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Speaker 1: you know washer pump. Ken. Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

426
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes, so I can wash my

427
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: windows on my back window. So it tells me that

428
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: the pump is working, Okay, but I get nothing on

429
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: the two washers on my front windshield. Now can I

430
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 1: uh disconnect? I'm trying to find a place to disconnect that.

431
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 1: Who's to see if it stopped up where it stopped up? Well,

432
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: is it stopped up or you know, have you done

433
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: something as simple as key on, engine off? Have you

434
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: just tried to push the button? If you push the button,

435
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: do you hear the motor the windshield washer pump run? Yes?

436
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: I do, so you do. So we know the pumps

437
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 1: working from the switch, so we know it's got to

438
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: be a hose. Right, So the washer bottle is on.

439
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember my wife's got this exact same car,

440
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: and I just put fluid into the other day. If

441
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, the washer bottles on the I want

442
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: to say, passenger side. That's correct, Okay, all the way

443
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: up front, right, so you're gonna see that. The hose

444
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: comes up and lays along that inner fender well, and

445
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: then they hide it and it then goes into the

446
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: cowl area and makes a right turn and then gets

447
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: attached up to the hood. There's a there's a connection there,

448
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: there is. I see the connection and the whose turns,

449
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: but I can't get that thing apart. Yeah, and sometimes

450
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 1: it's just so baked on. There is there enough slack

451
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: in the hose that if you, I just want to

452
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: see you get fluid out that where the where the

453
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: tea is. Do you get fluid there? All? Right? Um?

454
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, is there enough slack in the hose? Is

455
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: it rubber hose? I'm trying to remember what it looks like.

456
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: Is it rubber hose? Are hard? Play? It's black about

457
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: quarter wrench black hose? Right, so, and I have a

458
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: little play in it of course, thinking about cutting it,

459
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 1: and then that's where I'm going. Brother, you know, just

460
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: just just it's it's soft black rubber hose, correct ken, Yeah,

461
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: So why don't we do that and just get it

462
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: off listen? Worst case scenario, all right, if you cut

463
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: it and it's too short to get back on the nipple,

464
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: you could cut the hose more, go to your local

465
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: parts house and get two splices, right too, hard plastic

466
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: splices with a longer section of hose and splice or

467
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: one one splice and than the other end would go

468
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: on the nipple and you can just repair it and

469
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: put it back in line. That kind of stuff there, Yeah,

470
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: they should, they should. It's it's back in the day

471
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: when cars had vacuum lines, we would have black plastic

472
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: or we would have hard white plastic or black plastic. Um,

473
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: we had nipples, we had wise, we had three way

474
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: t s of various diameters inside diameters. So there's something

475
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: there that can be done. Uh, you know, So I

476
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: don't I don't see that as an issue. My guess

477
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: is if you've got fluid coming out there at that hose. Um,

478
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: I'm trying to recall there might be a check valve

479
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: in line leading to the nozzles, and I'm I'm wondering

480
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: if the if the check valve is stuck or not working. Well,

481
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: if you recall on the hood of this car, there's

482
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: a black insulator and it looks to me like it's

483
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: for me. It looks like it's difficult to get down

484
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: to get off of them and that and the black

485
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: hose goes up behind that over to the two areas

486
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: that pump border on the windfield. Okay, so can we

487
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: get can we get to that insulator or that black

488
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: I'll call it, I call it a check valve. Can

489
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: we can we get to where the nipple comes up

490
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: to that and and look to see do we have fluid? Well,

491
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking up there. Now, let's stand let's do it

492
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: like this First of all, you're sure you key on

493
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: engine off so you can hear. You're sure you push

494
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: the front wah. Sure's you're sure that pump runs? Yes,

495
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: I am, okay, cut the hose. Well, the pump. The

496
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: pump also pumps for the rear window. That right, But

497
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: I just want to see, I just I just want

498
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: to see that the washer pump. I just want to

499
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: see that the front switch is capable of tripping the pump. Yes, well,

500
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: I can wash my back window with no problem. Right,

501
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 1: but the back window circuit uses a different switch than

502
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: the front window circuit, right that. That's well, that's true,

503
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: and but the front switch does work. At one time,

504
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: I had just a little bubble to come out, you know,

505
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: in the front washers. But then all of a sudden

506
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: it stopped. So I'm thinking that that hose has stopped

507
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: up right, I'm thinking it is too and I'm betting

508
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: it's by the insulator. But I just listen. Never eliminate

509
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: a step you want to have. You want to know

510
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: how to look stupid do in order repair eliminate a step?

511
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's like it's like you want to

512
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: play in your future. Talk to God, Watch what he does,

513
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: all right. Right, Well, I'm an old shade three mechanics,

514
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: so you know where I'm going with this, brother, It'll

515
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: take you two seconds. What I'm gonna trying tomorrow afternoon

516
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: to my garage just to cut that hose and see

517
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: if it's pumping and eliminate problems as I go. And

518
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna follow your directions up there to the check

519
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: vow you do that. You call me back next week

520
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: if you need more. All right, I'll do it, all right,

521
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: you'd be well, take good care. Ken. You're very welcome.

522
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. By bye. I'm running any of the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. We're back right after this. Welcome back of

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00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,640
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525
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,640
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00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: a message. Tom Ray, executive producer, will call you back

527
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: and get you in the queue for the next live broadcast.

528
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Speaker 1: Six zero zero number. Let's get over and talk to

529
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Speaker 1: James and Vermont Oh six four runner and some questions

530
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: about trans fluid flushing. James, Welcome to the Car Doctor.

531
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: How can I help? Yeah? I love your show. I

532
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: always head out for a ride when you show comes on.

