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Speaker 2: Oh that Tom Ray, what a kidder? So lot to do.

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Speaker 2: A lot going on this hour down around the bottom.

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Speaker 2: Daryl Brockman is going to be joining us from up

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Speaker 2: in the batteries to talk about the latest and battery technology.

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Speaker 2: But right now the phones are backed up. Let's go

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Speaker 2: over to Bobby. I'm glad you put the b in

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Speaker 2: front of your name, Bobby. It looked like Abby from

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Speaker 2: Long Island, New York, and I went Abby Bobby from

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Speaker 2: Long Island, New York. Oh for Toyota four Runner. What's

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Speaker 2: going on? How can I help?

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Speaker 3: H Ron? Long long, long time listen. It's really I

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Speaker 3: really appreciate that what you do for all of us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: I just replaced my uh nineteen eighty four crested up

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Speaker 3: with a new to me two thousand and four four

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Speaker 3: Runner with sixty thousand miles. It's like a brand new car. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I know I over paid for it, but you know what, Ron,

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Speaker 3: it rides like a new car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's bump. Absolutely, I can check.

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Speaker 3: I can check. The transmission has a full sized spare tire.

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Speaker 3: But the previous owner had problem with the brakes as

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Speaker 3: far as a spongy pedal.

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Speaker 2: Okay, spongey now you're talking about while you're driving? Yes, okay?

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Speaker 2: And is it that it's not a good firm pedal,

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Speaker 2: almost like it needs to be bled.

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Speaker 3: Yep. And I gave it a good thorough bleeding. First

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Speaker 3: I tried. I bled. The backs came out like iced tea,

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Speaker 3: I suppose, And I thought the pedal came up a

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Speaker 3: little bit. But then when I did the fronts, no

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Speaker 3: change and it's still it seemed like it got a

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Speaker 3: little bit better. But I wouldn't bet on it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you're aware there's a specific bleed procedure for this vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Oh I am not. Yeah, I'm waiting for the owner's

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Speaker 3: manual from Toyota.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you want to, and you want to also be aware.

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Speaker 2: And here's a classic example of driving an older vehicle, Bobby,

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Speaker 2: I would I would have a subscription to one of

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Speaker 2: the online electronic services all that of DIY something like that,

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Speaker 2: you know, just to see can you get more current information,

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Speaker 2: Because if you're waiting for the service manual from Toyota

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Speaker 2: for an four that probably stopped production twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: More than a few bulletins have come out since that

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Speaker 2: book was initially published, unless they're unless they're continually updating

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Speaker 2: and publishing the paper print copies, but I don't think

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Speaker 2: they are. Or you're waiting for an owner's manual, not

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Speaker 2: a service manual.

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Speaker 3: No money for service manuals.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's not going to be it's not going

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Speaker 2: to be anywhere near as it's not going to be

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Speaker 2: anywhere near as comprehensive as electronic information. You know, if

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight they came out with a

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Speaker 2: bulletin related to your particular problem, but they stopped producing

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Speaker 2: that book in two thousand and five, you'll never see

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Speaker 2: that bulletin. So here's here's here's the argument. Yeah, it's nice,

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Speaker 2: it's well, it's nice to have a it's nice to

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Speaker 2: have Listen, the guy at Toyota told you, hey, here's

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Speaker 2: the most current copy of an O four service manual right.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: What he said he'd get me one with all the updates.

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Speaker 3: And I've been dealing with this guy out in a

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe maybe maybe he does, maybe he knows something.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, But I can't imagine that in twenty

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Speaker 2: if that was the last data publication, I'd be curious

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Speaker 2: that as Toyota has aged that vehicle out. That vehicle's

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Speaker 2: twenty one years old. Now, I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 2: know that they care. I don't know that they care

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Speaker 2: so much about it. Right, there's the argument for electronic information.

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Speaker 2: Neither here nor there. You got to get the bleed procedure.

