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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you had a twenty thousand mile

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, how can I help?

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Speaker 1: Thank you Ron for taking my call. You're welcome. I'm

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Speaker 1: headed out on a long triple in my two thousand

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Speaker 1: black Stone Labs tested a virgin sample. They've never seen

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Speaker 1: the oil before, and they want me to send them

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Speaker 1: samples periodically along the way. Would oil analysis testing be

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Speaker 1: You know? I suppose, Marie. Here's here's my hesitancy on

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Speaker 1: interval up the twenty tho miles is this. We had

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Speaker 1: and he said, okay, is that an oil change? And

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Speaker 1: they said, no, the oil change. Now, they said to him,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he does either in a new Toyota.

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Speaker 1: And he said, but they did the five thousand mile service,

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Speaker 1: which was a tire rotation check, the underhood fluids, check,

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Speaker 1: Here's my concern. If everybody's running twenty thousand mile oil

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Speaker 1: and just just to eliminate this concept that will it work? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the twenty thousand mile oil, Uh, it will work.

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Speaker 1: we're gonna recommend you change your oil at fifteen thousand miles.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna Are you comfortable with that? Yes, the

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Speaker 1: oil fil where I'm using as a mobile one filter

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Speaker 1: extended performance and it's guaranteed twenty Well, then there's somebody

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Speaker 1: Concerned about if I have to add oil en route, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to mix oil. Staffs part of the issue.

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Speaker 1: checking fluid levels. That's a good point also right there

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Speaker 1: doesn't an engine. Lubrication is last on the list. Variable

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Speaker 1: The filter is good untill twenty thousand miles. Okay, you're

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Speaker 1: You get it, your your your nosing around under the hood,

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Speaker 1: Spring comes, temperature changes, weather changes, tpm s, light's gonna

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Speaker 1: just on TPMs Tire pressure monitoring system issues. Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: place where most mechanics guys with something between their ears.

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Speaker 1: Not the hackers are going to catch the problem the

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Speaker 1: fails on an older vehicle. Where where? How are we

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Speaker 1: to get our oil changes to go longer? And who's

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Speaker 1: gonna pay for it? When I get that from my

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Speaker 1: long trip, I intend to go back to the regular changes.

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Speaker 1: This is more like a one time thing. If I

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Speaker 1: you'll probably get it. My wife's driving is entirely different.

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Speaker 1: She drives one mile, turns the car off, drives home

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Speaker 1: one mile turns a car off. I think that's where

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Speaker 1: going to be long distance highway with oil, proper oil.

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Speaker 1: My last question would proper oil changes and lubrication. How

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Speaker 1: fifty now, They're going to now with care and maintenance.

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Speaker 1: But again that's the cars that you know, oil change

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Speaker 1: And when I say real, regular scheduled maintenance, not dealer fantasy,

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Speaker 1: not you know, not what the guy needs to sell

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Speaker 1: know that's that's realistic, that's real world stuff. Well, thank

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Speaker 1: on that. Thank you very much for your time. You're

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Speaker 1: very welcome, Marie. Thank you in safe travels. I I

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Speaker 1: the pause. Can oil go twenty thousand miles? If they

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Speaker 1: say it can, I'm sure it can. Can the filter

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Speaker 1: sure it can. Would I use it? No, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: I don't see the point in it. I don't see

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Speaker 1: the value in it, and I don't think we're ready

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Speaker 1: verify the actual operating condition of that vehicle. I don't

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Speaker 1: drain interval, when in fact an oil change, when done

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Speaker 1: in good luck with it. Zero nine zero nading the

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Speaker 1: the car doctor rolling along at zero. One last thought

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Speaker 1: I know we won't. We're putting way too much emphasis

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Speaker 1: if the manufacturers say the oil or filter is good

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Speaker 1: and somebody proved me wrong. Please, no car companies have

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Speaker 1: said the oil filter will go twenty thousand miles or

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Speaker 1: how are you, sir? Welcome to the car doctor. What's

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Speaker 1: So you're really kind of talking about. You're talking about, um,

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Speaker 1: Does it start to do it by itself? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: You don't live on a dirt road or work on

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about mud, the tires and stuff.

