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Speaker 1: of Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor. Since this is

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

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do this last week. Unfortunately I wasn't

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Speaker 1: And you know, Mark, the problem here is that onboard

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Speaker 1: that'll do it. Roger, I appreciate the call. If five

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Speaker 1: bring a car to the public masses that could get

426
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,479
Speaker 1: seventy miles to the gallon, even today, they would do it.

427
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is because you look

428
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: at the shift. You look at the shift in politics.

429
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: You know how the Middle East and the way we're

430
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: treating the Middle East and the way we have to

431
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: rely on the Middle East has changed in the last

432
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: five to seven years, just because cars today get better

433
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: fuel economy. We're not so fuel dependent on off shore

434
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: oil anymore. At least that's my view. And I'm no

435
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: Washington Think Tanks scholar, but just as a casual observation, uh,

436
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: you know, I'd love to see something in print, something

437
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: documented that Ford had a car they got seventy miles

438
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: to the gallon. First, I'm hearing about it. Most of

439
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: the cars back in the fifties it was you know,

440
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: I won't say seven, but it was maybe fifteen to

441
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: eighteen miles to the gallon, maybe twenty on certain ones.

442
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: But those cars weighed a lot, they polluted a lot,

443
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: Their maintenance was way way up um in terms of

444
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: cost factor. Um, you know, And I'm not going to

445
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: debate it. It was just a very different time, you

446
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: know what. I look at cars of the forties and

447
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: the fifties and the sixties. Hey, everybody was working, everybody

448
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: got paid the the the cost of living was down

449
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: on and the wage everybody made was more equitable to

450
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: what they did they could. You know, it's a different life.

451
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 1: It was a different style. Again, my my theory about

452
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: cars or a lifestyle comes to light. But the point

453
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: being you can't look at what it was and say

454
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 1: why not. You gotta look at what it is and

455
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 1: say how can I make it better? And that's just

456
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: just my perspective. But if you come across that documentation,

457
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. Let's go and talk to

458
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: Dave and I with two thousand Monty Carlo. Yeah, Dave,

459
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: what's going on? Oh? Hello, are you going? What's going on? Uh?

460
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, I'm seventy three. I don't get it many

461
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: miles I'm walking anymore either, So but anyway, I want

462
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: to let you know where that Monte Carlo I was

463
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: telling you about that I had that we was having

464
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: problems with. We couldn't fear it. I took it into

465
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: the shop and the guy said, well, we'll check it

466
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: out and see what happens. And anyway, it's been three

467
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: weeks to take a spark plug out, put the scope

468
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: in it and turn it over and find out that

469
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: there was a piston. The number one was not on

470
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: the row at the end of the row. There's what

471
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: he said. So that really you should, I mean, really

472
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: what the piston came off the connecting rod. That's where

473
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: he said, he said, you didn't see the piston in there, so,

474
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: uh gee, I'd love to see that. Is this a

475
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: phull moon show? I'd love to see that. Um, I know,

476
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't believe that either. If

477
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 1: a piston physically came off the connecting rod, it had

478
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: to make a big boom. Uh, it had to make

479
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: a big boom, brother, So I'd love to see that. Um.

480
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 1: I would go back and ask him where the piston

481
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: go if it's not there, and how did they get

482
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: disconnected if it is? And at that point it sounds

483
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: like you're headed foreign engine, so um you know, and

484
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: then a two thousand Monte Carlo. Well we both know,

485
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, what's the value of that? Um? I would

486
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: ask him about that again, Dave. I would ask him

487
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: that and call me back next week, just be sure.

488
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: Is it really the piston disconnected from the connecting rod.

489
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: If it did, that wristpin is so thick. Uh, that

490
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: motor would make a heck of a noise turning over.

491
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: I've never seen one just disconnect itself. I think that's

492
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: a mechanical impossibility. I UM I called bs to that

493
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero. The car doctors coming back right

494
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: after this blocome back on the end of the car

495
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: doctor five zero nine nine zero zero. You know, I

496
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: gotta tell you some of the calls we're getting today.

