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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the repairs are nonsensical or in the sense of

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Speaker 2: I doing this? It shouldn't be bad. It's not supposed

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Speaker 2: to break the Car Doctor. Somebody comes in and they

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Speaker 2: tell me, you know, my car's burning oil, and I'm

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Speaker 2: told that it's normal because it's a quarter every thousand miles.

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Speaker 2: The industry says that's good. Some car companies are talking

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Speaker 2: a quarter every eight hundred miles. It blows my mind.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 2: The garage doors are opening, but I am here to

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Speaker 2: take your call at eight five five five six ninety

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Speaker 2: nine hundred and now he.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 2: There's a great article at all data dot com this month.

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Speaker 2: If you go to all data dot com and go

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Speaker 2: under the and look under resources and slide over it

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Speaker 2: under the resources tab, you can go to their monthly

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Speaker 2: newsletter they put out, and there is a great article

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Speaker 2: there that talks about it starts out with break hoses

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Speaker 2: are not always the problem, and it references some procedures

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Speaker 2: and steps you can look at, especially on vehicles equipped

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Speaker 2: with abs anti lock brakes, as far as determining, you know,

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Speaker 2: is it a hose, is it the hydraulic control unit?

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Speaker 2: Is it a master cylinder? Is it a caliper? And

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to put that out there because I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, my brakes pull to the left, my brakes

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Speaker 2: pulled to the right, the pedal doesn't feel great. I

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Speaker 2: thought it was a very good article written by Dennis

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Speaker 2: Shortino this month, so you know, I read their stuff

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Speaker 2: every month, and you know, I just wanted to highlight

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Speaker 2: that All Data dot Com go look under the resources tab.

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Speaker 2: You'll find the newsletter and that's available. I believe to

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Speaker 2: anybody you don't necessarily need an All Data subscription in

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Speaker 2: order to do that, So just be aware. Let's kick

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Speaker 2: the garage doors open right away because the line's along.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to John in Massachusetts ninety three Buick Regal.

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Speaker 3: John.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help.

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Speaker 3: Hi? Rod?

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Speaker 2: Yes, right to talk to you, you too, sir.

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Speaker 3: H It was pretty coincidental that you started talking about

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Speaker 3: ABS systems, because that's my problem. Mike abs light went

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's an OBD one car. Sure, yep.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And he and he claims that all the sensors

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Speaker 2: Didn't have a fault? Didn't have a fault code? John,

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Speaker 2: do you recall that he tested for codes?

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Speaker 3: He might have but I don't quite recall.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And what was his conclusion? Not to usurp him,

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Speaker 2: but what was his conclusion?

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Speaker 3: You can usurp him if you'd like. Uh No, he uh,

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Speaker 3: I don't think he really wanted to work much on it,

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Speaker 3: He thinks, you know, could even be a module. But

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Speaker 3: he needed to do a very extensive test time it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what kind of scan tool was he using? Was

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Speaker 2: it the snap on brick, the old red brick.

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Speaker 3: It was probably an old scan tool that he had,

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Speaker 2: You know. And when we say back in the nineties,

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Speaker 2: I believe it's really it's you know, I was telling somebody,

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Speaker 2: But you just don't keep them out frontline anymore because

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Speaker 2: So the fact that it's on steady tells me there

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Speaker 2: The way those were design where because this is you know,

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Speaker 2: speed sensors, the hub and the bearing, especially in a

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Speaker 2: high corrosion, high corrosive environment. Let's see where you Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: by the code, you die by the code. I've got

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Speaker 2: You could graph and we would bring up typically two

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Speaker 2: You know, drive straight down the road is the scale equal,

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Speaker 2: I would work my way around that way. I've covered

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Speaker 2: even be there, all right. Now, that's the good news.

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Speaker 2: The bad news is, if it's anything other than the sensors,

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Speaker 2: because they were all part If I remember right, the front,

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Speaker 2: the rears were individual. The fronts I believe were part

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Speaker 2: weren't a replaceable part on a separate basis. So now

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Speaker 2: an om test. There were specs where you could unplug

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Speaker 2: start measuring resistance. I don't like to do resistance on

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if I have broken wires.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I have you know, corrosion. There's

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Speaker 2: just one hundred things. I'd rather not start to try

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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's now. The good news is too,

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Speaker 2: there is good news here. You're always going to have

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Speaker 2: regular breaks. Your regular breaks will always function. You're just

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Speaker 2: going to be looking at this light just out of curiosity.

