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We Compare Real-World Truck Value While Tracking Recalls And Car Culture · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:04
  Don Armstrong: Welcome to In Wheel Time.
• 0:06
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead.
• 0:07
  Don Armstrong: Recalls.
• 0:08
  Don Armstrong: Guess what the auction car sold for?
• 0:11
  Don Armstrong: And Mike has a car review.
• 0:13
  Don Armstrong: Actually, it's a truck review, the hot-selling Ram 1500 pickup truck.
• 0:17
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, plus this week's top automotive news stories.
• 0:22
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeke.
• 0:26
  Don Armstrong: And Chief Engineer David Ainsley is listening, making sure that we're pressing all the right buttons and making sure we're not overdriving the audio.
• 0:35
  Don Armstrong: Pushing people's buttons alright.
• 0:36
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, and uh you know, he he'll find something wrong.
• 0:41
  Don Armstrong: I know, because he always does.
• 0:42
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong complaining once again.
• 0:45
  Jeff Dziekan: The only button I can't find is the off button.
• 0:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that's true.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 0:49
  Don Armstrong: All right, so we're gonna start off uh this week's recalls.
• 0:52
  Don Armstrong: We got a few.
• 0:53
  Don Armstrong: Uh Ford Motor Company, the uh Yeah.
• 0:57
  Don Armstrong: No Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator 26 to 27.
• 1:00
  Don Armstrong: Driver's seat may recline unexpectedly.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: Martha?
• 1:04
  Don Armstrong: Martha.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: Martha!
• 1:08
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, that she's napping.
• 1:10
  Don Armstrong: Um, I think every Mercedes Benz that was built has been recalled.
• 1:16
  Don Armstrong: And I kid you not.
• 1:17
  Don Armstrong: Look, look at look at all it's gotta be 40 of them at least from 2021 to 2026.
• 1:27
  Don Armstrong: Yours is probably in this mix somewhere, so I would suggest that you go to safercard.org and uh or safercard.gov and uh find out.
• 1:37
  Don Armstrong: It's a roll away risk from a door switch failure.
• 1:41
  Don Armstrong: So if your Mercedes starts with an M, you're included.
• 1:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, pretty much that's it.
• 1:46
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 1:47
  Don Armstrong: Um also, oh, let's go back to Ford.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 1:49
  Don Armstrong: Uh Ford Mustang Mach E 23 to 25, window glass trim pieces may detach.
• 1:55
  Don Armstrong: Um, another Ford model, two of them.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: Ford F-150 and F-250, Super Duty 21 to 26, obstructed rear view camera image.
• 2:06
  Don Armstrong: I don't know, the gas tank lid is maybe hanging over the camera or something.
• 2:11
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 2:13
  Don Armstrong: Uh and uh improperly secured ignition coil ground bolt on the Genesis G80 for 2027.
• 2:21
  Don Armstrong: Those are your recalls for this week.
• 2:22
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, not all of them are safety.
• 2:24
  Jeff Dziekan: No, some of them are just uh an update.
• 2:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh my car wants me to update it the monthly update.
• 2:31
  Jeff Dziekan: I keep putting it off, so I'll probably do it this afternoon.
• 2:33
  Mike Marrs: Secure a bolt.
• 2:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, yeah, tighten it up, I would imagine.
• 2:37
  Don Armstrong: Uh do the tighten up.
• 2:39
  Don Armstrong: You know how to do the tighten up, Mike.
• 2:40
  Don Armstrong: I've seen you on the dance floor before.
• 2:42
  Don Armstrong: You do it on one foot.
• 2:43
  Mike Marrs: I didn't know you secured a tightened up bolt.
• 2:46
  Mike Marrs: I was just curious.
• 2:47
  Don Armstrong: Well, put some glue on it or something.
• 2:48
  Don Armstrong: I torque it.
• 2:49
  Don Armstrong: All right, uh, time now for uh this hour's little game that we play once a week.
• 2:54
  Don Armstrong: And this would be what?
• 2:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I gotta get my thinking cap on.
• 2:58
  Don Armstrong: Yes, you do.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: I didn't believe here we go.
• 3:02
  Don Armstrong: So um uh you guess how much this car sold for on Hemings Sold Car Weekly Roundup.
• 3:09
  Don Armstrong: You ready?
