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Speaker 1: Ron Anium, I want to talk a little bit about

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Speaker 1: the small time repair shops. And you know the value

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Speaker 1: of small town, small time, big time. You know the

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Speaker 1: repair shop. I don't think it's the size. I think

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Speaker 1: it's I think it's the size of the heart of

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Speaker 1: the repair shop.

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Speaker 2: We bought it spot.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to buy a used SUV or small shock camp.

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Speaker 4: I've heard we should avoid the COVID.

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Speaker 1: Car year twenty twenty to twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Is that true?

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananium, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 2: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 2: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 2: the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your call at eight five five five six ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and nah pe running.

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Speaker 4: I want to.

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Speaker 1: Ramble a little bit, which is different than a rambler,

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Speaker 1: which was American Motors. But that's a different conversation. It

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Speaker 1: was kind of interesting in the shop this week. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a short week, right, it

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Speaker 1: was it was. It was holiday week, Christmas week, and

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Speaker 1: the repairs just seemed to be a little bit diverse,

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Speaker 1: but but simple. It was all simple stuff this week.

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Speaker 1: It was it was really obvious, staring at you in

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Speaker 1: the face. Kind of stuff you didn't have to go

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Speaker 1: looking for. We had two twenty fourteen hondas well. Actually

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Speaker 1: one was a Honda. One was an Accurate that had,

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Speaker 1: you know, different failures. One was the the twenty fourteen Honda.

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Speaker 1: The accord had a complaint of the fan didn't work.

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Speaker 1: Now you know, here's here's the misnomer, right, here's the

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Speaker 1: here's the part where you you you have to be

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Speaker 1: so exact and how you talk to the vehicle owner.

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Speaker 1: When Steve came in, Well, when Steve made the phone call,

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Speaker 1: he said, hey, Ron, the fan doesn't work in the Honda.

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Speaker 1: And I said okay, and he said, yeah, it only

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Speaker 1: seems to turn slow, not fast. So in my mind

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking heater fan, because sometimes we call the heater

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Speaker 1: fan the fan, but it's not. It's to me, it's

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Speaker 1: the blower motor. But I didn't correct him, you know,

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Speaker 1: my fault. But I knew I would catch up when

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Speaker 1: he came in. When he actually dropped off the car.

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Speaker 1: So he came in the next day, dropped off the

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Speaker 1: doesn't work. And I asked him, I said which fan

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Speaker 1: and he said the one under the hood. Okay, And

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Speaker 1: how do you know that? He says, well, I watch

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Speaker 1: it. It never comes on. And he said, and if I

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make it turn. It just it spins. But

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Speaker 1: it never it never actually runs fast. So of course,

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Speaker 1: naturally I had a question. You know, Steve, never stick

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Speaker 1: your hand in the fan when it's not working, because

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Speaker 1: you never know when it's going to come on, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get up, you're gonna get a horrible man

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Speaker 1: here the wrong way, and you'll never need to go

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Speaker 1: to a manicurist again. At least you'll save money because

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Speaker 1: you'll have two less fingers. So I explained that to him,

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Speaker 1: and he said the engines. I said, what made you

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Speaker 1: to this. He says, well, it's overheating. Oh well, that's

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Speaker 1: what you should have told me in the first place,

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Speaker 1: right I You know, how about you calling me up

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Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes it's how you explain it to

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Speaker 1: the mechanic. Okay, ssych. I had to give Steve the

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Speaker 1: speech about you know, when you're talking to the mechanic,

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Speaker 1: you've got to talk simple, You've got to talk direct,

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Speaker 1: because it's not that we're not paying attention, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we're we're dealing with so many other things during the

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Speaker 1: course of the day. Imagine you're talking with a doctor

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Speaker 1: an easy repair, simple. Once we got down to the

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Speaker 1: He's found another car for his son, who's now back

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Speaker 1: from college for the holidays, and he's going to be

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Speaker 1: driving the newer car. Let's get rid of the older car,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. So you know, the choices were, do we

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Speaker 1: put a radiator in it, which is you know, a

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Speaker 1: five to six hundred dollars repair parts in labor, some coolant,

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Speaker 1: a justifiable, fair and equal patch to it. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: naturally what I did. You know what I'm going to

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Speaker 1: tell you. We put a bottle of K seal in it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it absolutely worked. Yes, it's absolutely legit. I trust Steve.