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on this john and what kind

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Speaker 2: of shapes? The body in a lot of rust.

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Speaker 3: No, it's in very good shape. It has ninety thousand

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Speaker 3: it a few years ago. Yeah, it still is a

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Speaker 3: nice condition. But I don't drive it much. I'm sort

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Speaker 3: But but you know, the good news is you're right,

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Speaker 3: the breaks work. The bad news is that I can't

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Speaker 3: get an inspection. And my buddies thought was I'll just

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so who's your regular mechanic, your buddy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm retired. I don't get much on

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Speaker 3: solid security. You know, I can't be these guys. As

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Speaker 3: you said, they're priceless, but they are indeed expensive. You know,

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Speaker 3: I can see my entire check for the month getting

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Speaker 3: wiped out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I can feel for you too, buddy, I can

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Speaker 2: understand that. So, so Massachusetts still does a safety inspection.

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Speaker 3: Huh, yeah they do. They're more into the safety I

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Speaker 3: think than the emissions. After a certain time, the emissions,

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Speaker 2: You still have to find I find that interesting and

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Speaker 2: I apply. You may not like this, but I deployed

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts that they're actually doing safety even on older cars.

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Speaker 2: In New Jersey, the only thing they care about is

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Speaker 2: the check engine light and they're they're counting. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: counting on law enforcement, like these guys don't have enough

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Speaker 2: to do to to provide the roadside and the bulb

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Speaker 2: that's out and the you know, the safety aspect of

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Speaker 2: there's no safety here.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's good that safety. Yeah, this

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Speaker 3: particularly from what I understand, it's not all that important

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Speaker 3: to have them on. And in my case, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't drive an equiment weather.

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Speaker 2: So I have one question, what would happen if it's

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Speaker 2: an ABS control unit and you can't buy one? Are

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Speaker 2: you then forced to junk the car and start walking?

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Speaker 2: If you if you could per se, if you don't

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Speaker 2: mind the way I stated that it.

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Speaker 3: No, that's a that's a good question. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if there's you know, they have some kind of hardships, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: if the repair is more than a certain percentage what

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Speaker 3: the car is worth, Okay, can you know, get packed it?

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Speaker 3: But in this case it's greats. I doubt they'd allow that.

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Speaker 2: You know, Well, no, no, no, it's it's it's always

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Speaker 2: going to have standard base breaks.

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Speaker 2: seventeen fusion. Yes, sir, how are you today? Brian? What

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Speaker 4: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: One fifty to two hundred thousand miles is not an

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Speaker 4: I'm still running great, but they needed like a water pump,

432
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 4: master cylinder, things like that. And the reason I got

433
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 4: rid of it was I had a great discount with

434
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 4: four GM, and it was like it was too good

435
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,719
Speaker 4: to pass up, right, you know.

436
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 2: It's the other thing you got to look at is

437
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 2: obviously the technology change. Although I was seventeen to a

438
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,879
Speaker 2: modern day vehicle wouldn't be so radical if you went

439
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,640
Speaker 2: from a seventeen to a twenty five or twenty six

440
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: model year vehicle. Yeah, there'll be some things that, you know,

441
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 2: catch you by surprise, but it's not as big a

442
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 2: change as going from a ninety five to a seventeen

443
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,119
Speaker 2: or what you know, whatever, whatever model year you switched

444
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 2: to with that from that ninety five, that ninety five

445
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 2: was also made in another era, right, less robots, more

446
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 2: people on the assembly line, different engineering, different conceptual ideas.

447
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 2: I think that if you're willing to put up with,

448
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 2: you know, some major repairs but still keep it driving,

449
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 2: I don't see why that car won't go two hundred thousand.

450
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 2: It's only it's I've said it for years, Brian, and

451
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 2: I believe it. It's what are you willing to tolerate?

452
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 4: Look what do you how do you classify as major

453
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 4: repair transmission? Okay, yeah, I'd never had a face that,

454
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 4: you know, and very lucky mighty sound oltimate. I had

455
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 4: sixty something thousand that was totaled. I was going to

456
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 4: keep that for a while, but I've always done the transflut.

457
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 4: I think obviously doing the transflu a change gives you

458
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 4: a better shot at your transmission lasting.

459
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 2: I'd imagine, sure, absolutely absolutely. Listen our our little shop truck,

460
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 2: the beater as we call it, the ninety seven Ranger.

