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Who Needs Safety?
About this episode
A lively discussion kicks off with host Dave Polash and his crew about their Saturday adventures at various car events, including a trunk or treat and a car show. The main topic centers around a controversial change in Virginia's state inspection laws, specifically the removal of airbag light checks, sparking a debate on vehicle safety. The crew shares personal stories and insights on car safety, inspections, and the implications of these changes, while also touching on the importance of being vigilant against car thefts and break-ins. The episode wraps up with upcoming events and safety tips for car maintenance.
Topics:
state inspection changes
airbag safety
car theft prevention
event recaps
brake maintenance
community events
personal car stories
Join us on "Who Needs Safety?" as we explore some eyebrow-raising topics. We question Virginia's decision to remove airbag safety and lights from state inspections - who came up with that idea, and what are the consequences? We also touch on the importance of brake maintenance in cars. And, don't miss our discussion about the return of break-ins in the neighborhood. It's an episode that'll make you ponder the concept of safety in various forms. Tune in for these intriguing stories and more! #SafetyConcerns #BrakeTalk #NeighborhoodWatch
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Dave Polash. Happy Saturday, America. You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio on
WKQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, Big DAVYP hanging out with Caaren Chaos
and AVB. Man, it has been a awesome Saturday morning. I hope
you guys got up nice and early like we did. We were everywhere.
We loaded up the truck today and we headed out nice, sprite early and got to hang out with awesome people. You guys know how much I love
getting out and started the morning early on Saturday when the weather is great.
A lot of people said, man, it feels like it's a little cold this morning. For me, it was the perfect weather. I had my
shorts on, I had my shirt on, so somebody took off with my jacket. So I was a little cold, you know. So it's funny
that you say that because somebody actually came up to me and they were like, do you have your jacket? They're like, it's a little cold out
here. I was like, you're telling me I'm missing my jacket just a
little bit. Man, I'm like, it was for me, as you
guys know. You know, I'm very transparent. You guys know I suffer
from massive migraines, really really bad, and so cold if you guys don't know, keeps migraines a little regularly. It doesn't make it go away,
but it helps people with migraines them come as frequently. So we welcome the
cold. And for me, my internal thermostat is broken, so I get
hot real easily, So I like the cold. You'll find me wearing shorts
and short sleeves in the snow. I can believe it or not, walk
across the snow barefoot. It doesn't bother me. I don't know what it
is. Something's broken internally, so it doesn't it doesn't. I like the
cold. The colder it is, the better. I keep it very cold
in my house. You definitely need probably a jacket my home all year round.
As I'm told all the time, I don't feel it like like you guys feel it. To me, it feels great. And people tell me
it's an ice box in my house all the time, but not to me.
I mean it feels great to me. The thing is always like I
should have brought a hoodie, should have brought a hoodie. I'm like,
what are you talking about. It's great in here, yeah to you so,
but no it was. It was a great, great morning and we
had a lot of places. I mean, we were all over. So
we started off. We hit out Casts event. Guys never heard of Outcasts
a car club. They're pretty cool. They had a trunk n treat going
on, so we hung out with them. This morning. We were handing
out all kinds of stuff from our sponsors. Big thanks to NAPA, BDG
Group, Liberty Transmission, Triple A. They all gave us some stuff.
We were handing it out. We're having a good time. We're handing out
free monsters this morning, so thank you to monster A bunch of soda pops and stuff from Yes, that's right, I said soda pops. Go ahead
and correct me. Everybody always sys soda pops. Well why do you say,
said pop? My whole life. So but yeah, we gave a
bunch of different stuff. We're having a good time. We rode from there
and headed over Chesapeake to the church over there. They were having a car
show over there. Where was that Cameron? Where was that? At?
Was that the Catholic Church? So many places we I cannot remember every single
place where. Anyway, we were over there and people, we saw some
friends over there, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit activity was seeing that. Today
we were at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church hanging out with our crew over there.
And then we did stop in to Pale Horses Coffee, Yeah, and hanged out with them over there. It is. Well. Then we went
out with our friends over at the second annual Patriot Classic Show. That was
their rain date. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. I know,
there was a lot of events going on today. They were stacked on top
of each other. But even then, with a lot of the events stacked
on top, everybody had a pretty decent turnout. Somebody did ask me though
they did ask, hey, is there a car show today? Yes,
there was multiple car shows if you did miss it, Bubba's Bubba's thirty three is hosting a car started at one right started out one right now, starting right now. But Bubba's is holding hosting a Trunk and Tree. If you
don't know about them, they are a good restaurant we see and that's uh is that hosts it with the Chesapeake Car Card and coffee crowd. I think
it is, guys, Yeah, don't quote me. I think I think
that's gonna be who that is. So I think that's starting right now.
It runs to Force. If you guys want to head to that event.
I told you tons of BET's going on. O. There's stuff going on
over at Newport News. I heard about there's Driver Days. If you guys
know about that, that's going on as well. I heard so. Like
I said, tons and tons of events out there. Like I said,
you can't tell if you can hear my voice, you guys know I'm a car guy through and through. I love the fact that I'm able to get
out there, We run around, get to hang out with a lot of people, and we were still able to make it back to the show.
