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Speaker 2: We're losing a few very familiar names this week in

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Speaker 2: the automotive industry, and not people so much, but brand names.

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Speaker 2: Are you aware of? Have you heard of the First

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Speaker 2: Brands Group bankruptcy that's going on. First Brands Group houses

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Speaker 2: some major names that we're all familiar with, Moog, Champion,

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Speaker 2: fram Raybestis Auto, Light, some names that have been around

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Speaker 2: in the auto industry that we've grown up with, that

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Speaker 2: we recognize that we you know, say, hey, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know common stuff, right, household name brand parts, Auto Light, Raybestis,

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Speaker 2: and Cardone are supposedly going away. It's in the news

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Speaker 2: this week. They were talking about it that they haven't

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Speaker 2: been able to receive funding and it's going to have

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Speaker 2: an effect on the supply chain. And interestingly enough, if

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Speaker 2: you start to look around automotive news, I came across

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Speaker 2: this that talks about, you know, the fact that there's

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Speaker 2: a lot going on in the auto industry right now

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes, and you won't see it as a

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Speaker 2: vehicle owner until your vehicle's on the lift, and then

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Speaker 2: you get the bad news on either cost or lack

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Speaker 2: of parts. A lot of major automotive suppliers are openly

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Speaker 2: saying that the cost pressures are rising. In other words,

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Speaker 2: the cost of parts is going up. It's increasing, it's

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Speaker 2: not easing now. You know, it's large in part because

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Speaker 2: of tarifs, shipping costs, raw materials. There's labor shortages, there's

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Speaker 2: technology demands. Everything's kind of stacking up on top of

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Speaker 2: each other, and we haven't you know, we don't make

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Speaker 2: enough here in the United States and wherever we're making

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Speaker 2: it overseas or you know, Mexico or Canada or wherever.

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Speaker 2: It's creating a problem. And these pressures are forcing major

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Speaker 2: changes at parts warehouses and factories. It's becoming an issue.

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Speaker 2: You know, problems flow downstream, as they like to say.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not here trying to you know, rabble rouser

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Speaker 2: or create issues or make you guys nervous, but it's

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Speaker 2: just a fact. You've got to be aware that when

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Speaker 2: you take your car and for servis, you may be

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Speaker 2: shocked by you may get sticker shock. You know. I've

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Speaker 2: seen at the shop the cost of parts, specific things

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Speaker 2: brake repairs in the last two years. That that that

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Speaker 2: The price of brake pads has gone up. Availability is

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Speaker 2: becoming a bit of a problem on certain things. And

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Speaker 2: the other side of it is as the cars age out,

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Speaker 2: more cars are aging out in terms of what's available parts.

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Speaker 2: Was we talked a couple of weeks ago, you and

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Speaker 2: I about the seven Mercury that the directional bulb was

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Speaker 2: It's not available, it's not available anywhere, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it became a case of you have to scrap the car,

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Speaker 2: find this one off electronic module that was probably somewhere,

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Speaker 2: but at what cost on the fifteen year old, well

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Speaker 2: then what happens if something else major goes wrong? So

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Speaker 2: when you start to see the electronic part no longer available,

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Speaker 2: it's I was talking about this with a customer this

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Speaker 2: And my answer was simple. You know, my answer really

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Speaker 2: If they've got to keep two million dollars of radio

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Speaker 2: So it's a matter of, you know, let's get rid

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Speaker 2: simple math, it's simple business foundations, right because we're seeing

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Speaker 2: software dependent vehicles are going away. It's just not that simple.

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Speaker 2: So the other thing you've got to keep in mind,

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Speaker 2: cases where they're building vehicles and this one has led lights,

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Speaker 2: so on. They will make those changes to run those

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Speaker 2: they'll put it inside a module inside the vehicle. So seven, eight,

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Speaker 2: nine years later, when that part has a problem and

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Speaker 2: it affects it affects multiple lines and multiple models, and

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Speaker 2: it really becomes an issue. So just just be aware.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about this, you know, during the

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Speaker 2: but we can't get it today. And that's not accidental.

