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But Jen,

yes,

is from Mile X complete auto care.

Just down the street there on Sylvia and Cedar Rapids.

Just

south to here.

Yeah.

Half of the tracks.

Yes, yes, ma'am.

Hey, the guy we were talking about, the guy who had gotten the new car and had come to you and you gave him some advice.

He brought me, hold on a second.

His name is Robert, by the way.

Robert,

yep.

He brought me this.

And it's a puzzle.

I took it apart and of course, I haven't put it together

yet.

He

gave me this thing and you put all these wood things together and it's kind of like a star thing.

Oh, that's cool.

So yeah, he dropped that by and it was very cool.

And then he called me the other day, so.

I met his wife too.

She came into the shop and we looked at her car too.

Well, that's nice.

The whole family's coming to my life.

See,

you go

there

once and you just want to go back.

You become family when she comes

to

see

us.

Yeah.

So family for you and now family for me.

Yeah.

We want a big

family.

Yeah.

So thanks for the puzzle.

I'm still working on it, Robert.

That

is so cool, Robert.

Nice job.

Yeah.

All right, so.

I didn't

get a puzzle though, I'm just gonna tell you.

Well, I'll bet you got one coming.

Sounds like he's got a garage full of them.

Oh yeah.

He sounds like a puzzle guy.

No, he does.

He sounds like a puzzle guy.

And so anyway, Milex, let's first talk about, you know, the date of the new location opening.

I do.

When is that?

July 7th, our new location will open all over on 3108 Mount Vernon Road.

Okay.

So, right after the 4th of July?

Okay, I was gonna ask, is that before or after the 4th of July?

The Monday

after the 4th of July, yes.

Okay.

It'll be

open.

You'll see signs that I just, we just got printed, we going out there.

Well, maybe once the rain's done.

Yeah.

To be announcing that we're gonna be opening here

more

soon.

Nice.

It's so exciting.

And where is it exactly?

It's on Mount Vernon Road, literally between, if you know where the scooters is and the Burger King,

it's like

right in the middle of there.

Okay.

3108, Mount Vernon Road.

So there, if you're close to that one, now you can go to that one.

Yep, or you

can

stay and come see me.

Right.

So you have options.

Go to Jen's location.

The new one will be great and all.

That'll be wonderful.

But I will be there.

I'm going to

stay at the same Sylvia Avenue location.

Classic hits.

1057 KOKC reminds you to go to the classic location

of Sylvia.

We've been looking how to distinguish them.

We're going to call that

one a classic.

Call that Mylex Classic.

A

classic

Mylex.

Or Mylex Classic.

I kind of like Mylex Classic.

But hey.

Ain't my store.

Not

your

store, yes.

Ain't my store.

So now we have the

north and the south.

Yeah, yeah.

It's so exciting.

You can have some kind of a battle between the North.

No.

No battles.

We're all one happy family.

Yeah.

Right.

Okay.

Well, it's cool.

You got the new location July 7th.

Yeah.

They're in Marshalltown or on Marshalltown.

Marshalltown, Mount Vernon.

You're turning into

me.

I

did that when

I came

in

here.

Yeah.

She didn't, she couldn't figure out the headphones.

She goes, Hey, has that always been on the screen?

That's, I look right at it, but she just comes in, sits down or backs to it.

So I can understand.

But I've never

laughed.

so hard in my life in a long time.

And

thank you, I needed that.

Yeah, she was trying to figure some things out there and I helped her along.

But she helps me out with all the car stuff, because I'm a card dummy.

You're

not a card dummy.

You just

don't know a lot about

cars.

That's right.

I'm going to inform you.

I don't.

So with it being the first day of summer, I mean, what kind of things should we talk about?

What are the things people need to look for?

maintenance wise, what should they be doing?

So one of the things people probably don't think about is how high temperatures can negatively impact your car.

And it's supposed to be, what did we say, like a hundred tomorrow,

feel like something like that?

It's like 97 is the actual, what the high should be, but it usually gets a little higher.

Right.

And I know people are excited about that.

I'm not myself personally,

but

in the extreme heat can cause, you know, engine overheating.

It can cause battery failure, tires.

to blow out and it can also cause damage to that interior components like your dashboard or your upholstery.

And if you don't know anything about cars, those are all bad things.

They are bad

things.

The heat can cause the engine to overheat, especially if the cooling system isn't functioning properly.

It can also lead to increased wear and tear on the engine components.

The battery, if the high temperatures can get too high, it can cause the chemical reaction inside the battery to lead to faster potential for failure.

Okay,

because it gets too hot.

Yeah, right.

