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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. One of the first things I teach mechanics

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Speaker 1: when I was when I was training mechanics back in

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Speaker 1: the beginning, was when you get in a customers car,

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Speaker 1: touch as little as possible, turn it on, started up,

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Speaker 1: putting in gear, shut up and draw it. There was

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Speaker 1: a car, the car Doctor, I've ordered you a cardboard

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Speaker 1: cut out of me. You can stand here during your

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Speaker 1: show when we're not sitting here in your studio. I

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Speaker 1: like that a dartboard, but it was worth it. Today

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Speaker 1: I would have me staring at you. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor, since

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

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

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Speaker 1: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call

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Speaker 1: in the garage doors are open, but I am here

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Speaker 1: to take your calls. At eight five and now he running.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how interest good we're interesting? It would be

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Speaker 1: if I talked about maybe the first job of the

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Speaker 1: week and the last job of the week. I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, as I'm working on cars during the course

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Speaker 1: what's of interest? What are they really looking for. And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, maybe it's just the day to

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Speaker 1: day stuff. Maybe it's the every day here's what I

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Speaker 1: do and how I do it kind of a thing,

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Speaker 1: and how can I explain that? And I said, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's the different stuff, because I've noticed this. You know,

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Speaker 1: how the week starts is usually not how the week ends.

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Speaker 1: It's the car that you're working on a so different

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Speaker 1: in the beginning than it is at the end. And

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Speaker 1: I happened to look at it this week. This week,

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Speaker 1: my first job of the week was an OH three

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Speaker 1: Honda Civic. The driver's side axle had snapped, and it

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Speaker 1: was a very straight nut and bolt mechanical kind of

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Speaker 1: repair that happened because if you notice, from the factory,

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Speaker 1: Honda puts a rubber torsional vibration dampner on the axle.

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Speaker 1: It's a chunk of rubber bolted to the axle, and

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Speaker 1: what happens over time is moisture gets trapped under there,

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Speaker 1: and as the car gets older. It's an OH three,

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Speaker 1: So the cars seventeen one and eighteen years old, eighteen

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Speaker 1: winters in North Jersey with you know, all the card

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Speaker 1: up the snows. Everybody in their all wheel drive vehicles

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Speaker 1: things to rust and rott well. Eventually it got to

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Speaker 1: the point where underneath this rubber dampner the axle snapped

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Speaker 1: and it just broke the axle clean in half and

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Speaker 1: it was just straight nuts and bolts disabled. The car

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Speaker 1: had to put an excel in it. And I looked

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Speaker 1: at the last job of the week. The last job

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Speaker 1: of the week was all maintenance. It was a fourteen

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Speaker 1: Chevy Silverado that needed four tires and oil change, cooling service,

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Speaker 1: brake flush, fuel system service, the third break light bulb

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Speaker 1: was out, and a state inspection. And I thought, is

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know it just maybe it's maybe

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Speaker 1: this is boring. I don't know. I just figured I

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Speaker 1: week that maybe i'll talk about next week because I

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Speaker 1: haven't finished it yet, is and I know his ears

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Speaker 1: are gonna perk up. Is Eddie's Eddie's bumper on his Silverado.

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Speaker 1: We're we're installing what I call the cow catcher of bumpers.

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Speaker 1: It's for when you're out in the middle of Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to save the truck when the deer

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Speaker 1: lumbers out into the middle of the road. And we're

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Speaker 1: installing this hammer head bumper on the front of a

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Speaker 1: fifteen Silverado that has one I think we count that.

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Speaker 1: I think eight lights, eight fog and um array lights

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Speaker 1: that um it'll probably look like say stadium when we're done.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't finished that yet, so I technically that

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Speaker 1: job is not finished, but I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: how well. As a matter of fact, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're in the Northeast this week and you're out late

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Speaker 1: at night, I might go to the shop around midnight

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Speaker 1: get them wired, and maybe we'll put like the bat

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Speaker 1: of see as we tilted He's bumper up to the clouds.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm sure this thing will display a sign. We

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Speaker 1: the front of the Silverado. It's gonna be so bright,

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Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that next week. Let's let's wait

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Speaker 1: till we get there. Anyway, This is the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: I am Ron and Indian. The phone number is eight

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Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero. That phone number seven. You

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Speaker 1: can call it any time day or night. We are

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Speaker 1: live on the network Saturday's two to four pm East

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Speaker 1: Coast time. But you can call that number eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six zero zero zero anytime day or night.

