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We Check In From The Road And Then Dig Into Shortages, Ads, EV Delays, And Recalls · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:04
  Don Armstrong: Welcome to the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show just ahead, part two of our interview with Sabra Sparkman on the hot rod tour of Texas, where they are right now and how things are going, and what's just ahead.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: In Jeff's Car Culture, Drivers Homes.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: No, we already did it.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: We did that.
• 0:21
  Don Armstrong: I did it out of the way.
• 0:22
  Don Armstrong: We did that last time.
• 0:24
  Jeff Dziekan: I know.
• 0:24
  Jeff Dziekan: My fault.
• 0:26
  Jeff Dziekan: We could do it again.
• 0:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, what are we going to do when it's due motor minute?
• 0:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Motor minute's going to be we just flipped them.
• 0:35
  unknown: Okay.
• 0:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I know.
• 0:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I I know.
• 0:36
  Jeff Dziekan: What happened?
• 0:38
  Jeff Dziekan: I did it.
• 0:38
  Jeff Dziekan: You did it.
• 0:39
  Jeff Dziekan: I did it.
• 0:40
  Jeff Dziekan: You guys are first mistake this year, so okay.
• 0:45
  Don Armstrong: Uh, Mr.
• 0:46
  Don Armstrong: Mars, are you gonna do day trip or destinations, or are you going to flip the lid on us on this one too?
• 0:52
  Mike Marrs: No, no, no.
• 0:52
  Mike Marrs: I'm I'm with you.
• 0:54
  Mike Marrs: I'm I'm following the schedule.
• 0:55
  Mike Marrs: I'm just trying to keep up with the pictures, though.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: Oh, we got a schedule.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 0:59
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: We always need more Jeff Zeke, Chief Engineer David Ainsley.
• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
• 1:06
  Don Armstrong: Thanks so much for joining us today.
• 1:08
  Don Armstrong: Do we have uh Sabra with us?
• 1:09
  Mike Marrs: No, she hasn't got back with us yet.
• 1:11
  Mike Marrs: I'm watching for her, though.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 1:12
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, you know, I had a bunch of uh car stories that I'm not gonna be able to get, uh news stories that I'm not gonna be able to get to.
• 1:20
  Don Armstrong: So in the meantime and in between time, while we wait for her to rejoin us, if she does, she's probably had enough already and said.
• 1:28
  Mike Marrs: She's probably down at the bottom of the hill having trouble getting the signal.
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: Truck month wasn't the same this year at Chuck Anderson Ford.
• 1:35
  Don Armstrong: Ford's annual March pickup promotion typically jump starts the spring selling season with deals on the F-150, a massive moneymaker for the company and its retailers.
• 1:44
  Don Armstrong: But this year, Ford and its dealers are still reeling from a fire seven months ago that disrupted production at a New York plant that supplies aluminum for the bodies of Ford's pickups and SUVs.
• 1:57
  Don Armstrong: Another fire at the same plant in November set back recovery efforts and prolonged the pain.
• 2:02
  Don Armstrong: Chuck Anderson Ford, less than 20 miles from Ford's F-150 Kansas City, Missouri plant, usually starts truck month with about 70 pickups.
• 2:10
  Don Armstrong: This year they had only nine.
• 2:12
  Don Armstrong: It's a heap of a mess, Nick Anderson at the dealership's manager told Newsweek.
• 2:16
  Don Armstrong: Outside of COVID, I've never seen an F-150 shortage like this.
• 2:19
  Don Armstrong: Dealers around the U.S.
• 2:21
  Don Armstrong: grappling with an undersupply of a vehicle.
• 2:23
  Don Armstrong: That's a reliable profit pillar, and the leader in an intensely competitive segment.
• 2:29
  Don Armstrong: The automaker is scrambling to boost production, but has signaled that inventory levels may not stabilize until the second half of the year.
• 2:36
  Don Armstrong: Data firm Catalyst IQ, which powers the automotive news vehicle price and inventory tracker, said F-150 stocks have fallen 43% since the initial September 16th fire at the Novellus aluminum plant, all but wiping out a commanding supply lead over its rivals.
• 2:54
  Don Armstrong: So if you're looking for an F-150, well, good luck.
• 2:58
  unknown: Wow.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: Um dealers are being asked to report competitors who violate Federal Trade Commission vehicle advertising rules to help the agency catch industry bad apples, according to an FTC official.
