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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, I really don't work. I just fixed cars.

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Speaker 1: I haven't worked the day in my life. It's just

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Speaker 1: I'm bored by other things. There's just something about the

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Speaker 1: mechanical side of automobiles that, you know, just piques my curiosity,

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Speaker 2: I believe it's wastegate management. Solenoid on on the turbo.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got one.

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Speaker 4: It clicks.

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Speaker 2: I think it's solinoid clicking.

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Speaker 1: Put it do this way. If it's clicking and there's

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Speaker 1: no dashboard warning lights, the systems operating as design.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 5: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the

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Speaker 5: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 5: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 5: the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your call at eight five five five ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and now.

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Speaker 1: He you know, Tom must have been reading my mind

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Speaker 1: when he did the opens this week. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about Star Wars. Star Wars is on my mind. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why, but it is, and it must be

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Speaker 1: the universe reaching out to me with the Force because

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Speaker 1: I was grocery shopping this morning and just as an aside,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of humor here. Seriously, have you seen

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Speaker 1: they now have light and dark side Oreo cookies? What

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if vanilla or are they chocolate.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to have to go buy a bag. And regardless,

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Speaker 1: just a little you know, little car doctor humor. But

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Speaker 1: they now star Wars Oreo cookies. Who knew a movie

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Speaker 1: franchise would become a cookie somewhere fifty years in the future. Self,

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Speaker 1: that is an America boy. I don't know what is

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Speaker 1: or I talked about a serious problem. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: something a little more. You know, auto repair is like

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Speaker 1: cheap underwear. You never know what's going to creep up

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Speaker 1: on you. And the problem with auto repair is you've

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Speaker 1: got to be ever digilant and aware and no fooling around.

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Speaker 1: It's it's you know. One of the things I always

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Speaker 1: There's no margin of error, there's no assumption, there's no hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay, because what could go wrong? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you kid about it a lot, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: think auto mechanics as a rule, I think they live

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Speaker 1: you got to think about it. You've got a six

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Speaker 1: All the time, you're counting on mechanical arms of lists

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Speaker 1: of safety factors all the time to always work. We

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Speaker 1: a twenty one Cadillac I'm sorry, a nineteen Cadillac Escalade,

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Speaker 1: and they worked really well. You know, we knew what

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Speaker 1: as I take you here in the shop courtesy of AutoZone,

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Speaker 1: and we were able to get our Dura less struts

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Speaker 1: the coil springs GM and GM does not and no

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Speaker 1: set you can't buy, so you have to reuse the

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Speaker 1: not that you think that it's going to fail, but

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Speaker 1: You know, coil springs are hard to do enough, or

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Speaker 1: struts and shocks are hard enough to do by themselves,

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Speaker 1: but the problem becomes you know, you're always watching. Danny's

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Speaker 1: He connected the strut assembly, or that I call it

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Speaker 1: This was on Wednesday. I said, it's a good thing

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Speaker 1: that hooks under the coil spring let go. Metal fatigue,

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Speaker 1: just plain out slipped something about the way the strut

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a startled look on his face.

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Speaker 1: There's a danger there. There's an element. In order to

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Speaker 1: to his nature. Danny got up dusted himself off, and

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Speaker 1: thing I always think about order repair is it's kind

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Speaker 1: And as always I'll be eternally grateful. But it's like

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Speaker 1: And I guess my point is we kick off this

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Speaker 1: hour of the Car Doctor, is that you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just like cheap underwear. You just never want it's going

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Speaker 1: There's an excitement to it, there's a responsibility to it.

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Speaker 1: I think order repair is a lot more than just

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Speaker 1: about you know, it's a way I make my living,

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Speaker 1: It's a way a lot of people make their living.

