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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on LBS Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Hell, It's Night Side with Dan Ray. Bradley and

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Speaker 2: for Dan tonight, and guess Craig Fitzgerald, who is our

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Speaker 2: car guy, our car wise guy, talking about ten best

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Speaker 2: cars used cars about today in any automotive questions you

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Speaker 2: may have now Richard and Cambridge, he did supply us

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Speaker 2: with that question that required some mulling over and perhaps

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Speaker 2: you could re Craig, you could restate his issue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So so it sounded.

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Speaker 4: Like the the there's an issue with the hybrid battery

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Speaker 4: that is causing the car to shut off and is

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Speaker 4: you know it'll die overnight having some charging issues. So

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, it sounds like he's been to

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Speaker 4: a bunch of dealerships and I hate to kind of

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Speaker 4: give that advice, like you probably need to find another one.

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Speaker 3: But you know that's that you know, that.

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Speaker 4: Vehicle is protected by a pretty sick nificant warranty. Plus

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Speaker 4: the federal government requires some I believe it's an eight

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Speaker 4: year warranty on the battery as well. Plus if there's

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Speaker 4: a TSB out there, like it seems weird that they

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Speaker 4: would not like investigate that further if you're having multiple

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Speaker 4: issues with it. So I know it's a real hassle,

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Speaker 4: but you got to go back and you got to start,

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Speaker 4: you know, like start from square one with these people.

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Speaker 4: Talk to the service manager. If you're not getting satisfaction

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Speaker 4: from the service manager, to talk to the general manager.

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Speaker 4: Like they sold you that car with that warranty in it,

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Speaker 4: and they need to honor that for sure. And it

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Speaker 4: sounds like they've done the like kind of you know,

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Speaker 4: all we plug the you know, OBD two monitor in

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Speaker 4: it or whatever, and and it didn't it didn't turn

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Speaker 4: up any issues. But they got to do more investigation

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Speaker 4: than that. It's like it's something that you know, the

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Speaker 4: car needs to be there for a few days. It

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Speaker 4: sounds like, you know, in order to replicate that issue.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks now, Jade can when we go to

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Speaker 2: Jay producer Master control upraight to go to John and Methuen.

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Speaker 2: We have to do it this way. My screen here

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Speaker 2: has some sort of issue. John Methuen, say hi to

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Speaker 2: Craig and.

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Speaker 5: Me Hi, Craig, how you doing, h Bradley Eppy, thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: Happy, thanks you, diving to you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. I just have a couple of questions. Recently,

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Speaker 5: I bought a huge Chevy and Powell up with the

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Speaker 5: low profile tires. I think they're twenty inches. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: But anyway, my question on these tires is how would

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Speaker 5: he's in the winter. I've never had a cab with

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Speaker 5: this type of a tire before.

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Speaker 4: Twenty inch tires are I mean, that's a performance tire.

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Speaker 4: Uh there, you know, they are not going to give

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Speaker 4: you the traction in the winter that you used to.

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Speaker 4: What is a bigger tire kase traction. Well, so there's

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Speaker 4: a number of issues, right they made you know, they're

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Speaker 4: wider first of all, right, so you know, typically what

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Speaker 4: you want to do is go with a narrower right,

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Speaker 4: and it tends to ride up in the snow and

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Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. But you know, a twenty

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Speaker 4: inch tire in general is going to be more performance

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Speaker 4: oriented than like a traditional all season tire wood. But

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Speaker 4: the other issue you're going to have is the ride

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Speaker 4: quality is not going to be great in the winter,

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Speaker 4: you know, as potholes start to open up in the

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Speaker 4: streets and stuff. So what I tend to do is

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Speaker 4: offer you know, the the reason that twenty inch tires

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Speaker 4: exist and larger wheels exist is because a lot of

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Speaker 4: performance cars got giant brake roaders on them, and you

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Speaker 4: can't put a smaller wheel over that giant brake roader.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe the Impala has giant brake roaders. So

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Speaker 4: you may be able to go with a smaller wheel.

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Speaker 4: And I'd look into an eighteen, you know, find a

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Speaker 4: for that vehicle, and put us put a winter tire

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Speaker 4: on it. Uh, you know it's gonna be one thousand

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Speaker 5: When you say winket tires, are you talking about? All

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Speaker 5: four of them have winket tires.

