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Speaker 1: of take it from that moment on. We're on a

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Speaker 1: road trip to nowhere real quick. Uh this week? Uh,

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Speaker 1: And I went to a really neat place, Gardner Exhaust.

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Speaker 1: They they are a manufacturing company for muscle car exhaust.

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Speaker 1: And I said, no, we don't do that. I said,

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Speaker 1: and talk to Alex Croton, New York. Alex, you're near

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Speaker 1: You're near Red Hook, New York. Right, No, your further south? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Now are you upstate New York? If you consider Westchester

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Speaker 1: how it works? I'm like, where you lord? Ron? You know? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So so you're backing, you're backing up at seven eight,

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Speaker 1: We checked it on our computers. Nothing's coming up. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you're there, sir, Yes, I am eighty eight three Panni

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Speaker 1: same person. The corporation has been rebuilt. But my question

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00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: is that when you put it in gear, Okay, the

425
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 1: car shouldn't you shouldn't really feel shouldn't bang? I know

426
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: exactly what it's doing. It lunges, right, It shouldn't do that, right, Yeah, absolutely,

427
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: it should just you know, typically there was there was

428
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: a fifty to seventy five rpm drop when you put

429
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: those cars in gear. You know, so depending upon where

430
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: it was, you know, depending upon where the bay sidal went,

431
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 1: and sometimes because of the car in the system, you

432
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: would have to fudget a little bit because, let's face it,

433
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: things have worn out a little bit, since everything is

434
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: a little different. Everything was very um specific. I'll tell

435
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: you how, and I realized I may be going a

436
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: little bit too deep into this, but I'll tell you

437
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: how specific and technical those cars were. To adjust the

438
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: fuel mixture on those cars was electronic control. It was

439
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: a dwell setting. We use something called the dwell meter

440
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: and it was electronically done through the through the screws

441
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the car the mixture screws. Some

442
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: of those vehicles, not this particular one, but some of

443
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: that generation, we had to do propane enrichment where we

444
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: would actually hook a bottle of propane to the engine,

445
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: give it enough fuel two see a change in the mixture. Screws,

446
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: make our base settings running propane through it, take the

447
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: propane away. Set the base cydle and ship the car

448
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: because the mixture circuit was so lean that just turning

449
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: it without that propane there wouldn't really give us any

450
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: definitive difference in how the vehicle operated. Very you know,

451
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: I always wondered how it was gonna happen. Here we

452
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: are forty years later and I'm seeing it because uh,

453
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: I always said, I wonder how these vehicles are gonna

454
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: withstand the test of time in terms of service ability.

455
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: So you've got to get into a mechanic that understands

456
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: that system atom that that will sit down and go

457
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: through all the adjustments. And I would also tell you

458
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: that make sure he verifies that the choke does open

459
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 1: up properly. This might have a he failed and mentioned

460
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: this to whoever works on it. This also might have

461
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: a failed choke pull off, which is the vacuum the

462
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: little vacuum motor on the side of the carburetor that

463
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: used to fail all the time, and that helps position

464
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: the choke flap to allow the engine to run during

465
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: warm up. It's it's a constant battle, you know. The

466
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: choke coil is trying to close the choke, the choke

467
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: pull off is trying to open the choke and the

468
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: differences the amount of air that has allowed to come

469
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: into the engine and it's going through the warm up process,

470
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: so you know this might have a bad choke pull off.

471
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: Classic General Motors issue of the day. Alright, would you say,

472
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: would you believe if I told you that I could

473
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 1: notice the difference in the running of the car between

474
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: running it with the ethanol versus just real gas and

475
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: we actually put real gas in it because we actually

476
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: go to the gas station has a real real gas

477
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: not the one has the ethanol blend in it. Yeah,

478
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 1: I would say, so I would believe it. Um, I

479
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: would believe it because you know it's it's those cars

480
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: were that sensitive, and you know it's it's it's another

481
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: example of how we struggle to get to where we

482
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: are in the technology we had to go through. Those

483
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: cars were um as they got older, and boy, you

484
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: know what, you better hang onto that carburetor because trying

485
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: to find replacements today you just can't. Um. You know.

