1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: The following program has been prerecorded Ron Andanian. You ever 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: see those cartoons where they're cutting down the trees and 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: the character is sitting on the tree limb and he's 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: saw him off the limb. That was the Car Doctor. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: And as I was sitting in the emergency room at 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: quarter to four, I'm thinking, yeah, is where they say 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: four o'clocks the witching hour and to repair shop. Welcome 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor, 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: call in the garage orders are open, but I am 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,279 Speaker 1: here to take your call at eight five five five 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: six and now running what a maroon? It really was 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: a maroon moved there cutting my hand open last week 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: in the seven stitches, which you're healing nicely, by the way. 17 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: I know everybody have gotten a lot of well wishers 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: and and and you hope you feel better stuff. And um, 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm on the road to recovery and I have to 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: be listening. I have to I had to be in 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: the shop monday to fix cars and you know, I 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: think that's where this week's show is gonna start. We're 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: gonna talk about fixing cars, because you know, when they 24 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: asked me, why why do I do it? Why did 25 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: I do it? I think it's gonna be for reasons 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: like this. The O five Mercury that we're hanging the 27 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: exhaust on. The system is really badly rusted and rotted. 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: And this isn't a conversation about is it worth fixing. 29 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: It's somebody's means of transportation. She's almost ninety one years old. 30 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: This is her last car. She loves this car. She 31 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: understands this card fits her. You put her in something newer, 32 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: it's gonna be all electronic, all computer and completely obliterator 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: and prevent her from wanting to drive because it does 34 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: get to be confusing. So we've got to fix Mary's Montego. 35 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: And it was going well in the exhausted once we 36 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: got past the part where I cut my hand open, 37 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: and you know, now we're down to We've got to 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: change the two front catalytic converters which have rotted out, 39 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: and three of the four bolts came right out. Gee, 40 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: we're on our way, hooray. And then we got to 41 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: that fourth bolt snap, and you know, we heated it 42 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: and I worked it, and I worked all of them, 43 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: and you know, my usual bag of tricks was working, 44 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: and I got three of the four out and then 45 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: that last one somewhere around halfway and it just started 46 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: to lock up. And you know, it's funny. Metal does 47 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: this funny thing where it starts to grab and snag 48 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: and you can't turn it the other way, you can't 49 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: turn it this way, and all of a sudden snap 50 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: and you're done. So now you have to We're underneath 51 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: the car. I'm underneath the car and I'm I have 52 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to drill out a bolt that's in an exhaust manifold 53 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: that I have to lay over the top of the 54 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: cross member that I can't reach, and I'm at about 55 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: a forty five degree angle off center uphill at another 56 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: compound angle. It's like in the worst possible spot. Listen 57 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: to do you ever break an exhaust manifold? Stud in 58 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: a good spot? Somewhere around this time, as I was 59 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: sorting through it, my friend Jeff walked in the door. 60 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: And Jeff is a character unto himself. He's he's sort 61 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: of like the uh, you know, he's just he's just 62 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: He could tell you how many gear teeth were cut 63 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: into a clock made in eighteen ninety two, and the 64 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: angle of the tooth of the clock that was at 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Tunnel that you know, welcomed people with the 66 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: Chevrolet banner underneath it. I mean, he's one cylinder engines 67 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: and the farm engines and just just a um, I'm 68 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: trying to think of the word, but Jeff is Jeff 69 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: is a mechanical savant, I think is the word when 70 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: I think of Jeff, Right, real old school, real, you know, 71 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: nuts and bolts, mechanic Jeff. So what I was going through, 72 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: Oh we we're gonna so now I've got a help her, 73 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: all right? But you love that, right, It's sort of 74 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: like at the carnival where it's you know, hey, Rube, 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: and everybody comes running and then out of the blue, 76 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: Chuck shows up. Chuck is almost eighty one years old. 77 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: He's the gentleman that painted the hot rod. He painted 78 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: black too, some ten years ago, and it's been a 79 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: it's been a love love relationship with Chuck and I 80 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: for the past ten twelve years, as long as I 81 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: know him. And naturally, you've got the three guys that 82 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: you know worked on the hot rod together, and now 83 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: we're together again under this mercury, solving more problems. So 84 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: you know, we had that Monday morning confab conversation about 85 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: how are we gonna do this? And you know, for 86 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: all the tools I have, I just don't have enough. 