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Speaker 3: Yep. I'd put four winter tires on it. When you

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Speaker 3: say winter, do you mean slow tire? A winter rated tire? Right?

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Speaker 4: So they they're they're rated for you know, it's the

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Speaker 4: tread pattern plus the the the rubber compound that allows

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Speaker 4: those tires to grip better in the snow than So.

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Speaker 3: You have to have two sets of wheels and tires.

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Speaker 2: I do on all of Yeah, so you must have

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Speaker 2: a place where you you must have like sixteen so

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Speaker 4: I have three vehicles that I need to put winter

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Speaker 4: around a micro Normal people can't, I know, I know,

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Speaker 4: I know most people can't.

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Speaker 3: But do you neighbors complain about the stacks of tires

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Speaker 4: No, you know, like a lot of places like you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if Sullivan Tire does it or not,

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Speaker 4: but they'll store a set of winter table which wheels

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Speaker 4: for you. Which is nice, you know, and it's not

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Speaker 4: it's like a nominal charge. What's the difference between winter

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Speaker 4: tires and all season tires? All season tires are well

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Speaker 4: as you as you would suggest, you know, like they're

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Speaker 4: pretty good in the in the in the wet, they're

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Speaker 4: pretty good in the dry, they're pretty good in the snow.

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Speaker 4: Winter rated tires are for thirty degrees or below, and

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Speaker 4: so they grip on ice better. They have a more

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Speaker 4: aggressive tread pattern so that they work on snow better.

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Speaker 4: They're just in general, they're just a better tire for

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Speaker 4: the winter months.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm a tire person and hanging there, John,

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Speaker 2: you might be interested in this. There is a service

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Speaker 2: available where you can have the tires done in your

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Speaker 2: own dragway.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And it's a very high quality service. I understand. Can

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Speaker 2: you can you explain it? Because that'd be cool because

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Speaker 2: when the person came, you could ask them all these questions.

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Speaker 3: What's the difference? We just kind of tire and that

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Speaker 3: kind of tire.

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Speaker 4: So a friend of mine owns owned a tire place

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Speaker 4: called Boston Mobile Tire. He has a big giant Ford

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Speaker 4: transit van, shows up in your driveway. He's got he's

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Speaker 4: got a wheel balancer, he's got a tire machine in there.

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Speaker 4: He'll whip your tires off, replace him right in your

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Speaker 4: can do an alignment, though he does he doesn't do alignment.

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Speaker 4: So if you need to, if you need an we

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Speaker 4: don't need to always, but it's a good idea too.

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Speaker 4: So if you need an alignment, you need to go.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere else to do that. How do you know if

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Speaker 3: you need you?

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know you if it's pulling to the right,

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Speaker 4: pulling to the left, anything like that, you know, uneven tirewear,

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Speaker 4: any of those kind of things, you might indicate to

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Speaker 4: you that you needed an alignment.

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Speaker 3: But Johnathanthu and are we good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well one more question on the if I were

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Speaker 5: to get the all the all weather tires now I

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Speaker 5: would have to get new rints too.

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Speaker 6: Right, well, that's what.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying with your with your car with twenties on it,

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Speaker 4: And the reason for that, the reason I'm telling you

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Speaker 4: that is because when you go with an eighteen inch wheel,

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Speaker 4: rubber that you see on the on the tire, right,

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Speaker 4: that's the low profile, and it's very It's like it's

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Speaker 4: like an inch and a half With an eighteen inch

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Speaker 4: So as a result, you're going to get a better

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Speaker 4: ride out of it. In the winter, it's not going

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Speaker 4: rim damage if you hit a pothole, you know, like

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Speaker 4: with a low profile tire, I have my soul has

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Speaker 4: left my body when I've hit a you know, like

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Speaker 4: an expansion joint with something with like twenty one inch

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Speaker 4: wheels with a low profile tire, it's awful. It's not

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Speaker 4: like the in New England they're really not a good

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Speaker 4: I They're really not John.

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Speaker 2: Thank you much, Jay, Let's thank you, Thanks, say goodbye

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Speaker 2: to John. Okay, let me delve into a couple of

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Speaker 2: questions I might have. And the first one, actually I

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Speaker 2: was gonna say, will be about tires. But no, let's

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Speaker 2: am other questions after this.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio.