486
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: And just as a side note, if they have any

487
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: trouble setting the idle speed, I do remember the throttle shaft,

488
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: the base plates where the throttle shaft goes through. We

489
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: used to have to bush them and change them then

490
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: um because they were so problematic. So you know, consider

491
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: that if you have any problems setting up the idle speed,

492
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: so carburetor guys gotta go through it at them. That's

493
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: the bottom line. And then from there you can sort

494
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: of sort out the problems and see what the dealer

495
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: created when they tried to adjust it, which I don't

496
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: think they really did. Zero the car dofters coming back

497
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: right after this? That's right. If you call and we're

498
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: not law, you can leave a message and we'll call

499
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: you back to get you on the air with Ronzo

500
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Speaking of ron there he is. Let's

501
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: get out over and talk to Christopher and Windham, New Hampshire. Christopher,

502
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: welcome to the car Doctor. Hey, how are you? What's

503
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: going on? Yeah? I got a b to Ford ranger

504
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: um and recently it's starting to uh sputter when breaking

505
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 1: um last year replaced the breaks the fund brakes and

506
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: rotors um um and then also to a headed um

507
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: try to get inspected. Recently it says the emergency brake

508
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: cable is bound. Okay, So when you say when you

509
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: say stutter, Christopher R shutter, are you talking about um?

510
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: Are you talking about, you know, you're doing on the

511
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: highway and you step on the break in the steering

512
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: went on the brake, pedal shakes, or you're talking about

513
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: as you're approaching traffic lighter stop sign, low speed under

514
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: ten mile an hour, the pedal starts the buzz and

515
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: all out from under you the first one first, So

516
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: you've you've got a shutter shake and above. Yes, all right,

517
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: So when you change the front pads and rotors when

518
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 1: you did the front breaks a year ago, was it

519
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: in response to that problem and it didn't get better

520
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: or the problem has existed since you did that. Um,

521
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: I know they just got the vehicle and I knew

522
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,479
Speaker 1: it needed new breaks and rotors. Um. But yeah, this

523
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: problem just started about a month ago. All right, you

524
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: know is it? So you're doing, you step on the

525
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: brake and the steering wheel starts to shake. Um, I

526
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: don't know. It feels like it's more of like I

527
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: don't know the back end, I guess. Okay, So you

528
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: feel it in the seat of your pants? Yeah, all right,

529
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: So you're feeling it in the seat, right, You're feeling

530
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: it in the seat as you as you're driving. So

531
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: and then the other part of the inspection was it

532
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,479
Speaker 1: said that the working break cable was frozen. Yes, okay,

533
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: so why can't this be The parking break is dragging,

534
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: and you know that's part of the that's part of

535
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: the problem. I'm losing track of. What is the question

536
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: here is what's causing it? Yes, what's causing Well, obviously

537
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: we've got to get the parking brake on stuck. You know,

538
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: if you're if you're dragging the rear break, if you're

539
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: dragging the parking break and there's a four wheel disc

540
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: vehicle or front break front this rear drum from break

541
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: disc rout and back and and it's okay, so I

542
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: did it too, so it's okay. Um, So you know,

543
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: if you're dragging the parking break, you're dragging the rear shoes. Yes,

544
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: so you've probably by now warp the rear drums because

545
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: you've overheated them because you've been you've been driving with

546
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: the brake on. So when you step on the break,

547
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: you're just personifying or magnifying that warp or that out

548
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: of round and it's just experiencing it throughout the vehicle.

549
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: So the number one rule in auto repair, brother all right,

550
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been doing it. I

551
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: don't care what you're working on. Fix what you know

552
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: is bad, all right, If your if your intention is

553
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: to keep the vehicle, fix what you know is bad.

554
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: Get the parking break working, Make sure the rear shoes

555
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: operate properly. You know that the shoes aren't heat cracked.

556
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: Take a look at them. Are they cracked anywhere in

557
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: the bonding where the material meets the metal plate? You know, Mike,

558
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: the drums, you know, it's a two thousand two, it's

559
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: fourteen years old, fifty sixteen years sixteen years old. Uh,

560
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: you know how many miles, probably got a couple of

561
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand, thousand miles on it, as I

562
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: guess a baby. Um, But you know, maybe the drums

563
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: can be cut and cut safely. Maybe they've got to

564
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: be replaced. But fix what you know is bad, and

565
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: then we can have a conversation about the what if,

566
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, if there's something else going on? All right? Um,

567
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, there's really not much else there because it's

568
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: break related. I'm still suspect about the fronts. But we'll

569
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: start with fixing the back first, all right, and then

570
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: we'll kind of go from there. Give me a call.