• 3:10
  Don Armstrong: Here's our number one car for the week.
• 3:12
  Don Armstrong: It's a 1960 Ford Country Squire.
• 3:17
  Don Armstrong: How much did the 60 Ford Country Squire go for?
• 3:21
  Don Armstrong: Go.
• 3:24
  Don Armstrong: That's that's not it.
• 3:26
  Don Armstrong: That's last week.
• 3:26
  Mike Marrs: I know I'm I'm wondering what happened to the Ford Squire.
• 3:38
  Mike Marrs: Ford Squire.
• 3:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Talk amongst yourselves.
• 3:41
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, what's going on?
• 3:43
  unknown: Do we not have a carpet?
• 3:44
  Jeff Dziekan: He's he's searching.
• 3:45
  Mike Marrs: Now I think I must have loaded the wrong one.
• 3:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh-oh.
• 3:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Make something off, okay.
• 3:53
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go uh uh 17.
• 3:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Sight unseen 17.
• 4:00
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, we don't know what happened.
• 4:02
  Don Armstrong: Um we don't know what happened.
• 4:05
  Don Armstrong: I I had to uh check in a file.
• 4:07
  Don Armstrong: I had to I had to get up and let the dog uh in because she was barking outside, and so that's where I went.
• 4:14
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, so um the 60 Ford Country Squire sold for 28,875, and it is a very nice example of one that you would have gone in 1960 and bought right off the showroom floor.
• 4:27
  Don Armstrong: Not wide whites, but it did have white wall tires on it and had the uh actual wonderful uh wood siding down the side of it.
• 4:36
  Don Armstrong: So, Mr.
• 4:36
  Don Armstrong: Morris, uh he's working on it.
• 4:38
  Don Armstrong: Oh, you're still working on it?
• 4:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, okay.
• 4:41
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, number car number two is a 2013 Chevrolet Corvette.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: This would be a C6.
• 4:50
  Don Armstrong: Um and uh it uh is a black on black, it appears.
• 4:55
  Don Armstrong: It uh is not a convertible, it is a coupé, and I don't know if it's anything special about it.
• 5:00
  Don Armstrong: That's a file that we can't seem to find.
• 5:03
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, what's special about it is I'm gonna go 31.
• 5:05
  Don Armstrong: 31.
• 5:06
  Don Armstrong: Anybody else is going to uh we uh well we can't we can't pull any of that stuff up.
• 5:11
  Don Armstrong: So anyway, uh we're going to continue to move on with this.
• 5:15
  Don Armstrong: The 2013 Chevrolet Corvette sold for 26 250.
• 5:20
  Don Armstrong: Not a bad price.
• 5:21
  Don Armstrong: Next up, a 2008 Ford Mustang.
• 5:24
  Don Armstrong: Um, this is a convertible and it looks like it's got some speed equipment on it there.
• 5:29
  Don Armstrong: I'll hook cover it with the price up.
• 5:31
  Don Armstrong: It's got some mods.
• 5:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's got some mods to it.
• 5:33
  Don Armstrong: Um, and I don't know whether that's a factory mods, but it does have a loop roll bar in it.
• 5:39
  Jeff Dziekan: And uh so I would imagine that's 26,000 and not a penny more.
• 5:43
  Don Armstrong: 26,000.
• 5:44
  Don Armstrong: Well, it sold for 29,190.
• 5:47
  Don Armstrong: I'm only giving 26.
• 5:50
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 5:51
  Don Armstrong: Well, you're in the ballpark anyway.
• 5:53
  Don Armstrong: Uh, car number four is a 1991 Cadillac El Dorado.
• 5:57
  Don Armstrong: God, I I love that 20.
• 5:59
  Don Armstrong: I love that Cadillac El Dorado look.
• 6:02
  Don Armstrong: Can you see it there?
• 6:03
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah, gorgeous.
• 6:04
  Don Armstrong: Black, two-door, just stately looking for the man about 91.
• 6:09
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna go 14.
• 6:10
  Don Armstrong: 14.
• 6:11
  Don Armstrong: Sold for eight.
• 6:13
  unknown: Okay.
• 6:13
  Don Armstrong: $8,000.
• 6:15
  Don Armstrong: That's I know that was that's a deal.
• 6:18
  Don Armstrong: Because it looks clean and it looks original.
