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Speaker 1: the pleasure. Oh my gosh, did I say that of

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Speaker 1: an oh four Volkswagen Jetta. Now, in all fairness of Volkswagen.

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Speaker 1: So this car is twelve years old and East Coast car,

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Speaker 1: and it didn't have a drop of rust on it anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Of course it had enough oil leagues who was probably

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Speaker 1: russproof from now through the end of the car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: I've never really thought of it like that. As far

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Speaker 1: with what sort of characteristics does the vehicle have to relearn?

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Speaker 1: But right now, let's kick the garage doors open because

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Speaker 1: gonna go talk to Bob from Phillisburg, New Jersey return

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Speaker 1: call on an update on the oid Auty battery replacement. Well, Bob,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see any smoke screens or any fireballs go

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Speaker 1: off in the vicinity of Phillisburg, New Jersey last week,

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Speaker 1: so I assume you're able to put this battery and

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Speaker 1: with no complications. Yeah, it worked out well anyway. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you you too. Yeah, it was. It was very peaceful.

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Speaker 1: It was very peaceful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Replacing the battery

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Speaker 1: and had a special order it. I got an Exide battery. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I've had good luck with him at anyway, got it

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Speaker 1: but it does it runs a lot better now you

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Speaker 1: you scanned it prior to battery removal, no after Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's and it's said a bunch okay as as it well,

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Speaker 1: though it wouldn't. It'd be curious to see what sort

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Speaker 1: just to see if anything was there. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: are there wasn't a lot. You were seeing some dashlights on.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't hurt to have. Yeah, I like to

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Speaker 1: No starter involvement, no no click, not a peep out

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Speaker 1: it six months, a year or whenever, and it just

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Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt. And obviously after I was done, I

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Speaker 1: can in a couple of weeks I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: this bagcom or Rosteck uh scanner. It's it's, it's it's

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Speaker 1: quick question I also have for this car. Uh, do

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Speaker 1: sitting on a board. Boy, I've got to tell you, Bob,

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Speaker 1: upholstery is getting to be a very lost art in

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Speaker 1: I don't know of anyone around that does upholstery. There

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Speaker 1: It's it's just amazing how they're just all gone. There's

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Speaker 1: my next life, I'm gonna come back and do interiors,

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Speaker 1: you know, just because it seems like something, but also

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Speaker 1: Well you know, maybe yes, maybe no, if if you

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Speaker 1: concerned about price. I like quality. Yeah, well yeah that's

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Speaker 1: it's found it out. It's like somebody was it's on

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Speaker 1: you know, it might even need a frame. It might

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Speaker 1: even need you know, it's like the box spring portion

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Speaker 1: of it may need to be replaced too. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that's always a possibility. So the only the only

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Speaker 1: a search on the net. You know, oh eight out

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Speaker 1: e you know a three. You know, maybe there's a

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Speaker 1: low mileage something out there with similar seats at half

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Speaker 1: a whole seat assembly. So thank god, thank god for

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Speaker 1: the Internet. Ten years ago we couldn't build a car,

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Speaker 1: without it. So all right, sir, okay, well anyway, happy

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sam to you, Bob, thank you very much and

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I appreciate the call. Let's go over

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Speaker 1: and talk to Ron Sutton, New Hampshire, ninety Bronco to

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Speaker 1: ninety four Explorer engine and some questions about quel economy. Ron,

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Speaker 1: you're out with the car doctor, how can help? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I rebuilt the engine about a year ago. It's got

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Speaker 1: about on it now and um I started smelling a

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Speaker 1: little bit of gas and my mileage was around fourteen.

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Speaker 1: I do a lot off road with it. It is

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Speaker 1: a daily driver, but I mainly built it for off road.

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Speaker 1: Um it's got thirty two inch tires on it right

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Speaker 1: now for the road. But anyway, my went down to

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Speaker 1: get gas and uh, I filled it up and I

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Speaker 1: was getting nineteen miles to the gown. I was like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's that's really good for this motor. And the next

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Speaker 1: week I went down and fill it up and I

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Speaker 1: was getting ten miles to the gallon, and I filled

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Speaker 1: it up again, I'm getting thirteen miles to the gallon,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if it changes weekly. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I do some four wheelings, so you know

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Speaker 1: I can contribute a little bit of the mileage to that,

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Speaker 1: bad mileage to that, but not ten. Yeah. Well does

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Speaker 1: that ten miles per gallon? Has that repeated itself on

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Speaker 1: a regular basis? No, I get around thirteen, savage. So

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Speaker 1: you had one case of ten miles per down right,

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Speaker 1: but I also at a case of nineteen point two.