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: I'll tell you what, I'm sure I'm glad I'm not in that circle.
• 3:24
  Don Armstrong: Snitches get stitches.
• 3:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 3:26
  Don Armstrong: Christopher Muffarage, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said at a webinar that the agency wants help honest dealers compete and on an even playing field.
• 3:38
  Don Armstrong: His response came near the end of a 50-minute webinar that covered a variety of dealer concerns.
• 3:43
  Don Armstrong: Mufferidge was asked what dealers should do if they're following the FTC rules, but a competitor down the street is not.
• 3:51
  Don Armstrong: The FTC's call for the industry self-policing follows warning letters that the agency sent to 97 dealership groups in March about potential price advertising violations.
• 4:02
  Don Armstrong: So if you get drawn in to some dealer because of an ad, make sure that the ad is being honest with you and it's not some, you know, lead to bring you into the dealer later.
• 4:16
  Mike Marrs: But they didn't really have a hotline though, did they, to call?
• 4:20
  Mike Marrs: What about this?
• 4:20
  Jeff Dziekan: What about secret shoppers?
• 4:22
  Jeff Dziekan: You and I work for the same dealer, and I'm going to send you around the city to go check on these ads, and you're going to be building a case against them.
• 4:29
  Jeff Dziekan: So a secret shopper can do the same thing.
• 4:32
  Mike Marrs: Or even better, somebody down the street or across town is outselling me this month, and I'm going to send in some calls and say how they're cheating and stuff to get them investigated, even if it's not real.
• 4:43
  Don Armstrong: See, Mr.
• 4:44
  Don Armstrong: Mars, that's why you're over there.
• 4:46
  Don Armstrong: So the people don't come and beat us up over here together.
• 4:50
  Jeff Dziekan: His address is info at infiltime.com.
• 4:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 4:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Good lord.
• 4:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 4:57
  Don Armstrong: That I know.
• 4:59
  Don Armstrong: I say, well, we we could call our uh Houston Automobile Dealers Association, but they're gonna go, you know what?
• 5:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh we'll let that play out before we make any comments.
• 5:10
  Don Armstrong: Your government's doing that now.
• 5:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, exactly.
• 5:12
  Jeff Dziekan: It's happening now.
• 5:13
  Don Armstrong: Okay, you really ready to get ticked off on a Saturday morning?
• 5:17
  Jeff Dziekan: We did that at like a quarter to ten this morning.
• 5:19
  Don Armstrong: Would you like to be ticked off on a Saturday morning about this story that I'm about to read?
• 5:23
  Don Armstrong: Sure, go ahead.
• 5:23
  Don Armstrong: Because it really ticks me off.
• 5:25
  Don Armstrong: It ticked me off so much that I wanted to make sure that you guys knew about this.
• 5:30
  Don Armstrong: We're gonna be miserable together.
• 5:32
  Don Armstrong: Mary Berra earned$29.9 million just last year, again, making her the highest paid Detroit three CEO.
• 5:41
  Don Armstrong: So when you go out and you buy your General Motors vehicle, whatever it is, think of that.
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: How many millions you're putting into her pocket?
• 5:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, she's Cam increased Berra's total compensation 1.4% in 2024, according to an April 20th filing with the U.S.
• 5:58
  Don Armstrong: Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 6:00
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there's that.
• 6:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, she just because she was 27 million was a couple years ago.
• 6:07
  Don Armstrong: Does she have a husband?
• 6:08
  Don Armstrong: What does he do?
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: Is he kind of like Nancy Pelosi's husband?
• 6:12
  Don Armstrong: He goes to the bank a lot.
• 6:14
  Don Armstrong: I would imagine he probably lays low.
• 6:17
  Mike Marrs: Oh, you go in the bank.
• 6:22
  Mike Marrs: They increased her her pay by 1.4%.
• 6:25
  Mike Marrs: So they only she only got a 1.4% rate.
• 6:28
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 6:28
  Don Armstrong: And how much was that?
• 6:29
  Mike Marrs: Well, I mean, what is she making then?
• 6:34
  Mike Marrs: Yep.
• 6:35
  Mike Marrs: The rest of that stock options and bonuses, that all you do you do your own taxes, Mike?
• 6:41
  Mike Marrs: No.