• 6:20
  Don Armstrong: It's a good one.
• 6:21
  Don Armstrong: All right, 2011 Chevy Camaro.
• 6:23
  Don Armstrong: This thing is that horrible green color.
• 6:26
  Don Armstrong: And if you have that color, I'm so sorry for you.
• 6:30
  Don Armstrong: Todd Armstrong is not into green color.
• 6:34
  Don Armstrong: 2011.
• 6:35
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna go uh now.
• 6:37
  Don Armstrong: Mind you, that that car is 15 years old.
• 6:39
  Don Armstrong: No, uh, no, it's five years old.
• 6:41
  Don Armstrong: Five years old.
• 6:42
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go 17.
• 6:44
  Don Armstrong: 17?
• 6:45
  Don Armstrong: Sold for 22,785.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 6:48
  Don Armstrong: That's a little steep for me.
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, 17 is better.
• 6:51
  Don Armstrong: Uh next up, this is for you, Jeff.
• 6:54
  Don Armstrong: 1972.
• 6:55
  Don Armstrong: All right, Pontiac Star Chief.
• 6:58
  Don Armstrong: Oh, it's a wagon.
• 7:00
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, the Star Chief wagon.
• 7:03
  Don Armstrong: Now it does have aftermarket wheels on it, but it which I would have taken off and put some stocks on it.
• 7:08
  Don Armstrong: It's not a star it's not a Vista Cruiser.
• 7:10
  Don Armstrong: No.
• 7:10
  Don Armstrong: Um Star Chief.
• 7:12
  Don Armstrong: No, this is a Star Chief.
• 7:13
  Jeff Dziekan: Star Chief, okay.
• 7:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Not a Vista Cruiser.
• 7:15
  Jeff Dziekan: 72.
• 7:16
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm gonna go nine grand.
• 7:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Really?
• 7:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I want it.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: Well, you're not gonna get it because it's sold for$30,000.
• 7:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Let me see.
• 7:30
  unknown: No way.
• 7:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Come on, I ain't lying.
• 7:33
  Jeff Dziekan: There's the price.
• 7:34
  Jeff Dziekan: No, but that's not an original color either.
• 7:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know.
• 7:36
  Jeff Dziekan: It doesn't look like one.
• 7:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, I that I don't know.
• 7:39
  Jeff Dziekan: I throw a flag on that one.
• 7:40
  Don Armstrong: Okay, do that.
• 7:42
  Don Armstrong: Next up is a 1966 Chevy Corvette convertible.
• 7:46
  Don Armstrong: And for some reason, these cars are hot, and I don't understand why.
• 7:50
  Don Armstrong: I actually owned one, a 65.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: 66.
• 7:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh, and it was a car that a buddy of mine at Richardson Chevrolet, we were flipping.
• 8:00
  Don Armstrong: And um, it was okay.
• 8:01
  Don Armstrong: Route.
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: It had been it had been rode hard and put up wet, but we got a new paint job put on it, and I cleaned up the interior.
• 8:09
  Don Armstrong: 27.
• 8:10
  Don Armstrong: 27, new.
• 8:11
  Don Armstrong: How about 62,000?
• 8:14
  Jeff Dziekan: All right.
• 8:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, and finally, is the 1964 Plymouth Fury.
• 8:22
  Don Armstrong: Is that what we have on the air right now?
• 8:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 8:24
  Don Armstrong: Why why don't we have us up there?
• 8:27
  Don Armstrong: Can you can you can you can you expand us and put us up there?
• 8:30
  Don Armstrong: At least give them something uglier than that thing to look at.
• 8:34
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 8:34
  Don Armstrong: Just do that.
• 8:35
  Don Armstrong: We'll do that.
• 8:36
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 8:37
  unknown: Yeah.
• 8:38
  Jeff Dziekan: No, he's going back to it.
• 8:39
  Don Armstrong: Okay, whatever.
• 8:40
  Don Armstrong: Uh 64 Plymouth Fury.
• 8:43
  Don Armstrong: Umternut yellow.
• 8:46
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah.
• 8:47
  Don Armstrong: Um, it probably has a V8 in it.
• 8:50
  Don Armstrong: Uh, nothing nothing spectacular looking about it.
• 8:53
  Don Armstrong: It's clean.
• 8:54
  Don Armstrong: 26.