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Speaker 2: That's there as a result of the auto parts industry

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Speaker 2: is under strain and simple things are annoying consumers. I

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Speaker 2: day came in, had a flat Can you look at mike? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: take a look at the flat. Gee, you need a tire. Well,

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Speaker 2: Just put air in it. I'll go somewhere else. You

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Speaker 2: know what. You better learn a sense of patience because

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Speaker 2: so it's it's it's not good. So you know, the

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Speaker 2: reality is, how do you protect yourself? You the driver,

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Speaker 2: You've got to make sure that you've taken that vehicle

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Speaker 2: it's it's you know, it's had its service, it's had

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Speaker 2: and you've been good to it. And if you'd be

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Speaker 2: good to it, it'll be good to you. All Right.

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Speaker 2: It comes back to it comes back to you know,

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Speaker 2: Are they telling you, hey, the part's not available because

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Speaker 2: for you know, to backfill themselves so they know they've

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Speaker 2: lot of shops that do that. I think the best

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Speaker 2: answer to that question is how long have you been

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Speaker 2: You know, what's what's the relationship like? Because this really

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Speaker 2: And you know what, I think one of the ways

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Speaker 2: that the right rear wheel was waffled. What do I

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Speaker 2: mean by waffled? It was the inner lip. We measured

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Speaker 2: the part where their wheel was bent. It was two

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Speaker 2: the tracking, with the control and an aluminum rim. And

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Speaker 2: I'd probably trust that shop because they've got your safety.

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Speaker 2: You know, they've got your safety first. So just things

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Speaker 2: to think about where auto parts is. Auto parts industry

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Speaker 2: You want to have a great relationship with your mechanic

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Speaker 2: and make sure that you nurture that, because I think

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Speaker 2: to increase, and it's going to change. So that's my

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Speaker 2: thought for today. Let's get going. Let's uh, well, we'll

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Speaker 2: oh nine nine zero zero. Phones are a little open.

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Speaker 2: Good time to get in. I'm Ron an eighty and

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Speaker 2: the car doctor. I'll be back right after this. Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's take a ride up to Maine and see Dave. Dave,

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Speaker 2: what's going on with your seven King jeep?

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Speaker 3: Hi Ron, we purchase the twenty seventeen. It was three

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Speaker 3: years old. It had thirty three thousand miles on it.

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Speaker 3: They had just done the breaks, of course, and put

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Speaker 3: new tires. They were the original Goodyear Wranglers with the

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Speaker 3: kevlar and good about Yeah, like forty three thousand miles

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Speaker 3: of what.

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Speaker 2: Well, well went back up you oh you bought it

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Speaker 2: at thirty three, yes, and at forty three you had

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Speaker 3: seventy thousand, like over seventy, but it was like forty

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Speaker 3: three thousand miles out of the tires. Okay, but all

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Speaker 2: Meaning they're meaning they're wearing in the middle correct Okay, Now,

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Speaker 3: Naked eye, because you could see that it's to the

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, And.

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Speaker 3: So then that that last set of tires, what I

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but uh but we're still looking. She really loved

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Speaker 2: Your question to me is why, yeah, why, Well, when

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Speaker 3: Thirty six pounds cold?

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Speaker 2: Okay, thirty six pounds yeah, define cold though, right, oh night, Well,

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Speaker 2: I always well, but thirty six pounds cold. In January

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Speaker 3: Which has got me going on. I was mental over

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Speaker 3: I was always adjusting the pressure to keep it low enough,

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Speaker 3: I was backing them off to like thirty three. Once

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Speaker 2: Thirty eight, thirty nine, forty three, forty.

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Speaker 3: Four when once I was out on the road, I

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Uh. And then and that's what got me going on,

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Speaker 3: why are these Why was this one vehicle? And I

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Speaker 2: This, you know. And my question would be, and I

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Speaker 2: you know, just you know, I will do that door

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Speaker 2: off of a sixty eight degree day. So on a

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Speaker 2: make it thirty six. If I'm heading into summer, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to make it thirty four. If I'm heading into winter,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to make it thirty eight.

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Speaker 3: Right, you know, just that that's about where I had it.

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Speaker 3: I had it during the winter months. Just now I

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Speaker 2: But did your tire pressure gauge match the dashboard?