87 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: And I found that out on Monday. I didn't have 88 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: an air regulator to adjust the air speed on the 89 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: right angle drill because we wanted to go into a 90 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: real slow speed. So we had the right bit. We 91 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,239 Speaker 1: had a nice co bolt bit, a left handed twist, 92 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: and we just had to slow the air speed down. 93 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,559 Speaker 1: So I grabbed the air hose and I pinched it shut. 94 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: Jeff drilled. I'd pinched the hose. He would hold the 95 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: drill at wide open throttle, and I would regulate the 96 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: speed by opening and closing the air hose to put 97 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: more air to it. And Chuck sat there with a 98 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: dixie cup filled with cutting oil that we use on 99 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: pipe threads, and every once in a while Jeff would 100 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: turn around. We put a little oil on the drill, 101 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: and five minutes later the the bit was out and 102 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: good and clean. And that's the kind of stuff that 103 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: makes order repair. Exciting. That's the kind of stuff that 104 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: makes you sit there and say, this is why you 105 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: do it right, to do the impossible. But the teamwork 106 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: and the camaraderie, and you know what, at the very least, 107 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: at the next couple of cruise nights over over an 108 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: adult beverage and a slice of pizza, we'll have something 109 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: to laugh about. How it it came together again and 110 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: we made it work. Of course. I turned around then, 111 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: I said, you guys ready to build another car? And 112 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: that's when they left. Let's let's kick the garage. I 113 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: guess I don't know. I just you know, why do 114 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: all these things happen? They figured it was safe. I 115 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 1: had already hurt myself the week before, so all the 116 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: danger was gone. Let's get the phones going today as 117 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: we kick this hour of the car doctor open, Let's 118 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: go to Bruce in Kentucky Toyota to coma. Bruce, what's 119 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: on your mind? How can I help? Welcome upboard? Hey? Hey, ron, 120 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: um Oh, I bought a new uh Toyota TA coma 121 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: nice truck. Uh it really is, I mean the first 122 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: new vehicle I ever owned. Um. I took it to 123 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: the dealer for the five thousand miles service, which I 124 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: thought was going to be an oil change, but it 125 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: turned out to be tire rotation, inspection, tightening different things 126 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: up and checking torque on things. And uh when it 127 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: was done, they you know, picked up the truck and said, 128 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: oh you're I'll see you back in uh. Uh five 129 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: thousand miles and made an appointment. And uh, I said, uh, 130 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: did you change the oils? And said no, said the 131 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: oil is good for ten thousand miles. It's synthetic oil. 132 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: And Uh, I've listened to your podcast for years now, 133 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: and I'm concerned about the gent thousand mile oil change. 134 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: I am too. Brother. Let me ask you a couple 135 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: of questions. Do you own it or lease it? No, 136 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: it's it's it's I own it, okay. And then who's 137 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: paying for the service the five thousand mile service? Who 138 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: paid for your Toyota? No, it's it's Toyota. The first 139 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: first two years of services free. Uh Huh. So what 140 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: your question to them? You know? And I listen. I 141 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: think it's nonsense. I really do. I would change the 142 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: oil every five thousand miles. There's there's there's no magic 143 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: fluid in the world anymore. Uh. You know to the 144 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: point that not only is the the oil uh you know, 145 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: good synthetic oils today or five to seven thousand miles, 146 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: but then there's also whose oil filter is it. I 147 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: don't know of a manufacturer's filter that safely goes to 148 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: ten thousand miles. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't read 149 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: the report. I haven't seen anything anywhere. You know. When 150 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: I talk to my guys at Toyota and you know, listen, 151 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: mechanics talk, we're we're just you know, we're we're gossip organization. 152 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: I guess to a degree, how did you do this? 153 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: How do you do that? What's new, what's changing, what's different? 154 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: And still still still else? Still the mechanics, I know 155 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: they're all changed. There were all every five thousand Toyota filters, 156 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: Wicks filters, whoever filter it is, it doesn't matter. I think. 157 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: I think the key is because you're getting it for free, 158 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: and this is what they're gonna stand behind. You Gotta understand, 159 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: all right, Um, the dealership is and listen, they're they're 160 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: following Toyota's lead, but they're kind of going along the 161 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: lines of the vehicle doesn't need any maintenance, It will 162 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: never break it'll run a hundred thousand miles. Oh, by 163 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: the way, Bruce Ninity new truck. You know, it's got 164 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: a hundred thousand miles on it. It's starting to burn 165 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: a little oil. You didn't really take good care of it. 166 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 1: You know, maybe we should have changed the oil a 167 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: little sooner. You know. It's it's funny how those conversations 168 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: seem to change. I bet they'd be willing to change 169 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: it if you wanted to pay for the oil change, 170 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: and you probably would, right, Um, yeah, I mean, uh yeah, 171 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: don't don't have a problem with that. I just you know, 172 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: I've always thought that when the manufacturer says, um, you know, 173 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: at thirty thousand miles, you do this service. At you know, 174 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: fifty thousand, you do this, and and so forth, and 175 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: uh so, I guess I'm trying to follow the being 176 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: a good, good customer doing what I'm told. You know, 177 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: I want to drive this truck miles. Yeah, yeah, right. 178 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: And you know, so motor oil has a finite life. 179 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: You know, pick a flavor, okay, pick anybody's oil. They 180 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: all put their own additives in it. They're all engineered 181 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: for this and that, and they're all going to design 182 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: to make it go the distance, all right. I know 183 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: of no oil manufacturer that's going to tell you no, 184 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: changing the oil more often is bad for it. I've 185 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: never heard that. They might say it's a waste of money. 