• 8:55
  Don Armstrong: 21.
• 8:56
  Don Armstrong: Sold for 21,000.
• 8:59
  Don Armstrong: Right there.
• 9:01
  unknown: Oh, yeah.
• 9:02
  Don Armstrong: That light.
• 9:02
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a driver.
• 9:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, I'd drive it.
• 9:04
  Don Armstrong: I'd drive any of them.
• 9:05
  Don Armstrong: 21,000.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:08
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, I don't know where Mr.
• 9:09
  Don Armstrong: Morris has gone.
• 9:10
  Don Armstrong: Oh, there he is.
• 9:11
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 9:11
  Mike Marrs: Morris, I so you could see what I was doing off camera?
• 9:14
  Jeff Dziekan: No, no.
• 9:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, that whatever screen, the black screen you had, yeah, it was up on the yeah, the media thing, whatever you had.
• 9:21
  Mike Marrs: My bad.
• 9:21
  Mike Marrs: I thought with me being off camera, I was off off.
• 9:24
  Don Armstrong: No, you weren't.
• 9:25
  Mike Marrs: Sorry.
• 9:25
  Mike Marrs: That's okay.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 9:26
  Don Armstrong: So, Mr.
• 9:27
  Don Armstrong: Morris, if if you don't have enough to do, now you now now we're going to give you something to do because it's it allowed time for you to do your uh review of the 2015, I'm sorry, the 2026 Ram 1500.
• 9:40
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, 2015 is what we got.
• 9:43
  Don Armstrong: That's what you got, yeah.
• 9:45
  Mike Marrs: All right, so this is the 2015 Ram 1500.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: No, it's the 2026.
• 9:50
  Mike Marrs: 26.
• 9:51
  Mike Marrs: You know what?
• 9:52
  Mike Marrs: I wrote down 2015.
• 9:54
  Mike Marrs: That's just exactly like you said.
• 9:56
  Mike Marrs: All right.
• 9:57
  Mike Marrs: I have since corrected that.
• 9:59
  Mike Marrs: Here we go.
• 10:01
  Mike Marrs: 2026 Ram 1500 long hand longhorn crew cab four by four.
• 10:07
  Mike Marrs: Now, the final assembly point for this is actually in Sterling Heights, Michigan, although they bring a lot of parts in from all over the world.
• 10:14
  Mike Marrs: There are 10 available trim levels, not gonna go through all of them.
• 10:17
  Mike Marrs: They run from the tradesman up to the tungsten top of the line.
• 10:21
  Mike Marrs: The Longhorn is somewhere in the mid-range there.
• 10:24
  Mike Marrs: They do have three different med links you can get on this vehicle, and uh it is a full-size pickup with seating for five.
• 10:31
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is uh it's on the outside of it, you're gonna find you got full LED lighting all around.
• 10:37
  Mike Marrs: The headlights, taillights, all the uh courtesy lights are.
• 10:40
  Mike Marrs: You got tow hooks on it, you got power deploy running boards, and I really like the running boards on these with the height of this truck, it fit really well to use them.
• 10:51
  Mike Marrs: It wasn't something that was awkward.
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: It also has the old man, yeah, yeah.
• 10:59
  Mike Marrs: The old man steps is what they are, and they felt good.
• 11:01
  Mike Marrs: Exactly right.
• 11:02
  Mike Marrs: And it also had a bed step for the old man that was nice to have.
• 11:06
  Mike Marrs: It had the trifold tonneau cover on it, and it's got long hoard badging, of course, all the way around it, rolling on some 20 by 9 inch polished wheels that are nice looking wheels, makes for a nice combination for this color.
• 11:18
  Mike Marrs: The inside of it's got leather seating all the way around with real wood trim on it.
• 11:23
  Mike Marrs: Now the front seats got massaging, they're heated and they're ventilated.
• 11:29
  Mike Marrs: The second row is also heated and ventilated seating, although they don't have the massaging portion of it, which I don't care as long as I got it up front.
• 11:37
  Mike Marrs: Now it's got the wireless charging on it, it's got heads-up display, it's got UConnect 5.0 with a 12-inch touch screen.
• 11:44
  Mike Marrs: Uh even the front passenger has an interactive display in this particular vehicle.