I don't want to say like it's boiling, but you know, it's getting way too hot where the battery fluid can evaporate causing damage.

Yeah.

Um, tires, you know, they can cause the tire pressures to increase.

And if you

have bad tires or tires that are on the wear bars or you're seeing those chords, it could cause them to inflate too much and, you know, explode a little bit there.

I have, I have the problem with the tires and the cold where it deflates them.

So it's the opposite.

I've never had that happen though in the heat.

You know, you don't hear a lot about it.

Thank goodness around here, but

I think if

you go south and more in the desert

and

stuff, it'll

help.

Arizona.

Maybe it'll happen there.

Yeah.

But that would make

sense.

As the roads get hotter and your tires are getting hotter, you

know,

they're, they're getting softer and pliable.

And so a big thing, especially the rain today too, is make sure you have good tread on your tires.

That helps and good quality tires.

That's why they put the tread.

There's a reason for the tread,

you

know, and if you don't have the tread, you could slide around and it's just not as effective.

Yep.

You want those sipes to move the water around and stuff.

Yeah.

Um, but.

you know and then the interior obviously can get extremely hot um if you have leather seats or whatever watch that skin touch

in

there it's gonna get hot

and the steering wheel i mean it is it's like

Touching taking something out of the oven without using hot pads at times

Yes, and it also can fade it and over time if you have an older vehicle and you dry it out and you're gonna crack

The

temperatures in the fluids, you know They can cause the fluids in the engine oil come cool in or break fluids to evaporate or degrade So

then you don't

have the performance you're looking for so so

really if it gets hot like it's gonna be this weekend Maybe just bring it into my legs and say hey, it's gonna be really hot

Maybe just check it over and see what I've got that could really...

Fail.

Yes.

We can do that.

Check all your

fluid and stuff.

And just to, I know we talked about this a lot, but if it's going to be really hot, have your AC system checked out.

Make sure it's going to work properly because there's nothing worse than sitting in a car where the AC don't work.

It's awful when it's 100.

Oh

my God.

And then you get in the car after it's been sitting for a while.

It's, it's not a hundred.

It's like 120 or something.

Yes.

And please check your back seats.

Don't leave your dogs or children in the car.

No, no, you always hear about that.

I mean,

I mean, remember your children and your pets.

I mean, I get it.

That's what's important.

I get it.

I was a busy mom too,

but

I don't think I ever forgot my kids in the car.

Put a sticky note on your steering wheel.

Something.

Kids in back.

Remember kids in back.

If you need to do that, do that.

And some of the newer cars, when you shut your car off, excuse me, mine does it, it'll say, check your back seat.

Yeah.

Like, we've

gone to

that point that our car has to say, check your back seat.

Well, it's got all kinds of messages for us.

Right.

But just, you know, be careful.

Have your priorities straight and bring

your car

into Mile X if you're worried about the heat and what it could be doing to your car.

Maybe something's on the verge of doing something and the heat could put it over.

Just bring it to Milex on Sylvia Avenue in Cedar Rapids.

And Jen, I've got some summer questions for you coming up.

So sit there.

I'll be here.

Sit there, lady.

I'm not

moving.

All right.

Happy first day of summer.

Jen from Milex Complete Auto Care.

Hello.

Happy

day of summer.

It's going to be nice and wet.

Get things wet, help things grow a little bit.

Yeah, we need the rain.

Yeah, we do.

And then tomorrow and Sunday, we'll just dry it out.

Yes.

And set it on fire even.

That corn

is

going to shoot up.

It's going to pop.

It is.

That's what it's going to do.

We're going to have popcorn fields.

Call Orville Redden-Bacher.

All right, anyway, it is the first day of summer.

And summer tunes.

Do you have a summer tune?

I think we talked about that at one time, didn't we?

Yeah, I'm still going to stick with summer of 69.

Yeah,

what is it about it?

Just a

good tune.

Good upbeat tune, the guitar, all of that.

Yeah, just, just, just, I don't know, just a good song.

I like.

It's a great classic summer tune.

It's one of those when you turn on, you start singing to right away.

Right.

Yep.

Yep, it is.

I

enjoy that.

I bought my real 36.

I'll play that.

I should play that.

I should have played that during the last hour, because you're out of here soon.

That's okay.

Yeah.

I can

join in the car when I drive back to work.

Yeah, perfect.

Yes.

Perfect.

Do you have a favorite summer memory?

Something, because I was talking about summer is just this nostalgic season.

Yeah.

Something about it makes you look back to when you were growing up, because that was the best time to have summer, was when you were out of school and had nothing going on.

It was.

You know, we did a lot of camping.

So we did a lot of camping and we had a boat.

