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Speaker 1: The following program has been pre reported Ron and It's funny.

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Speaker 1: Car companies and a lot of repair shops will will

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Speaker 1: They don't want to drive a vehicle unless it's broken.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I like to look at a car that's running

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Speaker 1: well so I can gather her data and then I'll

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Speaker 1: know it's broken when it breaks. The Car Doctor, get ready.

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Speaker 1: Technology is gonna change. Technology is gonna change how we

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Speaker 1: do things and how we approach things, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: going to make things very different. Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor. Since this

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Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their

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Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If her mechanics giving you

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Speaker 1: a busy signal, pick up 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 calls at eight five six and now running.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think Farest Dump was right, Hello and welcome.

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Speaker 1: Uh Forest Dump was right, you know, except that it's

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Speaker 1: it's talking about auto repair. Auto repair is like a

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Speaker 1: box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

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Speaker 1: Came into the shop this week at Already Automotive, and

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Speaker 1: you know we haven't seen this particular one in a while,

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Speaker 1: and Jacob had been traveling around the country and he

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Speaker 1: we didn't get to see it as much as we

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Speaker 1: normally did on a consistent basis over the course of

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Speaker 1: the last year to fourteen months. And it was time

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Speaker 1: for service, and he said, you know, service at Ron,

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Speaker 1: do what you have to do. Bring it up to shape.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's worth your magic. But for

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Speaker 1: started to do the analysis and you know the checklist

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Speaker 1: getting a sloppy up front underneath, and it was leaking

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Speaker 1: and you could see that it was getting to be

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Speaker 1: quite a mess. Danny was very surprised, and you can

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Speaker 1: imagine my surprise. He reached up to check the oil

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Speaker 1: the thing just about fell wealth. That's how loose it was.

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Speaker 1: We you know, talked to the customer and you know,

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Speaker 1: mentioned the oil leak and we we told him we'd

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Speaker 1: wasn't until the end of the day when when Jacob

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Speaker 1: I said, it's it's not like I'm gonna retire doing

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Speaker 1: And I said, you had a disaster brewing here. And

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Speaker 1: I just don't think he's very carminded. He said, oh,

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Speaker 1: When I told him how the oil filter almost fell off,

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's as I said to him, as

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Speaker 1: So when when Mossy shows up, I'm Ray. And she

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Speaker 1: we're not doing that. You know, auto repair is is

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Speaker 1: it's it's it really is the general store of today

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Speaker 1: And I think it's I think it's part of it.

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Speaker 1: and that's what they come to you for because your expertise,

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Speaker 1: There's a mechanical ratitat tat and from his description it

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Speaker 1: We you know, we'll do it for ourselves, but to

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Speaker 1: I've annoyed him, and I'm sorry about that, but I

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's I'd rather I'd rather tell somebody, look,

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Speaker 1: But gee, I don't do that. That doesn't sit right

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Speaker 1: And you know, all of this has a point. It

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Speaker 1: I bet you that, to put lifters and get rid

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Speaker 1: man if it all goes, well, it's it's four grand

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Speaker 1: hard to find because there they're stu drawers, they're in

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Speaker 1: envelopes there. I mean, most of the physical assets now

427
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: are at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles, and I

428
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time they're just looking into file

429
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Speaker 1: drawers and trying to come up with, you know, images

430
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Speaker 1: that appeared in the magazine, but also some outtakes because

431
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for the real historians of the

432
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: magazine out there, it's cool to see photos you haven't seen,

433
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 1: you know, a different angle of a car, for a

434
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: different view of you know, personality that you remember from

435
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 1: the magazine. Right, Yeah, it's it's you know, and I

436
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 1: mean some of the photos I see the prep photo,

437
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: so to speak. And I remember it in the magazine.

438
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 1: I remember when the shot came out in the sixties

439
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: or the seventies, and and looking at it, and you know,

440
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 1: it just brings back such a flood of memories. Uh.

441
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's just if you're into hot

442
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 1: rods and you've been reading hot Rod Magazine and you've

443
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,919
Speaker 1: been into the car culture all these years, this is

444
00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: a must have this book. I I have to say that, Um,

445
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: California really to me is home base for the car culture, right,

446
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 1: I mean it started there. We always said, what what

447
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: what started in California came east? You know? Is that

448
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: car culture movements still alive in California today? You know,

449
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,959
Speaker 1: that's a really good question. I think it depends on

450
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Speaker 1: how you want to define it. I mean, certainly, we

451
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: still have hot rids here, we still have low riders,

452
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: we have muscle cars. Who've got modern muscle cars. Um,

453
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: but as you know, the state is going to ban

454
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,120
Speaker 1: the sale of internal combustion engines, you know, and not

455
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 1: the too far dist in future, but being is going

456
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: to change, certainly. I mean I take kind of a

457
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: liberal view events in that I think hot ridding is

458
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: going to be there. I mean, there are people who

459
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: are already drag racing Tesla's and you know, I mean

460
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: the records c are a pikes Peak right now as

461
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: an electric car, So there is room for electric performance.

