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The cop show dedicated to helping Christians binds all cars by the book of the book knobby orange book, but by God's book, the Bible called the Christie card with your questions. One 866-34-TRUTH 186-6347 884 as being a Christian have to do with buying a car you're about to find out is your host Ronnie Gilmore straight talk today on the Christian Car Guy show her gone attempt to get it straight on all sorts a level what is it mean when the car's title is branded frame damage especially when the car then you have a frame it's unibody is my friend Rafiki and blanking with a good question that auctions and auto auctions they send cars through under a green light, meaning that the cars clean or they may have a yellow light, meaning there's a caution when you see a red light that means frame damage and auctioneers are quite often pretty funny folks and I'll never forget what time the car was running through under the green light and all the sudden the title guy must've caught that the car was supposed to run in the red light so she had of the auction are a big note and write the middle of this, my mom and he stops, he says well he said by the way this ours had just a little bit of frame damage and if you can see all these people scurrying away from this car like it had triple box on it because to use car dealer unless they deal in those kind of car.

Specifically, if you mention the word frame damage their run and 20,000 miles an hour.

Why is that it may reduce the cars value up to 50%. There's all sorts of issues that are involved so on today were to share what that means but more importantly is understanding my standpoint, the safety involved in knowing how to protect both your family's life and your investment getting it straight on unibody in here to help us out. The day is a man is up to his elbows every day and unibody is our very own interest in body shop guy Jerry with raised body shop Jerry is a big issue will absolutely you know it is a question always say we start talking. This is the be the subject. You know, a question always asking and no one ever really gets us to write what he thinks is that number one safety item on your vehicle and I body always come up with ABS brakes seatbelts and airbags, but is the unitized body or the frame on your vehicle is the most advanced in that most precious safety feature on your automobile right if it doesn't stick together path can be huge issues that we are going to begin and all that, then coming up to the end of the show in our prayers about the real black book. That's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure tryout for the sermon, lift up your voice for understanding, will getting it straight when it comes to frames I would be remiss if I didn't mention our lives benefit from being on God's unibody style frame machine and that happened to me this week.

As you might miss Charlie not this week I wrote a chapter for my upcoming book called the book is called the legend of an appearance, but the chapter I was writing was fight fight fight was about a fight that I had when I was in the sixth grade in the course. That's their Christian Car Guy.com as well as all this information on unibody's all their Christian Car Guy.com but ever wrote this whole story and as I got it done. I sent it up to my mother because she was obviously part of it. She remember the whole thing and I finished the story. I thought Lawson is my mom and see what she thinks she has all this background in writing and I figured she would critique it and it would be wonderful when she gets it she recalls it completely different that I did she not only recalled it. I was in the six grade from my memory.

She recalled that I was in the third grade and she recalled that happened in San Jose, California, and I thought it happened in Naperville, Illinois, were trying to figure this out and she's can actually call in in the last segment is in you can hear what how this actually all worked out, but we that that the conclusion that I had in God's frame machine is we don't even know our own story. We don't even things have been changed in your story did Satan pull out that comment did some else happen. We need something to measure a God sized frame machine in order to even interpret our own story. So this being alive show today. I would love to have folks call in who have come to understand things are not necessarily how you remember them your story of when God got you on the frame machine and got you straight on some things I want to find out that happened anyone else. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 as a number to call in. If you know what I'm talking about. You need to call in and share really 866-34-TRUTH 87884 by all means with any of your questions or comments. We always want to help and we always want to take those calls on frame damage or anything else, but I would dearly love to know that I'm not the only one out there whose memories have been stolen or altered by the enemy or even my own flesh, you call us 866-34-TRUTH 87884 or 866-34-TRUTH the Christian Car Guy show is bringing the kingdom of God through an automotive platform on the show. We love to talk about things like grace, car driving, not speeding. If you're following Jesus. I assure you he would be going the speed limit and I estimate that Americans waste 200 million gallons of gas a week on speeding. We believe in staying out of the bondage of car that and taking care of your car as you see all tractors out element still running in the since the 40s is like we always say if you take your your car the last as long as you do when we would also mention all this to us at our website.