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Speaker 1: Leave a message if we're not here, and Tom Ray,

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Speaker 1: my executive producer, confidante Concilieri and all around good guy

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Speaker 1: and the manager of the electrons that power my microphone,

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Speaker 1: will call you back and get you in the queue

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Speaker 1: for the next live broadcast. Let us go west to

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Speaker 1: his far west as we can possibly go, Walter, if

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Speaker 1: you ever moved from Hawaii, it's gonna be very boring

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Speaker 1: whenever you come on the air. If I removed from Hawaii,

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Speaker 1: you'll have to check and see if an alien took

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Speaker 1: my body over well if if he, if he does,

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Speaker 1: and you're up flying around in the in the uh

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Speaker 1: in space, I'm sure you'll call me up and want

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Speaker 1: to how the warp drive is supposed to work, So

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Speaker 1: that'll be the next question. I'm counting on it. So

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Speaker 1: what's going on out there? Well that that signal be

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Speaker 1: in the western sky from Hawaii. Um, it depends on

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Speaker 1: where the planets and the stars aligned. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what this thing looks like.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the regular headlights from the factory and eight

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Speaker 1: square led lamps, and then there's an array light in

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the bumper. I'm not sure what Ed's

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Speaker 1: trying to see, but it's I mean, you talk about

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Speaker 1: clear vision. Uh, street lights are you're gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: you're going to confuse all the nocturnal animals. Well, street

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Speaker 1: lights are gonna go out when he comes down the road.

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Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, if the street lights

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Speaker 1: If you're watching from space, you're gonna see this white

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Speaker 1: are gonna go are gonna go out. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: like fire in the Northeast. Yeah, I just I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. So what are you working on this week?

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Speaker 1: What are you trying to break? Well? I sent you

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Speaker 1: an email. I replaced the radiator on a two thousand

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Speaker 1: five new Beatle wolf Swagen and my question was, what,

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Speaker 1: I was embarrassed to say how long it took me

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Speaker 1: to do it? Okay, well I looked it up. I

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Speaker 1: set a record. Then you know that there's thirty five

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Speaker 1: to it. There's uh at least four hose connections, which

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Speaker 1: are those Volkswagen hose connections which have to be thrown

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Speaker 1: away once you get them off, after you get them off,

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Speaker 1: and there's several electrical connectors. That's just to get to

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Speaker 1: the radiator right, you have to take you have to

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Speaker 1: take the bumper bracket, the whole support system off right,

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Speaker 1: the fixture clip comes off. It's crazy, the impact bumper

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Speaker 1: part has to come off. There's two Colleen's to come off,

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Speaker 1: a fan cowing and a support bracket of some sort. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's just to get to the radiator right. And let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this, Walton, I know and for everyone else,

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Speaker 1: Walter really is a great guy. I I killed him

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Speaker 1: a lot, but I've come to love him over the

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Speaker 1: years because he's out there. You're doing this for free

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Speaker 1: or next to free, just to try and help people,

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Speaker 1: write Walt exactly. Yeah, that way they can't tell me.

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Speaker 1: I can tell them they get what they pay for. Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: never never downplay what you're doing. You're trying to make

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Speaker 1: I really do. I I think about things like that, though, Walt,

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Speaker 1: because by the book that's that's a six hour job.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it took you every bit of three or

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Speaker 1: and the manual on it. So in a repair shop, right,

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Speaker 1: and you have to you know, your research time has

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Speaker 1: easily five in labor plus apart, the radiator has to

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Speaker 1: be to to fifty plus coolant, the Volkswagen coolant is

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Speaker 1: that special super pink you know whatever? Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, it's an eight nine job

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Speaker 1: to put a radiator in a car. Yeah, what's up

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Speaker 1: with that? And then you're not even counting the hoses

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Speaker 1: in the clamps. Okay, so it's a thousand dollars probably

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Speaker 1: and I say to myself, one, who can afford to

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Speaker 1: How many miles were on at Walter it's low mileage.

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Speaker 1: But who's gonna put a thousand dollars into a fifteen

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Speaker 1: the conversation is what if something else breaks because people

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Speaker 1: don't budget for it, and and and and that's a mistake.

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Speaker 1: And then you get to play the game of what

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Speaker 1: if you know, what if the trans breaks, what if

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Speaker 1: this breaks? What if that breaks? And and the sad

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Speaker 1: part is it was probably cheaper to put a radiator

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Speaker 1: what else that car has had done to it, what

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Speaker 1: do maintenance to a car as tough as that job is.

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Speaker 1: Right Um, you know, yeah, you could not get as

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Speaker 1: to tell you and everyone else it seems that it

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Speaker 1: seems that good used, good clean used cars right now

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Speaker 1: head was fifteen to eighteen thousand dollars for something certified,

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Speaker 1: pre owned, thousand miles on it from the likes of Ford, Toyota, Honda.