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Speaker 2: To join night Side, I hope you do any automotive questions.

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Speaker 2: Love to hear from you. Craig Fitzgerald is our guest,

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Speaker 2: and we are talking about ten bet we have to

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Speaker 2: go through the list of the ten best by the

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Speaker 2: way used cars to buy today according to consumer reports.

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Speaker 3: But I'm going to.

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Speaker 2: Sneak in one more tire question. In our previous color,

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Speaker 2: John was talking about his wheels and tires, and you

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Speaker 2: were telling me about my tires, saying, hey, those tires

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Speaker 2: you have, Bradley J just no good? Are not great

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Speaker 2: in the winter?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: You need winter tires, not all season tires. And I

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Speaker 2: don't have a place where really want to buy another

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Speaker 2: home set of tires. What if I just here comes

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Speaker 2: the question. Everybody listen, it might apply to you. What

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Speaker 2: if I just ran winter tires all year and didn't

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Speaker 2: have to swap mountain the summer. What would the downside be?

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Speaker 2: Would they would the performance suffer? Would they be really loud?

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Speaker 2: Is there any Is it a bad idea safety wise?

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Speaker 2: Or is it just that they'll kind of wear down faster?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So so winter tires are generally a softer compound, so

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Speaker 4: they will wear faster. But we're running winter tires on

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Speaker 4: my Sun's car, and I haven't swapped the summer tires

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Speaker 4: on it because they that's a Those are twenty inch

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Speaker 4: terrible with those on it. So we're going to sell

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Speaker 4: those and keep the wheels that we've got with the

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Speaker 4: winter tires on them and get another set of.

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Speaker 3: It always devolves into tires with me, it does.

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Speaker 2: So how much faster the tires wear that winter tires wear, I.

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Speaker 4: Don't know, you know, it's I would say, you know,

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Speaker 4: if you've got five years out of a set of tires, uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, all seasons, you'd get four.

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Speaker 3: I would say it's twenty percent.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into Let's get the list out, the top

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Speaker 2: ten list of us.

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Speaker 3: Got it? You have it right, I have it right here.

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Speaker 4: So the first one we already talked about, which was

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Speaker 4: the Mazda six, which was the in the sedan under

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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars category, which I mean, I really like

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Speaker 4: the Mazda six and I and I think in general,

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty satisfied with most of the list.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 4: Hold on, let me just see where. Okay, under fifteen

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Speaker 4: grand is the twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen Toyota Corolla.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely fine plane vanilla automobile. Like it is the non

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Speaker 4: non player character of automobiles. Right, it's non entity, but

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Speaker 4: it's a good, reliable car, will never.

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Speaker 3: Do you wrong. Right, It's transportation.

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Speaker 2: Is it's not your identity unless your identity is such

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Speaker 4: That's my problem is that my identity gets tied up

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Speaker 3: Yeah, old man truck. I would know why now that.

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Speaker 4: So so SUV under fifteen grand is your car? X

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Speaker 4: You're right in the ballpark with that, which you made

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Speaker 2: You know I sweated, You're validated, like everybody sweats it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, am I making a mistake? You don't sweat it because.

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Speaker 4: I mean I shouldn't ask you because you sweat about everything,

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Speaker 3: You're obsessed with. Alright, Well take something there, mister Fitzgerald boots.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So all right, hybrid under twenty grand Toyota Camry

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Speaker 4: Here's the three row suv under twenty grand. Let's just

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Speaker 2: What I love about you, Yeah, you will give actionable,

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Speaker 4: I did not like the NX. I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 4: list is the pickup truck under twenty thousand dollars. They

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Speaker 4: Tacoma for sale for less than twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: there's no reason not to buy a Nissan Frontier, you'll

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Speaker 4: save eight to ten thousand dollars. Buying a Frontier. Frontier

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Speaker 2: get into Brian and Peabody? Hi, Brian, let's do a

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Speaker 2: quick question from you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I hope you guys should give me

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Speaker 3: YEP.

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Speaker 7: I know it's not really a mechanic problem, and I'm

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Speaker 5: Like what do I do?

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Speaker 4: So I would buy a canopy B blaster from your

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Speaker 7: And then what I mean at that point, like, what's

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Speaker 7: what bring it to a tire shop. I'm gonna have

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Speaker 3: Right yep? Correct, So so they'll.

