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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. Big news out of GM this week, out

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Speaker 1: of De Troy, GM is laying off of ut of

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Speaker 1: its workers and closing five points here in North America Street,

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Speaker 1: in that New York City town. Here in the real world,

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Speaker 1: they're set in the Car Doctor. Both Fort and General

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Speaker 1: Motives have said that they have taken about a billion

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Speaker 1: dollar hit, or at least they're booking a billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in losses for the full year as a result of

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Speaker 1: the steel and aluminum teriffs. Welcome to the radio home

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Speaker 1: of Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor, since this is

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

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Speaker 1: opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a

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Speaker 1: busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. The

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

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Speaker 1: your calls at eight five five five six And now, Henny, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's time to start your engines alone and ALcom roderating.

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Speaker 1: The Car Doctor here at eight five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: your service and ready to do whatever it takes to

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Speaker 1: fix and solve your problem. Eight five five five zero

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Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. Had a great week at the shop, busy, busy,

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Speaker 1: busy fixing a bunch of cars. Um, you know, learn

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Speaker 1: new things every day. And I'm gonna transfer that over

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Speaker 1: you to understand what it is mechanics go through. And

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Speaker 1: if you're a mechanic, maybe we can exchange some ideas

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Speaker 1: and talk a little bit about Hey, maybe what you

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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. I am agreed it

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Speaker 1: through the looking glass by the often imitated and never duplicated,

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Speaker 1: no phony, the real deal made of steal, Mr Thomas Ray.

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Speaker 1: How are you today, Tom? Doing well? Doing well? Starting

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Speaker 1: out sunny today. I wonder what happened to the sun.

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Speaker 1: It was a pleasure seeing you the other night. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we had a great, great time of the w tv

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Speaker 1: thought it was great, right, I saw you selling tickets outside,

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Speaker 1: being honest. But to look on your face when that

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Speaker 1: one when when fran Franz Sinclair came up and she said,

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Speaker 1: he's the funniest guy on radio. You were just like

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Speaker 1: sense of humor. Not that I'm really that funny, it's

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Speaker 1: more mechanical. But I thought that was great. It's a

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Speaker 1: We attended and we thanked them for that great Christmas

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Speaker 1: party up there. And UM, definitely a radio station like

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Speaker 1: all of our affiliates. It just get it right. It's

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Speaker 1: it's just good solid radio. And that's that's what radio

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Speaker 1: is about, folks. It's not about that corporate thing. So

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Speaker 1: but anyway, we're here to talk about cars and the problems.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit real quick before

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Speaker 1: You know, the technology and the power of technology. Had

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Speaker 1: a twenty sixteen f two fifty in the shop this

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna describe it to you this way. Between the

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Speaker 1: almost like a track bar. You could call it um

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Speaker 1: you know. Sometimes it's referenced as a tyrod. Sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: referenced as a steering coupling. But it was really hard

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Speaker 1: many choices and no clear cut information. Kudos to the

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Speaker 1: guys at Ford. Googled forward parts went to parts dot

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Speaker 1: but parts dot ford dot com or Ford dot com

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Speaker 1: in terms you want to get out through their parts,

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Speaker 1: Now I was able to register as an independent repair

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Speaker 1: shop at parts dot Ford dot com, and now it

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Speaker 1: and I'm assuming this. I haven't seen a dealer parts

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Speaker 1: Boom boom boom. Pick out your parts takes your right

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Speaker 1: to them. I I just I thought, you know, five

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Speaker 1: because of the technology. The technology is actually being applied

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Speaker 1: information information uh, part of the battle, but just find

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Speaker 1: least I can call up my Ford dealer and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: no fault of the parts guy, he can't identify it

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Speaker 1: I now got the upper hand parts dot for dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Excellent job and kudos to them. We thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Let's kick the garage doors open. Let's go up to

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Speaker 1: Tim in Florida, in or down in Florida as it

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Speaker 1: might be, and fifty Tim, Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help two questions today? Actually? Um, I

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Speaker 1: like it was warm like, but it wasn't hot. Um,

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Speaker 1: really it was like kind of a consistency of water UM.