462
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: The problem is that there's a lot of hard people

463
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: out there who it's like if they can't get the

464
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: sound and they can't get to feel, you know, like

465
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: when you stand at the starting line at an n

466
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: atenary event and the top fuelers of the funny cars leave,

467
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: you know, the concussion just hits you in the chest,

468
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: and and that doesn't happen with an electric car. Even

469
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: though electric cars are fast and they're quick and there,

470
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, they have a lot of the

471
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: performance parameters. So um, I've done a lot of traveling.

472
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've been working with Peterson Publishing in

473
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Speaker 1: various forms since at different magazines, including I was an

474
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: editor in hot Rod for a few years. Done a

475
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: lot of traveling around the country, and I think there

476
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: are hot beds of hot blooding all over the US,

477
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Speaker 1: um Detroit, certainly down in the South. Uh So I

478
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Speaker 1: don't I certainly don't think California has any sort of

479
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Speaker 1: monopoly on the culture. But what I have a feeling

480
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 1: is what's gonna happen is a lot of the change

481
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: that you see in the culture is going to come

482
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: from here because we're going to be kind of forced

483
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: to do that with with all the evs coming aboard. Right,

484
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: although you have to admit, there's just it's not as

485
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: cool with your elbow out the window cruising down right

486
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: the boulevard in a Tesla as it is in a

487
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: black Tutor fifty five or a yellow Deuce coop or

488
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: something like that. Right, It's just it's not with the

489
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: rumble and the bark and the bite. So you wonder,

490
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, how will it affect the next generation coming along? Uh? Yeah,

491
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: And and it's a good question. But but generation coming

492
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: along may have you. They can't be crucified for saying this,

493
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: but they may not be able to relate to Hemi kuta.

494
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: They may not be able to relate to a flathead forward.

495
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: You know. I mean that the hobby is a lot

496
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: about what you grew up with and then when you

497
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Speaker 1: get older, having the means to be able to afford

498
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: what you couldn't as a kid that fell in love

499
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: with right, So um, you know, kids now growing up.

500
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: You know, a hot test for plaid it can get

501
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: to sixty hour and two seconds or three seconds could

502
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 1: be what they're lasting answer, even though people like us,

503
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: wait right, yeah, we can't. It's um to us. You know,

504
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: we're still looking for the unicorn. We're still looking for

505
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: that L A D eight Corvette or that Z L

506
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: one Camaro uh you know, or that Boss Mustang and

507
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: saying where is it? Uh you know, and and is

508
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: it still out there somewhere? So yeah, I can relate, um,

509
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 1: you know, and and and I mean and those cards.

510
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: You know. It's like I recently was at the Muscle

511
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: Car and Corbett Nationals in Chicago, and it's great to

512
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: see that that end of the hobby is very much

513
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: alive and thriving, you know. Um, so it's still out there.

514
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: I just don't know that that we here on the

515
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: West Coast can can claim any sort of dominance there. Yeah,

516
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: well you had it at one point. I think it's

517
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: I think it is spread all over the country now,

518
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: like you say, um, you know, but I still believe

519
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: the car culture started there, you know. Um, I think

520
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: I gotta give California credit for that. It was you know,

521
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: the dry Lake runs in the late forties and the fifties,

522
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: and right exactly, and and that you know that the

523
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: founding of the s c t A in the late

524
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: thirties in California Timing Association that was running on the

525
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: dry Lakes. They're the ones that instigated the Bonneville Speed Trials,

526
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: you know, They're the groups that went in and started

527
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: racing on the salt flat. Um and so, and you

528
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: had you had a lot of servicemen after World War

529
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: Two returning to the States, many of whom landed in California,

530
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: and we're using the skills that they developed in the

531
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: military to hop up cars or hop up motorcycles, you know.

