1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Larry Minty on the voice of New York Kate's Minty 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: in the Morning on seventr and now it's time for 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: Ron and Nany and host of The Car Doctor, which 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app and owner of 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: our A Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey. I love this question, Ron, 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: about warming up your vehicle before driving? Do with these 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: newer cars? Maybe it's with the older cars too. You'll 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: tell me, do you need to warm up before driving? 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 2: Good morning, Larry. Well, it's you know, a brand new 10 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: car right out of the gate. Theoretically, no. All right, 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: but how cold are we talking a day like today? 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: It's pretty cold out there today. It was twenty degrees 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 2: in Mahwah today it was almost nineteen at five am 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: when I went to the gym. That's pretty cold. Yeah, 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: And there's a benefit to it. There's a benefit in 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: my opinion. I'm gonna warm up the car guy, because 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: I want heat, want heat. Within the first minute of driving, 18 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: I'm just more comfortable. And then the other issue becomes 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: if you don't warm up the car and there's frost 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: on the glass and you're going to work in the dark, 21 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 2: how do you defrost the windshield and now it's a hazard. 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 2: Now you're on the road, cars coming at you in 23 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: the dark early morning glare from the headlights, you can't see. 24 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 2: Is there a visibility and a drive ability problem? 25 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. I've seen people that have 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: some frost on their window driving and I just go 27 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: get out of their way. I try to avoid those 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: people because it is it is dangerous. 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: Right or or you know, so, okay, let's all use 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: de icer. De Icer is an aerosol spray. Is that 31 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: bad for the ozone? So we're trying to keep the 32 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: you know, trying to protect the environment by not warming 33 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: up the car, but we're gonna use more ozone devices 34 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: to damage and in the process make it so we 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: can see out the glass on the car we didn't 36 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 2: warm up that we're still cold in. Now that's on 37 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: newer cars. Let's talk about an older car, Larry. Let's 38 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: let's define this something more than five years old. You 39 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: get in your five year older, older vehicle, and you 40 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: get five blocks from the house and you find out 41 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: that in the sub zero temperature last night, a heater 42 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 2: hose snapped, or a plastic fitting cracked, or something didn't 43 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: withstand the cold well, and now you're leaking coolant, and 44 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 2: now the cars overheating, and you're five blocks or further 45 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: from the house. When do you want to find out 46 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: that the car is broken? 47 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: I get it so with the newer cars, but it's 48 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: it's the only thing that's necessary. It's not going to 49 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: hurt the engine. You said, for the most part with 50 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: the newer cars. 51 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 2: The most part, right, for the most part. But I 52 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: always go back to the analogy. Hey, Larry, how well 53 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: do you work jumping out of bed at three o'clock 54 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: in the morning in the cold. Don't you kind of 55 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: need to warm up? You know? Cars, cars are kind 56 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: of the same way, brother, They just are they just 57 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: they just You know, when you find someone that can 58 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: bounce out of bed at three am with no coffee, 59 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: their car probably doesn't need to be warmed up either. 60 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: But until then, I say we all warm them up. 61 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,399 Speaker 2: Give it, give it a chance for the oil to circulate. 62 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 3: You know, Ron, you made me think, I said, when 63 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 3: you were talking earlier about out to de icing your car. 64 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 3: I was seeing all these videos over the weekend, and 65 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 3: I do not know if this is true. People who 66 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: take hot water and throw it on their you know, 67 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: windshield to get the ice off, and then the windshield 68 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 3: cracks or literally shatters. 69 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: Would that happen absolutely? Oh sure, yeah, listen, I can. 70 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: I can attest to that. I sort of had something 71 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: similar happen, not automotive related, but I can tell you 72 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 2: the hot cold theory. I made Yorks Well, I made 73 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: the Yorkshire put in one year for Christmas, and I 74 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 2: followed the recipe and I took the Pyrex dish which 75 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: I had in the cold refrigerator, and I put it 76 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: in the hot oven. Right boy, I'll tell you what. 77 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: You got to see the fire that created, and it's 78 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: the same My wife got an oven for Christmas. When 79 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 2: the fire department showed up to put it out, that 80 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: was a whole another sh wow. Yes, it's it's it's 81 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: but you know, and then and then what happens. You 82 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: put that warm water all over the frozen windshield and 83 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: if it's still cold out, where's the water go? It 84 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: goes down into the car, into the hinges, into the mechanism, 85 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: freezes the wiper linkage. It's you know what, warm the 86 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: car up, give it two three minutes and then take 87 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: it on the road. Now, the one caveat before we 88 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 2: close this out is certain parts in most parts of 89 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 2: the country, in the areas we live, there are idling 90 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: laws and you have to find out what those are. 91 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: They don't want you idling the car longer than three 92 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 2: minutes or four minutes in certain places. So we don't 93 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 2: want to break laws, but we also want to be safe. 94 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: We want to be. 95 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: Comfortable absolutely, And you're right. I mean I warm up 96 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: the car just a little bit, just so it's warm 97 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: inside for me. I'm not even thinking about the engine. 