We with like eight minutes to spare. Yeah, like he spare to get
back here to the studio. So it's been real cool. Anyway, I'm
gonna go ahead and jump through it. I got a lot of stuff for
you guys. So topic today has been all over if you guys are here
in Virginia area. Like I said, I know you guys listen all over
the country, actually all over the world, because I get people that send me stuff from all different kinds of countries, and I appreciate you guys listening and tagging in. I get stuff from Germany all over soldiers that are stationed
all the place to listen to the show. So thank you for listening.
But today's main topic. You're in Virginia, and I think this is going
to end up going to other states if you have state inspection, look to see if this is gonna end up hitting you guys. They decided to go
ahead and remove It's coming up, uh you know, be put into print.
I guess here within the next month, I think and October, maybe be in November. They have taken the taking They have taken the air bag
and the airbag light off of the requirements for safety for state inspection. Now,
everybody thought it was a joke. Everybody's like, there's no way,
there's no way this is happening. Because if you've ever gone through a state
inspection here in Virginia, you guys don't. There's a lot to it,
and it's uh airbag lights out. Well, I've seen everything. It's subjective,
okay, Like I've seen people remove the air bag. They're like,
okay, so now my car doesn't have the air bag, so you can't fail me for the air bag. There's been so many different things, and
it doesn't matter from one end of the car the other in the car for the state inspection, rather, it's for breaks, it's for tires, suspension, the chassis, to russa, you name it. Something falls into that.
And then it's, like I said, subjective. It could be from
one inspector to the other. But one thing that we can I think all
agree on is if the car airbag is there, it's part of the safety.
Here's the thing. Safety is in the word of the inspection. It's
called a safety inspection, for God's sakes. And the way that we make
cars nowadays, and I know I'm gonna get hate mail back and forth because people argue. But I've had this argument for years and years and years about
this situation. We just don't make cars the way we used to. And
Nathaniel and I had a brief conversation day as we drive around, going back and forth on He's like in Nathaniel was like, Eh, but we make cars better, we make them safer. I'm like, okay, maybe we
do. But the cars from way back in the day, you could hit
something with it and you wouldn't even know you hit anything with it. The
car didn't fold in like if I hit you in a parking lot. We
looked at the car and we went, oh, there's a mark of my bumper. Oh, there's a little paint transfer on the fender where there was
no dent. That's why there was so many hitting runs back then. Is
that what you think? Is that? How great the head They didn't know
they were hitting something, They didn't know they hit something. They heard it.
No, they didn't, They just they just took off. Let's let's
be honest. They knew they hit something. You felt the car jerk.
Well, I told you guys the story, and I know I told this story for you. If you got if some of you guys are listening,
never heard it. So about the El Camino, remember the al Camino story
I told you about which one I was. My brother had an El Camino,
and I don't I don't think I had my driver's license yet. No,
I don't know. I didn't have my driver's license yet. And we
went to the water park and now I got pulled up. No, no,
I know, I told you all this story. So we went to
the water park. Oh yeah, and then we got hit with a tornado.
Tornado was coming so that you were supposed to be home at a certain yeah, yeah, yeah, So there was a tornado coming and when we uh, the rain just came down like buckets, buckets. It was so
heavy you couldn't see. And we had a bunch of stuff at the water
park, and so we gathered all the stuff up in the water park.
We were thrunning the car and I got to the car first and I jumped in the driver's seat to pull the car around to the front entrance of the the water parks. We could jump in the car and go and I hit
I don't know, like I probably hit everything but the lottery in that car.
Trying to get the car around to the front of the water park now, and I know I hit things because I could hear myself hitting things as I was I couldn't see the winshow Wipe Viera had an old El Camino.
The winshow Wipe promoter was not fast on that car, not enough to move the gallons of water report on the windshield. I got to see like a
break in the windshield and kind of see and then there be gallons of water and there'd be a break in the windshield. And I backed up, and
I know, I guess sing I would say I probably hit to the car to the right of meat By because I hooked the wheel, and then I backed into something. But as I backed up and as I went forward,
I probably hit the car car again that was on the right side of me with it. And then I went down, tried to go down with what
I thought was the row of cars and heard myself hit something else, so I don't know I hit another car again. And then as I made the
corner, I know I I said, I hit everything, but the lottery you couldn't see. You literally could not see because the rain was coming down
somewhere. But the car didn't even know where he was going the car.
The car didn't somewhere. I can tell you that when the rain stopped,
the car didn't reflect it, you know what I mean, Like I would hear myself bumping into things on the bumpers, but the car, the car didn't reflect bumping into things like you know. So that's how differently a car
is me now nowadays, if that happened to you in a parking lot and you bumped into that many things, the car would look like like a crunched up you can by the time you made it out of the park, and yeah, by the time you made it to the front, it would have looked like you took a soda can and just waded it up. And you're
like, well, here's your car, because like I said, it rains so hard you couldn't see anything. You give you an instance, like said,
I know I told the story before, if you guys haven't heard it.
My brother was a drive then I slow over. My brother got into
the driver's sea because everybody came out with every everything we loaded up. It
was me, my brother, Brian Pierce. I can't remember if it was
our other brother, our other friend Brian and Brian Goheen or something like that that went with us, and they had a full size gmc van, the one that used to have the old TV in it and the captain's chairs and stuff like that. So it's raining so hard. They take off ahead of
us. We lose them. We end up following the car in front of
us. My brother followed a car, that's how hard it's raining, right
into a cornfield. We went directly into a cornfield with the other car with
it, because they thought that was the way to get out this. This
water park was built in the middle of a cornfield. And the tornado's coming
and you could see it, like off in the distance. You could see
the tornado and it's coming across. Like if you ever live in the Illinois
area, guys like you, guys would understand what I'm talking. You can
see tornadoes way off the distance coming right. So everybody's like panic and everybody's
right. But the rain was so hard you couldn't see o the window.
