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Grease The Wheels Podcast

Grease The Wheels

A Master Technician, a microphone, 30 years of experience in the Automotive Industry: buckle up! Come along as we take a look at the current state of the automotive industry from the point of view of the guys and gals turning the wrenches. So no matter what you fix, how you fix it, or how many tools you have to fix it with: welcome to the Grease the Wheels Nation. Also once in a while we take a look at the makes and models of cars we work on through the lenses of history, economics, politics, our

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Episode 367: Gemini Hallucinations

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2026/10/01

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s meandering episode of Grease the Wheels, we sick AI onto some of the big ideas when it comes to automotive fixed operations. One of the best questions anyone has asked an AI in a long time is “what is the NADA, and what do they do?” The real meat of the episode revolves around Service Advisors, and the often woeful sink or swim training that they receive from dealerships. The esoteric question of, “is it better to have a brand new service advisor or get one wit...

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Episode 366: That Yota Hero

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2026/09/24

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, we take on one of the hot button topics of the industry - ThatYotaGuy. We are a big fan of Austin’s work in the freedom of speech category, and refusing to yield when major corporations are telling you to take down media that you created and feel strongly about takes a tremendous amount of balls. We also get in an obligatory amount of Aftermarket Warranty bashing. This is a good one, and might be the first of many! GTW MERC...

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Episode 365: History Lesson

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2026/09/17

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy does a deep, AI Driven Dive into the Cash For Clunkers Program. This is, what the economists called at the time, “pump priming” economic stimulus with some environmental goals attached. We also get into the metrics, what got taken off the road, and what was it replaced by. Lots of small SUV’s got turned into Toyota Corolla’s and Honda Accords. We also get into some of the more interesting casualties of the program, as well as ...

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Episode 364: Supply-less Demand

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2026/08/27

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy has a sit-down with Gemini to get to the heart of the Technician shortage. We also get into some more nefarious ideas of price fixing when it comes to technician wages, which it wouldn’t give us an answer to, which became a major league red flag. The nuts and bolts of the technician shortage are stark and simple. The industry is getting older, the cars are getting harder to work on, and less people are willing to do thi...

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Episode 363: Shit Hitting the Fan

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2026/08/27

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, we talk about the polar opposite of the Great Replacement Theory that is going on across shops all over this country. Quite Simply put, there is real hard evidence and thousands of anecdotes that tell us that Gen Z might not have the cognitive skills, mechanical aptitude, or overall gumption (to borrow an insanely Boomer term) to get the job done in the shops and dealerships across the world. The real winner here though are going t...

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58:37

Episode 362: For The Instructors

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2026/08/13

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease The Wheels, we talk about one of the major unsung heroes of the entire industry - the men and women who teach us seemingly un-teachable lot what’s going on. Weather you are an associate professor at a small state school, to a hyper-focused product expert working for a manufacturer, the knowledge that you have and your ability to parlay that knowledge through our often dense skulls is what keeps the entire industry moving forward. Every little ...

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59:07

Episode 361: Pissing Match Part 2

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2026/08/05

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, we get into some of the statistics of the “should technicians get paid for Video MPI’s” debate — and if this were an election, they would call it a landslide. Even the majority of Management and instructors are on the side of “pay the technicians for Video MPI’s”. When it comes right down to it, the foreword thinking management that wants to pay for Video MPI’s is actually giving themselves leverage as to their quality, branding, a...

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Episode 360: Pissing Match

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2026/07/30

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease The Wheels, Uncle Jimmy starts a proper war on LinkedIn. We love LinkedIn, from the endless networking with people who want to sell us stuff, to some of the most ludicrous and overhyped job titles we have ever seen. Everyone is an expert, a guru, a wizard, or mogul - at least in their own head! What started as a post about not wanting to pay technicians for Video MultiPoint Inspections quickly became an entire week’s work for one of these self...

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Episode 359: Lock’Em Up

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2026/07/17

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Grease the wheels ,we talk about one of the very real threats that dealerships and their staffs face on a daily basis: security. For some reason, the criminal element loves car dealerships. It’s probably the tens of millions of dollars of inventory sitting on the lot or the fact that their harbor freight saws-all’s are simultaneously cheap and effective and catalytic converts are not cheap. There are tens of thousands of property crimes that happen ev...

