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Speaker 1: to the car doctor, sir, How can I help? Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking my call. Right this

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Speaker 1: is my Stepsum's car. Um. He's gonna be putting a

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Car Doctor. Sure, how can I help? Alright? Hey? Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I want to change the fuel chilter on this car.

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Speaker 1: And I was looking in the in the service manual

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Speaker 1: a safety precaution, all right, because you know you change

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Speaker 1: the if everything is back together, it'll just start. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think if you read further into that. They're just

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Speaker 1: much the same thing. By turning the key on, you'll

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Speaker 1: you know, ninety six New Yorkers and cars of that

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Speaker 1: If the car ran out of gas, bone dry, right,

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Speaker 1: not likely at all, not likely at all. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: Take good care of Let's get ad talk to Jamie

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Speaker 1: help you gain your focus? Ye kiff gik, yeff kik.

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Speaker 1: I'm killing myself here today, Jamie. What's going on? But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm having a chronic problem with this Ford Focus has

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to matter. We tried it both ways

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Speaker 1: when it when it when it dies, Jamie, does it

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Speaker 1: Just busting the new guys chops folks. So go ahead, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: one on the right is voltage out, and they're or

427
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Speaker 1: they're either on the floor on the dashboard, and when

428
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Speaker 1: the car shuts off, Um, I've got the meters in

429
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: record mode and I'll see, okay, who lost what? Well,

430
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 1: the meter showing voltage in is showing zero as well

431
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: as the meatom showing out. Well, then I know signal

432
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: or power to the ignition switches is being lost, and

433
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: then I'll trace that up the circuit. If I get

434
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: power to the ignition switch and signal going out disappears,

435
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: guess what, I've got a bad ignition switch. And you know,

436
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: if it was a sixty eight Volkswagen, we'd all believe it.

437
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: But if it's two thousand four focus and that it

438
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: can't be possible. Yeah, it's possible. It's it's how do

439
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: you want to break it down? And it's just it's

440
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: a thought process. Diagnostics begins, you know, the average car,

441
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: hardcore problem like that, what could be that that kind

442
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: of car begins with a minimum of forty five minutes

443
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: of research and and and reading of wiring diagrams and

444
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: bulletins and common pattern failures to get ideas on where

445
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 1: to go. It's just it's just it's just that, you know,

446
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: that's just the way it's got to be done. There

447
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 1: is no other simple, simple componentsry available. All right, sir,

448
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: Hey listen, I really appreciate it's been very helpful, and

449
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: I love the way you boke problem. You're You're very welcome, sir.

450
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: And if if you're looking, if you want to hear

451
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Speaker 1: it again, this is our one on Saturday, January twelve.

452
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 1: It'll go up on the podcast site. You can go

453
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Speaker 1: out to our website Car Doctor Show dot com and

454
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: then go over to the podcast link and if you

455
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Speaker 1: look at our one for this date, this was about

456
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: uh oh. We started this about twenty after the top

457
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Speaker 1: of the hour. You can kind of work your way

458
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Speaker 1: through it and hear the whole thing all over again.

459
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Speaker 1: And if it helps you more than glad to do

460
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Speaker 1: it all right, sir, welcome you too. Bye bye. Um. Yeah,

461
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: Jamie had to go. We had to go to a

462
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: seven year old niece's birthday party, and we know we

463
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: wanted to get to that. We uh, you know, it's

464
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: it's it's funny how you know we kind of work

465
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 1: our way into people's lives, right, and that's what this

466
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: radio show does. It's um, it's just one of those

467
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: things I've I've come to that conclusion that you know,

468
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: you've got to be here for everybody, and it's something

469
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: I really still enjoy doing. Um. I was watching and

470
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's funny where you learn things about

471
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: life from right. I was watching CBS News this morning

472
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: and they were highlighting this young cook from Los Angeles

473
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: and he was They were talking about what a great

474
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: chef he is, and they said, what's you know, what

475
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: are some of the things you you you think of

476
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: to try and do and he said, you've got to

477
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: look at every day like you're doing it for the

