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Speaker 1: Ron An Indian. Hey, this is great.

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Speaker 2: This is technology. Look at this.

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Speaker 3: It's it's going to tell us if we're driving poorly.

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Speaker 1: But do we need it?

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Speaker 2: This is my ordinary machine, Captain.

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Speaker 3: It may well possess a rudimentary and.

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Speaker 4: Tell uSens the car Doctor if I replace it anyway,

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Speaker 4: But you know, just to waste some money.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes wasting that money makes you feel good though, because

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Speaker 3: at least you know you try.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the radio home of ron An Aian, the

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Speaker 5: Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car

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Speaker 5: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 5: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 5: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors

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Speaker 5: are open.

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Speaker 3: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: Nine hundred and now he.

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome ronin Indie and the car Doctor here eight

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Speaker 3: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Here

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Speaker 3: to take your calls and answer your questions whatever you've

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Speaker 3: got going on fender to fender and.

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Speaker 2: Door to door. As I always say, I'm here.

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Speaker 3: Also, if you want to get more information, you can

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Speaker 3: dot com for podcasting, and if you need me during

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Speaker 3: the week, it's Ron at cardoctorshow dot com. I often wonder,

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Speaker 3: let me think, how can I start this opening conversation

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Speaker 3: that I've got with you here this hour. You know,

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Speaker 3: one of the things I've noticed that the shop of

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Speaker 3: late is little things grow larger.

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Speaker 2: You know. Two weeks ago, two days.

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Speaker 3: Ago, the kids we were sitting aund the entertable and

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Speaker 3: I said, how was your day it worked at and

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Speaker 3: I started talking about how the unexpected job turned into

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Speaker 2: Out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: Twenty ten, Lincoln MKX came into the shop at Ari

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Speaker 3: Atomotive for a passenger side rear view mirror. Older drivery

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Speaker 3: kind of had an upsy and miscalculated and knocked it

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Speaker 3: for a mirror. Unfortunately for him, it was the second

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Speaker 3: time he's done it in the last seven months. So

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Speaker 3: an oil change. It changes oil and his right side

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Speaker 3: outside passenger rear view mirror for him. But this time

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Speaker 3: was a little different. This time, that fairly simple, straightforward

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Speaker 3: mirror repair became four tires because as I was walking

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Speaker 3: do the rear view mirror, I noticed a bulge, oh

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Speaker 3: the size of oh a good tennis ball in one

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Speaker 3: of the tires. And when I spoke to him about it, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I kind of remember when I knocked the mirror off.

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Speaker 2: When I hit the mirror, I remember a.

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Speaker 3: Loud bump and a crack, and I just I wasn't

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Speaker 3: pothole or a curb or something, but he damaged the

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Speaker 3: right front tire. Here's how the job got bigger. This

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Speaker 3: is an all wheel drive vehicle. It's got thirty seven

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Speaker 2: One do you do one? Do you do four? Do

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Speaker 3: The car doctor's answer was, if I have a choice,

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Speaker 3: I want to do four. Yeah, you could probably cheat

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Speaker 2: But you know, as I said to.

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Speaker 3: Him, when you're that close in terms of tread depth,

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Speaker 3: when you're that close to the end of the tire's life,

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Speaker 3: why do one or two? Why create the problem? Why

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Speaker 3: Always do four in a situation like that, it just

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, two grand doesn't look like an

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Speaker 3: insurmountable number. And that's really what I want you to

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Speaker 3: Car Doctor, is the numbers of order repair.

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Speaker 2: We don't talk about it a lot.

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Speaker 3: Everybody just says, oh, it's expensive, define expensive.

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Speaker 2: Look at the.

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Speaker 3: Cost of the vehicle. Look at what it costs. Somebody

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Speaker 3: Anybody want to think a guess how much you know

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Speaker 3: and I just went, wow, you know, it makes sense

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Speaker 2: That of the dollar is worth a whole lot more

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Speaker 3: So, but just be mindful of numbers as we kick

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Speaker 2: To be big.

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Speaker 3: But the goal is to keep you safe and that's

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Speaker 3: Eaton from dnso that Matt is going to be stopping

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Speaker 3: regarding Oh, I don't know what's around the No. Seven Mustangs,

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Speaker 3: so let's see what's going on here, Dave. Welcome to

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Speaker 3: the car Doctor, Sir, how can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hey? Thanks, thanks checking my call.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome.