• 11:49
  Mike Marrs: So there's a lot of technology in here, including an 18-speaker Harden Carmen premium sound system, and you also have the surround view camera, so you can see it, you can hear it, you can feel it on this vehicle.
• 12:04
  Mike Marrs: The drivetrain.
• 12:06
  Mike Marrs: Now we had the 3.0 liter inline six hurricane HO.
• 12:11
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is the twin turbo engine on this thing.
• 12:14
  Mike Marrs: Uh, I first time I'd ever driven one of them.
• 12:16
  Mike Marrs: I've heard a couple of people talking about them.
• 12:18
  Mike Marrs: They have the uh they don't have the HO, so this is kind of unique in that it's got 540 horsepower.
• 12:25
  Mike Marrs: 521 pound feet of torque.
• 12:28
  Mike Marrs: The tow rating is 10,000 pounds, the tall rating is 1490 pounds.
• 12:33
  Mike Marrs: Now, I was a little surprised.
• 12:34
  Mike Marrs: I was really interested in driving this vehicle, like I said, because going from the 5'7 Hemi that I've got in the truck versus this, um, I will tell you I felt like there was a lot of the difference driving around town.
• 12:46
  Mike Marrs: This is a lot this is Hurricane is a lot more refined.
• 12:50
  Mike Marrs: But I will also tell you, you get up around highway speeds and you want to do a high-speed passing maneuver, this thing will get up and haul the donkey on you real quick, real fast in a hurry.
• 13:00
  Mike Marrs: However, the EPA says you should be looking for in the city about 15 miles to the gallon, highway 21, combined 17.
• 13:08
  Mike Marrs: Now, I only had the chance to drive this vehicle 154 miles, but I got 16.1, 16.9 miles across that range.
• 13:17
  Mike Marrs: It's really nice ride.
• 13:18
  Mike Marrs: It's a really nice handling vehicle.
• 13:20
  Mike Marrs: It's got the five-link suspension with active leveling air suspension on it.
• 13:24
  Mike Marrs: And then you can also have a manual ride height to where you can lower it down to get in and out of it a little bit easier.
• 13:30
  Mike Marrs: You're going off-road since it is a 4x4.
• 13:32
  Mike Marrs: You want to raise it up, you can do that.
• 13:34
  Mike Marrs: And it's just really smooth on the road with lots of rolling power, like I said, up at highway speeds.
• 13:40
  Mike Marrs: Now, the base trim price on this vehicle is$76,405.
• 13:45
  Mike Marrs: As tested,$86,090.
• 13:49
  Mike Marrs: Now, you can get in a base model, tradesman, for$47,120.
• 13:54
  Mike Marrs: So you look across the board at the GMC 1500 crew cab 4x4 in the base model$46,995.
• 14:01
  Mike Marrs: The Silverado Cousin, uh, same thing, crew cab 4x4 is at$46,000.
• 14:06
  Mike Marrs: Even the Ford F-150 Crew Cab 4x4 will start you out at 467.
• 14:11
  Mike Marrs: So they're all right there in that same range.
• 14:13
  Mike Marrs: Then it just depends on how much you want to upgrade, how much you want to gussy it up from there.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: I need to know where I can buy my$20,000 work truck.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: That why wouldn't that I got my eyes on with the hoodie caps on it?
• 14:28
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:29
  Mike Marrs: Billy Bobs used cars right down the street.
• 14:33
  Jeff Dziekan: So does Becky want one?
• 14:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Did she even ride in it?
• 14:38
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 14:39
  Mike Marrs: She liked it.
• 14:40
  Mike Marrs: I mean, you know, the leather and the wood.
• 14:42
  Mike Marrs: I mean, it's what's not to like about it.
• 14:44
  Mike Marrs: Um it's just the uh$3,000 price tag, is what she kind of looked at.
• 14:50
  Don Armstrong: How about that seven-year note, huh?
• 14:52
  Don Armstrong: How about that?
• 14:53
  Don Armstrong: All right, coming up, Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, and I'll have the stories making automotive muse headlines this week.
• 14:59
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• 16:52
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• 16:53
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the cruise in and events calendars.
• 16:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeffrey, you betcha.
• 16:58
  Jeff Dziekan: So this afternoon, today's Saturday, the 8th, I want to wish my son a happy birthday.
• 17:01
  Jeff Dziekan: His birthday tonight.