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Speaker 7: Just val entire pressure sensors also, so.

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Speaker 4: No, they should be able to save the sensors. As

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Speaker 4: be fine with those. And they'll just replace the valve.

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Speaker 3: Stems, which are cheap.

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Speaker 4: You know, they're the the The unfortunate part is you

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Speaker 3: So you're gonna have to rebalance.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, it's gonna it's gonna cost you a

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Speaker 7: All for five dollars, my wife?

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Speaker 3: Do they look good? Do they look good? Anyways? Are

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Speaker 4: You know, sar Wars, Star Wars fantastic so much.

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Speaker 3: You got it, Thank you very much. That was a

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Speaker 3: great question. Do not buy those.

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Speaker 2: Things, and in further, don't buy a other Just don't

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Speaker 4: Old, the old, tried and true plastic valve cap anything.

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Speaker 2: Yep, you don't really even need the valve cap. Let's

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Speaker 4: So so that's what's happening there. And those things probably

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Speaker 3: And see if you can get them to loosen up.

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Speaker 3: P B blaster. That's good stuff.

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Speaker 2: You use the phrase throwing codes, and you know what,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And opening for Ernie and the Automatics

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Speaker 2: To Robert and Watertown and have some more fun talking

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Speaker 2: about cars on WBZ.

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Speaker 6: After this, it's Night Side with Boston's news radio Bradley.

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Speaker 2: Jake for dan Tune Night with Craig Fitzgerald, and we're

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Speaker 2: talking about cars and cars stuff. Gone through a list

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Speaker 2: for questions from you. We just had an interesting question

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Speaker 3: Can't get them off yep.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if you if you're thinking you need

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Speaker 4: You know, drummal tools are pretty handy little tool and

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Speaker 3: So give that a shot.

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Speaker 2: And not the second guess anybody's choices when it comes

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Speaker 3: But I wonder if anyone ever noticed that they were

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Speaker 4: Ohit you pull right up to the gas that you

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Speaker 4: know the valet? Hey right here, am I see you

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Speaker 2: Everybody really notice that is so small.

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Speaker 6: You lose lose?

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Speaker 3: Operation really was?

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Speaker 2: Now? Uh six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty

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Speaker 3: Thanks? Hi Robert.

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Speaker 8: Hey guys, Hey Robert, guys.

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Speaker 3: You sound down to the dumps. We're gonna cheer you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm kind of down on the dump street because

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Speaker 9: I've been waiting and I've been listening. So it's just

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Speaker 9: service at the dealership. So she ended up you know,

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Speaker 9: getting her from uh me son, which they were trying

442
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Speaker 9: to deny.

443
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 8: But it's just that I don't know, why would mad

444
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 8: that be one of the lists. I don't know, because

445
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 8: I always thought, you know, to make it great, they.

446
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 3: Make a great car, so so I think I think,

447
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 3: you know, people have.

448
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 4: Really long memories with with like automotive stuff for some reason.

449
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:44,239
Speaker 4: And Mazda years ago, like years ago, had vehicles, had

450
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Speaker 4: a lot of vehicles with rotary engines, and they were

451
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 4: They're great little engines. They churn out a ton of

452
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 4: power for the size that they are, but they were

453
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 4: problematic and nobody knew how to work on them. So

454
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Speaker 4: as a result, everybody thought, well, you know, Myzda. You know,

455
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 4: they got a lot of problems with those rotary engines.

456
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 4: That must apply to all Mazda.

457
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 3: You know.

458
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 2: I think that's where that when you're eighteen you still

459
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 2: think that when sticks with.

460
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Speaker 4: You, and and like, Mazda makes a perfectly reliable, nice automobile.

461
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 3: And in twenty twenty five.

462
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: There were more Mazas on the top top ten lists

463
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Speaker 2: than any other car.

464
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,239
Speaker 4: There are four of them, yep, yeah, and and you

465
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 4: know so so you know, they've had their problems like

466
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 4: everybody else has over the years. But there's there's no

467
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 4: reason not to buy a Mazda. There are reasons not

468
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 4: to buy a Mitsubishi right from from certain years, but Amazda.