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The website is to ask an expert page and there's also the Jesus labor love free car repair labor, not the parts that labor for single moms widows families in crisis around the country. We have resources we love to help when we can. We don't always necessarily fulfill the needs that come our way, but we are working on it so you go to the Jesus labor love tab there a Christian Car Guy.com as well as all sorts interesting articles Karen Mulder's wisdom of the wounded. We got some great stuff there. So we have some colors already. Jerry that we can get to. We got Gina is in Everett, Washington, and Jean, you're on a Christian Car Guy show the morning. Thank you. I'm wondering about you under $10,000 or small compact SUV to get maybe what to avoid, but which Christ avoid which card might be good with those wonderful questions, but quite often because most cars actually today are really good cars that the big challenge when you go under $10,000 is who took care of the car properly and so when you're looking at those cars, the pedigree, so to speak, who own the car. How do they manage the car, how they take care of the car is all a always a huge deal and I always recommend whatever car you look at that you take it to people are experts in that kind of looking at a Volvo. Why not take it and spend $75 a Volvo dealer to because they'll know exactly what Volvos do.

If you look in his Chevy then Chevy dealer knows what they do but to answer your question, just a little bit further. I will always set that anything Volvo makes. If you're looking for the absolute bulletproof. I want to protect my family car and that their expensive and they're not necessarily the most reliable at the in the every car has its pluses and minuses, but when it comes to pure D safety Mercedes Volvo some of the Highline European imports. If you look at their safety ratings.

They bade do a lot of engineering to keep your family safe and that the backside of that is is a call stone repairs and native son of a samurai area and so what would your experience, what would you say is a good sign at that think the key to it was you know that the history of that vehicle because overlooking that now with with in the automotive industry because taking care of in-service properly in a going guilt is not an easy 300,000 miles out of the vehicle and not have any major problems.

It you're doing the maintenance so you know you look at the it could be a Honda or a Honda a a Chevy or Ford or Dodge it doesn't really matter, just get something this note.

Look at all the issues in or you may be able to save a little thank you. Get a good deal, but if there's you know the pin on your financial situation you hate getting in the vehicle that I know that there's these paybacks as far as repairs go, that they can be in a large and anyone of sort of factor that in. Also, when you're looking at getting a used vehicle but since I got here.

I hear a Nazi Jerry G Morgan hit them with his earning six very particular car that he went wild.

That one has some structural issues, and I would not want my daughter in that particular and in unit were free to say whatever we want, but you see it and you would see the structure issues. What was your car like that that you know about well unfortunately you know when you get to the pre-2000. Your model basically some of the key is hollandaise. They had issues. Now they have came man miles made in a now they're comparable with anything on the road so you know if you still getting anything three 2000 2001 2000 to be an endocrine imports right hemisphere stuff and Jean as a great question. Thank you for calling and we love the year. Call 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Especially if God had you on the framers. I need some help like you want to be the only one talking. Dolly are talking straight talk today on the Christian organization or what is it with the rain with unibody. How does all that stuff work. How does it work if you're on God's unibody machine because with frames today. It's not so two-dimensional anymore. You can go up you can go down you can go sideways because every part of the car is part of the frame and it's all structurally connected and so when your car is impacted in any way shape or form. It affects a number of other parts like it use only times you see it is only got hit in the right front fender and for some reason the left rear door doesn't close right anymore. Roger now you got that you know is that direct impact damage that that's easy to see an end to analyze then you get that indirect damage which can be no travel through that body that vehicle to the other into the car disorder that they do. I always like to explain it is in a sitting go you know you get an impacted how in the world that transfers there's a couple recent does that is number one is safety because it takes that energy from an impact can just universe it throughout the body of the car which makes it safer for the driver's compartment of the vehicle but now as far as the repair makes it more. It makes a little more difficult to get have more training you got have equipment to do it. You can have the ability did to measure it, and technicians that are trying to look for. That is sort of unity you have is at work and always the way I explained it is is like being out there.