• 6:41
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 6:43
  Don Armstrong: Barra's base salary of$2.1 million has stayed constant for several years.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: Her stock awards rose.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: Let me finish.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Her stock awards rose 11% to$21.6 million, and non-equity incentive plan compensation fell 26% to nearly a measly$5 million.
• 7:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Where are where are her stocks at?
• 7:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Is it in Ford or Stellantis?
• 7:09
  Jeff Dziekan: That's it.
• 7:10
  Mike Marrs: She's making the phone calls to the here.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: Wait a minute.
• 7:13
  Don Armstrong: Let me get let me get the hotline.
• 7:14
  Don Armstrong: Hey Mary, did you hear what Jeff said?
• 7:19
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, and here's part of the reason I would imagine, not that she had anything to do with it, because it's the board of directors, I'm sure, but GM has indefinitely delayed its next generation full-size electric truck program amid waning EV sales and a pivot back to the internal combustion engine and hybrid technology.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: Automaker has been developing lower cost, refreshed versions of the all-electric GMC Sierra, the Chevy Silverado Escalade or Escalade IQ, and the Hummer SUV and pickup with a target uh start of production of 2028.
• 7:57
  Don Armstrong: That, according to three people with knowledge and snitches of the plan, who requested anonymity.
• 8:03
  Don Armstrong: Of course they did.
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: So there's only three people.
• 8:06
  Don Armstrong: Suppliers were recently informed that the next generation program was halted with no new timetables specified.
• 8:12
  Don Armstrong: Supplier executives and analysts told Crane's Detroit business that they do not expect to see a new generation of the electric vehicle line until 2030 or beyond.
• 8:23
  Don Armstrong: Oops.
• 8:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Crazy.
• 8:28
  Don Armstrong: Does Buzz Smith still have a job?
• 8:30
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 8:31
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 8:32
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 8:32
  Don Armstrong: I'm sorry.
• 8:33
  Don Armstrong: Mike says, I don't want I don't I'm sorry I even brought that up, but I just was wondering.
• 8:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, you said you wanted us to get ticked off.
• 8:42
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, uh speaking of getting ticked off, let's get ticked off a little bit further.
• 8:46
  Don Armstrong: We still don't have Sobra?
• 8:47
  Don Armstrong: I'm not fully ticked off.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 8:49
  Don Armstrong: We don't have Sobra?
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_03: Not yet.
• 8:50
  Don Armstrong: Have you tried to call her?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I I sent a text, but she's dry uh Bobby's driving, so there ain't no telling.
• 8:57
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 8:58
  Don Armstrong: CEO of floor mat uh floor mat maker Weather Tech made some high-end moves in Florida's booming mega mansion market, selling a waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale for$34 million and a vacant home site fronting the Atlantic Ocean for$105 million.
• 9:17
  Don Armstrong: The guy's name is David McNeil.
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: He founded and owns the 37-year-old Illinois Company, or is that Illinois Company, well known for its Super Bowl commercials.
• 9:27
  Don Armstrong: In January, President Trump picked McNeil for a spot on the Federal Trade Commission.
• 9:31
  Don Armstrong: Of course he did.
• 9:32
  Don Armstrong: With his wife, Melissa, McNeil sold the Fort Lauderdale House on Isla Bahia Drive, April 7th, for$34 million.
• 9:41
  Don Armstrong: It had been on the market for two years with an initial price of$50 million.
• 9:44
  Don Armstrong: Oh, he took a hit.
• 9:46
  Don Armstrong: He took a hit.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: Eight days later, the couple unloaded a three and a half acre parcel on Ocean Boulevard and Manalapan, about 38 miles north for$105 million.
• 9:57
  Don Armstrong: I wonder what he's fixing to do.
• 9:58
  Jeff Dziekan: We need a GoFundMe page for him to recoup.
• 10:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, for us for the loss he has.
• 10:03
  Don Armstrong: And we ought to hit him up with uh, hey, hey, bud, you got a couple million to spare the in-wheel time uh car talk show.
• 10:10
  Jeff Dziekan: Mary Barrett sent us.
• 10:11
  Don Armstrong: You can even sponsor the show.
• 10:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 10:13
  Don Armstrong: How much of those spots?
• 10:15
  Don Armstrong: Oh, fifty thousand dollars apiece.
• 10:17
  Don Armstrong: A bargain at any price.
• 10:19
  Don Armstrong: You bought the Super Bowl, for God's sakes.