All you could see was the two red lights. My brother was following the
red lights, and we just went right into the cornfield and drove and it was kind of like an old service road, but the corn had grown over all you could hear was the corn beaten off the car as we're driving through the corn this cornfield like road thing we went through, and then we came out and we where we came out was was there was a highway like we came out. It was like like coming out and there's there's there's a road
and we drove we drove up on the road and then we just went and h The safe place in that town was the movie theater. That's where like
the shelter was for this. So we went to that movie theater for the
shelter. That's where everybody met up at. Was that the shelter after you
were done? Did you watch a movie? No, that's what I told
you. That's when we lied, and we told we toldal Lie and so
that we were stuck in the town because of the movie theater at the movie theater, and then and then we went where you were. Yeah, yeah,
and then we went we went like one hundred miles the opposite direction from our house, go chase some girls. And what we said we were stuck
in that town for the because of the tornado the next morning and then ended would come back next morning. Yeah, So there's a whole nother story goes
to that. But anyway, that's not car related. I'm just saying that
car took a beat and on that trip and you didn't reflect it. Today's
cars would not. And that's the cars like Herbie, you know, That's
what I'm saying. I mean, like, that's the difference as far as
how I believe a car is built versus safety from today's cars. That's why
when you were saying, well, today's cars are build a lot, a lot safer maybe, but I think it has to do with the airbags.
Like if you have all the air bags and stuff in the car and stuff, I think that's truly what makes a car safe. Snuffer, No,
No, there's there's there's research. So basically, like okay, like you
said, they're not you know, they're not full metal anymore, right, there's basically ten cans is because basically a lot of the structural are supposed to fold into each other, so you're not just a big old rocks block.
I believe that because if you open up the hood on a car, you'll see you see the notches exactly, the notches are cut in so when the hood gets hit, everything accordions Okay, so everything ac Couardian's up, and I know exactly what you're talking about, but the hope that it has more force than it's supposed to. Take the force out of the course, take
the force out and kind of like crunch it together. So when you do
hit something, it's like, well, I have no more wiggle room, you know, and you don't know that it doesn't push it even further.
I much rather get hit in a car that has a solid metal door and get if I'm getting broadsided then something that's a tin can. And I don't
care if it had air bags or not. I just think I'd rather have
something with solid metal than tin. Well, I understand that you feel more
safe, right and so, but the whole purpose is so you don't get wadded up with the car. I get it right. And we judged up
on air bags before. Remember when and this is just going to take us
off topic quick a little bit. Remember a little bit of a flashback when
they were trying to come out with different technology for air bags and they were going to replace the air bags with foam where foaming with technology and I and we talked about it from being I was like that's from that movie. But
they were actually considering doing doing something like that. Yeah, that's I got
a feeling. I never took off because the mess it would create at a
certain point once it, you know, goes off, then then But to DeLay's agree saying cards are not secret. Hold what if the foam idea?
Like if it if once it dries, like you know how people do, like people do the body work and they do the phone and it dries, and what if it dries you just break it out like that and doesn't Yeah, I almost say yeah like that. I mean maybe, but it's still
be stuck in the leather right or an interior Okay, I'm just imagining it probably would destroy it or the coloring if it's like a die color. I
don't know. Hold that thought, guys, we gotta take quick commercial break
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four, one thousand and three. Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio,
your automotive specialist. Now back to your host Dave Pilach. Hey, guys,
welcome back to the show. So here's a question for you. If
safety and a car costs more, would you a more for a car if it was safety related? Well, people already do we already we'll have that.
You don't know, you don't know, you you don't know you're paying for that though you don't really realize you're paying for safety. Do you think
yes? Do you think you realize my car because you can get just the
base model or you can get the you know, yeah, but you're not paying for safety. What did you buy on the car that costs more for
safety? Parking sensors that's not safety, traffic sensors, how's that on that?
Safety? That's not breaking? I don't think when you break for collision,
I don't think. I don't think that's safety. Though, well,
I'm talking about like if the car had thicker metal, if the car had like upgraded air bag system and stuff like that, that's not the metal isn't really a safety. That's just more preference. Okay, So could we already
prove that the car is already safety without less metal. I'm just saying,
like, all right, let me get let me break it down to the little bit with or without airbags? Would you pay more with or without airbags?
I mean, like, would you choose to have the air bags?
Well, tell you can't choose. That's just I'm just saying hypothetically, if
I gave you the alternative wor and they are term of in Dave's world and days made up world, And if you could buy a car with or without airbags, which would you buy that? If the car gave they gave you
like different gauge medals, you have the car this gauge metal or this gauge metal, would you would you which one would you purchase? I mean,
like, would you think people would make that difference? I'm just I'm just
wondering. I don't think so to a certain degree, you buy a different
type of frying pam. I mean like when you buy the good one or
the bad one. The one I'm like, I'll cook on this for six
months and throw away and buy another one, or I'll buy this one it lasts longer. Yeah, I mean you think about it. People are you
know, you know, I mean buying horsepower fiber last No, they're buying the horse power. They're just buying horsepower for those type of people. Those
people, you're buying horsepower, but you could have horsepower and you could buying horsepower. I mean you're literally buying horsepower, right, I mean you are,
You're buying horsepower. I mean you're not thinking about safety, Like when
you're buying a car with horsepower, you're not going, so what kind of safety items does this car come with? I mean that's not what people are
asking. They're like, how fast can this car go? That's true,
I mean, it is, it is. They're not thhking about sating.