497
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: I think it's more they're looking for Dr Joyce Brothers

498
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: or Dr joy Brown or something. It's I just wish

499
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: you didn't say full moon. You don't want to know

500
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: what Tony did during the break Well, you know, well

501
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: blue moon, Um, but you know it's not cold enough

502
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: for that. I'm telling you, Um, they don't make cars

503
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: without power steering because everybody wants cars with every bell

504
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: whistling option on it. I get it. I just we're

505
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: looking for different kinds of cars. Anyway, let's let's roll forward.

506
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of phones calls to get through yet. Paul, Minnesota,

507
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: how are you today, sir? Already haven't talked to you

508
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: a bit there. I'm the Ford Senior Master up here

509
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: in the White North. Yep, yep, yep. What's cooking? Yeah? Anyhow,

510
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: quick one, because I caught your opening thing. I have

511
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: a problem with the self drivers because when Ford came

512
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: out with this self parking mode and the rear park

513
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: aid and all that the sensor failures were off the chart. Yeah,

514
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: you lose one sensor. Guess what you know? And so

515
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: there's a problem. Oh and you the gentleman that wanted

516
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: that is back to the old school. I've got a

517
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: fifty two mirk that'll fit him just perfect, you know. Anyway,

518
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, pull what I what I don't get is okay,

519
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: And maybe this is the hard part for me, you know.

520
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: And we had we had this conversation in the shop

521
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: this week. A customer came in with his young son

522
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 1: and we were talking about you know, they say, by

523
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: nobody will need a driver's license anymore. Now think about

524
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: that for a minute. No more driver's license applications. Of course,

525
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 1: by then the line of New Jersey motor vehicle will

526
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: probably have cut down some but um, you know, even so,

527
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: because self driving cars will be so proficient. And I

528
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: asked the young kid, he was probably all of nine

529
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: or ten, and I said, aren't you looking forward to driving?

530
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: And he said, no, why do I want to drive anything?

531
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: He goes, I'd rather just have somebody drive me. And that,

532
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, man, I'll tell you what. I was thirteen,

533
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: working at a stable, you know, driving a horse maneuver truck.

534
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: It was the greatest experience of my life. That's how

535
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: I learned how to drive a big old sixty five

536
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: Chevy C thirty dump truck. And I just I just

537
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: don't get it that. Why don't people want to drive?

538
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: And you go back to self driving or self parking cars,

539
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 1: so now you depend on the car to park and

540
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: then one day one of those sensors falls in the

541
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: bumper or fails and you find out it's a couple

542
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: of three to get it fixed because it's out of warranty.

543
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: So you don't get it fixed. Now you don't know

544
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: how to parallel park the car anymore. You've lost that ability.

545
00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: You've taken something away. And yeah, I don't say it again.

546
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: I'm to uh date myself to my first car. I

547
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: paid ten dollars for a fifty one Plymouth Yeah, and

548
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: I drove it for two years, you know, right, and

549
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: you probably sold it for ten bucks when you were

550
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: done with it. Um, well here you go. Uh you know.

551
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: But there's there's there's an intrinsic I'm looking for the

552
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: right words. There's there's an intrinsic value and being self

553
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: sufficient behind the wheel at a young age. It teaches

554
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: you self reliance, you know. It's it's sort of like

555
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: that kid that's sixteen or fourteen that can find their

556
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 1: way through the New York City subway system and make

557
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: it from Brooklyn to Harlem and back again, all in

558
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: one piece because they know they know the rules and

559
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: the rigs of the subway. It gives you a sense

560
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: of self reliance. It gives you a sense of confidence

561
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: in yourself. And I think a lot of the kids

562
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: today are gonna miss that. And I get it that

563
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: they can't work on the cars like we did when

564
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: we were kids because of how mechanical things were versus now.