• 10:21
  Don Armstrong: You know, 50 million.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: And I've got Weather Tech in my car.
• 10:26
  unknown: Dan?
• 10:26
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 10:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, you helped contribute to the floor.
• 10:28
  Jeff Dziekan: I like them from conundrum.
• 10:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, because Buick doesn't have them yet, and they don't know when they're gonna make them.
• 10:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 10:34
  Jeff Dziekan: They don't have what?
• 10:34
  Jeff Dziekan: The rubber floor mats for the for the they advertise the rear seat and the back.
• 10:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeff, it's Buick.
• 10:40
  Jeff Dziekan: They make carpeted floor mats.
• 10:42
  Jeff Dziekan: I have carpeted floor mats.
• 10:43
  Jeff Dziekan: I wanted the Weathertech.
• 10:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Why?
• 10:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Because WeatherTech, they're they cover, they're better.
• 10:48
  Jeff Dziekan: The the floor mats that they have factory, they wear out.
• 10:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh yeah.
• 10:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Trust me.
• 10:52
  Don Armstrong: Guess what?
• 10:52
  Don Armstrong: Then you go and buy another set of carpeted floor mats.
• 10:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I just buy it one time, get a weather tech, put them in, and they're they're good.
• 10:58
  Don Armstrong: But it's like but it's like putting, you know, rubber floor mats in a rubber floor matted truck.
• 11:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Kathy's got them in her car too.
• 11:05
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 11:05
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 11:07
  Don Armstrong: I'm not putting rubber floor mats in my Corvette.
• 11:09
  Don Armstrong: That's just not gonna happen.
• 11:10
  Don Armstrong: Well, I understand.
• 11:11
  Don Armstrong: I just take the floor mats out and I get some uh Dawn dishwashing liquid and a water and a broom, and you just scrub them back and forth and rinse them off.
• 11:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, there you lost me at broom.
• 11:22
  Jeff Dziekan: You lost me at broom.
• 11:24
  Don Armstrong: Is that what it is?
• 11:25
  Don Armstrong: Okay, how about a tire brush?
• 11:27
  Don Armstrong: You could use that.
• 11:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh a small one.
• 11:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh-huh.
• 11:30
  Don Armstrong: I'll buy you one.
• 11:31
  Don Armstrong: Bring them over here.
• 11:32
  Don Armstrong: I'll watch that.
• 11:32
  Jeff Dziekan: I like my weather tech mats.
• 11:34
  Jeff Dziekan: I wanted them.
• 11:34
  Jeff Dziekan: I got a Weathertech.
• 11:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, Buick made the rear floor the rear cargo mat.
• 11:38
  Jeff Dziekan: That fits perfect.
• 11:39
  Jeff Dziekan: And Buick makes the rear seat floor mats rubber, but they just don't make the front ones.
• 11:45
  Don Armstrong: Because they don't want to have that that that image of rubber floor mats in a Buick.
• 11:52
  Mike Marrs: Okay.
• 11:52
  Mike Marrs: They want something a little nicer.
• 11:54
  unknown: Yeah.
• 11:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I've got I still have you could get you.
• 11:56
  Jeff Dziekan: You don't know what I do in my car.
• 11:58
  Jeff Dziekan: I know that.
• 11:58
  Jeff Dziekan: You can get a few more.
• 12:00
  Don Armstrong: You can get the uh the plush, the plush shag carpet.
• 12:05
  Don Armstrong: They wear out.
• 12:06
  Don Armstrong: Remember the the the the shag carpet floor mats?
• 12:08
  Don Armstrong: Kathy had a floor.
• 12:09
  Don Armstrong: I bet you could buy those.
• 12:10
  Jeff Dziekan: On her uh uh fusion, she actually wore through the the carpeted floor mat and it wore through the carpet in the car.
• 12:18
  Jeff Dziekan: She had to have that replaced.
• 12:20
  Jeff Dziekan: They're they're just cheap.
• 12:21
  Jeff Dziekan: That's you got the car too long.
• 12:24
  Jeff Dziekan: No, her car was three years old.
• 12:27
  Mike Marrs: That that's kind of like saying in there or what?
• 12:31
  Don Armstrong: You know, there's cheap floor mats, Mike.
• 12:34
  Don Armstrong: The I'm sorry, but the ashtrays are full, it's time to get rid of the car.
• 12:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 12:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Then what?
• 12:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Note to self.