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Episode 358: Chalk It Up On The Slate

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2026/07/08

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy goes a bit deeper on the way that the Slate Electric Truck company is setting up shop. We get deeper into the idea that different levels of shop certification mean different types of work getting funneled to those shops. We also get into some of the broader market ramifications as well as how AI thinks this is going to go. There is a lot going on here, but it is going to be so fascinating to watch and we are rooting for...

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Episode 357: It’s A New Day

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2026/07/03

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Grease The Wheels, we address the 800 LB gorilla in the room with the arrival of a sub $25,000 old school Mini-Truck style EV called Slate. This is one of the coolest things out there, and not only because it comes in Uncle Jimmy’s preferred cab layout, having the correct amount of doors for a pickup truck. As a product, it is deeply interesting, and we would love to get our hands on one to use (and in Erik the Producer's case - mercilessly abuse). However,...

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Episode 356: What Should You Say

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2026/06/25

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy does a deep dive on the WrenchWay 2026 Voice of the Technician Survey — and man, does it should like a synopsis of Grease the Wheels! This time though, none of the numbers are made up, although admittedly Uncle Jimmy was a lot closer to the mark than we really want to admit. There are deep, structural issues within the automotive industry, and this is coming from across the board. Incredible stats from pay, to getting new tech...

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Episode 355: Mentor, or Tormentor

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2026/06/11

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy gets in depth with all of the things that tech schools DO NOT teach their students. There is a real disconnect between what techs know when they finish a program and when they enter the workforce. There really isn’t any type of instruction that can adequately prepare a student for the chaos of a modern auto shop. We also get inso some of the new guy metrics from WrenchWay, deeper into the technician shortage, and take a...

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Episode 354: Raising the Bar

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2026/05/28

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, we use AI to be introspective and ask it what it thinks of the podcast. Overall, it mirrors many of the opinions of our listeners, which is kinda spooky. It also goes into some of our ongoing projects, which is even spookier! Moving to a multimedia format would be difficult with the way that the content is produced, but we do have some tricks up our sleeves when it comes to that. Also, the march and logo game is about to go off on ...

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Episode 353: Stupid Is As Customers Do

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2026/05/21

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Grease The Wheels, we ask Gemini why customers are the way they are. There is a good portion of the customer base who knows that their cars are going to break, knows that they can’t fix them, and trusts you to make the right call when it comes to diagnosing and fixing the problems that they have to get back on the road. There is another segment of the customer base that might not trust you 100%, but is still captive to their own lack of knowledge and ...

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Episode 352: Dear Mr. Fantasy

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2026/05/14

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy goes into some of the deepest professional fantasies of ownership, management, and everything in between. Ownership wants a business that essentially runs itself, but to do that they have to empower their management to make the right decisions and give the dealership a level of autonomy. This is something that many owners have a hard time with. Management wants their job to be as easy as possible, hiring people who do a ...

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Episode 351: Job Search 101

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2026/04/30

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy goes hard in the paint when it comes to finding a new place to work — or if you are a new guy, a first place to work. There are a lot of questions that need to be asked when doing this, some of which are simple and extremely specific to who you are as a person, and the rest are a bit more hands on when it comes to site visits. What brand do you want to work on? Do you really only want to work on one brand, or do you pref...

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Episode 350: Radio Free Grease The Wheels

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2026/04/22

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy goes over some ways that you could *theoretically* sabotage the shop, and some of the ways to fix it. The conclusion that he comes to however, is one of the coldest lines in this entire series of podcasts - mainly that most shops are sabotaging themselves! From poor management to ineffective service advisors, when times get slow from either external or internal factors the personnel that stand to lose the most happen to...

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Episode 349: You Can Call Me AI

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2026/04/16

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy goes down the AI Rabbit hole with some of the most pressing causes of the technician shortage. Weirdly, Gemini has apparently been an avid listener of grease the wheels, because the last few episodes were often referenced! However, where it completely excels is in the numbers, specifically looking at the aging population of auto mechanics with mid-60% being over the age of 45 years old. Apparently Millenials avoided the...

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Episode 348: It Hurts

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2026/04/10

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle jimmy concludes his symposium on the technician shortage with the simple fact that the job is dangerous, and it will hurt you at some point. There are a million and a half ways to get hurt at work, from the cars to the equipment, to not properly using either. There are also a millions ways that the job can kill you, such as trying to catch rolls royces, to chemicals. In this episode we go over the burns, cuts, sprains, and st...

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