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Speaker 4: Actually it's not about my Mustang. Actually, it's more of

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Speaker 4: a maintenance question in general. Okay, I'm one of those

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Speaker 2: Stuff. Congratulations.

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Speaker 3: We probably shared some turf somewhere together and are assorted youth.

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Speaker 6: It's not.

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Speaker 4: We definitely share a lot of interest.

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Speaker 7: On that, and I've been the you know, the family

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Speaker 4: And anyhow, this discussion come up with one of my

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Speaker 6: So I but when.

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Speaker 4: I look at maintenance, and I'm curious on your comments

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Speaker 4: on this, I look at things beyond like most people

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Speaker 4: think of it as an oil change or an airfielder

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Speaker 4: and a hey, that's my car maintenance. But what's your

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Speaker 4: seventy five thousand miles And for me, that's you know,

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Speaker 4: I didn't. Was there a problem? Now it's you know,

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Speaker 4: order to get So when I do maintenance, you know,

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Speaker 4: to me, that is a normal maintenance. I'll replace O

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Speaker 4: two censors. It's seventy five eighty thousand miles.

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Speaker 4: Dave, Yeah, I do base it on time sometimes on

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Speaker 4: like you know, I take out the mass airflow and

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Speaker 4: every every probably fifteen thousand miles, just clean it off,

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Speaker 4: I do a lot of things like that and this one.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on car maintenance other than what

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Speaker 4: everybody typically thinks?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what what you're now what you're asking

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Speaker 3: me is you know what what what's what's the real

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Speaker 3: maintenance behind the scenes, what's the stuff beyond fluids and

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Speaker 3: just normal filters, And it's it's a great question. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: it's not when I really get to talk about much

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Speaker 3: basics first, you know, to do the oil chains, to

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Speaker 3: do the air filter, to do the cabin filter.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: We actually had a scenario last week in the shop

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Speaker 3: You find that ever, every let me slip it wa

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Speaker 3: welcome back. What do you mean the car doctor here?

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Speaker 3: then why isn't that applicable to an automobile as well?

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Speaker 3: Why is he over complicating this? Which I'm not. I

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense for you?

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Speaker 6: Sure, that's the big money, big money.

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Speaker 4: Yet you know, I don't you know the downstream O

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Speaker 4: they're just telling you if the cats are functioning. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean I'm glad to hear you say that, because

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Speaker 3: Sure they're always working by the same token. A bottle

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Speaker 3: All those things will help promote the life of the vehicle.

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Speaker 3: And it's all those little touches that, yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: So we had to buy her a new car.

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Speaker 3: She married the wrong guy, because I could keep the

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Speaker 3: Ron at cardoctorshow dot com. Let's go over and talk

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Speaker 3: to Maureen from New York with some questions about a

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Speaker 2: How can I help?

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Speaker 8: Yes, Hi, Ron, thank you very much for taking my call.

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Speaker 8: Oh, thank you. I bought this car used about two

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Speaker 8: He mainly does autobody work, so I thought I would

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Speaker 8: And because there was a leak under the car, and

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Speaker 8: was happy to hear that. When I brought it to him,

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Speaker 8: I just never got any warning signal.

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Speaker 3: Mari in the clock's going to tell you, Oh, okay.

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Speaker 6: It's I mean, no, not at all.

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Speaker 3: What it means is that somebody hasn't been checking and

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Speaker 2: Of the coolant level. So here's the deal. All right,

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Speaker 3: You want to have a mad coolant, put a mark

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Speaker 3: There's additional service, additional repair needed here. So step one,

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Speaker 1: That is part and parcel part of what could be

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Speaker 1: coming up next, Matt Eaton.

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Speaker 3: From Denso we're gonna talk a little bit about a

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Speaker 2: Say that seven times fast, a.

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Speaker 1: Riadi in twint spark plugs. I'm run an any of.

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Speaker 1: Hey, listeners, welcome back, Rore. I'm eating the car doctor here.

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Speaker 3: You know, probably one of the most ignored parts of

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Speaker 3: the name of Matt Eaton. Matt is with Denso and

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Speaker 3: he is here today to talk to us about spark

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Speaker 2: Matt.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, thank you glad to

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Speaker 3: Spark plugs have really changed since their inception.

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Speaker 6: Matt.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it used to be a spark plug

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Speaker 2: What are some of the changes that have occurred? Is

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Speaker 1: Is it does de signe of the plug?