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Speaker 1: It's something internal that people carry with them and they

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Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in what they do. The

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Speaker 1: you know, And I think situations like that. Had to

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Speaker 1: he didn't have to say yes. They could have just said, hey, Ron, sorry,

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Speaker 1: But they didn't. And because they knew that, they knew

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Speaker 1: it's there was There was no way I was going

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Speaker 1: don't I go to it? You know, is there another

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm the guy that's got the tool for that.

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Speaker 1: Job that that didn't work, So you know what happens then,

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Speaker 1: you got to be the last stop where else you're

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, and for everybody else. Yes, autozonepro dot com

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Speaker 1: helped me. We're able to look up what we had

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Speaker 1: just important. Let's let's let's pull over and take a pause.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll kick the garage doors open.

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Speaker 1: I'm on Nanny and the car doctor. Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: No God, that's right.

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Speaker 2: If you call and we're not live, you can leave

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Speaker 2: a message and we'll call you back to get you

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Speaker 2: on the air with Ron eight five five five.

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Speaker 1: Six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Ron here he is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I just go back to that as

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking about Danny in the way that

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Speaker 1: strut compressor failed and almost took him out. You know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't had anything like that. We had a lift

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Speaker 1: failure in the shop about fifteen years ago and it

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Speaker 1: you're out there doing it. Be aware. If you're out

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Speaker 1: there using it and someone is your technician, mechanic, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: respect them and be nice to them. You know they're

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Speaker 1: putting their life on the line. Let's go over to

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Speaker 1: the phone. Let's go talk to Ernie and Jersey fourteen

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Speaker 1: gmc Savanna and Ernie. Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir,

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Speaker 1: how can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Ron, big fan of me, listen to this show

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Speaker 4: many years. You So, about two weeks ago, my check

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Speaker 4: engine light came on and uh I got a code

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Speaker 4: P zero four to four to two, and uh I

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Speaker 4: changed the ev apps solonoid, purge valve and clear the codes.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I put at least five hundred miles

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Speaker 4: on the truck since and when I check it for codes,

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Speaker 4: there's no more codes, but there's a permanent code. It

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Speaker 4: says P zero four four to two permanent. Right, My

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Speaker 4: checked engine light's not on, right, and uh I don't

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Speaker 4: know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Did the EVAP monitor run?

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Speaker 4: I think, so it's been at least five hundred miles. Nope,

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Speaker 1: You're you're assuming and you're emotional. Brother, you know, did

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Speaker 1: You didn't do anything wrong, Ernie, you're trying, but I

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Speaker 1: It's it's like you always hear me say, right, are

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Speaker 3: Hither? Ron, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 6: I haven't listened.

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Speaker 3: There for several years.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: But one of the pieces that I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: One was the book Getting to Know OBD two.

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Speaker 3: Who was the author's name? I don't recall that.

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Speaker 1: Also, Jerry's the man.

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Speaker 1: I have to get Jerry back. I haven't had Jerry

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Speaker 1: to thank you. Yeah, help me too, David.

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Speaker 6: Uh Well, I'm I'm also out of motive instructor. So

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Speaker 1: What level? What level are your students? I'm sorry, what

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Speaker 3: They're at the college level I have and I currently

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course they are, and they're you know

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll agree, but you ever think

435
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: about how did you and I get so interested in cars?

436
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: Right because we grew up at the right time, right

437
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: wet you know, the sixties seventies, and yeah, we were

438
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 1: so fortunate we were right there.

439
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 3: You know.

440
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: I said to my wife this morning, we were having

441
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: tea and coffee and we were talking and she says,

442
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: what's new with the show? And I said, I'm trying

443
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 1: to put together a new series. Tell me what you

444
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: think of this, David. I'm going around and I'm making

445
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: a list of car guys, car people. You know, how

446
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 1: did you get your first car? What was so fascinating

447
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 1: about it? What made you want to buy a big

448
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: block Chevelle. What made you want to buy a Shelby GT. Right?

