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Speaker 1: I drive a hybrid, which is a combination of old

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

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: call in the garage to orders are open. But I

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Speaker 1: now he running. You know, every week when I get

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Speaker 1: to this point, I say where do I start? And

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Speaker 1: and and some weeks you know, truthfully, I'm standing here

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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here today and boy, I could I

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Speaker 1: I don't know where to begin, and I've really just

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Speaker 1: got to do a short and show. The phones were

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you? Do? I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you about the guy with the rusty brake lines that

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Speaker 1: didn't understand the concept about well, you know, when I

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Speaker 1: And um, what we're doing is running and trying to

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Speaker 1: know Tom wants a quickie. Um in that I was

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Speaker 1: this real Danny Mexico City? Oh? Yes, Hello, hey Danny,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Hey, Ron, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. Yeah, I'm the same guy called

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Speaker 1: about like five to six seconds for it to go

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Speaker 1: It's like the RPMs will go down instead of the

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Speaker 1: opposite of when any transmission flips. You feel as though

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean by lug? Does it feel

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Speaker 1: It's like you you feel as though the cars losing power.

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Speaker 1: But it's not the engine that's stalling or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: It's not like the engines losing power per se. But

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Speaker 1: it's like the RPM range just doesn't hold up right

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Speaker 1: regular PRN D and then two and one. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: a circle on it. But I do have other drive

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Speaker 1: because well there's the old the old button on the

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Speaker 1: you have downshifting in the third And that's a matter

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you one more segment, kiddo, and then

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, ran the Car Doctor here at five zero zero, Danny,

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Speaker 1: So let's leave it here. Let's let's let's leave it here.

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Speaker 1: the US, Mexico is a poor country where we we

426
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Speaker 1: we struggle some days with the basics. And and I

427
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Speaker 1: never forgot that statement. And that's, you know, that just

428
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Speaker 1: makes me think that, um, the whole thing is kind

429
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: of out of out of calibration, so to speak, that

430
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: the next door neighbor is going to do all this

431
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Speaker 1: and the other neighbor can't do it. So where does

432
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Speaker 1: it all come from? And how does it begin? Um? Uh,

433
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: interesting stuff, Danny. I appreciate the call, and I I'm

434
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Speaker 1: amazed by the fact that you tune in all the

435
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Speaker 1: way from Mexico City. Uh. You may be a fan

436
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: of mine, but I'm a fan of yours, brother, So

437
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: you call me if you need something. All right, now,

438
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. And it's always uh and

439
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: like me to talk to you. And good to hear

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Speaker 1: your show every time. Thank you, Danny. You'd be well

441
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Speaker 1: be safe. Merry Christmas. Yeah, merry Christmas too. Thanks by

442
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 1: very welcome. Bye bye, Um what or else we have calls?

443
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Speaker 1: So look at that, Tom, I'm international. Now, well I've

444
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: been international for a while, so I know Tom's got

445
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Speaker 1: a comment here. I know it's great. That means I'm

446
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to make the I'm gonna have to call carpenter, Bob.

447
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 1: We gotta make the top of the door to the

448
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: studio bigger for your head. I don't think you could

449
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: possibly make it any bigger. See I had I had

450
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Speaker 1: a good comment there. And now we're gonna come from

451
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Speaker 1: a go for Mexico back to Yeah, let's go to

452
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Speaker 1: Don in Michigan. Okay, I'll buy a nineteen sixty five

453
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Speaker 1: pickup truck. Oh boy, look at the variety here. Don

454
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Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor, sir, how can I help? Well,

455
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: I it's been already done and they had an extra

456
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Speaker 1: spot for a gage, so I put a NAMP gage

457
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Speaker 1: in it. I don't know where took. Okay, who's who's

458
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Speaker 1: brand amp gage? Is it? Oh? Jeez, I can't tell

459
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Speaker 1: you that. Well, because here's the catch, all right. The

460
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Speaker 1: most important thing about an ampmeter is that it has

461
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Speaker 1: to have the capacity equal to that of the alternator.

462
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Speaker 1: What's the range of the gauge? Where does it go to?

463
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Speaker 1: From what? To? What? I think? All right? Do you

464
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Speaker 1: know what the alternator out of charging output of your alternator?

465
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Speaker 1: All right? Well you have to know for sure because

466
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Speaker 1: if you have an a d M If you have

467
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Speaker 1: an a d amp alternator and you put in a

468
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Speaker 1: sixty m M meter, the next the next thing you're

469
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Speaker 1: gonna hear me say is what color you know? Because

470
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: because it's you, you'll be picking out a new truck

471
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: when you turn on all the electrical accessories when this

472
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: one burns up because the M meter was underrated. So

473
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Speaker 1: so you know, an M meter to me is a

474
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Speaker 1: critical gauge in terms of selection and how it's wired. Basically,

475
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Speaker 1: it has to be lined up in series with the

476
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Speaker 1: charging system, so it's not like a voltmeter where you

477
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Speaker 1: would go to the negative and positive posts of the

478
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Speaker 1: battery or positive in ground. You want to be you

479
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: want to be tied to the alternator output harness of

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Speaker 1: the of the alternator, you know, the heavy the heavy

481
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Speaker 1: red wire and they usually they usually do it with

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Speaker 1: a charging shunt, so it allows proper integration. But the

483
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Speaker 1: most important thing is who's who's or what brand gauges it?