186 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: They might say you're you're, you're doing something that's not necessary. 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: But my argument has been, and listen, my my mantra 188 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: is based on forty five, almost forty six years of 189 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: order repair, and I think I've seen it all until 190 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: I get and see it the next day. And my 191 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: experience has been the guy that changes oil on a 192 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: regular basis based on the type of oil and the 193 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: type of environment it's operating and is the guy that 194 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: gets that vehicle to three hundred thousand. I would just 195 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: I would just pay for an oil change bottom one. 196 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: I would just you know, I would just you know. Listen, 197 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: Tom Ray, my producer, His twenty fifteen Escape has two 198 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five thousand miles on it. He's changed 199 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: the oil every five thousand synthetic oil. His other four 200 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: Escape has I don't know, two hundred and fifty uh 201 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: to sixties something like that. He's changed the oil every 202 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: five thousand miles. That car runs so well that he's 203 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: given it to his daughter, Sarah, Dr Sarah. We now 204 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: have to call and she's gonna she's becoming a veterinarian 205 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: doctor this weekend. And you know it's oil is still 206 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: the cheapest thing. And you know, here's the other thing. 207 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: And here's where I'll leave it, Bruce, Okay. And I 208 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: would go back to Toyota and ask them, is the 209 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: oil filter they're putting on the car for the ten 210 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: thousand mile oil change interval the same as the one 211 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: that they used for the three four and five thousand 212 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: mile oil change interval. Have they improved the filter? Because 213 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: I don't think they have. And if they haven't, then 214 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: what are they trying to do. They're just trying to 215 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: follow a manufacturer's guideline to go buy the book, and 216 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: taking care of a car by the book usually means 217 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: the book falls on you and hurts your foot when 218 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: it hits it. All right, But I'll I'll I'll leave 219 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: it here, Okay. Go to them and ask them, could 220 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: you pay for an oil change synthetic oil Toyota filter. 221 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: I guarantee you they'll say yes, all right. And the 222 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: fact that you're taking better the fact that you're taking 223 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: better care of it now, will pay dividends later on. 224 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: The worst that happens is you do an extra oil 225 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: change or two a year and you drive the vehicle 226 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: to the three thousand mile mark. All right, My experience 227 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: has been the ten thousand. My oil change in most 228 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: cases doesn't work. Somebody out there proved me wrong. Thanks, Bruce. 229 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, and if you need anything else, 230 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: I'm here for your brother. I understand your pain and 231 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry you're going through it. Zero zero zero, Ronald 232 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: the car doctor at your service, back right after this. 233 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: What's more fun than listening to ronalading in the car 234 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: doctor and getting that car fixed? Right? A five five 235 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: five zero zero zero given a call? Now back to Rod, 236 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, and I and I should point out right 237 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: all the fun of cruising and hot rods and and 238 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: summer nights under the warm under the warm air, and 239 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: things like that. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, 240 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna be joined by Joe Rutler's. Joe is the 241 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: ultimate gearhead, a car officionado like you can't believe, who 242 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 1: probably has more information stuff than his head about hot 243 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: rods and performing than anybody you've ever met. Joe's just 244 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: a great all around car guy. We're gonna talk to 245 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about you know, summer cruising and and 246 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: waking up the hot rod and things you can do 247 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: for performance on on new and old cars. Joe's knowledge 248 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: all about all of it. We were talking to Joe 249 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: down around the bottom of the hour with about that, 250 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: and then at the top of the next hour we've 251 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: got We've got some great interviews as well, Chris Lewis 252 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: from a t G and Chuck Wanna Maker from the 253 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: Waldwick car show that goes on every year. I'm gonna 254 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: talk about hot hot rods and cars there too. So 255 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: we've got the very diverse hour coming up your way. Um, 256 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: let's go over and talk to Dan Minnesota in the 257 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: all three oh three old Allo. Dan, Welcome to the 258 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: Car Doctor. How can I help Hell? Yes, so yeah, 259 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: it's my niece's car two thousand three Oldso, Um, we've 260 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: discovered that it's got a bad fuel pump. Quit on 261 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: your w What we can do is you can be 262 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: down the gas sting with the ball teen or rubber 263 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: mallett and turn the key and it will fire and 264 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: run and soon you stop it. Quich Okay. So we're 265 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: gonna pull the fuel pump right and check that out. 266 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: But the tank is full of gas. And I've tried 267 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: other than well, I don't know how to get to 268 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: drain the tank. I've tried siphoning. There's some sort of 269 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 1: a block in the line to prevent that. To try 270 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: different size hoses, Yeah, you're gonna find because there's all 271 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: kinds of baffles down in the tank. So unless you 272 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: can get something thin enough down there and start a siphon, 273 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: you're really not going to be able to obviously, you know, 274 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: the tank has to come out to do the pump right. 