571
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: All right, kid, thank you, all right, you're very welcome.

572
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: Hey Tom, I want a late night TV show real quick?

573
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: Do you know? The Car Here Counsel took a survey

574
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: on late night TV celebrities ranked by cars most trusted

575
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: to work on their cars. Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy fallon

576
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: top the list. If you could get me a late

577
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: night TV show, I'd be the one they pick. And

578
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: everybody's cars we get fixed on. I have TV to

579
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: talk about, Tony, and I can be the guy sitting

580
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: on the couch. Um no, because nobody really wants to

581
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,479
Speaker 1: see you, so we can't get you a late night

582
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: TV show. But you know the other thing the Car

583
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Here Council didn't I know him up against the clock

584
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: is I'll talk about when I come back about the

585
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: ways to find a good repair shop. Let's do that

586
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: on the return. I'm run on any of the car doctor.

587
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Welcome back on any

588
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: of the card ocul Let's real quick. Let's get over

589
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: and talk to Lewis and Ohio and let's see what's

590
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: going on here. Welcome Louis. What's cooking good afternoon. I

591
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: was learning about that fella had charging problem with the

592
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: AM meter with the car. Recently, I've got a D

593
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: seventeen alistrator had a similar situation. Had the generator checked

594
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: out and Alis Schumber's mechanics said, run a ground wire

595
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: from the field terminal on the generator to the frame

596
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: and the M meter was working fine. Something have you

597
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: make sure the voltage regulator match as a generator that

598
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: my voltage regulator is not the right one for the generator.

599
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: The engine was replaced and they did not check out

600
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: the voltage regulator. I don't know if I'll probably change

601
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: the voltis regulator someday, but a half it's yeah, his problem,

602
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: and you have me at a slight disadvantage because that

603
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: was the show two weeks ago. We were we were

604
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: on hiatus and that was the best of and I

605
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: can kind of remember the call. The call was actually

606
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: from probably three or four months ago, and if I

607
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: remember it correctly, that that fellas problem ended up being

608
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: when he had the generator rebuilt, they reversed the two

609
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: terminals in the case, so the two wires were hooked

610
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: up correctly, but they were going to the wrong terminal.

611
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: Ends by virtue of them being flipped around by the rebuilder. Yeah. Yeah,

612
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: so you know it's yeah, if it will happen, will happen.

613
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: And you know what, it's not something that's not I

614
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: gotta say, it's not something I see an awful lot of.

615
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: But um, that's that's what it ended up being. All right, sir,

616
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: you're very welcome. You have a good rest of the day. Um, yeah,

617
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: that was I do remember that that that was the

618
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: fault of that particular vehicle. Real quick, going back to

619
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: the Car Care Council, So the Car Care Council actually

620
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: did something kind of fun. They asked UH people for

621
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: a poll of which late night celebrities should would they

622
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: allow to work on their car? And Jimmy Kimmel actually

623
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: of the time was actually Jimmy Kimel and Jimmy Fallon

624
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: were so close. Um. But the big point about it

625
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: was how to find a good repair shop in The

626
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: Car Care Council has some great ideas, uh does the

627
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: business employee a s C Certified technicians. Is the shop

628
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: and customer waiting area clean and organized, our customers greeted

629
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: in a friendly, in respectful manner. This sort of sounds familiar.

630
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: I know this guy on radio has been saying this

631
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: for years. Does the business provider written estimate, does the

632
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: business offer a warranty, does the business have a list

633
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: of satisfied customers or references that it's willing to give you,

634
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: and and those are all the things that's all common sense.

635
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: You know the question I've got Are any of you

636
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: willing to take the time and do that? And you

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Speaker 1: from the Car Care Council and you'll find more. I

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Speaker 1: believe it's Carcare Counsel dot org. Um, if you want

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Speaker 1: to read it, its entirety that press release. So what

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Speaker 1: we thank them for that Until the next time I'm

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Speaker 1: good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. Let see it