449
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: And and and record that, record that story for posterity

450
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: on digital. Right. So three hundred years from now, maybe

451
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 1: somebody will turn around and listen to this radio show

452
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: and go, wow, they used to talk about these things

453
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: called cars, right, you know? I told her, I said, I.

454
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 3: Talked about that.

455
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 7: You're going to say I talked about new technologies to

456
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 7: my students all the time, and that I get a

457
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 7: comment from my students, they said, the heck did you

458
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 7: guys fix cars without a scantle?

459
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,120
Speaker 3: I look on my because we could hear it, right,

460
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 3: and they look at me all questions. You know, Well, we.

461
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: Could fix it, we could hear it, we could see it,

462
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 1: we could sell it. It was a sensation, you know

463
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: it was. It was a would have, could have, should have.

464
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: But things were so mechanical, you know. I remember you

465
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: didn't get stuck with old cars. You could you could

466
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: get creative, you know, I still I still remember. We

467
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: were down the Jersey Shore. We had a Ford van

468
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,479
Speaker 1: with a it was like a sixty three Ford van

469
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: and the fuel pump failed and we we figured out

470
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: on a Saturday night that we went down to the

471
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: hardware store, bought our gas can, filled it with gas,

472
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 1: and we we kind of gravity fed. You're right, we

473
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: kind of gravity fed and and sort of. But we

474
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: got home. We got up the Garden State Parkway. Uh,

475
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, it took us about four hours instead of

476
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: two or one whatever the timeframe was. You you know,

477
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: as time goes by, yourne changes things. But you know

478
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: you could do that today. I mean, my lord, today,

479
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: if today the most important thing you need if you're

480
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: stuck on the side of the road is a cell

481
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: phone and triple A because you're just not You're just

482
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: not going to fix much. You're just not going to

483
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: fix much. So David, yeah, go take a look at

484
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: Jerry's book. If you need anything. Brother, I'm here for you.

485
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm proud to know you. You're doing a great thing

486
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 1: out there, you really are.

487
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: Why I might share this with you. Also, I'm also

488
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 3: a volunteer for the Lions Omobilia Museum. I'm here in

489
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: uh Southern California, and so if you ever come out

490
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 3: to Southern California, you look it up to drag racing history.

491
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: Sure, Lions, Dragway, Lions raceway. Absolutely lions.

492
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 3: You know it. So check out the website. If you're

493
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 3: in the neighborhood, you call me and you'll be my gap.

494
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,239
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, David. If I if I ever make

495
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: it out that far, that's two people I have to

496
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: come see. Now in California. I have a friend Mark,

497
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: who's on the list of you know, collectible cars were

498
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: we're going to set up those interviews. Mark's going to

499
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: be on and I gotta go to southern California for

500
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: two things now, all right, so you never know what

501
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: the future holds, my friend, all right, you'll be well.

502
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for all you do, for all

503
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: about You're right.

504
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: Welcome, sir, happy to do it. Yep, yeah, I said

505
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: to my wife, I said, you know, it's not it's

506
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: not that these are my cars, and it's not that

507
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, we're just passing through history, because we are.

508
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: We're seeing a transition. We're seeing a moment of how

509
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: things work in terms of that evolution to whatever that

510
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: next form of transportation is. That that that that change over.

511
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: You know, this is that moment when somebody said, hey,

512
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: we don't want to ride the big smelly horse anymore.

513
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: We want something with four tires and an engine, and

514
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: it's just it's just, you know, they're going to look

515
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: back in ten, twenty thirty, forty fifty, one hundred years

516
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: and you know what was a hemi kuda? Could you imagine?

517
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,719
Speaker 1: What was a road runner? What was a corvette? Nobody'll know?

518
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: You know, what was it like hanging out a dairy

519
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: queen and watching guys go street racing and you know,

520
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: two bits for a quarter and you know we only

521
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: race for fifty yards and what does all that mean?