275 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: The other trick I looked at is there's a Streder 276 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: valve on the fuel line and the supply line to 277 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: the engine. Um, it looks like they may use that 278 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: for checking fuel pressure like that. And I can take 279 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: that that core out and I can I can pull 280 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: on it with suckygana with a hose, and I can 281 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: get a little bit of fuel in there. But it 282 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: won't stay. I won't get it. There's not enough there 283 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: to right. So let me ask you, this is the 284 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: pump completely dead? Uh? Only it's dead as long as 285 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: you beat on the tank with a rubber mallet. It'll, it'll, 286 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: it'll pump, but it so you have to keep beating 287 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: on the tank to get the pump to move, To 288 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: keep keep beating on the tank, Brother, what pain? You know? 289 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: I was gonna say if I was gonna say, if 290 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: you just ran a power and ground to the pump 291 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: connection and banged it once and it would run. Just 292 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: run it and siphon it out that way. You know, 293 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: short of short of that, you've got to drop the 294 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: tank and on your back. That's no easy trick. And 295 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, you know, I've never I can't say 296 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: that I've seen a fuel pump fail where you have 297 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: to bang on it like that to get it to 298 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: to get it to run. I'm wondering if the fuel 299 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: is somehow contaminated or something else is in there. But 300 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: I guess you'll find that out when you get the 301 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: tank down. Do you have a floor? Jack, Dan? Okay? 302 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: How about how about if you get the how about 303 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: if you get the tank secure? Okay? Uh, you know, 304 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: get the vehicle secure, up in the air, get yourself 305 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: as much high as you can. You know, Jack stands 306 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: and all its work safe. And if we made an 307 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: improvisational you know, gas tank handler out of a sheet 308 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: of you know, three quarter inch or in thick plywood 309 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: bolted to the top of the floor jack. Take the 310 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: straps off, use the floor jack to lower it and 311 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: at least get it down so you're not laying this 312 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: gas tank with you know, twenty gallons d and fifty 313 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: pounds on your chest and then you can kind of 314 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: wiggle it out from underneath. Right. Yeah, That's That's kind 315 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: of where I'm at with it. I'm thinking this weekend 316 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna media giving it a giving it to try. 317 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: I've had a couple of different ideas, but I found 318 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: a found a fuel pump, a fuel transfer pump that 319 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: I was going to try to hook to that fuel 320 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: pressure line, but I don't know if that's gonna work, 321 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: and otherwise it's going to be the brute force method 322 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: of lowering the tank and hopefully not dipping it in 323 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: dumping gas everywhere. I mean, if instead of pulling out 324 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: through the strader, if you've got a transfer pump that 325 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: will pull, that will suck. How About we go to 326 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: the quick disconnect for the fuel line, which will be 327 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: at the back of the engine, and you know the 328 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: disconnect it go down to your local Loto parts store. 329 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: You've got an a Rallyotor Parts near you. Oh yeah, okay, 330 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: go in there and tell them you're looking for a 331 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: fuel line connection for that particular car, but you're looking 332 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: for the opposite of whatever the line is. They make 333 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 1: fuel line repair kids. Dormant actually makes fuel line repair 334 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: kits with the couplings. So what if you what if 335 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: you disconnected at the injector rail, hook the line up 336 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: there the opposite of whatever you take apart, going towards 337 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: the tank and hook your transfer pump up to that 338 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: nylon hose with the fitting on it. Right, You're not 339 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: gonna hurt anything on the car. You can reconnect it 340 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: and then you've got the ability to pull on it 341 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: and maybe get the fuel out. Listen, it'll cost you 342 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: probablys for the for the fuel line connections. If it works, 343 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: it works. If it doesn't, you know, it's back to 344 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: the on the floor jack, right uh and you know, 345 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: just yeah, and just one last thing. You know, you 346 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: looked in the trunk. You're positive there's no access plate there, right, No, 347 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: there's no access Actually, um looking behind the under the 348 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: back seat because sometimes they hide him. Sometimes the procedure 349 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: says one thing and it does another. That's where you're headed. Dan. 350 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: Good luck to you, and like I said, be safe, 351 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: work safe. I'm running Eating of the Car Doctor. Coming 352 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: up next, Joe Rutledge, a really great car guy and 353 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of fun to talk to. I've known 354 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: Joe and talked to him over the years, and that 355 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: we're looking forward to this conversation. Come on back and 356 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: join us. I'm running Eating the Car Doctor. We'll be 357 00:18:44,240 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back, running any of the 358 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: Car Doctor. You know, back in the day when dirt 359 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: was invented, God was young and the car doctor was 360 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: just learning how to fix cars. Good mechanics were created 361 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: by the guy that you know worked on his car 362 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: and tuned his car and modified his car and made 363 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: it run better and made it handle better. And that 364 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: hasn't changed in the million years since I was a youngster. 