I'm just asking if I sold you safety separately as an add on, would you pay extra for safety or would you not be worried about that? That's
all I'm asking. I'm just kind of curious, now that I was driving
the car, how does that work? Well? I mean, if my
wife's driving the car I'm getting. Never seen your wife. But let's be
honest, most guys that go out and buy most guys go out and buy seven horsepower cars aren't going well. Now, I wonder if do I need
to buy this because my wife's gonna drive it? That is not the question
that comes to mind. And I got and I got a lot. I
got a lot of women listeners, trust me, tons of women listeners.
But I can honestly tell you they they're driving the car. They're buying the
bust of car, and it's their car. They're not thinking about if my
husband drives this car. I wonder if I need to buy this safety they're
not. I mean, it's just it doesn't work that. It matters what
the safety package is for. Like Fords, if they were selling me a
safety package that said we keep you on the road, I buy that.
Yes, I I kind of nate on that one. If other people sold
packages like hey, this is for the rear seats and you know you're gonna have kids, I buy that. You know, it just matters what type
of package or safety convenient feature they're trying to sell me. Are they going
to sell me extra bells and whistles? That beat at me when there is
stuff in the back or if I leave there. I'm buying a muscle car
and I'm not. I'm still I'm not thinking about where I'm gonna put my
kids. Really well, if I'm buying a muscle car, I'm not thinking.
I'm not. Like. Okay, so that made Nate ride in the
Corvette right in the back, right, Yeah, absolutely, the Corvette had two seats. I had I had being occupied. I'm like, somebody,
somebody has to go in the hatch. I don't know. I wasn't.
You're not thinking about kids when you buy corvettes. Just not. It doesn't
work out that way. I mean, bungee cord in the roof, I
don't know, figure it out. You gotta do something. Don't try that.
That's not endorsed by us. I'm just saying, just case, just
in case, we thought that was a suggestion. You do you. I'm
just saying, but there there's just there's ideas and things. I'm just say
when people buy cars, they're not thinking about all the different stuff. Safety
is safety. That's why I don't understand the safety decision that was made by
Virginia, because, like I said, safety's in the names it's safety of why they didn't put it in the safety Okay, so everybody thinks in this week because the fact that right the second you're having trouble getting chips and parts and stuff for cars, and some of it is airbag related. You can't
get certain air bags right now. There's a back order on airbags. Therefore,
and a lot of people of cars are rendered useless because they can't get the pars to fix them. Therefore it can't pass a safety inspection. Now
I can understand that. I understand that. So let's make exceptions for those
cars. But let's not render every single car. Okay, Like now,
it just covers every car. Every single car can run around without a safety
without an airbag if it's if it was based upon the decision. Because there's
a lot of cars out there right now that we cannot get parts for it to fix the air bag system, let's just go ahead and classify those cars.
Let's make a list of them. We know what they are. I
mean, we're all in the industry or we're in the industry or whatever it is. We know what cars you're having problems getting parts for to fix the
airbag. Let's list those cars. Make an exempt for those cars until that
problems fix. We're still the parts over. Do what or speed the parts
over for them? You can't get them. You can't not get them.
There's a bunch of models right now people cannot get There's tons of cars sent at the dealership waiting for airbag issues. There is no try. You just
can't. Everybody's trying. I know, I know people have cars that have
been sitting at the dealership. You're so funny. I know people have cars
have been sitt at the dealership for over a year waiting to get airbag issues fixed. So let those let those cars. They give me a hard time
because in my world they know I don't accept can't. So they know so
now they're gonna use it against me. And I'm like, if Kennedy can
send somebody to the moon, everybody told me can't he fired hired new people.
You already know where I already know where they're going with because in our in our households, in our household with them growing up, I refuse to accept the word can't. When I hired employee, hold on, when I
hired employees, I wouldn't hire employees or keep employees that used to tell me they can't. I'm like, go figure it out or find me a solution,
or at least come tell me. Don't tell me you can't tell I
don't know the answer, and I will go find it for you, but don't tell me can't. I did not accept camp. It was a guy
that came and went to the president and said we can't go to the moon, will never go to the moon. And that guy fired that guy and
hired a new one and we were at the moon a year later. That's
right, and that's exactly, but it's a true story. You don't ever
you should never have anybody around you says can't find a solution. But in
this instance, with airbags, the parts they're not producing the parts, they're the manifact extreme plants don't have enough pieces. We can't at this point time
seems normal excuse now though, just like no, no, I think cod you know how I feel about that. I absolutely every time every time that
somebody doesn't want to do their job, well you know COVID or well you know that there's a chip shortage, or you know that there's this part shorts.
