Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: You're tuned into the all new freedom.
[00:00:03] Speaker B: Formal 6.5. Formal 6.5.
[00:00:06] Speaker C: Good morning to you, Antonio.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Good morning to you, Devi. How are you this morning?
[00:00:10] Speaker C: Fierce. Fine. Welcome back to Freedom. All right, so as we get straight into the crux of our conversations this morning, coming out of the heels of Carnival, we want to discuss something that we have promised to discuss a while now. It's called Sea Blast.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Yes, this is very severe, see Blast.
It's what a lot of people don't understand, C. Blast Davies, that when it is that you go by the sea and let's say you go to bed and so forth, if it is that you do not wash your vehicle, as soon as this could literally accelerate like corrosion in your vehicle, you may not see it right away, but you will see it over a period of time.
For those who, let's say, who are living close to the sea, the sort of corrosion that could happen with their vehicle, it could go to the extreme over a period of time, as simply as your chassis and the undercarriage rusting quickly, even like your brake line system, fuel lines can corrode. But this is over a period of time. I wouldn't say that this happening two days or three days, you know. So it's very important with this sea blast because the thing about it is that with the salt, it contains like a sodium chloride in it. And this is what accelerates the rust and the electrical damage much faster than the actual fresh water that, you know, we would have.
[00:01:41] Speaker C: So, I mean, there are persons that like beachfronts, they live on the beach, not just in Trinidad, but you have areas like Florida and other countries where, you know.
And you're saying that this takes place over time.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Over time, yes. Like to say how fast that would be a bit difficult because it will be obviously on the type of vehicle, what material was constructed, because some vehicles, as we know, are stronger than other vehicles. So. But the thing about the, the, the, the car itself, I would say is that the, the salt water, the corrosion, it could actually start within days. We may not see it with our naked eyes, but it actually occurring, which is thought provoking.
[00:02:29] Speaker C: Well, it is why thinking, you know, I mean, so yeah, coming in, buying a brand new car, living in a beach house or living on the coastal areas because sea blast does damage to you, to your, to your housing, your property, the materials built.
Is there any special recommendation one can, can, can take when living in coastal areas and having to park vehicles there? Is there spray?
Because you mentioned brakes line and the corrosion. The corrosion is external.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: The Corrosion is external and also it can be internal. Like for example, your electrical damage. Like sensors like the alternator fuse boxes, you know, because remember fuse boxes, for example, very brittle. So you could literally start to see corrosion in your fuse boxes and sensors. Is an important part that is very brittle as well. That you can see corrosion in your sensors as well too.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: But in seeing the corrosion, is there something one can do to clean it up? Could we use a sandpaper?
Some kind of. Because I know sandpaper comes in different grades. That could assist with removing the corrosion off of the material.
I don't know, I'm just asking.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a great question.
Firstly, when it is that you really want to do anything electrical. You know, disconnecting a battery first is important because you don't want any issues in terms of the terminal to say that you might get electrocuted per se. But the best thing you can do is simply like rinse with fresh water.
The goal is to actually remove all the. The salt crystals. Because that is what really have the sodium chloride that actually damages internally.
So the best thing you can utilize is like.
I think it's a thermostat cleaner to clean the fuse boxes.
Electrical cleaner, like you know, one of those like power wash foam that is. That can clean the fuse boxes inside the vehicle. So that could be like one of the like WD40, for example, you could utilize.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: All right.
[00:05:11] Speaker D: Good morning and Antonio.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Morning.
[00:05:14] Speaker D: If you live in my dc, there's a preventative maintenance. Or even if you live in my sea, you could undercoat a vehicle such as like a Z bat. Yeah, that does be like a car substance that could go under your vehicle. And they just coated.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Right. Okay.
[00:05:33] Speaker C: By using that Z band that is the undercarriage of the vehicle.
How does the bat affect being used on engine parts? Like, because most of those things are built with metal.
Aluminum, steel, whatever. How are we going to prevent corrosion and brittleness coming up when they're looking at engine monks, for example, they are that difficult.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: I don't think it have anything for that.
Yeah.
[00:05:59] Speaker C: So what is recommended in terms of persons living in Karenage and areas that's close to the sea where vehicles are being parked daily?
[00:06:09] Speaker B: The best thing I can say, David, like thinking about it off the bat is making sure and rinsing that salt water. That's sodium chloride. You need to wash your vehicle vehicle regularly.
