Engineering Entanglements

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Now the orange book, but by God's book, the Bible called the Christie car guy with your questions. 186-6342 that's one 866-34-TRUTH 7884 is being a Christian have to do with buying a car you're about to find out is your host Robbie Gilmore exasperating engineering in entanglement are your seatbelts to cutthroat for you is your fuel filler or your fuel pump doing all the people all the time about your VW diesel.

It won't quit. I do have to tell the story back about about 1979 Volkswagen. It just come out with a diesel rabbit and the engineers.

Somehow the engineers have failed to realize that you don't shut off the diesel by shutting off the fuel see there were no spark plug so they could shut off the ignition so they thought. What will shut off the fuel and that will shut off the car that works good a lot but then I forgot the diesels run on their own motor oil. If you shut off the pupil. So occasionally, one of these rabbits would take off, so to speak, because the person shut the car off but yet it would start to slope her and it would turn in the home and it would be racing racing racing and it would take off until used a volatile minute would self-destruct, not unlike the music that you hear but anyway naturally Volkswagen sent out all these technical service bulletins and what you want to do in this situation happen.

One of my got the biggest kick out of was that you're supposed to take if you got the manual transmission diesel rabbit you're supposed to park your car up against the wall and slowly let off the clutch in hopes that you install the car course, if the wall gave way or your bumper did it with a verbose work didn't work out too good for you but another one was you just open up the hood, take off the air cleaner and throw out brag in the throttle pocket which also would not play havoc with the engine and the rags speak but anyway what is your exasperating engineering in entanglement here to help us out this morning we have our Christian Toyota guy Dan Santa really go with this very only as it shares me. I think you got one of these engineering dented only by the way we want to hear your story this morning. If you had an engineering entanglement and exasperating one, especially you call us at 866-348-7884 with your exasperating engineering entanglement, 866-348-7884 Dan, I think I know what's, but go ahead. The Chevy Vega Vega paint a picture for Stan I'm back in Ohio back in my younger years and it's snowing snowing there must be a foot of snow on the ground and I'm just leaving work and the car is overheating.

I get out I thought the hood, not Vega. I see no antifreeze in the overflow.

The hoses are cold and I thought no reason in the radiator. I take off the top I'm looking down and there I ICD-9 only looked down in I see Nelly and freeze all at once. The car burps and after that I was showered with the in needless to say was it was cold.

Everything froze on classes you're wearing glasses at the time and now you're but they didn't if they froze with antifreeze so so there you are. It's snowing here in Ohio. Your cars over how to get back at you know what after that the car smoothed out. It was running smooth. I put the Work and nowhere will address you all right, what's your exasperating engineering entanglement. We want to hear from you today, 866-348-7884.

Now I gotta take another one of my favorite stories were just getting out early this morning that you know when they came out with these Lincolns they had this power would close. If you put part of the way down, but then it would finish closing itself you know when we had one of those on the used car lot about 1990. This number years. One of the young salesman thought man. Let me demonstrate this to this customer and there is really sweet. Well, she seems week before the incident.

Little old lady that he was demonstrating as part and and I know this may not sound all that funny to you, but he decided rather than using his own fingers to demonstrate the Lincoln deck lid that would prose you little old ladies. As you might imagine, it didn't function exactly right that particular time, and so here we got this little lady she's screaming, but finally the Lincoln like overhand you not believe this but she didn't buy the car, but she did every fortunately did not sue us. So you know those those of the kind of engineering entanglements that you may have experienced that we want to hear from you. 866-34-TRUTH 87884T tops her son Ruth Gottschall went about underinflated Ford Explorer tires do they have universal did the mechanic give you a lame excuse why your car went into the limping mode or how about oil sludge, causing you to use crude language, steering problems, got you on the rack demon possessed – lights have you dispirited about this cruise control has you fretting a mile a minute. False alarms blaring in the middle of the night.

Have you insecure do you need to vent about your air suspension systems.