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Speaker 1: All right, but the average now is thirteen. Yeah. If

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Speaker 1: you hadn't gotten the nineteen, would you be would you

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Speaker 1: have been upset that you got thirteen? No? Okay, So

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Speaker 1: what if? What if for whatever reason that week or

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Speaker 1: those two weeks, the nineteen and the ten were a

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Speaker 1: miscalculations somehow, some way. Yeah, well I considered that and

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Speaker 1: I went over the the figures pretty well, and it

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Speaker 1: could have been an anomaly. Um. But I'm just wondering.

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Speaker 1: I do smell gas on occasion. I'm wondering if it's

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Speaker 1: the fuel rail or do you know of anything? I mean,

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Speaker 1: do those go bad? Sure they can rust that. Which

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Speaker 1: engine is this? What is this a four leader four

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Speaker 1: leader overhead valvey? What? What UM? What engine control system?

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Speaker 1: You're running E four? Yes, okay, so you're running an

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Speaker 1: EQUE four system. You know there is where's the fuel

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Speaker 1: pressure regulator on this? It's attached to the rail. It

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Speaker 1: is it is passenger um possibility that you know, do

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Speaker 1: you ever get a sense that it's running rich? Do

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Speaker 1: you have the ability with a scan tool to look

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Speaker 1: at fuel trim? I'm trying to remember in ninety four

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Speaker 1: watch fulture while you're driving. The other thing that I

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Speaker 1: will actually start to pe fuel right up the vacuum line,

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Speaker 1: and you know that can obviously be an issue. And

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Speaker 1: then the other thing that comes to mind is this

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Speaker 1: time of year, I see a lot of variables in

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Speaker 1: thermostat off by eight degrees can make a huge variance

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Speaker 1: in fuel economy as well. One ninety in there. Now

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Speaker 1: I think how long? How long? How long has it

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Speaker 1: been in there? Two months? Okay? Um? Had it had

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Speaker 1: to Tom Springfield, Illinois, Line one. Tom. You're at the

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Speaker 1: have created some issues there well. And if the radiators

425
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 1: original at a buck sixty, it is I let me

426
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:37,879
Speaker 1: tell you. Let me answer the question this way. My

427
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,640
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Silverado, my my plow vehicle. It's

428
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: got thirty one miles on it, it's ten years old

429
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 1: as a new radiator sitting for it in the shop.

430
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna change the radiator out after ten years,

431
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,719
Speaker 1: just because it's ten years old. You know, and it's

432
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: it's it's out in all kinds of weather, and and

433
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: you know it's just plastic and illumine them today and

434
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,919
Speaker 1: they're just not great. Um. I spent the money I

435
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,880
Speaker 1: paid the freight. I got an original you know, GM

436
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: radiator for it, and at least I'll have peace of

437
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 1: mind plowing. So you know, it might be time to

438
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: consider the radiator as an issue. All right, that's number two.

439
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: Number three, Going back to the heater core. You know,

440
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: I have seen cases where heat or core restriction can

441
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 1: impede flow and create some goofy overheat issues. So you know,

442
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,479
Speaker 1: it would probably be a good idea to flush and

443
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 1: back flush the heater core. Not hard, not hard to do?

444
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you mechanically inclined to that? Okay, So

445
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 1: the way I'm gonna tell you to do it this.

446
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: If I remember right, this has quick lock connectors on it.

447
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: You've got you've got to take the quick locks off.

448
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 1: And you know what I did was, I've just created

449
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: my own little flush kid at the shop and I

450
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: do this. I use it all the time. I went

451
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 1: to the hardware store, I got regular hose ends. You know,

452
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: a male and a female hose ends set up like

453
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 1: for the garden hose, and I put it on a

454
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: heater hose, and you know, here's my here's my Innie,

455
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: here's my Audie, and I put on the heat or corn.

456
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: I'll put the one end on the core which way

457
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 1: I want to go, and I usually flush in the

458
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: direction of flow first, all right, and you know, just

459
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: just to kind of push it through, and I'll put

460
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: a hose on the other side, on the outlet, and

461
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: I'll put that hose in a white bucket. White's always

462
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: a dramatic color, all right. You can usually see all

463
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: the crud all right, very easily. And I'll you know,

464
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: I don't I won't run a lot of water. Uh.