469
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 4: I wouldn't hesitate to buy uh Nissan as as you

470
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 4: found out with that Ultima. That was because those had

471
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 4: a continuously variable transmission and it was junk. It was early,

472
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 4: it was an early CVT. It was the worst transmission

473
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 4: they ever put in a vehicle. So so that was

474
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 4: the issue there. Mechanically, those you know, engine wise, those

475
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: cars will run forever, but those transmission transmissions were terrible.

476
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 4: Maz does all use a conventional you know, six speed

477
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 4: seven speed automatic transmission. They're you know, four cylinder turbos,

478
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 4: and they also use an inline six now with the

479
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 4: larger c X nine, which is a beautiful engine. I

480
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 4: wouldn't hesitate to buy a manstera thanks, Yeah.

481
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 8: Well, I thank you for saying that, because, like you said,

482
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 8: I think I'm still thinking in the oldies. I guess

483
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 8: they have they can't. It's just fuck audy. Back in

484
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 8: the eighties, nobody wants them. But like you said, so.

485
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 4: They've kind of gone, they've kind of come back around

486
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 4: to you might not want to buy it out he

487
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 4: at this point, you know, so like you know, there

488
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 4: there there, I would I wouldn't hesitate to buy a

489
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Speaker 4: Manstera at this point. I think they're a great guy.

490
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Speaker 3: Thanks a good night, Robert. We appreciate it.

491
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I guess we'll go right to

492
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Speaker 2: Sean in the Salem.

493
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Speaker 3: Hi, Sean, you're in.

494
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Speaker 10: W How you doing?

495
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 5: All right?

496
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 10: I'll just take it short and sweet. I'm a thirty

497
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 10: four year Nissan massive technician, so props everybody who drives

498
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 10: a Nissan. But as far as the valve stem tire

499
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 10: cap guy, sure, I'm gonna tell you a little secret

500
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 10: right now. It's a little bit of patience. I heard

501
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 10: you talk about the dremal trying to save this guy

502
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 10: from buying tire sensors for six hundred bucks if you

503
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 10: get in there with a dremo. But you gotta almost

504
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 10: do it like a like a side sandy. You got

505
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 10: to literally sand off a little bit of that tire cap,

506
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 10: barely expose the threads on the valve stem. You got

507
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 10: to saw through the tire stem cap because trust me,

508
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 10: I can't tell you how many times I've saved people's

509
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 10: tire sensors buried gingerly and gently file it down. And

510
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 10: then you can put a little bit of penetrating oil

511
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 10: because the spraying peb on there.

512
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do it.

513
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 10: They're going to do it when they're welded the dissimilar metals.

514
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 10: I was in the cow with my wife and I

515
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 10: said dissimilar just before you did with giggles. Yeah, I

516
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 10: know exactly. But if you if you're patient, you've got

517
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 10: to stand that Star Wars Darth Vader valve stem calf away,

518
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 10: get down until you expose the threads on there. And

519
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 10: if you're very ginger and you work it back and forth,

520
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 10: you can even buy one of those little old school

521
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 10: tire valve s them tools that you can reclean the

522
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 10: threads on there. Yep, if you relieve those threads, you know,

523
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 10: just like an eighth of an inch three sixteenths of

524
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 10: an inch to see the threads.

525
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 3: Yep.

526
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 10: And then a pair of flyers and very gingerly work

527
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 10: it back and forth. You'll get them off.

528
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 3: Yep.

529
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 5: So so what you're saying, some plastic caps on, you're done.

530
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Speaker 4: You expose the thread a little bit, shoot it with

531
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Speaker 4: a little penetrating yep, got it.

532
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 10: It's enough to see the threads. Like I said, if

533
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 10: you if you saw through, and even so, if you

534
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 10: relieve a little bit too much, as long as you

535
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 10: don't get into where the valve core is, yes, you'll

536
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 10: be fine. And I can't tell you how many times

537
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 10: I've saved people todays. I personally would do it with

538
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 10: a die grinder. I get right in there, do it

539
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 10: in thirty seconds.

540
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 3: Yep, you know, got it.

541
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 10: Average hom Wanner guy. If you get like you got

542
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 10: to get something, even if it's a handfile, you got

543
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 10: to be patient. But if you judge buying tire sensors

544
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 10: and programming and breaking down the fire a little bit

545
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 10: of elbow grease and that's the worst thing I see.