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Speaker 1: I take Steve at face value. Steve said he's going

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Speaker 1: to tell whoever he sells it to, hey, it needs

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Speaker 1: a radiator. You know, he's going to show them all

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Speaker 1: the repair bills, of which on my bill it's going

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Speaker 1: to say needs radiator. We've added k seal. It'll work,

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Speaker 1: you know for now, it'll probably work long term. But

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Speaker 1: you want to be honest with people. You want to

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Speaker 1: tell them, hey, you know it's coming to a for

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Speaker 1: a radiator. It's ten years old, it's got one hundred

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Speaker 1: you don't want to hide something. You know, if somebody

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Speaker 1: else is comfortable driving around with case inling it, which

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Speaker 1: I would be, but you want to give people that option.

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Speaker 1: So that was done. Then we had a twenty fourteen Acura,

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Speaker 1: really didn't. It's just that I know the vehicle is

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Speaker 1: going down to Tennessee after New Year's It's it's going

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Speaker 1: next fall. And I know I'm rambling, and I told

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Speaker 1: you've and it's you know, it's ten going on eleven

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Speaker 1: I take it very much to heart that I'm sending

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Speaker 1: the next ten months, and maybe it needs an oil

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Speaker 1: change in the course of things and so forth. I

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Speaker 1: looked at the battery. The battery in this Honda had

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Speaker 1: this Accura same thing, had a date code of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. It's just coming up on four years. It'll

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Speaker 1: be March of twenty one, so March of twenty five

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Speaker 1: will be a four year battery. It passed its load test,

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Speaker 1: passed its load test in real life because it was

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Speaker 1: I think that was the day. It was twelve degrees out.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of cold. But I said to Kevin,

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Speaker 1: I said, Kevin, you know, what do you want to

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Speaker 1: vehicle home for another ten months. I said. A group

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Speaker 1: size fifty one, which is what's in this Honda, like

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Speaker 1: it's in so many Hondas. Group size is the physical

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Speaker 1: dimension of the battery. It has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure cold cranking, amps and group size all

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Speaker 1: But you know, I said to Kevin, I said, you

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Speaker 1: know this group size fifty one, the group size fifty

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Speaker 1: in the shop. And I think a lot of other

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Speaker 1: the Handa dealership. They tell me how they'll sell thirty

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Speaker 1: just horrible. So I said to Kevin the owner, I said, look,

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Speaker 1: do you want to send your son down? When do

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Speaker 1: you want to get the phone call? Is what it

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Speaker 1: comes down to, you know, And I explained, you know

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Speaker 1: what we're talking group size, And if you want to

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Speaker 1: know more about group size, go out to auto batteries

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can read about group size and CCA

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Speaker 1: and everything else. There'll explain it all to you. And

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Speaker 1: I explained to Kevin about group size and he got it.

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Speaker 1: I said, no, I can't put a bigger battery in.

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Speaker 1: This is what fits the car and it does. You couldn't.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't put a different size group size in this

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Speaker 1: I said, when do you want to get the phone call?

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Speaker 1: That you know? Hey, Dad, I'm stuck. So I thought

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Speaker 1: about it in a minute and he said, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 1: He said, go ahead, put a battery in it. And

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Speaker 1: we did. You know, it's I'm never going to retire

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Speaker 1: selling somebody a battery, but I'm going to keep somebody safe,

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Speaker 1: because that's that's really the job of a mechanic.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: If a battery goes dead, it's an inconvenience. Well, it depends, right.

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Speaker 1: If it goes dead on a guy, it's an adventure.

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Speaker 1: If it goes dead on a woman, I think it

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Speaker 1: puts her in danger. It puts her in a vicarious situation,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I've I've always thought like that, raising

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Speaker 1: possibly make them. And even with guys. Right in this

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Speaker 1: day and age, nobody should be stuck on the road.

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Speaker 1: But it's a slightly different approach. And the reason I

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Speaker 1: talk to you about this is, you know, it's important.

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Speaker 1: Don't be like the one customer I had this week, Fred.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if Fred listens to the show

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Speaker 1: gonna call him like I see him. Fred's driving a

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Ram pickup that still has the original battery

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Speaker 1: in it. That battery is seven going on eight years old.