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Speaker 1: So I was concerned that it was um like a coolant,

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Speaker 1: I drove my truck about sixty miles after that and

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Speaker 1: it didn't overheat at all, normal operating temperature UM. And

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Speaker 1: doesn't have any smell UM. So that's why I'm not

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Speaker 1: hasn't overheated and it is just an air conditioning thing

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Speaker 1: if it's if it's green, Tim, if it's green, it

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Speaker 1: sure sounds like cooling. All right, does this and let

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Speaker 1: coolant or whatever you saw on the ground, does the

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Speaker 1: color of that match what's in the cooling overflow tank

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Speaker 1: or radiator nine should not be I'm trying to remember

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Speaker 1: if that was Ford gold at that time, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't believe for gold. Gold color

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Speaker 1: coolant came out until later in the nineties and the

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Speaker 1: probably clean that, but um, it didn't look blue to

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Speaker 1: open up the radiator. Was a truck cooled down to see,

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Speaker 1: um if there was a loss of coolant, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't look blue or I'm sorry, excuse me, it didn't

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Speaker 1: look green? Is it? Is it? Is it constantly dripping?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it? Is it a constant leak out

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Speaker 1: drip drip trip, Yeah, it's drip trip trip. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: probably coolant. Brother, there's just there's just not much else

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Speaker 1: it's going to be there, all right. It's it's likely coolant,

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Speaker 1: which in all probability is going to become a heater

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Speaker 1: or core that has to be replaced. And you know,

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Speaker 1: if the if the system is really dirty and contaminant,

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Speaker 1: then what's the rest of the system like And you know,

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Speaker 1: high mileage truck. It's two years old, twenty three years old,

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Speaker 1: lots of miles, I mean some, okay, not a lot.

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Speaker 1: You've owned it since no no, no, I wish um.

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Speaker 1: I've owned it for about six months now, all right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, be mindful about you know, cooling system

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Speaker 1: repairs are a lot like plumbing. First we fixed this pipe,

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Speaker 1: and we fixed that pipe, and then the next pipe

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Speaker 1: starts to leak. So be be cautious and mindful about

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Speaker 1: throwing money at this. And I'm not saying it's not

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Speaker 1: worth doing, but it could be the tip of what's

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Speaker 1: It really has nothing to do with my A C

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Speaker 1: not working. Then it's definitely a cooling issue. If it's green,

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Speaker 1: who willant cooling? You know, or a C refrigerant won't drip.

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Speaker 1: It's a gas, it's gonna evaporate, it's and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be gone relatively quick, all right. If if it's if

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Speaker 1: it's not working, then yet it's not water. Um, it

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Speaker 1: sure sounds like a cooling trip to me. The one

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Speaker 1: thing you could try, all right, And again this depends

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Speaker 1: on you know, when you get home and let it

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Speaker 1: cool down, and maybe tomorrow morning take the radiator cap

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Speaker 1: off and see what does the level and the radiator

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Speaker 1: look like if it's really low, because sometimes it takes

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Speaker 1: a while for that air bubble to pass through, all right,

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Speaker 1: drain the radiator get out as much you know, dirty

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Speaker 1: contaminated cooling as you can to be nice. If you

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Speaker 1: had a cooling flush machine, I realize you won't um.

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Speaker 1: And then when you refill it add a little k seal.

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Speaker 1: You hear me talk about k CeAl on on the

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Speaker 1: show all the time. I use it in the show. Alright,

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Speaker 1: k cl I believe it's k CeAl dot com. You

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Speaker 1: can read about it. It's got great ceramic technology. Not

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Speaker 1: to make it sound like a commercial, but it's the truth.

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Speaker 1: It really does work. And you know, here's a classic example.

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Speaker 1: Here's a twenty two year old vehicle hundred thousand plus miles.

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna start to replace every cooling system component

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Speaker 1: in it that still starts every day, and he's he's

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Speaker 1: angry at us because we're telling people. You know, listen,

427
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: my belief is a battery's rated for four to five

428
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: years six at most, change the battery when the rating

429
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 1: time is up. You know, I'm not I'm not here

430
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 1: to sell batteries. I'm not. I don't get any of

431
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: that money, um, you know. And it's I'm not going

432
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 1: to retire on selling batteries to a customer anyway. But

433
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: my job is to keep people safe in their car

434
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: because just like in Paradise, just like in Thousand Oaks.