546
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 10: When a customer comes in with those, I'll throw on

547
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 10: plastic caps and tell them why I put them on.

548
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

549
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 10: I'm just trying to save this guy, because it ain't

550
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 10: going to be if he's got tire sensors, He's going

551
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 10: to be buying stems of sensors.

552
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's right. If you need to buy the

553
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: sensors easy unless.

554
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 10: You aftermarket, you know, you go to like a tire shop,

555
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 10: you might get after market, you know, quick sensors or

556
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 10: something for you know, sixty eighty bucks apiece versus factory

557
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 10: paying a buck fifty censor.

558
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: Ye.

559
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 10: I'll tell you Nissans extended a lot of transmission war

560
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 10: into these. I'll tell you I've rebuilt a lot and

561
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 10: I've replaced a lot, and there's been a lot of

562
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 10: extensions on those transmissions. And Nissan's been standing it behind him,

563
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 10: and it's been my bread and butter for a lot

564
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 10: of years.

565
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 4: And hey, let me ask you something. How are you

566
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 4: doing as a tech? You you're you're happy with your career.

567
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 4: You're because I.

568
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 10: Adially I started with Nissan in nineteen ninety one. I

569
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 10: am now platinum level Master Technicians. I've been in Master

570
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 10: tech since ninety four. And I love it. I mean

571
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 10: not too my horn.

572
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 5: I'm good at it.

573
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 10: You know, everybody in my family drives, and all my

574
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 10: friends drive one. And you know what, I got buddies

575
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 10: that are Ford guys that hate Nissan. I hate Ford

576
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 10: because I'm an eat guy. I got buddy to ROUDI

577
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 10: guys you hate Nissan, they love out Like if you

578
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 10: know what you know everything you know the devil you

579
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 10: know has been the devil you don't.

580
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 4: But there's there's a there's a you know, you probably

581
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 4: know this. Jim Farley from Ford has been talking about this.

582
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 4: You know, they're six thousand techs short and for dealerships

583
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 4: and I'm sure that's every wide.

584
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 10: Bruggle is real, you know, Struggle is real on that.

585
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 10: Like I said, I you know, I went to a

586
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 10: technical college, took it in high school, you know as

587
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 10: certified Advanced Level. You know, all my factory training, I've

588
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 10: only worked with two dealerships in my what's thirty six years.

589
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: Of working cars.

590
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 10: That's great, but it's all and what you know, you

591
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 10: get and get out what you put in, you know,

592
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 10: and hopefully you know what we need as younger guys

593
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 10: who want to do the the work that nobody else

594
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 10: wants to do. Like guys like me gets stuck with

595
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 10: you know, I'm EV certified Electric Diesel supercar gtr like.

596
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 10: I've got every single bit of training there is to have, like,

597
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 10: but not a lot of people want to do it.

598
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 10: And doing that type of stuff doesn't pay like it

599
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 10: does do and break jobs and airfilters all day. I

600
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 10: want to do everything I can do in every certification

601
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 10: you can get, you know. And that's you know, as

602
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 10: I'm fifty for one, I've been doing it since I

603
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 10: was seventeen, so right, and you can make it young

604
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 10: and people people don't realize blue collar guys that make

605
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 10: a good living absolutely, you know. And it's all what

606
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 10: you get out of it, whether you're tradesmen. I've got

607
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 10: friends that are plumbers, electricians, carpenters like you put in

608
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 10: the words you're good at what you do. People know it,

609
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 10: you know. And I heard you guys talking about the Frontier,

610
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 10: you know, like over the I would never knock Toyota,

611
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 10: but I wouldn't buy one. Okay, So we had some

612
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 10: CBT transmission issues. Why don't you look at how many

613
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 10: engine recalls Toyota's ad Look at look at all.

614
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 5: Of the frame like.

615
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 3: Those trucks gone, you know.

616
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 10: They're a budget of my buddies I worked at, you know,

617
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 10: I'm in southern New Hampshire and I worked at Toyota

618
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 10: Nissan dealing. I'll tell you a lot of my buddies

619
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 10: bought their houses on frame recalls. Yeah that was the

620
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 10: guys who were doing them. Loved them. You know, they

621
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 10: paid sixty hours to change the frame. They could do

622
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 10: in twelve. You know, they were great jobs. And like

623
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 10: I said, I wouldnt knock Toyota. I drove Toyotas for

624
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 10: a long time, but I've been doing Nissan. He said,

625
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 10: you can buy a Frontier probably ten grand less than

626
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 10: at Tacoma.