461
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 2: You guys keep hearing me talk about. It's real. It's

462
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 2: got two hundred and twenty four thousand miles on it now.

463
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: I mean it's twenty five years old, twenty going on

464
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 2: twenty six years old, and it's it's getting a little

465
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 2: ratty looking. There's no rust on it, but you know,

466
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 2: we haven't washed it in probably ten years. You know.

467
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 2: The dirt's kind of the attraction. You know, if you

468
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 2: want to go to the scrap yard, if you're hauling parts,

469
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 2: if you're hauling something, you know, there's the vehicle for it.

470
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 2: Right there's a little two wheel drive ranger. We don't

471
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: know how long it's going to go. It's kind of

472
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 2: a contest. Now, how much further can we get, you know,

473
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 2: can we get three hundred thousand miles out of it?

474
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 2: We'd have to start driving it more. But I also

475
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 2: look at the fact that if I went out today

476
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 2: to replace that rear wheel drive Ranger the Beater, it's

477
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: a minimum of thirty thirty five thousand dollars.

478
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,719
Speaker 4: And well, that's no problem.

479
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: Ron.

480
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 4: And the thing is, you know, last of my college

481
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 4: I said, you're finding like mid size to full size

482
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 4: of the vands now when the American market is almost impossible, right, Yeah,

483
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 4: And you know, I like, you know, I like sticking

484
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 4: with GM and four, but you know I may be

485
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 4: forced and do a farm you know, a whatever, a

486
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 4: Japanese car. Sure, I don't want to, but yeah, the

487
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: Americans are not giving us many options nasuvs. As you know,

488
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 4: I can't find anything under like thirty five, right, yeah.

489
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: You know.

490
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 2: It's it's funny, right I as an aside, and I

491
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 2: think this is applicable. We had a customer. We have

492
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: a customer who work for She has two cars that

493
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 2: I've seen on a regular basis. One's a ninety two

494
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 2: Buick Roadmaster and the other one's an eighty nine Chevy Caprice,

495
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 2: and I worked on the Caprice. I worked on both

496
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 2: of them recently, but I worked on the Caprice this week,

497
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 2: and it's fresh in my mind because I just started

498
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 2: to look around metal door switches, metal push buttons, metal

499
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: door handles, you know, and I think of what a

500
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 2: brick that car was, how reliable those cars were and

501
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: mass produced in such numbers that they stayed on the

502
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 2: American scene, What a nice sedan. And here's this car.

503
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 2: Here's an eighty nine, was it ninety nine, two thousand

504
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: and nine, twenty nineteen. This car's thirty five years old,

505
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: and it still rides night and it's got two hundred

506
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 2: and twenty or two hundred and forty two thousand miles

507
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: on it. You know, it's, you know, show me something

508
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 2: in this modern age that's going to ride as well

509
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 2: as that Caprice did. Full frame automobile, lots of steel,

510
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 2: heavy mass, you know, and prevent presented from an American

511
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: car manufacturer. You know, they're all, yeah, yeah, it's it's

512
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 2: you're right, But you're absolutely right. My point is, I

513
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 2: agree with you. You can't find you'd be hard pressed

514
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 2: to find an American made Sedan this week, you know.

515
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 4: Or my great uncle had My uncle had a grand marquee.

516
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 4: That thing was like I think it was on like

517
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 4: a Lincoln chassis. That thing was full frame, rear, real drive.

518
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 2: That car.

519
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 4: The only reason he got rid of it because he died. Yeah,

520
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 4: but I'm going to keep this car sill I die,

521
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 4: And sure enough he did. It was right, beautiful, Yeah,

522
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,360
Speaker 4: it's beautiful.

523
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: It's I find it funny in a day and age

524
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: when we're we're on this. You know, everything's got to

525
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 2: be green and recyclable and reusable, and we've got to

526
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 2: keep it forever and don't throw it out and don't

527
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: wear it out. And we make cars that are throwaways.

528
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 3: You know.

529
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: I think there's a little irony in there that if

530
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: we truly wanted to be a green society, we would

531
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: make vehicles last longer. And but I think then again,

532
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 2: we'd put the car companies out of business. They would

533
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 2: have nothing to sell us.

534
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 4: So well, yeah, but you know, they also have to

535
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 4: keep your business. So I don't know how you with

536
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 4: all the latest stuff. I don't know how you guys

537
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 4: keep up. You must have to study things all the time.