484
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Speaker 1: Will it handle the load? And is it a good

485
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: quality gauge because the vehicles electrical charging output is now

486
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: going to go through and be part of that gauge

487
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: as well. If that gauge is faulty, it will create

488
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Speaker 1: other electrical issues in the vehicle. So you know, whether

489
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: you got it for free or it just happens to

490
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Speaker 1: fit the hall, that doesn't matter to me. This is

491
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: um Are you fussy about the way you maintain the truck,

492
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: what parts you put in it, what oil filter you

493
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: pick on it, put on it, and so forth. This

494
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: is the same thing. This is even more critical, all right.

495
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: You know it's it's for one of the kingdom the

496
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: horses lost for one of the horse The shoe was lost,

497
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: et cetera, or the shoe and the horse, and you

498
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: get my point. So, um, I would find out what

499
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Speaker 1: brand gage that is, and is it rated for the

500
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Speaker 1: vehicle system and what that system's output should be, and

501
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: then we can talk about how to wire it up.

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00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: And usually you will find most a meter manufacturers will

503
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Speaker 1: have their own installed kits. Well, I don't know. For

504
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: some reason, this didn't have anything. That's did you get

505
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: a brand new out of a box? What brand was it?

506
00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,479
Speaker 1: Because you threw the box out right, I'll I have

507
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: to I have to get all that, I guess and

508
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: call you back, okay, Or or go look up the vio.

509
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: Go look up the gauge manufacturer and talk to them

510
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: and say is there an install kit? Is there instructions?

511
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: See what they say? Why not? All right? But just

512
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: be careful how you install that? All right, sir? Enjoy

513
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: the truck. You're very welcome. Enjoy Enjoy the truck. Don

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Speaker 1: eight five five five zero nine zero zero. Running any

515
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Speaker 1: of the car doctor. We're coming back right after this.

516
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back. Run in the car doctor

517
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Speaker 1: at eight five five five zero nine zero zero. I

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Speaker 1: should point out that phone number is seven I'll give

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00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: it again. Eight five five five zero nine nine zero zero. Yes,

520
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: we do answer the phone. Yes, we do take messages.

521
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: You can leave a message at that eight five five

522
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Speaker 1: five zero nine nine zero zero phone number and Tom

523
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Speaker 1: Ray executive producer here. We'll call you back and get

524
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Speaker 1: you in the queue for the next live broadcast. Yes,

525
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: we do call people back. I can't tell you how

526
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: many people I call and they go, you're actually calling me. Yes,

527
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: we do. Listen. I don't say I do it often,

528
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: and I haven't done in a while because I haven't

529
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: seen the need. But you know, more than a few

530
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: people have been greeted. They've gone to lunch and they

531
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Speaker 1: come back to work and they'll check their messages and

532
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: they've heard Hi, this is Ron and Adian from the

533
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: Car Doctor radio show. You're you know, you're eight one

534
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: for does this, this and this here's something you can

535
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: go look at. And I you know, some of them

536
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: have called me back because they're floored. Hey, listen, We're

537
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: just a couple of guys trying to fix cars. That's

538
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Speaker 1: all this is about. And and perhaps that's a good

539
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: segue into these comments. This this portion of the show,

540
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the societal impact of order repair.

541
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Speaker 1: The other day, I stopped over at the shop across

542
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Speaker 1: the tracks and I was talking to Mike, one of

543
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: the mechanics there. We we were having a conversation about something.

544
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: I had to stop over and borrow a tool and

545
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: or pick up a tool they had borrowed. I don

546
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Speaker 1: remember which it was, and Mike and I were talking

547
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: regarding He said to me, he said, how's things going.

548
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: I said, where. We're busy, and they're busy, and you know,

549
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: and they were short of mechanic. Their mechanic hadn't shown

550
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: up that day and he Mike looked at me and said, yeah,

551
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: the guy's new. He's he's an older fellow, but he's new,

552
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: he said. But the problem is he goes. We can't

553
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: replace him. We can't find anybody that, you know, fill

554
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: the seat. And I said, yeah, isn't that the case.

555
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 1: There's just, you know, there are no more mechanics out there.

556
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a finite limit. And you know,

557
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: you're struggling to gather people as it were, And Mike said, yeah,

558
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: he says, I remember the day when you know, there

559
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: would be people lined up trying to get into this field.

