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Speaker 2: All right, let's let's get right into it. I see

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Speaker 2: the phones are little already and I want to take

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Speaker 2: this first call. It sounds interesting. Let's go to Stephen,

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Speaker 2: New Jersey comments about buying a new Jeep. Steve, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Car Doctor. Sure what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thanks for taking my call. Ronne. Nice to

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Speaker 3: talk to you. Again, I talked to you about five

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Speaker 3: years ago. I came up to your shop. But that's

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Speaker 3: that's another story, okay, Ron, I'm thinking about getting a

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to get a twenty twenty three jeep Wagoner,

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Speaker 3: I mean Grand Wagoneer. Grand Cherokee got it right with

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Speaker 3: the V eight and uh, you know that's like the

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Speaker 3: Overland or Summit. I'm wondering what you think of the

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Speaker 3: the the jeep if you've had any experience with the

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Speaker 3: V eight, the he me there, the five point seven

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Speaker 3: and the car as a general, you know.

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Speaker 2: How many miles around it?

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Speaker 3: Steve, Well, I haven't gotten it yet. They gotta, they

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Speaker 3: gotta find a they find a V eight. They found

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Speaker 3: one has had like one hundred thousand miles on it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want that, you know, mileage, mileage in age, brother,

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Speaker 2: all right, I want something, you know, something two years old.

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Speaker 2: I want thirty thousand miles on it or less?

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Speaker 3: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's just the way I'm built, you know,

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Speaker 2: And I'll pay more for a lower mileage vehicle. Reason being,

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Speaker 2: reason being and think of think of me, right? Can

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Speaker 2: imagine going car shopping with me?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Reason reason being less mileage means less likelihood somebody worked

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Speaker 2: on it and made a mistake, right, and I would

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Speaker 2: I would pay for that, I really would. Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to tell you the way I think about Jeep

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Speaker 2: and Chrysler, and no offense to Jeep in Chrysler owners.

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Speaker 2: I think you know, Jeep and Chrysler are still in

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Speaker 2: one of my top five choices. They're not at the

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Speaker 2: top top.

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Speaker 5: But.

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Speaker 2: There some reliability issues, some of the things that break

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Speaker 2: and fail. I don't think I would buy a new

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Speaker 2: or used Jeep or Chrysler without putting an extended warranty

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Speaker 2: on it. And that's just being honest.

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Speaker 3: You know, would you go for a three year or

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Speaker 3: a five year five? Five?

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Speaker 4: Five?

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Speaker 2: All right? I think it's I think it's worth the value.

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Speaker 2: Jeeps are funny. Je well, jeeps are funny critter Steve,

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Speaker 2: all right. You know, it seems that there are some

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Speaker 2: out there that fifty thousand miles they need an engine,

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Speaker 2: and there are some out there one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand miles and they're running strong, and I can't figure

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Speaker 2: it out. There's no rhyme or reason. I've got customers.

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Speaker 2: I've got one customer, his son's got a fifteen Wrangler.

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Speaker 2: It's got one hundred and sixty three thousand miles on it.

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Speaker 2: He changes the oil, he does his regular maintenance, He

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Speaker 2: lets us do the big services and so forth. And

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Speaker 2: that thing's a brick. It just keeps going. And then

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Speaker 2: I've got some other ones that same service, same treatment,

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Speaker 2: same driving habits, and they're junk. They're just it just

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Speaker 2: doesn't hold up. And you sit there and you scratch

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Speaker 3: So you know what, I think the V eight is

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Speaker 2: The Yes, yes, as long as it doesn't have any

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Speaker 2: of the valve train issues and you stay up on

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Speaker 2: is that engine has some specific oil requirements, and I

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Speaker 4: All right, Is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I would? I would, Yeah, I would. I would be

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Speaker 2: using Chrysler Speck oil in that vehicle, and I would

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Speaker 2: be dumping it every five to six thousand miles every

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Speaker 2: five to six months. I don't care what the manufacturer

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Speaker 2: you're going to buy this and try and get one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty tw hundred thousand miles out of it. Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I say a five year service contract

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Speaker 2: seventy five eighty mile one hundred thousand mile mark and

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Speaker 2: nothing's gone wrong, you got your value out of it.