435
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 1: I mean, here's a life and death situation. You depend

436
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: on that car to be reliable. Um. You know, I

437
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: never want to put anybody on here that wants to

438
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: talk about, Hey, I was the one guy that got

439
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: eighteen years out of a battery. I don't think that's

440
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: a valid argument. I don't think that's a conversation. To

441
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: have people depend on their vehicles, not just for transportation

442
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,679
Speaker 1: and and and and pleasure, but it becomes life and

443
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: death at times to get somebody to a hospital, to

444
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: get away from a forest fire, to get through bad weather,

445
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 1: to get to go see a loved one, who's on

446
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: who's who, who's sick or ailing or passing? You know,

447
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: it's it's it's serious stuff. And I've got to think.

448
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: And I was. I was talking to Tom about this

449
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: before air today. We were we were because we expected

450
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 1: your call. Obviously, what happens to all those cars was

451
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: start stop technology. That we're sitting in the traffic right

452
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: trying to leave um Paradise and and Thousand Oaks, And

453
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: how many hours were there? How many hours were the

454
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: traffic jams? Tim It took five hours to go seventeen

455
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: miles um for many many people were talking. Thousands of

456
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: people experienced that. Others got out early, so late that

457
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: they didn't have to wait that time. But when I

458
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: woke up that morning, my house faces south, I could

459
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: see there was gonna be a problem, and I went

460
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: to Costco to fill up. I only had a quarter tank,

461
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,640
Speaker 1: and other people were doing the same. Well, the people

462
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: up in Paradise didn't have that luxury because the cell

463
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: sites got burned up and the GPS didn't work, and

464
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: the pumps went off because the main lines were being

465
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: shutdown or coming down, and so now you're in trouble.

466
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: Of people were driving convertibles that morning. I a woman, um,

467
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: a friend of a friend. Uh. Her hair was catching

468
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: on fire literally, you know, from the embers coming down

469
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: and burning through the roof. She had to abandon her car.

470
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: She got picked up by a guy in a rock crawler.

471
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't even street legal. It's like a Toyota where

472
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 1: they jack it up. There's like a spider, big suspension. Yeah,

473
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 1: and people escaped on go cards. This is the kind

474
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: of emergency. It was BMW motorcycle and sidebags um uh.

475
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: Harley Davidson's I mean, harves, it was get out, it

476
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: was get out any way you can. And I suppose

477
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: no amount of auto maintenance could really get you prepared

478
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: for something like that. You know, it's it's it's easy

479
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: to look back now and say, all right, everybody that

480
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: got their vehicle out, Um, you know, change the air filter,

481
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: change the oil go through, because I can't imagine all

482
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: the ash floating through the air and being sucked into

483
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: the engine and sitting in traffic five hours to go

484
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: seventeen miles. You know, that's that's seventeen minutes at sixty

485
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: miles an hour here in Jersey. If you get up

486
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: the sixty, if you can get the below sixty, depends

487
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: on which road you're on. They're trying to kill you

488
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: at eighty. Um. But you know, it's it's the point

489
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: becomes it's it's very important to be ready with the vehicle.

490
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: And you know, if you want my opinion, there's no

491
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: way you can you know, tim, there's no way you

492
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: could circumvent imagine a disaster like that happening. But you know,

493
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, when I was eleven and twelve,

494
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 1: and I was a boy scout pack you know, fire

495
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 1: patrol um flaming arrows is actually what we were Uh,

496
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, it was all about being prepared. And you

497
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: really got to be prepared for something like this because

498
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: you never know when it's not gonna be, you know, right,

499
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: and you've got that moment to get the vehicle, you know,

500
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: safe and ready and and and my concern is there's

501
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: too many people out there that think like this fella. Hey, listen,

502
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: you know he wants to run his batteries eighteen years

503
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: before he changes him. It's a Cummins diesel. If it

504
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: doesn't start, maybe it's in his driveway, maybe he's running

505
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 1: around his backyard. You know, maybe it doesn't matter for him,

506
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: but for the person that's got to get the pregnant

507
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: wife to the hospital or or the or the hurt child,

508
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 1: or go pick up their kids at school. Um, you know,

509
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: it just it just it just doesn't make any sense. Hey, Tim,

510
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: stay put, I'm gonna I wanna talk to a more questions.