560
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, listen, I remember the day, and

561
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: you know where I'd be working in the shop and

562
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: the neighborhood kid would show up on his bike and

563
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 1: it would start with, you know, they had a flat,

564
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: or we'd have to put the chain back on, or

565
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: the chain was so rusty it clunked when it turned,

566
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Speaker 1: and he knew something was broken, and we loop it

567
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: up for him and he did all the relationship with

568
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: that kid, I can honestly say more than a few

569
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Speaker 1: kids probably became mechanics. Of course, I'm doing this a

570
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: long time. I think dirt had been invented when I

571
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: first started, and I started thinking about I started recounting

572
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: in my mind driving away from their shop back to

573
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: mine that day. I started thinking about how I started

574
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: and where it started. And I started thinking about my

575
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: my buddy Russell. Now Russell and I went to high

576
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: schools in the opposite opposite towns. We He went to Ramsey,

577
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,959
Speaker 1: I went to MoMA. And you know, cars brought us together.

578
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: They were the focal point. We somehow connected over cars.

579
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: And it was always that camaraderie and our idea of

580
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: hanging out most of the time when we weren't out

581
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: getting into trouble, and it was always Russell's fault. Mom.

582
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: It was Russell's fault. It wasn't mine, um, And that's

583
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: what I told her, And it was it was always cars.

584
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: We would hang out in his mom's garage or my

585
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: mom's garage and we were working on cars, trying to

586
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: better our cars, trying to fix somebody's car, trying to

587
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: mechanically do something. And it evolved into two careers. He

588
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: became a mechanic. I became a mechanic, and nothing wrong

589
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: with that. It was just the natural, natural selection, right.

590
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 1: I don't see young people doing that today. Number One,

591
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: things are very mechanical. Back then, we could fix the

592
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: vehicle and you're in mom's garage. You know, we had

593
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: to go buy tools, but we could do it. The

594
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: electronics weren't there, and you know now today it's just

595
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: such a different thing. And does the vehicle, by definition

596
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: of his complexity prevent kids from getting involved is it's

597
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: so overwhelming to them, which kind of blows my mind

598
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: because they're all hung up on their cell phones and

599
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: the electronics and everything else they do. But you know,

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00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: that's where it went. You know, Russell became a mechanic.

601
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: I became a mechanic, and I gotta tell you a

602
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: creative relationship. I consider him my brother and we still

603
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: talk to each other forty five years later. It's just

604
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: been a long term thing going. Um. But yeah, the

605
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: societal impact of auto repair, where will it lead? Whereas

606
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: it taking us? And what's the next step in the

607
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: evolution yet to be seen? Zero zero? The car Doctor's

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00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: cruising back right after this Don't Go Away, Welcome back.

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00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: We're named the car Doctor. And then I started thinking

610
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Speaker 1: about him. It's kind of seguating from the last segment

611
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: what cars have evolved into. Monday night, Monday and Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: I took a virtual class online with the folks over

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Speaker 1: at the Automotive Training Group a t G. Uh you know,

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00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: as as as we know them, uh more information. I

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00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: believe it's a t G dot com. I'll get to

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Speaker 1: that in a second. We let me flip over the

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Speaker 1: back of the book they they were they were handing

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Speaker 1: out a t G training I'm sorry, a t G

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Speaker 1: training dot com. And Chris Lewis was instructing. And Chris

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00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: and I used to what we still consider us working together,

621
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: but um, you know, we worked together for many many

622
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: years and he's he's now over there, and um, the

623
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Speaker 1: book was about a dos okay, about advanced driver assist systems,

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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: and I started reading in the first couple of pages,

625
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: and it's it's astounding. When you sit and you read

626
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: the technology. You know, it's it's one thing to go,

627
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's a computer card, those all these wonderful things.

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00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: But you start reading the descriptions, so you know, in

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Speaker 1: the early to mid two thousand's, uh, The a t

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Speaker 1: G Training Manual talks about some of the things that

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Speaker 1: were added the vehicles. Night vision. Night vision uses infrared

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Speaker 1: sensors for a heads up or infotainment display of objects

633
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Speaker 1: that might not be well illuminated by the headlights. Adaptive

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Speaker 1: cruise control. This system uses long range radar and may

635
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: have steering angle sensor based targeting, but not lane detection.

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Speaker 1: Forward collision alert this system is only a warning and

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Speaker 1: typically uses the adaptive cruise control radar backup systems. This

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Speaker 1: park assist technology you may use cameras, ultrasonic sensors, or

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Speaker 1: surround view through cameras. Lane departure warning this system uses

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Speaker 1: a forward facing camera to detect lane markings. Icons show

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Speaker 1: whether or not valid lanes are detected and whether or

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Speaker 1: not the vehicle is near or crossing them. Integration prevents

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Speaker 1: false alerts for lane changes with signals. We really have

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Speaker 1: made it a giant computer. I've been saying it for years,

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Speaker 1: and it just continues to evolve. And I keep asking myself,

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Speaker 1: why aren't younger people involved in learning how to fix

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Speaker 1: these things? Because they're what they're holding in their hand.

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Speaker 1: It's a giant computer. I don't know. Maybe next time

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Speaker 1: I'll think more about it. Until then, I'm rondinading the

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Speaker 1: car doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See