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Speaker 2: But if the engine pukes at sixty five thousand miles,

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Speaker 2: at least it's covered, right, and you know it's you're

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Speaker 2: you're not buying You're not buying a cheap automobile.

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Speaker 3: All right, No, it's you got to get the overland

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Speaker 3: or the summit to get the VA right.

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Speaker 2: And it's all the bells, all right. Listen, there's a

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Speaker 2: reason my jeep guy. You know, listen, every business owner

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Speaker 2: that sells me jeep parts. I got a guy that

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Speaker 2: sells me GM parts and so on. My jeep guy

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Speaker 2: drives a Ford Mustang, okay. And I asked him, I

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Speaker 2: said why and he said how many times do you

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Speaker 2: call for parts? And I said, well, quite often, he said,

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Speaker 2: And that's the reason, because he sees what breaks. And

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Speaker 2: it's it's not that you know, listen, all cars break,

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Speaker 2: but Chrysler seems to have some issues with parts distribution.

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Speaker 2: It's gotten better, but you know, I'm just cautious, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm just cautious. Would I like to own a Jeep? Yes,

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Speaker 2: I just don't have time to fix one. And that's

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Speaker 2: and that's the bottom line. But but but if you

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Speaker 2: really like that twenty three dreep Jeep Grand Cherokee, and

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Speaker 2: you like that V eight, and you've driven that vehicle,

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Speaker 2: and I know the vehicle you're talking about, if that's

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Speaker 2: the vehicle that floats your boat by it, by all means,

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Speaker 2: just just find a guy to work on it, regular maintenance,

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Speaker 2: a service contract, form a relationship with the dealership if

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Speaker 2: that's where it's gonna go, right right, and just enjoy

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Speaker 2: the vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you, Ron. I have another question. I

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Speaker 3: contacted to another friend, a whose card dealer down in Corny.

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Speaker 3: Now see, I'm at a new car dealer now and

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Speaker 3: they can only draw from their dealership. Now supposedly they

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Speaker 3: V But this used car guy, obviously he probably got

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Speaker 3: but he had three V eights, and I don't know

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Speaker 3: eight with this, uh, the dealership deal.

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Speaker 2: Don't negotiate with yourself, Steve.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just hold to the Hold to the V eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hold for the VA. Don't negotiate with yourself. You're

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Speaker 2: buying it. Listen, you're buying a premium product, right, you're

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Speaker 2: buying a premium product. You want to deal with the

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Speaker 2: front of the horse. Okay, okay, and you tell the

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Speaker 2: dealership that you know what life's about relationships, man, it

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Speaker 2: really is. One.

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Speaker 3: If I went with the used car dealer down in Cornie,

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Speaker 3: what should I go with their warranty?

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Speaker 2: Well, my concern is it's a used car dealer. Nothing

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Speaker 2: against used car dealers, but you know, it's a I

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Speaker 2: think it's a little easier for that used car guy

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Speaker 2: to go out of business and reopen under Fred's used

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Speaker 2: cars rather than Joe's used cars versus the dealership that's

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Speaker 2: got fifty one dealers across the country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing is he's he might be the

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Speaker 3: only one they'll get me a VA twenty three. You

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Speaker 3: don't know that, Well that's true. No, No, you're right.

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Speaker 2: Right, and listen as long as we're doing this a

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Speaker 2: doing this, don't we want to get something that maybe

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Speaker 2: the dealer's service, maybe the dealer is going to get

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Speaker 2: one in on trade from the area dealer purchase. There's

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Speaker 2: no guarantee that that car coming out of Tennessee isn't

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Speaker 2: a flood car, isn't from Arizona, isn't from Florida, isn't

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Speaker 2: from Texas. Not that's anything wrong with those states. But

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Speaker 2: you can't listen. I try not to take I take

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Speaker 2: cars personal, all right. I try to look at cars

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Speaker 2: as what they are and where they're from, because you know,

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Speaker 2: there's a certain element of I can't think of the word.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for spirituality to a car. It's not a

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Speaker 2: cold piece of metal. It just doesn't, all right, it

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Speaker 2: just doesn't. I want to know where it came from.

