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Speaker 1: Ron Anian folks, the car's twelve to fourteen years old.

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Speaker 1: How can you ask for a recall on something that's

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Speaker 1: rusted out and been through ten or more winters, especially

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Speaker 1: in the harsh Midwest where they have this thing called

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Speaker 1: salt that melts snow and ice. The car Doctor, you know,

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Speaker 1: my experience has been the aftermarket catch are typically three

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Speaker 1: quarters the size of the original equipment.

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Speaker 2: Cat.

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Speaker 3: I mean they're cheaper. There's a reason why they're cheaper.

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Speaker 3: It's the same material, there's just less of it.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the radio home of ron Aanian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 4: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 4: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 5: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal.

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Speaker 4: Pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 4: are open.

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Speaker 5: But I am here to take your calls. At eight

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Speaker 5: five five five six, ninety nine hundred and now he

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Speaker 5: years running.

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Speaker 6: Start spreading the news.

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Speaker 7: I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it.

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Speaker 5: New York, New yr.

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Speaker 6: Ron An amiens.

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Speaker 5: Hey, how far can I ride on a flat tire?

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Speaker 3: That was the question at the shop this week. Hello

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Speaker 3: and welcome ronnin Adie and the car doctor here is

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Speaker 3: always at eight five five five six zero nine nine

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Speaker 3: zero zero, real honest to god phone call, folks, call

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Speaker 3: comes into the shop. Hey, I've got a flat tire.

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Speaker 3: If I put air in it, how far can I go?

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Speaker 3: I thought about it, and I said, I really need

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Speaker 3: nip this in the bud, because if this is somebody

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Speaker 3: that thinks they can drive around on a flat I've

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Speaker 3: got to give them something to think about it. My

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Speaker 3: second question was what color are my eyes? And they

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Speaker 3: said I don't know. I said, well, that's right. You

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Speaker 3: haven't seen my eyes and I haven't seen your tire.

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Speaker 3: And that's why either one of us knows what answer

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Speaker 3: to give. So the safe answer is fix the tire

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Speaker 3: and get it towed, which they did. But it brought

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Speaker 3: up an interesting point in my mind, and that how

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Speaker 3: many of you are capable and willing and able and

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Speaker 3: ready to deal with flat tires, spare tires?

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Speaker 5: Where are they?

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Speaker 3: What kind of jack equipment is in the vehicle? And

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Speaker 3: it made me think I have to start banging the

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Speaker 3: drum again. With regards to young drivers, we had a

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Speaker 3: young driver come into the shop this week. She was

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Speaker 3: thirty five hundred miles overdue for her oil change. She

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Speaker 3: came in because the license plate light bulb was out,

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Speaker 3: and that's.

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Speaker 5: Great, I told her.

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Speaker 3: I said, I'm really glad that you were paying attention

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Speaker 3: for that, but you know, the oil change has gone

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Speaker 3: thirty five hundred miles late. And she wasn't even aware

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Speaker 3: And that's when I realized. Between that phone call and

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Speaker 3: her showing up, I said, what would happen if you

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Speaker 3: got a flat? Would you know how to deal with it?

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Speaker 3: She thought about it, eighteen years old, stuck on the

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Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't. Nobody's ever told me how to deal with.

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Speaker 3: That either, And it made me think that it's really

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Speaker 3: time for the experienced generation, us older folks. We've got

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Speaker 3: to really start teaching the kids.

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Speaker 5: Listen.

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Speaker 3: We know we can't teach them to work on cars

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Speaker 3: the way my generation did in the generations before and

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Speaker 3: a little bit after, but we've got to teach them

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Speaker 3: how to change flats. I told her the story that

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Speaker 3: when my kids all got their driver's license. Everybody first

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Speaker 3: stay out, they went down, they got their license, they

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Speaker 5: I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 6: Good.

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Speaker 3: Put the air out of one tire. When you learn

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Speaker 3: how to change that, I'll let you go out tonight.

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Speaker 3: And that's a true story. That's how all my girls,

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Speaker 3: all my girls know how to change a flat tire.

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Speaker 3: And that's something they've never forgotten. And I'm glad to

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Speaker 5: Anyway, something to think about.

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Speaker 3: Just be aware of flat tires and how to deal

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Speaker 3: the question, how long can I write on a flat

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Speaker 3: Probably not too far anyway. Let's one thing we want

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Speaker 3: welcome to the Car Doctor Family WRCR AM seventeen in Ramapo,

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Speaker 3: New York.

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Speaker 5: We're glad to have them.