Growing up, and you are standing on the bank of a pond in the picked up a rock and threw it out there and you see that ripple effect that goes throughout the pond. It's the same thing with the unitized body just transfers that impact in that energy throughout it right and one of the things that we wanted to hopefully help folks with today was understanding a little bit about that, not from the standpoint that we expect anybody to go fix there unibody, but to understand the importance of knowing ahead of time how to pick a body shop that there's a lot of technology involved in this and there's a lot of expertise and by having this knowledge ahead of time and again we have a ask an expert page.

We have the list of the Jesus labor lead providers to try to help people find good reputable Christian people in the business but having that knowledge ahead of time because what can happen. Jerry that Juergen haven't asked in your chip your child being college or to have an accident. The policeman's essay where I told this car and the next thing you know you you're in someplace that you have no idea where you get involved dad and you know what you have to to make sure you know those decisions are so much under pressure. When you do that when the police officers there and ask and then then they need to get the vehicle moved what wrecker you want where you want to tell it to you know I always will say have at step planned out, have a card in the glove box have something so every driver of that vehicle. Nowhere to go.

You know it is not wrong to go by body shop in your local area and just ask him what kind of equipment they have and you come back shop and and and everyone does the same thing and give you little brochure that sort of explains the repair process things to do in case of an accident, you know, just to soar get you up to speed. Because if you repair a vehicle incorrectly you going at the live with that thing into you get rid of it in somebody's and live with it you as long as the vehicles on the road if is not repaired correctly and there's all sorts of issues that come with this alignment working to get into a little bit later in the Charlotte talk about things.

Specifically, you notice this symptom.

This symptom may well be caused by an issue with whether or not the vehicle was damaged at the frame unibody itself, which comes the frame is in fact damage and weird and talk about those title issues and things like that.

But right now we got Vicki in High Point or Carolina.

She's got a Murano with electrical problem. We hope we can help figure on a Christian card I show the morning you wonderful LOL it I delighted to Transmit impressions about canal duty into softball kind on. I don't know if there's electrical problem are there to disconnect or supply.

Is there any man. Now that's an interesting situation. Sounds like immediately that the switch itself is is is probably what's wrong, but there is good news, Vicki, and that there now days there so many components they can check by simply plugging into the computer system and determine them. Is there some kind of error code within your air conditioning system that they make a diagnosed that with and it may be a really easy and expensive fix, but you need somebody who can plug into a 2007 Murano in order to determine what's going on can so much that stuff is operated by computer these days.

You know, and you know even know you can even go on the line and pull it up and just just type in Google the problem you're having you be amazingly tempting find an answer by doing that we had a guide to works for me that has a Toyota Highlander who was having a problem. Same thing switch was, not operate it wouldn't you go from defrost to the floor and everything else googled it and it's got a little circuit in there that the solder come south and it's a real common problem to replace that circuit is 800 some dollars and in locally. Gordon radiator which is a radiator shop and does air-conditioning work in the Winston area was able to pull that circuit out re-solder it put it in or confined cost of $50 and has a ask of things in and that's a great piece of advice it quite often.

You can Google interested Google for the problem and you'll find a common repair and sometimes Nissan may even have a bulletin or be willing to repair those kind of things free but also I would say there might be some relisting the show today Vicki that knows and had this exact problem we that's in the call in and help you.

866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH if you digitally gifted Vicki God bless you. Appreciate Colin in the day.

Thank you because we always love to help. Whatever question you may have you call us 866-34-TRUTH 87884 but the call I'm waiting for the pager as I need off the hotseat here, so I'm not the only person out there that has selective memory.

I'm guessing that when I went back after I wrote that story in the you know about fight fight fight. I started looking back through my journals as I've kept a journal got it asked me to do this.

About 20 years ago at The general for a long long long long time and when I started looking at what I'd written. I realized my memory was corrupted that there were things there. I don't remember happen and there's other things is not to remember way I remember it what's going on with that. How is God had you on that frame machine is pulled on you. 866-34-TRUTH 87884.

