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Speaker 1: up like pig happens. How long have you been a firefighter,

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Speaker 1: Bron thirty years? Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: Andanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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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: but I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five five six d now running. So a pink a

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Speaker 1: You know, I love Gordon. He's a great customer and

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Speaker 1: They actually made a Barbie car, you know, out of this.

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Speaker 1: And Gordon has the full size scale of it. Um

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Speaker 1: And I went, uh, And you know it's funny, you're

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Speaker 1: You got an all meter? No, I don't. I can't

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Speaker 1: Either that he melted the wiring harness, and I would

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Speaker 1: think you'd blow the fuse if you grounded that red wire.

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Speaker 1: key on when you were doing this? No, he wasn't on. Well,

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Speaker 1: on that red, then you've got to trace it back

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Speaker 1: from the fuse block. And I would start with that fuse.

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Speaker 1: If you can't test that fuse, they're cheap enough Papa

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Speaker 1: have to trace it out. Yeah, it looks like it

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Speaker 1: Welcome back of the car doctor. You know, it would

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Speaker 1: How can I help Ron? Thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 1: I've got two, just recently bought. It's got about nine miles.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to a gentleman this morning who is

427
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Speaker 1: so knowledgeable, and I've got to get them on air.

428
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I should have started the microphone.

429
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Speaker 1: We could have been talking about this for it was

430
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Speaker 1: a forty minute conversation. Things are going on in California.

431
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you John that it's just staggering where they're

432
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Speaker 1: changing software and vehicles for performance, which we do around

433
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Speaker 1: the country, but they're also doing things that are now.

434
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Speaker 1: They're changing engines and trucks. They're going from truck engines

435
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: with you know, variable displacement where they're shutting off cylinders

436
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Speaker 1: to non variable displacement engines. And then they're changing wiring

437
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,439
Speaker 1: harnesses and computers and matter of fact, so much so.

438
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Speaker 1: And I've got a note here somewhere on my desk

439
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Speaker 1: that they're talking about how the California Bureau of Auto

440
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: Repair and the clean air agencies in California are now

441
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Speaker 1: making it a requirement if the vehicle does not have

442
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Speaker 1: the correct software, computer and engine in the vehicle, even

443
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: though it's burning and running clean, no codes, everything's doing.

444
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 1: If it's not as intended, that vehicle will fail inspection.

445
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: And the point I'm trying to make is the level

446
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Speaker 1: that people will go through to, you know, get a

447
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Speaker 1: vehicle to the point of to operate it. I just

448
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: it's right up there with why we worry so much

449
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Speaker 1: about what oil to use and how far can I

450
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Speaker 1: get out of it? Just just change the oil we

451
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Speaker 1: have different vehicle Life's too short, I you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, as an example, I've got a two thousand,

453
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Speaker 1: eleven GMC that's going on three and that's been oil

454
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Speaker 1: changed regularly, just like that, and they've never had an issue.

455
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: Everything is original, and I can be done. And I

456
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: bet you don't have any oil leaks either. I don't write.

457
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Speaker 1: And that's the other thing that you know, that's the

458
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Speaker 1: other thing they'll say, well, you know, I changed my

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Speaker 1: all every ten thousand miles and I got three hunder

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Speaker 1: thousand miles out of it. Yeah, but how many oil

461
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: leaks do you have? Um? You know, And that's it's

462
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: it's and the one thing you have to remember. And

463
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Speaker 1: I think this is probably the biggest reason why we

464
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Speaker 1: change oil on a regular basis, because cars, as they

465
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Speaker 1: get older, you know, the old man, the young man

466
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: becomes the middle aged man becomes the old man, and

467
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 1: that car needs a little more attention and changing the

468
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: oil on a more frequent, regular basis get somebody under

469
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Speaker 1: the hood under the vehicle to look at things and

470
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Speaker 1: drive it to that point of higher mileage. And I

471
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: think that's just so important because they become less tolerant

472
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Speaker 1: of leaks and seeps and other things that can happen.

473
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Speaker 1: The volvo that got towed into the shop this week

474
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Speaker 1: from Newport News, Virginia, courtesy of Bill and his daughter

475
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Speaker 1: mattelin Um has four thousand miles on it, and you know,

476
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Speaker 1: Bill has been all over this Car's daughter assures me that,

477
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Speaker 1: you know, tried to do everything. Unfortunately, Maddie, you know,

478
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: moved from home and now she's up in New York City.