• 12:43
  Jeff Dziekan: When the ashtrays are full, sell the car.
• 12:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Do they still have ashtrays?
• 12:46
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 12:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't think they do anything.
• 12:47
  Don Armstrong: They have cup holders now.
• 12:48
  Don Armstrong: You could get those beanbag ashtrays, I guess, and put them up on the dash.
• 12:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, I remember those.
• 12:53
  Jeff Dziekan: The beanbag ones?
• 12:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Because you could put them anywhere.
• 12:55
  Jeff Dziekan: And you had the little crown uh air freshener.
• 12:58
  Jeff Dziekan: It looked like a uh king crown thing.
• 13:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 13:01
  Jeff Dziekan: That one those on there, too.
• 13:02
  Mike Marrs: I thought that was a bottle cap.
• 13:05
  Jeff Dziekan: You would you put it whatever you put in a mic is on your business.
• 13:11
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 13:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 13:12
  Jeff Dziekan: We know what era you grew up in.
• 13:14
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:15
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, buddy.
• 13:16
  Mike Marrs: Uh-huh.
• 13:19
  Don Armstrong: Nice.
• 13:19
  Don Armstrong: Jeff's getting up, he's leaving.
• 13:21
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I'm done.
• 13:22
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm done.
• 13:23
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I had something here.
• 13:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, if we got time, I just want to run this by if you gotta do.
• 13:27
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 13:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh if you were to oh, they popping in.
• 13:30
  Jeff Dziekan: Real quick, if you were to hear a car slogan, would you know what the manufacturer's name is?
• 13:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably.
• 13:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 13:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh built for the road ahead.
• 13:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Whose whose slogan is that?
• 13:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh Ford.
• 13:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay, correct.
• 13:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Um, the power of dreams.
• 13:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Ooh, power of dreams.
• 13:46
  Jeff Dziekan: That'd be Honda.
• 13:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, first man, then machine.
• 13:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Dude, you another one.
• 13:51
  Don Armstrong: You've got to keep it American made.
• 13:52
  Mike Marrs: Okay.
• 13:53
  Mike Marrs: All right.
• 13:53
  Mike Marrs: Um better talk to Sabra while you can.
• 13:56
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 13:56
  Don Armstrong: I know.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: There she is.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: There she is.
• 13:58
  Don Armstrong: Are you driving, Sabra?
• 14:01
  Don Armstrong: We can't hear her.
• 14:02
  Don Armstrong: She's muted or something, Mike.
• 14:04
  Don Armstrong: She went so indeed.
• 14:06
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, she's muted on her end.
• 14:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 14:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Um the road isn't the road isn't built that can make it breathe hard.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: I got it.
• 14:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Chevrolet.
• 14:15
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 14:16
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 14:17
  Don Armstrong: What do you have?
• 14:26
  Don Armstrong: I thought she was gonna say something else.
• 14:29
  Jeff Dziekan: We expect that on a mic, not you.
• 14:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:32
  Don Armstrong: So where are you guys?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um take it so, Mark.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we are we have Kendai and we're headed to 21 into Spring Branch.
• 14:45
  Don Armstrong: Spring Branch, Texas, dot Spring Branch, Houston.
• 14:48
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I got you.
• 14:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:49
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 14:50
  Don Armstrong: So uh Sabra is part of the hot rod.
• 14:54
  Don Armstrong: She's part of the Hot Rod Tour of Texas, and this is day two of the tour.
• 14:59
  Don Armstrong: And uh, where did you spend the night last night?
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: We stayed in New Brunswick at the Wyndham there in New Brunswick.
• 15:10
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, the drive-in was last night.
• 15:11
  Don Armstrong: So you're the drive-in was last night, and uh what was on uh the the agenda at uh drive in.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we showed Reese at the drive-in and we had a blast.
• 15:26
  Don Armstrong: No death.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we had a costume contest.
• 15:30
  Don Armstrong: Oh, they had a costume contest.
• 15:32
  Don Armstrong: You would have won this.
• 15:33
  Mike Marrs: Yes, we did.
• 15:34
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, good.
• 15:37
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 15:40
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well that that that's what we get from the where she's out in the middle of nowhere, is the problem.
• 15:44
  Don Armstrong: And uh they're on the talk through where what is your destination tonight, Sandra?
• 15:55
  Don Armstrong: What is your destination for tonight's stay?