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Speaker 6: You know, really it's the material being used. Back in

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Speaker 1: Now is that?

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Speaker 3: Can you take an iridium plug and for somebody out

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Speaker 3: use an iridium plug in a thirty year old engine

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Speaker 3: without any consequences. They're just going to get the benefit

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, they get the benefit of longer life and in

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Speaker 3: Is there an issue with you know, if that iridium

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Speaker 1: First of all, first part of my question is is

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Speaker 1: that correct?

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Speaker 3: And the second is, so if you have an older

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Speaker 3: vehicle that you wanted to run in an iridium style

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Speaker 3: plug in it, do you have to change the gap?

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Speaker 2: What are the issues there?

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Speaker 6: Well, you have to be very careful. Ridium is a

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Speaker 6: very brittle element. It's actually the densest element and most

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Speaker 6: crosive resistant, but it is very brittle and fragile, especially

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Speaker 6: in the cases where the diameter has been reduced significantly,

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Speaker 6: and when you have a very small brittle material. If

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Speaker 6: you're trying to recap the plug and you accidentally come

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Speaker 6: into contact with that center electrode, that could crack or chip,

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Speaker 6: and of course that would destroy the value of the

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Speaker 6: spark plug and cause misfiring. That sort of thing. You

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Speaker 6: have to be very careful if you're going to mess

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Speaker 6: with the gap and.

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Speaker 2: That creates an issue.

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Speaker 3: So suffice it to say, if you've got an engine

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Speaker 3: that doesn't have a ridium, but those plugs are just

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Speaker 3: really tough to replace. Safe to say, one of the

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Speaker 3: bigger advantages here is that with an iridium plug you

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Speaker 3: only have to go through the pain. Well just to say,

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Speaker 3: you don't have to go through the pain as often

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Speaker 3: to replace those spark plugs, and that's a big advantage.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you certainly are going to save and preventive maintenance time.

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Speaker 6: Iridium nowadays is lasting in excess of one hundred thousand

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Speaker 6: miles and compared to the copper nickel plugs of between

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Speaker 6: ten and thirty thousand. Of course, that is very significant

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Speaker 6: and for most owners that's the life of their ownership

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Speaker 6: of that vehicle.

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Speaker 3: So safe to say, typical lifespan of a spark plug

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Speaker 3: is predicated on what kind of material.

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Speaker 2: It's made out of.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely so not every spark plug is one hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: mile plug. It's got to be a ridium or an

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Speaker 3: equivalent if there is one, in.

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Speaker 2: Order to hit that mark.

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Speaker 6: Yes, not only does it have to be a ridium

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Speaker 6: usually in the center electrode, but also some other durable

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Speaker 6: material on the ground electrode. Usually on the surface of

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Speaker 6: the ground election road, either a platinum chip is placed

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Speaker 6: there or a little pad. And in the case of

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Speaker 6: our latest product or Iridium TT, it's sort of a

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Speaker 6: protrusion like a needle like protrusion. It's a what we're

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Speaker 6: calling our twin tip design.

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Speaker 3: Right now, the Iridium TT plugs that you've got out.

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Speaker 3: Is that a performance plug or is that something for

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Speaker 3: Mom's Malibu?

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Speaker 2: Is that for everybody's car?

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Speaker 3: Is that just for the performance mind it's set.

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Speaker 6: No, as a matter of fact, it's it's not geared

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Speaker 6: toward the performance enthusiasts. However, we'll find those applications where

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Speaker 6: we have a compatible heat range. But it was designed

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Speaker 6: for the daily driver and what it does is extend

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Speaker 6: the life of their their spark plug and and of

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Speaker 6: course saves them money in the long run and and

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Speaker 6: hassle as well. But it's much more than just the

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Speaker 6: durability of the spark plug. It's the tt UH. This

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Speaker 6: concept of the needle for needle or twin chip design

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Speaker 6: that we have here is what's really going to give

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Speaker 6: the benefit of a higher performance and that performance, or

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Speaker 6: ignition performance translates into better fuel economy. And also better

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Speaker 6: or lower emissions.

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Speaker 3: So in a sense, you guys at denso if I

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Speaker 3: can say it that way, have really created the better mousetrap.

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Speaker 3: You've taken something as simple or complicated depending on your

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Speaker 3: perspective as a spark plug, and you've made it better.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, there's no question. We're very confident that we feel

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Speaker 6: we've we've created the best possible spark plug available now.