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He's gonna nail and select on the line and they view the loop and there in an all in dry. That song was from the 1950s British if he'd been in a unibody car Jerry he may not of had the song to sing because the wheat is not seen near the fatalities.

Chances are they were wearing their seatbelts back then chances are they didn't have unibody effect. I'm sure they didn't have unibody, but there's some that that there's a line in the beginning of that song. It also indicates that our friend was, not on God's frame straightening machine to hear what he said she's gone to heaven. So I got to be good so I can see my baby when I leave this world. Robbie, that is. So I'm uninterrupted because I love SL for one thing I love the remake later owned but my wife Ali Meyer always got on baby.

She was the how does he think going to be in goods and get them and have Vanessa problem with that side of you that is. There's a little alignment. Probably it's close is close to defeat actually accepted Christ to be a saver he's gonna want to be good but it got a problem. None of us are good enough to get there and so we need Jesus in order for that even happen. So I had to put that song up there but I had to throw a little alignment on it if you could get it that they were talking straight talk a lot about these unibody's. How do we get them straight. What is it mean when you see a titles marked frame damage or in some he talks about the cars that frame damage and the cars got no frame so you're thinking what in the world. Well, I did want to talk about that also want to talk about a few symptoms, but we also are looking for that phone call with some economy running that hopefully will get Robbie off the hook. That is, it where God had you on the frame machine 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634 truth, but when you see a title like that. Now days really what they're saying is that the vehicles had over 20% damage in any time a vehicle's had that kind of damage the frame because it's all of the body as part of the frame is in fact damaged.

You know the thing is with the unitized bodies. It can be just that. Just as the top) are in front of the wheels in Aeschylus so important to do all the investigate and make sure this done properly, because Lotta stuff that's considered labeled frame damage really isn't anything to be concerned about because is no more than what used to be an inner fender you know so that has had a suggestion.

Yeah and and that's just the advantage of knowing somebody who knows what they're doing when it comes to these kind of issues that beginners Carfax is now. That will give you great details on what was involved in the accident you are doing that kind of research to see what was wrong with the car and it may result in a great bargain and we had a call or the beginning the show ask how do I find a good inexpensive SUV and I wrote an article, called five basics to finding a good cheap used car which outline several different ways about that process is to go about doing that. It's a Christian Car Guy.com as well as so many of these resources are Christian Car Guy.com of how do we navigate through these difficult waters of frame damage.

How do we net then navigate through the waters of the symptoms of that in one of the things that we wanted to talk about today in today show that is a common problem is you'll take your car for front end alignment and you never got an accident you have a car since it was new, and all of a sudden the guy announces to you that your car the frames out of alignment and or it's got frame damage and your shipment gonna wait a minute.

I don't even have a frame under the scar. What is that mean I reviewed it and so how often you see that Jerry was really gonna you know you you would be amazed how many times people come down to say you know why when at McCall lined up.

Get your target alarm of the tell me my frames. I don't remember ever being in an accident and the reason I needed this. I do remember I may have hit a curb or something like that probably. And I'm not gonna say 90% of the time but is over 80% the time people come in and have gone porn alignment on the vehicle and are told that they have frame damage is a component in the steering needed that the upper control arm describe the Taira. Something got bent because that component is made to be in before the unitized body or the frame of the vehicle was made to be and so you know most of the time is cow send him back and say get them to always go somewhere else and they have a technician that is able to to look at the suspension parts and and most of the time.

That's where the problem allow you know it's crazy, in my opinion units take somebody's money when I know what the answers in a bag, put it on a frame machine but that's a costly endeavor, but having to pay a technician to put it up there you having to hook it up. You get all the measurements out and we have to get a weed download the factory specs on the vehicle to start getting comparisons and then when I start doing that they're going to come out correct and that tells you that is sung to be a suspension. The boat on part this damaged so if you go back and and and look at your car. You don't remember being any kind of a major impact is just that normal bumping into a curb or pothole or something like that is usually going to be a component suspension opponent which is is quite often we have Anna's in Raleigh, North Carolina. She's got a airbag issue for senior on a Christian Car Guy show good morning what you got for us what all here so my lie like last often come morning and early year I got a notification from tell Yoda dating Dexter car will going to need airbag replaced due to mechanical defect, and I call the local got a place to make it would dare let you know when you can come so recently I heard on the new of the issue here and take years of Elkhart that needed to my car and not fall in doubt, but I noticed my light flashing periodic plan that there's no doubt that the that that's a delighted sound. There's a caution yet, but in order to be safe for you and your family.