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Speaker 2: I want to know who worked on and I want

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Speaker 2: to know who touched it. And if I can't, if

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Speaker 2: I can't get a car, if i'm you know, you're

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Speaker 2: buying a hot.

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Speaker 3: Rod, Steve, I would look to have this car.

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Speaker 6: Steve.

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Speaker 2: You're buying Steve, you're buying a thirty two four five

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Speaker 2: window coop and yellow?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: Am I wrong talking?

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Speaker 2: Am I wrong?

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Speaker 4: Talking? Brother?

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Speaker 3: You are right?

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Speaker 2: So you want this thing? You want this thing dead

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Speaker 2: nuts on the money in plain English. And if they

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Speaker 2: can't find you at twenty three, why don't you find

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Speaker 2: out if you can order a twenty six? Because christ

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Speaker 2: Are just brought back the V eight. They just brought it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's in the not yet. I I

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Speaker 2: don't know if it's there yet. But they just brought

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Speaker 2: back the what is it the Road and Track Department.

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Speaker 2: There was a big write up on it in the news.

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Speaker 2: Once you go research, it is the VA. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you have to wait six months for Jeep to

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Speaker 2: catch up and do this, isn't that worth isn't that

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Speaker 2: worth waiting for? I understand it. I understand They opened

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Speaker 2: up the the order desk for Hemi Trucks and they

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Speaker 2: got over ten thousand orders in the first three days.

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Speaker 3: Oh. I believe it. Oh, I definitely I believe it.

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Speaker 3: So you know that Hemmy's been around a long time.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, if you.

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Speaker 3: Got a two thousand and three truck that was probably

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Speaker 3: your first year, you get a Henry, it's since.

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Speaker 2: Right, Stevie, I gotta run all right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ron, thank you so much. It's pleasure talking.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy your hot rod, brother, Thanks you well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Five.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm running ady in the car doctor eight five

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Speaker 2: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. I'll be

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Speaker 2: back right after this. Let's go to Curtain, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Kurt.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, what's going on?

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Speaker 4: Weren thanks for taking my I've got a twenty five

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Speaker 4: year old RX three hundred Lexus that's my wife's car,

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Speaker 4: only like a like one hundred and five thousand miles

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Speaker 4: I usually get the three year full time warranty from

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Speaker 4: I made out all right on acause they always seem

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Speaker 4: to go. I've had some go at seven months, nine months,

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Speaker 4: When we pulled the fuse box cover off in the

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Speaker 4: It's pure white, but it has it's not fifteen amps,

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Speaker 4: Outa's way of they would pull that fuse when they

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Speaker 2: Life or coming down the assembly line.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So the only other thing she got t boned

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Speaker 4: Any idea, Now, like I said, we have a place

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Speaker 4: I have a fifty five Chevy too. None of those back,

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Speaker 4: even though I disconnect the turbinos on the fifty five.

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Speaker 4: But my truck, I have a two thousand and seven

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Speaker 4: niece on frontier that always starts if we're up there

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Speaker 2: There's no you know, there's no rule, Kurt that says

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I will use, which we

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Speaker 2: the fuses on the under the back seat, leaving the

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Speaker 2: the closed position, leave the doors open, and take covers

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Speaker 2: And from time to time I'll walk around with a

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Speaker 2: thermal imager. Is anything waking up? It's anything all the

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Speaker 2: time looking at a digital voltometer, you know, looking for

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Speaker 4: Now, now, what's a normal fifty million?

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Speaker 2: Anything anything less than fifty milliams? Fiftyis right, Let's see

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Speaker 2: if anything less than fifty milliams.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess my question, Yeah, I guess My question

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Speaker 4: to you is should I just put the terminals off

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you could try it. A two

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Speaker 2: to learn transadaptive pretty quick. Does the vehicle sit outside

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Speaker 4: Oh no, it's been garaged. Like I say, the last

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Speaker 4: time that you know, when I put my tester on it,

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Speaker 4: it was down to like eleven two, right, and that

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Speaker 4: that's what I decided to have another mechanic take a

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Speaker 4: look at it.