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Speaker 2: You've got to follow brief bleed procedure. Make sure you're

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Speaker 2: doing it correctly. Number one. Number two, there's a possibility

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Speaker 2: this has a bad hydraulic control unit. This has the

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Speaker 2: electric vacuum pump set up correct It does right. So

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Speaker 2: here's a quick test. Pump the brake pedal forty times

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Speaker 2: thirty five to forty times forty times should do it

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Speaker 2: all right? You pump it forty times, turn the ignition

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Speaker 2: switch on and you'll hear the pump run. Okays, it

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Speaker 2: builds pressure within a few seconds of coming on, between

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Speaker 2: five and eight seconds. That pump should sound strained like

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Speaker 2: it's building pressure right, like it's under load. And if

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Speaker 2: it doesn't, then you've got to start to have a

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Speaker 2: conversation with your head. Do you have with yourself in

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Speaker 2: your head? Do you have a problem with that pump assembly?

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Speaker 3: Ron, would you feel comfortable with changing just some motor?

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Speaker 2: Now I put the whole thing, I do the whole thing. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's twenty one years old. You know it's a and

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Speaker 2: not to mention. Here's the case where if you can

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Speaker 2: still get that complete motor assembly from Toyota. Let's say

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Speaker 2: you do Let's say you just do a motor and

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Speaker 2: five years from now the accumulator ball fails or some

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Speaker 2: other component of that and you find out it's not available,

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Speaker 2: and now you're chasing an aftermarket something that might be marginal,

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Speaker 2: you know what, on an older vehicle. If the goal

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Speaker 2: is to keep it, and since you just got it,

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Speaker 2: the goal is to keep it, You're better off replacing

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Speaker 2: and using the best quality parts you can find. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be cheaper in the long run. Five

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Speaker 2: years from now you won't have a problem. You're saving money.

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Speaker 3: Fights I'm already so far ahead of the game, right exactly,

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Speaker 3: and spend eighteen hundred dollars on Toto factory ports to

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Speaker 3: replace both of it. I just wanted to make sure

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Speaker 3: I'm doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: You're you're on the right path, my friend.

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Speaker 3: All right, please electronic blued and then we'll go from there.

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Speaker 2: Go from there, and if you need me, you know

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Speaker 2: where to find me, all right, Kittle, you'd be well.

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Speaker 2: Take care. Bobby. Arlene intent in Tennessee twenty Malibu. What's

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Speaker 2: going on here? Leen? How can I help?

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Speaker 4: I had to have the transmission replaced in April, and

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Speaker 4: I did that through the dealer, right, and I got

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Speaker 4: a rebuilt GM transmission.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: What I have a problem with is when I go

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Speaker 4: to put it in park. If I'm on level ground

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Speaker 4: and it takes my foot off the break, it goes

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Speaker 4: right into park. But if I'm on an incline or

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Speaker 4: the foot off, it rolls before it locks into park.

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Speaker 2: More so did more so than it did with the

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Speaker 2: previous transmission.

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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, yes, Okay.

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Speaker 2: And you're and you're and you're going to tell me

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Speaker 2: you went back to the dealer and they said that's

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Speaker 2: normal for the operation of the vehicle.

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Speaker 4: No. I went back to the dealer and they said

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Speaker 4: there was no error code and they couldn't duplicate it

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Speaker 4: until they told.

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Speaker 2: Me to go home. Can you can you take a

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Speaker 2: technician for a ride? Are you allowed to do that?

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Speaker 4: No? They they kept it for a day and a

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Speaker 4: half and told me the technician did drive it right.

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Speaker 2: But did the technician put it on an incline? Probably

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Speaker 2: not right, so he can't duplicate the problem when he

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Speaker 2: doesn't see it right.

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Speaker 4: What I need to know is that a breaking problem,

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Speaker 4: or is that a transmission problem.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a transmission problem to me. Okay, so take

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Speaker 2: your take your index finger on your right hand. Take

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Speaker 2: take your thumb and index finger on your left hand.