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to be staying in Fredericksburg.
• 16:03
  Don Armstrong: Oh, you're gonna drive all the way to Fredericksburg today.
• 16:06
  Don Armstrong: Okay, and then what about tomorrow?
• 16:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Now when we stayed in the brothels last time we went, we stayed at a haunted hotel.
• 16:23
  Jeff Dziekan: You were in a haunted room in the hotel.
• 16:25
  Jeff Dziekan: I was he was, and it was haunting him, it was crazy.
• 16:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh we were in a room and two doors down from us in the hallway, it was Don.
• 16:33
  Jeff Dziekan: And the story that we heard before you know everyone uh bed down for the night was that the hotel was haunted, it was family, some kids, or something of that nature.
• 16:43
  Don Armstrong: And then they closed it down to have it redone.
• 16:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Right, to have it redone.
• 16:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I mean, they gutted the whole place.
• 16:47
  Jeff Dziekan: The ghosts are hopefully the ghosts are still there.
• 16:49
  Jeff Dziekan: And Kathy asks about every now and then we ought to go back.
• 16:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, yeah, we should take Don with us.
• 16:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, drag Don along.
• 16:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, but it was it was actually haunted.
• 16:57
  Jeff Dziekan: You had you had noise or something in your room, and we had somebody knocking on the door.
• 17:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, that's what it was.
• 17:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah, and there's nobody there.
• 17:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, they said the kids do that.
• 17:05
  Jeff Dziekan: They come in and mischievous.
• 17:06
  Jeff Dziekan: The kids are the are the ghosts.
• 17:08
  Jeff Dziekan: The ghosts, the ghost kids uh be mischievous in the in the evening.
• 17:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, that's the story.
• 17:13
  Don Armstrong: It was it was a fun time though.
• 17:14
  Don Armstrong: We uh we had a fun time.
• 17:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Don Armstrong: Uh please continue on with the uh I've got one here.
• 17:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Breakthrough.
• 17:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Just the words breakthrough.
• 17:24
  Jeff Dziekan: What's the slogan for what manufacturers that?
• 17:27
  Jeff Dziekan: That would be Cadillac.
• 17:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh standard of the world.
• 17:31
  Jeff Dziekan: That would be Cadillac.
• 17:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Cadillac as well.
• 17:33
  Jeff Dziekan: New standard of the world.
• 17:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Cadillac.
• 17:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Cadillac again.
• 17:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh better ideas driven by you.
• 17:41
  Don Armstrong: Ooh, wait.
• 17:42
  Don Armstrong: Better ideas driven by you.
• 17:45
  Jeff Dziekan: That would be Ford.
• 17:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Correct.
• 17:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh quality is job one.
• 17:48
  Jeff Dziekan: That's a given.
• 17:49
  Jeff Dziekan: That's an easy one.
• 17:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's Ford.
• 17:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 17:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick.
• 17:53
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 17:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Um Blank is all good.
• 17:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Buick is all good.
• 18:00
  Jeff Dziekan: I thought it's all good.
• 18:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Isn't it time for a real car?
• 18:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Another Buick.
• 18:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Wouldn't you really rather have uh Buick?
• 18:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Excellence for everyone.
• 18:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Is that Oldsmobile?
• 18:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Chevrolet.
• 18:17
  Jeff Dziekan: Chevrolet.
• 18:18
  Jeff Dziekan: The more you know, the better it works.
• 18:20
  Jeff Dziekan: We'll be there.
• 18:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Come on, Mars, you gotta contribute something.
• 18:26
  Jeff Dziekan: That'd be Chevrolet.
• 18:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, he's over there where they don't have one party.
• 18:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.
• 18:36
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 18:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Here's one, Mike.
• 18:38
  Jeff Dziekan: You'll get this one right off the bat.
• 18:39
  Jeff Dziekan: And if you don't, I'll give you a hint.
• 18:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Like a rock.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: Chevrolet.
• 18:45
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, Chevrolet.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 18:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Think it's your.
• 18:50
  Jeff Dziekan: There she is.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: She's back.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Go ahead.
• 18:52
  Jeff Dziekan: I heard the beat.
• 18:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Go ahead.
• 18:53
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm going to give you one that's a I don't drivers wanted.
• 18:59
  Don Armstrong: Drivers wanted.
• 19:00
  Don Armstrong: Oh.