465
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 1: The other thing I add to this setup is I've

466
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 1: got you ever see those breast shut off fouls. It's

467
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: like a little hand lever that you can either go

468
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: full throttle or you know, you can shut it down

469
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: to a quarter and a half and so forth. Then

470
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: I'll run and I'll run a quarter maybe a half

471
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: throttle a hose through the core. I don't want to

472
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to break the core. I don't want to,

473
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to over pressurize it, not

474
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: that I think I could. City water is probably in

475
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,959
Speaker 1: the you know, it depends I think where we are

476
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: city waters like you know, fourteen fifteen pounds. I don't

477
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: think it's much more than that. And you know, I

478
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: just I just don't want to overdo it if I

479
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: don't have to, alright, And I'll do it one way,

480
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: and then i'll do it the other and I repeat

481
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: it twice, and I see what comes out. Nothing comes out,

482
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm great. Usually something comes out, and I wouldn't be

483
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: surprised if stuff comes out, all right, So then you

484
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: can sit there and look at what came out. I've

485
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: seen in cases where it's it's content matter from the

486
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: cylinder block, because the old block was decaying on the inside,

487
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: and now it's deposited itself in the heater core. The

488
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: answer becomes, if it's in the heater core, guess where

489
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 1: else it is. It's in the um. So that's how

490
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: you kind of know what to do radiator wise, you know,

491
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: way back when when I did engines, because we don't

492
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 1: see engine failures like we once did anymore. And it's

493
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: really it's it's it's honestly, it's not a profitable repair,

494
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: not like it once was. And you just don't see

495
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: a lot of it. Uh. You know, maybe it's because

496
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: of my location in the country. Right here, I am

497
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: in Bergen County, New Jersey. You know, if the as

498
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: trace fall in the gas tanks empty, everybody wants to

499
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: throw the car away. Nobody nobody wants to fix it.

500
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 1: You know, let's just go buy a new car. What

501
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: the heck? I a matter of fact, somewhere I've got

502
00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: today's newspaper. Do you have munch A new gmc ukon is? Yeah,

503
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: O fifty? Where's that? I got it here somewhere I've

504
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: got to find it. Sixty eight thousand, eight hundred and

505
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. That's crazy. And I said, and well, what

506
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: quote my eye was the monthly payment? Wait a minute,

507
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: let me turn. We're gonna have silence on radio. Keep

508
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: keep talking for a minute. Time. Yeah, you're tim Here

509
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: it is? Wait, haven't I got it? Wait a minute?

510
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 1: Here it is? Um here A twenty I'm sorry, A

511
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: seventeen gmc ukon s l T. This is what got me.

512
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: You know what you can lease his puppy for. I'm

513
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: gonna guess six ninety nine A month for three years

514
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: thirty nine months, rather seven hundred dollar. That wasn't my

515
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: first mortgage payment. I'm dating myself. But holy count, I

516
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: know a small town form boys out here in the Midwest.

517
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: We try to fix things. We don't try to buy

518
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: sell vehicles. Well and you know so, oh you mean

519
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: this vehicle is still seventy thousand dollars out there in

520
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 1: farm country? You mean it might be a grand different,

521
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: but they don't give you guys a discount. Uh, yeah,

522
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: I know. I listen, you know what you know what

523
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: farm land prices are out here? Right? Yeah? I believe me,

524
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: and listen. Right next door to corporate headquarters here, there's

525
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 1: a there's a farm on the on the on the

526
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: back country road that we're located on. There's probably I'm

527
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: gonna say, there's a good eighteen to twenty acres of

528
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: land there that they actually still farm with, all right,

529
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: and you can see the housing development is encroaching. You

530
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: know what those acres of land are going for. I'm

531
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: going to guess half a million acre, half a million

532
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: an acre. Yeah, I'm getting pretty good, getting pretty good.

533
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: You're you're ready to move into you know, come on

534
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: out to New Jersey, I like, I like it out

535
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 1: here in the Midwest. Well, I, dude, I understand that,

536
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: I really do. But I look at the price of

537
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: these things and I go I saw seventy thousand dollars

538
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: for a vehicle, and I said, wait a minute, maybe

539
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: it's time to start doing engines and transmissions again at

540
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: that level. And just you know what, we'll We'll take

541
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: your vehicle, put ten grand in it, resurrect it, and

542
00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: send it on its way. It's got to be cheap,

543
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: so it just would make sense. Anyway, back to your issue,

544
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: I would think twice about the radiator. I would definitely

545
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: do a backflush on the heater core. I'd look at

546
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: the throttle body, make sure, make sure the fans are working.