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Speaker 3: Yes? It did, And I also have I checked with

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Speaker 2: Right, right, you know, in your case for that vehicle,

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Speaker 2: I don't have an answer for you, Dave. I've never

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Speaker 2: I've never seen that. The only thing I can come

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Speaker 2: it's not roasting hot. There's something here that doesn't make

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an anomaly because I've never had a

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Speaker 2: That vehicle would have been a great study to put

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Speaker 2: nitrogen in the tires and see if that made a difference,

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Speaker 2: because nitrogen nitrogen is more of an inert gas and

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Speaker 2: it doesn't respond to temperature change as quickly as normal oxygen,

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Speaker 2: and in theory it should have maintained better pressure. Right, So,

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Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately the vehicles gone, you know, just out

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Speaker 2: of curiosity. Did anybody ever shoot the alignment?

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Speaker 3: No, it never had an alignment because it never wore

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if that's a fair statement, you know,

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Speaker 2: I I honestly think somewhere when I'm when I'm trying

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Speaker 2: I'm not scolding. I'm just suggesting you're you're looking for

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Speaker 2: cumos wore faster. I'm not keen on Kumo's for wear

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Speaker 2: they do give great traction. They do wear quickly, though,

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Speaker 2: but the mysteries will ponder. Dave appreciate the call. You

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Speaker 2: you keep us in your thoughts. I'm running any in

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Speaker 2: the car, doctor. We'll be back right after this. From

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Speaker 4: Road to night.

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Speaker 1: Hell bron will keep you roll and round.

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Speaker 2: It was nice of the band to come in today.

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Speaker 2: It's such a cold day out here in the United

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Speaker 2: States that it's nice to see them working in such

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Speaker 1: They're out using your they're out using the girl outside

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Speaker 2: Have you seen them, Yeah, that's I thought they will.

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Speaker 2: That's another story. But it's nice that they show up though.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to have that's true. So they're a good

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Speaker 2: bunch of guys. Let's go over to Dean in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: I bet it's cold and with constantine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not as cold as it was last week and

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Speaker 2: Oh well, now I feel better. New Jersey's like twenty

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Speaker 4: Oh that's yeah, that's heat wave for us.

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Speaker 2: That's that's you guys are probably be out here in

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Speaker 2: your bikinis. Oh yeah, what's going on, kiddo? How can

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Speaker 4: Well, I just I'll try to cut this short. But

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Speaker 4: I just bought a new to me truck. So twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty five Chevy Silverado fifteen hundred with the five to

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Speaker 4: three gas engine sure tense tense speed transmission congratulation twenty

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Speaker 4: thousand miles. Yeah, okay, I drive vehicles till they don't,

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Speaker 4: you know, And I put a lot of thought into

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Speaker 4: information regarding the DFM on these engines. GMS kind of

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Speaker 4: I mean, what should I do about it? If anything? Okay,

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Speaker 4: I know they make those disablers for it, which really

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Speaker 2: Kind of and for everybody's for everybody's knowledge. What Dean's

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Speaker 2: talking about is dynamic fuel management is that they're dropping

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Speaker 2: save fuel. Yes, and dynamic fuel management was the well

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Speaker 2: well AFM. Active fuel management was the grand Pappy of

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Speaker 2: you know, dynamic fuel management. This is the next evolution.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sorry, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: No, I was going to say, I feel compelled to

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Speaker 2: tell you, Dean that I'm the owner of a twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two to twenty five hundred Silverado, affectionately here on

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Speaker 2: the radio show and in my life called the plow truck. Right.

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Speaker 2: That Silverado has a six to six and a six speed. Now,

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Speaker 2: the precursor to that was my twenty nineteen Silverado twenty

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Speaker 2: on three four years, five years. You know, we plow

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Speaker 2: local GM dealers, Kevin, what do you think? He said, No,

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Speaker 2: So I just want you to know I was going

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Speaker 2: to buy your truck you're the one. You're driving the

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Speaker 2: ten speed. But we were trying to find a ten

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Speaker 2: So it would have been a six to oh with

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Speaker 2: what's wrong with the ten speed? What don't you like

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Speaker 2: about it? Now, this is the trans guy, this is

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Speaker 2: the guy that this is all all he sees day

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Speaker 2: in day out, all right, And his answer was, they

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Speaker 2: still have converter issues. And you know, it's it's really

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Speaker 2: a matter of he said, you've really got to stay

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Speaker 2: on top of the fluid, and that may or may

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Speaker 2: not help. Now, you're gonna tell me you bought this