511
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: Let me pull over and take a pause, and when

512
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: we come back we'll finish this up. I'm running any

513
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: in the car. Doctor. We're talking about the recent fires

514
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: in Paradise in southern California. We'll be back right after

515
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: this Don't Go Away came first resisting at the Father

516
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: and It's in the Fingers was the summer of sixteen. Hey,

517
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: welcome back the Car Doctor. We are talking to Tim

518
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: from Paradise, California. We've turned into a little bit of

519
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: a mini interview talking about the tragedy out there, the

520
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: recent campfire, and um, everything else that's going on in

521
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: southern California. Tim, you know, from an automotive perspective and

522
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: the the the the tragedy of this at a human

523
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: level is beyond my comprehension. I think a lot of

524
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: us we just we just can't really imagine what, you know,

525
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: the magnitude of this. To wake up one day and

526
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: walk out your front door and they say it's it's

527
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: it's like armageddon happened right in front of your house.

528
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: You know, you start thinking about from an automotive perspective,

529
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: My question is, you know, how many cars didn't make

530
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: it out? How many cars need to be replaced their dealers,

531
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: you know, like car dealerships in order there had to

532
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: be car dealerships and orto repair shops in the way

533
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: of these fires, right, these buildings that were damaged. There

534
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: were a couple of DUS car dealers up there. It's

535
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: northern California by the way. Um, some of them burned up,

536
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: some of them didn't. There was uh a few commercial

537
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: locations that that survived. You know, the HP took two

538
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: hundred cars off the main drag um that had ceased

539
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: to run. And and and I kind of wanted to

540
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: pick your brain on what do you think maybe one

541
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: car stop running, another one not, you know, ruling out gasoline.

542
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: And people said their car installed, not ran out of gas. No,

543
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: very few of them mentioned, you know, get that gas

544
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: was the cause of the cars stopped running. I've got

545
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: to think that the biggest issue is just air intake.

546
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: And you know, if gasoline was available and the car stopped,

547
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to a couple of things in

548
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: my mind. Cleanliness of the air. Uh, there's only so

549
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: much contamination a mass airflow sensor can take. And there's

550
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: only so much dirt an air filter, even brand new,

551
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: can hold back. You know, after a while, it's gonna

552
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: become saturated to a point that it just can't it

553
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 1: can't do it, and it's gonna be overcome. And then

554
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 1: you've got to stop to think it would be interesting

555
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: to see of those cars that stopped. What were the

556
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: maintenance records on them? How well were they maintained, If

557
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: they had air filters in them or recent air filters,

558
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: were they good quality air filters. A lot of these

559
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: things come into play, uh you know, and then we

560
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: get into what was the overall condition of the electrical system,

561
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: the charging system. How well were the batteries taken care of. Yeah,

562
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: that's another thing about batteries, right, not to beat, not

563
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: to beat the horse dead, but a battery in a

564
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: vehicle today is not just for starting. It's an electrical reservoir.

565
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: It it you know, when the charging system has access,

566
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: it's a place for the charging system to use as

567
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: an electrical shock absorber so there's no surges and spikes

568
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: in the system in a sense, so that it protects

569
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: the electronics on a vehicle. I mean, a lot of

570
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: factors come into play, uh you know, But listen, it

571
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: still comes back to what they said to me, Like

572
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: I said before, you know what, be a good scout,

573
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: be prepared. It doesn't take much to be prepared today

574
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: when it comes to an automobile, and I realize it's

575
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: not in everybody's budget, and and that's unfortunate, and you know,

576
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: how do you work around that? But the fact is,

577
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: it seems like natural, natural tragedies are getting to be

578
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: a more common thing in the world we live in today,

579
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: and we've just gotta be We've just gotta be better prepared.

580
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: I'm curious from a car collector point of view. I

581
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: I you know, not to turn it into this, but

582
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: you just wonder how many collectibles went up, all right,

583
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: I mean, never mind the tragedy and not not to

584
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: minimize it, but the tragedy of the human loss of life,

585
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: but um, you know the collectibles, the collectible cars that

586
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: didn't that didn't get out, and uh, you know things

587
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: like that. You just start to thinking about it from

588
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: so many angles. Um, you know, the loss of the

589
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: tragedy like this creates. It's it's just it's just a horrible,

590
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: horrible thing. I can't I can't imagine it, and then

591
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: I can't you. As a closing note, we talk about

592
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: start stop technology. So what happened in that seventeen mile

593
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: five hour escape. If you were in a late model

594
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: vehicle with start stop technology, start crawl twenty ft, shut off,

595
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: start crawl ten feet shut off, start crawl two feet

596
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: shut off? How does the car survive that? And and

597
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: you know, and and to me, that's why I think

598
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: the start stop technology it's another reason why I think

599
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: it's a problem, because it's not going to be a fire.