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Speaker 3: They are the voice of the Hudson Valley and we're

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Speaker 3: happy and proud to be on them here now in

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Speaker 3: the New York City area, in the Tristate area is

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Speaker 3: a growing part of the car Doctor family and once

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Speaker 3: again a radio station that gets it. And we're glad

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Speaker 3: our listeners in New York. And the Car Doctor is back.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Let's get over and open the garage doors, which I

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Speaker 3: know is what everybody is waiting for. Let's kick them

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Speaker 3: open and go talk to Mike ninety nine expedition with

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Speaker 3: some problems in an AC code. Mike, you're on with

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Speaker 3: the car Doctor, baby, How can I help?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's if you got a toad's telling me that

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Speaker 6: I'm lean on bankline. I just got done replacing the

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Speaker 6: engine on it. I have the engine replaced. Okay, backyard

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Speaker 5: That's all right. So what you've got a P zero

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Speaker 5: one seven to one fault code on the left side,

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Speaker 5: I think so all right?

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Speaker 3: And nothing no other fault codes in the system, No

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Speaker 6: Okay, but the air conditioner compressor qu work at the

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Speaker 6: exact same time. I didn't know if it was just

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Speaker 6: coincidence or maybe there's a wire harness that isn't connected.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the answer the answer to all of

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Speaker 3: that is possibly maybe.

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Speaker 5: Sure.

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Speaker 3: Besides the fault code, does anybody scan this? Can you

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Speaker 3: tell me what any sort of fuel trim readings are?

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Speaker 3: Do we have any answers.

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Speaker 6: There, No, I haven't had it scanned, okay. Uh.

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Speaker 5: Basically, think of it like this.

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Speaker 3: You've got a V eight engine, right, You've got two

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Speaker 3: four cylinders under the hood, all right. And the way

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Speaker 3: the computer looks at it on this car is it

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Speaker 3: it's setting a fault code for P zero one, seven

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Speaker 3: It's it's really not a safe bet to start diagnosing anything.

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Speaker 5: You ever get sick, Mike, not very often, well, but

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Speaker 5: you do, right, I mean, you get a sore throat

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Speaker 3: You ever noticed, like a couple of days before, you're

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Speaker 3: you and you kind of say to yourself, I don't

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Speaker 3: start taking care of myself. That's your brain, that's your

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Speaker 3: body computer saying, hey, we're about to set a fault code.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be ready. The car computer does the same thing.

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Speaker 3: It looks at the fuel trim, left side, right side.

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Speaker 3: The left side already has the aches and pains. It's

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Speaker 3: set the code if the right side has aches and pains,

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Speaker 3: but it's a little slow and catching up, it's not

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Speaker 5: It hasn't set.

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Speaker 3: The P zero one seven four Foult code yet, which

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Speaker 3: if it's a lean code, that's what it's going to be.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: Now, if you look at fuel trim and the left

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Speaker 3: right side or bank two is zero, then we've got

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Speaker 3: think about oxygen centers.

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Speaker 5: We can start to think about vacuum leaks related to.

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Speaker 3: The left side and the left side only or bank

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Speaker 3: it that way. So before we start jumping around and

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Speaker 5: Do you have access to a scan tool?

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Speaker 6: I just have the one that it's part of my tuner.

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Speaker 5: Okay. Does it give you fuel trim readings?

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Speaker 6: No? It does not.

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Speaker 3: Okay, just spend one hundred bucks by a scan tool.

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Speaker 3: Cheap enough, all right, and let me explain to you

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Speaker 3: what you're looking for. All right?

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Speaker 5: What do you do for a living mic aircraft?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so so you understand technical stuff. If zero is

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Speaker 3: a balanced air fuel mixture.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: If they have to add fuel to the mixture because

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Speaker 3: it's lean, you're going to see a positive number. If

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Speaker 3: they have to take fuel away because it's running rich,

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Speaker 3: it's a negative number. There is short term fuel trim,

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Speaker 3: what's happened right here. Now, there's long term fuel trim,

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Speaker 3: which is history. It's what happened over a certain time period,

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Speaker 3: and it varies by vehicle manufacturer and model year. So

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Speaker 3: a scanner on it. You want to look at fuel trim.

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Speaker 3: You want to look at bank one, bank two. You

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Speaker 3: want to see fuel trims somewhere zero plus or minus

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Speaker 3: ten percent, anything extreme beyond that, that'll tell us where

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Speaker 3: to go. If you can do that this week, call

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Speaker 3: me back next week. I'll be glad to help you further.

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Speaker 6: Okay, all right, sir.

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Speaker 3: If you need help during the week, let me point

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Speaker 3: this out too. If you do need help during the

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Speaker 3: week and you want to shoot me an email Ron

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Speaker 3: at cardoctorshow dot com.

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Speaker 5: All right, sir, all right, thank you, you're very welcome.

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Speaker 5: Take good care.