478
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: first time and have that same enthusiasm. And you know

479
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 1: that's what I try to bring to the shop. And

480
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Speaker 1: that's what I try to bring here for you and

481
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: for everybody that listens, and by whatever means, because Joe

482
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: di Maggio, I learned this god so long ago Joe DiMaggio,

483
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: the Great Joe had had said, there's three types of

484
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: people watching you play baseball. There's people for the first time,

485
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: there's people for the last time, and there's people that

486
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: are on a continuing basis. The first timers are gonna go, Wow,

487
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Speaker 1: he's really as good as they say he is. The

488
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: last timers are gonna say he's still got it. And

489
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: the ones in the middle are going, I really enjoyed

490
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: watching this guy play. It's just it's just like enjoyable.

491
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: And that's how you gotta do a radio show, and

492
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: that's how you gotta fix cars. And that's really kind

493
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: of how you have to approach life. Because when you

494
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: walk in every day, piste off. Can you say that

495
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: word on radio? I guess we can. Um When you

496
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: walk in every day that annoyed, you know what, all

497
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's not a lot of fun, and

498
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it just becomes a job. And

499
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: at that point you might as well be on to

500
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: the next destination where her life is gonna take you,

501
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: because you're just not You're just not having a good time.

502
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Speaker 1: So zero nine zero zero words of wisdom from Uncle Ronnie.

503
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Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome

504
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Speaker 1: back right on any of the Car Doctor eight five

505
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Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero Car Doctor Show dot com.

506
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: And keep in mind that phone number seven. You can

507
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: call it any time day or night if we're not

508
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: live on the air. We originate Saturday afternoons to to

509
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: four pm on the network East Coast time. You can

510
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Speaker 1: call eight five five zero nine zero zero and our

511
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Speaker 1: executive producer Tom Rail put you in Q for the

512
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: next live broadcast. I suggest calling at three o'clock in

513
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: the morning because Tom sits by the phone and then

514
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: he answers it right away and he's got nothing else

515
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: to do because he has no life. Um, and it

516
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: gives him something to do in the middle of the

517
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Speaker 1: night other than they get up and use a little

518
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Speaker 1: boys room. UM. I made a boo boo, and I

519
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge it. I I said something backwards. Here

520
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: there's a first time for everything. Yeah, this is I

521
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: gotta do. Here's a lot of first this week. I

522
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: between losing my jacket, which I found, between writing a

523
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: check out of the wrong checking account for something which

524
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: I corrected. Uh, and now I made a booboo here

525
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 1: on there. So I'm not sure what kind of a

526
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: day I'm having. Everything comes in three, Everything comes in three.

527
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is a tesla. Isn't totally electric lots of

528
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: stupid accessories because that spelled wrong. It would have to

529
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: be totally electric, stupid little accessories tesla. Right, So Mr

530
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: Sterling in my hig school Engleist teacher is glad for that. Um,

531
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Speaker 1: I want Tom to talk for a minute. Not that

532
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: I enjoy hearing his voice, but yeah, you you're Tom,

533
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: aren't you. Um? Where's my little yellow piece of paper

534
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: right here? Um? Tom, Tom's daughter's test, Tom's daughter's tesla,

535
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: Tom's daughter's escape had this really crazy electrical problem, and

536
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: Sarah goes to school up in uh New England, and

537
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: we were trying to diagnose it from two or fifty

538
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: miles away, and I kept coming back to Tom and saying,

539
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: barring the rediculous, it just sounds like an alternator because

540
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: of all the bizarre things that we're going on with it,

541
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: and it's an interesting story the outcome of it. And

542
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: I think we talked about a little bit two weeks

543
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: ago that last week. But in a nutshell, Tom sum

544
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: it up well, very bluntly, and you've been slammed lately,

545
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: which is why I didn't bring it over to your

546
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: places as I normally would. I took it over. I

547
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: went and picked it up, and I drove it back. Basically,

548
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: what it was doing is you started and it would

549
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: be kind of a kind of a crapshoot. You started up.