365 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: I've just seen the industry evolve and grow to the 366 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: point and I'm talking about the automotive aftermarket, to the 367 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 1: point that today it seems like you can modify anything 368 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: and make anything run better. And as we're getting into 369 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: the summer cruising season, right we're all coming out of 370 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: this pandemic. We're all looking to take our cars out 371 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: if we've got one, or maybe get one and do 372 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: something with it. I thought I'd go to a friend 373 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 1: of mine and an industry expert. I considered Joe probably 374 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: one of the most knowledgeable guys for after market performance, 375 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: and that we can even get them to walk on water. 376 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: Since I'm building them up, are not getting even more nervous? 377 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: And uh, welcome aboard, Joe. Thanks for taking the time today, 378 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: No problem, Thank you for having me. Are You're very welcome? Joe. 379 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: The first car. I always asked this the car guys 380 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 1: because I think it's an interesting story for the listeners. Um, 381 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: the first car you modified? What was the first car 382 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: that lit Joe's fire? Well, my first car I had 383 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: embarrassed to tell you it was an eight fifty at sixteen, 384 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: but that didn't last very long because, unfortunately, was in 385 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: an accident. But then the second car I ended up 386 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: acquiring was a sixty A MX. I was very fortunate 387 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: to find one locally person gave up on it. I 388 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: was able to grab it and put it back to life, 389 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: you know, change some stuff on it and made it 390 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: a really nice car. Yeah, and what was it? About 391 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: that car. Was it the budget or you just like 392 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: you looked at that car and said, boy, I gotta 393 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: have it. Actually I chased it. What happened was the 394 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: gentleman who owned it gave up on it and was 395 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: kind of like a project that got you know, stranded, 396 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: and I was able to after many weeks of convincing, 397 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: I was able to buy the car for a price 398 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: that I could afford. Obviously, so he was very kind 399 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: and I was willing to let me take the car 400 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: from him, and I was able to grab the car. 401 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: And you know, it wasn't really that bad. It just 402 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: needed some tender, loving care, good set of tires, a 403 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: good set of wheels, and then one thing leads to 404 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: another and you end up modifying them. Do you see 405 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: that a lot, Joe? You know that people start projects 406 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: and and they kind of get in over their head. 407 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: You know, you see it a lot anymore, just because 408 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: of the fact that, you know, things get in the way, right, 409 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: Life changes, they change. People buy a car and they have, 410 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: you know, big dreams. One thing I think that's really 411 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: helped is crazy to say that, but the pandemic has 412 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: brought a lot of life back into some of the 413 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: projects have installed for many years. You see more and 414 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: more people now digging the old project out of the 415 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: car the garage and and trying to finish it. And 416 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: it's been really exciting to see those cars come out 417 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: on the street. Now. Yeah, maybe it's just they wanted to. 418 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: You know, the pandemic has definitely brought families closer together, 419 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: but maybe after a while, So this is a little 420 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: too much. I'm going out into the garage and he'll 421 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: see in a couple of hours, you know, maybe it 422 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: became that Uh no, and I think you know, people like, 423 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: like you said, families, you know, there's not a lot 424 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: going on right now, right, you can't. There wasn't a 425 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: lot going on last year, I should say, and uh, 426 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: you know, people found different things. And you know, you 427 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: see now a lot of my friends have younger sons 428 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: that haven't been in the really into the car scene. 429 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: But now because there's not a lot going on, they 430 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: kind of followed that in the garage. Next thing, you know, 431 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: you've got a couple of new new fans and hopefully 432 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: it'll you know, perpetuate our industry for another you know, 433 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty years. Joe, you know, you just said 434 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: something that really hits home, and it's it's how mechanics 435 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: were made. Right forty years ago, fifty years ago, they 436 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: followed dad or they were you know, the dads were 437 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 1: doing performance and then the younger kids got into it 438 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: and there was no handheld phones. There was no more buttons, 439 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: you know, with the buttons. You know, as we say 440 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: that everybody's walking, everybody walks with their head down with 441 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: a phone in their hand going. But you know, it's 442 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 1: it's there's something about that connection when you fixed a 443 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: mechanical problem or in this day and age, and electronic problem. 444 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: And in a way, parents can might define a kid's 445 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: career path taking them to a car show or modifying 446 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: a car with them, or giving them the nudge in 447 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: a direction that perhaps something that they'll enjoy the rest 448 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: of their lives. Right, you know, you're absolutely right. I mean, 449 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, my son happens to be an engineer. He 450 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: was and he you know, I think because of my 451 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: involvement in cars, and look at his father, Joe, I 452 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,719 Speaker 1: can understand that, right, Look look who his father is. 453 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: So uh, well play when you have the ambition like 454 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: that and you have people that are around you, I 455 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: think you find things that are different. Right, So cars 456 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: became something that was second nature to him, but it 457 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: became a love of his two and you know, he 458 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: became an engineer because of some of the things he 459 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: started finding out, Like you know, he wants to know 460 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: about gear Ray, who was very inquisitive when they're younger. 