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Speaker 1: Ron an Anian, you come talk to me in the

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Speaker 1: shop on this exact same way. This is no false front.

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Speaker 1: I have no agenda here. I don't care in sense

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Speaker 1: of you know what, whatever comes in the door will

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Speaker 1: Tesla and the Priests were the first electric cars. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that that interest is started to be known

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Speaker 1: and recognized. Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage doors are open,

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Speaker 1: technology just keeps marching forward, right, and for every time

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Speaker 1: I just want to go over this real quick, tom Um.

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Speaker 1: There's a shortage of semiconductor chips, so you know, computer

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Speaker 1: chip bottleneck might raised used car prices. Well, it actually

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Speaker 1: is raising used car prices, right. The article goes on.

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Speaker 1: It's by Nathan bowm me, I hope I'm saying that right.

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Speaker 1: A dearth of semi computer production is cramping new vehicle production,

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Speaker 1: for alternatives. The shortage of chips as a result of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic or rippling through the automotive industry, cutting production

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Speaker 1: at GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota and other companies. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've noticed that used cars are going up in value. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's if you can find a good, clean used car.

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Speaker 1: I think the benchmark for that good clean used car now,

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Speaker 1: I think it's twelve to fifteen grand, depending found what

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Speaker 1: just you're just looking for that, you know, that five

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Speaker 1: this article. It goes on to point out how used

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Speaker 1: vehicle prices rose over three and a half percent in

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Speaker 1: the first fifteen days of March compared with prices based

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Speaker 1: on February. According to the Automotive Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index.

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Speaker 1: The index in an all time high seven seventy in

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Speaker 1: these things and all this technology in the way of

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Speaker 1: does that mean that when you know it's all electric,

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Speaker 1: it will be instead of gasoline shortages, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: chip shortages? Tom Well, possibly, And but but this goes

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Speaker 1: to what you and a lot of our other callers

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Speaker 1: white kids don't really get into cars. How's high school

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Speaker 1: And that's what it is. I had somebody bring me

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Speaker 1: what the heck did Tommy bring by the shop and

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Speaker 1: oh six explorer with I think it had like eighty

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Speaker 1: And I get that, and you try and do more

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Speaker 1: I'm Ronning any in the car Doctor. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: Let's get on over and talk to Elmer. Elmer, there

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Speaker 1: Ron Hey, I got a two thousand, two of three fifty.

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Speaker 1: You gotta trust the doctor, right yep, yep. And the

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Speaker 1: I checked out the exhaust. Make a long story shot,

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00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: I pulled off both passengers side wheels because that's where

425
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: the sound was coming from. I found that the spring

426
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: on the front strut, the last five inches where it

427
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: sits on the flat pot of the strut, had snapped

428
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: and it was hanging up there. Just wonder and I'm

429
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: thinking of putting what they call ready mount struts. It's

430
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: got the strut in the spring and every yeah, it's

431
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: a complete it's a complete setup. Sure yeah, yeah yeah

432
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: yeahing all considered equal? Or is one better than the other.

433
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,959
Speaker 1: Because I've been reading the reviews and all the major brands,

434
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: and I'm totally confused. You know, I'll mention names all right,

435
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: you know me, I try to call him like I

436
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: see him. I've used Monroe ready struts quick struts. I

437
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: think Monroe calls them and um, but I think Monroe

438
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: makes a decent shock and strut. I think some of

439
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: their shocks shocks ride hard. I've had the experience on

440
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,479
Speaker 1: several vehicles, trucks, mostly where they overshock it. It's just

441
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: it's just too hard, too too much of a rod.

442
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: And yet certain vehicles I've had great luck. And I've

443
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: used the Monroe quick strut on Honda specifically because when

444
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: you start pricing out individual components from Honda, they'll price

445
00:24:54,800 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: you out of the market, right yep. So I would

446
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: you know I would give Monroe quick struts a try. Um,

447
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: I would you know. Maybe I'm not gonna have a

448
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: smoother ride. Maybe I'm gonna have a great ride. I

449
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't had customers complain about the Monroe

450
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: quick struts on Hansas. I'll say it like that. On

451
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: other vehicles, I've had to take the shocks back off

452
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: and look around for something different. Uh, specifically when it's

453
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: just shock not shock and spring set up now they

454
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: make two different levels of strut. If I'm not mistaken,

455
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: I think there's a quick strut and then there's a

456
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: monomnic strut or something like that, there's a less expensive line.

457
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: I've always put the better line on and I've had

458
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: less problems. And I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on

459
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: a limb here and say that if you go out

460
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: to oreillyoto dot com, I bet you can look it

461
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: up there and find more information about it. And and

462
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: if you have, because I was leaning, I was leaning

463
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: towards Gabriel k y n y B. Okay, I'm sorry,

464
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: k y B right, yes, yeah, Now the k y

465
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: B S, k y B, Gabriel, Monroe boy, they're probably

466
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: three of the oldest names in the shock and suspension business.