547
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely think about doing a thermostat.

548
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: You know what I would really ultimately like to do

549
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: is get a scan tool on this vehicle. Do you

550
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: have any kind of a scan tool? No, but I

551
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: have access to one. Would it pick up something in

552
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: the in the cooling heating system as opposed to the engine.

553
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: It could. But what I'm more concerned about is I'd

554
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: love to see you set up your wife with a

555
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: scan tool, bringing up the cooling pit and tell her.

556
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: I want to know if if the cooling pit says

557
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: to forty and the dash gate says to forty, then

558
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: I've legitimately got an issue. If if if the cooling

559
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: pit says, if that, will you stop that? If the

560
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: cooling pit says, if the cooling pit says, you know, two,

561
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: the dashboard says to forty and you have no heat

562
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: and it's flown cold. There. Now I've got two separate problems.

563
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to eliminate, you know, the possibilities here,

564
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: all right, But one last one, last thing, if you

565
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: don't mind if it happens to be head gaskets again,

566
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: what's my repair costs for head gaskets? Well, in New Jersey,

567
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: you're probably in the neighborhood of grand out there in

568
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 1: farm country. You know, it's I think from the sounds

569
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: of it, you know you you you guys fix everything

570
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: from tractors to to you know, everything under the sun.

571
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: I bet you you could do head gaskets on that

572
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: thing if you took your time. I really, I really do.

573
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: It's nuts and bolts at that point. It's like that,

574
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: you give me a system here to go down and

575
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: check all those things. I really appreciate that. No, and

576
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's just sometimes and and they

577
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: say this, and I say this all the time. Sometimes

578
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: knowing what's bad is proving what's good, because if you

579
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: eliminate enough of what's good, when or a lady, you

580
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: find out what's bad. Too many times guys approached the

581
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: car and they say, oh, I can't find out what's wrong.

582
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: It's it's an intermittent problem. Okay, prove what's good. Tell

583
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: me what's good, and you know that that it can't

584
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,239
Speaker 1: be that. The move onto the next thing, and then

585
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: and then the last. The last commentary has to be

586
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: this probably has an electric cooling fan on it. Okay, right,

587
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: how how are the cooling fans working? One came on

588
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: about ten I didn't. I don't think the other one

589
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: came on. But I'm wondering if that's for a separate system. Right,

590
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: and let's understand how that works. So that's the second

591
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: part of this. All right, sir, thank you, you're very welcome. Tom,

592
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: let me know what happens. I'm kind of curious and

593
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: i'd love to hear the final answer. I'll do that. Thankay,

594
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: you're very welcome zero run any of the Car Doctor

595
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: coming back. We'll write after this What's better than Black

596
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: Friday Specials twelve three Car Advice from the Car Doctor.

597
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: Here's Rod. Hey, welcome back, right on, any of the

598
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Let's roll over and talk to Steve Roanoke,

599
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: Virginia and some questions about warranty. Steve, Welcome to the

600
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir, hope your thanksgiving? What's good? What's going on?

601
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: It was great? Hi Rhon, good to be back on

602
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: my extended warranty on my Honda is going to expire soon.

603
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: Do you have any advice on a good sort of

604
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: after market company or just can hand to do something

605
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: beyond the hundred thousand? What I'm really searching for is

606
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred dollars a year premium with the five

607
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: hundred dollar deductible. Probably you'd be the other way around. Yeah,

608
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know that. I don't know

609
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: that one is going to exist, Steve. My concern becomes

610
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: and after market warranty policy, the ones that I've dealt

611
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: with in the shop and the ones that I hear

612
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: people talking about usually don't cover enough unless you're paying

613
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: a premium and the ones that you know you're you're

614
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: paying the premium for. For example, we just had a

615
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: customer with an oh nine Chevy Malibu. His exteve what

616
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: the car used three years ago. He put a premium

617
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: policy see on it. The policy cost him three years ago,

618
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: all right, and it covered him up. Yeah, it covered

619
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: him up to a hundred and nine thousand miles. The

620
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: policy just expired and they covered just about everything, but

621
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: not everything. And there were still some cases where he

622
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: was laying money out of pocket and you know it,

623
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: almost three thousand dollars. He didn't have a trans failure,

624
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: he didn't have engine failure. A lot of it was breakwork,

625
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: a lot of it was you know, predictable things at

626
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: that mileage. And he can't get another policy on it.