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Speaker 3: In the old days, when when when God was young

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Speaker 3: and the car doctor just started out repairing cars, I

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Speaker 3: was always taught that dab of anti ces.

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Speaker 2: On the threat of a spark plug when you're replacing them.

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Speaker 1: Does that still hold true?

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Speaker 6: Not anymore. The reason is because now that the plugs

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Speaker 6: are existing so long in the head one hundred thousand miles,

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Speaker 6: that's a long time and a lot of heat over

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Speaker 6: that period of time, and over that period of time

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Speaker 6: that antecs is going to change and the characteristics are

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Speaker 6: actually going to cause the opposite effect, which is is

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Speaker 6: make it seas it's.

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Speaker 3: Going to bind in the head, and then we still can't.

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Speaker 2: Get the plug out exactly.

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Speaker 3: Any issues with well, I'm trying to think I had

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Speaker 3: to ask this question.

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Speaker 1: So when I use an a ridium TT.

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Speaker 3: Safe to say on a modern engine with you know,

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Speaker 3: no driveability issues and good.

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Speaker 2: Maintenance, I'm good for one hundred thousand miles.

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Speaker 3: Right Absolutely, What happens when I take that to one

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty or one hundred and forty thousand, because

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Speaker 3: maybe I'm not maintenance minded and maybe I'm I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to squeeze the nickel for lack of a better way

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Speaker 3: to put it, Do I run the risk of hurting anything?

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Speaker 6: No. In the case of a ridium TT, we always

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Speaker 6: say over one hundred thousand miles, but really we're very

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Speaker 6: confident that in almost every application it's going to exceed

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Speaker 6: one hundred and ten thousand, and there's also usually a

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Speaker 6: twenty percent error on that, So we're very confident that

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Speaker 6: it's going to perform well above the one hundred thousand mile.

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Speaker 3: Mark right now on an older plug or a non

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Speaker 3: iridium plug. If I went beyond the limit, I could

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Speaker 3: possibly have issues with ignition coils and putting a load

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Speaker 3: on the ignition coil and creating an issue as the

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Speaker 3: gap got bigger.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely. As I mentioned before, the basic issue with

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Speaker 6: the iridium when it doesn't have the platinum portion on

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Speaker 6: the ground electrode. It's going to significantly reduce the longevity

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Speaker 6: of the spark plug and then of course it's going

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Speaker 6: to draw more loads the coil and have other issues.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a problem.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Matt, stay put.

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Speaker 3: I've got a couple of more things I want to

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Speaker 3: go over with you, and I don't want to rush this.

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Speaker 3: This is too good of an interview. I'm Ronning Ay

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Speaker 3: and the car doctor. Matt Eaton and I will both

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Speaker 3: be back. We're talking spark plugs from the folks at

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Speaker 3: Denso Stay tuned nothing and can tune nothing and time.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back Ronn Aeny and the cardocker.

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Speaker 1: I'm here today with Matt Eaton.

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Speaker 2: Matt is the.

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Speaker 3: Manager for maintenance parts from the nice folks over at

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Speaker 3: DNSO then So parts, and it's not just spark plugs

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Speaker 3: over there, but we're talking spark plugs today and Matt,

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Speaker 3: when we left, we were talking about everything regarding spark

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Speaker 3: plugs and iridium and some of the things that make

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Speaker 3: a spark plug fail as well as some of the

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Speaker 3: things that make a spark plug last longer aridium t

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Speaker 3: T and I don't think we gave that enough credit

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Speaker 3: enough due the technology behind that. Can you talk a

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Speaker 3: little bit about the iridium TT spark clouds?

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Speaker 6: Sure? Maybe we should start by saying there's there's your

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Speaker 6: basic iridium plug and that's just an iridium tip on

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Speaker 6: the center electrode. And then there's the the OE type

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Speaker 6: or original equipment type iridium plug, and that has a

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Speaker 6: ridium on the center electrode and usually a pad of

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Speaker 6: platinum on the ground electrode. And that's that's how you

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Speaker 6: achieve one hundred thousand mile mark, you know, the use

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Speaker 6: of those precious metals. In the case of iridium TT,

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Speaker 6: there's a big difference, and that is the ground electrode

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Speaker 6: instead of putting a platinum pad there, and we're putting

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Speaker 6: in sort of a needle like protrusion. We're calling it

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Speaker 6: the twin tip design. So this platinum needle sticks down

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Speaker 6: from the ground electrode and directly faces the iridium electrode

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Speaker 6: on the other side. And what that does is it

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Speaker 6: allows us to open up that area much like a

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Speaker 6: larger gap would in the older style plugs, and that

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Speaker 6: open area allows for that flame to propagate. Better think

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Speaker 6: of it as opening that area up and reducing the

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Speaker 6: interference of the large metal electrode and therefore improving the

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Speaker 6: overall flame kernel growth, and that of course results in

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Speaker 6: better ignition and a better burn.