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Speaker 1: ninety four Buick Roadmaster. Hey Matt, welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Oh? Hey, Ron, thanks for having

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Speaker 1: man love the show. You're welcome. Um, Okay, I have

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Speaker 1: But it seems below that, like first, second gear seems

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Speaker 1: Car drove the two and thousand miles. I had to

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Speaker 1: do it four times, five times um. But and I

428
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: learned the lesson the hard way because after I went

429
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: through the first time where the water pump started the

430
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 1: leak at thirty eight thousand miles and the cap got wet,

431
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: I went well we're not going through this again, um,

432
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: because there's there's no way you can diagnose that car.

433
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: There's nothing to hook up to that car. Is is

434
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: an event. Um yeah, I can scope the distributor and

435
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: I can you know, maybe get a scope lead on

436
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: the ignition wires to try and look at something. But

437
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: trust me, dude, just you know, find a day when

438
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: it's real cold out when you haven't run the car

439
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: getting up in the air, pull the tires. I think

440
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: I did most of my passenger side stuff through the wheelhouse.

441
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: I think I pulled the wheel well out and that

442
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: made it a whole lot easier. But you know, just

443
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: be just be prepared, good quality stuff. Wait to see

444
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 1: the price of the distributor cap if you're priced out

445
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: the distributor cap yet for a good one, which was

446
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: I think a missabuci uh the optical I it was

447
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: about almost well no, no, no, the distributor, not the

448
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: just not no, not not the distributor, the distributor cap.

449
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 1: The cap. I think the cap was like a buck

450
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: in a quarter, a buck and a half hundred fifty bucks.

451
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: It was. It was stupid money. Um, real need system,

452
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 1: very expensive to work on, all right. The the the

453
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: optical eyed distributor was have you ever have you ever

454
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: seen the inside of that distributor only on a YouTube video? Okay,

455
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: the plate, the optical eyed plate has three hundred sixty

456
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: slots in it, about the size of the eye of

457
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: a needle. Tell me, tell me what that thing is

458
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: subject to with you know, with dirt and and and

459
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: contaminant floating around inside. About how how accurate that has

460
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: to be? So you gotta go through, gotta go through

461
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: basic ignition. I can tell you the primitive way I

462
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: would I would diagnose that car met is go down

463
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: to the hardware store by an atomizer bottle, you know,

464
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 1: a little fushhush bottle, Fill it up with water, and

465
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 1: give the ignition wires a good soaking. Start the car

466
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: up if you can, all right, see how it runs,

467
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: if it runs worse, if there's any change in the

468
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: way that car runs, plus cap rotor wires to start,

469
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: especially if the water pumps leak, and put a water

470
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: pump on it too. Yeah all right, yeah, yeah, you're done. Yeah,

471
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: you're done. And and and if you're gonna buy the

472
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: water pump, buy the Delco. It's twice the money. But

473
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: if Delco is still doing it the same way now.

474
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: It's it's it's ten years since I've owned that car.

475
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: I can still remember it. My body's going through with

476
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: draws and tremors thinking about it now. But if if

477
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: they still make it the same way, you buy the

478
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: upgrade or the better version of the Delco pump. It's

479
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: gonna come with the thermostat and the housing built right

480
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: into it, which I thought was kind of kind of neat.

481
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: You know, thermostat water pump. You get to do it

482
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: all in one shot. So that was the deal, real

483
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: real deal fixing cars. That's the way it was back

484
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: in back in then, and these in the early two thousands. Yeah,

485
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: so well that's I get started on that then. Yeah.

486
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: But um, that's where I would go. All right, kiddo,

487
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: and watch out for that number seven cylinder. Make sure

488
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: it's not burning any oil. Take a careful look at

489
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: that plug when you pull it out. Seven Yeah, five

490
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: and seven were the worst, alright, kiddo. Yeah, have fun.

491
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 1: When I hear the screams, I'll know it's you, Matt

492
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: and Columbus, Ohio. Well, yeah, it's just the way it is.

493
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: It's it's just it was a horror show. I would

494
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: tell Susie, but you know, I call her up Tuesday night,

495
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, five thirty. I'm staying late at the shop tonight.