How about your missions or your AGR valve have that got you exhausted or as it is the case with Dan overheating may have you hot under the collar you call is 866-348-7884 we have lines open.

We would love to get you want to hear your exhausting, exasperating engineering entanglements and then at the bottom. Now we have Kate Pierce with Lincoln. She is there marketing manager and they really do have a giant announcement work and want to hear that and in our prayers about the real black book coming up in the show.

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Lift up your voice for understanding, was the factory guys always would tell us Dan.

We engineered these problems in and we can engineer them out.

In other words, there are many problems they require going to be a regular old original manufacturer to solve the is a case of the Christian life. I was reading this book called revolution this week and it talked a lot about the church in acts chapter 2 and he gave me an interesting view. It talked about it Pentecost that 3000 were added to their number.

That's pretty exciting, but that meant they were now 3131 unemployed mostly homeless church members with no place to stay, no place to meet.

Another was the big beautiful church around the corner that seated 3131 there in Jerusalem and adding to the problem. They were mostly ill or illiterate, probably at least 80% of them couldn't read so if they had a Bible they would have been able to read it.

So how did they change the world. That's the question I get to share the answer that coming up to the end the show in our appraisal by the real black book. Now I should save it all. This information is at our website Christian card. I.com.

If you're having a experiencing any of these defects were talking about today. There is great resources on how you get technical service bulletins whether not your car is famous for this kind of defect all that stuff there@christiancardguide.com.

We've got Kim has got a Vega story forced Kim. You're on the Christian card – in the morning on drank more.

All the way. We got back last what was wrong with Bob there you go to the Bobcat.

I know I knew it was wrong with it and so does the unit had those famous sleeves that Vega's were famous. You know that was the deal.

The aluminum block engine. What a great idea. It sounded like on engineering paper. Thank you for calling with your story. Kim, I again all these defects.

Maybe you've been affected by all sludge or some other issue similar to what Kim talked about you go to Christian card.com and there I provided links for waste.

Guess what year your expensing. Some engineering issue with your car you want and Dolly do all four explorers have the do all Chevy Malibu's have this.

Guess what, you can click on that link and it will show you from the department estimation everybody this ever reported an issue with that. So that's all there Christian card. I.com but we need to hear your exasperating engineering entanglement you call us at 866-348-7884. You know that I want to see you might have the courage because we want to share your story 866-34-TRUTH a lot more. You're all broke down because of exasperating engineering in tangled are your seatbelts to cutthroat for anybody remember those seatbelts. It and the 90 model Honda Civic when you shut the door. They slid back on you at your write up of throat maybe had one of those you call is 866-348-7884 or maybe you had some of those original hurst hatches, and you found out what water leak meant or the famous you know I so we sold a lot of Chrysler minivan stand and if the speed sensors went bad in the cars. Unbeknownst to the people they went in the something awful called limping mode so the customers would call me thinking or transmission went out because the car would not shift on a second gear and I can't tell you how many of these calls I got because they be driving in this habit it's Raven like 4000 RPM. It won't go into third gear and I don't understand what's wrong and I have to explain well during limping mode. Now there Christian card. We have a beautiful picture by way of limping mode. If you go to Christian card.com you might only see those pictures you'll find out about the Jesus labor love free car repair for single moms and widows across the country you guys offer that there are admonitory or redo. We do, and as well as all these defect resources for one year art faced with one of these exasperating engineering entanglements. Now it's time I had to type for my favorite story car business story of all time. I never told the sum here because it's it's just a little car business racy but that's okay were going go for it back again. Interestingly, this happened at Eagle Pontiac. We had this used car manager.