467
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: We we see k y B mostly available at Advanced

468
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: Auto Parts, you know, it depends on distribution, and we

469
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 1: see Monroe out of O'Reilly Rileyota Parts. Um. I will

470
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: say that I don't use ky Be nearly as much

471
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: as I used to, and we received more noise and

472
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: harsh ride complaints with k y B S and I

473
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: did with Monroe's, which is why I tended to settle

474
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: on the Monroe's um, and we tend to use Monroe

475
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: as our go to more than more than anything else

476
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: at this point. If we're not putting an always shock

477
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: on a vehicle, it's usually a Monroe is what we

478
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: put on. And to make matters worth in my decision,

479
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: nobody has struts in stock for my vehicle, no matter

480
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: what braind I choose. Have you been to Rileyoto dot com? Yeah,

481
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: they can order it, and then they said it might

482
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: take a few weeks. It all depends on them getting

483
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: it to the warehouse. I've been online, I've been advanced,

484
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: I've been to allied, I've been all over the place

485
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: in the reason nobody has the hound of pilot struts.

486
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: Have you taken a look at Rock Auto? Yes, I have,

487
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: and so so you know what that tells me. All

488
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: the stories about all the stories about parts not being

489
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: available at the docks because the containers are on this

490
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: side of the ocean not the other. There's gonna there's

491
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: gonna be a shortage of auto parts this year. Ready,

492
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: there really is, And and I don't think anybody wants

493
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: to accept it, but there's really gonna be a shortage

494
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: of Orto parts because we're not getting parts in. I'm

495
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: seeing oil prices rise, not oil for gastly, and I'm

496
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: talking about finished product oil coming into the shop. I'm

497
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: seeing oil prices rise. I'm saying break rotor prices rise.

498
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: You know a lot of basic everyday auto parts. The

499
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: numbers are climbing, And the reason the numbers are climbing

500
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: is because parts are becoming in short supply, short demand.

501
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: So maybe it'll be like the toilet paper shortage. We'll

502
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: have to stock up on everything. Um yeah, tough call, Eddie.

503
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I couldn't help you more. I'm glad to

504
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: hear you're working your way through it. If I can

505
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,959
Speaker 1: do anything else for you, If anybody else has an

506
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: idea where Eddie can go looking for a set of

507
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: shocks for his third Team pilot, by all means, dropped

508
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: me a line, and keep in mind, Eddie, you may

509
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: want to check with Honda. The lower control arm on

510
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: your Honda Pilot may have an extended warranty on it

511
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: for the lower control arm rear mount bushing, so just

512
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: double check on that as well for squeaks and noises.

513
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: As long as you're taking the suspension apart, I'm run

514
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: an any in the car doctor. I'll be back right

515
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back, name of the car doctor. Let's

516
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: get over to Mike in Plattsburgh, New York. I remember

517
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: Plattsburgh way up at the top of the state. So

518
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: it gets called a cold there in January, though it

519
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Mike, it's very cold in January. You still

520
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: got snow starting to melt. We've still got snow. How

521
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: much you got just the where they plowed it into

522
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: the big areas rather than my dockyards. Clear? Okay, cool? Good?

523
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: What can I do for you? I have about two

524
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: thousand ten of Volgo x C sixty and I'm having

525
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: trans transmission problems with it. Um so it started to

526
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: uh slip like the transmission was going bad. So he

527
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: changed the fluid um and it ran better. Purpose Um,

528
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: what it'll do. It'll run fine, and then I'll start

529
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: slipping again, and I'll pull the fuse for the transmission,

530
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: put it back in. It runs fine. They'll start to

531
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: uh like slip again to the same thing and runs fine,

532
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: but it's not giving me a transmission code. Knowing code

533
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: that comes back when it was scanned. Is shift time

534
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: too short and shift time too long? What are you

535
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: using to scan it? It was scanned by an autel

536
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: all right, I believe in aute, so I would say

537
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: that's inaccurate. Um, you're into the trans control module when

538
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: you're looking at this, or you're just looking at PCM

539
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: and the PCMs data that it receives from the trans

540
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: control module. I'm just looking at what was was the

541
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: handout that was given to me by the mechanic. So

542
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: so he's going in your make model specific Yeah, got it?

543
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: When you change trans fluid? Who's trans fluid did you use? Okay? Good?

544
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: So you know when it starts to slip. How what's

545
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: the length of time in between? You know, is it

546
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: start to slip and you know two miles down the

547
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: road you pull the fuse. Are you're driving it around

548
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: for a little while? No? Are you driving? Okay, it's

549
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: odd that it's not setting a fault. What I would

550
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: be looking for is there are shift parameters inside that scantal.