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Speaker 2: twenty five Silverado, And I hope I'm not upsetting you.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me that. You tell me you bought

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Speaker 2: this twenty five Silverado, right, and what's the best way

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Speaker 2: to take care of it? Yes, okay, the best oil

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Speaker 2: money can buy? Right, A good filter, an oil change

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Speaker 2: every five thousand, I don't care, I don't care what

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Speaker 2: the forum's internet trolls and you know everybody else says,

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Speaker 2: an oil change every five thousand or five to six months,

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Speaker 2: whatever comes first, Right, good, good, quality fuel. The fact

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Speaker 2: when it's pushing snow, that truck's working hard, that truck

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Speaker 2: gets premium all the time. To display the internet trolls

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Speaker 2: that are going to talk about why, it's because I'm

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Speaker 2: not looking for the octane. I'm looking for the better

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Speaker 2: quality of fuel detergents that you typically find in premium fuels.

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Speaker 2: So and I do additives. I you know what, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I still do my CRC fuel system additive Okay,

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Speaker 2: on a regular basis, typically every oil change and premium fuel.

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Speaker 2: And that's what that truck gets for its life.

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Speaker 4: And related related to this is I see a lot

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Speaker 2: Now, what is GM? What does GM call for zero twenty?

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Speaker 4: Zero? Zero twenty?

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Speaker 2: I'm staying with zero twenty. But but okay, you ever,

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Speaker 2: you know what's really kind of interesting wondering if you're

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Speaker 2: getting the right oil for your vehicle. All right, so

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Speaker 2: you need to use an oil that's specifically rated for

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Speaker 2: that vehicle, a Dexo's brandle a Dexo additive rated oil. Okay,

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Speaker 2: because if you look carefully. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: kind of blew everybody's mind. I found two zero twenty

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Speaker 2: mobile ones. I like Mobile one. I think Mobile one's

433
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 2: a good oil, right, it's it's very consistent in its

434
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Speaker 2: quality and so forth. But one zero twenty Mobile one

435
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 2: is Dexos rated, the other one is not. So you

436
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 2: know one's rated for GM, the other one is not.

437
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 2: You have to read the back of the bottle. You

438
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 2: have to be sure, you know all those little numbers

439
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 2: mean something, and you have to be sure that you're

440
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Speaker 2: meeting those specifications. It's it's it's it's really that important.

441
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Speaker 4: So I'm going to be towing with this vehicle almost

442
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Speaker 4: ninety percent of when I'm driving it, it's pulling my boat, right,

443
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Speaker 4: and so heat's going to be an issue. Planning on yeah,

444
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 4: you know, I'm planning on having the transfer would change

445
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 4: more often than what it says.

446
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Speaker 2: Right, the number I I've gotten my head. The number

447
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: I've gotten my head is every thirty.

448
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, That's where I was going.

449
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why, all right. You know, I

450
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Speaker 2: love my trans guy Todd. I also have another guy,

451
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Speaker 2: local Todd. He says, he's just hysterical. But he's just

452
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Speaker 2: a real smart kid too. And we were talking the

453
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Speaker 2: other day about trans is in the price of how

454
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Speaker 2: trans has gone up, you know, from the days of

455
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 2: two speed power glides up to ten speed automatics and

456
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Speaker 2: GM pickup trucks. And I actually asked him, I said, so, Todd,

457
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 2: what does it cost to rebuild the average GM ten speed?

458
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 2: He said, figure one thousand dollars a gear. That's the

459
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: rule of thumb. Think about that for a minute. And

460
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Speaker 2: I said, is that just GM? He goes, No, that's

461
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 2: pretty much across the board. It kind of makes sense

462
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 2: because I think about the RAM pickup trucks, the RAM

463
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Speaker 2: pickup trucks. I hear stories the eight speeds are eight

464
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Speaker 2: and nine grand. It just makes sense. It's staggering.

465
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Speaker 4: Let me throw another thing at you. There's a whole

466
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Speaker 4: bunch of aftermarket DFM disablers out there for you know,

467
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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty and fifty dollars. Is that just

468
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 4: wasted money?

469
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. How about this the answer? When

470
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: I come back, let me pull over and take the pause. Dean,

471
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere, everybody else, don't go anywhere I'm not

472
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 2: going to go anywhere. I'm running Eney in the car. Doctor,

473
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 2: I'll return Dean. You're still there, sir, yes, sir. So.

