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Speaker 1: Not sure what the best type of tires are for

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Speaker 1: your car? Want to make sure your mechanic is giving

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Speaker 1: you an honest diagnosis, then this is where to turn

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Speaker 1: for help.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Car the car.

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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian is here to answer your questions about cars

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Speaker 1: at eight.

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Speaker 4: Five five hundred.

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Speaker 5: Here's bad thinking about Amamadev.

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Speaker 6: Can't be your car, It.

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Speaker 2: Must be your mama's car.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the car doctor, ron Anadian.

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Speaker 7: Talking about. Do you hear yourself talk when you speak?

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Speaker 7: Why is it that most people always cringe when they

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Speaker 7: talk to mechanics?

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Speaker 2: Why are we horrible to talk to? Hello and welcome.

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Speaker 7: I'm Ronning Ani in the car doctor. It makes me

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Speaker 7: wonder is it human nature to expect bad or expensive

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Speaker 7: news just because you're talking to the mechanic? Is it

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Speaker 7: incorrect perspective? And maybe that's what it's all about, because

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Speaker 7: if you considered this, if you make the choice on

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Speaker 7: where you bring the vehicle for repair, and if you

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Speaker 7: dislike the process, if you dislike what you hear, is

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Speaker 7: it your faults or the mechanics?

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Speaker 2: Which one is it?

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Speaker 7: Order repair can be very stressful or it can be

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Speaker 7: an enjoyable experience.

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Speaker 2: Believe it or not. It really depends on a few factors.

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Speaker 7: One, you need to realize that before that vehicle ever

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Speaker 7: gets into a repair shop, every time you turn the key,

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Speaker 7: it's costing you money. It costs money to operate a vehicle.

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Speaker 7: It costs money for that engine to run, not just gasoline, oil, entires,

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Speaker 7: but the entire vehicle is doing it's working, it's on

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Speaker 2: So you need to realize that.

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Speaker 7: Your cost per miles are accumulating as you drive the vehicle.

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Speaker 7: So if you understand that and accept that, the issue

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Speaker 7: shouldn't be that when you go into a repair shop

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Speaker 7: and have it repaired, or attempt to have the vehicle repaired,

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Speaker 7: all of a sudden, Hey, it's a surprise. It costs

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Speaker 7: me three hundred dollars to drive this car for the

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Speaker 7: last five thousand miles or ten thousand miles, or whatever

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Speaker 7: the case might be. It should really be Hey, you

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Speaker 7: know what, maybe I need to plan or budget my

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Speaker 7: time and money better. And that's the step number two.

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Speaker 7: You know, in most cases, in most cases, the guy

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Speaker 7: on the other side of the phone is only trying

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Speaker 7: wrong with the car. Ali truck or whatever it is

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Speaker 7: you're driving, and if your conversation with him is Gee,

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Speaker 7: why do I have to talk to you? Or let's

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Speaker 7: see some of the other things I've heard. Oh God,

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Speaker 7: if I'm talking to you, that can't be good, or

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Speaker 7: oh boy, I hope this doesn't hurt, or just things

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: If you're all really prepared to operate and expense an automobile,

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Speaker 7: you need to plan a budget. You need to understand

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Speaker 7: what it is that that automobile is going through and

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Speaker 7: how you're using up the resources of that vehicle as

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Speaker 7: you operate it. It's common sense. Listen, you all save

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Speaker 7: money and put aside things for other budgets. A budgetary

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Speaker 7: needs right. The water heater in the house breaks, you

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Speaker 7: don't say alg was, I'm gonna replace the house. The

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Speaker 7: put a I'm going to put a new roof on.

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Speaker 7: I'll move You always fix it. The same can be

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Speaker 7: said of the automobile. As we kick off this hour

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Speaker 7: of the Car Doctor, let's start out by thinking about

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Speaker 7: a new one, and be prepared that when you go

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Speaker 7: to the mechanic, chances are they're going to talk to

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Speaker 7: They're going to talk to you properly about what it

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Speaker 2: That's the honest approach.

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Speaker 7: Now, if the guy on the other side of the

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Speaker 7: to be continued. Hello and welcome Ron and any and

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Speaker 7: the car doctor here at the helmet. Let's take our

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Speaker 7: first call. Let's go over to Mike in Rockland County.

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Speaker 5: You Mike, Hi, thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, sir.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So, about nine months ago I went to my mechanic

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Speaker 2: Okay, what kind of car is this, Mike.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so you know whatever, we're here nine months later

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Speaker 5: and the check engine light's been going on. I went

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Speaker 5: over to the mechanic and he says it's the.

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Speaker 2: Same problem again, same codes.

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Speaker 5: He didn't tell me that.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Well, then what did he tell you he needs

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Speaker 7: to change the CAMP sensor in the air injection pump again?

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Speaker 5: Well, he said he wants to spend time with it

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Speaker 2: Okay, So your question to me is, I don't know

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Speaker 5: Make out of this. I never had a situation like this.