Everybody, yes, everybody uses that excuse but like I'm saying, we have identified the fact that right this second there's shortages on parts which makes it in operable to be able to fix these cars. Let's identify those cars and
we can make certain regulations based on those vehicles. But we don't need to
opt out every single car for an airbag. Like I said, I know
that I'm gonna get hate mail. You guys are gonna send messages and disagree
with me on this, But I just believe that we got all these cars been run around forever with airbag lights on, that people have been escaping that just refuse to fix the car to make it safe to drive, and now you give them a complete out and they're never going to fix the air bag and they're gonna drive around cars that are unsafe. I have my own issues
sometimes with state inspections because of the fact that's subjective, the fact that I can take the car to one safety inspector and he'll tell me one thing and not to keep to another and he'll tell me something else in the car will pass. So I understand your guy's frustration that are out there with safety inspections.
I get it, But the safety infection exists to keep people safe on the road. I can't count many times I go down the road and somebody
driving along next to me and I look at the car and go, let me move over a lane. I'm gonna get away from that car. I
can't believe that car is on the road because at any point in time, something back and have that car. And if you think this state's bad with
state inspections, go to some of the states that don't have state inspections at all and look at the raggedy pieces of junk that are out there on the road. They have to drive next to you, and it's just an accident
looking for a place to happen. There are states that just don't govern any
of that stuff. They don't care, and they let the biggest raggedy you
know what's on the road. And think about the fact you got your kid
in the back with you drive and that car is on the road driving with you. Everywhere there's a bunch of them people that are not held accountable for
what they're driving, and they're running sixty five seventy miles an hour on the road right next to you. At any point in time, you know that
car has never been looked at no one's ever been underneath that car, is given any cares about that car, and it's running seventy miles an hour down the road. Do you have any rotations of a tire? That is how
many rotations of the road, or the break is centering, this is how bad the suspension has to take every single bump. And he's going seventy miles
an hour next to you with your family in the car. And now tell
me do you want that kind of car riding next to you and your family?
And I know the answer if you tell me, it's yes. And
I'm sorry your stamorn. I don't have any way to tell you any different,
because there's no way that you can honestly tell me that you want that type of car riding next to you while you have your family, your grandkids, your kids, whatever it may be, riding next to you. Know
that no one's ever put an eyeball on that car and given that car a care. There's no way that you can honestly tell me that you would want
a bunch of those on the road next to you. That's why we have
safety inspections. Do I think they're always fair and they always go in your
direction? As Wilgions maybe says, that's scary. It is it really,
and that's why we're talking about it, because it's scary. I mean,
you got cars next to you that don't need any safety inspection. Yeah,
none, no, not, That's all I can say about it. It's
like sometimes but people don't think about that way. I understand, guys.
I get it. You take your car and for a safety inspection and your
anxiety goes up. I know it does. It does with me. I'm
a car guy. I still have to let somebody inspect my car. But
I you know, I have a little different advanced you, guys. I
have my own lift. I can look underneath my own car. I've been
working on cars forever, so I can look it over. But even when
I take my car, and after I've done all that, I take my car, and yeah, there's a little anxiety when I take my car and did I miss something? So I understand where you guys are at. But
that look, if you look at it in the light or the way I just explained it to you, of you're gonna put people you love in a car. The person next to you going down the road is gonna put somebody
in a car that they love. You don't want to be going down the
highway with somebody you love, or have somebody driving next to you in a piece of junk going down the highway with you having somebody in the car that you love, and all the things that car has to do as it goes down the road at seventy miles an hour, and the possibilities. I'm gonna
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Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialists. Now back to
your host Dave. Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, So here's
something else I want to jump into something completely different. I think we pretty
much beat the dead horse on safety inspections. You because the guy any questions,
send me some emails, send me texts, whatever, and we'll uh seven seven zero. See he's on the point. We'll jump through it and
stuff and I can give you, guys, any information on it. I
always got the books and stuff laying around on it, because you know, before we start doing all this stuff, I had to cover all that stuff.
I was the State inspection station for a very very long time. So
it was funny all the hoops she had to jump through to be able to be a state inspection place. My friends are a safety in sector. So
here we go. Break ins seems like break ins are like on like the
man. I mean the break ins where people not that they're taking the car,
and they do. I mean a lot of times they take the car.
But the rifling through cars is really really on the rise. And here's
the weird thing about it. So a lot of us have camera systems on
our homes, and I think that's great that you have a camera system.
You should really have a really good camera system so you can really identify what's going on and how it all works, and you can see everybody. But
you need to have a camera system where you really can. Like so if
a car pulls up and they get out of the car and they decide to get out of the car and identify that, you can actually identify the car, identify the plate of the car that they got out of. Now here's
where it gets interesting. Okay. Usually people who rifle through cars come back
and rifle through cars again, especially if you're one of those people that are leaving your car unlocked. You seem to leave money in your car and stuff
like that. They are now made a mental list. Ye yeah, you
know, yeah they do, and they know what cars to go back through again. So having a good camera system is good. Here's where it gets
interesting. If you're post online that your car got hit and you're showing the
videos online of your car got hit, it's great and everything, guys, but here's something you probably haven't thought about. While you're showing your camera and
the people that broke into your car, you're also showing every single angle of how your car got hit. And now you're showing the angles of how they
can hit your car and not be seen. Does that make sense right?
So they now that if you when you're posting up all the different shot angles from your house, you're showing the angles they you're giving them. You're basically
teaching them how teaching them. You're giving them exactly angles of Okay, come
up this side, you know, don't come down this side next time parked the car further out of sight, don't look at this. By the way,
not only are you guys posting angles of your cameras which should be privacy to you. You know, you should only know where camera angles you're you
know, nobody else should know what you can see on your side. Therefore
your security for your protection. Once you're you're gonna wait all the information rest
once you show that protection, you've now taken your cards away. Not only
that, you guys posted your addresses on the comments, so now they can make a mental list of exactly what roads have cameras and where what they can see, and what they can see and what houses to go by. By
the way, a lot of other people got hit on those roads, y'all.