So we camped like every weekend and went boating and skiing and a lot of times family, different family members would be there.

And so it was just a lot, that's my big summer memory.

Did you have a certain place you would go every time or would you go to different?

Most of the time it was down in Corville down at Sugar Bottom down there.

We went there.

You know, the other big,

summertime thing I remember is we always took a two week road trip vacation to go see family on the East Coast.

So I have three siblings.

So there's six of us in a van for

two

weeks.

It

was a good time though.

Now, I think about it.

Yeah, looking back on it, but I'll bet there were some times where it's like, I'm never doing

this again.

Back then, yes.

We realized my dad had the arm span to reach for the driver's seat, clear back to the back seat.

He could still whack you in

the leg

if you were being out of control.

Dads have that special power.

They do, that wingspan.

They

really do.

But

yeah, just spending time with family camping and the campfires and spending time in the water.

Right.

It was a lot of fun.

Yeah, I was never a big fan of the water and all that.

I don't know what it was.

It was just when we camped, we'd camp out in my backyard being some friends.

And then when it got really late and everybody was asleep, we'd get up and we'd go cause trouble in the neighborhood.

Yeah, we weren't allowed

to do that.

Yeah.

Well, we weren't either.

We that's why we did it at like 3 a.m., which is now the time I get up every morning.

But.

Back in the day, we'd get up and we'd- How

comes full circle?

Now it's time at 3 a.m.

to get up to go to work, be responsible, and back then it was 3 a.m.

to

cause

havoc and be irresponsible.

Yeah, now I'm just here to spread joy.

Full

circle of life,

that's fun.

Yeah, it is.

So summer of 69 and camping are your big summer things.

Yeah, yeah, and I, you know, when I was in middle school, high school, I played softball, so that

took up a

good chunk of-

summer time too, but

really

just camping and having a good time

with

family and different families.

I know the aunts and uncles will come and their kids and so

it was a lot of

fun.

Summer and family.

That's nice.

That's nice.

Good memories, man.

Well, Jen, it's always great to have you here.

Well, thank

you.

It really is.

And I so love your place over at Milex.

Yeah.

When I go in, you got the dog, Jake.

Jake is there.

He's sitting right there.

He's sweeter than can be.

He's

the best.

Yeah.

And had my car very well done over when I got there.

And you have a new location coming.

We do.

So right now, we're at 2010 Sylvia Avenue and starting

on July 7th, our new location on 3108 Mount Vernon Road.

Yeah, all right.

So two locations to serve you.

So when you're coming back from your 4th of July, whatever.

Just stop in on that Monday and say hi.

Say hi.

Just

thought I'd come and say hello.

OK.

You got to go.

I'll bring my car next weekend.

Absolutely.

Get an appointment set up and

we'll take care of you.

Yeah.

Well, maybe I'll have to have my car done there next time.

Yeah.

Just so you can see

the new location.

Yeah.

I may just drive over there anyway and take a peek.

Yeah.

It's it's snazzy over there.

We've redone everything.

So you've got you got the new place and you've got Mile X Classic on Sylvia.

Yes.

Classic on Sylvia.

I like.

I

love

it.

I might

have to stay with that.

All right.

Well, Jen, you have a good weekend, summer kickoff thing.

Staying cool is going to be the key.

Well, right.

Yeah.

Staying cool.

And you were talking about camping.

And another thing I do is I go camp out at the frozen food section at the Hivee.

Oh,

yes.

It's always cool there.

When it's hot.

Yeah, it really is.

So if you get too hot, just set up a tent.

Maybe they'll kick you out.

Maybe they won't.

It depends.

It depends on who's working.

Well, and maybe you can take a folding chair and just, you know,

just sit there

and enjoy and have conversation with people while they're getting their frozen goods.

Yeah.

Why did

you pick that ice cream?

Yeah.

Is that

good?

Yeah.

Judge items people pick up and put in their cart.

That'd be fun.

We could make that an event.

You know, I might do that this weekend and just go sit there and bring my remote equipment.

Yes.

And put them on the radio.

You should.

Criticizing these people and what they're buying while I'm cooling off in the frozen section.

That would be fun.

Yes.

That's

right.

Okay, that's done.

We

should do that.

No,

that's done.

That's the plan for this weekend.

Okay, be watching for me somewhere.

Yeah, if it's true or not.

Surprise

location.

That's right.

Coming up, I've got your hit and run headlines.

Thank you, Jen from My Lakes Complete Auto Care.

Always good to have you.

Thank you.

I

love coming in here.

Good.

Good.

We'll keep doing it then.

We'll get into some John Mellencamp and Toto and some other summer tunes when we come back.

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