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Speaker 1: It's a five year battery, and Fred is working on

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Speaker 1: the belief system is that when it fails, he'll deal

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Speaker 1: with it. Everything has a finite life. In order repair

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Speaker 1: this long type of approach, because nothing lasts forever. And

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Speaker 1: I think you have to read the handwriting on the wall.

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Speaker 1: If you're driving a vehicle with a five year battery

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Speaker 1: and the battery seven years old, you know you're rolling

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Speaker 1: the dice. You might as well go to Atlantic City,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. You might as we go out to Vegas

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Speaker 1: going to try and beat the odds. Cars are a

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Speaker 1: maintenance bucket, right, You know, there is no free lunch.

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Speaker 1: Every mile you drive is going to cost you something

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Speaker 1: in the long run. In the case of Steve with

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Speaker 1: the Honda, he got three years out of this twenty

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Speaker 3: I'm telling all right, thank you, Ron, How are you good?

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Speaker 3: It's got the one six uh non targo multi portfield injection,

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00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 3: non direct injected engine. That's one of the reasons why

431
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,080
Speaker 3: I picked up model instead of like the JETI you know,

432
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,960
Speaker 3: which comes with the direct injected one point four one

433
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 3: five torbo charged engine. There's also a higher up version

434
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,119
Speaker 3: of the virtues itself, which should already comes to the

435
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 3: direct inject at one point zero three fiel under engine,

436
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 3: which obviously was not my option.

437
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,040
Speaker 1: So is this is this something? Is this something you

438
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,959
Speaker 1: bought in Mexico? This is this is the Mexican version

439
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 1: of this? Or is this something you Yeah, it's yeah, it's.

440
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 3: Actually I bought from Mexico. I'll, I thought, you're in

441
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 3: Mexico City, right, and uh a car comes in part

442
00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 3: it from from India. Okay, it's a Hindu model, right

443
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:05,879
Speaker 3: and had like very many birches punt intended.

444
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 1: Now that I'm getting to the car right, right, right, okay,

445
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 1: So what's going on with it?

446
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it's normal, but as don't.

447
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 3: As I got the car from the dealership, I noticed

448
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 3: that it's it was a little bit hard for, you know,

449
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 3: for me to maintain like a steady speed, especially when

450
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 3: on first pier, because it's a stick. As I go

451
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 3: up on the gears, you know, second, third, fourth, from fifth,

452
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 3: it's a little easier to maintain a steady speed. And

453
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 3: by maintaining a steady speed, I'm in a steady rpm.

454
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 3: So I tested it out like you know, keeping a

455
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 3: car in neutral, you know, standing still. Uh, and I

456
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 3: try to accelerate the engines like let's say two thousand

457
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 3: RPMs or twenty five hundred RPMs. It's a check and

458
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 3: see if you look in any way possible for me

459
00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 3: to maintain that rpm range. And it wasn't. It's like

460
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 3: the engine either accelerates or the or it decelerates. SOTI

461
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 3: if I ease up on the on the paddle with

462
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 3: my foot with my right foot, once I've reached the

463
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 3: fire rpm range, you know, like for instance, two thousand RPMs,

464
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: instead of staying there at the two thousand rpm rpm marks,

465
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 3: it immediately goes down as if I had already taken

466
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 3: off my foot from the accelerator.

467
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 1: There's some there's some, there's some there's some throttle leg

468
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: to this is what you're saying, or there's over compensation,

469
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: depending upon where you are in the rpm range.

470
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's as if like the accelerator paddle itself was

471
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 3: way too sensitive to the foot input. How many if

472
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 3: it's normally.

473
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: You know, how many miles are on this danny.

474
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 3: Well, it's got around six like a thousand, like eleven miles, right.

475
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: Does this Does this have OBD two emissions?

476
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 3: Yeah? It does? Okay, Yeah, I mean it's it's got

477
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 3: like all the all about some whistles from a modern car.

478
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the usual stuff. I'm gonna I mean, I'm

479
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: going to tell you it's probably normal. But because it's

480
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: such low mileage, obviously, I'm going to send you back

481
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: to the dealer and ask them to explain it. Or

482
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you to go drive another one,

483
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: you know, ask them, hey, can I take another one

484
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: around the block. This is my standard way I would

485
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: treat it. It's too new of a vehicle, you know,

486
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 1: is it?