Because it's what the residue that be on the vehicle itself is that what causes that corrosion. So like you would need to wash a vehicle that is just outside of the vehicle. And, and frequently you would need to do more cleaning of the engine compared to someone else who might be living non coastal areas. So more maintenance is more actually cleaning and utilizing the WD40 to always have the components within the engine stain literally fresh per se. So I think that would be the easiest and best way without trying to do anything extreme that it could lead to something worse.
[00:07:03] Speaker C: Hello. Good morning.
[00:07:04] Speaker D: A pleasant good morning. Devi and Antonio. A pleasant good morning once more.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: Morning.
[00:07:08] Speaker D: I heard you and I'm following you and I was going to ask a question, but you already answered that part of it. But, but one recalls that that years ago many of us had to repair our mufflers regularly.
Today many of us don't. As a matter of fact, I, I have never repaired muffler in a long while. And even the body, the body of the vehicle, long ago one would think that you had to, you know, it used to rot and rust much more often than today.
One wants to assume that the material used on the body of a vehicle is different today than years ago because it's no longer rotting like before. I wanted to comment on that effect from the sea blast to today's, the modern vehicles. I thank you.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Enjoy. Okay, awesome. So great question. So the thing about it is that remember now we live in in a time that almost everyone purchasing a new or fairly new vehicle. So back then material was very stronger in terms of the vehicle itself.
So right now you're not seeing vehicles rusting because there's so many new and fairly new vehicles. But it don't necessarily mean that these vehicles are not rusting.
I would say that long time ago vehicles was much stronger and last much longer.
[00:08:27] Speaker C: They were more durable.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Yes. Cool.
[00:08:29] Speaker C: Hello, Good morning.
[00:08:31] Speaker D: Yeah, continue on that point the guy made just now. Those older vehicles used to have like thicker materials to that point, but for some reason they used to rot. Yeah, but now you do have the rotten problem. And I do have the muffler work earlier. Yeah, remember doing muffler work in the longest while. But I told you to have plenty muffler work. And the vehicle is steroid. And he said I saw that. Well then you said I saw the body up now basically I just maybe if I've accident changed part. So. But then in those days too, remember is after the days of Mr.
Pandey, we used to have what we discovered in Trinidad, they used to have two quality of vehicles, one for Trinidad. And you said the rail vehicle. So right now we get in the rail vehicle because with the communication and so on. But there Were two different vehicles. Again, whatever the name of the week, I want to call any specific name, but you also get two different vehicles, the one common Trinidad and the one that they are outside.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Bye.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: With the muffler issue, I would just start with the second question and go back to the first with the muffler issue. It has certain vehicles that would still get muffler issues. Like for example, I realize going by muffler shop, is that the Y11? Y12? No, Y12. And also the T dust tends to have a lot of muffler issues. The newer vehicles really and truly not so much per se, because remember these days we have hybrid, we have electric and so forth. But you have to take in consideration that these vehicles new to the market. So like somebody puts a vehicle which is like a 2020 and we in 2026, for example, it may not rust because I had six years. But when you think about vehicles long time ago that people had fallen 20, 30 years and it rusts that difference. So I don't think that the newer vehicles not rusting because I see one or two new vehicles, you would see that it rusts. Some vehicles it rusts from different parts of the vehicle. Maybe under the door, maybe it may rust by the bonnet. Some like Mazda Tree in particular.
I don't know if people realize that, but you would see like the vehicle rusting underneath the door and then according to where the water actually stain, that will cause the vehicle to rust faster, you know.
[00:10:48] Speaker C: And, and, and you're basically saying that you're more likely to get this deterioration of the materials closer to the ocean.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:01] Speaker C: And you recommend that we wash it, we wash it more frequently. And look at it.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Use WD40 for the inside of the vehicle in terms of the components, you know, to always keep it fresh. And engine wash is something that you have to know who you're going back to engine wash. Because obviously if you block certain components, then after your vehicle could be not starting, could be bucking and so forth. But more maintenance for sure is needed for someone who lives coastal areas and
[00:11:31] Speaker C: the maintenance of these coastal areas, let's say for the body of the car. You're talking about washing your car daily or what is this?
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Oh, I daily.
That's a good question. That's a good question. Nothing wrong, because I used to wash my car daily and nothing wrong washing your car daily.
But really and truly, if I think about it logically, living by the coastal areas, it's better to wash your car daily because anytime that chloride sits on your vehicle, it Already starts working, but you may not see the naked eye to rust. So you could wash it daily. If you can't make to wash daily, at least every other day. But utilizing like the WD40 and everything for inside the vehicle is most important.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: Now, when we look at that, right. Let's look a little bit about what type of materials or not materials per se. But what do we need to use to ensure that we get maximum performance or benefits in terms of washing our car when you live in the coastal areas? Because I'm wondering if it's salt, right. That is a heavy grade. It might scratch your paint. You know, share some advice on that area.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Okay.