• 19:02
  Don Armstrong: Volkswagen.
• 19:03
  Don Armstrong: That's uh American, obviously.
• 19:05
  Mike Marrs: I think we got her audio.
• 19:06
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 19:07
  Don Armstrong: That's all right.
• 19:07
  Don Armstrong: We've got her audio.
• 19:08
  Don Armstrong: And uh Sabra's back with us.
• 19:10
  Don Armstrong: And here's here's one of the things that we have found that it's very difficult to can carry a video and audio signal while on the road on the hot rod tour because they are out in the middle of nowhere.
• 19:22
  Don Armstrong: They uh stayed in New Braunfels last night and they're headed north up to Fredericksburg today.
• 19:28
  Don Armstrong: So tell me the names of the cities that are between New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
• 19:35
  Don Armstrong: Not that I can think of it.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: So far, we've gone through blank bow.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: We went through Sister Down.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: And we went through and we just hear a little bit of what we went through.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing we're gonna do.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the room, and then we're gonna bring something more towards.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: We'll take the little city little hoping.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then we will go.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um probably, I don't know, any major, I mean any little cities that we're going.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know we're doing Luke and Bach tomorrow is where we're finishing off.
• 20:32
  Don Armstrong: Do you know how big Luke and Bach is?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's in the big weeny weeny.
• 20:39
  Don Armstrong: The only thing that I know it's in Luke and Bach is the dance hall.
• 20:42
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Don Armstrong: So I want to know what's on the lunch menu today.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: He does, and it's ready.
• 20:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh man.
• 20:58
  Jeff Dziekan: We could eat.
• 21:00
  Jeff Dziekan: You mentioned we had a little rain.
• 21:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Has the weather been has the weather been cooperating for you?
• 21:06
  Jeff Dziekan: You'd mentioned a little rain.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's been gorgeous.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, last night at the movies, it was just a perfect, beautiful breeze.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: We've not had had any rain, just some light mist.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: But so far it's been perfect.
• 21:25
  Don Armstrong: No mosquitoes.
• 21:26
  Don Armstrong: I heard Bobby say that.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: No mosquitoes, no bugs, not too many.
• 21:31
  Don Armstrong: And then so what when you get to uh uh Fredericksburg tonight, what do you got in store for everybody?
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: We are having a meal served to us at the Archery um resort, and we plan on just kicking back and visiting with everybody.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um the band that was around the crowbars is gonna be playing on the back patio, and we plan on just kicking getting into All our friends and family them with us.
• 22:02
  Don Armstrong: And some drinking.
• 22:03
  Don Armstrong: There's gonna be some drinking drinking going on.
• 22:07
  Don Armstrong: I want pictures of Bobby on the dance floor.
• 22:10
  Don Armstrong: Bobby, Bobby, you're gonna be on the dance floor.
• 22:13
  Don Armstrong: I'll I'll get on the dance floor just for you.
• 22:16
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: We need video.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: We need video.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: We need video.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: And I know that there'll be a lot of video.
• 22:22
  Jeff Dziekan: If you're on the dance floor, I know that there'll be a lot of video of you on the dance floor.
• 22:26
  Jeff Dziekan: We need stills, we need video, we need drone shots, we need it all.
• 22:30
  Jeff Dziekan: That's a good helicopter out there.
• 22:32
  Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
• 22:33
  Don Armstrong: Evidence, that's right.
• 22:34
  Don Armstrong: So we can hold it against you later on down the road.
• 22:39
  Mike Marrs: We're building our own Epstein files.
• 22:43
  Don Armstrong: No, no, we're not doing that.
• 22:44
  Don Armstrong: No, we're not doing that.
• 22:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, the best of luck to you guys.
• 22:50
  Don Armstrong: So what what happens tomorrow now?
• 22:52
  Don Armstrong: Uh when you leave Fredericksburg, where are you headed?
• 22:59
  Don Armstrong: I don't know whether they heard or not.
• 23:01
  Don Armstrong: So what's what's what what's the destination when you leave Fredericksburg tomorrow morning?
• 23:06
  Mike Marrs: I lost him again.
• 23:09
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, she's still there, but she's not hearing us.
• 23:11
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, let's just uh let's just uh get out of that and best wishes.
• 23:15
  Mike Marrs: Y'all have fun?
• 23:16
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, best wishes.