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Speaker 2: Put your put your index finger from your right hand

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Speaker 2: in between the other two. All right, grip, grip your

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Speaker 2: right hand index finger moderately tight. Okay, Yeah, that's basically

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Speaker 2: the park pole. Your right index finger. Your right index

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Speaker 2: finger is locked between the other two fingers, right right. Now,

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Speaker 2: spread them apart a quarter of an inch. See all

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Speaker 2: that slop? See how see how your finger moves more? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's the movement in the transmission. If that gap is

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Speaker 2: too large, if those parts are worn on that unit,

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Speaker 2: if it's a reman unit that was not properly assembled

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Speaker 2: or re manufactured, that measurement is off. And now you've

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Speaker 2: got too much slop such that it's loaded against load

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Speaker 2: your right index finger against your thumb. You feel how

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Speaker 2: hard that is to push?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: If it has to roll the other way and it

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Speaker 2: then finally bang, you jam it and you get it

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Speaker 2: to pop, that's the sensation you're going through. If they

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Speaker 2: don't experience that problem on an incline, just like you're

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Speaker 2: describing it. Because you've described it perfectly. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 2: with your description, there's nothing wrong with your analysis. I

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Speaker 2: think you're spot on all right, But how do.

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Speaker 4: I get them to believe that?

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Speaker 2: You got to somebody's got to go for a ride

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Speaker 2: with you. Take the service manager out for coffee. Say, hey, listen,

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Speaker 2: Here's here's the thing about relationships with a repair shop. Right,

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Speaker 2: is this where you bought the car?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Is this the guys that have been servicing it up

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, Ron, you know you've been taking care of

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Speaker 2: my car for five years. You put a transmission, and

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Speaker 2: I think there's a problem really early, and I can't

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Speaker 2: experience it. Let's go for a ride. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: the first words out of my mouth. It's it's because

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Speaker 4: Is I'm dealing with a dealership and like he told me,

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Speaker 4: they have a turnover on technicians, and I'm not dealing

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Speaker 2: Right, But that's not your problem. I know that's not

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Speaker 2: your problem, sweetheart, And don't let Yeah, it's their excuse.

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Speaker 2: Don't let them pass the buck. Shame on them for

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Speaker 2: doing that. All right, it's time to talk to the

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Speaker 2: service manager. Listen, I am a customer. I have been

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Speaker 2: here for five years. I have paid it for every

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Speaker 2: service you guys recommended to me. I have played the

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Speaker 2: game your way. Now I have a problem. You want

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Speaker 2: to know what the mark of a good repair shop is.

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Speaker 2: It's not when they can do an oil change, or

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Speaker 2: retire rotation or put brakes on the car. It's when

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Speaker 2: you've got a dedicated customer and they've got a problem.

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Speaker 2: It's up to that shop to solve it. They're obligated

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Speaker 2: that say what makes a good repair shop? That's what

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Speaker 2: makes a good repair shop. And if the service manager

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Speaker 2: doesn't give you any support, go talk to the sales manager.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think about buying another car from you guys,

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Speaker 4: you're right, I need to see the service manager.

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Speaker 2: real quick. Go to Chuck in Delaware sixteen Toyota Tacoma

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Speaker 2: what's going on?

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Speaker 5: Oh not a whole lot. Thank you for your callback.

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Speaker 5: You're welcome, enjoy your show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: And So I have a sixteen Toyota Tacoma SR five

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Speaker 2: If you put it in neutral when it's doing that,

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Speaker 5: No, it's real quick. It just it just pops for

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Speaker 2: Okay. Four wheel drive, Yes, as factory tires stock tires.

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Speaker 5: Uh, they're not. They're not stocked.

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Speaker 2: No, are they big? They're not? But are they? Are

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Speaker 2: they a very aggressive tire?