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Speaker 3: Let's get on over and talk to Gene Marie Hertford

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Speaker 3: Connecticut online too. Jean Marie, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 5: How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 5: How are you?

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Speaker 8: I caught you the other day because I was having

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Speaker 8: a problem with the ABS and rapel s on my

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Speaker 8: two thousand and three shetty s and four cylinder engine. Okay,

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Speaker 8: on the answernet and looked up what the problem might

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Speaker 8: be and replace the modular.

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Speaker 3: Okay, the ABS controller with all the brake lines going

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Speaker 3: into it. Yes, okay, did you scan any of this?

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Speaker 3: Did you scan any of this for fault codes?

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Speaker 5: Jean Marie? Now, okay, so yeah, we're rolling the dice.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Okay, we didn't know who should bleed the brakes.

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Speaker 5: Well, you're going to have to bleed the brakes.

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Speaker 3: Well did you change did you change the entire assembly

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Speaker 3: disconnecting the lines or did you just try and change

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Speaker 3: the electronic portion?

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Speaker 8: Did we disconnected the battery cable and.

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Speaker 5: Then just put no?

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Speaker 3: If this was you did the electronic side, then the

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Speaker 3: hydraulic portion of the brakes aren't affected. They are they're

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Speaker 3: as good as they are now as they were before

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Speaker 3: you replaced what you replaced.

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, they seem to be yeah.

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Speaker 5: Right, so is the lights are the lights still on?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: I just left my twenty fourteen Jeep Grand Cherokee at

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Speaker 3: I think you're wrong to think that way, Tom, and

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. Now you know, maybe forty thousand

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Speaker 3: They may just say, hey, there's a reflash for this

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Speaker 3: Let's go over to Gloria, Sacramento, California, twenty ten Honda

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Speaker 3: Civic and some questions about fuel economy. Gloria, you're around

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Speaker 2: So I'm really needing to know what is it then

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Speaker 3: Well, the way they come up with the CAFE ratings

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Speaker 3: Right, And that's not the cafe rating. And you want

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Speaker 2: Okay, and there was a car facts list of things

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Speaker 3: Know it's it's it's remember the dealership is there to

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Speaker 3: Talk to him and have that cup of coffee conversation

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Speaker 5: Gonna come up. And that's gonna make a huge difference. Glory.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate the call. Eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 3: I want to flash back myself, no pun intended to

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Speaker 5: I think Tom's getting cheated, and I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 3: Because anything PCM Powertrain Control Module or TCM trans Control Module,

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Speaker 3: from the late forties on up. They're the guys to

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Speaker 3: go to if you're looking to restore something or help

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Speaker 3: fix up your modern ride.

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Speaker 5: LMC truck dot com. Let's get over to the phones.

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Speaker 3: Let's get over and talk to Robert twenty ten Ford

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Speaker 3: escape in an airbag problem. Robert, Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 3: You're on at eight five five five six zero nine

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Speaker 3: nine zero zero.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 5: You're welcome, sir. What's up?

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Speaker 7: I bought McCarley because the airbag light came on. Got

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Speaker 7: a call from the dealer saying that someone at some

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Speaker 7: point installed an inhibitor sensor that actually blocked the sensor

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Speaker 7: to the airbags. So for four years I've been trying

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Speaker 7: it around with no airbaggs.

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Speaker 5: WHOA, Okay, well wait a minute, now, did you buy

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Speaker 5: this new or used?

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Speaker 7: I bought it new, and in February of twenty ten,

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Speaker 7: my son did have an accident in aug July twenty ten. Fuckay, okay,

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Speaker 7: we took it in to be repaired, which was substantial

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Speaker 7: under insurance.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, And now it's now you're being told

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Speaker 3: that the airbag system.

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Speaker 5: Wasn't repaired properly.

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Speaker 8: Right, all right?

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Speaker 5: I talked to my insurance company.

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Speaker 7: Oh okay, I would after all this time, it would

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Speaker 7: still be well.

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Speaker 3: I think you listen, I think the liabil Let me

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Speaker 3: ask you a question this way, or say it this way, Robert,

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Speaker 3: God forbid.

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Speaker 5: That vehicle got.

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Speaker 3: Into another accident a year later and somebody was killed

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Speaker 3: because the airbag didn't go off.

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Speaker 5: How hard would you push for it? Then? Yes, right, okay,

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Speaker 5: I'd be a little annoyed here.

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Speaker 7: I'd I'm very upset that I had filed out this.

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Speaker 7: And I have to say that technician at the dealer

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Speaker 7: was seemed to be incredulous.

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Speaker 3: About it, right, you know, because somebody didn't do their job.