496
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: She goes, what are you doing to go? Plugs, caprola, wires,

497
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: water pump on the wagon. She goes, okay, see about

498
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: one am, you know, and it would be like, oh good,

499
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you'll have fun. All right, Matt, let

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00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 1: me get going. The clock is gonna take me. But

501
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the conversation. Good luck, and keep me posted.

502
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: And there may be more besides that, but we'll let

503
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: you start there. Five zero nine zero. The car Doctors

504
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: coming right back. Don't go away, Welcome back the car doctor.

505
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: By the way, get out on Facebook, check us out

506
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: Ron and any in the car doctor. And um, I

507
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: gotta get some videos up there. It's been uh actually

508
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna shoot a video this week. I've

509
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: been working on a what is it? Honda Odyssey? All

510
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: right again, all you people, all you handle lovers. I

511
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: don't get it. So, um, Jerry brought his wife this

512
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: Honda Odyssey, and um it had a water league and

513
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: going through and diagnosing it, it looks like and we're

514
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: not done with it. Yet I'm pretty about I'm comfortable

515
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: enough to talk about it here on here to tell

516
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: you that it's it's getting close. And I know when

517
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: Jerry here's the podcast, he's a podcast, right, know, he's

518
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: gonna jump up and down and get excited because we've

519
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: only had it for four weeks. And uh, well, it's

520
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: hard to fix a water league when it's it's called

521
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: out because when the water freezes, uh, you know that

522
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: don't work. And you can't do it in the shop

523
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: because hitting it with a hose doesn't duplicate the problem.

524
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: But I say this story tell you to tell you

525
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: I was thinking about doing a video on this and

526
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 1: then I lost track of time. But it's just a

527
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: good repair, Evan. You ever look at the top of

528
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: a Honda Odyssey minivan, the part where the roof rack is. Well,

529
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: I never realized it before, but that's actually two pieces,

530
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: the center strip where the sun roof and the roof

531
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: rack is, and then they attached the upward body panels

532
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: by visa via spot weld right down the trough where

533
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: the trim sits. So evidently the Odyssees have an issue

534
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: where the spot welds. And I think the spot welds

535
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: are either poor quality or there's something else that happens.

536
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: As a result, they react and they start to rust,

537
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: and they create an air gap and they start to leak.

538
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: So you have to take the roof rack apart. You

539
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: have to take the calking up. Not to mention the

540
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: caulking also goes bad to the calking in Jerry's case

541
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,719
Speaker 1: also had little tiny cracks in It was getting porosity

542
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: and it drips inside the car and it finds itself

543
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,719
Speaker 1: into all these different places. The actual, the actual problem

544
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: with Jerry's car was the b pillar. The passenger side

545
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: seat belt assembly was getting like a couple of ops

546
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: of water. And unfortunately Jerry's wife, you know, she has

547
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: a reaction to mildew. So we had a you know,

548
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: clean it up. Um, we're going through all this and

549
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: you're saying to yourself, can they come up with a

550
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: better idea than to put two halves together and then

551
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: just spot Weldon seem clock it so, but yeah, just

552
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: a terrible way to do it. Anyway, Let's get back

553
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: to the phones, but we will do a video not

554
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: of that, but of something else coming up shortly. Let's

555
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: cover to the phones. David and iowa some comments and questions. Yes, David,

556
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: how can I help? So? Hey you all right, what

557
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: a pleasure it is to talk to you, Ron. I

558
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: want to thank you number one before we get started

559
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: on the information you give the public. And I think

560
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful service that you do. And I tell

561
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: everybody if you want to know something, just get over that.

562
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: I looked you up on the internet and I saw you,

563
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: and I thought I was looking at my dad. Oh

564
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: boy behind the microphone. I mean, you're two guys who

565
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: favored each other. Like it's I'm believable. I'll send you

566
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: a picture of him and if you do that, yeah, car,

567
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: doctor show dot com or work. Yeah, right, anyway, I

568
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you a couple of questions, and then

569
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: I like to of course, I like to talk to

570
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: tell you something. First, I learned to drive, not dry,

571
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: but a steer car when I was three years old.