550
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes will be fine. Sometimes the battery light would come on.

551
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes you lose power steering it's electric in this car.

552
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes you lose power steering in the instrument cluster. Sometimes

553
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: you also lose heating control. Sometimes it would just work perfectly. Um,

554
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: there's no real common you know, I looked at a

555
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: wiring diagram because that's the trouble shooting from a far part.

556
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: There's no real commonality to any of that. There's you know,

557
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: it's the only commonality. They're all in. All those systems

558
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: are contained in the car, and they all get powered

559
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: by the alternator exactly. That's that's really it. Ahead continue,

560
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: So you know, I brought it over to the local

561
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: Ford dealer where I had purchased it, and uh dropped

562
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: it all I you know, I had a sheet of

563
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: paper listening everything we did. It wasn't throwing codes the

564
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: whole bit um. They called me the other day and

565
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: I said, while it was there, you know, since the

566
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Speaker 1: last time you had seen it, Uh, it had developed

567
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: an oil e. I could smell the oil um. And

568
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: they went through the car and they finally called me

569
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Speaker 1: back and they said, you know, we're going to replace

570
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: the alternator where pent Sure it's the alternator that's throwing trash,

571
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: which would make sense because that would confuse the computer. Yeah.

572
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: And again the thing everybody as a takeaway is we

573
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: looked at voltage, We looked at amperage. They were good,

574
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, not that we ever really saw it during

575
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: the dress and the problem, but we think what's happening.

576
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: What was happening was I think this car has a

577
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: bad diode in it, and it was putting trash voltage

578
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: into the system, and the computers were reacting to that

579
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: and shutting systems down. Either that the actual voltage regulator

580
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: itself was reacting, probably too fast and causing spikes. One

581
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: of the other. But anyway, garbage in garbage out right exactly.

582
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: So while they were looking at it, they said, you know,

583
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: we found the oil leak. They said, it's very common

584
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: in this vehicle that you know, the um, the valve

585
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: cover and the time cover leaking. And it's okay, well

586
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: we got to do that. And they said, also while

587
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: it's here, you know, and this is a known forward problem.

588
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: It's not a recall, but it is a service bulletin

589
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: that um, the transaxle, you know, the transmission will leak

590
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Speaker 1: around one of the front axles happens to be on

591
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Speaker 1: the same side of the car where the where the

592
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: alternator is. And I said, okay, well we gotta get

593
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: that fixed too, obviously, And the guy was kind of

594
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: tiptoeing around, and he started talking about, you know, the

595
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: pricing and stuff. I think he was waiting for me

596
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Speaker 1: to rip his head off, and I went, no, no no,

597
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: as I understand this is, I says, I've already looked

598
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: all this stuff up. I said, in order to get

599
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: out to get the alternator route, you've got to pull

600
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: the axle, right, I said, you know, there's a lot

601
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: on that engine as you gotta take part of the

602
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: engine apart to get those covers off and get the

603
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: seals changed. And I said, I said, the transacle is

604
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: easier and I had that done in my wife's car.

605
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: And then he said also, He says, uh, we probably

606
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: want to do the throttle body. And I said, well,

607
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: that's a recall, is it. But that's been done. We

608
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: did that at the shop. Yeah, I said, my mechanic

609
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: did that. He goes, okay, that's why it's not updated here.

610
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: I said, look, if you want to replace it to

611
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: feel better, go ahead. I it's okay with me. Um,

612
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: and he threw a price at me, and I want

613
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: to okay. I said, well, let's talk about that for

614
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: a second. And I think he was still waiting for

615
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: for me to get I don't know, violent whatever you

616
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: wanted to. And I said, looks, I'm bringing you an

617
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: awful lot of labor. This is very labor intensive. I says,

618
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: can we do anything? Can you shave a little bit

619
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: off the cost of the parts, as I says, I,

620
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: I know what the alternator cost wholesale, you know, And

621
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: to his credit, you know that's the way you were

622
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 1: telling it before that. To his credit, he realized and

623
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: he said, listen, I've got to pull the accedent into

624
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: the alternator. And he says, we got to pull the

625
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: axle to do the transaxle. He's let's take some time

626
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: off on that. Let's do this, let's do that. We

627
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: settled for about eleven dollars less than the original quote.