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Speaker 3: And in layman's terms, what you're really describing for those

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Speaker 3: out there that might have a hard time envisioning this,

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Speaker 3: when the spark occurs and it lights the mixture creates

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Speaker 3: a fireball in the cylinder, what you're describing, and correct

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Speaker 3: me if I'm not saying this correctly, But what you're

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Speaker 3: describing is you've achieved a more efficient and complete way

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Speaker 3: to light the fireball along a wider front for better

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Speaker 3: use of the fuel and more complete combustion.

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Speaker 2: Fair way to say.

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Speaker 6: It, That's exactly it. It's the absorption of that spark

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Speaker 6: energy into the ground electrode and any other metal around it,

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Speaker 6: which reduces the efficiency of that fireball, as you're saying,

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Speaker 6: that growing fireball, And of course it's that that growth

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Speaker 6: which gives us the better burn, which results in better performance,

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Speaker 6: better fuel economy, lower emissions. It's all related, and this.

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Speaker 3: Is something specific to iridium TETs.

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Speaker 6: That's correct.

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Speaker 2: So fair statement.

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Speaker 3: Not all iridium spark plugs are created equal, No, definitely not.

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Speaker 3: For gotcha, hey, Matt, you know as we wind things down,

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Speaker 3: what sort of indicators you know, maybe somebody doesn't want

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Speaker 3: to follow mileage as a replacement. Is there anything that

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Speaker 3: they might see as far as maybe it's time to

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Speaker 3: replace plugs either a little earlier a little later. What

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Speaker 3: are some of the things the consumer can look for

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Speaker 3: other than just looking at the odometer to decide when

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Speaker 3: to change plugs?

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Speaker 6: Sure, thanks to look for would be difficulty in starting

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Speaker 6: the engine, rough idol or misfires, sluggish acceleration, and lots

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Speaker 6: of power while going up a hill. And probably the

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Speaker 6: most important thing these days is a reduction in fuel economy.

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Speaker 6: People are very concerned about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fuel economy, you know, being so forefront on everybody's mind.

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Speaker 2: It is a big issue. Matt.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you taking the time today. Where can the

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Speaker 3: listeners go get more information?

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Speaker 6: Denzott dot com is the direct site for that product,

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Speaker 6: and our corporate site is Benzo Aftermarket dot com.

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Speaker 3: Right, and I imagine there's some YouTube videos out there

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Speaker 3: that talk about this particular product as well as is

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Speaker 3: there a.

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Speaker 2: Facebook page for you?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes there is, Perfect Matt Eaton then, so we

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Speaker 3: appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I use you guys in the shop all the time.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Can't say enough about it.

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Speaker 3: And matter of fact, the salesman was in not two

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Speaker 3: weeks ago and he started his spiel and I said, listen,

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Speaker 3: I held my hand up and I said, save your breath.

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Speaker 2: I already use you. I know who you are. Good stuff.

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Speaker 2: No complaints here, and it kind of made him giggle

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Speaker 2: and it made his day. We had a real nice conversation.

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Speaker 2: So you guys keep up the good work.

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Speaker 3: The guys out here like me, we just really appreciate

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Speaker 3: all your efforts and trying to make a better mouse trap.

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Speaker 2: Oh you you're very welcome. Matt.

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Speaker 3: You take care, you take good care, and you have

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Speaker 3: a good day.

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Speaker 2: I'm running any in the Card Doctor. We are back

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Speaker 2: right after this.