• 17:02
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  Jeff Dziekan: Then we've got one again tonight.
• 17:15
  Jeff Dziekan: This one's from 6 p.m.
• 17:17
  Jeff Dziekan: to 9 p.m.
• 17:17
  Jeff Dziekan: It's the Berkshire Brothers cruise in at 21005 Eva Street, Montgomery, Texas.
• 17:22
  Jeff Dziekan: It's an open cruise in, and again, that one is free.
• 17:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Then tomorrow, uh from 9 a.m.
• 17:28
  Jeff Dziekan: to noon, just a nice little drive.
• 17:29
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a Cars and Coffee, Fearless Performance.
• 17:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Up in Huntsville, and it is free also.
• 17:34
  Jeff Dziekan: So go on out there.
• 17:35
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 1027-I-45 in Huntsville.
• 17:38
  Don Armstrong: Right there by the prison.
• 17:39
  Don Armstrong: Right by the time.
• 17:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Tomorrow also, 8:30 to 11:30.
• 17:44
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a short one.
• 17:44
  Jeff Dziekan: It's the Corvette Church in Coffee.
• 17:46
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 8715 Spring Cypress Road in Spring, Texas.
• 17:49
  Jeff Dziekan: It's free also to attend.
• 17:51
  Jeff Dziekan: And you know, I don't think you've got to bring a Corvette, but bring whatever you want.
• 17:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Bring your Bible.
• 17:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Bring yeah, bring it.
• 17:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, then thump it while you're out there.
• 17:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Tomorrow also, 6 p.m.
• 17:59
  Jeff Dziekan: to 11.
• 18:00
  Jeff Dziekan: You've got the Sunday test in tune.
• 18:02
  Jeff Dziekan: One last one.
• 18:03
  Jeff Dziekan: Today, I'm sorry.
• 18:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Next Saturday, the 15th, is the world's largest car cruise.
• 18:09
  Jeff Dziekan: It's the Woodward Cruise In.
• 18:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Next Saturday.
• 18:12
  Jeff Dziekan: It's 40,000 vehicles, 1 million people.
• 18:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Is it going to have television coverage?
• 18:15
  Jeff Dziekan: I'll doubt it.
• 18:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Probably local, but not probably new stuff.
• 18:18
  Jeff Dziekan: They need a chopper pilot.
• 18:20
  Jeff Dziekan: 16 miles on Woodward Avenue.
• 18:22
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from Ferndale to Pontiac, Michigan.
• 18:25
  Jeff Dziekan: It's an annual event, yearly event.
• 18:27
  Jeff Dziekan: I've been to it a long, long time ago.
• 18:30
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a blast.
• 18:30
  Jeff Dziekan: It's gotten bigger since then.
• 18:31
  Don Armstrong: Well, yeah, and all of the all the major car manufacturers are there.
• 18:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Bumper to bumper hot rods and parking lots full of this and that.
• 18:39
  Jeff Dziekan: That's next weekend.
• 18:40
  Jeff Dziekan: Next weekend, the 15th, yeah.
• 18:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 18:42
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 18:43
  Don Armstrong: Some of the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 18:45
  Don Armstrong: I got a big, thick stack of them.
• 18:48
  Don Armstrong: Kia dealership in Louisiana fired a service manager after the business used part after the business used parts from one customer's vehicle to fix someone else's car.
• 19:01
  Don Armstrong: Why not?
• 19:02
  Don Armstrong: We didn't have them in stock, so we just went over and borrowed his.
• 19:06
  Mike Marrs: And then we charged full retail and made a little extra money for the ball.
• 19:09
  Don Armstrong: That's right.
• 19:10
  Don Armstrong: And and plus our customer that'd been waiting for these things.
• 19:13
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, they did okay because we gave them some new stuff.
• 19:16
  Don Armstrong: Now they have back order.
• 19:17
  Don Armstrong: Kia of Lake Charles in a statement posted to get that Kia of Lake Charles in a statement posted on its website said it conducted an internal review after a video filmed by the customer inside the service department began spreading on local social media.
• 19:34
  Don Armstrong: Then it went viral.
• 19:36
  Don Armstrong: The customer, Shirley Poulard, told TV station KPLC that her vehicle was at the dealership for a more than a month to fix damage caused by a tire blowout.