The thing about it is that the products that utilize is so important.
So, for example, I would say that a car shampoo is critical. Like not the regular dish shampoo, which is too harsh. And that obviously removes the protective coatings on the vehicle. But for example, like car shampoo that is neutral, that is like ph that will be needed to wash your vehicle, which wouldn't cause any harm on the body of the vehicle. Because some people still wash the vehicle with dishwasher. Some people, according to the white of the vehicle. Like, if it's not really great in terms of the paint, they try to wash your vehicle with like actual soap. Because the soap now tends to take off all the dirt of the vehicle or any fingerprint. Because I remember time I had a Y11 and that vehicle in particular, the paint of it wasn't so good. So when I go by the car wash and I wash the vehicle, it will still show like fingerprints on the vehicle and whatever spots on it. But when I utilize actual breeze, it would take off all the necessaries. But the thing about it, breeze damage your vehicle. Yes, but it actually take away to make the vehicle at least look good for you until it is that you actually go about painting over the vehicle. So highly recommend that PH neutral car shampoo to wash the vehicle. That will help with the removal of the salt residue and it will keep that wax protection intact.
[00:14:30] Speaker C: All right. 625-2257 and 6273223. You know, you make a real good point there. Because people like to use all different kind of things to say they're washing down the car and they're cleaning the car and not realizing that you're damaging the vehicle more than anything else, you know. Hello, Good morning.
Hello, Good morning.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: Hi, good morning, sir.
I'm the owner of a muffler factory for many years, and I just want to correct the gentleman the Introduction of unleaded fuel is what changed the whole life of the muffler and the body of the car. Because the lead with itself is what used to rot and everything.
So again, so that is what it is. So since that happened, and just to let you know, most muffler businesses all over the Caribbean have closed down because mufflers lasting 10 and 15 years now.
Okay.
[00:15:25] Speaker C: Oh, really?
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: The lead is what, when it changed this, they stop leaded fuel. That is what made all the difference. And that's very good because that lead fumes many humans breathing it. When it gets into your system, it never leaves until you die. So it's not good at all.
[00:15:43] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: So that was a good reason.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: I never knew that.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: Okay, so the company is Chemo Smokely. Thank you very much.
[00:15:52] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. So, so, so you, you. Okay. He's Chemos. I know Chemos. That's a very popular muffler shop. Yeah, I know. So that unleaded fuel is what was causing the travesty with persons having to. To visit the muffler shop pretty, pretty often.
Thank you very much for sharing, man. Appreciate it. Yeah, for sure. Sure, sure.
Good morning. Good morning.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:16:16] Speaker D: Good morning.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: Good morning.
[00:16:17] Speaker D: Yeah, call him penalty. And the guy is so correct.
Good morning to your guest, Davy. And good one to you.
[00:16:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:25] Speaker D: Your guest is so correct. I keeping your vehicle clean. I wash my vehicle almost every day and people are still boy, you're washing it every day. You got rotten. And I said, well, rotten clean. But at the end of the day, when you wash the vehicle good and use the car wax and things, it just protect your body.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: Vehicles last longer.
[00:16:41] Speaker D: I have asked over 25 years and people's will. I know take it off from the firm. Because of how I take care of my vehicle. I like to see my vehicle no matter what the series is, the age of the vehicle. But I see keeping it up is most important. Thank you.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Welcome.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: And that's our next thing too. Hello. Good morning.
All right. 625, 2,257 and 6273223. Good morning.
Yeah, hello, Good morning.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Again, I'm the gentleman. You are talking about the lead.
The main reason, as I told you, was the. The lead fume and I was trying to tell you about the effect it has on human beings and you were going to say something would be cut off. So I can't remember. You didn't get to finish. I didn't get to hear what you said.
[00:17:31] Speaker C: This is the muffler company.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:33] Speaker C: K. Muffler yes. Yeah, I was thinking, I. I know the company pretty well and I was wondering if this is the company that they say closed down, are you still operational?
[00:17:42] Speaker A: No, most muffler. The company hasn't closed down. We have diversified.
