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Speaker 1: While Ron is busy sleeping off Thanksgiving dinner, we present

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Speaker 1: an encore of The Car Doctor. Join us for the

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Speaker 1: great American Thanksgiving Day tradition. The streets of New York

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Speaker 1: City are lined with millions of spectators and holiday cheer

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Speaker 1: is in the air. A celebration filled with television and

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Speaker 1: music's biggest stars, world famous balloons, incredible marching bands, phenomenal floats,

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Speaker 1: and Ron and Anien at the pleasure. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: did I say that of an oh four Volkswagen jettis

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Speaker 1: now in all fairness of Volkswagen. So this car is

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Speaker 1: twelve years old and East Coast car, and it didn't

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Speaker 1: have a drop of rust on it anywhere. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it had enough oil leaks that was probably rustproof. From

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Speaker 1: now through the end of the Car Doctor the day,

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

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Speaker 1: up on twenty eight years now. I think next year,

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Speaker 1: garage doors open because we've got an interview free hour

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Speaker 1: this hour and we're gonna go talk to Bob from Phillisburg,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey return call on an update on the O

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Speaker 1: eight auty battery replacement. Well, Bob, I didn't see any

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Speaker 1: smoke screens or any fireballs go off in the vicinity

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Speaker 1: of Phillisburg, New Jersey last week, so I assume you're

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Speaker 1: able to put this battery and with no complications. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: had at nice Thanksgiving, thank you you too everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was it was daful anyway, it was yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Replacing the battery in his car was it was quite interesting.

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Speaker 1: I found about two dollars of nickels and dimes in

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Speaker 1: the back of the car because it's every body this

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Speaker 1: an Exide battery, uh as I've had good luck with

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Speaker 1: him and anyway, got it in and then scanned it

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Speaker 1: lot better now you you scanned it prior to battery removal,

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Speaker 1: no after, Okay, it's and it's said a bunch as

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Speaker 1: And obviously after I was done I scanned it, I

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Speaker 1: rosteck uh scanner. It's it's, it's it's it's quite interesting,

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Speaker 1: any good upholstery shops? I'm looking to replace the seat cushions,

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Speaker 1: especially on the driver's size, like sitting on a board. Boy,

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Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, Bob, upholstery is getting to

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Speaker 1: how they're just all gone. There's just there's just nobody

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Speaker 1: it seems like something also to replace. To go to

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Speaker 1: And then yeah, but it might really shock you the

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Speaker 1: way you like it. Because if you don't like the

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Speaker 1: way the seat feels, now, is the seat or is

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Speaker 1: the phone? Is the material and the seat pounded out

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

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Speaker 1: It might even need you know, it's like the box

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

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Speaker 1: the only other thing I would suggest is, you know,

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Speaker 1: just doing a search on the net. You know, oh

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Speaker 1: eight out e you know, A three. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: there's a low mileage something out there with similar seats

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Speaker 1: god for the Internet. Ten years ago we couldn't build

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: talk to Ron Suton, New Hampshire. Ninety Bronco to ninety

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Speaker 1: you're at the car doctor, howking out? Yeah? I rebuilt

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

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Speaker 1: thousand miles on it now and um I started smelling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: miscalculations somehow, some way? Yeah? Well I considered that and

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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, and I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: I mean, do those go bad? Sure they can rust that?

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

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Speaker 1: four leader overhead valve? Okay? What? What? Um? What engine

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Speaker 1: control system? You're running EK four? Okay, so you're running

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

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Speaker 1: It is um possibility that you know, do you ever

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

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Speaker 1: And you know, take a look and watch fulture while

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Speaker 1: I have seen that diaphragm on that fuel rail start

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Speaker 1: I see a lot of variables in fuel economy based

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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I have one ninety in there now,

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Speaker 1: doctor Tom? You're from Springfield? You're still there, sir, Yes, sir, so,

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Speaker 1: air and putting air into the system somewhere, maybe it's

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00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: legitimately running hot. Maybe we've got a head guess get

426
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: issue here not to You know, this can go a

427
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: bunch of different ways. So that's why sometimes you have

428
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: to prove what's good to figure out what's bad. All right,

429
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: when they when they did the end gen, what do

430
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: they think of the radiator? Again, I don't have an

431
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: answer to that because I didn't supervise that probably should

432
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't know. I sat on the

433
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: sideline for several months that radiator did just sitting. And

434
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 1: it's an older vehicle, so I don't we may have

