event and uh um it helped the
the canine project there Alan thanks very much for the call now here's what I like in the 2026
car show now everyone who goes will know why this year the cars aren't backing into their spots
you know they're gonna be like huh they're weird they did all pull through spots at this year
interesting 866-594-4150 that's the number to reach us here at the under the hood show
have you guys seen any news I saved a story that I saw yesterday about let me go find it
they have settled the uh class action 36 attorneys general attorneys general announced
a settlement with Kia and Hyundai oh I did we did not talk about this for selling cars with
majority with the major security flaws the company sold millions of vehicles lacking industry
standard anti-theft technology specifically within the ignition I found out uh during that whole
thing just recently uh that my brother had had his car stolen like four times and they would
just drive it somewhere and leave it like it was an uber that he didn't basically use the
end of a USB to turn it don't say don't yeah the agreement requires Kia and Hyundai to add
anti-theft technology to all future US vehicles good the company just they've already done I would
think the companies must also provide free ignition updates to eligible current owners and pay
restitution to consumers whose cars were stolen or damaged the number of vehicles affected is about
seven million all right now that's a big settlement that is not the settlement I expected that's
more than I expected that's a lot and I don't know the complete details that's just the
quick story that I was written and I there was so many cars stolen yeah so but I guess if they've
already gotten paid by the insurance company there will be some insurance companies in their
suburbation department saying huh we might have our own we might have our little
negotiation negotiate with these guys and and uh the number of people like I know in our industry
the the friends I have like in the Chicago land area they were ordering basically a kit it was
the door glass they always broke out it was the steering column and they these were hey if you got
this stuff here we have an open PO to buy these items so that people could fix their cars and so
there was a lot of it and then having to go back and retrofitting missions my hunches they
drug this out as long as they could so that they only had fewer of those on the road and they
do yes so they so they could the motors would fail before they had to replace the ignitions some of
those insurance companies were also giving out a club a certificate to buy a club online and they
said use this and if your car is stolen without it then there's going to be a problem that's what they
did for my brother oh did they yeah they get a game a club yeah it seems like a logical I say
okay like just when those came out a lot of people just laughed at it was kind of like I'm fallen
and I can't get up you know and then the club it's like yeah right but when they're used they
actually work really good it's something that's very hard to get unless you're gonna drive straight
yeah it's just one of those things and you can't stop because it goes around your break and your
gas your steering so it's it's it's a great little security device I I don't know it's one of those
one of those things you know as you get older too you think that life alert thing or whatever
you're like oh I thought it was like yeah right and then when you get older you're like you know
that might come in handy someday except everybody has a cell phone now but just get a parking
boot just put it on every day there you go that would do it too you know for sure uh
Doug just settle down over there you're okay don't fall yeah
he was concerned push the button in there he was concerned that we were talking about him but
this is dug in the booth I've fallen and I can't get up soundproof they don't
if Doug falls in the production studio right would you hear it oh good question
shroding your Doug we'll we'll get a text from downstairs what do you mean
just somebody falls with the floor 866-594-4150 what were you were just saying
Ford just recently came out and did a press release and it's a further adjustment to their
strategies and it's a further reaction to the changes in the vehicle production market they're
going to take you know I think we mentioned GM's right off was going to be multi-billions of
dollars on one quarter for their EV lack of profitability basically Ford called it a
special adjustment of 19 billion dollars they're going to make they're going to commit
to more hybrids and they have discontinued the production of the Ford Lightning pickup the
electric Ford Lightning and they're replacing that production capacity at Dearborn with F-150
gas trucks there is a lot of the battery technologies that they had and I'm running I talked to a
gentleman last night that is works for redwood technologies he's one of the higher ups there
and as we talked he was just talking about there is a big movement for a lot of the companies that
are recovering batteries to be in the energy storage business and they're building these these
micro I'm going to call them micro power centers that can power up and run super computers for AI
and other things and so Ford in their announcement also said that they are going to take one of their
battery production capacities and invest and turn that into energy storage in the near future
and then they've committed to the new battery plant but that is going to be using the LFP technology
which by the way is not super recyclable it's going to be a challenge because this is not as much
of the materials and there are in demand but they're going to take that technology and use it to
make affordable EVs and one of them that they've got on the docket is a pickup that's a bit smaller
uses this new technology and they're claiming in their release with this new I can't remember what
they called the new path forward or something like that basically they're they're refocusing their
goals it's a miniature small not a miniature but a small medium-sized pickup and they're they're
exhouting a 700 mile range now if you get into something like that and they can make it affordable
compared to competitive products that's going to be something that people may gravitate more towards
towards than than the other these larger EVs that have been out there that have been expensive and
the first out there they're not as much range drain quickly when you hook a trailer to them and you
use them like a truck it's going to be really interesting now there are plenty of EV models that
are still doing well but there's this adjustment period now that they've taken the subsidies away
that is real we're seeing I talked with some friends in Canada on a conference call for the
trade association and they they lost one of their big battery recyclers went bankrupt closed down
and they had been a prop they had a project with the government to allow auto recyclers to
get back give back the batteries and be collected and brought back for recycling as part of a government
solution now they say that it's going to keep going and they're going to bring the batteries into
the states and recycle them here at a plant but it just seems like there is a contrition in that
industry now that the government subsidies are gone I think you're going to see a lot more pivoting
and a lot more adjustments because like anything else you have to be able to make it into a
a legitimate business you can only prop something up for so long and at some point it's got to be
able to support itself. Rodney wondered about the all these electric charging stations the
governments have put in across the country there's thousands of them you know that the states said
oh we got all these subsidies let's put in a charging station here and there and everywhere so
people can charge these cars that are going to be thrown at us. There's no more money now to
maintain them. So are the states going to maintain them are they just going to fall into
disrepair you'll see out of order signs out them and they'll finally just pull them out.