538
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 2: All the time, all the time.

539
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: And you know, because you've got to be an engineer.

540
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 4: Now you have to be like a mechanical engineer, not

541
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 4: a mechanic.

542
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: Well, and I still think, you know, I said this

543
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: to someone the other day. We were talking, where will

544
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: the future mechanics come from? And you know, how will

545
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: they do it? And how will they get by. Part

546
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: of the problem in owning a repair shop today is

547
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 2: you need you need. You know, here in the Northeast,

548
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: you need two million dollars to walk in the door.

549
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: You need to put a million dollars worth of equipment

550
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 2: in the building, and then you need the building, which

551
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: is a million bucks. So you need two million bucks

552
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 2: to get started, you know, to look around and all practicality,

553
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: you know, and to stay current and to have more

554
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: than one scan tool and to have to have what

555
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: you need. So that's a problem. And then you're always

556
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: going to class. But there are still shops out there

557
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 2: that don't go to class. And I don't understand how

558
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 2: they get away with it. They do. I mean, I

559
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 2: can tell you stories here all afternoon about you know,

560
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: they they'll call up and they want to do this,

561
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 2: and they want to do that, and you know, and

562
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: I know what goes on out there. I've got a

563
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: lot of things in my head, but you know, I

564
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 2: know how shops are doing it wrong, but it's somehow

565
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 2: that manages and it gets by. I think it's going

566
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: to be interesting in the coming years to see the

567
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 2: challenges and the opportunities that order repair presents. But I

568
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: think we're going to see fewer and fewer independent small

569
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: shops open up and become things are going to go

570
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 2: the way of modern medicine, more corporate, more, you know,

571
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 2: more mass conglomerations and chains, because the independent shop is

572
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 2: going to have a hard time stay input.

573
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 4: I worked in a Gulf station in high school. That

574
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 4: was when everything was most stations were mechanic and gas.

575
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 4: You never see that. You rarely see that anymore.

576
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 3: You know.

577
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 4: It's either they go to full mechanic or just gas.

578
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 3: Well, and it's just it was.

579
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 4: It was a different time.

580
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: I agree.

581
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever sold gas, oh, I never.

582
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: I never sold gas, but I pumped enough of it,

583
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 2: you know, and I work with Tom he has enough

584
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 2: of it. But that's a whole nother story for another day.

585
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 2: So let me pull over and take the pause. Brian

586
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 2: is always a pleasure chatty. You be well and uh

587
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: and stay safe, sir. I'm running Andy and the car doctor.

588
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: We're back right after this. Fuck him back and I

589
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: want to tell you tell story. So we had a

590
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes technology just beat you, especially your first

591
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: time experience with it. We had a we had a

592
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: twenty eleven Toyota rap or in the shop this week.

593
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 2: It needed tire pressure sensors. It was pretty basic and simple.

594
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 2: It came in with a flashing light. It had a

595
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: fault in the system. Two of the sensors are reporting

596
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: dead batteries. The other two sensors are reporting low batteries,

597
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: meaning they were about to fill.

598
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 3: And why not.

599
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 2: They're twelve years old. They're allowed one hundred thousand mile vehicle,

600
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty thousand mile vehicles something like that.

601
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: So we you know, we've switched over and we've started

602
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: using in the last couple of months the newer Autel

603
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 2: tire pressure monitoring tool. And it's small. It's like the

604
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: size of a Samsung Galaxy S ten telephone. It's a

605
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: small unit. The problem we've discovered of late is it's

606
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: too sensitive. And I'll tell you the story like this

607
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: in case you're out there in the shop using one

608
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: of these to be aware that it seems that it's

609
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: antenna will pick up and record things that aren't exactly

610
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: in front of it. So imagine the shop is set

611
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: up Bay one, Bay two, Bay three. We're working in

612
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: Bay one and we go to program or we go

613
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: to read tire pressure sensor values from the car left front,

614
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: right front, right rear, left rear, and walk around the vehicle.

615
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 2: We then take those values and we programmed them into

616
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: the new sensors, put the car down, reset the system,

617
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 2: take the car for a ride, lights out, no problem,

618
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: release the car. The car comes back two days later,

619
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: the lights on. We go in and look at the system.