Most people did not have cameras. So the people that aren't posting their
camera video feed are now higher targets because they now know those people don't have cameras. Like I said, I know this is stuff that you guys are
not thinking about, but it comes up these So a lot of this stuff comes up. We get a lot of people that send us information and stuff,
and these are stuff that just talks about in forms that we belong to, and I just don't think it's things you guys think about. You know,
your car is the second biggest thing that you invest in other than your home for most people. You know, some people have boats and stuff like
that, but for the most part, your car is your second biggest investment.
So I know you put up the cameras for with good intentions to protect it. But there's a lot of little steps. Stop leaving things laying out
in your car that people want to get to. I mean, that's the
biggest thing. A lot of us just forget. I forget sometimes I'm not
gonna lie. Sometimes I forget. But a lot of times I forget,
and it's at night, and I'm like, I do leave that, and I go back out of my car and go get it, and I make sure that my car is locked up. I mean, there's just the little
things. Making sure that cars locked, make sure you're not leaving anything in
sight, anything that attract people. But giving up all of your protection by
showing your camera feeds online to people and sharing them and saying, hey, somebody was in my yard and they were messing with my car and then you're showing every single camera angle online for people to take a look at. Is
one of the worst ideas. That is, like Cameron said, that is
your that's your only, that's your only. That's it's not the protection,
it's your upper hand. It's everything you have. And another thing like,
and I know this is car show, but a lot of my friends are listening to this, especially the people that know who we're talking about, you know, the people the group that did it. There are certain things you
can buy for your cameras that you can actually have audioble alarms play in your house and they will tell you that somebody's on your piece of property. At
a search, I'll tell you somebody's in your driveway, you know. I
mean so like you know, no, And we're not trying to say, hey, run out there and try to scare them and everything, but there's stuff that we can try to do that can probably get this to stop.
So one of the biggest things with rakens and stuff, if you guys have not been watching the news, is so if you look at some of the car insurances, a lot of car insurances and stuff are not wanting to cover certain cars anymore. They're starting to get away from And Nathaniel and I were
talking about it, I think while we were driving before we actually came on the air. There is just car insurances that are trying to step away and
get away from insurance insuring certain cars. They just don't want to have anything
to do with it. I think we touched bases last week about it.
Yeah, sadly on dav crazes are hit you know Kias. I mean,
we we've talked many a time about the Kia boys and everything. But the
bad thing is people are buying these cars and not being told that their insurance won't take it until they go and buy it. They sign all the leasing
paperwork, then they call their insurance. I can tell you how to fix
that. A lot of times. The best thing to do is you call
your insurance while you're sitting inside the car a lot so you can figure out what and you'll find it. You'll definitely find out. No, Nathaniel,
this is a little different, a rough idea. Yeah, yeah, when
about the Mustang And Thaniel said, what do you think this cost me on insurance? And I pinned it within about twenty dollars difference when I thought was
going to cost him. Hey, I'll admit, though, you're that's not
bad. Pretty good for it to still be that price. I mean,
it's around. It is terrible. It's not terrible. But like I said,
if you ever have any questions when it comes to insurance on a car, call your insurance company before you decide the car. But there is some
cars out there, right this second. The insurance is either crazy high on
a car you never expect or they're opting out not to not to ensure them.
And it's crazy how that works. Like I've never even imagined insurance company
going, yeah, we're just opting not to ensure that those cars right now.
It's because they're just they're stolen with That's not just for used cars.
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forever. It never had any problems with it. Little grandma owned it,
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But you'll find out I have had a lot of cars in my life, and I have learned a lot of history on cars that I've owned in my life that would surprise a lot of people. You get a car and it's
a beautiful looking car, and you're like, how many people have owned this car? You know? I mean, but their cars I didn't plan on
keep them for a long time, planing on fipping them or getting rid of them, grabbing them or buying them and fix them up and stuff like that.
But some cars would shock me, and I'm like, how in the world this car stay insured? Like this car should have been like way out
of like rotation a long time ago. You're like, I don't know how
anybody ever kept insurance on this car. Just some of the things you see.
But like I said, I mean, it's up to you to do the due diligence on cars, making sure that you keep things from people wanting to break into the car. The big thing right this second I saw was
the increase of cars being stoleed on arking lots. So like you go into
say the grocery store or whatever, and you come out and your car's just gone. It's a huge increase on that. I don't know what's uh inciting
the increase in breakings and people stealing things. I mean, obviously just need
to be more village it. I think that's the word I'm looking for,
due diligence opening their eyes. I think when we've gotten watching your surroundings,
Yeah, I think we've gotten way too comfortable of oh, that can't be something bad, you know, and when it is something bad, like like you said that, I think we don't watch their surroundings anyway. I have
working lots. How are people not noticing people are stealing cars from parking lots?
But then I also can see a people just walk around cars all day, and that's what I was thinking of. People are just that that's not
their car. Yeah, okay, perfect instance. I'll give you. I'm
gonna give you before we I know, we gotta take a commercial break.