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Speaker 2: It's gotta have it's got to have a draw. My

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Speaker 2: I would set up the battery and follow what I say.

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Speaker 2: I would put a jumper wire. I would disconnect the

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Speaker 2: negative battery cable. I would put a jumper cable from

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Speaker 2: the negative battery post to the cable. I would then

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Speaker 2: connect my meter to the negative battery post to the cable.

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Speaker 2: I would wait forty five minutes an hour. All right,

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Speaker 2: turn I turn my meter on. All right. I would

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Speaker 2: get disconnected at that moment. What are you going to

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Speaker 2: read on the meter? Whatever? The actual draw is right,

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Speaker 2: And the beauty part of that is you're catching it

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Speaker 2: under real conditions. Now, if it looks normal, and you

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Speaker 2: min max minimum maximum recording. It will record. And you

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Speaker 2: can do this with a fresh nine vault battery. The

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Speaker 2: worst that happens is in twenty four or thirty six

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Speaker 2: or forty eight hours, ever long it lasts, you'll kill

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Speaker 2: a three dollar battery. Who cares?

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Speaker 4: Right, That's an idea. Like I said, I tried what

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Speaker 4: you did? You know? But I didn't you know? I

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Speaker 4: didn't want to sit forty five minutes. You know, I

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Speaker 4: was just looking for the simple garage mechanic, weekend mechanic

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Speaker 4: to a draw on it. And again, since you don't

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Speaker 4: have any charts, and it's funny and if you look

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Speaker 4: up the charts for a two thousand, I bought her

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Speaker 4: another car. So and it's it's hard to convince the

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, if mama's not happy, nobody's happy.

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Speaker 4: Broll's That's why I told her. I said, look, I'm

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Speaker 4: seventy eight years old. I don't want to lay on

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Speaker 4: my back wiring up bufflers on the twenty five your

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Speaker 2: Right exactly. Now, now, let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you have wiring diagrams for that car?

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Speaker 4: No? All right, actually, actually it was a Repall.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know this is a case where and I

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Speaker 2: So you see the fuse you pull and that gets

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Speaker 2: know what those circuits activate? Because one fuse can power

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Speaker 2: twelve different devices and put the circuit in fourteen different directions,

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Speaker 2: so wiring diagrams become critical. Good luck to your Kurt.

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Speaker 2: Let me know what happens. I'm here. If you need more,

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Speaker 2: I'm running any in the car. Doctor. We're back right

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Speaker 2: after this. Would you please take off that white suit.

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Speaker 2: Let me sit down and keep dancing. Baby, I'm just

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Speaker 2: having so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh please, Now I need ible each.

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Speaker 2: That John Travolta. I'll straighten him out too. There we go. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's it. That's it. I've had my fun all right,

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Speaker 2: back to work. Let's go to Eddie and Maine. Is

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Speaker 2: that Maine or mass You gotta be Massachusetts. You gotta

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Speaker 2: be from somewhere. Baby, what's going on?

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Speaker 6: I had twenty eleven Honda Pilot one hundred and forty

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Speaker 6: five thousand miles. Breaks pedal was very mushy. I ended

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Speaker 6: up replacing the Masta cylinder. Now I have a firm

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Speaker 6: pedal stops great, but if I keep constant pressure on

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Speaker 6: the brake pedal, it slowly goes down.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 6: Brake pads are about fifteen hundred miles on all of them.

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Speaker 6: The caliper slides are free and oiled up. I bench

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Speaker 6: bled this Master cylinder before installation and then bled all

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Speaker 6: the calipers after installation. Is there a specific special way

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Speaker 6: of bleeding if the vehicle has abs brakes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's back up a sec since since it changed, right,

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Speaker 2: is it a different pedal than it was prior to

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Speaker 2: the Master being replaced.

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Speaker 6: Yes, much different.

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Speaker 2: It's a better pedal, much better.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Did it sink before?