Right. But what is happening is all. Everybody's suffering the same fate in the muffler industry.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: So what is when people coming for muffler repairs is basically what they come in to repair these days.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Most of the times is they hit something, right. And it's banging against the body. It's hard. It's hardly ever for rustin. You check any of your friends and you they will tell you they have not been to fix a hole in the muffler for over 10 years.
That's how it is.
That's why I had to diversify.
I knew that was coming. Plus the electric car don't use a muffler. So I know it was just a matter of time.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: And I like the word you're using, boy. We diversify.
You're into came as foods now?
[00:18:36] Speaker A: No, no, no. We we to Bosch batteries and bridgestone fire soon tire.
[00:18:41] Speaker C: All right, so you're going into the tire well tires for sure. Whether electric or not. Unless we start afloat.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: We need tires and batteries if your car will start in the morning. Your wife had to wait too.
[00:18:53] Speaker C: Yeah, battery. And you want to see that long face in here. You could have fixed that. You gotta understand, use your man in the house. Use your husband.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: All right.
[00:19:02] Speaker C: Thank you very much, Kimas. All right. Thank you. Yeah, man, I like that. You know, you get your free plug there. I like that. I don't have a problem with that. I. I honestly don't have a problem with that. Maybe you might be invited into to sponsor the segment. So kmas coming back now, you could be the one to sponsor the car care second every Wednesday. That'd be nice. You know, we build a nice little commercial for you and we do our opening and closing and you are the car care segment sponsor for every Wednesday. Kmas talk to me.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Good morning.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Morning.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: Morning.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Yeah, morning to you, Davey. And I guess. Yeah, Davey, another thing that has caused the car to rush is dog pee.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: Oh, gosh.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:40] Speaker C: How dog peeing on your tire causing your car to.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah, if you have dogs hunting and a peeing on your rim and so on the tire and they peeing consistently, it causes not hunting on your rim to seize up.
And that happened to me some years ago. The dog and I was peeing on the rear running anytime not on them was seized up and the tire couldn't come off.
Not to wear a bad guy to get him to cut it off. Because remember the dog the acidic?
[00:20:06] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the acidic. So any dog peeing, especially on your rim of the tire, it could cause it to rust and all the nut and things just tease up. Yeah.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: So you have to break all the.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: If you see you have dogs hunting and they had a. Cover the car tires and things. Cover the rim especially.
Or you had to wash the car regularly and you got the pocket.
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Very good, man. And that is a true thing. You see people.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
[00:20:35] Speaker C: But because, I mean, if I catch a dog peeing on my car.
Yeah, it's.
Yeah. Some big zone. In some big zone. It's a big zone in some big zone by.
Yeah, it's some serious big stone. Because I know.
Go and pee somewhere else now, man. And they love to pee on car. I don't know what about the rubber or the tire, the car. They're smelling and smelling and coming to cook up and pee on my thing. I have a problem with advice. Only male always do that, you know.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Only male dog. Let's do that.
[00:21:06] Speaker C: You understand?
But I mean, these things are very important information to be shared with the public. This car care segment, you all may think, you know, whatever, but at the end of the day, it's very, very vital and important.
So when I look at and kmos, I forget you.
I forget you had to come in on the show, man. Well done, well done. And thank you so much for listening as well. So in wrapping up the segment this morning, in conclusion, we talked about sea blast and the effects on your vehicle. The corrosion that starts, according to Antonio, immediately. So once you buy your brand new thing and you go on by the seashore, you park up. So all the people who visit any
[00:21:44] Speaker B: beach, and especially those who visit the beach, Ash Wednesday and some people and you know, they feed us some people, right. They don't wash the car like every day or every other day. They wash the car once a month, sometimes once every two months. So imagine you went to the beach, let me say, three or four times for last month, February, and you watch that vehicle yet. And that salt water on that vehicle sitting there, and you see any vehicle every day and thinking, all right, that's dirty. But in realizing little by little, it's starting some corrosion on it, and you're just about your merry way.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: So, so. So visiting the beach is important when you come back. Yeah, just like over there's. Be it wash the car Correct. Yeah.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Because at the end of the day it actually naturally have that sea blast on it by just visiting the beach, you know, so it always recommended. And then remember when you visit the beach and you go there and you sign and you bring a sort of sign in your vehicle and all these different things that hit in the body of the vehicle. That's an occupied. In the vehicle itself. So you need to clean inside and outside your vehicle extensively as soon as possible when it is that you depart from the beach.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: Could we do a ceramic coating on the vehicle before we go to the beach?
Oh, forget the ceramic. Let me just get this call here quickly. Hello, Good morning.
[00:23:09] Speaker D: Hello, Hello.