532
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of war certaines parts here

533
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: that they could use as fodder. Um Ford roadsters were

534
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: girt cheap, you know. And so that's kind of how

535
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: the whole thing got it start. Yeah, and then it

536
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: just took off from there. And all this to bring

537
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: it back home, right is captured in hot Rod the

538
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: seventy fifth anniversary, Drew. It's all there. You did an

539
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: amazing job. Thank you. You really did. Tell me where

540
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: can the listeners go if they want to get a copy?

541
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: You know? Is it Is it Amazon? Is it Barnes

542
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: and Noble Where they're going to find this? Yeah? Both, Um,

543
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: all of the online reach the others have it. I'm

544
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: sure there are probably some specially brick and motor stores

545
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: that carry it to that's the easiest place to find

546
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: it is that, you know, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or

547
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: Motor Books. The publisher of the book sells it through

548
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: their website as well. Perfect good deal, Drew Harden. It

549
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: was an absolute pleasure, sir. We'll have you back again.

550
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a little bit spring cruising in a

551
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: couple of months. We have this stuff back here, cold

552
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: snow and uh it's kind of keeping everybody's hot rod

553
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: hibernating in the garage, so uh uh, you know, maybe

554
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: we'll get you back. We can talk about that. You

555
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: keep those books coming, Drew. We appreciate it. You'll be well.

556
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You're very welcome. I'm rond and

557
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: eating in the car. Doctor. We're back right after this

558
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: around Christmas Tree at Christmas. What can I say after that? Right?

559
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: You know, just just it's so much fun to think

560
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: back to the way cars used to be, and not

561
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: just not just hot rods, but everyday cars. But you know,

562
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: listening to Drew talk about, you know, what he's seen

563
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: and and how hot rods got their start and the

564
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: way it all came about, I had forgotten that. You know,

565
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: the idea of hot rods started in California and the

566
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: Dry Lakes with the with the guys coming back from

567
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: World War Two. They had you know, they were used

568
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: to making airplanes go fast and maintain aircraft. And they

569
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: turned that hobby or that passion into a hobby and

570
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: then into careers and in some cases multimillion dollar corporations. Uh.

571
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, so it's um, just just just good stuff,

572
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: you know it Uh of of of where we came

573
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: and you know, who knows what the future lies ahead.

574
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: Will we'll see the will hot rod survive the car

575
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: craze or the non car craze? Maybe is a good

576
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: way to put it in what we're trying to do.

577
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: Um right now, I want to talk to a little

578
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: bit about just doing some basic maintenance for your vehicle.

579
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: You know, we're heading into winter. I mean we're we're

580
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: there technically, and just a quick review what have you

581
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: done or not done? Uh, the next time you're in

582
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: your vehicle when you're sitting there. Look up top left corner.

583
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: Is there an oil chain sticker? That's where most of

584
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: the shops are putting oil chain stickers. Now, you know,

585
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: what does it say? Are you overdue? Has it been done?

586
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: You know you'll be surprised. Take a look at that

587
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: oil chain sticker. Is it? Is it time? And you

588
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: know if you're not there by mileage, and you know,

589
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: maybe you're doing a whole lot less mileage. A lot

590
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: of you are driving less. You know, maybe you're doing

591
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: a whole lot less mileage. But you know, where are

592
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: you time wise? If you're within you know, if you're

593
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: doing a synthetic oil, which most of you probably are,

594
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: and it's you know, you're a month or two or

595
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: three overdue, it's time. You're never gonna hit the mileage

596
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: and you might aso get the oil change because a

597
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: lot more happened during the course of that oil change.

598
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: You know, if it's a good shop, they're checking tire pressure,

599
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: they're wiggling the front end, they're looking at belts and hoses,

600
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: they're looking at critical fluids. You know, if it's a

601
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 1: real good shop, they've got the ability. They're driving at

602
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: their road testing it so there's a lot more that

603
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: goes into an oil change done properly than just drop

604
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: the oil and change the filter, so that just doesn't exist.

605
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 1: You know, when was the last time you check your

606
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: tire pressure? Is that little funny yellow light on the

607
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: dashboard on? Do you have any other warning lights on

608
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: your dashboard on? You know, check engine light, ABS warning light,

609
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: air bag warning light, All those things count. You know,

610
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: keep in mind if the air bag light is on,

611
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: the air bag system will not work. You will not

612
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: deploy an air bag in the event of an accident.

613
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: It's not just if it's a fault code for the

614
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: right side seatbelt buckle. Uh, the whole thing doesn't work.