479
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: And you know, had someone gotten to that radiator host

480
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: clamp before it failed, I wouldn't have got to meet

481
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Speaker 1: her and hear about her dad. So you know what,

482
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: somebody under the hood on an older car is just

483
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: really really important. Um, I can't. I can't say it.

484
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. You know, beat the point home enough,

485
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: So John, I appreciate yes, sir, go ahead. I'm sorry.

486
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: I practice what you preach. I appreciate that. I uh, um,

487
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: you know it's funny. On a personal note, you just

488
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: you look at what this radio show creates. My wife

489
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: and I went to dinner someplace locally midweek this week,

490
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Speaker 1: and we came out and across the street was an

491
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Speaker 1: order repair shop and the name of it was Automotive

492
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Speaker 1: pH D. And she looked at me and she said,

493
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Speaker 1: is that another way of saying car doctor? I said, yeah,

494
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: I think so. Um. I said, look what I've created.

495
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: I've created a whole cottage industry, which there are and

496
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: all truthfulness, twenty years ago, nobody called themselves the car doctor,

497
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Speaker 1: and there were no shops called the car doctor, or

498
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: at least not in the volume. Now there is. Look

499
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: what I've done. Zero the car doctors coming back right

500
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: after this? Fucking back one any time. You got a

501
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: message for me from Greg? Yeah, Gregg called back from Florida. Yes,

502
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: and he said that he happened to have a new

503
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: fuse replaced it. Congratulations, you fix his car? Run. Well

504
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: that's one, okay, So next next, next week, I can

505
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: start fixing cars for real. So but well, listen, it's logical, right,

506
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: you gotta start somewhere. It's do we have power on

507
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: the line. No, let's go look at the fuse. Hello.

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00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: So and there's the first problem right there. I think

509
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: he's got to get more tools though, um I didn't

510
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Speaker 1: want to comment about the part we said he wore

511
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Speaker 1: out the voltmeter or something whatever. He said, it's too

512
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: hard on it. So if you're hard on the tools

513
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: and you gotta get more tools, be easier. Terry Vermont

514
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: eleven Accura, what's going on here? Thanks for Ron for

515
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: taking my call. I gotta two thousand, eleven accurate the

516
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: ex turbos that I bought last December with a hundred

517
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: and thirty seven thousand, what's five thousand on? It's having

518
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: in trouble with it overheating. After that, maybe ten minutes

519
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: or so little it'll peg out. And if I don't

520
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: watch it coming up under the hood, I wonder if

521
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: there's an inherent problem. Well, not really, but now the

522
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: question becomes, the concern becomes, you know, are the cooling

523
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: fans coming on? Do you have a head gas at issue?

524
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: Is it a radiator problem? You know, there's a there's

525
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: a couple of things that we've got to try and

526
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 1: dope out. Has anybody worked on this or done anything

527
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: to it trying to solve it? Well, about a month ago,

528
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: I was sitting in line when I when I first

529
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: noticed that, uh, and it started smoking. I was gonna

530
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: drive up window at a restaurant and so I started

531
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: shutting it off and moved and shut off and moved

532
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: and uh. I managed to get it over to a

533
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: car dealers that was the next door, well familiar was,

534
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: and they took it in and they have sent then

535
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: ended up replacing the fan, uh, the cooling fan. And

536
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thinking, well, at first we thought it was

537
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: the fan went and caused overheat, and I'm thinking now

538
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: maybe the overeating caused the fan to though, well was

539
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: the so so the fan was legitimately bad? Yeah, Okay,

540
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: So the fan was replaced, but the car continued to overheat. Yeah,

541
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: it's just it's it doesn't do it very often. Ite

542
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I was listening to you today

543
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Speaker 1: about it less than an hour ago and sitting with

544
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: it idling and smoking. Right, do you have, um, do

545
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: you have any kind of tools, Terry? I mean, or

546
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: do you have a shop you can go and talk

547
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: to and explain things too that they'll they'll they'll maybe

548
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: follow some basic procedures. Yeah. The place that I bought it,