His name was Phil Marland and Phil Marlin was prematurely balding head that extrawide part down the middle of it that he was a real jokester and whenever a new salesman would start when they would go down to get an appraisal used car manager would traditionally have in a ride with them on this appraisal for the salesman would be set in the pastor side and the manager of the sales managers doing appraisal would be sitting on the driver side will Tim Young on had just started selling cars and feels normal practice was to reach across the console and rub the leg of the new salesman and mention that there was a gay guy that worked. And this usually of course got the attention of the new salesman. They would come up the hill from used car department all excited about the used car manager, you know. Think of it, but this did not excite Tim Young. He was furious so he immediately did not like Phil Marlin, which sets up the story actually so you picture this Tim Young Honig hates our used car manager because of his practical joke admits or whatever he was so about three weeks later.

As luck would have it, Tim gets a used car customer and he goes down there to sell this use, and they get in. I go on a test drive and they go in.

This was in Raleigh, North Carolina, and they go about six slides down on capital Boulevard when the main streets of Raleigh in about six lights down a few line apparently had gone awry and the car sitting at the stoplight burst into flames. Of course, the customer, Tim Young Hong were able to get out safely and call the fire department. So here's this car is is burning it's in ashes right in the record comes and picks up the car loads it on the used flatbed. Think of the Tarboro flat considered the if you can picture this black car smoke steam still coming off of it because the water from the fire department and it's on the back of his record coming in used car department with the used car manager jokester Phil Marlin. He standing there. He sees the scene right the customer is sitting in the pastor's you know, sitting there in the wrecker, they start to get out of the record, the car still smoldering on the back of record, Phil Marlin is that puts his arm around the customer turns around and looks back at the conferences what you think. Let's talk numbers oh you have never seen anything I thought we were going to have to put Tim Young on in the hospital. He was so mad, but one of those things that you know you will always remember, as long as you live one of those great car business stories of famous what you think. Let's talk numbers on never personally never ever forget it, Dan.

I'm sure you've got a few of those at sleep, but we would love to hear you. We've got lines open. You know some like this happen to you, 86634 truth 866-34-TRUTH 87884 but we gotta get an update on Toyota. You guys have some huge incentives, all we do almost all the models have some sort of incentive on were also offering our Carfax, one owner vehicles. We getting great sale going on those Toyota's got a lot of things going on with the incentives and their preowned inventory Toyotas out to capture the data that you have written on which AR but I mean that over the last couple years.

I mean there ready to go.

That's what I read in automotive news that Toyota had the biggest incentives they've had a long time to try to make sure that they made back some market share in April we got hates whatever we can have Kate at the bottom of the hour from Lincoln but come so you've got, you got big incentives you got. So this is going on whether you're in California. Our year in Salt Lake City know there's a lot going on with Toyota. You guys are there big stuff there, dear, dear just really dealing in and specially all your models that are getting very good gas mileage are our Toyota previous.

I look for that in about another week for us to be out of the previous is because of the surgeon gas prices with that car is the hottest thing on the market today and you know the priestess got three models out there and they're all selling very good in all your models that are getting the gas mileage people are coming in and it was just like the couple years ago when we had the cash for clunkers deal with our government. I mean everybody was coming in with their big SUVs and their big trucks and they're looking for gas mileage so that's what's going on today people are very conscious of the of their gas today and what you're spending. But like I say Toyotas been with the last couple years there there ready to go and there, do you guys had drawn since we know you're working. We know we are talking today about exasperating engineering entanglements. Now if anybody had to deal with that. It was the Toyota guys here a couple years ago you know that was a flagrant rumor to some extent, but there were also stories that were some were true about the sticking gas pedal. Did you have any personal expense of it. I did not but you know that a lot of people that came into to have that corrected. They just said that they were they weren't worried a bit.

They knew Toyota their cars. There wasn't a problem and he just was going along with the flow and that's what I've always heard from the folks at the factor they say will we engineered the problem and there we can engineer it out.

Whether it's formats that sneak up on your which by the way there's an attorney was the only one that had the problem with that and everybody that has formats needs to make their should make sure their secure because they'll get up there and irrespective you know talking about those floor mats you know when this thing all came to head there was people coming into the service lane to have your cars taking care of people that had to win three or six car mask. What are they signified well. We want to hear your exasperating engineering entanglements. Like I said we got Kate Pierce with Lincoln right upon the hourly huge announcement that Lincoln is in a be very excited to hear some really cool stuff they have met our appraisal by the real black book. What in the world of the 3131 homeless people.