474
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 2: By the way, the name of that fuel system cleaner.

475
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 2: I want you to use a c or see one

476
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Speaker 2: tank power renew. It's their latest and greatest. It works well.

477
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: It you know, we use it in the shop all

478
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Speaker 2: the time, and I think you'll have very good results

479
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 2: with that. So just stay on top of that. To

480
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Speaker 2: go on to you know what, I disable your DFM,

481
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 2: your dynamic fuel management. I might surprise a lot of people.

482
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 2: I'm going to say no, and I'm going to tell

483
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: you why. I'm going to write on the engineering of

484
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 2: general motors. And I just heard about half the audience choking, gag.

485
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: But the truth is a lot of engineering went into

486
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 2: that system, and I think following procedure, I think doing

487
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: good oil changes. I don't know that I would go

488
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: the distance they recommend, but I think I would initially

489
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 2: try leaving that system enabled, at least during the warranty period,

490
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: because all of the failures that I've seen for DFM

491
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: related are usually rock or armor and camshaft area right,

492
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 2: and it's usually traced back to faults with lubrication, and

493
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: to me, that either comes down to improper oil changes,

494
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: long oil changes, oil changes that were going out of

495
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: the book. Button necessarily in operating environment, right, I think

496
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 2: if you're doing an oil change every five thousand miles

497
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: every five months, and you're looking at the cleanliness of

498
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: the oil, now you know this is a case where

499
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 2: if you've been a listener to the show for any

500
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: length of time, you've ever heard me say I think

501
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: oil analysis is a waste of time. Here's a case

502
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: where I think doing oil analysis would pay off. Right,

503
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 2: you know that next oil change, get a pint, sent

504
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 2: it off to the lab, have them now analyze it.

505
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: What's in here? All right? Second? Second, one, third, one?

506
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: Maybe do the next three four oil changes? Analyze it? Right?

507
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 2: Do I think an engine you know you're going to

508
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 2: drive that to two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand miles, Yeah,

509
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: you probably can. I think the rest of the truck's

510
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 2: going to fall apart around it, all right, Just just

511
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 2: being realistic, right, you know, I think I think the

512
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: engines are the least of the problems with vehicles today.

513
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: If it's well cared for and maintained and you know

514
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 2: you're not going to do unit repair. I was watching

515
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: a video the other day and they had, you know,

516
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: they had manned spaceflight grade scopes and diagnostic equipment hooked

517
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: up to this ninety five thousand mile Chrysler product that

518
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: ended up having bad timing chains and a warn camshaft,

519
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: and they were talking about, well, let's just repair it. No,

520
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: let's put an engine in it. Right. You know, if

521
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: it were the cam, if the chain stretch, that means

522
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 2: it was lack of lubrication somewhere. And the argument's got

523
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: to be made that what are their damage is there

524
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 2: to the rest of the engine. And my point I'm

525
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: coming back to is in your case, if it's seventy

526
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: or eighty thousand miles, this this this takes out the camera,

527
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: this takes out a rock or in a lifter, I

528
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: think you're going to have that conversation in your head.

529
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: Is it time to just swing a motor in this way?

530
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: You're done and you get another eighty ninety or one

531
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand miles out of it, because by then that

532
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: truck will be one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, right,

533
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 2: So staying on top of the maintenance is critical before

534
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,719
Speaker 2: I run out of time. That ten speed trans and

535
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: this is the other reason I say leave it alone.

536
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: That ten speed trans is designed to work with that DFM. Right,

537
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: you're when you're cruising along it, you know, eighty miles

538
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: an hour, trying not get run over on America's highways,

539
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: telling your boat. Right, you know, the onboard computer is

540
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: looking at DFM position, trans speed, engine loadvehicle speed and

541
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: everything else and making decisions. Now unless unless you're going

542
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: to reprogram the PCM for some known working. Hey, this works,

543
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: We've done this. It increases longevity. You know, you're being

544
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: a hot rodder with what's really an eighty thousand dollars vehicle. Okay,

545
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: and I don't know that I take that risk.

