New Feature: Kim Komando's Tech Tip of the Week! Car Buying Tips For College Grads, Plus 2024 Nissan Frontier Hardbody Edition, 2024 Mazda3 2.5T Premium Plus and 2024 Honda Passport TrailSport Test Drives

May 3, 2024

Dear CarPro Family,

Welcome to the month of May, one of the months car dealers love. It’s a long month, the weather is generally pleasant, they get to celebrate their Mothers, and the month ends with a major holiday. What more could you want?

We are giving away a beautiful 2024 Chevy Corvette and $10,000 in cash to pay tax, title, and license to some lucky listener! Best of all, this wonderful charity helps our Veterans find healing and a sense of gratitude and community, which they so deserve. Details are below on how to buy chances to win for just $10.

Most everybody has had his or her check engine light come on at one time or another. I have for you the top causes and how much it costs to fix them. Are you curious about the electric car incentives in California and Texas? I have them all below, but there is a huge difference between the two states. You’ll want to read how to find out if a one dollar bill in your pocket could be worth $150,000. Oh yes, I have that for you, too. We say goodbye to the Subaru Legacy and hello to the new Ram 1500 RHO pickup below.

We have an all-new feature that we’ll bring you every week! Kim Komando’s Tech Tip of the Week. We’ll give you her best tip about something to do with computers, or cell phones, or anything techy. I really think you’ll enjoy them, she does a great job! I suggest, too, you sign up for her weekly newsletter.

In my review this week, I have a cool retro pickup, the 2024 Nissan Frontier Hardbody Edition 4x4 Crew Cab. Our Amy Plemons has two very different reviews for you, the sporty 2024 Mazda3 Turbo sedan and the off-road capable 2024 Honda Passport TrailSport.

In advice today, I have tips for our graduating College Seniors as they make their way into the world, most likely with a new car. We don’t want them getting a bad start, so I can help with that.

We have another True Story from a Former Car Dealer below. This is a series of 40 stories written by me. Some are really funny, some are incredibly sad. I really peel back the curtain on my career highs and lows in the car business, and also share a lot of personal information. I hope you’ll take a minute and read these each week, I truly believe you’ll enjoy them. #18 is titled: Lemons. When I owned dealerships, I involved myself with a customer who bought a bad diesel Ford, and stuck my nose right in the middle of it. Guess what? I didn’t even sell it to the guy! Sounds like a setup for a happy ending, right? Not so much.

You’ll find the following stories and more info as you scroll down the newsletter:

Plus, lots of other information you will enjoy! If you have never been to our FAQ page, take a minute and peruse the categories, something there will interest you for sure.

We so appreciate all of you who take this newsletter and listen to the show every week. We know that without you, there is no CarPro Radio Show. So always let us know when we can help you. If you have not been there lately, take a look at our website, www.carpro.com, it changes all the time!

Have a terrific week. See you on the radio!

Besides the Car Pro Show and our weekly newsletter, my other favorite radio show and newsletter is Kim Komando’s. We are on many of the same radio stations across America. She does for her listeners and newsletter subscribers exactly what I endeavor to do: Give you useful information to keep you up to date on the latest in cars, only she does it with technology and there is nobody who does it better. Not sure how she puts out a top-notch newsletter seven days a week, but she does. I reached out to her and asked if it would be OK to share information with you once a week with a tech tip, and she agreed. I read her daily newsletter from top to bottom, and when I see info I think you could use, I will put it here to try to make life just a little better for you. This week, we’ll start with:

Scam and spam calls are getting more common, and they’re hard not to answer because the number comes up as “unknown.” When there’s no caller ID number, you can’t be sure if it’s a spam caller or an important call you’ve been waiting for. Fortunately, there are ways to find out who’s calling you from an unknown or blocked number. We put together a helpful guide on finding an unknown caller number.

When mysterious phone calls clutter your call log, this phone number lookup trick helps you identify the unknown number calling your device. Follow these steps, and you won’t have to grimace when you look down at your phone and see that unknown number.

The first one is *69, which traces the number of the last person who called you. It works even for anonymous or hidden calls, so you can get the phone number and the exact time they called. Once you have that hidden phone number, you can block it on your phone, so it can’t call you anymore.

Another number you can use to trace a call is *57. When you push *57, the information you obtain is passed along to the police. Your phone service will log a *57 call in a special way, so authorities can more easily locate whoever is harassing you and arrest them.

For the article and more details, click here.

Kim’s website is www.komando.com and if you want to get her newsletter daily: www.komando.com/subscribe

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A few years ago, I started writing a series of True Stories From A Former Car Dealer. Over 40 weeks, I wrote about experiences I had from my days as a dealership owner. Some will make you laugh, others will make you cry. The reaction was beyond my wildest expectations.

For our new subscribers, and for those of you who may have missed one or perhaps simply forgotten the details, we’ll bring these to you in the order they were written.

In this episode, I tell you about a Ford owner who was so upset with his truck, he had huge lemon stickers made and plastered them all over his truck. This was well documented in the press, and although he didn’t buy the truck from my dealership, I reached out to him, got help from Ford, and got him into another new truck. Happy story, right? Not exactly.

