Larry Minty on the voice of New York Kate's Minty in the Morning on seventr and now it's time for Ron and Nany and host of The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app and owner of our A Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey.

I love this question, Ron, about warming up your vehicle before driving?

Do with these newer cars?

Maybe it's with the older cars too.

You'll tell me, do you need to warm up before driving?

Good morning, Larry.

Well, it's you know, a brand new car right out of the gate.

Theoretically, no.

All right, but how cold are we talking a day like today?

It's pretty cold out there today.

It was twenty degrees in Mahwah today it was almost nineteen at five am when I went to the gym.

That's pretty cold.

Yeah, And there's a benefit to it.

There's a benefit in my opinion.

I'm gonna warm up the car guy, because I want heat, want heat.

Within the first minute of driving, I'm just more comfortable.

And then the other issue becomes if you don't warm up the car and there's frost on the glass and you're going to work in the dark, how do you defrost the windshield and now it's a hazard.

Now you're on the road, cars coming at you in the dark early morning glare from the headlights, you can't see.

Is there a visibility and a drive ability problem?

Yeah, I'll tell you what.

I've seen people that have some frost on their window driving and I just go get out of their way.

I try to avoid those people because it is it is dangerous.

Right or or you know, so, okay, let's all use de icer.

De Icer is an aerosol spray.

Is that bad for the ozone?

So we're trying to keep the you know, trying to protect the environment by not warming up the car, but we're gonna use more ozone devices to damage and in the process make it so we can see out the glass on the car we didn't warm up that we're still cold in.

Now that's on newer cars.

Let's talk about an older car, Larry.

Let's let's define this something more than five years old.

You get in your five year older, older vehicle, and you get five blocks from the house and you find out that in the sub zero temperature last night, a heater hose snapped, or a plastic fitting cracked, or something didn't withstand the cold well, and now you're leaking coolant, and now the cars overheating, and you're five blocks or further from the house.

When do you want to find out that the car is broken?

I get it so with the newer cars, but it's it's the only thing that's necessary.

It's not going to hurt the engine.

You said, for the most part with the newer cars.

The most part, right, for the most part.

But I always go back to the analogy.

Hey, Larry, how well do you work jumping out of bed at three o'clock in the morning in the cold.

Don't you kind of need to warm up?

You know?

Cars, cars are kind of the same way, brother, They just are they just they just You know, when you find someone that can bounce out of bed at three am with no coffee, their car probably doesn't need to be warmed up either.

But until then, I say we all warm them up.

Give it, give it a chance for the oil to circulate.

You know, Ron, you made me think, I said, when you were talking earlier about out to de icing your car.

I was seeing all these videos over the weekend, and I do not know if this is true.

People who take hot water and throw it on their you know, windshield to get the ice off, and then the windshield cracks or literally shatters.

Would that happen absolutely?

Oh sure, yeah, listen, I can.

I can attest to that.

I sort of had something similar happen, not automotive related, but I can tell you the hot cold theory.

I made Yorks Well, I made the Yorkshire put in one year for Christmas, and I followed the recipe and I took the Pyrex dish which I had in the cold refrigerator, and I put it in the hot oven.

Right boy, I'll tell you what.

You got to see the fire that created, and it's the same My wife got an oven for Christmas.

When the fire department showed up to put it out, that was a whole another sh wow.

Yes, it's it's it's but you know, and then and then what happens.

You put that warm water all over the frozen windshield and if it's still cold out, where's the water go?

It goes down into the car, into the hinges, into the mechanism, freezes the wiper linkage.

It's you know what, warm the car up, give it two three minutes and then take it on the road.

Now, the one caveat before we close this out is certain parts in most parts of the country, in the areas we live, there are idling laws and you have to find out what those are.

They don't want you idling the car longer than three minutes or four minutes in certain places.

So we don't want to break laws, but we also want to be safe.

We want to be.

Comfortable absolutely, And you're right.

I mean I warm up the car just a little bit, just so it's warm inside for me.

I'm not even thinking about the engine.

I just want to be comfortable, that's right.

Let's talk about giving a car as a gift.

Is I dream?

Oh my dad gave me a car as a gift and I'll always remember it.

But you're saying that there's some things you have to look at before you buy a car for a gift.

Right, how have you bought a new car in the last five years?

Larry?

Sure?

I just did, just did.

And how long did it take you to do that?

I mean, what was the process like?

Right?

Think about that?

Did you just walk in in twenty minutes?

And I take that one?

Wrap it up.

Let's go.

Well, I'm a little different than most because I'll tell you why because my wife is a talk show host in Philadelphia and it was one of her sponsors.

So yeah, I did walk right in.

But you've got to, you know, do you fit the car?

Listen when people call the radio show.

When they call the show and they asked me, Hey, Ron, I want to buy a new car.

What should I buy?

I always tell them you got to go drive the car in the daytime.

You got to go drive the car in the nighttime.

Cars have a different personality in the dark than they do in the light.

Can I find the buttons?

Can I hit the switches?

Can I find the heat?

Do I have good visibility?

So you've got to be sure the person you're buying that car for has that visibility, has that control?

Has that you know?

Can I find what I want to find?

What I suggest?

All right?

And I've been through this where I've you know, helped people buy cars and listen.

I gave my daughter a jeep one year at a high school and I restored it and it was like, where are we going to hide the jeep this week?

So she doesn't find it?

But she kept coming to the shop thinking what with that doing all these hours?

Right?

What I suggest is I suggest if you want to buy your partner, your spouse, whatever, a car for Christmas, making an event.

Hey, let's go out to lunch and then after lunch you have an appointment at the dealership.

I just want to stop by here, right, and then it's a date and then it's a memory, and then you're sure you're getting the right fifty thousand dollars car.

All right, fun Natalie, if your husband's listening, I hope he's I hope he's got this.

So shows up by her doorstep.

I just I want to walk out, like in the commercials.

I want to walk out to my driveway and I want to see that Lexis with the big bow on it, just waiting for me.

And I know, is it the right fit?

And I I'm telling you it's probably better than the car that I'm driving.

Well, that's that's always true, and I'll leave it here.

Right.

When when Katie walked out and saw her Jeep with the big red bow, I mean she just broke down in tears.

It was just like joy, just yeah, just like nothing.

I still tell you the joy she had for that jeep and she took it everywhere.

She was very attached to it.

So it's a great feeling.

It's just you gotta do it right.

Okay.

My last real quick question, can you get Natalie's husband a deal in alexis on it?

I don't know, but I could probably get him to bow.

You get him to the bow is the hardest part.

I've got to tell you, it really is.

I gave my wife Alexius two years ago.

I said, can I get a bow at Christmas?

They said, no, we don't have any of those.

Okay, I don't take the car anyway.

Oh, I got a new business, new business to go.

So Ron and Nadian's going to be back with us in two weeks at nine thirty five.

Thanks a lot, Ron, Good to talk to you when we come back.

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