487
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 4: Is it?

488
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: And it sounds like it's a fault in the vehicle.

489
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: If this is a real problem. If this was a

490
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: real problem, that was how can I say it not

491
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: a design flaw? By now, you would have turned on

492
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: a check engine light, all right. And that's why that's

493
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: why I asked. That's why it Yeah, right, That's why

494
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 1: I asked about ob D two because ob D two

495
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: is pretty critical and pretty accurate in its responses, So

496
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,120
Speaker 1: it's testing everything all the time on a continuous basis.

497
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 1: So I think the first step is, you know, are

498
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: you lucky enough to have the model that well, you know,

499
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: we're going to come out with a software update in

500
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: three to six months. Then we get one, we'll reprogram

501
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: everything and we'll make it work like the way it

502
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: was supposed to. And it sounds like you're on the

503
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: fuzzy line of that. That's why I want to go

504
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: drive another one, or at least I want the dealer

505
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: to be made aware of it so when they do

506
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: come out with the fix, if there is one that exists,

507
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 1: then you can have your paperwork and go, hey, look

508
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: at me. I was here first. Uh you know, just

509
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: just you've you've documented it as a concern, all right,

510
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, as a real issue. You know, I

511
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: see right, you know, do you do? You have an

512
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 1: OBD two scan?

513
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 3: Told Danny, well, I actually down, but I forgot to

514
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 3: mention that I actually took the car so different bulk

515
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 3: flag and specialized shop, right, they scanned it out. The

516
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 3: thing was that I took the part of this mock

517
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 3: check Pats, which is a mobile one so to speak,

518
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 3: where you actually put the uh we are I'm sorry,

519
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 3: the drive wheels on on a set of like spinning rocks, right,

520
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 3: like triggered a whole bunch of like the coats on

521
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 3: the on the dash, and I actually spoke to the

522
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 3: manager there and she told me that, you know, it

523
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 3: was normal, that it was just a matter of time,

524
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: you know, driving it alone that would like clear out

525
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 3: all those coats and sure enoughering the all the lights

526
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 3: went out. But when I took the card of the

527
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 3: uh this shop, I'm telling you about these candidates for coats,

528
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: and like, I don't know if they uh they put

529
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: it on the most six like like you mentioned, but

530
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 3: you know, sure enough, I mean like six different coats,

531
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 3: but most of them relating to the ABS sensors and whatnot,

532
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 3: and one of them to one vehicle speed sensor wor

533
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 3: WORS two present even though you know the chick engine

534
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 3: when I heard and all other lights were run on

535
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 3: the bay ash because all those the meeting coats from

536
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 3: coasts And I asked him about the iterator thing, and

537
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 3: they told me it was normal. But they in any way,

538
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: I mean they they told me that they were going

539
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: to reset the throttle to the factory spects and that's

540
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 3: what they did. So there was like a slight a

541
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 3: very light improvement in you know, trying to maintain a

542
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 3: steady speak, you know, as far as that was concerned.

543
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: Okay, what I what I want you to do is

544
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: take this back to the dealership. I want you to explain. Well,

545
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: I want you to explain everything you just explained to me,

546
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: because it almost it just to my ear, it sounds

547
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: like a flaw in the software such that if you

548
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: put it on a Dino you're talking about, they put

549
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: it on a chassis Dino to test emissions under load

550
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,719
Speaker 1: or a loaded mode chassis test for emissions.

551
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 3: And yeah, exactly, that's what it was.

552
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 4: Right, That's how they Yeah.

553
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: See, so you guys are Mexico is now, so that's

554
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago here in the States when we

555
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: had Dinos, So you're about fifteen years behind us in

556
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: terms of emissions. For whatever reason. That's just how they're

557
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: doing it. Volkswagon, right, right, right, But Volkswagons should have

558
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: that built into their software to account for that that

559
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: if you're putting the vehicle in an emissions test, you

560
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: should be able to put it in an emissions mode.

561
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: You don't set false codes. Some of those codes could

562
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: be affecting how that vehicle operates. But before I tell

563
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: you to have somebody going clear codes and start over.