I can understand where that comes from. But if you watch your surroundings enough,
like I watch my surroundings, and I can always kind of tell on somebody's little leery, Like I mean, maybe if they're sitting in a car and there, you won't know and this is their first time. But most
of the time, if someone's doing it regularly or you know, on no basis and stuff, A lot of times they don't give those clues off because they know what not to do. You look, you're never gonna stop a
thief from being a thief, right, right, That's right, You're absolutely right. But there is some signs for some people that make you go that
looks that looks a little shady. So I mean, you're right, I
guess I'll take that back. Sometimes you just don't know. Then are you
supposed to judge a book before reading it, or judge a book by vice cover? Yeah, Like I get, I get what you're saying. I
just I just think there's a lot to sometimes I think we bring upon ourselves.
And I'm not trying to judge people. People get a car storm,
and I'm not saying you deserve it. I'm just saying sometimes, I'm just
saying sometimes we bring it upon ourselves by not either locking the car, just not really paying attention to our surroundings. Absolutely perfect example. Camera one time
hopped into the wrong car thinking it was his car because he was just wasn't paying attention to the car, same color, sat down down in the car, sat and the girl looked at me like I would Which one are you talking about? You're talking about the one where my key opened up the car
two different times, two different times. There's been one where I've gotten into
a car. Girl just looked at me and then screamed because then he just
it was the same color, but it wasn't. It was in the car.
And then the second time was same exact car, same exact everything went to go. Hit my key and it flash its lights, and when I
opened up the car, I realized this isn't my car because there was something hanging from the review mirror. And then when I closed the door, I
hit my lock button and I locked the car, but then made my car chime in another locate. I was like, huh. And then that's when
I asked you and we started talking about rolling codes, and yeah, have so many codes that they can only I used to have cars when I was in when I was in, uh, the automoti business, really before I got out of it and started, you know, doing basically what we're doing now being retired and doing the radio show. Uh, that I'd get four
or five cars of the same before it explore something on the lot and that one key I could click the lock and it would work two different vehicles out on the lot. Because the codes being so close, and then I would
have a key and the key would open up two different cars on the lot and not the same ones that the clickers would work. So it is very
possible for that happened because there's only so many key codes and all the different kinds of stuff, so that happens. So I know, I told Cameron
about it, was like, that's probably what happened to you. Reminds me
of that guy that just recently posted. He posted on TikTok It. Yeah,
I see the stuff on TikTok too on that. No, guys,
I gotta take another course of break when we come back. We got some
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Now back to your host, Dave Polach. Hey, guys, welcome back.
So as you know, if you guys don't have it on your calendar, I'm gonna remind you again. You guys know that next weekend, the
twenty eighth, is the Creepy Car Show and then we roll into Trunk and Treat all this all on the same day now, and then after that we have Horror Movie Night. That's right. So I know I told you guys
that we were going to be trying to do License to Drive, and I thought we were doing Licenses to Drive, which was a great show, you know with the two Cory's and they take their Grandpa's Cadillac out and it gets all destroyed. Well, that ended up getting changed up, so you can
blame me. We decide it. I know we're gonna throw Hail Mary.
At the very end, we ended up not being able to get license to drive for some reason. We had it and I thought we had it,
and then we didn't. So we decided to do movie theme, go along
with the Halloween theme, and we were gonna play and I'm excited about it.
I know it's an older movie, but you never know, like this is a time classics. Oh can I get? I don't know the new
movie and I guess, sure? Is it start with a C? It
does? Is it? I want to say Charmaine, but I know it's
not Charmaine. It's no Charmaine. That would be a weird one. It's
not Charmaine. But it is all right, I know what you're talking about,
the care work car. Yeah, yeah, Okay, go ahead,
he says, Charmaine. Man. I thought I raised my kids right that
they should be able to name this one right off the top of the head because I'm a car movie guy, like I watch every car movie there is.
So now I want to just strangle him for a second because he said Charmaine. No, it is not Smain. We're watching Christine the classic from
nineteen eighty three. We'll be showing it great car movie and horror movie all
in one, and it'll be at Lanstown, so let me reiterate. On
the twenty eighth. We'll start off with a creepy car show in the morning
and run it till about three o'clock. Then we'll go ahead and open up
the gates and let everybody out that wants to leave the car show. We
will reset and we will be doing the trunk and treat from four until I think what's six o'clock six thirty, and then we will let everybody leave from the creepy car show, and then we will go ahead and set up and we will do movie Night. I think Movie night starts at seven point thirty,
and we'll run the movie night to the movie ends, and it will be showing Christine and I love Christine. I'll tell you why. Short little
story. When I was young and Christine came out, I got to watch
it. It's gonna Take Date me at the Boys and Girls Club they were
showing it. They got somehow got the release to be able to show it
at the Boys and Girls Club, and I watched it, and I remember being young. I know y'all don't understand the boys back back in the day,
the Boys and Girls club was the place to be in the neighborhood.
Like if you if you had a boys and girls club built in your neighborhood, that's where everybody went. They had everything there, like so they showed
movies there, you could do. They had ceramics, since you could paint
ceramics. They always had ceramic cars, like I remember, like when I
was a kid, they always had these full seramic cars and they had different ones. They had Mustangs, and they had like corvettes, and they had
camaros and had all different kind of stuff and they were ceramic and they were about I don't know about the size of a model car. But they had
them all in ceramic, and then you paid like two dollars for the car that was ceramic, and then the paints were free and you could paint them.