620
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: There's a fault in both left side sensors, and it's

621
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 2: actually a fault where it's mismatched IDs, meaning the ideas

622
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: the serial numbers, the unique identifier for those sensors that

623
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: were programmed into the vehicle are not the values we

624
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 2: wrote down, not the values the tool recorded, because we

625
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: always take a snapshot and a print to save in

626
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: the customer file, but we don't know where the numbers

627
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 2: came from. And then we realized that we had a

628
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: car in Bay two, which is you know, what fifteen

629
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: feet over twenty feet over probably twenty five the Hotel

630
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: tool and we prove this is so sensitive it will record,

631
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: it will report and measure TPMs signal from the far

632
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 2: side bay versus what we're currently seeing. And the thing

633
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 2: that made no sense to us is when we got

634
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: the sensors on the left side out, because those two

635
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 2: were dead and we couldn't read from them that we

636
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: actually reported. We wrote down those serial numbers and that's

637
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: what we put into the tool, so we you know,

638
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: we did it the right way. And I'm just saying

639
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 2: that sometimes technology beats in it. There's a learning curve

640
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 2: and it takes a while to get used to. In

641
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: the end, we reprogrammed it and we did it a

642
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: specific way. And now we've added a step where when

643
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: we programmed TPMs sensors, we will take a scan tool

644
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: out and see if we put in ABCD, is there

645
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 2: ABCD in the vehicle via scan tool, not just trusting

646
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 2: to tell our pressure sensing tool by itself. But we've

647
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: talked to Hotel. They're supposedly working on it, but they've

648
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: got a problem. And you know, sometimes technology beats. It's

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00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: an issue. So just something to be aware of eight

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00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: five five five six zero. I don't think I've given

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00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: the phone number at I'll tday. The phones were so

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00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 2: busy eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero,

653
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: running dying in the car. Doctor, I'll be back right

654
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: after this. Welcome back. Our reports this week are that

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00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 2: Tom's escape has hit the magic three hundred and seventy

656
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 2: five thousand mile marks, so the march towards four hundred continues.

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00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 2: Not quite three seventy four. My spies were a little

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00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 2: My spies were a little anticipatory. So but what will

659
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 2: we do when Tom hits the four hundred thousand mile

660
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 2: mark so to be to be to be reviewed again

661
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: in the future, we need to have a party at

662
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: our automotives. No, so they have to get past the

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00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: security guard. So I want to talk a little bit

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00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: about the almost repaired focus and they help you keep

665
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: your focus yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yek. Real real life scenario,

666
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: real real world problem. So we had a regular customer

667
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 2: that the car was involved in an accident about eighteen

668
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: months ago, and you know since then, in that time span,

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00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 2: they've been into the shop, uh twice with this car.

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00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: You know, we see their other cars more regularly, and

671
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: you know he's a regular customer, but this car has

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00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: not been and we just had it in a couple

673
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: of weeks back and we noticed when we pulled down

674
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: the left front tire, it was missing the liner. And

675
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: I think I talked to you guys about this. It

676
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: was missing the liner for the inner wheelwell on the

677
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 2: left front and as a result, also what was missing

678
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 2: was they put a some sort of I believe it's

679
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: the body module. They put that over there in the

680
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 2: real well area and that was exposed and the body

681
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: shop had to know what they were doing wrong because

682
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: they zip tied it in place. They had it secured

683
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 2: by a zip tie. So when he asked me what

684
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: should he do because it was within two years but

685
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: over a year, I said, you know, I'd go back

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00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: to the body shop and talk to them because in

687
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: New Jersey, the way the law is written, as I

688
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 2: understand it is if you're using an insurance company repair facility,

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00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 2: a direct repair, or even a regular body shop. And

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00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, somebody correct me, but they're obligated for

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00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 2: a lifetime warranty on repairs. And I said it's time

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00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: to go back and have a conversation. Because whether it's

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00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 2: fifty dollars or five hundred dollars or one thousand dollars

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00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 2: or whatever, not cool. The insurance company paid for it.

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00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: Some parts were left off, you know, tell them this

696
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: is going to be those pile of parts they found

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00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: in the corner when they went, oh gee, what car

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00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: does this go to? Which brings me to the conclusion

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00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: for the solution is this makes the value of going

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00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: to a regular mechanic for oil changes in service and saying, hey,

701
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: the I was in an accident recently looking over that

702
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: much more important till the next time I'm running ady

703
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: in the car doctor reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

704
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 2: they're priceless. Cia