• 23:17
  Don Armstrong: Y'all have fun on your on your trip and uh we'll be thinking of you and uh hot rock tour of Texas on Facebook, okay?
• 23:24
  Don Armstrong: Very good.
• 23:25
  Don Armstrong: Thanks so much.
• 23:26
  Don Armstrong: Hey, uh I we got a couple of things that we need to get in.
• 23:30
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 23:30
  Don Armstrong: Uh good.
• 23:31
  Don Armstrong: Um shall we do that?
• 23:33
  Don Armstrong: Did we run out of time?
• 23:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, you no, because somebody uh here on the dais managed to uh put uh their feature in another hour of the show.
• 23:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well that that does happen to the best of us, and you know I'm the best.
• 23:46
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 23:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh Mr.
• 23:49
  Don Armstrong: Mars, do you happen to have uh driving destinations?
• 23:52
  Don Armstrong: Uh do we need to take a commercial break?
• 23:54
  Mike Marrs: We need to we need to take a break.
• 23:55
  Mike Marrs: We missed the first spot.
• 23:57
  Mike Marrs: All right.
• 23:57
  Don Armstrong: Well, let's let's go ahead and dig in.
• 23:59
  Don Armstrong: Hey, uh the in-wheel time car talk show continues right after this.
• 24:02
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  Don Armstrong: We're going to do something a little bit different here.
• 25:39
  Don Armstrong: I'm going to give you the recalls for this this uh time period in the past week.
• 25:46
  Don Armstrong: You ready?
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  Don Armstrong: Goodyear tire and rubber company.
• 25:49
  Don Armstrong: We normally don't do tires, but this one here, I would imagine that there will be some of our fans that uh actually have these tires.
• 25:56
  Don Armstrong: The Eagle F1 Supersport size 30530 ZR21 and 25535 ZR20.
• 26:05
  Don Armstrong: The tire tread may separate.
• 26:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 26:06
  Jeff Dziekan: The 21 is on the Camaro, or it used to be.
• 26:09
  Jeff Dziekan: That was a different demand fracture.
• 26:11
  Don Armstrong: Uh fuel pump may fail on the Lexus GS, the IRS IS, and the R C 2016 through 2022.
• 26:19
  Don Armstrong: Loss of ABS ESC, uh extrasensory conception from the brake module failure on the Jeep Cherokee for 2026.
• 26:28
  Don Armstrong: Insufficient wells on the child seat tethers, uh Jeep Cherokee 2026.
• 26:33
  Don Armstrong: Instrument panel display failure, RAM 1500, 25, 35, 45, and 5500, 25 and 26 model years.
• 26:42
  Don Armstrong: Great.
• 26:43
  Don Armstrong: Airbags may deploy unexpectedly.
• 26:46
  Don Armstrong: Hi, Martha, what's good?
• 26:48
  Don Armstrong: Pow!
• 26:49
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh-oh.
• 26:50
  Don Armstrong: That Honda Odyssey 2018 to 2022.
• 26:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh fuel leak at the pipe connection.
• 26:57
  Don Armstrong: Genesis.
• 26:58
  Don Armstrong: G eighty, ninety, g V seventy, G V eighty twenty-one through twenty twenty-six.
• 27:05
  Don Armstrong: A pipe connection.
• 27:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 27:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Wouldn't that be the filler hose, filler line?
• 27:09
  Don Armstrong: Does that say anything about that?
• 27:13
  Don Armstrong: Good luck.
• 27:14
  Don Armstrong: It's the only pipe I guess that's on there.
• 27:16
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 27:17
  Don Armstrong: It could be the water hose pipe.
• 27:18
  Don Armstrong: Could be that.
• 27:19
  Don Armstrong: Kia Carnival being recalled for a fuel leak at the pipe connection.
• 27:23
  Don Armstrong: 22 to 26.
• 27:26
  Don Armstrong: Um, unexpected downshift can cause loss of control on the Ford F-150 2015 to 2017.
• 27:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Didn't they have driveshaft issues last last week or two weeks ago?
• 27:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that was caused by the fact that it downshifts unexpectedly.
• 27:41
  Don Armstrong: And then you lose drive shaft.
• 27:42
  Don Armstrong: And breaks the drive shaft.
• 27:46
  Don Armstrong: And finally, loss of electronic stability control on the RAM 2500 for 2026.
• 27:53
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 27:53
  Don Armstrong: Time now to take another quick break here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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