549
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: it's they gave me one. And this is this is

550
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: an r d X. This is a turbo car. You

551
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: said that, right, Okay, Um, they actually the r d

552
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: x is do have a habit as they get older

553
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: they don't tolerate overheat. So if the fan was bad,

554
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: if the fan had a problem, it may not tolerate

555
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: that overheat well like any engine wouldn't. And it's possible

556
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: that it's got a head gas get or a cracked

557
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: head issue. So let's let's let's do this. Let's take

558
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: it to them, leave it with him the night before

559
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: so in the morning, Um, they can look at it

560
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do the day before. However, they

561
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: want to arrange this because I'd like them to do

562
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: this on a cold engine. Uh, and let it sit overnight.

563
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: Is pull the spark loox as a fourth cylinder? Correct,

564
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: this is the this is the two four right. Let's

565
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: let's let's pull plugs and put a pressure test on

566
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: the cooling system and you know, the next the next morning,

567
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: let's look down the halls. Do we see cool in

568
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: any of the cylinders? Okay, yeah, let's say that I

569
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: was going to go over to see them anyways. I

570
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure that I had some good

571
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: information that I could suggestions I could give them. Um,

572
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, I don't actually I actually I flagged the

573
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: fact that the same was coming on a lot and

574
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: uh they ended up replacing some uh the fuse or

575
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: something like that. But you know this, this could be listen,

576
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: this could be a thermostat, This could be a restricted radiator.

577
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot, this could be. This could be missing. Well,

578
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: it could be you know, and listen. When the engine

579
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: comes up to operating temperature, it's some you know, pretty

580
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: base testing, you know, bringing up the operating temperature by

581
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: scan tool and temperature gage. Because we don't want to

582
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: just trust the car and you know, are both hoses warm?

583
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: Are both hoses uncomfortable to the touch? Do we show

584
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: cool and flow? Do we show that we're actually doing

585
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. And if that's the case, yeah,

586
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: you know, if if it got good circulation and the

587
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: fans are working, I'm gonna think more along the lines

588
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: of a head gass at issue. Do the test I

589
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: told you, call me back, let me know what happens.

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00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: Zero run any of the Car Doctor coming back right

591
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: after this cuts welcome back. We're on any of the

592
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Speaker 1: Car Doctor winding it down this hour? Boy, that was

593
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Speaker 1: Tom Quick Show today. Holy cow flu buck um. I

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Speaker 1: So it's it's probably the highlight of my week really

595
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: being able to be here and talk to each and

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00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: every one of you and and solve the problem. You're

597
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna stay working with me? Well, Tom, listen, I gotta

598
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: tell you the highlight is you know you're part of that, buddy. Um.

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00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: You know what this radio sho wouldn't be what it

600
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: is without you, and it's it's just a great thing.

601
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: But look at the effect we have on people right

602
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: the You know, we're like our own community. And I

603
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: always think of community when we do the show and

604
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: when I read these from Mitchell one, the folks at

605
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: mitchell one dot com, they've got their own sense of

606
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: community over there called the sure track community. It's their

607
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: sure track fixes that they've documented and you can read these.

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: You go out to the Mitchell one dot com website

609
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: over on the right hand side, scrolled down and you

610
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Speaker 1: can go through all these fixes. And what it is

611
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: is it's a group of mechanics that have signed up

612
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: and they're all part of this blog community, so to speak,

613
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: and they share information. Here's one where they talked about

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00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: they recently had a Dodge Caliber and the group in

615
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: the air conditioning wasn't working, and they sat down to

616
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: talk about what things were done. They went through diagnostic steps,

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Speaker 1: what actually happened, how was it resolved, and they printed

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Speaker 1: it and they've actually got it up there on the website,

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Speaker 1: and I printed a copy of them sitting here looking

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Speaker 1: at it. I read these things from time to time,

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Speaker 1: and the answer was it came from a Richard c

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00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: where they talked about it being a broken wire coming

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Speaker 1: out of the totally integrated power module, a tip I'm

624
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: on a Chrysler. Look at the information that's available over

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Speaker 1: there at mitchell one dot com staggering all because of

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Speaker 1: community and the folks at mitchell one. Thanks to them,

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Speaker 1: I'm roning ad in the card Doctor, reminding you good

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