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Speaker 6: No, I've put I've put what they recommend to want

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Speaker 2: An LT Okay, So barring tires creating an issue or

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Speaker 2: Chuck four right? I'd probably pull the dry shaft down

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Speaker 2: amount of wiggle to them. Nothing excessive, nothing feels warned,

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Speaker 2: nothing feels clunky. Do we have a center support bearing

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Speaker 2: on this? Or is this a one piece shift? Why

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Speaker 5: That that I do not know?

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Speaker 2: All right? Do I have it?

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Speaker 2: It, right, I was gonna say I would. I would

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Speaker 2: to just how's the drive shift? Is it intact? Is it?

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Speaker 2: And look at the splines. Right, take your index finger,

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Speaker 2: the yoke bouncing around on the inputs on the output

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Speaker 2: shaft of the trans. Is it gouged? Are the splines

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Speaker 2: of the output shaft of the trans starting to dig

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Speaker 2: just saying, however you drive aggressive or easy or whatever

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Speaker 2: if that output shaft has started to gouge the splines

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Speaker 2: curious if putting the truck in neutral while it was

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Right? Does that?

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Speaker 5: And it doesn't happen all the time?

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Speaker 5: Very it's very right. So it seems like it's boring

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, and there's that there's that drive shafts yoke

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Speaker 2: if there's a center support bearing and that's good, and

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Speaker 2: the inside of the yoke looks okay, right, I would

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Speaker 2: think I probably use yellow grease. What I call yellow grease.

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Speaker 2: just yeah, just just the obvious stuff. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: transfer case fluids, those kind of things? No, No, I

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Speaker 2: I don't know that that's going to solve any problems

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Speaker 2: if you change you're dift fluid, and you were to

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Speaker 2: are you going to get any kind of fragments or metal?

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Speaker 2: That's how I would approach it, brother, all right, So

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Speaker 2: nothing that stands out. There's no bulletins. I thought we

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Speaker 2: and service and will tell us. Good luck to you, Chuck.

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Speaker 2: If you anymore, you know where to find me. Hey,

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Speaker 2: coming up next, Darryl Brockman. Let's learn about batteries and

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Speaker 2: the latest in technology from the folks over at Optimum Batteries.

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Speaker 2: I'm ronning Ay and the car Doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 2: with him right after this. Welcome back. You know it's

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Speaker 2: getting to be that time of year. Well, actually that

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Speaker 2: We've reached out to Daryl Brockman. He is product planning

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Speaker 2: Optima is doing. Darrel, Welcome to the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 7: Thanks so much for having me. Great to be here.

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Speaker 2: I need to put a battery in my car. Let's

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Speaker 2: start the simple conversation here, right. I need to put

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Speaker 2: Toyota Camryo. It's got auto start, it's an automatic, it's

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Speaker 2: got all the bells and whistles. Help me put a

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Speaker 2: battery in my car, Daryl, what am I looking for?

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Speaker 7: I mean, usually what you would recommend as an AGM battery,

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Speaker 7: especially if you have start stop in your vehicle, that

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Speaker 7: to be instead of starting the battery, you know, once

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Speaker 7: twenty or thirty times. And the a GM battery is

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Speaker 7: what's going to give you the longest life. You know,

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Speaker 7: in today's modern vehicles, the electrical loads on vehicles over

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Speaker 7: expected to decrease. And the old flooded batteries just don't

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Speaker 2: Is it a safe assumption? Dangerous word on family radio?

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Speaker 2: But is it a safe assumption to assume that, Well,

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Speaker 2: if I've got an AGM battery, I don't have a

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Speaker 2: guess the other plf of that question becomes, if I

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Speaker 7: I mean, vehicles can have two and three batteries. In

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Speaker 7: the vehicle move. There'll be a twelve volt battery that's

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Speaker 7: you really powering the cabin functions or some you know,

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Speaker 7: those often have two batteries now where they'll have the

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Speaker 2: Now, Optima would make a battery for my camera, wouldn't they?