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Speaker 1: Now I think that number is in the low twenties.

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Speaker 1: I think that number is twenty four thousand for that

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Speaker 1: too many people that are rushing out to spend fifty

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Speaker 1: work one, because they work well right right? Yeah? Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: somehow you always get yourself into you know, I always

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Speaker 1: know it's Walter. You could probably not tell me who

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Speaker 1: it is. And if the opening line reads I've got

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Speaker 1: an oh three a Suzu Trooper, I'd go, yeah, it's Walter,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's it's just something. Yeah, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: just something weird that he's got in over his head.

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Speaker 1: And I've got to I've got to get him out

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Speaker 1: that you know I've changed maybe four or five radiators,

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Speaker 1: You know four or five bolts to take the old

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Speaker 1: lights is likely because all those modules are reporting a

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00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 1: failure or loss of communication with the other modules on

428
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: the bus. So until you look at this with a

429
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: scanner to see who's who's aching, somebody's got a sore throat,

430
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: you just don't know who's Now you gotta you're you're

431
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: either gonna, you know, just shoot from the hip and guess,

432
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: or you're gonna try and pin it down. Right, I'm

433
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to pin it down. I gotta saying I

434
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: got I got rid of all the lights except for

435
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: the one for the indicator on the on the shifter. Okay,

436
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: uh So now I don't haven't you know, I'll go

437
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 1: out there now because as it's raining, and I'll turn

438
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: the key on and everything will works fine. So when

439
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: it gets wet, it works. Is the truck, but the

440
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: truck's not moving, No, the truck cannot moving. So something's

441
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: exposed to water or moisture that's creating that's that's that's

442
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,239
Speaker 1: I think. After it stops raining, it soaks in, and

443
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: that's when the issue occurs. I would think more in

444
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: terms of a water soak than moisture. Is preventing the

445
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: problem from happening. The front ends all put back together, right,

446
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: all the fenders, all the ship metal. Yeah, okay, so

447
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: everything is back where you found it. Everything's right right,

448
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: exactly where I took it from. And you you you

449
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: did have to move some of the wiring harness around right.

450
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I had to pull a whole uh huge

451
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: box off the fender. When you when you lift the

452
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: when you lift the hood up after it rains, is

453
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: anything under the hood wet? No, it's dry. So we've

454
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: got to go on the assumption that it's it's got

455
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 1: something to do with moisture seeping in somewhere that you

456
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: can't see until you know which modules kicking out, you're guessing.

457
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: And there's nothing I can say to you that I

458
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: can tell you. You know, there's no way around it.

459
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: You know, it would be in essence, just like when

460
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 1: you call the phone company and they say, go around

461
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: and start disconnecting phones and let's let us know when

462
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: the dial tone comes back. But I can't. I can't

463
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: do that. I can't have you take every module and

464
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: disconnect it. And in some cases some of the early

465
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: Class two systems, some of the modules were in series.

466
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: They weren't in parallel where you disconnected and you'd lose up,

467
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 1: you know, the back half of the leg so to speak.

468
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: So right, you know, it's it's like I tell everybody,

469
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: being a mechanic isn't always easy, and you have to

470
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: buy tools. There's no getting away from. Yeah, I'm diving

471
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: playing around with cards for probably fifty years. But this one,

472
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was possibly just a ground.

473
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: It was bad uh somewhere because it would it would

474
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: make the connection where right right? Yeah? No, um, scan

475
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: tool time, go buy a scan tool. You need to

476
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: buy yourself something. It's been a while. Well I don't

477
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: know how long I'm gonna be around to keep using

478
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: it though. Now. Yeah, but you know what, it's proven

479
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 1: that if you buy a scan tool, it will help

480
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: you stick around longer because it keeps your brain active.

481
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: Look at me, I hear you all right, sir, Well,

482
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time and effort here. You welcome. Andre.

483
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: I wish I could do more for your brother. You

484
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: stay well, well, I will see where that uh is

485
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: that I know somebody down the road here that has

486
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: a scan tool that I may be a little borrow.

487
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: You know, and you and you don't want to go

488
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: in under O b D two. You want to go

489
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: in under look, under manufacturer. You want to look you

490
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: know what modules are reporting and whatnot? Think of it?

491
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: Think of it. Think think of being a teacher taking attendance.

492
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: Who's here and who's not? And that's what you want

493
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: to know. All right? That sounds good to me. I

494
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: thank you for your time. Ron, you welcome, Andrew, you

495
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: stay well, um, and we'll we'll be we'll be rooting

496
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: for you. You know, it's it's tough. It's sooner or later.