627
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: They won't. They won't cover the car beyond this age

628
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: or mileage. And the concern I've got is, in order

629
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: to get the coverage, I want to know what's that

630
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: company gonna do for me and what's the likelihood they're

631
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: going to be around. I know Honda is going to

632
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: be around. I don't know if X y Z warrant

633
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: company based out of Delaware or Maryland or whoever is

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Speaker 1: the easiest one to go bankrupt and and do not

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Speaker 1: get sued will be around. So that's that's that's always

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Speaker 1: I will add this, the way you maintain a car,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd worry about it. I think

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Speaker 1: put it in the bank, let it collects some interest

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Speaker 1: a five dollars a month to it, and I bet

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Speaker 1: three years from now, when nothing goes wrong, you'll have

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Speaker 1: that money to take and go on a nice vacation

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Speaker 1: with or something else. So just just some food for thought.

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Speaker 1: It just seems like, uh, you might end up overpaying

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Speaker 1: on that vehicle. And again, I know how you maintain

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Speaker 1: a car. Maintenance is the key, and that's what gives

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Speaker 1: you longevity eight zero nine zero. The car doctor is

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Speaker 1: coming back right after this. Hey, welcome back on a

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Speaker 1: n any of the car Doctor. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for spending some time with me this hour. As

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Speaker 1: we got together and we talked about well, we covered

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Speaker 1: a lot of things, and I hope you'll learn something.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to the Elon Musk article. Um.

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Speaker 1: The new vehicle that Elon Musk is talking about, the

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Speaker 1: electric gay teen wheeler, for those of you that might

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Speaker 1: just be tuning in, will start production in No price

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Speaker 1: tag was mentioned. I can't imagine what that's gonna cost.

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Speaker 1: Looking like something Batman might have designed, the testless Semi

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Speaker 1: prototype is heavy on aerodynamic stylings that are said to

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Speaker 1: along with his electric engine drive the cost per mile

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Speaker 1: below that of today's gas powered machines. Well, shouldn't that

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Speaker 1: be diesel powered machines, Tesla officials said while giving USA Today,

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Speaker 1: I'll walk around before the event unfolded. Even with eighty

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Speaker 1: hour and twenty seconds, Musk said, hopping out of a truck,

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Speaker 1: what about up a hill? He was asked, um, but

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Speaker 1: nobody answered that More significantly for trucking companies, Musk said,

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Speaker 1: than a Tesla truck uh dollar in a quarter per

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Speaker 1: mile compared to a dollar and a half. Here's where

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Speaker 1: I got and saved. Musca semi emphasizes performance Tesla trucks

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Speaker 1: and hit sixty five miles per hour versus forty five

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Speaker 1: Then the biggest deploys in Hoo's a company. The statistic

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Speaker 1: a five mile range at maximum weight and highway speeds.

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Speaker 1: So think about it, all right, they're gonna actually it's

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Speaker 1: a little there's a little orwelly in here maybe, but

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Speaker 1: there's a little. But the government is if they bring

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Speaker 1: have to pull over, the vehicle's gonna run out of

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Speaker 1: certain amount of time and it's gonna take thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: to bring them up. So in a way, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: actually keep the highways safer, I think, because we'll be

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Speaker 1: forcing drivers to take a rest break. Of course, they

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Speaker 1: might be pulled over on the side of the highway

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Speaker 1: and I can just see it now where somebody's gonna

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Speaker 1: come through the woods and can I borrow an electrical outlet.

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Speaker 1: My truck ran out of juice over here, and you

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna be seeing extension cords running through the

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Speaker 1: woods out the people's houses to uh um, you know,

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Speaker 1: but we'll say interesting. But I still give him a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit. You know what. The future is here,

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Speaker 1: the future is now, and you've just got to keep

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Speaker 1: watching this saying wow, electric vehicles and you know, electric trucks,

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Speaker 1: so uh definitely kind of needs stuff. So anyway, kind

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Speaker 1: of about wraps it up this hour. I'm running any

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