You need to make an appointment with because they can plug into your systems, your computer, and immediately know what the fault code is that because the light the flash even though it's in the cars history anything about these computers is a store history right Jerry and they would be able to determine what may in fact be going on because you do not want that system to fail at the moment of truth Francia even your seatbelts are designed those airbags to deploy little to the I was sorely take him because one thing a lot of that stuff is as long as you own the vehicle is designed to want to know.

Gonna want to clear that up because they don't want the liability of it hopefully hit you just go to the dealer going to run those codes you can be even to the point of you has the sensors on the front of it. A lot of time with time, they may get where they're kind of unplugged a little better get some corrosion up in their and adjusting to be cleaned out but the main thing is you want to make sure that works properly when you needed to work properly. Okay, how is a call and I also want to if I don't see a lot of that stuff is 120 because they don't want to an airbag not to deploy that brings out government inspectors and all sorts of stuff. So believe me there very sensitive, especially Toyota and right now and right now, since there is in all of this is came out about the airbag issues.

There have been where there was data and research that was sort of, but on the back burner and and not taking care of properly, so there's sort of on their alert to make sure they take care of problems at this moment.

But there's another point that I'm glad you made and and and and it's worth taking the time is that when you go in there.

Make sure you have an agreement with the service advisor look I'm not in a pay for anything in my eye yeah yeah you say I'm just looking for you to tell me if I have any of this. It's under warranty.

Be sure and notify me if you can have some charges coming my way because I my expectation is that I'm not paying for this and and make sure you get a clear expectation with them up front because you know we hate for you to come back and say what I thought of them being toward the amount of $300 bill and I seen that many many times I bless you and thank you for the callers are great questions. Thank you Rh we are didn't straightened out straight talk going on the day on the Christian Car Guy show we'd love to hear from you. 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Especially I need somebody to get me off the hot seat. I know your memory now. Maybe it's just me I'm get all this truth, and maybe it's just my memory is just not what God had me on the frame machine. I'd love to know how he got you on the frame machine 866-34-TRUTH 87884. It's a cool picture for me.

Jerry to see these new tiles because God can pull you up, he can pull you down the completed side because it may not be just your memory. It may be some other descendents of all he's got all these different angles just like your frame machine and he's got he's got standards and specs. He's gotta upload them got their bill and if you've got we got dad's and Winston-Salem's got a 2003, and what we lost him where always there got Wayne in working to be coming back with her praised by the real black book. We can all sorts of stuff coming up so stay tuned, because with your frame experience 866-34-TRUTH 7884. Do you want to know what it is, the matrixes if it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window when you turn on your television. You can feel it work when you go to church when you pay your tax. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from truth that you are a sleeve like everyone else you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste, touch prison for you.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrixes you have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance after this there is no turning. Take the blue pill historian wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to read to stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit remember all I'm offering is the truth thing. All were offering today on the Christian Car Guy shows such as it's a movie true, but it tells of a phenomenal truth.

Hollywood managed describe the phenomenal truth of we were born into bondage and there is an experiential truth that you can only see through the gospel.

Once you've come to Christ and realize that there's this standard and even your own memory that I felt like I was in the matrixes week because I start out the segment were talking straight talk all day today on the Christian Car Guy show and I'd written this article was actually a chapter in my my new upcoming book and it was on a fight that I've had when I was in the six grade and I said to my mother and when I did she recall that I was in the third grade.

She recalled that it was in San Jose California when I was in Naperville, Illinois, and the next thing I knew I was in the matrix I was like what the world is going on so I asked my mom to call in today and we got on the line.