435
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: created some issues there well. And if the radiators original

436
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: at a buck sixty it is, I let me tell you,

437
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: let me answer the question this way. My two thousand

438
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 1: and eight Silverado, my my plow vehicle. It's got thirty

439
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: one thousand miles on it. It's ten years old, as

440
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: a new radiator sitting for it in the shop. I'm

441
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: just gonna change the radiator out after ten years, just

442
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: because it's ten years old, you know, and it's it's

443
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: it's out in all kinds of weather, and and you know,

444
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: it's just plastic and illumine them today and they're just

445
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: not great. Um. I spent the money I paid the freight,

446
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: I got an original, you know, GM radiator for it,

447
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 1: and at least a lot of peace of mind plowing.

448
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: So you know, it might be time to consider the

449
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: radiator as an issue, all right. That's number two. Number three,

450
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 1: Going back to the heater core. You know, I have

451
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: seen cases where heat or core restriction can impede flow

452
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: and create some goofy overheat issues. So you know, it

453
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: would probably be a good idea to flush and back

454
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: flush the heater core. Not hard, not hard to do,

455
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:18,399
Speaker 1: are you? Are you mechanically inclined that? Okay? So the

456
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: way I'm gonna tell you to do it this, If

457
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: I remember right, this has quick lock connectors on it,

458
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 1: You've got you've got to take the quick locks off.

459
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: And you know what I did was, I've just created

460
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: my own little flush kid at the shop and I

461
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: do this. I use it all the time. I went

462
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: to the hardware store. I got regular hose ends, you know,

463
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: a male and a female hose ends set up like

464
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,239
Speaker 1: for the garden hose. And I put it on a

465
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: heater hose, and you know, here's my here's my innie,

466
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: here's my autie. And I put it on the heater

467
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: core and I'll put the one end on the core

468
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 1: which way I want to go, And I usually flush

469
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: in the direction of flow first, all right, and you know,

470
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: just just to kind of push it through, and I'll

471
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: put a hose on the other side on the outlet,

472
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: and I'll put that hose in a white bucket. White's

473
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: always a dramatic color, all right. You can usually see

474
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: all the crud all right, very easily, and I'll you know,

475
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I won't run a lot of water. Uh.

476
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: The other thing I add to this setup is I've

477
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: got you ever see those brass shut off fouls. It's

478
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: like a little hand lever that you can either go

479
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: full throttle or you know, you can shut it down

480
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: to a quarter and a half. And so for then

481
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: I'll run and I'll run a quarter maybe a half

482
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: throttle of hose uh through the core. I don't want to.

483
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to break the core. I don't want to,

484
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to over pressurize it. Not

485
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: that I think I could. City water is probably in

486
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: the you know, it depends I think where we are.

487
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: City waters like you know, fourteen fifteen pounds. I don't

488
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: think it's much more than that. And you know, I

489
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: just I just don't want to overdo it if I

490
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: don't have to rum And I'll do it one way,

491
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: and then i'll do it the other, and I repeat

492
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: it twice and I see what comes out. Nothing comes out,

493
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: I'm great, Usually something comes out, and I wouldn't be

494
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: surprised if stuff comes out all right. So then you

495
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: can sit there and look at what came out. I've

496
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: seen in cases where it's it's content matter from the

497
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 1: cylinder block, because the old block was the CA on

498
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: the inside, and now it's deposited itself in the heater core.

499
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 1: The answer becomes, if it's in the heater core, guess

500
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: where else it is. It's in the right um. So

501
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: that's how you kind of know what to do. Radiator

502
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: was you know, way back when when I did engines,

503
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: because we don't see engine failures like we once did anymore.

504
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: And it's really it's it's it's honestly, it's not a

505
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: profitable repair, not like it once was, and you just

506
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of it. Uh. You know, maybe

507
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: it's because of my location in the country right here.

508
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: I am in Bergen County, New Jersey. You know, if

509
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: the ass trace full, in the gas tanks empty, everybody

510
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: wants to throw the car away. Nobody wants to fix it.

511
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: You know, let's just go buy a new car. What

512
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: the heck? Guy? In a matter of fact, somewhere I've

513
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: got today's newspaper. Do you know much a new GMC

514
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: Yukon is fifty? Where's that I got in here somewhere,

515
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: I've got to find it. Sixty eight thousand, eight hundred

516
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars. And I said, and well, what caught

517
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: my eye was the monthly payment. Wait a minutelet me turn.