98 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: I just want to be comfortable, that's right. Let's talk 99 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: about giving a car as a gift. 100 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 3: Is I dream? 101 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,679 Speaker 1: Oh my dad gave me a car as a gift 102 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: and I'll always remember it. But you're saying that there's 103 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: some things you have to look at before you buy 104 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: a car for a gift. 105 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 2: Right, how have you bought a new car in the 106 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 2: last five years? Larry? Sure? 107 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: I just did, just did. 108 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: And how long did it take you to do that? 109 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: I mean, what was the process like? Right? Think about that? 110 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 2: Did you just walk in in twenty minutes? And I 111 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: take that one? Wrap it up. Let's go. 112 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: Well, I'm a little different than most because I'll tell 113 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: you why because my wife is a talk show host 114 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and it was one of her sponsors. So yeah, 115 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: I did walk right in. 116 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,239 Speaker 2: But you've got to, you know, do you fit the car? 117 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 2: Listen when people call the radio show. When they call 118 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 2: the show and they asked me, Hey, Ron, I want 119 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: to buy a new car. What should I buy? I 120 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 2: always tell them you got to go drive the car 121 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: in the daytime. You got to go drive the car 122 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: in the nighttime. Cars have a different personality in the 123 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: dark than they do in the light. Can I find 124 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: the buttons? Can I hit the switches? Can I find 125 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: the heat? Do I have good visibility? So you've got 126 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: to be sure the person you're buying that car for 127 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 2: has that visibility, has that control? Has that you know? 128 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 2: Can I find what I want to find? What I suggest? 129 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 2: All right? And I've been through this where I've you know, 130 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 2: helped people buy cars and listen. I gave my daughter 131 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: a jeep one year at a high school and I 132 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: restored it and it was like, where are we going 133 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: to hide the jeep this week? So she doesn't find it? 134 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 2: But she kept coming to the shop thinking what with 135 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: that doing all these hours? 136 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: Right? 137 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 2: What I suggest is I suggest if you want to 138 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 2: buy your partner, your spouse, whatever, a car for Christmas, 139 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 2: making an event. Hey, let's go out to lunch and 140 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 2: then after lunch you have an appointment at the dealership. 141 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: I just want to stop by here, right, and then 142 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: it's a date and then it's a memory, and then 143 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 2: you're sure you're getting the right fifty thousand dollars car. 144 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 2: All right, fun Natalie, if your husband's listening, I hope 145 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: he's I hope he's got this. So shows up by 146 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 2: her doorstep. 147 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 3: I just I want to walk out, like in the commercials. 148 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 3: I want to walk out to my driveway and I 149 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: want to see that Lexis with the big bow on it, 150 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 3: just waiting for me. And I know, is it the 151 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: right fit? And I I'm telling you it's probably better 152 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: than the car that I'm driving. 153 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 2: Well, that's that's always true, and I'll leave it here. Right. 154 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: When when Katie walked out and saw her Jeep with 155 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: the big red bow, I mean she just broke down 156 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: in tears. It was just like joy, just yeah, just 157 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: like nothing. I still tell you the joy she had 158 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 2: for that jeep and she took it everywhere. She was 159 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: very attached to it. So it's a great feeling. It's 160 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 2: just you gotta do it right. 161 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: Okay. My last real quick question, can you get Natalie's 162 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: husband a deal in alexis on it? 163 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 2: I don't know, but I could probably get him to bow. 164 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: You get him to the bow is the hardest part. 165 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: I've got to tell you, it really is. I gave 166 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: my wife Alexius two years ago. I said, can I 167 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: get a bow at Christmas? They said, no, we don't 168 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: have any of those. Okay, I don't take the car anyway. 169 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: Oh, I got a new business, new business to go. 170 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: So Ron and Nadian's going to be back with us 171 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: in two weeks at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Ron, 172 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: Good to talk to you when we come back. My 173 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: final thoughts, a recap of today's show, and the talk 174 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: back of the morning