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Speaker 6: Yes, spot, I mean very easily. You put your foot

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Speaker 2: Okay. So, and this is difficult, right, And it took

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Speaker 2: me a while to find them. But I've got I've

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Speaker 2: got a bag of brake line nuts at the shop

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Speaker 2: that I basically put steel line through it. And some

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Speaker 2: of them are plugs, but some of them took steel

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Speaker 2: and put stel lines through it. I pinched them shut

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Speaker 2: and I braised them close. And I've made Master cylinder plugs.

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Speaker 2: I've kind of got like Ron's Universal Master cylinder plug set.

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Speaker 2: So I'll take the lines out of the Master, I'll

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Speaker 2: do I have does it hold you know, I'll bleed it?

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Speaker 2: Does it does it hold pressure? Does it do the

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Speaker 2: same thing? If it does the same thing, I've got

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Speaker 2: a bad new Master. What what what? What brand? What brand? Master?

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Speaker 2: Did you put on it?

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Speaker 6: I put em right from a hundred dealership.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I mean it's it's not likely, but it's possible.

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Speaker 2: And I never, I never want to overlook that new

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Speaker 2: means new means never ever worked. All Right, you got

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Speaker 2: to remember that. I find that I've I've had this

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Speaker 2: market stuff than OE. But it does happen. So let's

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Speaker 2: let's let's eliminate the Master cylinder right off the bat.

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Speaker 2: Let's just let's just go find some plugs and let's

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Speaker 2: just cap the Master bleed at Burpitt does the pedal hold? Okay, good, now,

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Speaker 2: if you want, just before you do it, I don't

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Speaker 2: like doing this, but I'll do it where I have

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Speaker 2: you ever see the vice scripts, But they have a

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Speaker 2: rounded jaw for pinching a hose. Yeah, all right, I

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Speaker 2: will pinch the rubber break hoses and does that affect

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Speaker 2: the pedal? Just on the chance I've got something weird

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Speaker 2: going on with a caliper. I don't think that's the

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Speaker 2: case with you, but I just want to mention it.

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Speaker 2: This is this is this is a plumbing issue, Eddie,

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Speaker 2: all right, this is a plumbing issue. It's it's where

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Speaker 2: do we have water where we're not supposed to, or

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Speaker 2: where do we have break fluid or we're not supposed to?

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Speaker 2: Why are we losing hydraulic pressure? Here's the problem with

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Speaker 2: all modern day ABS systems, in my opinion. And you

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Speaker 2: knew I was going to go here. There's there's no

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Speaker 2: easy way. Well there is. If if the ABS control

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Speaker 2: module sets an internal fault and it says it's it's

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Speaker 2: control module is bad electronically, then you get to change it,

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Speaker 2: and it's clear cut. But when you're dealing with this,

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Speaker 2: all right, you have to eliminate. You got to tell

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Speaker 2: me what's good, so I can tell you what's bad.

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Speaker 2: You know, I if the calipers aren't leaking, and I'm

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Speaker 2: going to say they're not, because if you've done all

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Speaker 2: caliber looks like.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: If the calibers aren't leaking, if the lines aren't leaking,

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Speaker 2: if the master cylinder tests good, if you cap the

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Speaker 2: master and it tests good, where's the problem. And you're

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Speaker 2: it because you know the price tag, right, it's the

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Speaker 2: ABS controller. There's nothing left. Yes, to answer your question directly,

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Speaker 2: some modern day ABS systems and I don't remember if

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Speaker 2: an eleven pilot does. And I would just look it

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Speaker 2: up in a scan tool, all right, if it's in there,

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Speaker 2: because a lot of times even service information doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 2: tell us. But I would look it up in one

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Speaker 2: or two scan tools. How many times do I have

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Speaker 2: to go through this? But yeah, there could be a

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Speaker 2: specific bleed procedure. But the fact that you have a

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Speaker 2: decent pedal and then it starts to, you know, fade

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Speaker 2: out right, it sounds like it doesn't sound like an

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Speaker 2: air issue. If you pump it doesn't come right back, yes,

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Speaker 2: And does it hold?

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00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 6: No, it will hold. But if I keep constant pressure,

436
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 6: it slowly goes down.

437
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 4: Right.