600
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's not gonna be a fire every time

601
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: it's We recently had snow here in New Jersey and

602
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: our governor did such a great job of prepping the roads,

603
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: like the New York governor that, Um, the normal twenty

604
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: minute commute turned into five six hours for a lot

605
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: of people because the roads weren't prepared and everybody was

606
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: sitting in traffic and nobody knew how to get anywhere.

607
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: There were no plows out, there were no salters out.

608
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: And how many people in start stop technology vehicles that

609
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: start stop, start stop. It's not good for the car,

610
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: it's not good for the battery, it's not good for

611
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: the starter. Ultimately, it's not good for the pocketbook. And

612
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: that's you know, Um, which car would you have taken

613
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: the Senti to money Cardinal or your new family car

614
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: you just purchased if you were going to drive out

615
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: through the inferno? Boy, I gotta tell you. That's a

616
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: tough call, um, only because I wouldn't want the money.

617
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: Let's see, I guess it would have to be a

618
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: which car that I want to leave behind? Um, I

619
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I'd probably stay and go up with the cars.

620
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: I don't think I can make that choice to him.

621
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: I really couldn't. Uh, you know, I really couldn't. Man,

622
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: I'd be that dope that wanted to stay back with

623
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: the water hose and try and protect the compound. So

624
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: I was curious enough. I went to the Walmart evacuation

625
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: center where the cars of people that that didn't make

626
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: it to a hotel or anything, where they all gathered initially,

627
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: and I saw some quote unquote beaters. The earliest thing

628
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: that went out. The guy towed a trailer around with

629
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: the nine up truck. Well, you know what, and it's

630
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: those things. It's those things from the past that, Yeah,

631
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: you gotta wonder anything from the fifties. Tim, I gotta go.

632
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: The clock's gonna take me. I appreciate the call, brother,

633
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: be safe out there and keep us posted on the

634
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: events to rebuild that portion of California. I'm ron any

635
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: in the car, doctor. We'll be back right after this

636
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: welcome back the car Docry five zero zero the number.

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Speaker 1: You know, to go back to Tim for a minute.

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Speaker 1: We all you know, I don't like to let the

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Speaker 1: gas tank go below quarter tank in any of the vehicles.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start looking for the gas at a

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Speaker 1: half a tank because you don't know when there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a problem. You don't know when you're gonna need

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Speaker 1: that full tank. I guess the fires in California, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what maybe seeing southern California, but northern California's

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Speaker 1: Tim corrected me. You know, the fires in northern California,

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Speaker 1: we're such a magnitude. It's it's not a common every

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Speaker 1: day occurrence. But it doesn't take a forest fire like

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Speaker 1: that to create the problems. And it really kind of

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Speaker 1: comes back to being prepared. You know what the boy

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Speaker 1: scouts were right, They they you've got to be prepared.

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Speaker 1: You got to be a good scout, and that that

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Speaker 1: could be something as simple as just making sure the

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Speaker 1: gas tank is full, uh, you know, before the weekend

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Speaker 1: or before the end of the day, or before it

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Speaker 1: gets too low or whatever your timetable is. And you know,

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Speaker 1: to do regular car care and maintenance. Um, the Car

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Speaker 1: Care Council. By the way, Carcare dot org. Carcare dot

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Speaker 1: org has come out with an eight page car care

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Speaker 1: guide and it's free f R E. This is writing

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Speaker 1: Tom Ray's budget. Um, he can afford this for all

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Speaker 1: this Christmas shopping. UM, A free ad page car care

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Speaker 1: guide from the folks at the Car Care Council. Get

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Speaker 1: out the car carcare dot org to get copies of it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know it'd be great for you know, to put

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Speaker 1: in the blog compartment of those young drivers or for

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Speaker 1: the families, so that, um, they're aware of what it

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Speaker 1: takes to properly maintain a car, to be ready for

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Speaker 1: whatever befalls them in in this world of ours, and

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Speaker 1: to be safe. Thank you for being with me this hour.

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Speaker 1: I'm on any of the car doctor reminding you good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. A young one, she was

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Speaker 1: so