497
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: This show is going to open up with if you

498
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: own a scan tool, you know, call in. If not,

499
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: go buy one and then call it. Uh. You know

500
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: that that day is coming because you know it's it's

501
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: it's it's we're gonna have to all get away and

502
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: we all do it. I do it. You know, it

503
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: seems like feels like sounds like I think, No, it's

504
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: you know what, it's the scan tool told me that.

505
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: The scan tool told me everybody's here, So now I

506
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: know what's good. Now I gotta go figure out what's bad.

507
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: And oh god, whatever happened to him? So let me

508
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: pull over before Tom starts playing those um those Uh,

509
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Tom has something else in his arsenal.

510
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: I probably don't want to hear zero the car Doctors

511
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:07,479
Speaker 1: coming back right after this yet, and I'm going I'm

512
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: broadcasting welcome back in the Car Doctor. You know, we're

513
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: talking an awful lot about batteries, de sulfaders, ways to

514
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: prolonged battery life, and I want to just put this

515
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: out there that we haven't mentioned it yet, but you

516
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: can get out the Clarios dot com. Clarios dot com.

517
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: You know Clarios is they their technology powers one in

518
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: three cars in the world right now, and you know,

519
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: think about that, that's a staggering number of of vehicles.

520
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: And the technology that's involved in Clarios is continuing to

521
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: develop various things, clean carbon footprint, better battery reliability, stronger batteries.

522
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: You know, batteries. Batteries are changing as demand changes, right,

523
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: cars are changing more and more technology and cars. So

524
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: the idea of battery d sulfaders, I think is old school.

525
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that it applies, but you can read

526
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 1: it off. There's an awful lot of information at their

527
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: website Clarios dot com. Uh, you can get into their

528
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: news about what they're trying to do and how they're

529
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, trying to you know, keep up with demands

530
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: for batteries. Uh, some really good stuff out there Clarios

531
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: dot com. You'll you'll enjoy it. So by all means,

532
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: get out there and take a look. Um. I also

533
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: want to mention, you know, I really like what Walter

534
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: is doing. I want to go back and talk about

535
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: Walter for a second. Out in Hawaii. You know, we've

536
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: we've you know, we've all come to know Walter over

537
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: the years. He's called in time and time again. And

538
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: what Walter is doing is a real positive He's he's

539
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: helping make the world a better place. He's he's retired now,

540
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: he's working on cars for free. He's just trying to

541
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: help people. And I think that's what we as a

542
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: collective society need to start thinking about. I was on

543
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: my way home, oh two weeks ago, and I don't

544
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: think I told you guys this story yet, and coming

545
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: around the bend down the street from the Delhi I

546
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: always go to, there was a woman with a flat

547
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: and she was trying to put air in the tar.

548
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: She had an inflator. She was out on the side

549
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: of the road trying to put air in the tire.

550
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: And you know, it dawned on me that if you

551
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: see somebody changing a flat, mail or female whatever, um,

552
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, the reason they're trying to do it is

553
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: because they have no one to call. They either don't

554
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: have the means to call, they don't have the ability

555
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: to call. Uh in terms of you know, maybe maybe

556
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: they don't have triple A, etcetera, or they have no

557
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: cell phone, or there's nobody home. I stopped. UM. I

558
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: was very cautious. I said, can I help? I always

559
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: ask permission. I don't want to scare anybody. And you know,

560
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: we inflated the tire. She had a little inflator. I

561
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: figured out how the inflator worked and zip on their way.

562
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: And I'm not looking for any accolades. Um and yes

563
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: it was. You know, it was broad daylight. The situation

564
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: looked okay, it looked normal. There was no cars buzzing

565
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: by at eighty on the on the interstate, and there

566
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: was no danger to me or her. But I just

567
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: didn't want to leave anybody stranded. And that's kind of

568
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: Walter's attitude. You know. Walter's just trying to help people

569
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: and I and I think how we treat people and

570
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: how we treat each other is going to go a

571
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: long way towards you know, how we all survive what's

572
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: going on in the world, and you know how the

573
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: world comes back. And you know, also cars are a

574
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: big part of that. You know, you can tell a

575
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: lot about people by the way they handle their cars

576
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: and by the way they approach maintaining their cars. I'll

577
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: tell a quick story and then I'm gonna pull over. Um.