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Speaker 3: And this is exactly what I talk about when I

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Speaker 3: say an onobill is a two to three ton missile

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Speaker 3: going down the road at sixty miles an hour, and

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Speaker 3: if somebody doesn't do their job right, somebody dies. Here's

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Speaker 3: a case where somebody not only didn't do their job right,

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Speaker 3: they went out of their way to do it wrong.

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Speaker 3: And and they're playing well, why would.

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Speaker 7: Why would they even do that? I mean, if it's

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Speaker 7: a coming body insurance, if they're doing the work anyway, Yeah,

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Listen, why do people do the things they do? I

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Speaker 3: don't I don't have that answer, and I don't think

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Speaker 3: I should go into it. This is a car show.

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Speaker 3: But although water repair is a study in human nature,

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Speaker 3: and I say that all the time too. I would

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Speaker 3: I would be talking to my insurance company and I

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Speaker 3: would ask for the adjuster to you know, they can

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Speaker 3: go back in their files. I'm gonna say that the

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Speaker 3: majority of in the way I understand it in New

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Speaker 3: Jersey and the majority of insurance repairs that they're always

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Speaker 3: talking about lifetime guarantees on the repair work, depending upon

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Speaker 3: how the insurance company has their connection built in with

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Speaker 3: the repair facility. I'm going to bet dollars to donuts

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Speaker 3: it's pretty much the same way in New York. So

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Speaker 3: I think the insurance company is on the hook for

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Speaker 3: this one, and I think you're I think your conversation

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Speaker 3: has to be with regards to the liability and ask

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Speaker 3: and ask them when they start pushing you off. Hey, listen,

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Speaker 3: I'm calling up because I wanted fixed. I'm not calling

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Speaker 3: you up saying somebody died as a result of the

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Speaker 3: negligence of the body shop you guys sent me to.

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Speaker 7: Okay, right right, yeah, right, you know, yeah, let me

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Speaker 7: know what.

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Speaker 3: Let me know what weapons here, because you can tell

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Speaker 3: them you were talking to me. And if we need

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Speaker 3: to discuss this on air, we sure can. Because that's

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Speaker 3: there's a huge liability factor here. There's a huge liability

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Speaker 3: problem here. They're playing with somebody's life. Okay, ye, all right,

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Speaker 3: you're very welcome, Robert.

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Speaker 5: Good luck to you. Yeah, that's hey. Listen.

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Speaker 3: You know what I always say, the liability for repair

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Speaker 3: is on the repair facility and something like that. As

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Speaker 3: somebody bypassed an air bag system. If somebody modifies anything

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Speaker 3: on a car without good reason or something against the

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Speaker 3: law because modifying an air bag system isn't legal. You're

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Speaker 3: playing with somebody's life here. You're not allowed to defeat

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Speaker 3: the system. That's why you'll notice people will call me

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Speaker 3: up and say, hey, Ron, can.

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Speaker 5: I take this out?

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Speaker 3: Can I disable the anti theft? Can I buye Listen,

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of ways to do a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: There's certain things I won't talk about, and that's one

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I go back to will lighten up

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Speaker 5: the moment.

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Speaker 3: I go back to when I was teaching and yeah,

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Speaker 3: a million years ago, another lifetime, and I was teaching

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Speaker 3: the kids how to how ignition systems worked, true story,

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Speaker 3: and I figured the best way to teach. Now, I

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Speaker 3: was a young school teacher at the time, and I

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Speaker 3: didn't really make the connection. I taught them how to

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Speaker 3: bypass the ignition switch and hot wire the car, thinking

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Speaker 3: they would then realize that purple is hot you know,

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Speaker 3: red as switched power and so on, and you know

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Speaker 3: this would be a really good lesson like this would stick.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately it did, because three days later one of the

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Speaker 3: kids showed up with his gto That shows you how

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Speaker 3: long ago this was, and I said, I thought you

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Speaker 3: were grounded. Your dad took the car away from you.

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Speaker 3: He goes, hey, he took the keys, he didn't take

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Speaker 3: the car. So I'd have the conversation with him and

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Speaker 3: his father and apologize and promise I would never do

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Speaker 3: that again. So always be mindful about how you say

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Speaker 3: things and what you talk about with regards to the cars.

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Speaker 3: It was. It was a rather funny moment that I

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Speaker 3: remember from thirty five years ago. Anyway, A five, five,

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Speaker 3: five six zero nine nine zero zero. I'mron on any

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Speaker 3: and the car doctor. Give us a call, and keep

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Speaker 3: in mind that LMC gift card is still for grabs

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Speaker 3: this hour.

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Speaker 5: We'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 3: They put a fucking road out a piece of linen

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Speaker 3: where the supermarket use is done.

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Speaker 1: Before that, they put up the bowling Holland,