She is in Illinois.

By the way, that was be in Rushville, Illinois. Mom you're in the morning so I had this fight with Billy Kilmer in the six grade which by the way, that article if you want to read.

It's called fight/flight and I had a real purpose to writing it. It's a Christian Car Guy.com you can read that article, but when I send it to your mom, you didn't remember the way I did like my blind spot a lot but they did. I brought her and San Jose and I also remember that an important grade and then read on next step in my head, probably because I have two boys and I thought what he likes any many he was all right. It was very confusing and now you're in the matrix and in what started was I went back to my journals. Mom yet and I was looking specifically at high-impact things in my life when I was diagnosed with cancer. When I got crushed between the car and as I was reading what I wrote 20 years ago 15 years ago. All the sudden details like I don't remember that.

That way I don't remember. You know I actually when I found out I had cancer. I remember that my mom and sister. It was the weekend before Easter and as it turned out it was the Monday after Easter. But the one that stuck out to me that I clearly know that Satan just snatched out of my mind like the matrix was that I was in a wheelchair after my accident in the car and I had an opportunity to go to Disney World, which by the way, if you're ever in a wheelchair going to Disney World is a great plan because you get in from all the lines anyway. I was in a wheelchair and I was sitting in the middle of Disney World and I had completely forgotten his memory.

In fact, I have no memory of it whatsoever. But it's written clearly in the journal that I heard the scream of this little girl balloon silver one of the silver blends was going up over the Main Street USA and it was her Mickey Mouse bullet and about the time I got over the roof tops. According to the my entry in the journal. The wind blew the balloon down to the ground and these boys that were several hundred yards away got the balloon and somehow discovered that it did belong to this little girl when it was no way that a it would be possible if you've ever seen that the balloon how fast it would go up that would ever be blown back down and I commented in my journal how God is obviously one of that little girl to have her balloon back and he wanted me to see that. But Satan had completely snatched it out of my memory. Now I know I say Elvis because when you're on God's frame machine quite often you find that you really angry with somebody and you may not even know what really happened. We think we know what our memory said but it may not be the way it happened. You certainly don't know what their motives were, because it is.

Paul points out in Ephesians 6, our battle is not against flesh and blood, but spiritual forces in high places, and I'm telling you it's a matrix you don't even know your own story. We gotta have God's frame machine in order to pull us and having a journal. Jerry Goddard told me. Like I said 20 years ago to have this I could look go while here's what I wrote at the time. That's a pretty good straight rule to go by, but God's got even straighter rule. It's called his work while so I'm thinking mom and it's it's amazing to me that I don't even know my own story well for my 65th birthday. I children and my mother wrote my story, your interpretation on it and I don't know if you remember or not but the memories were so different from each other and from mine and it was like this are what really happened because I hadn't been as smart as my son to keep a journal and end, and there is clear that were being manipulated either by our own wants or by what Satan is told or pulled out because are some precious memories in their that are gone so thank you mom I appreciate you participating in our frame straightening today okay to set X we got some folks evening and on forever. We got Dacia in Durham.

She's got a flood car we giving a talk to her days a year on the Christian Car Guy.

Should I get your name right at all sure about Mark flood car world. It can be repaired major repair the way that one is really scary because water can do a tremendous amount of damage to one of the most critical parts of a car. This can last a long time, which is the wiring harness and you don't know where it's going to show up at some point in time, like the lady was talking about light start flashing things start happening.

So the wiring is, especially if it was saltwater you know if you find out it was a flood in Florida will reflect you know in a hurricane or some like that all mine. I mean it. It causes all sorts of situations I would rarely if ever tell anybody a flood car might be a good investment. What you think your yeah you want to stay, stay away from the flood damage.

I mean, what happens in the now with electrical computer opponents at computers in a vehicle. I mean, it can just it just cost you unbelievably in the future.

Yeah. Pretty scary stuff. Great call the data thank you for calling us. God bless you and thank you you have a great weekend. All right.

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