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Speaker 7: We do we have actually, so we have our a

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Speaker 7: GM line. We have red top and yellow top AGM

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Speaker 7: batteries that your camera probably takes a group thirty five battery.

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Speaker 7: We make that in both red and yellow top or

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Speaker 7: charging system has enough power to keep the to maintain

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Speaker 7: electrical equilibrium, a yellow top battery. If you had a

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Speaker 7: electrical demands, we'd suggest one of our yel top batteries

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Speaker 7: that's a dual purpose battery that has great starting power

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Speaker 7: in addition to the ability to be cycled more deeply

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Speaker 2: So you know you've got them. You've got the batteries

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Speaker 2: power sport Like why do power sport vehicles like ATV snowmobiles,

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Speaker 2: wave runners, they need a specific type of battery, right

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Speaker 2: as opposed to batteries that I might use in my

436
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Speaker 2: camera or is that can I take my camera battery

437
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Speaker 2: and put it into a power into a power sport

438
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Speaker 2: vehicle if it fits sure.

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Speaker 7: And the biggest difference between a power sports battery and

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Speaker 7: an automotive batteries that those power sports batteries are much smaller.

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Speaker 5: Often.

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Speaker 7: I'd actually introduced a line of lithium power sports batteries

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Speaker 7: about two years ago, and they have a lot of

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Speaker 7: great teachers lithium batteries. One of the advantages is the

445
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Speaker 7: very lightweight. A lot of people, you know, if you

446
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Speaker 7: have a bike that's or a power sports vehicle that's

447
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Speaker 7: more performance oriented, a lithium battery is much lighter than

448
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Speaker 7: the lead acid battery replaces, so it'll the vehicle handle

449
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Speaker 7: better and the Again, those batteries have great cycle life.

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Speaker 7: One of the features that are with the empower sports

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Speaker 7: batteries have that really people really like is our Optimus

452
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Speaker 7: CPR function, and that's what we call our built in jumpstarter. Basically,

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Speaker 7: when the battery gets if the battery gets discharged down

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Speaker 7: to thirty five percent stay of charge, if you leave

455
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Speaker 7: the heated grips on on your motorcycle, or if you

456
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 7: leave the whip lights on your side by side overnight.

457
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Speaker 7: Once that battery gets down to thirty five percent, the

458
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Speaker 7: battery automatically will go into sleep mode, it'll shut down

459
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Speaker 7: in that thirty five percent that it holds in reserve.

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Speaker 7: It acts like a built in jump starter. You just

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Speaker 7: have to press the button on the power link that's

462
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Speaker 7: included with the battery. It wakes the battery up and

463
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Speaker 7: you can start it up and be on your way.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's kind of cool. That's that's neat. Now is

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Speaker 2: that is that part of lithium technology, because my other

466
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Speaker 2: question was you know you have and as when you

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Speaker 2: talk about your lithium technology, is that hypercore lithium because

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Speaker 2: or is hypercore lithium technology and optimum battery something specific?

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Speaker 7: Also, so, there are a lot of different lithium chemistries

470
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Speaker 7: in the market. The lithium chemistry that's used in cell

471
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Speaker 7: phones is different than the lithium chemistry that's commonly used

472
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Speaker 7: in electric vehicles, and the lithium chemistry that is used

473
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Speaker 7: in our batteries is different than both of those. Optimally

474
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Speaker 7: uses a lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which is known for

475
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Speaker 7: having excellent capability to deliver a burst of power for starting,

476
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Speaker 7: but it's also widely considered the safest and the most

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Speaker 7: abuse tolerant lithium chemistry. And then even within a given

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Speaker 7: chemistry type our hypercore technology with a different for a

479
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Speaker 7: given cell chemistry, you can tune the performance attributes of it.