572
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: I remember stating on my grandfather's lap and he's told

573
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: me to steer it and he would take his hands

574
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: off the wheel. And I remember that to this day

575
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: and every since I've been a card not okay, I've

576
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: had so many cars, all the old plastics and everything

577
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: they've come and gone. And Uh, one of the main

578
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: questions I wanted to ask you about these cars to

579
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: go from like uh sixty there and two seconds. Shouldn't

580
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: we tried to try to put those on the track

581
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: and like any five and let people see what they

582
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: do and maybe that'll discourage I might discourage a few

583
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: of them, of course, for you probably that they want

584
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: to drive one of those, okay, and see what they

585
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: do and see how you know, the safety majors and

586
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: everything you have to take with them, and you know,

587
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: really do some research on this stuff first. You know, David,

588
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: it's you look at the cars that they're producing today,

589
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: and it's it's staggering the horsepower. It's it's how quick

590
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: they are, and how the acceleration and handling and the performance.

591
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: And like you, I was brought up in the sixties.

592
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's muscle cars and performance like that and

593
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 1: you know, just just white knuckle rods. I think, I

594
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: think getting kids involved in cars to really find that

595
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: next generation to work on the cars is I think

596
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: in large part going to be due to how we

597
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: approach and handle the performance issues and getting kids interested. Um,

598
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more Well, we're we're kind of considered antiques,

599
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: aren't we. I mean, it's pretty difficult to stay up

600
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: with all this stuff, and that's why I admire you

601
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: for your your research, your expertise. But uh, you know,

602
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: you're helping a lot of people out there. And but

603
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, with that kind of horsepower, I don't think

604
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too far. They're probably working on cars.

605
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna fly, okay, if they can just keep it

606
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: on the on the script or whatever, you know where

607
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: they put it. Yeah, I'll tell you what, David, David,

608
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: hold that. David, hold that thought. Let me pull over

609
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: and take a pause. We'll pick this up when I

610
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: come back. I'm on any of the car Doctor. We'll

611
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: be back right after this. Welcome back the car Doctor.

612
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: Rolling along and I was talking to David and iowa, David,

613
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: you're still there, sir. I'm here before the clock takes me.

614
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: I got about two and a half minutes. You're a kid. Also,

615
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: let's get some closing thoughts. What are your comments? Okay, Well, anyway,

616
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: I I was pointing, you know, like I said, Uh,

617
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: the technology, technology is moving so fast, you know, Uh,

618
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: do be having predictions on how long it's gonna take

619
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: before we run into that kind of a situation. I mean,

620
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: as fast as it's going, do you have any idea

621
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: what do you mean, what do you mean flying cars

622
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: and all? Oh, yeah, all this it's doing so quickly,

623
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's the advancements and stuff, and I think

624
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: we're going to be limited by our imaginations and the

625
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: economic constraints, you know. And I think it's a lot

626
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: of I think it's a lot bigger factor than we

627
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: all realize. I look at the shop, and I look

628
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: at which I look at the changes in the last

629
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: five years. And this will sound really silly, all right,

630
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: but I no longer have a drum of conventional green

631
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: anti freeze in the corner that I mixed because I

632
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: used to mix my own cooling. I no, I no

633
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: longer do that because every car today takes a different cooling.

634
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: I used to have a roll around drum of decks

635
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: Ron three trans fluid. I no longer do that because

636
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: cars today just everybody takes a different trans fluid. And

637
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's a couple other things that we've

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Speaker 1: And Danny and I look at each other, and we

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Speaker 1: start thinking about how it's changed and how fast it's changing,

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Speaker 1: and it's just every year exponentially it increases. I don't

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Speaker 1: know when flying cars are gonna come about. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a national security issue associated with that for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: I think that the technology is here. The problem is

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Speaker 1: the skill set the skilled people to fix it are

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Speaker 1: not And until the school system and the education systems,

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Speaker 1: not every kid can go to college. A lot of

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Speaker 1: kids are gonna have to go to trade school and

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Speaker 1: their minds. And yeah, you're gonna have to be an

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Speaker 1: electrical engineering and you're gonna have to get deeper into it.

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Speaker 1: Until that all happens, I don't think we're gonna see

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Speaker 1: a lot of things, and if we do, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be forced down upon us. David. I appreciated the conversation.

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Speaker 1: Until the next time I'm running any of the car,

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Speaker 1: doctor mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See it