564
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: I want it documented it the dealer. So if there

565
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: is an issue, you know, hey, it's not something you created.

566
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: You followed the letter of the law and procedure. You

567
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: went and got an emissions check done their emissions check,

568
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, made the car cock eide. And now they've

569
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: got to reset it back to zero, perhaps reset throttle, angle,

570
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: verify fuel trim, verify mass airflow operation, et cetera, et cetera,

571
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: et cetera, right down the line. So let's let's be

572
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: procedural about this, all right, and let's see where it goes. Now,

573
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: we may end up right where we are. It still

574
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: may be, you know, a little bit difficult to control

575
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: in that first twenty PM of the powerband, but at

576
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: least we've got And the other thing is, at least

577
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: we've got a dialogue going with the manufacturer saying, hey,

578
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: is this is this a problem? Are you aware of it?

579
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: And if they work the way they do in the States,

580
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: they've got to get enough documented cases of people saying, hey,

581
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: my twenty four Volkswagen does this, this, and this, and

582
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: when they get to the magic number whatever it is,

583
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: it will generate a bulletin and possibly a follow up

584
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,959
Speaker 1: with a computer reflesh all right, yeah.

585
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, And surprisingly, I just came up with that idea

586
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 3: just that, you know, like a couple of months and

587
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 3: I have into the ownership of this car. Just it

588
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: just occurred to me, you know, to go back to

589
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 3: the dealership and ask them to test out like a

590
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: brand new car, different right your car on the lot,

591
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: you know, and just try to do the same thing,

592
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 3: try to replicate the same thing, you know, because if.

593
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 1: That new one replicates the same thing, Danny, then you

594
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: know it's a character flow. If it doesn't, then you

595
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: can go back to the dealership and say, hey, come

596
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: drive my car, look at what it does, and then

597
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: they can diagnose it from there. I got to cut

598
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: your shirt, babe. I'm sorry. We're up against the clock.

599
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call as always. Give me a call

600
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: back in a week or two. Let me know what

601
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: the dealership says. We can continue the conversation. I'm ronning

602
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: Andy and the car Doctor. We're coming back right after this. Hey,

603
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: let's get on over and talk to Gary and Wisconsin

604
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Ford Explorer. Gary, you're on with the car doctor.

605
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: How can I help?

606
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 4: Well, like I said, I got that seventeen Explorer. It's

607
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 4: sneaking coolant, okay.

608
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 3: Obviously, anyway, my sons have looked at it briefly.

609
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: And come to the conclusion that it is a.

610
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 3: It is a water pumped Okay.

611
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 5: My question in a nutshell, for the most part, is.

612
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: If it's got one hundred thousand miles on that or

613
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: just about one hundred thousand, would it be advisable to

614
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: change timing?

615
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 4: Change the timing change with a water pump.

616
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna Are you planning to keep it? Yeah? Probably?

617
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 3: If I don't keep it, I'll sell.

618
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: It to one of my kids, right, So it's you know,

619
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, and the water pumps on these begin to

620
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: fail in the eighties, somewhere between eighty and one hundred

621
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: and thirty. You're almost guaranteed you're gonna put a water

622
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: pump on one of these. I do have one customer

623
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: who's got two hundred and ten thousand miles on an Explore,

624
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: never done the water pump. It's it's amazing. I keep

625
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: telling him you should write Ford, but Ford'll probably repoll

626
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: the vehicle, wondering what they did wrong. You know, Yeah,

627
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: if you're doing if you're doing a pump. I would

628
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: do chains and associated parts, tensioners, et cetera, just because

629
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: you're in there. Because it's it's major surgery to do

630
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: this pump. There's a lot to it. On an Explorer,

631
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: there's almost enough room to do it in the in

632
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: the vehicle. On some of the others it's you're gonna

633
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: end up pulling it out. But on an explorer you

634
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: can almost get away with it if you're careful and

635
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: you take your time. But it's just it's it's a

636
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: tough repair. It's in a horrible spot. Make sure you

637
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: use good quality parts, and I would change the chains

638
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: just so I don't have to go in there again.

639
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: It's only going to help things, you know, long longevity wise.

640
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, is there a Is there a water punk you'd recommend?