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Speaker 7: And that's where our hypercore chemistry comes in. For example,

481
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Speaker 7: our Q eight six automotives, starting withium automotive starting battery,

482
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Speaker 7: it can crank down the minus twenty fahrenheit. And if

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Speaker 7: you check other lithium batteries that they are on the market,

484
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Speaker 7: they generally recommend that they're not used certainly below zero

485
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Speaker 7: fahrenheit and sometimes even ten or twenty degrees fahrenheit. So

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Speaker 7: I'm in Milwaukee and I can even use one of

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Speaker 7: those batteries here.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying, you know, a power sport vehicle, an ATV,

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Speaker 2: a snowmobile, a wave runner that's gonna that can take

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Speaker 2: a lithium battery. But you're also saying you have lithium

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Speaker 2: technology available for cars, for my camera, for my pickup truck,

492
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Speaker 2: for my whatever.

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Speaker 7: We have a full line of lithium batteries. We have

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Speaker 7: six different power sports batteries, different sizes to cover over

495
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Speaker 7: ninety five percent of the power sports vehicles on the

496
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Speaker 7: on the road, everything from a little fifty cc scooter

497
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Speaker 7: up to a big, big V twin touring bike, side

498
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Speaker 7: by sides and everything in between. We also have a

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Speaker 7: we have a couple of lithium batteries for marine and

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Speaker 7: r V applications, and we have a auto and truck

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Speaker 7: lithium starting battery as well.

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Speaker 2: So if you make a group thirty five lithium battery

503
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Speaker 2: for my camera, right, I'm not saying you do. If

504
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Speaker 2: you do and I want to and I want to

505
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Speaker 2: put it in, is it a bolt in or do

506
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Speaker 2: I need to do something special? Do I have to

507
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Speaker 2: change something because my battery was originally a GM or

508
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Speaker 2: lead acid or whatever it might have been. Is there

509
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Speaker 2: is there a difference to the way it's going to

510
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Speaker 2: charge or work.

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Speaker 7: So the physical the physical size of the battery, we

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Speaker 7: don't actually make the battery that it's a lithium battery

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Speaker 7: for your camera.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 7: The lithium automotive battery we make, it's a H six.

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Speaker 7: It's the most common size used in vehicles in the US.

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Speaker 7: It is a it's a direct drop in for those

518
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Speaker 7: drop in replacement for those vehicles. And the reason that's

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Speaker 7: possible is both lead acid batteries and lithium batteries. The

520
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 7: ideal charging voltage is very close to fourteen point four volts.

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Speaker 7: That's also the output the power output level of the

522
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Speaker 7: vehicle of vehicle charging systems. So that's what enables you

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Speaker 7: to be able to put a lithium battery into a

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Speaker 7: vehicle that originally had a let acid battery without having

525
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Speaker 7: to change anything with the charging system or anything else.

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Speaker 2: And that that lithium battery gives me the advantage that

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Speaker 2: I'll have more reliable starting power in colder weather, and

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Speaker 2: more durability, longer lasting.

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Speaker 7: And that and the because the lithium batteries they have

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Speaker 7: a they basically they have a battery management system. It's

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Speaker 7: basically a computer inside, and that enables a bunch of

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Speaker 7: really cool features for a lithium automotive battery. I was

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Speaker 7: talking about that built in jumpstart function. So if you

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Speaker 7: go to the airport, leave your domemite on and jump

535
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Speaker 7: on the plane, you come back a couple of days

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Speaker 7: later in your battery. Instead, our lithium antomne motive batteries

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Speaker 7: have that same optimus CPR function. The cool thing about

538
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Speaker 7: the automotive batteries is you just need to all you

539
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 7: have to do is open up the optimum Bluetooth app

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00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 7: on your phone and it reactivates automatically, turns the battery on.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to open the hood, you don't have

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Speaker 7: to tear up our you even start the vehicle up again.

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Speaker 7: Just open up the app from your driver's seat and

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Speaker 7: away you go.