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Speaker 7: What we we had the same problem repeat itself nine

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Speaker 7: months later. Yeah, okay, Well, let's let's start back at

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Speaker 7: the big beginning. Then let's make some assumptions. And we

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Speaker 7: both know that's a dangerous word. What if the new

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Speaker 2: Put in is no good?

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Speaker 7: Okay, it's possible, doesn't mean good, and it just means

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Speaker 7: never ever worked. So is it possible that the new

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Speaker 7: air pump is bad? Is it possible that there's a

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Speaker 7: CAM sensor deficiency because it's a bad new part, So

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Speaker 7: bad parts aside, bad new parts aside. Then the conversation

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Speaker 7: has to go to just what codes is he seeing?

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Speaker 7: CAM sensor is one code, air pump is another. Now

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Speaker 7: is he saying it's the exact same problem?

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Speaker 3: Is it?

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Speaker 7: You know, here's a case where I need more information

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Speaker 7: to tell you what kind of questions and information to.

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Speaker 2: Go back to him with.

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Speaker 7: So let me just say this, if it's air pump

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Speaker 7: and if it's a repeat air pump failure, there are

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Speaker 7: tests and scan tools. A Tech two has it, and

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Speaker 7: several of the aftermarket scan tools have it. They give

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Speaker 7: you the ability for an air pump failure test and

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Speaker 7: understand if it's setting an air pump code. At some

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Speaker 7: point in the operation of the vehicle, the onboard computer

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Speaker 7: set a code that's number one CAM sensor. It's gonna

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Speaker 7: set that for a variety of reasons. Perhaps it's going

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Speaker 7: it's not seeing any signal at all, so that aside.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's possible that one of the new parts

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Speaker 7: is bad. It's possible that you've got a secondary problem,

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Speaker 7: or it's possible that one of the problems from nine

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Speaker 7: months ago has repeated itself. But without knowing exactly what

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Speaker 7: code has set, it's really difficult to give you further information.

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Speaker 2: So do this for me, Mike.

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Speaker 7: Can you go back to your mechanic, ask him what

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Speaker 7: two codes it's setting and come back to me next

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Speaker 7: do that? Yeah, I appreciate it, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: Let's go over and talk to John Staten Island. Yes, John,

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Speaker 7: how can I help, sir?

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Speaker 6: Hi Iron? How are you good?

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Speaker 5: Sir?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: But I have a two thousand and four Sonata fe okay,

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Speaker 6: and only in the morning when I first start and

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Speaker 6: I just go a little slow as I'm pulling out,

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Speaker 6: I get a little bit of hesitation. Then the car's

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Speaker 5: That, all right?

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on it?

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Speaker 6: There's only twenty five thousand miles on.

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Speaker 7: The car, all right, last time it had any sort

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Speaker 7: of service. What's the service and maintenance history on this car?

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Speaker 2: Like, John?

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Speaker 6: Oh, very good?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, excellent, Thanks.

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Speaker 2: You for doing all your royal changes everything.

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Speaker 7: Now, is this just when the vehicle is cold, and

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Speaker 7: then once it warms up, it's okay, yeah, on.

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Speaker 6: Its Once it warms up, it's fine. The car one's great, okay.

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Speaker 2: Now do you let the car warm up at all?

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Speaker 6: Yes? I do?

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Speaker 6: Five to ten minutes? Fatal start all right? It still

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Speaker 7: So it's at that point basically the vehicle is completely

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Speaker 2: Heat, right absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 7: So you know, the obvious and simple things are dirty

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Speaker 7: throttle bodies, carbon leaning issues for an engines. Even though

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Speaker 7: well how well do you treat it As far as gas,

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Speaker 7: are you buying gas from the same station, same brand station?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 6: You know, then the car is very well maintained.

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Speaker 7: Okay, then as long as the throttle plates clean. The

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Speaker 7: which way fuel trim is going, Is it running lean,

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Speaker 7: is it running rich? Is it actually in the engine

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Speaker 7: or is it possible this is an automatic?

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Speaker 6: John O, No, it's it's an automatic.

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Speaker 2: It's an automatic.

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Speaker 7: Right? Is it possible that this is a fault in

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Speaker 7: the transmission, that there's a slip issue. Everything doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 7: got to start with some diagnosis in that direction that

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Speaker 7: I indicated.

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Speaker 6: My best is to leave my car way one night

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Speaker 6: at my mechanic can have him thought, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah listen, And that's that's for anything.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, no mechanic, no mechanic, this mechanic included,

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Speaker 7: no mechanic. If I fix anything, you know, it's difficult

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Speaker 7: at best, can fix cars on you know, with some

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Speaker 2: Otherwise it's like throwing darts.

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Speaker 8: At the wall.

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Speaker 6: Excellent, excellent, fellow. All right, okay, great listen. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: All right, John, take good care any in the car doctor.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back right after.

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Speaker 3: This the top.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back, car doctor. Get all over to Harry

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Speaker 2: and Book in New York. Harry, you're on with the

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Speaker 7: Sir?