And then they would I sit all there, I'm not a ceramics person, so somebody will correct me. But then they would like cure them something
like you put the gloss on or something. They cured them and then when
they came out and you had them and they were ceramic, and I used to have a couple of them running around when I was a kid that I had made there, but you could do that. They had At one point
in time, they had some type of I vaguely remember, but I remember they had some type of dirt bikes or something like that on the back, and I don't remember who owned them or whatever, but there was dirt back.
They had a small little dript bike riding area back behind the boys and Girls club. They had pooled, had bumper pool, They had ping pong,
They had everything, and then they end up getting some video games.
They had uh like four or five video games there in the back. But
then they had kickball outside. But that's where everybody, everybody in the neighborhood
went to the boys club. It hung out the boys Club And I just
remember I had to get a permission slip sign to watch Christine because it was raded R right then, you know what I mean? Even then? Now,
what was radar back then? Job? Yeah, But it's funny because
what was rated R back then wouldn't be rated R now, you know what I mean? Like right now that would probably be like a a G movie.
I don't know, Like it's just funny, hey what it is because like the stuff that was radar now you would be on regular TV. I
mean yeah, well seriously, because like like what what was considered are then literally is on regular TV. So but it was just a really cool movie.
I remember you had to go get a permission slip signed by your family, by your parents, and then bring it back in. So yeah,
we'll be showing that. I'm excited about that. Then, to remind you
guys, well keep your calend out. We jumped the very next weekend,
the November fourth, We'll be over at Liberty Transmission with their grand opening.
We're gonna be there broadcasting live from there as there's gonna be raffles, there's gonna be food, there's gonna be a car show over there, so gear up, bring your guys, car out. We're gonna have three different divisions
for trophies. I believe what we're gonna do is we're gonna do best in
Show. We're gonna do Liberty Transmissions to pick. I'm gonna do one more
different division. I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do with that one yet.
I keep on tell you guys, I haven't picked what I'm gonna do with that one yet. But there'll be three different trophies. There's no entry
fee to get in. You can come in, set up your car and
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lot of people that get involved with that charity. So it's very very cool.
I love the fact we're going in our ninth year doing that charity.
It's a big, big event to get involved with all the different school systems here and we get with the families that are in need, and like I said, we take care of those families every single year. Very cool.
So now the housekeepings out of the way on the brakes, you guys ready, Yeah, breaks are a really big kind of thing. Is getting that
time of year where there's a lot of water, there's a lot of rain, it's starting to get cold, and a lot of breaks start to making noise. I have a break on my truck right now. Let's make a
noise again. On the right hand side. It's got all brand new brakes,
guys. Just so you know, that's all new roadors, new slides,
new everything. You name it. The calor has been looked at the
calbers and sticking it seems to talk with people. A lot of break jobs
nowadays are just the pad slap. If you guys don't know what the pad
slap are. If you're a listener, don't do your own maintenance. It's
basically you just take the tire off, you pull the caliber back, they spray it with some brake clean, they put a set of pads in it, they slide it back on, tighten everything back up, and send you on the way. A lot of people technicians that work on on vehicles do
pad slaps and then they wonder why things where uneven. I was in a
couple of different shops this week. With everything starting to do with tempers starting
to drop, a lot of brake jobs are starting to come in. You
want to make sure that when you go to do a break job on your car that you ask for a full break job. Now here's the thing.
Yes, a full break job costs a little bit more money because there's more labor involved in it, but it is in your best interest if you want your breaks to last and get the best life out of the breaks. Just
like him would love to get the best life out of all his breaks, because I've taught him the right way to do his breaks. He'll tell you,
you take the whole waterpart, you take the whole caliber, you take caliber off. You take everything apart, dreams, buchines, bullets, washers,
rubbers, grease, where does it all go? Gets all cleaned?
Right? So it gets all cleaned, and then you grease them all back
up, and then you put them all back together. I can tell you
my breaks last me good good year. Now yeah, they said last longer
year, Like I said, if you mind, okay, if you do a break job correctly, guys, and when you go into a no break shop, just if the break if if a shop that you auto garage is looking after you, they should be offering you a complete break job. If
you don't know to ask for one, ask for them. Tell me I
want the complete break job. You will get longer life. A lot of
people are like, oh, you know, I was in a shop to day and somebody said, you know, my breaks, I don't feel like they lasted very long. I don't speak when I'm at shops because that's not
my job. I'm just there because I stop in the shops and I see
them and I hang out with them and stuff like that. The questions that
you, you know you should be asking is what can I do to make my break breaks last longer? Well, make sure that you are paying for
the complete break job. You want all the pins pulled, you want all
rubbers, you want everything grease, You want all that stuff done. Because
the brake system is floating. As it floats, it takes care of you,
So keep that in mind. I got to go ahead and get out
of here. It's been a great show. I've been loving hanging out with
you guys. It is Saturday. Enjoy the rest of your guys' Saturday.
Sunday is right around the corner. Make sure you guys do this for me.
Unplug throw the cell phones in the corner, hide your kid's cell phone, put them in the couch, whatever it takes. Fire up the barbecue,
put something awesome on it. Spend some time with your kids, playboard
game with them. They'll love you for it. We got to go ahead
and get out of here. I will talk to you guys soon. You
guys got anything. Enjoy your weekend. I'm a great weekend, all right,
guys. That's the show. We'll talk to you soon. Catch some
podcasts. If you didn't catch the show live, We'll talk to you guys
next week.
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