Oh, do I have an exasperating engineering entanglements talk about when you know Chrysler and again I hate price was somewhat. I sold them for so long that obviously I have a lot of anyway when they came out with the built in child safety seats.

Apparently one of the engineers missed something on the ratcheting latch in the seatbelts would just keep getting tighter and tighter on the child until actually, it was impossible to pull the child and so I would get these calls from very upset. Mom say my child is chapter the sink I can get it on tighter and tighter and I would literally have to tell them if you got any scissors careful that you pick up the seatbelt. That's what you call an exasperating engineering entanglements. That's what were talking about today on a Christian card – so if you have that experience. We would love to hear from you 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884, but as promised, we have good news on the engineering side Kate Pierce here with the Lincoln division of Ford. She is the marketing manager because you guys got a huge announcement well come Kate great help and it is when we have a picture of it. Christian card.com absolutely amazingly beautiful and it's so sleek, but ends in that it incorporates his giant son looks like Lincoln before with our new igniter will and actually one of the features that I think they're gonna really think he mentioned it through the opening port 15.2 ft.˛ and the resulting lift and fly over the back of the vehicle and Potvin.

It really is amazing, almost like driving a convertible. It looks like it's been one of the things that they incorporated which being an old Chrysler guy. Now this is really old. You guys went back to the pushbutton shift click cleaning up a lot of water. The interior of the vehicle can move away from traditional shifter going to pushbutton shift on the actual instrument panel that allowed us to take away all of the clutter in the traditional, full actually create drive are between eight and nine is actually is modern day for an active mind that open airing in no clutter to really clean and inviting. It was really cool technology like this new camera and reader based driving aid that that's available. Can you can explain that that likens one lane keeping it chemically watch your corrective action plan of the road. Take care, appearing out of the lane going to give you both an audible time and patient hearing little reminding you that put yourself back in July.

Maybe Maeve got distracted and don't respond to their accountant. The lane will actually hear you and Gary Lane. I literally on the relevant entry for additional and you call what I really think that it can continue monitoring and keeping track of your driving. Over time, it made a lot of new third warning with a little coffee cup final coffee cup in your cluster, then maybe it's time to think what is new card and Dale and how engineered that Lincoln really integrated technology into a thoughtful way. That smell would you are able to do all this but you got more performance with 34 more horsepower 37 hp and one V-6 and then better fuel economy as well start out like our first good eye for an Lincoln lineup. Later I for export power at 240 keeping 30 gallon on the highway will have our 3.7 L TID.

We've added between independent variable campaigning and can't get a net increase 300 hp and 23rd at our second generation hybrid Lincoln at today's MKV made it there efficient luxury and are new to never to be bringing in the 13 expected to retain ranking of three really great choices that offer you foreman fuel economy are a great combination of both the 2013 is beginning the hybrids can be getting 41 in the sit 41 miles per gallon in the city. Absolutely amazing.

40 10 number to be a great worry, you won't be able to get silicon lecturing you not to leave the MPC again.

I know you this is a midsize car for that particular market in where you can get the efficiency and at the same time be able to carry five foolish that you don't have to compromise an electric vehicle from luxury appointment features that you expect standard electric vehicle and that we really think an apartment you can find out again. The whole announcement a picture of the car. Some of the systems is all it Christian card.com along with links over to Ford and to Lincoln and where you can get them etc. thank you so much Kate. We really appreciate you taking time to be with us today Europe and to try to take our Dearborn airborne warning. Thank you so much for being with us in your partnership always move forward you to all rights, that's the good, and there's a little bit bad, and there's little bit ugly because of these exasperating engineering entanglements.