565
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: But to not want to drive, I'll tell you how

566
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: bad it is. The Cooper Tire salesman came in this

567
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: week and I was really surprised at this, and they

568
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: were showing me the new Cooper Tire catalog and so forth,

569
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: and we were going over and over it, and he said,

570
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: and up here as we've got the tread lightly of

571
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: the Tread Safely campaign. And I said, what's that? He said,

572
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: Cooper Tire is going out to the schools and speaking

573
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: in front of the fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen year old

574
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: explaining tire technology and safety, trying to get them interested

575
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: in tires, to try and get them interested into getting

576
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: their driver's licenses, because nobody these kids today don't want

577
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: to drive. They want to be driven. And I'm not

578
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: picking on the generation. I'm just saying they're missing out

579
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: on the greatest experience of their life and something that's

580
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: gonna help form I think the basis of who they become. Um,

581
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: cars are a lifestyle. I I really believe that. And

582
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 1: if you're self reliant, if you can, you know, if

583
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: you can figure things out behind the wheel and you know,

584
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: keep yourself safe on the road, I think you're a

585
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: self reliant I think you're you're you're you're in a

586
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: better position than the person that can't. And I'll leave

587
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: it there. I'll leave it there. Oh I got a

588
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: quick one on Is that your previous color about fuel? Well,

589
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Paul, Paul, let me pull over

590
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: and take this pause and come I'll come right back

591
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: to you. Let's uh, let's let's come back to Paul.

592
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: Go ahead, let's get back to Paul ron in the

593
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: car doctor here, Paul, go ahead, finish up real quick, Yeah,

594
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: make it quick for you. Oh, and also on the

595
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: mileage thing, I've been a FOURD guy for forty two

596
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: years anyhow, had a fifty seven fair Lan which unfortunately

597
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: had to get rid of two automatic. The best I

598
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: could get out of it was eighteen miles to the gallon. Yeah,

599
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: that's what I kind of think. I just think that

600
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: they don't know where he came up with that number

601
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: of seventy miles to the gallon. Paul is always a pleasure, sir.

602
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: We'll get together again real soon and I'll have a

603
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: longer conversation. Let to get over and talk to Brian

604
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: from Minnesota and some comments um about k C Brian,

605
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: want to Nat the car doctor? How canna help? Hello? Ron,

606
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: thanks speaking with me. Say, last last summer I heard you,

607
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: um listen to you for a long time, and I

608
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: heard you talking about k CELL. It was the show

609
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 1: where you said, I think you're talking about the product.

610
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: You said, I think they're going to be a sponsor

611
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: of the show at some point. And you believe you

612
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: believe in the product that much. And I've got a

613
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: Cadillac sts Siville and my head I got the head

614
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: gasket issues with that. Yea, very much so. And I

615
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: and Ron I had over the years earlier on I had,

616
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: and I knew ultimately the problem, what the problem was.

617
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: I figured that out, um and at some point I

618
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: was gonna have to just dig into it and get

619
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: it six but over just I'm kind of trying to

620
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: put off reality. I tried different poor in products, uh

621
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: some of them, you know, sixty seventy bucks and nothing.

622
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: And I listened to you last last summer and I thought,

623
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: what the heck, I'll go get it. And after five

624
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: minutes running thing on, it was just fine. And the last,

625
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: the last, the last time I licensed this vehicle was

626
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: nineteen or excuse me, it was two thousand nine. I've

627
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: been sitting on it for that long. I love I

628
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: love the car, I love the ride, everything. So I thought,

629
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold onto it and you all, at some

630
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: point get it fixed. And I'm not kidding you. It

631
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: within five minutes, generally I could tell, or Soul I

632
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: could tell if something was working or not, because she'd

633
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: start it's hempled go over twelve o'clock, which is where

634
00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: she always sits, and I'd always get some burping back

635
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: up into the reservoir and I get nothing. Now I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what k seal does work. We've had we've

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Speaker 1: had excellent luck with it, Paul. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: that just got off the line. The Ford Master Tech

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Speaker 1: one time when he had called up and Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's new technology, and it's it's it's not that new,

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Speaker 1: but it's newer style technology. It does work, it does

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Speaker 1: do what it says it's going to do. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: it worked for you, Brian. Um, I really am. And

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call and uh um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being part of the Car Doctor family.

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Speaker 1: And you know, take my word for it. If I'm

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Speaker 1: to do with all the products here on the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: because I'm trying to keep it real and that's the

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Speaker 1: bottom line. Hey, I'm running any in the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: reminding you mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you

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