461 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: So it's really easy to kind of get them into 462 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: different things. And if you're you know, if you're if 463 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: you're into cars, there's a world of information there that 464 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: you know, becomes electronics. You can become an engineer, you 465 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: can become mechanic. I mean, there's so much that you 466 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: can learn from being in the automotive industry or even 467 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: around cars, right and just and just I've always had 468 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: some of the best mechanics possessed the most common sense 469 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: in the world because they look at things like that, 470 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: why you have have broken They understand it. Yeah, it makes you, 471 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: you know, learn about other things. I mean, there's a 472 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: lot you can there's a lot of knowledge when you 473 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: start to find something. I think that the sense of 474 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: achievement once you get something fixed or you be able 475 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: to improve it, I think that becomes a sense of improvement. 476 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: And I think it's it makes you feel like you've 477 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: you've accomplished something, right. It gives you a sense of 478 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: self worth it. You know, you can hold your head 479 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: up and look what I did. So you know to 480 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: that point, Joe, you look at modern day muscle cars 481 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: the Factor is making it seems like it's not except 482 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: for the price tag on some of these cars, it 483 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: seems like it's ninety nine all over again. You know, Challengers, Camaros, Mustangs. 484 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: Can you modify those cars like we modified them back then? Yeah, 485 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: you can. It's just the industry is obviously evolved, right, 486 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: you know, the factories have given us some really great platforms. 487 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you know years ago you who would ever 488 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: dream that you get buy a car from the Factor? 489 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: You would have seven hundred horse power and a lot 490 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: of people say, like, why do you need more in 491 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: the a car guy? All these benser Because you can, right, 492 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just you want to personalize that car 493 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: for what you like, and not everybody has the same paste. 494 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: Like it's you know, some guys like chrome wheels, some 495 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: guys like black wheels. It doesn't matter as long as 496 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 1: you're making that car what you feel and what you 497 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: want to be seen. And I mean everybody has that 498 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: image of what they like, of what they want to 499 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: be seen. And I think you know, our industry, you know, 500 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: fortunately gives you that those choices. You know, do you 501 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: do you see guys making big changes to these seven 502 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: horsepower cars or seven horse power fast enough? You know, 503 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: it's funny, it's never enough, right. If you're a car guy, 504 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: I think what happens is a lot of people get 505 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: that car and they think, oh, I'm never gonna do 506 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: anything too, and then one thing leads to another. You're 507 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 1: on the internet, you you know, you see your buddies car, 508 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: you see a cargo passed and then you say like, well, 509 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: I'd like to have those wheels. Or you go to 510 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 1: a car show and guy opens a hood and go like, wow, 511 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: that's a really nice you know, cold there and take kid, 512 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: or hey, where'd you get that exhaust system? I think, 513 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: you know, one thing always leads to another. When you're 514 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 1: a car guy, you find your your views are off 515 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: of the car is different, right you start to look, 516 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: you notice things more and more about your car that 517 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: your own, and you always want to make it different 518 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: and make it your own. So in our industry, that 519 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: gives us the ability to change it and make it 520 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 1: what I consider better, right, because yeah, yeah right, it's 521 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: it says you. Um, you know it says you. Hey, Joe, 522 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: we're gonna pull over and take a pause. When we 523 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 1: come back, I want to tell you a story about 524 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: my friend Jimmy Shelby, as he calls it Blue Blue 525 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 1: is always trying to kill him as he drives it. 526 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: And then we'll kind of reference that to newer cars. 527 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: So sit tight if you would please. I'm running any 528 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: of the card Doctor here with Joe Joe Ruttledge. Sorry 529 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: about that, Joe. I'm here with Joe Rutledge, all around, 530 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: good car guy and a personal friend. We enjoy talking 531 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: to Joe from time to time, and we'll both be 532 00:26:48,440 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away, Welcome back the 533 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: Car Doctor. We're joined this hour by Joe Rutler, roll around, 534 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: good car guy and Joe and are just chatting up 535 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: about you know, hot rods, old and new and and 536 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,719 Speaker 1: things you can do, and things that he's done and 537 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: what he've seen people do. Joe. When we pulled away, 538 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 1: I was I was thinking about my friend Jimmy. Jimmy's 539 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: got an original sixty six Shelby GT uh three fifty. 