Dependent depending on how the how they got there because there was a huge huge chunk of money
that was spent to do those projects and they didn't get that many of them built right right but
the ones that they did build yeah then there needs to be more money coming forward maintaining
because it was here we're going to feed you money for years to maintain those chargers once you
put them in it's gone now. And that's a real thing because I know that 25 years ago I got involved
in a little movement in our small community called pennies for the path we were saving money to
put in a bike path along the new highway construction on highway 11 and they show if they had
done that now would have been yeah because the goal was to connect into our small town south of
here which would have connected us into the city and now you see all that coming together it would
have been oh my gosh that that's what we were going for but what finally killed that at the last
minute was the the state department come and do us and saying all right you guys we can build this
and I think there are probably a little bit of political games with us too but we can build this
but who's going to maintain it where's the maintenance budget going to come from
and there's a road not too far from here I have to see how that goes yep so you have to
maintain it or else we're not going to be able to do this and so we can raise the funds to get
the road in but we couldn't raise the funds for 15 years of maintenance. It's amazing to me how fast
things shift and how is it is no one looking ahead it amazed me I know this has been a subject
we've talked about before but typically you can watch Super Bowl ads and tell what's being pushed
on you because they're spending a lot of money to push it on you and it was like once the
administration had changed last time not this time right where did these commercials come from
all of a sudden that we're going to have EVs and it was like the future was now we got to do and it
was like oh my goodness they have this stuff like in the hopper I was just it just it had it changed
so fast and now it's changing fast but the money that was being spent and now being written off is
crazy I was thinking about wasn't making any sense cash for clunkers and they stopped making big cars
and went all small then switched back now they don't make cars they make big vehicles and I didn't
think ever in through all this talk when we were going over to EVs and the general the I would say
the general tone was we're running out of oil and fossil fuels we need to move to electric now we're
running out of electricity because of AI over the last just very short time that's going to be up
and so now we have to get the electric we we have to make more it's so interesting how fast it's
switches and that now having to get that electricity for the AI and the data centers is going to
lead to more work on battery technology which will affect cars in the future because that battery
technology being recycled turned into other things I did just read an article that they did
accomplish that I think it was UC San Diego they were able to recycle a lithium ion battery from a
car like 99.79 percent or something so they found that they found that's technology to be able to
recycle them and you just never know yeah but now Ford's building these ones that don't use that
technology they've been working technology is not recyclable like to move on but yeah so and not
just Ford it's this been out this been out there in China for a while it's going to be interesting
to watch this unfold I think there's a lot of people making a lot of money that are not us and
and they are controlling the way the winds go and it's always good for them it seems like
guess what's coming up soon Christmas Christmas is upon us
whereas we record this show today we are just a short reach from the Christmas holiday which we
will be having a wonderful show without us involved human life better the best the best of the
it'll be out here it'll be us it'll be out there uh producer dug in there it's collected uh
stuff that we've used but we're not used on air but we've just put together over the years and days
months so you can call in but we're going to leave that as a recorded call still there but but
but that's not the hoodie hotline continues to go on but for the Christmas and New Year's holiday
we will have shows that will be things you haven't heard before it'll be the same show
is it i mean it'll be just like today's show oh yeah no but we're not using the same one for
Christmas and New Year's this is people will be calling in they'll be we'll be doing it just
like we do and if you call in while we're not there then we'll call you back the following week
be funny if Doug put a show together it was just technical difficulties calls where we got the
information wrong where we corrected it later in the show and called the worst of he leaves that out
and then he just makes the decision we should as best of you next week's going to be the AI show
it's going to take our voices and our calls from the past and it's going to it's going to just
infer and put things together and it's going to he could flip answers take the call about the
2025 Ford and yeah 68 Chevy Merry Christmas to everyone just to a special season enjoy the holiday
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