627
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 3: We got a break now, Yeah, good talking.

628
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 10: Listen to you guys. Like I said, you had me

629
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 10: smiling on the way. But if I can save that

630
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 10: guy with a tire sense with some box, I had to.

631
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 3: Call in absolutely happy Thanksgiving.

632
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: And that's it for this. We're going to break and again.

633
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: One more section segment with Craig here on WBZ.

634
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 6: It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.

635
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: One more segment with Craig Fitzgerald. I'm Bradley J for Dan,

636
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: and I want to actually kind of combine autumn auto

637
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: motive things with politics. Sure, question one in that department,

638
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 2: how have tariffs affected the industry.

639
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 4: So the challenge for the automotive industry is that when

640
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 4: they design a product, it's for something that's going to

641
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 4: happen five years from them. They make decisions you know,

642
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 4: that are five to ten years down the road. Shifting

643
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 4: gears on tariffs, on where you can pick up, where

644
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 4: you can you know, build products, and especially the ev

645
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 4: Tex UH credit making that go away. Those the two

646
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 4: things really through the automotive industry into some turmoil. And

647
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 4: you know, you've seen this now starting to see some wayoffs.

648
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 4: You're seeing you know, the in general, you know, number

649
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 4: of sales this year is kind of declining. Those things

650
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 4: are related to the cost you're gonna pay, right So

651
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 4: there's all kinds of issues there and they're not the

652
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 4: automotive industry isn't getting any help really from from the

653
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: government at the at the moment.

654
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 3: So like.

655
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 4: When we built we built a lot of cars in Canada.

656
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 4: We had entire automotive industries that we built in Canada

657
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 4: and we built them, uh you know, in the thirties.

658
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 4: In a lot of cases, those are that's over and

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Speaker 4: we're not building cars there anymore. And that has become

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Speaker 4: a real issue. It's been come an issue for the

661
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Speaker 4: number of vehicles that are available here. So there's a

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Speaker 4: there's a cascading number of issues that are happening because

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Speaker 4: of you know, decisions that are happening at the government level.

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Speaker 4: So it's not just about tariffs.

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Speaker 2: That's just one aspect that's uncertainty because I'm if I'm

666
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Speaker 2: an an't out of executive, I have to make decisions

667
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Speaker 2: now that right down the road, and I might not

668
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Speaker 2: have the parts or they might not be the demand

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Speaker 2: for the evs that I decided to build because the

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Speaker 2: the text right incentives go well, you know, it's like

671
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 2: Howard Lutnx out there telling people that like, oh, we're

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Speaker 2: building factories already, like there's gonna be factories everywhere, there's

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Speaker 2: gonna be manufacturing jobs everywhere.

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Speaker 3: That is, he knows that's not true, right, you can't

675
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Speaker 3: build a factory.

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Speaker 4: How he's the Secretary of UH Temptation, not Transportation, Building

677
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 4: Treasury not Treasury Okay, I can't remember anyway, So he's

678
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 4: you know, every Sunday he's out talking about how all

679
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 4: these news factories are being built. They're either legacy you know,

680
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 4: decisions that you know, like the Hyundai battery plant that

681
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 4: you know, decision happened years ago, or they're not gonna happen.

682
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Speaker 4: They're not gonna You cannot build a factory quickly enough

683
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 4: to you know, feed an industry. Uh, it's gonna be

684
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 4: five ten years down the road before these things get built.

685
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Speaker 4: So the idea that work, you know, this is going

686
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 4: to be a quick process. It's just not gonna happen

687
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Speaker 4: that way.

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Speaker 3: That makes the Secretary of Commerce correct commerce, thank you? Okay,

689
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Speaker 3: how about e v's is there a new leader in

690
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 3: the EV field? Uh? Emerging?