546
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Speaker 4: Okay, So just I guess h recap, summarize, recap. Yeah,

547
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 4: use top tier gas, use the Dexos one oil, change

548
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 4: my oil and quality filter obviously more often than what

549
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 4: the truck says to do. I'm not going to go

550
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: any longer than five thousand, which is what I've always done.

551
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 4: Change the trans.

552
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 2: Every thirty and uh. And you're going to want to

553
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: do a fluid exchange, right, You're going to want to

554
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: find you'res. A matter of fact, watch my YouTube channel again.

555
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 2: We just shot we're we're now working with Mala and

556
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 2: their line of trans fluid exchange machines. We've worked with

557
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: them for a long time with their AC and coolant

558
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: machines and we're now getting into their trans fluid machines.

559
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: We did a dipstick fluid exchange yesterday on an older

560
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: Chevy product. I'm just talking about the basics and the

561
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: value and you'll see the clarity of the fluid and

562
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: how the fluid cleans up. And you really want to

563
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: do that every thirty you want to do a fluid exchange.

564
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: Now on that ten speed, you're gonna have to go

565
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: through the cooler lines, right, so you're gonna have to

566
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: find the shop with an at X two eighty Mala

567
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: machine and you know, let them let them tie in

568
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: that way. But again, what's going to damage that trans

569
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: The trans isn't likely to fail. It's going to be

570
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 2: the TORQ converter that gets taken out because the tor

571
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 2: converters are still having issues. So those are some of

572
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: the things you've got to do, Dean. All right, if

573
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: you if you need more, you know where to find

574
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 2: me 'ron at cardoctorshow dot com. Get out to the

575
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: YouTube channel or look at the website, and we're happy

576
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: to help you and keep that truck going and we'll

577
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: see how far we can get it. I appreciate the call.

578
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: I'm Ron an Ady and the car doctor. We're back

579
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: right after this. Hey, I want to talk a real quick,

580
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 2: hot second about the value of diagnosis. You know, I

581
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: see a lot out on the internet people are talking about, well,

582
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,479
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have to pay for diagnosis. I'm paying for

583
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 2: the repair, and I agree with that because all I

584
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 2: need you to do is tell me what you want

585
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: me to change, and the fact that you're willing to

586
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: accept whatever it is you decide the problem is, and

587
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 2: I'll do it. You can pay me for that repair,

588
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't

589
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: then because it's kind of going to the doctor right

590
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: and saying, hey, my elbow hurts, what's wrong with me?

591
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't take your word for it. He

592
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 2: does some testing. And my point becomes that everybody needs

593
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: to realize the value of good diagnosis. And it can

594
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: be something simple. It may not be a check engine

595
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: light related issue. We had a five Honda Accord came

596
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: into the shop this week, and the customer had been

597
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 2: a few shops and nobody could really tell them what

598
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: was wrong with it. But as you were going around

599
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: turns at certain temperatures, you would hear click, click, and

600
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: then it would go away, and then it would come back,

601
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: and then it would go away. And you know, it'd

602
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 2: been going on for about two and a half months,

603
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 2: he said, and nobody could give him a direction. They

604
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: had replaced brakes, they had put struts in it, they

605
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 2: had put a bunch of wheel bearings that nobody could

606
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: really resolve. This brought it to me. We took it

607
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: for a ride, put it up in the air, couldn't

608
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 2: duplicate it up in the air. I knew it was

609
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: load related. Went out for a ride, heard it came back.

610
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: Pulled the left front axle out of the car. Now

611
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: a CV axle. At the end of a CV axle,

612
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: it has to work like your wrist. It has to

613
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: flex in all directions. When I pulled the axle out

614
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 2: of the car and I kicked the outer joint and

615
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: it stayed frozen in that forty five degree angle position,

616
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: I knew that was a problem. Diagnosed needs an axle.

617
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: The value of a good diagnosed outweighs the guests every time,

618
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: and I want you to keep that in mind. By

619
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: the way, if you're looking for more information, you're working

620
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 2: on a particular car, and you've got all data or

621
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: all data DIY from my old data people out there.

622
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 2: Take a look at their reference repair column. A lot

623
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 2: of good stuff there, and their new specs column. They're

624
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 2: always adding more and more information. All data does a

625
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 2: great job. I'm ronning Andy in the car doctor, reminding

626
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 2: you until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

627
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 2: See you, He's the car doctor. Carr Advice to ride