Now let's bring in our guest.

He is none other than Eric Peters of Eric Peters,

and he is a very decent man for coming in the way he has.

Eric, welcome and happy New Year.

I'm so glad that I get to see you. And I apologize for messing up on the link earlier.

It's okay. At least we were able to fix it between ourselves, unlike that Dodge Dart that I had to deal with last week.

Tell people what you experienced. This is beautiful. Oh, it's incredible. Okay, so, you know, the test car,

the car that I was test driving for purposes of reviewing last week was a brand new,

2024 Dodge Dart. First couple of days went fine. The third day, I went out to drive it,

and it wouldn't start. You push the stars button, and the headlights flashed. And so my immediate

instinctual response was, okay, probably has

a dead and or weak battery. So I go to my toolbox. I get out the old multimeter and I check the

battery and sure enough, it's down to nine volts. For whatever reason, now it's a brand new car. You'd

think it has a brand new battery. Why is the battery low? But in any event, the battery's low.

And typically with modern computer controlled cars, if the computer doesn't sense 12 volts at the battery's low. And typically with modern computer-controlled cars, if the computer

doesn't sense 12 volts at the battery, sometimes it won't even try to start because the fuel

injection won't work without full voltage. So at any rate, I did what, you know, a few years ago

would have been the reasonable thing to do, which is to charge up the battery. So I hooked up to my trickle charger, and in the process, I disconnected, and this is going

to become important, I disconnected the negative cable.

Okay?

Then when I charged up the battery, it was showing 12 volts.

I put the negative cable back on the battery, and the car went berserk.

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