540 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: And you know, Jimmy calls it blue because she's blue. 541 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: She's blue with white stripes. Remember those cars, And and 542 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: you know, I say, Jimmy, you know, what is it 543 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: about Blue that's so exciting? If they're you know, he's 544 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: had the car since nineteen sixty nine, that's how long 545 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: he's had Blue. And he said, you know, when you 546 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: take Blue out, she's always trying to kill you if 547 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. She says, look at that telephone pole. 548 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: I can put you right into that pole if you're 549 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: not careful, because you don't respect the horsepower and the 550 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: steering or the lack thereof, or the stopping ability or 551 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: the lack there of, because it's an original GT car. 552 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: And you you look at those new Mustangs Shelby's that 553 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: are what six seven hundred horsepower and you can drive 554 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: him one finger, you know, a hundred miles an hour 555 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: with you're conditioning on the stereo blasting. And is that 556 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 1: a problem? You know? Yeah, I mean, like when you 557 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: get a car that has that kind of power, obviously 558 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: you know you have to prepare for it. And the 559 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: new Mustangs and and pretty much any car, like for 560 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: Dodge ORSCHEV. I mean, they're all coming out with some 561 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: pretty pretty high horse power cars as you know, as 562 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: we know them, and they make them really well right 563 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: so that they've prepared good steering, good breaks, and I 564 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: think that's always important when you have a car with 565 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: that kind of horse power. It's good to go fast, 566 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 1: but the best better be able to stop when you 567 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 1: when you can, and you know, all that stuff is 568 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: is really important. And you know, there's they've made it. 569 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: They've made the car so nice and so drivable that 570 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: it's almost scary to think that they have that kind 571 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: of horse power and it's it's it's and I guess 572 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: my point become not I guess I know my point 573 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: becomes that the new cars are just as fast, but 574 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: they may not have that same bark and bite feel, 575 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: but you can make them even faster. You know, are 576 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: there simple bolt on if you want to imp of 577 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: the performance in handling of let's say that that that 578 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: new car that rolls out of the show room. Is 579 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: there anything you can do to it quick and easy? 580 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: There's there's lots of things you can do, but you 581 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: also have to remember we have to do it legally 582 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: today because you know there is some things that you know, 583 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: there's regulations like anything, and you know, E p A 584 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: has been very active lately and we have to all 585 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: be careful with that because we do want to preserve 586 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: our planet for the future, right So, but there is 587 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: a lot of the companies now that have come out 588 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: with parts, Like you know, there's tuners that you can 589 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: buy that can make the drive ability of your car 590 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: much much better than it was when you first bought it. 591 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: You can change you know, tire as well. When you 592 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: change tires, you change the phenometer, the tuner can come 593 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: back and readjust that for you. And it's legal. Like 594 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: the tunes are e p A approved in most cases, 595 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: and you can buy those and install them yourself and 596 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: your driveway. You don't have to have, you know, a 597 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: dinal cell like we would have back in the day 598 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: where you have to find out how much horse power 599 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: it is. The tuner is already pre programmed for you 600 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: and you can do that. There's a cold air kits 601 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,479 Speaker 1: that are you know, emission certified. All that stuff is 602 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: basically bolt on that you can do it in your 603 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: driveway and you know, you feel that sense of accomplishment 604 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: like you've like you did when you had your old 605 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: sixty nine car six and you've made that car of yours, Right, 606 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: you've made that car yours. That's your that that car 607 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: says Joe. In a sense, it's taken on your personality. 608 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: And there's also you know, we look at wheels and tires. 609 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: It's probably the most visual part of the car that 610 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: you would change. Right, everybody looks when they get a car. 611 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: The first three things that's the most popular today is 612 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: a set of wheels and tires, usually followed by an 613 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: exhaust system, and then immediately followed by a cold their 614 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: kit and maybe a tuner. Top it all off, and 615 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: then you've really made some really nice improvements on your car. 616 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: That's fun, legal and you can pretty much do it yourself. 617 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: How how big of a business, Joe is the aftermarket 618 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: parts industry? You know? Can we is there a dollar number? 619 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: Do you know? At the top of your head, it's huge, right, 620 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: I believe in the aftermarket industry. But but I've seen 621 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: as reports is about forty billion dollars and they see 622 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: they feel what it's going to grow in the next 623 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: few years. So I can see that because with all 624 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: the new cars coming out, and you know, the cars 625 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: you're seeing that have come out of the garages lately. 626 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: I could see it being you know, continuing because they 627 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: always have given us some good platforms to improve on, 628 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: and I think that's there for the future. And and 629 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: suffice it to say, Joe, as we wrap it up, 630 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: you can have performance today, you can meet emissions levels. 631 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: And you know, in other words, it really doesn't pay 632 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: to disable emission controls because it's unnecessary. You're hurting the planet. 633 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,479 Speaker 1: You're not making the car any faster. In a lot 634 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: of cases, the cars run faster with all the emission 635 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: controls on them, right, right, And that that's the nice 636 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: part about you know, the first thing is you want 637 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,959 Speaker 1: to have your car legal right, because that's the main thing. 