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back ranting any in the Card Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Once again, I want to say thanks to Mark Eaton

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Speaker 3: over at Denso and all the products that he is

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Speaker 3: helping to bring to the marketplace with all the folks

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Speaker 3: over there at dens So again. If you want more

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Speaker 3: information about them, and they're IRIDIUMTT spark plugs, it's Dentsott

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Speaker 3: dot com. And again we appreciate him taking the time

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Speaker 3: this weekend as we close out this hour, just a

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Speaker 3: couple of notes and a quick story, and I think

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Speaker 3: I have to bring Tom on here here. We want

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Speaker 3: to tell everybody about the science project we had this week. Tom.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know we've had a I've got a

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Speaker 9: twenty ten foard escape that has one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 9: thousand miles on it.

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Speaker 3: And I keep kidding Tom, because I say, you know

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Speaker 3: you're gonna drive the wheels off of this thing. And

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Speaker 3: you know we've been taking care of it in the shop,

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Speaker 3: and we'll change the oil and let him go five

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Speaker 3: thousand miles on synthetic and he'll be back in in

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Speaker 3: the blink of an eye.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it seems like it's the next week, but exactly

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Speaker 2: it's not that bad.

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Speaker 3: But we've been talking about replacing the alternator air conditioning belt.

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Speaker 2: Yes, why don't you pick it up from there?

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Speaker 9: Well, the other morning I dropped my daughter off at

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Speaker 9: dead work. She works at a veterinarians clinic she's interning.

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Speaker 9: And I pulled out of the parking lot one about

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Speaker 9: a quarter mile and suddenly, and I was really surprised,

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Speaker 9: the car reacted this way. The transmission violently shifted down

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Speaker 9: to low gear, the engine revved up to five thousand

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Speaker 9: rpm and then all of a sudden, it just everything stopped.

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Speaker 9: It came to a screeching halt. The powertrain didn't disengage,

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Speaker 9: and I stopped with squealing tires right in the middle

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Speaker 9: of the street. Luckily it was only I was only

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Speaker 9: doing about twenty five miles an hour and there was

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Speaker 9: no traffic. I was able to restart. The car, got

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Speaker 9: a check engine light, which I expected, got a battery

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Speaker 9: light almost immediately, and I said.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I think I know that. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think I know what that was.

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Speaker 9: And then I found a nice place to pull in

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Speaker 9: and sure enough the that that serpentine belt on that

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Speaker 9: side of the engine had snapped. And I'm sitting there

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Speaker 9: also looking at bear wires, going oh boy, yeah.

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Speaker 3: And you know, the science experiment part of this is

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Speaker 3: that you know, the life cycle of those are it's

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Speaker 3: five years, one hundred, one hundred and twenty thousand miles.

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Speaker 3: Now we've been hearing that belt make noise for a

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Speaker 3: while and Tom and I kind of looked at each

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Speaker 3: other and we went, eh, how far.

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Speaker 2: Would it really go?

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Speaker 3: We found out we found out we actually should have

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Speaker 3: changed it, and it's it's not something we recommend you

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Speaker 3: do the listeners out there, and we don't, you know,

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Speaker 3: say hey, let's just drive the car until the wheels

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Speaker 3: fall off. It was sort of an inside joke that

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Speaker 3: had kind of bid us in the backside. And the

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Speaker 3: point of this story is that, yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 3: bad things happen to good people, even with the best

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Speaker 3: of intentions. So you know, if you haven't replaced belts,

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Speaker 3: if you haven't replaced hoses, and your vehicle is up

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Speaker 3: there in mileage, you know, Tom's at one hundred and

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Speaker 3: eighty thousand plus miles now, and that.

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Speaker 2: Car is still got some life left inner.

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Speaker 3: He's on the road a lot as he's driving around

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Speaker 3: doing his radio show stuff during the week before he

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Speaker 3: gets to do this radio show stuff here on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: And you know, belts do go bad, they do break,

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Speaker 3: They're not infallible. And if you're driving with original belts

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Speaker 3: and hoses five years old, one hundred and fifty thousand miles,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty thousand miles, and it's time to

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Speaker 3: really start thinking about replacing it. Otherwise not a fun experience,

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Speaker 3: right Tom, Oh.

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Speaker 4: No, not at all.

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Speaker 9: And as a matter of fact, I wrote a note

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Speaker 9: to Ford because I think we found a software bug.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's it's yeah, it's it's something that's got

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Speaker 3: to be recommended. Hey, I can see by the hands

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Speaker 3: of the Great Vogue it's time to go. I'm Ronning

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Speaker 3: Andy and the car Doctor, reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 3: they're priceless.

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Speaker 6: See you