[00:23:11] Speaker C: Good morning.
[00:23:13] Speaker D: Yeah, morning. Yeah, just wanted to add a little more input to you guys here. When, when you know the severity of this blast. When you drive your vehicle and you go by the beach and you come back and you park up home the next morning, pass your hand lightly on the hood.
It's not really. That film wouldn't do nothing. Wash up with lots of water. If you get a slight drizzle with that and, and, and the, the rainwater soaks up that salt and deposit, what happens is it deposits, deposits it into the little crevices of the vehicle. All the little joints in your defender and everything.
And then when that fresh water dry off the salt water solidifies and it crystallizes. And that was where the B and J is in the little crevices where the joint in your fit between your fender fenders join together and all that melting and that's when you rustin really starts. So if you're washing, you gotta wash off totally with. With plenty water to make sure you, you neutralize all that salt and so on and things with the wheels and think, well, nobody with aluminum and the different types of alloys that they're making vehicles with something now you minimize the effects that are. But, but the danger is still there. Thank you.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: Hey, valid points there.
[00:24:43] Speaker C: That cake in. Boy, that kicking. And then where does a vehicle usually rust? Sometime you open the door, you seen it rusting on the door?
Kind of, yes.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Boy, a lot of people wash their vehicle outside wash. And they don't wash, they don't clean. The door jams. So the door jams? No, the water tends to stay there. And that's why you would see a lot of times, you know, at the edges underneath the door might be starting to rust or decide the edges per se.
[00:25:16] Speaker C: Good morning.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Morning baby.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: Monday gas and Montreal and the biggest trinity. But the thing is, whenever I go to the beach, when I Come back home. Look at what time I come back
[00:25:25] Speaker D: that the car cool out.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: Rims are then cool.
And I do sell and make some car wash. And I wash the whole car. And then after I have a cloth I'll wipe inside out.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: But.
[00:25:34] Speaker A: And then I spray out from below the fender as well.
Once you do that, you'll be all right. Fact is, you see vehicles now would really rock. Next long time because long time we saw cars these with third grade metal and they come rusting. New brand, they come rusting and they'll paint them over and things like that. Now it's full skid metal. All these cars coming. Now the foreigners car especially it's first grade method. Because I have friends who go to Japan and they go to seminars and things and they teach them and tell them a lot about the vehicles and all these things and type of metal
[00:26:03] Speaker B: and all these things.
[00:26:04] Speaker C: Right.
[00:26:04] Speaker D: But this is always good to wash
[00:26:06] Speaker A: your car after you come back from the beach and all the me, right. Have a bless one.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah boy, real talk, you know.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Let me say this right. He mentioned about these cars these days not rusting. I could tell you for a fact. You see Y11 vehicles like any street and painter who may be listening right now could tell you that that vehicle in particular rust all over. Talking about in front of the vehicle by the bonnet, even the back by the trunk lid tend to rust a lot. So I wouldn't say all vehicles these days not rusting because Hawaii level still not all all per se. But the newer vehicles according to the model of the vehicle could qualify cause more rust than others. But I understand the fact that they may not be seeing rust because the vehicles are basically new.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: All right guys, this is where we gotta leave it, you know.
And if you want to know what what you've seen is really do to you, leave your dirty laundry. And I saying like your bad suit, your trunks.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: Overnight.
Don't put it in a bucket of water and try and wash off and take it up the next day day and smell it and then you go. Understand?
Yeah. What going on with your vehicle. When you do clean your vehicle, you come home, you had to clean all them your bath suits, put it out, wash out that thing on a running water, put it in a bucket, rinse it out, get it.
The thing about it is when that is the same kind of silt and, and, and, and. And filth that is ending up in your car, in the door jams between the creases of the bonnet, the trunk and all these things you had to wash all those things, wipe it off
[00:27:43] Speaker B: because and everyone's saying to wash the inside and the outside of the vehicle and also the fenders. But people don't understand, too, that in the vehicle, the fuse boxes and these things is where you need to use the WD40.
[00:27:55] Speaker C: Yeah. And that ceramic coating, I understand it could last up to five years.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: Yes. That is great.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: If you're planning to go on the beach, maybe you could polish the car.
Polish, you could do it yourself, you know, put a light coat in a polish, polish your windscreen and them kind of thing. So the sea blast kind of fall off when you come back and rinse off the car quickly, you know. So all these are little tidbits. All right, so we take a break. Thank you very much, Antonio.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: You're tuned into the all new freedom 106.5. 106.5.