638 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: The worst thing you can do is take a beautiful 639 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: car that you's just been you know, fifty sixty sev 640 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: for and find out that the guy who tuned your car, 641 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: you know, put in the legal tune in and then 642 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: you you know, you have all kinds of different problems. 643 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: The best thing is to do a little bit of homework. 644 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: Get on these forms, like you know, Ford Mustang forms, 645 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: there's l S forms, there's you know, the Chrysler forms, 646 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: all those in from all the sources are information that 647 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: you can compare your notes, do a little bit of 648 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: homework and talk to the guys that in your local areas. 649 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: Go into your speech shops and you're you're out of 650 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: parts stores. Find out what's legal and then you know, 651 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: come to guys like you that you can do it 652 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: work every day and find out what's the legal parts 653 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: that you can do. You know, Joe, I couldn't have 654 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: said it better. Listen, my friend. I want you to 655 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: get out there and do some cruise in this summer. Um. 656 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: I want you to go have a good time. I 657 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: appreciate your taking the time today and appreciate having me 658 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: listen anytime, and you're always welcome back. Can I can 659 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: I get you to promise one thing as you see 660 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: the next new and exciting thing, because you'll be one 661 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: of the first to see it, you come back and 662 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: tell us about it in the fall. Maybe you got 663 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: you got my promise? Okay, thanks Joe, we appreciate it. 664 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: You take good care. I'm rotating the card doctor and 665 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: we'll both be back. I'll be back right after this. 666 00:32:44,960 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back Ron and naming the car 667 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: doctor once again. Thanks to Joe. Was always good to 668 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: talk to Joe. We finally got him up here on 669 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: air and just some real good solid information about cars 670 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: and how things have changed. And you know what, as 671 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: much as they change, they stay the same. You can 672 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: tune your car, whether it's new or old. There's just 673 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: ways to do it. I want to just finish up 674 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: the hour talking about a letter I received this week 675 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: in email from Mike who wrote, in good morning, Ron, 676 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: I'm taking a few moments to enjoy a good cup 677 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: of coffee and listen to your show. A retired lady Colton. 678 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: We had a woman calling last week if I were 679 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: to venture to get from Illinois with a Lincoln that 680 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: needed an engine, the O eight Lincoln MKZ. I think 681 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: it was that the engine had seized and she needed 682 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: to have an engine installed in the car. And Mike 683 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: goes on to point out she questioned you as to 684 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: having her car tow to another place for her second opinion. 685 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: Basically your response was not to do this, as she 686 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: would just get the same advice she had originally received. Ron. 687 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: Frequently you bring up physicians and the relationship they have 688 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: with their patients is a similarity of mechanics in a 689 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: relationship they should have with their customers many times in 690 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: medical world, and second opinion is valued and quite frankly needed. 691 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: Didn't no offense to the original physician. Absolutely agree, I'm 692 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: no master mechanic ron. However, I would say any major 693 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: engine work or engine replacement would be similar to heart 694 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: surgery or heart transplant. I would never in a million 695 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: years go for the heart surgery or transplant with only 696 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: one doctor's recommendation. I realized the retired lady had stretched 697 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: fund for perhaps another mechanic may have found a different 698 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,800 Speaker 1: route to take that would be more cost effective for her. Nowadays, 699 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: many people seek second opinions from any different types of 700 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: procedures in the medical world. I myself would also take 701 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: the same route of my vehicle. You need to have 702 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: major work done, and although I have a great relationship 703 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: with my mechanic, I would do some research and find 704 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: another mechanic that has a great reputation and take my 705 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: car to him or her as it would be for 706 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: a second opinion. I'm not sure you'll agree with this. However, 707 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: after hearing your show, I thought I'd throw my hat 708 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: in the ring and put this out there is food 709 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,919 Speaker 1: for thought. Thanks for all you do, Mike. You know, Mike, 710 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: I take no offense, and I'm really happy when I 711 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: get emails like this. I'll tell you where in my 712 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: mind was at the caller, and I can't recall her name. 713 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: I just remember the car because that's I guess what 714 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,319 Speaker 1: I do. I remember the car didn't have a relationship 715 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: with a mechanic. It was remember talking to her and 716 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: she had taken it to one shop. I asked her 717 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: who did the oil changes? It was quick loops. It 718 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: was this garage. It was that garage to keep piece 719 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: that's missing from that puzzle to make it successful. She 720 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,799 Speaker 1: had no relationship with a mechanic, and I think that's 721 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: something everybody's going to need going forward, a better relationship 722 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: with a mechanic, so that I know what they're told, 723 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: they can count on it, and maybe they don't have 724 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,879 Speaker 1: to get that second opinion and spend more money. Something 725 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,760 Speaker 1: to think about. I love the questions, Mike. Thank keeping coming. 726 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: I'm naming the car doctor until the next time. The 727 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.