628
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: And I said, let's rock and roll. Let's do it.

629
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: And he looked at me, and he it not looked

630
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: at me. We were on the phone. He went, really,

631
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: I said yeah, I said, I look at it this way.

632
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: I said, that's a nine year old car with two

633
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: hundred twenty thousand miles on it. It's a good car,

634
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: as I believe it has life. And he so, you

635
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: bet at those is. I had one of these. I

636
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: drove it to three hundred thousand miles. He said, then,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with me, he says, every tech in

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Speaker 1: can't believe the condition to this cars. You took care

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Speaker 1: of it. I said, yeah. He goes it's it's it's remarkable.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible for a car this sold well. And you know,

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Speaker 1: needs tars worth of work or tars worth of work,

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Speaker 1: and what do you buy for three grand? Nothing? You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna buy anything. So I told him, I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, hundred bucks is better than than forward fire

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Speaker 1: a month for it's because she needs an SUV up

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Speaker 1: where she is, I said, very bluntly. I said, the

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Speaker 1: car is nine years old. I think I've put five

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Speaker 1: or six hundred dollars total into it. But you know,

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Speaker 1: besides the normal breaks, tires things like that, I said,

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Speaker 1: the car has been trouble free as it it's due.

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Speaker 1: And he went, okay, And anyway, I'll be picking it

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Speaker 1: up Monday because they wanted to keep it just to

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Speaker 1: make sure that the silicon sealant on the I think

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Speaker 1: it was the training boot. Um needs to set properly outside,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it just goes to show. And that's

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Speaker 1: what makes a proper repair um. And and that's sort

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Speaker 1: of what we've been talking about here, folks, in terms

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Speaker 1: of let's make a proper repair. Uh. Tom was well armed.

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Speaker 1: He he had his information, and you know, look who

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Speaker 1: needed and he walked in there, calm, direct concise. He

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Speaker 1: got a little bit of a bargain. They did the job,

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Speaker 1: the cars fixed, and a credit to the guys up

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Speaker 1: with that Ford dealer. We'll pick this up on the

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Speaker 1: other side when we come back. Let's pull over and

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Speaker 1: take a pause. I'm running the Car Doctor. Don't go away,

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Speaker 1: the twelve right, yeah, got we're almost halfway through this month,

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Speaker 1: first month of the year, like yeah, which means we

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Speaker 1: eighty five days. How far are we from spring? Somebody

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Speaker 1: give me a number. We'll talk about it after we

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Speaker 1: go off the year here, but thank you too far well? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: spring summer cruising weather, um Steve Cook Stephen Cook are

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Speaker 1: are are are good buddy? The instructor from I think

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Speaker 1: it's Cincinnati. I'm not sure where Steve is from. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's somewhere in Ohio, is what I believe. Wrote a

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Speaker 1: really interesting book. O B D two Diagnostics Made Easy. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's got a picture of somebody that impersonates Tom Ray

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Speaker 1: on the cover, uh, standing there with his head up

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Speaker 1: going um, with a sign on it that says helped me.

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Speaker 1: But O B D two Diagnostics Made Easy. It's out

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Speaker 1: on Amazon. Uh, you'll see a picture of a mechanic

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Speaker 1: staring at a car with a hood up with a

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Speaker 1: license plate that says helped me. The illustrations or courtesy

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Speaker 1: of Steven's daughter. Um, we're gonna be reading this on

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Speaker 1: air talking about it, and I think I'm gonna twist

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Speaker 1: Steve's aren't. Probably give a few way on air, uh

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Speaker 1: to get the juices flowing in the coming weeks. But

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Speaker 1: two Diagnostics Made Easy a really great easy book to

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Speaker 1: read to help you with your understanding. I'm running ady

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Speaker 1: in the car doctor until the next time. The mechanics

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