That's what were talking about on the show today and certainly you know we talked about the seatbelt I have to tell you the worst seatbelt experience that I got involved in, which again did not result in anybody's death so that you know that's the good news, but you remember I told you that those inboard child or built-in child safety seats. You know they they keep the child trapped in.

But when I came to open the Chrysler store in Winston-Salem. I've been there, we'd open the store about a week and 1/2 when all the sudden I get a call that there is a backseat.

Out of the one of our minivans that is out on Interstate 40 with the child in it, but the seat is sitting on the side of the room because what happened unfortunately was Chrysler had sort of defective or latching on top of the defective or latch person did not lock their seat back in with the devices that they were supposed to do that, of course, pressure me that simply laughed that you years later, but at that point time the car got back to the car swerved the back came open, the whole backseat came out child all and there it was sitting in the next thing I know I had Channel 12 news in my face and what's up with this you know child seat with the child and it sit on the side of the road. These are the kind of things that boy the engineer the men but I was told they could engineer amount. What's your engineering exhausting, exasperating entanglement, 866-348-7884. Would love to hear yours.

I got my mom on the line in Tennessee but see what she's got mom guard and that pretty problem family line, but we think the new car first morning I tried playing little so it was no going to first year after that I take in reverse forward. Did you try to back around back up into the driveway and go. He worked for Buick so that I could not letting thanks mom I push each ship and that you had that entanglement.

We would love to hear yours, 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH and as I mentioned, if you go to Christian card.

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There may be a technical service bulletin.

There may be a safety recall on your car there may be other complaints along those lines. You can find all that, by the way Christian card at our condos. Click on those links and you can do that research as well as find out about the Jesus's labor love free car repair for single moms and widows across the country again pretty easy Christian card.com but we had a motor appraisal by the real Blackfoot. That's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure crap for discernment, lift up our voice for understanding as I mentioned a couple times during the show. The fact you guys would always tell us. We engineered a man and we can engineer engineer them out. In other words, there a lot of problems would require going to the original manufacturer to solve, and I'm sure you've experienced that in your Christian life and I mentioned this at beginning a show I was reading this book is called revolution. It's about the church in the book of acts and I talked about yet Pentecost was amazing 3000 people came to Christ. But remember there already 120 in the upper room, and 11 disciples know you do the math that's 3131 unemployed, mostly homeless church members with no place to stay, no place to meet and adding to that problem. If you think well they can read the Bible and they can figure out that 80% of them were ill literate so you know they weren't like heaven, Bible studies or scroll scroll studies or whatever the situation is so how did they change the world.

Well, you may remember actually in acts chapter 1 that they were given some instruction that said Jesus actually told him, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witness to me in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, and the ends of the earth you're familiar with that and you also may be familiar with the word power. There were it says you receive power, without power in Greek is actually doing the mess from which you get the word dynamite so they had some serious power right in and I heard the coolest sermon at the NRB business pastor was talking about that when Pontius Pilate was interviewing Jesus. There and he said he said I have the power to have you flog. I have the power to have you crucified, and Jesus said that's pop-up power. You don't have any real player you could crucify, you can take my life. I guess what I'm coming back in three days. That's boom boom power. That's not pop-up power.

That's boom boom power. I'm coming back in. Oh by the way I'm to change the world and housing to do with these 3000 witnesses witnesses right.

These are people you wonder what kind of power they had those 3131 what they had was this the mess they had this power because of who they were connected to and that would be Jesus, the true shepherd or Jesus said your member in chapter 10 of John it said most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way. He's a thief and a robber, but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep to him. The doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. Remember these sheep they hear his voice, and they know and they understand well the week before Passover. We we had some friends that were to start this Third World farm so we went to buy some sheep and some goats and I'll never forget as long as I live.

As I walked into that pastor with the shepherd. He says come here my babies, my babies in there always sheep and goats and these pastors guess who came his sheep.