• 19:48
  Don Armstrong: When she went there to check on the vehicle, she found the hood raised and started filming while asking employees what they had done to the engine.
• 19:56
  Don Armstrong: Quote, the only thing we did was borrow two fuel injectors, the man in the video says, as another employee can be heard asking Poolard to calm down, we replace them for free.
• 20:09
  Don Armstrong: Lawsuit follows.
• 20:12
  Don Armstrong: Honda's two Japanese assembly plants remain shut through mid-August as the automaker struggles to secure parts from a damaged supplier, even as rivals Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi came back for a short time this week because of the earthquake.
• 20:26
  Don Armstrong: It's a big mess over here.
• 20:28
  Don Armstrong: It is messed.
• 20:29
  Don Armstrong: Goodyear opening its first retail concept store in Detroit, the Goodyear Motor City Garage, where the company will showcase its products, technology, and heritage while offering a vision for the future of vehicle care.
• 20:43
  Don Armstrong: Meanwhile, the company lost money last year and is ridding itself of the Uniroyal brand.
• 20:49
  Don Armstrong: The store will open to the public during the Woodward Dream Cruise that Jeff just told you about next weekend in Detroit.
• 20:57
  Don Armstrong: The store, Goodyear said, is inspired by concepts such as a Starbucks reserve roastery or a Nike house of innovation.
• 21:06
  Jeff Dziekan: That'll sell tires.
• 21:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
• 21:10
  Don Armstrong: Goodyear said the shop will feature a custom Detroit-themed Goodyear Eagle racing tire as a tribute to a city that helped shape American car culture.
• 21:18
  Jeff Dziekan: So you go to Starbucks and your barista's got a rubber outfit on or something.
• 21:23
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, like the Michelin guy.
• 21:26
  Don Armstrong: Uh Robert Plant's operations manager at New York Repo has been extra busy lately.
• 21:33
  Don Armstrong: At his agency, repossessions increased 20% from May of last year to May of this year.
• 21:39
  Don Armstrong: He says we've seen a big spike since the whole Iran situation with gas prices going up.
• 21:44
  Don Armstrong: The average consumer is really struggling.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: Repossessions are the third rail of the auto industry.
• 21:50
  Don Armstrong: They're expensive, complicated, and sometimes traumatic.
• 21:53
  Don Armstrong: They require a significant expenditure of time and energy from lenders, third party forwarding companies, and repossession agents.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: As myriad factors keep vehicle prices eye-wateringly high.
• 22:04
  Don Armstrong: I love whoever wrote this.
• 22:06
  Don Armstrong: Repossessions are booming and they're becoming more common.
• 22:09
  Don Armstrong: High costs to the consumer are finishing their booming, boomerang, kicking up additional costs and complexity for the industry.
• 22:19
  Don Armstrong: It's bad.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: And there's a lot of repos going on right now.
• 22:23
  Don Armstrong: And you could probably pick one up for cheap.
• 22:25
  Don Armstrong: Of course, you don't know what you're going to get.
• 22:29
  Don Armstrong: Let's see.
• 22:30
  Don Armstrong: Let me let me just bypass.
• 22:33
  Jeff Dziekan: I have many shelves while you old Bob Seeger turns the page over here.
• 22:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Bob Seeger.
• 22:39
  Don Armstrong: That's great.
• 22:40
  Don Armstrong: New car buyers favor basic driver assistance and safety features over pricey semi-autonomous systems as affordability concerns reshape consumer preferences.
• 22:50
  Don Armstrong: A new surve survey shows.
• 22:52
  Don Armstrong: Parking sensors, blind spot cameras, and adaptive cruise control, topped auto-pacific survey of most wanted features by consumers planning to buy a vehicle in the next three years.
• 23:03
  Don Armstrong: Those features have an estimated price of four hundred dollars or less each.
• 23:07
  Don Armstrong: And more than forty percent of consumers named them among their top 15 options, along with heated seats and dash cameras.
• 23:15
  Don Armstrong: The estimated prices were included in the survey questions.
• 23:18
  Don Armstrong: 26 uh future attribute demand study included over 19,000 future car buyers, and the 2025 survey had over 18,000 specific set.
• 23:31
  Don Armstrong: Um let's see.
• 23:33
  Mike Marrs: What do people not want today?
• 23:35
  Don Armstrong: They don't want that uh autonomous stuff.