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Speaker 2: You're making it way too easy, Daryl, Darryl, stay put

546
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Speaker 2: to take a pause on the side. I'm ronning Any

547
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Speaker 2: in the card doctor. Let's when me come back. I

548
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Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about the power Link

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Speaker 2: system and some of the other things you've got going

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Speaker 2: on over there at Optima Batteries. We're here with Daryl

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Speaker 2: Brockman from Optima Batteries. I'm ron an Any in the

552
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Speaker 2: car doctor. I'll be back right after this. Hey, look

553
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: we came back. Ronan Ani in the car doctor. I'm

554
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 2: here with Daryl Brockman. He is the in product planning

555
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: over there at Optima Batteries. Darryl. When we pulled away,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to jump in real quick too, about the

557
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Speaker 2: power Link system. Can you talk about that real quick?

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Speaker 7: Sure?

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 7: Powerlink it's a proprietary system with multiple patterns for battery communication, control,

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Speaker 7: and charging. It's a corded dongle that's connected to the battery,

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Speaker 7: and it allows you to know the battery status. Has

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00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 7: multicolored LEDs, so for example, the LED of flash green

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00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 7: if the battery is fully charged, it'll flash red if

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Speaker 7: the battery needs to be charged. There's a button on

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Speaker 7: it it allows you to shut the battery down for

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Speaker 7: off season storage or if you're railing your side by

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Speaker 7: side to the trails and you want to don't want

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Speaker 7: to have to worry about it being powered up. You

570
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 7: can just press the button for three seconds it puts

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Speaker 7: the battery to sleep. I mentioned Optimus pr previously are

572
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 7: built in jumpstart function. It's using that button on the

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Speaker 7: power link is how you'd wake the battery up again.

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00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 7: And then finally, there's a plug on the end that

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Speaker 7: enables you to directly plug one of optimized Withium enable

576
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 7: chargers in Freezy maintenance your battery power sports vehicles and motorcycles.

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Speaker 7: The battery is usually not very convenient to get to.

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00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 7: It can take a half hour of wrenching to even

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Speaker 7: get to the point where you can see the battery right.

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Speaker 7: So this cord of dongle allows you to you know,

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Speaker 7: basically like an extension cord so that you can charge

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Speaker 7: your battery conveniently without having to break out your run.

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Speaker 2: It's sort of like that remote access cord you see

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Speaker 2: sticking out of the grill of like a diesel plow

585
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: truck when they want to get to the block heater

586
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: or something. You're you're just making an access point easy

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Speaker 2: to get to.

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Speaker 7: Very similar, and we combine that charging capability with the

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Speaker 7: LEDs to no battery status and the ability to control

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Speaker 7: the batteries.

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00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: Right, and then it feeds. Is that what feeds back

592
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 2: to the app on the phone if we're doing that.

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00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 7: So the power sports batteries, they have the power Link

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Speaker 7: our group thirty one batteries that are used for boats

595
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Speaker 7: and RBS r Q eight six batteries that would be

596
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 7: used in a number of cars and trucks. Those all

597
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 7: have a Bluetooth app. And that Bluetooth app not only

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Speaker 7: you know, the first question is why do I need

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Speaker 7: an app for my battery? I don't care what my

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00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 7: battery is doing. Probably the most useful feature that it

601
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 7: has that people really have been, you know, really very

602
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 7: interested in is if that battery gets discharged down to

603
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 7: thirty five percent, it'll automatically go to sleep. That they're

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Speaker 7: optim of CPR function. I was talking about just opening

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00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 7: up by You just have to open up the app

606
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 7: and by doing that and connecting to the battery, it

607
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 7: activates the battery and wakes it back up again when

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Speaker 7: that built in jumpstart function has been has been activated,

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00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 7: so you don't you don't even have to open up

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Speaker 7: the hood.

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Speaker 2: Of the vehicle.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to make physical contact with the you know,

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Speaker 7: dig up your trunk.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about safety certifications. Why are they

615
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Speaker 2: so important?