641
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 4: Should I go with Fomako or you know, for Motor Company.

642
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: I'd use it. I'd use all for I use all

643
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: I would use and I do use all forward parts

644
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: on something like this. I don't fool around, all right.

645
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: You know, I've had the best success with it. And

646
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: you know there are some places we're all using aftermarket pump.

647
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: This isn't one of them. I want all the engineering

648
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: I can get because I don't want to do this

649
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: job twice. Yeah, you know, it's just it's it's it's.

650
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: This is open heart surgery. The only way this could

651
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: be more complicated is if they tried to make you

652
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: do it with the engine running. So you know, it's

653
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those, all right, kiddo, all right,

654
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: all right, help, you're very welcome. Good luck. And by

655
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: the way, if you are going to do this on

656
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: your own, be aware there's a bunch of special tools involved,

657
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: so make sure you read up on it and that

658
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: you're tooled up as well. It's not just a matter

659
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: of parts.

660
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, so I'll do that.

661
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: Thank you. You're very welcome. Gary, you'd be well, yeah,

662
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: it's not it's doable. It's very doable. It's a very mechanical, nutting,

663
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: bold job. But you do need special tools. So I'm

664
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: running Endy in the car doctor eight five five five

665
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. I'll be back right

666
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: after this and let's see as we wind it down.

667
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: You know, this must be research Kathy's fault. She's off today.

668
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: She's out doing haircuts or something. I forget where she

669
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: said she was going today. She does haircuts as one

670
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: of her careers, and she would have reminded me we

671
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: were supposed to give away the Corvette book this hour.

672
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: I forgot so next hour Corvette Stingray The Mid Engine Revolution.

673
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: We posted it up on the Facebook page. We'll give

674
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: it away next hour to some lucky winner that we've

675
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: had this book for a while. We're just trying to

676
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 1: clean out the closet to get ready for next year

677
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: because I know there'll be a whole new pilot. First

678
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: thing that happens when you get older. Man, Yeah, I'm

679
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: telling you, your memory goes. You know, it's just yeah.

680
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: But the problem is when my memory goes, I'm gonna

681
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: start spouting things from nineteen seventy one. You can imagine

682
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: all the things I remember. Good lord, you know somebody

683
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: said to me the other day. They asked me, They said,

684
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: how do you do it? You know it's it's what's

685
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: the secret? I go, there is no secret. I just

686
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: remember things. Now. I'm at that age, you know, as

687
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: we get older, where you know it's it's you know er,

688
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: I'll remember this about the car, but I don't know

689
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: how to turn that round thing on the door to

690
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: get it open. You know, I sort of I sort

691
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: of get confused. It's it's what is that? What is that?

692
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: And how does it work? What was your name again? Oh? Tom?

693
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: So anyway, so next hour we're definitely going to give

694
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: away you know, Corvette the American, the mid Engine Revolution,

695
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: Corvette Sting, very nice hardcover, full call or copy pictures.

696
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: It's a great book, it really is. It's you know,

697
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: so we have to do that. Yeah, I have a

698
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: question too. By the way, as long as we're kind

699
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: of finishing up this hour, I would like to know.

700
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's no secret. I'm sure you're aware. We've

701
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: we've added a car doctor store to the website. If

702
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: you get to card doctorshow dot com and scroll all

703
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: the way over to the right, there's a button there

704
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: that says merchandise. Well, I had a conversation with rich

705
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: or Rich and Scott are my web guys, and you know,

706
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: do we call it merchandise? Do we call it car

707
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: doctor shop? Do we call it shop? Do we call

708
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: it logo and gear or I'm sorry, gear and clothing.

709
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. We ended up with merchandise. If you've

710
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: got a better idea of what that button should be called,

711
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: please I'd like to know. I would appreciate your thoughts.

712
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: What do we call the car doctor shop where you

713
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: can get t shirts and hats and hoodies and coffee

714
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: cups and all those other cool things. So you wanted it,

715
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: you got it. That was this year, So we look

716
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: forward to next year with you. Anyway, coming up next hour,

717
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: we'll give away Corvette. I'm run an eighty in the

718
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: car dock. Sure, what was I supposed to say? Next? Oh?

719
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: That's right. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. To see

720
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: you