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Speaker 8: Hello, Harry?

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Speaker 2: Are you there?

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Speaker 8: Am I on?

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you sure are.

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Speaker 8: Oh. I'm thinking of giving gift a Toyota in nineteen

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Speaker 8: to have the car shipped by flat truck down there.

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Speaker 8: What do you think of that idea and shortcomings?

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Speaker 7: I think it depends upon the expense. Getting vehicles shipped

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Speaker 7: and then how you would bring them back, either by

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are.

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Speaker 7: Services, there are companies that do provide that service. I

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Speaker 2: You know, it's dollars and cents, quite honestly.

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Speaker 7: The first thought that comes to my mind is why

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Speaker 2: How much? How many miles are on the car? Would

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Speaker 8: I don't know, probably, but the easiest thing would they

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Speaker 2: Okay, then have a flat truck take it down?

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Speaker 8: Is a safe way of doing the transfer a car?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Harry? I mean, yeah, Harry.

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Speaker 7: They transport cars from here to California a lot more

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Speaker 7: It all depends on the guy's carrying the piano. So

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Speaker 7: as long as the company you choose happens to be

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Speaker 7: a safe method. It's been done many, many, many many times.

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Speaker 7: Let's get over to Otto and the Bronx. Yes, Oda,

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Speaker 7: how can I help you?

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Speaker 8: Sir? Hey?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 8: How you doing good?

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Speaker 9: Actually, well, I have two quick questions. I have an

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Speaker 9: update that I asked you a few weeks back on

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Speaker 9: my leaking down cover gaskets on my ninety seven totail. Right, Well,

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Speaker 9: it turns out that this job is going to be

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Speaker 9: a tremendous big job. It's not a basic taking your

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Speaker 9: your valve covers off. These gaskets go underneath the engine.

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Speaker 9: They have to take off the whole top of the

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Speaker 7: I don't believe this right, it's probably head gaskets.

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Speaker 9: It's head, But I'm just saying that they have to.

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Speaker 8: Take the whole top.

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Speaker 9: Disconnect lines, disconnect few lines.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we get it. It's a lot of work. Your question.

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Speaker 9: It's over one thousand dollars. So now I'm thinking, I

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Speaker 9: don't know if it's worked or not. So now I'm

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Speaker 9: trying to see if I could just buy a new

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Speaker 9: car with the stand transmission. Now, what's the order of

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Speaker 9: in first gaming? What's less wearant there? On clutches?

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Speaker 2: Put it in neutral and just sit there and wait

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Speaker 9: Also, don't don't just keep it in first gear as you.

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Speaker 7: Will well, no, because if you're sitting there with the

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Speaker 7: So at that point you're putting load on the pressure

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Speaker 7: if you drive a stick offen enough like I do,

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Speaker 7: you get tired of holding your foot on the clutch

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Speaker 7: at the dread light, you'll just let it sit there

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Speaker 7: and neutral. Sooner or later, as you're approaching the light,

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Speaker 7: you'll know the rhythm of the vehicle. You'll you'll figure

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Speaker 9: Oh okay, okay, do you think it's worth I'm trying

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on it?

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Speaker 9: Five thousand?

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Speaker 7: You know, it really depends on the overall condition of

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Speaker 7: intentsive purposes eighty five. Let's call it one hundred thousand

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Speaker 7: they're telling you about what else is there? So you

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Speaker 7: know you've got to stop to think that are you

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Speaker 7: Don't go out necessarily buy a new car, but go

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Speaker 7: Everybody, I think five oh six, even O four, the

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Speaker 2: You know what, you're going to be impressed.

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Speaker 7: I think, and realize that you're dealing with some of

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Speaker 7: all about what you can afford and what's available to

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Speaker 9: How's that for an answer, Thanks, Ry, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, sir. Let's go over to Mark Wayne, New Jersey. Yes, Mark,

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Speaker 2: how can I help you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? How you doing?

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Speaker 4: Ron?

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Speaker 4: I got an eighty nine Chevy Celebrity and I failed

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Speaker 2: So this could be ignition. This could be fuel, this.

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Speaker 7: Could be something mechanical within the engine. There's a bunch

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Speaker 2: Why the spark plug fouls?

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Speaker 7: It weren't out or did something else damage it and

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Speaker 2: If you get my meaning.

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Speaker 4: See my friend told me that the cat is just

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Speaker 7: Well, no, if the cat were bad, and again we'd

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Speaker 7: A cat can only swallow so much, so if hydrocarbons

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Speaker 7: Then the cat's doing its job. Then mechanically there's a

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Speaker 7: Does it give any kind of performance problems. It's possible

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Speaker 4: Doesn't idle smoothly. I called you a few months ago

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Speaker 7: Something is making that engine run rough. Okay, that's got

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Speaker 2: I would look there first.

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Speaker 7: I would look at the mechanical condition of the engine first,

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Speaker 7: just threw a catalytic converter at it. Do that and

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Speaker 2: Don't go away.