The little lambs here. They came over as babies they heard his voice and here they came and he scooped them up in his arms and he brought them over to the truck that we are gonna take into this Third World farm and he said you know I've been holding the sheep every day since the day they were born because I knew this day was coming and I wanted them to be completely comfortable on this day when they were left my left my sheepfold is a picture that really none of us can forget, but it worked out talk a little bit more about the sheep what goats do because we had to get the goat were talking animals here in the Christian card. How about these entanglements with your engineering. We got all that coming up you call us with your situation.

866-34-TRUTH 87884 lot more about his sheep and goats, will the rating engineering and thing was seeing Robbie how you put that together with well it's simple, it's simple to see you got to go back to the original manufacturer to get these engineering problems worked out and we were talking about the church in the book of acts and the how in the world without a Bible without a without a facility without anything but 3131 homeless, you know, unemployed people did they change the world, where they had some they had the shepherd right and they could hear his voice, and they had that boom boom power and talk about because they heard the shepherds voice and you know is I mentioned that when I went out and I saw the shepherd called the sheep not told what Emily called the sheep. We had three goats to get they were kids. Real kids but anyway what you want to get those kids.

It wasn't like that he could call the kids all he wanted to.

Kids were not coming shepherds and also to helpers out there running in the field trying to catch these will goats it was it was a I wish I'd had a video of it was been on Facebook. They did not necessarily come with me or the shepherds booklets so I just say in its going to be easy for Jesus to separate the sheep from the goats because the sheep will hear his voice and believe me, if you could see the comfort of the sheep when they remit shepherds arms you get a picture of what kind of comfort these people had because how do you face unemployment, no place to stay, no place to meet. If you're one of those 3131 people that were in the book of acts that all of a sudden found themselves totally under the care of the good Shepherd. Now here's the situation you're in the same exact boat right you got the same shepherd and so here's what we gotta do. We've got to listen. We've got to listen for the shepherds voice and how does that change your life personally. Now you want to have boom boom power. Here's the boom boom power and talk about. Tell your children tell your family. Tell your friends what Jesus is doing in your life, your testimony, remember what it said in the book of acts, you will receive power from the Holy Spirit when it comes upon you because you're gonna witness about me. That's what you witness about what Jesus is doing in your life and that's because you hear the shepherd for some coolest well now. We cannot forget that this is because you think it Robbie, you are often left field, but hey, I got to tell you that one more time about these exasperating engineering entanglements.

I know that you think and what am I gonna do because when I go to put gas in the filler neck my card all Spitz gas out at me also to things like that that you're having problems with your alarm system goes off in the middle of the night to all my thought do all the Pontiac vibes do this. Guess what, there is a tremendous resource that the department of transportation has you can take your car just put in the model. In the year and it will tell you every complaint has been lodged. It'll tell you whether or not there's a technical service bulletin on that problem. It will tell you whether or not there is a safety recall that problem and guess where you can find all those links all in 1 Easy Pl., Christian car guy.com and while you're there, you can click on the Jesus's labor of love banner and you can find out all the different places that offer free car repair labor for single moms and widows and guess what that means you're looking for a good place to get your car fixed in that area. Why not, why not go to the person that's offering these services to people in your area. And guess what. In Winston-Salem alone.

If you're in this area.

There's there's like 12 different guys in. Believe me, these people are doing it for the Lord what great people to go associate with man.

I gotta say I will never ever forget my experience out in the shepherds field with him, she and I wish I could somehow or another give you guys the picture of the comfort of the sheep and the shepherds arms but I will thank you for listening Christian car guys show this morning. If you listen for the shepherd boy thought that you fit that kind of comfort in his arms as well. Of course I have my good friend and center values are Christian Toyota guy for modern Toyota here in Winston-Salem. One of the Jesus labor love sponsored there at the place and I always want to thank Stu Epperson had the vision originally for airing the show my producers this morning I got a new producer.

Alex is with my traditional producer, Beth and do a great job screening call stuff like that and you know you can always if you got a question during the week go to Christian card I show answer questions.

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