578
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: I was working on a uh a matter of fact,

579
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: the fourteen Silverado was finishing up the cooling flush out

580
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: in front of the shop yesterday and I was under

581
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: the hood on the step ladder trying to work on

582
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: this truck. And somebody pulls in past the sign that

583
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: says stop, do not enter, so right A way. I

584
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: know the person can't read, and hey, buddy, now I'm

585
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: a buddy. How much does an oil change? And I

586
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: kind of looked up and there was three guys in

587
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: a Honda and I said, excuse me, says how much

588
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: is an oil change? I need an oil change? I said,

589
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I can't do it right now. We're really

590
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: quite busy and I probably couldn't do it until the

591
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: middle of next week. Yeah, but but how much is

592
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: an oil change? Buddy? You know, there's a few things

593
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: that get under my skin and and this is one

594
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: of them. That there's no respect, There's no you know,

595
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: how do you enter a business? How do you acknowledge

596
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: we're not there at your back and call. We're there

597
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: to provide a service for customers. Do you want to

598
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: become one? Show a little respect when you walk in

599
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: the door. I looked at him and I said, you know,

600
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: if you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.

601
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: And maybe that was the wrong thing to say. Maybe

602
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: it wasn't because it kind of set the tone and

603
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: pushed him back a little bit of creative a boundary,

604
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: and he said, no, really, how much is an oil change?

605
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: Probably a hundred two hundred and twenty five dollars. And

606
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: he looked at me and he said why, And I said,

607
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't have the time to answer

608
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: this right now, but if you want to come back

609
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: during the week, I'll be glad to go over it

610
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: with you. He pulled out. You know, the fact is

611
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: how we approach a business is a reflection of who

612
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: we are and what we are. And as a business,

613
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: if you learn to recognize it, you'll have less aggravation

614
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to take care of those that

615
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: really value your service. And I find that it's a

616
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: lot true in automobiles and that's a lot true in

617
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: our relationships with people. Something to think about. Look, all

618
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: cars can do, whether you realize it or not. A

619
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: five zero zero run and Eating the Car Doctor coming

620
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: back right after this blocome back run an end the

621
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: car Doctor will close things that with a little Facebook review.

622
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: You know, I love this that we've now got it

623
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: up on Facebook. You can go to the Run and

624
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: Eating the Car Doctor Facebook page and everybody's chiming in.

625
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: As we roll along. Steve Wright said, Hey, Ron, great show.

626
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: Bob came up with some great points here. He says, Ron,

627
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: you should have asked him. I think he's referencing the

628
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: gentleman that pulled into UH find out about an oil change.

629
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: You should have asked him, which oil do you want

630
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: to change? Trans oil or engineerals. You know, Bob, I

631
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: never thought of that. But you make an excellent point.

632
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: And you know part of that is, you know, part

633
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: of the reason for the rant isn't just what I

634
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: feel as an insult to the industry and two businesses

635
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: in general. Is he's doing himself a disservice. You're doing

636
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: yourself a disservice by not allowing proper introduction. What do

637
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: you do? How do you do it? You know, if

638
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: we walk in and we base everything on price in

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Speaker 1: anything we do, we usually miss out with that, miss

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Speaker 1: out on what that business is all about. Because any

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Speaker 1: business it's all about price usually doesn't survive. You can't

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Speaker 1: be the cheapest guy on the block and and and

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Speaker 1: survive and thrive. Helen writes in with a bunch of things, Helen,

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Speaker 1: I love hearing from you. No need to apologize her

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Speaker 1: last one is starting to keep posting. But this has

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Speaker 1: been an excellent show. And I thank you, Helen, I

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Speaker 1: thank you for your due diligence and perseverance and writing

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Speaker 1: in and all the stories you tell us all the time,

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Speaker 1: and we think it's uh, we all think it's great stuff.

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Speaker 1: We love, we love reading your comments. In response to

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Speaker 1: the one I made about technology, Helen wrote in, and

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Speaker 1: I agree with her percent. I'm very wary of eventually

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Speaker 1: getting a car that forces me to take my eyes

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Speaker 1: off the road due to looking at various electronic devices.

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Speaker 1: I think it's true whatever happened to buttons that you

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Speaker 1: could touch that you knew in the dark you could

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Speaker 1: find that button and feel it. Now you're against a

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Speaker 1: flat screen panel ward that you know in the dark,

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Speaker 1: you're taking your eyes off the road for a second

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Speaker 1: to feel where it's not there? Am I touching the

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Speaker 1: right button? So? Uh, you know, Yeah, it's gonna get

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Speaker 1: more complicated. Evan's writing in my three tool dealers are

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Speaker 1: doing very well in Pennsylvania. I'm glad to hear it, Evan,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you're around for a long long time

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Speaker 1: to come as well as you. My friend. I'm Ronanadian

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, looking up saying, wow, where did the

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Speaker 1: last two hours go? It's been a wild weekend with you,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad to have been here for you each time,

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

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Speaker 1: See you okay,