True Stories From a Former Car Dealer #18→

If you are searching for a particular new or used vehicle, we can help you! The best news is, if you use CarPro to search, when you find the car of your dreams it will be at a CarPro approved dealership.

Best of all, it’s simple to use. Choose new, used, or certified. You can select the make and model, or find a price range you are looking at. Choose the number of miles you are willing to travel and enter your zip code.

From there, you can look through all your matches, knowing you are shopping at a dealership I have handpicked that adheres to the high standards I require.

Start your search on the front page of CarPro.com. If you don't find the car of your dreams, check back regularly.

A guy goes for the world’s record longest jump record in a car. Something went terribly wrong on the landing, but he may well have gotten the record for the most car flips instead. What is amazing is all the camera angles you see, including a camera focused on the driver. You would not have wanted to be a passenger in this one!

Lotsa fishin’ going on right now and for people who are fortunate enough to have a boat that means lots of the unenviable task of backing the boat down a ramp while keeping it in line. Well, this is one of the greatest boat ramp tips you’ll ever see---so says Barry Stokes, one of those TV fishing show guys. If it’s good enough for him, I figure it’s good enough for the rest of us so here it is. Good fishing!

You have 5 hours to call the show! From 9AM- 2PM Central, 7AM-Noon Pacific, and 10 AM to 3 PM Eastern, the phone numbers are:

DFW Show: 9 AM to 11 AM Central, 1 (800) 288-9227
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Add the numbers to your cell phone; you never know when you are going to need straight talk and honest answers about everything automotive.

So, what is the CarPro Radio Show?

Confused about the car buying process? Worried you won’t get a fair deal? Wondering about which vehicle is best for you? Then tune in to the CarPro Radio Show every week where Jerry Reynolds and Kevin McCarthy will guide you through the car-buying process with confidence.

No matter where you listen to the show or which station you listen to, you have five hours to call in and ask your questions. We take calls every Saturday from 9 AM-2 PM Central time, 7 AM to Noon Pacific. The phone number is different the first two hours, then changes, so keep that in mind.

We would love to help you in any way possible! Keep in mind, we don’t take mechanical questions, but everything else is great!

The CarPro Radio Show is heard every weekend all over the United States, and every weekend we deliver straight talk and honest answers about everything automotive. We would greatly appreciate it if you would take a moment and tell a friend about the show.

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We've recently welcomed some new markets to the CarPro Radio Network:

KTLR 890 AM/103.7 FM Oklahoma City: Sunday 4-5pm CT (replay)
The Mountain WSYY 1240 AM/ 102.5 FM Millinocket, ME:

Saturday 9AM- 12PM PT
KUFO: Portland, Oregon: Saturday 9AM- 12PM PT
Nevada Talk Network - THE Rural News Source: KELY 1230am/98.5fm, Ely; KPVM-TV 25.7, Pahrump, KAVB 98.7 FM, Hawthorne, KPKK 101.1 FM, Amargosa Valley, NV, KDJJ 94.1 FM, Fernley-Fallon all three hours live 9AM- 12PM PT
KFIR 720 AM, Sweet Home, Oregon: Sunday 4PM - 7PM PT (replay)
KBAR 1230 AM, Burley, Idaho: Saturday 6PM – 9PM MT (replay)
KACT 1360 AM, Andrews, Texas: Saturdays 7PM – 10PM CT (replay)
WDOC 1310 AM, Prestonsburg, Kentucky: Time TBD
KLXX 1270 AM, Bismarck, North Dakota: Sunday 10PM – Midnight CT (replay)

Other additions to the CarPro Show family in 2023:

B103 WOWS Indy, Indianapolis: Sundays from 7PM-10PM ET (replay)
WCED AM/ConnectFM , Johnston, PA: Saturdays from 2PM-4PM ET (replay)
KFIR 720 AM , Albany, Oregon: Sundays from 4PM -7PM PT (replay)
News Talk 98.9 The Word, Greenville, South Carolina region: Saturdays 12PM-1PM (live), Saturdays 3PM -6PM (replay), and Sundays 11AM -4PM (replay)
WQXL AM/FM 1470 AM and 100.7 FM , Columbia, South Carolina: Saturdays from 12PM-1PM ET
News/Talk 103.7 FM WEEO, Hagerstown, Maryland: 12PM -3PM ET Saturdays WEEO covers parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Washington D.C. area.
Talk 1370, Austin: Saturdays from 11AM -1PM CT

Most of our listeners tell us that they never thought they would look forward to a show about cars. You may have friends or relatives who feel the same way in the cities below, please make them aware.

Here are the DFW markets the show airs in, times, and stations, and don't forget you can now listen to WBAP on the FM dial at 93.3 FM!

Dallas, TX: WBAP 820 AM/93.3 FM/99.5 HD 2, Saturday 9am to 11am Central
Dallas, TX: KRLD 1080 AM, Saturday 2pm to 4pm Central (replay)
Granbury, TX: KPIR 1420 AM, Saturday 11am to 2pm Central

WBAP DFW Podcast Here →
FOR ALL OTHER MARKETS, CLICK HERE→

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