438
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 2: It sounds like it's got an internal leak, like the

439
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 2: like the ABS controller is. Bypassing now sometimes if I

440
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 2: find the system does have an ABS module bleed, by

441
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 2: doing that, I work all the hydraulic valves. And if

442
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: something was sticky, stuck, restricted, blocked, jammed, open, et cetera,

443
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 2: I will unstick it. It doesn't work a lot of

444
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 2: the time. But I feel better when I have to

445
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: spend three grand on an ABS controller because I know

446
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 2: I tried everything, so you can go that routine. How dirty,

447
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 2: How dirty was the fluid?

448
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 6: It was fairly dirty, not not real brown, but it

449
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 6: was on the on the.

450
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: Spikedra yeah, yeah, yeah, that's and that's the other problem.

451
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 2: We don't we don't flush break fluid enough in this country.

452
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: I see a lot of first time customers coming in

453
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: the masters. So there's it's it's it's not even yellow,

454
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: it's it's it's brown for all intentsive purposes. And then

455
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 2: it gets to that dark black brown color and you know,

456
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 2: it's just it's just so moisture contaminated somewhere along the way.

457
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: And it's going to be a chapter in the book

458
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 2: where I talk about a BS that that I just

459
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 2: it just became so critical to do break fluid flushes

460
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 2: that and the industry says, well, you know, moisture gets

461
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 2: in the system and break fluid is hygroscopic, and it's

462
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 2: it's it's not as strong a hydraulic action because it's weakened.

463
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 2: I understand that, but then they started blaming moisture on

464
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 2: you know, causing internal corrosion of components, and everything had

465
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 2: to be made out of stainless steel and blah blah

466
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And yet we still have these issues

467
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 2: where even with the cars that are flushed, I will

468
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 2: say that sometimes they end up with ABS controller problems.

469
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 2: But the ones that aren't, boy, I'll tell you what it's.

470
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,919
Speaker 2: It's there more susceptible to the ABS module failure. I

471
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 2: will tell you this. You did all the right steps

472
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 2: from my seat here from everything you're telling me. No, listen,

473
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 2: you played it just the way you're supposed to. I

474
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 2: go through this in the shop if it was you

475
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: and me at absaying, Eddie, your car needs a master cylinder. Well, Eddie,

476
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: I think it needs a master. But here's why I

477
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 2: want to do a master first, and then I'm going

478
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 2: to tell you the expensive ABS controller. Because I can't

479
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 2: put an ABS controller on on a vehicle that's a

480
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 2: twenty eleven with one hundred and fifty thousand miles on

481
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 2: it with dirty break fluid and reuse the old master.

482
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense.

483
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't, all right, It's.

484
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: Like replacing somebody's heart, not doing a transfusion, or not

485
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 2: putting clean blood in or not putting you know, it's

486
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 2: like using old engine oil inside of a brand new

487
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 2: engine or rebuilt engine. It just doesn't make any sense.

488
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: You're putting all the dirt and contaminant back into the system,

489
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: back into the component you just replaced. So you're doing

490
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 2: the process right now. As a tip, I don't know

491
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 2: if you have one of these, but you may find

492
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 2: if you like to work on your own vehicle. Do

493
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 2: you have a local Advanced Auto Parts?

494
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 6: Yes, I do.

495
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 2: Get down to your local Advance Auto or you can

496
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 2: probably find it online at Advanced Auto Parts's website and

497
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 2: see if they because I got mine from my Advance

498
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 2: and I just got a replacement set. They're like a

499
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 2: set of hydraulic syringes, but you it's a break bleeder set,

500
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 2: so it's a it looks like it looks like a

501
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 2: super big it's probably an echine diameter over exaggerated doctor's syringe,

502
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: like an old needle, an old you know, for a shot.

503
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: But on the end it's not a needle. It's got

504
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 2: a rubber hose and you would fill it up, fill

505
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: it up with break fluid, push it up until you

506
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 2: get break fluid out. Put that on the bleeder and

507
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: you can reverse bleed and push any air up into

508
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: the master and let it burp out through the top

509
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: of the master.

510
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 5: Oh okay, that's it.

511
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 2: That's a real old tool. It's been around forever. I've

512
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 2: seen them. I just got mine from Advanced two weeks ago,

513
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, so I know that. I

514
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 2: know they're still out there. They're somewhere in their tool catalog.