518
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna have silence on radio. Keep keep talking for

519
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: a minute. Tom, you're Tom. Here it is Wait, haven't

520
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: I got it? Wait a minute? Here it is um

521
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: here A twenty I'm sorry, A seventeen gmc ukon s LT.

522
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 1: This is what got me. You know what you can

523
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: lease his puppy for. I'm gonna guess six nine nine

524
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: a month for three years, thirty nine months, rather seven

525
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: hundred dollar. That wasn't my first mortgage payment. I'm dating myself.

526
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: But holy count, I know a small town farm boys

527
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: out here in the Midwest. We try to fix things.

528
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: We don't try to buy seventy vehicles. Well and you

529
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: know so, oh you mean this vehicle is still seventy

530
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: thousand dollars out there in farm country? You mean it

531
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: might be a grand different, but not much. They don't

532
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: give you guys a discount. Uh you kidding me? Yeah?

533
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: I know, I listened. You know what you know what

534
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: farm land prices are out here, right? Yeah, I believe me.

535
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: And listen, right next door to corporate headquarters here, there's

536
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: a there's a farm on the on the on the

537
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: back country road that we're located on. There's probably i'm

538
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 1: gonna say, there's a good eighteen to twenty acres of

539
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: land there that they actually still farm with, all right,

540
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: and you can see the housing development is encroaching. You

541
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: know what those acres of land are going for. I'm

542
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: gonna guess half a million acre, half a million an acre.

543
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm getting pretty good, A getting pretty good. You're you're

544
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: ready to move into you know, come on out to

545
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: New Jersey. I like, I like it out here in

546
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: the Midwest. Well, I dude, I understand that, I really do.

547
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: But I look at the price of these things and

548
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: I go I saw seventy thousand dollars for a vehicle,

549
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: and I said, wait a minute, maybe it's not going

550
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: to start doing engines and transmissions again at that level.

551
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: And just you know what, we'll we'll take your vehicle,

552
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: put ten grand in it, resurrect it, and send it

553
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: on its way. It's got to be cheaper. So I

554
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: it just would make sense. Anyway back to your issue,

555
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: I would think twice about the radiator. I would definitely

556
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: go a backflush on the heater core. I'd look at

557
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: the throttle body, make sure, make sure the fans are working.

558
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely think about doing a thermostat.

559
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: You know what I would really ultimately like to do

560
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: is get a scan tool on this vehicle. Do you

561
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: have any kind of a scan tool? No, but I

562
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: have access to one. Would pick up something in the

563
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: in the cooling heating system as opposed to the engine.

564
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: It could. But what I'm more concerned about is I'd

565
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: love to see you set up your wife with a

566
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: scan tool bringing up the cooling pity and tell her

567
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: I want to know if if the cooling pit says

568
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: to forty and the dash gate says to forty, then

569
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: I've legitimately got an issue. If if if the cooling

570
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: pit says if that, will you stop that? If the

571
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: cooling pit says, if the cooling pit says, you know, two,

572
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: and the dashboard says to forty and you have no

573
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: heat and it's blown cold there, now I've got two

574
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: separate problems. I'm just trying to eliminate. You know, the

575
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: possibilities here alright, But one last thing. One last thing.

576
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: If you don't mind this, if it happens to be

577
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: head gaskets again, what's my repair costs for head gaskets? Well,

578
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, you're probably in the neighborhood of grand

579
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: out there in farm country. You know it's I think

580
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: from the sounds of it. You know you you you

581
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: guys fix everything from tractors to uh, you know, everything

582
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: under the sun. I bet you could do head gaskets

583
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: on that thing if you took your time. I really do.

584
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: It's nuts and volts at that points. You give me

585
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: a system here to go down and check all those things.

586
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Yeah. No, And it's just, you know,

587
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: it's just sometimes and and they say this, and I

588
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: say this all the time. Sometimes knowing what's bad is

589
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: proving what's good, because if you're eliminate enough of what's good,

590
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: sooner or later you find out what's bad. Too many

591
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: times guys approached the car and they say, oh, I

592
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: can't find out what's wrong. It's it's an intermittent problem. Okay,

593
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: prove what's good. Tell me what's good, and you know

594
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: that that it can't be that. Don't move on to

595
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: the next thing, and then and then the last. The

596
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: last commentary has to be this probably has an electric

597
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: cooling fan on it to have a right how how

598
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: are the cooling fans working? One came on about two ten.