522
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: You know? I was at I was at somebody's wedding

523
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: last week and I said to his brother, who happens

524
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: to be a DJ and he does oldies, I said,

525
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: here's the idea. I said, why don't you call me

526
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: up and we'll review all the car move or car

527
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: songs from a certain era, and we'll explain to everybody

528
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: what a little deuce coop, you know, with four on

529
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: the floor, dual quads and all that. We'll explain what

530
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: all that means, because it's like Greek to everybody, nobody

531
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: understands what the heck it is. It's just another culture.

532
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: And that's what three hundred years from now, they're going

533
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: to look back and there go. There was this guy

534
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: on the radio, remember radios, and you know he talked

535
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 1: about these things called cars, and it's just remember that

536
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: we're passing through history. Let me pass along eight five

537
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero Zero'm running any

538
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor. I'll be back right after this.

539
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: Welcome back Ron and Nanny and the car Doctor. Let's

540
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: go over to Tim and Connecticut. Tim. Welcome to the

541
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: car doctor, sir. How can I help.

542
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 2: Well? I first want to thank you Ron or a

543
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 2: diagnosis a number of years ago, I bad injectors in

544
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 2: the Corvette, which you solved. Welcome over the radio.

545
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, but see, I don't I don't. I get confused though.

546
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: I don't remember what I had for once yesterday, So

547
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's I'll tell you a true story.

548
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: I saw somebody at the grocery store this morning. I

549
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 1: think I know him. I think he's from the gym,

550
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: but I don't recognize him because I don't know what

551
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: kind of car you drive. So I'm very bad. But

552
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: if you tell me the car, I'll tell you the problem.

553
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: That's the way it works with me, you know, I know.

554
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,719
Speaker 1: So what do you got today, thank you.

555
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:12,479
Speaker 2: Here's the input. Twenty eighteen Toyota Corolla sXe left to

556
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: us by an elderly relative. Apparently last year they clipped

557
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: the curb at a decent rate and gouged out the

558
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 2: rim flattened attire. The car was parked for a while.

559
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: I was asked to take care of that, which I did,

560
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: and what remained were two very annoying malfunction signals on

561
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 2: the front dash malfunction for lane Departure Assist d YEP

562
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: and the pre crash warning PCW.

563
00:28:54,080 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: Pedestrian pedestrian cross pedestrian collision warning. You mean is what

564
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: it is? Okay? How cock eyde's the steering wheel?

565
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 2: Pardon me?

566
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: How cock eyed is the steering wheel? Did you get

567
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: an alignment.

568
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: Done the the car? The car actually runs fine? Okay, there,

569
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: all of the all of the mechanics, keep it running smooth,

570
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 2: forty plus miles to the gallon.

571
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, no, but but no no no. What

572
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm what I'm saying is, tim is it had a

573
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: curb impact enough to bend to ruin a rim? Right?

574
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: Yes?

575
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,479
Speaker 1: Okay? How's the alignment? Did anybody do a wheel alignment

576
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: to this car?

577
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: No? That hasn't been done yet.

578
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: All right? Did did? But you replace the rim and

579
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: the tire. I assume you're you're driving this car? Yes,

580
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: how straight is well? Yeah? Go ahead?

581
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: The gouge, the gouge that was left in the rim.

582
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: I was able to file down, okay, and there is

583
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: there is barely a quarter inch triangle missing new tyronic.

584
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: All right, So so let me explain it to you

585
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: like this, all right, A DOS driver systems? All right,

586
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: Automated driver assist systems are so precise, so precise. If

587
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: you're a body shop and you put too much paint

588
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: on the bumper. You ever look at new car bumpers,

589
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: how they've got those sensors in them, those little round

590
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: those are sensors for for the for the PCW. For example,

591
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: if you're a body shop and you paint that bumper

592
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: and you use too much paint, like a millimeter too much,

593
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: you will you will skew the system and throw it

594
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: off calibration. So if you think about it, how hard

595
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: did they hit the curb? How much? How much off

596
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: is the alignment that you can't see that you're correcting