515
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: You'll probably find it online. It's just it's just a

516
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: break bleeder syringe kit, I believe they call it.

517
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 6: I'll try that out, thank you.

518
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 2: All right, So if there's any air trapped in there,

519
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 2: you'll reverse bleed it back up and hour. But chances

520
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 2: are you're headed towards an ABS controller, not to ruin

521
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: your day.

522
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 6: Okay, at that, I'm going to hang up now.

523
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 3: All right.

524
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Eddie, So go have some ice cream. You'll

525
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: feel better today.

526
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 6: All right, thank you so much for taking my call.

527
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 2: You're very welcome anytime, Pal, you'd be well. Hey five

528
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. I am

529
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: ronning Ay and the car doctor. I'll be back right

530
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: after this. And we're rolling along this hour and I

531
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: just figured out why it looks like Tom's not paying

532
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: attention because his video froze. So Tom, if you can

533
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 2: hear me, you're frozen in time, brother, But I'm still

534
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: communicating with you. You really want to look at me?

535
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 4: Huh?

536
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's either that I've got a picture.

537
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: All I see in front of me is you looking

538
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: down like you're ready to jump off a bridge. So well,

539
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 2: you know I'm listening to you. I mean, what do

540
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 2: you think I want to do? There you go?

541
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 4: Nah?

542
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 2: There you are? Okay? You think you can manage to

543
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: find the button and put Brian from Philadelphia on.

544
00:27:59,000 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: I can do that.

545
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: I can also take you off and watch America would

546
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: be upset, Brian Philadelphia. How are you today, my brother Ron?

547
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: How are you good?

548
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 4: Sir?

549
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: What's going on?

550
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 3: I have a question.

551
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 5: I'm using my father's car along with mine twenty twenty

552
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 5: three Hyundai Lantra. No problem with the car running, but

553
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 5: since he's been injured, you know, he's put not that

554
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 5: many miles on and this car takes synthetic oil. So

555
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 5: the thing is, I'm under the miles, but I'm worried

556
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 5: about the time because you know, I don't I wouldn't

557
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 5: want the oil to sit too long because it probably

558
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 5: loses its lubrication properties. So if I'm under miles, would

559
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 5: you help? What would you recommend? I change it as

560
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 5: far as a time interval, because I'm not going to

561
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 5: hit the miles.

562
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: Did I ever tell you the story about the engine

563
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: in the hot rod where you know it was? It

564
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: was a it was a it was a blank check thing.

565
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: I told it. I told the engine builder at the time,

566
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: Ron Ross, simonek performance. We haven't talked to Ron in

567
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: a while. I said, I want such and such horsepower

568
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: on the street. I want a single four barrel. I

569
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: just wanted to be reliable. I wanted to work blank check,

570
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: just fill in the number and just you know, build

571
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: me an engine. So, needless to say, it was a

572
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: fairly expensive investment, right, that car goes in the fourteen

573
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: years since I did that car, Because it's fourteen years now,

574
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: that car has gone six thousand miles. Think about that. Yeah,

575
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 2: it's pretty low mileage, right. And you know, just the

576
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: other day I changed the oil and it came out

577
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 2: looking pretty clean. But just for giggles, I pulled one

578
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: of the valve covers off because I wanted to look

579
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: at something and I was amazed at how much moisture

580
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 2: was in the top of that valve cover, condensation from

581
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: lack of use. And it made me understand. And this

582
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: is the second or third time I've run across this

583
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: with that engine and others, but it made me really

584
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: understand the concept of condensation and moisture and how moisture

585
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: causes oil to break down. So in the case of

586
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: the hot rod, it's a no brainer, right, what's cheaper

587
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: an oil change or an engine? So I come back

588
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: to your father's hun day. What's cheaper an oil change

589
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 2: or an engine?

590
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: Oh?