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Speaker 7: The safety certifications? I mean, there's a lot of lithium

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Speaker 7: battery manufacturers and brands on the market. Agency and safety

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Speaker 7: certifications are one way to know that the battery has

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Speaker 7: undergone rigorous testing to ensure safe operation. And there's both

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Speaker 7: sell and battery level certifications. Optima has both not only

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Speaker 7: for the US standards, but for international standards as.

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Speaker 2: Well, so you know, when people are using lithium, and

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Speaker 2: we hear lithium in the news all the time, right,

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00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: we know optims optim has done the research. And that's

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00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: where the safety certifications are so important that we're dealing with.

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Speaker 2: We're dealing with the you know, the cream of the crop,

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Speaker 2: so to speak. You guys are rich that that we're

628
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Speaker 2: dealing with a good quality of lithium battery and technology

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Speaker 2: behind it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Clarius is engineering team. Clarius is the world's largest

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Speaker 7: battery manufacturer. The engineering team that supported development of these

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Speaker 7: Optima batteries their normal their normal rule is developing low

633
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 7: voltage energy storage systems for major audio automakers. Clarios is

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Speaker 7: the world's largest supplier of low voltage energy storage systems

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Speaker 7: for automakers. That same engineering team with that with their

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Speaker 7: you know, robust product knowledge and experience with the tech

637
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 7: achnology and battery management system development. That's the team that

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00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 7: supported development of these Optima batteries, and it's really what

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00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 7: enables us to have such high performance, such a unique

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00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 7: and proprietary feature set, and again to have that long

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Speaker 7: list of agency and safety certifications.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Daryl, where can the listeners go get more information.

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Speaker 7: Optima Batteries dot com or our tech support line at

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Speaker 7: eight eight eight eight Optima Perfect.

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Speaker 2: Daryl, We'll get together again. I'm on an a, Andy

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Speaker 2: and the car Doctor. We'll be back right after this. Hey,

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Speaker 2: once again, thank you to my special guest Daryl Brockman

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Speaker 2: for taking the time. Battery technology is evolving. I still

649
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Speaker 2: think batteries are evolving faster than the rest of the

650
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: car when you look at it, because it's it's it's lithium,

651
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: it's conventional, it's a GM, it's the way we test it.

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00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 2: It's the chargers, it's the maintainers. It's just accelerating like

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Speaker 2: a rocket ship. About six months ago, maybe eight months ago,

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Speaker 2: we did a test. We unwrapped one of Optima's, the

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Speaker 2: D four hundred plus battery maintainer. It's up on our

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Speaker 2: YouTube channel if you go take a look at it.

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Speaker 2: Just go out look for ron Anannie in the card

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Speaker 2: doctor or type in Optima D four hundred plus Battery

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Speaker 2: Maintainer and look at all the little technology that's in

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Speaker 2: that box. And it's just crazy what we need. And

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Speaker 2: it's also crazy what the tooling will do because of

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Speaker 2: the newer technology. So yeah, just a great interview. I

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Speaker 2: could have talked to Darryl for another hour. I kind

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Speaker 2: of geek out on that stuff. To quote Daryl, Darrel

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Speaker 2: says he's a geek with batteries. Yeah, I'm a geek

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Speaker 2: with batteries. To Daryl, that's why I get you. That's

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Speaker 2: why it was a pleasure to have you. So you

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Speaker 2: will find more information once again at Optima Batteries dot com.

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Speaker 2: Well I can tell by the music. Tom's trying to

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Speaker 2: get rid of me. He must think it's time for

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Speaker 2: me to go, so go I must, And let me

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Speaker 2: just say it's been a pleasure. I hope you guys

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Speaker 2: have a great rest of the weekend, however long it

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Speaker 2: lasts for you, until the next time we get together.

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Speaker 2: I'm Ronan Aannie in the card doctor, minding you good.

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Speaker 2: Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you