599
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't think the one came on. But

600
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that's for a separate system, right, and

601
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: let's understand how that works. So that's the second part

602
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: of this. All right, sir, thank you, you're very welcome.

603
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: Tom let me know what happens. I'm kind of curious

604
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: and I'd love to hear the final answer. I'll do that.

605
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: Thank you, you're very welcome. Eight five zero zero run

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Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor coming back, we'll write it

607
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: for this What's better than Black Friday Specials twelve three

608
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Speaker 1: Car Advice from the Car Doctor. Here's Ron, Hey, welcome

609
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: back right on any of the Car Doctor. Let's roll

610
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: over and talk to Steve Roanoke, Virginia and some questions

611
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: about warranty. Steve, Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir. I

612
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: hope your thanksgiving. What's good? What's going on? Oh? It

613
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: was great? Hi, Ron, good to be back on my

614
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: extended warranty on my Honda is gonna expire soon. Do

615
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: you have any advice on a good sort of after

616
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: your market company, or just can Honda do something beyond

617
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: the of your thousand. What I'm really searching for is

618
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred dollars a year premium was a five

619
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: dollar deductive, probably you'd be the other way around. Yeah,

620
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't know that. I don't know

621
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: that one is going to exist, Steve. My concern becomes

622
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: and after market warranty policy. The ones that I've dealt

623
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: with in the shop and the ones that I hear

624
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: people talking about usually don't cover enough unless you're paying

625
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: a premium, and the ones that you know you're you're

626
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: paying the premium for. For example, we just had a

627
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: customer with an O nine Chevy Malibu, his exteve, but

628
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: the car used three years ago. He put a premium

629
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: policy on it. The policy cost him three years ago,

630
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: all right, and it covered up Yeah, it covered him

631
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: up to a hundred and nine thousand miles. The policy

632
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: just expired and they covered just about everything, but not everything.

633
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: And there were still some cases where he was laying

634
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: money out of pocket, and you know it, almost three

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars he didn't have a trans failure, he didn't

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Speaker 1: have engine failure. A lot of it was break work,

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Speaker 1: a lot of it was you know, predictable things at

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Speaker 1: that mileage, and he can't get another policy on it.

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Speaker 1: They won't They won't cover the car beyond this age

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Speaker 1: or mileage. And the concern I've got is, in order

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Speaker 1: to get the coverage, I want to know what's that

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Speaker 1: going to be around. I know Honda is going to

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Speaker 1: be around. I don't know if X y Z warrant

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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 do not get sued,

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Speaker 1: will be around. So that's that's that's always a concern,

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Speaker 1: AMND So great question. I would tell you, if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do anything, go back to Honda. But I will

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Speaker 1: add this the way you maintain a car. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'd worry about it. I think i'd pay

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Speaker 1: yourself that warranty policy. You know you're you're gonna typically

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Speaker 1: expect to spend. Oh, I would gets between fifteen and

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Speaker 1: two grand, and most warranty policies pay yourself that money.

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Speaker 1: Put it in the banquet. It collects some interest at

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 five zero nine zero zero. The Car

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Speaker 1: Doctor is coming back right after this. Hey, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We're on an ending of the Car Doctor. I want

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

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

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Speaker 1: covered 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.

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

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Speaker 1: the Electric E teen wheeler. For those of you that

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Speaker 1: might just be tuning in. We'll start production in No

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Speaker 1: price 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 test less

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Speaker 1: Semi prototype is heavy on aerodynamic styles that are said

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

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

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Speaker 1: that be diesel powered machines? Tesla officials said while giving

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Speaker 1: USA today, I'll walk around before the event unfolded. Even

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Speaker 1: with eighty thousand pounds, it'll get up to eight sixty

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Speaker 1: miles per hour and seconds, Musk said, hopping out of

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

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

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Speaker 1: a standard diesel truck would be more expensive to operate

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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. Muscaz 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: miles per hour five grade compared to a standard truck.

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Speaker 1: Then the biggest deploys in who's a company? This statistic

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: bring these things online, they're gonna actually mandate when the

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Speaker 1: drivers have to pull over. The vehicles are gonna run

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Speaker 1: out of juice, and they're gonna have to pull over

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Speaker 1: they're gonna actually keep the highways safer, I think, because

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Speaker 1: we'll be forcing drivers to take a rest break. Of course,

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Speaker 1: they 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 neat stuff. So anyway, kind

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

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