591
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

592
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 2: And I look at time, right, I stop and think

593
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: about time. I'm still I'm a very seat of the

594
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 2: pants mechanic when it comes to this, Brian, And you

595
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: know what, they could put numbers down in front of me,

596
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 2: but I've just seen too many things that convince me

597
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: that I'm right. Five to six months, five to six

598
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: thousand miles, good synthetic oil change, looking for the problem,

599
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: looking for the things that occur, putting proper tire inflation

600
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: in a correct oil change. In this mechanic's opinion on

601
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 2: the average vehicle is roughly thirty minutes. Some vehicles as

602
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: long as forty five minutes up to an hour, depending

603
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: upon what it is, if you're doing the job right

604
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: and looking at some of the things you're supposed to

605
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: be looking at. And it's it's just that simple. And

606
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. It's proven because the ones that

607
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 2: change the oil seems to be the ones that go

608
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: the longest. And that's just that's just the bottom line.

609
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: So if it's been five or six months since Dad's

610
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: oil has changed, change it.

611
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 5: He's done everything else, all the other maintenance is up

612
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: to date. You know, it's not the money, I mean,

613
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 5: the money for an oil change willingly spendin maintenance costs

614
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 5: and having a major.

615
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: You're you're you're you're not You're not gonna hurt anything.

616
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: And at the very least, okay, at the very least,

617
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: with the way tire pressure changes based on seasonal adjustment,

618
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: hot cold, hot cold and so on, just having correct

619
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: tire pressure is a blessing.

620
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 4: Well.

621
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 5: I monitor that all the time on my car, and sure,

622
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 5: because it has the tire pressure or you know, it

623
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,959
Speaker 5: gives me all that. I keep it all up, especially

624
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 5: in the cold.

625
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 6: It loves this, you know.

626
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: But you'll do that, you're a car guy. For everybody

627
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: else that's listening. Let them know that that's one of

628
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: the advantages of doing an oil change on a timely basis.

629
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 5: They called me a pilot because I write everything down

630
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 5: in a log I have a log so I do

631
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 5: so somebody will say, oh, my battery win, I said,

632
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 5: how many years? Because I don't know. How would I know?

633
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 5: I said, you write things down like a log.

634
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: Yep, and I would expect you to do that. Brian,

635
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: sorry to cut your short, kid. Ooh, I gotta go.

636
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I hope your dad's feeling

637
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 2: better soon. Enjoy the car. I'm running any in the

638
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: car doctor. I am back right after this. Hey, I

639
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 2: want to wind it down with an email from George.

640
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 2: George writes, and hey, Ron, should one change fluid's anti

641
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: freeze for example? If so, how often? And this is

642
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: an older email, so I apologize. I'm just getting to

643
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: a George. You know, anti freeze is, yes, still a

644
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: regularly serviced fluid, all right. And one of the choices

645
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: you get to make when you're picking an anti freeze

646
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: is do you mix it on your own or do

647
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: you buy pre mixed? And that's what I want. This

648
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: conversation to be about. I strongly recommend you consider pre mix,

649
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you why. Go look up fluid requirement,

650
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 2: for example, a twenty two Chevy Silverado. Look it up

651
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: and in the service information. I looked it up the

652
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 2: other day in all data, and it tells me that

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Speaker 2: the coolant has to be fifty to fifty decks cool

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Speaker 2: and tapwater. GM says tapwater out of the faucet is acceptable.

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Speaker 2: Now go look it up for a twenty fifteen Jeep.

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Speaker 2: I just ran across this the other day. Chrysler calls

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Speaker 2: for fifty to fifty. They all call for fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty mix half and half, but Chrysler wants fifty percent

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Speaker 2: ethylene GLI call and fifty percent distilled water. Where are

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Speaker 2: you gonna get the stilled water from the supermarket? Commission

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Speaker 2: sure every repair shops running down to the local supermarket

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Speaker 2: to buy distilled water before they fill the cars with

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Speaker 2: cooling systems. It's impossible. That's why if you buy a

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Speaker 2: pre mix like what you'll see from Peak Coolant, get

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Speaker 2: out to OWI dot com and start reading about Peak.

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Speaker 2: You'll see that they've got pre mixed, the correct water,

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Speaker 2: the correct coolant, I'm Ronning Ay and the car doctor.

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Speaker 4: Come.

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Speaker 2: Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you