551
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: There's going to be in the data stream, there's going

552
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: to be UM trying to think of how to explain it. Um,

553
00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: think about a balloon, right, a kid's balloon. It's it

554
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 1: blows up to six inches. So the computer sees that

555
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: as its hydraulic reservoir. That's the pool or the size

556
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: of the hydraulic reserve that it expects. So what it

557
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: knows how to adjust shift point if the if the

558
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: trans is worn inside, that balloon is bigger, so it

559
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: takes longer for it to build hydraulic pressure. All right,

560
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 1: that being said, Um, how many miles were on this?

561
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: I forget, not that mileage matters all that much, but yeah,

562
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: it's it's probably just headed for a trans overhaul. You know.

563
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: The worst that could happen here is well, I shouldn't

564
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: say it like that if it's getting better with fluid change,

565
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: because you're not getting all the fluid out of the

566
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: converter when you do it, or using some kind of

567
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: an exchange process. No, I think we just no, I

568
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: didn't do it mechanic. Did it just drained from the drain?

569
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: And how many courts is he getting in? At two

570
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: three we took? No, I think we did eight? So

571
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: what's the total capacity? I don't remember at the top

572
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: of my head. It has to be more than eight,

573
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: is my point, because there's to my knowledge, there's no

574
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: way to drain the converter. So unless he's using a

575
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 1: machine that's exchanging all the fluid, you're still gonna have

576
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: at least thirty contaminated fluid in there. Oh really, it's

577
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: gotta be Look, I think about the size of the

578
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: torque converter, right, torqu converters, the big balloon in between

579
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: the engine and the trans that you know, it's the

580
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: viscous coupling that connects the two. So either the guy's

581
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: overcharging here for fluid, or he's adding some, or he's not.

582
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: That I shouldn't disparage him, but you know, I just

583
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: wonder if he's got the bill right, you know, or

584
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,959
Speaker 1: you know, how is he putting eight courts? If it's

585
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: a ten court system or a twelve court system. How's

586
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: he getting eight courts into it? If he's only draining

587
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: it out unless that's what comes out, And I don't

588
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: generally I have not seen that when servicing those vehicles.

589
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: Most transmissions you'll take out up to fifty and you

590
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: know there's another fifty in the converter. So possibly changing

591
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: fluid again can't hurt it. You can't hurt it. It's

592
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: already broke. At two thousand miles, you're probably headed for

593
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: a trans overball it would probably be worth your while

594
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: to try changing fluid one more time and verifying how

595
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: it's being done and how much fluid volume is in

596
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: there and what's the procedure. So you're on the right track.

597
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: Keep going. Call me back with more for more information.

598
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll be back

599
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back, running in the car doctor.

600
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,239
Speaker 1: You know, I just want to touch back on our

601
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: Volvo color Um. I believe that to be a seven

602
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: court system thinking about it and how he got eight

603
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: courts in there. Uh, he must have done maybe he

604
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: didn't exchange, but I don't know how he would do

605
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: an exchange. You have to have a very specific piece

606
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,719
Speaker 1: of equipment. So let's verify how he's doing that service.

607
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to disparage your put down another shop.

608
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do that, um, but I just questioned the procedure. However,

609
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: I want to point out that if doing fluid improved it,

610
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: chances are doing fluid again will and if it doesn't,

611
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: then I think you're headed for a trans overhaul because

612
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: anything that that trans needs it's gonna have to come

613
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: apart anyway, and you're not gonna take a part of

614
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: eleven year old to one thousand mile transmission to do

615
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: peace repair. You're gonna replace the unit that doesn't make

616
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: any sense from an economics point of view. Hey, Kathy,

617
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: and our research department sent me an article that she

618
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: wants me to read everybody on air. It starts like this,

619
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: It's a question and answer on a good housekeeping and

620
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: it starts out with I'm in the market for a

621
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: new car, Should I go for an electric one? And

622
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: answer is Electric vehicles are getting a lot of attention

623
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: lately as manufacturers make bold predictions about phasing out combustion

624
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: engine vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, there's

625
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: a good chance more people will drive electric cars at

626
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: some future point, and there are many benefits in addition

627
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: to being better for the planet. The driving range of

628
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: electric cars, a common issue with early models, is less

629
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: of a concern now, with many including the options at

630
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: the right additional information. They're able to travel more than

631
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: two hundred miles on one charge. I'm thinking about our

632
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 1: caller at the top of the first hour that wanted

633
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: to know about you know, she wanted to go from Warwick,

634
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: New York to Buffalo. I think that's longer than two

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Speaker 1: Interesting article, Cathy. As always, we thank you, We appreciate

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