Check Engine Podcast

In this episode, we realize that we have made it to FIVE YEARS of podcasting! Thank you to our loyal listeners who have stuck with us this far, through thick and thin, consistent and inconsistent release schedules, and everything else!! After we reminisce for a little while, this episode then jumps into the deep and of the automotive industry conspiracy theory pool! Are we fools for wasting money on gas when we could use water? IS the New World Order coming for us? Listen in today and feel free to tell us how we've missed the next big automotive plot! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this episode, Nick has been given to daunting challenges: Put a Nissan Rogue in reverse and to convince Andrew and Tristan (and maybe even our listeners) to watch more than IMSA this year! Being the marketing wizard he is, Nick has been tasked with assembling the perfect sales pitches that will hook Andrew and Tristan on the 2023 NASCAR, IndyCar, and F1 seasons. Listen in today to see if they take the bait! Maybe you will too! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

This very first episode of Season SIX marks the triumphant return of your full set of Spirit of the Race award winning hosts! With some big life changes behind us, we're finally able to reunite around the virtual table to discuss some recent automotive news, the futures of self driving and updating cars, Super Bowl commercials, Tristan's travelogue, and even a couple rental car reviews! Join us as we knock off the rust and get back to it! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

We're BACK everyone! And ready for Season 6! With Andrew still out on assignment in Nebraska, Nick and Tristan get to host a discussion on grassroots karting (and karting at the NOT so grassroots level). Join us for a virtual round table with several of the drivers in Nick's karting group, the TaG Master's Championship (and one driver who might join them one day). With drivers of various backgrounds, experience levels, and life experience, this episode promises to be a lively discussion full of the stories of our guest drivers, discussions of their championship, and discussion about karting in general, all over the world.  For more information, right from the drivers themselves, please visit and support their various social media and merch opportunities listed below! Roman Padans' Lv2Race YouTube Channel Charlie Ropke's YouTube Channel Brian Janty's YouTube Channel And last, but certainly not least, the merch store for Kevin Kullman and Brian Janty's Mean Wieners --- Support this podcast: https://anc

On this week's episode, we welcome Mike Skeen! Mike is a multi-talented driver who has driven everything from Baja to NASCAR to Trans Am cars to the fabled Pike's Peak hill climb! If it has wheels, he can (and probably will) race it! Providing some great inside stories that only a driver like Mike can, he brought us one heck of an episode! Listen in today! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

It's that time again folks! Time for our yearly roundup of our pilgrimage to the promised land, Heaven on Earth, America's National Park of Speed: Road America in beautiful Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. From our observations on the quality of racing, to Andrew's first experience out on the track, to some of Nick's post-race exploits in the friendly confines of Siebkens bar, we'll make you feel like you were there! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this open episode, we discuss some issues with driving we've noticed lately, baffling car to human interface choices, this new subscription model the car companies are trying, what to do about the weird Buick/Cadillac dichotomy, and some cool motorsports news from Nick! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this open episode, we celebrate the return of Andrew's Elantra from repair purgatory! We also celebrate the return of Tristan from the perils of the Bermuda Triangle! We discuss some motorsport, some car news and NEAT (or not so neat...) car news, and various other topics of the day. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this open episode, we discuss the Check Engine Podcast's first Long Term Test Drive, our Indycar Weekend at Road America, our limits on how far we'd go for different car buying experiences, and Diet Dr. Pepper. This episode, we'd like you not to donate to us, if you feel inclined, but please visit Racing With Autism's website to donate to Austin and the wonderful work he's doing! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

We're finally back in the studio! Armed with backlit, big screen TV, accent lighting, a real mixing board, and microphone stands, the boys are BACK! Being the season of "Dads and Grads" we follow a listener suggestion and fill out the pages of our automotive yearbook with everyone's favorite part: the awards! We bring our nominees for most likely to succeed, teacher's pet, and class clown to the table and crown some winners. Listen in today to tell us if there are any other nominees or even any other awards you'd hand out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In preparation for Pride Month in June, we decided to delve deep into the wonderful, rainbow wonderful world of color! Everyone remember your memory tricks for the colors of the rainbow? We do! We explore the full spectrum of Roy G Biv as it applies to the automotive world. We each discuss and show and tell our favorite Reds, Oranges, Yellows, Greens, Blues, Indigos, and Violets (with some bonus neutrals thrown in as well) and what cars they look the best on. Listen in today, find us on social media, and then show us YOUR rainbow of automotive goodness! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

With, hopefully, one last remote recording session, we bring you an open episode! This episode, we discuss some neat car news, we finally get Nick's opinion on the Lucid Air, and FINALLY give you our take on the masterpiece that is Grand Prix Racing On Line. Listen in today to find out what we think! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this episode, we celebrate the birthday of one of our hosts and allow him to choose the tune! So, at Andrew's request, we discuss what (if we had the funds and the go ahead from our significant others) would be our track day toys of choice. From a fully stripped out, customized nearly-racecar to a double threat GT car, to a tuner classic, we discuss what would bring us joy on the streets and the road. Listen in and let us know what YOU would use to wring some smiles out of your face! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this open episode, we discuss our most recent embarrassing car stories, desirable cars as suggested by the Interwebs, buying the car for the job you have, not the job you want (... or the job you used to have), the never-ending search for Andrew's next car, and why electric cars look so dang weird... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

This week, our episode topic came to us (well, Nick) in a DREAM! Dreaming of Goldendoodles, Cockapoos, and Taco Terriers, Nick was stuck with the inspiration to have us talk about cross-breeding cars. So, we jumped right in to discuss some of our ideas on what would make the perfect "Designer Car Breed".Could we make something fun or useful by crossing an F350 with a Smart Car? What about a VW Cabriolet and a Chevy Traverse? The options would seem to be limitless! Listen in today and let us know what cars YOU'D cross and what you'd make out of them! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this episode, we ask our listeners what how they'd feel about some video games for a future episode! We also dive head first into what the heck happened to Mini, the Mustang Mach E and Bronco situation with Ford, the Hyundai Ioniq 5, and, most importantly (or, unimportantly, depending on who you are), the Toyota GR Corolla! Listen in today to tell us what YOU think! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

This episode, we discuss various race news from this week, including our boy, Josh Bilicki's new-found fire, the history of penalties in NASCAR, and whether "race driver" is a lucrative addition to our resume. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

This week, Tristan opens our episode by sharing stories of his wild last couple weeks in automotive ownership. Then Andrew and Nick go down the rabbit hole of some super cool collabs between guitar makers and automakers. Let us know if you know of any we missed or if you have any crazier roadtrip stories than Tristan! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

Like Cadillac and NASCAR before it, Mazda is now in the sights of the Check Engine Podcast Brand Enhancement Team (the guys...). We examine the best possible strategies for Mazda to find its way back into favor with both us and the rest of the car-buying world. We don't know exactly what Mazda IS doing, but we know what they SHOULD be doing! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support

In this episode, we open things back up for some discussions on motorsports, the Autonomous Vehicle Industry (DON'T CALL THEM SELF-DRIVING), a dip into car video games, and other bits of automotive news. Listen  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checkenginepodcast/support