615
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: The whole system shuts down. So you know, you want

616
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: to be sure that you know your vehicles in good

617
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: operating water. And it's a heck of an idea. If

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00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: you're repair shop, you know, now's a good time of

619
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: year you're doing an oil change. Check the battery, make

620
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: sure the battery is good to go, and um, you

621
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: know it's doing everything it can to help keep that

622
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: car started up on the road. Look bottom left corner

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00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: of your glass. Well. I guess depends on what state

624
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: you're in, but you know when was your inspection done last?

625
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: Is your vehicle due for inspection? And that wouldn't be

626
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: a bad idea as we're heading into winter winter driving.

627
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: Just to take a look through the glove compartment. All right,

628
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: do you have the registration and insurance car? Do you

629
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: have the things you need? Do you have emergency flares

630
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: or an emergency flare light system? Should you get stuck

631
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: on the side of the road, how's the air and

632
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: the spare has anybody checked it recently? Do you know

633
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: where the jack is? Do you know? Maybe you're not

634
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: a change of spare tire on the side of the

635
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: road kind of a person, but do you know where

636
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: your phone number is for triple A or towing or

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Speaker 1: whatever system you're using for backup? So it doesn't hurt

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Speaker 1: to take the five minutes and prepare and prep and

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Speaker 1: be ready for the disaster that could come or the

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Speaker 1: problem that could come before it happens, because that way

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Speaker 1: you kind of put the power in your in your

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Speaker 1: pocket and you know you're you're you're safe, and you're

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Speaker 1: ready to go should the need to rise. I'm running

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Speaker 1: in the car. Doctor, We'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away. It's the most wonderful time. Welcome back listeners,

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Speaker 1: Ron and Handy in the car Doctor. You know, let's

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Speaker 1: do a quick piece of email. I thought this would

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Speaker 1: be a good way to close out today's show. We're

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Speaker 1: talking a little bit about everything winter maintenance and getting

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Speaker 1: the vehicle ready. This comes to us from Bill and Uh,

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Speaker 1: well it doesn't say we're but Bien Ford explore a

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Speaker 1: new battery. Hey, Ron, can it be just installed or

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Speaker 1: must it be programmed? Bill? Uh? You know what, Bill,

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Speaker 1: It's got to be programmed. And I've got to tell

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Speaker 1: you before everybody goes running out to see if their

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Speaker 1: vehicle is there isn't um which is what you have

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Speaker 1: to do. There's no you know, there's no set standard.

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Speaker 1: We've seen cases where a lot of the Fords have

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Speaker 1: a b MS or battery monitor reset system and the

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Speaker 1: only way it's done with a scan tool. It's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily the program but it has to go through a BMS,

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Speaker 1: a battery monitor system reset and uh, it's an obligation.

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Speaker 1: Now when you replace a battery that you've got to

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Speaker 1: look to see does it apply is it applicable to

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Speaker 1: that vehicle? And then you've also got to keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that there's other things to be concerned with. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had we had a Honda in the shop not

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Speaker 1: too long ago that we had to put a battery

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Speaker 1: in and normally we use a memory saver, but in

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Speaker 1: the case of this Honda, we had to do a

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Speaker 1: draw test to see was there an electrical reason why

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Speaker 1: the battery was failing, and it turned out there wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But we as a result of doing the draw test,

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Speaker 1: without a you can't put a battery backup system. And

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Speaker 1: if you're doing a draw test, UM, we had to

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Speaker 1: do some ADS calibra, not calibrations, but a DOS resets

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Speaker 1: and initializations and and then go drive the car and

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Speaker 1: make sure that the compass was pointed in the right

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Speaker 1: direction and doing everything that was supposed to do. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, batteries are not simple anymore. There, there's not uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's there's no set standard there. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of information that you need to know before you

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Speaker 1: do it. Um, chances are you're gonna need a scan tool.

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Speaker 1: If you're using a newer vehicle, you need to do

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Speaker 1: a b MS reset, battery monitor system reset or whatever.

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Speaker 1: The manufacturer of that vehicle are gonna call it. They

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Speaker 1: all don't have it, but a lot do um. You've

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Speaker 1: also got to be aware there's gonna be seening initializations.

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Speaker 1: Probably what you can do is get out to auto

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Speaker 1: battery dot com. You can read up on it and

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Speaker 1: gather some good information on batteries and replacement procedures. Auto

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Speaker 1: battery dot com. Auto batteries dot com has some great

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Speaker 1: recycling tips. There's just a great deal of information. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to replace your own battery, get out

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Speaker 1: the auto batteries dot Com. Until the next time, I'm

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Speaker 1: on a needy of the car doctor reminding you the

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive. Their priceless