691
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Speaker 4: I talk about Hyundai a lot to me. Hyundai has

692
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 4: the widest range of EV products that people actually want

693
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Speaker 4: to buy, so they'll they have you know, uh, the

694
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Speaker 4: EV nine, which is a full size three row suv

695
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 4: almost the size of a tahoe. And that thing is

696
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 4: tremendous Uh to drive, It's a it's a pleasure to

697
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 4: drive it. I really love it. And then all the

698
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 4: way down to the Hondai Ionic, which is relatively small

699
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 4: compact car fun to drive. They have a performance version

700
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 4: of that thing. That is the wildest vehicle that I

701
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 4: drove last year. It accelerates like the track cock did.

702
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say you know, I'm gonna bring

703
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 4: up the g it the Jeep track cock.

704
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Speaker 2: It's good, folks, it' said basically a Jeep Grand Cherokee

705
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 2: with the engine the motor of a the Hellcat seven

706
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 2: and seven horse power engine.

707
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Speaker 3: This thing is just as fast it's and the the

708
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 3: acceleration is just as brutal. Uh.

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00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 4: And it's in a relatively small you know, Hyundai. Uh

710
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 4: you know, four passengers, sporty little car.

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00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 3: You went out to said and checked out another vehicle,

712
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 3: give us the review. Oh yeah, yeah.

713
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 4: That was the the new Subaru Outback, which a lot

714
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 4: of people, I myself included, looked at it when it

715
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 4: debuted at the New York Auto Show and thought, man,

716
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 4: this thing looks big. And I don't know if it's

717
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 4: the same as, you know, the kind of vehicle that

718
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 4: people loved in the outback before. But I went out

719
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: and drove it, and it's actually no bigger. It's kind

720
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 4: of an option, like an optical illusion, all because of

721
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Speaker 4: the angle.

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Speaker 3: It's the angles.

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00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 4: It's the way that like the the the the tailgate

724
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 4: is less sloped than it was before, and as a result,

725
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 4: you get two cubic feet more cargo.

726
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Speaker 3: Volume in it.

727
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 4: The roof is a tiny bit higher, so you get

728
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 4: better headroom in it. Love the way it drove, And

729
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: the biggest improvement is the the infotainment screen. All of

730
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Speaker 4: the things that I hated about the old one, you know,

731
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Speaker 4: all of like HVAC functions being in the touch screen,

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Speaker 4: they've all moved back out again into physical buttons, which

733
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Speaker 4: I think is a is a major plus for that vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Right now, another type of motor vehicle, as you folks now,

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Speaker 2: I have a beef with motor scooters. And how I

736
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Speaker 2: see a tendency I see this a motus scooter upert

737
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: is to ignore the traffic laws. Will cars will be

738
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Speaker 2: sitting in a red light, motorscooter just bloop somehow knows

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Speaker 2: that there will be no enforcement.

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Speaker 3: So there's that knock on them.

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Speaker 2: And the other day I realized, when I smell the

742
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Speaker 2: stinking one, I bet they don't are not missions checked.

743
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Speaker 2: I better check with Craig find out if that's the case.

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Speaker 2: And if not, why not, why wouldn't they be Well?

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Speaker 4: So, I mean, I think if you look at the

746
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 4: percentage of vehicles on the road in Massachusetts, they probably

747
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Speaker 4: represent about one percent of the vehicles on the road.

748
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Speaker 4: And they're also fifty cc, so small displacement. And the

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Speaker 4: the places where you go to get a mission tested

750
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Speaker 4: on your you know, regular carr they have to invest

751
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 4: one hundred thousand dollars for that emissions machine. No motorcycle

752
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 4: shop is going to invest one hundred thousand dollars in

753
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Speaker 4: an emissions machine that there is only a limited number

754
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Speaker 4: of people that are going to come through and get

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Speaker 4: emissions tested on.

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Speaker 2: So as you know, the number of those vehicles has exploded. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's starting to look like a lot more

758
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Speaker 2: like Asian countries and the number of vehicles, right, don't

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Speaker 2: we have to start?

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Speaker 3: I bet you us. I mean, so you know you're you're.

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Speaker 4: In a in an area where they're going to be

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Speaker 4: the most popular, right, So in the city, they're going

763
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Speaker 4: to be the most popular. In the suburbs where I am,

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Speaker 4: you hardly see them all right, perfect, perfect timing.

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Speaker 2: I cannot express fully how much I appreciate you coming in,

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Speaker 2: hanging out. And next up on w BZ we have

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Speaker 2: the King of Thanks. I can't wait to hear who

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Speaker 2: might that be?

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