• 23:38
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 23:38
  Don Armstrong: Lane keeping assist, turn it off.
• 23:42
  Jeff Dziekan: Turn mine off.
• 23:43
  Don Armstrong: It drives me insane.
• 23:45
  Don Armstrong: I don't want to fight the car as to where I want to place the car that I'm driving in the lane that I'm driving in.
• 23:51
  Jeff Dziekan: And if you don't know what it is and you've got to turn it on, it's it's scary.
• 23:55
  Jeff Dziekan: It'll scare the you know what audio.
• 23:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Your first time using it, yeah.
• 23:59
  Jeff Dziekan: The donkey audio?
• 24:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Scare the donkey audio.
• 24:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Donkey do.
• 24:04
  Don Armstrong: Like other teenagers, Peter McKay is an avid social media user.
• 24:08
  Don Armstrong: Unlike his peers, however, he's making a name for himself online.
• 24:11
  Don Armstrong: As an emerging automotive content creator, Peter visits dealerships near his home in New Jersey and films, videos, interacting with sales employees, walking around vehicles, and recommending the best first car for a 16-year-old.
• 24:25
  Don Armstrong: He wants a F-150 or a GMC Sierra.
• 24:28
  Don Armstrong: Peter can't yet drive, but he can sell.
• 24:30
  Don Armstrong: He's already passionate about cars.
• 24:32
  Don Armstrong: So much so he said that his ultimate goal is to one day own a dealership.
• 24:36
  Don Armstrong: Peter has gained more than 1,400 followers on his Instagram account since he posted his first video in February of 24.
• 24:44
  Don Armstrong: He mainly works with dealerships in the tri-state area near his hometown, uh Manasquan, New Jersey.
• 24:51
  Jeff Dziekan: The kid's got Hutzpah.
• 24:52
  Jeff Dziekan: He's got some things going on.
• 24:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Why and he wants an F-150.
• 24:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Why doesn't he shoot a little higher?
• 24:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Maybe find a higher-end dealership in his city.
• 25:00
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know if they got Ferrari or Porsche, and do it there so that they get to know each other.
• 25:05
  Don Armstrong: I think that his work is being requested by dealerships all across the area.
• 25:10
  Don Armstrong: Now it's a matter of getting out of school.
• 25:12
  Don Armstrong: Of course, he's been out of school for the summer, but he's got to go back.
• 25:15
  Don Armstrong: Peter has his sights of learning uh more about fixed operations and is working toward an internship next summer to shadow a dealer.
• 25:22
  Don Armstrong: Long term, he wants to attend Northwood University in Midland, Michigan to study automotive marketing and management, and he wants his own dealership.
• 25:31
  Don Armstrong: Auto dealers receiving letters demanding tens of thousands of dollars over violations of a nearly 60-year-old California wiretapping law.
• 25:39
  Don Armstrong: Legal experts estimate thousands of pre-litigation demand letters have been sent to companies, including dealerships, contending their websites are allowing third parties to intercept user information collected on the website.
• 25:52
  Don Armstrong: Some have escalated into lawsuits.
• 25:54
  Don Armstrong: Violations start at$5,000 each, and costs can pile up to six figures or more.
• 25:59
  Don Armstrong: Though many dealers are in California, auto retailers nationwide are receiving these demand letters.
• 26:04
  Don Armstrong: The California Invasion of Privacy Act was enacted in 67 to prevent unauthorized wiretapping and eavesdropping over the telephone.
• 26:11
  Don Armstrong: Now, plaintiffs are arguing it should be applied to the collection of user data on websites, and they're selling that data and making dough.
• 26:21
  Don Armstrong: The N-Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 26:22
  Don Armstrong: We're going to wrap things up right after this quick break.
• 26:25
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• 27:53
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• 27:59
  Don Armstrong: Well, that's all for this week's In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 28:02
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• 28:08
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• 28:14
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• 28:19
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• 28:24
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• 28:26
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• 28:33
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• 28:39
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• 28:47
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• 28:52
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• 28:59
  Don Armstrong: Thanks to all of our guests today.
• 29:01
  Don Armstrong: Have a great safe weekend and watch those school zones next week.
• 29:04
  Don Armstrong: You bet.
• 29:05
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• 29:08
  Don Armstrong: See you then.
• 29:22
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 29:26
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