597
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: by steering wheel because attached to your steering wheel or

598
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: steering mechanism, like on any new car, is a steering

599
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: angle sensor and it's looking at you know, perfectly horizontal

600
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: zero one degree, two degree, three degree, four degree, five

601
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: degree off horizon and so on, back and forth. Right, So,

602
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: if it's expecting straight ahead, if it was used too

603
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: straight ahead being zero, and it's half a degree that

604
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: your eye can't see, you're done. So you get into

605
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: a curb impact with any modern vehicle, I mean any vehicle,

606
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: but especially on a modern vehicle. All right, it's wheel alignment,

607
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: it's setting all the necessary angles, and then it's doing

608
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: an a DOS calibration if needed, to correct and reset

609
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: the systems. And that's it. And you can't go by

610
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: eye anymore. We're way past eye, all right, you know

611
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: we're way past I. So you know that's that's the

612
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: next step, all right?

613
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 3: Now?

614
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: Will will that? Will that UGO matter? Or will will that,

615
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: if corrected remove after a number of driving cycles.

616
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: No, it'll it'll reset. It'll reset immediately. It's either it's

617
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: either yes or no. Right right now, right now, that vehicle,

618
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: the ADAS system is disabled. It will not it will

619
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: not work because it can't see here. Try this, think

620
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: of it. Think of it like this, Tim, All right,

621
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: if I asked you to close your eyes and walk

622
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: down the hallway of your house or apartment, you could

623
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: do that right right, with your eyes closed. Go find

624
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 1: go into a house you've never been in, close your

625
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: eyes and try walking down the hall How will you see?

626
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: How will you not bump into things? You're asking your

627
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: car to drive down a road it's never been on,

628
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: and it can't see any more. It can no longer

629
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: trust its calibrations because it thinks the wheel is straight,

630
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: but it's really off by half a degree, and it

631
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: keeps veering to the right or the left. That's the

632
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: way ados works. So now you've got to reset it.

633
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: You've got to tell it where everything's supposed to go

634
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: and how it's supposed to work. Do that. Call me back.

635
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm up against the clock, Tim, I got to run,

636
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: all right, A pleasure, sir, I'm running. Ay in the car. Doctor,

637
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: we're back right after this. Welcome back, you know, let

638
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: me take you in the shop. Courtesy of AutoZone and

639
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: autozonepro dot com. Because you know it's funny, right, we're

640
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: talking about history and how time changes and evolves and

641
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: marches on. It's hard for me to think of a

642
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: two thousand and four board van as old, but it is.

643
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: It's twenty years old. And we had one this week

644
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: where we had to do front breaks, pads, Roders, calipers,

645
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: and AutoZone had it. Of course they had it. But

646
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: I really appreciated the autozonepro dot com website because I

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Speaker 1: was able to look it up. They didn't have it locally.

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00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: They didn't stock break parts locally for this van, and

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Speaker 1: I was able to order them, you know, and they

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Speaker 1: showed up next day because it had to come from

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Speaker 1: a different warehouse and you could see it's in this

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Speaker 1: warehouse not that warehouse and stuff. But I started thinking

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00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: to myself, holy cow, you know, it's twenty years and

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Speaker 1: I guess parts are starting to be pulled back to

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Speaker 1: other warehouses and the demand is different. And you know,

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00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: it's funny because I talked to somebody else another part

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00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: of the country and they looked it up and they

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Speaker 1: can get parts locally, So I guess this. Things change

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Speaker 1: and evolve. Now that's autoszon though they're always changing and

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00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: evolving to the better. But AutoZone pro dot Com did

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Speaker 1: it again and we were able to get parts for

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Speaker 1: that twenty year old Ford van Hey. It's been an

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Speaker 1: absolute pleasure. I've enjoyed being here with you this hour,

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Speaker 1: and remember we're just passing through history, being part of

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Speaker 1: it until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See h