533
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thanks, Yeah, well, thank you. So

534
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: my question is I have an O sex V eight

535
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: four Runner and the dealership, Toyota dealership tells me it

536
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: has a hundred and eight thousand miles on it um

537
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: and they tell me that I should flush my transmission fluid.

538
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: But the service manual, I believe, says if I'm not

539
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: doing or if I'm only doing late towing, that I

540
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: shouldn't touch it till I believe a hundred and fifty

541
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: thousand miles. And that's one of my questions. The second

542
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: one part of it is is I heard that flushing

543
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: can knock a lot of debris away from things that

544
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: would actually just cause more problems. And should I flush it? When?

545
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: Should I flush it? Or should just drain it and

546
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: fill it or what? I guess I'm looking for some

547
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: advice on that. So you've never serviced the trans is

548
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: what you're telling me? Yeah? Or the front differential look,

549
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: so so you know, first of all, you're fifty thousand

550
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: miles laid on all the drive line fluids short the trends.

551
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: Although I normally we normally do the trans fluids on

552
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: the Toyotas around that seventy thousand mile market just seems

553
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: like a good sweet spot forward, So change the rest

554
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: of the drive line fluid. I'll tell you here's the

555
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: scoop on the trans transmission. Fluid by nature is a

556
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: very high detergent, very high scrubbing action type of fluid.

557
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: The problem is it like any other fluids such as

558
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: that it will leave a varnish ring. It will leave

559
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: sentiment inside the trans So you're gonna put fresh fluid

560
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: in where old fluid was. That's partially warned out. The

561
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: fluids lost some of its properties, and you're gonna scrub

562
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: some of that varnished off the walls of the trans

563
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: What makes an automatic transmission work hydraulic pressure, tiny passages,

564
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: tiny passages, all right, So now now you're on the

565
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: risk of clogging something or restricting something and affecting trans operation.

566
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: Have you have you looked at the fluid, the determined color,

567
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: how bad or beat up is the fluid itself? If

568
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: you looked at any of this, No, I haven't touched

569
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: the transmission or the front end UH four wheel driver

570
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: and never looked at it, never touched it. It's so

571
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 1: I just do I flush it and across my fingers

572
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: or do I just drain it and I'm a mild

573
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: goes wild kind of guy. I if it were me,

574
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: I would start with a drain and fill all right,

575
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: and look for a reaction, and then and then three

576
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: to five thousand miles later, I would do an exchange.

577
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: Don't call it a flush, A flush the notes pressure.

578
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: You can do this as simply as disconnecting the trans

579
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: cooler lines at the bottom of the radiator. Figure out

580
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: which is the feed, which is the return. Dumped the

581
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: feet into a into a pan. Let it dump the

582
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: fluid out through the return, fill it through the rest

583
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: and you know, through the side of the trans or

584
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: if there's a dipstick tube in this, do it the

585
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: other way. If they've got a machine, or if you're

586
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: gonna take it to the dealer and they're gonna do

587
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: it through a machine, let them hook a machine up

588
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: and they'll fill fluid through it. Do it mildly first.

589
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: You know. My rgument is the doctor says, if you

590
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: don't stop smoking the next two years, something bad is

591
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: going to happen. Do you stop right away, do you

592
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: wait two years and get the two years out of it,

593
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: or do you do it now all the way wholeheartedly

594
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: and try and go for it. You know, it's a

595
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: is the glass half full half empty kind of a thing.

596
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: Um Me, I'd like to approach it little by little.

597
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: If I'm planning to keep the vehicle, I want clean

598
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: fluid in there, and I want to avoid the problem.

599
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: Chances are you'll avoid the problem that should be ws

600
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: Toyota Tran fluid their their world class stuff. I'm surprised

601
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: that lasted this long without any kind of an issue.

602
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet that it's in pretty good shape,

603
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: pretty good color, because you're probably pretty easy on it.

604
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: But changing it can only make it better and help

605
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: the vehicle last longer. Just my two cents, you may

606
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: have it, don't. So what you're saying is just drain

607
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: it and fill it, drive it for a few months, whatever,

608
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: and then if everything's good, then flush it right well,

609
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: don't flush it, exchange it, and don't do it eight

610
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: to ten thous miles. I do it five, I do

611
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: it in five. Do a drain and fill, do it

612
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: in five. See what color the fluid is that comes out,

613
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: and then if you want to consider dropping the pan,

614
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: Although dropping the pan usually there's not much to see

615
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: because it's a breast screen. So Uh, you know that

616
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: to me, if you're planning to keep the vehicle and

617
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: get the most out of it, fluid services normally part

618
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: of it. On anything, it doesn't matter what you're driving,

619
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: and by all means change the gear oils front and

620
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: rear DIF and change the transfer case fluid too. That

621
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: just recommended real world maintenance, condensation, age, mileage, et cetera.

622
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. I'm running any in the car doctor.

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626
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627
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: It's easy to drive the old cars. Uh did just

628
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Speaker 1: it again the X four thirty one Throttle three. They've

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Speaker 1: now incorporated so many features into the one Throttle three

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Speaker 1: and is in some of their previous stuff, but they've

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Speaker 1: made it a bigger screen, a faster processor, They've got

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Speaker 1: a DOS calibration in there. They're doing their usual bidirectional controls.

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Speaker 1: Um it appears to be a wireless connection to the

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Speaker 1: vehicle that they're really advancing things further and further up

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Speaker 1: the scale. Launch has always played hard in the scan

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Speaker 1: tool game, and this one looks like it's going through

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Speaker 1: will deliver as in their past products, So you want

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Speaker 1: to get out the Launch Tech USA dot com to

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Speaker 1: see what's new and what's coming your way for the

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Speaker 1: next year. As we continue to try and fix cars

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Speaker 1: all across America. I'm running any in the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: reminding you each and every time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you